Shall we turn in our Bibles, please, to
the first chapter of 2 Peter.
2 Peter, chapter 1.
Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of
Jesus Christ, to them that have obtained life's
precious faith with us, through the righteousness of
God and our Savior Jesus Christ.
Grace and peace be multiplied unto you through
the knowledge of God and of Jesus our
Lord, according as his divine power hath given
unto us all things that pertain unto life
and godliness, through the knowledge of him that
hath called us to glory and virtue, whereby
are given unto us exceeding grace and precious
promises, that by these ye might be partakers
of the divine nature, having escaped the corruption
that is in the world through love.
I'm thinking particularly of verse 4.
Here we have some very extravagant language.
In verse 4, there are not many adjectives
in the Bible.
It's a book which is noticeably absent as
far as adjectives are concerned.
Now, there's a very real reason for that.
The Bible is a book of facts, and
you don't have to have adjectives to adorn
facts.
Facts are facts.
We adorn our language with adjectives.
We seek to make things interesting with adjectives.
We enhance our subject by means of adjectives,
but not the Bible.
The Bible is noticeably short on adjectives, but
not in this verse.
Did you notice them?
"...whereby are given unto us exceeding grace and
precious promises, that by these," these promises, of
course, "...ye might be partakers of the divine
nature, having escaped the corruption that is in
the world through love."
Now, by the means of these great and
precious promises, we become partakers of the divine
nature.
Now, that means that the nature of God
is in me.
That is, I may have his nature, I
may have his life inside of me.
Now, I would like to review some of
these promises.
The Bible is a book of promises.
There are some 8,800 promises in the
Bible.
Now, all of those promises are not made
to you and me.
Part of those promises are made to the
nation of Israel.
A good many of those promises are made
to the nation of Israel, and we're not
Israelites.
But there are many, many promises that are
made to you and to me.
Those promises are just like blank checks with
God's name on it.
Did you ever receive a blank check and
somebody distrusted you to fill in the correct
amount?
I had the privilege once of receiving a
blank check.
I think maybe I have told you about
it.
But we moved to the city of Seattle
a number of years ago, many, many years
ago, as a matter of fact, and we
had to buy a house.
We didn't have much money, not enough to
buy a house, and so I sent a
plea along to my dad down in California.
Dad, I need some money.
I need to buy a house, and I
really don't have the down payment.
Can you lend me some money?
And he did something that nobody else has
ever done.
He sent me a blank check with his
name on the check.
Of course, my name was in the case
of the order of.
He took that precaution that it would not
fall into the wrong hands, but he left
the amount blank.
Now, he says, he gave me an upper
limit.
He says, if you write the text for
more than that, you'll put me in jail.
But here it is.
If you write your own text, that was
what we call a blank check.
Well, I thought the honor that he bestowed
upon me, the trust that he had in
me, to give me a blank check.
Did anybody ever do that for you?
Yes.
God has given you a blank check.
You can fill it in for the amount
that you need.
God has given us all a blank check.
Now, of all the promises that we have
in the Bible, many of them concern salvation.
Many of them concern our daily needs.
Many of them concern our unspoken needs, the
needs of the soul, spiritual needs.
Many of them, of those promises, are in
connection with those spiritual needs.
I wonder if you're acquainted with those promises.
I would like to think tonight, particularly, of
the promises that concern God's salvation.
I wonder if you have ever cashed one
of these blank checks.
Now, I may make bold to say, and
I do make bold to say right now,
that there has never anybody ever been saved.
I'm being real dogmatic.
There has never anybody been saved except they
claimed one of the promises of God.
I mean that.
I got saved through claiming one of the
promises of God.
You will get saved through claiming one of
the promises of God.
That is, if you're not already saved.
But to be saved, you must claim the
promise of God.
Now, one of these promises is eternal life.
What would you give for it?
They say that the Atheist Voltaire, the French
pre-thinker and Atheist Voltaire, who was a
wealthy man, incidentally, and preached against the gospel
all his life, he was on his deathbed,
and he realized that he was going to
die.
And Voltaire said, all of my wealth I
would give for one more hour of life.
But it did not prove a deal with
God.
God took him.
Money amounts to so little.
Eternal life cannot be purchased with money.
It was purchased for you with the precious
blood of the Lord Jesus Christ.
It's yours for the taking.
It's a blank check.
