Well, amen. I like it when a plan comes together. Take your Bible and turn to Revelation chapter 19. I have enjoyed this week. Man, to say that almost seems like an injustice because, man, we have had a time. Amen. And y'all that couldn't make it, I'm sorry, but a lot of us could. We had a time. Amen. I've had a great time with these fellows around here and these preachers. I've said it. These guys say it all the time. I believe we're part of the best crowd there is. Twenty-three years traveling around, I've been around them other crowds, and I just don't get along with them. I usually get to meet them. I ended up preaching at all of them before it's over with. But thank God for just old, saved sinners. Amen that no no big shots if you're a big shot in this crowd we have ways of bringing you back down But tonight I want to preach about my favorite subject and that is the Lord Jesus and He is the best there is I Love all the preaching we've heard this week, and it's all different All these fellows are different. Brother Wesley, just loose him and let him go. Amen. Brother Harry, nobody can be like Brother Harry. Amen. Nobody can do that. We can try, but you can't do it. And then Brother Charlie. Amen. Tinney. And then Brother Charlie Andrews. Nobody can be like these fellows. Amen. And I just like it. I like to be around it. I like all kinds. I like them when they're quiet. I like them when they're loud. Amen. I even like the hackers. Amen. My wife said, I'm going to do that one of these days, never more to return. And I like good old-fashioned black preaching. And I've never heard men exalt the Lord Jesus like a spirit-filled black preacher can. And every once in a while, I've got to get my fix on that. Amen. I've heard them preach. I've heard, you know, even in our crowd, some of the preaching gets mundane. But I'm telling you, you don't never go wrong preaching about Him. Amen. He is the best that there is. I've got a preacher I love to listen to out of Atlanta, Georgia. He's gone now, but his name is Jasper Williams. And here not too long ago, I seen a clip, and it was of Malcolm X. And I said, uh-oh, you know, most of those guys are socialistic and they're preaching and all. And I seen in there where the name of the title is, I am Malcolm X. And he preaches this message where he gets up in the pulpit and he said, today I'm going to introduce myself. I am Malcolm X. Nobody says nothing, no amen. He said, today I'm speaking to you from the corridors of hell. He said, I was searching for religion and I found it. He said, I found Islam and it didn't do me right. He said, I found Muhammad And he led me straight to here. He said, I changed my name to X. He said, if I'd only got saved, he would have changed my name. He would have given me a new name written down in glory. But the old creature also has got a message and he's called the best I've ever seen. And what he does is he puts you into a courtroom. And them preachers, they start out real slow. You ever notice how Brother Harry gets up here and, amen, he acts like he's so old he can't hardly get around by the time, by the time he's done, he's almost swinging from the chandeliers. You ever notice that? Amen. They hook you. They draw you in. People are sitting there going, oh, that's just so hard. But the old preacher starts out and he says, dear brethren, tonight I'm going to take you on a journey. See, the difference between there and here is he's got about 60 or 70 people going, mm-hmm, that's all right. Come on, preacher. See, here you say that, I'm going to take you on a journey. Amen, they're all hinging on everything the preacher says. He said, tonight I'm taking you in to a celestial courtroom. I'm taking you past the Milky Way and on up to the stratosphere. Amen, by the crystal sea. I'm going to take you into a courtroom where God the Father, He is the judge. The cross-examiner is the Holy Ghost. And over here in the jury box, we've got the attributes of God. Over here is grace, joy, long-suffering, meekness. They're all in the jury box. Well, he said today, he said in this celestial courtroom, He said, we are just spectators. We're here to spectate in this courtroom where Jesus Himself is on trial. He said, Jesus is on trial to see if He's worthy enough to come back for His church. He said, well, that don't make doctrinal sense. Shut up. It makes good preaching. So in this courtroom, they call up the first witness. And the bailiff said, do you swear to tell the truth, the whole truth, nothing but the truth, so help you God? He said, I do. Said, state your name for the courtroom. And in this celestial courtroom, the first witness says, I am natural law. And a hush fills the courtroom. Said, tell us, natural law, what do you do? Natural law sorts of bristles and says, I make sure what happens, I make sure it happens. I make sure the sun come up in the morning and the