that's my friend Jeff he's got a he's got a better memory than me and I uh man I'm enjoying
seeing those days through his eyes that was 1992 1992 we were both young single guys and
wanting to follow the Lord wherever he lead us and God gave us wives and children and now he's a
grandpa good grief uh isn't that amazing I hope y'all love Jeff uh you treat treat him well he's
he's a treasure and uh I'm I'm so glad to be here to get to see him again and I'm really privileged
to see all of you too thank you for letting me come I hope you like me and I hope I like you
and if not we're just you know we'll just go away from this day going never again we're never again
but uh it really is a privilege to be here with you to to encourage your hearts uh and and also to
spend time with these missionaries you realize what a what a what a what a special thing that is that
the Lord would uh gather them here to be with you that you might hear and be a part of their ministry
and pray for them and and and and just have this moment with them so uh anyway thank you for for
this opportunity and I know the other the other guests that are here for the uh conference are also
very thankful I thought I'd start with a scary something to tell you because it's October right
so you ready to be scared let me say something that'll give you shivers up your spine you ready for
this little girl's like what's he gonna say the scariest thing I could tell you is that you could
waste your life and do nothing of real significance with it you could waste your entire life and and
dedicate yourself to this or that and and pour your whole being into it and it be of no significance
whatsoever you could waste your entire life and that should terrify us your life is a mist
the word of God says the word your life is a mist you know what mist is mist is h2o that's what mist is
it's h2o right and uh uh you know it it's it's it's it's just a vapor hero of alexandria in the first
century he saw a pot boiling with a lid on it and he saw that the the the pressure of that vapor that
steam was actually moving this heavy lid on this pot there's there's something to this he actually
was the first to formulate a a very primitive steam turbine by kind of funneling that steam into a
little thing that goes around circles it didn't it wasn't very useful and it wasn't until
1698 that thomas savory uh using the work of geronimo de hyens they they formed a steam-powered
pump to get floods out of mines in 1705 that same thomas savory invented the first steam engine that
james watt the scott improved upon and by the 1800s the whole world was powered by steam
your life is a mist if you are a saved h2o then your life at the end of your life will just
be a mist and it'll be a vapor and it'll be a steam and it'll just evaporate up into the clouds and
that's where you'll go after your life
if you are not saved h2o if you're not having accepted christ jesus as your lord and savior well
you'll go down like water down to the lowest place you'll go to some stagnant pool somewhere and
there you will pull for a whole eternity but those aren't the only two options we have because
we could be pressurized steam we could be missed with a purpose your life is a mist but your mist could be
focused your mist could be utilized for the years and days of your life in your generation and so that is
our prayer today what does god want to happen here today what what is the purpose of this that god would
mobilize me and you encourage these missionaries to continue and that this church would become a great
mobilized mission church for him and so let's pray for that right now lord we thank you for this day
and we thank you for this opportunity to be together the holy spirit is here in the midst of us god as
we've gathered in the name of jesus we the holy spirit is here in the midst of us and he's delighted at the
fellowship and he's eager to speak words of change and transformation and god he he wants our lives to be
power packed in our generation and so god thank you for this time we pray that you encourage
our missionary brothers and sisters to continue the good work to not grow weary in doing good
we know that if they don't grow weary they will reap a harvest if they don't give up god encourage them
and god please we pray now that you speak to this church that you are making into the church that
you want it to be i know lord that they're at a time of transition but i pray god with all my heart
and they pray together god that you will have your way in this body and so god now speak to us we pray
we thank you again for what you're going to say in the name of jesus amen
second chronicles second chronicles we're going to focus on chapter 19 it's a short chapter
but as i talk to you about chronicles i just want to tell you that boy this this path this part of the
scriptures that doesn't get a whole lot of attention not not too many people know much about the kings that
are listed here there's a lot the lord can teach us about leadership principles for the church
and for god's people that are here and today we're going to focus on one of the kings in in this book
in chapter 19 second chronicles uh the the king that we're going to look at he's the seventh king
of the 20 kings of judah and he's one of the good kings and in fact uh those of you who grew up about
the same time i did or maybe a little before me you would like this king just for his name because
when you hear his name you'll think of the great theologian that we grew up with on saturday mornings
yosemite sam yosemite sam who would say great jumping jehoshaphat right remember that
we're gonna we're gonna talk about jehoshaphat king jehoshaphat today
