Foolish Virgins And the Soon Coming Of Christ — Edgar Reich

To him. There's no glory in us. It is all due to him. So we give him all the praise and the glory. And before we think about the word, Brother Dennis Balcombe said that the Chinese always expected a three-hour sermon.

And I was sort of wondering, what are your expectations tonight? If you went to a party, it would go long. So we'll just trust the Lord and see the word he has prepared for us for this hour. But before I go on, I just wanted to express my deep appreciation to the organizer, Brother Greg Gordon.

And I know that you're disappointed because you expected Brother and Pastor Brian Long tonight to hear him. He was not able to be here. And there were some issues that occurred. And so before we start, I just would like to lift him up in prayer, if I may.

And Heavenly Father, we come again into your holy presence in that name that is above every name, Father. We thank you so much for our dear brother and pastor, Brian Long, Father. You have called him for revival.

You have lifted him up to teach and preach your word, Father. And we pray blessings upon him and the needs that are perhaps in his church or in his family or health needs, Father, or spiritual needs, Lord.

And we lift him up before you in this hour with this congregation of saints, Father, that you would meet that need and that you would be glorified in our brother Brian Long's life and that he would continue to do the work that you have called him for and that your word would go out with might and with power.

And we thank you for that, that you will do that in Christ's name. Amen. I'd like to thank Brother Greg Gordon and Brother Mark McCord for leading us. Sister Mary Beth has been in the background and greeting, and she has done so much work.

And I just want to thank her so very much. And the other dear sisters and brothers who had a part, we thank the technical staff that has kept us on the sound and speaking and recording and doing the streaming.

So we are so thankful for you. Then we thank the pastor of this church for kindly providing us with this building and their facilities. And then how thankful I am for having heard men of God these days give the word and for Pastor and Brother Keith Daniel, for Jose Moniz, for Dennis Belcombe, for David Servin, and Dean Odell, and how privileged I am to hear the words that God has given you that I might be changed and that I might become a better man.

And so then I thank all of you who are here tonight. I thank many sisters and brothers that I was out on the street with. They're a couple of street preachers that I love dearly. God has given them a mighty, mighty gift.

I think they're far better preachers than I am. And being out on the street and giving the word of God, standing up, and I see my brother over here, and then the sisters that came out. It was such a joy.

And also meeting so many new people. Sister Lynn Saunders and Brother Joe Sisko is here tonight. He's going to be my next host. And I see my current host, Brother Tom here tonight. And it's such a joy to see you.

Thank you, dear brother, to you and to your family for what you do. So I'm so grateful for all of you. And the Lord bless you mightily and continue to use you mightily for his great glory. Now the title for tonight's message is the one that was given to Brother Brian Long.

And I prayed much about that. I hid for three days because I didn't know what to do. And I just asked the Lord, would he show me the way on what he wanted to have said? And so you will hear that in a moment.

The Bridegroom and the Sleeping Virgins

The title for tonight's message is Sleeping Virgins and the Soon Coming of Christ. Let us bow in another word of prayer, please. And Father, I thank you so much for your heart. I thank you so much for your mind.

I thank you so much for what you related with respect to this passage. I thank you so much, dearest Lord Jesus, for showing me the kind of bride that you want and what the current bride looks like. And so, Father, I thank you so much for this.

Now I pray that we would learn from this and that we would love you even more. Even so, you need to show this to us, Father, and that in turn we might be changed and that we might make a difference in this great nation of America and in the neighboring nation of Canada.

And so we thank you, Father, in Christ's holy name. Amen. Our text tonight comes from the text that was given to us from Matthew chapter 25, verses 11 through to 13. Matthew chapter 25, 11 through to 13.

This is a parable related to the kingdom of God. And there Afterward, the other virgins came also, saying, Lord, Lord, open to us. But he answered and said, Assuredly, I say to you, I do not know you.

Verse 13, Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the Son of Man is coming. Brother David Servant read the passages prior and following this text to give us the understanding that this has to do with us being ready and with us being prepared for the marriage supper of the Lamb to be prepared for that time when Christ returns and comes for his bride.

And so I'm wondering if you would think back perhaps to the day that you got married. Could I see hands perhaps of all the married people? Thank you so much, thank you so much. You may put them down. And now ladies, I would like you to think back to that special day, how you got ready and what you did to get ready and then the beautiful white dress, I assume, that you wore that day.

