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0:00Luke chapter 17
0:02verses 26 through 30. Luke chapter 17
0:09verses 26 through 30. While you're
0:11turning there getting ready, I want to
0:12say I'm so glad to have
0:14my friend
0:16brother Joe Aller and his wife with us
0:18today. Tremendous friends. I love and
0:20appreciate them, respect them so much.
0:23Thank them so much for being here along
0:24with all the other guests that are here.
0:27Uh we want you to know that that's a big
0:29deal
0:30for you to join us. Luke chapter 17
0:33verse 26 says, "As it was in the days of
0:35Noah,
0:37so shall it be also
0:39in the days of the Son of man.
0:43They did eat, they drank,
0:46they married wives, they were given in
0:48marriage until the day
0:51that Noah entered the ark and the flood
0:53came
0:54and destroyed
0:56them all.
0:58God bless you. You can be seated.
1:03There's several other
1:05verses that I could read
1:08and I will not right now. I want to I
1:10want to get started.
1:13And um
1:16I want to say that
1:18um
1:20I'm going to do everything in my power
1:21to be very quick today.
1:24Um
1:29but there's a
1:31there's a lot of things prophesied that
1:32this world
1:34and this earth has not seen yet.
1:37Many things that's prophesied that
1:40it is my prayer
1:42that the church is out of here by the
1:44time those things happen.
1:47It's my view that the church will be
1:49gone
1:51by the time those things happen.
1:54One of the things that is prophesied
1:57is that there is something coming
2:00that will
2:03kill a third of the earth.
2:07In one
2:08swift death movement,
2:12a third of the earth will die.
2:15Now, I'm I'm not talking about a fairy
2:17tale. I'm talking about something that's
2:18in your Bible.
2:21Revelations 9 talks about the opening of
2:23the sixth seal.
2:25The Bible says when that sixth seal is
2:28opened that God
2:30will
2:31unshackle angels
2:35that have been held in the Euphrates
2:37River.
2:40These angels have been held in the
2:41Euphrates for a time period.
2:45The time period that will come will be
2:47the last days when they will be
2:49unleashed for the purpose of bringing
2:52the earth to judgment.
2:55Why does the earth
2:56need to come to judgment? The earth
2:58needs to come to judgment because
3:01God, the creator, created them.
3:06He gave them life.
3:09He gave them time.
3:12He gave them money.
3:14He gave them possessions.
3:17And he said, "All I want in return
3:20is for you to honor me as God.
3:24I want to be your God,
3:26and I want you to be my people."
3:29And the people said,
3:31"We don't want you in our lives." Now,
3:33everybody does not say that with their
3:35mouth.
3:37Most people just say that with their
3:39actions. They just simply don't have
3:41time for God in their world.
3:47One of the marked
3:49one of the marked things that stands out
3:51about the book of Acts.
3:53If you'll study the book of Acts, you'll
3:54find that every day
3:57they went to the temple to pray.
4:01Every day
4:03they went to the temple to pray. Going
4:04to the temple to pray was an everyday
4:08occasion
4:10for the book of Acts church.
4:13They had room and space and time for God
4:16in their lives.
4:18Most people are not so bold as to say,
4:21"God, we don't want you." Now, there is
4:22a growing population of people that do.
4:26They just simply say, "God, we don't
4:28want you in our courthouses. We don't
4:29want you in our schools."
4:31Uh for for the first time in my
4:33lifetime, I'm seeing a rise of people
4:37that literally say, "Hail Satan. Satan
4:41is our God. Lucifer is the God that we
4:44worship."
4:47And so, the reason that judgment has to
4:50come to earth is because God
4:53is the creator of all life. And God is
4:55the creator of all people.
4:58As a sign that this is the reason that
5:00God brings destruction on the earth in
5:05Genesis or or I'm sorry, Revelations 9,
5:08is right before a third of the earth is
5:12destroyed, the Bible says the king
5:14appears, God
5:16appears.
5:18And the Bible says everything on the
5:20earth,
5:21everything under the earth,
5:23everything under the sea,
5:27and all of heaven
5:29rises up and worships him and declares
5:32him King of kings and Lord of lords.
5:37Except
5:40a group of people
5:42that don't have time for a God.
5:48I'm going to preach to you
5:50for the next few minutes from this
5:52subject
5:54three revivals
5:56that's going to happen in the last days.
6:02I think a I think a better
6:04title would just simply be caught up.
6:09In fact, let me let me change that and
6:11let my subject just today just be caught
6:13up.
6:15Caught up.
6:18Caught up.
6:20Well, what a what a term.
6:25Just two simple words, caught
6:28up.
6:31Everybody
6:34is getting caught up
6:36in something.
6:39You're going to be caught up
6:42in something.
6:45You've got to be specific
6:48about what you're caught up in.
6:51Everybody's going to be caught up in
6:53something. Now, this is this is vital
6:56for you to understand this today.
6:59You can you can have a choice what
7:01you're caught up in, but you can't have
7:03a choice not to be caught up.
7:10All right, you you can have a choice
7:12about what it is that you're caught up
7:13in.
7:15But you can't have a choice about not
7:17being caught up.
7:21You've got to be very intentional
7:24about what you're caught up in.
7:27And I just want to I just want to
7:29shoehorn this in and throw this in here
7:32because it's a subject for a whole
7:33'nother message.
7:35But one of the things that disturbs me
7:37as a pastor
7:39is that
7:42we are given 168
7:45hours
7:47in a week.
7:50A week is comprised of 168 hours.
7:56That's 168 hours that you're you're
7:59basically free to do whatever you want
8:01to with except a few.
8:05The average person sleeps 8 hours a day.
8:10And so
8:12that's 56 hours that are consumed in
8:15sleeping on an average.
8:18The average person works a 40-hour work
8:20week.
8:22That separates another 40 hours which
8:25gives you a total of 96 hours which
8:27which at the end of it all
8:31you have
8:32a residual leftover of 72 hours of of
8:36basic free time.
