Presented by Evangelist Wendell Stover

Take your Bible and turn to Revelation chapter 21. I walked down the halls of Erlanger Hospital and went to visit a mom and dad whose baby had crawled underneath the back wheels of a car. The driver of the car had no idea the infant child was there, and the car ran over the baby's head. Don't you think sometimes that the mind of God says, "I can't wait until it all ends." I visited there with the mom and dad, and we went in there and looked at the child. For some reason I just didn't want to talk about the mark of the beast, the anti-Christ and the seven last plagues. There is a proper place for those things, but our subject matter tonight may be the most important subject matter of all. It ties in so beautifully with the Gospel and the plan of salvation.

We need to think more often about what John saw. I spoke at the funeral service. Mother and daddy had prayed that they could have a child. Finally through much expense and frustration, she began to carry a child and everything was going well until the last week before the delivery. Somehow the child had turned and the umbilical cord wrapped around its throat, and the baby was born dead. There is a lot of tragedy in the world. I hope that God will allow us this evening by scripture to be removed just a little bit from whatever realities that knew that we are carrying this evening.

Revelation 21 is a wonderful chapter that will introduce us to that. John says in Revelation 21:1, "And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea." Now I don't know what you believe or what your church teaches about the new earth and of the new Jerusalem and of the coming end of the world, but let's agree to stay just with the Bible this evening, OK? The scripture is teaching us here that someday God is going to recreate this earth back to it's original beauty and splendor that was here in the very beginning. John says, "I saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband." Keep in mind now that John is trying to be as expressive as he can. He is sitting out there; maybe on those jagged rocks that are so typical of the island of Patmos. This is coming to him on the Sabbath day. His mind must be taken far away from his own imprisonment. The mighty voice of God said, "John, someday there will no more sea." The sea was what separated John from the mainland and from his family and friends. John said, "I saw the city."

This is second hand information to you because I've never seen exactly what John saw. I've prayed often, "God, please let me have a dream about heaven." And one time I dreamed about heaven. It was a brief dream, but I remember it so well. I was with my brother-in-law standing outside the walls of the New Jerusalem, and there was a brilliant light shining down between where we were standing and the walls of the city. That is all I saw in my dream. I'm somewhat envious of John here who could say with authority, "I don't have to imagine what it's like." He says, "I've actually seen it! God has let me look at it and I'm going to describe it for you. There is no other city in the world like this one. They were so beautiful," he said, "every detail in place; it looked as if a bride adorned for her husband." Now, that does not mean that it was sheltered in a beautiful wedding dress coming down out of the sky; not so, but every detail of care and attention and of beauty that could be given to that city is what John is trying to get across.

In verse 3, "And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God." Notice that; you see by faith right now, we trust there is a God because we have not seen Him. Someday with your own eyes you will see him, and with your own hands and arms you can hug and embrace Jesus. It says, "God shall be with them never to be removed again." I'm so happy this evening that the Bible declares that sin shall never come back again. Once and for all God will destroy it. Then verse 4 says, "And God shall wipe away all ears from their eyes." Someone tell me who is represented by the "their"? God is going to wipe away the tears from somebody's eyes, who is it? It's us.

I was in a church meeting sometime ago and the Turners were there. This dear lady stood up and she said, "Somebody's going to heaven! Somebody's going to heaven!" And she says, "I want to be one of them." I want to be one of them too. I want you to be there. If you miss heaven, you've missed the greatest opportunity in life. And contrary to what some may desire to teach you, there is no chance after Jesus comes. God calls us now to repentance. When at last the trumpet sounds and Jesus comes, that's it. No further opportunities will be given. God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more of this death. No more death, neither sorrow nor crying and neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are all passed away. I would be so thankful if I never visited the cemetery again. Someday, like you, I shall make my last visit there.

Some time ago I went with my cousin to a cemetery, and I had purchased four granite pieces of stone and had a large S carved in the top of that granite stone. If time shall last, I'm going to be buried between the corners of those stones that he and I buried in that cemetery. I don't want to die. We buried 12 members of our family in a year. We have to deal with this, and yet our bodies and our minds in the beginning were not created to deal with this, did you know that? Death is foreign; it is something that has been placed upon man. It happened a long time ago, and you had nothing to do with it. Yet, you have to cope with it.

There shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, and neither shall there be any more pain for God says, "I'm going to take all of that away." My phone rang. I went to the Veterans Hospital at the request of a lady. Her request was to please come and pray for her husband that God will heal him and that he may go home. I don't know if I've ever seen an individual with as many acute illnesses as this man had. His toes were uncovered. I could see the cracks in his toes as the blood circulation had been cut off from sugar diabetes, and his toes were actually beginning to crack all the skin around his toes. He had a brain tumor removed. He had had a heart attack. He had suffered a stroke, and if all that wasn't enough, now he has pneumonia. His dear sweet wife is looking at me with those pleading eyes to pray that God will restore him back to health so he can go back home. The world is filled with so many tragedies and sicknesses.

Just one example: In Turkey there was a recent earthquake, and nobody really knows whether it's 20,000 or 30,000 people whose lives have actually been destroyed over that. Those lives impacting on the lives of complete families. I would like to say that just as much--if we want that great day to come in which pain and suffering to be destroyed, Jesus wants it to come even more quickly.

We were having the Stover Reunion. Now, that's a place to go for entertainment! The Stover Reunion took place once a year. Yet, this one would be unlike any others because I would go with my father into the Nursing Home where his sister was to tell her that her 54-year-old daughter had just died. I never even think about my pancreas. If something goes wrong, you can be killed in just a matter of hours. Her name was Elizabeth. She had one leg removed. We had buried her husband maybe about 3 weeks earlier. Her middle son had been killed in an auto accident. My father tells her what had happened. With the deepest blue eyes that swelled up with tears, she reached out that hand to me and she turned to me, not to my father, but to me, and said, "Why?" Sometimes death is like a monster, isn't it? I just sort of creeps in and snatches away our loved ones sometimes early in life, sometimes right at the moment of retirement when the lovely couple have given years of service to the Lord. Suddenly, one is taken away. I want you please to recognize something in all this. It is so hard for us to understand it, and I know if I were placed in that position, I would … It is easier to talk about it now; I know it is, but we are only here for just a little while in the great plan of God. Sixty years, 100 years is such a minute amount of time in God's great calendar. Instead of death, Jesus wants to give life--an eternal life.

In verse 5, not only did John see the city, but looked inside the city. He even saw the one that was sitting on the throne, and he said, "Behold, I make all things new." Now that's special. You have never lived, you have never even imagined, and we don't even have the mental capacity to rightly understand this great change that is going to come in the creation; the physical creation of the earth and our environment and also the new creation of man. This is when we are changed from mortality into immortality, and it shall come. Notice verse 7, "He that overcometh shall inherit all things; and I will be his God, and he shall be my son." There is one group of people here that are not going to heaven in verse 8, and I hope you are not in any one of these groups. No one wants to be in these groups, verse 8, "But the fearful, and unbelieving, and the abominable, and murderers, and whoremongers, and sorcerers, and idolaters, and all liars, shall have their part in the lake which burneth with fire and brimstone: which is the second death." Do you see that word "unbelieving". I've been doing a little study on that because everywhere we go and have revival meetings like this, we meet people who are so close to making a decision for Christ. It gives joy to our heart for those who do make a decision for Christ, and those who follow through with baptism very often. But, there are always those that we pray for, that talk to us, they pour out their hearts to us, and yet with the very best of God's grace and God's leading they come so close to making a decision for Jesus, but the never fully make it.

There will be many people who have believed in Jesus who do not go to heaven. What guarantees us the right to heaven is when we say to Jesus that we are willing to go? Do you hear what I'm saying? Confession of sin, confession and a need of a Savior, and then the profession of a lifestyle that follows after that. If there is anything that might be just a little d se we come to Christ we are not free then to go live like the devil. We are blessed by God's presence, then to begin learning how to live for Him. I would suggest that when we begin to do that, we have all the story. We have the event of someone coming to Christ, and then we have the process of holy living that follows afterward. This part right here that says, "But the fearful and the unbelieving." That could include good people just like us tonight sitting right here, who believe in God, who believe in the Bible, we are good people, but yet we have never fully surrendered and allowed Him to become Lord of our life.

