Till He Comes

I read a story a few weeks ago
about a famous old minister up in the northern part of our country,
faithfully preached the gospel of Christ, faithfully ministered
the Word of God for many, many years, and then God called him
home. After they had buried him and
the funeral director was talking to the family. The director asked
the son, what do you want to put on your dad's tombstone? And they thought a few moments
and finally one of the boys said, put his name and put the date
that he died and then write on there, till he comes. till he comes." When I read that,
I thought about it all day. And I could find no escape from
it until I preached this message that I've prepared for tonight,
entitled, Till He Comes. To me, this is what it's all
about, the return of our Lord. The return of our blessed Lord
to claim all that He purchased in his life and in his death.
If you'll turn with me to the book of Philippians, chapter
2. When our Lord comes again, that will be the day when every
knee is going to bow and every tongue is going to confess in
heaven, earth, and hell that he's Lord when he comes. That's the day when our Lord
Jesus Christ who is Lord and who is King shall be recognized. It says in Philippians 2, verse
8, And being found in fashion as a man, he humbled himself,
and became obedient unto death, even the death of the cross.
Wherefore God hath highly exalted him, and given him a name which
is above every name, that at the name of Jesus every knee
should bow in heaven and in earth and under the earth, and every
tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory
of God the Father. I have often said that ministers
who plead for people to make Jesus their Lord ought to reword
that statement. It is impossible for you to make
Him your Lord God Almighty has already made Him your Lord. All
you do is recognize it. All you do is confess it. He
is your Lord. If you're saved, He's your Lord.
If you go to hell, He's your Lord. If you're on the right
hand with the sheep, He's your Lord. If you're on the left hand
with the goats, He's your Lord. Christ is Lord of heaven and
earth. But when He comes in that day,
Every knee's going to bow and every tongue's going to confess
that he's Lord. Now turn to Ephesians 1. When
he comes in that day of his glorious coming, when he comes for the
praise of his glory, he's going to gather together every blood-bought
creature. Somebody talks about the universal
church cannot be a church because it's not a symbol. It will be.
He's going to gather together every blood-bought creature in
heaven and earth. Look at Ephesians 1, beginning
with verse 7. That glorious church, made up
of every tribe, kindred, nation, and tongue unto heaven, is going
to be assembled in his presence. Ephesians 1, 7. Listen. In whom
we have redemption through his blood, the forgiveness of sins
according to the riches of his grace, wherein he hath abounded
toward us in all wisdom and prudence, having made known unto us the
mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure, which he
hath purposed in himself. That in the dispensation of the
fullness of time," that's when our Lord comes, "...he might
gather together in one all things in Christ," all things in Christ,
in Christ by covenant in Christ by electing grace, in Christ
by sacrificial death, in Christ by the Holy Spirit's regenerating
work, and now visibly, literally, actually gathered together in
one, all things in Christ, both which are in heaven and which
are on earth, even in him when he comes. And then turn to Romans
His coming will be the day when God redeems the world. Christ died on the cross and
redeemed the world. He bought the world. He died
that He might be Lord, both of the dead and the living. He redeemed
the world of sinners, and He redeemed the physical world.
He bought not only our souls, He bought our bodies. That's
the reason they're coming out of the grave. And he bought not
only our souls and our bodies, but he bought this world, he
redeemed it. This world which has been subjected
to sin and the consequences of sin, and I'm talking about the
physical world. One of these days there's going
to be a new heaven and a new earth because Christ died. In Romans chapter 8, begin with
verse 22, we know that the whole creation groaned. and prevailing
in pain to gather unto now. And not only they, but ourselves
also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit. Even we ourselves,
grown within ourselves, waiting for the redemption, for the adoption
to wit, namely the redemption of our bodies. We're waiting
for a new body. And this earth, the trees and
the mountains and the valleys and the streams And all of this
creation is going to be made new. There's going to be a new
heaven and a new earth. Turn to 2 Peter chapter 3. In 2 Peter chapter 3, Peter writes
about this. When Christ comes, when Christ
comes, there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth wherein
dwelleth righteousness. He bought it in his death, and
he's going to redeem it. In 2 Peter 3 verse 10, But the
day of the Lord will come as a thief in the night, in the
which the heavens shall pass away with a great noise, and
the elements shall melt with fervent heat. The earth also
and the works that are therein shall be burned up, seeing then
that all these things shall be dissolved, everything we own
physically, materially. What manner of persons ought
you to be in all holy conversation and godliness? looking far and