8:3972 hours in a week
8:42that you're not sleeping and you're not
8:43working. Therefore, those hours are free
8:46to your discretion.
8:48You can do anything you want to
8:51with those 72 hours.
8:55Seven or so of those
8:59if you go to Pine Grove Pentecostal
9:00Church
9:03is
9:05consumed in church services if you're a
9:07member.
9:09There's four or so hours that's consumed
9:11on Sunday.
9:13And
9:15two that's consumed in a midweek
9:17service.
9:19And if you come to Wednesday night
9:21prayer
9:23then a tenth of your free time
9:27is consumed at church.
9:30Of the whole, it's less than 4%.
9:37Can you imagine
9:39a God
9:41creating you, putting you on this earth,
9:45and then you tell him, "I haven't got
9:47I'm not going to waste 4% of my time on
9:49you."
9:52I got things I want to be doing.
9:55I got places I want to be.
10:00I can't imagine being busy with my life,
10:05doing all the things I do,
10:07and I get
10:09real busy and tied up,
10:12and I blame
10:14my problem
10:16on something that consumes 4% of my
10:18time.
10:23The reason I'm so busy is because we
10:24have so much church.
10:31Uh you you mean you mean the 6 hours out
10:34of 72 is your problem?
10:40You mean you got 72 hours of free time,
10:42and your biggest problem is the six
10:46that you go to the house of God,
10:48the very one that's supplying you time,
10:51that if he decided you didn't need any
10:52more time, he could just cut it off,
10:55and he's your problem?
11:04Folks, if that's your thought process,
11:06is you're caught up.
11:09You're caught up in the things that
11:11don't matter.
11:14I don't have time to come to church.
11:17Oh, I can understand that. 6% 6% of your
11:20time. I got I get it.
11:24Or six six hours out of 72. I I I get
11:27where that could be a real problem for
11:28you.
11:30You say, "Brother Couple, why are you
11:32like this? Because I get the attendance
11:33log every every week."
11:38And it's amazingly the same people.
11:42It's not a smattering of people missing
11:44church.
11:45It's the same people that never miss.
11:48And it's the same people that always
11:50miss.
11:51You're caught up.
11:53You're too busy for God.
12:00I can't imagine people getting dressed,
12:04putting their suit on, putting their
12:05nice clothes on, coming to church,
12:08and can't stay for that second service.
12:11They're just too busy for God.
12:17You know, and I I it would it would be
12:19totally different.
12:22I understand.
12:25If I had a dog chewing on my pant leg, I
12:27wouldn't say sick 'em either.
12:33What is the pastor supposed to be?
12:40What's a pastor supposed to do?
12:42Just let you go to hell?
12:45Just let you be lost?
12:47Just let you get caught up?
12:54I'm here to preach to you today because
12:56I love you.
12:58I care about you.
13:01Be seated.
13:03If you want to
13:04If you want somebody just come in here
13:06and pet you for an hour on Sunday and
13:07then turn you loose and let you do the
13:09whatever you want to do with the rest of
13:11your week,
13:12I'm sure Joel Osteen's turning some
13:13preachers out. Y'all need to vote one
13:15in.
13:19I'm here to see the past people that I
13:21pastor saved.
13:24I want you to go to heaven. I want you
13:25to make it.
13:33I'm not I'm not trying to win your
13:35popularity contest. I'm trying to see
13:37you saved.
13:39I'm not trying to win the best preacher
13:40award. I'm trying to see you saved.
13:44I'm trying to win the best pastor award
13:47and that's a that's a whole different
13:48deal than the best preacher.
13:55Somebody says, "Well, I don't like all
13:56that." Well, that's prophesied, too. The
13:58Bible says in the last days they
14:00wouldn't endure sound doctrine. They
14:02would heap to themselves teachers having
14:04itching ears and they would say, "Say
14:06something that we want to hear. Talk to
14:08us about the things that we enjoy
14:09listening to."
14:14Here's the problem.
14:17I want I want everybody in this house to
14:19hear me right now.
14:24You listen to what I'm saying.
14:30If I would have added up the time and
14:32found out that
14:34church was consuming a lion's share of
14:37your time,
14:39I'd say, "Boy, you need to
14:41I can see where cutting back on some
14:43church would really help you."
14:48It's just not the case.
14:53The case is we go to church 4%
14:57of the time in our week.
15:01Which I'll be honest with you is just
15:03simply not enough.
15:06Our problem is the opposite. Our problem
15:08is not that we're going to church too
15:10much. Our problem is we're not going
15:11enough.
15:16That's our problem.
15:20There's no thing I can think of that you
15:23could do that you could give 4% of your
15:25week to and be successful at it.
15:29Nothing.
15:31I know of not one thing you could do
15:33that 4% of your time would make you a
15:36success.
15:38Not one.
15:41In fact, if you have anything in your
15:43life that's of any importance and you're
15:45only giving 4% of your time to it, I
15:47promise you you are going to fail at
15:49that.
15:51That will be the thing that you will
15:53eventually give up on and you'll just
15:55simply say I don't have time for that
15:57and that's where anybody's headed that
16:00does that way.
16:04There's a saying in the mechanical world
16:06that once a vehicle starts missing,
16:09eventually it's going to quit.
16:15And after 27 years of pastoring, I'm
16:17going to tell you when you start
16:18missing,
16:21eventually you're going to quit.
16:24If you don't correct that, if you don't
16:25get somewhere and say, "Hey, check my
16:27engine."
16:29You headed for quitting.
16:36And there's only one reason you'd be
16:37missing, you're getting caught up.
16:41You're getting caught up.
16:48And somebody says, "Well, I'm not
16:49getting caught up in this world. I don't
16:50like the things of this world. I'm not
16:52I'm not involved in the things of this
16:53world." Jesus covered that, too. He
16:55said, "You know, our our problem is not
16:57just those that do all these things,
17:00it's those that like watching it and
17:02living among it being a part of it."