It's a promise.
John 3.16, I think, probably is the
best-known verse in the Bible, and it
goes like this.
For God so loved the world that he
gave his only begotten Son that whosoever believeth
in him should not perish.
That's a promise.
That whosoever believeth in him should not perish,
but have everlasting life.
I'd better say that's a double promise, with
a positive and a negative.
It promises you what you will not receive,
and it promises you what you will receive.
Now, you will not receive judgment.
It is passed for one who puts his
trust in the Lord Jesus Christ.
But on the other hand, you will receive
everlasting life.
That is a positive.
That is a promise.
John 3.16 is a promise.
I suppose that more people have been led
to a saving knowledge of the Lord Jesus
Christ through John 3.16 than any other
single verse in the Bible.
John 5 and 24 is probably next.
Matthew 11 and 28 is probably next, although
I never compile any statistics on these promises.
But they are all promises.
I wonder if we have claimed these promises.
I wonder if you are interested in these
promises.
Now, if I made you a promise that
I would give to you a million dollars,
you would have real reason to doubt whether
I could carry out on that promise.
But of the promises of God, we never
need fear that he will have to renege
or fail on any of those promises.
What God promises, he confirms.
And he promises eternal life to the person
who will believe, who will trust, who will
have the Lord Jesus Christ as his or
her own personal Savior.
Do you want it?
Well, you can have it.
You can have it through accepting it.
That is what you must do with a
promise.
That is what you must do with a
blank check.
You must cash it.
You must claim it.
All of the promises of God, all 8
,800 of those promises, will be absolutely of
no profit to me if I don't claim
them.
If I don't put God to the test.
If I don't make God live up to
his word.
And I can do that.
And you can do that.
You can make God live up to his
word.
Give him the test.
And you'll find out that he means what
he says, and he says what he means.
Now, there is that promise of eternal life
in John 3.16. There is the promise
of eternal life in John 6.47 and
51.
I'm not going to turn to these verses.
And then there is the promise of eternal
life in John 11.25 and 26, where
the Lord Jesus says in that great chapter,
John 11, I am the resurrection and the
life.
He that believeth on me shall never die.
I think I'm misquoting that, and I'm going
to quote it correctly, because I don't want
to mislead anybody.
Here are the words.
I am the resurrection and the life.
He that believeth on me, though he were
dead, yet shall he live.
Now, that's promise.
Dead in trespasses and sins, and yet if
I claim that promise, I'll live and live
forever.
Look at the words.
Jesus said unto her, I am the resurrection
and the life.
Jesus believeth in me, though he were dead,
yet shall he live.
Now, that's his promise.
And whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
never die.
Believest thou this?
Now, think about this for a minute.
He whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall
never die.
Now, I have believed in the Lord Jesus.
I have believed in the Lord Jesus.
Now, does that mean that I'll never die?
No.
It means that I'll never die spiritually.
That's what it means.
Whosoever liveth and believeth in me shall never
die.
Now, I will never die spiritually.
I have been given eternal life through John
3.16, and I will never die in
my soul and in my spirit.
Now, my body will die, but that's not
what the Lord's talking about.
He's talking about the most important thing about
me and the most important thing about you.
Your soul, your precious soul, your precious spirit.
They will live forever.
The body only lives for 70 years, according
to the scriptures, on the average, three score
and ten years.
The possibility is held up that you will
live four score years, but there will be
lots of pain connected with it.
Now, you and I, if we will only
believe in the Lord Jesus, we have got
his promise that we will never die.
I wonder if we have put God to
the test.
I wonder if we have tried enough to
see if he means what he says and
see if he says what he means.
Now, there is the promise of rest in
Matthew 11, verse 28.
Another lovely promise in that eleventh chapter of
Matthew.
Matthew 11, verse 28.
Come unto me, all ye that labor, and
are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest.
Is that a promise?
It is a promise.
You come to me, weary and heavy laden,
and I will give you rest.
Take my yoke upon you, and learn of
me, for I am meek and lowly in
heart, and ye shall find rest unto your
souls.
For my yoke is easy, and my burden
is light.
That is a promise.
You come to me, and you will have
rest.
How can I come to the Lord?
The Lord is up in heaven.
Now, how can this be made good to
me?
Does that mean that this promise concerned the
Lord and concerned his people only as long
as he was here?
