Latest / Meadows Baptist Church Podcast / The Second Coming of Christ - 3/15/26 - Meadows Baptist Church - Pastor Charlie Branch

Transcript

The Second Coming of Christ - 3/15/26 - Meadows Baptist Church - Pastor Charlie Branch · Meadows Baptist Church Podcast

• 0:02
  Welcome to the podcast of Meadows
• 0:05
  Baptist Church of Walnut Cove, North
• 0:07
  Carolina. We're so glad you joined us
• 0:10
  today. If you enjoy today's message, be
• 0:12
  sure to subscribe, follow, and share
• 0:15
  with your friends. Now, let's join
• 0:17
  Pastor Charlie Branch with a word from
• 0:20
  God.
• 0:27
  >> Amen. Luke's Gospel chapter 17. If you
• 0:30
  have a Bible, find your place there. If
• 0:32
  you would stand. Luke's Gospel, chapter
• 0:35
  17.
• 0:45
  He is worthy of our praise.
• 0:47
  >> Amen.
• 0:50
  >> And u I don't know how you feel. I don't
• 0:53
  know where you're at, but I'll tell you
• 0:54
  this. He's still worthy. Amen. And I'm
• 0:57
  thankful his grace is sufficient.
• 1:00
  >> Yes.
• 1:01
  >> And whatever you're going through, he'll
• 1:02
  help you
• 1:03
  >> and he wants to help you. Amen. And if
• 1:06
  you only let him, Amen. He will help
• 1:08
  you. And I appreciate you being here in
• 1:10
  the house of God today. Luke's Gospel
• 1:12
  chapter 17 verse number 24.
• 1:16
  Luke's Gospel chapter 17 verse 24. The
• 1:20
  Bible says, "For as the lightning that
• 1:23
  lightenth out of the one part under
• 1:25
  heaven shineth unto the other part under
• 1:28
  heaven, so shall also the Son of man be
• 1:31
  in his day. But first must he suffer
• 1:34
  many things and be rejected of this
• 1:37
  generation. And as it was in the days of
• 1:40
  Noah, so shall it be also in the days of
• 1:43
  the Son of Man. They did eat, they
• 1:46
  drank, they married wives, they were
• 1:49
  given in marriage until the day that
• 1:52
  Noah entered into the ark, and the flood
• 1:55
  came and destroyed them all. Likewise
• 1:59
  also, as it was in the days of Lot, they
• 2:02
  did eat, they drank, they bought, they
• 2:05
  sold, they planted, they builded. But
• 2:09
  the same day that Lot went out of Sodom,
• 2:12
  it rained fire and brimstone from heaven
• 2:16
  >> and destroyed them all. Even thus shall
• 2:19
  it be in the day when the Son of Man is
• 2:23
  revealed. Father, thank you for this
• 2:25
  good day, for your grace and your mercy
• 2:27
  towards us. Thank you, Father, for your
• 2:28
  kindness. And Lord, I ask you for just a
• 2:31
  little while, God, that you would help
• 2:32
  us this morning, God, as we've come to
• 2:35
  preach today. God, I thank you for this
• 2:38
  pull pit, this church, God, this
• 2:40
  ministry, Lord, that you've entrusted to
• 2:43
  me, God. I'm not worthy of it today, but
• 2:45
  God, I really need your help. And God, I
• 2:48
  pray, Father, that Lord, as we felt your
• 2:50
  spirit this morning, God, I pray, Lord,
• 2:52
  that he would continue to work and
• 2:54
  finger about the hearts, Lord, of your
• 2:57
  children as well as those who are lost
• 2:58
  this morning in conviction. God, I pray,
• 3:01
  Father, Lord, for whatever needs are
• 3:03
  present in this in this service. I pray
• 3:05
  that you would minister grace, Lord, to
• 3:08
  each heart in life. I pray that you'd
• 3:09
  help us to receive with meekness the
• 3:12
  engrafted word. And I pray that we'd see
• 3:14
  no man save Jesus only. And God, I pray,
• 3:16
  Father, you'd open our eyes that we
• 3:18
  might behold wondrous things in thy law.
• 3:20
  And God, I pray, Father, Lord, as John
• 3:22
  said in Revelation, even so come
• 3:24
  quickly, Lord Jesus. God, I ask you that
• 3:27
  you would help us for this little
• 3:29
  stretch of time. and we'll be sure to
• 3:30
  give you thanks for what you do because
• 3:32
  we ask it in Jesus' name. And God's
• 3:35
  children said, "Amen."
• 3:36
  >> Thank you for standing. You can be
• 3:39
  seated this morning. When praying about
• 3:42
  this service today, and be honest with
• 3:44
  you, the preaching that we've heard this
• 3:46
  week, I didn't really know exactly where
• 3:50
  to go, what where to start. I feel like
• 3:52
  everything's been preached. But I'll be
• 3:53
  honest with you, Lord convicted my heart
• 3:56
  over that. He said, "No, you got 66
• 3:58
  books." Amen. can preach from. And uh
• 4:00
  man, I'm telling you, I'm thankful for
• 4:02
  this Bible. Amen. It is the inspired,
• 4:04
  inherit, and infallible word of God. And
• 4:07
  the Lord placed this subject on my
• 4:09
  heart. I've been praying uh what
• 4:11
  direction he'd have us to go in. And I
• 4:13
  want to preach for just a little while
• 4:14
  this morning on the second coming of
• 4:16
  Jesus Christ. Now, I've preached many
• 4:19
  messages here at the church on this.
• 4:21
  Been been a while since I preached on
• 4:23
  this subject, but I tell you this, we're
• 4:25
  closer today than we was yesterday. And
• 4:27
  I really believe that Jesus is going to
• 4:30
  come at any time. I don't believe it's
• 4:31
  going to be very long. And I was
• 4:34
  thinking about this text particularly as
• 4:36
  many there's a text that I love to
• 4:38
  preach from concerning the second
• 4:40
  coming. I love to go to Matthew chapter
• 4:42
  25 and preach on those 10 virgins over
• 4:45
  there and how they five of them had oil
• 4:47
  in their lamps and in their vessels.
• 4:49
  Amen. And five those five foolish they
• 4:52
  only had it in their lamps. Amen. and
• 4:54
  representing that profession that they
• 4:56
  had, but they didn't have it on their
• 4:58
  person. And I'll say this, salvation
• 5:00
  this morning is personal. Amen. And you
• 5:02
  can have a lamp of profession, but
• 5:04
  you'll find one of these days when he
• 5:05
  does come back that that lamp, that oil
• 5:07
  run out of that profession. Amen. But
• 5:10
  I'll tell you, those ones that had oil
• 5:11
  in their vessel. Amen. They were able to
• 5:13
  go into the marriage. Amen. And I'm
• 5:16
  thankful that for you and I this morning
• 5:18
  that Jesus lives on the inside. Amen. if
• 5:21
  you've been born again by the grace of
• 5:23
  God. And I want to lay just a few things
• 5:25
  on your heart by way of introduction and
• 5:27
  then give you the message this morning.
