To Close To Quit - Bro Jonathan Larimore 1-29-2025

God as this worshiping for a moment. Amen. And he's

so worthy to be worshiped, Church, And he's so worthy

to be worshiped. I don't know about you, but I'm

so thankful Amen for a God Amen that comes by

and helps a man. I'm so thankful for a Lord

and a savior he Man. We're so glad to be

in the house of God tonight. Amen.

It's an honor and a privilege one more time to

be able to stand Amen, and to preach the word

of God.

Don't take it lightly, amen, I do not take this

likely Church. Amen.

This is something that God he Man laid upon our

heart he man, many many many years ago.

Amen. I don't know about some.

Of these other preachers, Amen, but I run from it

for quite some time.

Amen. But there became a time, Amen, I had to

answer a call. How many knows that you ignore daddy

long enough, you'll come get you.

Come on now, heman.

I ignored my dad sometimes, and that's thing. And oh

he come through that door and he said, Son, I've

been calling for you.

Where you at?

Here?

Am Lord? Here am, That's what I have to say

here am Lord. Amen. But I'm so thankful it's good

to be here.

Yes, I called the fault. We talked to Pastor earlier

today they called the fault as well. We miss them,

he ma'am. But I'm telling you now, I appreciate the

man of God. Appreciate the first lady.

Amen. I know they're having themselves a good time. They

deserve it, hey ma'am.

But here in the House of God, I come the

message on my heart. Amen, I spraying early this morning,

seek in the face of God. What's going to go

a different direction? But the Lord just kind of turned

it just.

A little hen, Amen.

So I just want to hold by God.

Ay man, if you have your out if I'm wanna

read a couple of different places real quickly, heymen, I'll

try to tie this together the best I can. Hey man,

But if you have your Bibles, let's go to Philippians

chapter number three.

Philippians chapter number three. Amen, pray forths tonight.

We give your prayers, ay man, hamen won't reb the God.

Philippians chapter number three.

If you dare say, heymen, aymen, let's go to verse

number thirteen. The Bible reads as his brethren, I count

not myself to have apprehended, but this one thing I

do forgetting those things which are behind, and reaching forth

to those things which are before.

I press toward the mark for the prize of the

high calling of God in Christ, Jesus.

I want to emphasize on verse number fourteen, I pressed

toward the mark for the prist for the high calling

of God in Christ, Jesus. Hey man, if you have

your bible's going over to Lut's Gospel Lut's Gospel, chapter

number nine.

Lut's Gospel, chapter number nine.

Hey man, appreciate you this night for being in the

house of God being faithful.

Amen.

Saint Lude's Gospel nine and verse number sixty two reads

like this, and Jesus said, unto him, no man, having

put his hand to the plower and looking back, is

fit for the Kingdom of God.

Hey man, thank you for standing for the reading of

the Word of God. Heymen.

I'm begin to pray this afternoon as well. But this

morning early as I got up and I got out

of the house, there, Amen, I begin to walk around,

they got a little slow.

Right back there behind that place was staying. Amen.

And I'm so thankful for that. How I think your

church and the pastor for that Amen. But as I

was walking up and down through there, I seeking the

face of God, praying this morning, God begin to lay

something upon my heart.

Church. Amen, And I concious to encourage you here tonight,

just to just lift you up.

If I could hagen to tell you a church, you've come.

Too far, amen, to turn back. Came in. You're too

close to the end. Amen. And God made us on

my heart. You're too close to quit.

Amen.

You're too close, amen to quit.

What are you saying?

For the lairdlord, I'm saying here as a stricture told us.

I'm there.

In Philippians, chapter number three, he told us there in

verse thirteen, he said.

I've counted myself to not I had to have ended.

But he's said, but this one thing I knew. He said,

I'm forgetting those things which hard behind.

Church.

I don't know about you, but each and every one

of us for the stair.

Now.

I think we have a past. Amen, I've got a past.

You have a past. But right now we're living now,

gonna have depressing time, and right now I'm come. If

this pressing hour I to encourage each and every one

of us had a sitting here this afternoon or tonight

here you're too close to the end for you to

let the enemy.

I get where you're at and turn you around.

And get your mind for this. I want something else,

I'm telling you, Church, we got to press right.

We gotta keep going on. I said, Lord, speak to me,

give me something that.

I can tell the individuals that are here and call

beginning to just preck my heart.

Church, Amen, begin to talk to me little being. Amen.

