It Ain't Over - Bro Doug Cornett 6-25-2023

To be here this morning, and we're new to most of the area of

the whole state. We've been here a few times, but now I just

wanted to introduce ourselves. But my name's Melissa, and most people call me

missy. It just really doesn't matter. But usually I get called Melissa when

I'm in trouble, so by my dad or my husband, So if you

call me that, I might think I'm in trouble. But anyway, it's

so good to be here. I have felt the presence of the Lord in

Sunday school and the worship service. But I'm We have been married a long

time, we have three children, been married thirty almost thirty three years,

and we've been traveling and evangelizing for most of that time. And we do

have three children. And but the best part is we have eight grandchildren.

And it really does it really is as good as what all those elderly people

used, you know, to think, Oh, you know, all the

pictures all to talk about the grandkids, it cannot be that good, But

it really is. And so I'm thankful for our grandchildren. Our oldest just

got her just had her first real experience with the Lord a couple of weeks

ago, and I'm telling you, and she's ten, and her Papa and

I have been praying for that special experience because she can't get to Heaven on

the coattails of the mama or daddy or grandma and grandpa. Pastor, you've

got to have that experience for yourself, and we've been praying for that,

and we wasn't there to enjoy it, but we got pictures and videos that

they they sent us because they knew we want to see it. And I'm

so thankful that God reaches to the children. I'm so thankful for that because

I love our kids and great babies, and and we've already met a great

young man here this morning, Brother Titus, sweet little guy right there.

And we just love the children, love to see the Lord move. But

it's so good to be here in LaBelle, Florida. I've never been to

South Florida before, and um, so we're just thankful and we're looking forward

to revival. Thank God for your pastor. It's just such a privilege to

actually meet him. It's our first time in South Florida. And I've heard

so many wonderful things concerning this church, concerning your pastor and I'm just excited

to get to be in south Forth. Thank you so much for the wonderful

um lodging that you have provided is just fabulous, awesome, thank you so

much, let me say, and also the Sunday Schools road and road cap

that was my goodness. I you know what, I am absolutely believing one

percent. What I mean by that is I have no doubt. I believe

it fully, Brother proad Captain yours. Does anybody believe that with me?

Because all it takes us two or three? Thank God, Thank God,

take God al la Luijah. Well, you'll be turning to the Book of

Saint Luke, Doctor Luke, chapter number eight. Um, when I preaching

tell you a lot about what the Lord has done for me. I want

to uh start off this morning by giving the devil a black eye and assuring

you that, yes, it's what the Lord has done for me. But

it's not about me. You don't want to hear me tell you all about

me. Hey man, it's not about me. It's about chiefs Kyle l

Luijah. The Book of Saint Luke and chapter number eight, let's start reading

it. Verse number forty one. I love that everybody stand if you're able

to reference the reading of the Word of God the Book of Luke, chapter

eight and verse number forty one. And behold, there came a man named

Jaris, and he was a ruler of the synagogue, and he fell down

at Jesus's feet. Let me start right there, just to explain something real

quick. I didn't know what this meant, so I looked it up,

and what a little bit that I could that he was a ruler of the

synagogue, that was a prestigious office, that he was a expert of the

law. And so everyone in the synagogue looked to him to find out for

sure the meanings and so forth of the law. Because I know that whenever

you have read the beginnings of the Old Testament, Moses is writing about the

law. You know that. You know I'm telling you the truth. No

matter how intelligent you are, like me, you tried to stay awake and

then you got lost somewhere in there. So that's what that this gentleman was

was. He was a very important man of prestige, very educated and intelligence.

But that man, it said, fall down at Jesus's feet and besought

him that he would come into his house where he had one only talking about

twelve years of age, and she had dying. But as he went the

people thronged him, and the woman, having an issue of blood twelve years,

which has been all her living upon physician, neither could be healed of

any came behind him and touched the border of his garment, and immediately her

issue of blood stouched. And Jesus said, who touched me? When all

denied Peter, and they that were with him said, Master, the multitude

thronged thee and pressed thee, and says, now who touched me? And

Jesus said, somebody hath touched me? For I perceived that virtue, the

power and virtue has gone out of me. And when the woman saw that

she was not hit, she came trembling and declared him before all the people

for what cause she had touched him? And how she was healed immediately?

