Bob Holmes: I want to speak to you on a very unusual message today, and I believe it with all of my heart. Turn to Hebrews eleven, and I want to show you something that is absolutely encouraging beyond words. In a moment—for the sound man—I’m going to be showing, not quite yet, the picture of the truck. And that’s ready to go. So in Hebrews eleven one, look what this says.

How many are glad the Bible is still the answer for us, no matter what anybody says, thank God for His word. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. This pulpit has substance. We know it’s here because it has substance, and even though we don’t see what we have faith for, we can treat it as though it was already here. Substance.

Wow. For by it the elders obtained a good report through faith, we understand that the worlds were framed by the Word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which do appear. Now let’s stop there for just a minute. The God of creation made a whole world out of nothing. He just spoke and the world came into existence.

What a powerful God he is. All he had to do is just speak. Mountains. Rivers, lakes. All the creatures in the ocean.

I mean, just unbelievable. And through faith, we understand that God did not do an invention. He did a creation. Now man has invented—excuse me—some amazing things. Which is God giving man the brain to take dirt and make something.

We can send pictures and talks all across the whole world. But you know what? Man is nothing compared to God. How many are glad God creates and man can only invent. So this is an invention where man made something out of something.

But my God made a whole world out of nothing. And that when we think about that, that’s why I want to speak to you on God can do anything, anywhere, at any time. And what a God we serve. Verse four, he begins to tell us how, by faith Abel offered unto God a more excellent sacrifice than Cain, by which he obtained witness that he was righteous, God testifying of his gifts, and by it he being dead yet speaketh. By faith Enoch was translated that he should not see death, and was not found because God had translated him.

For before his translation he had this testimony that he pleased God. And then he sums it up in six, which is so powerful, but without faith it is impossible now. Say that word loud, everybody. Impossible to please him. For he that cometh to God must believe that he is, and that he is a rewarder of them who diligently seek him.

Look around. See his creation. You made that out of nothing. I mean, just Google all the creatures in the ocean and look out your window and say, wow, God made that out of nothing. And God, I can have faith in you because you are a creator.

And isn’t it interesting? When we get saved, we’re a new creation. God, the creator, is living in us. Amazing. Thou, even thou art Lord alone.

Thou hast made heaven and the heaven of heavens with all their hosts, the earth, and all the things that are therein the seas. And thou preserveth them, and the host of heaven worship thee. They just look up, go out, look out the window and go out of your house at night and look up and say, amazing. Don’t ever lose sight of God and how powerful he is. The sea is his and he made it and his hands formed the dry land.

O come, let us worship and bow down and kneel before the Lord our maker. And I go on all these airplanes. I’ve never seen two people look alike. I mean, we all have different fingerprints. We all look different.

How many believe God is a God of variety? I mean, just just amazing. Having been in front of millions of people and not one of them looks like the next guy. God is an amazing creator. Hast thou not known and heard that the everlasting God, the Lord, the creator of the ends of the earth, fainteth not, neither is weary.

There is no searching of understanding. I have made the earth. Isaiah forty five twelve and created man upon it. I even my hands have stretched out the heavens and all their host have I commanded. And the Lord said in Jeremiah thirty two.

We won’t turn to it. Behold, thou hast made the heaven and the earth by thy great power and outstretched arm. Listen to this now there’s nothing too hard for thee. Now, if God can do something far better than this crazy thing. Most computers the size of the Empire State Building did not do what this does now, thirty years ago.

Well, man? No—God. God is the One who ought to be worshiped. God is the one who can say, I’m just going to speak, and I’m going to bring a whole world of amazement into existence. So I’d like to announce that God, the creator, can do anything, anytime, anywhere.

And in Hebrews eleven, we see that so many ways that God can do anything. Say, “Anything, anytime, anywhere.” And so let’s look at this. Jesus said, with men this is impossible. Why? You’re just an inventor.

You’ve taken the brain God gave you to make all the things you’ve made. But listen to this: You are a God who is infinite. And I’m only finite. And in Psalm one forty seven, great is the Lord, and of great power his understanding is infinite. Psalm one forty seven five.

