for all that is in the heavens and in the earth is thine. Thine is the kingdom, O Lord, and thou art exalted as head above all. Both riches and honor come of thee, and thou reignest over all, and in thine hand is power and might, and in thine hand it is to make great and to give strength unto all. Now therefore, our God, we thank thee and praise thy glorious name. Shall we join together in singing praise this morning to our wonderful God. Page 34, how great thou art. Standing as we sing, page 34. ♪ And I'll tell you how I feel ♪ ♪ I'll sing a song, I'll be a rolling thunder ♪ ♪ I'll love the crowd, I'll do my best to play ♪ ♪ And in my song, I'll say it loud and clear ♪ ♪ I'll bring out all my heart ♪ I sing my song, I sing the free. ♪ In a world that's always been a wonder ♪ ♪ When in a way it seems to keep us free ♪ ♪ We've been on this path for long and now it's grander ♪ I'll break the wall. I'll break the wall. ♪ I'll bring you home, I'll bring you home ♪ ♪ When I think that my son loves Mary ♪ ♪ Send him to God my tears to weep ♪ ♪ When on the cross I heard him calling Mary ♪ ♪ I'll pray the Lord, I'll pray the Lord ♪ ♪ He'll sing my song, my Savior love to me ♪ ♪ I'll pray the Lord, I'll pray the Lord ♪ But I shall know my God, and I shall fly, free from all evil vision, and never wake, I know I'll break the law. And take my soul, and I take it not away, I'll break the law. A father in heaven. We just come to you this morning to pray for the words of the psalmist who said, I will lift up my eyes unto the hill and come with my help. My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth. And Father, we just thank you this morning for the opportunity to worship you in a church that is located partway up a hill that has been referred to as Strategia Hill. And when we look to the top of the hill, we can see, on top of the cathedral building, a large cross that can be seen from great distance away. Father, we just thank you also that we, as we worship you this morning, that we can see the cross, stained glass windows at the front of us. Thank you. And Father, we just thank you for the cross, and what the cross means to your faith. During our service this morning, Father, we pray that we would keep our eyes fixed Thank you. You may be seated. Are you ready? This is announcement time. Next week is Homecoming Sunday. Exciting day. Now listen carefully please if you will. How many of you have a clock at home? How many of you have a watch? Nobody. We're in trouble. How many of you get your time by listening to the radio? Now what happens next Saturday night at the next Saturday night two o'clock in the morning? Don't forget to turn your clocks back. I love it. Homecoming Sunday is a delight because we get an extra hour sleep that night. That is, if we remember to put our clocks back. If not, you'll show up an hour early and everything will be fine. So now, remember that next week is the time to set your clocks back. And if you will, remember that. Now, Homecoming Sunday. Since you get an extra hour, how many can come early next week? Oh, that'll be a little early. So please, try to be here by 9.30. Now, we're going to do things a little differently, Lord willing. Dr. Jones, Dr. Bob Jones III, is going to be our guest speaker for the occasion. And on this trip, his wife is with him again. So, ladies, you want to listen to her again, don't you? So we'll have Mrs. Jones, Bennet Jones, to speak to the ladies in the chapel. And the men are going to meet on the top of the steeple. Not really. We don't know where the men are going to meet yet. We probably will be meeting in here with the men and Dr. Bob will speak to the men for the Sunday school hour. Come early next week, if you will, please. And we're looking forward to a great time now. If you're inviting guests, don't forget to tell them about the parking next door. so that if they come and don't find a parking place, they go over there and we'll validate their parking. So if you have guests that are driving in, be sure to encourage them to park in the hotel parking lot if they can't find a parking place right near here. So at any rate, if you will, please let your guests know about the parking arrangements because that will save a lot of frustration for those that are coming and looking for a place to park. Did you fill this out last week? If you did not, do so please today. This is reservation for dinner. Now we have some that don't know whether they want pork or chicken. At least they didn't indicate. And the cooks would like to know. And we are delighted that instead of bringing food to this year, under the direction of At McGillans, there are a group of folks from our church that are going to prepare the dinner and serve it. And we are appreciative and grateful. And in order to take care of the expense, since we don't have to cook, it's, we need $10 for adults, $5 for children, 5 to 15 years. And of course, guests come without charge. Do not mention a thing about this next week. We're not going to say a thing about this. This is a family affair, okay? We take care of the bills and our guests come as our guests. And they come freely. So there'll be none of these envelopes out next week. So take care of this this week, if you will. Please have just a good number to sign up last week. And they want to be sure that all of you sign up. Now the pork loin, I understand, is like the beef tenderloin. It's supposed to be the best part of the pork. That's what