Tell It Before The Day Breaks | Pastor Paul McGee

Available to them is the field. All they have available to them

is the emptiness. All they have available to them

are poor choices and poor decisions aiming to try to

satisfy their deep hunger. It's a gospel story, the death

of this generation, as I see it even in my hour, is this, that

my generation has a relentless hunger as well.

And it's best seen in the argument, I believe, that we

even find in the Book of Kings between two women that have made

a pact that today will sacrifice your son and eat it, and

tomorrow will sacrifice my son and eat it.

So our hungers might be satisfied and we are overwhelmed

when we realize that the woman speaks to the prophet about it.

Because she's not even really upset that she boiled her son

yesterday. She's upset because the woman

didn't go on and make right on her end to boil her son today so

they could satisfy their desires.

It's a gospel story. Second Kings Chapter 7, Amen is

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the same story of our day. Because I witness with my very

own eyes places I travel in here within my own city.

There are hungry people, so to speak, all around and they feel

trapped by their circumstances and they feel trapped by the

surroundings that they find themselves in.

And they are without means to acquire anything that they need

to totally satisfy their hunger. Their actions are acts of

desperation. Amen.

There are people dying every day, every passing hour next to

you in our community. There are people dying, even if

you will, with a hunger that's yet to be satisfied.

They have no answers. They have no solution.

They have, if you will, no direction.

And they're settling for less than perfect appeasements to try

to satisfy something that can only be satisfied.

Divide by 1. They it's a gospel story.

Because, Brother Mason, I see it in my generation.

Men and women, if I can say it like this, are bartering away

future generations for their appeasement.

We might not be putting our kids on a proverbial fire, but we're

sacrificing them none the less. Because of what I feel I need

and the hunger I have and the appetite, honey, sacrificing

1,000,000 generations in the future won't appease that.

We need the power. We need the unction.

We need a touch of God's spirit. Yes, yes, Hallelujah.

God, thank you.

I'm going to do a lot of sweating in the next weeks.

I'm going to try to curb it right now.

All of this highlights their hunger.

It shows they're dissatisfied with what's available and any

solution or any extreme they try leaves them lonely for something

more yet different. Prophet Isaiah offered a rebuke

to those who tried to satisfy their soul hunger with things

that could not nourish. He said in Isaiah 55, Wherefore

it's a question he poses, Wherefore do you spend money for

that which is not bread, and your labor for that which

satisfieth not? If I could, he could be easily

speaking back into the day of the four lepers.

Why are you buying dove's dung and donkey heads for a

indescribable appetite that will not be appeased by those sort of

things, that type of thing? The writer of Proverbs 1325 says

The righteous eat of the to the satisfying of his soul, but the

belly of the wicked shall want. In other words, they may have

indulged in the products of their situation, dungs, doves,

dung and and donkey heads, but it would never fulfill.

Eat the donkey's head if you desire, consume the dove's

tongue if you want. And some of them even having

that cannibalistic approach a man by surrendering their future

sons and daughters to their desires.

But you know what happens when the dust settles and the blast

bone of the donkey's head is vanished and the dung has

depleted and your sons and daughters are gone.

There's still a hunger. There's still an appetite.

There's still something that needs satisfied.

Was it not the prodigal son in Luke chapter 15 that the Bible

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says so? It was Amen with him as it was

with those in this scripture and in our generation.

The Bible describes that the turning point of the prodigal

begins with what and with any generation.

It begins with hunger. The Bible says that the prodigal

began to be in want. He left with half of the goods.

OT him from his father, but he spent it and he heaped it upon

riotous living. But the Bible says when he began

to be in want, when he got hungry again, when he had an

appetite and there wasn't anything fulfilling the

appetite. And the Bible says that no man

gave unto him. He couldn't get it from anybody.

He couldn't get it from brother, father, sister, mother.

He couldn't get it from those that he had hung out with.

He couldn't get it from both that he served in the pigpen

with. He couldn't find it nowhere.

He was hungry. That was his turning point.

Scripture is preaching today. The poor lepers.

I preached it last week. We can't re preach it.

OK? We don't have time.

But they surrendered to their circumstances.

Relinquish control over trying to dictate the outcome of life

or death for themselves. They headed toward the Syrian

camp. And when these lepers, these

hungry folks, and no, this is amazing to me.

It seems the camera is focusing more on their hunger than their

disease at this moment. The disease is there, but their

concern in the moment is not the disease being cured, but the

hunger being satisfied. They arrive in this Syrian camp

and the Bible says they start to denote there's nobody around.

