Weeks don't capable. We appreciate that Well, this is most embarrassing. I wouldn't really expect it to be here today, so Didn't really prepare a sermon Those of you who wonder what I'm talking about Maybe you weren't paying much attention this past week while the rest of the media was a man My name of Harold Camping had assured us Beyond out was impossible for this not to happen that Jesus was coming back yesterday after six p.m I would never sure what time zone that was So I just kind of was expecting a rolling All throughout the day rapture of God's people never materialized and some mr. Camping whose middle name is eggbert I am not making that up. So I will refer to him as the prophet eggbert I'm mocking him because what he did yesterday deserves to be mocked As you all heard me say how many times about the study of the book of being on other times Every generation of Christians has had somebody or several somebody who've told us when Jesus is coming back How's going to happen? How's going to go down and they've all been wrong? You'd think they would learn but they don't including the prophet eggbert told us that we were going to be leaving you yesterday Friday night middle school Mike's doing a great job with our middle school We've had a big crowd of kids here. They're all having fun. They're out Raising all kinds of chaos as middle schoolers. I wanted to do skateboarding and so forth and I was talking with a parent or so or two and 10 20 feet away from me another clump of people talking and then this young man walks over to me And I could tell it was one of those go ask the pastor kind of questions and he had a very concerned look on his face He said do you think the world's gonna end tomorrow night? He was very serious about it And he said don't give me wrong. I'm a Christian. I'm ready but I Really, I didn't begin to tell me what he wanted to do when he grew up He wanted to have the opportunity to be the things he wanted to be and I said I'll tell you what I'm gonna I don't make a lot of guarantees, but here's one Sunday morning You're gonna wake up in your bed right here in Miami Don't you worry and I told him about how all these false prophets have come and gone the prophet eggburts He owes every single person who believed him and Apollo He owes that young man an apology and if he made a dime off of what he did yesterday He ought to pay every dime of the back at interest These things go on the internet if he might knows how to get this to the prophet eggburts You've been called out you silly old man For making a fool of yourself and a lot of other Christians in the process However, I do want to thank him because I couldn't ask for a better intro to today's text in Daniel chapter 12 So thank you, eggburts for setting this up. We're reading from Daniel chapter 12 verses 5 through 13 the very last passage in the book of Daniel Verse 5, then I Daniel looked and there before me stood two others One on his on this bank of the river and one on the opposite bank One of them said to the man clothed in linen who was above the waters of the river? How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled the man clothed in linen? Who was above the waters of the river? Lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven and I heard him swear by him who lives forever saying It will be for a time Times and half a time But when the power of the holy people has been finally broken all these things will be completed I Heard but I did not understand so I asked my lord. What will the outcome of all this be? He replied go your way Daniel Because the words are rolled up and sealed until the time of the end many will be purified made spotless and refined But the wicked will continue to be wicked None of the wicked will understand but those who are wise will understand From the time that the daily sacrifice is abolished the abomination that causes desolation is set up There will be 1,290 days Blessed is the one who waits for and reaches the end of the 1,335 days as for you Go your way till the end you will rest and then at the end of the days You will rise to receive your allotted inheritance Let's pray together Father, I do thank you for the word of God that your word is timeless and enduring and eternal and never changes Lord your word is inspired. It's an air and it's infallible and it's given to us To reflect back to us what we are And also reveal to us who you are Now father as we study these final words from your servant Daniel. I thank you for Daniel For the way he was used so powerfully in Babylon and out to the ages ever since I asked if you would Annoy me now to preach your word to your people those who are hearing this message Who are not yet your people? Lord, I pray this for your honor and your glory for the building up of the body of Christ and For the advance of your kingdom into the kingdoms of this world from Babylon on out. I pray in Jesus name. I'm in Well, we are concluding our study of the book of Daniel We've been in it for about nine or ten months. I believe I'm gonna miss Daniel. I really am I'm looking forward to meeting him when I get to heaven I want to go up and shake his hand and say thank you for me and such a stand-up guy Well, you can tell somebody a stand-up dude in heaven this stand-up guy in the midst of a tremendous amount of opposition It's appropriate as we conclude today We take one more look at End times the technical term for that is eschatology the study of Last things what differences it make What we believe about the end times. I probably don't need to convince most of us today May 22nd 2011 with the events of this past week and the week's leading up to it I probably need to convince most of us that it does make a difference what