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Greetings to everyone here tonight.
I am indeed blessed to have the privilege
to stand here tonight and feel myself unworthy
to have that privilege in life to speak
to all of you.
I trust God's heart, the Word of God
this evening.
Been a joy to be here this week.
I remember I had to think while sitting
here.
I remember singing a song in my youth
about thirty-eight or nine years ago, thirty
-nine years ago this winter I believe, Let
Me Burn Out for Thee Dear Lord.
I remember how I sang that song and
I meant it from my heart.
This is one of the weeks that I
have had the privilege to still have that
prayer and that song answered in my heart.
And I am very grateful for that opportunity
to spend my life and my energy on
you all.
And tonight again we come to you and
it is a sobering moment.
We have to say to see what God
has done.
We are in awe over that but we
are also standing in fear and trembling as
we recognize that the work is not yet
done in our midst and we trust that
God will again come to us here tonight
and by his Holy Spirit move upon the
hearts of those who have resisted God's call
upon their life up to this hour.
May we just stand together for a word
of prayer.
Father we are just a vessel through which
we have trusted that you have called to
speak forth the words of truth.
And we want to endeavor to do that
in our weakness and feebleness of strength.
But tonight God if you do not move
upon the hearts of the people it will
not get much good to what we are
doing here Father.
We can spend the evening in singing and
preaching but unless the Spirit of God moves
upon the hearts of the people we know
that it will be in vain and many
will return back to where they came from.
So Father we pray that tonight there will
be some life changing decisions made.
Some decisions that would totally renovate their thinking
and regenerate their life and lifestyles from top
to bottom.
We pray dear God that they would await
to righteousness and not to sin and fall
asleep to sin.
I pray for that God.
And I thank you God again for this
blessed opportunity.
Break the bread of life.
Break it Lord and send it like arrows
and darts into the hard hearts that have
resisted the word of God up to this
time.
Bless the hearts that are soft.
Encourage the ones that are born again and
those that have given their heart to the
Lord.
And I pray Father sanctify those who yet
need cleansing and sanctification likewise.
We commit this service, this hour, this time,
this evening hour unto thee O God.
O God we pray in Jesus Christ's name.
Amen.
Let us turn our Bibles this evening to
Luke chapter 13.
Reading from verse 22 through 30.
22 through 30.
Maybe I'll give a bit of the background
first.
Jesus, in this chapter, in his earthly ministry,
as was his method and heart, went ahead
and he loosed a woman of her infirmity
that had a spirit of infirmity for 18
years over in Jerusalem.
He had just talked about that he, in
verse 6, he had come and he had
seen a fig tree planted in the vineyard
and he came, talked about a certain man
who had seen a fig tree planted in
a vineyard and he came and sought fruit
on it and there was no fruit on
it.
And he said unto the dresser, I've been
waiting about three years now.
I've come by this tree and looked for
some fruit and there's no fruit.
And I don't know whether Jesus had been
preaching about three years when he said that,
but I have to wonder.
I didn't check the chronological order, but it
seems to be that perhaps it was in
the last year of his ministry and he
might have been preaching about two and a
half, three years and he said this certain
man, he'd come around looking for fruit on
a fig tree for about three years now
and there wasn't any, no fruit.
And he decided, why does it take up
space in the vineyard?
You might as well cut it down.
But the dresser of the vineyard said unto
him, leave it alone, Lord, till I dig
about it and dung it, and if it
bear fruit well, but if not, then cut
it down.
And so then he met this woman who
had a spirit of infirmity that was bowed
together and she couldn't straighten up.
There was no way she could lift herself
up and probably just laid around, I would
guess, in a fetal position.
And Jesus, he asked her, a woman, he
says he called her to him and said
unto her, woman, thou art loose from thine
infirmity.
Yeah, he didn't even ask her whether she
wanted to be.
And straightway, he laid his hands on her
and immediately she was made straight and glorified
God.
And the ruler of the synagogue was upset.
He got rather upset at this because, in
fact, he got really upset.
He got, he said he was filled with
indignation or he answered with indignation because that
Jesus had healed on the Sabbath day.
And he told him there are six days
in which men ought to work and in
them, therefore, come and be healed, but not
on the Sabbath day.
And Jesus tried to reason with him.
And it is that background that he speaks
these verses in chapter 13, verse 22 through
30.
Now let me read the verses.
And he went through the cities and villages,
teaching and journeying toward Jerusalem.
And he said, then said one unto him,
Lord, are there few that be saved?
And he said unto him, strive to enter
in at the straight gate, for many, I
say unto you, will seek to enter in
and shall not be able.
When once the master of the house is
risen up and has shut the door, and
ye begin to stand without and to knock
at the door, saying, Lord, Lord, open unto
us.
And he shall answer and say unto you,
I know you not whence you are.
Then shall ye begin to say, we have
eaten and drunk in thy presence.
Thou hast taught in our streets, but he
shall say, I tell you, I know you
not whence you are.
Depart from me, all ye workers of iniquity.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth
when ye shall see Abraham and Isaac and
Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom
of God, and ye yourselves thrust out.
And they shall come from the east and
the west, from the north and the south,
and shall sit down in the kingdom of
God.
And behold, there are last which shall be
first, and there are first which shall be
last.
When once the master of the house hath
risen up and has shut the door, has
shut the door, and ye begin to stand
without and to knock at the door, to
knock at the door and say, Lord, open,
open up to us, and he shall answer
you and say unto you, I don't know
you.
I have no idea who you are.
And you're going to say, God, I was
raised in a Christian home.
My parents taught me memory verses when I
was little, and I remember when I went
to the teenage, in my teenage years, I
even went to charity Bible school, and I
sat under that preaching and teaching.
And I went to prayer and sharing, and
I didn't like it too good and didn't
know what to say, but they didn't want
me to go outside and to run away
during that time, so I went.
And he'll say, I don't know you.
I have no idea who you are.
I've never known you.
I've never talked.
We've never talked before.
We've never visited before.
You're a total stranger to me.
When once the master of the house is
risen up and has shut the door, and
you're on the outside.
My, well, the title of my message tonight
is when God will shut the door.
Now, this isn't very popular tonight.
A lot of people don't believe God shuts
the door.
I don't know where they've got that, but
somehow, somewhere, they have deducted that God doesn't
shut doors.
The door is always open.
Whenever you want to come in, you can
go right on in.
And they, they've made themselves believe that whenever
and however I want to come in, I
can come in at any time, day or
night, spring and fall, summer, winter.