sun go down at night. I make sure when a brown cow eats green grass that it gives off white milk. The cross-examiner says, mm-hmm, mm-hmm, I understand that natural law. I said, but do you have anything to do with when a baby is born? Natural Law says, oh yeah. He says, I make sure all the genes and chromosomes, they mingle and jingle and tingle together. He said, I make sure the color of the hair, or in this case, if there's going to be any hair. He's talking about men with half beards. We've got people in here with half heads. Some of y'all don't have a forehead, you got a five head. But he said, I make sure, I make sure the color of the hair, color of the eyes, I make sure how big the nose is going to be. But we got some dandies in here. Should we put a few on display? He says, natural law, has your law ever been broken? He says, no, sir. The cross-examiner says, now, now. He said, you're under oath, natural law. Natural law puts his head down and says, well, there was one time when my law was broken. The cross-examiner says, that's the time that we're interested in. He said, tell us about that. Natural Law starts to get nervous and said, hey, the judge had something to do with that. He said, that was that little Jewish, that little hook-nosed girl named Mary. He said, that baby that was conceived was of a Holy Ghost. He said, my law was broken on that day. He said, tell the courtroom of this one named Jesus. And Natural Law stands up and says, He is the best that I've ever seen. Hey, could I, for a moment here tonight, could I tell you that He is the best that there is? By the end of the message, you've got to take consideration, by the end of the message, He started into His gravy. Now, gravy into a black preacher is almost like a song they sing. And they stomp their feet. And the people are with them. I mean, it is on. It is group participation. And by the time he gets to the last point, he's already called up death and eternity and called up all kinds. By this time, it's a roar. And you've got to understand what's going on. He's saying, well, the last witness that I called, Oh, yes, I do. The last witness that I call, I call Jasper Williams to the stand. And boy, he puts himself on the stand. He said, the cross-examiner says, Jesper Williams, how old are you? He said, well, Mr. Cross-examiner, you want to know the first time I was born? Or the second time I was born? He said, the first time I was born, my mama told me all about it. Oh, yes, she did. But the second time I was born, I told mama all about it. Hey, and He gets in there and says, Hey, He's the best. He's the best I've ever seen. Hey, that's Jesus yonder. That's the one that saved us. That's the one that reached down and pulled us out of the muck and mire. This whole world, He is the best. That's who He is. Boy, I love to preach about Him. I wouldn't be here tonight if it wasn't for Him. I wouldn't be in a suit tonight if it wasn't for Him. I wouldn't still be married tonight if it wasn't for Him. He is the best there is. And tonight I want to preach about this, about Him. He's coming back. And boy, is He ever mad. The old timers used to preach it, and it used to scare people. Amen. If you ain't right with God, I'm telling you, the second coming to Christ, the rapture of the church, it ought to bother you. Amen. I sure hate to be smoking when He comes back. I sure hate to be drinking a beer when He comes back. I sure hate to be listening to a dirty joke or telling one when He comes back. Amen. I sure hate to be out of sorts with my wife when He comes back. Amen. I'll just throw this in here, being as I'm here at Glory Land. Amen. I know I can get away with this here. But I know this. I know my daddy told us that when we got married, we had five brothers, no girls in our family. And my dad said, don't you ever hit that girl, boy. I said, you ever hit that girl? He said, I'll kill you. He said, them girls ain't me. You don't hit on no girl. You don't hit on that little wife. Boy, I'd hate to be sitting here and be a, amen, a wife beater. Amen, you coward. Amen, smack around on that little gal. Amen, I'm telling you, he's coming. And boy, is he ever mad. But nowadays, my goodness, everything going on now. Amen, these little kids out here in the world, they ain't safe. Amen. Somebody said that's why them perverts, that's why God made large boar handguns. Boom! Amen. He's coming. He's coming. Let me say, number one, He's coming back in the rapture of the church. That's the next cataclysmic event that's going to happen in this earth. Amen! Say, what do you believe? You believe seven years or three and a half years? I believe seven years of tribulation. Amen. Say, well, I believe half of it. We don't. Amen. We're not mid-trippers. Amen. We don't believe that way. Say, well, such and such does. Well, they're stupid. They don't know no different. They want to have