Ive Been to the Mountain Top Walter Pearson

Summary

In this sermon, Walter Pearson Jr. embarks on an engaging spiritual journey reflecting on the leadership journey of Moses as he uncovers lessons from the biblical story. Pearson explores the realities and challenges faced by leaders, emphasizing the importance of words and their lasting impact. Through Moses's story, Pearson delves into the trials, lessons, and the divine interactions that define a leader's journey, underlining the mercy and justice of God. This sermon is a reflective piece on faith, leadership, and redemption, making it an inspiring message for believers.

Highlights

• The sermon starts with Pearson acknowledging the church rhythm before diving into the message 🎶.
• Pearson shares the trials of pastoring, stressing love and support from the congregation ❤️.
• Insightful reflections on Moses's leadership journey and God's justice, where words matter 💬.
• Pearson recounts how God showed Moses a panoramic view of a promised future 📽️.
• Narrative on how Jesus and Satan contended over Moses, emphasizing divine mercy 🌌.

Key Takeaways

• Words have power, and leaders must be mindful of what they say 🗣️.
• Even leaders face trials, and it's essential to have support systems ⚖️.
• God's mercy and justice coexist, offering lessons on redemption 📚.
• Learn from Moses's journey; past blessings don't exempt from consequences ⏳.
• Faith remains crucial; it guides us through life's trials and tribulations ⛪.

Overview

Walter Pearson's sermon takes listeners on an enlightening journey exploring the profound lessons from the life of Moses. He starts by connecting with the audience on the vibrant rhythm unique to church gatherings. Pearson humorously mentions how the musical interlude prepared him for preaching and acknowledges the support needed in ministry.

In narrating Moses's story, Pearson highlights significant moments, reflecting on how Moses’s actions led him to the mountain top and laid bare the essence of leadership under divine scrutiny. Pearson emphasizes the power of words and the importance of being cautious with speech, infusing humor and reality into his sermon as he shares the humility required of leaders and the trials they endure.

The sermon ends with a powerful reminder of God’s unfaltering justice and mercy. Pearson beautifully articulates how Moses was shown a vision to foresee the future, aligning with his faith journey. It’s a sermon filled with touching reflections on sin, forgiveness, and divine guidance, resonating deeply with anyone navigating the complexities of faith.

Chapters

• 00:00 - 03:00: Introduction and Personal Reflections The chapter opens with a speaker expressing gratitude and surprise, mentioning being caught off guard by an unexpected song that disrupted the rhythm of a church service. The speaker humorously notes the challenge of regaining focus to continue with their preaching, reflecting on the natural flow of such events. The anecdote sets a personal and relatable tone, highlighting the dynamics of church services and the adaptability required by those leading them.
• 03:00 - 05:00: Sermon Introduction The introduction to the sermon emphasizes the importance of community support and prayer for pastors. It highlights the challenges faced by pastors, acknowledging how some perceive their role as easy, while in reality, it is quite demanding. The text also touches on the misconception that treating a pastor kindly may somehow be detrimental.
• 05:00 - 15:00: Death of Moses and Lesson on Words The chapter opens with a reflective note on the concept of hubris, mentioning that one should avoid becoming too prideful. The speaker notes that trials and challenges are a natural counterbalance to any good deeds one might accomplish. Throughout the chapter, there is an emphasis on the importance of expressing love and using it as a source of encouragement to continue forward with divine work. A personal anecdote about the speaker's gratitude for their spouse underscores the message, highlighting the significance of a supportive partner in fulfilling one's religious and personal duties. The narrative intertwines personal experience with broader spiritual lessons, offering a contemplative perspective on words and actions in the context of faith.
• 15:00 - 34:00: Message on Sin, Repentance, and God's Mercy This chapter reflects on the importance of a supportive and unwavering partner in one's life journey. The speaker acknowledges almost two decades with his wife, crediting her strength and steadfastness through various trials. He expresses gratitude towards her and shifts to a broader message centered around the themes of sin, repentance, and the mercy of God. This involves inviting the congregation to refer to Deuteronomy 34 as part of his sermon, but notes the time constraint he is under for the message he intends to share.
• 34:00 - 47:00: Moses' Vision of the Future The chapter titled 'Moses' Vision of the Future' begins with the speaker addressing the audience while acknowledging the comfort of the unusual chairs they are seated on. The speaker expresses their awareness of the time and the likelihood that someone might need to excuse themselves during the talk. It's noted that the speaker, due to their age, finds it challenging to give a sermon shorter than an hour, despite making earnest attempts to do so. The speaker shares that on some occasions, particularly on Friday nights, they would remove several pages from their notes in an attempt to shorten the sermon. The chapter ends with the speaker asking the audience to pray with them, hinting at a personal commitment or pledge made to the Lord.