I don't know about you. He remember at this beginning

of the year, I've turned around. Am.

I'm started myself for rereading the Bible again.

Amen, I'm started from the very beginning.

Amen.

And I've got up to this place.

I hang in and talk.

Reminded me, Amen, this I was tired praying and seeking

the face of God. I talked, bron somebody to my

mind to tell you and.

To incourage you. And it's this tire.

And then we begin to read in the fourteenth chapter

of the Bible, talk about Moses.

Amen was leaving the children of Israel.

And then there was in bondage for over paul hundred

some years, a pore hingan thirty years. And there he said,

I talked, told me, tell payroll, it's time to lead

other people.

Go help me preach on the gos ameen.

But I come to tell somebody here in the house

of God and those individuals that was there.

She began to read the fourteenth chapter.

I mention this here. You see, I what they kind

of a pickle, if you say, and then they kind

of the place. They said, it would have been better

if we didn't just been back there, honest, Amen. So

I begin to read there came to seek the face

of God talked about where the Bible said that God

went before them in the thirteenth chapter Card went before

them by day I with the pillar of a cloud,

and he let them Amen, in that pillar of.

Cloud was there, How didn't give him protection?

There?

He remember, I can tell you one thing, church, Amen.

Those individuals that was there, Amen, they had it made.

They did not realize amember church. When they went out

of each of their of the Bible said they went out,

ha been with raised hands. I'm coming to tell your

church it's time we get back out of the word.

How you and I can say, I thank God, I'm free.

And listen that son says, I'm my testimony A two

thirty five.

He said, the son is set you free.

You're free.

Indeed, I've been set free. It's said there. It seem

like a praird in prison the well.

I'm no freedom. Crom my sorrow. I fell now. My

Jesus came and he listened to me, taught me to

talk church.

He set me free.

I've come to tell somebody.

It's time once again I for you and Ether, and

they get excited, and I'm being saved.

And on the rate of heaven, it's a time for us.

I lived up a name, ex giving up.

I feel the Holy ghost Pharaoh's heart was harden.

Went after him.

He chose its chosen charities and pursued after them, and

he can't there where they was. At all of a sudden,

the Bible says Moses said, unto the people.

Fear not stand still.

See the salvation of the Lord which he was shown

to you today. For the Egyptians whom he have seen today,

ye shall see them again no more.

Why because it's said for.

The Lord, I shall fight for you, and ye shall

hold your peace.

I come to tell somebody, and by House of God,

one more time.

We got it caught in heaven and in the standing there.

And then he said father, just kive me the word.

My children down there, he's a hauling eye for help.

I come to encourage you.

I cry to God.

I cried to God.

The poppo said, I ain't said. I heard after affliction.

I heard their pondage. And now I'm ship Moses.

I took a niver. I come to tell you.

The angels of heaven. I'm here to mind. I come, minister,

I tell you what every loving need. I come to

encourage you. You time to get to the place you say, Lord,

I come too far.

I can't come back that Kirty said, with the man

puts his hand to the planel. Even focus on this

word looking.

Ever, once in while, it's good to look where you

came from.

But when you're constantly looking right track down the road, joy,

don't tell them to do it.

Some people might try. Let's back up, thank you, Holy ghost.

But I'm telling you, if you drive down the coat

and you're constantly looking back, you can't see where you're going.

Come on, now, I don't care.

If you've got a rear view mirror and you're looking

at that and you're physically not looking backwards.

You still cannot.

I don't care if you got the best parifical view

that you ever had.

I promise you there's gonna be a time of like

you're gonna have a red cap.

There's gonna be something that turns out even gonna cut quick.

I'm on, Holy, go something, Hey man, I'm telling talking

to somebody every nine and then there's something.

Then if we're not careful about turn time, what can

a sight try? N can your mind focused.

On other things? I've come to encourage you to mind.

And then we're too close to the end for us to.

Get sight tried. I we're too close to the end.

I didn't got to get our minds focused on this.

Upon that, I try to look up your work, I've

gotta look wherever. Get your drawn. Now it comes from

the Lord.

He said, I come to.

Give your life and give you more.

Mother.

But he said, if you're looking back, you ain't fit.

Church.

I'm gonna tell you how.

Long to be fit for the Master's us, How to

be at the place where God can talk to me.

