Welcome to from the pulpit.
Each week, we bring you a different message
from some of history's greatest speakers in the
Christian faith and powerful summons from modern preachers
to this week.
We have Bobby Johnson with his message.
Repentance is the command of God.
If this happened to be the last sermon
that I ever preached, this would be the
sermon that I would want to preach.
Acts, Acts, chapter 17, verse 22, Acts, chapter
17, verse 22.
Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars
Hill and said, You men of Athens, I
perceive that in all things you are too
superstitious, superstitious.
For as I pass by and beheld your
devotions, I found an altar with this inscription
to the unknown God.
That's who America is serving today.
Whom, therefore, you ignorantly worship him, declare I
unto you, God, that made the world and
all things therein, seeing that he is Lord
of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples
made with hands.
Neither is worshiped with men's hands as though
he needed anything, seeing he giveth to all
life and breath and all things, and hath
made of one blood all nations of men
for to dwell on all the face of
the earth, and hath determined the times before
appointed and the bounds of their habitation.
That they should seek the Lord, if happily
they might feel after him and find him,
though he be not far from every one
of us.
God's right here right now.
For in him we live and move and
have our being, as certain also of your
own poets have said, for we are also
his offspring.
For as much then as we are the
offspring of God, we ought not to think
that the Godhead is like under gold or
silver or stone, graven by art and man's
device.
And the times of this ignorance, God winked
at, but now commandeth all men everywhere to
repent because he hath appointed a day into
which he will judge the world in righteousness
by that man whom he hath ordained, whereof
he hath given assurance unto all men in
that he hath raised him from the dead.
We're going to preach for a while.
Repentance is the command of God.
And we're going to cry grace to those
sins that stand in our path, like the
rushing of a mighty wind.
Like the rushing of a mighty wind.
Come and fill our hearts again.
Lord, like the rushing of a mighty wind.
Yes, yes.
You may
go to your seat.
From the earliest existence of humankind, there has
been an inexcusable tendency toward wickedness.
Uncleanness, debauchery, immorality have seemingly been the order
of the day.
Jealousy, hatred, and bloodshed have and were in
operation in the very first family, and these
characteristics have continued throughout every generation to the
present day in which we are living.
We are all aware that we are now
living in a very, very troubled world.
Turmoil, stress, anger, immorality, perversion, anxiety, distrust, malice,
and hatred cover the entire world.
Fears in the national and international area and
arena are no secret.
In fact, nations are public in their acknowledgment
of fear and hatred of each other.
Iran hates Israel.
Iran hates Iraq.
Iran hates the United States.
Iran hates the rest of the world.
Israel cannot stand Iran because Iran says we're
going to wipe you off of the face
of the earth.
Let me just put a PS right here.
I've got news for Iran.
You're barking up the wrong tree, sonny boy.
You're barking up the wrong tree.
For this reason, there is a race on
in the preparation of implementation of warfare, bombs,
nuclear warheads.
That's why Iran wants a nuclear bomb, and
that's why Israel is saying no.
And the United States leadership is lying out
our teeth when we're telling, and the president
is telling what he's saying.
Folks, he's lying.
He's just flat-lying.
That's why ISIS is the enemy of the
world, and especially the United States.
ISIS is demon-possessed.
Ability to kill the greatest number of people
in the shortest time seems to be the
ultimate goal.
The horrible oppression of wicked men in high
places have sent millions of people in search
of peace and safety.
You always know it's getting toward the close
of the day when small men cast long
shadows.
From these troubled spots of the earth some
enter America by way of the Golden Gate
on the West Coast, others approaching on the
East Seam by the Lady of Peace in
New York Harbor, the Statue of Liberty.
They stream by the millions across the unprotected
border of the South.
They come legally and they come illegally.
They come because of the cartels, and they
come because they want out of their situation.
Some are so thrilled with the prospect of
peace that they fall upon their faces in
gratitude for their newfound security under the stars
and stripes.
But I've got news for them.
There is no security under the stars and
stripes anymore.
