CCOG Sunday Service 5-04-25 Eternal Perspective: The Yellow Section and Blue-White Eternity

Pastor uses a powerful visual illustration of a small yellow section against a vast expanse of blue and white to demonstrate how our brief earthly lives compare to the vastness of eternity. He challenges listeners to consider whether their investments and priorities reflect an eternal perspective rather than temporal values.

• Visual demonstration showing life (90 years) as tiny yellow segment compared to infinite eternity
• Matthew 20's parable of vineyard workers revealing God's grace isn't "fair" by human standards
• Explanation of fair (getting what you deserve) versus grace (getting what you don't deserve)
• Warning against prioritizing activities like sports over spiritual formation
• Powerful revelation that there's no seniority in heaven—new believers receive the same reward
• Challenge to evaluate what we're conditioning ourselves for during our brief "segment" of time
• Reminder that the position of our souls at the end of our earthly lives determines our eternal destiny

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Chapters

• 0:00 Opening with Worship and Introduction
• 7:24 Teaching Career Reflections
• 11:35 Life as a Number Line
• 18:42 Fair vs. Grace: The Choice
• 22:53 The Parable of the Vineyard Workers
• 37:21 Treasures on Earth vs. Heaven
• 43:31 Where Your Segment Ends
• 50:36 No Seniority in God's Kingdom
• 58:11 Closing and Contact Information

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:10

I felt the flames. I heard death knocking, my hands were tied, my feet were bound.

Speaker 2: 0:21

Buried alive, covered in ashes. My soul was six feet underground.

Speaker 1: 0:31

Then you rolled that stone away. You pulled me from the grave. Praise the Lord, I saw the light and I'll never be the same. I got that freedom. Hey, you're listening to the KWIT Church of God Sunday Service on the 421 Show. Service was pre-recorded live, edited to fit your platform. Hey, please go check out our website for more content and information at hor421showbuzzsproutcom. You can stream the show on Apple, spotify or whatever platform you're choosing. If you'd like to support the show, you can support it through PayPal slash H-O-R-421, or you can go through our website at H-O-R-421showbuzzsproutcom. The devil whispered little lies.

Speaker 2: 1:22

He tried to steal my victory, but I still don't feel right, if you have a Bible with you, turn with me please. You can go ahead and be seated, because I'm going to probably read just a little bit to Matthew, chapter 20. Matthew, chapter 20. Matthew, chapter 20. I want to say that we are thankful to have you. We welcome you this morning. If you're a visitor, if you're a guest, if this is your first time, you are my brother, you are my sister and I welcome you to an extension of the family of God Located in Kaywood, kentucky. There are many, many extensions of God's family all over the world, but I'm thankful today that you're here with us and I just want to share my heart. I'm not going to hold you long, may not even swing from the fans today, matter of fact, they're on. So I probably I'm telling you, I probably won't for sure swing from the fans today, but I do want to share my heart with you. Sister Georgina, would you put the picture that I sent you, you see, back 20 years ago?

Speaker 2: 2:37

20 years ago, well, 22 years ago, I was hired to teach second and third grade. It was a self-contained classroom, and so I had 25 to 30 second and third graders in a room that was no bigger than this platform A lot of classrooms are. You know they're pretty good size, but at Hall, when they closed Loyal down and sent some students to Hall from Loyal, they had to partition entire classrooms into two. So, being the newbie, I got half of a room but they did not assign me half of a class. I got half the space. Brett, if I'm lying, I'm dying, right, brother. They gave me half the space but a full caseload. They didn't give me half a caseload. Matter of fact, it was a split grade and if anybody's an educator in this room, you know how difficult that is to teach second graders and third graders. Sometimes you had to teach two lessons and sometimes you had to teach different methods in different ways. But I was put into half of a classroom to teach 25 to 30 second third graders. Well, at the end of that school year I got laid off and thankfully there was a teacher who retired and I got to fill in her spot. So then I moved from a half of a classroom with 25 or 32nd and third graders who could write their name and who knew where to write their name, and they knew that the holes on the paper went on which side of the desk and they knew how to hold their pencil and they knew how to write the date and they knew where the date went and all that.

Speaker 2: 4:26

But this go around. I got put in a first grade classroom. You're right, you're looking at me Kindergarten cops, what they called me. I wore a whistle around my neck because when they got too loud I blew the whistle and then they would get quiet for about five seconds and then you know whatever. So they gave me a bigger room. I was glad to get a bigger room, but this time I had 31 first graders and this was 22 years ago, it's a whole lot different now. But they didn't know how to hold a pencil. I told them to write their name on their paper and I got random places where names were written. Some of them just wrote the first letter of their name because they didn't know what the second letter of their name was.

