Years ago, a man in Tokyo, Japan, got him a little puppy. He named that puppy Hachi. They became best friends.
They were inseparable. For years, the man and the dog would walk from the man's house to the train station that he'd take to go to his office. Dog would go back home. In the evening, the guy would come back, and the dog every afternoon, every evening, would walk back to the train station to wait for his master. Day after day, year after year, for nine years, this little dog would go back and forth, back and forth. The man one day did not come back. He suffered a cerebral hemorrhage and died at work. And yet, year after year after year, after this man died, the dog would continue to leave his house every afternoon and go back to the train station and wait for his master.
Back and forth, back and forth. In fact, he did that for nine years. I don't know how long the guy was with the dog, but for nine years, back and forth, the dog would go every single day to wait for his master to get off the train. Of course, the master never returned, and it touched the people of Tokyo so much they actually made this little statue of that dog, Hachi. And in fact, there was a Hollywood movie made a few years ago about this dog who every day went back to the train station to wait for his master.
It starred Richard Gere. And somebody wrote about the very last scene of this movie. This dog is now old, and for nine years, he's been going back to wait for his master.
And here's how they describe the final scene. The dog, old and weary, returns to the same spot, the railway station, that he had waited faithfully for his master every day for nine years. That old dog lies down in the snow and falls asleep for the last time. In those final moments of his life, he remembers the good times he had with his master. In the final scene, we see the spirit of his master coming through the train station doors one more time, calling out Hachi's name. Hachi lifts his head in recognition as his spirit leaves his physical body to greet his owner, and the master picks up Hachi in a joyous reunion as their spirits come together forever.
Hachi is then shown alone one last time, lying in the snow with his eyes closed as the camera sweeps upward toward the nighttime sky. Read about that, and that describes how I feel about the second coming of Jesus Christ. We don't get into prophecy because we're into weird stuff, and we're into dragons and beasts and water turning into blood.
That's not the issue. The issue is we have the spirit of that dog in us. This human spirit of ours says, I want my master to come home. I'm waiting for my master to come back. Every day we wake up and we say, is this the day that Jesus returns?
And unlike that master, our master is coming back. And so let's look at Daniel chapter 12, verse 1. We're closing out the book of Daniel.
We've been studying it for the last several months. Daniel 12, 1. And I love this. Daniel 12, 1, it says, at that time, Michael the archangel who stands guard over your nation will arise. There will be a time of anguish greater than any since nations first came into existence. But at that time, every one of your people, Daniel, this is the angel speaking to Daniel, whose name is written in the book will be rescued. Keep in mind, Daniel's been praying for his people. God now sends an interpretation of what's going to happen in the final days, and he starts in verse 1 with, at that time. Now, what time is he talking about? You have to understand, at that time, you've got to go back to Daniel chapter 11. I know we're in Daniel 12, but keep in mind, chapters and verse divisions, that wasn't in the original. So at that time, what time is he talking about? Well, go back to chapter 11, and in chapter 11, verses 36 through 45, the Bible describes one final king who's going to attack God's people. And this is a future king.
We call him the Antichrist. And in this passage, you will see three and a half years mentioned over and over. Jesus mentions it. The book of Revelation mentions it. What's it talking about?
I want you to look at this chart right here to understand, at that time, what at that time means. There's coming seven years of hell on earth. And the Bible consistently divides that seven years into three and a half years. The first three and a half years, the Bible calls that the beginning of sorrows. The first three and a half years of the tribulation is going to be bad, but somewhat tolerable. Three and a half years into this, the Antichrist stands up and says, I'm not just a man, I'm God in flesh.
Everybody worship me. And in the last three and a half years, the Bible calls at the time of Jacob's sorrow or the great tribulation, and that's when hell on earth is unleashed. And specifically, during those last three and a half years, the Antichrist, who hates God's people so much, is going to target the Jews. We see this described in the book of Revelation. There's going to be war, famine, pestilence, the collapse of heavenly bodies, billions killed, darkness, pain, water globally turned to blood.
All that stuff is going to happen. But the Antichrist, in those last three and a half years, reserves special hatred for the Jewish people. And in fact, the Bible teaches that in those last three and a half years, two out of every three Jews will die. So about 10 million Jews will be slaughtered in those last three and a half years. Finally, in those last three and a half years, there will be an all-out attack on the nation of Israel.