Let's talk about the city. This is a wonderful place. You've heard it described as the streets being made out of pure gold. Verse 11 says, "Having the glory of God: and her light was like unto a stone most precious, even like a jasper stone, clear as crystal." It is a beautiful city. The Bible tells us here in the next few chapters that it has foundations, that it has walls. When John saw the city, it looked like it was sitting on a rainbow. There were different stones representing different colors. It was 12 gates. The walls are about 20 stories tall. If you were to walk around that city, you would have to walk about close to 1500 miles. It is larger than the state of Georgia and the state of Florida combined. Do you think there is room enough in there for you to find a little niche somewhere? It's a beautiful place.

Notice this in verse 27, "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth, neither whatsoever worketh abomination, or maketh a lie: but they which are written in the Lamb's book of life." Did you catch that? Most everyone wants to go to heaven, but not everyone is going. Somebody's going, yes. And you may go if you choose, but it tells us here that nothing can enter into heaven that defiles. Over 20 years in the ministry has taught me something about people and groups of people. You have a conscience that has been trained and influenced by the environment around you, by the amount of time you have spent alone with God, and by the way you were raised as a child. Each of you has a conscience. Some of us have a different conviction than other people. Because of the way that we were raised, because of our church attendance, because of the amount of time we have spent in personal study and prayer, but we each have a conscience. I'm not interested in denominational conscience. I'm interested in having a conscience that would be like the conscience of Jesus. That is what I want.

Some people have been taught at an early age that God really cares about everything you do. This really is the best way to teach a child Christian love. God has made them so special and so unique, He has given them a certain smile. He doesn't give each person the same amount of talent or of beauty or even of energy, but yet we are made uniquely precious in the sight of God. If you have been raised to believe something is wrong, and now you have become an adult, if you participate in that, as long as you live your conscience will bother you. The Indians used to call the conscience a three-cornered hat in the brain. If you've been taught as a child that the Lord loves you so much and that He made such a wonderful body for you to enjoy, that if you damage the body, it's wrong. You will never forget that. If you begin to use tobacco even though you may enjoy the taste of it, even the habit of it, somewhere in the back of your mind is that little voice that says, "This really doesn't make Jesus happy." If you have a conscience that has taught you that the use of alcohol is wrong; even the occasional use of alcohol you may enjoy and may really openly not see much wrong with it, then a little voice is always there in your conscience saying, "If Jesus were to come tonight, you really should not be doing this."

We could carry that principle over in the language, into dress, and just a whole lot of different things about the conscience. Listen to this in verse 27, "And there shall in no wise enter into it any thing that defileth." Now, God forbid that we do anything here in the meeting to wound the conscience of anyone. I want to be strong against the devil and that's all. I want to be for Jesus and against the devil. Tobacco is a habit that is very difficult to break. We are very sympathetic towards people who struggle with tobacco. If your conscience says to you that you would like to stop using tobacco, next weekend Friday evening we are going to have right here in this building after our meeting the first night of our Stop-Smoking Clinic. If you use tobacco as chewing tobacco, as snuff, or as smoking tobacco, and God gives you a conscience that you shouldn't do that, I wish you would plan now to join that class. You can have the victory. You can have total victory, and you will not be sorry that you joined the class; I promise you. We will meet probably 15 to 20 minutes for four or five evenings here right after the meeting. It will be a turning point in you life. God will give you the victory.

About chapter 22, John must have been so excited and happy as he was writing down here about that eternal home of the reward. Back in the book of John, he had even written about this. He says, "In my father's house are many mansions." Even translated many rooms in one place. He says there that Jesus went to prepare a place for us and that the very same place that He would go to would be the place that someday He would welcome us. Chapter 22 takes us right inside the New Jerusalem. "And he shewed me a pure river of water of life, clear as crystal, proceeding out of the throne of God and of the Lamb."

Sometime ago, Debbie memorized chapter 22 of Revelation. As we were traveling down the road I liked to say, "Debbie, would you recite Revelation 22?" I'm thrilled to be constantly reminded about the throne of God that is there; the tree of life that comes up on either side of the river of life. By the way, the river of life originates out of God's throne. It says right here in verse 3, "And there shall be no more curse: but the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it; and his servants shall serve him." Why does John over and over again talk about some of these things that are NOT there? I debated in presenting this subject whether we should spend more time talking about what IS there or trying to describe that which will NOT be there. I haven't come to a conclusion yet. I know this much, John says that the curse will not be there. That is the curse of sin. You have never lived without the curse of sin.

