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Good to be back again tonight. I'm certainly thankful for the services we've had so far. I'm thankful for the spirit we've been able to feel. I'm thankful for the message we heard last night. I'm thankful for everything, all the meals that y'all have fed us so far and the fellowship we've had with one another. I really feel blessed. I was so nervous the other night when we got here. I'm not even sure if I ever thanked the church for asking us to come, but if I didn't, I apologize, but I do appreciate y'all letting us come this time. I pray we don't have nothing to be so alarming to you tonight, but I pray it'll be alarming to the lost. might have a little something to say to make them realize that they need the Lord. And I need the Lord tonight. Y'all heard me tell about the young man going and playing the drums. I can't play drums, and I can't preach. We need the Lord's help. And without him, it will be no preaching tonight. Sitting here a while ago, and sometimes, boy, you'll be sitting there, and just what you've got in your heart just almost seemingly is leaving you. And boy, it's just a sad, sad time right there. And I begin to ask God if I need to do something different. There was another thought come to me, but I just don't really feel like that's right. All I know to do is read my lesson, and we'll go from there. I can't preach without God. I ain't even going to attempt to. But if he comes on the scene, then we'll preach. And if he don't, I don't know what we'll do. We'll just let him take control. Preacher said last night, he went somewhere one time, he told the preacher, he said he didn't have nothing, and pray for me. We need your prayers. I used to hear Brother JC Cox talk about he'd go out in the morning time and hear his daddy out in the barn praying for the mules. And he'd pray for the mules that they'd have strength to be able to work that day. Those mules was pretty important to feeding his family. And he didn't depend on the mules, but he depended on God to give those mules strength. And I've heard people say, well, you know God ain't going to strengthen the mule. He made one talk one time. And if he could make one talk, I'm pretty sure he'd give one strength to be able to pull a plow. If there ain't any plowing done tonight, if we grab a hold of the plows, we're going to have to have strength. I wish y'all prayed that we'd be able to grab a hold of plow tonight and be able to plow further and be pleasing unto the Lord. And we're gonna try to take a reading lesson out of Matthew chapter 19, very familiar scripture. I tried enough to bring nothing new tonight. Y'all pray for us just a little while. I wanna say, Before we get started, the only thing we have to offer God, if you're lost, is a broken heart and a contrite spirit. The scripture says, he's nigh unto those with a broken heart, and he saveth such as a contrite spirit. Repentance and faith is what God is looking for. I'm thankful that I didn't have to do some kind of work to be saved. If I had a very, I might not have been able to do it. I'm thankful that it was by grace we're saved. And that's not of ourself, but it is the gift of God. There was a young man come to Jesus once. We call him the rich young ruler most of the time. And it said, behold, one came and said unto him, good master, what good thing shall I do that I may have eternal life? And he said unto him, why callest thou me good? There is none good but one, that is God. But if thou will enter into life, keep the commandments. And he saith unto him, which, and Jesus said, thou shalt do no murder, thou shalt not commit adultery, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not bear false witness, honor thy father and thy mother, and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself. And the young man saith unto him, all these things have I kept from my youth up, what lack I yet? And Jesus said unto him, if thou wilt be perfect, go and sell that thou hast, and give to the poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven. come and follow me. But when the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Then said Jesus unto his disciples, verily I say unto you, or truthfully I say unto you, that a rich man shall hardly enter into the kingdom of heaven. And again I say unto you, it is easier for a camel to go through the eye of a needle than for a rich man to enter into the kingdom of God. When his disciples heard it, they were exceedingly amazed, saying, Who then can be saved? But Jesus beheld them and said unto them, With men this is impossible, but with God all things are possible. And that's with the mistakes we made reading. That's down to the 26th verse. And I want you to realize tonight, It don't matter how much you have or how little you have, we all must come the same way. We all must come with a broken heart and a contrite spirit. We all must come through repentance and faith that they work together. We find this little man, he said, what one thing can I do to inherit the kingdom of heaven or kingdom of God? There's so many looking for something that they might be able to do or to save theirself. There's nothing we can do to save ourselves. We find, and you say, well then, why did it make a