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connection God calls you to share your
witness and if you don’t hold them back
from their tune they will stumble to the
slaughter and going to eternity without
God it’s everybody’s job it’s every
Christians job to be a minister God
wants to use you he put people in your
life that only you can reach that only
you can carry a burden for that only you
and your testimony can break through the
darkness and we need to stop them to
hold them back from their doom
proverbs chapter 24 proverbs chapter 24
you ready I’ll begin reading with verse
11 deliver those who are drawn toward
death hold back those stumbling to the
slaughter what a mental picture if you
say surely we didn’t know this does not
he the ways the hearts consider it he
who keeps your soul does he not know it
and will he not render to each man
according to his deeds I want to focus
in on that eleventh verse hold back
those stumbling to the slaughter deliver
those who are drawn toward death the
King James says those who taught her to
the slaughter and it says that if we
forbear that word is used in the King
James if we don’t say something that he
who knows and weighs the hearts will
consider it does he not know it I want
to talk to you today on this subject the
world’s greatest crime there is a crime
that is being committed that is the
greatest ever known to mankind and
shockingly it’s not being committed by
criminals it’s being committed by
Christians it’s the crime of forbearing
if we forbear does the Lord not know it
what does the word forbear means it
means to not reach it means to do
nothing it means to put off and to
procrastinate about the loss who are
perishing all around us Jesus has no way
to save the world except by us he said
you are the light of the world he said
go into all the world and preach the
gospel and they that believe and her
baptized shall be saved and they that
believe not and are not baptized shall
be damned there are nine times more
people living today than when G
this made that great command 2,000 years
ago the number one responsibility of the
church is evangelism Jesus looked at a
harvest field and he said notice that
it’s white unto harvest and then he came
with his own prayer request the Lord has
a prayer request pray to the Lord of the
harvest that he would send forth the
laborers to reap that harvest we think
it’s evangelists and pastors and
preachers but the laborers are you you
who have been born again and received
grace are required by God to share grace
and testimony of and witness of a living
Savior you’re required to do that
he said deliver those who are drone away
to death those who taught her to the
slaughter who stumbled to the slaughter
they’re going into eternity and if they
get into eternity it’s too late hold
them back from their doom who are those
who taught her to the slaughter who are
those who stumble to the slaughter
stumble into judgment and into damnation
into eternity who are those it’s the
high school students watch them as you
pull up to pick your kids up and they
pour out and the atmosphere the culture
that they’re in is one a party and one
of doing everything you can to just live
here and now and they don’t realize many
of them are tottering to the slaughter
they don’t know how much time they have
and they’re lost without God I want you
to understand that those people are
headed into eternity and somebody’s got
to reach them and we’ve got to
understand that God is not called
preachers and teachers only to reach the
loss but all of us have got to say God
give me a burden for those who are
perishing if we link all the people up
who do not know Jesus Christ and ask him
to join hands they would completely
circle the globe there’s so many who are
lost without God
the line grows 20 miles a day they slip
into eternity
one after another men and women boys and
girls gone into eternity without God if
all of the bursts could be stopped and
all of the deaths could be stopped and
we just went to work on those who are
here right now it would take us at the
rate that we’re winning them 100 years
to reach all of the people who are lost
and do not profess to know Jesus Christ
as their Savior
why because we’re not winning them like
we should I’m talking to good people I’m
talking to wonderful people I’m talking
to people who love Jesus but they never
attempt to lead anyone to Jesus Christ
because we operate under a false
philosophy that it’s the preachers job
that it happens on Sunday morning or it
happens through some evangelist on
television and the truth is there’s not
enough of us to reach that many people
God calls you to share your witness and
if you don’t hold them back from their
tune they will stumble to the slaughter
they will go that friend that relative
that dad that husband that brother that
sister they were taught her to the
slaughter and going to eternity without
God it’s everybody’s job it’s every
Christians job to be a minister the
startling reality of what I’m preaching
oughta move us it ought to stir us it
ought to bring us to our knees it oughta
burden us Church is not just about you
being blessed today but God wants to use
you he put people in your life that only
you can reach that only you can carry a
burden for that only you and your
testimony can break through the darkness
and we need to stop them to hold them
back from their doom you see if you
forbear the greatest crime in the world
is found in us in verse 11 he says if
you forbear
in other words if you see them tottering
to the slaughter and you don’t try to
hold them back
you don’t ever speak up you don’t ever
tell them what you know about Jesus and
His grace and His goodness
you don’t ever reach them and witness to
them if you don’t try to hold them back
from their doom we’re guilty of the
world’s greatest crime he said that
there would be people who had a message
of life they could hold people back from
their doom
they could stop them from stumbling to
the slaughter but they said hey I didn’t
know well you know now you’re listening
to an old-fashioned message right now