So God is not confined by earthly limits. Now I’m thinking about this as I was driving down the road, and I’ll I’ll alert you here on the first picture. And I was driving down the road thinking about how God can do anything, anywhere, any time. Now, you may find this hard to believe. Like I found it hard to believe.

But God was putting these thoughts into my mind, and I was away from thinking of the traffic around me and everything. I was just thinking about that thought. And I looked up and guess what was in front of me? Let’s show the truck. God has different ways of speaking.

So I knew some folks were going through something, and I called five people in five different trips, and I was encouraging them. And I said, do you believe God can do anything, anytime, anywhere for what you’re going through? He said, yes. I said, let me send you a photograph. I sent him that as a picture on the text in all five cases, in five different places.

When I was encouraging somebody, I said, God can do anything, anywhere, anytime. And all five cases, the truck was in front of me all five times. Isn’t that amazing? You say, how could that happen? I have a God who encourages, convicts and helps us when we’re going through things.

And how many believe these things are true? So let’s look at it. By faith in the Bible they went; by faith they built; by faith they did this. David killed Goliath and ran toward the giant because he had faith. Faith runs toward Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego.

They stepped by faith into the fiery furnace, and then God shows up. Right? The devil wants to paralyze us by robbing us of faith. Now, you’ve been through a lot of things here, and I just want you to remember the truck. Let’s all walk outside and see a truck going by right now in front of the church.

But God can do it. God can do things. Now you worry. And when we worry, we’re an atheist. While we’re worrying how many would agree, we should never worry.

Raise your hands real high. Now, I’m preaching to me. It’s tempting to worry, right? During years of blissful ignorance, I ate bacon and eggs without fear. Now I can’t even look at an egg without thinking.

You killer! You’re going to clot and poison me. Then I just began cutting back on cholesterol, and I read certain kinds of cholesterol. Well, good for me. So I tried eating a little oat bran muffins, fruit fiber cereals.

And I’m told they’re not all they’ve been hyped up to be because sugar is now a killer and they have sugar in them. And so we are advised to use substitutes, but we’re informed they cause cancer in rats. Now it seems like antacids contain aluminum and are considered the cause of Alzheimer’s. Beef has a cancer causing hormone additive. Chicken contains salmonella poisoning.

Fish has iodine, and apples are dangerous because of the cancer causing spray. The man read that article and he looked and he said, I am now afraid to open my refrigerator. I got good advice. Bless the food and eat. Right.

And say to yourself. God can take. Now, I don’t mean be foolish and eat a lot of bad stuff. But what I’m saying is, God is able to work in all these things. And so the devil wants to paralyze us.

He controls the earth. He created it. He spoke it into existence. Don’t you think he can control it after speaking it into existence? And so God can do these things.

God works by faith. They pass through the Red sea as dry land. Look at verse twenty nine of Hebrews eleven with me. And we’re going to show this so clearly that he can do stuff anywhere. Now we see how powerful he is as a creator so he can do anything, but he can.

This powerful creator can do anything, anywhere he wants to do it. And so look at what happened in verse twenty nine. By faith they passed through the Red sea as by dry land which the Egyptians assaying to do were drowned. Wow. A wall of water marching through to the other side.

And then God drowned the enemy. You say, wow, is this powerful or what? God can do things in the sea anywhere he wants to. He says, I want to show my power so that man won’t trust in his stupid idols. But he’ll look to me as the one who has all the answers.

And how many believe? Though it’s twenty twenty five, God still has all the answers. You see, more kids are now killing themselves in one year than died of Covid in the whole world. I say we need to get the gospel. We need to get the foundation back out there.

Thank you for that beautiful music. I remember I had my furnace cleaned and had a crack down the side of it, and they they cleaned it and then they condemned it and they said, you cannot use your furnace. I said, I’ll never have my furnace cleaned ever again. And he said, you have to replace this for ten thousand dollars. I said, well, Lord, you can provide and help me through this.

And I was praying at the time for three cameras to film the volleyball game, because a lot of times it was jumpy and I was praying, Dear God, provide a way that I could have three cameras somewhere where they would film it clearly. And then I was also praying because I heard a man say on television, I don’t preach on hell or judgment. And he has sixty thousand in his church. And I thought the Bible is full of verses on judgment and hell. Right?

