Great Opportunity And Great Opposition At The Same Time - Pastor J. D. Howell 3-1-2026

All right, Brother Nathaniel Matthew chapter number four, versus number

one through three. Brother Jesse Luke, Chapter number seventeen, verses

number thirty two through thirty six, and again beloved our

golden text the Lord put upon my heart as Ezra

chapter number five, verses number two and three. Okay, Brother

Nathaniel Matthew four one through three. Brother. Then was Jesus

led up of the spirit into the wilderness to be

tempted of the devil. And when he had fasted forty

days and forty nights, he was afterward unhungered. And when

the tempter came to him, he said, if there'll be

the Son of God, command that these stones be made bread. Amen,

Brother Jesse Luke, Chapter number seventeen, verses number thirty two

through thirty six. Remember Lot's wife.

Whosoever shall seek to save his life shall lose it,

And whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it. I

tell you, in that night shall be two men in

one bed. The one shall be taken and the other

shall be left. Two women shall be grinding together. The

one shall be taken and the other left. Two men

shall be in the field. The one shall be taken

and the other left.

Amen, Let's stand for the reading of our golden text.

I would like to preach a sermon the Holy Ghost

titled great opportunity and great opposition at the same time,

Great opportunity and great opposition at the same time Ezra five,

two and three. Then rose ups the Rubbable, the son

of Sheltill, and Joshua, the son of Joseph Dac, and

began to build the House of God which is at Jerusalem.

And with them were the prophets of God helping them.

At the same time came to them Tatnai, governor on

this side the river, and Shetharboznaye, and their companions, and said, thus,

unto them who hath commanded you to build this house

and to make up this walt. If you like to

underline words in your Bible, underline the first part of

verse number three. At the same time, underline these three

words in verse number two. Then rose up. Let's pray,

Heavenly Father, we love and we praise you. We thank

you for the opportunity to be in your house this morning.

I thank you for the precious people of God. We

pray that you would anoint this thy servant. I need

you God desperately. I need your help this morning. Help me, Lord,

open somebody's eyes, as you have instructed me to do.

Help me to open somebody's ears that they might hear

the distinction of sound between the voice of God the

voice of the devil. I pray that you would anoint

the ears of this thy people, that they might hear

what it is. The Spirit of God's says into the

church today. Lord will be careful to give you all

the praise and all the honor and all the glory

in Jesus's name. And the church said, Amen, as you're

being seated, look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor,

did you know God and the Devil works at the

same time? Oh? Yes they do. Our text is found

in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible, the

Book of Ezra. In this sacred writing we find the

historical record of Israel's second Exodus. How many of you

are are aware of the fact that they had a

second and third exodus. In recent weeks, I have preached

from text that told us of the time period when

the Israelites spent many years in exile. I know there's

people in this building today that can say you are

blood bought, you're a born again child of God, while

others can say I'm saved, sanctified and holy ghost filled.

But somewhere in your past you were not always who

you are today, and you were a captive held by

your captors, the foes of your soul, not the friends

of your soul, but the enemies of your soul held

you captive. And thank God, the spirit of God came in,

and the spirit of God begin to woo you and

to draw you unto the Father. And thank God, we

can say this morning we are saved, but perhaps not

every person in this building is saved. But I pray

that before you leave this place, that you will have

a spiritual exodus, if you are living in a spiritual exile,

and may God give you an exodus from your exile.

And so in the land of Babylon, the prophet Jeremiah

had told them that while they were there they would

spend seventy years in exile. And the Bible students and

readers will remember reading of a different time in the

history of the Israelites, when they were held as captives

in the land of Egypt. That is the most familiar

exodus to the Bible reader and the Bible student. I

dare say that every person in this building today has

heard about the Hebrews exodus from the land of Egypt.

