Anointed For the Future!

Are you ready for the word of the Lord? Hey man.

I was a little bit hesitant about preaching this and then you guys lo and behold you sing the songs that just outright confirmed? Hello. Okay, well, they're already in the flow of it so we might as well just go with it, but I've never had a message solely about the coming of the Lord. And last week, I was my pastor a task. We was at home, and he was like, hey, you're going to be home Sunday? I was like, yeah, he was like a would you be willing to preaching? I said, absolutely and hit already been preaching about the coming of the Lord and and never preached about your return. I've mentioned it. I've talked about it in moments of inspiration but I don't have a message that is solely geared towards it and lot of the times. It will just he'll say no I want you to preach this but on this particular time, God finally gave me the okay in the approval and got actually gave me something in the vein that I wanted to go in. And so this has been something that is been in my spirit, but haven't been able to get away from And I believe this is going to benefit you, not just now, but it's also going to posture you for what's to come. So if you have, your Bibles were going to go to the gospel of Matthew, the Gospel of Matthew chapter 25, in verse 1, Gospel of Matthew, chapter 25, Inverse number one. Again, it's such an honor to be here, my wife. And I and

It's nice when she comes in ministers and song it. She's dead. Peace, that makes our ministry whole. And so, I, I love her, and I'm grateful for her and is always, we love Pastor miles so very much and he's not just a friend but he's a voice in our life. And and that we've, I've always cherished. Not just his friendship, but his His influence in the spirit. And we love God and we love him. We love God. We love him very much and I love all of the Elders of this church. So very much, you mean a lot to this church and what this church represents so we give honor to all of you that are represented here. Amen. And up for all of those are not here. We love them and pray that God will bless them wherever they are but for you and I we're going to have a wonderful time in the Lord. And God is going to God, is going to steal this moment together. Gospel of Matthew, 25 and verse 1, say, Amen. If you're there. All right, here we go. And it says then shall the Kingdom of Heaven be likened unto ten virgins with took their lamps and went forth to meet the bride. Five of them were wise and five were foolish and they that were foolish. Took their lamps and took no oil with them verse for, but the wise took oil in their vessels with their lamps. What this means is that they took additional oil with them verse five, while the bridegroom tarried, they all slumbered and slept there everyone slap. First number 6, in at midnight, there was a cry. Me, behold the bridegroom coming? Go eat out to meet him. Now, for years, I read this and her people talk about this and say that the Midnight Cry is the rapture, but if you read the story, The Midnight Cry. It's not the Rapture. The Midnight Cry is simply a cry. That's made at midnight.

No, no. Deep theological. Do you know point to add to that except for just a Midnight Cry.

December 7th, and all those virgins are rose and trim their lamps verse number eight and the foolish that into the wise. Give us of your oil for our lamps are going out verse 9, but the wise answers, they not. So let's there. Be not enough for us and you but go here either to them that sell and buy for yourselves. And while they went to buy the bridegroom, came that is the rapture. And they, that were ready. Went in with him to the marriage and the door was shut. So, here's the question, we know when the door shut, but the question is, when does the door open?

That's the question. When does the door open? Because the significance of the door opens coincides with the need for the additional oil. Verse 11 afterward came also. The other virgin saying Lord Lord open to us verse 12. But he answered and said, verily, I say unto you, I know you not watch therefore for, you know, neither the day, nor the hour, wherein the son of man coming and then I'm going to stop right there and if you'll permit me, I would like to hear from this perspective anointed for the future. Anointed for the future. A man, would you put your Bibles down with you lift your hands, your voice is in your hearts into the Lord. And can we ask that God would be with us and that God would speak specifically to us? Father, we come to you right now. In the name of Jesus we have felt your presence so rich and so real, in this house, I asked, oh God that you will anoint me. Oh God, that I could be a pure Channel by which your anointing and your spirit can flow through help me to speak as an oracle of God. Help me to communicate your word to your people o God in such a way that we will all understand and grasp. The mystery that is laid out in this. Parable. Oh God, I take dominion and authority over every spirit with a human or demonic. That would oppose your word. That would oppose your will in this, our in Jesus name. And I pray that you would really that you would connect us to that. In time anointing that has been reserved for the future. Oh God, let this church. Be a recipient of it. Oh God. Let them tap into it or God and help them to be posture for tomorrow for what you were doing in Jesus name. Everyone said in Jesus name, Amen, you may be seated in the name of the Lord. Anointed for the future. I know I didn't grow up in church and you've heard me preach enough to understand that my background, but I didn't grow up in church. I grew up around church and when I say I grew up around Church, my background of church was not from a Pentecostal Apostolic perspective, but I grew up in a Southern Baptist perspective, which in some ways can be closely related to Pentecost, or at least from what I'm used to experiencing, I grew up in the time where, you know, it was not uncut. It was not taboo for people to run the aisles and two and a shout. I remember my aunt's and the big old hats that the woman's women wore in the South that man they would. When they've got the Feelin the spirit they would come unglued out of those pews at and in them women would shake and juking job in the island and in the feathers on the hats will be going up in. And you're just like, oh my Lord. Can she see with that hat on?

