The Old Trailblazer Broadcast

This is the Old Trailblazer Broadcast, and this is Pastor Albert Pendarvis, pastor here at Radio Missions, where the gospel goes out on a regular basis, where the late Pastor L.R. Shelton was the pastor and founder of this work many, many years ago, and left us a heritage of the gospel, and we praise the Lord for it.

He used to be the trailblazer, and now Pastor Pendarvis is the old trailblazer. I've been here with you several years now, bringing you study after study, what little the Lord gives me to bring you, and I praise the Lord for that. I praise the Lord for every one of you who write me, who let me hear from me, that you're listening, and for those who are thankful for these broadcasts, you just can't imagine how many folks call me and tell me how I appreciate these messages, and some help me with their broadcasts, some are not able to, and then folks tell me they have folks on a sick bed, but let me tell you folks, it's grace to know the Lord. Isn't it grace to know the Lord? I told you the other day, the old trailblazer, Pastor Shelton used to ride Old Dan, he had the sound effects with a clip of the clock, and a long horse, and rode wherever, and he oftentimes would say, well, Dan, you know, I've just been thinking, and then he would go on into some subject that he'd been thinking about. So this morning, I tell Old Dan, Dan, I've just been thinking, how gracious the Lord is to give us all of these benefits. Over there in Psalms 103, Dan, it says, thank the Lord for all of it, for getting out of all of his benefits. Very few folks, you folks who listen to the old trailblazer, many of you are gracious folks, write me, some of you let me know you're listening, but are you thankful for his benefits? Are you thankful for a gracious wife, my friend? Or a gracious husband, my lady friend?

Or children? You know, we live in a cruel world, when our children are bombarded on every hand by the things of this world, all of the stuff that they see and hear, that are on the market now so freely, and our schools, and the perversion that goes on now, and all of those things, but do you thank the Lord for you folks, my friend? And then, and then if you have those kind of problems, I have folks who call me, let me know, I'll be glad to pray with you and talk with you about it.

Oh, my friend, I've been blessed, my family, I haven't ever had those things, with drugs and alcohol problems that many folks have, but I praise the Lord for it. So we're looking at this study now on the second coming, or the soon coming, the imminent coming of our blessed Lord, and we were looking there yesterday, and when we signed off, we were asking the Lord to forgive these folks for making fun of the second coming of Christ. Now, let's turn to Paul's letter to the church at Rome. As he writes, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit, he says, For we know that the whole creation groaneth and travaileth together in pain until now, and not only they, but ourselves also, which have the firstfruits of the Spirit. Even we ourselves groan within ourselves, waiting for the adoption to wit the redemption of our body. Go there and read Romans 8, 22.

Read that whole chapter, if you will. My friend, if you will put your ear to the bosom of this old earth, which is being rocked today with wars and bloodshed and pestilence and violence, tsunamis and earthquakes, you'll hear the mourning, the splash of tears, the stalking of tragedies, the hearts of suffering, anguish, sorrow, heartaches, confusion, and lamentation. In other words, you'll hear and feel that this whole generation groaneth and travaileth in pain together, on tiptoes of expectation, waiting for the coming of our blessed Lord. I know, I know that many folks have no clue to what I'm talking about.

I know that many folks are not interested in those things. And I know that when I talk about the coming of the Lord, folks will think that you're standing out in the big road looking up into the sky. No, sir, that's not what I'm talking about. I'm talking about that quiet, searching the scriptures, looking for the Lord on a daily basis, my friend, the whole earth. The whole earth. Now, praise God from whom all blessings flow.

When the Lord God from heaven shall descend with that mighty host. I told old Dan, we've just been thinking. Dan, I've been thinking about that great host of folks. I don't know much about those things that's coming in the future. Don't know a whole lot.

Mostly just what's right in front of my eyes. But I believe that'll be a great host. Then shall creation break her bands of corruption and be delivered into the glorious liberty of the Son of God. Brother, sister, my friend, our hope lieth in his return. Can you imagine, Dan, how we would be if, Lord, we had no promise of his sure return? What kind of hope would we have? Be like a dead dog on the interstate, wouldn't it?

No hope. You know, we've got folks, religious folks, they call themselves, who believe that there's no such a thing as a second coming. I talked to a group of ladies the other day, stopped by my house. You know who they are. And when they got out of the car, I spoke to them, to this one lady. And I just said, how you doing? She said, I'm doing great. I said, well, when did you start to being great?

I'm just kind of being facetious. She said, well, I'm being great because I'm looking forward to my life on this earth. I said, what?

I'm looking for the Lord to come. She said, well, we're going to live on this earth and renew the earth. I said, oh, lady. And she started getting me some literature.

I said, you don't have to get me that. Lady, my hope is in Christ, not in that whatever you're pushing. I was kind to her and gentle to her. Another lady got out of the car and I said, well, I guess she's your reinforcement, huh? I asked her, I said, lady, are you saved? I said, are you saved? What is your hope?

What is your hope? Well, she stumbled and scattered and said, we're going to live on this earth. Earth's going to be recreated and all that. I said, well, the Bible tells me this earth is going to be destroyed by fire. So anyhow, that's just another story for another time, my friend. Don't let those folks come in there and leave you all that literature.

