1 00:00:00,587 --> 00:00:01,769 Every now and then, 2 00:00:01,769 --> 00:00:04,441 it's very seldom that it's ever happened, 3 00:00:04,441 --> 00:00:06,177 but every great once in a while, 4 00:00:06,177 --> 00:00:08,179 just bam! It hits you: 5 00:00:08,179 --> 00:00:12,002 I'm going to die. 6 00:00:12,002 --> 00:00:14,599 It's going to happen very, very quickly. 7 00:00:14,599 --> 00:00:17,760 We're rapidly approaching. 8 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:20,986 If you're not a Christian here tonight, 9 00:00:20,986 --> 00:00:24,948 the time is going to be there before you know it. 10 00:00:24,948 --> 00:00:27,458 You know how sometimes like as a student 11 00:00:27,458 --> 00:00:29,388 I remember I'd study for a test. 12 00:00:29,388 --> 00:00:31,299 You've got that big test coming up 13 00:00:31,299 --> 00:00:33,887 you know in two months - it's far away, 14 00:00:33,887 --> 00:00:36,478 but you're studying maybe. 15 00:00:36,478 --> 00:00:37,898 And it gets a little closer. 16 00:00:37,898 --> 00:00:41,353 All of a sudden there you are. 17 00:00:41,353 --> 00:00:45,699 The hour has come. 18 00:00:45,699 --> 00:00:47,870 And you know, like I said, 19 00:00:47,870 --> 00:00:50,018 I can only believe it every once in a while. 20 00:00:50,018 --> 00:00:52,328 You know what I'm talking about right here. 21 00:00:52,328 --> 00:00:54,607 Every now and then a little glimpse: 22 00:00:54,607 --> 00:00:56,929 I'm going to die. I'm going to be there. 23 00:00:56,929 --> 00:01:00,297 You're going to be there. 24 00:01:00,297 --> 00:01:03,858 And if you're not right with God 25 00:01:03,858 --> 00:01:07,502 you're in a desperate situation. 26 00:01:07,502 --> 00:01:09,356 And if you are right with God, 27 00:01:09,356 --> 00:01:11,558 what in the world are you so worried about 28 00:01:11,558 --> 00:01:14,829 this thing you're going through right now? 29 00:01:14,829 --> 00:01:18,928 It's temporary. It's just nothing. 30 00:01:18,928 --> 00:01:24,991 It's light compared to this glory that's coming. 31 00:01:24,991 --> 00:01:26,457 Difficulties are temporary. 32 00:01:26,457 --> 00:01:28,557 Trials are temporary. 33 00:01:28,557 --> 00:01:31,090 Setbacks are temporary. 34 00:01:31,090 --> 00:01:33,989 Sufferings are temporary. 35 00:01:33,989 --> 00:01:36,377 Soon, 36 00:01:36,377 --> 00:01:38,207 very soon, 37 00:01:38,207 --> 00:01:39,760 whatever I'm facing right now - 38 00:01:39,760 --> 00:01:40,878 you may be weary. 39 00:01:40,878 --> 00:01:44,289 You may be weary in the battle. 40 00:01:44,289 --> 00:01:49,087 It's going to be over so fast. 41 00:01:49,087 --> 00:01:51,110 Soon shall the cup of glory 42 00:01:51,110 --> 00:01:53,259 wash down earth's bitterest woes. 43 00:01:53,259 --> 00:01:54,808 I don't think we had that verse 44 00:01:54,808 --> 00:01:56,868 in "The Sands of Time." 45 00:01:56,868 --> 00:01:59,239 Soon shall the cup of glory wash down 46 00:01:59,239 --> 00:02:00,943 our bitterest woes. 47 00:02:00,943 --> 00:02:03,685 Soon shall the desert brier 48 00:02:03,685 --> 00:02:06,043 break into Eden's rose. 49 00:02:06,043 --> 00:02:08,357 Soon. 50 00:02:08,357 --> 00:02:10,369 Wash down earth's bitterest woes. 51 00:02:10,369 --> 00:02:11,939 People that are being tortured - 52 00:02:11,939 --> 00:02:15,458 some people are being tortured to death. 53 00:02:15,458 --> 00:02:17,933 The instant they wake up, 54 00:02:17,933 --> 00:02:19,790 it's all washed down. 55 00:02:19,790 --> 00:02:24,935 Everything's forgotten. 56 00:02:24,935 --> 00:02:27,919 Washed away in a moment. 57 00:02:27,919 --> 00:02:33,200 There's a card that we've shared a lot 58 00:02:33,200 --> 00:02:37,465 with people who have lost a loved one. 59 00:02:37,465 --> 00:02:41,057 It's entitled, "Absent From the Body, Present with the Lord." 60 00:02:41,057 --> 00:02:42,139 It goes like this: 61 00:02:42,139 --> 00:02:44,877 "Oh think... 62 00:02:44,877 --> 00:02:48,618 Oh think, to step on shore 63 00:02:48,618 --> 00:02:52,343 and that shore Heaven, 64 00:02:52,343 --> 00:02:54,897 to take hold of a hand, 65 00:02:54,897 --> 00:02:58,950 and that God's hand. 66 00:02:58,950 --> 00:03:02,682 To breathe a new air." 67 00:03:02,682 --> 00:03:04,253 You know, you just breathe it in. 68 00:03:04,253 --> 00:03:07,718 You find it celestial air. 69 00:03:07,718 --> 00:03:10,497 "To feel invigorated 70 00:03:10,497 --> 00:03:14,547 and know it immortality. 71 00:03:14,547 --> 00:03:17,796 Oh think, to pass from a storm and a tempest 72 00:03:17,796 --> 00:03:21,496 into one unbroken calm. 73 00:03:21,496 --> 00:03:26,753 To wake up and find it glory. 74 00:03:26,753 --> 00:03:30,758 Oh think..." 75 00:03:30,758 --> 00:03:33,878 To step on a shore. 76 00:03:33,878 --> 00:03:36,368 All that will happen in a moment. 77 00:03:36,368 --> 00:03:40,138 The tempest of life will be gone 78 00:03:40,138 --> 00:03:42,295 and they'll seem like nothing. 79 00:03:42,295 --> 00:03:44,350 To step on a shore and that shore Heaven. 80 00:03:44,350 --> 00:03:46,861 Well, what's the shore of Heaven going to be like? 81 00:03:46,861 --> 00:03:48,546 Well, it's one unbroken calm. 82 00:03:48,546 --> 00:03:51,187 Celestial air. Feeling invigorated. 83 00:03:51,187 --> 00:03:53,870 I can almost imagine that, you know. 84 00:03:53,870 --> 00:03:56,739 Instantly, you're alive 85 00:03:56,739 --> 00:03:59,544 and you're invigorated.