Good evening everybody so glad you joined us on this evening and we're grateful that you're there I'm fully aware of the fact that you could be watching something else somewhere else, but you're right here on Christian television network East Tennessee WVLR And I know they appreciate it and I appreciate it stay with us for the next half hour We're going to go to the pool pit of the Freedom Tabernacle in Atkins, Virginia for a message that was preached sent by the Lord back in November of 2020 as a matter of fact It was the Sunday right after the presidential election and God moved people responded Thankful for the way we have all responded over these past few months. Listen God's people our victory is in the Lord Jesus Christ First Corinthians 1557 is plain about that. Thanks be unto God which give us the victory through our Lord Jesus Christ It's really not about Biden and Trump It is all about our God and precious lost souls who are one heartbeat from the flames of an eternal hell And they only hope for them is the gospel that saved us for God so loved the world He gave his only begotten son that whosoever believe it in him should not perish but have everlasting life Then what did the Lord tell us as his followers go ye therefore into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature Listen to the Apostle Paul the spirit moving him Romans 1 16 For I am not ashamed of the gospel of Christ For it is the power of God and the salvation that everyone that believe it to the Jew first and also to the Greek these last few months We've been candidly honestly discussing things here on the focus of freedom while we as God's people sadly tragically Unfortunately have been doing our thing our way Marker down the devil's been doing his thing his way and he has captured so many seats of political power from for his own His own followers if you haven't been regenerated and born again Then you are of the family of Adam and the God of this world is the devil and Jesus all those religious people You are of your father the devil and the lust of your father you'll do not only have they captured powerful political seats strategic areas of society just like entertainment the television shows movies All of these media things sports celebrities Politicians now are not like a representative republic representing there that they should be representing their constituency They themselves have become celebrity like national powers and I could go on and on the news media look at what we're saying The devil has been successful in trying to change America in a bad way because all nations and forget God in Psalms chapter 9 will be turned into Hail righteousness exalted the nation sin is a reproach to any people So it's obvious to me then that the light has lost some brilliance in the house of God and the salt has lost its saver So brothers and sisters were the salt and the light we need to repent we need to get humble We need to take some responsibility for the things that have happened and then through accountability trust God I'm telling you God's able God's not out of business Don't trust nobody but God to bring a revival and revival is coming through humility and in unity Since your spiritual praying seeking God's face turning from our wicked ways that will get our God's attention He said out here from heaven and will forgive their sin and heal their land Could this be God's last call to America these next few months? We're gonna have to get on our knees brothers and sisters and believe God and yet remember that we're not defeated at all And we don't have to be intimidated by the voices that would try to silence us Yes in by and large they've got the name of Jesus out of our schools They've taken a lot of strategic ground absolutely, but yet still the Bible says first John 4 4 greater seed that's innocent He that's in the world remember Jonathan in his armor bear when Jonathan said let's go up to that Felicity and Garrison and and take it and the armor bear said and we're gonna do that But whatever you want to do I'm with you and Jonathan said God's able to save by the many or by the few and being outnumbered Tremendously and even as ungodly and crazy as his daddy saw was God blessed that act of faith from that young man Jonathan And then here came the earthquake and the whole thing you know Got turned around because God intervened we can still have the intervention of God the gates of hell is not gonna prevail Against the church so as we go to the pulpit of the church here today You're gonna hear I'm just gonna pick up an old guitar and and play no song called I'm a winner either way Don't forget that and just before we go to that live service if you're battling grief or you're having some struggles We got a brand new book that we've released called grace for grief and you can order it through Freedom Tabernacle Ministries 442 Freedom Tabernacle A.
