I think I told you at one time.
Turn to Matthew 24 and 25 with me first. I think I told you
the story one time of my wife's grandmother and how the Lord
revealed Himself to her and in her. She was a member of a Methodist
church and so-called, and didn't know the Lord, didn't know the
truth. Thought she did. And she heard a preacher named
Henry Mahan Her son brought her to hear Henry Mahan preach the
truth. And her comments were, when she
first started hearing it, he contradicts himself. He just
contradicts himself. You know, the truth seems contradictory
when you first hear it. Okay? Here we just prayed, send
thy Holy Spirit. And we just read how that he
comes, he goes where he will. So where does he go? To those
who call for him or to those who he will? It's both. He goes where he will
and they call for him. Whosoever shall call on the name
of the Lord shall be saved. That's right. You will not be
saved unless you call. That's what the Scripture says.
Are we saved because we call? We call because we're saved.
It's not a contradiction. Whosoever the Lord calls, they
call. We just read in Proverbs 1, it
says, you did not choose, didn't you? The Lord never in His Word
ever says, I'm glad you chose me. But He does say, I'm condemning
you because you didn't. You did not choose. Are you with me? He condemns,
you did not choose. You would not listen. You would
not. You did not. No man will. He
said, you will not come unto me that you might have life.
Didn't he? Christ stood and said, come unto
me. Then he turned around and said, you will not come unto
me. Who will come? He turned around and said, no
man can come unto me except the Father which hath sent me. Draw
him. Who will come? All that the Father
giveth me shall come unto me. What's the point, preacher? His
glory, His power, His truth. He does condemn people for not
choosing. He does condemn people for not
calling, for not hearing, for not listening. They've turned
away their ears from the truth. Why does anybody turn their ears
to the truth? Why does anybody hear the truth?
Because he gave them ears to hear. Salvation is up above. Is that contradictory? It seems
like it to man, but it's not. And once you're born again, you'll
know. I was blind. Now I see. I was deaf. Now I hear. I was
dead. Now I'm alive. Okay, that's a little mini-message. Same message. Matthew 25, the
Word of God says much about the day of the Lord, the coming of
our Lord. Very much. Matthew 24, the disciples asked
him, verses 1 through 4, they heard him say in verse 2, about
the temple, not one stone shall be left upon another. And verse
3, as he sat on the Mount of Olives, his disciples came and
said, Tell us, when shall these things be? What shall be the
sign of thy coming into the world? And the first thing he said,
Take heed that no man deceive you. Now that sure goes with
what we just studied. And he said, there are many deceivers.
Look at the next verse. Many shall come in my name, saying,
I am Christ. That is, saying that Jesus is
the Christ. You hear me? Not they'll come
saying, I am the Christ, but they'll say that Jesus is the
Christ. Well, this goes hand in hand
with 1 John 10. Just because they say that doesn't
mean they believe it. And shall deceive many. Many
deceivers. Now in verse 11, many false prophets
shall rise and shall deceive many. Many, many, many. Look at verse
24. There shall arise false Christs
and false prophets, and shall show great signs and wonders,
insomuch that if it were possible, they shall deceive the very elect.
I've told you before. And if they say, look here, look
there, don't go with them, don't believe them. And in verse 31, I quoted this,
he said that he shall send his angels, God shall send the angels
with the great sound of a trumpet, gather together his elect from
the four winds from one end of heaven to the other. And he went
on throughout this chapter, chapter 24, to sum up. end times and things that would
take place. And he gathered his elect, though,
in the end, and the Scripture says in 2 Thessalonians that
he's going to destroy the world with the brightness of his coming.
