Participants: Ron Halvorsen
Series Code: OTR
Program Code: OTR000864
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01:00 It's been great to be in Oklahoma.
01:03 You know, what I like about you people? 01:06 You're down to earth, you're real, 01:10 I like real people. Amen. 01:12 I'm down to earth. I hope, I'm every time 01:16 I get up and have the privilege to preach 01:19 and, and stand up here I, I always think 01:23 about those two men that went to the bar in, 01:26 in Oklahoma. And they, they were 01:32 drinking and, and they got you know, 01:34 a little four sheets to the wind and 01:39 inebriated and they were walking 01:41 backwards midnight and they had to go 01:43 over a little bridge into the village and 01:46 there was a river running under the 01:48 bridge and as they got to the top of the 01:49 bridge one of the drunks leaned over 01:52 they saw the moon shinning up from there. 01:56 Called the other man over he said, 01:58 is that the moon down there? 02:02 The drunk shook his head, he said then 02:03 what are we doing up here? 02:06 I feel like that sometimes, I really do. 02:09 It's only by the miraculous grace of 02:11 God and, and you know, everything 02:13 I have I owe to Jesus Christ and, and. 02:18 What an honor and privilege it's been to 02:19 preach these many years. I held my first evangelist 02:22 crusade in a bookie joint in Brooklyn. 02:25 It was just about two months after my 02:27 conversion and I couldn't really read yet. 02:30 And I was almost 17 years old, but 02:33 I couldn't read or write. And so my mother, 02:38 you remember the 20th century, this is 02:40 the commercial, this not the sermon, 02:41 but remember the 20th century some of you 02:44 old folks the 20th century Bible class, 02:46 you know, the film strips. Remember those film strips. 02:51 Well, they gave a, the film strips to, to hold 02:53 this meeting and I couldn't make sense of it. 02:57 So, my momma, I went to my mother 03:00 she wasn't converted, Christian and I said, 03:04 momma could you help me? 03:05 And my mother agree to help me and, 03:08 and by her helping me get ready for my 03:10 Evangelistic Meeting. In fact I preach the 03:12 first night on David in the Lion's Den. 03:18 Really, I'm always talking about this 03:19 David and how he was in a Lion's Den. 03:22 And David never got near a Lion's Den, 03:24 but, but I preach with such enthusiasm and 03:27 conviction the whole neighborhood thought 03:28 the Bible had been written wrong in that section. 03:30 So, but, but my momma she helped 03:34 me and it was through that the first person 03:38 I let to Christ was my mother. Amen. 03:41 My dear mother passed away just three 03:43 years ago and faithful to the today she 03:47 passed away and I look forward to see her. 03:51 My daddy was an abusive drunk. 03:56 I mean a really abusive drunk until 04:00 he found Christ and I led him to Christ. 04:03 He became a deacon in his church; he was 04:05 faithful to God to the day he died. 04:07 Thank for God that, what do we have, 04:09 what we owe Jesus Christ? 04:12 To spend eternity with my father and 04:14 mother, in my youth I could hardly stand 04:16 my father and mother. And now we're gonna 04:18 spend all eternity with my father and mother. 04:20 And I'm looking forward to it. 04:23 So, we have a lot to be grateful to. 04:26 So, quit having two poles negative and negative. 04:32 You get it? Some people have two poles 04:34 negative and negative. Have one positive and 04:38 spark because God has done so many 04:40 good things for you, you should I mean 04:42 you should fly back to your tent, back to 04:44 where you're staying, I mean your feet 04:46 should hardly touch the earth. 04:49 I thank God; I thank God for this week. 04:51 I'm sorry that I through some curves 04:53 at our recorders because they've been 04:55 printing labels and printing labels and 04:57 printing labels and I get up and I change 04:59 the subject, and change the subject 05:01 and, and so their, their profits are going 05:04 down I'm so sorry for that, but tonight 05:06 I'm staying with it. There is a sigh of 05:09 relief back there. The snapshot of Jesus 05:13 Christ, the unique coming King. 05:19 And so, let's bow our heads in a word of prayer. 05:22 Father God, which art in heaven, 05:23 I thank you for the grace of Christ, 05:27 speak through your word to us, advent 05:29 believers, I ask it in Christ name, amen. 05:39 This great Bible which I hold in 05:41 reverence and by the way my friend 05:43 I believe in the whole word of God, 05:45 I believe it's the infallible word of God. 05:47 I believe that God of, of Genesis is the same 05:49 God of Revelation and. But this is equal 05:52 inspired by God, that every story in it's 05:55 pages has something to say to us, 05:59 something to do for us that we should uphold 06:03 the word of God always, in everything we do, 06:06 but this book I hold in my hand and I hold in 06:09 my head and I hold in my heart. 06:11 This book ends in the Revelation. 06:15 It is called by the way the Apocalypse, 06:18 the Revelation not of the beast, 06:20 the Revelation not of the Mark of the Beast, 06:23 the Revelation not of the dragon, it is the 06:27 Revelation of Jesus Christ. 06:32 And now the old man from Patmos, 06:34 he speaks about this hope that is found in 06:37 his book, every page ends in hope, every 06:39 chapter ends in hope. This is not a doom 06:42 and gloom book. Many times we make 06:44 it out to be a doom and gloom book. 06:46 And we get to people so deep into 06:48 prophecy, so deep into things that we 06:50 hardly understand that we missed the real 06:53 simple meaning, is that in this Chaotic 06:55 age, in this world of turmoil, there is a 06:57 calm and loving savior by the name of Jesus Christ. 07:02 And He is the hope; He is the hope of all 07:07 ages. John, the old man from Patmos. 07:11 Remember he was in prison in Patmos 07:13 because they tried to boil him in the oil, 07:15 and, and, and the emperor couldn't 07:16 make a french fry of him. And so they got, 07:18 he got so nervous about this, he send 07:20 him out to Patmos, he figured he get rid 07:22 of him, but on Patmos the old man almost a 07:26 hundred years old catches a vision of the 07:31 man slain, a vision of the glory of God. 07:35 And the old man is pen dipped into red 07:37 blood ink of Calvary, he drops his new 07:39 found faith like golden pollen from 07:41 stems of shaking lilies, and they 07:43 sweeten the lives of men in every age Paul, 07:46 I mean John writes this Revelation. 