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John R. Rice

John R. Rice (1895–1980). Born on December 11, 1895, in Cooke County, Texas, John R. Rice was an American fundamentalist Baptist evangelist, pastor, and publisher. Raised in a devout family, he earned degrees from Decatur Baptist College and Baylor University, later studying at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago. Converted at 12, he began preaching in 1920, pastoring churches in Dallas and Fort Worth, including First Baptist Church of Dallas as interim pastor. In 1934, he founded The Sword of the Lord, a biweekly periodical promoting revival and soul-winning, which grew into a publishing house with his books like Prayer: Asking and Receiving and The Home: Courtship, Marriage and Children. Known for his fiery evangelistic campaigns, he preached to thousands across the U.S., emphasizing personal salvation and biblical inerrancy. Rice mentored figures like Jack Hyles and Curtis Hutson but faced criticism for his strict fundamentalism. Married to Lloys Cooke in 1921, he had six daughters and died on December 29, 1980, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He said, “The only way to have a revival is to get back to the Book—the Bible.”
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In this sermon, the preacher emphasizes the urgency of spreading the word of God and saving lost souls. He encourages the congregation to take action and reach out to their lost family members, friends, and neighbors. The preacher also highlights the significance of Jesus' sacrifice and his imminent return. He reminds the audience that even though Christians are forgiven, they will still face judgment for their actions. The sermon references various Bible verses, including Acts 1:10, Philippians 3:22-23, and Titus, to support the message of watching and waiting for Jesus' return.
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The greatest thing that ever happened in the universe when God gave his son to come to earth and die for sinners That's wonderful But it's not over. He's coming back Jesus is coming as in Jesus. I've turned the first Chapter one now read two or three verses and I'm speak on what will happen when she comes What will happen when Jesus was in Acts chapter 1 and verse 10 he just gave the Great Commission and While they look steadfastly toward heaven as a whole two men stood both of them in white apparel Which also said you men of Galilee what then she gazing up into heaven this same? Note that not some accident not a war not the rise of comet Not the National Council of Churches No, Jesus this same Jesus The one you saw and ate with and put your hands on and talk to for 40 days That same Jesus who ate before you that same Jesus that's almost put your fingers in my nails Put your hand aside That same Jesus is coming back this same Jesus Which is taken up from the end but still so common like manner as you've seen go into heaven and they return gruesome and started out carrying out the great Jesus is coming again this same. Yes. I mean Jesus for the physical body. I'm being Jesus of the scars mean the Lord Jesus who loved his own and At the last supper stopped and watched that his feet for I loved them still As he is coming back Salvation still love sinners. He still means love kindness and mercy But for all of us who to them he's saying praise the Lord great things Jesus is coming again. I won't about things that happen when Jesus comes now I want to be so you won't understand now be very explicit. I'll be very detailed in the preaching of it I don't want to be like a woman of men He complained to his pastor then my wife she just talks and talks and talks at home Yeah, she talks all the time and Who said what you talk about? He said she ain't never And so Some maybe might not understand. I pray God will make it understand what will happen when Jesus comes. You'll understand I'm talking about the first phase of coming There are good many aspects and good many details about his return First is coming to receive his own Resurrection and dead and live and change to meet him Corbin there to meet the Lord and a way feast in heaven and said receive the Christ at one But then down on the earth great Nation and Jesus then is coming back to fight the Armageddon and break down all the governments of the world And instead of his kingdom we gather all the Jews in the world and without the rebels and then this one Jerusalem be Re-established in Palestine Will have unconverted Jews going over the honor What didn't belong to them by murder? Take other people's property and so on and them still unsaved godless Christ rejecting that's not the restoration that was talking about the restoration of Israel It will happen, but that's a part of the second thing in turn But remember that serious event will take more than seven years Talking today about the first things that from the main as a first phase of return to the earth. He's come