• 47:00 - 67:00: Resurrection of Moses and Spiritual Implications The chapter dives into the significance of preaching and personal connection to scripture, focusing on how spiritual insights that benefit the preacher should be shared with the congregation. The speaker expresses excitement and passion for the word, noting that the impactful elements must first resonate personally before being communicated to others. There's an emphasis on authentic preaching that transforms both the preacher and the audience.
• 67:00 - 77:00: Call to Repentance and Commitment The chapter focuses on the theme of repentance and commitment. It begins with a passage from Deuteronomy 34:5-6, detailing the death and burial of Moses in the land of Moab, in obedience to the word of the Lord. Moses’s burial site remains unknown. The chapter is thematically centered around the experiences and teachings associated with 'I have been to the Mountaintop' as an allegorical expression and reflection on spiritual journeys, leadership, and unfulfilled missions.

Ive Been to the Mountain Top Walter Pearson Transcription

• 00:00 - 00:30 [Music] amen I I truly thank you I must admit that you did surprise me I just was about ready to preach now I you know they they got me ready to preach you understand what I mean don't you there's a certain rhythm in a church service and uh that song had me about ready y'all threw my rhythm off a little bit but I'm going to try to catch it again and and move to the word what do you say I uh I think it ought to be said
• 00:30 - 01:00 that we recognize that there are a lot of people who love us and pray for us all the time you should know that we need your love you don't know how many problems we have to face I know that pastoring a church looks easy I know that but you don't know how hard it is and I know some folk think that if you treat a pastor too well that he'll
• 01:00 - 01:30 get the big head and and you won't be able to deal with him but I got some news for you there are enough trials to balance off any goodness you could do I promise you that and when you show us love it it is more than just saying I love you it's an encouragement to go forward and do God's work I thank God for a good wife not just any wife my wife and I have been together
• 01:30 - 02:00 almost 20 years this year we will celebrate 20 years together and somebody less than my wife could not have gone through all the trials that we've been through but she's been right there and she hasn't wavered and I thank God for her I want to also thank the men in The Sound Room for this microphone today amen Church am turn with me if you will to Deuteronomy the 34th chapter I got a sermon today and I'm about to run out of time
• 02:00 - 02:30 you sitting on these funny chairs and uh I know somebody's going to want to get up and go and I've gotten to the age now where it's hard for me to preach less than an hour I try too you don't know how hard I try some Friday nights I take three or four pages out of my notes but something still happens so y'all pray with me today would you do that I I have made a pledge to the Lord
• 02:30 - 03:00 that I will never preach anything that doesn't do me any good when I'm studying it if it doesn't help me I won't preach it to you so it gets me excited and you have to forgive me cuz I get excited when I'm studying the word and then when I get ready to preach it I try to cut it down but it just does something to me so if you got another appointment you do like the old folks used to doing them little churches and hold one finger up and sneak on out today cuz I got to preach this sermon
• 03:00 - 03:30 let me read just two verses out of Deuteronomy 34: 5 and 6 so Moses the servant of the Lord died there in the land of Moab according to the word of the Lord and he buried him in a valley in the land of Moab over against Beth peor but no man knoweth of his suppiler unto this day I have entitled our study for this day I I have been to the Mountaintop I've been to the mountains
• 03:30 - 04:00 up let us bow our heads as we pray father father bless us now there are too many trials that we go through during the week to come to Sabbath and miss a blessing and so Lord I beg of you to touch my mind and to touch my lips I have already given you my soul all that I am and all that I possess and I've asked you Lord to move
• 04:00 - 04:30 me out of your way so that your word can go forth now Lord in the moments that we spend with Thy word let me not get in your way but speak through me somehow and those very things that you said to me in my study those very things that you touch me with On My Knees Lord let them be clear today as I stand in this Pulpit let the same power that made my heart tremble let the same power that
• 04:30 - 05:00 put Goosebumps on my skin let it do something for somebody today and when this blessing shall have been received we'll give God all the glory and the honor and the praise in Jesus name let everyone say Amen today I am speaking to you about the death of Moses now most of us recognize the words I have been to the Mountaintop Atlanta is famous for Martin
• 05:00 - 05:30 Luther King and Martin Luther King is probably famous for those words but many of us don't recognize where these words have come from and this is the very story that Dr King referred to when he said those words now let me share with you the occasion the presence of God had come down over the Tabernacle there was a cloud that followed the children of
• 05:30 - 06:00 Israel by day and it came over the Tabernacle and God Called Moses and Joshua and he said to Moses Moses you will sleep with your fathers the Bible says that Moses begged God not to let him die Moses had been with these people all the way from Egypt he had been up to the brink of Canaan and had to go back for 40 years and came back again
• 06:00 - 06:30 and God said Moses you cannot go over but you've got to die so Moses said father please let me go over God said Moses don't even talk to me about it again because you will have to sleep with your fathers so bring me Joshua and bring him to the Tabernacle and I will transfer the leadership Authority from you to Joshua now friends of mine you must understand why God did this Psalm
