I've tuned in online. It's a pleasure to serve the Lord in this way and share fellowship. And I'm glad to say it's a lot drier than it was, although I say that guardedly in case I bring on the rain. But I'm glad to say that it's a bit drier today. And if you're happy in the Lord, would you blow your horn and let the enemy and everybody know? Hey man, well it's good to hear somebody's very, very happy indeed. And it's good to know that those who are listening online know that there's a right wee crowd here this afternoon. I just want to give you the various bits and pieces of housekeeping. And that is, please don't exit the car park during the service. And if you must leave, please attract the attention of one of the marshals. And you're not allowed to get out of your car to run over and embrace somebody you haven't seen in a hundred years. You're not allowed to do that either. And so please, if you can, adhere to at least these wee pieces of advice. And also that you would, as you on your exit, the marshals will let you out row by row. And I think it's Mark Thompson. He's the man that's in charge and in control. He's the man that let you out. If anybody else tries to let you out, ignore them. Only Mark Thompson can let you out. So he'll be to blame. if you don't get out in time, all right? And then, just to say the wee bits and pieces of announcements for this incoming week. On this coming Wednesday, we have our prayer gathering at half past seven. And if you want to come, please come along. If you're unwell and you don't feel very well, please don't come. But if you are able and well, please do come along. And don't come any earlier than a quarter past and you'll get exit. you get entrance into the hall at that time and then you all probably heard the uh the great announcement that we are seeking under god's help to get back into the church next lord's day the majority of people i've been talking to him and coming at half past 11 can i say that they can only take so many um uh there will be a service at 10 o'clock for uh those uh just to help us with numbers and i'll be ministering in both of those services one at 10 half past 11 you've got a little piece of paper given to you and there will be one online just now for the various services if you want to come to the 10 o'clock service then you phone brian bell and if brian's phone is not answered we're going to answer machine Please leave your name and the number of people that you intend to bring with you to that service and your family and Brian perhaps will get back to you or he'll be able to slot you in but there will be contact made and also the same with Andrew. Now just to clear up any confusion as to when the 10th Sunday. I announced last Sunday that today through to Saturday we will be having our 10th Sunday. All the offerings and all the money that comes in goes entirely to our own people. So please remember that anything that comes in today right through to Saturday goes in its entirety to our own people. Now, I trust that's all clear for you, if there's anything else that I've forgotten. By the way, next Sunday would have been communion, but because we're trying to get back into the church, we're just going to forego that. We may celebrate communion throughout the month at some stage, as we feel the opportunity is given to us. Now, you've come here to serve the Lord, to sing his praises, and to lift up your voices, and there's absolutely no reason why you couldn't put down both windows and sing your very best. And I have got Emma-Jane along with me, Emma-Jane Condie. She's a niece of Olive Reeds, and she's going to help me sing. And this is the start of a new duet. Just for the day, might I add. And so we're going to turn first of all to number 21. When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound, and time shall be no more, and the morning breaks eternal, bright and fair, when the sea of diverse shall gather over in the other shore, the world is called of yonder, I'll be there. When the trumpet of the Lord shall sound and time shall be no more, and the morning breaks eternal bright and fair. When the sage or bear shall gather over on the other shore, and the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there. When the roll, oh when the roll is called up yonder I'll be there When the roll, oh when the roll is called up yonder I'll be there When the roll, oh when the roll is called up yonder When the roll is called up yonder I'll be there On that bright and cloudless morning When the dead in Christ shall rise And the glory of His resurrection share When His chosen one shall gather To their homes beyond the skies And the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there Let's sing it very well When the roll, oh when the roll Is called up yonder, I'll be there When the roll, oh when the roll Is called up yonder, I'll be there When the roll is called up yonder, When the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there. Let us labor for the Master from the dawn till setting sun, Let us talk of all his wondrous love and care, Then when all of life is over and our work on earth is done, When the roll is called up yonder, I'll be there. When the roll, when the roll is caught up yonder, I'll be there. When the roll is caught up yonder, I'll be there. When