Look Up- (Pastor Walter L Pearson Jr.)

breath of life presents experience the power with Walter L Pearson jr. today pastor Pearson's message is entitled look up tonight I want to take you to something that I love I'm gonna try to hold myself down tonight I went through this sermon and found about 15 experienced the power moments I can't put that many and I think I got three I might be able to share with you but tonight is gonna be powerful I believe would you turn in your Bibles to Luke chapter 21 and start with me at about verse 25 Luke chapter 21 and started about verse 25 and tonight the title as you know is look up and the pages are turning and I'm encouraged but I got to move on and there shall be signs in the Sun and in the moon and in the Stars and upon the earth distress of Nations with perplexity the sea and the waves roaring men's hearts failing them for fear for looking after those things which are coming on the earth for the powers of heaven shall be shaken and then shall they see the Son of man coming in a cloud with power and great glory and when these things begin to come to pass then look up and lift up your heads for your Redemption draweth nigh would you pray with me father in heaven tonight we dare not move forward without you send your Holy Spirit to be with us not only to touch the one who speaks tonight but to move up and down aisles of every downlink site send Jesus to be with us he can do that for he can go everywhere and I pray father that you've promised that where two or three are gathered in your name you'd be there so be with us in Jesus name Amen I'll tell you what grabs me so quickly the Bible says that when you see trouble look up normally when you see trouble when things get rough we tend to look down our countenances or downward facing our attitudes face downward but this text says that when things begin to be troubled don't look down but remember what's about to happen I believe that there may actually be a conspiracy and I'm afraid it may be among even some preachers to make people think that the coming of Jesus is something to be afraid of whoever taught me that and I've heard some people who said I've got a warn here Jesus is coming hey if you gotta warn me that's not good any time you bring me a warning that he's coming then that means you think it's going to turn out wrong the Bible says look up because when you see he's about to come your Redemption draws nigh and that's a good thing what do you say I I was preaching I was preaching in Poland before all of these watershed changes occurred I was I was preaching in a time that I didn't recognize was so dangerous I was starting to preach not unlike this series I'm doing now but I was doing it when the Reagan administration was calling on elements within Poland to try and free people to bring democracy in Poland the challenge is that people in the Eastern Bloc thought maybe it was something that came to destabilize their power so with all of these international tensions at their height here's a preacher knowing nobody in Poland going with just a Bible and some sermons to preach the Word of God I got there and evidently some people thought I was part of it I was walking down the street one day and I saw three four then maybe five of my posters couldn't understand the Polish but my throat was cut on the poster you don't have to speak polish to understand that so I went back and I asked my interpreter uh you know saw myself today my throat was cut does that mean anything good here because where I come from that's not a good sign he said well no let's not talk about it a few days later there came an article in the paper and then I said tell me what it said he said no you don't need to know what it says just keep preaching so you know I'm not a rocket scientist but throat cut article in the paper finally I said I will not preach another night until you tell me what it says then I wish I had done what he said they said this guy's got to go this black evangelist has come to stir up trouble he's got a goal when I finished that meeting I went to the airport and a little fellow who spoke only pulled a shy I had learned a little polish but I didn't know enough I said thank you very much genku bottoms oh I said bottoms Oh dobre that means I really appreciate but that wasn't enough to make him go he stayed finally when the pastor came who could speak Polish and English I said why won't he leave and they talked a long time and I said what he said well there's some people in the airport who want to kill you before you leave tell him to stay you stay let's just hug each other I got on a plane and for the only time in my life and I've been flying for maybe thirty six or seven years the plane would not start two soldiers with submachine guns came walking down the aisle I didn't have time to think that they wouldn't have shot me on the plane because it would compromise the skin I only thought this was it so I have already prayed the prayer you know that prayer that you think you might pray one day I prayed it I'm afraid you weren't in it it was very narrow it was just sandy and our two children and me and I said Lord if there's anything you and I need to talk about I think I've got about 30 seconds the only thing that gave me hope was that sandy and I had arranged for her to come in and meet me I've been away from home for over a month under tension the whole time and I couldn't wait to see my wife she was going to come into Poland but we found out if she had come in they would have held her and made me leave that's not a good situation so we decided that she'd meet me in Germany that plane finally started somebody ought to say man it was the most wonderful takeoff I have ever experienced and then I got to that Airport in Germany where I had to leave the secured portion and then I was looking for my wife can you imagine how how I was looking for my wife I've been under all of that pressure my life threatened there were extremists who did in fact intend to kill me but I'm here today