<TITLE>04. Par 30-38</TITLE>L-30 Now, see, they lap over one another. So now you... I guess you've noticed that and picked it up, coming down, as I've been mentioning. How that even here in the--the Sardis age, that was the marriage age. Actually, the church never really come into full existence until Thyatira, but it got married in Sardis. And Sardis means a--a being a--a marriage.
Now, now, if you notice it married here, and then lapped over into that age there. And you notice Luther, last night, come out with a dead name, a name of dead, and then escaped one. See, it had the dead church from back here, and the escaping of the little remnant that was brought out in this age here.
And tonight as we're ending up the Philadelphian age, it's bringing in the beginning of the Laodicean age.

L-33 Then tomorrow night when it goes out of the--just at the end, you notice, the angel appears right at the end time, and just at the end time, to rebuke the church for losing its first love and how it's got away from God like they did down through there, the ages. And at that time the rapture comes to take the church home; the church goes up just at the time of the message. And so we are--we are nearing that age now. Did you get that? All right. See? All right. See, just at the time the--the angel of the church, the messenger of the age, comes in to rebuke them for losing their first love, bring--trying to bring them back...
Same thing the messenger does tonight; the angel messenger comes back to rebuke them, each age like that, for what they had done. So that makes a lapover in each one of the church ages, just lap right over one another like that, like climbing up a step, it's laying in laps like that, going up.

L-35 Now, I got just a short piece of history here on the messenger for tonight, of the John Wesley. John Wesley was the star of the age. And he was borned on June the 17th, 1703, in Epworth rectory, England. He was the fifteenth child of nineteen. John and Susanna Wesley, father and mother... Father, a preacher; mother, a consecrated saint; although with nineteen children to take care of, she found much time through her busy day to teach her children Bible lessons, and Bible stories, and pray for them. That's what made the boys what they were. The great song writer, Charles, his brother, who gave the world some of the most inspiring songs we've ever had...

L-36 John, an associate of George Whitefield... John--John Wesley and George--George Whitefield was really the first founder of this Methodist--or the sanctification.
John rose up early every morning; for sixty years he got up every morning at four o'clock. That's one thing the church has fallen from. Got up every morning at four o'clock and preached at five A.M. for fifty years straight. And sometimes he preached from two to four times a day. It is said by people of England that he rode a horse forty-five hundred English miles every year to preach the Gospel. Forty-five hundred miles on a (That's English miles; you know they're longer than ours.) to preach the Gospel...

L-38 Many books of his--was wrote of slander about him in his day, slandering him, making fun of him. But they've long been forgotten now; so has their authors. You can't do nothing against a child of God and get by with it; you--you just fighting the air. God's going to take them right on through anyhow.
He was called a Methodist because of his methods of doing things. It is said in his lifetime that he preached more than forty thousand sermons. Think of that: forty thousand sermons. Soon after his going away in 1791, the Methodist denomination took its roots in the world and started the Methodist church. Then, of course, Asbury and many more were in at the time.


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