And so I began to pray, God make a way where I could preach on TV on the love of God and hell. And little did I ever dream how God would answer the prayer. And please, Lord, provide the ten thousand. I got a call from a man from from Texas. He said, Bob, are you anywhere near Carrollton, Texas?

I said, I’ll have to check my calendar because most time I don’t know where I’m at now. So I’m glad to be in Florida today. Just really glad to tell you. So I looked down. I was five minutes from Carrollton, Texas, my first meeting.

He said, I’m going to book you. I said, wonderful. On a short notice like this, I got there, walked in the gym. Three cameras are ready to film. He said, do you mind if we film this?

I said, not at all. Go for it. And he filmed it. And after it was over, he gave me the footage. That night that TV producer had told me in the morning.

Our movie star cancelled. And we want to film what you’re doing today. So he handed me the footage. My first answer to prayer. Then in the evening, I preached a gospel message on hell and the love of God.

And the producer said, this isn’t the feel good gospel. This is the truth. Can we air this on TV? I said, no problem. The second answer to prayer.

And then he handed me a check for ten thousand dollars and paid the furnace. How many believe God can do anything, anywhere? And he handed me that check and I asked him, are you an angel? And he did not answer me. Then he disappeared into—no, no, no, that’s not true.

But God can do anything anywhere. I mean, he wants to get his gospel out there. And because of what he did on the cross for us. How I just I still my my handkerchief is is already wet right now. I mean, I was just so moved by what he did for me that I just want to walk more by faith, and I want to trust God to keep doing things.

And how many believe we serve a God who can do anything, anything, anywhere by faith? Look at verse seventeen of Hebrews eleven. Let’s see this more about how he can do things anywhere. By faith. Abraham, when he was tried, offered up Isaac.

You promised me a son. You promised me a seed he had. And look what it says. He that had received the promises offered up his only begotten son. Sound familiar?

After hearing this music of whom it was said that in Isaac shall thy seed be called accounting, that God was able to raise him up even from the dead from whence he received him in a figure. Picture the resurrection here. And my question is if God can reverse death, he can reverse any hopeless things that look hopeless, that we just don’t know where we’re going to get the next answer. The answer is the Lord. The answer is God.

The answer isn’t my trying to connive and figure it out. And so at Mount Moriah, we saw God work because He can work anywhere, right? No location limits Him at all. In a foreign place. Look at verse twenty four.

Moses left Pharaoh’s palace and led God’s people out of Egypt. Hebrews eleven twenty four. By faith, Moses, when he was come to the years, refused to be called the son of Pharaoh’s daughter, choosing rather to suffer affliction with the people of God than to enjoy the pleasures of sin for a season esteeming the reproach of Christ greater riches than the treasures in Egypt. For he had respect unto the recompense of the reward. By faith he forsook Egypt, not fearing the wrath of the king, for he endured as seeing him who is invisible.

You say, how could he do this? How could he choose to suffer affliction and die to the treasures of Egypt? He had his eyes on the one who can do anything, anywhere. You know the grace of our Lord Jesus, that though he was rich, yet for your sake he became poor, that you through his poverty might be rich. How many believe we ought to forsake some things in this world so we can reach more people?

God help us to do this. And so we see how we can do things anywhere. A man’s heart devises his way, but the Lord directs his steps. You say, yeah, but you don’t know where I’m heading right now. God can go there.

God can go there before I get there. I’m the sheep and I’m following the shepherd who goes everywhere I go before I get there. So I can trust the one who’s saying, follow me, follow me. I can do anything, anytime, anywhere. Follow me.

Don’t try to plan it out. Just let me take you and lead you by the word of God. How many are glad? This is how God leads us right here. How he leads us.

But God wants to direct us. For the eyes of the Lord are upon the ways of man. He seeth all his goings. So God can do things in a king’s palace. He can do things in a prison cell and release the doors.

