“How Will You Die”

   Bro. Brent Markee preaching here on January 3, 2021 at Haven Of Hope. This message is the one preached when I got saved. It means a lot to me to have the recording, that I may go back time and time again to remember where I was and won’t forget it. God Bless You as you listen in!!

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Most of us are aware. Maybe I say most of us, a lot of us are aware of what took place in Marchburg last night. I was here at the church. We'd had one, like I said, a long day, started with a funeral, mid-dinner, hauled stuff in, went with Michael and Whitney looking a piece of land up on the mountain before it got dark. Come back. My nephew Brian was here looking in the computer. My nephew Brian came, hung out a while, and we decided we'd go get something to eat. We left his church. And about the time I was passing in front of Justin White's shop over here on Warm Springs Avenue, just about the time I was passing in front of his restaurant, somebody pulled out a gun and killed three people three doors down. About the time I was going in front of his restaurant at Laddie's Bar. I got out on the interstate. I did not see that, but as I got on the interstate, there was a state trooper sitting there running radar, and Brian was just about a half a minute behind me. By the time Brian got there, the state police had thrown his lights on, come out around him, and went up to 14 to head back. So sometime when that 911 call was coming in about the time I got off the 16 down there to head up to the diner. And so sometime between right when I was here and leaving here, I drove past while these three guys were getting killed. They revived one of them, their laddies, and revived one of them and put him in a chopper and took him out of here. Whether he's still alive or dead. He was dead when they got there. They did get a pulse, flew him out, probably not much of a chance. They talk about maybe a fourth one suspect fled. We was at the diner for a while while we were there when I got the news and all. Someone took a picture of all the flashing lights and all those things to us. We were there a while, so when I come back to the church to pray a while last night and met study, and I come by the church, I thought, you know, I'm gonna drive by there and just drive by there. I assumed that it took place inside of the bar, and I thought, well, I'll drive by and see if the windows are shot up, see if cops is still there. And I circled through Comfort Inn and I went up and Corporal Dobson, he's not corporal now, he's a canine unit here, but he was corporal at the juvenile detention center, was out there, and I know him. Big old tall red-headed uh sheriff's deputy. I went through Comfort Inn. I come up the far end, and when I come back through there, I looked over at Laddie's, and much to my dismay, there they both laid right there in the parking lot. One of them covered in a sheet filled with blood, and one laying out there with nothing on him. First time I've ever encountered anything like that. Shook me up a little bit. You say, Brother Bridge, you keep driving? I couldn't. And I stopped and and I didn't know, I didn't think they would allow you during that crime scene investigation. I figured they'd have shoot everybody away, but I was driving back over this morning, recognized those apartments, just looking right, there's apartments behind her, just looking right down that parking lot. I can imagine the people in the windows. There was a young couple standing over there, and the man they shaking their heads said, Brother Brent said, We've heard of stuff like this, but we've never seen nothing like this. They said, Preacher, we never seen nothing like this. And I said, It's kind of a strange day because this morning I just preached a funeral for a man that got shot off of a pole in Charlestown three weeks ago. While I was there, they said, Oh, by the way, in the last half hour, right across the street, a guy got hit by a car and they flew the helicopter, brought the helicopter back and flew him out. Strange night in Marchburg last night. I preached a funeral of a guy who got cancer, got distraught, got in a fight with his neighbor, and climbed up a pole, went shooting guns in the air, and when the law came, he climbed up a pole. They said he pointed a gun at him. I have a hard time believing it. After hanging on that pole barefoot in 30-degree weather for an hour and a half, I think he just moved around to rebalance himself and pointed the gun and it may have actually come at him. I don't know, don't want to judge. I'm pro-law enforcement, but it's just a bad deal. And his wife watched his body fall. It's not the way it's supposed to end. And I tried to preach that funeral yesterday with such a heavy heart because that's that's not how it's supposed to go down. I drove by there and I looked out there, Brother Matt, and there lay that body out there in that parking lot, and beside that body, they had pulled his biker boots off of it. And sitting beside that body was his black pair of boots. And blood running out across the parking lot. I stayed there a while, they put him in a body bag, and directly they uncovered the other guy who was bleeding much worse. Again, I don't want to get too graphic today, but blood coming out of all parts of his body and running down the parking lot. I stopped by there this morning. Parts of his brain is still on the parking lot. They never cleaned up when he left. That's not the way to leave. I come back to my office and I was very troubled, hard to concentrate, Brother Trent. I sit in my office. I kept thinking about those boots sitting out there, brother Mike. They uncovered the other guy, and he too had those, the best way I know describing those biker boots, two giant men. I asked the sheriff what's what went down. He said, I said, probably all gang-related preacher. And I come home and I said and I almost preached this morning. He died with his boots on. And I seen him laying out there, I thought about those boots. He's probably some pretty bad dudes, just to be real honest with you. You don't know, I don't know. They was not in the right place, that's for sure. We just lost one at Mountaineer Bar, just a quarter of a mile from there a couple weeks ago. Corporal Dobson said, I re I worked out one too, Pastor, in the Mountaineer Bar. I got to thinking about a mile from this church, people dying. I thought about overdoses, I thought about all the things, and I thought about life. And I'm gonna preach this morning for a few minutes if the Lord helped me on. How will you die?

