Let's have a prayer, please.
Can we just bow for a moment in
God's presence in prayer?
Our Father, we bless Thee for Jesus the
Christ, our Saviour, whose blood has cleansed and
washed us and saved us from hell and
damnation and judgment.
We bless Thee for Jesus above all things.
We bless Thee for the Holy Spirit, who
shall not speak of Himself, but His whole
work is to glorify Christ, to conform us
into the image of Christ.
And so we bless Thee that Thy Holy
Spirit, in faithfulness to Thy Word, will come
and make the Word of God living tonight,
though it comes through the bravest and weakest
of men.
We bless Thee for Thy Father heart and
compassion and long-suffering and patience with me
and each one of us whom Thou hast
saved and held and carried in Thine arms
and lifted up countless times when we didn't
deserve it, and in love never given up
on us.
Oh, we love Thee.
Oh, we bless Thee that Thou art our
Father in heaven.
We bless Thee for every one that has
come to this convention.
We bless Thee that they've come in love
with Christ, longing for God to meet with
them afresh.
We bless Thee, dear God, that Thou hast
brought us safely and that Thou wilt in
mercy bring those who are still to come
in safety along the roads.
And to us, prepare all of our hearts
by the Holy Ghost to create in us
a thirst for God, not just to be
touched by God, but to be so radically
transformed that our lives will stagger this world
as we go back in it.
Come, for we ask these things for Thy
glory.
Wash me especially in the blood afresh, the
blood of God, the Son.
Wash me that I might be a vessel
meet for the Master's use, for without the
blood I have nothing nothing to show Thee
as to why Thou wouldst look on such
a man as me.
Oh, God, fill me with the Holy Spirit.
Anoint me, annuncianize, quicken my mind and thoughts,
cleanse the atmosphere with the blood of Christ
from the powers of darkness around this convention,
and all the areas with the angels of
God with swords drawn to do war and
battle against the powers of darkness Thou hast
said we wrestle against and who oppose us.
Oh, our God, have mercy.
Please, God, protect us under the blood now,
for Thy word's sake, not for my sake,
in Jesus, the Christ's name, in Jesus, the
Christ's name, we all unitedly agree and ask
these things of Thee, our Father in heaven.
Amen.
In the beginning, God, in the beginning, God
created the heaven and the earth, and the
earth was without form and void, and darkness,
darkness was upon the face of the deep,
and the Spirit of God moved, moved upon
the face of the waters, and God said,
let there be light, and there was light,
and God saw the light, that it was
good, and God divided the light from the
darkness, and God called the light day, and
the darkness He called night, and the evening
and the morning were the first day, and
God said, let there be a firmament in
the midst of the waters, and let it
divide the waters from the waters, and God
made the firmament and divided the waters which
are under the firmament from the waters which
are above the firmament, and it was so,
and God called the firmament heaven, and the
evening and the morning were the second day,
and God said, let the waters under the
heaven be gathered together, let the waters under
the heaven be gathered together unto one place,
and let the dry land appear, let the
dry land appear, and it was so, and
God called the dry land earth, and God
called the dry land earth, and the waters
called His seas, and God saw that it
was good, and God said, let the earth
bring forth grass, let the earth bring forth
grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit
tree yielding fruit, after His kind, whose seed
is in itself upon the earth, and it
was so, it was so, and the earth
brought forth grass, and herb yielding seed after
His kind, and the tree yielding fruit, whose
seed was in itself upon the earth after
His kind, and God saw that it was
good, and the evening and the morning, the
evening and the morning were the third day,
and God said, and God said, let there
be light in the firmament of the heaven,
let there be lights in the firmament of
the heaven to divide the day from the
night, and let them be for signs, and
for seasons, and for days and years, and
let them be for lights in the firmament
of the heaven to give light upon the
earth, and it was so, it was so,
and God made two great lights, the greater
light to rule the day, and the lesser
light to rule the night, He made the
stars also, and God set them in the
