Now, if you will, take your Bibles
and turn with me this morning to 1 Peter 1. And my subject is going to be the
living hope. Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ
to the strangers scattered throughout Pontius, Galatia, Cappadocia,
Asia, and Bithynia. elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father, through sanctification of the Spirit, unto obedience,
and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ, grace unto you,
and peace be multiplied. Blessed be the God and Father
of our Lord Jesus Christ, which according to His abundant mercy
hath begotten us again unto a lively hope by the resurrection of Jesus
Christ from the dead, to an inheritance incorruptible and undefiled,
and that fadeth not away, reserved in heaven for you." Now listen,
who are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation
ready to be revealed in the last time. Now in these five short
verses, Peter sets before us the history and the character
and the hope of every true believer. I read a lot of men writers on
the scriptures, former preachers, preachers from days gone by,
16th, 17th, 18th, 19th century. And almost every one of them
say that Peter had no personal acquaintance with these people
that he writes to here at all. He just knew their testimony. He knew by those who pastored
Those little churches that were scattered here and there, he
knew by letter and correspondence. He might have even known by personal
testimony from some of these men who came to visit of these
people and where they were and their testimony before God. Strangers scattered abroad. And how did Peter describe these
men? He said they were elect. I was told, the first time I
ever read that word in the Bible, the fellow said, shh. He said,
you don't want to get that started. He said, you don't want to start
talking about that. Well, that's the very first thing Peter mentions.
Talking about these elect, talking about these true believers. And
he's going to describe them for us. He's going to tell you all
about their history, and their faith, and their hope, and all
these things. But the very first thing he tells you is that they're
elect. They're lit. My friend, this world is marked
out for judgment. That's where we start, right
there. It's marked out for judgment. And as strange as that may seem
in this day of cynicism and skepticism, this world is under, right now,
the judgment of God. You're here this morning and
you don't know Christ. You're under the judgment of
God. Under His judgment. Blinded. blinded before Him,
dead in trespasses and sin, children of wrath, He calls us in Ephesians
2. That's this world. Well, I thought
He was talking about them folks down there in the bar. No, they're
probably a little better off than some of the others. But
He's talking here about all men born of Adam. He's talking about
this world under the judgment of God. Romans 5, verse 12, You can read about it over there,
the fall of Adam. He tells us, by one man, sin
entered into the world, and the result of that was death. Sin
entered into the world, and death by sin, and so death passed upon
all men, for they all had sinned. He tells us in verse 18, that
by the offense of one judgment came upon all men to condemnation,
condemned of God. And when Christ appeared, He
said, here's the condemnation. Here it is. You want proof of
it? Here it is. Light has come into the world.
Men love darkness rather than light. Condemnation. They'll take anything but the
truth. Tell them anything. Put frogs up here. They'll worship
frogs. They'll worship flies. They'll
worship a dung god. They worshiped a dumb God back
in Israel. They'll worship anything, snakes,
worms, anything, but not the living God. Why is that? Why is that? Because they're
depraved. They're under the judgment of
God. And you can ignore this and deny this and treat this
as though it was an old wives' tale if you want to, but it's
the truth whether you believe it or not. This world is judged and adamant. As our federal head, he rebelled
against God, and the result of that rebellion was that sin entered
into the world and death passed upon all men. And then secondly,
God is presently judging this world. You ever think about that? He's presently judging this world.