difference when Jesus told him to go sell what he had and follow him? I want you to realize that young man, I believe he felt like he kept commandments. I believe he thought he'd done a pretty good job. But I believe the Lord knowed his heart and knew that he'd failed at it just like the rest of us have. But he told him, he said, well, if thou be perfect, sell all that you've got, give to the poor, and come follow me. And the man said, the young man went away sorrowful, because he had many great possessions. And I want you to realize, selling his things, God didn't need his things. You can't bargain with God. Nothing you've got, you can give God. But I want you to realize also that we must be willing to let everything go. We find many times, just like the rich man in Lazarus, we find it in the scripture about the rich man, and I want you to realize he didn't end up in the devil's hell because he was rich. He ended up in the devil's hell because he never trusted in the Lord. I know some of the best godly men I know and women have got money. King David had money. Solomon had money. I want you to realize there's nothing wrong with having money. And you can have all the money in the world. Donald Trump tonight, if he's never been saved, I don't know his heart. But I reckon he's got a lot of money. He can be saved tonight if you put his trust in the Savior. But what you can't do is let things get in your way between you and God. And I want you to realize people do that all the time. Sometimes it's money. Sometimes it's their loved one. Uh, sometimes, uh, it's pride, and I think that's the biggest problem with most. They have a big issue with pride. Most people don't want to humble themselves down in front of people, much less in front of God. And I want you to realize that will get you in trouble. I want to, uh, take for a text over here, and we're going to try to be good Lord's will, and we'll try to preach here in a little while, and, but I want us to take over here out of Mark, in chapter 8, and it says, And when he had called the people unto him, and this is chapter eight and 34, his disciples also he said unto them, whosoever will come after me and let him deny himself, take up his cross and follow me. For whosoever will save his life shall lose it, but whosoever shall lose his life for my sake and the gospel's, the same shall save it. For what shall it profit a man if he shall gain the whole world and lose his own soul? Or what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? Whosoever therefore shall be ashamed of me, of my words, in this adulterous and sinful generation, of him also shall the Son of Man be ashamed when he cometh in the glory of the Father with the holy angels. And that's written down through there to the 38th verse, and where our thought is is in the 37th verse. It says, and what shall a man give in exchange for his soul? And we realize here tonight the definition of exchange means you're taking something for the same value. is what, like at Walmart, I don't know about y'all, but I've had to take things back to Walmart before. I've got pants before. Generally, I get my pants too small, because usually in my head, I think I'm a little smaller than what I am. But I've had to take things like that back before. And when you exchange, you get something for the same value. You don't go and get something for more or less. You exchange for something for the same value. And I want you to think about something tonight. Jesus said, told this young man, said, go sell what they have and follow me. And I want you to realize he could have sold everything he had and that wouldn't have sold him. He could give every penny he had to the poor and that wouldn't have saved him. We're not redeemed through gold and silver and things like that. I want you to realize, and you said, well, it was given to the poor, not the Lord. The Lord said in Matthew 25, He said, as much as you did it unto these, the least of my brethren, you did it unto me. And that's how we give to God is given to the brethren. And I want you to realize that not He could have given away everything that He had. and followed after the Lord, but if he'd never put his trust in Him, he would have never been saved. But the Lord knows his heart, and He knows yours tonight. And there's something, some of y'all have been seeking the Lord for some time now, and there's something getting in the way between you and God. I don't know what that is, but I want you to realize that you are hanging on to something. You're letting something get in your way. Remember, I talked about last night when he told the Lord, come to the tree, and he told Zacchaeus to make haste and come down. When God begins to draw you, that's when you must come. He said that he believed Zacchaeus. Then hang on to nothing. He just comes right on down. And I want you to know how the Lord wanted us to be with Him in His house that day. And I want you to realize the day God wants to spend time with you. He wants to come into your home in Tabernacle and spend time in your house today, but I want you to realize when God begins to deal with you, you've got to make haste, but you've got to go to Him. And I want you to realize you can't let nothing get in your way. He said, he that will lose his