Gather his elect together and they will be raised, the dead,
your mother and My sister and your mother and father and your
father and mother and grandmother and my dad and on and on, those
who know the Lord, who died and went before us, the graves are
going to open up. And they're going to come out
of that grave. When Christ comes, it's all going
to be instantaneous, just like they did when he was crucified. And we which are alive and remain,
shall be caught up together with them in the air, and so shall
we meet the Lord in the air. And Scripture says, so shall
we ever be with the Lord. And comfort one another. This
is what our Lord said. But he said in verse 36, to sum
up the last of the last days, like Noah, verse 36, of that
day and hour, Noah was no man. Not the angels of heaven, but
my Father only. But, as in the days of Noah,
so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be, as in the days
that were before the flood. They were eating and drinking.
There's nothing wrong with eating and drinking. Our Lord did. Marrying
and giving in marriage until the day that Noah entered the
ark and knew not, were not aware. They weren't waiting. They didn't
believe until the flood came, took them all away. So shall
also the coming of the Son of Man be. They were eating and
drinking, which is fine, and marrying, which is fine. But
the vast majority, millions, those things were their life.
They didn't give God a thought. And there was a preacher of righteousness
named Noah. who was telling them for a hundred
and twenty years that God doesn't love this world, He's going to
destroy it. He's angry with the wicked every day. And the overflowing
scourge of God's wrath is coming. But God is merciful. God is love. God is gracious. To those who find grace in the
eyes of the Lord, God tells them, there's an ark. There's a place
of safety. Come. Come in. And they heard
it. They heard Noah preaching that,
didn't they? Have they not all heard? Yeah. And they reject it. We don't
believe that. God's not like that. God's not angry. God is love. Our God wouldn't do that. And
He came. And our Lord Jesus Christ said
that. The Lord Jesus Christ said that. As in the days of Noah. That's the way it's going to
be. Nothing's changed. Nothing's changed. But Noah. Noah and a few others. A small,
a small group. Is there strength in numbers?
No. Is there truth in numbers? No. Few are chosen. Many are called. Straight is the gate, narrow
is the way that leadeth unto life, and few there be that find
it. Wide is the gate, broad is the way that leadeth to destruction.
Many go therein. As in the days of Noah. So they
were marrying and giving and marrying. But Noah found grace. It's grace of God to be warned.
Noah being warned of God, moved with fear, prepared an ark to
the saving of his house. He didn't know when the Lord
was coming. He didn't know, but he was waiting. He was waiting.
He had this life of God, the grace of God, truth of God in
his heart and his mind, and he's waiting on the Lord to come.
Waiting on the Lord. So he says in this Matthew 24,
Verse 42, Watch therefore, you know not what hour your Lord
doth come. Who's he talking to? He's talking
to his disciples. They're going to be watching.
Be ready, verse 44, be ready in such an hour as you think
not, the Son of Man cometh. I think it was Spurgeon one time
was talking to his preacher students. He said, Do you really think
the Lord is coming tonight? Today, do you really think that
he is? And most of them agree, no, we
don't think so. He said, when you think not. When you think not. So wish, watch, and wait. Then
he commended a faithful and wise servant, verse 45. This gives
me great comfort, consolation, I've been called to preach his
gospel. What's the ruler over his house, preacher, pastor,
over his church doing? What's he to be doing while the
Lord tarries? Giving meat, feeding my sheep. Blessed, verse 46, is that servant
when his Lord, when he comes, you'll find him so doing. That's
what he's doing, feeding. As in the days of Noah. As in the days of Noah, do you
not think that many were infatuated with that ark at first? They
are now. Some fellow built, supposedly
built a replica of the ark and people are going there by the
thousands. Not having a clue what that ark's
all about. Rather who? I don't want to see it. I'm not interested in it. That's
an image. As far as I'm concerned, it's
a great image. But they were infatuated with that, and you
know, many people are infatuated with and enamored with the second
coming of Christ. If I had announced, what was
the title of this message? This wouldn't have got it, Oil
and the Vessels. But if I had announced the title
publicly, The Last Days, or the Bible study, anti-Christ, this
building would be completely full. Completely full. People are enamored with that,
infatuated with that. They want to know about that.
