Will You Wake Up? | Bishop McGee

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Lord this morning and maybe hopefully today without rain.

Amen. It's been a week of rain and but

that's all right. God knows best, don't he.

Hallelujah. Good to see Pastor and family

back. I did them back with us this

morning. Amen.

Sigh of relief and thankful they're back.

You man, Glad all of you came this morning.

I want to turn to Saint John chapter #11 thank you, Jesus.

I'll just admit to you that this has been a while coming.

It's in fact it's been about over two years.

And so this morning we're we're going to get into this a little

bit. John.

Levin, I want to. Read this 2 verses and you can

be seated 43 and 40. Four and when he.

Had thus had spoken. He cried with a loud voice.

Lazarus, come forth. And he that was.

Dead came forth. Bound hand and foot.

With grave clothes and his face was bound about with a.

Napkin and Jesus said unto them, Loose him, and let him go.

Heavenly Father, I thank you, Lord, for Your word this

morning, for His forever settled.

In heaven, asking you. God to move in our midst this

morning. God that you would take this

message, Lord, and use it for your glory.

Lord, we need your help. We need your anointing this

morning. God, we need you to stop by

here. God and touch hearts.

And souls, today we ask it, Lord, in that lovely name of

Jesus. A man and a man and you can be.

Seated praise the. Lord Hallelujah.

Well, I'm not. Going to just.

Start it with a title this morning.

I'll I'll get to that in just a little bit, but I.

I want to talk a little bit about Lazarus.

Lazarus was sick. And died.

And he'd been dead for four days when Jesus showed up.

And Martha declares to Jesus by this time he stinketh.

Yet when Jesus called him, he came out of the grave.

I want you to know, you know that Martha didn't mince any

words when she talked to Jesus because in verse 39, it tells

that part of the story that Jesus said, take you away the

stone. Martha, the sister of him that

was dead, saith unto him, Lord, by this time he stinketh, for he

had been dead 4 days. Amen.

I began to roll over in my mind and I began to think back when

mother died and and Hospice gave us a book and that book when

mother took control, when they took control of mother's health

right before she passed. And that book LED you through

the process to death. And it was a wonderful book.

It answered most of your questions and it stated that the

last sense that left you before death was hearing.

And I have heard many from the medical field say the same

thing, which led me to believe that this must be so.

It seems that Lazarus case the first thing that must have come

back to him was his hearing, because when Jesus called, he

answered a man all right now I'm going to I'm going to minister

this this morning. Will you wake up?

Will you wake up on March the 23rd, 2022.

I was well on my. Way to leaving this world and

some of you know. That as normal.

I took my glucose reading before bedtime and it was 185, which in

most cases meant I was fine as normal.

I was good for the night. I took my Lantus and you know,

shot, laid down for the night of rest.

Surprisingly, in a short while, Sister McGee said I was kicking

my legs and throwing my arms uncontrollably and she spoke to

me but I didn't respond. She called Brother Paul and said

you better get over here, you better call 91 O1 and you better

get over here because something is bad wrong.

Your dad is not responding. I was in a state.

Of unconscience I couldn't hear, I couldn't see, I couldn't

nothing I didn't know. Any of this was going on.

Amen. A coma.

I don't know, I guess I was maybe.

Some I was unconscious anyhow, only the Lord knows.

And I don't remember any of those things that I just

mentioned. I'm I'm only doing by what I was

told by kids. By my wife and.

All of that. Amen.

My glucose was taking it somewhere in that time, and it

was 23, Sister McGee said. She began to administer one of

the bottles of glucose that's that I carry with me all the

time and kind of began to just kind of pour a little of it at.

A time, very slowly. Down me and 911's on the way and

all of. That and when.

She began to minister that slowly.

During that time, Paul junior, I guess, showed up.

Sister Rhonda showed up and 911. Showed up and.

Guess who was on the 9111? Call that night it was nobody

but our. Blessed Brother Tyler Cruz.

What a blessing. I think it was a God thing.

I really do. I think it was a God thing that

he was there that night. Amen.

And. The first thing that I remember

was during this time. I I didn't know it, but you know

he. Had me all hooked.

Up and they was doing their thing and.

I The first thing I remember is hearing voices.

Voices that I. Recognized my son, my daughter

and and my wife and. Brother Tyler, I recognize that.

Voice and and. But but I couldn't respond to

them. I could hear, but I could not

respond. I couldn't open my eyes.

I I. I couldn't.