we believe about the end times We saw a clear Demonstration of that it's past week or ten days or so as we saw billboards. We saw vans that had Science painted on it talking about judgment days coming in the end of the year We had people walking up and down places like Times Square in New York City with sandwich boards telling people to pin because the end is near Made a big difference to those people What they believed about the end times Harold Camping I Read how he derived his Prophecy the Jesus will come back to 6 p.m. Yesterday I finally get it I finally understand what he did and it's so silly. It's not worth explaining you can look it up. It's on the internet a Basic Bible college education would have helped that man not to make such a fool of himself So I'm not gonna spend a whole lot of time on it. I just say how sad it is that anyone would place his or her trust in the silly Poorly thought out prophecies of a silly old man Now he may have been a great Bible teacher one point. I really don't know he comes from a reformed tradition So he ought to have known better but what he's done is simply make a fool of himself a lot of others even though Jesus Specifically said we would not know the day and the hour the prophet Egbert Believe based partially on this passage in Daniel. This is part of what made him think he could predict it because at the end The role the scroll is unsealed and the word of knowledge goes forth and so forth and he thought we're at the end And he was the one who could decipher it But now look all it cost him and To people who believed him were a lot of embarrassment Whatever sign whatever money it cost to put up the billboards and paint the signs of whatever the gasoline was to go driving All was was that's all it cost them It's cost a lot of other people a whole lot more in the town of Kanungu, Uganda a man by the name of Joseph Kibwatarie May the prediction that the world will come doing in on December 31st, 1999 He told all his followers there are followers of something called the movement for the restoration of the Ten Commandments of God He had thousands of followers in this cult and urged them all to sell their possessions and give them money to him because the world was about to end and When midnight came on December 31st, 1999 and Jesus didn't come back and the world didn't end his followers got a little disgruntled they began to ask for their possessions and or their money back which caused a great amount of difficulty for Joseph Kibwatarie and his henchmen So rather than deal straight up with the people they began to systematically execute them by the tens and the 20s hundreds of them all over Uganda And then on March 17th in year 2000 over 500 followers of the movement for the restoration of the Ten Commandments of God over 500 of them were packed into a Church building outside of Kanungu Uganda And the doors were locked and the windows were sealed shut and the building was set on fire and over 530 men and women and children died in the flames followers of Joseph Kibwatarie who said the world was coming to an end they believe me Does it make any difference what we believe about the last things? did for them By the way, no one has ever been arrested for the crimes against humanity over a thousand people put the death for following Joseph Kibwatarie closer to home the name heavens gate still ring about with anybody heavens gate. You remember this cult Outside San Diego, California. It's an odd cult. These people were highly educated very technically proficient But they followed a man by the name of Marshall Apple White Marshall Apple White was an interesting combination of a lot of things He was a new age. He was a Star Trek devotee. No knock on you Trekkies or Trekkers. Whatever you want to be called He had a number of people who believed him when he said that the earth was about to be recycled and For them recycling meant it was going to be wiped clean renewed Refurbish and rejuvenated and the only chance to add to survive was to leave it immediately the comment hail Bob I'm not making this up. You can look it up The common hail Bob was going to be passing as close to earth at that time as it was going to get There's going to be the brightest in the sky and so Marshall Apple White told us followers. This is our chance We all need to check out now and then our souls Can be beamed up a board of spacecraft following the common hail Bob And I'm March the 26th Of 1997 police discovered the bodies of 39 Followers of heaven's gate who believed Marshall Apple White that the world was about to come to an end It's a Mac. I think much difference what we believe about the end time so I did for them That's for us to that's for us to the book of Dan There's a lot of other groups. I can mention like that. This has gone on through our history Where people have believed somebody who said he had a word from God or he can understand the Bible better than anybody else And they gave the times and dates and predictions Please listen to me, especially young people It won't be the last time if you're a serious Christian and a Bible believer somebody else will come along in 10 or 20 years We've forgotten about the prophet Egbert Somebody also come along in every 10 15 20 years and he's going to tell you how he solved the Bible code And he's going to tell you Jesus couldn't come back He's going to get a lot of Christians to believe him and invest in him one way or the other they're wrong Listen to me they're wrong. They don't know. Jesus had told us we're not going to know Don't follow him but a lot of people have to they're everlasting Sorry, the book of Daniel it's not here to give us times and dates and epochs The message of Daniel is that God is in control