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  (HAPPENINGS AHEAD) THE MIGHTY MOMENT OF CHRISTS RETURN
  by Willie Mullan
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Summary: The sermon emphasizes the significance of the moment of
Christ's return, where believers will be transformed and inherit eternal
life, and Satan will be defeated.

Duration: 1:01:09 Topics: "Christs Return"

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In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the importance of repentance and
obedience in order to be free from sin. He encourages the listeners to
walk in the newness of life and to please God by following His precepts.
The preacher also talks about the anticipation of the second coming of
Jesus and the joy that believers will experience when they see Him. He
mentions the significance of the Lord's table in commemorating Jesus'
death and the hope it brings for believers. The sermon concludes with a
message from guest speakers who share a song that reminds the audience
of the birth, death, resurrection, and second coming of Jesus.

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They'll mail Quintet with us this evening, they're great friends of this
meeting. When we had the mission here, and we had 1,300 people night
after night, these and the Richardsons sisters were the messengers of
the gospel during that whole campaign, and we welcome them back. We have
them here for a very special reason this evening.

I'll tell you about it after they bring you a message in song. I'll
teach tonight, in keeping with the message he has on his mind, and I'd
like to sing a piece which reminds us of the birth, the death, the
resurrection, and the coming again of our Lord Jesus Christ. And we
would ask you tonight, friends, can such a Savior depend on you? Jesus
the Savior came down from above Came to bring mercy and love Crucified
in the rock, torn fully apart Stole me on Calvary's arm While on the
cross He prayed, Father forgive For they know not what they do For us He
died that for Him we might live Can He live?

We from the grave on this third day are low Nations of man to disclose
Go preach the gospel all who will may hear Through Him be free from all
sin They've been released to repent and obey Walk in the newness of Keep
the life going to show them the way Leading from We've got the Savior is
coming again Which is on ever today Are you preparing to stand by His
side? Or have you forgotten the story of love? Showing them what they
We've got to preach at the conference Can He live?

Will you be content to say Can He live?

A great theme this evening In looking ahead For the past four weeks now
Three weeks past We've been trying to get this great subject off the
ground Last week we were still on the runway You remember we began by
talking about the denials Of the last day You know, I think before I go
any further this bow's got to go I'm good looking in the bow but I'm far
better looking without it I could never stick that all night And I'll
tell you if it gets much hotter The effect that I gave at the beginning
will really be Never mind about the old bow, don't lose it First week in
these, in this series we were looking at The denials of the last day And
we found that men were going to have a form of godliness There is, of
course, going to be a big universal fact They're going to have a form of
godliness

But they're going to deny the power They won't want Christ Not His word,
not His spirit And we went into the denials of the last day And then the
next week we looked at the demand Of these last days on belief One of
the great demands that God is making upon us is this That in the last
days men will have a form of godliness But denying the power thereof And
the next four words are these From such turn away of separation And God
is demanding from every believer In the last days, demanding separation
From such turn away That is not unity, that is not uniting That is
getting out and keeping us And spaying us from such turn away We looked
at the denials, we looked at the demand Last week we looked at the
dangers of the last days Great many dangers, as it was in the days of
Noah And we looked

at that Noah 8 nightmare last week And as it was in the days of Lot We
looked at that Sodomite saga The story of Sodom last Tuesday Now having
looked at the details And looked at the denials And looked at the
demands And looked at the dangers Now we're lifting off the runway this
evening And we're really looking at happening ahead now Going to have a
whole night tonight On the moment, let's have it The moment of Christ's
return I'm not thinking about anything else you know Just that wonderful
mighty marvellous moment Just the moment And then of course I've got to
cut it down further We're looking at the moment of Christ's return For
living believers on earth Want you to get that bit into your mind too
Because we've got to go further next week And we've got to look at the
moment of

