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Pastor David Mitchell
Hey, it worked. All right, so we got a couple of things to move because they popped over there. Do it. All right, so boy, those two specials were awesome today, weren't they? Just so great. Thank you so much, both of you.
Abraham Lincoln said, all that I am or hope to be, I owe to my angel mother. You've heard me read that one once or twice in the past. That's one of my favorite quotes on Mother's Day. Life began with waking up and loving my mother's face, George Elliott.
Isn't that something? I love to watch my grandbabies gazing into their mom's faces, and I like to watch their moms gazing into their children's faces. It's a beautiful thing, isn't it? A mother is she who can take the place of all others, but whose place no one else can take.
Isn't that true? Yeah, all of us can remember that when we were dating and maybe somebody broke up with us and mom was there, right? Mom was there through it all and still there now. My mom is here today for the first time since COVID.
92, we're just about 92 years old. Not quite yet, 91 and a half. How about that? And so glad to have you with us today. Yeah, call it that. So thank you, mom, for I pray for you every day and I think about my whole life with you every day.
Life doesn't come with a manual, it comes with a mother. Yeah, that kind of fits your song pretty good, doesn't it, Bobby? If at first you don't succeed, try doing it the way mom told you to do it in the first place.
That's a good one. I wrote that one. Actually, I didn't. God could not be everywhere and therefore he made mothers. Pretty smart man wrote that. All right, well, moms, we just want to thank you again for everything in your life that you've done and we're so thankful.
Those of us who are children are thankful that you remember only the good things and God made it that way, didn't he? Yeah, that's this life goes on. That's just what you tend to remember. All right, well, let's get back in Romans chapter 11 and if you know me at all, you know I'm not real big on preaching messages that have to do with man-made holidays or any kind of holiday for that matter.
So that's a weakness of mine, but I just don't. I have to preach what I think the Lord wants me to preach and I think this is more beneficial. So we're going to continue right on through, but I think that we got some great Mother's Day messages in the songs today and I'm really glad that we did.
Romans chapter 11 verse by verse. I'm going to review just a hair. We were in Romans 11 17 and this whole thing we've been talking about for about two Sundays has to do with the apostle Paul in chapter 11 of Romans verse 17 and following where he talks about these branches of these olive trees and he depicts two types of olive trees, a wild one which is the Gentiles and then what he calls the good olive tree which is the Jews and how that God broke some branches off of the good tree and grafted some branches into that tree from the wild tree and that's the Gentiles.
That's us. And so he has a word of caution for us here in this little passage. We've already covered this, but if you just look right there in verse 9, look at verse 18. It says this is he's speaking to the Gentiles in the room and he's always speaking to the Jew first and then the Gentile both groups in every room where Paul preached his whole life.
That's my opinion except maybe one time when he preached to the Greeks, but other than that but there were probably Jews there too. So he's always preaching to the Jew first and Gentile, but he's already preached to the Jew here and now he's talking to the Gentile.
That's us. Predominantly a Gentile church here in the end times, the end of this age, and look what he says. Boast not against the Jewish branches, but if thou boast thou bearest not the root. You don't bear the root.
The root bears you and Jesus was a Jew and he came through the lineage of the Jews down through time. Thou will say then the branches were broken off that I might be grafted in. The Gentile can say that and that's true.
Paul's already taught that that's true. Well, because of unbelief, those Jews were broken off. So not all Jews were broken off. He spoke earlier in this chapter, the first part of chapter 11 about the fact that he had never cast away those whom he had foreknown.
Those are the Jewish people that he knew before the foundation of the world and he predestined that they would be saved and brought adopted into his family and I used to think only the Gentiles were adopted, but that's not true.
The Jews are adopted too, except for Jesus. He's the only begotten child of God. Remember that. So they're adopted in there too and he talks about that and we all kind of know that story. Well, those who he foreknew and predestinated to be adopted into his family, whether Jew or Gentile, a hundred percent of them will be saved because Jesus says when the father draws them, I will lose none of them, but will raise them up the last day.
So Jesus, I mean, Paul says early in this chapter that I'd never cast away those that I foreknew and that Jew or Gentile, and by the way, Jew, Gentile covers every human, every people group in the world because the Gentile group is divided into many people groups, but Jesus came to die for all men and that always and only means when it's used in that manner in the context that he died for some people in every people group, all people groups.
You got to take it in context. The Jew didn't believe it, but Paul continually taught them that that was true and he said, and by the way, I'm the apostle to the Gentiles, so you need to think about that because I'm the Jew of Jews and God called me to be an apostle to the Gentile.
Why would he do that if he won't save Gentiles and he's always teaching them? Yes, he will. Yes, he will. But now he's speaking to the Gentiles and he says, well, you know, the only ones of the Jews that were cut off were unbelievers.
Do you see that? None of them lost their salvation. The ones that he's depicting with this allegory, this allegorical idea of the branches being broken off of the tree, they were unbelievers and never were going to be believers.
They were goat Jews, right? That's what they were, or tares if you want to call them that. And so even though they appeared to be branches from the good tree, that was just an appearance because they weren't believers.
They weren't foreknown by God. He didn't know them and love them like he did his own children that he knew before the foundation of the world. None of those were cast off. So, well, because of unbelief, they were broken off.
Verse 20, and thou standest by faith. You Gentiles that are saved, you stand by faith. The only reason you're grafted in is because God gave you a gift in Ephesians 2, 8, 9, a gift, which is Jesus's faith.
