1 00:00:00,280 --> 00:00:02,640 Welcome to the Reem Sound Church of God podcast. 2 00:00:02,840 --> 00:00:05,360 Wherever you're listening from, we hope you are blessed by 3 00:00:05,360 --> 00:00:08,800 today's message. All right, Matthew chapter 26, 4 00:00:09,080 --> 00:00:12,360 verse 36. Then Jesus came with them to a 5 00:00:12,360 --> 00:00:16,880 place called Gethsemane, and he said to the disciples, Sit here 6 00:00:17,080 --> 00:00:21,640 while I go and pray over there. And he took with him Peter and 7 00:00:21,640 --> 00:00:25,840 the two sons of Zebedee, and he began to be sorrowful and deeply 8 00:00:25,840 --> 00:00:28,960 distressed. Then he said to them, My soul is 9 00:00:28,960 --> 00:00:36,120 exceedingly sorrowful even to death, Stay here and watch with 10 00:00:36,120 --> 00:00:39,680 me. He went a little farther and 11 00:00:39,680 --> 00:00:44,600 fell on his face and prayed, saying, Oh my Father, if it is 12 00:00:44,600 --> 00:00:47,760 possible, let this cup pass from me. 13 00:00:48,440 --> 00:00:53,040 Nevertheless, not as I will, but as you will. 14 00:00:54,280 --> 00:00:57,800 Then he came to the disciples and found them sleeping, and 15 00:00:57,800 --> 00:01:04,040 said to Peter, What? What could you not watch with 16 00:01:04,040 --> 00:01:11,920 me? One hour specifically, He said. 17 00:01:12,400 --> 00:01:18,280 One hour. Watch and pray lest you enter 18 00:01:18,280 --> 00:01:23,360 into temptation. The Spirit indeed is willing, 19 00:01:24,800 --> 00:01:34,120 but the flesh, Oh, the flesh, Oh my flesh, but the flesh is weak. 20 00:01:34,160 --> 00:01:37,120 I want to speak to you on this thought today. 21 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:46,680 Losing an hour. Losing an hour, Father, I thank 22 00:01:46,680 --> 00:01:50,160 you for everything God, that's happened and is happening. 23 00:01:50,160 --> 00:01:53,760 I thank you, Lord, for the way your blessing from the nursery 24 00:01:53,760 --> 00:01:57,600 all the way around to the junior youth and back into this 25 00:01:57,600 --> 00:01:59,880 sanctuary, God. And we've committed it all to 26 00:01:59,880 --> 00:02:03,760 you today and we're believing you, God, that you still have 27 00:02:03,760 --> 00:02:05,560 more to accomplish here this morning. 28 00:02:05,800 --> 00:02:09,560 And we open our hearts to you for you to use us for your glory 29 00:02:09,800 --> 00:02:13,880 in Jesus name, Amen. You may be seated. 30 00:02:14,800 --> 00:02:17,320 Well, something mystical happened last night. 31 00:02:17,720 --> 00:02:21,840 I didn't stay up to watch it, but something happened at 2:00 32 00:02:21,840 --> 00:02:25,280 AM. Was anybody watching your clock 33 00:02:25,280 --> 00:02:28,240 at 2:00 AM this morning? There was 1. 34 00:02:29,280 --> 00:02:32,040 Great when we got one over here as well. 35 00:02:32,480 --> 00:02:36,040 I've never seen it, so I want to ask you did it immediately just 36 00:02:36,040 --> 00:02:38,400 jump to three? Just that's what it did. 37 00:02:38,640 --> 00:02:44,800 So 2:00 AM this morning, it became 3:00 AM. 38 00:02:46,440 --> 00:02:49,160 We lost an hour. Where did it go? 39 00:02:49,480 --> 00:02:54,800 What happened to 201202205? What happened to 2:59? 40 00:02:54,800 --> 00:03:01,920 It totally vanished off the face of the earth and we lost that 41 00:03:02,240 --> 00:03:04,600 hour. Something I don't quite 42 00:03:04,600 --> 00:03:09,360 understand all of that, but 2:00 AM became 3:00 AM and something 43 00:03:09,360 --> 00:03:14,960 happened and it changed everything just that quickly. 44 00:03:15,360 --> 00:03:18,160 Now, I don't know about how you prepare for this daylight 45 00:03:18,160 --> 00:03:22,160 savings time thing, but for me, I start on Saturday morning. 46 00:03:22,600 --> 00:03:26,440 Saturday morning, I start going around the house and every clock 47 00:03:26,440 --> 00:03:28,840 that doesn't change itself, I change it. 48 00:03:29,240 --> 00:03:32,320 I change it because I want to fool myself into thinking it's 49 00:03:32,320 --> 00:03:35,640 already an hour later, that I already lost it and I don't have 50 00:03:35,640 --> 00:03:37,640 to worry about it Saturday night. 51 00:03:37,720 --> 00:03:42,600 And one of the reasons I do that is because it's it truly is 52 00:03:42,600 --> 00:03:46,720 important to me. And I for your sake, I want to 53 00:03:46,720 --> 00:03:49,440 be fresh on a Sunday morning. I don't want to come here and do 54 00:03:49,440 --> 00:03:52,400 less than my best. My best may not be all that 55 00:03:52,400 --> 00:03:56,520 great, but I want to do my best. And so I don't go into any wild 56 00:03:56,520 --> 00:04:00,960 parties on Saturday night. I don't go to any wild parties 57 00:04:00,960 --> 00:04:03,520 at all at my age, Jarrett Hall, you know. 58 00:04:03,600 --> 00:04:09,160 Well, anyway, but I try, I try to, I want to get, if I can, I 59 00:04:09,160 --> 00:04:11,120 want to get proper rest. And the only way I can do that 60 00:04:11,400 --> 00:04:14,160 because it nags at me knowing that I'm going to lose that hour 61 00:04:14,400 --> 00:04:16,920 all day long. So I've already prepare myself. 62 00:04:17,200 --> 00:04:20,800 The clock's already set. So I'm, I'm, I'm ready to go. 63 00:04:20,800 --> 00:04:24,440 Let me ask you this. How many of you like daylight 64 00:04:24,440 --> 00:04:25,920 savings time? You like it. 65 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:27,920 I do. Does anybody else join me? 66 00:04:27,960 --> 00:04:33,360 You like it and some of you OK. How many of you don't like it? 67 00:04:33,360 --> 00:04:35,080 You want it to stay the way it was. 68 00:04:35,160 --> 00:04:38,000 OK, there's more of you that like it, but how many of you 69 00:04:38,000 --> 00:04:42,360 that like it don't like the fact that you lose an hour on that 70 00:04:42,480 --> 00:04:43,960 Saturday night? Now I want to tell you 71 00:04:43,960 --> 00:04:47,360 something. I did some research and you've 72 00:04:47,360 --> 00:04:51,120 heard these things before, but I never realized how much there's 73 00:04:51,120 --> 00:04:54,760 so many arguments against changing the clock. 