something obsolete. They want to have something obscure. Amen. I'm telling you what, the rapture's the next place it's going to take place. Amen. Next thing. He's coming. He's coming. We were in West Virginia, there in Brother Charlie's country, at Copeland Independent Baptist Church. You can't even get there from here. At that time, you had to ford a creek, I think, to get to the church then. And we had a youth revival, and they put on a skit. And all week, the skit was called, As the World Burns. Amen. I mean, I liked it. Just the name of it intrigued me. It's going to burn one of these days. And what had happened is the rapture had taken place, and this group full of kids was looking for their family and friends. All had been raptured out. So every night of the meeting, they'd show part of the skit. And these kids, they went to the ballgame, and they'd come home, and they're searching for their families. Well, they'd been raptured out. And the last night of that skit, they had them all come into the church. They'd been out all Saturday night. They'd been looking. And you can imagine, if the rapture take place in here tonight, It's hard to tell how many people will be sitting here left. Why, you'd lose your mind. What if all of a sudden outside out here, man, there's an arc of sound that takes off. The trump of God's sound almost knocks the earth off its axis. But all the people that are saved are raptured out of here, boom, gone. All that's left is clothes and blood and glasses and false teeth and glass eyes. steel plates, and over everybody's charted sheet, there'll be rods and pins. Brother Brandon's got a metal jaw in there. That's why he sings so fast and loud. Amen. The bionic singer. But there'll be a mask laying there where a girl had so much makeup on. I know who that was. All that'd be left behind. Why, you'd lose your mind. And them kids are looking all week. And that last night of that revival, they had the skit. And they had some pews set up here. And they started the skit. And here they come running in. They come running in the church. And they come running in there. And they was going, man, where's Brother Delmas? Brother Delmas, he ain't never late for church. Man, what's going on? Where is everybody? And they was all crying. And one of them kids said, what was that Brother Delmas used to preach about? What was that? The redemption. Said, no, that wasn't a word. Said, the resurrection. Said, no, that wasn't a word. One of them adults said, rapture. And man, they all started crying. They had missed it. Boy, you could have heard a pin drop in that church. And they changed scenes. And they showed the people that had been raptured out. And they showed them in heaven. And they had white sheets on. And man, they were walking around going, woohoo! Don't this feel good? Amen. And they would go out in the congregation. They would get somebody out in the congregation. They didn't know out there that they was going to be part of the skit. And they went out and got one old boy there. I forget his name. It was that guy we went fishing with, his daddy. And he had a pair of bibbed overalls on. And one of them come down there, one of them kids said, there's granddaddy. And they went down there and got him. And here's how he walked up there. He walked up there like this. And he got up on that platform. And he started going. I didn't even know he was going to be part of the skit or anything. Man, I was sitting over here towards the back, and I was sitting there going, I want to go up there. I want to go. I want to go up there. And one of them big old tall boys there, he looked down and he goes, hey, there's Brother McGehee. He was preaching the night I got saved. And he walked in there and got me, and I'm telling you, by the time I got to the steps right there, I thought my heart was going to explode. Hey, if just a little skit can make you feel that way, hey, what do you think it's going to be like when it's real? No more pain. No more suffering. No more burdens. No more sin. No more shortcomings. No more broken hearts. No more broken dreams. Hey, we'll be in glory. No more. Then they change scenes again. And they showed something I'll never get out of my mind. They played that judgment. It'll be that skip to judgment. And they had lights here. And they had the judge come to the throne. And you couldn't see his face. And that song says, all is still. Heaven is silent as the mighty God ascends the throne. A man named Country Folk, boy, they were quiet. And they turned the lights down low. And that song says, He who was the saint's accuser must face the charges against him. And this big old boy come out of there with this grim reaper's outfit and started walking through the congregation. Man, people were moving away from him. You couldn't see his face. And he come all the way around through there and stood in the front. And that