The Deadline - Pastor J.D. Howell 6-28-2026

How many of you believe we have to work while

it as yet day, for the night cometh when no

man can work. I would like to dedicate tonight's sermon

to Sister Molly Wallace. She let me know this morning

at nine to eleven and a text message. She told

me and her husband that she had had a dream

last night, and these words came to mind in her dream,

while we can, we better get the Holy Ghost while

we can. We better get the Holy Ghost, or we

better get the Holy Ghost while we can.

And the Holy Ghost spoken to my.

Heart as I read those words that she wrote in

that text message. The title to tonight's message the deadline,

the deadline. Amen, I feel the Holy Ghost right now

in a mighty way. Brother Nathaniel, First Samuel, chapter number fifteen,

verses number twenty four through twenty nine.

My brother.

Saul said, unto Samuel, I have sinned, for I have

transgressed the commandments of the Lord and thy words, because

I feared the people and obeyed their voice. Now therefore

I pray THEE pardon my sin and turn again with

me that I may worship the Lord.

And Samuel said, unto Saul, I will not return.

With Thee, for thou hast rejected the word of the Lord,

and the Lord hath rejected THEE from being king over Israel.

And as Samuel turned about to go away, he laid

hold upon the skirt of his man to win at rent.

And Samuel said unto him, the Lord hath rent the

kingdom of Israel from Thee this day, and hath given

it to a neighbor of thine that is better than thou.

And also the strength of Israel will not lie nor repent,

for he is not a man that he should repent.

It was too late to seek the Lord. It was

too late to call upon the Lord. Brother Jesse's Second Samuel,

chapter number five and verse number twenty four.

My brother, can it.

Be when thou hearest the sound of a going in

the tops of the mulberry trees, that then thou shalt

mistir thyself? For then shall the Lord go out before

thee to smite the host of the Philistines.

While you feel the presence of the Lord upon thee,

you need to do what the Lord has required of

you to do. Amen, Brother Caleb, Second Corinthians, chapter number

six and verse number two, My brother, before he saith

I have heard THEE in a time accepted, and in

the day of salvation, I've secured THEE.

Behold now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the

day of salvation.

Behold, now is the accepted time. Behold, now is the

day of salvation. Let's stand for the reading of our

Golden text numbers chapter number fourteen. If you have it, saymen,

beginning with verse number forty, the Bible says, and they

rose up early in the morning, and get them up

into the top of the mountain. Say low, we be here,

and we'll go up into the place which the Lord

hath promised, for we have sinned. And Moses said, wherefore

now do ye transgress the commandment of the Lord. But

it shall not prosper. Go not up, for the Lord

is not among you. That ye be not smitten before

your enemies. For the Amlakites and the Canaanites are there

before you, and ye shall fall by the sword because

ye are turned away from the Lord. Therefore the Lord

will not be with you. But they presume to go

up and too the hilltop. Nevertheless, the ark of the covenant,

the Lord and Moses departed not out of the camp.

Then the Malakites came down and the Canaanites which dwelled

in that hill and smoked them and discomforted them even

unto Horma. May we pray, Heavenly Father, we love and

we praise you. We thank you the opportunity to be

in your house tonight. We pray God, that you would

annoint this thy people, set of God that their ears,

and help them to hear what the spirit of God

says to this church tonight. God, I thank you for

this weekend. I thank you for the way the preachers

have obeyed the Lord, and the way the power of

God has been present. The way your spirit is pulled

and drawn men and women, boys and girls closer to you.

I thank you for that.

I pray that you would anoint this thy servant, set

a guard at my mouth, and help me to say

only those things you would have me to say, nothing

more or less. We pray that these sayings would go

below the shoulders where they saturate the spirit, heart, mind,

soul and body.

Help us not to hear only, but to heed.

We'll give you praise, honor, and glory, and maybe depart

this place joyfully and not sorrowfully. In Jesus' name in

the church said hey, man, as you're being seated, to

look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, did you Oh,

there is a deadline to meet. Our text is found

in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible, the

Book of Numbers. The Bible readers among us tonight are

very familiar with some of the promises of God which

can be found throughout this sacred manuscript. In this divine

library of sixty six books, there are many precious promises

that the God of people, the God of mortals, the.