We're seeing globally that being positioned right now. And in those last three and a half years, the Antichrist, we call it the Battle of Armageddon, it's really the campaign of Armageddon, he will usher in all the armies of the world to come and attack Israel, to wipe out Israel, and Jesus Christ, at the very last moment, will descend from heaven and rescue Israel. And the Bible says in Zechariah, Israel, look upon those, the one that they have pierced, the one they crucified, and they will mourn. They will say, he was our Messiah all along. Why did we kill him? And Jesus Christ will come, just like this verse says, and will rescue the people of Israel.
Are you with me on that? What this is talking about is the last three and a half years of the tribulation when the Jews are targeted and Jesus Christ comes back and rescues the Jews. And then look what is revealed to Daniel in verse 2. Many of those whose bodies lie dead and buried will rise up, some to everlasting life and some to shame and everlasting disgrace. And those who are wise will shine as bright as the sky, and those who lead many to righteousness will shine like stars forever.
So here's what you need to understand. The Bible teaches the concept of the bodily resurrection of the dead. That means your physical bodies, I don't care if you've been dead and decomposed for a thousand years, God somehow, someway is going to raise our bodies back to life.
Now listen to me. The moment you die, your spirit goes to heaven or your spirit goes to Hades. But your body goes in the ground. And what this is teaching is, now this is again, targeted specifically to the Jewish people, that there's going to come a time when all of us are raised up. Now look, when Jesus Christ was crucified and buried, he came back to life, right? And it says in Matthew, do you know this? He brought some other people back to life with him. He raised their bodies up.
Did you know that? It wasn't just Jesus' body that raised up. Matthew says as a first fruit offering, he raised up some other dead people as well. There's going to be a second resurrection. Right before the seven years of tribulation, those of us who know Jesus Christ, who have died and been buried right before the tribulation at the wrath of the church, our bodies are going to be raised up and brought to life. And we're going to have a reunion of our bodies and our spirits in heaven.
That's not what he's talking about. There's also going to be another resurrection. In fact, I want you to look at this chart because here's kind of God's prophetic timeline.
Look at this chart that we have this thing. So you see the Old Testament, the cross 2,000 years ago. Now do you see it says church?
That's where we're at right now. We're in the church age. The next thing that's going to happen is the rapture of the church, seven years of tribulation that I've talked about. At the second coming of Jesus Christ, at the end of those seven years of tribulation, watch this, all the Old Testament saints who died and whose bodies are in the ground, they're going to be raised up. And during that seven years of tribulation, there will be millions and millions of Jews come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. They will be slaughtered by the antichrist. And their bodies at the end of those seven years of tribulation, right before the thousand year reign of Jesus, they're all going to be raised back.
And that's what Jesus Christ is revealing to Daniel right here. He says all these Jews, this is kind of interesting, during the seven years of tribulation, there are going to be two witnesses who stand in Jerusalem and proclaim Jesus. There's going to be 144,000 Jewish evangelists go out. There will be millions of Jews who get saved, and now the antichrist really hates them because they're Jews and they're Christians, and he's going to slaughter them. They will be buried, and at the end of that seven years, right before Jesus Christ comes back, he's going to raise their bodies back up.
Does that make sense? And so he says some of them will be raised up, but then look at this. It says some will be raised to shame and to everlasting disgrace.
Now I want you to look at this chart one more time. At the very end of the thousand years, do you see that thousand year reign? At the very end of the thousand reign, Revelation 20 says there's going to be one more resurrection. Those of us who never gave their lives to Jesus Christ, those who never belong to God, even your bodies will be raised back up and joined with your spirit. And this is one of the saddest passages in the Bible. It says if you do not belong to the Lord, if you're not part of God's people, you will be thrown into a place of everlasting torment. I got good news for you, and that's that Jesus saves and gives eternal life, but I got bad news for you. God is a loving God, but he's also a God of justice, and somebody's going to have to pay for your sin, and if you don't pay for it, look, if Jesus Christ does not pay for your sin, you're going to pay for that sin for all eternity. And that's what Revelation is talking about.
Here's what I'm trying to say. Every one of us will have eternal life. If you belong to Jesus, you have eternal life. If you don't belong to Jesus, you have eternal life. You're going to exist for all eternity somewhere, either heaven or hell.
