So Great Salvation

thank you the sigga sigga thank [Applause] thank you be seated fine [Applause] thank you I wish I wish everybody knew dr. Bob gray personally in the pulpit he's a mountain lion personally he's a pussycat he is one of the gentlest men I know and one most unselfish man I know they're not many men who do the work that God is doing bow to an older man like me and give him the respect that he gives to me he's a loyal man he's me he never wavers loyalty almost every time I'm here since I say this but I always want to say it I was on July 4th 1976 word had gotten out that I and jack van impe would be killed was the 200th birthday of our nation his back when jack van impe was a gospel preacher instead of a fortune-teller and I I the word got out that you and I were gonna be killed that day on the the Communists had put me on their top-10 list of wanted people wonderful he wanted and my family was frantic literally frantic my people were friendiy even came out on the news on radio station that rumor was that i'd be assassinated on the 200th birthday of America and being pastor that already for two years our church even the largest in America I was talked into doing something I've never done before I'm sure since I wore a bulletproof vest the church that morning now you think I have long now but that's all me folks and I walked out of my house wondering if I'd walk in again I was to be killed that day I walked out of the house to leave to go to church that Sunday morning July 4th 1976 so walked out there was one of our college students standing at the car and he said nobody's gonna get my preacher and his name was Bob gray don't you say anything bad about Bob gray to me fact is I have to write about a book of the year getting him out of trouble I've really had to write a book on baptism ever since he started baptizing babies but I I do not know a kinder gentler man that dr. Bob gray I mean that a little bit early I've got witnesses where I'm gonna say the fundamentalist conference committee was on a airplane my travel agent had gotten us had gotten us upgraded to first class free of charge we're up then in the first class section big 747 plane they've got all these pretty sturdy systems you got one that's over all the rest of them we were up there in the air about five hours out in the ocean going to Philippine Islands and the the stewardess [Music] [Applause] and the stewardess walked up the head the head gal the head one very attractive oriental she walked up in these and mccain's would you vouch for this she said she said to dr. Bob grace he said may article you [Applause] and she lives down by one I want mrs. gray I want to I want to alleviate your fears she's down and touched him and he said listen lady I'm giving you 15 minutes to get your hands off [Applause] now the last part of that story is not true but the first part is sheep deer over some reason say can i tickle you please and dr. gray was the envy of all the group there on the airplane that day some folks have it and some don't I've had it but so have you I'm I'm not trying to cause him trouble now at all [Applause] I'm just not the kind that likes to cause trouble but I would suggest that mrs. gray accompany with a gray on his trips overseas from now on not to mention we got to Tokyo virile Eve in Tokyo and yeah they had these two lines they frisked yeah I mean like this frisket and they had these two lines line over here was for the me and the line over here is for the women well dr. gray didn't see the sign men and women over here [Applause] so I syphilis said I simply said brother gray that's your line over there and the rest you can use your own imagination but I practiced what he preached tonight I tried to reclaim the fallen man I mean I don't know a nicer guy you just won't find a nicer guy better friend or more thoughtful person and dr. Bob gray you know thank you for the job being here once again this great conference I rejoice in it John Wester said the world is my parish and now for these many years the entire country has been my parish and I certainly rejoice I mean that I rejoice when God's blessings are upon a place like this and to see this this great conference growing like this is wonderful open your Bibles please book of Hebrews dr. gray lacks for me to preach my old sermons when I'm here and a lot of sermons I don't preach any more last generation heard them but this generation hasn't and this morning I preached a new one tonight I'm gonna preach an old one dr. gray often asked me to preach an old sermon like I did last night I want to speak tonight from Hebrews chapter 2 verse number one therefore we notice the first-person plural not they but we ought to give the more earnest heed to the things which we have we notice the we first-person have heard lest at any time we should let them slip notice the word we we should let them slip but if the words spoken by Angels were steadfast and every transgression and disobedience received a just recompense a reward how shall we notice the word we first-person there including the author escape if we neglect so great salvation which of the first began it is spoken with the Lord and was confirmed into them unto us notice that word us by them that heard him you need not turn to it but I read the very famous passage wherefore seeing we also accomplished about with so great a cloud of witnesses let us lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us and let us run didn't say that us