Focus - Bro Johnny Larimore 7-31-2024

I said God, Amen, I was telling them some I said,

Pastor said, they're gonna get tired and listen to me.

Amen. Amen, I promise you.

Just a couple more times, and amen, I'll be gone

for a little while.

Amen. It's good to be in the house of God. Amen.

I'll tell you what God's people ought to be some

of the most happiest people upon the face of the earth.

Amen.

And I'm telling you I told them the other day,

I said, I enjoy life.

Amen.

I'm telling you, Pastor, you know we ain't supposed to

be envious.

You know. You turn that thing off back there so

he can't hear this. Amen. Amen.

But I told him the last time they went, I said,

there's only one thing missen me. Amen me, you hope.

I'm telling you what. They're having them a good time.

And I seen one of the pictures that was there

and told Pastor I said, man, God said it's perfect.

He looked over and said, it's well, it's good. I'm

telling your church he made such a beautiful place.

Man came along and just messed it all up a

man along with the help.

Of the enemy.

But I'm telling you, I shall appreciate life and I'm

enjoying myself.

I'm having a good time in the war. Amen. Oh

do you know how it feels?

One day after all, we're gonna be able to experience that.

Amen. If we hold fast and hold true, we'll know

how it feels. Walk down the street of gold.

Just imagine, hey man. I'll say this real quick and

I'll get out of the way. Hey man, to imagine

when my mom crossed over, hey man, went on into

glory there.

Just wonder amen, what it was like. Did you see

daddy there?

My dad?

Was he sitting there waiting for it? Did he see her?

Her brother in law? Heymen, my regular pastor, hey man,

brother J. E. Jackson, was he standing there across the

river there staying?

Just come on.

I don't know, Church, you know, in our minds we

can only come up and just imagine certain things.

About what it's gonna be.

And I can tell you one day after a while, Church,

it will be a reality.

Amen.

You're for sure of one thing they say down here

on life. There's sure of two things, death and taxes.

Amen.

I'm telling you one thing you can know for sure. Amen,

there is an eternity.

Amen.

You will either spend it on heaven straight shore, so

you'll spend it in an awful place called hell.

Amen.

But I tell you I want to make my colleagues,

am I that's insure.

Amen.

If you have your bibles tonight, there's a couple of

places I.

Want to read.

Amen.

I was talking to the Lord as I ask the Lord,

I said, God, I need the right message of the hour.

Amen.

I people to understand, Amen, that it's not me it's

coming up with these messages.

Amen. It is the Lord that talks to us. Amen.

But if you have your bibles in Matthew's Gospel, Amen,

chapter number seven.

I want to start there in Matthew chapter seven, Amen,

and then we're gonna read over just one little verse

over in Hebrews chapter number twelve. AmAm, you have Matthew

chapter seven. Say, Amen, let's stand for the reading of

the Word of God.

Bible says, enter ye end of the straight gate.

For wide is a gate, roll is away, that lead

it to destruction. And many gold, or he said, and

many there be which gold in their act.

Because straight is a gate narrows.

The way which leadeth unto life. And he said, and

few there be that find it, Enter yend into straight gate,

hey man, For wide is a game, roll is away

that lead it to destruction.

Many there being going they're in that because.

Straight is a gate, narrow is the way which leadeth

unto life.

And few that be that find Hebrews Chapter twelve. Amen. Hebrews,

Chapter number twelve.

The Bible reaches the verse number twelve or Chapter twelve,

verse number two, looking unto Jesus, the author and finisher

of our faith, who for the joy that was set

before him, endured the cross, despising the shame and sitting

down at the right hand of the throne of God. Hey,

man of God, be my help, Church, I just need

you to pray just one more time that God would

an honest here in the house of God.

Father, in the name of teens Us right now, Lord,

what I realize on God, But I can't do this

on my Lord.

I've got to have your help.

I've got to have you, Lord, long time. Lord, You

give me what on God? For just another time?

On God to me here in the.

House of God. Lord, let us on God him touch

a heart, touch a lifeful.

God in the way.

Lord, let this message go down, No, God, Lord, to

the depths of our souls.

Let it resten the care.

Lord.

Let us learn from a crowd, from an old god.

