I want to attempt to speak to
you this morning on the time of Christ or the hour of the
Lord Jesus Christ. I want to call your attention
to this phrase in verse six, Then Jesus said unto them, My
time. is not yet come. Look in verse
eight, he said, Go ye up into this feast. I go not yet unto
this feast, for my time is not yet full come. Now, this word time is quite
often translated hour. Mine hour is not yet come. My time is not yet come. Now,
you and I are creatures of time. Past, present, and future. Yesterday, today, and tomorrow. There are things that happened
to me yesterday. There are things I felt yesterday. There's right now. I've got certain
feelings and thoughts going through my mind. And there's tomorrow. There are certain things I'm
planning on tomorrow. And that's all we can grasp.
It's impossible for us to comprehend eternity. No past. No yesterday. No future. No tomorrow. Everything is in
the absolute now. You know, when I try to Talk
about eternity. Sometimes I've used the phrase
eternity past. How can there be an eternity
past? Or I'll talk about eternity future. How could there be an
eternity future? There can't be in reality. You
see, in this thing of eternity, there is no time. There's no
yesterday. There's no tomorrow. Well, it's
hard to comprehend, isn't it? To think of no Time, only eternity. Now God dwells outside of and
is independent of what we only understand. Time. He's outside
of time. The scripture says one day is
with the Lord as a thousand years. And a thousand years as a day,
there's no yesterday with him. There's no tomorrow with Him.
It's never said of Him, I was. It can never be said of Him,
I will be. He's always the great I am that
I am. And He doesn't look at anything
as a future event. He doesn't look at anything as
a past event. Now, like I said, this is mighty
hard to grasp, isn't it? To think of, it's impossible
to grasp, to think of eternity. No time. But you know, before
the creation of the universe, all there was, was God. There
were no seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, years. All there was, was God. He dwelled
in the splendid solitude of His glorious person, and He wasn't
lonely. He wasn't lonely. He wasn't needing
anything. And, you know, turn to Revelation
chapter 10 for a moment. There was a time when there was
no time. See how impossible it is to even talk about this? There
was a time when there was no time? This is beyond the ability
of a creature of time to grasp, but it's still something the
scripture teaches. Look here in Revelation chapter 10. Verse five. And the angel which
I saw stand upon the sea and upon the earth lifted up his
hand to heaven and swear by him that liveth forever and ever
who created heaven and the things that are there in the earth and
the things that are there in our and in the sea and the things
which are there in that. Look at this, that there should
be time no longer. Again, the weakness of language,
I apologize for saying this, but there's going to be a time
when there will be no time. Time no longer. Nothing but. Eternity. Now, God made time it began in
creation when he made the day and the night. That's when time
began and during this concept, if you will, of time. There was
a time when God invaded time. And God became a being of time. Listen to this scripture from
Galatians chapter 4, verse 4. When the fullness of time was
come, God sent forth His Son, made of a woman, made under the
law, the infinite, eternal God became a being in time. when the Lord was made flesh.
Now, that's another one of those things that are just impossible
to grasp. We believe, but as far as understanding this, how
the infinite God, whom the universe cannot contain, became a creature
of time. The Lord Jesus knew something
about yesterday and tomorrow. Now, in John chapter 7, Verses
six and eight, I've already read those passages. Scripture is
one of the many times in Scripture. He said, my time or my hour is
not yet come. Look back in John chapter two
for a moment. Verse three. And when they wanted wine, the
mother of Jesus saith unto him, they have no wine. Jesus saith
unto her, Woman, what have I to do with thee? Mine hour is not yet come. Look back in John chapter 7,
verse 30. Then they sought to take him.
They wanted to arrest him. They wanted to kill him, but
no man laid hands on him because his hour was not yet come. Look in chapter 8, verse 20. These words speak Jesus in the
treasury as he taught in the temple, and no man laid hands
on him for his hour was not yet come. Look in John 13. Now, before the Feast of the
Passover, when Jesus knew that His hour was come, that He should
depart out of this world unto the Father, having loved His
own which were in the world, He loved them unto the end. John
chapter 17, verse 1. These words spake Jesus and lifted
up his eyes to heaven and said, Father. The hour. Is. Come. Go back to John 12 for a moment. Verse 27. The Lord Jesus says, now is my
soul troubled. And what shall I say? Father,
save me from this hour? But for this cause came I unto
this hour. Now, His purpose for coming into
the world was for this hour. And he's not talking about a
60 minute duration of time, but he's talking about that duration
of time when he was forsaken by his father. He's talking about
the hour of his death. He said, this is why I came for
this specific purpose for this hour. Now, I believe this time
began in the Garden of Gethsemane. Now, he'd walked in perfection.
