0:06 [Music] this morning to the Book of Revelation Chapter 2 I'm going to continue this may be the last I'm not sure I'm trying to follow the leading of the Holy Spirit but as I minister in the Persistence of resistance uh sermon series that I've been preaching uh for the last several weeks it was good to have Pastor Robbie to fill our pull pit last week and to share with us the things that he did from Ezekiel concerning what is taking place in the midd East today and I'm so thankful for that but I know that God spoke to my heart and said that we have
0:51 got to resist what the world is trying to do the culture is trying to do to the Christian and trying to do to the church today and the the message today will be to hold fast hold fast that's a part of the Persistence of resistance in Revelation Chapter 2 speaking to the Church of thyy the Lord said this now I now to you I say and to the rest in thyra as many as as do not have this Doctrine and what the doctrine they're talking about here is the doctrine of
1:36 Jezebel Jezebel and I'll mention that even some more as I go along but this is the doctrine uh the doctrine of Baal and balum as many as do not have this Doctrine who have not known the depths of Satan as they say I will put on you no other burden but hold hold fast somebody say hold fast what you have till I come I can't emphasize that statement again but to hold fast what you have until I come that is so important that you understand that because it speaks about our
2:24 weakness it speaks about the drought it speaks about needing more more of the holy spirit in our life and knowing today that we do not have really what we need and in this there were seven churches that were addressed by Jesus and the Holy Spirit here and thy Tyra was one of those churches the atmosphere affecting the church in the days of thara is much like the one that we are facing in America today day as you read it in fact the 20th verse of Revelation Chapter 2 says but I have this against you you tolerate that woman Jezebel who
3:11 calls herself a propheus and is seducing my loving servants she is teaching that it is permissible to indulge in sexual immorality and to eat food sacrificed to Idols this is in a Christian Church this is in a church that was established to acknowledge and lift up the name of Jesus Christ and him alone this is what they had now come to in thyra who is Jezebel this is probably not the name of the actual woman that was being addressed in thyy but her life so symbolized the evilness of the woman
3:57 Jezebel in the book of Kings that was married to King Ahab that the Holy Spirit called her Jezebel which speaks a lot to us and helps us to Define even the moment that we're in today the name Jezebel is synonymous with evil she is the epitome of wickedness so INF famous and I want you to think about this so INF famous is her name that to this day nobody names their baby girl Jezebel anybody ever heard that lately I have I don't think I've ever said I want you to meet my daughter Jezebel I've never even heard that but that's why this name is so synonymous with evil that no one does that to call
4:46 a woman of Jezebel is the greatest insult imaginable Jezebel was the daughter of itel a priest of the cruel sensual false god Bale and itel the priest king of Ty who murdered his own brother to take over the throne was even hardly a good father figure but Jezebel followed in her Father's Footsteps and was herself a power hungry murderer murderous that stopped at nothing to get what she wanted there was no line she wouldn't cross there was no evil that she wouldn't do there there was no life that was breathing that was sacred
5:33 enough for her to spare it we see that throughout the word of God we see evil at a height and evil at a depth like we have never seen as they saw in thy Tara we see in the world today never has there been a time of a murderous evil destructive generation than what we're living in now we are living in time s that tax our spirits that tax our minds to do right we are seeing people in the church Fall Away one by one by one as they are influenced with the culture as they are influenced with the spirit of Jezebel one of the things that Jezebel taught the church in thy tyara that
6:19 there was the depth of Satan there were secrets to be known that nobody else knew unless they were willing to go to the depths of Satan I I need to remind you that Jesus alone is the light amen Jesus alone if you can't discover what you need to know in the light of the Holy Spirit you don't need to be going to the depth of someone who's trying to seduce you that there is knowledge and light in the depths of Hell there is nothing but destruction and murder in the depths of hell and in evilness and don't ever buy that amen and we're living in a time to where morals are twisted people are confused as never before in life so much like this thy Tyra church
7:08 that we're talking about here today those there are those who are trying to stop the church's influence today on our communities in this nation they are trying to work in the courts in legislation in coercion in blackmail they are using Witchcraft and even murder if necessary against the body of Christ today to try to stop the influence of the church you say well Pastor you know some of you may think what I'm saying to you is kind of alien that you don't experience that day in and day out well if you don't because you don't experience it don't mean it's not going on today churches are having to shut down and can't have Services the way they need to in some inner cities
