Fellowship Hall

Time seems to go faster than it used to.  Matthew 24:22 tells us that the days will be shortened for the elects sake.  We are  in the last minutes on God's time clock.  Jesus is coming just any day now.  My sister and I used to sing that song.  Well, she never made it to the rapture.  Jesus took her home.  This Christmas will be five years ago.  A lot of people don't want to think about death.  It is a fact of life.  I was singing at a funeral of the lady I worked for.  I was sitting on the front bench and they called me to sing.  I had a shawl on my shoulders.  I stood up and the Lord whispered in my ear, just as the shawl falling gently, so is the death of my saints.  We just put on immortality as we enter eternity.  I just thought of something.  One of our dear brothers went home this week.  I wasn't able to go to the funeral but  I was praying for the family.  Brother Walter Beayrd isn't suffering anymore.  He has no more pain and, best of all, he is with Jesus our Lord.  It won't be very long before Jesus comes and takes us home.  Some people don't believe in the rapture, but they believe in the resurrection.  Jesus was resurrected and is waiting for our Father to tell him to go get his bride.  He will split the eastern skies and so shall we ever be with the Lord.  1Thessalonians 5:8-9 tells us " But let us who are of the day be sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love; and for a helmet, the hope of salvation.  For God hath not appointed us to wrath, but to obtain salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ.  "  Verses14 through 15 instructs us "Now we exhort you brethren, warn them that are unruly, comfort the feebleminded, support the weak, be patient toward all men, see that none render evil for evil unto any man; rejoice, pray, give thanks for all things, quench not the Spirit, despise not prophesying, prove all things, abstain from the very appearance of evil; Be ready to give account of the hope you have.  " Strive to trust God for He is faithful.  He will never fail us.  Our righteousness is as filthy rags but we, through faith, put on His righteousness.  Christ lives in us.  In ourselves, we are nothing but, in Christ, we are worthy.