Look Around

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Welcome to the Final Call Sermon Series, hosted by Noel Dean. In a world filled with uncertainty, confusion, and distraction, God is sending the final message of hope, warning, and preparation. Join Noel Dean as he explores powerful Bible truths concerning the last days, the signs of the times, and the sooner coming of Jesus Christ. Each episode of the challenge, inspire, and prepare God's people for Christ's second coming. The final call is being summoned. The question is, are you ready?

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Hello and welcome to the Final Call Sermon Series. Wherever you are at this time, good night, good morning, good afternoon. We're so grateful to have you uh tune in to us today. We're thankful for your continuous support. This is a very important topic that I would like to discuss today. It is called Look Around. Look around. That's exactly what it means. Look around you and see what is transpiring around you today, in the time that we live in, how things are just uh getting chaotic from day to day. And this is the very thing that the uh Lord uh told his disciples when they were asking him about the his second coming, and what should we look forward to in the second coming in Matthew 24? We don't have to guess anymore, my friends. This is as obvious as it gets. The time is winding down around us, and there's an irony that is ironic. We think the same that our grandparents did. Our grandparents, our great grandparents used to say, Well, the Lord is coming soon. So it comes to the point now where we start to behave just like the the the times of Noah when they didn't believe Noah when he said it's gonna flood. So as we go through this topic today, I'm just hoping someone could understand and um the meaning and importance of us even naming our ministry the final call, final call. Just like you board that flight and they made the final call for you, just like Noah made the final call and they ignored it. So we're here hoping that you don't ignore our final call that we do from time to time here in this on the final call ministry podcast. So before we start, let's pray. Heavenly Father, we're grateful for your love and your mercy. We're thankful, Lord, that you have given us the opportunity this morning to speak about this very important topic. Lord, we can look around us and see that things are not the way it should be. Let it be an alarm for us to get our uh act together, make our calling and election sure, dear Lord, for your soon coming. We want to be saved, Lord. I'm asking you to give me, put the words in my mouth today to articulate this message for someone who is listening, wherever they are at this time, to take a look to take a take a pause and look around and see for themselves what's going on. Take away the distraction from them, there, Lord. Take away the things that will block them from seeing what exactly is going on in the Son's precious name today. Amen. So, this is something that I have been really praying about how to deliver this message, and the more I pray about it, it's the simpler it's starting to look for me. I'm not gonna complicate it. You can walk outside, walk out of your house right now, wherever you are, and walk off at your job and just look around. Look around, you see something that reminds us about what God is trying to say. Look around us and see how the world is turning out. Look on the news, look in the papers, look on social media, just randomly scroll through something on your feed. The odds of you seeing something crazy is very high, very, very high. So there's no more guessing about what's taking place around us. It's exactly what the the disciples were asking the Lord to see, and we start to see it already. Don't mention the disasters, don't mention the economy. All of that is a part of our ability to see and to start making the changes in our lives to adapt to what is about to come, to be aware of the things we need to do, spending more time in the word, and spending time in the word will encourage you to go and share the word with your brother and your sister. He said, Go eat therefore, preach the gospel, preach the gospel to the people out there who are starving for something. So I'm asking you today, when's the last time you look around and see what's going on around you? When's the last time you spoke to a coworker and explained to them the reason why you see this chaos on the street? This is why, this is this is what's going on. The Lord already predicted it, so you don't need to worry about it at all. God is in control. It's okay, no matter how crazy it looks, it's okay. We survived in our lifetime disasters, multiple disasters. Um matter of fact, in the last few years, my family in Jamaica um and friends and colleagues, they have survived um category five hurricanes, you know. So it's just part of not just natural disasters. We'll survive COVID. We survived it. People are alive today. Some did not, but we are still grateful that God kept us and he'll continue to keep us in Psalms 91. That's a promise he made to us. Just be faithful to him and continue to do his will, and he'll protect you from all these things that is posing a threat to us today in these last days. So the term look around comes with a huge responsibility. Not just look, not just look, look around and act. Look to run look around and and uh make some changes in your life. Look around and see if you for me, I pay attention to details everything and everywhere I go. So I was having some really um um harsh shoulder pain a few months ago and I went to the ER. And I'm saying to myself, I don't know what these people in here are for, but it's a lot of people. So our bodies are failing us, so many things are failing us nowadays in these last days. So we have to start making not just spiritual changes, but physical with our nutrition, with exercise, so we can be strong, so we can continue to do the will of the Lord. We cannot preach the gospel laying up in a hospital bed, we cannot preach the gospel, we can't go there for and preach the gospel if we're always at doctors' appointments getting checks. So it's very important for us to see, not just to look around and fix your spiritual path, but also your physical, your mental, you'll be able to dive into his word and get a full understanding of what's going on, so you can make a difference in someone else's life and also in your own life. Your colleagues, your co-workers, they're all there waiting for you to explain to them what what are they seeing out there in the world today. They have no idea, and it's it's your responsibility if you're around them because it's a commission God gave you, and he gave me, and he gave everybody in the sound of my voice today. Go ye therefore. He didn't say the pastor, he didn't put in parentheses, the priest, the pastor. No, he said, Go ye therefore, everyone, everyone who can speak and go out there and speak and let the people know that about his second coming. Noah wasn't a Noah wasn't a pastor, he wasn't even an evangelist, he wasn't a preacher, but he he sure did let these people know what's about to happen. So as we go through these last days, my request to you today is to take a look, look around and see what's happening around us. Look around and see what's taking place and make your call in an election sure. Spend more time in his word, spend more time on your knees. I am a living testament that when you spend time in his word and spend time on your knees, things will change for the positive for you and everyone around you. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you for this message. Lord, we're hoping that someone in the sound of my voice will be able to understand the importance of taking this time to look around them and see. Remove the distraction from them, dear Lord, whatever it may be, for them to pay attention to see what's going on and make that change, Lord. Make that change in their life and in somebody else's life. Lord, we're asking your forgiveness of all our sins, whatever we come short of, dear father. I'm asking you to remove all that's in our path to block your blessing from us, dear Father. So we're asking you now, someone who's hearing me, to give them, encourage them, Lord, to to do to everything according to your will, dear Lord. And and and Father, we're just asking you to let them share your love with someone that needs to hear from you. And Lord, we're just asking you for your presence in our lives, in all that we do or say, to be done to your name, honor, and glory in your son's precious name. We pray. Amen. Amen. So we just want to thank you for listening to us. Continue to support this ministry. Um, just continue to go on our website, the final call ministry.org. So many different uh prayer requests, some different resources there, Bible studies, and all these different uh aspects. Um, remember our divine provision program. 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