The End
by Raymond Sloan
July 9, 2023 · Cornerstone Apostolic Church (Chattanooga, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Matthew 19:16-22, Matthew 20:1-16

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it's six after one I've got two hours to go turn to your neighbor and say it's going to get good you can sit down if you feel like you need to again to Our Guest we're so honored you've come today those watching online we're glad you're here today with us worshiping the Lord don't forget go to the app all the announcements all the cool things going on you need to to stay up to date with Daddy man here we are 2023. somebody say 2023. come on say it again 2023. I know I wax eloquently as I get older but I just have to say that I I think things change every day I I wasn't sure if we'd get here huh I I mean again as I get older I go backwards I remember vividly at 15 years old saying Lord let's let me get my driver's license yeah and my parents prayed harder and so the Lord kept his hand on me but anyway um and then I Lord just let me get married I'd like to marry somebody that'll love you in case I mess up you know I'm saying that they're not on that let's see what the Lord does and then Lord is so good she prayed the same prayer so I it's okay um times in this current culture I speak a lot about that because I feel like that I could spend a lot I can and I do myself spend a lot of time in history and I'd like to go and there's nothing more thrilling in my in my walk with God than to go to the pentateuch or the Torah and to figure out why in the world did he say it that way and what does it mean you know I love that stuff and then I get to apply it to New Testament stuff and then I just okay everybody okay we're still good I never thought that we would we would see coffee at five dollars a cup five dollars a cup huh anybody can you afford McDonald's anymore I think it's twelve dollars to go to McDonald's now just for the good stuff if you don't eat the bad stuff at McDonald's we already know what it's bad stuff right okay so I have to qualify by saying well I'll order from the top row that way I can a good lunch now is 12 bucks about anywhere is that true 15. good suppers 20 to 25. fuel now is three dollars or something a gallon a lot of places clothes are expensive it's just amazing to me a car today if you bought a new car it costs more than the house my wife and I bought we first married that's just amazing we can go on and on and on we talk about talk about here we are and 20 years ago 25 10 years ago things were a little different I do believe that every generation has its challenges and its pluses and minuses anybody understand I dare say that that our great grandparents probably thought they're spending three cents on coffee it's just crazy but the funny thing about it the interesting thing about this is that every coffee shop is full every restaurant there's a line to get in most of them you notice that especially if they're good ones if you need supplies for a project or a Home Project you're working on you're going to have to be you have to wait or you have to be very selective in what you buy you know I did a job the other day the guy ran to the store to get a two by six and come in he said it's not the best quality I'm like now why'd you buy it so it's the only thing that they had and you're cutting it up into two foot strip so nobody will care that it does this right well did you get it cheaper no it was twice the money anyway land houses I mean stuff it's just things are different y'all with me everybody okay it seems as if the two ends are trying to meet and you're trying to make ends meet but yet there's there seems to be two controversies there's there's the financial there's things going on in the world and and folk are struggling and and at my two dollars and ninety cents an hour for my first job that I had today it's not it doesn't even if you don't make 20 bucks an hour you're you're looking for the I mean you know I'm saying things have changed it's hard to explain imagine somebody here anybody here you don't have to confess but it might be good for your soul um is anybody here buy that five dollar cup coffee come on Revival is about to break out huh I I say I I that's just coffee I don't like the fruit food drinks that I can't explain I can't if it's a massive and I tried to Walla Walla was to stick a path of thumb I'm the guy's looking at me I have no idea what I just ordered I refuse to go buy coffee for my daughter now she's dead I need a white flat cup of namahana baby you text it to me and I'll do the best I can here that's what I mean listen to me imagine trying to explain that to your grandmother hey Granny you want a cup of coffee that's right over in the pot and I'm gonna buy you one you're gonna spend how much yeah you this is interesting y'all stay with Pastor today hang on to me a moment it's 12 after I've taken six minutes so far listen to me it's amazing in our culture and in our world have to see how things have changed not only does a five cent cup of coffee now cost five bucks but you got to tip the guy now everybody's like oh I don't make unless you're the guy getting tipped come on you know how it is it's a two-way there right the guy working behind the counter gets 18 bucks an hour but he's gonna flip the screen around and it says do you want a tip listen to it 15 20 or 25 now and I'm like what did it jump to 25. and you want to ask what am I getting for this but you don't want to insult them so what do you do click no click what if you were the one behind the counter you'd be going listen there was a time that you tip somebody for the extra work they did and now again I'm not getting sidetracked today I got a purpose here a tip was not expected it was simply hoped for that your job that your actions and