I'm glad that you made your way down to this place this evening. We need the Lord more than anything. We've got to have him. I thought he was talking there in the prayer room about everybody had somebody that they had in their family or in their life at one point that knew the Lord. and walked away from him, and I couldn't help but think we almost got more backslid today than there is lost people. And I have said it a lot, it is hard to win people back that know the Lord and that have walked away from him, but he is all that there is. And the devil's got a hold on people. And there's only one that can change us and that can help us, and that's the Lord. Amen. One of these days, it's gonna be over with. He's gonna wind it all up, and how a tree falls is how it lays. Who's to say that that won't be tonight? That won't be tomorrow. I know, even that it's a little different tonight, and we don't have even the normal faces and everything. I am glad that He's got on Wednesday the same as He is on Sunday. Brother Charlie Frazier called me there this evening, and they have their midweek service on Tuesday. And he said, I almost have more liberty on the midweek service than I do on Sunday. And he said, he is just glad that he has got all of the time. I am thankful for that. He don't have no set time or no set days. He's worthy of praise all the time, worthy of worship all the time, and he expects us to live for him all the time. That's more than some people can handle, that can fathom, but if they want to get tired, they'll have to take it. Amen, so Lord help us all tonight to just be obedient under what he'd have us do. Amen, now Lord willing, let's pray much for revival there next week. Amen, let's pray for the rest of the service tonight, even service Friday night, even if the Lord would just help us. We need him. Anybody else tonight, got any objects on your heart? ♪ Jesus sees my highs and lows ♪ ♪ My light in the dark hour ♪ ♪ Without him I could not see ♪ ♪ He is closer than a brother ♪ There's no wonder without him where would I be? Oh, Jesus, what a friend is he. And he is the rock upon which I Help me in time of need. When this old world has left me all alone. He's my dearest friend as long as this world stays. We promised he would hold my hand. He saw our land grew old alone. He said he would go when we are gone. ♪ He would be my friend and guide, oh Jesus ♪ ♪ You're the best friend in my life ♪ ♪ It is the wrong upon which I have fallen ♪ I can feel it walking right by me. It's playing in everyone's hearts now as we depart. We shake the Lord. A lot of If we start dwelling on the bad things, we'll overlook the good. I know people that have went to their grave, even finding fault in everybody and everything, even me. And if we had talked about that a lot there, even in the prayer room, I can't look down my nose at anybody tonight because I've been there. I know what it is to be backslid. I know what it is to be out of the will of God. I know what it is to be afraid when I lay down in my bed. I also know what it is to long for Him and can't find Him. I know what it is to feel like that I have went too far. I also know that when I when I got sincere with God that he met me where I was. Also know that when I'm in business with the Lord, when as far as I knew to go and I give it to him, he made everything all right. Aren't you glad for that? I'm glad that it's not a fairy tale tonight. I'm glad that it's real. I'm glad that it ain't something that I made up, but I know that it's real. A lot of people look at us like we're crazy, like we've lost our mind, like we don't know, but if they only knew what I knew tonight. The Lord told that little woman there, even at the well, If she had only knew, and when he began to talk, it didn't take her long. Run back into town and the whole crowd, that she was hiding from the Lord. She said, just come see a man. Told me all things, and I believe that what amazed her, it wasn't that he knew everything about her, it was that he still wanted her. Sure, it was amazing that he knew everywhere she'd ever been, everything that she'd ever done, but I believe what really amazed her was that he loved her anyway. He knew she'd been married five times. He knew she was shacking up. He knew what she was, but he waited on the well for her anyway. Oh, that's wonderful, ain't it? I couldn't help but think, and I got done praying, that day on the Lord, and it took my mind over there to a time when I found a young man that was a-lookin' out the window. Listen, I wanna mind the Lord tonight. Had in my mind that I was just gonna let you have it tonight, brother. Amen, but it seemed like that the Lord just kept a-dealin' with me. Well, there was a boy one day, Todd, that got to lookin' out the window, had the good things in life. I mean, he had everything. I believe that his father loved him, give him, give him this and give him that. I live and I believe that if I go with good people, servants was waiting on him, waiting on the left and on the right. But he got to looking out one day and things got to looking a little better out there than they were, where he was. That just goes back to our eyesight. Honey, I promise you that if you start looking here and there, you're going to find things that shine. And you're going to find things that look good. You're going to find things, honey, that'll make you feel good. And you flash, but it'll take us to hell. Oh, and it's all over with. Yeah, I'm going to run