1 00:00:00,040 --> 00:00:04,240 Available to them is the field. All they have available to them 2 00:00:04,480 --> 00:00:07,320 is the emptiness. All they have available to them 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:11,400 are poor choices and poor decisions aiming to try to 4 00:00:11,400 --> 00:00:17,520 satisfy their deep hunger. It's a gospel story, the death 5 00:00:17,520 --> 00:00:21,320 of this generation, as I see it even in my hour, is this, that 6 00:00:21,320 --> 00:00:24,840 my generation has a relentless hunger as well. 7 00:00:25,080 --> 00:00:28,040 And it's best seen in the argument, I believe, that we 8 00:00:28,040 --> 00:00:33,280 even find in the Book of Kings between two women that have made 9 00:00:33,280 --> 00:00:40,720 a pact that today will sacrifice your son and eat it, and 10 00:00:40,720 --> 00:00:44,440 tomorrow will sacrifice my son and eat it. 11 00:00:44,760 --> 00:00:51,960 So our hungers might be satisfied and we are overwhelmed 12 00:00:51,960 --> 00:00:55,080 when we realize that the woman speaks to the prophet about it. 13 00:00:55,880 --> 00:01:00,240 Because she's not even really upset that she boiled her son 14 00:01:00,240 --> 00:01:05,160 yesterday. She's upset because the woman 15 00:01:05,480 --> 00:01:11,680 didn't go on and make right on her end to boil her son today so 16 00:01:11,680 --> 00:01:13,840 they could satisfy their desires. 17 00:01:17,920 --> 00:01:22,520 It's a gospel story. Second Kings Chapter 7, Amen is 18 00:01:22,520 --> 00:01:26,360 the same story of our day. Because I witness with my very 19 00:01:26,360 --> 00:01:30,040 own eyes places I travel in here within my own city. 20 00:01:30,280 --> 00:01:34,640 There are hungry people, so to speak, all around and they feel 21 00:01:34,640 --> 00:01:37,840 trapped by their circumstances and they feel trapped by the 22 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:40,000 surroundings that they find themselves in. 23 00:01:40,280 --> 00:01:44,560 And they are without means to acquire anything that they need 24 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:49,360 to totally satisfy their hunger. Their actions are acts of 25 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:51,040 desperation. Amen. 26 00:01:51,040 --> 00:01:55,480 There are people dying every day, every passing hour next to 27 00:01:55,480 --> 00:01:59,120 you in our community. There are people dying, even if 28 00:01:59,120 --> 00:02:02,280 you will, with a hunger that's yet to be satisfied. 29 00:02:02,480 --> 00:02:05,480 They have no answers. They have no solution. 30 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:07,680 They have, if you will, no direction. 31 00:02:08,000 --> 00:02:12,240 And they're settling for less than perfect appeasements to try 32 00:02:12,240 --> 00:02:15,160 to satisfy something that can only be satisfied. 33 00:02:15,240 --> 00:02:20,400 Divide by 1. They it's a gospel story. 34 00:02:20,600 --> 00:02:23,160 Because, Brother Mason, I see it in my generation. 35 00:02:23,480 --> 00:02:27,280 Men and women, if I can say it like this, are bartering away 36 00:02:27,280 --> 00:02:30,880 future generations for their appeasement. 37 00:02:35,600 --> 00:02:40,240 We might not be putting our kids on a proverbial fire, but we're 38 00:02:40,240 --> 00:02:48,960 sacrificing them none the less. Because of what I feel I need 39 00:02:48,960 --> 00:02:52,720 and the hunger I have and the appetite, honey, sacrificing 40 00:02:52,720 --> 00:02:56,040 1,000,000 generations in the future won't appease that. 41 00:02:56,240 --> 00:02:58,920 We need the power. We need the unction. 42 00:02:59,080 --> 00:03:02,240 We need a touch of God's spirit. Yes, yes, Hallelujah. 43 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:14,520 God, thank you. 44 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:16,840 I'm going to do a lot of sweating in the next weeks. 45 00:03:16,840 --> 00:03:20,080 I'm going to try to curb it right now. 46 00:03:23,280 --> 00:03:26,160 All of this highlights their hunger. 47 00:03:27,280 --> 00:03:34,320 It shows they're dissatisfied with what's available and any 48 00:03:34,320 --> 00:03:42,800 solution or any extreme they try leaves them lonely for something 49 00:03:42,800 --> 00:03:49,840 more yet different. Prophet Isaiah offered a rebuke 50 00:03:51,680 --> 00:03:58,320 to those who tried to satisfy their soul hunger with things 51 00:03:58,320 --> 00:04:05,640 that could not nourish. He said in Isaiah 55, Wherefore 52 00:04:05,680 --> 00:04:10,840 it's a question he poses, Wherefore do you spend money for 53 00:04:10,840 --> 00:04:17,120 that which is not bread, and your labor for that which 54 00:04:17,120 --> 00:04:22,000 satisfieth not? If I could, he could be easily 55 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:24,480 speaking back into the day of the four lepers. 56 00:04:26,240 --> 00:04:34,000 Why are you buying dove's dung and donkey heads for a 57 00:04:34,040 --> 00:04:40,800 indescribable appetite that will not be appeased by those sort of 58 00:04:40,800 --> 00:04:46,880 things, that type of thing? The writer of Proverbs 1325 says 59 00:04:46,880 --> 00:04:52,560 The righteous eat of the to the satisfying of his soul, but the 60 00:04:52,560 --> 00:04:58,160 belly of the wicked shall want. In other words, they may have 61 00:04:58,160 --> 00:05:04,320 indulged in the products of their situation, dungs, doves, 62 00:05:04,320 --> 00:05:09,040 dung and and donkey heads, but it would never fulfill. 