September 26, 2021 Sunday AM

[Music] so [Music] do [Music] this [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] teeth [Applause] [Music] [Applause] dude [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] music [Music] hey [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] this morning scripture comes from isaiah 43 1-2 but now thus saith the lord that created thee o jacob and he that formed thee o israel fear not for i have redeemed thee i have called thee by thy name thou art mine when thou passeth through the waters i will be with thee and through the rivers they shall not overflow thee when thou walketh through the fire thou shall not be burned neither shall the flame kindle upon thee [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Music] b [Applause] [Music] thank you jesus they say this mountain can't be moved they say these chains will never break but they don't know you like we do there is power in your [Music] we've heard the tide will never change [Music] so god we believe god we believe from the impossible we'll see god we believe foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] my [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] we know that hope is never wrong [Music] god we believe no matter what is [Music] [Music] see foreign mirror [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] they say this mountain can be moved they say these chains will never break but they don't know you like me too there is power in your heart we've heard that there is no way through we've heard the tide will never change they haven't seen why you [Music] so much [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] there [Music] [Music] we know that hope is never wrong [Music] [Applause] so much power [Music] [Music] god we believe [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] [Music] let's say [Music] we serve a waymaker we serve a mountain mover [Music] [Music] trust me good [Music] if you're with me [Music] [Applause] jesus god [Music] it doesn't matter what it looks like we trust you jesus [Music] [Applause] you said and i believe you said it and it is [Applause] [Music] it is [Music] just because you're sadly yes [Music] [Music] [Music] it doesn't matter what it looks like i'll be satisfied with your lord are we [Music] [Music] praise the lord church good morning maybe you see them my name is juan carlos this is my wife lilian buenos good morning if you're a guest with us today whether visiting with us here or watching or listening online welcome we are so glad you've joined us if you're a visitor with us today we hope you'll stop by the connect center for coffee and refreshments you'll find it out the center doors to your left we have a special gift for you also you should receive a welcome packet inside that packet there's a connect card please take a moment to complete it also if you flip the card over there's a place for you to write down a prayer request so that we may pray with you you can also use your cell phone you can go to fbcnlr.com forward slash guest card and fill out the information we would love to reach out to you and provide information for upcoming events here at the church we are truly thankful that you have joined with us in worship this morning and please feel at home uh [Music] [Music] [Music] god bless you if you know you serve a good guy you ought to keep those hands together come on if you know you serve a good guy you got to put your hands together this morning can we serve a wonderful god an amazing god worship with us this morning [Music] i will bless the lord at all times and his praises shall continually be in my mouth no matter what i see or how i feel as long as i'm breathing oh yes i'm breathing out as long as i'm breathing oh yes i'm breathing i'll bless the lord [Music] as long as i'm breathing for as long as you're breathing my lungs feel that way [Applause] [Music] this morning to give him please [Music] [Music] [Music] let's do it [Music] [Music] been [Music] all i can say is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] testimony [Applause] when somebody [Music] me [Music] from [Music] i will continue i need somebody that can remember where god brought you from and you can say it he's been better than good to me he's been better than good he's been better than good oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign got a testimony [Music] for me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] in this place foreign [Music] [Music] oh come on why don't you offer up praise to me come on take a moment just tell me lord you've been so good to me you've been so good to me hallelujah he is such a gracious god he is so good to us hallelujah why don't you turn to someone and tell them welcome [Applause] it's good to see everyone in the house of the lord today what a joy to have all of our friends and family guests here today thank you for being with us as you make your way back to your seat you can have a seat the ushers are going to come at this time and give us an opportunity to give of our tithe and offering today we receive our tithe and offering in this service knowing that god has blessed us and given to us and we give back to him what belongs to him in our tithe and we give from our heart our offering today what a joy it is to be in his house on the lord's day i love coming to church on sunday hallelujah there's nothing like it today let's lift our hands and ask the lord to bless our offering and tithe lord we love you today god thank you for this great people that's here in this room today those online today god we ask that you would bless this offering and tithe collection today in the precious name of jesus let's continue worshiping [Music] [Applause] [Music] mountains rise and fall [Music] seasons come and go [Music] farther through it all one thing that i know [Music] [Applause] [Music] people let you down [Applause] and life is here with pain [Music] falling to the ground on my knees to say i can [Music] i stand [Music] he's my rock on a solid rock i stand [Music] [Applause] you were faithful in the storm [Music] [Applause] i was never