And so, it's rather easy just to go
along in life, and I have some personal
interests I'd like to experiment with and fulfill
first, and someday I'll settle down and I'll,
I'll, I'll come in that door.
But God says, when once the master of
the house has risen up and has shut
the door, has shut the door.
Now let's go to some word for word
explanation of some of the words of this
parable.
I believe it's a very, very deep parable,
and I want you to know tonight, this
parable's written to Bible school students.
This Bible, this word is not written to
the heathen, it's not written to the atheist,
and it's not written to the agnostics.
This word tonight is written to Bible school
students.
This word is, is written to church members.
This word is written to religious people.
This is written to the church, not to
the heathen.
Now there is a word to the heathen,
likewise, and the word of God, and we
recognize, but this parable, this portion of Scripture
is written to the Bible school students of
America.
It's written to the Sunday schools.
It's written to the church bazaars and carnivals.
It's written to the youth gatherings and, and,
and recreational trips and, and all the fun
things that men seek out to do.
This is written to those that name the
name of Jesus Christ.
Now first of all, He says to us,
strive to enter in at the straight gate,
and I don't know how many have left
of you that believe that, but that word
strive, I looked it up in the Greek,
and it means to fight.
It means to labor fervently.
It means to literally struggle to get into
the gate.
Pretty contrary to what you're hearing in the
evangelical world today, and perhaps what you've heard
all the time in your life until you
came here this week, and you're still trying
to figure out what kind of doctrine is
being taught here.
But it means to contend with the adversary.
You're in a fight with the enemy, and
some of you know what that's all about
this week, literally.
There's some here tonight sitting here that have
been fighting, and they've been struggling, and that's
just fine.
Go ahead and struggle, but struggle to enter
in at the straight gate, and to enter
into that gate until you have found it.
Labor fervently.
Fight!
You're not going to fall into eternity.
I have to, first of all, tear down
the false theology that I know is in
some of your minds.
You're not just going to bump into Jesus.
You're not just going to stumble on Him
some day.
The Bible says to the religious scene right
here, and how much more to the unbeliever
and the agnostic and the atheist, but He
says to those who know the name of
God, that they are to strive to enter
in at the straight gate.
They're to struggle.
They're to press in there, and they're to
labor fervently in order to get in.
Mark it down.
Now, I failed to mention beforehand that I
wanted to tell you that the Bible says
here, Then said one unto him, Lord, are
there few that be saved?
Now, there's enough of you who know German
that you'll appreciate the German in this, and
you'll have to excuse me the rest of
you, but I'll interpret it for you because
it gives a different light.
You're not quite sure what he means, but
you can assume here that he's kind of
wondering, Lord, do you really mean that there's
only a few that be saved?
But the German says, Es sprach aber einer
zu ihm, Herr, meinst du, dass wenigstelig werden?
Do you mean, Lord, do you mean that
only a few are going to enter in?
And upon that, Jesus gave these words.
That's the question he was answering.
Do you really mean that, Lord?
It seems like you're hinting in some of
your parables, you know, you just got done
saying that I've come around here three years
looking for fruit on this fig tree and
there isn't any.
And now here I come and I'm about
ready to cut this fig tree down.
And a fig tree is a symbolic of
the nation of Israel.
It's God's people in the New Testament era
through the Gospels.
Jesus is looking at Israel and is looking
at the Jewish religion, Jewish nation at that
time and the spiritual condition they were in
or not in.
And he's saying, I've come around for about
the last three years looking for fruit and
I can't find any.
And so therefore, the man's kind of got
the hint and somebody caught on.
It seems to me like you're not going
to just take on this whole nation and
save them.
And therefore, he gave this parable, this whole
parable, this whole story, this whole shutting of
the door is the answer to that question.
I want you to get that.
Meinest du, Herr, meinest du, dass wenige selig
werden?
Nur wenige, just a few, are going to
be saved?
And this is his answer.
Strive to enter in at the straight gate.
For many, I say unto you, will seek
to enter in and shall not be able.
And I dare to say, I dare to
say that that is some of the most
unpopular theology in America today.
Now get this.
Now get it.
There's a whole bunch of people, it says
many, a whole bunch of people who would
like to enter in.
They want to go to heaven.
They want to be with Jesus.
They want to sit down with the saints.
They want to enjoy eternity and glory.
They're not joking around with their buddies about
shoveling coal in hell.
Have you ever heard about that in some
of these worldly places, you know, where all
this religious stuff is a total joke and
people are talking about having parties down there
and being down there with their friends and
they make this whole Christianity thing just a
pure mockery.
It's not even thinking of those.
This is talking about a group of people
who actually would like to be inside there.
They want to even enter in.
But Jesus says they won't be able to
do it.
They'll not be able.
Do you know a Jesus like that?
That wouldn't let ten thousands upon ten thousands
of people in that want to come in?
Can you believe that?
That there's a Jesus like that?
That's not the Jesus that I hear about
a lot today.
That's not the Jesus that I read about
in the books.
That's not the Jesus I hear about in
general.
They have another Jesus, you see.
They have concocted a totally other Jesus.
He's one who wouldn't think of not letting
ten thousands of people who want to come,
come.
In fact, they teach and preach all the
time that anybody who just wants to come
can just come right on in whenever they
want to.
It doesn't take any effort at all.
God says, God says, when once the master
of the house has risen up in the
religious world and has shut the door, most
of the people will be in the outside.
And I recognize tonight when I'm speaking to
650 students that I realize that that is
a stark reality that we have got to
reckon with and face.
I don't want to face it.
I don't want to talk about it.
But I want to tell you tonight, as
I come here, I saw the moon is
almost full and it's a clear sky with
a few white clouds around the moon here
and there.
And it's a beautiful night.
And I just had to think, my, the
long suffering of God has waited and the
years have rolled on in my time and
in your fathers' times and grandfathers' and great
grandfathers'.
Don't you get an idea there's no mercy
on God and there's no long suffering of
God waiting, waiting for the repentance of people,
waiting for people to come to Christ, waiting
for people to repent of their sins and
to turn their hearts unto God.
I don't want you to think that God
has no, not a merciful God.
He was merciful in those days and he
is merciful now.
And that's why tonight, you know, it's just
such a beautiful night.
And we haven't been hindered of anything today.
The cops haven't been here harassing us.
The neighborhood area, everything just goes on and
we've got it so easy we can pull
right in here without any roadblocks in the
way and park our car and come in
here and sit down.
That's how easy it is to come and
hear the gospel.
It's not that way everywhere.