07:48 The Revelation and then he finishes the 07:50 book at Ephesus where he dies. 07:55 This is the climax of history; this is the 07:59 coming of Jesus Christ, this is where 08:02 He ends His book, not with sadness, 08:05 but with or crying, but with singing and rejoicing. 08:10 He ends not with emptiness, but fullness. 08:12 He ends not with death, but He ends 08:15 with life everlasting, everlasting and eternal. 08:18 The beginning of a new and glorious 08:20 world, the event, the second coming of 08:22 Jesus Christ is the greatest 08:24 event of all history. I mean John introduces 08:27 us to the second coming with these words. 08:31 "And I Behold, he cometh with the 08:33 clouds, every eye shall see him, 08:36 and they also that pierced him. 08:38 And all the kindreds of the earth shall 08:40 wail because of Him. Even so, amen." 08:44 Revelation 1:7, here John describes this 08:48 event as a majestic event, it is a 08:52 magnificent event. I mean it is majestic 08:55 parade with banners flying 08:57 and trumpets blaring, sound of mighty huff 09:00 beats across the heavens. This is the final 09:04 coronation of the Lord Jesus Christ. 09:06 And by the way the second coming of 09:07 Christ is not casual or an unimportant 09:10 event in the list of other events. 09:13 It is the climax of all that is gone before, 09:16 everything we believe about Christ, the Crib, 09:18 the incarnation of the son of God. 09:20 The cross and our salvation, finds it's 09:23 satisfaction in the coronation of Jesus 09:26 and the great return of Christ 09:28 to redeem His people. The event is one event 09:32 not one of many events, or not one of 09:35 two events. There are not two second 09:37 comings, there is one second coming. 09:40 And listen to me, why would it be a secret event? 09:44 It is an open event. Why would it be a, 09:46 a King doesn't coming to his kingdom 09:49 quietly, he doesn't sneak into his 09:51 kingdom, he comes with a parade. 09:53 I mean he comes with power and glory with 09:56 the trumpets blaring, and the soldiers 09:58 marching, the 10,000.10,000 angels 10:02 singing across to heavens. And the power of 10:05 their last trumpet waking the death. 10:07 The coming of Jesus Christ, listen to me, 10:10 the coming of Jesus Christ is visible, 10:13 the coming of Jesus Christ is audible, 10:15 the coming of Jesus Christ is literal. 10:18 Now, let's look at that together this evening, 10:20 because there's much confusion concerning 10:23 the second coming of Jesus Christ. 10:25 In fact, one of the great attacks by the 10:27 evangelical world, one of the great 10:29 attacks by those who claim to be believers 10:32 in God and God's word. Attack Jesus at His 10:35 second coming. They misinterpret 10:38 the second coming that great event, 10:40 they misinterpret it and they make 10:42 it a secret event. Now, that's not new 10:45 at the first coming of Jesus Christ, 10:47 the believers, the so called believes of that 10:49 day, the Pharisees and Sadducees 10:51 misinterpreted the first advent of Jesus. 10:54 And so they didn't find Him at Bethlehem 10:57 because they were looking for a majestic event. 10:59 And now those in the last days will be 11:01 deceived because they're 11:03 looking for a secret event. 11:06 But the coming of Christ, the Bible says, 11:11 the coming of Jesus Christ is visible, every 11:15 eye shall see Him. Behold, he cometh 11:18 with clouds, behold that mean see him, 11:21 and every eye shall see him. 11:24 It does not say a select few will see 11:26 him come, it doesn't say just the righteous 11:28 will see Him come, it doesn't say that the 11:31 righteous man driving along the car will be 11:33 taken away because he will see, 11:35 it says, every eye which 11:39 shall behold him, every eye they even 11:42 which pierced him that doesn't sound like 11:44 the righteous only that will see Jesus coming 11:46 the second time. The coming of Jesus, 11:49 the righteous will see Him. 11:50 And the Bible tells us that even the wicked 11:52 will see Him. Revelation 1 verse 7, 11:55 the Bible says, notice in the Bible, 11:57 "For as the lightning cometh out of the 11:59 east, and shineth even to the west; so shall 12:01 also the coming of the Son of man be." 12:04 Listen to me friend; the coming of Jesus 12:06 Christ is visible. So, every eye will see Him, 12:09 if you and I was standing out here on 12:11 the porch, it was late at night and all of a 12:14 sudden a storm came and the lightening 12:16 flashed against the heaven. The righteous would 12:18 see Him, the saved would see Him, 12:21 but if there were any unsaved there on the 12:23 porch, they too would see the lightening. 12:26 Well, the Bible says that as Jesus comes, 12:28 He comes with lightening, or He 12:30 comes visibly to every eye. 12:33 The coming of Jesus Christ is visible. 12:36 We believe that we've always believed that, 12:38 we will always believe that. 12:39 People say to me Ron; we have changed, 12:41 you know the doctrines are still the same. 12:43 What I learned as a young teenage boy in 12:46 Brooklyn, I still hear to this very day, 12:49 this very hour, it has not, no one has 12:52 shaken my faith in the visible return of 12:54 Christ to the earth. I'm going to see Him 12:57 with these eyes, can you say amen to God tonight? 12:59 Amen. Coming of Jesus is visible, 13:03 but listen to me friend. "And they shall see 13:07 the Son of man coming in the clouds 13:09 of heaven with power and with great glory." 13:14 Matthew 24 and verse 30. 13:19 The Bible says, that Jesus is coming back 13:22 visibly, every eye will see Him. 13:24 Secondly, the Bible tells us that the 13:27 coming of Jesus Christ will be audible. 13:30 Matthew 24 verse 31 notice what the 13:33 scripture says, "And he shall send 13:35 his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, 13:37 and they shall gather together his elect 13:39 from the four winds, from one end of 13:41 heaven to the other." So, majestic is the 13:44 trumpet sound, it will role back the graves 13:46 of those who have died in Christ. 13:48 The graves will gave up their 13:50 dead to the glory of Christ. 13:54 My grandmother came from Norway, 13:59 by the way she came with her husband and 14:02 five children, she was pregnant for my 14:04 father and my father happened to be born 14:06 in Brooklyn instead of Norway. 14:09 And we felt sorry for him ever since. 14:14 My grandma and grandpa was here a 14:16 short time, my grandfather was a 14:18 ship builder. He was working on a mast 14:21 of a ship in Brooklyn he fell off the mast 14:23 and he was killed. And this little lady 14:25 had to raise six children. 