God of humans, has made with us.

And I'm very thankful for every promise that i have

received from the Lord. I have heard my wife before

say that in a time of prayer, she received a

precious promise from the Lord. Years ago, while a young

father of one son, I realized that my wife and

I were unable to have more children. In my living room,

where I like to make my altar unto the Lord

alone with God, I prayed on the left hand side

of that couch where I'd normally make my altar, and

on the left hand side of the left end of

that couch, I prayed, and I remember getting in the spirit,

and I asked.

God this question.

I said, God, do you still raise up men of God?

In this generation? Will you raise up men of God?

And in that moment, I felt the Spirit of God

illuminate my mind, and I had an understanding that in

my hand, so to speak, was a precious promise that

had been given to me from the hand of Almighty God.

That promise had exchanged hands. God had something for me,

and I had received it. Because as the youth group

sang a little while ago.

I prayed, and I prayed.

I call to the Lord until he heard me and

answered me. I know that I'm nobody. I know that

I'm the least among the brethren. But I'll tell you this,

the effectual, fervent prayer the righteous man and the righteous

woman of aileth much, including securing precious promises from Hallmighty God.

And so the Israelites in this time, there's no doubt

they had in their hand a very precious promise that

they had received of the Lord. Now you know about

this narrative, you understand exactly what went on here. The

children of Israel had been weary living in the land

of Egypt, and they were tired of the bullying of

the Egyptians. They were sick and tired of the tyranny

of the Egyptians. And the Bible said that they cried

out unto the Lord by the reason of their affliction

and their bondage.

And the Lord heard them, and God rose up a.

Deliverer, and that precious baby up promise, that goodly child,

that one that was born to be a deliverer, or

done exactly what God had commanded and commissioned him to do.

Moses was obedient unto the heavenly calling, and Moses forsook

a lot of things in order to align his will

with the perfect will of God. We know of all

of the wonderful things that the Egyptians had to offer

this Hebrew pharaoh to be Moses. But Moses was not

one to be flattered. Moses was not one that would

please himself with the pleasures of this.

World or of sin.

For a season, Moses was looking down the road, and

Moses realized that these Egyptians are not my people, and

these are not the people of promise. I'm not supposed

to be in this land. And there's no doubt he

was familiar with Jehovah, God and he understood how God

identified himself as God of Abraham and the God of

Isaac and the God of Jacob. And there's no doubt

Moses knew that God had never identified himself as the

God of Pharaoh. So Moses wanted to be among his

own people. Moses did not desire to be a leader

amongst his own people. But God chose Moses for such

a time as this because God knew when he called

upon Moses to do what God needed him to do

for his people, Moses would do exactly what God had

asked him to do, without excuse, without asid can God

for more time to pray it through.

Immediately right then and there.

Moses would rather dwell in the wilderness as a sheepherder

or as a shepherd. I'm telling you exile from the

land of Egypt in order to find himself dead center

in the perfect will of God. Now that's easier said

than done. There's people in this building right now. Over

the last services, you have heard the spirit of God

woo you. You have heard the voice of God calling

to you. You have heard the voice of God commands

you to do certain things, including entering that private place

or that secret place of prayer and putting your petition

unto the Lord, whether it be a petition or a

request for salvation, deliberance, sanctification, or Holy Ghost baptism. And

I feel it in my spirit right here tonight that

some have not done as the Holy Ghost has not requested,

as the Holy Ghost has commanded.

You to do.

And you don't even realize that inside of you there

is a self will that is determined to tear you apart,

and there is a self desire and a self will

within you determined to leave you in captivity, to leave

you in bondage.

You don't realize that there's a reason.

For the call to come out of the land of

your spiritual captivity. And so we know that Moses was

obedient and doing exactly what God had told him to do.

And so at some point he takes all of these

Hebrews into the lad Up Canaan and they're about to

make their entry into the Promised Land. And Brother Richard Jacob,

there is no doubt that there was an element of

people that were willing to do what God had told

them to do, and that was to go ahead and

cross the threshold and get a hold of the promise

and to occupy that promised land. But there were twelve delegates,

if you would, or twelve scouts that were sent into

the land, and it was their job and their duty

to survey the circumstances and situations they'rein and to determine

whether or not it was time to do what God

had told them to do. Now, I appreciate the leadership

of Moses and Aaron.