house, I shall find it. I've heard so many people say, In their testimony, when I finally got down on the porch, I said, God, I was gonna say, God, if you take my life, if you'll save me, I want you to realize, honey, I've heard a bunch of them say, the Lord saved them, right after they said that. And I want you to realize tonight, it ain't in the words. You might say that 1,000 times and never be saved. It's gotta be your willing. God wants it all. He wants all of you. He don't care nothing about our treasures and all the things we have. I want you to realize, He said, honor thy father and thy mother. He said one place, He said, he that loveth his mother and father more than me is not worthy of me. He that loveth his son and daughter more than me is not worthy of me. But He went on to say in a great lesson, He said, honor thy father and thy mother. He don't want you to leave your mom and dad. He don't want you to give them up. But he wants you to want him more than you want anything else. That's what he wants. And that's what he saw in that young man. He knew he didn't want him more than he did anything else. He knew his heart. And He knows your heart tonight. He knows. There's some people, I mentioned last night, this altar will not save you. But if you're ashamed to come to an altar, if you're letting that get in your way, honey, that will get in your way. The brother said last night, if God wants you to be here or go there and all that stuff, I believe this in all my heart. I believe God wants you to repent and put your trust in him. I believe that in all my heart. But if you feel like you need to come to the altar, and you feel like God's gone, you do need to go to the altar, you can let this get in your way. You can be saying exactly where you're sitting tonight. if you don't repent and put your trust in the Savior. But people that stuck, have you ever let anything get in your way? Oh, I have. I've let, I've let before many revivals and or preach on something the night before I'm supposed to preach. God doesn't give me a message. And he just pretty much preached my message. And then the next night you think, I can't do that. I can't do that. If I do that, then that's kind of what my message was, holding on. And the brother gets up there and announces that last night. And I'm thinking, well, here we go. I want you to realize tonight, we can't let stuff get in our way. We can't hold on to things. We got to just let go. And my prayer is for you that you would do that. Like I said, there's at least three of you here, and I don't know how many of you is lost, but I want you to realize that I don't let nothing get in your way. I definitely don't let the devil talk you into being ashamed in the face of the Lord. I want you to realize, growing up, I mentioned it the other night, we never cried in hope. We never done anything like that. I don't never remember just crying over nothing. I remember a few times when my daddy whooped me, I would cry and then he'd say, hush, I'll give you something to cry about. And I thought he'd already given me something to cry about. But listen to me tonight, don't be ashamed to call on God. I don't remember a word I said the night I got saved. And I hear people say, they give their testimony, they tell every bit of it. I can't remember a word I said. All I remember from the death of me, calling on God, and I could care less about anything else that night. People left all kinds of things. You know what was taking me to hell? A ski. and a bag of peanuts. I was ready to exchange my soul, to trade my soul and go to the devil's hell for a ski and a bag of peanuts. And you said, well, that's the silliest thing I ever heard. I sat there night after night. was to go get my ski and my bag of peanuts. That was what was on my mind. Getting saved was the first thing on my mind. I was thinking, in a little bit longer, I can go to the store and get my ski and bag of peanuts. Wouldn't that be something to go to hell for? How much have you got to offer the Lord? What are you willing to go to hell for? What are you willing to exchange your soul for? Sometimes I wonder what a lost person's thinking. All I can know is what I was thinking. For me, Sometimes I thought people just wanted a word of life out of you. And sometimes I thought that, I knew from the night I become lost that if I died, I was going to go to hell. I believed that in all my heart. And I was just as lost the night I got saved, or two years before as I was the night I got saved. But somehow it got real to me. God really broke me down. It's going to have to get real to you. You've got to get serious about this. And I don't know what it's going to take, what word or testimony or anything, but you've got to realize you've got to have God. They said the young man last night, I believe he was 19 year old. And I'm thankful he had a testimony. I believe Eli, I believe he's 17 or 18 year old. There's some of you here tonight that's driving. You keep going on and you keep trying to work deals with God. You can't make a deal with him. My father owns a cattle on a thousand hills. He owns all of it. He owns the next breath you're going to take. He don't care about what you have to offer him. He wants a broken heart and a contrite spirit. And he