Let me illustrate this; my phone rang, and there was a distraught mother on the other end at about 2:00 in the morning says, "Can you come to the hospital? My son and his wife have been in an awful accident. Will you come?" I walked into the Intensive Care waiting room. Immediately I recognized a cloud over that family. They took me back to where this young man's wife lay. I couldn't identify all the machinery, but I knew this was very serious. She was pronounced brain dead. He is sitting in a wheelchair with bandages around his head and around his legs with most distraught, despondent eyes that I've ever seen in a man. As I'm wheeling him down the hall to a room reserved for the clergy, silently I am praying, "God please let me know what to say to this man who has just killed his wife." What do you say to someone who because of the influence of alcohol has been driving too fast, and in a curve loses control of the truck, it turns over, his wife is thrown out of the vehicle, and her head strikes a huge boulder? There were three small children--the last two were not even out of diapers yet. I said to him, "I don't know what is going to happen in the future, but it's never too late to make Jesus your future." Do you believe it? I lovingly assured him that even though right now we did not know what the end result would be, God would give him the ability to cope. That we had to look beyond where we are right now into the great day that is coming.

I went back out into the waiting room. I never dreamed this would happen. A lone lady was sitting over in the chair in the corner next to the lamp. There were huge tears streaming down her face. She was sobbing. I said, "Lady, I'm a minister. Would you like to talk?" She told me the most horrifying story. She said, "My brother is in the same room and same ward you just came out of. We don't ronment you and I live in.

The Bible says here that there will be no more curse. That is what it's speaking of. The curse shall be gone and something shall be in its place. John says the throne of God and of the Lamb shall be in it and His servants shall serve Him. Verse 4, "And they shall see his face; and his name shall be in their foreheads."

Two teenagers stuck their head into my office one morning and said, "Pastor, can we talk?" The older boy said, "Pastor, you've been speaking a lot about heaven, but we don't want to go there." Have you ever heard such a statement? Sometimes it's OK for adults to just shut up and listen. I didn't even get one amen on that. I said, "Well, why not?" Evidently, this showed a tremendous weakness in my own preaching, and the message is that we are being deceived about heaven. And the older boy said, "We don't want to go to heaven because it seems like heaven will be a very boring place. If all we do is float on a cloud and play a harp and sing Gospel music, we don't want to go." Ah, but listen, heaven is different than that; a whole lot different than that. It is a real place. I suppose if you wanted a door in heaven that would just evaporate as you went through it, you might work some special arrangement out with God to have a door like that. But I would assume that the doors in heaven have hinges on them and that there is a knob there. It is a real place, and it's for real people.

Several years ago, and I will never forget this, a young couple came to me. I'm sort of part of that flower power culture too, but I sort of got out of some of that. This young couple came to me, and I could tell they were still very much aware of that lifestyle. The young man said, "Pastor, we don't believe that when we get to heaven that we will sleep in real houses. We believe that everyone will sleep outside on the grass, on the trees." I just listened. His view of God and of heaven that would have been the most wonderful way to live--outside under the canopy of the open stars surrounded with grapevines and oak trees, and you just sort of snuggle up underneath the pine needles every night. I didn't have the heart to argue with him. I wouldn't argue with someone like that for anything, would you? I would assume that if someone wanted to sleep in a tree, God would be good enough and gracious enough to provide them a tree that had forked limbs on it, what do you think? Why not? Heaven is a real place for real people; it is designed to give us supreme joy that the converted heart and mind and body can cling to and enjoy.

Turn with me to the book of Isaiah chapter 65. Did you know that when we get to heaven we shall enjoy the privileges of a new body? I got a lot of amens on that one. Some time ago, I spoke at the 25^th alumni meeting of my high school, and I thought that was an honor, but before going there to speak, I got my annual and opened it up. Just for my own information I just went over all the names and faces of those young people I went to school with and those I graduated with. I know I don't look any different than I did 25 years ago (just kidding). Sure enough, I saw my classmates coming in and so forth. I recognized them all. Almost all of us had less hair than we had before. That was a common trait. Some of it was a different color. Most all of us had enjoyed the benefits of good diet, and we even weighed just a little bit more. I noticed that almost all of us were wearing glasses. Ah, but there was something common though. We all still looked like the same person just with some minor changes. I didn't tell anyone there, but I sort of went through this thing. They talk about middle age crisis and all that, well, I grew a mustache for several years. The only purpose being that I really thought that my nose was too big and the mustache would take away some of that. Men do some strange things. Somebody said that that is for sure!