hastening unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens,
being on fire, shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with
fervent heat. Nevertheless, we, according to
His promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth
There's going to be a new heaven and there's going to be a new
earth. Now, seeing that we look for such things, whether we live
under His coming or whether we sleep in Christ till He comes,
be our delight that we're found in Him. The important thing is
not that I'll be alive when Christ comes. I'd like to be, but that's
not the important thing. The important thing is not that
I'm still alive when Christ comes, but that I be in him when he
comes. That's the important thing. If
I'm now living, my life, my possessions, my hope, my faith, my interest,
my hope is till he comes. That's when it's all going to
be realized, when he comes. If I die and I'm buried, I believe
that they can write on my tombstone. till he comes. For I shall be
buried in hope of a resurrection. I shall be buried in expectation
of that great and grand gathering in the clouds of all our Lord's
redeemed. So till he comes, let everything
be done in the light of that return. Till he comes, let every
relationship be established in the light of his return. Till
he comes, let every message be preached in the light of his
return. Till he comes, let every project
be attempted in the light of his return. Till he comes, let
our lives be lived in the light of his return. And till he comes,
when we bury our loved ones, let us bury them in the hope
of his return. The other afternoon in the motel,
I began to look up scriptures that use this phrase, till he
comes, and I found several. I want to share them with you
now. Turn with me to the book of John, chapter 21. Throughout
the scriptures I found several passages that contain this statement,
till he comes. I am just captured by it. I thought
about that tombstone. It's It's probably, the man died
so many years ago, it'd be difficult probably to read it now, but
it's there. The weeds have probably grown
up around that grave. His body already has gone back
to the dust. And I'm sure the old cemetery
is not kept up like it used to be. His family's all gone. His sons and grandsons even are
gone. But that statement's still true
till he comes. Till he comes. And I found, first
of all, in John 21, verse 22. Let's look at this a moment.
John 21, 22. Jesus said unto him, If I will
that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee? Follow thou
me. Now, Peter had denied our three
times he denied the Lord. The last time, sitting by that
fire, when the young maiden asked him, Are you not a disciple?
I saw you with him, your speech betrayed you. He cursed and swore,
and he said, I know not the man. Our Lord had been crucified and
buried and risen again, and He appeared to His disciples down
by the seashore. And after they had eaten, He
sat down beside the apostle Peter, and he turned to him after they
had dined. It says in verse 15, he said,
Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me more than these, more than
the nets, more than the boat, more than the fishing? And Peter
said, Lord, thou knowest that I love thee. He said, will you
feed my sheep? You feed my sheep. You go out
and preach the gospel. Go out and witness. And he said
to him again the second time, verse 16, Simon, son of Jonas,
lovest thou me? He said, Lord, thou knowest that
I love thee. He said, Simon, feed my sheep. He said unto him the third time,
Simon, son of Jonas, lovest thou me? Peter was grieved because
the Lord said to him the third time, lovest thou me? And he
said, Lord, you know everything, you know I love you. And he said,
feed my sheep. And then he told Peter how he
would die. Verse 18. Peter was crucified,
according to legend, upside down. Our Lord said in verse 18, Peter,
I say unto thee, when thou wast young, thou girdest thyself,
and you walked whither you would. But when you are old, you will
stretch forth your hands, and another shall gird thee, and
carry thee whither thou wouldest not. This spake he, signifying
by what death Peter should glorify God. And when he spoke of this,
he said unto him, You follow me." Now get this picture. They're sitting there by the
seashore, and our Lord's talking to Peter. And he said, Peter,
do you love me? feed my lambs. You love me? Yea,
Lord, feed my sheep. Do you love me? You know I love
you. Feed my lambs. And Peter, it's going to be a
difficult road. They're going to kill you. They're
going to nail you to a cross. You're going to glorify God by
dying on a cross. But Peter, follow me." Now watch
this. Verse 20, then, Peter turning.
Why did it? I don't know. Human nature again.
The Apostle Peter was an impulsive man. He was a man, a lot of times,
who spoke and then thought a little bit about it later. When he denied
our Lord, he went out and wept bitterly. Many times he wanted
to rebuke the Lord, and the Lord said, Get thee behind me, Satan.
And here he goes again. He says, Lord, seeing the disciple
whom Jesus loved, that was John, the author of this book, which
leaned on his breast at the last supper, the same disciple who
said, Lord, which is he that betrayeth thee? Peter turned
and saw John, and he said, Lord, what shall this man do?" What's
this man going to do? What's John? You've told me now
what I'm going to do, and you've told me how I'm going to die.