the roll, when the roll is caught up yonder. When the roll is caught up yonder, I'll be there. Well, you're singing very bad, well at least I'm speaking in faith because I can't hear a word, but I trust that as the marshals go around, maybe next week what we'll have is a wee packet of sweets or two, and for those that the marshals hear, and then we can't hand out anything either. Ah, we're beat everywhere we look. All right, the next one is number 24. Number 24, we're gonna sing together. There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's veins. and sinners plunged beneath that flood lose all their guilty stains. All right, we've maybe tried to change the key of this a little bit, because whoever set this song to music must have thought we were all opera singers. And so we're going to see how we get on. And I trust it'll not be too low for you, but some of you men could do bass rightly. So let's really hear it. This is a great song. It's a great theme. The fountain filled with blood and for uncleanness. Sorry, that doesn't sound very bright, does it? There is a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's face, and sinners plunged beneath Beneath that flood Lose all their guilty stains Lose all their guilty stains Lose all their guilty stains And sinners plunge Beneath that flood lost all their guilty stains. The dying thief rejoiced to see that fountain in his day. And there may I, though vile as he, wash all my sins away, wash all my sins away, wash all my sins away. He washed all my sins away. Here's a great verse. I do believe, I will believe that Jesus died for me. And on the cross He shed His blood From sin to set me free From sin to set me free From sin to set me free ♪ That on the cross he shed his blood ♪ From sin to set me free Make this the last verse. ♪ Dear dying Lamb, thy precious blood ♪ Shall never lose its power ♪ Till all the ransomed church Be saved to sin no more Be saved to sin no more Be saved to sin no more Will all the ransomed Church of God be saved to sin no more? The next song we're gonna do is not in Songs of Victory, but it should be in your little service, your drive-in service words. What gift of grace is Jesus my Redeemer? I didn't look up the number, but I'm sure you can look very quickly there yourself. What gift of grace is Jesus my Redeemer? There is no more that heaven now can give, and we're going to Again, remain seated and we'll sing this together. Of course you can't stand when you're in the car, you get a sore head. Anyway, what gift of grace. And this is a great song and I trust you'll sing it your very best. I think for us it's the first time we sang it, at least in my presence anyway. In the driving that is. What gift of grace is Jesus my Redeemer? There is no more for heaven now to give. He is my joy, my righteousness, and freedom. My steadfast love, my deep and boundless peace To this I hope, my hope is only Jesus For my life is wholly bound to His Oh, how strange and divine I can sing All is mine, yet not I, but through Christ in me. The night is dark, but I am not forsaken, For by my side the Savior, He will stay. I labor on in weakness and rejoicing, For in my need His power is displayed. To this I hold my hope is all, Jesus. Oh, the night has been won, and I shall overcome, yet not I, but through Christ in me. No fate I dread, I know I am forgiven The future sure, the price it has been paid For Jesus bled and suffered for my pardon And He was raised to overthrow the grave To this I hold, my sin has been defeated. Jesus now and ever is my claim. Oh, the chains are released, I can sing. I am free, yet not I, but through Christ in me. With every breath I long to follow Jesus For He has said that He will bring me home And day by day I know He will renew me Until I stand with joy before the throne To this I hold my hope is only Jesus For the glory evermore to Him When the race is complete, still my lips shall repeat, Yet not I, but through Christ in me. Let's bow together in prayer as we, just before Emma-Jane comes and ministers in song to us, let's bow together in prayer and commit our gathering to the Lord and ask His help and blessing. You will have if you are listening to the service this morning. Know that we have had many answers to prayer of those who have been ill and we've been praying for them. We're delighted to hear how God is undertaking for them. But let's just bow together in prayer and let's pray and seek the Lord together as we commit our gathering. Perhaps you're here today and you're not saved, and you haven't made your peace with God, and today would be a great opportunity to do so. And we want the Lord to be very present. We want the Lord to be here and want to know his hand upon our gathering here this afternoon. Father, we thank you for the great songs of Zion that we've been singing and rejoicing, lifting up our hearts in praise to God who has done so much for us. Lord, the half has not been told of what you've done for us. Lord, for us individually, personally, many of us have a story to tell. Many of us, Lord, can recount of how God has moved in our own personal, private circumstances. And oh God, you've come very clearly and very dearly and very blessedly to each one of our lives. We thank you, Lord, for the opportunity, Lord, of being able to tell