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Amen, it's a blessing to be back tonight. I appreciate seeing all of you that are here. I'm glad my wife and two of my kids are with me tonight. I'm always thankful they get to be with me. And good to see you that are here. And if you're here and you're lost, I'd love to see you get saved tonight. I can't think of a more pressing need in your life than to have salvation. A lot of things in life are important, but none of them's more important than that. So if the Lord deals with your heart and gives you an opportunity, I'd love to see you get born again tonight. Amen, if you've got your Bibles, wanna read along with us. I wanna be reading, take my text from the book of 2 Chronicles chapter nine. 2 Chronicles chapter nine in the Old Testament. And I'll be honest with you, I studied on this a little this afternoon and I got pretty excited about preaching it, just some things the Lord was showing me. And about five or 10 minutes ago, sitting on the pew, the excitement left and I got nervous and that's just the way it happens, I guess. but I know that I cannot preach without the Lord's help. I was talking to Brother Larry Kemp today, and his son announced his call to preach Sunday, and we was talking a little bit about that, and I told him, he's got a, the first day he preaches, he's gonna preach Sunday morning, and then preach again Sunday night. And I said, well, that'll be an interesting weekend for him for sure. And I told him, I said, the first time I preached was Sunday morning, the next time was Sunday morning, and then I had a Sunday morning and a Sunday night. And on that Sunday morning service, I know right where I was preaching, I was preaching down in Sand Valley for my wife's uncle down at Unity. And I was preaching down there, and the Lord really came by in that meeting, and there was a couple got saved, and people shouted all over the house, and I got in the car on the way home, And I thought, man, what a preacher I am. I have done preached and folks was getting saved and folks is shouting and I'm really something. And I had an appointment that night and on the way to the appointment, my little brother was going with us and he asked me when I was pulling out, he said, what are you preaching on tonight? And I said, I don't know. And he asked me about, right before we got to the church, he said, what are you preaching on? I said, I don't know, don't ask me again. And I didn't have anything, I barely could even tell you what my name was. And I stood up behind the pulpit for about three or four minutes and I started crying and I said, I can't do this. I've messed up and I just fessed up what I had done. And that pastor come up and put his arm around me and he said, Brother Chris has learned a very valuable lesson that all preachers must learn. He's not the preacher, God's the preacher. And I have found that to be true. And I learned that lesson very good that night. And I know that I cannot preach without the Lord's help. And if I'm gonna do any preaching, it'll have to be with a touch of the Holy Ghost, or there'll be no preaching at all, Brother Justin. It's not of us, it has to be of the Lord. So saying all that, I ask that you pray for us just for a few minutes. As I try to read to us and maybe say a few words, maybe it'll be a help to somebody tonight. But in the book of 2 Chronicles chapter nine and in the first verse, the Bible says, and when the queen of Sheba heard the fame of Solomon, she came to prove Solomon with hard questions at Jerusalem. with a very great company and camels that bear spices and gold in abundance and precious stones. And when she was come to Solomon, she communed with him of all that was in her heart. And Solomon told her all her questions, and there was nothing hid from Solomon which he told her not. And when the queen of Sheba had seen the wisdom of Solomon and the house that he had built, and the meat of his table, and the seating of his servants, and the attendance of his ministers, and their apparel, his cupbearers also, and their apparel, and his assent by which he went up into the house of the Lord, there was no more spirit in her. And she said to the king, it was a true report which I heard in thine own land of thine acts and of thy wisdom. Howbeit I believed not their words until I came, and mine eyes had seen it, and behold, the one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me. For thou exceedest the fame that I heard. Happy are thy men, and happy are these thy servants, which stand continually before thee and hear thy wisdom. Blessed be the Lord thy God, which delighteth in thee, to set thee on his throne, to be king for the Lord thy God, because thy God loved Israel, to establish them forever. Therefore made he thee king over them to do judgment and justice. and she gave the king 120 talents