No, I don't believe that.
He says, come unto me, all ye that
labor, and are heavy laden, and I will
give you rest.
I think that it applies right now.
I know it applies right now, because I
talked to the Lord through this verse.
I came to him.
Someone can say, we hear the expression, come
to the Lord Jesus.
Come to Christ.
What do we mean?
He's up there in heaven.
I don't know how many millions of miles
away.
Now, I have an open line to heaven.
I can talk to the Lord, and so
can you, incidentally.
He is up there.
Now, to come to him simply means to
talk to him.
If, for instance, you were some distance away
from me, and I wanted to talk with
you, I would have to walk over to
where you are.
I would have to come to you.
Well, now, if I come to the Lord,
it simply means to talk to him.
When the Lord says, come unto me, all
ye that labor, and are heavy laden, and
I will give you rest, it means that
I come to the Lord and tell him,
Lord, I am laboring, I am heavy laden,
heavy laden with a sense of my guilt
and my sin.
I am laboring under discouragement.
I am laboring under the fears and the
misgivings and the unhappiness of this life.
Oh, so many people have to find that
in this life, it isn't exactly what they
thought it to be.
It isn't exactly what they thought it to
be.
They have such hope for the future.
I remember of an experience with a young
lady, a group of us were visiting together,
and this young wife, she had the greatest
desire in the world to get married when
she was a girl, and she could not
wait until she got away from the old
man and got married.
Well, she got married, and there were some
children and some responsibilities came along.
Well, we were talking about this one day,
a group of us, and I said, I
don't understand why some of the young people
are in such a hurry to get married.
I said, those that rush the thing, about
ten years after, they begin to wonder what
the big rush was.
She spoke up and she said, they don't
have to wait for ten years.
She knew what I was talking about.
Now, life is full of disappointment.
Life is full of those blasted dreams.
Things did not turn out.
They were not as rosy as we contemplated.
We were going to build our own utopia,
and it didn't work.
Now, the Lord says, you've got another chance.
You've got another chance for a true utopia,
for something that will last, something that will
live up to all your expectations.
Come unto me, all ye that labor and
are heavy laden, and I will give you
rest.
Rest of heart, rest of soul, satisfaction of
soul is found in the Lord Jesus Christ,
and that's a promise.
And I'll guarantee you one thing, you'll never
be sorry you did.
It is one of the greatest experiences of
life to come to him and to claim
the promises of God, and to know that
he's truthful, and that he doesn't lie, and
he doesn't hold out his promises in one
hand, and then hold something else behind his
back, that you have to consider when you
take his promise.
Not at all.
The Lord means what he says, and says
what he means.
Now, there is a promise of satisfaction that
we find in John chapter 6, and I'd
like to look at this precious, exceeding grace
and precious promise.
John chapter 6, verse
30 of the 6th chapter of John reads
this thusly, and they said therefore unto him,
What sign shallest thou them that we may
see and believe thee?
What doest thou?
Our father did eat manna in the desert,
as it is written, he gave them bread
from heaven to eat.
Then Jesus said unto them, Verily, verily, I
say unto you, Moses gave you not that
bread from heaven, but my father giveth you
the true bread from heaven.
For the bread of God is he which
cometh down from heaven, and giveth life unto
the world.
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give
us this bread.
Now, the Jews require a sign.
The Lord Jesus Christ came into this world
as their Messiah, as that great Deliverer that
they had looked for down through the centuries.
The Jews came to the Lord Jesus one
day, and they said, Now what great thing
are you going to show us to prove
your credentials?
And they said, Now Moses, our fathers did
eat manna in the desert, and I think
they were going to give the credit to
Moses for giving them manna, because the Lord
repudiates that idea immediately.
He says, I say unto you, Moses gave
you not that bread from heaven, but my
father giveth you the true bread from heaven.
Now, what they were saying was this.
Moses was a great leader, but he proved
his credentials by showing us how powerful he
was, and he gave us bread.
Bread to eat in the wilderness, the manna.
That manna lasted for 40 years.
The supply never ran out.
Somebody made the effort to calculate how much
it would require to serve the children of
Israel for a single day.
They calculated that it would take 40 carloads
on a train to take care of the
needs of the children of Israel for one
day.
40 carloads of manna, a whole trainload of
manna.
That kept up day after day, year after
year, for 40 years.