even when it doesn't look like it And it's a manifesto for how God's man or God's woman God's young person is to live in the face of a hostile pagan culture Which Daniel certainly did he is coming back for his people we still know when So in the meantime, how are we then to live? Why was it first of all we are to live as expectant people Expecting people the back of verse five you've got in your bolter or maybe you got your Bible open Then I Daniel looked and there before me stood two others One on this bank of the river and one of the opposite bank that raises the question to other what? Well, if you've been studying through Daniel with this you may recall that the speaker here is the angel Gabriel Gabriel God's man a strong one if your name is Gabriel or Gabriella you are a strong one The angel Gabriel God's a herald was speaking to Daniel and so it says two others the clear implications that the others on the scene are also angels Verse six one of them said to the man clothed in linen who was about the waters of the river how long will it be? Before these astonishing things are fulfilled. Do you notice here? Even the angels don't know The angels don't know when these things are to take place Egbert missed this part of it But also points out something bigger than the prophet Egbert in his help These angels are not on mission Angels don't know everything. Do you know that they don't know the beginning from the end angels are limited in terms of what they know Maybe you're along with me from first Peter chapter one verses 10 through 12 Peter writes Concerning the salvation the prophets who spoke of the grace that was to come to you Surced intently with the greatest care trying to find out the time and circumstances to which the spirit of Christ in them was pointing When he predicted the sufferings of Christ and the glories that would follow it was revealed to them that they were not serving themselves But you and they spoke of the things that are now been told you by those who have preached the gospel to you by the Holy Spirit sent from heaven Even angels long to look into these things Angels are not omniscient. They don't know everything. I'm convinced that's why in the gospels You will see recorded a number of different angels a number of different places number of different manifestations of angels And again referring to my blog if you'll go back to the one I wrote about who saw man Jesus I pointed out that all the gospel is the full Gospel writers they record different events. I'm convinced the reason you see the different angels at the different times is They were stunned by what was going on. They didn't know and They're jostling and jockeying for position. They're taking turns going down to them to see what had happened there Angels don't know everything The man clothed in linen verse 7 says was above the waters of the river lifted his right hand and his left hand toward heaven to the best of my knowledge This is the only time in scripture. We see anyone with both hands raised toward heaven just swear by him We live forever saying it would be for a time times and half a time all that phrase is Occasion so much discussion. What does it mean? I Don't know. Neither does anybody else no matter what time frame you assigned to it. They've all got their problems My ring of Hebrew and I'm not a Hebrew scholar, but I probably read it better than you do My reading of Hebrew tells me that the word time there in could mean a year could mean of things Could mean a decade could mean a century could mean a millennium, but the word time there and then times My reading of Hebrew commences of me. That's not a dual ending. It doesn't mean two of whatever the period is and Half a time so whatever we come out with is it's not three and a half Maybe four and a half maybe ten and a half maybe a hundred and it's not three and a half Daniel says I heard But I did not understand. Daniel doesn't know. Daniel doesn't quite understand. This is Daniel the great prophet Naturally, and I'll ask my lord what will the outcome of all this be rather explain these things to Daniel the one cloak Then Linda replies go your way Daniel Because the word to rolled up and sealed until the time the end. That's like Being on on who wants to be a millionaire and and read just ask you the million dollar question And you give the answer and read just says that's a great answer But we're out of time for this show Stay tuned next time and by the way, I'm not gonna tell you when the next time will be I Have no idea. I've never tried him and they read just in my life. I don't know why I did that forgive me Stay tuned for the next show anyway. He tells you guys stay tuned, but he doesn't tell you when the next show is gonna be That's what they do to Daniel here. Seals are rolled up Nobody revealed the right time you go your way Daniel You go your way because the words are close up. They'll live your life, Daniel Just know these things will happen. You're not given to know when go your way, Daniel Go about the business of being faithful to God in a foreign Hostel pagan city by the name of Babylon And if Daniel could be faithful in the pagan city of Babylon, please tell me why we can't be faithful in the pagan city of Miami Miami got nothing on Babylon And Daniel managed to be God's man there. He said go your way be faithful to God You let somebody else worry about the times and the ethics Jesus says the same thing Matthew 24 Jesus left the temple and was walking away when his disciples came to him to call his attention to his buildings Do you see all these things he asked truly? I tell you not one stone here will be left on another every one will be thrown down As Jesus was sitting on the Mount of Olives disciples