of what the Lord means to us in the open air today. Lord, we thank you that he is our ever-present Savior. And oh God, we pray in this open air service, Lord, as we would have all, so many of the distractions that could distract us, Lord, we thank you, Lord, that we can be closed in with yourself as we contemplate, as we consider, as we meditate upon, Lord, your wonderful grace and your goodness. And so today, Lord, we pray for your blessing. We pray, dear God, for your speaking voice. We ask, Lord, that Emma-Jane may know your help as she ministers in song. And as we bring your word a wee bit later on, we pray that great blessing will flow from it as well. Lord, we commit and commend ourselves to praying and trusting that the Holy Spirit will work amongst us. And we'll give you the praise and the glory in Jesus' name. Amen. Emma-Jane is gonna come and sing her first two songs just now. And the first one is, and you can introduce it, Emma. Well, it is lovely to be with you here this evening and I want to thank Trevor for the invitation and also I thought if he asked me, he might as well play for me. So if there's any mistakes, we'll blame him. So we will. But it's great to come and sing the wonderful praises of our Lord Jesus Christ. And, you know, even though during this time of testing for us over the COVID, You know, at the end of the day, we can just put our trust in Jesus. And you know, maybe here tonight or this evening, you don't know Him as your own and personal Savior. Well, please don't leave this car park this evening without knowing Him, because He is the one that will bring us through all our trials. Just listen to this first song, Come Ye Sinners. Come ye sinners lost and lonely Jesus' blood can make you free For He saved the worst among you When He saved a wretch like me Yes, I know Jesus' blood can make the filthiest sinner clean And I know Yes, I know Jesus' blood can make the filthiest sinner clean To the faint he gaveth power, though the mountains make way. Guides you to the words of desert, turns the night to golden day. And I know, yes I know, Jesus' blood can make the fileless sinner clean. And I know, yes I know, Jesus' blood can make the fileless sinner clean. He will keep thee while the ages roll throughout eternity. Though earth hinder and hell rages, all must work for good to thee. And I know, yes I know, Jesus' blood can make the filest sinner clean. Jesus' blood can make the filthiest sinner clean. Jesus' blood can make the filthiest sinner clean. I hear the Savior say, thy strength indeed is small. Child of weakness, watch and pray. Find in thee thine all in all. Jesus paid it all. All to Him I owe Sin had left a crimson stain He washed it white as snow Lord, now indeed I find Thy power and Thine alone can change the leopard's spots and melt the heart of stone. All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. And when before the throne I stand in Him complete I'll lay my trophies down All down at Jesus' feet Jesus paid it all All to Him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. Jesus paid it all. All to hear my own. Sin had left a crimson stain. He washed it white as snow. Amen. Well, why don't you show your appreciation in whatever way, flash your lights, whatever. What ministry? Thank you so much. And by the way, whenever we do that, we're not actually applauding the person, we're applauding the ministry. And if we hadn't something like that to sing about, then what would we have to sing about? So thank you very much Emma-Jane. Emma-Jane will be singing to us again just after I bring the words. So if you've got a Bible, I'm gonna invite you to turn with me to Matthew chapter 24. Matthew chapter 24. And over the next couple of Sunday evenings, I'm going to be speaking on issues around the coming of Christ, the second coming of Christ, His return. And I will be making some comment on that in just a few moments. But I do want to read from Matthew chapter 24, and we're reading from verse 36. Matthew chapter 24, verse 36. And down to verse 44, and this is God's word. And so let's give it the respect that it's due as we come before his word, which is our map book. It is God's word to our hearts. Matthew chapter 24, verse 36. But of that day and hour knoweth no man, no, not the angels of heaven, but my Father only. But as the days of Noah were, so shall also the coming of the Son of Man be. For 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 you 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. Then he gives us this warning because of that suddenness and that unexpectedness of his return, Jesus gives us this promise and this warning, this challenge. Watch therefore, for ye know not what hour your Lord does 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 Amen and we trust that the Lord will bless that reading of his word to all of our hearts. I don't know how many messages you've heard on the Lord's return. I don't know how many times you've listened to messages concerning end times on the Lord's return. What I've discovered and what I've come to understand, we often get sidetracked as to the mechanism, the means, or the method, or the motor, even the timing or the signs of his return. How often have you heard the clear emphasis of the one who is returning? I was talking to George