He gave it to you as a gift and you have it. And that's why you're grafted into this good tree. So be not high minded, but be fearful. Now watch this for if God spared not the natural branches, take heed, lest he also spare not thee.
And I think you see that's a message to the end times, predominantly Gentile church that among this huge modern church are many people who are not really believers. Oh, they say they believe, but they've invented their own God and their own Jesus, and they're led by a different spirit.
And so they will be cut off. A hundred percent of those will be cut off, but no one who God foreknew with his love before the foundation of the world and predestinated to be his adopted children and brought to Jesus, none of them will be lost.
None of them. So that's the message Paul is giving, but it is a warning to the church because just because you're sitting in a pew doesn't mean that you're a genuine believer. Well, how can you know the difference?
Well, let's think about this. Let's say that someone told you once, maybe a pastor, that if you'll just pray this little prayer, follow after me, dear Jesus, come to my heart and save me. Amen. That you'll be saved.
The problem with that is the Bible teaches the Holy spirit has to call you for you to be saved. You say, well, that's a problem, brother David. Then how do you preach the gospel? Because the gospel is all the true gospel has never changed.
Jesus died. Jesus was buried and he rose again for his people that he might take his, the sins of his people away. That's always been the gospel. And it still is. And we have to tell that to everyone in the world.
That's called the general calling. Everyone gets to hear that message. Everyone gets to hear this. If you want the water of life, Jesus says, I will give it to whoever wants it. And that's the true gospel.
But I have some bad news for the human race is the Bible says there's none that seeketh God, not one. They've all fallen away and gone their own way because it's a depraved race. And the only way any single human has ever saved.
And you have to remember, it's always just a remnant. The world church today has got this entirely wrong because they worship a different God, not the God of the Bible. They worship a God they've invented in their mind.
It loves everybody. And it's going to, that died for everybody. You go back to the six, 1700s, 1600s, probably 95 of all Baptist were particular Baptist, which meant they means that they believed that Jesus only died for the elect, not for every individual.
Now that's flipped. We're on maybe only 5 of Baptist believe that today. That's unfortunate because the truth is he, every single person for whom Jesus died will be in heaven. Because you're only saved by the blood.
It's not stuff you do that saves you. It's his blood. So if he gave that blood as a ransom for you, you're going to heaven. He said of them, I will lose nothing. Think about it. Just logic, but it's also Bible because there are verses in the book of Isaiah in the old Testament and many verses in the new Testament, in the book of Mark and Matthew, the other gospels to say that Jesus died for many, not all.
And I'll tell you this. If you ever studied logic, I'll promise you many can never mean all, but sometimes all can mean many check it out. It's fact. How can all mean many? Because when Paul tells the Jews who don't think God will save a Gentile, he died for all men.
He doesn't mean every individual. He means many from all people groups. So all can mean many, but many can never mean all because many limits the number of people saved to less than all. Well, we know that because Jesus said broad is the gate to hell.
And many there be that go thereby. Right? So think about it. Think about it. Every single person that Jesus died for will be in heaven. You know how I know that the Bible says it. Secondly, the Holy spirit will call.
There's a thing called the effectual call theological term, but it's, you find it in scripture by context is how you can tell it's very clear, by the way, where he lights on the shoulder of every foreknown elect person throughout all ages.
At some point in their timeline on this earth, it could be when you're a young child. It could be like me when I was 24. It could be, I know older people get saved when they're 80 on their deathbed. It doesn't matter.
God knows your spirit's a birthday and he sends his spirit to light on your shoulder and wake you up and open your eyes to where you can see your Messiah. You can see your shepherd and you instantly, he becomes irresistible.
Once you've seen with eyes at sea and you can hear the word of God, which is the fact he died for you individually. And he gives you Jesus's faith. He gives you the Holy spirit to dwell within your body and your body becomes the temple of the living God.
You can't tell me that doesn't change a person instantly and on and on. That's what happens at the calling. So if you're listening today and you say, well, I'm saved because I prayed this little prayer.
No, not really. You're not saved because of that. But let me say this. The preacher may have told you that. And the fact that he told you that can't unsave you either. So here's how, you know, when you're saved, all right, let's just give a very simple one.
It's part of the Romans road, Romans 10 13, but I'm going to read it in Greek, English, Greek. Okay. Here's how it reads in Greek for whosoever desires to call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved.
So you may not be saved today yet. You may know it because you're still running from God. You just may know that, but here's the point. Do you have a desire to be saved? Do you have a desire to know about the things of God?
Does it bother you when you sin? Cause it doesn't bother a goat. A lost sheep will sin and hang out with the goats, but it bothers his conscience way more than it does a goat. In fact, the goat eventually loses his conscience.
If you don't believe it, read Romans chapter one, carefully word by word, the whole thing. So you, you, you know, if you care, and if you care, it's because the Holy spirit's making you care. So all you need to do is like the bride does to the bridegroom is respond.
Just receive the fact that he loves you. He died for you. He's given himself for you and he wants you to be with him all the time. Not just talk about him. Sometimes, you know, you can kind of tell a fake Christian from a real one is because the fake one is really spiritual looking at church on Sunday.
And when he goes home, he cusses at his wife or she cusses at her husband and they get all cattywampus at each other. They don't treat each other with the kindness and gentleness that Jesus treats people with because they don't really have it.
