Well, It's About Time - Pastor J. D. Howell 11-5-2025

And early this morning, about five forty five, I woke

up to the horrible sound of a grown man screaming.

He had no words to speak. He had nothing to

say because of the horror that he was experiencing, of

the horror that was before him. It was so frightful.

He had no words to speak. All he could do

was express himself through the most blood curdling scream you've

ever heard in your life. I jumped out of bed,

sat down on the bed. I began to reach from

my gun, and I started to charge out in my yard,

and the Holy Ghost prompted me to ask Sister Charity, Charity,

did you hear that? I said, And she rolled over

and she said, no, I didn't hear anything. And God

spoke to me and he said, it wasn't outside, nor

was it inside your house. I have showed you the

future of someone under your influence screaming in horror. And

I've asked the Lord all day long, God, would you

reveal that scream? And I've processed the times that I've

heard some of the men in this building crying to

the Lord, and the times of distress and hardship, or

even when they were just joyfully praising the Lord, and

I've tried to match the scream with a voice, and

some I've crossed off the list. But there's some here

in this building tonight, and some that have passed by

that have been under our influence that I wonder are

they the Man? And what I preach tonight will be

both to men and women, Boys and girls. I want

to ask you to turn to the book of Psalm

May I direct your attention to the ninetieth chapter. In

the twelfth verse, I want to preach a message the

Holy Ghost titled well it's about time again, a message

the Holy Ghost titled well it's about time. Brother Nathanielphesians,

chapter number five. We'll be reading verses number fifteen through seventeen. There, brother,

brother Jesse James, chapter number four and verse number fourteen.

How many of you remember the scriptures that it is

now high time that we awake out of sleep, For

now is our salvation nearer than when we first believed?

And I paraphrase there.

But I want to tell somebody here in this building tonight,

or someone under our influence, someone in our circle of influence,

that it's about time you get serious with God. Brother Nathanielphesians,

chapter number five, Verses number fifteen through seventeen. See then

that thyou walk circumspectfully, not as fools, but as wise

redeeming the times, because.

The days are evil. Wherefore be ye not unwise, but

understanding what the will of the Lord is.

Amen, how many of you know it's the will of

the Lord that you redeem the time? Brother Jesse James,

Chapter number four, verse number fourteen.

Brother, whereas ye know not what shall be on tomorrow,

For what is your life? It is even a vapor

that appearth for a little time, and then vanisheth away.

Amen.

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

chapter number ninety, verse number twelve. It says, so teach

us to number our days, that we may apply our

hearts unto wisdom. We pray, Heavenly Father, we thank you

for the opportunity to be in your house tonight. We

pray that you would anoint this thy people. Let them

hear what the spirit of God says to the church tonight. Lord,

help them to have an ear to hear what the

spirit of God says. Help us, Lord, as your servant,

to say the things you would have us to say

nothing more or less. I pray God that these sayings

we go below the shoulders, let them saturate the soul

and the spirit of men, women, boys and girls tonight

because I feel a great tremendous burden upon me tonight

to deliver what you would put upon my heart.

And I need your help.

I'm so desperate for your help, God, to reach this

person whom You've allowed me to hear the screams of

this person. I need you to help me tonight. Holy

Ghost in Jesus' name in the church said hey, man,

look at your neighbor and say, hey, neighbor, do.

You serve the Lord?

It's time to serve the Lord. Our text is found

in an Old Testament book of the Holy Bible. In

recent weeks, the Lord himself has directed our attention to

the Hebrew People's song book. Not only is the Book

of Psalm the Hebrew People's songbook, it is the believer's

song book. Every Christian, whether Jew or Gentile, holds this

precious book in their hands and treasures it very often.

This evening, the Holy Ghost has brought to our attention

this ninetieth chapter, and we are focusing upon the twelfth verse,

and Brother Nathaniel, most people in this building probably have

no idea as to who the author of this particular

chapter in the Hebrew song Book is. For those of

you that have put your minds towards a deeper understanding

of scripture, you know this to be a prayer of Moses.

The ninetieth chapter the Book of Psalm is a prayer

of Moses. Moses knew the Lord intimately. He had met

with him face to face in the tent of gathering.

