Ready Or Not | Kevin Wallace | Redemption to the Nations Church

[Music] stand with me wherever you are for the [Music] reading of the word of the Lord and we give honor to the Word of God and we're thankful for the Word of God today anybody thankful for the Word of God today I'm thankful not just for the preaching I'm thankful for this book this is the Word of God and it is food into my soul it is food to your soul and today we're going to be strengthened and we're going to be fed by the Word of God and I want you to go today to the book of third verse Thessalonians first Thessalonians the third chapter and I want to preach today a message on the coming of the Lord a message that I will call ready or not look at somebody near you tell them ready or not ready or not yes ready or not 1st Thessalonians chapter 3 verse number 11 now may our God and Father himself and our Lord Jesus Christ direct our way back to you and may the Lord make you increase and abound in love to one another and to all just as we do to you watch so that he may establish your hearts blameless in holiness before our God and father at the coming somebody say the coming the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all of his saints he said I want you to have a blameless heart established in holiness before God at the coming of our Lord Jesus Christ with all his saints and we want today to talk about a subject that has not been given much attention but the Lord is pressing on my heart today to preach on living like he's coming back and we need to hear this message in the house of the Lord today father help me preach I give you thanks for leading and guiding me through your Holy Scriptures Jesus for speaking to my soul would you anoint me today God to preach the word and to deliver this Lord God with accuracy with anointing may a breakthrough happen in the hearts of people blunders be ripped off eyes let the fall can dissipate so that we can see clearly let us hear the clarion call of the master in our spiritual ears calling us to preparedness in Jesus name and everybody said amen oh yes you can be seated in the presence of the Lord ready or not ready or not growing up in in an environment where we had to be creative in order to have fun today we have all of these accoutrements of adolescence these toys and video games and we have so many ways to have fun now but we we are not very creative anymore because all of our all of our focus or fun as children is on the screen but growing up in the environment I grew up in we did not have we did not have all of these amazing video games we we were it was much later in life before we ever got an Atari or a Nintendo so we were left to our own devices and to our own ways of having fun one of the things that we used to play growing up was freeze tag it was my least favorite game because as the the slow like in in the community you spent most of your time frozen people would chase you down and touch you and they froze you and that was my least favorite game my most favorite game was hide-and-go-seek because one thing I can do and hide-and-go-seek is find a place no one could find me and and the strategy of how to go seek is you go and hide and you get into place no one can find you and the person looking for those who are hiding says after counting to a certain number ready or not here I come and your adrenaline is pumping and your blood is pumping and you are waiting on them to find you and they never found you and like my friend TJ who was my friend growing up one night we looked for him for three hours and never found him and we didn't know he had gotten in trouble and went home and he didn't tell anybody he wasn't playing so all night long we looked for TJ until finally we found out the next morning that he had gone home because he got in trouble ready or not when the person coming to look for the person hiding had counted down and it was time to come looking they would say ready or not here I come I was preparing for this message today and I was reminded of the of the way that that we felt when when someone was coming to look for us and it's very different than the way we ought to approach the feeling knowing that Jesus is coming back growing up we were a little bit apprehensive when somebody came looking for us but but we ought not live in apprehension or fear or worry about the coming of the Lord in fact the coming of the Lord is a subject that ought to bring us great joy and great peace I recognize there are questions that we don't have answers to I recognize that there are some even theological points about the subject of the coming of the Lord that calls us to avoid the discussion altogether but I want to tell you that from from Genesis to Revelation and specifically Matthew to Revelation there is a undeniable fact regarding the gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ and that is that Jesus who was born of a virgin ministered in perfection God a pure and perfect death rose from the dead he reminded his disciples on a hillside of Galilee in Acts chapter 1 that he would leave and the angel said just like he left he will come again in the same way it is a fundamental undeniable tenet of our doctrine that Jesus Christ is going to come again and because he's going to come again it means something about the life that we're living now the book of Thessalonians was written to a church Paul founded during his second missionary journey if you follow the footsteps of the Apostle Paul you will discover that on his second missionary journey there was a voyage that happened he got in a boat and left from a place trow ass and he came to a region called Macedonia and the trip that Paul took to Macedonia