 God bless you all here tonight. My prayer is that the Lord has free reign here that God can move I guess if you were here this morning You would have noticed maybe you didn't notice but after the message this morning I went and sat by my wife and I asked her a question that I asked her many times after I'm done preaching and the question is this Was I too hard? I don't know what you think of that. I don't know what I think of that But after I got converted Something began to burn within me and I've often been told that I'm too hard. I Want you all to know that that's not my desire is to be too hard or be too bold but I told God Ten years ago that I would say what he'd have me to say and that's my desire here tonight But I want you to know something. I'm not here. I'm not here and you're there. I Think that is the reason why some people have issues with hard preaching because they feel like the preacher is somewhere that they're not I Believe that we're in this together We're a group of Christians In a certain age a certain time God has put us here And a lot of my burden comes from reading the martyrs mirror and reading books of the early Christians The Woldensians and how they fought for the truth. They gave their lives. They shed blood For the faith and now it is our turn. Are we gonna leave the same testimony behind when we're gone? Maybe we could open our Bible as to Romans chapter 13 just for some opening verses Romans chapter 13 starting in verse 8 Says oh no man anything but to love one another for he that loveth another hath fulfilled the law For this thou shalt not commit adultery thou shalt not kill thou shalt not steal Thou shalt not bear false witness thou shalt not covet and if there be any other commandment It is briefly comprehended in this saying Namely thou shalt love thy neighbor as they self Love worketh no ill to his neighbor. Therefore. Love is the fulfilling of the law and That's knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep For now is our salvation nearer than when we began when we believed The night is far spent the days at hand. Let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light Let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and drunkenness Not in chambering and wantonness not in strife and envying but put ye on the Lord Jesus Christ and make not provision for the flesh to Fulfill the lust thereof there was two men speaking one man was was uh, I don't know if he was a Christian, but he was speaking to a plain person in a plain community and he was asking some questions he had some He he was he was a bit confused and he was asking this this plain person about the diversity amongst the churches and This this plain person responded that you know these people do this and these people do that and he said it boils down to you have Liberals and conservatives I'm just saying what he said You have liberals over here and They they tend to live like the world and You have conservatives over here that have no life and this man looked at him and he said So, where are you and he said I'm right in the middle and too often that's where we put ourselves is it not We look at everyone else and we see their faults. We see where they are But we put ourselves right in the middle We go through life trying to do what's right. We justify our wrongs But we do little of justifying of others wrongs and my burden tonight is that what if we've missed it in Matthew chapter 7 Some verses I read early on in my Christian journey and they've just They've formed How I believe today the Lord Jesus in Matthew 7 verse 21 says not everyone that saith him to be Lord Lord Shall enter into the kingdom of heaven, but he that doeth the will of my father, which is in heaven This is Jesus speaking here not everyone that says Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven But he that doeth the will of my father, which is in heaven verse 22 many will say to me in that day Lord Lord Have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils in thy name done many wonderful works and Then will I profess unto them? I never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity Now when I read these verses, I don't know what you think of But these people it sounds to me like they're up on judgment day and they're shocked because Jesus Christ is Not pleased with them and and they feel like they're going to make it to heaven. They're convinced that they've done things, right? And all of a sudden the tables have changed and for for the first time They realize that they're going to go to hell for eternity and they don't just accept that but they try to plead their case with Jesus but Lord Lord we've done this and we've done that and I don't know if you've ever noticed it here But the things that these people have done are pretty remarkable. Can you imagine a group of people doing these things today? They're prophesying. They're preaching the gospel. They're casting out demons and devils They're healing the healing the sick. They're raising the dead They're doing many wonderful things in the name of Jesus Christ But on judgment day the Bible says that Jesus will tell them I never knew you I never did know you you never were converted Yes, you did all of those things and if we look at our churches today if we look at Christianity today How can we feel good about the day of judgment? What are we doing? What are we going to say? Lord Lord, I went to church on Sunday Lord Lord. I went to Sunday school Lord Lord, I wanted to do that Do we feel like we're going to just walk into heaven? One of the reasons why these verses mean a lot to me Before I was a Christian I was a wicked person And I remember a time when the police were looking for me and I was evading them And one night I was in a little room and the door busted open and the police came in and before I had a chance to do anything There was policemen standing all around me and what did I do? But try to justify myself I began to tell these