firmament of the heaven to give light upon
the earth, and to rule over the day
and over the night, and to divide the
light from the darkness, and God saw that
it was good, God saw that it was
good, and the evening and the morning were
the fourth day, and God said, God said,
let the waters, let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature, the moving creature that
had life and fowl that may fly above
the earth in the open firmament of heaven,
and God created great whales, and every living
creature which the waters brought forth abundantly after
their kind, and every winged fowl after his
kind, and God saw that it was good,
and God blessed them saying, be fruitful and
multiply, and fill the waters in the seas,
and let fowl multiply in the earth, let
fowl multiply in the earth, and the evening
and the morning were the fifth day, and
God said, and God said, let the earth,
let the earth bring forth the living creature,
let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle and creeping thing, and
beasts of the earth after his kind, and
it was so, and God made the beast
of the earth after his kind, and cattle
after their kind, and everything that creepeth upon
the earth after his kind, and God saw
that it was good, God saw that it
was good, and God said, and God said,
let us make man in our image,
after our likeness, and let them have dominion
over the fish of the sea, and over
the fowl of the air, and over the
cattle, and over all the earth, and over
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth,
so God created man in his own image,
in the image of God, in the image
of God created he him, male and female,
created he them, and God blessed them, and
God said unto them, be fruitful, and multiply,
and replenish the earth, and subdue it, and
have dominion over the fish of the sea,
and over the fowl of the air, and
over every living thing that moves upon the
air, and God said, behold, behold, I have
given you every herb bearing seed, which is
upon the face of all the earth, and
every tree in the which is the fruit
of a tree yielding seed, to you it
shall be for meat, and to every beast
of the earth, and to every fowl of
the air, and to everything that creepeth upon
the earth wherein there is life, I have
given every green herb for meat, and it
was so, and God saw everything, everything that
he had made, and behold, it was very
good, it was very good, and the evening
and the morning were the sixth day, the
sixth day, and in the beginning, God
created, created, created the heaven and
the earth, the earth, verse six, and God
said, let there be a firmament, let there
be a firmament in the midst of the
waters.
Now, beloved, the earth is surrounded by layers
of gases, each layer having its own unique
composition, but mainly composed of nitrogen and oxygen,
and held in position, held in place by
gravitational attraction.
Now, this atmosphere protects the earth from harmful
radiation and absorbs the sun's energy, maintaining an
average surface temperature of fourteen degrees centigrade, verse
six, and God said, let there be a
firmament in the midst of the waters.
Verse nine, and God said, let the waters
under the heaven be gathered together unto one
place, and let the dry land appear.
Now, beloved, seventy percent of the earth's surface
is covered by water, seventy percent of the
earth's surface is covered by water, submerged, submerged
mainly beneath four huge oceans known as the
Pacific, the Atlantic, the Indian, and the Arctic
oceans.
The Pacific is so vast that it covers
one-third of the earth's surface, one-third
of the earth's surface, the Atlantic one-fifth,
the Indian one-seventh.
God said, let the waters under the heaven
be gathered together unto one place, and let
the dry land appear.
Let the dry land, land covers approximately thirty
percent of the earth's surface, divided into seven
land masses called continents, known as Asia, Africa,
North America, South America, Antarctica, Europe, and Australasia.
Now, the Antarctica contains ninety percent of the
earth's ice.
It's the earth's coldest continent.
Ten percent of the earth's surface is ice,
and ninety percent of that is at the
earth's south pole, known as Antarctica.
The Antarctica is roughly the size of Europe
as a continent, but it is covered by
a two-kilometer-thick sheet of ice, two
-kilometer-thick sheet of ice, reaching at its
center of the continent four-point-five kilometers
in thickness, from the highest peak, from the
highest peak on land, which is Mount Everest.
