Sufficient To Finish - Bro Thomas Sterrett 12-31-2024

I act you glad to be in the house of the Lord. Amen.

I considered this a privilege, an honor, a miss paster,

first lady, I'm thankful for every opportunity and all that

the church does and and all the pastor. How does

I know he's on a mission and at that appointed

time for someone's life. There's an appointed time for each

and every one of us to do his will and

his purpose. And that's brother Nathangel kind of showed me

some mercy here. I want to do things a little

different at a different time of the year. There's my

wife watching their figure in. This is a soul. We're

going to do things just a little different tonight. That's

all right.

Really, I'm gonna set this chair up here, and this

is a soul.

It's a shepherd, my wife's nativity. He's okay, So I

want to put him here in this little pew, and

like all of us, he's on the clock. He's got

an appointed time. Yes, yeah, and I know we know

about redeeming the time for the days or evil. Our

life is but a vapor. It's appointed unto man wants

to die and then the judgment, Yes and simple a

sacrifice unto God and the one place where Jesus talk.

If thy eye offend thee, pluck it out at thy hand, offendy,

you cut it off thy foot of It's better to

go to Heaven may than to go with hell, all

with all your members, where the worm die found in

the fire is not quitch, Hell is forever. God has

no pleasure in the death of the wicked, but that

he lived. And that's why you know, we know that

he committed his love for us and why we were

yet sinners. Christ died for us. I was talking to

the wife about the got the building, and Jesus talks

about having a prayer closet. We hear about the upper room.

We hear about the church, the author. These things that

are holy, holy ground. You know Moses said take off

God told Moses to take off his shoes. He's staying

on a holy ground. Our hands should be holy, our

feet should be holy, our eyes, our mind should be holy.

To fight that good fight our heart. Out of the

issues of the heart is his life and that blood

that flows. My son, my oldest son. He's got a

girlfriend that had a half of a heart, and she

had a heart transplant and she was talking about. And

now she's excited because she got a second chance to

live here in the Nashville and with this heart transplant.

She knows all about the heart. How I think she

said something about the blood to circulate to her two

times in a day, or something of the travel, the

blood flow, the pressure of the book. But there's a

spiritual heart. That heart's going to die. All of our

hearts are going to cease. And we want our hearts

holy and right with God. We want because it's the enemy.

He wants to glorify the things of the world, the plague,

who's of sin, the wickedness, And he'll do things to

steal your time away. He'll do things to advertise and

keep people busy and preoccupy. Look, God, he'll use it, says.

His hand is outstretched all the day long to rebellious

and gains sane people. You know, most people that get

on your nerves, you want to shake the dust from

your feet, and you lose your patience. I have some

new guys at work, and they don't even gonna get

into it. They'll try your patience. You know, don't want

I don't want to. I've heard them. I don't definitely

don't want to share my conscience, but some will try

to share your patience to anyway, We're there to help

and and to be dedicated and determined in God's perfect will.

I was thinking about today earlier I got a wagon.

The elements of Florida's weather, the moisture, the rain, the heat,

the sun has taken a toll on that gospel wagon.

I'm going somewhere where this hold on me talking about time.

Elements of time, elements of this world will eat at

your soul, eat it eat on your body, or it'll

wear you down. And in the new year, my mind

is set to do more for the Lord and my

latter life than in my former life. And like Ruth

when she said, entreat me not to leave THEE or

return from following after THEE. For whether thou goest, I

will go, and whether thou lodge, I will lodge, and

thy people shall be my people, and thy God shall

be my God. And where thou diest will I die?

And will there there will I be buried? That's the

one thing there. At sixteen seventeen, she was committed. She

was determined. She didn't care about her past. She wasn't

gonna let her pass determine her future. And that's the

way we gotta be. We gotta be determined. And talking

about this wagon, I bought one and the weather, I

kid cannot it ruined it because it made out of wood.

And I got this new wagon today. I seed it

and it was only like a fraction of the costs.

And I saw the pictures of it look about the

same side, and I was like, well, I got me

a new building, and praise guy. I even caught a

booth I called the shed of God. You know. It's

my place of prayer, my place of study, my place

for me and the Lord, you know. And it means

a lot to me, spiritually speaking than a building. The

time means more spiritually to me than that clock. My

soul means more spiritually to me than my life. I

don't care about my I know I'm gonna die one day.