again No, don't happen. Jesus come when he comes in first of all, it'd be a glad surprise He's coming He's coming literally. He's coming for us He's the common the clouds of heaven suddenly. That's why clever Has not been his time support. So, you know what is coming? And the nourish I think not the Son of Man come but Jesus it'll be a surprise a glad surprise But it's just an hour to think not I read you Matthew chapter 24 verse Verse 36 the Lord speak this he says And I learned Verses but of that day and hour of the whole matter of the second coming of that day And I don't know if no man the angels of heaven, but my father only You mean the angels don't know it? No, they don't. Oh you sound a good deal smarter than he chose Prove it. No, I doubt it and In March chapter 3rd, he says a similar thing verse 32 He said but of that day and hour knoweth no man not the angels which are in heaven neither the Son But the Father when Jesus was on earth He had given up many of the outward elements of being he's still God But there's something he gave up so that as a child you said you learned obedience And he grew in the man's stature and faith with God man Jesus did not know when he's here on earth. He had the clouded from his mind the time of a second He knows now no doubt. He didn't know that we said, but I don't know more about than he said No, you don't know. Nobody knows But of that day and hour north and when I read here in Mark 13 and the scripture said I Take heed and pray for you know not from the time is you ever Christian in those days was supposed to watch for the current Yes, and ever Christian in these days to Bible Christianity means watching these to come I read on with a son of man There's a man taking a chair for our journey Who left it wasn't gave authority to servants so that every man is work and the commander Porter to watch watch You know not when the master of the house you mean all the Apostles Supposed to watch every day and expect Caesar Yeah, yeah, and you are too. That's right Now if you have some fine and they're all theory at all I can read so on I read the newspaper So I know where Jesus is coming. Oh, you didn't your command to watch We're Christian or to what stated Jesus might have come in the lifetime of the Apostles is that right row pastor He said before it might have come then I read What's there for you know? Master the house cometh even at midnight or calling or in the morning. That's coming. Suddenly. He finds you sleeping What I'm saying to you is it or what even God so Jesus says us also were to watch first coming. That's right That's right now Is a big surprise for you Don't know when and there's no way to tell when and there are no signs of the thing into the age No matter what some smart That's false Harrison. No, sir The Bible plan is watch and what I'll say to you say all once you know not the day to there I turned to Matthew chapter 25 Of the 10 virgins and verse 13 says what's there for we don't need the day There are fairness on a man coming in the chapter of Acts verse 6 That stops that Lord will at this time restore again the king to Israel They're not talking about the rapture, but the later part of the second phase was coming I said King and he answered them to say this not to know the times or seasons with the father kept on power But she should see power after the ghost has given unto you and so on they say oh We just don't on the second coming was he put that go to doting on soul winning It's not funeral the times or seasons. You're not supposed to know. Are you smarter? You won't know what God has deliberately hidden, don't you? You'd like to prove. Oh, you're such a smart Bible teacher. No, no a man Watch what I say to you say go Of that day in our North Romani said all right And then let's see here's an interesting thing in Bible times the Christians were taught to look for Jesus come any day You mean I was regular at first Thessalonians after one and verse 9 10 But they'll show us what manner of entering and who had unto you how you turn from I from God to go from idols to serve The living and true God and to wait for his son from heaven Raise some of that even Jesus was delivered us from wrath What were the Thessalonians doing they were to wait for his son from heaven? You mean that was a regular business all of their watching just like the Bible said in Philippians chapter 3 and in verses 20 21 our Conversation is in heaven. That's also we look for the Savior the Lord Jesus Who shall change our vile bodies may be fashioned like unto his glorious body. What are you doing here Philippi? You're looking for his son from him What are they doing didn't what you said do they're watching they're watching All that comes over in the book of Titus, and he said look at teaching us that denying ungodly us less and Worldly lusts we should soberly righteous and godly in this present world Looking for that blessed hope and the glorious appearing of a great God our Savior Jesus