Thank you, Gabe, Hannah. The easy part is over, Hannah.
The hard part is trying to listen now after that. It's difficult for any of us,
impossible to listen unless the Lord gives us ears to hear, isn't
it? So many things distract us. I
have a terrible head cold right now, I feel like I'm down in
a barrel. I know you've been there, maybe there yourself,
but I don't know, let's hope we get along well with this.
This is one of the most glorious portions of scripture in God's
word. Told you this is a Sunday morning
message. But. I don't say the best message. When John wrote of Christ. He said we beheld his glory. Speaking of himself and the apostles
Peter. Peter said we have not. We have not made any cunningly
devised fables, but were eyewitnesses of his majesty. We saw his power
and his coming, and we were eyewitnesses of his majesty. He was talking
about when they were up on the mount with the Lord, beholding
Christ's glory. And if we by faith can see just
a glimpse of who Christ really is, then it will greatly strengthen
our faith. Faith is in a person. Faith is
to believe he is the Christ, who he is. And it will greatly
strengthen our faith just to see him a little higher than
we saw him before. It will give us more peace to
know that He's our God, and we're in His hands, and He ever lives
to reign over us. And it will make this world,
if we see Christ a little more glorious than before, it will
make this world pale a little bit. It will make the things
of this world a little more insignificant. So we need to see Him double.
We need to see His glory. That's what this is all about.
This is all about. Thought about why I preach, and
I really am sincere when I say this, that the first thing I
want to do is glorify our God, His Christ, be true to His Word,
and I want to edify you. I want to do something, strengthen
the brethren, edify the brethren, feed the sheep. Well, we are
strengthened and edified when God is glorified. They go hand
in hand. Go hand in hand. Back in chapter
16, the Lord had just told the disciples in verse 27, the Son
of Man shall come. The Son of Man shall come. Peter
later on wrote in the last days, scoffers. Mockers shall say,
where's the promise of his coming? All things continue as they have
since from the beginning. Peter said, I want to remind
you, I want to stir up your mind by remembering, he shall come.
He is coming. He's told us to wait. When we
come here, that's sort of what we're doing. We're coming to
one more time here of his coming. And we're waiting on him. And
I truly believe the Lord is going to come when his people are gathered. I believe that whether it's Sunday
morning or Wednesday night I don't know. That's how he said he would
come when they were all together on top of the mountain. So come in like manners you've
seen him go. So that's what I believe anyway. But he shall come. He
said he will come. He said I come quickly. In the
last chapter of this book, that is the whole book, he said behold
I come quickly. Compared to how much time has
elapsed, it's quick, it's soon, very soon. We're in the seventh
day. And it says, he shall come in
the glory of his father with his angel. In the glory of his
father, all flesh shall see him as he really is. As he really
is. How is he? In the glory of his father that's
what he meant by that all flesh will see him don't most don't
do that right now. They see Jesus. Made a little
lower than the angels. We know that was for the purpose
of suffering death. That's what Hebrews 2 said. But
we see him crowned with glory and honor. High and lifted up. But all flesh will see him as
he is in the glory of his father. In verse 27 he shall come with
his angel. And then. Then he shall reward
every man according to his work. Now I should not trouble you.
You've heard enough gospel most of you. To know that. No man is justified by word.
You know that so you know the Lord's not saying that don't
you. The reason I'm dealing with this now is because I didn't
deal with it fully Sunday. But now the Lord will reward
all unbelievers, all the ungodly for their works. And the works
of the flesh, Paul wrote, are manifest. Adultery, fornication,
lasciviousness, uncleanness, and so on and so on and so on.