of gold and of spices, great abundance, and precious stones. Neither was there any such spice as the queen of Sheba gave King Solomon. And the servants also of Hurem and the servants of Solomon which brought gold from Ophir brought algum trees and precious stones. And the king made of the algum trees terraces to the house of the Lord and to the king's palace and harps and psalteries for singers, and there were none such before, as seen before in the land of Judah. And King Solomon gave to the queen of Sheba all her desire, whatsoever she asked beside that which she had brought unto the king. So she turned and went away to her own land, she and her servants. And I appreciate tonight the Lord giving us a place to read from, and I know to you Bible readers, there's nothing new at all about this text. You've no doubt heard this text read, and more than likely, you've heard this text preached from. But as I begin to think about this, let me just say this just as a little side note. When we read here about the greatness of Solomon, we sit back and we're at awe in how the queen of Sheba here saw these things and how impressed she was. But do you know that when Christ was on the earth One day, there was some Sadducees and Pharisees that were there, and they asked the Lord of a sign, and he told them that an evil, adulterous generation asked for a sign, and he said, he began to talk about how that the generation of the Queen of Sheba, here of Solomon, would rise up and testify against them, because she saw the greatness of Solomon, and he said, but I tell you, a greater than Solomon is here. So as great as Solomon was, Jesus was all the more greater. And we're gonna talk about there Jonah and how that Jonah went and preached and after he preached, the people repented and he said, those people will rise up against you in the judgment. He said, for a greater than Jonah is here. I preached on the greatness of Christ and how it's all about Christ this morning and the message still has not changed It's still all about Christ. Amen. That's just something I thought about today. I don't think that's what I'm gonna preach on tonight, but I appreciate the Lord giving us that thought that as great as Solomon was and the riches he had and the wisdom that he had, and every question she asked, he answered it just as soon as she would ask it. His wisdom would let him answer it, and there's one greater than him. Amen. The smartest man ever born until Christ came. Amen, that's right. Amen, amen. But he goes on down here and he begins to talk about some things and after that he answers all of her questions and after that she sees all the things that she sees of the great meat that he had as his servants. all their apparel, their bearers, how all these things went up, how he was able to ascend and go up into the house of the Lord, and all these great things, and she even told him about how happy are thy men, happy are your servants, how they stand before thee and hear thy wisdom, everybody's happy about being here, and she said, I saw all these things, and one half of the greatness of thy wisdom was not told me, for thou exceedest the fame that I heard. And that's what I want to preach on just for a few minutes tonight, is that the half hasn't been told. And I've been thinking about this, and I don't really know what kind of preaching this will be tonight, but I looked up the song, it got on my heart, and Brother Justin said something this morning, and he said, I hope that a message gets on your heart real quick, you know? And I went to work, and I was busy at work, and I was driving down the road to coming home, and all of a sudden, I thought about that song, One Day I Will. And that song, I began to sing that song over and over in my mind. I looked it up and I listened to it all of the evening. I listened to it on the way over here tonight. And the Henderson family was who I was listening to it, singing it, and it talks about in that song, I've never seen, you know, the streets of gold, I've never seen the gates of that city, and I've never seen all the splendors of heaven. It said in the song, but one day I will. And I'll say something to you tonight, I never have seen heaven. I believe the book of Ephesians chapter two or three, I guess, will teach you and I that we can sit in heavenly places in Christ Jesus, our Lord. And I've been privileged a few times to sit in some heavenly places. I've been in some places, brother Wesley, when I'd come back down, I tried to figure out where I was at and what had been going on. I'd get caught up in the spirit and I wouldn't take nothing for that. You come into the house of God having a very bad day and nothing but bad news. And the spirit come by and leave in your heart and that bad day turns good. all the worries you're worried about. All of a sudden those worries will pass away. Hey, I'll