And then husbands, I'd like you to think of that wonderful and special day of your marriage when you were looking for that bride in her beautiful garment, in her beautiful makeup, her hair made up, her beautiful expression on her face, the joy and expectation.

And perhaps you were still in your first love and you couldn't think straight. You were just looking towards that bride and you loved her so much. And the bride also could not think straight because she was in her first love.

She had known her husband yet and she was looking to her white knight. She was looking at this husband. She could not think of anyone else. She was looking for him around every corner. He was looking around for her at every corner.

Until that day came of that heavenly union where their first love was expressed in this heavenly union to come together as a husband and a wife. And beloved, this is the picture. This is the picture of Christ Jesus coming for his bride.

He wants his bride to be delighted with him and he wants to be delighted with his bride. He doesn't wanna see spots and wrinkles. He doesn't wanna see evil. He doesn't wanna see a torn bride's dress. He doesn't wanna see dirt on that dress.

He doesn't wanna see a drunk bride, drunk with iniquity, drunk with other gods. He does not want to see a bride that is not holy and acceptable unto him. And so God put on my heart that I might look at the five virgins that were in the text and the five foolish virgins especially because we can see in the five foolish virgins certain traits that relate to our times and our circumstances.

And before I do that, I'd like to turn to a second text that actually refers to the wedding of the Lord Jesus Christ with his church. And that second part is in Revelation chapter 19 verses seven to nine.

You see the wedding party story that we have with the 10 virgins, they are actually part of a wedding party, but someday they would also become a bride. And so now we have here in Revelation chapter 19 verses seven to nine, we have the actual picture of the bride of Christ.

And here it says, let us be glad and rejoice and give him glory. For the marriage of the lamb has come and his wife has made herself ready. And to her, it was granted to be arrayed in fine linen, clean and bright for the fine linen is the righteous acts of the saints.

Then he said to me, write blessed are those who are called to the marriage supper of the lamb. And he said to me, these are the true sayings of God. And this passage refers to the future. It has not yet happened.

This scripture talks about the Lord Jesus Christ as being the bridegroom. He's called the lamb here in this passage that we just read. It refers to this future physical union, the marriage between Jesus Christ and his church.

There will be a wedding feast where Jesus sits with all those who have received him as their savior to celebrate this wonderful union for eternity. So in Revelation chapter 19 verse seven, we have a picture of the bridegroom as the lamb.

We know from other passages that the Lord Jesus Christ is the lamb who taketh away the sin of the world. And then in Revelation 5, 12, it said, worthy, worthy is the lamb who was slain to receive power and riches and wisdom and strength and honor and glory and blessings.

So this is the wedding of the lamb of the son of God. And he's looking for a worthy bride. Ephesians chapter five, verses 31 to 32. Ephesians chapter five, verses 31 to 32. In verse 31, it says, for this reason, a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife and the two shall become one flesh.

Now in verse 32, this is a great mystery, but I speak concerning Christ and the church. And so the church in Revelation 19, seven, she was making herself ready for the wedding. She's dressed in fine linen, clean and bright.

And then in Ephesians chapter five, 27, it says that he might present her to himself a glorious church, not having spot or wrinkle or any such thing, but that she should be holy and without blemish. Beloved, may I ask you this question?

Is your first love still intact for your husband or for your wife? Or what has happened? Do you still love your spouse unconditionally? Have you found some things that get on your nerves? You know, toilet paper put the wrong way and socks on the floor and, you know, little stuff like this.

Has your first love diminished for the son of God? Or is your first love still intact? Are you looking for that union with Christ to see his blessed face, face to face? Are you saying with the Shulamite woman in the song of Solomon, my beloved is mine and I am his and he's mine.

And I'm so delighted with my bride. I'm so delighted with my bridegroom. I can't wait. I can't wait to see him face to face. Or are the things that have gotten into your life, are the things that have affected your first love with that great, great savior and God that we have?

The Government as a Foolish and Sleeping Virgin

Now, beloved, when I look at the foolish and sleeping virgins, there were five of them. So I segmented what I see in our beloved nation for us to understand. And by the way, I love America very, very much.

At the age of three, a soldier saved my life in Germany. My father had been shot in Russia. I was dying of malnutrition and illness. And my mother went out on the streets begging for my life. And so the American soldiers were to give their blood to other soldiers who needed blood.

Likewise, the German men were supposed to give their blood for other German soldiers. So, however, my mother went out on the street begging for my life and got an American soldier to come and give me blood that I might live.

