Gods warning

Good morning, everybody. This is Pastor Charles Tompkins at Harvestown

Christian Church. We're located at three on nine South twenty

fifth Street in West Memphis, Arkansas. We heard to preach

the word and teach the word, and it's up to

you to live it. Get it ready and open up

your bibles. Let's get started. Good morning, Good morning. Praise

the Lord all y'all to give him some praise in

the house. He's worthy. I love the Lord. I love

the Lord. That's how I do. I love him. Wow eddie, Alright.

Sometimes you just need a double dose. Sometimes you need

a double dose, you know, Jesus. Not that it didn't

work the first time, but he had purpose for touching

the blind man twice. The first time he touched him,

he saw things that were blary. And then he touched

him again and he could see he could see real good. Aymen.

Sometime we just need a double dose. Amen. Amen. I

do praise and thank God for another day, another day

on this side of glory. Thank you, Jesus. God is

so good a man. And in my times of my

times of meditation, even in my times of daydream and

I think about the Lord and how awesome he is, Amen.

I think about how powerful he is and how good

he is. Why wouldn't we serve him? Man, He's the

reason we even exist. I don't care what scientists say.

God created man and made woman. Hey, Man, they still

can't figure it out. They just they just making up stuff.

But in all that they make up, they don't do

nothing but give God glories and don't even realize it.

Let us pray, Lord, We thank you for this time.

We give you the glory Lord, for you out ahead

of all things. Nothing happens unless you allow. With God,

you are in control. No matter what man thinks he

has authority and control over it's only because you allow it, God,

and at any given time you can snatch it away

or cause it to God. So we thank you God

that you have all power. God, all authority belongs to you,

and you give it as you please. Father. In the

name of Jesus Christ. We come before you God with

humble hearts and bow down heads, asking God if we've

said or done anything of acting in any way that

was not right to you God, it was contrary to

your will. We ask you Father to set you right now,

that you would forgive us. Father in Jesus' holy name. Then, God,

look upon your people today all over the world. Look

at the people all over the world. They're in a panic. God,

in the panic. God. But you, God, are in control.

Touch the hearts of your people to lean and depend

on what they hope in. When all things are going good,

That your word does not change because things look a

little dim. It still has power. It's still doing what

you called it to do. Help your people's minds. God,

touch their hearts. Let them know. God, it don't make

no difference with man. Does You in control? And if

you don't want it to happen, it won't. And what

you allow is for a purpose. And I believe even

at this time for the people to hold on even

more to you God for a hope. Our hope is

in your word, because you're not a man that you

should lie, the son a man that you should repent

for Your word is the truth. And the truth shall

make us free. The truth shall give us strength, the

truth shall uphold us, The truth shall give us courage.

The truth shall give us hope in these last and

evil days. God, in time, the truth of your word,

God is what we must hold on to God, no

matter what the government is doing. God, you're still doing

what you said you're gonna do, and it shall come

into fluition. Your word shall not fall to the ground

and perish what you send it out to do. It

shall accomplish. And we believe it for your word. Before

any amount of your word, one till of your word destroy,

the whole world would be gone, and no one will

ever know if it even failed. But we know that

your word cannot fail. God, and we'll hold along to

the hope of what your word declass to us. Now,

God is your word goes forth this morning, touch the

hearts of your people, touch their understanding God in the

name of Jesus. And it is in Jesus name I

pray in the church said, Amen, Amen, and amen. If

you would go to with me to the book of

Matthew's chapter seven. How many of you know that God

is all knowing, So don't ever think he don't know

what's going on. He knew what would be going on

before it for what even happened, and he allowed it

because He has a plan and purpose for this world,

and He has a plan and purpose for his people.

Are y'all with me? Matthew Chapter seven and verse thirteen,

Hey man, talking about the straight gate. Anybody know what

the straight gate is? For the Lord Jesus Christ says,

enter ye in at the straight gate, for why is

the gate? And broad is the way that leaded to destruction?