• 5:29
  And the Bible says in our text this
• 5:31
  morning, verse number 24, Jesus is
• 5:34
  speaking. He says, "For as the lightning
• 5:36
  that lightenth out of the one part under
• 5:38
  heaven shineth under the other part
• 5:41
  under heaven, so shall also the son of
• 5:43
  man be in his day." And so here we have
• 5:46
  the very Messiah himself describing the
• 5:49
  instance of his coming as lightning.
• 5:52
  I'll say this, his coming will be
• 5:54
  sudden. Amen. But I'll say this, his c
• 5:56
  his coming is going to be shocking.
• 5:58
  Amen. To many people, there's going to
• 6:00
  be those that were unaware of the time
• 6:03
  that he's coming. Now, we know this
• 6:05
  morning, let me say this, theologically
• 6:07
  speaking, this text is not dealing with
• 6:09
  the rapture primarily, but it is dealing
• 6:11
  with the revelation of Jesus when he's
• 6:14
  going to come back to this earth that
• 6:15
  final time and land upon the Mount of
• 6:18
  Olives there. And the Bible says that
• 6:20
  it'll split and then he'll walk there
• 6:22
  into Jerusalem through that valley.
• 6:24
  Amen. Through that eastern gate, amen.
• 6:27
  And he'll rule and super rule there in
• 6:29
  Jerusalem. Amen. And this is that
• 6:32
  reference. But let me say this, the
• 6:34
  application is the same. Amen. We are
• 6:36
  looking for the rapture, the catching
• 6:39
  away before the revelation. There must
• 6:41
  be the rapture. Amen. And let me say
• 6:43
  this to you this morning. I heard a man
• 6:46
  just the other day, and I think it's a
• 6:48
  man that many of us probably have
• 6:49
  listened to before. I call his name. I
• 6:51
  think his name is Kent Hovind. I think
• 6:54
  is his name. But he defends creation,
• 6:56
  and he's de he's debated with atheists
• 6:59
  down through the years. And he made the
• 7:01
  statement the other day. He said, "I
• 7:02
  believed for 40 years in the
• 7:04
  pre-tribulation rapture of the church."
• 7:06
  He said, "But now I've come to realize
• 7:08
  that we're going to have to go through
• 7:10
  all of the tribulation." And I was
• 7:12
  watching that clip and thinking to
• 7:13
  myself, "Well, I wonder what's made him
• 7:15
  fall off of his rocker all of a sudden."
• 7:18
  You say, "What do you mean?" Well, I'm
• 7:19
  saying, friend, if he saved me from
• 7:21
  hell, amen. He's certainly not going to
• 7:23
  let me go through hell on earth.
• 7:25
  Somebody say amen right there. And I
• 7:27
  don't care who comes up with it or who
• 7:29
  says it. Amen. I'm not going through
• 7:31
  three and a half or all seven. If you go
• 7:33
  through one day of it, friend, you going
• 7:35
  to be there for the rest of it. Amen.
• 7:37
  But I'll say this, I'm getting out of
• 7:38
  here in the rapture. Amen. And Kent
• 7:41
  Hovine can hang around for it if he
• 7:42
  wants to. Amen. But I'm leaving here.
• 7:45
  Praise God. Amen. And Jesus when he
• 7:47
  comes back, the Bible says that he'll
• 7:49
  descend with a shout and the voice of
• 7:51
  the archangel and the trump of God.
• 7:53
  What's your Bible say? And the dead in
• 7:55
  Christ shall rise first. Then we which
• 7:58
  are alive and remain shall be caught up
• 7:59
  together to meet them in the clouds, to
• 8:02
  meet the Lord in the air, and so shall
• 8:04
  WE EVER BE WITH THE LORD. AMEN.
• 8:08
  >> He's coming back.
• 8:09
  >> And he describes his coming as
• 8:11
  lightning. Now, I want to remind you,
• 8:13
  he's talking about his revelation here
• 8:15
  in the text. And of course, we know that
• 8:17
  when Jesus descends upon that Mount of
• 8:20
  Olives, and the Bible literally says
• 8:22
  that that mountain is going to split
• 8:24
  there, the Mount of Olives, he's going
• 8:26
  to descend and walk there into
• 8:28
  Jerusalem. But I'll say this, Jesus
• 8:30
  doesn't only talk about his coming in
• 8:32
  verse number 24. But he also talks about
• 8:35
  his cross. Notice verse 25. But first
• 8:39
  must he suffer many things. Look what
• 8:42
  your Bible says. and be rejected of this
• 8:46
  generation. You see, our Bible literally
• 8:48
  says in this text that he told his
• 8:50
  disciples, he said, "The days will come
• 8:52
  when you shall desire to see one of the
• 8:55
  days of the Son of Man." And he said,
• 8:57
  "You shall not see it." But what he was
• 8:59
  going to tell him was this. Hey, there's
• 9:01
  coming a day when I'm going to have to
• 9:02
  go to the cross long before I can ever
• 9:05
  come back and be your king. I'm going to
• 9:07
  have to go to the cross as the lamb and
• 9:09
  be slain for the sins of the world.
• 9:11
  Amen. And he said, "I must suffer." And
• 9:14
  so he prophesies of the cross of
• 9:16
  Calvary. And let me say this. I'm
• 9:18
  thankful that for that cross, that's the
• 9:20
  reason that God still saves old sinners.
• 9:22
  Amen. I don't care how deep in sin you
• 9:25
  are. I don't care how far you think
• 9:27
  you've gone. I'm thankful that Calvary
• 9:29
  and the blood of Jesus IS STILL ABLE TO
• 9:32
  SAVE TO THE UTTERMOST. AMEN. Them that
• 9:35
  would call upon him by faith. And so
• 9:37
  Jesus speaks of his coming. But he ALSO
• 9:40
  SPEAKS OF HIS cross in verse 25 that he
• 9:42
  first must suffer many things. And in
• 9:45
  verse number 26, the Bible says here
• 9:47
  that he begins to describe the character
• 9:50
  of his coming. Notice what the Bible
• 9:53
  says. And as it was in the days of Noah,
• 9:58
  so shall it be also in the days of the
• 10:02
  son of man.
• 10:04
  You see, Jesus is here describing what
• 10:06
  society will be like when he comes back.
• 10:10
  And you've heard it said, and I've heard
• 10:12
  it said down through the years, that if
• 10:15
  Jesus is describing this society as it
• 10:18
  would be at his revelation, and that is
• 10:20
  yet at least seven years from where we
• 10:22
  are right now, what would it be like?
• 10:24
  What must it be like when he does come
• 10:26
  back that time?
• 10:28
  >> Right? If our world represents what
• 10:30
  Jesus is speaking about in this text
• 10:33
  now, how soon must he be coming? You're
• 10:36
  >> right.
• 10:36
  >> You must understand that he is speaking
• 10:39
  of event that if he was to come in the
• 10:41
  rapture in the next five minutes, that
• 10:42
  has to at least be seven years from now.
