Let's turn to Revelations chapter
8. We'll talk about the first four
trumpets and the blowing of the first four trumpets. It says
there in verse 6, And the seven angels which had the seven trumpets
prepared themselves to sound. Remember the trumpets give warnings.
When they open the vials and pour out the vials and pour out
the bowls, that's when the wrath is poured out. These are warnings. The first angel sounded and there
followed hail and fire mingled with blood and they were cast
upon the earth And the third part of trees was burned up and
all green grass was burned up. And the second angel sounded
as it were a great mountain burning with fire cast into the sea. And the third part of the sea
became blood. And the third part of the creatures
which were in the sea and had life died. And the third part
of the ships were destroyed. And the third angel sounded,
and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a
lamp. And it fell upon the third part
of rivers, and upon the fountains of water. And the name of the
star is called Wormwood. And the third part of the waters
became Wormwood, and many men died of the waters, because they
were made bitter. And the fourth angel sounded,
and the third part of the sun was smitten. third part of the
moon, and the third part of the stars. So as the third part of
them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part of
it, and the night likewise. And I beheld and heard as an
angel flying through the midst of heaven saying with a loud
voice, woe, woe, woe to the inhabitants of the earth by the reason of
the other voices of the trumpets and of the three angels which
are yet to sound. You remember, we saw those seven
angels and they was all given trumpets. Then another angel
came and he had a censer in his hand, offered the prayers with
much incense to go up with the prayers of the Lord Jesus Christ.
But God is so gracious, so gracious, in wrath, he remembers mercy. In wrath, he remembers mercy.
The trumpets are warnings. Providences of God sent to warn. To turn men from their wickedness,
to turn men from their wicked ways, turn men from their worldliness. And religious men especially.
Let me show you what he says in Isaiah. You keep this and
look in Isaiah 45. Look in Isaiah 45. God's ways are not our ways.
And remember these are just pictures. These are symbols. These are
pictures, these are symbols. But look here in Isaiah 45 and
verse 7. That the providence of God, He
uses these trumpets to warn men. Turn them. My grandson had a
trumpet sent to him. Saturday morning. Whether you'll
hear it or not, that's another story. That's another story. God's providence sent a warning.
Sent a warning. And it's a mercy that God sends
a warning to anybody. There's a bunch of reprobates
on this earth that they'll never hear from God in no way, shape,
form or fashion. Until they get to hell and they
won't be upset because they're there. Hell don't change a person's
nature. And here he says this in Isaiah
45 and verse 7. I form the light and create darkness. I make peace and create evil. I, the Lord, do all these things.
Draw up down ye heavens from above. Let the skies pour down
righteousness. Let the earth open up and let
them bring forth salvation. And let righteousness spring
up together. I, the Lord, have created it. Woe unto him that striveth with
his maker. Let the potter strive with the
potters of the earth. Shall the clay say to him that
fashioneth what makest thou, or thy hand, or thy work, he
hath no hands. So God tells us here that what
he does, everything that happens in this world, he creates it.
And he says, listen, I bring righteousness and I send righteousness
from heaven. But he said, I tell you one thing
you do when I send it down, I want you to understand this, don't
you dare strive with me. You're nothing but apostate.
I'm the potter. Don't you argue with me, don't
you debate with me, and don't you question me. Don't even think
about questioning me. And men do it every day, every
single day. And yet God sends these wonderful,
wonderful trumpets to warn people. Paul was a wicked man, always
a murderous man. And God struck him down on the
Damascus road. Mary Magdalene. Oh, you know
how wicked Mary Magdalene was? She was a woman who had seven
devils. She was a mean woman. A hateful
woman. Wicked woman. And yet, from then
on you see the Lord Jesus Christ, she's at His feet. He sends these
providences. He sends these words. He sends
these things out. And the Lord sounds the alarm
of His judgment before He sends them. He sounds the alarm before
He sends the judgment. And how does He do it? Well,
He does it by His written word. You're going to go on the earth
where you can't find a Bible. Bibles are all over the world.