74 00:04:55,400 --> 00:04:58,720 There's places I've got reference from Stanford 75 00:04:58,720 --> 00:05:02,800 Medicine, John Hopkins, Bloomsburg School of Health, 76 00:05:03,120 --> 00:05:05,840 Northwestern Medicine in the Cleveland Clinic, and let me 77 00:05:05,840 --> 00:05:08,440 just tell you what they tell you happened to you. 78 00:05:08,800 --> 00:05:11,880 Losing an hour of sleep for daylight savings time disrupts 79 00:05:11,880 --> 00:05:14,840 your body's natural circadian rhythm. 80 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:16,880 That's something we talk about every day. 81 00:05:16,880 --> 00:05:19,360 How's your circadian rhythm today? 82 00:05:19,360 --> 00:05:22,680 How's it going for you? That's a good question to ask 83 00:05:22,680 --> 00:05:25,640 people because it only talks about it means your internal 84 00:05:25,640 --> 00:05:29,160 clock from day-to-day, one day at a time. 85 00:05:29,160 --> 00:05:31,440 And that's kind of a Latin phrase there. 86 00:05:31,640 --> 00:05:35,640 But anyway, it says it messes you up and it increases short 87 00:05:35,640 --> 00:05:39,400 term public health and safety risk like heart attacks and 88 00:05:39,400 --> 00:05:42,480 accidents. They said that fatigue and sleep 89 00:05:42,480 --> 00:05:45,520 deprivation are obviously the main culprits. 90 00:05:45,520 --> 00:05:49,040 The primary effect is a collective loss of an hour of 91 00:05:49,040 --> 00:05:53,600 sleep causing grogginess, increased sleeplessness and 92 00:05:53,600 --> 00:05:56,520 difficulty concentrating the following week. 93 00:05:56,520 --> 00:05:59,600 So the whole next week is already messed up for you. 94 00:06:00,480 --> 00:06:04,320 Short term effects, long term effects impaired performance. 95 00:06:04,560 --> 00:06:08,760 It reduces alertness and slower reaction times affect daily 96 00:06:08,760 --> 00:06:13,280 functioning, potentially leading to lower productivity and more 97 00:06:13,280 --> 00:06:18,440 errors at work or at school. Judges listen to this. 98 00:06:18,600 --> 00:06:24,080 Judges have even been shown to give harsher sentences on sleepy 99 00:06:24,080 --> 00:06:26,560 Monday after daylight savings time. 100 00:06:27,040 --> 00:06:31,200 I hope you don't stand before a judge tomorrow. 101 00:06:31,920 --> 00:06:33,840 There are increased accident risk. 102 00:06:33,840 --> 00:06:37,680 Studies consistently show a spike in accidents immediately 103 00:06:37,680 --> 00:06:42,560 following the time change. 6% increase in fatal car accidents 104 00:06:42,800 --> 00:06:46,240 after DST begins. An increase in workplace 105 00:06:46,240 --> 00:06:50,880 injuries, with one study finding an average of 3.6 more injuries 106 00:06:50,880 --> 00:06:53,360 on the Monday after the shift of time. 107 00:06:53,360 --> 00:06:55,400 So don't go to work tomorrow, stay home. 108 00:06:57,240 --> 00:07:00,800 This disruption of the body's internal clock puts the body in 109 00:07:00,800 --> 00:07:05,520 a pro inflammatory state and affects numerous biological 110 00:07:05,520 --> 00:07:10,040 processes, increasing the risk of cardiovascular events. 111 00:07:10,360 --> 00:07:14,960 The risk of heart attacks increases by 24% on the Monday 112 00:07:14,960 --> 00:07:20,600 following the spring shift. Strokes and atrial fibrillation 113 00:07:20,880 --> 00:07:24,760 admissions also rise mental health issues. 114 00:07:25,040 --> 00:07:27,800 The shift can exasperate existing mental health 115 00:07:27,800 --> 00:07:31,520 conditions like depression and anxiety, and can increase stress 116 00:07:31,520 --> 00:07:33,120 and irritability. Doesn't encourage you? 117 00:07:34,680 --> 00:07:36,120 I'll get to the word in a minute. 118 00:07:36,840 --> 00:07:41,000 Metabolic and immune issues Circadian misalignment can lead 119 00:07:41,000 --> 00:07:47,880 to a slowed metabolism, weight gain, and a weak. 120 00:07:47,880 --> 00:07:50,640 It's that whole that our thing has hurt me so much. 121 00:07:50,920 --> 00:07:53,400 And a weakened immune system making individual more 122 00:07:53,400 --> 00:07:56,200 vulnerable to illness. And who is vulnerable? 123 00:07:56,200 --> 00:07:59,960 Who are the most vulnerable? Certain groups, including night 124 00:07:59,960 --> 00:08:02,000 owls. If you stay up late at night, 125 00:08:02,200 --> 00:08:07,080 late starters, teenagers, older adults are those with 126 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:11,360 pre-existing health conditions. And so all of this can happen. 127 00:08:11,360 --> 00:08:15,320 So here's where we are. There's a whole lot of bad stuff 128 00:08:15,840 --> 00:08:19,240 and so I guess I should have just cancelled service last 129 00:08:19,240 --> 00:08:23,640 night today so you wouldn't get messed up, but I didn't. 130 00:08:24,000 --> 00:08:28,600 Or I should stop now and let you out an hour early, but I won't. 131 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:34,400 So we are stuck here together, but there seems to be an awful 132 00:08:34,400 --> 00:08:42,200 lot of concern over one hour a year, one hour a year, and the 133 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:46,960 whole world is going off its orbit and it's falling off its 134 00:08:47,000 --> 00:08:53,720 axis even as we speak, because people lost an hour. 135 00:08:55,520 --> 00:09:02,600 But in the text that we just read, there is a loss of an hour 136 00:09:03,600 --> 00:09:08,080 that Jesus talks about. And it wasn't a loss because 137 00:09:08,080 --> 00:09:12,400 people didn't sleep, it was a loss because they did sleep. 