The Old Trailblazer Broadcast

This is the old Trailblazer broadcast. This is Pastor Albert Pendorfus, the old Trailblazer riding out on old Dan again at this time, blazing the path to the hearts of sinners.

We've been here with you a long, long time from many of you, and I'd just like to mention a few times every now and then to let you know, Pastor L.R. Shelton was the pastor and the founder of this ministry, Radio Work, radio ministry back there in the early 50s and 40s. And he began this little old broadcast, the Trailblazer, and went on for quite a while. And I was there in New Orleans at the time.

I wasn't a pastor, of course, but I used to hear it. And I used to hear it on, I lived here in Walker, and I worked in Baton Rouge. My business was there, and I'd go to work in the morning, and I could hear the old Trailblazer every morning.

About 630, as we went to work, we shared rides. I had two or three fellows rode with me. And they would make fun of the old Trailblazer because of his antics, his ways. He had the sound effects of old Dan clomping in the motorboat going to the bayou. And every now and then he'd shoot an old snake or something.

But those were good days, happy days. I hadn't been married long, had young children, and the Lord had been dealing with my heart. And I was able to go to New Orleans occasionally, but I came to learn and to know much, much about God's Word and the Bible. From hearing Pastor Shelton, and he was our mentor, our teacher, and our preacher, and our friend. And so we're looking now, I picked up years and years later after I became the pastor here. The Lord led me, I believe, without a doubt, to pick up the old Trailblazer broadcast. Now we've been here for several years, a little 15-minute broadcast, Monday through Friday. And I tell you, often times I use his notes, and I glean from them, and subject matter, and those things, no apologies to make. And so I praise the Lord, I praise the Lord.

We all need all the help we can get, don't we? I read a story about one time this man brought a message, and a fellow come up to him after the service and said, You preached my message. He said, I didn't know such a thing. I bought that down at the bookstore and I paid two bits for it. That kind of throwed him for a miss, didn't it?

Throwed him for a home run. He said, No, that's not your message, I paid two bits for it. Well, I know, I gleaned from all of the old writers, old Whitfields, and Spurgeons, and Max Shanes, and John Bunyan, I gleaned from their messages. How are you supposed to learn?

You go to college, you learn out of the textbooks of those who have gone on before, and the professor, and all of those things. So that's what we do, we learn. And I'm learning from these studies here on the soon coming, or the imminent return of our blessed Lord. We looked there first at the fact of His coming, then we looked at the certainty of His coming, and now we're in that subject, the surety of His coming. The Lord's coming, my friend, whether you believe it or not.

I often hold up my Bible here in the pulpit, and I say, This is God's word, believe it and be saved, and disbelieve it and be damned. Now my friend, let me reemphasize, believe it and be saved. Did you know, did you know, my friend, wherever you are, out there in Tucson, Arizona, Phoenix, wherever you are, Corpus Christi, don't matter, you're gonna have to believe God's word or you'll never be saved. Are you a skeptic always questioning what God said, Well, I don't believe that could have happened. I don't believe that the wealth of our swallowed Noah, Jonah, my friend, if you don't believe it, you done well be saved.

You might as well put that down in your corncob pipe and smoke it. If you don't believe God's word, you'll never get saved. Now, I'll tell you another thing. I believe if you don't hear God's word, you won't ever be saved. The scripture said, You shall know the truth and the truth shall make you free. The truth is God's word.

That's the truth, my friend. And we're looking at this study on the surety of His coming. We started there last week, wound up Friday, but we're gonna look now, get back into this study. After the day of Pentecost, I might have touched this on Friday, but I'm not sure. After the day of Pentecost, one day the apostle Peter, accompanied there by John, was making his way to the temple there at the hour of prayer. They found a lame man near the gate beautiful. In the name of Jesus Christ, they commanded him to rise and walk. He did so, leaping and running in the temple and praising the Lord. Now, let me stop right here.

Let me stop right here. You must trust the Lord. And if you don't trust the Lord, my friend, you'll never get saved. I have folks all over this country and our radio audience and people who've heard these broadcasts and used to sit and listen to Pastor Shelton, and they're not saved.

A lot of folks are not saved. And they tell me, well, I just haven't been convicted enough. I just haven't repented enough.

I just haven't seen myself guilty enough. Well, my friend, that's so foolish. That's so foolish. They told this man in no uncertain terms to rise up and walk. And then Peter was put on the spot with this question. How did you do that?

How did you do that? His answer, by the name and 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 and kill the prince of life whom God has raised from the dead, whereof your witnesses. Then he calls on them to repent. Repent, therefore, and be converted, that your sins may be blotted out.

My friend, the promises of God. He tells you to repent and then your sins will be blotted out. Following this, the call to repentance, he says, if you repent, if you will turn to him, not only will your sins be blotted out, but God will send him back from heaven.

What a promise, my friend. These early disciples, they believed the simple declarative statement that Christ made in their ears. That he was coming back again. And I tell you this morning, tonight, wherever you are, you're going to have to believe the Lord.

