The Old Trailblazer Broadcast

This is the Old Trailblazer Broadcast. This is Pastor Albert Pindarpus riding out on Old Dan this morning. Come on, Dan. Get up. Let's go.

We've got to get a-gettin'. And we've been here most all the week already, coming down to the close of the week another day. And we're looking at this study on the coming of our Lord, or the soon coming, the imminent coming. But we're taking time out to look at what preceded our Lord's death and burial and resurrection. And we were looking there last study how that He had told His disciples, Let not your heart be troubled.

And we went into that talking about this same Jesus. My friend, this is not a fairy tale we bring in you. This is God's Word. You know, I hold up my Bible here and I say, This is God's Word. Believe it and be saved. Disbelieve it and be lost. But listen, I'm not looking so called for an event like you see so much today in the paper and on the TV and all of those things. I'm looking for the personal return of my blessed Lord back to earth again.

Can you just let that soak in just a moment? It's not beyond comprehension that our Lord's coming back. Do you believe the Bible at all? That Christ was born of a virgin woman there in Bethlehem, Judea. And that He rose from the grave there.

All of those things, my friend. I'm not concerned about the manner in which He'll come. I just want to see Him. He's the object of my heart and He's my Redeemer, my Savior. And I want to see the Lord who died for me.

Don't don't have to whet your appetite just a little bit, my friend. Oh, listen. And the Lord who loved me with such love that He went there and paid my sin debt in full. Someone asked, how much did the Lord pay?

I don't know how much He paid, but He paid it all. And I want to see the Lord who's been so patient with me all of these long years of my life, especially since the Lord saved me. And I see that I'm a far greater sinner now than I ever was before, if the Lord lets you see that. But listen, no wonder men through all ages have died, have died for the Lord. And I like to mention, I go back there to Foxy's Book of Martyrs that we have here in our bookstore, telling of the life and death and all of those things of our folks who died for the sake of the gospel.

They called them Foxy's Book of Martyrs. Now, the Lord walking up down the shores of Galilee called those men, left them there crying, my Lord and my God. Every saint of God, oh, will crown Him, Lord of all. We sang that song, bring forth the royal diadems and crown Him, Lord of all. May every awakened soul this morning, you out there, wherever you are, whether you're in Sioux Falls, South Dakota or Yazoo, wherever you are, wherever you are, Roanoke, Virginia, wherever you are there in San Benito, Texas, Corpus Christi, Tucson, Arizona, let's follow these feet crying, my Lord and my God. We want to look now, there are certain outstanding characteristics about a God-called pastor.

We want to look at that for a few minutes. First, he's born again, born of the Spirit, born from above, a new creature in Christ, and Christ is a living reality to his heart. He knows when he was saved, where he was saved, what he was saved from, what he was saved to. In other words, the broad definition there, he knows a little bit of the way of grace. That's right, the way of grace.

The Lord found him one day in sin, like he did me. Let me just mention it, I was just a poor old country boy sinner. My family was not religious at all.

You may not believe that, but it's true. We never had grace at the table. We never went to church, never went to Sunday school a day in my life until I was married. Married a young girl, a Baptist girl, and she wanted me to go to church with her, and I did. Not long after that, a little old young preacher talked me into making a decision for Jesus.

No Genesis from Revelation. But anyhow, that happened, and the Lord didn't leave me there. You know the Lord could have left me there thinking I was somebody come. That's right, the Lord could have just left me right there, but he didn't. Under the providence of God, and I'm a strong believer in the providence of God, someone introduced me or encouraged me to go listen to an old foci-eyed fool preacher, L.R. Shelton, Sr. That's right, that's what some folks called him. He was out there in the country under an old gospel tent, and my wife and I went. I believe, I really believe the first time I ever heard him, I knew I didn't have nothing.

I just made a decision. Let me just mention to you, we have Pastor Shelton's story here of his life. Plow handles to the pulpit. If you'd like a copy of that, we'd be glad to send it to you, postpaid. And then we have several booklets, How and When God Saved a Baptist Preacher, My Religious Life Before the Lord Saved Me, and those things. If you write me, I'll send you a catalog of all of his messages we have in print.

And many of them are on CDs, but we give the printed copies away free and postpaid. Now let's get back to our study. Then again, God's man is a chosen, God's man is chosen my friend, ordained and called to preach the unsearchable riches of the grace of God as set forth in the Bible. I know, not long after the Lord put me here as a pastor, reading, studying the Bible, scared to death, shaken, not fearful, just young. And the Bible, I read this verse, come across it, the Lord put my finger on it. He says, preach the gospel, be instant in season, out of season, reprove, rebuke with all long sufferings.

That's the charge of every man. That's the charge, you know, the old time, old timey preachers used to, when they ordained a young preacher, they would give them a charge. They would lay on their heart what they were to preach.