okay okay yosemite he'd also say great horny toads say your prayers marmot right i hate that rabbit
jehoshaphat was a good king who lived 60 years on earth and made a powerful impact in his generation
and these principles that we will learn about and from his life will are are important i think that god
wants us to hear them today and in fact i think god really gave me this message for this moment
i actually looked through old sermons to try to come up with something good that you know
let's give them one of my best you know it wasn't what god wanted this is something i've never preached before
but these principles are so important i i i give you an example of of just the the beauty of this part of the scriptures
chapter 20 jehoshaphat is told that a vast army is coming against them from edom coming towards jerusalem
in fact he's the army's already 25 miles from jerusalem when they hear about it some spies let
them down didn't they so they're that close and they're terrified and he calls for fasting and
prayer across the nation please come help come pray and children and women verse chapter 20 verse 13 says
that the women and the children and the men all gathered at the temple to pray and they prayed this
desperate prayer and in fact verse 12 he says joseph at and leading the prayer says we do not know what
to do but our eyes are on you that's a great prayer isn't it we don't know what to do but our eyes are on
you and god speaks to them and says you just wait you just stand firm i'm going to deliver you you will
not have to fight this army he said just march out just march out and face them i will do the fighting for you
and when and when they went out uh they uh joseph at he says okay god said this let's believe him and he sent some
men up to to lead in singing as they marched out all the women and the children and the men going to face this army and they
sang give thanks to the lord our god and king his love endures forever that's what they sang isn't that
great we sing that one well they sang it too and when they got to the the desert of jeruel i guess
that's how you say it and they saw this vast army they were surprised to see that they were already dead
all of them they had turned against one another as they marched towards jerusalem and they all fought
with one another the ammonites fought with the boabites and the edomites and they all just they
did each other in and when they got there nobody was left alive which makes me wonder how the last guy
standing died he must have fallen and hit his head i don't know but this is a powerful part of scripture
now we go back to chapter 19 and chapter 19 follows chapter 18 which is usually how the bible works
and in chapter 18 the uh uh what jehoshaphat does is unfortunate he he has a soft spot in his
heart for king ahab in the northern country the northern kingdom we know ahab the husband of jezebel this
this this awful king who who elijah worked with and tried to lead and he wouldn't be led ahab was a
very very evil king but jehoshaphat who actually is a godly man had a soft spot in his heart for ahab
and and and we have to wonder why he did that i you know maybe he thought ahab was funny maybe he thought
you know ahab he's he's not he's naughty man he's a he's a knucklehead he's not a good guy but boy he's
funny maybe that's what he did maybe you got a friend like that too who's just really really really
wicked but you like spending time with them because they're funny or maybe it's because ahab flattered him
because in chapter 18 when he goes to visit him he puts on a big feast to honor king jehoshaphat so
maybe it was flattery something like that but while he was there uh you know ahab says to him
man we've got a little problem the syrians have taken over ramoth gilead ramoth gilead is a is a
is is one of our cities on the eastern side of the jordan river and and the syrians they've taken it over
and we need to go over there and take it back would you like to come over there maybe bring some of your
army with would you like to come over there and help us just retake ramoth gilead probably an
afternoon's work shouldn't be a problem we'll just go over there and knock it out would you like to
come with and you know josephat he's like well maybe we should ask god first and micaiah the prophet
comes and tells ahab that this will be the day that you die bye bye miss american bye you anyway this will be the day that you die
and so anyway ahab was a sleazy guy and a terrible friend and just so you know we need to kind of
distance ourselves from terrible friends ahab says to him when he hears that this is going to be the
day that he dies he says well you know josephat i've got a plan why don't you wear your robes you
know you go out as king you wear your robes and stuff and you be the king i'm going to go in disguise as a
soldier and i'll just kind of fight you know in the battle as a soldier and i'll just have just
regular soldier equipment on and josephat's like okay well the battle went as as the lord said through
this prophet micaiah and and things went bad things were very bad and the army scattered uh syrians were
winning uh josephat himself he's running for his life oh god help me and you know they realize hey that's
not ahab and they leave him and they don't they don't pursue him any further but one random soldier
draws an arrow and shoots it no particular direction and that arrow comes down and the
literal translation in the hebrew says that it hit ahab between the joints of his armor
where the where the buckle is this is where the you know where it fastens together space who knows about
like this maybe and this arrow just from the sky comes down and kills ahab you see
