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Pastor Allen- “Eternity is too long to be wrong”
I appreciate Brother Marvin Evans. I had him scheduled to preach her last Sunday night and and Brother David Noah showed up and he come to me and said if it's if you'd like it to be fine with me if you let Brother David know preacher tonight. I thought there's an excellent spirit that Brother Marvin has showed forth in that and so we had Brother David to preach and so Marvin will be preached and Brother Marvin will be preached on even the service so I know God's going blessed for his good spirit good attitude with that. Hallelujah and it's a good thing for preachers to practice that if at all possible. You know if you have a message that you cannot hold then fire up and have at it you know but it's always good to honor other distant preachers and you know you ever in that position just come to me and ask me and I'll let you know what we'll do all right but I appreciate that. Hallelujah. That's good isn't it. Amen. In Matthew's gospel chapter number 7 Matthew's gospel chapter 7 and verse 21 the words of our Lord reads like this not everyone that saith unto me Lord Lord shall enter into the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven. Many will say unto me in that day Lord Lord have we not prophesied in thy name and in thy name have cast out devils and in thy name have done many wonderful words and then will I profess unto them I never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity therefore whosoever hearth the sayings of mine and doeth them I will liken him unto a wise man which build his house upon a rock and the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon that house and it fell not for it was founded upon a rock and everyone that hearth the sayings of mine and doeth them not shall be likened to a foolish man which build his house upon the sand and the rain descended and the floods came and the winds blew and beat upon the house and it fell and great was the fall of it. Father I love you thank you for my privilege this morning I pray now God you make me an instrument in your hand make me a servant of this people help me to serve them well in Jesus name and the church said amen from verse 23 and really these thoughts had struck my heart Thursday night during the service so I'm going to try to preach a little bit about it today all right and Jesus said and then will I profess unto them I never knew you depart from me ye that work iniquity I like to try to preach if God would help me eternity is too long to be wrong eternity is too long to be wrong there's a man who lived in Sydney Australia a man who became a soldier in fault during war war one and after the war he turned to alcohol and became a drunkard after hearing the gospel he cried out to Christ for salvation and he said words like this Lord if you will accept a drunk I will accept you as my savior and the Arthur Stacy got converted a couple of years that passed when Arthur had heard a preacher saying I wish I had a strong enough voice to shout all across Sydney Australia about eternity this struck chords in Arthur's heart he wasn't a preacher and had very little education and he thought how could I help spread the thoughts of eternity in the mind of those who live across Sydney so he fell in his pocket and he fell a piece of chalk that he carried home from work that day and he went out on the corner of Sydney Australia now down and wrote with the talk eternity hey man and for 33 plus years Arthur Sydney would get up at five o'clock in the morning go down the streets of Sydney Australia stomp from time to time and write the word eternity so me and that would pass by would be aware that there was an eternity and if you go to Sydney Australia today and you go down on one of the most popular corners you'll find a bronze plaque a man in the sidewalk that states eternity and one of the famous bridges in Sydney Australia when 2020 rolled around a man and folks were looking for a disaster and a man computers a shut down and all that stuff a man it lit up with words he meant in red he meant eternity hey man and this man he meant that stood about five foot three by the name of Arthur hey man uh Sydney hey man uh let me get this right hey man he hey man Arthur Stacy he is now famous hey man in Sydney Australia for making men aware of eternity i'm not looking to be a heyman Arthur Stacy today and i showed all my name and locks by lock for somebody to be aware that every one of us is headed rapidly towards eternity hey man yeah praise god there's only two things in this building this morning that's eternal hey man that is the word of god that i hold in my hand and the soul that you possess in that house of clay everything else you see is going to burn up and mail the way or decay in time but you and i and the word of god this morning is forever eternal hey man i'm gonna try to preach to us that eternity is too long to be wrong hey man there's no turning back time in eternity hey man because there's no time there hey man somebody said what is eternity one deaf and mute student hey man was asked that question hey man through the reading of braille they meant what is eternity and he responded like this eternity is the lifetime of god hey man the bible says that he inhabiteth eternity and what i moved about today amen are you right or are you wrong but brother i'm here to tell you eternity is too long to be wrong hey man hallelujah hey man that what is eternity is the endless beginless undefinable amen thing eternity eternity is as god and big and as long as god is in god in habits eternity he's the i am that i am hey man there's no yesterday where god's not there there's no tomorrow where god's not there and there's no now there were god's not there hey man god is eternity hallelujah and if ask man what is eternity all we can do is drop our head and say eternity it's unexplainable because