your activities merited favor and somebody would say you know what you did a good job here you know now of course there are YouTube channels that's got these guys going out giving thousand dollar tips to people and everybody that works in a restaurant prays for that person to come am I right listen to me listen to me things have changed 1914 a vehicle A car costs 500 dollars a house to live in average price in 1914 was thirty five hundred dollars a gallon of milk was a whole whopping 32 cents a loaf of bread was an incredibly large amount of six cents and a gallon of fuel 12 cents anybody understand where we are today yeah listen two a night in 19 and 12 a railroad worker made six hundred dollars in a year railroad worker 2012 they made forty seven thousand hey in 1912 Lauren the teacher made 500 a year huh 2012 the average was 45k all right I'm gonna get close to home with y'all preacher 1912 made a 500 to a thousand dollars a year depending on if he was in the county or in the city and today it's still 500 to it and I'm joking today the average is about 48k across the board listen to me I'm I'm looking at these numbers and how the last 100 years things have changed inflation of course we understand that cost of living cost of goods goes up all of those things in life simply brings an increase in what you look for in an increase in how you respond to what you're looking for it's not always equal but it happens all across the board now that I've established with you a basic understanding of the times and how they are a changing we can see that the supply and the demand does change the outcome of the market now I'm not an economist I don't understand a lot of economy type things I do know this if I've got a 20 in my pocket I can spend 20. somebody say there's a novel idea but the fact of the matter is is that speed people will spend their money on what they want is that true it shows up in life that way it's the old incredible thing you know they'll drive a a two hundred thousand dollar car and living a fifty dollar home for an example it doesn't make sense they spend their money on what they want is that right we learn that if you are happy and satisfied with life it will only be that way when you feel content about what you have your possessions will make you happy you don't believe it next Saturday get in your car and drive around and you'll see yard sales everywhere you do know what they're selling the stuff that didn't make them happy and they're hoping that you'll decide that you need it to be happy and so you'll buy that stuff I I know today in our culture and in our world that basically the way Society Works in 2023 is that as workers as as employees if you will as business owners and people that work in the economy basically people are always basically looking for The Next Step Up they don't take a job like our grandfathers did and they worked at it for 40 or 50 years until they retired now it's I'll take this job and most likely within the next 12 to 24 months I'll find something better and I'll go up what's the better because I have seen people come into the family of God and I have noticed that they didn't have a job or they had a real terrible job or they didn't like it and they began to pray and God opened doors and they stepped up and God Made A Way for their blessings to come to their life anybody identify God's been good to you but I've seen people that were without a job and didn't have a real good home didn't have stuff didn't have money in their pocket to come into the presence of God and God to bless them to the position to where they were better than they were they had more than they ever had their life was good but they forgot God is the one who provided it come on in life say with me in life if you can make more money you can live a better life and you can have more things only to find out the things do not make you happy but people hope people want I want to share with you today a concept that if it's true in the world's economy folk are looking for stuff to have to make themselves happy to make them feel significant like they have arrived at a level why doesn't that same concept play out in the spirit world if our grandparents and great-grandparents who established the apostolic faith if they had an incredible walk with God everybody in this room I could ask you right now what did they do to get that explosion of Revival in the day in which they lived did they live the same type of lifestyle that you and I lived today I don't know y'all know my testimony most of you do you've heard it I've talked about it my grandparents and how that they helped establish a little Oneness church over in Middle Tennessee my granny got the revelation of the Oneness of God she paid her tithes into a mason jar in the corner because they didn't have a church at the time she believed in Jesus name baptism before there was in her City on and on and finally when she found somebody putting up a tent down on Battle Avenue somebody said granny or lily you need to go check out she walks up to the preacher pounding the stakes in the ground with his tie on and his white dress shirt and she said excuse me sir you hear that he said yeah I'm here to do a Tent Revival she said do you baptize this way and he says yes ma'am that's the only way Jesus name she simply says to him baptize me they said excuse me I saw this a long time ago I've been waiting on you that was my little granny she's also the one that decided with her tithe money that she put in a jar and put it on the shelf that she didn't have a church to go through so go to so she had my grandfather build her a prayer room behind the house Paul take this money and go build a prayer room I need a place I can go get with god listen to me see there's a lot of us today we want that after but we don't want that before what