Children of Israel, a man leave it. Egypt had their

hands raised until it came to the Red Sea, and

the armies of Faint Roe caught them. They begin to say,

we should have stayed and slaves to them. Instead, Moses

us out here to the wilderness to die. Ah, but

Moss he told them, Amen, he said stand steel, he said, just.

Hear my words. He't listen here, just Johnny lermore.

Maybe this is what he said, heman, the Bible said,

he told him this, stand steel.

In other words, he's saying, we come too far to

quit right now.

God delivered the him how the Boonda church, heymn. Do

you remember how baund you was in sinn hemen? You

may not have been as found as soul rest. Hey man,

but I remember, Hey, listen, I'm fifty six years on,

be fifty seven coming up.

He remember?

You know what, Amen, I was raised holding us her

hell all my life. I've been raised in church from

the day I was released from the hospital that prairie

not Mama had me in a tent service and I

was under the seat there. I raised up watching the

holy rollers, which we got too many of them now Amen,

because of pride.

Amen, they won't roll in the Florida.

Amen.

Ah, come on, holy goss Amen, and I come on church.

He remember, and I'll tell you I rolled up.

And grown up like that.

He remember, and I'll tell you one thing.

I was lost. This loss to me, I got myself out.

I ain't got in taken with the things of this world.

Hevin.

There was one day the Savior came by and singor

con to hell. If you don't repent, I'm man to

find myself. I'm off to a prayer and power up

on my knees and say, lo, now I'm sorry for

my sin. You know what happened, Church, He came in

forgetting those things which are behind. I had to start

pressing because I'm telling you there is.

A prize in the wakes me. I don't know about you,

but he said, listen, We're going to a police milk

and honey. Listen. I don't know about you. I'm telling you, y'all. Yeah, yeah,

I'm just going you give me some honey. Shop on

a piece of toast with some butter. Smip my brain.

I'm telling you, hey man, a glass of milk cut,

hey man, I'm set ready, Hey man, it sounds real good.

But Church, can I tell you one thing.

We are going to a city whose building maker's god

man worked. Eyes have not seen, my hears have not heard,

neither has it entered into the.

Heart of Man.

I'm wanna witch us on the other side.

I'm telling your church just like Joshua ay Man I

said over there, and he said, oh we can take it, sing, oh.

Get your head siding church.

I don't know about y'all.

I'm having a good time. Amen. There ain't nothing like

the press of God. I can tell you.

The enemy would love nothing better to do than to

get you to be like the children of Israel and

say it.

Would have been better off.

You know when Moses came to him there at the beginning,

they said, leave us on. Come on, study that they.

Did we not tell you before? Leave us alone?

Huh, come on down.

Some people don't want to hear the truth. Some people

will come into the house of God and the man

of God or a ministry of God tell him you're

on your way to hal But here's.

An escape rout that you need to follow after. And

they much redder sit there. Be Holy got some good

in trouble, Amen. They much rather sit there, play upon

the cell phone. I will write in the book somewhere. Amen,

look at the neighbor. I watched this or watch that

red Holy Gods, Hey, I'm telling you to her, we

need to get a focused by holl of what's important

the Bible, saying now you don't know that, Hey, you

don't know why?

I well, I want your Son of God.

He's gonna come, and you don't know when it's your

life opportunity.

Do better to say that than right here in the

house of.

Many.

I'm telling you, hey man, but I'm telling you one thing.

If we're not careful, we'll be just like them. Leave

me alone. I understand.

I know. No, you don't have been. The many gods

already had a conversation with the Lord and he said,

warn warned them. Heymen, sent up a stop son, Hey,

you don't mean slightly tap on pedal, he on, sir,

It means stop.

Let's hear.

That's what we do, slightly until you get caught.

And churchful, you will get caught because I'm telling your

church you can't scimulate you.

I gotta hurry, I gotta go on. I said what

you do, hey man, I'm telling your.

Church, Hey man, I talked about it while to go

with Joshua chapter SIS.

Hey man, we've seen how josh Wood.

Then came there to that man, to that land, and

we've got there and oh, chero cold. They'd already come

over in to the promised land. Look the first fan

and they come up again.

So amen, it was the enter and end to the

gate a cherry cold. But you know what happened there?

The Bible setting the walls was shut down. Now the

gates was shut tight.