For 33 years, he had never sinned, perfectly obeying God's law. And then we read in Luke 9, 51,
I'll quote this to you, when his time was come or when the
time was come that he should be received up step, he steadfastly
set his face to go to Jerusalem, to a place where he knew he would
die. Now turn over to Mark chapter
14. Mark chapter 14, beginning in
verse 35. Verse 35. And he went forward
a little and he fell on the ground. Jesus Christ fell on the ground
and prayed that if it were possible, the hour might pass from him. And he said, I have, Father,
all things are possible unto thee. Take away this cup from
me. Nevertheless, not what I will,
but what thou wilt. Now, why does he say this? What
is this hour he's speaking of that it actually made the Son
of God fall to the ground? And in Luke's account, it talks
about him at this time sweating great drops of blood. Oh, what was it that he was feeling
so troubled about that the Son of God would be troubled? That's
one thing for me to be troubled. I'm flesh. But the Son of God,
why would he be so troubled? Well, it was, was it Was it because
he knew he was getting ready to be crucified? And he knew
something about the physical pain that was ahead of him? Now,
if I knew I was going to be crucified, you could bet I'd be troubled
about it. I mean, physical pain is nothing,
it's very difficult pain. And I'm sure that he dreaded
the pain as far as the physical pain. He was flesh like you and
I. Would you dread being crucified? Would you dread them nailing
big spikes into your hands and feet? and being hung on a cross? Well, of course you would. Of
course, he dreaded the physical pain of the crucifixion. But
that's really not what's being spoken of here. When he talks
about, if it be thy will, let this hour pass from me. He's talking about that hour
when he was to be made sin. Now, the Scripture points out
that darkness covered the earth when he was hanging on that cross. And that's a reminder to us that
we really can't comprehend what was going on. Jesus Christ, the
Holy Son of God, the one who never sinned, actually being
made sin. All that sin is He was made to
be. And there's not one of us that
has any idea what that means. I can't explain that. I can't
understand it. But I can believe it. I can certainly
believe it. He was made to be sin. Oh, how! He was made to be the
thing that He hates. He was made to be forsaken by
His Father. He was cut off from His Father.
He felt no mercy. He felt no smile from His Father.
Nothing but His Father's awful frown. And here's what is so
Wondrous to me, Jesus Christ became guilty. I know what it is to feel guilty,
but He became guilty. My sin truly became His. He was forsaken by His Father
because He became the greatest guilt-ridden person to ever live. He was made to be sinned. And that's why the thought of
being made sin, that's what made him fall under the ground, being
troubled and saying it would be possible. Let this hour pass
for me. I can't bear the thought of it.
His human nature actually became overcome with the thought of
being forsaken by his father as the sinner substitute. Obviously. You and I can't really understand
this, but we can believe it. Do you believe? Do you believe? This was His time, and all of
eternity is centered around this event in time. He is called, as we read in Revelation
13, verse 8, the Lamb slain from the foundation of the world. Here's another thing that you
can believe, you can't understand, but you can believe this. Before
there was time, when God dwelled in the splendid solitude of His
own glorious person, and He wasn't lonely, Christ was the Lamb, not that
would be slain, but the Lamb that was slain. from the foundation
of the world. And you know, after time is no
longer, what is going to be the song in glory? Worthy is the
Lamb that was slain. Now, this is the event of eternity
before time and after time. But do you know the Lord Jesus
had to come into time to be slain? He was the Lamb slain from the
foundation of the world in eternity. This is the object of worship. This is the subject of the eternities. That's how important this is.
This is the subject of the eternities. He had to come into time to be
the Lamb slain. This was his time, the hour,
the crisis, The focal point, the centerpiece, both of a time
and eternity. Now back to our text in John
chapter seven. Verse six, Jesus said unto them,
My time is not yet come. Now, we know from all these scriptures
we've looked at, he's talking about the time of his death,
the focal point of the eternities, the crisis, the everything. everything. He says to them,
mine hour is not yet come. But look what he says next. But
your time or your hour is always ready. The world cannot hate
you, but me it hated because I testified that the works thereof
are evil. Now his time was also the world's
time. It's also the time of man. If
you want to find out What a man is really like, what a man's
really made of. If you want to find out about yourself, if you
want to know who you really are, and everybody's always going
on these journeys of self-discovery, I want to find out who I am.
