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Voice Of Prophecy

H.M.S. Richards

Don’t Look Now

Lift up the trumpet and lovely. Jesus is calming again. Cheer Pils. Be joyful and sing. Jesus is calming Again. This is the voice of prophecy, a voice crying in the wilderness of these modern days. Prepare ye the way of the Lord. Call again, again, 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 Delker and Brad Braley. The voice of prophecy speaker is hm s Richards. The quartet opens this program with a corral by Js Bach expressing praise to God. Now let every tongue the doy, Therefore oh Our Heavenly Father. We seek the in prayer, bless every listener, especially those who are troubled, those who have great problems of soul and mind. Strengthen and guide each one today in Christ's name. Oh Jesus. Blessed redeemer sent from the heart of God hold us who bow before the near to the heart of God. The road may rough still His and the trials I meet will seem nothing when I look in my dear saviors when I look in his the earth. Dear, so I keep my eyes fixed upon Jesus while I'm running life's Ray. I'll forget the I travel when I look in my dear saviors, when I look in his place, all the nothing, And now Ms. Del Delker ourto solos steps to the microphone to sing an expression of gratitude and praise. My heart overflows. My heart overflows with praise unto God for all his goodness to Me. I cannot conceal the joy my friend, he has to my heart. Heart of the heart. My sins are forgiven. I'm living today with the peace I have. Christ Jesus and heaven is my heart with blessings. Here now is H m s 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 one in front of him, the great French naturalist La 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. Then watched to see what would happen. The procession went on each caterpillar following his neighbor 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're doing or where they're 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. Well, may we say don't look now, look at something beyond. Does not the holy apostle advise us to lay aside every weight and the sin which does so easily be set us and run with patience, the race that is set before us looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. Hebrews 12, one and two. When we see him, there are many other things we will not see and much to our advantage. In Isaiah the 42nd chapter and the ninth verse, there is a prophecy of Jesus himself. He is our example. Listen to this, 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 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. Isaiah 11, three. 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. We might call this a blessed blindness for we read of this in Isaiah 33 15. He that stop at his ears and shut at his eyes from seeing evil. Thy in 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 second Corinthians, the third chapter. In the 18th verse. We become like the things that we continually see and look upon and contemplate. SD 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 one 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 walked just like him, replied to brother. That was a fact, but he did not know it. The two had been walking home together from the Y M C A three or four nights a week. An 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 with them. They look at them, they watch them. They unconsciously imitate them and they're apt to follow them. They do what they see their parents do. 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 one 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 be wailing. The fact that his 17 year old son had taken up drinking. Well, there's just one way said Lincoln, just one way to bring up a child and the way he should go. That is to travel that way yourself. There's the idea. Don't look continually approvingly with interest, with love, with desire upon that which is wrong for this danger that by so doing, you too will become wrong. Don't look now, shut your eyes, figuratively speaking to some things. Look at other things. Do not keep looking at things that God has forbidden. Remember what happened to Eve. The woman saw that the tree was good for food, that it was pleasant to the eyes and she took and did eat. That's the story of Genesis. We read it in the third chapter. In 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. Step out by faith. Remember the experience of the apostle Peter of him. The scripture says, and we're reading Matthew 1429. 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. Don't look now would've been good advice to him. As long as the apostle kept his eyes on Jesus, he was safe. But when he looked at the boisterous waves, fear filled his heart, faith fled and he began to sink. What a lesson for us. We are not to look around at the fearful circumstances, at the threats of enemies. Don't look now at these things. Keep your eyes upon Christ. He will uphold you. He will keep you. He is faithful. Here is the promise of God, thou whom I have taken hold of fear thou not. For I am with the look not around, the be not dismayed. For I am thy God. I will strengthen the ye. I will help the ye I will uphold the Isaiah 41 19. True faith is believing God, believing God's word, and in that way, seeing things as accomplished before they are so in reality, someone has said that Columbus practically discovered America before he left Spain. So true was this, that he was not surprised when he saw the western continent. Indeed, he would've been surprised that he not found it. Faith is expectancy, so don't look at the stormy. See the difficulties or the dangers. Don't look at someone else's circumstances when you're having a hard time and they're having