It was such a blessing, wasn't
it? Thank the Lord for the excellent song and excellent presentation
of the song. Well, let's open our Bibles to
Revelation again this morning. Revelation 11. And this is the revelation of
the Lord Jesus Christ. And I want to always keep that
before you, that it is the revelation of our Lord Jesus Christ. It
is not the revelation of John the Baptist or John the Apostle.
So often in our Bibles it's the revelation of John. That's what
it says. But we don't need to see John. We need to see Christ Jesus.
Revelation means the unveiling, revealing, the uncovering of
the Lord Jesus. And He's the one we need to see.
He's the one we need to know. And I hope that God is opening
our eyes that we can see Him. in this wonderful book, the book
of the Revelation of the Lord Jesus. Here's my subject this morning.
I want to talk to you about the Lord's people in tribulation. The Lord's people in tribulation. In Revelation 11, last week we
studied this. In the third verse, we have mentioned
two witnesses. I think these witnesses are representatives
of the people of God, the church of our Lord Jesus. After all,
the church is said to be the pillar and the ground of the
truth. So we stand as, as it were, two
witnesses throughout this gospel age as the pillar and as the
ground of the truth. The Lord's people, His chosen
church, is likened, the Scripture says, in verse 4, to two olive
trees. Two olive trees. We have the
oil of God's grace. God has been gracious to us to
give to us His Spirit. You know, we wouldn't know anything
about the Lord Jesus. We wouldn't have any understanding
of the gospel of His grace were it not for the gift of the Holy
Ghost. Our Savior said to His disciples,
He had gathered those eleven men together, Judas having left,
the group, he gathered those men together and he gave them
vital instruction before he then went to the garden and sought
the face of God and then went and gave his life for our sins. But he said as he went, as he
instructed his disciples, as he taught them, he said, I'm
going to send you another comforter, which means one who is like myself. And He's going to be with you.
The Savior said He's going to take the things of mine, the
things pertaining to me, who I am, what I do for sinners,
The reason I do it for sinners, my work of redemption, my successful
death, my resurrection, my ascension back to glory, my session at
God's right hand as your intercessor, my universal rule, my second
coming, the judgment that will then happen He's going to take
the things about me, and He's going to show them unto you. And that which we know and understand
from the Word of God, we receive it by faith. We receive this
record that God has given about His Son, we receive it by faith,
which is a gift of God the Holy Spirit. And we must never begin to entertain
the thought that, well, we've got these things, we perceive
these things because we're wiser than most people. Or we're more
perceptive than others. No, that's not it at all. You
owe your knowledge of the grace of God and the gospel of Christ
Jesus That gospel that answers that old, old question of how
God can be just and justify the ungodly. We know we owe our knowledge
and our grasp and our understanding of these things to the Holy Ghost. Oh, thank you, Lord Jesus, for
sending to us that one that He identified as being the very
The promise of the Father. That's what He called Him. I'll
send the promise of the Father. And He told His disciples, He
said, now He'd already told them in instructing them, He said,
now without Me, you can do nothing. And then He said to them just
before He went back to Heaven, He said, now, you don't do anything
at all until the Holy Spirit comes.
I know you're anxious to go out and preach this Gospel that I've
instructed you in." And he did. He taught them the Gospel of
God's saving grace. He opened the Scriptures to them.
He made known to them the way of life, the way of salvation,
the way of righteousness. But he said, now, you don't do
anything until the Holy Spirit is given. And I wonder if some of them
might not have asked, when's that going to happen? And he
would have said, you'll know when it happens. You'll know
when it happens. And it did happen on the day
of Pentecost, as stated in Acts the second chapter. And then
those men, filled with the Holy Ghost, went into the world to
do the work that God the Son commissioned them to do, preach
the gospel to every creature. We have to have the presence
of the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of Christ Jesus. I'm always wanting to preach
the gospel to as many as God gathers together. And if you're not here a good
bit of the time, it may not dawn on me during the service, but
then I'll be thinking later on. You know, I miss brother so-and-so
today. I miss sister so-and-so. Hope
they're not sick or whatever. But I'll tell you whose presence
we've got to have is the presence of the Lord. the presence of
the Holy Ghost. And wherever the Lord is, that's
where I want to be. For those of you who were in
the adult Sunday school classes this morning, we were talking
about Thomas. I was telling my class, I think Thomas has kind
of got a bad rap because we always know him as doubting Thomas.