And many there be which go in they're at. That's

a disturbing part right there where, Jesus says. And many

there be which go in they're at. And what are

you talking about? He's talking about the brawl way. Everybody

know what the brawl gate is, don't we? That's hell?

And he goes on to say, because in verse fourteen,

because straight this is, this is, this is the reason

why many go in they're at the Why the brawl

the way? Because straight is the gate and narrow is

the way which lead it unto life. And few there

be that find it you may be seated. Ay man,

we're talking today about God's warning. God's warning. God has

given us so many warnings, And if you've been paying attention,

they're getting even more harder and harder. They're being more

intense rather than before COVID was intense. Notice, when God

does something, it's for everybody. COVID affected the whole world.

It didn't just affect America. Man had not to do

with that. That stuff spread like wildflow. Fire is a speaking

of fire. The better part of the rich part of

California burned up mysteriously. They're still trying to figure out

what really happened. Well, I'll tell you what happened. God

had his hands on it. God is sinning a warning

to the rich of this world. And God is sending

a warning to his peace people of this world. You

see Christ, Jesus, who is all knowing. He tells us

right here in scripture that many are going to be lost,

but only few are going to be saved. He said

right there in Matthews chapter fourteen, chapter seven, verse fourteen,

by the narrow gate, for why it is the gate,

and broad is the way that leads to destruction, and

there are many who go in by it, because narrow

is the gate, and difficult is the way which leads

to life, and there are few who find it. That's

a different version, but saying the same thing. Now, this

should get anybody's attention, That got any sense. According to

the Bible, majority of people will be lost. We must

take this warning from God at face value. Look at

the panic of the world right now because of one man.

Y'all getting this, aw y'all getting this. It took one

man to turn around this world, and it took another

man to turn it back around. One man, Adam, turn

it all around. One man, Jesus Christ, turn it back around.

And now and again, here we are with one man

causing all this confusion. One man. Don't tell me one

man can't make a change. One man can make a difference.

It can be good and can be bad. Jesus Christ

is letting us know. There's only two roads to eternity.

There's only two roads to eternity. There's only two roads

to eternity. And believe me, when we think about eternity,

were thinking about heaven. Hell is eternity too. That's why

it's two roads. They're both eternity. And the truth of

the matter is that every one of us are on

one of those roads. According to what the Lord says,

only few will make it to heaven, but the vast

majority will be lost in eternal punishment. We having a

good time, but see it does not escape God that

you are having a whole lot of fun sitting. God said,

it's pleasurable for a season. He knows that you having

fun cutting up, But it ain't as much fun as

being righteous, because cutting up fun canna come to a

bad end. But righteous living is only going to end

of right. That's why they call it wrong living. The're

gonna end up wrong, righteous living, you're gonna end up right.

It ain't It ain't rocket science. We try to make

this thing hard. And the biggest thing that the enemy

ever did to humanity is make you believe this stuff

don't exist. There ain't no hell, there ain't no heaven.

That's the biggest trick the enemies ever did to humanity

to make them believe when you die, there ain't no

heaven in hell. But this Bible speaks of it on

many occasions and really gets down to the knitted gritty

in the Book of Revelations. Oh it's real. The prayer

just said, God's word is real and you can hold

on to it. Why because there's hope in his word?

Why because it's true. You see a vast majority of people,

as the Bible says that Jesus spoke here, this Jesus

speaking according to what we understand about the red writing

in the Bible. Then he says only a few will

make it to heaven, but a vast majority will be

lost in eternal punishment. This is both very frightening and said.

It's not frightening to me, it's just said to me,

But for those going to hell, it's frightening and sane.

You understand what I'm saying. It's not frightening to God.