to tell you that if God be for you nobody picketing against you but you've got to get to the place where you say Lord if it's for your glory I'm willing to die cuz even if I die in you I'll preach about it eventually I'll rise again but I'll tell you when I got to that Airport and and couldn't see my baby if you call your wife baby that's your thing and I've searched and I would walk up and down I didn't I'd ask where will she come they said we can't tell you but I was searching and finally when I saw her I think she's pretty all the time but that day you know I told you that story if you multiply my desire to see my wife by ten thousand I'll tell you how much I want to see my Jesus I know there are some people hoping that I'll fuss at you they're hoping that I'll say mean things to you but all I want to tell you is that I just wish everybody loved Jesus and expected his appearing as much as I do cuz I've had enough of this we have been blessed to travel around the world I have seen some things with these eyes that you would never imagine for a little country boy who came from Alabama who grew up with bare feet and short pants you'd never imagine that God would take me to all the places that he's taken me sandy and I have been in places that had gold beds we have walked across marble floors people have entertained us with gold flatware we have eaten out of plates that cost more than all of our clothes but everywhere we went there was something wrong this earth will never be perfect again until Jesus comes and even the people who I understand are in that top two or three percent to our multi-billionaires even those people who who they claim are doing better now than ever even they have sorrow every day that they live because money can't cordon you off from sadness disease and death every day of life on this planet the only way that it can be precious and enjoyable dependably is to have it through Christ so tonight what I want to tell you may sound way too personal and if that's so I apologize maybe but what I want to tell you is this I am NOT gonna warn you that Jesus is coming I want to assure you that Jesus is come in fact with the very text that I just read I want to tell you that even when things look bad Jesus says don't let it get you down because when things start to turn downward that's the sign that my coming is even closer so don't look down look up because your Redemption draws nigh the very thing that Christians have hoped for all of our lives is about to happen and whether it happens in our lifetimes or not I am very glad to be among those who look for Jesus coming well for a minute I want to read you some texts that are just powerful uh and I've just passed one of my experience the power moment so it's going to be better go to Acts chapter 1 and verse 9 Acts chapter 1 and verse 9 I want to show you that this thing is not corporate you know there are some people who looked at way too much television I've seen too many B movies and they think that everything has to be televised in fact your imagination has been limited by television and cinematographers well I'll tell you that mine is not when I read the Bible my imagination goes absolutely crazy I asked God to let me peep over into his side let me see some things that are represented by these words that are in God's holy book I believe God can show you stuff that is way better than anything on some movie screen or on a television screen so I get excited I I used to have a little dog who just sat with me and my study I I don't know whether he'll make it to heaven I got to check that out but I'll tell you one thing when I got a hold of a good piece of a sermon he knew it and he'd stand up and I'd look at him and he'd look at me and he was like he understood he got something good over there yep imagine well look at Acts chapter 1 and let's start at verse 9 and when he had spoken this is verse 9 and when he had spoken these things while they beheld he was taken up and a cloud received him out of their sight and while they looked steadfastly towards heaven as he went up behold two men stood by them in white apparel which also said Ye men of Galilee why stand ye gazing up into heaven this same Jesus which is taken up from you into heaven shall so come in like manner as she have seen him going down now you can pass by that nonchalantly if you want to but I'm there I'm standing with them and they're looking up and they see Jesus going up into heaven there must have been an amazing moment because Jesus was not only their their Savior he was not only the son of God in human flesh to them he was their friend and he had assured them of many things before he left but now they look and see him go and as they were staring I imagine there may have been some tearful eyes men don't particularly like to cry publicly but if somebody who truly loved is leaving and they're leaving in this way the drama of his leaving is amazing besides he won't be there anymore not be there to touch and and and talk to in the middle of a night tour go to with your problems and as they were staring at him leaving these beings said to them why are you looking into heaven he's leaving but he's coming back this same Jesus the one you've come to love and to know this same Jesus who gave you hope when it was openness this same Jesus will come in the same way that you see him go so be corporate if you want to I take it personally the disciples thought that they would live to see him come back they did not and many others have lived and died with this hope of seeing Jesus come back again but I will not let it go because I believe what the Bible says I believe that this same Jesus will come back in the same way that they saw him go I guess we'll get to it eventually but he'll come in clouds he'll have a little company we'll talk about it let me take you to John chapter 14 here's one that people think they know so you'll see people looking very aerodynamic or teen and look at the digesta ah forgive me sometimes it's hard for me to