All they got was a fake gospel. Just pray this little prayer and you'll be saved. And they've never been called to Christ. They've never been born again. Same message Jesus gave Nicodemus. You must be born again, or you'll never see the kingdom of heaven.
And that's not something you can do, or a preacher can do to you or for you. Not even a mom can do that for you. She can pray for you like my mom did. And my grandmother did until I finally got saved, but it wasn't their prayer that saved me, although they worked together with the Lord to save me because it's a family business, right?
And so God worked together with them to get me saved. But it's because the Holy Spirit came to me in my car driving to work one day when I was 24, between Waco, Texas and Mahea, Texas, after I had been to my MBA class to manage the oil company.
And he met me in that car going pretty fast down the highway. And he saved me. He opened my eyes. And in an instant, I knew that I wanted Jesus as my Lord and savior for the first time in my life. I always knew about him, but I never wanted him to be my Lord, my boss.
In fact, I got, I used business terms when I got saved, I was already a businessman. I said, Jesus, for the first time in my life, I've always known about you, but I want you to be my boss instead of me being my boss.
Now, there's no way that my flesh would have said that. It didn't say it two seconds before that. It didn't say it a week before it or a year before it, because I didn't want him, but the Holy Spirit called me and made me desire Christ.
Has that ever happened to you? Has that ever happened to you? Because if it hasn't, you haven't been saved yet. You're just religious. And if you're just religious, the way you act at church and the way you act at home is very different.
Now I'm not saying we don't mess up sometimes, but I'll tell you what, there are things the Holy spirit should take out of your life when you get truly regenerated and born again. And if those things aren't, if you don't have some things that were removed, you need to, you need to get out by yourself and get before the Lord and say, look, if I'm not saved, save me.
Lord, I do have a desire for you for some weird reason. I'm seeking you and you say no one does. So the Holy spirit must be moving me toward you. So here I am be my Lord, be my boss, take my life, change me.
Don't let me be like I've been up until this point. That's the experience we all need to have had. And I hope everyone here has had it and everyone out there has had it. And all your friends who claim to be Christians and family, I hope they've had it, but if they have, there'll be a difference.
Be a kind one to another gentle hearted. That'll be the new spirit that they have. Now I know personalities can be different. We have, some of us are cranky. Some of us are happy all the time, but none of us have a right to be unkind to one another, right?
None of us have a right not to love one another. And I'll tell you what else about love. Think about this. There are many things the Bible says love is, but one of the things love is, it says it's in the Greek.
It says love does not make a list of the sins of the person it loves. So what if you do have a Christian in your life that's cranky a little bit, not always like they should be. We'd look and need to look in the mirror there, don't we?
We shouldn't make a list of the things they do wrong and talk about it a lot. Okay, does that make sense? Love covereth a multitude of sins, and none of us have the whole package, but there should be some definite changes in every life that's been truly called.
And if it's not there, that's a problem biblically. Well, there can be, the whole message is there can be people among us that think that they're Christians, but they are in unbelief. Well, because of unbelief, they were broken off and they will be broken off.
They won't be in heaven. Think about it. What does that do for you when you think about that? Think of your family. Be real. Don't just be religious. Be real. Think of your family. Do you have people that'll tell you, talk about Jesus on certain days, and yet they treat you like dirt?
Why are they doing that? Because they're made out of dirt. Maybe they hadn't been born again yet. That's natural. It's normal. Don't stop praying for them, and don't judge people, but you have to have discernment, and there's a fine line there, isn't there?
We have to have discernment, and we have to pray that the Holy Spirit will come strong on the people that we love, and we know it's His choice, right? We can't make Him do it, but we can sure ask Him to do it, can we not?
So that's what we do. That's our role, but the Bible's clear. There will be some who claim to be Christians, and the Gentile end-times church are going to be broken off because they weren't true believers because they just had this on and off belief of a human.
They never were given the faith of Christ that only the King James Bible talks about, and the Greek, but all the modern versions never even say that phrase. You better check it out. Check out the book of Galatians and other places where it says He's given us the faith of Christ.
That last admonition, verse 22, behold, not only the goodness, but the severity of God. How many preachers are preaching that today? Oh, God loves everybody. Jesus died for everybody. He just wants you to be happy and wealthy and healthy all the time.
They're preaching the goodness of God, and that's good, but it's unbalanced if you don't preach the severity of God. He's going to break some branches off this tree, ladies and gentlemen. Not true believers, not one of them.
Not foreknown people, not one of them will be cast away. Check out the earlier verses in chapter 11. You'll see this is reviewed. All right. Now, Zachariah four went to this. It talks about olive trees, just like Paul is talking about two olive trees.
This chapter in the old Testament talks about two olive trees. Some 2 ,800 years ago or so, this was written by inspiration of the Holy spirit by the prophet, and he sees two olive trees and he asked, what does this mean?
And the angel said, you don't know what this means. And you're a teacher of Israel, your prophet. That's funny, isn't it? Brother Otis used to do that to me though. You're a pastor and you don't know that.
Well, let's talk about this brother David. And we would learn some things. Right. And so, um, it says, then he said, these are two anointed ones that stand by the Lord of the whole earth. Now this gets, this gets interesting.
I mean, I know we've been kind of talking about judgment on America. I didn't want to preach on that during mother's day, but fortunately we've kind of covered that. So now we get to the interesting part that has to do with God's grace, much more appropriate, but this had a near and a far fulfillment.