I understand. And they have a way to They're gonna bake it, they're gonna marinate it, and they're gonna make it, I understand, delicious. It's my understanding that, mmm, we're gonna smell that all during the morning service and wish we were down there. And it's my understanding that they have a special recipe and it's gonna be wonderful. Now the chicken, that comes in too. I don't know what they're gonna do with this chicken. I saw them chasing chickens down the alley. I don't know if they've caught all the chickens yet. But at any rate, why, if you like chicken, let them know about the chicken. And so, if you'd like, please indicate on, on the envelope, if you will, today. Please put these in the off, in plate if it comes your way, if you will. One other item, or two other items for homecoming. Just a number of items. By the way, take this flyer and use it as an invitation to invite folks to come. This again is a, an unusually fine opportunity to invite others to be your guests. We, uh, have need for cleanup afterwards. And, uh, Brother Bill Cockapit, uh, is, um, uh, in charge of this. And, uh, he would like at least a dozen or so folks to help him in this endeavor. And I think that some of you would be delighted to do so. So if you can help Brother Bill Cockapit, uh, uh, please, on the back of your registration card, on the front put your name, and on the back just put cleanup. And when we see the word cleanup, we'll know that you volunteered and then we'll give the packet a list of names that come in by way of the registration cards. Help us please with that, if you will. I don't know what the Decorating Committee is going to do with these pictures. They're going to do something with them. I have no idea. They have not called me. I have not asked. But they would like pictures and so please take care of that today. That'll make today more interesting. We are looking forward to just a marvelous, delightful time next week. Book of the month, what the Bible really says about angels. This will be a real help to you if you're interested in this subject. There is a lot of speculation about that subject all over the place, and some books that are not so good on the subject. And so that will help you. And then finally, and I think there is, well, it's not listed yet in the coming events, We're going to be having a get-together with those who are interested in Awanas, especially parents and children coming up. And those who will work with the program are interested, please fill this sheet out and give us that information today, please, if you will. Tonight is fellowship night, so plan ahead, if you will, to have fellowship with someone. following the evening service. Notice that we have coming up for November 8 and 9, the Northern California Fundamental Baptist Fellowship meeting. I hope to have information in the bulletin, but we don't. As soon as we can, we'll have some detailed information. It will be held in Hollister. There are special hotel arrangements made for special rates. And just a fine slate of speakers. Among them, Dr. Jim Binney. who has been here several times, and he's going to be one of the speakers, and we're going to have one or two speakers from Northland Baptist Bible College, and just a delightful roster of speakers. Dr. David Sproul, who is head of International Baptist Missions, is the director, will be there as one of the speakers. looking forward to a marvelous time of fellowship with other fundamental Baptists from around across the northern part of our state. So those dates are included in the looking ahead. We have some other items in there also. As the ushers come, we take this opportunity to welcome those who are guests in the service for the very first time. If you're here as a guest for the very first time, As you lift your hand way up high, our ushers have for you a welcome folder and the registration card they'd like you to receive. Thank you so much for coming. It is a pleasure to welcome you. You'll find on the enclosed registration card a little red rose bud. If you would, we'd like you to put that on your shirt or blouse or lapel so that our folks might recognize and welcome you in a special way, after the service especially. And then if you would, we'd appreciate very much you filling out the registration cards and placing them in the offering plate as it comes your way in just a moment or two. So the Lord is good. This is the Lord's day. This is indeed the day which the Lord has made. So what should we do about it? Rejoice and be glad in it. And indeed, it's wonderful to know the Lord, to be a child of God. Tonight, I'm going to talk a little bit about some of the fear and the trauma that's going on in our country. And we're going to look at some scripture as to what we anticipate in days to come. If Americans are traumatized by what we see today, the old fellow said, they ain't seen nothing yet. When you read your Bibles and see what's coming down the road prophetically, it is something that ought to stir our hearts to evangelism and reaching people for Christ in the day in which we live. So tonight we'll bring a special message and then we'll continue our other series after homecoming. But these are days in which we need to be in prayer. Hearts are open to the gospel in a way they haven't been for a long time. and we need to ask the dear Lord to give us opportunities to witness and to lend people to Christ in these days. Asher, come please, if you will. Wait on