He can do things in deserts or war zones. What a God! For the eyes of the Lord run to and fro throughout the whole earth, to show himself strong in the behalf of them whose heart is perfect toward him. Do you realize that God wants to use every one of you? And God wants to reveal himself through you in unusual ways, where God directs you.

And then you look back and say, there’s no explanation to this, but God, this could not have happened by anything I did. And then God gets the credit. And how many believe he deserves it? Now hang on to this. How about the belly of a fish?

I cried by reason of my affliction unto the Lord, and he heard me out of the belly of hell. Cried I, thou heardest my voice. And from the depths of the ocean Jonah found out God can do things anywhere. Wow! Can you believe this in your life?

Well, I took a look at my basement. I took a look at my hospital stay in the last five days. Five weeks, and almost died three times before coming here. Had an infection in the kidney that the doctor said was worse than any infection he’d ever seen. And all this stuff came out of my kidney that was probably there for about three to four months, and a large kidney stone.

Double pneumonia. What was the other five thousand things? My wife will tell you. I mean, it’s just unbelievable the different things that I that God allowed me to take time on my back, to look to him and to realize he can do things in a hospital. And, I mean, I was shaking and trembling at different times.

They said, your organs are shutting down. We don’t know why. And then the doctor went in and found out that there was a lot of double pneumonia and different things, sepsis going on in my bloodstream. And thank God it’s all out and on. Penicillin and different forms of antibiotic for four to five weeks now.

And here I am. And I was begging the Lord to make it possible not to miss some meetings. And I’m grateful to God. And he says, I was with you in that hospital room because you’ve always believed that I’ll do anything, anywhere. I’ll take care of you.

Though you’re shaking and trembling and the doctors are looking at. We don’t know why this is happening. I said, God, you do. And how many believe God does know everything? And I thank God he does.

And I cried by the reason of his affliction in the belly of a fish. God can also work any time now. I’m about to get excited. You see, I thought you already were. How many believe the Bible is exciting?

Amen. Amen. That’s why a man would stay thirty nine years in a church preaching from that same book. Because it works. How many believe it works?

So here’s what I want to show you. Anytime God can work, the Lord shall preserve thy going out and coming in from this time forth and forevermore. So encouraging God is with every step. When we go out. When we come in.

Brother Jim, where are you, brother Jim? Okay. There you are. You know, all these years of going in schools and doing things, you know what he believes that he doesn’t have another suggested idea. He has the way, the truth and the life.

And how many believe that’s still true? It is. And he’ll preserve our going out when we go to travel ministry challenges coming in when God chooses to have us on our back, looking at thirty blood tests, thirty eight, all MRIs, and I’ve never been tested so much in my life. But you know what? He says I’ll be with you every step of the way because I’m there in your time.

God’s care is present and future. He never is too early or too late. He’s with us when all human hope is gone. Sarah, past age, through faith—we don’t have to turn—but she received strength to conceive seed and was delivered of a child when she was past age, because she judged him faithful who had promised. Here it is.

Anytime. Yeah. This isn’t the right time for me to get pregnant. Look at my age. But God can do anything, anywhere, anytime.

God specializes in taking impossible things and making it unbelievably fruitful. Abraham’s faith models trust in God’s timing and power, even when. You look at it and you say, biologically, this makes no sense. But a baby came because God can do any time. Anytime.

I went to an airport called Chicago. How many of you have ever heard of that city? I was, at least I’m serious. At least, I had to get to my gate in fifteen minutes, and normally they shut the gate in fifteen minutes. So God was in this all the way, and I could not find the gate.

And I didn’t even know what gate, so I didn’t know where to go. And I was looking for a monitor, and not one monitor was in sight. Chicago’s confusing anyway, and there was no airport in sight. I mean, no monitor in sight. I’m at the right airport, but no.

No monitor in sight. And I’m trying to find the gate. And I’m going crazy like a chicken with my head cut off. And finally I started looking for somebody that was working at one of the gates so I could find out where to go. And way in the distance, I saw a worker working at a gate.

I ran. I mean, I ran to her. She thought she was famous. And I ran up to her and I said, ma’am, could you please help me? I need to know where my connection city is.