Speaker 2: 5:10

And I took a lot of things for granted. As a matter of fact, we did the pledge and we would have a moment of silence. And on the first day of school we did the pledge and I said now let's have a moment of silence. And when we had our moment of silence, I bowed my head, I bowed my head, I closed my eyes and when I looked up after that moment of silence, I saw 31 first graders on their knees at their desks in a praying position. So I thought, okay, I'm going to. I don't know how they knew to do this. So the next day I peaked a little bit, I opened one of my eyes and we did the pledge and we had our moment of silence and I looked out of one of my eyes and there was this one little Pentecostal. Anybody know what a Pentecostal is? P-e-n-n-y costal. A Pentecostal, not a Pentecostal, a Pentecostal. She is a Pentecostal girl. She had her denim skirt and her long ponytail and I looked and out of the corner of my eye and she is looking at every one of them, pointing at them, saying do like me. And she got on her knees and they all followed suit and got on her knees just like she did. Amen, same girl.

Speaker 2: 6:25

I was at my desk one day, sister Serena and I had my hand on my head. I mean, my God, if they couldn't read, it's my fault. I had my hand on my head, I was stressed out, I didn't know what else to do. Danny, and I was sitting there at my desk with my hand on my head and I felt and heard this shoo, shoo. I looked, it was the Pentecostal girl. She was praying for me. Don't know what shoo means, but I felt the glory of God fall in that room. Amen, she was praying for me.

Speaker 2: 6:57

So that was my second year. Then I got laid off again, thank God. Another teacher decided she was going to retire, so I moved on down the hall, down by the lunchroom, right before you went upstairs of the old hall school, and there I was and they said you're going to teach third and fourth grade. I'm sorry, fourth and fifth grade, science and math what I can't teach, but I needed a job so bad. I approached my principal like I. He didn't know, I didn't know math, reporting for duty, mr Cornett, I will teach math to the best. He did not know that I was not very good at math. You know why? Because I was reporting for duty and I was going to do whatever I had to do to do my job with excellence, amen.

Speaker 2: 7:53

I wasn't going to say well, now, teachers, today, let me just go ahead and tell you. 22 years later, they'll just about tell you what they're going to do and what they're not going to do. Let me tell you back in that day, if he told me to coach cheerleading, rah, rah, shish, boom, bye, baby, we're going to coach cheerleading. If that's what it takes, man. Now they pick and choose what they're going to do and and and I just go ahead and tell you this generation's killing a brother. But he didn't know. I didn't know math. So guess what I had to do? I had to teach myself the lessons, which means I had to take time out of after school hours. I wasn't going to kick back and just do my own thing. And if they learn it, okay, and if they don't, okay. I took this seriously. Here I am, 22 years later and I'm still in awe that God has allowed me the opportunity to be an educator. I'm like my God. I get to do this, amen.

Speaker 2: 8:54

So I had to learn things on my own in math and I learned in science force and motion, ecosystems, atoms I thought atom was who I graduated with. Come to find out it's a science term, amen. Neutrons, protons, electrons Now it's been 20 years. I couldn't tell you what any of those are right now Amen. But I had to learn.

Speaker 2: 9:22

There are four steps to long division Amen. Divide, multiply, subtract, bring down. Just do that over and over, and math is really kind of logical. If you'll just follow the rules and follow the steps, you'll get the answer you're supposed to get, until it got to where they were throwing letters in math. Letters don't belong in math. I don't care why X, y and Z is congruent to the hypotenuse of the whatever. I don't care.

Speaker 2: 9:51

I promise you I've never used it, but we got to a geometry lesson on lines, line segments and rays, so I turned it spiritual Amen. Look at that. It spiritual Amen. Look at that top one. That's a line. That's God. There's no beginning and there's no end. God is the line of the world, that arrow pointing that way. And that arrow pointing that way means infinity and beyond. For you Toy Story lovers, amen, that means there is no beginning and there is no end.

Speaker 2: 10:31

The second row, a segment that is us fleshly, us earthly. We have a beginning and we have an end. There is a point of beginning and we have an end. There is a point of beginning, there is a point of ending. And then we come down to the next row, which is a ray. And if your name is Ray, I'm not talking about you. Amen. This is our spiritual being. We have a beginning, but it never ends.