Now, the Jews made the mistake of attributing
this all to Moses.
Moses was a great leader, and look how
he proved it.
Now, how are you going to prove who
you are?
Well, the Lord says, I'll prove it.
I'll prove it.
And he does prove it.
Here's how he does it.
Then when he said, verse 33, For the
bread of God, as he which cometh down
from heaven, and giveth life unto the world.
Then said they unto him, Lord, evermore give
us this bread.
Now, the Lord has led them along now.
Get the picture here.
Get the picture.
The Lord led them along, and he says,
God has got some bread for you, and
if you eat it you'll have everlasting life.
He said, all right, we're ready.
Give it to us.
Okay, he did.
Verse 35 reads, Jesus said unto them, I
am the bread of life.
He that believeth on me, he that cometh
to me shall never hunger, and he that
believeth on me shall never thirst.
There it is.
They were wanting a sign, they were wanting
proof of who he was.
Now, who could say this but the Son
of God?
I can't say it.
Would you attempt to say it?
Listen to the words.
Jesus said unto them, I am the bread
of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger,
and he that believeth on me shall never
thirst.
All right, that's promise, isn't it?
Isn't that a promise?
How about it?
I say it's a promise, don't you?
Jesus said unto them, I am the bread
of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger,
and he that believeth on me shall never
thirst.
Somebody says, that means if you get saved
you never get hungry and you never get
thirsty.
We're not talking about physical things now.
I can get just as hungry as I
ever got before I got saved.
I can get just as thirsty now as
I ever got before I got saved.
I'm proving it.
It means the hunger and the thirst of
the soul.
That part of me that longs.
Now, human desire is seen under the figure
of hunger and thirst in the scriptures.
It's seen under that figure.
Hunger is something that you long for.
How do you feel when you're thirsty?
Do you know when you're thirsty?
Well, I'll say you know.
How do you feel?
How do you know you're thirsty?
Well, you just say, I'm thirsty.
Well, what does it feel like to be
thirsty?
Well, it feels like I want some water.
Oh yes, okay.
But what are your feelings?
Let's get down to the nitty gritty here
and say, what does it feel like when
you're thirsty?
Can you analyze it?
You can't quite put your finger on it,
can you?
I know when I'm thirsty and I know
when I'm hungry.
But I just can't tell you how I
know.
I just know I am.
Human desire is seen under the figure of
hunger and thirst.
Now, my soul has a need to be
filled.
A need to be filled.
My soul gets hungry.
And let me tell you how some people
try to satisfy that soul.
That soul hunger, that soul desire for happiness
in the soul.
They try to satisfy it with pleasure.
They think that if they will go in
for pleasure that they'll be satisfied.
They're never satisfied.
They think that if they go off on
a hunting trip, maybe to Africa, maybe to
Alaska, and go in for adventure, that that
will satisfy the hunger of their souls, that
that will make them happy.
But they go and they come back with
an empty feeling.
I'm reminded of a story just at this
moment that I think I'll tell you.
If I've told you before, don't stop me.
Down at the youth camp in New Mexico,
at Kingston, New Mexico a number of years,
I was there as the speaker at the
camp.
And there were a number, oh there were,
oh there was a great crowd of young
people, high school and college age.
And there were two young Swedish boys that
came to the camp that year by invitation
of one of the counselors.
He met them on the bus.
The counselor was going up to the camp,
and he was taking the bus going up
to the camp.
And he stuck up in a plane for
these two Swedish boys, and he said to
these fellows, he says, what are you doing?
And he said, well we're just traveling around
the country, seeing the country.
It was, of course, in the summertime.
And they said, we just travel until we
get out of money, and then we stop
and we get a job, or maybe send
a hurried call home.
I don't know how they got their money.
But he said, we work for a while,
and then we hit the road again and
we travel.
And this fellow, this counselor said, hey fellow,
he says, I want to tell you something.
I'm going to Bible camp up here in
the mountains, and it's a beautiful spot, and
there'll be a lot of college and high
school young people up there.
Why don't you go with me?
And these fellows looked at one another, and
he said, it won't cost you anything.
And these fellows looked at one another, and
they said, what can we lose?
So up they came.
Now one of these boys was a Christian,
and one was not.
Now I think probably it was a Christian
boy that said, look, this is the opportunity
that I've been waiting for.