trot said that it's run didn't say let's jog it's a little wrong didn't say let us walk said that it's wrong with patience how that doesn't mean you just barely run the patience there's not talking about barely run it's all it runs fast you can if you don't get to get to the finish line keep on running as fast you can be patient the race that is set before us I want to talk tonight hey by the way these fellows of Allah goal that got these awards for baptisms I'm gonna tell you tonight why they got them and some of you didn't always understand me some of the finest churches I know or we out in the country and you you you you're just doing a wonderful job and I think the greatest preaching in the world's done out the country churches but I want to tell you the difference tonight between goodness and greatness I'm gonna tell you the difference tonight why is some preachers and some churches go so far and just so far and I'm gonna tell you tonight I promise you that if you'll do what I'm preaching tonight I'll promise you every Church here would increase your baptisms by it scores next year and numbers of you by hundreds next year our Heavenly Father I want to be a blessing five weeks ago I started praying for this meeting as I do for all of my meetings and not one time have I prayed for eloquence not one time have I even prayed for a good sermon but I've prayed numbers of times a day for five weeks and my prayer basically has been helped me to be a blessing bless these next few moments transform somebody's life please I was thinking tonight adopt that meeting up in South Bend Indiana years ago when a young man named Bob gray sitting down on the front first time he ever heard me or dr. John Rice preach and other times give me gimme a bob great tonight transform somebody's life amen as is the case as is the case most of my sermons I hate that microphone as it is the case in most of my sermons I start off teaching a little bit and then end up preaching those of you that get little bored during my teaching let me assure you that when I start preaching you'll wish I was back to teaching how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation when I was pastoring 20 miles from here nearly 50 years ago I had a sermon on that I preached to all over East Texas you cannot you cannot travel down a country road without seeing a place where I preached in churches parks underbrush harbors tents you will see my trails all over this East Texas area and everywhere I preached revivals as I did so often in those days almost a half-century ago I had a sermon called how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation that sermon was interpreted like most preachers interpret this verse and I sit in that sermon as most preachers do when they preached on this text how shall we escape if we neglect being saved how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation if we neglect accepting Christ how shall we escape now I do not think that that interpretation doesn't injustice to the scripture I don't think God is displeased when the scripture is preached from that vantage point however I do not think that's the mean teaching main teaching of Hebrews two three four it says how shall we escape if we so whoever wrote the book of Hebrews was including himself possibly as an escapee a neglecting so great salvation are not being able to stay I do not know who wrote Hebrews but I probably was a Christian wouldn't you think I think Paul wrote Hebrews if he didn't I think Barnabas did if he didn't I think my third choice would be Titus if Barnabas Paul or Titus neither of those wrote Hebrews I think that John our Rice did whoever wrote it whether it was Paul or Titus or Barnabas of John our race at least I know one thing he was saved so in the Apostle Paul I think whoever old Hebrews said how shall we escape he was realizing that he was included here here was some kind of a neglecting salvation that Paul could do or that the a Christian could do how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation now let me explain what it means Paul was writing this passage to the Hebrew Christians they were already saved Paul was admonishing them to keep on growing in the Grace and knowledge of our Lord Jesus Christ I'm pressing on the upward way new heights I'm gaining every day still praying as I onward bound Lord plant my feet on higher ground Lord lift me up and let me stand by faith on heaven's table land a higher plane that I have found Lord plant my feet on higher ground the Apostle Paul was saying that he's new Hebrew Christians now that you're saved don't just sit down and do nothing about it he was saying exactly what this good man said a while ago he was saying don't neglect the salvation that you have he used as an illustration the children of Israel they had left the land of Egypt had been saved was so great a salvation they had crossed the Red Sea on dry ground and seen the armies of Egypt buried by the waters of the Red Sea they receive manna from heaven that received the water from the rock in Horeb they were led by a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night and God said that so great a salvation now they walked they went across the wilderness and came to the door of the promised land they made a mistake they sent out a committee it's always a mistake to appoint a committee says nobody said a committee is a group of the unprepared or unqualified to do the unnecessary who read the minutes and waste the hours