Manifest, very clear. The works of the flesh. This
is what people strive for, work for. long for and that's what
they did and God will reward. Internal condemnation. Destruction. But now his people those in Christ
are rewarded. They work. But there it's faith
which work at my love and let me just sum this all up by what
Isaiah twenty six twelve says. The hour has brought all our
works for us. It says in us but it's about
this one of the fact. That the Lord is going to reward
us for what Christ has. And God will acknowledge our
works as being Christ. That's something that all right
let's go on he says in verse twenty eight barely truly I say
unto you that there be some. standing here, which shall not
taste of death, till they see the Son of Man coming in his
kingdom. The Lord never said that his
people died. They taste, but they don't die,
they sleep. But he says here, there'll be
some standing here that will not taste of death till they
see the Son of Man coming in his kingdom. There's some then,
when the Lord spoke that, and there's some in here right now. Who have already seen him come
in his. Kingdom is Christ's dominion
and the coming king is the glory and the majesty of the Lord Jesus
Christ have we not seen something of that. That salvation to see
that before we taste of death. And if we do we'll never die. Peter James and John are about
to see the son of God coming in his glory or the Lord's going
to take them up on this mountain and before they die. John we
don't know if he did John do it on the Isle of Pamela and
never gives the record of his death we know Peter we know James
did but. They saw him in his glory so
that's what the Lord is saying that. And verse one now chapter
seventeen after six days. The Lord waited six days. And. Everything in Scripture
is significant. Six days then the Lord reveals
himself. Didn't Peter say don't be ignorant
of this one thing a day is a thousand years a thousand years is a day.
It's been six days folks. You know you take it Peter James
and John his brother. The Lord. Chose these few and
many are called. To do what. What did he choose
these three to do. To behold his glory. That's why
we're chosen. That's why we're chosen our Lord
said that in Isaiah forty three didn't you have I chosen. They said one thing to be my
witnesses. That you might know that I am. And John that's one
of the last things John wrote in it. Now we know and are sure
this is the God of all glory and we've been chosen also to
behold his glory and to be witnesses of him. Now in this story we're
going to behold. Three witnesses three that bear
record in our. Here in our story Peter James
and John. In a moment we'll see other witnesses. All right, took Peter, James,
and John up into, bringing them up into a high mountain apart,
separated them from the rest of the world, and took them up
into a high or lofty place to behold his glory. A mountain. The God took Moses remember when
God took Moses up on Mount Pisgah where he. Killed him and then
buried his body I just read that today last chapter. Deuteronomy. And that's some story but the
Lord buried Moses personally nobody attended that funeral
but God. I thought that that's some story
the Lord buried him he had his body somewhere where nobody could
ever find him. One of the old writers, Matthew Henry, said
he didn't think he saw corruption. I don't know. Anyway, but the
Lord took Moses as the Lord took Moses up on Mount Pisgah to behold
from those lofty heights all the things that God had promised.
So it is that we come up in Mount Zion in a lofty view and we behold
God's glory, see all those things that God has promised us. in
God. All things, all the promises
of God are in him. And behold, he is going a mountain
high and apart, high apart, safe, separate from the world. I thought
of the eagle. Have you ever seen a special
on television of eagles? I know you have. Have you seen
where they make their nests? Nobody can get to them. And where
they hover over their young, these majestic birds, you know. And doesn't that, isn't that
what Scripture says we shall mount up on? Wings of eagles. The Lord takes us up. And this
church is a refuge. The church is a refuge, a high
and lofty place where we see glorious things. And it's a safe
haven, isn't it? It's a good place to be. Like
Peter's going to say in a minute, it's good to be here. So, verse
two, excuse me, and the Lord was transfigured before them.
That is, his figure was transformed, metamorphosed, changed, transfigured
before them. And his face did shine as the
sun, and his raiment was white as the light. The Lord Jesus
Christ, who was and is God, manifests in the flesh. God who took an
image. Christ was the fullness of the
Godhead in a body. Christ is the express image of
God. The only image God ever had,
or has, or ever will have, is Jesus Christ. We're going to
see God someday. Yes, we are, like Job said. Though
no man has ever seen God, yet Job said, and we shall see God
ourself with these eyes, not another, but we shall see him.