policemen that they had the wrong person You don't know who I am. I'm a good person. I do good things And I continued to do that desperately While these officers stood around me without saying a word And I continued to try to prove a point to them that they had the wrong person that I really was a good person But it wasn't affecting them at all and finally they stood me up and put handcuffs on me and walked me outside And there were police cars lying in the street and they put me in the back of one of those cars And I continued to say to these the driver of that car the police car That they had the wrong person You can't take me to jail. You don't know who you have. I'm really a good man And I remember I'll never forget the panic That was in my heart They took me to the jail They opened this iron door and they put me inside and they shut the door And when that door shut Everything changed. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I should have done that Give me another chance if you just give me another chance. I won't do it again. I Respect my authority Please sir let me out of here And he turned around and he looked at me with sad eyes And he said I'm sorry But it's all over and I remember the feeling that I had that night And I can only imagine having that feeling on judgment day. I can only imagine How much worse that feeling will be on judgment day, you know preaching a message like this The title is called a wake-o church When you preach a message called a wake-o church, you're supposed to be preaching to sleeping people. Am I right? But maybe there are people not sleeping here. I Don't know most of you But I would like to tell us here tonight that sleeping is tricky There are two things or two reasons what that makes sleeping tricky First You can accidentally fall asleep. I think we can all relate to that, but if not There are 328,000 accidents every year because someone fell asleep at the wheel There are over 1500 deaths every year Because someone fell asleep While driving an automobile That should tell us today that even when our life is on the line we can still fall asleep The second thing that makes sleeping tricky is that we cannot wake ourselves up. Does this not sound dangerous? We can accidentally fall asleep even if we're trying as hard as we can to not fall asleep and We can't wake ourselves up Something or someone else must wake us up, but there's a problem We don't like it when people wake us up We have gotten soft and easily offended and often when someone has woken up they will deny that they were ever sleeping but it's serious and If we deny that we were ever sleeping we're not looking at it as seriously as we ought to look at it Because one day the possibility is that you'll fall asleep and you never will wake up Until that great and terrible day Oftentimes we can say he's not talking about me. I'm not sleeping. I'm the one in the middle there I'll read a few verses in revelations chapter 3 In verse 15 it says I know thy works that thou art neither cold nor hot. I would Thou work cold or hot so then because thou art lukewarm and either cold nor hot I will spew thee out of my mouth Because thou sayest I am rich and increase with goods and have need of nothing and know it's not that Thou art wretched and miserable and poor and blind and naked It's a serious thing to know that you can fall asleep and Stay there forever. There were two men They were out on the town having a good time and about two o'clock in the morning The bartender said it's closing time But the one man said I'm not ready to go Surely there's another place that's still open His friend said yes down the road. There is another place that's open So they got into their vehicle and they started to drive down the road and the driver begin to get very sleepy The passenger noticed that the car was beginning to go off of the road So naturally he looked at the driver And he's seen him sleeping Now what do we think? What do we think tonight? What do we think his reaction to that was? It's not me. I Don't want to offend him. I don't want to step on his toes. What do you think his reaction was? He panicked and he began to shake this man that was sleeping behind the wheel and he began to cry out wake up You have to wake up if you don't wake up we're gonna die and You can just hear the importance in his voice You can tell that it really mattered to him You can tell that it was important that his life depended on it brothers and sisters we look around here in America At our churches We look around at our country We look around at the state of humanity and we look at the church And it's sleeping. What are we going to do about it? It's serious. It's life and death There was two men Two good friends that were in the Civil War together and the one friend got word that his friend Was going to be executed the following day because he had fallen asleep on duty this brought great sorrow to the friend and he Went to where they were holding him and he began there to say that they were wrong That he wasn't sleeping. I was not sleeping. I don't deserve to die And his friend just looked at him and he said, you know, it doesn't really matter whether you were sleeping or not Tomorrow you're going to be executed because they believe you were sleeping, but the reality is my friend You weren't doing what you were supposed to be doing Brothers and sisters if we were out doing what we were supposed to be doing when people be calling us to wake up When we need messages like tonight if we were out doing what we're supposed to be doing If we had a burden for the lost if we had a burden for our churches for unity amongst us If we had a burden to seek out and to witness the people that are that are looking for truth And they can't find it If we were active if we were truly the hands and feet of Jesus Would we be questioning tonight right now as we sit here? Am I asleep? Are we pursuing the kingdom of God building the church or are we pursuing