itself represented an adjustment in Paul's plans if you read the 16th chapter of the book of Acts you will find that Paul is intent on going to Asia but the Bible says in Acts chapter 16 that the Spirit of God kept him from going to Asia and we believe that Paul no doubt wondered why is the door to Asia closing and I want to tell you that when God closed that door for Paul he opened another door and he'll do the same for you if one door has shut in your life it's not because God's through with you he's redirecting you to your true purpose he's redirecting you to a place of productivity and efficiency when Paul wanted to go to Asia God wouldn't let him no doubt Paul wondered what's going on but their intra laughs one night in the middle of the night Paul is visited by God in a vision where he sees a man from Macedonia we call it the Macedonian call it's where God shows up to Paul and says come over here to Macedonia and help us preach the gospel and Paul understood this vision to be a visitation from God and he packed his stuff up in a boat got in the ship and made a voyage from troels made a one-night pitstop in a place called Sumatra and from there he said to Neapolis where he disembarked from his boat and began a several hundred mile journey of preaching the gospel of Jesus Christ in a region called Macedonia now his first stop in Macedonia was the city of Philippi there in Philippi Paul won a successful dear lady a successful business lady named Lydia he her to the Lord she became the first convert in the entire continent of Europe from Philippa Paul traveled 100-plus miles via Amphipolis and Apollonia to a large capital city named Thessalonica and it is here at Thessalonica just as Paul's custom was upon arrival that he went to the synagogue found in Acts chapter 17 verse 12 he went to the synagogue of Macedonia and began to teach the local Jews the gospel of Jesus Christ on that occasion he died along with him them concerning the gospel of Jesus walking them through the Old Testament about how Christ would come and preaching to them about his resurrection and the Bible said in Acts chapter 17 many Jews believed the gospel Paul preached Hellenistic proselytes and wealthy women in the city of Thessalonica got born again and thus the Church of Thessalonica was born but their their effective ministry called that caused an upheaval in the city Jewish leaders in Thessalonica had Paul and his team evicted from the city Paul had to leave abruptly and he soon sent a spiritual son one named Timothy back to Thessalonica to check on the young church that had been born there Timothy went into the church and found that the church was in a posture of victory wonderful things were happened at the church at Thessalonica and he took the report back to the Apostle Paul and detailed the progress the young Thessalonians had had made and he also detailed the theological problems and issues that they were working through and in return to to Timothy's report to Paul Paul writes a back to the church at thessalonica and this is where we get the first book of Thessalonians it is a letter in which Paul praises the progress of the young church and then he secondly addresses the primary theological points that they were wrestling with among the most prevalent theological issues that Paul had addressed he is he he dealt with the issue of the coming of the Lord Paul spends a considerable amount of time in 1st Thessalonians detailing the eschatological events of endtime things namely the rapture of the church and the second coming of Jesus Christ or the day of the Lord today's focus is not so much about the rapture and the details of the timing of the second coming we're going to say that for a serious I'm going to do later this year but today's assignment is the second major point of Paul's letter to the Thessalonians and that is this how do we live in light of the coming of the Lord I hope you believe the Lord is coming I pray that you believe he could come today I am concerned with a lack of teaching that there has been a silence in the church reminding us that Jesus Christ is coming you don't hear him preach no more now growing up as a child and even before I was here I was I am told and I remember the messages that the preachers preached on the coming of the Lord and they had spent time in prayer and when they began to preach on the coming of the Lord you felt like Jesus was going in fact I believe Jesus was coming back every Sunday night that I lived as a boy I believe Jesus was coming back after church was over they preached his return so hot so passionate we lived as if Jesus could come every moment and I want to tell you right now I believe with all of my heart we need the message of doing the work of God while we're here but I want to tell you that there is a need for the church to be reminded that no matter how productive and how successful and how great we have it here we need to be reminded that the Lord is coming again and we need to be prepared for his arrival the events that we have experienced in the last several weeks and months they are not apocalyptic in and of themselves but they are a reminder that this world in its current state is in need of ultimate Reformation and redemption and while I believe that we in this generation are participating in it in a move of Kingdom synergy like never before I'm gonna tell you this there is no one on this planet walking in flesh right now that has the authority and the power to redeem and restore the curse and the fallenness of this world it will take the coming of Jesus to run the devil completely out of business to restore this world and to put it in Kingdom order and I say that we ought to