The significance of the high priest's garments in the Old Testament, particularly the golden bells and pomegranates on the hem of his robe, as a type pointing to Jesus Christ. It details how the high priest's attire and actions on the Day of Atonement, including the shedding of blood and sprinkling it before God, prefigure Christ's sacrifice and atonement for sins. The message emphasizes that Christ, in His sinless humanity, became the ultimate sacrifice, satisfying God's justice and providing redemption. The ringing of the bells on the high priest's robe symbolizes Christ's return, with current world events serving as signs of His imminent coming.
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Exodus chapter twenty-eight, please. Exodus chapter twenty-eight. On verse thirty-three, Exodus thirty-eight, on verse thirty-eight. text of the second book in your Bible, twenty-eighth chapter, thirty-third verse, and beneath the palm of the hem of it, that is the garments worn by the high priest of Israel, thou shalt make pomegranates of blue and of purple and of scarlet round about the hem thereof, and bells of gold between them round about.
A golden bell and a pomegranate. Now a pomegranate was a fruit, so you have Hear sound and sweetness. A golden bell and a pomegranate, a golden bell and a pomegranate upon the hem of the robe round about. And it shall be upon Aaron to minister, and his sound shall be heard when he goeth in. Notice that, into the holy place before the Lord, and when he cometh out, that he die not. Our next passage is over in Leviticus chapter twenty-five, please. Leviticus chapter twenty-five. And verse eight.
Leviticus twenty-five and eight. Thou shalt number seven Sabbaths of years unto thee seven times seven years. And the space of the seven Sabbaths of years shall be unto thee forty and nine years. Then shalt thou cause the trumpet of the Jubilee. Notice that word Jubilee. Jubilation. the trumpet of the Jubilee to sound on the tenth day of the seventh month in the day of atonement shall ye make the trumpet sound throughout all your land. And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof.
It shall be a Jubilee unto you. And ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family. A Jubilee shall that fiftieth year be unto you. You shall not sow neither reap that which grows of itself in it, nor gather the grapes in it of thine undress. For it is the Jubilee. It shall be holy unto you. He shall eat the increase thereof out of the field. In the year of this Jubilee shall return every man unto his possession. And if thou sell off unto thy neighbor, or buy us off of thy neighbor's hand, ye shall not repress one another.
According to the number of the years after the Jubilee, thou shalt buy of thy neighbor, and according unto the number of the years of the fruits, he shall sell unto thee. According to the multitude of years, thou shalt increase the price thereof, and according to the humors of years, thou shalt diminish the price of it. for according to the number of the years of the fruits doth he sail unto thee. He shall not therefore oppress one another, but thou shalt fear thy God. I am the Lord thy God." That line seems a little strange, but it certainly means this, that everything that gets value from that year of Jubilee, that fiftieth year.
It's a very interesting subject. Now this morning We want to speak on those golden bells, possibly not in the sense that that hymn, that old-fashioned southern hymn, presents it when they ring those golden bells for you and me. That message is running precious to the Christian. It has a dispensational application. It certainly means the time is going to come when those bells will ring. they will be heard, and only God's people will hear them, and only God's people will respond to their timing. First of all, let us think of the day when these bells were long or heard in Israel's pungon history, way back in the Old Testament.
God said there was to be a day, it came once in a year, it's called the Great Day of Atonement. We read that. And that great year of atonement that happened every year was an unusual day. And only on that day could the highest priest of Israel go into the inner court of the tabernacle. Now that Old Testament tabernacle, and by the way, we have a man coming in June, Mr. Brown from England, who has an electric model all the way up of that beautiful tabernacle, and he'll be here for about two weeks taking that up. it will be a marvelous thing for you to see and to hear. But those Old Testament shadows and types are beautiful when applied to New Testament truth, especially to the person of our Lord Jesus Christ.
Only once in a year do you find that high priest of Israel passing through the court and in that tabernacle is divinely to choose. The first place was called the Holy Place. The next the latter place behind the Holy of Holies, which was the very presence of God where the throne of God was, and that place did not have any electric light. It had no natural light, but it was illuminated by the presence of God known as the Shekinah Glory. Now says, God, I want the whole nation to meet on this great day of atonement, and that was a great nation of approximately two and a half million people.