we live in time but eternity is everlasting it has no beginning and it has no end and you and i are going to eternity oh i'd like to preach if god would help me there's a story told of a man who aborted a ship he's out on the deck one day feeling the breeze looking over the vast waters trying to forget all of his troubles when a man walks up to him and in a small piece of paper the man looked at it and realized he was a gospel track in anger he ripped it to shreds throw it in a man's face instead i don't want nothing to do with your religion the wind had caught part of the track bloated across the deck and held in the open sea hey man the man went back he meant to his cabin he meant and took off his coat and hung in the lapel of his coat was a little piece of that track he pulled it out he looked at it on this side he said god he turned it over it said eternity and he struck his heart in such a measure that he went back up on deck sawed out the minister and said i'm disturbed about this eternity and this god would you tell me more and the preacher warned him over the cross i'm telling you something you need to understand more about this god and about this eternity that you and i are rapidly going to you're just one heartbeat away you're just one step away you're just one day away you're just one son rise away you're just one son set away eternity if that are doorstep and there's no escape eternity a man by the name of Thomas Chalmers you buy the bread of him a great preacher of bygone days was an auditorium sitting on the second row when a man stood up and read some of the most vile and vulgar words and statements has ever been read and when he got through he laughed and pointed at the second row where Thomas Chalmers was setting and he said there's the man that wrote these words Thomas Chalmers stood to his feet with tears running down his eyes turned to the crowd and said every word that a man said is true i wrote all them vile vulgar things but that was before i understood the littleness of time and the greatness of eternity i'm not a man i used to be without discovered the littleness of time i have and the greatness of eternity that's awaiting my soul for someday i shall stand before the god of all the universe and give it a chance of every need done in this body will it be good whether it be evil raise your hand that's god to help me to carry out this mission appreciate the gospel i'm here to tell you eternity is too long to be wrong hallelujah the awful thought of not being right with god when you step inside of eternity should bring us soberness in this house today hey man listen to what jesus said hey man i'm not talking about what your preacher said i'm not talking about what's your hey man most likable family members said i'm not talking about your closest friend and comrade said i want you to listen to what jesus said not everyone that's said unto me lord lord shall enter the kingdom of heaven but he that doeth the will of my father which is in heaven many will say unto me in that day lord lord have we not prophesied in the name in the name cast out devils in the name the many wonderful works and then will i profess unto them i never knew you depart from me all ye that work in equity in other words it's not those people who serve god with a lift but no life a man that's going to be accepted in the blissful eternity it's not what you say it's who you are you can't say i'm a christian do you fall over the end that don't make you a christian there's got to be a conversion they've got to be a change inside there's got to be a new you they've got to be a blood monster child of god called a born again experience going to church don't make you no more christian than you go into a garage make you a car hallelujah hallelujah be in here don't make you right meeting jesus and accepting Christ is what makes you right amen Jesus said that many is going to say unto me in that day lord lord hallelujah and he said in verse 22 many will say unto me in that day lord lord verse 21 not ever one that says unto me lord lord amen or saying i have done many wonderful works is going that's not going to be the proof that you've given your heart completely over the Christ listen to me eternity is too low for you to be wrong y'all say amen in fact i go to church amen to make sure i'm right and i keep it right hallelujah i said hallelujah never sermon now there's a way to go to my soul ever so is a praise the victory for my soul i don't want to take a chance on being rolled when i meet god they say they said jesus said many will say unto me in that day have we not prophesied in thy name have we not cast out devils have we not done many wonderful works in his name but jesus did not validate what they say they say did we not do this did we not do that did we not cast out devils did we not do many mighty works that's like the group before that they said they call me lord but they do not the things that my father commands them the wheel of my father hallelujah jesus never said what they were stating was true i never read one time where jesus said that's true amen but you're not mine but jesus said i'll profess unto them i never knew you you never made a commitment on the cross you never surrendered your heart and life and will you on the call the hell it is they said but cross it i don't know you you're telling why you're pulling up a hoax now you're pulling up a fraud that's not who you are you're not my child you're not my father you're a pretender words of our Savior whoa under you hypocrite you don't want to hypocrite you a pretender someone who puts up the front someone who acts out what they're not eternity is too long to be wrong you don't want to die without making a crypt calvary and accepting Jesus Christ as your lord and Savior you don't want a chance just saying i've been faithful to church but you won't do this i've been faithful to Christ that's a lot different and being