Those who, by the light of creation and conscience, Paul talks about
over there in Romans chapter 1. who know they have the witness
of God around them, and they have the witness of God in them,
of His eternal power and Godhead. They have a conscience that tells
them the difference between right and wrong, tells them that His
creatures must be in obedience to Him, but they suppress that
light, they suppress that truth, and they change the glory incorruptible
God into whatever image that suits their natures. And it said,
and God gives them over to a reprobate mind. He gives them over to do
all sorts of ungodly, unclean acts. That's the judgment of God. That's
the judgment of God. And those who hear the gospel
of Christ and deny the truth of the gospel, refuse to receive
the love of the truth, And they cling to their old lies, those
lies of antichrist religion. God judges them. It says He gives
them up, gives them over, brings to them a strong delusion that
they should believe a lie. And then damns them for believing
it. You can read about that in II Thessalonians chapter 2. They'll
cling to those things to their dying breath. This world has
been judged, and if being judged, then this world shall yet be
judged. John said in the book of Revelations,
he said, I saw a great white throne and him that sat on the
throne. And heaven and earth fleed away
from his presence, found no place for them. And he said, 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 written in
those books according to their works. And the sea gave up the
dead which were in it, and death and hell were delivered up. They
delivered up the dead which were in them, and they were judged
every man according to their works. And death and hell were
cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death. And
whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast
into that lake of fire. Judgment and wrath is the history
and the story of every man born of Adam. Actually, we're only
given one example in the scriptures. I got to searching and looking
around for it. I can only find one example of any man in hell. Do you know of any other other
than the rich man? I couldn't find a single example
in the scripture of anyone else other than that rich man. And
I got to thinking about him. I've known some wealthy men in
my life, and to be honest with you, they were nice folks. They
lived good lives. They paid their bills. They wouldn't
have been rich otherwise. They'd have been in jail. But
this man was a successful man. He lived his life. He built a
business. He saved his money. He invested
it wisely. He was a wise man. He was careful
about things in the community. He was well liked in the community.
Probably lived to a ripe old age and played with his grandchildren
and one day died. The very next thing you read
about this man was in hell he lifted up his eyes. In hell. This world. I'm telling you,
as clear as words can make it, I'm telling you this morning,
it was judged in Adam, it's being judged, and it's going to be
judged. And there is no escape of this
judgment, no escape of the depravity of this plague, except this hope
that I've read twice to you about this morning. It's a good hope,
good hope through grace. I'm not up here this morning
to play games or go through a lot of foolish ceremonies on Easter. I'm up here trying to tell you
that there's a hope, a good hope through grace. But without this
hope and without God's intervention, you're as certain for hell as
if your feet was already in the flames. You're not going to climb
out of it. You're not going to decide out
of it. You're not going to will out of it. There's just one hope. And brethren,
that's the mercy and grace of God. That's it. And it's my prayer to God this
morning that as I go through these verses that the Spirit
of Christ will take His Word and by His grace reveal to you
the one hope for lost sinners. Peter writes to these men that
at one time, if he met these men on the street and seen them
coming, he'd went to the other side. These were Gentile dogs. Gentile dogs. You remember down at Galatia,
even after the Lord saved him. Down at Galatia, Paul had to
withstand him to the face because when his buddies from Jerusalem
come down, he was sitting over there with those Gentiles and
he just kind of did this. and got over here away from him
so his buddies wouldn't think he was piling up with these Gentile
dogs. That's right. These are the people
that he now writes to. Men and women that he once despised. He wouldn't have spoken to them
if he met them on the street, just dogs and idol worshippers
and ungodly people having no hope without God in the world.
That's how Paul described them in Ephesians 2. And he really didn't even know
them. Like Paul knew the Galatians, and he knew the Ephesians, and
Philippians, and Thessalonians, and Corinthians. He knew those
folk. But Peter didn't even know these people. He just heard their
testimony, and the testimony concerning their faith. And so
it's in this testimony that Peter describes their hope. Let me
give you several things as we go through these verses and see
if your hope lines up with their hope. See what kind of hope we
have. And the very first thing that
Peter declares about these people that he never met was they were
elect, chosen of God. Now, I know Armenians that I've
known in the past and free wheelers, they like to make this apply
to the Jews. And old brother Barnard, the
old evangelist, he used to say there's two ways you can get
out of scriptures. You can either say that's talking
about the Jews, or that's talking about the millennium, and you
can get out of anything. But that's what they tell me
about election. Well, this applies to the Jews,
but that's just not so. That's just not so. These people
that he's writing to here called elect are Gentiles. And then
somebody might say, well, no, these were the Jews that were
scattered among the Gentiles all up in there. Well, over in
Acts chapter 13, Paul went over there to preach at Antioch. Do
you remember that occasion? What was that? Acts chapter 13,
I think it was. He went over there to preach
in Antioch. And the Jews wouldn't have no part of it. It just angered
them. They got angry. But these Gentiles
was hanging on every word. And finally, Paul told them,
he said, seeing that you put this thing from you, he said,
I'll turn to the Gentiles. And he turned and preached to
them. And they was glad. They was glad when they heard
that. They was glad. And you know what it says about
them? As many as were ordained to eternal life believed. That's election, ain't it? Sure it is. And that's the election
of the Gentiles. The act of faith finds its beginning
in the election of God. Now, turn with me one more time
back to II Thessalonians 2. I read through that kind of quickly
a while ago, and I want you to see this. This world, if left
to themselves, are not going to do anything. How can you say that, preacher?