Both of these exoduses are somewhat very significant, even concerning

us as Christians or believers. You see, at the time

of these two exoduses, there were different circumstances concerning the

very first exodus. The Israelites made the exodus from exile

under the leadership of the meek pastor Moses. Those of

you that know anything about sin, you know oftentimes Egypt

is referred to as sin. It is a symbol of

a bondage in the Word of God. It can symbolize

spiritual darkness or spiritual captivity. In the Red Back Hymnal,

we sing a song and the lyrics go something like this,

Egypt was once my home. I was enslaved, I was

held captive. But thank God for liberation of soul, mind

and spirit by the powerful hand of Almighty God. When

the Israelites left Egypt. It seems that most of the

Hebrews at that time were chapping at the bit or

bitten at the bit in order to make their is

to flee the land of Egypt. I know there's people

in this building. You can tell me that you got

sick and tired of your lifestyle while living in sin.

You were not happy to be held captive by the

strong influences of the enemy. You were not happy by

the spirit of this world and the lust of the

flesh doing whatsoever it wanted to do with you. For truly,

before you came unto subjection, unto the spirit of God

and the nature of Jesus Christ, sin dominated you. And

we know that the apostle Paul felt, just like we do,

that sin should not have dominion over you. And so

these people that are descendants of Abraham, they felt the

need to get out of this land of Egypt. And

I don't understand how it is that so many people

in this world today have no desire whatsoever to make

an exodus from exile. I don't get the enthusiasm. But

the Bible said that sin would be pleasurable for a season,

that there would be temporal joy and happiness and pleasure

while living in a lifestyle of sin. But brother Jesse,

the children of Israel who had become the children of bondage,

they welcomed an opportunity for self em betterment for themselves

and also for their children. They're glad they've invited this.

They prayed for this, they've cried out for this, and

God heard them. They were under the tyranny and the

iron fist of the Egyptian Pharaoh, and no doubt they

had prayed for wings to take their flight, to make

their departure from this lifestyle of Egypt in bondage. They toiled,

and they labored against their own will. Perhaps it was

hundreds of thousands of people, if not a million or more,

that left Egypt that day under the command of Moses,

those that were willing to do exactly as God had

told Moses they should do. But during this exodus in

the days of Ezra, not as many were on board

with leadership. Not as many were willing to leave Babylon.

In fact, you will find that only a handful, or

a remnant, so to speak, were willing to make their

exodus from this particular land of exile, Babylon. Most would

have thought that everybody would have been on a when

the Hebrew spiritual leaders begin to let him know that

God is saying it is time for your deliberance. But

not everybody was on board when the prophet and the

priest Ezra begin to preach and say, hey, Hope is

not only standing outside the door. Hope has opened the

door for an opportunity of deliberance. Again. I'm preaching a

message the Holy Girls tied up great opportunity and great

opposition at the same time. I don't believe that the

spiritual leadership over the Hebrews in Babylon at that time

expected this reaction. It's the same feeling that the elders

and the leadership at Bethel'll get. Sometimes when we enter

a season of revival, we can tell that God is

receiving the church with wide open arms, and there's a

great opportunity before them for restoration, renewal, rejuvenation, and revive home.

But the priest Ezra, who had been born in Babylon,

no doubt of the lineage of the priest, he's getting

stirred in a spirit and he's telling people it is

time for us to leave this place. But not everybody

is on aboard, and not everybody is of the same mind.

Fast forwarding to the New Testament, the apostle Paul, speaking

in the Book of Philippians around that fourth chapter, he

spoke to two women that were gathered together in a

house of worship, and he said, you a diason SENTICKI

I beseech these sisters, and that you be a the

same mind concerning the things of God, concerning worship, power,

concerning the words of God. But in this time of

Ezra's preaching, not everybody is warmly receiving it. And even

this morning, that's the spirit of God. What's moving amongst

seventy seven people, there might have been three or four

people that just did not get why you are so

excited about going to see the King. That I could

tell the seventy plus people are sick and tired of

the influences of the spirit of this world. And about

seventy plus people are so through with it. They welcome

the staging of the archangel. They look forward to the

opportunity of hearing him a blood you, that golden trumpet,

and to hear the bridegroom himself say, come away, my

fair one, and enter into the joys of the Lord.