And He does it by His written word. He does it by preachers.
He does it by a man's own conscience. A man's own conscience will tell
him what he's doing, whether it's right or whether it's wrong.
Now he may override his conscience, and he may have his conscience
seared, but he's been touched by his conscience. And then God
uses the signs of the times. Now, you know, I'm not much about
signs of the times, but I do know this. I do know this, that
God said when you see all these things come to pass, He said
you'll see wars and rumors of wars, earthquakes, and in the
days of no one as in the days of lot. And if we're not in those
days, I wonder where we're at. And we see the signs of the times
all around us. We see it all around us, huh?
I'll tell you, if people are surprised when God comes upon
them, it's their own fault. You know, our Lord told the story
about the ten virgins. And he says that the watchman
came, the Lord came, called them. Five of them jumped up and their
lamps were burning. They was ready to go. Their lamps were trimmed, their
lamps were full of oil. And those five woke up and said,
oh listen, give us of your oil. Give us of your oil, we ain't
got no oil. And our Lord said, that's the
way it is at the end of time. There'll be five wise and five
foolish. They both got woke up. But one,
five of them didn't have a clue what was going on. Five of them
was waiting for the Lord to come. And so that's what He does. He
sends these warnings. And He uses His Word in all these
things to teach us these things. And when God manifests His anger,
He destroys men's comforts. He makes men's life bitter. He
makes life burdensome to them. And I'm thankful that he doesn't
stir up all his wrath, because if he did, who would ever be
able to stand? But he sets bounds to his judgments. When we see
corruption, we're in the church. When we see corruption in the
church, men lying on God, magnifying man's free will, Church out home
says, you know, cross training inside. Training for the cross
inside. Shirley and I was talking about
it. We went by a place here, go by it every day, and they
got them a big statue out behind there. Idols sitting in church parking
lots, in church properties. That's the judgment of God on
people. If God would listen, if it wasn't
for God and His grace making us to differ, we'd all be wearing
crosses and we'd all have a statue in our front yard and we would
have a statue of Mary or a crucifix on our dash. God's the only one
who made us to differ. And I tell you what, when you
see corruption in doctrine, oh corruption in doctrine, when
men change the doctrine of God into the doctrine of devils,
when they turn the truth of God into a lie. And you see corruption
in worship. And you see corruption in politics.
And I tell you, as long as I've been alive, there's always been
corruption in politics. And I'll tell you something that
I haven't done it, it's been months since I've watched the
news. Because I just get too upset I'll talk to the television. I'll talk to the politicians.
I'll be so upset when I come here, and I'm upset. They upset
you. So I listen. We got enough things
to trouble us in this world without just subjecting ourselves to
it. If a politician's talking, mute the television. Just mute
it. He ain't going to say nothing
worth listening to anyway. Oh, he's going to tell you what
he's going to do, and then he's going to do the opposite. And
then when you see politics and the corruption in politics, and
oh, how corrupt it is. Take everything from people and
give it to people that ain't got nothing. That's corrupt.
You can't get more corrupt than that. And oh, you see corruption
in businesses. And I tell you, when you see
this, you'll soon see judgment. And the judgments of God, you
think you see some now. You wait till one of these days
when it really gets dead serious and God gets serious about this
work. And I'll tell you, this is the fact. And I'll say about
it. But I believe God's hands against
this country in a great, great, great way. You get what you deserve. And when people are corrupt,
they're going to get corrupt politicians. When people want
handouts, they're going to get people to give them something
what they want. You want something for nothing,
they'll give you something for nothing. Or say thank you, giving
you something for nothing. But I tell you, this world, God's
done got his hand against this country. And it's sad, it troubles
me, it bothers me. I remember, and you do too, you
remember when you was growing up, life was so simple. Oh, it's so simple. Go out and
play after 10 o'clock at night. And nobody bothers you. You all
go home. Nothing. But now, I tell you what, you
got to, I remember, I used to make fun of people going out
with their kids on a leash, you know, had a harness on them and
had a leash on them. Listen, if I had a little bitty
kids and took them to Walmart, took them to Disney World or
anywhere else, I'd have a leash on them. You know why? Because there's
some pervert somewhere wanting to get their hands on them. Why? Because God set his hand
against this country. He's turned it loose. He's turned
it loose. Well, enough of that. Let me
deal with this first trumpet. This first trumpet. Now remember,
these trumpets are just warnings. And the first angel sounded,
and there followed hell, verse 7, hell and fire mingled with
blood, and they were cast upon the earth, and the third part
of trees was burnt up, and all green grass was burnt up. You
know, when He blows, God's judgment
starts from the Lord. There's this warning. And He
sees a great storm. A great storm. We've all seen
great storms in all kinds of hell fall from the sky. We have
risen in a hell storm one time, beat the windows out of a car.