go ahead and tell you, I've had a pretty rough afternoon with my mind and everything going on in the church. And my mind was pretty busy. But right now I feel pretty confident that the Lord's gonna take care of it. There ain't nothing I can do about it anyway. But I know he can. Amen. The half hasn't even been told about what the Lord's got in store for his people. If I remember the scripture right, I think I read to us this morning over in the book of Corinthians, ain't that where I read from this morning? Hey, I think if we go back one chapter, I still got a marker in there from this morning. I read to us this morning out of the book of 1 Corinthians chapter three, and it talked about how you know that it was God that gives the increase. But if you go back into the second chapter of the same book, It says this, it says, but as it is written, I hath not seen nor ear heard, I neither hath entered into the heart of man of the things which God hath prepared for them that love him. For God hath revealed them unto us by his Spirit, for the Spirit searcheth all things, yea, the deep things of God. Can I say something to us tonight? I like to sit back every once in a while and think about heaven. I do, I like to think about heaven, what it might be like, and I have no idea how to comprehend the things that we're gonna see, and the things we'll be able to experience. Hey, I don't know about you, but I've got a lot of loved ones that have already outstripped me, and they've gone on to be with the Lord, and I'm looking for that on that day, that great reunion day, when we're all gathered around the throne of heaven and there'll be no more worries, there'll be no more sickness, there'll be no more heartaches, there'll be no more separation, there'll be no more tears, there'll be no more trials, I'll never be tempted again by the old devil. My flesh will never rise up and hinder me. What a great and glorious day when we step one foot inside the kingdom of heaven. Amen. I don't know about you tonight, but heaven excites me pretty good. Amen. I'll confess unto you. Let me just remind the Lord tonight for just a minute. I'll confess unto you, Brother Bruce, the night that I got saved, I wasn't thinking nothing about heaven. I wasn't thinking nothing about the splendor of glory. I guess I'd probably heard about a street of gold. I'd probably heard about. a gate of pearl, I'd probably heard about a lot of those things. But the night that the Lord saved me, all I was concerned about was this. I didn't want to die and wind up in hell. And that's all I was worried about. That's all I was concerned about. I didn't get saved to get a mansion. He didn't promise me a mansion anyway. He just promised me a place and I'll be happy when I get my place over there. Oh yes. But as life goes on and troubles arise and problems come, every once in a while I get a longing down in my soul. to go on to heaven and to be with the Lord. Oh, praise his holy name. I'm looking forward to that day when I see the things I've read about. I get to lay this flesh aside and experience heaven and it's a full glory one day after a while. The half hasn't been told. The half hasn't been told. I wouldn't trade anything for those times in my life when the Lord has let me sit in a heavenly place. Those times, Brother Max, when I've been able to lay aside the cares of this world and get all that stuff away and out beside me, and all of a sudden you're in the spirit of the Lord, and I'll just go ahead and say it, you said it this morning, when you get loose in the Holy Ghost, I wouldn't take nothing for that. I like it when the Lord comes by and the spirit gets in my heart and the freedom of the Holy Ghost begins to move on me. There ain't nothing like it in this world. Oh yes, I've tried a lot of things, but nothing's gave me freedom of liberty, like the Holy Ghost has. Oh, bless his name. And you know one day after a while, oh, praise his name. One day after a while, I'm gonna lay this old body down. And the next time, when I enter over there, it won't be in a fire body, a flesh and blood, but I shall have a body, like unto the shoulder of God. For in that day, I shall see him as he is. Oh, bless the Lord. Praise his name. It'll be better that I can preach it. It'll be better that you can imagine it. The half hadn't been told of what God's got in store for his children one day after a while. Amen. Praise the Lord. The half hadn't been told for what the Lord's got in store for his children. what the Lord's got in store for his people. Amen. Old body can't take too much. One day I'll have a new body. It won't grow weary. It won't get tired. It won't have the scars. It won't have the worries of this life. Amen, what a day. What a day that'll be. We sing that song sometimes. What a day that'll be. I really can't imagine it. I've thought about it a lot of times, the