Sermon
Jesus is on a mission, are you? - Bro Glenn Vollrath 6-2-2024
Publisher transcript
Transcript
-
A man the lords tonight. Yeah, okay, the Lord deserves our honor
-
tonight, man, he deserves our praise. He's worthy of praise. I
-
was thinking about his brother. Jeremy was honoring different ones and labored in the
-
church, and all were given honor to the pastor and his wife. And
-
all that was said here Lama says, to give honor where honor is view.
-
And the scripture comes to my mind brought Jeremy quote a portion of that.
-
But it was where Jesus looked at his disciples that day, and he
-
said, who the men say that I am? And they said, well,
-
some say elive, some jeremise, and uh one of the prophets.
-
And Jesus looked at those disciples, and he said, but who do you
-
say that. Peter spoke up and says, a manner was and he said,
-
now art the Christ the son that where Jesus said, blessing blood had
-
not revealed this unto you, but my father, which is in heaven.
-
He said, blessed arn't no simon for Jonathan, for flesh and blood did
-
not reveal this unto you, but my Father, which is in heaven.
-
He said, upon this flot I don't build my church and ans Hell's yall,
-
remember said Hell, God's building the church. Amen, God's building the
-
church. He said, my wife being with me, and I don't like
-
to go anywhere without a man to appreciate my wife of Sisterruth, did you
-
like to testify? Okay day about I don't know when I was about fourteen.
-
So saved my life, saved my soul. It's been a good journey
-
with him, and I was thinking so many times we might not see what's
-
ahead of us. But I promise you it's whatever is ahead. He's right
-
there to go with us the way I love him. I mean to make
-
Heaven my home and I make to see Jesus one day and I appreciate him
-
your breakfast. I'm really struggling with my voice. And so you know what
-
you never see, well a man or mountains, some family, unashas stop
-
car pastor right days we made wonderful being house of wars. We mean to
-
share a homecoming Sunday with you all. I take our hearts have been blessed
-
in a good day of the Lord, and just enjoyed the presence of the
-
Lord and all that he is doing for us, and I'd like to say
-
how much I appreciate all the hard work and on that good meal over the
-
heart. Did anybody ain't going there? Amen? If you go that meal,
-
say amen. God. I enjoyed the good meal. And y'all don't
-
know me that wall. But I've been in heavyweight for a long time.
-
Yeah, I've been in the three plus club. God, what that is?
-
Three hundred pounds plus? And uh, I even went over that one
-
time. But the Lord's help me, I've lost quite a bit of way
-
about the towns right now, thank God. Far which all did not help
-
my weight off strokes again. You know, I didn't have me, but
-
I sure didn't enjoy the meal. Everything was delicious. I told Marcus from
-
Marcus here on the journey we traveled together down here. I told him at
-
one of our meals, I said, you know, I don't know what
-
it is about me, I said, but you know I got one of
-
those. I didn't tell him this, but I've said it through the years
-
of going to come on happy, just bring it on, and uh,
-
when I start eating, there's a little something on the inside of the person
-
who's supposed to say fool in a certain pint. I don't think my works,
-
So I just eat as long as I see the food, you know,
-
just keep eating. I couldn't do that today, but it is really
-
good and clean, my brother, all of it, amen, so it
-
would be pretty good. Thank you for the good meal, Thank you for
-
the hospitality, for the alfering, Thank you for the nice place to stay.
-
I don't know if y'all get to see that, but it's an airby
-
m a right and a very nice place they have. The church here has
-
provided for us to stay. Thank you for that, and I appreciate it.
-
And we were sure glad. We were. Weiry so old when we
-
got here. It's a long way from here to Carolina, but we invite
-
you to come. It's no further there all that it was here. And
-
so it starts shooting the tenth, which will be a week from tomorrow night,
-
and one of your good friends you know, will be preaching, brother
-
Rady Asher and uh so we'd love for you to come. We have nice
-
services. Starts one night and we'll start having day services on Thursday. So
-
Thursday through Sunday will be a day service at Kenna Well twelve o'clock day service
-
and then ten'clock on a sudden, we take a little different schedule on Sunday,
-
so I canvite you come be with us if you let me know.
