WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:15.520 Music 00:15.520 --> 00:27.520 Music 00:27.520 --> 00:32.880 I hope everyone has had a good week. 00:32.880 --> 00:37.480 I think the men's fellowship was the best we've ever had. 00:37.480 --> 00:43.720 I enjoyed the speakers more than any I've ever had, and I didn't say a word. 00:43.720 --> 00:45.720 And I enjoyed it immensely. 00:45.720 --> 00:51.520 I thought everyone did such a super job, and it was just hard to come down, and we didn't 00:51.520 --> 00:53.720 have to come down, did we? 00:53.720 --> 00:57.680 And I pray that you men keep doing that. 00:57.680 --> 01:01.600 I think we had a superb week, and that was just crowning it. 01:01.600 --> 01:07.520 And I was particularly excited about all the kids up here this morning, weren't you? 01:07.520 --> 01:08.920 Did you look at the bunch? 01:08.920 --> 01:10.920 It was awesome, wasn't it? 01:10.920 --> 01:16.040 And when I think of what the kids will be doing down in Jamaica Mon, I think it's exciting 01:16.040 --> 01:17.520 what has been happening. 01:17.520 --> 01:23.200 And I think if you want to, it's not too late to get in on many of those things. 01:23.200 --> 01:29.640 You know, there's that old John Wayne movie, he said, that's bold talk for a one-eyed fat 01:29.640 --> 01:31.000 man. 01:31.000 --> 01:37.560 And you know, I kind of feel like that one-eyed fat man, and I'm tired of trying to speak 01:37.560 --> 01:42.160 boldly in the pulpit and being thought of as still as a one-eyed fat man, a thing of 01:42.160 --> 01:46.920 ridicule, but I want you to know if you believe in old John, guess who won that fight? 01:46.920 --> 01:49.560 Remember when he said, grab for your irons? 01:49.560 --> 01:50.560 Who won? 01:50.560 --> 01:53.360 That one-eyed fat man won, didn't he? 01:53.360 --> 01:54.520 Didn't he? 01:54.520 --> 01:56.040 And I know who's going to win this. 01:56.040 --> 02:00.720 I'm a little tired of the church being put up on, a little tired of Christianity made 02:00.720 --> 02:05.920 light of in this world, and it's time to look at this subject for just a moment. 02:05.920 --> 02:13.160 I had titled this seven years ago, I keep a good file or I try to, and I titled it, pessimism 02:13.160 --> 02:16.400 looks, a pessimist looks at the world and finds comfort. 02:16.400 --> 02:19.160 Now, it's easy to be a pessimist in this world. 02:19.160 --> 02:22.760 It's easy to be laughed at until you begin to think there is something wrong with us 02:22.760 --> 02:24.320 or there is something wrong with me. 02:24.320 --> 02:28.800 We're the only ones that seem to be protesting, but I want you to remember that that's the 02:28.800 --> 02:30.080 origin of our faith. 02:30.080 --> 02:33.840 We are Protestants in many respects, aren't we? 02:33.840 --> 02:40.760 First Peter 1.3 says this, wherefore gird up the loins of your mind and be sober, hope 02:40.760 --> 02:50.400 to the very end for that grace that is to be brought unto you at the revelation of Jesus 02:50.400 --> 02:51.400 Christ. 02:51.400 --> 02:58.560 Now, I can find four things that this people, this time, this age, this nation could be 02:58.560 --> 03:03.960 very comforted by, should feel good about. 03:03.960 --> 03:05.400 And first of all, would be science. 03:05.520 --> 03:08.160 And you say, well, sure, you make your living in science. 03:08.160 --> 03:10.680 No, I write poems. 03:10.680 --> 03:13.840 Geology isn't a science for heaven's sakes. 03:13.840 --> 03:19.480 It's just a little twit thing with nature is all the world it is. 03:19.480 --> 03:25.400 However, compared to most of the folks that are educated today, it's a very difficult 03:25.400 --> 03:32.560 science because sometimes you use algebra or sometimes you use two and two is four in 03:32.560 --> 03:34.200 a clever way. 03:34.200 --> 03:39.960 And you know, I think of that as we are the age of science and we've been benefited magnificently. 