Christ's second coming offers a threefold salvation: from the penalty of sin through His sacrifice, from the power of sin through His present intercession, and from the presence of sin upon His return. The sermon emphasizes the future salvation, drawing parallels with Romans 8:23 and 1 Thessalonians 1:9-10, which speak of redemption and transformation. Believers are called to actively 'look for' Christ's return, not as a passive waiting, but with eager anticipation and a life lived in service and devotion, even amidst suffering. This future glory, where believers will be transformed and see Christ face-to-face, far outweighs present afflictions, offering comfort and a powerful motivation for faithful living.
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Hebrews chapter nine and verse twenty-eight. We have finished with verses twenty-six and twenty-four. The Lord's appearing to put away sin by the sacrifice of himself and the Lord's present appearance in heaven on our behalf. And now tonight we have the last verse, verse twenty-eight. referring to his future appearing for his own. So Christ was once offered to bear the sins of many, and unto them that look for him, shall he appear the second time without sin unto salvation.
Now I think one evening we mentioned that we have a threefold salvation in these three verses. In verse twenty-six, we have been saved from the penalty of sin. Judicially, the Lord Jesus Christ has paid the penalty and we are saved. But in verse twenty-four, in present ministry, We are being saved day by day. And this, of course, has many aspects to it, but we are being saved from the power and practice of sin because He ever lives as our grave high priest.
But finally, in verse twenty-eight, He is coming, and this verse refers to, Without sin unto salvation. And this is the salvation that Peter refers to as ready to be revealed in the last time. And that's in connection with his coming. And then he is going to save us from the very presence of sin itself. We are saved. We are being saved. And we are going to be saved. Saved by his death. saved through his life and saved at his coming.
Now we might just refer to a verse in Romans chapter eight. Romans eight. A verse that of course is well known to most of us. I'm sure of that. Romans eight, twenty, three. And not only they but ourselves also, which had the first fruit of the Spirit, even we ourselves, grown within ourselves, waiting for the adoption to live the redemption of our body. So we are waiting for the redemption of the body.
And that will take place at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ. And at that time, these bodies will be changed and fashioned like unto his own glorious body and for the first time we will know what it is to be without sin in any degree or in any aspect. You remember we have referred a number of times to the Apostle Paul's statement in Romans where he says, In me, that is in my flesh, dwelleth no good things. And we all know what that is.
That sin in the members is called in that same chapter, the law of sin in our members. We are sinners by nature. And though we are saved and we have partaken of the divine nature still in us, well, that sinful, fallen nature that we receive from that. And in this body we grow not only waiting to be delivered from physical handicaps and from the infirmities of the body and the limitations of the flesh, but we long to be delivered from every tendency and every vestige of sin.
and it'll happen when the Lord comes. Now there's a verse also in Hebrews chapter ten. I'm going to read it. Turn to First Thessalonians because in the book of Hebrews we have the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ said before us not only in the verse that we read but also in chapter ten he says for yet a little while and he that shall come will come and will not carry it turn to first Thessalonians chapter one Now, in Thessalonians, First Thessalonians, we have the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in every chapter, and it is referring to His coming for His saints, the first aspect of the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ.
And in second Thessalonians and also in the fifth chapter of first Thessalonians, we have a reference to his coming in power and glory and majesty as king of kings and lord of lords, and that is often referred to as his coming with his things. But that's when he comes to set up the kingdom and to rule and reign for a thousand years. But in First Thessalonians, which is what we're going to look at tonight, having to do with his coming, for his things and we're going to just as the Lord gives us time look briefly at each one of these coming at each one of these chapters and his coming and the connection in the chapter first Thessalonians chapter one and verse five for our gospel came not unto you in word only but also in power and in the Holy Ghost and in much assurance, as we know what manner of men we were among you for your faith.
Now here we have the Apostle referring to the preaching of the Gospel, to these people, and how it came not in word only. Might I tell you, there is a lot of preaching of the gospel in word only, and it's the most discouraging thing in the proclamation of the gospel, to have people sitting under the sound of the gospel over and over, and sometimes for years, and they hear the gospel. But as far as they're concerned, it's in word only because they don't believe it.
because they will not receive Christ as a personal Savior. But you remember in Romans one sixteen, the Apostle says, For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ, for it is the power of God unto salvation to every one that believeth. Now here the Apostle says, Our gospel came not unto you in word only, but also in power. It is the power of God and the salvation. And it wasn't preached in days. He not only preached it by word of mouth, but they believed it.