I'll say this about Thomas. Wherever the Lord Jesus was,
that's where He wanted to be. Isn't that what you want wherever
the Lord is meeting with His people? That's where I want to
be. That's where I want to gather. It might be under an oak tree.
It might be in somebody's living room of their house. Or it might
be in a nice comfortable building in which we meet this morning.
It might be before the computer screen or the television screen
as you watch this on the internet. That's what the Lord said, where
two or three are gathered together. Where He has gathered together
two or three. It doesn't mean where two or
three meet. It says where two or three are gathered together.
Who does the gathering? He does the gathering. And He's
gathered us and where two or three are gathered together by
His omnipotence and according to His providence, He said that's
where I'm going to be. That's where I'm going to be.
And I come here this morning glad and thankful you're here.
But I'm most thankful for the presence of God. Because the
Savior gave us His Word. That as we meet together in His
name, He'll be in the midst of us. I go back and visit Thomas
again. Kind of review for those of you
who are in Sunday school. You know, there in John chapter
20, after our Lord's resurrection, Thomas wasn't meeting with the
rest of the apostolic group. I don't know why he wasn't there.
Maybe he wasn't there for fear of the Jews. I don't know. I don't know. But I know this. I know he's brokenhearted. And
that's due to his unbelief. There's no question about that. But I tell you, the Lord Jesus
met with His people and Thomas missed out on a blessing. No wonder we're admonished in
Hebrews chapter 10, forsaking not the assembling of yourselves
together as the manner of some is. I promise you this, when
you miss, and it may be for legitimate reasons, and I know there are
a multitude of reasons why people don't make it to a worship service.
But I'll tell you this, when the Lord is in the meeting and
you're not here or I'm not here, we're the losers. We lose out. And I'll tell you, eight days
later, having been told by the rest of his friends, his buddies,
his associates, his companions in the Gospel, the rest of the
apostles, when they said, you should have been in church today.
Because the Master came and He said, peace be unto you. Thomas said, I'll be there at
the next service. And he was. Lord, meet with us
today. Isn't that your cry? You know,
every Saturday night, I usually have difficulty going
to sleep, but I'm just continually asking the Lord to meet with
us. Give me liberty. Give me the
ability to kind of remember the things that I've studied and
felt like the Lord has given me in preparation. And I always
ask the Lord, don't leave us to ourselves. Don't leave me
to myself. And I don't want Him to leave
you to yourself either. Somebody said, it takes two people
for the truth. One to speak it, and another
to hear it. I tell you, the Lord has spoken
His truth, and His very truth goes forth from this pulpit.
God help us to hear it. God help us to hear it. The Lord
has His two olive trees yet in the world, full of the oil of
the Holy Spirit, full of grace. And then these, the people of
God, the church of our Lord Jesus, two witnesses, not only the pillar
of the truth and the ground of the truth, and then not only
likened, by the inspired apostle to two olive trees, but also
he likens these witnesses, the church, the Lord's people, to
two candlesticks. The Savior said, you are the
light of the world. We live in a land of pagan darkness,
don't we? I was talking to somebody this
week, and I don't remember who it was, and I was talking about
the sending of missionaries And then somebody made the comment,
what is a preacher but a missionary? And we're ministering to pagan
people. I mean, people who are pagans,
by nature all of us are. We're heathens. And we've got
to hear the preaching of the word. We're the light. I know that all light emanates
from the Lord Jesus. It radiates from Him who is the
very Son of Righteousness. He said, I am the light of the
world. Do you know what He said about
His people? You're the light of the world. Well, how can that
be? He's given to us the light of
the Gospel. And we're in the midst of darkness. Spiritual darkness? Religious
darkness? That's error. What is darkness
in the Bible? Sinfulness? Error? Evil? And the Lord says, you're
the light of the world. We have the light of the gospel.
He said, don't hide it under a bushel. We used to sing a little
chorus years ago, hide it under a bushel. No! I'm going to let
it shine. Y'all ever seen that? Well, listen,
we don't want to hide it. See, we have the light right
inside this building. But I want it to go out yonder,
don't you? I want it to go out. That's the
reason we're on the internet. Very soon, we're going to have
a sign out here That'll be up before Christmas, the Lord willing,
to draw more attention to us. And of course, it'll have verses
of Scripture on it, just like we have today. We're just getting
the Word out. That's the reason we sent out
CDs and DVDs. We have people who are mailed
on a regular basis. They're mailed the bulletin.