• 06:30 - 07:00 10633 has the answer the Bible says that Moses spake unadvisedly with his lips now most of us think it was because Moses struck the rock for the second time but the fact is that God does not like it when your mouth says the wrong word are you listening to me there are times when all of us get angry there are
• 07:00 - 07:30 times when all of us would like to give somebody a peace of our minds but God knows the words that you say it was not so much that Moses struck that rock the second time and understand that Moses probably ruined one of the greatest symbols in the history of the Bible for you see Jesus was the Rock and the first time that Moses struck the rock it represented the crucifixion of Jesus but after that Jesus would not go back to the cross again and after that all you
• 07:30 - 08:00 had to do was to get on your knees and pray to Jesus and everything you needed would come from him so the First Time The Rock was to be smitten and the second time it was to be spoken to because today you and I don't have to crucify Jesus again he's already been to the Cross there's a fountain filled with blood drawn from Emmanuel's V and all you got to do is to talk to Jesus and the blood of Jesus is applied to your sin so Moses ru that symbol but the sin
• 08:00 - 08:30 of Moses was not the act of striking the rock the sin of Moses was getting so mad at the people that he said the wrong thing now I understand that come on now I understand that there are times when your lips want to go ahead of God there are times when all Li leaders come to a place where they have
• 08:30 - 09:00 had enough Moses was out there with those people all of that time and instead of them saying praise God we getting ready to get some water they started fussing again and Moses kept on hearing that fussing they should have been praising you see they had history behind it and friends of mine don't you know that there's no reason in the world why we ought to complain I don't care what you're
• 09:00 - 09:30 passing through today you got enough history to let you know that God will answer your prayer I don't care what trial you are going through you ought to be able to praise God through that trial because of the way that God has already delivered you these folk knew what happened when Moses struck that rock the first time and when Moses went over to that rock again they should have been standing up there moving like this saying praise the Lord thirsty but ready for it to come and when they saw Moses go over toward they should have said
• 09:30 - 10:00 come on water come on out but instead they say I'm thirsty and I don't know what we going to drink Moses got mad and he say I'm sick of y'all are you still with me now the folks were wrong but Moses wasn't supposed to say that and so in his anger he took up that rod and hit that rock but his mouth got him in trouble are you still with me folks you got to be careful what you say there are some of us who talk like talk is nothing
• 10:00 - 10:30 I know people say talk is cheap but talk is expensive on talk kept Moses out of Canaan talk is going to keep some folks out of the Kingdom talk is going to run some of us to an early grave talk will get you in trouble are you listening to me be careful what you say so Moses cannot go and he's standing up there watching this young man Joshua take over Israel because of his mouth and if he could have gone back and gotten those words back yeah he could he could have
• 10:30 - 11:00 put him back in his mouth he would have done anything to get those words back but once you say words they can't be taken back husbands be careful what you say to your wife are you still with me when you get mad shut up I know what I'm talking about she may forgive you but 20 years later she'll say I remember wives when you get hungry when
• 11:00 - 11:30 angry shut up I know those books say you ought to talk it out don't you listen to those books all the time when you are angry shut your mouth wait till you cool down because you can't take words back they are like needles strewn in Hast Stacks you can't get them back and once you say them people never forget what you say so so watch what you say are you listening to me and somebody talk to me the other day and I was I was angry and they couldn't
• 11:30 - 12:00 understand why I wouldn't talk to them they they didn't know I had some stuff floating around in my brain and I said Lord help me to shut up are you listening to me now I can talk to him now cuz I'm all right but if I had opened my mouth that day you would have heard about what I said you don't understand what I'm trying to say shut your mouth there are times when your mouth can stay shut the
• 12:00 - 12:30 world won't stop turning because you don't say something today shut your mouth in fact the Ellen White says the reason why most of the troubles are in the church today is because of people's tongues 60% 66 to% to be exact of the problems in the church are caused by people's tongues some folk can't quit talking they got to make a comment on everything are you listening to me just be quiet Moses couldn't get them back so now he stands up there and God says you
• 12:30 - 13:00 can't go but now Joshua I put my power on you and he said Moses go and introduce him to the people now let me tell you you got to have some humility to do that you let them all the way through the Wilderness you can remember somebody's grandchild and you can see now the granddaddy reflected in the grandson and they almost about to go over but you can't go over you got to die on this side Moses went out there and said said I want to put my blessing on this young
• 13:00 - 13:30 man Joshua and he will be your leader and I will not and Moses turned around and alone alone he had to climb Mount Neo to the heights of Mount Pisa nobody could go with him now let me tell you something they wanted to go with him now see folks don't like you when they supposed to like you I just said something