somebody else has said that a camel is a horse a symbol by Baptist committee they sent out a committee of 12 and they came back and there's all committees do they voted not to divert against progress and not to go in the Promised Land now God call vet neglecting so great salvation you see the promised land is not a symbol of heaven the promised land is assembled the spirit filled life Egypt is a symbol of the natural man the wilderness is a symbol of the carnal Christian and the promised land is a symbol of the spiritual Christian and the Apostle Paul is saying here these Israelites neglected so great salvation it was so great that they were saved from Egypt with the Passover lamb and the death angel who walked became over in the night time it was so great they walked over the Red Sea on dry ground it was so great that the Egyptian armies were baptized permanently in the waters of the Red Sea it was so great if they were led by pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night it was so great that there they were fed every day but what are they vitamin tablets it fell from heaven and covered the ground like the dew of the morning it was so great that they were given water with a smitten rock in Horeb and God said it's such a great salvation you'll not escape if you don't get inside that promised land if you don't go inside you will and have neglected so great salvation and you will not escape the judgment and wrath of Almighty God and God put them in the wilderness for 40 years and they wandered for 40 long miserable wretched years why because they neglected so great salvation and God comes to you tonight and said I've given you so great a salvation how dare you neglect that salvation let me take a little homespun illustration or two and see if I can explain it where you can understand it even the preachers we have four children our son David's here tonight how oldest daughters named Becky Becky is now 44 years of age when Becky was a freshman in high school she came to me in early December and she said daddy could have asked you for anything I want to ask you for Christmas and I said yes puddin I called all the girls puddin I said yes puddin what is she jerked off for Christmas she said daddy could have have a Hammond organ for Christmas I said a what is what she said a Hammond organ I said if I didn't know better I think you asked me for a Hammond organ for Christmas I thought about a doll maybe or a checker game Hammond organ you know what they cost and even those days I knew Hammond organ called 1695 dollars now they cost more than that now we're talking about that in the in the early days of American history and she said daddy you know I can play the piano I'm an accomplished pianist I'm more just a freshman in high school but you know I'm an accomplished pianist and daddy if you'd let me learn to play the organ I'd do it for the glory of god I hate these spiritual arguments I said pudding I cannot buy you a Hammond organ she said if you loved me you would I said naw for Lovejoy I wouldn't so I could buy your food and pay the I'll pay the house rent and the bills I'm not gonna get you a Hammond organ when Becky was a sophomore in high school she came to me in early December she said daddy could ask if anything I want for Christmas I said yes you mean she said could I have a Hammond organ I said no puddin I told you last year she said that was for last year Danny I said that was for last year and this year then next year and in the in the judgement seat in the marriage of the lamb and the Millennium at the New Jerusalem she said daddy I died sir I honored Jesus I don't come to me with that kind of stuff pudding I'm not gonna buy you a Hammond organ when Becky was a junior in high school she came to me an early December daddy to ask you for anything I want for Christmas I said yes you made she said could I have a Hammond organ for Christmas I said no I told you two years ago I told you last year I'll tell you this year I am NOT going to ever buy you a cotton-picking Hammond organ when Becky was a senior in high school she said daddy I said what it was early December I have grown to hate early December she said daddy I said what is it she said isn't your hair getting thicker acet pudding how would you like to have a Hammond organ for Christmas this year I line up I went down to Nelson piano company music company and bought Vecchia hammond organ $40 down $40 a month into the 500 year the millennium every month Christmas morning came ho ho ho ho everybody Merry Christmas I ruled an organ from the garage into the living room then Becky said Oh teddy Oh daddy I love you I love you I love you I never thought you'd do it I said me neither she say old daddy I love you I said now you sit down I won't talk to you a minute I said look at that Hammond organ and that bench cost me sixteen hundred and ninety five dollars I won't tell you don't you neglect that's it that's also expensive gift I've ever given anybody don't you neglect so great a gift you keep that organ dusted you keep that organ polished you keep that bench dusted you keep that bench polished and woe be to you if you neglect that gift that I've given to you that's exactly what God is saying in Hebrews chapter 2 and verse 3 he's saying the greatest price I have paid for anything for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son he said the greatest price I've ever paid for anything was the price I paid for your salvation it's so great a salvation