if our grandparents were here today listen to me those who the Peters let's go all the way back to biblical days what if those guys still walked in shoe leather what would be their testimony to today's culture I wonder sometimes parents for an example now you're very pleased you're very excited when your child makes straight straight A's on the report card but if that same child wants to participate in church events you kind of say we don't have time or we got to cut it short as parents I believe that we want the best for our children somebody do this but I believe that as much as I want children to receive Straight A's in school I would much rather them to receive a smitten in the Holy Ghost in an altar all night long praying in tongues I'm just telling you with God's math we simply do not understand it because it does not make economic sense let me give you an example you get a hundred percent of your paycheck after they've received and they have gently taken out all their percentages and you decide with this money that's left over I will pay my tithe unto the work of God because it's biblical you take your 10 cents I'm sorry 10 percent and you give it unto the Lord you ask no questions you declare it unto God this is yours and that tithe money now goes into the kingdom anybody understand and then the concept is is God will take the 90 and he will say now what are you going to do and you decide I will then give offerings whatever that percentage or whatever that amount is and then you're left with your 85 whatever percent and you're sitting there with less money in your hand but God begins to bless you and multiply does anybody understand God's math I don't but I know that it works y'all with me stay hang on to me a minute when it comes to the things of God spiritually speaking we have to understand God does things in his way he does things the way he wants to do them when it comes to the blessings of God we want for God to bless but sometimes we don't always agree with how he's doing it come on if you had a physical need in your body right now you would fully expect God could heal you amen come on somebody and apparently you've never been healed because I have been and I wanted God to touch my body and my mind I needed that but you know what I had to learn is sometimes I had to step out and give a little extra of time talent and treasure and then back here it would get paid I didn't do this expecting God to heal me I simply did this because it was the right thing to do and in the process of living God did a miracle in my life you understand what that means does it make sense no it's the way God works when we understand the blessings of God therein lies the issues we expect our math and our timing to equal gods but it never works that way God simply does what he does on his time clock what does that mean Pastor that means right now you have been loving the Lord you have been worshiping the Lord you have been Desiring God to move in your life and some of you have cried tears today you have left for Joy you have rejoiced in the Lord but yet you still have issues in your life you're going to walk out of this place and the same problems are going to face you when you climb into your car but I will tell you this the worship that you have done in this room today the blessing of God the worshiping and lifting up his name listen to me when you get into your car and all that stuff falls back on you you can remember the hand of the Lord in the midst of the worship and you can identify though he slang me yet I will trust him the Lord gives the Lord takes away but blessed me that come on you understand what I'm saying it changes your perspective on life let me share with you something it's a story it's a Bible is it okay Sunday Matthew chapter 19 verse 16 behold one came said unto him good master what good things shall I do that I may have eternal life he said unto him why call us thou me good there is none good but one that is God but if thou Wilt enter into life keep the Commandments everybody say the Commandments keep their Commandments the laws he saith unto them which Jesus says Thou shalt do no murder Thou shalt not commit adultery Thou shalt not steal thou shall not bear false witness honor thy father and mother and thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself those things you do everybody say do the law follow the command come on you do that he says what hmm all these things I've kept from my youth up what lack I yet Jesus said to him if you'll be perfect go sell that thou Hast give to the poor thou shall have treasure in heaven and come and follow me listen to what happened verse 22 when the young man heard that saying he went away sorrowful for he had everybody say it great possessions man comes to Jesus he's got a question I want to have eternal life are you with me it's a logical question it's a simple question it seems like you've got answers Jesus I'm going to ask you how do I have eternal life Jesus says you keep the Commandments you do the law you just do what it says and the guy says I got it I'll do that I've done that since I was a child the man says what am I lacking Jesus looks at him and he simply says you got stuff sell it and give it and I'm going to bless you come follow me and the man walked away and he was sorrowful the Bible says in this particular story told that the guy had money he had wealth he had possessions in his care you have to consider that when he was asked to deal with his finances it encompassed every aspect of his life his work to his identity how he got his payment who he gave to what he did he could handle listen the law when it came to Commandments Thou shalt shall not shout shout not but when it came to the stuff that he freely had access to because of his hard work he put his hands in his pockets walked away and