They're mailed the Sunday school lessons I write. Because God
has given us the light and we want to indeed shine in here
brightly. But we want to shine out there.
Because the world's in darkness of evil and ignorance and sinfulness. And here's the only hope, the
light. The light's the only hope. And
we got the light. Think of this. He has entrusted
us with the gospel light. We want to let it shine. So these
two witnesses, that's our Lord's people, preachers of the gospel,
pillar in the ground of truth, two olive trees, two candlesticks. You see, God always uses at least
two witnesses. Because He says in the mouth
of two or three witnesses, let every word be established. So
He has two witnesses. Here's the people of God going
forth. Preachers of the Gospel going forth, preaching the Gospel.
And they're going to run into some opposition. Here in this Scripture, we're
confronted with Three and a half years, also referred to as 42
months, also referred to as 1,260 days, and in another passage,
it's referred to as a time, times, and half a time. Once again,
three and a half years. This is a time of great tribulation. And this goes back to Daniel's
70th week. Very symbolic language there
in Daniel the ninth chapter. And you can read about that.
But what the Lord is speaking about is His people. These two
witnesses. The Lord's church, who are the
pillar and the ground of the gospel, of the truth. These two
olive trees full of the grace of God and the Holy Spirit. These
two candlesticks, the light of the world, back in Revelation
chapter 1, when John, he saw the beloved Master, he saw Him
in His glorified state. He's in the midst of the seven
golden candlesticks. He's always with His people. But these people are going to
encounter some great difficulties in this world. You know, as you look back over
the history of the Lord's church in this world, there are times
when she seems to flourish. As in the days after our Lord's
ascension, where thousands of people right there in that area
in Jerusalem were converted by the grace of God. Isn't that
amazing? I'm so thankful to God when God calls out one person. That's wonderful. Well, think
of what it would be for thousands, thousands of people to be drawn
out. Well, the saints of God just
must have been ecstatic. The Lord is blessing so much
and then many others came to know the Gospel. So there are
times in church history where the Gospel just flourishes. like it did during the Reformation
era. God sent His Word out and men
were brought back to salvage the Bible alone, grace alone,
Christ alone, received by faith alone. And multitudes were brought
into the Kingdom of God. And there have been other instances
in the history of the church in different locations where
God blessed abundantly. I think of Mr. Spurgeon. Mr. Spurgeon, he had his eras as
do all of God's preachers. But as you read, especially through
his earlier ministry, his earlier messages, he believed the Gospel
of God's free and sovereign grace. And thousands of people came
to hear him. In fact, it got to where people
had to have some kind of ticket to get into a service. And he
would say to the church members, just stay at home and let others
come into the worship service. So the gospel seemed to just
go, it really flourished during the ministry of Charles Spurgeon.
and others down through the years. But then there are other times
when it seems like this church, who is the pillar and the ground
of God's truth, it seems like it gets into a time of non-prosperity to where,
like As is said here, these two witnesses lie dead in the street. In other words, it seems like
the Gospel is just... you can't hardly find it. It's a fulfillment of that passage
of Scripture over in Amos. When Amos said, the day is coming
when there will be a famine. Not a famine for food, for bread,
not that kind of famine, but a famine for hearing the Word
of God. And men have to go to lots of
different places trying to find the Gospel, trying to find out
about whether there's anybody preaching the Word or not. And
some of us, you go out and if you're on vacation or whatever,
you make inquiries into the area where you go and say, is anybody
preaching the Gospel here? Nobody. I heard from a gentleman out
in Wyoming this week, and perhaps he's watching this morning. He'll
certainly at some point be watching on the internet the service recorded,
but he said he'd been to several churches out there and he can't
find anybody who believes the gospel. In fact, they just tell
him right up front, we don't believe what you believe. This
is a day of famine. And I think this is what is being
said here in Revelation 11 when the two witnesses are lying dead
in the street. It seems like the Gospel is just
about dead. And you wonder, does anybody
believe this anymore? I talked to a preacher not long
ago. He said for the longest time, he said, I thought we're
the only ones that had the Gospel. He said, I didn't know there
was anybody else. And he was talking about years
ago when we didn't have the Internet like we have today. You can get
on there and search out sovereign grace. We didn't have that. He
said, I thought I was the only one. And then I found out about
Brother Mahan and a few others. Well, that's
the situation right here in Revelation 11. The church seems to be at a standstill. And there's the opposition to
God's people. Look at verse 8. And we touched
on this last week. And their dead bodies shall line
the street of that great city which spiritually is called Sodom
in Egypt where also our Lord was crucified. Here the Lord's
people, we face three great enemies. We face three great enemies.