I appreciate the scouts.

Going in and doing what they did. I do not

want to contradict the decision of Moses or the decision

of God Almighty. But I want you to know that

when God speaks to you, and God tells you to

go forward, to cross the threshold and to enter the

promised land, there is no reason whatso heavened for anybody

to send out scouts and to have them walking around

determining whether or not they're able to defeat their enemy.

Even if the intention was good to go.

In there and to bring back a good report of

the land that flowed with milk and honey. But even

though these intentions seemingly were right, as they looked further

into it, as they considered the depth and the details

of the situation, they noticed the children of Anak, they

noticed the giants that were in the land.

Perhaps while they were.

Sampling them the milk and the honey of the land,

and while they were rejoicing in the fact that they

could possess their promise, one of those ugly ogres walked by,

and mentally and internally, immediately they begin to feel defeated.

In fact, the Bible said that after these men had

come back to Moses and they gave an evil report,

ten of the twelve told the people in Moses and

therein that we are not able.

To possess our promise, were.

As good as defeated already, and there is no reason

at all for us to advance upon that that is ours.

It's the first number one after number fourteen says that

this negative report or this negative energy generated negative emotions.

And sister how of the Bible said that Israel lifted up.

Their voice, and Israel cride, and.

They wept through the night when they should have been

praying through the night, they are weeping hopelessly and through

the night. You see the ugliness of unbelief his own

display here. Now, I know there's some people in this building.

You tell me you've been seeking deliverance over habitual sin.

You tell me you've been seeking to be a blood bought,

born again child of God. You tell me you've been

seeking sactification and Holy Girl's baptism. But can I ask

you the question, have you been seeking him as the

spirit draws you? We know the Bible saying no man

can come unto the.

Father unless the Spirit draw him.

I feel like there's people in this building that do

not realize they are their own worst enemy. Their old

self will is disassembling their promise. Their old self will

is tearing up the passport to prosperity. Their old self will,

which includes rebellion and stubbornness, is forfeiting their future. Come on, now,

you see they begin to murmur after they wept all

night long. Who were they murmuring against spiritual leadership? They

were murmuring against their God and their god giving and

god ordain leadership.

Name Moses and his brother Aaron.

The whole congregation began to speaking directly to Moses, and

they were harsh words. Sister would not couldn't imagine anybody

in this building speaking the pastor HOWE will like this?

But Brother Nathaniel, they said.

I wish I'd have died in Egypt, And they went

on to say, if we hadn't had died in Egypt,

I wish we'd have died in the wilderness rather than

face the sword of the Canaan Knots and the giants.

They saw themselves as grasshoppers, the Bible said, unable to

defeat the Canaan knights and the Canaan Knots, they said,

perceive us as little harmless insects.

As well.

You've seen Moses had sent out Joshua and Caleb on purpose.

I feel like it to balance the other Scouts and

the other witnesses and the other testimonies. When I heard

Brother Caleble and Better Phil a power will testifye tonight,

I could tell that there are two in our prayers

that took the heart what the Spirit of God has

been saying under this church, and with smiles on their

faces and fire in their soul, and both Brother Caleble

and Better feel a pad a positive report for this

people here tonight.

There is no doubt.

There's some other Scouts in this building tonight to people

who know the services have been good, they know that

Bethel is a fruitful land blessed by the Lord. They

see sister Howell, mister Here, her sister Smith, and Sister Hammond,

Brother road Cap and brother Jessee, and brother Nathaniel.

Eat up the fruit of the land.

They've seen Betther and Sister Staric partake the milk and

the honey. I want to tell you all, twelve hebrew spies,

no doubt new that Canaan would have been her wonderful

place to call home. He would have been a wonderful

place to sit and incomfort.

But you know what they.

Got to, looking at the impossibility of occupying that land.

Or posssing it, has their own.

And I want you to know there's nothing more ugly

and unbelief, And there's nothing more damning than for you

to send out a scouter, her doubt and the overlooker

what God has told you to do. God has told

some of you to seek Him while he may be found,

and no call upon him while he is near.