63 00:05:09,680 --> 00:05:13,800 Eat the donkey's head if you desire, consume the dove's 64 00:05:13,800 --> 00:05:16,920 tongue if you want. And some of them even having 65 00:05:16,920 --> 00:05:21,640 that cannibalistic approach a man by surrendering their future 66 00:05:21,640 --> 00:05:24,680 sons and daughters to their desires. 67 00:05:24,880 --> 00:05:28,760 But you know what happens when the dust settles and the blast 68 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,480 bone of the donkey's head is vanished and the dung has 69 00:05:32,480 --> 00:05:35,400 depleted and your sons and daughters are gone. 70 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:38,920 There's still a hunger. There's still an appetite. 71 00:05:39,120 --> 00:05:41,680 There's still something that needs satisfied. 72 00:05:43,640 --> 00:05:47,320 Was it not the prodigal son in Luke chapter 15 that the Bible 73 00:05:47,320 --> 00:05:50,360 says so? It was Amen with him as it was 74 00:05:50,360 --> 00:05:53,680 with those in this scripture and in our generation. 75 00:05:53,880 --> 00:05:57,120 The Bible describes that the turning point of the prodigal 76 00:05:57,120 --> 00:06:00,080 begins with what and with any generation. 77 00:06:00,320 --> 00:06:04,120 It begins with hunger. The Bible says that the prodigal 78 00:06:04,320 --> 00:06:09,200 began to be in want. He left with half of the goods. 79 00:06:09,200 --> 00:06:15,120 OT him from his father, but he spent it and he heaped it upon 80 00:06:15,120 --> 00:06:18,400 riotous living. But the Bible says when he began 81 00:06:18,400 --> 00:06:22,920 to be in want, when he got hungry again, when he had an 82 00:06:22,920 --> 00:06:26,080 appetite and there wasn't anything fulfilling the 83 00:06:26,120 --> 00:06:29,360 appetite. And the Bible says that no man 84 00:06:29,400 --> 00:06:32,440 gave unto him. He couldn't get it from anybody. 85 00:06:32,640 --> 00:06:35,440 He couldn't get it from brother, father, sister, mother. 86 00:06:35,640 --> 00:06:38,080 He couldn't get it from those that he had hung out with. 87 00:06:38,320 --> 00:06:41,560 He couldn't get it from both that he served in the pigpen 88 00:06:41,560 --> 00:06:43,400 with. He couldn't find it nowhere. 89 00:06:43,520 --> 00:06:46,560 He was hungry. That was his turning point. 90 00:06:49,400 --> 00:06:52,800 Scripture is preaching today. The poor lepers. 91 00:06:54,000 --> 00:06:55,760 I preached it last week. We can't re preach it. 92 00:06:55,760 --> 00:06:56,880 OK? We don't have time. 93 00:06:58,760 --> 00:07:00,720 But they surrendered to their circumstances. 94 00:07:03,160 --> 00:07:09,720 Relinquish control over trying to dictate the outcome of life 95 00:07:09,720 --> 00:07:13,960 or death for themselves. They headed toward the Syrian 96 00:07:14,360 --> 00:07:21,240 camp. And when these lepers, these 97 00:07:21,240 --> 00:07:28,520 hungry folks, and no, this is amazing to me. 98 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:32,360 It seems the camera is focusing more on their hunger than their 99 00:07:32,360 --> 00:07:41,880 disease at this moment. The disease is there, but their 100 00:07:41,880 --> 00:07:47,560 concern in the moment is not the disease being cured, but the 101 00:07:47,560 --> 00:07:54,080 hunger being satisfied. They arrive in this Syrian camp 102 00:07:54,800 --> 00:07:59,400 and the Bible says they start to denote there's nobody around. 103 00:08:00,240 --> 00:08:06,040 And they go into one tent. And as they're there, they find 104 00:08:06,040 --> 00:08:12,560 more food and more drink than their eyes have laid upon in 105 00:08:12,560 --> 00:08:16,680 several, several days. And the Bible says they begin to 106 00:08:16,680 --> 00:08:22,200 eat and they begin to drink and they begin to consume what was 107 00:08:22,200 --> 00:08:25,240 there. And then the Bible says they 108 00:08:25,240 --> 00:08:27,960 left that tent and they went to another tent. 109 00:08:27,960 --> 00:08:31,440 I want you to notice that there was even more in the first tent 110 00:08:31,600 --> 00:08:33,880 than what they can consume because the Bible says they 111 00:08:33,880 --> 00:08:36,840 gathered some of the things along with the silver and the 112 00:08:36,840 --> 00:08:38,440 goat. Let's stop for a moment. 113 00:08:38,520 --> 00:08:42,280 Not only did they find things to satisfy their hunger, they found 114 00:08:42,280 --> 00:08:48,800 extra additional benefits that went beyond just the base 115 00:08:48,800 --> 00:08:51,720 satisfaction of their hunger. And they took some of those 116 00:08:51,720 --> 00:08:53,000 things. The Bible says it's in your 117 00:08:53,000 --> 00:08:54,680 Bible. And they hid them. 118 00:08:54,920 --> 00:08:56,280 And then they went to another tent. 119 00:08:56,280 --> 00:08:59,320 My goodness, it looks like someone just even spread a table 120 00:08:59,320 --> 00:09:00,720 for us. And they're eating, they're 121 00:09:00,720 --> 00:09:04,040 drinking, and they're picking up stuff and they're hiding it and 122 00:09:04,040 --> 00:09:06,360 they're putting it here and they're putting it there. 123 00:09:06,480 --> 00:09:09,000 They're carrying away silver and code and rain. 124 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:12,320 They are overwhelmed by everything that they have 125 00:09:12,320 --> 00:09:13,800 discovered. Amen. 126 00:09:13,800 --> 00:09:17,120 So they're choosing just another tent and going to another place 127 00:09:17,320 --> 00:09:21,560 with the same results, grabbing all they can, hiding all they 128 00:09:21,560 --> 00:09:25,720 can, stockpiling it on the left, stockpiling it on the right. 