03:39.960 --> 03:45.480 Well, I say immensely, as no other people have, you know what, I stood before you with 03:45.480 --> 03:49.920 a purple face that looked like strawberries or maybe a turkey vulture had vomited on my 03:49.920 --> 03:50.920 face. 03:50.920 --> 03:57.200 And you know what, on those agonizing hours of the night, I am so glad for science because, 03:57.200 --> 04:02.360 you know what, you can see it, well, it looks like just a turkey bumper buzzer just wretched, 04:02.440 --> 04:06.480 maybe not a full vomit, but it's better than it used to was. 04:06.480 --> 04:10.200 And you know, someone the other day said, man, I liked you when you looked like strawberry 04:10.200 --> 04:12.700 puke. 04:12.700 --> 04:17.200 Maybe that's a wish and something for me, I don't know, but thank God for science because 04:17.200 --> 04:21.840 I'm here, you're here, many of you, life have been spared by science. 04:21.840 --> 04:24.760 You know, you didn't have things like that in the old days. 04:24.760 --> 04:29.480 I don't know what I would have done like a dried up prune, I suppose, I would have blown 04:29.480 --> 04:34.640 away scaly and all in time in a very painful way. 04:34.640 --> 04:38.720 And I'm so thrilled for science because science has really been good to us. 04:38.720 --> 04:43.400 And you know, science is used twice in the Bible and there's a good reason to have science. 04:43.400 --> 04:47.360 It's the knowledge of God when you stop and think about it. 04:47.360 --> 04:52.800 Colossians 1.17 said, he, speaking of God, is before all things and by him are all things 04:52.800 --> 04:54.640 created. 04:54.640 --> 04:58.160 And that's what gives science a good foundation. 04:58.160 --> 05:00.920 Science is good in the sense of its use, isn't it? 05:00.920 --> 05:05.600 We have found many uses and I praise God that there are many little babies here today who 05:05.600 --> 05:11.240 would not have been here under any other circumstance except for the technology, the science and 05:11.240 --> 05:14.680 the wonderful life in which we live. 05:14.680 --> 05:19.280 And then I would say I'm thankful as an aspect of science also for the comfort and the good 05:19.280 --> 05:24.560 life and the cheapness of travel and energy and warmth and all those good things that 05:24.560 --> 05:27.140 do come with science. 05:27.140 --> 05:31.260 You know, just this last week I've traveled four or five hundred miles out to the lake 05:31.260 --> 05:37.420 up to Mr. Charlie, the dinosaur site, and just did that while I taught a full load and 05:37.420 --> 05:39.820 worked more time for the church than I did for the school. 05:39.820 --> 05:42.180 Now that's a marvelous thing. 05:42.180 --> 05:48.280 Work at a person just get around so conveniently, so easy, except in this day and age. 05:48.280 --> 05:54.260 Where could ten kids go to Jamaica Mon and do it so efficiently, so quickly, not have 05:54.260 --> 05:56.100 to spend a lifetime doing it? 05:56.100 --> 06:00.460 To do a good work and be back here to help us out when we need it this summer. 06:00.460 --> 06:04.180 That's fantastic, isn't it, to think that such a thing could be done that the gospel 06:04.180 --> 06:06.300 could go all over the face of the earth. 06:06.300 --> 06:08.780 We're going to be on radio April 11th. 06:08.780 --> 06:09.780 That's great. 06:09.780 --> 06:14.900 I just think that's amazing that you can go not just here in this little community but 06:14.900 --> 06:20.500 in the community of believers and unbelievers all across Central Wyoming. 06:20.500 --> 06:24.500 And as we think of the things that we can participate in the missions field because of science, 06:24.500 --> 06:26.460 we can thank God for that. 06:26.460 --> 06:29.140 And I'm thankful for cheap readily available energy. 06:29.140 --> 06:34.380 I don't know whether you hate the oil companies or not, but I really don't because I enjoyed 06:34.380 --> 06:38.900 being warm two weeks ago when that old sleep came in sideways. 06:38.900 --> 06:43.740 Thank God that we live better and more richly than the greatest king who ever lived in the 06:43.740 --> 06:49.460 dark ages because he just lived in an old cold palace and it was never convenient, it 06:49.460 --> 06:52.460 was never comfortable, it was just big. 06:52.460 --> 06:55.900 And it had some jeopardy within the walls as well. 06:55.900 --> 06:58.660 Now I know that food is a very important thing. 06:58.660 --> 07:03.700 I never had my life have eaten like Saturday. 07:03.700 --> 07:10.980 I have never tasted anything so good in my life. 07:10.980 --> 07:16.860 And you know, I only went three points above my tolerance level for sugar and carbohydrate 07:16.860 --> 07:20.220 and I should have broke 1,000. 