This lets me know there is a deadline.

There can't come a time when you pass the part

of no return.

You can come to a place where you can seek.

The Lord carefully and bitterly with tears, and God will

nodder hear you he the Caleb read our third context, has.

Said, now here is the time today, here's the day

of our salvation. I'm almost done, unless the Holy Ghost

encourages me to preach a little longer.

You so what out out of behind.

I'm sure everyone of these scouts thought it would be

the perfect place for them and their families if it

wasn't infested with their armed enemies and the giants of Anak.

Their report wasn't one of encouraging words. Their words of

their reports spread fear throughout the entire camp of Israel.

I want to tell our babies and our boys and

girls something. It doesn't matter who in this building acts

like you can't get a prayer through. It doesn't matter

who in this building comes to prayer meeting and girls

with a frown on their face. It doesn't matter how

many people come to the altar and go back.

To their pew with a frown on their face.

I want you to know the salvation is free, Salvation

is full, and salvation is for you. I want you

to know that the Holy Gess baptism.

Here's a promise.

And just as the Lord had told the disciples to

go into the Upper Room and the tarry until they

be adue with power from on high.

He lets me know there was a deadline.

If you don't get in that upper room, have the

appointed place, have the appointed timer. It's gonna be too late.

I said, it's gonna be too late. You better get

in while the spirit of God has the doors of

your spiritual promise.

Lad open Ah.

There's no doubt you have witnessed folks in this building

enjoy eating of the blessings of the Lord. There's no

doubt you could test to every sinner that passes by

your way that you have watched Brother Nathaniel enjoyed being

amongst the heavenly host as the Holy Ghost has just

blessed his soul. Brother Nathaniel has never since of time

that God was not with him.

Do you know why that is?

It's because when God shows up, he's got time for God.

And when God points him in a direction, he walks

in that direction because he knows if I'm going to

be taken by God into the will of God, as Inocubold,

i must walk with God.

Brother Nathaniel told us in a recent message that.

Adam lost out with God because he'd rather hide from God.

And what he had fashioned to be a grove instead

of war with God. In the cool of the day,

through the garden that he attended. I know there's somebody

I'm preaching to the night that one day we'll wake

up in hell. Her wake up at home and realized,

you waited one day too late. The songwriter wrote these lyrics,

you came one day too late. You came one day

too late. The Lord has come and you have been

left behind. This morning, Sister Howell had good intentions. She

played one song. Around eight am. She opened Spotify and

she played these lyrics, It is never too late.

How many of y'all familiar with that?

Not long after that, the text message from Sister Molly

came into my phone and I heard what.

She had said.

I read what she had wrote, Brother Jessea said, we

better seek the Holy Ghost while we can. We better

be filled with the Holy Ghost while we can. We

better receive the Holy Ghost while we can. Sister Howill

didn't play another song. She didn't know what I had read.

But around nine twenty I walked by my wife as

we were getting ready to walk out the door. I said,

I appreciate that song that you were playing. I appreciate

the lyrics, I appreciate the hope that is in that.

And with a tear rolling down her face, and she said,

I woke up this morning with that o my mind.

I'm thankful for the blessed hope to your mama that

it'll never be too late. But I said, honey, that

it is not applicable to everybody, because God just spoke

to me to tell somebody tonight.

Hey, come on now, to tell somebody tonight.

And in this moment, right now, you can't wait until

it's too late. I said, you can't wait until it's

too late. I'm telling you you better seek God while

he may be found. You better throw now while he

is near. Too sarm he can say it's never too late,

and while to others he can say it's too late.

The God of Heaven and Earth can close doors so

tightly that open doors are no longer open, and they

will never be opened again. No man can open the door,

not a weeping mother, not a weeping pastor.

Not a wee and father.

On somebody that goes too far, somebody that goes in

the wrong direction too long, somebody for a game or

for show, or out of fear, or for whatever reason,

just says I'm gonna stand right here on the threshold

of the Promised Land, and regardless of what God is saying,

I am going to determine whether or not me or

my family or me as an individual is safe going

into there.

Can I tell you if.