129 00:09:25,960 --> 00:09:28,600 And that's what they needed. That's what they've been hoping 130 00:09:28,600 --> 00:09:30,320 for. They found it. 131 00:09:34,760 --> 00:09:42,200 They found it, but something gripping happens in verse #9 132 00:09:44,040 --> 00:09:52,840 Then they said one to another. We do not well, and that might 133 00:09:52,840 --> 00:09:54,640 throw us off Kelter just a little bit. 134 00:09:55,000 --> 00:09:56,120 What? You mean not well? 135 00:09:56,640 --> 00:09:59,360 You've been starving for days. You've been hungry for a long 136 00:09:59,360 --> 00:10:01,240 time. You found that there's food at 137 00:10:01,240 --> 00:10:03,680 your disposal. There's plenty here to drink, 138 00:10:03,880 --> 00:10:07,240 even the stockpile and hide. What you mean you do not Well, 139 00:10:08,240 --> 00:10:14,960 they said this day. Here's a day of good tidings. 140 00:10:15,840 --> 00:10:19,800 It's a day of good news. This, this, this is, if you 141 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:26,040 will, a marvelous gospel day. But rather than tell anybody 142 00:10:26,040 --> 00:10:30,720 else, rather than share with anybody else that's hungry, 143 00:10:31,160 --> 00:10:35,600 we're mounting up all the food and all the drink and all the 144 00:10:35,600 --> 00:10:39,320 benefit for ourselves. We're going to the degree of 145 00:10:39,320 --> 00:10:43,640 hiding it for ourselves at another time, while somebody not 146 00:10:43,640 --> 00:10:47,960 far back at Samaria is starving and going to die. 147 00:10:55,200 --> 00:10:57,520 Let me read it in just a few different versions. 148 00:10:57,520 --> 00:11:00,480 They may not be up there, but in the complete Jewish Bible it 149 00:11:00,480 --> 00:11:03,080 says it like this. But finally they said to each 150 00:11:03,080 --> 00:11:06,440 other, what are we doing? What we are doing is wrong. 151 00:11:06,920 --> 00:11:10,880 At a time of good news like this we shouldn't keep it to 152 00:11:10,880 --> 00:11:13,640 ourselves. If we wait till even till 153 00:11:13,640 --> 00:11:15,880 morning, we will earn only punishment. 154 00:11:16,280 --> 00:11:20,200 The due rings American edition says they said to one another, 155 00:11:20,400 --> 00:11:23,880 We do not well, for this is a day of good tidings. 156 00:11:24,200 --> 00:11:27,920 If we hold our peace and do not tell it till the morning, we 157 00:11:27,920 --> 00:11:32,600 shall be charged with a crime. The Message Bible paraphrases it 158 00:11:32,600 --> 00:11:35,640 like this. We shouldn't be doing this. 159 00:11:35,840 --> 00:11:39,720 This is a day of good news, and we're making it a private party. 160 00:11:43,320 --> 00:11:47,520 We should not wait around until morning until we get caught and 161 00:11:47,520 --> 00:11:49,280 punished. What are you saying, Brother 162 00:11:49,280 --> 00:11:52,200 McGee? I'm saying the lepers had come 163 00:11:52,200 --> 00:11:57,120 on a scene of good news. If I can say it like this, it 164 00:11:57,120 --> 00:12:00,680 was victory news. And the victory news was 165 00:12:00,680 --> 00:12:04,960 basically this. The enemy is gone and there's 166 00:12:04,960 --> 00:12:09,160 food and surplus. The enemy is gone and there is 167 00:12:09,160 --> 00:12:12,400 food and surplus. The enemy is he's gone because 168 00:12:12,400 --> 00:12:15,920 the Lord has evicted him and there's food and surplus. 169 00:12:16,200 --> 00:12:20,400 That's the gospel story. That's the gospel truth. 170 00:12:21,280 --> 00:12:27,080 But thus far, these boys are heaping upon themselves the 171 00:12:27,080 --> 00:12:35,240 enjoyment of it without sharing it with anyone else. 172 00:12:41,320 --> 00:12:44,040 Her like the message said, they were having a private party. 173 00:12:52,990 --> 00:12:56,350 It's the showing up to the First Apostolic Church Club on Sunday 174 00:12:56,350 --> 00:13:01,750 morning, Sunday night and Wednesday, celebrating what we 175 00:13:01,750 --> 00:13:10,070 discovered, stockpiling it, even maybe getting our feel and 176 00:13:10,070 --> 00:13:14,760 carrying off the extra benefits for hiding for a later time, but 177 00:13:14,760 --> 00:13:19,320 never sharing the word with someone that was just as much in 178 00:13:19,320 --> 00:13:23,520 a dire condition as I was before I discovered it, that needs it. 179 00:13:23,680 --> 00:13:27,880 I'm keeping it all to my praise God, Hallelujah self. 180 00:13:34,040 --> 00:13:36,680 We need to remember every time you come in here and stand and 181 00:13:36,680 --> 00:13:39,320 can raise your hands and feel the presence of God, someone out 182 00:13:39,320 --> 00:13:42,760 there is wanting to feel that. Every time you come up for 183 00:13:42,760 --> 00:13:45,200 prayer and they lay hands on you and you come back with the 184 00:13:45,200 --> 00:13:48,120 report that you've been healed or God changed the verdict, 185 00:13:48,240 --> 00:13:50,440 somebody else out there is needing that. 186 00:13:54,680 --> 00:13:57,240 You know what the turning point for those lepers were whenever 187 00:13:57,240 --> 00:14:00,520 they came to the conclusion there's other people besides us 188 00:14:00,520 --> 00:14:03,080 that are hungry. There's other people besides us 189 00:14:03,080 --> 00:14:05,560 that are thirsty. There's other people besides us 190 00:14:05,800 --> 00:14:08,320 that are died. Church, we got to come, if you 191 00:14:08,320 --> 00:14:12,040 will, to a consciousness that I'm not the only one that was in 192 00:14:12,040 --> 00:14:15,320 the dregs of sin. I'm not the only one that was 193 00:14:15,320 --> 00:14:19,880 far from God, apart from God, had no citizenship, had no 194 00:14:19,880 --> 00:14:27,240 ownership in this sake. So much. 195 