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Transcript of message from TV Broadcast 449 -- taken from Closed Captioning Text --Brother Jim Easterly: I just had a really strange thing happen to me there and it's something that's never happened to me before in my life. I believe with all my heart that the Lord is here this morning. I don't believe that His arm is shortened, that He cannot save. I believe that He is absolutely the source of and all power in this world, in this earth, in heaven, in the universe. It was a vision and I've never had this happen before. It was like you could...we were in a place and there was just multitudes of people--just zillions of people. And it just all of a sudden, just like that it began to grow dark. It didn't grow black to where you couldn't see, but it grew so dark that you couldn't really see clearly. And I mean everybody was terrified--I mean everybody. There wasn't a spirit, a soul, a body, a human being in that place that wasn't terrified. Everybody was scrambling around. There were rocks and it was a rough place and people were stumbling and screaming and crying out. There was a place where there was like a light coming in from the outside. It was just like almost a crack. It didn't light the whole place up, but it was intense. And everybody in that place knew instantly that that light, if they couldn't get to it they were going to be destroyed. I mean there was panic--there was terror. You talk about desperation. Everybody knew--I mean they knew, there wasn't any arguing about it. Nobody had to explain it. You knew if you didn't get to that light, you were going to be destroyed. Everybody scrambled and did everything they could do to get to that light. In that instant, your IRA didn't matter, your 401-K didn't matter, your houses didn't matter, your job didn't matter. I'm gonna tell you this, it was such a desperate time that even your wives and your husbands and your children didn't matter. You knew personally--you had to get to that light, and if you couldn't get there somehow, you were going to be destroyed. Then there was also an awareness that you could not take yourself to that light. It didn't matter what you had done or hadn't done or anything else. You couldn't get to it. And everybody was scrambling every which-a-way. There was one little fellow that got up on kind of a rock. And out of that light this robed arm came down and it just took him. And everybody knew if they weren't in Him, that they were destroyed. I believe this morning with all my heart that God, who is not willing that any should perish, is extending His arm to some in this building. And I don't care if you've been here a week or you were born here. God wants you to be born again, and that's all. We're coming to a time where that's all that's gonna matter--nothing else is gonna matter. That's why Jesus came to this earth. You know, He could have healed every physical thing wrong with us. He could have fixed it so that His people could be set apart and had big time jobs and money and houses and lands and lived in peace here, but He didn't do that. He did the most important thing that's ever been done. He made a way for you to get to that light--made a way, the only way for human beings to be reconciled to God Almighty. I believe He's extending His hand this morning to do that. And He says in His book in John 6, He says, "I will raise him up at the last day." That's all that really counts-that's all that really counts. None of this other stuff really counts. "There hath no temptation taken you but such as is common to man." That's a two-edged sword. It means ours won't be any worse than anybody else's, but we won't escape a lot of them that everybody goes through either. In that day, that's all that's gonna matter. I believe this morning--I really believe that this morning, God is extending His hand to people here. -- Brother Dwight Rhodes: I don't even know if I can get out what I want to say. I had a sense this morning when I got up when I turned on a tape at the house and I was listening to some of the songs. I had the same feeling that Jim had. There was such a sense of urgency today. Thinking about some of the things that have been going on and how it affects us. I just had a longing, a desire for just to be right where He wants us to be. I was just drawn and I was broken in my spirit. When Jim said what he said, I said, "God I want you more than I want anything. And I want you for your people, the things to minister to us somehow to bring a peace and a rest." I don't know; I just felt like there's a drawing today for some. I went to thinking about my kids and my wife, myself, all of us. We need God more than we need anything else. I believe what Jim said there was true, that we haven't got many more days--if it's a hundred years or ten minutes, I mean I don't know. But I believe it's...the scripture came to me this morning, it said, "To day if ye will hear his voice, harden not your hearts." Oh God, I just...if we can't hear the church, who can we hear, who are we gonna listen to? Who? God's not gonna come down and speak to you, I mean, you know just...I used to tell Matthew when we were having some of our problems. I said, Matthew, God ain't gonna just drop down and make it right, just like that. You've got to...it's got to be personal. It's got to be something that draws you from in here, and it's God. I believe He's doing that today. I don't know, I hope this is making sense. But I just felt such a sense that we