He had special summits with the Lord. He held a

very important leadership role amongst the Hebrew people. In fact,

Brother Jesse brought it to our attention this past Sunday

morning that Moses was used by the Lord to lead

God's people out of slavery, and he spent about forty

years in the wilderness shaping the people of God to

help them be meet for the Master's use and to

help them to enter their promised land. We know, despite

their murmurings and complainings and gripings and grumblings and groanings

and moanings, this man was still the meekest man upon

the face of the earth that time. So we'll call

him the minister meet Moses. But also he was one

to mold and the shape people. And at times, because

of this process of molding, he displaysed his anger and

discussed with these people sinning against God. Again, at times

he displayed strong emotion and manifested his anger and discussed

with the people of God sinning against God. And the

Bible said, let them that Nameth, the name of the Lord,

depart from iniquity. This man, meet Moses, he had been

frustrated after spending time with the Lord. In one particular instance,

he was coming down from the mountain with a revival

spirit and a wonderful attitude of gratitude, and he looked

upon something that was frightful and disgusting, and Brother Nathaniel,

he realized that the people of God had chosen and

to worship a golden calf rather than spending that time

in prayer or seeking the Lord. Those people knew very

well that their leader, meet Moleses, had went into the

mountain to seek the Lord and to call upon the

Lord while he could be found, and to draw nigh

unto the Lord, while the presence of the Lord was near.

And even though they realized that their special somebody that

person that occupied a leadership rolled in their presence, was

doing everything he could do to seek the Lord and

hear from God in order to help them reach their

promised land. They are down there like a bunch of children,

being disorderly and unruly. And Brother Jesse, they're committing idolatry.

They're breaking the commandments before they even receive them. After

all of the things were on the table, the consensus

and the conclud usion of the Man of God and

the Godhead was this Man of God is the meekest

man upon the face of the earth. But it's time

for him to display strong emotion and anger against their sin.

How did this man manage to remain a meek man

and a model leader despite the actions of his followers,

because he spent much time in prayer for himself and

for those whom he loved. And can I tell you

that anybody that truly loves somebody will intercede as intercessor

on their behalf, and it will never be their desire

that somebody be destroyed. You will remember that the great

leader of the New Testament Church, one of the founding fathers,

the great Apostle Paul, said, my prayer for israel Is

that they.

All be saved.

Peter and James and John and other pillars of the

early Church felt the same way that mankind should be saved,

and they desired that everyone be saved. This man spent

countless hours praying for those under his watch? Does it

the thirty four chapter of the Book of Dude Rodemy

number the life span of Moses. Didn't the Bible say

that he was one hundred and twenty years old when

he died?

And you'll find that this meek leader.

Moses gave a farewell address before he died. Not only

did the leader Moses do that, other leaders of God people,

God's people did likewise, namely Joshua, the apostle Paul. A

lot of these men who gave farewell or final addresses

also gave their funeral plans. It has been said that

there is a song that people sing, probably on a

weekly basis in these United States of America, titled to

funeral Plans. I have heard that song sang many times,

and I've seen the presence of God bless God's people.

And in the lyrics of such a.

Song you hear the words of apparently a believer who

at some point in their alive considered the number of

their days, and they made.

Some funeral plans.

We know that the apostle Paul knew very well, through

the spirit of God and through common sense, that the

time of his departure was at hen The meek leader

Moses knew that the time of his departure was at hand,

and he gave a final address. His successor, the great

General and war Lord Joshua, knew when his days had

come to an end, that he needed to give a

final address to God people. And I want to tell

somebody in this building that the Holy Ghost let those

men know that their days were numbered, and their days

were few, and they made some plans before they made

their funeral plans, and before they gave their final address.

And for those that are faint of heart and spirit tonight,

I want to tell you that I am not at

all telling you that I'm about to die. I am

telling you that I heard the scream of a grown

man that literally sent me up and out of my

bed and sent me running to find out who was

in a time of trouble and who was in their

final moments of life. And it's about time that you

make some plans for your future. I'm not talking about

making some funeral plans. I'm not talking about having a

final address to give forth here after the service tonight.

But I'm asking you about your future. You will remember

the prophet spoke to Heza. Kyle was it, and the

prophet came in there and said, I'm telling you right now,

you better set your house in order, because you're gonna

die and you're not gonna live. I want to tell

somebody in this building tonight, or somebody in the circle

of our influence, that God has let me know that

your days are numbered, and that your days will be

few if you do.

Not turn your horse around.

Moses spent countless hours praying for himself and praying for others.

But God, let me know that.

Your selfish spirit has been taken notice by the record

keeper in heaven. And when you look in that thirty

fourth chapter of the Book of Deuterotomy, you see that

Moses's time was spent. After one hundred and twenty years,

he inhaled and exhaled for the last time.

He took his.

Last breath, and his spirit was gone, and he was

in the presence of the Lord. The Bible said concerning

Moses that he wasn't impotent, meaning he was not without strength. No,

he was not powerless, he wasn't weak in vision. Yet

he reached the end of his life. I want you

to know, you don't have to have cancer to be

near the end of your life. You don't have to

have organ failure or sepsis to be at the.

Very end of your life. One hundred and twenty years

is a long time to live.

He spent forty three thousand, eight hundred days on this earth.

Look at what he's set in our goal than text.