Speaker 2: 11:04

So I thought to myself on this little sheet of paper it says life. Everybody say life. It's a number line. That's a math term I had to teach myself. It is a math term and it's called a number line. And on this number line, the number line, if you'll maybe hold this in, brother Jason and we need to stretch this as far as we can Just take her and run with her.

Speaker 2: 11:33

Brother, if you've got to circle around, circle around. If you've got to go through the river and around the woods, around the river and through the woods, go on, you're good, keep going, keep going, stop right there. Come here, jc, take this one, go that way, go that way, go that way. Okay, stop that way. Okay, stop right there. No, keep going. I'm sorry, keep going. If he wraps you up and ties you up and tangles you up in Jesus, you'll be all right.

Speaker 2: 12:16

Austin, I thought I was going to hog tie him today and I still might. Okay, travis, stand up right there and hold that up. Brother James, will you come hold this up right here? There you go, aaron, it's caught in your hair. Jd, will you hold that end up there, right there, hold it up. Maybe somebody on the corner can. Caleb, do you care to grab that back there and hold it up for me? Thank you, sir.

Speaker 2: 12:50

Now look, this says life, and on this number line I've got birth is where it starts. I've got age five, kind of you know, kind of landmark type, ages 20, 50, 75, and you know maybe further. So let's say, go on to 90, if we're fortunate enough to live 90 years on earth, and then at the end it's that middle one, it's a segment, it's called death. So look, here I'm going to use Monica's post-it note that she acted like I robbed her. Hold that up.

Speaker 2: 13:36

That little yellow portion right there is our life and the rest of this represents eternity. That yellow portion is our life and the rest of this represents eternity. That yellow portion is our life that we stress over, we pour all of our time and attention into. Come on, I'm preaching to you today, whether you like it or not, we're taking our kids everywhere, but God's house. We're wanting to save money and not give it for a mission trip because we may need it for a hard day when really the mission that they're going to do is going to have eternal ramifications on generations to come. Amen.

Speaker 2: 14:22

We get caught up. We get caught up in popularity in that yellow section. We get caught up in houses and homes and cars and money and belongings in that yellow section. But my question to you about the yellow section is what have you done in the yellow section that's going to do anything for the blue and white section? That's going to go.

Speaker 2: 14:45

And where Brother Jason is, that's just a representation. It keeps going and going and going. So, in comparison to 90 years on this earth, that yellow portion is 90 years on this earth and the rest is eternity. I got news for you. I don't know if you believe in heaven or hell, but I'm telling you today, there is a telling you today there is a heaven to gain, there is a hell to shun, and everybody in this room, we're going to spend eternity in heaven or in hell. You can be big and bad, you can have hatred and jealousy and animosity, but I'm telling you, if you want to spend eternity in heaven, you better get the yellow portion right, because how you live that life will determine what you do in the rest of it. Give him praise in the house of God.

Speaker 2: 15:42

That represents 90 years. For sake of argument, let's say that yellow portion represents 100 years of Cawood Church of God being in existence next year, should the Lord tarry and I don't think he will I truly I've got my eyes fixed on the eastern skies. Somebody said what are y'all going to do for your 100 year celebration? I said we're going to make the marriage supper of the lamb, celebrating around the throne. Amen, god's going to welcome us in and say happy centennial. I've brought you home to celebrate a hundred years of Pentecostal preaching and Pentecostal power and soul winning and holiness and sanctification and divine healing and all the things God has in store. A hundred years.

Speaker 2: 16:43

What are you pouring into that yellow section that's worth hell for the rest of this. Trying to impress somebody in the yellow section? Holding grudges in the yellow section. Holding grudges in the yellow section, being rude in the yellow section, acting like you, somebody in the yellow section. There's coming a time the yellow section's going to expire and the blue and white section will never end and when you get to Jason's portion of eternity you are still going to wonder why didn't I do what I was supposed to do in the yellow section?

Speaker 2: 17:37

I hope in eternity. You hear the yellow section. I hope you hear it in your sleep tonight. If you're not saved and the blood of Jesus has not been applied to your life, I pray in your sleep. You hear the yellow section. I pray it wakes you up. I pray that you come to the realization there's not a bottle, there's not a needle, there's not a sexual activity, there's not an immoral thought, there's not a feeling of animosity or hatred or jealousy, or I'm going to get. Even that is worth your eternity. Do y'all mind to stay like this while I preach? See, at least I asked.