Little does this troubled, riddled world know of
the real peace and absolute security that is
to be found by coming into the port
of entry called repentance.
Repentance will set you free.
Repentance will deliver you.
Repentance will give you joy.
Repentance will give you absolute and total freedom.
Repentance of which I speak is the act
of turning evil to righteousness, changing one's mind,
his purpose, and his choice.
And there is absolutely no other way into
God's favor and acceptance other than personal peace
and repentance through Jesus Christ.
You can't find it in drugs.
You can't find it in alcohol.
You can't find it in perversion.
You can marry a thousand different people and
never find peace until you repent.
And what I say today Joel Osteen wouldn't
say.
And what I say today some of these
folks in high places wouldn't say.
But I'm telling you the truth.
I'm telling you what this book says.
It's not about finding a good parking place
downtown.
It's not about finding the best hotel in
town.
It's not about some favor here or some
favor there.
If you repent, if you come to Jesus,
if you fall on your face before God
and say, forgive me of my sin, that
is the only way you're gonna make it.
That's the only way you're gonna make it.
There are some high, high-position preachers that
need to come out and make a stand
on same-sex marriages.
Are you for it or are you against
it?
And then if they are for it, they
need to repent.
There is no such thing in our day
as an adulterous Christian.
There is no such thing as a lying
Christian.
There is no such thing as a stealing
Christian.
There is no such thing as a homosexual
or lesbian Christian.
There is no such thing as a drinking
Christian.
There is no such thing as a part
-time Christian.
There is no such thing as a perverted
Christian.
In the very early history of humankind, it
is recorded in Genesis 6 6 and it
repented the Lord that he had made man
on the earth, and it grieved him at
his heart.
The only way now for man to undo
his wrong is to show God a penitent
heart and say, Lord, forgive me of my
sin.
I'm sorry for what I have done.
This is the reason that God tells everybody
to repent.
I know this message is a message that
is not the popular thing to preach, but
it is the message that will get you
to heaven.
You cannot get to heaven unless you repent.
Period.
Forgive me of my sin.
Let's look for a little while at the
world leaders.
The world leaders of today should follow the
example of the King of Nineveh, who upon
finding his dominion in immediate danger of judgment,
arose from his throne, laid aside his robe,
which signified his majestic position, superiority, and leadership,
and he donned a coat of sackcloth and
led his people in a march to the
ashes of humility.
His proclamation left no doubt in the minds
of all of his people as to his
desire as how what he said, listen, let
neither man nor beast, herd nor flock, taste
anything.
Let them not feed nor drink water.
He said, don't let the people, but don't
even let the herds and don't even let
the flocks eat anything or drink any water,
but let every man and beast be covered
with sackcloth and cry mightily unto God, yea,
let them turn every one from his evil
way and from the violence that is in
their hand.
Who can tell if God will turn and
repent and turn away his fierce anger that
we perish not?
Nineveh's danger as it was made known to
them by the great prophet Jonah was that
forty days it would be overthrown and they
should perish.
Sounds like America, sounds like the world of
today.
Oh God, would you let somebody repent and
say forgive me of what I've done and
turn from our wicked ways and call upon
God Almighty.
Call upon God Almighty.
July 26, 2015 will live as a day
of infamy, a day of disgrace when five
judges of now the infamous Supreme Court can
make a decision.
They're not even elected by anybody.
They're appointed by some liberal president and now
they're making a decision on the rest of
our lives.
God help their souls.
America and the rest of the world stands
in peril of terrible judgment unless God can
see in our attitude a feeling of obligation
to him and a desire to serve him.
I believe there will be pockets of revival
in America in the last days, but I
believe America has taken the train too far
down the track to turn it around now.
Because the majority of the people do not
want to turn it around.
Folks, we are, I'm praying somebody listen.
Will somebody sound an alarm?
I'm not trying to be an alarmist, I'm
just telling you what it is.
I'm too far down the track to tell
you any lies.
I'm too far down the track to tell
you something that's wrong.
I'm trying to tell it.
Will somebody listen?
It's like the Titanic.