-
We want to have you Israel, and what cost you a night? So
-
we welcome you to come, love for you to come share with us and
-
can't leave him. Amen, just appreciate the privilege to be here tonight.
-
Pay the Lord will give us something from the word of God, a man.
-
The word of God is on lamp under our feet and wading to our
-
pam. Amen is forever settled in heaven. Thank God. I found with
-
glasses. I'm gonna have to make an apology for wearing those girly looking glasses
-
by a lofe Jesus. I am like you, brother, how well?
-
I have about twenty parent east at least, and they're scattered from about three
-
different offices that I use to my bedroom, took beside my chair and drawers
-
around the house and in automobiles, and I brought a two pair with me.
-
And this evening I told my wife I have lost so I said,
-
I have to use yours. I just have to make an apology for those
-
that you saved the night. Yeah you can, mile mother, does it
-
not too expensive online. That's the way I do it day Bibles. Tonight
-
we'll be reading again in the fifteenth chapter of the Book of Saint Luke,
-
and I'd like to share these scriptures with us tonight. See what the Lord
-
has for us. I'll tell you this morning I go away share these details.
-
But I had a message I had from I thought I had it for
-
about a week, and the morning service that the Lord changed my mind this
-
morning, just the little one for and having a preach on coming homes like
-
it's fad that somebody's heart. Chapter fifteen again, verse number one, thank
-
you for starting. Verse number one says, then drew near unto him all
-
the Republicans and sinners for to hear him, and the phariseeas inscribes murmured,
-
saying, this man receiveth sinners and edith with them, and his faith is
-
parable under them, saying, what man of you have one hundred sheep in
-
his what man of you having one hundred sheep? If he lose one of
-
them, do not leave the ninety and nine in the wilderness. Go after
-
that which is lost until he find it, and have found it, he
-
laid it on his shoulders rejoicing when he come and came and called it together
-
his friends and neighbors, saying unto them, rejoice with me, for I
-
have found my sheep which was lost. I say unto you that likewise joy
-
should be in heaven over one sinner that repenteth more than over ninety and nine,
-
just persons which need no repentance. You maybe see. I like to
-
title my message tonight, it's Jesus. It's on a mission, right are
-
you? Jesus is on a mission? Are you? Jesus came to this
-
earth. The Bible tells us that Joseph had a dream, and then this
-
dream and angels spoke to Joseph and said for him not to be careful to
-
take Mary, his his fauset wife, to be his wife, for this
-
child that she's carrying is from the lords, from the Holy Ghost. And
-
he said that you shall call his name Joseph Jesus excuse me, for he
-
shall save his people from their sins. So we see right there at the
-
very beginning, that the mission of Christ was to come to save them that
-
were lost. That was his vision. He never forgot his mission. He
-
come to give himself for the sacrifice of the whole world shed his blood that
-
we might be saved. Parliaments here on the earth. He reached for those
-
that was lost. He had a ministry that reached to the last. He
-
appealed to the lost. He went to great lens to reach the lost.
-
And I want to remind us here tonight that the Lord is still going to
-
great lynks to reach the lost. The mission, the ministry of Christ is
-
alive today as much as it ever has been. The work did he begin
-
while he was here on the earth is still going forward today. And Jesus
-
is still reaching for those that are lost. He's still reaching out to meaning
-
women that are in trouble, meeting women that are lost and a lone without
-
God. Jesus still is reaching to save them. It's the commission he gave
-
the church. When he gave us a great commission and said go into all
-
the parts of the world and preached the Gospel to every creature. He didn't
-
believe it and his baptized should be saved, and he didn't believe it not
-
should be down. So not only was it Jesus's commission or his mission on
-
the earth, it was the commission he left his disciples and to all those
-
who would all of for generations to come. Is to reach those rich are
-
laws. The great mission of Christ was to see those that were saved.
