"An Oil Crisis" | It Will Happen | Pastor Debleaire Snell

[Music] make its most in the Lord the humble shall hear thereof and be glad and whether you're in this space or whether you're at home watching on the screen I invite you to magnify the lord with deep and let us exalt his name together the Lord is good and he is greatly to be praised and the Bible lets us know that from the rising of the Sun to the going down of the same that the name of the Lord is to be fries and I know exactly in times like this by the psalmist says let everything that has breath there's certain folk man that right now breathing and the breaths may be a little hard to come by but if you're able to inhale and exhale in this place or at your home let everyone that has breath praise the name of the Lord we're grateful this day to be able to worship the true and living God in spirit and in truth and as a result of the developments for the coronavirus were not able to meet in our normal format but I'm grateful for the gift of technology that allows us to be able to take the gospel of Jesus Christ right to your living room and just remind you today that even though difficult that times are difficult and we don't know what tomorrow holds the truth is that we know who holds tomorrow and so for those of you are watching on live I just want to just take a moment to thank our children's ministry team for their great presentation thankful for our young adults Sabbath school class that led us in the study of God's Word I'm thankful for our ministers in song for our health ministry team along with our band and our audio-visual team that made today's presentation possible so if you're able to like or give a word of affirmation to your screen or digitally would you do that just to thank those who are willing to venture out and to just kind of put themselves on the line to make sure that the gospel of Jesus Christ would be heard by somebody and we want you to know all of those who serve today we love you we thank God for you and our prayers are going for up for you constantly strength God we're living in some very extraordinary times and one of the things I just want to share with us is I wanted Mohnish us to make sure that as you maneuver and you move about that we comply with the recommendations that have been laid out by our government and our city officials when we're possible avoid unnecessary travel want to make sure that we practice all of the sanitary guidelines in terms of the washing of the hands and not putting your hands in your face and we're possibly we want to make sure that we practice the social distancing as we get ready to make sure that we can help block the curve or the development of the virus right here in the area where we minister and serve and the other thing I want to just share with the bite of Christ is that as there is anxiety in the land and people are hoarding up and gathering up one of the things I want to encourage you to do is make sure you maintain a servant disposition that we maintain a disposition of being a good neighbor now we don't just look out for ourselves but that we look out for the least the most vulnerable at this time then we look out for our senior citizens that we check on our neighbors we call them and we constantly keep one another encouraged as we work through this difficult season and the last thing I want to share with you and it's a really important initiative that has the first church family we're going to be undertaking tomorrow at 8 o'clock a.m. we're gonna begin a 30 day prayer initiative this prayer initiative is gonna take place each morning at 8 o'clock and it's gonna be called first watch our theme for this is if my people pray in second chronicles chapter 7 and verse 14 god gave Solomon a specific antidote for when times of pestilence like this came upon the land he gave us his promise that if my people who are called by my name will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways this is the promise he said I will hear from heaven I will forgive their sins and I will heal their land and so for the next 30 days at this first seventh-day Adventist Church online we're gonna be gathering together and we're gonna be praying that God would heal the land and we believe that as a result of prayer prominent prayer the effectual fervent prayers of the righteous that God is going to defeat this disease there is power in prayer there's power when we call upon his name and so we're gonna be praying to that end and so we invite you as you see the information there on the screen and on our website we invite you to log on and follow us through our Huntsville first SDA church Facebook page you'll be able to be online we'll be praying for the healing of the Lamb we'll be taking your individual prayer requests as well and then those that want to just call in through the zoom link app you don't want to do the video but you can just kind of log on there you can be connected with us and we'll be giving you instructions about spiritual initiative past details going forward for the next thirty days we're gonna be calling on the name of the Lord and so saints of God I know that there's a lot of different things and and interpretations about what the coronavirus means there are a lot of people's that believe that maybe we are right here at the precipice of the coming of the Lord and I'll be honest with you as we're weighing what's happening over against the prophecies of the Book of Daniel and revelation I do believe now more than ever before that the end of all things is at hand and my prayer is that when you heard me say the end of all things is at hand that you didn't get afraid but when people of God hear that we ought to get excited this is the season that we've been praying for and longing for for many many years but even if time should exist a little while after this virus comes to a close even if this is not the end we ought to show enough consider it a dress rehearsal I think what we're seeing in our day and time is how quickly and rapidly things can shift how rapidly and quickly things can change the final movements are going to be rapid ones we want to make sure that we're ready when the Lord comes as I invite you today as we look to God's Word and I pray that in your homes you as parents you're gathering little ones around and that you're gathering the Bible's and they're looking at the Word of God with us I want us to look at our Bibles to the book of Matthew chapter 25 Matthew chapter 25 and we're going to look together at verse number one Matthew chapter 25 and we'll begin together at verse number one and we'll read down to verse 13 Matthew chapter 25 and verse 1 we'll give you a few moments to turn there or finish scrolling Matthew 25 and those who don't have a Bible it should come up on your screen Matthew 25 verse 1 the Bible says then the kingdom of heaven shall be likened to ten virgins who took their lamps and went out to meet the bridegroom now five of them were wise and five were foolish those who were foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps but while the bridegroom delayed they all slumbered and slept and at midnight in your house shout midnight at midnight a cry was heard behold the bridegroom is coming go out to meet him then all those virgins arose and trimmed their lamps and the foolish said to the wise give us some of your oil for our lamps are going out but the wise answered saying no lest there should not be enough for us and you but go rather to those who sell and buy for yourselves and while they went to buy the bridegroom came and those who are ready went in with him to the wedding and the door was shut and afterward the other virgins came also saying Lord Lord open to us and he answered and said assuredly I say unto you I do not know you but this saints of God this is the message for our times watch therefore for you know neither the day nor the hour in which the son of man is coming the Bible again just for emphasis in verse 2 says now five of them were wise five of them were foolish those who are foolish took their lamps and took no oil with them today I just want to talk to you all for a little while under the subject and oil crisis an oil crisis let's pray together father today we look to your word and Lord my permission my prayer as always is that you will grant me permission to join my human weakness to your divine strength so father I pray that as we preach the word as those that hear it I pray that it will engender hope that it would inspire a sense of joy that we will be reminded about who's actually in control but I pray that the message would bring just enough sobriety and soberness for us to discern the times in which we live and that we might govern ourselves accordingly so once again would you please hide me in the shadows of the cross that Jesus alone might be seen that Christ alone would be heard and at the end of all things in this service may Jesus alone be praised we pray this in the matchless name of Jesus let God's people say together amen and amen an oil crisis as many of you know God has blessed my wife and I with three amazing kids and there are times where we find ourselves on a consistent basis having to take road trips and my kids are pretty much used to being in the car for road trips whether they go with me to preach different places or whether we're going to visit my family in Florida and even though they're used to being in the car whenever we're on road trips they're going to do what small kids do so while we're in the car about every 13 miles some kid is going to ask are we there yet in addition to that I believe my kids are on a mission to see the inside of every public bathroom on the highways or interstates in this country and so what will happen is as they begin to get a little hyper I will encourage them that while we travel I'll encourage them to take a nap in fact I'll try to convince them that the trip will go by quicker if you actually just rest her head and go to sleep now I need you to know that the more I encourage them to go to sleep the more hyperactive they're going to become and so in the back of the car even though they have devices that we never had growing up when it was time to travel they still get bored along the way and in the car they will all begin to fight over the exact same toy they will begin to sing songs in the backseat and it's crazy because they will fight sleep as if they are never ever going to wake up again but one of the things that happens with some consistency is whenever we pull into hot Huntsville and we get on five sixty five which is the bypass that leads into our city as the routes around things around us begin to get familiar all of a sudden I'll hear an eerie silence from the backseat and then I'll look in my rearview mirror and all of a sudden all three kids will be knocked out stone cold in the backseat now even though I've been warning them to go to sleep I get anxious when they get sleepy right before we get home because not only am I gonna have to carry the luggage upstairs I'm gonna have to carry all three of these kids upstairs and it amazes me that they stay awake all that time but then they fall asleep just before it's time to go home and so just don't judge me as a parent because now my goal is to wake them up before we get home and so if I'm pulling up to a stop sign or a red light I'll press the brakes with a little force to see if I can shake them or wait and then if that doesn't no work then I'll let down the windows especially if it's winter and I'll let the cold air blow on them and I'll see if I can get the rough wind to wake them up and if the rough air won't wake them up I'll turn the volume up on the stereo to see if the noise can wake them up and it's amazing that they have fought sleep so long that the shaking won't awake them they are fought sleep so long even the winds won't awake them they fought sleep so long that even loud noises wanna wake them and they drift almost into a coma right when it's time to go home and I need you to understand somebody that the disposition of the kids mirrors the attitude of God's people in these last days because there are many of us that have believed against belief and we have hoped against hope we have kept our lamps trimmed and burning we've kept our eyes awake but there are some of us that are drifting into a permanent sleep right when it's time for us to go home and the crazy thing about it is that God is allowing an early time of the shaking but the shaking won't wake us up and God is allowing some early winds of strife to blow up on us but not even rough air will wake us up and even though there's all kind of clamor and noise in our world even loud noise won't wake us up and the crazy thing about it is we've stayed awake all this time and some are about to go to sleep just before it's time for us to get home and I'm reminded of what Jesus said would happen at the end of time he says as it was in the days of Noah so shall it be at the coming of the Son of Man for as it was in the days of Noah that men were eating and drinking marrying and giving in marriage they were living their best life until the flood came and swept them all away and even though everything in the culture and everything in our society says that there's been a shift that there has been a change one of the things you've noticed is that everybody's living life as left nothing ain't going on in other words the federal government had to literally push people off the beaches municipalities have had to tell people to close down the bars people are worried more about a paycheck than getting sick people are still just trying to live life not realizing that the end of all things is at hand but the thing I want to say to somebody watching at home today that this is not the time for us to fall asleep this is not the time for us to live life or just try to get back to like it always was it's time for us to be sober it's time for us to have our lamps trimmed and burning it's time to make sure that our names are on the roll so that when the roll is called up yonder all of us can be numbered there if you're with me let me hear