As he prayed in Psalm ninety and twelve, it said,

so teach us to number our days, that we may

apply our hearts under wisdom. Friend, Compared to eternity, forty

three thousand, eight hundred days is a short span of time.

I want to ask the.

Young people in here tonight and the elder folks to

a question.

Have you numbered your days?

What did the Bible say about the alloted time of

life for a person? Some of you do not know

where that scripture verse comes from. It comes from the

same chapter that you're looking in tonight, the ninetieth chapter

of the Book of Psalm.

It is in the prayer of Moses, who lived.

One hundred and twenty years, He said, in p. Ninety

and verse number ten, the days of our year our

three score years and ten. And if by reason of

strength they be four score years, yet is their strength

and labor and sorrow?

For it is soon cut off and we fly away.

So according to Moses, upon his careful observation of his

congregats or those that had been in his assembly, he

could say that I would say that there's twenty five thousand,

five hundred and fifty days a lot and for mankind,

or maybe there's twenty nine thousand or two and two

hundred days. And if for some reason they have a

strengthen you remember the Bible said that Moses was not

impetat or he was not powerless.

So this man was able to go beyond.

Seventy years, and to travel on beyond eighty years.

And this man lived a hundred and twenty years.

So you may have twenty five thousand, five hundred and

fifty days, or you may have twenty nine thousand, two

hundred days more or less. But compared to eternity, it

is nothing. The Lord's brother said in his writing in

James chapter number four and verse number four he said

to the believers, whereas ye know not what shall be

on tomorrow, For what is your life? And it is

even a vapor that appeared for a little time and

then vanish away. I did not consult with the authors

of commentaries, nor did I read any sermon books in

order to prepare for to not sermon. I just heard

from God early this morning, and God began to pour

into me the code.

Text and the text that we are using tonight.

As I pondered and considered the fourth chapter and the

fourth verse of the Lord's Brother's epistle bro the Road

cap I realized that the author of that book had

a special relationship with the Lord.

He's one of four of the Lord's brothers.

And he knew that the Lord of Glory himself, the

son of the Carpenter, had only lived a little over

thirty three years better Nathaniel. I don't know how long

his other siblings lived. But he had watched the lifestyle

and the ministry of Jesus, and it convinced him to

become a believer. And he continued until he became a

leader and an elder in the church. And sister how well,

one thing this man hell to is. I don't know

what tomorrow will bring, but the songwriter said, we do

know who holds tomorrow. And oh how he must have

grieved as he stood outside the tomb of He is

an older brother, you know. The Bible spoke of another James,

one that was interested in being the greatest in the kingdom.

In fact, most historians and have labeled him James and

the greater. You'll know who I'm talking about, John the

Beloved's brother. They were partners in their father's commercial fishing business,

and their mother was not afraid to approach Jesus and

to ask for one to be allowed to sit on

the ride and one to sit on the left. I'm

telling you, this particular brother of Jesus must have a

little bit about the brother of John, for they are

not one and the same. Every time you read the

name James in the Bible, it's not always talking about

the Lord's brother, nor is it always talking about John

the Beloved's brother.

You know what happened to John the Beloved's brother.

The Bible said that Herod Grippa, he was willing to

please the Jews, and he cut the life of that

pillar of the church James short.

Oh, come on now.

But those of you that know anything at all about

the Bible, you know that John, the brother of James was.

Permitted to live for a long time, but it.

Did not matter in James the Lord's Brother's eyes whether

you live for a little while or lived a long

tim And you don't know what tomorrow is gonna bring.

And I can tell that their sumber under our influence.

And that may not be a lot. But there are.

Some that better listen to what God said in this

erm in the night. I hope you started listening with

Sister Howell super to service up immediately she let us

in the old song and found in the Church of

God read back him.

No, the last mile of the way, I left my

suit coat.

Behind the night, I said God, I want to get

out among the people. I wanna be as much one

of them as I can be. I wanna run in

and amongst them and let them know. Somebody is in trouble,

somebody is in the last mile, somebody he was in

the final moments. And then Brother Joshua got up here

and said, I've had two close calls in the last

few days. I'm glad, I'm ready I'm asking you here tonight.

Are you ready?

You may be happy now, but that's got nothing had

all to do with that. James, the Greater an Apostle

was beheaded by Herod, by Herod Agrippa, And I'm sure

there were some that said, what sense did that make?

What in the world was God thinking when that happened?

We needed James, Oh, the children of Israel needed Moses.

And years later, when Joshua had scribbled at his funeral

plans and was given us final address, the church needed Joshua.

And the same thing with the Apostle Paul when he

is saying that Agabus, that supersensitive and spiritual man is

telling people when I go to a rom in the courtroom,

they're gonna bind me, I'm gonna be in prison and

I'm gonna lose my life. Apostle Paul lets them know

I already know about this. What about when the great

man Eliza was near the end of his life, the

sons of the prophets had an idea that something was

about to happen. Was it because of the way Elijah

had his face.