Speaker 2: 18:25

Then there's two more words that come to my mind, and it's the title of this message today Do you want what's fair or do you want grace? But you don't get both. That's not fair. Usually, when it's not fair, it's because it's grace. Usually, when it's not fair, it's because it's grace.

Speaker 2: 18:58

And the Lord spoke to me, spoke to my spirit. I won't say he audibly spoke to me. He spoke to my spirit on my way to church this morning and he let me know that the word grace scares a lot of people. You know why it scares a lot of people? Because grace, for some reason, brother Danny, is associated with weakness. Why is it that we church of God folk always have to throw out the disclaimer?

Speaker 2: 19:32

Now, grace is not a license to sin. Duh, we should not have to give that disclaimer every time we mention the word grace. We know that grace is not a license to sin. We know that. We know what the works of the flesh are found in Galatians, chapter 5. We know that adultery and fornication will send your soul to hell. We know that wild parties and drunkenness and drugging I'm just quoting to you the works of the flesh we know that immoral thoughts and immoral living, we know that those things will send you to hell.

Speaker 2: 20:15

But I want you to know something about grace today. Grace is too good to be true. Let me read you this Fair Everybody say fair In a manner that is honest or impartial and conforms to rules. Fair means in a manner that is honest or impartial or that conforms to rules. In other words, fair means getting what you deserve. I worked hard for it. I deserve it.

Speaker 2: 20:59

Anybody want to know what grace means Unmerited divine assistance that doesn't need your permission. I don't have to call the president to have grace imparted to me. It's amazing grace how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me. Baby, I once was lost, but now I'm found. I was blind, but now I see, because of grace. Well, I see because of grace, in other words, getting what you don't deserve.

Speaker 2: 21:46

There ain't a person in this room, from the pulpit to the sound booth, that deserves grace. But thanks be unto God that he died on that battered, bloodied beam on Calvary's mountain called Golgoth, amen. He hung between heaven and earth six hours on a Friday night saying my God, my God, why have you forsaken? He could have called 72,000 angels to come and get him off the cross, but I'm glad today that he didn't, because if we're going to be fair, we deserve hell, all of us. So you don't get fair and grace. You've got to pick and choose which one you're going to have Fair or grace. Which leads me Stay right there, boys. If your arms get tired, switch hands you too. Aaron. Matthew, chapter 20, verse 1.

Speaker 2: 23:00

I ain't even going to lie to you. This came to me Thursday night while I was lining up pews that you're sitting in and pews that you're probably going to make crooked before you leave. I ain't going to lie to you. We're going to see how low we can go. I started grumbling a little bit and my grumbling didn't do anything but make the Holy Ghost get a hold to me, because when you go to grumbling didn't do anything, but make the Holy Ghost get a hold to me, because when you go to grumbling, stop what you're doing, because you just missed out on what God had for you.

Speaker 2: 23:52

For the kingdom of heaven is likened to a man that is a householder. He owns the vineyard, he got money, he in a place of position, a place of prosperity, a place of plaudits and a place of popularity. And if I could think of another P word, I'd give it to you Prosperity, popularity. I'd give it to you Prosperity, popularity, plaudits and prosperity. There you go. There they are, four again. Don't make me say it again because I won't remember them. He had it all.

Speaker 2: 24:31

It was grape harvest and what happened was the grapes were planted and the grapes grew in the spring and through most of the summer, but there was a short period of harvest time before the rain came that the crop had to be brought in. You with me, don't leave, stay with me for just a few minutes. You had to get the harvest in before the rain fell and there was a short period of time, brother Archie, in September, where they had to go into the vineyards and get the crop and get the harvest and bring it in so that it wouldn't be ruined. Okay, so this is a parable that Jesus is using.

Speaker 2: 25:13

He said the kingdom of heaven, my kingdom, that is not built with hands, that is, whose builder and ruler and maker is God, is likened unto a man, that is a householder, which went out early in the morning to hire laborers into his vineyard. Come here, girls. Come on, you're getting you some camera time today. Come on, stand right over here by the pionter, verse 2. And he talked to them and he said I'm going to pay you a penny a day, which was a denarius, which was not what unskilled, unlearned workers earned. They were not skilled in what they were being hired to do. You see, when God called me 25 years ago, I didn't know what I was doing and guess what.