And it proved to be the power of God and the salvation for these people. It came in power, even in the power of the Holy Ghost, as some have put this. And it came home to the heart and the conscience, was received and they were saved. Well, the result of that is in verses nine and ten. And they themselves show of us what manner of entering in we have unto you, and how ye turn to God. Now this word turn is a word that's translated converted. They were converted. They turned to God.
They made it about faith. They were converted to God. Then the next part of the verse says, From idols. They were converted to God. They turned to God, but they turned from idols. So in the turning to, we have conversion. In the turning from, we have separation from idols. It wasn't any difficulty for anyone to see that these people were saved, because all that was linked with their former lives they turned from. And that could be plainly seen. It was manifested. Well then it says, to serve the living and true God.
Now they have been serving dead, idle, false God. But now their occupation is to serve a living and a true God. And finally, to wait for His Son from heaven. And whom He raised from the dead, even Jesus, which delivered us from the wrath to come. So we have expectation or their anticipation. They turn to God, and when they did, they also began to wait for the coming of the one who had died for them.
His death was proclaimed in the Gospel and His resurrection. And these people were taught that when they trusted this one as their Savior, they were taught that the one who died for them was going to come for it. They were waiting for it. We have people today who tell us that we are going to have to go through the Great Tribulation because we are so carnal and we are so cold and indifferent that the Lord is going to have to send us through the Tribulation to make us fit for His presence. What a terrible doctrine that is. And yet there are many people who are proclaiming it today.
That's just like saying that a man who is a spouse to his wife, to a wife to be, not thinking that she's quite spiritual enough for him, give her a good beating up before the wedding to make her fit for his friends to be his bride. The only fitness that we will ever have to belong to Christ and to be the bride of Christ is the fitness that we have in Christ. And every one of us who have trusted Him as the Savior, we're as fit the moment we trust Him as we ever will be. And so there's no wrath to come for the believer, that great tribulation period.
But they were taught to wait for His Son from heaven. Now you notice that in the verse in Hebrews, unto them that look for Him, onto them that look for Him. Now, they were waiting for Christ, and He will appear unto them that look for Him. Now, that's not a choice to let especially spiritual part of the church, as some would have us to believe either. And so, we have waiting and looking. Now, in Philippians chapter three, in verse twenty, It says, Our citizenship is in heaven, from which also we look for the Savior.
We do what? We look for the Savior, the Lord Jesus Christ. And so we are waiting and we are looking for His coming. And that day is not to, we are to be expecting Him momentarily. The imminent return of the Lord is the doctrine that we believe concerning His coming again for the Church. We're waiting, we're looking. Now we ought to be a little bit more on alert today because of the things that are taking place in the world before us.
Now we've already mentioned, we don't want to be misunderstood, we're not looking for the fulfillment of Scriptures We are looking for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. But the saying that the world uses is a true one, coming events cast their shadows before them. And certainly these wonderful prophetic scriptures that are going to be fulfilled after the church is gone are cast in their shadows today. Israel, a nation, for instance, a sovereign nation. among all the nations, a recognized sovereign nation, something that was unthinkable a few years ago before it happened, almost until the time it did happen.
It was the last thing that would be thought possible in the minds of many. And yet today, Israel is a nation. Well, those things are just straws in the wind, not the fulfillment, but just casting their shadows before them. I remember when I went to, I used to go to Kingman, Arizona from Needles, California, every Sunday to spend the days with the saints over there. And in the evening we would go down to the depot to wait for the train. And we sat there and we waited. But when that clock got up around about the time for the train to come, I began to get a little nervous and I'd go out and I'd take a look down the track.
And after a while when the signal turned green, that meant that it was in the block. It meant that it was only two miles up the track. Well then by that time, everyone was out. Now they had been sitting around waiting for the train, but now they were all out looking. for the train because there were certain things that led them to believe that the train was just about to arrive and that's true in connection with the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ we should be looking for him now if ever there was a time when the church looked for Christ and they were looking for him waiting and looking for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ and you know over in Revelation twenty-two, it says, They shall see His face.
You know, those few words are some of the most, the sweetest words in all of Ireland to me. They shall see His face. Now we often think about the nail print in His hand, and then His feet, and then His thighs, and His one to bear it, and He'll bear it before eternity. But you know, I am now waiting to meet my wife. We have made arrangements that we are going to meet. She is going to come part way and I am going to go part way. And we are going to meet in Newton, Kansas.