7:54 because the crime is so bad they can't even come out I remember years ago when traveling for the company that I used to work through I went uh to New York New Jersey and stayed over the weekend to go back to the the plant the next week to work and I went to an assemblance of God Church in Newark and come to find out it was the sun in-law of one of our local pastors here and I didn't even know who it was but I go up to the church to go into the service and can't get in cuz the doors are locked and I thought what the heck I'm I'm just a country boy man you know we we about that time or leaving doors open and stuff and I can't get into this church so I walk around the church I'm thinking surely there's a way to get in this thing and I just happen to walk by a window in the church
8:40 and this guy comes by and I'm going like hey you know i' kind of like to come in and so he points me to go back that way and so I go back and he opens the door for me to come in and so he gives me a quick explanation he says I'm so sorry he says that we have to lock the doors of the church when we're here because when we would get into the service he said the people the town would rush in and steal our belongings and steal stuff out of our coach so we had to start locking the doors so that we could maintain our possessions that's years ago imagine how much disdain is gone on today even for the church in Galatians or in the Church of thyy the church in thyra was and is today tolerating the compromise of God's
9:28 holy word now we're going to get to it there were people who were doing right but as a whole he came and condemned thara because they were allowing they were tolerating Jezebel's teaching they were allowing it to go on Sunday after Sunday or day after day whatever day and time that they met they were tolerating the compromise of God's holy word now I've come to tell you here today that's something that we cannot allow in the Christian church today I don't care what denomination you are I don't care what seal you hang on the outside of your door the word of the Living God is true and sure and it cannot and must not be altered I don't
10:15 care how bright I don't care how wonderful they may appear and Proclaim that kind of a gospel if it contradicts the written word of God we are to reject it and put it out of our sight amen I don't care how it sound I don't care the the false teachers knew how to dress up the word in such a way to get people to follow after their deceit and we must not do that Galatians 1 8-9 from the ne version but even if we or an angel from heaven should preach a gospel contrary to the one we preach to you let him be condemned to hell as we have said before and now I say again if
11:02 anyone is preaching to you a gospel contrary to what you have received let him be condemned to hell some of the other translations says let them be a cursed it's the same thing but here is the severity here is the passion about the word of God his word is true and right and we must not tolerate anyone else teaching us any deviation from the word of God but what we have written we must believe it and we must live it out amen and I'm telling you denomination after denomination or abandoned I saw another denomination this week being challenged in court from a church who is challenging them over o over their LAX
11:50 rules over the LGBT and all that because they are departing from the fundamentals of the gospel and I'm telling you the scripture says the closer we get to the coming of Jesus Christ the more we're going to see it and the more pressure is going to be upon people to change their way of thinking and their way of doing the church in thara was and today's church is allowing carnal social influence and wealth to impose false teaching on others as it were a true gospel you see Jezebel was an influential person Jezebel was a person who had riches and had money and I'm sure when the Holy Spirit locken this
12:36 person to Jezebel he was also saying she was a person of influence she was a person of wealth she was a person that was able to push her weight around in the church we've seen that over and over there was one Simon who was formerly uh a person a sorcerer in witchcraft in Acts chap 8 19-20 from the passion translation saying I want this power too I am willing to pay you for the anointing that you have so that I can also lay my hands on everyone to receive the Holy Spirit Peter rebuked him and said your money will go with you to destruction how could you ever think
13:22 that you could purchase God's Supernatural gift with money I've got news for you the gospel is not not for sale I've got news for you the blood of Jesus is not for sale I've got news for you the doctrines that we hold to that have held us and will continue to hold us for all etern I don't care how influential you are I don't care how rich you are your money perish with you in hell if it has to but the word of God will not be changed it must stand forever the test of time it's the only way for God's people to know where we stand and where we're going in this hour amen because it is unchangeable today's churches look and act more like neon
14:07 nightclubs on the Vegas Strip than they do torches that are dispelling the darkness of evil all around us and we've got to get to the place to where we don't need the bells and the whistles we don't need the things the culture tells us that we need we need what we were crying out in song today we need the Holy Ghost to bathe us in the word bathe us in the power to send out the rain to us and flood us with the glory of God we need that and when we get it we'll be the richest people on the face of the Earth because he'll loose a power and an anointing that will transform the face of the Earth and where we live and operate that will see diseases go that will see blindness and blind eyes open and ears open and dead raised back to life just like it was in the book of