need God and I want Him right now more than anything else. It doesn't matter to me about nothing else. My hear goes out to some. I just sense a laxness, and unconcerned ness. It concerns me. I just appreciate what you said Jim. I believe it didn't come from Jim. -- Brother Jimmy Robbins: Turn over to Genesis chapter 19. I tell you, we're living at the very brink of when the Lord shall come again. I believe it with all my heart. This darkness that Brother Jim spoke about, it's not just the absence of light. There's darkness--spiritual darkness--covering this whole earth. "Darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people." There are people right now that would look you eyeball to eyeball and say your God is a fairy tale, that hell doesn't exist, and that there's no help anywhere. You've got to live your own life. You've got to do your own thing. Be your own God. What feels good, do it. And every man is right in his own eyes and don't impose your morality upon me, because I have my own set of values. That's the world beloved. That's darkness. That's perversion. That's reprobation. But we have a Christ, we have a Lord, we have a God that's with us. He's given us light and I thank God for that. Brother Thomas has preached many times concerning Sodom and Gomorrah. I won't go into the gory details of it, but Lot's righteous soul was vexed day unto day. I don't want to live in Sodom beloved. I want to be with God's people, I want to live with Him and with the ones that love Him. That's where I want to be. He went the wrong way. There was such perversion there. God told Abram I'm gonna burn it up. And he prayed, if there's 50 would you save it? If there's 40 would you save it? Yeah, I'd save it. 30? 20? 10? Yeah, I'll even save it if there's 10. Beloved there's just a handful of people that can even hear the gospel, let alone receive it. God help us all. We are blessed to be here today. This is a blessing of God for us to be here today. Those angels came to get Lot, and those wicked men saw them go inside the house. Men lusting after men, But verse 12, "And the men said unto Lot, Hast thou here any besides? son in law, and thy sons, and thy daughters, and whatsoever thou hast in the city, bring them out of this place." God's calling us out beloved. "For we will destroy this place, because the cry of them is waxen great before the face of the LORD; and the LORD hath sent us to destroy it. "And Lot went out, and spake unto his sons in law, which married his daughters, and said, Up, get you out of this place; for the LORD will destroy this city. But he seemed as one that mocked unto his sons in law." This is no joke beloved. "And when the morning arose, then the angels hastened." It's time to get ready. They "hastened Lot, saying, Arise, take thy wife, and thy two daughters, which are here; lest thou be consumed in the iniquity of the city. And while he lingered..." Isn't that something--lingered. My God, there's no time to linger, beloved. It's time to get down to business. "The men laid hold upon his hand." Isn't that something? They had to take hold of him. "And upon the hand of his wife, and upon the hand of his two daughters; the LORD being merciful unto him: and they brought him forth, and set him without the city. And it came to pass, when they had brought them forth abroad, that he said, Escape for thy life; look not behind thee, neither stay thou in all the plain; escape to the mountain, lest thou be consumed." I want to go back over to verse 26. "But his wife looked back from behind him, and she became a pillar of salt." Beloved, God's getting us out of this world. It's a dark place and this world is not our home. We're pilgrims and we're strangers. It's a dark place, but I thank God this morning for the light that's here. I believe there's a warning here today. I believe God is giving us another opportunity. I believe the angel of the Lord is here. I believe the holy angels are here, and I believe that they're trying to take us by the hand and say, let's get ready. The fire is gonna fall. And when they went out of that city, the fire fell and burned that wicked place up. This earth is ready for the fire. There's nothing else gotta happen. It's tinder, it's dry, and it's combustible. It's like a giant ball of yarn Brother Thomas described one time. And He's got the match right on the box and He's about ready to strike the match. Do you want to stay here just a little longer and enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season? No sir. I'd rather suffer the affliction with the people of God rather than enjoy the pleasures of a season. -- Brother Brian McMillan: I believe this light that Jim spoke about in that dark world that was falling apart, that's nothing mystical. That light is real. It's nothing that's unattainable, it's attainable. For some it may be unattainable, but for those who believe and respond, it's attainable. It's still available. Isaiah...Jimmy quoted part of this scripture, verse 60, chapter 60, excuse me. It says, "Arise, shine; for thy light is come, and the glory of the Lord is risen upon thee. For, behold, the darkness shall cover the earth, and gross darkness the people: but the Lord shall arise upon thee, and his glory shall be seen upon thee." That light is real because it's shining through a people that are real. Jim alluded to that in his comments. It's nothing mystical. It's not Jesus in the sky. It's through a people that that light is shining. And through those that are shining we have a