Who? Jesus Christ. He is God manifest
in the flesh. The image of God. God is spirit,
but Barbara, he put on an image. He entered into an image. And
here he was transfigured. He wasn't changed. He didn't
change. God didn't change when he came
down here and put on a body. He just veiled himself. He clothed
himself in flesh. But what he did was peel back
that veil for these human beings to see him briefly, just briefly. And for a brief moment, removed
that veil for them to see him as he is, as he is. And it says, In the revelation
his face did shine as the sun in his strength. His face did
shine as the sun, s-u-n, in its strength, that is, at its zenith,
high noon, at its strongest point. Now, all of this is beautiful. When
the sun is coming up in the morning, you can look at it briefly, can't
you? Look at it briefly. But now when
it hits high noon you can't not glance at it for a second. Can't
gaze at it. And especially on a cloudless
day. Well do you know how far we are
from the sun. Is it ninety three million miles.
That right. Ninety three. million miles away
from the sun. And we can't even hardly look
at it. Now, did you get that? Now, God said, I'm higher than
the heavens are above the earth. My glory. Kelly, human flesh can't look on God.
God is a consuming fire. God dwelleth in light, which
no man can approach unto. We can't even look at the natural
sun, let alone the SOE in all its glory. Ninety-three million
miles away and we can't look at it. Well, Christ has said
in the revelation, that is, when we all get to see him, when we
all bear transformed bodies ourselves, we will be able to look on him
as he is, as the sun shining in his face. We will dwell as
beings of life in life means in life. Well and. The Lord is much more glorious
than the natural sun and as I said before most people speak only
of Jesus. And it's obvious they haven't
seen his glory we've seen just a bit of it we preach in part
we know in part no way we try to say something of his glory
we have seen it have we. We try we've seen more than most. And John Peter James and John
did too but. What did they say they weren't
able to look long. And but most folks just have
not seen his glory or they would not speak of him as they did
what are you with me. Folks wouldn't run around referring
to him like they do any ordinary man if they've seen his glory. Disciples didn't. We've seen
him high and lifted up as the sun, scripture says, the sun
of righteousness and has arisen with healing in his wing. Well,
look at verse two, and he was transfigured and his face did
shine as the sun and his raiment was white as light. His face and his clothes. That's his person. They saw his
person and his work. That's a picture of Christ's
person and his work there. And it's in that order. Listen
to me very carefully now. Christ's glory, his chief glory
is his person. If you've ever seen his person,
that's what you'll talk about. And his work is what he does
for us. But, you know, I wouldn't, if
all I ever said about my wife was she's a good cook. She washes
my clothes. She's a good housekeeper. Do
you love your wife? Yes, she's a good housekeeper.
Yes, she does things for me, and she keeps my clothes clean.
You get where I'm coming from? There's some preachers who seem
to preach Christ. He preaches personally. And you love his person, his
personality, who he is. And my pastor has said for years,
you don't arrive at Christ through doctrine. You arrive at doctrine
through Christ. When you preach Christ, his person,
and his reign, and you don't make a god out of his righteousness. We don't worship his righteousness.
We worship Christ, our righteousness. A huge dipper. Let that sink
down into your ear. His person and his work. His
face. We've seen the glory of God in
the face. Not the work, but the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. The person. Verse 3 says that,
Behold, there appeared unto them, that is, the disciples, they saw this. They saw Moses
and Elias or Elijah. the fish by Moses and Elijah
talking with him they appeared unto them but these two were
talking with him. They weren't talking they didn't
come to talk to them they already had. The law and the prophets had
already been written. You remember when the rich man in hell said
that sin father Abraham sin. Lazarus and so forth. Lazarus
up there to warn my brethren he said they had Moses and the
prophet. Oh but no no no no that's good
enough if they won't believe Moses and the prophets they won't
believe that one rose from the dead. So that's significant and
they talked with Christ not them. All they had to say had already
been written. But now this is also a picture of how the law
and the prophets came to bear witness of the Lord Jesus Christ.