14:29 She was a wonderful godly Christian, 14:33 never once kept the Sabbath that I know of, 14:35 but she was a faithful Sunday keeper, 14:38 she was faithful to the cause of Christ. 14:41 The only Christ that I knew as a child 14:44 was my grandmother's Christ. 14:47 She would every now and then ask my 14:49 mother, if she could take the children 14:50 to Sunday school. And she would bring 14:52 me to that little Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran 14:54 Church, and she would send me in. 14:56 And she would be waiting at the end of 14:58 Sunday school and I would come out and 15:00 she would have a piece of candy for me. 15:02 I know some of you shiver at that. 15:06 That's alright with me, when I get to 15:09 heaven I'm gonna have a snicker bar 15:10 tree, you can have all the avocado trees you want. 15:19 And my little grandma she sent me and you know, 15:23 all Norwegians we go to Lutheran Church 15:25 and, and, and I would been baptized as a 15:27 baby and, and that didn't take in when 15:30 I was twelve years old, my mother had 15:31 me confirmed and baptized and you 15:33 know, I, I learned as a, but I didn't know Christ. 15:36 I believe, I could, I could repeat the creme, 15:39 I still cannot believe in God, the father 15:41 almighty, maker of heaven and earth, 15:42 Jesus Christ his only begotten son of Lord 15:44 can see the holy ghost, born of virgin 15:45 Mary, sentenced by Pontius Pilate, 15:47 crucified, dead and buried, sent to hell. 15:48 Third day rose again, there sitteth on the 15:50 right hand of God the Father almighty. 15:51 I believe in the holy Christian Church, 15:53 community saints forgive the sin, 15:54 resurrection the body life everlasting, amen. 15:57 But I didn't know Christ, my little 16:00 grandma when I was getting into trouble 16:02 she would say good boy. Isn't it amazing how 16:04 grandmothers can say good boys, 16:08 if you can see a good boy and you're a bad boy, 16:10 don't you think God can see good in your bad boy. 16:16 And grandma she used to sing these 16:20 little Norwegian hymns and she served Christ. 16:26 She would have been a great Seventh-day 16:27 Adventist, but no Seventh-day Adventist 16:29 visit her, no Seventh-day Adventist 16:30 shared faith with her. I mean so she was 16:33 faithful to what she knew. But my grandmother 16:36 was stricken by paralysis, she had a stroke. 16:40 And she lay for 10 years, half her body 16:44 paralyzed, but I remember one thing 16:46 about my grandma, she had half a smile 16:48 on her face always. My momma took care 16:52 as long as she could and then she had to 16:54 put her in the, in the County Nursing 16:58 Home, or a County Hospital 17:01 and I remember when I was a gang banger, 17:03 black leather jacket, skull blood, switch 17:05 blade in my pocket then I think of grandma, 17:07 I used to get on a, a bus and then subway 17:09 then I take a subway for two hours and 17:11 then I have to take another bus and, 17:13 transfer to another bus and four hours later 17:15 I get to the hospital. And I walked in that 17:19 big room and there were many beds of all 17:21 people just wasting away and, and 17:23 I would come up and she would have half 17:24 a smile on her face. And when she saw me she said, 17:33 good boy, good boy. My grandmother 17:37 never knew me as a believer, 17:41 as a Christian. So, I can't wait when 17:45 the trumpet sounds and the graves give 17:48 up the death. And that little Norwegian 17:51 woman sees me standing on the streets 17:53 of gold then she says, Ronny good boy. 17:57 Good boy, and I can introduce to the 18:00 other tens of thousands of people 18:03 that I have had the privilege to lead to 18:05 Christ and to show them that little 18:08 Norwegian that was faithful to God. 18:13 The trumpet shall sound, I hope I'm in 18:17 Brooklyn when the trumpet sounds 18:21 for the death in Christ shall rise. 18:23 That's what the Bible says from four winds 18:25 from one end to heaven, the Lord 18:26 himself shall descend from heaven with a 18:28 shout, that doesn't sound secret to me, 18:30 that doesn't sound like a, a secret event, 18:33 it's a mighty event, it's a glorious the voice of 18:36 an Archangel, I mean with the trumpet of 18:39 God, if I blew the trumpet in this room 18:41 every ear would hear him. 18:47 Then the death in Christ shall, how can 18:51 that be a secret events, you're walking 18:53 by the cemetery boom and there comes the death. 18:56 Let me tell you, you would know it was 18:58 happening. Amen. You would know it 19:01 was happening. The Bible says, 19:06 the coming of Jesus Christ is literal, 19:08 coming of Jesus Christ is audible, 19:10 third the coming of Jesus Christ is literal. 19:13 Let me tell you what the Bible says in Acts, 19:15 the Bible tells us, "And when he had 19:16 spoken these things, while they beheld, 19:18 he was taken up; and a cloud received him 19:20 out of their sight. And while they looked 19:22 steadfastly toward heaven, he went up, 19:24 behold, two men stood by them in 19:26 white apparel; Which also said, 19:28 Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing 19:30 up into heaven? This same Jesus, 19:32 which is taken up from you into heaven, 19:34 shall so come in like manner as ye have 19:36 seen him go into heaven." This same Jesus, this 19:40 same Jesus that touch lame legs and then 19:43 stood and walked and Praise God. 19:45 This same Jesus that came and touched 19:47 blind Bartimaeus his eyes and he saw the 19:49 face of a savior and was called to discipleship. 19:52 This same Jesus it took, the baby in his 19:55 arms, and beat that heart into life again, 19:58 and gave it back to a grieving mother. 20:00 This same Jesus had walked on water and 20:02 stilled the storm. This same Jesus said, 20:05 Father forgive them for they know not 20:07 what they do. This same Jesus will 20:10 come in like a manner as you have seen him 20:12 go into heaven. A literal Christ not 20:15 some kind of operation, not come 20:17 some kind of Casper the ghost, but a real Jesus. 20:23 A literal Jesus, but the point is 20:29 "Be Ready" you hear me. The point is, be ready, 20:35 readiness is the all important matter. 20:38 My text taken from the Book of Hebrews, 20:41 tenth chapter, "Cast not therefore your 20:43 confidence, which hath great 20:45 recompense of reward. For ye have need of 20:47 patience, that, after ye have done the will of 20:50 God, ye might receive the promise. 20:52 And yet a little while, and he that shall come 20:54 will come, and will not tarry." 