Christ's return For the bodies that lie in the grave What will that
moment mean for the bodies of believers What will it mean for the bodies
of unbelievers What will that moment mean to the spirits in heaven What
will that moment mean to the Jews The nation of Israel I mean Yes we'll
be looking at that next week But tonight we're contenting ourselves Just
to look at that moment What it means for believers on this planet What
it would mean if Jesus came just now Now let's go to 1 John this evening
1 John And the third chapter 3 1 John 3 Verse 1 John is using this great
word behold He's trying to get the eyes of all the believers Fixed and
fashioned upon something He says behold what manner of love The Father
has bestowed upon us That we should be called the sons of God You know
this is a

very wonderful thing That every believer here this evening We're in the
family of God In fact we were predestined Through the adoption of family
Now are we the sons of God What a wonderful thing He says behold what
manner of love The Father has bestowed upon us That we should be called
the sons of God Therefore the world knoweth us not And he differentiates
greatly here Between us and the world And it knoweth us not because it
knew him not And he brings it in closer He says beloved Talking to all
the believers of course Now are we the sons of God He's thrilled with
this And it does not yet appear what we shall be But we know that when
he shall appear What a moment Now this is the bit When he shall appear
We shall see him Ah that will be the moment when we see him My if that
moment were to

take place Before this meeting ends And the Lord Jesus should step from
yon throne Enter the air And shout Every one of his sheep upon earth
Would hear the shepherd's voice And you know as we would rise My we
would see him You know we have talked about him And we have sat and
thought about him And we have read about him And we have preached about
him But we have never really seen him Only by this What a moment it
would be My every doubt will be gone Never had any lingering in me or
someone Just to look on his face What a moment it would be The same
Jesus The one who walked on the sea of Galilee It will be the moment
When we shall see him Now I want you to get this and put it beside it
Let's go to 1 Corinthians 1 Corinthians Chapter 15 1 Corinthians Chapter
15 Paul is writing here To the

believers In the church at Canaan Verse 15 1 Corinthians 15 verse 15 Now
this I say brethren And he always puts this little word brethren in here
In these writings Just to remind his own heart That he is talking To his
brethren in the faith I know that there were many after currents That
criticized him And did all sorts of things to say about him His bodily
presence was weak some said And his speech was contemptible And they
really challenged his apostleship But the Lord has said so many things
you know When writing he always says brethren And sometimes his heart
goes just a little bit further and says My beloved brethren Good thing
when we are talking to one another That we remember that we are brethren
and sisters in the Lord Now this is what he says to the believers Now
this I say

brethren That flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God Now
that's a great statement for all you young students Because you are
going to come up against a lot of arguments about the kingdom of God
I've heard these all my life I want you to get the hold of this When you
take this book in your hand And you begin thinking about the kingdom of
God But you'll be very careful with it Because way back in Romans I read
that the kingdom of God Is joy and peace in the Holy Ghost That's
perfectly true too Because that thinking on the kingdom of God in a
spiritual sense It's within me Oh I have peace and joy in the Holy Ghost
alright But you know what Paul is saying here He is saying flesh and
blood cannot So there must be something different here Because while I
enjoy the spiritual side of

the kingdom of God teaching I'm still flesh and blood yes you know I'm
just a mortal So you see this kingdom of God It's in different senses in
the book Sometimes you come against it, it's a spiritual sense Sometimes
you come against it, it's an eternal sense And it's the eternal sense
that he's speaking about You know you can't go to live in the kingdom of
God eternally While you're flesh and blood I think you would understand
that wouldn't you Because while you remain flesh and blood you're a
mortal The animating force of this body tonight is blood And you shed my
blood and I die, I'm a mortal And as a mortal, flesh and blood I cannot
inherit the kingdom of God eternally Only to the king That's what he's
talking about And I'll tell you this You don't only get it in the
spiritual sense