came in privately tell us they said When will this happen and what will be the sign of your coming? You know the end of the age and then the rest of chapter 24 Jesus gives a lot of the signs a lot of the events It will happen before the second coming before the end of time picking him verse 36 Jesus says but about that day or hour no one knows Not even the angels in heaven. They're not omniscient Know the sun but only the father Therefore keep watch because you do not know what day your Lord will come but understand this If the owner of the house had known at what time of night the thief was coming He would have kept watch Not have let his house be broken into So you also must be ready because the son of man will come in an hour when you do not expect him Which will live as expectant people not as to when he'll come only that He will come He will come Jesus made the same point and a great many of his parables be ready for you do not know at what time Your master will return where to live is expecting people We don't know when he's coming Only that is coming so go your way Live your life and be ready Jesus didn't come back yesterday for his people he didn't come back yesterday in the great second coming He did call yesterday though For people out of the world 1.8 people die every Second of the day 108 people die every minute Just over 6500 people die every hour and just under 6500 people die every hour and just over 155,000 people die every day For them yesterday was the day of reckoning for them yesterday was the day of judgment. I hope they were ready But all my heart. I hope they're ready God takes no pleasure in the death of the wicked neither should we No matter how wicked no matter how evil. I hope they're ready. I hope we're ready. I hope we're ready Just let that young man said to me Friday night. It's all right. I know I'm ready, but You want to be able to live out his life? I want my children to be able to live out their life But I hope we're ready he'll come sometime Either for all of us or for us individually. Are you ready? Bible says it's a point and a man wants to die and after this is the judgment What will you say in that day? Will you talk about your civic involvement your Charitable contributions your church membership you talk about the good things you've done in your life What will you say when you stand before God and he says why would I let you into my heaven? I'm not going to talk to him about being a pastor About being a Christian since I was a teenager. I'm not going to point out to him That I did my best to be a loving and faithful husband to my wife And loving faithful father and my children. I'm not gonna talk about any of those things. I'm going to save him I have received the atoning sacrifice of Christ for my sins. I have nothing to offer you But the blood of Christ was shed for me What's your answer folks in that day are you ready? He will come for all of us or for us individually. He will come And we need to be ready. We need to live as expected people not just as expecting people Look at verse seven when the power of the Holy people has been finally broken All these things will be completed now these words undoubtedly have a final apocalyptic meaning It's not yet cleared to Daniel It's not yet clear to us Whatever they mean in the final analysis God's people we live as broken people doing not We live as broken people verse 10 says many will be purified made spoilers and refine but the wicked will continue to be wicked We are our brothers and sisters. We are people in process None of us have arrived none of us have gotten there where we're all totally spiritual now. We're all totally holy None of us have arrived We're in process of working out our salvation with fear and trembling as the Apostle Paul wrote to the Philippians God is Working out our salvation our sanctification when the sharpest tools he uses in our lives is that of suffering Boy Daniel knew history they're in Babylon. You remember the lions din? I'm sure that was just one episode Shadrani Meshak and a bed to go. They knew about it in the fiery furnace Yeah, he go through the fiery furnace before they were made purified and cleansed and spotless Just have knew about it Sold in a slavery by his brothers. Don't get me wrong. I got two brothers Feel the one of them that ever come to me and say here can be bounding down at worshiping me I would have wanted to sell him into slavery too Then thrown into prison in the dungeon Joseph went through it. You remember Job? Oh, the sufferings of Job and make you sick just to read them about the boils and the swords and I'll stop I know you're thinking about lunch later on I'll stop but you read Job. It's just nauseating what he went through The process of God making him all he could be And I think of someone else who suffered a great deal as well My name is Jesus Do you know the book of Hebrews chapter two says that he was made perfect through suffering? I don't really understand that That's what the Bible says God uses our suffering to make us perfect a first Peter chapter one Peter who would know a lot about suffering First Peter chapter one verse six in this you greatly rejoice Though now for a little while you may have had to suffer a grief in all kinds of trials These have come so that your faith a greater worth and goal which parishes even though refined by fire May be proved genuine may result in praise glory and honor when Jesus Christ is revealed God's people are broken people folks We don't need to come across like we've got it all together like we've arrived Who we think we're kidding? Who we think we're fooling by that? We're not We're broken when the process of being healed Johnny Erickson taught I some of you know she is