you say man and so let me take you back to the parable here of Matthew chapter 25 here Jesus in an attempt to communicate the need for his people to remain ready he gives them this parable of the wise and the foolish virgins and understands that the reason that Jesus communicates in parables is he tries to use events that they are able to see to communicate a truth that they are unable to discern and so as we begin to unpack this parable let me begin by simply articulating what the symbols are so I can truncate this message just a little bit the first thing that you have is what the Bible calls 10 virgins now understand the reason the Bible calls them virgins is that virgins are symbols of innocence and purity but more than just being a symbol of innocence a virgin is somebody that represents covenant in other words biblically a virgin was not just someone without experience or someone who had known some had not known someone a virgin was somebody that wasn't just waiting for the right occasion or the right time a virgin was a person that was in covenant who would not be intimate with someone else until they met the right individual in other words they were not gonna form strong attachments a virgin was not gonna get intimate with somebody or virgin was not going to get nested with somebody because they were saving themselves for the bridegroom and understand that we represent that covenant people that I'm not gonna get intimate with this world because we're saving ourselves with Jesus I'm not gonna commit myself to the vices of life because I'm saving myself for the bridegroom but the reason that some of us don't relate to this is because some of us are shacking up with materialism and some of us have become intimate with the vices of life in fact some of us watching are in a love triangle because we're being intimate with the church and the world at the same time and what God is calling us to do is to remain in a space of covenant where I'm not being intimate with the devices of this world but I'm saving myself for Jesus but the hope for somebody watching who feels like maybe I've made some mistakes it feels like you can't be saved because it feeds inside says that he's coming back for a woman or a church without spot staying or wrinkle but the problem is we've got all kind of blotches in our life but God says that he's gonna wash her through the cleansing of the water of the word and the good news to somebody is that even if you've got some mistakes or blotches we can declare ourselves saved because we've been washed through the cleansing of God's Word so that we can be spotless on the day of his glorious appearing can you say Amen the second thing that you have are the lanterns the lanterns are a symbol of God's Word how do we know this psalm 119:105 says that his word would be a lamp unto our feet and it would be a light unto our pathway and I want to say to somebody that in these dark and uncertain times when you can't trust anything in the world you've got to be able to trust the Living Word of God it is the word that is to be the arbiter of all disputes the word is to be the foundation of all doctrine and belief and we've got to get away from this whole social media phenomenon where we make our decisions based upon I think I my opinion is I need you to know that you ain't got time to be trusting nobody's opinion you ain't got time to follow along with whatever the group is leading you you've got to put your trust in the Living Word of God but then the oil symbolizes the power of the Holy Ghost or the non-transferable virtues of Jesus Christ this is based upon a vision given by the Prophet Zechariah in Zechariah chapter 4 where he has given a sanctuary vision where you have two olive trees that are pouring their golden oil through seven pipes that illuminates the the seven golden candlesticks and gives light to the candlesticks so that it brightens up the sanctuary and the purpose of the vision to Zerubbabel is to let him know that God's work won't take place by might nor by power but by the holy spirit so that the oil ignites the light so the same way the Holy Spirit ignites the power of the scripture and the message to the church is that guess what you can't just have Bible knowledge you can't just have right doctrine you can't just have personal truth you got to be filled with the power of the Holy Ghost because right doctrine without the Holy Ghost profits you nothing all y'all hearing me today in fact I want you to read with me Christ object lessons on your screen page 408 Ellen White says here that without the Spirit of God a knowledge of his word is of no avail the theory of truth unaccompanied by the Holy Spirit cannot quicken the soul or sanctify the heart one may be familiar with the commands and premises of the Bible but unless the Spirit of God sets forth truth home the character will not be transformed without the enlightenment of the Holy Spirit men will not be able to distinguish between truth and error they will fall under the masterful temptations of Satan so again let me review what the symbols are first you have the versions which represent those who are covenant waiting for the bridegroom second you have the immutable unchanging Word of God that is too bright in our path as we wait for its return and then the oil represents the power of the Holy Spirit that teaches us how to apply the truth and so I need you to get how this whole wedding feast scenario would go down see understand that back in ancient times a wedding was not about the bride a wedding was a celebration of the bridegroom and so what would happen is that the bridegroom when he went to go and receive the bride he would stop by somewhere and picked up the bridesmaids and what would happen is the bridesmaids as they travel down a dark road they would pull oil in their lamps and as the lights were illuminated they would put the lanterns over their head and when the shot of the bridegroom came forth and the bride looked out of her window and she saw a procession of bridesmaids with their lights on it would let the bride know that it was time to celebrate it would let the bride know that it was time to be reunited with her loved one it would let her know that it was time to enter into covenant and understand the missional purpose that we are to be the bridesmaid that have the word of God in hand empowered by the Holy Ghost lifting up the scriptures in a dark world and we are to march in procession to let the world know that the party's about to begin that the rejoicing is about to take place that the Covenant is about to be ratified and Jesus is about to come but the reason the world doesn't know about the joy of the coming wedding feast is because the bridesmaids don't have enough oil and say I need you to understand as you're listening to me today that this Bible verse is not just about an unprepared people it is about an impotent church that does not have enough power to let folk know what's about to go down are y'all hearing me today so go back with me if you will to Matthew chapter 25 and verse number two