But the coming of Christ is not an event, like a big event. It's a person coming. Someone's
coming. See, there are people that are
taken up with the second coming of Christ that don't know the
Christ who's coming, who are really not that concerned
with His first coming. Luke chapter 12. Go over to Luke
chapter 12. I want to get to Matthew 25 in just a minute.
But Luke chapter 12, building up to this, our Lord said, Watch
now, wait. And this is why He told this
parable in Matthew 25. Wait, watch. We talked about
marrying. Luke chapter 12, verse 31. He said this. He said, Seek ye
the kingdom of God. What is the kingdom of God? It's Christ. Remember? Remember
he said the kingdom of God is among you right now. Him. Seek him. Seek ye the Lord
while he may be found. That's what Jeremiah wrote. And
all these things should be added unto you. Fear not, little flock.
He's talking to his chosen disciples. It's your Father's good pleasure
to give you the kingdom. Sell that you have. Give alms.
Provide yourselves bags which wax not old, a treasure in the
heavens that faileth not. What's he talking about? Selling
and buying and all that. The truth. Buy the truth and
sell it not. Count the cost and give whatever
it takes to have it. Go where it is. Sell out. Pack
your bags. And go where the gospel is and
don't leave until I come. Read on. Verse 34, where your
treasure is, there will your heart be also. Treasure? Doesn't Colossians 2 say in him
is hid all the treasures? The unsearchable riches of Christ?
Few people know about that. He says where your treasure
is, that's where your heart will be, your affection. Let your
loins be girded about, your lights burning. Girded about with what? What do you gird about your loins?
Truth. Your lights burning. That's his
word, a lamp under my feet, a light under my path. And you yourselves,
verse 36, like unto men that wait for their Lord. So when
he shall return from the wedding, that when he cometh and knocketh,
They may open unto him immediately. Blessed are those servants whom
the Lord, when he cometh, shall find watching. Verily I say unto
you, that he shall gird himself, make them to sit down to meet,
and will come forth and serve him. If he shall come in a second
watch, third watch, and find them so, O blessed are those
servants." Watch, watch, watch. Watch for what? Whom? Brother Gabe preached the message.
Whom? In fact, the Jews of old, they
said they were waiting on Christ to come, and He came, and they
rejected Him. They didn't recognize Him. They
weren't really waiting on Him. They were waiting on the Kingdom
of Israel. They were waiting to get back control of the thing.
Same today with many. So many people speak of the rapture,
the rapture, the rapture, the rapture, like it's some big sporting
event. Can't wait until this happens, this event. It's personal. And when he comes, our Lord said,
when he comes, they're going to be horrified to hear him say,
I never knew you. I never knew you. All right, look at Matthew 25.
This is what he's leading up to, this parable of a marriage. Stay with me. Not with me. I pray the Spirit of God enable
you to stay with Him. Our Lord gives this parable of
a wedding. He just said, talked about a
wedding. There will be marrying and giving in marriage. Oh, let
me be wedded to, married to Jesus Christ. He gave this parable of a wedding,
and there were ten virgins in this Supposed to be going to
this wedding. Look at it. Then shall the kingdom
of heaven be likened unto ten virgins, which took their lamps,
and went forth to meet the bridegroom. Five of them were wise, five
were foolish. They that were foolish took their
lamps, took no oil with them. But the wise took oil in their
vessels with their lamps. In other words, they had oil
in the lamps and they had vessels full of oil. While the bridegroom tarried,
they all slumbered and slept. At midnight there was a cry made,
Behold, the bridegroom cometh. Go ye out to meet him. And all
those virgins, they all arose and trimmed their lamps. And
the foolish panicked all of a sudden and said, They realize we don't
have any oil. And they said to the wise, Give
us your oil. Our lamps are gone out. We don't
have any light. The wives answered and said, Not so, no. Lest there
be not enough for us and you, go to them that sell. Buy for
yourselves. And while they went to buy, the
bridegroom came, and they were ready, went in with him to the
marriage, and the door was shut. We just read about that. Afterwards
came also the other virgins, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us.