In the Himalayas of Asia, twenty-nine thousand
and twenty-eight feet above sea level, twenty
-nine thousand and twenty-eight feet above sea
level, reaching down to the lowest spot on
earth, beneath the seas on the seabed, known
as the Mariana Trench.
West of the Philippines, thirty-five thousand eight
hundred feet below sea level, to the lowest
basin on land, four hundred meters below sea
level, at the Dead Sea in Jordan, in
Israel.
Oh, verse six, and God said, God said,
let there be a firmament, let there be
a firmament in the midst of the waters.
Verse nine, and God said, let the waters
under the heaven be gathered together onto one
place, and let the dry land appear, let
the dry land appear.
Verse eleven, and God said, let the earth
bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and
the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind.
There are approximately two hundred and fifty thousand
species of vegetation on the earth.
They say the species of the species make
it three hundred and fifty thousand species, but
I would say uniquely, a species two hundred
and fifty thousand.
Isn't that precious?
Not just one to look over and say,
beauty, in one word.
God created two hundred and fifty thousand species
of vegetation and plant.
Oh, hallelujah, and God said, let the earth
bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and
the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind,
whose seed is in itself upon the earth.
Verse fourteen, and God said, let there be
lights in the firmament of the heaven, let
there be lights in the firmament of the
heaven, let there be lights, lights in the
firmament of the heaven to divide the day
from the night.
Verse sixteen, and God made two great lights,
the greater light to rule the day, and
the lesser light to rule the night.
He made the stars also.
Oh, beloved, this universe is beyond all human
comprehension.
It baffles the scientists.
You want to know why?
God takes you at your best, human, and
makes you baffled at his greatness.
Oh, unable to comprehend, let alone act authoritative,
because you've got a telescope now.
Oh, no, this universe is beyond all human
comprehension.
There's an unknown amount of galaxies, unknown.
They can't find the end of the next
galaxy, and here they find another one.
Galaxies, each containing a vast amount of stars,
similar to our sun in our galaxy.
In our galaxy, the solar system, our sun
is 109 times the size of the earth,
109 times the size of our earth.
It is a huge ball of gas, mainly
composed of hydrogen, infusing helium to create energy
and light and heat reaching into our galaxy,
into all parts of our galaxy.
It's beyond comprehension that God could have this
sun created around our sun, called the solar
system.
There are nine planets orbiting, I suppose you
could call it, but each having its own
unique orbit that doesn't make sense in many
ways.
But it's amazing, the orbit of these all
around what we call our galaxy, our solar
system, that which revolves around our sun in
their own unique orbits.
They say there's a tenth planet now.
I believe them.
XANA, X-A-N-A, discovered about two
years ago, they've called it XANA.
But that's now making it ten planets, and
they'll probably discover more as they get a
little bit more wisdom how to look deeper
into God's universe.
But of these planets, there is Mercury, Venus,
Earth, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, and Pluto.
Saturn is 1,300 times the size of
our earth.
Now that's beyond comprehension.
1,300 times the size of our earth.
That's nothing, by the way, just to divert
for a moment.
They found in further galaxies, and this is
no exaggeration, they found it, that there's a
planet they called, a star, sorry, they call
Antares, A-N-T-A-R-E-S.
It is 64 million times the size of
our sun.
They don't doubt it, nor do I.
Why should I?
God can do anything, and he did.
This is nothing.
64 million times the size of our sun.
They found in a further galaxy, a star
they call Hercules, which is 100 million times
the size of Antares.
They're still trying to work out how that's
possible, how to even comprehend it, let alone
put it down in writing.
Oh, God is great.
His greatness has to be beyond all comprehension,
because otherwise, if we can explain God, but
he's not God.
He has to be beyond all human comprehension.
He has to leave men baffled, but enthralled,
because they can't deny this has happened.
It must be a creator.
Oh, in our galaxy, in our solar system,
going around with these 10 planets orbiting, there's
also comets, such as the famous Halley's comet.