138 00:09:13,880 --> 00:09:17,960 Verse 40 says, Then he came to the disciples and found him 139 00:09:17,960 --> 00:09:20,440 sleeping and said to Peter, what? 140 00:09:21,440 --> 00:09:25,480 I can hear that. What could you not watch with me 141 00:09:26,240 --> 00:09:31,200 one hour? Watch and pray, lest you enter 142 00:09:31,200 --> 00:09:34,680 into temptation. The Spirit indeed is willing, 143 00:09:35,160 --> 00:09:41,440 but the flesh is weak. So while there are problems 144 00:09:41,440 --> 00:09:47,560 associated with losing an hour of sleep, there are more serious 145 00:09:47,560 --> 00:09:52,560 complications spiritually for people who lose an hour because 146 00:09:52,560 --> 00:09:56,160 they sleep when they should be praying. 147 00:09:56,920 --> 00:10:00,520 Amen. You see, Jesus knew what was 148 00:10:00,520 --> 00:10:04,800 about to happen and this losing an hour that he asked them to 149 00:10:04,800 --> 00:10:07,920 watch was going to be very costly because they were all 150 00:10:07,920 --> 00:10:10,880 scattered. And the Bible says that even 151 00:10:10,880 --> 00:10:14,880 Peter, who he spoke to about this, actually denied him, as 152 00:10:14,880 --> 00:10:16,640 you know. And we preached about that 153 00:10:16,640 --> 00:10:20,880 recently three times in one episode. 154 00:10:20,880 --> 00:10:25,440 It was a it was a lost, it was an hour of lost opportunity 155 00:10:25,800 --> 00:10:29,840 because it was an hour that Jesus asked his disciples to do 156 00:10:29,840 --> 00:10:32,640 something for him. And all he asked him to do was 157 00:10:32,640 --> 00:10:36,560 to watch and pray for that one hour. 158 00:10:36,760 --> 00:10:42,120 And they lost that hour of opportunity by sleeping. 159 00:10:42,960 --> 00:10:46,760 And I begin to think about stories in the Bible and really 160 00:10:46,760 --> 00:10:50,880 stories even from history where people have a lost because of 161 00:10:50,920 --> 00:10:53,240 sleeping when they should have been awake. 162 00:10:53,240 --> 00:10:58,200 Now, we lost last night because we were awake when we should 163 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:02,800 have been sleeping because that hour, we just lost it during the 164 00:11:02,800 --> 00:11:05,120 night. But I want you to think back as 165 00:11:05,120 --> 00:11:10,920 I think about the prophet Jonah, when when in the book of Jonah, 166 00:11:10,920 --> 00:11:14,560 it tells the story of God speaking to Jonah and telling 167 00:11:14,560 --> 00:11:18,200 him to go to Nineveh and to preach the destruction of that 168 00:11:18,200 --> 00:11:20,480 city if they didn't turn their lives around. 169 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:23,880 But he didn't want to do it. And so Jonah went the other way 170 00:11:24,240 --> 00:11:27,600 and he got on a ship headed toward Tarsus and something 171 00:11:27,600 --> 00:11:29,240 happened. And I want to read it to you. 172 00:11:29,520 --> 00:11:33,240 In Jonah chapter one verse 5, it says then the Mariners were 173 00:11:33,240 --> 00:11:37,360 afraid and they were afraid because a great storm came out. 174 00:11:37,880 --> 00:11:42,680 The man of God Jonah was sleeping and the Bible said it 175 00:11:42,680 --> 00:11:46,680 was so bad that they threw the cargo that was in the ship into 176 00:11:46,680 --> 00:11:51,520 the sea to lighten the load. But Jonah had gone down into the 177 00:11:51,520 --> 00:11:56,000 lowest parts of the ship had lain down and was fast asleep. 178 00:11:56,680 --> 00:12:02,160 So the captain came to him and said to him, what do you mean, 179 00:12:02,240 --> 00:12:07,520 sleeper, what are you doing? Why are you sleeping? 180 00:12:07,520 --> 00:12:15,280 Arise and call on your God. Perhaps your God will consider 181 00:12:15,280 --> 00:12:19,400 us that we may not perish. Because there were a lot of idol 182 00:12:19,400 --> 00:12:22,360 worshippers and image worshippers and false God 183 00:12:22,360 --> 00:12:25,480 worshippers on that boat. But there was one man that knew 184 00:12:25,480 --> 00:12:29,600 God, and these others were calling out to whatever God they 185 00:12:29,600 --> 00:12:31,600 believed in, which wasn't even real. 186 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,880 But the man who he could have changed the course of all of it, 187 00:12:36,160 --> 00:12:39,920 missed that hour of opportunity and had to be awakened. 188 00:12:41,880 --> 00:12:45,040 And when he was awakened, of course, it was revealed in that 189 00:12:45,040 --> 00:12:50,320 he was actually the problem, but it was a lost opportunity. 190 00:12:50,760 --> 00:12:54,360 When we read the stories in the Book of Judges, we we read about 191 00:12:54,360 --> 00:12:58,600 the course of history being changed by a man by the name of 192 00:12:58,600 --> 00:13:00,920 Samson. And Samson did what? 193 00:13:01,080 --> 00:13:06,040 Samson was able to maintain his strength even though he flirted 194 00:13:06,040 --> 00:13:08,880 with the enemy. He maintained his strength until 195 00:13:08,880 --> 00:13:14,560 he laid his head in the lap of Delilah and he took a nap and 196 00:13:14,560 --> 00:13:19,640 that was a costly hour of rest to him because she had him shorn 197 00:13:19,800 --> 00:13:23,160 and he lost his power and judges. 198 00:13:23,360 --> 00:13:27,440 We read a couple accounts. 1 is in Chapter 7 when get in with 199 00:13:27,440 --> 00:13:33,360 300 men going against 32,000 or more needs an answer from God 200 00:13:33,680 --> 00:13:37,240 and he is told by the Lord to go down to the camp of Midian and 201 00:13:37,240 --> 00:13:39,120 when he gets down there they're asleep. 202 00:13:39,400 --> 00:13:43,680 They're asleep and and Gideon gets close enough that he hears 203 00:13:43,680 --> 00:13:48,280 2 men talking about a dream of how God is going to win this 204 00:13:48,280 --> 00:13:51,600 battle for Gideon. And so Gideon defeats the 205 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:53,760 Midianites because they were sleeping. 