Because he tells us in the scriptures it's known that understanding.
There's none that seeketh after God. That's how I can say that. Now, if there's none that understandeth,
none that seeketh after God, and none righteous, and none
good, then I can honestly tell you that this world, if left
to themselves, are not going to do anything. Those Jews had the Scriptures.
And actually, the possession of the Scriptures, to them, only
aggravated the problem. It just aggravated the problem.
Our Lord said, you search the Scriptures, for in them you think
you have eternal life. But they are they which testify
of Me, and you won't come to Me that you might have life.
It just aggravated the situation. The way of faith finds its beginning
in the election of God. God saves men on purpose. Write that down. He saves men
on purpose. And having first dealt with the
reprobation of these deceived men and women, he now gives thanks
to God for those who believe. Now watch this here in II Thessalonians
2.13. We're bound to give thanks always
to God for you, brethren, beloved of the Lord, because God hath
from the beginning chosen you to salvation. Ain't that what
that says? Chosen you to salvation. This thing of election is not,
somebody said that election, how'd they say that? That's why
I didn't write it down. It's so complicated you wouldn't
have understood it if I did. But basically what they were
saying was that election is what gives you the privilege to hear.
It gave you the privilege. And so election has to do with
all men. Election just had to do it. Now,
he said here, there, he chose them from the beginning to salvation. But that's not the end of it.
Through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth.
And there never has been, is not now, nor ever will be any
believer anywhere who was not chosen of God to salvation through
faith in the Lord Jesus Christ. Now you just go through and check
it out. That's the way it is. That's God's means. That's God's
way. That's His design. Here in 1
Peter 1, He calls them elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father. Now before we go any further,
I'll deal with that scripture, that word foreknowledge. It's
the very same word as foreordination. You go down there to verse 20,
I think it is there in 1 Peter, where it says that He was foreordained
before the foundation of the world. You go to Romans 8 where
He said, whom He did foreknow. You remember that word? It's
the exact same word. They're interchangeable. God
foreknows what God foreordains. look into the future to see what
chance brings about or to see what might happen someday. Our God doesn't do that. Our
God declares the end from the beginning because He's the sovereign,
all-wise God and He determines all things between here and now. He foreknows what He foreordained. He worketh all things, is what
Paul said about his predestinating purpose in Christ. There in Ephesians
chapter 1, he said he worketh all things after the counsel
of his own will. Whether it be the murder of his
son, or the calling of his elect, or the turning over men to a
reprobate mind, he worketh all things after the counsel of his
own will. They're elect according to the
foreknowledge of God the Father through sanctification of the
Spirit unto obedience and sprinkling of the blood of Jesus Christ. Now here's the second thing I
know about the faith of God's elect. First of all, I know they're
chosen of God. God has a people. If He didn't
have a people, if He didn't choose a people, if He didn't make preparation
and appoint somebody on their behalf, we'd all go to hell.
There wouldn't have been a son of Adam. He'd have just wiped
the whole thing out in Adam. But God had a people. God had
a people. It's through the sanctification
of the Spirit unto obedience. That's the second thing I want
you to see here about this faith of God's elect. The first conscious
act of faith is obedience. Obedience. The first conscious
act of faith is not running out the back door shaking your head
angry and saying no. The first conscious act of faith
is obedience. They obey. Obey. How do I know when the Spirit
of the living God is working in a man's heart? He's obedient. He obeys the truth. He hears
the truth. He obeys the truth. That man
drove six and a half hours from Ozark, Missouri. Let me tell
you, first of all, he left the church that he was raised in
from a child. He pulled his membership from
that place because he saw the evil in it. He saw the danger
of that religion. He saw the lies in it. And he
pulled his membership from them. And he continued to hear. And
then he heard a message that I preached when I baptized David
Braden. And I very seldom ever bring
a message on baptism, but I did that day. He called me up Monday
morning. He said, I want to be baptized.