faithful to church you can be faithful to church and go to hell but you can't be faithful to Christ amen and go to hell and one thing about it if you're faithful to Christ you'll be faithful to church help me pray to God oh yeah i'm here to take some right now this is Jesus business we're here this is a pent stop on our way to eternity i come to get renewed i come to find a friend Christ in my heart and in my life sister Don Rich's wife i can't thank her name you might be able to refresh me only huh surely Rich i don't know if you all be here to testify she's been serving God for many years and one day she wanted a confirmation in her heart that she still was right with God what a desire so she went away in prayer and went before God until she felt the spirit confirming her that everything is all right and i wonder about some of you i've never seen you weep in any order i've never seen you wailing over your soul but what we need in this tabernacle this morning is some soul searching and some of you need to go back and say god will you reconfirm that everything's all right between me and you because i don't want to be wrong because eternity is way too long how can you sit in your pew after preaching after preaching after preaching i don't care if you call yourself a son is good teacher a deacon a preacher a board member acquire leader hallelujah an instrument player a psycho church member are you right are you ready can you be gone with a shear attack everything is all right one noted him for Dale ate this maybe you can tell me who this was it's either ingress or ball time that come down to die and they said he repeated a statement three times that is there oh no something wrong and again he repeated oh no something bad wrong and again oh no something oh kata moshakata is that going to be your crime are you going to come down the dance say i wish to act a different i wish to done it different i wish to observe god more heartily i wish to give more to the church i wish to witness more for class i wish to be more if i put a god oh no so please bad wrong my job this morning is one of great strenuous acts my job is more nerve unraveling than a heart doctor has removed the patient's heart out of his chest my job is more nerve wracking than the banker that's lending millions to corporations hey man my job is more packing and nerve wracking oh god hallelujah than the brain surgeon hey man that's kidding the tumor have a man the woman's brain this morning hallelujah my job is get you ready for eternity and what a task that he is when the scales of flesh cover our eyes and carnality amen clouds our minds and we live in the present how can we think about eternity when all we know is time oh holy ghost i pull back the kernel let us feel the often observe of eternity in our life this morning shall be raise your hand and worship god eternity is way too long to be wrong a task to be in right with god somebody said how do i know what's the test the test is being right with god jesus broke it down and two statements they give us a wonderful illustration he said hey that brought the will of my father and the part for me you that work in that way that word in equity means you lawless wise ye that would live no life by rule ye that would not obey my word ye that would not do the wheel of my father you that wanted to go away instead of god's way you that were selfish and self-centered and self-focused that you never glorified Christ but lifted him up in a perverted and dark society that we live in hell are you gonna stand in good standing that eternity when you can't no burden for the lost humanity hell are you gonna stand before god with clean hands when you got no burden for the cause of Christ and the work of god Jesus said to them you that work in equity he lawless one you did not love truth he's humanistic you thought everything's all right long as people apologize you took everything to be okay cause others tipped their head at it you thought any religion would do as long as they're sincere there is a way that seemeth right on the man but the ends thereof are the ways of death brother Dwight butterfield and brother Dwight Jackson both i am not playing games with living for god and going to church this ain't a side show this ain't a side attraction this ain't somebody on the side this ain't just another hobby this ain't just another habit of mine amen this is eternity this is heaven or hell this is life or death there's no room for play enough there's no room for counting back there's no room for yielding a temptation there's no room for giving in to the flesh there's no room for giving in to the devil eternity is too long for you to be wrong if you harbor bitterness in your soul this morning and god reveals it to you amen eternity is too long for you to be wrong get it out and jesus gives an example of two groups of people the wise man and the foolish man and jesus said here's how you measure right from wrong he that here at the sands of mine him do it then and he that here at the sands of mine and do it then if you have not a heart to do what he said my life i live it the way i want to preacher yes but eternity is too long to be wrong you go ahead and live your 70 plus years whatever god gives you if he gives that much and you do your own thing and you run your race and you live yourself a slice and you do your own thing praise god and when you die and it gonna melt amen to an ounce of anything hell you eternity is forever and you don't live old in heaven or hell but the deciding factor is here this morning oh oh oh the road to hell is paid with good intentions i'll do better later i'll fix it after a while i'll get it right sooner or later no many has already chosen that round and now they're in long long eternity no turning back no doing it over no more opportunity chances are gone you're all there wrong and i'm here try to help somebody let me repeat that or restate that