I'm getting old. The older I get, the closer I get,

I care about my soul. I'm concerned about my soul

because there may not be a tomorrow. And I care

about my children, my wife, my family, my church family,

these children, these mothers have an important ministry. And I know,

as a young parent, you gotta talk about patient. I

don't have a clue to do. My mom. These little

children they're blessing, ain't man, But they're a work, they're labor,

and they're lambs. They're little lambs, and we got to

bring them up right and protect them from the wolves

of this world. So this wagon that that purchased, I

was thinking, well, that was saving money and buying paint

and wood and rebuilding and refurbing the ones I got.

So I went to go get it. And the pictures

are the seed. And you never seen a picture that

be the seed. And usually it's the other way around.

You see a picture of a nice seak Hamburger sandwich

and it looks like a little white castle Burger. Would

they get it? And the world? That's not why I

saw him. The advertisement, well, this was the opposite phrase. God.

I went and I paid the guy money and I said,

I didn't even they didn't look at it. I just

get any money, I said, here you go, and he

rolled it up and I he not. It was the

size of a golf cart. You know. The thing was

biggest out there. If anybody want to see it, it's humongous.

I barely got it in the van with all the

seats almost folded down. I'm like, my man, I said,

did you like this? The point is I saw that.

I got excited. I'm like, I want to reach more

soul and I could put out more Bibles in that thing,

more tracks, more science. It's the spiritual intentions behind what

I'm doing. That building. It's my prayer, Clauset. Yes, you're

bad to be your prayer alter what we are time.

We dedicate our time in prayer and reading the Word.

That's spiritual time. You know when when when if a

judge or a lawyer comes up and he, let's say,

he asked his soul, here was you at church last Sunday?

Oh yeah, I was at church. I was a church

mid week. I was at I was reading my Bible

and praying every day, pass out practice every day. Leaving

them at the gas poms, leaving them you know, on

the star counter right, brother Gordy, leaving them here, leaving

them there. We just wait, you know, wherever whoever you

know does track ministry. These ministries are important. It's nursing

home ministry. You talk about time, you know these a

lot of these people are at the end of their time.

Jesus when he a lot of times I say this

on the streets. I don't believe he was pre crib,

mid crib, post trend. He was be ready, be ready,

watch pray. He could come in an hour when you

think not. And he rebukes that we can serve it

there and the end of Matthew twenty four it says,

the Lord delayeth his timing. We got been around though

two thousand years. We've only been around a vapor of

a short time. So time is of the essence. And

to be right with John, you know, when I thought

about that church there in that first chapter where they

left their first love, they were laboring, they were doing

their first you know, they were doing their works, and

they fainted, not they had him fainted, and the Lord,

you know, he said, repent. Return their revelations. Chapter two.

I'm getting ready to close here this this first church,

and he speaks to seven churches. This is saint and

only church. Revelations, Chapter two, verse four. It says, nevertheless,

I have someone against see because I had left thy

first love. Remember there from whence they are falling and

repent and do thy first work, or else I will

come and to me quickly and remove the candlestick out

of face, except I repent. See all souls they belong

to God and it and it doesn't matter what you've

done in this life. What were you then? Thank God,

some of you grew up and holding his homes. Not

everybody has, but every soul will give him the count.

All souls belong to God. He's gonna take them. And

and when they stand before the judgment, I'm gonna turn

hi away because he's out of time. This is his

time just ran out. There's gonna come a time when

our time runs out. And my and their most scariest

question is are you ready? Are you ready to stand

before God? And imagine this is the great, the great

white groom, and you don't have You're not under the

blood of Jesus. He's gonna be cast into outer fire

there fire, forever, lake of fire. You think God wants

to do that sin will not enter in into heaven.

He said, do a mother forgets you, I'll not forget you.

Every heaven that shepherd's head, that soul's head is numbered

with God. It doesn't. You might think that God can

There's no way in the world God can keep track

of seven billion people. He keeps track of the little

sparrows that fall to the ground. I hate to think.

I mean, I could rejoice in a brother and sister

in Christ that if God forbid, they if it's their

time to go, they go to heaven. I won't more

as much as I would as I do for a

family member that I know has been living in sin,

and and he begins yes, and he began to ask questions.

The problem with the world today, there's so much religion,

so much hip for piscripts those that are truly seeking God.

The only way you're going to seek God is seeking

for your self. I had a praying grandmother. I'm so

thanithful and blessed my grandmother. She didn't watch TV and

don't fall out with her. She didn't go to the doctors,

she didn't take medicine. She coming on God for everything.

She seen many miracles, and she was a mentor to me.

We'd have church on the way to church, praise God

on the way from the church. We still be having

a church. I bet those times, but I'm thankful for

a church today that has a love of out of owry.

I didn't live a thousand miles down here to go

to the church that I come from, and no offense.