Obedience. I didn't weary him with baptism. I didn't weary anybody in there
with baptism. I just told you what baptism was and what it
stood for. That's all I did in that message.
I've never called him and wearied him about anything. But we've gotten to be very close
friends. And he comes here on every chance
he gets. He comes here to hear. And he
called me up and he said, I want to come down and be baptized.
I want to confess my Lord in baptism. That is obedience. Obedience. Turn with me to Romans
chapter 6. There is no faith in Christ apart
from bowing. Bowing, surrendering. That is
the first thing. You are going to surrender to
Him. Lock, stock and barrel. Watch this here in Romans chapter
6 verse 16. Know you not that to whom you
yield yourselves servants to obey, His servants you are to
whom you obey, whether of sin unto death or of obedience unto
righteousness? That's pretty clear, isn't it?
But God be thanked that you were the servants of sin, but you
will have, now listen to this, obeyed from the heart that form
of doctrine that was delivered to you. Being then made free
from sin, you become the servants of righteousness. Not yours,
but His." Paul said he knew the election of the Thessalonians
because they become followers of him and the Lord. You bring a man in here who has
never been in here before. He comes in, he sits down and
listens. We've got two or three in here
this morning who have never been in here before. That man comes in and
he hears the gospel of God's sovereign grace, and the Holy
Spirit moves on his heart, and he obeys what he hears. He bows
to what he hears. He says, Amen, whether it condemns
him or whether it justifies him. He says, Amen. Isn't that what
David confessed over in the Psalms? That He said that you might be
justified with everything that you told, with your testimony
of man, that you might be justified. He said, I confess. He said,
I was born made of a woman. He said, I was born under sin.
Born under sin. On and on the Scripture goes
with verses like this. But he said, I know. He said,
I know your election of God. And that's what we're talking
about. This faith that begins with election reveals itself
in obedience. In obedience. Obedience to what?
To the message you hear, to God's messenger, to God's means, and
to God himself. Obedience. Obedience. Peter said, humble yourselves,
therefore, under the mighty hand of God, that He may exalt you
in due time. How do we do that? Well, that's
talking about parental authority. That's talking about doing a
day's work for a day's pay. That's talking about your whole
walk of life. And he said, humble yourselves
under the mighty hand of God. What's he talking about? He's
talking about obedience. Talking about obedience. And
you're not going to be saved arguing and debating and fighting
against the things of God. The thing to do is just give
up. Just give up. Put your shotguns down. Stack
them in the corner. The war is over. He won. He won. Just give up. Just give up. That's the hardest
thing. I told Henry Mayhem one time,
I said, I've been thinking about this all day long. The hardest
thing for a man to do is nothing. Nothing. Just do nothing. Just
give up. Here I am. Do with me what you
will. I can't do nothing with me. Here I am. Do with me what
you will. What you will. That man who's still fighting
and still arguing and still going his way, he's never been born
of God. A man born of God's Spirit has been brought by the sanctifying
power of God's Spirit to bow and surrender to the King of
Glory. And when he bows to Christ, he
bows and submits himself to His means, His message, and His messenger. Men don't just hear the truth
in their ears, but they believe it and they obey it. He's elect according to the foreknowledge
of God the Father through sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience. Now listen to this. And sprinkling
of the blood of Jesus Christ. The sprinkling of the blood of
Christ has to do with applying it. If you go back in the Old
Testament where we're studying now in the tabernacle, we've
not got to it yet, but that blood was shed on the outside. They
didn't bring the goat or the heifer or whatever it is inside
the tabernacle and cut its throat. They did that on the outside.
But then the blood was gathered and it was brought inside. Why? To apply it. To apply it. Then it was put on the horns
of the altar where he made intercession. Then it was sprinkled on the
mercy seat. It was applied. And that's what
it is. He, by His own blood, He entered
in once into the holy place, having obtained eternal redemption
for us. And now the Holy Spirit takes
that blood and He applies it. Through a spiritual understanding
of what that blood is all about, He applies that blood to your
conscience. And He shows you how that a guilty,
vile, wretched, depraved sinner can be justified before God through
the blood of Christ. through the sprinkling of the
blood of Jesus Christ. And Hebrews chapter 10 draws
a line from that Old Testament sprinkling to that of the work
of the Holy Spirit of God. He said, let us draw near with
a true heart in full assurance of faith, having our hearts sprinkled
from an evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water.