Christ. Oh So they were expecting Jesus come daily. They said well, they're mistaken No, nothing is like what Jesus said once you may come at any moment You may come so as he is from the glad surprise. I Paul expect Christ to come in his lifetime You read a little ago for a said for that's in chapter 4 Lord him shall descend with a shout the voice of the archangel and the dead in Christ arise that's one crowd and Alive and remain Peter said Paul said that's my crowd Yeah, he said we'll be close to meet them He pulled expect to be alive when Jesus comes. He's expected in the lifetime of Paul. Yes, Paul said he said what? So I'm watching every day in 1st Corinthians chapter 15 verse 15 51 The scripture said we shall not all sleep, but we shall all be changed in a moment and we shall all In a moment of freckle without the last trump for the trumpets will sound that there's your right brain didn't corrupt the book and we Should be changed Hope that I won't be with the dead. I'll be a living. I hope Will be changed. You mean Paul expected alive when he said yes, sir So everybody here on the screen used to come every day and if it does come praise the Lord In the morning the sunrise you said maybe today Jordan at night He's coming and you're expecting it Glad surprise and Jesus come and I get that settled the one thing she said the most about his second coming is I'll let they are north. Oh, man, you don't know So look for it. What did you send all watch? What else comes what'll happen when Jesus comes and be a great? Resurrection a great resurrection the dead she arrives. I'll be wonderful Once I was in a revival meeting McComb, Mississippi. I'll go back to weaken. He'll know I one day Mrs. Ross was my secretary and these two women got a little contest on Let's count up and see now which can Which can reach the greatest number of five horses or cattle animals my side or your side? So they can't kept account But they had a rule Every time they passed the cemetery that I'm everything else had to start over And they never did get very high. We kept passing cemeteries About what says about people back in the old days were so-and-so little so-and-so we got so-and-so and he died And what and he died and the next time he lived so long we got so-and-so and he died and I Know that comes You better get acquainted with it all of us had I said the miserable the other day God's been good to our family. I'm 84 Well, I'm a little older than she is 11 days and I said her the other day Till your brothers are gone Three I'm gone one's left way up in 80s one's left And My brother Jesse and George and Joe And dr. Bill are gone And true and Jimmy And one sister remains and I said won't be long till our crowd together came out We should better look for death coming. It's the point when the man wants to die, the scripture said. Alright, death everywhere, cemeteries everywhere. I have prayed that as a preacher God would give me some way to comfort people. I've stood by so many open graves. I've stood by so many dead. I've tried to comfort so many over husband or wife gone or baby gone. Well, listen, one of these days, thank God, there'll be a resurrection. There'll be no more sad buryings. There'll be goodbyes to loved ones like that. A resurrection. Wouldn't that be good? My mother died before I was six. And she was all ready to go. She said, I can see Jesus in my baby now. And she had my cousin sing, How firm a foundation ye saints to the Lord is left for your faith. And your name is excellent faith and so on. And then I remember a little bit about the cemetery. This is strange. I remember that deathbed scene when my mother's hands fell to her breast and she was gone. And I was a little boy, hardly six years old. And the next scene I can remember is out in the cemetery. And there's a big hole in the ground. And they lift the casket down in that. And my father knelt on one side. One of them run, two little boys. I was one of them. One of them run, two little girls left orphans. And it began to sprinkle rain. The kindly woman brought an umbrella and held it over his head. Goodbye, mother. And I've missed her through these years. And sometime Mother's Day, I always ran for Mother's Day. And yet, someway, I always wanted to get home by myself. I'd wear a white flower. I didn't want to be around other people. I missed my mother. Now, years ago, I stood down in Cook County, Texas, that little sandy land cemetery by the grave of my mother. And I said, Mama, one of these days, something will sound. And then Christ will rise. We'll be changed. I'll be able to meet you again, Mother. I don't know if we're going to have a resurrection day. My father had a stroke. And then he learned to walk a little better. Finally got a free driver's car and slipped off from Decatur, Texas, and drove up to Duke, Oklahoma, where I was in a revival campaign. One poor man had enough family to Christ in two days. And he came in sick and died soon. And we buried him. We took