17:04He said, "Some of them don't do it,
17:07but they'd be they'd rather be in that
17:09crowd."
17:11You say, "Well, that's not me." Then why
17:13are you missing church? Where are you?
17:16Where are you while we're having church?
17:19You're either with them or you're so
17:21wore out from being with them that you
17:22can't come to the house of God.
17:30I'm telling you you're going to you're
17:31going to in the last days
17:34everybody is going to get caught up.
17:41Here's what Jesus said.
17:42And I got to move on cuz it's 12:56.
17:44Jesus said
17:46I did not come to bring peace.
17:50You know what? It disturbs me when I see
17:52all these people looking around shaking
17:54their head saying, "And you're supposed
17:56to be a Christian and you're not loving
17:58and unifying."
17:59Where do they get that Christianity is
18:01unifying?
18:07Christianity is unified among those of
18:10like precious faith.
18:13It is separated from everybody that's
18:15not of like precious faith.
18:19Jesus said, "I'm coming in the last days
18:21and I'm not coming to bring peace. I'm
18:23coming to bring a sword."
18:26I'm coming to separate.
18:30My fan is in my hand and I'm separating
18:32the chaff from the wheat. So,
18:34everybody's going to get caught up in
18:37chaff or wheat. Everybody's going to get
18:40caught up in who they are.
18:46And you're you're going to have these
18:48unifiers.
18:50You're going to have these unifiers that
18:52that's not going to choose sides.
18:55They're going to want to pretend that
18:57they're on both sides.
19:00And the Bible says so a great big
19:02angel's going to come down.
19:05And he's going to separate the goats out
19:06of the sheep herd.
19:08He's going to say, "You don't belong
19:09there."
19:13Everybody is going to get caught up
19:16in something.
19:18Now, I'm through working on this because
19:20I got to move on.
19:22But if you if you're if you're
19:24struggling with time,
19:27the last person you want to cut out is
19:29the one that's supplying your time.
19:37The one The one that if he had decided
19:39your time was up could speak the word
19:41your lungs would quit breathing.
19:44Your heart would quit quit beating. He
19:45could end your time right now before
19:47this service is over.
19:50I want to be careful saying that because
19:55if I'm not mistaken, it was John
19:57Whitfield was preaching
19:59a great revival in England
20:01and conviction got probably about like
20:03it is right now in this sanctuary.
20:07People begin to moan and groan in their
20:08pews
20:10while Whitfield was preaching and he
20:11preached about the fact that someone's
20:13life could end right now and three
20:15people died in his congregation while he
20:17was preaching.
20:22If I'm struggling with time in my life,
20:24I'm not going to cut off the one that's
20:26supplying the time.
20:30It's the same concept as tithes and
20:32offering. If I'm struggling financially,
20:33though, I'm not going to cut back the
20:35one that supplied it.
20:41I may end my next Netflix obligations.
20:49I may tell Netflix I can't afford you
20:51anymore.
20:54I may cut off my 300 channel
20:56subscription.
20:59Let me be clear. I don't have either one
21:01of those.
21:05I may sell off my car.
21:08Get out from under my car note and get
21:09me a $2,000 beater to run around in for
21:12a while till I get my feet back under
21:13me, but I'm not cutting off the one
21:16that's supplying everything.
21:20Because I really believe that he is.
21:23See, I'm caught I'm caught under this
21:25strange illusion that I'm not a god to
21:28myself. I'm caught under this strange
21:30idea that there is a god that is
21:32supplying everything for me, THAT I'M
21:34NOT RESPONSIBLE. I AM NOT A SELF-MADE
21:36MAN. I AM A GOD-MADE MAN. I LIVE UNDER
21:39THAT ILLUSION THAT GOD IS IN CONTROL OF
21:42EVERYTHING.
21:47Forgive me if that's backwater and not
21:49with it and just not up with the times,
21:51but I really believe that god is in
21:53control of my world.
22:02And so therefore,
22:05if I can't give
22:07a few hours a week to him,
22:11in view of the 70 to 72 hours of free
22:13time that I have in my life,
22:16if I can't give him a sec
22:18a 10% of that,
22:22just 7 hours,
22:26four on Sunday,
22:29two on Tuesday,
22:31and mid-week prayer.
22:34Did you know that just just magically,
22:36without anybody planning it, winds up a
22:39tenth of your time?
22:42Isn't it just amazing how that works
22:44out? A tithe on your time.
22:49It's just It's just amazing how it all
22:51works out.
22:55When you add up 168,
22:59it rounds up to 17 hours.
23:04When you take a tithe and an offering on
23:06that,
23:08if you call a tithe 10% and an offering
23:105%, 15% of a person's time, and you
23:13added it up, it comes to right out to
23:15somewhere around 24 hours.
23:19Isn't it just so amazing
23:22that God said, "Give me the Sabbath.
23:26Give me that first day of your week and
23:27I'll bless the other six."
23:31Isn't it Isn't it just amazing how that
23:33works?
23:38And for you to say, "Well, God don't
23:40require that of me." is the same thing
23:43as you you saying that you don't require
23:45any time out of your children.
23:48That you're going to create them, you're
23:49going to raise them, you're going to
23:50supply for them, and then you're going
23:52to say, "You don't ever have to come see
23:53me."
23:58Just go do what you want to do.
24:03I'm going to tell you something, if
24:04they're your children, I'm going to tell
24:05you what you're doing. You're texting,
24:06you're on the phone, you're calling,
24:08"When are you going to come see me this
24:09week? I I want to see you. You're You're
24:11my child."
24:16And the Bible says God's finally going
24:18to become so wroth
24:22with an earth that he spent 6,000 years.
24:24He said, "When I sent you my prophet,
24:26you stoned them.
24:31When I sent you people to try to get you
24:32to come to me, you wouldn't listen.
24:35I finally came myself and you crucified
24:38me.
24:40And here I'm here again saying, "Is any
24:41of the creation
24:44going to turn to me?"