Beat the windows out of a car. But there's a storm. Here's a
great storm. And God says, now listen, God
gives these trumpets to these angels, and he causes this hail,
and he causes this fire to fall from heaven, and that great storm,
and it's mixed with blood. And what he's doing, he's showing
us the destructive power. destructive power that God can
cause in just, in a moment, in a tornado, in a typhoon, in a
hurricane, in anywhere in the world that he can cause a great
destructive power. Hell beats down things. Fire
burns up things. Blood represents death. Now let
me show you what something happened here in Exodus 9. Exodus 9. Now these are not literal. You know, God deals with the
earth and He has ways of dealing with the earth. Look in Exodus
9 and verse 22. And I tell you, this affects
just the third part of the trees. And the green grass and the fields,
they're all burned up. Look what He said in verse 22,
And the Lord said unto Moses, Stretch forth thine hand toward
heaven, that there may be hail in all the land of Egypt, upon
man, upon beast, and upon every herb of the field throughout
the land of Egypt. Moses stretched forth his rod
toward heaven, and the Lord sent thunder, and hail, and fire. That fire's lightning, same thing
as lightning. He said, fire ran along upon
the ground, and the Lord rained hell upon the land of Egypt.
So there was hell, and fire mingled with the hell. Very grievous,
such as there was none like it in all the land of Egypt, since
it became a nation. And the Lord smoked throughout
all the land of Egypt, all that was in the field. Man and beast,
and the hail smoke every herb of the field, and break every
tree in the field. And this is just God showing
us, and now these things don't happen all at once. As long as
there's been time, there's gonna be these kind of storms, and
God says that he sends these storms. God sends them, and he
uses them to scare men, and trouble men, and cause men to seek him,
but they generally don't. And it just affects parts of
the trees, parts of the grass, parts of the field, and they're
burned up by this lightning. And remember now, at the times
of this, John was writing this, the church, God's people, were
in great, great, great persecution. Oh, they were all being persecuted.
John was already exiled. And these first trumpets is probably
the time from the first coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. Second,
they're gonna, you know, this don't just happen, this happens
over time. This ain't gonna be one time
event. That's what people think, that
God's gonna do this at one time and then wait a while and he's
gonna do something else. But these things happen continually
over and over and over. And so I tell you what, He can
destroy something just that quick. And I tell you what, our Lord
reigns in heaven and He said He cast it. He cast it. They
cast it upon the earth. And I tell you what, He uses
these things and disasters and calamities to warn men. And whatever they are, whatever
comes in this world, God's the one that sends them. They come
from the Lord in heaven. Ain't that right? Comes from
the Lord in heaven. And that's why, that's why you
know I'm thankful I know Him. I'm thankful I know Him. And
here's the thing about it. Here's the thing about it. That
we already know the Lord so He's not sending it to warn us. If
we get our things beat up with hail and lightning strikes and
kill some trees and You know, I've had lightning strike and
kill trees and just blow out everything. Had lightning strike
and my TV went all the way across the room. So these things happen to believers,
but we don't need to be warned. But he uses these things to stir
up other people, to make them afraid, to make them understand
that you ain't got control over hell. You ain't got control over
the heavens. You ain't got control over a tornado. You ain't got
control over lightning. God has that control. And you
better hope that he don't send a lightning strike to some of
your loved ones. And you know, he could do that.