the things of this world? Where are our affections? We talk to talk We sing the songs and we pray the prayers But where is God? You know, you don't need God to do those things. I Want to remind us of that you don't need God to do those things 80% of America is doing that But you do need God to live in obedience to the word You need God to love your enemies You need God to not care about the things of this world. You need God to be able to say no To the wrong things You need you need God to be the one That everyone can look at and say there's something about him. There's something about him. I'm drawn to him I'm drawn to her We need God for those things The day in Haiti that I went to talk to the witch doctor. Maybe you've heard this story before But it was a wake-up call to me This witch doctor had a lot of power in America. We don't understand that and I didn't understand it before I went to Haiti But they had a lot of power They were doing things that most people wouldn't believe But he looked at me and I looked at him and we understood where each other stood We understood that the differences between us were far greater Than what someone could say that the spiritual battle there And finally the Lord called me to go to his house and I walked up his long lane There were statues of dragons And this man Very bold man He would go up in the mountains and preach to his people and you could hear him for miles away like he had a like he had a sound system But he seemed me coming and he began to laugh The closer I got he began to laugh more hysterically Until he was actually bent over and laughter. I walked right up to him and he looked at me and he said are you a Christian? said I am He said you Christians are all the same You go to church and you have your good times You sing your songs You do your thing But when you need something supernatural You come to me I can say that I don't think I'll ever be the same after he told me that And I preached to him for over two hours that day. I don't know about you, but I'm not okay with that I'm not okay with the devil looking at the church and saying you have no power Yes, you have a form. Yes, you look this way or do this thing But when you need some power you come to me God is greater than that and I told him that day you can take advantage of these poor people You can do it whatever you want But you can do nothing to me You can do nothing to me He pulled a revolver out of his pants and stuck it to my head and said are you sure I can do nothing to you I? Said nothing Nothing do we believe that today? Do we believe that God is greater? Do we believe that the gates of hell will not stand? Do we have that confidence because that's the confidence that the world is looking for? They see it in the cities they see it in the homosexuals The world is more confident today of their wickedness than they've ever been in my opinion But where is the church? Are we sleeping behind the wheel as the devil gains ground each and every day? Can we please wake up? Can we wake up? There's too much at stake. I Have small children We have generations following us Brothers and sisters can we wake up and face the call like the verses in Romans were put on the armor of light It's daytime. Let's array awake from our sleep and begin to fight this fight. It's a real fight And I'm telling you something from experience The harder that fight gets The closer we get to God The more the enemy comes into our face with things we'd never thought we could take The closer we get to God that peace that passeth all understanding it comes from that fight It comes from standing in the face of evil It comes from knowing that what we have is greater if you're converted here today You have what the world needs you have what everyone needs is that pride? No, it's faith Do we believe it today? Are we ashamed are we ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ? We go to church and we're not ashamed we sing and raise our hands But we're in the world So bold and there's a reason for that. There's a reason for that The world is staggering around It's amazing what the world is doing today The world doesn't seem to know What's right and wrong and what is the church doing about that? What are we doing about that? What are you doing about that? Are you waiting for someone else to stand up and do something about it? Are you willing to do that to stand in the gap? To put your neck on the line like so many have done before us Despite the cost we look at the word We look at the Bible we look at I picked a few verses out here in 2nd Timothy 3 Yeah, and all that will live godly in Christ Jesus shall suffer persecution Matthew 10 16 behold I send you forth as sheep in the midst of wolves Romans 8 36 for they seek for thy sake we are killed all the day long We are counted as sheep for the slaughter Matthew 10 and he shall be hated of all men for my name's sake Matthew 24 then shall they deliver you up to the to be afflicted and shall kill you and ye shall be hated of all nations For not my name's sake Is that us today? Is that us today or was that just talking about them? Do those verses line up with our lives? Or are we sleeping? No, they don't line up with our lives are we sleeping? People say persecution is coming, but I am one that disagrees with that The devil wants to persecute the church that's fighting not sleeping the sleeping church will be left alone until it dies Brothers and sisters if we rise up if we awake because it is day and the time is now We'll see persecution come and we'll see the church Rise up, and it will draw the world to it people get excited You preach a message about turning the world upside down and people get excited about it But in reality, we're not ready to die We're not ready to forsake all We stand there with all of our things and we say come Lord Jesus come But it's Jesus who tells us to come and we have to leave it all behind We have to forsake everything Can we do that? Are we