Praise God. Praise God. And so I'm so thankful for America. I love you so much. I really do. And I only mean the very, very, very best for you. But I do have to tell you that there are certain signs in this country that you are going the same way as Germany once did.

And so may God help you to turn this around, and you can, through him. Now, the first foolish and sleeping virgin I call the government. Most Americans might say that America was founded on the principles of the Bible, the word of God.

Today, we have a government in the United States that has abandoned, to a large extent, the founding principles of this nation. The bridegroom's name is no longer welcome in the schools. The name of Jesus is no longer welcome in government offices.

Everywhere in the courts and in the military, the name of Christ is no longer welcome. If a soldier mentions the name of Christ, he's threatened with court-martial because if another soldier complains that the name of Christ was mentioned, he can be court-martialed.

There are laws that are now instituted in most states of the United States permitting and supporting open sin. In one of the most chilling statements, beloved, that was just days ago, was made by a Supreme Court judge in New Mexico.

He said to a wedding photographer that they would lose their case. And as part of his overall judgment, he said that Christians must learn to compromise. Do you know what that means for you? Do you know what that involves for you?

You're gonna have to make a choice. Are you gonna stand for the bridegroom? Are you gonna be the bride that's going to wait upon him? Now here, the government bride of Christ has abdicated her love for the bridegroom, the Lamb of God.

The following poem comes from Judge Roy Moore who was removed from the bench as a judge in court because he would not take down a copy of the Ten Commandments from a wall in his courtroom. You may not agree with all of his poem, but he put his life on the line.

He gave up all for Christ. He lost his judge's bench. He was shunned by the legal community and the government was or has been trying to take away his lawyer's credentials. America, the beautiful or so you used to be, land of the pilgrim's pride.

I'm glad they'll never see. Babies piled in dumpsters, abortion on demand. Oh, sweet land of liberty, your house is on the sand. Our children wander aimlessly, poisoned by cocaine, choosing to indulge their lusts when God has said abstain.

From sea to shining sea, our nation turns away from the teaching of God's love and a need to always pray. We've kept God in our temples. How callous we have grown when earth is but his footstool and heaven is his throne.

We've voted in a government that's rotten at the core, appointing godless judges who throw reason out the door, too soft to place a killer in a well-deserved tomb, but brave enough to kill a baby before he leaves the womb.

You think that God's not angry that our land's a moral slum? How much longer will he wait before his judgment comes? How are we to face our God from whom we cannot hide? What then is left for us to do but stem this evil tide?

If we, who are his children, will humble, turn, and pray, seek his holy face, and mend our evil way, then God will hear from heaven and forgive us of our sins, heal our sickly land and those who live within.

But America, the beautiful, if you don't, then you will see a sad but holy God withdraw his hand from thee. This beautiful land of America, she has put on torn clothes for her wedding. In fact, she is not even interested.

She's dirty. She's not washed. This land of ours no longer wants the savior. The bridegroom, Jesus Christ, is saying, I no longer want you to come to this wedding. I have put you, they have put on sin clothes and put my white wedding dress in the trash.

Christians, we now have been classified as dangerous to the nation of America. We are classified with terrorists. This is an excerpt of a speech Paul Washer made in the same auditorium in 2008. This is five years ago.

He said, the church in America is going to suffer so terribly, and you laugh now, but they will come after us. They will come after our children. They will close the net around us while we're playing soccer, mom and soccer dad.

When we are arguing over so many little things and mesmerized by so many trinkets, the net even now is closing around you and your children and your grandchildren, and it does not cause you to fear. You will be isolated from society, as already has happened.

Anyone who tries to run from office, who actually believes the Bible, will be considered a lunatic, until finally we are silenced. We will be called things that we're not, and persecuted for not being followers of Christ, but for being radical fundamentalists who do not know the true way of Christ, which of course is love and tolerance, will go down as the greatest bigots and haters of mankind in history.

They've already come after your children, and for most of you, they got them. They got them through the public schools and indoctrination in the university, and then you wonder why your children come out not serving the Lord.

Pastors, Prophets, and the Call to Holiness

It's because you fed them right into the devil's mouth. Number two, the foolish and sleeping virgins of pastors and preachers. How can a pastor, preacher, or prophet manage these days? Many say, I must raise money for my salary.

Many say, I must maintain these buildings. Many say, I must attract people to come to church any way I can. God understands. Yes, I will get this high power and attainment. Yes, I will give people what they want.