do business till he comes but don't forget he is coming ready or not ready or not the Lord is coming and because he's coming our conviction I hope you're convicted that he's coming maybe you've not even heard the Lord will return let me be the first to tell you he could come at any moment you know it might be good for some of you to put a reminder on your iPhone every morning Jesus could come today you need to wake up every morning living like he could come there are people who will hear this message and will say this is fear mongering this is this is somehow unproductive to preach a message on the coming of the Lord we ought to be about winning souls and doing things for God most people who are who are against the message of the coming of the Lord are not very evangelistic they're very myopic and me-centered it's about their kingdom it's about their way of life it's about thinking that they're gonna live for here live here forever friend family folk whoever you are I want to remind you that Jesus Christ is coming at a moment that we do not know he will come again and many will mock and scoff Peter said and they will say where is the promise of the Lord's coming he said he was coming back and here we are two thousand years later and he still has it come Matthew 25 said men will begin to take ease and they'll say that the Lord is waiting in his return and when they have this attitude this this lots of day circle and ease attitude that is when the Lord will come and he will catch the servant off guard I know that sounds weird and crazy it may even it may not even be PC I know that it's not secure friendly but the fact of the matter is the Lord is coming and our hearts must be ready for his return and when we get to this this issue of the Lord's coming we ought to be convicted about it we ought to be convicted in our heart that the Lord's coming and if we believe in our convicted that is coming the conviction oughta lead to proper conduct I'm not going to get no help today on this one but Paul reminds them that there was a certain lifestyle that accompanied those who live in light of the Lord's return and we will see now from the book of deaths alone Ian's that because we believe he's coming it causes us to live with a certain kind of conduct let me just walk you this first Thessalonians chapter four verse three number one if you believe the Lord is coming number one Paul said be pure oh here we go be pure verse three God's will as that you live sanctified this is not my words this is his words sat apart for him in holiness that you keep yourself unpolluted from sexual defilement each of us must guard our heart this is not my words this is the book guard our heart from guard our heart and be sexually pure with holiness and dignity the word dignity or honor is the greek word - made and it literally means to put the right value or price on an object people of god lost people whoever you are some of us are not living in honor we're not living in sexual dignity we haven't put the right value on our life and on our body we don't know that we're the temple of the holy spirit and because of that and we don't know who we are we give our body to all kind of immorality and we give our body and our soul to men and to women and this thing called premarital sex is nothing more than a great trap for for many of our sons and daughters and and I want to tell you right now unequivocally your temple your body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and God doesn't call you to experiment he calls you to holiness and to fall in love with him until he sends the right one and then because you are blessed you experience the blessing of intimacy but what we have around the day in the world is not much about intimacy it's about the lust of the flesh and you've got to be reminded today I know this sounds old-fashioned I know this sounds antiquated we just need this every now and then we need to be reminded to keep our vessel in purity and holiness Oh be careful little as what you see Oh be careful little ears what you hear the Lord is coming and the child of God doesn't have time to be shacked up with the world we've gotten so far away from the truth we turn Shadrach Meshach and Abednego to shack up me first and the bed we go and it's time to turn back to the Lord and to say God you sanctified me by the washing of the water of your world you redeemed me not with corruptible things like silver and gold but with your own precious blood and because I've been bought with the price I Know Who I am in God my body is not a piece of trash for someone else to exploit for their own sexual gain my body is the temple of the Holy Spirit and I will live every day in in sexual purity so that one day I can see him and please him until that day somebody give God praise he'll give you the power he'll give you the power some of you feel powerless and you feel overcome with sexual impurity but I'm telling you today if you'll ask him he'll wash you and cleanse you and deliver you he'll set you free sanctification watch is not just set apart from sanctification is set apart unto if you make up your mind you want to be his he'll take you out of that mess bring you freedom and a future he'll erase your past I feel the Lord on me he'll forgive you of everything you've got wrong I want to say it and this takes some kind of whatever to set some of you need freedom from previous partners previous people so times that the enemy has taken into your life and we'll brought you into bondage I tell you child of God you are free and if the son makes you free you're free and need get that chuckles name out of your facebook get that Joker's name out of your phonebook God is about