07:20.220 --> 07:21.220 And there were only 120. 07:21.220 --> 07:30.820 So see, you can indulge, you can be a pig if you eat good beef and gravy and mashed potatoes. 07:30.820 --> 07:35.980 And you know, when I think of a world where maybe 40,000 others starved to death today, 07:35.980 --> 07:38.540 I thank God for our system. 07:38.540 --> 07:41.220 I thank God for America and I thank God for our world. 07:41.220 --> 07:45.580 Now that does remind me that the church's duty is to also dispense the bread of life 07:45.580 --> 07:49.020 and probably to dispense bread. 07:49.020 --> 07:53.420 We spent thousands of dollars giving people food last year and I know sometimes people 07:53.420 --> 07:54.420 resent it. 07:54.420 --> 08:00.780 But you know, aren't you glad that we did give somebody something when they were hungry? 08:00.780 --> 08:03.820 And because most of us had plenty to eat. 08:03.820 --> 08:09.980 And I thank God that we live in a land where it's a very simple and easy thing to share. 08:09.980 --> 08:14.700 And I'm so proud of you who helped out with the food at the Corsons. 08:14.700 --> 08:16.660 They were beautifully cared for. 08:16.660 --> 08:17.660 They were impressed. 08:17.660 --> 08:23.540 And at a time of great need, they didn't have to even make a sandwich. 08:23.540 --> 08:28.140 I cannot believe the great abundance of food and that's the mission of the churches to 08:28.140 --> 08:29.940 help people in their time. 08:29.940 --> 08:32.860 Jesus and John 635 said, I'm the bread of life. 08:32.860 --> 08:36.540 He who comes to me will never go hungry. 08:36.540 --> 08:40.060 I think that's a neat promise in this day and age, don't you? 08:40.060 --> 08:42.620 And he who believes in me will never grow thirsty. 08:42.620 --> 08:47.100 Now sure, I know he's talking about spiritual things, but you know, if you're dead, it's 08:47.100 --> 08:51.460 kind of hard to talk about spiritual things and spiritual excellence, isn't it? 08:51.460 --> 08:53.620 That is what we met today for, wasn't it? 08:53.620 --> 08:55.380 That's what we just shared in. 08:55.380 --> 08:58.020 We'll never grow hungry spiritually, either. 08:58.020 --> 09:02.060 Now most of the world is eating, certainly Americans are eating, but just think, you're 09:02.060 --> 09:10.140 eating well and you're also being fed spiritually, never since time began have a people lived 09:10.140 --> 09:11.140 so luxuriously. 09:11.140 --> 09:17.420 I really mean that, never since time began has a people lived so luxuriously. 09:17.420 --> 09:18.700 And I thank God for that. 09:18.700 --> 09:25.260 I'd hate to see little skinny babies or rather little fat babies who are dying of malnutrition. 09:25.260 --> 09:26.260 What a sad thing. 09:26.260 --> 09:30.220 I don't have to witness that and neither do you. 09:30.220 --> 09:34.100 Now the second thing I'm so excited about and so proud about and one reason that even 09:34.100 --> 09:39.220 a pessimist can find comfort in the world today is the freedom which we have. 09:39.220 --> 09:44.140 You all, if you're a devotee of history and some here really are, do you know what some 09:44.140 --> 09:46.940 men and women have lived with through the ages? 09:46.940 --> 09:50.820 Do you know what the dark ages truly meant? 09:50.820 --> 09:57.700 You know what it was to cross the Toquamato, Thomas Toquamato and Pope Innocent III and 09:57.700 --> 10:04.560 1198 who is considered to be the most powerful man who ever lived. 10:04.560 --> 10:06.860 It wasn't a KGB. 10:06.860 --> 10:12.020 It's not that little arraigning sliptoed that's threatening the world with A bombs. 10:12.020 --> 10:13.020 It's not North Korea. 10:13.020 --> 10:18.180 It wasn't even mighty Germany which was the hardest thing people have had to endure. 10:18.180 --> 10:24.340 You and I don't have the faintest concept of what that kind of persecution was and very 10:24.340 --> 10:30.820 much in the world we are spared that kind of religious, if you will, persecution. 10:30.820 --> 10:35.820 The most powerful men on earth could command your attention in coming to church and you 10:35.860 --> 10:42.660 had three times to miss church and then you came under their supervision. 10:42.660 --> 10:46.740 Now I know that man has put up with some terrible things. 