Speaker 2: 26:23

Here I am and I still don't know what I'm doing. I'm just fine, trying to follow the leading of the Lord and do what God says. Do and say what God says. Say and go where God says. Go and preach what God says, preach and share what God says share. I'm just God says go and preach what God says, preach and share what God says share. I'm just trying to get the mind of God in my life.

Speaker 2: 26:43

So at 6 am, everybody say 6 am. Steve said 6 am like he gets up at 6 am. Some of you said 6 am like you ain't never seen 6 am on your clock. So we hired these two and I know if they didn't have to be, they wouldn't be up at 6 am. And he said here's what I'm going to do. I'm going to send you into the vineyard to work and I'm going to pay you a penny which was a day's wage for a Roman soldier, not an unskilled worker. So guess what? The landowner was giving them A very generous wage. They went into the field excited and happy and they agreed to that wage. Everybody say they agreed to that wage. Okay. So there they are at 6 am working in the grapevines.

Speaker 2: 27:43

Next verse, and they knew what they were getting paid. And he went out about the third hour, 6, 7, 8, nine. So he went out. At nine o'clock, austin and Kaylee come forth and saw other people standing idle in the marketplace. Come up here. I want y'all to stand right in front of this microphone Now. Standing idle does not mean that they were lazy. They were in the marketplace looking for work. They were in the marketplace, which tells me thank you of their availability. God doesn't always look at talent, god's looking at availability. You might preach better than TD Jakes, rod Parsley, tim Hill, but it don't matter how good you preach if you're not available. They were in the marketplace, available, ready to work. Next verse, and said unto them go ye also into the vineyard.

Speaker 2: 29:13

This time, brother Brett, he didn't tell them what he was paying them, he just said I'll do you right. So them knowing him to be a man of wealth, let's look at a man of prosperity, popularity, plaudits and the other P word popularity, prosperity, plaudits and something else I can't remember. Anyway, they knew that's what he was. So they trusted him that he'll do them right. And he said and whatsoever is right I will give you. And they went their way. Stay right there.

Speaker 2: 29:55

And again he went out about the 6th hour hold on 9, 10, 11, 12 and the 9th hour 1, 2, 3. So he went out at noon and at 3pm and he found come on, archie, come on, rebecca, go stand by that microphone. And he found come on, archie, come on, rebecca, go stand by that microphone. Come on, you two, you're going to sit on the front, you've got to participate. Go stand by the piano. And he told them I'll do you right, I'll pay you what's right. But he didn't tell them what he was going to pay them and did likewise Next verse.

Speaker 2: 30:44

And then, first of all, there are 12 hours in a work day, okay. So then he went out the 11th hour and he found some more standing idly by. Come on, becca, come on, girl, both of them. Come on, girls, come on, come on, come on, twana, if you didn't have a baby girl, I'd be getting you up here, the quadruplets here I'd get you right up here. Go stand right there by the fern.

Speaker 2: 31:24

So he went back out the 11th hour and he found others that were idle. Now, no disrespect, but I got to say this and I promise I didn't play and I, you know I didn't, becca, I promise this has nothing to do with short people, I promise. But those still in the marketplace might have been the maimed, the elderly, the others that were overlooked, but they were still available. He said why do you stand here all the day long idle? Next verse, and they say unto him, because no man hath hired us. He saith unto them go ye also into my vineyard. Guess what? They knew the owner of the vineyard. They knew him to be a wealthy man, a man who owned it all, and they knew him to be a generous man. So you know what? They were just excited to get to work for one hour.

Speaker 2: 32:38

Girls, to get to work for one hour. Girls. Y'all been working 12 hours by the sweat of your brow, in the heat of the day. Anybody know what I'm talking about? No, okay, go to Crank's. She'll put you in the garden. You missed a chance to shout Misty Planting time in Crank's. She'll put you in the garden. You missed a chance to shout Misty Planting time in Crank's Creek. Green beans, taters, maters, you name it. They got it Oakry. And she don't bring it to you prepared, she'll bring it to you in a mason jar. At least she brings it to you, she'll bring it to you in a mason jar. At least she brings it to you.

