But he stayed on the cross and he didn't come down Often I stop to think just where I'd be Had Jesus come down from that cruel tree There'd be no hope for man, no peace could be found Praise God, I'm glad that he didn't come down. He didn't come down. Oh no, he didn't come down. Ten thousand angels were kept all around. He could have called them to set him free. But he stayed on the cross for you and for me. Picture his mother there with tears in her eyes as they mocked and scorned him. and pierced his side. They said, if thou be king, then come to the ground. But he prayed, forgive them. And he didn't come down. He didn't come down. Oh, no. He didn't come down. 10,000 angels were kept all around. He could have called them. to set him free. But he stayed on the cross for you and for me. He didn't come down, oh no, he didn't come down. Ten thousand angels were kept all around. He could have called them to set him free. ♪ But He stayed on the cross and He didn't come down ♪ Amen. 500 calls comes every 30 days from little girls and parents like these right here that we cannot take. 6,000 calls a year the way they come now. of people that we have no room for. We're building buildings. And I hope when you go by the booth, you'll talk to some of the workers. I want to speak tonight from 2 Samuel chapter 23. 2 Samuel chapter 23. Dr. Hudson made mention tonight, whom I love dearly, he made mention tonight and something about his graduation service. And far as I'm concerned, if he happens to go, he's mighty close to valedictorian in the ministry. He'll graduate with honors, but I don't want you running off and leaving the rest of us in the fix we're in. You just stay around, brother. We need every soldier we can get now for the next little while. In this second chapter, or second book of Samuel, chapter 23, has recorded a man that stood. And I guess if I were to ever die, which it'll be a surprise to me if I do, but of course I've never made any plans to die. You get saved, you don't have to plan to die, just plan to live. Be a waste of my time arranging a funeral service when I don't expect one. And Dr. Robertson, I don't want him to ever die either. I really don't. I want him to, I tell you, I've been going up there for I don't know how many years and what a tremendous time. And I can't imagine from the first time over a quarter of a century ago when I went there, they've grown every year, every year. Many of our students are there and they've loved them and helped them. Bunch of them sitting out here tonight in the services that they took right in. And they graduated, have their homes and ministries and churches. A number of our boys, I don't know how many are here tonight, that graduated from Tennessee Temple. And one of the most beautiful sights I ever saw was all the students that stood a while ago that's been through that school. And practice, I mean, you just don't know of many students ever that go through that school that ever fail God. Some of them might do a little better than others, but they stand. I was in the church yesterday, couldn't all get in, 200 couldn't get in last night, and everything they got, graduated in Tennessee Temple. I mean, all the workers, everybody around there. Thank God for good Christian schools. Tonight, I wanna speak with you a little while on, are you willing to stand? If I were to die, if I knew I was gonna die, and somebody said, before you die, you've got to write an epitaph for your own tombstone, it's essential, and the Lord said, you've got to do it, it'd be in my text tonight. Verse 12, I wouldn't put but two words. and then ask the Lord to forgive me if it wasn't so, but this is what I'd want to be so. He stood. That's it. He stood. And not a matter of standing, but he's standing where y'all stand. Margaret Slattery took a little crippled boy I often think of this because we work with many crippled Mephibosheths from down in the land of Lodibar and we live in the land of Gadara and work with crazy people, young people whose minds are gone, men and women whose minds are gone and lives have been wasted. Margaret Slatter picked up a little crippled boy and she loved him. And she said, though he's never walked, I believe that modern science and my money can make him walk. And she realized her goal. That little boy, after many operations and much therapy and many treatments, began to walk and even began to run and play like other boys. But oh, the heartache and grief, she said. After he became a grown boy, he went wrong, fell into deep sin, went away to the penitentiary. Margaret's flattery with a tear in her heart said, you know, I taught that little boy to walk, but I didn't teach him where to walk. Folks, we've got to teach people where to walk. Now the just shall walk by faith. In this chapter, if you were to read the 10th verse of the 23rd