I said there were three that bear witness in heaven. Well,
John said that. I didn't say that. John said
there are three that bear record in earth, bear witness, and there
are three in heaven. So these three from earth were
to bear witness of Christ, and three were to bear witness from
heaven of Christ. Anybody catch that? How many. You say there's only two. There's
a third person. And we're going to hear from
him. God was there. Moses, Elijah,
and God. Three from heaven. Though they
see him not, he's there. They're going to hear from him.
And they all, all three, speak of him. Speak to him and of him. Christ. Paul wrote this in Romans
3, that the righteousness of God, who is Christ, is borne
witness by the law and the prophets. And all these give witness. All
the prophets give witness. And talking with Christ. Plus,
the fact of the matter is, the law can't talk to us. The law
won't talk to us. But Christ. But Christ, our advocate. He deals with the law who Moses
represent. How did they know it was Moses
and Elijah? How did they know? Well, doesn't
Paul say that he that hath the mind of Christ knoweth all things? Doesn't it say that? In Christ,
don't you know all things, discern all things in Christ? all in
him or he had all the treasures of wisdom and knowledge and so
forth. Plus, this is a clear evidence to us that we will know
as we've been known in heaven when we get to go. We're all
going to know everybody. There's not going to be any introduction. Everybody will be waiting on
us and we'll know them. That's right. They knew Moses
and Elijah, never seen them in their life, never been introduced. They knew him immediately, didn't
they? I sure did. We'll know as we've been known.
And in Luke's gospel, I love this, and this is how we dealt
with this the last time we looked at this story. In Luke's gospel,
it says that they spake, they spake to the Lord. Moses and
Elijah spake to him of his decease, which he should accomplish at
Jerusalem. Now, I love that, and if I'm
not careful, we'll dwell on that again. But they spoke of his
decease, which he should accomplish at Jerusalem. Now, well, now
I've got to deal with it. His deceit, they spoke what Moses
and Elijah, the law and the prophets were speaking of was of Christ
crucified. They were speaking of that great
redemption which Christ accomplished at Calvary. The bringing in of
an everlasting righteousness. The redemption of his people.
Bringing in of this eternal kingdom. The accomplishment of Christ.
The glorious eternal accomplishment of Christ. Not the attempt that
he should make, but the atonement that he made for his people.
Death itself was an accomplishment for Christ. Nobody could kill
him. He had to do it willingly. Death
was an accomplishment. It's not an accomplishment for
you and me. It's going to happen to us. It's appointed unto us.
There's nothing we can do about it. And we don't call anybody's
death an accomplishment, do we? Somebody dies, we say, well,
that's the end of all things he hoped to accomplish. No well
he couldn't finish his task he didn't finish what he hoped to
accomplish but when Christ died they said he said it is. Everything all the work the father
gave me the D.O.N.A accomplished. The decease which he should accomplish
at Jerusalem well. And. And they were talking with
him of that. That's what that was their subject.
We don't know how long they spoke of it. But however long it was, they
didn't grow tired. In the other Gospels, it says
Peter and the boys were asleep and woke up and saw them. And
that's us in it. I announced Sunday morning I
was going to preach from this and we got a smaller crowd than we
had. That's something that Well, there's just three to behold
this. Just three. Just three. All right. Then answered Peter. Oh, my. Peter, have you ever been somewhere
and seen something and been just amazed by something and you just
had to say something? I mean, We're all that way we're
all that way it's just flesh and you get really excited and
something just really overwhelmed you and you're all something
you. Like a teapot you just got spout off. That's what David said. And it's
not bad always David said my heart is indicted in a good manner
I tried to be silent he said my heart was as a bottle ready
to burst. And old Peter was ready to bust.
and see it all and he said. He said. Lord. It is good for us to be here. I'm just so glad to be here. He us he spoke on behalf of the
I'm sure James and John were just on there yes isn't it. That's that's fine and he just
stopped right there. I concur with Peter don't you.
