A priest, we saw an angel come
down with a key to the bottomless pit and a great chain in his
hand. There in the first few verses,
laid hold on the dragon, that old serpent, the devil. Cast
him for a thousand years in the bottomless pit. And we understand
that that thousand years is the whole gospel age from Christ's
first coming until the judgment, until he comes in the judgment.
And there's not going to be a literal thousand years the way some people
believe and preach and teach. If that was so, what would we
do for a thousand years while he's reigning over Jerusalem?
What would we be doing? I just, I don't understand it.
But a thousand years is a day with God and a day is a thousand
years. Time means nothing to God. He
just uses a specific number to talk about an unspecific amount
of time. So this thousand year reign that he's talking about
where Satan will be cast into the bottomless pit, then be loosed
for a little season. And that is this, from Christ's
first coming, and remember how Satan was before that woman to
devour that man-child as soon as he was born, in Revelations
12. Well, he's been God's archenemy, and it talks about him being
bound. He's bound by this gospel age,
and it's like a dog on a chain, a vicious, vicious dog on a chain.
As long as you don't go in reach of that dog, he can't hurt you.
But in where he is at, he can hurt you bad if you get in reach
of him. What I'm telling you, by being bound a thousand years,
our Lord Jesus Christ has bound Satan and he's on a chain. And
he's got the keys of hell and death, and Satan cannot go no
longer and do anything more than what God lets him do. He had
to ask permission to get to Job. and the first place we find him
at is in Genesis chapter 3. We find him first instance in
Genesis chapter 3. And his whole purpose in existing,
and we'll see that in a minute, is to deceive people. He's a
deceiver, and he's a liar, and he's a murderer from the beginning.
And so the gospel dispensation from the coming of Christ to
the final judgment. But let me start reading in verse
seven and read down to verse 15 and go back and make a few
comments. And when the thousand years are
expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison and shall go
out to deceive the natures which are in the four corners of the
earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle. the
number of whom is as the sand of the sea. And they went up
on the breadth of the earth and compassed the city of the saints
about, and the beloved city and fire came down from God out of
heaven and devoured them. And the devil that deceived them
was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast
and the false prophet are and shall be tormented day and night
forever and ever. And I saw a great white throne,
and him that sat on it, from whose face the earth and the
heaven fled away, and there was found no place for them. And
I saw the dead, Small and great stand before God. And the books
were opened, and another book was opened, which is the book
of life. And the dead were judged out
of those things which were written in the books according to their
works. And the sea gave up the dead
which were in it. Death and hell delivered up the
dead which were in them. And they were judged, every man,
according to their works. And death and hell was cast into
the lake of fire. This is the second death, whosoever
was not found written in the book of life was cast into the
lake of fire. So like I said, it's this thousand
years where Satan is bound and then he's let loose for a little
season. Let me ask three questions and we'll try to answer them.
Where does this Rain take place. Where does this thousand years
take place? Where does this little season
take place? Well, it occurs in the throne, where the thrones
are. Look what it said down here in verse four. And I saw thrones,
not just a throne, thrones. And they that sat upon them,
God and the Son. You know, there's a great white
throne, they said judge, and then he's seen these thrones.
It's the throne of Christ and his people in heaven. The scriptures
describe Christ always sitting on, you know, when you find him
in heaven, he's in heaven when he took the book out of him,
the hand him has set upon the throne out of his right hand.
And it's in heaven where Christ gathers his people. It's in heaven
where the spirits of just men are made perfect. And then he
says this, and it also, secondly, it takes place where the souls
of the martyrs are. Look what it said again in verse
four. And I saw the thrones, and they that sat upon them,
and judgment was given unto them. And I also saw the souls of them
that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of
God. which had not worshipped the
beast, neither his image, neither had we served his mark upon their
foreheads, or in their hands, and they lived and reigned with
Christ while this thousand years, while Christ in this dispensation,
everybody that's going to be with Christ, all those who died
for the word of God, and who were beheaded for Christ's sake,
martyrs for Christ's sake. They're there, they're there
with Christ. He said they live and reign with
him, this dispensation. They're right there right now.
And I'll tell you, look what happens down here now in verse
five. But you know, and these souls
reign with Christ now while it's through this thousand years,
through this gospel dispensation. But the rest of the dead live
not again until the thousand years were finished. And no,
let me look in verse six, that's what I want. Blessed and holy
is he that hath part in the first resurrection. At first resurrection
is when Christ comes and we all shall be brought out of the grave.
