1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:05,720 Come together, just praise. The Lord Yes, we've. 2 00:00:05,720 --> 00:00:10,920 All come together from. Every part of town. 3 00:00:11,760 --> 00:00:14,840 Yes, we all. Come together. 4 00:00:15,320 --> 00:00:21,080 To make a joyful. Sound, singing, Glados and us 5 00:00:21,080 --> 00:00:25,000 with our hearts in one accord. Yes, we. 6 00:00:25,160 --> 00:00:35,880 All come together just. Praise the Lord, Amen. 7 00:00:35,880 --> 00:00:38,720 Aren't you glad to be here? It's good to be here. 8 00:00:39,000 --> 00:00:41,840 I'd rather be here than the best hospital in the world. 9 00:00:43,080 --> 00:00:45,480 Amen. Rather, to be here today. 10 00:00:46,000 --> 00:00:50,440 Again, we do tip our hats this morning to all of our 11 00:00:50,440 --> 00:00:54,320 firefighters within this church and within this community. 12 00:00:54,720 --> 00:00:56,960 Amen. We honor those courageous men 13 00:00:56,960 --> 00:01:01,240 and women that serve in in the firefighting capacity today. 14 00:01:01,640 --> 00:01:03,920 It's always the strange thing. They're running toward the 15 00:01:03,920 --> 00:01:05,840 dangers. Everybody else is running away 16 00:01:05,840 --> 00:01:09,520 from the danger and it's not for sure. 17 00:01:09,520 --> 00:01:12,720 Many of that's within this city are volunteer and it's not a 18 00:01:12,720 --> 00:01:16,480 career. It's a selfless mission to save 19 00:01:16,480 --> 00:01:19,240 lives and we appreciate you this morning. 20 00:01:19,440 --> 00:01:22,640 For years now they have been involved here since the middle 21 00:01:22,640 --> 00:01:26,560 church involved in firefighting. It wasn't nothing in common in 22 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:31,960 those days in particular to see 5 or maybe so get up and have to 23 00:01:31,960 --> 00:01:35,400 leave to go to attend the fires. And so we're thankful today. 24 00:01:35,760 --> 00:01:38,280 Amen for them. We're glad to have Bob with us 25 00:01:38,280 --> 00:01:40,960 this morning. This is Bob Adams. 26 00:01:42,200 --> 00:01:44,840 Finally, folks, this. Is the one that's responsible 27 00:01:44,840 --> 00:01:47,320 for Kevin. I'm just letting you know this 28 00:01:47,320 --> 00:01:49,320 is the one. And so we're glad to have Bob 29 00:01:49,320 --> 00:01:51,440 today. He's telling me a story about he 30 00:01:51,440 --> 00:01:55,920 and the son doing some horseback riding and said his his horse 31 00:01:55,920 --> 00:01:58,240 kept on kicking and he didn't know what was going on. 32 00:01:58,760 --> 00:02:01,400 His son was riding behind him, gouging the horse here and 33 00:02:01,400 --> 00:02:04,440 there. Bob finally took care of his boy 34 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:06,600 and slapped him upside the head and I think he ended up falling 35 00:02:06,600 --> 00:02:09,560 off his horse and I think that was just yesterday. 36 00:02:11,160 --> 00:02:11,960 I just. Joke. 37 00:02:12,320 --> 00:02:14,080 I'm joking. I don't think it was. 38 00:02:14,080 --> 00:02:16,120 Yesterday was it Bob? OK. 39 00:02:16,320 --> 00:02:17,960 Hey, baby. We're glad to have him this 40 00:02:17,960 --> 00:02:19,720 morning. Amen with us. 41 00:02:20,160 --> 00:02:21,200 Amen. We're going to. 42 00:02:21,200 --> 00:02:25,080 Be turned to Genesis. Chapter 19 today, Genesis 43 00:02:25,080 --> 00:02:30,200 chapter 19, and I'm going to read just a couple verses of 44 00:02:30,200 --> 00:02:34,080 Scripture. They are just kind of extracted 45 00:02:34,080 --> 00:02:39,280 from a larger story, of course, as often as the case, but I want 46 00:02:39,280 --> 00:02:43,480 to read verses 15 and 16 this morning the Bible says, and to 47 00:02:43,480 --> 00:02:48,560 give you kind of idea where we are here this morning, this is 48 00:02:48,560 --> 00:02:53,720 the story of of Lot with Sodom and Gomorrah going to be 49 00:02:54,000 --> 00:02:59,160 destroyed by fire and brimstone. And this is what the Scripture 50 00:02:59,160 --> 00:03:04,480 says in verse 15. And when the morning arose, then 51 00:03:04,480 --> 00:03:09,880 the angels hastened Lot. Saying, Arise, take thy. 52 00:03:09,880 --> 00:03:14,840 Wife and thy two daughters, which are here, lest thou be 53 00:03:14,840 --> 00:03:18,520 consumed in the iniquity of the city. 54 00:03:19,280 --> 00:03:25,600 And while he lingered, the men laid hold upon his hand, upon 55 00:03:25,600 --> 00:03:29,760 the hand of his wife, upon the hand of his two daughters. 56 00:03:30,080 --> 00:03:34,360 The Lord. Being merciful unto him, and 57 00:03:34,360 --> 00:03:39,880 they brought him forth and set him without the city. 58 00:03:40,160 --> 00:03:43,880 My mind has been on this whole fireman thing here for the past 59 00:03:43,880 --> 00:03:45,320 few days because I knew it was coming up. 60 00:03:45,320 --> 00:03:47,680 Made a video for it that. Should be published today and 61 00:03:47,680 --> 00:03:49,920 all that good. Stuff I want to minister just a 62 00:03:49,920 --> 00:03:51,480 little while this morning on this. 63 00:03:51,800 --> 00:03:57,760 Pulled from the fire. Pulled from the fire. 64 00:03:58,120 --> 00:03:59,720 Amen. Let's pray one more time, 65 00:03:59,720 --> 00:04:01,640 Father. We need your help this morning. 66 00:04:02,800 --> 00:04:05,120 I pray God in this. Place we're thankful Lord for 67 00:04:05,120 --> 00:04:08,160 those that have gathered here in today we pray O. 68 00:04:08,160 --> 00:04:09,720 Lord, that you would. Direct our mind. 69 00:04:09,720 --> 00:04:13,160 You would direct our words. God, let your spirit, Lord show 70 00:04:13,160 --> 00:04:15,600 up in this place. God, let there be a spirit. 71 00:04:15,600 --> 00:04:18,519 Lord of Power. And conviction, I pray Lord, 72 00:04:18,519 --> 00:04:21,040 that would flood over our hearts and souls give us. 73 00:04:21,240 --> 00:04:23,200 Lord Direction. Lord for our individual. 74 00:04:23,200 --> 00:04:25,680 Lives. Today and will not fail to thank 75 00:04:25,680 --> 00:04:30,680 you and praise you for it. In Jesus name, a man and a man 76 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:36,600 you may be seated this morning in Jesus name something that I 77 00:04:37,120 --> 00:04:41,840 off time say I say I think maybe it's something that happens 78 00:04:41,840 --> 00:04:45,400 frequently, but nonetheless. There's a pattern that takes. 79 00:04:45,400 --> 00:04:49,400 Place in Scripture that is unmistakably clear. 