I’ve got to find it. The plane’s going to leave. Leave soon? She laughed and pointed behind her. I was at the gate.

God led anywhere, any time. Right at the time I needed him. Well, you see, I go down the highway and my GPS run, you know, doesn’t seem to work all the time like it did one time I was I was supposed to arrive at a home at two in the morning, got to the home, and, who were you? You know, it got me to the wrong place. But I’m glad when we go to God’s GPS, he always leads us to the right place.

Always in signal, always ready to say I’m with you. Imagine the day when we didn’t have GPS and how we had to go on a trip and stop five hundred times at five hundred gas stations to get directions on where to go next. My wife and I were recollecting that this week and we had to do this. Well, God says I’m your GPS. Trust my word.

Order my steps in thy word. Order it. God, you have a right to order me around with that Bible. God, if you can do anything, anywhere, any time, then I’ve got to look at that Bible and I’ve got to make sure that I’m following marching orders from heaven. All of us can do that.

Every one of you can have things like this happen, and many of you could stand up and say unbelievable stories of God’s direction. And I got to tell you one more. How many believe God takes our steering wheels in life? Now, my wife says, every time you drive, God has to take the steering wheel. So she does not let me drive anymore.

Would you please preach to her after this is over? To have faith in my driving? Well, I got home one night at two in the morning. I was so tired playing volleyball all day. I fell asleep at the wheel when I was just short distance from home, I fell asleep.

I don’t recommend this, by the way, but I fell totally asleep. And I woke up after something unusual happened. When I fell asleep, somehow the steering wheel veered to the left and I’m on a dirt road. When I woke up and I’m looking up and I’m seeing trees on both sides and I’m thinking to myself, God, the only way I haven’t hit these trees is you took the steering wheel from me while I was asleep, and I almost said, thank you Lord, for driving my car for a few hundred feet. I turned my car around and found I’d gone over a mile and I said, Lord, whether it’s a few hundred feet or a mile, you know how to take control.

But God, let me give you the controls. God, you’re able. I mean, five times I call call up five different people. And God reminded me in life I am there for right now I am the I am God ready to lead you now? Yes, I’ve been with you in the past.

Yes, I’ve been with all the prophets of the Bible. But God says I am with you right now for today, in the time of your trials, His presence is available to us right now. How many believe God is a present tense God? And if we could go through our life and say, God, you are present for me right now. Even though my whole basement is ruined, God, you are able to take the steering wheels of life.

And your timing is so wonderful. It’s never off. And God, you are perfect and I’m going to trust you have the schedule and I’m going to say, God. Oh yeah, yeah, I gotta open my schedule, gotta open my calendar. Maybe I ought to fit this in here.

Maybe God will do this for me. And God says, wait on the Lord. And if we wait on him, he directs us. I can’t wait till tonight’s service. I’m going to tell you about five more stories just like that, where God can do things when we know it has to be him doing it.

And how many believe God is still alive? God who resurrected from the dead and can work and let’s go that way. He couldn’t do many mighty works because of their unbelief. God help me not to be an atheist and look at you after seeing all these different things and how you led me right to the gate and all those things, God help me now when I when I to get over to Wisconsin, somehow, miraculously get out of this crazy hospital room, and God did it. He hath made everything beautiful in his time.

My times are in thy hands. Psalm thirty one fifteen. In the time of trouble he shall hide me in his pavilion. In the secret of his tabernacle shall he hide me? He shall set me upon a rock.

This wasn’t just for Bible people. This is for us. Here, I’ve got to make sure I say it right, because I haven’t figured out how to pronounce your town yet: Menomonee Falls. I’ve tried this. I’ve worked on it.

I’ve said it a hundred times. I said I’m going to mess it up as soon as I get to the pulpit. But God, You can work in Menomonee Falls, right? So an elderly woman was praying for her son’s salvation for forty years. At two a m one night, he knocked on her door weeping, saying he’d just given his life to Christ after forty years of praying.

Why? God can do anything. Anytime. I got a call at one in the morning. I’ll mess it up.

My wife tells the story better than me, but I woke. She woke me up at one in the morning and he was crying on the other end. Do you remember when you came to my school fifteen years ago? I said, no, I don’t. He said I was there.