and God said how dare you neglect so great salvation how dare you set it home on Sunday night and watch a dumb basketball game Paula I have so great salvation how dare you stay home on Wednesday night to get a little rest when you preach they're teaching the Word of God when I gave you such great cells so great salvation how dare you sit there and rob god of the tithes and offerings but I gave you so great salvation how dare you little lost world go to hell while you have the message of saving grace given to you when you have so great salvation God is saying I gave you the greatest gift ever given a mankind now God to you and you'll not escape if you neglect so great salvation how dare you said home what's the dirtiest dope opera soap operas when you have so great salvation how dare you sit at home watch the dirty movies on the television said Pargo see him in the movie house now or have a blockbuster card how dare you God said I gave you such a great salvation God said don't unit length so great salvation our baby girl Cindy she's now 36 years old Cindy was a six years old she came to me in early December I decided the next year to cancel early December she said daddy could have asked you for anything I want for Christmas I said what is it she's I'd like to have my first strand new bicycle I said that's no problem at all I think you're old enough to have your first bicycle I went down to the best bicycle shop both the best bicycle a swing bicycle that they're all Northwest Indiana the best one for a six year old girl on Christmas morning open the garage door rolled it in ladies and gentlemen I don't care how old you are you will never forget that first new bicycle you ever had I'll be 70 years of age on September 25th and is this vivid to me as it was the day I saw it that first brand spankin new bicycle I was 37 years old at the time we're old that new bicycle in Cindy said old daddy oh I love you you're the greatest daddy you know a world some cheaper way to be the greatest daddy in the whole world I said now puddin you take care of that bicycle two weeks past I was preaching in Denver Colorado fluke we're all people live I flew home during the night back to the days when you could get a plane out of most anywhere late at night back in those days I flew home during the night 20 inches of snow on the ground 12 degrees below zero oh I just love it when I read the paper that you've got a snow down here I just love it I beg God to help you freeze to death last night in Hammond Indiana got 38 degrees we had snow flurries last week we don't have any leaves on the stupid trees yet we have two seasons winter in August that's all yeah I came home 12 below zero 20 inches of snow on the ground about three o'clock in the morning would you like to know what I saw sticking out about 18 inches or out of the snow handlebar on the best bicycle in Lake County Indiana you said you dig it out not on your cotton-picking life that I dig it out I ran inside the house ran upstairs to send this room open the door ran in the room turned on the light grabbed it for the jump at NAPA from Thomas Hildreth eyeball-to-eyeball and said how shall you escape if you neglect so great a bicycle then what are you talking you know what I'm talking about best bicycle Lake County Indiana for a six-year-old child he's out there in the snow baptized in the stupid soul get out of bed get out stairs put on your boots put on your hand put on your ear muffs put on your coat get out in the garage and get the shovel and stick get bicycle out of the snow you say that's child abuse you better know it or this generation of ours needs a little abuse I'll really miss you God comes tonight and God says to you preachers how dare you let your members get by with most anything they want to do when I had gave you so great salvation God says to you deacons tonight how dare you think you're God's gift to Wall Street and you think that you're supposed to run the church business while a world goes to hell and God says how dare you neglect so great salvation ladies and gentlemen America needs a generation of old fashioned Christian people who are sold out to God who realize that Jesus Christ paid the price the brainiest price never pay and God says tonight how dare you neglect so great salvation how great is this salvation so great so describes the infinity soul means you can't describe how great it is Acts chapter 14 and verse 1 it says they so spake that multitudes believed John 3:16 for God so loved the world how much did God love the world there's no way to describe with human vocabulary how much God loved the world could we repeat the ocean fill where the sky apartment made where every stalk on earth a quill every man described by trade to rifle of of God above would drain the ocean dry nor could the whole contained the scroll though stress from Sky to sky no way to tell it God so loved the world you said your wife I love you so much that means you cannot tell her how much you love her beyond human description and my Bible says salvation is so great how great is this salvation it's so great well how great God said I cannot tell you in a language you'd understand it's just so great that's all how great is this salvation so great before there was ever a world before there was ever a mountain or a valley our ocean or a river before there was ever a tree before there were several flower before there was ever a peach through a fish or bird of the air god looked down through his