You don't just cease to exist. Everybody in this place will spend eternity in one of those two places, and that's what Daniel's talking about right here. Now, I want you to see something here in verse 4. Now, verse 4 kind of makes people scratch their head. We're not quite sure what Daniel's talk about in verse 4. I think Daniel is kind of giving us some prophetic signs of what will take place in the end times, because look at verse 4, if you would. But you, Daniel, keep this prophecy a secret. Seal up the book until the time of the end. So what's it going to be like in the end times?
Look at this. When many will rush here and there, and knowledge will increase. Now, we're not quite sure what Daniel is saying here, but it could be that in the end times, two significant things are going to happen. People are going to rush here or there. There will be an exponential increase in travel. There will be this ability to go from point A to point B in a very quick amount of time. And in fact, y'all heard of Isaac Newton?
Y'all ever heard of him? Isaac Newton studied this passage in 1680. He said, quote, personally, I cannot help but believe that these words about rushing back and forth refer to the end of the times.
Men will travel from one country to another in an unprecedented manner. Isn't that interesting? And then Newton went on to speculate. He said, now look, y'all want to think I'm crazy? He says, people might actually be able to go 50 miles an hour in the end times.
Some of y'all went double that coming to church here today, okay? That was what Newton says. And it was interesting, eight years after that, the atheist Voltaire read these words of Newton and he said, see, that man's crazy. What a fool Christianity makes an otherwise brilliant man. For him to say that you could go 50 miles an hour, there's no way a man could travel 30 or 40 miles an hour without suffocating.
Well, they're both wrong. When the Concord was in operation, you could go from New York to London in three hours. You have a team that left Raleigh-Durham 24 hours ago and they're now in Thailand. That was unprecedented. That was unfathomable. But it seems like verse four is saying, in the last days, there will be that kind of travel. And the second thing verse four is saying is interesting, knowledge will increase.
Do you see that? It's interesting, 5,000 books are published every single day. Knowledge is increasing.
And that little doodad thing that you have in your hand right there, listen to me, you can be exposed to more knowledge and information in one hour than your grandparents were exposed to in an entire lifetime. And so verse four seems to be some type of prophetic view of what it's gonna be like in the last days. And then look at verse 13. So it's gonna be overwhelming for Daniel. I mean, imagine what Daniel's just been told. Daniel, seven years of tribulation are coming. Three and a half, your people will be slaughtered by this coming world leader called the Antichrist. Bodies will be put in the grave.
One day the bodies will be coming back to life, some to everlasting life, some to everlasting contempt and hell. Daniel's had all this stuff thrown at him. And you can imagine that Daniel is now overwhelmed. And I love God's admonition in verse 13 because his words to Daniel are some good words for us today. Daniel, I've shown you end times prophecy.
I've shown you all this stuff. Daniel, as for you, go your way until the end. Daniel, you will rest. And at the end of the days, you will rise again to receive the inheritance set aside for you.
God tells Daniel and God tells us three things as we look at the reality of the coming seven years of tribulation, as we look at the coming thousand year reign of Jesus Christ on earth before he ushers in eternity, as we look at the fact that we're gonna rise up one day, our bodies will be raised up. Somebody asked me one time, well, what about cremation, okay? What about bodies who've been cremated?
Do you know we can take one strand of DNA, we human beings, and we can reproduce a body with one strand of DNA? Don't you think God is smart enough to find one strand of cremated DNA to be able to bring a body back? Now, I'm not for cremation.
I don't want you to hear that, but I want you to understand, if you're cremated and it's not a sin, God can still raise you up. I got a little bit of time. Darla and her aunt and I visited an old family cemetery of theirs, her family, way up in the mountains. And it's a Revolutionary War cemetery. And she was there, and her aunt's there, and Darla's there, and they're seeing all their ancestors, and there's an apple tree planted right there at the cemetery with apples coming out, and she and her aunt just started eating those apples. They said, you want one?
I said, no. Those roots have gone down, sucked up all these dead bodies, and you're now eating this stuff. I ain't doing that. Well, what do you do with that? What do you do with a person whose body, their leg was amputated in Europe, their arm was amputated in Canada, their left foot was amputated in the United States.
They're a very unlucky person. And they're buried in the ground, they decompose, their bodies are sucked into this tree, and now you're eating part of their DNA. What do you do with all that? How's God gonna raise them back up? Answer, it's not my problem, it's God's problem.