song says, And Satan begins to tremble as his fate. And that boy started shaking. And man, there was a rumble that started in there. And that song says, and I see every knee is bowing, every hand in honor is raised. And buddy, I'm telling you, just a little glimpse over yonder, you say, what was it? Oh, just a little country church. But there for a little while, we were reminded, He's coming! He's coming! In a minute, He's coming! Then they showed something that I'll never get out of my mind, never. They had the people over here that were saved. And there they were at the judgment. Over on that side was the people that were lost. On the left hand of God said, Depart unto Me, you cursed in everlasting fire. And these folks over here with the white sheets on, there was a little girl about this tall. And her daddy was playing one of them that was lost over there. We seen this at camp with Emma. Joel played a lost man at camp, and the angels come and grabbed him. And my granddaughter started squalling. We had to remove her out of the room because they thought they were taking her daddy. And that little girl was standing there, and her daddy was over there. And she started out real slow. And she'd pull on Mama's sheets and, Mommy, Mommy, I want Daddy. I want Daddy. Mommy'd say, shh, be quiet. Shhh, be quiet. She'd pull harder. Mommy, Mommy, I want Daddy. I want Daddy. She's reaching, going, I want my Daddy. I want my Daddy. I want my Daddy. And he was over here, and he'd seen that. He started, first he started going, shh, baby, shh, be quiet. I can't come over to where you are. And then that thing got real. to him, and he started crying. And she's going, I want you, daddy. I want you. Boy, I'm telling you, I can't imagine. I can't imagine what it's going to be really like. They've been there with that goal fixed, people that are lost over on that other side over there. I got brothers that I ain't sure about. I got cousins that I know may no more save the man in the moon or to be on that place. Oh, no. No, not you. No, not you. Not you over here. No, it ain't going to happen. Amen. That's why we've got to be busy now. Amen. He's coming back. I'm telling you, He's coming. Any minute, He's coming. Amen. Are you ready? Are you ready? Some of you young folk, it's time to do something for God. It's time to surrender your life. Some of you boys, we've seen it. We've seen it in years gone by. We've seen it at camp. Man, I mean, 25, 30 years ago, we've seen it. We've seen them boys crawl out on the altar and beg God to use them. We don't see that much anymore. I'm telling you boys, He's coming. He's coming. Any minute, He's coming. You've heard it preached about. He's coming. Amen. The rapture. The rapture. Any moment, He's coming back. Boy, I'd hate to know the thought Amen. The raptures take place and I've never tried to win a soul to God. Boy, I'd hate that. Amen! I'd hate the thought of him calling you, knocking on your heart, never surrender to it. Amen. You ever been around anybody like that? Everywhere I go, you hear me? Everywhere I go, there's somebody sitting there miserable. And I've watched them. I've watched them pick apart the sermons. I've watched them pick apart church. You say, what is it? God knocked on their heart years ago and they didn't follow the call. There's something sitting here. You'll never be right. You'll never be happy. Amen. Man, I'd get in tonight and say, what will happen? We'll have the rapture. You might get in, get right, and then the rapture take place. You won't have to give no account of that then. Get it under the blood. Amen. He's coming. He's coming. Then there's going to be the return of the Lord. He's going to physically put His feet on this earth. Do you realize all of what's going to be done away with? There'll be no need of religion on that day. Amen. No need. No need at all. Amen. All this Catholicism and Muslim and everybody, you know, don't say anything about it. You'll hurt people's feelings. While I'm in churches now, I can't even say queer anymore without somebody getting mad. I'm telling you, it's an abomination. Sodomy is an abomination to God. It's wicked. Amen. All pedophiles are queers. Amen. He's coming. He's coming. Boy, is he ever mad. I'm telling you, the blood cries from the ground. Amen. Do you rely on all that religion to be done away with? Do you know all education will be done away with? They meant to be no more need of algebra. Somebody ought to shout right there. No more need of calculus. When he comes back on this earth, who cares what a dangling participle is? Who cares? He'll be here. Amen. And I'll tell you, the more the better you get to know him, the more time you spend with him. How could that be a waste? Amen. He's coming. He's coming. The return of the Lord. Then there's going to be the reign of the King. Let me ask you this. If you've never served God, if you've