And he answered and said, Merrily I say unto you, I know you not. And so our Lord says to his disciples,
and you who hear, watch therefore, for you know neither the day
nor the hour wherein the Son of Man cometh. There is a wedding. There is
a marriage about to happen. There are a people that have
been betrothed, chosen. There you go, preacher. Yes,
I do. They are betrothed. They were
chosen by God and given to His beloved Son. Do you know why
God created this whole universe? Do you know why? To the praise
of the glory of His Son. Everything redounds to the glory
of His Son. The Son is called the Son. He
is called the tree of life. He is called the water of life.
It's all about Christ. God created everything for His
Son, alright? God made a kingdom. It's called
the kingdom of His dear Son. He's the apple of God's eye.
He's His beloved, alright? When God said in the beginning,
it's not good that man should be alone, He said, I'll make
him a helpmate. I'll give him a bride. I'll give
him a wife. He'll be the head and she'll
be his body. What's that speaking of? Adam
and Eve? The second Adam. God made him a bride, gave him
a wife before she was ever born. Her head stood. Alright? And then God said, I'm going
to give him a bride for his glory, for his honor. And He chose a
people. And there's a marriage that's
going to take place. A holy union before God. unites a people with His Son,
Christ the Bridegroom and His Church, His people, the Bride.
Paul wrote about this in Ephesians 5. He says, For this cause shall
a man leave his father and mother and cleave unto his wife, and
the two shall become one flesh. And he said, This is a mystery.
And I'm not speaking of marriage. I'm speaking of Christ and His
Church. He left the Father and came down
here to find his bride, and every one of them were forlorn women,
harlots, no good, dead in trespassing sin. But this altogether lovely
son of the Most High God came down like Hosea with Gomer, and
he bought her to himself with a price, not corruptible things,
silver and gold, but with his own precious blood. He said,
And they became united in holy matrimony, one, one in Christ. He loves her, and bless God,
he's created a new creature in all of his people, and they love
him. Not like he loves them, but they do love him. And they're
united. And he said, I'm leaving. And
he went back to the right hand of the Father on high and sat
down until all his kingdom was made of all his people. The gospel
goes out to all the world. He sends his Holy Spirit with
this anointing oil. I just gave it away. The oil of his Spirit, the gospel
of his grace, his power, his glory, his mercy, his love, his
grace, his Spirit, he sends his gospel. And He quickens them,
and they're all brought into the kingdom. This is the will
of God, that they gather together in one, all things in Christ,
even in Him. One happy people. And in glory
some day, there's going to be a married supper of the Lamb.
And He says, just wait, I'm coming. Wait. And He didn't tell us when.
He said, when you see all these things, you know it's stirring.
He said, well, it's about to happen. I'm at the door, he said.
But you don't know the day. You don't know the hour. You
just wait. I'm coming. I preached a message
one time. I love it. Joshua said, we're
going to take the city. You're going in. We'll take Rahab
out. He says, it's all over but the
shouting. When you hear the shout, he's here. The trump shall sound,
and he's come. Is the bridegroom coming? What
do you think about that? You want to be there? You know
who wants to be there? Now, did I mention about the
streets of gold, or did I say anything about what we're going
to be doing? All about him. It's like a bride. You know,
there's some young girls, most young girls want to get married.
They're infatuated with and enamored with getting married. They want
to be married. They want to have children. They
want to have a house. And the whole thing of marriage is just
romantic to them, you know. They want to wear a dress. They
want to wear a white dress and a veil. And they want to walk
down the aisle and everybody make over them. Yes, aren't I
beautiful? They're all infatuated with that whole ceremony and
all that. They want to get together with
all these people. And it's like religion today. They make a lot
over the bride, over man and what he's doing. Aren't we beautiful?