and jehoshaphat that's that's chapter 18 jehoshaphat he runs home as he should have in fact it says in
chapter 19 verse 1 that jehoshaphat king of judah returned safely to his palace in jerusalem if i were
jehoshaphat i'd run all the way to my palace and get under my bed but he he didn't and he ran all
the way home now when we apply these passages to our scripture i i i i i wanted to make this as
applicable as possible to all of us and i just think about the church and and so i gave it this
title for our message today god's call to be a part of a greatly significant church that's a terrible
terrible title i'm really bad at titles i think god doesn't he leaves the titles up to me and i'll
that's what i can come up with a really bad title so i encourage you as you're sitting there to come
up with a better title for the sermon so when next time i preach it you know because there's better
ways to describe this power for living life with meaning the purpose-driven life come up with something
for me and give it to me after the service a good title for this sermon but the the the point of this is that
god wants to make your life matter and he wants to make our churches empowered
when jehoshaphat returns to jerusalem he meets the prophet jehu the seer
the son of hanani and jehu the seer goes to him and says to him what are you doing let's
let's read these verses when jehoshaphat king of judah returned safely to his palace in jerusalem
jehu the seer the son of hanani went out to meet him and said to the king should you help the wicked
and love those who hate the lord meaning ahab because of this the wrath of the lord is on you
there is however some good in you for you've rid the land of the asherah poles and have set
your heart on seeking god j who says to him what are you doing what are you doing your life has a
purpose your life has meaning your life is supposed to be important you god gave you a very specific
ministry one that only you have done and you've gotten distracted and so our first point that we
really need to see here in this passage is that if you want to live a life that matters if you want
to have a church that's greatly significant you need to be intentional with god's mission
be intentional with god's mission going up and spending time with ahab and going into this battle
was not god's mission for jehoshaphat's life it was a distraction it was it was not where he was supposed
to be and i i i i think this is important for us today because the last couple of years have been a
distraction for us it's gotten us off track we we we we were busy about the lord's business and then all
of a sudden we got shut down and the devil celebrates that we have now gone into sleep mode and a lot of
people have they they're not here anymore have you noticed what's happening we've gotten distracted
by things that aren't god's mission i want you to look at jehoshaphat's mission look at chapter 17
he's this is unique in chapter 17 verse 7 it says in the third year of his reign he sent his officials
ben hail uh obadiah zachariah nathaniel makaiah to teach the towns teach in the towns of judah he sent
the levites the the the high muckety muck priests there in their robes he said we're not hanging out
here in jerusalem you know being all proud of ourselves and and sitting around in comfortable
chairs and and just having deep thoughts together and drinking tea we're going out we're going to go
out into the villages we're going to go out into the towns and we're going to return the people we're
going to take the word of god out to the people and teach them again because they've got they've
gotten lost they've they've drifted over over the generations they have lost their knowledge of the
word of god we've got to bring them back to god and jehoshaphat made that his mission god gave this
mission to jehoshaphat and so to go out and go to war with ahab that's a distraction that is not what we're
supposed to do and there's distractions that have taken over our minds and hearts even in the church
and even on the mission field you know our our battle is not politics amen to that our battle is not
these things you know what i mean when i when i first came uh this morning i i was driving over
and i was like how do i how do i say hi to these folks and i was going to put this on to begin my
sermon you know that was going to be like and then i was going to go oh no just kidding just kidding you
know but i was i was afraid that some people don't have a sense of humor and so i i thought i better stay
away from that but these things are not worth fighting for or about it's a distraction we've
gotten distracted what is our mission our mission is to bring people back to god and to bring people to
god jehu the seer says to jehoshaphat what are you doing what are you doing and in fact he says that
the wrath of god is on you because of this god is disciplining us because we have lost our vision
and our purpose and our commitment to the mission let me tell you something about being a great church
if you want to be a great church you need to think about and and get in your heart second chronicles 16 9
which is a word that was spoken to jehoshaphat's father asa it says this the eyes of the lord range
throughout the entire earth to uh to strengthen those whose hearts are fully committed to him let me
say it again the eyes of the lord range throughout the entire earth to strengthen those whose hearts
are fully committed to him and so god's eyes are looking at us today
and he's wondering if first baptist pickens might be a church whose hearts are fully committed to him
that he might strengthen this church