Now what about him? Now listen, "...and Jesus said,
Peter, if I will, that he tarries till I come." If I will that
John never dies, if I will that John lives two thousand years,
if I will that John never suffers, never bleeds a drop of blood
for my glory, if I will that John never suffers a day, if
I will that John never bears any reproach or persecution,
if I will that John live in happiness and contentment until I return
to this earth, that's none of your business. you follow me."
Now brethren, here's what I learned from this. How God uses another
man, what God does with another man, what God's purposes are
for another man, what God puts up with in another man, is none
of my business. My business is to follow Him
myself. My business is to glorify his
name, myself. My business is to walk in the
light he gives me." That's exactly what our Lord is saying to the
Apostle Peter. That's when the old, you know,
people pick things up and they make a religious tradition out
of it. Look at verse 23. Then went this saying abroad
among the brethren, among the that the disciple, that that
disciple John would never die. That's not what the Lord said.
He didn't say John would never die. He's answering Peter. The Lord had given Peter his
work. The Lord had given Peter his way to glorify God. The Lord
had given Peter his way to die. The Lord had charted his path
for him, given his task to him, and Peter, instead of accepting
it and bowing to it and walking after the footsteps of Christ
eternal, said, what about him? Isn't that the way we do? We're
so prone to be critical of other people. We're so prone to allow
what they do and how God uses them to affect us. We're imitators. We offer excuses about the behavior
of professed Christians. I hear people sitting around
saying, well, how can a man do that and be a Christian? None
of my business. That's what Peter's saying here.
Lord, what about John? You say, I'm going to suffer
and I'm going to die. What about John? Christ said, if I will,
let him stay right here on this earth till I come back. That's
none of your business. Your business is to follow me.
Your business is to walk in the light I give you. Your business
is to follow the leadership of the Holy Spirit. Your business
is to do what I called you to do. It's my discerning business
to try to hide behind hypocrites in the church. I run into people
doing that all the time. They give this excuse for not
coming to church. Well, the people down there,
they're no better than I am. You may be right. The people
down there, they do things I wouldn't do. You may be right. But I don't
care what they do or what they are. Your business is to follow
the Lord. Your business is to believe on
Christ. My business is my own personal relationship with Christ.
When Joshua stood before those people, over here it's recorded
in Joshua 24, I want you to listen to what he says. When he stood
before that crowd of compromisers, that crowd of rebels, that crowd
of traitors, he said here in Joshua 24, now you listen, he
said. If it seems evil to you to serve
the Lord God, you choose the Lord, or you choose this day
the gods whom you will serve, whether they be the gods your
fathers served or the gods of the Amorites in whose land you
dwell. But as for me and my house, we'll
serve the Lord. We'll serve the Lord. David prayed,
Lord, create in us clean hearts. No, sir, he didn't. He prayed,
Lord, create in me a clean heart. Lord, renew, restore to the church
a right spirit. No, sir, you restore to me a
right spirit. To me a right spirit. Well, I
think folks ought to do this and folks ought to do that. That's
what the Lord is saying to Peter. What John does is none of your
business. You follow me. You follow me. If thou shalt
confess with thy mouth Jesus to be Lord, if thou shalt believe
in thine heart God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt
be saved. It's a personal relationship. Turn with me to Luke 9, in Luke
chapter 9, and here's another thing that we must avoid. A critical
spirit toward the efforts of other people in the name of Christ.
Other religious efforts in the name of Christ are really not
my concern. My efforts are my concern. Your
efforts are your concern. Luke chapter 9, listen to this,
verse 49, And John said, Lord, Master, we saw one casting out
devils in your name, and we forbade him. Because he didn't follow
us, he didn't walk with us, and Jesus said, Forbid him not. He
that is not against me is for me. Again, our Lord is saying,
that's not your concern. Your concern is to follow me
till I come, till I come. Over in 1 Corinthians 4, here's
another scripture that I found in 1 Corinthians chapter 4. verse
5. Now look at this, and this, now
stay with me here, this will help us a whole lot. That scripture
right there helped me tremendously, just tremendously. It's so easy
for us, whether seriously or however, we're dedicated or not
dedicated, it's so easy for us to get sidetracked by other examples. It's so easy for us to be affected
by other people's dissension. It's so easy for us to follow
the leader. Our leader is Christ. And whatever
other people do, let them do it. Christ said, Peter, you follow
me. You follow me. Now here's the
second scripture in 1 Corinthians 4, verse 5. It says, Therefore
judge nothing before the time until the Lord comes, till he
comes, who both will bring to light the hidden things of darkness
and he'll make manifest the counsel of men's hearts. And then shall
every man have either the praise of God or the wrath of God."
