May the dear Lord help me to
say a few things from the last two words in verse 4 and verse
5 of 1 Peter 1. So 1 Peter 1 and the last two
words in verse 4 and then verse 5. For you, who are kept by the
power of God through faith unto salvation, ready to be revealed at the last
time. First epistle of Peter, general
of Peter chapter one, the last two words in verse four and then
verse five. For you who are kept by the power
of God through faith unto salvation ready to be revealed at the last
time. We have something here that is
so wonderful friends because the dear apostle here in verse
four, he looks forward. He looks forward to the time
that you and I don't know of, but we believe it's coming. We
believe there is a place already prepared and being prepared for
his people. And he says, it's reserved in
heaven. So he takes the soul. It's just
as it is dear man. He picks the soul up and by the
spirit, and he says, look forwards. look forwards it's reserved for
you there's something reserved he didn't look back and say look
what you did in creation he doesn't look back and say look at the
state you fell into he looks forward and that's what faith
does friends i know faith looks back under his guidance but it
looks forward it's always looking forward and so as we start already
we're on good ground We're on wonderful ground, friends, if
you and I could look forward. Because it's not in our nature.
It's not in our nature. We look at everything present.
We cannot look out of self. We cannot look away from self. Everything is just piling up
against us. So the Lord knows this, and he
said to something reserved in heaven. But then he said, it's
for you. It's for you. He brings it, and
Peter knew what it was to speak personally, friends. This dear
man had walked and talked with the dear Redeemer. He had walked
a rough and thorny path. And now he knew what it was to
say that it was for you. Because I really believe, friends,
he felt this personally. He felt this as though the Holy
Spirit was saying it to him. Because we can speak a lot. You
know, Paul says this, doesn't he? He says, have him preach
to others. Paul. I myself a castaway. Paul, that can't be. Think how Peter felt here. Think
of what Peter had done in his life. And so this for you meant
him. He said it's so beautiful. And
the Lord's servant here and all the Lord's servants really, they
know oftentimes they're preaching to themselves. It's lovely that
they've got hearers listening, but it's often to themselves
of what the Holy Spirit is guiding them And so as we come this evening,
can we each have that sweet assurance given, and I know it's given,
it's not something we can take, but it's for you, it's for you. Isn't that lovely if something's
for you? God and God's will is exercised for poor sinners. Why, you would have thought he'd
passed us by. You would have thought he'd had nothing to do
with this earth once it fell. You would have thought, friends,
that it would be a past memory to him, but no. He comes right
down and he sanctifies his people. He separates them from the world,
friends. He brings them away from it. He does. But he says,
it's for you. It's for you. Those that are
redeemed. Those that are loved by me. It's
for them. Isn't that a lovely thought? It's just such a lovely thing,
isn't it? As we stand here this evening and think if we have
a glorious interest in these words, It's for me. It's really for me. Lord, do
you often go on your knees and say, can it really be true? Can
it be true what the Bible says? Can it really be true what the
Spirit has impressed upon our hearts, that it's for poor sinners
that have sinned? He said, it's for you. It's for
you. But he only says it through Christ. I like that, don't you? Out of
Christ is a consuming fire. He can't say for you, but in
Christ, He can say it's for you. All the blessings I have, all
that which I have had from eternity, that is communicable, because
there are those attributes and that, that are not communicable
to sinners, because they're His. They'll always be His, because
He can't give them to us. But those things that He can
give to us, He says, they're for you. It's such a lovely theme. And really, it's for those that
are afflicted, those that are poor, those that are really in
a desperate condition, those that are taught their sinnership.
