in marriage. They didn’t know that God was going to put a torch to the area. In a moment of time, the Lord opened up the heavens and down came the lire of judgment and de struction. The earth is never going to be destroyed again by water. Next time God is going to put the torch to this little round ball (II Pet. 3:1- 5 ). Are you ready in case Christ should come today? Don’t wait until the next service in your church. Bend those knees and bow that head, say ing, “Lord, Thou Son of God, save me from my sins. Come into my heart; wash me and make me clean.” Will He do it? Yes, He will. Scrip ture assures us, “That if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in thine heart that God hath raised Him from the dead, thou shalt be saved” ; “Who soever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.” If you are not a Christian, should Christ come tonight, you might wake up and find a half of your family gone. There will be a lot of heart break on that day. These are not mere words of fantasy. There is the reality of God in them. Won’t you ask Jesus Christ to prepare you for that day when He shall come again? You don’t want to go to hell, do you? It is either heaven or hell, life or death. Honestly and sincerely repent of your sins. Then see all of the blessed promises of Scripture for you, such as I Thessalonians 4:13-18. Your heart can then re-echo with ours “Even so, come, Lord Jesus.” P a r t I I T here is nothing to give a thrill to the born-again child of God like the second coming of the Lord Jesus Christ. While going across country not too long ago, a friend of mine, a commercial airline pilot, told me with a smile, “I hope when Christ comes again I’ll be up here 30 to 40 thousand feet. I’ll have a head start on everybody else.”
More Scriptures in the Bible re fer to Christ’s second coming than to His first advent. One out of every 25 verses in the New Testa ment concerns this blessed hope. Job 19:25 spoke of the assurance of eter nity, “For I know that my redeemer liveth, and that he shall stand at the latter day upon the earth.” This is no doubt the oldest book of the Bi ble. David spoke of the return of the Lord in Psalm 102:6, "When the Lord shall build up Zion and shall appear in his glory.” Passages re ferring to His coming appear in Isaiah, Jeremiah, Daniel, Ezekiel, to name but a few of the precious por tions. Just as surely as Christ came the first time, and Christians as well as non-Christians know this to be true, He will return again. He was born miraculously and rose again miraculously. Are you ready to meet Jesus Christ? Some years ago, I was riding on a train between Paris and Rome. Sit ting next to me was an astronomer from Brussels, Belgium. He spoke good English and I was interested
Dr. Samuel H. Sutherland, (left) Biola president, looks over plans for the school’s 33rd Annual Torrey Memorial Bible Conference to be held in key churches throughout Southern Califor nia. With him is the Rev. Roy Nelson, pastor of the Temple Baptist Church of Ontario, which wil be one of the locations for the meetings; January 28 to February 2, 1968. The Rev. Mr. Nelson is a graduate of Biola.
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