Most prophecies do. People can debate that all they want, but you know, the problem is they try to debate with me. I've actually spent 40 years studying the Bible. So it's like, you're not going to fool me on those issues.
You can read theology books to me all day, but I don't read them that much anymore. I did when I was young, as many as I get my hands on, but listen, theology books are full of bones, just like eating fish.
And you need to spit the bones out and eat the fish and hope you get over it. And don't let them influence you so much that those books have authority higher than the word of God. And then as you grow up as an individual Christian, the word of God and the Holy spirit become your teachers.
And I'm not saying you shouldn't read books. We continue to read and study. Paul had more than just a Bible when he was hanging on that wall. He said, bring me my books and the parchments. So he read other books.
That's great, but you weigh them all against what book see this one right here. They're weighed against this book only. This is the authority and the only authority that we have other than God himself, who wrote this book and put his word higher than his own name.
He said, this is our authority. So as we look at these things, we have a near fulfillment, which was Joshua and Zerubbabel, which are talked about in this passage. And they were two individuals. Joshua pictured the spirit, like the priestly side, Zerubbabel pictured the kingly side and God used them to rebuild Israel, Jerusalem, actually, after the Babylonian conquest.
They are a picture and a type of one man, Jesus Christ, who is both the king and the priest are pictured by these two men. Does that make sense? Because the king priest is going to come back and rebuild Jerusalem again, which I really never saw till this week.
And it's amazing because I've read these so many preach through them so many times. I'm not getting younger, you know, not getting any younger. Won't be long. I'll be the oldest preacher on the air. Probably the Lord leaves me here.
All right. So then it goes on a little bit farther. It talks about the branch. Now this was interesting because look, that's Jesus. Now you might say a picture is Zerubbabel. A lot of the commentary say it's talking about Zerubbabel.
Well, they're just commentaries, aren't they? So how do you know they're right? One thing I do know is the branch is Jesus throughout the scripture. And I know that the far fulfillment of this is Jesus Christ, but look what it says.
The branch will grow up out of his place and he shall build the temple of the Lord. So the temple is going to be rebuilt soon. And when we see that, we need to head for the hills, ladies and gentlemen, because by the time the antichrist offers the swine, you know, on that altar, on that new temple, you'll only have three and a half years.
It's going to be the worst you've ever seen. But there's evidence. If you stay, if you hang with me and you see what God's already told us through the prophets, there's evidence that God will hide his foreknown people if they obey his word.
How do you like that? Is that nice to know? Because they're going to be killing every Christian and Jew they can find. They're starting already. They're starting to arrest them already. Even in America now, over 200 ,000 people were turned into the FBI by their kinfolks, mostly their daughters, turned in by their kinfolks because they thought they saw them on film at the Capitol building on January 6th expressing their freedom of speech.
That's against the law now, of course. Now, you can't tell me there were 200 ,000 bad Republicans there beating up police and stuff. There were only maybe 20 or 30, right? I don't know how many hundred.
I'll give you 200. There weren't 200 ,000. So how come 200 ,000 Christians got turned in? It's just because they redefined terms. I mean, for a Christian, it's not okay to have freedom of speech. We're the only group that that's not okay for, by the way.
Rabbit trail, but it's the truth. So here we see that that temple where the antichrist is going to offer that swine is going to also be destroyed sometime before or during Armageddon, and then Jesus is going to rebuild it.
And you say, well, why do we need a temple in the millennial kingdom? I guess because he wants one. There's going to be a time after that when God becomes the temple, but that's a little bit later on.
I believe even he shall build the temple of the Lord and he shall bear the glory and shall sit and rule upon his throne. Does that sound like Zerubbabel or does that sound like Jesus Christ during the millennial kingdom?
Sounds like Jesus to me. He shall be a priest upon his throne and our priests don't sit on thrones. If you figure that out, Kings sit on thrones. And think about this, Zerubbabel was not a priest. Only Joshua was the priest and he's not the one that sat on the throne in the first fulfillment of the prophecy.
You with me, brother Bill? That's pretty cool, isn't it? The second, the far fulfillment, it's going to be a priest sitting on the throne and that's not Zerubbabel. All right, that can only be Jesus Christ, the branch.
Now when it talks in verse 14 about the crown, she'll be a Helam and the Baija and so forth, no one really knows who those guys are. So they could have been part of the former fulfillment, the people that live, but we don't, the Bible doesn't give us enough information, nor does history, excuse me, nor does history and or they could be part of this future fulfillment.
People haven't been born yet, but they will be part of the ceremony of making sure the crown is placed on the head of the Messiah. Is that cool or what? It might be you, brother Paul. You got any like in your birth certificate, anything like Helam or to Baija or Jedidiah or any of it?
No. Okay. All right. Now Zephaniah, we know that's a figure in the old Testament. So hen, how about hen? No. All right. Probably Ashton has the word hen in her name somewhere because her dad had chickens.
All right. Okay. Well, maybe one of my grandbabies will have hen in the name. That'd be cool. Make sure it's a boy. So fit this and that they that are far off shall come and build the temple of the Lord with Jesus.
Now who's, who do you think that represents Jews or Gentiles? They that are far away from Jerusalem. Hint that's Gentiles. So Gentiles are going to be saved too. And they're going to come help build the temple with the Lord.