206 00:13:55,000 --> 00:14:01,040 It's amazing what power we lose when we are asleep. 207 00:14:01,200 --> 00:14:04,400 Amen. I'm talking spiritual asleep. 208 00:14:04,600 --> 00:14:06,720 I'm talking about being asleep spiritually. 209 00:14:06,720 --> 00:14:10,400 The Bible also tells us in Judges chapter 4 that there was 210 00:14:10,400 --> 00:14:15,240 a Canaanite military commander and and that man's name was 211 00:14:15,240 --> 00:14:18,920 Sisera and Sisera was an enemy of God's people. 212 00:14:19,160 --> 00:14:22,560 But there was a time when the Lord's people were beginning to 213 00:14:22,560 --> 00:14:24,960 win. God was beginning to answer 214 00:14:24,960 --> 00:14:28,760 prayer and victory was coming, and Sisera had to actually run 215 00:14:28,880 --> 00:14:31,200 for his life. And he ran to the tent of a 216 00:14:31,200 --> 00:14:35,560 young lady by the name of JL. And he asked JL to keep him on 217 00:14:35,560 --> 00:14:39,040 the inside of the tent, and if anybody came to tell him, nobody 218 00:14:39,040 --> 00:14:42,000 was there. But JL went to sleep in that 219 00:14:42,000 --> 00:14:43,880 tent. And when he laid his head down 220 00:14:43,880 --> 00:14:48,720 and went to sleep or not, JL. But when he went to sleep, 221 00:14:48,720 --> 00:14:52,680 sister went to sleep. JL took a tent peg and a hammer 222 00:14:52,840 --> 00:14:56,640 and hammered it right through his temple, and God's people 223 00:14:56,640 --> 00:14:58,880 were given a great victory. That victory came, though, 224 00:14:58,880 --> 00:15:04,120 because the enemy was asleep. Do you know in American history 225 00:15:04,400 --> 00:15:09,440 there are stories also in Texas there today at a place called 226 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:12,240 Lapointe, Texas, if any of you have ever been there, there's a 227 00:15:12,240 --> 00:15:13,960 monument standing. Really. 228 00:15:13,960 --> 00:15:18,280 Because people went to sleep. That monument that it is the, it 229 00:15:18,280 --> 00:15:21,120 is the tallest column monument in the world. 230 00:15:21,280 --> 00:15:23,960 And it's actually taller with its base in the Washington 231 00:15:23,960 --> 00:15:26,440 Monument. And it is there because General 232 00:15:26,440 --> 00:15:29,720 Sam Houston defeated Santa Ana there. 233 00:15:29,920 --> 00:15:34,200 But Santa Ana and his Mexican troops got there and they 234 00:15:34,200 --> 00:15:38,320 thought they were safe. And so that afternoon, some of 235 00:15:38,320 --> 00:15:42,440 them took a siesta and they rested and they just kind of 236 00:15:42,640 --> 00:15:46,120 chilled out and rested Sam Houston and his men that they 237 00:15:46,160 --> 00:15:48,480 didn't realize was short distance away. 238 00:15:48,480 --> 00:15:53,040 And they came that afternoon and in an 18 minute war, an 18 239 00:15:53,040 --> 00:15:57,400 minute battle, Sam Houston and his Texans defeated Santa Ana 240 00:15:57,400 --> 00:16:00,520 and his Mexicans. And Texas ended up winning its 241 00:16:00,520 --> 00:16:05,920 independence from Mexico because somebody slept. 242 00:16:07,240 --> 00:16:10,160 It's also, of course, and many of you know it, and it touches 243 00:16:10,160 --> 00:16:12,480 our hearts and many in many different ways. 244 00:16:12,480 --> 00:16:17,360 But the incident at Paul, Pearl Harbor, December 7th, 1941 245 00:16:17,520 --> 00:16:19,800 caught our people off guard. And some. 246 00:16:19,800 --> 00:16:22,520 It was a Sunday morning and there was that kind of 247 00:16:22,520 --> 00:16:25,800 lackadaisical 8:00 Sunday morning feeling. 248 00:16:26,080 --> 00:16:29,960 And there were some warning signs that had been ignored. 249 00:16:30,160 --> 00:16:35,000 But before that day was over, we had lost 2400 Americans and many 250 00:16:35,000 --> 00:16:39,120 battleships and airplanes that a lot of it was because people 251 00:16:39,120 --> 00:16:43,320 were were resting. We're not aware of what was 252 00:16:43,320 --> 00:16:48,520 happening around them. Unprepared, scattered. 253 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:54,360 Those men back in Texas were not in a battle formation and there 254 00:16:54,360 --> 00:16:57,440 was a total collapse, as I said, in an 18 minute battle. 255 00:16:57,720 --> 00:17:00,720 How many know we've all, probably all of us have missed 256 00:17:00,720 --> 00:17:05,760 some golden opportunities because we were sleeping in our 257 00:17:05,760 --> 00:17:08,520 lifetime. We've had issues in our there 258 00:17:08,520 --> 00:17:11,400 are things that I've missed, things that you've missed 259 00:17:11,599 --> 00:17:17,680 because we were unprepared, because we were resting, we were 260 00:17:17,680 --> 00:17:20,440 not paying attention and we were caught sleeping. 261 00:17:20,440 --> 00:17:23,640 And so you fill in the blank for me when you snooze. 262 00:17:24,960 --> 00:17:26,680 Let's do it again when you snooze. 263 00:17:27,520 --> 00:17:29,640 And that's what happens spiritually. 264 00:17:30,040 --> 00:17:33,880 So while last night we lost an hour of sleep and it's got us 265 00:17:34,000 --> 00:17:37,800 out of shape and wanting the preacher to get through quickly, 266 00:17:40,120 --> 00:17:47,760 more times than now we lose the hour because we sleep and it 267 00:17:47,760 --> 00:17:51,720 cost us. And Jesus warned us about that 268 00:17:52,560 --> 00:17:57,280 more than once in Mark chapter 13 verse 32. 269 00:17:57,960 --> 00:17:59,760 But of that, this is the words of Jesus. 270 00:17:59,760 --> 00:18:03,680 These are but of that day and hour, no one knows, not even the 271 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,440 angels in heaven or the Son, but only the Father. 