80 00:04:49,720 --> 00:04:51,440 And that pattern. Is this that? 81 00:04:51,440 --> 00:04:55,320 God always allows space, A space of. 82 00:04:55,320 --> 00:04:59,280 Mercy for mercy. Before he ever brings judgement. 83 00:04:59,800 --> 00:05:02,520 Judgement is never God's first move. 84 00:05:02,520 --> 00:05:05,200 It's always God's final. Move. 85 00:05:05,400 --> 00:05:07,080 It's his final. Response. 86 00:05:07,480 --> 00:05:10,080 If judgment ever comes, it will, because mercy. 87 00:05:10,080 --> 00:05:12,960 Had knocked on the. Door frequently and often. 88 00:05:12,960 --> 00:05:17,200 Before judgment ever arrived. Grace was there pleading, Grace 89 00:05:17,200 --> 00:05:20,520 was there crying before judgment will respond. 90 00:05:20,800 --> 00:05:24,920 And it seems like judgment only comes after mercy is refused or 91 00:05:24,920 --> 00:05:28,760 grace is ignored. And so it's as we see in 92 00:05:28,760 --> 00:05:32,040 Scripture before there was the first drop of rain that ever 93 00:05:32,040 --> 00:05:36,840 fell in Noah's day, there were many years of warning. 94 00:05:37,160 --> 00:05:41,200 There is even a construction of an ark out in what is seemingly 95 00:05:41,200 --> 00:05:42,720 a desert. That should have been an 96 00:05:42,720 --> 00:05:45,960 indication to all those that were around. 97 00:05:45,960 --> 00:05:51,440 There was Noah himself, which the Bible calls a preacher of 98 00:05:51,520 --> 00:05:56,600 righteousness, whether that was his own pleading with his lips 99 00:05:56,600 --> 00:06:01,240 or by the way that he conducted his life visibly showing forth 100 00:06:01,280 --> 00:06:04,240 actions of trying to turn of that day. 101 00:06:04,240 --> 00:06:08,360 A very corrupt world that was full of imaginations that were 102 00:06:08,360 --> 00:06:12,600 just wickedness continually, even before our texts here 103 00:06:12,600 --> 00:06:16,640 today, before Sodom. And Gomorrah before the. 104 00:06:16,640 --> 00:06:22,280 Fire and the brimstone fell. God allowed a great patriarch by 105 00:06:22,280 --> 00:06:28,000 the name of Abraham to intercede and go to the bargaining table 106 00:06:28,000 --> 00:06:31,480 with God over the city. The scripture that I read to you 107 00:06:31,480 --> 00:06:36,000 today is the story of where the angels were even sent personally 108 00:06:36,000 --> 00:06:41,320 to rescue and his wife and his daughters, grabbing them as 109 00:06:41,320 --> 00:06:44,800 though the scripture portrays by the hand even when they 110 00:06:44,800 --> 00:06:48,800 hesitated and lingered. Before the first born of Egypt 111 00:06:48,800 --> 00:06:53,240 ever died before the first born of Pharaoh ever died from the 112 00:06:53,240 --> 00:06:58,400 final plague, we read that there were 9 clear opportunities that 113 00:06:58,400 --> 00:07:03,320 Pharaoh and the nation of Egypt had to turn their ways to 114 00:07:03,320 --> 00:07:05,920 repent. Water became blood. 115 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:10,440 We read of the frogs and the flies and the boils and and the 116 00:07:10,440 --> 00:07:14,320 hell, and all these signs were doing nothing more but shouting. 117 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:20,120 God shouting, let my people go. And grace was speaking in and 118 00:07:20,120 --> 00:07:22,920 through that to Egypt and to Pharaoh. 119 00:07:23,240 --> 00:07:26,960 Even the Canaanites, before the children of Israel ever came 120 00:07:26,960 --> 00:07:30,280 into the land and dispatched them and dispelled them on the 121 00:07:30,280 --> 00:07:33,240 left and on the right. Those who had been wicked before 122 00:07:33,240 --> 00:07:35,960 they were brought to destruction, the Lord had given 123 00:07:35,960 --> 00:07:42,320 them well over 400 years to turn before Joshua and his army ever 124 00:07:42,320 --> 00:07:47,520 raised a sword and entered into Jericho and AI and the Promised 125 00:07:47,520 --> 00:07:49,920 Land. Because God wasn't eager to 126 00:07:49,920 --> 00:07:51,520 destroy. Amen. 127 00:07:51,520 --> 00:07:54,440 God was trying to be patient with where they were. 128 00:07:54,600 --> 00:07:56,640 He is really a long-suffering God. 129 00:07:56,640 --> 00:08:01,120 He is really a God that that is merciful and patient and 130 00:08:01,120 --> 00:08:04,520 gracious, but he cannot forever be silent. 131 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:08,440 We Fast forward even into some of the other writings of the 132 00:08:08,440 --> 00:08:11,320 Scripture. We look at Nineveh, and when 133 00:08:11,320 --> 00:08:15,920 Jonah finally obeyed God and went to that city, an entire 134 00:08:15,920 --> 00:08:20,880 wicked city turned, and God relented because they repented 135 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,320 and they asked forgiveness because mercy always proceeds 136 00:08:25,440 --> 00:08:27,760 wrath. Whenever Jesus even walked the 137 00:08:27,760 --> 00:08:31,480 streets of Jerusalem and he interacted with the people, He 138 00:08:31,480 --> 00:08:35,159 healed their sick, He raised the dead, He touched fevered brow 139 00:08:35,159 --> 00:08:38,880 and it was displaced, The Bible says, from a particular place. 140 00:08:38,880 --> 00:08:43,640 He looked over Jerusalem and the Bible says that he wept over 141 00:08:43,640 --> 00:08:47,680 Jerusalem and said Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how long I've 142 00:08:47,680 --> 00:08:50,920 gathered thee as a hen would gather it's brood under my 143 00:08:50,920 --> 00:08:55,000 wings, but he would not He had done all these great things, 144 00:08:55,000 --> 00:08:59,440 preach the gospel to them of the Kingdom, but the moment of their 145 00:08:59,440 --> 00:09:03,320 visitation, Jerusalem missed. And the Bible says that that 146 00:09:03,320 --> 00:09:07,120 city was indeed destroyed. It came under the hand of 147 00:09:07,280 --> 00:09:11,160 judgement, not because God was impatient, but because they had 148 00:09:11,160 --> 00:09:15,320 rejected the repeated mercies and graces of God. 149 00:09:15,320 --> 00:09:18,920 It's a biblical pattern then that is evident in Scripture 150 00:09:18,920 --> 00:09:22,960 that again, grace always precedes judgement or grace 151 00:09:22,960 --> 00:09:27,040 always precedes fire. So make no mistake about it that 152 00:09:27,040 --> 00:09:31,520 whenever grace is resistant that sooner or later the fire will 153 00:09:31,520 --> 00:09:34,400 come. But I said all that to say this 154 00:09:34,400 --> 00:09:38,960 this morning we are standing at the end edge of another 155 00:09:38,960 --> 00:09:41,880 judgement. We're standing at the edge of 156 00:09:41,880 --> 00:09:44,960 another day similar to those that have happened before in 157 00:09:44,960 --> 00:09:47,720 Scripture. This is not a local judgement. 