I can't do that part listen to me 2023 listen carefully we have to consider that this man was not a foolish man he was a smart guy he was able to make money finances he was able to live his life but something happened with his possessions he considered them to be more important than that law that he was following I know that as time passes and I know that as increase in the possessions that we acquire come on my wife and I married 36 years ago we had a little bitty spot to live in with a not even a couch we had two chairs we had a small table and you oh oh folk remember those good times best time of our life not us we're about froze to death yeah and then my mom bought a place and she asked if we wanted to move into her house of 1200 square feet from where we were at 400 square feet and we said certainly we moved in it and we had no couch to sit and we're standing in the living room going well we're going to sit on in this great big old house and today the average home size oh Lord understand everybody my wife and I said the good old days and we go we had a window air conditioner that barely works come on somebody all right we know that time passes and we know that everybody deals with things in the flesh in a different light but what if we attributed the spiritual side to how we attribute to the flesh side if we really understood the financial blessings of a good investment what would we do we would take money we would invest in it we would know there would be a return but what if we understood that spiritually and it wasn't just haphazard I can show up at church if I can or I can give in the offering if I if I can if I can't you know the Lord loved he knows my heart okay what if we truly understood the power of what Jesus was trying to do in our lives when this young man came to him and said what am I lacking he said do this this that the God said I can do the law and Jesus said I'm going to get close to you take what you got sell it and give that means I have to turn loose of what I can control notice Matthew continues chapter 20 verse 1. listen to this this is so amazing Kingdom of Heaven is likened to a man that is a householder went out early in the morning to hire laborers into the vineyard his Vineyard we had agreed with the laborers for a penny a day that was common man's labor for the day that was pay he sent them into his Vineyard verse three he went out about the third hour saw other standing Idol at the marketplace said unto them go you also the vineyard and whatsoever is right I will give you and they went their way again it went out the sixth hour the ninth hour and likewise he did this about the 11th hour he went out and found others standing Idols saith unto them why stand you here idle they're saying to him because no man has hired us he said unto them go ye also to the vineyard and whatsoever is right that shall ye receive so when even it was come the Lord of The Vineyard saith unto his Steward call the laborers and give them their higher beginning from the last unto the first verse 9. notice this and when they came that were hired about the 11th Hour they received Every Man a penny everybody say a penny but when the first came they supposed that they should have received more they likewise received every man opinion everybody say a penny when they'd received it they murmured against the good man of the house saying these last have wrought but an hour and thou has made them equal to us which have borne the burden In the Heat of the day and he entered one of them and he said friend I do thee no wronged it's thou not agree with me for a penny take that thine is and go thy way I will give unto this last even as I do unto thee 15 is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine own is thine evil or is thine eye evil because I am good so the last shall be first the first shall be last you hear this for many are called few are chosen this is the incredible story of a job that had to be done in the early morning in the midday and the afternoon in the evening all this time people are working a 12-hour shift if you will and at the end of the day they had agreed upon a price that would be paid for their labor the good man of the house had no issue to pay that I know I'm going to get 12 hours of work out of this one in one hour of work out of that one but the fact of the matter Remains What I have a job that needs to be done so I will negotiate and I will say will you work for a penny I will that's lawful the guy at the sixth and the guy at the ninth and the guy at the eleventh hour they're saying yes it's lawful at the end of the day when payday comes who got upset was those that felt like they deserved more listen to me carefully in the world in the generation in which we live I just explained to you very quickly how things have changed over the past hundred years and we understand inflation and things and cost of living and all that goes up but I've come to ask somebody today in this place whether you've known the Lord for five minutes or five years or 50 years the fact Still Remains the payday that will come does not change every single one of us are trying to make our way into that place called heaven uh I have not seen and an ear has not even heard about the details of explicit explicitly what's going to be there but yet every single one of us today we are living our life we are working and we are doing what we do because we believe in a Payday the problem arises listen to the preacher now the problem arises many times is that if we work we get paid but then we begin to look around us at those who are working as well and we begin to pass judgment and ask questions about the legality and about the justification of what's going on here hear me friend in this last days you and I can only suppose that when the darkness begins to descend upon