272 00:18:07,200 --> 00:18:12,560 Take heed, watch and watch and pray, for you do not know when 273 00:18:12,560 --> 00:18:16,160 the time is. It is like a man going to a far 274 00:18:16,160 --> 00:18:20,840 country who left his house and gave authority to his servants 275 00:18:20,840 --> 00:18:24,240 and to each his work, and commanded the doorkeeper to 276 00:18:24,240 --> 00:18:27,400 watch. Watch therefore, for you do not 277 00:18:27,400 --> 00:18:30,800 know when the master of the house is coming. 278 00:18:31,080 --> 00:18:32,840 The master of the house is Jesus. 279 00:18:32,840 --> 00:18:35,920 Folks, you don't know when the master of the house is coming. 280 00:18:35,920 --> 00:18:39,960 In the evening, at midnight, at the crowing of the rooster, or 281 00:18:39,960 --> 00:18:47,800 in the morning, lest coming suddenly, that's coming suddenly 282 00:18:48,080 --> 00:18:56,400 he finds you sleepy. And what I say to you 2000 years 283 00:18:56,400 --> 00:18:59,400 ago, what he said to his disciples, He said, I say to 284 00:18:59,600 --> 00:19:09,480 all, watch, all of you watch. The apostle Paul challenges us 285 00:19:09,480 --> 00:19:13,440 and encourages us to be children of the light and the children of 286 00:19:13,440 --> 00:19:16,920 the day. In First Thessalonians 5, he 287 00:19:16,920 --> 00:19:20,280 says in verse one, but concerning the times and the 288 00:19:20,280 --> 00:19:24,000 seasons, brethren, you have no need that I should write to you, 289 00:19:24,000 --> 00:19:27,840 for you yourselves know perfectly that the day of the 290 00:19:27,840 --> 00:19:34,040 Lord so comes as a thief in the night. 291 00:19:34,040 --> 00:19:38,560 I want you to keep that little expression in your mind because 292 00:19:38,560 --> 00:19:42,480 I want to get back to it. He's coming like a thief. 293 00:19:43,320 --> 00:19:49,200 What a strange analogy, a thief. He's coming like a thief in the 294 00:19:49,200 --> 00:19:52,520 night. For when they say peace and 295 00:19:52,520 --> 00:19:56,960 safety, then sudden destruction comes upon them as labor pains 296 00:19:57,200 --> 00:20:01,360 upon a pregnant woman, and they shall not escape. 297 00:20:01,920 --> 00:20:05,240 But you, brethren, you brethren are not in darkness. 298 00:20:05,760 --> 00:20:08,320 So that that day should overtake you as a thief. 299 00:20:08,600 --> 00:20:11,080 Jesus said I'm coming back like a thief. 300 00:20:11,080 --> 00:20:15,280 But you don't have to be caught off guard as though you didn't 301 00:20:15,280 --> 00:20:18,320 know. And so it's not like a thief to 302 00:20:18,320 --> 00:20:20,680 you because you knew he was coming. 303 00:20:22,040 --> 00:20:25,680 You knew he was coming. And then he goes on to say, what 304 00:20:25,680 --> 00:20:28,640 a wonderful compliment. You are all sons of light. 305 00:20:28,640 --> 00:20:31,040 Thank God you are sons of the day. 306 00:20:31,160 --> 00:20:34,480 We are not of the night, nor of darkness. 307 00:20:34,640 --> 00:20:44,640 Therefore, let us not sleep as others do, but let us watch and 308 00:20:44,680 --> 00:20:49,440 be sober for those who sleep, sleep at night, and those who 309 00:20:49,440 --> 00:20:54,560 get drunk are drunk at night, but let us who are of the day be 310 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,560 sober, putting on the breastplate of faith and love, 311 00:20:57,560 --> 00:20:59,440 and as a helmet the hope of salvation. 312 00:20:59,640 --> 00:21:02,520 For God did not thank God for this next word. 313 00:21:02,760 --> 00:21:05,160 For God did not appoint us to wrath. 314 00:21:06,760 --> 00:21:08,760 God does not appoint you to wrath. 315 00:21:08,760 --> 00:21:10,600 You were saved by the blood of the Lamb. 316 00:21:10,840 --> 00:21:14,560 It's not His plan for you to have wrath poured out on you. 317 00:21:15,360 --> 00:21:18,800 Aren't you glad for that? Now some people seem to want it, 318 00:21:18,800 --> 00:21:23,320 but I'm looking for this one. He's not appointed us to wrath. 319 00:21:23,320 --> 00:21:26,560 The Bible says children of the day, children of the light. 320 00:21:26,680 --> 00:21:31,160 He did not appoint you to wrath, but to obtain salvation through 321 00:21:31,160 --> 00:21:33,000 our Lord Jesus Christ, who died for us. 322 00:21:33,000 --> 00:21:36,800 For whether we wake or whether we sleep, we should be together 323 00:21:36,840 --> 00:21:40,320 with Him. What a wonderful word of the 324 00:21:40,320 --> 00:21:42,280 Lord. We know that Peter said be 325 00:21:42,280 --> 00:21:45,760 sober, be vigilant because your adversary, the devil is like a 326 00:21:45,760 --> 00:21:49,840 roaring lion and he prowls around and he's looking for 327 00:21:49,840 --> 00:21:54,040 someone to destroy and devour. So stay awake spiritually. 328 00:21:58,160 --> 00:22:02,480 Back to Jesus. In Luke 2136, he said, watch 329 00:22:02,480 --> 00:22:08,000 therefore and pray always that you may be counted worthy to 330 00:22:08,360 --> 00:22:13,840 escape all these things that will come to pass and to stand 331 00:22:13,840 --> 00:22:19,240 before the Son of Man. Jesus advises us to stay alert. 332 00:22:19,880 --> 00:22:24,400 Don't be weighed down. Don't lose the hour that you're 333 00:22:24,400 --> 00:22:27,320 living in. Don't lose that opportunity that 334 00:22:27,320 --> 00:22:31,160 He's given us. In fact, the apostle Paul urges 335 00:22:31,160 --> 00:22:38,680 us to wake up from our sleep. He urges us, listen. 336 00:22:38,680 --> 00:22:43,880 Verse 11 of Romans 13 says and do this and do this knowing the 337 00:22:43,880 --> 00:22:50,480 time that now it is high time to awaken out of sleep for now is 338 00:22:50,480 --> 00:22:55,920 our salvation nearer, nearer than when we first believe. 339 00:22:55,920 --> 00:23:01,360 It's getting closer and closer. You are closer today to the 340 00:23:01,360 --> 00:23:05,280 coming of Jesus than you have ever been in your life. 341 00:23:05,480 --> 00:23:08,560 It's not getting further away. It's coming closer. 