Well, you'll find out who you are during this hour. Turn over
to Luke chapter 22. Verse 52. Then Jesus said unto the chief
priests and captains of the temple and the elders which were come
to him. Be ye come out against the thief with swords and staves. Are you going to plug me to death?
Do you think I'm some kind of dangerous criminal? When I was
daily with you in the temple, you stretched forth no hands
against me, but this is your hour. and the power of darkness. His time was the time when He
delivered Himself into the hands of men, unto the will of men. Look over in Luke chapter 23,
beginning in verse 20. Pilate, therefore, willing to
release Jesus, spake again to them, but they cried, saying,
Crucify him, crucify him. And he said unto them the third
time, Why, what evil hath he done? I found no cause of death
in him. I will therefore chastise him,
and let him go. And when they were instant with
loud voices requiring that he might be crucified, and the voices
of them and the chief priests prevailed, Pilate gave sentence
that it should be as they required. And he released unto them him
that for sedition and murder was cast into prison, Barabbas
is who that's referring to, whom they had desired, but he delivered
Jesus to their what? Will. People talk about Man's free
will. Everybody's got a choice. Everybody's
got a will. Man's free will. Now, for one thing, understand
this. There's no such thing as free will. Your will is controlled by your
nature. God doesn't have a free will in that sense. He's holy. Scripture says He cannot sin.
So he doesn't have a free will in that sense, and you don't
have a free will, and I don't have a free will in the sense
that our will is controlled by our nature. That's obvious, isn't
it? Your will is controlled by your
nature. There's no such thing as free will. I know people talk
about it all the time, but there's no such thing. Now, during man's
hour, what did the Lord allow to happen? Christ Jesus was delivered
unto the will of man. Now, here is your will. Here's
my will. If God removed the restraints
from you, and if He let you do what you wanted to do, if He
just took away all the restraints and left you to yourself, or
left me to myself, what would we do? We'd nail Jesus Christ to a cross. You believe that about yourself?
If God took away the restraints and just left you to yourself,
what would you do? Here's where your will would get you. You
nailed Jesus Christ to a cross. Do you know the worst thing that
could happen to you is for God to simply let you alone and let
you do what you wanted to do? That's the most disastrous thing
that could happen to you. Now this hour of the Lord Jesus
Christ that He came, He said, for this cause came I into this
hour, to die, to put away the sins of His people. This is also
the hour of man when we find out what man is really made of. But thank God, not only is this
the hour where men are exposed to be what they really are. This
is also the hour in which we were saved. What were his last words from
the cross? Now, you know the answer to that
question. It is finished. Now whatever that hour was, it
was over. That's what he meant by that. That hour I've come to fulfill,
the reason I came into this earth, for this very purpose, for this
hour, the hour is over. It is finished. Now he did not mean my part is
over. Now I'll have to wait and see
who will decide to let me save them. That's foolishness. The
hour is over. The time is completed. Having
loved his own which were in the world. We have already read this
passage of scripture in John chapter 13 verse 1. Having loved
his own which were in the world. He loved them unto the end. Their salvation was He said in
John chapter 17 verse 4, I have glorified thee on the earth. I have finished. I have finished. The hour is over. I have finished
the work thou gavest me to do. Now I'm going to spend the rest
of this message attempting to get some kind of grasp of just
what that means. what was accomplished in his
time. Something was. We read in Luke
chapter 9, verse 31, where on the man of transfiguration, before
his death, shortly before he would go to Jerusalem to be crucified,
where Moses and Elijah appeared to him, and the Scripture says,
they spake of the decease which he should accomplish. at Jerusalem. Talking about a time when it
would be at Jerusalem, whatever is actually going to happen at
Jerusalem, something would be accomplished by that. So what was accomplished during
this hour? It's obvious from the scripture.
He came for this specific purpose, this hour, and he finished his
time as it were. That's what he meant when he
said it is finished, the hour is accomplished, it's completed.
What was finished? What was accomplished by this
hour of his death? Well, here's the first thing.