And you don't only get it in the eternal sense You get it in the
millennial sense I for a thousand years And you want to watch out for it
Now you can see quite clearly that he's talking about the eternal sense
He says flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of God To back it up
he says neither doth corruption inherit incorruption Then he begins to
explain what he's talking about He said behold I show you a mystery We
believers shall not all sleep And he's talking about death We believers
shall not all die But we shall all be changed And then he says in a
moment Why he was thinking about the moment that we're thinking about
You know when the Lord stops from yonder and enters the air and shouts
We'll not only see him but I'll shock you We shall be changed My this
mortal would immediately

put on immortality I would become immortal right away What a wonderful
thing that would be But it's not that bit that I'm after I want you to
see what he said quite clearly He said in a moment In the twinkling of
an eye After last chance You know I like that bit Because what Paul is
saying Is saying you know we need to be changed if we're going to live
eternally with God He said you know I'll tell you this We'll not all
sleep you know we'll not all die We'll all need this change And I'll
tell you this it will happen in a moment In the twinkling of an eye If
you look your dictionary A wink is two movements of the eyelid One down
and one up But a twinkle is just one movement Very fast And in a moment
In a split second Actually the word there for a moment is the word atom
It's the smallest

thing But what a mighty moment it will be Yes You know he says at the
last chance That's the bit I can see quite clearly You know he's talking
this This is an old Roman army term He knew something about the Roman
army Rome was in control when Paul was writing this letter He sometimes
A unit of the Roman army would go to the outskirts of the empire To
quell some rebellion And when they had done the job They may be all
cuddled into the tents at night And the trumpet would sound And they
were trained you know The moment the trumpet sounded Every man got
outside the tent And stood to attention just outside And then a second
trumpet would sound And immediately it sounded They took down the tent
Rolled them up Put them on their backs Got all their equipment by their
sides Formed into line And

then what is called the last trumpet sounded And they turned either
right or left And marched away And you know one of these days The Lord
will set out of heaven Under their shelter We shall see him We shall be
trained And the saints will go marching in What a moment it will be What
a moment I'll not be a hoof left behind Every belief My salvation is
nearer than when we believe We were looking at that the other week But
it's salvation I want you to put this bit beside that He said to you In
verse first, verse three He said for this corruptible That's this body
of mine This corruptible Must put on incorruption This mortal flesh of
mine It must put on immortality I want you to get a hold of that you
know You know when we lay in old tent to rest And we see the coffin
going away down into the

bottom of the grave Many times I stood with the Bible in my hand And
watched that coffin being slowly lowered And I knew that the body inside
Was being buried in that hole Because it was going into corruption You
can't keep it The authorities wouldn't allow you And you wouldn't want
to keep it after a little while It's going into corruption And I knew
when I looked in many times If the Lord Jesus just came at that second
That corruptible would put on incorruption But we'll keep that for next
week This mortal standing looking in This mortal would immediately put
on immortality Oh what a moment that would be But I shall have what I'm
after He said this In verse fifty four All this is a verse to mark with
red ink So when This corruptible shall have put on incorruption And this
mortal shall

have put on immortality Then When When I want you to get the two words
in the text So when When this corruptible Shall have put on incorruption
And this mortal shall have put on immortality Then Not before that Then
shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed
up in victory You know there's a song in the Old Testament And we'd like
to hear it Oh death Where is thy sting Oh grave Where is thy victory You
know I think that sometimes we begin singing this too soon I've often
attended the funeral out of respect for someone And I hear the minister
standing at the grave And he says Oh death Where is thy sting And the
man's dead Make me no mistake about it The man's dead And I hear him
saying Oh grave Where is your victory And they're filling the grave in
He's stuck in

the song too soon The book that you're reading out of says When When
When this mortal in the box Has put on immortality When this corruptible
in the box has put on incorruption When this mortal standing outside the
grave has put on immortality My just then At that moment When a moment
it will be The song will really begin You know I believe that when Jesus
steps into the air And we see him And the saints go marching in You know
as the corruptible body keeps on incorrupting And the mortals that are
alive when Jesus comes put on immortality You know as they go up into
the air I think that the whole crowd will turn round and look down And
those who have Left this world without dying These mortals that have put
on immortality Who haven't tasted of sleeping death Neither look back
and say Oh