No one would listen.
No one.
They were playing their cards, they were dancing,
they were having a gala affair, they were
having a wonderful time until that ship that
struck that iceberg did the only thing you
can say about it, it did the only
thing it was not supposed to do.
It sank.
I preached my heart out for years and
years in this church and I'm praying God
will somebody listen.
I'm preaching.
At times I look back and some folks
in the choir are sound asleep.
I look back here and some are sound
asleep.
I'm saying oh God will somebody listen to
what I'm saying.
Listen to the Word of God.
It's like the folks in the Roaring Twenties.
I heard on television they were bringing back
a big affair in the Roaring Twenties where
they're having affair to relate back to that.
The Roaring Twenties everybody had a wonderful time.
They were dancing, they were drinking, they were
doing everything that their whole heart desired to
do until suddenly there was a crash.
Suddenly the whole world came apart.
Suddenly everything fell apart around them.
I'm just saying wake up before the day.
Wake up before the time.
We are living in a day when our
financial system is about to, it is free
-falling.
Within the last two months our stock market
has fallen almost 2,000 points, 530 points
in one day Friday, 330 points in two
days just a little before then and seems
to be in a free-fall and everybody's
wondering what is going to happen on September
the 13th when they say this thing is
just about to crash.
We're looking for, I can tell you judgment
is coming.
Listen to me, hear me.
Judgment is coming.
China is just about to have her yuan
devalued, placed on the market.
When it does, America's dollar from a financial
standpoint, from financial advisors, from financial experts, the
dollar could literally crash to nothing.
Go to the euro, our dollar would be
meaningless.
What you have in your 401k's, your 403b's,
all of the other could be zero.
You hear me?
I'm telling you, I'm telling you like it
is.
Could be zero.
You say you're trying to scare me.
I'm not trying to scare you, I'm just
trying to tell you what could happen.
America could crash within, I am told from
high authorities, America could crash within the next
30 days.
Within the next 30 days.
And we sit here and have a wonderful
time like we're going to live forever and
everything is going to fade off into the
sunset and everybody's going to be wonderful.
It's time for America to repent and say
as that king in Nineveh, perhaps God would
turn his anger from us if we repented.
Jonah said you're going to die, you're going
to be overtaken, you're going to be overthrown
in 40 days unless you repent.
And then Jonah got mad because they did
repent and God smiled upon them.
I still believe God will smile upon those
who will repent and say, God forgive us
of our sins and our iniquities and our
wrongs and let us live for righteousness and
purity and holiness in the Holy Spirit and
by the Word of Almighty God.
We are living on the brink of disaster.
You say, you preach, you know what you're
talking about.
Say on, say what you want to, I'm
just telling you like it is.
Out of the evil imaginations of humankind have
come to devices that can easily annihilate.
Whatever it is permitted to strike and reproduce
the scenes of Sodom and Gomorrah where righteousness
and decency had no place, had no place.
If God would not tolerate evil in the
times past, is there any reason to expect
him to be more lenient today?
Repentance saved Nineveh and Sodom and Gomorrah were
annihilated for the lack of penitence.
Somebody here knows that it would be a
wonderful, miraculous thing for every world leader, president,
emperor, prime minister, king or queen, and dictator
to lose sight of their lofty positions long
enough to repent of their sins and turn
to the King of Kings.
There would be leading nations that would cry
out unto God if the president of the
United States, if Mr. Obama would turn to
God instead of Islam, if Mr. Obama would
turn to God instead of the world and
the enemy, and cry out to God and
call upon this nation to repent and return
to God, no telling what would happen in
America.
No telling.
He's more in love with Islam than he
is Christianity.
And God help us.
God help this nation.
We weren't founded on that kind of irresponsibility.
We weren't founded on that kind of leadership
that led America away from God rather than
to God.
This might be my last sermon that I
ever get to preach, but let me tell
you from my heart, America needs to repent.
Our president needs to repent.
The Supreme Court needs to repent.
Our congressmen need to repent.
We're headed on a slippery slope.