He'll handle it, don't worry about it. God's gonna raise us all back up one day. So Daniel has all this stuff thrown at him. And then God finally says, Daniel, calm down. Let me give you some advice. Go your way to the end.
You'll rest, and at the end of the days, you will rise again. God tells Daniel three things. Number one, he says, Daniel, go your way.
Do you know what I mean? Daniel, go live your life. At this time, Daniel is a 90-year-old government official, and Daniel has a job to do.
He's got bills to pay. God says, I've just shown you, all this is gonna happen in the days. Now, my first piece of advice to you is don't get so fixated on that, you go live your life.
And some of us get so into end-time stuff, we get really weird, and people don't wanna be around us, and we all have our own little interpretations of what's gonna happen, and I think God would say to us, what he's saying to Daniel, I've revealed to you in my word what's gonna happen, implication, I got it taken care of. Now, just go live your life and do what you're supposed to do. People all the time ask me, how do I know what God's will for my life is?
Number one, that's a very self-centered question. It's not what is God's will for my life. The question is, what is God's will, and how can I conform my life to God's will?
But let me give you an answer to this. If you're a student, do you know what God's will for your life is? Be the best student you can possibly be. If you're a mama or a daddy, you know what God's will for your life is? Raise those kids that love Jesus Christ and be the best mom and dad you can be. If you're an employee, I'm gonna tell you what God's will for your life is right now.
You go to work and be the most godly, diligent, faithful employee you can possibly be. That's what he's saying to Daniel right there. Because again, we have a tendency to get distracted. We have, these might be the end times. These might, I believe these are the end times.
But can I be honest with you? They may not be the end times. I wanna give you a list of failed prophecies in the church over the last several thousand years. This is outside the church, actually 634 BC, there's a hysteria in Rome that the world is about to end. 800 AD, Julius Africanus said the world would end that year.
Everybody freaked out. 1000 AD, there was mass hysteria all over Europe because rumor was the world was about to end. Joaquim of Flores said, I've studied the Bible, he's a great scholar. 1260, the world is gonna end. Czechoslovakian scholar, Martin Hausche, predicted the world would end on February 14th, 1420. Italian painter, Botticelli, thought the world would end in 1504. Scholar, Joseph Mead said the world is gonna end in 1660.
William Whitson said the world is gonna end in 1715. Got it wrong. He said, no, I'm sorry, I was wrong, it's 1734.
Got it wrong. He said, I'm sorry, I meant 1866. He got it wrong. I remember being in high school and everybody freaked out because EC Whitson had a book called 88 Reasons Jesus is Coming Back in 1988. Y'all remember that book?
He got it wrong. March 1997, Marshall Applewhite and 38 others thought the world was coming to an end and they committed mass suicide. Remember Y2K? World's gonna end. World didn't end. The Mayan calendar, y'all remember that? Mayan calendar said the end of the world is December 2012. The world did not end on December 2012. Harold Camping said the end of the world is gonna be October 21st, 2011. Went all over the news, didn't end. And then Jesus says, you know, March 1332, only the Father knows when this is over with.
So here's my point. Go your own way. Love Jesus, be a good father, be a good mother, be a good student, be a good employee.
Live your life. The church at Thessalonica got really caught up in everything I just shared with you because when Paul goes to Thessalonica, he preaches prophecies, only there for a couple weeks, but he gave them some in-depth teaching on prophecy. Evidently, the church went crazy over this stuff, so crazy that people quit their jobs, went and sat on top of a mountain, so we're waiting for Jesus to come back. Paul hears about it, and he says to the church in 2 Thessalonians 3, verse 11, we hear that some of you are living idle lives, refusing to work and meddling in other people's business.
We command such people and urge them in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ to settle down and work and earn a living. Nothing. Daniel, number one, go your way. Number two, Daniel, you will rest. You know what he's saying to Daniel? Daniel, you're gonna die.
You know what's interesting? For those of us who know Jesus Christ, even the moment our bodies go on the ground and our souls go to the Lord Jesus Christ, the Bible pictures death as rest for God's people. Daniel, you are going to die.
I got a word of encouragement for you right now. You're going to die. We all gonna die. There's something about dying that tends to make us scared and worried. It's interesting, in our society, we shrink away, and we don't wanna hear about death.