never stepped out, if you've never... The Bible said if you don't suffer with Him, you won't reign with Him. What are you going to be doing during the millennium? You say, well, I'm saved. Will there be a bleachers there? Will you sit on the bench for a thousand years? Maybe we'll give you a shovel and a bucket, and you clean up after the white horses for a thousand years. You can be a super-duper. Notice how I let somebody else finish that. Amen. He's coming. Here a few years ago, it's been a few years ago now, me and D, we went to Norfolk, Virginia, and we got to go to the Navy base there at Norfolk. And a guy there took us on the ship. And we were able to go on any ship we wanted to. And that guy said, brother Mark, I can take you on a battle cruiser. I can take you on this and that. I said, what do you recommend? He goes, I recommend the aircraft carrier. So me and my wife got to go aboard the USS George Washington. It was parked next to the USS Ronald Reagan. And we walked up to that ship, and buddy, it was like a walled city. And we walked up to that, and there's more people what lives on that ship than what lives in Pell City proper. Amen. There's over 5,000, almost 6,000 people what lives on that ship. And we walked up there, and that guy started telling us all about it. We're looking there. And he said, you see them white things up there, Brother Mark? He said, them are phalanx guns. He said, they shoot 20 millimeter Gatling gun cannons. I'm like, yeah. He said them things shoot a rope of lead that big around. One of them had the lid off, and it showed rounds and rounds of ammo. Looked like big old bananas in there. He said if a missile or a plane comes in, so they're the last line of defense, they're all shot and laser guided all at one time. He said that is a bad defense system. I'm like, yeah. I'd love to have my hands on one of those. He said, you see that box up there with four sections? Yeah. He said, them are Tomahawk missiles. He said, we can put one of those in the trunk of your car 200 miles from here, and you'd be driving it down the road. I'm like, yeah. And we got aboard ship and went through there, seen the hangar where all the jets were, all of them, 100 aircraft. with capability to carry nuclear weapons. And we got aboard that flight deck and stood up on that flight deck, me and my little wife, and by this time a black guy that was an officer on board was taking us and he took us the rest of the tour. And this guy was telling us, I asked him, I said, what's all the flags on here? I noticed you got all these flags. He goes, whatever we're doing on board, preacher, he said, we let everybody know. He said, if we got nukes on board, we put up a signal flag, tell everybody. I said, you want everybody to know that? He goes, oh, yeah. He said, if we're going to battle, we got a battle flag. And I'm like, oh, yeah. And I'm standing up there on that flight deck, and I can see the entire Atlantic fleet. Buddy, I started going, Saddam Hussein, you don't want none of this. And I asked that black fellow, I said, you ever seen any kind of bad weather on this storm? He goes, oh, yeah. He goes, don't you ever let nobody tell you these boats don't rock and roll in the storm. He said, we've seen waves come up over the flight deck. He said, we've seen it come where it's dragged the catwalks off the side of the ship, the waves were so hard. But then he made a statement. He says, but Preacher, he said it's much safer being on board during the storm than being off the ship. I stood back and went, well. Then I asked him, I said, have you ever seen any kind of action? You ever see any kind of war? You ever been in any kind of battle? And he goes, oh, yeah. We were in Desert Storm. And by this time, man, when he said that, me and Dee both stood back. And his face lit up. And I said, tell us about it. He said, well, preacher, he said, when we arrived into the arena of battle, we're like, go ahead. Come on. Come on. He said, we arrived at the arena of battle, said it was at night. He said, you've got to understand, he said, this carrier that we're on, he said, not only is it a ship, he said, it's an army. It's its own army. It's its own force. He said, we have anywhere from 12 to 26 vessels that go together with the carrier. We got nuclear power, nuclear missile power capable submarines that go under the water with us. He said, we are the baddest thing on earth. He said, when we got to the arena of battle, it was at night, and this captain come aboard. He said, all that you that can, all hands of you, if your job can let you, come up to the flight deck, see something you've never seen before. And he said, everybody that could, come up on the flight deck, and way off in the distance, where the desert storm had put that surface-to-air defense system up. He said, there was missiles going up. anti-aircraft missiles and all that