telescopic prophetic zealous telescope and God saw that man was going to become a sinner God saw that Adam and Eve were going to sin the Garden of Eden and though God never chooses anybody to go to hell or anybody to go to heaven God by his foreknowledge knew that man was going to sin and God said I've got to have conceived a plan and God's only son said father you let me do it I'll go to earth and how I'll become the Saviour now pay the price ladies and gentlemen that little salvation you're pitting around with that little salvation you won't even come to church for a little salvation you wear your shorts over that little salvation you live in a happy and a half off hey they have hard half cold milk and cider push their foot near tickling back-scratching penny-pinching nickel dipping sauce open pink tea lemonade Christianity that salvation was for thought in the mind of Almighty God before the foundation was laid for the world Jesus said how cool every part of the Bible the Old Testament pointed to the time when Jesus would come God gave us this wonderful book this book is nothing more than a series of Flyers saying Jesus is going to come it's a series of advertisements for page hands saying Jesus is going to come and God told us that he would come in Genesis he's called the promised sea in Exodus he's the Passover lamb in Leviticus he's the scapegoat in numbers he's the brazen serpent Deuteronomy he's the great lawgiver Joshua he's prophet priest and King in judges he's the judge of all the universe in Ruth he's the kinsman redeemer in Samuel he's the Prophet pre he's the owner of Kings in Kings he's king of kings and Lord of lords in Chronicles he's the great historian in Ezra he's rebuilder of the temple in Nehemiah the rebuild of the all in Esther he's a savior the Jews in Joel befriend this ticket for sir than her brother in Psalms he's the song of the ages in proverbs he's the truth he SAS teased the great preacher Song of Solomon a wonderful lover Isaiah he's wonderful counselor mighty God everlasting father Prince of Peace in Jeremiah he's the weeping prophet in Ezekiel he's the rebuilder of the Millennial temple in Daniel he's a stone cut out without hands metal break in pieces the kingdoms of this world and establish the kingdom that'll cover the earth of the knowledge of God as the waters cover the sea in Hosea he's a spurned but forgiving lover the Minor Prophets he's the one coming in Bethlehem of Judah Matthew the King of Kings marked the suffering servant Luke the son of man John the son of God it acts he's a power of the church Romans the dynamite of the gospel and Corinthians he's restored the carnal nature Galatians he's there in Vail in Ephesians he's the heavenly one in Philippians our sufficiency in Colossians the great shadow Thessalonians our coming King in Timothy are great appearing God in Titus Our Blessed hope in Hebrews he's best of all in James of fulfill of the law in Peter he's the rock of ages' pith from he in John he's the assurance of my salvation in Jude the waters able to keep me from falling and presently faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy revelation he's the one saddled on a white horse coming back to earth first Atlas his kingdom honor you listen to me [Applause] God pity of this generation milk insider Christian people don't you criticize that man or I tell you you're a beat him out there the feel yourself as pastoring in Garland Texas we're a nut nurture CH that's him name was Elsie McCain Elsie one day slip on his side his brain fell out of his ear cheese had fallen out of the sandwich he had an elevated but didn't go to the top floor hit a white sport coat where everywhere he went every time he came to church for six in the years and a half wore the same white sport killer headache on it had egg the yellow of egg on that coat had been there it came from the hen in the ark that's back before we had a chick ministry I have to say folks let's have a testimony Elsie McCain was the first one up he to say the same thing ever time I will thank Lord the list for this point home thank Lord feed my toe lift me out of the miry clay and fit my full my father rock that if my going next time it have a testimony Elsie was up saying why coat same egg can lead to the same hand I won't thank Lord to fame I thought lift me out admired clay fit me on the father Rodney Sabbath Michael ones next time I say it's have tested him on meeting up LC would jump I will fake water feed my soul lift me automatically that my phone fire rocker ffedith my goeth one day I had a millionaire came to my church but it came through my church millionaires don't come to my church they come through my church I've heard about these fellows they say you know how is out winners don't want a soul to Christ and the guy took me out in the backyard dug a hole there was a shoebox with a million dollars he said preach I want the church to have it never works out that way for me everybody I went to Christ I gotta bail him out of jail to get him baptized this millionaire team he said preacher I'm disgusted I said what about he sells he became he I bring my my my business associates to church I don't mind him hearing you preach but because they know you got some sense but every time you have a testimony it's the same thing same guy same coat same egg same hen same word don't thank Lord and if they might dole it yeah my clearance that my for a follow up the Sabbath my : and you said I'm sick of it I'm sick of