You know, I want to speak guardedly, but there's not many taught their
sinnership today, is there? No, they get to the end post,
they get to the winning post, they get the prize, they think,
before they've even been convicted. The teaching of the Holy Spirit
is to bring the soul empty. It's to bring him afflicted. It's to bring them lame. Isn't
it? How can a lame man leap without
Christ? He can't, friends. He'll always
be lame. But no, Jesus says, the lame
men, the lame women that are mine, they shall leap as the
heart. And we've seen those sometimes,
haven't we? As we've been driving along, and the heart, the dear. It leaps, I don't quite know
the distance that it leaps, friends, but it leaps meters, nothing
like a man could leap, a man wouldn't come close to it. They
shall leap as a heart. Why? Why? Because he's done the
work. You know, it's being careful
today, isn't it, what you say, but is the Lord working in you
and me? This is a fundamental question,
isn't it? We can say we believe he is,
but you come to a dry place, friends, you come to a barren
place, you come to a place where there's no fruit, no green piece
at all, no green grass at all, nothing, then you try and have
that sweet assurance. But what does he prove? The Holy
Spirit is for you. It's for you. The work of the
Holy Spirit is for you. It's so lovely, isn't it? Exercised
on our behalf, the will of God for us. But he goes on because
he says, it's for those who are kept. So he takes us right into
the regions of glory. He doesn't take us right into
heaven. He just tells us that there's a place reserved for
us. He just tells us that there's something, something beyond the
veil, something for them. But then he brings us right back
down to the earth. And he says, who are kept by
the power of God. Now, no sinner that's been chosen,
redeemed, blood brought, and sanctified, justified, and brought
into that heavenly place needs anything. Doesn't need anything. Once you've got in beyond the
gates, friends, as they say, as the Bible tells us, once you
get into that place, you don't need keeping. All that's gone. All temptation's gone. Everything
to do with the flesh is gone. So he brings us right back down
to the earth, and he says to his people, who are kept? Do
you see, friends? It comes down to our daily life.
Our daily life. Our morning by morning, our evening
by evening, our hour by hour. He says, who are kept? What a thought, isn't it? If
you and I have really proved this word, friends, I didn't,
in my younger days, I didn't realise what the keeping power
of God was. Until he brings you into something,
until he turns you inside out, until you're exposed to the world,
and then he says, you can't keep yourself. You can't, friends. Who? So he says for you, and
then he says, who? Who are they? Well, I really
believe, friends, when the Holy Spirit speaks and when he works
in your heart, your soul responds. It's an immediate effect. He
doesn't speak and then wait for you to respond. He speaks and
your soul responds. It's so immediate. It's just
like when the dear Lord Jesus walked through the Gospels and
he said, be it unto thee. What, in two weeks' time? No,
friends, the dear Redeemer spoke. No man spoke like this. And they
even inquired when they got home to see what time the person had
been healed. And they traced it right back
and they said, well, that's the time he spoke. Who are kept? This keeping power of the dear
Lord Jesus, power of God through faith unto salvation. And it
is a keeping power that only he has. We cannot keep ourselves. Our poor pride and the adversary
alongside of that will tell you that you can keep yourself. You're
not like others. You won't fall like others. Believe
me, friends, that he might have knew it when he said this. My
fickle, feeble soul, alas, would fall a thousand times a day were
not my mercy free. You see, friends, it's all of
mercy, isn't it? Because how often do we feel
that we will fall? What are you hanging on to? You
know when you get older, don't you, and you feel like you're
gonna fall, you grab anything. You literally take hold of anything,
don't you? It doesn't matter whether you're gonna take that
with you, you just need to hold something, don't you? What from
the Lord are you holding? Are you holding one of these
glorious promises? Are you holding one of these
words? Sometimes, you know, when I speak personally, you think
some of these words, when they're not applied to you, they'll never
hold me up. They'll never hold me up. There's too much wrong,
there's too much against me. But when he applies it with his
Holy Spirit into your heart, you have the real application,
who are kept by the power of God. This is it. This is it,
friends. The keeping power that he keeps
us daily. We're still on praying ground.
Why? Why are we still on praying ground?
Because the dear Lord still desires to hear us. He's still in glory,
lends a listening ear. Why he hasn't said to some of
us, I don't want to see you at the throne of grace anymore,
and I don't want to hear your voice anymore. But he doesn't.
Who are kept by the power of God. He keeps you there, friends. He keeps you, and there's so
many ways we could look at this as it unfolds, but in the narrow
way. You know, how many times has
your poor old heart tried to get out the narrow way? I know we have a religious nature. I do know that, friends, but
we also have a worldly nature. We've got two and they're at
war. They're fighting. And they don't give each other
any rest. One's pulling one way and one's pulling the other way.
Who are kept by the power of God in the narrow way. That's
the only reason you're in the narrow way, friend. If you didn't
climb up some other way, if you didn't get a helping in by somebody
else, you know in the books, the Pilgrim Progress and that,
where one helped another one up over the wall, didn't he?