i will word of is you were faithful in the storm [Applause] [Music] i was never left alone i will trust i stand on christ jesus i stand word [Music] [Music] jesus i will call on your name oh i stand on jesus [Applause] [Music] and on christ the solid rock high stand oh love is [Music] is [Applause] is is [Music] oh is oh come on why don't we lift our hands and thank him that we have a solid rock to stand upon today hallelujah on christmas [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] is [Applause] oh is oh yes come on put your hands together get thankful for that solid rock today hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you for blessing us today choir appreciate the hard work of our music ministry thank you for all that you do in week out why don't we show our appreciation to all of them today [Applause] [Music] [Applause] again we want to welcome everyone to the house of the lord today thank you for being with us today and i see mr mrs cassidy here today both are judges in central arkansas and we are so honored that you are here today [Applause] [Music] [Applause] it is such an honor to have distinguished members of the judiciary here with us in service and we're so thankful for our great state and our nation and we give god praise that we live here in america and at the same time we pray that god would continue to bless and keep us and we want to take to the lord in prayer before we go to the word of god yael gomez we're praying for him lee chadwick steve dowdy and wes honnell here today we know that god is able to meet every need and i see sister mary jones able to be back at church and that's an answer to prayer hallelujah so we know god is able to meet every need he is a prayer answering god and if you have a need today i want to tell you in faith god can meet your need he is able to heal your body strengthen you touch your family whatever the need is let's lift our hands right now and go to god in prayer come on in the name of jesus lord we believe you today to meet every need in this house every person lord in need of a touch from you god we know that you are able to meet those needs we give you praise and honor and glory in jesus name hallelujah we're going to go to the word of the lord but i want to let you know about tonight we'll be having kids choirs you don't want to miss that their rehearsal will begin at six and it's going to be a great time here in the house of the lord tonight i know there are several that are going to be baptized in the only saving name the name of jesus tonight it's going to be a very special evening and before service begins there is a discipleship class for all of our new believers those that are new to first pentecostal church we invite you level three on the west side they have refreshments at 5 45 and class begins at 6. make sure you're a part of that it's a great time to be connected with what is going on here at the church and then this weekend this coming weekend calvary academy our christian school that we're so blessed to have here will be having a rummage cell and i know that they would appreciate if you have things to donate make sure and help them out wednesday and thursday evening you can donate your items and it's going to go for a great cause and that is christian education and i appreciate our school teachers faculty staff do a wonderful job and we're so blessed to have calvary academy here at first pentecostal church matthew chapter 24 verse 44. i received a phone call this morning from my father he he said i just got a text that went out to everybody else in the church that i'm preaching this morning and i said well you're you're sure welcome to do it i tried earlier this week to get him to do it but i love and appreciate my father and what a powerful word we heard last sunday [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and thankful for his ministry kids church is going on there's around 250 300 kids that aren't in this building right now they're over in the other building they're having church but the clark copeland's preaching to them i believe there's going to be young people say yes to jesus hallelujah yes thank you jesus matthew chapter 24 verse 44. i want to preach today what i feel the lord is impressed upon my spirit it's nothing that you haven't heard before but i believe that god has a word for this congregation that's here today matthew 24 44 and i added this jesus said therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as ye think not the son of man cometh therefore be ye also ready everybody say ready therefore be ye also ready and today i just want to ask you a question are you ready are you ready i want us to go to god in prayer one more time before we're seated and ask that the lord's word would touch our hearts and just like those first people that heard the word of peter preach on the day of pentecost that it would prick our heart convict us and cause us to ask what shall we do could we just pray right now that god's word would touch us come on all over this house lord let your word find a lodging place in our hearts god prick us convict us touch us with your word today god we want to be ready for your coming lord we want to be ready lord in the name of jesus i pray today you would touch every heart in this house god i pray your spirit would move upon all of us in this room today touch us today touch us today hallelujah you may be seated you know in this world there are two types of people there are people that pack days and weeks maybe even months before a trip and then there are those of us that wait until the very last minute to pack our bags my wife falls in the first camp and i fall in the second i procrastinate i wait i put it off i just i dislike packing and so depending upon how long the trip is is how long it takes me to pack and if it's a trip that we're going on that's for a few quite a few days i may start at least a couple hours before we're supposed to be at the airport but if it's just a quick trip and i'm not checking bags i'm usually packing about 30 minutes before i'm supposed to be there the adrenaline starts flowing