death Where is your victory And the boys that come out of the dust And
say oh grave Oh where is your victory No we're out Don't be singing it
too soon Because at that moment we shall see At that moment The saints
will go marching in At that moment The song that will be eternally ours
Will begin Isn't it a wonderful thing That we shall sing At that moment
But I want you to get this bit Put this bit through it See verse sixty
five Oh death where is thy sting Oh grave where is thy victory This
sting of death is sin And the strength of sin is the law But thanks be
to God Which giveth us the victory Through our Lord Jesus Christ You
know at that moment we'll only praise The Lord Jesus alone I think this
is a great thing You know you would never think Of praising a
denomination Because you had

Passed out of this world Without dying You'd never say the Baptist You'd
be as fool as you did You would never say That some creed had done that
for you You'd never give the honour to a creed You'd never say that I've
escaped the grave And I have conquered death Just because of our
denomination Or our creed You would never give the glory To Mary even
would you You'd never think of it My Mary wouldn't save me from dying
And Mary won't conquer the grave Oh when we get to that moment you know
Man will just praise the Saviour alone Nobody else will say Thanks be
unto God Which giveth us the victory Over death and the grave From
Christ And nobody else will do that Except the moment when we'll praise
the Saviour alone I want you to get this edge of your mind too Let's go
back a chapter or two 1

Corinthians chapter 10 Chapter 11 please 1 Corinthians chapter 11 I
think this is very beautiful We'll read a verse or two just to get
everything properly into our minds Verse 23 Paul writing to the church
at Corinth said For I have received of the Lord that which also I
delivered unto you That the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was
betrayed took bread And when he had given thanks he broke it and said
This is my body which is broken for you This do in remembrance of me
After the same manner also he took the cup When he had stopped saying
This cup is the new testament in my blood This do ye as often as you
drink it in remembrance of me For as often as ye eat this bread and
drink this cup Ye do shall the Lord death till he come Therefore
whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this

cup of the Lord Onwardly shall be guilty of the body and blood of the
Lord You know it's a great portion It's talking to us about this edge Of
breaking bread and drinking wine And I stood up at the table last Sunday
morning We've got an open table and we've got a lot of preachers here Or
a couple of dozen who can minister God's word Sometimes I just take the
notion and minister when I feel God wants me to Last Sunday morning at
the table I talked to this assembly about this edge Of breaking bread
and drinking wine I pointed out that it was an edge of commemoration
We're remembering the Lord's death Yes it's an edge of commemoration And
I pointed out that it was an edge of identification You don't sit at
this table and break this bread and drink this wine Unless you identify
yourself with

the cloth of Calvary Yes it's an edge of identification And then I
pointed out that it's an edge of proclamation Of after Jesus had bread
and drink this cup You do so, the Lord's death You proclaim for the
world the Lord's death I like that phrase, the Lord I like to sit down
at times And remember that I was a down and out sinner A poor tramp
without shoes But the Lord died for me Not some wee fellow Not somebody
trying to do me a good service Let me get it over to you now The Lord,
the Lord, the Lord He said that That the Lord of glory died That he died
for me like proclamation You see, this act is an edge of commemoration
And it's an edge of identification And it's an edge of proclamation Ah,
but it's an edge of anticipation You know, as soon as we eat this bread
and drink this wine Why

we do so, the Lord's death Listen to it You know, when he comes to the
earth If he steps out now My will be seated And the saints will go
marching in And the eternal song will be raised And we'll only praise
the table The spoon board will be You know, this table, this wonderful
table You know, it goes from the cross To the coming That's what
measures this dispensation The table measures the dispensation You can't
so force the Lord's death For the Lord hath died Yes, this is what the
church is doing Mighty commemorating It's in remembrance, you know Of
something that has really happened And it goes from the cross To the
coming To the coming My resembles will be no more Yes, we'll not need
anything to remind us When we look at his lovely face We'll always
remember his love When we see him

at the righteous judge From the cross We'll always remember his life He
was Scottish When we see the marks of the nails in his hand We'll always
remember Calvary Oh yes, the table will be gone Yes, what a moment it
will be It will be the moment When we shall see him as he is It will be
the moment When the saints go marching in It will be the moment When
songs shall truly eternally begin It will be the moment When the saviour
alone shall be praised It will be the moment When the symbols shall
disappear Now I think that this is one of the greatest Seconds, shall I
say, of that moment Let's have a look at Romans chapter 16 Do you see
what it says?