• 13:30 - 14:00 you don't miss your water till your well runs dry Moses had been talked about and cursed and criticized and some folks said oh lord they're taking Moses he was such a good man they had cursed him all day every day until he left and now they say we want to go with him folks let me tell you something tell people you appreciate him while you can Moses turns around to walk away in some
• 14:00 - 14:30 of those same tongues that had cursed him every day said oh Lord don't take him that's right and fact if God had not hidden the place where Moses was buried some of those same hypocritical Rascals would have gone and built up a monument to Moses those same Liars those same criticizers those same folks who had made his life miserable would have built a big old Tabernacle over his tomb so God said I ain't going to even let you find find where it is so you Hypocrites
• 14:30 - 15:00 won't be around here fooling with it well I'm preaching whether you like it or not so so Moses turns now and he goes up into the mountain and he goes alone and those folks that up there and they start weeping you know oh I wish I wish I hadn't said that to Moses I have been at some funerals listen to me now I have been at some funerals where loved ones climb in the casket
• 15:00 - 15:30 yeah yeah climb in the casket no don't take my mom no don't take my daddy no don't take my husband no don't take my wife folks I've learned something if you treat folks right while they're alive you can handle it when they [Applause] die now I'm not going to accuse everybody who ever climbed in a casket of being
• 15:30 - 16:00 unkind but I found out something those ones who are mean while you alive if you ever die they go crazy then they get up there and start telling lies over you don't fo with me now and tell you the truth you know I was talking to him on the phone the other night just before he died one day lightning going to strike somebody out of a pull pit I tell my wife sometime I wish that man could get up out of that thing said
• 16:00 - 16:30 no you didn't you ain't call nobody but everybody made peace before they die you know what I'm talking about you know we were not friends when he was alive but mysteriously he called me Wednesday night and we got everything straight and I just want you to know that the Lord going to strike somebody down and you going to have two funerals one day but but the M of man turns and he's walking talking up the mountain and and
• 16:30 - 17:00 Israel Mourns for 30 days about a man that they they taunted and criticized for 40 years I got some news 30 days won't make up for 40 years 30 days will not suffice for 40 years and 30 days of blessing when you can't hear it will not make up for 40 years of cursing when you can so so the man goes now now folk here is the be beautiful thing about it God had to teach a lesson and I got to
• 17:00 - 17:30 talk about these lessons fast you see if God had let Moses go on what kind of church would we have today there some folk who think now that you can do anything you want to and go on but I got some news for you the board may never catch you the pastor may never know the elders may never find out the deacons may never suspect it and the deaconesses May never hear about it but
• 17:30 - 18:00 God knows what you doing our Bible says be sure your sins will find you out God will give you time to get straight but if you don't get straight God will put your business in the street I know what I'm talking about Elder furo could tell you about a man one day he and I know this man who came in my office and told me I'm doing it but you ain't going to catch me and I got news for you when the Lord
• 18:00 - 18:30 got through with him everybody had caught it you see the Lord gives you time there somebody listening to me right now and I want you to don't even change the expression on your face get right and if you would go ahead and straighten up now God would never put your business in the street but you keep on doing what you doing and one day God would put your business on the front page one day God would put your business on television one day God will put your business on the radio God is Not knocked whatsoever man sewe it that shall he
• 18:30 - 19:00 also re so so God can't let you keep on sinning and because Moses was so high as a leader God had to make an example of him and so God proved three things number one he proved that God is no respector of persons on some folks think that if you high enough you can gloss on over I got news for you the law is the law for the highest one and the lowest one the law is the law for the president of the United States and the law is the law for the ditch digger the law is the
• 19:00 - 19:30 law for the pastor and the law is the law for the one at the back of the Pew the law is the law I don't care how you apply it God applies it the same way so God had to show that Moses as high as he was still had to be punished for his sin are you listening to me number two God had to show that past blessings do not suffice some folk think that the that the word of God is like a
• 19:30 - 20:00 bank and if you do enough stuff good you can build up for future times I've heard people say it you know they doing something wrong and you go to them and they say yeah but you know we've been serving this church for 30 years make no difference Moses had been leading the children of Israel for 40 years made one mistake see past blessing don't have anything to do with your present problems somebody come in here and only been in the church a week and catch up
• 20:00 - 20:30 with you your history is not anything that saves you so that you can be above the law so you go ahead and tell other people and let them get impressed by your uncle laid the bricks and Berean but God isn't impressed by that God laid the foundation under the mortar under the bricks and made the mortar made the clay that made the brick so don't going to try to impress god with what you did
• 20:30 - 21:00 way back y before the beginning was God was you can't impress him with years of service or deeds of Distinction because God can outdo your on both counts so God had to show number two that past blessings do not suffice I hear people talking about what they used to raise in in gathering question is what you doing now on I used to go out and bring people to church what you doing now I used to sing in the choir why you sitting in the Pew now folks God not worried about what you used to do that's your blessing what