If we are totally recreated now, some of us have got maybe not all the muscles in the right places. I've got to figure out how to do this. You know how you pose? Why not have a body with all the muscles in the right places, proportionate the way God could have designed man in the very beginning. Then maybe some of us who have too much muscle can have some of that taken away. What do you say? But, to have a new body with eyes--throw these glasses away! I'm still not used to my bifocals. Why not have a bionic eye? I'm not trying to be funny or talk about a 6 million-dollar man or anything like that, but why not? We would be walking down through the countryside in the new earth, and you look up and see an eagle. You say to your friend, "Oh, look John! There's and eagle! I believe he has a kernel of corn in his mouth and it's turned sideways." Well, why not? We shall not just walk around barely moving and breathing and never smiling like some glob of innate protoplasm or something like that. Made in the image of God to glorify Him and to enjoy life. We'll have new ears and teeth, and a new body. Some will not understand this, but others will. We'll have a new body in which you can sleep all night long and not have to get up and visit a special room. This is real. I don't want to miss it, do you? Wonderful, wonderful is what God has prepared for His people.

Some of you like to garden; I just know that you do. That's part of the Americanism and apple pie and owning your own home and driving a Ford and all those good things. I'd love to be able to garden. I enjoy driving a tractor. That's the best thing I enjoy or to run the rototiller; I like to see those tines run. But, I really don't enjoy getting out and pulling weeds. I like to eat food. I don't know how all this is going to take place, but I just believe it. It tells us right here in Isaiah 65 that we shall plant vineyards, gardens. Listen to this is in verse 21, "And they shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them. The shall not build, and another inhabit; they shall not plant, and another eat: for as the days of a tree are the days of my people, and mine elect shall long enjoy the work of their hands." In other words, what you have will be there to enjoy. The curse of sin cannot take it away from you. I would like to be able to experiment in a beautiful garden in which weeds and crab grass and Johnson grass would never grow again. I would like to grow zucchini squash. I would like to grow zucchini squash that tastes like homemade banana pudding with lots of wafers. Why not? Is it just some drab place? NO. It is filled with all the creative power of God Almighty. They eye has not seen; the ear has not heard; it is not even entered into our imagination that which we can do in that place.

Talk about building houses; talk about how everyone can build their own house when they got to heaven. I know what a carpenter was thinking. He had been working all that day carrying plywood and decking up on to the roof of a house; the wind was blowing. He isn't really look forward to have to build his own house. Let's don’t' read more in here than is here, OK? There are those I'm sure who would really enjoy taking the time in designing, refining and building maybe a country home and enjoying the blessings of a city home as well. All I can tell you is that your hearts desire will be met and your home will be just exactly what you want and you desire. You can have anything. If you want a water fountain in your living room, you can have one. Not just with one layer, but maybe five layers, and have different colored lights shining up into that fountain. You can have a wall of brilliant red roses if you wanted in your living room. Why not own a diamond six feet long sitting over in the corner somewhere just to look at?

Notice verse 25. Sometimes Christians have a lot of discussion about animals in the New Jerusalem and animals in the new earth. Some of you may even comment to me afterward about this, but I believe for sure than in the new earth there will be animals there. Verse 25 says, "The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent's meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the Lord." Will your pets be there? I've got some of the most intelligent adorable little puppies that you could ever enjoy. My little Casper is about this long and little Cotton is about this long. They are Maltese puppies. the page in Isaiah chapter 66:22, "For as the new heavens and the new earth, which I will make shall remain before me, saith the Lord, so shall your seed and your name remain." Verse 23, "And it shall come to pass, that from one new moon to another, and from one Sabbath to another, shall all flesh come to worship before me, saith the Lord."