14:55 Acts oh praise God we need to get back to the place to where they take some of us to jail for healing the blind man at the gate beautiful Amen to where we can have a little testimony time about it Hallelujah we need to get to the place of where maybe they despise and hate our guts to the place to where we have a Steven that's willing to get on the stand and the Bible says that his countenance lit up like an angel and he begin to share the glories of God why did it light up because the Bible said this Deacon Steven was going everywhere performing Miracles and signs and wonders ended upset folk but I'm telling you the people that got delivered never complained Hallelujah the people that got set free were happy and were joy and I'm here to tell you today we need to get into an atmosphere of allowing that
15:41 rain to fill us again oh hallelujah hallelujah listen the Bible tells us as they were dabbling tolerating a wicked Spirit they were dabbling in dangerous doctrines that were regulated straight from the pits of hell do you know there there are teacher there are churches today that are allowing the Devil to teach from their pull pits you know there are churches today that are that are allowing the Devil to teach you say what does he look like well he's got a lot of different looks amen 1 Timothy 4 And1
16:29 the passion translation I I like the way that has translated a lot of these scriptures today the Holy Spirit has explicitly revealed at the end of this age many will depart from the true Faith one after another devoting themselves to spirits of deception and following demon inspired Revelations and theories there that they going to open their ears like they were doing at thara they were listening to the spirit of Jezebel which was the spirit of Satan because she was telling them that they could find deeper Mysteries that the deeper they went in the devil I got news for you the deeper you go in the devil the more wound up you get and the more you're under his control and the less Freedom that you have in your life cuz the last time I
17:15 checked that the Bible says you shall know the truth amen how many wants to live free but they were living this way in this time in which they live demon inspired Revelation it is listen to me if it's trying to change the core of this word in any way to slant it to move it to adjust it it's of the Devil Himself hear me it's not an accident it's not a misread it's not it's usually not ignorance on somebody's part in that sense it's coming under the influence of a demonic spirit that wants to change
18:02 the way we view the word of God and God himself and we must resist I I said that again we must resist the Persistence of resistance we may be few but that's okay the Bible says the Broadway has how many going in there many and the narrow way which is the only way to Jesus few there be that go in that way very few and it tells me that only a few people are going to heaven as compared to a whole lot of people that are going to hell I don't say that in Glee in any way because I'm like Jesus I rather see everybody go to heaven Amen to
18:49 understand this Jesus that looks out after our life so the spirit of Jezebel was promoting sexual immorality as a norm and as acceptable in a Christian Church I I I tried to look it up and couldn't find it because I I have this this uh blog thing that I have that kind of documents a lot of what's going on in the churches today but folks we have had major Mega Church Ministries in 2024 fall like flies this year and not just mega churches we've had other they have failed big names like Robert mors the ones that you you watch on TV we had the other guy out in Texas that stepped back off of his P we've seen it and you know what 90% of them are tied to sexual
19:38 immorality they're tied to sexual deviation because the enemy knows the influence that this has over our carnal bodies it it is his first line of coming after us and he attacked tatara in the same way because Jezebel was teaching lean it's okay I mean you know you want a little perversion there that's okay you want a little abnormal there that's fine you know they were tolerating sexual and sexual immorality hear me folks is not just it's not just homosexuals and so on sexual immorality is cheating on your husband and cheating on your wife sexual immorality is not keeping yourself for marriage and you go
20:24 out and give yourself in a sexual relation it's called fornication it's also called sexual immorality and so whichever scope you want to put it on this was what was causing the church to have difficulties and issues and I've got news for you I know the devil even today is working on the Christian churches never before we have social media that that slams pornography into our face sexual immorality day in and day out and it's hard not to avoid it amen don't look at me like you got Halos on top of your head head right now let's act like we know what we talking about because we do we see it if you got a computer who's got a computer who's got a tablet who's got a phone well you got access to stuff that you never asked for
21:10 and they send it your way without your permission because they're trying to snare you they're trying to entrap you they're trying to get you to lust they're trying to get you into pornography so that they can bait you and then destroy your life and I've got news for you today good news God still has the power over the Flesh and over pornography and over sexual immorality and his Mercy is great and it is wonderful and it is true and it is fresh and it heals and it sanctifies and it restores in the power of the Holy Ghost W Hallelujah I think I might just preach a little now praise God he's good but this was this was a situation A Norm a no it's okay let me tell you
