1 00:00:00,710 --> 00:00:01,510 Amen. 2 00:00:02,350 --> 00:00:04,050 Good evening, ladies and gentlemen. 3 00:00:04,310 --> 00:00:07,990 It's great to be back here once again, 4 00:00:08,630 --> 00:00:13,230 our last weeknight service, and a very special 5 00:00:13,230 --> 00:00:16,050 warm greeting to my young people, as this 6 00:00:16,050 --> 00:00:17,110 is our youth night. 7 00:00:17,290 --> 00:00:20,710 I haven't my youth suit on, but I 8 00:00:20,710 --> 00:00:23,390 still feel young, and the biggest temptation I 9 00:00:23,390 --> 00:00:26,250 think I had in the whole campaign to 10 00:00:26,250 --> 00:00:28,450 do what might have not been right was 11 00:00:28,450 --> 00:00:30,130 to put up my hand when he said 12 00:00:30,130 --> 00:00:31,070 I'm in my thirties. 13 00:00:32,530 --> 00:00:36,330 However, you're as young as you feel, that's 14 00:00:36,330 --> 00:00:37,830 what they tell us over in the old 15 00:00:37,830 --> 00:00:38,310 country. 16 00:00:39,390 --> 00:00:40,830 Well now, I've got a lot I want 17 00:00:40,830 --> 00:00:42,850 to tell you tonight, and we're a little 18 00:00:42,850 --> 00:00:46,370 late in passing the message, but since we 19 00:00:46,370 --> 00:00:49,710 have a holiday tomorrow, there's no meeting tomorrow 20 00:00:49,710 --> 00:00:51,850 night except for me and those who go 21 00:00:51,850 --> 00:00:54,290 to youth for Christ, I hope you won't 22 00:00:54,290 --> 00:00:58,010 mind perhaps a little over the time, but 23 00:00:58,010 --> 00:00:59,990 we'll try and keep it within the limits 24 00:00:59,990 --> 00:01:00,770 if possible. 25 00:01:01,510 --> 00:01:04,470 We're going to read a familiar passage. 26 00:01:04,990 --> 00:01:06,790 There are three I would like to read, 27 00:01:06,910 --> 00:01:09,350 but we'll keep to one, in the Gospel 28 00:01:09,350 --> 00:01:10,470 of Saint John. 29 00:01:11,410 --> 00:01:13,510 John's Gospel, chapter 14. 30 00:01:16,440 --> 00:01:19,040 I'm choosing these out of the three possible 31 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:24,120 readings I would have brought you, because I 32 00:01:24,120 --> 00:01:28,420 owe my conversion to our Lord Jesus Christ, 33 00:01:29,420 --> 00:01:32,320 for the reading of these beautiful words. 34 00:01:33,800 --> 00:01:38,760 John 14 and verse 1, Let not your 35 00:01:38,760 --> 00:01:43,760 heart be troubled, ye believe in God, believe 36 00:01:43,760 --> 00:01:45,180 also in me. 37 00:01:46,300 --> 00:01:49,140 In my Father's house are many mansions. 38 00:01:50,400 --> 00:01:52,180 If it were not so, I would have 39 00:01:52,180 --> 00:01:52,740 told you. 40 00:01:54,300 --> 00:01:57,140 I go to prepare a place for you, 41 00:01:58,240 --> 00:02:00,560 and if I go and prepare a place 42 00:02:00,560 --> 00:02:06,480 for you, I will come again and receive 43 00:02:06,480 --> 00:02:11,920 you unto myself, that where I am, there 44 00:02:11,920 --> 00:02:13,400 ye may be also. 45 00:02:14,320 --> 00:02:17,160 And whither I go ye know, and the 46 00:02:17,160 --> 00:02:17,960 way ye know. 47 00:02:19,240 --> 00:02:22,020 Thomas saith unto him, Lord, we know not 48 00:02:22,020 --> 00:02:24,680 whither thou goest, and how can we know 49 00:02:24,680 --> 00:02:25,200 the way? 50 00:02:26,360 --> 00:02:30,540 Jesus saith unto him, I am the way, 51 00:02:31,100 --> 00:02:33,000 the truth, and the life. 52 00:02:34,040 --> 00:02:38,440 No man cometh unto the Father, but by 53 00:02:38,440 --> 00:02:38,800 me. 54 00:02:40,940 --> 00:02:43,880 If I go and prepare a place for 55 00:02:43,880 --> 00:02:49,140 you, I will come again. 56 00:02:52,790 --> 00:02:55,030 Now, my dear friends listening to me tonight, 57 00:02:57,180 --> 00:03:01,020 before we come to the examination of the 58 00:03:01,020 --> 00:03:06,940 scripture concerning this fascinating subject of the coming 59 00:03:06,940 --> 00:03:11,340 again of our Lord Jesus Christ, I want 60 00:03:11,340 --> 00:03:15,600 to suggest to intelligent people here tonight that 61 00:03:15,600 --> 00:03:18,380 the coming again of the Son of God, 62 00:03:18,680 --> 00:03:24,140 Jesus Christ our Lord, is a moral necessity 63 00:03:24,140 --> 00:03:28,240 in a world such as we face today. 64 00:03:34,690 --> 00:03:36,790 Somebody says, I want an answer. 65 00:03:37,050 --> 00:03:39,070 Will Jesus Christ come back again? 66 00:03:39,210 --> 00:03:42,710 My reply is, it's a moral necessity that 67 00:03:42,710 --> 00:03:43,930 he should come back again. 68 00:03:46,180 --> 00:03:52,180 I don't believe unbridled sin and evil can 69 00:03:52,180 --> 00:03:56,980 go on reigning persistently indefinitely. 70 00:03:59,480 --> 00:04:02,020 I believe that there must come a point 71 00:04:02,020 --> 00:04:06,440 in the affairs of life when conditions become 72 00:04:06,440 --> 00:04:08,160 too bad to go on. 73 00:04:10,200 --> 00:04:13,940 I believe there is a moment when some 74 00:04:13,940 --> 00:04:20,060 great masterful man, some great personage, must step 75 00:04:20,060 --> 00:04:24,220 into the field of world affairs and deal 76 00:04:24,220 --> 00:04:28,460 with evil and vindicate good and issue in 77 00:04:28,460 --> 00:04:33,560 a great age of righteousness and justice and 78 00:04:33,560 --> 00:04:35,100 prosperity and peace. 79 00:04:38,010 --> 00:04:41,250 I believe it's not only a moral, I 80 00:04:41,250 --> 00:04:44,150 believe it's a political, it's an economic, it's 81 00:04:44,150 --> 00:04:48,830 a commercial, it's even a psychological necessity, leave 82 00:04:48,830 --> 00:04:52,350 alone a spiritual one, that Jesus Christ, the 83 00:04:52,350 --> 00:04:54,110 Son of God should come back again. 84 00:04:55,810 --> 00:04:58,950 Now if that is so, then there are 85 00:04:58,950 --> 00:05:02,150 certain questions I want to ask, and there 86 00:05:02,150 --> 00:05:04,370 are certain questions I want the Bible to 87 00:05:04,370 --> 00:05:04,690 answer. 88 00:05:05,690 --> 00:05:07,450 For as you know, I have said nothing 89 00:05:07,450 --> 00:05:09,990 to you right throughout the crusade which isn't 90 00:05:09,990 --> 00:05:11,910 included in the covers of this book. 91 00:05:12,850 --> 00:05:15,410 I haven't given you my own opinions or 92 00:05:15,410 --> 00:05:16,510 my speculations. 93 00:05:17,250 --> 00:05:19,690 I have sought to expound the word of 94 00:05:19,690 --> 00:05:21,850 God because I believe it to be the 95 00:05:21,850 --> 00:05:25,390 final authority in all matters of faith and 96 00:05:25,390 --> 00:05:25,850 practice. 97 00:05:27,190 --> 00:05:30,870 This is the infallible word of God, and 98 00:05:30,870 --> 00:05:33,050 if I'm coming to it for anything else, 99 00:05:33,110 --> 00:05:35,530 then I come to it concerning this great 100 00:05:35,530 --> 00:05:38,670 subject of the coming again of Jesus Christ. 101 00:05:39,090 --> 00:05:43,070 I am not interested in extremisms of interpretation, 102 00:05:43,830 --> 00:05:46,870 nor am I interested in pressing all sorts 103 00:05:46,870 --> 00:05:49,310 of systems so well known in this land 104 00:05:49,310 --> 00:05:50,050 and other lands. 105 00:05:50,950 --> 00:05:55,050 What I'm concerned about is, is Jesus Christ 106 00:05:55,050 --> 00:05:56,410 coming back again? 107 00:05:56,830 --> 00:05:57,810 Is it a fact? 108 00:05:58,410 --> 00:06:00,730 And if it is, well then what does 109 00:06:00,730 --> 00:06:02,990 the Bible have to say about it, and 110 00:06:02,990 --> 00:06:07,630 what are the implications of this tremendous fact 111 00:06:07,630 --> 00:06:10,010 upon the people who are listening to me 112 00:06:10,010 --> 00:06:10,370 tonight? 113 00:06:12,940 --> 00:06:16,080 Well now, one or two of the things 114 00:06:16,080 --> 00:06:17,920 that I want to know tonight, first of 115 00:06:17,920 --> 00:06:20,120 all, is the coming of Jesus Christ a 116 00:06:20,120 --> 00:06:20,580 reality? 117 00:06:21,700 --> 00:06:25,160 Secondly, how soon before he comes back again? 118 00:06:25,840 --> 00:06:27,680 And thirdly, what are going to be the 119 00:06:27,680 --> 00:06:32,140 results and consequences of his return to this 120 00:06:32,140 --> 00:06:32,480 earth? 121 00:06:35,130 --> 00:06:38,050 Let's look at the first one, the reality 122 00:06:38,050 --> 00:06:42,390 of the coming again of Jesus Christ, the 123 00:06:42,390 --> 00:06:46,130 reality of the return of our Lord Jesus 124 00:06:46,130 --> 00:06:46,590 Christ. 