Every 76 years, its orbit, which takes 76
years in the solar system, it comes the
closest to the Earth.
1986 was the last time it happened, and
you see this amazing ice, this ball of
ice, shooting across space.
Amazing.
Comets.
There's comets.
There's asteroids.
These huge mountains of rock, a few hundred
kilometers in width, just shooting through space, mainly
found between Mars and Jupiter, between the orbits
of Mars and Jupiter.
These huge mountains of rocks.
Oh, God is beyond comprehension of what he
did in one word, in one word, and
man tries to put him in a box.
Oh, how could you?
How could your mind try?
Oh, beloved, beloved, it's precious to see God's
hand in everything he lets man just catch
a glimpse of, to see the greatness of
our God, the sovereignty, the awe of a
creator such as ours.
God said, let there be lights in the
fervent of the heaven.
Verse 14, verse 16, and God made two
great lights.
The greater light to rule the day, that's
the sun.
The lesser light to rule the night, that's
our moon, a quarter the size of the
Earth's diameter.
There are 61 moons in the solar system,
our galaxy, the Milky Way.
Many of these planets have a number of
moons.
We have one, but there's 61 altogether in
our solar system.
Verse 24, and God said, and God said,
let the waters, let the waters bring forth
abundantly the moving creature that hath life.
Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving
creature that hath life and fowl that may
fly above the earth in the open firmament
of heaven.
There are 24,000 known species of fish.
Oh, of course, there's so many living things
in the sea, but a fish is something
with a backbone and a skeleton, otherwise it's
not a fish.
24,000 species of fish known to man.
Oh, that is precious.
God said, in one word, let the waters
bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath
life and fowl that may fly above the
earth in the open firmament of heaven.
There's 9,000 species of birds, known living
species of birds, 9,000 approximately.
Oh, verse 24, verse 24, and God said,
God said, let the earth bring forth the
living creature.
Let the earth bring forth the living creature
after his kind, cattle and creeping thing and
beast of the earth after his kind.
Now, beloved, there's approximately one million species of
animals that are on record, one million unique
species of animals known to man, one million.
There's 4,215, 4,250 species of mammals,
known species, living species today.
There is 6,000 species of reptiles.
There is 950,000 species of insects, 950
,000 in one word.
In one word, you can argue against it
till doomsday and say it's not possible, or
you can say God can do anything beyond
our comprehension and believe it without any doubt,
which I do with all my heart.
God is so great.
Hallelujah.
Oh, verse 26, and God said, let us
make man.
I love that verse.
Obviously, God, the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit,
the triune God, the trinity is from verse
one right through the Bible, by the way,
Elohim.
In the beginning, God, Elohim, plural.
They still can't work out why God put
the word plural.
It's not single.
It has to be more than one.
And the spirit of God, two verses later,
capital S, the second person of the third
person of the trinity.
Let us, verse 26, make man.
Oh, in our image, that to me is
beyond comprehension, but I believe it.
After our likeness, when we shall see him,
John says, we shall be like him.
We shall see him face to face.
I believe that.
I can't comprehend it, but I believe it.
Let them have dominion over the fish of
the sea, over the fowl of the air,
of the cattle, over all the earth, of
every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
God said, let us make man.
For all this, man was now made.
For all this, for this, he made.
Don't doubt it for me and you to
love God, to live in awe of every
petal, of the fact of life in vegetation.
There was nothing God didn't make to make
you and me love him and live in
awe and reverence of him and worship for
fear.
Oh, God created man in his own image.
Psalm 19, verse 1, the heavens declare the
glory of God, don't they?
The heavens declare to the world, there's a
God.
Oh, you're a fool if you can't see
it.
Forgive me, I can't say you're a fool,
but God says, the heavens declare to you
and me there has to be God.
This couldn't have happened by mistake or by
spasms and sparks, you know, goodness me.
The heavens declare the glory of God and
the firmament showeth, showeth his handiwork.