There are times when I concur with all Lord it's so good for
us to be here we're so glad you chose us to be here we're so
glad Lord you've caused us to approach on you to behold your
glory. So glad it's good for us to be
here this is folks this is a good place to be. It's good for us
to be here. There's nothing else in this
world really good for us but this is good for us to be here. Can you imagine what we're going
to say, Kelly, when we get up there? Boy, it's good to be here. We're just going to say that
a thousand times over. A thousand times over. But he had to keep going. Somebody
said, Peter sounds like an Arminian preacher. Now he wanted to build
something. He said, Lord, if thou wilt.
Let us make here three tabernacles, this pitch, three tents or three
shrines. Tabernacle, you know, was a place
where God dwelt. But they were conscious of and
and Peter thought, what can we do to honor these three great
men? Let's build more, he said, Lord, if this is OK with you.
He should have just said, Lord, what what can we do? We want to do something. Now
let's build three tabernacles, one for thee, one for Moses,
one for Eli, and while he was speaking, while the words were
coming out of his mouth, a bright cloud overshadowed, not a dark
cloud. God's clouds over his people
are not dark. The cloud is darkness to Egypt,
but it's light to the children of Israel. Do you remember that? cloud over a bright cloud overshadowed
them. God, that's the dust of his feet. God stirred himself. And behold,
a voice out of the cloud. Here's the third witness with
Moses and Elijah, which said, This is my beloved son, in whom
I am well pleased. Hear ye him. I would not make
an attempt to sound as he did. No man can.
This is my beloved son. And whom I'm well pleased. Now
Peter was so amazed at seeing Moses and Elijah and the Lord
glorified as he was. And yet he puts all of them on
the same equality. It says in Luke Mark's Gospel
that Moses and Elijah appeared with him in glory they were in
their glorified body. As we shall we all shall have
glorified body. So Hannah they were glorified
they were being they looked like angelic creature. You remember
when John on the Isle of Patmos fell down at the feet of the
angel and worshiped him he thought this is some divine being and
the angel said don't do that I'm one of your brethren the
prophets. It could have been his brother.
Well, it didn't say who it was. And now that's ignorance of a
young believer. I remember as a young believer, I remember
reading and maybe it was Because that was going to be my calling.
I read every book I could get my hands on. By every Puritan.
Preachers. I began reading Spurgeon's Sermon,
Metropolitan Times, New Park Street, and just read all the
way through. The Thirst, huge, three huge ones, and on and on.
Pink, every book I could read by Pink, and on and on. Read
them. Tried to read as many as I could. Couldn't get enough
of them. And I esteemed them more highly
than I ought to. I steam those old preachers much
more highly now. I thought certain books were
next, just almost inspired like the Bible and I really did like
Pilgrim's Progress. It's not inspired. No, it's not. It's not inspired. It was written
by man. This was not written by man. This is God's work. But I remember being able to
quote those old Puritans more than I could quote God. Now that's bad. That's bad. And I remember Bill
Clark one time from the pulpit rebuked me. I wanted to hide. I guess he
always heard me as a young man talking about the Puritans. And
one time he was preaching and he looked right at me and he
said, now Paul, he said, in that Irish voice, he said, don't be
too taken up with the Puritans. They were sinful men like we
are. the dissenters like we are. You know, I wanted a male. Well,
what he said, I was mad at him for one thing, for embarrassing
him, but I'm thankful to him to this day. And it wasn't shortly thereafter
that I put them down and started reading God's Word and standing.
And old Peter, he said, was just as impressed with Moses and Elijah
as he was with the Lord himself. And God Almighty had to tell
him, this is my son. Christ is my
well-beloved, only begotten son. Jesus is the only begotten, well-beloved
son. This is my only son. The way, the truth, the life.
Isaiah 42, that my servant, remember that glorious message, behold
my servant on down, it says in Isaiah 42, the Lord is well pleased
for his righteousness sake. Moses and Elijah received everything
they received from Jesus Christ. If there was any goodness in
them, they got it from Christ. Any wisdom, they got it from
him, right? Any ability, they got it from
him. He's the one in charge of the
storehouse. They received it from him. Everything they knew,
they learned from Christ. So God Almighty says this is
the only high potentate. King of kings, Lord of lords.