peace that will come along with it and the help of God. I remember one time, Been a few years ago, my granddaddy had passed away, and I was there when my granddaddy passed away. And when my granddaddy passed away, the whole family was there, it was in the daytime. My cousins were there, and my mother and daddy, my aunts and uncles, my brother, and the preacher was there, you know, and the pastor of the church at the time was Brother Greg Stone, Brother Greg was there. He was there when my granddaddy breathed his last breath, everybody was in the room, it was in a big sunroom, and we was all out there with him when he breathed his last breath, and when he did, I began to rejoice just a little bit. I felt, I just sat right there, I felt a little Jesus in my heart, when they come and got my granddaddy, and I rejoiced just a little bit. And it wasn't but maybe a year or two later, and my granny had been by herself, and she hated to be alone, and she always tell me, I don't want to die by myself. I'm afraid I'm going to die here by myself. And she was worried about it. And I tried to talk to her. And the day that she was getting real close, and they called me about 9 or 10 o'clock and said, Granny ain't going to be here much longer. And I called my first cousin. And I said, hey, Granny ain't going to be here much longer. He said, I ain't coming. I didn't like it when granddaddy left and I'm not gonna be there. And I thought, praise the Lord, you didn't have what I had. You're gonna be there. Let's get another one of his saints coming home. And I got in there with my granny. And it was me and all my aunts and uncles and my mother and daddy. And we was just sitting there, you know, holding her hand. and she's a southerner breed. And my aunt said, Chris, sing to her. And I sang to her the lights of home and the lights of that city. And I sang to her all those songs she used to sing. She loved to hear Donnie Rainbow, Rainbow sing. And I sang all them songs to her, you know, until my voice wore out. and we was all gathered there, and I was holding her hand, and she was just about a big, big breast, and I said, Granny, I said, everybody's here. I told her, I said, my daddy, my mother, my aunts and uncles, I called us all out. I said, we're all here. You told me you didn't want to die alone. We're taking you far as we can, and if your testimony's right on what you told me, Just let go of us and grab ahold of him. Oh, praise the Lord. She took two more big breaths. Let out a sigh. And the Lord took her home. Oh, bless his name. Can I say something to you today? Listen, when the doctors start saying, we're losing them, we're losing them. Heavens are saying, we're getting them, we're getting them. Oh, bless his holy name. I've been told when death comes, I'm trusting in one. It's already been done, come back. He knows the way. He'll take me safely across. Amen. The half has never been told. Praise the Lord. And I'll tell you something, when I got saved, There was a peace that come in my heart. I'm just telling you what it was. I tell people that salvation experiences are a lot like old stories we tell. The mongrel was saved, you know, when you go fishing, you caught the big fish when he was growing up. And that big fish, It gets bigger every time you tell the story. You can't help it. You tell, man, that story, that fish was big. And that time you got in that big trouble and something was about to happen, it gets bigger every time you tell it. And that's how we are with stories, you know. The more people was there, the greater the number. All those things, we get bigger and bigger in our minds. Our minds begin to carry things bigger and bigger. And I will tell you this, of the old Apostle Paul, and I've told this a lot of times, and I know this ain't anything new to any of you, but I mean, Apostle Paul, the first time I did read the story that was written there about his conversion experience, he said he was on the road to Damascus, And there was a light shone round about him from heaven. And that's how to describe it, was a light. And then the next time he tells the story, he's telling that same road to Damascus story, and it's going down with them same papers, and that same things are going on, them same men. But all of a sudden, there was a great light that shone round about him from heaven. And that light went from a light to a great light. But Brother Bax, the last time he told that story, he said, I was on the road to Damascus, and there was a light brighter than the new day sun that shone round about me. Glory to his name. Every time I think about my salvation, the peace gets better. It goes in my heart. When the burden was lifted and the peace of God came in, I think everybody ought to know about it. I've been reality. As a little old boy, the weight of sin was on my chest. One step of faith out in the