And they go into one tent. And as they're there, they find

more food and more drink than their eyes have laid upon in

several, several days. And the Bible says they begin to

eat and they begin to drink and they begin to consume what was

there. And then the Bible says they

left that tent and they went to another tent.

I want you to notice that there was even more in the first tent

than what they can consume because the Bible says they

gathered some of the things along with the silver and the

goat. Let's stop for a moment.

Not only did they find things to satisfy their hunger, they found

extra additional benefits that went beyond just the base

satisfaction of their hunger. And they took some of those

things. The Bible says it's in your

Bible. And they hid them.

And then they went to another tent.

My goodness, it looks like someone just even spread a table

for us. And they're eating, they're

drinking, and they're picking up stuff and they're hiding it and

they're putting it here and they're putting it there.

They're carrying away silver and code and rain.

They are overwhelmed by everything that they have

discovered. Amen.

So they're choosing just another tent and going to another place

with the same results, grabbing all they can, hiding all they

can, stockpiling it on the left, stockpiling it on the right.

And that's what they needed. That's what they've been hoping

for. They found it.

They found it, but something gripping happens in verse #9

Then they said one to another. We do not well, and that might

throw us off Kelter just a little bit.

What? You mean not well?

You've been starving for days. You've been hungry for a long

time. You found that there's food at

your disposal. There's plenty here to drink,

even the stockpile and hide. What you mean you do not Well,

they said this day. Here's a day of good tidings.

It's a day of good news. This, this, this is, if you

will, a marvelous gospel day. But rather than tell anybody

else, rather than share with anybody else that's hungry,

we're mounting up all the food and all the drink and all the

benefit for ourselves. We're going to the degree of

hiding it for ourselves at another time, while somebody not

far back at Samaria is starving and going to die.

Let me read it in just a few different versions.

They may not be up there, but in the complete Jewish Bible it

says it like this. But finally they said to each

other, what are we doing? What we are doing is wrong.

At a time of good news like this we shouldn't keep it to

ourselves. If we wait till even till

morning, we will earn only punishment.

The due rings American edition says they said to one another,

We do not well, for this is a day of good tidings.

If we hold our peace and do not tell it till the morning, we

shall be charged with a crime. The Message Bible paraphrases it

like this. We shouldn't be doing this.

This is a day of good news, and we're making it a private party.

We should not wait around until morning until we get caught and

punished. What are you saying, Brother

McGee? I'm saying the lepers had come

on a scene of good news. If I can say it like this, it

was victory news. And the victory news was

basically this. The enemy is gone and there's

food and surplus. The enemy is gone and there is

food and surplus. The enemy is he's gone because

the Lord has evicted him and there's food and surplus.

That's the gospel story. That's the gospel truth.

But thus far, these boys are heaping upon themselves the

enjoyment of it without sharing it with anyone else.

Her like the message said, they were having a private party.

It's the showing up to the First Apostolic Church Club on Sunday

morning, Sunday night and Wednesday, celebrating what we

discovered, stockpiling it, even maybe getting our feel and

carrying off the extra benefits for hiding for a later time, but

never sharing the word with someone that was just as much in

a dire condition as I was before I discovered it, that needs it.

I'm keeping it all to my praise God, Hallelujah self.

We need to remember every time you come in here and stand and

can raise your hands and feel the presence of God, someone out

there is wanting to feel that. Every time you come up for

prayer and they lay hands on you and you come back with the

report that you've been healed or God changed the verdict,

somebody else out there is needing that.

You know what the turning point for those lepers were whenever

they came to the conclusion there's other people besides us

that are hungry. There's other people besides us

that are thirsty. There's other people besides us

that are died. Church, we got to come, if you

will, to a consciousness that I'm not the only one that was in

the dregs of sin. I'm not the only one that was

far from God, apart from God, had no citizenship, had no

ownership in this sake. So much.

Hey, man, they weren't the only ones impacted by the war and the

famine and the poor decisions. And I'll say to balance things

out in case someone thinks, oh, Brother McGee, bless his heart,

he must be getting ready for camping and he's speaking out of

his head. There's nothing wrong with us

celebrating our salvation. There's nothing wrong with being

caught in the afterglow of what Christ has done for us.

There's nothing wrong with basking in the perks and the

benefits and the blessings. Amen, of being His and being

cared for by Him. But we err.