Set towards Jordan?

Was it because of the way Elijah looked into the horizon.

Was it because of the way Elisha followed Elijah that day,

Probably because Elijah had told Elisha, if you see me

be taken from you, if you see me be carried away,

then I will grant the request of a double portion

coming down upon you. I don't know what it was

that brought enlightenment and understanding to the sons of the

prophets that looked on. But they knew Elijah was gonna

leave that day. I said, they knew and Elijah was

gonna leave that day. And do y'all remember what Eliza

said when they tried to preach a sermon he had

already heard. He said, hold your peace. Oh come on,

I'm telling you right here tonight. If you're ready to

meet God and you got your eyes focused on something

beyond the finished line, you have no reason at all

to be anxious, and you have no reason at all

to be concerned that. I'm not talking to an Elijah

or an Eliza tonight.

I'm talking to a Gahesea.

You better lies what's going on, and you better realize the.

Time clock of your life.

Is about to take this last talk. Oh God, I

heard you scream. I heard you cry. What in the

world we are taking to get you to pray. We

needed that man. The Hebrew believers would have said of

the Apostle Paul, we needed his preaching, We needed his teaching.

We needed that one that would stand up for holiness

and righteousness and truth. We knew that one that would

draw a line in the sand would be willing to

run across the finish line and to finish his race. Oh,

come on, the Apostle Paul knew better than anybody about

the brevity of life. In their part of the world.

These people did not have the grass like we have

in Florida. In fact, the great Apostle Paul and some

of these people would have understood that in their particular

part of the world, the grass sprouts up home the morning,

and then, sister Howell, after it stood up and proved

itself to be grass, only a little while, is it

withered and cut down by evening all the brevity of life.

What should I do, then, Brother Jeremy, I sent she birden.

I understand that God is making it clear that I

better set them my house in order.

Well, let's see what Moses recommended.

If you go back to our gold in text him,

you will see that he was praying, and he said,

teach us to number our days. He's saying, you better

stop and think about the brevet of life, and you

better embrace the value of each and every day.

What he's saying to you, better treasure and the moments. Oh,

come on.

I feel like their summon in this building that do

not recognize it's only the goodness of God that keeps

us from being destroyed.

It's only by the mercies of God that.

Are renewed each morning. You oughta thank God for another day.

I said, you otta thank God that's you live to

see the sunrise of another day.

So teach us to value a day.

So teach us to consider what we're doing with our

time in that.

Twenty four hour period called a day.

I've heard elders in this church testify to people in

this building and say, I've lived through the night to

see another day. I've heard elders in this church say,

what's another Sunday? And it's another Wednesday. And I will

praise the Lord, but I will also praise him on Monday.

I will praise him on Tuesday. I will praise him

on Thursday, Friday, and Saturday. Because they know the value

of a day. I know what the value of a

day is. I realize that if Sister Howl and I

did not have a good day for whatever reason, perhaps

I had to preach a funeral service, or perhaps things

didn't go that day the way we thought they would go.

A new day represents another opportunity, another moment. There's some

of you in this building. You've been to bed with regrets.

During the night, you've struggled. We're releasing the regret. Oh,

come on now, you regret that you didn't do something

you should have done. And some of you did something

you didn't want to do with no intentions of doing it.

How come on, some of you, I'm gonna say it

against some of you did something you did not want

to do. You woke up with no intentions of doing it,

but you did it anyway, and during the night you

regret it that you did it. You know what that

sunrise represents. It represents an opportunity to redeem yourself.

It offers an opportunity of redemption.

A new morning, a new day, another opportunity. And I

want you to know tonight's message is a sunrise in

your life. It's one more sunrise before the last sunset?

Could this be your less sunrise? Could this be your awake?

God news? I said, God News, today, what's your last day?

And they won't be a new day. God knows if.

Your days have been expired, you may not live to

see another day.

You're not getting this.

I don't guess I've ever heard a grown man's cream

in a vision so loud that it would move me

to go outside in the sea. Who's dying in my driveway?

I'm telling you how I felt. I felt like a

lion had taken somebody by the neck, a panther had

taken somebody by the neck. And it wasn't so much

the horror of the situation of the pain. It was

the realization I will not be here tomorrow. It was

like a construction worker that have fallen on three or

four sticks of rebar that are in place, and realize

one of them hit the a order, and one of

them hit the intestines, and another one hit the neck

and sufvered the corotid artery. They would realize right then,

I will not live another day to hold my wife.

I will not live another day to rock my baby.