I love my pastor Mark Rock. But when you have

revival them and you've got souls at stake, let me say,

let me let me go back to Louke fourteen. Now

that these weren't family members, Okay, mind you, this is

Jesus is talking about family members. Here. If any man

come to me and hate not his father and his mother,

his wife, his children and brothers and sisters, game not

his own life, he cannot be my disciple. Whosoever does

not bury his trouble come to Christ. Don't let your mom,

your dad, your friends stop you from seeking the Lord

while he may be found, calling upon him while he

is near. I didn't have no Christians other than my grandmother.

And I'm talking about when I'm younger, when I was

a lost sinner and I first got saved. And I

know people probably call me crazy, but I went through

the atheists. I said, you see me doing something wrong,

let me know. Because I hadn't studied up on my word.

And as I was growing and learning the word praise God,

im Anthian is backed off. They said, oh, he's getting

to know more than us. But I tried to reach

them because I loved them. They were my help at

that time. That's all I had. That's pretty sad. The

world should not be your help. Asians should not be

your help. False religion shouldn't be your help. You should

come to Jesus Christ through his word, through prayer. I

didn't know how to pray. I went to the book

of Psalms and all those psalms that were psalms of repentance. Hey,

that was my prayer. Lord, that's me. I've transgressed. I've

committed sins, you know, and just everyone in these psalms,

and and you know, not understanding why the heathen's rage?

Why do people imagine a vain things? I was feeling

that from my own heart because I wanted to know,

why is this world such a mess? Why are people

so hateful? And I learned from Jesus that he said,

because iniquity abounds, the love of many waxed tone. You

want real love, you got to come to Jesus. You

want real love, Come to Jesus. He'll never fail you.

Your friends will fail you, your family and God forbid

us churches that will fail you. But Jesus Christ will

never fail you. He's faiful. He should be your offer

in the finish of your life. He can help you

through your senior troubles. He can he can be that,

he can suspens he's subsistient. His grace is sufficient. The

se you is true until the end, the end of time,

the end of your life. Your life is but a vapor.

You're gonna stand before God, and every knee is gonna that.

Every time's gonna confess. But it'll be too late to

worship me when your dad and gone. Those eight kids,

they're gonna confess, Oh God, you're we know that Thou

Jesus Christ. It it'll be too late. They didn't repent

when they had the chance, when they were alive. The

number of times he went the church, the number of

times they received the gospel trucks, the number of times

that that praying grandfather, that praying grandfather, that praying mom,

that praying that all trying to reach out and save

the compeller. We can't save you. I can't save my children. Hey. Now,

when I see these false religion and say all you

dudes get baptized, are like, well that was the case,

I just grab everybody darkly water. I would probably crazy.

I did just to save a soul. I want to

see you. I wouldn't want to see what I want

to give me parents. I know that's wrong. I don't.

Don't misunderstand me. I'm talking about the urgency and the

value of your life and your souls. It's going to

come to an end. Time is running out. It's not

just the end of the year. The cost is ticking minute.

Every minute that goes by, twenty minutes or forty minutes,

thirty nine minutes, I've already lost. I'll never get those back.

I can't go back and relive my childhood. I can't

go back and relive my past. And if I did,

i'd want to get right with Jesus. When I was little,

like these little children teach them when they're yard. When

you get bigger, become a teenage you you think like

hard as a little one. It gets crazy, and this

world is crazy. But thank God Jesus is looking is

it's crazy. Hallelujah. He's He's giving me a sober mind

and will give me a new life for souls and life.

I can look at people and and and and love

them anyway, love my enemies, love every soul, and cause

we all stand on every hand. Bou is there anyone here,

mother raising over your hand and say I want Jesus

in my life? Would you? Would you pray for me? Yea?

If anybody raise their hand or didn't raise their hand,

but you feel it in your heart, if God's speaking

to you in your heart, forget what everybody just forget everybody,

come to these authars. If you have lost loved ones,

come and pray for them. Pray for these little lambs,

these sheep. You just said, if you love me, you'll

feed my sheep. You'll feed my lambs. But let's go pray.

Let's pray. If you don't want to pray for your

own soul, and you're and you know your soul's ready,

you're right? Are you one hundred percent certain? If you

were to die tonight and you may come in your home?

And if not, I get it right. The Bible says,

now is the acceptable time. Today is the day of salvation.

You can make today a new day. You can surrender

your life today. You can surrender your soul little to Jesus.

He'll make you a new creature. He'll give you a

new heart. He'll he'll help you he's still helping me

today A man I always