The dead in Christ shall come first. Then we which are alive
and remain shall be caught up to meet him forever in the Lord.
That's the first resurrection. And thus says the second death
is going into hell, won't happen. But they shall be priest of God
and shall reign with him a thousand years. And that's when he says
the body and the soul shall be brought back together. And I
tell you that's what's gonna happen here when he talks about
the first resurrection. Body and soul will be brought
together when Christ comes again. And the thousand year reign also
takes place where the Lord Jesus Christ lives. Is that what it
says? He says it down in the last part
of chapter, verse four. And the last line in it, they
lived, lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years. They
live where Christ is, and they reign with Christ. Our Lord Jesus
Christ, He's our mediator, and He sits at God's right hand,
and He rules this world from sitting there at God's right
hand. He's our mediator between God and man, and He intercedes
for His people from His throne. And I'll tell you there's some
things about His mediatorial reign. First of all, He judges.
He said, He sent upon the rod, and judgment was given unto him.
This is the thing about it. Judgment begins at the house
of God. And I tell you what, every time
somebody hears the gospel, that's judgment going. God said, my
words shall not return unto me void. And I tell you, and this
is one thing that we all rejoice about, is that God himself is
the one sitting on the throne. Christ is the one sitting on
the throne. He's the one who makes the judgment. He said,
he makes the judgment whether a man lives or dies, whether
he sees or stays blind, whether he's given life or he's got the
second death. He's the one who makes those
judgments. And the scriptures tells us that we all rejoice
that He done all the judging. And then I'll tell you not only
that, but He lives. He lives in all those that are
with Him. And these people that are living with Him, they share
His glory. And they take part of the first
resurrection. Now God helping us, let's look
at this. Final final battle between the Lord and his arch enemy Satan
which has been loosed out of prison out of the Bottomless
pit let off the chain if I could say it like that let off the
chain For a thousand if you know to go to see the nations He says
there in verse 7 when the thousand years are expired When Christ
is coming in back in his judgment. We'll see that here in a minute
Satan should be loosed out of his prison He's going to be loosed
out of his prison. What's he going to do? He's going
to go out and deceive the nations. Deceive the nations. Well, how
far is he going to go? He's going to go all over the
world to the four corners of the earth. I mean, he's going
to go everywhere, all over the world. And I tell you what, he
goes over the whole world, and this Gog and Magog, let me make
a comment about that. There's two places I want us
to look, and we'll just look at a couple of verses about it.
And look at Ezekiel 38 with me, and you keep Revelations, and
when he talks about Gog and Magog, they're coming to this great
battle. And I'll just, you'll see here what takes place. I'm just gonna read a couple
of verses out of each chapter and show you what God says about
this Gog and Magog. Now Gog is the, he's the prince
of the land of Magog. And this is it back in the northern
Syria. If you look at the map, that's
where it was. And the word of the Lord came unto me, saying,
Son of man, Set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog, the chief
priests of Meshach and Tubal, and prophesy against them. I'm
against thee, O Gog, the chief priests of Meshach and Tubal.
And listen to what God said, I'm gonna put thee, turn thee
back and put hooks in your jaws. And I'll bring thee forth and
all thy armies, horsemen and horses, all of them clothed with
all sorts of armor, and I'm gonna destroy him. Now look over in
chapter 39, he says about basically the same thing. So when we're
talking about Gog and Magog, guess he's using these as symbols
of what the great battle's gonna be between Satan and the world
and the Lord's people. Therefore thou, son of man, prophesy
against Gog and say, thus saith the Lord God, behold, I am against
thee, O Gog, the chief prince of Meshach and Tubal. I will
turn thee back. I will turn thee back. In verse
three, I will smite thy bow out of thy left hand and cause thine
eyes to fall out of the right hand. In other words, you ain't
even gonna get to do nothing. You ain't gonna get to do nothing.