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How will you die? I watched him load up his car, Brother Isaac, on a rollback and take it somewhere, maybe to the sheriff's department. And I know and I say without a shadow of a doubt, with one a hundred percent certainty today, that those two guys planned on getting back in that car tonight after a little bit of partying that night and driving back to wherever they came from. But they never got back in that car and they never went home. I drove down the road and I wondered if they had a mama that was still alive and had to get a phone call. Your two boys got shot and killed tonight. I drove down the road, Brother Matthew, and I thought, I wonder if them two guys had any children that had to get a phone call. Your daddy died tonight. Did he die in a car wreck? No. He got shot in the parking lot of a bar. I drove down the road and I wondered if them guys had a wife, brother. And I wondered if their wife got a call. That wife had said, please don't go there tonight. I wonder if their wife got a call. If they had a wife, they got a call. I don't know. I don't know them guys, but I wondered as I drove down the road. I wouldn't want to have to get that phone call. I preached a funeral yesterday morning, and on the far left side, a woman sat and she cried, and it was his common law wife of 25 years, and she sat there and sobbed, and in her mind she seen her husband falling from that pole, and it just replays like a tape in her mind. She saw him laying out there in the driveway for four and a half hours while the investigation took place. There sat his mama. I watched his mama. She cried, she wrote a beautiful eulogy, one of the best I've ever heard. She talked about her boy and her son, and she sat there and sobbed. She said he'd come, she said he would just show up, he'd do things he didn't even have to do. He was such a good boy to his mama. I thought, Mama, I wish you hadn't got that phone call. She didn't get the phone call. She watched him fall as well. I looked at his brother that was sitting there beside him, his one that was kind of like raised like a brother, and he had got called from work. And on the way there, hey man, he they he went there, he was sitting over at his sister's house, Bobby's sister's house, they got the call. He had been there the night before, and Bobby was so wired he couldn't sleep because that neighbor threatened to kill him in all these days. And he said, He went there and he said, I got him calmed down and I got him in bed and he slept all night. And I said, I'll watch the house, you just sleep. And he said, I was there all night, preacher, and I sat there all night while he slept, and he got up that morning, Thursday morning, and he was back in his better frame of mind, and he was calmed down a little bit, and he and he ate breakfast and we talked and I went home, not knowing that'd be the last time I'd ever personally get to talk to him. And he said, When I got there, he said, Preacher, I know I could have got him down. He said, They wouldn't let me through. He said, So I tried to break through, and he said, Me and the police officer got in a fight right there, and they pushed me back and said, If you do it again, we're going to arrest you. And he said, I tried, preacher, to get there too. And he sat there and gritted his teeth. I looked down the row a little bit more, and there sat his brother into the row. And he said, You know, preacher, he called me at nine o'clock this morning. Preacher, I should have gone over. I said, Well, you didn't know, buddy. He didn't know no way. He said, Preacher, I should have gone there. And I could see the guilt all over him as he sat there and he said, I just should have gone over, preacher. I said, but he didn't ask you to come over. You talked to him. Yeah, I did. I just should have gone over and checked on him. I said, You didn't know, and there was no way to know. And I thought about life and death, and I thought about one more guy, and he wasn't doing anything wrong that we know. He was just walking across the highway and maybe in a black cloak. We don't know, I don't know the details, but he was not at a bar. He just walking, and somebody turned the corner, didn't see him, wasn't paying attention, ran off the road. I don't know, and all of a sudden he's in a helicopter being life-lighted somewhere. Amen. Could I tell you today? Amen. Then I found out when I got here there was a shooting in Loudoun County yesterday, and a police officer was shot, but he's still alive. Amen. I'm here to tell you, amen. We don't know what life's gonna bring us, amen. We don't know when our time is gonna come. Amen. It could be a heart attack, amen. It could be this, it could be that. We don't know when or how. Amen. That it's gonna come. Amen. And the question is today, how will you die? Amen. Will you die in the faith? Will you die with the testimony when the phone call comes out? When your wife has to be called your husband, your son, your daughter, amen, your mother, your father, your sister, your brother. Amen. Oh amen. Will they cry like David? Amen. Died. Abner as a fool died. Oh, will they say he lived a good life? Amen. He was in God's will. She was a good person. Come on and help me preach a while. I wish I could preach as I watched that car pull out on that rollback. I thought these guys had no intention of dying in this parking lot in Martinsburg, West Virginia tonight. Amen. I looked at them boots, how many bars have they walked into? How many fights have them boys been in? How many guys have been kicked in the neck? How many guys? I don't know. I don't want to judge too far, but I could tell by looking. And I seen them boots in there. And I thought, oh God, amen. He died. I said he died doing what he always did. Amen. All the what the officer said was true. Amen. Running with the wrong crowd. I tell you what, you know, Brother Robert, I'd like to die with my preaching shoes on. I'd like to die in a house. Amen. I'd like to die saved, full of the power, God. Amen. Death is never pleasant. Amen. But somebody's gonna get a phone call. Amen. Somebody's gonna get a message. Amen. We picked her up in the wrong place. We found her dead over here. Amen. We found him dead. He crossed the wrong person. He didn't pay his bill. And he got caught up with Amen. They laced what they gave him. They laced what they gave her. It's happening all around us. And my question to you in this sanctuary today is how will you die when it's all said and done today?