You don't go in when God tells you to go in,

you may never ever know what a promised land is like.

Your children may never know what that mealk tasted like.

They may never know what that golden honey tastes like.

Joshua and Caleb's report was one of encouraging words, and

even though their words that were most encouraging and began

to spread through the camp, it was not enough to

sway the congregation to do what was right. I pray

to God that somebody received the Holy Ghost, just as

these twelve or thirteen did three and a half years

ago in that mighty revival of spontaneous I'm telling you inspiration,

a spontaneous order, a spontaneous design. Right in that moment,

we realize that God was gonna answer some prayers that

we had been praying for about fifteen something years. For

fifteen years, God finally said, I'm gonna pour out my

spirit upon your young men. I'm gonna pour out my

spirit upon your young ladies. And we watched in less

than a week's time people get saved, sanctified, Holy Ghost

fielding and called to preach. And some of the mothers

and fathers of Israel in this building can tell you

that the result of that is these preachers that got

called to preach in that Reviveaul. There are some of

the finest Holy Ghost annoying men and the Holiness movement

at this time. But I want you to know, when

God said right now, we didn't come to the rolodexa

on our desk. We didn't scroll through the context on

our phone and look to schedule a preacher.

At a later date and time.

We didn't look for somebody to take time to catch

a meeting and.

To come here.

We knew that the Holy Ghost had orchestrated that repipal,

the Holy Ghost had.

Ordered those instructions, and.

The Holy ghosts had ordered that service and ordained that meeting.

And because we let the Holy Ghost do what he

wanted to do right now, right did in there the

rest is history.

There are possessors of the process.

In other words, when the Holy Ghost said, right now,

now is the time. Today is today we had revival,

and some of you don't even realize that's what we've

been doing now for about two or three weeks. But

if my Holy Ghost Censor has any indicator all to

this group of people that we've got a problem, I

can tell you already I feel his spirit drawing back already.

I feel like the preachers have pre I feel like

to annoy and was present.

The annoying of God was present to destroy the yoke.

The power of God was present to break habits, to

shack to shadow shackles, hey, to destroy fetters, and to

set people free from their self, to set people free

from rebellion, to set people free from stubbornness, to set

people free from their self.

Weill, hey, come on, But for whatever.

Reason, we don't see brokenness, for whatever reason, in our

movements throughout the world today, in this country, we don't

see contrition. We don't see humility, we don't see godless sorrow.

We don't see true repentance. And I'll tell you what

will happen. Revival will become a lost hope and a

loss cause for people that refuse to turn away from sin.

For people that refuse to humble them self, for people

that refuse to pray, God will not heal their land,

much less bless them with the land of poet with

the blessings of God. And for some of you that

missed them last few services, you really missed it. We

have been having some great services. I know there was

a time in my life that I could tell the

spirit of God was drawing of fifteen or sixteen year

old boy, and I remember thinking, this shouldn't be happening.

Everything's going well in my life. I don't have an

enemy in the world. I don't have an addiction, I

don't have a habit. There's nothing wrong. There's no relationship issues.

There's no child parent relationship issues. There's really no pastor

and parishioner relationship issues.

I'm just busied living life.

And I remember, though, feeling something in my heart that

was letting me know God was on the other end

of the rope. God was on the other end of

the line, and Sister how well, he wasn't.

Speaking to me in an audible voice.

But I realized that my normal, happy, go lucky self

was not as jolly as.

I normally had been.

I realized my mind was more troubled concerning eternity than

it had ever been before. I realized that eternal issues

and affairs were more on my mind than they had been.

I had an awareness of the eternal whereabouts of my soul.

And one evening, on the way.

To camp meeting at the Church of God camp meeting,

I looked at a person of spiritual leadership and I said,

I want to share something with you. And that went

against my nature to open my mind, heart and to

share it with people. I never had a problem open

to my heart and sharing it with God.

But better feel up.

I was so troubled about my soul and it's eternal

whereabouts them that I asked the spiritual leader. I said,

have you ever felt like you're gonna die? Have you

ever felt like you're not promised tomorrow?

Have you ever felt like on the.

Inside there's a still small voice saying prepare to me?