Nackens, Virginia If you don't have any money that's fine We'll send you a copy just ask for grace for grief You got a picture of that book there on the screen and if you can give us an old donation five or ten dollars or whatever That would help to free the cost and things like that But we're just here to try to be a help to the people of God and I help to everyone and I believe fellow pastors Preachers brothers and sisters in the faith let us earnestly seek the face of God Let us turn from our wicked ways. Let us honestly Seek the face of our God and know that yes Revival is not an impossibility I think it's still probable if we would do what we're supposed to do as God's people and believe him and trust him but God is holy and I don't think just like the example of Jeremiah and God's people being taken over by the enemy could this be God's last call for America I think we need to seriously and soberly consider that Ask ourselves from 1 Corinthians chapter 11 for example Examine ourselves Psalms 51 search me try me Oh God see if they're being wicked thing in me and by all means brothers and sisters Let's stop the stone throwing at one another. Let's eliminate the pride. Let's embrace humility Let us seek unity as Christ pray that we would be at one because I think I'm telling you the absolute truth and here It is the only hope for America is a vibrant visionary victorious church God's people going into the highways and hedges and telling this world that Christ is their hope Could this be the last call for America from God?
It could be but let us pray and then put legs on our prayers that it's not because God is able Let us believe God now to the pull up here of the freedom tabernacle for the singing and the preaching of God's holy eternal infallible word I loved one new he'd reach the end of life's journey But he had been holding to God's hand a long long time And as I knelt beside his bed my heart was thrilled at what he said If I go or if I stay victories Cause I'm a winner either way If I go or if I stay for I'll still have my Jesus each passing day I'll have my healing here below or life forever if I go or praise the Lord I'm a winner either way None of us really know about tomorrow We must prepare to go to heaven any day But while we're here, let's trust the Lord. He'll lead us same to heaven's reward and by his grace We are winners either way By his grace we're winners either way That's right ain't it? Well glory be to God and well we're in Genesis chapter 6 look at verse 3 and we are going to take our time now as We look just purely and simply into the word of Almighty God for a few minutes you there at home I hope you've got your Bible with you wherever you are and I hope that you're following along as well and the Lord said The Lord said my spirit shall not always drive with man for that He also is flesh yet his days shall be a hundred and twenty years I don't care how long we live down here It's just brief and God's in charge He may not be in control of every little thing because of the human will in the curse of sin right now But he'll take back control as quick as we're dead in eternity And when this old planet is a smolder and sender plummeting aimlessly through the endless regions of God's universe He'll certainly be in ultimate eternal control, but right now he's still in charge I promise you and he said here my spirit shall not always strive with man now first Samuel take off to the right go with me over the first Samuel chapter 16 and before we read verse 14 of Samuel 16 hurry up now get over there We got it to get on through these verses Because God's got some special to say to me today and I want to hear it back in verse Samuel chapter 15 verse 13 Samuel said to Saul Samuel came to Saul and Saul said unto him blessed be thou the Lord I have performed the commandments of the Lord now look at that arrogance of old Saul in verse 13 I have performed the commandments of the Lord and Samuel said well What's this bleeding a sheep and loing a box in that I hear? Verse 16 Samuel said to Saul stay and I will tell you what the Lord has said to me this night And he said unto unto the man of God say own and Samuel said when you were little in your own sight You were made the head of all the tribes of Israel and the Lord and knowing that you king over Israel But now the Lord says in verse 22 half the Lord as has great delight in burn offerings and sacrifices As in obeying the voice of the Lord behold to obey is better than sacrifice and to harken than the fat of rams We can bring all the sacrifices we want to we can have all of our scholarship all of our standards We can throw our shoulders back and declare ourselves to be better than everybody else But God's not interested in phony sacrifices and selfish offerings for to obey is better than sacrifice and a harken than the fat of rams verse 23 for rebellion as is the sin of witchcraft and stubbornness as Iniquity and idolatry are you looking at that in your bibles this morning?