preach because I know I'm preaching too many cultures and some of you can't understand my culture my culture gets a little noisy every now and then huh I've got a rule I will not tell you how to react to my preaching if you don't tell me how to preach but still I am aware that some idiosyncrasies of black preaching might rub people the wrong way and there are times when I try my best to be acceptable to you then there are times when I just go ahead and do it the way God tells me to do it so if I happen to do that tonight I hope you'll pray for me look at John chapter 14 if you read this and can't get excited you need to go somewhere and get a spiritual heart transplant because this is Jesus talking to his brothers and sisters and here's what he says let not your heart be troubled did he write that for them or did he write that for now let not your heart be troubled you believe in God believe also in me in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so I would have told you I go to prepare a place for you now I know some of you who take the Bible a step away you just read that with no emotion but I take it personally if Jesus says he made a place for me I could rent houses for the rest of my life with the assurance that I've got one house that doesn't have to have rent break the word translates on wind check to make sure it translates dwelling places that are permanent permanent dwelling places I know I have many wealthy people in the audience who won't understand this but some of us worry about whether we can stay in the house permanently now I'm dividing my audience terrible isn't so if you're in the category with me just sit quietly and nobody will know but some of us don't know whether we'll have the house the whole time when we're renting we certainly don't know but some of us have purchased the house however we are fully aware that should you miss a payment your arrangement could revert to something akin to rent Oh forgive me I'm bringing you down but but Jesus said I'm preparing a permanent dwelling place for you let me get the next part of this it's and if I go to prepare a place for you I will come again and receive you unto myself that where I am there ye may be also now I have a lot of intellectuals talk to me from time to time and they say how do you know you like heaven well I could give them an emotional reaction but I take them to this text Jesus says I'm gonna come back to get you now he could send somebody forgive me I'm having my own personal experience the power moment he could send somebody for me but he says I'm coming personally and I will receive you unto myself that where I am there you will be and I want to tell you something if that's all I knew about heaven that would be enough because Jesus has taken care of me on earth I've never met him in person but everything I've ever needed piece of lie whenever I was in trouble even if he didn't take the trouble away he gave me strength to bear up under it there have been times when nobody else was there to talk to and Jesus was there there are times when I finished my prayer and I stay on my knees because I'm not just praying to him I want to hear from him and I have heard him talk to me so all I need to know is that he's gonna be there and that's heaven for me maybe that's not enough for you let me Titus chapter 2 it I want to read all of these but I can I have this enemy in front of me Titus chapter 2 and verse 13 says this is our Blessed hope listen I am NOT a pie-in-the-sky by and by preacher I do not preach that if you love Jesus just wait you must wait for everything in fact I I believe and you heard me say it the other night that if you returned a faithful tithe and give an offering that God will not wait until you go to heaven he will open the floodgates of heaven excuse me it's a big place it opens slower he will open the floodgates of heaven right now and pour you out a blessing that you won't have room for I believe that God blesses people right now I'm looking at some of you and I know you are blessed a few preachers have borrowed something that I started and this is original if you are alive to know that you are broke you are blessed if your nervous system is capable of telling you that you have a headache you are blessed and if you woke up this morning with nobody having to come and pull you out of your bed don't make the mistake of believing that your alarm clock did it some of you know me too well you know what I'm about to say if you think an alarm clock will wake somebody up take one down to the funeral home so when this Jesus says I'm coming that is my blessed hope because I don't say he will only bless you then that would be the opiate of the people what I tell you is that he blesses us now in fact his rain falls upon the just and the unjust it's just that if you are in the family you get extra blessing is there a witness anywhere close is there a witness anywhere far away so I tell you that while I'm not a preacher who believes in pie-in-the-sky by and by I believe that Jesus blesses at all times but the consummate hope of every Christian is to see Jesus join us next time for more of pastor Pearson's message entitled look up the breath of life television ministry proudly presents a special gift offer this week the desire of Ages the life story of the greatest spiritual leader the world has ever known Jesus Christ desire of Ages goes in-depth into events surrounding the life of Jesus giving you more meaning and a clearer picture of his impact on the world and those who choose to follow him even to this day in these uncertain times desire of Ages gives direction for all who seek it the book answers hard questions confronting us all it examines basic spiritual truths gives hope and encouragement for tomorrow and brings you face to face with the Savior just call our toll-free number 877 Bol 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starting with verse 13 but I would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope for if we believe that Jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in Jesus will God bring with him for this we say to you by the word of the Lord that weed which are alive and remain unto the coming of the Lord shall not prevent them which are asleep I've got to pause just to calm down okay for this we say unto you by the word of the Lord I got to do it again we which are alive and remain unto 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 so when Jesus comes those who have died in Christ shall rise first there is a there was a plot or two out in Inglewood California where my mother and now my father are asleep in Jesus but this text says that that we who are alive and remain shall not prevent them the Lord says I myself will come do you see it there are some things he will not delegate so here's what it says verse 17 then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them 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 if anybody in your family has died with faith in Jesus the Bible says that they will be resurrected when Jesus comes we will not prevent them we will not go before them I've heard wonderful gospel songs that sounded so beautiful but they were bad theology if you get there before I do Bible says the dead will rise the dead in Christ will rise first then we which are alive will be caught up together with them the greatest family reunion that the universe has ever known and so shall we ever be with the do you see why I'm excited about Jesus coming there's some things that have happened since my mother and my father died that I think they deserved to see my mom would have been swept away by this thing that's happening now I don't know what she'd say my dad would be completely torn apart by I don't know whether God will have video to play for them but I wish they could see it but I tell you this if you sit here tonight thinking that the earth will fizzle out in nuclear winter that the atmosphere will become so poisoned that we can't breathe that everybody will have to wear gas masks and then die together in some clump if you think that the ozone layer will be wiped out and that the Sun will heat us so much that will die and heat that's too high for us to handle if you think man's inhumanity to man will continue to be worse and worse until we annihilate each other if you think that people will become angry with their vehicles or their aircraft or their sea crap and take each other out you are wrong before any of that can happen Jesus is gonna come Matthew chapter 24 I got to read this one I got some stuff I can't read but I'll just let you go home and take care of that Matthew chapter 24 if you don't read Matthew 24 when you go home now you will find in Matthew 24 that the disciples went to Jesus and said they asked the question that I would like to ask can you stop well continue to look for Matthew 24 but can you multitask I'm sure all the ladies can you say the men can't hear is what I will say about about this wonderful text Matthew chapter 24 let's read it first and verse 14 and here's what it says and this gospel of the kingdom shall be preached in all the world for a witness unto all nations and then shall the end come now there are people who get upset about this Oh No the end is coming folks let me tell you something if this is your idea of great living that means that you dwell in that great Egyptian River de Nile this admit not for me look I've been blessed I've never been wealthy but God has has given me according to what he says in the Bible some things above that I that I could ask or imagine so for a couple of minutes in my life I've had a big job this isn't it this job is not about money this job is about joy let me tell you all those big-time preachers could buy and sell me before breakfast but they are not happier than I am because I've got peace that surpasses understanding that my job is not about the size of a paycheck it's it's I enjoy but this text is that if you are part of the process that spreads the gospel to every kindred and nation and tongue and people you are helping to bring the day when the in regard and when the end comes that's not a bad thing that's a good thing because before the end comes Jesus will come and I tell you tonight that you are now part of the process guess what you've been going home I don't have to ask you I know you have been going home telling your family and friends what we've been reading from the Bible so you're part of it and we are downlinked all around like I can't keep up with the numbers of places where we're down linked but I can tell you this we are part of the process because all people need to know is that good news is coming and the good news is that Jesus is about to come and redeem those who love him and that's all you need to do now let me let me get to Hebrews chapter 9 I'm reading this from the NIV that's why I'm not looking it up Hebrews chapter 9 in verse 28 here's what it says so Christ was sacrificed once to take away the sins of many people and he will appear a second time not to bear sin but to bring salvation to those who are waiting for him I need to remind you of something and that is this Jesus is not coming back for people who in and of themselves are perfect we've read it to you now more than once Jesus is coming back for family members those who have been born again into the family of God not because you're perfect no one on this earth is perfect the only perfect servant of God lived and was crucified and went to sit at the right hand of his father so tonight the Blessed hope is that ordinary people who allow themselves to be adopted into the family of God who allow the divine nature to be placed in us by the birth the rebirth through water and blood by the power of the Holy Spirit you remember we described it wind blowing you can't see it that's how it happens but the wind blows a little a little a little and then a lot and you are changed from who you used to be your will your attachments your appetites your activities are moderated because you want to be