That wasn't by keeping by the power of God, was it? Because
what happened a few miles down the road? They turned around
and went back to the world that they'd been told would be destroyed. They went back. But this soul,
oh this soul, the keeping power of our God, you know, There's
so many that knew it through the scripture, isn't there? They
were kept. When you think of our poor little
lives, you know, I don't know about your personal life at all,
and you don't know about mine, but we've proved this keeping
power. We've proved it. And Psalm 121,
I believe it is, he says this, the dear psalmist, he says, the
Lord is my keeper. The Lord is my keeper. Now you
can only come to that if you've proved it. We can recite it,
we can repeat it, we can preach about it, but you only know if
you've actually proved it, that the Lord is my keeper. And if
he started to keep you friends, he'll keep you, he will. You
think of how he keeps your eyes on Jesus fixed, does he? I really believe it's a longing
of the soul to keep my eyes on Jesus fixed. It's my wicked nature,
it's my wicked old man that keeps taking my eyes off him. But counted a mercy and a blessing,
friends. He directs your eyes to Jesus
once again. He does, who are kept, the eyes
kept, the ears kept, You know, at work, and you've been in working
times, haven't you? Scenes, the wickedness, the vileness. How do you shut it out? How do
you shut it out, friend? It's only God that can close
the ear. It's only God. How quickly the poor nature would
rise up. But no, he says, who are kept,
kept from listening. I don't know whether you've ever
found this, friends, but sometimes there might be something really
troubling you. And at that very point, you hear
somebody talk about that very point and you think, Lord, why
did I hear that? Why did I hear that? That's upset me more now
than if I didn't hear it. I've often wondered why he does
that until I've got on my knees and then I've realised. You haven't
been on your knees for a while. You haven't. You haven't been
at the throne of grace for the last hour, have you? You think,
friends. The hymns and the scripture tell
us live in hour by hour, don't they? Am I regular at the throne
of grace because I believe these people that are being kept by
the power of God, they will not take it for granted. It's not
something that they take lightly. This is something that is powerful
in their hearts. It's something that takes hold
of them. It is, and do you think, I was thinking about who are
kept by the power of God with their mouths. Just think, with
their mouths. How soon, if the Lord left us
for a moment, you say I wouldn't, you would. You would take his
name in vain. You would, friends. No different
to the world. You're absolutely no different
to those that are dead in sin, but you've got grace and you're
being kept by the power of God. That's the reason. And do you
know, I really believe that the devil tempts you more. He tempts
you more and more. And then he's proved to be a
liar. Oh, how many times the dear Lord's
people have proved that the devil is a liar and that God is true.
He's true, isn't he? And so he's keeping us in all
these things and we little realise. You know, how many times before
you lay down to sleep do you thank the Lord for keeping you
through the day? Thank him for being your keeper. Thank him for not saying things
that you were about to say. And it's just like a hand's gone
on your mouth and said, Oh, this restraining grace is
beautiful, isn't it? It's really beautiful. Who are
kept by the power of God? And then we can look at this
like, this, if the Lord put you in a place, he'll keep you there.
He'll keep you there. Let me put it this way, if he's
appointed it, he'll keep you there. He says this word. And it's to my heart, friends,
occupy till I come. He said it. If he's appointed
it, who are we? Who are we to say this isn't
the way? This is not the way. No, I've
got to change this now. Who are we, friends? Who are
we? If you're being kept, the Lord will keep you in that way.
He will. Why? Why doesn't he let you have
your own choice? Why doesn't he let you choose
from day to day? Because your choice wouldn't
end at his feet. His choice ends at the dear Saviour's
feet. Oh, it does, friends. His walk
wasn't in vain. Those blessed hands and feet
and sight, they weren't in vain for you to have your choice.
His choice. The hymn writer says, doesn't
he, and I want to be guardedly how I say it because it's so
easy to say it, friends. But the hymn writer said, choose
the other way. still lead on, still lead on Jesus. My dear
Jesus, still lead on. Because if he leads you, friend,
he'll keep you. He will. And he's put these people in
some peculiar places. He's put them amongst people
and giants. He's put them amongst sinners
of the deepest die. And he says, now look at you.
Look at you. Look in your heart. Are you any
different? but for the blood of Christ,
you're no different. You're no different. He washes,
and so he puts you in those places, doesn't he? And we often read
the Gospel of John, don't we, even privately, and it's so lovely
to read those Gospels because he says this, doesn't he? In
the dear Lord's prayer before his father, he says this, I pray
that thou would keep them. Friend, have you ever heard of
anything like it? Have you ever, ever heard of
anything like it? God the Son praying to God the
Father that his people would be kept. I pray that thou wouldst
keep them. I pray not that thou wouldst
take them out of the world. You see the difference, friends?