And ye shall know that the Lord of hosts has sent me into you. And this shall come to pass. If you will Dylan Lee, obey the voice of the Lord, your God. It's an interesting, if isn't it, I will utterly consume all things from off the land.
Say at the Lord. Now that did not happen in the first fulfillment, but it almost did. It almost did. Israel was pretty well destroyed by the Babylonians and the remnant was taken captive and left alive.
The rest were killed. I will consume man and beast, but I want to say something. I think this has a far fulfillment too. I think we'll see that. The more we read, I will consume man and beast. I will consume the fowls of the heaven and the fishes of the sea.
Did that happen? Let me ask you, did that happen when the Babylonians came in and destroyed Israel the first time? Were there fish killed in the sea and birds in the sky killed during that event? Not at all, especially not the fish.
So this is something bigger and badder. This is something far worse. This is something that many places, at least two that I can think of in scripture said that it is the worst tribulation that the earth has ever seen or ever will see.
And there's one place where it says, if God had not cut it short, not one person would be left alive. But for the elect's sake, he cuts it short. Who's that? That's us. For our sakes, he cuts it short.
It's also people that get saved right when he comes back for their sake too. And the stumbling blocks with the wicked, and I will cut off man from off the land, saith the Lord. That is a picture of a future tribulation period that is worldwide.
I will also stretch out my hand upon Judah. Now, do you see the little word also? Why is that important? Because there are people who think the tribulation is only for Israel, only for Jerusalem again.
But it wouldn't say also Judah if the previous part meant Judah already, would it? So the first part is talking about the whole world. And now it says, but this is also going to include Judah and Israel and Jerusalem and upon all inhabitants of Jerusalem also.
So they're not the only ones. It's worldwide, but it'll also include God's city. And I will cut off the remnant of Baal from this place. So all of this false idol worship that's going on right now in the modern church today and across the world and other religions is going to be cut off completely by Jesus Christ when this event takes place.
That's why the Bible says in Revelation that these folks who are worshiping false Jesuses and listening to different spirits and preaching other gospels, they're going to wish that the mountains and the rocks would fall on them to hide them from the face of the land.
That's a little different than the Jesus that's preached today that loves everybody, isn't it? It gave his life for everybody. It doesn't sound like the same Jesus, so maybe there's a new one that's been invented.
But anyway, it will be cast away. Baal pictures all of that. And the name of the Chemarims with their priests. These are false gods, sometimes groves of trees that were worshiped. All of this will be cast away and destroyed.
And them that are turned back from the Lord, backsliders, will be destroyed. And those that have not sought the Lord, lost people, nor inquired for him, goats, they'll all be destroyed. It concerns me a little bit for the church that it says those that are turned back from the Lord will be destroyed.
I know that we got our modern day term, backslider, at least among Baptists that I grew up. We're not Baptists now, but I grew up Baptist. Backslider just meant a carnal Christian. My mentor, Dr. Erwin Freeman, four earned doctorates in theology, two in theology, one in psychology, one in biblical counseling, said he didn't even believe there any such thing as a carnal Christian.
I don't know. I don't know. But that's what he said. He said, you know, I don't, he said, I think when people get saved, they grow. He said, I think they change and they grow. And Jesus is the Lord and they grow and they following not perfectly, but they change.
That's what he said. But I'm not sure the old Testament phrase that we got that from applies to the church anyway. These are, it could be similarities though, because these are people that considered them part of Israel who were broken off because of what one word, what is it?
Yeah. And it's interesting in Greek, the same word for disobeyed is disbelieved. It's the same word in Greek. So disobedience, because of unbelief, they didn't really believe in their hearts. They were just trying to do a weren't born again.
Were they, you know, Jesus told Nicodemus, he must be born again. You got to remember Jesus and Nicodemus were still in the old Testament when he said that kind of cause had not happened yet. So that's a principle that goes back and do the old Testament too.
Now I don't believe it included everything that it does on this side of the cross because the cross changed things, but I do think they had to have be given a new heart. Don't you? If they truly born again, that's what separates the ones that were cut off from the ones that weren't, but they didn't have the indwelling of the spirit like we do.
So far be it from us to not follow the Lord, right? We have so much more advantage. Hold your peace at the presence of the Lord God for the day of the Lord is at hand throughout all of scripture. What does that word formula mean?
The day of the Lord. What do you think that means throughout all scripture, old and new Testament second coming. Did you know that 2 ,800 years ago, that prophet thought it could happen in his lifetime and Paul thought it could happen in his lifetime.
My grandmother said it would happen before she died. And my mom says, nah, I'm not, I'm not going to be here for it. And I'm telling her, yeah, you are. All you got to do is live to be about 110. And you're going to be here when it happened.
Cause it's not far away. I don't think now everybody's going to say, well, David Mitchell said she's going to be 110. Let's calculate that. He named a date. Well, what if I got it right? No, I'm kidding.
All right. So watch my mom's age. That's the ticker. You mean that preaching is way out there, right? My mom said that's way out there. And then that are turned back. Then they're not soft. The Lord hold your peace because the day of the Lord is at hand for the Lord has prepared a sacrifice.
He has bid his guests. You, do you see in there, the effectual call in the old Testament, the effectual call bid is an old English word. It means invited. You've been given an invitation to come to the wedding party.
What will you do with that invitation? There's the gospel right there. What do you do? I, you know, Jesus Christ has come. He lived a perfect life. He kept the law perfectly. He died. He was buried. He rose again for his people.