And he said, under her daughter, be of good comfort. Thy faith

hath made thee hole go in peace. Be of good comfort, Thy faith

hath made thee hole go in peace. While he yets faith Jesus, While

Jesus yet faith. There cometh one from the roar of the synagogue's house,

saying to him my daughter is dead. She will not do Master. But

when Jesus hearted, he answered him, saying, fear not believe. Holy,

could you and I make the enemy mad and say those four words together,

fear not believe, and she shall be made home. And when and

when he was come into the house, he suffered no man to go in,

say Peter and James and John, and the father and the mother of

the maiden, and all wept and bewail her. And he said, we

not, she is not dead, but sleep him. And when they and

they laughed him to scorn, knowing that she was dead, and he put

them all out, took her by the hand and called, saying, made

a rah, and her spirit came again. And she's straight, and he's

straight, and she's straightway, and commanded to give her meat. And her

parents were astonished. But he charged him that they should tell no man what

was done. Lord. We'd thank you. We phrase you, Lord all

from moving up on uctor looke, Oh Lord, to share these wonderful words

with us. I prayed, Lord, not my will, but thy will.

This morning, Oh God, move amongst us, Jesus, I prayed,

thy will be done moving this altar service today. God, I pleaded

the blood for this altar service. Lord Lord, that great things happened around

your altar today, Lord, for this is a place that we have sectified

as our place to meet you, and we are believing in the name of

Jesus, you are going to meet us in the altar this morning in the

name of Jesus. And the church said, day, Halleluia, you may

be seated if you can. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Thank God, thank God.

Well in this story, I love the way that's when ge said,

uh, she's not dead, show me sleeping. Now. I understand that

the pastor made it very clear this morning that this gentleman that's writing this,

he was not just someone that was hurt the story because you know who wasn't

here. Of course when this happened. He asked people that was there,

and when they all told him the story. I can imagine y'all have been

to the doctor. You know how they are. They're they're full of questioning,

you know, hack like everything's your fault, you know what I'm talking

about. And I'm sure that doctor Luke said things like, oh, okay,

okay, okay, you're saying that you knew she was there. Okay,

okay, but did you do that? Did you check it this way?

Okay? But what about this? Oh? But but did you do

this? And so? Luke? Doctor Luke wrote after he had asked all

these questions, I'm sure after he had heard it from eyewitnesses, he might

have talked to the very mom and dad that was there. He wrote and

said they had laughed Jesus to scorn know him she was dead. Not,

he did not say, because they was pretty sure she was dead. The

doctor did not say. They laughed him the score and cause most of them

figured, you know, she probably dead. That's not what he said.

They laughed him to score knowing she was dead. Oh, my friend,

I'm here to tell you that it ain't over. That's bad English. It's

not over. Come on here now, I'm him Southforna. Y'all say,

ain't it ain't over? To Jesus says itself. And Jesus has given me

the privilege to come to the metal hole in his church this morning to tell

Brother Rode Captain, to tell Sister Hat to tell you and your children in

your situation that it ain't holful. Come on, come on, ooh,

physicians, hear me say it ain't over, Oh, mister Baker, hear

me say, it ain't hoof to the marriage counselor it ain't hold to all

the family members that love you and really think they're telling you right, and

then really just keeps making you more nervous and making you want to to scream

sometimes, to all of those people that love us and are getting us all

kinds of their opinions, it ain't over. Come over to the judge that

slapped his gravel down and made his statement, it ain't hope. To the

police that said, that's far enough right there and put your hands up,

it ain't hold. It ain't over till cheese as and Jesus has brought good

news to give you this morning. It ain't over. Hell, it ain't

over. It ain't over for Hallelujah. However, I had the joy of

pastoring in southern Illinois, which is a long way from southern Florida, so

we're near that south, but in southern Illinois, I was on my way

to make a hospital visit to Cape Gerardo, Missouri, and about a fifteen

minute drive or so, and they're on State Route three. I was in

my sixth day old Suzuki Samurai. Do you all know what a Suzuki Samurai

is. It was made in a deal with General Motors that made the Geo

Trackers, the same thing based as a Geo tracks Auzuki Samurai and a very

small vehicle, but man, great gas miles and I was so proud of

that thing and my smart He like, Dad, bliss is hard, he

said. When I called and told him that great vehicle that I got,

he said, dear Lord's son, what if you'd haven't reckoned something like that?

I like that. Well. That day police estimated I was one fifty

miles an hour on that two lane road. Another gentleman talking on a cell

phone while trying to read off the order that he just got from the last

place he was at. He was a salesman whatever, and he was trying

to read. He was trying to hold his cell phone. The police estimate

he was going seventy five miles an hour on his full size buticle Sabra,

and at the same time with this coffee. And you understand all the things

that's going on. Surely you've never done anything like that. But going seventy

five miles an hour, He crossed the yellow line and he hit me head

on. It was a complete accident on his part, there's uh. It

was certainly not something that was done purposely. However, Satan had a plane

come on there. The devil had a plane. The nine one one was

called, of course, and the medics came, and the head medic his

mama, sister, Molly Morgan, was our elder lady in the church,

our oldest member of the church, and that was her. Her son was

the head metic. But understand, he knew who I was because this happened

on Monday morning and Saturday afternoon, I had preached his younger sister's funeral,

so he knew who I was. And whenever he came to the scene,

it was his mama's pastor that he had just cried tears with and spent hours

with whenever his sister had died. And so immediately he began to look for

a sign of life, and he couldn't find any. And he did all

that he could, And the other fireman told me how that he was pushing

and trying to remove the pressure from around me and everything, so trying to

relieve it and trying to find a sign of life. But he could find

none, and he officially pronuce else twee d o a dead on a rifle.