24:47And the Bible says that they're going to
24:48do the same thing that the Jews did
24:52in the Gospels. They're going to say,
24:53"NO, WE DON'T WANT YOU."
24:58AND THE BIBLE SAYS that he's going to
24:59release Now, listen to me cuz I got to
25:01move on this message. He's going to
25:03release
25:05some angels
25:07that's been held in the Euphrates River.
25:11Can Now, now, now, now bear with me just
25:13a minute because this is this is
25:14supposition.
25:16This is just happenstance. I'm just
25:18throwing it out there for consideration.
25:24But that Euphrates River
25:27is combined to the Muslim world.
25:34That's where the Euphrates River is.
25:37It supplies the water for the Islamic
25:39Caliphate.
25:44It's an It's an Islamic river way.
25:49And the Bible says those angels or those
25:51spirits that are behind, I believe, the
25:53Islamic Caliphate.
25:56He's going to release them and say,
25:57"I've been holding y'all back."
26:03But I'm going to give you power to do
26:04what you want to do.
26:08And the Bible says that
26:11as a result of these angels being
26:13released out of the Euphrates River
26:16which runs through the Islamic
26:19Caliphate.
26:21It's where ISIS lives.
26:25It's where the Sunnis live.
26:33Listen, this is very important.
26:36It says they're going to be released and
26:38God's going to give them power to kill a
26:40third of the earth.
26:45Do you have a clue what that looks like?
26:52You You just got to listen to what I'm
26:53saying right now.
26:57Hang on because I want my numbers to be
26:59right.
27:03In World War II, only 52 million were
27:06killed.
27:08Just 52 million.
27:11COVID-19, from the time it started till
27:14this year,
27:16only killed 7 million.
27:23It's it's growing on the fact that a
27:27third of the population would be
27:28somewhere around three in the
27:30neighborhood of 3 billion people.
27:33Three
27:34billion.
27:36Does anybody know what the population of
27:38the United States is right now?
27:421/10 of that.
27:46The entire United States of America is
27:48only 300 million.
27:53And the Bible says somewhere in the
27:54neighborhood of 3 billion people will
27:57lose their lives.
28:04That's coming upon us.
28:08While all this is coming,
28:13all this is prophesied.
28:17There is a group of people, Brother
28:19Jason Day, it's in the largest group of
28:21people
28:23that is just caught up in the gridiron.
28:28They're caught up in football.
28:31Entire group of people that's caught up
28:33in politics.
28:36You know, it's one thing to have an
28:39appreciation for something. It's another
28:40thing to be caught up in it.
28:45It's a whole different thing when you're
28:47caught up. when that's all you can think
28:49about, that's all you can see. And that
28:51was that was God's problem.
28:55In fact, at one time he said, "Here
28:57here's the problem with you." He said,
28:59"I've blessed you." He said, "My problem
29:01is not hey, I gave you all this earth
29:04for you to enjoy."
29:06That's what he said.
29:08I gave you this earth because I want you
29:10to enjoy it, but not in spite of me.
29:14I want you to enjoy it with me.
29:20I don't want you to enjoy it in spite of
29:22me. I WANT YOU TO ENJOY IT WITH ME. I
29:24GAVE IT TO you so you can enjoy with me.
29:26I want to walk with you in the cool of
29:28the evening. I want to talk, but that's
29:30not WHAT YOU DID. YOU TOOK IT, YOU RAN,
29:32AND YOU WANT nothing to do with me.
29:37He said, "My problem
29:40is that when you move into houses you
29:42didn't build, and you drink out of wells
29:44you didn't dig, and you eat out of
29:45vineyards that that that you didn't
29:47plant, that you're going to forget the
29:49Lord your God
29:52that gave it to you."
29:57He said, "My problem is not that I don't
29:59want you to enjoy all the things I've
30:00supplied. I don't want you to do it to
30:02the point that you have no time for me."
30:08Listen to me. We live in a United States
30:10of America. Are you Are you listening to
30:11me? And that See See, this is the whole
30:14problem. I got to say this now and I'll
30:15move on.
30:16This is the whole problem.
30:18Is
30:20What is What is informing your life?
30:24The way the Bible does things and the
30:26way the church does things or the way
30:28the world does things?
30:33Because the United States of America,
30:34all the people who are religious in the
30:36United States of America have got God
30:38God down to 1 hour on Sunday.
30:45And that's if they're not busy with
30:46something else.
30:49Boy, Christmas, they hadn't got that one
30:51hour.
30:52During the summertime, they hadn't got
30:54that one hour. During hunting season,
30:56they hadn't got that one hour.
30:59Sunday
31:01is a one-hour church service if they
31:03happen to be in town.
31:06The rest of the time, God is cut out of
31:08their life and out of their world.
31:14But yet, if you could understand the
31:15time
31:17that people and I I don't have time to
31:18go into it because I don't want this to
31:20become a statistical message today, but
31:22if you could understand the time people
31:23spend in television and movies and and
31:27and scrolling on Facebook and
31:29on the internet and
31:32on Instagram and all that kind of stuff.
31:34I'm I'm you you just listen to me. God
31:36can't even compare to the time in most
31:38people's lives that they're spending on
31:40that. And yet, they're wondering how in
31:42the world does a nation that was built
31:45on in God we trust just a few years
31:47later
31:48have 62
31:53What word am I looking for here?
31:56Si- 60 It's not male or female anymore.
31:59There's 62 different genders that you
32:01can be.
32:03How does it how
32:07How does a nation that once had
32:09homosexuality is is is illegal on the
32:12books?
32:15It was illegal to be homosexual just 40
32:18years ago.
32:21How do we reach the point that not It's
32:23not just an alternate lifestyle, it is
32:26the most more welcome lifestyle than a
32:29man walking in with his wife?
32:35We're literally moving to the point now
32:39that if a husband and wife team walks
32:41in, people look at it like, "What's
32:42wrong with y'all? That's so yesterday."
32:47Marriage vows mean nothing anymore.
32:50Homosexuality is not just accepted, it
32:52is celebrated. How do we move from that?