and i'm rushing around sweating hot need another shower after i finish trying to get everything in the suitcase most of the time i make it to the airport on time and and i remember everything usually not always back this um winter time well it was our spring break uh we were headed to maine and uh it was going to be benson's first night to preach we get to the airport and we're two minutes after the cut-off for luggage and i'm telling you what i did some scrambling god helped us we had to go around the world to get there but we got there and we got all our bags there we didn't forget anything but there have been times that i have forgotten things and definitely there have been times that i waited way too late to pack now when we were expecting our first son first child benson you know my wife and i we had our stuff together weeks in advance my wife had her bags packed she was ready for that hospital they didn't know what was going to hit them when she came in that hospital with all of all the stuff we had but you know what happened we thought benson would come early because that's what everybody says your first one comes early but he didn't he came late and but we were prepared for whenever he got here now it was an all to do together different story with our third child our last one the night before millie was born we had youth service i'll never forget it it was a it was a cold march evening and i went to youth service i had a guest minister here he and his wife and he preached and we had a long altar service at the end of the service i took them to eat over in little rock to at a restaurant and it took forever and we we got our food we ate and by the time i got home it was around midnight and i was trying to be gracious and i knew my wife was getting very close to to having our third child but i get home and and she's extremely uncomfortable and she knew she was in labor and i think deep down i knew she was in labor too but i was too tired to acknowledge that and you know i'm just a great husband i've got a lot of great advice and i told her to take some tylenol and a warm bath and i was gonna take i was gonna take a little time to get some sleep and i don't know that she did either of those things but around 4 00 am i was rudely enter awakened by the desperation in my wife's voice we had to get to the hospital well if you know me the first thing i do when i get up i gotta take a shower so i had to do that she wasn't very happy about that and finally we realized it dawned on us that that our two kids benson was six and beatrice was four and they were upstairs in their rooms of sleep so we start calling we call my dad he doesn't answer i call my mom she doesn't answer call my grandma she doesn't answer my sister and her husband are out of town celebrating their anniversary so it didn't make sense to even try calling them finally i get in the car frantic and i drive to my grandma's house which is a couple streets over and i bang on the door and she comes hobbling out in her in her robe and slippers and i say grandma mandy's about to have a baby you got to come help us so she jumps in the car with us i don't know if she even brought anything with her but she jumps in the car i get her into our house mandy comes walking out the the down the the walkway down the steps and gets in the car and we race to the hospital and i parked the car and within 20 minutes camilla estelle holmes was born now my wife may have been ready but i was not very ready i was not very ready and as i think about that story i know it's humorous but at the same time it reminds me of a very serious topic and something that the lord has laid upon my heart so deeply this week and it is the imminent return of the lord and with tears in my eyes i asked this congregation today are you ready are you ready for the return of the lord are you putting off what you should do today or have you made your calling an election sure our text today is from matthew's gospel the 24th verse jesus has already been speaking about the days of noah and how the coming of the lord will be and at the conclusion of this he says therefore be ye also ready for in such an hour as you think not the son of man cometh now the scriptures use a simile as a thief to vividly instruct us about the coming of the lord the bible tells us that his coming will be as a thief comes it will happen quickly it will happen without warning second peter chapter 3 but the day of the lord will come as a thief in the night in the which the heavens shall pass away with a great voice noise and the element shall melt with fervent heat and the earth also in the works there that are therein shall be burned up the day of the lord will come as a thief revelation chapter 3 verse 3 remember therefore how thou hast received and heard and hold fast and repent if therefore thou shalt not watch i will come on thee as a thief everyone say thief and thou shalt not know what hour i will come upon thee again in revelation 16 john says behold i come as a thief blessed is he that watcheth and keepeth his garments now we know from other uh sermons other messages that when you see in the king james version that e.t.h you know that that is a continual thing it's a continuation and so the lord is saying blessed is he that continues watching and continues keeping his garments lest he walk naked and they see his shame it is important in fact it is imperative that every person is watchful and every person under the sound of my voice today keeps his or her garments and makes sure that you are ready for his return for those of us here today who are blood washed those of us that have obeyed the words of the apostle peter in acts chapter 2 and we have repented of our sins and we've been baptized in the name of jesus christ for the remission of our sins and we have received the infilling of the holy ghost there should be no surprises while we may not know the day or the hour of his coming now i want to tell you there are people that will tell you they know when the lord will come they'll write books about what year he's coming or what season he's coming but scripture