Respond to them for a while and then and after a little while I

was able to open my eyes and see this beautiful round faced

gentleman looking down on me smiling and he said I'm.

Giving you some mashed. Potatoes to.

Sweeten you up. A little.

I was surrounded by people that were filled with the Holy Ghost.

It just wasn't my time to go. God wasn't.

Through yet Amen and. I'm glad we have some emergency

personnel in our church that are trained to save lives now.

I feel Holy Ghost a little here now.

Amen. Lord, he gives me orders to get

something to eat. Imagine that just like Jesus did

when Jairus's daughter was raised from the dead.

And he you, you, you notice every time through the through

the Bible, when somebody was raised from the dead, Jesus say,

you know, go, go get something to eat.

So that's, that's what, that's what Brother Tyler said when I

woke up. He said you need to go get

something to eat. So I did.

Hey man, now I'm in the main part of my message that I want

to preach to you this morning. I want to focus.

I want you to focus with me on a very serious question that I

will be asking through this. Will you awake?

Amen. I believe we have some people

that's under the sound of my voice this morning that are well

on their way to an unconscious state or maybe already are in

that state and not aware that they're in it glory now.

I didn't I didn't realize that this was going to happen.

I had no idea that it was going to happen to me.

I remember back early in in when I first was diagnosed with

diabetes that I remember I having a 24 and walking from my

bedroom to the kitchen and sitting down at the table and my

wife come in and said, what do you want?

I I couldn't just really find the refrigerator and and I drink

2 pepsis down real quick. She said you want me to call 911

and I said no, it'll be all right by the time they.

Get here and. And and it come up Amen.

But I'm going to tell you there is a time for every purpose.

The Bible teaches that. And I believe we have some

people here that are in a state that they're unconscious, but.

Don't realize they're unconscious.

Somebody shout danger. That's dangerous.

You know what? They are in a no response state.

Their arms and legs are moving. But they're not here.

They're going through the motions.

They're here, but they're not here.

That worries me. I began to think how this fit in

so well because this we're living in a world today that's

that's not responsive anymore. They they don't worry about the

word of God. They don't worry about church.

And some that comes to church don't come like they should.

I'm going to tell you, if we're not careful, it'd be very easy

to slip in that unresponsive state and say it's all.

Right, it's just. One Sunday, it's just this.

It's just that it's just, I'm not, I'm not backslid.

I'm doing all right. I still got the Holy Ghost.

God still moves on me. Come on, church.

We got to watch it. Or we can just fall into that,

no responsive state in nothing flat and not understand that

we've already fallen from where we were.

Hallelujah. Thank you.

Jesus, is anybody with me this morning?

The Lord is trying to wake you up, but you're not responding to

the medicine. Will you wake up?

You just can't seem to get back. Can't seem to get back.

I couldn't seem to get back. I, I heard voices, but I

couldn't open my eyes. I, I, I wasn't sure what was

going on. I just heard voices.

I'm like, whoa, what happened to me?

What's going on here? I've got family here.

I ain't even aware that they come in, but all at once I hear

voices. I'm praying this morning, you

know, that God will let you return to where you can hear

some voices. I'm praying you can get in that

hearing state again if the last thing that goes is your hearing.

Then I was close to gone because I didn't know nothing period.

Not one thing do I remember of any of that until I come back to

and seeing Brother Tyler standing or sitting over me.

I think he was in a. Chair, I'm not sure, don't even

remember that. For sure.

But I'm going to tell you something.

We're in a state in church. We need to.

Wake up. We need to wake up.

We need to wake up to what's going on in this world.

The signs of time are all pointing toward home.

We've got a, a messed up, we've got a messed up political

system. Our judicial system is terrible.

You know, we, we let we get people in for rape and the few

days they're out and they're running the streets and gives

them a chance to do something else.

Come on church, we got to watch what we're doing.

We don't want to become come unresponsive in this state.

Hallelujah. I want God to do something in

his church. We cannot allow the unresponsive

thing to take over in our life. Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah, just. Can't seem to get back.

We're trying. We're moving our arms.

It looks like we're here. We're we're going through the

motions, so to speak, but we're not here.

We're checking in and out. Yeah.

And I'm not even sure we check when we go back out or check

when we come in. We're just in and out, but we

don't realize we're there and probably couldn't tell you half

of what went on while we was there.

Because you're not really here. That's a dangerous state to get

in. Hallelujah.

I want you to know that the longer you stay in this state of

unconsciousness, the less. Chance you have Megan back, Is

that right brother? Tyler, the longer you're in that

unconscious state, the less chance.