It's just said. It's sad because it's not his will

that you should perish, and God has given us everything

we need. Not to we just ignoring you. And I

don't consider myself to be selfish, but I am selfish

about one thing I want to be. I certainly want

to be amongst those are going to heaven. I'm selfish

about that. Hey man, I'm selfish about being the few

who I saved, don't you You see, even though we

got that Adam spirit at times, you know the blame game.

Hey man, we really are that we really, I don't

even have to say really. We are the ones who

make the choice ourselves as to where we will spend eternity.

We free, You've heard it many times. We are free

mortal agents. What is that me? That means we make

our own choices. I don't care what nobody tell you.

You still make your own choice. You understand somebody may

take Come on, man, come on with me. Man go

blah blah blah blah. You still make the choice. Come on, man,

gonna hit it. Oh man, come on, just one hit.

I don't care how much you try to force it

on you. You still gonna make the choice. You're gonna

make the choice. He made me smoke that joint? No

he didn't. Here, man, ain't nothing, but this ain't even

this ain't even hard. It's just a cooler, ain't It's

like kool aid. Go man, gonna hit it and see

you make the choice. Moment you grab the barber, it's

your choice. You made, and you're gonna run around tellingout

he made me drink and you're a lie. In one though,

I'm gonna tell you like this past I know says.

I'm gonna say it like he said. You're a liar

because you make your own choice. You make your own choice,

because you're a free moral agent. And this is how

we're different from animals. Hey man, we have been made

in the image of God. That's our difference. We have

been Animals make their own choices too, but the difference

is we've been made in the image of God. Hey, man,

Genesis one of twenty six says this God said, let

us make man in our image and in our likeness.

And also in Genesis two and seven says we read

in there and the Lord God formed man of the

dust of the ground and breathed into his nostrils the

breath of life. You don't read nowhere. He breathed in

no animal. He just gave him breath to breathe, because

the Bible said everything that had breath, let it praise

the Lord. So he gave him breath, but he didn't

breathe in him. See, when he breathed in the man,

he became a living soul. See, animals don't have souls.

And God, when he breathed in us, he breathed a

breath of life in us. And when he did that

man became a living soul. Yes, we possess a soul

that will live forever in one of two places. You See,

once you leave this place, you gonna wind up in

another place. It ain't but two places to go. And

you can get in your car and go to several places.

You can get in your car and drive to Memphis.

You in another place, you can keep on driving and

get in the Mississippi. You in another place. You can

go back the other way and wind up in a Tuchy.

I go to Ohio. You can get on a plane

and wind up in Seattle, La. That's a whole lot

of places while you in this place. But when you

leave this place, ain't but two places. You gonna wind

up either Heaven or Hell. That's all the choice you got.

And guess what, each and every one of us, our

own decisions, our own choice, We're gonna wind up in

one of those places. You can you can believe the

lies the man tell you if you want to, But

this Bible is true. I'm here to tell you the

Bible is true. And when the Bible tells us that

the angels in heaven are taking account of what we're doing,

that's a little nervous to me. Did they taking a count?

So so when your mama or your grandmama, your daddy

asked you, did you just cookies now crumbs all over

your face? No, it wasn't me. The angels, he lies,

they taking account. So the word of God says, they

taking account of everything you do. You on the phone

talking up under that Gal's clothes. He nasty. Write it down,

he nasty. They taking a camp. You know, I've often

seen in my mind people go before the Lord, because

I've seen the movie called Apocalypse, and it's the end

of time when Jesus Christ has come and the saints

of God are being swept out of the world and

their folks being left behind. And the one instant, the

lady was pushing her child down the street, and all

of a sudden, when she looked into the child's basket,

it wasn't nothing but his folded up clothes. And there

was a car that ran into a telephone pole by

And when they looked in the car, in the seat

of the car, it was the man whoever was driving it.

It wasn't nothing setting in the seat, but it's folded

up clothes, because God and Jesus had came and took

them out of here. And then they showed this. They

showed where this girl was in the church, setting on

the front row. The whole church was dark. The only

light in the church was shining on her, and it

was shining on the preacher standing behind the poor pit.