Nobody coming in, I ain't nobody going out. Oh but

guess what church there come a man. I've gone down

that way, and the holy ghosts begin to talk to it. Hey,

come on now, I want to talk to somebody to night. Amen,

you're too far. You've come too close. Ham in the

stop where yet? And the Bible said Jocela, I was

told he said that to a priest, I walk around

the wall.

For six days. He said, let him walk at church.

You know what they did for six days? Amen? They

walked around a one time, and to that day again

up to the sixth day. But church, can I tell

you that is a tiresomething. They could have said, ain't

no use doing it no more. Nothing's happened.

You know what the Bible said.

God told him he said, I want you to march

around seven times, but six days you march.

One day on that seven time. I want you to

march around seven times.

Church.

They could have quit on the first, They could have

quit on the second.

They could have went all the way up to the

six time and said it so tiresomebody, Hey man, I

can't go on little holler. And they can have sat

down and said that's it. And I can tell you

they could have been.

Looking back.

I say we would have been better across the Red

Sea pack coming there. No, sir, I'm telling you, no

weather difficulties we fass. We gotta call in heaven that

said I'll never leave you. I'll never forsake you, but

I'm gonna be there to.

The mere he is seven times around.

You know what the Bible said when they call around

the seven time, that.

The priests for the trumpets, and when they sound the herd,

they tell people shout with the wants of triumph. I

come to tell your church, don't matter what you're facing,

no matter how tiresome it is, you've talked too close

to quit.

Now don't stop. Please please, I come to want somebody.

You're too close to quit. What's the old cliche? Winners

never quit, quittors never win.

Something of that nature. I'm telling you Church, we gotta

press home. But here's the thing. We can't be looking back.

We gotta turn away from that. We gotta press home.

Joshler told the people, he said, we shall overcome. He said,

here's how we're gonna do it. And I'm telling you Church,

because of their obedience. Instead of armies of soldiers, God

used priests and use of musicians to march around the

city walls. Armies sometimes can't do it.

It just takes a good man up, getting in a good.

God his service, with some holy ghost saint, the five

Field musicians.

Right, we have here.

I'm gonna tell you some church, we're so blessed. We're

so blessed. I can't tear it too much longer. I've

gotta go home. If the people had to gave up

on the sixth day, they would not have gained victory. Listen,

don't stop shout. Come on, Church, don't stop.

Shout, because victory is on its way. There is help

that's coming. What are you saying, well, I don't know.

One Timothy six and twelve say.

Fight the good fight of faith, right, lay hold on

eternal life.

Cause I'm telling you something. The Church and Moses never

gave up listen, what if he had gave up.

At the very beginning. It's other people going or from

the rock, all these other things that took place and happened.

If he had gave up right there towards the very end,

and death would have not came till the first one

of that country.

That would have took place. That's still been involved you, right,

But because they did not give up. Hope. Come on, church,

I've got hope. I've got hope of eternal life. You

have hope tonight, have tame Haymen. There is still time.

Heymen, I'm come to tell you if you don't have

hope right now, here is a place right now that

you can find Vintrey when it's sad road, I'm saying.

I read about a lamb Amen that was in the

Chot chapter five. The Bible said there was a man

for thirty eight years, hadmen that laved by the pull

of Betesda.

For thirty eight years. This man could have gave up.

This man could have set no more. Jeremiah, I stopped

where at I'm tired of going on now.

Nobody's gonna help me in that penny penny party. I

ain't never going to come around. But you know what

he said, I'm too I'm too close to quit.

Brother, tell you somebody.

May be right there at the threshold a picture right now.

It just takes one little.

Step of faith even to step out from where you're

at and come to know fas saying a pre prayer

and back down on your knees and say, Lord.

Want to have mercy on me. I feel like preaching church. Hey,

how I'm telling you hem in their Lord said for

thirty eight years. But he came down where his head.

He said, Lord, I don't have nobody to help. And

you know what, lear more he'll be than terminology. Buddy,

I'm here to help you. Come on, I'm come to

tell you some church.

How long.

And how long have you been going through something?

Right? Little Chapter eight said there was another lady about

twelve years had an infirmity in her body. She could

have gave up, but she said, I've got to get

to where Jesus is. I've got to get where he's at.

The Bible said, I pressed towards him, and she said,

I've got to get there.

And you know what she did.

The Bible said, she got right in the midst of

all of them a man, and she pressed her way

through the crowd.

I tell she got to where Jesus is I come

to take your church. You're right there on the.

Presshold, don't stop, don't give up, don't quit from where

you had press all to my church.