342 00:23:08,560 --> 00:23:11,400 Church. It's be sober minded because 343 00:23:11,400 --> 00:23:13,680 He's coming and He's coming soon. 344 00:23:16,840 --> 00:23:19,440 Paul says this in First Thessalonians 415. 345 00:23:19,440 --> 00:23:23,840 For this we say to you by the word of the Lord, talking about 346 00:23:23,840 --> 00:23:28,160 the coming of Christ, talking about the catching away of the 347 00:23:28,160 --> 00:23:32,120 Saints, that we who are alive and remain until the coming of 348 00:23:32,120 --> 00:23:36,160 the Lord will by no means precede those who are asleep or 349 00:23:36,160 --> 00:23:40,080 who've died. For the Lord Himself, the Lord 350 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:45,880 Himself, the Lord Himself, will descend from heaven with a 351 00:23:45,880 --> 00:23:47,680 shout. It hasn't happened yet. 352 00:23:48,040 --> 00:23:52,520 It's going to happen as sure as your name is what it is, and 353 00:23:52,520 --> 00:23:56,480 maybe surer than that, as sure as where you're sitting today, 354 00:23:56,680 --> 00:23:58,920 as sure as you're in this building today. 355 00:23:59,160 --> 00:24:04,200 The word of the Lord says the Lord himself is going to descend 356 00:24:04,280 --> 00:24:14,680 from heaven, not quietly, but with a shout, with a shout and 357 00:24:14,680 --> 00:24:19,280 with the trumpet of God. And the dead in Christ, they're 358 00:24:19,280 --> 00:24:22,160 going to hear it. I said the dead in Christ going 359 00:24:22,160 --> 00:24:23,760 to hear it. So some of you are going to hear 360 00:24:23,760 --> 00:24:30,400 it. Then we, the rest of us who are 361 00:24:30,400 --> 00:24:33,280 alive, how many are alive? Amen. 362 00:24:34,520 --> 00:24:35,920 Yeah, you. Did you get that? 363 00:24:35,960 --> 00:24:38,880 If you're sleeping some of your fulfilling Scripture, you're 364 00:24:38,880 --> 00:24:43,120 sleeping Christ right here. Thank God that you'll hear it 365 00:24:43,120 --> 00:24:44,480 though. Praise God. 366 00:24:44,480 --> 00:24:47,040 You may not be hearing me, but you'll hear the trumpet. 367 00:24:47,040 --> 00:24:50,520 Praise God, you'll hear the shout of the Lord because he's 368 00:24:50,520 --> 00:24:52,520 even coming after sleeping Saints. 369 00:24:54,280 --> 00:24:56,880 Amen. I got to be nice to everybody. 370 00:24:56,880 --> 00:25:00,680 It's it's not a day to be all right, all right. 371 00:25:00,680 --> 00:25:03,560 Listen to what he said then we who are alive remain should be 372 00:25:03,560 --> 00:25:05,720 caught up together with them in the clouds of meet the Lord in 373 00:25:05,720 --> 00:25:10,520 the air, and thus we shall always be with the Lord. 374 00:25:12,040 --> 00:25:14,000 I want to try 2 quick things together. 375 00:25:14,480 --> 00:25:17,920 You know the word of God and we've read two different places 376 00:25:17,920 --> 00:25:22,800 where the Bible says that Jesus is coming like a thief in the 377 00:25:22,800 --> 00:25:24,920 night. That's a strange way of 378 00:25:24,920 --> 00:25:28,080 expressing it because we think about the thief is coming to 379 00:25:28,080 --> 00:25:31,280 kill, steal and destroy. But Jesus didn't say he was a 380 00:25:31,280 --> 00:25:33,120 thief. He said I'm coming as a thief. 381 00:25:34,240 --> 00:25:37,720 In other words, a thief comes without you expecting it. 382 00:25:38,000 --> 00:25:41,920 A thief comes in a way that you don't know he's coming. 383 00:25:42,320 --> 00:25:45,200 A thief doesn't announce that I'm going to be at your house at 384 00:25:45,200 --> 00:25:49,520 2:00 AM when it becomes 3:00 AM. He doesn't tell you that he 385 00:25:49,520 --> 00:25:53,400 shows up unexpectedly. And a thief does what? 386 00:25:54,120 --> 00:25:56,560 He's a thief because he takes something. 387 00:25:58,800 --> 00:26:01,320 If you've ever have been robbed, you know what this is like. 388 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:04,560 You know that a thief if anyone ever broken into your home and 389 00:26:04,560 --> 00:26:07,320 stole something, you know, they they take something there, 390 00:26:07,440 --> 00:26:11,000 there's something that you is gone and that's what a thief 391 00:26:11,000 --> 00:26:12,600 does. Well, I want to tell you that 392 00:26:12,680 --> 00:26:16,160 Jesus is going to do the same thing according to what what 393 00:26:16,160 --> 00:26:20,400 Paul writes for us, what Paul tells us about the Lord coming 394 00:26:20,560 --> 00:26:24,240 and he's actually going to take from the grave the dead in 395 00:26:24,240 --> 00:26:27,000 Christ and and he's going to catch up the living. 396 00:26:27,520 --> 00:26:30,240 Then I would simply say that he's taking something. 397 00:26:30,480 --> 00:26:34,280 That's why he's considered a thief because he's coming after 398 00:26:34,280 --> 00:26:36,280 something. You want to take something, but 399 00:26:36,280 --> 00:26:38,840 I'm telling you he's coming for his own property. 400 00:26:39,080 --> 00:26:41,360 I said he's coming from what belongs to him. 401 00:26:41,600 --> 00:26:44,520 He's coming for those that have been washed in the blood of the 402 00:26:44,520 --> 00:26:46,800 Lamb of God, Jesus Christ of Nazareth. 403 00:26:47,000 --> 00:26:49,040 He's not coming to steal your money. 404 00:26:49,160 --> 00:26:51,720 He's not coming to rob you of valuable things. 405 00:26:51,880 --> 00:26:54,240 He's coming to get his valuable property. 406 00:26:54,480 --> 00:26:58,240 Those that he has cleansed, those that he is saved by the 407 00:26:58,240 --> 00:27:01,280 blood of the Lamb, they're the ones that he's stealing. 408 00:27:01,480 --> 00:27:05,960 He's coming. Lord Hallelujah, give him 409 00:27:05,960 --> 00:27:07,080 praise. Amen. 410 00:27:08,480 --> 00:27:12,160 You know what? On that day, I want to be, I 411 00:27:12,160 --> 00:27:14,360 want to be listed as stolen property. 