And he may have been the one to
put on the pressure to go to the
camp.
I'm not sure about that.
But to the camp they came.
Well, Odin, that was his name, Odin Engelking.
Does that sound Swedish?
Odin Engelking.
Well, Odin was a ping pong player, and
he loved to play ping pong.
And he played, and he was good, incidentally.
He was good.
But do you know, the Lord had a
boy in that camp who was 15 years
old.
Now, Odin was a Minnesota, a University of
Minnesota student.
Odin was a University man.
The Lord arranged to have a 15-year
-old boy at that camp that could play
ping pong.
And he played ping pong with Odin, and
to use a common expression, he beat the
socks off him.
Odin was absolutely deflated to have a 15
-year-old boy with him in ping pong.
But you know, I wasn't doing Odin any
good either, though I didn't realize it.
I was up there telling them what they
could have in Christ, telling them the dangers
of going on without Christ.
We were talking about the Lord, the different
ways in which we could know the Lord.
Odin was listening.
And I didn't realize what was really taking
place during that week at camp.
On Friday night, we had our campfire and
witness meeting.
And a number of the young people got
up and they witnessed, telling what the Lord
had done for them.
And of all people, Odin got up.
And I said, uh-oh, what's coming now?
For he was an exceedingly proud and arrogant
young man.
But Odin said something that made us all
sit up and take notice.
He said, I want to tell you people
at this camp something.
Well, everybody was all ears.
He said, It has been my ambition to
see this world.
It has been my ambition to do exactly
what I wanted to do.
And he said, if I wanted to go
to a place, I went.
And he said, I was invited to this
camp.
He said, however, I must confess to you,
after I had achieved every goal that I
ever sought to achieve in my life, there
was an emptiness inside that asked the question,
well, what next can I do?
What next?
He said, I always had an emptiness inside
of me.
I want to tell you people that that
emptiness was sealed this week at camp.
Say, that sounded pretty good to me.
And I went to Odin after the campfire,
and I said, Odin, I was very interested
in what you had to say.
Odin, you're not a person of religious background,
and you don't use our nomenclature, you don't
use our means of expression.
And I said, that told me a lot.
Odin, I said, I'd like to ask you
a question.
Do you believe that Jesus Christ died on
the cross for you, to take away all
your sins?
And he said, I believe that Jesus died
for me.
And then he got to thinking that that
wasn't as strong as he wanted to put
it.
He said, I know that Jesus Christ died
for me on the cross.
And I said, Odin, would you make bold
to say that you were saved?
He said, I believe I'm saved.
And then he didn't think that sounded strong
enough.
And he said, I know I'm saved.
Well, by then he had dissipated all of
my doubt.
That void in his heart had been filled
at last.
He had been to John 6.35. That's
where he'd been.
And here it is.
Jesus said unto them, I am the bread
of life.
He that cometh to me shall never hunger,
and he that believeth on me shall never
thirst.
But that isn't the whole story.
That was toward the end of the summer,
and he went up to visit an aunt
in Albuquerque.
And it came time to go home to
Minneapolis to enter the University of Minnesota for
the fall session.
As Odin was going to the airport to
board his plane, the car in which he
was riding suffered an accident, and Odin was
killed.
He went into the presence of the Lord.
He had written his mother.
His mother had told his friends about it.
She said, Mother, he says, I have found
God.
That's the way he put it.
I think probably to be more theologically correct,
he would have to say, God has found
me.
But I think everybody understood what he had
to say.
Odin didn't have much time, did he?
Time was running out for Odin, and he
didn't even know it.
But thank God for that testimony.
I'll never forget it.
Odin believed the promise of John 6 and
35.
Odin's heart is filled and will be filled.
His soul will be satisfied for all eternity.
Now, I do believe that if one does
not lay over this promise, that he will
hunger and he will thirst forever.
The Lord is the only one that can
satisfy the human heart.
It has been well said, and I will
take up the word.
God has created the human heart hungry that
he might satisfy the hunger of that heart
with himself.
And he can do it.
He is the only one that can do
it.
People who try to satisfy their hunger with
the pleasures of this life are going to
find an emptiness that Odin so wonderfully explains.
They're going to find an emptiness.
And if that emptiness is not filled, they
shall be empty forever.
Thank God for the testimony of a Christian
counselor that on a bus said, look, fellas,
I'm going to a Bible camp.