158 00:09:47,880 --> 00:09:49,800 This is not a regional judgement. 159 00:09:49,920 --> 00:09:54,360 This is the final judgement. This is the eternal judgement. 160 00:09:54,600 --> 00:09:58,720 Peter even tells us that that day of the Lord is coming. 161 00:09:59,040 --> 00:10:02,840 And although God is not willing, the Bible says that any should 162 00:10:02,840 --> 00:10:06,200 perish. He will not postpone eternity 163 00:10:06,440 --> 00:10:08,040 forever. Amen. 164 00:10:08,040 --> 00:10:11,120 And so with that in mind today you said brother McGee whoo 165 00:10:11,320 --> 00:10:13,440 Sunday morning. This is kind of heavy, but 166 00:10:13,440 --> 00:10:16,480 listen to me today. We oftimes look at this season 167 00:10:16,880 --> 00:10:19,840 of mercy and grace and it's like you know what that's the 168 00:10:19,840 --> 00:10:22,400 opportunity for this find their way to God and I. 169 00:10:23,200 --> 00:10:27,040 But we always put the burden of that season upon the Sinner. 170 00:10:27,280 --> 00:10:30,560 We always put the burden of that season upon the one that's done 171 00:10:30,560 --> 00:10:33,880 wrong and need to repent, but I want to take the burden today 172 00:10:33,880 --> 00:10:39,320 and put it upon us. It's about someone, say man, 173 00:10:39,520 --> 00:10:43,840 because we're not just living or preaching in uncertain times, we 174 00:10:43,840 --> 00:10:46,920 are preaching and living in. Borrowed time. 175 00:10:47,120 --> 00:10:50,960 And so we got to take advantage this world, we all. 176 00:10:51,080 --> 00:10:53,800 Are right. For judgment, can I say in 177 00:10:53,800 --> 00:10:57,920 certain terms that the fire is already kindled? 178 00:10:58,160 --> 00:11:03,400 And just as God sent Noah, I've warned Lot, and just as he 179 00:11:03,400 --> 00:11:08,320 called Jonah to Hostel City. He's placed you, he's placed me 180 00:11:08,600 --> 00:11:11,760 where we are during this time. With a. 181 00:11:11,760 --> 00:11:14,640 Similar assignment as many as we. 182 00:11:14,640 --> 00:11:23,280 Can the fire someone say man, it's not the hour for us to grow 183 00:11:23,280 --> 00:11:25,120 numb. It's not the hour to say well 184 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:26,880 the signs are coming. Bless God. 185 00:11:27,120 --> 00:11:29,360 I'm glad that everything sealed the deal for me. 186 00:11:29,360 --> 00:11:32,400 No, that not be our personality. That not. 187 00:11:32,400 --> 00:11:35,720 Be the type of mindset we have. Our mindset shouldn't be, well, 188 00:11:35,720 --> 00:11:39,440 good for me, it should be what? About those it's not good for, 189 00:11:39,640 --> 00:11:46,840 What about those that? It's not someone say man going 190 00:11:46,840 --> 00:11:50,440 to sound the alarm because the fire is real. 191 00:11:53,880 --> 00:11:57,000 Recently I read Mother Fred. I read a book here recently and 192 00:11:57,000 --> 00:11:59,360 it was about firemen and things of that nature. 193 00:11:59,880 --> 00:12:02,560 And they made mention in that book of a particular fire in New 194 00:12:02,560 --> 00:12:06,000 York called the Lionel Hampton, I think it was. 195 00:12:06,480 --> 00:12:10,560 A building hotel. The Lionel Hampton Fire in New 196 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:13,680 York, and they described it when they got there, they had two 197 00:12:13,920 --> 00:12:16,840 different hoses that were running against the fire that 198 00:12:16,840 --> 00:12:19,040 were pumping 500 gallons. Per minute. 199 00:12:20,000 --> 00:12:24,920 From the hoses, but it was so hot that just a couple feet from 200 00:12:24,920 --> 00:12:30,840 the nozzle was turning to steam. The fire is real. 201 00:12:33,200 --> 00:12:38,520 The fire that destroyed Sodom Gomorrah is not just a story 202 00:12:38,520 --> 00:12:43,640 from the past, but it is a reminder of the devastating 203 00:12:43,640 --> 00:12:51,080 power of God's judgement. Cities that were consumed by 204 00:12:51,080 --> 00:12:57,480 fire and brimstone because of the wickedness of the condition 205 00:12:57,840 --> 00:13:00,720 of the inhabitants. As a matter of fact, you can 206 00:13:00,720 --> 00:13:05,080 read of archaeological excavations findings that 207 00:13:05,080 --> 00:13:09,520 support the biblical account of Sodom and Gomorrah, where the 208 00:13:09,520 --> 00:13:12,760 evidence tells us that there was such a fiery destruction. 209 00:13:12,760 --> 00:13:17,040 That was there on that site that researchers have uncovered 210 00:13:17,280 --> 00:13:23,160 layers of ash and remnants of buildings showing signs of those 211 00:13:23,160 --> 00:13:28,360 things being incinerated by some intense heat attesting to the 212 00:13:28,360 --> 00:13:32,160 city's destruction action. And it was a warning not just 213 00:13:32,160 --> 00:13:36,400 for those of that age, but for us of our age about what lies 214 00:13:36,400 --> 00:13:40,560 ahead, what happens whenever mercy and grace is just trampled 215 00:13:40,560 --> 00:13:44,040 on and rejected. There is the reality, folks. 216 00:13:44,040 --> 00:13:47,360 And I know, I know that there are not a lot of pulpits talking 217 00:13:47,360 --> 00:13:51,520 about this today, but I'm still a Bible believing man of God 218 00:13:51,520 --> 00:13:53,680 here today. And we still got to talk about, 219 00:13:53,680 --> 00:13:57,480 but there is still a reality of. Hell, there is still. 220 00:13:57,480 --> 00:14:01,240 The impending destruction of the the world according to scripture 221 00:14:01,400 --> 00:14:03,920 by fire. It's a sober truth. 222 00:14:04,120 --> 00:14:06,880 I know it's something that we don't want to talk about, but it 223 00:14:06,880 --> 00:14:09,520 demands our urgent attention in these. 224 00:14:09,520 --> 00:14:13,880 Last days and last. Times, Jesus spoke emphatically. 