We face the religious world. Babylon is the great city. We face religious error. The religious world. And it's
against us. It's against us. And that's nothing
new because back during our Lord's day, you know, if you study the
Jewish religion, And we won't get into it too much this morning,
but you know, there were basically four elements in the Jewish religion,
but I'll tell you this. While they differed among themselves
and they'd fuss and fight and they couldn't get along, they
found a common enemy that they could stand against. And his
name was the Lord Jesus Christ. And that's the way the religious
world is. The religious world, they have
fusses, they have splits. If their church is split, their
denominations split, let's just start a new denomination. Let's
just start a new church. Because they can't get along
among themselves. But there's one thing they can
agree on. We absolutely despise the message
of God's free and sovereign grace. That's where they agree. They
agree on that. And there's the opposition of
the religious world. Babylon, God uses Babylon to
set forth. all false religion, there's the
opposition of the great city. There's also the opposition of
the immoral world, that's Sodom. This world's not a friend of
God. This world is not a friend of the Word of God. I'll tell you, if ever there
was a day in which those words in Romans chapter 3 would say,
there is no fear of God before their eyes, if there's ever a
day when that's so, it is this day. There's no fear of God before
their eyes. So we're opposed by the immoral
world. Today, if you stand for morality, Wow, that's just... Well, you're
too narrow-minded. Well, let me tell you something.
Morality, that's taught us in the Word of God. This book that tells us about
the Gospel of Christ Jesus tells us about our daily walk. Our
daily conduct. And it denounces stuff that's
going on today that used to be you wouldn't hear anything about.
Maybe some of it was going on, but nobody ever dared to say
it. And now they're just pushing it, shoving it down our throats.
That's the reason you have a difficult time. You know, we have a television. And you go to the network stations.
It's very difficult to find things that are decent to watch. And
you wind up watching something like where they're buying a house
and redoing it and redecorating and stuff. That's the kind of
stuff that's the only decent stuff on there to watch. But
you see, the mainstream of broadcasting. It's anything goes. Whatever
you want to do, it doesn't matter. It's like there are no standards
today. But the Word of God has a standard.
And that immoral world is in opposition to the two witnesses. That is, the people of God who
are the pillar and ground of the truth. There's opposition from the political
world. Egypt. Egypt. And you go all the way back to
the book of Exodus. Boy, I tell you, the Egyptians,
they gave Israel such a difficult time because the Pharaoh hated
the God of the Israelites. The political world today, Don't
be mistaken. They're not a friend of grace
or God either. So there's all, there's so much
opposition against the Lord's people. And it is the origin of, ultimately
it's of God. We know that. But the Lord uses
something in verse 7. It's the beast that ascends out
of the bottomless pit who stirs up. He has stirred up Babylon. He has stirred up Sodom. And He has stirred up Egypt to
go after the people of God. But listen, God's work cannot
be stamped out. You can't put out the flame of
the Gospel. You see, our Lord Jesus, you
remember that passage of Scripture over there in Matthew chapter
8 when Peter said, you know, the Lord Jesus said, who do men
say that I, the Son of Man am? And they said, well, some say
you're this prophet, some say you're another prophet. He said,
well, I want to know what you think. It don't matter what they
think out there. I want to know what you think.
Peter said, now, I'm the Christ. You're the Christ. You're the
Son of the living God. You're the Messiah. You're the
sent one. You're the anointed of God. And
our Lord Jesus went on to say, I will build my church. I will
build my church. And the gates of hell shall not
prevail against it. Shall not overcome it. That's
what prevail means. Shall not overcome it. But I'll
tell you, the gates of hell sure try. They sure try. In fact, the gates of hell, they
turned all of their focus, all their power, all of their anger,
all of their vengeance against our Savior. They fought Him tooth and nail.
They surrounded Him like a pack of wild dogs. They'd go after
a little fawn. And they went after our Savior. They were always laying for Him.
but they never could get Him until that time He ordained.