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Here's the problem. I cannot control what they did or what they do. I can only control what I do. Huh? I cannot control what others have done. Are you listening to me? Let me preach for a few minutes. Amen. Joab. Joab was known to be a ruthless killer. He was known to kill people that he didn't like. He was known to harm people that he didn't like, that he thought was going to get in his way. He was the leader of David's army. And anytime he felt threatened by another individual, he just took him out by whatever means necessary. But whatever excuse was necessary. And in my text to you today, amen, the first person that I read that he took out, it wasn't the first one he took out, it's actually the third one. Amen. But that we read about besides war. Amen. But Ameza. We find Amaza here. And Amaza, amen, had led Absalom's rebellion. And David, amen, Absalom had killed, uh Joab had killed Absalom, right? Amen. David's son. And so when David is so frustrated and brokenhearted, and he's trying to bring the kingdom back together, and he tells Amezah, look, I'll pardon what you've done. You're my blood, we're blood, we're flesh. You made a mistake, and I said, I'm going to put you in Joab's place. Well, listen, Amazon and Joab were cousins. They knew better. He knew what Joab had done to Abner. He used a sword and he stuck it under his ribs. He knew better. He knew better than what he was doing. Amen. And here comes Joab and he grabs him by the beard. The exact same thing he did to Abner. It should have set off a warning bell. He knew that Joab was jealous of him. He knew all these things. Amen. He knew what was coming. Amen. And he grabs him by the beard, which was a custom, and pulls him close in a brotherly affection. How's your health, my brother? And the Bible said he took no heed to the sword. Amen. You better watch where that right hand is, brother. You better watch out, Amazon. You're gonna die right here. And this is what I'm trying to preach to you today. The Bible said he stuck it in his gut, amen, under the fifth rib and pulled it out, just like he did to Abner, amen, just like he done before. You know Joab's a killer. You know Joab can't be trusted, but you trusted him anyway. And this is what disturbed me. The Bible said he wallowed in his own blood. I said he wallowed in his own blood, amen. In the middle of the highway. How would you die? A man that was a soldier, a man that was fighter, a man that could stand hand in hand with anybody, huh? He was bad to the bone, he was tough as nails, he could handle anything, huh? Amen. But in one split second, huh? He was taken out because he trusted somebody that he shouldn't have trusted, huh? Amen. I was like a preacher here today, huh? And the picture of a soldier, huh? That was a mighty man of valor and a fighter, huh? Is laying in the road, trolling and moaning, huh? As his life pours out of him, huh? My God, that ain't no way to die. It doesn't matter how big or how bad you are. I'm gonna tell you what. A little white pill controls your life. You may not be. A little needle about that long can just wipe you, slam off the face of this earth. A little old bottle with some alcohol in it, take you out in a split second. Wrap your car around a tree, and it won't matter how tough you were, how tough you weren't. You went down to a little glass bottle, a little metal can, a little joint. Are y'all here? I'm not trying to hurt you today. I'm preaching to you how will you die? How you gonna leave this world? I don't want to do this, but I'm going to do it today. And don't, I'm not gonna leave you on a negative note, so don't nobody be discouraged, but I gotta stir us up today. Yesterday, someone was asking me, a preacher was asking me about my encounter earlier this year. I do not like to relive it, I do not want to relive it, but I will this morning, for I feel the Lord would have me to do it. On a Saturday morning prayer meeting, on a Thursday night, God said, Why are you looking at that needle again? The Holy Ghost said, Why are you looking at that needle? You have obviously forgotten the life I brought you out of and how bad you hated it. That's what the Holy Ghost said, it's on recording. Huh? On Saturday, an hour-long prayer meeting of breakfast. We all had a great time. Brian took him to the store to get some laundry detergent right down here, got laundry detergent, put his load of clothes in. That evening, brother, sister how I cleaned the church that morning, Brian come prayed for two hours and read his Bible all the while. We had no idea that on the opposite side of this building, hey man, he had succumbed to his demons again. Huh? And I remember on Sunday morning I brought a bowl of cereal and I brought some milk, brother. Could we just go have breakfast together? Hey, James, I got some cereal out here. No response. I'm preaching on how will you die? James, I got some cereal milk, buddy. I didn't hear nothing. I said, he don't feel good, he's sleeping. I ate me a bowl of cereal by myself. I come over and I knelt at this altar, Trent Vance. I cannot describe the heaviness that was on me when I prayed right here at this altar. I wept uncontrollably and I didn't know why. I went back to my office. I sat down in my chair. The wall was right there separating me and him. I studied my message. I worked on a sermon. I prayed and asked God to move into service at 2 o'clock. Amen. About 12:30 or war, and I said, I gotta wake up, James.

