<TITLE>16. Par 68-71</TITLE>L-68 God be merciful. Oh, my. Does your faith set still this morning? When the troubled winds are blowing, the nights are dark, and the winds and lightnings are flashing, does your anchor hold? Build your hopes this morning, on nothing less than Jesus Blood with righteousness. I know it's a hard--it seems hard, but take it one time, and take God at His Word, and see what a blessed hope it is to just march forward in faith.
In this great faith battle, as I've tried to fight it, I've come--some awful obstacles, been over some rough roads. It shows on me: I have. But it's been the most blessed thing I... I wouldn't trade it for nothing in the world. And here's my greatest victories, the greatest pleasures I have, is when I come up against something I can't see over, around it, or under it; I just keep walking towards it, believing this: that God will make a way when I get there. I've never come this year... this far... any at... all this distance I have come, I have trusted Him. He has never failed me.
 It's grace that taught my heart to fear.
 It was grace my fears relieved.
 How precious did that grace appear
 The hour I first believed.
 And through many dangers, toils, and snares
 I have already come.
 It was grace that's brought me safe thus far;
 It's grace that'll take me on.
 And when we've been there ten thousand years,
 Bright shining as the sun,
 We'll have no less days to sing His praise
 Then when we first begun.

L-69 When we rally there with Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob, those who were heirs of the promise, looking forward to us not to fail, for without us they cannot be made perfect... And how they're depending on us this morning. Let's not fail. Keep your anchor in Christ.
If you're a sinner, you don't have to come to the altar. It's customary to do so, but if you're--don't want to come and not room for you to come, say, "Lord, I cast all the worldly things aside right now. I lay myself before You, bare and naked as I am, and am a shame and disgrace, but I cast my anchor on You, and I believe in You. Nothing I can do but what You've done for me.

L-70 If you're sick, the doctor says there's no way at all for you to ever be well, there's nothing can be done, just look in this...?... this little group of people this morning (when this is a--a little handful, not even a dot of the thousands that's been healed in the last few weeks), around the world. Great campaigns, the world's in a roar with Divine healing campaigns, men of faith, going out, daring to take God at His Word. The Gentile days are ending. This is a sign. Look at it. Don't wait too long.
They waited too long to recognize Elijah. And the disciples even said, "Why did the scribes say, 'Elijah must first come'?" He said, "He's already come and you didn't know him."
Said, "Who was it?"
Said, "John the Baptist."
"Well," they said, "Sure, that was him."

L-71 Jesus came and they didn't know it. After the Roman had crucified Him, when it was too late then to do anything, he said, "Truly that was the Son of God." Though He was a malefactor, though He was... He was spit upon, though He was made fun of and persecuted, yet God a vindicated Him with signs and wonders. Today, let's not wait too long. This is the ending of the Gentile dispensation. We're ending.
 Nations are breaking,
 Israel's awakening,
 The signs that the Bible foretold;
 The Gentile days numbered,
 With horrors encumbered;
 Return, O dispersed, to your own.
 The day of redemption is near,
 Men's hearts are failing for fear;
 Be filled with the Spirit,
 Your lamps trimmed and clear,
 Look up, your redemption is near.


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