But not everybody is welcoming an opportunity of great salvation,

and not everybody is welcoming an opportunity of great deliberance.

And I don't know about y'all, but I like her

leaving the Biblonsa and the exoduses of self. I like

leaving the spirit of the world and for the Spirit

of God. I believe in it. I believe that the

Church must and have the same mind. And according to

the first few verses in the Book of Exodus, you

can find that a pagan king named Cyrus and has

felt inspired them by the Lord God of Heaven to

send the Hebrew people back into their own land. Not

only is he offering them release, he is giving them

an opportunity to build the House of God. Yet again,

this man is no doubt inspired, an auctioned of God

to do something a wonderful. It is the fulfillment of

the prophecy of Jeremiah when Jeremiah prophesied and proclaimed that

the Lord would stir up at some time a pagan

dictator in the land, the king of Persia. And this

king goes so far has to put it in writing

that the Lord God of Heaven and established him as

king over all of the nations of the earth. Isn't

it interesting to you right now that God could speak

into the heart of a pagan king and that pagan

King Caesar the opportunity by the four locks, and it

seemed like his selfish desires would have said, as the

Egyptian pharaoh had said, I don't want to lose and

all of this labor force, and I don't want to

lose all all of these residitions her Bablon. But he

acknowledged the spirit of God was behind it, and he

embraced the opportunity to send forth to these Hebrews. And

I've already said it, I want to say it again,

But most were unwilling to go, I said, most were

unwilling to go holy a handful of people. This reminds

me of the Upper Room. Jesus had ascended it to

his father prior to his assision. He told some together

hidden up per room. Jesus knew which room to reserve,

because Jesus knew about one hundred and twenty would be

in attendance. And while those one hundred and twenty were

in attendance, the Bible said, the spiritum of God descended

in that place, and they were filled with the Holy ghost.

And after they were in the same mind. After there

was a like minded This concerning worship, concerning prayer, concerning praise,

and I want to preach to somebody in this building

this morning. You have not yet to realized a great,

if not golden, opportunity that God has presented you with.

And the reason for that is you don't realize the

opposition that is great against you embracing her the opportunity.

If people could just see, it's the devil that's hindering me.

While the Lord is working in me, both to will

and ado of his good pleasure. Lucifer is also working.

We cover ourselves sometimes with the comforter through these words,

and we say, the Lord is the Keeper of Israel.

The Lord neither slumbers nor sleeps, And can I tell you,

nor does the devil. Every time God presents an opportunity

for one of his children, the opposition comes, the accuser

of the brethren comes. The Bible said that Jesus knew

his ministry was about to begin at the age of thirty.

There are many reasons for that. The god side of

the god Man had an ability to preach beyond anybody

his senior. While he was at the age of twelve,

he was operating in the office of counselor or ya

with me and the leaders of the Hebrew's religion Judaism.

They marveled and said, how is it that a little

little grasshopper, a little whipper snapper could know the things

concerning the Word of God that this young man knows.

But around the age of thirty, and young ministers consider

this before taking a pastorate. Around the age of thirty,

he would have been accepted as a man. He would

have been accepted and respected of somebody that's lived a

little while, and that would have understood the ropes of life,

the ways of life. And so he began his ministry

at thirty. But Brother erin one thing I took note

of as I was praying about this message. He had

to go into the wilderness. And it was not the

opposition that led him to that opportunity. It was the

Holy Ghost. He was the orchestrator and the organizer. The

Bible said that Jesus, basically in the Holy Ghost and

led of the spirit, went into the wilderness to be

tipted of the devil for a period of time and

act that same time. Are y'all getting that to act

that same time in his life, act that same period,

act that same moment, And he's going in there to

be in large, although the god Man can't get any larger.