But the Jesus that I'm introducing to you
in the written word of God in Luke
chapter 13 is giving you another message.
It's giving you a different concept that what
you're about to hear in most of the
places where you go.
You'll probably not hear this on a radio.
You'll probably not hear it on many of
the tapes you listen to.
But God says that we're to strive to
enter into the straight gate.
For many, I say unto you, will seek
to enter in and shall not be able.
They will not be able to enter in.
Now Jesus said it in another way in
John.
John wrote about it when he said, I'm
the door to the sheepfold.
And he talked about that there are people
who try to come in, not by the
door, but enter in in some other way.
You see, they still want to come in,
but they're either trying to crawl through the
basement and come up the steps from beneath
or they're up in the attic looking down
for a hole to come down into the
room from above or crawl in a window.
But they don't want to go in at
the door.
Jesus is talking about the same thing.
I am the door to the sheepfold.
If anybody's going to get in, they're going
to have to get in by me.
And the problem is that people seek to
get in some other way.
Isn't it?
God's not going to allow it.
Many, I'm telling you, mark it down, 10
,000s upon 10,000s of people will think
they're on their way to heaven and will
find themselves outside of a shut door.
They'll seek.
That's what it says.
They'll seek to enter in.
Well, we might say they weren't really seeking.
But I believe that according to the word
of God, and I'm going to stay with
the text, they were seeking to enter in.
That's what it says.
Now, I know they weren't seeking right.
And I know some of you haven't been
seeking right.
You have looked for another way.
You don't want the hard way.
You don't want to bear a cross.
You don't want to strive to enter into
a straight gate.
But you'd like an easy way somehow to
get in where it's not so painful.
You won't get rejected, you see, by anybody.
Everybody's still going to love you when you're
done, see.
And you won't lose any of your friends.
That's the kind of God that a lot
of people are trying to seek to enter
in.
But God says you'll not be able.
You will not be able to do that.
Now, it's interesting when he says here, when
once.
Now, some of you in your different English,
you don't know what that word means.
Us, Pennsylvania Dutch people, we use it a
lot.
And some of you smile when you hear
us say, well, if you just get that
done once.
You know, we use that word.
It's one of those time words, you know,
that it's high time to get it done.
Why don't you do it once?
But that's what it says here.
When once.
It's one of those time words, I believe.
When once the master of the house has
risen up.
Well, I want to introduce you tonight to
the master of the house.
There are a number of other scriptures that
talk about the master of the house.
In Matthew 10, 25 and 26, the Bible
says, if they have called the master of
the house Beelzebub, how much more shall they
call him of his household?
In Hebrews 3, 5, it says, but Christ
has a son over his own house, whose
house are we, if we hold fast the
confidence and rejoicing of the hope firm unto
the end.
I heard Brother Rick quote that verse, I
believe, just as I was walking down the
hall the other day, teaching the book of
Hebrews.
And that shows us that Christ has a
son, is over his own house, whose house
are we if, don't miss that word, that's
an extremely important word too in the word
of God tonight, whose house are we if
we hold fast the confidence and rejoicing of
the hope firm unto the end.
Firm unto the end.
And then over in Mark 13, we have
it one more time, verse 35, what's he
there for?
For you know not when the master of
the house cometh at even or at midnight
or at cock crowing or in the morning.
Let me introduce to you to a Christian
life who has the master of the house.
And I want to ask you and your
Christian tonight, right where you are, do you
have the master of the house?
And that is simply some of this intertwined
a little bit with the message on Monday
night that Brother David had.
I recognize that so few people have a
master of the house.
I don't know what they have.
He called him a sugar daddy.
That's a pretty good description of him in
a lot of people's minds.
But I want to tell you tonight, he's
the master of the house.
He's the master of the house.
And if he's not the master of the
house, he's not anything else either.
He's not going to do any good for
you.
He needs tonight to be the master of
the house.
That's what the Bible says.
And we want to address him tonight and
stand in holy awe and fear of the
fact that the God that Jesus Christ whom
we love and serve is the master of
the house.
And whose house are we if we hold
fast to confidence and rejoicing firm unto the
end?
Well one more time that it's used in
the word of God, and that's in Luke
14, verse 17-22.
This is now talking about how he sent
his servant at supper time to invite the
people to come to a meal that has
been prepared, says, come for all things are
now ready.
And they all with one consent began to
make excuses.
The first said, I bought a piece of
ground.
I must needs go and see it.
I pray thee have me excused.
And another said, I bought five yoke of
oxen and I go to prove them.
I pray thee have me excused.
And another said, I have married a wife
and therefore I can't come.
So the servant came and showed his lord
these things.
Then the master of the house got upset.
He got angry.
Does your God get angry?
Mine does.
Oh yes, he's God.
He's God.
Did you know he gets angry?
Do you know it's all right for him
to get angry?
Absolutely.
This God that I have, that I read
about here in the word of God, he
gets angry.
That's what the story says.
He's not the sugar daddy we heard about
on Monday night.
Being angry, said to his servant, go out
quickly into the streets and the lanes of
the city and bring in hither the poor,
the maimed, and the halt and the blind.
And what he simply says that if you're
not going to want to come to my
supper, then I'm going to go out and
get some other people to come.
And that's simply what he says here in
the latter part of this great parable.
He says, there'll be weeping and gnashing of
teeth when you shall see Abraham and Isaac
and Jacob and all the prophets in the
kingdom of God and you yourselves thrust out.
All right.
Well, let's recognize that God's mercy and opportunity
and pleading is upon you tonight.
I do not believe, even though I'm going
to speak about a time when God will
shut the door, I want to tell you
just in case you think I'm unbalanced tonight,
that God has left the door open a
long time.
And I know it's still open tonight.
And I marvel at the wickedness of this
world and how long that God keeps the
door open.
He has kept the door open for a
long time.
And I know some of you are taking
it for granted.
Some of you are not doing right.
You think that door is never going to
shut.
You have bought yourself a message of Jesus
that's never going to shut the door.
But I'm going to introduce you tonight one
that according to the word of God will
rise up when he says he has enough
and he's going to shut the door.
He's going to shut the door.
And a whole bunch of people won't be
ready for it and will not be inside.
He has risen up.
Now, the Bible says that we see him
sitting at the right hand of God interceding
for us.
He is described that way, I believe, in
the book of Acts and then when Stephen
was stoned, we see him rising up with
a deep interest of what was going down
there on earth when his beloved son, one
of his children, was preaching and telling the
truth.
And they were picking up stones and killing
him for it, which they did.
And God left it happen.