21:58 something them if sexual immorality is being taught as a norm or is being allowed to survive as a norm 99% of the time there something wrong with the pull pit amen because something like that flows from the head down y'all always keep your pastor in prayer amen pinch me I'm human too how many of y'all need the Covenant of the Holy Spirit y'all sometimes y'all just look at me like H what's he talking about Jesus help us Jesus help
22:43 us nothing has undone churches and families as the sin of sexual immorality sexual immorality will send your soul to hell if not repented of and even even when repented of it leaves scars and wounds so deep that the extent of its pain will often last a lifetime you see 1 Corinthians 6:10 says this surely you must know that the people who practice evil cannot possess God's kingdom realm stop being deceived people who continue to engage in sexual immorality idolatry adultery sexual perversion sexuality fraud greed
23:31 drunkenness verbal abuse or extortion these will not inherit the kingdom of God you see this is why Jezebel wants to change the word this is why the world wants to change it and they try to get the Supreme Court to change the word of God because the word of God is just plain truth he tells you there's a way in a glorious way and a wonderful way and if you'll fall that way it'll lead to eternal life and even when you make mistakes it'll heal you and get you back on the path but when you set yourself to go down that carnal path that path leads only one direction to destruction and they don't want that that that brings conviction on them they're trying to erase it they're trying to say and and and to be able to
24:18 look in the mirror and not be condemned by the Holy Spirit or not to be convicted by the Holy Spirit the Bible says he doesn't condemn he saves he convicts he knows that we're sinful and that're Sinners but we need to feel the conviction of the holy spirit so the atmosphere at taratara then and now spiritually with something that was less than desired it was the church's responsibility at thara it was their responsibility and it is the church's responsibility today to expose false teaching and corrupt people and evil people who are dressed in sheep's clothing it is the church's responsibility and arara Shrugged their shoulders because Jezebel was richer and more
25:04 influential she had more passion about what she believed evidently than they believe and they let her have free course but it is the church's responsibility when something comes that ought not to be is to say no and when something comes that should be in the word of God that and is in the word of God we say yes it is our responsibility we must be people of forgiveness and Grace but where people persist in false doctrines and idolatry the church must act with decisiveness so as not to let the leaven of sin permeate the part of the church that is Holy and pure because I'm telling you that if we let it go and
25:51 we let it ride and we give it free reain it'll wind up corrupting the rest of the body and this is what thy Tyra was facing you say well look at look at Paul's attitude if you want to see one in 1 Corinthians chapter 5 verses 1-6 look at this I can New Living Translation I can hardly believe the report about the sexual immorality going on among you something that even pagans don't do I'm told that a man in your church is living in sin with his stepmother you are so proud of yourselves but you should be mourning and sor and in shame and you should remove this man from your fellowship even though I'm
26:36 not with you in person I am with you in the spirit and as though I were there I have already passed judgment on this man in the name of the Lord Jesus you must call a meeting of the church I will be present with you in the spirit and so will the power of our Lord Jesus then you must throw this man out and hand him over to Satan so that his sinful nature will be destroyed and he himself will be saved on the day the Lord returns your boasting about this is terrible don't you realize that this sin is like a little yeast that spreads through the whole batch of dough it is the church's responsibility God gave it into our hands to uphold
27:24 while we were here on this Earth the doctrines that will set your soul free and it will lead you into a life of freedom and Eternity he ultimately is responsible for the word and He will carry it out according as he does but I pray in this hour that God would give the churches a whole strong gracious merciful but determined leadership that will correct errors and that will pull people off from the way they've been they've been LED astray and pull them back to the center of the path that we may see a church that is ready without spot without wrinkle that will arise to meet the bridegroom when he comes to get his bride we got to have it
28:09 hold fast hold fast thankfully in thy Tyra and the church today you have those who were persistent in resistance and would not go along with the Jezebels of their day I'm glad of that I see that in tatara the the scripture tells us this today Jesus gave the Church of thy Tyra a message with a warning listen to this I want you to hear closely what I'm saying with a warning baked into it so that they might realize just how close we are and they were to the coming of the End of the Age I I want you to hear what he said look at Revelation 224 now to you I say unto the rest in