He's one hundred percent God, he's one hundred percent man,

he's deity. But he's going in there to get prepared further.

The the man side of the god Man is sacrificing

the flesh. The man's side of the god Man is

being led to be tempted of the devil, and he

will be an overcomer if he defeats the opposition. And

the only way he will defeat the opposition is through

the word of God. And he lets the devil know

right off that the man part of the God Man

does not have the words necessary in order to defeat

you and to overcome the lust of the flesh and

the pride of life. But the god part of the

god Man referred back to what is written. And I

want you to acknowledge here this morning that everything that

I'm preaching them is the word of God. It is

not surmising on my part. It is scripture. It is

not self talk in his spirit talk. His words are

spirited and his words are life. And the reason why

you're missing the gold and opportunities in your life, it's

because you're being defeated by the adversary. You're being overcome

by the opposition. I know the devil does not like

me teaching you this this morning. But when you realize,

even in the blessing times of God, the devil will

barge in with our permission and try to steal your blessing,

you the thought of angelic being similar to that that

protects the garden of Eden, would have protected Jesus from

this hour of temptation, from this hour of testing, this

hour of trial. You would think so, right Jesus even

one time he said, brethren, I want you to know

what you're doing is only because we've allowed you to

do it. And he said I could call down twelve

lesions of angels right now, and he demonstrated by his

spoken word. With three words, he identified himself as deity.

He said, I am he. And at that moment, six

hundred people who thought they were looking for I am

here Roman soldiers they hit their knees and fell on

their face because of three words that he spoke. And

Ezra in our text, he's getting anointed, if you would.

He's standing on the edge of the platform and he's

telling people. The prophecy of Jeremiah has been fulfilled. Time

is up. It is now time for a change of heart.

It is now a time for a change of master.

It is now time for a change of season. And

it's time for us to go and look behind us.

The currents of Cyrus is driving us to our homeland.

Look behind us, where is the opposition? Seemingly God removes

all excuses from their hands. Sister, howel it can't be

said in this exodus that the Egyptian pharaoh's fighting. It

can't be said that the Babylonian emperor or Cyrus, king

of Persia, is fighting. Come here, brother Philip. In fact,

Cyrus is saying, what you all need to do his

goal and build your house of worship. What you all

need to do is go and do whatever it is

you do inside of the house of worship. He knew

good well that the God of the Hebrews was the

same then as he had been according to the Babylonian

record books. He was one that delivered his people from

the burning fiery furnace. He was one that delivered his

people from the mouth of hungry lions in a din

of lions. This man knows that he knows that God

spared Daniel through kingdom after kingdom after kingdom, And he

knows what God did the babylon whenever he humblem never

conness her. He knows what God can do to him.

He knows he must submit to the will and the

plan of God. The wowl life. He is that that

God's people are not getting with the program. Ezra's preaching.

Ezra's preaching. It's time. It's time. He's saying, it's time.

It's time. It's time. It's time, it's time. It's time.

Come here, brother Caleb, brother Philip, keep that up. Time,

it's time. It's time. It's time. They're not worried about Cyrus,

it's time. They're not worried about the Syrian army. It's time.

Worried about the Babylonian army. Now about the Syrian army.

They're not worried about the Egyptian army. But for some

reason that just cannot get a hold of The preacher

says the time. The preacher's preaching, and as was a

telling them, you better go and do what God told

you to do. It's the time you've got to build

the Lord. You got to go back to the land

of Judah and do what God has commissioned you to do.

I'm telling somebody right now, there is an offered opportunity

for salvation. There is an offered opportunity for sanctification. There

is an opportunity for sanctification. There is an offered opportunity

for sanctification. There is an opportunity for holy ghost baptism.