• 10:45
  Seven years of tribulation, seven years
• 10:48
  of Jacob's trouble, seven years of
• 10:50
  darkness and defilement and demons on
• 10:53
  this earth unleashed in judgment. And
• 10:56
  you say, "Preacher, what are you
• 10:57
  saying?" And I'm saying if he is
• 10:58
  describing the world that we are living
• 11:01
  in right now, how soon must he be
• 11:03
  coming?
• 11:04
  >> You're right.
• 11:05
  >> Because the rapture must happen first.
• 11:07
  And I notice in this text, Jesus says,
• 11:10
  "As it was in the days of Noah." And you
• 11:14
  notice later on verse number 28,
• 11:16
  "Likewise also as it was in the days of
• 11:19
  Lot." And he used two biblical instances
• 11:22
  to describe to us the society
• 11:26
  of the world that will be present at his
• 11:29
  second advent.
• 11:32
  And I want to give you five things this
• 11:34
  morning. Just simple what the Lord put
• 11:36
  on my heart that is described in these
• 11:39
  verses what it's going to be like when
• 11:41
  Jesus comes back. I hope you'll put
• 11:43
  these things down in your Bible or in
• 11:46
  your notes this morning. I want to say
• 11:47
  this. You notice in this text, the Bible
• 11:50
  says in verse number 26, you notice
• 11:52
  there, as it was in the days of Noah, so
• 11:55
  shall it also be in the days of the son
• 11:58
  of man. And what you're going to notice
• 11:59
  about this, and I'll give you these
• 12:01
  couple of thoughts, and I'll give you
• 12:02
  the message here. I I would say you what
• 12:04
  you notice in this text is that things
• 12:06
  were normal.
• 12:08
  The Bible says they did eat, they drank,
• 12:11
  they married wives, they were given in
• 12:14
  marriage until the day that Noah entered
• 12:17
  into the ark. I'll say this, not only
• 12:20
  were things normal, but needs were
• 12:22
  present. You know, people are talking
• 12:24
  about in this day and time that there's
• 12:26
  a Christ there's a sector of
• 12:28
  Christianity that says that um that
• 12:31
  Jesus is going to come back to this
• 12:33
  earth because the church is just going
• 12:34
  to get so holy and so right with God
• 12:37
  that is just going to overtake the whole
• 12:38
  world and Jesus is just going to come
• 12:40
  back rule and reign over his church.
• 12:42
  Well, I submit to you that's not the
• 12:44
  Bible truth.
• 12:46
  >> Amen. That crowd that believes and
• 12:48
  preaches that stuff, they been they're
• 12:49
  very wrong when they say that. You
• 12:51
  understand things have got to get worse.
• 12:54
  >> Paul said in the last days, perilous
• 12:56
  times will come. Troublesome times,
• 12:58
  dangerous times, SINFUL AND DEFILED
• 13:01
  TIMES. THERE WILL BE NEEDS. THE CHURCH
• 13:04
  WILL BE IN NEED of revival.
• 13:06
  >> You're right.
• 13:06
  >> When he comes, I'll say this, Israel in
• 13:09
  this text will be in a desperate place
• 13:12
  >> when he comes. There is needs there. It
• 13:15
  will seem normal, but the spiritual
• 13:17
  side, there will be needs. But I think
• 13:20
  about this in the text. Notice what the
• 13:22
  Bible says in verse number 28. Likewise
• 13:25
  also as it was in the days of Lot, they
• 13:26
  did eat, they drank, they bought, they
• 13:29
  sold, they planted, they builded. You
• 13:32
  know, I thought about this. Society
• 13:33
  would be normal. The spiritual part of
• 13:36
  the church that would be present or the
• 13:38
  Jews that's in this text there, there
• 13:40
  will be need spiritually. But I'll say
• 13:42
  this in life as a whole, the necessities
• 13:45
  will continue on.
• 13:46
  >> Notice what said. They bought, they
• 13:50
  sold, they planted, and they builded.
• 13:54
  Now you say, "What is all of that?"
• 13:56
  Well, you notice in the text there,
• 13:57
  there's meals that are given in verse 27
• 14:00
  as well as in verse 28. Also, in the
• 14:03
  days of Lot and in the days of Noah,
• 14:05
  they were eating, they were drinking.
• 14:07
  This does not literally mean that they
• 14:08
  were given to alcohol. That's not even
• 14:10
  what this is saying. It just saying that
• 14:12
  they were having their meals,
• 14:14
  >> right? Not only that, but in the days of
• 14:16
  Noah, there's marriages. Look what the
• 14:18
  Bible says. They married wives. They
• 14:21
  were given in marriage. That means that
• 14:22
  wives were given to husbands and vice
• 14:25
  versa. Men married wives and wives were
• 14:27
  given to husbands and marriages were
• 14:30
  normal. The necessities of life were
• 14:32
  continuing on. Not only meals and
• 14:36
  marriages, but you notice there's
• 14:37
  marketing in the text. They bought and
• 14:40
  they sold. Things are just going on. You
• 14:42
  say, "What does this have to do?" This
• 14:44
  is what Jesus is describing.
• 14:47
  >> You're right.
• 14:47
  >> Before he comes back.
• 14:49
  >> Yeah.
• 14:50
  >> This is a description of the last day of
• 14:53
  the last of the last days. This is a
• 14:55
  description of the time just before he
• 14:58
  comes. They're marketing, they're
• 15:00
  manufacturing, they plan it, and they
• 15:02
  build it.
• 15:04
  Life is progressing. You're
• 15:06
  >> right.
• 15:07
  >> You say, "Preacher, is that the
• 15:08
  message?" No, that's not the message. I
• 15:09
  want to give you these five truths this
• 15:11
  morning.
• 15:12
  You see, Jesus says all of this to
• 15:14
  emphasize to us the fact that he could
• 15:17
  come at any moment.
• 15:19
  >> And we know that he's soon coming. But I
• 15:22
  thought about this. What do we know
• 15:24
  about these stories? What do we know
• 15:26
  about Noah's story and about Lot's
• 15:29
  story? And these five truths come to my
• 15:31
  mind. Write this down with me. Number
• 15:33
  one, I think if you look at the society
• 15:36
  in Noah's day as well as in Lot's day, I
• 15:39
  would say number one, they're distracted
• 15:41
  by life.
• 15:44
  >> They're distracted
• 15:46
  by life. You say, "What is that,
• 15:48
  preacher?" Well, I think about Noah's
• 15:50
  story in particular. The Bible teaches
• 15:52
  us that some 120 years Noah has building
• 15:56
  this boat. And brother Marty and Sister
• 15:57
  Robin just went up there and seen that
• 16:00
  boat. And I was thinking about this
• 16:01
  while we was talking about that this
• 16:03
  morning. The amazement of that
• 16:05
  architecture of that thing. People come
• 16:07
  from all over the world to see it. But
• 16:09
  you think about this. Noah was building
• 16:10
  that boat in a day when nobody had ever
• 16:12
  seen rain.