It's a path to walk. How can he keep you if he takes
you out of it? How will you understand who he
is if he takes you out of it? You won't. You and I are here, friends,
to prove he's keeping power. We are, that's why he keeps you
in the path you're in, because he's keeping you here to prove
his power. I pray that they'll take them
not out of this world, but that they'll just keep them in it,
keep them from it. You know, we could stay the whole
time on this one word, couldn't we? On these few words for you
who are kept by the power of God, because that, Shame on my
heart really and we must, we do confess it but we often think
that God is powerless. You know friend it's only as
he reveals himself and shows himself to us. When he was on
earth and in the old testament it says there was a hiding of
his power. He could do anything, anything. But what does your heart say?
But my lot's too hard. my path too hard, that power
can't reach me. Really in effect, friends, what
you're saying is he's powerless to help me. Have you ever seen
anybody that's powerless? You've only got to go to the
hospitals and walk through the wards. You've got to go to walk
through the Bethesda homes. You see someone who's powerless.
They can hardly lift up a cup. can hardly put the food to their
mouth. And that's how we think God is in our case. We're so
wrong, friends. God is not powerless. He is all
powerful. Before the world was made, he
was powerful. Even making the world, the universe,
making everything, didn't use up his power. It's only the soul
that knows this, proves it, friends. You prove it, don't you? The
power that he has for you and I in our daily life, it's our
daily life. And it's through faith unto salvation. So straight away, the dear Apostle
Peter, he takes us forward, he takes us to ourselves, and then
he takes us to the remedy. He takes us straight to the remedy.
You know, the Holy Spirit shows us the malady. He shows us, and
some in more degrees than others. He does, friends. He shows us
just what we are. Just like the stinging nettle
has the dock leaf right next to it. God put that there. He
put that there, friend. No man planted that dock leaf
by the, you know when we were children and we used to get stung
so much playing out in the fields and that. And everybody went
looking for the dock leaf. and they bring it straight back
and rub it on the sting. Through faith unto salvation. So straight away the apostle
takes us up, he takes us back, and then he takes us to the remedy.
And that's where I believe faith always points, to Christ himself,
our salvation. There is no other salvation given
among men whereby we must be saved. It's got to be in the
dear Redeemer. I don't want to speak about today,
but it seems that we are living in a very sad day and salvation
grows on trees and you can pluck it as you like. You can choose
it if you want to. It's yours if you take it. No,
my Bible doesn't tell me that. It tells me it's through faith.
It's through faith, but it's to those who are being kept.
Being kept, friends. In other words, it's those who
have been dragged through the briars, through the hedges. It's
those who have been dragged to the throne of grace. You know
those times, don't you? It's not always easy to run to
the throne of grace, is it? Those times when everything's
holding you back. Those times when there's every
hindrance in front of you. Through faith unto salvation. And faith is such a glorious
gift of God, isn't it? It's one of those gifts that
I don't think really, and I really believe this friends,
I don't think the most gracious Christian on earth really, really
appreciates what faith is. They don't. It's nice to have
it, it's nice to say you've got it, it's nice to feel it. But
there's a never ending store of it. There's never ending. Faith to the poor believer. Faith
to those that are lost. Faith to those that have nothing.
And who gives it? Doesn't matter how hard we try
to give it. It doesn't matter what we do
to enable others to have faith. It comes from one hand alone.
And who is that? The one who's keeping us. The
very hand that holds you back in danger. The very hand that
holds you up when you're sinking. The very hand that puts, in Isaiah
it says it doesn't it? His left hand, or Song of Solomon,
his left hand is under my head and his right hand doth embrace
me. That's keeping power through
faith isn't it? Unto salvation. Well I was thinking
earlier about dear old Jacob. What was the promise to Jacob?
What was the promise to Jacob? It's a lovely promise that you
can look at and you can really, like the apostle says, be jealous
or be zealous after the best gifts. And the dear Lord said
this to Jacob as he set out, I will be with thee. You know,
friends, with a soft heart, you'd put both arms around the dear
Lord, wouldn't you? I will be with thee. And then
he says this, I will keep thee in all places. He didn't say,
Jacob, Jacob, your path's gonna be quite an easy path. It's gonna
be a path that you're really gonna like, and you won't need
keeping, because you know what Jacob's heart was like. Jacob
was a deceiver, a supplanter, wasn't he? Jacob was everything
that you and I are. But no, he said to Jacob, Jacob,
I will be with thee. I will keep thee in all places.
You know, we can read that and turn over or carry on with the
chapter. That never left Jacob. That never left him. And when
he come into some of those places, you think what rung in his heart.