That's what I heard, and that's what brought me out

of bed, and that's what set me on the end

of my bed and get me dressed, and made me

look for a handgun to see what was going on

on the outside.

And God said, it ain't going on out there.

It'll be with somebody in their final moments are experiencing

when they go through that without me. I want to

tell you you can live like the people in this

world do every day if you walk to supposing there's

no tomorrow, supposing there's no eternity.

That I want you to know.

This hell to pay for living today without considering.

The value of the day.

Yesterday you may have said something that hurd a dear friend,

and today you felt an opportunity to bring healing to

that wound. The Bible offered counsel concerning what I'm preaching

on tonight. It said, letting not the sun go down

upon thy wrath. You know why that is because you

might die and never live.

To make it right. Oh, come on now.

I remember that morning that sister Howell received a phone

call from her mother that her dad was in critical condition.

He had went out that morning to tinker, as was

his custom and way. He had went out to that

bullshead to just busy, not to fritter away an entire day,

to make the best use out of the day, even

though he was somewhat limited do to a dehabilitating illness.

And Leverne went out there to check on him, and

she found him laying in the floor purple. She called

sister Howell. After the holy ghost had led us to

go back home. I said, Charity, I feel like I

need to go back inside. And so I got out

of the vehicle, walked back inside and looked and my

answer machine it was flashing and saying one new message,

one new message. In with Sister Charity in the vehicle

and our six kids in the back of that many van,

I hit play. They said, Charity, this is your mama.

Her daddy is down and it doesn't look good. He's purple.

I knew right then why God had sent me back

inside the house to check the answer machine, because we

would have spent.

All day long in tail not knowing her daddy had died.

Come on, now, are you listening the pastor how in

this building today? As we went to the lake the

regional hospital, and as we walked down the aisle, her

sister she came out, just begin to shake her head.

The words had to be spoken, and he had lived

this last day. It was his final day, and Sister

Charity began to cry again because they could not resuscitate him,

They could not revive him. There would not be another day.

He would not live another day. He would not live.

To see another sun rise.

I'm telling you you better not take that first morning

coffee for granted, you better not take that Bible before breakfast,

for granted.

You don't know when your last day will be.

So many people are crossing their fingers and their toes

and taking a chance that they'll always pastor that church.

They're taking a chance there'll always be that group of kids, Daddy.

They're taking a chance they'll always be that man's wife.

They're taking a chance that'll always be their pew. Brother, Jonathan,

I love you dearly. You married my only daughter, the

princess in my life, the princess of the Howels. Even

though you change your last name, praise the Lord. But

I want you to know you're not guaranteed that to

be Jonathan's pew, no more than I'm guaranteed for that

to be Jeremy's poolpit. Oh, y'all caught pastor's pool pit,

but that could change in a moment.

Or y'all with me, you'll.

Call that pastor's office, but that could change in one week.

My boss, I'm telling you. You call it your house,

and you call it your key. But that old holiness

woman used to stand up and shake her keys, and

she said, if God calls me through death, to hope,

he calls me through the raster in the sky, I'm gone.

You can have my car, you can have my house,

you can have her, whatever it is I've got her.

I won't want it and I won't need it. Somebody

said you'd never seen a hearse following no U haul

following a hearse, Brother Nathaniel, the men of the Bass family,

and Brother Howell, sister Charity's husband. We held our composure

as the best women went through a horrible time because

we had to. I had no choice but to be

strong the other day while your world rocked. I had

no choice and to grab you and hug you and say,

brother Justin, be still, be strong, don't have a heart attack.

And we were standing in there being strong, Sister Walker,

and he's dead. You know, you pick up one arm

and you turn loose of it because you forget he's dead,

and it falls. I watched my wife's brothers do that

a couple of times, and they would try to put

his hands on his abdomen, and they would put them there,

brother would and they would fall. Rigamortis had set in yet,

and that was a horrible thing to watch them trying

to hold their daddy's hands into position until rigamortis set in,

Brother Jeremiah. Then finally God spoke to me, and he said,

put your hand on her baby brother's shoulder. And I

did without saying a word, and immediately he broke and

he wept, and he cried the same way Joseph wept

and cried over his brothers. Her baby brother beginning to

show strong emotion. It was on display for nurses and

sir that tried to resuscitate him. I didn't know why

God had told me put your hand on his shoulder.

He was needing to vent, he was needing to express.

And you know what he said. He looked at me

and said words, I will never forget. He said, I

should have told him I loved him. I said, you

told him thousands of times, he said, But the one time,

it mattered.

I didn't tell him. He said.

I was over at his house yesterday evening and he said,

I got done helping him with something up, and he said,

my daddy said, Shaner, I love you, and he said

I will, so he is. He and I needed to

go somewhere. I got in the car and I forgot

to say I love you too.

He said. I told about it as I drove down

the road.