And then we are going to go home together. Well, we have done that before. And I'm anticipating that. I'm looking forward to that event. We've been separated for a long time. But we keep in touch with one another. There's hardly a day goes by that I don't hear from her. And hardly a day goes by that she doesn't hear from me. And I tell you, if the day does go by and I don't not feel bad about it. And so it is, we ought to keep in touch with the Lord too. Daily. be in constant touch with him while we're waiting and anticipating that meeting. But you know, I've been to Newton before, and I know just what that depot looks like, and I've been in other depots, and I've noticed this, that when people come out through those gates and down those aisles that are roped off, I never yet saw a person who was looking for a loved one that they weren't looking into the faces.
of the people as they came by. They didn't look at their feet. They didn't look at the kind of soup they had off. They were looking into the faces of those who came by. And I watched them in Los Angeles. And they watched as one after another comes by in that crowd. And all of a sudden their faces will light up. And joy will fill their face. And they'll say, there he is. There she is. And then the other one will see too, and there's a meeting. I've watched many of them. Maybe you too have down at the Union Station in Los Angeles. And so when I meet my wife, I'm going to be looking right in her face when I see hers.
And I'm going to be glad to see her, and she's going to look good to me. She may not look good to you if you saw her, but she sure looks good to me. And you know we read of our Lord Jesus Christ. Now remember, we shall see his face. And over in Isaiah fifty-two, it says his visage was more so more than any man. And we think of Calvin. But you remember in the song to Solomon, when the bridegroom speaks of her bride, she says his countenance is as leavened. excellent as the seeker." She's talking about his divage, his faith.
And then she says, Yea, he is altogether lovely. And so these believers were taught from the very beginning to wait and to look for the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. And there is a translation that translates first Philippians three twenty, looking with longing, expectation. Not just looking for him and not just expecting him, but longing to meet him.
expectation. Now I tell you that should search our hearts. How much longing is there in our hearts to see Christ? How much are we really expecting to see? We use the expression, but we should search our own hearts and see how much reality there really is. But they shall see his face and his countenances as leaven, excellent as deceiters. Now that's in connection with the gospel. The first chapter is salvation, fully and simply. They were saved. They accepted Christ as the Savior. But in the second chapter of first Thessalonians, it's not salvation but service.
Verse four, but as we were allowed of God to be put in trust with the gospel, even so we speak. not as pleasing men but gone which tribe our hearts and then we read on down where in verse seven he says but we were gentle among you even as a nurse chariot of children and then verse eight of it ends with these words but also our own souls because you were dear unto us and here's the real part of a servant of God, and we all want to be servants of God, every one of us.
Not just the preacher or the Sunday school teacher or the missionary, but every one of us should have this same tender, care and affection one for another we're all servants of the Lord and we all ought to be serving him well now he suffered a lot in disappointments and so forth in connection with this service but look down to verse nineteen now for what is our hope or joy or a crown of rejoicing are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at his coming.
You see, we serve him now, but it's all going to be manifested then. And he could look forward to the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in connection with his sheer love for Christ himself. just to see him and to be with him. But he also looked upon the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ in connection with his service for Christ. And he could refer to these believers at Thessalonica as being in his presence at his coming.
And there would be the fruit manifested in heaven He's not talking about rewards now. We have that over in First Corinthians and elsewhere, Second Corinthians. He's not talking about rewards. He's talking about the joy of seeing souls in heaven at the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. They will be there as a result of His labor here. Why? That ought to make us think too. Is there going to be anybody there?
Because of our service here? I remember at a special memorial service for those five men who were killed in Ecuador. And Mr. Elliot, Will Elliot, Jim's uncle, got up at the close of the service and gave just a little word about a person. I don't know whether he personally had known about the matter or whether he heard it, but it doesn't matter that the truth is there. He's telling about a Christian who was dying. There was no possibility of his living. He had come to the end of the way.
And he was in a terrible state of soul. He didn't want to die. And no one could console him. The different Christians would come and pray with him. And they would talk with him. And they would seek to comfort him. But I don't want to die. And so one of them says, Are you afraid to die? Aren't you saved? Are you afraid to die? And he says, I am saved. I am not afraid to die. But he says, I am ashamed to die. He did so much for me.
And I have done nothing for him. And now I have to go into his presence. Empty hands. I wonder how many will be like that. I preached the funeral of a man just a year ago, two years ago. who was almost in the identical same state. That man was saved a number of years ago and he would come out to a meeting now and then. He truly was saved. I'm sure that that man's in heaven. But there were certain things that he had, that he didn't want to give up. And because he had these habits, he didn't want to be around the Christians too much.