-
We see that in the life of Christ, his ministry continued over and over
-
and over, reaching to them that were unsaved. We see in my texture
-
in verse number one, that he drew under him all the publicans and the
-
sinners far to hear him. So they they were drawn to Jesus. Something
-
about this man drew him. Something about the words it Jesus offered, Something
-
about the things that the Lord had to say to them was a drawing to
-
them that were lost. They knew they needed something old. He told that
-
woman at the well, He said, if you knew who of us you
-
asked me, Frodrick of Wat, I'll give you a drink of water that
-
you'd never thrust again. Hane lo you. There was something about that man,
-
Jesus that drew them. They were lost. They would go to see
-
him, They would go to hear him. They were gathering great numbers in
-
great crowds to hear the words of Jesus. There were many others in the
-
crowds it would come to hear the words of Jesus, don't it were his
-
critics, the religious men of his day, that despised what he was doing.
-
They despised the great multitudes that wanted to follow him. They saw that
-
he was gaining ground among the people, granted, gaining influence among the people.
-
He was upstaging them. He was doing miracles they could not do.
-
He was preaching in a way that gained the attention of people that they were
-
not able to do His fate works like no other man ever spake Hallelujah.
-
He was a man that was reaching for them that were lost. His life
-
had fluenced them. The Bible says that they drew near unto him. They
-
were drawn to the Lord. And he said in verse number two, the
-
fancies and scrips bermer, saying, this man received sinners and edith with them.
-
You see what they how they were perceiving what the Lord was doing.
-
The Lord was reaching for those souls. The Lord was interested in those souls
-
that they found fault in him. They said, he's a man that edith
-
with sinners, received sinners and edith with them. He was a friend to
-
the sinner. Hallelujah. I'm telling you, Jesus said no God of love.
-
Had any man been yssed, but a man would lay down his life
-
for his friends. Gee was a friend to the sinner. He loved them
-
with a pure love. How they knew you, an unconditional love. Jesus
-
was a man who loved the senators. I'd like for us to look at
-
the life of Jesus and his approach and his attitude when it came to dealing
-
with them that was lost, and his mission to reach those that were lost.
-
Jesus was a man on a mission. Jesus was a man who went
-
out of his way to reach them. The Lord went out of his way
-
to reach them. You see here in my text in the parable that Jesus
-
gave them, he said, I'd leave the ninety and nine and then I'd
-
go search for the one that was lost. He would go out of his
-
way to them. He was interested in those that were lost. You remember
-
the time that he went to the and talked to the woman at the well
-
that I made reference to just a moment ago. The Bible says, I
-
must Jesus said, I must needs go through Samaria. He had to go
-
by Samaria. It was out of his way to travel that way. It
-
certainly would not have been the way that that most Jews would have went.
-
They would have tried to dark Samaria. But Jesus says, I gotta go
-
to Samaria. Why did Jesus say that he was interested in a woman He
-
was in trouble, Her life was wrecked in sin. Her life was in
-
trouble, and she was a reproach and a shame in her community. But
-
Jesus said, I must needs go by Samaria. How the n Jesus went
-
by Samaria. Yes, for the benefit of that war. He will go
-
out of his way to reach them mindal halls or how they do you think
-
about us, Savior that loves mankind so much and loves those that are lost
-
so much, He'll go out of his way to reach the hills. He'll
-
do the extra, He'll go the extra. Mah hallehuah. He'll do whatever
-
it takes to speak to their hearts. I'm telling you men, when you
-
and I don't know how to reach them, and when ye I don't know
-
how to speak to them, we don't know what to say to them,
-
and we don't know what method would work with them, Jesus does. He
-
knows how to work with them. He knows how to reach them, he
-
knows how to speak to them. I'll tell you he chears and he'll go
-
the extra mile to reach them. Kind of Jesus will go out of his
-
way to reach those that are lost. Jesus also, I want us to
-
know this concerning his interaction and his mission to reach them that are lost.