What's he talking about? Let's go back a little bit. What
Paul is saying here in 1 Corinthians, let's look at it, back at verse
1. This is interesting. Let a man so account of us as
the ministries of Christ Now, we're all ministers of Christ.
I hear preachers say to young people, would you dedicate your
life to full-time service? Let me say this kindly. Anybody
here who's not in full-time service isn't saved. That's right, he
isn't saved. This thing of Christianity is
not a part-time service. We're either in the kingdom of
God or we're not in it. We're either in it a hundred
percent or we're not in it at all. We're either in Christ 100%
or we're not in Christ. Everybody's not a preacher. Everybody's
not a missionary. Everybody's not a deacon. Everybody's
not an elder. Everybody's not a public prayer,
or a public reader, or a public speaker. But everybody who's
saved is a witness. Everybody who's saved is a minister
of Christ, and everybody who's saved, look at this next word,
is a steward of the mysteries of God. Now, we're going to talk about
giving an account as ministers of God, of Christ, and stewards
of the mystery of God. Now, that word steward, what's
the first thing that came to your mind when I read it? I'll
tell you what the first thing was. Money, right? This Bible
does not talk about stewardship in the financial area, hardly
at all. When the Bible talks about a
steward of God, he's talking about a man as a steward of God,
whether he has a penny or whether he has a million dollars. Money's
got nothing to do with it. When we mention stewardship,
everybody thinks immediately of money and denominations and
church hierarchies And church leaders have taken the word steward
and prostituted it in order to gain money for the coffers of
the church. And they've neglected the real
meaning of stewardship, for the Scripture speaks of stewardship
in a totally different way. We are stewards of the mystery
of God, which is the gospel. That's what we're stewards of,
the gospel. God has put into my hands the
treasure of treasures, the gospel. God has put into my hands the
treasure, the jewel of heaven, the gospel. God has put into
my hands, into my heart, into my mind, into my care, into my
keeping, His greatest treasure, the gospel of His Son. And He
said, you handle it right. You be a spirit of the gospel.
And you're going to give an account of the way you handle my gospel.
That's what He's saying right there. Now turn with me to Titus 1.
I want to show you this. Titus chapter 1. If you never
have seen this before, we're going to learn something tonight,
but I'm telling you the truth. In Titus chapter 1, verse 7. Now listen carefully to it. I'm
saying this. Stewardship has nothing to do
with money. Basically, it does not. It has
to do with how you handle and what you do with and how you
witness the gospel of God's redeeming grace. Look at Titus 1-7. A bishop, talking about a preacher
now, an elder, must be blameless as the steward of God. Well,
a bishop ain't got anything to do with the treasury. Most of
them haven't got a nickel to rub against another nickel. He's
talking about this man of God, this preacher, this elder, must
be a steward of God. Not self-will, not soon angry,
not given to wine, no striker, not greedy, or given to filthy
lucre. But a lover of hospitality, a
lover of good men, sober, just, holy tempered, holding fast the
faithful word as he has been taught. That's the steward of
God. Turn with me, if you will, to
1 Peter 4. Let me show you this again. 1 Peter 4, beginning with
verse 10. As every man hath received the
gift, the gift of God's eternal life, the gift of God is the
gospel of grace. as every man hath received the
gift, even so minister the same one to another as good stewards
of the manifold grace of God." If God's given you the ability
to speak, speak the oracles of God. If any man minister, let
him do it as the ability which God giveth, that God in all things
may be glorified in Christ Jesus. You see what I'm saying? Get
your concordance. I don't want you to believe anything
because I say it up here. Buy your concordance and look
up the word steward. And then you take what that concordance
says and go through this Bible and see if every time stewardship
and the word steward is mentioned, God's not talking about how you
handle His gospel. A steward of the mystery of God,
a steward of the grace of God. It's required, look at verse
2, now and then, well preacher, I haven't won a hundred souls
to Jesus. I haven't been a very successful
witness. Look at verse 2. It's required
of a steward that he be found not successful, but faithful.
Faithful. God's put into my hands, I'm
a minister of the gospel, and so are you. And God's put into
my hands this gospel of his grace. And I'm going to be faithful.
