So, my grandmother goes to Ford and she’s applying for a job, and they asked her in her interview, “Can you drive?”  And she said, “Yes.  But I’d like you to show me how you would like it done.”  And they thought that was strange but, “Okay.”  Now it ends up, she not going to just run errands; they wanted her to drive for the General.  Driving was not Grandma’s greatest talent.  She actually hated driving so much she learned to get around the whole city of Monterey by taking only right-hand turns.  She didn’t like turning left.  She didn’t like going through intersections.  She would go around until she got there.  She was a horrible driver.  Her and her sister sat at a stoplight one time just talking and gabbing for the longest time and trying to figure out what was going on and kind of found out that she was behind a parked car and they were just sitting there for like ten minutes waiting for the light to change.  So anyway, my friends and I were walking home one day and we’re walking down Pacific Coast Highway and we’re walking, and my grandma saw us and she’d made a right turn and was coming down to where we were, and she stopped and rolled down the window and said, “Bobby, would you and your friends like a ride?”  And I said, “No Grandma, we’re in a hurry.”  

Her motto was, “This too will pass.”  And, for her, life things just passed.  Bad times, but they passed.  Good times, and they passed.  She went on for 103 years doing that.  But she finally came to understand that the judgment against her soul and the condemnation that was upon her because of her sins was not going to pass.  There’d be a reckoning.  And she accepted Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior.  God’s good; amen?  God is merciful, praise God!  So, we can’t trust in our own goodness.  Grandma was a good lady.  I mean she was a very nice, kind, gentle woman.  I don’t know anybody that didn’t like her.  But it’s filthy rags, and hallelujah for the day that she finally recognized that and bowed her knee.

Are few saved?  We’ve seen the heart of God here in Revelation, Chapter 7.  We’ve asked that question in the past.  Whether, as we examine our own hearts, asking God to give us grace through this Mirror to see what manner of man we really are, because no man know his own heart; amen?  But, “God, show me what I really am.”  I was visiting someone who’s close to going home if there’s not a miracle.  It could be before this service is over.  As I went by to see him and pray for him yesterday, he was still cognizant.  And very much like with Mom I just felt that anointing coming upon me and I just began to pray in the Holy Ghost and speak the Word of God into his heart.  Another man that was so talented, educated, organized.  A good man, gentle man, true gentleman.  One of those that was so good, it’s hard to get saved.  Many of you prayed for him.  Many of your classes, little people, praying for him.  What a great day when he finally bowed his knee and humbled himself and made Jesus his personal Lord and Savior; amen?  And I couldn’t help but think about that last night as I was praying for him.  And to see his wife’s faithfulness to stand.  Her thanking God and rejoicing in the Lord leading her into this community, and people that helped instruct her children in the Lord, and her children’s children.  This lady that heard a preacher on the radio and went out to a meeting to finally attend in person.  The fact is, it was a couple of months later that she finally accepted it.