So that's what I was used to very in some aspects. It was very similar to two to Pentecost. What I'm used to now. And so, you know, my family we didn't go to church often we were the people that went to church the two times out of out of the year that really mattered and that was Easter and Christmas.

Even though Easter's seem to be more of a fashion show than it was about the resurrection of Jesus. I can tell you stories of of my uncles in the end, the red and the blue in the purple and lime green suits that they had sitting in the closet weight and specifically for Easter. And my aunt is in the special dresses that they wore in the preparation in the all of just the the bright colors that came out on Easter. And man, it was just, you know, everyone showed up to see what people were going to wear. But what really stood out to me and what really captivated me as a young child was the time that my aunts and uncles would get together and they would talk about the return of Jesus.

And whenever they talked about the return of the Lord, it was always. It was always from the perspective of this ominous just Doom and Gloom situation. And after every conversation and discussion about the return of the Lord, man, you want the ways just so paranoid. And just, so fearful and you didn't know if you were going to make it and I lived in the south at the time. And so there was a lot of Storms and because they talked to the scripture says he's coming back in the clouds. If so every time I would see this car Roland from the East and coming in and my God, I thought Jesus was coming and I'm never going to make it. Always live with this fear of not making the Rapture. And so funny. When I first preached isn't that me? And my wife, we talked about it afterwards if she was like, you know, I never really grew up with that. Feeling of a feeling that way about the Lord's return because it was from her perspective. She was never taught that way, but but my introduction into Chris and dump what's the fact that Jesus is going to come back and and always had this fear that I would never make it. That was never, I was never going to be right, and I was doomed to miss this important event on God calendar.

And it just seemed to hurt me and it just seemed to be something that always followed me even until I got into the church and I was filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost and I was baptized in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of my sins. Whenever I failed, I always had this looming feeling that was always way on me that somehow the Lord was going to come and I was going to miss it to the point that I went to an Extreme Measures that when I send there were certain criteria that I had to make sure that Jesus didn't come back. And one of them was this is that whenever I see and I would it legally go in prayer and I would repent and if I spoke in tongues, I knew God had to come back because there was no way that I can talk in tongues and Jesus came.

That was criteria. Number one. and the second criteria was, you know, just a little bit more. Iffy. That one was. Well I'll check somebody in the church. Well problem with that is you have a 50-50 chance depending on who you text. How to make sure that I text someone that was a little bit more credible.

It's okay to laugh in church is fine. I meant I would text my pastor and there were times where he was like an hour or two hours before he would text me back in my God I would do in full-blown panic mode and I'm like I missed it. It's over it's over. I might as well just you know just be a sinner and just do my own thing because Jesus came back and the text will come through and I did not miss the rapture.

But the truth is, is that we don't hear a whole lot of preaching about the Lord's return anymore. It's not talked about a whole lot anymore. Sometimes, it's mention and sometimes we sing the song that we were blessed this morning to get to hear the wonderful songs about the return of the Lord. But so much of our songs anymore have drifted away from that, from that, glorious that glorious day that we're all looking for forward to. And I believe, the reason that we're not hearing it anymore is because a lot of the times, when the, when the, when it was talked about, it was put in the context of which God never designed it to be, and it was always couch with a lot of fear and intimidation and manipulation. And it was always designed as a tactic and a tool tip to scare and motivate people to get into an altar to make a decision. But here's the truth of the matter is that you may get people to come to church into an altar out of fear, but you and I cannot serve God long-term on fear. What makes us so it would help us to stay in this thing for the long-term. It's not fear but it is love. And so when God talk about his return, he put it into the context of the story because God wanted us to understand that this was his perspective and his narrative about his soon. His soon return, was that it was put into the context of a love relationship.

