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A Snapshot Of Jesus: The Coming King

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Participants: Ron Halvorsen

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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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