And so back over here in Revelations, he's just using that Gog and
Magog as a symbol of how hatred and how deceived all the nations
are against Christ and against his people. Now this thing that
happened back in this Gog and Magog, what it was, it was a
period of affliction, tribulation, that Israel had never, ever suffered
before. And I tell you, when he's using
this here as an affliction, show us that affliction is a symbol
of all the final attack between Satan and the followers of our
Lord Jesus Christ. Our Lord said it like this. He
says, you know, He said, I'm going to avenge mine elect who
cry unto me day and night. I'm going to avenge them. And
I tell you what, the world's against God's people, they always
have been and they always will be. And it says there, then in
verse 7 here, back in Revelations 20, the devil gathers Gog and
Magog, these two heathen nations, for
a final attack, a final attack upon the city, the camp of the
saints, the city of the beloved city. And I tell you, that's
what they done. They came to, they went up on
the breadth of the earth in verse nine, and then they, excuse me,
verse seven said, he went out to deceive the nations. Four
corners of the earth, Gog and Magog gathered in the battle,
and they went up, on the breadth of the earth, God upon the breadth
of the earth. And they came to where the camp
and all the saints were, showing that the saints were all over
the world. And fire come down at the beloved city, that city
that God loves. Fire came down from heaven and
devoured them. Now you know, all these things
about God and Him, I showed you it comes from Ezekiel 38 and
39, if you wanna read about it. But there was a man, his name
was Antiochus Epiphanes. And he was this ruler in Magog. And he ruled in this place called
Meshach and Tubal. And he was a cruel, cruel, cruel,
cruel man. And he just slaughtered people
by the thousands and thousands, just slaughtered them and joined
them. That's why our Lord said, you
know, said, I pray that when this thing happens, that you
won't have to flee in the winter. But here they come and he had
a terrible, terrible persecution against God's people. He didn't
care about anybody else. He was after God's people. He
was after the Jews, God's elect people. He was after them. And
I tell you what, and he had a great period, a terrible, terrible
persecution against God's people until God came and like I said,
he said, I'll make the bow fall out of your left hand and make
the arrows fall out of your right hand. I let you go so far, you
ain't going no further. And that's what's going, he's
using this what happened in Gog and Magog as a picture, a symbol
of what's going to happen to us in these last days. And I
want you to remember four things. This attack in Gog and Magog
was the last, last great, great persecution of God's people that
they had to endure in the Old Testament. And this symbolizes
what we're gonna have to go through with an anti-Christ and anti-Christian
forces. And it said over in 2 Thessalonians,
you all remember it well, said, there'll be this man This man,
this beast that he's called, this 666, a man's gonna come
up, it's a man, and he'll come up with his great swearing words,
this great powerful person, and he'll just, and then he's in
the hands of Satan and he'll deceive. He'll go forth deceiving
and deceiving. And the scriptures tells us that
Christ will destroy him with just the brightness of his coming.
But he'll do great signs and lion wonders. And that's what
this is showing us and what's gonna happen to us in the last
days. And here's the second thing.
These armies of Gog and Magog, they were numerous. And it says
there that in verse eight, it said, they shall be as the number
of sands of the sea. That's a lot of people, a lot
of people. Oh my, and that's gonna be a
worldwide, worldwide opposition to the Lord and His people, preceding
the second coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Do you know how
many people in this world right now, in this world right now,
are against God and against Christ? You go into Europe, go to France,
go to England, go to Italy, Go to any Western European nation
you can think of, and if you can find 12 gospel churches in
all those nations, 12 of them, it'll be a miracle. I only made
a war in France, and you know how they had to shut down because
they only had two people. And you go to Italy, And that's
when they got to Madigan, that great big guy with his fish hat
on comes out there and raises his hands and everybody shouts. And he got his little lollipop
of stickers and rolls it around. That's what Tim James used to
say. Lollipop of stickers, he raises
it up. Call him Papa. He wears a robe. Dresses like
a woman, talks like a man, and can't produce any children. It's
a despicable thing. But anyway, that's what we're
talking about. And I'm telling you, these people
are going to come. They're going to be an awful
tribulation. Awful tribulation. And I'll tell
you, there was one under Ed Ockesmith's epiphanies. Very severe, but
it was also very brief. And the final troubles that the
church will go through, it'll be very, very brief. Our Lord
Jesus said it this way. He said, the last three and a
half days. He said, except those days should be shortened, no
flesh should be saved. But for the elect's sake, he
shortens those days. Shortens those days. If you think
he hasn't gone out and deceived the nation, just look around
you. Just look around you, why isn't this building full? Why are people, church buildings
closing down all over the world? It's against the law in so many
nations to even bring a Bible into the country. It's against