There is a holy ghost opportunity right here today. My

question of you is why not just stand up and

start your march back into the will and the plan

of God where the blessings of God flow. He offered

the Hebrews an opportunity of a lifetime. Brother Caleb Roquat

preached to us last Sunday morning about a promise, and

he talked about that olive branch and how that was extended.

And I thank God for promises. I don't want to

bury them. I thank God for soldiers of the Cross.

I don't want them to remain on the sidelines with

their swords in the scabbard and their slings in a satchel. Oh,

come on, now, some of you are getting it. An

opportunity of a lifetime. They can go and they can

build the House of the Lord. At that point of time,

people feel like they can come to the Lord at

a more convenient time. The Bible said, no man coming

to the Father unless the Spirit draw him. And I

can tell you when the Spirit is drawing you the

same way as renew when the spirit of God's own

even Cyrus. Oh, come on now, y'all live in America,

the land of the Free, the home of the brave.

They tell me, we have freedom of speech and freedom

of worship. What would you do if you lived overseas

in Iran right now and was being attacked by the

United States government at the same time as a Christian

being persecuted by your people. You do realize the Bible

said all that lived godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution.

It doesn't only have to happen on Cuban or Venezuelan

or Iranian or Iraqian soil. There can be some things

that come to these United States. Come come on. Historically,

Israel has proven to us that God's special little somebody

can experience the wrath of Almighty God because of civil

disobedience and because of disobedience to the world and the

will of God. And there is a purpose for God

saying get out. There is a purpose for God saying

this time because Cyrus, it's not always I said, Cyrus

is not always gonna be an emperor. During the First Exodus,

the Bible said, there rose a pharaoh. Prior to the

First Exodus, there arose a pharaoh that knew not Joseph.

And if he knew not Joseph, he knew not Joseph's daddy.

Come on, now, are y'all with me? And people says

to how it's like they've grown accustomed and acclimated to

the conditions in Babylon. They've learned how to live in Babylon.

I agree, we need to learn how to survive and

thrive in Babylon. Whenever we're paying punishment that's due us.

At the prophet Jeremiah said, you got to go through it.

You got to pay the penalty. You got to pay

the price. But when God says, you know what justice

has been served, the penalty, the sindate has been paid.

You've got to step out of exceis and go into

the land of Promise. And here they are just a

handful of sister wooting, just a handful. The first Exodus,

hundreds of thousands, if not millions, that God is sustaining.

And in this particular exile, in this particular exodus of Babylon,

I think it's one or two or three, Brother Jesse,

just a handful of people, just a handful of people. Well,

I see the same people get touched in revival, will

have to revival. The time had come. At this time,

the Bible said, some strengthen their hands. Not only did

they strengthen their hands, according to the word of God,

some gathered vessels and materials of silver and gold. They

had a plan, and some took with them beasts of

burdens and precious things. And Cyrus was okay with them

spoiling the land of Babylon. The Egyptian pharaoh wasn't happy

at all about them spoiling them. What I'm trying to

tell you is there's a difference in this first and

second exodus. Here on the first exodus, everybody's excited, how

about going. They're knocking down doors, so to speak, They're

crossing seas and oceans literally. And Cyrus is okay with

this particular exodus taking place because God is in it.

You know why, because God's timing is perfect. But in short,

there's only a few that will return with the Rebelba.

Look at the first part of our golden text, Exodus,

chapter number five and verse number two. It says, then

rose up zer rubible, then rose ups a rubbible. Where

are our Zerubibles today? Where are our zealous Zerubibles today

that will believe the words of God that have been

spoken out of the mouths of Ezras? And the Bible said,

after he rose up to go, he got there, because

there's a phrase in there say he began to build.

Everyone knows the story of the destruction of Sodom and

Gamar found in the nineteenth chapter of Genesis. God had

told them through his servant, the Prophet, that secret had

been revealed. Abraham knows about it, and not even knows

about it. There's trouble coming. The Lord had discussed his

desire with Abraham to destroy the cities of Sodom and Gamar.