• 16:13
  >> Right?
• 16:15
  >> Water had never fallen from the sky. He
• 16:18
  was building a boat in a day when men
• 16:20
  and women didn't not they looked at Noah
• 16:22
  and they thought he was the most insane,
• 16:24
  stupid man that's ever been. You're
• 16:26
  >> right. Noah, the Bible says that as he
• 16:29
  was building that ark, Peter says that
• 16:31
  there were eight souls that were saved
• 16:33
  by water. That was him and his wife and
• 16:35
  his three sons and their wives. Eight
• 16:37
  souls that were saved. And you
• 16:39
  understand that entire society was so
• 16:42
  distracted by life that they didn't even
• 16:44
  take time to notice.
• 16:46
  >> You're right.
• 16:46
  >> What Noah was doing.
• 16:48
  >> You know what the truth is? Society
• 16:51
  doesn't even know for the most part what
• 16:52
  we're doing this morning. You're
• 16:54
  >> right.
• 16:55
  They don't even notice.
• 16:57
  We We do our best to propagate the
• 16:59
  gospel and and to plant seeds of faith
• 17:02
  and society and try our best to live the
• 17:04
  Christian life, but really as a whole,
• 17:06
  we don't affect them that much.
• 17:08
  >> Right?
• 17:08
  >> They don't notice what's going on. And
• 17:11
  what do we know about society? They're
• 17:12
  distracted by their own busyness. You're
• 17:14
  >> right.
• 17:15
  >> Their lives are full of things and
• 17:18
  places and people, but it is not full of
• 17:20
  Jesus. There is no person in their life.
• 17:23
  There is no salvation. There is no
• 17:25
  service. There is no real life.
• 17:29
  >> They know nothing about spiritual life.
• 17:32
  But they know a whole lot about temporal
• 17:34
  life. That's
• 17:34
  >> right.
• 17:35
  >> And I'll say this, the church in this
• 17:36
  day and time has to be careful to not
• 17:38
  let the world infiltrate
• 17:41
  their our mindsets. You see, our number
• 17:43
  one purpose and primary goal as the
• 17:45
  church is to live out the will of God.
• 17:47
  >> Right? And Noah as he was building that
• 17:50
  ark those years you you don't you
• 17:52
  wouldn't you would be crazy to think
• 17:54
  that there were people that that down
• 17:56
  Noah and said what are you doing?
• 17:58
  There's people that look at us that way.
• 18:01
  >> But I'll tell you the reason why is
• 18:02
  because they're too distracted by their
• 18:04
  own life.
• 18:05
  >> So much I could say this morning but I
• 18:07
  want to preach and get done this
• 18:08
  morning. I think not only they were
• 18:11
  distracted by life. You you take talk
• 18:13
  about Lot's instance. Those those men
• 18:16
  there in Sodom and Gomorrah, they're
• 18:18
  distracted by their own living. We'll
• 18:20
  say more about that in just a minute.
• 18:22
  But I'll say this. Not only they were
• 18:24
  distracted by life, number two, they
• 18:26
  were defiled by lust,
• 18:30
  the generation as a whole. And you say,
• 18:33
  "How is that, preacher?" Well, you
• 18:34
  notice you think in these text, I I
• 18:37
  remind you, he's talking about the
• 18:39
  kingdoms this morning and that realm.
• 18:41
  You think about the realm in Noah's day.
• 18:43
  It had to do with the whole earth,
• 18:45
  >> right?
• 18:45
  >> You say, "How is that?" Well, listen to
• 18:47
  what he says. Genesis chapter 6, verse
• 18:50
  number five. You've probably heard it
• 18:51
  quoted before, but listen to what the
• 18:53
  Bible says. God is describing
• 18:56
  the human race. Now, of course, we know
• 18:58
  here in the text that there is a
• 19:00
  division that's given of of of uh Cain's
• 19:04
  children and the godly line of Seth
• 19:06
  that's seen in Genesis 6. Whether or not
• 19:08
  you believe that that's that's no
• 19:10
  doesn't really make a difference. But
• 19:11
  the description is given in verse number
• 19:14
  five of the entirety of that generation.
• 19:17
  Genesis 6 the Bible says and God saw
• 19:20
  that the wickedness of man was great in
• 19:22
  the earth. Notice that and that every
• 19:25
  imagination of the thoughts of his heart
• 19:27
  was only what? Evil continually. Verse
• 19:32
  six. And it repented the Lord that he
• 19:33
  had made man on the earth and it grieved
• 19:36
  him at his heart. And the Lord said, "I
• 19:38
  will destroy man whom I have created
• 19:40
  from the face of the earth." God is sick
• 19:43
  with the sin of the world. THEY ARE
• 19:45
  DEFILED BY THEIR LUST.
• 19:49
  >> RIGHT?
• 19:50
  >> You say, "Preacher, what does that have
• 19:51
  to do with Lot's day?" Well, you never
• 19:53
  heard of the sin of Sodomy,
• 19:55
  >> right?
• 19:55
  >> Sodom and Gomorrah. It's where it
• 19:57
  originated. The wickedness of that city
• 19:59
  was so great. God had already promised.
• 20:02
  the the in the past that he put his bow
• 20:05
  in the cloud and for Noah that he would
• 20:07
  not flood the earth again and and kill
• 20:09
  all those sinners. But you understand
• 20:11
  that God was so disgusted with the sin
• 20:15
  of Sodom and Gomorrah that even though
• 20:17
  he had promised not to judge the
• 20:19
  entirety of the earth again. He would
• 20:21
  yet again judge a group of people
• 20:23
  because their sin was so wicked and so
• 20:25
  grievious in the sight of God that God
• 20:28
  could not stand to let it go on.
• 20:31
  >> Right. Right.
• 20:32
  >> And the Bible says in the book of
• 20:34
  Genesis chapter number 13 and verse
• 20:37
  number 13 that the men of Sodom were
• 20:39
  wicked and sinners exceedingly
• 20:42
  >> before the Lord. You're
• 20:43
  >> right.
• 20:44
  >> And the Bible is literally giving the
• 20:46
  description there that Lot had chosen
• 20:48
  the plain of Mamry and and or the plain
• 20:51
  of Jordan and Abraham and chose the
• 20:53
  plains of Mamry and Lot had pitched his
• 20:55
  tent toward Sodom. And we know the
• 20:58
  story. Lot ends up there just a few
• 21:00
  short chapters down the road, he's got
• 21:02
  his tent toward it. But we find just a
• 21:04
  few more chapters over that Lot's living
• 21:07
  in the gate. His family is involved in
• 21:09
  the society and the entirety of his
• 21:12
  family had become defiled by this very
• 21:15
  same lust. You're
• 21:17
  >> right.
• 21:18
  >> You know what I find interesting in
• 21:20
  Jesus's account? Verse 27, he said, "In
• 21:23
  the days of Noah, they eat, they did
• 21:25
  eat, they drank, they married wives, and
• 21:27
  they were given in marriage." But notice
• 21:28
  verse 28. They did eat, they drank, they
• 21:31
  bought, they sold, they planted, and
• 21:33
  they builded. What do you not find?