aisle, and the burden was lifted. And a peace came took its place. And I'm resting in that tonight. But I want to tell you something. The night I got saved, the quarter wasn't told. The one hundredth wasn't told. Of the benefits that God had for me in my life. Hey man, the half hadn't been told. I didn't know he would guide me in decisions I made in life. I didn't know I could play to him. He'd give me direction. I didn't know he had a little old girl down there in the Sardis community that the Lord was raising up. Under an old time, you preach your man for a granddaddy, and a preacher's wife for a grandmother. Natalie, you ask her, you ask the rest of the grandkids, she was always the favorite. She was always there. And they might have just thought she was a favorite just because. But I think God wanted that little old girl to be under that mama, preacher's wife, to know how to be a good preacher's wife. And I didn't know when I was still growing up. I was over here in Naperville, sitting down there in Sardis City. I didn't have any idea God was raising me up a preacher's wife. And one day he'd tie our hearts together. Oh, bless his name. And the Lord would tie us together. And he made a family out of us. Bless his name tonight. Glory to God! A half hadn't been told of how good God'll be to you. He's got good things for us. He's spoken well for Israel. He's spoken good things concerning his church. Come and go with us. We'll do you good tonight. But the half hadn't been told tonight. The Lord's got a good thing for us. Amen. That may not be in this life, but he's spoken good towards us. Praise the Lord. Somebody said, Brother Chris, look where I'm at in my life. I cry myself to sleep half the time. I got worries and problems. What do you got for me? Well, I got a promise. Let me get my glasses. Revelation chapter 21. Boy, I like this scripture. John Revelator, he's in the Holy Ghost on the Lord's day. Right here towards the end, he says this. He said, and I saw a new heaven and a new earth. For the first heaven and the first earth were passed away, there was no more sea. Anytime somebody goes across the sea, there's separation. There'll never be any more separation, but a fielder will never be separated again. Ain't that right? And now John saw the holy city, New Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, preparing a bride adorned for her husband. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. I'm in that number, I'm one of those people. And listen to what it says right here. And God shall wipe away all the tears from their eyes, and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow nor crying, and neither shall there be any more pain for the former things are passed away. One of these days, I'll take my last funeral trip. It'll be the last time I have to say some words over a body. For one of these days, the Lord himself's coming back with a shout. with the trump of God. And the dead in Christ shall rise first. And then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together in the clouds to meet them in the air. And so shall we ever be with the Lord. Oh praise his name. The half hasn't been told tonight. The half hasn't been told. But heavenly places, He said, I've revealed them unto you by my spirit. Every once in a while, I'm able to get loose from this old flesh. You ever been so loose that you testified? Maybe you shouted. One time, I was pastoring up at Oak Grove. And we, it's a regular old Sunday morning service. And there was a girl come down to the altar and she prayed a while. She got up and I said, is everything okay? She said, I just needed some help. I just needed some help. And I said, well, you've come to the right place. And I got up with a Bruce and I was walking by and Brother Brandon Jensen was sitting on the pier right there on the front. And I got a hold of him and I said, it's all about people getting some help. And I don't know if he shouted first or I shouted first, I really don't know. But we shouted. And we shouted a while and we worshiped a while. I don't wanna sound crazy or sound, y'all think I'm Pentecostal, I really don't care what you think about me. I came to myself underneath the piano down there and shouted. And I crawled out from under there and I got back up behind the pulpit and old Caleb Smith, young preacher, come around the corner right there. By the time he made the turn, The whole church shouted. I've never heard anything sound so pretty in all my life. He got down on an altar and I was trying to pray with him and I could not quit shouting. I finally got a hold of myself and got down there about the time he said the Lord saved me. Then we shouted again. And we shouted and shouted. And I looked over there and Brother Brendan's boy Austin was standing there. And he reached up and he was tagging, pulling on his daddy's shirt. Well his daddy