125 00:06:47,030 --> 00:06:50,250 Now I believe there are certain witnesses to 126 00:06:50,250 --> 00:06:52,510 the coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ, 127 00:06:52,810 --> 00:06:54,990 and the first one is the witness of 128 00:06:54,990 --> 00:06:55,530 the Scripture. 129 00:06:56,390 --> 00:06:59,390 Young people, have you ever realized that as 130 00:06:59,390 --> 00:07:01,950 you open up your New Testament and read 131 00:07:01,950 --> 00:07:04,830 from Matthew to Revelation, if you take it 132 00:07:04,830 --> 00:07:08,050 on the law of average, one in every 133 00:07:08,050 --> 00:07:12,290 twenty-five verses from Matthew to Revelation speaks 134 00:07:12,290 --> 00:07:14,610 of the coming again of our Lord Jesus 135 00:07:14,610 --> 00:07:15,010 Christ. 136 00:07:16,950 --> 00:07:20,210 Out of two hundred and sixty chapters, there 137 00:07:20,210 --> 00:07:22,030 is a mention of the coming again of 138 00:07:22,030 --> 00:07:25,110 our Lord Jesus Christ some three hundred and 139 00:07:25,110 --> 00:07:26,090 eighteen times. 140 00:07:28,760 --> 00:07:31,920 There is more said concerning the coming again 141 00:07:31,920 --> 00:07:34,080 of the Lord Jesus Christ in the New 142 00:07:34,080 --> 00:07:38,680 Testament than any other cardinal doctrine of our 143 00:07:38,680 --> 00:07:39,120 Gospel. 144 00:07:40,620 --> 00:07:42,760 As a matter of fact, the coming again 145 00:07:42,760 --> 00:07:45,280 of our Lord Jesus Christ is mentioned in 146 00:07:45,280 --> 00:07:48,800 every New Testament book, with the exception of 147 00:07:48,800 --> 00:07:52,620 Philemon and 3 John, two personal letters where 148 00:07:52,620 --> 00:07:55,800 there is a very strong inference concerning his 149 00:07:55,800 --> 00:07:56,100 coming. 150 00:07:59,200 --> 00:08:01,720 If I were to be honest and balanced 151 00:08:01,720 --> 00:08:06,320 in all my preaching and necessity were made 152 00:08:06,320 --> 00:08:09,640 upon me, then one in every six sermons 153 00:08:09,640 --> 00:08:11,900 I preach should be on the coming again 154 00:08:11,900 --> 00:08:13,000 of the Lord Jesus Christ. 155 00:08:15,720 --> 00:08:17,560 I want to say there is no man 156 00:08:17,560 --> 00:08:19,860 or woman, no fellow and girl, who is 157 00:08:19,860 --> 00:08:22,260 prepared to get to grips with truth, who 158 00:08:22,260 --> 00:08:24,640 is prepared to accept the witness of the 159 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:27,540 Scripture, who can read this book without being 160 00:08:27,540 --> 00:08:30,660 confronted with the fact of the coming again 161 00:08:30,660 --> 00:08:31,919 of our Lord Jesus Christ. 162 00:08:34,549 --> 00:08:36,350 But not only have we the witness of 163 00:08:36,350 --> 00:08:39,289 the Scriptures, we have the direct witness of 164 00:08:39,289 --> 00:08:40,010 our Saviour. 165 00:08:40,270 --> 00:08:41,809 I know we read about it in the 166 00:08:41,809 --> 00:08:44,450 Scriptures, but it's the emphasis of our Lord's 167 00:08:44,450 --> 00:08:46,050 words to which I now want to draw 168 00:08:46,050 --> 00:08:47,630 your attention for a moment or two. 169 00:08:48,450 --> 00:08:53,490 When the Lord Jesus came to us and 170 00:08:53,490 --> 00:08:58,830 began His teaching, He made some tremendous revolutionary 171 00:08:58,830 --> 00:08:59,630 upturns. 172 00:09:00,070 --> 00:09:03,890 I think amongst the many that He made, 173 00:09:04,350 --> 00:09:07,830 I have three that arrest my attention, and 174 00:09:07,830 --> 00:09:10,510 to which I want to just call your 175 00:09:10,510 --> 00:09:13,190 attention for a moment or two in passing. 176 00:09:14,370 --> 00:09:17,850 Speaking of His resurrection from the dead and 177 00:09:17,850 --> 00:09:21,930 lightening His body to the temple, the temple, 178 00:09:22,550 --> 00:09:26,370 He said this, You destroy this temple and 179 00:09:26,370 --> 00:09:29,290 in three days I'll raise it up. 180 00:09:30,430 --> 00:09:33,690 Now, ladies and gentlemen, He was talking concerning 181 00:09:33,690 --> 00:09:34,350 His body. 182 00:09:35,470 --> 00:09:39,130 In three days I will raise it up. 183 00:09:39,290 --> 00:09:41,250 I want to ask a question here tonight. 184 00:09:41,570 --> 00:09:42,650 Did He do that? 185 00:09:43,190 --> 00:09:44,650 The answer is yes. 186 00:09:46,110 --> 00:09:49,110 Up from the grave He arose as a 187 00:09:49,110 --> 00:09:52,410 mighty victor over His foes, and the resurrection 188 00:09:52,410 --> 00:09:54,990 of the Lord Jesus Christ tonight is the 189 00:09:54,990 --> 00:09:56,890 greatest proven fact of history. 190 00:09:58,810 --> 00:10:01,290 On the resurrection of the Lord Jesus Christ 191 00:10:01,290 --> 00:10:04,130 is founded Christianity in the church. 192 00:10:05,610 --> 00:10:07,750 And Jesus rose from the dead, and I 193 00:10:07,750 --> 00:10:09,870 know He's alive, for He lives within my 194 00:10:09,870 --> 00:10:10,270 heart. 195 00:10:12,290 --> 00:10:14,230 But He made another statement. 196 00:10:14,410 --> 00:10:15,150 He said this. 197 00:10:15,590 --> 00:10:17,610 He said this looking into the faces of 198 00:10:17,610 --> 00:10:18,250 His disciples. 199 00:10:19,010 --> 00:10:22,290 He said, I will build my church. 200 00:10:23,350 --> 00:10:25,590 I will build my church. 201 00:10:29,160 --> 00:10:31,760 His disciples might have doubted that statement when 202 00:10:31,760 --> 00:10:35,970 they saw Him nailed to a cross, wrapped 203 00:10:35,970 --> 00:10:40,130 up in linen, and buried in a tomb. 204 00:10:41,570 --> 00:10:44,490 But to know He has completed, He has 205 00:10:44,490 --> 00:10:47,810 completed that task, or He has, He is 206 00:10:47,810 --> 00:10:50,650 completing that task, He has fulfilled His promise. 207 00:10:51,130 --> 00:10:53,230 For let me tell you tonight as I 208 00:10:53,230 --> 00:10:55,310 speak to you, the flag of the church 209 00:10:55,310 --> 00:10:59,130 of Jesus Christ is fluttering in every corner 210 00:10:59,130 --> 00:10:59,770 of the earth. 211 00:11:02,940 --> 00:11:05,340 Having rose from the dead, He went up 212 00:11:05,340 --> 00:11:09,180 to heaven, and fifty days after Calvary, He 213 00:11:09,180 --> 00:11:10,860 poured out the Holy Spirit. 214 00:11:11,740 --> 00:11:14,080 And a hundred and twenty disciples were fused 215 00:11:14,080 --> 00:11:16,760 into a society we know as the church 216 00:11:16,760 --> 00:11:17,920 of Jesus Christ. 217 00:11:18,340 --> 00:11:21,020 And the very first day, the birthday of 218 00:11:21,020 --> 00:11:24,060 the church, three thousand people were added to 219 00:11:24,060 --> 00:11:24,680 that church. 220 00:11:25,140 --> 00:11:28,040 Another three thousand people almost the next day. 221 00:11:28,340 --> 00:11:29,640 Then five thousand. 222 00:11:29,960 --> 00:11:32,640 Then Luke uses a word which just means 223 00:11:32,640 --> 00:11:33,360 myriads. 224 00:11:34,060 --> 00:11:37,860 And since then, ten thousand times ten thousand 225 00:11:37,860 --> 00:11:40,860 and thousands of thousands have been added to 226 00:11:40,860 --> 00:11:42,520 the church of Jesus Christ. 227 00:11:43,140 --> 00:11:45,180 And I'm telling you right through to the 228 00:11:45,180 --> 00:11:48,180 very end that gates of hell shall not 229 00:11:48,180 --> 00:11:49,780 prevail against the church of Christ. 230 00:11:50,540 --> 00:11:51,980 The world can say what they like. 231 00:11:52,220 --> 00:11:54,940 They can talk about the division superficial merely. 232 00:11:55,340 --> 00:11:58,160 They can talk about all the various emphases 233 00:11:58,160 --> 00:11:58,940 in the church. 234 00:11:59,240 --> 00:12:01,740 They can talk about the failure and defeats 235 00:12:01,740 --> 00:12:02,420 of the church. 236 00:12:02,640 --> 00:12:05,940 But the church of Jesus Christ constant will 237 00:12:05,940 --> 00:12:06,340 remain. 238 00:12:08,080 --> 00:12:10,760 And I've got no pessimism about the church 239 00:12:10,760 --> 00:12:11,680 of Jesus Christ. 240 00:12:12,000 --> 00:12:14,000 I'm thorough, optimistic. 241 00:12:16,980 --> 00:12:19,280 But Jesus Christ made another great statement. 242 00:12:20,040 --> 00:12:22,640 Not only concerning His resurrection, I will raise 243 00:12:22,640 --> 00:12:23,080 it up. 244 00:12:23,560 --> 00:12:24,440 And He did it. 245 00:12:25,240 --> 00:12:28,380 Not only concerning His church, I will build 246 00:12:28,380 --> 00:12:29,060 my church. 247 00:12:29,200 --> 00:12:30,340 And He's doing it. 248 00:12:31,300 --> 00:12:32,840 He made another statement. 249 00:12:33,380 --> 00:12:37,860 He said, I, I will come again. 