And when His hour arrived for Him to do the work that God gave
Him to do, to die for His people, He said, you can take Me now.
You can take Me now. And our Lord went back to heaven.
But Satan, you see, just because the Lord has defeated him, mortally
wounded him? Just because that's happened,
that doesn't mean that his vengeance or his anger or his wrath against
the Lord's purpose and the Lord's people has diminished. As we shall see next Lord's Day,
I think, in chapter 12, Since he has gone after our Savior,
but has been unsuccessful, he has ever since set his sights
on the Lord's people. And he's after you and he stirs
up, he stirs up the spiritual world, the religious world, he
stirs up the immoral world, and he stirs up the political world
against his people. He's the one who's the instigator
of it. But God's everlasting purpose
of grace cannot be defeated. Now, in addition to all of that
opposition against the people of God, we're in the midst, in this age,
from the Lord's first coming to His second coming, we're in
the age when the judgment, the trumpet judgments are sounding. And we know that the six trumpet
judgments have sounded tonight. We'll get into the seventh. But these six trumpet judgments,
they're warning people that the end is coming nigh. It's coming
soon. There's a seventh trumpet. The last trumpet. When the last
trumpet shall sound, That's the end. That's the end. And the
Lord sends all of these various judgments, which also includes
not only literal judgments and literal vengeance and warnings,
I should say, but also includes the attacks by the religious
world and the immoral world and the political world includes
that as well. But all of these judgments that
happen to the world, to warn them, and those judgments are
sickness, disease, wars, error, false religion, a multitude of
trumpet judgments. But those things that happen
to the wicked, they also happen to God's people. And the Word
of God likens these things, or says of these things, It's tribulation. It's tribulation. You know, as you look through
the New Testament, the word tribulation means affliction. You look it
up, it's the same. We don't need a Greek lesson
this morning, but if you look up the Greek word for tribulation
in your Strong's Concordance or Young's Concordance or whatever
one you might use, The same word. Tribulation is translated affliction,
anguish, trouble, persecution, distress. And we all go through those things.
All of God's people. I'll give you several things
just briefly. None are exempt from tribulation. None of the
Lord's people are exempt from tribulation. In Acts chapter
14, the Apostle Paul He confirmed, He strengthened Acts 14.22. You
don't have to look at it, but you might want to jot it down.
He strengthened, He established the souls of the disciples and
exhorted them to continue in the faith. He said that we must,
through much tribulation, enter into the Kingdom of God. You
must! You've got to go through tribulation. You see, here was
the great apostle. He had been stoned so much they
thought he had died. Drug him out of the city. But
he wasn't distressed by the tribulation. He didn't say, well, I'm just
going to quit the ministry because of the tribulation, the hardships
that I'm receiving. No, he said this is not a rare
thing. This is going to happen to the
people of God. You must through much tribulation
enter into the Kingdom of God. And that applies to you and me
and everybody else. All of God's people, we must
go through tribulation before we get into the Kingdom of God
that is the Kingdom of Heaven. It's not a rare thing. Simon
Peter said, don't think it to be an unusual thing when you
go through tribulation. It's not unusual for the people
of God to be tried. And I'll tell you something else
about tribulation. It works for us and not against
us. Romans 5 verse 3 says, And not
only so, but we glory in tribulation, knowing tribulation worketh patience. It works for us in teaching us
and instructing us to be patient, to wait on the Lord for strength,
to endure whatever affliction He might send our way, and if
it's His will that He would remove the tribulation. It's not working
against you, it's working for you. Thirdly, about tribulation,
it can't separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ
Jesus. I don't know how much tribulation
God will put you through, how much affliction, how much distress,
and this affliction, distress, tribulation, it comes to God's
people in different ways. Sometimes it's a mental distress.