They assembled round about the tabernacle and God was going to be there in the midst. A crowd ascended up out of the tabernacle to indicate God's presence in the midst of His people. Now this solemn occasion, God says this is the day of atonement when the children of Israel are going to have to have an atonement made or a sacrifice offered to put all the sins of the past year away as a nation. And this was the procedure on that wonderful day. The high priest of Israel usually appeared in those beautiful garments of glory and beauty. My there were wonderful garments.
And we read just a little about them over in Exodus twenty-eight. If you want to read the whole chapter, it's a wonderful chapter to read. The garments worn by the high priest of Israel. Well, these beautiful garments of glory speak of the Lord Jesus Christ. Herons' garments were made for Him. They were borrowed, but our Lord Jesus Christ, the great high priest, His glories were not borrowed. They were not made by man. His glories were inherent. They were His from eternity past. But that high priest of Israel, he had to take off those beautiful garments of glory and duty, and he put on linen garments, because in those linen garments he was going to offer a sacrifice for the children of Israel.
He was going to shed blood, and he couldn't do it in those wonderful, gorgeous garments of glory and duty. He took them off. He laid them aside, and he attired himself in garments of linen, pure white linen. Does that have any meaning? You know, to me, it's amazing the wonders of this blessed book. Why Christians are not delving into it, studying it because of its riches, I do not know. What is the story behind what I've told you? In eternity past, the Lord Jesus Christ in all his beauty and his glory. As he ever dwelt in the bosom of the Father, he was the Father's fellow, the Father's companion, and as the Father said, rejoicing always before me.
But he couldn't come to earth that way. Had the Lord Jesus came down, had he come down with all that glory and beauty, man could not have stood in his presence. He flashed a little of that glory one day when here, when they came to apprehend him, led by Judas. He said, Whom speak ye? They said, Jesus of Nazareth. He said, I am he. He flashed just a tiny little bulb of his glory, and they went backward and fell to the ground. For God says, No man shall see my face and live.
Man could not stand in the presence of the Lord Jesus Christ had he flashed his eternal glory. Man would have withered up like a crisp before him had he flashed it all. He just allowed a little glimmer on that occasion. He went back and they fell to the ground. Why, even the Apostle Paul, when he saw some of it, he was blind for three days. He fell to the ground. Then he said the second time, Whom seek ye? They said, Jesus of Nazareth, and they must have said it with trembling voice. He said, I am he. And he didn't flash his glory this time. They took him, and eventually mailed him to the cross.
But in order that men might tabernacle among the Lord Jesus, in order that a woman might touch his garment and be healed instead of sick and dead, in order that the Lord Jesus might touch the leper and cleanse him without the leper dying, in order that little children might clamber up upon his knee, he had to attire himself in other robes than that which he wore in eternity past. That was the garment, the linen garment of humanity. That's what he assumed when he came into this world nineteen hundred years ago as a day. The priest laid aside his garments of glory and beauty.
and he took on himself linen garments that he might offer that sacrifice. The Lord Jesus Christ, in order to die, he had to assume the garment of humanity. For before he came into this world, he was a spirit. You can't nail a spirit to the cross. A spirit cannot suffer the death of crucifixion. The Lord Jesus Christ then took not upon himself the nature of angels you read in Ephesians, Hebrews two. He took upon himself the seed of Abraham. Why did Christ assume the garment of humanity?
Why did he assume a body like yours and mine that he might die, that he might experience death? He takes a death for every man. That's why they had something material and tangible that they could spike to the cross. They couldn't have nailed the Spirit there. Jesus Christ had to become man. God manifest in the flesh. So God had to assume humanity. And the second person of the Trinity, the Lord Jesus, took upon himself a body in the stave of Bethlehem. And he drew up. And how white was that garment?
This high priest of Israel had garments of linen, pure white linen. Speaking of purity, the Lord Jesus Christ for thirty-three years displayed a whiteness that had never been seen on earth before. Pure white loveliness. The spotless, sinless, holy life of the Lord Jesus Christ. so sinless, no spotless he could say to his enemies, which one of you consented me of sin? Can you find a speck on my character? Can you find a smudge on my whole life? No, you can't. You can't recall a word I uttered that was wrong.
You can't point to a deed that I did, which was a mistake. And if you were to read my thoughts, you couldn't extract one thought from all my thoughts that was evil. Which one of you convinced of me of sin, not one? The pure white linen of spotless humanity, having appeared among men for thirty-three years. He had to assume that to die. Not only did he have to have a body to die, he had to manifest a sinless life, to be qualified to die for you and for me to satisfy a holy God. So in that attire the priest goes to the altar.