tells us no man knows the day nor the hour we do not know when he is coming but we do know that he is coming soon i said we may not know when but we know that he is coming soon the apostle paul took time in his writings to address the imminent return of christ he did not want the church to be unprepared or not ready he spent time copious amounts of time in his writings to make sure make it clear make it plain for the churches that he had labored for to know that the lord would come in first thessalonians paul says but i would not have you to be ignorant i don't want you to be unlearned i don't want you not to know what i'm talking about i want you to have full knowledge i want you to comprehend i want you to understand these things church paul says but i would not have you to be ignorant brethren concerning them which are asleep that ye sorrow not even as others which have no hope for if we believe that jesus died and rose again even so them also which sleep in jesus will god bring with him for this we say unto you by the word of the lord that we which are alive and remain unto the coming of the lord shall not prevent them which are asleep i love this for the lord himself he's not going to send anyone else he's coming himself shall descend from heaven with a shout and with the voice of the archangel and the trump of god and the dead in christ shall rise first then we which are alive and remain shall be caught up together with them in the clouds to meet the lord in the air and so shall we ever be with the lord and paul concludes this portion by saying wherefore comfort one another with these words but the very next chapter continues the thought that is in chapter four paul says but of the times and of the seasons brethren ye have no need that i write unto you verse number two for yourselves know perfectly that the day of the lord so cometh as a thief in the night you know church that the lord's coming will be as a thief who comes in the night verse 3 for when they shall say peace and safety then sudden destruction cometh upon them as travail upon a woman with child and they shall not escape verse 4 but ye brethren look at your neighbor and say you but ye brethren are not in darkness that the day should overtake you as a thief listen to what i'm saying today paul wanted the church to know you know that he's coming you know he's coming quickly you know he's coming as a thief and you're not in the darkness that you should be overtaken by his coming as a thief verse 5 ye are all the children of light and the children of the day we are not of the night nor of darkness and then this is paul's instruction therefore let us not sleep as do others but let us watch and be sober let us not sleep as others let us watch and let us be sober throughout scripture we hear these words jesus said them the apostle paul said them the apostle peter said them let us watch and be sober verse 7 for they that sleep sleep in the night and they that be drunken are drunken in the night but let us who are of the day be sober and here he uses the same language as ephesians 6 be sober putting on the breastplate of faith and love and for in helmet the hope of salvation for god hath not appointed us to wrath but obtain salvation by our lord jesus christ who died for us that whether we wake or sleep we should live together with him i want to tell this congregation that is assembled here on this beautiful sunday morning that we should not be surprised we should not be ignorant we should not be uneducated about the returning of the lord but every person in this room today i issue my words as with the words of the apostle and i tell you he is coming as a thief in the night be watching be ready be minded put on that breastplate put on that helmet be ready be ready don't be as a child in the night but be a child of the day be aware be aware of what is going on i love to listen to apostolic preaching i especially enjoy love uh enjoy listening to uh preachers who have already gone on to glory to receive their reward i love to listen to to men that and women who preached um about about the coming of the lord about the end of times about heaven about eternity about hell and throughout all of those all of those messages that i've heard throughout the years there are things that each one of them will include in their messages and many times the the scriptures and the things that i'm giving you today are the same scriptures that have been used throughout the last 50 plus years and one of those uh parables that is often given and i felt it in prayer as i was praying and preparing for this service is the story that's found in matthew chapter 25. it's the story of the ten virgins the bible says then the kingdom of heaven will be like ten virgins who took their lamps and went to meet the bridegroom i want to stop here and tell you that all of them were virgins all of them knew the bridegroom and all of them knew that the bridegroom was on his way none of them were ignorant concerning that the bridegroom was coming for them verse two five of them were foolish and five were wise this matches the same words that jesus jesus uses in matthew 24 and luke 17. he said two would be in a field one would be left one would be taken two would be at the mill one would be left one would be taken two would be in dead one would be left the other taken and here there are five that are foolish and there are five that are wise for when the foolish took their lamps they took no oil with them but the wise took flasks of oil with their lamps half of them had oil and half of them needed oil half of them had if you will the holy ghost they had the presence of god the other half needed a renewing in the holy ghost and as the bridegroom was delayed they all became drowsy and slept but at midnight there was a cry here is the bridegroom come out to meet him then all those virgins rose and trimmed their lamps they all knew what to do the five foolish knew what to do and the five wives knew what to do they trimmed their lamps they made their lamp ready they all knew that you had to trim the lamp but the foolish said to the wise give