i'm here to help everybody to say eternity is too long to be wrong and i'm not just preaching to back sliders or sinners this morning i'm preaching to a body of believers that need to get down doing some business digging with god this morning and making us sure that your heart is fixed and your desires is right if there's anything out of line get it back in line if it's anything grown cold in your heart porch cross get close to him and warm that heart back up and warm that desire for god back up and warm that hunger for revival back up hallelujah why do we have to constantly poke at the revival fires to get them to burn in your life i think it's time for you to stir up the fire and take out the ashes and rekindle your flame for Christ and for revival eternity is too long to be wrong come to piano if you will this morning whoever's coming come quick if you will hallelujah hallelujah who tastes up right now oh oh i'm not taking away anybody these deathbed repentance won't tell you something if you've had opportunity after opportunity after opportunity and you've heard preaching and preaching and preaching and you come down to die i don't know how much mercy is doing but we stand and open at that day i read sixty or sixty six books and only one death day take a chance if i have a head on collision for darling just home but if wherever my feet of love heaven is with me this heaven is a preacher i want to double check and check and double check and keep a check hallelujah oh come on now hey man i'm glad you're here i like heavy shelter on your feet right now really would i tell you something that i'd like to see more than that i'd like to see tears running out of your eyeballs hitting the carpet crying god have mercy on me and my soul today i don't want to grow colder and indifferent oh god now it's too late we ever want to go in you all are eternals the real year the soul the spirit of the man is eternals made in the likeness of god the very breath of god despite some of the fault for religions that man is annihilated after death life ceases with the grave life comes home we don't understand that because we live in a time in a land of death and our fragile minds are locked in to the world we dwell in but there's an eternal world and i want the holy ghost to break through on you today and quicken that thought and make it a reality would you raise your hand and say holy ghost make eternity real to me i know i live in time we can't comprehend owner of we can't see it with our little minds but eternity is forever and every what will it take to get your attention will you have to brush up against death will you have to hold the hand of your loved one as they slip into eternity to realize there's an eternity awaited i remember talking to brother we have some years ago as he was in the room of a saintly in the video that was leaving this world he said darl i can't explain it something happened when she died i felt something leave the room as he took her last breath she said i think i felt slip away after a while we all go slip away some early some light but we all slip away got no promise of tomorrow all i have is today i got no promise of an hour from now all i've got is now how can i push it's a grave matter to the distant future as they get ready to say you know what i'm making an altar call for you you heard it you i don't care you might be a preacher like me but i'm making this altar call for you you might be a singer you might be a young mother you might be a grandmother you might be a young dad you might be a granddad you might be a teenager you might be a pre-teen pre-teens die sad to say it happened all the time we live in a world of death as david said there is but a step between me and dad somebody said boy you're morbid you're just you just talking all down and grating oh i'm not when you're in my position one guy was handed a track and a man asked him how your soul he said it's none of your business about my soul and the man spoke up and said that's where you're on it is my business he said oh sir are you deal moody he said yes i am and it's my business that your soul gets right with god and it's my business this morning oh yeah i said it's my business that your soul gets right with god call me what you want to it don't make no difference it's my business to see to it that you're okay that you're right that your soul is fixed with god it's marginal I don't know I don't know who's next to mine to leave this for now i got no way of telling unless god would choose to replace him or not now i want to tell you that he turned it was too long to be wrong you said i'm wrong i'm not saying i'm saying all right only you can answer the questions tell me where i need to be with god that might all i need to do for god am i ready to meet god well i think i am you know what i do on them bases i think i am i'd come back make sure i am when i want to be you know what i do on them base that come back and make sure i say oh god whatever it takes come to me now let me feel your spirit once again let me feel the renewed payment of salvation in my heart again how are you restoring to me the joy of our salvation and created me a rock spirit oh god hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hey boys don't go to eternity wrong it's way too long well now you know the burden of my heart is for you for these people to be sure i know that i know that i'm ready to go i want to race all down take away anything that's blocking my way do anything i need to do i'm gonna make sure that i'm ready to go are you sure these times i went back and made sure help me to do anything somebody said you just over cautious going to eternity and being over cautious that just don't say all right going to face god and over cautious that don't say all right that sounds like the spirit of the world god bless you i you deserve better preaching they're gonna say you do what you want to do God bless you.