in the sky was lit up with explosions. And he said, all on the horizon, you could see that. He said, we all stood there watching that. And we were all arriving ourself into that arena of battle. And that black guy looked, and he said, you know what, preacher? He said, we were all thinking the same thing at the same time. I said, what was that? He said, the way that they get a load of us. He said, man, all we got to do is raise them planes. He said, they come up there fired up. They're loaded with rounds and ammo and missiles. He said, wait till they get a load of us. Listen, one of these days, the Bible says this. Listen, I saw heaven open, Revelation 19, 11, and behold, a white horse. And he that sat upon him what is called faithful and true. And in righteousness he doth judge and make war. His eyes were as a flame of fire, and on his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no man knew but he himself. And he was clothed with a vesture dipped in blood. And his name is called the Word of God. And the armies which were in heaven. Let me back up. And the armies which were in heaven. And the armies which were in heaven followed him upon white horses, clothed in fine linen, white and clean. That's where we get in. And out of his mouth goeth a sharp sword, that with it he should smite the nations. He shall rule them with a rod of iron. And he treadeth the winepress of the fierceness and wrath of Almighty God. And he hath on his vesture and on his thigh a name written, King of kings and Lord of lords." I don't know if you can picture it or not. I don't know if all the preaching we've heard and the Bible that you've read But if you can picture the judgment seat of Christ, and man, us going through that, and if you've done anything for God, there'll be gold, silver, or precious stones, and the fire will try the works that we've done, what we've done since we've been saved. And that thing, man, finally, that'll be over with. Amen. Say, are you looking forward to that? Not particularly. But that'll be over with. And I don't know the exact time frame and all, but I know like Brother Harry preached about one of these days, Amen, we're going to be a bride. But there's going to be a marriage and He's the bridegroom. And there's going to be the marriage supper of the Lamb where He actually girds Himself and serves us. I don't understand all that. But I'm telling you, after that, we're going to see Him and He's not going to look like a bridegroom. He's not going to look like a servant that's girded Himself. No, this time His eyes will be a flame of fire. His hair will be white like wool. And He'll have a rod of iron in His hand. And He'll lead all of us out to a stable with white horses as far as you can see. And He'll have the biggest white charger there. And He'll look at us in heaven and say, Mount up! But He will mount up on them white chargers. And here we come. Amen. As Brother Earl would say, When the tribulation's over, we'll be back. Yes, we'll be back. Yes, we'll be back. When that tribulation's over, we'll be back. It could happen most any day, but we're coming back to stay. And buddy, I'm telling you, all of us, here we go towards earth. Here we go towards the battle of Armageddon. And we'll be mounted up on a white horse. And we're all going to think the same thing at the same time. Why do they get a load of us? I'm telling you, one of these days, hey, it's all going to be about Him. We're saved. He's the King of kings and Lord of lords. And here tonight, hey, we know Him. Say, why? Because He first loved us. Lord, what a blessing to be saved. What a blessing. What an honor to be a child of God. He's coming. He's coming. He's coming! Some of you girls that are quiet. You're too quiet. You're weird. Amen. You need to get out of your shell. Amen. Some of you boys that ain't never done anything for God. Hey! Break off the back row. Get off the front. Amen. Shout a little bit. Get right with God. Hey! He's coming! Any minute, He's coming! I know, I know this. There's time right now to do something for God. You can ask the evangelists that are in here. There's only a few of us. Brother Harry, you'd have to admit the same thing. If a pastor called you and said, Brother Harry, who could you recommend to come to my church? Give me the long list. The long list would be about 12, 13 names. And some of them you wouldn't have if you was pastor and you wouldn't have them. There ain't many left. Man, I remember years ago, there's such rookies sitting back there, these girls. I remember them singing, Has He Called You to Canada? Or to Mainland China? Or however that goes. Man, I've seen... Man, we was in Germany. They sang out over there. Boy, God move. We seen Diane Hudson run the aisle. It was on. Amen. Listen, if we don't have meetings like that again, and folks don't come surrender like that, listen, this thing dies. Amen. Amen.