Speaker 2: 33:21

So when even was, come the Lord of the vineyard, saith to the steward, call the laborers and give them their money. But here's how I want you to do it, boy, you can tell Facebook didn't exist back then. Because this man he didn't care if he got Facebook plastered or not he said I want you to begin at the last and work your way to the first. Anybody got any coins? Come on, come on. I would say I'll give them back, but I can't make any promises. If they're silver ones, you might've just lost them. Hallelujah, I'm going to need more, by the way, there's yours, there's yours and there's yours. So when they got a penny, a denarius, a day's wage for a Roman army trained person, unskilled, no offense, maimed and old, no offense, maimed and old. But they got a penny which was a day's wage for somebody trained, not for somebody unskilled. So guess what? The Lord of the vineyard was A generous man who did them right.

Speaker 2: 35:00

Oh, thank God, the ninth hour. People got all kinds of excited because they read on Facebook how much they got. Anybody got more Going to need more. A bunch of them. You're like Pastor you took up 14 offerings today. We never take up a bunch of them. You're like pastor you took up 14 offerings today. We never take up a bunch of offerings. Come on, I'll take more. Come on, brett. God bless you Making check soup just like a superintendent. So then it was time for them to get theirs. Here's my question why are we always so caught up in what other people get? Why are we always getting mad when other people get blessed? I'm just trying to get you blessed. So just a little bit of the ninth hour and a little bit of the sixth hour got a little bit depleted because they were expecting a little bit more. Then they went to the third hour because they were expecting a little bit more.

Speaker 2: 36:19

Then they went to the third hour and they too got a penny. I'm going somewhere, I promise. So these girls over here, man, they've already got Ulta, altered State, give me another one. Lululemon, one more. Sephora I'm about to go back to preaching. Church of God, old time with Ulta and Sephora.

Speaker 2: 36:58

Man, I'm kidding, they're excited. They're sitting here thinking I'm going to get 12 days wages because this cat is paying a penny an hour. Yeah, come on and look what they got. They got a penny, just like y'all, and all you had to do was work an hour An hour. But when the first came, they supposed they should have received more. And they likewise received every man a penny Eleven.

Speaker 2: 37:44

And when they had received it, they murmured against the good man of the house. First of all, they're the only ones that knew the wage they were working for. And what did they do? They agreed to it. So here's what I'm going to give every CEO, every boss, every person who has falsing papers. I'm going to give you an opportunity to shout right now, because the people that murmur and complain, you can't murmur and complain. When you signed on the dotted line for the wage that you're receiving, he's like what are you complaining about? You agreed to this, yeah, but we didn't know.

Speaker 2: 38:34

That's because Jesus doesn't always tell us what lies ahead. These last have wrought but one hour, thank y'all, and thou hast made them equal to us, which have bore the burden and the heat of the day 13. But he answered one of them and said Friend, I do thee no wrong, didn't you agree with me for a penny? Take that thine is, go thy way. I will give unto this last, even as unto thee 15. Is it not lawful for me to do what I will with mine? Own Is thine eye evil, because I am good. And then I didn't tell her 16, but I'm going to read you 16. 16 says so the last shall be first and the first last you ready For. Many are called, but few are chosen. So I said all that to say this. Well, let me read you this. Go to Matthew 6 real quick, aaron, come back.

Speaker 1: 40:20

Get ready.

Speaker 2: 40:22

Look here Just three verses of Scripture Lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth where moth and rust doth corrupt and where thieves break through and steal 20. 20. But lay up for yourselves treasures where? Where In heaven, where neither moth nor rust doth corrupt and where thieves do not break through nor steal. Look, look for where your treasure is. There will your heart be also. In other words, your heart will tell where your treasures are. Your life will tell where your heart is. Your priorities will show what your priorities are.

Speaker 2: 41:29

Hold on so the rope. See that over there, that yellow portion is a hundred years on earth and why we work so hard getting this thing right here in order. That is going to go back to the dust of the earth soon, because we are carnal, we are flesh. Our spirit, our soul is going to live forever. The blue and the white section. So that time you've got over there in yellow needs to be a conditioning. Didn't even know I was going to say that word, did you? A conditioning. You are conditioning your soul and your spirit for this. You are preparing your soul and your spirit for this.

Speaker 2: 42:40

But we've got our minds on and I'm not against it. I'm not against it Matter of fact. I'll be there, I'll support it, I'll do whatever I can do to help it. But we get our minds on and I'm not against it. I'm not against it, matter of fact. I'll be there, I'll support it, I'll do whatever I can do to help it. But we get our minds so much on touchdowns and back handsprings and three pointers and slam dunks and and home runs and all this, that and the other. We get our minds so focused on that that we lose it.