Doesn't God love us? We might say, I do, we might
not. He's waiting on us. He's down there waiting on us,
and we're going to let Him be our husband. That's what religion
does today, okay? And they make over the ceremony,
and they make over all the get-togethers, and everybody's getting together.
They make over the food, and they make over the dress, and they
make over the music, and they make over all the good times.
We're all going to have a good time. Those who love the bridegroom. A real marriage is when a young
lady falls in love with a man. She falls in love with that man.
And I tell you, it happens quite often. They can't wait for this
ceremony. They say, I want to get married
now! Now! And in God's eyes, they're married
before that ceremony. Adam and Eve didn't go through
a ceremony. Eve wasn't wearing anything. And what he did was
unite two people in love. They loved each other. They didn't
need anything. They didn't have anything. They didn't need anything.
They had each other. And that's Christ and His bride. And God's people are waiting
on Him. Here's the difference. They're waiting on Him. Alright, let's look at this very
briefly, okay? That's how the introduction.
A marriage is about to happen. Our marriage is about to happen.
There were ten virgins. Look at this. Ten virgins. Virgins. Young maidens. They at least
appeared to be pure, undefiled, reserved for the bridegroom.
Scripture speaks much of virginity. Young ladies, young men. Listen
to me carefully, okay? Listen to me. Let me have your
attention. Let me tell you what God says about virginity. He
commands it. Not an option. Do not give yourself
to anyone except your husband or wife, and that in marriage.
Do not. Our Lord commands it. Do not
give yourself to any or all or anyone but a husband or wife,
and the Lord says, in the Lord, a believer. And then and then
only is it before God holy, the bed undefiled. And it's a good
thing. It's wholesome. It's good for
you. If you don't do that, if you
don't wait, if you give yourself, it may destroy you. You may die of some disease.
Do you hear me? That's what God's word says.
It's not an option. But now this is talking about
spiritual virginity. All right. Christ's words are
spirit. He's talking about spiritual
virginity, virgins before God. There are those whom God has
chosen, and the Scripture says he's going to present them as
chaste virgins. Now, this doesn't sound like
a contradiction, but this is so. All of them were defiled. All of them were harlots. All
of them were adulterers. All of them were fornicators
in the world. All of them were, but God. Through Christ, because
Christ was made sin, he's going to present them holy, unblameable,
unreprovable in God's sight, chaste virgins before him. Not only just as if they'd never
sinned, but really without sin. And what I'm doing right there
is, oh my, this is the gospel. It goes through God as chosen.
They are preserved by Christ and they're waiting on Christ,
all right? There are those who seem to be. They may even look better than
God's true people. They may dress a little more
conservatively. They may seem so. They may look
so. They may sound so. Their language may... seem religious. They may be all whitewashed,
our Lord said. And oh, are they to be shocked
when the Lord says, you're not mine, you're not mine. All right,
here's the difference. Five were wise and five were
foolish. They looked the same, but five
were wise and five were foolish. The foolish took their lamps,
took no oil with The wives took oil in their vessels with
their lamps. Every one of you have a lamp.
It's lying in your lap right now. Thy word is a lamp under
my feet, a light under my path. This word means nothing if you
don't have oil. There's no light in this word.
You can memorize it cover to cover. You can say you believe
it. You can quote it like Jack Van Impey. Quote it. If you don't
have oil, there's no light in you. There's no truth. There's
no salvation. Are you getting the picture here?
Okay. Everybody has a lamp. All right?
We all have a vessel. We all have ears. We all have
eyes. We all have a soul. We're all
sitting here hearing the Word of God. Who will have life? Who will understand? Who will
know wisdom? Who will go in? Those that receive
this precious oil. And all men and women have some
natural light of reasoning, of rationale. Romans 1 says the
things of God are clearly seen. There's eternal power in Godhead. They have eyes. They have ears.