Romans chapter 16 Verse 20, this is a great verse And the God of peace
Shall bruise Satan under your feet shortly You know, that's an amazing
statement That the God of peace Is going to bruise Satan Under our feet
shortly You know, I like the whole phrase The God of peace Mind you,
when you go through the New Testament You don't find this phrase too
often I think the phrase, as it says here in Romans Is only three times
in the New Testament It's here in chapter 16 I think it's in chapter 15
too Have a look at chapter 15 See what he said Verse 13 Now I beseech
you, brethren For the Lord Jesus Christ's sake And for the love of the
Spirit That is thrives together with me And you have pledged to God for
me That I may be delivered from them That do not believe in Judea That
my service which I

have for Jerusalem May be accepted of the saints That they may come unto
you with joy By the will of God And may wish you be the same Now the God
of peace Be with you all Remember where at the end of the letter to the
Hebrews He was talking about the resurrection of Christ It says the God
of peace That brought again from the dead our Lord Jesus That great
shepherd of the peace Now this is a great phrase, this God of peace When
you think of the God of peace Bringing again from the dead the Lord
Jesus And bringing him from the dead The great shepherd of the peace You
know this phrase, the God of peace Is talking about a satisfied God It
is just that, because that is very important You see, when God, the God
of peace Brought our Lord Jesus from the dead You know, he was
absolutely satisfied

With the work of redemption That had been accomplished on the cross I
think it goes further than that He was absolutely satisfied with the
propitiation Because this work of redemption belongs to us believers And
this work of propitiation Is the work of the cross Godward That
satisfied every demand Every holy, just demand of a holy, inflexible God
But I think it goes further It is not only that he is satisfied with the
work of redemption And satisfied with the great work of propitiation But
he is satisfied with the ground work of reconciliation I think this is
the bit we need to get the hold of Sometimes we sing a hymn here And I
love every part of it, only one line Because there is one line of it
that says God is reconciled And I am not in agreement with that I don't
think that God needs

to be reconciled to anybody I don't think he fell out with anybody I
don't think God is a rebel I don't think God is an enemy of anybody I
don't think he needs to be reconciled I know that we were rebels and I
know that we were enemies And I know that we were sinners And I know
that we need to be reconciled to God And I know the only ground work
Upon which we can be reconciled to God Is the death of his son
Reconciled to God by the death of his son You see, God is looking at
this ground work And it's the ground work of reconciliation That
perfectly satisfies him Therefore, when we come as rebels, sinners Proud
as outcasts of humanity And throw ourselves upon the work of the cross
Then we can be reconciled to God by the death of his son You see,
because the Lord Jesus Has so perfectly made

this ground work of reconciliation God brings him back from the dead a
conqueror Conqueror over death My, when he arose Sometimes they sing
that old hymn and it annoys me He tore the bars away He tore no bars
away Has to break an oath It didn't break out in him He's the seat of
the saint Oh, this is not quite you now Oh, none of that, Dr.