I've met a lot of people that have come to God out of fear. I'm only staying for a short amount of time.

When I was, when I was growing up, I remember, I remember when how many people remember Y2K? I was just a young child when when all of that took place but I remember the fear and the Panic that that that seemed to touch my community and I was in living in Mobile Alabama at the time and there was such this since we don't know what the New Millennium is going to bring and everyone was so fearful that the computers are going to crash the stock market was going to crash. If God was going to come back and I remember, man, those southern baptist churches was so full of people, but then after watch UK came, we didn't really skip a beat. I don't think there was a light bulb that was blown. Everyone after that, just went back to doing what they were doing before the fear and the Panic ever came.

Thank you so much. I was getting ready to go there about 9:11. I remember I was in 5th grade. And I remember just how I just how I manage that was two to know that this country that was so secure that we thought was so secure and safe, finally was was being penetrated by by terrorists and to think that someone would crash a plane into a building and it for the moment. It just seemed like the world was turned upside down or at least America. And when I came into the church, I remember Elders talking about when all of that happened at Church's seem to boom and people just flopped into the churches, but then after a few months of all of that, just dissipating people just stopped coming to church. Why? Because fear will get you here but Phil will not kick you here. Fear me get you here but the one that keeps you here is love, you got to discover the love of God, that is the only measure and the only way that you stay in this for a long time.

Think about all of these precious Elders that we have in here today. They're not just in here or they don't just show up to church every time the doors are open because they're afraid or they're fearful, you know why they do it? Because they discovered, I love relationship with God. That is unending. That is undying that never fails.

But every time I've heard it preach, it was always with this sense of this, it was almost like a manipulation to get someone into the altar. But after the preacher has used his tool. To get someone into the altar. What holds them there during the week? What keeps them committed in tough times?

I'm so but when you look at the early church for what it was that early church, had a whole different perspective, in a mentality about the coming of the Lord than what we do. They had what I call a Rapture Ready Doctrine They live with this anticipation that Jesus was going to come so much, so that Paul embedded it into the text. as a code word he says if any man love not the Lord, let him be anathema and then he says Maranatha Anathema means let him be. Accursed if any man love, not the Lord. Let him be accursed or let him not be. Joined to the fellowship. and then he sealed it with this phrase, Maranatha, which means even so Lord, come hey, when greeting each other and we say, will praise the Lord. How are you doing? But in the early church, it was so different. They use this word Maranatha when they were being persecuted by Nero and they were being, they were being tortured at the state and killed in the coliseum's. They had a word that they used to make sure that whoever they were coming in contact with what's legitimate and true and real love and sold. If you showed up to someone's house and they knocked at the door, one person would go to the door. And they were saying, Marano and the other person if they were true and if they were in the fellowship hall, they would say I talk and it means it means Maranatha Maranatha. Even so Lord, and they had this anticipation that when we greeted each other, it was just say that Jesus is coming soon, Jesus is coming soon.

They lived with the anticipation that Jesus was going to come back.

This is what Paul would write to the Thessalonians and he was saying, we don't sorrow as other people sorrow which have no hope and what he was talking about was the return of the Lord. He said, we know that that that, that day is going to come. And he said, we're not soleful when people died in the Lord because we understand that. Once they cross over there, they're going to a much better place.

Apostolic Church when we have funerals. It's not so much to mourn, but it's more so of a celebration that someone is crossing over to inherit their promise where is the same anticipation?

I'm expecting him coming back and we're looking for that glorious moment. You know what happens, we're so caught up in everything that is happening at covid-19. And my God, that is, this whole pandemic has has has has somehow distorted our Viewpoint in. And we're looking at this, from a whole different perspective. And yes, I understand, we lost men and women of God in this pandemic. But hear me, if you were to hear their Fon, eternity, you would not hear them saying you should walk around in fear or you should be paying it or you should mourn. The fact that we going on its appointed unto men once to die. And then after that the Judgment you've got to understand that if it was God is in control and God chose to take them know because it's their appointment. I don't attach told me to give me carpet more Glory than God.