us some of your oil for our lamps are going out but the wise answer since there will not be enough for us and for you go rather to the dealers and buy for yourselves and while they were going to buy the bridegroom came and those who were ready went in with him in the marriage feast and the door was shut and afterward the other virgins came off also saying lord lord open to us but he answered truly i say to you i do not know you lord open the door to us we knew what to do we were just not quite ready we knew you were coming but we just didn't have enough oil we knew the bridegroom was on his way we even knew to trim our lamps but we didn't have the stuff that we needed and the lord says i do not know you and verse 13 watch therefore this is jesus he's speaking he's telling them the whole purpose of this parable is verse 13. watch therefore for you know not neither the day nor the hour and i preach today to this congregation watch watch watch therefore make sure you are ready make sure you have everything you need for when the bridegroom comes you will be ready to meet him throughout scripture we see this this analogy of a bride and her groom the church is the bride of christ jesus christ being the groom throughout scripture we understand this the first glimpses of this of this bridegroom relationship are found in the song of solomon and here we come to the very last book of the bible the book of revelation verse 19. john he writes then i heard what seemed to be the voice of a great multitude like the roar of many waters and like the sound of mighty pills of thunder crying out hallelujah for the lord our god the almighty reigns verse 7 let us rejoice and exalt and give him the glory for the marriage of the lamb has come and his bride has made herself ready it was granted her to clothe herself with fine linen bright and pure for the fine linen is the righteous deeds of the saint and the angel said to me write this blessed are those who are invited to the marriage supper of the lamb and he said to me these are the true words of god there will come a day when the bride will be summoned by the groom and they will go into the groom and there will be a marriage feast there will be the marriage feast of the lamb i don't know the particulars i don't know exactly when and how it will happen but i can tell you this the word of god says it will happen and so therefore we must be ready for that marriage feast of the lamb but i do know this i may not know every detail and you really don't either because some of the revelations even kept from us from the book of revelation but i can tell you this his bride has made herself ready that is the point of this scripture that is the point of this of this passage in revelation 19 the bride has made herself ready i want to ask you today have you made yourself ready do you have everything ready have you adorned yourself have you got it all together are you ready is your garment blemish free is your garment wrinkle free are you ready for the soon coming groove i felt in prayer to tell somebody today it's time for you to tie up loose ends it's time for you to tie up some loose ends you know not everyone gets a prophet a visitation from a prophet like hezekiah the bible tells us isaiah came to hezekiah who was sickened to death and he looks at him and he says thus saith the lord set thine house in order for thou shalt die and not live not everyone gets a direct word from god that tells you hey young man set your house in order you're not going to live you're going to die could it be that lot and his family's hesitation to leave sodom in genesis 19 16 was tied to their lack of preparation they just weren't ready they didn't have everything together they hadn't tied up all the loose ends and the bible tells us that lot and his family lingered and finally the angel sees them and he carried them out of the city but sometimes i wonder why we're not ready it may just be because we haven't tied up all the loose sins there's just some things that we're not ready to get rid of and there's some things we're not ready to lay aside and there's some dreams and aspirations we have we know they're not really they're not matching up with the word of god and the plan of god but but we want to pursue these things and we want to do this and we want to go there and we want to have this memory and have this fun and there's a lot of loose ends but the holy ghost is sent your pastor today to tell you it's time to tie up the loose hands it's time to get your bags together it's time to pack it's time to get ready for the lord is coming again oh i know i know we're like we're like the one that peter preached to come back i want to have a more convenience season we're just not ready yet we're like that one that paul preached to just come back when i have a better time when it's more convenient when when everything's together i just i'm not where i i'm not there yet i've heard it it's foolish but i've heard people say well when i get married and when i have kids i'll come back to church and i'll get everything together i'll turn it around but let me tell you today we're not always afforded that time because we're not even promised our next breath we're not promised tomorrow so today is the day of salvation now is the accepted time while you feel the drawing spirit of god today is the day to answer the question am i ready am i ready am i ready to meet him am i ready to meet the lord most of us will be like the man jesus described in luke chapter 12. he spake a parable comes the music and he sent unto them saying the ground of a certain rich man brought forth plentifully and he thought within himself saying what shall i do because i have no room where to be bestow my fruits and he said this will i do i'll pull down my barns and i'll build greater i'll expand i'll start a building project and there i will bestow all my fruits my goods and i'll say to my soul so thou hast many goods laid up for many years take thine ease eat drink and be merry but god said unto him thou fool this night thy soul shall be required of thee then whose shall those things be which