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I remember I knocked on that door and it was locked, that middle door, and I shook that door handle, and I shook that door handle, and I said, Why is this middle door locked? This door's never locked, and I reached up and God and I unlocked it and opened that door, and I looked in there, and his bed was empty, and the lights were on, the light was on the bathroom, the lights were on, and I looked around, Brother David. I remember standing there and I remember my heart going from right here down to the bottom of my feet. I remember Brother Matthew. I grabbed that bathroom door. Hell bit, James, are you in there? I beat on that door. James, are you in there? I beat on that door some more. There was no response. I remember, hey men, vividly, I can see it right now. I come out of there and I begin to pace where them chairs are at. I was pacing back and forth. I said, I can't open that door. I can't open that door. I can't open that door. And I was pacing back and forth, and God sent Brother High over to me. Brother High opened the door and he opened the door. He said, What's wrong, Pastor? I said, Something's wrong with James. Something's going on in there. I don't know what's going on, but he's not answering. And he said, I said, can you open the door? He said, I can't open it. I said, I can't either. I can't open it. I don't want to do that. And I was pacing the floor back and forth. And he said, I said, let's just call the law. I got down and I looked on. I'm preaching how you die. I got down on my knees and I looked underneath that door and I seen his feet looking at me, Sister Pam. And I beat on that door and yes, and James, don't play with me. I can see his feet looking out at me. James, don't play game, son. He just looked like he was standing there. Brother Michael, I felt that pain all over me. And I called and I wasn't one. They started rolling here in the corner, rolled in. They started rolling up the state boys. And I stood back and I watched them open the door and they opened the other door and they went in there. And as I stood there, Marco, he walked in and he turned around and he walked back out. And I knew it was good. There was no reviving. And he said, He's gone, preacher. And I said, Oh, God. And I asked the words I didn't want to ask, sister. I said, Is there any nothing in there with him? He surely maybe had a heart attack or something, Marco. I said, maybe had a ain't a he said, it's there, preacher. And now it's in my top desk drawer. The belt he wore to church that was tied around his arm. Amen. It's there, the spoon and the lighter's in my top dresser drawer over there in my office. And I went out trip-vince and I fell across my car. And I wept uncontrollably because that's not how it was supposed to be. On Thursday night he was right there. On Saturday morning, we prayed for an hour together. Amen. But none of that mattered, huh? Because that's not how he died. I wish I could preach in the house today. You say why you're saying it, huh? Because I want to tell some boy in here today, huh? That thinks he's some tough punk. I'm going to tell you sin it, uh, leave you walling in your own blood somewhere, son. You run with the role crowd, uh, you make one raw connection, uh, you hook up with a mafia somewhere, don't even know it. Amen. You've done hooked up with a team, uh, given some gang that says you ain't getting out unless you die. Amen. And they didn't tend to make up another parking lot of that's not either. But that's what she does, and destroy you, and to wreck you, and leave your children cry, and leave your mama crowd, and leave your babies crowd, and that's how you die if you die. Oh God. David had a son named Absalom. He rebelled. He rebelled. He got to riding him a fast mule. He was clicking along through the forest and all of a sudden his big long hair caught up in a branch. And obviously he could touch the ground because he had real long hair. And he could touch the ground because the Bible said that when Joab got there, he was yet alive, hanging from that oak tree. He didn't snap his neck because he was still alive, the Bible said. Now I want you to walk with me down a hall you don't want to walk down. You're full of rebellion. You're hanging from a tree by your hair. And here comes Joab with three darts in his hand, grinning wickedly. The same one that killed Abner. The same one that I read about you that killed a maze. He's got no respect for life or limb. And even though David said, Please don't hurt my boy. And Brother Justin, they could have walked up there and just cut his hair and just took him back to daddy. That's all they had to do, take him back to stand trial. Amen. But that wasn't good enough for Joab. He was mad. And I'm going to tell you, when people get it in for you, they'll kill you when they don't have to kill you. You know, I can't imagine taking someone's life because they owe me a thousand bucks, you know what I mean? But they'll take your life to steal your tennis shoes off your feet.