to bring you into a place of victory he's about to break the chains of the pastor's the Lord is coming and you and I are to live pure and holy lives 1st John chapter 3 can you handle this kind of preaching 1st John chapter 3 verse 2 beloved now are we the sons and daughters of God and it has not it does not yet appear what we shall be but when we know we see him we shall be like him and everyone who has this hope of seeing Jesus purifies himself even as Christ is pure I want to say it I'm moving on get rid of the pornography get rid of the impure relationships get rid of the lust of the flesh you say preacher how about to do this there is no three-step process to help you out of this there's only one step turn your heart unto Jesus look full in his wonderful face and the things of this world will go strength grow strangely dim in the light of his glory and grace listen your hate for sin will not keep you from sinning it will actually feed your desire to sin you got to do more than hate sin you got to fall deeper in love with Jesus if you fall deeper in love with Jesus the love in his eyes for you will become more appealing than any lustful thing that that that an object on this earth can offer there's something about Jesus that is irresistible the people that can't run away from the sin only those who have not seen the love in the face of our loving Jesus and if he will look upon his face he will draw you away from the things of this world closer to him and you will burn with a white-hot faith of the inside until the Lord comes and that's his desire for you and I sexual impurity is a cheap counterfeit for spiritual intimacy I must say it again sexual impurity is a cheap counterfeit for spiritual intimacy you were created for spiritual intimacy with God and all of this lust and all of them do you understand what kind of society we're living in and what do I sound like today to people whoo-hoo-hoo-hoo happened their eyes have been inundated and it's almost now been the church world as if we just condone it and apologize for the stuff we heard growing up listen I believe look at me I've got my Jordan zone in my blue jeans and I know how to be to look progressive but the problem is we've got more than looking progressive we've gotten theologically progressive and now everything that comes down the pipe is accepted and everything that comes down the pipe is is okay and I'll tell you what we're living in we're living in a moment of Correction where the Lord is correcting the course of a generation that was listening to a bunch of garbage leading it into further bondage and God said not my children my children are children of freedom my children are children of victory and this is how we overcome our faith in Jesus Christ God wants us to walk in freedom not bondage so the first thing that we understand living in light of the Lord's coming is that Paul calls us to be pure everyone say be impure number two Paul calls us to be productive 1st Thessalonians 4 9 I'm just gonna read some scripture to you today but concerning brotherly love you have no need that I write you for you yourselves are taught by God to love one another and in do indeed you do so toward all brethren who are in Macedonia but we urge you watch to increase more and more verse 11 that you aspire to lead a quiet life man your own business Jesus I feel like rewinding that for somebody who thought I was talking to their spouse mind your own business and work with your hands that you may walk properly toward those who are outside and that you may lack nothing now let me tell you what Paul is doing here in my opinion Paul is talking about the coming of the Lord but he doesn't want the coming of the Lord to be an excuse for laziness and idleness some people that I was raised in we did things called rapture drills we believe the Lord could come any moment that we all just start jumping up in the air like this could be the moment and we're leaving the earth right raptured your will everybody jump the problem is many of us got so rapture minded we didn't prepare like we might be here a while now I want you to hear what I'm getting ready to tell you we should prepare why God may wait awhile and live like he could come today we should prepare save strategize store lead we should we should act as if he may decide to wait a while but live like he could come today this is this whole thing of being productive in my opinion is the balance that we got nervous about during the the second coming of the Lord teachings that we heard so much in the 60s these some of the eighties we heard that so much that we got nervous I really believe that God had to send a teaching of the kingdom to the church because the church had gotten so rapture minded that we stopped believing he called us to occupy until he comes some people think since Jesus is coming today cast off all preparation for tomorrow cast off all thoughts of legacy for the next generation no that doesn't please the Lord we're called to be productive and Paul says it this way if you believe the Lord is coming and you're living in light of the Lord's soon return mind your own business this is a revelation for some people live a quiet life work with your hands so that you lack nothing whatever you do while you're waiting on the Lord don't get lazy lazy people and I'm not gonna get any fan mail over this and I'd really don't even need any lazy people develop an entitlement spirit where you begin to expect a great harvest ignoring the fact that you have not been laboring in the field with seed and when you haven't been laboring in the field with hands working and seed being sown and you just expect somebody to bring you the harvest that's