He went back to the ambulance and there he wrote up my death certificates

while the other fireman was trying to get my body out of the wreckage.

And there in the ambulance he wrote up my death certificate, which to my

knowledge is still on file at the Union County Courthouse in Jonesborough, Illinois.

Oh but I haven't got good news for all of those people at the courthouse.

Come on now, I am not buried. Oh but I'm somewhere in

South Florida, and I'm telling folks it ain't over, because the death certificate

says it's over. Geez. This is the old one that has the final

say. The last words is Jesus, hey man. He always has the

last say, no matter what anybody else says. Hi, We're like Jesus

always has the last say. Somebody give him honor today, Somebody raised your

hands and give him glovery this morning. He disturbs the glory that you can

give him this morning because he has the last say and the situation that you're

facing great table, Well God, in no way, shape or form,

am I one of those folks that tells you every day and every time that

I have the privilege to come to the platform all the many things that the

Lord told me, and and I wish I could, but I can't do

that. Oh but I can tell you that last night, a few hours

ago, Oh, the Lord stirred something within me, and he let me

know that this morning I was going to have the privilege to preach this somebody

that feels like their situation is over, that feels like there's no hope,

that it's just over for them. Oh, but I have come to remind

you of the truth that I know you already know. But sometimes we just

need somebody to come by and remind us. They man all come home.

Now. If it would have been Pastor how a great man of God,

a great pastor, if he would have stood here this morning and said the

same exact words. Yet you know he knows your situation. Well, of

course that's what he's gonna say. I mean, he is the pastor.

Or understand, I've never mentioned before. I've never been in this part of

the United States before, But the Lord has sent me here to tell you

whether road cap it ain't over, it ain't over. The Lord has sent

me to remind you of the truth of the word of God. Until jos

says it's over, it ain't over a man. And Jesus said to that

family, she is not dead, She only sleeping. Yeah, they laughed

in the score. And go ahead and laugh, my friend, go ahead

and let the world laugh. Go ahead and let our friends laugh. But

we are still old time believers that Jesus cast the last said. And so

there they rushed me by and by helicopter and the helicopter ambulance to the Southeast

Missouri Hospital in Cape Gerardo, Missouri. And there doctor Martin told me the

story himself. He said that whenever I came that he immediately began to look

for a sign of life, and he found none, he said, so

immediately, he said, I began to do things to try to restore your

breathing, to try to bring back the life. I started doing all that

I could. And I don't know what all that partook of. I don't

know if they used the electrical panels, I don't know, but I know

that he told me that we did all that we could to try to regain

restore your life. Oh, but we were unsuccessful. He told me,

how that he went and signed the death certificate to make it legal. Amen,

And how that the state police went back to the parsonage that we lived

in next to the church there and told my wife, and she got the

phone call from the hospital and so forth, that all of these things was

being done. And so for me, they just covered me up with the

sheet, the old saying is a white sheet. I hope know what color

it was. But they covered me up with the sheets, pushed the gurney

over against the wall, and there are lady, by man's definition dead,

let me stop right there, I said, by man's definition dead. Man's

definition, according to doctor Luke, was that Jersey's daughter was dead. They

laughed in the scorn knowing she was dead. Come on, then, oh,

you don't send the state police to a house to give such news to

someone that you're not for sure. Come on, the E and T doesn't

make out the death certificates. The doctor doesn't sign the death certificates. It's

not like that unless they are sure the dead. Who But that's fine man's

definition. Come on here now. Man's definition may be that your child will

never come back, that your child will never power this also, but Jesus

sees things a whole lot difference than this world sees things. The doctor may

say that there is no hold. The doctor may say there is no cure.

The doctor may say that this is just the way it is, and

it will soon be over for you. But I have come with good news

today to tell you that's all appointing to man's definition. WHOA, But man's

definition is not what we're here to be back. I'm not here to explain

to you all about what man's definition is. Already were taught that you've already

met the store. You've already lived in this world for how along you know

what man's definition is. But I have come to remind you, according to

the Holy Word of God, Hey, it ain't over until Jesus says it's

over. And she's not dead just because they say she is until jee.