thou has provided so is he that layeth up treasure for himself and is not rich toward god stand with me today uh uh preparing for let's lift our hands right now oh hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah oh god hallelujah oh i want to invite you to come to this altar today it's time to tie up your loose ends it's time to get your bags packed get ready get everything in order don't wait don't put off [Music] today [Music] what you need to do right now is the opportunity [Music] he's coming again he's coming again and i ask you are you ready [Music] are you ready [Music] for his return are you ready are you ready are you ready come on let's begin to pray right now the lord is reaching for people in this house on don't wait for a more convenient season don't wait for a better time come on now is the day now is the day to forgive today's the day to let things go [Music] today's a day to make new commitments god i don't want anything in my life to distract me i don't want anything in my life to hinder me [Music] i don't want anything to get me sidetracked keep you away from your purpose for me lord if i'm not ready it's on me because i'm not ignorant about when you're coming i know you're coming as a thief if i'm not ready it's my fault god i can't blame it on my my friends i can't blame it on my spouse i can't blame it on the world i've got to take it but god today's a day i'm gonna get ready come on church come on i'm reaching for every person in this house today [Music] come on let's make sure our calling and election is sure today come on come on church come on church in the name of jesus in the name of jesus come on close your eyes lift your hands let god touch you today [Applause] [Music] joy will welcome his return [Music] he's lovely [Applause] [Music] he's coming soon joy will welcome his return it [Applause] a caring family today lord we want our brothers and sisters to be ready we want every guest in the house to be ready come on if you're here today and you say i know i'm not ready i know i'm not where i need to be i've given you the opportunity lift your hands repent of your sins god will fill you with this spirit in a moment he can get you ready come on in a moment he can get ready [Music] is [Music] come on would you just reach over please let's pray come on i'm asking you today if you hadn't moved yet now's your chance now's your opportunity messi balconies come on take them take the opportunity to make sure you're ready make sure your heart's right young man come on young lady make sure your heart is ready i'm inviting you to get ready [Applause] look around find someone you can pray with today [Music] oh we want to be ready for your return is [Music] [Music] we know oh he's coming soon [Music] me oh come on make sure you're ready come on i don't care how long you've been in turn we need to make sure you're ready come on all over this house let's lift our hands right now come on let's let the holy ghost touch us come on church i want to hear you pray oh come on i know i know we can get so carried away with the future what we want to do in life where we want to go what we want to acquire come on but today's the day you just need to make sure you're ready come on it's just a day to make sure you're ready [Music] come on one more time i want you to leave voice come on mamas come on daddies [Music] are you ready are your children ready [Music] oh [Music] [Music] this message it's not it's not in the dramatic it's not in the sensational what i'm preaching to you today is not to scare you it's to awaken you because when you're ready the bible tells us revelation 19 we're going to be rejoicing there's going to be an exultation because the bride's made herself ready [Applause] i'm reminded of my both of my grandfathers that have went on before us my grandpa grandpa home said this earth this life is like a dressing room getting ready for eternity and my other grandfather my maternal grandfather lived for god all those years he said this is what i've lived for i've lived for god for this moment to be taken i've lived this moment i've lived my life for this moment church i want to tell you i i'm thankful for every good thing that happens every exciting thing every event planning for the future oh it's we got to do it it's good it's right making the most out of ourselves being the best we can be and i'm gonna tell you if you forfeit your soul for all of that it doesn't matter if you accumulate all the world's riches [Music] you trade it all for your soul what does it matter i was asked this week in a podcast said what a success for an apostolic look like i said for me it's that my wife and kids are right with god filled with the holy ghost we'll tell you there's nothing else as important as being ready for the lord's coming come on one more time i want to ask you are you ready you get one more opportunity to make sure you're ready come on before we leave today every person in this house every grandparent every parent every young man every young woman come on let's be ready let's make sure we're ready come on lift your voice one more time [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh hallelujah thank you for letting me obey the holy ghost today i pray the word of god will prick you if you didn't respond the way you need to today i want to encourage you seize the opportunity find a place to pray this afternoon [Music] find a time [Music] we don't know when he's coming back and we don't know when we're going but we do know he is coming and we do know that our life is like a vapor while we have opportunity let's be ready let's be prepared let's get our house in order let's tie up the loose ends because he is coming and i want to be a part of the bride that has made herself ready hallelujah god bless you for being here today let's come back believing god for great things tonight [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music]

Channel: First Pentecostal Church North Little Rock

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Length: 91min 42sec (5502 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 26 2021