To God and that spiritual juggernaut, that spiritual leader, he said,

do you know I've been feeling the same thing of late?

He said, you have described me perfectly what I've been

a feeling.

Can I tell you that God was going to usher

us into a revival that would push us out of

compromising churches. God ushered us into a revival, a spontaneous

revival that would call us from un clean situations in

religious conditions, unto clean and holy situations in religious environments.

I'm telling you, God call us out from among those

that would not separate themselves from sin.

And there was a mighty repiple on the heels of

that feeling.

If I'd a went to a party and instead of

an altar, if I went to the playground instead of

God's house, if I'd have done what I wanted to

do instead of what God wanting me to do, I'd

be lost to Nata or in the devil's hell. I'm

telling you the reason why people or getting something you're

not getting up, it's because they.

Get to while they're getting thats good. I said, they

get to rale. They're getting thats good. It's true. The

milk and honey.

Sweet and just as precious when they had to walk away,

and God said, you didn't do it when I told

you to do it. And now we're at our golden

text numbers chapter number fourteen and verses number forty three

forty two. And they rose up early in the morning,

and they got them up into the top of the mountain, saying, lo,

we be here. Now I want to add this, Yeah,

you're here, but it's too late. It's too late. That

to Jesus calls the church and you pull on them

glass doors back there. I tell you this, Jeremiah Hound

and Justin roe Cap had unlocked him. You're gonna find

that out. Hey, come on now, there ain't gonna be

no annoying preachers in here preaching. That's not gonna be

any annoyed youth group singing. There ain't gonna be no

annoyed choir singing. Ain't gonna be no beautiful little children

singing the sweet songs of Zion. But you can get

up early, and you can walk up to the top

of the mountain and saying, lo, we be here. We're

ready to go up and to the place which the

Lord have promised.

And you know what's just the wood and they get religious.

It's a false humility, there's a false repentance.

But of Jesse.

They even say, for we have sin, For we have sin.

It's a little too late now, it's a little too late.

Now you know what it is. They are apologizing because

now they want it to Now they realize they can't

have it.

Now they realize God is saying no. But now they're

saying yes.

When God said yes, sir, they said no when God

said no.

Now they're saying yes.

And I'm telling you the reason why you ain't got

it When God says, go.

On, you don't go up. Now is the.

Time be all Today, Here is the day of salvation.

God doesn't have to deal with your soul for whats.

God does not have to deal with your soul.

But whats.

And Moses he saw through the fault humility, he saw

through the false repentance. And in verse number forty one,

he said, wherefore now do you transgress the commandment of

the Lord. And he said, but it shall not prosper,

It shall not prosper. Go ahead and go in there

now with a mind of work. Go ahead and go

in there now with a wheel to work. Go ahead

and go in there now with your rose sharp. Go

ahead and go in there now with a double edged

sword so sharp it cut a limb off. But it

will not prosper. And Moses said, you feel like going up.

And now Moses is saying go not up, for the

Lord is not among you.

That you be not spitting before your enemies.

Moses is saying, if you go up, you will be annihilated, obliterated,

and destroyed.

And you know what the Bible said. They went ahead

and went up, and the Bible.

Said, the malacots and the cana knots smote them before God. God,

watch them lose their life because they still don't want

to do it with God said to do it. It's

like the little child whose mother says, put that dirty

plate in the trash can, and that little child would

rather play with the baby doll or push a little

plastic toy truck, testing and trying Mama, being rebellious and

being stubborn. I'll have revival when I want I'll throw

that plate away when I want to. And then Mama

goes to the room and she gets a switch or

something in order to discipline that child. And now that

child decides it's going to go throw that plate away.

Now you're cardal at that moment, right and you know

what you say, It's too late, honey, It's too late.

Do you get the gravity of what I'm preaching right here? Hey?

You know why I drove for two hours each way

for six years because I knew God saying, I want

to put a hole in his church he in La Belle, Florida.

I want to build a holiness church in La Belle, Florida.

I want to be the watchman of that holiness church

in Le bel Florida. Do you know if I had

to wait it until now, twenty years later to do

what God told me to do, all of these people

would have went to hell that are present here the

night of those that have died and went on to glory.