was a shoutin'. And he was a shoutin' and his boy was pulling on his coat. He's a shoutin' and he finally got his attention. And old Austin was just a squallin'. And he said, I need to pray. And when he started coming down to the altar, we all shouted again. and what, just a little bit directly, he come up, the Lord had said to him, and we all worshiped together, and we shouted around that place, and I don't think I've ever been in anything any better in all my life. We shouted and shouted and worshiped, and when we finally got calmed down, you know, a few weeks later, I got to baptize both them boys into the church, and it was a great day. And that's, you know, that's a wonderful story, and I praise the Lord that I was a part of it. And it wasn't but about three years later, I stood over that little old boy's casket, and I preached unto his family and all of his friends about the day that the Lord saved him. And because of that, I took great hope in knowing that one day I'd see him again. Oh, praise his name. That was a sad day. But on his tombstone, out there in Oak Grove Cemetery, Revelation 21 for us there. And God shall wipe all the tears from their eyes in that great reunion day when all of God's family are gathered up together. The hand has it been told to them. We have family reunions down here and somebody always misses out. They're sick or they had to work. They had trouble. Something come up and they couldn't be there. But on that great reunion day, they won't be near one of us missing. When the road is called up yonder, I mean to be there. When all the tears are wiped away, Brother Michael, there will never be no tears no more. Amen. The half has not been told. I really can't tell you how good it is to be saved. Can I say this? The night that I got saved, let me back up. The night before, and probably a couple, two or three months before the night I got saved, I got real scared of the dark. I'd want my mom to leave my closet light on. I had them closet that folded in, you know, and folded out. and had them little slats all the way down through there, and that light would shine in, and I wanted that light on. That night I got saved in the revival over here at Rock Springs on the other side. I told this morning, Brother Kenneth Windsor was preaching the night that I got saved. We came back to the same house down the same road. I went in the same bedroom. I stopped by and told my aunts and my grandparents that the Lord had saved me, and it was a great day. I had a friend named Robert Sims. He's a principal up here at Evans in Avon. Dr. Sims, I believe now he is. He was my best friend. And I called him on the phone. I said, he got saved a little bit before me. And I called him and I said, hey, I got saved tonight. And as little old 10-year-old boys, we kind of cried on the phone. And I know that sounds crazy. We got into bed that night. And mama started leaving, the light was on. Sister Kim, I said, you turn that light off. I ain't scared of the dark no more. The half hadn't been told on what God can do for you, what God has in store for us. Take good courage. There's a brighter day coming for the children of God. There's a better day out in front of us. That's all I'm gonna preach tonight, Brother Justin. I could just, I could tag off here, and the next preacher could preach as long as me, and they could just keep on going around. We still couldn't tell it. We couldn't even tell the half of it. Amen. There's joy waiting for us. Peace. Hey, I'm quitting. Come on. Come on, Brother Michael, with the verse of imitation. Let's stand together. Somebody might need to come pray tonight. I don't know your heart. Maybe you're discouraged. I'm glad the Lord can encourage you. Maybe today's been a bad day. He can give you a promise for a better day tomorrow. Amen. I don't know your heart. What number did you say? 167. Why don't we stand, Brother Justin? Come on out here and stand on the altar. Somebody might need to come pray. Amen, it's a better day coming for the children of God. ♪ I have found His grace is all complete ♪ He's supplying every need ♪ While I sit and learn at Jesus' feet ♪ I am free as free is the Lord It is joy unspeakable and full of glory, full of glory, full of glory. It is joy unspeakable and full of glory. Oh, the half has never yet been told. You know, sometimes I go to sleep at night and I'm disappointed with my day, the way I've lived or acted. I said something I shouldn't have said or acted a way I shouldn't have had, thought something I shouldn't have thought. I have those thoughts in ways
The Half Has Not Been Told
Series Summer Revival 2021
2021 Summer Revival 7/26/21 Evening Service
Sermon ID | 72721357254611 |
Duration | 33:35 |
Date | |
Category | Special Meeting |
Bible Text | 2 Chronicles 9:1-12 |
Language | English |
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