What will you do with him? You're invited. You're invited to receive him as your personal Lord and savior and whosoever desires may call to call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Do you have that desire?
All you got to do is be the bride. Just respond. He's invited his guests already. Why? Because God knew who they were before the foundation of the world. He sent the invitations out a long time ago, ladies and gentlemen, and the modern gospel doesn't believe that or preach it.
It just says anybody lets all control by what you decide to do. Well, there's a sense in which that's true, but the problem is if you don't have the Holy spirit, you won't decide the right thing. Your decider is messed up.
Your brain is not working right. Like a human was meant to work because you love yourself so much and you love the world so much you hate God and you don't know it. You think you love God because everybody tells you God loves everybody and everybody loves God, but you don't because if you did, he'd be your Lord already.
Think about it. A bride can sit around and say, well, I love that groom over there, but I'm not going to marry him. She can say that all day. Who believes her? Because by definition, love means you got to be together.
Doesn't it mean that I know humans redefine things, but I'm saying God's love. You got to be together. So you got to ask yourself, why aren't you following Jesus every day? Maybe you prayed some little prayer and it was a prayer formula.
Might as well have been Roman Catholic. It might've been well been Mormon or Jehovah's witness or Buddhist. It was just a prayer formula. It wasn't the Holy spirit calling you where you truly knew that you can't live any of your life by yourself.
Again, you've got to be married to Christ and you knew it and you told him. So has that happened in your life that way? If it hasn't get alone with the Lord, get alone with the Lord, express your heart to him because you won't listen.
You won't desire unless the Holy spirit's calling you anyway, you can't mess this up. I can't, I'm not that great a preacher. I can't mess it up. I can't mess the gospel up. As long as I tell you, he died on the cross, he was buried.
He rose again for the sins of his people to remove them. And if you feel in your heart that you want him, then you may receive him. I can't mess it up. He's already invited his guest. Do you feel invited?
Do you know that you were, that's so important. Do you feel a longing in your heart for him? And you just know that you're just following your own self and you're your own boss. And it's been that way a long time and it's not working out that great for you.
Well, then turn the reins over. If you want to do it, you didn't make yourself want to do it because your flesh didn't want to do it yesterday. If you want to do it right now, do it right now, wherever you are.
Just tell the Lord, I'm yours. All you have to do is call upon the name of the Lord and thou shalt be saved. But you won't do it unless you want to. And he changes you want to. That's what the Holy Spirit does when he calls you.
He's already invited the guests and it shall come to pass in the day of the Lord's sacrifice that I will punish the princes and the king's children and all such as are clothed with strange apparel. This gets interesting.
Bible language is very interesting because there's a lot of places in the scripture where it says if a man dresses like a woman or a woman dresses and gets her hair cut and acts like a man, that that's an abomination to God.
It's called strange apparel, strange ways where you mix up the sexes. And America loves that. The world loves it. And these big corporations like target and all these other ones doing all these ads on TV, they are so controlled by Satan.
It is amazing. Lucifer is their father and their father. They will listen and they will do what he does and they'll lie like he lies. And I'm hating it so bad. I'm so glad I got a thing on my TV where I can just don't have to watch him.
Don't let your kids watch him, by the way. It's a subtle way of turning them into anti-God people. The best the world can do that. The message is anti-Christ. It's a great Mother's Day message. Moms, watch that television set.
See, that's Mother's Day message now. It goes on about this strange apparel. Look at this. And in the same day, also I will punish those that leap on the threshold which fill their master's houses with violence and deceit.
What do you think that means? Leaping over the threshold. That's not an easy interpretation, is it? So you got to study a little bit to figure that one out. But there was a practice among pagans back in this day, maybe still in the Far East and Middle East of other religions, where when they entered the house, they would not step on the threshold because they believed in bad luck.
They would jump across it. So this is speaking to people who don't know God, and so therefore they are superstitious. Don't step on the crack, you'll break your mother's back, that sort of thing. Don't walk under a ladder.
Don't step on the threshold was what all of them went by. They probably still do in the Far East. I'll bet you that they do. But God says he's going to punish people that are superstitious and don't know him.
Interesting, isn't it? Those who dress funny and those who are superstitious. The great day of the Lord is near. What day is that? Second coming. It is near and hasteth greatly. 2 ,800 years ago, the prophet of God said this.
Now, do you think he might have been talking about the near fulfillment too? Because it was near. It just happened a few years after this was prophesied, probably not even 60 years, probably not that long.
Even the voice of the day of the Lord, the mighty man shall cry there bitterly. But there are aspects throughout this entire passage that did not happen in the Babylonian conquest. So these same things are true of us today because we're going to be part of the far fulfillment of this same prophecy.
And we can certainly say the great day of the Lord is near. In fact, God has called me to say it to all of America, and I've been doing it for weeks. Ever since January 6th, I've been doing it in most of my sermons, if you haven't noticed, because I feel called to warn God's people.
That day is a day of wrath, a day of trouble and distress, a day of wasteness and desolation, a day of darkness and gloominess, a day of clouds and thick darkness, a day of the trumpet what is that what is that picture the trumpet there's the last trump.
Jesus appears like the lightning from the east to the west at the last trump against the fence cities and against the high towers and I will bring distress upon men that they shall walk like blind men because they have sinned against the Lord and their blood shall be poured out as dust and their flesh as dung.