You have of coming back. I thank God that everybody was

in a hurry for Bishop McGee that night, brother.

Tyler said when he heard the address.

That I know who that is. That's Bishop and I.

I I thank God for him. I was surrounded.

By people with the Holy Ghost. Come on, you, I'm going to tell

you something. I, I know I, I want to make sure

I get this across. I said I was around people that

was filled with the Holy Ghost. You want to watch your company,

your surroundings means a lot. Come on, you can get out of a

circle and if you're not careful, you'll be sucked in.

We're we're in that come on, I'm I'm going to tell you every

place you look today, there's bright lights.

You know, everything's if you if you watch commercials and I get

tired of sick and. Well, I get tired of.

Sick, Sick of TV. Even just watching it, it's

junk. Nothing on there.

Fit to watch and and you know I it it the.

Commercials, even it's bright lights and this and that.

And even when they even when they they, they, they come

across there with all. These new.

Medicines and how great they are, and then they tell you

they'll. Kill you.

I mean, I go through all this mess.

You know and. It'll do it'll, it'll do the

very same thing that you're trying to combat said well.

Yeah. Oh yeah, that's.

That's what I want. I might as well stay where I'm

at, you know? Hey, least I'm living and moving

and have my breath and I have my.

Being come on, Hallelujah. So we want to watch or we get in

that unconscious state and we we stay there.

If we're not careful, you can stay too long and get

comfortable in that state. And it becomes a danger.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

I don't know. But I I began to think, and it

was a it was a good thing that night that Brother Tyler was the

one that came to my rescue. Thank you, Brother Tyler Cruz.

I'm glad you were on duty. And I think it was God's will

that you be on duty. Amen.

I had. Holy Ghost people around.

Me. Amen.

I, I, I won't forget. And it's been a little while

ago, but I remember Sister Jen and I don't even remember what

happened. I wasn't over here when it

happened, but something happened.

She was down the. Floor I don't remember, but I

remember that night that I come up behind and brother Tyler was

down there praying for his wife. Something happened.

I don't I don't know where she passed out on what happened, but

she. Was in the floor and he was

praying for her and all at once I.

Heard the Holy Ghost speaking through that boy.

He was. He was speaking in tongues.

And I don't know but that that give.

Goosebumps on my goosebumps 'cause I'm glad he still got the

Holy Ghost. Holy Ghost hadn't left him.

Praise the Lord. Come on, Church.

We got to understand not to get in the unconscious state.

I said thank you, Lord. Brother Tyler's not in the

unconscious state. Come on.

He still knows. He's still He's still tuned in.

I don't know about you, but I get worried if I ain't tuned in.

I get worried if I ain't hearing from God once in a while.

I get I'm worried when I don't pray and I don't, and I give

time to listen. He's not talking.

Hallelujah, I've been through that in my life.

After heart surgery. I I know how.

That is, it's, it's not good. It's it's a bad thing.

It's a dangerous position. Hallelujah.

Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah.

I began to think it was a good thing they were there and it was

a good thing that my family was all there to be with me during

this time. And I thought, you know, I don't

know, you know, you they could they come.

On, on, Caleb's got a little thing and it's a Friday thing

and. You know, and they say this is

happy dance Friday. What have you got to have happy

dance about? And I thought, I don't know, is

I've ever had a happy dance for that.

Maybe I already just do it. And, you know, maybe you'd want

to join in. Maybe something's happened to

you, Dravel, you know, a while ago and God's move for you and

you haven't had a happy dance about it.

Yeah. Come on, we.

Need to thank God. We need to thank God for what

He's done. In our life and what he's doing

right now. We need to thank God that we're

not unconscious. Come on.

We're a state of consciousness, and we know.

What's going on? Hallelujah.

Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah, you're just.

Coming out of unconscious. State maybe?

Maybe you have just started hearing.

And maybe. You've just started singing.

That's important thing, man, if you can see and hear, thank God.

Come on, if you're still hearing his voice, Oh, thank God.

Hallelujah. If you're, if you're.

Able to see if you're able to read the word and that don't

bother you and it does you. Good and you can.

Read. That then thank God.

You're conscience. At least it gives.

You a desire to want to pick up the word of.

God and to read it. What a great thing, God.

Hallelujah, I'm going to tell you what.

All I can think about is through this is Lord Jesus we need.

Somebody to be an EMT for some unconscious person.

We need somebody. A man to be EMT, Spiritual EMT

in the church to be concerned about.