21:00 This evening we must come to grips with that. 21:04 We must look at it. Get our minds around it 21:10 and respond to it's final appeal. 21:14 We have to be more than advent believers, 21:19 we have to be advent livers and live for the 21:24 coming of Jesus Christ. Every time the 21:25 coming of Christ is mention in scripture, 21:27 it chooses the basis of a creator to say to his 21:31 created prepare to meet God. 21:34 Every message that comes from our lips, 21:37 every article we write, every song we sing 21:41 must be in the context of preparing people 21:44 for the coming of God, that's the 21:46 responsibility of every preacher behind a poppet. 21:48 That's a responsibility of every elder who 21:50 sits on the platform, to every deaconess 21:53 that folds the communion cloth, 21:55 to every deaconess that ministers to the 21:56 poor, and every deacon minister to the widow. 21:59 Let me tell you we are to live in perceptual 22:02 readiness for the coming of Jesus Christ. 22:04 Prepare to meet God. 22:08 This Camp Meeting is for one purpose alone. 22:12 Not to entertain you for ten nights or nine 22:15 nights or whatever nights, but rather to 22:18 prepare you for the coming of Jesus 22:21 Christ to meet God. The purpose of 22:24 all administration, the purpose of the 22:26 conference, the purpose of the churches is for 22:29 the one purpose and that's to prepare to meet God. 22:32 Instinctively man has always believed that 22:34 they would be a show down, that there 22:36 would be some kind of meeting with God. 22:38 I talked to secular people. 22:41 I talk to people who say they only believe 22:43 in kind of a God, Nebulas kind of thing 22:46 you know, he is out there and the great 22:48 alpha, the great you know, I mean. 22:54 But yet they have a belief that there's 22:59 going to be a meeting with God, 23:03 ready to welcome, but a meeting. 23:07 Two days before the trial of Jesus Christ, 23:09 the crucifixion of our Lord, his disciples 23:11 asked Him about the second coming of 23:13 Jesus Christ. He asked, they asked 23:15 him the ultimate question about the 23:17 ultimate reunion with God. Now, you must understand 23:21 and consider the fact that Jesus told them 23:23 that he was going up to Jerusalem to die. 23:27 That he kept reminding them, 23:28 I've got to go to my death. 23:30 And so they were losing him. 23:37 And so they wanted to know what his 23:40 returned would be like, because it's 23:44 sorrowful to say goodbye with the idea 23:48 that someone is coming again, 23:51 but it's worse to say goodbye 23:54 and know the person who never return again. 23:58 But they knew that he would come again. 24:04 When shall these things happen he said? 24:08 And what shall be a sign of thy return, 24:10 the end of the world? The end time, I mean 24:13 they wanted to know, no what the end of 24:15 human world, the end of human heartache, 24:17 the end of human fear, the end of 24:18 human pain, the end of human death and sorrow. 24:21 The answer was a 94-verse resume, 24:25 check up on me, 94-verse resume of 24:30 the signs that proceed the coming of Jesus 24:32 Christ and it ends, it's starts in chapter 24 24:35 and it ends in chapter 25 with the 24:38 story of the ten virgins. 24:43 Now, those signs are general signs and 24:46 there are specific signs, but the hub of 24:50 the whole matter, the hub of the whole 24:52 passage is the fact of Matthew 24 verse 44, 24:57 listen to it. Therefore be ye also what? 25:00 Come on, therefore be ye also, ready. 25:03 "For in such an hour as ye think not the 25:05 Son of man cometh." That is the 25:08 hub of the whole treatise. 25:13 Readiness is as the key and it occur 25:16 several times in the New Testament 25:18 scripture, example Peter says, he stands 25:21 ready to pass judgment on the 25:22 living and the dead. Example, James says 25:24 the judge standeth at the door in the grand 25:27 finale, the final act, the glorious appearing 25:30 of the Lord Jesus Christ. 25:31 And again I read all things are ready. 25:41 So, near is the coming of Christ I can almost 25:44 hear the huff beats in the heavens, 25:50 so closes is the coming of Jesus Christ. 25:53 And we are to live with perpetual readiness. 25:57 I have got to admit to you, I'm not a sign watcher. 26:02 I spend the day looking at Jesus, 26:08 building a relationship with Jesus, because 26:11 I know that when he comes I'll be first to 26:14 know 'cause I'll be ready for his return. 26:20 Some people are thinking, if the signs 26:22 tell me the closer it is then the more I'm 26:25 gonna be ready, don't fool yourself. 26:31 You have opportunity tonight to be ready. 26:35 Go home back to your tent, go back to your 26:37 place you stay, to be ready. 26:39 You have the privilege of waking 26:41 up in the morning ready, you have the 26:44 privilege of sitting down at breakfast, 26:46 I eat breakfast ready, dinner, ready. 26:55 I'm in my boat, I'm ready. 26:59 I'm climbing a mountain, I'm ready. 27:02 I go to bed at night, I'm ready, 27:05 because I have a perpetual relationship 27:07 with Jesus Christ that's what we need, 27:09 that's what the pastor here, Phil has been 27:11 telling as about the fruits of the spirit. 27:16 Joy and we walk alone. 27:21 Hello, I'm a Seventh -day Adventist, 27:23 so I don't want to become that, 27:27 it's that bad. Now, remember BC 27:31 before Christ used go to movie and the 27:34 coming attractions, remember. 27:37 I mean they always showed you the, 27:39 the fight scene and love scene and 27:44 speed scene and, and you used to look at 27:46 that and say, wow! If the coming attractions 27:49 are anything like the movie, 27:51 I want to see the movie. You see, you should 27:53 be a coming attraction. Your church should 27:57 be the coming attraction, so they say, 27:59 wow! That church is hot, I mean hey that 28:02 believer, I mean there's something 28:04 about him in his walk and what he said, 28:06 look at the smile, if that's the coming 28:08 attraction, I want to be there for the main feature. 28:12 Amen. Come on now, amen. 28:14 I want to be there for the main feature, 28:18 coming of Jesus Christ. 28:21 It's perpetual readiness that's the meaning by 28:23 the way, the heavenly bridegroom, 28:25 the ten virgins. Listen they all were 28:28 alike, right, they did, they ate soybeans 28:33 just like you. Well, I don't know, but 28:35 anyway they did all those things, 28:39 they went to Sabbath school just like you do. 28:44 They said their prayers, but they 28:47 lacked one thing. By the way, if you look 28:50 at that it says their lamp was going out, 28:56 in the original Greek. In other words, 28:59 everyone had oil, but some just had 29:01 a little bit of oil. And what was happening 29:03 when the time came the oil ran out, 29:06 so they run to get and 29:08 buy oil, it's too late sinner. 