Saving Souls

RR: Oh, come on, give the Lord praise tonight. Oh, God bless you, ORU Singers. Give them a big God bless you. When we get to see Jesus, we’ll sing, Lindsay, we’ll shout and give Him the glory and victory. I’ve got news. Jesus is coming soon.  I believe that with all my heart. When?  I don’t know, Lindsay. Even Jesus himself doesn’t know. The Bible says that only God knows.

And we are to be prepared for His coming in the twinkling of an eye, and we are to work as if He’s not coming for a thousand years, to be ready. And I’m ready. I thank God that Jesus is coming soon, and that’s the blessed hope, Lindsay, is that Jesus is coming for me.

LR: That’s right. You know, the Bible says that Jesus endured the cross, and it doesn’t say that’s it.

RR: It doesn’t stop there.

LR: For the joy that was set before Him. He knows what lies ahead. He knew what was set before Him. He knew that here’s the cross, here’s death, here’s all the stuff that He was going to have to go through in order to get to what was set before Him.

And many of us sit back and we just think, “Oh, I’m not going to do this.  Oh, I can’t do this.”  What’s the bottom line?  What’s the final outcome?  What’s the purpose? You know, God may have a final outcome and a final purpose for our lives, but we aren’t willing to walk through the process that it takes to get to that purpose.

RR: Or, Lindsay, we say we’re not worthy.

LR: That’s right. And, you know, that is not from God. There’s a final outcome, even if it’s a process, even if it’s steps, even if it’s a procedure, whatever it is, to get you to the outcome. Jesus endured the things that He was going through for the moment because He was focused on where He was headed after that.

And too many times we miss the resurrection of what God has for our lives because we’re focused on the death and the burial. But without the death and burial, there can be no resurrection. And we’ve got to see that, “Okay, the Bible doesn’t say all things are good.” It says, “All things work together for good to them that love the Lord and are called according to his purposes.”