Lord, we'll praise you, give you the glory and the

honor of God in Jesus's Holy imprecious name. Church says,

hey man, hey man, I won't hold you. Just a

few moments of time, hey man, Just a simple message

on God, A simple message entitled focus. Focus, Hey man, Focus.

I fall about this as I begin to how you

don't try my best to focus seeing the poem the word.

Of God, trying to get.

My mind focused in on what needed to be said

and what needed to be done.

And I looked that word up.

Now.

Focus. It needs to concentrate.

It means to I have a concentrated, dedicated efforts towards

the accomplished, but so of a task. I want to

read it again. It's a concentrate. It's a concentrated, dedicated

effort towards the accomplishment.

Of a task. A man, and I'll be honest with

your church.

Amen.

Sometimes we as individuals, say man, we lose our focus.

Amen.

My wife took a few moments ago, Amen, as we

was coming around the curve, a man down there. We

pulled out and started down the hera Amen. In just

afore we sist rind the car come around the curve.

Here come another carra around and all of a sudden

it didn't have its focus where it needed to be.

A man that I know.

God, there's a white line, but there's also and yellow line,

and we'ren't supposed to be in the.

Middle of that. A man in between those two.

But he thought he needed my lane as well, Amen,

and my over era. Amen said, talk about driving. Hey, man,

I got a permanent helper, a man.

That teaches me how to drive all the time.

Amen.

She said, get on your side. I said, I'm on

my side.

Amen.

Now yeah, but there, I said, Honey, I'm in my lane.

She said, don't go towards them. I said that.

I'm staying in my lane. She said, look, get over.

I said, I'm not going to the ditch.

Amen.

Ah, they need to look where they're gonna. Come on, Helen.

I told her, I said.

Hey, hey, you lost the focus. Amen. You know, but Church,

can I tell.

You just for that little experience, in that little except

for right ter about how dangers.

It is Amen for you and I to lose our focus.

Amen, I'm talking about here, how it's a danger there.

But church even more than this.

Amen, in the church world today every before I believe

the church is well and this believers church believe as.

A house of God.

It is of a whole a church. We have lost

our focus.

Sometimes ain't call to hell. It's easy sometimes how to

get distracted. It's easy sometimes, brother Natanie, he need to

look over here, and if you're not careful, how and

when you look, you start turning the wheel this way

and you're striped on that way here. But old church,

you just meet yourself and you realize.

Amen.

Hold, let me get back, let me get where I'm an.

I'm thankful to not church is I come with a

simple little message upon my whole.

I thinkful.

He got somebody that ended up in heaven above that's

able to tell you and I I.

Trying to learn order. He lost your focus.

He tried to shake me. He he tried to awake

me and give me the realize. I need to pay

attention whatever it is. Tell them your church, we need

to care to you. Can I ask the simple quest,

I'm gonna try to hurt your quick a skid. Can

I ask you a quote? What's important to you? Come on.

What is it that's important to you. Whatever it is,

I promise you that's.

What your focus it's.

Going to be on.

Right, come on now.

And I know some people, Amen, their focus is in

upon the many of the things of this world. Now

their focused. I know the Olympics is going on. Now

I take care of lips. Amen about the olimp don't

follow me the hood, Amen, But I'm taking our focus

is so much upon that, and upon the spokes world,

and upon the things of this hand that we can

give them about. I'll help me Holy ghost here I

feel about both coming home now and then I'll tell

your church why I'm because we can give the SATs

amen of everything. I'm on baseball player, right, we can

give a sad.

I'm gonna come.

All player, even the talking out light. I can give

this chance Church, how much I'm.

Just part of God.

I can forgive sas wall he ain't come on Church,

I'll tell you what's in part I come, man, I

got tonight or that I'm telling for me, it's to

see somebody. I wait time their sleep by he get

their honcus. I I where it needs to me because

it's not there. I promise you whatever your focus is

nothing that matters why, because you're more important.

What's most important to you is what you look at,

what you're thinking about, what.

You're going through.

Hey, main't come on since three and two said set

your pections on things.

Come on, church, let me creat you set.

Your thing there.

You're upon the things of love. My on thinks of this?

Serve you want me to tell you why I han't

said the treasures in heaven. I just worth walk and

rust to rough I where things did not break through.