00:14:27,240 --> 00:14:38,080 Hey, man, they weren't the only ones impacted by the war and the 196 00:14:38,080 --> 00:14:43,600 famine and the poor decisions. And I'll say to balance things 197 00:14:43,600 --> 00:14:46,400 out in case someone thinks, oh, Brother McGee, bless his heart, 198 00:14:46,400 --> 00:14:48,600 he must be getting ready for camping and he's speaking out of 199 00:14:48,600 --> 00:14:52,920 his head. There's nothing wrong with us 200 00:14:52,920 --> 00:14:56,840 celebrating our salvation. There's nothing wrong with being 201 00:14:56,840 --> 00:14:59,720 caught in the afterglow of what Christ has done for us. 202 00:15:00,400 --> 00:15:03,040 There's nothing wrong with basking in the perks and the 203 00:15:03,040 --> 00:15:06,800 benefits and the blessings. Amen, of being His and being 204 00:15:06,800 --> 00:15:11,760 cared for by Him. But we err. 205 00:15:12,840 --> 00:15:17,880 We've done wrong, as they say, when we've gone from tent to 206 00:15:17,880 --> 00:15:23,320 tent and have failed to let any other hungry people know what 207 00:15:23,320 --> 00:15:27,160 God has done and what we've discovered. 208 00:15:27,160 --> 00:15:33,000 Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. 209 00:15:33,000 --> 00:15:35,880 They knew it, Bishop. They said we have glad tidings. 210 00:15:36,000 --> 00:15:40,360 They knew it. We've got good news. 211 00:15:41,520 --> 00:15:50,240 But keeping it silent is the injustice because listen, this, 212 00:15:50,240 --> 00:15:54,520 this is this. Samaria was under siege right by 213 00:15:54,520 --> 00:15:58,760 this camp of the Syrians. With that, the Syrian camp is 214 00:15:58,760 --> 00:16:02,120 not far displaced from where the city they have under siege. 215 00:16:02,800 --> 00:16:05,280 It's not custom. They're usually pretty close to 216 00:16:05,960 --> 00:16:07,440 the city that they have under siege. 217 00:16:07,920 --> 00:16:10,920 That means where they're celebrating, where they're 218 00:16:10,920 --> 00:16:13,360 having a heyday and have all this food and all this stuff 219 00:16:13,680 --> 00:16:16,600 where they are doing it. Not far from where they stood, 220 00:16:17,240 --> 00:16:20,720 people were dying of hunger. Not far from where they were 221 00:16:20,720 --> 00:16:26,600 stockpiling the abundance, mothers were trading future 222 00:16:26,600 --> 00:16:33,240 generations to try to appease their incurbed appetites for 223 00:16:33,240 --> 00:16:35,360 something more. Not far. 224 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:41,040 Can I tell you it's right outside our doors? 225 00:16:41,680 --> 00:16:45,400 It's right across our street. It's an adjacent neighbor to the 226 00:16:45,400 --> 00:16:54,760 church. Something coming on these boys, 227 00:16:55,480 --> 00:16:59,560 they said. If we keep silent about this, if 228 00:16:59,560 --> 00:17:04,720 we keep doing what we're doing right now until the day breaks 229 00:17:06,680 --> 00:17:14,480 to woes us, if we'll not be guilty of a crime, woes up, it's 230 00:17:14,520 --> 00:17:16,920 mischief will befall us. What's the mischief? 231 00:17:17,480 --> 00:17:20,880 Because whenever day comes, everybody's going to know. 232 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:25,920 Everybody's going to know what was available. 233 00:17:26,960 --> 00:17:29,920 But they do it while it was still the night season. 234 00:17:35,000 --> 00:17:39,440 There's a new day coming. Every eye will be open. 235 00:17:43,240 --> 00:17:47,680 Feats in heaven, things of the earth, things before the below. 236 00:17:47,680 --> 00:17:50,600 The earth will testify that he is Lord. 237 00:17:51,880 --> 00:17:55,360 Well, I've come to declare on this Sunday morning that before 238 00:17:55,360 --> 00:17:59,800 the revelation of a new day brings it, those that have 239 00:17:59,800 --> 00:18:03,400 discovered it in the night season need to tell it. 240 00:18:03,640 --> 00:18:06,640 Before the day breaks need to share it. 241 00:18:06,880 --> 00:18:23,080 Before the day breaks, need to someone's saying the gospel, the 242 00:18:23,080 --> 00:18:26,920 good tidings, Amen. The tidings that God had 243 00:18:26,920 --> 00:18:31,160 defeated their enemies and it caused them to flee and had left 244 00:18:31,200 --> 00:18:34,520 a safe place, Amen. To satisfy their hunger. 245 00:18:34,760 --> 00:18:39,080 There were others that needed to know that and that was the news. 246 00:18:39,360 --> 00:18:43,840 That was the tidings that needed to be shared and along with 247 00:18:43,840 --> 00:18:46,480 those tidings, it also need to be shared. 248 00:18:46,760 --> 00:18:50,320 Not only will your hunger be satisfied, but there are other 249 00:18:50,320 --> 00:18:52,720 benefits in this case. Amen. 250 00:18:52,720 --> 00:18:56,840 Gold and silver and Rain Man extras, if you will, that will 251 00:18:56,840 --> 00:19:00,520 be beneficial to your life. But let me tell you where it's 252 00:19:00,520 --> 00:19:10,560 hot need to be shared. Before the new day, before the 253 00:19:10,560 --> 00:19:16,680 darkness parted, Before the night seized and the dawn broke. 254 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:26,240 Listen to pastor today, there are people in need of what you 255 00:19:26,240 --> 00:19:37,580 have in their dark season wasn't good for them to keep it to 256 00:19:37,580 --> 00:19:43,380 themselves and just for themselves because more could 257 00:19:43,380 --> 00:19:48,580 benefit from it. Marian Thompson pinned to him 258 00:19:48,580 --> 00:19:51,140 years and years ago. These are some of the lyrical 259 00:19:51,140 --> 00:19:53,580 lines of her hymn called O Zion Hayes. 