prepared to do that? When we don't forsake all We still love our lives we go out into the battle very unprepared and as soon as the bullets start flying we We run it's happening It's happening We must get ahold of God whatever the cost in Acts chapter 21 Probably know what I'm going to read here In Acts chapter 21 verse 10 and as we tarried there many days there came down from Judea a certain prophet named Agabus And when he was come into us he took Paul's girdle and bound his own hands and feet and said thus say at the Holy Ghost So shall the Jews at Jerusalem bind the man that owneth this girdle and shall deliver him into the hands of the Gentiles And when we heard these things both we and they of that place besought him not to go up to Jerusalem Then Paul answered what mean ye to weep and to break my heart for I am ready not to be bound only but also to die at Jerusalem for the name of the Lord Jesus and That's what Paul did He never really seemed freedom again Are we willing to do that? Are we willing to be spent for the Lord Jesus? I have some practical reasons here of why the church is sleeping today The first thing Maybe we're not getting converted. Am I allowed to say that? Maybe we're not getting converted We joined church And all the expectations are laid out for us We know what to wear. We know what to do. We know what we can do what we can't do and we slide right in And we do our best without God We put on a form And we get good at it But there's no power Do we still believe in the verse in 2nd Corinthians 5 17 that says therefore if any man be in Christ He is a new creature old things are passed away behold all things are become new Do we believe that today? Do we expect that today? I think we forget that when we get converted. It's God that converts us We're not doing it ourselves and we did it ourselves then we could sit here complaining about how poor we are We could we could sit here complaining about how great of a sinners. We are but it's God that saves us I'll never forget it. I Was addicted to many things many Terrible things had a grip on my life and I wanted to be free. It was destroying my life But I had no power and no power There were things that you couldn't just go to church and figure out They had a grip on me And there I was in a jail cell floor and God opened my eyes And I remember crying out to God there on that floor. I Can't do it. I can't do it. I Hate that man. I Hate him and I want him I want him to die But I can't do it You're going to have to do it for me. You're gonna have to take me and change me brothers and sisters. That's what God did It's what he did I Told him like I said if you do it if you change me, I'll do whatever you want me to do I'll go where you want me to go. I'll say what you want me to say. I Hated that person. I Don't want to live another day Being that person I've learned a lot since then and I learned a lot from now on but God changed my heart I Became a new creature Old things were passed away. I had a testimony to say and I come into the church I'm excited. My sins have been forgiven They've been cast as far as the east is to the west and I come into the church and all I hear is we're all sinners And I don't understand it Where's the power of God amongst us? There's an analogy I came up with years ago. Maybe you've heard me say this before I didn't plan on saying this here tonight, but I'll say it and just think about it in regards to this this this This point here not getting converted There was a man. There was a woman with her children Driving down the road in some other country maybe and the children they wanted a pet dog and they were telling their their mother that they wanted a pet dog a puppy Well, there wasn't very many puppies in this land And as they were driving they seen an animal on the side of the road and the children said stop mommy stop Let's pick up that animal. Maybe it's a puppy They didn't even know what a puppy looked like they'd heard some stories about puppies So they pulled over and picked this animal up and took it home. They started to wonder what they had the mother said well Tomorrow I'll go to the vet's office and I'll I'll ask the vet if he can help us. What kind of animal we have here She goes to the vet's office the next day and tells the vet what happened and the vet kind of chuckles and says yes I'll ask you a few questions, but I'm pretty sure we can tell whether you have a dog or some other animal He said by the description of it. It's probably either a dog or a cat But he asked this lady does this animal bark doesn't bark does this animal Run and chase cars as they drive by she's beginning. She's beginning to get disappointed No, doesn't chase cars When you get home from work does this animal jump up and lick your face is it excited to see you? She's disappointed as ever. No, it doesn't do any of those things and the vet said ma'am I'm sorry to tell you this, but you don't have a dog. You have a cat She said no I'm very good with animals. She said I will home and I'll train this cat to how to bark I'll train this cat how to chase cars and how to get excited when I get home I'll do it and the vet said ma'am you can try that but that cat will always be a cat unless it has been transformed into something else Do we believe that today? Do we believe that today? She went home and she began to train this cat and over the period of some years Working with this cat She got this cat to bark and that as the time passed the barking became better barking She got this cat to chase after cars And as time passed it became so good at chasing cars that it was out running in the neighborhood dogs It jumped up on her when she got home from work But brothers and sisters it was still a cat was it not And when she left it went back to being a cat Because it naturally was a cat is that where we find ourself today We want to be something that we're not and when we're around God's people in a setting like this We can do