32:55A nation that has got cut God out of
32:57their life. And it's one thing for a
32:59nation to cut God out of his life. It's
33:01another thing all together for apostolic
33:03people that sit ON PEWS THAT GET SO BUSY
33:06THEY CAN'T COME TO CHURCH.
33:10WHAT ARE YOU GETTING CAUGHT UP IN?
33:17WHAT ARE YOU GETTING CAUGHT UP IN?
33:22I want us to look at
33:26I want
33:27us to look at uh
33:29You know what? Before I go there,
33:32let's look at
33:38Genesis 12 and 13.
33:41Says the men of Sodom
33:44were wicked exceedingly.
33:50Here's the deal. I'm I'm trying to be
33:51very careful with my time.
33:59That's written written down wrong. Let's
34:01not go there.
34:02Listen listen to me.
34:06I'm I'm actually probably about to come
34:07to a close.
34:11The Bible says this, "It was in the days
34:12of Noah,
34:16so shall it be in the last days." They
34:19They were asking him, and they didn't
34:20expect his answer. They was asking him,
34:22"What's it going to be like
34:25when the Son of Man returns?"
34:28And basically what Jesus tells them is
34:30people are going to get be so caught up
34:32in their lives
34:35that they're going to ignore prophecy in
34:37the Bible.
34:39They're going to act like that this
34:40world
34:42is just going to keep going as it is.
34:48You
34:49Folks, you better wake up.
34:55The I could I won't have time to
34:58go through it today, but one of Jesus'
35:01number one themes was wake up.
35:04Look up.
35:06Awaken out of your sleep.
35:09Can you get your head out of the sand?
35:11Would you wake up for now is your
35:13salvation nearer than when you first
35:15believed?
35:18One of his number ONE MESSAGES WAS SHAKE
35:20YOURSELF. WAKE UP. CAN'T YOU WATCH WITH
35:23ME ONE HOUR? CAN'T YOU STAY AWAKE ONE
35:25HOUR? YOU'RE GETTING CAUGHT UP
35:29IN WHAT'S GOING ON AROUND YOU.
35:34I DON'T WANT church just to be a
35:35conscious souther for me.
35:38I don't want church just to to be
35:40something I come to and when I leave I
35:43say, "Man, I got that taken care of for
35:45another week."
35:48In fact, that's why I preach the way I
35:49preach. The reason I preach the way I
35:51preach
35:53is because church shouldn't be something
35:55where you come and a
35:57preacher
36:00has the right smile and
36:02live your best life.
36:05Live your best life now.
36:11And if he preaches too long, you start
36:12rattling your keys and getting upset.
36:18You don't mind a two-hour movie.
36:24Just an hour long sermon.
36:27You're caught up.
36:31You're caught up.
36:33You you you can spend two hours on the
36:35internet and totally lose track of time.
36:38But you're constantly looking at the
36:40clock in a church service wondering when
36:41the preacher's going to let you go.
36:43You're caught up.
36:45YOU'RE CAUGHT UP.
36:47YOU'RE CAUGHT UP IN THIS WORLD.
36:50A WORLD THAT'S HEADED FOR DESTRUCTION. A
36:52world that's headed
36:59I don't want to get caught up
37:02in the wickedness of this world.
37:05Whether I'm a part of it or not is not
37:06the is not the issue.
37:11One more time, I got to tell you the New
37:13Testament says that everybody wouldn't
37:15be doing it.
37:18But the Bible says that the people that
37:20were more comfortable with them than
37:22they are with the church
37:24is going to be characterized with them.
37:29You know a goat is not necessarily the
37:31goats in the Bible is not less
37:32necessarily categorized
37:35as those that's living in sin.
37:38It's just that they're not really sheep.
37:44They're hanging out with the church, but
37:45they're not really caught up with the
37:46church.
37:49They're trying to split the difference.
37:57If you if you don't believe this world
37:59is changing, it's changing right before
38:01your eyes and it's happening so quickly.
38:05But I'm just going to tell you
38:06something.
38:10Copeland spends the night with us once a
38:11week.
38:13I didn't feel this way necessarily when
38:15my I prayed for my girls just about
38:17every day.
38:19If not every day, I want to say every
38:21day, but just in case I missed a day, I
38:22don't want to be lying, but
38:26I'm going to tell you when he's at our
38:27house, I
38:28he goes to sleep, I put my little hands
38:29over his head.
38:31I say, "My God, protect this baby
38:35from the concepts and the ideas of this
38:37wicked world that we live in.
38:40God, don't let him be influenced by
38:42wicked people.
38:45God, don't let his mind be influenced by
38:47the filthiness and the ungodliness of
38:50this world. Don't let homosexual
38:52concepts and non-binary" Listen, we live
38:55in an evil world, folks.
39:00How in the world does homosexuality go
39:03from 1 or 2% to a nation to shooting up
39:06till I I don't even I can't even imagine
39:08what the number is now.
39:12That's happened in your lifetime. That's
39:13happened in your children's lifetime.
39:17This world has gotten so much worse just
39:19since your children. If you have a
39:2110-year-old child,
39:24if you looked at the trajectory,
39:28y'all listening to me? If you had a
39:29graph
39:30and you looked at the trajectory
39:33of of the world getting worse,
39:36from the '70s,
39:38the '80s,
39:39the '90s,
39:42I I I want you to listen to me.
39:45I do believe if you looked at it in the
39:47'60s and '70s, you would see an incline.
39:50I do believe in the '80s, you'd see a
39:52downturn.
39:56Believe it or not, I lived through it. I
39:58I think it actually got a little better
40:00in the '80s.
40:02A little more conservative.
40:07And then somewhere in the '90s, it
40:08started up.
40:11Folks, if you could see the last 10
40:12years, that thing is going straight up.
40:19I'm telling you I'm worried
40:23about the trajectory that our nation is
40:25on.
40:27But not in a not in a negative sense.
40:31It's just in the idea that now more than
40:33ever I've got to be in but not of.