Torres By the Lord Jesus conquered death Avoids death Conquered with his
feet Talking a lot of British Oh no He was a conqueror You know, Paul is
writing to the Romans, chapter 16 About those unbelievers among the Jews
He says in verse 31 That I may be delivered from them that do not
believe in Judea Mind you, when you get clever men Educated men
Intelligent men Who are really unbelievers You've got a very difficult
crowd to work with You know, I worked with a surgeon And I think he was
the most famous surgeon this land ever had And just, you know, a way
down in his heart He wasn't sure of God or heaven or anything And he was
the most difficult character to approach Now he would just turn away and
say nothing No matter what sort of an arrow you fired at his heart So
hard to get this unbelief of terrible things Very hard to work with
unbelievers And these Jewish unbelievers in Judea Who didn't believe
that Christ was the Messiah Who didn't believe that the cross work was
the face of all the types in shadow Who didn't believe that Christ rose
again Who didn't believe that Christ was working a working man's heart
Paul knew he was up against it And he's trying for these believers at
Rome to pray for him That he might conquer unbelief And the God of peace
You know, the God of peace is going to blew his head off there On the
estate I wouldn't mind doing it in his home down there When it happens,
he'll be on the right side of it My, if you had the devil under your
feet, you wouldn't care whoever you were My, what a day it will be, what
a moment When for the very first time The old serpent will be under our
feet And we'll have him down And he'll be conquered What a moment It'll
be the moment when we sing It'll be the moment when the saints go
marching in It'll be the moment when the eternal song will begin It'll
be the moment when Christ alone shall be praised It'll be the moment
when the symbols disappear It'll be the moment when Satan shall be
bruised under our feet What a moment!

Yes, the God of peace is the one who is satisfied to make you more than
conqueror, made Christ conqueror of the grave, made Paul the conqueror
of unbelief, and will make us believers the conquerors of Satan.

You know, it's a great moment if you look at it from the angle of
Revelation 21. Let's have a look at this. You know, this is thrilling
here.

This is the new Jerusalem. You remember the Lord Jesus in the upper
room? And you remember him talking to his disciples and saying, I go to
prepare a place for you. He's been away 1,900 years preparing this place
which is our eternal home.

One day in a Bible class here, I looked at all the dimensions, and I
looked at the constellations, and I looked at the illuminations and the
congregations of our great eternal home. I don't want to go into that
tonight, but I want you to see exactly what will happen at the moment
when Jesus comes to take us to the home he has prepared. Revelation 21,
verse 1, John says, I saw a new heaven and a new earth, for the first
heaven and the first earth were passed away.

There was no more sea. And I, John, saw the holy city, new Jerusalem,
coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her
husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the
tabernacle of God is with men.

He will dwell with them, and they shall be his people. God in his church
shall be with them and be their God. And here are some of the
constellations of the new home.

God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. I think that's a great
thing, isn't it? No more tears. No more sitting down and weeping because
of the disappointment of earth.

My, there'll be no disappointment in heaven, none at all, none
whatsoever. The old hymn writer said, There'll ne'er be a crepe on the
doorknob. No funeral train leaves the sky.

There are no graves on the hillside of glory, for there we shall never
more die. You know, the first thing we're going to enjoy, no
disappointment, no tears, no sitting down and weeping about anything.
What's this? There shall be no more death, no disappointment, no
bereavement.

My dear friend, no disappointment, no bereavement. What's this? Neither
sorrow. You know, there will be no lament.

My, I thought, today, just this very day. In fact, I met her just
outside the church and put my head out of the car, and then she stopped
and leaned in the door, and my, she was spoken of us. Oh, what shall we
tell her just a few days ago in the car trunk? Lean in, and you could
see the very lamentation of her soul written on her face.

No disappointment, no bereavement, no lament. I'll tell you this,
neither sorrow, nor crying. There'll be no bewilderment in us.

Yes, somebody told me just a week or two, you know, the things that have
happened around our home, they have bewildered us. Ah, well, there'll be
no bewilderment in heaven. No disappointment, no bereavement, no lament,
no bewilderment.

See that last one? Neither shall there be any more pain, no more
torment. Oh, body's going to be sick, that's mine. That's the moment,
you know, when all our, when the psalmist is praising the Lord in Psalm
103, says, Bless the Lord, O my soul, and all that is within me, bless
his holy name.

He said, You know, you have forgiven us all our iniquities. What a
wonderful thing. Lord, you have redeemed our life from destruction.

You know, some of us can stand here tonight, and we can look up, and we
can say, You have forgiven us all our iniquities. They're all blotted
out, bless his name. And you know, we could look back, and we can say,
Lord, you've redeemed our life from destruction.