260 00:19:54,040 --> 00:19:58,840 She said, Behold, how many thousands are still lying bound 261 00:19:58,840 --> 00:20:03,840 in the darksome prison House of sin, with none to tell them of 262 00:20:03,840 --> 00:20:09,240 the Savior's dying, or of the life He died for them to win. 263 00:20:14,120 --> 00:20:17,880 We if we don't tell, mischief will fall. 264 00:20:17,880 --> 00:20:22,240 The word mischief there is defined as. 265 00:20:22,720 --> 00:20:27,960 It's a comprehensive word that includes not only iniquity but 266 00:20:27,960 --> 00:20:29,880 also the consequences of that iniquity. 267 00:20:30,360 --> 00:20:32,600 That's the summation of the meaning of the word mischief 268 00:20:32,600 --> 00:20:35,480 here. In other words, these 4 lepers 269 00:20:35,480 --> 00:20:41,080 strongly felt that to keep the good news to themselves would be 270 00:20:41,080 --> 00:20:52,800 akin to sinning. So I bow my head and I say, God 271 00:20:52,800 --> 00:21:02,400 forgive us for hiding it, for stockpiling it for ourselves. 272 00:21:03,800 --> 00:21:10,120 God forgive us for celebrating it but never sharing it. 273 00:21:10,120 --> 00:21:13,760 Come on, Oh my Jesus. Amen. 274 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:24,520 Amen. The lepers had to share the 275 00:21:24,520 --> 00:21:25,320 news. Please hear me. 276 00:21:26,520 --> 00:21:31,800 The lepers had to share the news in this night season because the 277 00:21:31,800 --> 00:21:40,960 people in Samaria, due to ignorance, not knowing, thought 278 00:21:41,880 --> 00:21:49,440 they were confined and stuck in the city of Samaria just as much 279 00:21:49,440 --> 00:21:51,920 as they ever had being under siege. 280 00:21:54,120 --> 00:21:58,960 Process for a moment. Poor boys have got away. 281 00:21:59,720 --> 00:22:03,320 They're celebrating God, all the goods of the abundance, but 282 00:22:03,320 --> 00:22:08,280 there's a bunch of other people ignorant of the freedom they 283 00:22:08,280 --> 00:22:18,000 already have, and if no one ever gave any information to help 284 00:22:18,000 --> 00:22:23,160 them be any wiser, they would be stayed captive in a city that 285 00:22:23,160 --> 00:22:31,640 was unguarded now. Those four boys had to let them 286 00:22:31,640 --> 00:22:41,640 know why you staying inside the walls because there is no threat 287 00:22:41,640 --> 00:22:47,280 now outside the walls For that matter, what you've been hung 288 00:22:47,280 --> 00:22:50,800 during days for is just a little space from you. 289 00:22:55,880 --> 00:22:58,680 The truth for those on the inside of Samaria that they 290 00:22:58,680 --> 00:23:03,040 needed to hear was simply this, that they were free and that 291 00:23:03,040 --> 00:23:06,520 there were there was provision for them. 292 00:23:08,920 --> 00:23:11,880 The answer to their hunger was an ear. 293 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:20,080 It's going to be close. Those 4 lepers, they returned in 294 00:23:20,080 --> 00:23:21,440 the scripture says that this is your Bible. 295 00:23:21,440 --> 00:23:23,320 I'm telling you, the Bible's preaching itself. 296 00:23:24,720 --> 00:23:28,720 These four lepers returned to the city, the city that they had 297 00:23:28,720 --> 00:23:32,320 been outside of, hungry. The Bible says they holler out 298 00:23:32,320 --> 00:23:36,120 to the porters or the gatekeepers of the city. 299 00:23:37,320 --> 00:23:41,280 And the porters hear the news of what these 4 lepers have. 300 00:23:41,560 --> 00:23:44,400 And the Bible says that the porters then go and inform the 301 00:23:44,400 --> 00:23:49,440 King's house that there was food abundant and that their enemy 302 00:23:49,440 --> 00:23:56,920 was missing in action. Listen, I know we have we, we 303 00:23:56,920 --> 00:24:01,720 have more means, more venues, more ways today to convey the 304 00:24:01,720 --> 00:24:04,840 message of the Gospel than ever before in the history of 305 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,240 mankind. And it's going to even ramp 306 00:24:07,240 --> 00:24:11,320 further up as far as ways and multitudes of ways and accesses 307 00:24:11,320 --> 00:24:14,080 that we have in order to do that than ever before. 308 00:24:14,640 --> 00:24:17,800 But I'll tell you this. Nothing will ever bypass the 309 00:24:17,800 --> 00:24:21,000 good old word of mouth of tell your neighbor, tell your family, 310 00:24:21,000 --> 00:24:33,050 tell your friend and allow them to tell somebody else they told 311 00:24:33,050 --> 00:24:36,490 it. Maybe they were quoting Psalms. 312 00:24:36,490 --> 00:24:38,090 I don't know. Psalms was in existence yet. 313 00:24:38,090 --> 00:24:39,810 Maybe. Well, David wrote some Psalms 314 00:24:39,810 --> 00:24:41,250 early on. It may have already happened 315 00:24:41,530 --> 00:24:44,170 where David says that God giveth food to the hungry. 316 00:24:44,170 --> 00:24:47,090 I don't know what was on their lips, but they were spilling it. 317 00:24:47,250 --> 00:24:52,240 He meant about where food was. They understood it wasn't good 318 00:24:52,240 --> 00:24:54,560 for them to have an oversupply for themselves. 319 00:24:54,840 --> 00:24:59,200 They understood that rather than an oversupply for themselves, it 320 00:24:59,200 --> 00:25:03,160 needed to be an oversupply for the multitudes that were still 321 00:25:03,160 --> 00:25:06,800 in need of it. And here's what I know they 322 00:25:06,800 --> 00:25:11,040 still wouldn't lack because the Bible says later they're even 323 00:25:11,040 --> 00:25:13,640 then selling some of the things in the marketplace. 