10:46.740 --> 10:54.700 The Italians, the brown shirts, the Germans, the black shirts, the Chinese, the red guard 10:54.700 --> 10:55.700 shirts. 10:55.700 --> 10:59.540 It seemed like they went in for shirts, didn't it? 10:59.540 --> 11:06.980 Pope Duvall had the Tantan Makut in Haiti and that was a bad, bad thing and you and 11:06.980 --> 11:09.820 I have never had to put up with that. 11:09.820 --> 11:11.380 And you know what? 11:11.380 --> 11:16.140 Kristallnacht, which in German means the night of the broken crystals, as they went 11:16.140 --> 11:20.060 through Berlin and began to persecute the Jews. 11:20.060 --> 11:24.180 What a terrible, terrible night that was and they called it the night of sparkling glass, 11:24.180 --> 11:30.900 the crystal glass broken on the cold streets as six million Jews began their exodus out 11:30.900 --> 11:36.780 of this veil of tears and man am I thankful and I praise God that you and I are putting 11:36.780 --> 11:39.140 up with that tonight. 11:39.140 --> 11:45.100 The UN decided that God would be thrown out of its system, the KGB decided that God would 11:45.100 --> 11:50.180 be thrown out of its system and they have all perished and you know, even in America 11:50.180 --> 11:56.340 with its problems, you and I have the right to protest the things that we see going on 11:56.340 --> 11:57.940 around us. 11:57.940 --> 12:01.540 We have the right to write letters to change things. 12:01.540 --> 12:06.060 We have the God given right to vote yet. 12:06.060 --> 12:13.420 We still have a choice in our school systems and as long as we are not disarmed, we may 12:13.420 --> 12:18.300 still continue with those rights. 12:18.300 --> 12:26.820 That moment will be instantly determined when we are disarmed and we are not disarmed and 12:26.820 --> 12:33.180 I thank God for that for it was a God given right to bear arms as far as I am concerned 12:33.180 --> 12:42.860 because you don't make fun and poke at the one-eyed fat man if he's got a 38 special. 12:42.860 --> 12:44.980 You just don't mess with him. 12:44.980 --> 12:49.260 Now, I think there are some intriguing things that we can follow up with. 12:49.260 --> 12:54.460 Look at John 9 beginning in verse 24, the second time they summoned the man who had 12:54.460 --> 12:55.460 been blind. 12:55.460 --> 12:58.620 Give glory to God, they said, we know this man is a sinner, he replied, whether he's 12:58.620 --> 13:00.420 a sinner or not, I don't know. 13:00.420 --> 13:05.420 One thing I do know, I was blind but now I see any fool can plainly see, he says, I can 13:05.420 --> 13:06.420 see. 13:06.420 --> 13:09.140 Then they ask him, well, what did he do to you? 13:09.140 --> 13:11.180 How did he open your eyes? 13:11.180 --> 13:14.740 Real theologians, see, they're going to get to the matter here. 13:14.740 --> 13:18.220 He answered and I said, I've told you already and you don't listen, why do you want to hear 13:18.220 --> 13:19.220 it again? 13:19.220 --> 13:20.740 Do you want me to become his disciples too? 13:20.740 --> 13:22.300 Well, that ticked him off. 13:22.300 --> 13:26.580 Then they hurled insults at him and said, you are this fellow's disciple, we are disciples 13:26.580 --> 13:27.580 of Moses. 13:27.580 --> 13:32.580 We know that God spoke to Moses but as for this fellow, Jesus, we don't even know where 13:32.580 --> 13:33.580 he comes from. 13:33.580 --> 13:35.220 Well, that's important. 13:35.220 --> 13:37.300 Your pedigree isn't it? 13:37.300 --> 13:41.300 It's very important your credentials in this day and this age, isn't it? 13:41.300 --> 13:45.340 It didn't matter what you speak that matters at all, it's the credentials, isn't it? 13:45.340 --> 13:51.820 You may have come from Retardo University and seminary and cemetery, it doesn't matter. 13:51.820 --> 13:55.020 But it's what you say that really matters, doesn't it? 13:55.020 --> 13:58.540 The man answered, now this is a remarkable thing. 13:58.540 --> 14:02.380 You don't know where he comes from yet he opened my eyes, see, he keeps going back to 14:02.380 --> 14:05.460 the fundamental, I can see, can't you see? 14:05.460 --> 14:11.180 We know that God does not listen to sinners, he listens to the godly man who does his will. 14:11.180 --> 14:16.140 Say your prayers, say your prayers, he listens to the godly man who does his will. 14:16.140 --> 14:20.340 Nobody has ever heard of opening the eyes of a man born blind and this man were not from 14:20.340 --> 14:23.220 God, he could do nothing. 