250 00:12:39,380 --> 00:12:43,380 And He who has fulfilled the first, He 251 00:12:43,380 --> 00:12:46,400 who is completing the second, I believe will 252 00:12:46,400 --> 00:12:48,780 keep His word concerning the third. 253 00:12:49,100 --> 00:12:52,340 And Jesus Christ, the Son of God, will 254 00:12:52,340 --> 00:12:54,220 come back again, as He has said. 255 00:12:56,760 --> 00:12:58,540 There is a witness then of the Savior. 256 00:12:59,520 --> 00:13:00,840 But let's go a step further. 257 00:13:01,220 --> 00:13:02,880 There is the witness of the saints. 258 00:13:04,060 --> 00:13:06,720 When I read my New Testament, I read 259 00:13:06,720 --> 00:13:09,500 verses like this, that everyone who is truly 260 00:13:09,500 --> 00:13:12,700 born of God, everyone who knows the wonder 261 00:13:12,700 --> 00:13:16,340 of that redemptive blood, everyone who's been born 262 00:13:16,340 --> 00:13:20,160 again, I repeat, has within him, listen carefully, 263 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,000 a living hope, a living hope. 264 00:13:23,280 --> 00:13:26,520 We're told that we're begotten unto a lively 265 00:13:26,520 --> 00:13:27,560 or a living hope. 266 00:13:27,940 --> 00:13:31,920 We're told that we're indwelt by that hope, 267 00:13:32,400 --> 00:13:34,500 Christ in you, the hope of glory. 268 00:13:34,960 --> 00:13:36,780 We're told that that hope is for the 269 00:13:36,780 --> 00:13:39,900 Christian like an anchor for the soul, both 270 00:13:39,900 --> 00:13:41,360 sure and steadfast. 271 00:13:41,800 --> 00:13:44,120 And you know, as long as the church 272 00:13:44,120 --> 00:13:48,380 has existed, right down through the centuries, there 273 00:13:48,380 --> 00:13:50,960 have been men and women who have held 274 00:13:50,960 --> 00:13:55,000 hold of this great, thrilling hope of which 275 00:13:55,000 --> 00:13:57,660 Ray Moore was singing tonight, the hope of 276 00:13:57,660 --> 00:13:59,520 the coming again of Jesus Christ. 277 00:14:00,640 --> 00:14:03,480 You read the history of those early Christians, 278 00:14:03,980 --> 00:14:07,120 and especially those who hid their lives away 279 00:14:07,120 --> 00:14:09,760 in the catacombs in order to worship. 280 00:14:10,240 --> 00:14:12,820 And what you hear, you hear them greeting 281 00:14:12,820 --> 00:14:15,980 one another, not with the horrible greetings of 282 00:14:15,980 --> 00:14:18,000 today that carry no significance. 283 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:23,300 But brother, Maranatha, Maranatha, Maranatha. 284 00:14:23,840 --> 00:14:27,100 It was the cry of those early Christians 285 00:14:27,100 --> 00:14:30,460 in the church, the Lord cometh, the Lord 286 00:14:30,460 --> 00:14:32,440 cometh, the Lord cometh. 287 00:14:33,100 --> 00:14:35,660 And that hope has come down right through 288 00:14:35,660 --> 00:14:36,300 the centuries. 289 00:14:36,860 --> 00:14:39,260 And I could give you thousands of names 290 00:14:39,260 --> 00:14:40,540 had we time tonight. 291 00:14:40,820 --> 00:14:42,960 But let's start from Martin Luther. 292 00:14:43,300 --> 00:14:44,280 He held the hope. 293 00:14:45,000 --> 00:14:47,640 John Calvin, he held the hope. 294 00:14:48,340 --> 00:14:50,680 John Milton, he held the hope. 295 00:14:50,840 --> 00:14:53,160 John Knox, he held the hope. 296 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:55,660 John Wesley, he held the hope. 297 00:14:56,040 --> 00:14:58,940 Charles Wesley, he sang of the hope. 298 00:14:59,660 --> 00:15:02,700 Yes, and in more recent times, I think 299 00:15:02,700 --> 00:15:04,220 of men like C. 300 00:15:04,260 --> 00:15:04,460 H. 301 00:15:04,620 --> 00:15:05,840 Spurgeon, D. 302 00:15:05,860 --> 00:15:06,060 L. 303 00:15:06,160 --> 00:15:10,580 Moody, Dr. Archer Rubin-Torrey, Dr. Campbell Morgan, 304 00:15:10,980 --> 00:15:13,260 and a myriad of others have held the 305 00:15:13,260 --> 00:15:14,900 hope of the coming again of the Lord 306 00:15:14,900 --> 00:15:15,660 Jesus Christ. 307 00:15:17,340 --> 00:15:18,940 And if you were to say to me, 308 00:15:19,060 --> 00:15:21,060 Stephen Alford, what is it, what is it 309 00:15:21,060 --> 00:15:23,880 that keeps you with a steady gaze so 310 00:15:23,880 --> 00:15:26,280 far as your Christian life is concerned, I'll 311 00:15:26,280 --> 00:15:27,500 tell you this, my friend. 312 00:15:27,860 --> 00:15:30,640 Apart from the wonder of the indwelling Christ 313 00:15:30,640 --> 00:15:33,180 who gives me power day by day, the 314 00:15:33,180 --> 00:15:36,740 thrill of my life is to look forward 315 00:15:36,740 --> 00:15:39,720 to that day of seeing my Lord face 316 00:15:39,720 --> 00:15:44,400 to face and casting down before Him the 317 00:15:44,400 --> 00:15:47,760 trophies of grace that He's enabled me to 318 00:15:47,760 --> 00:15:50,820 win for Him, men and women all over 319 00:15:50,820 --> 00:15:53,400 the world it may be, and some here 320 00:15:53,400 --> 00:15:54,540 from Minneapolis. 321 00:15:55,100 --> 00:15:57,440 Dear Minneapolis, I've come to love. 322 00:15:57,780 --> 00:15:59,260 I'm looking forward to that day. 323 00:16:00,060 --> 00:16:01,680 I'm looking forward to that day. 324 00:16:02,340 --> 00:16:05,320 You know, when Blondin, the great tightrope walker 325 00:16:05,320 --> 00:16:09,020 of your own country here crossed the Niagara 326 00:16:09,020 --> 00:16:12,960 Falls on that tightrope again and again and 327 00:16:12,960 --> 00:16:16,240 again, they asked him why he was so 328 00:16:16,240 --> 00:16:16,720 steady. 329 00:16:17,100 --> 00:16:18,840 They asked him how it was that he 330 00:16:18,840 --> 00:16:20,820 could manage to put a man in a 331 00:16:20,820 --> 00:16:23,340 wheelbarrow and wheel him right across the Niagara 332 00:16:23,340 --> 00:16:27,300 Falls with the water falling on all sides 333 00:16:27,300 --> 00:16:30,280 and everything calculated to unnerve him. 334 00:16:31,360 --> 00:16:32,780 Do you know what his reply was? 335 00:16:33,880 --> 00:16:35,880 His reply was that he had a secret, 336 00:16:36,300 --> 00:16:39,260 and the secret was this, that he managed 337 00:16:39,260 --> 00:16:42,180 to maintain the balance of his walk by 338 00:16:42,180 --> 00:16:46,200 keeping his eye centered on a suspended star 339 00:16:46,200 --> 00:16:49,060 away across the river. 340 00:16:49,820 --> 00:16:51,840 And as he looked at that star and 341 00:16:51,840 --> 00:16:54,500 walked, he managed to cross every tide. 342 00:16:55,000 --> 00:16:57,400 You ask me again what is the secret 343 00:16:57,400 --> 00:17:00,500 of a steady life here down below? 344 00:17:00,800 --> 00:17:04,060 I'll tell you, keeping your eyes focused on 345 00:17:04,060 --> 00:17:07,020 the star of that shining hope of the 346 00:17:07,020 --> 00:17:08,780 coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ. 347 00:17:11,339 --> 00:17:13,099 But there is not only the witness of 348 00:17:13,099 --> 00:17:15,140 the Scriptures and of the Savior and of 349 00:17:15,140 --> 00:17:18,520 the saints, there is the witness of the 350 00:17:18,520 --> 00:17:19,079 signs. 351 00:17:20,540 --> 00:17:22,480 And I want to say here tonight that 352 00:17:22,480 --> 00:17:26,480 whereas our Lord Jesus Christ warned men and 353 00:17:26,480 --> 00:17:31,520 women never to date his coming since times 354 00:17:31,520 --> 00:17:34,920 and seasons were hidden in the power of 355 00:17:34,920 --> 00:17:37,120 the Father, and it's not given to any 356 00:17:37,120 --> 00:17:41,180 Christian to know the hour when Jesus Christ 357 00:17:41,180 --> 00:17:44,700 is coming back again, though that's clear on 358 00:17:44,700 --> 00:17:47,580 the page of Scripture, yet our Savior made 359 00:17:47,580 --> 00:17:50,340 it also plain and clear that there were 360 00:17:50,340 --> 00:17:53,440 certain signs that were going to announce his 361 00:17:53,440 --> 00:17:58,980 coming, impending then cast their shadow before. 362 00:18:00,580 --> 00:18:02,620 As I look into my Bible and as 363 00:18:02,620 --> 00:18:05,420 I look into my newspaper today, as I 364 00:18:05,420 --> 00:18:09,280 listen to my radio set, especially at home, 365 00:18:09,660 --> 00:18:12,700 where I understand it a little better, I 366 00:18:12,700 --> 00:18:15,660 tell you, my friends, I cannot but believe 367 00:18:15,660 --> 00:18:18,200 that we're very near the moment when the 368 00:18:18,200 --> 00:18:21,000 Lord Jesus Christ is going to descend from 369 00:18:21,000 --> 00:18:21,880 heaven with a shout. 