I've got several things I want to say, but here's the first
thing. Scripture was fulfilled. Does anybody remember the first
prophecy concerning the Lord Jesus Christ? You remember in Genesis chapter
three, verse 15, after the fall, where God told them I quote from
Genesis chapter 3 verse 15, the seed of woman shall bruise thy
head, speaking to Satan. The seed of woman shall bruise
thy head and thou shalt bruise his heel. Talking about the cross.
Well, this became a prophecy fulfilled. As does all the scripture. Scripture was fulfilled in that
hour. In this hour that was finished,
we had the hour of obedience. We had the hour of submission
to the Father. Now, He was tried for 33 years. He was tested for 33 years. The
Lord watched Him for 33 years as He walked upon this earth,
as He kept God's law perfectly. But here is the time of temptation. Will He go to the cross? Will He go through this? It was up to Him. He's God. He was under no constraint. Yes,
He was. If He was going to obey His Father,
He was. This is the hour of submission and obedience. He said, if it
be possible, let this cup pass from Me. Now, how could the Lord
pray that prayer? I don't know. I don't understand
it. He knew it. He knew it had to
be done. But yet, here He is. If it be
possible. Let this cup pass from me. Nevertheless,
not my will, but thine be done. This was the hour of obedience
and submission, and it was fulfilled. It was fulfilled. He obeyed God's
law perfectly. Here's another thing that this
represents, this hour of the Lord Jesus Christ. This is the
hour of judgment. This is the hour of judgment.
Do you know that judgment has already taken place? Did not
the Lord say the prince of this world is judged? Judgment is
not a future event. It's not something that's going
to happen. It's already happened. Now the passing out of the sentences
is going to happen. That hasn't happened yet, but
judgment has already taken place. Satan was judged at this time.
Unbelievers were judged. Thou art weighed in the balance.
and found wanting. All judgment has already taken
place. You've already been judged. Believers were judged. They were
declared by God at that time to be not guilty. You see, the
sins of God's elect were placed upon Christ. He bore them. God's
wrath came upon Him. Christ consumed the wrath. There's
nothing left. His perfect righteousness is
given to every believer. Judgment's already taken place.
There's no reason to fear judgment if you're a believer. Now, if
you're an unbeliever, you have every reason to fear the passing
out of the sins. You're going to be damned. You
will be. You'll be cut off and sent to
hell forever. But if you're a believer, your
salvation has already been accomplished. Judgment has already taken place. It's fulfilled. This is the time when eternity
is fulfilled. Now, I don't understand this.
Christ Jesus is called the Lamb slain from the foundation of
the world. Well, in order for Him to be the Lamb slain from
the foundation of the world, He had to come in time, didn't
He? And be slain. And that's exactly what took
place. And the hour is fulfilled. This is the hour of justice. Will God punish sin? Will He? Everybody in here deep down knows,
yes, God will punish sin. And that is demonstrated on the
cross of the Lord Jesus Christ. Not one sin will go unpunished. God won't simply sweep sin under
the carpet so you can't see it anymore. All sin will be dealt
with, will be punished, either in the substitute, on the cross,
or you inhale one of the two. That's the way of God. But all
sin will be punished. Not one sin will be unnoticed.
I want you to think about, if you're outside of Christ, how
many sins have you committed that you just forgot about? You don't remember. They happened
so long ago. You know somebody who does remember
them? God does. God will punish all
sin. This is the hour of absolute
justice. But here's something else to
think about when we talk about this hour of our Lord Jesus Christ.
This is the hour of love. Listen to this scripture. John
chapter 3 verse 16, For God so loved the world, that He gave
His only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in Him should not perish,
but have everlasting life." Now listen to me. God loved men so
much. God loved the world so much.
You know, the way the Lord says it, that's the best way to say
it. I think it's interesting how people who believe in sovereign
grace, they trip up over this verse of Scripture. Well, what
about John 3, 16? What about John 3, 16? Thank
God for it. It's a wonderful verse of Scripture.