14:23.220 --> 14:26.740 What a time to be saying your prayers and living the godly life. 14:26.740 --> 14:29.460 Think of the efficacy, the power, the glory and such a thing. 14:29.460 --> 14:33.140 If I'll live the godly life, my prayers can be answered. 14:33.140 --> 14:35.900 Oh, what a beautiful thing. 14:35.900 --> 14:41.820 In Jesus, in the parable of the Minas or the Talents, in Luke 19.13 he said a story, 14:41.820 --> 14:47.020 remember, how a man from a far off country came to receive for himself a kingdom, that 14:47.020 --> 14:48.020 was Jesus. 14:48.020 --> 14:51.020 And he paid his life for the kingdom, the church. 14:51.020 --> 14:55.420 And then he went back to his father's kingdom until he could come claim the other kingdom 14:55.420 --> 14:57.180 which he left on the earth. 14:57.180 --> 15:03.380 And you and I are part of the most God exciting and God almighty force on the face of the earth, 15:03.380 --> 15:05.820 the church of the Lord Jesus Christ. 15:05.860 --> 15:11.380 Think of how many peoples who suffered and didn't even have Jesus Christ. 15:11.380 --> 15:12.780 What a sad and sad thing. 15:12.780 --> 15:15.540 I can be happy, I can take great comfort in that. 15:15.540 --> 15:20.420 What is our destiny is to keep busy until he comes, isn't it? 15:20.420 --> 15:24.940 Jesus said elsewhere, occupy until I come, pragmat, ye olde me, ye. 15:24.940 --> 15:27.860 And it simply means pragmatism through something practical. 15:27.860 --> 15:29.380 It has to do with the market term. 15:29.380 --> 15:32.980 He says keep trading in the market for profit until I come. 15:33.340 --> 15:38.460 In other words, keep busy, keep teaching the kids, keep spreading the doctrine, keep sending 15:38.460 --> 15:42.420 missionaries, it's never too late to do those things. 15:42.420 --> 15:44.540 And you know, that's very, very important. 15:44.540 --> 15:48.580 The work that I found most important to me in the church, and as I look back someday 15:48.580 --> 15:54.740 should I ever retire, it would be the fact that I never quit teaching. 15:54.740 --> 16:00.340 If I have say one thing put on my grave, say he wanted to teach the little guy. 16:00.700 --> 16:06.700 You know, I wrote some poems here lately about the magnificent saints of God that I 16:06.700 --> 16:07.780 found in the church. 16:07.780 --> 16:11.580 I don't give them a name because, you know, to each one, we each have a hero in the 16:11.580 --> 16:11.900 church. 16:11.900 --> 16:14.660 It's a good reason to be part of the church. 16:14.660 --> 16:18.900 It's very sad that many Christians are independent of the church. 16:18.900 --> 16:20.340 Kind of sad. 16:20.340 --> 16:22.180 They may not go with the church. 16:22.180 --> 16:26.340 Be very careful of that, for the church is the kingdom of God, manifestly. 16:26.340 --> 16:29.900 And I wrote a little poem about people who were heroes to me. 16:29.940 --> 16:32.140 You just pick them out, if you will. 16:33.340 --> 16:34.460 Just pick them out, if you will. 16:34.460 --> 16:39.060 And I'm just going to read two, and they have to do with this thing of keeping busy 16:39.060 --> 16:40.460 until the Lord comes. 16:40.460 --> 16:48.100 See, grant us God to receive this call, the highest noblest calling of all. 16:49.180 --> 16:55.020 She taught little ones, not even her own, bringing innocent children before God's 16:55.020 --> 16:55.380 throne. 16:55.380 --> 16:56.580 That's the teacher, isn't it? 16:56.900 --> 16:59.060 And some of you have had surrogate babies. 16:59.060 --> 17:03.940 Some of you have had surrogate children, cousins, uncles, aunts. 17:03.940 --> 17:08.540 You've taught all your life in the kingdom, in the household, and then I would say the 17:08.540 --> 17:13.460 mama, who is a teacher of her children, a spiritual teacher, little darling, how God 17:13.460 --> 17:18.980 must adore thee, your cranky little babies in adoration softly, you brought them along 17:18.980 --> 17:24.900 to walk down that aisle, Mona Lisa with purpose, with the same tired smile. 17:24.900 --> 17:29.500 And you watch some of the mamas with a little baby on their arm teaching, and sometimes 17:29.500 --> 17:30.980 it's somebody else's babies. 