it every time we have one he jumps up before anybody else and I was down with Famer theme I thought it now my truth about full rock that by going I said I'm sick of it too you are well praise God you agree with me I said that is at all I've got a plan to stop it well he said good what is it I said next time beat him up are you listening to me you've been saved from the same hell I've been saying from your name is written in the same book that my name is written there you've been washed in the same blood that I've been washed in your going to the same heaven I'm going to and it's time you get off the golf course in a while off the fishing hole over and out of the out of the hunting of woods a while and it's time you got busy about this matter being a solar how shall we escape if we neglect so great salvation I know I saw you're saying you're saying those guys dinner baptized all those converts when how many em were sincere same percentage of your for coursing I baptized a thousand were a thousand sincere you baptized for they weren't for sincere either now you listen to me God gave His Son Jesus gave His life and God said how dare you neglect your brain cells [Applause] in the fullness of time in the fullness of time how great was this salvation so great in the fullness of time Mary brought forth her firstborn son wrapped in swaddling clothes and laid it in a manger how great was this salvation so great that angels came and announced the shepherds watching their flocks by night that the Son of God was come Emmanuel God with us how great was this salvation so great that wise men came afar and brought the gifts of gold frankincense and myrrh and laid them at the feet of the Christ child how great was this salvation so great there lived on earth for thirty-three homesick years birds had their nest foxes had their holes son they had no place to lay his head how great was this salvation so great that the perfect blameless sinless son of God without blame without sin without wrong without unrighteous without evil the blameless son of God rejected by his own race they attracted and none misunderstood by his own family excommunicated from his own synagogue expel from his hometown hated by his own City crucified by those for whom he died how great is this salvation so great the Son of God was beaten with the cat of nine tails how great so great they may be a bark King out of him they said this is the King of the Jews but he had no throne with a cross he had no crown but a crown of thorns he had no sceptre but a walking stick and no royal robe but a soldier's overcoat he had no subjects but a jeering mob but he was the king of kings and Lord of lords how great the King of glory was mocked as a earthly King and they made fun of him how great was this salvation so great he dipped his own soul the torments of Hell and paid the price for your sin don't you sit there and criticize these soul winners you sorry Pharisee you don't you sit there and criticize he's been trying to get folks out of hell don't you sit there and criticize these bus workers and get up at 4 o'clock on Saturday morning [Applause] don't you set table if you Fair Circle phylacteries raped around your back slidden body and criticized these folks but it's hot when it's cold well it's 100 degrees when it's zero degrees when it's raining when it's snowing when the sun is shining for hour upon hour upon hour why are you watching the Bulls play the somebody else's I can't think of another team I don't watch it that much but there you are sitting there watching the ballgame you sorry Pharisee get off your blessed insurance get out there you've got the same salvation I had how great how great was this salvation so great that Joseph of Arimathea came and wrapped his body in preparing for be real how great was the salvation so great that they put him in Joseph's borrowed tomb how great was this salvation so great that for three days and three nights his body lay in their tomb how great was the salvation so great that after three days and three nights the devil could not keep him sin to not bind him the grave could not hold him from the grave he rose with a mighty Trier for his fools he arose a victor from the dark movie he lives forever with his Saints to reign how great is this salvation how great is this salvation so great he goes out to Olives mount raises his hand toward heaven after given the Great Commission that you disobey raised his hands toward heaven and ascended back to the Father how great is this salvation so great that tonight he sits on the right hand of the Father looking down at the mercy seat where the very blood that was once in his veins can be seen by his eyes boy I wonder if if MacArthur gets there I want to take him on a guided tour I want to show him the blood of Jesus he doesn't get drama right even telling you that where are you telling for me now you say what you want to say and you can call us fanatical all you want to call us what in the world's an old man almost 70 years of age doing hollering and screaming up here I can be down in Florida with a pair of Bermuda shorts on playing shuffleboard watching my wife's varicose veins get bigger what's an old man doing pastor the church and laying out before his people about a month ago the 10-year plan for the next 10 years tonight 80 years of these I'll tell you why there beats in my breast so great a salvation how great how great is this salvation so great so great at any moment the force of the Archangel