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I can't imagine taking a man's life that owes me a ten thousand dollars. They'll take your life to get your leather jacket. They'll take your life just so they can get a right of passage into some gang somewhere, and they don't even know who you are. Life has no value. And here it is, the king's son. This ain't no, this ain't no bum out on the corner that ain't never been raised right. This man's raised in the king's house. Amen. This boy's ready. And here comes Absalom, huh? Here comes Joab with three darts in his hand. I'm preaching on how will you die. He said, I'm gonna be the king, huh? I'm gonna take this over, huh? And he went from being the goal to be the king, huh? They said, God, please don't do it, Joab, huh? Please, man, I'm sorry, huh? Yeah, you rebelled against the king, huh? Now I got something for you, huh? And now while he was yelling alive, huh? He stuck those darts through his heart, huh? Oh, y'all can help me preach today, huh? It was supposed to be now when he preached his kingdom, and it was supposed to be a way teaching John, it was supposed to be your mama praying, your daddy praying, your family praying. That's not the way it's supposed to be, and when you rebel and you press past God's mercy line, and you go too far, you'll die like the fool dies, because God is only gonna go so far to save your soul, amen. That's not how you live. It's how you die. Three men that Joab killed: Adner, Absalom, and Amaza. Amaza? He done killed two of your family members. Why in the world would you let him grab you by the beard and snubble you up? I'm coming to a close. You know what death brings. You know the end path that you're on. You've seen what drugs will do. You've seen what alcohol does. It ain't about all preachers always preach against smoking and drinking. Ain't got nothing to do with it. I'm talking about you've seen what it does. You know where it leads. Any of y'all ever walk with me down into a nursing home? Mary, you were in there to see her, wasn't you? Walk into a nursing home and see a former model, just about, amen, curled up, weighs 60 pounds, curled up into a fetal position, amen, screaming in pain. And I really felt sorry for her, Sister Polly. She was your granddaughter, but she lost a cousin of the same thing. And every parent here said, Brother Brent, my loved ones is in it. I'm not here to scare you, and I'm not here to hurt you today because we can't control them. I'm not here. I know you're worried enough, but you already know I'm preaching to some young person today so that we don't have another one join out in that mess. I'm so sorry your child's on it. We got multiple people here with children that are struggling and loved ones that are struggling, and I love them, and they come, I'll preach to them, and I'll reach for them and I'll pull them. But meanwhile, I gotta tell Aiden and Elijah and Carson and Colin, amen, and uh and these boys and Marcos boys, amen, and Mallory, huh? I'm here to tell you, amen, if you can die in the church bathroom, I come you can die anywhere, huh? And you I was like a preacher in the house today, huh? And last night my heart was heavy, huh? Last night I seen men living in a parking lot, uh, with blood running out of their hand, huh? Amen, but it wasn't near as tragic as what I found in the church bathroom, because it didn't have to be mana had a praying mama, they may not have had a praying daddy, huh? They