This is the one. He's the one here to worship
and bow down to and stand in awe of. Don't be in awe of any
man, but be in awe of my son. My son. Don't you wish the whole
Catholic world could hear this? Don't bow to anybody but my son. This is my beloved son in whom
I'm well pleased. God is not pleased with anybody
outside of Christ. Doesn't matter how good they
appear to be to us, how holy they appear to be to us. If they're
not in Christ, they are not holy. They're positively unholy, wicked. All right, let's go on. I'm going
to quit. So, you know, Christ gets all the glory. Six, when the disciples heard
this, they fell on their face. When we truly see Christ as all. We'll fall down and worship him
and with the fear of the Lord, he sees the beginning of wisdom.
Fear of the Lord. Who do we fear? The Lord. Who's Lord? Jesus is Lord. We fear him. And they fell on their face.
and sore afraid. And Jesus came and touched them
and said, Arise and be not afraid. He's the only one that can allay
our fears, isn't He? He must lay hold of us and tell
us fear not. And when they lifted up their
eyes, look at this, when they lifted up their eyes, they saw
no man save Jesus only. Now after they've been taught
of God you see they'll all be taught of God what are they going
to be taught Jesus only. That's it. That Jesus Christ
is all the religion you need. Not me the law. The law and the
prophets point to him. Christ is all. Saw no man. Whatever
that means. Saw no man as holy, no man is well pleased,
no man is a mediator, no man is but one, Jesus only. And as
they came down from the mountain, Jesus charged them, saying, Tell
the vision to no man until the Son of Man be risen again from
the dead. And his disciples, excuse me,
a little while went by, I think, and his disciples, I think they
were still in awe. You know they were, they were
spellbound. and his disciples asked him, saying, Why, then,
say the scribes that Elias must first come? Now, you'll like this. This is good.
This is important. The disciples were young and
still somewhat ignorant, and they're still thinking of an
earthly kingdom, and they're still using carnal reasoning
of an earthly kingdom. And Christ said the Son of Man
coming, they think, Stan, they think he's coming, he'll set
up his reign in Jerusalem and so forth. Isn't that what they
said on the road to Emmaus, that they were walking along? We hoped
he'd been... And he kept telling them, they're not listening,
he said. They're not listening. He'd already told them, remember
back in chapter 11, he already told them, if you'll receive
it, John, this John is Elijah who is to come. Remember that?
They didn't hear it, they weren't listening. They weren't listening
to him. And what about us? We're worse. We've heard more than they did
at that time, in more years. But anyway, they're still thinking
of an earthly kingdom and using carnal reason, as most people
do. Most people still do. And Christ plainly said that.
He said, My kingdom is not of this world. Now let's get that
through our head. You know that. You ought to know
that. We know that. Christ said that my kingdom is
not of this world. Melanie, do you realize that
he's not going to sit on a throne in Jerusalem? His kingdom is
not of this world. And it says the kingdom cometh
not with observation. Oh, here it is. Oh, there it
is. Good, I have it. You know, I
know that. Last Sunday's book. Anyway, it
talked about The kingdom of our master remember the master artist
does his painting his picture in private until it's finished
and secret everyone feels very. In the kingdom of God is secret.
To most. Set to those whom he reveals
a secret to anyone is finished. It's over and his kingdom is
a spiritual one. And it doesn't come with observation
and all these people out there looking for signs and I don't
see him. I don't see Armageddon brewing up there ain't going
to be one. It's six six six there it is. Yesterday you know it was June
six six oh six you know everybody got excited about that. Everybody
but anybody with any sense that is. You know what tribulation
tribulation periods come and God's people know that we've
been in that for years as a revelation says who these are those who
went through great tribulation. You must be much tribulation
in the game. We're going to get to Matthew
twenty four eventually when the Lord sums it all up for his people.