We've done wrong, as they say, when we've gone from tent to

tent and have failed to let any other hungry people know what

God has done and what we've discovered.

Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.

They knew it, Bishop. They said we have glad tidings.

They knew it. We've got good news.

But keeping it silent is the injustice because listen, this,

this is this. Samaria was under siege right by

this camp of the Syrians. With that, the Syrian camp is

not far displaced from where the city they have under siege.

It's not custom. They're usually pretty close to

the city that they have under siege.

That means where they're celebrating, where they're

having a heyday and have all this food and all this stuff

where they are doing it. Not far from where they stood,

people were dying of hunger. Not far from where they were

stockpiling the abundance, mothers were trading future

generations to try to appease their incurbed appetites for

something more. Not far.

Can I tell you it's right outside our doors?

It's right across our street. It's an adjacent neighbor to the

church. Something coming on these boys,

they said. If we keep silent about this, if

we keep doing what we're doing right now until the day breaks

to woes us, if we'll not be guilty of a crime, woes up, it's

mischief will befall us. What's the mischief?

Because whenever day comes, everybody's going to know.

Everybody's going to know what was available.

But they do it while it was still the night season.

There's a new day coming. Every eye will be open.

Feats in heaven, things of the earth, things before the below.

The earth will testify that he is Lord.

Well, I've come to declare on this Sunday morning that before

the revelation of a new day brings it, those that have

discovered it in the night season need to tell it.

Before the day breaks need to share it.

Before the day breaks, need to someone's saying the gospel, the

good tidings, Amen. The tidings that God had

defeated their enemies and it caused them to flee and had left

a safe place, Amen. To satisfy their hunger.

There were others that needed to know that and that was the news.

That was the tidings that needed to be shared and along with

those tidings, it also need to be shared.

Not only will your hunger be satisfied, but there are other

benefits in this case. Amen.

Gold and silver and Rain Man extras, if you will, that will

be beneficial to your life. But let me tell you where it's

hot need to be shared. Before the new day, before the

darkness parted, Before the night seized and the dawn broke.

Listen to pastor today, there are people in need of what you

have in their dark season wasn't good for them to keep it to

themselves and just for themselves because more could

benefit from it. Marian Thompson pinned to him

years and years ago. These are some of the lyrical

lines of her hymn called O Zion Hayes.

She said, Behold, how many thousands are still lying bound

in the darksome prison House of sin, with none to tell them of

the Savior's dying, or of the life He died for them to win.

We if we don't tell, mischief will fall.

The word mischief there is defined as.

It's a comprehensive word that includes not only iniquity but

also the consequences of that iniquity.

That's the summation of the meaning of the word mischief

here. In other words, these 4 lepers

strongly felt that to keep the good news to themselves would be

akin to sinning. So I bow my head and I say, God

forgive us for hiding it, for stockpiling it for ourselves.

God forgive us for celebrating it but never sharing it.

Come on, Oh my Jesus. Amen.

Amen. The lepers had to share the

news. Please hear me.

The lepers had to share the news in this night season because the

people in Samaria, due to ignorance, not knowing, thought

they were confined and stuck in the city of Samaria just as much

as they ever had being under siege.

Process for a moment. Poor boys have got away.

They're celebrating God, all the goods of the abundance, but

there's a bunch of other people ignorant of the freedom they

already have, and if no one ever gave any information to help

them be any wiser, they would be stayed captive in a city that

was unguarded now. Those four boys had to let them

know why you staying inside the walls because there is no threat

now outside the walls For that matter, what you've been hung

during days for is just a little space from you.

The truth for those on the inside of Samaria that they

needed to hear was simply this, that they were free and that

there were there was provision for them.

The answer to their hunger was an ear.

It's going to be close. Those 4 lepers, they returned in

the scripture says that this is your Bible.

I'm telling you, the Bible's preaching itself.

These four lepers returned to the city, the city that they had

been outside of, hungry. The Bible says they holler out

to the porters or the gatekeepers of the city.

And the porters hear the news of what these 4 lepers have.

And the Bible says that the porters then go and inform the

King's house that there was food abundant and that their enemy

was missing in action. Listen, I know we have we, we

have more means, more venues, more ways today to convey the

message of the Gospel than ever before in the history of

mankind. And it's going to even ramp

further up as far as ways and multitudes of ways and accesses

that we have in order to do that than ever before.

But I'll tell you this. Nothing will ever bypass the

good old word of mouth of tell your neighbor, tell your family,

tell your friend and allow them to tell somebody else they told

it. Maybe they were quoting Psalms.