If you were to read the story fully, it's a beautiful story, that are two ghosts taken. Two ghosts, the one the Lord's lot fell upon us. We read it. The Lord's lot fell upon one of these ghosts. Here are the two. Strange isn't it, but the Lord's had cast a lot, and the lot fell on this one. What does it teach? It teaches that Christ was God's choice, his selection to be the sacrifice for sin. Not man's choice. It was God's choice. God chose his own son.
He chose the Lord Jesus. He selected him to come into this world and to take your sin and mine upon himself and suffer for those sins upon the cross. If you were to watch that scene back in Israel's history, this was what would happen. Here is this priest, and here is this goat, and he confesses the sins of the nation over that blithe goat. He confesses all their sins for that past year. What a ceremony that was. As each Israelite stood there and looked on, and he said, that man is my representative, He's laying my sins on that goat.
He's laying my sins upon that animal. That animal is going to die and suffer from my sins. That's exactly what did happen, friend. Nineteen hundred years ago, God laid your sins on his son. You know, sometimes we sing hymns that are hardly scriptural. There's one that goes like this. I laid my sins on Jesus. He never did. No man ever laid his sins on Jesus. When were your sins laid on Jesus? Nineteen hundred years ago you weren't alive then. How could you lay your sins on Jesus?
Where is Christ now? He's in heaven at God's right hand. No sin can enter heaven. You can't lay your sins on Christ. He's now in glory. No sin can enter there. When were your sins laid on Jesus? Nineteen hundred years ago, who laid them on Jesus? God laid them on Jesus. All my sins were laid upon him. Jesus bore them on the tree. God knew them, laid them on him, and believing I am free. Do you have Bible for that? Certainly you do. I say fifty-three and six. All we like sheep have gone astray. We have turned everyone to our own way. But Jehovah hath laid upon him the iniquities of us all.
First Peter two twenty-four, who with old thou bare our sins in his own body on the tree? That's where our sins were laid on thee. And so you watch this ceremony. Now what does the priest do? He takes that blood from that plain animal in a basin. Now he proceeds to march into the presence of God. He's got to go into that tabernacle. And everybody watches as a hush over the great audience as the priest proceeds to go in.
Why are they so serious and sober? If a burst of flame meets that priest as he opens, the tabernacle, they know that that sacrifice is not sufficient to meet God's demands and God will strike them dead. And if that priest is stricken dead, it means God has rejected the nation and their sins are not forgiven. So you can understand the solemnity of the moment as the representative of that people with that blood in the basin proceeds into the presence of God. He passes through the gate. And he passes on in to the first veil.
Everything's all wet. He disappears into the first compartment. Then the second compartment, the human eye can't see it. The second compartment is veiled by the first veil. He's got to go through the second veil, as the Bible says. And inside that second veil is the ark, the mercy seat, the sword of God. And the charity of them is overshadowing it. and a hush is almost so tense you can cut him with a knife had he passed the second day and time says yet nothing happened God has accepted him well then God has forgiven us God has accepted us my priest of Israel passes into the holy of holies and he takes the blood and he sprinkled it upon the throne of God, the mercy seat.
And after he does that, he stands back and he sprinkled it seven times upon the ground before the throne. And then he steps upon that ground, sprinkled with blood. What does all this mean? It's something beautiful, friend. That's what the Lord Jesus Christ did nineteen hundred years ago. He laid aside his garments of deity of glory, not deity in the sense that he left his deity behind. He brought his deity with him. He left behind the glory of that deity in his full display. And he veiled that deity in human flesh and form.
And he went to the cross, and in this case he was the sacrifice. Christ was not only the one who offered The sacrifice, he was the sacrifice himself because the Bible says he offered himself. In that day the priest offered a ghost. He connected with Jesus Christ. He offered himself. That was the Bible. Then he satisfied God. Satisfied God with everything. Where did the priest put the blood first? On the throne. On the throne. meeting God's requirements, meeting God's demands.
Then the blood sprinkled before the throne on the ground where he stood means that he now has a righteous standing in the presence of God. He stands on ground, redemption ground. Ground has been redeemed by precious blood. And the priest stands upon that ground, stained by blood. He looks upon an altar, stained by blood. Blood has met all the claims of God and met all man's needs. That's true of the precious blood of Jesus Christ. We sing carols at Christmas time, go break. Think of that one text around which so many carols are written and sung.