Psalm 14, verse 1, the fool hath said
in his heart, there is no God.
Romans 1, verse 20, for the invisible things
of him, the invisible things of him from
the creation of the world are clearly seen
being understood by the things that are made,
even his eternal power and Godhead, so that
they are without excuse, Paul says.
You have no excuse, sir.
You will be judged with such judgment that
you allowed it to reach from some intellectual
persuasion to your heart.
Professing themselves to be wise, they became fools,
God says, not me.
God forbid the day will come that I
can't say what God says, but it might
come soon, so let me say it now,
what God says, and loud and clear to
you all.
No matter what your persuasion right now, please
consider what God says about you, if you
can't see his handiwork.
Psalm 8, verse 3, when I consider thy
heavens, the work of thy fingers, the moon,
and the stars which thou hast attained, what
is man, what is man that thou art
mindful of him, and the son of man
that thou visitest him?
Oh, wonder of wonders, beloved.
This God of all creation is mindful of
me.
He thinks about me, he has thoughts of
me, he thinks of me, and would visit
me, he would meet with me, God says.
It's beyond comprehension.
Just as God looked upon this planet, beloved,
just as God looked upon this earth when
it was without form and void and darkness,
was upon the face of the deep, and
the Spirit of God moved upon the face
of the waters, and God said, let there
be light, and there was light, so with
me.
God looked upon me in my darkened estate,
in my lost estate, when I was lost
and without hope or knowledge of what it's
all about, confusion and spiritual darkness, I had
no idea what it was all for.
Just as God looked upon me, void, meaningless
of my life, lost in spiritual darkness pervading
my whole being, God in compassion by the
Holy Spirit moved upon me, upon my darkened
estate, and God cried upon my heart, let
there be light, and there was light, beloved,
there was light, hallelujah.
Oh, listen to God's account of my Genesis
chapter 1.
At least I believe, I embrace it that
way, no matter how many doctrinal geniuses might
tell me, look, this was about Israel, but
listen, this was not history, everything was written
for me and you, for God's ramus to
reach and say what it's all about in
his heart, nothing was history, it's the living
Word of God.
Now listen to God's Genesis of me in
Ezekiel 16 verse 4, and as for thy
nativity, in the day thou wast born, none
I pitied thee to do any of these
unto thee, but thou wast cast out in
the open field to the loathing of thy
person in the day that thou wast born,
and when I passed by thee and saw
thee polluted in thine own blood, I said
unto thee, when thou wast in thy blood,
live, live, yea, I said unto thee, when
thou wast in thy blood, live.
God moved upon my darkened estate, and God
reached out and cried out, let there be
light to this darkened heart, and there was
light.
God saw me lost, and God reached out
and embraced my life and made me his
own, and I was born again by the
Spirit of God, spiritually, not physically.
Now that left me in my darkened estate,
but now I had to become God's creation.
If any man be in Christ, he's a
new creation, is the literal word, not creature.
All things have passed away, all things have
become new, and all things are of God
that you really saved, nothing from me apart
from my yielding to his known will and
word.
Oh beloved, it took a miracle to put
the stars in space, it took a miracle
to hang this world in place, but when
he saved my soul, cleansed it, and made
me whole, it took a miracle of love
and grace, just as
God's word, spoken word, as he spoke, light
was given where there was darkness, just as
God's spoken word brought light, light that pervaded
the darkness, so God's written word brought light
to my heart.
It's as powerful as the word that was
spoken in the creation to create light now
to darkened hearts.
The letter killeth, but the Spirit, the same
Holy Spirit that moved upon the face of
the waters and said, let there be light.
This Spirit gives life to the letter that
killeth, the Spirit gives light.
The written word now reaching out to me
by the Holy Spirit's revelation and illumination to
my heart through it, brings light to darkness,
spiritually, brings life.
Let there be light.