225 00:14:14,080 --> 00:14:16,800 About a place. Called hell where the. 226 00:14:16,800 --> 00:14:19,480 Fire is not quenched. And the. 227 00:14:19,480 --> 00:14:23,560 Worm does not die. He was portraying the eternal 228 00:14:23,560 --> 00:14:27,840 suffering and the destruction that came along with that fire. 229 00:14:28,040 --> 00:14:31,280 We have illustrated in Luke 16 of a Rich. 230 00:14:31,280 --> 00:14:35,120 Man and Lazarus. And the Bible says that the rich 231 00:14:35,120 --> 00:14:38,360 man lifted up. His eyes in hell. 232 00:14:38,680 --> 00:14:42,000 And he is pleading. Just for one drop. 233 00:14:42,040 --> 00:14:45,160 Of water to be. Laid to his parts. 234 00:14:45,360 --> 00:14:48,160 Tongue because of the unrelenting. 235 00:14:48,200 --> 00:14:50,400 Anguish that he was. In in. 236 00:14:50,400 --> 00:14:54,600 Hell, the Apostle. Peter warns emphatically that 237 00:14:54,600 --> 00:14:57,880 the day of the Lord is coming, and it's coming as a thief in 238 00:14:57,880 --> 00:14:59,840 the night. That the heaven will. 239 00:14:59,840 --> 00:15:03,840 Pass away with a. Great noise and the elements 240 00:15:04,160 --> 00:15:08,200 will melt with fervent heat, both the earth. 241 00:15:08,680 --> 00:15:11,680 And the works. Will be burned up in it. 242 00:15:11,880 --> 00:15:21,280 The fire is real. They just go a step further with 243 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:24,480 you for a moment. The fire is real, but this is 244 00:15:24,480 --> 00:15:28,760 not like finding some corpse in a burning building that you're 245 00:15:28,760 --> 00:15:32,160 going to go there and the flesh has been melted off of it and 246 00:15:32,240 --> 00:15:34,000 bones is the only thing that remain. 247 00:15:34,360 --> 00:15:36,800 No, no, no, no. Whenever in the realm of 248 00:15:36,840 --> 00:15:40,000 eternity, when every individual, whether wicked or. 249 00:15:40,000 --> 00:15:42,360 Good and resurrects. Amen, they will. 250 00:15:42,360 --> 00:15:45,400 Have a body. That will be able to endure for 251 00:15:45,400 --> 00:15:47,840 eternity. Their body's not going to burn 252 00:15:47,840 --> 00:15:49,520 up. They're going to keep feeling 253 00:15:49,560 --> 00:15:53,440 the pain, keep feeling the agony, keep feeling the sorrow. 254 00:15:53,680 --> 00:15:56,360 What are you saying? The fire is real? 255 00:15:56,520 --> 00:15:58,680 That's not just a call to the Sinner. 256 00:15:58,880 --> 00:16:02,840 That's a call to the Saint. What are we doing? 257 00:16:08,080 --> 00:16:18,720 Someone say Amen, look what our scripture says. 258 00:16:20,360 --> 00:16:23,520 There's all type of different attitudes that are being 259 00:16:23,520 --> 00:16:28,760 expressed. Lot hears word about this 260 00:16:28,760 --> 00:16:35,800 impending doom and he goes to his sons in law and tells them 261 00:16:36,640 --> 00:16:40,040 we need to remove ourself from this place. 262 00:16:40,920 --> 00:16:46,320 And verse 14 says that they basically looked back at him and 263 00:16:46,320 --> 00:16:48,360 they thought that he was. Just mocking. 264 00:16:49,440 --> 00:16:52,880 He was just joking. You can't be serious. 265 00:16:55,760 --> 00:17:01,360 And then we understand that even though Lord himself must not 266 00:17:01,360 --> 00:17:06,319 have taken the seriousness of the situation, because whenever 267 00:17:06,319 --> 00:17:10,400 he should have been exiting the city, the Bible in our text read 268 00:17:10,400 --> 00:17:15,280 this morning. But while he lingered, he knew 269 00:17:15,280 --> 00:17:19,040 the doom, he knew the destruction, he knew what was 270 00:17:19,040 --> 00:17:23,000 going to happen. But he lingered none the less, 271 00:17:23,440 --> 00:17:27,560 at the same spot, in the same city, with the same 272 00:17:27,560 --> 00:17:30,320 surroundings. It's the deception, folks. 273 00:17:30,320 --> 00:17:31,840 I can't tell you anything but this. 274 00:17:32,200 --> 00:17:35,560 The Bible speaks of the deceivableness of sin. 275 00:17:36,040 --> 00:17:41,120 It's the deception of the world. That blinds us from the reality 276 00:17:41,640 --> 00:17:47,120 of what's happening. It's in this whole scenario 277 00:17:47,120 --> 00:17:50,560 though. It's in this whole scenario of 278 00:17:50,560 --> 00:17:55,400 Lot lingering his sons in laws thinking he's just joking that 279 00:17:55,400 --> 00:18:00,120 the Bible. Says God that physically took a 280 00:18:00,120 --> 00:18:06,280 hold of lots hand and physically took a hold of his daughter's 281 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:12,120 hand and physically took a hold of his wife's hand and he pulled 282 00:18:12,120 --> 00:18:16,400 them, had them, pulled them out of the impending destruction. 283 00:18:16,400 --> 00:18:21,360 No, no, no. That was coming. 284 00:18:21,520 --> 00:18:23,720 You can read it, read it. I read in all. 285 00:18:23,720 --> 00:18:26,560 Kinds of different translations. The first one that I read it in 286 00:18:26,560 --> 00:18:30,640 is what prompted this sermon where the Bible says that the 287 00:18:30,640 --> 00:18:35,000 Lord did this because he was merciful. 288 00:18:35,640 --> 00:18:38,960 You read other translations, it says he did it because he was 289 00:18:38,960 --> 00:18:41,880 compassionate. He did it because of this, did 290 00:18:41,880 --> 00:18:45,400 it because of that version that I'm reading this year stated it 291 00:18:45,400 --> 00:18:49,400 like this. God did it because he wanted to 292 00:18:49,400 --> 00:18:50,400 save. Them. 293 00:18:54,720 --> 00:18:59,160 Call it mercy, call it compassion, call it whatever you 294 00:18:59,160 --> 00:19:03,880 want, but he sent some angels. To grab some physical hands. 295 00:19:04,280 --> 00:19:08,480 Because he wanted to save lot. He wanted to save lots kids. 296 00:19:08,760 --> 00:19:14,720 He wanted to save lots, wife, someone say man God wanted to 297 00:19:15,320 --> 00:19:18,120 save. Him lot didn't save. 298 00:19:18,120 --> 00:19:20,400 Himself. Those daughters didn't get out 299 00:19:20,400 --> 00:19:24,320 of the city by themselves. No, they were pulled out not 300 00:19:24,320 --> 00:19:27,200 because they were righteous enough, not because they were 301 00:19:27,200 --> 00:19:30,920 fast enough, not because they were bold enough, but because 302 00:19:30,960 --> 00:19:48,160 God wanted to save them. Someone say Amen in that 303 00:19:48,160 --> 00:19:54,160 solitary chapter which makes up the entirety of the book of 304 00:19:54,160 --> 00:19:56,720 Jude. Which is the book? 305 00:19:56,720 --> 00:20:02,680 Right before Revelation, writer says Jude says in verses 22 and 306 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,760 23. He's speaking directly to Our 307 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:13,400 Calling, he says. And of some have compassion 308 00:20:14,680 --> 00:20:24,400 making a difference, And others save with fear, pulling them out 309 00:20:25,320 --> 00:20:30,200 of the fire, hating the garment spotted by the flesh. 