Sometimes it's physical, sometimes it's sickness, sometimes it's
through your family, sometimes it's through your job. The Lord
has different ways of afflicting His people. But whatever it is, it can't
cut you off from the love of God which is in Christ Jesus. And I know this about tribulation,
it won't last for long. Read 2 Corinthians 4.17. For our light affliction, that
word affliction, look it up, same word as tribulation. For
our light tribulation, which is but for a moment, it's just
for a moment, worketh for us, for us, a far more exceeding weight of glory. It's just for
a moment. Listen, folks. This will be over
for you now. We're going to be with Christ
Jesus before long. Amen. And then I'll tell you
this. Tribulation is by divine appointment. Nothing comes your way except
your Heavenly Father appointed it for you. 1 Thessalonians 3 says that no
man should be moved by these afflictions. For you yourselves
know that we are appointed thereunto. It's by divine appointment. Would
you fuss about something that came to you by divine appointment? Would you murmur against some
event In your life, some sickness, some family issue or emergency,
would you murmur out loud against something that has been appointed
for you by God? Would you say, no, I wouldn't
do that? Everything is by God's appointment. It gets us all, doesn't it? We're
all guilty of murmuring against good providence. But that's what
he says, for yourselves know you're appointed thereon. This
is according to appointment. I bet you if I ask y'all, how
many of you got a doctor's appointment this next week? I'm going to
see some hands go up because it's like somebody told me the
other day, said if I'm not making doctor appointments, I'm keeping
doctor appointments. That's just the way it is nowadays.
We have appointments here and there. Well, God has made some
appointments for you. In fact, everything that happens
to you, He's made appointed for you. And when difficulties, afflictions,
tribulations come by you, it's by disappointment. And though you experience tribulation
in this world, I'll tell you this, you will come out of it. Go back to Revelation chapter
7. Let me give this to you quick. And then I'm going to send you
to one other reference. Though you experience tribulation,
affliction, though the Lord's people, His church, His two witnesses,
though we experience tribulation, persecution, distress, afflictions
in this world, we will come out of it. You're not going to stay
in it. You're not going to stay in the
heat of the fire. Here it is, Revelation 7, verse
14. The question has been raised,
who are these arrayed in white robes? That's the righteousness
of Christ Jesus. Verse 14, Revelation 7, and I
said unto him, Sir, thou knowest. He said to me, these are they
which came out of great tribulation. They were in it, but they're
out of it now. They were in it, but they're
coming out. Coming out. Look over with me in Isaiah 43. I'll give you this one and we'll
sing a song. Coming out. One way or the other, we're coming
out. It may be that tribulation that
you're in, that affliction you're in, the Lord may just take you
right out of that and you'll have some sunshiny days. That'd
be alright with me. That may happen to you or you
may come out of it when He just takes you home to Heaven. Then
you'll come out of all of it. Isaiah 43, verse 1. But now thus
saith the Lord that created thee, O Jacob. Chapter 43, Isaiah,
verse 1. Thus saith the Lord that created
thee, O Jacob, and he that formed thee, O Israel, fear not. And all of you who are the Lord's
Jacobs, your Jacob by birth, You're Israel by grace. You're
sons of God. Princes of God. Here's what He
says. Fear not. Why not? I've redeemed you. I've bought
you. At what price? My blood. And
I've called you since I redeemed you. I therefore call you by
thy name." That name that I wrote down in the Lamb's Book of Life.
Your name. I called you by name. He says,
you're mine. You're mine. He says, when thou
passest through the waters, I'll be with you. You're coming through,
child of God. Oh, church of our Lord Jesus,
we're going through. We're coming through. We're coming
through the waters. And through the rivers, they
shall not overflow thee. I tell you, it may get up neck
deep. And you may feel like sometimes you're gasping for breath. But
they're not going to wash you away. They can't destroy you. He says, and when thou walkest
through the fire, you're not even going to be burned. You're
like the three Hebrew children in the book of Daniel. Neither
shall the flame kindle upon thee. I think about the Lord's people
being in the fires of affliction. Peter talked about, don't be
surprised by the firing trials. I think about that passage of
Scripture in Malachi where it says of our Lord Jesus, He shall
sit as a refiner. You see, we're His silver and
gold. And He puts us in the fires of
affliction. But He's not a disinterested
observer. It says He sits and He watches
as we're in the fire. And He'll make sure the flames
are not so hot that they consume you. But you see, there's a lot
of dross in us. A lot of love of the world. A
lot of things that come between us and the Lord Jesus Christ.
I'll tell you, these afflictions that God sends to His people,
to His church, they have a way of driving us to our knees before
our God. And that's when, especially in
times of great difficulty, we see the things around us in the
correct light. And we realize this is all temporal. Christ is all. I'm heading for
glory. I'm going to be with my Master.
Yeah, I may be in the fires, but I'm coming out. The church
is coming out. You're coming out. To the praise
of the glory of His grace. That's Sanger.