this rabbit real quick. And they showed me a picture today of a church not far from here. Amen. And what a boy, they had the neon lights up behind the pulpit. Amen. They had their PA's and their sound system. Amen. Everybody up front was raising their hand. And it seemed like it was a show and a racket. Amen. And God listened to them. Amen. It's not everything that shines that's gold. that glitters that's good. Amen. But here sat that old boy looking out the window, and he told his daddy one day that he wanted everything, even if it wasn't coming to it. But his daddy loved him like he loved him. I believe, Amen, that he'd give him everything that he asked for. What a father we have tonight that'll give us everything that we need. I doubt there's a one of us tonight. A man that woke up. A man in a cardboard box beside the roof. Honey, God has blessed us. There's not a one tonight that'll go to bed hungry. Why? Because God has blessed us. The Father has given us everything. We need to make the journey. Oh, I'm glad that he loves me kind. I mean, what love that is him. Ain't a time and time again. I turned my back on him. I walked off and left him. But he loved me anyway. I mean, moment after moment, his mercy and his long suffering has been right by my side. Honey, we're all done. I've been in hell. We'd all die without him. But he loved us so much, he seized us. Amen. Amen. Oh, that's right. I'm all creative. Well, nobody seems to care. Well, the crowds are off, but I feel like raising hell. Eggman, people made a mockery out of him. Eggman used God as a spare tire. Eggman, they've used him and abused him. Eggman, the end's gonna come, ain't it? Eggman. But one day, Haman, the old boy, looked out the window. All he was gone of. Hadn't got a penny left. Well, what happened, everything. But then the father gave him. He lost it all. I know tonight that the world will tell us, hey man, just get saved. Just make a profession. Water in the heart for you. You'll be alright. But honey, we'll lose it all. I will lose everything. Honey, you'll not find any word better than the father's house. You'll not find any word sweeter, any word more loving. You'll not find comfort, you'll not find peace, honey, any word. I can feel him running out my door. Yes, sir! in that situation. That boy was chasing dreams. He was chasing money. He was chasing feelings. But it got him in the heartbeat. That's where it got him. That's where he found himself. That man down there in the heartbeat. He should have died down there. Amen. He should have died down there. Amen. That's where he should have spent through his wife's breath. Why? But daddy gave him everything he needed to make it. I just seen him in some ambulance lights go up the road. All you gotta do, amen. That's you. All you gotta do, amen. But if somebody calls in on you, well, the doctor can't save you. And the money can't save you. And the money can't save you. And nothing else can save you. But if we'll stay with that, if we'll stay with the Lord, He's promised me I can trust Him in me. You can't tell me that Daddy didn't warn him. You can't tell me that Daddy hadn't rehearsed it. Daddy's here. It's time to stay here. You can't tell me that Daddy hadn't told him. But time and time again, you better stay right where you're at. I thought I'd look back at my own messages that God's let me preach. I've said the will of God. Amen. Me and my wife both. Honey, we'll say it this week. I've done things men ought not do. Amen. We went over to St. Paul one day. Amen. There's a dedicated baby. And Gordon Lewis got him preached. And I can still hear it today. You know what he talked about? His voice. Amen. And I heard him. I heard him call. And I turned him away. It was pretty much, oh Lord, where he at? Oh Lord, have you forgot about me? Oh Lord, have you dealing with me. I thought I'd went too far. I thought you know what I was doing. I was chasing a dollar. I was chasing a dream. I was chasing my own commonality. But bless his holy name. He didn't leave me where I was. And I heard him when he called. Amen. Praise the Lord. There it was. I won't put you out. Good work. Now learn the hard piece. I don't know tonight. Hey, man, I don't know how many chances that the Lord will give to you. I don't know, Tracy. I said it down in the prayer room. Talking about second, third, and fourth chances. Thank God for his mercy. Hey, man, thank God for his mercy. Oh, but honey, he's obligated to one. He's obligated to once. The grace of God to bring us salvation hath appeared unto all men. You know what makes Him come down more than once? Mercy. You know what makes Him come down? You know what makes him come by more than three times? Mercy. You know what makes him come by more than 20 times? Mercy. It's mercy. Are y'all hearing me? It's mercy. It's mercy. There's mercy, you ain't in hell. If you're in your heart, you better wake up. Mercy will run out for you. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Well, we could leave him there, couldn't we? I swear I'm going to die. Lookin' around, seen them old hogs eatin' the husks. I thought I'm awful hungry. Why? He didn't eat, didn't have nothin'. You ain't going to be. Well now, you fixing to lose it all. You can turn me off, turn me away. You can turn God away and say I don't want to hear it. But honey, when you wind up with nothing, a second in the mud, for the years of this little It's gonna be a ring in your ear. I told you, you're gonna lose it all. Well, but all of a sudden, he come to his senses. Thank God that he come to his senses. Had to do that to get to the point. where it was all gone. And said even the servants back at daddy's house have bread enough to survive. I'm gonna go back home. If only it was that simple. All I find where it got up and he started back home. I believe maybe he had rehearsed what he was going to say. I'm going to tell daddy that I'm not worthy to be called his son anymore. But if he'll just let me be a son, yes. Maybe he thought daddy ain't going to want to see me. Maybe he turned around and started back to the hog pen. Tell daddy I'm not worthy. Well, he got away tall, the Bible says. A great way off. Isn't that what it says? Luke chapter 15. You ought to follow along with him. He got a great way off. Father save me. I don't find where he cut a limb and whooped him. Praise the Lord. I don't find where he run out of this. Chuck his finger in his face and said, so I told you so. But he ran out and grabbed him around the neck. Wow, he loved it. Jesus loves me. What more could you want? Jesus loves you. It's amazing. Todd told me when I stood out over there that Caleb took his first steps today. As amazing news as that is, I got my little trumpet. Jesus loves me. Praise the Lord. Don't get too old next time. Everybody do this so I know we can. Jesus loves me. reproach upon the family name, the way that boy done it. Wants to be stoned. Reserving of death. Everybody all right tonight? You serious? Daddy run out there because he loved him? Todd, you can't convince me otherwise. Daddy run out there before anybody else could. Daddy wanted to get a hold of him before anybody else could. Why? Everybody else would have killed him. Yeah, true. Amen. Christian, you know your adversary, the devil, has a going about like a roaring lion, seeking whom he may devour. He'll kill you. Yes, sir. People say, oh, I'll hook the devil. I'll put him in his place. He'll kill you. There's only one thing that the devil fears, that at the name of Jesus, even the devil will believe and tremble that he knew he could get him back in the house. Everybody could beat on the door, but if he was in the house, he'd be all right. Don't you think you want to straighten up? I didn't want to hear that message. People trust me for being blunt and bold. You don't want to talk to CJ. He said, some of you are going to die and go to hell if you don't straighten up. I didn't want to hear it. But when I come to myself, I told you the other day, standing in angles with a Budweiser shirt on, old man Furman Wilson met me. I said, I crossed my arms, Nicky. I didn't want Furman to see that. But as the tears run down his face, he said, He always be. I'm glad red, yellow, black, or white. He loves you. No matter how far down you got. He loves you. I don't care how many times you've said you don't want him. And you don't love him. He loves you. Praise the Lord. Put his arm around him. Son, let's get in the house. Well, daddy, I'm not worthy. I'm not worthy to be called your son no more. I didn't mean it to you. Let me tell you just how good the Lord is. Just how merciful that the Lord is. Luke chapter 15 verse 20, the Bible said he arose, came to his father. When he was a great way off, had compassion, and ran and fell on his neck, and kissed him, and said, and the son said unto him, Father, I have sinned against heaven and in my sight, and am no more worthy to be called thy son. What did daddy do? Did he say, son, you're all right, you just get out there and just clean out the barn, clean out the gutters, you ain't my son no more. And I will say, but the father said to his servant, bring forth the best robe, and put it on him, and put it on his hand, and shoes on his feet, and bring him the fatted calf and kill him, and let us eat and be merry. For this my son, did he say, servant? For this my son was dead, now I live so I can hear. Listen, you can turn him away. You can turn him away tonight. You can walk out and say you don't want him. But honey, there'll be a day when you're gonna need him. But there'll be a time when you're alone for him. You'll beg for death and it'll flee from you. But oh, listen, if we'll just come to ourself and realize where we are. He said, I'll never leave you, nor forsake you. He'll meet you a great way off and welcome you back home. You reckon that daddy would have brought him back in, Jack, if he'd have showed up on the steps and didn't apologize? I believe they took an apology, don't you? Repentance is key. They ain't preach much no more. They ain't talk about much no more. But repentance. There's a price paid. Amen. That don't even do it justice. We can't even imagine. I mean, look at that. That ought to stir us. As he run down, the men walked by him, railed on him. Me and Tate, that man that he said he was the son of God, look at him now. And at any time while he hung there, he could have said it ain't worth it. They're gonna turn their back on me. They're going to walk away from me. They're going to backslide. They're not going to trust me. But he stayed there. Isn't that amazing? I said this so much. He stayed there for you. You may have turned your back on him, but he hung there for you. He give every drop of blood he had for you. Amen. Amen, brother. Isaiah said, you know, after all this, his anger's not kindled, but his hand is outstretched to you. Amen. Amen. Bless you, Lord. You ain't gonna hear nobody preaching in hell. Right. Come on, brother. Holy