chapter, second time, he rose and smote the Philistines, till his hand was weary, and his hand clave unto the sword. As you picture, that'll make you stand. If you'll stick to this book till it sticks to you, He fought so hard that when he got through fighting, he had to call a fellow soldier and said, pry my fingers loose from that old sword. I can't get loose from it. Show me a bunch of preachers that'll stick to the book like that. God will give the victory. People drive across and fly across the United States to say, Brother Olaf, we've come to look into your homes and we want to know your therapy. I hold up this old book and I said, King James Version. That's all I've ever told them. Every time I go to court and every time the press conference and every time the news cameras and the television cameras flash at me, I throw up an old book. That's what the fight's all about. Come out with a little old book where they said, this is your new upgraded rules and regulations. I hold this enough and say, they don't need upgrading. If I had more sermons to preach, I don't preach to any much, but I'd like to preach. I read it this afternoon, and when the preacher got over there, you know, he said, well, there's a dearth, there's a famine, people starving. He said, get out and gather up some herbs. And one old boy, I don't know what seminary he went to, he didn't know a herb from a gourd. He really didn't. Man, he come back with a, the Bible said he had a lap full of gourds. Now in the first place, I don't like that word lap fool. I would rather be pockets full or toe sack full or something. Lap fool, that's kind of like a lady with an apron or something, huh? Must've been a sissy. Man don't care gourd's in the lap. Then he came back and to make matters worse, he shredded him. I mean, he ground them up. And he put them in the stew, or in the soup, the broth, whatever he was gonna have. And of course, with a lot of herb, but the ground up gourds, and they were starving to death, and that bunch of preachers got together and started eating, and they said, whoo, there's death in the pot. Hmm? I got to trying to figure that out, but I don't know how many can figure that out. Maybe you already got it. But you know what I think? I think that gourds represent hard-headed preachers that haven't been trained right. I mean, if you don't get the truth and get your conviction straight, college won't help you. If you don't believe right, you won't behave right. We talk about behavior. Brother, we better be talking about some believer. Elijah was a man, and I wanna give you two words tonight, maybe three, but I wanna show you something. I'm not to my message yet. but we're running short on principle. Now, that's what the old farmers used to call honesty, just principle. Now, P-R-I-N-C-I-P-L-E, that's important there. Now, without principle, P-L-E, there can be no principle. And without principal, there won't be any interest. A lot of people want the interest. Brother, you better get you some principal together first. And the principal thing is what? Wisdom. God wants to give us wisdom. You don't get it by going to the seminary. You get it by asking God for it. The principal thing is wisdom. After you have principle, then you get principal, and then here comes the interest on your investment. They all three go together. Honesty. You know the difference between a prophet and a manicured minister? I about lost my appetite for that word minister. I wish somebody just accidentally called me a preacher. Somebody walks up, hey preacher, hey, thank you, I like that. Brother, they didn't say you're going to Sunday school, they said you're going to preaching. I believe a revival of old-fashioned gospel preaching would revive and save our nation at least for a while. The difference, between a prophet and a minister. A prophet is against everything, the world says, and the minister is for everything. Would you go to Jeremiah with me a minute? We've lost a word. Here it is, I'm gonna find it. Jeremiah, I wanna show you what God called, oh, I know you like to talk about the weeping prophet, and bless his dear heart, he went to the dungeon. I know, I know, I read that myself. But why? Why you talk about Isaiah, the golden tongue prophet of the Old Testament, and Jeremiah, and Micaiah, and Amos, and all the rest of them? Yes, Jeremiah, God's speaking to him. Chapter one, verse 10. See, I've set, this day set thee over the nations, not over the parish, not over the pastorate, not over the county, not over your end of the town, over the nations. A prophet preaches to the nations. Got a worldwide message. I've set thee this day over the nations, over the kingdom. What you want me to do, Lord? Root out, pull down, destroy, throw down. Are you tired? Well, that's four destructive verbs, isn't it? We'll never have revival. Evangelist