AUDIENCE
By G. W. S. Ware
June 10, 1937
Audience: Admission to a hearing or formal interview with one of high position.
Man has a nature never satisfied with one level of anything. He goes up or down as he
allows himself to think, Prov. 23:6. Soon he desires an audience with those he prefers for
pleasure or profit, and begins to prepare to be ready for it.
The first audience a man should seek is one with himself, and ask God to be present,
who has never refused such an invitation. No man has but one seat for company on such
occasions, and none but God or Satan can use it, and one or the other is always in it
through mortal life. On arrival God waits for the man to invite him in to cast Satan out.
When that is done, the man has his first audience with God and himself. Instantly the man
abhors his own sins and begs God to take from him, which God does, and behold the man
finds himself like God in spirit, to remain together. Men in high position will grant an
audience to special individuals, God offers one to all, but many refuse, because they
cannot part with some of their sins. So Satan keeps his seat, for God will not always
strive with man, Gen. 6:3.
To obtain an audience with God when man leaves this world, requires special preparation
before death, Amos 4:19; John 3:7. When this is lacking at death and at the bar of God,
man is compelled to indure an eternal audience with the wicked from the earth of all ages,
with the unnumbered host of demons, and with Satan, the mighty devil to torment forever.
No one can give God audience, for he is above all, but God held an audience (Gen. 1:26)
and said, "Let us make man". After man had developed God gave them an audience,
and Satan went in with them, and the result of that audience is the marvelous book of Job.
Read it, then seek an audience with God. He will grant it, whose presence will cause you
to say: "I abhor myself, and repent in dust and ashes," Job 42:6. Then your last
days will be your best. verse 12.