may have never had nobody tell them about Jesus and I may have been mama they knew, amen, but he knew better, huh? And you know better, huh? And I know better, and if you and I die and a fool's death, uh, it'll be so much more tragic because we know better. Stand all over the house this morning. I can't tell you the boys and the girls that I went up to in juvenile detention center and say, what are you doing in here? Where's your daddy? Where's your mama? Well, daddy died in a drunk car wreck when I was three. Well, well, mama, mama got killed. We got a grown man that stands here today. Who, when he was two years old, his mama was partying. Got drunk, stepped out in front of a car, and left him. A two-year-old little orphan. He's right here this morning. And I got up in the pulpit yesterday and I'd done something I often do. They knew it when they called me. If they don't like it, they get somebody else. And I said, Brian, first thing we're gonna do is we're gonna put the blame where it belongs. Right on the devil. We're not gonna blame God for this. Hello? We're gonna put it right on the devil where it belongs. I said, God wanted this man to leave this world in a different way. And he left this world. Well, that's just their time. No, it wasn't. Well, so it's appointed on the man wants to die. But he said, if you honor your father and mother, your days could be long on the earth. Do you not? Do you not tell us there's things we can do to lengthen our days and there's things we can do to shorten our days? Well, it's my time, it's my time. No, not necessarily. If you serve God and live your best, yes, you won't go out of here before it's your time. But when you take your life in your own hands and you serve the devil, you'll go out whenever you make the wrong move. Make the wrong choice. How will you die? Now I've got to close with a positive note to you today. My sister Hannah comes. Maybe she just played a little bit more above all else. I said it's not how you live, it's how you die. You're here today, Brother Britt. I got such a long list of things that I failed. Could I tell you that Jesus' blood will cover it all? You're surrounded by a church full of people that's failed. You're surrounded by a bunch of people that's failed. Johnny, did you fail? Was you far from God last August? Aren't you a preacher's kid? Are you ashamed of what you've done? It's not what you've done, Johnny. It's how you die. Did he forgive you? When you couldn't forgive yourself? Preacher's kid doing things that was disgraceful. He's merciful today. It's not how you live, it's how you die. Justin Mobley? Will he put you past under the blood, son? Will he give you a wife you don't deserve and a home? Will he take you from homeless and helpless to saved and forgiven? Matthew Mobley, will he forgive the unforgivable? What if you've been to prison, Michael? He'll forgive that too? Will he? I'm asking you because I've never been there. Hey Marco, what if you didn't know much about this and all? Will he save you on an old floor in an old dirty office? Turn your life around? Brother Rob, will he forget a backslider, forgive a backslider that was raised in church? Brother Dave, will he save an alcoholic? How you know that? He did it for you? You mean there was a time you was out in sin? Well, I'd never know it looking at you now. It's not how you live, Brother Dave. It's how you die. How will you die? Will he forgive today, Brother Gary? Set you free?