28:57 thyy as many as do not have this Doctrine those who have kept themselves pure basically who have not known the depths of Satan as they say listen what he says here I will put on you no other burden think about that statement and what he's saying he's listed all the horrible things that have happened he's realized he's he's pointed out Satan is in the church and people are not correcting and then the one thing that he comes and says to them I will put on you no other burden what is the baked in message that he's trying to say here you see this is not so much a
29:45 statement of giving up or throwing in the towel as much as it is a statement of where thyra Tyra the church was on God's prophetic calendar Stay With Me Now hear me God wants us to fight fiercely until the end but when we are in the end times and you are aware of it then the strategy of offense and defense is going to change and so in the midst of all that was going on when he says I will put on you no other burden he was saying there's not time he's saying there's things I'd like to do but there's not time he said I'd like to run you through
30:32 this but there's no time I don't know if y'all are hearing this today but we're close to the end of the age when we hear that and thy Tyra says I will put on you no other burden he said I'm not going to wait you down I'm not going to burden you down I'm not going to tell you to do this I'm not going to tell you to do that and you know the message of my sermon of the the title of my message today the only thing he said was hold fast what you have but he was telling them time is almost over and I'm telling you here today at Brookstone time the age the time of not the end of the world but the end of the age is almost here it's almost here and God wants us to fight he wasn't telling them to give up he was
31:18 just telling them where they were he was just giving them a reality check God wants us to fight to the End Amen that's what he wants us to do to fiercely fight but when we know that we're in the end time the strategy has got to change how many of you follow football pretty closely see few of you yeah how many of you know what the red zone is yeah red zone is when you get down to the 20 yard line of your opponent but you know when they kick off that football and it gets over here and they start out on their own 35 they ain't too worried about much they just running plays and they're just going through here and they just going through
32:05 there and to try to get where they getting they're hoping they going to get there but you watch it on every broadcast when they get into the Red Zone the strategy changes always something has got to happen because it would be stupid and irresponsible to get that close and not score amen and what happens when you get into the red zone usually the defense which we're going to portray is the devil operates at a level like they hadn't operated before it's all of a sudden they let you have 65 yards and then you get down to the 20 yard line and they bust your butt over 20 yards they won't let you into the end zone how mean y'all know what I'm talking about
32:50 if you're a football fan you know what I'm talking about we're in the end times we're at the 20 yd line we are in the red Zone spiritually right now and the devil is fighting with an intensity like we have never seen but it's time for the church to seek the wisdom and the power of God and adjust our strategy and our passion and our Glory that we going to run over the devil Hallelujah and we're going to get into the end zone and you know what happens when you get into the end zone the rests go touch down yeah somebody get your hands up here this morning we want to pray praise God hallelujah because it is a victory statement when it goes up that God has helped us to accomplish what we wanted
33:36 to do oh Hallelujah and this is what he's telling them he's telling them this the the the strategies are going to be tough against you the strategies are going to be hard the devil's going to try to undermine your health he's going to try to undermine your spirit he's going to try to under you know how many of y'all you know I I've told this to my kids for years and stuff yeah y'all know the biggest time the devil fights you through the week Saturday night I mean you'll do stupid stuff you you you'll say okay I'm going to church I'm gonna get to bed at 10 o'clock night 1 o'clock in the morning you still up fling around well Pastor I wanted to come but you know I people don't realize what pwns of the devil we allow ourselves to
34:22 be people got to wake up the church has got to wake up you got to hold fast you got to understand what your mission is and where God wants you to go and you've got to see how the devil tries to manipulate you to keep you from being blessed Dinda she came busted in my office there this morning hunting something I had to tell her where it was at and she was telling me about the situation of her life it happened throughout the day and she was telling about Cara's been going through it just something terrible just trying to get through what she's been getting through and and and last night was horrible for her and she said car got up this morning said mama she said I want to go what if I miss something what if I miss what God is doing in the service I've got to be
35:09 there folks she's here today amen I'm telling you whether you're sick or now we don't want you come here infecting with stuff you know it's good for you to stay home during that time if you really got fever but you know sometimes you got to push through because the devil gets you up and he's worked you over during the night time somehow and everything hurts when you get up how many of you at least 65 and old are here like me today amen you know that gummy hurts you got to do something praise the Lord and it's time that you got to understand that as you go as you go you'll feel more freedom more power more Glory when you break the devil from stopping your stride Hallelujah but when we sit down lay down and give up that's when the devil works his strategy on us in the red zone and we miss the miracle that