These are excerpts from an article by Kevin Klein. One day, I asked in desperation, God, then how do I know a true prophet and true prophecy? He replied, Kevin, read the prophets. End of confusion. Could it really be that simple?

Could it really be that simple for understanding prophets and prophecy? We overlook about one third, give or take, of the Bible. Did God know in advance that in the latter days, false prophecy would be so prevalent that his children would need a clear guide to discern false prophecy and true prophecy?

You see, true prophets expose sin. True prophets tell you what is against the heart of God. True prophets tell you what you must do to turn around. True prophets will tell you what will happen if you don't.

Prophets tell you about the love of God, but they will not deny the other two, will not deny the other two. Lamentations 2 .14, your prophets have predicted for your falsehood and delusion and foolish things, and they have not exposed your iniquity and guilt to avert your captivity by causing you to repent, but they have given and declared to you false and deceptive prophecy, worthless and misleading.

True prophecy will expose sin for what it is, an abomination to God. True prophecy will not play with sin. Sin separates God from his beloved children, and he hates it. Yes, yes, he hates it. He doesn't accept sin, beloved.

He doesn't overlook it. But it is because of God's love that he sends true prophets to his people to bring them to a place of repentance. Now, pastors face many, many struggles, beloved. They're human, an empty church, a failing church, nasty deacons, nasty elders, no paycheck, an overworked wife, a congregation full of sin, of drugs, adultery, divorce, children out of wedlock, sexual misuse of the church's children, poverty, perhaps in the neighborhood, rats the size of cats.

You take care of people for all of their lives, but they won't even leave a few dollars for you when you do the funeral. According to a website, Lifeline for Pastors, here are statistics for all Christian denominations.

The website is conducted by reputable people, including pastor-to-pastor interviews and information from Focus on the Family. 1 ,500 ministers leave the ministry every month in the USA. This number totals 18 ,000 for the year.

The three main causes are moral failure, spiritual burnout, and contention within their church. 50 of pastors' marriages end up in divorce. 50 are so discouraged they would leave if they could, but have no other job.

70 of pastors fear called at the beginning of their ministry. Only 50 fear called after three years. 80 of new pastors from seminary and Bible schools will leave the ministry within five years. 85 of pastors say their greatest problems are disgruntled deacons or elders or board members or worship leaders and associate pastors.

70 fear grossly underpaid. 80 of spouses are overworked, they feel left out, they feel unappreciated, and they feel pressured by the congregation. 70 of pastors, note this, fight depression. 80 of pastors' children have had to seek professional help for depression.

70 of pastors do not have a close friend. 95 do not pray regularly with their spouse. 80 of pastors spend less than 15 minutes in prayer per day. They're too busy taking care of their congregation.

70 only study the Bible when preparing sermons. And almost 40 of pastors admitted, to listen to this, to extramarital affairs. And 51 of pastors are watching porn. Charisma Magazine states, leaders must stage humility and repentance.

The world has changed and so-called anointing is put before character and holiness. If a pastor can preach the paint of the wall and gets everyone shouting and gets the money in, then his personal life seemingly does not matter.

But beloved, it matters to God, for he says, be ye holy as I am holy. Also the word of God says in 1 Timothy 3, 2, 3, a bishop then must be blameless. The husband of one wife, temperate, sober-minded, of good behavior, hospitable, able to teach, not given to whine, not violent, not greedy for money, but gentle, not quarrelsome, not covetous.

So what must a pastor do? A pastor must repent, return to an intimate relationship with Jesus, repent, fall in love again with your Savior, fall in love with prayer and your Bible. That is above your family.

But then your family is next after that, not the church. You take care of your children so that they are not lost. Why should they be lost and you save someone else? Return to preaching the whole counsel of God, preach sin, righteousness, and judgment.

And then see, you must deny yourself, and you can do this through Christ Jesus. Without denial, there is no victory and there's no cross. Find a pastor friend or pastor mentor to help you and hold you accountable.

Is the bride of Christ ready for the bridegroom? Is her dress without spot or wrinkle? Is this bride holy and without blemish? This bride has a badly discolored wedding dress. It's torn with much dirt.

Only repentance will wash away our sin. We need to be washed in the blood of the Lamb. Pastors, if any of you see this video, I urge you, I beg you, won't you return to holiness and repent? Won't you return to the word of God?