And then again in Hebrews chapter 12, talking about the saints
coming together to worship. He says like this, he said, we
have not come unto Mount Sinai and all of that, but he said,
we have come to Jesus, the mediator of the new covenant, and to the
blood of sprinkling that speaketh better things than that of Abel.
And then turn with me to this one over here in Hebrews chapter
9. We are talking about the faith of God's elect, and the sanctifying
work of the Spirit who gives this saving gift of faith. Hebrews
9, verse 13, For if the blood of bulls and goats, and the ashes
of a heifer sprinkling the unclean, there he is talking about the
cleansing of the leper, sanctify to the purifying of the flesh,
how much more shall the blood of Christ who through the eternal
Spirit offered himself without spot to God, purged your conscience
from dead works to serve the living God." You see that? Are you with me so far? The beginning,
the origin of faith begins in the election of God. If God hadn't
elected a people and made preparation for them, appointed Christ as
their surety, appointed Christ as his mediator between God and
men, nobody would be saved. But God has made preparation.
And that preparation is seen in the preaching of the gospel.
That preparation is seen in the sanctifying work of the Holy
Spirit. by the foreordination of God
through the sanctification of the Spirit unto obedience and
the applying of the blood of Jesus Christ. And that man of
whom these things can be said can also be said, grace unto
you. Grace unto you. Now you can use
that word grace and understand what it means. Grace unto you,
and peace be multiplied. This man's heart is no longer
lifted up by the pomp and pageantry of religion. He's not impressed
anymore. Used to be impressed. I went
down to a meeting one time. We had a revival. I still don't know what that
is, but we had one. And this evangelist got up, and
boy, he was a hot rod. Man, he was rambling 90 miles
a minute. And during the song service,
he had this little blind girl, beautiful young girl, blind as
a bat, got up and played some kind of an instrument and sang.
And boy, she could sing like an angel. And we went home, strictly
on the song service now, because he preached a can full of garbage. But we got home, and we said,
Boy, the Spirit of God was there tonight, wasn't He? No, He wasn't. He wasn't. He wasn't in a hundred
miles of that place. But see, that's how we've been
told since we was this big. That's how we relate these things.
And we're ignorant of the things of God. Totally ignorant. This man's heart is no longer
lifted up by the pomp and pageantry of religion. This man's heart
is no longer pacified by the traditions and ceremonies of
idol worship. This man no longer hungers for
the deceit and lies of foolish paganism. His heart is set to
bless the Lord. His Lord. That's what he wants
to do. I repent over my own laxness,
to be able to do it. I want to do it more, don't you?
That's what the believer... The believer wants to praise
God. He's not interested in all this play-purdish. He wants to
praise his God. He knows what God has done. He sees what God has done. And
he's utterly amazed at himself that he can't give his whole
heart to the Lord and worship and pray. It upsets him. He repents over what he is. He
used to be sorry. Well, he wasn't really even sorry,
just sorry he got caught. But he's sorry about those things
that he did. Now he's sorry over who he is.
Actually, now he's the sorry one. And he knows it. And he repents to God over those
things. I'm telling you, this thing of
believing is so opposite of what religion makes it out to be.
Paul just crossed the board. They accused him of all kinds
of stuff. I told the folks here in Sunday school this morning.
And finally, he just said, I didn't do any of them things. But he
said, well, here's what I'm guilty of. You want to charge me with
something, charge me with this. What they call heresy, that's
how I worship God. I think I can say that. I think
I can say that. Just about every church in our
area around here, I can say that about. What they call heresy,
what they hate and despise, that's how I worship God. His heart is set to bless the
God who chose Him and His Son who came into this world to die
for Him and live for Him and be resurrected and seated for
Him at the right hand of God. God has begotten Him unto a living
hope. This is not the hope of some
dead prophet like Joseph Smith. He's dead. Why do I care what
he did? He's dead. And a hundred others just like
him. This hope is the hope of an accomplished redemption and
the one in whom it was accomplished, the Lord Jesus Christ. He's my hope. And He's alive. He's alive. They took Him down
and buried Him, put a stone on there and sealed it. God rolled
away the stone, raised Him from the dead, seated Him at the right
hand of God. And before He left to go up into
glory, He spent over a month here revealing Himself to His
own. And they just couldn't believe
it that he was alive. They watched him beaten beyond
recognition and dying in a sphere in his side. And he was dead.