Somebody. That's about to go under.

That's about to go. Out of consciousness to go in

the unconscious state, we need somebody to take.

Them aside, and and. To feed them, come on, give them

some mashed potatoes, you know, to sweeten them up.

Give them, give them some spiritual food.

Come on, we need that. We need to encourage one

another. This is a time of encouragement.

If anybody needs encouragement now, it's everybody you talk to

is going through. Something.

Everybody's going through troubles.

It's this thing is just scattered and plastered all over

the United States of America and, and across the.

Waters you know. It's it's every place you look.

Everybody's got their own. Troubles right now.

Some of them serious, some of them is just trouble, but I'm

going to tell you everybody has got something they're going

through and these these times are perilous times.

And it's not. Going to get any better, it's

going to grow worse and worse the Bible says it's going to

get. Worse, I know we keep hoping for

betterment. Well, you know.

Maybe the president will. Change it.

I don't know. I don't, I don't know about

that. I'm not too.

I'm not too optimistic. Either way, here I don't.

I'm not sure we have. Anybody to vote for it?

Be truthful. With you.

But you know what? I'm going to vote for Jesus

because I'm going to tell you what He'll take care of it and

it'll be taken care of because whoever he.

Wants in is going to get in. That's the truth.

He's got a purpose in what he's doing.

Don't grow unconscious in this state that the world's in.

Today, Hallelujah, Hallelujah see, what I think we need to do

is heed the call because the hour is growing late and they.

May not make it. Without your help, I worry

sometimes I see some. People that's.

Kind of falling away. I might give them a little

nudge. So this kind of bothers me.

I see things changing in your life, you know, I, I don't.

See the old you? Where did you go?

Are you awake? Will you wake up?

You're asleep, your unconscious. Are you understanding what

you're going through? No, probably not.

You're following after some things you shouldn't be

following after. Come on, doing some things you

shouldn't be doing and it bothers you.

Part of the. Time.

Sometimes it's after. You've done it, and sometimes

you don't feel no condemnation. It's a sad state, but if we're

not careful, it can happen. So, so quick.

Nothing does. Nothing does the devil any more

good than to try his best. To just.

Trip you up, especially if you've just come in and you've

been doing good. You know you're doing great and

all at once it hits you say what happened to me.

I I didn't realize this happening come on, we're living

in a world today that the trickery of the.

Enemy is is so rampant that he doesn't you don't even realize

what he's up. To what a God we serve today.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah, you know.

I found out something. After that incident that

happened, my family doctor had been taken care of my diabetes

since since I found out I had it in 2008.

And so after that, after that happened, it kind of dischucked

me and I went and got me in chronologist and I had faith in

her because she's the one that diagnosed my granddaughter.

So I've known her all those years and if I ever had a

question, I had her number and I could call her and she'd answer.

So I got me an in chronologist. So when I went to see her for

the first time, she found out what had happened to me.

She said I don't believe that you're a #2 diabetic.

I think you're a number one. I thought a number one diabetic

didn't make insulin. She said, well, I'm not saying

you are or ain't, but we're going to check.

So when I went back, she had sent me down that very day to

get some blood work done and she sent me a little thing and said

you're #1 diabetic. It's what's what we call a

latent diabetic. You're a latent diabetic.

She said you're making some insulin but not much.

And what happened that night? She said normally what happens

is because if I had, if I had a low that low like that, that

would grab me that quick, it would usually be of the night.

And she said. What happens is.

Is of the night you become so relaxed and she said that's when

you're making insulin is when you're relaxed.

I'm going to tell church we don't want to be get all tied up

in this world because you're loving to die.

You get wrapped up in it and you know.

We. We.

Want to get relaxed in the House of God?

I want, I don't know about you, but I want you making insulin.

I want, I want you to keep alive.

So I found out that I was making insulin, so she kind of changed.

Some things around for me and I've not had that problem like

that since and specially since I got this thing hanging on my

side because it warns me if I'm low or if I'm high or whatever.

And I have I, I did when she started changing.

I remember because now I keep that thing beside me of the

night and it it woke me up a time or two and told me I was

low but not low like that low. It's, you know, if it gets 69,

it's going to go off and tell me I'm.

Low SO. I'd I'd go get something to eat

and I'm all right again, so. Telling you.

What I'm saying is. Is you can be making a little

insulin spiritually, you can be making a little insulin.

Doing a little good, but it will not sustain you.

You need help. You need help.

You need. Somebody to help you?

To sustain you, to keep you. You, you.