If you don't, the bridegroom Jesus will say, I know you not go into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life. And yet Jesus still says, come, come bride. I love you with an everlasting love.

Denominational Drift and False Religion

Won't you repent? The third foolish virgin is our denominations. Over 7 ,000 churches close each year, which are only replaced by 4 ,000 new churches. The number of congregants are receding in many churches.

Only some mega churches are increasing. Overall, only about 20 of Americans now actually attend church, and that goes for all denominations. That includes the Catholic faith and anyone who's called a Christian.

So this is 20%. With the absence of the Bible in school and absence of prayer, and in the absence of home Bible reading and prayer, we are now raising godless generations of children. 80 of the youth has left the church.

One third of high school students are considering suicide seriously. Why, beloved? Why? We have failed as parents. We have taken humanism. We have taken riches to our heart. We wanted to have the same our neighbors have.

We wanted to live up to expectations. And so the wife works, the husband works, and everyone is away. The children have no more Bible or any teaching in school. And so between you and the school, there isn't much left.

Jesus came to save and seek, which is lost. He left his job. He left this job for us. And this morning I shared where the Lord said, well, I love all of them, and their blood will I require from your hand if you don't tell them.

So it's your and my job to also share the truth. Only about 1 of Christians witness. Some denominational churches have turned to the prosperity gospel, demanding God's blessings without holiness and obedience.

Mega motivational churches have sprung up that hardly mention the name of Jesus. The mega church has sprung up teaching that punishment of sinners is temporary and teaching that there is no eternal judgment.

There's the infiltration and practicing gay ministers in many denominations and the creation of gay churches. The gay church accuses Christians of demonizing them at the same time Americans are normalizing homosexuality and the majority of people are now giving approval to this lifestyle openly.

Several denominations have now changed officially to accept lifestyles of sin openly. Then there's the interfaith alliance inviting clergy to read the Quran in their churches. And there are dozens of churches now where the Quran and the Bible are read in the same church.

The interfaith alliance accuses Christians of anti-Muslim bigotry leading to stereotypes that have erupted throughout the country and led to misconceptions, distrust, and in some cases to violence. They say the true Christian is associated with bigotry and division.

Yet our Christian God, Jehovah, is the only true God. When he opened up heaven and spoke, he helped us to know the truth. He did not say, this is my beloved son, Muhammad. He did not say, this is my beloved son, Hindu God, Krishna.

He did not say, this is my beloved son, Buddha. Our great God helped us to know the truth forever because he said, this is my beloved son in whom I'm well pleased, and it was Jesus Christ. It was the only, only way, the only life that can bring us back to the Father.

Praise God. So the interfaith alliance, ecumenical movements, and other organizations will form the foundation and development of a global church, beloved. In Revelation chapter 13, you will read about a beast with two horns.

That is a representation of the false prophet, and he will bring down fire from heaven with the help of Satan. He will combine these religious entities throughout the world and form a new religious organization where the world will believe that they are truth.

When you see fire come down from heaven on CNN, when you see it on your own television, when you see it on your handy phone, will you believe? God is saying prophets are telling lies in my name. I have not sent them.

I have not commanded them nor spoken to them. They prophesy false visions. I did not give them. Those denominations that have accepted sin and apostasy have rejected the bridegroom, Jesus Christ. The bridegroom, Jesus, will say, I know you not go into everlasting punishment, but the righteous into eternal life.

But yet God cries out from heaven, he still loves, and he cries from heaven, return to me, and I will return to you. Return to me, because he loves you. He loves all of those that have gone astray. He loves you.

Yes, he wants you to come back, but come back to this book, what he has given us. Come back to this book, and you will know the truth. You don't have to think in your own head. You don't have to rely on humanism.

You don't have to rely on secularism. You don't have to remind yourself on your own mind what you want, but look at what God has given us, because what he has given us is love, and it's good for us. It's good for us.

So if I follow the commandments and I don't kill someone, in fact, I don't have to go to the electric chair. I don't have to go to jail, so it's good for me. So as we follow the commands of God, they are good for us.

Congregations and the Normalization of Sin

But Christ Jesus will say, I know you not. Now, the sleeping and foolish virgins, in the fourth virgin, I will call our congregations. 55 million children have been killed since 1973. We have offered them on the altar of lust.

The divorce rate is 50%, the same for Christians. 70 million plus Americans have sexually transmitted disease. 47 of couples no longer get married. The Sunday's no longer holy nor a day of rest. About 70 of men watch pornography.