-
Jesus was willing to suffer ridicule and criticism is for the lost. Oh yeah,
-
let me take something any easy to do that. We all like to
-
be liked, restricted thought, well, love. We like for people to
-
love and appreciate us. We don't want to do anything to mar that.
-
We don't want to do anything that would cause people to look down on us.
-
Your name, your reputation's important. How do you you know some people
-
got this attitude and this adoption. Shit, I don't care what to think.
-
You know, as a Christian we are not to feel that way.
-
It don't matter what people think. It matters how you do and how you
-
live, and how you dress, and where you go and where you won't
-
go, what you say and what you don't say. Those states matter as
-
a Christian, be careful. They matter. But they're coming to time when
-
we have to step outside of that. We need bots a soul of a
-
mera wool, and Jesus was willing to do that. If you remember,
-
the Bible tells us over in Luke chapter number seven. It gives us an
-
account of one such time when Jesus was winning to be reproached for the sake
-
of a lost soul. The Bible tells us in verse number thirty six and
-
said in one of the Pharisees desired him that he would eat with him.
-
And he went into the pharisees house and sat down to me and behold a
-
woman in the city, which was a anxious woman, well respected person,
-
somebody that everybody loved, been appreciated in town. No, but her name
-
was a sinner. How they knew you didn't tell us much about her,
-
But I'll tell you what that means. Her life was simple, how they
-
knew you. She was not the respectable one that you ladies here tonight are.
-
She was a sinful woman. And she come to this dinner. She
-
shows up, and the Bible says, she's come and stood behind Jesus where
-
Jesus is at, now look what he says, And she stood at his
-
feet behind him. She was weeping, and then she began to watch his
-
feet with tears, and it wiped in with the hands of her head and
-
kissed his feet and annoying them with the orphan. Now look what happened.
-
Verse thirty nine says, Now with the Pharisee, which admitting him saw it,
-
he's faked within himself. He didn't say out loud, He just all
-
this hard. Oh, my goodness, my, if this man was frothed,
-
if this man suit he says he is. He didn't know what kind
-
of woman this he is. He didn't understand what kind of woman she is
-
and what her reputation is. Did get the idea of what she was doing,
-
what she's up to? Who geus? But Jesus knew a whole more
-
than Jesus is on a mission. I'm all about a mission that Jesus is
-
on, and it was to reach them. They were lost. He was
-
concerned about that soul. It didn't matter that her name was hard, It
-
didn't matter that she had cars all over her, It didn't matter how irreputable
-
her reputation was. It didn't matter about that. What mattered is she was
-
a soul, and Jesus saw the desire of her heart. He saw the
-
tears that were falling from her eyes. He saw the sincerity of this woman,
-
and she wept and cried in the presence of the Lord. He was
-
praying her. You know why she showed up at Fancy's house. You think
-
for one minute this woman would have went to this critic, the man that
-
walked in town, and when he saw her, he sneered, picked his
-
head up, looked the other way, and maybe even set out loud for
-
her benefit. Oh that's shameful. You think she's gonna show up at his
-
house for dinner. No, No, not for his benefit. Nor was
-
he came, Brother Howell, because Jesus was in the house. Hide Lucas,
-
you wanted to see. This man named Jesus had something about him that
-
prew her. She needed something in her life, and Jesus was willing to
-
be reproached for her benefit. He was willing to be ridiculed. He was
-
willing to be criticised for her benefit. Wherehere you go. I'm not suggesting
-
you go down to these night clubs and tyl witness everyone. I'm saying here,
-
folks, I'm telling you sometimes we have to do things how I knew
-
you they might not be what we've just wanted to do for the benefit of
-
reaching somebody that's lost My father in law. I don't know how many of
-
y'all knew him, but Brother President Singer, Brother Bill's Day or last year
-
he was. He was his reputation in our area. He is a friend
-
of the center where he pastored. Everybody need Brother pressure loved how they come
-
into church. Man he go back there and put a big crime to yeah,
-
I'll hope you and grab him around every there and say I'm gonna try
-
your part of your son. He had showed him. He loved them,
-
and centers all over would tell me after he and said, I'm telling you
-
you you were the brisket nights. You. This woman knew Jesus lived her.
