1 00:00:22,840 --> 00:00:24,560 I want to say a word of thanks 2 00:00:24,560 --> 00:00:29,080 to the pastors in here and to the 3 00:00:29,080 --> 00:00:32,340 staff who are here for this privilege this 4 00:00:32,340 --> 00:00:32,700 week. 5 00:00:34,720 --> 00:00:38,600 It's been a very refreshing week for me. 6 00:00:44,850 --> 00:00:46,870 I can't remember when I worked with a 7 00:00:46,870 --> 00:00:51,450 group more compatible than this group. 8 00:00:52,530 --> 00:00:54,570 Kind, Christian, considerate gentlemen. 9 00:00:56,470 --> 00:00:58,770 And we ask you to pray for us 10 00:00:58,770 --> 00:00:59,810 as we go on our way. 11 00:01:00,230 --> 00:01:02,390 We certainly will remember to pray for you. 12 00:01:05,120 --> 00:01:06,920 Sometimes when I go to a place, they 13 00:01:06,920 --> 00:01:08,460 say, we're glad to see you're back. 14 00:01:09,600 --> 00:01:11,120 You don't often see, they're glad to see 15 00:01:11,120 --> 00:01:11,780 my face. 16 00:01:12,960 --> 00:01:18,240 We'll be glad to see your back. 17 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:22,040 But again, we should remember to pray for 18 00:01:22,040 --> 00:01:25,440 you and I'm sure you will pray for 19 00:01:25,440 --> 00:01:25,620 us. 20 00:01:29,560 --> 00:01:31,800 I want to read some verses now from 21 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,340 the 17th chapter in the gospel as recorded 22 00:01:34,340 --> 00:01:34,940 by Luke. 23 00:01:35,740 --> 00:01:38,260 I am reading from verse 20. 24 00:01:40,440 --> 00:01:44,500 Luke chapter 17, reading from verse 20. 25 00:01:53,690 --> 00:01:56,050 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees 26 00:01:56,050 --> 00:01:57,690 when the kingdom of God should come. 27 00:01:59,250 --> 00:02:01,030 He answered them and said, the kingdom of 28 00:02:01,030 --> 00:02:03,310 God cometh not with observation. 29 00:02:03,310 --> 00:02:05,490 Neither shall they say, lo here or lo 30 00:02:05,490 --> 00:02:07,389 there, for behold the kingdom of God is 31 00:02:07,389 --> 00:02:07,949 within you. 32 00:02:09,250 --> 00:02:11,390 He said unto the disciples, the days will 33 00:02:11,390 --> 00:02:13,190 come when ye shall desire to see one 34 00:02:13,190 --> 00:02:14,510 of the days of the Son of Man 35 00:02:14,510 --> 00:02:15,610 and ye shall not see it. 36 00:02:18,070 --> 00:02:19,790 They shall say to you, see here or 37 00:02:19,790 --> 00:02:20,370 see there. 38 00:02:20,550 --> 00:02:22,250 Go not after them nor follow them. 39 00:02:23,210 --> 00:02:25,170 For as the lightning that lightneth out of 40 00:02:25,170 --> 00:02:27,150 the one part of heaven shineth unto the 41 00:02:27,150 --> 00:02:29,910 other part of heaven, so shall also the 42 00:02:29,910 --> 00:02:31,690 Son of Man be in his day. 43 00:02:32,710 --> 00:02:35,450 But first must ye suffer many things and 44 00:02:35,450 --> 00:02:37,510 be rejected of this generation. 45 00:02:43,940 --> 00:02:45,260 And as it was in the days of 46 00:02:45,260 --> 00:02:47,780 Noah, so shall it be also in the 47 00:02:47,780 --> 00:02:48,860 days of the Son of Man. 48 00:02:51,100 --> 00:02:53,920 They did eat, they drank, they bought, they 49 00:02:53,920 --> 00:02:55,360 sold, they planted, they builded. 50 00:03:01,510 --> 00:03:03,070 But the same day that Lot went out 51 00:03:03,070 --> 00:03:05,050 of Sodom, it rained fire and brimstone from 52 00:03:05,050 --> 00:03:06,370 heaven and destroyed them all. 53 00:03:08,070 --> 00:03:09,390 Even thus shall it be in the day 54 00:03:09,390 --> 00:03:10,890 when the Son of Man is revealed. 55 00:03:11,530 --> 00:03:14,350 In that day he which shall be upon 56 00:03:14,350 --> 00:03:16,550 the house doth, and is stuck in the 57 00:03:16,550 --> 00:03:19,810 house, let him not come down and take 58 00:03:19,810 --> 00:03:20,270 it away. 59 00:03:22,990 --> 00:03:24,270 He that is in the field, let him 60 00:03:24,270 --> 00:03:25,750 likewise not return back. 61 00:03:28,370 --> 00:03:29,410 Remember Lot's wife. 62 00:03:32,050 --> 00:03:35,430 The text is just a free, very simple, 63 00:03:36,470 --> 00:03:38,750 and yet to me very provoking word, remember 64 00:03:38,750 --> 00:03:39,630 Lot's wife. 65 00:03:39,630 --> 00:03:49,270 The disciples were watching 66 00:03:49,270 --> 00:03:51,690 Jesus disappear. 67 00:03:53,650 --> 00:03:55,810 For the second time in less than fifty 68 00:03:55,810 --> 00:03:57,650 days they were losing him. 69 00:03:59,820 --> 00:04:04,080 He taught them to pray, thy kingdom come. 70 00:04:06,580 --> 00:04:07,740 And there wasn't a sign of it. 71 00:04:10,550 --> 00:04:12,310 He finished the first part of his ministry 72 00:04:12,310 --> 00:04:13,250 in a circus act. 73 00:04:17,240 --> 00:04:19,600 They put a faded torn robe of a 74 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:20,700 heathen king on him. 75 00:04:22,830 --> 00:04:24,590 They put a reed in his hand and 76 00:04:24,590 --> 00:04:26,090 they put a crown of thorns on his 77 00:04:26,090 --> 00:04:27,530 head and they pushed him around. 78 00:04:27,850 --> 00:04:30,690 Pilate to Herod, Herod to Pilate, Caiaphas handled 79 00:04:30,690 --> 00:04:31,810 him, everybody handled him. 80 00:04:34,030 --> 00:04:37,130 And he who said, pray thy kingdom come, 81 00:04:37,170 --> 00:04:38,250 ended on a scaffold. 82 00:04:41,240 --> 00:04:43,140 Very difficult for you and I to appreciate 83 00:04:43,140 --> 00:04:43,600 this. 84 00:04:43,720 --> 00:04:45,460 They'd invested all they had on him. 85 00:04:45,540 --> 00:04:46,940 They'd given up fishing businesses. 86 00:04:47,180 --> 00:04:48,840 One of them gave up a career as 87 00:04:48,840 --> 00:04:49,760 a government official. 88 00:04:51,060 --> 00:04:52,880 And it all ended in apparent failure. 89 00:04:55,500 --> 00:04:57,560 And then suddenly he appeared to them and 90 00:04:57,560 --> 00:04:58,900 now again he's disappearing. 91 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:00,880 He's literally going up in the sky. 92 00:05:01,020 --> 00:05:02,140 They're watching him go. 93 00:05:05,040 --> 00:05:06,900 They didn't believe him the first time. 94 00:05:06,980 --> 00:05:08,680 He said, if I die I'll rise again. 95 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:10,380 I have power to lay down my life. 96 00:05:10,460 --> 00:05:11,460 I have power to take it up. 97 00:05:11,500 --> 00:05:12,300 But they forgot it. 98 00:05:14,000 --> 00:05:15,840 And apparently they were going to forget this. 99 00:05:15,960 --> 00:05:18,260 They'd forgotten again what he said because Jesus 100 00:05:18,260 --> 00:05:20,940 said, if I go I will come again. 101 00:05:21,740 --> 00:05:24,120 And as he went up, reversing the law 102 00:05:24,120 --> 00:05:28,020 of gravity because he had power, they heard 103 00:05:28,020 --> 00:05:30,180 a voice from heaven saying, this is my 104 00:05:30,180 --> 00:05:30,900 beloved son. 105 00:05:30,960 --> 00:05:32,700 They heard the voice of the angels saying, 106 00:05:32,840 --> 00:05:38,340 this same Jesus shall also come in like 107 00:05:38,340 --> 00:05:40,080 manner as you're seeing him go now. 108 00:05:40,920 --> 00:05:42,720 So there is the voice of Jesus, I 109 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:43,440 will come again. 110 00:05:43,540 --> 00:05:45,120 There is the voice of the angels, he 111 00:05:45,120 --> 00:05:45,940 will come again. 112 00:05:46,360 --> 00:05:48,400 And then the great apostle Paul said that 113 00:05:48,400 --> 00:05:49,340 Jesus would come. 114 00:05:49,340 --> 00:05:55,140 And so we have this threefold certainty. 115 00:05:59,690 --> 00:06:02,150 You know tomorrow something like, I think 50 116 00:06:02,150 --> 00:06:04,130 million letters will be crossing America. 117 00:06:04,630 --> 00:06:05,690 Mine are always late. 118 00:06:06,550 --> 00:06:09,990 But they'll be crossing America, about 50 million. 119 00:06:10,170 --> 00:06:12,290 And every one of them bears the mark 120 00:06:12,290 --> 00:06:13,630 of the birth of Jesus Christ. 121 00:06:18,360 --> 00:06:20,520 He came once and not many people anticipated 122 00:06:20,520 --> 00:06:22,300 his coming and he's coming again. 123 00:06:25,100 --> 00:06:26,540 But the two comings are very different. 124 00:06:27,520 --> 00:06:29,700 The first time he came nobody saw him 125 00:06:29,700 --> 00:06:29,940 jump. 126 00:06:29,940 --> 00:06:31,980 The next time every eye shall see him. 127 00:06:33,120 --> 00:06:35,180 The first time he was escorted with a 128 00:06:35,180 --> 00:06:37,960 mere handful of angels. 129 00:06:38,640 --> 00:06:40,940 The next time he's coming with 10,000 130 00:06:40,940 --> 00:06:41,680 of his saints. 131 00:06:43,800 --> 00:06:45,240 The first time he came, he came to 132 00:06:45,240 --> 00:06:45,640 poverty. 133 00:06:45,780 --> 00:06:47,440 The next time he's coming to pageantry. 134 00:06:50,890 --> 00:06:52,330 The first time he came, he came to 135 00:06:52,330 --> 00:06:52,730 misery. 136 00:06:56,570 --> 00:06:59,770 A house with wall to wall dung and 137 00:06:59,770 --> 00:07:01,110 cobwebs for curtains. 138 00:07:03,090 --> 00:07:05,670 And animal urine smearing all over the place. 139 00:07:06,190 --> 00:07:07,990 And only the heat of the animals to 140 00:07:07,990 --> 00:07:08,670 heat the building. 141 00:07:09,890 --> 00:07:11,930 The first time he came to misery, the 142 00:07:11,930 --> 00:07:13,570 next time he's coming to majesty. 143 00:07:15,470 --> 00:07:17,670 The first time he came as a lion, 144 00:07:17,790 --> 00:07:18,970 he was led as a lion. 145 00:07:19,130 --> 00:07:20,270 But not next time. 146 00:07:21,550 --> 00:07:23,130 The next time he's not coming as a 147 00:07:23,130 --> 00:07:24,910 lion, he's coming as a lion of the 148 00:07:24,910 --> 00:07:25,670 tribe of Judah. 149 00:07:29,920 --> 00:07:31,620 The first time he came, they put on 150 00:07:31,620 --> 00:07:32,960 his head a crown of thorns. 