The Old Trailblazer Broadcast

This is the old Trailblazer broadcast. This is Pastor Albert Pendorvis, pastor here at Radio Mission. We're located in Walker, Louisiana.

That's about an hour's drive from New Orleans after Katrina washed us out. We came here and built a new chapel, a new bookstore, and the Lord has blessed us. And I told someone the other day, I don't know of many Protestant churches that don't owe anybody anything, but this church is free of debt except for our current bills, and the Lord has blessed us. Isn't that great? I don't know many people that can say that. I know most of the churches today are going head over heels in debt. A lot of them that I know of are building great sanctimonious theater type auditoriums and all of those things. But we're just sinners saved by grace.

The Lord has given us grace to go on day by day. We put our money all into radio broadcasting, and that's what we do. A lady asked me the other day, she said, Trailblazer, you mean it costs money to be on the radio? I said, yes ma'am, it sure does.

Cost a lot of money. But we're looking at this study on the soon coming of our blessed Lord back to this earth again. I know you don't hear that. You don't hear messages on this subject very often in the modern Protestant world. But we just felt led to do this. I've often told you many times, Pastor Shelton was our leader here, our founder, our mentor, my mentor, my pastor, and he was a great radio speaker. Many, many, many of his studies we put in print, and I have those, and I glean from them. Because I'm not a theological person, not very smart, and most folks know that, and I readily admit it. But I use a lot of his.

I glean from them, tear them apart, look at them. And so we're looking now at this study on the soon coming or the second coming of the Lord, and we're speaking today on the certainty of it coming. It surely is coming, my friend. Surely the Lord is coming. There's a certainty about it. There's no uncertainty there. Born-again believers take no stock in those who teach that the Lord came during the siege of Jerusalem in AD 70.

No. When the city of Jerusalem was destroyed by the Romans, man in his natural state, no matter how religious or how much worldly education he has, is a stupid fool in the things spiritual. And when he stands in the worldly education he has, is a stupid fool in things spiritual.

And when he stands in the pulpit or in the classroom trying to teach God word, he's a monstrosity in the sight of God. If you would read the 24th chapter of Matthew, you'll have no trouble understanding, just have an ounce of common sense, you'll have no trouble understanding that when Christ foretold the destruction of Jerusalem, he said nothing about his personal return at that time. But listen, you'll find when he comes to talk about the great tribulation period that he said, Immediately after the tribulation of those days shall appear the sign of a son of man in heaven, and they shall see the son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory. When Titus destroyed the city of Jerusalem there in AD 70, Christ did not return in person in the clouds of heaven with power and glory, no, for the scripture says that as Christ went away in the clouds, he's coming back in the clouds, and he will come with his cohorts of angels.

Listen my friend, you ever let your imagination just run away with you? Just think about that scene for a moment, I don't know all the sidebars and things that will be taking place, but you just think about the return of our blessed Lord with that great host of angels that hadn't taken place yet. It bothers me to see anyone who does not know the Lord, who does not love the Lord, and who's never been redeemed to pose as a minister of righteousness and under the cloak of a preacher or teacher to make fun and belittle the coming of our Lord back to earth again, and then to deny blood redemption in Christ. It makes my blood boil, it makes me quiver my friend, it makes me tremble to know. Oh I've heard, I've heard my friend, some of those outlandish things in the religious world today. Just this past week I was out in my yard, went to pick up my mail at my mailbox, and a car, nice new car, pulled into my driveway.

It had four ladies in it, and one of them got out, she was a gray-haired lady I would say in her late 60s, early 70s, dressed real nice. She got out and spoke, I said, she said, how you doing? I'm doing fine, how are you lady? She said, I'm great. Well I like to make conversation with people, I had no idea who she was. I said, well when did you start being great?

When did you get great? And she took it kindly, and then she handed me her, wanted to hand me some letter to her, and I recognized immediately, she said Jehovah witnesses, and I love those people, I've had much dealings with them, but my friend, listen, we had a lively conversation, so I asked this lady, I said, what is your hope of heaven? She said, well I hope to live here on this earth. I said, oh my, oh my lady.

The scripture says this earth is going to be destroyed by fire. About that time another young lady got out of the back seat of the car, and I could tell she was more set in her doctrine than the older lady was. I said, well you got some reinforcements here, huh? I asked her, I said, are you saved lady? And she did a quick double flip so to speak, and she said, well, well, uh, well, we gonna, we coming, we, I said, no ma'am. I said, I know who you are, you, you believe it, you're gonna, this, all of those things, but the scripture says, so much different from what you espouse.

What's so much different? So I asked her, I said, well let me ask you something. Let me ask you a pertinent question. Got, she got real serious.

We were standing right close to the street in front of my house. I said, if a car swerved in here and hit you and, and, and caused you bodily hemorrhage damage, and you were bleeding to death, would you take a blood transfusion? She said, no sir, I sure wouldn't. I said, well it just tells me that you're ignorant. She said, oh the Bible?

I said, no ma'am, no ma'am, that's wrong. And I wouldn't take that literature because I know what they preach and teach, but I said, I'll be praying for you. I will, I'll be praying for them.