• 21:00 - 21:30 you do now is what counts is anybody listening to what I'm saying number three God had to show you that God means what he say he means what he said there's some folk who think well you know I know that's there but God don't mean that how could a good god do that you going to be surprised you going to be surprised God will get
• 21:30 - 22:00 you now and somebody out there now got a disease that you caused on yourself sneaking doing something see sneak sneak and a't nobody catching you what you didn't know was the sin was catching you while you were doing it sin is its own trap and and you will survive for that even though nobody knows and then you'd be surprised how many people know but I'll leave that alone
• 22:00 - 22:30 amen so Moses turns now and he goes up into that mou now I want to talk now you may think this is a negative sermon but it's not it's a positive one you see once God straightens the record out and he's going to do that God is going to set the record straight but once he does that God is a god of Mercy now Moses goes up there and don't know what what's going to happen climbs
• 22:30 - 23:00 up that mountain side knowing that this is the last time he turned his back on those children of Israel who had walked with and talked with and fuss with and had all kinds of altercations and he turns around and walks on up the mountain and up there he met Jesus I'll prove it to you in a minute I got a text for it I'm not even going to the spirit of Prophecy I got a text for you and when he got up there Jesus said said Moses I got something to show
• 23:00 - 23:30 you you're not going to go into Canaan but come on up here to the top of Pisa and I want to show you something now now there are those who think that what Jesus did was to take him up on the mountain so he could look down on the land but that's not what he saw what Moses saw was more like a panoramic motion picture that's right because he saw things that were
• 23:30 - 24:00 not yet see God doesn't deal in now he knows what's happening now but he knows the end from the beginning right so you and I are limited to the now amen at the end of this sermon I'm going to make an appeal and somebody's going to say I'm not coming now I'm going to come later you can't even decide about later cuz all you control is now but God lives
• 24:00 - 24:30 in the now and in the future to him yesterday and tomorrow are the same because he's not limited by time so God said Moses let let me show you something look out there and Moses looked at Canaan not as it was but as it was going to be right now let me run through what Moses saw for you and I get excited see some of you folk that lost your imagination cuz you
• 24:30 - 25:00 been looking at TV too long and if it doesn't come on a screen you can't understand it but we are an imaginative people you know that don't you do you know that they have done studies and they found out that black folk think in pictures come on now and don't let anybody bother you with that cuz that's a wonderful thing other folk some are so boring and Bland that they think in words some think in in formula some think in in logic but we think in
• 25:00 - 25:30 pictures think about it don't you can't you see stuff and you see it exciting in fact over in Africa there are some people whose job it is to tell stories on to exaggerate them so that other black folk can listen to them and see pictures have and they sit down there and say uh uhuh see if some other people came up they say what they all excited about they wouldn't understand it cuz they don't think like we think but we have the advantage of thinking in
• 25:30 - 26:00 pictures now I happen to notice some other folks do too but praise the Lord for them do what do you say but some folk don't see it now look at this God says Moses let me show you not Canaan now cuz it look bad now but I'm going to show you what canaan's going to look like when the children of Israel finally get it straight and God showed Moses the hills covered with the Cedars of Lebanon God showed Moses flowers and trees God showed Moses Olive branches planted God
• 26:00 - 26:30 showed Moses beautiful towns that had sprung up with golden golden domes God showed Moses the children of Israel taking over the land God showed Moses Israel coming up to its full stature not only that but the movie The moving picture began to move now and he saw Jerusalem turning so good that it got proud of itself and began to say we don't need God we are God 's children we are the children of Abraham and then he
• 26:30 - 27:00 watched as Jesus was born listen to me now Jesus comes down as a baby in bethlehem's manger Moses saw a star that Wise Men followed Moses saw the birth of Christ Moses saw Jesus live his life Moses came up to Gethsemane and recognized that one of those two who came from Heaven to see Jesus was him amen Moses saw the crucifixion and his heart
• 27:00 - 27:30 pain within it and he thought it was all over but on the third day morning Moses saw Jesus come forth from the tomb Moses watched as the church began to grow Moses looked at people as they began to stretch out their wings and spread the gospel Moses saw us move into the age of the atom Moses saw us move into cars past trains we saw us go into this very age Moses saw path this
• 27:30 - 28:00 day path this day in fact Moses began to see the troubles that are going to come at the End of Time Moses saw the shaking time come Moses saw the Sabbath trampled down Moses saw God's children holding on for dear life Moses watched as Jesus put down his Robes of priesthood and changed
• 28:00 - 28:30 into his Robes of kingship that's right Moses saw Jesus coming again and saw people being saved in the kingdom of God Moses saw them on the way to heaven with Jesus and then Jesus said Moses you done seen enough come on now do you understand what I'm trying to say to you today so Moses thought all now the question is why would God say you got to die and then show him the whole picture and