wants you to completely surrender to him. And you say, I don't know how to do that. It's the only thing I know of to win, you've got to heal up. And that's the truth. As long as you keep trying to save yourself, what one thing can I do? If you keep trying to do this on your own, you will never get saved. You've got to give it to God. I was at Hilltop a few years ago and there was a young lady I'd got through preaching, I'd call them, and I was standing over here giving an office call, and she got up and she come to me, and she walked right straight to me, and she said, Brother Dale, I don't know how to pray. And she was probably 17, maybe 18 year old, and I looked at her just astray, and as honest as I know how to tell her, and I said, I don't either. But I said, go over there and call on the name of the Lord. Put your trust in Him. and surrender it all over to Him and He will help you. I did not know how to pray. And I want you to realize there's still times today when I kneel down. If God don't get in the matter, my prayers don't get no higher than my head. But when God gets in the matter, He helps us. And that young lady went to the altar that night, and I want you to realize she began to try to call on the Lord. And after a little while, her boyfriend come and sat down right beside her, and he sung a song. And there was a bunch from Lafayette here that night, Zach and different ones. And they were sitting there on the front row, and he sung a song. And when he got to the chorus, they joined in like they'd practiced it a thousand times. And it was one of the most beautiful things I ever heard. And I was sitting back there, and I thought, the Lord's fixing to save her. And you know what happened? He did. And I thought we was going to have to baptize a whole bunch of yin. They went to shout and back toward the house down. Because everybody there believed that he was fixing to save her. He got to the point, she went down there and knelt down and wasn't doing much and wasn't long, she wasn't calling on the Lord. I don't believe you have to speak with an audible voice. But if you're ashamed to call on the Lord, that's getting in your way. For a long time, I'd go to Rocky Mountain and when they'd go to pray, I even, for one time, I booted up to the amen corner, and I tried to pray, and I couldn't get no word. And finally, one day, I was down there praying to God, and it's just like He said, call on me. And I was, I ain't gonna lie to you, I was just a point done saved, and just ashamed, and let that get in my way. And all of a sudden, it just didn't matter to me no more. I wanted to talk to the Lord so bad that I just started calling on Him. And I want you to know when I got that out of my way, I was able to pray. Whatever's in your way, it's not worth going to hell for. I don't care what it is. What could you exchange for your soul? There ain't nothing. Mom or daddy, your own life, your brother or sister, whatever you might have, there's nothing worth going to hell for. I want you to realize that you need to understand, whatever's getting in your way, get it out of the way. I know in all my heart, God, all he wants from you is to repent and trust in the Savior. But if you're crying off at these kind of things, get them out of the way and just trust the Lord. He will save your soul. There ain't nothing you can do to save yourself. You gotta surrender to God. That's all you can do. Put your trust in the Lord, he'll save your soul. I don't know what it's going to take to get you there. This young man went away sorrowful, and there's a lot of people that are going to go away sorrowful. I preached a sermon about almost persuaded, or what's it gonna take to persuade you? I want you to realize there's a lot of people that almost are persuaded. They get near and dear, but they never get to the point they completely trust the Savior. He told the rich man, he says, The rich man told him, he said, I, Ted Lazarus fact, that he might tell my brothers, I have five brothers, that they might not come to this terrible place. They might believe and not come here, repent and not come here. He said, if they'll not be persuaded by the one raised from the dead, if they are not persuaded by Moses and the prophets, neither will they be persuaded by the one raised from the dead. I want you to realize, They weren't persuaded by one. And you've not been persuaded by one race in the dead. For the Lord and Savior raised 2,000 years ago and you still haven't believed. But I want you to realize you've got to believe the Gospel. If you're ever going to be saved, you've got to believe. I don't believe He's ever saved nobody that didn't believe the Gospel. that didn't believe in him. Pride goeth before destruction and a haughty spirit before the fall. Don't let pride get you. I don't know what's getting in your way. I can tell you what's got in my way all night tonight is the devil. He is really giving me a fit. because I feel like I'm trying to preach something the brother preached last night and it's just worn me out. But I want you to know something I'm not too proud to still try. I learned a long time ago that I can't do this without God. And I will not, I will not just fail just because I don't feel like it ought to be done. If God says do