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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

Don’t Look Now

Lift up the trumpet and loud let it ring, Jesus is coming again.

Cheer up you pilgrims, be joyful and sing, Jesus is coming again.

This is the voice of prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days.

Coming again, coming again, Jesus is coming again.

From our Voice of Prophecy Studios in Los Angeles, California, we welcome you to this half hour of inspiration.

Music with the King's Heralds, Del Velker and Brad Braley.

The Voice of Prophecy speaker is HMS Richards.

The quartet opens this program with a chorale by J.S.

All thy gates with pearl are glorious, when we partake through faith victorious, With angels round thy throne of light, No mortal I have seen, no mortal ear hath heard such wondrous things.

Therefor, with joy, our song shall soar in Praise to God forevermore.

Our Heavenly Father, we seek Thee in prayer.

Bless every listener, especially those who are troubled, Those who have great problems of soul and mind, strengthen and guide each 1 today, in Christ's name.

A place where sin cannot molest near to the heart of God.

Though the road may be rough where he leads me, still his footprints I plainly can trace, And the trials I meet will seem nothing When I look in my dear Savior's face.

When I look in His face, His wonderful face, In heaven that beautiful place.

All the hardships of earth will seem nothing, When I look in my dear Savior's face, When I look in His face, His wonderful face, In heaven, that beautiful place, All the hardships of earth will seem nothing When I look in my dear Savior's face.

And now, Miss Del Delker, our contralto soloist, steps to the microphone to sing an expression of gratitude and praise, My Heart Overflows.

My heart overflows with praise unto God, for all of his goodness to me.

I cannot conceal the joy that I feel, my friend he has promised to be.

My heart My heart overflows, my heart overflows, because of the love he bestows.

With blessings replete, increasingly sweet, My heart with joy overflows.

My heart overflows, my sins are forgiven, I'm living today without fear.

The peace I have sought, Christ Jesus has bought, and heaven is wondrously near.

My heart overflows, my heart overflows, because of the love he bestows with blessings replete increasingly sweet Here now is HMS Richards, the Voice of Prophecy speaker, who warns, don't look now.

There's a certain species of caterpillars called the processional caterpillars.

They walk in a long line, each following closely the 1 in front of him.

The great French naturalist, Le Faber, once saw some of these caterpillars marching around the molding of a large stone vase in his garden.

He found a few more of them and filled in the gap between the head and the tail of the procession and then watched to see what would happen.

The procession went on, each caterpillar following his neighbour in front of him.

They walked around and around that vase for a whole week, covering a distance of nearly a mile.

Doesn't that illustrate the habits of many people?

They keep looking at others and doing just what they do.

Think of it, following somebody else, keeping their eyes glued on him, with no thought of the rightness or wrongness of what they are doing, or where they are going, or the consequences of it, just looking at somebody else and following his example.

It would be better to be blind to some people and to some things, but it would be better still for our eyes to be fixed on the final goal of eternal things rather than on the things of today.

Does not the Holy Apostle advise us to lay aside every weight and the sin which doth so easily beset us, and run with patience the race that is set before us, looking unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, Hebrews 12, 1 and 2.

When we see Him, there are many other things we will not see, and much to our advantage.

In Isaiah, the forty-second chapter, and the ninth verse, there is a prophecy of Jesus Himself.

Who is blind but my servant, or deaf, as my messenger that I sent?

Who is blind as he that is perfect, and blind as the Lord's servant?

If we follow Christ's example, we too shall be blind to many things, not looking at the outward appearance, not judging after the sight of the eyes, nor deciding after the hearing of the ears.

We may, of course, see with the outward eyes, but we shall be blind to all but God and His doings, His will, His Word, His commandments.

For we read of this in Isaiah 33, 15, he that stoppeth his ears, and shutteth his eyes from seeing evil.

Thine eyes shall see the King in his beauty.

We shall never see Christ in all his beauty and all his glory, and in all the beauty of his character, unless we stop looking at some other things.

The Bible says that by beholding we become changed.

You'll read those words in 2 Corinthians 3 in the 18th verse.

We become like the things that we continually see and look upon and contemplate.

Gordon writes that when his brother, who had been gone for quite a while, returned home, he said to him as they were walking down the street together 1 day, You've been going with Denning a great deal lately, haven't you?' Denning was a mutual friend of theirs.

"'How did you know?' "'You walk just like him, ' replied the brother.

The 2 had been walking home together from the YMCA 3 or 4 nights a week, and unconsciously young Gordon had grown to imitate his friend in his peculiar way of walking.

We are influenced for good or for bad by the example of others often, especially those in whom we're interested, the ones to whom we look, the ones we see a good deal and know well.

Children look to their parents, for instance.

They're with them, they look at them, they watch them.

They unconsciously imitate them, and they're apt to follow them.

This shows the importance of a good example in parenthood.

It may be that parents are largely to blame for some of the troubles we have among the youth of the world today.

In 1 of his addresses on Abraham Lincoln, Norman Hapgood, the editor, said that Lincoln was once talking to an alcoholic man of middle age who was bewailing the fact that his 17-year-old son had taken up drinking.

Well, there's just 1 way, said Lincoln, just 1 way to bring up a child in the way he should go, that is, to travel that way yourself.

Don't look continually, approvingly, with interest, with love, with desire, upon that which is wrong.

For there is danger that by so doing, you, too, will become wrong.

Don't look now, shut your eyes, Figuratively speaking, to some things.

Do not keep looking at things that God has forbidden.

The woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes, and she took and did eat.

We read it in the third chapter and the sixth verse.

She kept looking at something until she thought it was just what she wanted.

Yes, she kept looking until there was desire, then decision, then sin and death.

She disobeyed God because she looked in the wrong direction and in the wrong way.

Don't look at the difficulties in the way of obedience to God.

Remember the experience of the Apostle Peter.

Of him the scripture says, and we're reading Matthew 14 29, he walked on the water and when he saw the wind boisterous, he was afraid and beginning to sink he cried saying, Lord save me.

Probably the shortest prayer in scripture.

Instead of looking at Jesus, he began to look at the waves, at the danger, at the trouble.

As long as the Apostle kept his eyes on Jesus, he was safe.

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