• 28:30 - 29:00 the answer is simple while God is just God is also merciful god is just and merciful at the same time and so he took Moses up and let him see the whole story and then he let him go to sleep now incidentally folks if you study the word you too can see all that come on now problem with some of us is we don't look in the book folks do you know if
• 29:00 - 29:30 you read this book you can see all that Moses saw it's in here isn't it you can read all the way to the end and know what the end will be and when you know what the end will be you are not afraid of dying anymore I go all the time to the bedsides of good Christians and that does not frighten them I went to a man's bedside in Cleveland Ohio the man called for me and he said pastor I just got one thing I need to take care of tell my wife don't spend more $2,000 on my funeral and tell her to put my blue suit
• 29:30 - 30:00 on me in my casket I said brother you you you can't give up he said pastor I haven't given up I have talked to the Lord my sins are confessed I'm all right with Jesus and there's only two things I need you to do for me and if you willing to do that I'll be all right before I got back home the man had gone to sleep in Jesus you think it's a terrible thing when you die in Jesus it is not that's right that's right it is not because once you seen to the end it's all right are you listening
• 30:00 - 30:30 to me once you know what God is going to do and so MOS is lay down and the Bible says well let me give you the text now you need to know it look in Jude 9 now if you read the text that was used for our scripture this morning you recognize that in verse six it says and he buried him now if you back up to verse 5 it says Moses the servant of the
• 30:30 - 31:00 Lord died there the only other he who was on that mountain was Jesus you can't die and then bury yourself so there were two people on that mountain there was one human being and one Divine being and the only he who was left after Moses died was Jesus and the Bible says that God buried Moses on that mountain that's all right with me I
• 31:00 - 31:30 don't know what my funeral is going to be like and don't much care but I tell you that's a way to go folks if you got to have a funeral let God be your funeral director if you got to die Let Jesus be in charge of your death Arrangements if you've got to close your eyes in death Let Jesus be right with you up until the end and somehow I believe that Jesus will not leave you when you come to the end if you believe it can I hear you say amen I don't don't worry anymore about death once I understood that Jesus will not leave you
• 31:30 - 32:00 then death does not frighten me I don't worry about it because I know that if I keep my hand in God's hand when I close my eyes in death Jesus will be there and so he was there and he buried him but then something else happens and I'll close on this thought some of us are mixed up we think that the one who's mad is Jesus and the one who's trying to help you is
• 32:00 - 32:30 the devil that's the opposite of what's true my Bible says that God is not willing that any should perish but that all should come to repentance the one who wants you to miss Heaven is the devil in Jude n you will read this yet Michael the arc angel that's Jesus when contending with the devil can I pause there a minute contending means that they had an
• 32:30 - 33:00 altercation that represented an argument you see if you read back in the Bible you'll never find anybody who was resurrected before now you go on back as far as you can start at Genesis and read up to Deuteronomy and you won't find anybody who died and came back the devil thought that the grave was his the devil thought that when you died you stayed dead see when when Cain
• 33:00 - 33:30 killed Abel Abel stayed dead and the devil smirked and said when they die they belong to me but now he was there when Moses messed up cuz the devil is always there when you mess up the devil causes you to mess up the devil writes down that you messed up and he wants you to die because of
• 33:30 - 34:00 your sin the devil keeps an accurate record of all the sins you ever committed and you get on your knees and say Lord forgive me and God forgets about your sin he says I put your sin in the bottom of the deepest sea I put him behind my back and remember them no more I take them as far away as the East is from the West I do that for you but the devil gives you no such promise he remembers every sin you ever committed I just said something Devil Knows everything you ever did so now
• 34:00 - 34:30 when Jesus came back to that tomb where the devil was over there happy cuz he got Moses and let me tell you something the devil gets excited when he gets you and you die you know he I got me one now Jesus buried him but he can't have now the grave is mine the grave is mine but see the devil didn't understand that Jesus power is retroactive now you too tired to even fool with this
• 34:30 - 35:00 now but let me try it remember when Jesus came out of the Tomb he said I have the keys I have the keys of death and the grave he said I can get in there when I want to see that's what kees me amen Keys won't help if you can't get in Jesus said what you don't know is since
• 35:00 - 35:30 I have died and been resurrected I am the author of life that can come out of death in fact he had proof with him there was some folk who were in the Tomb when Jesus died on the cross and they came alive came alive and walked around in those tombs until Jesus came out on Sunday morning and when Jesus came out they came out with him they were proof that Jesus had power over the grave so the power of Jesus being retroactive
• 35:30 - 36:00 reached all the way back through the Old Testament and came back to Exodus and dropped right there and Jesus came over to that grave and use the keys that he would have when he died yall don't understand me CU if you did you'd say Amen see he knew he was going to have him so he used him and he came back to get Moses and the devil said where what what are you
• 36:00 - 36:30 doing what you come here for you come to get him that's sorry Rascal Moses uh-uh he said he can't live again when people s said remember Jesus you think the devil can't quote the Bible Well he knows it better than you do he said remember what the Bible say Romans 6:23 the wages of six is death Bible ain't written yet but when it gets