And she was talking to Glory to God, and she

was talking to the pastor. She said to the pastor,

why didn't you tell me the truth? He was left behind,

She was left behind. But I'm gonna say to you,

I ain't gonna tell you nothing but the truth. You

ain't gonna stand in there and go God, he didn't

tell me the truth because what I envisioned is a

big Everybody probably got a screen TV. Huh, but you

don't have one. Big as gods. God got a big

screen TV. And he don't need AT and T. He

don't need Internet, he don't need the Internet system, he

don't need Verizon Wireless. His stuff works off as his glory.

And when he speaks to us, see, God had all

this stuff before it even came to us. He could

speak to his TV. He already had voice recognition, and

he'll speak to that. He'll speak to that big fat

screen TV and say, uh, let me see, uh, let

me see Past Thomas. What you say You didn't what

you say Past Toming. Oh, there's past Thompsons there, Hugh.

He's preaching about. Yeah, yeah, yeah, he told it to you,

you Lee, he told it. It's right there. I recorded it.

I recorded it, and you'll do like you'll do like

the devil ain't me. And you can't lie to God

and he believes it. Put it like that, you lie

to him. Man, He know truth. See that thing about God?

He knows truth. God his a wonderful thing. You though

about God. He don't want anybody to be lost, but

the choice is ours. The choice is ours. God don't

want anybody to be lost, but the choice is our.

See the Bible says in Second Peter.

Three and nine, it says, if the Lord is not

slack concerning his promise as some counts slackness as some

count slackness, but is long suffering toward us.

He's long suffering toward us. God will wait on you

to get right. He was so powerful by God to me.

God will wait on you to get right. And he

know you ain't gonna never get right, but he'll still

wait on you to get right. That's an awesome God.

He's long suffering. He's not willing that any should perish.

It's not as will. He did not make man to perish.

That's why he's created. That's why he already had it

in the plan for the new Earth and the new

Heaven and the new Jerusalem, all in playing because he

because he made what God made in the beginning, he

gonna have in the end of all of this. See,

God's end is gonna be his beginning all over again.

When He made Adam and He and He, he made

them to live in a paradise. He made them delivering

no suffering, no crime, no pain, no disease, none of that.

He gonna have what he was gonna have in the

beginning in the end, and only those that believe and

hold on to God is gonna be there and get

what God has for us in the beginning. He's not

slack concerning that. It's not his will that we should perish,

but that all should come to repentance. All of us

need to come to repentance. It's not God's will that

we perish, not at all. It's not his will. His

will was for us to live in a paradise. So

see what we must understand is God is not slack

concerning his promise. It's all about his patience. It's just

because you seeing things go on and on and on.

God ain't slack. It's his patience that he allows it

to go on and on and own. But he ain't

slacked concerning his promise. He does not want anyone to perish.

He gives us time to repent, even though we know

he knows we will, who will and who won't. He's

not slack concerning his promise. He's just patient, and he

giving you time to repent. He's given the whole world

time to repent. That's the reason why God ain't destroyed

this whole system of things and came on with his

planing because of his patience and because of him not

wanting to every everyone to perish. He wanted everybody to

come in through the narrow gate. But we ain't gonna

Everybody ain't gonna make it in the narrow gate. And

the reason why the gate is narrow because it's only

one way to get through, and the only reason why

the other gate is broad, because you can get through

that gate any kind of where you want to get

through it. It'll open up. If it's this, why then

you find something new to do this? Even it'll evil,

it'll open up a little more pla. But the gate

of Heaven is narrow. It ain't gonna open it all.

It's stay fast, unmovable. It's gonna stay narrow. He knows

who will and who won't, because to tell you the truth.

God really is not delayed in his destruction of this world.

He's not delayed. It's just the Lord he has for us.