Now there's gonna come a day, right, Come on here, now,

man, there's gonna come a day that Jesus says on this earth, it's

hopeful, right, run to the altar. Why he got time? Run

to the altar? Or why he got time? For those of us that

believe we are going to hear the sound? Oh, it's gonna sound like

a trumpet. Oh, my friend, we're going to lose all the structures

of gravity and we're going to be caught up in the air to meet the

Lord. Hallelujah, halleluiah, my friend. When that day comes, it

is over all this earth and him. You better run to the altar a

while. You still have time, because time assume running out. Oh,

but I'm so glad to tell you this morning that it is not over.

There's still time for you to find forgiveness. There's still time for you to

find new life. There's still time for you to understand for yourself what makes

these people dance in the spirit, what makes these people raise their hands into

relationship, what makes these people sing and cry and feel so wonderful? Oh,

you can find out for yourself right here this morning. You can find

out for yourself. This is real. This is real, This is real.

Yeah yeah, Oh, And it ain't over. There still time for

you to come to the all time. You don't even have to wait for

me to make an order call. You can just come because you feel that

Come. Come let it, my friends. No matter what all of the

you know, they have all of these different ways of taking the pictures,

the X rays and the all what's that thing? The Mr I yeah,

and all that stuff, you know. And they have showed me different X

rays and mr eyes that explain things that was wrong with me and the injuries,

even though that they had found that the Lord had restored. Oh,

I hadn't told you about that. Let me tell you. I'm over here

on the journey up against the wall, and doctor Martin said, and he

kept shaking his head, and he'd kind of about half life and said,

I can't believe I'm telling you this. I just can't believe I'm talking to

the person that was laying there. He said. I had been in the

emergency room all night, and now you know, it was the next afternoon.

He said, I'd been there so many hours. I was so ready

to go home, he said, and I was so glad when another doctor

came in to relieve me. I was in such a hurry. I needed

to go home and rest and have so much to do, he says.

I was in a hurry to get out of there. And he said,

as I was walking out, he said, and the thought came to me,

you need to go over there and make sure that that preacher is dead.

Now, wait a minute, he said, I've been a doctor for

many years. You know how unprofessional that would be for me to go over

after I have signed at the certificate, after they've been there to get his

wife, and now to go over and make sure that he's still dead.

That'll be very unprofessional, he said. But I couldn't help it. Something

pulled me over their team. So I can't explain, I said, I

can explain it. I know what it was over now, he said.

Something pulled me over there to him. And when I reached underneath the sheet

and I took you by the hand, I immediately felt a mighty strong pulse.

All th cheeses they plashed me when man's definition said that I was dead

with a death cert certificate is right there to prove the fact signed by the

doctor that by man's definition, I was dead. Oh, but I'm here

to tell you it ain't over two Cheem's success. It's over. Ah.

The Lord is so glad and so please that you're in the House of God

this morning. And this says no morning that you can come and find that

there is still home. There is still time, there is still the way

for things to change in your life. Amen. Well, my friend Jesus

says, it ain't go for now. It might be what time does church

starts to night pastor house? The good Lord willing? And you know the

Bible teaches us to say the Lord's will. If it be the Lord's will,

my short way o Hio way of saying, it's good Lord willing.

I'll be back here at six o'clock. But there's no guarantee of that.

And even if I think it to be back here at six o'clock, there's

no guarantee you come on. Then there are a million things other than the

trumpet sounds that could happen before six o'clock that you wouldn't be here all.

But right now is your opportunity. Right now is your divine chance to come

and find grace and find that help that how many letters was it? Fourteen

letters? Seventeen letters the word help and the who who's telling that? Seventeen

letters? That was translated to help? Whatever that seventeen letter word is,

you can find the right here. You're all death. That's good news,

fuls, let's all stand. It is such a divine pleasure, an opportunity

to be the one to be allowed to come to you this morning and remind

you that it ain't over and lets you know that there is help right here

at this altar. Oh, my friend, you can find salvation, You

can find healing. You can find help that the banker can give you.

You can find counsel that the educated one of the marriage counselor can't give you.

You can find one that has an opinion way higher and way more positive

than all those that says it's too late. You can come, my friend,

this morning, right now, every head bowed, every eye closed,

I'm asking you right now to search your own life with that bright lights your

own situation. Do you need Jesus to help you this morning? Only you

know, only you know how bad that you need him. And right now

I'm asking you to come and fill up these altars. Pastor, do we

have a man side of the lady's side? Here is this the men's side,

and the ladies to your left and men to your right. Everyone that

would like to have Jesus help him, Let's come and fill up these altars

this morning. Let's come. These front pews are open, all this altar

is open. We have room for you this morning, everyone that will come.

If you need a help of Jesus Christ. If you have things figured

out yourself, you really need the help of Jesus Christ. All the altar

is open. Come, my friend, come and find Jesus is here to

help you. Come and find Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, he love is

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