310 00:20:31,080 --> 00:20:35,480 Jude is taken upon himself in this solitary chapter. 311 00:20:36,320 --> 00:20:38,800 He's all related. He's related to the believers 312 00:20:38,800 --> 00:20:43,120 already, of some that have erred from the Way, some that have 313 00:20:43,120 --> 00:20:46,280 erred from the faith have turned their back upon particular 314 00:20:46,280 --> 00:20:49,160 things. He's already told them, if you 315 00:20:49,160 --> 00:20:52,480 will, the framework of the side. He talks about how some it went 316 00:20:52,480 --> 00:20:56,840 by the way of Cain, some by the way of Core, by some by the way 317 00:20:56,840 --> 00:20:59,400 of Palam. He speaks of all these things, 318 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:03,640 but then he's speaking to the believers, he says, in light, if 319 00:21:03,640 --> 00:21:07,360 you will, of all of these things that are happening or have 320 00:21:07,360 --> 00:21:09,440 happened. He says, I want to give you some 321 00:21:09,440 --> 00:21:14,640 practical instruction on engaging in with people that are 322 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:18,040 in spiritual danger. He says some of them are 323 00:21:18,040 --> 00:21:22,040 wavering, some of them are doubting, some of them are 324 00:21:22,040 --> 00:21:24,760 confused. And what they need is a voice 325 00:21:25,120 --> 00:21:29,200 and a touch of compassion that perhaps a difference, their 326 00:21:29,200 --> 00:21:32,720 doubt would be turned back into faith or that their way wavering 327 00:21:32,720 --> 00:21:36,320 would somehow get them aligned directly again on the street 328 00:21:36,320 --> 00:21:39,320 called straight, he said. There's something like that, he 329 00:21:39,320 --> 00:21:42,400 said, but there are others. Someone hear me right now, he 330 00:21:42,400 --> 00:21:46,520 lay raises the ante, the level a man of seriousness, he says. 331 00:21:46,520 --> 00:21:50,400 Some are just wavering, he said. But there are others that are in 332 00:21:50,400 --> 00:21:53,160 far greater danger than some other ones. 333 00:21:53,600 --> 00:21:57,000 There are others that have strayed much further than some 334 00:21:57,000 --> 00:22:00,520 other ones, he says. We got to save them with fear. 335 00:22:00,680 --> 00:22:03,400 You know what the apostle Paul said, and in Second Corinthians 336 00:22:03,800 --> 00:22:08,440 he said he said knowing therefore, therefore knowing the 337 00:22:08,440 --> 00:22:14,280 terror, TERROR, therefore knowing the terror of the Lord, 338 00:22:14,480 --> 00:22:23,400 we persuade men. Paul's talking to the church. 339 00:22:23,880 --> 00:22:26,360 At Corinth. You know what he. 340 00:22:26,360 --> 00:22:32,200 Said we know what's coming. We know the fire. 341 00:22:32,200 --> 00:22:35,520 'S real. We know judgment is sure. 342 00:22:36,200 --> 00:22:42,840 He said as a result of that knowledge, we, someone say me, 343 00:22:43,960 --> 00:22:49,520 must persuade. Men at whatever cost, however 344 00:22:49,520 --> 00:22:51,960 much we must go. About it by whatever. 345 00:22:51,960 --> 00:22:55,600 Means we must persuade. We must be convincing. 346 00:22:55,800 --> 00:23:03,200 We. He says we must persuade. 347 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,880 We must persuade. Men he's. 348 00:23:05,880 --> 00:23:11,960 Saying we got to, if necessary, pull them out of the fire. 349 00:23:12,280 --> 00:23:16,440 Hallelujah. Listen, I know, and I'm all for 350 00:23:16,440 --> 00:23:19,640 it. But the game's changing because 351 00:23:19,640 --> 00:23:22,480 the hour's getting late. It's out of time now. 352 00:23:22,600 --> 00:23:25,280 We don't have time to reason. We got to rescue. 353 00:23:31,280 --> 00:23:34,240 I know the Bible says the apostle went into the synagogues 354 00:23:34,240 --> 00:23:37,520 in different places and he reasoned with them daily, but 355 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:40,160 we're at a stage now. We can no longer just be in the 356 00:23:40,160 --> 00:23:42,280 reasoning stage. We got to be in the. 357 00:23:42,280 --> 00:23:46,120 Rescue Stage. This is the search and rescue 358 00:23:46,280 --> 00:23:54,080 step. Someone say man. 359 00:24:02,480 --> 00:24:04,800 The book that I read. Concerning firemen. 360 00:24:04,800 --> 00:24:06,440 Again, as I stated. Earlier, you know, everybody's 361 00:24:06,440 --> 00:24:10,160 always amazed they're running in as others are running out, one 362 00:24:10,160 --> 00:24:13,080 fireman said. This is really written around 363 00:24:13,080 --> 00:24:21,200 the whole idea of the September. 11th scenario, he said. 364 00:24:22,800 --> 00:24:25,680 We could not afford to worry about the risks. 365 00:24:28,080 --> 00:24:28,800 Said we had. To think. 366 00:24:28,800 --> 00:24:35,560 Only of the mission, and he insisted the mission was to save 367 00:24:36,440 --> 00:24:42,200 lives. He's like, if we stopped just to 368 00:24:42,200 --> 00:24:51,680 think about all of the risk or the what ifs, we're losing time 369 00:24:52,400 --> 00:24:57,720 for what was. Necessary in the moment, lives 370 00:24:57,720 --> 00:25:01,040 being saved I. Mean I'd love to put together 371 00:25:01,040 --> 00:25:05,800 A10 week Bible study about how to invite and save the loss and 372 00:25:05,800 --> 00:25:07,680 all this and we can reason about it. 373 00:25:07,680 --> 00:25:10,360 We could talk about it. We could break it down 25,000 374 00:25:10,360 --> 00:25:11,760 times. But at the end of the day, you 375 00:25:11,760 --> 00:25:16,680 know what's necessary. Just go to the mission. 376 00:25:17,240 --> 00:25:20,160 It might look ugly to you to begin with, how you approach it, 377 00:25:20,160 --> 00:25:22,320 how you do it. But God will honor. 378 00:25:24,640 --> 00:25:32,400 God will honor your doing of it. Our mission, they're not like 379 00:25:32,400 --> 00:25:34,720 maybe lives in a burning building, but they're eternal 380 00:25:34,720 --> 00:25:36,960 lives. And we can't be casual about it. 381 00:25:37,160 --> 00:25:39,080 We can't just be laissez faire about it. 382 00:25:39,360 --> 00:25:42,440 We can't be comfortable. Hey, man, we got to be willing 383 00:25:42,440 --> 00:25:44,600 to understand. Yeah, there's risk involved. 