All places. All places. When he was down with Laban,
all places, did the Lord really mean it? All places. And then when he came to meet
Esau, all places. You think of the crowning blessing
he had. He already had that from the Lord. I will be with thee,
and I will keep thee. And then he had another blessing,
huge blessing, as he'd come to meet Esau, didn't he? And he said, I will not let thee
go except they'll bless me. Jacob, I've already blessed you.
A few chapters before, I've already blessed you. No, he didn't. No,
this is our God, friends. When the sinner has need, both
in providence and grace, the Lord will give. He said, I will
bless thee. You know, I also thought of this,
I thought how lovely it is to show, the dear Lord Jesus has
shown through the scripture that Jacob and Joseph were heirs together. Now I know it doesn't run in
families, I know that friends, I know that there's no way that
we can understand how God works because he's sovereign. But when
he's put it down for us, when he's put it down for us, friends,
dear old Jacob walked it years before Joseph did. He walked
it years before. We don't know whether he told
Joseph everything, because some personal things you don't tell
everybody, do you? Some of those personal things
of the heart and you and God, you don't tell. But Joseph came
into the same path. Look what that dear man went
into. Look where he went to. That word was good for the father,
it was good for the son. It was, friends. I will keep
thee in all places whither thou goest. Joseph, a free man down
in Egypt, run in Potiphar's house. Can I do this wickedness and
sin against my God? of God. If he had fallen friend
where would Egypt have landed? Where would Egypt have landed
in the famine? We've got a fallen man look at him I know Joseph
was a fallen man but he was a precious type of Christ and who is the
man? Pharaoh said he declared as a
man stood in front of him he said where shall we find such
a man? What was he saying? Where should
we find such a man who's being kept by God? Where should we
find such a man who has faith with God? Where should we find
him? There could only be one. That
was the son of Jacob. There can only be one. That's
the son of God, the Lord Jesus. Where can we find him? Friend,
you'll find him through faith. That's the only place you can
find him. faith is something that is so
precious because I was going to try and get to it but it reveals
Christ to us faith takes hold of him you know I really feel
friends that we believe in a revealed Christ to the soul I know a lot
don't understand that and I know it might be something
that's spoken about in a high way, but I don't mean it like
that. I mean, a sweet revelation of a precious Christ to the soul
will keep you. It will. It'll keep you, friends. And all the faith, the faith
that he gives when he reveals himself, it's only faith can
see him. Their natural eye can't see him. Faith alone, faith alone can
see the dear Redeemer. in all his beauty. We have so
many in the scripture that exemplify this verse. If you just think
of Mordecai, he was such a humble man. He didn't want to be anything. He didn't want to be anything,
friends. The Lord made him something. That's what's so lovely with
God, isn't it? It's those that don't want, God
gives. It's those that want and want
and are... Well, we've seen it in many characters,
haven't we? But this dear Mordecai, how did
the Lord keep him? He kept him from falling down
at man's feet. He kept him from worshipping
man. He did. He kept him, friends. How many times that dear man
must have thought, or he must have prayed so hard, Lord, do
keep me from doing these things. It would have been so easy, wouldn't
it? Mordecai, I fall at Haman's feet, the story's over. The story's
over. And so's the wonders of God.
So's the miracle of God. So are the blessed promises laid
out all through Esther. It's all gone, why? Because one
man fallowed another man's feet and he shouldn't have done it.
And if you go right into Revelation, we see exactly the same thing
of John on the Isle of Patmos. And the angels telling him, John
must have felt overwhelmed. And he fell at the angel's feet.
And I've often felt quite sweet about this. The angel knew his place, friends. He knew he wasn't as high as
God. He knew, didn't he? He said,
see thou do it not. He didn't wait and let John stay
down there for a minute so that he could glory in the pride.
No, it's not like that in heaven. No. See they'll do it not. Why? I am thy fellow servant
of the brethren. He was the same. Why? Because they were to declare
the name of Jesus. Think how many times that angel
had been sent forth to declare the glorious name of Jesus, and
there was poor John in exile. He couldn't declare it to anybody,
but he was the same nature, the same spirit. He still did, and
he did it by pen. He did it by pen, friends. What
a thought this is. Who are kept by the power of
God through faith unto salvation. These dear people were kept. yes they received salvation on
earth they did and like simeon and all of them they received
salvation in a precious christ before they even got there they
received it by faith they were saved friends i don't mean glibly
saved they were saved by with an everlasting salvation through
a precious christ they were actually safe him writer says doesn't
he not more safe but not more secure or something like that,
doesn't he? He said that because he knew
it and these dear people did and oh when the day came, when
the day came, there's a little grave at the dicker, it's only
a little one, I think it might be a child as you come around
the corner at the back, it's just a little grave and one word
on it, kept. Isn't that lovely? kept all their life. You know at our wedding vows
we say those things, don't we? Keep the only unto ourselves. And how many times do you say
that to the Lord? Because he says it to you. You're
mine. They shall be mine. They are
mine. My beloved is mine and I am his.