And now I give anything if he come back and

let me tell him I love you, it'd be okay.

If I could have just told him what I wanted

to tell him. I said, he knew you loved him.

He said, yeah, but I should.

Have told them.

And there's gonna be a lot of holin us preachers.

You should have told them what they saith, the word

of God. If you love them, you'll tell them. Apostle

Paul told him. Moses told him, Joshua, what told him

my God in heaven.

To commit that die.

So many people are frittering away an entire day. So

many people are wasting there are allotted time on things

that are meaningless. Really, many people are wasting their god

given time on things that are meaningless. Let me tell

you some of them that your youth pastor hit this

past Friday night, and I was shocked that he had

to hit him at to betha hole in his church.

Online video gaming, online video gaming. I wonder how many

people are losing an opportunity for a precious memory because

they're so busy video gaming.

What about social media surfing?

I wonder how many countless hours which equate to numerous

days that have been wasted on somebody's surfing social media.

If a doctor had a told you you had two

weeks left, what would you do with that time? If

a doctor had a told you before you came here

to night, you've got two weeks left, what would you

do with your time?

On? Come on now?

But you don't even know if you've got two weeks left.

You may have two days, Oh, you may have two hours. Oh.

I feel a lot preaching up to you. It don't

matter what the doctor said, what Moses said, then, what

Jesus said, is you better redeem the time?

My God, we ain't got time for there to be enviians.

Disputings, murmurings, fussings and fightings. One of the things I've

taught the Howoll family, sister Tracy is, we ain't got

time for that because we don't want any regrets. And

as far as I can tell, sister Tracy and brother

Danny have come into the Howell family and they have

not brought that kind of stuff into our family. But

you know what, there's a lot of churches. They are

full of envying, disputings, disharmonies, discords, things that God hates.

They can't even get a lot. And then at the

funeral they bake a castlerole and they bake a loaf

of bread and act like they cared. Oh, come on, now,

you bring me the flowers on this side of life.

I said, you bring me the fowers and appreciation cards

on this.

Side of life.

Amen.

They pretend like they love that brother, They pretend they

love that sister. Your castle role ain't worth nothing. If

you didn't see that little sister that was struggling, pray

in the altar and feel lad to pray for your

castle role don't mean nothing. If you saw that bomb

over there on the street and you were so business

surface social media that you forgot that. They say, Jesus cares,

Jesus cares Jesus.

Come on now, I'm telling you there's some of you.

You might shape up if the doctor told you you

had four weeks to live. But I'm not so sure

about that. I believe some of you have wait till

you had four days. Oh, come on, now, the peril

and procrastination. What about them preachers? And then people that

knew they better relocate, They knew they better change their situation.

They knew they better move to an anointed atmosphere, but

they chose to do otherwise. And now they've lost their wife,

and now they've lost their children. They tell me that

divorce is worse than death. There's some of me, and

he would have done what God told him to do.

They wouldn't have felt something. Eh, that's worse their death.

Amen redeeming the time, because the days are evil. The

apostle Paul wrote in his epistle epheasents five and sixteen.

Our golden text said teach us to number our days,

that we may apply our hearts unto wisdom. It's a

lack of wisdom not to pray in the altar. It's

a lack of wisdom not to go to church. I

know we have things that come up. I know we

get sick and we can't make it. But it is

a lack of wisdom not to redeem the time. Why,

because we live in an evil time, in perilous days.

I'm feeling glad to tell someone your one breath away

from eternity. The death Angel is just one step behind.

I'm preaching on a message the Holy Ghost titled well

it's about time. You ever heard some mom or dad

speak concerning their child and say, well, it's about time

that they learn to take some responsibility under themselves. Around here,

you ever heard a pastor of first later and the

elder say, well, it was about time that they quit

Dilley dill in with Delilah. It was a about time

that they stopped looking at the limelight of the world.

It was about time that prodigal son got out of

the hog pen. Oh, come on, now, it was about

time they learned how to worship to Lord. You heard

brother Philip say that a couple of years ago. I

literally set him in the hot seat and I asked him,

brother Philip, when are you gonna use that singing talent

unto God?

When are you gonna use that singing talent unto God?

And be a blessing to your wife and your daughter

and your church family, he said. Ever since Pastor pointed

that out to me, I've been singing with all of

my strength. Oh when are you going to praise the Lord?

Oh? Come on?

Recently I talked about things being done decently and in order.

Oh come on.

Some of you are so worried about somebody getting out

of order and somebody getting out of line.

I'm gonna tell you what's worse. There's somebody running around

the church too many times. It's somebody trying to.

Stay in order so much that they never move out

of their pew. It's time to worship the Lord. Now,

it's time to praise the Lord. So many people are

talking about this and that having wildfire is no worse

than having no fire. What you need is the fire.