and use this church and the promise is that if our hearts are fully committed to him he will wow
how powerful is that and so he's looking to see if we're intentional with his mission if we're
getting away from our our distractions and getting on to his mission jehu said what are you doing what are you doing
i was in jakarta jakarta now has 30 million people the the metropolitan area has 30 million people
that's 37 000 plus people per square mile
and we arrived there on the mission field brand new and and we got the the the one quarter the
southern the southwestern quarter of the city and said go get them
go get them there's only 28 million when we were there so not as big a job as it is today
and we went to a church and we we said to these folks would you guys like to help us we we uh we
want to we want to reach out to the the lost people that live here and can we work with you guys is there is
there a community that you guys would like to reach that we can help you work with and they said yeah
yeah there's these people who uh collect trash they're called pamulung and they they walk around
there they collect trash they're they're the trash collecting people nobody cares about them nobody loves
them and they live in the trash that they that they gather so they build these homes out of trash
and we like to go minister to those people so we went down there and we met them and they said we'd
like to learn how to read people take advantage of us because we can't read why we can do that we'll
we'll do we'll do a uh a literary liter liter liter literacy project and we did training with this
church we okay let's train let's train we spent a year we i'm sorry we spent about a month and a
half training here's how we want to do it this is what we're going to do here's you know let's make
sure we can all share the gospel this is and we're going to teach people how to read yay and it was
time to launch and we passed around the sign-up sheet so we're going to go out on saturday afternoons and
we're going to meet with these folks in small groups and we're going to we're going to have little
lessons and we're going to get to know these folks and do ministry with them
we passed that sign-up sheet around the circle and it came back with no names
so i passed it around again i thought maybe you didn't understand me the first time
no names i'm sorry mister you know but uh you know we're not comfortable that we enjoyed the
training though and the meals we shared together and we need to get to about the lord's business
stop being distracted and we do it here too we're too busy
the devil just rejoices doesn't he when we have programs and plans and committee meetings that don't
result in people going out and sharing the gospel with lost people which is the purpose for us for our
lives so let's get intentional with the gospel got to go fast now we got to be incarnational with this
gospel going to be incarnational with the gospel if you look at verse four so joseph joseph lived in
jerusalem but he went out again among the people from beersheba to the hill country of ephraim
and turned them back to the lord the god of their ancestors who went out again it says jehoshaphat went
out again okay so jehoshaphat is not this guy who thinks he's above it all and he just sends other
people to do his work okay i said this in the first service and i i was informed that maybe i shouldn't
have but he was not a senator who you can see why i said i met that guy we're friends now uh but uh
he was not a senator who said we'll have this kind of health care program but we'll give you this kind
of health care program he's not a king who who said you know we're going to sit around and we're going
to be regal and and opulent and luxurious while you go do the work he's not not not like a pastor who says
you know the work the ministry's for the membership and i'm going to sit behind my desk and
feel important no no he was a king who got out among the people from
beersheba to ephraim and i want to say if you want to win the hearts let me say it this way if a king
wants to win the hearts of people he'll go down among them amen if a king
wants to win the hearts of people he'll come down among them if a king
wants to win the hearts of people
he'll come down among them.
Incarnation.
The king came down among people.
Did he win your heart
when he came?
Has the king won your heart?
Incarnational ministry.
People
who
are
living out there in the villages.
Out there
in the towns.
Their minds are blown
when somebody
comes from America and sits
on their floor with them.
And shares their snack
with them or drinks their tea with them.
Their minds are blown.
Mister, why on earth would you leave America
and come over here and sit on my floor?
Why would you do this?
Incarnation
is impactful.
And it's not just
for other people to do this.
You need to do this.
You need to go out
into the villages.
You need to go out
into the towns.
You need to go out
into the world
and be incarnational
with the work of Christ
and blow people's minds.
He came.
Didn't he?
He came.
2 Corinthians 8 says,
For you know
that the grace
of our Lord Jesus Christ
that though he was rich
yet for your sake
he became poor
so that through his poverty
you might become rich.
His coming won our hearts
and your going
will win their hearts.
I would sit on the floor
with sweet people
in the villages
in the urban slums
and visit their families
and they'd say
Mister, what are you doing?
And I would say
you know
can I share something
from my heart?
I just
I've got to
this is the reason
that I've come
I've got to share something
from my heart
can I share it with you?
Of course Mister
please
if you've got something
on your heart
if you've got a burden
share it.