Earth as it is doing in these days that the light has got to be brighter than that darkness and so whether you've been loving the Lord your whole life or you just fell in love with him and you're trying to figure it out I've come to tell somebody now is not today to get frustrated angry upset or mad but because you feel like you deserve something more than your payday is the fact Still Remains if you'll Lay It Up in Heaven you'll receive it up in heaven and you'll get your reward in heaven it's not going to come here on Earth but it's going to come as a Payday in heaven what I'm telling you is this the thing to do is simply understand the economics of God are bigger than the economics of man and if I will stand firm for who Jesus is and what he's doing in my life it doesn't matter if I've got another 20 years to labor or if I'm tomorrow my time is up I know this payday's coming from him I don't need to look at what you're getting I don't need to worry about how you're struggling I don't need to look at how you're getting the blessings of God I can simply say the Lord is on my side he gave me a job to do and I'm going to do that job why I've got to keep my focus upon him listen friend I don't come into this house every Sunday to entertain you with worship I come into this place to Simply love the Lord and declare his goodness and his grace in my life hear me I'm going to decide right now just like I did yesterday that the end is in sight and therefore when the time comes for payday I'm not going to wonder why you got more it's not going to concern me while you got less but I'm simply going to decide you know what it was a thrill to live for Jesus in the whole day day in and day out knowing that my reward comes from his hand I realize as humans we can get beside ourselves and we can begin to declare don't he know who I am doesn't she know my name doesn't she know how much I invested in this I've come to tell you God knows and the reward is coming with him he's not going to have to come and negotiate terms he's not going to have to look at your 402k he's not gonna use enough more than a 401 right it's got to be a 402. he's not going to look at your Investments he's not going to look at the percentages what he's going to say is this didn't I tell you that I would save your soul from a devil's Health didn't I tell you that I would bless your family didn't I say to you the anointing would rest upon your life didn't I tell you that I'd bring you through the dark times that I'd pick you up from the myory clay that I would establish her goings in common didn't I tell you that yes Florida then while you're looking at what I'm doing to your brother or to your sister don't you realize I've negotiated a term whether it's in the first hour or the 11th Hour listen the problems that came with the disciples every one of them in the times the disciples walked on Earth the letters that Paul wrote to the church or that any of those guys wrote you know what he was talking about why are there Wars among you why are there things happening among you why did you come out of this and come into that why are you still practicing those things when you should have come into here and they wouldn't talk and they would tell them listen it's not like living for the world when you make up your mind to be a one God Apostolic tongue talker you've got to understand when you go down in my name it is more than simply a way to get wet but there is Glory that's going to descend upon you and when you speak in tongues that's my spirit gives you the utterance and the ability to do so it's not that you're like somebody else walking around in shoe leather but now the Divine is showing up wherever you show up the glory of God is moving on your behalf what I'm telling you is this my friend whether you're five years old or 55 years old you need to make up in your mind Jesus Christ the same yesterday today and forever I have decided to follow Jesus I'm not looking to the left hand or the right but I have dedicated myself to loving the Lord and hoping that I will make that eternity my home with Jesus Somewhere in Heaven it Thrills my heart to recognize some of these young folk that are hungry for God to move in their lives when I see teenagers and even younger than teenagers come to an altar willing to pray willing to worship willing to lift their hands they don't have the same testimony you have you don't have the same junk that you've walked through but they have decided as a young person you know what this is cool this is good loving Jesus is the right thing I don't understand it I don't comprehend it all I know is this that I feel something here that I don't feel anywhere else I'm not sure why how or what it looks like and some of us older folks who haven't figured out we'll sit back and wonder why that young person up there doing that why are they making a scene up there why did I tell you what they need to see is they need to see an elder back there full of the Holy Ghost saying I'm going to love the Lord God no matter what and then that young person going to say well this is what they do I want to do the same thing I learned a lot y'all listen to the preacher I struggle with things just like you because I'm human but I'm made up in my mind a long time ago the Lord didn't call me to come and to satisfy everybody but the Lord called me to do what he wants to please him as my master as my Lord and Savior therefore I've got to get my eyes off of what you are doing or not doing and I've got to begin to just love him lift him to heaven and magnify him that's why come on hear me on those Friday nights as a young person I didn't know what else to do by getting the presence of God as a youth group we were challenged come on let's go to the church and pray and we'd spend all night in an altar praying am I telling the