the fact that there's going to be with the Lord,

Echo back to us would be so different than how we're, how we're taking it in. Because there's still a responsibility for the church to do. We still have to reach the world. Absolutely, our means and methods Mike might change. According to what's happening and we might have to make some adjustments, but it doesn't mean that somehow we live, and we live in panic and we don't move forward, we've got to move forward. But yet, what I'm trying to say is, yes, in all of the perplexity of the America and the uncertainty about who's going to get voted in, in the white house, we have got to keep the main thing the main thing which is more knock-knock jokes, don't let what is happening currently distort your view of what will ultimately hoping to be a part of it once it is all said and done, is that one day I want to be with you and talk to me for one another with these words. Can my dog eat the comfort you in the middle of my friend Jamaica in the middle of a home?

Are you looking forward to that moment?

Whole, I want to see him look upon his face there to sing forever of your Saving Grace on the streets of Glory. Let me lift my voice tears, all pass home at last ever to Rejoice. What is the song? What is, what is a map for its to remind us? That there is a better day? That is ahead of us. There is something worse to look forward to.

I remember all those him songs, we used to sing, you just just the wonderfulness of it. The the joy that was connected to those old hens and talking about the Lord's coming. Looking forward to it. There was a point in my relationship with God, where the fear broke, and I started anticipating what it was going to be like, to be with him so much, that it affected my dreams. I've had dreams where I was flying through the air, and I was getting ready to go up into the clouds. Something poking me, and it just took over the fear and I started looking forward to it. So, you know, how we get through the trouble and the pandemic.

Jesus, on the hills of Matthew 24, he's talking about the end of the age and he's talking about the prophetic, and he's giving them all of the signs of what his coming was going to be like she if he gives them all of that. And he disconnects himself from the conversation, then they're left with all of this fear and Stress and Anxiety. But you know what? Jesus Does. He connects all of them to a love story? So that we don't miss what this thing is all about.

He says in the Kingdom of Heaven shall be likened unto Tim. Burton's know, when I read this, there was a whole lot of confusion that I had because the way we have marriages in our western side of the world is little bit different than what the eastern part of the world does. So the Kingdom of Heaven is like a nun to ten virgins. I'm like, this doesn't make any sense here. I thought I thought we just trying to have just one bride. Why is there 10 here?

you know, I think one is good enough for, you know, let alone nine more, you know,

And it took a took a little bit of digging for me to understand what the text is talking about. And I have to get out of my Western. Way of thinking about the text and I have to go back to the culture and I have to understand what the cultures, what the cultures represented. And what I understood was this is that what Jesus is talking about is that he's talking about the scriptures, talking about ten virgins, these are not the bride. What these are are they are the representatives of the Bride. It would be within the same context of a bride, having bridesmaids, except for the responsibility is a little bit different.

These ten virgins. They represent the bride. Is that make sense? Okay. But what does that really mean? Let's break this down. so, The bride is too big to be represented, like, you can't fit the entire bride of Christ inside of this building because the bride of Christ, it's not just comprised of the same that are apart of this. Dispensation but the bride of Christ is composed of all of the saints of God from every dispensation That's the bride of Christ. So you have what I call the bride of Christ which is when I just explain. But then you have also the global Church which is not just a church that is represented here in Roseburg and it's not just the churches that are represented in Oregon but you have the global churches which are represented around the entire world

but then you have your local church. And this is what it means, as the representatives of the bride, and it breaks down to the local church setting. And even more. So, to an individual basis, it's you and I being able to correctly represent what the bride of Christ should look. Like someone said, you may be the only church that someone ever sees and if you're the only person has someone ever sees what perspective will they get if they look at your life.

I'm so when Jesus is giving this Parable, what a parable is an Earthly story with the Heavenly meaning attached to it. He takes something that you and I understand and he attaches a spiritual significance to it. Why? So that we don't lose the principal and we don't forget about it. Once we walk out the door,

Some Kingdom of Heaven is likened unto ten virgins, which are the representatives of the Bride.

No, this flows within the context of a marriage and how a marriage is carried out in the Eastern culture because what you have to understand, is this, is that when a husband, or when a man found a woman because the Tuesday, that's the proper way. He that finds a wife finds a good thing. there might be some exceptions to the story, but

But the Jews really stress? The importance of the male, finding his bride because from their perspective, when they go to find their bride, it's them trying to find the missing rib that was taken out of, man. That's what the Jews attributed to I'm. So when a man was interested in a, in a young lady, what would happen if he would go to her house and he would enact engagement and he would start the process of Engagement with her and this is all occurs at her house. So, when he's engaging in the engagement part or when he's starting it off, the woman is in the control in this part of the of The Narrative of the, the whole process.