God so loved the world. Now, what do you mean by the
world? Well, the world. And this ought to encourage everybody
here. This ought to give everybody
here some hope. God so loved the world that He gave His only
begotten Son that whoever believes on Him. If you believe on Christ,
I don't care who you are, listen to me real carefully, if you
believe on Christ, you'll be saved. He gave His Son that whosoever
believeth on Him should not perish, but have everlasting life. God
loved men that much, the race of men. Does that mean all men
without exception? Of course it doesn't. Because
if He loved all men without exception, all men without exception would
be saved. I realize that. But let's don't kill the sweetness
of this. He loved the world so much. And this ought to give everybody
here some encouragement. That He gave His only begotten Son
that anybody who believes in Him should not perish but have
everlasting life. This is the time of love. And
this is the hour of forgiveness. Ephesians 1, 7 says, in whom
we have redemption through His blood, even the forgiveness of
sins. Forgiveness was finished. It
was accomplished at this time. Turn to Hebrews chapter 10 for
a moment. I want you to see this. This is Hebrews chapter 10. Verse 19. Let's begin in verse 18. Now,
where remission, the absolute putting away, the canceling of
sin is, where remission of these is, there's no more offering
for sin. So don't you try to bring an offering. There's no
more offering for sin. Having therefore, verse 19, having
therefore, brethren, boldly to enter into the holiest by the
blood of Jesus, now look at this verse 20, by a new and a living
way, which he hath consecrated for us through the veil, that
is to say, his flesh. Now, we have boldness to enter
into the holiest and the very presence of God by this new and
living way. Now, when I think of new, I generally
think of something with respect to time, don't you? Something
brand new. You know what news is. This is
not old, it's new. Now the word means literally. This word new means freshly slaughtered. Freshly slaughtered. Now here's what this means. And
I'm speaking to every believer, everybody who trusts Christ.
I'm speaking to everybody. I want everybody to hear this,
but this is this is going to mean something to every believer.
How many times have you committed the same sin? You've asked for forgiveness.
Perhaps you've even said, oh, Lord, if you just forgive me,
I won't commit it anymore. You know, you shouldn't say something
like that. How many times have you remained good to your word?
If you forgive me, I won't commit it anymore. Now, come on. Come
on. I'm not in any way giving anybody any encouragement to
continue in any kind of sin, but you're skating on thin ice
when you make some kind of bold claim like that. I won't do it
anymore if you'll just forgive me. And then you go out and you commit
the same sin. over and over. I'm not talking
about three times or five times. How many times have you committed
the same sin over and over and over again? How can God continue
to forgive it? How? I mean, if somebody sins
against you, well, two times, three times, well, you know,
we reach a limit. Well, I can only take so much.
I can only take so much. But yet God continues to forgive
this sin. How? Because the blood of Christ
is always new. It's never old. It's never something
from the past, way back when. It's always new and powerful
and fresh to God. It's not something that happened
way back when. It's always in the now. It's
always present. It's always powerful. There's nothing forgettingful
about God in this. He always remembers the blood
of His Son. And that's how we have boldness
to come into the holiest through this freshly slaughtered. You know, when I'm talking about
this, it almost scares me to talk about it. I mean, it's just so
awesome and glorious and powerful. But that's the blood of the Lord
Jesus Christ. That's why forgiveness is accomplished,
because of the power of the blood of Christ. You know, the blood
of Christ never loses its power. You know, we sing that song,
Dear Dying Lamb, thy precious blood shall never lose its power,
till all the ransomed church of God be saved to sin no more.
Now, I love that hymn, but I don't like that. I don't like that. You see, it's not like the blood
is going to, at some point, lose its power. No. Till all the church,
ransomed church, dear dying lamb, thy precious blood shall never
lose its power. Period. Period. Not till all
the ransomed church. I know what he meant, and I don't
want to be too critical. I mean, a hymn's a hymn. A man
wrote it, I realize that. You know, every hymn we sing
is subject to something like that because men wrote it. But
his blood never loses its power. He accomplished forgiveness. My sins are Forgiven! Not that
they will be yet. They are. And they were all forgiven
in that hour. This is the hour of life. This is the hour of life. Spiritual
life. When did you live? When did you live? When? When you believed? Well, if I said that, that wouldn't
be wrong. I didn't have spiritual life
until I believed. I'm sure of that. You don't go through a period
where you got life but you don't believe, so I wouldn't take away
from the importance of that. You must believe. There's no
salvation to that person who does not believe. But when did
I live before God? Was it when I believed? Turn
to Ephesians 2. beginning in verse 4. But God, who is rich in mercy
for His great love, wherewith He loved us even when we were
dead in sins, hath quickened us, given us life Together with Christ. By grace,
you are saved and have raised us up together and made us sit
together in heavenly places in Christ Jesus. When did I live? When Christ was raised up, when
his hour was finished, he quickened us together with Christ. He raised
us up together and made us sit together in heavenly places in
Christ Jesus. Now, this hour. that our Lord
accomplished. This is the hour when I was declared
by God Himself to be holy. Without blemish. Without spot. Without wrinkle or any such thing.