They have eyes, but they don't see it. They have ears, but they
don't hear. People hear the Bible, but they
don't hear. They see it right in front of
them, but they don't see. Why? No oil. No oil. All right? They all have lamps. But the wise had vessels. It
doesn't even say that the foolish had a vessel. They didn't have
this vessel full of oil. They had lamps, but no vessel. What about God's people? There's
a new creature. A vessel of mercy, created in
Christ Jesus. A vessel, a receptacle, that's
filled with the Spirit of God, that's filled with the oil of
God, that's filled with the grace of God, that's filled with the
truth of God. What's the truth of God? Christ. The fullness
of God. He takes the oil of the gospel,
the word of truth, the gospel of their salvation, which is
Christ himself, and anoints them, and fills them, and fills their
heart, fills their mind, fills their soul with the gospel of
Christ. And it lights their lamp. It
lightens the page. It lightens all things to them.
Like you. You heard about Noah before?
You did. You didn't know that Noah was
Christ, did you? Huh? You heard about Ruth before? You heard about Ruth? You thought
it was about Ruth's faith. No, it's about Boaz. When the
oil of the Spirit, the Spirit of God, the life of God, new
life comes, the life of Christ. He takes the things of Christ
and you see Christ everywhere. Everywhere. It's all Christ,
isn't it? It sure is. Now you have light. Now you're wise. What's the wisdom
of God? A lot of people talk about wisdom.
Scripture says, hath not God made foolish the wisdom of this
world? In the wisdom of God, the world by wisdom knew not
God, but in the wisdom of God, God pleased God by the foolishness
of preaching. Well, you don't have to hear
a preacher to be saved. You're just denied what God said. In
the wisdom of God, The world, by wisdom, knew not God. You're
not going to be rationalized. You're not going to be instructed
in the kingdom of God. You're not going to be indoctrinated
in the kingdom of God. You're going to be born into the kingdom of God.
How? By power and the incorruptible
seed. What's that? What's the incorruptible
seed? Christ. Christ is the wisdom of God and
the power of God. He said, My sheep hear not a
doctor, and they're going to hear my voice. So people have lamps, they have
a word, they have a mind, they have a heart, they have a soul,
they have a reasoning, a certain amount of reasoning or understanding,
but God says their understandings darken. He darkens them. But God. Scripture says, The
light of the righteous rejoiceth, Proverbs 13, but the lamp of
the wicked shall be put out. The light that's in them, if
it be darkness, well, crazy darkness. He giveth His beloved sleep.
And we go to sleep at night. There is a warning, let us not
sleep as do others. Awake now that sleepeth, arise
and Christ shall give thee light. There is a warning to that. Let
us not sleep. Watch. The Lord rebuked His disciples
for not watching with Him. Watch. Awake. Watch that ye enter
not into temptation. But this is in the context here.
These virgins, the true ones, they fell asleep. They fell asleep. And we do too. They fall asleep. And it's okay. It's all right. He's going to awaken us. And
they all slumbered and slept. Verse 6, at midnight there was
a cry made. At midnight. And it was dark. It was dark. Behold, the bridegroom
cometh. Go out. Go out. Leave. To meet what? Him. Go meet Him. Go out. Oh, the bridegroom cometh. You know, these criers have been
crying from the beginning. The prophets, the apostles, evangelists,
pastors, teachers have all been saying, He cometh. The Old Testament,
somebody's coming. Go out. Out of the world, I've
come down to bring you out, to bring you up." Where? To meet
Him. Come out from among them. Come unto me, Christ said. The
apostles said, He's here. He's here. The bridegroom, He's
here. A few heard the voice. Then the
epistles and the revelations say, He's coming again. Behold,
the bridegroom cometh. He cometh. All right, here's
the cry. Go out to meet Him. Leave this
world. Leave sin. Leave. Then all the
virgins rose and trimmed their lamps. Verse 7. They all arose. My pastor brought up a wonderful symbolism here. He said when
everyone gets sick or in trouble and goes through trials, religious
people go through some degree of trials, All people, when they
get sick and troubled and go through trials, and men and women
are aroused, they arise, they wake up, kind of an awakening. And they realize something just
serious, especially when they get to their deathbeds, when
death approaches. And everybody gets religious,
don't they? They get aroused and they arise. What are we going
to do? What are we going to do? And they reach for a Bible. They
call for the preacher. Help me. I don't have any light. You don't need to call for the preacher
if you know Christ. Our Lord said the Word of God
will be in you as a wellspring springing up when you need it.