It's about
my love for God
and my trust
in Jesus
his son
can I share that with you?
I don't want to offend you
but can I share it with you?
Mister please
share it with us
it's okay
if you're burdened
we want to hear
please go ahead
the incarnation
at work.
And
you just tell them
the story of Jesus
who was sent here
because God loves them
and he died on the cross
to take their sins
upon himself
so that they don't have
to be punished
for their sins
eternally
and they can go to heaven
when they die
and he died
and he was buried
and on the third day
he rose again
and when you say
rose again
in that context
you know what
generally happens?
They gasp
ah!
It's amazing
that the resurrection
has that much power
that they gasp
when they hear about it
remember 1 Corinthians 15
says
that
if he has not been raised
from the dead
our preaching is useless
and so is the faith
and the lost are
the dead are lost forever
and there is no hope
that gasp is like
an inhale
of hope
be incarnational
with the gospel
and be intentional
with the mission
and finally
be indiscriminate
with God's people
be indiscriminate
with God's people
verse 7
the instructions
that he gives them
along with other things
he's putting judges
in place
in the cities
but he says
in verse 7
let the fear of the Lord
be on you
judge carefully
for with the Lord
our God
there is no injustice
or partiality
or bribery
partiality
be indiscriminate
that means
not using any type
of discrimination
with people
when the king
went out
among the people
he began to empathize
with them
he began to understand them
he began to be connected
to their stories
and he cared about them
he sat with them
in their humble settings
and he
okay
so this is what it's like
to be you
okay I get it
and it made him
connected with him
and so when he came back
and gave instructions
for the ministry
and for the leading
of the people
he said
whatever you do
don't discriminate
show no prejudice
between people
that's important
to God
as his eyes
range throughout
the earth
looking for somebody
whose heart
is fully devoted to him
that's important
to God
that we be
intentional
with the mission
and incarnational
with the gospel
and indiscriminate
with the people
I want to show you
something in Acts 11
Acts 11
is a passage
where
at the beginning
of it
Peter's in trouble
Peter's getting
called on the carpet
in Jerusalem
because he has shared
the gospel
with Gentiles
that wasn't supposed
to happen
he didn't have
approval
for that
that he went
to Cornelius' house
and Cornelius
he's preaching
in the middle
of his sermon
he's preaching
and all of a sudden
the spirit comes down
and all the people
started speaking
in tongues
and the Holy Spirit
filled all the people
while in the middle
of his sermon
if you ever want
church to end
quicker
and you're ready
for the sermon
to finish
just let the Holy Spirit
have his way
and then we'll be done
but he got in trouble
Peter did
Peter went back
to Jerusalem
and he said
look guys
this was all God
God gave them
a vision
gave me a vision
put it all together
his spirit
descended
this was all God
and so
in the conclusion
of that
in chapter 11
verse 18
he says
when they heard this
they had no further
objections
and praised God
saying so then
even the Gentiles
Greek word is
ethne
even the ethnicities
and the ethne
God has granted
repentance
that leads to life
now I want you
to see something
as it applies
to the church
verse 19
now those
who had been
scattered
by the persecution
that broke out
when Stephen
was killed
traveled as far
as Phoenicia
and Cyprus
and Antioch
spreading the word
only among the Jews
so Stephen was killed
and everybody scattered
they're still sharing
the gospel
as we do
but they're sharing
it only with Jews
I'm having too much
fun with you people
verse 20
some of them
however
men from Cyprus
and Cyrene
went to Antioch
and began to speak
to Greeks also
telling them
the good news
about the Lord Jesus
look at the result
in verse 21
the Lord's hand
was with them
and a great number
of people believed
and turned
to the Lord
the eyes of the Lord
ranged throughout
the entire earth
looking for someone
whose heart is fully
committed to him
that he may
strengthen them
in response
to these folks
breaking out
of the barrier
of just us
going cross-culturally
now to other people
incarnationally
with the gospel
God said
that's what I like
they're doing it
they're doing my work
my way
and he rolled up
his sleeve
and he put his hand
on that church
remember in Ephesians 2
that the work of Jesus
destroyed the barrier
the dividing wall
of hostility
between the ethnicities
and it was his purpose
to create in himself
one new humanity
Colossians 3
9
there's a verse like this
in Galatians
I'll read you the one
from Colossians 3
9 says
you've taken off
the old self
with its practices
and put on a new self
which is being renewed
in knowledge
in the image
of its creator
here
in the church
there's no Gentile
or Jew
or circumcised
or uncircumcised
barbarian
Scythian
slave
or free
but Christ
is in all
and is all
man
okay
I want you to think
about being in Galatia
or Colossae
or Ephesus
or Corinth
or Berea
or Philippi
in those days
and you're seeing
people gathering
together to worship
a God
that you don't know
and women
are coming
and so are men
together
in the same room
worshipping
God
whoa
slaves
slaves are coming
and masters
are coming
together
as equals
to worship
God
together
you're sitting there
and you're watching
this happen
as a pagan
Greek
and you're like
what is happening
in this place
what are those people
this is unprecedented
that this kind of
gathering takes place
this is the church
of Jesus
this is a new humanity
where all the barriers
are
destroyed
indiscriminate
with God's people
whoo
man
you see how
the power
of all that
they'll know
you are my
disciples
by your love
for one another
you see how
that manifold
miracle
that manifold
what's the word
in Ephesus
the manifold
uh
i got off track
the manifold
wisdom of God
it was
a
mystery
the mystery
what is this
wow
mind-blowing to the people of the day.