responsibility to let it shine, to make it available to people that people might respond to it. Another scripture in John Chapter 12...this was, I guess, kind of a warning that the Lord was, letting people know about in His day. But I think those that have the Lord in them can issue the same warning today. In verse 35 it says, "Then Jesus said unto them, Yet a little while." Did you hear that? It said a little while and I believe it is a little while because, just like that darkness that's covering the earth. If you can't see how that is happening, then, perhaps you're blinded already. "Walk while ye have the light, lest darkness come upon you: for he that walketh in darkness knoweth not whither he goeth. While ye have light, believe in the light, that ye may be the children of light." That's why you have the light. That light's not always going to be available. You say, well, will God be so mean that He won't always extend a reaching hand? Yeah. He won't always strive with man. And it's the Lord who'll blind your eyes if you don't respond. He'll give you plenty of opportunity and men have had plenty of opportunity, going on 2000 years now to respond. There's always been that light in the earth, but yet there's people that don't believe. I'll just read another scripture in Isaiah, chapter six. In verse 10, here's what the Lord does. It says, "Make the heart of this people fat, and make their ears heavy, and shut their eyes; lest they see with their eyes, and hear with their ears, and understand with their heart, and convert, and be healed." He's telling them people that don't respond, you know, that's why people have all they need in this world. The people are fat and their ears are heavy. They have all that they need. They don't feel a need for anything else. So if you do feel that need, if you do see your need of the light, it's time to respond, because that light may not always be there. I thank God for the grace that he's extended to me and to others here. That light, and he gave me the grace to respond to it. I just pray that there's here that can respond to it. -- Brother Jim Petry: I too, just want to say I agree with what's come forth. You know Jesus is a compassionate Lord and you know He wept over a city that didn't know the time of their visitation. And the Lord's here this morning. Do you know that this might be the time of your visitation? Are you, going to go away from here the same as you came? Or, the word says you must be born again and you just need to consider this is a serious time. It's a solemn assembly here this morning, because God is speaking to you face to face. And He's...I believe He's desiring to convict your heart, to draw you, because He loves you, because He wants to save your soul. And it's like Jim said nothing else matters but being born again. All your sins has been taken care of. Praise God! Thank you Lord! -- Brother Dean Smith: I'm not sure that I can add anything to this. This has been a very, very good service, but I did have one thought. Every scripture that come to me was mentioned here and I'm thankful for that. But one thing that wasn't, you know one of the things was asked it says, what'll be the sign of your coming, you know. And he alluded to Noah, you know about the door being shut. And you know the people that were there, they didn't know the door was going to be shut. Now Tony said something I believe that, you know that, and Brian got up and read that same scripture that come to me. God's spirit won't always strive with man. Is God dealing with your heart? If He is, don't put Him off. This might be God calling you today. You know, it's a serious hour. It's a serious thing. You know this has been a very serious service. You know what Jim said, that young man, he...the Lord, the arm reached down and grabbed him. This might be God calling you to grab you. -- Brother Jimmy Robbins: Praise the Lord, half the church is up here but I think all the church is up here in your heart and in your spirit. I feel like that God has removed darkness out of my life this morning. It's one thing to come to the light and be in the light, but if the light be in...it's darkness, how great is that darkness. And everyone one of us, Christian or not, we have a certain amount of darkness that God wants to dispel. And that's what God is doing this day. He's dispelling the darkness. He's shining the light on those areas of our life that we need His help. Isn't the Lord so worthy? Isn't He worthy? ( congregational praise ). Praise the Lord. Thank you, my God. Praise the Lord! Thank you, Lord! I believe that the Lord is visiting us in a most unusual way. He's gathering us together, comforting us, telling us the truth in love, delivering us from those areas that we need to be delivered from. And everyone that shall call upon the name of the Lord, the Bible says, shall be delivered. And I believe that. It's taking place. We don't have much longer on this planet. I don't know how long we have. All the troubles and the problems, Jesus says, "In this world ye shall have tribulation but be of good cheer I have overcome the world." We don't have to figure it out. We don't have to see our way clear. All we have to know is that the peace of God passes all understanding. It will keep your heart and mind through Jesus Christ. We are so blessed. I tell you the Lord is here holding and hugging us this morning. Let's sing just a little bit more, whatever you feel. All right. Amen. Page 303. 
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