370 00:18:23,280 --> 00:18:25,260 The signs of the times. 371 00:18:26,380 --> 00:18:30,040 I think, for instance, of the signs of 372 00:18:30,040 --> 00:18:32,120 widespread apostasy. 373 00:18:32,820 --> 00:18:35,880 The Lord shall not come except there be 374 00:18:35,880 --> 00:18:39,200 a falling away first that that man of 375 00:18:39,200 --> 00:18:42,020 sin may be revealed, the son of perdition. 376 00:18:42,860 --> 00:18:44,860 Do you know, my friend, that even though 377 00:18:44,860 --> 00:18:48,360 cults and even though apostasy has raged right 378 00:18:48,360 --> 00:18:51,420 down through the centuries, there is a resurgence 379 00:18:51,420 --> 00:18:56,220 of apostasy today that eschatological, uh, men of 380 00:18:56,220 --> 00:19:01,620 eschatology prove conclusively is far in excess of 381 00:19:01,620 --> 00:19:03,260 anything that's ever been known before. 382 00:19:05,300 --> 00:19:10,040 There are great monster apostasy movements that have 383 00:19:10,040 --> 00:19:12,580 their hand upon the peoples of today. 384 00:19:12,960 --> 00:19:15,700 They've got priority over the radio, they've got 385 00:19:15,700 --> 00:19:19,540 priority over politics, they've got priority in commerce, 386 00:19:19,940 --> 00:19:22,200 they've got priority over the minds of the 387 00:19:22,200 --> 00:19:22,580 people. 388 00:19:23,120 --> 00:19:25,580 In lands all across the sea and in 389 00:19:25,580 --> 00:19:28,500 our own land, they've got into theological colleges, 390 00:19:28,960 --> 00:19:32,800 into theological works, into pulpits, into the man 391 00:19:32,800 --> 00:19:35,620 in the street, and there is a resurgence 392 00:19:35,620 --> 00:19:39,440 of apostasy all over the land today, in 393 00:19:39,440 --> 00:19:41,360 our land, in your land, and other lands 394 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:41,820 as well. 395 00:19:42,460 --> 00:19:45,380 I believe that that's a sign of the 396 00:19:45,380 --> 00:19:47,420 coming again of our Lord Jesus Christ. 397 00:19:48,100 --> 00:19:50,240 I go further and I say there's a 398 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,500 sign not only of widespread apostasy, but of 399 00:19:53,500 --> 00:19:59,140 widespread anti-godism, a widespread anti-godism. 400 00:20:00,160 --> 00:20:02,760 I have a tremendous fear for our own 401 00:20:02,760 --> 00:20:03,180 country. 402 00:20:03,320 --> 00:20:06,220 I don't know about your country, but there 403 00:20:06,220 --> 00:20:08,360 is a man of tremendous insight who has 404 00:20:08,360 --> 00:20:11,020 said that there's such an infiltration today of 405 00:20:11,020 --> 00:20:15,780 anti-godism, especially in the form of Communism, 406 00:20:16,320 --> 00:20:19,260 that there could be a complete change, a 407 00:20:19,260 --> 00:20:23,320 complete change of government in our own land 408 00:20:23,320 --> 00:20:24,260 overnight. 409 00:20:27,460 --> 00:20:31,140 You have never, never studied Communism without trembling 410 00:20:31,140 --> 00:20:34,800 in your shoes as to its phenomenal growth 411 00:20:34,800 --> 00:20:37,280 and strength throughout the world. 412 00:20:38,480 --> 00:20:41,020 And when you hear me preaching as I've 413 00:20:41,020 --> 00:20:43,120 been preaching like I have been here, and 414 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:46,080 especially to you young people, and last Friday, 415 00:20:46,460 --> 00:20:49,060 and I'm asking you to count the cost 416 00:20:49,060 --> 00:20:53,460 of sacrifice for Christ, suffering for Christ, service 417 00:20:53,460 --> 00:20:56,300 for Christ, I believe if the Lord Jesus 418 00:20:56,300 --> 00:20:58,840 Christ doesn't come back again, some of you 419 00:20:58,840 --> 00:21:01,040 who claim to be Christians are going to 420 00:21:01,040 --> 00:21:03,200 be tested by the shedding of your blood. 421 00:21:05,980 --> 00:21:08,360 I believe we're going to see the day 422 00:21:08,360 --> 00:21:11,640 if Christ doesn't come back again where your 423 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:13,960 faith is either going to go absolutely to 424 00:21:13,960 --> 00:21:17,560 pieces because you've demonstrated you aren't really born 425 00:21:17,560 --> 00:21:21,080 again, it's only nominal, it's only nominal, it's 426 00:21:21,080 --> 00:21:24,500 only popular, it's only glamorous, or you're going 427 00:21:24,500 --> 00:21:26,860 to shed your blood in proving that you 428 00:21:26,860 --> 00:21:28,520 are a Christian and that you're not going 429 00:21:28,520 --> 00:21:30,120 to bow to anti-Godism. 430 00:21:34,260 --> 00:21:37,060 I'm telling you, my friends, that when the 431 00:21:37,060 --> 00:21:37,640 late C. 432 00:21:37,780 --> 00:21:37,880 E. 433 00:21:37,920 --> 00:21:38,140 M. 434 00:21:38,220 --> 00:21:39,200 Jode, Professor C. 435 00:21:39,240 --> 00:21:39,340 E. 436 00:21:39,340 --> 00:21:39,540 M. 437 00:21:39,580 --> 00:21:44,480 Jode, reviewed the Communist Review, that great manifesto 438 00:21:44,480 --> 00:21:47,340 of Communism only a little while ago, I 439 00:21:47,340 --> 00:21:49,640 read it, I read it in its totality 440 00:21:49,640 --> 00:21:52,860 and I was absolutely shaken, I was absolutely 441 00:21:52,860 --> 00:21:53,380 shaken. 442 00:21:53,940 --> 00:21:57,120 The view that the Communists has about our 443 00:21:57,120 --> 00:22:01,860 Christ, our God, our Bible, our Christian faith 444 00:22:01,860 --> 00:22:04,820 is something which shakes me to my very 445 00:22:04,820 --> 00:22:07,560 depth as I think of myself as a 446 00:22:07,560 --> 00:22:07,880 Christian. 447 00:22:08,580 --> 00:22:11,620 They talk about it as an abominable lie. 448 00:22:12,860 --> 00:22:16,340 They talk about it as a fantastic, as 449 00:22:16,340 --> 00:22:18,920 a fantastic opium for the people. 450 00:22:19,520 --> 00:22:22,560 They talk about it as something which completely, 451 00:22:22,800 --> 00:22:28,640 completely, diametrically opposes everything that's reasonable, everything 452 00:22:28,640 --> 00:22:33,040 that's politic, everything that's wise, everything that's pure. 453 00:22:33,460 --> 00:22:35,840 They make out even our Christianity to be 454 00:22:35,840 --> 00:22:38,100 something which is utterly immoral. 455 00:22:40,600 --> 00:22:42,680 My friends, I'm telling you that that sort 456 00:22:42,680 --> 00:22:45,100 of thing is growing apace, not only in 457 00:22:45,100 --> 00:22:47,360 Russia, but in other countries as well. 458 00:22:47,720 --> 00:22:49,300 Did you know that a little before the 459 00:22:49,300 --> 00:22:51,160 war, and I've heard of it since, that 460 00:22:51,160 --> 00:22:53,980 the children in Russia are taught to wear 461 00:22:53,980 --> 00:22:57,000 shoes that carry a caricature of the Lord 462 00:22:57,000 --> 00:22:59,760 Jesus on their soles so that every time 463 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,080 they stamp, they can stamp on the face 464 00:23:02,080 --> 00:23:02,560 of Jesus. 465 00:23:05,210 --> 00:23:07,650 They even carry around to hit over the 466 00:23:07,650 --> 00:23:10,690 head some of the compatriots that are religious 467 00:23:10,690 --> 00:23:14,270 -minded and those clubs carry the face of 468 00:23:14,270 --> 00:23:16,370 a little demon named Jesus. 469 00:23:19,950 --> 00:23:23,270 I'm telling you that anti-Godism is just 470 00:23:23,270 --> 00:23:24,310 running amok. 471 00:23:24,630 --> 00:23:26,250 I don't know about this land, but I 472 00:23:26,250 --> 00:23:27,990 do know about other lands, and I certainly 473 00:23:27,990 --> 00:23:29,030 know about our country. 474 00:23:34,150 --> 00:23:37,650 Evil men and seducers shall wax worse and 475 00:23:37,650 --> 00:23:41,410 worse when, on the eve, on the moment 476 00:23:41,410 --> 00:23:43,390 of the coming again of the Lord Jesus 477 00:23:43,390 --> 00:23:43,930 Christ. 478 00:23:44,250 --> 00:23:45,710 Widespread anti-Godism. 479 00:23:46,030 --> 00:23:49,530 And with widespread anti-Godism, there is widespread 480 00:23:49,530 --> 00:23:52,010 abominations upon the earth. 481 00:23:52,590 --> 00:23:55,030 Listen, my friends, we're living today in a 482 00:23:55,030 --> 00:23:59,290 day of utter lawlessness, lack of restraint, and 483 00:23:59,290 --> 00:24:02,170 defiance of the established order of things. 484 00:24:02,310 --> 00:24:04,170 Somebody says, well, that's always been so. 485 00:24:04,390 --> 00:24:05,590 I want you to prove it. 486 00:24:05,710 --> 00:24:07,330 I want you to prove it statistically. 