29:12 Adventists it's too late when the Sunday law comes. 29:15 Adventists it's too late be you ready from 29:20 such an hour. Now, there are four things 29:24 evident, in the reading of the passage. 29:27 The coming of Jesus Christ one is 29:29 imperative. Listen to me carefully; 29:33 the coming of Jesus Christ is immutable. 29:37 The coming of Christ is Emmanuel and the 29:41 coming of Christ is imminent. 29:44 First the coming of Christ is imperative. 29:47 Jesus needs to come. 29:51 I don't know if you recognize how 29:52 terrifying, how scary it is out there. 29:55 Millions are facing, I mean the future with 29:59 trepidation and fear. I wish you could visit 30:03 me in some of the neighborhoods. 30:06 I was in San Bernardino, boom, 30:08 I'm ducking behind cars. 30:14 Big gang bangers bouncing along their 30:16 cars you know, those big loud music 30:19 blaring away and there I'm, it's dangerous out there. 30:26 It's imperative I mean, Jesus needs to come. 30:31 You heard about the policeman driving 30:33 across the Brooklyn bridge I might have 30:34 told you to ready, but I can tell it again, 30:35 it's better with the telling. 30:40 And he's driving across the Brooklyn 30:41 Bridge and upon the super structure of the 30:43 Brooklyn Bridge there is a man about ready 30:45 to jump into this river. And the policeman 30:48 sees it he pulls the patrol car over, 30:50 he jumps and he says, stop mister, wait, 30:53 don't do it. He starts climbing up and the 30:57 man says, I'm gonna jump. 30:58 He says, no don't jump, he says stay 31:01 back there. You take another step 31:03 I'm gonna jump. And so the man stops 31:05 the policeman, he says, oh, he says, 31:06 no, no don't jump life is worth living. 31:10 He says, no life is worth, I'm gonna 31:12 jump into the east river. 31:17 The cop's thinking what I can do to 31:18 persuade this. So, he says, wait, wait 31:20 before you jump, you give me ten minutes 31:26 to tell you why life is worth living. 31:29 And then I will give you ten minutes to 31:31 tell me why it's not, and at the end 31:33 you can jump. So, the policeman trying 31:36 to think of all those good things he was 31:38 telling about family, about job, about he 31:40 was telling about the beautiful 31:42 Brooklyn Bridge and about the 31:44 privilege of living in Brooklyn. 31:52 And he was talking about the green grass; 31:56 there's a little bit there, the one tree that 31:58 grows in Brooklyn. He was talking about 32:02 sunsets and about children and, and 32:05 everything that's beautiful and he 32:07 finished, exhausted. And then he said; 32:11 now you tell me why it's not worth living. 32:15 And he started to, I lost my job, 32:18 I lost my family. And he went on and 32:21 on and told about the crime and the 32:23 corruption and the hassle that he, 32:26 I mean everybody mean and, 32:31 after ten minutes they grasped hands and 32:34 they both jumped, they both jumped. 32:43 Listen to me, there's not much good 32:44 you can say about it. There are a number 32:47 of malignant forces opposing the kingdom 32:52 of God and His word. Think of it, we 32:58 entered last century on horse back. 33:02 We just left the century in SUV's. 33:08 We lost influenza and outhouses, thank God. 33:15 And lanterns, we left with wrist watches 33:19 and atomic weapons and a lot of weight, some of us. 33:26 We arrived in a century, steeped in 33:28 agriculture, working the fields, we left it in 33:31 laboratory working the computer. 33:35 We arrived money poor in that century 33:39 and we left money rich. We entered spiritually 33:43 rich and we left spiritually poor. 33:50 Judgment is at the door, if we've 33:53 conquered anything; it's time we entered 33:55 the 20th century with life expectancy of 33:58 43.3 years in America. We're living it with 34:03 the life expectancy of 80. Now, that sounds like 34:06 a lot until you're almost 70. 34:14 If we've conquered anything it's time 24 34:16 hour news cast, fast food, instant cash, 34:20 ATM machines, your grandmother would 34:22 turn over in a grave. See, cell phones, 34:29 fax machines, all things to unshackle 34:33 us, give us more time for leisure. 34:38 How about it? Do you have more free time? 34:43 I wish I did. I run faster I get further 34:47 behind, is that I mean. I spend more time 34:52 doing and getting less done. 34:54 Have you noticed that? The older you get, 34:56 have you noticed that? Wake up in the 34:58 morning went to home before 35:01 I know it's time to go to bed. 35:04 And so, what did I do today, what did 35:06 I accomplish today? Well, I was gonna do 35:08 that, I was gonna do that, well all will wait 35:10 till tomorrow, by the time three 35:11 weeks are up, I finally get to it. 35:17 I mean, technology has made life easier, 35:22 has it. These forces seized upon science 35:26 and technology is prime tools for the 35:28 expiration conquest of the soul. 35:30 Lays of particle beams, I mean that is 35:32 our century. We're not talking about you know, 35:35 outer space malarkey, we're talking about 35:37 here and now, I mean biological and 35:39 chemical weapons, high tech surveillance. 35:42 By the way you think you can run to the 35:43 country and hide in time of persecution. 35:46 I'm gonna be in the city, it be harder for 35:48 them to find me in the crowd, then to find 35:50 you out in the corn field. 35:53 They have surveillance now, they can tell the 35:55 size of the person whether it's male or 35:57 female from the heavens. Listen to me, you can 36:00 hide except under the wings of the almighty, 36:03 amen. Amen. Except under the wings of the 36:06 almighty. I, I get on my computer I, I, I took 36:09 my son's address in therein, bub, bub, 36:11 bub, bub, bub, bub I get in the satellite it 36:13 go, bup, bup, bup, bup, bup, I'm 36:15 seeing if he's behaving himself. 