But I want you to know that the
Jesus of the Bible stood up that time
too.
There's a time, I want to tell you,
when he rises up.
And he doesn't just rise up when he's
angry.
He rises up in deep interest to your
and my soul.
And I can't imagine anything else but that
some of the things that have been going
on around here this week, that Jesus had
to get up off of his throne occasionally
and get a little closer to see what
all was going on.
When once the master of the house rises
up, he doesn't only rise up to punish,
he doesn't only rise up in wrath.
Even though he does, when he shuts the
door, he's going to get up and shut
the door.
But I want to tell you, he has
keen interest in your salvation tonight and he
wants you to come and experience him and
get to know him.
And he is so interested in that, and
according to that, with Stephen, when his word
is preached and a man is earnest to
do his will, God gets up too and
has shut the door.
And has shut the door.
Do you believe that tonight?
Do you believe that God is going to
rise up at some future day and shut
the door?
When once the master of the house has
risen up and shut the door.
Now, there's a few other times in history
when he has shut the door.
And I don't know, I can only give
you just a few examples of that.
I see that many times.
I've watched that.
I tell you, I've watched that like a
hawk.
In the news, periods of history that I
can get a hold of and come across,
when I hear and I see of things
like that, when God says, now it's enough,
and he rises up and shuts the door.
And I tell you, I tremble when I
read those accounts.
I tremble.
I wonder if you're all trembling before God
that way.
I, of course, think of the time of
the flood.
And I don't know how you read the
Genesis account.
I can see it understood maybe a little
bit difficult to understand exactly what is meant
there in that Genesis account of the flood.
But I've at least considered the fact that
when he built the ark, when Noah built
the ark there, you know, and he got
all the animals inside.
And then the Bible says that God gathered
Noah in and his sons and their wives,
eight souls there were that got gathered inside.
And all the animals were in and they
were in there, pens in there.
And just everything was quiet and munching their
hay.
And it seems to me as I read
the account that it could be that God
left the door open for seven more days.
Not quite sure about that because of the
way the language is there.
I haven't dug into the Greek or into
some of the other languages to see what
it means, but it's a possibility that God
left the door open for seven more days.
And then the Bible says, and God shut
them in.
But I want to tell you, there were
thousands of people upon the day that God
shut the door and shut them in there
and it started to rain.
And in the same day it started to
rain.
The Bible says the fountains of the great
deep opened up and the water started getting
deep.
And I tell you, there were thousands of
people that were standing on the outside knocking
on that door and trying to get him
to open it and he wouldn't open.
So what he says in this verse is
that he's going to rise up and shut
the door.
He has given us glimpses of this through
history over and over again, that God is
a door shutting God also.
He will rise up someday and he will
shut the door and you can claw at
it until your fingers are worn off of
your hands and God will not open the
door.
Because I believe it would have been that
way.
I can imagine they were scratching and clawing,
but it wasn't Nod's job to open the
door and shut the door and it's not
ours either.
God will shut the door in due time.
But I want to tell you, when master
of the house will rise up and shut
the door and you're going to be in
the outside, you will not get in.
When I saw that bright moon in the
sky and the blessed opportunity that I believed
we might have yet for one more night,
wherever the gospels preached and all of you
could sit here tonight, I realized that God
in his mercy has that door wide open
tonight yet.
But I also know, and I thank God
for that, but I also know, don't you
better take that for granted?
Because God will shut the door.
He will shut the door.
Matthew 25 talks about it with the ten
virgins.
You know how the five were wise and
the five were foolish.
And then he talks about how they ran
out of oil, five of them, you know,
and then he wanted to borrow oil from
the ones that still had oil.
And they were begging to have oil and
they said, no, then we won't have enough.
Go and get yourself some.
Go buy yourself some.
And you probably have heard many messages, interpretations
of that.
I won't go into it.
So they went to buy some.
In the meantime, the bridegroom came and he
went in and he shut the door.
In fact, it says a little straighter than
that.
And the door was shut.
Oh, that has a finality.
I remember up in New York City, in
Washington Square Park, one of the brethren is
probably sitting here tonight, had a little message
there and he got up and he said,
and the door was shut.
That was his message.
And I never forgot that.
That stuck with me.
And the door was shut.
And they went up and said, Lord, open
unto us.
And God did take the bridegroom, did come
over and say, who, what, who are you?
Lord, open unto us.
I don't know you.
I don't have any idea who you are.
And he didn't open it.
He didn't open it back up.
Now, you thought, didn't you, in your theology,
that the mercy of God was so great,
he'd open it back up, didn't you?
Now, you know, the Bible didn't say that.
But somehow it has twisted our thinking into
a God.
And we have fabricated a Jesus that would
never think of closing a door and letting
it shut when people want to get in.
But that's what it says.
He shut the door and they knocked and
cried to have it open and he wouldn't
open it.
The door was shut.
I remember an account.
I've given it before in certain places.
I've had meetings.
I'm not sure I ever gave it here
before.
I'm sure many of you didn't hear it.
But my mind goes to the Caribbean, the
island of Martinique.
On April 1902, on a good Friday, they
had a party.
And Martinique was an island where a lot
of pirates lived and they had their ships
and their stations there.
It was a place of wine, women and
song.
It was a place of gambling and prostitution
and every other vice known to man in
1902.
So they got high on alcohol that day
and they nailed an old cross together and
they crucified a pig on it in mockery
of the crucifixion of Jesus on Good Friday.
I think it was somewhere about the third
week in April.
And it was a matter of days.
There was some smoke coming out of a
volcanic mountain, Mount Pelee, right behind them there,
right behind the town.
Just a small island.
St. Pierre was the name of the town.
And the next day a little bit more
and finally at night they saw a few
red sparks coming out and kind of lighting
up the sky.
A few people got a little bit alarmed
and began to talk a little bit about
sending their women and children, or at least
their children, to higher ground maybe.
But the rest of it, they were still
in a festive mood and they were God
-defying people, you know.
And things just kept on going and kept
on going and this thing kept spitting a
little more and a little more.
God's mercy, oh, I'm amazed.
At God's mercy for those two weeks and
on May the 8th, 1902, that mountain opened
up and the whole side of the mountain
laid out across the people and only one
man, I am told, survived.
And he was in a dungeon down in
jail.
And God had more mercy on that man
than He did on every man alive in
town.
The fire rained down so heavy that ships
burned at sea eight miles out.
God shut the door.
He said, it's enough of this.
You don't mock God and get by.
Don't you ever think you will?
I'll just give you the newspaper account here.