shall pierce the heavens and the Trump of God shall sound and not a mob was going to come out and 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John R is going to come out and brother Lester is gonna come out drinking carrot juice but the gray is gonna come out drinking coffee being tickled were one of the Angels how great is this salvation so great that when the dead in Christ rise we mature alive and remain shall join them and he caught up together with him the clouds and so shall we and here's the best line in the Bible so shall we ever be with the Lord how great is this salvation so great we're gonna stand before the judgment seat of Christ how great is this salvation so great he's gonna do exactly what you've been doing here he'll be passing out crowns how great is this salvation so great we'll take our crowns off and throw them at his feet and say we're not worthy now how old aren't worth receive glory and honor and power how great is his salvation so great we're gonna get married to Jesus how great is his salvation so great we're all gonna saddle on white horses Heaven's cavalry were they Heaven's cavalry how great is this salvation so great we're gonna come back to earth the capital city won't be Washington Tokyo or London or Paris it'll be little of Jerusalem and Jesus shall reign we're here the Sun does this successive journeys run and the mayor of Longview will be named gray and the mayor of Hammond Indiana B Nia miles and we Giroux and reign for a thousand years how great is this salvation so great we look up and see the holy city New Jerusalem coming down from God out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for a husband how great is this salvation out it's so greatest time you quit playing Christianity I'm you cut off your blessed assurance and get out and did something for God it's time you built a sunday-school class it's time you built a bus route it's time you got warts on your knuckles from knocking on doors or warts on your finger from pushing doorbells how great I'll tell you how great it's so great that Jehovah God gave His only Son and he says to you don't you neglect so great salvation now God said don't neglect it I said your God how do you neglect it he said but not running the race well what's keeping me from running the race he said two things sin and waves sin and waves mother Danny I can outrun any Mexican in the world you're gonna run a race the shape you're in you'll be a five yard dash we'll give you a break halfway through the race tomorrow morning six o'clock okay long morning six o'clock we're gonna run a race okay okay next morning tomorrow morning I get up get out there ready to run boy I got my sweat suit on ready to go tennis shoes on here comes ol Artie's boy Ohio's of how you do it you know how Mexicans wake up in the morning he said when I'm a Puerto Rican I said poor Rican in number the second hand Mexican [Applause] so he says remember how a runner race I say brother Danny where have you been I've been in Gus's guzzlin place Oh not wrong mask your question you think he's gonna win a race why because he's got sin so I say mr. Ortiz you can't run the race today because you got send your life or you will ask God to forgive you on your knees their God their God forgive me forgive me for my drinking for my drinking I'm not going to Gus's guzzlin place am I going to whatever you know where you were a man gone gone gone gone yes your sin is gone feel better yes I'm gonna give you a second change tomorrow you can come back six o'clock we're running race okay okay you go where I'll call you tomorrow morning 6 6 o'clock tomorrow morning comes here comes what you look sober I'm sober Oh what did you go to Gus's Gus in place I'm proud of you you give up liquor yes sir I did so he reaches down laces up his boots buttons his overcoat pulls his helmet on his head down snugly he's it gonna win the race his weights will keep him from running that race just as much as his sins would we don't have many people in this room tonight it's Volk cigarettes thanks buddy we don't have many people not in this room that drink liquor we don't have many folks this not that watch out in this room tonight watch Hollywood movies but we got a heap of folks in this room got some weights you or give up now what's what's in for the belly you don't have to be sinful if it's keeps you of winning the race what's sinful about boots boots are sinful Bible done said thou shalt have no boots thou shall have no helmet I shall have no overcoat there are a lot of things tonight if you're gonna really get busy for God there's nothing wrong with him you gonna have to give up and that's the best thing you'll ever do to double your baptisms lay aside your sin but lay aside your weights miss Pope it's a mess God have mercy I whoever preaches here probably never does shake the pulpit probably somebody never gives it black or white just gray all the time [Applause] welcome to Bob gray humiliation night divorce night I used to play golf I quit because they showed discrimination against me so have they discriminate they mowed the grass for the other guys played they refuse to loiter I played I could play in golf because I had something more important to do I'm not saying it's a sin to break off I'm saying for some of you to wait I'm not saying it's a sin to spend the day a week out fishing I'm saying to some of you so wait I'm not saying that your hunting trips are all sin but some folks it's away I'm saying