will be one single man. Oh, brother. He did it all before. Amen, brother. Let an old-time man of God walk down in hell tonight. God would grant and God would let the gospel be preached in hell. There wouldn't be nobody sold on the peony. No, sir. No, sir. Amen, brother. Amen, brother. they didn't want him, that died away from him, that would run to the altar. But you know what? Nobody's got to preach the gospel. They don't like the old. Nobody's got to tell anybody in hell how to get to heaven. there'd be a lot more people getting in. We could peel back the lid and look off in it. I mean, if we're sold down there, we'll say it ain't worth it. Let's say the bottle ain't worth it. The bottle ain't worth it. The pills ain't worth it. It ain't worth it. husbands and wives, and their very own children. Screaming, out of hell. And you know what I believe that you babies are saying? Hell yeah! Look for your brothers! I'll be screaming out of hell, but one Lord told me it was in vain. Will it be worth it? Even when your whole family's attacked? And you're the one to blame? Will it be worth it? I know you're screaming out of the wall, but the man with no way out, will it be worth it? Nicky told me, he said at a funeral today, lost people sat beside him and could quote scripture. They were quoting it in hell. Oh, but Malachi tells you, of a book of remembrance for those that trust in the Lord. I can't find a book of remembrance for those that die without it. Man dies and goes to hell. As sad as it is to say, God will forget about you. He tells me there's gonna be a day, honey, when that time of seeking will be over. They'll seek Him, but they won't find Him. Can you imagine, don't you, when Christ steps out on the clouds? That man calls us home, men and women, babies and all. To fall on. Hide us from. Hide us from his wrath. Hide us from his judgment. It won't hide you. It won't hide you. There's only one thing that'll hide you from the wrath of God. And it's the blood. It's the blood. That's all. God help us tonight. Yes. God help us. Yes. God, if it's if I'm just preaching to one, two. Come on. Three. You're going. God, give me that. Yes, sir. Yes, Lord. Help us, Lord. That's it. One man. That's right. God's word will not go out void. A void that'll dead where it needs to be. It'll go where it needs to go. I want to do my dead level best with the help of the Lord. Paul and I made him. That means I hurt people's feelings. That means I make fun of him. Hey Charlie, why didn't you tell me the truth? How serious is he? It ain't no fairytale that you ain't familiar with. Old Bill Schanzauer got over there one day, and he went and drank him out of the vessels that his daddy had stolen out of the house of God. And man, all of a sudden he seen a hand. riding on the wall. And you know what it says? You better wade in the balances and follow. The only thing that can even out the scale is Jesus. That's it. Help us Lord. As much as I love to be on the mountaintop all the time, we're not. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. That's why we walk by faith. 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He's the truth. He's the truth. He's the truth. He's the truth. He's the truth. He's the truth. He's the He didn't want to talk about Jesus. He quit. Walked away from the Lord. Done what some people here do. They won't talk to me. I'd call him if he would answer. He wouldn't respond to me. Days would go by, I'd text him again, hey, thought I'd been missing you. No response. And finally the Lord said, Charlie, just leave him alone. Just leave him alone. A little while after that, got a call one day, he done the same work I do. Tree top had broke out and hit him over the head. And as I was rushing him to Johnson City, I said, Lord, help him. Lord, help him. About 11.30 that night, God called his name. What happened to him, preacher? He died in that shape. Believe whatever you want to believe. But he died outside the will of God. I'm gonna be honest with you. I'm gonna be blunt. Try my best to tell everybody. Hey, they been tellin' me to pray for them. They been turnin' around, but the Lord told me to lay low. He said, Charlie, just lay low. Is it not sad when God tells the very people he's tryin' their best to win you? Where will you be tonight? If you walk out them doors and God says that's it. If a man dies outside the will of God, Christian all I know say, he's in the hands of a just cause. from the end of the beginning to the eighth man of Revelation. And no sin will enter in. Ain't gonna do it? No. Preacher, I don't know what's coming between me and the Lord. Yeah, you do. It's not a secret, you know. You just don't wanna, is it worth going to hell? No. Preacher, Well, he said, all those that come unto me with a broken heart and a contrite spirit, how in no wise cancelling. Praise the Lord. That tells me he's available. But when he quits doing this, that's when you need to work. When he quits doing this, you better get concerned. Well, even if he's doing this now, you ought to be concerned because he may not be doing this tomorrow. True. Every soul in hell heard one last message. They said one last service. God give them one last chance. And they died without it. What if this is your last message? Your last service. Your last chance. God's extending that mercy one more time. God's extending that grace one more time. And if you walk out and say no tonight, what if he pulls the plug? You know where they are.