Glory to God in the highest. On earth peace. Good will to men. Who came first? Glory to God in the highest. Who came second? Peace on earth with will to men. Where did the priest sprinkle the blood first? On the throne. Glory to God in the highest. Next on the ground. Peace on earth. Good will to men. God must be satisfied before man can be satisfied. God must be satisfied before man can be saved. Why, when that priest went in there and the people knew he was accepted, what a relief. Friend, all my sins were laid upon the Lord Jesus at the cross.
God laid them all of them. And you know, if God hadn't have been satisfied with what Jesus Christ did, if it hadn't have been perfect, and if God found He couldn't be righteous in saving a poor sinner like me when I accepted Christ, He never would have accepted Jesus Christ back into heaven. But the very fact that Jesus Christ was raised from the dead proved God's approval. You'll be speaking on that next Sunday morning. God's resurrection of his son proved his approval, his satisfaction with the work that Jesus did at Calvary, the fact that he took him up to heaven and seated in his own right hand as further evidence of God's satisfaction in the work of Jesus Christ.
And anyone who trusts that precious blood, God says, I'll save him. I'll put away his sins. I'll forgive him. He'll have everlasting life. What a wonderful picture that was. Sometimes I try and picture that priest, and I'd like you to think about it. Supposing you were in his shoes because he was a human being, what would be in your thoughts as you approach the presence of God? What would be in your thoughts? Would you think about your past life? Well, you might.
But you find no comfort, no consolation there. You're going in, you're going to face Almighty God in a few seconds. Those eyes that can pierce and penetrate the thickest armor that man can put on in the way of self-righteousness and human sufficiency. You're going to face those eyes. Would you get any comfort and consolation out of the way you've lived for the past some years? twenty, thirty, forty years, no then, if you're depending on your life, you'll wither up like that when you meet God. Your life won't give you a standing in God's presence.
I've been preaching the gospel now for about thirty-five years, and I'm not depending on one sermon I preach. And from the time God saved me, there are things I've never done since. since I used to do before I was saved. I've never done them since then. But that doesn't mean that that's going to give me any standing in the presence of God. It's not my life that I've sought to live since I was saved. It's not my labors preaching the gospel and winning souls to Christ. That does not in any way qualify me for acceptance of God. I'm not depending upon it.
Perish the thought. When I come to die, if I have a deathbed, do you think I'm going to reflect back upon my life and say, well, I hope God will accept me on the strength of the way I've lived? No, friend, I won't have a thought like that. I don't have it now. What about you? You're depending upon your past life to give you acceptance of God. If you are depending on that, you're lost right now. You think that Priest would be thinking about his family? No. He wasn't thinking about them. You think he was thinking about good times? No.
You think he was thinking about some plans he had that he was going to execute? No. You think he was admiring his lovely robe, his lovely garment? No. What had that priest on his mind? to give him favor and acceptance with God one day, what he had in that basin of blood. The New Testament says in Hebrews, He entered the holiness of God once a year, not without blood. That was his confidence. That was his vote. Not his life. Not his labor.
Nothing he thought. Nothing he did. It was that blood that gave him acceptance in the presence of God, because that blood speaks of death, of punishment for a man's sake. And friend, I'll say this, the only thing I'm trusting, the only thing I have any confidence in, And to my acceptance with God is the precious blood of Jesus Christ. Blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, cleansed us from all sin. Unless you're trusting in that blood, you'll be expelled from God's presence instead of admitting God's looking for that. Because that speaks of sin punished.
That speaks of the penalty paid. God says, without the shedding of blood, there is no remission of sin. And God says, the life of the flesh is in the blood, and I've given it upon an altar, the altar to make an atonement for your soul. For there's a blood to make an atonement for your soul. That's what God says. So the priest has gone in. After God's claims have been met, he's coming out now. I want to say this, that man who has thus accepted Jesus Christ has a perfect standing. Isn't it very significant? He sprinkled the blood seven times before the altar.
Seven is the number of perfection. Seven is the number of completion. God always did things in seven. You have the six days of creation, and God rested on the seventh day. Jesus Christ gives us seven remarkable parables in Matthew thirteen, he uttered seven cries upon the cross. You have the seven churches of Asia, and one could go on. Everything seems to be in seven, because seven is the number of completion. It simply means this, if I trust the precious blood of Christ, I have perfect standing in the presence of God, complete acceptance.