36:20 I'm watching him, my little grandson went 36:23 to, he went to France, or college there to 36:27 study french and, so I found him, bup, bup, 36:30 bup, bup, bup, I told him, he just called 36:33 me, I said watch out, I'm watching you, 36:36 behave. Kid now looks to the heavens, 36:39 when he walks out of the dorm 36:41 and when you talk about it. 36:44 Genetic engineering, robotics, the conflict 36:48 in the Middle East, the death of a planet 36:51 we called earth. Just think of a world 36:52 of technology hi-tech, the age of hi-tech is 36:55 arrived with magnum forth, computers, 36:57 listen to me, my little computer, boom. 37:01 This little thing here, I have more than just 37:08 a Britannica or an encyclopedia, 37:11 Britannica I can put in here. 37:13 I got commentaries in here; I got all the 37:15 writings of Ellen White in here. 37:17 I mean like a bup, bup, bup, I, I have an 37:20 Afro cam that I got to Africa every morning 37:24 when I wake up and I go to the water hole 37:26 and I watch the animals coming. 37:28 Come on, technology, let me tell you, 37:35 robots they said soon we'll have robots as 37:38 companions even sex partners, can you 37:41 believe it? It's imperative Jesus 37:44 Christ cuts it short and comes. Amen. 37:47 Bowing God out, bowing man in, 37:49 there is no limit to our perversion, in the area 37:51 of robotics; there is a material now similar 37:53 to human flesh just like it. 37:58 There is now organic brain that's 38:00 what I need, organic brain. 38:06 They already have biological computer 38:07 chips, units and this is not science fiction 38:10 malarkey, it is reality, talking about artificial 38:13 eyes, artificial noses that distinguishes 38:16 dozen of flowers smells. 38:21 I can't smell a flower and tell what it is? 38:23 I can't even look at a flower and tell what it is? 38:26 I can't even plant a flower and it grows. 38:29 I'm sorry, I got the, I don't have 38:32 the green thought. But can you imagine 38:34 a computer? Bridge Valley, passed head 38:38 of Harvard seven member team of 38:40 research have successful clowned a molecule, 38:42 listen which, which triggers the growth of 38:45 body cells, the generation of organs. 38:49 It's imperative Jesus cuts it short and comes. 38:52 In the Hebrew University in Jerusalem, listen to me. 38:56 Bio-technologists have also been 38:58 successful in another realm, they have 39:00 successful manipulated DNA chemicals to 39:03 change aged mouse cells into young mouse cells. 39:10 Fourteen day cells into four day cells. 39:14 Listen, courtesy of technology, 39:16 immortality. It's imperative Jesus 39:22 comes, violent crime over a million in our 39:26 prisons in America, I tell you listen it's 39:28 imperative Jesus comes. He comes and he 39:31 comes quickly. I, I, I want to get back to 39:34 this, I get going and here we go. 39:36 Coming of Jesus is imperative, lets 39:38 review it, coming of Jesus is immutable, 39:40 I get preaching Emmanuel, it is 39:42 imminent, I want you to understand that, 39:44 it's imperative of the Jesus Christ comes. 39:47 "But thou, O Daniel, shut up the words, 39:48 and seal the book, even to the what? 39:50 Time of the end: many shall run to and 39:52 fro, and knowledge shall be increased." 39:53 There is not one generation in history 39:55 that's been like our generation, 39:58 with the increase of knowledge. 40:00 Jesus is coming soon. H.G. Wells said, 40:03 "We are the end of our rope, everything 40:05 we call life is close at hand." 40:07 I mean that's not some wild eyed 40:10 evangelist talking. Now, listen to me 40:12 Albert Einstein, "In the end, there beckons 40:15 more and more clearly general 40:16 annihilation." That's what he look 40:18 forward to. It's imperative Jesus comes. 40:23 Former Chancellor Chicago University, 40:24 by the way where they developed the 40:26 atomic bomb. "I cannot see any 40:28 future to our known world." 40:32 The former President of Columbia University 40:34 said, "The end cannot be far distant." 40:37 They are scientist; they see what the 40:40 futures hopes. They say, it's happening, 40:42 there is gonna be an end. No hell fire and brimstone 40:47 preacher here, all the forward moving 40:50 technology has no, has not helped society 40:53 a little bit. We're going backwards, 40:55 the explosion of single parent families, 40:57 listen to me, the declining influence 40:59 of religion in our homes. And even in Christian 41:01 homes, I'm appalled. And what's happening 41:05 to our children. I'm appalled that we 41:09 spend seminar after seminar after seminar 41:13 talking about all these things and 41:14 yet we're losing our children. 41:16 I guess it's easy to talk about vegan 41:27 then it is son or daughter and easy to 41:32 control our own life. And the lives of those 41:38 we love the most. Jesus Christ must come. 41:43 Drugs, sex, immorality, listen to me, it's a 41:47 pull, what you said this morning preacher 41:49 is so true. Pleasing immorality and it's 41:54 not the men any long, the women it's a disgrace. 41:59 Foul mouth sitting swirling beer, 42:02 Budweiser commercials. Listen to me; 42:07 we've lost the sense of shame. 42:10 Filthy mouths, unbridled thoughts 42:13 and tongues, talk trash and wonder why their 42:15 life is trash. Amen. Our greatest challenge 42:19 is not conquering disease of poverty, 42:22 but our own personal weaknesses. 42:25 We've met the enemy and it's us. 42:30 The clock is about to strike midnight 42:33 and we're not ready for the coming, 42:35 but secondly the coming of Jesus is 42:36 immutable. It means it's changeless, 42:38 it never changes. It never changes, 42:43 it's immutable. The Bible tells us, 42:45 "That by two immutable things, 42:46 in which it was impossible for God 42:48 to lie, we have, we might have a strong 42:50 consolation, who have fled for the refuge to 42:53 lay hold upon God." Hebrews 6, saint Paul 42:58 was certain of one thing, that was the 42:59 second coming of Jesus Christ. 43:01 He says, which hope we have as a what? 43:03 Anchor to the soul. Second coming of 43:10 Jesus Christ. When I was a young preacher, 43:12 I used to like to debate this things, 43:15 I like to look for the fight to debate. 43:19 Ministers, I want to debate them, hey you 43:20 don't win anybody in a debate by the way, 43:24 but I like just to like to do it, but once I 43:26 was invited to a seminary, the seminar 43:30 at a seminary, an Episcopal seminary, 43:33 I was a young preacher full of fire. 43:35 I mean I was excited in those days. 43:41 I was enthusiastic in those days? 43:44 And so I was invited to this seminary and 43:48 so since I had a course at the seminary 43:50 on apologetics I knew you know, 43:52 how to answer this stuff. And so I went 43:57 and I stood up in this sophisticated 43:59 seminary, Big Ivy League seminary, 44:03 Episcopalian seminary, high church, I crawled 44:05 up in this high poppet looked out and I was 44:08 so excited. I talked about the Bible being 44:10 inspired word of God, it's God breathe, 44:12 it's come from the breath of God. 44:14 We can't mutilate it, we can't change it. 44:16 It will be forever. I stood upon the word 44:20 that it's not some kind of thermometer 44:22 inspiration, some more inspired than 44:24 others and try to explain it away with 44:26 intellect and higher criticism, and lower 44:28 criticism, I spoke in the terms of Christ 44:31 and he said, all scripture is given by 44:34 inspiration of God, it's profitable for 44:37 doctrine, for the proof, for correction, 44:40 for instruction and righteousness that 44:41 holy men of God maybe perfect fully 44:43 finished unto all good work. Amen. 44:48 I was just getting rolling, talk about the Gospel. 