17:31.620 --> 17:36.020 And there are people here in this church who have not been to a regular church 17:36.020 --> 17:40.940 service in over a year, unless you bring the children up. 17:41.340 --> 17:44.260 Some say, that's kind of silly, we don't want to bring all these kids up here. 17:44.740 --> 17:46.060 Well, don't be so selfish. 17:46.060 --> 17:48.140 Once in a while, the teacher would like to be taught. 17:49.260 --> 17:51.540 And we've always put the children first. 17:51.540 --> 17:53.300 And haven't we been blessed most by our children? 17:53.540 --> 17:55.100 Look at our youth program right now. 17:55.100 --> 17:56.060 It's so exciting. 17:56.060 --> 17:58.060 You know, it is so exciting. 17:58.500 --> 18:03.780 And it came to pass because of excellence in teaching, teaching the right thing. 18:03.780 --> 18:06.300 And then thirdly is the church. 18:06.300 --> 18:10.900 I'm so excited about what's happening in the universal church, Isaiah 2619. 18:11.220 --> 18:12.700 And this is an unusual thing. 18:12.700 --> 18:17.180 You want to write that down, Isaiah 26 and read the whole thing in its context. 18:17.180 --> 18:18.540 You know, maybe I make a mistake here. 18:18.540 --> 18:20.500 I don't think so, but maybe I do. 18:23.300 --> 18:26.580 I can't pontificate that I am infallible. 18:26.620 --> 18:28.020 Others can, but I can't. 18:29.780 --> 18:34.020 Pontification comes to those who have the authority to back it up. 18:34.020 --> 18:35.020 I don't. 18:35.020 --> 18:39.780 I have only the word of God in which I might convince you and convict you. 18:40.460 --> 18:43.900 But your dead will live and their bodies will rise. 18:43.900 --> 18:44.900 This is the Old Testament. 18:44.900 --> 18:46.820 And here's the resurrection, isn't it? 18:46.820 --> 18:48.340 Then he goes on to verse 20. 18:48.340 --> 18:51.980 Go, my people, enter your rooms and shut your doors behind you. 18:52.140 --> 18:56.420 Hide yourselves for a little while until his wrath has passed you by. 18:56.820 --> 19:01.580 Only believers can claim that scripture. 19:02.140 --> 19:03.700 Someone said, I'm ready to hide. 19:03.700 --> 19:06.020 Well, now don't do it prematurely. 19:06.020 --> 19:08.140 Don't do it prematurely. 19:08.140 --> 19:11.100 And I think that's very, very important because he says there's a wrath 19:11.100 --> 19:13.940 that's coming, but he says there's a place for you in which to hide. 19:14.380 --> 19:16.740 I look at it as Colossians three, verse 13. 19:16.740 --> 19:17.620 Where should I hide? 19:17.620 --> 19:19.020 Where should I hide? 19:19.020 --> 19:20.420 And here's what he says. 19:20.460 --> 19:25.220 For you died and your life is now hidden with Christ in God. 19:25.220 --> 19:26.180 Want to hide? 19:26.180 --> 19:27.300 Hide in Christ. 19:27.300 --> 19:28.420 Hide with God. 19:28.420 --> 19:31.060 See, let him be your protection. 19:31.060 --> 19:35.140 Let him be your propitiation. 19:35.140 --> 19:40.420 You're covering over you that the Prince of the Air may not look down and see you. 19:40.900 --> 19:43.300 See, it's very important to be a Christian then. 19:43.860 --> 19:49.780 When Christ, who is your very life, appears, then you will also appear 19:49.780 --> 19:51.700 with him in glory. 19:52.180 --> 19:58.980 Well, now the gay fellows came out of hiding and the world says, kudos, kudos, well done. 20:01.060 --> 20:07.540 But one of these days, the one-eyed fat man is going to come out of hiding. 20:08.420 --> 20:10.420 And I think that's cool, isn't it? 20:10.420 --> 20:16.020 And I'm going to be in the presence of Almighty Jesus and read Thessalonians who 20:16.020 --> 20:24.980 with flaming fire seeketh a vengeance on them who know not God nor believe His Word. 20:25.780 --> 20:27.860 They're going to listen to the one-eyed fat man. 20:27.860 --> 20:30.820 They're going to listen to the little preacher before it's all done. 20:30.820 --> 20:35.940 And they're going to listen to you, brothers and sisters, because you have much to tell the world. 20:36.740 --> 20:37.460 I love that. 20:37.460 --> 20:42.820 Then you will also appear with him in glory, in glory. 20:43.300 --> 20:44.420 We shall be fed. 20:44.420 --> 20:45.780 We shall be clothed upon. 20:45.780 --> 20:50.180 Paul said, if I just had something to eat and something to be clothed by, I'm going to be content. 