151 00:07:34,940 --> 00:07:37,300 We've sung that majestic hymn of Bridget twice 152 00:07:37,300 --> 00:07:37,720 this week. 153 00:07:37,720 --> 00:07:38,740 We could have sung it tonight. 154 00:07:38,820 --> 00:07:39,380 I love it. 155 00:07:39,440 --> 00:07:40,340 I never get tired of it. 156 00:07:40,460 --> 00:07:42,880 Crown him with many crowns. 157 00:07:44,840 --> 00:07:46,100 The lamb upon his throne. 158 00:07:49,410 --> 00:07:50,870 The first time he came, he came as 159 00:07:50,870 --> 00:07:51,650 the king of the Jews. 160 00:07:51,790 --> 00:07:53,250 The next time he's coming as the king 161 00:07:53,250 --> 00:07:54,890 of kings and the lord of lords. 162 00:07:58,390 --> 00:08:00,130 The first time he came, he never traveled 163 00:08:00,130 --> 00:08:02,030 out of that tiny little country that we 164 00:08:02,030 --> 00:08:02,910 call Palestine. 165 00:08:05,990 --> 00:08:07,750 The next time he comes, he's coming in 166 00:08:07,750 --> 00:08:09,990 the language again of Isaac Roth, that Jesus 167 00:08:09,990 --> 00:08:14,270 shall reign where'er the sun does its 168 00:08:14,270 --> 00:08:15,570 successive journeys run. 169 00:08:19,130 --> 00:08:20,930 The first time he came, he came to 170 00:08:20,930 --> 00:08:21,430 die. 171 00:08:22,030 --> 00:08:23,850 The next time, he's going to raise the 172 00:08:23,850 --> 00:08:24,090 dead. 173 00:08:28,400 --> 00:08:30,200 The first time he came, he came to 174 00:08:30,200 --> 00:08:30,800 redeem us. 175 00:08:32,960 --> 00:08:34,559 The next time he comes, he's going to 176 00:08:34,559 --> 00:08:35,419 reign over us. 177 00:08:38,120 --> 00:08:39,940 It was Charles Wesley who taught us to 178 00:08:39,940 --> 00:08:42,280 sing the hymn, Gentle Jesus, Meek and Mild. 179 00:08:43,140 --> 00:08:44,480 And I think we've overdone it a bit. 180 00:08:45,780 --> 00:08:48,080 Jesus wasn't always gentle, he wasn't always meek, 181 00:08:48,100 --> 00:08:49,180 he wasn't always mild. 182 00:08:51,710 --> 00:08:53,710 One day he turned to the Pharisees and 183 00:08:53,710 --> 00:08:55,130 he said in the morning, it will be 184 00:08:55,130 --> 00:08:58,730 foul weather, you say, and then it will 185 00:08:58,730 --> 00:09:00,730 be foul weather today because the sky is 186 00:09:00,730 --> 00:09:01,050 red. 187 00:09:04,140 --> 00:09:05,620 In the evening he said it will be 188 00:09:05,620 --> 00:09:06,900 fair weather, the sky is red. 189 00:09:06,980 --> 00:09:10,260 All you damn hypocrites, he says, can you 190 00:09:10,260 --> 00:09:12,560 see, can you read the sky and not 191 00:09:12,560 --> 00:09:14,280 read the time of the times? 192 00:09:19,280 --> 00:09:20,740 I think he'd say that very same thing 193 00:09:20,740 --> 00:09:21,800 if he came back to us. 194 00:09:25,210 --> 00:09:26,890 Sometimes I think the only thing that we 195 00:09:26,890 --> 00:09:28,510 learn from history is that we don't learn 196 00:09:28,510 --> 00:09:29,070 from history. 197 00:09:31,380 --> 00:09:34,500 That's the most pathetic condemnation of humankind. 198 00:09:35,920 --> 00:09:37,700 We do not learn from history. 199 00:09:50,780 --> 00:09:51,940 I'm getting quite old. 200 00:09:52,060 --> 00:09:53,380 This week I had a birthday. 201 00:09:54,160 --> 00:09:55,700 I was thinking tonight I was in a 202 00:09:55,700 --> 00:09:57,380 house a few years ago and it was 203 00:09:57,380 --> 00:09:58,760 my birthday, I was 46. 204 00:09:59,740 --> 00:10:01,460 The man in the house said, well anybody 205 00:10:01,460 --> 00:10:03,360 in this house gets a dollar for every 206 00:10:03,360 --> 00:10:05,200 year of birthday. 207 00:10:05,440 --> 00:10:07,400 And so he gave me a packet with 208 00:10:07,400 --> 00:10:08,620 46 dollars in it. 209 00:10:10,160 --> 00:10:11,600 I thought I might have got a hundred 210 00:10:11,600 --> 00:10:13,160 like that this week, I didn't get one. 211 00:10:13,400 --> 00:10:18,560 But anyhow, I'm old enough to remember World 212 00:10:18,560 --> 00:10:21,160 War I, before it and after it. 213 00:10:22,540 --> 00:10:25,040 I'm old enough to remember that that majestic 214 00:10:25,040 --> 00:10:28,080 catastrophe ended at 11 o'clock in the 215 00:10:28,080 --> 00:10:30,260 morning on the 11th day of the 11th 216 00:10:30,260 --> 00:10:32,340 month, 11 months from the signing of the 217 00:10:32,340 --> 00:10:34,920 Armistice with Turkey and 11 months from the 218 00:10:34,920 --> 00:10:36,300 time of Al-Ambient with Jerusalem. 219 00:10:36,300 --> 00:10:38,400 Do you think that God was trying to 220 00:10:38,400 --> 00:10:42,000 tell the human race in 1938 that we 221 00:10:42,000 --> 00:10:44,200 were entering into the last hour of human 222 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:44,760 destiny? 223 00:10:48,680 --> 00:10:50,720 A sequence of 5-11s again. 224 00:10:51,460 --> 00:10:53,520 The war terminated at 11 o'clock in 225 00:10:53,520 --> 00:10:55,000 the morning on the 11th day of the 226 00:10:55,000 --> 00:10:57,000 11th month, 11 months from the signing of 227 00:10:57,000 --> 00:10:58,960 the Armistice with Turkey, 11 months from when 228 00:10:58,960 --> 00:11:01,480 Al-Ambient had entered Jerusalem. 229 00:11:04,560 --> 00:11:06,040 People say to me often, as I guess 230 00:11:06,040 --> 00:11:17,370 they do to other men, well, we're 231 00:11:17,370 --> 00:11:18,910 not living in the last day. 232 00:11:20,510 --> 00:11:23,610 Don't you realize that this book, the church 233 00:11:23,610 --> 00:11:25,050 was born in the last day. 234 00:11:25,510 --> 00:11:27,610 The book of the Revelation speaks about things 235 00:11:27,610 --> 00:11:29,930 which will shortly come to pass and they 236 00:11:29,930 --> 00:11:31,470 were written 2,000 years ago. 237 00:11:39,130 --> 00:11:40,730 The book of Hebrews we've studied to some 238 00:11:40,730 --> 00:11:41,590 degree this week. 239 00:11:41,910 --> 00:11:43,090 It begins, God was... 240 00:12:10,450 --> 00:12:12,050 An event in history that didn't matter too 241 00:12:12,050 --> 00:12:14,510 much to us was the war in 1967. 242 00:12:16,270 --> 00:12:18,070 One of the signs of the end of 243 00:12:18,070 --> 00:12:20,790 the age is when you see Jerusalem surrounded 244 00:12:20,790 --> 00:12:21,510 with armies. 245 00:12:34,320 --> 00:12:38,240 1967, less than 3 million Jews fought more 246 00:12:38,240 --> 00:12:40,000 than 30 million Arabs. 247 00:12:40,860 --> 00:12:42,060 And the Jews licked the Arabs. 248 00:12:44,040 --> 00:12:45,980 Somebody asked the chief rabbi how it was 249 00:12:45,980 --> 00:12:50,670 that they accomplished one such thing in history 250 00:12:50,670 --> 00:12:52,470 in 6 days. 251 00:12:52,470 --> 00:12:56,420 The devout old rabbi... 252 00:13:14,180 --> 00:13:15,020 What does it say? 253 00:13:17,060 --> 00:13:18,660 They shall fall by the edge of the 254 00:13:18,660 --> 00:13:18,980 sword. 255 00:13:19,140 --> 00:13:21,400 21, verse 24 of Luke. 256 00:13:21,460 --> 00:13:22,420 You don't need to look at it. 257 00:13:23,180 --> 00:13:26,420 Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles 258 00:13:26,420 --> 00:13:29,420 until the time of the Gentiles be fulfilled. 259 00:13:32,670 --> 00:13:34,790 And the Jews, pardon me, the Gentiles have 260 00:13:34,790 --> 00:13:38,750 been treading down Jerusalem since Medjugorje 2,500 261 00:13:38,750 --> 00:13:39,570 years ago. 262 00:13:41,950 --> 00:13:44,310 Moshe Dayan is certainly not a devout Jew. 263 00:13:44,470 --> 00:13:45,810 He rather makes fun of religion. 264 00:13:46,830 --> 00:13:48,410 He's only got one eye, but he seems 265 00:13:48,410 --> 00:13:49,450 to see quite a bit. 266 00:13:50,710 --> 00:13:52,510 And he walked up to the wailing wall, 267 00:13:52,630 --> 00:13:55,550 those last stones, the remnants of Herod's temple, 268 00:13:55,650 --> 00:13:57,190 and put his finger on one of those 269 00:13:57,190 --> 00:14:00,090 stones and said, This is the hour of 270 00:14:00,090 --> 00:14:00,490 the Jews. 271 00:14:03,430 --> 00:14:06,000 This is the Holy of Holies. 272 00:14:06,180 --> 00:14:09,040 This is where the seraphs were. 273 00:14:09,620 --> 00:14:11,680 This is the most sacred place on earth 274 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:12,180 to the Jews. 275 00:14:12,380 --> 00:14:13,940 We've got it and we'll never surrender. 276 00:14:22,230 --> 00:14:24,650 I believe that began the countdown for the 277 00:14:24,650 --> 00:14:26,090 coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. 278 00:14:28,240 --> 00:14:30,820 When you see Jerusalem trodden down of the 279 00:14:30,820 --> 00:14:35,020 Gentiles, until the time of the Gentiles, and 280 00:14:35,020 --> 00:14:37,460 when it's released, that sets the alarm clock 281 00:14:37,460 --> 00:14:38,640 for the end of the age. 282 00:14:38,760 --> 00:14:39,680 And it started in... 283 00:14:47,070 --> 00:14:49,030 There were as many anguished to the return 284 00:14:49,030 --> 00:14:51,870 of the Lord Jesus Christ, theologically, prophetically, as 285 00:14:51,870 --> 00:14:52,970 there are spokes in a wheel. 286 00:14:53,050 --> 00:14:54,550 And wouldn't you never cover them a night 287 00:14:54,550 --> 00:14:55,110 like this? 288 00:14:56,330 --> 00:14:57,650 You could spend a whole night about the 289 00:14:57,650 --> 00:14:58,210 Antichrist. 290 00:14:58,210 --> 00:14:59,930 You could spend a whole night concerning the 291 00:14:59,930 --> 00:15:00,430 Jews. 292 00:15:01,670 --> 00:15:03,770 Maybe the most dramatic race of people. 293 00:15:03,970 --> 00:15:05,930 Remember again, and I remind you of this, 294 00:15:07,550 --> 00:15:09,550 that God was married to the Jews, and 295 00:15:09,550 --> 00:15:11,210 He divorced the Jews, and He's going to 296 00:15:11,210 --> 00:15:12,190 remarry the Jews. 297 00:15:13,990 --> 00:15:15,350 Now I believe, and I think my dear 298 00:15:15,350 --> 00:15:16,670 friend David, I know this fact. 299 00:15:20,230 --> 00:15:35,480 There are some 300 00:15:35,480 --> 00:15:36,860 frightening days ahead of us. 301 00:15:40,750 --> 00:15:42,650 What is prophesied in the 12th chapter of 302 00:15:42,650 --> 00:15:44,510 Hebrews there, that there is coming a period 303 00:15:44,510 --> 00:15:49,790 in human history, when everything, economically, socially, religiously... 