When God tells you to do something now, you better

do it.

If God tells you to stand up here in church

and to lift up your boss like a trumpet. If

God says, clap your heads, all you people shouting a god.

With a boss of try it. You otta do it.

But God is showing us here tonight.

There's an ugly spirit of rebellion and stubborness present.

You.

Boss Man says, I don't want you to be gone

nine days. I really need you to be gone six days.

You know what, You push it and you push it,

and you push it and you push it, and then

you weren't there when the boss man needed you. And

so no longer does he depend on you. No longer

does he trust you, No longer can he rely on you.

When the company is in a pitch.

Kind of like a conversation, brother Wooden, I had the

other day when something didn't go somebody's way. Immediately their

attitude deteriorated and their work ethic.

Felder pieces, you know why, because.

They wouldn't own up to their own mistakes and own

up to their own actions and realize there are eternal scars.

There are eternal scars for our actions and our doings

in this life. And we cannot fault the employer for insurability.

We cannot fought our employer for what we've done to

our employer.

He can't fault God for not feeling you when he

called on you.

For three much straight, when he poured for you for

three months straight.

If you die, go to hell, oh be because God

did not.

These silly Israelites.

They decided against going and doing as the Lord had instructed.

The silly Israelites decided against going and doing as the

Lord instructed. And at a later date and time, when

the Lord told him to enter, he said, you know what,

go in. They said, we will not go, and now

the Lord said, don't go, and they decided to go

against the Lord's instructions, and they desired to enter. The

simple truth concerning this matter is they want to do

things whole way. You want to receive the Holy Ghost

the way you want to receed leave him. Oh, come

on your hand in God the playbook. You're handing God

the plan book. We're telling God how it's going to

be and overlooking his instructions. I know of some people

who were late to their very own mother's funeral. And

they were late because they had never heard that sermon

by your pastor the peril of procrastination. They were late

because they hain't heard that sermon by your pastor dangerously distracted.

They were late because they were dangerously delayed. There was

people talking, there were people consoling, there were people visiting,

They were reminiscing, they were having a good time with

friends and family. And they let that clock tick on

and tick on and get closer to the time of

their dear mother's funeral. And they had it estimated that

in seven and a half minutes we can get to

the funeral home.

You guessed it right.

Ten minutes till the time of the funeral, they decided

to run out the door, and then you know how

it goes. Somebody's forgot their phone, somebody's forgot their pocket book,

and that ten minutes got down to eight and a half.

It's okay, we got another minute. It's okay, We've got

a minute's cushion. It's okay, and you know what, Brother Nathaniel.

But when they got on the State highway, there was

no time to you turn, there was no time for

a detour, there was no time for further delay.

They got out and realized there had been a horrible.

Accident in that very baund traffic that they were in,

and brother Caleb, they set there for thirty five minutes,

tapping the steering wheel, impatiently beeping their horn, getting either

car and walking up and talking to emergency response technicians

and saying, can't you clear the way? Cat through? Can't

you make a way for me? There seemed to be

no way and better Jessee, they said, I'm sorry. It

didn't matter where they were wanting to go or how

bad they needed to be there. They got there, you know,

about thirty five forty minutes late. And it is true

in some things it is better late.

Than never.

And you know what, it is better late than never

for a groom that has got stuck in trapping to

go ahead and go to his own wedding, and to

let him start late. His bride would appreciate it being said,

better late than never. And every pastor will tell you, yes, indeed,

it's probably better late than never. Not good, not exactly

what we need to do right. But I'll tell you

in the things of God, if you're too late, it

is nefer.

If you're too late, it is never.

And I'm telling you it will never be said concerning

the purpose will of God. Better late than never. Ain't

it better late than missing it altogether? No, the deadline

is passed, the harvest is passed.

The harvest is passed.

It could be said that at a time the harvest

was plentiful, had a time for laborers are few, But

now it's too late for laborers. It's too late to

try to earn a paycheck. It's too late to try

to harvest the fruit. It's too late. The harvest is passed.

They should be right here and right now, sister Wood,

and beaten a fire out of this altar. I believe,

spiritually speaking, I'm holding the last nil to be driven

in your coughing tonight. And I believe this sermon and

the finality of this sermon to be your final message.