Where would we have been? And we could look forward, because the pet and
the tent is looking forward. Thou wilt eventually heal, and in heaven,
no more pain. So I tell you, what a moment this is going to be.

You know, I don't think that we can kick it in properly. All that will
happen in that mighty, marvellous moment. There'll be no more sickness,
and there'll be no more death.

You know, I tried to hide a little bit when I was at 1 John, because I
wanted to keep it to the end. Have a look at 1 John, chapter 3 again.
And in verse 2, John says, Beloved, now are we the sons of God, and it
doth not yet appear what we shall be, but we know that when he shall
appear--now, this is the bit that I skipped over--we shall be like him.

You know, I think that's an amazing thing. Let's turn back to Romans,
chapter 8, and follow this properly, because this is the truth I think
we need to get settled in our hearts, because it's settled so many
problems through life. You know, we always go back to this Romans, 8 and
28, and why wouldn't we? Romans, 8 and 28 says, And we know, we
believers ought to know, that all things work together for good to them
that love God.

There's another translation of that that says, We know that God worketh
all things together for good to them that love him. It's the same thing,
but there it is clearer. God is working everything together for them
that love him.

You see, there's a people in the centre of the text, them that love him.
And then I want you to get this for them who are the called according to
his purpose. You know, he has a purpose for that creature.

You know, this is the thing we must get settled. You know, when God
called you out of darkness into his marvellous light, you know, God has
a purpose for them, he called. Now, this is the purpose.

I want you to get the purpose. Here's in verse 29, For whom he did
foreknow, you see, God is bound to know everything. You can't take me
back to a place in eternity past, if you let me use the phrase.

You can't take me back there to a place when God didn't know. God always
knew, always knew that I would be called from all the time. Foreknew
that.

And then he foreknew he did predestinate. Now, I want you to get the
purpose. To be conformed to the image of his son.

That's the whole sum and substance of it. There isn't anything beyond
that. There are many high peaks of blessing in scripture, but the
highest peak of all, the Mount Everest of blessing, is being like
Christ.

It's an amazing thing. You know, when he steps into the air, and we see
him, here's what it says, we shall be like him. We'll have reached the
summit of our belief.

What a moment it will be for belief. Listen, believers, we were never
nearer that moment than now. Never nearer than now.

You know, I think that when we get into this study, and we begin to look
at the common market, things ahead, you know, we're looking at, and
we're beginning to look at the tribulation, and we begin to look at all
the horrors that are going to come upon the point of in the not-too-far-
distant future. When we begin to take in atomic warfare, and all that
the Bible describes as lying ahead, we'll see. We're on the edge.

We're on the edge of that moment. That moment when we shall see him.
That moment when the saints will go marching in.

That moment when the song will start. That moment when sickness and
death will be over forever. That moment when we'll reach the summit.

What a moment. Let me say tenderly again, we were never nearer that
moment than now. Why we would need to be on our toes.

Next week we're going to look at what that moment will mean for babies
in the grave, for unbelievers on the earth, for Jews, and for a lot of
other things. 949, please. Those in the aisles, please, would you step
aside and leave those chairs clear.

949. 949. When all my labors and trials are over, and I am safe from
that beautiful chore, thou to be near the dear Lord I adore, will
through the ages be glory for me.

And while we sing, the boys will leave the platform and get to the
doors, and may God bless you with those records. 949, please. All my
labors.

Take a big deep breath, not nearly as tough, and we're going to sing
with all our might. It's as if you have the devil under your feet. Now
let me see how you'll keep about it.

Every man and woman and boy and girl, really sing. Never mind whether
you hit the note or not, I'm off and off, the note and on, the note I
don't care. I'll make a noise for the Lord.

Take that breath now, we're getting started. All right, all together,
let's really make it ring. God bless you, for thy holy name's sake.

Amen.

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Audio: https://sermonindex1.b-cdn.net/9/SID9612.mp3
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