it easy for. I was envious when I saw the prosperity of the wicked says David, until I went into the sanctuary of God, then understood I then I understood. Psalm 73, 3. David says in this psalm that his feet had almost slipped. He almost lost his faith when he saw the prosperity of wicked man. It was only in the light of God's sanctuary where we see the great plan of salvation and the man of salvation Jesus and the judgment of the wicked at last, that he was able to see things as they really were. As they are. Don't look now at other people's good fortune in your own trouble. Remember whom the Lord loveth? He Chas us. Hebrews 12, six. That's a good verse to memorize whom the Lord levit. He chase it. Don't look at the lions in the Dan. Don't look at the fiery furnace. Don't look at the mob with their stones ready to destroy you. Don't look at the vast distances to the mission fields. Don't look at the small paycheck in Earth's money. Don't look at these things. Look at the word of God. Look to Jesus. For it is written, they looked unto him and were enlightened and their faces were not ashamed. Psalm 34, 5. If we get our eyes fastened on our problems instead of on our savior, we shall come to grief. There was Saul, king of Israel, popular handsome Abel, but he made one of the most colossal failures. The Bible records. We read about it in the 13th chapter of one Samuel. His words to the prophet were these because I saw that the people were scattered from me, that thou came us not therefore said, I the phis times will come down now upon me. Then he goes on to tell how he broke with God's plan. I did this and that He made a wrong decision and he knew it was wrong, but he did it because he said, I saw, I saw, I saw. Why did he keep looking in the wrong direction, looking at the consequences, not looking at God's word and promise. In every time of crisis, we shall be tempted in the same way. It was on the stormy. See, when the disciples had given up hope we're fighting the raging tempest that Jesus came to them. In the fourth watch of the night. Jesus comes to us with his help and blessing in the time of our greatest need, our darkest night, the even the prophet Elijah looked on the wrong direction right after one of the greatest blessings and victories that ever came to him. The reaction set in the glory and victory of Mount Carmel had taken place only the day before after an all night rain soaked, cold, hungry, discouraged. The prophet saw messenger coming from Jezebel, his enemy, and this is the message he brought from the queen. So let the gods do to me and Moreso if I make not die life as a life of one of them. That is the prophets who had been killed the day before. And when he saw that, he arose and went for his life. First Kings 19, he saw the danger, the hatred in the face of Jezebel. He saw what would happen to him. So he ran for his life. He did not look to God. He looked instead to his enemy. Now wonder he fled and he had time on our own experiences. If we will look to God instead of our troubles and fears, we shall be able to stand still and see the salvation of God. Exodus 1413, remember seeing is believing. Many things passed before the eyes of Jesus, which would've discouraged him had he looked at them. Malone, sickness, sorrow, the death of men, the hatred of his enemies revealed in their faces and their actions, but with the eye of faith, he saw behind everything, the power and hand of God. He said, my father work with healer too and I work John five 17. Jesus is our example. He's our savior. He is the light of the world in the ancient wilderness. Those who look to the brazen serpent were healed from the bite of a fiery serpent. So it is to those who look today unto Jesus, the author and finisher of our faith. It is to them that salvation comes. Don't look now at the discouraging, the sinful, the fearful, But look up to him, to Jesus and go forward in faith for truly friends. There's life in a look. Look at the sacred cross. Jesus has said, look unto me, earth cross treasure, salvation, the Savior. I raised my eyes. Sweet was the smile that fell on the clouds of rise. Look at the cross. Still, my strength shall be's salvation. In a moment, HMS Richards, a seventh day Adventist minister, will return with the final word for you. And now this is Orva Iverson reminding you that God's care is overall. So let us keep looking up ever going forward in faith Radio friends, more things are wrought by prayer than this world. Dreams of The voice of prophesy. Workers at headquarters pray every morning before they go to work in a special prayer period, and then every Thursday morning we all meet at eight o'clock for special prayer. We call it our worldwide prayer circle because at this time, people all around the world join us in prayer. We are inviting you who hear us now to become a part of our worldwide prayer circle. That means that every Thursday, preferably in the morning, you'll pray first for yourself, your problems, your home, then your friends and those who listen to the voice of prophecy. Pray for the thousands of millions who are contacted by radio bringing the gospel and the message of Christ to the world. So please pray with us and for us have faith in God, his love In cognitive, have faith in God for bear. Forget, forgive, have faith in God and look and learn and live, have faith, dear friend in God, we trust this program has brought help to you today. Tell others about it and listen again next week for another broadcast brought to you by the voice of prophecy. The Lord bless the and keep the the Lord make his face shine up upon the and be gracious unto the the Lord. Lift up his countenance upon the, and give the peace.

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