20:50.180 --> 20:53.620 Christians, there never been a time when you can have your cake and eat it too. 20:54.820 --> 20:58.980 And who knows, he may just come while we're living this way. 20:59.540 --> 21:07.140 Now, John 6.53, Jesus spoke of the bread, except you break, eat the bread, this bread, 21:07.140 --> 21:08.500 and drink this cup. 21:08.500 --> 21:09.780 You have no life in you. 21:10.500 --> 21:18.100 Now, you and I dedicated ourselves today to eat the bread and drink the cup. 21:18.900 --> 21:24.820 May we not say with impunity, therefore, we have life within us. 21:26.180 --> 21:27.220 We do have. 21:27.220 --> 21:28.020 We declare that. 21:28.020 --> 21:30.580 Proclaim the Lord's death, he said, until he comes again. 21:30.580 --> 21:32.260 Seems like such a simple thing. 21:32.260 --> 21:33.220 Why is it missed? 21:34.500 --> 21:37.780 Because mankind gets involved with things. 21:37.780 --> 21:40.580 The bread of life is the Lord Jesus. 21:40.580 --> 21:44.180 We remember the bread of life at the table of his suffering. 21:44.820 --> 21:49.540 And then I believe with all of my heart, one reason an old pessimist could look at the world 21:49.540 --> 21:53.940 and find comfort is, I believe this is the terminal generation. 21:53.940 --> 21:55.380 I may be wrong. 21:55.380 --> 21:59.860 Who really cares whether a little sleepy teacher is wrong or not? 22:00.420 --> 22:06.900 The point is that there's a very good reason to suspect that I am right. 22:06.980 --> 22:10.180 I believe, and if you'll go back and read Luke 21 tonight, 22:10.180 --> 22:15.060 or if you want to, throw it through in Mark 13 and Matthew 24, 22:15.060 --> 22:18.660 you ought to probably do that and read 1st and 2nd Thessalonians. 22:18.660 --> 22:22.980 I think just when you get warmed up, start with those things. 22:23.780 --> 22:27.700 But I think Luke 21 does such a job, just succinctly going to the point 22:27.700 --> 22:29.860 and just giving you the main lines. 22:29.860 --> 22:35.700 I think the most obvious prophecy, the most easily tied down to current times, 22:35.700 --> 22:37.540 occurred September 13. 22:37.540 --> 22:38.660 I've talked about that. 22:38.660 --> 22:40.500 If you don't know what it is, well, get wise. 22:40.500 --> 22:41.380 Get ahead. 22:41.380 --> 22:42.420 Start reading the paper. 22:42.420 --> 22:45.060 Start looking around and start noticing Jerusalem. 22:45.060 --> 22:50.820 No prophecy will ever be fulfilled that does not involve Jerusalem or Israel in some way. 22:50.820 --> 22:54.980 Something happened September the 13th, and you should find out about it. 22:54.980 --> 22:58.180 And we're hearing about it in the papers on a daily basis. 22:58.740 --> 23:03.460 So I really believe this is the terminal generation that tomorrow I don't know 23:03.460 --> 23:07.060 and I don't really care because it's not going to change my lifestyle. 23:07.700 --> 23:08.820 One Iowa. 23:08.820 --> 23:11.860 But in Luke 21, especially 1st 14, he says, 23:11.860 --> 23:17.220 but make up your mind not to worry beforehand how you will defend yourselves. 23:18.500 --> 23:20.900 Now I've laid awake at night worrying about that. 23:23.220 --> 23:23.700 Have you? 23:25.300 --> 23:29.700 I think if you're a good parent, you'd feel beholden to do so. 23:30.660 --> 23:34.820 How shall I care for my loved ones in this day and this age? 23:34.820 --> 23:36.340 It's important, isn't it? 23:36.340 --> 23:42.500 And what must I do that I might reserve my family integrity, my faith, 23:43.300 --> 23:45.140 my hope of eternal life? 23:45.940 --> 23:51.140 Verse 14, make up your mind not to worry beforehand. 23:51.140 --> 23:52.980 Have you ever heard that in the scriptures? 23:52.980 --> 23:54.180 I'm reading from the NIV. 23:54.180 --> 23:56.340 It's not quite the Hollywood version, but it is sound. 23:56.900 --> 23:57.700 It is sound. 23:58.100 --> 24:01.380 And then he goes on to say in that same passage, 24:01.380 --> 24:05.300 for I will give you words of wisdom. 24:05.300 --> 24:08.340 Now the word will be our defense in the end, won't it? 24:08.340 --> 24:11.300 The word of God will be our defense in it. 24:11.300 --> 24:13.700 I will give you words of wisdom. 24:13.700 --> 24:17.940 Verse 18 of Luke 21, but not a hair of your head will perish. 