It said, I'll telling your church my folks has to

get back at even where needs to be. And that's

of all the word of y'all Roman chapter eight. Now

it says, for they that are after the fledge, do

mind the things of the fledge.

But it's there that's after the spirit, the things.

Of the spirit.

I will tell us us very Matthew, there's a place

we captured it too.

He said, enter ye in at you straight.

And I don't mean the.

Over the mad sword, but the young man that way,

he haven't the convention for the sister dies.

He made a statement that I make myself amen, and

a breach of all that this well, amen, And I

don't really know if you really understand what he said.

Hey man, but I want somebody to understand it's tight.

But it's rock.

Lord, come on, church, it's tight. There's a reason that

it's tough. It's because it's.

Rock, he said. For many there be that go with that,

bro me, can you come on to handle hosoever?

Will that?

Just come on now?

It don't make no difference in that. I tell your church.

Mate him walk through the back door, because sooever will

We want them to talk. We want everybody to come

ay man. But I'm telling you when they get here,

they got to have a wire that's been stalking to

them about that tells you that's the right.

Way to go, and that's a wrong way to go.

I'm telling church Americas in trouble, and that when we

have the place thing boy that we've time in the

White House and it talks all the way down and

across America, we got to get our focus words at.

And it's not all this bunch of them.

I don't mean to be Walter puked.

That's all that's coming out of the mouth of some

of these ain't nothing but garbage.

Amen, that I got a fellow that's upset and you

have to let it go.

Man.

I'm telling you I have my belly full of it,

and I've talked to the place where I have to say,

not is enough. I'm telling your church wife, because when

we went to Mowrey the end of the.

Light Supper, can we catch our track? Cleans?

I come on, church, help me preach. I'm telling you why.

It's because it's a mall cree.

We made a mall cree. America is in a patch

shaped church. We frost her pokins.

I pod and found it all that we got to

return back to look up.

To the hills. I which from our help I spurt

my help probably from the.

Help me jesues. Bib tell sas there's a place to

get to. He said, at chance, choose you this day.

You either gonna have to go to heaven, which is.

Just straightening narrowly. You're gonna go the broadway.

That says, I don't think I gotta do it just

like that, missus, Church, I.

Know this ain't good. It's good preaching. We don't want

to hear. There's somethings you just don't have.

To bring you back.

Help me to have one.

There's some things we don't have to say, well, Lord,

are you sure to church? And you just read this

word of God it you'll just get protet cracking upon this.

Can you call it this road map?

I'm telling your church and will never leads you to

the left until the right. But they lets you straight.

Down the path that needs to call me why I'm

telling your church? But called it's a straight it's a

narrow way. And we kept to find that place. Help me, Lord,

where is my place? I'm lost?

Lost?

My focus got out of the line. Now I've lost you.

Listen, I'm gonna I'm gonna preach you submitted two or

three or four, five percent or whatever it goes.

I'm gonna rich on.

A man lost his focus Judges, chapter number thirteen.

When you reading about a man, a mighty man of

God by the name of Samson.

Sampson was a mighty man. I heard Samson was a

mighty man.

Amen.

He He was born to save and to deliver isra

Hald on the hands of the Philistines.

He was born and raised because of this, he had

to call it upon his life to do something.

Ain't anybody kind a wife, I've said, a man find

a wife?

He find it.

Amen, I love my baby back there. Amen.

How he got a wife, it wasn't a right woman.

Help me, Holy ghost, there's an.

I feel like I've got a preaching teaching spirits you.

At the same time, he man of God. There's an

importance for.

Us to understand the right relationship, the right young many

to the right young man the God has prepared for you. Listen,

he got a wife of the Philistines. He put forth

the riddle into them, the sommon seven days at the feast.

You know what they told a Samson's wife.

They said, we're.

Gonna burn you and your family and your house, will

father if you don't find out what it is. If

you don't find out what the riddle is. And we

all know the sorbal rest through this real quick.

We all know the story.

Now she laid upon him sword.

Now she continued to rattle him about. She continued to

get his mind up out of ease.

And Samson said, here is the real.

Sampson lost his ocus and that's not all. Sampson's wife

was giving to somebody so every didn't have a ride.

Come on, have church. Importance of having the right wom

wanted up. I want it done, sir, Come on Samson.

Samson got even though.