Mount Peelee on the Caribbean island of Martinique
began its volcanic eruption in late April 1902.
Ash began to fall on the nearby city
of St. Peter.
Look at the mercy of God.
Look at His mercy.
At first the city's inhabitants weren't too concerned,
but some began to send their women and
children to safer ground as the volcano became
more active.
Finally on May the 8th, 7.52 a
.m., the mountain's upper flank facing the city
opened and an intensely hot cloud of black
vapor shot out towards the city like smoke
from the muzzle of a cannon.
In less than a minute, the hot gas,
a mixture of superheated steam at 1900 degrees,
lethal gases and explosive dust reached the city
and everything in it burst into flame.
At the same time, a second black cloud
rolled upwards and spread darkness for 50 miles
across.
Of 30,000 people trapped in the city,
it is thought that only one or perhaps
two, in some cases, news articles survived.
The city itself burned for days.
And I tell you, there is those times
when God shuts the door.
I don't know about you, but when California
started burning a couple weeks ago, and I'm
knowing what I know concerning Los Angeles and
its surrounding area being the hub of pornographic
materials and smut literature and movies and what
have you that is pumped out at the
rate of about, what is it, 8,000
a year or something like that, and you
see those million-dollar homes, and I don't
know who they were, and I don't know
what, but 2,800 of them burned in
the last two weeks.
And I know natural catastrophes like that happen,
but I also know that God rises up
at times and shuts the door, and people
can't get out fast enough.
The fire was so high and so violent
that men got into their mobile homes, their
motor homes with their dogs, that they wanted
to save their lives and cared more about
dogs than they did babies for the last,
I don't know how many years, and didn't
even escape that way but burned on the
road going out.
I tell you, when once a master of
the house has risen up and shuts the
door and you're on the outside, it's not
going to be well with you.
Over 700,000 acres have burned, and some
are still burning.
I understand.
Although it cooled off a bit and some
rain fell and things have gotten more under
control.
Well, I don't know whether they're that wicked,
that much more wicked than the people in
Lancaster County or not, but I know when
that discussion was held with Jesus in the
Word of God concerning on those whom the
Tower of Siloam fell, you know what Jesus
said, except you repent, you shall all likewise
perish.
God is calling men and women to repent
of their sins.
God is calling men and women to get
right with God.
God is calling men and women to get
to know Him.
And you begin to stand outside and knock.
Lord, open up.
We want to get saved too.
And I want to tell you again, like
I've told you before, that is not written
to the blasphemer who wants to be with
their friends in hell.
He says here, you've taught in our streets.
You've taught in our streets.
I don't know how many of you have
ever studied the destruction of Jerusalem in A
.D. 70, but this might have been somewhere
in the A.D. 30s, about 35 years
or so before.
That city was destroyed with over 700,000
to a million people died.
Nobody ever was able to count them.
But He was describing the very situation.
They wouldn't have Him.
They crucified Him.
They rejected Him.
They wouldn't listen to His words.
There were times He felt like there was
nobody following Him anymore.
When He said in Luke, will ye also
go away?
Luke 12, that's what He said to them.
Will ye also go away?
But everybody else, when He told them that
you're going to eat My flesh and drink
My blood, they gagged and couldn't handle it
and didn't have enough of spirituality in them
to interpret it.
And so therefore, they gagged and walked away
from Him and turned around and crucified Him
as a madman.
But now Jesus is predicting that when they
find themselves, when the master of the house
will rise up and shut the door and
they find themselves on the outside, that they're
going to have this conversation with the Lord
and say, well, we know you.
You taught in our streets.
But you know what?
They're going to come up with a stark
reality someday that there was a man called
Jesus that preached in their streets and that
it was taught about in their synagogues and
they had nice little skits and plays and
what have you about.
But they're going to come up to the
stark reality that it was another Jesus.
Not the Jesus of Nazareth that we know,
because they have fabricated another Jesus in our
day, another gospel.
Paul says in Galatians, and it says, that's
not the God of the Bible anymore.
And therefore, they'll say, well, you've taught in
our streets.
And you can say, if you do not
repent of your sins and give your heart
to God this week, you can say, I
went to Bible school.
I did this.
I did that.
I sang in the chorus that day.
I went to the prayer group.
I even prayed a few words back there.
I squeezed them out.
I tried to make along with it.
But he said, I have no idea who
you are.
I don't know you.
You might think you wore a decent dress.
You might have even covered your head.
But if you don't know God, you'll be
on the outside in that day.
You'll be on the outside.
And I said, oh my, that's sad.
Well, then he says, I know you not
whence you are.
Depart from me, all you workers of iniquity.
I don't know you.
I remember when I was 15 years old
and I was one of those fellows, young
boys that was hungry.
I tell you, I was hungry.
I don't know why.
I don't know why I had such a
hunger for truth and righteousness.
But I did.
I wanted to learn.
I wanted to find out what truth was.
And somehow I got to a revival meeting,
even though I was in a church that
never even dreamt of a revival meeting, didn't
even know what they were hardly or at
least didn't believe in them.
And I somehow got to a revival meeting
at 15 and a half and I heard
the gospel.
And the first night I heard it, I
responded in my heart.
And I remember a fellow walked up to
me and says, do you know the Lord?
And I tell you, I just about broke
to pieces on that very word.
And I figured out one thing.
I know, I knew that God said in
His Word, depart from me.
I never knew you.
And I figured one thing sure, I am
going to find out how to know Him.
I went home, knelt down beside my bed
and I gave Him everything I knew to
give Him.
And I didn't know very much.
And I was pretty illiterate as far as
the Word of God was concerned.
I had hardly ever read the Bible in
an interesting way or trying to find out
what it meant for me.
I was pretty illiterate and pretty ignorant.
But I knew one thing, God was drawing
me and He wanted me and I gave
it.
I gave myself to Him as best I
knew how.
And He accepted the offering.
And I knew, that I knew, that I
knew in short order that I knew Him.
Something had so drastically changed.
And I, that's how I want you to
know Him.
I want you to know Him.
You don't have to have all your theology
and understand all those hard, difficult meat items
of the Word of God.
You just, I just want you to know
Him.
I want you to know that you know
Him.
And it's, God's door is open for that
yet tonight.
And I praise Him for that.
Well, do you know Him?
Do you know Him?
And then He says here, I know you
not whence you are.
Depart from Me, all ye the workers of
iniquity.
There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth,
when ye shall see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob
and all the prophets in the kingdom of
God, and ye yourselves thrust out.