You could talk to Esau sister wooting. Because he pushed

it off the Bible said, he wept bitterly, he cried,

He soaught it with many tears, Judas, why.

Couldn't you be saved? Why couldn't you be saved?

Because he crossed the point where he knew it wouldn't

do a bit of good.

We've all preached it.

We've all said if he had turned on his heels

and went to Jesus and knelt down and prayed, Jesus

would have forgave him. But now I'm starting to realize

that Judas knew.

I thought. I don't know about how Judas knew. Judas

felt it, Judas knew. It's too late for me.

I'm telling you, I do feel a draw and other

spirit of God tonight. I do feel an auction and

other spirit. I do feel a call to God tonight.

It's not too late. But in the next thirty minutes

it could be too late to get started praying. In

the next thirty minutes, it could be too late.

To call on the name of the Lord.

In the next thirty minutes, it could be too late

to receive the promise.

These people stated they had sinned.

They acknowledged they had missed up and missed their God

giving gold an opportunity. And they even got up early

and appeared to be bite, not to be to do

what God wanted them to do. But their disobedience and

rebellion had closed the door since the route, and they

appeared to wake up, but they woke up too late.

Even though they woke up early.

They appeared to understand their need, but they understood their

need too late, and they missed out. They passed the deadline.

They passed the deadline. Their eyes were on the materialistic

things of Canaan. Their eyes were a pine sweet victory.

Their ears wanted to hear sweet victory sound. Their mouth

wanted to taste the sweet milk and honey, but their

hearts were not right in the sight of God. Quickly

and simply stated.

No one.

No one wanted God to curse them. They all wanted

God to bless them. And I want to end with

this as these altars are filling up. King Saul, you

waited too late, didn't you. You waited too late to

really pray through. You waited too late to have godless sorrow.

You waited too late to repent. King Saul was begging

Samuel to pray with him, begging Samuel to go with him.

And Samuel said, God has rejected you from being king

over Israel. And he tried to force Samuel to pray,

and the Bible said and us. Samuel turned about to

go away. He laid hold upon his skirt of the mantle,

and he rented. Saul tore Samuel's mantle, and Samuel said,

unto him, the Lord hath rent the kingdom of Israel

from this day, and hath given it to a neighbor

of eye. And that is better than now. Somebody that

will do when God says due. Somebody that will go

when says God says God. Somebody that will pray when

God said pray. Mama, if you wait until ten o'clock

to pray when God told you at three am to pray,

don't be surprised when tragedy strikes at seven. The Lord

wasn't looking for someone who wanted to do things their

way whenever they wanted to do him saw like to

Israelites appeared to be broken, but it was too late.

While Samuel weft and cried and told Saul, sacrifice, sacrifice

isn't enough. The fat of rams isn't enough. You should

have obeyed, You should have hearkened. Moses told the Israelites,

don't go up now. God isn't in it. You advancing

upon the enemies, now do time. God's not in it.

It's a death sentence. It's not a promise. Samuel told Saul.

The kingdom is no longer yours, the anointing is no

longer yours. The opportunity is no longer yours. It belongs

to somebody else.

Now Church.

Without his presence, there is no promise victory without his presence,

there is no foolness of life.

Moses knew this all too well.

Moses said, if you do not go with me, God,

don't earing me up pence. If your prayers that says

not with me, don't send.

Me up pence. Amen.

Daven knew the importance of having the spirit of God

with him, and Second Samuel, chapter number five and verse

number twenty four, the Bible said, and let it be

when now here's the sound of a going in the

tops of the mulberry trees. That then thou shalt bestir

thyself right then, while the spirit of God is running.

Through the tops of the mulberry trees.

Bestir thyself right then, right now, in this moment, right

here and there, and you can smite the Philistines. It

doesn't matter if we feel outsized, out numbered, or overwhelmed.

We don't have to be overcome.

We can be victorious when God is in it, and

right now, in this moment, in this altar call, in

this service, God is in it again. I want to

give you the words of our new convert that's been

saved less than six months.

She said.

Last night, Pastor, I had a dream, and in that

dream I heard God say, we better get the Holy

Ghost while we can