He was ashamed. He would come to a meeting and go, and at the time came, he had a heart attack, and he would die. And that man lived for ten days at least before he died, and he was weeping almost the whole time before he died because he had done nothing for Christ after Christ had died to save him. Going in, empty-handed, not the Apostle Paul. He says, What is our hope or joy or crown of rejoicing? Are not even ye in the presence of our Lord Jesus Christ at His coming?
Might it be wonderful if there's somebody there that's there because we have led them to Christ Or if there are some there who have been helped through our testimony, our influence, or there because we have helped to supply the needs of those who have gone to different places to preach to them. Or their help, they've been helped in our ministry. And it will all be manifested up there. And so the coming of the Lord Jesus Christ should have a very definite effect upon our service for him at his coming.
But then in chapter three, it's not serving, it's suffering. Verse one, wherefore when we could no longer forebear We thought it be good that we left at Athens alone and sent to Moses, our brother and minister of God, and our fellow laborers in the gospel of Christ, to establish you and to comfort you concerning your faith. That no man should be moved by these afflictions. For yourselves know that we are appointed there unto. Now, look back again to chapter one and verse six.
And he became followers of us and of the Lord, having received the word in much affliction with joy of the Holy Ghost. Now chapter two. And verse fourteen. For ye brethren became followers of the churches of God which are in Judea in Christ Jesus. Now you'll notice that in both of these verses we have the word followers. In chapter one followers of us and of the Lord. And followers of the churches of God in Judea in verse fourteen chapter two.
Now this does not mean that they became followers. It doesn't have to do with their conduct. They did that all right. But you'll see that in both of these it's connected with affliction and suffering. In verse six of chapter one, having received the word in much affliction. But of course there is a compensating joy too. But we're talking about suffering now. Verse fourteen chapter two. for ye also suffer like things of your own countrymen, even as they have of the Jews.
How did they become followers of the churches of God in Judea? Does that mean that they took as their pattern of practice the churches of God in Judea? And they did everything just exactly like they did? No! It means that they suffered just like they did. They suffered like Paul did. They were suffering affliction. They were suffering tribulation, not the great tribulation, but tribulations that are common to all of God's people. If any man lives godly in Christ Jesus, he shall suffer persecution.
And the child of God, who is living today and seeks to be popular with everybody is not living God in Christ Jesus. If we seek to make a good impression on the world, the Lord Jesus is claiming this, that if we please God, we will not please men. And there is a tendency upon our parts today to try to please God and man to be well thought of. Hail is a good self by the world and looked upon as a spiritual man by the church and by God.
It won't work. And another thing, in the trying to reach souls in this day in which we're living, I was in a certain city many, many miles from here. And there was an assembly that brought up an invitation to be given out to the whole neighborhood, to every house in this neighborhood. And then that they announced a special effort for young people, and I'm glad, don't misunderstand me at all. I'm all for special efforts for young people, and old people too, and all in between, and children. But here's what they emphasized.
Fun. Three times in that short notice about the young people, fun, fun, fun. And what they were putting over was this, that you can be a Christian and still have fun. You know, fun is not a word for Christians in the first place. We have joy and peace and happiness, but fun That just doesn't, that is not found in the Bible. It's not Christian vocabulary. But you see what they're trying to do? They're trying to get large numbers by telling these people that you can be a Christian and have your fun, in other words, not telling people that they need Christ as a personal Savior, that they're sinners on their way to hell.
Now, of course they do tell them that after they give them a lot of fun. But what people need is not to believe that they can have fun and be saved, is to know that they're going to hell if they're not saved. They need to be convicted. And when a person is truly convicted by the Spirit of God, he is not concerned whether he can have fun and Christ at the same time. What he wants is Christ. What he wants is to be saved. And I was talking to some young people's workers here a while back out our way. And I reminded them that young Christians, too, people who have professed to be saved, they're not to be crammed with this thought in their minds all the time.