304 00:16:00,900 --> 00:16:02,860 I said at the Southern Baptist Convention, I 305 00:16:02,860 --> 00:16:04,560 got there once, I'm sure the only time 306 00:16:04,560 --> 00:16:08,400 I ever will, but somebody has to shake 307 00:16:08,400 --> 00:16:09,000 the dry bone. 308 00:16:11,840 --> 00:16:13,180 And I said, if I gave you a 309 00:16:13,180 --> 00:16:14,840 paper and pencil, and asked you to sign 310 00:16:14,840 --> 00:16:17,360 on that paper, paper what or who you 311 00:16:17,360 --> 00:16:20,600 think is the greatest enemy to America. 312 00:16:23,860 --> 00:16:25,740 Start with the devils, finish with the Democrats, 313 00:16:25,740 --> 00:16:27,740 and in between have divorce and drink and 314 00:16:27,740 --> 00:16:28,860 dope, and I don't know what. 315 00:16:29,200 --> 00:16:30,600 And you admit it entirely. 316 00:16:31,720 --> 00:16:36,580 Because I'm convinced tonight, that all the presidents 317 00:16:36,580 --> 00:16:39,280 from when I finished preaching, I'd answer to 318 00:16:39,280 --> 00:16:40,960 God with a clear conscience, that I believe 319 00:16:40,960 --> 00:16:42,040 the greatest threat... 320 00:16:47,510 --> 00:16:49,510 I remind you, He divorced the Jews, He's 321 00:16:49,510 --> 00:16:52,050 left them alone for 2000 years, five times 322 00:16:52,050 --> 00:16:53,390 in the history of the world, have almost 323 00:16:53,390 --> 00:16:54,290 been annihilated. 324 00:16:59,690 --> 00:17:01,150 And God would let them be kicked around 325 00:17:01,150 --> 00:17:03,869 like a football, they'd be imprisoned and ostracized, 326 00:17:03,970 --> 00:17:05,530 and penalized and victimized. 327 00:17:06,069 --> 00:17:07,770 And God looks on and doesn't bother. 328 00:17:09,010 --> 00:17:10,650 You see, one day they took the son 329 00:17:10,650 --> 00:17:13,150 of God to the cross, and as he 330 00:17:13,150 --> 00:17:14,790 went there, he said, please just let me 331 00:17:14,790 --> 00:17:16,890 say one thing to you, you're not stealing 332 00:17:16,890 --> 00:17:18,170 my life, I have power. 333 00:17:22,700 --> 00:17:23,940 And I want to tell you something, you're 334 00:17:23,940 --> 00:17:25,680 not rejecting me, I'm rejecting you. 335 00:17:25,780 --> 00:17:27,400 Your house is left empty and desolate. 336 00:17:30,820 --> 00:17:33,280 2000 years, God hasn't bothered with the Jews. 337 00:17:34,280 --> 00:17:37,930 They may hold on money by industry, they 338 00:17:37,930 --> 00:17:41,190 control banks, they can... 339 00:17:41,190 --> 00:17:51,490 God makes you 340 00:17:51,490 --> 00:17:53,950 think that almighty God, the holy being in 341 00:17:53,950 --> 00:18:01,500 eternity, is determined on American scripture, almost in 342 00:18:01,500 --> 00:18:03,080 the book of the Revelation, it's a terrible 343 00:18:03,080 --> 00:18:03,420 book. 344 00:18:03,840 --> 00:18:05,140 Takes you to the edge of the hell, 345 00:18:05,180 --> 00:18:13,360 it also says this concerning the church, if 346 00:18:13,360 --> 00:18:13,880 you go... 347 00:18:20,760 --> 00:18:23,480 one of the most brilliant and modern... 348 00:18:26,400 --> 00:18:28,100 in his book... 349 00:18:37,920 --> 00:18:39,320 we break God's... 350 00:18:48,700 --> 00:18:50,080 state out there, I forget the name for 351 00:18:50,080 --> 00:18:51,980 a moment, as legalized prostitution. 352 00:18:58,230 --> 00:19:02,210 We're more juggernauts, we're more perverts, we're more 353 00:19:02,210 --> 00:19:08,110 divorces, we're more illegitimate children, we're more kids 354 00:19:08,110 --> 00:19:10,710 with VD, under 16 years of age in 355 00:19:10,710 --> 00:19:11,810 any country in the world. 356 00:19:14,910 --> 00:19:16,670 I've lived in some of the subculture of 357 00:19:16,670 --> 00:19:18,250 New York, and I walked it at midnight, 358 00:19:18,370 --> 00:19:19,430 I walked it at midday. 359 00:19:21,950 --> 00:19:25,050 Been there in the mayor's special research into 360 00:19:25,050 --> 00:19:27,130 drug addiction and who controls it in America. 361 00:19:30,210 --> 00:19:32,370 And yet when you've done, when you've told 362 00:19:32,370 --> 00:19:34,250 me that America has reached the bottom of 363 00:19:34,250 --> 00:19:36,370 the pile, when you've told me of the 364 00:19:36,370 --> 00:19:39,810 threat of communist power, and Dreesnet is laughing 365 00:19:39,810 --> 00:19:41,710 on his train going home tonight. 366 00:19:42,210 --> 00:19:46,500 He's got everything, and there's never been more 367 00:19:46,500 --> 00:19:48,380 tricks, but he managed to pull another one. 368 00:19:49,520 --> 00:19:53,100 They still owe America 1.5 billion dollars 369 00:19:53,100 --> 00:19:54,880 from the last war, but he said, I 370 00:19:54,880 --> 00:19:58,000 want 400 million of credit, we'll pay you 371 00:19:58,000 --> 00:19:59,220 in about 30 years. 372 00:19:59,980 --> 00:20:01,740 And he got the finest terms, and he 373 00:20:01,740 --> 00:20:02,780 sold us some gas. 374 00:20:03,480 --> 00:20:06,340 But I noticed the other day, Senator Jackson 375 00:20:06,340 --> 00:20:08,380 said, we buy this, whatever it is, a 376 00:20:08,380 --> 00:20:11,000 hundred cubic feet safe around here, we buy 377 00:20:11,000 --> 00:20:12,540 it for 70 cents, and they're going to 378 00:20:12,540 --> 00:20:15,400 generously sell it from Russia at two dollars 379 00:20:15,400 --> 00:20:15,860 to us. 380 00:20:17,020 --> 00:20:19,140 The grain bins across the nation are empty 381 00:20:19,140 --> 00:20:21,860 tonight according to HHMPY, that's why you pay 382 00:20:21,860 --> 00:20:23,160 so much for your state, we get an 383 00:20:23,160 --> 00:20:33,800 auto, we've 384 00:20:33,800 --> 00:20:39,150 no meat, we're at the bottom of the 385 00:20:39,150 --> 00:20:45,700 pile, we've no morality. 386 00:20:52,800 --> 00:20:55,280 And then you've told me the worst, and 387 00:20:55,280 --> 00:20:56,980 then you've chanted the last bomb that Russia 388 00:20:56,980 --> 00:21:12,790 has, and the last bomb accumulates 389 00:21:12,790 --> 00:21:13,310 its threats. 390 00:21:18,780 --> 00:21:24,630 And that is a sick church, in a 391 00:21:24,630 --> 00:21:25,350 dying world. 392 00:21:34,290 --> 00:21:36,190 I read you this scripture from the 17th 393 00:21:36,190 --> 00:21:37,450 chapter of Luke, briefly. 394 00:21:39,890 --> 00:21:41,950 Jesus has in front of him his disciples, 395 00:21:42,190 --> 00:21:44,470 and immediately behind them are the Pharisees, and 396 00:21:44,470 --> 00:21:46,950 under pressure from these men, they're asking, what 397 00:21:46,950 --> 00:21:48,290 should be the time of thy coming and 398 00:21:48,290 --> 00:21:49,130 the end of the age? 399 00:21:49,370 --> 00:21:51,650 And Jesus says certain things, and then with 400 00:21:51,650 --> 00:21:53,870 three words, he throws our minds back 3 401 00:21:53,870 --> 00:21:55,670 ,000 years to three people. 402 00:21:56,110 --> 00:21:58,070 Because if you remember Lot's wife, you must 403 00:21:58,070 --> 00:21:58,650 remember Lot. 404 00:21:58,650 --> 00:22:01,430 If you remember Lot, you must remember Abraham. 405 00:22:04,080 --> 00:22:05,960 The story begins in the 11th chapter of 406 00:22:05,960 --> 00:22:07,880 Genesis, it goes right through to the 19th 407 00:22:07,880 --> 00:22:08,720 chapter of Genesis. 408 00:22:10,960 --> 00:22:12,820 In the language of Charles Dickens, it's a 409 00:22:12,820 --> 00:22:13,720 tale of two cities. 410 00:22:14,980 --> 00:22:16,760 It's a study in two attitudes. 411 00:22:18,180 --> 00:22:20,920 It's a man who refused to be mesmerized 412 00:22:20,920 --> 00:22:24,680 by his enemies. 413 00:22:28,440 --> 00:22:30,700 It's a little fellow that started off in 414 00:22:30,700 --> 00:22:33,060 Ur of the Chaldees, and he was nameless, 415 00:22:33,280 --> 00:22:36,680 and homeless, and wifeless, and childless, positionless, possessionless, 416 00:22:36,680 --> 00:22:38,980 and he got on the Gideon spiral, you 417 00:22:38,980 --> 00:22:50,640 know, he ended 418 00:22:50,640 --> 00:23:12,250 nameless, strange, 419 00:23:12,450 --> 00:23:29,760 but concerning them, were 420 00:23:29,760 --> 00:23:30,220 she witches? 421 00:23:31,940 --> 00:23:32,900 All women are witches. 422 00:23:33,340 --> 00:23:36,480 I mean, well, sure, they are. 423 00:23:39,850 --> 00:23:40,770 You say, what about men? 424 00:23:47,820 --> 00:23:49,980 If you knew some of the schemes to 425 00:23:49,980 --> 00:23:52,120 rot and destroy the youth of America, did 426 00:23:52,120 --> 00:24:09,700 not, if you knew the, evil 427 00:24:09,700 --> 00:24:11,240 men are waxing worse and worse. 428 00:24:11,900 --> 00:24:12,720 What about women? 429 00:24:14,100 --> 00:24:16,280 Oh, well, they've been getting worse. 430 00:24:16,280 --> 00:24:18,520 They've been getting worse ever since Adam's rigged 431 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:19,300 the women's lids. 432 00:24:22,100 --> 00:24:23,400 But that didn't look right. 433 00:24:26,080 --> 00:24:27,200 Oh yes, they're getting worse. 434 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:30,980 Their situation's getting worse. 435 00:24:35,180 --> 00:24:36,380 Why remember Lot's wife? 436 00:24:39,340 --> 00:24:41,220 Well, she wasn't more wicked than anyone else. 437 00:24:41,320 --> 00:24:44,280 If Jesus wanted, he could have chosen some 438 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:50,600 other wife, wife of, maybe, Samson, maybe the 439 00:24:50,600 --> 00:24:52,120 wife of Ahab, Jezebel. 440 00:24:53,200 --> 00:24:55,720 He isn't choosing someone who's exceptionally wicked. 