Thank you, choir.
That was lovely, wasn't it?
I love the old hymns of the church.
There just isn't anything like them, the message
they contain that brings comfort, real comfort, because
in them is the word of the Lord.
Good morning, everybody.
God bless you.
This is Father's Day, we've heard.
Can it truly be Father's Day?
Say something.
Can it truly be Father's Day?
I want it really to be Father's Day.
Father has something to say to us today.
Father has a wonderful son.
What's his name?
Thank you.
And he wants to talk to us about
his wonderful son.
Right now, he's more interested in his son
than he is in himself.
He gave us this entire book, took 1
,600 years or more to write it, all
the various authors and all the different books
that are in this book, just to say
one word, my son.
So let's make it truly Father's Day and
be one with his heart and hear what
he has to say about his wonderful son.
You and I have the privilege of being
gloriously united with this son.
And in the message this morning, I prayed
since the Lord laid this message on my
heart.
I've been in it for a week.
I prayed that God would give us a
strong motive, a strong desire, strength
in our hearts, strength in our wills, strength
in our minds, strength in our spirits to
fight the good fight of faith and lay
hold in God for all that he has
for us in this wonderful son.
Say amen.
Father, Father, I thank you that you
hear us.
I thank you you're concerned about everyone present.
Father, would you please take our minds off
of everything else but you and your son?
Would you wash us in his most holy
blood?
Would you put your powers against all the
powers of the enemy in every way he
would try to distract?
I ask thee please to dig our ears,
to open our understanding, to let us hear
the message the dear spirit would bring to
us today.
Oh, Father, your word is so wonderful.
Let us hear the word of the Lord
and give strength to yield to it and
let it be worked out in our hearts
and lives.
In your sacred holy name, we ask it.
Everybody say it.
Good to be with you and with Brother
and Sister Revelle.
Turn in your Bibles to Revelation.
The book of Revelation really is becoming to
me a most interesting book.
It's the only prophetic book in the whole
New Testament.
I'm not a preacher of prophecy, never have
been, but the book of Revelation, it tells
us, it begins by telling us it's a
revelation of Jesus Christ.
So the dear Holy Spirit, some time ago,
just began to deal with my heart about
seeing Jesus and finding Jesus in the book
of Revelation.
I don't know very much about all the
beasts and the animals and their horns and
heads and all of that.
That scares me.
So I just look for Jesus in the
book of Revelation and the opening to my
heart has been so wonderful and satisfying and
I just want to share it with you.
I believe the church, that's the whole church
of Jesus Christ and all of us in
the church, is suffering today because we're not
more interested in our future.
We're so taken up with the here and
now.
We're so materialistic and so earth-minded and
so me-minded.
What's for me?
What am I getting out of it?
It's all me, my, mine, we, us, and
earth-mindedness.
And people are just weighed down and bowed
down today.
Wherever I go in the world, there's this
awful weight and heaviness that is upon people.
And I believe a lot of it is
because of the little, really the little interest
we have in our future.
I'm terribly interested in the future because that's
where I'm going to spend the rest of
my life.
I'm tremendously interested in Jesus because I'm going
to spend all my future with Him.
Oh, help us, won't you say something?
Where are you going to spend your future?
The very thought of Jesus, honey, never lose
the excitement of His name.
Thank you, thank you.
Never lose the excitement of your union with
Him.
And I want you this morning to look
with me into our future with Him.
And as I said in my opening remark,
I pray the Holy Spirit will give every
one of us a strong desire and motive
and incentive to fight, to live, that we
can inherit and enjoy all that Jesus has
made possible for us.
Do you know all of His future thoughts
include us?
They do.
He's the bridegroom of the church.
And shouldn't a bridegroom be concerned about his
future with his bride?
Yes, say yes, yes.
And we are the bride.
And shouldn't the bride be interested in her
future with her bridegroom?
I should hope so.
June is marriage month and we've had weddings
in our families and have gone through all
of this.
Well, it is just beautiful to look into
the face of that girl that's just a
couple days and she starts counting the days
and the hours and mark it off.
And you just look at her, she's sure,
you can't depend on her for anything.
Honey, what are you thinking about?
You know what she's thinking about.
Where's your mind just now?
You know where her mind is now.
You know, I believe, I believe this should
be the mind, this should be the attitude
of the bride of Jesus Christ.
And it is, it positively really is the
mind, the attitude, the spirit of those who
are truly looking for Jesus and truly longing
for him to come.
Now don't you lie to me, but how
many of you are truly with all of
your heart longing for Jesus to come?
Don't you lie, don't you lie to me,
look at that.