So he has to go to her house along with, with his parents and what ends up happening is they end up sitting down and the parents and, and this young man and his parents and they all come, they they, they put together a covenant, a contract and they all signed the contract and there's a rabbi there that is endorsing the whole entire situation and one stuff. That the Covenant has been signed and sealed. And what would happen if it was stand up from the table and the end of the man, in the woman would hold hands and the rabbi, he would take a ribbon, a special ribbon tied around their hands, and he would, he would invoke a blessing upon them. And at that moment, they are legally bound to each other.

In this culture to break an engagement would be the same. What would be the same process of starting a divorce?

In our culture. If you break an engagement, there's no legal ramifications that are involved in that. You might have to, you know, send back some flowers and redo some invitations, and make some phone calls and say, hey, this is not going to go through excetera excetera excetera. But in this culture, there were legal, there were legal aspects to Breaking an engagement. This is why Joseph could take Mary his espoused wife with him to Bethlehem, and no one looked at it hard, or no one looked at them from a, from a skewed perspective. It's because in that culture, she was legally married to him. Now, in our Western culture, if you get engaged and you happen to go out of the, you know, make a long trip somewhere, people will look at you, kind of weird and especially in the church. Yeah, you know? And so from our perspective is looked at from a whole different point of view, but in their culture is not. So, I'm so after the engagement, and after that, the blessing, and after all of that wonderful celebration in the home of the engagement process, The emphasis shifts from the woman being in control to now, the man being in control. And he and his responsibilities was after that point, it was his responsibility to go back to his place and to secure a place for his bride. Theme song when they're standing there. And they have all of this excitement, the rush of the other that, you know, the adrenaline that is shooting through them. And all of this spectacle, I know what that's like. And all the 50 text messages and Facebook messages of how this is so awesome in the Selfies, are all of this wonderful stuff in my wife is a queen of selfies. So after all that wonderful stuff.

Sweet. He looked at her and says I have to go away and she says to him, when are you coming back? I don't know how long is it going to be? I don't know what the way that he knows that she loves him. Is that she is filled with anticipation and she is waiting on his return. He is anticipating the fact that he is Sunday going to come and take me away. This is why Jesus, when shaving he says, let not your heart be troubled, you believe in God. You believe also in me in my father's house has many mansions. I would have told you that he said, I do to prepare a place for you that while I am there, ye may be also Are you starting to see the pieces of the puzzle that fits together?

That when Jesus came. He wasn't just looking for a group of people. He was looking for.

A bride, a bride to marry. Why would you why would we date cheese? when we could be engaged and anticipating marriage, If you date someone hits, you know, when I got time for you out, you know, I'll show up and when it's convenient, I'll be there. But my god when you are engaged, you are anticipating that. I can't wait to be with them. Again. This is why we come to the house of God which is why we don't miss out on being here because we're all connected together and it's the local representative of the Bride. This is a group of people that have been part of the engagement letter saying we can't wait. We can't wait for the lover.

This is why we play. This is why we passed. This is why we do all of the things we do. Because it's living with anticipation someday, I'm going to get to be with him where he is.

When did all of this start? The legal aspect of a ball of this. Number one fruit for the entirety start on the day of Pentecost, on the dead Pentecost is when the legal aspects, Of this thing started.

On a more individual level, it's when you receive the gift of the Holy Ghost because there's Paul would put it, you receive the earnest of your inheritance or a down payment of what is the company that installed the spirit of God on the inside? It's just him saying this is just a little aspect of my love that I have for you is a little bit, just a little bit of it so that you live with anticipation of what is going to be when it's all fully, she old and set in stone. I think about it when Jesus did his first miracle, where did it happen? I do wedding at the wedding Feast, not the wedding ceremony, but at the wedding Feast it's where the bride and the groom are sitting with their guests. And they're celebrating the culmination of what this is all about Esther and Jesus is there at the marriage of Cana. And he's sitting there with this cold and he's imagining where he's sitting there with all of us look like

so, when his mother comes to him and says, Jesus, they run out of wine. He sent to her woman. My hour is not yet, come, what he was saying is it's not my time to get married yet.