• 21:35
  There's no marriage.
• 21:38
  The day of sodomy and fornication and
• 21:42
  adultery that was present there in the
• 21:45
  land of Sodom and Gomorrah, marriage was
• 21:47
  excluded.
• 21:48
  >> Right?
• 21:49
  Bible talks about those that forbid to
• 21:51
  marry. Now, I'm not going to go into all
• 21:53
  that this morning, but the truth, what
• 21:55
  I'm trying to relay to you is this. This
• 21:57
  society was wicked. They were defiled by
• 22:01
  their lust. Peter describes them in his
• 22:03
  epistle that God delivered just Lot
• 22:06
  vexed with a filthy conversation of the
• 22:08
  wicked. Jude describes Sodom and
• 22:10
  Gomorrah talks of their wickedness.
• 22:13
  These people were defiled by their lust.
• 22:16
  And you say, "What is that?" that. Well,
• 22:17
  think about our society.
• 22:20
  Our society is drunk on fornication and
• 22:22
  pornography and adultery and sodomy and
• 22:25
  homosexualism and all the other isms and
• 22:28
  schisms that are in OUR WORLD. WE'RE
• 22:30
  DRUNK ON THIS LUST in our world today.
• 22:33
  >> And it's A DESCRIPTION. JESUS SAYS, "AS
• 22:35
  IT WAS IN THE DAYS OF NOAH, AS IT WAS IN
• 22:39
  THE DAYS OF LOT, IT'S GOING TO BE THAT
• 22:41
  WAY WHEN I COME BACK." You're
• 22:42
  >> right.
• 22:46
  They are defiled by their lust.
• 22:49
  Covetousness has overtaken them. The
• 22:51
  love of money has overtaken their mind.
• 22:54
  And they have defiled themselves and
• 22:56
  pierced themselves through with many
• 22:58
  sorrows BECAUSE THEY'RE ONLY SEEKING to
• 23:01
  gratify the flesh.
• 23:03
  >> Right?
• 23:03
  >> They're distracted by life. They're
• 23:05
  defiled by lust. But I'll say this. You
• 23:08
  say, "Preacher, we know all that." Well,
• 23:11
  let me remind you something. They wasn't
• 23:14
  without guidance.
• 23:17
  Noah's day wasn't without guidance.
• 23:19
  Lot's day wasn't without guidance.
• 23:22
  >> You say, "How is that?" Well, I'd say
• 23:24
  they're distracted by lie. They're
• 23:25
  defiled by lust. But they were they were
• 23:27
  directed by a leader.
• 23:30
  >> They had somebody to tell them the
• 23:31
  truth. You say, "How is that?" Well,
• 23:34
  listen to what the Bible says in the
• 23:36
  book of Genesis, chapter number 19. God
• 23:39
  has told Abraham and and the those two
• 23:42
  angels have come down there to Sodom and
• 23:44
  Gomorrah to speak unto Lot. And they're
• 23:46
  telling him, "Hey, you've got to get out
• 23:48
  of this city, Lot. You've got to do YOUR
• 23:50
  BEST TO GET YOUR FAMILY OUT OF THIS
• 23:51
  CITY." And Lot, the Bible says that he
• 23:54
  was a righteous soul. According to the
• 23:56
  New Testament, that he was righteous and
• 23:58
  he vexed his righteous soul with a
• 24:00
  filthy conversation of the wicked. Their
• 24:02
  lifestyle vexed him. And Lot, the Bible
• 24:05
  says, he gives a message to them. Verse
• 24:07
  13 of Genesis 19. The angel say unto
• 24:10
  him, for we will destroy this place,
• 24:13
  because the cry of them is wax and drake
• 24:15
  before the face of the Lord. And the
• 24:17
  Lord hath sent us to destroy it. Verse
• 24:19
  14. And Lot went out and spake unto his
• 24:22
  sons-in-law, which married his
• 24:24
  daughters, and said up, get you out of
• 24:25
  this place, for the Lord will destroy
• 24:27
  this city. But listen to what your Bible
• 24:29
  says. But he seemed as one that mocked
• 24:33
  unto his sons-in-law.
• 24:36
  They didn't listen to the direction God
• 24:37
  had given them.
• 24:39
  >> Right?
• 24:40
  >> You say, "Preacher, but that was just to
• 24:41
  his children." You understand? GOD HAD
• 24:43
  ALREADY TURNED over the rest of that
• 24:45
  crowd to reprobate mind.
• 24:47
  >> God had already given them over. HE THEY
• 24:49
  WERE DONE. THEY were going to be
• 24:50
  destroyed. AND GOD WAS GOING TO TAKE
• 24:52
  VENGEANCE ON THAT CITY.
• 24:54
  >> RIGHT?
• 24:56
  >> He said, "Lot, get your children." LOT
• 24:59
  GOES TO HIS CHILDREN. THEY laugh in his
• 25:01
  face.
• 25:02
  >> So what does he do? He gets his two
• 25:04
  daughters that have not that are not
• 25:05
  married in the text and brings them out.
• 25:08
  We've studied it before here at the
• 25:10
  church that Lot at least had two sons
• 25:12
  that were in the city married. And he
• 25:14
  also had at least two daughters that
• 25:16
  were in that city. And those two
• 25:18
  sons-in-law, they mocked at him. His own
• 25:20
  sons, the Bible doesn't even say
• 25:22
  anything about them. But he left over
• 25:24
  half of his family in that city AND THEY
• 25:27
  WERE DIRECTED TO LEAVE. BUT WHAT DID
• 25:29
  THEY DO? THEY STAYED.
• 25:31
  >> YOU'RE RIGHT. YOU KNOW, IT SICKENS me in
• 25:33
  this day and time when preachers will
• 25:34
  preach and Sunday school teachers will
• 25:36
  teach and parents WILL PRAY AND TRY TO
• 25:39
  GUIDE THEIR CHILDREN AND TO GUIDE THEIR
• 25:41
  FAMILY, but seems like people just want
• 25:43
  to continue TO DO WHATEVER GRATIFIES OUR
• 25:46
  FLESH,
• 25:47
  >> RIGHT?
• 25:48
  >> It's not because we don't HAVE A LEADER.
• 25:50
  IT'S NOT BECAUSE WE'VE NOT BEEN TOLD
• 25:52
  WHAT TO DO. IT'S NOT BECAUSE WE DON'T
• 25:54
  HAVE CLEAR DIRECTION FROM THE WORD OF
• 25:56
  GOD. IT'S BECAUSE PEOPLE DO NOT LISTEN
• 25:59
  TO THE LEADERSHIP. YES.
• 26:01
  >> YOU SAY, "PREACHER, WHAT DOES THAT HAVE
• 26:02
  TO DO WITH NOAH?" WELL, listen to what
• 26:04
  the Bible says in 2 Peter chapter 2.