him to Decatur and we sang, We'll say goodnight here and good morning up there. And I know my father's grave, one of these days, it'll come open. And I'll see Dad again. Strange thing about Dad. Now, we raised fine horses in West Texas. And oh, lots of riding. And so sometimes Dad and I would ride together. And maybe he'd start a song and I'd sing tenor. Or maybe I'd start a song and he'd sing tenor. I was going to have a horse in there. Yeah, geez, we'll ride a white horse and it comes back. And I expect I'll have a better horse than my car. I'm a Tennessee walker. But Dad and I may ride around heaven and sing together again. It'll be a great resurrection. Great resurrection. I was down at the funeral of Dr. Bob Jones, Sr. And at a place there on the campus of the university, they'd made a nice, in the midst of a great loon, a nice island that had the wedding, the burial, and so on. I was with Dr. Bob. I was there in November. One of the last November, he died in January. He didn't know everybody, but he knew me. And he used to always get together with me in the services. He'd say, Brother, tell them, won't you sing that amazing grace? Sing it with that old-time way, he said. And I'd sing for him. So there in his bedroom, the deathbed, we sang together, he and I. And they had a prayer together. I said, Dr. Bob, you, let's see, last month, October 12th, you were 84 years old, he said, yes. I said, you're getting about old enough to vote, aren't you? He said, yes, and about old enough to get married, he said. Well, Dr. Bob's buried away. That grave will break open one day. All the pretty ornaments and what not, a resurrection day is coming. A resurrection, that means a loved one will rise again. A resurrection, that means our loved ones are gone. We'll not prevent them. We'll not go ahead of them. They'll be back here, caught up together. That'll be a good one. Caught up to meet Him together, together. Caught up with Jesus and never depart. Changed in a moment to be with my Savior. Caught up with Jesus and never depart. And then, it's going to be a great big grand reunion that time. I like reunions at our house. We have one twice a year in the summer if we can, the kids all get there. And at Christmas time, that's Christmas, Mrs. Rice said. I don't know what I'm going to do. We're going to have 55 people. I've only got beds for 52. But there are some more. Dr. Roger Martin, who teaches in Tennessee Temple. Of course, she's married to Joy and they have the six boys and so on. But Mr. Martin's father lives on my place and keeps it for me. And so they're there. And Mrs. Perry Shepherd's got a house there. And so Holiday Inn gives her a room. She goes down to the room and a couple of families, they go over to her house. And somebody sleeps in the woodworking shop. And somebody sleeps on the couch. And they fill all the bedrooms and so on. We had 55 there in a lot of time we had. And we testified and sang Christmas carols and praised the Lord. And loved one another a lot. I'm glad for reunions. It would be good to have a reunion one of these days. I want to say to Dr. Bill, my brother and him, we're very close. I greatly admired him, loved him. He's gone. I've seen many others. My, you know, I get a little old. You know the great men of God I've known with whom I've worked and whom I love. Dr. Ironside, Dr. W.B. Riley, Harry Rimmer, Dr. Walter Wilson. I was in his home a little before he died. Oh, my. Boy, I'm going to have a little handshake in time. I see Dr. Walter Wilson. I know what he'll say. I know what he always said. He puts his arms around my shoulder and he'd say, You didn't sleep well. That's what he always said. Hashtag. Oh, good times. I've seen a loved one again then, you know. My, I told you about those some 22,000 that will stay through my printed sermons. Boy, won't I have a time shaking hands and hugging people? Yes, sir. Praise the Lord. I had a revival meeting in Englewood, Colorado. And amongst the revival, the Harry Vanier Backhander, Harb Springer had many people saved. I remember one man went and left. He came to the front and hugged my neck. And yet I broke my neck, just held on to him, held on to him and said, You kept me out of hell. You kept me out of hell. Well, all right. I'm going to be glad to reunion a lot of people I've missed a long time. I'll see them again then. That'll be good, won't it? Yes, sir. I went to a revival campaign in Texas. And we built a big tabernacle and started a new church. And a dear man who'd wanted me to come and wanted to go to the fundamental Baptist church there so much, said Bridgeport, Texas. And one day he was taken sick. And I got down to the tabernacle that night. And they said, So-and-so's calling for you. He's sick. And when the meeting was over, and every now and then he'd ask you in the service, Has the meeting broke up yet? Has Brother Hines come? No. And the service closed, a wonderful service. And they said, Too late now. He's unconscious. Too late