Oh my Lord. It was looking forward. Screaming about it.

Woman hour is not yet come. Because it was the groom's responsibility to make sure there was enough wine for all of the guests to be serviced and furnished. He said it's not my hour to make sure all of this. I'm just daydreaming about it. I was just thinking about it. My hour is not yet come. It's not relegated to the fact that about miracles, because what 5? Or 10 minutes later he performed the miracle, he turned water into wine. So the reference was not to him, not doing Miracles. He was thinking about something else.

So what would happen to his once the bride groom leaves the bride's house, he goes for an undisclosed. Of time to get to get things set in motion. And what the representatives of the bride was supposed to do was to wait outside of the house and dissipate his return so that the bride does not miss the moment. because all of this happened late in the evening, the bridegroom, the bridegroom was not set to return customarily until midnight. So all of those Brides, Brides brides representatives of the Bride were there and they all were anticipating the moment of the engagement.

And some of them, this is where the story starts to shift now and the emphasis in the focus shifts off from the bridegroom. And now the emphasis ships to the representatives of the bride, and the story makes a distinction. Five of them were wise and five were foolish. What makes them wise and what makes them foolish? It's the fact that five of them had oil in the lips but they did not have additional oil with them and then the other ones that were why they were smart enough to realize, we don't know how long he's going to be gone. So we have to have enough oil to make sure that we're not caught in the night time without enough light, to see our way to me and to greet the bridegroom.

So here it is. There is oil in your lamps, to get you to the engagement but then you need a oil to get you to meet the bridegroom. When we first were filled with the gift of the Holy Ghost, we were filling up with oil to get us to the end times or they get up to a certain point. But you cannot remain in try to serve God on oil. That is about to run out you and I have got to make sure that we are intentional and we are prepared and we have to do our journey. Because when the dead Pentecost took place that the Apostle start Jesus was going to come quicker than what they thought. And here we are some two thousand years later. It's been a much longer Journey than what we anticipated. How much longer is it? We talk about the end Days. Inn days. What when does the end days? And we don't know, So to anticipate that this race is going to be run like the Tortoise and the Hare. You have to prepare not for the immediate, but for the Long Haul.

This is why Jesus said, run this race with patience.

God spoke to me years ago. Someone got her to introduce me and they did a wonderful job and God quickly pop My Bubble. He says son is not how you start. It's how you finish. And he just absolutely floored me. He said, I don't care about how you started. He said I'm concerned about how you finish the race and I determined from that point forward that I would end. My walk of Faith with God is greater than how it started. I started putting out the gate, but maybe I didn't come this far to lose, even the race or something, so that I can finish it when I started.

What you lift your hands to the Lord, just for a moment.

There's so much in this. I'm trying my best to move quickly through this. Try my best move quickly through this.

Fiberwise, fiber foolish at some point. The bridegroom leaves. The Bible says the bridegroom. They all slumbered, and slept there was a period of dormancy. Every one of the virgins, all fell asleep. A couple weeks ago. Spoke to me. He said, we are at the tail end of this. Of dormancy. There's a wake-up call that is being echoed in the spirit to the church to wake up. Wake up, wake up.

the Bible says, end at midnight, there was a car that came behold the bridegroom coming to meet him, notice the call goes out. But no one is a community. Here is the car except for the virgins.

And this town that is echoing throughout the world. It's not heard by the entire world. It's only heard by the church.

I believe my opinion is this. The Rapture is not going to come when they're televising it on the TV screens and it's blowing everywhere so that everybody knows. This is going to be a private deal between the bride and the bridegroom.

The Midnight Cry was a wake-up call to get them awoke To get them. Ready for what is about to happen. What do you think is happening right now?

The church has to be woke up but the world has to be Shook Up. So while the world is being struck with the elections and this pandemic simultaneously God is trying to wake up the church and to say I need you to be alert and to be active so that you have the stage at the End of the Age.

But if we're caught up. In the same drama and the same uncertainty after work has the world is it's an indicator to us that we might not have enough oil in our lamp.