we're gonna stay in the Bibles for a little bit today the Bible says now five of them were wise and five of them were foolish and those who are foolish took their lamps but the Bible says I want you to notice this they took no oil with them but the wise took oil in their vessels along with their lamps now I need you to kind of understand what's happening here scripture here uses a very strong word or some very potent language to describe these unwise virgins in fact that what the Bible calls them in English translation the Bible calls them foolish virgins but understand that that term foolish comes from our Greek word morose by which we get the word so that those that were listening in Jesus time would actually hear Jesus calling these other five morons or stupid virgins now it seems like kind of an over-the-top or hyperbolic kind of characterization of Jesus Christ I thought maybe Jesus should call them the irresponsible virgins or or maybe Jesus should just call them the unprepared virgins but man Jesus goes all the way in when he says listen these five are acting completely like morons and the reason Darin I didn't always get this is because I superimpose some ideas on the text that are not there you see pastor Lampkin I used to always believe that the foolish virgins just didn't bring enough oil see I was under the assumption that they just ran out of oil that they didn't have enough but the Bible says literally that they take lamps are y'all with me but the Bible says that they don't bring any oil with them in other words this is a foolish thing for you to walk around with a light fixture knowing good and well that you don't have a light source in other words to have a lantern with no oil it is literally as it's as simple as walking around with a cell phone case knowing you don't have a cell phone it's literally like walking around with keys knowing you don't have a car it's like walking around wearing sunglasses in the middle of the night time it's like walking around buying grits knowing you ain't got no edge it's like having rice if your Jamaican without no piece it's like having cereal without milk it's literally like eating a peanut butter sandwich with no jelly it makes no sense to walk around with a lamp but no oil and so literally what they do beloved is they carry their lamps as accessories they carry the lamps as decoration and see the problem with the contemporary church is that Jesus knew at the end of time there were gonna be a lot of us that had a whole lot of spiritual decoration but we're gonna be lacking the sorts to give light see it's amazing how in our time we've got more spiritual accessories than any generation before us the truth is we got more just voted over material than any generation we got the Bible on our imprint we got the Bible on our iPad we got the Bible on our phone we got the Bible on our Facebook page some of us even have the Bible tattooed on our arms but I need you to know that all of the decoration doesn't mean nothing if you don't have the source of power which is the presence of the Holy Spirit and see the thing about it is that God put this in there because he knew that there was gonna be a generation at the end of the time that was gonna be real strong in terms of having a religious or religious are kind of image but where we were going struggle was with actually having spiritual content go with me in your Bible to second Timothy chapter 3 second Timothy chapter 3 and verse 5 in other words the Bible say to us you got to get to that place where you stop treating the Word of God like decoration and you got a feast on it every day 2nd Timothy chapter 3 and verse number 1 when you get there let me hear you say Amen second Timothy chapter 3 and verse 1 the Bible says but know this then in the last days perilous times will come for men will be lovers of themselves lovers of money boasters proud blasphemers disobedient to parents unthankful and unholy unforgiving on Landorus without self-control brutal and despisers of good traitors headstrong haughty lovers of pleasure more than lovers of God but notice he's not talking about the world he says here in verse 5 having the form of godliness but denying the power thereof in other words what he's saying is that at end of time you gonna have a lot of folks that have the fixtures but they're gonna be lacking the sources they're gonna have the form but they're gonna be lacking spiritual content so that on the outside they gonna look like they're ready but they're lacking the internal virtues to be ready to do God's work until he comes all y'all hearing me today in fact let me say it this way I remember one time I was going to run the local gyms here in town and so me and my son were there and so as we were in the gym we were kind of watching some of the young guys weren't warm-up as they got ready to play ball and it's crazy because my son pointed out one boy and he said man it looks like that guy can play now I need you to know that this guy that he pointed out this guy was taller than everybody else he had a more muscular form than everybody else and I need you to know that this dude was decked out to the tee and perfect paraphernalia I need you know Sadie's got had on that hair Aaron Jordan or Michael Jordan headband he had on our Nike Air t-shirt here Nike shorts he had on nike socks he had on Air Jordan shoes in other words when you just looked at and he had the right form he had him the right apparel but it's crazy because I played a little ball I was an athlete Neal not yesterday but that end today you know I can tell when somebody really knows how to play and when they're just perpetrating so when I saw him doing left I noticed he would jump off the wrong foot and shoot with the wrong hand I noticed that he didn't really know how to handle the ball and it's crazy because even though he had excellent or veneer he kind of struggled in his internal game and it's crazy because this guy has on Nike apparel but he's got playlist game y'all did catch me on this thing and see I need us to understand that there are some in the body of Christ that we're wearing Michael apparel but we got paid less anointing in other words we've got on spiritual reputation but we've got Rack Room character because we focus more on the decoration than having true spiritual content operating in our lives are y'all hearing me today and it's crazy Saints because one of these things that this story teaches us is the folly of trying to judge somebody's spirituality based upon what you can see from the outside in fact one of the things when you notice when you look at this parable there is no distinction that can be made about who's wise and who's foolish based upon looking at them I need you to kind of see a wedding procession in your mind well you have bridesmaids who are all pretty much wearing the same color dress all of these bridesmaids perhaps all have their hair are pulled up in a certain style all of these bridesmaids they all have Lantern in fact you can't even make a distinction with them based upon their behavior why because