384 00:25:44,800 --> 00:25:47,560 Let's call some of them. It might inconvenience you. 385 00:25:47,880 --> 00:25:50,800 It might make you uncomfortable. But that's all right, because 386 00:25:50,800 --> 00:25:53,560 the mission is there. Lives got to be saved. 387 00:25:53,880 --> 00:25:59,880 Leonard Ravenhill said this. Could a mariner sit idly if he 388 00:25:59,880 --> 00:26:03,800 heard their drowning cry? Could a doctor sit in comfort 389 00:26:04,000 --> 00:26:08,160 and just let his patients die? Could a farm and sit idle and 390 00:26:08,160 --> 00:26:11,040 let men burn and give no hand? He said. 391 00:26:11,040 --> 00:26:13,360 Can you? Sit at ease in Zion with the 392 00:26:13,360 --> 00:26:15,120 world around. You damned. 393 00:26:23,020 --> 00:26:28,580 Maybe God was entertaining some of those things when before he 394 00:26:28,580 --> 00:26:34,240 sent the angels, he dropped by Abraham's tent. 395 00:26:36,800 --> 00:26:40,680 He dropped by there along with the angels that would be sent to 396 00:26:40,680 --> 00:26:48,280 Sodom and God. The angels ate, they had some 397 00:26:48,280 --> 00:26:51,600 food and drink there at Abraham's tent that Abraham made 398 00:26:51,600 --> 00:26:55,280 sure was prepared for them, and then the angels got up and 399 00:26:55,280 --> 00:26:56,440 headed. Towards Sodom. 400 00:26:57,880 --> 00:27:00,640 And you read the. Scripture in chapter 18. 401 00:27:02,240 --> 00:27:08,120 That God begins to ponder Shall shall I talk to? 402 00:27:08,120 --> 00:27:10,040 Shall I hide? From Abraham that. 403 00:27:10,040 --> 00:27:14,200 Which I'm about ready to do. Questions in Chapter 18. 404 00:27:14,800 --> 00:27:17,520 What God saying should I? Share with Abraham. 405 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:23,840 Should I share with Abraham? What's about ready to happen? 406 00:27:24,680 --> 00:27:27,600 What's going to take place? And he begins recounting some 407 00:27:27,600 --> 00:27:29,480 things. So he's going to be the. 408 00:27:29,480 --> 00:27:33,560 Father of promise, I know this is what God says concerning 409 00:27:33,560 --> 00:27:36,680 Abraham. I know he'll bring his children. 410 00:27:36,680 --> 00:27:39,320 Upright. It's in your Bible. 411 00:27:39,880 --> 00:27:42,120 I know, I know He'll do right by his children. 412 00:27:42,120 --> 00:27:43,680 I know He'll try to live the right. 413 00:27:43,760 --> 00:27:45,120 He's looking at all this. Shall I? 414 00:27:45,120 --> 00:27:46,320 Shall I? You know what? 415 00:27:46,320 --> 00:27:50,680 God was contemplating and looking at the life of Abraham. 416 00:27:50,680 --> 00:27:55,080 He says if he would do that for his own children, he would 417 00:27:55,080 --> 00:27:58,200 consider them. I know He will if I shared with 418 00:27:58,200 --> 00:27:59,440 him what's. About ready to happen. 419 00:27:59,440 --> 00:28:04,760 To these people. Would he have any compassion for 420 00:28:04,760 --> 00:28:11,960 them? I wonder sometimes if God is 421 00:28:11,960 --> 00:28:15,120 fiddling his fingers in these end times and saying. 422 00:28:15,560 --> 00:28:19,360 I wonder if I can talk. To the first Apostolic Church 423 00:28:21,560 --> 00:28:25,320 about what's coming. I wonder if I can convey to 424 00:28:25,320 --> 00:28:26,800 them. Some of the. 425 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:29,600 Things that will unfold. I wonder. 426 00:28:29,600 --> 00:28:31,160 If he can. Say, well, they're doing right, 427 00:28:31,160 --> 00:28:33,480 They're doing this. I wonder, there's what I want to 428 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:34,560 know. Can he? 429 00:28:34,560 --> 00:28:42,560 Trust us with the information, not just to talk about it, but 430 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:52,720 try to do something about. It because it's right after this 431 00:28:52,720 --> 00:28:57,160 whole scenario, you know what you start to see Abraham having 432 00:28:57,160 --> 00:29:02,720 a private conversation with God and he says God will you destroy 433 00:29:02,720 --> 00:29:05,960 the. Righteous with the. 434 00:29:05,960 --> 00:29:09,360 Unrighteous if you if there's 50. 435 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:11,480 Righteous. Please note though. 436 00:29:12,000 --> 00:29:15,280 You can get somehow turned over on your side in a moment and 437 00:29:15,280 --> 00:29:18,000 think all that Abraham cares about was the righteous. 438 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:22,680 But look at the Bible. Look at the Scripture right here 439 00:29:22,680 --> 00:29:27,000 if you will. Look at verse #24 of Genesis 18. 440 00:29:27,800 --> 00:29:30,280 Here's Abraham. He's starting his bargaining 441 00:29:30,280 --> 00:29:33,440 with God. And again, at first it seems 442 00:29:33,440 --> 00:29:36,320 like his primary concern would be the righteous. 443 00:29:36,320 --> 00:29:39,920 But I'm telling you, it was larger than that Amen. 444 00:29:39,960 --> 00:29:44,560 Abraham understood that it wasn't just the righteous, Amen, 445 00:29:44,560 --> 00:29:47,120 that was in a place of harm's way. 446 00:29:47,560 --> 00:29:51,280 It was everybody that was in that city and in that valley 447 00:29:51,280 --> 00:29:54,440 that was in harm's way. Look what he says in verse 24. 448 00:29:55,040 --> 00:29:59,360 Abraham says pre adventure, there be 50 righteous with them 449 00:29:59,360 --> 00:30:01,400 the city. Note this next phrase. 450 00:30:01,800 --> 00:30:06,360 Wilt thou also destroy look? And not spare. 451 00:30:06,680 --> 00:30:13,680 The place. 450 Righteous. If it was just all about the 452 00:30:13,680 --> 00:30:17,680 righteous, Amen, Abraham, could I ask God just get the righteous 453 00:30:17,680 --> 00:30:20,480 out of there? But no, he's just using the 454 00:30:20,480 --> 00:30:25,240 righteous as a bargaining chip for the whole city, the whole 455 00:30:25,240 --> 00:30:27,200 place. The righteous and the 456 00:30:27,200 --> 00:30:31,720 unrighteous, the godly and the ungodly, the same and the lost. 457 00:30:39,440 --> 00:30:44,520 403530 all the way down to tent God. 458 00:30:44,920 --> 00:30:48,360 There's a city down there, God. There's a city. 459 00:30:48,360 --> 00:30:50,320 Down there. There's men and women. 