Billy Graham makes the statement every once in a while, I've never seen revival. He never will until he learns how to root out, pull down, destroy, and throw down. And that goes for all the rest of you fellas, too. This Norman Vincent Peale, how to win friends and influence people, that's not prophets. That's not prophets. Then he said, after you get all that done, I want you to build and I want you to plant. Chapter one, verse 18. For behold, I have made thee this day, amen, God makes the prophet, I made you a defensive city, and an iron pillar, brazen walls, against the whole land, against the kings of Judah, against the princes thereof, against the priests thereof, against the people of the land, and they shall fight against you, but they're not gonna win. I'll tell you another thing, different between a minister maybe a successful Hollywood evangelist and a prophet, the Chamber of Commerce will meet the manicured minister, popular evangelist at the airport, and the sheriff will meet the prophet. Yes. I wanna ask you a question. Have you ever heard anybody preach on where's the Lord God of Elijah? And then you heard somebody preach on where is Elijah the Lord God? You've heard that, haven't you? I wanna ask a question tonight to the ladies that are here. You're gonna be having your meetings and so forth. Where's Vashti tonight? Preach a sermon on that sometime. Try to locate Vashti. Oh, you'd say, well, that's the one that old Ahasuerus, he changed queens. No, she changed kings. She's one of the unsung heroines of the Bible. That drunkard bunch of outfits said, we'd like to see the beauty of your wife. And he said, of course. Call for Vashti, and Vashti said, you tell the king I won't be showing up. I will not be on exhibit tonight for a bunch of drunks. She'd changed kings. There was a king higher than the king. A lot of questions we could ask tonight. Where? or the Amos'. Where are the Elijahs? Where's Daniel tonight? Where's Shadrach? You know, a lot of people, I think back in Daniel's day, they said, now, Daniel, you're one of the smartest boys we've got. The king's very fond of you, and your diet has been successful. You're wiser, in better shape. came over here as a captured Jew boy, and you stood, and you didn't drink the king's wine, and you didn't eat his grease, and now then, here you are, fixing to wind it up. How foolish can a boy be? Daniel, listen to me. I'm sure maybe males are. Some of the rest of the fellows admired Daniel, and they passed a law against praying, isn't that silly? I didn't faze Daniel, but you know he had a friend or two, not too many, but he had some. They sat down, I hate to say you do that. It looks like anybody could go 30 days without praying. Daniel said, I couldn't. You know, I've been on instruments a lot the last few years and every once in a while you'd be up going across maybe some seem like forsaken place and the center will say 208 Echo. I said, yes, go ahead. Radar contact lost. That means he don't see me. And I know I don't see him. I saw a lonely feeling some night, one or two or three o'clock in the morning, flying across the country, maybe across the mountains. But there's one thing worse than that, boys. And that's when I lose radar contact with him. Listen, you don't bother me a great deal. But oh, if I get out of Kelter, and if the Lord is slow to answer and says, son, You got some repair work to do. You got some confessing, repenting to do. Anything that'll break your fellowship will ruin your ministry. Brother Bob said a while ago, and I've been with him 17 Januaries, and through some difficult places with him. Love him, I guess more than I love either one of my two brothers. But dear friend, when your fellowship is broken, and when you lose your desire to live for others, when he got up and said what he did, I thought of the colored maid, Billy. We called him in as we did every morning or most of the mornings back at Second Baptist. And we said, we'll read a while and pray. It came Billy's time to pray. She'd been running the sweeper and cleaning the kitchen and so forth. And when she knelt down to pray, these are the words I heard her say, and he reminded me. Lord, help me live from day to day in such a forgetful way that even when I kneel down to pray. My prayer shall be for others. Others, Lord, yes, others. Let this my motto be, help me to live for others that I may live like Thee. Ain't no way to live. for others unless we live for him and you can't live for him without living. A lot of people think God needs some help. He doesn't need any help. The modernist spends his time apologizing and trying to prop God up. He's in good shape tonight. Abraham and Sarah got in Ishmaelite trouble, didn't they? when they decided to help the Lord out. You know why? They interpreted God in the light of their physical difficulties. Sarah