487 00:24:08,630 --> 00:24:12,030 I can demonstrate that with our much of 488 00:24:12,030 --> 00:24:16,630 so-called much vaunted modern progress, instead of 489 00:24:16,630 --> 00:24:22,160 evolving, we are devolving and deteriorating. 490 00:24:23,680 --> 00:24:26,280 And I'm talking to a generation of young 491 00:24:26,280 --> 00:24:29,580 people today who just cannot be held for 492 00:24:29,580 --> 00:24:32,580 their sheer lawlessness and defiance of the established 493 00:24:32,580 --> 00:24:33,340 order of things. 494 00:24:33,960 --> 00:24:35,920 I think today of the drunkenness. 495 00:24:36,000 --> 00:24:36,960 I think of the vice. 496 00:24:37,100 --> 00:24:38,520 I think of the immorality. 497 00:24:38,980 --> 00:24:40,880 I think of the things in relation to 498 00:24:40,880 --> 00:24:43,180 the life we've had, in relation to the 499 00:24:43,180 --> 00:24:46,520 so-called inventions of science, in relation to 500 00:24:46,520 --> 00:24:49,660 our so-called education, in relation to our 501 00:24:49,660 --> 00:24:50,820 so-called progress. 502 00:24:51,340 --> 00:24:55,240 Why, we're miles, miles, miles behind some of 503 00:24:55,240 --> 00:24:59,620 the civilizations that existed long before Christianity, so 504 00:24:59,620 --> 00:25:02,620 far as the relative corruption of our hour 505 00:25:02,620 --> 00:25:03,220 is concerned. 506 00:25:06,430 --> 00:25:07,850 And I want to go further, and I 507 00:25:07,850 --> 00:25:08,610 want to say this. 508 00:25:08,690 --> 00:25:13,210 Not only is there widespread abominations today, in 509 00:25:13,210 --> 00:25:15,930 the last days perilous times shall come. 510 00:25:16,010 --> 00:25:18,050 Men shall be lovers of themselves more than 511 00:25:18,050 --> 00:25:22,970 lovers of God, lovers of pleasure, but something 512 00:25:22,970 --> 00:25:23,410 more. 513 00:25:24,010 --> 00:25:25,690 In the last days, too, there shall be 514 00:25:25,690 --> 00:25:27,410 wars and rumors of war. 515 00:25:28,610 --> 00:25:30,310 Widespread antagonism. 516 00:25:30,670 --> 00:25:33,590 Well, now it's a matter of historic and 517 00:25:33,590 --> 00:25:36,770 factual evidence that there's never been a time 518 00:25:36,770 --> 00:25:38,350 when there wasn't a war somewhere in the 519 00:25:38,350 --> 00:25:38,590 world. 520 00:25:39,630 --> 00:25:42,230 It's been more normal to be in war 521 00:25:42,230 --> 00:25:43,650 than to be in peace. 522 00:25:44,270 --> 00:25:46,350 But do you realize, my friend, that it's 523 00:25:46,350 --> 00:25:50,230 only in our, in our generation that there 524 00:25:50,230 --> 00:25:52,170 have been two global wars? 525 00:25:54,020 --> 00:25:57,820 The 1914-18, 1939-46. 526 00:26:00,210 --> 00:26:06,190 That ghastly, that ghastly carnage through which some 527 00:26:06,190 --> 00:26:10,890 of us passed physically in London and Great 528 00:26:10,890 --> 00:26:14,990 Britain is only a foretaste to what is 529 00:26:14,990 --> 00:26:18,050 inevitably going to come if the Lord Jesus 530 00:26:18,050 --> 00:26:19,130 doesn't come back again. 531 00:26:19,250 --> 00:26:20,970 And that's a third world war. 532 00:26:21,390 --> 00:26:22,830 God have mercy upon us. 533 00:26:24,030 --> 00:26:25,610 There is no doubt about it. 534 00:26:25,610 --> 00:26:26,750 There is no doubt about it. 535 00:26:26,810 --> 00:26:31,610 It's just an inevitable law that we're bound 536 00:26:31,610 --> 00:26:32,870 to run into conflict. 537 00:26:33,170 --> 00:26:36,430 We're bound to run into war unless there's 538 00:26:36,430 --> 00:26:40,030 a mighty Holy Ghost revival that's going to 539 00:26:40,030 --> 00:26:43,790 sweep the world and bring the latter reign 540 00:26:43,790 --> 00:26:46,170 of refreshing from the presence of the Lord 541 00:26:46,170 --> 00:26:47,970 or the coming again of Jesus Christ. 542 00:26:50,520 --> 00:26:52,140 You're not going to tell me that men 543 00:26:52,140 --> 00:26:55,260 like Eisenhower, good as he is, and Macmillan 544 00:26:55,260 --> 00:26:58,200 or Churchill or anybody else can hold back 545 00:26:58,200 --> 00:27:02,180 the reigns of uncontrolled and unpredictable men. 546 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:06,520 There's a war coming, a third world war, 547 00:27:07,100 --> 00:27:10,380 and some of you ought to be pitchforked 548 00:27:10,380 --> 00:27:13,880 into London and just have seen something of 549 00:27:13,880 --> 00:27:16,120 what we saw there when the last war 550 00:27:16,120 --> 00:27:18,680 was on to know how ghastly and how 551 00:27:18,680 --> 00:27:20,880 terrible even the contemplation of it is. 552 00:27:22,520 --> 00:27:25,100 I was telling my dear brother Paul Rees 553 00:27:25,100 --> 00:27:27,940 of one instant only when I stood in 554 00:27:27,940 --> 00:27:32,520 a hotel the night that Germany claimed to 555 00:27:32,520 --> 00:27:36,240 have dropped 1,000 tons of bombs in 556 00:27:36,240 --> 00:27:38,240 a given area of the city of London. 557 00:27:40,210 --> 00:27:44,050 I can see now one side of that 558 00:27:44,050 --> 00:27:48,750 hotel absolutely blown to pieces, every window shattered, 559 00:27:49,350 --> 00:27:52,510 my father lying on a bed, driven by 560 00:27:52,510 --> 00:27:55,370 sheer impact, cling to the ceiling right over 561 00:27:55,370 --> 00:27:58,630 one bed, crashing down the other side, and 562 00:27:58,630 --> 00:28:01,390 I myself hitting the ceiling and coming down 563 00:28:01,390 --> 00:28:03,030 almost in the same position. 564 00:28:03,310 --> 00:28:05,030 We looked out of the window and we 565 00:28:05,030 --> 00:28:09,290 saw wardens, we saw people chafing for the 566 00:28:09,290 --> 00:28:14,110 underground, chafing for the shelters, being cut down, 567 00:28:14,290 --> 00:28:17,990 absolutely cut down just like, just like corn 568 00:28:17,990 --> 00:28:22,170 with a scythe by flying bullets and bursting 569 00:28:22,170 --> 00:28:22,670 bombs. 570 00:28:23,430 --> 00:28:28,590 Great tank, taxi ranks, absolutely burst to pieces, 571 00:28:29,490 --> 00:28:32,410 driven, driven to miles and miles and miles 572 00:28:32,410 --> 00:28:35,810 of the extent of London just by one 573 00:28:35,810 --> 00:28:36,890 terrific explosion. 574 00:28:38,150 --> 00:28:41,990 I've seen fire burning, I've seen planes falling, 575 00:28:42,470 --> 00:28:46,450 I've seen children, children, tiny little children carried 576 00:28:46,450 --> 00:28:49,090 in their mother's arms, cut off instantly. 577 00:28:49,590 --> 00:28:52,950 I've heard the shrieks and wails of men 578 00:28:52,950 --> 00:28:55,790 and women in pain with not a soul 579 00:28:55,790 --> 00:28:56,570 to tend them. 580 00:28:56,770 --> 00:28:58,090 And I said, this is war. 581 00:29:00,820 --> 00:29:02,460 Some of you don't know anything about it. 582 00:29:03,260 --> 00:29:04,900 You never knew there was a war on. 583 00:29:05,620 --> 00:29:07,500 You never knew there was a war on. 584 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:10,760 And I'm telling you, some of us who've 585 00:29:10,760 --> 00:29:13,160 been through it know what we're talking about 586 00:29:13,160 --> 00:29:16,040 when we say, God preserved us from another 587 00:29:16,040 --> 00:29:16,820 third world war. 588 00:29:20,500 --> 00:29:22,460 And there are the signs of the times, 589 00:29:22,940 --> 00:29:25,120 and I believe that all these things are 590 00:29:25,120 --> 00:29:28,600 a portent of that which is soon to 591 00:29:28,600 --> 00:29:31,060 be, the coming again of our Lord Jesus 592 00:29:31,060 --> 00:29:31,620 Christ. 593 00:29:32,520 --> 00:29:35,380 I cannot believe, I cannot believe that the 594 00:29:35,380 --> 00:29:38,740 world will go on with unbridled evil, on 595 00:29:38,740 --> 00:29:41,800 and on and on, persistently and endlessly, without 596 00:29:41,800 --> 00:29:45,580 the Lord breaking in to just seize hold 597 00:29:45,580 --> 00:29:51,140 of the situation Himself, the reality of the 598 00:29:51,140 --> 00:29:52,980 coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ. 599 00:29:52,980 --> 00:29:55,340 How do I know the witness of the 600 00:29:55,340 --> 00:29:55,620 Scriptures? 601 00:29:55,840 --> 00:29:57,720 How do I know the witness of the 602 00:29:57,720 --> 00:29:58,380 Savior Himself? 603 00:29:58,660 --> 00:30:00,640 How do I know the witness of the 604 00:30:00,640 --> 00:30:02,200 saints right down through the ages? 605 00:30:02,520 --> 00:30:04,420 How do I know the witness of the 606 00:30:04,420 --> 00:30:04,720 five? 607 00:30:06,810 --> 00:30:08,990 But somebody asked me tonight, when do you 608 00:30:08,990 --> 00:30:09,950 think He'll be back? 609 00:30:10,350 --> 00:30:12,430 How soon will it be before He comes? 