Revival at our church-you missed a real blessing if you missed it.
The revival with Bro. John Billy Butler was awesome!! He got it started with this message:
"Get into the Presence of the Lord"
One of the best praise songs ever has to be "Just can't stop praisin' the Lord" and it was great! Bro. Mike sang, "Look for Me Around the Throne"
We were blessed with the attendance of a very special servant of God, L.C. Parker. This man has some physical challenges, but does he ever love the Lord. His ministry is to hand out tracts. They say folks around his hometown know him well. You have to be interested in the lost to reach the heart of God.
In the OT, blood sacrifice was used for shock value-for men to know how horrific sin really is. The blood of animals could atone for sin but it took Jesus to forgive sin. After Calvary, all things were made new. We read in the Bible how Simeon prophesied that he would not die till he saw the Christ-child and he actually held Him and blessed Him. John the Baptist fortold His birth, Jesus was Job's Redeemer, He was Abraham's promise, He was Isaiah's prophecy, the thief on the cross died beside Him. And right there is where Satan believed he'd stopped the PLAN-but when Christ descended to the lower parts of the earth, imagine what Satan thought when one of his demons told him someone is here to take the keys of hell and death!!! Would you just love to have seen that snake, that old serpent? Revelation 1:18, "I AM HE that liveth, and was dead; and , behold, I AM ALIVE for evermore, Amen, and have the keys of hell and of death." Jesus crossed the gulf, that great gulf. He appeared to many on earth then Jesus ascended up to Heaven, taking those saints with Him and they are in Heaven.
One point Bro. Butler made was that when the priests were making atonement for the sins of the people, there was no chair in the Holy of Holies, because he was constantly walking, active. But when Jesus made the supreme sacrifice, He sat down at the right hand of the Father. One sacrifice for all time.