324 00:25:13,840 --> 00:25:17,240 So that tells me there was enough for everybody who wanted 325 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:19,840 and then some even that there was extra for selling. 326 00:25:23,120 --> 00:25:25,000 You'll never exhaust this gospel. 327 00:25:26,960 --> 00:25:29,240 You'll never exhaust this gospel. 328 00:25:32,080 --> 00:25:34,800 And I don't know if this is the most there's a lot of sobering 329 00:25:34,800 --> 00:25:37,280 moments in that verses that I read in your hearing today. 330 00:25:39,120 --> 00:25:44,240 This is one of them that whenever news proliferated 331 00:25:44,960 --> 00:25:51,360 through the city of Samaria, Reese of what was available, you 332 00:25:51,360 --> 00:25:55,440 read in Scripture, there's a man that's being a watcher at the 333 00:25:55,440 --> 00:25:57,240 gate. He's like a gatekeeper. 334 00:25:57,920 --> 00:26:04,600 The Bible describes there's such a Stampede of people leaving 335 00:26:04,600 --> 00:26:09,440 Samaria, going through the gate, that the man actually loses his 336 00:26:09,440 --> 00:26:16,720 life because of the desperation of everybody that was hungry, 337 00:26:17,760 --> 00:26:23,360 that learned where provision was because someone shared it. 338 00:26:23,360 --> 00:26:28,480 I don't think you understand. I don't think you really 339 00:26:28,480 --> 00:26:33,600 understand the desire and the hunger of those that are just 340 00:26:33,600 --> 00:26:35,840 waiting on a word to know where to find the food. 341 00:26:42,280 --> 00:26:45,840 Steph, we talk about, we talk about Buffalo stampeding, we 342 00:26:45,840 --> 00:26:49,840 talk about this Stampede. I'm talking about people that 343 00:26:49,840 --> 00:26:54,040 are so adamant about I've been waiting for this moment. 344 00:26:58,000 --> 00:27:06,400 I've been waiting to hear. I've lost too many days on 345 00:27:06,400 --> 00:27:09,800 things that didn't satisfy happen. 346 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:13,600 Wait no more. There's bread. 347 00:27:14,320 --> 00:27:22,880 There's food just a short distance from someone, say man, 348 00:27:23,400 --> 00:27:27,000 they trampled furiously through that day that had been held 349 00:27:27,000 --> 00:27:30,240 hostage by their fear. They've been held hostage by 350 00:27:30,240 --> 00:27:33,040 their adversary. They've been held hostage by 351 00:27:33,040 --> 00:27:36,040 hopelessness. But now they're going hard at 352 00:27:36,040 --> 00:27:37,760 it. They're advancing toward the 353 00:27:37,760 --> 00:27:41,440 source and the supply that in their mind they thought was 354 00:27:41,440 --> 00:27:45,240 impossible, that they thought was forever elusive, that their 355 00:27:45,240 --> 00:27:48,800 hand would never grab a hold of. They thought it was inaccessible 356 00:27:48,800 --> 00:27:51,600 to them. But now someone said no, it's 357 00:27:51,680 --> 00:27:56,240 for you, it's for me, it's for whoever once said and for 358 00:27:56,240 --> 00:28:01,720 unnamed lepers told them what it was and where it was, and it was 359 00:28:01,720 --> 00:28:05,160 for them. That's the proclaiming of the 360 00:28:05,160 --> 00:28:16,250 Gospel. See, what was exiting Samaria 361 00:28:16,250 --> 00:28:24,010 were starving people. Not for leprous stockpilers. 362 00:28:33,520 --> 00:28:37,320 I shared this with our I shared this with our leadership a few 363 00:28:37,440 --> 00:28:42,600 few weeks back. It's summertime, so I'm on 364 00:28:42,600 --> 00:28:45,760 preacher overload. Once a camp meeting finishes, I 365 00:28:45,760 --> 00:28:48,560 go and I start listening to the preaching. 366 00:28:48,560 --> 00:28:50,280 I'll skip all the music. I go straight to the preaching. 367 00:28:50,280 --> 00:28:52,800 I listen to preaching each day. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom. 368 00:28:53,240 --> 00:28:56,960 So I've heard, I've heard messages out here through the 369 00:28:56,960 --> 00:28:59,400 summer. I like that. 370 00:28:59,680 --> 00:29:02,160 Just like to do it. You have your, you have your 371 00:29:02,160 --> 00:29:03,240 hobby. That's one of mine. 372 00:29:05,200 --> 00:29:06,920 Listen to it while I'm, oh, listen to it while I get ready. 373 00:29:06,920 --> 00:29:08,080 Listen to it while I'm going to bed. 374 00:29:08,960 --> 00:29:11,480 Listen to I'm getting dressed. Listen to driving down the road. 375 00:29:14,240 --> 00:29:17,120 Minister Scott Graham, actually it was, he's telling the story. 376 00:29:19,080 --> 00:29:22,000 He said they're at the churches that there was a lady that come 377 00:29:22,000 --> 00:29:23,880 in, came in the back double doors. 378 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:25,960 So she no sooner got in the building. 379 00:29:25,960 --> 00:29:28,240 She just crying. She's carrying on tears going 380 00:29:28,240 --> 00:29:30,440 down herself face. She found herself a place to 381 00:29:30,440 --> 00:29:31,760 sit. He'd never noticed her being 382 00:29:31,760 --> 00:29:34,560 there to pull her for. She's just crying songs going 383 00:29:34,560 --> 00:29:35,440 on. She's crying. 384 00:29:36,240 --> 00:29:38,360 He said we're even giving the announcements. 385 00:29:38,360 --> 00:29:40,520 This lady's crying. He said sometimes announcements 386 00:29:40,520 --> 00:29:42,040 make me cry too. He said, but she was just 387 00:29:42,040 --> 00:29:44,760 crying, just crying just seemed to be tore up. 388 00:29:44,760 --> 00:29:46,800 I mean everything, prayer request, the whole 9 yards, all 389 00:29:46,800 --> 00:29:48,560 of that. So just crying, doing all this 390 00:29:48,560 --> 00:29:50,920 stuff said it came to the conclusion of his sermon and 391 00:29:50,920 --> 00:29:53,000 stuff and she came forward. She's still crying. 