That is fun, fun, fun, fun. That this is just a great, big, happy place and nothing but cakes and pies to be cut. These young people ought to be told that Christians suffer for Christ. They become followers of Paul and of Christ and of the churches. In what way? They suffer. And any man who will live for Christ will suffer. And we don't need to be afraid to tell people that either. Paul was faithful. He reminded them of it. Look at verse four, chapter three. And verily when we were with you, we told you before that we should suffer tribulation.
even as it came to pass. And ye know, Christians should be told and taught that the pathway of a Christian is not an easy pathway in this world. It's not a popular pathway in this world. And that we are to take our stand with Christ in his rejection and separation in this world. And our hearts should be filled with devotion to him and pleasing him and not our flesh. Pleasing Christ and serving him. and not enjoying this and that and the other thing. There's no greater joy than to serve the Lord Jesus Christ. And there's no greater joy than to see a soul saved for Christ. I remember a young Irish man up in Vancouver a few years ago.
He was lamenting, and he was leading the company. He came over to go to Japan as a missionary. And he was just a little bit too young. He was a very godly young man, but he had to stay in Canada for so long before he could get his visa and so forth to go. And he was helping out the young people in a certain meeting there. And he was very much discouraged. And he couldn't get them to do anything for Christ. All they wanted to do was have questions. All they wanted to do was to go out skating. To go here and go there and go elsewhere. and he tried again to do something for Christ. They all had a meeting too.
And he was telling me that he had told him at the last meeting that in Ireland, we're not setting up Ireland to understand, there's a pattern any more than we are in the churches of God in Judea here, except for the suffering part. But nevertheless, we can learn a few lessons. And he was telling it in Ireland, our recreation, the young people had for their recreation on Sunday, they remember the Lord Jesus Christ in the breaking of bread. They didn't do it because their parents made them come. His parents weren't even saved. But they did it because the Lord Jesus Christ requested that they do it and they did it out of devotion to him.
They did it because they wanted to do it. And then he says, after the breaking of bread, we would have a few sandwiches, and we'd divide up into two or three bands, and get on our bicycles, and we'd go to a village. And each band would go to a certain village, and they would track the whole town, give out scratch. And then we would gather in the center of the town and have a street meeting, and give testimony, and say to him, And then he says, we'd get on our bicycles and the way we'd go back home, we'd get a few more sandwiches and go to the gospel meeting. And he says, we enjoy it.
And that's all they did enjoy. They were living for Christ. They knew what it was to find their joy in Christ and in Christ alone. And I tell you, that young man and his wife are devoted missionaries in one of the hardest fields in the world today, Japan. And so you see it pays to serve Christ and not to be thinking about our own well-being constantly, our fun and our happiness. But this is suffering, you see. These people were suffering. They were suffering so much that the Apostle Paul was so concerned that he sent Timothy to see how they were doing.
And they were doing well. And when he heard, verse five, for this cause, when I could no longer forbear, I sent to know your faith, lest by some means the tempter having tempted you in our labor be in vain. But now, when Timotheus came from you unto us, and brought us good tidings of your faith and charity, and that ye have good remembrance of us always, desiring greatly to see us, Therefore, brethren, we were comforted over you in all our affliction and distress by your faith. So you see, he was comforted by how well they were doing in the midst of all this tribulation that they were suffering.
But look at the end of the chapter. To the end... He may establish your hearts unblamable in holiness before God, even our Father, at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his things. Now there, of course, is more to it, but you know when the Lord comes, there is suffering now, but it's going to be glory there. And in Second Corinthians chapter four and verse seventeen, it says, Our life afflictions. And we've been reading about afflictions in chapter three.
Our life afflictions. Now maybe you don't think your afflictions are life. I'm telling you I've been afflicted and I didn't think they were life. And this can include, we can take all of our sufferings into this, physical sufferings, grief, persecution, whatever it may be. And when Christ comes, the suffering is going to be over. And no matter how trying it may be for the time, in the light of the glory is a light of conviction. And then it says, is but for a moment.
It should be but for the moment. And that, that little time, From the time that we're saved until the time that Christ comes. Light affliction but for the moment. And then he tells us by its light and but for the moment. Worketh for us. A far more exceeding and eternal. Now the eternal is in contrast to the moment. eternal weight and the weight is in contrast to the light of glory and that glory is in contrast to the suffering the suffering of this present time and so we turn over to Romans chapter eight and verse seventeen maybe we will just read it there are two verses Romans eight seventeen and eighteen and its children then heirs, heirs of God, and joint heirs with Christ, if so be that we suffer with him, that
we may be also glorified together. For I reckon that the sufferings of this present time are not worthy to be compared with the glory which shall be revealed in us. Now, in chapter seventeen of John's Gospel, verse twenty-four, the Lord Jesus said, Father, I will, that those who thou hast given me be with me where I am, that they may behold my glory, which thou hast given me. But this is not a beholding of it here.