He could do that. And here's the second trumpet
there. Verse 8. And the second angel, as it sounded,
he blowed his trumpet, as it were a great mountain burning
with fire, was cast into the sea. And the
third part of the sea became blood, and the third part of
the creatures which were in the sea had life, died, and the third
part of the ships were destroyed. Now I want you to see how this
is progressed to the earth, then it goes to the sea, then it goes
to the rivers and the waters, and then it goes to the heavens.
God's showing you, He controls it all. He deals from the heavens
to the earth, everything in between. And so when this second trumpet
blows, He sees like a great big huge mountain, And that mountain's
on fire. The water make a mountain be
on fire. Volcano of course cause a mountain
to be on fire. And fire coming up out of them
things. And I tell you he cause these great earthquakes to come.
Cause these mountains to come on fire. And I tell you what,
here he comes. He sees this mountain on fire.
And this angel takes this mountain and he cast it down into the
sea. cast it into the sea. And God
uses different instruments. He used hell and fire the first
time. Now He's going to use a mountain.
He uses different things in different places. But I do know this, that
all He uses, pleases and times and His warnings are in His hands.
In His hands. And when you talk about a mountain,
the symbol of a mountain, being cast into the sea shows the greatness
and the power and the majesty of God Almighty that can take
a mountain and throw it down. Throw it down. Huh? And I tell
you, he uses these things to afflict the wicked. I don't know
how many of you have ever read John Newton's biography. It's
wonderful. Absolutely wonderful. Not very
long. Don't take long. But John Newton was a Captain
on a ship. And that boy got caught out in
the storm one time. They talk about being in the
sea. And he almost lost his leg. He had something hold of his
leg. And they was dragging him around out in the ocean. Somebody
pulled him back in there. But no wonder he wrote the song
Amazing Grace. He was the biggest slave of a
bunch of Africans. And they put a collar around
his neck and chained him up and made him eat out of bones. Like
a dog would do. And the Lord saved him from that.
Then that Titanic. You talking about trouble in
the sea? Unsinkable ship. There's no way you can sink this
ship, they said. Well, it sunk. And when the word went out that
it sunk, people was looking at one list. Saved, lost. Look at the list. Which one's
saved? Is my family's name on that list? Or is it on this other
list? God's only one knows that. And I tell you what, that mountain,
you remember just this last week, a storm got off of Florida. Remember
that? A boat turned over down there in Florida and I think
it killed eight or nine people right off the bat. They saved
eight, and you know, that's what I'm telling you, God can do...
Listen, they got up that day to get on that boat and go sailing,
and they didn't have a clue what God's going to do that day. And this is what people just
despise, and they can't understand it, to tell them that God's the
author of these things. That God's the author of these
things. All the world's got us scared to death over having a
virus. Listen, God Almighty can cure
you 10,000 ways. Old Scott said he'd choke you
to death on your own spit. Drown you in a teaspoon of water.