412 00:27:15,120 --> 00:27:17,960 I said I want, I want. So what did he take from your 413 00:27:17,960 --> 00:27:20,200 house? Well, he he took Arthur T 414 00:27:20,200 --> 00:27:21,560 Carrot. That's who he took. 415 00:27:21,960 --> 00:27:25,560 He he didn't take any money. He didn't take any of my wife's 416 00:27:25,560 --> 00:27:29,240 fried chicken, but he took me stolen property. 417 00:27:29,440 --> 00:27:30,720 Thank God. I'm glad. 418 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:33,320 Take me, Jesus, take me. Jesus. 419 00:27:33,440 --> 00:27:38,600 Steal me, Jesus. Take me and put my name on you, 420 00:27:38,600 --> 00:27:43,320 because I want to belong to you. So he says don't sleep. 421 00:27:44,720 --> 00:27:50,000 But then sleep is natural. And the Bible says he gives his 422 00:27:50,000 --> 00:27:54,120 beloved sleep. So sleep is a good thing. 423 00:27:56,760 --> 00:28:00,880 But you have to understand that when you go to sleep, you need 424 00:28:00,880 --> 00:28:04,920 to go to sleep prepared for whatever is next. 425 00:28:08,800 --> 00:28:17,360 Jesus gave this parable, Matthew 25 verse one in the Kingdom of 426 00:28:17,360 --> 00:28:24,320 heaven should be likened to 10 virgins who took their lamps and 427 00:28:24,320 --> 00:28:25,880 we went out to meet the bridegroom. 428 00:28:25,880 --> 00:28:28,120 And there's a whole thing with how the Jewish weddings took 429 00:28:28,120 --> 00:28:31,000 place back in that day, and we won't go into that, but this was 430 00:28:31,000 --> 00:28:34,920 a normal thing. Now, five of them were wise, 431 00:28:36,680 --> 00:28:41,360 they were all virgins, but five of them were wise and five were 432 00:28:41,360 --> 00:28:42,880 not wise. They were foolish. 433 00:28:44,120 --> 00:28:48,800 Then those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with 434 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:54,440 them. They had lamps, but the wise 435 00:28:54,760 --> 00:28:58,080 took oil in their vessels with their lamps. 436 00:28:58,760 --> 00:29:01,960 They don't have carried a lamp, but they had a little bottle of 437 00:29:01,960 --> 00:29:06,280 oil, you know what I mean? So if they run out, they've got 438 00:29:06,280 --> 00:29:10,520 something. But while the bridegroom was 439 00:29:10,520 --> 00:29:16,120 delayed, and this is what this is all about, it's the whole 440 00:29:16,120 --> 00:29:19,560 thing comes down to this. There was a delay that they 441 00:29:19,560 --> 00:29:22,760 weren't expecting. There was a delay. 442 00:29:22,760 --> 00:29:26,720 Now the Bible gives us a reason. The delay of the coming of the 443 00:29:26,720 --> 00:29:30,600 Lord is for more people to get saved the harvest. 444 00:29:30,640 --> 00:29:33,040 Amen. And all of you people praying 445 00:29:33,040 --> 00:29:36,000 for your loved ones to get saved before they die, you're holding 446 00:29:36,000 --> 00:29:37,560 back the whole thing, so stop it. 447 00:29:37,560 --> 00:29:39,800 No, I'm just kidding. You know, pray for your loved 448 00:29:39,800 --> 00:29:41,760 ones, pray for your loved ones, let Jesus come. 449 00:29:41,760 --> 00:29:43,960 Amen. Let Jesus come. 450 00:29:45,720 --> 00:29:47,440 Pray for your loved ones, obviously. 451 00:29:49,200 --> 00:29:52,720 But it says then at midnight a cry was heard. 452 00:29:53,280 --> 00:29:55,520 Behold, the bridegroom is coming. 453 00:29:55,520 --> 00:29:59,280 Go out to meet him. Then all those versions arose 454 00:29:59,280 --> 00:30:01,320 and trimmed their lamps. And the foolish said to the 455 00:30:01,320 --> 00:30:05,040 wise, Give us some of your oil, for our lamps are going out. 456 00:30:05,040 --> 00:30:08,520 But the wise answers say no, lest there should not be enough 457 00:30:08,520 --> 00:30:12,080 for us and you, but go rather to those who sell and buy for 458 00:30:12,080 --> 00:30:14,600 yourselves. Go back to the church. 459 00:30:16,000 --> 00:30:19,840 And while they went to buy, the bridegroom came, and those who 460 00:30:19,840 --> 00:30:25,240 were ready went in with him to the wedding, and the door was 461 00:30:26,280 --> 00:30:28,760 shut. The door was shut. 462 00:30:29,320 --> 00:30:34,320 And afterward the other virgins came also, saying, Lord, Lord, 463 00:30:34,320 --> 00:30:37,520 open to us. But he answered and said, 464 00:30:37,520 --> 00:30:41,840 assuredly. I say to you, I do not know you. 465 00:30:46,160 --> 00:30:58,240 Watch therefore, for you know neither the day nor the hour in 466 00:30:58,240 --> 00:31:03,080 which the Son of Man is coming. So forget all the charts and 467 00:31:03,240 --> 00:31:10,560 graphs, and no one knows, not even the angels, but the Son of 468 00:31:10,560 --> 00:31:16,160 Man is coming. And Paul tells us in Ephesians 469 00:31:16,160 --> 00:31:25,840 514 Therefore he says, Awake. You who sleep arise from the 470 00:31:25,880 --> 00:31:31,560 dead, and Christ will give you light. 471 00:31:33,680 --> 00:31:38,320 And he says in First Corinthians 1534, awake to righteousness. 472 00:31:38,640 --> 00:31:43,560 Awake to what? It doesn't say awake to 473 00:31:43,560 --> 00:31:49,000 worldliness or sinfulness. It says awake to righteousness 474 00:31:49,240 --> 00:31:52,880 and do not and do not and do not sin. 475 00:31:53,840 --> 00:31:56,040 For some do not have the knowledge of God. 476 00:31:56,760 --> 00:32:00,200 And I speak this, he said to your shame. 477 00:32:01,640 --> 00:32:08,880 So while last night we lost the sleep, we see in the Bible where 478 00:32:08,880 --> 00:32:14,240 people lose because they sleep when they should be awake. 479 00:32:14,840 --> 00:32:19,600 Or in the case of the parable, it wasn't that the sleep was 480 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:23,320 wrong, but it wasn't it was that they weren't prepared. 481 00:32:25,040 --> 00:32:28,320 They took the break and the rest without being prepared. 