not the attitude or mentality of a son that's a slothful servant and not to get my concern I recognize I recognize weenie and I'm here today preaching on the coming of the Lord he's coming back that is not an invitation to a lack of productivity your life should be productive you should be prepared you should strategize you should have plans you should pray over those plans you should activate those plans and if he comes today being living pure enough that you're ready to meet him in the air the two are not mutually exclusive we can't be waiting on his coming as if he were coming today living pure and holy laughs and at the same time be planning be thinking how are we going to take the mountains of culture how are we gonna take the mountains of government and entertainment and sports and education and the financial sector you say pastor argue one or the other aren't you Kingdom or argue the coming of the Lord ready for this because both are what the Lord teaches but he taught us to occupy till he comes and then he also told us that he was coming I want you to live like he's coming today but I want you to plan and work like he's going way too long why so that if he decides to wait and why would he wait why would the Lord wait why not just come back now 2nd Peter answers the question there's only one reason it ain't because we're waiting on the Antichrist and volkswagens the size of spiders the size of Volkswagens and and the dragon and everything we're not waiting on any of that we're waiting on one three four one reason we are waiting on the Lord's return second Peter said it is the mercy of the Lord it's the long-suffering of the Father he's not willing that anybody perish and go to hell there's only one reason he's waiting only one he wants more people to come into the kingdom which means we've got to be a productive people how can we wake up every morning and waste the day when in that day lives that will come into contact with our lives they need to know he's coming and they need to know he loves them well no one listens to me friend I want you to know that Noah preached for a very long time and the only people who followed him into the boat were his family everyone heard a few followed productivity is faithfulness build the boat and tell the story and let God take care of the rest you don't know who may hear what you have to say and decide you know what I'm getting on that boat to productivity we need to be productive we ought to be living the kind of life of purity but we all also ought to be living in productivity purity and productivity are are a part of people the lives of people who are looking for the coming of the Lord we ought to be productive in business we ought to be productive in harvest of souls when's the last time we let somebody to Jesus well nobody listened when's the last time you shared Jesus with somebody well that's my preachers job when you're a hired servant pastor you're hired that's your job to preach and to tell the story well that's that's the problem because my Bible never told me that the preacher did all of the witnessing it told me any features chapter four that the church needs apostles prophets evangelists pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints so that the Saints could walk out into the highway and the bad way and the places they work and the places they live and tell the story of the love of Jesus I am telling you right now you and I will stand before God one day and he will not say boy you had a great social media following boy you had your act together you build a great Church he will say you were faithful you took what little bit I gave you and you were productive with it you didn't have much but you let people to me you love them enough to tell them the good news I'm calling on the church right now before you come out of this quarantine recommit your lives to tell the good news of Jesus dear God we've been boxed in and him then and locked up for six weeks is anybody ready to win is anybody ready to tell the world how good god is it's time to be productive Island I feel the Lord in here we need to be productive we need to tell the good news Jesus is the best thing he's not just a thing he's the best thing that ever happened to us be pure be productive don't just say the Lord's coming and do nothing with your life well rapture drill let's jump outta here that's not how it's gonna be when he comes back will he find faith on earth will he find anybody doing the work of the kingdom we have plans for the future three year plans five-year plans ten-year plans well pastor why would you do that what if the Lord comes back today what if he waits because he's still saving people and at the same time the tension of the text is I'll be pure by the power of His Holy Spirit I'll live a pure life and I'll be productive by His grace I'm not you know wondering Paul tells you one reason why some people are not productive because they don't know how to mind their own business they don't know how to mind their own business you can't be productive in your business if you're so busy looking at everyone else's and some of us today could save a whole lot of time and be more productive with the time that we have if we just stopped putting our nose and everyone else's business God wants you to now to be productive because he's coming one of the things that I've talked for a number of years when don't begin to me it began to give me a revelation of the kingdom he said to me I dis phrase and I keep talking about it it's called the crescendo of the kingdom what I believe the Bible teaches is that we are participating in kingdom expansion now that will crescendo into the coming of the Lord