And I tell you, people don't want to acknowledge God to have
that kind of power, that kind of authority. But I'm thankful
that I know Him. I don't care if He throws every
mountain down. That don't make any difference
to me. He's God and He's got His hand on me. Turn down the
mountains. In fact, the scripture says that
they're going to cry for the mountains and hills to fall on
to hide them from the wrath of the Lamb of God. Look with me. I want to show you a couple of
things about these mountains. Look over in Psalm 46. Psalm
46. Oh my. The mountain symbolizes
great, great trouble. Great commotion. Oh. Look what he says here. Psalm
46. God is our refuge and strength. A very present help in trouble. Therefore will not we fear, though
the earth be removed. Now listen to this. Though the
mountains be carried into the midst of the seas. Oh my. Though the waters thereof
are unbetroubled, though the mountains shake with the swelling
thereof. Look in Isaiah 54. Look in Isaiah 54. Oh, what a blessing, what a blessing. 54 in 10. Look in Isaiah 54 in
verse 10. This is what the Lord says now. For the mountains shall depart
and the hills be removed. That's going to happen. Mountains
shall depart and the hills be removed. But my kindness shall
not depart from thee, neither shall the covenant of my peace
be removed, saith the Lord that hath mercy on thee. These judgments
come, but they're not for us, they're for somebody else. And
I'll tell you that third part, the third part of the sea died
and all creatures in them died. And I tell you that one-third
part that dies, that becomes blood signifying death. One-third
of the living creatures in the sea die. A third of the ships
destroyed. Passengers and crews are gone. And you know, like I said, these
are not one-time events. They happen all the time. All
the time. Over and over and over. And all
these things God uses. And then look what the third
angel does. In verse 10, and the third angels, third angels
sounded, and there fell a great star from heaven, burning as it were a lamp. Everybody
seen a lamp? It burns, you know, got fire
in it, like a torch, like a torch. And it fell upon the third part
of the rivers. Now we done dealt with the earth,
we dealt with the sea, now we're going to go deal with the rivers.
And it fell upon the third part of the rivers, and upon the fountains
of waters. And the name of the star is called Wormwood. And
the third part of the waters became Wormwood, and many men
died of the waters, because they were made bitter." You know,
that's like I told you, the first deals with the earth, vegetation. Second with the seas, now the
waters of the world. He's just this huge star. Great,
great star. And it's burning. Just like a
big torch going. And that sees this thing out
of heaven. And what in the world could produce greater terror
than this? Because it comes from heaven.
It says it comes out of heaven. And you see this that it falls
upon the third part of the rivers and the fountains and places
where the water starts. But you look at all the floods.
Look at all the floods. You know up there where Tom Harding's
at, they had a flood and I don't know how many times they had
to clean their house out. They just got it cleaned out and then
a flood come in there and got all the way up to the floor in
the sanctuary. And they had to move and build
a new building and build a new house because it just happened
all the time. And all the contamination that
comes from all these floods. And the diseases that come from
foul water. You know how much foul water
is in this world? And the name of this star is
wormwood. Wormwood is bitter. Very, very
bitter. And it means also to have sorrow. Your bitterness through sorrow.
Amos said it like this, true judgment will be like wormwood. It'll be like wormwood. It'll
evolve righteousness in the earth. And you know, wormwood is a bitter,
bitter thing. And this star comes and he makes
the water bitter. He makes the water... I've got
a son-in-law that he got hepatitis from drinking water that had
contamination in it. And he got sick from it. And
he's still sick from it. Sewer water got in his water. Now I'll tell you how much of
that goes on in this world. But oh my. You know how many
view these things as God calling men to repentance? Warning him
to the final judgment. And it says here, many men died
Many men died of the waters because they were bitter. Let's show
you something in Exodus 15. You know, there's so many things
in the Old Testament that shows us these things. All this stuff
can be found also in Ezekiel. But look in Exodus 15. Talking
about this bitter water. Let men die from it. Exodus 15. Exodus 15. And I tell you, there's been
lots and lots of people die from contaminated water. And this
happens over and over and over. Over and over and over. You know,
when I was in Vietnam, you'd have water. It'd have worms in
it. And you'd have to boil it. You'd
have to boil it. till all the water before you
could drink it. And then if they brought a big
water, what they call a water buffalo out, there's a big old
tank that they'll set it down and it had a great old big faucet
on it. And you'll take your cans, your old water cans, and fill
them up with that water. But if you was out anywhere else
and had to get water, you're very, very careful. You burn,
you boil that water. You didn't just drink it up.
I remember Henry May had one time. We was going to Cherokee. And we all stopped to eat by
a creek. And Henry was watching these
people going down the creek, wading through the creek. And
they got down there, and they got on their hands and knees,
started drinking out of that creek. He said, look at them.