now. But I went on down to the home. Stood in his bed. I took up his limp hand and mine. And I said, Hello, Brother. Look this way. He looked at me and he said, I knew you'd come and sit. He said, Must be all right. Everything all right. I trusted Jesus a long time ago. And he closed his eyes and he was gone. We're going to have a good time. Wait until Sunday's days. Praise the Lord. Yes, sir. That's the way Christians, you've got something to look forward to, haven't you? A Christian dead, we'll meet them again. Grand reunion time. That'll be good, won't it? Praise the Lord. I think of people that went out of their way to have me for a Bible. And who suffered for me and worked for me and with me to get out the gospel. Praise the Lord. A grand reunion. Well, let's see then what else we're going to have. When Jesus comes, we'll have a great resurrection. We'll have a grand reunion. We'll have a grievous separation. A great sad separation. And the Scripture says in Luke chapter 17, He said two men will be working in the field. One will be taken and the other left. He said two people sleeping in one bed. One taken and the other left. At that time it says two women grinding in the mills. Early morning, getting a meal ground to bake the bread for the day. And one will be taken and the other left. Two sleeping in bed. Some place on earth it'll be night when Jesus comes. One taken and the other left. Some place on earth it'll be midday when Jesus comes. And two men working in the field. One taken and the other left. Separation. Just get ready for separation. If you're not saved, you're going to sure lose out. All those who are saved. You know that. And if you're saved and loved ones are not, you're going to say goodbye for the last time. When it's too late to do any good. You know that. A grievous separation. That time. I remember years ago. I went off to Cater College. I had a burden for my county, Archer County, Texas. That rough, wild, cowboy country. I had a burden for it. My church was a little half-time church where I attended. And I preached with him. Preached twice a month. But I had a burden for revival. And I wrote to the old Baptist deacon, Brother Williams. And I said, Brother Williams, you see some of the brethren over in the county. And let's have a county-wide revival campaign, will you? I figured we must have. So I got ready. And he walked back and said, we've arranged for revival at the old settlers reunion around Holiday, Texas, a certain time. And we went. It was back in summer. I went to that revival. Oh, we could have went in a covered wagon and camped up there and drank. Many people did. Every day we'd spread out some meals and eat together. And we'd go to service in the morning, service in the afternoon, service at night. I remember what a good time I had. One day the preacher, a dear good man, he preached on the second coming of Christ. And he said, some will be taken, some will be left. And he said, let's illustrate it here, that great platform and that outdoor auditorium seated hundreds on hundreds. Here's a platform to take care of 300, I guess. And he said, let's just illustrate it here. He said, everybody here, let's imagine Jesus coming right now. And everybody say, come on, get on the platform, because when I say people here, they're going to be separated and the others are going to be left. And so we crowded up here to get on the platform. And close by me, there's a man and a woman. And he started up the platform and came back and said, well, he said, honey, you must go. I don't go without you. Well, she said, but he said, just Christians on the platform and I'm not a Christian. Well, he said, I don't want to go without you. And she said, I can't go. He said, just Christians. And this sounds funny now. She weighed, I guess, 200. He probably weighed 135. He tried to pick her up and carry her to the platform. And he couldn't do that. And she said, and I don't have a right to go. I'm not a Christian. And I remember from the platform, a good preacher said, well, all right, why don't you stay right now? Just Jesus is my Savior and I can come to the crowd then. Oh, she said, I will. And she came with her husband there. I was never so impressed. Oh, what a separation. Oh, Jesus. And the moment comes and you say goodbye forever to those about you. What a grave of separation then. Believe me. I was a pastor in Dallas, Texas, for Australia Galilean Baptist Church. And a dear old man, I drove him once. He owned a Model T. Still left in Dallas, I guess. And Dad Hickman, he had cancer of the liver. They sent him for me one night. At one o'clock I went to his home. He was dying of this cancer of the liver. And he said to me, well, the pastor said, I've had such a burden from my boys. I'm going to have to leave them on your hands. I'm going away. Oh, what a burden. Something down on me. And I thought, oh, God, how I got to get those boys saved. But Mrs. Hickman, she didn't wait. She went after one of the