Now what He was trying to tell them,
you remember, I said at the beginning, they
were religious people, very religious.
And they thought they were in line with
Abraham, Isaac and Jacob.
They thought that was their forefathers and they
were walking in line.
And I want you to get this, this
is very important.
They had drifted so far away from the
faith of an Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, that
they had no part nor lot in the
matter anymore.
And still thought they were following Abraham, Isaac
and Jacob.
It is possible for you and I to
still think, because of some religious connection we
have to something and somewhere in our background,
that we have these men to our Father
and we have a good heritage and we
were born in a Christian home and all
these kind of things, but we have drifted
and we have degenerated so far away from
it that we simply are in no connection
with a God that we even theologically believe
in.
And God would tell a person manly, a
person like that, I don't even know you.
You're on the outside, I don't have any
idea who you are.
We've never touched hearts.
And I know some of you know that.
You're sitting here tonight, you know you're not
born again, you know you don't know Him
and you have a hard time even keeping
enough of focus on a message to listen
it out for an hour.
You're goofing off and making fun a lot
throughout the week, laughing and joking and carrying
on and you have no idea what you're
doing.
You have no idea.
If you have heart in your heart like
that, you have no clue.
There she'll be weeping.
Some of the scriptures say wailing.
Here it says weeping and gnashing of teeth.
When you'll see the door shut, Abraham, Isaac
will be in.
You thought you were following them.
You'll be on the outside knocking on the
door, seeing if you can persuade him to
still open the door.
But he's not going to open.
Now you thought that He would never leave
you.
You may even have been born again and
accepted Him as your Savior five years ago
or a year ago or two.
And you have backslidden so deeply and have
gone so far away from God that you
simply don't know Him tonight.
You are not in connection with Him anymore.
But you're still hanging on to the fact,
oh, He never left me.
He would never leave me.
He would never leave me, you know, or
forsake me.
He's always kind and good.
You have no idea that He would shut
the door on you.
You think sure that He would let the
door open to you, even though you have
grieved away the Holy Spirit so far.
You have your behavior and your activity.
You are living in sin tonight.
You are not clear.
You don't know what it is to have
the joy of the Lord in your heart.
You're not on fire.
There's no fire burning in your heart.
You can't speak to a soul.
You want to run when it gets hot.
You want to get out of here.
There are students sitting here and they say,
let me out of here.
I got to go.
I can't handle it.
Because of conviction in your heart.
And your heart's not right.
It's not clear.
And therefore, you can't handle it.
Oh, that's sad.
That's sad.
Oh, I don't know what kind of a
Jesus you've fabricated for yourself or what kind
of lie you've accepted.
But that's sad if you have a Jesus
that you think is never going to shut
the door and never call for some justice
and judgment and accountability on your life.
But the God of the Bible is going
to require that in your and my life.
Now, I want to tell you that and
be very square and honest with you.
When once the master of the house has
risen up and has shut the door and
you're going to be in the outside and
you don't want to be in the outside,
you'd like to be on the inside.
You want to go to heaven.
You want to be saved.
But you're not in the inside and He
doesn't know you.
And you're going to weep and wail.
And you're going to gnash with your teeth.
You're going to say, and there's no way
I can describe it, I don't know if
I've ever seen a man gnash his teeth
in his life.
But I can well imagine that if they're
on the outside of the door and the
door is shut, finally, they will gnash with
their teeth and say, Oh, no, I missed
it.
I missed it.
How is it possible?
Why was I so stupid?
I sat there and they pled with me
and wanted to pray with me and help
me through and I wouldn't let them.
And that, that breaks my heart.
That breaks my heart.
You know, Revelation chapter 1 gives a picture
of this Jesus that I'm talking about.
And David described Him in Ezekiel.
Revelation 1 is another place.
And again, it has Him burning as a
flame of fire because He was described so
well on Monday night.
And practically all of you heard it.
I'm not going to reiterate that.
But let me go back in Revelation chapter
8 and just talk a little bit about
some of the things that are going to
come upon the people.
You know, the Bible says, if I could
just quote a few of these scriptures to
you that talk about that, you know, that
the wrath of God is going to be
poured out, not only upon the heathen, the
agnostics and the atheists.
It says on the children of disobedience.
The children of disobedience.
Did you ever consider that?
You know, in the Word of God, the
Bible says that in Ephesians chapter 5, verse
6 to 8, 6 and 7, it says,
let no man deceive you with vain words,
but because of these things cometh the wrath
of God upon the children of disobedience.
And He's talking about sexual immorality.
He's talking about fornication.
He's talking about whoremonging and things like that,
you know.
And He's simply saying, He's calling that the
children of disobedience.
The children of disobedience.
And He says that the wrath of God
or the door is going to be shut
upon the people, the children of disobedience.
Yes, the children of disobedience, the wrath of
God is going to be poured out upon
them.
And Paul says in Colossians chapter 3, verse
5 through 7, mortify therefore your members which
are upon the earth, fornication, uncleanness, inordinate affection,
evil concubines, covetousness which is idolatry, for which
things say the wrath of God cometh upon
the children of disobedience.
Christians that don't obey God.
And God says that the wrath of God
is going to be poured out.
And then I turn back to Revelation.
And my wife and I have been going
through that in our devotional time this last
little while.
And we read about 10 to 12 verses
a day.
And we sit there and we look at
those words and we talk about it.
And we fall on our face before God.
And I say I tremble.
Do you know how to tremble at God?
And I don't do as much as I
think I should.
Sometimes I think my knees ought to shake
together when I get a view of the
wrath of God that is going to be
poured out upon the children of disobedience.
And we turn back there.
We got to chapter 5 and 6.
And we had some preliminaries there.
We had the four horses.
And we saw the famine and the scarcity.
And you know that food was really scarce
in some of those end times there.
And then how a fourth part of the
earth was killed with sword and with hunger
and with death and with the beasts of
the earth.
Just like every wild animal in the woods
is just going to come out of the
woods and just going to come down upon
the people and just begin to tear them
up.
Every lion, every leopard, every moose, everything with
horns.
They're just coming down.
God's going to put such a spirit in
them to fight and to kill men.
And they're going to keep on with these
four things.
Yeah, with a sword that's each other, war,
with hunger, starvation, with death and with the
beasts of the earth.
And according to the calculations of the population
of the world, that'll take about one and
a half billion people.
And we don't think about it.
We read over those kind of words.
We sit here and smirk and mock when
people go up to the altar and you
know, look at them go on, you know,
and we sit back there and smirk on
our face and harden our hearts.