They just got through all through that creek, and now they're drinking
out of it. He said, they don't know how
many cattle's been up there or nothing. I'll tell you, but I,
you know, I've seen the time I'd almost drink out of a mud
puddle. Well, I'd get thirsty, but what I'm telling you is that
these things don't happen. All these things, they don't
happen. God don't say, well, I'm going to cause all the waters
on the earth. This happens over and over and
over and over. And all these things happen from
the first coming of Christ until He comes again. And then there's
going to be a new heaven and a new earth, and this is going
to be destroyed. But look what he said here in
Exodus 15 verse 27. Oh, excuse me, wait a minute, wait
a minute. 29, am I in the right place? No, look up here in verse 23.
I got the wrong numbers down there. 22 through 25, yeah. Oh yeah, down in verse 22. I'm
just looking at my numbers wrong. Look down in verse 22. So Moses
brought Israel from the Red Sea, and they went out into the wilderness
ashore. And they went three days into the wilderness and found
no water. And when they came to Myra, they could not drink
of the waters of Myra, for they were bitter. Therefore, the name
of it was called Mara. That means bitter, bitterness.
And the people murmured against Moses, saying, what shall we
drink? And he cried unto the Lord, and the Lord showed him
a tree, which when he had cast into the waters, the waters were
made sweet. Therefore, there was a statute
in ordinance, and the Lord approved it. You know what makes our waters
sweet? He gives us some bitterness every
once in a while. You know what makes our bitterness sweet? The cross. Yeah, that's what they had. He
said he showed him a tree. Nobody else saw that tree but
Moses. Nobody else sees the tree but the Lord's people. The Lord's
people see the Lord Jesus Christ on the tree. Turns all of our
bitterness Turns it all away. Turns it all away. And I tell
you, all these things happen over and over and over. And then
look at the fourth trumpet. I'll try to hurry. I feel like
I'm taking too long. And the fourth angel sounded.
And the third part of the sun was smitten, the third part of
the moon, and the third part of the star. So the third part
of them was darkened, and the day shone not for a third part
of it, and the night likewise. So we've had to start at the
earth, start in the sea, start in the fountains, start in the
rivers, and now God's going to show you how He controls the
heavens. And I'll tell you, He said a third part of the sun.
Do you know what it takes to make it too hot or too cold? God. God. Why is it so cold here in April?
The Lord's in it. He turned the heat down on the
sun. He can do that, you know. He can turn the heat down on,
and then, then in July, August, he'll turn it way up there, and
then we'll say, oh my goodness, man alive, that's just like,
I'd love to see it rain. I'd love to see it cool off.
And that's all God's got to do. Turn it up, turn it down. They
say man's doing this. No, no, no. And I've been the
third part of the moon. Oh, the moon, the moon. That
moon is a, you know, sometimes it gives us light, sometimes
it comes out. They talk about blood moons and
that, but here's stars. And I tell you what, that means
the third part of the day and night, there's no light, there's
no darkness. You know, God can cause it to,
you know, have you ever been where it's right in the middle
of the day, it just gets so dark. You know the clouds get so thick
and it just get like it's dark. And then on the night you know
it just be almost like daylight because the way the moon was
shining. And so he can create the light and he can create the
darkness. He's the one that controls all
those things. And you know you see stars falling
from heaven all the time. And God calls them to fall. And
the scriptures tell us that even the heavens are against the enemies
of God and his people. And do you have any idea of the
effect of the sun, moon and stars upon life? I mean it's really,
really, you can't overestimate it, the effect of the sun. The
effect of the moon. Do you know the tides are controlled
by the moon? The stars, they said if you're
looking at a star, that thing was done already burned out. You're just looking at a star
that the light just ain't went out yet. That's how slow light
travels, so slow. Or around 276,000 feet a minute. But you take it 4 million, 10
million miles from Earth, it takes a long time to get here.