That's what seven means. And he sprinkled the blood seven times. for the office. Now, the moment arrives for the priest to come out. The people of Israel are listening. They heard the bells as they faded into the holiest of all. But now, let's listen. Are the bells coming out? Why, when they see the priest, they know now they're accepting Some might think he's lying in there, stretched out on the floor, dead. You don't know fully until he comes out.
How they watch the entrance. They listen for those beds, and they listen and look for the parking of those curtains. Then someone says, ah, I hear the bed. He's coming up. He's coming up, I hear the best. For they were on the skirts of his garment, and every step he took they ran. You know, Christian, nineteen hundred years ago, the Lord Jesus went in. He entered heaven, the Bible says, by his own blood, that he's coming up, and I can hear the best.
What are the bells? Signs of his approach, indications he's coming. One of these days we're going to see him. By the time I take up a number of bells. For instance, you take up the bell of the return of the Jewish nation to Palestine, the Jewish bell. My, that's a lovely bell. It's a Jewish bell. And it's been ringing. It's ringing louder every day. One could take up also the political bell. Every sign politically points to the coming again of the Lord Jesus Christ, the stress of nations, men's hearts failing them for fear because of those things that are coming upon the earth.
That bell is ringing very loudly every day. Then there's the religious bell. You know this is very significant. Here's a clipping out of last Saturday's paper. We'd go yesterday by James Gray. And those of you who have been coming to the chapel for nine years know that I've been preaching this, and I've been preaching it for thirty-five years, and there were fundamental preachers preaching it long before I was born. And if you read books two hundred years old written by fundamental gospel preachers, they wrote the same thing, that before the end time, there was to be a uniting of all Christendom under one head.
all denominations coming together under one head and that head would be Rome. So you find that in Revelation, seventeen and eighty. I've been preaching it ever since I've been saved. I never dreamed I'd lived to see the day. I thought it was a way on after my day. I never dreamed I'd see the day when I'd read this. And what we've been seeing in the last Two or three years. The ecumenical council. Listen. The pace of ecumenical movement within the Christian church heightens everywhere. Put in motion by warm-hearted Pope John XXIII of the Roman Catholic Church, the outreach of Catholicism toward orthodoxy and Protestantism is being widened by Pope Paul VI.
This week the Pontiff chose the occasion of the four hundredth anniversary of the Council of Trent to call for a dialogue between Catholics and Protestants with the objective of finding common ground on which to meet for eventual union. Richard Cardinal Cushing of Boston has of late visited and prayed in Episcopal churches of Boston on that the Roman and Anglican bishops of Georgia and Savannah have appeared jointly at intercommunion sessions, and that Roman and episcopal priests are exchanging parish visits at the diocesan level, doubtless the trend will heighten and expand, reaching finally to all Protestant denominations. Are we going back?
An old, godly man, Mr. Bredford, with a big white beard, said to me not that long after I was saved, You've lived to be overnightly, and he used to tell me a lot of things from the Bible. He says, Brother Lester, Protestantism is going back to Rome. He said, I won't live to see it, but you will. And I'm living to see it. There's a bell for you. Friend, it's ringing loud that Jesus is coming up. He's going to appear one of these days. I could go on and speak of the pleasure bell. I could speak of the moral bell.
And you don't have to go to New York to hear this bell ringing of the end time, the moral decadence of our nation and our people. Only in the last two or three weeks, a few decent, respectable parents crying out against what their children have been looking at on modern screen. You know what I'm talking about. The owner of those two theaters said this. He said, I can't show anything else and make money. If I show clean good films, people won't come. The more immoral and the more lurid and the more lustful, the film, the bigger clouds I get.
What a sad commentary upon the morals of the people of Albany. And the nation. Let me tell you this. The man who owns those theatres had never got a dime out of my pocket, and he never will. All he's interested in is money, not your sons and daughters. They can go to hell if they want to, as long as he gets his dollar. And whatever they want, he'll feed them. Oh, the mortal bell that's all over the world, ringing the end is here. Then there's another veil that never struck me till just recently.