young lady who had 17 broker neck diving in Chesapeake Bay Has built a great ministry to suffer from people all the world called Johnny and friends. I know Johnny were acquaintances I can't take you to the close friend. I know her Johnny writes in one of her early books. She writes about a global scale of suffering She has everybody in the world has suffered some from the Job's of the world who suffered so greatly To the princess and the palace who gets a hang nail on her pinky Everybody suffered some and Johnny says on the global scale Those who suffered the most whatever level you've suffered you can minister to those who suffered the same as or Less than you have You will not be able to administer those who've suffered more than you have because they will look at you and say you don't know What I'm going through Listen to me. I'll be very transparent with you about something I can talk to people in a wheelchair in a way that most you can't or wouldn't I Can say things to them. I can ask them questions that you wouldn't dare to ask them. It's okay I can talk to people with spinal cord injuries in a way you can't or you wouldn't Did I want this absolutely not? I'd give it up to maybe my mood or well, I have a list But God has used this to allow me to administer to people that I would never be able to administer to it any other way You've got your sufferings too. You've got your physical afflictions. You've got your emotional afflictions. You've got your personal sufferings you didn't want them Now I wouldn't wish them on you, but God will use your sufferings to fit you to make you capable of ministering other people go through this same thing you do We've suffered less God uses our sufferings to purify us to refine us to make us more usable in service Missionary Gregory Fisher In stream west Africa all the continent of Africa what our brothers and sisters have suffered on the continent of Africa mostly at the hands of Muslims Muslim extremists, but others who don't Respect the name of Christ Nigeria and Ethiopia and the Sudan Somalia What our brothers and sisters suffered all over the continent of Africa Gregory Fisher's a missionary there. He was teaching at the West Africa Bible College One day one of his students came up to him and said What will he say when he shouts? What an odd question Pastor Fisher first this on his 416 Says that Christ will descend from heaven with a loud command. I would like to know What will he say when he shouts?
Pastor Fisher thought about all the suffering he had seen For him person what he'd seen in the country of Liberia All the suffering of Christians at the hands of the others the death squads the refugees the poverty Pastor, you have not given me an answer What will he say when he shouts? Enough He will say enough Enough suffering enough poverty enough cruelty enough deprivation enough death Enough time Enough is what he will say When he descends with a shout that time will come ladies and gentlemen one day shout to the Lord all the earth Let's sing well. He's gonna shout back Enough enough time and it's time for me to call and end do it all until then We live as expectant people and his broken people We're also live as wise people. Do you know the contrast here in verse 10 many will be purified may sponsor refine But the wicked will continue to be wicked None of the wicked will understand but those who are wise will understand The wicked are gonna be wicked God's people will purify and refine the wise will understand well I've told you before who are the wise according to the scripture the wise are those who read God's word The young people who just given you a Bible that is made for you is made for middle schoolers There are so many niche Bibles out there There are Bibles for left-handed people who wear polyester and bow on Thursdays There's a Bible for you and you can understand it. I've worked on a lot of my know what I'm talking about the wise Are those who will read God's word who will embrace God's word who will build their lives on God's word Whatever God's word is whatever it says that's what they'll do no matter what the culture tells us The wicked will continue to be wicked. Why because it works for them That's right For the wicked being wicked works for them think of the people we know who are rich and powerful We're not leading God their lives the Bible says that over and over read Psalm 73. Why do the wicked prosper? They do? for a time And one day all their money all the riches and all their fame and all the power and prestige will mean nothing Because it's all gonna burn And that day the only thing that will mean anything is Christ and what is done for him Does this mean we give up on them? No? We'll give up on them. We pray for them. We minister to them. We seek to reach out to them in Christ's name But just maybe we keep it in perspective God's people will never be the majority of ladies and gentlemen We will never be the majority. We're never gonna be popular The culture at large the gospel is countercultural. There will always be a threat to those in power They're never going to really like us Number of years ago I had the privilege of leading a Bible say out of the Lipton Nasdaq Sony Ericsson whatever it is now tennis tournament. I don't keep this game What is it now the Ericsson? What is it? Sony, okay that one I don't remember what it was then But I had the privilege of going out there and leading a Bible study for some of Christian tennis players There are a number of them there most of them you would never have heard of I hadn't heard of a number of them I used to follow tennis don't much anymore Michael Chang you remember Michael Chang Great great player of the 80s and early 90s May remember the match he played