40:37I've got to make sure that I'm not
40:39getting caught up.
40:44I'm not not getting caught up.
40:46Someone that is watching television,
40:48watching movies, watching football, and
40:50not reading their Bible. What do you
40:52think? How how do you think your mind's
40:54going to change?
41:01The Bible
41:03if you read the New Testament, I went to
41:04the Gospels again,
41:06just read through the Gospels,
41:08and
41:09one of the number one marks of demon
41:11possession is mental illness.
41:16The Bible says one one kid
41:18had a demon and he was casting himself
41:20into the fire, foaming at the mouth, and
41:22casting himself into the fire.
41:26I I I would say that probably many of
41:27the people that's in our mental
41:28institutions and and and being placed in
41:32places for mental illness is is demonic.
41:38The one one man was wandering among the
41:39tombs.
41:42When we have leaders
41:45when we have leaders that can be asked
41:47the question, "Define a woman." and they
41:49can't answer it.
41:52That's mental illness.
41:55When they look at you and cannot
41:56describe to you what a woman is.
41:59That's mental illness.
42:03And if you boys don't stay out of
42:05pornography, you're going to wind up
42:06wondering what a woman is.
42:13What is a woman?
42:16They can't tell you.
42:20Brother, when I was 2 years old, I knew
42:21what a woman was.
42:26I don't know about these boys that go
42:28through these times where girls like
42:29cooties. I never went through that time
42:31period.
42:32I never remember a time I didn't like
42:34women.
42:36Not once.
42:42They put signs on their clubhouse, no
42:43girls allowed. I put signs on mine, only
42:45girls allowed.
42:54I never looked at a man thought he's
42:56kindly cute.
42:58It ain't going to get started today,
43:00either.
43:11Be seated. I Listen, I I I'm telling you
43:13you got to hear what I'm telling you
43:14today. It Homosexuality is mental
43:17illness.
43:22It is mental illness. There is something
43:24mentally deranged. God created Adam and
43:27Eve. He created man and woman. He
43:29created them to be attracted to each
43:31other. He
43:32He had a PURPOSE BEHIND THAT.
43:41I WANT TO BE very clear
43:43in the fact that no one was born
43:46homosexual.
43:48No one.
43:57Somewhere your mom and daddy or somebody
43:59let demons in your house.
44:02And there's a mental derangement. Yeah,
44:04I'm going on record. Post it online.
44:06It's mental derangement.
44:10Something's mentally not right when
44:11someone's attracted to the same sex.
44:14It's mental illness.
44:20Somebody needs to say something.
44:29If you're If you're filled with a Holy
44:30Ghost Jesus Name One God Apostolic Bible
44:33believer and you're scared of what I'm
44:35saying, you're caught up.
44:39When you GOT TO BE SILENT TO BE
44:40POLITICALLY CORRECT, YOU'RE CAUGHT UP.
44:51AND THERE IS A WORLD OF PEOPLE THAT is
44:53caught up in all this. They're caught up
44:54You know why? They're still trying to
44:56feather their nest on this world. I'm
44:58done. They're still trying to feather
45:00their nest in this earth, in this world.
45:01They're still trying to make the best
45:03life possible in this earth.
45:12I'm going to tell you something. There
45:14I want everybody to hear what I'm saying
45:16right now.
45:17When the house is on fire,
45:21it's mental illness
45:24to try to find figure out how to
45:26barricade yourself in one room and keep
45:28living a normal life.
45:34WHEN A HOUSE IS ON FIRE, IT'S MENTAL
45:36ILLNESS TO SAY, "WELL, THIS CORNER OVER
45:38HERE IS NOT ALL THAT HOT YET. MAYBE WE
45:40CAN MAKE A LIFE IN IT."
45:48JESUS SAID, "YOU BETTER LOOK UP."
45:56HE SAID, "You better be looking for an
45:58escape route."
46:00What
46:01you're looking for should be a way out.
46:04He says when you look around you and you
46:06see all these signs as it was in the day
46:09of Lot. What was the earmark of the DAY
46:11OF LOT? HOMOSEXUALITY was taking over
46:13the world.
46:19The Bible says these spirits are going
46:20to be let out of the Euphrates River and
46:22a third of the earth is going to be
46:24destroyed. Do you understand that
46:26England right now is on the brink of
46:29crossing over to the mark of being a
46:30Muslim nation?
46:33Do you understand that France right now
46:35is on the mark brink of of becoming a
46:38They're they're probably already They It
46:39hadn't been announced yet, but they're
46:41probably already a Muslim-controlled
46:43nation.
46:45There are sectors of the city that that
46:48that the people have been put out of.
46:49The Muslims have took it over and
46:51blocked it off. You you can't even walk
46:53through there unless you're a Muslim.
47:04They're not ashamed of it. They want to
47:05tell you right now that if you're not a
47:07Muslim, they want to kill you.
47:12They're not ashamed of it.
47:15And there's sleeper cells all in the
47:17United States.
47:19And listen, I want to win them to God. I
47:21want to see them filled with the Holy
47:22Ghost, but what they're not telling you
47:24is they're sleeper cells. They're tell
47:25Oh, no, we're here at peace.
47:28And some of them may be.
47:31I'm sure that they are. I'm sure some of
47:33them come over here and and and see a
47:35wonderful life and and and decide
47:38I'm not going to be a part of that
47:39anymore, but I'm going to tell you about
47:40the by the millions they're in the
47:42United States
47:44that are sleeper cells just they're
47:46going to be at peace until they're given
47:48the war cry.
47:52That's exactly what happened on 9/11.
47:54That's It's
47:55probably what happened in New Orleans
47:58a week or so ago.
47:59Two weeks ago.
48:03You got to hear me.
48:06And while all that's going on,
48:09you're caught up.
48:15What about them Eagles?
48:18My God, man.
48:23The world's on fire.
48:26The world's on fire, and you're
48:28wondering if you can get in a room
48:29somewhere and get your big screen up so
48:31you can see what them Eagles are doing.