it, then do it. If God is calling you, then do it. Surrender to Him. By the way, they kept open the doors of church. If you're supposed to join this church, then just do it. Follow God. Don't let the devil cheat you. I want you to realize the devil will cheat you. He will do everything He can. He'll say, don't you surrender. Don't you call on God. But I want you to know the Bible says, all that call on the Lord shall be saved. And I believe that, Lord, in my heart. If you call on God with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, if you repent and put your trust in Him until the satisfaction of Him, He'll save your soul. That's what is required. I thought about Zaccheus last night, and I enjoyed the message. I really did. But I'm thankful I didn't have to climb that tree. I'd never got up. My brother talked about how he's unloading guns all over his shoulder and why. I can have steps, and I have problems. I started getting, I'm six foot one, and I'm scared of heights. I looked down like a dizzy head. I couldn't have got up the Sycamore tree. But thanks be to God, I didn't have to. He don't want you to climb the Sycamore tree. He don't want your million dollars. He don't want your mama and daddy. He don't want your brothers and sisters. He don't want all these things that you can offer Him. What He wants is you. When He calls you and He drives you, He wants you to surrender to Him. He wants you to give your life to Him. He wants your heart, soul, mind, and body. He wants it all. He wants all of you. And just surrender it over to Him. And if you'll do that, He'll save your soul. But as you keep trying to work deals out with God and bargain with Him, y'all want you to realize you'll never get there, because there's not one thing you can do to inherit the kingdom of God. All you can do is trust and believe and repent. And you can't do that without God's help. This, by grace, He does it. And that's what the rich young ruler didn't understand. If he would have just fell down and said, God, you can have it all. You can have my life. You can have my money. You can have everything, my power, everything I've got. I just want to be saved. You just take me, God, and use me. If he would have come to it that way, it wouldn't have cost him one penny. Not one cent. The price has been paid. We're not redeemed with silver, y'all, but we're redeemed by the blood. And he paid the price. I heard the price. The price has been paid. There's nothing you can give him but a broken heart and a contrite spirit. You say you're a broken record, amen. I sure am. And I'm gonna preach it till I sleep tonight. They stick me in the grave. Without God, you can't be saved. There's no man ever saved himself. No man. No man. We've all had to come the same way. So quit playing games. Quit making deals. And just give it to God. Let Him save you. Because I'll guarantee you, when you get saved, brother Tim, it's going to be like falling off a log. You're going to look back on it, and you're going to say, why didn't I do this a long time ago? You know why you didn't do it a long time ago? Because you kept trying to do everything. And if we're not careful people, sometimes we hurt them, man. We tell them to do this, we tell them to do that. And they have to try. They can be this close to God. And then they start trying all these things. All the way around. Everybody in that house was proud. That's what he's looking for. He's looking for you to just give up his dreams. What's it going to take for you to be able to do that? I don't know. That's when you die. I, what it took for me was just one look from somebody that cared about me. I found out a couple years ago that Brother Stanley King was my name. We lived side by side. And I loved that man. I grew up, and I was going down there to get these woodwork and stuff like that. I hung out with him. And I watched him a million nights. He was living in the green window of a four-and-a-third-floor house, and he had a little desk up there. And I'd be out in the summertime in all manners of time at night, and he'd play games and stuff. And I seen him sitting at that desk, and I'm telling you, how many nights? And I think, I wonder why he's sitting at that desk. I found out I wasn't until last year. We didn't go to church. This man cared enough about me. He had a job. He worked for Fleetwood. And you worked for Fleetwood. You worked for Fleetwood. But he saw a boy that lived beside him, and he needed to love him. And he started coaching a baseball team in Vancouver. And he talked to mom and daddy and me, and encouraged me to go to the doctor. And I began to hang out with people like William Carter, Marty Mathers, Marty Curtis, Philip Brown, Wendell Wicks. The man was going to church with her all the time. And I do want her to hang out with him. I don't want her to hear the gospel and get insulted. I don't want to go down the road and talk to somebody until he talks to both people for two years. Then I might get to hear the gospel. This church loves you. I love you. But we cannot do it for you. All I can tell you is to surrender to the one that can save your soul. Give up on everything else and go to Jesus. You want an altar call? When God gives you that call, you go to him. You make it all through your