Speaker 2: 43:01

Somebody told me this week, this week, that in this county, right here, it's not in our schools, it's an entity outside of our schools, so it is not school-related whatsoever that there was a coach that told a family I know you go to church on Sundays, but it's very important that your child is here on Sunday morning at 10 o'clock if he wants to play. You know what I told that parent? You look at that coach in the eye and you defy him and you tell him, in the name of Jesus, a home run is not getting my baby to heaven, but knowing what, thus saith the Lord, is conditioning my child for eternity. I'm not against baseball, I'm not against football. I'm not against basketball. I'm not against volleyball, I'm not against cheerleading, I'm not against these things. Do it to your heart's content, but when it comes to the ramifications of the eternal soul and destination of you and your child, listen to me. Dad, you've been anointed and appointed to lead your family in the fear and the admonition of the Lord Jesus Christ. Teach him how to throw a fastball, teach him how to hit a home run, but, my God, teach him that Jesus Christ is the Son of the living God and the Savior of the world, and without him we are eternally destined for hell.

Speaker 2: 44:35

Now I know why old timers didn't do ball games. I wanted my papaw to come watch me play. So bad I couldn't stand it. But he would say, honey, you just got to understand. He said I hope you do good and I hope you play good. He said but papaw's got a flesh. He said now I don't want that flesh to rise up in. Papaw, when you get out there and get hit hard or somebody does something to you, I don't, oh, don't look at me like you ain't got up and cut a shine. Say that one more time. I know I have, I know I have, I know I have.

Speaker 2: 45:31

Brother Scott, I might not have said it, but it is in there. It is in there. It was dying to come out. I'm not against it. I'm not against it. First of all, whoever that coach is needs canned, sent to the house. You no longer have a job Because we, right here at the Catewood Church of God you need to look in our bylaws we believe that Sunday is the Christian day of worship.

Speaker 2: 46:03

Did you hear what I said? Christian day? I didn't say Christian two hours, it's the Christian day of worship. Did you hear what I said? The Christian day? I didn't say Christian two hours, it's the Christian day of worship. There was a day they wouldn't have touched YPE or family training hour. They wouldn't have touched it.

Speaker 2: 46:17

And I tell you what I pert near got real mad the last two Saturdays. I drove by the Little League field and it was a ghost town Because everybody wants their Saturdays. I drove by the Little League field and it was a ghost town Because everybody wants their Saturdays. How about you spend your Saturday and get your babies to the place where we're teaching them? Father Abraham had many sons and many sons had Father Abraham. Why don't you get them to the place where we can teach them? We are the young people's endeavor and we will fight, fight, fight for it. You ain't shouting with me today. You ain't shouting with me today. Why not? Because we're spent in the yellow section, acting like. The yellow section is the blue and white section.

Speaker 2: 47:06

Our Sunday school teacher if you'd have been here you'd know it he said this morning in Sunday school class there's a dash between 1979, april, the 10th 1979. Brother Scott, there's going to be a dash one day and then there's going to be another one day and then there's going to be another. Go ahead and put my picture back up there. There's going to be another date. It's going to be a segment. I am a segment Of time On this earth. You, as Eternal as you like to think you are, you are a segment Of time On this earth as you like to think you are. You are a segment of time on this earth. You have a beginning, you have a dash and you have an ending, and all that's that dash is the yellow section. What have you done in the yellow section To lay up treasures In heaven? For where your heart is, there your treasures are.

Speaker 2: 48:16

He also said it was good I give. He needs to patent this, saying Copyright it. I'm giving credit today to Brett Johnson. Now. I cannot promise you that if I go preach somewhere next week that he's going to get the credit for this, but he's getting it today because he's in my presence Now. If I invite him to go with me and he obliges and goes, I'll give him credit. But that's the results of not going with me. I steal your material. He said we're so caught up in the left and right that we forgot there's an up and a down. We get so politically caught up in the left and the right that we spiritually forget there's an up and there's a down.