-
She knew this man named Jesus didn't look at her the way to thus
-
he did. Jesus knew that the thoughts of Simon's heart the Pharisee, and
-
he said he got somewhat to see them. He said, say Lord,
-
and then he gave him the parable of those that hid one oh fifty pence
-
and one five hundred. I believe that was the number of anyway, one
-
old little bit one over one, and he said, the Lord just frankly
-
forgave both of them. Oh rid of God, that lord of mats,
-
you shower from home. He just forgave both of them. That's what he
-
didn't mean. He just forgot off with her. How they knew you where
-
to God? And I'm telling you it didn't matter where you come from,
-
which side of the tracts is raised on. It doesn't matter how your family
-
lived, and who your name is, and how much money you god,
-
how much you don't have, and how that the close quote. It doesn't
-
matter any of that. I'm telling you. When Jesus comes by a friend,
-
he loves the sin. Jesus not only was willing to be ridiculed for
-
their benefit. Jesus was a man that did not condemn the lords. You
-
know, sure, we know it. Jesus said John three seventeen. For
-
God sitting not his son into the world to condemn the world, but that
-
through him the world might be saved. How they who Jesus didn't come to
-
condemn them, but he'd come to save them. You remember the woman that
-
they drug up in the very active with all three. They drug her up
-
before the Lord. I'm telling you that had to be a horrible scene.
-
They dragged this woman up since she had been called in the end of adultry,
-
and they said, Lord, you know what the law says. Now
-
we want to know what you say about I'll tell you Jesus wouldn't He was
-
not excusing the sin of adultsy, No, of course not. I'll tell
-
you what Jesus was interested in. And he wasn't interested in tearing out judgment
-
on her, condemning her. He was interested in forgiving her. He was
-
interested and sending her free. And she don't and don't see it anymore.
-
You know the rest of that story. As one by one they all began
-
to lead from the eldest to the youngest, as Jesus wrote in The Dirt
-
Road in the Sand, and the Bible tells us that Jesus looked up and
-
her Jesus were called, and Jesus I said, woman wearing thine affusers?
-
And she said, Lord, I have none. He said, neither do
-
I condemn theelujah. Oh, Jesus didn't say Adultery's okay, No, that
-
wasn't what he said. He said, woman, I'm not condemning you.
-
I I want you to be saved. I ought you to yet right,
-
there's a better way to live in the way you live it. He said,
-
you go and sin no more. I got a better way for you
-
to live. High Thlujah. Jesus didn't come to condemn them. They're condemned
-
already. Friend. We ain't gotta highlight their sin, God or good.
-
After the Holy girls and they convicted and their sin, howey say't working the
-
Holy Ghost. The Lord wants us not to condemn them, but to reach
-
for him that they be saved. But not only has Jesus not condemned them,
-
their lost friend, he is willing to declare the truth to them.
-
Got ready to God. Jesus was willing to declare the truth to them.
-
You know, sometimes it ain't easy to tell people the truth. Sometimes it's
-
not easy to look people in the eyes and say this is what the word
-
of God says. It clearly brings condemnation to their life. He didn't come
-
to condemn them, but he came to give them the truth. How they
-
love you. You know what Jesus did. He shared the truth that rich
-
young Ruber came to Jesus. He come to him. Oh my, the
-
Bible tells us he had youth on his side, he had wealth in his
-
corner, he had a party in his corner. I'm telling you faith,
-
it was going pretty good for this man. And he ran to the Lord
-
and he said, good Master, what must I do to herit eternal life?