• 26:07
  SECOND PETER CHAPTER 2 AND VERSE number
• 26:09
  five. The Bible says, "And God, HE
• 26:12
  SPARED NOT THE old world, but saved Noah
• 26:15
  the eighth person, notice this phrase, a
• 26:18
  preacher
• 26:20
  of
• 26:22
  righteousness,
• 26:23
  bringing in the flood upon the world of
• 26:26
  the ungodly." You know what Noah was
• 26:28
  doing the whole time he was building
• 26:30
  that ark? He had a friend, he had a
• 26:34
  HAMMER IN ONE HAND and a sword IN HIS
• 26:36
  HEART. AMEN. AND YOU KNOW WHAT HE WAS
• 26:38
  DOING? HE WAS GIVING OUT THE WORD OF
• 26:39
  GOD, TELLING THAT CROWD, "HEY, THERE'S A
• 26:41
  FLOOD COMING. GOD'S GOING TO SEND THE
• 26:44
  RAIN. WATER'S GOING TO FALL FROM THE
• 26:46
  SKY. JUDGMENT IS COMING. IT'S COMING.
• 26:48
  IT'S IMMINENT. I'M TELLING YOU, I'M NOT
• 26:50
  A FOOL. GOD HAS TOLD ME THAT HE'S COMING
• 26:53
  TO JUDGE THE WORLD." AND YOU KNOW WHAT?
• 26:55
  ALL THAT TIME NOAH PREACHED and not A
• 26:58
  SOUL BELIEVED AND NOT A SOUL HOOKED UP
• 27:00
  WITH WHAT HE SAID. BUT I'LL TELL YOU
• 27:02
  THIS, WHEN HE WENT INTO THAT ARK AND GOD
• 27:04
  SHUT THE DOOR BEHIND HIM, YOU BETTER
• 27:06
  BELIEVE WHEN THE RAIN STARTED TO FALL
• 27:08
  THAT THEM SOULS OF THOSE MEN, THAT
• 27:10
  WICKED GENERATION BEGAN TO RUN UP AND
• 27:12
  BEAT THE SIDE OF THAT ARK. NOAH, LET US
• 27:15
  IN. NOAH, LET US IN. WE BELIEVE YOU,
• 27:17
  NOAH.
• 27:21
  >> But if they just listen to him,
• 27:23
  >> That's right. You're right. You see,
• 27:24
  they were directed.
• 27:26
  >> They had a leader,
• 27:28
  >> right?
• 27:28
  >> Noah, the preacher of righteousness.
• 27:31
  You say, "Well, Lot wasn't a righteous
• 27:33
  man." Well, the Bible says that he was.
• 27:35
  Let me say this. Lot had been told what
• 27:37
  to do,
• 27:38
  >> right?
• 27:39
  >> Before all of that,
• 27:42
  Abraham taught him the right way.
• 27:44
  >> Yeah.
• 27:45
  >> Furthermore, them angels come down there
• 27:48
  to tell him to get out,
• 27:49
  >> right?
• 27:50
  >> You know what they had to do? They had
• 27:51
  to drag him out.
• 27:53
  I'm convinced they saved people that
• 27:55
  would die and go to hell if the Holy
• 27:57
  Spirit of God wouldn't keep them.
• 27:59
  >> You're right.
• 28:01
  >> Let me say this and I know what I just
• 28:03
  said is, you know, you say, "Preacher,
• 28:05
  well, all of us would die and go to
• 28:06
  hell." I'm saying what what the truth
• 28:07
  I'm trying to make is that people,
• 28:09
  Christian people are so in so involved
• 28:11
  in sin.
• 28:13
  >> People who are saved are living such a
• 28:15
  life of sin that they would slip off
• 28:17
  into hell if it wasn't for the grace of
• 28:18
  God.
• 28:19
  >> You're right. Right.
• 28:23
  They were directed by a leader. I'll say
• 28:26
  this, you're without excuse this
• 28:27
  morning.
• 28:28
  >> You're right.
• 28:29
  >> All those people that were in Sodom and
• 28:30
  Gomorrah that were without excuse. You
• 28:32
  can go back in the book of Genesis and
• 28:34
  and Abraham met up with the king of
• 28:37
  Sodom and Gomorrah. He told them it's
• 28:39
  same text where he met with Melzdc and
• 28:42
  he rebuked their wickedness. All of
• 28:44
  that. They knew better,
• 28:45
  >> right?
• 28:46
  >> You know better.
• 28:47
  >> Yeah. Truth is this morning this text is
• 28:50
  still the same. Here they were directed.
• 28:52
  Notice that as it was in the days of
• 28:55
  Noah. Who is described in this these
• 28:57
  verses? The days of Noah and the days of
• 28:59
  Lot.
• 29:02
  >> So much more I could say. Give you this.
• 29:05
  Fourthly, they were distracted by life.
• 29:07
  They were defiled by lust. They were
• 29:09
  directed by a leader. They were not
• 29:11
  without guidance. But I'll say this,
• 29:13
  they were destroyed
• 29:15
  >> by the Lord. Amen.
• 29:17
  >> Notice the text again. I know this is
• 29:19
  simple this morning, but it's the truth.
• 29:21
  Look what the Bible says. Until the day
• 29:23
  that Noah entered into the ark and the
• 29:25
  flood came, what's your Bible say? And
• 29:28
  destroyed them all. This judgment was
• 29:33
  total. It destroyed them all. You know,
• 29:36
  everybody that was on the outside of the
• 29:37
  ark died.
• 29:39
  >> Notice verse number verse number 29. But
• 29:42
  the same day that Lot went out of Sodom,
• 29:44
  it rained fire and brimstone from heaven
• 29:46
  and what? Destroyed them all. Everybody
• 29:51
  that was in Sodom and Gomorrah, Lot's
• 29:53
  children included, did not make it out.
• 29:55
  >> You're right.
• 29:57
  >> It was total. Well, let me just remind
• 29:59
  you of this just once again. It wasn't
• 30:01
  only total judgment, but it was foretold
• 30:03
  judgment.
• 30:04
  >> You're right.
• 30:05
  >> Lot told him
• 30:07
  >> what his sons, they mocked him. You
• 30:09
  crazy fire coming out of heaven. You've
• 30:11
  lost your mind, old man.
• 30:14
  You know what they did? They ended up
• 30:16
  dying.
• 30:16
  >> You're right.
• 30:17
  >> Burning alive to burn forever.
• 30:23
  >> All of those people that had listened to
• 30:25
  Noah preach and watched Noah labor. If
• 30:27
  there's ever been an example of the
• 30:28
  Christian life, that's what is right
• 30:30
  there. You're
• 30:30
  >> right.
• 30:31
  >> Noah spent his life building an ark to
• 30:33
  the saving of his house. Hebrews says,
• 30:35
  and let me say this, and I'm just going
• 30:37
  to hit it while I'm on the subject. If
• 30:39
  you lose your family, you've lost
• 30:40
  everything.