Speaker 2: 49:09

And when you get to the end see the end, where his finger is, the end of your yellow section it's at that point, right there, that will determine this. Here's my question. Here's the thing about it. Brother John Fee, brother Scott, we don't know Gayla. We don't know when the end of the segment is going to be. We don't know. Death has no respecter of age. My daddy died at 66, which means I've got 20 years to go. If I'm like him, who knows? My grandfather lived to 86, which means I got oh Lord, that's a long time, which means I got 40 more. Who knows? But I can tell you this If the end of your yellow is 100, or the end of your yellow is how old are you 26. Or if the end of your yellow is 26, where you are at the end of this segment of time will determine this. Where you are at the end of this segment of time will determine this. Where are you going? Where are you going If the end of your segment is today? Where are you going? You don't get a free pass. You don't get a get out of jail free card. It don't matter how much money you got, it don't matter how many judges you know or how many lawyers you've hired. At the end of your segment of time, whether you're 100, whether you're 50, whether you're 60, whether you're 25, it doesn't matter where you are at the end of your segment. What have you done for this? Here's the good news. I'm closing right here. Here's the good news. Here's the good news.

Speaker 2: 51:22

Wendike, you've been in church your whole life, right? If you don't mind me asking, how long has that been? Almost 75 years. Had a grandmother. She handed me her grandmother's Sunday school commentaries from the 70s. I almost felt like I had a hold of something holy, like I almost felt the glory coming out of it. She had a mother that was a member of this church for nearly 60 years, played the piano because God taught her fingers how to move. And when the anointing got in it, she was better than Tommy Bates, better than Liberace, better than Yocum what's his name? Jeremiah Yocum. And then when the anointing got in the fingers of that elderly woman and the power of God got in her hands, ain't, nobody could play like that, and you knew it was about to get real when she had bailed her. Anybody know what I mean by bail her? Well, praise the Lord. You better watch out, because the ivories are getting ready to come out. She broke the strings on a piano of a church we visited once, had to restring the whole thing 75 years, 75 years.

Speaker 2: 52:38

And guess what? Who's the newest convert in the room? Who's been saved the least amount? I tell you what because they're family. Kaylee, about how long? Uh-huh, one year. So you got one year, 75 years.

Speaker 2: 52:54

Guess what, guess what, guess what, guess what. The same heaven she gets is oh, that ought to make a Pentecostal shout. That'll make a Baptist shout, that'll make anybody shout. The same heaven, 75 years in the making, is the same heaven One year is getting.

Speaker 2: 53:16

My God, we're going to the same heaven because the Lord of the vineyard will do us right. Stand to your feet. There's no such thing. Listen to me. There's no such thing as seniority in the kingdom. He tumbles, I tumbles, he tumbles. Sister Ruby. Sister Ruby Spurlock lives four houses down, five houses down, joined this church in 1953, got saved in her early 30's. She's 96 and still serving the Lord and the same heaven that she gets is the same heaven. That one year, one day, one day you can come to the altar today, make things right with God and you're going to the same heaven as Paul and Moses and Abraham and Isaac and Jacob and Ruth and Mary and Martha. That you're going to the same heaven. It's been prepared for you just like it was prepared for them. There's no seniority in the kingdom now.

Speaker 2: 55:07

Now well, that's not fair. No, and I'll be honest with you, brother Jason, when I'm reading this message and I'm going over this message and I'm studying this message, I'm getting mad about this message. I'm not liking it one little bit. But God lets me know it's not about what's fair, it's about what's fair, it's about what's grace, because when we start focusing on what's fair, it's almost like we deserve heaven, but y'all don't. We deserve the reward, but you all don don't. And if you're not careful, you'll start looking down on people and you'll start shaming people and you'll start classifying people.

Speaker 2: 56:22

So those down there are some of you in here today you're not saved and you're sitting there thinking, oh Lord, I could never make it to the same heaven as Billy Graham or Oral Roberts or some of these others other matriarchs and patriarchs that have gone on. I could never. Yeah, you can. Because he said if you'll come to me and you'll go work in my field, because I believe if you come today, you're getting in at the 11th hour. That's how close I feel like we are. That's how close to the 12th hour I believe we are, brother Jake, and if you come today, you get the same reward as them. Would you bow your heads with me.

Speaker 2: 57:14

I'm not asking for your hand, but I am asking you right now if you're on your way fast track to hell. You're in a church right now. That's not going to tell you you're going to heaven. If you're not, if you've never been born again, you are on your way to hell. It's hot where the worm dieth, not where there's weeping and gnashing of teeth, and it is eternal and never, ever, ever ends. You're lost. You don't know Jesus. He brought you here today to tell you that the last will be first and if the first are where they need to be with God, as I heard death knocking.

Speaker 1: 58:24

My hands were tied. My feet were bound, buried alive covered in ashes.

Speaker 2: 58:36

My soul was six feet underground.

Speaker 1: 58:40

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