You will die in peace. with the light of the knowledge
of the glory of God in you, the oil of the Spirit. But people
all around, they get interested when death is approaching. And
then they get worried, no hope, no light, in darkness. Give me
some of yours. I can't help you. I can't help
you. And here's what the wise said. Go, verse 9, go to them that
sell. Buy for yourself. I'm not selling anything this
morning, but I'm telling you the truth of who Christ is, who
God is, what Christ said. I'm telling. The Scriptures does
say, buy the truth and sell it not. Our Lord said, provide for
yourself everything you have and provide bags that wax not
old, treasures in heaven. What He's talking about is, the
stuff of this world, count the cost, nothing's worth Anything,
it's vanity of vanities. What will you give in exchange
for your soul? Don't give yourself. Why do you purchase that which
is not bread? Do whatever it takes to have
this truth until it's finally in your heart and mind and soul,
and you have something that can't be taken away from you, and when
the time comes, the bridegroom coming, you're going to rejoice.
You're going to have a great hope. So they said, we can't help you.
Verse 10. And while they went to buy, the
bridegroom came. It was too late. Old Brother
Scott Richardson once preached a message and he talked about
how men would give everything they have to hear one more message.
One more message. Thought nothing of it while it
was being preached. Don't need that. Then when the time comes, Let me close with this. Luke
13. And our Lord said of those that
wanted it too late, He said, I never knew you. And they weren't
wanting Him, they were just wanting Him to wed Him. But in Luke chapter
13, look at verse 24. And I read this to you, or quoted
it to you before. Our Lord said in verse 24, strive
to enter in. You have it? Luke 13. Strive
to enter in at the straight gate. For many, I say unto you, will
seek to enter in and shall not be able. When's that? Well, it's
too late when they're on their deathbed. When once the master
of the house is risen up and hath shut to the door, and ye
begin to stand without, to knock at the door, saying, Lord, Lord,
open unto us, he shall answer and say unto you, I know ye not
which ye are. Then shall ye begin to say, with
eating and drunk in thy presence, thou hast taught in our streets,
he shall say, I tell you, I know ye not which ye are. Depart from
me, all ye workers of iniquity. There shall be weeping. Gnashing
of teeth, you see Abraham and Isaac, Jacob, all the prophets,
the kingdom of God. Do yourselves thrust out. Now
come from east and west, north and south, and shall sit down
in the kingdom of God. Nobody's scared into the kingdom
of God. Nobody's frightened into the
kingdom of God. I'm not trying to frighten anybody. Here's what
I am trying to do, and what I hope the Spirit of God will do. is
will cause somebody to understand, realize that they don't have
this life of God in them. They don't have this oil. They don't have this faith. They
don't have this love for Christ. They don't have this grace. They
don't have this. Hopefully, the Spirit of God will give them
this thirst, give them this hunger, give them this desire, this yearning
for Christ. And that He will come through
what I'm doing or some other man is doing and preaching the
gospel, and make a vessel of mercy, and fill them with this
life-giving oil of His Spirit, to where they fall in love with
the Lord Jesus Christ, and out of love with the world, and they're
waiting on Him. And they wouldn't sell Him for
anything in the world, because they're waiting on Him. The Spirit
of God must do that. And I tell you, He said he'll
give the Holy Spirit to them that ask him.