Having a loud voice, this too, loud, is no worse

than having no voice.

What you need is a voice.

And you don't know if you're gonna have tomorrow for

your child to say, I heard my mama pray. You

don't know if you're gonna have the next service for

a child to say. I remember my mother who running

around singing the high praises of God in his house.

We put off for tomorrow. Things that should be done today.

Now is the appointed time. Now is the day of

salvation from whatever it.

Is that bullies you sin.

Now's this opportunity for salvation from shyness, backwardness, bashfulness. Oh

come on now you can point the finger at wildfire.

Oh you want too, but no fire. It's just as horrible.

I'm feeling lad to tell somebody you're one step away

from eternity. Wasting time is unwise. Be careful how you live.

You aren't getting any younger. You're running out of time.

These are perilous times. Fossil Peter said, save you sell

from the untoward generation, preserve yourself from the perverted generation.

It's true people waste years, but brother Wood, they also

waste days. They waste moments of time. That's something you

won't ever get back. I feel like saying it again.

That's something you'll never get back. Last night, sister how

went on some US time with me. Me and sister

Hall had a some US time. I'm telling you what

we've been living to dream. We went to pictures on

Sunday afternoon. We went to pictures on Monday afternoon. We

went out back on Tuesday. Because you people have been

so good to us. We're living on gift cards, living

on plastic steak crab as well, because you people are

so good to us. I have a stack of gift

cards three and a quarter inches deep because you people

are so good to us. And then one of y'all,

for some reason, decided to give us a cold Stone

Creamery card. And you know who you are. If you're guilty,

raise your hand, raise your hand. One of you gave

us a cold Stone card. There it is, Brother Samuel.

How God knows what you need, when you need it,

He'll see to it you get it. And we're walking

around the entire perimeter of the Golf Coast Town Center

getting exercise. And I took a short cut just for

a minute, and I said, right, there's Coldstone Creamery.

We had walked, I'm telling you about four thousand steps.

And sister, how we went in there and got that

ice cream because we knew were gonna walk them calories off.

We're not gonna fretterate an entire day. We're gonna do something.

I'm talking to somebody. You better get up, you better

get some exercise, You better be good to somebody. You

better enjoy that spouse while you have them. You better

enjoy them children while you have them. And brother Nathaniel

right there at the Gulf Coast Town Center at the mall,

there's a green area like you and I hung out

in in Chicago, in the Illinois between meetings, and there

it is, and there's all sorts of kids in there playing,

and there's parents with their children and brother there's some

on their cell phone, you could tell thumbing through social

media or the news. But there was one mama out

there playing catch with her son. There was another guy

over there kicking a ball with his and there was

some women pushing their children in the swing set. Now

this was probably when God began to deal with me

about this. And I looked at Sister Howell and I said, honey,

it ain't been that long ago that we had six

of them out there ourselves. And she teared up and

her lip went to quivering, and she said, it just

seemed like it was just yesterday. And that's what I

want to tell you. You could ask Sister Wooting tonight.

It seemed like it was just yesterday. She was giving

Jean's hand an extra squeeze.

Oh come home, Now I'm preaching to you here tonight.

I'm telling you you better put a value on each

and every day, and you better make the most of it.

You better make a the best of it. Amen. It's

just Sunday. It's just that special day, you know.

We go to church and I just get the kids

dressed and they look so cute, and I take a picture.

The kids ain't gonna remember you taking a selfie or

a snapshot, but they will remember you praying and singing

them kids out there in the greenway. They ain't gonna

remember the Stone Cold Creamery. They ain't gonna remember the

new Japanese steakhouse that I plan to try out next week.

They ain't gonna remember exactly what was in the playground.

They're not gonna remember what the playground equipment was. But

what they are gonna remember his daddy giving them that swing.

They asked for that extra push. Give me one more swing,

Give me one more push.

Dad.

What they are gonna remember is that Mama, that little

boy was no Major League Baseball starr in the making.

I'm athletic, or I was athletic. I played sports all

my life, from the time I was five years old

until God saved me and I looked and I said,

that ain't no rolling Nolan Ryan right there in the making.

He was dopey, he was clumsy, He missed several balls

as Mama threw, but she smiled real big and Sister

hen in his mind he was a superstar. And the

way he stood there, Sister Hill, all because somebody took

time for him. And I see people nowadays, they ain't

got time for other people. You better make time before

time runs out. That's my burden. You better make time.

There's one thing, Sister how and I never go to

bed with, and that's the regret of spending time with

our kids. I ain't lost one second sleep over wondering.

Even in the middle of ministry and great sacrifice, there

were times I said I'm going to the park today.