it'll grow I don't believe the light of the church and the light of Jesus shining through the church gets less and less I believe it gets more and more I believe the be the influence of the church is growing do you see what's happening in the nations of the earth the leaders are getting born-again role models are getting born-again God is saving people on every cultural mountain in society why because he's taking away all the excuses and giving everyone on planet Earth the opportunity to hear the gospel and this crescendo is going to grow and it's going to crescendo into what I believe is the coming of the Lord and He will return and as we await his return we are pure we are productive and finally number three we are prepared prepared there's this thing in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 where Paul begins to talk about being prepared it's actually a principle that is found throughout the entire Word of God Jesus talked about it in Matthew's Gospel when he began to illustrate a marriage that was going to happen and there were five wise and five foolish virgins and you know the story I'm not going to preach the whole thing but five all 10 have lamps five have oil five didn't those with the oil represent those who were prepared for the journey those without the oil remind us you can have a lamp but if you don't have oil there'll be no light God wants us to live prepared lives we what makes us prepared listen is that we have a knowledge knowledge prepares us we've believed the truth because we believe this truth we're prepared for the future I want to say this of God today you and I should not be overcome with panic and fear we are not like the rest of the world one of the things this Calvin thing has revealed is that many Christians don't even have an understanding about their salvation or their future there's been more people terrified in the church than ever were outside the church what's happening is the Lord coming what's going on and Paul tells us be prepared watch you are not children of the dark this is all in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 you are not children of the dark you are children of the day and delight this day should not overtake you as a thief now there will be people on planet Earth who are not prepared for the Lord's coming not because he didn't love them enough to tell them he was coming but because they were too busy and too proud and too preoccupied in life to listen to the gospel but we people who are born again by the Spirit of God listen we are children of the day not the children of the night and Paul reminds us in 1st Thessalonians chapter 5 verse 4 listen to this brothers and sisters you are not living in the dark allowing the day of the Lord to creep up on you as a thief for you are children of the light and children of the day we do not belong to the night or the darkness I need us to take a praise break right there we are not children of the night or children I'm going to do it again we need to take a praise break right there we are not children of the night or children of the darkness we're not like those who are stumbling in the dark not knowing where we're going children of the day children of the light which means that there's a spirit of wisdom and revelation resting Our Lives there's a there's a grace like dose of the tribe of Issachar who understand the times they're living in we talked about this last week we're prepared for it's coming because we know he is coming and we discerned the season we're prepared we're not living like those who have no no compass regarding things that are to come in the future I told you last week we don't know dates and details but we do know he's coming verse 8 since we belong to the day first Thessalonians 5 verse 8 since we belong to the day we must stay alert we must be clear-headed we must put on the breastplate of faith and love over our hearts and the helmet of the hope of salvation over our thoughts for God has not listened to this God has not destined us to experience wrath but to possess salvation through our Lord Jesus Christ there are people walking this planet today mesmerized by the American dream chasing things that will evaporate in time pursuing things that will not last they have no thought of eternity no thought of the Lord's return but the church is not supposed to be living like that we are not children of the night who are sleeping and just and just going through life with no purpose living without being prepared that's not the testimony of the righteous we are children of the day and as I prayed about this message and I was praying I heard the Lord say to me when I read this portion of Scripture tell them to snap out of it snap out of it snap out of the mental spiritual fog Jesus I feel this snap out of the fear the panic the paranoia snap out of this crowd feeling of chaos where we don't know where God is and if we belong to God and if God in trouble and this is the kingdom I'm telling you right now I've said it three weeks I'm gonna say it again the church will not go out hiding in a cave when told it on top and the Antichrist ruling and reigning in and the headlines all about how how powerful it hopelessness this virus is it has made a no-no the Church of Jesus Christ is coming in to a season of glory a season of awakening us we're not going to heaven talking about how bad it was how we barely made it we are prepared people walking in the light and in a moment when the world is filling the chaos the world is filling the attack of a demonic principality there's rising up a tribe of people who have a testimony in their soul that jesus is alive and very well God is on the throne the kingdom of God