boys. She said, Bill, your dad wants to see you. And he came down to his dad's bed and put his face on the pillow of his dad's. And Mrs. Hickman said, Bill, she said, I want you to ask me a question. Are you going to meet me in heaven or not? He said, I have no time to argue about it. You wouldn't lie to your dad on his death bed, would you? You've got to tell me. And Bill sobbed and sobbed. He said, yes, come on, Bill. You've got to tell me you're going to meet me in heaven or not. You can't lie to your dad on his death bed, would you say? And Bill said, yes, I will, dad. Yes, I will. And I took the Bible, showed him how to be saved. And well, that boy, he got another son and brought him. And he knelt down on his bed and he got up and settled. And that Hickman saying, this is my last chance. I'll tell you goodbye forever if you don't get this settled now. And they did. And then came older son, John Hickman, his wife. And they were already saved. And then Hickman said, John, you and your wife have been fussing some habits in court. You haven't thought about divorce. Yes. He said, you'll have to cut that out. I'm leaving. You're going to have to tell me to get us settled. You'll love each other and be happy. All right. He said, I'm going home. He said, you know, you've got a boy that's up there. Your son wants to tell him. And the wife said, yes, he's 16 years old now. And you tell him we love him and miss him so much and we're going to meet him. All right. Dad said, Hickman said, I sure will. Someone said to Ms. Hickman, won't you let the old man die and please you? Oh, she said, he's doing the best job I ever did in his life. And of course, you're getting ready for a separation. It'll be forever if you're not saved. You know that? Separation interferes and separation is cemetery. Our son is a cemetery and your daughter is a grave. A great gravestone and it says Jones. On this side, Mary Jones. On this side, Bill Jones. There's a husband and wife buried side by side. She's a Christian. He's not. With a great eruption, a Christian body will come out. She's the glorified. And that man will be left there in the dust for another thousand years. But, of course, separation is cemetery too. You know? One taken, another left. You're going to have a lot of goodbyes, aren't we? All right. And so, grievous separation she's saved and lost. One more word. What'll happen when Jesus comes? There'll be a grave accounting. And first of all, in chapter 3, Paul says, I came to Corinth. I had to write a quick revival. I laid the foundation, he said, of the foundation from whom I am laid, that is laid is Jesus Christ. But he said, take heed how you build on that foundation after God saved you. Whether you build wood, hay, stubble, that kind of stuff will burn. Or gold, silver, precious stones, that won't. He said, take heed how you build on that foundation for the power will thrive on man's work of what sort it is. And if a man's work be burned up, he'll suffer loss. But if man's work survive, he'll receive reward. Oh, we're counting. In 2 Corinthians chapter 5, Paul says, you know, I labor, so I give up my little home and family and everything. You know, Paul said, he said, oh, he said, when I see Jesus, I want him to be pleased with me. He said, for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ to receive the things done in the body, whether they be good or whether they be evil. Judgment time for Christians, yes. Well, he said, Brother Royce, I thought Christians already, Jesus died for you, and sin is all forgiven. Yes, all forgiven, but the results of the sin still go on from time to time. Let me tell you a story. I used to go every year to the Evansville rescue mission with Patrick Reveal. I went there 17 years. There used to be a man there at the rescue mission. Oh, he was a wicked old sinner, means the devil, and he got saved. Oh, at first, he wouldn't pay anything. He'd come down for a cup of coffee, but he wouldn't talk to him about the Lord. But one day, he got saved. His name, they called him Old Bill. I don't know his other name. I've heard it, but I've forgotten it. I don't even think of it. But he said, now listen, he got quit calling me Old Bill. I'm not Old Bill anymore. I'm New Bill. And so, they dressed him up, and he went around the church to tell what was going on at the rescue mission. He says, New Bill, I don't know his other name. I know one thing about him. When he was Old Bill, a lost runner, he and his buddy got a bottle of whiskey one time on the creek for days of drinking and so on. And he got in a fist fight, and his buddy knocked his eye out. So Old Bill had just one eye. That's where sin does, you know. Then when he got saved, there's New Bill. Now, let me ask you this. How many eyes did New Bill have? Old Bill just had one. What do you think? Huh? Yeah, he just had one eye. He had one eye. You see, a past is forgiven, but there are certain things where you receive the things done in the body, whether