all ten of them the Bible says fall asleep in other words you tell by looking at them who's wise and who's foolish you can't tell by looking at the outside who belongs to God and who does not it is not until the bridegroom cries out that you can tell who's wise and who's foolish in other words it is not until a crisis moment arises that you can tell who's been preparing and who is just now trying to get their ducks in a row and see one of the things it teaches us beloved is that you don't know who belongs to God and who does not until we get down to the very end see this is buffeted by the parable of the wheat and the tares where the enemy comes in and he sews tares in amongst the weak and see one of the servants of the field wants to go and get everything God but the owner of the field says not little alone because in pulling up the tares you're gonna pull up some of the wheat also he says let it all grow together and I need somebody to catch that that God is gonna allow tears to come into the same vicinity with the weak so guess what in church there's gonna be some wheat and guess what this gonna also be some tears but it ain't your job to try to figure out which is which you just gotta let it grow and that the harvest time is gonna be revealed you see the same thing there nephew chapter 7 where Jesus tells the story of two builders one foolish builder builds his house on the sand a wise man builds his house on the rock but guess what Rasheed you can't tell the difference between the two until the weather changes outside and I guess what I'm trying to say to somebody here listening today stop trying to judge somebody based on the length of their skirt based on the tattoo on their arm or what the lipstick they're wearing on their lips are based upon what you see cuz the truth is all you can see is the outward appearance but I just want to give God the glory that he done just look at my farm he doesn't just look at my behavior but thank God he looks beyond my fault and he sees my knee I'm thankful for a God that looks on the heart and see as I tell the body of Christ all the time you ain't got no se or insight about who's going to heaven come on and say man in fact sometimes even as preachers we talk about who's gonna be raised in the resurrection when the truth is we don't know who's doing what and they secret closet we don't know how nobody's living behind closed doors even in this moment all I'm letting you see is what I want the camera to see and what I want y'all to see standing here today you don't know who I really am behind closed doors I need you to know they're gonna be three surprises when you get into heaven there's gonna be some folk in heaven that you didn't think should be in heaven there gonna be some folk man that makes some decisions outside of a church service or a baptismal pool and the God who sees in secret is gonna mark them numbered with the righteous but then there gonna be some folk that you thought should have been in heaven that you don't look around for they place card and the seat is gonna be empty but you know what the greatest surprise is gonna be in heaven when you wake up and it's not hot no no the greatest surprise is when you wake up and you are on the other side and say I need you to get kind of the disconnect or some of them what may seem like a confusion because I need you to know that that I believe I'm saved but I'll still be surprised when I make it to heaven now how would you be surprised if you know you say but see the only raises I rate I can see myself saved is through faith in the shed blood of Jesus Christ y'all didn't catch that in other words the only way maybe this is just for the sinners watching online see the truth is I do a lot of good works as a pastor but my good works cannot commend me unto God and even when I look at my message in light of my due rights my mess ups always seem more than my due rights and the only way I know I'm saying is because I believe what he said that if I believe I shall have eternal life the word says he that hath the son hath not light and today I want to say to somebody don't measure your salvation based upon your good just suppose over against your bed your salvation is based upon faith in the fact it came in the fact that he died and in the fact that he rose again that is where my salvation comes from are y'all hearing me today and so I need us to understand here as we look at this text the Bible says that the the foolish virgins that they don't bring any oil with them I'm sweating and ain't nobody even in this room I thought I was gonna preach a cool sermon today so the question for us to ponder is how is it that that somebody cuz I need you to kind of think through through this with me like what is your thought process pastor that you're bringing a lamp that requires oil and bring no oil with the lamp I mean that's that straight-up behavior like why would I bring a lamp or light but bring no source and so I need you to come see this because there is a true last day implication for the body of Christ so I need to understand that like man they bring the lamp right you only got two hands they got the lamp in one hand so now they've gotta make some decisions about what they bring in their other hand in other words the lamp is taking up the left hand but now they gotta make some decision you can say with me about what they gonna carry in the right hand because this is a wedding and and these girls got to look cute so they say bring no backpack with them but they gotta be they got to be clean and and that'll make sure everything fits and it matches so they gotta be discerning about what they bring so they got lanterns in the left hand but they're gonna decide what I'm gonna bring in my right hand I'm not gonna bring oil and in the right hand but remember now they're going to a wedding in and these girls are are unmarried girls and and a wedding is a good place to meet your Bouin and so maybe the reason they can't bring oil in the right hand is because they had to bring their makeup kit in the other hand so that they can look cute for whoever they may meet along the way yo so y'all not hearing me yet so let me just drive right down your street I own your couch so maybe somebody said to themselves are some these weddings run a long time it may take the bridegroom a long time to come so let me bring my phone in my right hand so I can be on Instagram while we wait for the bridegroom and maybe the reason they don't have no oil is because they're so busy scrolling on social media every day y'all are mad so I can't see you look so I'm gonna preach it like I feel it today umm maybe somebody can't bring any oil because they realize the bridegroom is gonna take a little while so they bring their iPad so they can watch Game of Thrones or binge watch the show insecure while they wait maybe they don't have any oil because they had to bring their iPad but let me make my brother's bad maybe the reason some can't bring their oil is because they had to bring their Xbox or their PlayStation so that they could play video games until