November 21,
1979
Santa Monica,
California
Civic Auditorium
Concert
I don't know what kind of God you believe in, but I believe in a God that can raise the dead. He does it all the time, every day. Now there's certain men, you know, many of them who live right in this town, who seek to lead you astray. You be careful now. The real God, the real God, the one and only God, he don't make promises that he don't keep. That's how you can tell he's the real God. (before When You Gonna Wake Up?)
Well, you know the God of this world is blind to many people. We see them all the time, we hear about them on the radio, the TV and the newspapers. Satan is called the God of this world. He owns the media, everything about the media, he owns it. It really depends (....) causes disturbance to your mind, while America is on its way down, becoming a third-rate power. We can't help that. There's nothing we can do about that. But we can know what is going to happen and what is going to happen, is this world is going to be destroyed. [audience: "We love you!"] That's been coming a long time and its going to happen. But Christ will set up his kingdom in Jerusalem for a thousand years. I want you to know that, because you got a choice (before Slow Train)
Thank you. You know that God uses ordinary people. He uses ordinary people all of the time. All those guys from the Old Testament, Joshua, Moses, Abraham, Gideon, they're all ordinary people. They weren't any super heroes at all. In fact, Moses did not want to go back to Egypt, and get the people out, he did not want to do that, because he knew he was an ordinary (....) person. Anyway, God told him to go back and tell the Pharaoh to let those people go. Pharaoh didn't want to let those people go. Moses said to God, "But Pharaoh don't want to let those people go." God said, "Well don't you worry about it Moses, and I'll put the words right in your muth, in your mouth." You see Moses had a problem, just like I do. [laughter and applause] Moses had a problem too. He stuttered, let's say he stuttered, or he missed, he had something, something like that, I don't know exactly what it is. But, but uh, anyway, he went back to where he came from and he told Pharaoh what God had told him, and, and Pharaoh said, "No way, Moses, I can't let those people go, they're building my pyramids." Anyway, Moses said to Pharaoh, "Well, God said that your rivers are gonna dry up if you don't let those people go." Well, Pharaoh didn't pay any attention to that and his rivers dried up. Then, ah, Moses said, "God warned you, frogs are going to crawl across your streets." Pharaoh still didn't, ... it didn't make any difference to Pharaoh at that time. Frogs crawled everywhere. There was no place they could look they didn't see frogs. Hail started falling as big as basketballs. People are dropping like flies. Many, many plagues came down. But finally God said to Moses, "Moses, you go tell Pharaoh, that every first-born son is gonna die, if they don't let those people go." [a baby cries in the crowd] Moses said, "All right, I'll go tell him." But Moses probably figured it out, well, if all the first-born sons are going to die, what are all the Hebrew children, are they going to die too? God said
All right, now we're hanging on to a solid rock made before the foundation of the world. I don't know what you're hanging on to, but that's what I'm hanging on to.
All right, we've got time for one more. You know the story about, ah, when they came to get Jesus in the garden? Peter rose very quickly and cut off the man's ear to keep him from being taken. Jesus says "Hold it Peter." He said, "Put your sword away" and Jesus healed the man's ear. You see, Peter, he didn't understand. When, when there wasn't, when he didn't know what to say he would say it, or he would do it. Anyway, Jesus said to him, "This cup that's coming to me, I've got to drink it." (before In The Garden)
And on keyboards tonight, we had one set of keyboards go out and let's see if we can get them fixed, on the keyboards Spooner Oldham. On the other set of keyboards, Terry Young. And on lead guitar tonight, Fred Tackett. On the (....) set of drums, Jim Keltner. And playing on the bass guitar tonight, Tim Drummond. Singing on the bottom tonight, Helena Springs. Singing in the middle, on the middle part, Regina McCreary. And singing on top, Mona Lisa Young. We're gonna give all the praise, all the glory to God tonight, we know we don't want any, and we don't deserve any. (before Blessed Be The Name)
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