is advancing we're not returning we're not retreating we're not dying we're not drying up we get ready to multiply increases the blessing of the Lord is coming on our lives this is my god stop being afraid he has not given you a spirit of fear but he gave you power love and a sound mind and until he comes we still have authority in the name that is above every other name the name of Jesus still has power power to heal the sick power to raise the dead power to bring freedom to the bound there is no other name given among men whereby we can be saved but the name of Jesus Christ through preaching preacher keep praying in that name keep believing in that name there's power in that name demons triple at that name that name is a strong tower the righteous run into it and they are safe I feel like giving him a praise right now somebody pray the name of the Lord with me hallelujah glory to God we got to be ready he's coming ready or not he's coming you've got time to get ready right now you say preacher they used to do this thing years ago scare everybody to death no this thing about fear this thing about fear this is about being a good steward of time it's being it's about taking full advantage of the opportunity do you understand how good and gracious our Father is he gives you a gift he gives me a gift the gift is called today everybody watching me in here there wherever you are just say that word with me today you ready for this that word is a reality it's a gift you have it right now do you recognize as bad as your today is there are people who died last night that wish they had the problems you have today today's a gift in fact the gift of today is that today is d-day a salvation I really believe that there are people who got what I call crisis Christianity and all this coded thing they got him a taste of crisis Christianity crisis Christianity you got saved because you got scared well I know how to kill a shout you got sick play Bronn makes me feel better you got saved because you got scared and you didn't know what the future holds so uranium got crisis Christianity you ready for me tell you this I really don't care why you got saved I'm just glad you got saved but there's something about Jesus that's far greater and so much better than crisis Christianity there's this thing he offers us called relationship where we get to know him and we get to hear his voice we get to see his goodness there's somebody watching me right now you're away from God you're away from God and you were raised in church and have run really far away from Jesus and the Lord is coming and you've heard it you don't want to hear it because you heard it before your life isn't gonna get any better - you surrender totally to him and I want to pray with you right now that you would do that no matter what you've been doing and how long you've been doing it I want to pray with anybody who's watching right now who has known him but has run very far away from him or maybe you've never known him in your life I am telling you like Noah told his generation he was scoffed at mocked and they laughed at him while he built a boat but they were not laughing when the heavens opened and the rain began to fall they were warning in the boat but the hand of God had already shut it and the good news is right now the door of the boat is open Jesus is the door and it doesn't matter what you've done or how long you've been doing it how mean and evil you have been I don't care where you've been and what you've said and what you've even said about God what you been smoking snorkel who you've been sleeping with what you've been drinking ready for this it just doesn't matter if right now while you hear this gospel message being preached if you say in your heart I want Jesus to rescue me I want him to be the Lord of my life I want to tell you this book reminds us that God is not a God of judgment in this thing we have called today he's not offering judgment to you he's offering salvation today is the day of salvation so wherever you are I want you to pray this prayer with me if that's you dear God save me rescue me cleanse me come into my heart and be the Lord of my life King Jesus forgive me of all my sins break every yoke of darkness over me oh lord I give you my life I give you my tomorrow I give you the rest of my days Jesus be the Lord of my life in your name I pray and I take you into my life now Lord amen so before I pray for anyone else I want if you just prayed that prayer I want you to do one of two things either message redemption to the nation nations Church you can even message me personally Kevin Wallace on Facebook you can put in the conversation blind they're saved it's all you got to do someone from our team is going to reach out to you send us a message let us know just put the word save that's all you got to do for watching YouTube just put saved we'll reach out to you I just want you to know that now that you've prayed this prayer that journey begins and the joy comes and the family of God is going to surround you and we're gonna pray for you because we believe God has a plan for your life you feel like you've wasted some time we we've got some people in our church that are testifying of some days we wasted but how God so good and redeemed the time we lost we've got some people in here that can testify they all they feel like they almost let go and God just reach down and rescue them it's not too late for you jesus loves you he has a plan for your life [Music] the next group of people I want to pray for right now are people who love Jesus and you're saved but you need to get pure somebody needs to be pure somebody needs to be productive somebody needs to get prepared