McClellan this past week and he says, Pastor Trever, he says, you seem to always be in the same theme and in the same mode and mood as I am. He says, I've been speaking on the Lord's return as well. And he titled his messages, a second wave. Now we all know what that means, a second wave, as we listen about the COVID-19. Well, just as there was a first wave of Jesus walking this earth, we are waiting and expecting for his soon return. But here's the thing, we often neglect to emphasize that it is Christ, it's the King that's coming. And I would love sometimes, perhaps we'll get in the church, maybe we'll sing the song, the king is coming, the king is coming. I just heard the trumpet sounding. And I'm not listening and waiting for the sounds. I'm not waiting and looking for the signs. I'm just waiting for him, the king, to break through the clouds. It's the king we're thinking of. It's the king we want to emphasize. It's the king that we want to come and bless our land. And it's the king we want to focus on here today. Now think about this, if your child or your loved one had been away for a long time and you knew at some stage that child or loved one may be coming, having emigrated to Australia somewhere, you'd be watching and waiting because they said that they were coming back again. You wouldn't be asking them the first time you saw them what mode of transport they used or what was the airplane like or anything. You would just be so delighted to see your loved one is back with you again. And that's the theme, that's what has gripped my heart. The King is coming, it's King Jesus. Our wonderful Redeemer, our glorious Savior. And everything that we've done, and everything we've sung, and everything we've been involved in has been all centered upon the King. Now we see through a glass darkly, but one day we're gonna see Him. as he walks planet earth and brings joy and brings excitement and exhilaration into this doom and gloom into which we have been plunged since Adam's fall. And so I have just, as you know, time is always a restrictive thing for me, but I have just a few things that I want to bring to you that have blessed my heart. I'm not sure how chronological they are. I'm not sure how exegetical they are, but they are themes. They are things that have blessed my heart as I've considered that the King is coming. The King is coming. Here's the first thing as we look at Matthew chapter 24, not containing ourselves to that. I want you to notice the mystery of the Lord's return. It says in Mark chapter 13, no man knoweth. As it said in the passages that we're reading together. In Matthew chapter 24 verse 42, no man knoweth a day or hour. When I speak of mystery, I'm speaking of the fact that no man knows exactly when it is, when he will come. And it's this mystery that has caused confusion, or should I say it's not the mystery, it's the people who've tried to predict exactly when they know he's coming. And there've been preachers down through the years have kind of tried to date the fact that he's coming, and those dates have come and gone. And it has caused the world to scoff and mock, and to arrive at the conclusion that he isn't coming, that this is only a myth, and it's only a fable. I think they're doing more damage, don't you, than the help that they're doing. Here's what Peter said, 2 Peter 3, he said, People looking on and conclude that the return of the king is a nonsense. They get transfixed on the millennium and the rapture and the tribulation and they pretend to have it all sorted out as if God had given them some special knowledge about the end times and his return. Don't let the foolishness of preachers and the arrogance of others deter you or distract you or derail you or detain you from trusting in him. from being ready for his return. That doesn't mean to say that I don't know what I believe and you'll hear a little bit next Sunday evening as to what I believe about the Lord's return and the mechanisms and the mechanics of it all. I know and I believe what the Bible teaches and of course we could all vary in our interpretations of that. That's not my purpose today. The Bible says watch therefore and be ready. This is the one thing that we can be sure of, that He is coming, and He's coming soon. This is the one thing that we can be absolute certain about. Imagine when someone set a time to collect you and you're going out for an outing somewhere and you were going somewhere special and they'd arranged at a certain time. And if you're anything like me, you could perhaps be ready an hour, an hour and a half before the time. At least that's what I'm like anyway. I just can't wait. See on a Sunday morning, I'm ready from nine o'clock. I can't wait to get in the church, that's me. I'd just love to be where God's people are. Well, imagine someone had arranged to take you somewhere special and you had no motive to transport yourself and there you're sitting ready and you're looking out the window and every now and again you look at the window and then you run to the mirror and make sure your hair is right ladies, is this true? Make sure your hair is right and make sure the lipstick, oh no you don't wear lipstick, you're too spiritual for that or something like that. and you keep looking, and you keep watching, and you keep making sure