said, honey, it's too late now. Abraham said, amen. They both agreed. They both agreed. Brother, it's never too late for God to do what he says he's gonna do. Now let me read my text. But he stood, verse 12, in the midst of the ground and defended it and slew the Philistines. And the Lord wrought a great victory. When did God bring about a great victory? It wasn't the man that won the victory. The man did what he was supposed to do. He took the sword till it stuck to him, and then he stood his ground, and then he fought, and he fought the enemy, the Philistines, and God gave the victory. God's mighty wise, but I said reverently tonight with my hat off and my heart humbled before him, As wise as he is, I doubt if he's ever figured out a way to bless a preacher that won't stand. He stood his ground. Azariah stood against Uzziah. To me, that's one of the classic experiences of the Bible. I know of no man in the Bible that exercised more courage than Azariah did. You just don't buck the king after he's been king 52 years. But dear friends, the king was wrong. Let me tell you something. It doesn't make any difference what you're supposed to do. If it's right, do it. You're not to worry about the outcome. Daniel said, well, they said, Daniel, you know, nobody's ever gone to the lion's den and come out alive. He said, that's none of my business. It's my business to go in. Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego, you find, fellows, a trio of great musketeers for God. Why, you're not gonna wind it up like that. Why, sure, you can bow at least to the image of the stake. Can't you do that? They said, no. Well, they said, you're gonna burn? You'll never come out of there. He said, that's none of our business. It's our business to go in. I wish we'd get that straight. You just figure out what's right, and then that's all you're obligated to do, just do what's right. Oh, I never will forget an old preacher. First time I ever had a church in my life. Dr. Robertson reminded me, he's been preaching 50 years. I've been preaching 45. And I preached in a little old church. You talk about dead, that thing was thrice dead. I had an old, one of these old Model A Fords with a mother-in-law seat in the back of it. And I'd visit all, all over that country. And the people, about the time I had them all rounded up, they'd have one of these singing convention and everybody and this dog go to it and leave me standing up there in the pulpit without it. You know what? Some of that stuff they had, not all, but some of that stuff was a sort of a forerunner of this rock business. My pianist had come in that night and she said, I'm dying of a busting headache. Because I had a heartache because they didn't show up that morning. But you know, I got me an old preacher one time, old Dr. J.O. Hearn. He was 70 some, between 75 and 80. I was just, that's my first church. I never had had a church. I didn't know what to do hardly. And I didn't know what to do with the people when they came. I really didn't. That's just, I mean, nobody had told me a good deal about that. And so, and I said, I wrote that old preacher and I said, would you come and help me in my first church? And he said, yes. He, talk about a voice. You talk about a voice. You talk about a built-in PA says he had it. And he came down, he came down. And I never forget one prayer he prayed. He said, Lord, help us to do right. Not because we're afraid we'll go to hell if we don't do right, but because it's right to do right. He got up to preach his first sermon, Prairie Grove, Texas, Limestone County, where my mama and daddy lived, I mean, back in boyhood days. And he got up there, and he took off him old glasses, nearly 80 years old, and he said, now, just because something's found in the Bible, that don't make it so. Oh, brother. I thought I'd, that was my first modernist, I'd never seen one. It scared me. I was sitting right down over there. And I thought, what do you mean? I thought everything in the Bible was so. I'm in genesis to the revelation. I mean, they ordained me to preach and shook that book in my face like a dog shaking a rat and said, listen, you're to take this as your rule for faith and practice, Lester. And I said, yes, sir. And the first preacher I had said, just because you find it in the Bible, that doesn't make it so. He looked at me, I think he saw I was pale. He said he'd have sold for whatever got in the Bible that wouldn't have got in there. Woo, that made me feel better. I'd already had a great meeting, yes. Time would literally overlap me tonight if I tried to tell you the people who stood Moses stood. He had a mother. He gave up the princess for the king of kings. The Bible said he endured because he had invisible glasses. He saw somebody that Pharaoh couldn't see. He spent 80 years of his life in a wilderness, and that's what