But numbers on the floor a beast on the throne are going to be
a beast on the throne. Well, what idiot couldn't see some monster
up on the throne and run from it? That's not that's not the
way it goes. Doesn't cover observation. It's
not seen with the naked eye. It's not things clearly seen. You understand that? Sure you
do. Peter, what about Elijah? What about Theo? He's already
come. Elijah's already come. Who? John! And I pointed out to you from
God's Word how that most things written in Scripture are already
fulfilled. When John wrote the Revelation,
he wrote this, let me read it to you. He said this, the Lord
told John, he said, you write, where did he find it here, write
the things which thou hast seen, listen, This was 2,000 years
ago, 2,000 years ago. He told John, write the things
which thou hast seen. What's that? That's the past.
So much in the Revelation is a recounting of Old Testament. All right, write the things which
thou hast seen and the things which are. That is, you write
the things that are going on right there, 70 A.D. Got that? Things have been, things that
are. And the things which shall be
hereafter. Another nineteen hundred and
thirty years. It's over, folks. When people are waiting on stuff,
it's already happened. Oh, but Elijah's coming. He already
has. The. Disciples. And I say to you,
Christ said, Elijah is already come, come already, and they
knew him not. You see, folks, people aren't
going to see the coming of Christ who didn't see his first coming,
people aren't going to people pretend to be interested in the
second coming of Christ who don't care about his first coming.
You don't know why it came the first time. These prophet hounds
think they know something about Revelation, Roy, and they don't
know anything about Genesis. You understand, if you don't
know the first chapter in the book, you sure can't go to the
last one and figure it out, can you? The introduction is the
most important part of the book, is it not? If you miss the introduction,
forget it. Genesis is called the beginning.
In the beginning. and God writes a whole book Genesis
about how he who he is and how he does thing and he didn't change
he doesn't change. From there on out and revelation
is a recounting of the same gospel the same Christ many of the same
things that have happened and were happening and we're about
to happen and it's the it's the eleventh hour. Eleven fifty nine
I believe you see it don't you last day the last of the last
day And the whole world's going to be looking for something,
and they're not going to see it. Our Lord said that in Matthew
24, as in the days of Noah. They were eating, drinking, marrying,
and giving in marriage, and it came on them unawares. Unawares! Unawares! Taken away. Didn't have a clue. At a time when you think not,
Christ said. Our pastor said that, No preacher
asked. Another friend of his said, Do
you think the Lord is coming tomorrow? And the fellow said,
I think not. He said he probably is that. At a time when you think not.
When they shall say peace and safety, then sudden destruction. Now, we're not as those that
are in darkness. It's not going to come on us
anyway. We're waiting. We're watching. the. Life. And so many other. And then it's not been decided. A little bit. I understood at least he was
talking about the practice but you know the Lord kept telling
me. Many chapters earlier and here and on and on until he goes
to Calvary why came. Why gain? Didn't it? The Son
of Man must suffer many things. Christ must suffer. He kept telling
us, this is why for this hour I came, the cause I came in this
world. This is what he tells his people. This is what his
people know. Why he came. What his whole purpose
was for him coming. The redemption of his people.
And we know what he did on Calvary. What did he do, John? He finished
the work. He accomplished it. It's done. That just remains for him to
gather them up. He's right now winnowing the
flesh and flesh and blood. Separate the chaff from the wheat.
All right. Stand with me. Let's pray together. Our Lord, thank you for your
word. What little we understand, we
give you the credit and the honor and the glory. We thank you that
you have not left us in darkness, revealed unto us the mystery
of your will, something of it. We see that Urim and Thummim
as being in Christ the Lord, the only begotten of the Father,
full of grace and truth, our great high priest. have beheld his glory a little
bit and we thank you for choosing us to see him. Lord we want to
see more increase our faith and gather us together next Lord's
Day to once again look into these glorious things which angels
desire to look into. It's in Christ's name we're met
here tonight. Amen. You're dismissed. Thank you, sir.