482 00:32:29,680 --> 00:32:32,680 And we can let the oil represent the Holy Spirit and a lot of 483 00:32:32,680 --> 00:32:36,440 other things we can do, but just keep it simple and just know 484 00:32:36,440 --> 00:32:39,080 that what he is saying is you need to be prepared. 485 00:32:39,080 --> 00:32:42,480 Whether it's it becomes when you were expecting or when you don't 486 00:32:42,480 --> 00:32:46,760 expect him, you, you be ready. You make sure that you have a 487 00:32:46,760 --> 00:32:51,000 light, a lamp burning and you have that the the reserve of oil 488 00:32:51,640 --> 00:32:56,160 in your life, in your walk with God, a man in your walk with God 489 00:32:56,360 --> 00:33:00,240 because church Jesus is coming. I know that we're living if the 490 00:33:00,240 --> 00:33:02,680 worship team will come. I know that we're living in 491 00:33:02,680 --> 00:33:06,920 today, to be honest with you. And there are places certainly 492 00:33:07,160 --> 00:33:10,000 that are major exceptions. But you know, in a lot of 493 00:33:10,000 --> 00:33:12,520 Christian circles, the coming of the Lord is almost a lost 494 00:33:12,520 --> 00:33:15,240 doctrine. It's almost like we just kind of 495 00:33:15,240 --> 00:33:18,040 think we're going to live here forever and we're just going to, 496 00:33:18,040 --> 00:33:21,040 you know what, you know, people say that, you know, we're going 497 00:33:21,040 --> 00:33:23,880 to change the world and we're going to have this peaceful 498 00:33:23,880 --> 00:33:25,360 world because we're going to make it that well. 499 00:33:25,360 --> 00:33:26,800 We aren't doing so well with that. 500 00:33:28,080 --> 00:33:30,080 I believe it's going to take Jesus to do that. 501 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,200 I said I believe we can do what we need to do and want to do and 502 00:33:34,200 --> 00:33:37,320 do our best, but it's going to take the King of kings and the 503 00:33:37,320 --> 00:33:39,320 Lord of Lords to straighten this stuff out. 504 00:33:39,520 --> 00:33:42,720 I'm telling you right now, it's going to take Jesus to get this 505 00:33:42,720 --> 00:33:44,600 all worked out. But he will. 506 00:33:44,840 --> 00:33:47,720 I said He's still King of kings and he's still Lord of Lords, 507 00:33:47,920 --> 00:33:50,760 and he is coming again and he will rule and reign on this 508 00:33:50,760 --> 00:33:51,880 earth. He will. 509 00:33:51,880 --> 00:33:55,280 Every knee will bow, and every tongue will confess that Jesus 510 00:33:55,280 --> 00:34:04,160 Christ is Lord. So I'm challenged you today to 511 00:34:04,160 --> 00:34:07,960 don't lose the hour. And an hour in this case is not 512 00:34:07,960 --> 00:34:11,400 60 minutes. It's a season that we're in. 513 00:34:11,800 --> 00:34:15,120 Don't lose an hour. Don't lose this season by being 514 00:34:15,120 --> 00:34:20,080 so caught up with the world that we can't see what's happening 515 00:34:20,400 --> 00:34:22,480 and that the coming of the Lord draws an eye. 516 00:34:22,800 --> 00:34:25,560 Be prepared, be ready. He's coming, folks. 517 00:34:25,639 --> 00:34:28,719 And I don't need to tell you this, you all, you see the 518 00:34:28,719 --> 00:34:30,480 papers or maybe you don't see the papers. 519 00:34:30,480 --> 00:34:33,000 You see the Internet. You see everything that's going 520 00:34:33,000 --> 00:34:36,320 on in the world and the chaos and the war and and that's going 521 00:34:36,320 --> 00:34:38,360 on. And I remember what Brother Bud 522 00:34:38,360 --> 00:34:40,320 said when he prayed about the war Sunday night. 523 00:34:40,440 --> 00:34:43,199 He said there's no glory in war. I remember you saying that, 524 00:34:43,400 --> 00:34:45,159 Brother Bud. And I remembered that all week 525 00:34:45,159 --> 00:34:47,000 there's been so much of A heaviness. 526 00:34:47,320 --> 00:34:49,800 There's other places in the world that are being affected by 527 00:34:49,800 --> 00:34:52,920 what's happening and, and we got, we're in a world that's 528 00:34:53,199 --> 00:34:56,880 it's, it's really churning and we need an answer. 529 00:34:56,880 --> 00:35:00,640 And the answer is Jesus. Folks, I said, if pin your hopes 530 00:35:00,640 --> 00:35:03,120 on Jesus. I said, pin your hopes on the 531 00:35:03,120 --> 00:35:06,640 Lord Jesus Christ. And if you don't know him, it's 532 00:35:06,640 --> 00:35:09,040 time to wake up. Bow your head with me, if you 533 00:35:09,040 --> 00:35:12,520 will. It's time to awaken to your 534 00:35:12,520 --> 00:35:15,920 need. It's time to say, Jesus, I need 535 00:35:15,920 --> 00:35:18,480 you to come into my life, come into my heart, come into my 536 00:35:18,480 --> 00:35:21,760 soul. I want to be ready. 537 00:35:22,280 --> 00:35:25,320 I want to be ready, Pastor. I know I'm not pastor. 538 00:35:25,320 --> 00:35:27,000 I know I'm not. I don't have to question it. 539 00:35:27,160 --> 00:35:29,080 I know I'm not ready. I know I'm not saved. 540 00:35:29,080 --> 00:35:32,200 I know if Jesus came right now, I have no doubt I wouldn't be 541 00:35:32,200 --> 00:35:34,840 going. Brother or sister, I don't want 542 00:35:34,840 --> 00:35:37,800 you leaving like that. I want you to know in your heart 543 00:35:37,800 --> 00:35:42,120 that you have got salvation and it's not based on your works and 544 00:35:42,120 --> 00:35:44,720 it's not based on what you put in the offering today or didn't 545 00:35:44,720 --> 00:35:47,040 put in it. It's all about the sacrifice 546 00:35:47,040 --> 00:35:51,080 that Jesus made on the cross of Calvary and your your reception 547 00:35:51,080 --> 00:35:52,720 of it. You're accepting of it. 548 00:35:52,880 --> 00:35:55,400 So this is an hour for you to wake from the dead. 549 00:35:55,920 --> 00:35:58,640 Thanks for joining us today. If you'd like to connect, visit 550 00:35:58,640 --> 00:36:02,520 us at greenstownchurchofgod.org, follow us on Facebook and 551 00:36:02,520 --> 00:36:06,080 Instagram, and subscribe to this podcast so you never miss an 552 00:36:06,080 --> 00:36:06,640 episode.