most of us hate. However prophet had ever amounted anything, had many lonely hours, but sweet times of fellowship with the Lord. Moses probably wouldn't have recognized the burning bush if he hadn't been in the wilderness 40 years. And that's where he got his degree, right there. Met the I Am, and turned him loose on old Pharaoh. He stood. He came down off of the mount after the thunder and the lightning, had an arm loaded, the Word of God. Found that 1977 bunch without any clothes on, marching around the golden calf. And he drew him a line in the sand and said, who's on the Lord's side? Get over here. Bunch of them said, I'm not gonna do it. He said, I'm gonna kill you too. You know, I suppose that the New Testament, under grace and love, won't permit you to kill anybody now. But it never has broke me from wanting to kill a bunch of them. There have been times when I wanted to put on Elijah's robes and get on Mount Carmel with a contest and make a non-profit organization out of Jezebel's profits again. Moses stood, Elijah stood, Hamel stood. Queen Esther stood, said, if I perish, I'll just perish. I'm going to see the king today. If he offers me the scepter, fine, if he doesn't, I'll die with my people, because we're right. The last thing I want to say tonight, and how long it'll take to say it, I don't know. I get through talking about all the Moses and the Elijahs and the Isaiahs and Jeremiahs. And by the time I'm through with them, my shoes are off and my head is bowed. And I praise God for those great men and Matthew, Mark, Luke, and John and Paul who stood. I think I ought to say something because a lot of church members here tonight, It's not just for the preacher to stand, you all stand too. We need a bunch of Aaron's and hers that'll stand. We'd have more Joshua's and we'd have more Moses if we could have the people to stand. Listen, when Paul was stoned to death, possibly, wouldn't make me any difference. I know one thing, he sure went into a bunch of heavens one time, didn't he? He made all three of them. I don't know how many there are, but he made three of them. And he said, where then the body out of the body? I don't know. And he didn't, he was having him a time. You know, your imagination can help you a lot of times. He might've got plumb up to third heaven. I mean, that may have been the top heaven. He's way up there and he's having him a time. And he looked down there and he looked around and wasn't no lost people. Wasn't no revival meeting going on. Wasn't no church to be built, no foundation to be poured. Wasn't no jail to preach in. And he walked up, I think, to the administrator and said, if you don't mind, I'm going back down yonder. Lord, if you'll let me get back that old beat up body down there with all them scars and stripes and blood, I'm ready to go. I'd rather be down there than up here. And then he said, you see, look down yonder. You see all them people standing around me? They're standing. They're praying for me. Here, I'm up here in the third heaven. They're down there praying for me. I'm gonna get on back down there. At least help me answer their prayers. You say that's wild imagination. No, it's not. Brother, let me tell you something. Paul came back. And when they stood around him, they stood around him. He raised up on his elbow and he said, well, he said, loan me a handkerchief somebody. I imagine the devil said, what are you gonna say? He said, I'm not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. I got to get up and go preach it. He stood. But the climax of the ages is just one man. He stood, that's Jesus. Oh, listen, no man ever stood just like Jesus. And here's the thing about it, nobody stood with him. Practically nobody stood with him. Simon Peter betrayed him, denied him. Judas betrayed him. Many went back and walked no more with him. Had a little handful left. When he went to court, he didn't have a lawyer. He didn't have a convert. He didn't have a testimony. Nobody had been healed, came to the courtroom with him. I've spent a lot of my time the last few years in the courtroom. I've heard the judge say, guilty. I find you guilty, contempt of court. I've heard the judge say, $25,000 bond, $23,500 fine. And then I heard his old voice tenderize and say, you know, but I hope these homes can stay open. That's the sweetest word ever had come from a judge. Tears rolled down my face and I said, amen. Last October the 18th, one year ago this month, the Attorney General, Mr. John Hill said, Brother Olaf, you're doing a great work. The girls are wonderful. The boys are wonderful. The facilities are wonderful. The best that I've ever seen. But if you don't come under, and take a license from the state, from the welfare department, July, August, or rather October the 18th will be your Battle of Armageddon. I picked up this old book and tears