392 00:29:53,000 --> 00:29:54,440 He said, ma'am, he said, can I just ask you? 393 00:29:54,440 --> 00:29:56,720 He says, I've noticed since you've been in here all the 394 00:29:56,720 --> 00:29:58,320 time, you've been through every has with this ever. 395 00:29:58,320 --> 00:30:01,120 You've just been crying. Said, said, you know what's 396 00:30:01,120 --> 00:30:03,720 going on? And she said, well, I don't know 397 00:30:03,720 --> 00:30:04,960 what's going on. I don't really know what all 398 00:30:04,960 --> 00:30:06,640 this is. And so we understood that she 399 00:30:06,640 --> 00:30:10,440 was new and everything and, and he, he knew what was going on. 400 00:30:10,440 --> 00:30:13,200 He, he, he was just trying to get that, that dialogue back and 401 00:30:13,200 --> 00:30:13,640 forth. First. 402 00:30:13,640 --> 00:30:16,160 She had picked up on anything. I don't know, just everything. 403 00:30:16,240 --> 00:30:18,600 As soon as I get on this parking lot, I just start crying and 404 00:30:18,600 --> 00:30:22,040 just emotional mess. He says, well, Hun, he says what 405 00:30:22,040 --> 00:30:24,480 you're doing. He says that that's you're just 406 00:30:24,480 --> 00:30:26,000 feeling the presence of the Lord. 407 00:30:27,080 --> 00:30:30,000 She says, if that's the case, she says, then why isn't anybody 408 00:30:30,000 --> 00:30:36,400 else crying? Because we've become 409 00:30:36,400 --> 00:30:40,360 stockpilers. We've become professional, 410 00:30:40,360 --> 00:30:45,240 celebratory people of hiding and tucking away wire experience 411 00:30:45,680 --> 00:30:49,200 when they're starving. People be willing to beat down 412 00:30:49,200 --> 00:30:58,080 the door to get some food. We know where food is and we 413 00:30:58,080 --> 00:31:00,760 nonchalantly will go there at our own will. 414 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:09,810 I'm the meddling pastor and I'm at home. 415 00:31:17,270 --> 00:31:20,550 We treat prayer rooms like that. We treat altar calls like that. 416 00:31:28,440 --> 00:31:30,560 Somebody would like to cry at this altar. 417 00:31:32,120 --> 00:31:34,960 Somebody would like to feel a thimble of what you feel in the 418 00:31:34,960 --> 00:31:37,080 prayer room the two minutes you spend back there. 419 00:31:44,880 --> 00:31:46,840 We got to tell it before morning breaks. 420 00:31:55,290 --> 00:32:02,010 Oh, God, Stampede starving people. 421 00:32:04,570 --> 00:32:09,040 I mean, inside, inside some area, two women, one in 422 00:32:09,040 --> 00:32:13,520 particular to sacrifice their children for some benefit. 423 00:32:16,960 --> 00:32:19,680 And you know what that in essence is, is part and parcel 424 00:32:19,680 --> 00:32:23,240 to fall out of. I'm not having any tidings of 425 00:32:23,240 --> 00:32:29,240 good news. But when they heard about it and 426 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,880 it was confirmed, nobody could stop them. 427 00:32:33,880 --> 00:32:35,120 Again, there was a man to the gate. 428 00:32:35,120 --> 00:32:37,040 Verse 17. I'm hastening to work close. 429 00:32:39,040 --> 00:32:43,600 It was his responsibility, the gatekeeper was his 430 00:32:43,600 --> 00:32:48,120 responsibility, to control things at the gate. 431 00:32:49,600 --> 00:32:53,520 What came in, what went out frequency, all the things to 432 00:32:53,560 --> 00:32:57,560 control what was at the gate. But when the people on the Hurt 433 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:05,440 Inside heard where the provision was, no one could stop them. 434 00:33:06,720 --> 00:33:14,160 Protocol of control at the gate was out the window. 435 00:33:15,200 --> 00:33:18,440 The people couldn't be controlled because they were 436 00:33:18,440 --> 00:33:20,680 responding according to their need. 437 00:33:25,320 --> 00:33:31,920 I love opening with a word, having 2 songs, having prayer 438 00:33:31,920 --> 00:33:33,720 request, 2 songs, and an offering. 439 00:33:35,680 --> 00:33:41,760 But there's a longing in my soul for more frequencies when no one 440 00:33:41,760 --> 00:33:45,640 can control the gate because there's too much hunger for the 441 00:33:45,640 --> 00:33:57,720 need of what's in the house. You stand with me today. 442 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:05,880 Hungry people will go where food is. 443 00:34:09,159 --> 00:34:11,199 It's incumbent upon us to tell them where it is. 444 00:34:11,199 --> 00:34:17,120 And what we've discovered must not hold our peace, must not 445 00:34:17,120 --> 00:34:19,320 consume the experience upon ourselves. 446 00:34:21,880 --> 00:34:24,400 Because there's more than enough for us that's sitting here today 447 00:34:26,280 --> 00:34:28,560 and for anyone else who needs it. 448 00:34:30,080 --> 00:34:33,800 It's the gospel glad tidings, it's the glorious news. 449 00:34:33,800 --> 00:34:37,880 It's victory, it's hope. But I'm praying for us this 450 00:34:37,880 --> 00:34:39,320 morning. We can close our eyes. 451 00:34:39,320 --> 00:34:41,560 I'm praying and I know we have a baby dedication. 452 00:34:41,560 --> 00:34:44,560 We've not forgotten about that. But I'm praying that we would 453 00:34:44,560 --> 00:34:49,920 grab the conviction of the four forgotten men on the edge of 454 00:34:49,920 --> 00:34:53,800 society. That said, this is a day of good 455 00:34:53,800 --> 00:34:57,960 news, good tidings, and we hold our peace. 