us for our tithes and our offerings. How are you doing today? How many of you still alive? Able to sit up, take nourishment? That's about three of you. I'll put in a call to all robbers. We'll have a healing meeting afterwards. I've got some things taken care of here. That's great. Blessed Lord, such a good God you are, such a great God you are, such a faithful God you are, such a generous God you are. You have filled our lives. beyond what we're able to receive. We are grateful. God, we thank you for the wonderful supply you've made for the ministries of this church, for the faithfulness of your people, their boldness in the matter of giving. Dear Lord, will you continue now in a way beyond all human expectation to enlarge the borders of this ministry To that end, we give of these tithes and offerings in Jesus' name. Amen. All the way, my Savior leads me. Lord of all, you watch beside. God, I die. I know what there before me Jesus knew and all things were. ♪ Jesus knoweth all things well ♪ ♪ All the way my Savior leads me ♪ ♪ Tears each night He feeds my prayer ♪ ♪ Gives me peace for every trial ♪ ♪ Leads me in the living prayer ♪ ♪ Only there is peace without a doubt ♪ ♪ On my soul a thirst may be ♪ ♪ As in death the rock before me ♪ ♪ Noah's ring of joy I see ♪ ♪ As in death the rock before me ♪ ♪ Noah's ring of joy I see ♪ ♪ What is love is love ♪ ♪ Perfect rest to me is promised ♪ ♪ In my Father's house of God ♪ ♪ When my spirit moves before God ♪ ♪ Means it's quiet for lots of days ♪ ♪ This Christ's love through endless ages ♪ Good morning. Before we have our scripture reading this morning, Brother Dia has asked that I give a brief report on the quarterly meeting that we just had last Wednesday so that the rest of the congregation could be informed, because I know and we know that not everybody gets a chance to be able to go to the Wednesday evening quarterly meeting. So the issue of giving that Pastor just prayed about has been something really very much on our minds. And we have been congregation blessed in many ways. Those of you that have been around for some time can remember having prayed through building out the beautiful courtyard and garden area that we have out there when it didn't seem that the congregation was big enough or had enough income to be able to support such a thing. And just a couple of years ago, we put a new roof on this building. It's a very big project that, again, we couldn't imagine that we wouldn't be in debt for a very long time for undertaking such a large project. So I'm to report to you today that all of these projects are fully paid for. The church is fully in the black. We have cash in the bank. Never, from the point of view of the budget committee, quite enough to feel comfortable. But the Lord, I don't think, wants us to feel comfortable. He wants us to rely on him. But we do have a quick report that I want to let you know about. In the interior of your bulletin weekly, we report the figures as accurately as we have them at that time. in two fundamental columns, one that says needed to date and the other one that says provided. And as you can see, the bigger budget being the general fund, we are very close between the needed to date and provided. And some of the other areas we have a little bit of catching up to do as we get to the end of the year. But we have realized an unusual expense coming into the end of the year to complete a computer project. So the actual need that we will have, that will seem to be short, is around $15,000 between now and year-end. So the request of the Budget Committee and of our pastoral staff is that, A, we pray. That we pray about God providing the funds necessary to bring us all the way in line to the end of the year. and that if the Lord provided you with a blessing that you could not expect, that perhaps this could be an area that you might pray about and find a way to be able to help along with this shortfall. The shortfall was caused because of yet another blessing, and that is that we have expanded the ministry of this church by hiring some wonderfully competent and marvelously blessed people that have been a real blessing for all of us. And as a function of that expanded ministry, we have an expanded need for technology and computers that we've recently purchased. They've all been fully paid for, borrowing against our reserve. So I wanted to let you know about that. And this is as much as you usually ever hear from the pulpit about these things. But we'll try to keep you appraised of these things, because we do think it's important that God's people understand where the needs are and get this articulated to you from time to time. So pray about it. And let's see if we can get through this year, the conclusion of this year, and have all of these bills fully paid for within our budget for 2009. So anyway, I thank you for your indulgence through that. And if you have any questions, as always, about any of these issues, Our books are always open. You're welcome to talk to Patrick Gia, me, the pastor, Dr. Kelly about these things, and we're happy to let you know what we know as these things come about. Thank you very much. Now, on to scripture reading for today. If you will turn in your Bibles, please, to the Book of Matthew, the Gospel of Matthew. We'll be reading responsibly in chapter 24, beginning in verse 37. We'll begin in verse 37 and conclude at the end of the chapter in verse 51. If you have a Bible with you, if you take that out, or the one in the Q rack just in front of you, turn to the Gospel of Matthew, chapter 24, please. Look for verse 37, and once you find that, let's stand together as we read God's word. Matthew 24, verses 37-51. But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. Or as in the days that were before the flood, they were eating and drinking, marrying and giving in marriage, until the day that Noah entered into the ark. And knew not until the flood came and took them all away, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. Then shall two be in the field, the one shall be taken and the other left. Two women shall be grinding at the mill, the one shall be taken and the other left. Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. But know this, that if the good man of the house had known in what watch the thief would come, he would have watched, and would not have suffered his house to be broken up. Therefore be ye also ready, for in such an hour as ye think not, the Son of Man cometh. who then is a faithful and wise servant, whom his Lord hath made ruler over his household to give them meat in due season. Blessed is that servant whom his Lord, when he cometh, shall find so doing. Verily I say unto you, that he shall make him ruler over all his goods. But any of that evil servant shall say in his heart, my Lord, delayeth his coming. and shall begin to smite his fellow servants, and to eat and drink with the drunken. The Lord of that servant shall come in a day when he looketh not for him, and in an hour that he is not aware of. Verse 51 together, please. And shall guide him asunder, and appoint him with portion with the hypocrites. There shall be weeping and gnashing of teeth. Let's pray together. Our Father in heaven, We pray that we be found faithful and wise as this servant in this passage of scripture. Lord, prepare our hearts and minds to make us ever watchful. Direct even now this day new hearts and minds to listen and to hear your voice and respond to you. Lord, we are in an hour of great need in our lives and the life of our country. We pray, our God, that you might give great wisdom to the leadership of this country at this time. We realize now, as perhaps we have not realized so very recently, that we are ever dependent upon your grace, your mercy, and your protection. We pray, Lord, for protection and the watchfulness over our troops as they are so far away, as they seek to protect the liberties of our country. We pray, our God, that you protect these men and women, make them wise. Lord, we pray for these people that have been displaced in these lands, that you might protect them as the winter approaches. Lord, we are a sinful people here and around the world. We need your grace, we need your mercy, as we always have. Let us see ourselves, Lord, as we are, people in great need of the grace, mercy, and long-suffering of the God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob. We thank you, our God, that we have a great and real high priest who is ever before you in our Lord Jesus Christ. Turn our heads and eyes, hearts, toward him. Turn hearts everywhere toward him as we seek you in this day. We pray in Jesus' name, amen. Please be seated. Oh, bless the Lord and praise Him, my soul and all within. Who pardons my transgressions and takes away my sins. to crown thy life with goodness, with mercy, love, and truth. Renewing thy feet o'er the river of thy youth, O bless Let the Lord, O my soul. Let the Lord and praise Him, exalt His holy name. The joy of His salvation is here for today. ♪ How kind is he and gracious to all the poor of bread ♪ ♪ He really finds a father and gives his children bread ♪ ♪ Oh bless the Lord, oh bless the Lord, oh bless the Lord ♪ O bless the Lord, O my soul. O bless the Lord, and praise Him, The angel hosts that stand, With praises hailed before Him, O hail with peace command. ♪ Heaven and earth adore him ♪ ♪ O bless the Lord, my soul ♪ ♪ O bless the Lord ♪ ♪ O bless the Lord ♪ ♪ O bless the Lord and praise him ♪ ♪ Praise God, his holy name ♪ O bless the Lord, O bless the Lord, O my soul. O bless the Lord, O my soul. so so so Would you please stand together. Give a smile and a handshake and a word of introduction and welcome to those around you. so Remain standing please if you will and in your hymn books turn to a marvelous hymn, hymn number 207. Now this is a hymn that is not as familiar as many, hymn number 207. But it is a song that was written with the truth in mind about which the message is centered this morning, or in which the message is centered this morning, was last Sunday morning, Christ Lives in Me. I'm in Christ. Christ is in me. And just a marvelous, wonderful truth. And you'll notice the stanzas kind of try to give illustrations of how this is. It's kind of hard to capture this thing properly, but the songwriter had this in mind, and so note carefully the message of this song, singing all four stanzas together, please. ♪ O come, O come, all ye faithful, ♪ ♪ Joyful and triumphant, sing. ♪ ♪ O come, O come, all ye faithful, ♪ ♪ And God is living in me ♪ ♪ And God is living in me ♪ ♪ And God is living in me ♪ ♪ Oh what a salvation this ♪ ♪ And God is living in me ♪ ♪ Praise the light of God in the sky ♪ O'er the land of the free and the home of the brave? ♪ And rise vividly free ♪ ♪ Toilets of love and liberty ♪ ♪ As in the home of the free ♪ ♪ So praise the God of truth and grace ♪ ♪ We share in love and peace ♪ Christ will