tonight if you really want to get something done Fergus but differs in Bob got to Bob great and a little guy like me I've gotten a business baptized and more people than Archie Lee did I've gotten even this baptized and more people than Charles Haddon Spurgeon did not any I'll tell you why I don't go to ball games I don't go hunting I don't go fishing rest god I've got something bigger to do it weighs less support tonight anybody here never it never saw me before tonight or last night crazy I never saw me before last night you never did have you heard about me don't you think I'm cuter than you thought I'd be I knew that I could tell it what's your first name David suppose that folks at told David about brother Hiles man you got to hear this guy David said what's it like he said cute we got to hear it this guy is the largest son school largest church in America and hello God he got to hear him and David says boy I got to see this guy and so David goes out there where the parking lot begins as you were with a drive-in is he says I want to see him when he drives in I just want to see what this guy looks like and here I come on a motorcycle helmet on sweatshirt leather jacket denim pants blue jeans cowboy boots David would you be disappointed come on yeah you would you Pharisee show me mr. David in that book what's wrong to wear boots show me in that brew that book where it's wrong to wear a helmet show me where it's wrong to wear blue jeans but you be disappointed and I'm not surprised because that's something that work that is not a sin but it's a weight now they're people here to not have motorcycles sure it's not a sin it's dumb but for some of us not even a weight because if David saw some of you on a motorcycle he knows you're not a preacher he wouldn't be surprised thought I'll wait for you but it's a wait for me now you listen to me if we don't decide we're gonna live out our sins I'm not talking just about the movies and the custom in the dance in the ring I'm talking about weights I'm 69 years of age I'll be 70 September 25th I preached over 57,000 sermons in these years I've seen a million souls walk down an aisle receiving Christ as Savior I've seen over 200,000 of them baptized I've seen an awful lot all I want to do is finish finish my race it's all I want to do I have no dreams no goals or aspiration I just want to finish my race I used to be a sports fan give it up never watch your ballgame never listen to one read the newspaper what scores were but I couldn't tell you I couldn't tell you two-thirds that I couldn't end yet one-third of the players and Chicago Cubs but baseball team I couldn't tell you three names of those that play for the White Sox I can tell you my favorite basketball players named Dennis Rodman my hero well I see you got some weights you lay down that's sort of sitting it's sort of sitting get excited a bunch a bunch of guys wearing underwear and bouncing the ball that's dumb guy goes out kills a pig blows him back up in an oblong shape kicks them across a pasture through some plumbing and you go crazy about it it's done God gets a stick and knocks a ball across the pasture over a fence can you go wild about it how does somebody go WOW because of the hell and Jesus died to save time now I want to put the payment down I want to put the rubber down on the pavement right now I won't ask you what sin is it's a needle inside you gossip your hatred revenge bitterness soap operas video movies blockbuster card what is the sin you only aside hatred malice Envy covet just this rock music what is it lay aside you can't run the race with that sin in your life how about your wings you see my weight would be a motorcycle yours wouldn't maybe but what is yours one of those things tonight that don't they're not sinful but you don't run the race as fast or as often or as quickly as you would if you lay them aside I promise you that a preacher baptized 100 people is sad some weights to now do baptize 200 next year I promise you a preacher baptized 500 people lay aside some weights tonight give it all you got you baptized a thousand next year I promise you a preacher baptized 250 this last year lay aside just sin and your weights I said anyways I'll promise you you'll baptize twice as much 500 people next year what is it tonight sin what do you submit house what sin you're talking about talking to one you're thinking about right now guy came down the aisle mr. Moody's revival one time so we've got to sit him alive I want to connect I want to forsake it mr. moody says what is it he said don't know he said yes I didn't he guessed it right off the bat you know what it is it's the various sin you thinking about right now let aside tonight and then you got some weights some ways for some of you you're a go kiss your golf clubs goodbye some of y'all are syllable some of you ought to get rid of your rod and reel some of you ought to get rid of you can't see you next hunting trip it's talking about him you know my staff of the day and I said I could never kill a deer how in the world you guys kill a deer they all said like this ask your question I'm finished are you neglecting so great salvation how do you do it but not running the race what keeps you from running the race sin and weights would you bow your heads please [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] you

Channel: Jack Hyles

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Length: 67min 23sec (4043 seconds)

Published: Tue Nov 03 2020