If you're looking back to the past and you're saying, I wish it was like it was 10 years ago. Is it? You could be a foolish virgin if you think everything is fine and okay with the world as it is you might be a foolish version but a wise version understands that we were made for this moment and even in the face of a pandemic, we can still reach the wall, we can still type people through to the holy ghost that people can still get healed up. There are so many people that are walking around with questions even in the church and I'm going to where I knew it did for this moment, to anointed for this. What do you mean? You don't know what God is doing? In the question, I have is not who's going to be elected into the next Oval Office? Who's going to be the next vice president? Who's going to be the next to last legislative or judicial? Is the church hearing something.

God knows me the other day. He said, I'm not worried about who gets voted in as a president. He said, regardless of who gets voted in my, will it be accomplished?

And we're sitting here, fighting. Is a political over political opinions, and aspects of Facebook is a rack of people that are Republicans and Democrats or republican or democrat. Who do I got to meet him someday? If we are, anticipating the return, the prize room,

I know some people that we want Trump. Great. You can want Trump or I want Biden it. I won't bother. You know who I want? I want Jesus. I want you to just anybody want to

Can we lift our hands to the Lord just for a moment?

The church is in trouble. If we think, the only way we can change the world is to vote another person into the office. Because the church, and I read about in the book of Acts did not concern themselves about who they were going to vote in to be the next king magistrate. You know what they did. They got on their knees and got on their face before and they have a problem, eating it change things.

I feel that we've become so political, we've lost our influence. Told us to talk about anymore. Collection, collection, collection, election election. Unless, you know, that means we're still sleep. Still sleep. We still sleep and what God is doing, trying to make the church up. Cuz there's there's a bigger War then who gets voted in there, we're wrestling and fighting against principalities and Powers. There are things that are happening in The Invisible, that God is trying to connect this to so that we can pray things and shift things. Behold going out to meet the bridegroom. The wise got up with the foolish, they trimmed their lamps, the fullest looked at the wise and say, oh my God, my lamp is almost done now, delete your oil. Give me your in the wife said you trippin, I'm not giving you my oil if I give you my oil. Then that means I won't have enough to go greet the bridegroom as he's coming but what they say, go and buy from them that sell. Know what this means, you're going to have to pay the price to have the anointing.

You have to pay the price. When I was, when I was first starting off, man, the young people, debated, whether or not we should pray all night prayer meetings, or we should fast, you know, a day or two and is it really need phones that we have the gifts of the Spirit doesn't really matter, you know, because when everything is going calm, all of those spiritual things aren't really needed, but it's in these moments of darkness. When people are looking for someone have light, there's a huge. The leadership vacuum in this world and people do not trust the government and what God is trying to show us is that this is our Prime moment for us to stand on the stage of the world. I'm going to be able to provide answers. The people that have a whole lot of questions.

Do all of this boils down to is what side of the coin. Do you want to be on? Do you want to be a part of that group? That is a part of that that is holding that extra oil? That is reserved for the end time and you have enough light to see in the Darkness

Are you going to be the one that's walking around sister Gibbons? I don't know what God is saying. Can you pray for me? Sometimes I when people come like, I've got enough problems to pray for for my own self in my own household, let alone keep more people onto our prayer list and I'm not trying to be disrespectful or mean. But what I'm trying to say is this is you're going to have to pay the price to be able to get in prayer and to hear something from God and thinking answers.

An elder told me this years ago, he said you were going to either play now and pay later or you're going to pay now and play later. I made up in my mind that I would rather pay now and pay later then rather than just so I'm Paul and miss out on what God is doing.

The midnight cries when the door came open. The Midnight Cry. Is one that is one that additional oil became significant. We are living in that moment. Where is Paramount that we have anointing. Because it's the anointing. That destroys the yolks and it's the anointing that helps us to have answers at the anointing that helps us to walk down from the Mountaintop after being exposed to a degree of Jesus that we've never seen to be able to look at a demonic spirit that has a masculine and feminine face and to also to be able to deal with a global pandemic. How do we deal with that on a natural level? You put you and I do not have answers to put on a spiritual level, we can get answers from God. So why the foolish went off to go? Get some water and why they have to go get the oil? The bridegroom came. and when the wise went out to meet him, And they all went into the house and the door was shut. Who is came knocking at the door. Lord, Lord, open to us, open to us. He said. Barely barely. I sent you. I know you not. Who are you? You weren't anticipating my my return you weren't you weren't looking for me there for more than we watch the news to see, who's going to, get voted more than we watch to see how, how much is pandemic is moving. And it is, but at the same time, we have got to have a consistent focus on what God is doing.