441 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,480 He's choosing somebody, in the language of the 442 00:24:58,480 --> 00:25:01,780 word of God, that he, or she, who 443 00:25:01,780 --> 00:25:06,660 is often reproved, and hardened her neck, would 444 00:25:06,660 --> 00:25:08,380 cut off suddenly without remedy. 445 00:25:12,170 --> 00:25:13,310 Where did he get his wife? 446 00:25:13,830 --> 00:25:14,410 I don't know. 447 00:25:17,160 --> 00:25:18,440 Would you like to suggest he got his 448 00:25:18,440 --> 00:25:19,760 wife in Ur of the Chaldees? 449 00:25:19,860 --> 00:25:21,300 All right, I'll accept that. 450 00:25:22,140 --> 00:25:23,660 If he got his wife in Ur of 451 00:25:23,660 --> 00:25:25,600 the Chaldees, she was a member of the 452 00:25:25,600 --> 00:25:28,600 world's first missionary party, because Abraham was the 453 00:25:28,600 --> 00:25:29,840 first missionary in history. 454 00:25:31,220 --> 00:25:34,000 And even though she lived against this colossal 455 00:25:34,000 --> 00:25:36,780 spiritual figure, and was a member of the 456 00:25:36,780 --> 00:25:38,880 world's first missionary party, she perished. 457 00:25:44,020 --> 00:25:45,380 Maybe he didn't get his wife in Ur 458 00:25:45,380 --> 00:25:45,940 of the Chaldees. 459 00:25:46,340 --> 00:25:47,720 Maybe, like so many men in the Old 460 00:25:47,720 --> 00:25:49,620 Testament, he got his wife by the side 461 00:25:49,620 --> 00:25:50,380 of a well. 462 00:25:51,600 --> 00:25:52,900 And I can see him rushing in one 463 00:25:52,900 --> 00:25:57,130 day and saying to his uncle, I want 464 00:25:57,130 --> 00:25:57,570 to carry one. 465 00:25:58,450 --> 00:25:59,650 And he said, you told me. 466 00:26:00,770 --> 00:26:01,530 Told you what? 467 00:26:01,670 --> 00:26:02,570 You've fallen in love. 468 00:26:02,570 --> 00:26:03,910 I've seen men like you before. 469 00:26:04,050 --> 00:26:05,010 You're just falling in love. 470 00:26:05,110 --> 00:26:06,070 That's all there is to it. 471 00:26:07,150 --> 00:26:09,030 Oh, but you've never seen a woman like 472 00:26:09,030 --> 00:26:09,210 this. 473 00:26:09,350 --> 00:26:10,230 Oh, Uncle Abraham. 474 00:26:10,590 --> 00:26:11,950 In fact, she's such a vision. 475 00:26:12,130 --> 00:26:13,510 I'm just not sure that she's an angel 476 00:26:13,510 --> 00:26:14,810 or a woman. 477 00:26:17,350 --> 00:26:18,450 Well, there's one thing for sure. 478 00:26:18,550 --> 00:26:19,990 No man goes looking for a witch. 479 00:26:20,010 --> 00:26:21,470 He may get one, but boy, he didn't 480 00:26:21,470 --> 00:26:22,310 go looking for one. 481 00:26:24,010 --> 00:26:25,090 She's so beautiful. 482 00:26:26,310 --> 00:26:27,790 And I can hear the old man saying, 483 00:26:27,850 --> 00:26:29,030 wait a minute, do you remember where she 484 00:26:29,030 --> 00:26:29,650 comes from? 485 00:26:29,710 --> 00:26:30,270 Remember this. 486 00:26:30,610 --> 00:26:32,570 She's one of the lesser breeds without the 487 00:26:32,570 --> 00:26:32,770 law. 488 00:26:32,770 --> 00:26:34,230 She's heathen as we would say. 489 00:26:34,390 --> 00:26:35,850 This thing won't work. 490 00:26:37,730 --> 00:26:38,150 Dirty. 491 00:26:40,420 --> 00:26:42,180 Love is not only blind, it's deaf. 492 00:26:43,060 --> 00:26:44,280 It doesn't take any heed. 493 00:26:47,380 --> 00:26:48,620 And the story goes on. 494 00:26:48,700 --> 00:26:51,440 It tells how the men prospered. 495 00:26:52,100 --> 00:26:53,380 The hand of God is on them. 496 00:26:54,440 --> 00:26:56,440 And one day Abraham calls his nephew Lot 497 00:26:56,440 --> 00:26:57,580 and he says, Lot, look, I want to 498 00:26:57,580 --> 00:26:58,140 talk to you a minute. 499 00:26:58,320 --> 00:27:00,680 I was looking from the hilltop there and 500 00:27:00,680 --> 00:27:03,760 your herdsmen were striding with my herdsmen about 501 00:27:03,760 --> 00:27:04,720 a piece of territory. 502 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,500 Now this isn't Christian, as we would say. 503 00:27:06,800 --> 00:27:09,160 Why don't we settle this then? 504 00:27:09,440 --> 00:27:10,900 If you want to take that side of 505 00:27:10,900 --> 00:27:12,140 the valley, I'll take this. 506 00:27:12,180 --> 00:27:13,700 And if you'll take that, I'll take that. 507 00:27:13,780 --> 00:27:15,080 And he says, oh, Uncle Abraham. 508 00:27:16,300 --> 00:27:17,480 You see, there was one thing. 509 00:27:20,850 --> 00:27:24,520 And the young saw Egypt and its flesh 510 00:27:24,520 --> 00:27:27,360 parts and its prosperity and its gilts and 511 00:27:27,360 --> 00:27:28,680 its gold and its glitter. 512 00:27:36,430 --> 00:27:38,990 Grass there, and not only this side of 513 00:27:38,990 --> 00:27:43,130 the valley. 514 00:27:43,170 --> 00:27:46,350 And he pitched his tent towards Sodom. 515 00:27:48,980 --> 00:27:50,280 Oh, he got his eye on the main 516 00:27:50,280 --> 00:27:50,620 tent. 517 00:27:59,880 --> 00:28:01,460 Yes, I'll take that side of the valley. 518 00:28:02,140 --> 00:28:03,540 And Uncle Abraham says, well, that's all right. 519 00:28:03,940 --> 00:28:05,500 You see, if he'd been a gentleman, he 520 00:28:05,500 --> 00:28:07,620 would have said, Uncle Abraham, you're the older 521 00:28:07,620 --> 00:28:09,180 person and you should make your choice. 522 00:28:09,380 --> 00:28:10,600 It's not my privilege. 523 00:28:10,880 --> 00:28:12,120 I would still be a nerd of the 524 00:28:12,120 --> 00:28:14,560 Chaldeans, but for your kindness, you choose that 525 00:28:14,560 --> 00:28:15,400 side, if you want. 526 00:28:16,600 --> 00:28:18,420 Abraham sets off to go away and the 527 00:28:18,420 --> 00:28:20,000 Lord said, and I like the way the 528 00:28:20,000 --> 00:28:20,700 Lord talks to him. 529 00:28:20,760 --> 00:28:22,560 He said, Abraham, and he said, here I 530 00:28:22,560 --> 00:28:22,880 am. 531 00:28:24,040 --> 00:28:25,840 He said, go back and stand on that 532 00:28:25,840 --> 00:28:26,560 rock you're at. 533 00:28:27,480 --> 00:28:30,080 Look north, south, east, west, all. 534 00:28:30,260 --> 00:28:31,080 A-L-L. 535 00:28:31,540 --> 00:28:33,380 All the land that thou seest, I'll give 536 00:28:33,380 --> 00:28:33,840 it to thee. 537 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:36,760 But my nephew has just taken all this 538 00:28:36,760 --> 00:28:37,180 territory. 539 00:28:37,260 --> 00:28:38,020 No, no, no, he hasn't. 540 00:28:38,120 --> 00:28:39,060 He's just borrowed it. 541 00:28:39,640 --> 00:28:40,920 I'm going to give you the whole. 542 00:28:54,060 --> 00:28:56,360 And Lot pitched his tent towards Sodom. 543 00:28:57,820 --> 00:28:59,520 He did his banking and his business there. 544 00:28:59,620 --> 00:29:00,120 He got involved. 545 00:29:01,750 --> 00:29:03,290 He became very important there. 546 00:29:10,480 --> 00:29:12,040 And they came and invaded the city. 547 00:29:19,180 --> 00:29:22,020 Somebody ran after this wonderful man, or ran 548 00:29:22,020 --> 00:29:23,920 up the hill and said, Abraham, they've taken 549 00:29:23,920 --> 00:29:24,840 your nephew Lot. 550 00:29:26,060 --> 00:29:27,280 He used to praise David. 551 00:29:27,400 --> 00:29:29,280 He used to say, this morning old Abraham 552 00:29:29,280 --> 00:29:30,800 might have said, let him stew in his 553 00:29:30,800 --> 00:29:31,500 own juice. 554 00:29:31,580 --> 00:29:32,980 I've been warning him a long time. 555 00:29:39,950 --> 00:29:41,270 And he doesn't do it. 556 00:29:41,990 --> 00:29:45,310 Instead of that, Uncle Abraham took over two 557 00:29:45,310 --> 00:29:46,050 hundred servants. 558 00:29:46,190 --> 00:29:47,030 He was a rich man. 559 00:29:47,730 --> 00:29:49,450 And he went and rescued Lot out of 560 00:29:49,450 --> 00:29:50,270 the hand of his enemies. 561 00:29:51,890 --> 00:29:53,610 And as Abraham and Lot were coming down 562 00:29:53,610 --> 00:30:00,130 the road, and immediately Abraham saw him. 563 00:30:00,250 --> 00:30:04,730 He bowed his feet and he worshipped him. 564 00:30:04,730 --> 00:30:05,290 The young man didn't. 565 00:30:05,390 --> 00:30:06,030 He was in a hurry. 566 00:30:06,150 --> 00:30:07,030 Thanks, Uncle Abraham. 567 00:30:10,580 --> 00:30:13,580 No, Abraham worshipped in the upper time. 568 00:30:33,040 --> 00:30:39,670 A true party leader. 569 00:30:46,870 --> 00:30:47,930 He went back to business. 570 00:30:49,350 --> 00:30:50,470 Recovered some of his losses. 571 00:30:55,450 --> 00:30:56,790 But he didn't merely go and teach his 572 00:30:56,790 --> 00:30:57,710 friends to waltz Sodom. 573 00:30:57,810 --> 00:30:59,010 He went and lived in Sodom. 574 00:31:01,990 --> 00:31:03,590 And as bad as it was that he 575 00:31:03,590 --> 00:31:05,670 went and lived in Sodom, the trouble was 576 00:31:05,670 --> 00:31:06,850 Sodom got into him. 577 00:31:10,950 --> 00:31:13,510 Abraham was on the mountain communing with God. 578 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:18,180 This man is getting more and more involved, 579 00:31:18,280 --> 00:31:21,560 extending his territory, deepening his investment, feeling more 580 00:31:21,560 --> 00:31:22,620 success and security. 581 00:31:28,570 --> 00:31:30,090 Two daughters were born to him. 582 00:31:34,360 --> 00:31:35,920 And he married them off to Sodomites. 583 00:31:38,880 --> 00:31:40,380 He changed the word to Sodomy. 584 00:31:40,480 --> 00:31:41,900 It's a dirty word and he tried to 585 00:31:41,900 --> 00:31:44,020 make it a bit smoother with homosexuality. 586 00:31:44,140 --> 00:31:47,020 England has legalized the damnable thing. 587 00:31:47,800 --> 00:31:49,800 And America is pushing to legalize it. 588 00:31:50,700 --> 00:31:52,420 And I've got news for you teenagers. 589 00:31:52,580 --> 00:31:54,260 You'd better live very near to God because 590 00:31:54,260 --> 00:31:55,880 there are days just up the road and 591 00:31:55,880 --> 00:31:57,500 I expect to see them anyhow that are 592 00:31:57,500 --> 00:31:58,960 going to be the most terrible days in 593 00:31:58,960 --> 00:31:59,320 history. 