Haven't we had beautiful music here this evening? I wish I could play a trumpet, or piano. Last night, Brother Jim played the guitar. Everyone else in my family sings or plays instruments, but guess who? I was invited to sing in a choir once. I'm longing to be there in the New Jerusalem. I don't know how this is going to happen. Maybe the streets are very wide proportionate to the city. The first time we assemble together inside of the city to worship, a crowd of people going down the street that looks like pure gold. I see people of all ages walking beside me. I might even see those with yesteryear features, but maybe a little larger than I am. I might even be fortunate enough to see Moses or Daniel or the Apostle Paul. As we make our way together down toward the throne room of the universe (if you please), before we ever get there, we hear the music coming from the lips of the angelic choir positioned in the open heavens. Why this is the divine worship service in which God Himself is there in person! Somewhere along the way, I'll be bold enough to open my mouth and begin to sing. I can't wait. My voice blending in with the voice of the redeemed of all ages singing parts that have not yet been invented, singing a new song, "Thou art worthy O Lord to receive our honor and glory and majesty, for You have redeemed us."

That mighty procession makes it’s way down. Maybe Christ in the center; maybe we are positioned in a perfect square around that. I don't know how exactly how this is going to be. Maybe it is the angel Gabriel who has his baton, and even from a distance away you can see him standing there leading the angelic choir and inviting you to join in. Finally, in a mighty crescendo the song comes to an end, and the angel Gabriel steps over to the side and this tall figure walks out. Oh, you've seen Him already, but He walks over coming to maybe a platform like this to a pulpit or something. As He holds up His hands, there is a divine hush. With new eyes and new vision you can look at the center of His palms. This is no angel. When He begins to speak, it's the voice that sounds like many waters. His voice sounds like thunder. It's the voice of Jesus; Jesus himself. I don't know what he declares. "Ladies and gentlemen, it is my privilege as the King of Kings, as Lord of Lords, as your redeemer, as your Savior, it is my privilege as your friend to welcome you into eternity." I want to be there!

What a shame it would be if some of us were missing from that great day. If you could speed things up a little bit, you would do it tonight, wouldn't you? We would say, "Please come, Lord Jesus. We have the blessed hope." This is the blessed hope that we are studying this evening; the coming of Christ; the beginning of eternity. My dear parents had that hope; your parents have that hope; I have it and I want my children to be sure they have it. As a matter of fact, there is something about this that is even more important than a new body and a mansion and animals, is being together with people that we miss and have already died. The greatest joy I think that I have ever experienced has been that of family ties with people I love.

For some reason, the older I get, the more precious my family becomes. I would like to be there when my wife sees her mother for the first time. I would also like to be in another place where my own mother and daddy are, and I would like to see my mother holding in each of her arms two babies identical that were lost in death. My mother asked me, "Wendell, will I ever see those babies again?" Now, she knew the answer to that question, but it was so assuring to her for me to tell her that she will. I wish I could be there on that resurrection morning when her body is recreated anew and maybe that guardian angel places that child in her arms and then places another child in the other arm. I would like to see all that.

We could visit here a long time tonight. This is the greatest hope that burns in the lives of Christian people. That of being reunited with our loved ones who have died and to be able to live in a place of eternal consequence where there is no sin, no aging, no death, disease; I don't want to miss it. I want you to pray that I will not miss it. Are you ready for Jesus to come?

Some people call that the New Jerusalem, some call it Canaan Land, some call it heaven, I want us to call it home; the very place we are going to spend eternity. Did you know tonight according to scripture there is a movement taking place all over the earth where the Gospel of Jesus Christ is to be presented in it's most alluring terms? The Holy Spirit can work upon the minds of men and women to hear the message giving them the intellectual knowledge, but also giving them the loving passion in their own hearts to follow Christ and be ready. It would be dangerous for a minister to be able to look out in the audience and know who is ready for heaven and who isn't. But, Jesus has that ability.

In every meeting, I am firmly convinced there are people who are there by divine appointment. God has led that person to that meeting; this meeting! God has led some to this very meeting tonight because this is your calling time of God to make sure that you are going to that home. I don't know who that is, but you do and God does. It would be so wonderful tonight if you and God, and those that God is speaking with and calling and working with to be so full of commitment and of love. For you to be willing to say, "Lord, I need a Savior, I have sinned, I want to be ready for heaven, please take me, mold me and make me into whatever You want me to be for You." That would be the best tidings that could be carried from this place tonight into the New Jerusalem.

More Bible Studies are available in our Bible Study Collection

Visit the McDonald Road SDA Church Homepage!

Copyright 1999, 2000 by Wendell Stover and McDonald Road SDA Church