35:56 God did in the red zone praise the Lord some of y'all be shouting the glories when you're watching the Falcons whoever they are playing today I don't know God knows it'd be a miracle if they do any I mean anyhow well bless the Lord we're hoping but this is what God wants us to understand in our life listen here's what he says in Revelation 12:12 that is very essential for the church chur to understand therefore Rejoice oh heavens and you who live in the heavens Rejoice but Terror will come on the earth and the Sea for the devil has come down to
36:42 you in great anger knowing that he has Pito little time believe you me I believe the devil's deceived about a whole bunch of stuff but he knows it's close for him he sees that that's why he's fighting because he knows he has little time and I got news for you we're not going to capitulate we're not going to roll over we're not going to give in we're going to do everything here at Brookstone and we're going to pray that every other church across the country will that we will arise and shine and be the church that God wants us to be that we can see the restored prophetic that we can receive that what God is going to do in the church is going to abandon down to
37:28 healing salvations and glorifying his name as never before and it'll it'll start when we make up our minds to do it amen but the devil has come down he's come down listen man y'all know what I ain't going to be able to finish this message today oh I ain't even got to the whole fast part I'm just trying to get there but listen to me in 2 Corinthians 10 I I'll finish this up next week if God allows me to because I I want to deal with the whole fast part first 2 Corinthians 10 Christie come on 2 Corinthians 10 3-4 for although we live in the natural realm we don't wage a military campaign
38:16 employing human weapons using manipulation to achieve our aims instead our spiritual weapons are energized with divine divine power to effectively dismantle the defenses behind which people hide that's what I was talking about the defense when it comes down in the 20 yard line here the Bible tells us emphatically that our weapons they're strategic they're wonderful they're beautiful and if you'll seek God for it he'll blow that defense away that's trying to keep you out of the end zone he'll blow them away because his weapons cannot be resisted when people who love God and know God are standing behind
39:02 them and are doing the will of almighty God it will accomplish his word what he had sent it for to do it will come back amen cast your bread upon the waters he said and not too many days it'll come back Hallelujah and it'll be bearing seed and power and when you cast that word upon the Devil and any of his foes it'll come back and say he's been defeated he's already defeated the cross defeated him and all we got to do is enact the word of God by faith and stand there and watch what God is going to do amen listen Jesus is saying to them as I go back to that statement where he said
39:49 I'll lay no other burden on you than this no other burden none but just hold fast Jesus is basically telling the church at thy to as I said before and of today that there was not enough time left to give them the spiritual prescriptions they needed because there's not enough time for the prescription to work or to play out and bring the changes that are needed if you know anything about taking antibiotics and I do these past couple months antibiotics will stay in your body what up to 15 days days even after you're off of them they continue to work not just the week or two weeks that you're taking them but 15 days after
40:36 that and normally the Lord would hand out a spiritual prescription because he's done it all throughout the Bible to tell people what they needed to do how they needed to correct how they needed to change this and he just told them he said I'm going to lay no more burdens on you he was saying to them in essence there's not time I wish there were I wish that this prescription I could hand out would work the change that I need to see happen in my church I'm not trying to paint a picture that church is doing because it's not but I'm just trying to tell you the age in which we live that you better G your loins about pull up as Elijah did and those others pull up that long flowing ground and tie it around your waist because the sound of the
41:21 trumpet is about to blow and he's asking us to get up and to go I'm not going to burden you he's saying not going to burden you and I want you to hear this before I close that ties to that in the parable of the 10 virgins y'all know the story about 10 foolish and 10 wise some got allil the others didn't but I can read spiritually into this passage that Jesus basically says to the five wise virgins the wise ones it's too late for the other five foolish virgins who have not properly prepared
42:07 themselves for the bridegroom's coming and I will not burden you to have to give them something that they hadn't prepared for and you have I will not burden you no more because when when they realized they were short they said to the wise give us of your oil give us of what you have and not feeling guilty because they had prepared they said no no and this is what God was saying to thyro Ty and he was saying here to this Parable he said I'm not going to ask of you to give that to them because they should have prepared they should have done what you done they should have made