If I have an opportunity to speak, if I have an opportunity to witness,
if I have an opportunity to converse with somebody concerning the
things of God, I'm going to be faithful. I'm going to be faithful
to the mysteries of God, to the grace of God. Now, verse 3. But with me it's a very small
thing that I should be judged of you. You're not the judge
of my stewardship. You're not the judge of the way
that I conduct myself in handling the gospel of His grace. It's
a small thing that I should be judged of you or any man's judgment. In fact, I judge not my own self. I know nothing by myself, yet
am I not hereby justified, but he that judgeth me, he that trieth
me, is the Lord. Therefore, don't judge any preaching
or witnessing or testifying for God Almighty and His gospel and
His glory till when? Till the Lord comes. Now, brother,
you may see a man go out here and he's preaching and he's got
a big multitude listening to him. He's got people flocking
down the aisle. He's got folks making decisions.
He's got a tremendous turnover in the church. He's got all these
successful things. Don't judge the success of that
witness till the Lord comes. And then God's going to bring
to light the hidden things of darkness. He's going to manifest
the counsel of human hearts. And then men shall have the praise
of God. Here's a man that is faithfully
witnessed for Christ, faithfully preached the gospel. He doesn't
have very many followers, but he's true to the book. For when
the Lord... Don't judge his ministry. He
said, there wasn't but about five people saved that year,
if it was you and your wife and your three sons, it would be
great, wouldn't it? But that's how selfish we are. But till
he comes, you wait till he comes, and then when he comes, all of
these things are going to be brought to light. So what we've
got to do, until he comes, is be a faithful steward of the
grace of God. a faithful steward of the mysteries
of God, a faithful steward of the gospel of God. He's put into
our hands this treasure. I won't compromise it. I won't
prostitute it. I won't sell it. I won't bargain
with it. Paul says, I'm going to be faithful
to the gospel, and if anybody preach not the gospel I preach,
let him be accursed. I don't care if it's an angel
from heaven. Because I'm a steward of the grace of God. I'm a steward of the grace of
God. We're living in the day of religious compromise. Religious
compromise. Honestly, under God, how the
Lord puts up with it, why He doesn't spew us out of His mouth,
I do not know. But we're standing up trying
to give Jesus away, or sell Jesus, or bargain Jesus, or just get
anybody to do anything for Jesus so we make a report. 1 Corinthians 11. Let's go over
there for a moment. 1 Corinthians 11. Be a good steward. of the gospel,
all that precious gospel. Oh, I tell you, try to get along
with folks, my goodness. Agree with our adversary quickly,
lest he haul you before the judge. Don't raise a fuss over the millennium,
don't raise a fuss over this, that, or the other. But I'll
raise a fuss over the gospel, because it's the gospel, it's
the treasure. We're not going to let anybody
We're not going to let anybody compromise the end. We're going
to preach the gospel. And don't you be the judge of
the success of it. I don't even judge myself, Paul
said. I preach it. Apollos is plowed,
and Paul is planted, and Cephas is watered, and God gives end
grace. That's his business. All right,
1 Corinthians 11, verse 26. As often as you eat this bread
and drink this cup, you show the Lord's death till he comes,
till he comes. What's this all about? Well,
Paul's talking to the early church about the Lord's table. Verse
23, and he says in verse 23, For I have received of the Lord
that which also I delivered to you. that the Lord Jesus, the
same night in which he was betrayed, took bread, and when he had given
thanks, he break it, and he said, You take it and eat it. This
is my body, which is broken for you, this do in remembrance of
me. After the same manner, he took the cup, and when he had
supped, saying, This cup is the New Testament, or New Covenant,
in my blood, this do ye, as oft as you drink it in remembrance
of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup,
you show my death till I come." I jotted down three points under
that heading. We will depend on the Lord's
death until he comes. My bread is his broken body.
Now brethren, Isaiah 53 verses 4 through 6 says this, He was
wounded for our transgressions He was bruised for our iniquities. The chastisement of our peace
was upon him, by his stripes we're healed. Now that's dealing
with my sin. Now today preachers are trying
to make that the basis for physical healing. They are laying claim
to healing in the atonement. Over in the New Testament it
translates, one of those verses, he hath borne our sicknesses
and our diseases. And they're changing that to
refer and to mean this, that everybody who's saved ought to
have a body free of disease and free of sickness and free of
pain. And it was purchased in the atonement
and you can claim it. That is not true. It just is
not true. Paul was a sick man, he knew
the atonement. If Patroditus was a sick man,
he knew the atonement. You can go on through the New
Testament and find out how many of Paul's companions were sick
unto death. They knew and loved the atonement.