610 00:30:13,690 --> 00:30:15,290 Well, I don't know the day or the 611 00:30:15,290 --> 00:30:15,590 hour. 612 00:30:15,990 --> 00:30:17,530 I don't know the day or the hour, 613 00:30:17,590 --> 00:30:19,590 but I can say this, as to the 614 00:30:19,590 --> 00:30:21,770 day, it's bound to be soon. 615 00:30:22,050 --> 00:30:23,330 It's bound to be soon. 616 00:30:24,610 --> 00:30:27,110 I'm absolutely sure it's bound to be soon. 617 00:30:27,610 --> 00:30:30,230 If our Lord, by inspiration, spoke to the 618 00:30:30,230 --> 00:30:33,130 early apostles of the imminence of His return, 619 00:30:33,590 --> 00:30:35,510 do you mean to tell me that, do 620 00:30:35,510 --> 00:30:37,070 you mean to tell me that those Scriptures 621 00:30:37,070 --> 00:30:39,010 aren't even more relevant today? 622 00:30:39,770 --> 00:30:41,450 Paul says the time is short. 623 00:30:41,750 --> 00:30:46,290 Peter says, the coming of the Lord, the 624 00:30:46,290 --> 00:30:48,630 coming of the Lord, verse 9. 625 00:30:49,170 --> 00:30:52,090 John says, the revelation of the things which 626 00:30:52,090 --> 00:30:54,030 must shortly come to pass. 627 00:30:56,490 --> 00:30:59,210 The other apostles talk about, it is time 628 00:30:59,210 --> 00:31:00,350 to seek the Lord. 629 00:31:00,570 --> 00:31:00,970 Why? 630 00:31:01,430 --> 00:31:03,850 Because the end is at hand. 631 00:31:04,470 --> 00:31:06,290 The end is at hand. 632 00:31:08,240 --> 00:31:11,600 As to the mighty descent from heaven, once 633 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:14,060 that moment strikes, when He's going to come 634 00:31:14,060 --> 00:31:16,680 from heaven, the Bible tells me that it's 635 00:31:16,680 --> 00:31:17,760 going to be swift. 636 00:31:17,760 --> 00:31:19,560 It's going to be swift. 637 00:31:19,940 --> 00:31:22,280 The day may be soon, but the descent 638 00:31:22,280 --> 00:31:23,000 will be swift. 639 00:31:23,400 --> 00:31:26,800 Once He leaves His sapphire throne, it'll be 640 00:31:26,800 --> 00:31:27,780 instantaneous. 641 00:31:28,620 --> 00:31:29,240 He'll come. 642 00:31:29,480 --> 00:31:30,100 He'll come. 643 00:31:30,520 --> 00:31:33,220 Listen to the three beholds of the last 644 00:31:33,220 --> 00:31:34,440 chapter of the Bible. 645 00:31:34,860 --> 00:31:36,360 Behold, I come quickly. 646 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:38,840 Behold, I come quickly. 647 00:31:39,900 --> 00:31:41,500 Behold, I come quickly. 648 00:31:41,700 --> 00:31:42,380 Three times. 649 00:31:44,560 --> 00:31:46,680 As to the mighty deliverance that's going to 650 00:31:46,680 --> 00:31:49,540 be effected for His own people, that's going 651 00:31:49,540 --> 00:31:52,960 to be, listen, it's going to be devastatingly 652 00:31:52,960 --> 00:31:53,260 sudden. 653 00:31:54,720 --> 00:31:55,840 Listen to this. 654 00:31:56,320 --> 00:31:59,360 In a moment, that's an indivisible part of 655 00:31:59,360 --> 00:31:59,760 time. 656 00:32:00,300 --> 00:32:03,260 In the twinkling of an eye, that's not 657 00:32:03,260 --> 00:32:05,240 the winking of an eye, that's far too 658 00:32:05,240 --> 00:32:05,760 long. 659 00:32:06,320 --> 00:32:08,980 In the twinkling of an eye, just as 660 00:32:08,980 --> 00:32:12,840 that light reflects upon the eyeball and twinkles 661 00:32:12,840 --> 00:32:15,300 for one moment, as fast as that, at 662 00:32:15,300 --> 00:32:18,520 the trump, at the last trump, that is 663 00:32:18,520 --> 00:32:21,600 to say, just as a trumpet blasts the 664 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:25,080 air, like that, He will come. 665 00:32:26,000 --> 00:32:26,860 He will come. 666 00:32:28,060 --> 00:32:30,860 And, says the Bible, the bodies of our 667 00:32:30,860 --> 00:32:34,180 humiliation shall be likened unto His own glorious 668 00:32:34,180 --> 00:32:37,640 body, and we shall be changed in a 669 00:32:37,640 --> 00:32:38,000 moment. 670 00:32:38,420 --> 00:32:39,980 We shall be changed in a moment. 671 00:32:41,560 --> 00:32:43,740 Beloved, now we are the sons of God, 672 00:32:43,820 --> 00:32:45,600 and it does not yet appear what we 673 00:32:45,600 --> 00:32:48,840 shall be, but we know that when He 674 00:32:48,840 --> 00:32:51,580 shall appear, we shall be like Him, for 675 00:32:51,580 --> 00:32:52,980 we shall see Him as He is. 676 00:32:53,460 --> 00:32:56,220 Blessed moment for the true Christians. 677 00:32:58,220 --> 00:33:00,960 I say, my friends, are you ready for 678 00:33:00,960 --> 00:33:01,580 that moment? 679 00:33:01,980 --> 00:33:03,540 Are you ready for that moment? 680 00:33:03,860 --> 00:33:09,340 Coming suddenly, coming soon, coming certainly, night or 681 00:33:09,340 --> 00:33:14,100 noon, Jesus, I humbly pray, take all my 682 00:33:14,100 --> 00:33:17,080 sin away, and keep me till that day 683 00:33:17,080 --> 00:33:18,200 when Thou dost come. 684 00:33:20,640 --> 00:33:23,420 But what's my great burden tonight, what my 685 00:33:23,420 --> 00:33:26,800 great concern is tonight, is not so much 686 00:33:26,800 --> 00:33:28,940 the reality of His coming, because I think 687 00:33:28,940 --> 00:33:33,780 that's generally known, not so much the speed 688 00:33:33,780 --> 00:33:37,620 and rapidity of His coming, because that's assumed. 689 00:33:38,140 --> 00:33:40,160 We believe in the imminent return of our 690 00:33:40,160 --> 00:33:41,180 Lord Jesus Christ. 691 00:33:41,940 --> 00:33:44,420 What is concerning me in these closing moments 692 00:33:44,420 --> 00:33:46,780 is what the consequence and results of His 693 00:33:46,780 --> 00:33:48,700 coming are going to be. 694 00:33:49,720 --> 00:33:52,220 There are three classes of people listening to 695 00:33:52,220 --> 00:33:53,120 me over the radio. 696 00:33:53,920 --> 00:33:56,420 Three classes of people in this auditorium tonight 697 00:33:56,420 --> 00:33:58,660 are going to be affected at once by 698 00:33:58,660 --> 00:33:59,180 His coming. 699 00:34:00,560 --> 00:34:03,080 Never mind the wider sweep of His coming, 700 00:34:03,540 --> 00:34:06,580 let's consider just the three classes that represent 701 00:34:06,580 --> 00:34:07,620 you people here. 702 00:34:08,699 --> 00:34:11,880 There are going to be, listen, when He 703 00:34:11,880 --> 00:34:13,980 comes, the believers. 704 00:34:14,940 --> 00:34:17,280 They're going to be the backsliders. 705 00:34:18,520 --> 00:34:20,540 They're going to be the unbelievers. 706 00:34:21,580 --> 00:34:23,760 And the coming of the Lord Jesus is 707 00:34:23,760 --> 00:34:25,580 going to affect every class. 708 00:34:26,159 --> 00:34:29,080 For the believer, for the believer who's living 709 00:34:29,080 --> 00:34:31,820 in victory, for the believer who knows the 710 00:34:31,820 --> 00:34:35,199 radiance of the mighty Son of God dwelling 711 00:34:35,199 --> 00:34:37,500 in him, for that believer it's going to 712 00:34:37,500 --> 00:34:40,840 be unspeakable satisfaction. 713 00:34:41,940 --> 00:34:45,920 I shall be satisfied when I awaken His 714 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:46,719 likeness. 715 00:34:46,880 --> 00:34:48,340 Why is it going to be satisfaction? 716 00:34:48,719 --> 00:34:50,840 Because that moment is going to usher the 717 00:34:50,840 --> 00:34:55,300 believer into all the realization of the blessings 718 00:34:55,300 --> 00:34:56,180 of the gospel. 719 00:34:56,620 --> 00:34:58,520 For him it's going to mean a happy 720 00:34:58,520 --> 00:35:00,420 reunion, a happy reunion. 721 00:35:00,880 --> 00:35:03,120 For when the Lord shall descend from heaven 722 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:05,640 with a shout, the believer is going to 723 00:35:05,640 --> 00:35:08,620 be caught up together with the Lord to 724 00:35:08,620 --> 00:35:09,640 meet Him in the air. 725 00:35:09,980 --> 00:35:11,580 And there's going to be a reunion, not 726 00:35:11,580 --> 00:35:13,440 only with the Lord, but with all loved 727 00:35:13,440 --> 00:35:14,880 ones who've gone on before. 728 00:35:15,240 --> 00:35:19,420 Blessed moment, blessed moment of recognition, not only 729 00:35:19,420 --> 00:35:21,140 of our Lord, but of the loved ones 730 00:35:21,140 --> 00:35:21,960 who've gone on. 731 00:35:23,280 --> 00:35:25,300 It's going to be the moment not only 732 00:35:25,300 --> 00:35:28,540 of happy reunion, but the moment of happy 733 00:35:28,540 --> 00:35:29,480 rewarding. 