42:54 sure they had extra oil in their vessel they should have been kept aware that the bridegroom could come at any moment and in the Midnight Hour he comes and they're not ready they're not ready and they panicked panicked in darkness no light knowing not what to do I'm sorry folks but you're just going to have to go back to town and get what you need and while they were gone the bridegroom came and he received those who were ready to himself and he closed the
43:41 door and then those virgins came and knocked on the door and he said it's too late I don't know you folks I've come to preach a message to you today through thyra and I if God lead I'll finish it up next week on what we're supposed to do to hold fast but if you're not ready if you're playing around if you do what we call in country Lang you're just horsing around you're foolishly doing things and you're not getting serious about your relationship with God you're not getting serious about living holy and living righteous and keeping your soul and your spirit pure and holy I've come to tell you you don't have much time if you don't get yourself prepared and you come under the
44:27 influence of these Jezebel spirits and these satanic doctrines and you just begin to fool around and all of a sudden that day catches you unaware you're not going to make it you're not going to make it everybody that thinks they'll make it in the Rapture is not going to make it many will be left I know this is sober but I'm a pastor that's not going to whitewash something for you for you I try to preach it as the way God would have me to preach it but I'm not going to whitewash eternity I'm not going to whitewash the part of being prepared and being ready I'm not going to whitewash the part that you better do all within your power it's not about working yourself into God's grace he's already did that for you on the cross of Calvary
45:13 you don't come to him by works you don't you you're not accepted by you're accepted by grace and but through faith by grace alone but there's a part of living out the Holiness of God and living out the righteousness of God that he asked of us to do because when we have the seed of the Holy Spirit within us he's expressing the will of God and if we T down those expressions that God is trying to do then we are going to leave ourselves to for nothing but a carnal life that leads to death and destruction but when we yield to those urgings of the Holy Spirit within us and do his will and his bidding life flows through us life you better get
45:59 ready bow your heads with me you better get ready don't don't let these words be the last words that you hear when you step into the Eternal rim of the ages and the last thing that you heard was you better get ready and you didn't God loves you he loves you so much that He sent Jesus he loves you so much that he took on a human body he came through a woman a virgin born of Mary he came into this Earth and suffered intensely like no other human being has ever suffered he allowed them to put him on a cross he knew what they were doing they
46:44 thought they were doing something that was was good and wonderful but and it was to them they were trying to preserve Judaism or preserve a way of life and he was trying to lead them into a life of Grace and peace and mercy and even on that cross he was a forgiving man as he forgave even the thief on the cross next to him even as he looked out over the crowd and said father forgive them for they don't know what they do but I'm telling you he died for you he died and paid the price for your sins and when you will accept him as Lord and savior of your life he will wash everything I don't care what people see I don't care what people think I don't care what people do I'm telling you Jesus why it as clean as it
47:30 comes he took you from Unholy and made you holy from unrighteous and makes you righteous he gives you those gifts because it's through Jesus Christ that you receive them if you're here today and you would say Pastor Jeff maybe I don't know Christ maybe I don't know him as Lord and say maybe I thought I have maybe somebody told me at an altar I was saved but I never really entered into a personal relationship with God and I'm feeling that right now because there's a void inside of me there's something that that was never there I I I I read the word and tried to do the word but there wasn't a passion there wasn't a hunger there wasn't something in my soul that talked about a deep relationship with God and you need to invite Jesus to come into your life secondly you may be here and you know
48:17 that you're traveling down Pathways as a Christian that you know that the Holy Spirit does not approve of and he's been convicting you and convicting you and convicting you and trying to get you to turn around and head down the path that leads to righteousness understand like thara your time is limited your time is limited I will put no other burden on you because the time is short get ready and hold fast if that's you here today and you say Pastor Jeff I need prayer would you just slip up your hand say if anyway that was something while the head is bowed would just slip your hand say pray over me Pastor yes thank you thank you for that hand thank you for that hand anyone else there's no shame in this the shame
49:04 is not doing what the Holy Spirit tells you to do anyone else anyone else Pastor Jeff I need God to come into my life to come into my heart to forgive me my sins to cleanse me to help me to give me power for understanding to give me power not to Cave but to stand against the Jezebels the devil and anything else that may try to hinder anyone else quick quickly quickly all right I want you to get out of your seat now from the back to the front come you can kneel here at these steps [Music]