Charles Spurgeon was sick for thirty years. From the time he
was twenty-eight until he died when he was fifty-eight, that
faithful, godly minister of the gospel who preached to more people
than anybody in his day, and even today his sermons are read
more than any other preacher, knew the atonement, but he was
a sick man. This body is a frail tent. Robert Murray McShane died when
he was 29. David Brainerd died when he was
29. Augustus Toplady, who wrote Rock of Ages, died when he was
35 years old. These men knew the atonement.
But these religious hucksters are making merchandise of you
and trying to get your dollars to support their campaigns of
evil. That's all there is to it. Isaiah
53 is talking about sin. By his stripes we are healed.
He was wounded for my transgression. He was bruised for my iniquity. Yes, my sickness is sin sickness. My disease is, yes, the disease
of sin in my heart and soul and life. That's what Christ died
for. And no man can stand here and tell you that if you know
the atonement rightly, you can claim healing. It's not so. Some
of God's dearest saints are sick people, shut-ins, cripples in
wheelchairs. They know the Lord. But we'll depend on His death
not for physical healing, but we depend on His death for spiritual
healing. My soul is well. It's well with
my soul, and my soul is well because Christ died. I'm healed
of sin because Christ died. By His stripes I'm healed, and
I'll depend on that death. And don't tell me because my
body's frail and sick that I don't know that Christ died for me. He died for my sins. He put away
my sins. It may be pleasing to the Lord
for me to go blind. It may be pleasing to the Lord
for me to suffer in my body for His glory. And I'm willing. Are you? I hope I am. I want
to be. But I depend on his death till
he comes. Till the day he splits the sky,
I rest in his suffering and in his sacrifice. And then we're
going to preach his death till he comes. Now, I've been criticized, and
people say when they hear me preach that they know what I'm
going to say next. And they say that I always preach
the same thing. Thank you, that's a compliment.
Every verse of scripture I take and prepare a message, I tell
you before I get up here, I'm headed for Calvary. Now you go
where you want to, but when I pick up the Bible and study for a
message, my life, my heart, my mind, my thoughts, my eyes go
to one place, Calvary's cross. And I'll tell you this, I'm in
good company. The Apostle Paul says, I'm determined and know
nothing among you, save Jesus Christ and Him crucified. I'm
in good company. The Apostle Paul said, we preach
Christ and Him crucified. And if you want your ears tickled
with something else, go somewhere else. But here you're going to
hear about the Savior. For I know this, if a man ever
goes to Calvary, he'll come back a changed man. If he ever gets
to Calvary, if he ever camps there, if he ever sits there
and watches Christ and becomes, he becomes taken up in mind,
soul, and thought with Christ, in his affections with Christ,
everything else is alright. Our whole problem is we hadn't
been to Calvary. That's the whole problem. And
we are to show his death till he comes. We're to depend on
it, we're to preach it, we're to show it, not only in the table
of the Lord, not only in baptism, we're to show it in our attitude till he comes and in our lives. 1 Thessalonians 4, let me read
one more scripture and I'll close. 1 Thessalonians chapter 4, verse
13. Paul says here, concerning those
who are dead and buried, he says, 1 Corinthians 4.13, I wouldn't
have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep,
those that have died, that you saw or not, even as those who
have no hope. For if we believe that Jesus
died and rose again, even so them which sleep in Jesus will
God bring with him. For this we say unto you by the
word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain unto the
coming of the Lord shall not precede them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend
from heaven with a shout, with the voice of the archangel, with
the trump of God, and the dead in Christ are going to rise."
Or when he comes, that blessed old brother that's been buried
there for two hundred years, written on his tombstone till
he comes. When our Lord comes, that grave
is going to open, and that faithful servant of God is coming forth.
And there's then going to be the fulfillment of that statement
which his son had written on his tombstone, till he comes. That's what it's all about. Our
Father, we're thankful for the Word. The Word convicts us, but
the Word comforts us. And these words tonight from
thy precious book have revived our hearts. We depend on our
Lord's suffering till he comes. We're going to preach his sacrifice
till he comes, by thy grace. Ever since, by faith, we saw
the stream, thy flowing wound supply, redeeming grace, has
been our theme and will be till we die. Let us be able to say
that. We've preached Christ and Him
crucified. And we want to show His death
till He comes by our attitude, by our confidence in Him, and
by our witness. Help us not to compromise that
which is sacred and precious unto thee. That is the gospel
of thy dear Son. Make it applicable to all of
our hearts tonight by the power of Thy Spirit, in His name we
pray, Amen.

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