I don't criticize them, but listen my friend, let me go back to our study. We're talking about the coming of the Lord. The night our Lord was betrayed, he said to his disciples, I go to prepare a place for you, and when I come again, I will receive you unto myself. Christ said, when I come again, listen folks, listen, the Lord Jesus Christ is coming back in person.

You cannot explain that away, don't try it. If you do, you will do it to your own condemnation. The thing for you to do is to get ready for his coming. Are you saved? My radio listeners up there in Roanoke, Virginia, up there in Palm Springs, California, there in Corpus Christi, Texas, are you saved?

You say, what are you talking about trailblazer? I'm asking you, do you have a hope for the life after this life? Oh yes, yes, I'm trusting Jesus. I say, what is the basis of your hope?

Most people can't tell you. Then there are those who teach that our Lord came each time a Christian dies. They teach that Christ comes. Isn't that a monstrosity?

Isn't it? One of these so-called theological professors said the other day, to a class of young preachers, I believe that Jesus comes back every time a Christian dies, and that's all there is to the second coming of Christ. What a poor dupe of Satan, blinded by Satan, the God of this world. An emissary of hell, my friend. You know, we want to look at those folks as having Bible knowledge. We want to look at them. They must be saved.

No, they're not. That individual is not saved, my friend. Listen, the Bible makes it so plain that when a Christian dies, the Lord does not come to that believer, but the child of God, that individual who is saved, goes to be with the Lord. Paul said there in Philippians, I have a desire to part and be with Christ, which is far better. And then on another occasion, he said, absent from the body, present with the Lord. I use that verse in the funeral services oftentimes. Oh, but listen, if I should die before the Lord comes, I go to be with Him.

He doesn't come to be with me. My guardian angel, and let me stop here and tell you, I believe every child born into this world, every one of God's elect has a guardian angel. I believe I do. I believe I can look back and see how that that guardian angel has protected me all the days of my life.

You can say foo-foo to that if you want to. That's okay. That's okay, my friend. But listen, my guardian angel will take me to where the Lord is. Read the seventh chapter of Acts, if you would, the story of Stephen being stoned to death. And when he came to die, he said, I see heaven open and the Son of Man standing on the right hand of God. And then with a loud voice as they rushed upon him with gnashing teeth and cast stones at him, Lord, he said, receive my spirit. He didn't say, Lord, come to me. He didn't, but he said, Lord, receive me. Why folks will not let the Bible speak for itself, I do not know. Oh, I do not know, my friend.

You know, people are so, minds are so warped and twisted. I had an old aunt that said something about if it thundered in July, it would rain in September, so and so, some kind of, and she said, you can, the Bible says that. I said, no, ma'am, it ain't in the Bible.

Yes, it does. She didn't know. She heard that somewhere down the line that the Bible, no, ma'am, that's ignorance, that's foolishness. Oh, but listen, why folks will not let the Bible speak for itself, I don't know. There's no other book on the earth that is warped and twisted in its reading as the Bible is. The average person today does not approach the Bible with an unbiased mind, but they read it mostly for one purpose, to prove their own belief. Christ assured the Pharisees of that one thing, ye search the Scriptures to prove your own opinion.

That's right. A lot of folks tell stuff and they back it up by their thoughts on the Bible. Well, the Bible says, no, the Bible doesn't say that. It doesn't say that. It doesn't say that at all, my friend. We need to get our thinking straight, don't we?

We sure do. But I know for surety that the Lord is coming back. The whole Bible, from Genesis to Revelation, speaks with no uncertain terms about our Lord coming back again.

Go read it, my friend. He must come back again. He will come back again, because he said, I will come again. Oh, my friend, back in the book of Genesis, you'll find the story of Joseph, the son of Jacob in his old age, and we'll take that up tomorrow in this study on the coming of our Blessed Lord.

I like to call it the soon coming. We used to have an old man who preached here for us occasionally, and he would say, in urging folks to turn to the Lord, he'd say, you know, I don't know how long the Lord's going to put up with us. I don't know how long the Lord's going to put up with us.

And I never had thought about that, except I remember when I was a child, my dad would be fussing and getting on to us for a problem, my brother and I, and he'd say, I'm not going to put up with that any longer, boys. Well, I knew what this preacher said. I don't know how long the Lord's going to put up with us. And I don't know, my friend. You sitting out there in your easy chair, dozing off, maybe, wake up, where are you going to spend eternity? Are you looking for the Lord?

You tell me you're a Christian, are you looking for the Lord? Oh, no, I'm not concerned about it. No, you don't have to understand it. You just believe it. Well, I don't understand 99% of the Bible, but I believe it. I believe every word of it. I believe every jot and every tittle. I do.

I believe that scripture says, the soul that sinneth, it shall die. I do. I believe it.

I believe the Bible says there's none righteous. No, not one. I believe that, my friend. But this is the old Trailblazer broadcast, coming out again with another message tomorrow on the same subject, the coming of our blessed Lord. Remember my mailing address, the old Trailblazer, post office box 1810, Walker, Louisiana, 70785. Pray for me. Will you do that? Let me know that you're praying for me. Goodbye and God bless you. The old Trailblazer broadcast, coming out again with another message tomorrow on the same subject, the old Trailblazer broadcast, coming out again with another message tomorrow on the same subject, the old Trailblazer broadcast, coming out again with another message. The old Trailblazer broadcast, coming out again with another message.