the bridegroom came I see the reason that they don't have any oil is because they brought with them the vanities of life and the things that are in one hand are not in in sync with what's in the other hand and the thing that we make sure to carry will not give us any audio when we need our lips to be trimmed and burning and see the thing I'm going to say to somebody in the in this place or somebody watching online you got to make sure that the things in your hands are compatible if I'm gonna have the word of God in one hand you can't have a living girlfriend in the other hand if you're gonna have the word in one hand you can't have a big ego in the other hand if you don't have the word in one hand you can have materialism in the other hand if you don't have the word of God in one hand you can't be worried about your paycheck in the other hand you have to make sure that if I'm gonna have the word and one and that I'm gathering the oil of the Holy Ghost in the other hand to make sure that when it's time to get my lamp trimmed and burning that I don't have an oil crisis say I need you to know the oil crisis it's not because there's not enough oil see the oil crisis is not because the price of oil has gone up through the roof I need you to know that while there is yet time that there is plenty of Holy Ghost available to us I need you to know that you ain't gonna qualify for the Holy Ghost you ain't gotta get to a certain level spiritually to get the Holy Ghost Jesus simply say that of you being evil know how to give good gifts to your children I'm that much more willing to give the holy gold Holy Ghost to those that simply ask for it believe it and claim that power so the oil crisis is not because it's not available the oil crisis is simply because I'm prioritizing the gathering of other things when right now I should be gathering the oil so I have something to match with the lantern I got in one of my hands and y'all hearing me today and it's amazing that their response to the cry of the bridegroom is very telling and see this is it and I'm almost done like could it be the reason they didn't take any oil could it be Curtis the reason they bringing the oil was because they were planning to borrow all along could he read the reason they didn't bring the oil was because from the very beginning they were gonna get ready to ask it from those who brought it in fact like yeah just kind of reminds me of sometimes my mom my dad and and my brother and I sometimes we will go out to eat in and sometimes my brother and I we have this little thing that we'll do to my dad and we're going to the restaurant and what we'll do is we will leave our wallets in the car on purpose and I don't just mean I know you're home you judging me but the reason we'll leave the car the wallet in the car on purpose it is because we're just planning to make dad pay for it in the first place in other words like you you know it takes to eat but the only reason you wouldn't bring money into a restaurant it's cause your counting on somebody else to be able to foot the bill and say I need you to understand that some of us here me ready to bring it down pasture some of us are under the dangerous illusion that we'll be able to borrow from somebody in an instant what they have gathered over the course of their entire sanctified life and say I need us to understand beloved that I am a big believer in corporate worship I believe listen I'm not like some of y'all online that's on this trip about how Church is a bird and how it's so hard now I'm like they I was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the Lord I believe that there's something that happens in corporate worship where we come together and gathering his name that's unlike any other experience in the world I just believe that when wherever the Spirit of the Lord is there is Liberty in fact there are some who trip Intel about how or why you don't go to church and why you don't need to be going to church I need you to know that that even in as this thing passes what the word god of God says is that we are not forsake the assembling of ourselves together but we ought to do it all the more as we see the Day approaching we ought to be gathering as much as we can the closer we get to the coming of the Lord but the thing I do need you to understand and I believe there is one benefit of us not being able to gather in this way the one benefit of us not being able to come into a sanctuary is that it is forcing somebody to pick up the lantern it's forcing somebody to get in the word for themselves and not depend on somebody to feed you but to pick up your own night and spoon of Scripture and learn how to feed yourself so I'm gonna invite you look with me in scriptures I hope y'all not tired yet second Timothy 2nd Timothy chapter 2 2nd Timothy chapter 2 and verse 15 second Timothy chapter 2 and verse 15 the Bible says to us be diligent to present yourself approved unto God a worker who does not need not need to be ashamed rightly able to divide the word of truth I need you to know this and that you go to a place whether the gospel is gonna be preached where your elders in your pastor are able to handle the Word of God with care and skill but I need us to stop being a generation of spirit with spiritual Arrested Development we gotta be a people that know how to dig for ourselves and study for ourselves and come to conclusions for ourselves tell us about you but I I put my whole salvation and nobody else's hands I mean listen if I go if I go put my car keys in a stranger's hand if ain't gonna let just anybody watch over my kids if I ain't gonna just let anybody come and sit my house I can't just let anybody have that much sway over my salvation we need some people that's gonna be in the word that's gonna be going line upon line and precept upon precept here a little and there a little who have discernment who don't just say Amen to everything that sounds good but they only affirm that which is truth and aligns itself with a word a living God go with me to second Corinthians chapter five and verse 10 2nd Corinthians chapter 5 in verse 10 second Corinthians chapter five and verse to him and you get there just in your living room same in 2nd Corinthians 5 and verse 10 see I need you to know that corporate worship is important but salvation is very much an individual account for a second theaters 10 for we must all appear before the judgment seat of Christ that each one may receive the things done in the body according to what has been done whether it is good or whether it is bad the job here the Word of God today even though it's good for us together I need you to know that when we go before the judgment seat we ain't going as a group you ain't no able to bring your buddy with you you gonna have to stand there all by yourself and the key is not necessarily just what you've done but are you having on the right garments are you clothed in the righteousness of Jesus Christ in fact I want you to see here Christ's object a prick Christ object lessons page 411 I need you to get this about character