I appreciate your honesty, that's not, that's not
a third of the crowd, that's not a
third.
You see, we're, and, and, what's going on
in me?
Why this heaviness?
Why aren't my prayers getting through?
Why don't I feel like worshiping the Lord?
Why don't I feel like praying?
That's talking to our bridegroom.
Why don't I feel it?
Why is prayer a chore on the eve
of the church waiting for the bridegroom to
come and talking to him is a chore?
And we'd rather do other things than pray.
Something wrong somewhere.
We'd rather be with people than pray.
That old demon television that is a thief
and a robber that has stolen so much
time away from the bridegroom.
You know, it's, ooh, he's coming.
I want to tell you something, dear.
There is something going on in the Spirit
today.
If you're in God, you're aware of it.
If you're not walking closely to Him, you
probably don't know anything about it.
But there's something happening in the Spirit today.
I know that I know that I know
and everything within me knows Jesus is coming
soon.
I don't know how soon.
I don't know anything about the day or
the hour.
But constantly, constantly, I'm just checked and called
to and talked to and wooed.
Be careful here.
Don't go there.
Have nothing to do with this.
And there are ten thousand things the bride
of Jesus Christ today will have nothing to
do with.
There is so much in religious circles the
bride of the Lamb will have nothing to
do with.
He's not in it.
He has nothing to do with it.
It's just that religious crowd that's keeping up
their religion.
But inside that group, there is a group.
There is a group that knows the voice
of the bridegroom.
That's hearing His voice.
That's listening to that voice.
That's getting ready because He's coming soon.
Say something.
Alright.
Well, thanks.
Thanks for those amens.
Thanks.
But that's why we're here.
And that's what the Word of the Lord
is for.
The Word of the Lord is to talk
to us.
It's to deal with us.
It's to help us.
We don't come to the house of God
to be entertained.
We come to the house of God to
be helped.
This is a time.
This is an hour when we need help.
We need help.
And so we come to this wonderful book
of revelation that I have learned to love
so much.
And in this first chapter, John receives this
wonderful revelation of Jesus.
And then he's told that send it to
the churches.
Send it to the churches.
That's where the Father's interest is.
In the churches.
Because that's where His bride is coming from.
Out of all of these churches.
And so we're going through the period now.
This church age and church period.
When the precious Holy Spirit is involved too,
you know.
The whole household.
The whole trinity is involved.
Like they are in a wedding, you know.
Like they are.
Everybody in the house is involved.
Everybody.
The whole family is involved.
Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.
They're all very much involved.
And the precious Holy Spirit was sent down
here.
He was sent down here to go through
the church.
To call.
To woo.
To discipline.
To salvage.
To call out.
To get ready a people for His name.
And we're in that hour.
That's the hour that we're, that's what we're
going through.
In the second and the third chapter of
Revelation.
The whole church age is on.
And then when this, when this is over,
our future begins.
This is what I want to talk about
this morning.
This morning.
Our future with Him.
I say again, every thought, His bride is
in every thought of Jesus.
Where His future is concerned.
Do you know Jesus hasn't yet entered into
His reward for Calvary?
Do you know that?
He hasn't yet received His reward for going
to Calvary.
He won't.
He can't.
Until you and I get there.
Because we are His reward.
We're His reward.
So, He hasn't entered into His reward yet.
And He can't.
And, and He won't.
He's waiting for us.
So, oh, oh, this is why He's interceding
for us.
He's praying for us.
He's interceding for us.
Do you know Jesus has been praying for
you for 2,000 years?
Do you know that?
2,000 years He's been at the right
hand of the Father.
Praying for His church.
Praying we'll come on.
Praying we'll listen to the Holy Ghost.
Praying we'll be true.
Praying we'll, we'll get into this book.
Read His love letters to us.
So we can know Him.
So we can know what He wants.
So we can know what He's like.
We don't know what He's like.
We don't know Him.
That's the reason we don't love Him more.
It's because we don't know Him.
We don't know Him.
And this is why He's given us this
book.
And the revelation of Jesus in the book.
That we can know this wonderful Son.
You're not going to love Him if you
don't know Him.
If He wants to be loved.
He wants to be worshipped.
He wants to be adored.
And we have to find Him in this
book.
And read His love letters to us.
What He wants us to do.
What He wants us to be like.
The bride that He's looking for.
The kind of bride that He wants.
And the kind of bride He's going to
have.
He's going to have her.
Because He's going to find that company of
people.
That will satisfy His heart.
And Jesus won't come until His bride is
ready.
That's the thing that's holding Him up.