594 00:31:59,780 --> 00:32:01,580 Because you don't legalize abortion. 595 00:32:01,740 --> 00:32:03,680 You don't take living babies out of living 596 00:32:03,680 --> 00:32:03,980 women. 597 00:32:04,300 --> 00:32:05,280 And what do you do with a living 598 00:32:05,280 --> 00:32:05,620 baby? 599 00:32:05,740 --> 00:32:07,540 Mind your own business the government says. 600 00:32:09,240 --> 00:32:12,480 If somebody buys them for dog meat, do 601 00:32:12,480 --> 00:32:13,680 you wonder your dog licks his lips? 602 00:32:13,780 --> 00:32:15,180 You say men wouldn't be as bad as 603 00:32:15,180 --> 00:32:15,300 that. 604 00:32:15,360 --> 00:32:17,260 If they take living babies out of living 605 00:32:17,260 --> 00:32:18,820 women they're bad enough to do anything. 606 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:22,420 And we're a Christian country we're not a 607 00:32:22,420 --> 00:32:23,100 communist country. 608 00:32:26,400 --> 00:32:28,340 Nevada has legalized prostitution. 609 00:32:40,810 --> 00:32:42,790 You don't break God's laws. 610 00:32:42,950 --> 00:32:45,270 God watches the divorce courts of America and 611 00:32:45,270 --> 00:32:47,350 England every day and marriages are broken and 612 00:32:47,350 --> 00:32:48,990 kids are tossed around I think there's about 613 00:32:48,990 --> 00:32:51,730 20 million battered between fathers and mothers that 614 00:32:51,730 --> 00:32:52,310 are restless. 615 00:32:53,890 --> 00:32:55,390 What do you expect to inherit in the 616 00:32:55,390 --> 00:32:56,130 next generation? 617 00:33:21,480 --> 00:33:23,020 You see, it would treat your heart out. 618 00:33:24,260 --> 00:33:25,760 Kids in America don't care a hell of 619 00:33:25,760 --> 00:33:26,000 a thing. 620 00:33:28,180 --> 00:33:29,600 Those kids maybe don't know how well they 621 00:33:29,600 --> 00:33:29,940 care. 622 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:31,880 They laugh at the preachers, toss, nudge each 623 00:33:31,880 --> 00:33:32,080 other. 624 00:33:34,420 --> 00:33:35,860 I'll tell you one thing going around the 625 00:33:35,860 --> 00:33:40,320 world you'll never find heathen children that are 626 00:33:40,320 --> 00:33:40,680 rude. 627 00:33:41,240 --> 00:33:43,360 They may not be educated like you are 628 00:33:43,360 --> 00:33:45,600 some could hardly say they're ABC but they 629 00:33:45,600 --> 00:33:47,220 sit open mouths when you tell them a 630 00:33:47,220 --> 00:33:47,580 gospel. 631 00:33:49,340 --> 00:33:51,360 It runs in your ears now to some 632 00:33:51,360 --> 00:33:52,820 of you kids and you'll land in hell 633 00:33:52,820 --> 00:33:53,900 unless you repent anyhow. 634 00:34:01,510 --> 00:34:03,390 He not only picked his tent towards Sodom 635 00:34:03,390 --> 00:34:04,470 he went and lived in Sodom. 636 00:34:04,570 --> 00:34:06,170 He married his children off to Saronites. 637 00:34:07,050 --> 00:34:08,710 And do you know one reason that God 638 00:34:08,710 --> 00:34:10,370 blessed this amazing man Abraham? 639 00:34:12,170 --> 00:34:13,330 You'd hardly guess. 640 00:34:14,770 --> 00:34:16,230 Because of his size in office. 641 00:34:16,449 --> 00:34:16,830 No, no, no. 642 00:34:16,989 --> 00:34:20,030 God said this Abraham he knows how to 643 00:34:20,030 --> 00:34:21,409 take care of his children. 644 00:34:24,000 --> 00:34:24,880 Do you know how to take care of 645 00:34:24,880 --> 00:34:25,239 yours? 646 00:34:27,100 --> 00:34:28,540 Back in the church a few years ago 647 00:34:28,540 --> 00:34:31,060 on the west coast and after the morning 648 00:34:31,060 --> 00:34:32,860 service a man came up to the front 649 00:34:32,860 --> 00:34:34,580 with his phone and I was standing here 650 00:34:34,580 --> 00:34:35,940 and I looked straight in his eyes. 651 00:34:36,040 --> 00:34:38,889 He was a huge man with a big, 652 00:34:39,110 --> 00:34:39,550 big phone. 653 00:34:40,170 --> 00:34:42,969 I think yes. 654 00:34:44,170 --> 00:34:45,889 He had a wonderful mood that week. 655 00:34:46,010 --> 00:34:47,510 They had to take petitions down in the 656 00:34:47,510 --> 00:34:47,790 church. 657 00:34:47,929 --> 00:34:48,989 God filled the place. 658 00:34:49,170 --> 00:34:50,489 People were wonderful this day. 659 00:34:51,550 --> 00:34:52,870 At the end of the week the man 660 00:34:52,870 --> 00:34:54,770 came again and he said Sunday night I 661 00:34:54,770 --> 00:34:56,450 want to thank you for this week. 662 00:34:56,570 --> 00:34:57,430 It's been very wonderful. 663 00:34:59,470 --> 00:35:00,730 And I said well fine. 664 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:05,740 By the way I haven't seen your son 665 00:35:05,740 --> 00:35:06,080 around. 666 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:08,600 He's been very busy this week. 667 00:35:09,120 --> 00:35:09,640 Very busy. 668 00:35:12,940 --> 00:35:14,560 He's a very gifted boy. 669 00:35:15,060 --> 00:35:16,800 He can pilot our family plane. 670 00:35:16,900 --> 00:35:18,260 You should see him handle our speed boat. 671 00:35:18,800 --> 00:35:21,400 We were on vacation and he managed the 672 00:35:21,400 --> 00:35:21,900 whole business. 673 00:35:23,800 --> 00:35:24,880 He's a great boy. 674 00:35:26,040 --> 00:35:26,840 Straight A student. 675 00:35:27,840 --> 00:35:29,000 All the girls like him. 676 00:35:29,180 --> 00:35:30,860 He's the best boy in the high school 677 00:35:30,860 --> 00:35:31,080 there. 678 00:35:31,180 --> 00:35:32,060 Everybody likes him. 679 00:35:32,760 --> 00:35:34,080 But I said he hasn't been to church 680 00:35:34,080 --> 00:35:34,600 one night. 681 00:35:34,700 --> 00:35:35,660 No no no he's very busy. 682 00:35:37,560 --> 00:35:39,060 I said why didn't you make him come 683 00:35:39,060 --> 00:35:39,300 to church. 684 00:35:39,460 --> 00:35:40,480 Make him come to church. 685 00:35:40,600 --> 00:35:42,300 Well I said what did he weigh about 686 00:35:42,300 --> 00:35:44,000 200 pounds big boy like that. 687 00:35:44,060 --> 00:35:45,740 I suppose when he's 19 I didn't know 688 00:35:45,740 --> 00:35:46,360 he was still in school. 689 00:35:46,620 --> 00:35:49,460 I said 19 he's only 40. 690 00:35:55,320 --> 00:35:56,720 Why didn't you make him come to church. 691 00:35:57,020 --> 00:35:57,700 Make him. 692 00:35:58,060 --> 00:35:58,920 You know what he weighs. 693 00:36:01,340 --> 00:36:04,080 I said he's got a man's body and 694 00:36:04,080 --> 00:36:06,420 a boy's brain and a boy's emotions and 695 00:36:06,420 --> 00:36:07,420 a boy's soul. 696 00:36:07,920 --> 00:36:09,900 Why didn't you make him come to church. 697 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:13,200 Oh I don't put my ideas on him. 698 00:36:14,500 --> 00:36:15,420 Did he go to school. 699 00:36:15,620 --> 00:36:17,120 I just told you he's a straight A 700 00:36:17,120 --> 00:36:17,360 student. 701 00:36:17,440 --> 00:36:18,300 He's a wonderful boy. 702 00:36:22,430 --> 00:36:23,490 You mean to say you don't have a 703 00:36:23,490 --> 00:36:24,650 single problem with that boy. 704 00:36:24,650 --> 00:36:25,810 Well he said we do have them. 705 00:36:25,910 --> 00:36:26,930 You'd be amazed what it is. 706 00:36:27,270 --> 00:36:28,470 You know he can't get up in the 707 00:36:28,470 --> 00:36:28,710 morning. 708 00:36:28,950 --> 00:36:30,150 You can't get him out of bed. 709 00:36:30,790 --> 00:36:32,570 As we were frantic about an athlete. 710 00:36:33,650 --> 00:36:35,270 Big muscular boy and he can't get out 711 00:36:35,270 --> 00:36:36,010 of bed in the morning. 712 00:36:38,210 --> 00:36:39,350 As a matter of fact the other morning 713 00:36:39,350 --> 00:36:40,090 I couldn't get him out. 714 00:36:40,110 --> 00:36:41,350 I took a wet sponge and rubbed it 715 00:36:41,350 --> 00:36:41,870 on his face. 716 00:36:41,950 --> 00:36:42,670 Boy you're pure. 717 00:36:45,880 --> 00:36:47,680 He said yesterday morning he wouldn't get out. 718 00:36:47,760 --> 00:36:48,740 I got all over the bed and I 719 00:36:48,740 --> 00:36:51,820 kicked the bed and flopped him on the 720 00:36:51,820 --> 00:36:52,020 floor. 721 00:36:53,340 --> 00:36:54,660 What a pure father. 722 00:36:56,840 --> 00:36:57,920 What do you want me to do? 723 00:36:59,200 --> 00:37:00,780 I said you don't believe in pushing your 724 00:37:00,780 --> 00:37:02,400 ideas on him you're saying. 725 00:37:02,640 --> 00:37:04,720 Why make him go to school? 726 00:37:04,980 --> 00:37:06,100 You should go to his room in the 727 00:37:06,100 --> 00:37:08,580 morning and say John excuse me but I'm 728 00:37:08,580 --> 00:37:10,060 going to do this and I know you 729 00:37:10,060 --> 00:37:11,120 don't want to go to school and it's 730 00:37:11,120 --> 00:37:12,580 all right my dear boy I just wonder 731 00:37:12,580 --> 00:37:25,220 how you feel when 732 00:37:25,220 --> 00:37:33,340 you go to I don't want to go 733 00:37:33,340 --> 00:38:02,220 to I don't want to I 734 00:38:02,220 --> 00:38:03,560 don't want to go to school. 735 00:38:09,440 --> 00:38:11,940 I don't want to go to school. 736 00:38:13,840 --> 00:38:28,740 I don't want to go to school. 737 00:38:36,070 --> 00:38:37,110 I don't go to school. 738 00:38:42,080 --> 00:38:49,030 I don't want to I don't want to 739 00:38:49,030 --> 00:38:49,550 go to school. 740 00:38:49,850 --> 00:39:00,960 don't I 741 00:39:00,960 --> 00:39:07,520 don't want to go to school. 742 00:39:07,640 --> 00:39:34,210 I don't want to go to school. 743 00:39:34,370 --> 00:39:53,430 don't want to go to I 744 00:39:53,430 --> 00:39:57,730 don't want to go to school. 745 00:39:57,730 --> 00:40:12,770 I don't want to go to school. 746 00:40:13,390 --> 00:40:14,170 I don't want to go to school. 747 00:40:15,930 --> 00:40:22,330 I don't want to go to school. 748 00:40:24,970 --> 00:40:28,230 I don't want to go to I don't 749 00:40:30,070 --> 00:40:30,670 want to go to school. 750 00:40:30,670 --> 00:40:32,850 I don't want to go to school. 751 00:40:33,650 --> 00:40:43,390 I don't want to go 752 00:41:17,370 --> 00:41:41,140 to school. 