Yeah, brother, Tyler said. You better go.

You get you some protein. Now he.

Eats some protein, so I did. So you know, you know, we need

some protein to keep it stabilizes.

You know, the carbs is our energy.

That's our fuel, but we need something to.

Stabilize us and I don't know about you.

But I'm going. To tell you the greatest

stabilize you can get is the. Holy Ghost.

It'll stabilize you. It'll comfort you when you're in

a. Mess.

It'll strengthen you when you're.

Weak. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

I just feel. Like I need to.

Ask somebody, are you going to be a?

Spiritual EMT. Or are you going to let them

die? Are you, are you going to take

somebody under your wing that you see?

That's going through something. Or you just going to let him

die? I don't know about you, but I

think we need to. I think we need to give him

help. My body was fighting.

I didn't know it. My body was fighting.

But I didn't know it. I was in a unconscious state.

I didn't know anything. I had no pain.

I had nothing. I could have died right then and

and I had no pain because I didn't know nothing, period.

I was in an unconscious state, I'm telling you.

It slips up on you so quick, within just a little while.

After I went to bed, it slipped up on me and the next thing I

know I didn't know anything. My wife.

She she's she. She was.

Trying to wake me and it wasn't happening because she knows at

times that you know, the night I'll be laying in bed and.

Something will hit me. And I feel like I'm got to pray

for somebody. And she said she, like she said,

I hollered at you and said, what's going on?

You just are you. Feeling something need?

To pray for somebody. I wouldn't feel nothing.

I wasn't hearing nothing. I wasn't doing nothing.

Hallelujah. Thank God for.

Holy Ghost, feel people. A group that could wake me up.

Hallelujah. Will you wake up?

Are you going to wake up? Are you going to sleep through

it? Praise the.

Lord Hallelujah, I thank God today for the Holy Ghost.

There's power in the Holy Ghost. There's I thank God for.

Kids that are connected. To God, I'm thankful for my

pastor that's there. Hallelujah, Mama, her his.

Mama couldn't even dial a nine one to one that night.

She didn't even know how to do that.

She was she was out of it. It it got the best of her.

My son called 911. So I I thank God for people that

God. Places in our midst.

That knows what to do and when to do it.

Thank you Jesus. I guess if I.

Think back. I think that's probably the the

third time that I've come close to death.

At three years old. And then when I had heart

surgery close, I had, I remember having, yeah, waking up and a

fib, not just a fib, It's terrible.

A-fib. I mean, it knocked you off the

stinking bed. I was flopping one side the

other. I was in so much pain.

Here comes all these nurses and doctors in there.

They're getting junk in my veins and just pushing it in there so

fast that I could feel it. It was.

And then this time I'm blessed to have family that knows God,

that knows the signs when something ain't right.

We're blessed church, we're so blessed a man to go to a church

and have good. People that's that's.

Concerned about our spiritual health?

I'm going to tell you, if you haven't got the Holy Ghost you

needed, you got to have it. You can't live without the Holy

Ghost. Can't go on.

I'm sorry. And if you know whatever it

takes, if I can help you get the Holy Ghost, then I want to do

it. If if you ain't been baptized,

you need to be baptized, repent, be baptized.

In the name of. Jesus, for mission to sin, you

shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.

It's a promise after you are baptized.

It's not a promise before if you get it.

Before, it's just a. Blessing.

So don't. Don't.

Push off. Don't push off being baptized

and put it out there. You need to draw near and do it.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. That's where you turn to when

and you're in trouble as you turn to God.

That's the only place to go. Praise the Lord.

Thank you Jesus. Hey y'all, I'm done.

I, I, I short winded today. I know I was long winded last

time, so I let you make up for it today.

Last Sunday I was long winded. I'm I ain't sorry I guess, but

anyway, so I want. You to this to.

Stick in your mind, will you wake up?

Will you wake up? Or is it going to take somebody

to help you wake up? Laurie?

Hallelujah. I want to open this altar this

morning. Hallelujah Hallow Beauchamp do

Yoda by Casa Toda Bogosi. I want to open this altar this

morning. I don't want you to fall on that

state of unconsciousness. Oh, glory.

It's a dangerous state when you get there.

Hola mashando ro bogosi. Oh yes, Lord.

Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord.

Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah.

Are you there? Are you about there?

Have you been? Contemplating some things.

That's going to draw you away from God, our little Bo shot out

of my eye. Help us, O Lord, this morning

God. Help.

Us, O Lord, this morning God, thank you for listening.

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