He called us to come out of darkness
into his marvelous light, and I did.
I yielded, believing, and now I faith in
the word of God, for faith cometh by
hearing, and hearing by the word of God
brought light and salvation, eternal life to my
heart.
Jesus said, I am the light of the
world.
The darkened spiritual darkness he's talking of, listen
to John, listen to this amazing John.
John 1 verse 1, in the beginning, that's
wonderful that he uses those words.
You think he wasn't thinking of Genesis 1?
In the beginning was the word, capital W,
that's a person, and the word was with
God, and the word was God.
The same was in the beginning with God.
All things were made by him, and without
him was not anything made that was made.
In him was life, and the life was
the light of men, and the light shineth
in darkness, and the darkness comprehended it not.
There was a man sent from God whose
name was John.
The same came for a witness, to bear
witness of the light, that all men through
him might believe.
He was not that light, but was sent
to bear witness of that light.
That was the true light, every man that
cometh into the world.
He was in the world, and the world
was made by him, and the world knew
him not.
He came unto his own, and his own
received him not.
But as many as received him, to them
gave he the power to become the sons
of God.
Even to them that believe on his name
were born, not of blood, nor of the
will of man, nor of the will of
the flesh, nor of the will of man,
but of God.
And the word, capital W, was made flesh.
Hallelujah.
And dwelt among us.
He beheld his glory, the glory as of
the only begotten of the Father, full of
grace and truth.
Great is the mystery of godliness.
God was manifest in the flesh.
Hallelujah.
To save my soul and yours.
And that amazing revelation to the word of
God wrought faith, wrought light.
As I read from this book, as I
heard it being preached, the written word being
illuminated, that he was wounded for my transgressions.
He was bruised for our iniquities.
The testament of our peace was upon him
with his stripes.
We are healed.
All we, like sheep, have gone astray.
We have turned every one to his own
way, and the Lord has laid on him
the iniquity of us all.
God so loved the world, he gave his
only begotten son, that whosoever believeth in him
could not perish, but have everlasting life.
Hallelujah.
Everlasting life through Christ.
But wait now, beloved.
Just as God did not finish his work
on this earth, when God came in the
void and chaotic state of the world, when
it was without form or void, and God
moved upon the darkness, and God wrought light,
and God brought order from the chaos of
that moment by his Holy Spirit, just as
God did that.
You must take note, that wasn't the end.
God went on clothing, clothing in tenderness, clothing
in love, bringing out beauty and perfection and
awe that's beyond comprehension, just as God went
on to perfect this earth.
So, when God came and lightened my heart,
when God came and wrought light and salvation,
and I was born of God, that was
just the beginning.
That wasn't the end.
God has to go on and to perfect
me, and he will perfect that which he
began a work in, God says.
He will conform me more and more into
the image of Christ.
It doesn't all happen in one moment.
Oh, that's why Peter says in 2 Peter
1 verse 4, whereby, are given unto us
exceeding great and precious promises.
You see, it's the Holy Spirit again, the
Word that continues to clothe us, that continues
to perfect us as we apply, as we
yield to light that God gives more and
more.
For the path of the justice is a
shining light that shineth more and more unto
the perfect day.
It isn't all in one moment.
More comes through God's Word, God's Holy Spirit,
revolution, revelation coming through this holy book.
Oh, just as God wrought perfection, oh, on
and on, next, next, mighty, a miracle beyond
comprehension change in the perfection of the earth,
so in my heart, whereby are given unto
us exceeding great and precious promises that by
these he might be partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the corruption that is in
the world through lust.
Now, that's a wonderful testimony, but that's not
the end.
That's just the beginning, because the next verse
says, and beside this, beside being made a
partaker of the divine nature and escaping the
corruption, that you are partakers of the divine
nature, that's just the beginning.
Beside this, giving all diligence add to your
faith virtue, unto virtue knowledge, unto knowledge temperance,
that means self-control, unto temperance patience, that
means steadfast, unto patience godliness, unto godliness brotherly
kindness, unto brotherly kindness love.