734 00:35:30,040 --> 00:35:32,960 Behold, I come, says the Lord Jesus, and 735 00:35:32,960 --> 00:35:35,540 my reward is with me, to give to 736 00:35:35,540 --> 00:35:38,300 every man according as he has done. 737 00:35:39,380 --> 00:35:41,860 Oh, the wonder of standing at the judgment 738 00:35:41,860 --> 00:35:45,400 seat of Christ and taking from Him one 739 00:35:45,400 --> 00:35:49,100 of those six crowns for which we can 740 00:35:49,100 --> 00:35:49,820 qualify. 741 00:35:50,440 --> 00:35:55,500 Those symbolic, those symbolic crowns of degrees of 742 00:35:55,500 --> 00:36:01,280 responsibility and purpose and service in the eternal 743 00:36:01,280 --> 00:36:01,780 kingdom. 744 00:36:03,120 --> 00:36:05,420 It's going to be also the joy of 745 00:36:05,420 --> 00:36:13,960 happy, listen, listen, the joy of happy worship 746 00:36:13,960 --> 00:36:18,340 and service eternally in the presence of the 747 00:36:18,340 --> 00:36:22,440 Lord without any sense of regret, no regret. 748 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:23,160 Why? 749 00:36:23,460 --> 00:36:25,420 Because we've served Him perfectly. 750 00:36:25,760 --> 00:36:27,920 It's going to be a happy rejoicing for 751 00:36:27,920 --> 00:36:30,840 we're going to be presented, be presented before 752 00:36:30,840 --> 00:36:34,700 the presence of His glory with exceeding joy. 753 00:36:35,720 --> 00:36:40,060 Happy reunion, happy rewarding, happy rejoicing. 754 00:36:42,650 --> 00:36:45,830 Are you, my beloved brother, waiting for that 755 00:36:45,830 --> 00:36:46,230 moment? 756 00:36:46,810 --> 00:36:48,890 Can you say face to face with Christ 757 00:36:48,890 --> 00:36:49,670 my Savior? 758 00:36:50,150 --> 00:36:52,210 Face to face, what will it be when 759 00:36:52,210 --> 00:36:56,170 in rapture I behold Him, Jesus Christ who 760 00:36:56,170 --> 00:36:56,990 died for me? 761 00:36:59,160 --> 00:37:01,060 But there is another craft to which I 762 00:37:01,060 --> 00:37:04,000 want to say a word of solemn warning. 763 00:37:05,140 --> 00:37:08,300 It's the backslider, the backslider. 764 00:37:08,620 --> 00:37:10,740 And I want to say that the backslider 765 00:37:10,740 --> 00:37:12,740 is the man or woman who is not 766 00:37:12,740 --> 00:37:15,420 living in conscious victory. 767 00:37:16,100 --> 00:37:18,680 The backslider is the fellow or girl in 768 00:37:18,680 --> 00:37:21,960 this audience tonight, man or woman who isn't 769 00:37:21,960 --> 00:37:25,160 winning souls for Jesus Christ, who doesn't know 770 00:37:25,160 --> 00:37:28,360 the radiant happiness of the indwelling Christ, who 771 00:37:28,360 --> 00:37:30,920 doesn't know the joy of daily communion and 772 00:37:30,920 --> 00:37:33,040 fellowship with Him over the word and prayer. 773 00:37:33,620 --> 00:37:36,280 The man or woman who doesn't know the 774 00:37:36,280 --> 00:37:39,480 radiant thrill of living in victory. 775 00:37:40,080 --> 00:37:41,000 The backslider. 776 00:37:41,740 --> 00:37:44,280 For that person it's going to mean, listen 777 00:37:44,280 --> 00:37:51,480 carefully, unutterable shame, unutterable shame. 778 00:37:52,280 --> 00:37:55,180 When the Apostle John writes to his converts, 779 00:37:55,380 --> 00:37:57,900 he says, my little children, oh I beg 780 00:37:57,900 --> 00:37:59,860 of you, I beg of you, abide in 781 00:37:59,860 --> 00:38:02,640 Him, abide in Him that ye may have 782 00:38:02,640 --> 00:38:06,840 confidence and not be ashamed away at His 783 00:38:06,840 --> 00:38:07,180 coming. 784 00:38:09,360 --> 00:38:11,700 And I believe that the Lord Jesus Christ 785 00:38:11,700 --> 00:38:15,240 is going to come and He's going to 786 00:38:15,240 --> 00:38:17,940 find people, and I trust there won't be 787 00:38:17,940 --> 00:38:21,060 anyone here tonight, who have not been living 788 00:38:21,060 --> 00:38:23,140 in touch with Him and by virtue of 789 00:38:23,140 --> 00:38:24,680 that fact are backsliders. 790 00:38:25,600 --> 00:38:27,260 And I want to tell you, my friend, 791 00:38:27,340 --> 00:38:29,040 that when you look, when you look into 792 00:38:29,040 --> 00:38:31,800 His face, you're going to be ashamed. 793 00:38:32,340 --> 00:38:33,520 You're going to be ashamed. 794 00:38:34,040 --> 00:38:35,360 Your eyes are going to drop. 795 00:38:35,800 --> 00:38:38,660 Your face is going to burn with shame 796 00:38:38,660 --> 00:38:39,700 and confusion. 797 00:38:40,660 --> 00:38:42,520 You're going to be ashamed not only before 798 00:38:42,520 --> 00:38:44,940 your Lord, but before the judgment seat of 799 00:38:44,940 --> 00:38:45,320 Christ. 800 00:38:46,180 --> 00:38:47,860 Because I want to tell you, my friend, 801 00:38:47,900 --> 00:38:51,220 that every single day you live, you're either 802 00:38:51,220 --> 00:38:55,960 building gold, silver, precious stones unto the day 803 00:38:55,960 --> 00:39:01,360 of reward, or wood, hay, and stubble. 804 00:39:02,740 --> 00:39:05,380 That day when you stand before the judgment 805 00:39:05,380 --> 00:39:08,100 seat of Christ, if your life has been 806 00:39:08,100 --> 00:39:11,840 lived selfishly, if your life has been lived 807 00:39:11,840 --> 00:39:15,280 in deceit and frustration, if your life hasn't 808 00:39:15,280 --> 00:39:18,860 merited the gold, silver, precious stones, you're going 809 00:39:18,860 --> 00:39:21,580 to see that wood, hay, and stubble burn 810 00:39:21,580 --> 00:39:23,380 up, burn up! 811 00:39:24,780 --> 00:39:27,660 And you're going to have the unutterable shame 812 00:39:27,660 --> 00:39:31,000 of bending down and picking up the charred 813 00:39:31,000 --> 00:39:34,160 embers of a wasted life and pressing them 814 00:39:34,160 --> 00:39:36,420 into His hand and saying, that's all I've 815 00:39:36,420 --> 00:39:37,200 got for you, Lord. 816 00:39:40,590 --> 00:39:43,010 And I wouldn't be in the shoes of 817 00:39:43,010 --> 00:39:45,910 any backslider in this place tonight. 818 00:39:48,130 --> 00:39:50,590 And you say, then what about, what about 819 00:39:50,590 --> 00:39:50,910 heaven? 820 00:39:51,290 --> 00:39:53,430 Will heaven ever be a happy place if 821 00:39:53,430 --> 00:39:54,610 I'm a backslider? 822 00:39:54,730 --> 00:39:57,830 Listen, when you stand before the judgment seat 823 00:39:57,830 --> 00:40:01,010 of Christ and Christ gives the assessment of 824 00:40:01,010 --> 00:40:04,570 your selfish, defeated living down here, your very 825 00:40:04,570 --> 00:40:08,310 happiness will be to agree with Him and 826 00:40:08,310 --> 00:40:09,690 to say, Lord, you're right. 827 00:40:09,890 --> 00:40:11,570 You couldn't have judged otherwise. 828 00:40:12,030 --> 00:40:12,990 I deserve it. 829 00:40:13,190 --> 00:40:15,390 And heaven wouldn't be heaven for me if 830 00:40:15,390 --> 00:40:17,450 you didn't judge me for the life of 831 00:40:17,450 --> 00:40:19,090 unfaithfulness I've lived down here. 832 00:40:23,040 --> 00:40:25,840 And so you'll be saved, so is by 833 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:26,260 far. 834 00:40:26,580 --> 00:40:28,400 But I want to tell you this, right 835 00:40:28,400 --> 00:40:31,900 throughout eternity, you will carry a mark, however 836 00:40:31,900 --> 00:40:33,760 happy you are in the presence of the 837 00:40:33,760 --> 00:40:37,360 Lord, you'll carry a mark that demonstrates that 838 00:40:37,360 --> 00:40:39,520 your life wasn't lived as it should have 839 00:40:39,520 --> 00:40:39,940 been lived. 840 00:40:40,460 --> 00:40:42,760 There are Christians in this place tonight who 841 00:40:42,760 --> 00:40:45,120 think that because they've got Jesus Christ in 842 00:40:45,120 --> 00:40:47,640 their life and they're born again, that they've 843 00:40:47,640 --> 00:40:50,120 got an insurance policy to heaven, and it 844 00:40:50,120 --> 00:40:52,600 doesn't matter how you live, it does matter 845 00:40:52,600 --> 00:40:53,260 how you live. 846 00:40:54,960 --> 00:40:58,080 God doesn't condemn sin in the sinner and 847 00:40:58,080 --> 00:40:59,300 condone it in the saint. 848 00:41:00,560 --> 00:41:03,080 And I'll be witness against you at the 849 00:41:03,080 --> 00:41:05,060 judgment seat of Christ that you heard me 850 00:41:05,060 --> 00:41:05,640 speak tonight. 851 00:41:06,300 --> 00:41:08,280 You can't play with fire. 852 00:41:08,660 --> 00:41:10,940 You can't go on living defeated lives. 