48:39If if the world wants to do that, that's
48:41one thing, but the church
48:48You say, "Brother Copeland, you Are you
48:49Are you preaching against WA- WATCHING
48:51FOOTBALL?" YOUR FAMILY'S GOING TO HELL.
48:54YOU HAVEN'T EVEN TAUGHT THEM MY BIBLE
48:55STUDY.
49:02YOUR FAMILY'S DYING LOST, AND YOU'RE
49:04GOING TO TALK TO THEM ABOUT THE EAGLES
49:06INSTEAD OF THE WORD OF GOD?
49:08THIS WORLD'S ON FIRE. IT'S BURNING DOWN,
49:11AND YOU'RE CAUGHT UP.
49:18AND AT THE SAME TIME, AT THE same time,
49:21I'm drawing new clothes. Musicians,
49:22come, please. At the same time,
49:26that Jesus said, "Let me tell you the
49:27condition of the world.
49:29They're going to be They're They're
49:30going to be Basically, what he's saying,
49:32they're going to be caught up in eating
49:34and drinking and marrying and giving in
49:36marriage until He said, "Until the day
49:41that the fire fell out of heaven."
49:44Until the day that the fire fell out of
49:47heaven, they just kept They just kept
49:49moving around. The house is on fire, and
49:51they just keep moving to different rooms
49:53and saying, "Maybe we can have a wedding
49:55in here and nobody get too hot."
50:00Maybe we can have our dinner in here.
50:03And too many people won't get scorched.
50:07Still trying to live in a house that's
50:10on fire.
50:11Nobody looking FOR A LADDER. NOBODY
50:13looking for an escape route because
50:14they're caught up.
50:20You said, "Brother Copeland, I don't
50:21believe that. I don't believe it's like
50:22you're preaching."
50:24Look at Hezekiah.
50:29The prophet came to Hezekiah and
50:33he said, "You've won some grace from the
50:35Lord and
50:37great devastation is going to come, but
50:39because of your sin.
50:41Because of the way you've lived and what
50:42you've done, Hezekiah, great
50:44devastation's coming to Israel.
50:47But the Lord's going to put it off
50:50for your sake."
50:53And you know what Hezekiah said?
50:54Hezekiah said, "Good. At least it won't
50:56happen in my generation."
51:00In other words, I don't care if my kids
51:01are destroyed.
51:04It doesn't matter what happens to my
51:05grandbabies as as long as I can live and
51:08die and not have too much trouble.
51:14And that's exactly the way I see so many
51:15people living today, caught up as long
51:17as I can just
51:20as long as I don't get get too bad in my
51:22lifetime.
51:24But I'm having all these kids. We're not
51:25worried about them.
51:31I had to ask you a very serious
51:33question. Where's your family altar,
51:34sir?
51:38Where are you gathering your kids around
51:39reading the Bible to them?
51:42Are you giving them an escape route?
51:47You giving them a way out?
51:51I'm just asking you.
51:54You reading the Bible to them, giving
51:56them Bible studies, talk to
51:58talking to them about looking up and
51:59getting out of here?
52:02Are you just living your life
52:04pretending the fire's never going to get
52:06to you?
52:11I'm so thankful
52:14at the exact same time
52:18that the world is caught up
52:21in the things of this world, there's
52:22another prophecy in Joel 2 and 28.
52:29You know what the Bible reminds me of?
52:33It reminds me of the old story of the
52:34tale of two cities.
52:39The writer is describing for you
52:43the rich and the poor with no middle
52:44class. That's the purpose of the book.
52:47If you're poor,
52:49it was the worst of times for you.
52:53If you're rich, it's the best of times
52:56for you.
52:58Because the rich can hire the poor for
53:00pennies on the dollar to work for them
53:02and do their bidding.
53:04What a wonderful life it was, the tale
53:06of two cities.
53:08Depending on your economic status, it
53:10was either the worst of times or it was
53:12the best of times.
53:15This last days is going to be that way.
53:19Because at the same time that this world
53:21is caught up in homosexuality,
53:24non-binary sexes,
53:28sexual promiscuity engulfing the world,
53:32at the same time that this earth is a
53:34worse off with war and devastation that
53:37it's ever been. Can Can I tell you that
53:39the the fires and the wars and the
53:41tornadoes and all the things that are
53:42going on in this world is nothing more
53:45than than God trying to shake this EARTH
53:47AND SAY, "WAKE UP!"
53:49WAKE UP!
53:54AND AT THE SAME time all that's going
53:56on, there's another prophecy of the last
53:58days.
54:00And here's what it says, "And it shall
54:02come to pass afterward that I will pour
54:04out my spirit upon all flesh. Your sons
54:08and your daughters shall prophesy. Your
54:10old men shall dream dreams and your
54:12young men shall see visions." Do you
54:14understand it is the greatest day for
54:16the church? At the same time that all
54:19that's going on, it is the hour for our
54:22young people TO SAY, "I'M NOT CAUGHT UP
54:24IN THAT. I'M GOING TO BE CAUGHT UP IN A
54:26LAST DAY REVIVAL."
54:30THAT'S NOT WHAT I'M GOING TO GET CAUGHT
54:31UP IN. MY GOD, YOU'RE GOING TO LET HIM
54:33RUN BY HIMSELF?
54:37MAN, YOU SHOULDN'T NEVER LET SOMEBODY
54:38RUN by themselves.
54:45At the same time that that's going on,
54:47be seated one last time. At the same
54:50time that so much DEVASTATION AND SO
54:52MUCH UNGODLINESS IS GOING ON IN THIS
54:54WORLD, IN THE WORLD BUT NOT OF THE
54:57WORLD, IS A CHURCH THAT IS CALLED OUT BY
54:59HIS NAME.
55:06LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING.
55:09The we have a world that's hooked on
55:10pornography.
55:13But there's a God in the heavens
55:16that's saying, "If you'll let me, I'll
55:18talk to you."