Neither their silver nor their gold shall be able to deliver them in the day of the Lord's wrath. They can't buy their way out of the trouble. Money's not going to help you if you're one of these people in that time it won't help you and most of the if you think about it money is electrons.
At this moment it wouldn't take but maybe four nuclear bombs exploded about a quarter of a mile above America and you wouldn't have any money because it'll shut down every electronic device in the country.
The internet will be gone and all the money in the banks is just electrons. It's not real money. And they won't be able to know how much you used to have and you won't have it anymore. This is what this is picturing.
Money's not going to buy anything at that point. It's good to have some gold and silver laid aside if you can do that make that happen. Talk to Ben about it. He's an expert at it. My son Ben. He can tell you how to get that done.
And know you're doing it. Right. All right. So neither shall gold or silver be able to deliver them in that day of the Lord's wrath. But the whole land shall be devoured by the fire of his jealousy. For he shall make even a speedy riddance of all them that dwell in the land.
What do you think. The ultimate cause of all this is in the end times all of this destruction. The key and the word is right there in front of us. It's jealousy. Have you ever wondered how patient the Lord is and how he puts up with eight billion people who don't.
I mean I was looking at my hands. I don't know what it was this morning last night. I can see the little blood vessels in there underneath that skin. And I said I saw my fingernails and I said you know Lord you put all this in there from one cell with some DNA that you put in that cell.
How many chromosomes. 21 is it. Isn't that right. 21 chromosomes we have. And just with the math on those chromosomes you made these blood vessels be right there. And my hand's different than your hand in your hand.
You don't have these in the same exact place but they work just fine. And God did all of that out of nothing. Well then he made some dirt and then he put that together and then did this. That's who we worship today.
And the world do you think it fears him or cares about him at all or ever. Thanks him for their own wife or their husband or their kids or the job they have or what little money they do have. And the food they have.
You think about angel food cake and and uh strawberry shortcake and pound cake like my mother used to make. And um I think banana pudding is probably my all-time favorite. But chocolate pie is not bad.
And none of these things are good for you. But they're all good for your soul. And that's good preaching brother David you ever thank God unless there's eight billion people that never thanked God for banana pudding.
Well you can. We can laugh about it because we do thank God for those things. And he knows it and he loves us but he does not love the whole world. And he's going to annihilate the people that he's jealous over because they never knew him and he never knew them either.
And they have hurt his people and that's why he's upset with them. They've killed a bunch of Jews and Christians and he is really upset with them. And that's an understatement. It's not a good word. He hates him.
How about that for a word check it out. Scripture says God hates the workers of iniquity not the iniquity. The old saying God loves the sinner and hates the sin. That's not in the Bible what God says.
God loves the sinner and he hates the sin. God loves the sinner that gets saved and covered by the blood and he hates the sinner. That isn't. That's what the Bible teaches. Gather yourselves together.
Yay. Gather together. Old nation not desired. Now tell me there's not a a far fulfillment of this one. What do you think. The near fulfillment is what nation would that be. The nation that all other nations hated Israel.
Right. Okay. But now if you look at the superpower in the world today and you look at all the nations in Europe and I've been over there and walked among them and listened to them. And you look at all the nations in the far east most the nations in the middle east except for Israel.
And what one superpower nation today is there that they all hate even though we give them trillions of dollars a year. Which one is it. I cheated and gave you the answer. I said we it's America. And there's your fall your far fulfillment.
Old nation not desired. Gather yourselves together. But do you really think there will be a great revival yet in our future in America. I don't think. So I think there's a great apostasy a great falling away from the truth already started quite a few decades ago.
It started in the colleges on our east coast and spread to our colleges on the west coast which used the ones on these coasts used to be preacher colleges. You can't name one. It's not. And now they're lucifers and have been my whole lifetime.
And it took that long to spread this poison throughout our whole land where we have a generation now that thinks totally secular. There is no god. That's a great you know the big bang is all there is.
And when we die we're just gone. But god loves everybody but they don't believe in god. So you see that's a different god. Well I think the nation not desired today is America. And I think the greatest city of all finance of the world is New York City.
And I think you're going to see that spoken of when we get to it which may not be today. It's in the notes though. Gather yourselves together. Yay. Gather together. Oh nation not desired before the decree bring forth.
Before the day pass as the shaft before this event happens. When Jesus comes you better gather yourselves together. Right before the fierce anger of the lord come upon you. Before the day of the lord's anger come upon you.
You better get ready. That's what gather together means. Gather together. Use you guys that know the lord. Get together. Make some plans and make sure you know what you're going to do. Listen when stuff starts falling out of the sky and hitting the earth and killing say 10 20 50 000 people at once.
You're going to be wanting to meet up here and say brother David what are we going to do. And I'm going to say brother Paul what are we going to do. Brother Bill what are we going to do. Ben you're young.
What do you think we should do. Raymond you're a deacon. What are we going to do. And we're going to figure it out. The lord will show us right. Because he's already told us this that we need to be ready before this happens.
Be ready to seek you the lord. All you meek of the earth which have wrought his judgment. Seek righteousness seek meekness. It may be. You shall be. Look at this. I love this. Charlotte. You'll like this.
My mother will like this. Bill you'll like this. Because all of us used to believe in the pre-tribulation rapture. And now we're sad. It's not true. But look what it says. It may be. You shall be hid in the day of the lord's anger.