But you need to listen to me. In Daniel's day, and for the saints of old, death was something welcome. It was something that gave us perspective. In fact, it's interesting that in the ancient times when ancient people would be doing their business and you see this on some old ledgers and they would do some accounting stuff and have some receipts and some bills, many times at the bottom, they would write at the bottom of this ledger, memento mori, remember you're going to die. In other words, all this accounting and all this business stuff looks so important, remember.
In the end, we all will die. One of my heroes of the faith is a man named Jerome who translated the Bible into the language of the people. He loved God and he worked hard and there's all kinds of paintings of Jerome. And in many of these paintings, it's interesting, Jerome has a skull on his desk.
You see that? That was Jerome's way, they said, putting a skull on his desk to remind him. Jerome, you're not going to live forever.
Jerome, you're going to die. It just seems to put things in perspective. We get so torn up about elections, so torn up about our retirement, we get so torn up about all kinds of stuff and God says to Daniel, Daniel, remember, one day you're going to die, you're going to rest. It just seems to put things in perspective. We take life a little less seriously when we realize this isn't all there is.
One day we are going to die. Are y'all with me on that? In fact, I used to look, putting things in perspective, I used to be into celebrities.
I don't know why. I really thought celebrities are the coolest thing in the world. God is so impressed by celebrities. Like celebrity endorsements that we've seen in this last election, I'm like, everybody takes celebrity seriously.
That's going to sway the election. And my daughter went to college together. She gets so aggravated at me because I shouldn't say this, kids, you need to study, but I never studied in college and so we would go to these little cubicles to quote unquote study.
She would be studying so hard and so diligently. I'd have People Magazine because I'm wanting to know what's happening with Julia Roberts and George Clooney and Brad Pitt. I just got into that stuff. Can I be honest with you?
Maybe it's just, I don't know. I'm not impressed by celebrities anymore. They are hairless dancing bears whose only job it is to entertain us.
I'm not impressed. They're all going to die. We're all going to die.
100 years from now, we'll all be forgotten. Daniel, number one, go your own way. Live your life. Daniel, number two, remember, you're not going to live forever. You're going to die.
And then number three, Daniel, do you see this? You will rise again. In other words, Daniel, this is not the end. Death is not the end. For those of us who know Jesus and belong to Jesus, death is not the end. You will rise up again one day.
You will receive your inheritance one day. Listen to me. In this world, the moment you close your eyes in death, you open your eyes and you're staring at the face of the Lord Jesus Christ. I've said this before. Again, I'm not trying to be morbid. This isn't morbid.
This is a good perspective here. Every one of us, unless the rapture occurs, we're all going to die. And I want to give you some scenarios. For some of you, those final moments are going to take place on the kitchen floor where there's a tremendous pain going down your left arm and you're asking yourself how to end up on the floor. You can't catch your breath. It's going to dawn on you.
This is it. I want to tell you something. The most beautiful, wonderful thought in the world is I'm about to see Jesus. I'm about to see Jesus. For some of you, it might be in an upside down car on the interstate where you come to and there's something red going into your eyes and you're confused and all of a sudden you realize this is it. I don't know how people who don't know Jesus Christ cope in those final moments because for me in those final moments, it's going to be I'm about to draw my last breath in this world and I'm about to open my eyes and look upon the face of my Lord Jesus Christ.
If you don't have that hope, how do you get through that? Paul says something interesting in 1 Corinthians 15, 55. It's almost like he's taunting death. Death, you know, this thing we're all afraid of, we're all scared of. In 1 Corinthians 15, 55, Paul says, Death, where's your sting? Grave, where's your victory? I love that. Where is your sting?
Daniel has that same mentality that yes, I'm going to die but I'm going to be raised up again one day and that takes away the sting of death. I heard a story several years ago that I loved. A family of four were out for a drive when a bee flew in the back window of their vehicle and of course the two kids in the back, they start screaming, they freak out. Daddy, daddy, there's a bee in the car. The father reached back and he grabbed the bee in his hand and the stinger went deep into his palm and as the stinger went into his palm, he released the bee. Now the bee's still flying around and as the bee began to fly around again, the children in the car started screaming at the bee again until the father showed them his hand with the stinger in it.
It can't hurt you, kids. Look at my hand. I took the stinger for you and for those of us who belong to Jesus Christ but we're still screaming because we're afraid of death, Jesus says look at my hands, look at my feet, look at my side. I have taken the stinger of death for you.