460 00:30:50,320 --> 00:30:53,240 Down there, there's little boys and girls down there. 461 00:30:53,560 --> 00:30:56,280 There's aged men and women down there. 462 00:30:56,520 --> 00:30:59,640 God, will you not spare the city? 463 00:31:07,200 --> 00:31:16,160 Someone say Jesus God wasn't just revealing the judgment to 464 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:19,280 Abraham. Knowing God's thinking about 465 00:31:19,280 --> 00:31:22,280 Abraham, he understood when he. Involved him. 466 00:31:23,000 --> 00:31:27,520 That he was recruiting. Him in the rescue. 467 00:31:34,600 --> 00:31:38,240 God knew. He's just walk with me here a 468 00:31:38,240 --> 00:31:38,720 little. Bit. 469 00:31:39,720 --> 00:31:49,400 God knew that Abraham would be concerned beyond his immediate 470 00:31:49,400 --> 00:31:52,640 family about what was. Inside him. 471 00:31:57,640 --> 00:32:05,040 Yeah, nephew Lot was there and his nieces, her great nieces 472 00:32:05,760 --> 00:32:07,360 and. His wife, yeah, but. 473 00:32:08,240 --> 00:32:10,920 It was more than. Just about his family. 474 00:32:12,440 --> 00:32:13,560 It was about the. City. 475 00:32:15,320 --> 00:32:20,720 We lived in the shallow end of the of the pool of concern for 476 00:32:20,720 --> 00:32:22,440 the. Lost if it's only. 477 00:32:22,440 --> 00:32:23,920 Our family that we're worried about. 478 00:32:29,880 --> 00:32:32,120 You need to start counting on her hands and say, well, there's 479 00:32:32,120 --> 00:32:34,440 just that one there that needs in and once they get in, it's 480 00:32:34,440 --> 00:32:35,440 good. No, no, no. 481 00:32:35,720 --> 00:32:37,880 It's never. You're never done counting. 482 00:32:42,400 --> 00:32:44,800 You're never, you're never done counting. 483 00:32:45,280 --> 00:32:48,400 You're never done counting because there's somebody else. 484 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:51,320 There's somebody else. But Brother McGee, I don't know 485 00:32:51,320 --> 00:32:53,160 them. They're not an acquaintance to 486 00:32:53,160 --> 00:32:54,800 me. I've never spoke to them. 487 00:32:54,800 --> 00:32:57,200 They don't matter. They're important to God. 488 00:32:57,560 --> 00:33:01,200 God says I'm sending angels down there to pull them out because I 489 00:33:01,200 --> 00:33:04,840 want to say Lord. You don't have to know them, God 490 00:33:04,920 --> 00:33:08,120 knows them, but God wants to save them. 491 00:33:14,880 --> 00:33:17,240 Hello Boshi, I'm Akari. I'm one night. 492 00:33:20,680 --> 00:33:25,560 He negotiates. Back and forth with God, I tell 493 00:33:25,560 --> 00:33:28,080 you, he negotiates for the Fred, even at the risk of 494 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,560 embarrassment or feeling like he was overstepping. 495 00:33:34,160 --> 00:33:37,760 Because that love that he had for that city and those who were 496 00:33:37,760 --> 00:33:45,800 in it moved him. To do so, God, I don't want to 497 00:33:45,800 --> 00:33:48,080 be presumptuous, you know, He's kind of walking tender with God. 498 00:33:48,560 --> 00:33:52,440 But he did anyway because he says there's people down there, 499 00:33:52,440 --> 00:33:55,120 There's people down there, God. Could I? 500 00:33:55,440 --> 00:34:02,880 Could I maybe presume today the Abraham was the first 501 00:34:02,880 --> 00:34:06,160 outstretched? Hand reaching towards Sodom 502 00:34:07,080 --> 00:34:11,080 because of his intercession period with God. 503 00:34:13,080 --> 00:34:17,199 And God is still looking for the Abrahams in our day. 504 00:34:19,679 --> 00:34:23,880 He's looking for somebody that he can tell it to because he'll 505 00:34:23,880 --> 00:34:27,239 know they'll do something about it. 506 00:34:31,520 --> 00:34:35,159 Angels laid a hold on. Those girls. 507 00:34:36,560 --> 00:34:39,440 Had a hand on Lord, laid a hand on them. 508 00:34:41,840 --> 00:34:44,639 Ask you today, whose hand does he have? 509 00:34:44,639 --> 00:34:52,480 You, Regent. I understand. 510 00:34:52,480 --> 00:34:55,800 Please hear me today. I understand there'll be some. 511 00:34:57,200 --> 00:34:58,600 That won't. Want to leave? 512 00:35:00,000 --> 00:35:02,520 I understand that. I understand some. 513 00:35:02,840 --> 00:35:05,040 Will think it's like lots of son-in-law. 514 00:35:05,040 --> 00:35:06,800 'S it's just all. Big joke I get. 515 00:35:06,800 --> 00:35:14,720 That, but that doesn't mean we refrain from reaching, we 516 00:35:14,760 --> 00:35:20,200 refrain from laying a hold of a hand because God has employed us 517 00:35:20,200 --> 00:35:24,600 as messengers of hope, rescuers, not bystanders. 518 00:35:25,560 --> 00:35:30,880 In this hour, I'm not going to hold you much longer. 519 00:35:33,880 --> 00:35:37,360 So I read this. Book I talk about it my video 520 00:35:37,360 --> 00:35:43,000 today called Firehouse. It was about one particular. 521 00:35:43,680 --> 00:35:45,040 Firehouse. That was close. 522 00:35:45,080 --> 00:35:47,840 Not too many blocks away from 911 that was called into that 523 00:35:47,840 --> 00:35:51,200 situation 13. I believe it was. 524 00:35:51,760 --> 00:35:54,960 Fireman went out, only one returned. 525 00:35:56,840 --> 00:36:00,880 The one returned horrible, horrible shaped bodily. 526 00:36:01,320 --> 00:36:03,440 It's a miracle that he made a deal with all the guilt and 527 00:36:03,440 --> 00:36:05,520 shame because he feel like he shouldn't have when all of his 528 00:36:05,520 --> 00:36:10,960 comrades didn't and his words were these. 529 00:36:12,520 --> 00:36:19,360 That the greatest, greatest. Impact on him of that day, he 530 00:36:19,360 --> 00:36:24,280 said, wasn't. Even so much the bodies that 531 00:36:24,280 --> 00:36:29,240 were thrown themselves from the. Tower as it was the sound that 532 00:36:29,240 --> 00:36:32,640 their body made when it hit the pavement, he says. 533 00:36:32,640 --> 00:36:40,360 I'll never be able to forget the sound of the bodies as they hit 534 00:36:41,800 --> 00:36:46,160 the pavement, he said. That sound haunts me. 535 00:36:46,520 --> 00:36:50,640 Why? Because it was the finality of I 536 00:36:50,640 --> 00:36:59,760 can't save that life. It was the 3rd of a soul that 537 00:36:59,760 --> 00:37:08,600 was beyond saving, beyond reach, ladies and gentlemen. 538 00:37:10,000 --> 00:37:14,320 Every obituary, every funeral. Service. 