you're ready, and you make sure your tie's straight, man, and your jacket's on, and your collar's not turned up. How many times I've arrived at church and my collar turned up, and I should've been watching more and making myself. Well, here's what it is about the Scriptures. Because we don't know, the Bible says, be ye therefore ready. And the word of God says we're to use it like a mirror, to make sure we're not like the five foolish virgins, but we're like the five wise. God giving us opportunity to make sure we look into the looking glass of his word. Oh, the mystery of his coming is a means and a method of sanctifying the church and making sure they purify themselves and are ready for his return. God has a purpose and a plan for his delay. And if God came back today, are you ready? Dear child of God, would you have to run around red-faced trying to put things into place? Or have you been looking into the mirror of God's Word, which has caused us to always be ready? Always look into the mirror of His Word, be ready. Don't be like the five foolish virgins. Make sure you've got your calling and election sure. Make sure you're obedient in every jot and tittle that he's laid upon your heart, because you'll stand before him red-faced, perhaps, or some person in this gathering or listening online hasn't yet put their faith and trust in him. Perhaps God's giving you time to get ready. By the way, Drew, I'm not pointing at you, you know that. I'm pointing at those people who should be here, perhaps. Are you ready? We have warning after warning. We have instruction after instruction. In fact, the Bible says that we, the people of God, ought to love. As we watch and we wait and we wonder at his coming, we're to love his appearing. 1 John 2, 28. And our little children abided him, that when he appears, we may have confidence and not be shamed at his coming. There's so much that I could say about the mystery and the reason that he's left is to ponder and to wait and to watch. As a hymn writer said, in the cross, in the cross, be my glory ever, watching, waiting ever. The reason for his delay, he wants to come back for a spotless bride. And he makes us and gives us opportunity in his word to clear out and to emphasize those areas in our lives that are an embarrassment to the groom. We had a wedding yesterday, one of the nicest weddings I've seen. And it was all credit to Valerie and Stephen said he did 7% of the preparation, but what hard work. But I say this, God is delaying so that you and I are well ready for when he comes again. Very quickly, not only the mystery, but notice the moment of his appearing. Now I'm not gonna try and tell you exactly the moment. I don't know, no man knows a day nor hour. But I do know this from Matthew chapter 24, we learn that it's gonna be suddenly. From Luke chapter 17 there were, it's gonna be surprisingly, in fact we read in Matthew chapter 42 that it says that as it was in the days of Noah, well what was it like in the days of Noah? I'll tell you in a short little phrase what it was like in the days of Noah. It was life as usual. Life as usual. They were just getting on with the business of life. There's some people in the reading far too much, there was, as it was in the days of Noah, they were marrying and giving in marriage. It was just life as usual. They were just getting on with the daily business of life. They didn't know that it was gonna happen. And as the hymn writer says, it happened in a moment, in the twinkling of an eye. The second coming of Christ is the emphatic doctrine of the New Testament. It is mentioned and referred to 350 times. And yet the majority of humanity never heard a sermon. Perhaps there are some in this gathering and you haven't heard a sermon on the Lord's returning years. Shame on us preachers. Paul spoke of baptism some 40 odd times, or was it 20 odd times? And yet scripture speaks of the return of Christ 350 times. Yet we, the church, will argue over doctrine, over how things should be done and how we ought to cross our T's and dot our I's. How often do we speak about the expectation and the expectancy of his return? Robert Murray McShane once said to his friends, do you think Christ will come tonight? One after another they said, I think not, Mr. McShane. Then he solemnly repeated our text. Watch therefore for ye know not what hour your Lord doth come. Can I ask you, dear soul, if God gave you a message, a personal, private message that he was coming in one minute for you, would there be a frenzy of activity? Will there be people that you need to say sorry to but you haven't time and you try to send a very quick little text? Are you ready? It shall happen in the moment, in the twinkling of an eye. When I think of the many times the return of the Lord is spoken in scripture, yet how rare we hear of it spoken of. Who is speaking of it today? Who's preaching about it? Who's living in light of it? Over and over we're told to watch and be ready. Warning after warning in scripture. But here's the reality. From Adam man has been marching step by step in a grand stairway leading to the greatest of all events. The call of Abraham was one step towards it. Jacob and his 12 sons were another step. Joseph ruling Egypt was another. Deliverance unto Moses, yet another. And the conquest of