they be good or bad. When you go to heaven, if you let your family go to hell, they're still going to hell, aren't they? Oh, you say, I'm so sorry. Yeah, I know, that's part of it, but they don't change the fact. You see that? You have an opportunity to go by, you'll never have it again. Some of these things we're going to receive at a judgment seat of Christ for Christians, then, oh my. The Bible says God's going to wipe away all tears, then. I guess one of the reasons we'll have tears are where our sins and failures were lost from then. But if you're going to do anything for God, you better do it now, hadn't you? So little time, the harvest will be over. Our reaping done, we reap One, two, here, others, you know somebody going to save you? Dear Lord, help people that trust in Him be saved, we pray in Jesus' name. Amen. You've been listening to an important Bible message made available through the ministry of soul-winning evangelist, Ron Zywotko. If you're interested in other Bible messages like this one, messages for Christians, for husbands and wives, children, and messages for the family, write to evangelist Ron Zywotko and request his tape order sheet and information sheet. You may write to evangelist Zywotko at post office box 1099 Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The zip code is 37130. That address again, write your letter to evangelist Ron Zywotko. Zywotko is spelled capital Z-Y-W-O-T-K-O. Zywotko, Ron Zywotko, post office box 1099 Murfreesboro, Tennessee. The zip code is 37130. If you're ordering a tape by name, please enclose four dollars and request the tape you want by the title of the message. Thank you and God bless you. I remember strangely a little scene up the cemetery. I remember that hole in the ground. They didn't put any peat grass up there a couple of times in that little country cemetery. I remember there being a little shower of rain, and my father knelt down by that open grave in one arm around two little orphans, one arm around two little orphaned girls, and a kindly woman came and held a black umbrella over his head, I remember. He said goodbye to Mama. Oh, I'll see my mother again. I went to that, I was sent to that cemetery up in Cook County one time, and I stood there, and I said, Mother, I'll see you again. Won't be long, but I'll see you again. I remember the herd. She wasn't in that grave. I remember the herd. Little boy in the field, why do you weep? For your mother is now up in heaven On that bright golden shore, her Lord will see Can't you hear your mother say? I'll see you again, I'll see you again I'll see you in glory some day For now it's goodbye, don't sorrow or sigh I'll see you in glory some day Man of God on the hill, why stand he there? For your Lord has ascended to heaven You must go to the world, His word you can Can't you hear your mother say? I'll see you again, I'll see you again I'll see you in glory some day For now it's goodbye, don't sorrow or sigh I'll see you in glory some day Oh my friend, do you have one hope for you? Who have taken their journey to heaven They are safe with the Lord, God's word is true Can't you hear your loved one say? I'll see you again, I'll see you again I'll see you in glory some day Don't sorrow or sigh, I'll see you in glory some day I'll see Dr. Jones, oh how many I'll see Dr. Walter Wilson, and I'll see Dr. Riley and Harry Rimmer And my, how many, how many others I'll see you again I went to that, that's at the Atlanta Cemetery up in Cook County one time And I stood there, and I said, Mother, I'll see you again Oh, I'll see you again I'll see you again, I'll see you again I'll see you in glory some day For now it's goodbye, don't sorrow or sigh I'll see you in glory some day I'll see you in glory some day
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John R. Rice (1895–1980). Born on December 11, 1895, in Cooke County, Texas, John R. Rice was an American fundamentalist Baptist evangelist, pastor, and publisher. Raised in a devout family, he earned degrees from Decatur Baptist College and Baylor University, later studying at Southwestern Baptist Theological Seminary and the University of Chicago. Converted at 12, he began preaching in 1920, pastoring churches in Dallas and Fort Worth, including First Baptist Church of Dallas as interim pastor. In 1934, he founded The Sword of the Lord, a biweekly periodical promoting revival and soul-winning, which grew into a publishing house with his books like Prayer: Asking and Receiving and The Home: Courtship, Marriage and Children. Known for his fiery evangelistic campaigns, he preached to thousands across the U.S., emphasizing personal salvation and biblical inerrancy. Rice mentored figures like Jack Hyles and Curtis Hutson but faced criticism for his strict fundamentalism. Married to Lloys Cooke in 1921, he had six daughters and died on December 29, 1980, in Murfreesboro, Tennessee. He said, “The only way to have a revival is to get back to the Book—the Bible.”