753 00:41:41,160 --> 00:41:42,080 I don't want to school. 754 00:41:42,340 --> 00:41:42,860 don't go to school. 755 00:41:43,020 --> 00:41:43,600 I don't want to school. 756 00:41:43,600 --> 00:42:09,160 I don't 757 00:42:37,990 --> 00:42:39,590 want to go to school. 758 00:42:40,730 --> 00:42:53,730 I don't 759 00:42:53,730 --> 00:43:03,320 want to go to 760 00:43:17,890 --> 00:43:18,370 school. 761 00:43:24,200 --> 00:43:25,820 don't want to go to I don't want 762 00:43:25,820 --> 00:43:26,140 to go to school. 763 00:43:26,460 --> 00:43:37,480 I don't want to go to I don't 764 00:43:37,480 --> 00:43:44,540 want to go to I want to school. 765 00:43:55,270 --> 00:44:23,890 I don't 766 00:44:45,480 --> 00:44:51,240 want 767 00:44:51,240 --> 00:45:00,480 to go to school. 768 00:45:09,120 --> 00:45:10,460 go to preach false religion. 769 00:45:10,720 --> 00:45:12,860 You can't push it on to the boys 770 00:45:12,860 --> 00:45:15,660 in naval academies or naval reserves, but you 771 00:45:15,660 --> 00:45:20,400 can teach them transcendental religion and some of 772 00:45:20,400 --> 00:45:21,900 the mystic stuff of the East, which is 773 00:45:21,900 --> 00:45:22,200 deadly. 774 00:45:26,660 --> 00:45:28,520 They're very proud of scientific achievement. 775 00:45:29,100 --> 00:45:31,080 But, you know, I rubbed up against the 776 00:45:31,080 --> 00:45:32,440 text that rather upset me. 777 00:45:33,540 --> 00:45:35,240 The evil is symbolic of America. 778 00:45:36,440 --> 00:45:38,100 We're the only nation in the world to 779 00:45:38,100 --> 00:45:39,100 put anybody on the moon. 780 00:45:39,540 --> 00:45:41,300 Put to void, but over die, was my 781 00:45:41,300 --> 00:45:41,400 thinking. 782 00:46:00,150 --> 00:46:02,670 Let me remind you, Sodom and Gomorrah perished. 783 00:46:02,910 --> 00:46:03,670 God got angry. 784 00:46:03,850 --> 00:46:05,170 He pulled the switch, if you like, and 785 00:46:05,170 --> 00:46:06,010 he burned them up. 786 00:46:08,460 --> 00:46:10,400 As my book says, Sodom had no Bible. 787 00:46:12,420 --> 00:46:13,700 Sodom had no church. 788 00:46:15,140 --> 00:46:16,200 Sodom had no preaching. 789 00:46:17,400 --> 00:46:19,180 Sodom had no gospel broadcast. 790 00:46:19,580 --> 00:46:23,240 America has more gospel broadcasts in one day 791 00:46:23,240 --> 00:46:28,010 than Europe has in six months. 792 00:46:29,470 --> 00:46:31,890 We have more Bible schools in one state 793 00:46:31,890 --> 00:46:35,600 than the whole of Europe. 794 00:46:37,320 --> 00:46:39,740 We're the most privileged nation under heaven. 795 00:46:41,380 --> 00:46:42,940 And yet, alas, we've more iniquity. 796 00:46:46,960 --> 00:46:47,780 God got angry. 797 00:46:47,900 --> 00:46:48,460 What did he do? 798 00:46:49,540 --> 00:46:51,280 Well, he had a few friends around. 799 00:46:51,480 --> 00:46:51,960 And you know what? 800 00:46:52,020 --> 00:46:53,340 He still has a few friends around. 801 00:46:55,200 --> 00:46:56,460 He said, you're rough on America. 802 00:46:56,580 --> 00:46:57,640 I'm only telling you the truth. 803 00:46:57,720 --> 00:46:59,380 If I'm not spit it out, reject it. 804 00:47:01,500 --> 00:47:13,540 America has given the earth to everyone. 805 00:47:13,580 --> 00:47:15,040 But then when you've said that, let me 806 00:47:15,040 --> 00:47:30,270 back up 807 00:47:30,270 --> 00:47:31,090 eight years of age. 808 00:47:31,310 --> 00:47:47,000 Eight years. 809 00:48:33,440 --> 00:48:35,460 He's one of the super millionaires. 810 00:48:35,660 --> 00:48:36,660 He's the poor guy. 811 00:48:49,650 --> 00:48:50,850 God has some friends. 812 00:48:52,010 --> 00:48:53,330 That man is a friend of God. 813 00:48:53,450 --> 00:48:54,450 He was praying a while ago. 814 00:50:10,810 --> 00:50:12,530 God told this man, in the next hour, 815 00:50:12,690 --> 00:50:16,720 a billion people are going to be saved. 816 00:50:21,330 --> 00:51:02,230 He's going to pour out the 817 00:51:02,230 --> 00:51:03,170 works of darkness. 818 00:51:29,370 --> 00:51:30,690 And God is looking for candidates. 819 00:51:35,630 --> 00:51:37,010 God has always had friends. 820 00:51:39,740 --> 00:51:40,480 He's up here. 821 00:51:40,560 --> 00:51:41,180 He's living here. 822 00:51:42,000 --> 00:51:43,180 Are you listening to God? 823 00:51:45,230 --> 00:51:47,070 God said, I'm going to destroy Sodom and 824 00:51:47,070 --> 00:51:47,310 Gomorrah. 825 00:51:47,950 --> 00:51:49,370 I've only got one friend on earth. 826 00:51:50,590 --> 00:51:51,950 That's that little old man up there. 827 00:51:57,210 --> 00:51:59,050 You think that when God... 828 00:52:06,570 --> 00:52:07,950 He didn't go to war. 829 00:52:34,100 --> 00:52:35,420 Well, they deserve it, Lord. 830 00:52:46,040 --> 00:52:47,040 You know, God didn't destroy. 831 00:52:50,800 --> 00:52:52,320 If he hadn't have destroyed them, they would 832 00:52:52,320 --> 00:53:23,180 have destroyed I'm 833 00:53:23,180 --> 00:53:42,860 saying to this world, something 834 00:53:42,860 --> 00:54:05,250 good is not going to happen. 835 00:54:05,470 --> 00:54:07,750 No, he didn't go down to the mare. 836 00:54:17,640 --> 00:54:19,100 He didn't look again down the street one 837 00:54:19,100 --> 00:54:25,030 day with a friend, and he said, I 838 00:54:25,030 --> 00:54:25,650 don't know what's going on. 839 00:54:26,110 --> 00:54:28,450 Didn't you hear that little thing down there 840 00:54:28,450 --> 00:54:28,790 chirping? 841 00:54:29,910 --> 00:54:30,290 Chirping? 842 00:54:32,130 --> 00:54:33,650 You can hear anything in the traffic of 843 00:54:33,650 --> 00:54:33,890 London. 844 00:54:34,190 --> 00:54:35,410 Oh, there's a little thing to say. 845 00:54:38,350 --> 00:54:39,750 He got a bit further down the street. 846 00:54:43,610 --> 00:54:47,270 The business man said, did you hear that? 847 00:54:47,330 --> 00:54:48,490 He said, no, I didn't hear a thing. 848 00:54:48,610 --> 00:54:49,770 He said, somebody just... 849 00:54:52,750 --> 00:54:54,290 Depends what your ear's tuned into. 850 00:54:56,820 --> 00:54:58,620 Mrs. Love says to her husband, you know, 851 00:54:58,640 --> 00:55:00,040 dear, I think it would be nice if 852 00:55:00,040 --> 00:55:05,890 you went to see... 853 00:55:06,270 --> 00:55:07,730 You'd still be in Ur of the Chaldees. 854 00:55:07,790 --> 00:55:08,810 You'd still be a cowboy. 855 00:55:08,990 --> 00:55:09,870 You wouldn't have anything. 856 00:55:21,150 --> 00:55:22,630 She says, wait till I get on my... 857 00:55:35,080 --> 00:55:36,660 Abraham lived on the mountain. 858 00:55:37,300 --> 00:55:38,500 Abraham built his altar. 859 00:55:38,660 --> 00:55:39,900 Abraham said his prayers. 860 00:55:40,500 --> 00:55:41,960 This man had forgotten all about that. 861 00:55:42,100 --> 00:55:43,640 He got so prosperous he hadn't time to 862 00:55:43,640 --> 00:55:44,140 thank God. 863 00:55:45,140 --> 00:56:16,560 And as they went up the mountain... 864 00:56:16,560 --> 00:56:17,640 They're a plain man. 865 00:56:45,260 --> 00:56:46,820 For adventure they're like ten. 866 00:56:57,200 --> 00:56:59,340 For adventure they're like ten of the thirteen. 867 00:56:59,600 --> 00:57:47,640 He goes down and says, if his wife 868 00:57:47,640 --> 00:57:49,160 is saved, that was two, and his two 869 00:57:49,160 --> 00:57:50,840 daughters were four, and if his son-in 870 00:57:50,840 --> 00:57:52,280 -law being saved, that will be six. 871 00:57:52,500 --> 00:57:54,240 God was only asking for four others. 872 00:57:54,700 --> 00:58:16,700 In the twenty years he's lived in... 873 00:58:16,700 --> 00:58:17,860 You know what I think the most amazing 874 00:58:17,860 --> 00:58:18,320 thing is? 875 00:58:18,420 --> 00:58:28,330 In this present time, the interesting thing 876 00:58:28,330 --> 00:58:34,030 to me at this moment is the mercy 877 00:58:34,030 --> 00:58:34,490 of God. 878 00:58:38,610 --> 00:58:40,990 That we're not burning like Sodom and Gomorrah 879 00:58:40,990 --> 00:58:41,810 here in America. 880 00:58:43,770 --> 00:58:45,450 We have launched more revivals. 881 00:58:46,970 --> 00:58:48,490 We have given more to the Jews. 882 00:59:10,550 --> 00:59:12,650 And of course these dear teenagers don't know 883 00:59:12,650 --> 00:59:13,670 a thing about depression. 884 00:59:13,850 --> 00:59:14,670 They live like kings. 885 00:59:18,520 --> 00:59:20,280 The last depression, you got a new dress 886 00:59:20,280 --> 00:59:21,940 once in two years if you were fortunate 887 00:59:21,940 --> 00:59:22,820 or you got one... 888 00:59:26,240 --> 00:59:28,040 I've stood in bread lines at five o 889 00:59:28,040 --> 00:59:29,800 'clock, four o'clock in the morning... 890 00:59:34,950 --> 00:59:36,110 The mercy of God. 891 00:59:45,440 --> 00:59:46,780 Lot is busy in his house. 892 00:59:46,960 --> 00:59:47,740 There's a knock at the door. 893 00:59:48,800 --> 00:59:50,400 Goes to the door, hear a true angel. 894 00:59:50,920 --> 00:59:51,500 He's startled. 895 00:59:52,240 --> 00:59:53,760 The angel says, hurry up, get out of 896 00:59:53,760 --> 00:59:57,560 the situation, destroy Sodom and Gomorrah. 897 00:59:58,660 --> 00:59:59,840 And he says, well, could you hold him 898 00:59:59,840 --> 01:00:00,140 a minute? 899 01:00:02,060 --> 01:00:03,120 Well, not much longer. 900 01:00:03,320 --> 01:00:45,440 I wonder when over the street these 901 01:00:45,440 --> 01:00:47,520 men said, oh, you've got two men there. 902 01:00:48,100 --> 01:00:49,060 And you know they... 903 01:01:04,450 --> 01:01:05,930 And he said to his wife, come on. 904 01:01:06,770 --> 01:01:07,990 And his wife wouldn't... 905 01:01:24,850 --> 01:02:10,570 She was out with... 906 01:02:10,570 --> 01:02:14,450 As it was in the days of Noah. 907 01:02:14,490 --> 01:02:16,110 As it was in the days of Lot. 908 01:02:16,190 --> 01:02:17,230 As it was in the days of Noah. 909 01:02:17,370 --> 01:02:18,950 What were the true signs in the days 910 01:02:18,950 --> 01:02:19,410 of Noah? 911 01:02:50,240 --> 01:02:56,860 I'm not a racist, but no new white 912 01:02:56,860 --> 01:02:58,100 nations are being born. 913 01:02:58,240 --> 01:03:00,600 Every new nation that's born is a black 914 01:03:00,600 --> 01:03:01,120 nation. 