the law in Vietnam. It's against the law in China. And how would you like to live
in a country where it'd be against the law to meet like we're meeting
right now? Would you meet? Would you meet? You think this
is something new? John Bunyan, he preached in barns,
he preached anywhere he could preach. And at that time, the
Church of England had already stopped all gospel preachers
and run them right out of their churches. And that's where all
the books come from. All these wonderful books by
men that wrote them, while those are the pulpits. But John Bunyan
would preach, and the Church of England, all the power that
be in the Church of England, they said, if you don't stop
preaching, we're gonna put you in jail. Well, he just kept preaching. He'd preach in a bar and people
would come meet with him. He'd preach on the street and
they'd come gather around him. Finally, they caught him and
put him in jail in a town called Bedford. You can go over there
and see the jail that he was in. It's under an old stone bridge,
and it had a little gate in it, and they put it there. And there's
a place there where there's a little old narrow way, and it's called
the straight gate that was in his pilgrim's progress, that
little old gate where he went in, the wicked gate. But anyway,
to make a long story short, he spent 12 years in prison because
they said, don't you preach. They put Peter in jail for preaching
the gospel. Beheaded James, the first James
apostle. So this is not something that's
new. This is something that's always went on. And our Lord
said, in these days, except no flesh would ever be saved, except
God's short in those days. And you know who he's shorting
for? His election. And Lord, that's why John said,
Lord. He said, I'll come quickly. And
he said, amen, even so. Come on, Lord Jesus. Let's wind
this thing up. But oh, John Bunyan, 12 years
in that prison. 12 years in that dungeon. And they said, we'll let you
out if you'll quit preaching. Just go home, take care of your
family, just quit preaching. He said, the moss will grow on
my upper lip before I quit preaching the gospel. And then he finally
let him out of jail and the first thing he done, he went preaching.
Oh listen, this world's always been against God and Christ.
And it's the people that's in power, it's the people that's
in power. And I tell you, God defeated
the armies of Syria, Gog and Magog, and he destroyed them
completely when you read through there in Ezekiel 38 and 39. But
it was the word of God. And it says that he'll go into
the four corners of the earth there in verse eight. And there'll
be hatred and opposition of the gospel and of Christ's people.
It'll be worldwide. And this is not a certain group
of nations going to go fight Christian nations, which I don't
never, I've never seen a Christian nation, have you? But let me
tell you this, and it's not civilized fighting uncivilized nations.
When he says here that they come to this battle, this Gog and
Magog, when they come to this battle after Satan's deceived
them, it's this anti-Christian world and all that's in it He's
gonna come and fight against the Lord Jesus and his people.
And the scripture says they went up on, in verse nine, they went
up on the breadth of the earth. Now let me, and this is Satan's
little season. Let me just give you a few illustrations.
Did you think Islam or Muslims would be as powerful as they
are now? You know what they would do to every single one of us?
If they got their hands on us, they'd come in here and kill
every single person in this building unless you became a Muslim. People
say, we need to coexist. You can't coexist with the devil.
Now that's how, you know when they, they put people in cages
and set them on fire. And they bring men and women
out in public and chop their heads off in front of people.
Today, not yesterday, they're doing it every day. They hate the name of Christ.
They hate it. They hate Christians. And they
want to kill them. They want to destroy them. And
then there's Roman Catholicism. Do you know there's more Roman
Catholics than there is any other religion on the face of the earth?
All of Italy's Roman Catholic. All of Mexico's Roman Catholic,
all of the Philippines is Roman Catholic. And then when it comes time of
the year, you know, Christ is supposed to be crucified, then
people, some of the people in the Philippines actually get
nailed to crosses, suffering for Jesus, they say. And oh my, But I tell you, this
world hates God, hates Christ, and it ain't gonna get no better.
It ain't gonna get no better. And so many places, now I don't
wanna be cruel, I don't wanna be mean, but so many places are
having two services every morning, every Sunday morning. One of
them's called traditional, whatever that means, and the other one's
called contemporary. And they have these two services
and they're not saying anything. They're not saying anything about
God. They're not saying anything about Christ. Not saying anything
about sin. Not saying anything about how
sinners saved. They don't talk about the cross.
They don't talk about what happened at the cross. They don't talk
about who was on that cross. They don't talk about these things.
And I tell you this, the gospel The gospel, and for folks, it's
just lax. And I mean to tell you, people
that are lax, and they're not very interested in attending
services, people that are not faithful to attend services,
I wanna talk to you, whether you're on Facebook or wherever
you're at, whether you're a member here or whether you're a member
some place else, I wanna say this, and I wanna say it now.