For if these things be in you and
abound, they make you that ye shall neither
be barren nor unfruitful in the knowledge of
our Lord Jesus Christ, but he that lacketh
these things is blind and cannot see afar
off, and hath forgotten that he was purged
from his old sins.
Wherefore, there are the brethren, give diligence to
make your calling and election sure, for if
ye do these things ye shall never fall.
For so an entrance shall be ministered unto
you abundantly into the everlasting kingdom of our
Lord and Savior Jesus Christ.
Don't think it ends there, friend, when God
saves you at the beginning of what he
expects you to let his word do, as
faith brings more light and you yield to
it and become more and more by the
word and the spirit of God through his
word, conformed into the image of Christ to
perfection.
For this is what is in his heart
before the foundation of the world, in spite
of what he knew evil would do to
bring men back if they of their own
free will would respond to his sovereign grace.
Work that out, to those of you that
know what I'm saying, but praise the Lord
it's true.
And then there's something strange to consider about
the earth.
There's a time this earth will pass away,
God says.
The whole universe, in one amazing moment of
a word from God will create the door.
God will let every single thing be devoured
in the most terrifying, awesome language the Bible
can give, that we can catch a glimpse
and fear what's coming, and it could happen
tonight.
Well, don't you think that's possible?
Oh, beloved, listen, just as this earth must
cease, must be destroyed, so you and I
are going to be.
This mortal must put on immortality, it has
to be.
We don't live forever on this earth, thank
God.
As beautiful as is the fall has made
it, that there has to be.
Oh, we cannot endure this fertility, please don't
let that be so.
Thank God this mortal must be destroyed to
put on immortality, Corinthians tells me.
This is the earth, Revelation 21 verse 1.
John says, and I saw a new heaven,
and a new earth, 2 Peter 3 verse
10.
But the day of the Lord will be
as a thief in the night.
No one, no one knows the moment, not
even the angels, just God the Father.
The day in which the heavens shall pass
away with great noise, and the elements to
melt with fervent heat the earth also, and
the works therein shall be burned up, seeing
then that all these things shall be dissolved.
What manner of persons ought ye to be
in all holy conversation and godliness, God asks
you and me.
Seeing then that all these things shall be
dissolved, what manner of persons ought ye to
be in all holy conversation and godliness?
Oh, because you and I, brother, like the
earth, like the heavens must be destroyed, must
leave this mortal to put on immortality, we
must.
The whole creation groans and travails, Paul tells
us in Romans, longing for the redemption of
the body.
Shall they all set the prisoners of the
earth free, God says.
That's all we are until God delivers us.
We also within ourselves grow within ourselves, waiting
for the adoption, that is the redemption of
the body through Christ.
There's a moment of deliverance from this earth.
There's a moment this earth will be delivered
from all the devil did, and the universe
will be devoured, and the elements shall melt,
and we, beloved, must be godly, conscious that
this is coming, this is coming soon, this
is coming soon.
And he shall appear, we shall be like
him, for we shall see him as he
is, and every man that hath this hope
in him purifieth himself, even as he is
pure.
Now that's beyond my understanding doctrinally, but that's
God's word.
There's something in us, seeing then that all
these things shall be dissolved.
What manner of persons ought ye to be
in all holy conversation, that means living and
godliness.
Oh beloved, beloved, I hope your whole
being cries out, cries out, let me be
in all holiness, godly living, godly living in
conversation, when thou disappear.
Now little children, abide in him, that when
he shall appear we may have confidence, and
not be ashamed before him that is coming.
Don't tell me that's a doctrinal statement, that's
just the word of God, forgive me for
quoting it.
Can we stand please?
Can you bow your heads please?