Death, where is your sting? Jesus took it. Jesus took it. So now in a few moments, we got about two dozen people who realize and listen to me, they are sinners. They deserve hell. They realize they had a choice, eternal life in heaven or eternal death in hell and they realize that 2,000 years ago, the God man whose name was Jesus Christ took upon himself every sin they had ever committed that would send them to hell, he took the stinger, he took the punishment.
Jesus Christ took their sin upon himself and he was buried and he came back to life and about two dozen people have turned from their sins and surrendered their lives to the Lord Jesus Christ. And today what's gonna happen is exactly what Daniel just described. They're gonna stand in this water and they're gonna say, the old me, the old messed up sinful me, he's dead, she's dead and I'm buried in this water and I come out of this water a new person, Jesus Christ.
They're gonna say, this me? I'm giving you a little prophetic picture of what's gonna happen to me unless the rapture occurs. I'm going to die one day and I'm gonna be buried one day. But that same spirit of God that raised Jesus to life, he's gonna raise me to life and I'm gonna be with the Lord forever and ever and ever. Say this, we do this every Sunday, I'm not gonna hit this as hard as I usually do but I gotta say it again. If you're here today and you're not certain that you have eternal life and that when you die you're going to heaven, I've said this a thousand times, God has promised you a lot of things but he's not promised you another week, he's not even promised you another tomorrow.
This might be your last week on earth. Say it again, we all sinners, we all messed up. Somebody's gonna have to pay for your sin.
Either you will have to pay for your sin in a place called hell for eternity or God by his grace has allowed his son to pay for your sin. If you're not certain that you have eternal life and you're going to heaven when you die, in a few moments when all these other people come forward, I want you to come forward as well and I'm gonna lead you in a simple prayer and when we get through, you can go out with everybody else. We got things you can put on top of your clothes or whatever but I want you to get baptized as well and I've said this before, if you're like, well, I don't wanna get my clothes wet, then you're not ready to get saved, okay? Because there are more important things than getting your jeans wet and one of those things are where are you going to spend eternity? So I'm gonna lead us in a prayer right now and when I say in Jesus' name, amen, I want those signed up to be baptized to come forward and I want every person in this place that isn't certain where they're going to spend eternity, I want you to come forward as well. Does that make sense?
Stand on me right now. When I say in Jesus' name, amen, audience come forward. Father, thank you. Thank you for the hope that we have that this isn't it. As messed up as this world can be, as frustrating as this world can be, as depressing as this world can be, God, you have another home for us waiting for us. I thank you for the hope that we have in Jesus Christ. Father, I thank you that in Jesus, you not only make bad people good, you make dead people come to life.
And there's some people here today that don't have that assurity, Father. God, I pray that today is the day they'll turn from their sins and trust in Jesus and the eternal trajectory of their lives will change today, Father God. Thank you for the hope that we have in Jesus Christ.
In his name we pray, amen. Would you come right now? Just come, come. Thank you, guys. Come on up.
Thank you, thank you. Come on up. Yeah, y'all come on down here. Hey, those of you who aren't sure, why wait another day?
Why don't you get this thing settled today? Come on down here, come. Anybody else? Y'all come, come, come. Beloved, I want you to understand this. Jesus is looking down and he sees all this right now. And the fact that you're taking a public stand for him, do you know you can bless the heart of Jesus Christ?
You're doing that right now. I wanna make sure we're all on the same page here. So I'm gonna ask us all to bow our heads and I want you to forget about everybody else in this place. It's now just you and Jesus, okay?
It's just you and Jesus. And I want you to say this to him, but don't just repeat words. Words don't save you. Jesus saves you. Just to make sure we're on the same page here, I want you to say this to Jesus and I want you to mean it with all your heart. I want you to say, Jesus, I am a sinner. And Lord, I don't deserve to go to heaven.
But say this to him. But I believe you died for my sins. Say this to Jesus. I believe you were buried. And I believe God raised you from the dead.
You're alive right now. Say this to him. Lord, I turn away from my sin and I turn to you. Say this to Jesus.
Take control of my life and take me to heaven when I die. In Jesus' name, amen. I'm gonna say it again. We're about to have a big funeral service at Cross Assembly. Y'all about to die and be putting out water and you're gonna come out a new person in Jesus Christ today. Y'all excited about seeing that? Guys, if y'all would go that way and we're gonna celebrate. Team, lead us in celebrating and praising the Lord. Let's see what God does here in the next few moments.