24:17.940 --> 24:20.260 Thank God for that. 24:20.260 --> 24:22.020 I don't have as much spare as some of you. 24:22.500 --> 24:27.540 By standing firm, you will gain life. 24:28.100 --> 24:30.020 That's a beautiful scripture, isn't it? 24:30.020 --> 24:35.860 By standing firm, you will gain life. 24:36.660 --> 24:40.020 And then Titus 2, verse 12 and verse 13. 24:40.020 --> 24:42.820 And speaking of a phenomenon known as grace, 24:42.820 --> 24:46.580 grace is the word that precedes this, so that the antecedent is grace here. 24:47.220 --> 24:51.220 It teaches us to say no to ungodliness, see God's grace. 24:51.780 --> 24:54.100 And worldly passions. 24:54.100 --> 25:01.220 And to live self-controlled upright and godly lives in this present age, 25:01.220 --> 25:08.660 while we wait for that blessed hope, the glorious appearing of our great God 25:09.300 --> 25:12.580 and Savior, Jesus Christ. 25:12.580 --> 25:13.620 Are you waiting for that? 25:14.420 --> 25:16.180 You know, he doesn't talk about the agony. 25:16.180 --> 25:17.700 Remember the next, the last verse in the Bible is, 25:17.700 --> 25:19.300 Even so, Lord Jesus, come. 25:19.300 --> 25:20.660 He saw all those visions. 25:20.660 --> 25:24.420 He saw all those nightmare potential things. 25:25.140 --> 25:27.060 And he wasn't worried about, hurry up. 25:27.060 --> 25:28.900 Even so, Lord Jesus, come. 25:30.020 --> 25:31.780 Even so, Lord Jesus, come. 25:32.420 --> 25:35.860 And I think that's so terribly, terribly important. 25:35.860 --> 25:40.020 These are the last verses, as you've had a long, long day. 25:41.780 --> 25:43.060 We've had a good day. 25:43.060 --> 25:47.060 And we started preaching in the jail, two of our men this morning. 25:48.580 --> 25:52.500 And we had one of our Gideon members preaching in another church. 25:53.220 --> 25:57.460 And the Gideon said 1.1 million Bibles just to Russia last month. 25:57.460 --> 26:00.660 And I'm glad this little church is a little part of that, aren't you? 26:01.860 --> 26:03.620 And we had a great day this morning. 26:03.620 --> 26:06.340 I feel good about today. 26:07.380 --> 26:14.820 Now, let's look at 1 Thessalonians 1-10 where he says, 26:14.820 --> 26:22.740 They tell how you turn to God from idols to serve the living and the true God. 26:23.300 --> 26:28.100 And to wait for his Son from heaven whom he raised from the dead. 26:28.100 --> 26:34.100 Jesus, now listen, who rescues us from the coming wrath. 26:36.020 --> 26:40.660 Now, see, this was written after the destruction of Jerusalem in 70. 26:41.620 --> 26:42.500 That's cool, isn't it? 26:42.740 --> 26:49.700 He will rescue us from the coming wrath of God. 26:50.500 --> 26:51.220 I dig that. 26:52.420 --> 26:53.460 And name it and claim it. 26:53.460 --> 26:54.100 I don't care. 26:54.740 --> 26:55.780 Listen to what it says. 26:55.780 --> 27:00.420 He will rescue you from the coming wrath. 27:00.420 --> 27:03.220 And then, of course, the sweetheart of Sigma Chi, 27:03.220 --> 27:07.860 the very prince of scriptures that talk about the second coming is in Revelation 10. 27:08.820 --> 27:13.220 Since you have kept my command to endure patiently. 27:13.220 --> 27:14.260 See these folks? 27:14.260 --> 27:18.180 They kept the command to endure patiently. 27:18.180 --> 27:19.060 Did they renege? 27:19.700 --> 27:20.740 Did they cop out? 27:21.300 --> 27:22.100 Did they hide? 27:22.660 --> 27:25.140 They hid in Christ only. 27:25.140 --> 27:26.260 And listen to what he said. 27:27.380 --> 27:33.220 I will also keep you from the hour of trial that is going to come upon the whole world 27:33.220 --> 27:35.700 to test others who live on the earth. 27:36.260 --> 27:37.540 I don't know what that means. 27:38.740 --> 27:39.940 I'm comforted by it. 27:39.940 --> 27:41.140 I know what that means. 27:42.420 --> 27:43.460 And I think you do too. 27:44.260 --> 27:46.660 Love the Lord Jesus Christ with all of your heart. 27:47.220 --> 27:57.940 And someday, the one-eyed fat man is going to boldly see his big buddy with a Uzi return. 27:58.820 --> 28:02.580 And he's going to straighten out the world like it's never been straightened up. 28:02.580 --> 28:04.180 Men straightened up again. 28:04.180 --> 28:06.660 Take hope in that, my dear brothers. 28:06.660 --> 28:08.820 Let's see our hymn of invitation tonight.