character I'll slow it down is not transferable no man can believe for another no one can receive the spirit for another no man can impart to another the character which is the fruit of the spirits working and see my prayer is that there is somebody who is listening to this word today who is taking some soul inventory and saying I gotta get to this place where I know Jesus intimately and personally for myself see it's great that you've made growing up and a strong religious culture and a strong religious heritage but I need somebody to understand that mama's religion ain't good enough that daddy's religion ain't good enough it doesn't matter how much your grandma or your great-grandma prayed or how much Big Momma called on the name of the Lord with tears and with anguish there's got to come a time when you get on your own face before God there's got to come out of time in the place where you learn how to hear the voice of the Holy Spirit for yourself because I need you to understand that spiritually there is no rub off the facts see what makes the wise virgins wise it's not just that they bring oil what makes them walk wise is that when they say can we get some of yours they are there ain't enough for both of us you you got to go back to the same source where I got mine from and see the message of somebody is that right now the store is still open that right now the source where you get the oil you can still get it but there's gonna come a days just like in the parable where the door is gonna be shut and the opportunity to get oil is gonna come to its conclusion and see I miss understanding spiritually there's no rebuff effect just like I'll help me Lord just like having a rich friend won't make you rich listen I got friends that are in shape muscular but that don't help me at all just like being around smart people won't help you have good great are y'all hear what I'm saying like just being around like that's not gonna be enough but see the benefit or the advantage of our being around a smart person or a rich person or an in shape person it's not that what they have rubs off on you but you're able to study what they do so you can get what they get and see the advantage that God has given you and having maybe a good are godly grandmother or a godly mother or godly parent or godly spouse it's not that they're unknown tickets gonna rub off but you get to watch how they pray you get an up close and personal seat as to how they believe how they trust God and you're able to be strengthened by the testimonies that they give but you've got to know Jesus Christ for yourself see friends of mine this is a difficult week for many people and there are many who are afraid and beginning to guild interfere and all types of despair but I'm need you to know that as I contemplated the coming of Jesus Christ even a miss everything that it's happening and even with everything we're gonna have to go through I want you to know that there was a spot where as I'm taking in all this Korona stuff and all this data and what we should do and what we should do at a certain point I had to turn off the news and on certain point I had to look at the end of the book had to look over to Revelation 21 what the Word of God promises that he that shall come will come and he will not tear he says behold I come quickly and my reward is with me to give to every man according to what his work shall be since of mine I got excited when I thought about the coming of Jesus as I thought about a day when Jesus Christ is going Pier and he's gonna put it into sickness he's gonna put an end to suffering and he's gonna defeat the final enemy that is death I look forward to the day when those who this mortal is gonna put on immortality I look forward to that great day when God's people are gonna be freed from all suffering I look forward to the day when dying Didi's is gonna be defeated I look forward to the day when cancer is gonna be cancelled and the coronavirus is gonna be kicked out I look forward to the day where strokes are gonna have strokes where Karl attacks are gonna be attacked I look forward to the day where AIDS is gonna be archived shingles is gonna get shot and allergies are gonna be annihilated I look forward to the day where STDs are gonna arrive DOA I look forward to the day when we're gonna be caught up in Jesus and guess what you're never gonna sneeze again you're never gonna cost again you're never gonna hurt again you'll never bump your pinky toe or on the nightstand when you're walking through the house in the middle of the night on the floor to the day where I raised up in resurrection power and God is gonna give me a new mind better than this one and this don't give me new eyes that need no glasses he'll give us new ears that need no hearing aids I look forward to the day when this corruptible is going to put on incorruption right now I'm sowing in this hand right now I gravitate toward sin but one day the curse is gonna be lifted and holiness is gonna be second nature I look forward to the day when my grandmother who just fell asleep right at the start of the new year is gonna be raised in a resurrection glory and her and my siblings and all my parents and my aunts and aunties will be gathered with the matriarch of the family all united in our hope and our belief in him who was and is and is to come and him who lives for ever and ever and ever I need the people of God to know that this is not the time to be afraid this is the time for us to rejoice it's the time for us to get our praise on because if the last days is a dress rehearsal for what we ought to do then guess what the last days is a dress rehearsal for how we gonna praise God when we get to heaven in other words if you are praising when you get to heaven guess what you don't have to wait there till you get better praise it go ahead and begin the dress rehearsal and praise Him now because even those things may be crazy around us the good news is that him who is altogether lovely he's still on the throne and the good news is he cannot be voted out there is none before him there'll be none beside him there'll be none after him he has no predecessor he has no successor he is God all by himself and beside him there is no other and so I just want to tell the people of God be not discouraged be not weary don't cast away your confidence I need you to know that Jesus is coming again lift up the trumpet loud let it ring Jesus is coming again cheer up ye pilgrims be joyful and sing I said because Jesus my Jesus your Jesus I sweet Jesus the hope of glory Jesus is coming again and so as I sit here ready to take my seat I just won this musicians play I want to make this brief appeal to somebody who is watching here online there's somebody maybe as you're watching this message there's something that God spoke to you and I'm praying that God did two things that one he gave you some assurance that even though the world is going haywire around us I'm praying that he gave you the assurance that got he ain't going nowhere that he is still our refuge and our strength and that