heart and you give it all to him. Give every bit of it to him and he will save your soul. That's how I got here. If you got it, that's how you got it. You had to surrender to him. He's the only one who can do it. We can't do it on our own. Mom and Daddy can't do it. Your pastor can't do it. Brother Tim can't do it. And thanks be to heaven and to God, a sister born free can't do it. But if I had to find a sister born free, I'd do it God willing. This is from the Church of the Lord. And don't get me wrong, I love the story about Zacchaeus and how he wanted the Lord. That's the message. He wanted Him more than anything. He wanted him more than all of us. He didn't care. He wasn't ashamed. I want you to realize, honey, when they got us together, but I don't know if the Lord promised us, I don't know if he promised us those people that didn't like us. I don't know. He probably stood out like a man. But he didn't care. He wasn't ashamed. Don't be ashamed. He said, if you're ashamed of me, Paul, baby, ashamed of you, when I come with my holy angel, I want you to realize that day it'll be too late. Don't get to that point. Don't be ashamed of Paul. I don't know if you need to pray out loud. I don't know if you need to come to altar. I don't know what's in your way. I know one thing. It ain't God. It ain't his will for you to perish. It's his will that all come to repentance. He wants every one of them to be saved. But it's also that they're doing all they can. And he'll tell you, don't you do it. These people will laugh at you. That hurts you crazy. He'll tell you everything. He'll say, wait till tomorrow night. Brother Ricky will be preaching tomorrow night. It'll be a better message. There'll be more people here. There'll be less people here. He'll tell you everything in the world to get you to hold your seat one more time. Every time he'll get you to hold your seat one more time, that's one step closer he has got you going to the devil's haven. Amen. Give it up to God. Seek him tonight. I don't know how to pray. I still don't. According to the scripture, it's a fervent desire of the heart. But I know the one that can pray. The scripture says... I'm done. If you're here tonight, Seek the Lord with all your heart. Trust Him and He'll save you. So, Titus, get us started. I don't know if I'm the only one, but I hope everybody got as much out of your message as I did. It feels like you're speaking directly to me. A lot of you guys have heard my testimony. I actually gave it not too long ago. And when I was pulling up to that red light and then it turned green, I was crying. I've never told anybody why I was crying so hard and what made me cry that hard before I couldn't see out of my truck. Ever since I was little, I don't even know how old, maybe six, seven, eight years old. And I learned that heaven and hell was real. I tried to make an exchange, just like you said. I found another way. And the reason I've never told you about this is because now it seems silly to me. But at the time, it didn't seem silly to me. It seemed very much real. And it seemed like I could do it. I was seven, eight, six, something. I was little. I used to pray every night that if my family could go to heaven, that I would go to heaven. And it started off just my mom and dad and my two brothers. I thought that was a very good exchange. And the older I got, the more people got clung to that The more I realized how much hell was real and how bad it was. By the time I was 15 or 16, it wasn't just my mom, dad, and my brothers. It was all my aunts, all my uncles, all my cousins, all my future kids, my grandkids, all my friends. There was thousands of people that I was trying to get to heaven, if I could go to heaven. It was shortly before I got saved, my aunt died. And I was coming up for that red light, and when it turned green, that's why I was crying so hard. She was the first person that was on my change list that had died. And if all those years that I spent praying, if God would have took just one time of me saying I wanted that to happen, When she died and she went to heaven, that wasn't me. I was bound for heaven, and it scared me. That's why I was crying so hard on my trip. That's why I said, please, I'm going to see my aunt in heaven. Because I didn't care about anybody else. It was me. I finally got to that point where it was how much it meant to me. Amen. I've never told anybody that. But I kept trying to justify it, and the older I got, the more I understood how much hell, or how real hell was, and how big it was, the more people got on that exchange list. It wasn't just four people, my mom and dad, my two brothers, it was thousands. It was people I didn't even know, it was friends, or people that I'd seen, Anybody, when she died, I was the first person in my family on that list that died. And it scared me, because I thought maybe God would have taken one of those prayers and answered it. And I thank God every day that he doesn't answer those prayers that we don't really need. When I was little, I meant it, but I didn't realize what I was talking about then. It wasn't until that day in my truck that I realized just how real it was. And then it didn't matter who else was there. I wanted to be there. Amen. There was no amount of family or