like your father your big brother and the Holy Spirit so people in heaven are not going to be people who were already perfect there'll be people like Zacchaeus who got a call to come down out of the tree and Jesus went home with him and his presence in the house made the difference the coming of Christ is going to be amazing because you will not have to see it on any television screen Revelation chapter one and verse seven says every eye shall see him in fact just before that look at verse verse preceding it verse six if you hear that Jesus is there don't believe it if you hear Jesus came a certain place don't believe it because when he comes you won't have to worry about that in fact Matthew chapter 24 and verse 27 Matthew chapter 24 and verse 27 and I'm going to war with my clock but I got something I'm going to share with you before we go I got one more experienced the power moment Matthew chapter 24 and verse 27 and here's what it says if I can have yes for is the Lightning cometh out of the east and shine it even unto the West so shall also the coming of the Son of man be so look at verse 26 wherefore if they say unto you behold he is in the desert go not fool behold he is in secret chambers believe it not because nobody will have to tell you that Jesus is coming now here I must say to you is the down side for some people who believe and have been convinced that the coming of Christ is a bad thing the fact is that in Matthew chapter 24 in verse 4 verse 42 and verse 44 we have a triumvirate of warnings and these warnings are to a specific class of people and I'll tell you exactly who they are it says in verse 4 take heed it says in verse 42 watch it says in verse 44 be ready this crisis is stealing gradually upon us as we go about our daily activities and those who sincerely look for the coming of Christ we'll be ready because we know what the Bible says it says that those who love Jesus will be able to tell by the signs that is coming Matthew chapter 24 verses 6 & 7 says that there will be Wars and international tensions have we got that I don't want to talk about the political issues surrounding Iraq whether you were for it or not you must confess that it has changed our world this this strange cultural clash will not go away in fact it has elements within it that make it larger than life we toss around the word Armageddon we have used it and overused it so much that we have drained all the meaning out of it but it is not a normal war it is not a physical conflict only it is a conflict of major proportions it is a war between good and evil of righteousness against wickedness and we may have finally come to the moment when we are on the brink of that war the Bible says Luke chapter 21 verse 11 and mark 13 verses 7 and 8 that there will be famines and natural disasters as we sit here tonight most of us overfed like there's somebody who can barely stay awake to hear me as much as I move around and raise my voice because you ate way too much and what you need is that back ahead but why we sit here overfed there are places in the world where children's bellies bloat because they can't get enough their growth is stunted their eyes bulge out and these babies are all different kinds of colors you can't imagine where they are there are children who live picking up trash off the streets and out of trash bins while we sit into one of the wealthiest countries on the face of the earth and the Bible says when that happens it's a sign when the weather gets different I would be very narrow to preach to this audience about the storms that have come to America but if you live in the Caribbean you could tell us stories about those storms because they all generate not far away from the Caribbean and then they move our way but now they have come with such such strange rapidity and they come in the same places I have a friend who owns a home in the path of the last three and he doesn't know what to do should I fix the house or just let it stay there and somebody says there's something wrong there's not something wrong there's something right these are signs to tell you that Jesus is about to come and and the problem is this that's some people even when they see that and if you look in second Timothy starting chapter three verses one through five it'll tell you about all the problems within our culture you'll be surprised I believe to know that the Bible understood them way back then and there are some people listen to me and these are the only people who need to be afraid if you know what God offers and you will not accept if you know that He loves you for no reason at all and that his love reaches out to you that His grace pursues you but instead of allowing him to change you you run in the other direction the only people who need to be worried are the ones who will not allow Jesus to transform them into a new being if you push God out of your life if you will not let him love you because that's all he wants to do he will change you with a power from without that comes within to make you able to do anything that he asks and those are the ones who are in trouble look at second Thessalonians chapter one and I'll read you this and then I've got a story to tell you second Thessalonians chapter one start with verse verse seven and to you who are troubled rest with us when the Lord Jesus shall be revealed from heaven with his mighty angels in flaming fire taking vengeance on them that know not God and that obey not the gospel of our Lord Jesus Christ who shall be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord from the glory of his power when he shall come to be glorified in his Saints and to be admired all them that believe because our testimony among you was believed in that day in other words the question is simple when it's in the Word of God when it applies to everybody when you could be as wicked as the kiyose and Jesus would call you by name but you refuse it it would be the equivalent of the kiyose saying when Jesus approached history and said Zacchaeus