Think of it, friend, this oneness. in faith, in salvation. And then
when they come to pass the vale of tears, when they come to pass
the river, what do they do? They sing his praise in death.
They do, because he kept them. He kept them, he didn't let them
go. He didn't let go of them once. You know, when your children
are young, it's a frightening feeling, isn't it? If you're
in a crowd and you let go of their hands. And you think, where
have they gone? Everything goes through your
mind, doesn't it? The Lord doesn't worry about that. No, he doesn't
think like you and I, where have they gone? Why? Because he never lets go. He
never lets go. Just briefly, ready to be revealed
in the last time. It's a lovely thing if you and
I have the sweet exercise of waiting for the creature, for
the manifestation of the creature, the sons of God, the daughters
of God, are you waiting for it? It says, ready to be revealed
at the last time. These who are being kept, these
who are being kept by the spirit of God, these who have faith
unto salvation, I believe the church is waiting. I believe
it's waiting. And the Lord says they're ready
to be revealed in the last time. I like to think, and I know it's
personal, but were they waiting for you? Was the church waiting
for you? Ready to be revealed in the last
time. The apostle says we're in the last time. We've been
in the last time since the beginning of the Gospels. But he says these
are ready to be revealed. These souls that I'm keeping
and helping and giving faith through salvation, they're ready.
Oh, that we might see it in their day. This is just one aspect
of looking at it, friends, that we might have those revealed. Revealed as children of God.
And may it be a divine, holy exercise with us each to pray
on. As the Lord says, they shall
be revealed in the last times. But these revelations are few
and far between in a personal way, aren't they? And I know
friends that are all done by degrees and nobody can hold you
to account that you've got to have this or you've got to have
that. The narrow and the wicked gate tells us that we must be
born again, we must repent, we must be found in Christ. But
this revelation is entirely of the Lord's giving. It's even
the tiniest, I mean, a drop. If you have a drop of fresh water
and a drop of sea water, you can tell the difference. You
could tell the difference. It only needs to be a drop. So
here, you can tell the difference. You know, the devil will never
give a soft heart. He can't. He's unable to give
a soft heart and lead you to Christ. Yes, he can give you
an emotional heart. He can give you an emotional
heart and lead you to the world. But to lead you to a precious
Christ, in all his beauty, it has to be the dear Redeemer. The Holy Spirit takes of the,
I've always loved that. Because it's always been such
a mystery to me. That he takes of the things of
Jesus and he reveals them. He reveals them, when? When? When the sinner has need. That need, only the Lord knows. That brink of despair, only the
Lord knows. Only he knows. Only he knows
how close many have got before he's taken of the things of Jesus
and he's shown them to the dying sinner. A trumpet shall be heard
and they shall come that were ready to perish, they shall come
friends, revealed in the last times and we are in the last
times. The next generation will be in
the last times and the next if the Lord spares it, the earth.
But there will be last times for us each. there will be that
last revelation of Christ. When I say that, I think of the
dear Redeemer. When he came to the house of
Simon and the lady came behind him and she anointed his head.
And they made a fuss and he said, let her alone. She has done this
against the day of my burial. The last anointing that he should
have was shown. And so it is with the dear old
saints as they come nearer and nearer glory, that last time
when he shows himself just before, just before the night, just before
the night, friends, because he knows that when they open their
eyes in the morning, they shall see him face to face, ready to
be revealed. We've had those that have passed
within the veil, and oh, the glory they must have opened their
eyes to. Kept through faith, ready to
be revealed, and then they open their eyes in glory. Never to
worry again. Never to pray again. I know that
sounds strange, but they've got nothing to pray about. They're
with you. nothing to consider, nothing. Well, I'll read the text because
if you just take the text home, it's just so beautiful. For you,
heaven, who are kept by the power of God's, our walk through faith
unto salvation, the remedy, but ready to be revealed in the last
times. May the dear Lord Forgive anything
that's been said and may he have all the honour and all the glory.