things pretty well But we'll realize that when we're out in the world we fit in more there We want to be like them. We want to look like them. We want to act like them We like what they do and what they the songs that they sing and we have this battle going on Then we call it spiritual warfare, but it's not It's not in John chapter 3 Jesus or Jesus says it very clear to Nicodemus That which is flesh is flesh That which is spirit is spirit Do we ever think about those words? That which is flesh is flesh We're born in the flesh. Are we not? The old man it's wicked it cannot please God Paul talks about in Romans 7 very clearly We want to do good, but we can't But we go to the cross like what brother Dale was talking about today We crucify the flesh we die and we're born again of the spirit and that which is spirit is spirit It is not flesh and that which is flesh is flesh. It is not spirit How we combine the two Tonight how we combine the two today? We're in the flesh tomorrow. We're in the spirit. That was in the flesh. That was in the spirit I Don't believe the Bible the Bible speaks that are we born of the spirit of God the spirit of God Oh the power in those words Has God quickened us by his spirit and We're a new creature all the old things are passed away all things have become new I Remember getting out of that jail and it wasn't long before people said what happened to that man? He's a different person My mom went to the sheriff and said did you hear what happened to Barry and he said yeah, I'm sorry I heard he I did hear he passed away No, he's still alive, but he's not the same person. Do we believe in the power of God tonight? It's here for us God wants to change every one of us He wants every one of us to have a testimony of being born again born of the spirit of God And we have a passion. I Found it's very odd when I got converted and people would tell me Yeah, I was I was like you too when I first got converted But you'll cool off. I understand that to the to the aspect of maturing But do we want to cool off or do we want to burn hotter? Do we want to be more of flame? Do we want to be used of God in ways that this world hasn't seen? Do we want God to use us when we're born of the spirit of God? We have power To walk in victory and in humility Do we believe that tonight that we can actually walk in victory and humility? Humility is not walking in defeat and victory is not pride The second reason We're born again, but we've been drawn away by the things of this world Money and entertainment pleasure. I have to say I marvel that God's people Infactuated with the things of this world amusement parks ski lodges lakes social media YouTube and you name it What do we want? Do we want God or not? It's up to us Do we want to try to hinder the spirit of God? If I asked for a show of hands of how many people have something in their life that they wish they could get rid of so God Could do a better work in your life. There'd be many hands that went up Including my own hand But can we do it? Can we cut it off? We'll never regret it We'll never regret that I promise We get infactuated with all of these things and no wonder we stopped studying God's word no wonder That it's a difficult thing to read our Bibles No wonder. It's difficult to pray We read stories of people a hundred years ago That prayed till their knees bled. Where are those men today? Did they want it more than us? Yes, did they have a greater burden than we do? Yes It's that simple. It's the same God that did a work in them that wants to do a work in us Wants to drive us to some mountain or some prayer closet and stay there until we catch a burden Stay there until we catch a fire Something that can change this world and change our churches Number three we've bought into the worldly churches way of minding our own business You do what you want. I'll do what I want You don't look at me. I won't look at you and We'll just live happily ever after I went to a Protestant church for two years before I was converted I didn't know anybody in that church Nobody knew anybody We stay out of each other's lives We need each other brothers and sisters. We need to look into each other's eyes. We have to be open to each other We have to be Because if I fall asleep, I need someone to wake me up And then when I when I'm awakened Don't let me say that I wasn't sleeping Let's humble ourselves and say we were sleeping and we don't want to do it again. What can we do? Let's get up and get to work because we can't afford to fall asleep again We have this mindset of we want everyone to come in I passed church signs and they say everyone welcome Is that really the heart of Jesus in the church? Come everyone all come in the wheat in the tears They raised together in the church And it was never meant to be that way the field is the world The sheep and the wolves they mingled together for only so long because guess what's going to happen There's going to be only wolves left It has to happen that way a little love and will love in the lump the wolves will eat the sheep But guess what when you've been eaten you're still there and you're still singing and you're still praying At least in front of people it's a dangerous thing We become scared to call sin sin Number four, there's no fear of God The reason why the church falls asleep The fear of God removes hypocrisy When we fear God we do it for God That's what calls us to do what we do for God Without the fear of God we do what we do for men We want people to think something of us and I guarantee you if that's where we are tonight That's why we're not praying in the closet That's why we're not giving till it hurts That's why we're not burning out in secret for the Lord Jesus Because we're really in it for ourselves And there's no fear of God How is your secret life? Is it full of intimacy with your God or is it shameful? You know what if it's shameful? Let's awake Let's admit it and let's change it It's what God wants. It's