against Devon Lendel at the French open in 1989 where he got this horrible leg cramps Kept out there and eventually won the match with the gutsy as performances I've ever seen on a tennis court I had a chance to tell them and I had a chance to tell Michael Chang They're never going to accept us. They're never going to understand. Is there ever going to like us? Don't worry about it. Just do what you do and be faithful where you are Folks, they're never going to think we're cool. They're never going to think we're all right What we believe is in the front to the status quo And if you're goal in life especially young people if your goal in life is to fit in be accepted Forget about being a Christian Because it's not going to happen But if you're goal in life is to be faithful to Christ Then let the popularity chips fall where they may Culture may not understand but God will call you approved would be wise people in an evil world In the court in scripture the one who's wise and tends to the word of God Molds his life around the word of God allows the word of God to mold his life and builds his life on the solid rock We're to be expecting people broken people wise people finally we're to be hopeful people How long will it be before these astonishing things are fulfilled? Angels say we don't know the time times half a time He talks about this from the time that the daily sacrifices abolished the abomination of the causative desolation set up Certainly looks like he's talking about any akas epiphanies in 168 when see 7bc Then Jesus says there'll be another one. He talks about the 1,290 days and the 1,335 days No one is ever really successfully reconciled those numbers no matter what system you use. It's always something sticking out of it We don't know what it means. We just know I don't know when he's coming. We know he is coming as for you go your way till the end You will rest and at the end of your days you will rise to receive your lot of inheritance when the clearest prophecies or predictions Scriptural teachings of the resurrection in the entire Old Testament. So what does it all mean? Well, we don't know in terms of the details Hope you pick that up in the book of day, and we don't know in terms of details We don't know the time and the dates and the epics and the eras in the events You just know he will come and know a man who is in a very dangerous Volatile place he lives under a monarchy I don't know how he doesn't that's quite a statement forgot to lose a Miami This man lives in a very dangerous very volatile place for security reasons. I have to be vague about where it is His large family loves his wife. He loves his children dearly and one time He had lead them to go on an extended trip and so He couldn't tell them exactly how long he's gonna be gone He couldn't tell them exactly where he was gonna be He just told his wife and he knew he was gonna be rough for them for her for the kids He told her that He might be gone a while and that She might be tempted to be unfaithful to him Others might come along and try to seduce her away and temper away from being Faithful to him to that he said I want you to be true to me no matter what and matter how long it takes because when I return Now look in your eyes I want to see honor and respect and glory not shame He called his children together. He told them to he said I have to leave you for a while I can't tell you how long it's gonna be and they're very upset They want to know how long they want to know When he would be coming back what the signs would be for his return He said I cannot tell you exactly how long it will be or what the signs will be But he said people are gonna come along the side doing they're gonna tell you to doubt me They're gonna tell you that I'm not real. They're gonna tell you that forget about me They're gonna tell you that I'm not coming back. They're gonna tell you. I don't love you They're gonna tell you all kinds of things. But I want you to remember that you've heard this for me So once you remember that I love you I Love you more than my very life. I would lay my life down for you I want you to remember I have never ever lied to you And I will be back and until I come back. I want you to remember I want you to remember whose name you carry. I want you to live a life There's a credit to that name and I want you to remember above all That I love you more than my own life and of course this kids were upset That's all kinds of questions where you going along it's gonna be Well, you're right when you call. He said I'm gonna leave you a number of letters I'm gonna leave you a number of letters. They'll tell you how you're gonna live your life How do you how you're to conduct yourself while I'm gone? But don't you ever forget how much I love you and I'm coming back for you
Gabriel blow your horn Let's pray together Father, we have looked this morning into some of the deepest grandest mysteries and all of scripture and we want to know we want the details We want to know exactly what the signs are exactly what the time table is gonna be we want the inside knowledge So that we're ready when you come back Lord. We don't know you're not gonna tell us you think we don't understand that by now Oh father make us ready That when you do return When Jesus comes back for his people when he looks into the eyes of his bride and calls his children to himself And he sees not shame but honor and glory in our eyes
Till that time help us to go our way and be faithful to you in Jesus name
Thank you again for being with us today. We're seeing how the Lord's benediction Through now the love of God the Father the grace and mercy of God the Son the fellowship and companionship of God the Holy Spirit and live the life