and I’m telling you that God wants to
use you God wants you to begin to share
your witness on the job share your
witness wherever you are tell people
boldly about Jesus Christ and leave the
results to the Holy Spirit but if you
plant the seed the harvest will come
Deuteronomy 32 and verse 22 said the
wicked go to the lowest hell job 26 and
verse 6 said that hell is a bottomless
pit Psalms 55 and verse 15 said that
when wicked people die instantly they go
to hell Isaiah 5 in verse 14 says hell
has enlarged itself and opened her mouth
wide to receive them Matthew chapter 7
jesus warned wide is the gate and broad
is the way that leads to destruction
listen and many there be that enter in
oh we’re just lulled to sleep and we’re
just watching people stumble to the
slaughter but Jesus didn’t he understood
why he came to save men women from being
lost and going to hell the Lord the Lord
is wanting us to understand what hell is
like in Isaiah 14 in verse 9 he said
hail from beneath is moved to meet thee
at thy coming when a new person stumbles
to the slaughter when they stumble into
eternity unprepared the Bible said
demon spirits awaken they’re so weak
they awaken those who are inhale and
they go to the gates of Hell and watch
the new people coming in I’ve often
wondered what would it be like hell from
beneath this moved to meet thee at thy
coming the scripture said it stir it up
the day you see it forces them maybe a
father led his child in the way that he
was living to drink and to be a drunkard
and and to live anymore life and when
that child comes to hell hell starers up
that relative and makes them watch maybe
you’re having influence on your little
brother your little sister maybe you’re
living life and you’ve said to yourself
that this is the time in my life I’ll
come to God later but right now I’m
going to live life I’m going to do what
I want to do there will come a day that
you could wake up in hell but not only
you but you will see those that you
influenced by the things that you did
can you imagine being a father can you
imagine being a friend can you imagine
being a brother or sister who influenced
someone in that lifestyle and watch them
enter into the same place you are even
the chief ones that goes on to say of
the earth the kings and princes and
presidents of Nations when they enter
into the gates of hell the inhabitants
say these words have you also become
weak as we I don’t care how powerful you
are I don’t care how wealthy you are I
don’t care how much money you have I
don’t care how educated you are the
wicked are turned into hell and they
stumble into the slaughter and even
princes even presidents even mighty
people that we see on the news every day
if they don’t bow their knee there come
a day when they will look so weak as
they enter in to that place money can’t
help your fame can’t help you
prestige can’t help you it’s impossible
to read about the life of Jesus and not
realize that he was moved with
compassion for the lost that’s why he
went and found the wealthy Zacchaeus
who
climbed up a tree and he said come down
from that tree for salvation has come to
your house today that’s why he won’t 36
miles to reach the woman of Samaria who
had been married five times and was
living with her lover unmarried shacking
up with her boyfriend and Jesus said
she’s worth saving I can’t let her
taught her to the slaughter I know she
has a past I know she has things that
are wrong and bad but I love her enough
that out of all of the people I’ll go
win that woman because she’s valuable to
me now I want to take you to the Book of
Ezekiel and I want to own a preach for a
few moments right here I want you to
open up that Bible if you don’t have it
fake it a man but but look in Ezekiel
chapter 3 I realize this is a sober
message I realize this isn’t a bless me
message I realize today that you
probably aren’t going to leave here just
feeling but sometimes we need the word
in the reality of why we’re here to hit
us hard and get us deep and for me this
verse touched my heart this week in
Ezekiel chapter 3 and verse 17 he said
son of man I have made you a watchman
for the house of Israel therefore hear a
word from my mouth and give them warning
from me I’ve come today to warn the
wicked I’ve come today to warn the
lukewarm Christian I’ve come today to
warn the men who are playing with sin
and the women who are playing and
compromising with sin I’m giving you
warning why why why should we give them
warning when you say to the wicked you
shall surely die and you give him no
warning nor speak to warn the wicked
from his wicked way to save his life
that same wicked man shall die in his
iniquity listen to this but his blood
will I require at your hand if you don’t
warn them do you understand
the greatest crime ever committed is the
crime to know what truth is and to have
a message of life that
you’ve been given directions from God to
save that life and you don’t warn them
because you don’t want to be pushy or
you don’t want to be taking wrong are
you you’re a little bit ashamed of the
gospel of Jesus Christ I am not ashamed
of the gospel of Jesus Christ it’s the
only thing that can fix America it’s the
only thing that can set the alcoholic
free it’s the only thing that can cause
the man who beats his wife to stop and
the man to be a daddy to his children
and the mother to their children it’s
the answer is the Bible and the Word of
God and he said warn them but notice
what he said if you don’t warn them
their blood will be on your hands yet
verse 19 if you warn the wicked and he
does not turn from his wickedness nor
from his wicked way he shall die in his
iniquity but you have delivered your
soul in other words you won’t have
bloody hands because this this verse
tells me that there will be people who
will stand before the throne of God on
Judgment Day and have bloody hands
because they were not on far enough bold
enough filled with the Holy Spirit
enough to be a witness when God said be
a witness in my message today to you is
he set Watchmen on the walls and if you
open your mouth and you warn them their
blood will not be on your hands even if