44:54 And how that we're saved by grace 44:55 through faith in Christ. And let me tell you 44:58 that is fundamental in Adventist belief. 45:02 If you try to get the heaven any other way, 45:04 you don't understand, you're not an Adventist. 45:10 If you think Jesus just paid pot down 45:12 payment on your house, you're mistaken. 45:16 You just enjoy the house, do you hear me? 45:18 Just live in the house. And you'll want to 45:22 keep it up. Right, come on, that's what 45:25 the preacher said this morning, 45:27 you're gonna want to keep, you're gonna 45:29 want to clean the widows. 45:38 And so I stood and I talked about those 45:39 great themes, the great judgment, 45:41 hey listen to me, you don't have to be a 45:43 rocket scientist to understand the 45:45 pre-judgment, if you're having a 45:47 trouble with the pre-judgment it's 45:48 your head is mixed up. I was inject, hey listen 45:51 to me. Even as a criminal I understood 45:54 pre-judgment. They got the facts 45:58 together before I went to trial, take a rock, 46:01 don't take a Theologian. If man knows that 46:04 enough then you stand before, then 46:06 you stand, you sit in court and 46:08 they bring the facts. And then they say, 46:12 hey bud you're guilty, boom. 46:17 What's so difficult about that and so 46:19 I stood, I told them about the great 46:21 judgment not only fact how God told us 46:24 the exact time just as he told the exact time 46:26 of the baptism, the crucifixion and the 46:28 Gospel to the gentile world. 46:29 You don't have to be a rocket scientist. 46:34 By the way you don't have to be so 46:35 intelligent, if intelligence is the 46:37 criteria then only the smart would go to heaven. 46:43 If riches was the criteria then only the 46:44 rich would go to heaven. And so I told of those 46:49 wonderful things we believe in. 46:51 And then I saved the best for last. 46:54 I said, we believe in the changeless and 46:58 mutable fact. And that brought us to this. 47:05 The second coming of Jesus Christ is imminent. 47:09 For this course I also suffer these things 47:11 nevertheless I'm not ashamed. 47:13 Listen, for I know whom I believe and 47:14 persuaded that he is able to keep which 47:16 I have committed unto him against that day. 47:18 And then comes the Emmanuel. 47:21 And so I stood there and I said, I believe in 47:23 the Emmanuel that God is with us. 47:25 I believe that the coming of Jesus is 47:26 imminent, he is just a heart beat away and, 47:29 then it was time for question, answer and, 47:31 Theologian stood up the number one 47:33 professor there, he stood. 47:35 And everybody looked at him and oh, 47:37 and I mean he introduced himself, 47:39 doctor so-and-so, Ph.D., Th.D, DDT 47:47 and I was impressed. And he said, young 47:50 man and I was a young man. 47:53 He said young man that could be a 47:57 thousands years from now. 48:03 And he sat down and the students were in 48:06 awe, and I said, Mister, put your hand 48:11 on your heart. For you it's not a 48:15 thousand years from now, be ye therefore ready. 48:19 Get the drift, come on. Amen. Amen, amen. 48:28 I would clap but, I'm sorry brother. 48:34 I'm just right brained, backslidden, and 48:36 I would just, I just praise the Lord. 48:40 I can't wait to get the heaven, move in that 48:42 neighborhood, but anyway coming of 48:46 Jesus, listen to me when Columnist 48:49 writing about the uncertain of our time, 48:53 he said this, he said this the very best our 48:59 leaders could do is to sophisticate their 49:01 actions in such a way as ensure other way to 49:04 eternal hell was paved with good intentions. 49:08 A sales clerk holding up a toy for this 49:10 modern generation said this, this toy is 49:13 designed to adjust a child to live in a world today. 49:16 Anyway he puts it together it's wrong. 49:21 Coming of Jesus is immutable; 49:27 the coming of Jesus is Emmanuel. 49:31 And Jesus said, ye shall see the son of 49:34 man coming in the clouds, right hand 49:36 with power and great glory in the clouds of heaven. 49:39 Bible tells us that, "Which also said, 49:40 Ye men of Galilee, why stand ye gazing 49:42 up in heaven? This same Jesus, 49:44 which is taken up shall come in like 49:45 manner as ye have seen him go into heaven." 49:48 I tell you Jesus Christ is coming again, 49:50 and the coming of Jesus is imminent, 49:52 it's a heart beat away. Amen. The first time 49:56 he enters through the womb of a virgin and 49:59 no one saw him enter. The second time he 50:01 comes and every eye will see him, the first 50:04 he came as Lamb of God. The second he 50:06 comes as the lion of the tribe of Judah. 50:09 The first time he came to redeem us, the 50:11 second time he comes to rain over us. 50:14 The first time he came, he came as 50:16 King of the Jews. Secondly he comes as 50:19 King of Kings and Lord of Lords. 50:21 The first time he came to receive a crown of thorns. 50:25 The second time he comes to receive a 50:28 crown of glory. Jesus is coming again. 50:34 The outlook for our world is dark, 50:38 but the up look is very bright, this Jesus, 50:43 same Jesus is coming and it's imminent, 50:47 the real Jesus. Little boy asked his father 50:50 for a horse for Christmas, I'm amazed as I drive 50:53 and there's horses everywhere. 50:57 I tell you we're a little smarter than you 50:59 people in Brooklyn. We put him in a circle 51:01 time together and they go around with music, 51:05 can you grab a ring, a gold ring? 51:06 Boom, boom, boom and at least they stay 51:08 out of my way. Anyway, I'll leave it 51:13 for what it's worth. He says, I want a 51:16 horse for Christmas. His daddy says, you 51:19 want a wooden horse? He says no. 51:21 He says, do you want an iron horse? 51:22 He says no. Do you wanna a leather horse? 51:24 He says no, I want a horse made of horse. 51:30 The real thing. When Jesus comes back 51:32 the second time is the real same thing. 