I want to go to your house no no I don't have any company with people like you I only came to watch the kinds of people who need to worry about Jesus coming are the kinds of people who lock the door against a loving Christ who wants to come in and make you ready for a kingdom that is beyond belief I I got a call from my my grandmother my grandmother has since deceased I hadn't seen her in ages I told his story about 15 years ago when the long version this is going to be the short one she said son I'm not eating the right food I'm not getting treated well and you're the only one who I can call come visit me and bring me some things to eat and I just need to see you well my grandmother had lived with us there's nothing more powerful than having that generation in the house my grandmother you know grandparents don't have to chasten you they they're finished with that phase of their parenting so they are just wonderful in sweet my grandmother had arthritis and she was in a wheelchair my brother and I would sit beside a wheelchair when the Sun would rise in the morning because something amazing happened she she would be aching and the pains would be getting more than she could bear and she would sing hymns and wait for the Sun to warm her until the Arthritis gave in to the beams of the Sun so she would sing with tears running down her face and we say grandmother why are you crying she said awesome and we knew that was authorized and then her tears would go away and she'd sing with a smile and we say grandmother why are you smiling she'd say because Jesus has taken my pain away we love grandmother so when she said come I was ready to come I just bought a brand-new Buick does anybody remember when preachers used to love Buicks I'm not talking about those tiny little Buicks I'm talking about this view it I said grandmother how do I get to she said called call my brother I called him I said uncle how do I get to he said look here's what you got to do you get on a four lane for a while he said you're gonna make a turn onto a two lane he said he got on a two lane it's now paid I thought about my car but just his grandmother and he said then you're gonna turn off on a little path and then he said jr. when you're almost here you're gonna get to a place where the tractor made two little cuts he said in and you know when you get this there's gonna be kind of rough but you know you're almost here and I remember my wife was riding with me she was helping to make the payments on the Buick we were fine on the four-lane fine on two-lane fine on the dirt road even okay on the pass and then we made that turn into the tractor I was afraid to look at her it was our brand-new car and instead of getting upset I was smiling cuz I knew that with every bump in the tractor path I was closer to Grandma so the trials of that trip did not make me upset they got me excited because the rougher the drive the closer I was the grandma you did that all by yourself I didn't have to help you go to first John chapter 3 the last one that I'll be able to give you first John chapter 3 I tell you that the rougher things get the closer we are to the coming of Jesus Christ so don't be upset at me if I don't get down in the dumps with you because I know the roof of this trip is the closer we are to the coming of Jesus Christ and when he comes all of this will be changed in a moment in the twinkling of an eye the fact is that government all of these challenges we have with government will disappear for the government shall be upon his shoulders and he shall reign forever and ever I'll never have to worry about the problems of an election again for when he is installed in office that would be no more leadership well let me read this this is John 1st John chapter 3 behold what manner of love the father hath bestowed upon us that we should be called the sons of God therefore the world knoweth us not because it knew him not beloved now are we the sons of God and it does not not appear what we shall be but we know that when he shall appear we shall be like him for we shall see him as he is now here's my last experience the power moment verse 2 says beloved now are we the sons of God do you know what that text means still imperfect still struggling with habits that I ought not need to struggle with I am accepted in heaven because Jesus my big brother is there now am i a child of God what has happened is that my relationship with Jesus has given him the confidence to go into heaven to represent me if God looked beyond Jesus and saw me back there he would have to ask Jesus what is he been how did he get back there but since God trusts his son I am covered with Jesus righteousness I am covered with his protection so God the Father accepts me because my big brother says I'm gonna be ready when it comes back to get me again join us next time for more breath of life with pastor Walter L Pearson jr. the breath of life television ministry proudly presents a special gift offer this week the desire of Ages the life story of the greatest spiritual leader the world has ever known Jesus Christ desire of Ages goes in-depth into events surrounding the life of Jesus giving you more meaning and a clearer picture of his impact on the world and those who choose to follow him even to this day in these uncertain times desire of Ages gives direction for all who seek you the book answers hard questions confronting us all it examines basic spiritual truths gives hope and encouragement for tomorrow and brings you face to face with the Savior just call our toll-free number 877 Bol offered that's eight seven seven two six five six three three three and ask for your copy of desire of Ages the book is yours for a gift of five dollars or more or you may write to breath of life p.o box nine seven one nine two washington DC to zero zero seven seven the desire of Ages it's the greatest story ever told in a whole new light

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Length: 57min 15sec (3435 seconds)

Published: Fri Jun 10 2011