what we were created for you weren't created to make money You weren't created to look good. You weren't created to be popular. You were created to glorify God and have fellowship with him That's why each one of us were created. Let's fulfill that and Then reap the blessings of that life peace joy and happiness I want to close with a story After I was converted there was people that didn't like me Didn't understand why I Thought everybody'd be happy for me But it wasn't the case But I started a job working in a still mill And I knew a lot of the people that worked there and I was scared. I was scared. I didn't want to be there Can I say I was ashamed? I don't know what I was but I didn't want to be there And all of these employees gathered in a Monday morning gathered in a big circle and everybody was looking at me Everybody knew who I used to be everybody knew who now I was saying that I was a lot of people doubted it Then I began to hear God speak to me. I need you here You need there's work to do right here not here I've been looking around the circle and there was a man standing over there He was a Harley Harley man Very large man. He had a long beard. He had a bandana. He had dark glasses safety glasses He had both of his hands in his front pockets his mouth formed a Frown I looked at him and quickly looked away and God said that is the man Do we believe that God wants to use us? Do we believe that God will put you somewhere for a specific reason? Does God love people that much? I wandered over to that man later Asked him what his name was he looked at me and he said my name is Ted and I don't want to talk to you I said Ted wife Really don't want to talk to you either, but I feel like God has called me to come talk to you Don't talk to me about your God. He said I don't believe in God. I said well Can I ask you a question? Did you grow up going to church? It said snap they looked at me and he said how did you know I? Found it in my days that people that hate God they grew up in some sort of church And they got tired of the hypocrisy He said yes, I had to go to church every Sunday and every Wednesday night as a boy And I watched my parents fight and they go to church and they put on a different face They act like good people they get back in the car. They fight all the way home. They were hypocrites. God did nothing for them I'll never believe in a God like that. I said what about the other people at church hoping that there was someone there That was Godly he said everyone was the same and he walked away from me And I went home that night and I said Lord I spoke to Ted. He said you need to talk to him again The burden is still there Do we allow God to put burdens in our lives and then we follow those burdens? When we don't follow the burden that God puts in our life, he's not going to give us another burden So we'll give it to somebody that will follow it the next day walked back over to Ted. No, he said I don't want to talk to you Said please Ted Just because you had a bad situation in your childhood does not mean that you should say there is no God because I'm a Living testimony that there's a God and I want to tell you about it. No, I don't want to hear about it I've heard about you Next day I go back. He storms off go back This went on for several days until finally He got madder and madder each day until finally my supervisor said that he was gonna move me to a different part of the plan It's actually in a different building And I'll just be honest. I was relieved He took me over there to this new machine and he said just wait here a little bit There'll be someone here to help you to teach you this machine in just a moment. I Waited for about 10 minutes than up walk Ted He looked at me and he slammed his hand on the counter. He said I can't believe it He said listen, I don't care that you're a Christian Be a Christian. I'll leave you alone, but you have to leave me alone I don't want to hear about your God. I don't want to hear about your life. Keep it to yourself And I began to cry. I turned around and there was two big garage doors Or some eyes were back in and get loaded. I said Ted, let me just tell you something Let's just say that there is a God Jesus Christ He just came back right now. It's all over Everybody that's going to heaven is gonna be lined up behind this door here and everybody that Didn't believe in God that rejected God Is going to be lined behind this door and as we look here at these these two doors Ted, you know, what's lying you'd be in and Ted, I think you know which line I'd be in and if you're in that line The door opens and fire comes out people are screaming. It's agony. I'm telling you what brothers and sisters I don't think we can imagine how bad it's going to be Nobody wants to go in there's people calling at the door trying to not get thrust into this door screams coming out people are weeping gnashing their teeth and Over here on this door. It's the exact opposite. There's people that are smiling. They're full of joy and happiness and Ted if I never said anything to you about Jesus, and you looked over and you saw me in that line What would you think of me? We worked together And now it's judgment day and I kept my mouth shut Like he asked me to What would you think to me and now is Ted's turn to start crying? He said you can talk to me all you want. I'm listening Why do I tell that story? The world is looking for genuine Christianity truly born again believers. I have a burden in their heart That listened to the voice of God and act upon it We shun the world We're at war with the world and the kingdom of this world And we lift high the standard of Jesus Christ and we proclaim it as something that we truly believe in We awake out of our slumber if we're sleeping we wake up God wants us to wake up and let's get into the battle. There's a lost world out there Let's please wake up And get to work. There's still hope. Let's pray for each other God bless you