My son had begged me to come to the. Rally at night when you were preaching the gospel, so I came. His friend came when the invitation was given. After going through the cross, both boys went forward and they thought they were going forward. The father to to use the restroom, and later on they found out he’d gone.

They’ve gone to get saved with the counselor. The father did not receive Christ as a Savior because he was an atheist at the time. And he started to cry at one in the morning. And he said, six years went by and God kept working on my heart and convicting me about hearing the cross. And he said, finally, I did receive Christ as Savior, and I want my wife had come had the counselors had gone to visit her the next day, and she got saved as they did the follow up with the church.

She got saved. But I held back. But I want you to know that the Lord kept the Word of God not returning void in my heart. And I did receive Christ as my Savior. Six years later, and my wife died today of cancer.

I’ll see her in heaven because of that rally. And I walked away from there and I thought of those three words again. Yeah, but he’ll never get saved. Well, if you believe God can do anything, anytime, anywhere. Keep praying.

Well, I just feel like giving up. We’ve had these vacation Bible schools for, I don’t know how many years, and this boy came every year, and I don’t know why I’m saying this. And this boy came every year, and he’s so hard. I just, I he comes in and I go, oh, him again. Why did he have to come again or something?

And what we ought to do is say, God, I am going to keep trusting you. I’m going to keep going forward. I’m never going to give up on anybody because God never gave up on me. How many are glad God never gave up on you? And let’s just look at this world through the eyes of Jesus as the same yesterday, today and forever.

He’s always capable. “For my thoughts are not your thoughts, neither are your ways my ways. For as the heavens are higher than the earth, so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts than your thoughts.” His timing far exceeds my understanding. Trust in the Lord with all your heart. Lean not on your own understanding.

In all your ways acknowledge me and I’ll direct your paths. Yeah, but I don’t feel like going in that gym today. My body’s aching and God says I’ll be there for you. When you least expect me to work. I want you to know I’m there to help.

Hast thou not known and heard that the everlasting God fainteth not, neither is weary. God, you never in my whole life have ever given me a busy signal. God and my whole life you’ve been there twenty-four seven. We use that term a lot. And God never sleeps or slumbers.

Wow. Call unto me, and I’ll answer thee and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not. Well, I don’t know where the gate is. I’m going to miss this flight. I’m never going to get to Wisconsin.

I’m late in this bed. My wife stood beside me and prevented me from dying with some crazy nurses and what they thought I was going through. They thought I was having a mental breakdown instead of all my stuff and my kidney. And they were saying stuff. My wife said, get a doctor, please.

Get a doctor, please. And she must have said it five times. No, he’s got a mental breakdown. Whatever. Finally, we got the doctor because of her persistence.

Thank God for her love for me and not given up during that time. Yeah, but I don’t think I’m going to make it, Lord. Well, who am I? Am I vacant to you? So we live by faith, not by fear.

Without faith, it’s impossible. I’ll be finished in just a moment. I’ll obey you when I don’t have all the details. Abraham left without knowing where he was going. He refused the world’s compromise.

He spoke faith into impossible situations. Now there’s so much more I wanted to say, but I was going to ask the church pastor if one person was going to miss tonight. And if one person was not coming back tonight, I was going to preach it now and make you stay here till two o’clock. But how many of you are going to be back tonight? Raise your hands.

Wonderful. Part two tonight. I thank God for who he is, I thank again I keep saying this, and I’m not trying to flatter. Believe me, I just love that music on the cross today. And that’s what it’s all about.

And how many believe God can act on our behalf if we want to give the gospel out. He says, lo, I’m with you always. After he tells you to get the Great Commission out, he says, then lo, I’m with you to give you your stories to tell. Why? Because I want to be there directing you from heaven.

Because I left heaven and came to earth and died the worst death known to man. And I want to use you as an ambassador of a King far greater than Donald Trump. And I want to use you, representing Me as King. And I want you to be a peculiar person, and I want you to be zealous of good works, and I want you to look to me and trust me so that I can keep leading, guiding, and directing. What a God.