The gospel isn't gonna be here forever. You play with it all
you want to. You come when you feel good and
you come when you feel bad. Or don't, you know, people they
just, they choose and pick and choose what they want to do.
But the gospel's not going to be here forever. One of these
days you're going to show up and there ain't going to be nobody
there with the gospel. One of these days you're going
to come and that doors are going to be closed because there ain't
going to be nobody there. You say, that can't happen. It's
happened millions of times. It's happened millions of times.
Oh my. And like I said, you go over
to Europe, go to Romania, go to them Eastern European countries,
go to Germany, go to any of those places. and see how many gospel
churches you can find, how many people preaching the gospel.
Get on Sermon Audio, get on Facebook and find somebody in Eastern
Europe or Western Europe that's actually preaching the gospel. See if you can find them. You
know why? Because Satan's going out to
deceive the nations. And it don't take him nuts. And
then let me tell you this, and it says, And back there in verse
8, to gather them together to battle. Now there's three places
in Revelation where it talks about a battle. In Revelation
16, they came up to battle against the Lord. In Revelation 19, here
it tells about a battle. Now here's a battle. These are
not three different battles, it's one battle, just one battle.
It's not a war, it's just a battle. And the new thing about Revelation
20 reveals what happens to Satan. It says there in verse 9, And
they went up on the breadth of the earth, and came past the
camp of the saints, about in the beloved city. That's God's
blessed people. And oh my, they gathered around
at the city of Zion, The camp of the saints. And when they
came around it, God sent fire down from heaven. Fire represents
judgment. And look what it said. It devoured
them. It devoured them. Fire came down. Our Lord said,
I'll come like lightning comes from the east and goes to the
west. He said, that's how quick it'll be my coming. And Satan
and all his, this whole world and everything that's in it,
the scripture said in 2 Thessalonians 2a, that he'll destroy them with
the brightness of his coming. He'll be so gloriously bright
that he'll destroy them just with his own glory. All right. He's gonna suddenly
appear and he's gonna destroy all of his enemies. And then
look what happens in verse 10. And the devil that deceived them,
Deceive them. Deceive them. Was cast into the
lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet
are, and they're going to be tormented day and night forever
and ever. That devil that so deceived all
these nations, deceived all these leaders, deceived all these nations,
and deceived so many people all over the world, And he actually
thought that God could be defeated. He said, we can make war against
God and defeat him. But he's cast out, he's cast
out. Now look what happens when he's
cast, put in that bottomless pit. Remember, fire and brimstone
came down and destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah and the cities of
the plain. Well, he said, that's what's gonna be in hell, fire
and brimstone forever. Then he said in verse 11, and
I saw a great white throne. Well, who's seated on that throne?
The Lord Jesus Christ. He's sitting there in judgment.
And him that sat on it, he's sitting down. Listen to this
now. From whose faith the earth and
the heaven fled away, and there's found no place for him. Now what
is he talking about here? What is he talking about? When
he says the earth and the heaven fled away. This is when Christ
comes And judgment's done, and then heaven and earth flies away,
and then there comes in this new heaven and new earth, wherein
dwelleth righteousness. The other one's gotta be done
away, and it flees before Christ's face. And then there'll be a
new heaven and a new earth. Our Lord called it a regeneration.
He called it a restoration of all things. He called it a deliverance
from the bondage of corruption. And oh my, even the universe
in this country, this world will not be subject to vanity and
the curse anymore. And look what happens now. And
oh my, everything found no place for them because there's a new
heaven and a new earth. Heaven and earth fled away, no place
for them anymore. And I saw the dead. You can find this same
thing in Daniel 7. Same identical words. And I saw
the dead. Now when he says he sees the
dead, these are people that's dead in trespasses and sins.
These people ain't got life. These are people God's never
saved. I saw the dead, small and great, nobodies and somebodies,
stand before God. And the books were open. These
are the books, right here. These are the books. They're
open. Everybody says you know they believe in evolution. God's
gonna judge them. Those who says man's got all
the power, God's gonna judge them. Those who said man in his
free will's got all the rights, God's gonna judge them. Those
who made fun of substitution, I don't need no blood. I don't want no bloody religion.