I don't know. Psalms was in existence yet.

Maybe. Well, David wrote some Psalms

early on. It may have already happened

where David says that God giveth food to the hungry.

I don't know what was on their lips, but they were spilling it.

He meant about where food was. They understood it wasn't good

for them to have an oversupply for themselves.

They understood that rather than an oversupply for themselves, it

needed to be an oversupply for the multitudes that were still

in need of it. And here's what I know they

still wouldn't lack because the Bible says later they're even

then selling some of the things in the marketplace.

So that tells me there was enough for everybody who wanted

and then some even that there was extra for selling.

You'll never exhaust this gospel.

You'll never exhaust this gospel.

And I don't know if this is the most there's a lot of sobering

moments in that verses that I read in your hearing today.

This is one of them that whenever news proliferated

through the city of Samaria, Reese of what was available, you

read in Scripture, there's a man that's being a watcher at the

gate. He's like a gatekeeper.

The Bible describes there's such a Stampede of people leaving

Samaria, going through the gate, that the man actually loses his

life because of the desperation of everybody that was hungry,

that learned where provision was because someone shared it.

I don't think you understand. I don't think you really

understand the desire and the hunger of those that are just

waiting on a word to know where to find the food.

Steph, we talk about, we talk about Buffalo stampeding, we

talk about this Stampede. I'm talking about people that

are so adamant about I've been waiting for this moment.

I've been waiting to hear. I've lost too many days on

things that didn't satisfy happen.

Wait no more. There's bread.

There's food just a short distance from someone, say man,

they trampled furiously through that day that had been held

hostage by their fear. They've been held hostage by

their adversary. They've been held hostage by

hopelessness. But now they're going hard at

it. They're advancing toward the

source and the supply that in their mind they thought was

impossible, that they thought was forever elusive, that their

hand would never grab a hold of. They thought it was inaccessible

to them. But now someone said no, it's

for you, it's for me, it's for whoever once said and for

unnamed lepers told them what it was and where it was, and it was

for them. That's the proclaiming of the

Gospel. See, what was exiting Samaria

were starving people. Not for leprous stockpilers.

I shared this with our I shared this with our leadership a few

few weeks back. It's summertime, so I'm on

preacher overload. Once a camp meeting finishes, I

go and I start listening to the preaching.

I'll skip all the music. I go straight to the preaching.

I listen to preaching each day. Boom, boom, boom, boom, boom.

So I've heard, I've heard messages out here through the

summer. I like that.

Just like to do it. You have your, you have your

hobby. That's one of mine.

Listen to it while I'm, oh, listen to it while I get ready.

Listen to it while I'm going to bed.

Listen to I'm getting dressed. Listen to driving down the road.

Minister Scott Graham, actually it was, he's telling the story.

He said they're at the churches that there was a lady that come

in, came in the back double doors.

So she no sooner got in the building.

She just crying. She's carrying on tears going

down herself face. She found herself a place to

sit. He'd never noticed her being

there to pull her for. She's just crying songs going

on. She's crying.

He said we're even giving the announcements.

This lady's crying. He said sometimes announcements

make me cry too. He said, but she was just

crying, just crying just seemed to be tore up.

I mean everything, prayer request, the whole 9 yards, all

of that. So just crying, doing all this

stuff said it came to the conclusion of his sermon and

stuff and she came forward. She's still crying.

He said, ma'am, he said, can I just ask you?

He says, I've noticed since you've been in here all the

time, you've been through every has with this ever.

You've just been crying. Said, said, you know what's

going on? And she said, well, I don't know

what's going on. I don't really know what all

this is. And so we understood that she

was new and everything and, and he, he knew what was going on.

He, he, he was just trying to get that, that dialogue back and

forth. First.

She had picked up on anything. I don't know, just everything.

As soon as I get on this parking lot, I just start crying and

just emotional mess. He says, well, Hun, he says what

you're doing. He says that that's you're just

feeling the presence of the Lord.

She says, if that's the case, she says, then why isn't anybody

else crying? Because we've become

stockpilers. We've become professional,

celebratory people of hiding and tucking away wire experience

when they're starving. People be willing to beat down

the door to get some food. We know where food is and we

nonchalantly will go there at our own will.

I'm the meddling pastor and I'm at home.

We treat prayer rooms like that. We treat altar calls like that.

Somebody would like to cry at this altar.