they don’t accept Christ if you warn
them their blood will be on their hands
but if you don’t warn them I’m going to
tell you something I’m gonna say
something bold preachers better get back
to this message because what we’re
preaching this feel-good stuff all the
time
there is a balance God wants us to have
joy and be blessed but that is not the
ultimate purpose of Christianity
Christianity is this God so loved the
world that He gave His only begotten
son that whosoever would believe on him
listen should not perish stumble to the
slaughter be doomed for eternity
inhale but that they should have ever
lasting life the Lord told me to
interrupt my regularly scheduled sermon
and bring a warning from the Lord that
slaughter it’s time to come home I’m
saying to every man you better get your
eyes sanctified you better get your
heart circumcised you better get your
ears anointed again I’m saying to every
woman I’m saying to every teenager
eternity is real and I’m warning you you
cannot keep going like you’re going
God is not mulk whatever a man shows
that shall he also reap and I’m just a
delivery boy
I don’t feel bloody hands anymore I felt
them coming in but I don’t have them
anymore
and if we say I didn’t know it well you
can’t say that anymore and God wants to
use you and if you’re a Christian you
need to get broken this morning you need
to say give me a burden for the log what
am i doing just getting up and going to
work every day do I not have a purpose
and a divine spiritual reason for being
on this earth you talk about a Purpose
Driven Life that’s a Purpose Driven Life
I deliver people from the toddler to the
slaughter that’s what I’m called to do I
don’t care if you’re a banker I don’t
care if you’re a doctor I don’t care if
you’re a lawyer I don’t care if you’re a
mechanic I don’t care if you work in a
factory the bottom line is God can use
you you are God’s weapon and if you in
one soul if you stop one soul if you
live your whole life 60 70 80 years and
you reach one person your life that’s at
eternal value
you have stopped someone from there dude
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and he’s calling you to carry that
burden don’t commit the greatest crime
ever known to man not being committed by
criminals but by Christians who are
ashamed ashamed to stand up when
everybody else is doing it you stand in
the middle of that mess because that
party is going to end that affair is
going to break up and they’re going to
be broken when they do god help there to
be somebody in their life that they’ll
know there’s a distinct difference in
you than all my other friends I don’t
want to be like the world I see
Christians compromise compromise
compromise compromise compromise living
just like the world getting drunk just
like the world party and just getting
divorces I don’t want to live like the
world I want to reach them and I can’t
reach them if I’m like them extending
your feet all over this room at every
campus just bow your heads and I need
intercessors right now at every campus
pastor pray for me I know I’m not right
with God I know I’m back slid I know I’m
cold my heart is I don’t I don’t even I
don’t even know why I came today I know
why you came the Holy Spirit is touching
you one more time that’s to pray for me
I need to get right with God today if
that’s you lift your hand high lift your
hand high hands are going up all over
this ring wonderful
every one of you that lifted your hand
look up here at me you’re gonna have to
trust me I won’t embarrass you 1
humiliate you nobody’s going to put you
on the spot but jesus said if you draw
near to me
he’s a motion-sensitive God just like
you got motion-sensitive lights you move
and it clicks and it moves if you move
God moves if you respond God responds if
you take action God has a reaction and
you raise your hand and the Spirit of
God stood at full attention now I’m
telling you to get out of that seat
where you’re standing I don’t care if
you’re on the top row of the balcony if
you’re in the overflow wherever you are
in every campus get out of that seat and
vault boldly because we can’t be ashamed
of the gospel Walt
boldly walk boldly and come down to the
front here they come here they come
Church pray pray pray pray pray pray
pray this could be your son this could
be your daughter this could be your
friend this could be your cousin this
could be your nephew come on they’re
coming they’re coming they’re coming
wherever you are and whatever campus get
out of that thing humble yourself he
won’t turn you away come on come on come
on I need somebody to agree with me that
no loss but look at this amazing amazing
amazing come on come on you’ve been
waking up at night
you’ve been waking up when the when the
sin was over when the party was over and
you hear a little boy in the middle of
the night saying what are you doing what
are you doing you’re stumbling to the
solder turn around turn around
get in the solder this morning get
broken fall at the cross come home come
on time is running out come on it’ll be
worth it all when we stand in eternity
someone else needs to come someone else
needs to come
those of you watching me by television
church I want you to stretch your hands
toward this prayer I’m about to pray
because I sense that there are many
watching by television when this
telecast goes forth you’re sitting there
in that bar you’re sitting there in that
hotel you’re sitting there in your home
or in your apartment and you know that
your loss
some of you raised in church but you’re
so far from God the Lord has sent me to
warn you time is running out it’s high
time to awaken those that are asleep
pray this prayer say Lord Jesus I give
you my life I surrender everything to
you I believe that you died on the cross
and you rose again on the third day you
did it for me you carry my sin you
carried my addiction you carried my
shame to that awful cross and because of
you I am forgiven I am loved I have
grace I have eternal life I’ll never go
to hell I have a home in heaven because
of Jesus
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