What he has for us, He wants all of us

to have it. Amen, because he loves us. He has

heaven for us. But soon his love will diminis. Amen,

because he also is gonna keep his word and end

it all at some time. Aymen. Oh yeah, God has patience.

But even God's patience comes to cease in the aught.

That's the reason why the Bible lets us know that

those that want to believe the lie God, after a while,

God's patience runs out on them, and God says, Okay,

then I'm just gonna give you over to a debase mind.

I'm gonna let you believe your lies. And that's it,

what you mean, that's it. That's it for you, that's

it for whoever. Once he gives you over to it,

it's a closed door to heaven. You in the same

condition the devil's in now. But God does not want

us to go into eternal punishment. He is not going

to force us though, to serve. Its not gonna force

us to serving. See a lot of people think they

got all their life to live. I remember one time

when I was in the penitentiary. This was a young

guy was ministering to him, and the older guy's got

a hold of him. Man, you don't need to hear

all that all the time. Man, you're young man. You

got all your life to live. Man. And then he

got a word in the penitentiary, brother Mary, that his

young twenty year old Patna got killed out in the

streets of Louisville. Can tuck you? So I got the

word too, and I saw him one day. I said, Man,

let me holler at you. He said, how men up?

I said, I ain't gonna preach to you, brother, I

know them old heads and got to you and them devils.

I said, but look, I just want to ask you

a question. I am anna preach to you. I said,

they told you you had all your life to live.

He said yeah. I said, but what happened to your friend?

He was just as young as you. He didn't have

all his life to live. That shook him up, and

I seen him in the chapel after that. See, you

don't have all your life to live. You have as

long as God allows you to live, and then Jesus

coming for you. Hey man, he's coming for you after while.

He gives us the ability to make our own choices,

because God does not want us to go into eternal punishment,

and he's not going to force us to serve him

because if he did that, we would be mere robots.

And God could have made robots if you wanted robots,

hey man. First Timothy two Enforced says, concerning God, who

desires all men to be saved and to come to

the knowledge of the truth. Come to the knowledge. This

the knowledge, and you need to know the truth about

this knowledge. That's the reason why God says that my

people perish because of lack of knowledge. He said the world.

He said, my people perish because of lack of knowledge.

The knowledge is this book, this book is Him. Because

they don't know him, they perish. I don't care what

you say about knowing him. If you ain't living what

you know, you don't. You don't you don't fear him,

and you don't really knowing like you should, because if

you really knew him, you would know just how powerful

God is. Because God does desire all men to be

saved and to come to the knowledge of the truth.

It is God's will that all be saved, but we

know that it's not going to happen. That's the sad part.

We have already seen that only few are going to

be saved and majority are going to be lost. But

the question is what about you? That's the question? What

about you? Like I say what about me? It ain't

just what about you? What about me? And I've answered mine,

ain't gonna be no what about me. I'm going on

the straight way into the pearly gates. I'm gonna hear

well done. I'm not going to hear depart from me.

Only time i'm gonna hear that is when one of

y'all tell me to get out of your face. So

you got to ask yourself. You can't look at somebody

else I can look at I can look at a

man on the bus stop, setting there, holding with a

bottle of jack Danga's setting there holding a blunt and

he got and he got a little bag of some

kind of white substance. I can look at him and

say he's on his way. But I don't know. I

don't know. I don't know what that man's destiny is.

I don't know what his destiny is. But the question is,

what is your destiny. See what I'm trying to tell you.

Only you know what your destiny is and gone. And

I don't know why people are so shocked, and so

many people lie about a person who lived a hell

as his life, die horrible death because of their life.

And the preacher standing on to me, here in a

better place, not a corner of this byll, not no

better place. The question is to your own self, what

is your destiny? If you miss heaven, you would be

thrown into eternal fire of hell. If you miss heaven. See,

you don't get a do over once you miss heaven.

And see one of the saddest things about going to

hell is the fact that it could have been avoided.