Why would the Lord do such a thing, the Bible records,

because of their their gross sins, their idolatry, and their homosexuality.

God's going to destroy two sister cities named Sodom and Gamara.

The Lord revealed his secret, and Lot's family lingered. While

God was given a promise to Abraham, I will preserve

the righteous. And while Abraham is bargaining with the Lord

and saying, God, if we find only ten, we'll just

spare them sister cities. And God said, yes, if I

find only ten, I will spare them sister cities. But

Locke continued to linger, and I want to tell somebody

in this building, your lingering will be your doom. It's

more than skipping out on a church workday opportunity, skipping

out on a revival moment, a revival time, a revival opportunity.

The Lord revealed, and the Lord made us plan on

God's words are yay and aymen, the righteous can be spared,

But will they are they in fact righteous? God's sin

Angelic messengers inside the wicked city to confirm with what

seemed to be fleshly eyes of the ungodly actions. And

he tried his best to persuade those that were lingering

to go into a safer place. And that's what Ezra

and Cyrus know. The people of God do not belong

in the land of Babilah. And I'm telling you there

is a reason for this great opportunity. The opposition is

there because the opposition wants to destroy your life the

same way the tyrant, the Egyptian pharaoh wanted to destroy

the lives of God's people. I know you was raised

in the house of God, but God does not make

you except for the destruction of the enemy of your soul.

At the same time, this morning, there's people who has

their minds stayed on the Lord, while others have strayed

from the Lord. There's some who have stayed, and there

are some who have strayed. And I want you to

know what will it be said of you? Did they

stay or did they stray? Because some brother Nathaniel did

not leave Egypt, some or Lot did not leave, baby

lad on the first wave. And I'm telling you you

better get ready and take the first caravan out of here.

I said, you better take the first caravan out of

your sinful lifestyle. Them, Colonel DOESSI years of them, moly emotions.

Oh come on, the lust of the pleasure, the pride

of life. You better make your escape from exile. Why

the message was clear concerning all of these examples. Destruction

is coming. Get up and get out and flee and

run escape for your life. The time has come. You

better get up while you can the time is now,

God said, it's time. Now's the time. One would think

the city of Sodom and the city of Gamar would

have begin an evacuation. One would think the time is

now that there would have begun an emergency evacuation. But

Lime is now sitting there. And I'm telling you lingering

can be the doom of you and your family. In fact,

the entire cities of Sadom Agamar lingered because Lot lingered.

Oh the loss of Lot. The same day he was warned,

the fire fell at the same time, so to speak,

on the same day when Lot gained his wife lost

Lot's wife lost hers. I said, at the same time,

when Lot preserved his life, his wife lost hers. That

could happen right in the middle of a great Holy

ghost outbreak, right in the middle of a great pythod,

when the early Church was experiencing revival, when a man

like Barnabas was giving everything he had and laying it

out to the apostle speech and a nasense ofphire was

conjuring up and concocting laws and lying to the Holy ghost.

I'm telling you, God knows if you're seeking an opportunity

to get out to God, if you're seeking an opportunity

to get out, I said, Oh, God knows if you're

seeking an opportunity to entertain sin. I said, if you're

a seeker an opportunity to entertain sin, the opposition will

no doubt overtake you. Yeah, Lot, you lingered long enough

to put doubt in your wife's mind, to put doubt

in your daughter's mind, while you stood at the door,

while homosexual men wanted to defile angelic beings, while deliverance

was there at the same time, you offer birds and

daughters at the same time. Oh, come on now, while

there's holy sacrifice, that's an unholy offering. Had to backtoy.

I tell us somebody in this building. God knows whether

or not you're gonna embrace this golden opportunity that for

being over taken by the our position. Pray for me, Church,

I feel the Holy ghost Jesus set in Luke, chapter

number seventeen, in verse number thirty two, he said, three

short words, Remember Lot's wife, what is the lesson for

us to learn from this? She didn't make it in

the middle of an exile, in the middle of an exodus,

in the middle of a deliverance. She didn't make it.