Don't it? But anyway. And when anything
abnormal happens to the sun or the moon or the stars, people get troubled. But all
these evils come upon the lost. The entire universe is controlled
by our Lord Jesus Christ. And all of these things, like
I've told you time and again, I'll tell you again, they don't
happen at one time. How many times have we seen these
happen in our lifetime? How many earthquakes? How many
ships sunk? How many rivers polluted? How many stars fall? How hot it's got? How cold it's
got? How dark it's got? How light
it's got? You know it got dark in Egypt
one time. And it got so dark that they
said they could feel the darkness. The darkness was felt. And you
know what God did that night when the darkness was felt? That's
when He went through the land of Egypt and killed the firstborn
of everyone there. And you imagine the darkness
that God sends upon the minds and understandings of people.
That's the greatest darkness that you could possibly have. The darkness being in this world,
some night when it's so darkness that you can't put your hand
on your nose and you still can't see your hand. I'm telling you
that's not even dark compared to the darkness that God leaves
people in. You got people that God's left
in the darkness. You got loved ones that God's
left in the darkness. And the light's shining but they
can't see it. They don't know it. They live
in darkness. They love the darkness. They're
like a bunch of bats. They can only fly in the dark. And oh, God have mercy on them.
Oh, that's the worst judgment God can put on a man is leave
him in his darkness. We sung that song, Pass Me Not,
O Gentle Savior. Let me out of throne of mercy,
let me there find a sweet relief. One thing we don't want in this
world is for God to let us alone. Don't leave us to ourselves.
Well, you know, I try to make a little sense out of these things
in Revelation, but I can't begin to describe how God deals with
things in this world. But I'm grateful that He's the
one doing it. that I ain't got no control over
it. I've got no control over it.
And I'm grateful I ain't got no control, and that ain't gonna
make me mad if he beats the roof off my house with a hailstorm.
Ain't gonna make me mad. Is it gonna make you mad if he
does that? What if he makes it so cold you
can't get on enough clothes? Is that gonna make you mad? What if he makes it so hot that
you can't get outside? What if he makes your water so
sorry that you have to burn it and boil it before you can ever
drink it? What if he dries up all your
ponds, lets all your corn get about knee high, because he makes
it so hot, so dry? What if he does that? It's all
right with me. There's still gonna be bread
on the shelf. Ain't that right? Remember, all these things that
God sends, they're not for us, not for believers. They're for
the world. We don't have to be warned. He's
done warned us. He's done told us. He's done
brought us out of the darkness. He's done brought us to life.
I don't need a tornado to tell me that God's in control. I don't
need lightning to strike a tree in my front yard to let me know
God's running this world. So if it happens, it just happens. But boy, when it happens to people,
God uses those things to warn people. Warn them. And oh may
he wake up our family by warning them. Send a warning. Send a
warning to your family. Send a warning to my family.
Send a warning to your family. Send a warning to your loved
ones. And then say, Lord, give them sense enough, eyes enough,
to see what's happening and seek you. Oh, Lord Jesus, our blessed,
blessed Savior. Oh, you are our Savior. We sing,
Savior, oh, Savior. Lord, we call Savior because
you save. We call you Savior because you
saved us. We call you Savior because you
continue to save us. We call you Savior because you
will one day save us and take us all the way to glory. We'll
be plumb saved. God bless these dear saints.
Thank you for allowing us to meet here today. Thank you for
allowing us to look at your word Lord, I understand what the apostle meant
when he said, who is sufficient for these things? Who's sufficient
for them? Lord, I know I'm not. But Lord,
you can take things and make them understandable in spite
of a stammering tongue. So Lord, God bless it to our
hearts, bless it to our understanding. Keep these dear saints as they
go home, Keep them in their beds, give them a good night's rest.
Let their bodies be washed over and cared for. When they wake
up in the morning, oh Lord, preserve them. When they go through the
day tomorrow, God bless them. Lord, I know that if you don't
keep us, we won't be kept. And Lord, we want to be kept.
We really, really, really, really, really want to be kept. So keep
us for Christ's sake. Amen. Amen. Amen.