Did you see what he said? Rebellion when I when God tells me to pray and I don't pray. I'm rebelling when God tells me to love and I don't love I'm rebelling when God tells me to honor him and study his word and I don't I'm in rebellion and what is rebellion like look at it Witchcraft and then we want to say how good we are stubbornness is iniquity and idolatry because you have rejected the word of the Lord He also has rejected the look at that in your vitals now chapter 16 verse 14 We had to just look at those other verses But the spirit of the Lord departed from Saul and an evil spirit from the Lord troubled him If we get sniffed next and stubborn and if we're rebellious against God We have no right and whatsoever at any time to be proud But God knows in the very moment that we have no right to be proud a lot of times That's the very time that we're manifesting that pride now We go to the great Psalms that we were reading last week as a matter of fact Psalms chapter 9 turn with me over there Here we go Psalms chapter 9 verse 16 and 17. I'll read verse 16 as well You've got it open there in your Bible the Lord is known by the judgment which he executed the wicked is snared in the work of his own hands A gay on sea light.
I'm gonna say this because God's telling me to say it when the singers were singing their Interlude there. Oh There's a lot of people say listen dad. I hate that do you understand? That's part of the Hebrew music Do you understand that is written down in Hebrew music as they pause?
That's what when you see these two words together in your Bible. Did you know that so if you were just thinking in your man and you don't like Well, it's not what you like my dear friend. It's what God says and you better get that day on in your life Ignorance and yet we say think we know everything when we know very little Ignorance and arrogance were the things that destroyed Israel in the days of Isaiah and Jeremiah So these two words come together to say pause wait a little bit God said I want to emphasize something I want you to reflect on it And I want you to meditate upon it the wicked will be turned into hell and all nations that forget God that word all is inclusive It does not leave the United States of America out Bible students of prophecy. No, you can search Daniel revelation all of it It's very difficult to find the United States of America.
Look at Ezekiel 36 37 38 39 You can see all kinds of nations of the world, but where it's America. I'm here to tell you friend God doesn't necessarily need America He's used us. He's blessed us, but he doesn't necessarily need us There's a lot of nations on this planet that God Almighty can raise up There are Christian people right now under threat of death going to the house of God There are people are some of even our missionaries that have been suffering in the last two years with hyperinflation I just like the lives they had to go to South Africa to get groceries then had to come back to Roman bands of thieves and all the rest of it Guys went to like what's him $20 a gallon groceries could not all be both in Zimbabwe and here we are running around in our eighty thousand dollar pickup Silverado's hey and going to our little conferences and playing big-time Hollywood creece yet pointing our fingers at one another Maybe if we got a little hungry, maybe if groceries wasn't only shelf in America just like it wasn't Zimbabwe We wouldn't be surprised like we are I wouldn't be looking at your faults if I had to pray for breakfast in the morning There's a holy God looking down on us. You better fear God and I better fear God for what do you say?
All nations that forget him will be turned into utter chaos and misery That's the word she'll in the in the Hebrew translates the grave Yes, there's an eternal burning hail But there's some troubles and trials that sin will bail child right here and right now and the god of this world the devil We'll see to it chapter 51 Psalms 51 verse 11 case me not away from that presence and Take not the Holy Spirit from me Look at properly did you hear that? Look at that on the wall God cast me not away Don't take your Holy Spirit from me I don't believe that's the word of God People say well God can't do that God can do what God wants to do Be still and know that I am God He's God. I'm not and neither are you who so ever you may be Proverbs 14 we read it last week as we were leaving the house of God I could quote it but I want you to see it Proverbs 14 righteousness exalteth a nation Righteousness is in cry the righteousness of Christ is imputed to the believer when the believer has faith in his grace But then seeking holiness and living right the way we're supposed to and fighting the good fight of faith And sir coming in obedience to what God Almighty says in his word is what the Bible says to teach us in James 5 the effectual fervent prayer of a righteous person A righteous person is somebody who lives like a righteous person Well, that's deep in it You get right because you're made right and then you do right because you are right because you love the Lord look on over Proverbs 29 Proverbs 29 verses 1 and 2 He that being often reproved hardeneth his neck shall suddenly be destroyed in that everybody say out loud I got it highlighted there without remedy say that loud with out remedy. Let me hear you all read it One more time real loud When the righteous are in authority the people rejoice but when the wicked beareth rule the people mourn Now, let's throw it in reverse and go back to the layoff back to 2nd Chronicles 36 2 Chronicles chapter 36 Joe's I was the last godly king of Israel and Judah.