456 00:34:58,880 --> 00:35:02,400 That they were convicted to the point that they deemed that 457 00:35:02,400 --> 00:35:05,960 their silence, if they kept it as such, would be a sin. 458 00:35:06,880 --> 00:35:12,160 That their delay would be dangerous, and that waiting till 459 00:35:12,160 --> 00:35:17,560 morning would only mean that someone was going to die in the 460 00:35:17,560 --> 00:35:24,400 dark, not knowing that freedom was already theirs. 461 00:35:26,400 --> 00:35:29,240 So this morning, First Apostolic Church, this, this is our 462 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:33,440 moment. You've been born in the year 463 00:35:33,440 --> 00:35:36,400 that you've been born to be a part of this era and generation. 464 00:35:36,960 --> 00:35:38,960 God has not done that by accident. 465 00:35:39,560 --> 00:35:43,480 It's our day of good tidings. The world is dying in the night 466 00:35:43,480 --> 00:35:45,720 and we've been feasting on the truth. 467 00:35:45,720 --> 00:35:49,760 But we cannot stay silent. We cannot stay quiet. 468 00:35:50,240 --> 00:35:52,720 We must not stockpile it up, ladies and gentlemen. 469 00:35:52,720 --> 00:35:56,600 We must never be a hoarder of it again. 470 00:35:57,280 --> 00:36:02,480 Before morning comes, we must tell it before another soul 471 00:36:02,880 --> 00:36:06,240 gives up. Got to share it before the 472 00:36:06,240 --> 00:36:10,640 gates. Before the gates break. 473 00:36:10,920 --> 00:36:16,320 With desperation we got to go. We must, we must, we must 474 00:36:17,480 --> 00:36:22,040 proclaim it. Because the story is written. 475 00:36:23,200 --> 00:36:26,880 The enemy has fled to a degree, and Christ has won. 476 00:36:28,280 --> 00:36:35,600 There's more than enough for every hungry soul who hears. 477 00:36:36,840 --> 00:36:41,800 I don't want the final riding upon this church to be They held 478 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:45,240 their peace in the night. I don't want the final riding 479 00:36:45,240 --> 00:36:51,040 upon my own life to be that. When the world was starving, I 480 00:36:51,040 --> 00:36:53,760 didn't hasten to point them to the feast. 481 00:36:54,120 --> 00:37:01,320 No, I wanted to be said they towed it before the day broke. 482 00:37:02,160 --> 00:37:04,760 These halters are open. Those of you that have 483 00:37:04,760 --> 00:37:06,960 experienced the power of the Holy Ghost. 484 00:37:07,280 --> 00:37:10,160 Those of you that experienced the clizzing that happens going 485 00:37:10,160 --> 00:37:13,440 down in Jesus name in a watery grave, the baptism. 486 00:37:13,840 --> 00:37:16,640 Those of you that have experienced a touch of God upon 487 00:37:16,640 --> 00:37:18,680 your health, physical health and mental health. 488 00:37:19,120 --> 00:37:21,200 Hallelujah. That's giving guidance to your 489 00:37:21,200 --> 00:37:24,840 uncertain footsteps. I want you to be in the 490 00:37:24,840 --> 00:37:27,120 afterglow in the celebration of that. 491 00:37:27,320 --> 00:37:30,040 But I want you to leave them with a holy unction and a 492 00:37:30,040 --> 00:37:34,880 sobering conviction that I got to tell it to somebody else 493 00:37:34,880 --> 00:37:38,520 that's starving. I've got to tell it to somebody 494 00:37:38,520 --> 00:37:42,520 else that's dying. I got to tell it to somebody 495 00:37:42,520 --> 00:37:47,960 else that is perishing. That the enemy is defeated and 496 00:37:47,960 --> 00:37:53,400 that there is plenty of what they need in him. 497 00:37:53,880 --> 00:37:59,560 It's the story of the Gospel. Hallelujah, Jesus. 498 00:38:00,120 --> 00:38:04,560 Come on, Sir, ma'am, you have a mother, a father, a friend, a 499 00:38:04,560 --> 00:38:08,000 uncle, an acquaintance, A cashier that you frequent, 500 00:38:08,000 --> 00:38:11,000 someone who does your hair, your mechanic. 501 00:38:11,280 --> 00:38:17,400 You're somebody, a neighbor. Talent before the day breaks 502 00:38:20,280 --> 00:38:22,440 cannot. Don't keep it to yourself. 503 00:38:22,440 --> 00:38:25,200 Don't hide it to yourself. Don't enjoy the perks of it 504 00:38:25,200 --> 00:38:28,960 yourself. Somebodies dying, somebodies in 505 00:38:28,960 --> 00:38:33,120 need. Somebody has a longing that only 506 00:38:33,120 --> 00:38:37,480 Jesus can satisfy. It's available today. 507 00:38:38,520 --> 00:38:41,960 His spirit, His power, it's available today. 508 00:38:42,320 --> 00:38:45,080 You can bring your hurts, your woes, your fears. 509 00:38:45,280 --> 00:38:47,600 You can feel that. You can bring your trepidation. 510 00:38:47,800 --> 00:38:51,200 You can feel being like you're back in a corner and that it's 511 00:38:51,200 --> 00:38:54,480 hopeless and that things are inaccessible to you, that you're 512 00:38:54,560 --> 00:38:57,360 down and out on your luck. You can bring that to an altar 513 00:38:57,360 --> 00:38:58,960 today. God is here. 514 00:38:59,200 --> 00:39:02,640 There's food here. There's food for the hungry here 515 00:39:02,640 --> 00:39:05,200 today. And the enemy has been set at 516 00:39:05,200 --> 00:39:07,680 Bay. He's here for you this morning. 517 00:39:08,400 --> 00:39:10,640 Somebody else share it. Somebody else tell it. 518 00:39:10,640 --> 00:39:14,440 Somebody else echo it from the mountaintop. 519 00:39:18,160 --> 00:39:22,240 Let's talk to him right now. If you don't know him, I invite 520 00:39:22,240 --> 00:39:25,640 you to know him. If you know him, I invite you to 521 00:39:25,640 --> 00:39:29,440 share it with somebody who don't, or someone that may be 522 00:39:29,440 --> 00:39:31,840 inquisitive. There's a longing there. 523 00:39:31,840 --> 00:39:34,120 There's a desire there. There's a hunger there. 524 00:39:36,320 --> 00:39:36,920 Oh yes.