The Old Trailblazer Broadcast

This is the Old Trailblazer Broadcast. This is Pastor Albert Pendarvis bringing you another study in God's Word.

We're looking at the Second Coming or the Soon Coming of our Blessed Lord. Before we get into the study, I want to mention, I fail to mention oftentimes about radio missions here. Our website is radiomissions.org. And then we have radio missions radio, which is the broadcast thing that we have here.

And you go there to our website and look it up. Radio missions radio is 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. And you can hear the old gospel music and the trailblazer and the classic sermon.

And then our regular services here are all streamed over the internet. And then I forget, many times I mention our radio Bible and bookstore. We have a gracious Bible bookstore here, religious book room if you want to call it that. And we have the old Puritan Divine Spurgeons and Max chains and Whitfields and Gills and Bunions and I have all those. And we'd be glad to send you a catalog if you'd like. And folks are doing that and saying, my, my, we didn't know you had a bookstore like this.

But let's just call me if you'd like to discuss it more. We're bringing you this study on the Second Coming or the Soon Coming, I believe, of our Blessed Lord. Let's look now at the fact of His coming. In the sixth chapter of Genesis we found there the story of the flood. There we see the gates of heaven open, the fountains of the great deep opened up, and every living soul except those in the ark, eight of them, Noah's family and his wife and his family, listen, every one of them swept away. Over the rush and tear of those seething waters we hear the voice of the Son of God saying, but as of the days of Noah so shall the coming of the Son of Man be. Yes, as those flood waters receded and as the old ark came down to rest upon the ground, again you could hear the voice of the Son of God as He stood there on the shores of the Sea of Galilee, as in the days of Noah so shall it be when the Son of Man comes. We see here even the flood proclaims the Second Coming of our Blessed Lord. Let the skeptic and the unsaved religionists deny. Make fun of His coming, but thank the Lord, praise the Lord, He's coming back to earth again one day.

And I don't believe it's going to be too long, my friend. Let's take a trip out to the Dead Sea, where every wave of the briny deep rolls over the spot where the cities of the plain, Sodom and Gomorrah, went down under the wrath and judgment of a sin avenging God. And there, above the depths where the buried cities lie, listen, you can hear the voice of the Son of God saying, as it was in the days of Lot there in Sodom, even thus shall it be in the day when the Son of Man is revealed.

Let the Dead Sea, which is the burial place of that doomed city, with its indescribable vice and all of those things like we have much of today, let it tell us that the Son of Man is coming a second time, coming not only with grace but with vengeance. Yes, all down through the ages we hear the voice crying, the Son of God is coming back to earth again, coming to rule, coming to reign, coming to deliver. As men of all ages have looked for His coming, we still look, as we hasten to that hour when we shall hear the voice of the Son of God descending from Heaven's glory. You know, I read some of the old divines, and they thought that the apostles thought the Lord would come just shortly after He went back to Heaven. But we know now it's 2,000 years later, and He still hadn't come, but that doesn't mean He's not coming.

Surely He is coming. It is said that the things written in the Bible are for our learning and for our examples to those who know the Lord. So let us take a trip now to the land of Hebron where Abraham dwelt under the oaks there. Then we see him before the break of day, leaving his home on a three-day journey to Mount Moriah. On top of that mountain is an altar prepared, for the son Isaac lies bound there on the altar. We see the uplifted knife ready to slay that unresisting son, when the voice of the Almighty speaking from Heaven withholds his hand. There in the thicket he discovers a ram caught by his horns, and is sacrificed as a substitute in the place of his son. Abraham raised his son from the altar in an act which typified the resurrection of our blessed Lord.

Then the son Isaac disappears from view, and Abraham returns home without him. The next thing we see is Abraham calling his old servant Eliezer, bids him go forth and find a wife for his son Isaac. This he does and finds her at a well drawing water. Then he enters with her into the house of her brother Laban, known as the fleshly man, and takes from the pack many precious things sent from the father Abraham in the name of his son. He bestows those things upon her. She consents to be his bride. He leads her forth to meet Isaac, and as he was talking to her about him as they traveled along the way, suddenly announced the son appears, and coming forth to meet her and to take her to himself. That's Isaac.

Isn't that a beautiful picture my friend? Two thousand years later now on this very spot of Mount Merah, the son of God offered himself as a sacrifice for sin, a substitute for sinners, and on the third day he arose from the dead. Shortly he disappeared from view, but the Holy Spirit, like Eliezer, has come forth now from the father in the name of the son to seek for the Lord Jesus Christ, a bride. To call her by his name, surely and slowly he is finding her at the gospel well.

The well of living water, surely he's calling her out to be the bride. The Holy Spirit then enters our fleshly bodies. As Eliezer entered the house of Laban, indwelling the body of the born-again believer, he unfolds the Bible. In the Bible he brings forth precious things, and bestows them upon the believer, which were sent from the father in the name of the son.