Father in mercy, help every one of us
to endeavor as never before, to worship God,
to be perfect worshippers of God, not to
bypass the flowers because we're strong men, but
to look at that because God made it
for me, to see in everything that which
makes me worship God himself, for his greatness,
and that in his greatness he stooped to
me, to save my soul, that I can
walk like Enoch with God, and be like
Abraham, the friend of God, and like David,
a man after God's own heart, and like
Daniel, greatly beloved, greatly beloved, like
John, a disciple whom Jesus loved.
Oh God help us, for all thy greatness
that has reached our hearts, to walk with
God in worship and wonder, keeping ourselves pure,
keeping ourselves unspotted from the world, and abiding
in him, that when he shall appear we
may have confidence, and not be ashamed before
him it is coming.
Come God, and let all these scriptures work
faith, and carefulness, and wonder, and worship in
our hearts, in a way we've never known
before in our lives, that the word of
God shall not return unto thee void, even
the words we consider tonight.
Let them accomplish the purpose for which they
were sent for us, take what's left of
this convention, and make it holy.
Visit us, let thy thoughts that thou dost
have toward us, thy longings for us to
be thine, and to be absolutely surrendered, and
felt controlled by God the Holy Ghost, and
to walk with God.
Let these things happen to such a depth
in every one of our lives, as we
yield to God, as we come in this
building thirsting for God.
Keep us safe tonight in this convention center.
From all the powers of darkness, keep us
under the blood of Christ.
Hedge us in like that is hedge, jobbing
that Satan couldn't get near him.
Please God, come and protect us by the
risen resurrected power of Christ, and the Holy
Spirit brewed upon this place, and draw us
closer to God.
Come, bless us in our quiet times, alone
with Jesus.
The most precious moment of life each day
is to be alone with Jesus, otherwise we
miss the mark totally every day.
Help us to have a good time with
Jesus.
Help us to have peaceful sleep.
Help us to come tomorrow morning with thirst,
and longing, and joy, at the consciousness that
God wants to mold me more into his
image, and light, and life.
Come help the preachers.
Help my darling wife, as she speaks and
addresses the ladies, and the girls.
Give that which she has prepared herself for
months, and a lifetime, and share it through
her, in a way that everyone that hears
her speak will never be able to be
the same.
Their consciences won't allow them.
Give her liberty, and let us all sense
the presence of God, as she ministers, those
who gather to hear her.
And my son Roy, as he ministers to
the men, and the boys.
Come anoint his young life, and speak to
the depth of every heart, in the most
precious way, that will be of eternal value.
Not just to stir us for a moment.
Please God, anoint him, prepare him, and visit
through him.
And our fellowship, let it be sweet, through
tomorrow.
Tomorrow night, dear God, visit us.
And everyone that comes on these grounds, don't
let them come with a wrong atmosphere, a
wrong spirit.
Let them come, conscious that all of us
are just throbbing in our love for Christ,
and our longing to be all he wants
to do.
Come, let them be conscious of that, and
let them join in.
In seeking God with all the heart.
Come, visit us tomorrow night.
Visit us, that we may never, ever recover.
Only God can do that.
No man shall we look away from men.
Our expectation is in thee, and thee only.
But we want it.
We want it with a pure motive, for
no glory of man or movements of churches.
Just for Jesus Christ's smile, it is all
we live for.
Nothing else.
Come do these things for thy glory.
Strengthen those who are weary, like brother Don
and Vicky, sister Vicky and their children, and
brother Randy Kaufman, his wife and children, and
everyone else, Lord.
Everyone involved in their organizing, the love, the
tenderness of the meals, and the preparation of
the hall, and the flowers, and everything that's
everywhere, must have taken effort and time.
Strengthen them, touch their bodies, their minds, and
lift them up, and honor them.
Honor them.
Honor them God, because they seek all these
things for God's glory.
We all ask these things in the name
that we love, and that we live for.
In the name we would gladly die for.
In the name of Jesus, our Savior, and
dearest friend, Amen.