That's better than a false theory. That's the truth. You can be hid. God can make it where they don't even see you in your family. Even though they're looking for every single Christian individual in the world to kill.
Even this nation will do it. That's why New York City is going to be destroyed. I might won't be the only city I don't want to. I want to be watching that from color TV from the Caribbean when it happens.
I don't want to be on this continent when that happens. So lord help me figure out where I'm going to be. Because I don't want to be here. Therefore wait ye upon me sayeth the lord until the day that I rise up to the prey.
P-r-e-y. Oh what does that mean. Wow. I mean you hanging on to every word in this thing. Have you ever seen all this before. When Jesus comes back he is like a raven looking for prey. And the prey are the goats.
He's going to eat the goats for meat. And he's going to eat the tares for vegetables. He's going to destroy them. All 100 all will be cast away. The bible said Jesus himself said I will bind them in bundles and burn them.
That's what Jesus said. And you know what he said about his elect his foreknown. He said. I'm going to put them in my father's barn which is a picture of heaven. Isn't that something. That's what happens at the rapture.
You're collected and you're hidden. You're hidden away. But you could be hidden even before that. Or you might not be there. You know what I mean. If you're going to be alive at the rapture you will have been hidden prior to that.
Because you'll still be alive. Because the lord preserved a remnant. He always does therefore await you upon the lord sayeth the lord until the day that I rise up to the prey. For my determination is to gather the nations.
That is predetermination. That is predestination. Do I believe it. People have asked me that all across this country. Yeah. I believe it. I believe John 3 16. And I believe every verse in the bible. So I believe every verse that talks about predestination.
And here it is. My predetermination is to gather the nations. That's all the nations that hate god. I'm going to gather the nations that I may assemble the kingdoms to pour upon them my indignation even all my fears and anger for all the earth.
It's not just Israel. It's worldwide tribulation. All the earth will be devoured by the fire of my jealousy. They went out after other gods jealousy. Did you know that since god is holy and perfect it's okay for him to be jealous.
It's never okay for us too because we're imperfect and we don't know all the facts. And we're just not. It's not something we're allowed to be unless you're a wife. And then that's okay because you all are anyway.
And us men we're not going to ever show you that we're jealous. You won't know it. But we can get jealous too. But this is righteous jealousness. For then will I turn to the people a pure I will turn to the people a pure language that they may all call upon the name of the lord to serve him with one consent.
Do you know how Paul says in this very passage that all Israel shall be saved. That's when it happens right there in verse nine. That's the timeline. Every Jew that's still alive when Jesus parts the skies and comes back as the lightning from the east to the west.
A hundred percent of them will be saved because they will bow that they'll know he's their messiah and they'll receive him. And hundreds of thousands of gentiles will too. They will have missed the rapture because at that moment they were unbelievers still.
But they were called and the holy spirit awakened them just after the rapture. And they will be the ones that move into and populate the millennial kingdom. Isn't that interesting. Hundreds of thousands of gentiles and every Jew none of the Jews unless they're already saved now because everyone can be saved through the gospel like salvation works now.
But if you're not saved at the second coming you don't. You don't get raptured. But many of the people on the earth will bow the knee at that point and they'll be saved. And they'll move into the millennial kingdom and live there.
And god Jesus will restore the earth to near garden of eden state. And people will live to be as long as old as 900 to a thousand years old. And it only lasts a thousand years. Some of them won't die.
Some of them will have to be raptured. And that's a theory of mine. I can't prove it in scripture. I can prove it logically that some of them will have to be raptured. So there'll be a second rapture i believe at the end of the thousand years.
And the reason they have to be raptured because if they're still his and they're still alive this he's going to destroy this earth and the heavens with fire and a loud noise. He'll have to pluck them off the earth before he does that.
So check it out see if i'm right if i'm wrong correct me i'll take it back all right. Well i think that's an amazing place to stop today. There is going to come a day when every human left on the earth before we go into the millennial kingdom just before it every human left will be saved.
And prior to that though every goat and every tear will have been destroyed and bound in bundles and cast into hades to await the great white throne judgment. That will happen a thousand years later when they will be cast into the lake of fire.
So that's the timeline. It's pretty cool isn't it. And the closer we get to it the more our eyes will be open to it and understand more the details. But i'm understanding more than i have my whole life.
It's beautiful. I love it. I never was that interested in these things. Charlotte will tell you i like to study salvation justification propitiation redemption. Those are the things i loved still do love them.
But i i do have an interest in this because we're at the foothills of it already. All right. Ladies and gentlemen let's stand and have prayer together. Moms. That was a lovely mother's day message. But uh just remember you do have little ones our grown children if you know you they need to be warned if they don't know about this stuff because so many of them go to churches where they teach you won't even be here.
You don't need to worry about it. You're going to get raptured before any of this happens which is a lie. So guess what. Guess who gets to tell them the truth. And it ain't gonna be me. It's gonna be you.
And you can do it. Just pray make sure you you know meekness and love in your heart. Because it's very emotional topic. And there you have it. Well bless your hearts lord. Thank you for this day where we commemorate the great work the great good work of being a mother.
And lord. Thank you for the love that we've been shown your love that showed through our moms to us. And lord we just pray for everyone here who's lost a mom already and give them grace in their hearts to have great and wonderful thoughts about times together today that they had.
And lord we ask you to go with us into our time of fellowship. Now bless the meal we're about to have. And we ask it in jesus name. Amen. You are dismissed.