That's the saddest thing about going to hell. It could

have been avoided. It could have been avoided. The majority

of people will be lost in spite of what the

Lord has done for them, in spite of the Lord's

patience and his love and kindness, In spite of all

of that, they gonna still wind up in hell. Why

because they refuse to take on his will. See a person,

I tell people this and they don't like it. People

go to hell because they want to that they don't

even sound right, dude. People go to hell because they

want to. It's a choice they may cause both choices

have been given to them in life. I don't care

what they say. Both choices have been given to them

in life. And so a person who goes to Hell

is his own worst enemy. He's his own worst enemy.

Hell is not what God does to us, but hell

is what we do to ourselves. If one ends up

in Hell, he only has himself to blame, you know,

outside of people. You know, you know, I look at

Hell like jail, and I look at the penitentiary like

the leg of Phi. Because see when you in jail

and you're another crime where you've been sentenced to prison.

After a while, they you stay in jail until the

bus come get you to take you to prison. See

that's how I look at hell. Once you go to Hell,

then the bus gonna come get you and take you

and throw you in the legal Phi. The Bible said

all of hell will be thrown into the legal Phi.

But we only get on that bus because that's the

bus we want to ride here. You know, that's basically right.

You done flag down the bus. I always said like this,

you done flagged the bus down. It got hell all over.

They ain't just on the front of the bus like

these bus say I'm going downtown. It says I'm going

to Hell, and them going to hell. I'm going to hell.

They got they got signs running around the bus telling

you it's going to hell. And you still Hey, let

me get there, Let me get a ride. It's your charge.

You took that ride because that's where you wanted to

ride to. Because if you end up in Hell, it's

only for you to blame. It ain't like it's just

like folks that go to jail. I say, I look

at jail like like hell, and and penitentiary like the

lake of fire. Because people go to jail, many people

in jail. They'll tell you that I got locked up

because he snitched on me. He the one told them.

Listen to what he said. He the one told them

I rob that bank. He the one told me to

shoot him, shoot her. Listen to that conversation, because I've

listened to many hers. It's the choice you make. The

verse also tells us that before we can be saved,

we must come to the knowledge of truth. Well, the

knowledge of truth is the reason why you can be

saved and the reason why you want to be saved

because Jesus said in John eighteen thirty two, and ye

shall know the truth. And once you know that truth,

the truth shall make you free. So you got to ask,

you said, what is the truth? What's the truth? Once

you know the truth, the truth shall make you free.

So if somebody tell you, once you know the truth,

the truth should make you free, you should be asking

what's the truth? Because if you don't know, you need

to be saying you want to be free. How many

people want to be enslaved? How many people want to

be bound to somebody? How many people won't want somebody

to rule and run their own, run their life, and

they got a life of they own to run. Everybody

want to be free. They got good sense. People in

the penitentiary want to be free. People in jail want

to be free, People in the land, up in the

hospital want to be free. People laying up in the

bed at home want to be free. Everybody want to

be free. And if the truth will make you free,

don't you want to know what the truth is? So

you got to ask, what is the truth that will

make me free? Well, if you look in this Bible

John seventeen and seventeen says Jesus says this, sanctify them

by your truth. Your word is truth. There it is Amen.

And so in conclusion, because I don't want to be

along with this, because I want this to sink in.

Sometimes you can say something for so long and get

into it and folks just lose focus. So the word

of God is the truth, and that will make us free,

so that we can go to heaven. Amen. Only the

truth of God will make you free. I didn't say

it will set you free. I said it will make

you free, because that's what the Bible says. Amen. It said,

and you shall know the truth, and you shall know

the truth, and then comes an end, and the truth

shall make you free, hey man. And then the question

is what is the truth? The word of God is

the truth. I want you to participate. Why do people

go to hell? Wait? Boy, let me get you answer,

and then you get answer. Why do people go to

hell because they won't to here? We