-
You remember what the Lord did? The Lord began to give him the
-
commandments. He gave him some of the commandments to him. He didn't quote
-
the whole kid commandments, but they were all important. He gave them the
-
commandments of God. And he said, well, oh Lord, I kept
-
these formid. If I'm good, he's feeling good bad him said, a
-
man, it's pretty good. I'm doing good on this test. Jesus looked
-
at him and said one thing that that is, Jesus knew that man's heart
-
and friend. He was willing to share the truth with him that he might
-
be saved. He knew that there was nothing that man loved any more than
-
his wealth. He knew that that wealth stood between him and God. He
-
knew that money was his heid. He knew that money was more important to
-
him than any else in the world. The Bible said, for he had
-
great wealth, and the Bible says that Jesus looked at him. He said,
-
hey, I'll tell you what you do. You sell all that you
-
got, give to the poor, take up your costs, and follow me.
-
And the Bible says that young man walked away. I can see him
-
in my mind as his head topped and he realized he hadn't done so well
-
on the test. I kept the commandments, but my heart is far from
-
God. My heart is wrapped up them in money. My heart is wrapped
-
up in well. My honey's wrapped. My heart is wrapped up in the
-
things that I held. Jesus said, no, away with that bad that's
-
your trouble. God knows where your troubles a friend, He knows what your
-
problems are. And God is many to share the truth with you. This
-
is the prophet looked that David when he felled God miserably. God was with
-
him. To be honest. The David pour his finger of David through the
-
prophet and say, thou art the man I love who your God. Friend.
-
You're not gonna go to Hell and be able to point your finger at
-
God and say you didn't tell me. No, you don't be able to
-
point your finger of God. And say you didn't share it with the Lord.
-
I didn't know no better. I didn't know. You will know because
-
he's gonna be honest with his for him, He's gonna tell you the truth.
-
Jesus was with him to share the truth with him that were not saved,
-
just as he did the rich young ruler. My friend Jesus is still
-
on the mission. I know who. He paid for our sins with his
-
own blood. He's fought us with the price of blood, and he is
-
willing to save to the uttermost. There's no sinner dol so far that he
-
can't save. There's nobody so low. It's in that the Lord's grace can't
-
reach thee. I'm telling you, he can pick him up, and he
-
can pull in my house. This aw mistaked shit. I was in a
-
horrible pit. The Lord delivered me out of that horrible pit. How the
-
knew you. It doesn't matter how far down the person he is. It
-
didn't matter how steak and seeing their life is Christ come to save him that
-
are lost. It was his mission, it was his purpose. How they
-
knew you. This was like Jane, this is what mattered to it.
-
Andy knew you. Oh, I'm telling you some people of God as Bethel
-
holding his church, as MacCall bill the cost of firemat guys hold his church
-
if he calls out to Lina. I'm telling you, wherever you're from here
-
tonight, it is a mission of the church. How they do you,
-
It's what really is supposed to do. We don't want to never lose our
-
gold. We don't want to never lose our mission to reach the loss.
-
Whatever the call, start away to reach some off for you do what it
-
takes to read them all. You didn't need to be rid of till Mothers
-
reads them ast whatever it takes, whatever it takes to reach them, You
-
do whatever it needs to reach them that are honest, be willing to share
-
the truthful them, how they be willing to be honest to them, Show
-
them love, show them to passion, show them that you care. Oh
-
would the God that I had that same spirit of Christ, that would draw
-
them that are best, Oh glory to God. I'm telling you, brother,
-
that ought to be of characteristics of the church for the saints, that
-
sinners are drawn to us and say, Hey, I want to get around
-
them people. They got something mind you, I want to be around the
-
people it should never be said about us. I don't want what to take
-
got I don't want what to think, but all the contrary, it ought
-
to be said about us. I'm luck to have what this is what I
-
do, this is what I'm desired, this is what I'm longing for.