• 36:30 - 37:00 written that's going to be in Romans 6:23 you can't get him up and Jesus didn't didn't even argue with him I like that sometimes you ought not argue with folks if you got the power don't argue if you ain't got the power argue but if you got the power go on and do what you're doing Jesus come back to the tomb the devil say you can't have him Jesus said I rebuke you Satan Satan came as the accuser of the Brethren the word in
• 37:00 - 37:30 in the in the Greek is hassatan it's the accuser see the devil wants us to die and never come back again but when you get your sins forgiven the devil has no record of that cuz see I can get down on my knees right now in front of you oh I wish it was 12:00 so you could understand it all right I could get down on my knees by that chair right there and if I had committed the worst sin in the world I could ask the Lord to
• 37:30 - 38:00 forgive me and you wouldn't know Lord that Mercy you be sitting up there saying he's a good man and what you didn't know was I do something horrible but the Lord never let you know about it I just get it straight with him that's right and God would take that sin where is the deepest part of the see let me find it take that thing put it down there fathoms fathoms underneath the seat say I don't
• 38:00 - 38:30 remember that anymore so if I came the next day and said Lord forgive me of doing that you said what come on folk try to help me out now say what said well Lord you know I I stole tithe from you last week what tithe well Lord last week I was supposed to put an honest tithe and offering in and I didn't do it I robbed you and then I asked you to forgive me well
• 38:30 - 39:00 when you asked him to forgive you he forgave you and he doesn't remember it anymore so if you keep bringing it up that's your fault do you understand what I'm saying and you you can kneel down by the side of your husband and confess the worst sin in the world and your husband may never know you can kneel down by the side of your wife and confess the worst sin in the world they may never know because God forgives sin in private if the sin was Private that's right so
• 39:00 - 39:30 Moses has got it straight but the devil doesn't know it so when Jesus comes against him devil said no you ain't getting him you can't have he said he he disobeyed you see the devil will come and tell you to disobey God and he'll be the one to bring it back up you see what I'm saying he'll say don't you put your tithe in there he say okay then you going to be surprised one day when he will bring it up and say don't you remember on Sabbath September
• 39:30 - 40:00 the 5th when Pearson was in there and should have given his tith and didn't put one sin in there I remember I was that and you say but wait a minute you were the one who told me not to do it all right I don't know nothing about it all I know is you didn't do it or the devil will tell you to go down to something dark Street to the notel
• 40:00 - 40:30 [Music] [Music] motel and tell you to do it and when you do it you may get straight with God but the devil doesn't know it and when your day comes to go to Heaven the devil will be there with the
• 40:30 - 41:00 date and the time and the [Music] woman he'll rub your nose in it come on now talk to me today the devil will tell you you can't get right with God you are an adulterer you are a robber you are a liar you are a sinner and he'll remind you every day of your life you are a sinner and there are some people outside
• 41:00 - 41:30 the church today who ought to be in the church today but they won't come back into church today because the devil tells them ain't no use of you going in you're lost you're sinner all they would have to do would be to get on their knees and say Lord forgive me and Jesus would cleanse them of their sin praise the Lord but it's a devil who won't let you forget it God doesn't remember it anymore and so the devil
• 41:30 - 42:00 said no I remember when he was supposed to speak to that rock he struck The Rock he can't come up but I'm so glad that Jesus is on my side Jesus did not argue with him he said rebuke you devil that's [Music] right come on now look him out stand Moses up and come on
• 42:00 - 42:30 alive son that's right oh Moses wakes up by the power of God he sees the devil standing over in one corner and Jesus standing over other he knows what happened that's right he knows what happened lord said come on with me son we going home devil said no no no no no no no no no no and all the time he said no no no no no no they flying on up back to heaven are you listening to me the devil has no
• 42:30 - 43:00 power over Jesus that's why the devil will try to keep you set in your seat the devil will try to keep you Frozen in your sin because if you get straight with God there ain't nothing the devil can do to keep you out of Heaven oh praise God praise God the devil will come up with a book this thick he can't go I remember when he did such said you mean you going to keep me out of heaven and take him you can't
• 43:00 - 43:30 take him but the same Jesus who said rebuke him then and rebuke him again folks when Jesus come back the devil going to have him a time he going to have imps with with all kind of books you know and then when Jesus comes down here the Bible says that the that a trumpet of God shall sound and the dad in Christ shall rise first devil going to get upset say what's going on here that's right who are the people what what's happening and he going to say go
• 43:30 - 44:00 get the books go find the sins they can't come Jesus said rebuke you Satan and angels are going to go down and pick up God's children and bring them on up and they're going to meet with God on the cloud in the air and the devil going to be down there but but but but but but but but the whole time he's saying but but but but the cloud going to lift on Up Lift on up he said but they sin yeah they sin but they confess their