He's not waiting until all the Jews get
back to Jerusalem.
He's not waiting for that.
He's not waiting until all the wars and
rumors of wars take place.
He isn't waiting for that.
That's His dealings with the nations and with
the earthbound people.
That's His calling to them and dealing with
them.
But the thing that He's waiting for is
His bride to make herself ready.
He's dealing.
He's calling.
He's woeing.
He's discipling.
He's asking for obedience.
Do you hear His call?
You hear it way down in the depths
of selfhood.
He calls to us.
That's where we hear His call.
You hear that call.
And honey, every time you disobey, you cancel
out your own inheritance with Him.
You cancel out your own future.
You are lessening your own reward.
Every time you disobey and refuse to follow
on, to do His will, to walk with
Him, to give His heart the joy that
He desires.
You know, there's coming a day when it's
going to be too late.
Time shall be no more.
There's coming a day when it's over.
When it's over.
Oh, it seems to me if I would
miss the rapture, I'd go crazy.
I think I'd go crazy on the spot.
I'm positive.
I would lose my mind on the spot
if I would miss the rapture.
I know I would.
I know I would when I realize what
awaits the church, the glories that He has
prepared for them that love Him, our future
with Him, and what it means to miss
that and to wake up and find ourselves
down here on earth in the midst of
the awful tribulation period.
And the rapture's taking place.
It's over.
And I've missed it.
I know I'd go crazy on the spot,
but I've settled it in my heart.
I'm not going to miss it.
By His grace, I'm doing everything I know
to do.
I'm giving Him every obedience that I know
to give Him.
I'm doing His will to the very best
of my ability.
I'm going to be there by His grace.
By His grace.
Live in the Spirit.
Walk in the Spirit.
Move in the Spirit.
Spend time alone with Him.
Know His voice.
Know His will.
Do it!
Walk with the Lamb.
Give His heart the joy that He wants.
All right?
In the fourth chapter, it says, After this,
that's after He's through with His church age,
then really begins our future with Him.
And then really begins...
Then His day has come.
You know, Jesus has...
He's had some hard times too, don't you
think?
All that He went through, all that He
suffered, all that He endured, all that He
suffered and endured was for you and it
was for His bride that He could have
this bride that His heart longs for.
He didn't go through all of that suffering
for Himself.
It was for us.
The devil tried to make Him believe in
the end that He wasn't going to have
His bride.
That is what Gethsemane was all about.
That's what Gethsemane was all about.
Gethsemane was Jesus when He was saying, Oh,
Father, if it be Thy will, let this
cup pass from me.
He wasn't praying about Calvary.
He wasn't praying about going to the cross.
That was settled before He left heaven, that
He would go to Calvary.
He came.
He set, long time ago, set His face
steadfastly to go to Jerusalem and He didn't
allow anything or anybody to turn Him back
from that.
He went to Jerusalem.
He went there to die.
He wasn't praying about Calvary.
But when He was praying in the garden
of Gethsemane, the devil wanted to kill Him.
He really wanted to kill Him right then
and there before He got to Calvary so
He would not have His bride, so He
wouldn't get His bride.
And when the enemy was throwing this upon
Him and throwing this at Him, and you
know how He was praying there, and you
know in prayer how the enemy can put
things in your mind, how he can come
with temptations, how he can try to make
you believe something that isn't true, and you
pray and you fast and you pray and
you fast.
The devil was trying to kill Jesus before
He got to Calvary.
If He didn't get to Calvary, He wouldn't
have His bride if He didn't pay this
price and die this death and go there.
And the devil was trying to tell Him
He wasn't going to make it, that He
wasn't going to have this bride.
And when Jesus said, Nevertheless, not my will
but Thine be done, this was the last
surrender.
Jesus had to even surrender His bride.
Nevertheless, not my will but Thine be done.
If I'm not to have a church, if
I'm not to have a bride, if I'm
not going to have her, nevertheless, not my
will but Thine be done.
And the battle was over and an angel
rested there to strengthen Him and minister to
Him and enable Him to rise up out
of that awful ordeal where He had the
worst heart attack anybody could have and suffered
until the blood came through His veins.
This is the kind of love He has
for His bride and for His church.
This is His desire for her.
This is love poured out for us.
He made that surrender but God strengthened Him
and enabled Him to go to the cross
and pay the price.
Oh, pay the price that would give Him
His bride.
This was the price tag that hung on
you and hung on me.
This was what it cost Him to have
you and to have me.
My dear, my dear, when we meet Jesus.
Have you thought about it?
When we meet Him.
He's coming soon.
