26-0508A_DESPERATIONS
*...IT TAKES A STATE OF EMERGENCY, TO THROW US INTO DESPERATION... WHEN, WE OUGHT TO DO IT WITHOUT THE EMERGENCY.
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45 Now we're going to talk on--on Desperations for a few minutes now. Usually, it takes a state of emergency, to throw us into desperation. See? It's too bad it has to do that, but human beings are so slothful in their mind, that it takes an emergency. Something arises, and when they do, then it--it throws them into that desperation. And really, in doing that in desperation, it brings out that real thing that you are. It shows what you're made out of, in the time of desperation. It usually pulls out all the good things that's in you.
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46 In time of death, I've heard people when they knowed they were dying, the things that they kept secret all their life, they, in desperation, they were trying to confess it. See? And trying, "Take this and make it right; go, please; go, do," see, in desperation. They ought to have done that beforehand, see, not wait till the time of emergency. "Will you do so-and-so for me?" The emergency causes desperation. When, we ought to do it without the emergency.
*AND WHILE THEY WERE UNDER THE SIGN OF THE TOKEN, THEY'VE TAKEN THE COMMUNION IN--IN DESPERATION...
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47 Now we notice, tonight, that we're taking the symbols of the Passover. And the Passover was taken in emergency, in times of desperation. You notice in--in Exodus the 12th chapter, and the 11th verse of the 12th chapter, I believe it is, it says, "Eat this Passover with the shoes on your feet, with your loins girded up, and with the staff in your hand," see, you're eating it in desperation.
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48 They had seen the great hand of God. They had saw all of His miracles, and then they had come under the sign of the Token. And while they were under the sign of the Token, they've taken the communion in--in desperation, for they knew at that time God was fixing to strike with judgment.
49 And it was a shaking time. It was a time where every man was examining himself, because the Word of the prophet had not failed one time. It had been proven to be true. Whatever he said, it happened just exactly the way he said it. The Pillar of Fire was still there. And, then, the prophet had announced that God would only pass over when He saw the token at the door. And it was a desperation.
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50 I would imagine the children were... when they saw those big, black wings drop down from the sky like a smoke settling over the city, the screams coming from every house, the children might have went to their daddy and said, "Daddy, are you sure that we're under that token?"
And he could go to the door, look upon the post, the lintel, said, "Son, that's according to His Word."
"Remember, I'm your oldest child. Daddy, are you positive?"
51 "I am positive! That's according to what the prophet told us, and he has the Word of the Lord. Said, 'When I see the blood, I'll pass over you. Take a lamb for the house.' I've brought all you children in. You're my oldest, but my firstborn. That's the one that's dying all out in there; but there is the blood. That's what THUS SAITH THE LORD was. So rest, my son, rest at ease, because God made the promise. See?"
"Well, Daddy, why you got your shoes on? Why you got the staff in your hand? Why have you got a piece of bread in one hand and a lamb in the other hand? Why is them bitter herbs and things? What are you eating it? What's the sweat running off your face about?"
"Son, death is fixing to strike." See, it was in a time of desperation.
*THE DAYS THAT WE'RE LIVING IN SHOULD CAUSE THE CHURCH TO GO COMPLETELY INTO DESPERATION.
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52 Now, I believe that we're living in the days that we're... Or, otherwise, the days that we're living in should cause the Church to go completely into desperation. I believe, since the message this morning from God, not me, I believe it ought to throw this entire congregation into desperation, that we have played long enough. We've went to church long enough. We got to do something.
53 How is it that we can see other great signs and wonders done on others, and what about us? It should cause an estate of desperation, that we are determined, before God. The signs of His Coming should bring this entire congregation, when we've read it from the Word... And the Holy Spirit has told us, "Go at a certain place, such-and-such a thing will happen," not tell us what it was, but it would happen. We go there, it happens that way. The newspapers pack it, the magazines pack it, show the picture of it. Come back here and see those great mysteries, hidden in the Bible, opened up to us, on a new field that we never knowed before, and perfectly blends in to the Coming of the Lord Jesus.
* IT SHOULD THROW US INTO DESPERATION, THAT, BY THE GRACE OF GOD, WE'LL NOT BE LEFT BACK BEHIND.
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55 Those people had seen the hand of God. And that night of the communion, they took it with... in desperation, because they knowed that something was fixing to happen. And we know something is fixing to happen. And remember, the Coming of the Lord will be a sudden, secret going away. He'll come and take Her like a thief in the night. And to think that if somebody, all of a sudden, there is members of our family gone, and you're left behind! It should throw us into desperation, that, by the grace of God, we'll not be left back behind. "If there's anything I don't want... Don't, don't leave me, Lord."
*SIGNS OF HIS COMING SHOULD THROW EVERY MEMBER OF CHRIST INTO DESPERATION NOW, ABOUT OUR SOULS
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61 Desperation. Signs of His Coming should throw every member of Christ into desperation now, about our souls, about our--our--our welfare for hereafter. Well, what are we going to amount to if we gain the whole world? What are we, what are we living for? What do you work for? What are you eating for? What are you struggling for? To live. What are you living for? To die. And you're not fit to live until you're fit to die. It's true.
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