-
This is ruth from the piano. We ought to be a magnet to them,
-
then horlessn't glory to God. I know we're living in in a day
-
like none other, unprecedented times, and we're seeing that media fall and by
-
the way being here being that a way and falks teaching false doctrine that you
-
don't. It's sometimes to sit hard eat find the Senate that would admit they're
-
lost. They you know, they just they claim so much religion, they
-
claim so much, and they're not't living for Christ. They don't have the
-
spirit of Christ in their life. They don't have the fruits of Christ in
-
their life. I'll tell your friend, there's somebody out there that's lost,
-
and they know they're lost. Some years ago, living right there in McCall,
-
South Carolina, I was living in Parsons at the time. It's in
-
a middle village. I don't know if y'all fami or what that is.
-
When it's old cotton meal village and the building up houses for the people that
-
worked in the meal years ago, and through the years they kind of got
-
run down old houses and it attracted low income people and people with a lot
-
of problems. Drugs and alcohol, prostitution, gambling, fighting, riding the
-
streets all hours of the night was commonplace. Still is loll down there.
-
Shoots killings out there at the church. I don't know how mean. He's
-
been shot killed, stabbed, fighting fighting. It was out there getting ready
-
for Easter service one Sunday, on one Saturday, getting ready for US Easter
-
Sunday. This is back when COVID and we were gonna have an outside service
-
and we're setting up the speakers, getting made ready. All of a sudden,
-
when somebody would go sta stream in the hall and called along, called
-
a lawn names. They had a fight, and the guy had a gun
-
print in his forehead where it had been pistol hip at the print of the
-
baron hand right there in his forehead, blood running out of his face.
-
He said, up there at the house right in behind the church. Not
-
too long after that, walking down the street right of beloved that a man
-
walks up, shoots two on the porch, kills one of them, the
-
other ones I'm permanently injured. There's a very handicapped life. Now. I
-
could just go story after the story. But one night, at about three
-
am in the morning, somebody's knocking on my door. I go to the
-
door and it's a fellow on human. His name was Ken, Ken Parker.
-
I opened the door. It wasn't the first time he visited my house
-
at Late Islands. I said, Ken, can I help you? He
-
said, I knew what he wanted. He wanted some money. He's bad
-
and didn't did the drugs. But he didn't have a nerved ash for my
-
brother Hound. So he just stood there and he said, H'm hungry.
-
Can you give me some deep my life? He cooked the good meal that
-
night. I said, just hold on me to Ken. I went in
-
the house, got stuff out of refrigerator, made him up a hot plate,
-
carried it out there and got him something to drink. Took it to
-
him. He stood there with sweat running out his face and ran down.
-
I remember well what he looked like. Mosquitoes just covered his face. I
-
give him that plate of food He stood there with tears in his eyes.
-
He said, Preacher, I wish I could be like you. I said,
-
can't You can't be. You know what the difference is? And and
-
me said grace of God. I said, if it were not for the
-
grace of God, I might be out here on the street. Did you
-
leave in the way you hit him? He said, I sure would like
-
to be. He said, will you pray with me? I prayed with
-
him. Ken didn't get delivered. He come back a few more times after
-
that. It wasn't too long till his parents called him one day, said,
-
brother Glenn hen died last night with an overdose. He'd been laying on
-
that couch r hoors with it under the influence of drugs, and said,
-
all of a sudden he stiffened up, rolled out on the floor. He
-
was gone. Said where you preach his funeral? I said, yes,
-
I preach his funeral. I preach his funeral. Brother. Did you know?
-
The community was up very stirred about Jen. But my horrible was broken,
-
and Jesus's hord was broken because his mission is to save him her the
-
host to reach them. I'm ministered in that family for years now, preached
-
another one of the ballastrenals. Seemed like it didn't matter what you've done.
-
He couldn't reach her brother, howe, but he reached his grandma. Brother.