God's gonna judge them. God's gonna judge them. They
did. And the books were opened. And
then there's another book opened. It's called the Book of Life.
And the dead were judged out of those things which were written
in the books. Now listen to this. According to their works. According
to their works. Now that's what the dead's going
to be judged by. According to their works. Now we're not going to be judged
according to our works. You know why? We've already been
judged by Christ's work. We're not looking at our works,
we're looking to His. And alright, and then the sea.
Sea. The dead come up out of the sea.
Those that's dead in sins, those that God never gave life to,
we're in it. And you know what he says, the
last enemy to be destroyed will be death. Christ said in 1 Corinthians
15, and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. Death
will be no more. Hell is gonna be cast right into
the lake of fire. He said, this is the second death.
the second death. It'd be better for a man never
to be born again. But now listen, this is a general
resurrection, just one resurrection's all taking place. Those who had Christ and those
who didn't. And listen to this, they were cast, this is the second
death, and whosoever was not found written in the book of
life was cast into the lake of fire. Now when was this book
of life written? for the foundation of the world.
And you know, preachers will say, listen, if you'll accept
Jesus, he'll put your name in the book of life. You come to Christ because your
name's already written there. He got every name written down
of all his elect, of all his people, and all the dead. Oh my, it's gonna be an awful
day. You know what he said? He said,
I'll tell you what, he said, on that great day, that final
day, he said, I'm gonna put the goats on my left hand, my sheep
on my right, and they'll be cast into outer darkness. And those
who had a kingdom prepared for them from the foundation of the
world, he said, come, enter into the joy of the Lord. And so shall
we ever be of the Lord. It's gonna be an awful judgment.
It's gonna be awful. You think of your children. Think of your mother and daddy.
Think of your kinfolks. Think of people you know. It's
gonna be horrible. going to be awful. Going to be awful. And you tell
them that. You go home and tell them that.
You go home and call your children and say, listen, do you know
that God's going to put people in a lake of fire? Where there's
nothing but fire and brimstone and they're going to stay there
forever and ever and ever? And if you tell them that, you
know what they're going to say? Well, one of these days, one
of these days, one of these days, there's not going to be another
one of these days. It's scary, ain't it? It's very troubling to me. Very
troubling to me to think. I've talked to my family. Talk to my brother, and you know
what he says? Cross your fingers and I'll come out of this okay. Cross your fingers. What in the world is that gonna
do, but what's that gonna do for you? That's what men think
about God and think about Christ. You know why? Because Satan is
so deceived. Please don't. Please don't go
to that awful place. Listen to the gospel. Believe
Christ. Trust Christ. Flee to Christ. There's a... God said there's
a refuge. There's a remedy. There's a hiding
place. There's a bomb in Gilead. No, I'll find you. Rest in Christ. Because I tell you what, we're
not going to be around that much longer. It was four or five days
ago, I was 25 years old. And I'm not going to tell you
how old I am now, but I'm a heapside older. And Joe said today, when we were
sitting at the, eating lunch, he said, oh, God, we don't have
anything, nothing but what he gives us. We don't own anything.
We honestly don't owe Him anything. God gives us everything we have.
He gives us our home, He gives us our job, He gives us our money,
He gives us our health. We ain't got a breath that God
don't give us. And we'll have a breath as long
as He gives it to us. And oh, I'll tell you what. I'd
be like old John Bunyan, boy, I tell you what, he said, sink
or swim, I'm gonna throw everything, sink or swim, I'm throwing everything,
I'm throwing myself over into Christ. And that's what people need to
do, just cast themselves on Christ. Fall back on Him, He'll catch
you. Jump off the ledge, But oh my, I wouldn't be in this
world for 10,000 worlds for those who'll have to face God in judgment. I wouldn't. Well, our Father,
oh our Father, in the blessed name of Christ our Lord, please,
please, please, God, cause the gospel to run
well, cause us to be diligent, cause us to be committed, cause
us, oh Lord, in our heart of hearts to find you to be our
all in all. Oh Lord, please do a work in
hearts, work in minds, work in understanding. And Lord, please
give us the grace to speak to those that we love, to speak
to them in love and graciousness and kindness. But Lord, to be
honest, to be honest. And Father, I pray, I do pray. Lord, we know the gospel's not
gonna be here forever. And we're not gonna be here forever.
So Lord, move on hearts. move on hearts, as only you can
do. We ask these things in Christ's
name. Amen. Amen.