This is a showing forth of the suffering for the moment, an eternal weight of glory for us, but this is something that is for him. The glory that shall be revealed in us in Ephesians that in the ages to come he might show the exceeding riches of his grace in his kindness toward us through Jesus Christ. Now in all eternity, We're going to be a display of the exceeding riches of His grace. But I believe this, that we're not only going to behold and to enjoy His glory, but in that millennial reign we're going to show forth the glory that shall be revealed in us.
He's going to be glorified. in his faith and now it's the suffering now it's affliction but it's only till he comes it'll soon be over and then it will be glory well now we'll have to look at the fourth chapter before we close chapter four and verse thirteen now this is not service, suffering, but sorrowing. I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep, that ye sorrow not, even as others which have no hold.
For if you believe that Jesus died and rose again, even so them also which sleep in Jesus, will God bring with me." For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, that we which are alive and remain under the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep. For the Lord himself shall descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of the archangel and with the trump of God, and the dead in Christ shall rise first. Then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together together. with them. Notice that. With them.
What is this? Reunion. Caught up together with them to meet. in the clouds to meet the Lord in the air, and so shall we ever be with the Lord. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. Now it begins with, I would not have you to be ignorant, ignorant about what? About those loved ones of ours who have died in Christ. Do you have any loved ones that have died in Christ? I can remember of standing over the casket of three of my loved ones in our quicks, their funerals, my grandmother, my father, and my sister. And as I looked into their faces, before they closed that casket, I knew that it would only be for a little while.
And I'd see them again. Why did I know that? Because of these verses. I would not have you to be ignorant, brethren, concerning them which are asleep. For this we say unto you by the word of the Lord, we have God's word for what he says. Wherefore comfort one another with these words. It's only for a little while we're separated from our loved ones. Now I'm sure that we're not going to be too taken up with our loved ones in the presence of Christ. But this is a comforting thought to note that those who have died in Christ are going to be raised and we who are alive and remain are going to be changed and caught up together.
To meet the Lord in the air, and some of our loved ones, we have seen them go after long periods of suffering. We've seen them go from strong, healthy bodies, weak, emaciated, wasting away, And then the life goes. But they're going to look better when we see them. Sometimes people say to me, you know, because they used to say, they've forgotten all about I used to be sick. But anyhow, when they didn't know it, and right after I was up, they say, well, my brother Kessler, you look so much better.
Or just before that, some people were saying, you sure, bad. You better do something. And then finally they got to where they said, you don't look like you've ever been sick at all. Don't sympathy anymore, you see, because I put on too much weight. But anyhow, the point is this, that when we get to hell, there is one thing that is so common among men today that we'll never hear a prayer. We'll never ask a person, how are you today? And we'll never tell a person you look better. Or we'll never tell a person they don't look so well. Because we are going to be in glorified bodies and we'll always be well.
And we're going to look better too. Some of us are not so good to look at down here. But we're going to be good to look at up there. You know why? It says we shall be like him. for we shall see him as he is. We shall see him as he is. We're going to be like him. That is, we're not going to lose our personalities, I'm sure of that. But we are going to have these old physical bodies transformed and morally too. We're going to be like him. And so, get a little box. Now that verse, they tell me, is a very strong verse, a very emphatic verse, yet a very little while.
And then even more, yet a very, very little while. And he that shall come will come and shall not perish. We're going to be caught up. in the clouds together with them to meet the Lord in the air. And we shall see his face. And you know what the Queen of Sheba said. She said it was a true report that I heard in my own land. But she says, Behold, the hat hath not been told.
And that's exactly. Or even to an infinitely greater degree. will be our attitude. When we see him, it won't be that half has not been told, but that ten thousand have not been told. We know him now, but we're going to know him so much better than him. And we'll see him in all his glory. Can we say, honestly from our hearts tonight, even so come. Lord Jesus. Now we're going to sing hymn number four hundred and thirty. That's three. The four hundred and four, I was afraid our brother was going to get to that a while ago.
He was right around it. Number four hundred and four. And for the sake of time, we'll sing verses one. and two. It's a wonderful hymn, but our time is gone. And then after this, we'll ask our brother Lindemann to close in prayer. Hymn number four-oh-four, verses one and two. Well, I know that you are a woman and he might be.
Well, I know that there is a law who I shall come for thee.