And on top of that, these are perilous times. There's

some of you. The reason why your children are rebellious

and you know it to be true, and you better

be careful because it could happen again, is because you

never ask them what would you like to do today?

Mine are evan on thirty years of age now, and

I still ask them sometimes, how does a pelican snowball

sound to?

You?

Say?

It sounds great.

Dad, as a pastor, I'm pulled in so many directions tonight,

but let me steer it back on course. When the

death angel puts in his sickle and he curves that

blade and rips your stalk in half, it'll be too late.

Where the tree falls, there it lies. And that's what

I heard, Brother Jesse, was the screams of a grown

man that realized I waited too late to pray. Friend,

when that day comes, you've waited too late to get

the moment to pray back. Phesians five and fifteen says

walk circumspectively, not as fools. But why is the next

verse was our co text redeeming the time because the

days are evil? Then the next verse, Brother Nathaniel basically says,

you better determine God's will.

Every day.

It's precious. It's a gift from the Lord. Where has

time gone? Sister Wooting? I have a picture proven that

Jean was once my member, but I don't have his

person to prove he remains my member. And Isaiah thirty eight,

verse number one, the son of Amos, the mighty prophet

of God, Isaiah.

Walked in.

And he told a king and I'm not telling the

king anything tonight. I'm telling a commenter like myself. But

he told a king set your house in order. Years ago.

I heard this. I looked it up today. It goes

like this. Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is a mystery. Today

is a gift. That is why it's called a present.

Should I say that again? Yesterday is history, Tomorrow is

a mystery. Today is a gift. That is why it's

called the present. I'm preaching on, Well, it's about time

you take your wife by the hand again. It's about

time you show her you love her. It's about time

you buy her flowers. It's about time you tell that

child I love you. It's about time. How about that

relationship with Christ? How's that going? How are things between

you and Jesus? How are things between you two right now?

Have you had time for him? You better make some

funeral plans. You better prepare that final address. Moses had to,

Joshua had to, Paul had to Jeremy. How one day

stand up here and the members of Bethel will realize

he ain't talking to somebody else, He's talking to himself.

And brother Jesse. Should I die, Tomar? You know what

every person in this church. You'll say he was preaching

to himself, and you know what, Thank God I was.

Let's stand you the thought that are into the altar.

By now, I heard a preacher who meant well recently

say he said, I don't want to embarrass anybody, so

we're going to have a general altar call. I thought, Man,

that ain't the way we've done it for years. When

the night I got saved, I'm glad somebody gave me

an opportunity to be embarrassed. I'm glad somebody believed I

was sick and tired of living in sin. And Second Timothy,

chapter number four, Paul let Timothy know I'm ready and

the time of my departure is at hand.

I'm ready to be offered.

And then, if I could paraphrase, he said, if you

look at my knuckles, I didn't beat the air.

I fought a good fight.

If you look at my kneecaps, I didn't wear knee pads.

They're calloused in their skin because when I got up,

I got up a cup running. Dad, do you really

feel like checking out what's going on in them? Holding

his churches at their backsliding on their social media page

you're forgetting to listen to the coup.

Of the baby.

You're forgetting to listen, say the guy, Guy, good guy.

Sister Charity and I felt led to go see her

mother just a few weeks ago. Little didn't we know

she would stumble in publics and fracture her shoulder and

call us and say, I know Bethe will be having

church in the morning.

Would y'all pray for me? Well? We did.

Sunday we had a healing service, and on Tuesday I

got to text she said, I went to the doctor

and miraculously I don't need surgery. I'm glad we took

some time to pray. The Holy Ghost is drawing right now.

You're not waiting on me. We've been in this long

enough to know we're waiting on you. It's about time.

It's about time, brother Jesse. It's about time they put

away the childish things and do what men and women

do and build an altar. There's some people under the

sound of my voice, you don't know what tomorrow holds.

I'm even going to give our musicians a break tonight,

to give every person an opportunity to humble themselves and pray.

You better tell them why you've got a voice to do,

so you better show them while you can. Moses showed

his people how to do it. You want to talk

about wisdom, he said. Wisdom is numbering your days and

knowing you may be out of time to tell them.

You know why we tell people the truth because this

may be my last message. And if I die tomorrow

and not having told him the truth on holiness, I

will have lived my life never telling them. You need

to consider your days. The grass springs up, it sprouts,

and then in a short time it withers away.

What is life but a vapor. It's just a whisk

of air, a vapor.

Somebody needs to release the regret and pray and ask

the Lord to help you. It's a new beginning for you.

It's a new opportunity. It's a new day. Go and

sin no more, Go and sin no more.

Even Hazeki.

Walked away from distraction, turned his face to the wall,

and he prayed, and God helped him. And God helped him,

and he received more time because he humbled himself and prayed.

That's what we need to do right now, is humble

ourself and pray.