filled my eyes and I said, General John, you want me to quit the ministry? He said, no, sir. And I don't want to put you in jail anymore. I want you to stay out and help boys and girls the way you've been helping them all these years. But I said, if I come under and give up my book, I'll never preach again. I'll throw it at you. I'll throw it in a garbage can. I'll never read it again. There's only one way to help boys and girls, and that's to brainwash them with King James water. Get out of the way! Jesus stood, he stood as a little boy. I doubt if anybody ever lived knows what he went through as a little boy. Never sinned, never lived like I lived when I was a little boy. Never did the foolish things that I did when I was a little boy. You know, here's what he stood for. Number one, he stood for the Bible. He said, man can't live by bread alone. He told the devil that, didn't he? He just stood for the word of God. The devil said, say, how would you like to have breakfast or dinner on these stones turned into warm bread and little honey from the rock? Well, Jesus was the honey from the rock. I get amused, these smart addicts came up to him and said, where'd you learn your letters? You didn't go to our school. Where'd you learn your alphabet? He said, I am the alphabet. Jesus stood for his word. The only thing he ever put above his name was his word. Psalm 138 verse two, he said to put his word above his name. Did it ever occur to you that Jesus stood for the blood? Did you know the only hope he had for his resurrection was the blood? Did you know the thing that's gonna take me up out of the grave and give me a bodily resurrection gave him one? Read it, it's in Hebrews chapter 13, verse 20, when he was raised by the blood of the everlasting covenant. And if it's everlasting, it's still lasting. Think about it. Jesus Christ, those compassionate weeping eyes had closed, those hands of mercy, that had lifted so many burdens and blessed so many little children as they sat on his knees. Those hands were still and white in death because the blood was gone. Oh, those blessed eyes that had seen so many wonderful sights and yet they're closed in death. Who wrote that song? Aristotle. When our days shall know their number, and in death we sweetly slumber. Me, I'm gonna be wide awake. I don't believe in soul sleep. I don't believe in hauling me off to the cemetery. We got two big cemeteries. They've offered me a big family plot. One right across the street and one across town. How I listen, dear friends. They'll never get me among them holes in the ground. Never! And if I don't beat them all back from the cemetery, there's nothing to me. You can't bury eternal life. You just turn it loose. Ah, listen. I was in the room today thinking and singing. You know one thing about my singing? I sing to myself. I don't just sing when I'm out in public. I don't have much confidence people can't sing till Sunday morning. If you can't sing on Monday morning when the clothesline break, you ain't got nothing. I got to thinking about my mother. No education. Midwife of five mile radius of every time a baby was born, she's there. I'd walk away from the old west porch after I took the run in water. That's what I run in, got and pulled in the old wash pot. Cut up the old homemade lasso. Get my old book sack made out of the cotton sack that I wore out picking cotton. Put them old books in, wrapped up in Waco News Tribune. Walk across my daddy's field, the last thing I'd hear would be my mother. Her voice, when the wind was coming out of the south and following me halfway to school, up to the field. Sweet hour of prayer. Sweet hour of prayer. May I thy consolation share. Brother, she had something on the inside. Didn't have no switch to turn on. She didn't have no electric washer. She manicured her fingernails into a rub board. Singing, singing. Her long hair tied up in a big knot, big old bonded on, but she loved the Lord. She knew how to live, she knew how to take care of her boys. My mother stood, prayed God would lay his hand on this preacher and call him to preach. Jesus stood for the Bible, he stood for the blood, he stood for baptism, he was baptized. He didn't have to get saved, but he set the example. Jesus stood for everything that you and I need to stand for tonight. He stood for the blessed hope and said, I'm coming back again. Receive you unto myself. Yes. I've never been able to preach. In fact, there's only this year I guess I've tried to preach. on his words, hanging on the cross. But this afternoon, it went over him again. Jesus stood until he'd taken care of his mother. He said, woman, there's John, he'll take care of you. He stood. Jesus stood when God didn't stand for him. I don't say that irreverently because God's listening tonight. Jesus stood when there was no Father. There never had been a time in