915 01:03:03,280 --> 01:03:04,760 I used to go in the United Nations 916 01:03:04,760 --> 01:03:06,440 to borrow material when I was editing a 917 01:03:06,440 --> 01:03:08,300 magazine in New York for David Wilkerson. 918 01:03:09,100 --> 01:03:10,240 And I was always amazed. 919 01:03:10,380 --> 01:03:12,540 It was a constant prong of confronting people 920 01:03:12,540 --> 01:03:14,200 you very seldom saw a white person. 921 01:03:14,500 --> 01:03:16,220 You get a picture of the United Nations 922 01:03:16,220 --> 01:03:16,980 when they're assembled. 923 01:03:18,340 --> 01:03:20,080 And instead of somebody having teeth and one 924 01:03:20,080 --> 01:03:21,600 or two missing, it looks as though, well, 925 01:03:21,760 --> 01:03:23,420 you've just got one or two white people 926 01:03:23,420 --> 01:04:01,540 there and all the way... 927 01:04:01,540 --> 01:04:02,780 You may spend your nights... 928 01:04:02,780 --> 01:04:03,740 And the powers... 929 01:04:11,060 --> 01:04:13,100 If this happens in Christian countries, what do 930 01:04:13,100 --> 01:04:14,460 you think happens in heathen countries? 931 01:04:14,640 --> 01:04:18,010 The final thing. 932 01:04:18,630 --> 01:04:19,410 God have mercy. 933 01:04:19,550 --> 01:04:20,250 He sent an angel. 934 01:04:20,430 --> 01:04:21,110 God have mercy. 935 01:04:21,250 --> 01:04:22,690 He dragged the woman out of the nest. 936 01:04:23,750 --> 01:04:24,710 But you still look back. 937 01:04:27,900 --> 01:04:29,960 No preacher said and had no Bible school, 938 01:04:30,100 --> 01:04:31,760 said and had no broadcast, said and had 939 01:04:31,760 --> 01:05:20,460 no Bible... 940 01:05:20,460 --> 01:05:21,320 He never swears. 941 01:05:21,460 --> 01:05:22,820 He never says a shade of business to 942 01:05:22,820 --> 01:05:22,920 you. 943 01:05:23,260 --> 01:05:31,060 That's a bit crazy Billy. 944 01:05:31,240 --> 01:05:31,900 Do you know what he says? 945 01:05:32,100 --> 01:05:33,380 He says, oh, but when you come in 946 01:05:33,380 --> 01:05:37,390 the glass, you'll stand, water come down, and 947 01:05:37,390 --> 01:05:38,870 the water's above me, the water's beneath. 948 01:05:41,250 --> 01:05:52,560 You know, he's an They 949 01:05:52,560 --> 01:05:53,560 went along one day. 950 01:06:14,520 --> 01:06:16,220 And he knew that God kept his word. 951 01:06:34,810 --> 01:06:36,290 Two people, a company, really. 952 01:06:36,650 --> 01:06:38,210 They really had a good time watching the 953 01:06:38,210 --> 01:06:38,430 animals. 954 01:06:41,040 --> 01:06:42,280 I think it's air-conditioned. 955 01:06:44,400 --> 01:06:45,720 No, it wasn't air-conditioned. 956 01:06:54,490 --> 01:06:56,030 That art is a type of... 957 01:07:07,520 --> 01:07:08,620 How many doors in the... 958 01:07:13,380 --> 01:07:20,830 And they say, no, you can have rooms, 959 01:07:20,950 --> 01:07:23,790 you can have... 960 01:07:23,790 --> 01:07:25,230 I mean, we really don't want to say 961 01:07:25,230 --> 01:07:28,070 you're crazy, but you know, just a bit 962 01:07:28,070 --> 01:07:28,750 too much power. 963 01:07:30,620 --> 01:07:31,680 Well, bonfire... 964 01:07:37,670 --> 01:07:39,190 And he came back on deck and he 965 01:07:39,190 --> 01:07:41,310 said, I just got a telegram from heaven. 966 01:07:41,710 --> 01:07:42,790 The Lord just sent me this. 967 01:07:57,640 --> 01:07:58,840 That's going to really be the most amazing 968 01:07:58,840 --> 01:07:59,240 text. 969 01:07:59,300 --> 01:08:00,960 I've never heard this sermon in my life. 970 01:08:01,720 --> 01:08:31,470 When I 971 01:08:31,470 --> 01:08:32,870 shut the door, no man can open. 972 01:08:33,149 --> 01:08:34,450 And if I open the door, no man 973 01:08:34,450 --> 01:08:34,970 can shut. 974 01:08:47,899 --> 01:08:48,660 And it's still there. 975 01:08:49,540 --> 01:08:49,960 You know what? 976 01:08:50,220 --> 01:08:51,600 I bet he comes out again and says, 977 01:08:51,660 --> 01:08:53,060 I've got a notice that I'm not going 978 01:08:53,060 --> 01:08:53,560 for a month. 979 01:08:57,880 --> 01:08:59,279 See, the door is still open. 980 01:10:27,100 --> 01:10:29,980 Remember that's why she was often warned that 981 01:10:37,110 --> 01:10:37,890 she was destroyed. 982 01:10:42,450 --> 01:10:43,510 Yes, Jesus is coming. 983 01:10:48,980 --> 01:10:50,260 He's coming for a bride. 984 01:10:53,880 --> 01:10:55,580 Most girls have an ambition to be a 985 01:10:55,580 --> 01:10:55,880 bride. 986 01:10:57,420 --> 01:10:59,080 And Jesus is coming for a bride. 987 01:11:01,210 --> 01:11:02,950 And I remember in England, and I like 988 01:11:02,950 --> 01:11:04,790 to tell this story, nobody else knows it, 989 01:11:04,870 --> 01:11:05,410 but I know it. 990 01:11:05,470 --> 01:11:06,150 It's not in books. 991 01:11:07,070 --> 01:11:08,510 We had a young couple in England and 992 01:11:08,510 --> 01:11:11,130 they were going to get married just prior 993 01:11:11,130 --> 01:11:11,650 to the war. 994 01:11:12,790 --> 01:11:17,080 And the young man had to, unexpectedly go 995 01:11:17,080 --> 01:11:17,600 to the war. 996 01:11:23,840 --> 01:11:25,440 He had two days with his girlfriend. 997 01:11:26,680 --> 01:11:28,060 He went to town, he bought her a 998 01:11:28,060 --> 01:11:31,260 beautiful bride outfit. 999 01:11:32,480 --> 01:11:36,040 Girls in England usually wear orange blossom and 1000 01:11:36,040 --> 01:11:37,420 all the other beautiful things. 1001 01:11:37,480 --> 01:11:38,240 He bought them all. 1002 01:11:39,860 --> 01:11:41,480 And the next day he kissed her goodbye 1003 01:11:41,480 --> 01:11:43,080 and he said, one of these days I'll 1004 01:11:43,080 --> 01:11:43,460 be back. 1005 01:11:44,220 --> 01:11:46,900 And they wrote letters continually, beautiful, beautiful love 1006 01:11:46,900 --> 01:11:48,600 letters and she saved them all and tied 1007 01:11:48,600 --> 01:11:50,140 them up with a string like they say 1008 01:11:50,140 --> 01:11:50,700 girls do. 1009 01:11:51,280 --> 01:11:52,620 And she had an awful laugh. 1010 01:11:52,700 --> 01:11:54,000 She had a great big picture of him 1011 01:11:54,000 --> 01:11:56,020 on her vanity table, a lovely picture with 1012 01:11:56,020 --> 01:11:56,140 her. 1013 01:12:06,150 --> 01:12:07,650 For two years she didn't have a letter. 1014 01:12:07,830 --> 01:12:12,110 The only thing that the boy's parents got 1015 01:12:12,110 --> 01:12:15,170 a notice saying that they feared the boy 1016 01:12:15,170 --> 01:12:16,250 had been killed in action. 1017 01:12:17,190 --> 01:12:18,950 They weren't quite sure, but he was missing 1018 01:12:18,950 --> 01:12:20,150 and they thought killed in action. 1019 01:12:20,770 --> 01:12:22,330 And the months went on and the years 1020 01:12:22,330 --> 01:12:22,970 went on. 1021 01:12:23,570 --> 01:12:26,390 And a fellow down the street said to 1022 01:12:26,390 --> 01:12:29,310 the girl, you know God won't come back. 1023 01:12:29,690 --> 01:12:31,030 You know really he's dead. 1024 01:12:32,850 --> 01:12:34,410 And I love you. 1025 01:12:35,190 --> 01:12:36,170 I'd like to marry you. 1026 01:12:36,370 --> 01:12:36,910 I've got money. 1027 01:12:37,010 --> 01:12:38,170 I'll never have to go to war. 1028 01:12:38,310 --> 01:12:39,550 I have a very secure job. 1029 01:12:41,270 --> 01:12:42,250 Won't you be my wife? 1030 01:12:44,510 --> 01:12:45,990 And he kept asking and she said no. 1031 01:12:46,090 --> 01:12:46,470 And he kept asking. 1032 01:12:49,920 --> 01:12:51,240 One night she came home from work. 1033 01:12:51,280 --> 01:12:53,160 She wasn't feeling good and she said to 1034 01:12:53,160 --> 01:12:55,020 her mother, I should go to church tonight, 1035 01:12:55,100 --> 01:12:55,660 but I won't go. 1036 01:12:55,780 --> 01:12:57,320 I don't feel, I don't really feel well. 1037 01:13:01,310 --> 01:13:03,490 I go to my room and I won't 1038 01:13:03,490 --> 01:13:04,450 be down till morning. 1039 01:13:07,060 --> 01:13:08,660 And the phone calls, you could take the 1040 01:13:08,660 --> 01:13:08,880 number. 1041 01:13:09,020 --> 01:13:11,180 Please don't disturb me at all unless it's 1042 01:13:11,180 --> 01:13:11,920 very important. 1043 01:13:12,640 --> 01:13:13,560 I don't want to be left alone. 1044 01:13:13,700 --> 01:13:14,840 The mother said, that's all right. 1045 01:13:15,920 --> 01:13:17,780 She knew the girl was having turmoil. 1046 01:13:17,940 --> 01:13:19,000 She'd met this fellow again. 1047 01:13:19,120 --> 01:13:20,800 She'd seen him down the street talking and 1048 01:13:20,800 --> 01:13:22,720 she knew the girl was upset and the 1049 01:13:22,720 --> 01:13:24,400 girl wasn't feeling so good and she had 1050 01:13:24,400 --> 01:13:25,440 some business problems. 1051 01:13:25,600 --> 01:13:26,720 And here she was, no wonder. 1052 01:13:27,400 --> 01:13:30,280 And so her mother said all right dear, 1053 01:13:32,000 --> 01:13:33,280 you go up to your room, I understand. 1054 01:13:35,280 --> 01:13:38,760 And after she'd been up there for a 1055 01:13:38,760 --> 01:13:40,080 couple of hours, there was a knock at 1056 01:13:40,080 --> 01:13:40,660 the front door. 1057 01:13:42,400 --> 01:13:43,140 And the mother went. 1058 01:13:43,220 --> 01:13:44,560 There was a tall handsome soldier. 1059 01:13:51,840 --> 01:13:53,300 He thought he was dead. 1060 01:13:55,080 --> 01:13:56,380 He came in and he looked and he 1061 01:13:56,380 --> 01:13:58,540 said Mary, Mary isn't here. 1062 01:13:58,780 --> 01:13:59,420 She's not dead? 1063 01:13:59,680 --> 01:13:59,880 No. 1064 01:14:00,480 --> 01:14:01,100 Is she at church? 1065 01:14:01,300 --> 01:14:01,500 No. 1066 01:14:02,560 --> 01:14:03,360 She's not married? 