• 44:00 - 44:30 sins they sin but they got everything right and they have been washed in the blood of Jesus why do you think at the end of the Bible it says that somebody's going to cry out and say who are these folks coming up here with white robes on and the Bible says they have come through Great Tribulation but theyve washed their robs and made them clean in the blood of the Lamb the only way you going to get to heaven is to be washed in the blood of Jesus but if you are washed in the blood the devil can't stop
• 44:30 - 45:00 you Lord I hope it's played I hope it's play now today I'm about to close this sermon but I know something some of us need to get some stuff straight with the Lord problem with the church today is we got too many folks with little hidden [Music] stuff sitting around worried about who going to find out well there's one way to fix that up you know just quit doing it huh then let him tell on you you see
• 45:00 - 45:30 after that prodigal had been out there in that pig sty you remember that and and he comes back look that I got to move Old Alabama preacher got to move every now and then the prodigal comes out of that pig sty stench all over him and he's on the way home and that thing would have scared me if that boy had had to walk up to that house with that filth on him cuz I don't know about you but I have sinned and come short of the glory of God I've
• 45:30 - 46:00 been in some stuff that I'm ashamed of haven't you have you done some stuff you ashamed of I hear some folk around telling you I used to do this folks I've done some stuff I ain't going to tell you about I'm going to just tell Jesus that's what I'm going to do and I don't want you to die it I'm not going to bring it up God forgot it I forgot it the devil can do what he wants to do but but but that boy if he had walked all the way up to that house dirty that
• 46:00 - 46:30 thing would have scared me but I want you to know Daddy was out there at that window looking that's right and when he saw that boy out there he said Lord look at my boy he coming home and he ran out there to his no good son that's no good boy and took his robe off took it off and put it on that boy and say son you don't look too good but
• 46:30 - 47:00 my robe see has been on me and this cologne that I got on is strong enough to cover the pig smell that's on you out don't bother with me today folks the Lord told me to tell you this the cologne on me is sweet enough to cover up the pig smell on you that's right and I'm going to put that on you and I want you to put it all the way up to your neck so they can't see what you used to look like I want you to pull it
• 47:00 - 47:30 all the way down to your hands so they can't see your arm son P it down to your leg don't cover yourself up and now let's go home and he walked that boy home and those servants came out there say yeah let's see what he looked like he'd been gone a long time and they went out there and looked at him real close but they couldn't see his sin they had been covered by the robe of the father they smelled at it see what it smelled like but they couldn't smell where he had been because the cologne that was in the father's robe sweetened up the smell
• 47:30 - 48:00 the way he had been he covered him as he walked in back home and I've got news for you Jesus will put his robe on you that's right but he ain't going to put his robe on you while you hiding something you got to confess it there there some folk today who need to get some stuff right with Jesus I'm wondering I'm wondering if it's this any anybody in here today got a little bitty
• 48:00 - 48:30 something now if your pride still working you can't even deal with where I'm going now if your pride is still on you can forget this we leaving you now I wonder if there's anybody got a little something in your life that you're doing and you ought to quit and today you're willing to give it to Jesus would you just stand up have Merc have Merc Lord have mercy I wonder is anybody in here today got a little something you ought to do but you
• 48:30 - 49:00 haven't been doing it and you're willing to do it by God's grace would you stand up little something you should have been doing but you haven't done it and you're ready to do it now would you stand up I wonder is there anybody today who would be willing to claim the righteousness of Christ and accept his role and just feel good you know have the problem with church members as if we feel bad so we want to make other folks feel
• 49:00 - 49:30 bad I don't know about you but I feel pretty good today I've sinned but I'm straight incidentally while I'm preaching you can say your prayer keep your eyes open if you want to close them if you want to say Lord forgive me for that don't play with him now don't say if I have you know you did close your eyes if you need to keep them open if you want to say Lord forgive me for it and and watch see if God will not cleanse you from
• 49:30 - 50:00 unrighteousness and if you're cleansed what do you have to feel bad about anybody understand what I'm saying doesn't trying to kind of make you feel good to be straight with the Lord if Jesus were to come at this very moment and all of my sins were confessed I'd be saved according to what I read that's right do you believe that do you believe that so then if I don't have anything get St then I ought to feel good shouldn't you feel good how many
• 50:00 - 50:30 feel all right let me see here if you don't feel all right now I can't help you I a nothing I can do for you I'm wondering is there somebody who needs to come to Jesus today somebody needs to come down to the front and say I need to be baptized need to be re-baptized but I know one thing the devil can't keep me out of heaven cuz I understand that now the devil may come and fuss and say you can't take him the Devil May fuss and say you can't take her but the power of God is greater than the power of the devil and I I am going to be washed in the blood of Jesus and I want to be ready when Jesus comes I wonder is
• 50:30 - 51:00 anybody who wants to be baptized or re-baptized you want to come down and and and say I want to learn about this church and I want to be a member of it would you come out of your chair right now and come down to the front I need you to do it right this minute