55:20"If you'll talk to me, I I'll give you
55:22dreams. I'll give you visions."
55:24As soon as you laying up until 3:00 in
55:26the morning watching movies or looking
55:28at pornography, I'd like to speak to
55:30you. I've got a word FOR YOU. I'D LIKE
55:33to commune WITH YOU. I'D LIKE TO GIVE
55:35YOU VISIONS.
55:41At the same time that this world's in
55:42trouble,
55:44just keep standing if you want to. At
55:45the same time that this world's in
55:47trouble, I promise you there's people
55:49out there that's looking around
55:51that's having moments of sanity in an
55:53insane world.
55:56See, that's what's going on with people.
55:58People know better.
56:03Brother David Camp, I'm telling you
56:04there's people that know better.
56:07And they get caught up in all this
56:09stuff, Brother Boatwright.
56:12But then when they lay down in their bed
56:13at night,
56:15they have to get thinking about,
56:17"Man, this thing's distorted."
56:22"This earth distorted."
56:24"Man, this the way things are, that
56:26ain't the way I was raised."
56:31And Brother John Boone, they got they
56:32got one or two choices.
56:35They can either
56:38peel the world away and say, "I'm not
56:39caught up in this anymore.
56:42I'm walking toward God." Or they have to
56:44take an Ambien
56:45or a Xanax, something to ignore the
56:48condition of the world and put them back
56:50to sleep.
56:52And go back into that state WHERE GOD'S
56:54SAYING, "WAKE UP! WAKE UP!" YOU SAY, "I
56:57CAN'T SLEEP AT NIGHT. I can't rest. I
56:58I'm having anxiety attacks." DO YOU KNOW
57:00WHAT THAT IS? THAT'S THE GOD, YOUR
57:02CREATOR, SAYING, "WAKE UP! GET UP! THE
57:05HOUSE IS ON FIRE!"
57:15AND YOU KNOW WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS THE
57:16church ought to be doing? It ought to be
57:17having a great revival.
57:19In these last days, the church shouldn't
57:21be caught up in all that. The church
57:23ought to be hunting for those that are
57:24shook up and saying, "Come here, let me
57:26teach you a Bible study. Let me show you
57:28where the answer is. Let me show you
57:30that the entire world ain't like this.
57:31THEY'RE THEY'RE YOU KNOW WHAT YOUR
57:33MESSAGE NEEDS TO BE? THERE IS A CHURCH
57:37IN SEBASTOPOL, MISSISSIPPI, THAT HAS NOT
57:39LOST ITS MIND. THERE IS A CHURCH THAT'S
57:42HAVING LAST DAY REVIVAL. THERE IS A
57:45CHURCH WITH YOUNG PEOPLE THAT AREN'T
57:47HOOKED ON PORNOGRAPHY. THERE IS A CHURCH
57:50OF YOUNG PEOPLE THAT'S LIVING FOR GOD.
57:52WE'RE TALKING IN TONGUES. WE'RE
57:54PROPHESYING. WE'RE SEEING VISIONS. STAND
57:57TOGETHER. LIFT YOUR HANDS. COME ON, lift
57:59your hands. Lift your hands. Lift
58:03Come on now. I need everybody here every
58:04every hand in this house raised.
58:09Come on.
58:151 Thessalonians chapter 4 and 16 for my
58:17last scripture.
58:191 Thessalonians chapter 4 and verse 16.
58:24There is
58:26an escape route.
58:29For the Lord himself
58:32Folks, I believe this was
58:34with all my heart is before the
58:36releasing of the trumpets in the book of
58:37Revelations.
58:39I believe right before a third of the
58:41earth is destroyed
58:43by those demons out of the Euphrates
58:45River.
58:46I believe right before stars start
58:48falling out of the heavens and nuclear
58:50bombs start dropping on this earth.
58:53Right before the third world war breaks
58:55out.
58:56The Lord himself
58:58shall descend from heaven with a shout.
59:00Who's he coming to get? He's coming to
59:02get those that are not called up in this
59:03world.
59:06He's coming to get those that ARE CAUGHT
59:07UP IN REVIVAL instead of this world.
59:10HE'S GOING HE'S COMING TO GET THOSE THAT
59:12ARE CAUGHT UP IN VISIONS AND DREAMS.
59:15My God, have mercy.
59:19Folks, young men, you don't have to get
59:21caught up in porn and the the things of
59:23this world.
59:25There's something else. There's another
59:27world you can get caught up in.
59:31It's more exhilarating. IT'S MORE
59:33EXCITING. It's more powerful.
59:41Young ladies, you don't have to get
59:42caught up in the things of this world.
59:47I'm pleading with somebody in this
59:49church.
59:51Jesus is wanting this church to have a
59:53last day book of Joel revival.
59:59And you know what he's doing today?
1:00:00While your pastor's preaching, he's
1:00:02walking the aisles.
1:00:05And he's asking, is is there anybody
1:00:09that desires to hear from me?
1:00:11Is there any of you that want to talk to
1:00:13me? If you can leave this world behind,
1:00:15I'll wake you up in the middle of the
1:00:16night.
1:00:18Can you imagine the honor?
1:00:22Can you imagine the honor?
1:00:24This sitting reserve for preachers.
1:00:28Can you imagine the honor of the God of
1:00:30glory that created all things walking
1:00:33into your room in the middle of the
1:00:34night and saying, "Hey, I'm lonely. You
1:00:36want to talk?"
1:00:40I got some things I want to do and I
1:00:42want to reveal it to somebody.
1:00:44Would you let me talk to you about it?
1:00:46I'd like to reveal my plan to you.
1:00:50We live in the day where out of this
1:00:52group right here
1:00:53while we're having church already come
1:00:55girl stumbling out of the pew talking in
1:00:57tongues saying, "I got a prophecy. I got
1:01:00a word for this church from the Lord."
1:01:04You're going to get caught up in
1:01:05something.
1:01:06Get caught up in that, not what
1:01:09everybody else is doing.

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