They were seasoned pastors and preachers back in that day, and they were God called, and they charged that young pastor what to be, like Paul did to Timothy. Preach the gospel, be instant in season and out of season. And I ask folks to listen oftentimes, and I'll tell you what that means. Be instant in season, that means to preach the gospel.

Don't review books, and don't do those things, and don't put on movies on Sunday night, maybe on Monday, on Wednesday night, I don't know. But my friend, I don't do that, but he told me, the Scriptures tells me, preach the gospel. And then he says, in a encouraging verse, certainly I'll be with you. He told Moses that. But I read it, I read it, and I read it in my Bible, it's my book, it's my word.

He said, certainly I'll be with you. Then, surely he's chosen. Christ said ye have not chosen me, but I've chosen you.

I get so tired of these folks who deny and scoff at the adoption of election. Peter, great old apostle Peter, he said there in one of his epistles, he says, ye, ye talking about me and you if you say ye are a chosen generation. Listen, he's chosen us in Christ before the foundation of the world, according to Ephesians 1-4. And Romans 1-1, called and separated unto the gospel of God, that's what the pastor did. God's ministers are divinely called, they do not enter the ministry of their own accord.

That call is a definite, definite, definite call. Then, every true pastor of the gospel is commanded and will preach the word. 2 Timothy 4, no born again God called minister will preach his own opinion.

Now my friend, I tell you that without fear of contradiction. God's command is to preach the word. He will preach the whole counsel of God, preach it without favor, preach it to men as they are.

A hireling or an unsaved religionist will seek to cover up or explain away or minimize certain teachings of the Bible. Usually blood redemption or salvation and especially the second coming of our Lord. The second coming of Christ is interwoven with all other doctrines of God's word and cannot be separated.

We'll show you that later on. If you take out the Bible, all the references to the second coming of Christ, you will have whittled your Bible to pieces. We're going to begin today at the surety or the certainty of his coming. You'll notice that we're talking about the doctrine of the second coming of Christ as set forth in the very warp and whoop of the Bible, showing you that the Bible is not vague in regard to his coming, but it is one of the outstanding, clearly defined, definite positive teachings of the word of God that our Lord is coming back again. My friend, is that your hope? You asked me this morning, what's your hope that Christ is coming back for me? Surely, he says, I'm coming for my own.

You know what? I'm a child of God. I'm an apple of his eye. My name's written in the palm of his hand.

Don't scoff at that, my friend. My name, my name, Pendarvis, old Pendarvis, name is written down in the palm of his hand. We sang a song here. There's a new name written down in glory and it's mine. There's a new name written down in glory and it's mine.

Pendarvis, written down there. Oh, I'll see it one of these days. Won't you be glad, my friend, to see our blessed Lord? Oh, I don't know what that will be. I don't. I don't have any desire to see these highfalutin' folks here, you know, the governor and the president.

I don't have no desire to see them. They haven't done anything for me, but our blessed Lord, he shed every drop of blood. After the day of Pentecost, one day the apostle Peter, accompanied there by old John, was making his way to the temple for the hour of prayer. They found a lame man near the gate beautiful, and in the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth, commanded him to rise and to walk. He did that, leaping and running in the temple, praising the Lord. Then Peter was put on the spot with this question.

How did you do that? His answer was, by the name and the power of the Lord Jesus Christ. Then he directs a very definite message to their hearts in these words. But ye denied the Holy One and the just, and desired a murderer to be granted unto you, speaking about Barabbas, and kill the Prince of Life when God has raised him from the dead, whereof ye are witnesses. Then he calls on them to repent. Repent, ye therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

I'm bringing a message this coming Sunday. On except ye repent, ye shall likewise perish. For the Bible speaks much of repentance, my friend, and yet we know that it's a gift of God. Repentance is a gift of God, my friend. But listen, you know anything about repentance? Oh well, it's just a turning.

No, it's not. I've noted in my notes for the message, what happens when you repent. What takes place?

Let me quickly. Well, you get a new heart. You get a new spirit. You get a new outlook on life.

A new concept of life. And all those things. And then you have a... First of all, you take the blame. Repentance is taking the blame. Have you ever taken the blame? Dad, have you ever taken the blame for slapping your wife around a little bit?

Coming in drunk on a... Oh, my friend, don't do that. Have you ever taken the blame? Have you ever said, I'm sorry?

Most of our marriages could be saved by those two words. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. Have you ever taken the blame, my friend? It takes grace.

It takes grace to take the blame. The Old Trailblazer did that one day, took the blame by the grace of God. Remember, the Old Trailblazer will be back tomorrow, Friday, with another message from God's Word. Remember my mailing address, the Old Trailblazer, Post Office Box 1810, Walker, Louisiana, 70785.

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