truth him we'd be loving God so I didn't know what we were doing didn't know how we were doing it all we know is Glory would Breathe Into that room and some 30 of us or so spread out on the floor speaking in tongues not understanding and I get up as a young person and I'd look around and I'd say God I don't understand this I don't comprehend that and speaking in tongues and for hours we would worship and love the Lord you know why because there was something in us that said take this whole world but give me Jesus I see I I got a history so I can go back and talk about it come on I've got a little water under the bridge and I figured out how to put corn in the crib and do it all for the Lord because I'm going to tell you there's not a whole bunch of those young folk that we were in prayer meetings with that are still living for God am I telling the truth I don't know where they went I'd be scared to death if I was them I would be so scared and it says if it's flippant it doesn't matter well it was just that time in my life no do you realize that heaven now is more real than it's ever been in my life come on when I was 25 or so I could slay the devil every day and beat him down out on 50 plus I'm looking I'm going come on is it going to be me or you today because I got to know it on your rolling my sleeve or this simply need to speak the name Jesus come on I fought a lot of battles when I was a young man because I didn't know what to do pounding the floor demanding God to move Aces pleading with God to move and all the while God's sitting there saying what are you doing if you speak my name I'm there in the midst of you and I've learned now as an old fella to listen to the voice of God don't don't be afraid if Pastor comes up to you every once while in church and leans over to you and asks you or tells you something don't be afraid of that come on I don't walk in Heavenly places I'll simply just try to get there but I've decided in myself the world doesn't owe me anything but I owe this world Jesus my wife bless her heart I love her to death and she's so good at embarrassing people and she don't even know it listen to me something comes up to her and says sis I got this issue or this problem or whatever there she has lately she that's why she said well let's pray about it they say oh like right now yeah Lord Jesus you know what's going on I pray in the name of the Lord that you'd move and it's amazing if I've walked up and I see her in his Walmart or in the store doing that I'm like oh Lord she shot somebody she's asking forgiveness or and she's praying and they're standing there going and as soon as they close their eyes and they reverence what she's doing the spirit of the Lord begins to move I have stood and watched them cry they didn't have a clue what was happening it's not her it's her desire to say take this world but give me Jesus see some of us are worried about Who We Are what would it be like in this hour so coming so close to the coming of the Lord that you would have labored for the Lord from our number one and you get to the end to where you get mad at payday huh you do realize how the judgment will be brother Durham would you come how the white Throne judgment will be you will not stand up there with everyone you will stand by yourself you will give an account by yourself to the books that will be opened and if your name is written he will see it there and then he will see what you did and from that he will decide well done good and faithful what he doesn't even call you his child he calls you a servant enter in we all want to hear that don't we will you know how long the next guy has been serving the lord will it matter will you hear the conversation of the guy in front of you huh I I know that again you all know I got a brain sometimes it doesn't work for I can function right I can see it now standing there 20 30 feet in front of us that person's up there and there getting their judgment I can see it now me looking there some of y'all be saying now look look Lord look check it out uh what had happened on that one um you're gonna let me slide this time and get on in right I I don't I don't want to have to judge them I'm going to let the king of glory say I knew you and I've got all the things you did right here or he's going to say I never knew you listen to me the very end of it all and I'm done there's a place called heaven but as much as Heaven has spoke about in the word of God hell is equally discussed I wonder today it's quarter to two I'm sorry y'all guys have stayed so long thank you for your patience Wonder today if if you knew judgment was tomorrow the 11th hours now would it alter or change the way that today plays out would you decide very quickly to get it all together and get it all worked out huh that's like when you're a teenager and you're scared to death you're gonna die and go to hell that when you do something real dumb you say Lord forgive me Lord forgive me Lord forgive me I just want to get to heaven I just want to get to heaven the devil made me do it no devoted man I just made a bad choice come on I believe that salvation is for all of us don't you but I also believe the Lord gives you the opportunity to choose what the story is today is the end is what's going to matter so I'll ask you today are you willing to work now are you going to wait till this time and expect it to change so here's the problem with living life stand with me we realize there's going to be a Payday right that's in this particular story this Parable this understanding is this however long you worked you're going to receive the pay and the pay is already negotiated he says you go work and what's fair I'll pay you day's work so they went third sixth ninth eleventh hour it was after pay those who'd been there all day said man we was here in the heat of the day