he is a very present help in the time of trouble I need somebody to understand that when you call on God that it's not a long-distance call but he is close he is near he is available and he is responding to everything that troubles us in this day I want to just say to somebody man and this is real this is stressed I mean no matter what your vocation even if you work in the church we're all looking at a world where we don't saying what the paycheck if there's gonna be a paycheck in a month in two months in three months or four months it's touching everybody but I need somebody to understand this and I pray that you hear it this not just preacher talk for each I had because we all face in the same situation I've learned over the years that my job it's not my provider your employer is not your provider but I need you to know that Jehovah Jireh he is your provider I need somebody to understand that what the scripture says that the angel of the lord encamps about those that fear him listen take your precautions wash hands put on whatever it is you got to do but at the end of the day you just got to know that God places a hedge and pray for God to place a hedge of protection around you your children face ahead your protection around your loved ones place a hedge of protection about all of that pertain unto you I mean my prayer is there's somebody who made me be touched by this disease I need you know that these next thirty days it is a Church of the Living God we're gonna be praying that God would literally touch you that he would bring about healing that he would do a mighty thing the Bible says to us that the prayer faith will save the sick and that the Lord will raise them up I'm praying that God would do signs that God would do wonders that God will do things that exceed what we can even ask for our thing that but my last appeal is that maybe there's some other day you're hearing the gospel for the first time or maybe because it's your routine that said home from church and somehow God divinely orchestrated for this message to come into your living room to your computer your phone as you walk around the block maybe there's somebody that's been disconnected from Jesus you realize that you you you hadn't been in the lantern and you know in your heart of hearts that you ain't got no oil you know you know in your heart of hearts that when you hear we're in the last days it doesn't bring your joy it only brings your fear it brings your apprehension because sleep are those who are in a relationship for those who are in a cup that made last days end of all things man I rejoice I'm excited because my faith I know where I'm seated I'm seated in heavenly places and maybe there's somebody you're viewing the greater Huntsville area or maybe you're somewhere else and you want to get connected with a church a bible-believing Church I'm gonna invite you to do two things if you're if you're watching us through our Facebook app what I invite you to do is just go directly to our Facebook page and just send us a direct message leave us your name your number your desire whether it is to be baptized maybe you need to really get rededicated or maybe you're saying pastor I heave a call to study the Word of God but I just need some help studying God's Word I need some help studying the world or maybe you're watching us on YouTube today or maybe you're watching us through our church website I want to invite you to look at our church email it's busy church at BellSouth net and you need some help in the next leg of your spiritual journey go into the 16-time copy down our email copy carpeted link send me an email just saying pastor I heard the Word of God I want to respond to the word some of us need to be baptized what baptism means it simply means this then when I go down in the watery grave I'm dying to my old life and I'm being resurrected to a new life in Jesus Christ and so maybe somebody needs to be baptized maybe somebody needs a church home you don't have a spiritual covering you just spiritually you just drift spiritually you're a hitchhiker but you need to get connected with the body of Christ so that you can move forward in your spiritual journey we would love to be that group that walks with you that helps you get ready for the dress rehearsal so we can be ready to meet the bridegroom when he does come and so I'm gonna get ready to pray but would you connect with us we want to help connect with you help you continue to build in your spiritual journey even though we're not meeting in our traditional way so right now I'm gonna pray for you father we again thank you so much for your work and I pray that your word brings some hope I pray that your word allows some truth and some assurance to settle and to some family's life there's some were worried about sickness some worried about disease some who are preoccupied honestly and in rightfully with with whether paycheck or the money's gonna come from in the coming months in the coming years are weeks but as they're looking to government and some are looking at Pennsylvania Avenue we as the people of God we look to the heels from which cometh our help we realize that I help comes from the Lord the Lord who made heaven and earth so what we know that if we operate according to your word and we trust you that you will supply all of our needs according to your riches and glory I pray for all of those who are on this broadcast who are touchable cygnus whether it's the coronavirus or maybe you touch with something else you touch with something else that is bringing pain and discomfort or dis-ease to you I prayed to God Lord that is they grab ahold of your omnipotence that you would do something powerful Lord as the woman with the issue of blood felt it I pray that even under the the power and the authority of this prayer that somebody would feel in themselves that they're being healed of their issues and Lord my friends that for somebody may not be in a safe relationship with you then maybe they've been drifting maybe they've been wondering maybe they've been saying later I'll get right later I'll come to church later I'll say yes later may they move the later from later and may they now say today here and now so today by the price of you hears voice harden not your heart this is our time jesus loves you now more than ever before I need to know that God loves you as much when it's raining outside as he loves you when everything is ideal in your life and I need you to know the thing about Jesus is that he is a God of all seasons he is not just a God of calamity and difficulties he is a God of every season he loves you and he cares so Lord would you bless your people would you give them peace would you give them great assurance may we hold on to nothing else but your unchanging hand we pray this in the name of him who is altogether lovely thank God's people all over the land all over the country shout together amen and amen god bless you

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Length: 59min 53sec (3593 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 21 2020