How can we do such things in light
of what God says that will come upon
the children of disobedience?
And we act like it doesn't even say
it.
But it does say it.
And I believe it.
I believe these things when I read them.
I read about the kings of the earth,
the chief men and the captains, you know,
calling for the rocks and mountains to fall
on them and hide them from the face
of him that sits on the throne because
they can't bear to face that God that
they have thought was a sugar daddy.
And they had the wrong one.
And the one in Revelation and Ezekiel showed
up, whose eyes are like a flame of
fire.
And he burns us in a furnace.
And those penetrating eyes look straight through him.
And every evil deed and act that they've
ever done comes up in front of their
face.
That's how I envision it.
Well, we go on to chapter eight, you
know, and over there in chapter eight we
have the opening of the seven seals.
And they begin to pour out left and
right upon the earth.
And we go down over that.
My, we see a third part of the
trees burn up and all the green grass
burns up.
And then we have a third part of
the sea becoming blood, a third part of
the ships being destroyed.
And we have a third part of the
rivers turning into blood.
Or no, that's a lamp as it fell
upon the third part of the rivers and
upon the fountains of waters of the springs
and wells.
And it became wormwood.
And men would drink of the wormwood.
And it was so bitter that they died
from the bitter water that they drank.
But they were so thirsty that they had
to drink.
And there they were.
And they died by the drools from it.
And then we have the fourth angel sounding.
And we have the moon getting dark.
It's not going to shine.
If you are not a Christian tonight, you
go out and take a long look at
that beautiful moon tonight.
It's not always going to shine.
Someday it's going to turn into blood.
And it's not going to look very pretty.
And when the sun rises tomorrow morning and
God has given you mercy, you better take
a long look at it.
Because someday it's going to quit.
And the door is going to be shut.
The door is going to be shut.
But where I tremble, where I tremble is
in chapter 9.
I can't get over that.
You know, a key, an angel comes down
with a key to the bottom of this
pit and it's like, you know, people say
in just today about all hell broke loose.
I've never seen a reality of all hell
breaking loose like it says in chapter 9.
But that's what it reminds me.
Because his key was put down there and
they opened up this bottomless pit.
And out of it, it says, does it
say how many?
I think it says, anyway, there's smoke.
First of all, smoke came out of the
pit like it was the smoke of a
great furnace.
And the sun and the air were darkened
by reason of the smoke.
And then these locusts came out upon the
earth and they had scorpions.
The power of scorpions as the scorpions of
the earth have power in their tails to
bite.
I just came back from Belize, Central America
about six, eight weeks ago.
And there's some of the students here from
Belize and they didn't tell you about those
scorpion bites.
They were telling me down there what it's
like and how horrible the pain is of
a scorpion bite that a person just trembles
and shakes all over with pain for, I
don't know how many hours, but hours or
maybe about a day or so of the
bite of a scorpion.
Well, this thing, hell is going to be
opened up and they're going to have the
faces of women and iron breastplates.
And when they make their wings go, they're
going to sound like horses going to battle.
And these will be the most hideous creatures
you have ever laid your eyes on.
And they're going to fend out all the
horde and torment men and women for five
months with the stings in their tails, like
it would be the bite of a serpent.
And people will howl and scream in pain
and misery for it.
And the Bible says that men will seek
to die and can't die.
They can't even commit suicide.
No escape whatsoever.
Thus saith God.
Do you believe that?
Do you really believe that?
Or is it a fairy tale to you?
Do you tremble at my words, like the
prophet says?
Isaiah.
And so it goes on and it gets
worse.
The judgments keep going.
And you know the thing that bothers me?
That really, really, really, in the end of
that chapter, chapter nine.
I mean, it says there in verse 20,
And the rest of the men which were
not killed by these plagues, yet repented not
of the works of their hands, that they
should not worship devils.
Now, if you want to know what the
activities of the world are going to be
like in the end times when this happens,
follow me.
That they should not worship devils.
And idols of gold and silver and brass
and stone and wood, which neither can see,
nor hear, nor walk, neither repented they of
their murders and their sorceries, nor of their
fornication, nor of their thefts.
Now, I don't know.
It gets pretty discouraging to pick up a
newspaper and read what's going on in the
world today.
But normally, this is what's in it.
It talks about money and advertises all the
things that you can't do without, you have
to have in order to enjoy life.
And then, of course, it talks about the
scary movies that they have just made that
everybody runs to see.
And then it talks about murders and sorceries
and fornications and thefts and Harry Potter books
and all the whole thing, you know.
This earth is like that tonight.
Now, I don't know how long God's going
to have mercy, but I know one thing.
God says, once the master of the house
has risen up and shut the door, then
you're going to be in the outside.
You're going to be in the outside.
Christians.
Now, I'm going to call them what they
call them, without a lot of fanfare about
it.
Christians on the outside.
Because everybody says they are one, you know.
Christians on the outside.
One of our sisters went to Wal-Mart
the other day and looked at a lady
and handed her a tract and she lost
it right there in the Wal-Mart.
To think that this lady would, our sister
would think she's not a Christian.
Yeah, everybody's a Christian.
Well, the master of the house is going
to rise up and shut the door on
Christians.
If you want to call them Christians.
And they won't repent of their sin.
And they're going to be filled with fornication
and with sorceries and with murders and with
thefts.
And every one of those has manifested this
week.
Every one of them.
I don't know of anybody confessing that they
killed somebody, but I know they had hate
in their heart.
The Bible says that's the same.
But as far as the rest of these
sins, they're all here.
They've all been here.
And you know, back in Revelation chapter 21,
it so clearly says, let me read it
to you.
Verse 8.
But the fearful and the unbelieving and the
abominable and the murderers and the whoremongers and
the sorcerers and idolaters and all liars shall
have their part in the lake which burneth
with fire and brimstone, which is the second
death.
Now, I recently went into the local Christian
bookstore here and picked up a newspaper about
the Agape Love Farm gathering.
You know, up here in Mount Union, Pennsylvania.
It was held in 2002.
It was a dry summer.
And 80,000 people showed up there.
And these were religious people.
They were all, I would guess probably by
far the majority of them would have said
they were Christians.
But you ought to read the rest of
the newspaper.
You ought to read the rest of it.
And you look at some of the singing
groups that they had there.
Look at some of their names.
Audio Adrenaline, Delirious, Switchfoot, Pax 217, Cross
Movement, Reliant K, Creation Worship, Mary Mary.
Here's even one called The Shekel Shirt, taken
from 10 shekels and a shirt.
And the group calls them The Shekel Shirt.