51:35 The same Jesus which is taken up from you 51:37 into heaven shall so come and like manner 51:40 as ye have seen him go into heaven. 51:43 And we ought to be ready, no prophetic 51:45 evangelist, I mean no prophetic chart, 51:47 no historical event awaits to be fulfilled. 51:50 Christ can cut it shot in righteousness. 51:54 Do you hear me? Christ can cut it short 51:57 in righteousness. Amen. I'm amazed 52:01 people go and they say, well I've been 52:03 studying as the other ministry show me his 52:04 chart, he worked down for 40 years 52:07 had everything down, shaking time and 52:11 I noticed he wasn't shaking out, but 52:13 everybody else was, but he had all 52:15 these things, he had it down. 52:20 I was amazed, I finally said, while 52:23 you were working 40 years on making a chart. 52:25 I have been leading men and women to 52:27 Jesus Christ I think that is a little more 52:29 important than a chart and by the way he 52:32 could change it all by cutting 52:34 it short in righteousness. 52:38 This is not your scenario. This is God's, 52:43 so he says watch, if you're ready, expect, 52:48 at any moment. I want him to come, don't you? 52:53 I mean that sincerely from my heart. 52:55 I want Jesus to come, when I first found him 52:59 in Brooklyn, I stood on the street corners 53:00 and proclaim and I talked about it on the 53:02 subways and coming of Jesus, the coming 53:05 of Jesus, the come, I still believe it. 53:09 It's imminent, I'm tired to know the two 53:13 thirds of the world's population are under 53:15 nourished, aren't you? I'm sick of the crime 53:20 and the rape and the murder and, I'm tired 53:22 of our little children being snatched off 53:24 streets because of some perverted 53:26 person trying to blame their childhood. 53:34 I want something better for my life, 53:36 and for my grand kids, and for my 53:38 children, for my family. Preparation is going 53:43 on right now. Be ye therefore ready. 53:48 From years ago, I was at Team Texas, 53:49 I was the pastor there. And my wife and 53:53 I was called to California to give a 53:55 seminar in California. So, the children were 53:59 teenagers then and we have to go you know 54:02 how it is with teenagers, the 54:03 Ten Commandments become 250 commandments, 54:05 come on now. It's amazing, God started 54:09 with two, and ten, and then came 250. 54:14 Now, parents have three, four hundred. 54:19 Well, I told the kids we were going, 54:23 we were gonna be back on Thursday, 54:24 I said now I want you to keep the house, 54:26 you know how it is, I want you to vacuum 54:28 and thought it was a joke, but you know, 54:30 I'm giving this. You know, and then 54:33 I did a stupid thing, I do that all the time, 54:35 I mean it's amazing how many stupid 54:38 things I do. In fact, if stupid was the 54:41 criteria, I would be the prime example. 54:44 I mean I do dumb things and, and my 54:46 boy was a year and a half older 54:48 and sister teenager. And I said, now since 54:50 you're the oldest, I want you to watch 54:51 over things. I should never have said that, 54:54 I drove my daughter crazy within two hours. 54:59 But we took off, we're back on Thursday. 55:02 When I get out there through California 55:04 I got the program and I noticed on the 55:06 program that I was finished Wednesday 55:09 afternoon. I said, honey, look at this. 55:15 Let's fly home and surprise the kids. 55:22 She looked at me with that look 55:23 that women give you. I mean you know, 55:26 the look. I don't know, if that's a good idea. 55:32 Not a good idea, honey, we'll surprise them. 55:36 She said, I don't know if that's a good idea. 55:38 Let's call them, I said, oh no lets surprise them. 55:41 So, we persuaded each other and I went 55:43 out, got on a plane flew back to Dallas, Texas. 55:48 Straight at night landed and my wife 55:54 said, lets call from the airport, oh, no, 55:55 we got to really surprise them and 55:56 with this close. So, she said, I don't know honey. 56:00 And so, I called the deacon up, I said 56:03 Deacon, Ron Halvorsen, oh Pastor 56:06 Halvorsen you're back. I said yeah I'm 56:07 back a day early. I want to surprise 56:09 the kids, will you come out here and 56:10 pick me up. And my wife and you what to what? 56:14 And his silence for the space of the half hour. 56:18 He said, say what? I said, I want to 56:20 surprise the kids, isn't that a good idea. 56:22 And you know being kind, he didn't want 56:25 to crush my enthusiasm. So, he said, I'll come 56:28 out and pick you up pastor, but okay and 56:31 so we came I waited 40 minutes later he 56:34 shows up, getting the car, driving the car, 56:38 his windows have little Adventist 56:39 communities, you know all the saints 56:41 would have bet, said their prayers lights 56:44 were out, I drove down the street and 56:47 that was in my house and the lights were 56:49 out, so I looked at my wife and said, 56:50 honey see, see. Went to the door, Marsha, 56:54 lets ring the bell, I said, oh no, no 56:57 I really want to surprise them. 57:00 So, I open the door quietly, I flipped on 57:01 the light in my living room, but it wasn't my 57:03 living room, it couldn't have been my 57:04 living room, I mean football, basketball, 57:06 I mean underwear, shirts, T-shirt, how 57:08 can a kid, I mean how can you have his 57:11 whole wardrobe laying in the living 57:12 room. I mean, that's my couch. 57:18 Went in the kitchen, turned on the light, 57:19 it was a revelation. I mean the dishes 57:24 were piled to the ceiling and, and pots 57:26 and pan, how can this happen? 57:27 When they, all they ate were peanut butter 57:29 and jelly sandwiches. So, I creeped down 57:33 the home to my son's room. 57:40 Pulled open the door, flew open light, 57:43 my son sits up rubbing sleepy his 57:45 daddy you're supposed to come 57:47 tomorrow, be ye ready, be ye ready. 57:58 God is about to turn on the light. 58:03 Be ye ready. Father God, I thank you for that. 58:10 I look with anticipation to that. 58:13 I live every moment for that, I love every 58:17 moment for that. Bless these people 58:20 here in Oklahoma. When you come out 58:24 of the east, when you fly over Brooklyn, 58:30 head for Oklahoma. And we pray they'll 58:34 look up and say, well this is our God, 58:36 we waited for him. Then we'll move over 58:40 to Texas and on down around 58:44 the world and home at last. 58:50 Welcome home my children. 58:54 And we will see with these eyes 58:58 and feel with these hands 59:08 and love with these hearts. 59:12 Well appear in Christ's name, amen. |
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