In the book of Revelation you read this. Woe to the inhabitants of the earth, for the devil has come down in great wrath because he knoweth he hath but a short time. What's he doing? He casts out water like a flood out of his mouth. I never saw this when I've been studying the book of Revelation for thirty years. It never impressed me that this past week The devil, knowing him for the short time, that is, the day of doom is approaching. What's he doing? He's casting out waters out of his mouth. Now that speaks of words out of his mouth. If you ever know a time in the history of the world when so many people could read and so much literature was printed to meet that demand, think of the words going out of his mouth.
the floods of false doctrine. Surdice indicates the last day, for the Bible says in the last days there will be knowledge increased. Knowledge shall increase in the last day just before Jesus comes, just before he appears. We've never lived in such a day. And the devil's making hay. Because he knows he has but a short time. I'm going to mention just one in detail. The Jehovah's Witness. started with Russell, then Judge Rutherford, called Millennial Dawns, and then two of the other names, and then Jehovah's Witness. They were known as Jehovah's Witnesses, really, back in nineteen-thirty.
Do you know what happened by nineteen-fifty-seven? That movement had spread to a hundred and sixty-two countries with fifty-five million pieces of literature being scattered in one year. That was in nineteen fifty-seven. What happened since then, seven years of past? The devil casting out waters words like a flood.Trying to encode the minds of men, and add to that, if you will, Christian science, Mormonism, and then Communism, and a lot of other isms, inspired by the devil, and all the people that are being swallowed up, encased by these waters out of the mouth of the devil, because he knows he has for the short time.
Here's a bell that's ringing and it's ringing loud. All you can say is the Christians got one text. When the enemy shall come in like a flood, the spirit of the Lord shall lift up the standard against The only bulwark, the only wall, the dam, against this flood, coming out of the mouth of the devil, deceiving millions, is the Holy Spirit presenting the message of this book. When the enemy felt committed like a flood, the Spirit of the Lord lived up a standard against him. Friend, I say to you this morning, the bells are ringing loud. He's coming out. Then they saw the curtains move.
Borrow behind here and start to move those curtains if no one is about to practice. Not only do we hear the bells and we see the moving of the curtains and we'll do then. The curtains are moving. The next thing Jesus will appeal. And when he comes, every born again Christian is going to rise and meet him in the air. Only redeemed people saw this priest come out. Only redeemed people saw him go in. and only saved people saw Jesus Christ ascend to heaven. Do you know the one saved I saw the Son of God after he was nailed on that cross? No sinner saw him after he rose from the dead.
First Corinthians fifteen tells you the witnesses who saw him after he rose from the dead, and only his own saw him go up to heaven from Mount Olivet, and only those born again are going to see him when he comes again. He'll come in a moment in the twinkling of an eye, and all redeemed by precious blood shall rise to meet him. Those of you who are not saved, you won't see him this trip. Secretly and silently he'll catch his own away. And you who are unsaved left behind to see him at a later day when he'll come in judgment, in flaming fire, taking vengeance on them that may not God and obey not the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.
He'll come for his own first. He'll take them out of the world. And then after those awful judgments of revelation, he'll come back with his people for the Battle of Armageddon. Then every eye shall see him. And all kinders of yours shall wail because of his time. Yes, friend, he's coming out. I hear the bell. Don't you hear those bells of the angels? Don't you hear those angels sing? It is the glorious hallelujah that the Christians can say, rest of us. One of these days we'll see him as he parks the curtain, as he parks the clouds, and Jesus Christ will come to be cured, that all who are saved and born again shall rise to be.
It will be a glorious hallelujah day. But the world is left behind in justice, for justice. That means you were not born again this morning. You who haven't trusted that precious blood is left behind and lost forever. There's no second chance. You've had your day and you've missed it. You've had your opportunity and you didn't grasp it. What are you going to do this morning with the Lord Jesus? What will you do with Jesus? What will your answer be? He's coming up. He's been there nineteen hundred years, but friends, the bells indicate he's coming.
The bells are world events. And the curtains are beginning to move. He's better hurry. He's coming. Are you ready? If you're not born again, I don't care about you being a member of the church. You can be a member of all the churches in Albany, but he doesn't want to roll pin him unless they're born again. Going to the Albany Gospel Chapel, we'll take you a step near heaven unless you know Jesus Christ as your personal Savior. If you baptize in that baptismal tank back there a dozen times, it won't wash away one's sin. It's only the blood of Jesus Christ, God's Son, that sends them all sin. Will you open your heart right now and trust Jesus Christ as your personal Savior?
We never ask people to come up to the front and join this chapel. We ask them to accept Jesus Christ. We'll talk to them later about coming into fellowship. Will you right now, as a lost and guilty sinner, receive Jesus Christ as your Savior, have you born again and ready for Jesus when he comes? Hear the gospel bell. Then you'll be ready for the rapture bell.