1067 01:14:06,850 --> 01:14:08,010 Working any other time? 1068 01:14:08,230 --> 01:14:08,510 No. 1069 01:14:10,430 --> 01:14:11,150 So where is she? 1070 01:14:11,710 --> 01:14:13,170 Well George, she's upstairs. 1071 01:14:13,370 --> 01:14:16,210 She wasn't feeling feeling too well and she 1072 01:14:16,210 --> 01:14:18,830 said like she wouldn't want to be disturbed 1073 01:14:18,830 --> 01:14:24,210 until she knew unless unless it's really important. 1074 01:14:27,640 --> 01:14:29,080 She said, do you think it's important? 1075 01:14:29,400 --> 01:14:33,720 And she said, yes but I don't know 1076 01:14:33,720 --> 01:14:34,500 if she might be in bed. 1077 01:14:34,600 --> 01:14:35,620 I don't know. 1078 01:14:36,180 --> 01:14:36,920 Just had a guess. 1079 01:14:38,540 --> 01:14:39,620 Another one gets scared. 1080 01:14:39,740 --> 01:14:41,280 In these big old houses in England we've 1081 01:14:41,280 --> 01:14:42,040 got keyholes. 1082 01:14:42,140 --> 01:14:43,360 They're so big you can not only look 1083 01:14:43,360 --> 01:14:44,720 through them, you can nearly walk through the 1084 01:14:44,720 --> 01:14:45,580 things they're so big. 1085 01:14:47,900 --> 01:14:49,460 And you know that girl had gone under 1086 01:14:49,460 --> 01:14:49,720 the weather. 1087 01:14:56,430 --> 01:15:01,130 Still feel, but still feel George will come 1088 01:15:01,130 --> 01:15:01,370 back. 1089 01:15:03,570 --> 01:15:04,650 I'm going to get out of this. 1090 01:15:14,870 --> 01:15:16,730 The juiciest love letter she could find. 1091 01:15:20,440 --> 01:15:25,820 And she began to look at it there. 1092 01:15:30,430 --> 01:15:32,070 And she sat by the vanity table and 1093 01:15:32,070 --> 01:15:34,010 she got his picture in her arm and 1094 01:15:34,010 --> 01:15:35,910 she savored his picture like this and she 1095 01:15:35,910 --> 01:15:37,390 read part of the letter and the tears 1096 01:15:37,390 --> 01:15:39,870 were coming and she kissed the letter and 1097 01:15:39,870 --> 01:15:42,650 then she kissed the picture and she was 1098 01:15:42,650 --> 01:15:43,650 having a great time. 1099 01:15:44,030 --> 01:15:59,080 And another looked through the keyhole and thought 1100 01:15:59,080 --> 01:16:00,020 she was in bed. 1101 01:16:01,620 --> 01:16:04,780 She said go downstairs and George said, is 1102 01:16:04,780 --> 01:16:05,340 it all right? 1103 01:16:05,740 --> 01:16:05,980 Yeah. 1104 01:16:07,360 --> 01:16:08,360 No, she's not in bed. 1105 01:16:09,840 --> 01:16:10,960 George, let me go up. 1106 01:16:11,240 --> 01:16:15,280 Go up quietly and tell them I'll get 1107 01:16:15,280 --> 01:16:15,980 it very quietly. 1108 01:16:16,300 --> 01:16:17,920 I think they'll have a surprise. 1109 01:16:20,090 --> 01:16:24,110 So George went up and he turned the 1110 01:16:24,110 --> 01:16:27,350 knob very quietly and when he opened the 1111 01:16:27,350 --> 01:16:30,630 door, she had a big smile. 1112 01:16:30,750 --> 01:16:32,410 She was just looking at his picture and 1113 01:16:32,410 --> 01:16:33,030 this love letter. 1114 01:16:33,770 --> 01:16:34,890 And he saw her in the mirror. 1115 01:16:40,220 --> 01:16:41,760 And in his excitement he let go of 1116 01:16:41,760 --> 01:16:43,360 the knob, you know, and he went like 1117 01:16:43,360 --> 01:16:43,840 that. 1118 01:16:44,700 --> 01:16:54,080 And she turned round and she looked at 1119 01:16:54,080 --> 01:16:58,860 him and she said, I, I. 1120 01:17:04,700 --> 01:17:05,580 Do you think she did? 1121 01:17:26,820 --> 01:17:28,260 And he said, sweetheart, I've got a letter 1122 01:17:28,260 --> 01:17:29,180 of yours here. 1123 01:17:29,720 --> 01:17:31,080 I've read it all over the place. 1124 01:17:31,180 --> 01:17:31,880 I've read it at night. 1125 01:17:32,120 --> 01:17:33,000 It's fucking magical, isn't it? 1126 01:17:33,040 --> 01:17:34,060 See how doggy it is? 1127 01:17:34,460 --> 01:17:35,920 And I've read that letter, how much you 1128 01:17:35,920 --> 01:17:36,340 love me. 1129 01:17:36,820 --> 01:17:42,140 And it says here, George, I don't care 1130 01:17:42,140 --> 01:17:43,380 how long it is, I don't care where 1131 01:17:43,380 --> 01:17:44,820 you are, I want to tell you this, 1132 01:17:45,320 --> 01:17:49,500 that when you come home, I'll be ready. 1133 01:17:52,120 --> 01:17:53,200 I didn't think you could say that. 1134 01:18:02,020 --> 01:18:03,860 I've been in some dirty holes in the 1135 01:18:03,860 --> 01:18:04,120 world. 1136 01:18:04,220 --> 01:18:05,380 I've seen some dirty things. 1137 01:18:06,780 --> 01:18:08,040 I married a young lady. 1138 01:18:08,200 --> 01:18:10,360 I went to a wedding recently and married 1139 01:18:10,360 --> 01:18:11,900 the daughter of a multimillionaire. 1140 01:18:12,040 --> 01:18:15,240 She had a fantastic wedding and a fantastic 1141 01:18:15,240 --> 01:18:16,180 wedding dress. 1142 01:18:16,460 --> 01:18:18,220 I said to her mother, please don't send 1143 01:18:18,220 --> 01:18:19,340 me the bill for that dress. 1144 01:18:19,660 --> 01:18:20,460 I'm a priestess. 1145 01:18:20,460 --> 01:18:21,200 It was gorgeous. 1146 01:18:22,640 --> 01:18:24,420 I've been to weddings where the girl didn't 1147 01:18:24,420 --> 01:18:26,460 have more than ten dollars and poverty stricken 1148 01:18:26,460 --> 01:18:27,260 areas in England. 1149 01:18:30,460 --> 01:18:35,020 I've seen many brides, rich, poor, brilliant, pretty 1150 01:18:35,020 --> 01:18:35,360 dumb. 1151 01:18:37,800 --> 01:18:38,920 And I'll tell you one thing, I've never 1152 01:18:38,920 --> 01:18:39,940 seen a dirty bride. 1153 01:18:41,960 --> 01:18:43,500 I've never seen a dirty bride. 1154 01:18:47,190 --> 01:18:48,970 She may be very poor, but her garments 1155 01:18:48,970 --> 01:18:50,130 were beautiful and white. 1156 01:18:51,170 --> 01:18:52,650 She wouldn't like to go to that altar 1157 01:18:52,650 --> 01:18:55,310 and say just before, ma'am, I've got 1158 01:18:55,310 --> 01:18:56,510 to go through the traffic and it's going 1159 01:18:56,510 --> 01:18:57,610 to take ten minutes to church. 1160 01:18:57,910 --> 01:18:59,070 You just give me a hot dog in 1161 01:18:59,070 --> 01:19:00,270 one hand and a cup of coffee in 1162 01:19:00,270 --> 01:19:00,510 the other. 1163 01:19:01,350 --> 01:19:02,370 I'm going down the street. 1164 01:19:02,470 --> 01:19:03,030 There's got all sorts. 1165 01:19:03,270 --> 01:19:06,090 And she puts coffee down here and tomato 1166 01:19:06,090 --> 01:19:07,730 juice down here and a bit of mustard 1167 01:19:07,730 --> 01:19:08,330 on the front. 1168 01:19:08,410 --> 01:19:09,710 And she rubs it out and holds her 1169 01:19:09,710 --> 01:19:10,490 flowers like that. 1170 01:19:10,750 --> 01:19:12,530 And then she forgets and looks at a 1171 01:19:12,530 --> 01:19:13,070 few. 1172 01:19:20,870 --> 01:19:23,330 There's one recorded prayer of the Holy Spirit 1173 01:19:23,330 --> 01:19:24,050 in the Bible. 1174 01:19:24,170 --> 01:19:24,710 Do you know what it is? 1175 01:19:26,730 --> 01:19:27,390 I'll tell you. 1176 01:19:27,390 --> 01:19:32,880 The last chapter of the Bible, verse 17, 1177 01:19:33,040 --> 01:19:38,360 the spirit and the bride say come. 1178 01:19:39,220 --> 01:19:47,190 The spirit and the bride say come. 1179 01:19:49,380 --> 01:19:52,240 Elsewhere it says the bride hath made herself 1180 01:19:52,240 --> 01:19:52,500 ready. 1181 01:19:52,580 --> 01:19:54,480 Now let me ask you a very simple, 1182 01:19:54,580 --> 01:19:56,060 simple question tonight. 1183 01:19:59,350 --> 01:20:00,650 You say you're part of the bride? 1184 01:20:02,550 --> 01:20:05,170 If Jesus comes tonight, are you his wife? 1185 01:20:05,490 --> 01:20:06,170 Are you his pure? 1186 01:20:08,820 --> 01:20:10,140 He's coming for a pure bride. 1187 01:20:11,400 --> 01:20:13,260 He's not coming for an old crippled woman. 1188 01:20:13,400 --> 01:20:16,900 He's coming for a bride, young, bright, dressed 1189 01:20:16,900 --> 01:20:18,340 in white, dressed in holiness. 1190 01:20:18,740 --> 01:20:20,840 The only preparation for the coming of Jesus 1191 01:20:20,840 --> 01:20:21,460 is holiness. 1192 01:20:22,300 --> 01:20:25,240 Without holiness, Hebrews 12, 14, no man shall 1193 01:20:25,240 --> 01:20:25,980 see the Lord. 1194 01:20:32,700 --> 01:20:33,560 One sentence. 1195 01:20:33,560 --> 01:20:36,200 As the lightning lightneth out of the one 1196 01:20:36,200 --> 01:20:37,860 part of the heaven and shineth to the 1197 01:20:37,860 --> 01:20:38,060 other. 1198 01:20:38,380 --> 01:20:40,580 I understand it takes lightning a fifth of 1199 01:20:40,580 --> 01:20:42,060 a second to cross the world. 1200 01:20:42,800 --> 01:20:47,280 And as soon as that, Jesus is going 1201 01:20:47,280 --> 01:20:47,500 to come. 1202 01:20:49,800 --> 01:20:50,820 Remember what's right? 1203 01:20:51,000 --> 01:20:51,760 He's walking down. 1204 01:21:10,900 --> 01:21:25,060 Every light is flashing and 1205 01:21:25,060 --> 01:21:27,360 you see Jerusalem surrounded with armies. 1206 01:21:27,900 --> 01:21:30,160 Look up and Jerusalem is surrounded tonight. 1207 01:21:30,900 --> 01:21:33,360 The Jews, the Jerusalem is going to be 1208 01:21:33,360 --> 01:21:34,040 trodden down. 1209 01:21:52,830 --> 01:21:54,670 A little church in England singing John The 1210 01:21:54,670 --> 01:22:53,980 Elephant came every Sunday night when I said 1211 01:22:53,980 --> 01:22:55,860 his journey was his kingdom. 1212 01:23:08,710 --> 01:23:09,590 Are you ready for his coming? 1213 01:23:17,330 --> 01:23:18,590 No more wrongs. 1214 01:23:21,260 --> 01:23:22,980 If he comes tonight, will he find you 1215 01:23:22,980 --> 01:23:24,240 with your lamps turned and burning? 1216 01:23:25,960 --> 01:23:27,440 Will he find you with a prayer light 1217 01:23:27,440 --> 01:23:28,080 like an elephant? 1218 01:23:29,140 --> 01:23:30,720 Will he find you, as I said this 1219 01:23:30,720 --> 01:23:32,380 morning, each day worshiping him? 1220 01:23:32,620 --> 01:23:33,540 Will you have him come? 1221 01:23:40,300 --> 01:23:41,640 Look at the world tonight.