I know He is.
But when you see Him, what are you
going to say to Him?
What are you going to say to Him?
If you haven't loved Him, if you haven't
surrendered, if you haven't paid the price, if
you haven't been obedient, what are you going
to say to Him?
What are you going to say to Him?
How are you going to meet Him?
How are you going to face Him?
What are you going to say to Him?
You would be glad to give a thousand
lifetimes if you could come back and live
your life over and obey Him and live
for Him and do the things that He's
asking you to do right now.
So I plead with you, I beg you
in the name of the Father, Son and
Holy Ghost that you come against the enemy.
Take your stand, come against him like Jesus
came against him, tempted at all points like
as we are, yet never once did He
sin.
Stand up against him, come against him.
You have to.
You've got to treat the devil like the
devil in this hour.
We're living in terrible days when the prince
of the powers of the air are coming
down over us and he's fighting against the
church of Jesus Christ.
Let me tell you, dear saints, everything that
is happening to you, everything, the devil is
the source of it.
God told me some time ago to tell
the church and I'm telling them wherever I
go.
The one main thing that the devil is
out doing today, all the wickedness that you
see, here's all this talk about the sin,
the wickedness, everything that's happening out there in
the world, that isn't the main thing the
devil's doing today.
The chief thing he's doing today is fighting
against the church to try to keep you
from making the rapture.
That's his chief work today.
And all that is happening to you, all
that is coming against you, all that you're
going through, the devil is trying to get
you to miss the rapture.
So you have to fight.
I want you to have a strong motive
and incentive to fight, to stand against him
and to say, I'm going to make the
rapture.
I'm going to be ready when Jesus comes.
I want to be there to celebrate with
him when he receives his reward, when he's
crowned king of kings and lord of lords
and put on his throne and his saints
are put in their place around him and
every man in his own order, everyone falls
into their own order at the judgment seat
of Christ.
I want to be there, don't you?
When it says every man and woman, everything
from every tribe and nation, all peoples of
all generations and time, it's over a hundred
million if you count them all up, when
they for the very first time are really
able to sing redemption song.
I want to be there.
And this we have in the 4th and
5th chapter of Revelation in such a beautiful
way.
In the beginning of the 4th chapter, I
looked and behold, a door was open in
heaven.
The first voice which I heard was as
it were a trumpet talking with me which
said, Come up hither and I will show
thee things which must be hereafter.
And then John begins to tell us the
things that await the church and the glories
that we can enter into.
And he that sat upon the throne, what
he looked like, what he looked like, what
he looked like.
We have to have spiritual eyes to understand
all of this.
But Jesus is enthroned.
For the first time he has then his
throne.
At the time of the rapture, the Father
has always had his throne.
Jesus was at, he's at the right hand
of the Father, but Jesus doesn't have his
throne yet.
He's not enthroned and he won't be until
we get there.
But when we are caught up, that's his
day.
The beginning of his day.
And there was set a throne in heaven
and that's his throne and his place.
And around about that throne were four and
twenty seats or thrones.
And upon the identification marks on your life,
on your living, honey, honey is your lifestyle,
the lifestyle of your bridegroom, Jesus.
All this company in the throne with him
bear his identification marks.
And they're there.
They're there.
This takes place right at the time of
the rapture.
This is part of, all of this is
going on in heaven while all those who
wouldn't, wouldn't, who refused to pay the price,
who fought against God, who argued with the
gospel, there are those today, they'll walk upon
the platform and face me.
They want to argue what I have to
say about Jesus Christ.
Ah, carnality is a horrible thing.
It'll take you to hell.
Cry out against it and make every surrender
to Jesus Christ.
And while this bride is enjoying and he's
in the throne and they're worshiping and adoring
the lamb, all this is taking place in
heaven while those who wouldn't pay the price
are down here on earth going through the
tribulation period.
The choice is ours.
He has planned a marvelous future for us.
Oh, I could go on and on.
I'm surprised to see it's after 12 o
'clock.
I could just go on and on.
The glories that await us with the lamb.
I'm headed that way.
I'm going to be there by his grace.
We have to make our choice.
I want to say to you, sinner, sinner,
hate the sin that would keep you from
him.
Hate the sin that would keep you from
him.
Hate it.
Cry against it.
There is a lamb that will redeem you
too.
Backslider, don't stay away.
The hour is too late.
It's too late.
Don't stay away.
Come back.
Go back.
Pay the price to walk with the lamb.
Saints of the living God, don't let any
weakness or besetting sin keep you from being
ready to meet him when he comes.
It may be today.
We have to make choice.
Father,