Why don't you go along?
If that counselor had not been on that
bus, Odin Engelking would be in hell tonight.
I think of these little details that we
overlook in the matter of our testimony, and
I think of that dear boy, that Christian
counselor that persuaded those young men, and I
thank God for the prayers of his companions
who knew the Lord, and I thank God
for the testimony that Odin knew the Lord
before he went into eternity.
Now, we have the promise of material supply.
You and I have been promised by God
that he will meet our needs.
He is not going to save us and
then let us go on our own resources.
I'd like to turn you to the 8th
chapter of Romans, if you please.
Romans chapter 8.
God just doesn't save us and then say,
look, I extricated you from that horrible mass
of morass of sin.
Now, you go out and see if you
can make something out of yourself.
That isn't the way that the Lord acts.
Many people are afraid to be saved for
fear they can't live up to it.
I'll guarantee that when we trust in the
Lord Jesus Christ, he'll give us the power
to live up to it.
He is the great shepherd of the sheep
as well as the good shepherd of the
sheep, and he can do that.
Now, in Romans 8 and 32 we read
these words.
He that spared not his own son, but
delivered him up for us all, how shall
he not with him also freely give us
all things?
Now, the word shall here makes this verse
a promise.
It makes it a promise.
Shall and will are the words of promise.
This is a promise.
He that spared not his own son, but
delivered him up for us all, that means
up to the cross, how shall he not
with him also freely give us all things?
Freely give us all things.
Now, he has given us the best, but
won't he give us the rest?
If God gave us his son, what is
he going to withhold now?
Our material supply?
Is that more precious to God than his
own dear son?
No.
He gave us his son, and he will
give us the rest.
He may not give it to us in
the abundance that perhaps we think we deserve,
but he'll give it to us in the
abundance that we can stand, that we can
assimilate, the abundance that we can use without
becoming independent of God who gave the blessing.
He will not have us occupied with the
blessing he would have us occupied with the
blessed offering.
So he freely gives us all things, that
which he needs, but he is wise in
his giving.
So we have the promise of material supply.
We have the promise of his presence.
Matthew 28, verse 20.
Think of what this means, the promise of
his presence.
Verse 18 of the 28th chapter of Matthew,
And Jesus came and spake unto them all,
spake unto them, saying, All power is given
unto me in heaven and earth.
Ye therefore increase all nations, baptizing them in
the name of the Father, and of the
Son, and of the Holy Ghost, teaching them
to observe all things whatsoever I have commanded
you.
And lo, I am with you always, even
unto the end of the age, and unto
the end of the world.
Amen.
Now, that's a promise.
Now, Hebrews 13, if you please.
This means that the Lord is my companion
after I get free.
He goes with me, and if I do
not pull my hand out of his and
take my own course, he protects me.
In Hebrews 13, verse 5, we read, Let
your conversation be without covetousness, and be content
with such things as ye have.
For he hath said, I will never leave
thee, nor forsake thee.
So that we may boldly say, The Lord
is my helper, and I will not fear
what man shall do unto me.
Think of having this promise, I will never
leave thee, nor forsake thee.
Now, I'm not a great student, but I'm
told that this word never has a triple
significance.
I've been told that if we read this
verse literally, we'd have to read it this
way.
I will never, never, never leave thee, nor
forsake thee.
That's the promise of the Lord.
When we get saved, he is our constant
companion.
Now, I do not say that we can't
turn our back on him, for we can.
Even as Christians, we can turn our back
on the Lord.
We can get away from the Lord.
We can be occupied with the things of
this world, but he's there.
And he'll shine on our back.
His love will shine on our back.
If it won't on our faith, he loves
us.
And he promises to be with us, to
undertake for us.
So we have the promise of his presence,
we have the promise of his coming.
He has promised that he's not going to
leave us in this world forever.
In John 14, we read these words, And
if I go and prepare a place for
you, I will come again, and receive you
unto myself, that where I am, there ye
may also.
The Lord has promised that he's coming again.
You know, I believe that promise.
I believe that if he came tonight and
shouted that I would be caught up into
the presence of the Lord Jesus, and every
other child of God would be caught away
from this earth.
Now, that means this.
Now, this could happen.
Now, don't get excited.
Well, I'm about to say something that might
upset you, but don't get excited.
I say now that if it's possible...