Somewhere between captivity and freedom, she got held up. I

feel the Holy Ghost in this place, right in the

middle of God, blessing a holiness church, right in the

middle of God giving gifts and the men, right in

the middle of God equip in the church with the

best gifts, apostles, preachers, teachers of Vangelis for the perfecting

of the church, right in the middle of some saying,

finally I got that pastor I needed. Finally I got

that first lady I needed. Finally I'm being fed. Let

me somebody come on now, being over taken by the opposition,

I'll tell you how you end up in the hands

of the opposition is when you begin to wonder along

the borders. Oh, come on now, between this world and

not church. Remember Lot's wife, Yes, Jesus, what is there

the learn? And as I was praying, the Holy Ghost

brought this example to mine. Little did I know they

are the next verses behind Jesus saying, remember Lot's wife.

That's the power of the Holy Ghost. When and when

praying the very next verse after Jesus said remember Lot's wife,

he said, whosoever shall seek to save his life shall

lose it, and whosoever shall lose his life shall preserve it.

I tell you, in the night, there shall be two

men in one bed. Oh, come on now. The one

shall be taken and the other shall be left. Two

women shall be grinding together. The one shall be taken

and the other left. Are you all getting there at

the same time? Opportunity and opposition. Naomi can preach this

message better than any holiness preacher will ever preach it.

She gave us the lesson of opportunity and opposition when

she spoke to orpap and she said, I'm going back.

I'm making my exodus from this land of exile. It

may be the homeland of a Limileachum, excile, may be

his preference, but I'm going back to the house of

her bread. And she said, Orpah, what will it be?

Will you go back to your mama or will you

go with me your mother in law? And the Orpa

kissed Nao man and said, thank her for the opportunity,

but no thanks. I wonder what the opposition did. The Orpa,

I said, I wonder what the opposition did. The Orpa

I said, I wonder what the opposition The nasty, filthy

Pagan more Abs, the more bos did the Orpa. I

wonder how many newborn she had to sacrifice to the

gods over the land of moabb. I wonder how great

the loss was. Embrace the opportunity, Orpa, while Ruth embraces

the opportunity at the same time. At the same moment,

Ruth walks onto the pages of history, and she just

continues walking while Orpa disappears in the prison house of Opposition.

Luke's on marching, Ruth's on marching, and sister wooting whenever

Ruth long story short, held old bed and old bed said,

let me go to grandma. And Grandma picked up old bed,

and Grandma had left the land of the Moabites. She

come back home. She's holding little old bed. All them

women said, is this Naomi? She said, don't you call

me Naomi, call me Mara, because God all might has

been a bitter towards me. He just eating me so bad.

I say. Later on, though, when she's hoholding no bed,

somebody come in and said, well, your preference is that

I call you Maria. I can hear it. Now, shut up,

never call me that again. Look right here, because Naomi

and Ruth made their ex al. At some point, you're

gonna get sick and tired of letting that cell phone

be your ruler. At some point, you're gonna get sick

and tired of spend an hour, two or three hours

on social media every day. I was praying a couple

of nights ago, and God spoke to me and said,

ask them, are there as many fingerprints on their Bible

as there is their cell phone? Huh? Are there as

many fingerprints on your Bible as there is on your

cell phone? Oh, come on now, sweet Lamb of God,

it's the words of Jesus. Two women shall be grinding together.

The one shall be taken in the other left at

the same time. Since the Irish wooving will be pushing

and crying and shouting. Although she could barely walk into

the service, she'll be shouting and pushing and crying and

getting in, grinding to the glory of God, grinding Amen,

fighting the good fight, laying hold on eternal life. And

there'll be somebody else seemingly out the grinder. But they

ain't putting enough helbow Gree sent it. I said they

ain't putting enough helbow Gree said it. In fact, their

elbows have not been over their shoulders in a long time.