They didn't break his bones because he was already dead. But he wasn't
dead now. He said, give me some of that
fish. Huh? Let me have a glass of wine.
Boy, he couldn't be a Southern Baptist, could he? I hope. There is so much difference.
I hope is in a person. And this person came as he was
appointed of God from eternity and accomplished all that the
needy needs, all that the sinner needs, he accomplished for him.
And then God approved it and justified us and raised him from
the dead and raised him up and seated us with him in heavenly
places in Christ Jesus. And they said, Now, here's what's
going to happen now in the future. In these times to come, He said
He's going to show His kindness to us and His goodness to us
in Christ. How's He going to do that? Through
the Gospel and through the sanctifying work of the Spirit of God, He's
going to show us who Christ is and we're going to embrace Him.
Now, I'll tell you this, we don't embrace a creed, we embrace a
person. But when you embrace Him, you
embrace His creed. You embrace His doctrine. You
embrace His means. You embrace His Lordship. You embrace all that He stands
for. When you embrace Him, you embrace
it all. And when you've got Christ, you've
got everything God has for sinners. You don't need anything. I don't
need a law. Put your whip up. You ain't going to have to beat
me. I love Him. I love Him. I'll tell you, if
I didn't, I wouldn't be here. I had a good job, good paying
job before I ever come here. I didn't come here for the money.
I love Him. He didn't threaten me. Nobody
said, we're going to tell everybody what you are. They already knew. They already knew. No, that's
not it. Paul said, the love of Christ
constraineth us, because we know what we were. We were dead. We
were dead. And now I have a living hope.
I have a hope. I'm not like, I'm going to die
one of these days. And it's all right. It's all
right. I'm not looking forward to it. I guess I should. But
it's something, it's unknown. It's not natural. I don't look
forward to death. But I'll tell you this, when
I do, when I do, I have a hope. I have a hope. I have a hope. And I tell you, that's what Peter's
talking about here. He's talking about a living hope. Now watch
this. This hope doesn't have a spot
or a blemish, not a flaw, not a loophole, no mistake, no miscalculation,
no chance of another fall in this head. Not a chance of falling
from His hands, but incorruptible, undefiled, and that fadeth not
away. reserved in heaven for you."
Who is he talking about, Preacher? He is talking about those who
are kept by the power of God through faith unto salvation,
ready to be revealed in the last time. If you are here this morning
and you are still clinging to some old some old decision, some old profession
of faith that you made, some old ignorance. You didn't even
know what you were professing. I remember when I got serious
about this thing, I didn't know what else to do. I'd been told
all my life, come down the aisle. So I come down the aisle. And
I knelt there and I prayed and wept and snorted and cried for
about 30 minutes and got up and went and sat down. The preacher
said, everything all right now? I said, no sir, it ain't. It
sure ain't. It wasn't all right till I come
to know Him. Not till I come to know Him. And when you embrace Him, I'm
telling you, you lay hold on a living hope, and this hope
rules and reigns, this hope prevails even over the judgment of God.
This hope abides in the heart, it orders the mind, and it sanctifies
the whole man. The whole man. This is his hope. Your hope's not a living hope,
you've got a false refuge, and you have no hope at all. And
my hope in preaching this to you this morning is that the
Holy Spirit will take these things and show you the difference.
Show you the difference. He's the only one who can. I
can point. I tell folks here all the time,
I can stack Scripture up around you like cordwood, but it don't
do no good until the Spirit of God speaks to the heart. And
when He does, boy, it goes home. It goes home. It goes all the
way from the mind down into the heart. He convinces. He convicts. And He causes men
to move. He spoke to Noah. It never rained
before. He told Noah all about this,
what He was going to do. He said, Noah moved with fear.
You know why? He believed God. Everybody ran
and said, it ain't going to rain. Rain? What's rain? We never had
no rain. He believed God. And I'm telling you, God said
there's a judgment. There has been, there is now,
and there's going to be a judgment. And hell's your home apart from
this home, this living home.