They didn't have many righteous kings most of them were unrighteous But now Joe's I sons failed to follow God and they serve Baal and turn against me turn against God And so the people then in verse 16 of chapter 36 look at it in seconds Chronicles second Chronicles 36 16 but they mark the messengers of God and despise these words and misused his prophets We're beginning to see that in America Or if you're not progressive if you're not following all the political correctness, then you're filled with hate and you're not welcome at the table We're not going to be tolerated all of that stuff that we don't believe in We'll let you in our friendship if you're just like we want you to be Well, I'm glad Jesus doesn't teach that way that stuff comes from the god of this world the devil not from the god of this Bible Until the wrath of the Lord arose against watch this his people his people Till there was what? Say that out again read it. No more remedy What a place what a sad place to be in turn your bibles with me guys say it chapter one I say a chapter one We're not gonna make a lot of commentary. We're just gonna read through these verses, but get your bibles out and look at these verses Verse three the ox know with his owner in the ass his master's career, but is well that not know my people that not consider Wake up God's people.
That's all I can say this morning. Ah sinful nation a people laden with iniquity They have provoked the holy one of Israel to anger. They are all gone away backward The head is sick and the whole heart faint verse five Strangers devour your land verse seven in your presence, but verse nine talks about a very small remnant And if it wasn't for the remnant we would have already been like Sodom and Gomara But watch this ladies and gentlemen brothers and sisters on live stream and hear this morning in the northern kingdom It is real they had hardened their hearts. They'd stiffen their necks against God.
They've become stubborn and not hearing the word of God Even in chapter 20, I believe it is Isaiah walked around naked trying to get their attention And they still life dead him and mauled the man of God Because there's nothing in my hand. There's nothing that we can do it. There's not one thing we need God Who do we think we are? I have no power in my hand, but he has all power in his hand and if you're saved or in his hand It's time we just surrendered and circumvented to God and not we ourselves So God said I've had it with you burn offerings of rams and fed of fed beasts in verse 11 Your vain oblations Incents is an abomination to me even your solemn meetings all of your rules regulations That's what he's saying in new moons and appointed feast my soul.
Hey this they are a trouble unto me I'm weary to bear them when you spread forth your hands. I'll hide my eyes from you because your hands are full of blood There've been preachers this week by crazy having everybody who had a vote word of vote who to vote for and all the rest of it I was watching some of them other day in my God in heaven come to me and told me and said you know how some of them are living You know how some of them despise other preachers. They talk about other preachers. They criticize other preachers They won't even have anything to do with other preachers and then they get no nerve trying to tell everybody how to live their lives God says I'm sick of it You're not fooling me You may have you may be impressing some of the people but you sure ain't impressing me.
You're not hot You're not cold. You're lukewarm. I'll spew you right out of my mouth That's the layer to see a church in Revelation 3 you think this is popular preaching you got nothing coming Hey, a lot of people ain't gonna lack what God all my disfictions to say here this morning But it's a God's truth. You think you're the dearest thing to God.
We're making him sick He didn't you lift your hands and you praise me and you preach like a freight train, but I know your heart I Know your tail bearing. I know your gossiping I know your line. I know your hatred Don't like it people. I'm not gonna sing out there.
I'm not gonna do this. I know you ain't gonna do nothing You're full of hate and you're not saved according to that book I have the privilege of pastoring and being the director of freedom tabernacle bad dischurch and freedom tabernacle ministries in Atkins, Virginia And we are going to get to know one another a lot better through the weeks and months to come It's my prayer, but right now you can join us on our Facebook page freedom tabernacle ministries Atkins, Virginia Or our YouTube channel focus of freedom at kids, Virginia Our website f t ministries.org or you can download our app the freedom tabernacle app Download it for free from any app store and we can stay in contact that way as we labor together with our Lord for his glory And for the advancement of his glorious gospel of grace