They ain't lifting up holy hands without rating doubting in

a long time. I'm telling you to behoove us to

put a little more elbow grease in up and the

welcome the revival that the Lord is sending us pushing away.

A dear friend of mine recently, he said, how do

you feel about end time prophecy? Are you pre post

mid trip? What are you? I said, I'm gonna keep

you guessing for as long as you live. I'm not

gonna tell you, I said, but we better be ready

to get out of here on a first shipment. I

don't know if we're going by lamb by, said the

old songwriter said, I don't guess we'll need wings, But

you know what, I want to get out of here.

I don't know that we're promised another revival, because we're

not promised tomorrow. I don't know that your promise another day.

That a Syrian or a Persian captor would come in

and say, so to speak, figuratively speaking, here's the gate,

keys to Babylon. Unlock the gate for these Hebrews, Cyrus, Cyrus,

unluck at yourself. Welcome as they leave, tell them what

to do, as was a preaching, it's time. Now's the time,

It's time, now's the time. At the same time, some

will be left, while others are taken, some lost, some taken.

Lot was delivered, his wife was destroyed on the same day.

Lot was delivered. His wife was destroyed on the same day.

Lot was delivered. His wife was destroyed on the same day.

At the same time, I'm asking you what will it be?

Will it be delivered or destruction? Then rose up their rubberble,

and he began to build. Then it rose up the

rubble and he began to build. And after the same

time came to them tt Na, the governor on this

side of the river, and he questioned them concerning their

labors that they are. At the same time, while they

arose and begin to build, at the same time came

the opposition. At the same time came the opposition. And

can I tell you that because they hesitated when they

were building the temple. The prophet Hagi, he got stirred up,

and they started saying, you need to finish this work

you've started. You need to finish it. You need to

finish this work that you started. While Ezra's preaching, you

need to finish it. Time, come on, you need to

finish it. Heng God, God, you need to finish this.

Tell you come too far to turn off. With the

Israelies neglecting to build the temple, and hag Yll motivated

some and they decided to get bid. Is he doing

the right things? They decided to be easy, doing the

right things because of their picture of Israel, and hang, y'all,

are you gonna get guysie right now? Some are choosing

deliverance while others might choose destruction. Thank you, brothers, Cyrus

had given them authority. In our Golden text, we see

great opportunity and great opposition at the same time. Let us,

as children of God, get a burning desire to do something.

And you know what, when you do, some enemy of

your soul will fight you over it. And I want

to close with this. It is said by the prophet

Isaiah in the year Sure that King Euzaih died. I

saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne high and

lifted up, and his train filled the temple. Usaigh was

a wonderful king, and the nation of Israel was devastated

at his death, and the Prophet Isaiah said, I saw

the Lord. I saw the Lord. He's still a conqueror.

His train fills his temple. There's some of you right now.

I want you to just humble yourself and say God,

I don't want to let opportunity pass me by. Could

we get someone to play and some to sing? In closing,

as these altars are filled, they're full even now as

people are praying. I want to ask you to get

your clock in sink with God's clock. Then rose ups

a rubbible. Get your clock in sync with God's clock. Well,

can something bad happen to me while something good happens

to others? One was taken, the other left. Both were grinding,

Both were resting seemingly peacefully. One was taken, one was left.

As you pray, I want to leave this with you.

Years ago, I read when John Wilkes Booth assassinated President

Abraham Lincoln. At that same time in history, the Secret

Surface was being formed by the United States government, while

the opposition the assassin was taken the life of one

of America's most beloved presidents. The secret of us was

being formed. Can I tell you it was too late?

It was too late to deal with the opposition at

that point. Don't wait until it's too late. Don't wait

until your beloved is gone to do something about the opposition.