Somebody would like to feel a thimble of what you feel in the

prayer room the two minutes you spend back there.

We got to tell it before morning breaks.

Oh, God, Stampede starving people.

I mean, inside, inside some area, two women, one in

particular to sacrifice their children for some benefit.

And you know what that in essence is, is part and parcel

to fall out of. I'm not having any tidings of

good news. But when they heard about it and

it was confirmed, nobody could stop them.

Again, there was a man to the gate.

Verse 17. I'm hastening to work close.

It was his responsibility, the gatekeeper was his

responsibility, to control things at the gate.

What came in, what went out frequency, all the things to

control what was at the gate. But when the people on the Hurt

Inside heard where the provision was, no one could stop them.

Protocol of control at the gate was out the window.

The people couldn't be controlled because they were

responding according to their need.

I love opening with a word, having 2 songs, having prayer

request, 2 songs, and an offering.

But there's a longing in my soul for more frequencies when no one

can control the gate because there's too much hunger for the

need of what's in the house. You stand with me today.

Hungry people will go where food is.

It's incumbent upon us to tell them where it is.

And what we've discovered must not hold our peace, must not

consume the experience upon ourselves.

Because there's more than enough for us that's sitting here today

and for anyone else who needs it.

It's the gospel glad tidings, it's the glorious news.

It's victory, it's hope. But I'm praying for us this

morning. We can close our eyes.

I'm praying and I know we have a baby dedication.

We've not forgotten about that. But I'm praying that we would

grab the conviction of the four forgotten men on the edge of

society. That said, this is a day of good

news, good tidings, and we hold our peace.

That they were convicted to the point that they deemed that

their silence, if they kept it as such, would be a sin.

That their delay would be dangerous, and that waiting till

morning would only mean that someone was going to die in the

dark, not knowing that freedom was already theirs.

So this morning, First Apostolic Church, this, this is our

moment. You've been born in the year

that you've been born to be a part of this era and generation.

God has not done that by accident.

It's our day of good tidings. The world is dying in the night

and we've been feasting on the truth.

But we cannot stay silent. We cannot stay quiet.

We must not stockpile it up, ladies and gentlemen.

We must never be a hoarder of it again.

Before morning comes, we must tell it before another soul

gives up. Got to share it before the

gates. Before the gates break.

With desperation we got to go. We must, we must, we must

proclaim it. Because the story is written.

The enemy has fled to a degree, and Christ has won.

There's more than enough for every hungry soul who hears.

I don't want the final riding upon this church to be They held

their peace in the night. I don't want the final riding

upon my own life to be that. When the world was starving, I

didn't hasten to point them to the feast.

No, I wanted to be said they towed it before the day broke.

These halters are open. Those of you that have

experienced the power of the Holy Ghost.

Those of you that experienced the clizzing that happens going

down in Jesus name in a watery grave, the baptism.

Those of you that have experienced a touch of God upon

your health, physical health and mental health.

Hallelujah. That's giving guidance to your

uncertain footsteps. I want you to be in the

afterglow in the celebration of that.

But I want you to leave them with a holy unction and a

sobering conviction that I got to tell it to somebody else

that's starving. I've got to tell it to somebody

else that's dying. I got to tell it to somebody

else that is perishing. That the enemy is defeated and

that there is plenty of what they need in him.

It's the story of the Gospel. Hallelujah, Jesus.

Come on, Sir, ma'am, you have a mother, a father, a friend, a

uncle, an acquaintance, A cashier that you frequent,

someone who does your hair, your mechanic.

You're somebody, a neighbor. Talent before the day breaks

cannot. Don't keep it to yourself.

Don't hide it to yourself. Don't enjoy the perks of it

yourself. Somebodies dying, somebodies in

need. Somebody has a longing that only

Jesus can satisfy. It's available today.

His spirit, His power, it's available today.

You can bring your hurts, your woes, your fears.

You can feel that. You can bring your trepidation.

You can feel being like you're back in a corner and that it's

hopeless and that things are inaccessible to you, that you're

down and out on your luck. You can bring that to an altar

today. God is here.

There's food here. There's food for the hungry here

today. And the enemy has been set at

Bay. He's here for you this morning.

Somebody else share it. Somebody else tell it.

Somebody else echo it from the mountaintop.

Let's talk to him right now. If you don't know him, I invite

you to know him. If you know him, I invite you to

share it with somebody who don't, or someone that may be

inquisitive. There's a longing there.

There's a desire there. There's a hunger there.

Oh yes.