• 30:41
  >> You're right.
• 30:42
  >> Come on.
• 30:43
  >> I'll tell you this, friend. I'm not
• 30:45
  going to sell out any I'm not going to
• 30:47
  sell out my family for anything.
• 30:49
  >> The day that the spiritual condition of
• 30:51
  my wife and my children comes between me
• 30:53
  and this church, this church is going to
• 30:54
  be the first thing to go.
• 30:56
  >> You're right.
• 30:58
  >> Come on.
• 30:58
  >> They're my first priority.
• 31:00
  >> Noah preached to that generation. They
• 31:02
  didn't want to hear what he had to say.
• 31:04
  >> Yeah.
• 31:05
  >> But you know what he did? He saved his
• 31:07
  household.
• 31:08
  >> Right. Right.
• 31:08
  >> And you know what he also did? He lived
• 31:09
  a Christian life in front of that bunch.
• 31:11
  >> Yeah.
• 31:12
  >> They knew who he was.
• 31:14
  >> They knew what he was. They knew what he
• 31:15
  believed. They knew what he was doing,
• 31:17
  why he was doing it. They just couldn't
• 31:18
  h they just couldn't hang on to it.
• 31:20
  >> Right.
• 31:21
  >> That's what I'm finding. You can tell
• 31:23
  people the truth. And and you know,
• 31:24
  you're living right, doing right, you're
• 31:26
  preaching right, staying by that book,
• 31:28
  and people cannot argue with you because
• 31:29
  you're staying by that book. But this is
• 31:31
  what they'll do to you. They'll look at
• 31:33
  you and say, "Well, I just don't believe
• 31:34
  that."
• 31:36
  That's what happened in Noah's day.
• 31:38
  You're
• 31:38
  >> right.
• 31:38
  >> And what happened? They were destroyed.
• 31:42
  >> So much more I could say, but I'm going
• 31:43
  to move on because I want to get to this
• 31:44
  point. You know what? It's all it's not
• 31:46
  all doom and gloom in this. You say,
• 31:49
  "Well, how is that?" Well, there was
• 31:52
  there was destruction and it was total.
• 31:54
  It was told, it was truthful. It was God
• 31:57
  had already revealed to him by his word
• 31:58
  that it would happen. It was based upon
• 32:00
  the scripture.
• 32:02
  But I'll say this, there was
• 32:04
  deliverance.
• 32:07
  >> You see, there was destruction. The Lord
• 32:09
  destroyed all of those that had given
• 32:11
  themselves over to lust.
• 32:14
  But you see, there was still deliverance
• 32:17
  >> for some into life.
• 32:18
  >> Right?
• 32:19
  >> Notice what the Bible says again. As it
• 32:22
  was in the days of Noah.
• 32:25
  You know why it was the days of Noah?
• 32:28
  Because Noah was the only one that was
• 32:29
  left.
• 32:30
  You're
• 32:31
  >> right. Noah was the one that walked out
• 32:33
  of the ark on the other side.
• 32:35
  >> Yes.
• 32:36
  >> Come on.
• 32:37
  >> Where judgment had covered the entire
• 32:39
  earth. Noah and his children, his sons
• 32:42
  and their wives walked out on dry land.
• 32:45
  Why? Because God delivered them.
• 32:47
  >> Right?
• 32:48
  >> Lot though he he walked out full of sin.
• 32:51
  He lost his wife as he was walking out
• 32:54
  of Sodom and Gomorra. think, you know,
• 32:56
  you can look at Noah as a picture of the
• 32:59
  Jew in a sense that they're, you know,
• 33:02
  they're going to come through that
• 33:02
  tribulation, come out the other side,
• 33:04
  that remnant that'll be saved.
• 33:08
  I think Lot pictures a lot of the
• 33:09
  church.
• 33:13
  Say, what do you mean by that? Well, I
• 33:15
  think he pictures the church in the
• 33:16
  sense that in the last days, the people
• 33:18
  who are truly saved are going to be so
• 33:20
  vexed by wickedness.
• 33:22
  >> Good. They're going to be delivered, but
• 33:24
  they're going to lose everything around
• 33:25
  them.
• 33:26
  >> Yeah.
• 33:26
  >> As they come out. You're
• 33:28
  >> right.
• 33:28
  >> I think that's what the rapture is going
• 33:29
  to do. I think that this thing's going
• 33:31
  to get down to the wire so much and the
• 33:33
  lines are going to be so blurred that
• 33:35
  people don't even realize.
• 33:39
  >> Who's saved and who isn't?
• 33:41
  >> Yeah.
• 33:43
  >> You say, "Well, you're trying to live
• 33:44
  right, aren't you?" Yes, I am. I'm doing
• 33:46
  the very best that I can. And I'll tell
• 33:47
  you, my best ain't much. That's
• 33:49
  >> right.
• 33:49
  >> But I'm trying to live right. This is
• 33:51
  what I know. I know it wouldn't take but
• 33:53
  just a moment.
• 33:56
  >> Sin is knocking at the door closer than
• 33:58
  it's ever been.
• 33:59
  >> Right.
• 34:00
  >> Sin used to be It used to come in the
• 34:02
  mail and then it came on a television.
• 34:06
  >> Yeah.
• 34:06
  >> And then it came in on a phone.
• 34:08
  >> Yeah.
• 34:11
  >> And before long it's it's on our wrists
• 34:13
  now.
• 34:14
  >> That's right.
• 34:16
  >> It's in our minds.
• 34:17
  >> You're right. Before long, it's going to
• 34:20
  be on our eyes.
• 34:21
  >> You're right.
• 34:23
  >> Say, "What are you saying?" And I'm
• 34:24
  saying it's so close.
• 34:29
  >> But there is deliverance.
• 34:32
  >> I I just I just feel like the Lord
• 34:36
  to notice verse 30. Help me, Father.
• 34:40
  Verse 30. The Bible says, "Even thus
• 34:42
  shall it be in the day when the son of
• 34:45
  man," notice this, "is revealed."
• 34:49
  I feel like he keeps bringing me back to
• 34:51
  this point. You understand this is not
• 34:52
  the rapture.
• 34:55
  >> This is talking about the time that he's
• 34:57
  going to come as king.
• 34:58
  >> Yes.
• 34:59
  >> To reign over the Jews. Those Jews are
• 35:01
  going to come out of the rocks and out
• 35:03
  of the mountains where they've been
• 35:04
  hiding from the judgment. And they're
• 35:06
  going to look on him whom they pierced,
• 35:07
  the Bible says. And they're going to see
• 35:09
  him. But you realize seven years before
• 35:11
  that,
• 35:12
  >> yeah,
• 35:12
  >> at least seven years before that, he's
• 35:15
  going to come back for his children.
• 35:17
  >> That's right.
• 35:18
  >> And you say, "What's the truth you're
• 35:20
  trying to tell me?" Well, I'm saying for
• 35:22
  those of us who are saved this morning,
• 35:24
  there's people around us who this this
• 35:26
  description is true. They're distracted.