All in the name of Christianity.
And I saw somewhere else.
Yeah, here's some more.
Groups called Beanbag, Benjamin's Gate, Five-Hour Iron
Frenzy, Grits, Hangnail, Pillar, Sidewalk Slam, Super Chick,
Rock and Roll Worship Circus.
I thought that was probably the truest one
in the bunch.
And that whole crowd, that whole crowd for
the most part of it, believes that the
door is open for them.
They have their heads shaved.
Others have spiked hair, colored in all kinds
of fluorescent colors.
They're living like the world.
They're fornicating in their tents, probably.
That's the kind of activity that goes on.
The preachers are divorced and remarried and living
with some other man's wife.
And they're all going to heaven.
I tell you, listen to me, and I
know that there's some of these CDs that
probably I even mentioned might be out in
your cars tonight.
When once God, when a master of the
house, has risen up and shut the door,
you're going to be on the outside.
If you're going to follow that Jesus that
they're preaching, and you're going to follow that
gospel that they're twanging to, and they're going
to look like that devil in his crowd,
and name themselves these God-forsaken names, then
I tell you the master of the house
is going to rise up and shut the
door, and I believe with all my heart
they're going to be on the outside.
And if that's the music you listen to,
and that's the way you're going, and that's
the kind of stuff you're hanging around in,
and that's the way you believe, and that's
your theology, and you think you're going to
crutch along like that and get to heaven.
The Bible says, straight is the gate, narrow
is the way, and you're to enter in
by the straight gate and the narrow way.
And don't you think for a moment that
God is not going to rise up and
shut the door, and that these people are
going to be on the outside wanting in.
And they are.
If you'd ask them, you want to go
to heaven?
Sure, I want to go to heaven.
You want to be with Jesus?
Yes, I love Him.
That's what they'd say.
And they sing about Him all weekend, three
days long, and chant and dance and carry
on and all that.
But I tell you, raise their hands and
close their eyes and swoon to the beat
of the horrible rock music.
But I tell you, I don't believe they
will enter in.
I do not believe it for a minute
that that kind of crowd, I'm not going
to say and judge that there's nobody there
that is ignorant and insincere and has just
tried to find their way and all that.
But for the most part, I believe they
are going to be on the outside.
And I am burdened tonight that you would
listen to their music and you would mess
around with a crowd like that, that is
as deceptive and as poisonous as can be,
trying to persuade you that you can still
have Jesus and live like the devil in
his crowd, and you can still get in.
And the Bible says on the authority of
the Word of God, that the master of
the house is going to rise up and
shut the door, and that people are going
to be on the outside and clawing at
the door and pleading to get in.
And he's going to say, I never knew
you.
I've never known you.
I don't know who you are.
Get out of here.
Get out of my presence.
The German says, I don't want anything to
do with you.
I never knew you.
You don't obey me.
And I've tried to tell you over and
over again in my Holy Word.
And it even says in the directions here,
bring your Bibles, bring your camping stuff, you
know, and bring your Bibles.
And that's why it says, but that Bible
says that the wrath of God will be
poured out upon the children of disobedience.
And they are breaking the commandments of God
left and right, up and down.
And they don't care.
And they don't tremble at my Word.
And they aren't serious about it.
They just blink their eyes at the written
Word of God and just go right on
plowing on through their life.
And they think that moon out there is
going to shine for the next hundred years.
But when once the master of the house
has risen up and shut the door and
you're on the outside, the fun's over.
The fun's over.
And you're going to say, Lord, I spent
three days up there singing about you and
raising my hands.
I don't know you.
And you're going to start weeping and wailing
and gnashing your teeth.
When you'll see those radical people that you
thought were crazy for taking God so serious.
On the inside, you yourselves thrust out.
May God have mercy.
Well, we're going to give an invitation to
him tonight.
And I don't know where you're at.
I don't know.
I just got told this afternoon somebody had
a good old bonfire with that kind of
stuff last night.
He came home from the meeting and he
called home to his parents and said, burn
all my CDs.
Burn the recorder too.
I don't want to.
I think they were burned here.
But then he called home and said, erase
all my computer stuff.
Erase the whole thing.
I don't even want to see it when
I get home.
I tell you, my dear people, it is
time we come back to a Jesus that's
the God of the Bible and that will
change your life and turn you from this
half-hearted, flip-shot Christianity and give you
something that's worth living for and something that
will clean your life up and something that
will give you victory over sin because God
says that sin shall not have dominion over
you.
And you can overcome it and you can
live a godly life in Christ Jesus.
You've been hearing about it all week.
And I want to tell you, if you
have not made a decision to clean your
life up for God, if you have not
been converted and given your heart to God,
I pray tonight you would respond to the
invitation of the Gospel message tonight.
Shall we sing, Brother Samuel?
512.
And I encourage you to do business with
God tonight.
I encourage you to, don't you, don't you
put it off because the master of the
house is going to rise up one of
these days and shut the door.
Shall we sing?
You come.
Come right now.
Don't wait on a song.
Amen.
God bless you.
And you
have not given your life to God.
You've been kicking against the pricks all week
long.
Hear our cry.
God's opportunity and grace is upon you tonight
if you hear these songs.
Giving you the opportunity to get your heart
right with God.
Come to Jesus tonight and get everything settled.
Shall we sing?
Christians pray.
There seems to be such a resistance, Lord,
here tonight on those that need to come.
God, I pray for them.
I know they must make that choice, turn
their will, but we pray for them tonight.
Oh, God, Satan would not get the advantage.
Satan would not be able to bind them
to stand there and sit there and not
budge.
God, I pray, may the Spirit of God
come down upon them and help them to
weigh this whole thing.
Count the cost, Lord.
Help them to count the cost.
We don't want just an emotional experience, Lord.
We want a life-changing response to God.
We want a willingness to fall upon their
faces and repent before you, Father.
I pray for them, God.
I pray for them.
And bless those that have responded, God, that
they could break through tonight.
We pray it in Jesus' name.
Shall we sing again?
I just say, keep coming.
You come tonight.
Is there anyone else who wants to come?
Let's sing
another verse.
Thank you,
Christians.
Tomorrow, that they would be touched, continue to
be touched, though still fascinating and putting off
their day.
All right, we're going to let those who
respond and find their way back to their
respective boys and girls.
If you need a counselor back there, they'll
give you one.
If you just want to be alone and
cry out to God, they'll give you that
opportunity.
Likewise, back in the prayer room.
So you can just get up at this
time.
Go back there.
Do business with God.