Not only were slaves and women and men
and landowners and everything else,
but here came barbarians and Scythians.
Barbarians!
Big, hairy, European, red-headed people
coming down, stinking.
Barbarians are gathering now
and Scythians are the bad barbarians.
It's amazing what the church of Christ is
when we let it go, set it free.
Amen?
The scariest thing in the world
is that we might live our lives on earth
and do nothing of significance with.
That we might be vapor that evaporates into the clouds
and have nothing to show for what we did.
Just living a life of distraction.
And Jehu the seer says,
what are you doing?
What are you doing?
Or, more tragic still would be
to be water that flows down into a stagnant pool
and there will be suffering,
gnashing of teeth.
But you could live a life empowered.
That's a good title.
You could live a life empowered,
focused.
And God's call is to be intentional with the mission,
incarnational with the gospel,
and indiscriminate with the people.
Amen?
It's decision time now.
What do you usually do in decision time?
You look at each other
and look at the poor preacher standing up there
like he has no friends?
I do that every week.
We do this missions thing once a year.
Once a year we do this.
It's a special day.
We have these missionaries with you and among you
and you can think about the mission of your church
and you think about your mission involvement,
your own personal mission involvement,
what you're doing,
what your church is doing.
And so in our decision time today,
I want to ask you
if you might actually come to the altar and pray.
Pray for your own heart.
That it would soften.
That your own eyes would be,
become aware
that 155,000 people die every day without Jesus.
And that you would actually care about that.
That we might get shaken up a little bit
and disturbed
and ask you if you would,
if you know the Lord,
if you'd come and you'd pray.
Ask these missionaries to come and pray
and I want you to pray for them.
Pray for them.
And you know,
when I was a teenager,
on a Sunday night,
we had an inner city missionary
from Louisville come and speak at my church
and hardly anybody was there
but that night God spoke to my heart
and I went alone.
I was the only one at the altar that night
and I prayed at the altar
and I said,
God,
I want my life to matter.
And I gave my life to the Lord
for his purposes that night.
I didn't know what that meant.
But you know,
God is calling
from among us here today
that we live lives that matter.
So I'm actually going to ask you
to come to the altar
and pray today.
Think you can do it?
Are you thinking about it?
You're thinking,
nah, I'm not doing that.
I want you to reconsider.
And if you are here today
and you're water,
you're going down.
You don't have to.
If you've not given your life
and your love to Jesus Christ,
you need to know that he loves you
and that he's died for you
and that he took your sin upon himself.
If you'll give those sins to him
and receive life from him,
he was buried
and on the third day,
he rose again.
He rose again.
And in that moment,
he conquered death.
I passed the Hillcrest Cemetery
on the way into town this morning.
That's an impressive cemetery.
I don't know how long it will take
from the time the angel shouts
and the horn blows.
I don't know how long it will take
for all the dead in Christ
to rise first
before we join them in the air.
I don't know how long that will take.
But if it takes a minute,
when you hear the horn
and hear the shout,
get in your car
and drive up there
and watch the show.
Because they're going to burst
out of the ground
in that place.
And dear friend,
don't you miss it.
Don't you miss
being in heaven
with all those
who have accepted Christ
as their Lord and Savior.
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