• 35:28
  They're defiled. And they're not without
• 35:30
  direction. You're
• 35:31
  >> right.
• 35:32
  >> But they're headed for destruction.
• 35:34
  >> Yes.
• 35:36
  >> And you know who's going to make the
• 35:37
  difference?
• 35:39
  It's up to you and me.
• 35:41
  >> That's right.
• 35:42
  >> Jesus has left his word so that they can
• 35:44
  have deliverance. Noah and Lot were
• 35:47
  delivered. But this is what I'm reminded
• 35:49
  of. The Bible says, "There'll be many
• 35:51
  that say unto me in that day,"Lord,
• 35:54
  Lord, have we not prophesied in thy
• 35:56
  name? In thy name cast out devils and
• 35:58
  done many wonderful works?" What does
• 36:00
  Jesus say? He says, "Depart from me, ye
• 36:04
  that work iniquity, for I never knew
• 36:06
  you."
• 36:07
  >> Right?
• 36:09
  You see, the day was described as the
• 36:12
  days of Noah and the days of Lot because
• 36:14
  those were the only two people that God
• 36:15
  knew in those societies.
• 36:18
  >> What does the Bible say? God remembered
• 36:21
  Noah.
• 36:23
  >> God knew him. God remembered Lot as
• 36:27
  well.
• 36:27
  >> Right?
• 36:28
  >> Let me ask you this. If he was to come,
• 36:32
  would he know you
• 36:34
  >> right now? If he was to come, you say,
• 36:36
  "Preacher, he's not going to come right
• 36:38
  now." I don't know that. You don't
• 36:39
  either.
• 36:40
  >> You're right.
• 36:42
  >> He could come at any moment. The driving
• 36:44
  force of this message today is that if
• 36:46
  you're here today and you're lost, you
• 36:47
  need to be saved.
• 36:49
  >> Every head bowed and every eye closed.
• 36:50
  These altars are open. Christians are
• 36:52
  praying.
• 36:56
  God still saves old sinners. We know
• 36:59
  that. We believe that. The simplicity of
• 37:02
  this message this morning is to tell you
• 37:04
  that you can be saved.
• 37:09
  If your life, if you can live a life of
• 37:11
  sin and it does not bother you,
• 37:16
  I would be spending some time talking to
• 37:18
  the Lord about that thing.
• 37:20
  If you can if you can get by with
• 37:24
  anything and everything
• 37:27
  and never feel the tug of the Holy
• 37:29
  Spirit,
• 37:30
  >> Yeah.
• 37:33
  I'd be checking up.
• 37:34
  >> Yes.
• 37:36
  >> You see, it's not our job
• 37:39
  to keep our salvation.
• 37:42
  I'm not working to keep my salvation.
• 37:47
  I'm working for Jesus because he's
• 37:49
  keeping my salvation.
• 37:53
  We're kept by the power of God. And if
• 37:55
  you're saved, you can't lose it. Well,
• 37:57
  let me ask you something.
• 38:00
  You're struggling with doubt because
• 38:01
  you're living in sin. Why would you
• 38:03
  continue to do that?
• 38:05
  Why?
• 38:12
  Let me remind you. Faith
• 38:15
  is the substance of things hoped for,
• 38:17
  the evidence of things not seen.
• 38:21
  All it takes is trust in him.
• 38:25
  Some people will never get saved because
• 38:26
  they trust their sin
• 38:29
  more than they trust the Savior.
• 38:31
  They want they desire satisfaction more
• 38:34
  than they desire salvation.
• 38:38
  Let me ask you this morning, you say,
• 38:40
  "Preacher,
• 38:43
  I don't know if Jesus was to come back
• 38:44
  in the rapture. I don't know if I'd go
• 38:46
  with him or not."
• 38:49
  Anybody be honest like that? Say,
• 38:52
  "Preacher, would you pray for me? I just
• 38:53
  don't know.
• 38:55
  Slip your hand up right back down. I
• 38:57
  want to pray for you today.
• 38:59
  Preacher, would you pray for me?
• 39:02
  I just don't know.
• 39:05
  Just don't know. Slip your hand up and
• 39:07
  hold it up where I can see it.
• 39:11
  Hold it up where I can see it.
• 39:16
  God knows your heart now.
• 39:19
  You're not fooling him. You fool all us,
• 39:20
  but you ain't going to fool him. Let me
• 39:23
  ask you this, child of God. If Jesus
• 39:26
  were to come back, would you be ashamed?
• 39:29
  Look, I know this is simple this
• 39:31
  morning. I'm just a simple preacher, but
• 39:32
  I got to tell you the truth
• 39:35
  if he was to come, would he be would you
• 39:38
  be ashamed?
• 39:41
  Would you be ashamed before him? Say,
• 39:43
  "Preacher, would you pray for me? I'm
• 39:45
  not right with the Lord."
• 39:49
  Be honest between you and God. Slip your
• 39:51
  hand up. I pray for you, preacher. I'm
• 39:53
  not right with the Lord.
• 39:59
  God knows.
• 40:01
  God knows. Father,
• 40:03
  Lord, would you help us this morning,
• 40:05
  God? I know there's somebody on each of
• 40:07
  our hearts today,
• 40:10
  Lord, that
• 40:12
  has walked a distance from you,
• 40:19
  Lord, as a child of God. They've
• 40:20
  journeyied away from your presence.
• 40:22
  Lord, I pray you'd give them grace
• 40:23
  today.
• 40:26
  Lord, if there's one here that's lost,
• 40:28
  God, I pray you wouldn't let them leave
• 40:29
  this place.
• 40:33
  God, don't let them leave. Lord, I thank
• 40:36
  you for saving Morgan this past week.
• 40:39
  But God, I realize, Father, there's
• 40:41
  others.
• 40:42
  There's others that need salvation. God,
• 40:44
  I pray they wouldn't leave today. I
• 40:47
  thank you for your sweet spirit today
• 40:48
  that we felt. God, I thank you, Father,
• 40:50
  for the liberty to preach. And God, I
• 40:53
  pray you'll cleanse us, draw us near to
• 40:55
  you, and we'll give you thanks for what
• 40:57
  you do because we ask it in Jesus name.
• 41:00
  God's children said,
• 41:02
  >> "Amen."
• 41:02
  >> Amen.
• 41:05
  >> Thank you for joining our service today.
• 41:07
  We'd love it if you'd join us in person
• 41:09
  the next time you are able at Meadows
• 41:11
  Baptist Church. Our physical address is
• 41:14
  2988 Stewart Road in Walnut Cove, North
• 41:18
  Carolina. Our service times are Sunday
• 41:21
  school at 10:00 a.m., Sunday morning
• 41:23
  worship at 11:00 a.m., Sunday evening
• 41:26
  worship at 6:00 p.m., and Wednesday
• 41:28
  evening Bible study at 700 p.m. For more
• 41:32
  information, visit us at
• 41:33
  meadowsbaptisturch.com.
• 41:35
  Thanks again for tuning in.