-
That wasn't me, but the Lord preached his grandma. She's about ninety
-
years old. She wasn't saved. Her family called. He said, pastor,
-
will you come, mama's dying. I rushed to the hospital. Now
-
to the hospital. She lay there lifeless. They disconnected everything from her.
-
All they had on her was a little oxygen. To you, they've done
-
disconnected ivs. Theye took everything away from her. I can't I leave her
-
breath. She was breathing about four times a minute, just to gas.
-
Fifteen seconds, twenty seconds would go by. She'd do it again. Oh
-
she ain't gonna make it. I'd be standing there talking to that family,
-
and she'd move an arm or a hand or her leg a little bit.
-
Then say, preacher, talk to mama. She ain't saved. Maybe she
-
can hear you. Now. Nobody in the group say. I go to
-
her bedside, and I'd say, miss Parker, can you hear me?
-
Miss Parker? I talked with her, I pray with her. Finally,
-
after a while, I knew my ore bed and I said, Lord,
-
if you could just your mercy, don't let her die lost ninety years old.
-
I left that hospital and I told my wife, I said, why,
-
missus Parker probably won't make it through the day. She's breathing about four
-
times a minute. I went home. It's back in a phone call at
-
any moment. The evening goes by, at night goes by, no call.
-
Next morning, I was up right earthy. I called, I'm heading
-
to the hospital. I can't hardly believe I ain't got a phone call.
-
I wonder if she's already gone, and if he just didn't call me.
-
I got to the hospital about eight o'clock. Brother, how When I got
-
to the hospital, her daughter, Estra was walking out of the hospital.
-
I said, Estra, how's mama. She said, you ain't gonna believe
-
it. Brother, Glenna said, Mama setting up in the bed right now,
-
eating the sandwich. Oh. I said, you gotta be kid,
-
She said, no, she's doing fine. The doctor said she'd go home
-
today. So I went in the room and there she was. She waited
-
about a eighty pounds, little old beauty thing. She's sitting on top of
-
the men no rest behind her back. You're sitting up Indian style, had
-
a sandwich in her hand. I said, well, hello, Ms Parker,
-
how you doing? She said, I'm gonna do it fine. I
-
said, do you remember I was here yesterday? She said no, they
-
told me you were. I said, do you know you almost died yesterday?
-
She said, that's what they said it. I said, Miss Parker,
-
you need to be saved. She said, I know. She didn't
-
get saved that day, but she lived about a year. Brother said,
-
I saw her walking up down the street. After that. Did she come
-
to the House of God? And she prayed us when you get satisfied.
-
But one day we went by our house and visited with him, pray with
-
her, and she said the Lord his say or read of God, the
-
town I'm gonna call, didn't make it. Go be Rocius about it.
-
Nobody needed harder. I knew it that I perview it, and Miss Parker
-
knew it. Jesus is on a mission, friend, He's on a mission
-
to save your family, you're neighbors, your friends, the people of Lavelle,
-
Florida. It's on a mission. You think it's by Champs. His
-
church is here from the house share will be this the story of of what
-
a what an ordeal it was for him to get established here. Pretty amazing.
-
You think it's by Champs. No friend, God's on a mission to
-
save people in the bathroom, and he wants us to be on the same
-
mission reaching for those witches. H about it tonight three hundred year one of
-
those lost ship had to mind unsaved. I have seen Jesus is on a
-
mission. There's unrest reach with the lad saving m hm. He's on a
-
mission to bring you out. If you wish you got bucs it's lost lost
-
his arm save Jesus said, I'll believe the night and nine save to go
-
and see that the one that it's lost. Would you like to drain tonight?
-
Would you let's come together in your all the church read I cannot saved.
-
Why don't you come worry Jesus listen tonight he come to say them you're
-
lost, become to richem that are lost, become to rest in the first
-
care for the diet, have any want say? Won't say more? Said
-
sorry Jacks about us past sun side so speaking shame by it? Stop stop
-
you don't you say so? The day so the songs, star Stop s,
-
s mist sez Yeah,