We're almost hold. Understand old. I haven't said we can't stop, church.

We must keep going on. Think about a boxer. He's

in a boxing match and he's going for the world tyler.

He knows that young man on the other side, it's

very talented. He knows there's no way he can be

unless he uses what his coach has told him to

do right. And this coach keeps encouraging him the first

and second and third round. It seemed like everything's gonna go.

With the fourth or fifth round, he gets knocked down

a couple of times, but he gets right back up,

and his coach on't mary telling you can't go down

no more. Hey man, you can't go down no walls.

You gotta stand your ground.

Amen, Come on.

Church, He said, you gotta stand your ground. But you

know what he knows how that coach gets in there

and he gets in that boxer's here. He said, listen,

you've trained. You've got yourself trained. You'll spent hours, spent

hours and days in months. Ain't in in the training room.

You got the ability? You know, I tell and here's

what I want you to do.

In church?

You know what happens.

He listens to that culture and something inside him arises. Amen,

there's some courage and gets incited to say, I know

I can, I know I can.

I Amen. The little story A little a little train

that sa I think I can.

I think I can.

I think I can.

You sir, you can't.

And you know what happened Church, It come to pass.

Amen.

He got a lucky shot. Amen, and he knocked him out.

I'm telling you, Church of one. Now, that's you and I.

We got a chance. I'm gonna make Heaven all home.

We got a chance to make it, to hit it.

But if we give up right now, you know what's

gonna happen. We're gonna look back and we're gonna say,

if I just want, if I just pressed off, I

think about Manca. One of his favorite songs is Time

is fill Swift, Trenks is shine No on Earth, n

move can't stand Belcher Holts on things.

Eternal? What do you gotta do.

Church, hold to God's unchanging hand. Church ain't goes on

down there, trusting in Him who will not leave you

whatsoever year be briend. He said, if my earthly friends

for second, I'm telling you I've had some that's been

with me. I've had some that's gone wong. But now

they turned and went away. But he said, still mark

closely to him. I him gonna clean. Amen, it's said,

coming not this world's being riches. It said that so

rapidly decay. It said, sick to Cain, that heavenly treasures

I pay you will never I pass away.

But I like this verse here, When.

Your journey is completed, I come to tell you, Amen,

your journey one day he's gonna come to an end.

Amen.

Hey, I don't know about.

You, but I want to be on the side that

sit in or in down to in pay for servant

to the joys and the richest of this land that

I ben.

He said, when your journey.

Is completed, if to God you have been true, fair

and bright, the home and glory here ever raps your soul,

will you.

But He's said, you've.

Got a hold.

You got a hold home, And I don't care if

it's just tied on at the end of the rope

around your arm and say, Lord, hold on to me.

You know what he's gonna do.

I said, thank your Holy goes, ain't him, because it's

just reminded me that Jesus seen his disciples, my brother

I have down on that rough sea. Hey, but you

know what he did? He can't walking right on there

where they was at if a man of God said,

if it be Lord, have you bid me come and

his step camel and be.

Getting the walk of pain.

But all of a sudden he looked around, he got

his eyes off of Jesus, and you know what happened.

Church, the Bible said, he be can of a sink. Hey,

but you know what the good party is.

Jesus was right there. You're in arms rich right now,

I'm gonna saying, Holy. Thing you got to do is

reach out and grab a hold of the young changing

hand of God.

The church are too close to quit. The enemy's a

lot of the devil's a lot you can make it,

young folk. Let me talk to you real quick.

As we get a song, we get ready to sing,

and we get ready on all to goll young people,

let me talk to you real quick. Hey man, the

devil is alive. Man too, Devil's a light. Everybody's doing No,

they're not want you look around. Not everybody's out there

and seeing.

I will says. Sin is pleasurable for a season.

And then after that, Church, it's katy bar the door,

the devil takes control.

I come to tell you, hold to God. He'll never

leave you, He'll never forsake you. Oh, he'll be right there.

He'll help you through Church. Let's find us a place

to pray. Let's seek the face of God. Let's ask

the Lord to help us. I know somebody here tonight

needs to understand the end of It's.

Trying to get you.

He wants to take you out. If there's a nothing saying,

now you change in the hand of God that's up there,

that said, I've never leave you. I'm right here to

help you. Come on, Let's find us a place to pray.

Let's seek the face of God.

God we can.

He loves you, he cares for you, he wants to

see you.

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