and all that and we just and these guys got the same and the master simply looks at them and he's not offended he's not mad he's not upset he simply says what didn't we discuss this then we talk about this yeah but we came through that's not the point but they stood around longer and wasted idle that's not the point what's the point payday anybody here still want to make the end of your life heaven oh come on today's a day to decide come on why don't you take a moment I know that we were shouting a while ago people were jumping up and down people were so I'm coming to tell you friend it's more than that emotion and that com it is saying Lord I've come to love and serve you regardless of what everybody's blessings or failures or disappointments or disgusting things or whatever it is in their lives I don't look at that Lord I'm focused on you why because in the end in the end you will pay me according to what you told me you would pay me this Alters open for somebody who needs to do some soul searching for some reason you've decided maybe to climb upon the throne and start passing judgment today you need to get off that throne and Let Jesus back come on he knows what he's doing he's perfectly well able to see it through in everybody's life from the beginning to the end come on there's a plan come on would you come and simply just say Lord I'm I'm sorry if I got it all out of whack I'm sorry Lord if I messed it up please forgive me today come on maybe you're here today you never called on the name of the Lord I want you to know all the life's mess that you're in can be fixed in one second in the presence of the Lord he can touch your body he can forgive you of your sin come on you can repent right now and simply walk away and say Lord I turn from that lifestyle I decided to walk after you I will submit myself to you God why because the end is what matters the end is what matters yeah I love you Jesus come on somebody call on the name of the Lord make today your day Lord I need you I trust you my hope is in you my faith is in you lord your word is forever settled it's established come on Lord God I need you can't do this myself Lord I've got to have help if I come in Lord at this 11th hour I'm still guaranteed Lord that you can change me forgive me and make me a new creature come on for those that believed for the Lord a long time you better establish it now Lord I will stay true to you I will hold on to your unchanging hand I will still believe in the power of the Cross of calvary come on let's ride it's prayer time Jesus I Need You Jesus I trust you Jesus I believe in you Jesus I know God that you've got answers I know that the promise comes from you Jesus in the name of Jesus come on somebody decide oh God I'm in this for the Long Haul I'm in this for the Long Haul Lord I'm I'm not giving up for quitting God but I am holding on to you I'm gonna love you to the Midnight Hour I'm gonna love you and you and it makes sense I'm going to be in the house of God because it's the right thing to do I'm going to be an example to my children and my grandchildren Jesus I'm going to trust God your word oh come on there's Revival in your life make a decision today Lord I'm running after you I'm believing in you in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus in the name of Jesus come on that's right make a choice today the end is what matters the end is what matters Lord I'm gonna stay faithful to you until the end I'm not going to give up and walk away man I'm not gonna be disgusted Lord God I'm not going to be disheveled Lord with the things of this world but I'm gonna hold on to you through it all come on somebody make a statement right now a declaration of your faith I will love you Lord there is a reward at the end God you payday Lord that's coming a place that you prepared a place God for me in the name of Jesus the name of Jesus holy holy holy holy holy God Worthy is your name Lord Worthy is your name Jesus glorious is your name Holy One won't you slip over right now next to somebody and pray with him God help my brother today Lord help my sister today Jesus God encouraged them today in the Holy Ghost help him oh God to recognize your hand working in their lives oh come on that's right Jesus you're doing the miraculous Lord every day God you're doing a great work hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah holy is the Lord God holy is the name of Jesus oh come on that's right in Jesus name in Jesus name come on that's right in Jesus name oh God I must serve you I must trust you I must honor you in everything Lord giving you thanks yeah I love you Jesus I Believe In You Lord I Believe In You Lord come on let's try that's right come on somebody pray believe today come on miracles happen when the hand of the Lord's moving great things happen when the power of the Holy Ghost is moving holy is the Lord Worthy is the name Hallelujah Jesus holy is your name wonderful is your name Jesus are you thankful today for the hand of the Lord come on before you walk out these doors today one more time would you just thank him come on would you just love him come on before you go out and you encounter the world and you you engage in your week come on just thank him Lord I certainly do need you in my life help me God to stay focused on what you're doing God on your blessings and your goodness Lord Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Spirit of the Living God help us today Lord we love you Lord thank you so much for being in the house of the Lord today thank you so much for worshiping the name of the Lord today for believing in him come on God's doing good things God's working miracles all over this place miracles turn to your neighbor and say you're a miracle come on tell them you're a miracle accept it tell them accept it God's done a work in your life