<TITLE>05. Par 44-52</TITLE>L-44 And there's another thing that's absolutely sure to every person in here. I want to leave that thought to you to begin with. It's uncertain whether you're going to live to get out of this church or not. It's uncertain whether you'll ever be back again or not. It's uncertain whether you'll see another year's life. But there's one thing that certainly is sure: that's death and the judgment afterwards. You're just as sure to meet that as God is in heaven.
You may make an appointment with your wife, and say, "Honey, I will take you to a certain place." Something may arise that you can't do that. You might not be able to keep that appointment.
You might tell your best friend, "Brother, I'm going to meet you. I'm going to do a certain thing. I will let you have money, or I will let you have my car." All kind of in--uncertainty against that.
But there's one thing that's sure: that is, you're going to die, and after that you're going to meet the judgment. So bear that in mind while we're talking on uncertainty.

L-48 Now, there is people who thinks, that, "Just so that we go into church, just so we belong to church, so we hear a good sermon now and then, and so forth, that it's all right."
Now, being it hot and everything, and I perspire so, and under this fan and all, usually makes me hoarse. I just want to talk to you today, if I can, teach to you, some things I know you ought to know: and that is, something that'll make you better, that'll help you along the road. I hope that God will help me today to pass something on to you, that'll make you realize what you ought to be and what you should be. And by telling you, will also make me realize, that I've got to be a better man than what I am and what I have been. And each day, let me raise up just a little higher, closer to Christ. That's what we're here for this morning in the sincerity and in the integrity of our hearts.
I believe we wouldn't come to a church, hot today, where we have to sit here and suffer under the heat, just to be coming to church for the fun of coming. I believe there's a certain thing that you come for: that is, for Christ.

L-52 You never come to hear me. Although I may do the best I can, but I never did draw anybody to God. No one could draw it but Christ.
You come to hear the singing, perhaps. The singing is very fine. We like that kind of singing. But singing doesn't draw people to Christ. It--it's the Holy Spirit that draws people to Christ. See?
Preaching doesn't draw, although we try the best we can. The pastor and I, we do our very best to--to draw people to Christ, or to preach the Gospel, but it is the Holy Spirit Who has to draw your heart and give you that certain sound. We can preach the Gospel, of what we think is right, but the Holy Spirit has to give the sound that echoes in your heart. And there is a certain sound.


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