I would call you that verse. Abraham believed God. Believed God. And it was accounted to him. It was written down to his account. Oh, do you know we have an account in heaven? What does your account look like, my friend? Is it all blanks?

Is it just blank pages there? Listen, listen, my friend. Listen. It dominated their thoughts.

It molded their conduct. And John said, he that hath this hope within him purifies himself. It is the individual who makes light and belittles and minimizes the second coming of Christ, whose life is given over to worldliness, whether it's in the pulpit, the pew, or the world, my friend. Now, turn with me, if you will, to the 15th chapter of Acts. We're going to look there for just a moment. We find the story of the first church council gathered together there at Jerusalem to deliberate upon spiritual things. Wouldn't you like to be in there? Oh, the old trailblazers would have liked to have been like a flower on the wall over there somewhere.

That's what I would. They found in that council that to understand this age, they must understand that God was not seeking to convert the world, but to call out from among the Gentiles a people for his name. And this was to be done by the grace of God through faith in his son, just like it is today, my friend. Every sinner that's ever saved is saved by the grace of God, right? Through faith. Through faith. It's by faith, through grace, that you're saved. And when this calling out is complete, everyone of God's elect of this age has been brought into the fold, then the Lord will come back. James quotes the prophet Amos saying, I will return. That early church labored in the gospel to reach everyone of God's elect. Now my friend, that's what we do here. We know, we know that we can't, the Lord's not going to save everybody.

We know that already. The Lord's too plain on that, the Bible is. But we know that the scripture says, has said all through the ages, go ye into all the ends of the earth and preach the gospel. Now my friend, I often wondered about that verse back there many years ago. I did.

And then I thought the missionaries going into the Orient and all of those places. I said, well that's the way it's done. But no, not so.

That's part of it. But here in this age that we live in today, this modern age, we here at Radio Missions, the old Trailblazer broadcast, the Voice of Truth broadcast, we have facilities now to go into all the ends of the earth. We on the internet, we streaming live. We have the facilities now that you can hear this little video broadcast in Northern Ireland. We have many folks there who hear it. We have capacity to send this message into Beijing, China, Seoul, Korea, Pyongyang, North Korea, whatever. Over there in Iraq, Iran, Libya, all of those places.

And then South Africa, all of those places. We send this message, this little old message right here. It's available.

It's available. Let's put it like that. You can hear this broadcast.

If you have friends who live off somewhere, call them and let them know. Give them the call letters for this broadcast, my friend. Be a blessing to their heart. Now, let's go back and look. James quotes that prophet saying, I will return. Now, we send out the gospel to reach every one of God's elect. When the last one of God's elect has been called out by the Holy Spirit and justified by faith in Christ, then we will hear that shout of the Lord in glory coming for his own.

I do. I tell my folks here, we're going to one morning, we're going to hear that. I believe it'll be in the morning.

That's just my idea. I believe it will. And I believe the graves will be open, those old tombs will be coming open, where the people saved, people buried there many years ago. I'd like to be in one of those old cemeteries, but I won't be there. No, no, I won't get to see that.

I don't believe. I think about those great old military cemeteries where some of our great old ancestors were buried there and knew the Lord up there in Tennessee where those Confederate soldiers are buried. I believe many of them will knew the Lord.

And because I'm telling you one thing, my friend, when you're in a battle for your life, maybe no other time, you're going to get honest with the Lord and you're going to cry out for help, for mercy, Lord help. And I believe a lot of those folks were saved up there in Arlington, where all of the big shots are buried, the president and all that, and have the eternal flame up there for President Kennedy's grave. And those graves, a lot of them will be open. Not all of them, certainly not all of them, but my friend. Then these would-be great and noble preachers now who laugh and make fun and belittle the second coming of Christ.

Did you know folks make fun of the second coming of Christ? They'll be left behind. God pity them, my friend. God have mercy upon them.

They know not what they do. Oh, if I could just, I'm just getting, just getting started this morning. I don't, folks say, uh, pastor, you all worked up. No, I'm just praising the Lord for the salvation of a sinner, this poor old soul.

We often say in this ministry, if one soul gets saved because of all that we put into it, all the money and all the effort and all the labor and all the sweat, if one soul gets saved and that soul is yours, it will be worth all we put into it, my friend. And I pray it will be your soul. It was mine one day.

It was mine. Oh, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

This is the old Trailblazer. I wish I could sit by your side this morning, drink a cup of coffee, eat a piece of pie. Wherever you are, let me know if you're listening, where you're listening, my mailing address, the radio mission, Post Office Box 1810, Walker, Louisiana, 70785.

Goodbye. May God bless you. If you missed part of today's broadcast or would like a recording, the old Trailblazer broadcast is now available for download to your phone, to your iPad or computer via podcast. Find out more about our podcast by visiting our Web site at radio missions dot org.

That's radio missions dot org. My sins are forgiven by God. His love. Oh, Jesus. Oh, oh.