Canaan, which we were thinking of this morning, was yet another. It was for this that Jesus suffered on the cross to make atonement for sin. It was for this he rose from the dead and ascended into heaven, where he took his place at the right hand of the Father. It was for this that the Holy Spirit came and exploded the church into life, and oh, that he would come again. Oh, that He would come again in the Holy Ghost power, when an awful amount of arguments and disputes and condemnation and criticism would be brushed aside, as the holiness of the Spirit of God would descend upon the church and bring revival once again, and explode the church back into the life that she ought to be living. These things have all been done to prepare the way and lead up to the meeting that's so graphically described in our text. It was for this meeting that God made plans before he laid the foundations of the earth. It was for this meeting he was thinking before the morning stars broke into song. We're not told when Jesus will come, but we're certainly told he is coming. I just heard the trumpet sound. I know I've said that again, but I'll say it again and again. I just heard the trumpet sounding and his, well, whatever way the rest of the song goes. Consider this please. Jesus said, This gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations. And then the answer will come and just look what we can do with the internet. There's people listening or at least later on we'll be watching this service on the other side of the world. How quickly we can spread the gospel if we can put a mind to it. And just think, I haven't it in my notes, but just think that every little agency and every little step and every little gospel outreach and every little effort that we make in promoting the gospel of Jesus Christ is promoting his return. Promoting his return. God knew the names of every man, woman, and child who would be saved. If he didn't know that, he wouldn't be God. God knew all about the fools who wouldn't be saved. And the sooner a soul gets that into their heads, the sooner they'll get saved. This old world one day is going to waken up some morning for the last time. It won't be a new normal that we were waking up to. It'll be a new realm, glory to God. It'll not be a new politically suppressed normal. It'll be a supreme sovereign rule where we'll rejoice in the millennial reign for a thousand years. We'll not look up into the sky anymore to try to determine the weather. We'll not look towards the horizon to see what sort of a day it'll be. We'll not be looking up our weather apps to see what the weather will be like tomorrow. It'll be a new day, a new dawning where the sun will never set and the king will be on the throne. A day which God has been working towards until that very moment when the last soul fills heaven. Oh that the last soul that would fill heaven would be in this car park and then the king would appear before you get home. Not a solemn, sobering thought. Oh, I think it's an exciting thought. 1 Peter 3, 12 says, looking for and hastening on to the coming of the day of the Lord. Every time anybody does their bit for him, he's seeking to usher in. Jesus said, thy kingdom come, thy will be done. Nevertheless, Lord, Jesus come. Notice very quickly the majesty of his coming. Oh, this is where I get excited, no. Think of the majesty of His coming. You know there's a little text in Exodus chapter 15 verse 21 where Miriam takes up her tambourine and she says, Think of that wonderful meeting. but it'll be nothing compared to the meeting when he comes. There's gonna be a meeting in the air in the sweet, sweet by and by. Think of Mount Sinai at the foot of Mount Sinai where the law was given of God to Moses and the people rejoiced at the thunderings and the tremblings and the rumblings of the mountains. But what a meeting this will be that will surpass that one. What if you'd been in the congregation that heard the rumblings and the tremblings of the mountain? What about Mount Carmel? That wonderful man called Elijah. And yes, Elijah's God still lives today, folks. And he took on the prophets of Baal. And we saw them completely and utterly defeated. And the praise went up for the lips of Elijah as God defeated their enemy. Oh, what a meeting. What a meeting whenever David danced in the presence of God because the tabernacle had been brought back into Jerusalem, the center of worship and praise. What a gathering that must have been. Or the temple dedication where Solomon prayed and the priests couldn't stand for the glory of God. What a meeting that was. Or Isaiah's vision. I saw the Lord high and lifted up, and I saw those seraphim, and I said, woe is me, for I am undone. What a meeting that was. What a meeting when Paul's encounter with the, when he was brought up into the third heaven, and he was left speechless because he couldn't speak about the things that he had seen. What a meeting that must have been. Or what a meeting it was to sit at the feet of Jesus at the Sermon on the Mount. Or what a meeting it was in the day of Pentecost. There have been many modern day meetings which have blessed our hearts as we've observed them. Whenever multitudes listened to Wesley and Whitfield and Charles Finney, when multitudes wept their way, oh they didn't laugh and they