This is when God declared this sinner, that's looking at you
right now, talking to you, God said regarding me and everybody
that Jesus Christ died for, is holy. Unblameable. Unreprovable in the very sight
of God. Now, where are you coming up
with that? Well, listen to this scripture. By one offering, that's
His death, that's His hour. By one offering, He hath perfected
forever them that are sanctified. I was declared by God to be holy
when Jesus Christ the Lord died. God sent Todd Tobey. I know. You know, we were singing a hymn
in St. Croix last week while we were
there, and they were talking about lifting up holy hands.
And, you know, I never have been very comfortable with this thing.
People wave their hands and stuff, and I don't feel comfortable
with that. I mean, it seems to me, look at me, look at me. Look
at me. I mean, I'm open to all the kind
of stuff people may be. You know, the Bible does say
we do lift up holy hands. I don't know what all that means,
but I know this. In Christ, these hands and this man and this heart
and everything about me is holy. In Christ, I am holy. And God declared me to be holy
through the death of the Lord Jesus Christ, by the which will
we are sanctified. We are declared by God to be
holy through the offering of the body of Jesus Christ once
for all. This is when God declared me
to be holy. And this is the time of closure. We don't like loose ends, do
we? I don't. I don't like loose ends. I like everything to be.
I like closure. I like closure. I don't like
to have You know what I mean when I say that. I like closure. Well, here's where I got closure.
When Christ died on the cross. The hour of His death. Complete
closure. I'm saved. Completely saved. Can't get any more saved than
I am. I've got closure in this thing.
I'm not waiting for something to happen. I'm not looking for
something to happen. I've got closure. When he said
it is finished, you know what? It was finished. This is the time of assurance.
I'm almost finished. Give me a couple more minutes.
This is the time of assurance. I want to say this the right
way. While I'm speaking to you, I have assurance that God loves
me and that my sins are forgiven and that I am in the Lord Jesus
Christ. I have assurance of His favor. I'm one of His children. Now,
where does that assurance come from? Everybody here wants to
have assurance. You know, you ought to have assurance.
If you're a believer, there's no reason for you to not have
full assurance of faith. Where does that assurance come
from? Well, let's go back to that hour. Let's put it this way. This assurance
that I have doesn't have anything to do with how good I am or how
strong my faith is. It doesn't have anything to do
with my works or anything as far as my assurance. No, my assurance
is from that hour. That's where my assurance is.
I am assured that what Jesus Christ did, who He is and what
He did is enough to make me perfectly clean before God. I'm assured
of that. And I believe. That's where my
assurance comes from. This is the time to rejoice.
I love what Scott Richardson said.
Ever since I heard the good news, I've never heard bad news. You
believe that? There isn't any bad news. There
isn't any bad news. You know, when I get out of my
routine, like last week, I was out of my routine, going to St. Croix, you know, suffering in
the Caribbean. Somebody's got to do it. But
all these things start coming through my mind and I start worrying
about that. I got to think about my sickness
coming back. I got to think, what if my cancer comes back?
And I got to go through all this again. And I got to start thinking
of the pain and all the stuff that hurts and the stuff that
made me feel all over. Well, God gave me grace to remember
if it does, that's OK. There's still no bad news. No
matter what happens, it's not bad. It's good. Ever since I heard the good news,
I've never heard bad news, and I really believe that. I believe
it. This is the time of rejoicing
and seeing this hour. It's time to believe. It's time
for you personally. I'm speaking to everybody in
this room. It's time for you to believe the gospel. What are
you waiting on? The work's finished. Are you
waiting for something to experience? What experience can compare to
this? It is finished. What are you waiting on? Believe
on the Lord Jesus Christ right now. Whosoever shall call upon
the name of the Lord shall be saved. Now, you're a whosoever. Call on the name of the Lord
right now and you'll be saved. The time to believe is right
now. Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, today is the day
of salvation. That's what the Bible says. The
time for you to believe is right now. And because of that hour,
what hope I have for this hour. Because of that hour, I've got
great hope for this hour. And I have great hope for that
hour of judgment. But until then, Paul said, knowing
the time, that it's high time to awake out of sleep, for now
is our salvation nearer than when we believed. Now, salvation
was accomplished in that hour. And in light of that, what time
we have left, it's time to awake out of sleep. Now is our salvation
nearer than when we believed. Let's pray together.