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Sam, how about you? Did he forgive you? Wasn't you raised in a preacher's home too?

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He forgave me. Ain't nobody here. You look at us, you say, hey Brother Winston, how about you? Will he forgive? But didn't you backslide and get far from God? You mean you can get back? Really? How long have you been back? Eight years? It's not how you live, it's how you die. I'm just telling you, he'll forgive. Felt the Holy Ghost. I started preaching tonight about old brother Don Rich. Brother Don Rich had an old boy come and got saved in his church and couldn't read or write. And he said, I want a Bible. He said, Alright. So he went and went down there and go give him a little Bible, Brother Marco, and you heard me tell him. He said, I'm gonna give him this little Bible. And the Holy Ghost said, No, you get him one like you have. He said, I can't even read or write. I got a hundred dollar Bible. This was 1970, 1980. He said, Holy Ghost said, You get him one like I said, you like. So he got him a Thompson chain. Big old black Bible, like Brother Brent's. And that old boy, Brother Brian, brother Rich told a hundred times he'd walk all around town holding that Bible. And where that Bible's right there. Everywhere you seen him. And the ladies would stop by and drop him a plate off in the morning, and they'd come back in the evening, and that plate would be clean and washed and ate, and they'd drop him a supper off, and the next morning they'd do the same thing, and everybody just kind of looked out after him, and he walked around town holding that Bible. And one morning they went there that afternoon, his plate from the morning was still there, and the next morning both plates were still there, and they called the law and they and they got the door open and they went in there to his little apartment, and he was down on his knees praying. And that's where he died. Sister Sandy, but I've heard Brother Rich tell him many times. He said when they reached down, they pulled him up. In that stiff state of death. Clutch of that chest when they pulled him up, Brother Roger. Was that Thompson chain? What a way to go. Brother Brent, he lived for the devil many years. That's not what I know him, but I don't know nothing about it. All I know is, Brother Richard, tell me about that man dying holding that Thompson chain up to his chest. He'll put it under the blood. Every head bowed and every eye closed. If you're here right now and you want to get saved, step out of your seat. Come to this altar. How are you gonna die? Come on, right now. No hesitation. We we we the Lord knows, God knows. Come on. Hallelujah. You came here on business this morning, and God means business today. I don't want you to die like those guys out there in that parking lot. I don't want you to die that way. I want you to die. People say mama was saved. Daddy had Jesus in his heart. She was a good wife, he was a good husband. The blood of Jesus turned them all around on a Sunday morning down there at Pastor Bryce Church. Come on. Come on. Let's do it, boys. Go. Hallelujah. Let the Holy Ghost lead you, son. Pray, church.

unknown 36:06

Woo!

SPEAKER_02 36:08

Here it is. Hallelujah. Now you're gonna feel our love around you, boys. Do it. Come on. Let's come and pray this morning. The Holy Ghost said it was gonna happen. The devil told me it was I missed it.

SPEAKER_01 37:30

You might be surprised.

SPEAKER_03 37:46

It feels like we've lost it all over the edge with no one there to break the fog. What do you say to someone? It feels so unless giving themselves away a little bit every day. What do you say to hopeless soul? You can't remember their way home. Come on, sis. Everything You're here today and you're saying fill these doctors.

SPEAKER_02 38:25

Let's pray a while. You're here today and you need a closer walk. Let's fill these doctors. How are you gonna die?

SPEAKER_03 38:33

There is no There is no sorrow than the grace of Jesus. There is no moment. There is no justice. Before you take your losses, remember there is nothing greater than grace. What do you say to someone? Whose life is on the line and they're unsure what happens after their last breath in time? And what do you say to someone? Display themselves makes it hard to hear the truth. And what do you say to a half of regret that trying so hard to forget what do you say to dreams and men? There is no valley. Greater than the grace of Jesus. There is no moment. There is no Jesus. He can take it through before you think your heart is lost to sleep. Remember there is nothing greater than grace.