friends that I could put on that list that would make it worth me going to hell. Amen. And it scared me. I couldn't even see it on my truck. And when I asked him to go to heaven with me, That's the change, that's what took it. It was no longer, if they can go, I want to go with them. That's what it took. You can't exchange anything for it. And I thank God for that. He knew that by then. But I do now. I'm so thankful he didn't answer any of those prayers. He knows what prayer is. And he knows what is in your heart. You can't change it. It felt like you were preaching to me the whole time you was up there. God bless you, son. Thank you, Father. I thank you, Father. I thank you, Father. I thank you, Father. and sang you a song. Search your hearts tonight and send a friend to knock it. Would you fill it? Would you surrender it all tonight to Him? What's it worth to you? Do pay. Accept the message tonight. Church, be sure you mind the Lord. God bid you to move. Be sure you obey. Jesus. ♪ But the blood of Jesus ♪ ♪ Oh, precious gives us hope ♪ ♪ That makes me white as snow ♪ ♪ Oh, love you now I know ♪ ♪ But the blood of Jesus ♪ Is it really worth holding on to? Better consider it tonight. Nothing but the blood of Jesus I'm only here to say that I'm nothing but the blood of Jesus. All of the good that I have done, I'm nothing but the blood of Jesus. I know nothing but the blood of Jesus. You're all. Take the masons. God only knows hearts in this building. I am glad that the cross has been paid. So we heard talking about exchanging. You look at what the Lord yielded. Look at what the exchange was. He give it all up. And he give his life. He give it all. Give it all. So that we could be saved. Vernon's over there singing that song. So that I could go free. In that song it says what kind of man? Reach out his hand. This is for man. Unworthy to live and unfit to kill, but a man on the cross, man is worthy. So let high offer. The price has been paid. The exchange is already made. The Savior come. for our sins. Amen. That was the exchange. All we have to do is trust Him with our heart. Amen. Surrender to Him. While I hope to pray tonight, I can't tell you, I cannot tell you that God's a dealing with you. Sometimes we look on the countenance and it appears to me that God is a weighing on people. But deep in, I don't know what your hearts are thinking. But deep in your heart, you know. I'd say if he's dealing with you tonight, I'd say show everything else out and say, God, I'll do whatever you want me to do. I'll pray right here. I'll go to the altar. I'll bow wherever you want me to bow. He might not even want you to bow. He might just want you to get started. I don't trust him. I think the preacher, I heard it, I think is on the radio and he made this comment and stayed with me a few years ago. He said, until he's Lord of all, he is not Lord at all. You won't find him until you sell out to him. It hurts your heart tonight, church. Let's be sure. Somebody said, well, that preacher? Preacher's done preached it. We can't save him. I'm not saying we can save him. But if they can see how good what me and you got is, they might want to lay down what they're holding on to and take a hold of what me and you have. No, we can't say, but we do have a part. We do have a part in pointing to the one that can say. Got one that's bowed here. Brother Titus, if you've just got maybe another verse or two of a song that seemed like a fill-out, just give folks just a little time. I beg you tonight, search your heart. You need to get a picture in your mind of hell. And all the people that's in hell begging every minute of every day to get out. Get that on your mind, that picture. It's real. It's going to happen. God is in heaven. waiting for you to reach up to him with all your heart and let everything else go. He's wanting to save you, but you've got to let go of everything. You get that picture of how often I got saved, you'll go to it. I was scared to death to leave this building. I thought, I'm not leaving here. It was the building over there. I'm not leaving until I get it. God gives us that to ever get it. That's the hardest part. Get to where you need to be. The rest will be easy. And everybody, do what you need to do. If you need to join this church, you need to join it. You don't need to stand in anybody's way. I'll do what we need to do. I will sing you a song tonight, sinner, search your heart. The Lord's a-dealing with you. He's a-calling to you to come. Trust Him tonight. He'll be with you. Make your way. Seek Him and be sighted. Church, be sure we mind the Lord. God bid you to move tonight. Be sure you go where the Lord would bid you to go. Amen. Go ahead. Shepherds by the river, service nearly flings away ♪ And like a tiny lake bird ♪ I'm here for just a day ♪ I'll be playing in some graveyard ♪ But thank God that's not the end ♪ When Jesus comes that morning ♪ Then my life will just begin by the Savior Jesus comes that morning, like a bird I'll be gone. What a wonderful way to go home. ♪ The rations are raining ♪ Got my ticket at the altar ♪ That day I knelt and prayed ♪ So now I'm just a-waiting ♪ For the captain to come by ♪ He will save us from children ♪ And my soul will take Jesus. What a wonderful way to go home. I am going