grateful to be here with Dr. Keith Thomas1, who is a dear brother
in Christ and a colleague in the cause of the Kingdom. I have to
tell you, I shouldn’t speak for him, but I will anyway, the two of
us felt like two Gentile boys at a Bar Mitzvah for the last couple
of hours and it has been a great thing.
This is a remarkable time. God in His sovereignty is using the
opportunities that seem so daunting in the present to prove His
name powerful. There is something very much missing in so much
of evangelical Christianity, and that is the note of triumph. We
have been chased into catacombs before, but to God’s glory, if
that is where we are called to go, we will go again. This sense that
evangelical Christianity ought to be cowering in some kind of
cultural corner is pernicious, deadly, and unfaithful.
I was waiting for the song, “The Days of Elijah.” I knew it just had
to be coming as everything was building to it. We need that note
of triumph. We don’t have a tentative hypothetical gospel that we
hope will work out in the end. The verdict is in. It is finished! We
shall see, and every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that
Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father!
1 Pastor Thomas went to be with Jesus a few years ago. He was a dear
friend to many and a wonderful pastor.
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