live in me. Christ will live in me. ♪ And Christ with me be ♪ ♪ Walking on my life's hill ♪ ♪ And I believe ♪ ♪ That on the wondrous road I come ♪ ♪ With Christ with me be ♪ ♪ Christ with me be ♪ ♪ Christ in me ♪ ♪ Oh what a salvation this ♪ ♪ That Christ in me ♪ I read that song that for the first time. It's a wonderful song. Marvelous hymn, and there are a lot of hymns that we ought to sing. We're gonna sing that chorus one more time. Now the wonderful thing about it is that We also have religion. Christianity and religion are two different things. We are not people who are striving to be good enough to get to heaven. We are not people who are part of a religious organization that is sacramental. Our salvation, our transform life all into the person of Jesus Christ. He lives in us. He's a part of our life. He is our life. We don't get Jesus from within to give you eternal life. He is our eternal life. Christ lives in me. He is my friend. He is my resource for all of us. Christ lives in me. I live in you. Sing that chorus one more time. Christ lives in me. Christ lives in me. Oh, what a salvation this. And Christ lives in me. Now don't close your mouth yet. What did Jesus say? He said I will I will only leave you when the glory comes. I will only leave you when the glory comes. I will only sometimes leave you. I'll help you out. What do you say? I will never leave you. I will never leave you. And I will leave you as soon as the glory comes. I will appear. The Lord is mine. And so, friends, listen to me for how long listen to me. Rise with me. Rise with me. Subject of our union with Jesus Christ, our living union with Jesus Christ, We have a living, vital connection, a joint life with Christ that is affected or takes place or is effective the moment we receive him. And by this living, vital relationship with Jesus Christ, his life imparts to us all that he is and all that he has done and all that he does. Well, quite a while on that good text in 1 Corinthians, as in Adam all die. Even so, in Christ shall all be made alive. Turn there one more time because I want to punch that button a couple more times in your heart and in your mind. 1 Corinthians 15 and verse number 22. 1 Corinthians 15 and verse number 22. Again, we have this preposition, in, in Adam, in Christ. Notice those two statements, as in Adam, even so, also in Christ. In Adam, in Christ, as in Adam all die, in Christ all will be made alive. And this, of course, again, is tied to the beginning of this chapter. This is the great triumph of the gospel of Jesus Christ. no longer terrorizes the believer. Death can do nothing to separate us from God. Death does the opposite of separating us from God. If we're a believing child of God, death brings us into the presence of God. Death is no longer our enemy. Death is our servant. Death serves us. It brings us into the delightful, glorious, wonderful presence of the living God. Now, that's the truth of the gospel. I don't just escape hell. I get to go see God. And Adam, all die in Christ. All will be made alive. I think that most of us can identify with Adam. I don't think we have much difficulty in knowing that it is a historical, biological fact that you and I have a living relationship with Adam. Though he is dead, the blood that flows in our veins has life that was transferred to us through many generations directly from Adam. All of us have within us that same life, Adam's life. No matter where you were born, It doesn't matter the color of your skin, the color of your eyes, the color of your hair. It doesn't matter whether you're male or female. None of this makes any difference. Every last one of us has within our blood, our veins, flowing life that was transferred to us directly from and existed literally and biologically in Adam. The life has never died. Now, our parents died, but the life is still living in us, and we pass it to our children. So I think that most of us have no trouble identifying with the fact that we got our life from Adam, huh? We have a living, biological, genetic connection to Adam. Correct? And how many of you feel like you were a child of Adam? I don't feel like it. Am anyway. Wish I wasn't. But I am anyway. Now, notice in Christ. See, we can identify quite easily that we're in Adam. And that shows up, as we said last Sunday, the moment we're born. They make it go astray from the womb, the psalmist wrote. They're speaking lies as soon as they're born. They don't tell lies in language that they haven't learned yet. They do it in baby language. They lie. They lie about They lie and say, I'm hurting, pick me up. They're not hurting, they just want to be picked up. They're lying. They want you to think that there's something wrong with them. There's nothing wrong with them. And if you're the sucker that bites on that one, you're in for a hard time as a mother. Now, so we can identify, I think, quite readily the fact that we're an atom. We are offspring from atoms. But this idea of the fact that we are in Christ, that is hardening. That to us becomes a symbolic, theoretic kind of thing. But dear people, living in me today, and if you're a believing child of God, living in you today literally is the person of Jesus Christ. Just as literally you have his life as you have Adam's life. Just as literally as you have a connection to Adam, you have a connection with Jesus Christ. One is just as true as the other. You say I don't feel like it, it doesn't matter what you feel like.