didn't walk up to the front with their hands in their pockets and their fags in their pockets. I'll tell you what they did. They came up with repentance and faith and fear and tears. When Billy Graham, I often watch those and you forget about the politics around Billy Graham. And look at some of those old videos on YouTube and see the thousands of people coming to Christ. And yes, some of them stand today. And my heart bleeds and I often find tears come down my cheeks as I think of those wonderful meetings. But listen to this, none of those meetings will ever come near the meeting whenever King Jesus comes into the air. None of them. I think of the splendor and the wonder of it all. Oh, if this doesn't excite your heart, and if it doesn't strike a sense of awe and wonder into your heart, then you're a heart like stone. When Jesus returns, he's coming as King of Kings and Lord of Lords. His glory and majesty will be something out of this world. Every mouth stuffed, every eye fixed, every heart palpitating as he breaks through the clouds and begins his millennial reign. The sarcastic, the scoffer, the scoundrel, acknowledging his glory and majesty. Every stubborn and arrogant knee will bow in forced humility and respect at his glorious sight. He may have shouted, never, never! We will not have this man to rule over us. And now they'll have King Jesus to meet with and face. And they'll have King Jesus and every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. Here's the last thought. I want you to notice the mayhem at his return. Revelation one and seven says, behold, he is coming with clouds, and get this, every eye shall see him. And all the tribes of the earth will mourn because of him. Even so, amen, I am the Alpha and Omega, the beginning and the end, says the Lord. When he returns, it says, it will not be the spiritual elite that will see him. When he returns it will not be the higher echelons of religious society. When he returns it says every eye shall see him. Every eye, every eye will see him. And every tongue, every tongue confess him. And every knee shall bow, every knee. the Protestant, the Catholic, the Muslim, the Jew, the Hindu, every eye and every ear and every knee shall bow. I thought as I was preparing this during the week, the difficulty we have in sensing his presence, we who are the people of God and oftentimes we sense his presence more than at other times. And sometimes we scrutinize through the word and we want to hear what he has to say and we struggle to hear. There's gonna be no difficulty that day he returns. Every eye shall see him. And every soul shall acknowledge that he is king. There are those who fail to see him because of ignorance. There are those who fail to see Him because of unbelief. There are those who fail to see Him because of pride. And there are those who fail to see Him because of rejection. And there are those who fail to see Him because of choice. But the Bible says every eye and every knee and every tongue on that day. But it'll be too late. It'll be too late. I want to encourage you that as God has burned this message in my heart, and I have sought to burn it into your ears, that some way, somehow, now, those who need to do dealings with God will do them where you are. Humbly confess Him, simply trust Him, and then acknowledge Him. and Magian is gonna come and sing for us just now. There is coming a day When no heartache shall come No more clouds in the sky No more tears to dim the eyes All is peace forevermore On that happy golden shore What a day, glorious day What a day that will be When my Jesus I shall see When I look upon His face The one who saved me by His grace When He takes me by the hand And leads me through the promised land What a day, glorious day that will be you There'll be no sorrow there No more burdens to bear No more sickness, no more pain No more dying over there And forever I will be With the one who died for me What a day, glorious day You wanna sing along with us? What a day that will be When my Jesus I shall see When I look upon His face The one who saved me by His grace When He takes me by the hand And leads me through the promised land What a day, glorious day What a day that will be When my Jesus I shall see When I look upon His face The one who saved me by His grace When He takes me by the hand And leads me through that promised land What a day, glorious day Let's bow together in prayer, let's pray. Perhaps someone would want to speak with us as you leave. Can I say, I will be standing at the exit and if I can be of any help, you know my number or you've got two numbers that were handed out to you, you can phone one of those and they'll put you in contact with me. Those of you online, can I encourage you, he is coming. He's coming back for a spotless bride. I know that he would come this evening. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for your presence. We trust ourselves into your hands. We ask, Lord, that you will come by your Holy Spirit and minister, Lord, we pray. Oh, minister. Minister to our hearts. To those who have grown hard and cold and indifferent, minister, we pray. And may Jesus get all the glory. We ask it in Christ's name. And everybody said, amen. Thank you so much. May God bless you. Thank you Remy Jane for your ministry and song.