0:00:00.587,0:00:01.769 Every now and then, 0:00:01.769,0:00:04.441 it's very seldom that it's ever happened, 0:00:04.441,0:00:06.177 but every great once in a while, 0:00:06.177,0:00:08.179 just bam! It hits you: 0:00:08.179,0:00:12.002 I'm going to die. 0:00:12.002,0:00:14.599 It's going to happen very, very quickly. 0:00:14.599,0:00:17.760 We're rapidly approaching. 0:00:17.760,0:00:20.986 If you're not a Christian here tonight, 0:00:20.986,0:00:24.948 the time is going to be [br]there before you know it. 0:00:24.948,0:00:27.458 You know how sometimes like as a student 0:00:27.458,0:00:29.388 I remember I'd study for a test. 0:00:29.388,0:00:31.299 You've got that big test coming up 0:00:31.299,0:00:33.887 you know in two months - it's far away, 0:00:33.887,0:00:36.478 but you're studying maybe. 0:00:36.478,0:00:37.898 And it gets a little closer. 0:00:37.898,0:00:41.353 All of a sudden there you are. 0:00:41.353,0:00:45.699 The hour has come. 0:00:45.699,0:00:47.870 And you know, like I said, 0:00:47.870,0:00:50.018 I can only believe it [br]every once in a while. 0:00:50.018,0:00:52.328 You know what I'm [br]talking about right here. 0:00:52.328,0:00:54.607 Every now and then a little glimpse: 0:00:54.607,0:00:56.929 I'm going to die. I'm going to be there. 0:00:56.929,0:01:00.297 You're going to be there. 0:01:00.297,0:01:03.858 And if you're not right with God 0:01:03.858,0:01:07.502 you're in a desperate situation. 0:01:07.502,0:01:09.356 And if you are right with God, 0:01:09.356,0:01:11.558 what in the world are you so worried about 0:01:11.558,0:01:14.829 this thing you're going through right now? 0:01:14.829,0:01:18.928 It's temporary. It's just nothing. 0:01:18.928,0:01:24.991 It's light compared to [br]this glory that's coming. 0:01:24.991,0:01:26.457 Difficulties are temporary. 0:01:26.457,0:01:28.557 Trials are temporary. 0:01:28.557,0:01:31.090 Setbacks are temporary. 0:01:31.090,0:01:33.989 Sufferings are temporary. 0:01:33.989,0:01:36.377 Soon, 0:01:36.377,0:01:38.207 very soon, 0:01:38.207,0:01:39.760 whatever I'm facing right now - 0:01:39.760,0:01:40.878 you may be weary. 0:01:40.878,0:01:44.289 You may be weary in the battle. 0:01:44.289,0:01:49.087 It's going to be over so fast. 0:01:49.087,0:01:51.110 Soon shall the cup of glory 0:01:51.110,0:01:53.259 wash down earth's bitterest woes. 0:01:53.259,0:01:54.808 I don't think we had that verse 0:01:54.808,0:01:56.868 in "The Sands of Time." 0:01:56.868,0:01:59.239 Soon shall the cup of glory wash down 0:01:59.239,0:02:00.943 our bitterest woes. 0:02:00.943,0:02:03.685 Soon shall the desert brier 0:02:03.685,0:02:06.043 break into Eden's rose. 0:02:06.043,0:02:08.357 Soon. 0:02:08.357,0:02:10.369 Wash down earth's bitterest woes. 0:02:10.369,0:02:11.939 People that are being tortured - 0:02:11.939,0:02:15.458 some people are being tortured to death. 0:02:15.458,0:02:17.933 The instant they wake up, 0:02:17.933,0:02:19.790 it's all washed down. 0:02:19.790,0:02:24.935 Everything's forgotten. 0:02:24.935,0:02:27.919 Washed away in a moment. 0:02:27.919,0:02:33.200 There's a card that we've shared a lot 0:02:33.200,0:02:37.465 with people who have lost a loved one. 0:02:37.465,0:02:41.057 It's entitled, "Absent From the [br]Body, Present with the Lord." 0:02:41.057,0:02:42.139 It goes like this: 0:02:42.139,0:02:44.877 "Oh think... 0:02:44.877,0:02:48.618 Oh think, to step on shore 0:02:48.618,0:02:52.343 and that shore Heaven, 0:02:52.343,0:02:54.897 to take hold of a hand, 0:02:54.897,0:02:58.950 and that God's hand. 0:02:58.950,0:03:02.682 To breathe a new air." 0:03:02.682,0:03:04.253 You know, you just breathe it in. 0:03:04.253,0:03:07.718 You find it celestial air. 0:03:07.718,0:03:10.497 "To feel invigorated 0:03:10.497,0:03:14.547 and know it immortality. 0:03:14.547,0:03:17.796 Oh think, to pass from [br]a storm and a tempest 0:03:17.796,0:03:21.496 into one unbroken calm. 0:03:21.496,0:03:26.753 To wake up and find it glory. 0:03:26.753,0:03:30.758 Oh think..." 0:03:30.758,0:03:33.878 To step on a shore. 0:03:33.878,0:03:36.368 All that will happen in a moment. 0:03:36.368,0:03:40.138 The tempest of life will be gone 0:03:40.138,0:03:42.295 and they'll seem like nothing. 0:03:42.295,0:03:44.350 To step on a shore and that shore Heaven. 0:03:44.350,0:03:46.861 Well, what's the shore [br]of Heaven going to be like? 0:03:46.861,0:03:48.546 Well, it's one unbroken calm. 0:03:48.546,0:03:51.187 Celestial air. Feeling invigorated. 0:03:51.187,0:03:53.870 I can almost imagine that, you know. 0:03:53.870,0:03:56.739 Instantly, you're alive 0:03:56.739,0:03:59.544 and you're invigorated.