He took three hundred foxes, tied them together, and he

put fire brands between had him burnt down the figures

and the olives. Come on down, churchy, he desorted Samson.

He had a rage inside his mind. He had revenge

on his fine.

You know what was on the only fine he.

Was focused upon getting even, Come on down, church Saxon

had his mind focus with a trump on him and

the hands the Bible said, with a.

Thousand men, he killed the my God. But that ain't

all church.

I guess what.

He lost his focus again because he made another one. Yeah, Shore, lady, trouble.

I need even know.

Hey, man's there. Good trouble is you're creative for us.

I'm telling the.

Church if a man does not keep his mind focus,

because I'm.

Telling you that there is a danger of letting this

little eye rinder somewhere in.

Girls.

I'm telling the church as dangerous. It's because all of

a sudden he met a lady by the name of Islam,

and when he got a hold of her, and then

we all know the story how it happened.

Church.

Amen.

Samson lost his focus. Amen, But then he went down

there to gods.

Amen.

There had he fell in love with a woman named Delilah.

And but guess what happened again?

Because of his mighty efforts and because of his strength

and the.

Power of God that was upon this man, to.

Lilah was approached. She was in Tis for letting higher

pieces of silver.

And you know what the Bible said.

They told her, he said, find out where his strength lies.

And Church, we y' all know what happened there.

She laid upon him by a sore, over and over

over and over. But you know what the man of

God did. He laid there in to her. He lay

there and played with word. He laid there and.

Said, I'm okay. But guess what, Church, she said, Now

you just are.

Not love me.

Love is a word that has been spoken.

So much that it's taken out of contact. People say

it just for a reaction. I'm telling you, no fray

or love has this that a man laid down his

life for his free Samson told the story he gave

his strength away one more time because he lost his focus.

I come to not to tell somebody here you need

to get your mind right back.

What needs to be your focus?

Is not right.

You're too far to the left, or you're you're maybe

you went too far.

To the right.

You need to get back to the street and the

narrow leaf.

I'm telling your church, Samson had a mistake that took

place as.

A lot of individuals in a church to right now.

They played with the sins of this world too long.

And the biple say that she got a secret and

to cut his hat while it was asleep. She woke

him up and said, Samson, the philistines me apart. But

his mistake was this, howked it up?

As before? You know what?

The piple said, he wish not that the spirit of

God had departed from him.

Church, I'm telling you there's a danger. I been a

wishy washing. There's a danger with your petchs of dog.

Now there's a danger.

I'm living for talk one day after that's trying to

get back here, trying to get back out. I'm telling

you they're going to come of climber and the holy

ghosts folk and said, my spirit what all always time

a man.

It's gonna leave, and they're not gonna even know it

until trying to get away from him. What's going on here?

And they made a mockery of him. Look what we've done.

They took him down, They found him, took him down

to the grinding house. They made him grind a man

down the public squares. Old said, is pumped his eyes

out a man. Sampson lost his focus.

Literally, he lost his focus.

It's not the end of the story.

This is what we knowed focus he is. Samson said, Lord,

remember me, I ain't gonna hold you much on. I'm

getting ready to close. Lord, would you remember me?

And you know what he had to do.

He had to ask you for somebody to guide him.

Could you help me?

I'm telling the church you come to the right place

that you can come to. Brother, ro Captain say, Brother,

I don't know what I'm doing. Could you help me

find that way?

Could you help me find.

Just brought me a part where the pillows rat let

My hands just rested upon it.

We all know what type of church God restored.

Not in the morning.

Somebody first, Peter Vibinate says, be somber, be benta, Because

your adversary of the devil is a rowing line walketh

about seeking whom he made di byer.

We must not lose our focus.

Hebrews twelve and one says let us lay aside every

wet and they re send that does easily be sets.

They're sayings that.

We've got to do.

Church, I told you.

Sometimes there's not the reason of three. You already know

what to do, right.

He said, come out for my mom. Then he is separate, saying,

for the look that's not the unclean fang.

And then I will.

Receive you under myself.

I'll tell you, Church, there's things you and I've gotta do.

The first thing we gotta do is look where our

focus is. That and I'm afraid some of us my

focus ain't completely set upon things of love.

It's a bone of other things. God said, he just

tell somebody, here's what you need to do. Philippians, chapter

three and verse fourteen. I press for to mark for

the prize of the high calling.