539 00:37:15,360 --> 00:37:20,600 Every tragic accident, every overdose, perhaps every 540 00:37:20,600 --> 00:37:26,240 heartbeat that is silenced without hope is the spiritual 541 00:37:26,240 --> 00:37:34,440 sound of a body that's hitting the pavement, that there's 542 00:37:34,440 --> 00:37:44,560 nothing you can do. And if hell is real, and the 543 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:48,720 Bible tells me it is, then the rescue. 544 00:37:48,960 --> 00:37:55,200 Must be urgent the. Firefighter doesn't wait for 545 00:37:55,200 --> 00:37:59,000 people to run out of the building before they go in, and 546 00:37:59,000 --> 00:38:02,160 the angels don't wait for Lot to decide before they go in. 547 00:38:02,160 --> 00:38:10,520 And lay a hand on him. We got to grab a hand because 548 00:38:10,520 --> 00:38:13,840 Mercy's running. Staying with me today. 549 00:38:14,280 --> 00:38:17,600 You got to grab a hand because Mercy is running now. 550 00:38:18,960 --> 00:38:22,520 I'm a messenger today. You're a messenger today. 551 00:38:23,240 --> 00:38:28,520 You're a rescuer today. Hand that reaches into the fire. 552 00:38:32,120 --> 00:38:33,440 I don't want to grab my mom or my dad. 553 00:38:33,440 --> 00:38:35,280 Do so and you must. Please. 554 00:38:35,280 --> 00:38:39,160 I'm not saying you neglect your. Family, but I'm telling. 555 00:38:39,160 --> 00:38:41,960 You just as much as you grab the hand of a family or a friend or 556 00:38:41,960 --> 00:38:44,720 a Co worker or a neighbor and you should you need. 557 00:38:44,720 --> 00:38:50,800 To grab the hand of a stranger. We by our heads today. 558 00:38:50,800 --> 00:38:53,360 I'm asking you this morning, who, who, who? 559 00:38:53,360 --> 00:38:58,920 Are we reaching for? Taking their hand may may look 560 00:38:58,920 --> 00:39:00,640 different in all types of different lights. 561 00:39:00,640 --> 00:39:03,280 It may be a literal taking of their hand, or it may be a 562 00:39:03,280 --> 00:39:04,840 taking of their hand. In prayer. 563 00:39:05,120 --> 00:39:08,520 It may be a taking of their hand through an invitation to come 564 00:39:08,520 --> 00:39:10,480 set beside you. It may be the taking of their 565 00:39:10,480 --> 00:39:15,240 hand with with a text or or e-mail, just just a refusal to 566 00:39:15,240 --> 00:39:16,920 give up. It may be the taking of their 567 00:39:16,920 --> 00:39:21,000 hand even whenever they don't. Realize that the fire. 568 00:39:21,240 --> 00:39:27,400 Is closing in. And if you're not the rescuer 569 00:39:27,400 --> 00:39:30,640 today, if you're like Lot, please listen to me today. 570 00:39:33,120 --> 00:39:36,040 If you're like Lot and you're lingering when you should be 571 00:39:36,040 --> 00:39:44,160 leaving, I'm letting you know that this is your moment too. 572 00:39:47,560 --> 00:39:50,560 You're still here. I believe within a shadow that 573 00:39:50,560 --> 00:39:53,120 you're still here. Because the. 574 00:39:53,120 --> 00:39:56,840 Lord is still trying to save you. 575 00:40:00,120 --> 00:40:02,400 We can just begin to pray to the Lord right now. 576 00:40:02,400 --> 00:40:05,480 I'm monitoring us, every individual and remember this 577 00:40:05,480 --> 00:40:08,440 congregation, if you're not a member this congregation, that's 578 00:40:08,440 --> 00:40:10,280 fine, but these altars are open today. 579 00:40:10,640 --> 00:40:13,640 I'm imploring us to reach for a hand. 580 00:40:14,080 --> 00:40:20,560 I'm imploring us to be the hand. I'm imploring us to pull someone 581 00:40:20,560 --> 00:40:27,640 from the fire because as we're walking in this sanctuary this 582 00:40:27,640 --> 00:40:32,000 morning, there's the proverbial hits of the souls on the 583 00:40:32,000 --> 00:40:35,120 pavement. That's the constant reminder 584 00:40:35,360 --> 00:40:37,720 someone else has slipped. Into eternity. 585 00:40:38,200 --> 00:40:41,880 Did they or did? They not know God and did they 586 00:40:41,920 --> 00:40:59,600 realize what's coming? I wish if we could just. 587 00:40:59,600 --> 00:41:03,280 Turn into a womb. Here today we could just be a 588 00:41:03,280 --> 00:41:07,000 mother that the church is described as that could enter 589 00:41:07,000 --> 00:41:11,840 into a labor pain right now with groanings and utterings and 590 00:41:12,120 --> 00:41:15,160 calling out to God. We could have the the 591 00:41:15,160 --> 00:41:19,560 vocalization of Rachel upon our lips that says give me children, 592 00:41:19,560 --> 00:41:23,040 they'll die. Someone would reach right now 593 00:41:23,040 --> 00:41:26,080 with their prayer. They would reach right now with 594 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:28,680 their sincerity. They would reach right now with 595 00:41:28,680 --> 00:41:32,320 their burden. They would reach right now no 596 00:41:32,480 --> 00:41:37,280 knowing at the hour, knowing the terror of the Lord, that we 597 00:41:37,280 --> 00:41:41,440 would be persuasive rescuers today 598 00:41:51,760 --> 00:41:54,120 because the the fact of the matter. 599 00:41:54,120 --> 00:42:01,640 Is this God wants to save him? God, I don't care if they seem 600 00:42:01,640 --> 00:42:06,280 like the helpless case to you. I don't care if they flip all 601 00:42:06,280 --> 00:42:09,280 the buttons in your emotional panorama. 602 00:42:10,440 --> 00:42:14,080 God wants to save them. God wants to save. 603 00:42:14,080 --> 00:42:18,320 Them God wants to save them. Come on, let's talk to him right 604 00:42:18,320 --> 00:42:20,920 now. You have family members. 605 00:42:20,920 --> 00:42:22,960 You have friends, you have coworkers, you have neighbors, 606 00:42:23,400 --> 00:42:25,440 you have people you've seen myriad of times. 607 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,760 You never talked to them, but you've seen them, you made eye 608 00:42:27,760 --> 00:42:30,360 contact with them something and you just kind of draws you. 609 00:42:30,360 --> 00:42:31,320 It's like. What is that? 610 00:42:31,640 --> 00:42:32,880 Maybe you need to? Act upon that. 611 00:42:33,440 --> 00:42:37,040 Maybe you need to act upon that. Somebody needs pulled from the 612 00:42:37,040 --> 00:42:38,120 fire. Come under the Mason. 613 00:42:38,120 --> 00:42:39,920 I hear the tune of what you're playing right now. 614 00:42:40,160 --> 00:42:41,080 Come on, let's. Let's. 615 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:42,040 Talk to God.