to take that trip someday. Glad I've done got my ticket, lunch. I'm ready, in no hurry, but I'm ready. Don't care nothing about flying down here. don't ever really plan to get on an airplane or a helicopter. But one day, I will take a flight without wings. I'll just be caught up. I'm glad it's not because of what I've done, what the brother's preached tonight, but it's because of what he's done for me. Paid it off. Sinner friend, you paid it off for you. Church, we need to do our best tonight. There's a lad back there. Listen, we see somebody that it does not bother me that he don't bow on his knees. It may bother some people. Now, if God's a wanting to, that's a different story. He can seek the Lord. I remember the day when people would come to the moaner's bench as soon as they'd come in that door. Some of you old ones probably around here remember. They'd come to the moaner's bench and they'd sit on it. They'd sit on the moaner's bench from the start of service with their head over like this. Somebody said, well, they didn't say. Well, some of them did. What they wanted the church to know is I still need your help. What they wanted to show the Lord was, Lord, I'm still in the searching after this. Don't not deal with me because I ain't got to that place yet I need to. I want you to know I'm still in the searching and the seeking. So tonight, please, please search your heart. If you feel like praying there, pray there. If you feel like praying here, feel like bowing here. Or if there's somebody back there that the Lord's placed on your heart that you've got a burden for, I'm not saying you go to them and say a word. I'm just saying if the Lord's leading you to bow down beside their bench, you go there. If He ain't and you can come around this altar, I feel like we need to do our very best just to make a pull to reach heaven on behalf of these that's still a seeking and still a searching. So if nobody has anything on your heart, that's all that can and will. Let's just gather in and do our very best tonight to call on the Lord on their behalf. Children, seek Him with all your heart. O merciful God, as we come before you tonight, Lord, we realize how helpless, Lord, surely, as the brothers say, we are without your leadership and your spirit. But how thankful to God that we are. God, that we know you know everything. God, you know everything. You cannot see what's on the inside, but I know tonight, God, that you're able, Lord, to show me exactly as you did me my country as a little nine-year-old boy. Lord, give me that knowledge I knew and had no doubt. If I died in that condition that night, that hell would be my home. It wasn't a game, it wasn't something that I, I thought that I could just go and do it myself. It became real that night and there was a fear that took hold down deep in my soul that made me begin to search you out and seek you out. I pray to that God that you'd search our hearts as your people are, that you'd give us the vision that we need to see God. help us god in this hour. We need your I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is, I don't know what to do with the Lord. Whatever it is I thank the Lord. I thank the Lord. I thank the Lord. I thank the Lord. I thank the Lord. I thank the Lord. Every one of them, Lord, they'll put their trust in you, Lord, and not in the fence, Father, Lord. Realize that, Lord, without you, Lord, they have no hope, Father, Lord. Let them put their hope in you, Father, Lord, and have it. Put their trust in you tonight, Lord. Help thy people, Lord, that have a burden, Father, Lord. Save them, Lord, that don't sit up for birthday and write their names, say, Father, help us, God, Lord, to get a second wind, Lord. Help us, Lord, to give us strength, Lord, to keep going. Father, Lord, there's no flesh between us. Lord, we're torn. But, Lord, I know, Father, Lord, you'll strengthen us, Lord, as we are. I know, God, you'll give us a burden, Lord, for a revival as we'll have. Get down on our knees, Father, Lord, and ask you to give us one. I know, Father, Lord, that you will save these, Father, Lord, As quick as they get to the position, Lord, they'll just trust you to do it. I'm thankful, Lord, that when we put our trust in you, Father, you open up our eyes, Father. Lord, you gave us peace. You gave us salvation. You gave us eternal life. You gave us love, Father, like we've never understood, God. I'm thankful, Lord, that I'm born out of your child. Lord, I've failed you so many times, Lord, that I'm looking for a city, Father, where you'll not be ashamed to be here, God, Father. Lord, someday after a while, we'll fail you the last time. And, Lord, that's going to be a blessing, Lord, that no one will ever let you down again. Lord, I'm thankful, Lord, that I have your forgiveness, God. I thank the Lord that you're alive again. I thank the Father you're merciful. You're merciful and I know this. You're gracious and I know this. Help the wounded. Help us to be merciful. Help us light your little lamp.
What Shall a Man Give
Serie Revival
Predigt-ID | 22220239552702 |
Dauer | 1:04:49 |
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Kategorie | Sondersitzung |
Bibeltext | Matthäus 16 |
Sprache | Englisch |
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