Of God in Christ Jesus, there's a reason to get

our focus back, wrote.

A sum about it. What's it going to be to

walk down the stream of go alight? All right? I

want to know how it feels. How about you stand

all over the house of gone? How about you? You

want to know how it feels.

We must get our focus back.

Time is running out on this church. Time is swiftly

going pack. We must focus on Christ. We must get

our focus back.

Brother.

These little pants right here. I never had to have it.

I spilled the bleach. I wanted to save a lot.

It's cutting some foxes and bleach open the tops off

of it. Coming pallets cut the top up.

I took one and I can't up on another palate.

He had the machine that screws the tops down on

the bleach. That particular batch was loose in that and

when I set it down, it's like forty pounds. When

I set it down, it splashed. When it splashed, it

got my eye.

My eye. It's so I went blind in his eye.

Couldn't see my focus. I couldn't see instantly. I went

and tried to pour some water. Its water, try it.

Was trying to go into this eye.

This was completely blind. They rushed me to the From there,

they rushed me to the hospital to the eye doctor.

At the time, it was and I don't know how why,

but I passed out. And when I passed out, when

I come to, my eye was in a clamp open

and I had a stream of water that was right

against my eyeball and it was just blushing my eye out.

Such pain that was airt for three days. After that,

I had had to have a patch over my eye

for three days.

I looked around like I beat her pain. You know,

had a patch over my eye. Embarrassing. Tried to stay

in I didn't want nobody to see. But when it

comes that third day, I went into the doctor's office.

When I got in there, they wrapped up patch.

It was there. When they did they took the dogs.

It was there. He asked me.

They said, open your eye.

Open.

My eye was like I couldn't steal it was just

just kept it clothing.

I was trying.

They said, keep blinking your eye.

All of a sudden, Church, my eye come back in

the focus.

And I can sit. But I have a squirm.

I have a remember because brother to thank you left.

The sunlight hit my eyebow in a certain head way.

I get an instant headache. I'm telling somebody.

Sin leaves a star. But if you'll get your focused.

Back where it needs to be, it can be washed away.

You're eye, I can see, you can see clearity.

Every head by whatever I closed, I'm asking for one individual.

I'm I'm gonna ask you to step out. I just

want somebody to be honest with me, me, you and God.

Would you raise your hand and said, brother, lairmore pray

for me. My focus ain't them where it needs to be.

And so I see it somebody else, somebody else besides

I see it, anybody else I see.

Come on, be honest between you. Look got what my

can say word needs to do right now?

I sin?

All right, brother, Larry Board. God knows I'm not gonna

embarrass you. I'm gonna ask for.

The whole entire church.

Let's find us a place to pray tonight. Let's ask God, God,

if I'm not seeing clearly, I'm not at sin exactly

what I need to be singing, Lord, would you speak.

To me one more time? Would you help me right now? Lord?

To see clearly? Now for Lord, I want to see

what I need to see.

Lord.

Oh, come on, Church, Oh, find your place to pray. Church,

find you a place to pray.

Lord, look ah, search you.

Oh God, thank you Lord.

Lord.

Don't let me lose my focus.

God, Lord, don't let me little spoke you right down, God,

Oh Father, I need you right down, Doc, I.

Need your help.

From my face.

You search Lord, search me right, help me Lord, h m.

H m hm.

M help us school, God, help us to night, old God,

help us to night.

God.

Lord, you've seen the hands that was raised.

I left him up to you right now, so I

hear God.

Let's see ho, God that you will make equal pod you.

Know after you know ever hard you whatever like God? Lord?

Right that doctor, he looks focus.

So we're right here to eat a call right.

There for cross right you.

Pot the I don't lose off in the tattle all

of us.

He is a straying and away he is away. It

means the glories away.

It's to screams of God.

But Lord, if I lose my focus on God and

I'm gonna ride label m going, I'll lose apple body,

I chokes and death. Don't God.

Names such a.

Searching, search of art, school.

Or trussing.

Some attentions, but something as as.

What as.

Worship, cleans, clans, combers of the nation of the spiritual bottle?

Okay, why how do make you the spiritual spirit?

The love?

I want?

That time you remember you can't rest such a strong

so just

As sure as