It's not any good for anything. But listen, listen, brother, our hope lies in the return of our blessed Lord. That's the hope of the church.

That's the hope of the believer. Now let's talk about the church a minute. Do you know what a church is, my friend? I'm not talking about a big cathedral with a tall steeple and stained glass windows. That's not a church. That's just a building. A church is a group of called out individuals, maybe two or three, maybe a hundred.

Oh, I had a man call me not long ago. He said, pastor, we have 30,000 members in our church. We have 24 pastors on staff. And I said, well, is any of them getting saved? He said, oh, we have 100 decisions every Sunday. I said, my friend, I don't really care about your decision. I'm asking you, is anybody getting saved, being saved, S-A-V-E-D, redeemed, brought to know the Lord?

Is anybody being awakened to the fact that they are sinful and need to be converted and brought to know the Lord in the forgiveness of their sin? Well, he had to go plow the back 40. But my friend, I understood, I understood what he's talking about. A big church, 30,000 members. I had a friend of mine tell me the other day, he said, I like to go to a big church because the pastor can't tell if you don't come every Sunday. Now, isn't that something? You're not a Christian spirit, my friend. Oh, that's what we have out there, my friend. But listen, the soon coming or the imminent coming of our Lord is the hope of every born again believer.

Take that away and we're hopeless. We're in the dark dungeons with no light. Brother, sister, this battle-stained and sin-scarred earth will be delivered one day only when the Lord comes. Then our hearts, our hearts, yours and mine, if you know the Lord, come, Lord Jesus, come quickly. That's a prayer I believe of every born again believer. I don't mean that we don't go about our job, do our work, take care of our homes, our family. I don't believe that.

I'm not, don't go off on a tangent now. But underneath it all, in the underlying, when you get quiet at night or when you, like I do, go on the back porch in the evening time when the sun setting, go back there. And just think a little bit. I have a little pond on the back of my place and I go back there in the evening. I have a little shack back there covered with a swing and some chairs. And I go back there in the late of the evening, wind blowing across that little old pond. And I just sit there and meditate. Folks think I'm back there just passing away the time. No, no, I have a little old golf cart because I don't walk too good anymore.

And I'll ride back there on my golf cart and just get under that little shed in the swing or in a chair and watch the fish jump out there sometime. And thank the Lord. Do you ever do that?

If you don't, that's a good habit, my friend. You know the Lord, take time out. Take time out to thank the Lord. We spoke last time in our message about giving thanks for all of the Lord's benefits.

Let's do that. Let's resolve in our hearts to begin to be thankful. You know, we're living in an unthankful country. I folks don't thank the Lord. I go out and eat oftentimes, especially before my wife got sick.

We'd go out to the restaurant and eat. And I hardly ever see anybody giving thanks at the table. Once in a while you would, but not very often. No.

And then if you do it, they think you kind of broke out of the zoo or something, my friend. Listen, listen, my friend. On the other hand, Christ's child longs for that coming, talks about it, prays about it. No born again believer is ignorant of the second coming of Christ because he, before the Lord ever saves him, he's afraid that Christ would come before he gets saved. Then when we turn to the 15th chapter of 1 Corinthians, we find that every verse is like a string of pearls. One flashes forth, the brilliant silver is coming. Some golden daybreak, our Lord will come. We find here that the Lord is coming. He's going to awaken every sleeping believer out of the dust.

In this chapter here, we find the trumpet sounding. We see the dead rising, the living changed. We see Christ, the firstfruits in the resurrection, and then those who are Christ at his coming. Did you ever stop and think, my friend, that there can be no resurrection of the human body until the Lord comes? He who denies the second coming of Christ denies the bodily resurrection of the believer, of his own bodily resurrection. He who teaches that Christ comes only at the death of believers, what a travesty, my friend. No wonder that the church has lost her hope and then lost our zeal for souls and her glory and her power.

No wonder the church has settled itself down to a mere profession, institutionalism, and a show and a sham, and to pretense and hypocrisy. If the Lord should walk in upon the scene today, he would cry as in the days of old, O ye hypocrites, scribes, and Pharisees, ye have compassed earth, sea, and sky to make one prophet light to your religion, and when you have, you have made him twofold more the child of hell than you shall remember, my friend, our Lord is coming. The old trailblazer, I wish I could sit down by your side and visit with you a little bit there in your home, no matter whether it's in Grand Rapids, Michigan, or Holland, Michigan, or up there in wherever. Oh, my friend, all over this, Maryland, and all those places, Royal Oak, Virginia, West Virginia, we have folks in all those places.

And I ask them, ask y'all to write me, call me, let me hear from you. And remember, we'll be back tomorrow with another message on the soon coming, the soon coming. Someone asked the old pastor one day, he said, when is the Lord coming? He said, when the last one of God's elect is brought into the fold, that's when our Lord will come back. And I believe that too with all my heart. And remember the old trailblazer's address, the old trailblazer, post office box 1810, Walker, Louisiana, 70785, and my website, radiomissions.org.

Until next time, goodbye and 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 website at radiomissions.org. That's radiomissions.org.