853 00:41:11,300 --> 00:41:13,480 You can't live a normal sort of Christian 854 00:41:13,480 --> 00:41:14,660 life and get away with it. 855 00:41:17,770 --> 00:41:21,170 You'll stand that day and you'll carry forever 856 00:41:21,170 --> 00:41:24,170 the marks of unfaithfulness. 857 00:41:24,630 --> 00:41:27,150 And it's one star difference to another in 858 00:41:27,150 --> 00:41:27,550 glory. 859 00:41:28,010 --> 00:41:30,430 So your places in the kingdom will mark 860 00:41:30,430 --> 00:41:32,730 whether or not you've been well rewarded or 861 00:41:32,730 --> 00:41:33,570 less rewarded. 862 00:41:34,030 --> 00:41:36,530 The very brightness of your life up there 863 00:41:36,530 --> 00:41:39,050 will demonstrate just how you've lived down here. 864 00:41:39,490 --> 00:41:42,150 Your life up there is a crystallization of 865 00:41:42,150 --> 00:41:43,210 your life down here. 866 00:41:47,460 --> 00:41:49,280 And if I never said a warning word 867 00:41:49,280 --> 00:41:55,030 to this audience before, I say tonight, God 868 00:41:55,030 --> 00:41:57,470 have mercy upon any man or woman who's 869 00:41:57,470 --> 00:41:59,310 a backslider here in this place tonight. 870 00:42:00,010 --> 00:42:01,830 God bring you to the cross tonight. 871 00:42:02,210 --> 00:42:03,190 God break you. 872 00:42:03,390 --> 00:42:04,530 God smash you. 873 00:42:04,950 --> 00:42:06,010 God cleanse you. 874 00:42:06,290 --> 00:42:07,030 God fill you. 875 00:42:07,170 --> 00:42:09,750 God send you out to live victoriously until 876 00:42:09,750 --> 00:42:10,330 he comes. 877 00:42:12,510 --> 00:42:14,090 And I want to say another thing too. 878 00:42:14,290 --> 00:42:17,110 I want to say this, that your test 879 00:42:17,110 --> 00:42:20,490 of faith, your test of faith concerning the 880 00:42:20,490 --> 00:42:23,030 coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ is 881 00:42:23,030 --> 00:42:24,970 one of the things which will be brought 882 00:42:24,970 --> 00:42:25,610 to account. 883 00:42:26,090 --> 00:42:27,470 There are some of us who are loving 884 00:42:27,470 --> 00:42:28,110 His appearing. 885 00:42:28,570 --> 00:42:30,090 Some of us who are living as if 886 00:42:30,090 --> 00:42:32,850 Jesus might come before this service is over. 887 00:42:33,310 --> 00:42:35,670 And whether or not He comes won't matter. 888 00:42:36,310 --> 00:42:38,530 Jesus Christ is going to judge our faith 889 00:42:38,530 --> 00:42:40,990 in terms of our expectancy of His coming. 890 00:42:43,410 --> 00:42:46,270 But there is another class, and this class 891 00:42:46,270 --> 00:42:49,490 burdens me even more perhaps, it's a class 892 00:42:49,490 --> 00:42:50,690 called the unbeliever. 893 00:42:51,530 --> 00:42:53,830 And I'm telling you my friends, if it's 894 00:42:53,830 --> 00:42:58,870 unspeakable satisfaction for the believer, if it's unutterable 895 00:42:58,870 --> 00:43:02,810 shame for the backslider, it is going to 896 00:43:02,810 --> 00:43:05,410 mean unending separation. 897 00:43:05,910 --> 00:43:07,830 Jesus comes into the air. 898 00:43:09,410 --> 00:43:15,230 The day of grace is closed, is closed. 899 00:43:15,950 --> 00:43:18,670 The next moment will be when He comes 900 00:43:18,670 --> 00:43:23,590 from heaven with His mighty angels, inflaming fire, 901 00:43:23,770 --> 00:43:26,590 taking vengeance on them that know not God, 902 00:43:26,930 --> 00:43:29,030 that obey not the gospel of our Lord 903 00:43:29,030 --> 00:43:34,250 Jesus Christ, who shall be punished with everlasting 904 00:43:34,250 --> 00:43:37,590 destruction from the presence of the Lord. 905 00:43:38,290 --> 00:43:42,690 Oh God, have mercy on every unbelieving soul. 906 00:43:46,590 --> 00:43:50,290 Separation from Christ will mean eternal loss. 907 00:43:51,630 --> 00:43:54,770 Separation from heaven will mean eternal hell. 908 00:43:57,180 --> 00:44:00,720 Separation from your loved ones will mean eternal 909 00:44:00,720 --> 00:44:01,340 loneliness. 910 00:44:02,600 --> 00:44:05,080 A very foolish man came to me one 911 00:44:05,080 --> 00:44:07,640 day and said, Stephen Alford, I'm not afraid 912 00:44:07,640 --> 00:44:08,080 of hell. 913 00:44:08,080 --> 00:44:09,580 I'm not afraid of hell. 914 00:44:09,680 --> 00:44:11,420 There'll be plenty of us down there. 915 00:44:11,700 --> 00:44:16,520 Oh, the doped man, the blinded man, the 916 00:44:16,520 --> 00:44:20,040 foolish man, he didn't realize that heaven's going 917 00:44:20,040 --> 00:44:22,560 to be the loneliest place in the universe. 918 00:44:28,140 --> 00:44:29,900 Don't ask me to explain it. 919 00:44:30,380 --> 00:44:32,920 Don't ask me to try and rationalize it. 920 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,220 Don't ask me to try and pierce the 921 00:44:35,220 --> 00:44:37,980 mystery that all I know is that everything 922 00:44:37,980 --> 00:44:43,300 that can be terrible and horrifying is characteristic 923 00:44:43,300 --> 00:44:44,180 of hell. 924 00:44:47,300 --> 00:44:50,560 And Jesus Christ is coming back again, and 925 00:44:50,560 --> 00:44:53,600 His coming back again means the closing of 926 00:44:53,600 --> 00:44:54,520 the door of mercy. 927 00:44:56,260 --> 00:44:59,200 I beg you, I beg you, I beg 928 00:44:59,200 --> 00:45:02,020 you tonight, if you're out of Christ, I 929 00:45:02,020 --> 00:45:04,220 beg you if you're out of Christ tonight, 930 00:45:04,780 --> 00:45:07,020 oh, get right with God and do it 931 00:45:07,020 --> 00:45:07,440 now. 932 00:45:08,120 --> 00:45:09,680 Get right with God. 933 00:45:09,800 --> 00:45:10,940 He tells you how. 934 00:45:11,500 --> 00:45:14,280 Oh, come to Christ who shed His blood 935 00:45:14,280 --> 00:45:16,700 and at the cross get right with God. 936 00:45:17,780 --> 00:45:18,720 He's coming. 937 00:45:19,860 --> 00:45:22,680 The reality of it is unfashionable. 938 00:45:24,140 --> 00:45:28,220 The rapidity of it is plain and clear 939 00:45:28,220 --> 00:45:29,900 in the word of God. 940 00:45:30,420 --> 00:45:34,500 The results of it are conclusive for the 941 00:45:34,500 --> 00:45:41,280 believer satisfaction, for the backslider shame, for the 942 00:45:41,280 --> 00:45:44,080 unconverted eternal separation. 943 00:45:46,320 --> 00:45:48,120 I'm facing you with a challenge in this 944 00:45:48,120 --> 00:45:48,860 closing moment. 945 00:45:49,720 --> 00:45:53,860 I'm asking, first of all, the backsliding brother, 946 00:45:54,120 --> 00:45:58,000 sister here tonight, will you come to the 947 00:45:58,000 --> 00:45:58,400 cross? 948 00:45:59,640 --> 00:46:00,980 Will you be humbled? 949 00:46:02,060 --> 00:46:04,220 Will you allow your pride to be broken? 950 00:46:05,020 --> 00:46:07,320 Will you get into fellowship with Him again? 951 00:46:08,260 --> 00:46:10,700 Will you start to live the victorious life? 952 00:46:10,900 --> 00:46:11,900 I beg of you. 953 00:46:13,800 --> 00:46:16,200 For the unconverted tonight, may I say there's 954 00:46:16,200 --> 00:46:19,300 only one guarantee for heaven, it's Christ in 955 00:46:19,300 --> 00:46:20,480 you, the hope of glory. 956 00:46:20,940 --> 00:46:22,860 Christ in you, the hope of glory. 957 00:46:23,400 --> 00:46:25,760 Will you come to the cross tonight and 958 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,840 bow low there and having sought the pardon 959 00:46:28,840 --> 00:46:32,300 and forgiveness which the cross provides, will you 960 00:46:32,300 --> 00:46:34,640 ask this Savior, Lord, to come into your 961 00:46:34,640 --> 00:46:35,340 heart and life? 962 00:46:35,640 --> 00:46:36,500 Will you do it now? 963 00:46:36,900 --> 00:46:39,800 Will you do it right now, right now, 964 00:46:39,900 --> 00:46:41,880 in the silence of the next few moments? 965 00:46:42,760 --> 00:46:44,800 Will you get ready for that day when 966 00:46:44,800 --> 00:46:46,500 He shall come? 967 00:46:47,900 --> 00:46:51,100 And He will not parry, for when He 968 00:46:51,100 --> 00:46:54,360 stepped off His throne, it'll be in a 969 00:46:54,360 --> 00:46:58,760 moment, in the twinkling of an eye, at 970 00:46:58,760 --> 00:46:59,980 the blast of the trumpet. 971 00:47:01,690 --> 00:47:08,380 I repeat, coming suddenly, coming soon, coming certainly, 972 00:47:09,040 --> 00:47:10,400 night or noon. 973 00:47:11,200 --> 00:47:15,880 Will you pray, Jesus, I humbly pray, take 974 00:47:15,880 --> 00:47:19,060 all my sin away and keep me till 975 00:47:19,060 --> 00:47:21,380 that day when Thou dost come. 976 00:47:21,700 --> 00:47:23,160 Let us bow together and pray.