<TITLE>05. Par 28-34</TITLE>L-28 Now, Lord,... and thank You for all these things. Now it falls my lot to speak on Thy Word. Give us Thy Word, Lord. "Thy Word is Truth." Bless our souls and give us the--the grace that we need that we might draw from the Promises of God tonight, in the Word, to sustain us through the rest of this week; grant it. Bless our pastor, this gallant soul, his wife, his children, the deacons, the trustees, and every person that comes in or out of this building; grant it, Father. In the Name of Jesus Christ we ask these blessings. Amen.

L-29   Now, I want to read from two places of the writings of the Lord. I want to read first from the Book of the Psalms, the 86th Psalm. And then I want to read from Saint Matthew, the 16th chapter, 1 to 3. And I want to read portion of this Psalm, not all of it but down about to the 11th verse, which is a little over half of it.

L-30 And I want to announce this, if I call a text, before I preach on it: The Uniting Time And Sign. "The uniting time Sign," that sounds kind of complicated. Uniting; see? Time; uniting time, that's what it is now. And the Sign of that uniting time.

L-31   In--in the Psalm, a prayer of David... the 86th Psalm.
Bow down thine ear, O LORD, hear me: for I am poor and needy.
Preserve my soul; for I am holy: O thou my God, save thy servant that trusts in thee.
Be merciful unto me, O Lord: for I cry unto thee daily.
Rejoice the soul of thy servant: for unto thee, O Lord, do I lift up my soul.
For thou, Lord, art good, and ready to forgive; and plenteous in mercy unto all them that call upon thee.
Give ear, O LORD, unto my prayer;... attend to the voice of my supplications.
In the day of my trouble I will call upon thee: for thou will answer me.
Oh, isn't that beautiful? "Thou wilt answer me."
Among the gods there is none like unto thee, O Lord; neither are there any works liken unto thy work.
All nations whom, thou has made shall come and worship before thee, O Lord; thou shall glorify thy name.
For thou art great, and doest wondrous things: thou art God alone.
Listen now.
Teach me thy way, O LORD; I--I will walk in thy truth: unite my heart to fear thy name. (Unity! See?)... unite my heart to fear thy name.

L-32   I'm talking now of uniting; and time sign. Now, in the 16th chapter of Saint Matthew.
The Pharisees also with the Sadducees came,... tempting him, desiring him that he would show them a sign from heaven.
And He answered and said unto them, When it is evening, you say, I... It will be fair weather: for the sky is red.
And in the morning, It will be lower... foul weather to day: for the sky is red and lowring. O you hypocrites, you can discern the face of the sky; but ye cannot discern the signs of the time?
The Lord add His gracious blessings to the reading of this Word.

L-33   Now, we're talking of this uniting, uniting time; the sign of the uniting time. See, Jesus was here, in this last Scripture reading, He was rebuking the clergy for not being able to discern the time or the sign of the time. Now, that has always been a great thing to the people, see, to be able to discern the sign of the time that you're living; because God writes it plainly so nobody could escape it.

L-34   Now, ordinarily, I'd go back and pick up from other ministers, other servants of the Lord in the Bible time (like the sign in Noah's time, the sign of Daniel's time and--and so forth, the different signs), but I want to bypass that tonight to--to save time, to be able... But it's always been God's way, to give them a--a natural sign of the time, so that everyone would know just what time it--it was. And these Pharisees should have known their time. They should have knowed what the time was. He said in another place, "If you would've known Me, you would've known My day." See? It--it's very a--a great thing that we understand. See, "Without understanding!"


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