Isn't this interesting my friend? Also he's leading us along the way of time, talking to us of the absent bridegroom, the Lord Jesus Christ. And how do we like to sit and listen and walk and talk as the Holy Spirit bestows upon us precious things from the word of God, calling us the apple of his eye. We wait for the coming of the son of God, and someday, one day, one of these given days, unherited, unannounced, suddenly he will come in the air to claim his own. So we see here the story of Eliezer seeking a bride for Isaac and his coming forth to meet Rebekah, the full type of prophetic picture of the second coming of our blessed Lord, the bridegroom for his own. Do you see my friend?

Do you see this picture? No matter where we open God's book, from these pages crossed forth in no uncertain terms, I will come again. Then the heart of ever born again believers echoes back these words, Come quickly, Lord Jesus, come. As he waits, the believer waits, but one day he will come forth, and he said to his disciples on that night of his betrayal, I go to prepare a place for you, and if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come again and receive you unto myself. Isn't that a gracious promise?

That word receive means to take by force or literally kidnap. Yes, he's coming. Are you ready? Let me stop here a moment.

Maybe I'm getting in too big a hurry. Are you ready to meet the Lord? Can you say, Pastor Trailblazer, I know the Lord. I praise the Lord for delivering an old sinner like me.

Can you say that? I'm just an old sinner myself. Old Trailblazer, just an old sinner. Just an old wore out, white-haired, two-shouldered sinner, saved by the grace of God. We sing that song here, saved by the blood.

Saved by the blood. Oh, my friend, I failed to mention sometime, we have nine CDs of our choir that was dismantled at Katrina. And we have lots of them, have the old blood songs on them. They sell for $5 apiece. I wish you'd send, get one and try it out. A lady called me the other day, she said, Send me one of them, and then I can pick out if I like the other.

Send me a list of songs that's on the other. And we did that. But listen, my friend, listen. Behold, a bridegroom cometh. That's what we're gonna hear. Go ye out to meet him. So is there any oil in your lamp?

Is it trimmed? Would you be ready to rise and go forth to meet the Lord whom your heart loves and adores? Or would you be like those foolish virgins?

Would you begin to cry? We have no oil. They will not burn. They're flickering. They've gone out. They'll be left behind. Oh, my friend, and the door will be shut. Let me tell you something.

Let me just stop here for a moment. One day, old Noe got through building the ark. All the animals. No, he didn't have to go out there and round up those animals. No, the spirit moved every heart of every animal, camel, elephant, donkeys, whatever they were, bees, honeybees, wild locusts. All of those things came into the ark. And then one day, the scripture says, the Lord shut the door.

Now, my friend, that's the most terrifying words that I can bring you. The Lord shut the door. Just so here, when the Lord comes, that door will be shut if you're not prepared. If you're not prepared to meet him, that door will be shut. I can picture that old ark out there sitting on dry ground.

Never had rain, no water nowhere. And the Lord shut that door. I picture it as a big door on the side.

It lay down like some of these trucks you see on the highway. They let that big old door down. But that door was shut. It didn't say, Noah, shut the door.

It didn't say a son shut the door. The Lord shut it. And I believe that Noah had preached there for all of those years, and many of those folks around there helped him build that ark. Making fun and laughing and haha and hee-hee and all that time, Noah kept on building. Building and preaching and preaching and building. And one day, one day, bright, shiny morning, they looked up there on the hill where that old ark had been standing.

They'd been working on it 120 years. And that door was shut. And mom would say, you know, you know, daddy, that door was shut on the side of that ark.

It's been open there a long time. It's shut. You know that door was shut.

Let's go up there and see what's the matter. That door was shut. And then I think that day, it began to rain. It began to rain.

Maybe slowly a little light drifting rain. Maybe it was a storm, I don't know. But those folks in that neighborhood, they realized that that door was shut. A lot of truth began to take place in their heart right this moment, right that very moment. Noah had told them, come on in the ark now. Come on.

But they didn't do it. The old trailblazer had been interceding for some of you for many years now. Come on into the ark. Come now.

Let us reason together, the Lord said. Come now. Strive to enter in. Come on. Come on. Come on.

Seek the Lord while he may be found. No. No. We've got other things to do and other places to go. But now that door is shut, my friend. One day it'll be shut here.

Old trailblazer will be inside. No more crying. No more pleading for you.

No more. Oh, my friend, I'm running out of time. But what do you think about your soul? In these few seconds, what do you think about your soul? It's going to spend eternity somewhere, either with the Lord or in the other place, my friend. Remember, the old trailblazer loves you. My mailing address, the old trailblazer, Post Office Box 1810, Walker, Louisiana, 707. Goodbye, and God bless you.