Adultery and uncontrolled lust via the internet and TV has affected the basic fiber of the whole society of America. God said it's his will that we should abstain from sexual immorality. TV has become our God, sports has become our God.

The average TV time for men was 4 .35 hours per day. For women, 5 .17 hours a day. The Gallup poll in America for the public in 2011 said that 69 say it's okay to divorce. 60 say it's okay to have sex outside marriage.

54 say it's okay to have children outside of marriage. 56 say it's okay for men to lie with men. And these percentages actually have increased, not decreased. Born-again Christians must accept that they are now in a great, great minority.

The Remnant, Forgiveness, and First Love

Will the bridegroom want a bride like that? Will the bridegroom say, come, come beloved, you're mine? The fifth version, and please don't get mad at me, but may I call it the remnant? Even at times, the remnant does not display true Christianity often avoiding the commandments of Jesus.

He said, if you love me, keep my commandments. The underground church considers that we don't follow more than 20 of the Bible. May I ask you, how are you getting on in your church or in your fellowship?

If someone bumps you, do you get mad? If someone says something about you behind your back, how do you react? Like the world? Matthew 18 says, forgive 70 times seven. Matthew 18 says that if you don't forgive, I'll send you a torturer.

Matthew 6, 14 and 15, God said, if you forgive, I'll forgive, but if you don't forgive, I won't forgive you. Are there people inside your family you can't forgive? Are there people at work, at university?

Just forgive them, it's all right. They don't benefit by it. You will benefit more than they because your bitterness will be gone. Your hurts will be gone from your body. And then I find that when we go from the little things to the big things, it's even worse.

Let me tell you one story of Maria from South America. She had a little son and a husband. The little son went out on New Year's and he had great time with firecrackers. And a man in a white suit walked by.

He pulled out a gun and he shot her little boy to death. He fell to the ground and was dead. Maria was heartbroken and her husband was even more heartbroken. And her husband was so heartbroken that he ended up dying.

And so Maria was left without a little boy and without a husband because of the evil that was done in her life. But Maria had become a Christian and she was told to forgive. And someday she was seen going on a bus with a package and she went to a prison many miles away where a man was in that prison that had taken her joy, her earthly joy.

And she started to minister to that man. And the town said, how can you do this? What's in this package? And she brought him food and she did good to him. You know what Matthew 5 .44 says? Love your enemies so you can practice.

And when you love enemies, you first have to forgive them to be able to love them, okay? So you forgive them first, then you love them. And in Matthew 5 .44, it says, then you pray for them and you bless them and then you do good to them.

Praise God. May I ask you another question? And this had come up before. How is your first love towards the Lord Jesus Christ? Would you consider not loving Christ with your first love a sin or is it your right?

I can do whatever I please, right? Would Jesus consider it a sin? In Revelation chapter two, he told the Ephesian church, you're a hardworking church. You kick out people that don't tell the truth, that don't teach the truth.

You're really quite a good church. But I have this one thing against you. You have lost your first love. You don't look around every corner anymore. Is Jesus there? How can I please my bridegroom? What can I do to make him happy, not myself?

What can I do to bring joy to him, to the bridegroom? What can I do to delight him? And so my prayer often in the morning is, I'm saying, Lord, what is it that would please you most this day? What would please you most this day?

Not what would please me, but what pleases you? And so concerning first love, beloved, Jesus said in Revelation chapter two, what did he ask for people to do to get back to the first love? Do you remember?

I'll give you three R's. My name is Edgar Reich, so remember the R forever, okay? The first thing is, remember what you did at first, repent, and then redo. Three things, okay? Or you can go repent first, and then to help you to get back where you once were, remember and redo.

So husbands, take your wife out sometimes for dinner, okay? Wives, be nice to your husband sometimes. Get back to your first love in your marriage. Get back to your first love with the Lord Jesus Christ, with loving your enemies.

I wanna tell you one story of Pastor Wurmbrand. Pastor Wurmbrand had 18 pieces of flesh cut out of him. He was 14 years in prison, and I heard him in People's Church Toronto in Canada. He walked in in the 70s with feet that had no shoes on them, and we were wandering, and the ushers were rushing to take away the podium.

They put a chair there so he could sit down, and he said, sisters and brothers, forgive me for sitting down, but my feet are broken so many times, I cannot stand on them. And then he said, now people want me to talk about the evil of communism, but I can't!