snap out of it the Lord is lifting the fog it's like you've been living in a fog no purpose you're just being led by impulses of the flesh in life bad relationship after bad relationship meaningless season after meaningless season those days are coming to an end for you right now today is a day where we are going to recapture the purpose for which God put you on this planet it's not too late hallelujah it's not too late all you gotta do is say yes to him I just want you right now maybe you need to get alone by yourself maybe some of your crime maybe some of you are feeling something happened on the inside is a weight coming off of you right now purity is being restored purity is coming back if you'll just ask him to cleanse you I just want to come into agreement with you right now I know we're separated by time and space but we're not separated by the spirit because the spirit that I feel here is working on you there and chains of darkness that have bound your soul so ties to people in your past my god I feel the Holy Spirit breaking chains tears are flowing that cleansing is happening right now you're not going to live another day of your life not properly valuing who you are you got to begin to say I Know Who I am I washed in the blood this body is the temple of the Holy Spirit God's getting your body back for you he's bringing it back from every one of those relationships that almost destroyed you I feel the restoring of God I feel the goodness of God big released on your life he's storing impurity today he's restoring your song today you were dying on the inside but the Spirit of the Lord is responding some people in this room right now to start praying in the Holy Ghost there's a moment right now happening people's souls are being restored sexual purity is coming back to your life chains are breaking off bondages and addictions are being broken porn addicts are getting delivered there is hope for you in Jesus today the Lord is coming get your heart ready for his return is coming is coming very soon and we must be prepared we must be pure may the Lord grant us grace right now whoa to live in purity purity of mind purity of solid spirit reached out and am I so pretty I couldn't imagine purity of soul and spirit some of you are hopeless some of you feel hopeless only I didn't have any of this prepared to say I'm telling you what I know is happening right now in places all over this probably this world but I know this country people are watching it and you just need freedom and I'm telling you that's what Jesus came for today I'm preaching on being pure but I know you and I can't purify ourselves we need him to come and break the yoke and set us free so that we can love it like we need to love it chains broken now decades of addiction broken now somebody's watching me you've been addicted to porn and you've been going to church and you've been in that shape for a long time years years it's over today if the son makes you free you're free indeed you're gonna walk away from that and run to Jesus and never in your life never ever find satisfaction in an image on a screen again when you can look into the house of our loving Lord and never ever be the same it ends today chains broken Jesus said every one of them free people who have lost productivity lift your hands right now hands have gotten idle Jesus heart has gotten idle you don't have a plan you're not preparing you don't have a strategy you're just floating through life you've lost it there's some people watching me you used to be a pastor a preacher and you feel like because you're not in a church pastoring anymore you don't have any spiritual identity I break the lie of the devil off your mind in the name of Jesus Jesus that just saved you to preach he's saved you know walking intimacy with him and if you get back to intimacy with him you'll find out why he's saying you in the first place he's coming back right now productivity you're gonna get more done in the next five years then you did in all those years you feel like you're wasted God's gonna help you redeem the time productivity your lap is gonna count some of you are getting ready to get involved with the share department the outreach department you get ready to be on your you don't even know it but you got the grace of an evangelist on you it's time to quit waiting on everybody else to do your ministry you're called to do something none of us can ever do not get to it snap out of it Jesus is coming my god I don't know if anyone else feels this but Jesus is coming he could come today he could come before we say amen to this service and if he comes we'll be ready and living pure lives and if he decides he wants to wait a while we got work to get done so let's get to it find somebody near you say let's get to it let's get to it no more Idol there's no more minding everybody else's business get to it Jesus [Music] you're coming and we want to be ready for your return let's are people to know how to live pure labs awaiting your return and to live productive lives it is your long-suffering that keeps you from coming and if you're still working on the hearts of men may we work with you so that they all be saved in Jesus name Amen we love you we miss you and we can't wait to see you in May 31st it's gonna be crazy you're going to be hearing more information in the few next you coming days and weeks live ready Church the pure lives be productive and be prepared the best is yet to come we love you and we'll see you very soon god bless you [Music]

Channel: Redemption to the Nations Church

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Id: UCGXLJ165Cw

Length: 60min 49sec (3649 seconds)

Published: Sun May 03 2020