His blessed life when He fell on His knees under the old olive tree anywhere else and said, Father. And the Father opened the drapes of glory and said, Yes, Son, I'm ready to fellowship with you. I miss you, be glad when you get home. Angels would circle all over him to wait upon him. But dear friend, there came a day when Jesus said, my God, why hast thou forsaken? Why? Jesus stood when he didn't have a father. In the morning, I'm gonna refer to that and say some things that the Lord taught me today. Jesus stood when he was thirsty and nobody gave him a drink. I think every cloud in the heavens was begging to bust. I think every spring coming out of the mountains said, if you'll give me a chance, I'll run across the prairie and up the hill. I'll spray water, cold water all over you. You made me to run, the one who dug out the basins of the oceans and all the rest of it, and yet not a drop of water for his swollen lips and parched tongue. Jesus stood. You say, how long did he stand? He stood long enough to say, it's finished. I want to stand that long to the place where I can say, now, Lord, this is it. If I got it all, I don't wanna stop my tractor in the middle of the field. I wanna plow it to the end. I've said a lot of times, and a fellow called me the other day, and he said, now you know, Brother Olaf, and he said, I'm planning to kill you. Oh, I said, that's not nice. I don't mind dying, but I don't want the devil's crowd killing me. And I don't want to give up and get discouraged and whine and pitch a pity party and live in juniper jungle. I don't want to do it. Preachers, we need a new generation of courageous, bold preachers that'll quit whining and complaining and trying to fetch a raise or something else. Brother, do a good job where you are. Win souls. Dr. Robertson, I tell you, to me, he's one of the most consistent men I've ever known. I've never gone there but what is plows in the ground? Never, and moving. I think he's had to play around some stunts, but he didn't stop. I heard one night on the radio, and it shocked me to pieces, Dr. Lee Roberson resigned tonight. Boy, it scared me. I said, what in the world? He just resigned on the outside, on the inside. He never had to resign. Hey, just some people needed waking up over there. And when they found out that their captain was about to stop leading them to Mars, they began to line up. It's amazing how God will help you if you'll just stand and keep the right spirit. Yes, Jesus stood after he died. Will your ministry stand after you die? What'll happen to your church if you just, people say, well, what's gonna happen to enterprises when Brother Roloff dies? Well, forget it. This is not Roloff Enterprises, this is the Lord's work. God knows how, if he could start off like he did yonder about 25 or 30 years ago, he can carry it on there. Somebody take care of all of that. I'm looking for Jesus to come. I may not know the skillful use of the tongue or the pen to prove my Lord's return to unbelieving men. But this I know, oh, he's coming on back again. It's in my heart, down in my heart. And oh joy, oh delight, should he come without dying. No sickness, no dread, no fear and no crying. Just caught up in the clouds with our Lord up in glory when Jesus received His own. Sing it with me. Oh Lord Jesus, how long. Hallelujah! Hallelujah! Amen! Hallelujah! Amen! I'm trying to quit. Someday I'm going to hear those angels singing beyond the shadow of the lonely tomb. ♪ Oh, the bells of heaven, they're gonna be ringing ♪ While the saints are singing home, sweet home. ♪ Someday beyond the reach of mortal kin ♪ Someday God only knows just where and when ♪ The wheels of mortal life they're gonna all stand still. And I shall go to dwell on Zion's hill. Let's stand together with our heads bowed. Maybe this is the most preachers I've ever preached to in one night, until we meet in Dallas on November 1, but tonight, has the Lord dealt with your heart, spoken to you? Will you be one among the many that'll say, yes, I'll stand? I want Brother Terry to lead us in the song, Stand Up, Stand Up for Jesus. He's soldiers of the cross. Lift high his royal banner, it must not suffer. lost from victory. Amen. Not from conquest, but from victory unto victory. His army shall he lead till every foe is vanquished and Christ is Lord. Indeed. While our heads are bowed tonight, has the Lord told you about some decision? Preach it, brother. Did God speak to you about renewing your commission? Should you beat it to the altar on the first stanza and say, Lord, Help me to stand. Our Father, bless and finish the message, and help us to do right in Jesus' name. Amen. Sing, as we sing, what did the Lord say? ♪ Stand up, stand up for Jesus ♪ ♪ By His royal banner ♪ ♪ It must not suffer loss ♪ ♪ From victory unto victory ♪ ♪ His army shall we lead ♪ And Christ is born.