We're headed on a downhill slide into hell.
Unless something happens and America must repent, the
church must repent, and families must repent, and
we must cry out to God.
Oh God, save us before it is too
late.
Save us before it is too late.
If you're taking medicine, you can leave.
It's 8 minutes after 11, but I'm going
to tell you something this morning.
We would immediately have a revival.
We could beat our swords and our weapons
into plowshares, our spears into pruning hooks.
This world would immediately take care of the
problem with Iran.
We've been lied to like a dog about
that.
Let me tell you something, folks.
We're marching down a road toward the slaughterhouse
if the Congress does not repeal that horrible,
horrible treaty.
Do you hear me?
We're marching.
We're marching down the road toward the slaughterhouse.
But nobody's listening.
Iraq, Syria, China, Korea, Afghanistan, all the other
conflicts between nations could be solved with repentance,
with repentance.
Let's look at the church, the church in
this perilous day would do well to take
inventory and find its shortages so that a
great impact might be made upon the world.
The church is never going to make an
impact upon the world acting like the world.
We are never going to make an impact
upon the world singing songs like the world.
We're never going to make an impact upon
the world coming to church and living and
acting and doing just like the world.
The church needs to be stronger today than
ever before.
The church cannot be afraid.
The church cannot retreat.
The church cannot feel inferior.
When the church is her weakest, that's when
she is the strongest, because she realizes that
it is not by might nor by power
but by my Spirit, saith the Lord of
hosts.
When the church quits trying to see how
much wine she can drink and still be
saved, when the church quits trying to see
how much she can gamble and still be
saved, when the church quits trying to see
how nude she can be and still be
saved, when the church quits trying to see
how sugary she can be and realize she
is supposed to be the salt, when the
church quits trying to pacify every little worldly
desire of every carnal church member, when the
church quits trying to coddle up to the
devil's crowd, when the church quits trying to
play both sides against the middle and realize
that it's either one side or the other,
when the church quits trying to reduce her
operation from amazement to amusement and make God's
house a place of social benefits and worldly
attire and worldly disrespect, when the church quits
trying to fraternize with Baal's crowd and realize
she must be set apart, when the church
finally realizes that the Supreme Court and or
the President established a church that is built
on the Rock of Ages, only then will
she realize that she can be an impact
in our society and change this world by
the power of the Lord Jesus Christ.
My, my, we need to be impressed with
the fact that the burning bush of divine
calling must be made to blaze again, so
that the wonder at the backside of the
desert can be called and sent forth on
his or her way to the promised land.
The bush is still burning and the fire
is still there.
All I have to do is get close
to it.
All I have to do is let it
consume me and let me be blazed with
the power of Pentecost.
Oh God, let the world know that repentance
is our only way for an answer.
In a situation we find ourselves, this is
the time for the church to shine as
never before.
This is not, not, I said this is
not, capitalize it, not, underline it, bull print
it, not the time for the church to
hide.
We've hid long enough.
We sat there long enough and let the
world just take over.
We sat here long enough and said, just
do what you want to do.
We've been so concerned about little nitpicky things
that don't matter and five years, one year,
one month, one week from now you won't
even be thinking about it.
We better get down to serious business of
right and wrong and repentance and say, God
forgive me of all of the things I've
done and let me, I'm preaching today to
church members.
I'm not talking just to sinners.
I'm talking to all of us.
We need to say, God, look way down
in the recesses of my heart, way back
down in the deepest, deepest part, that secret
corner and that secret passage and let me
weed everything out and let me get everything
out that's unlike you and let me crawl
over and fall on my face and cry
out to God almighty.
This is the time for the church to
be front and center.
This is the time for the church to
shine.
This is the time for the church to
stand tall.
This is the time for the church to
do what she always has done.
It's time for the church to sing as
she's never sung before.
Amazing grace.
How sweet the sound that saved a wretch
like me.
It's time for the church to sing as
we did this morning.
Shades in the twinkling of an eye.
It's time for the church to sing.
I'm on my way to heaven.
I'm bound for the promised land.
I said, it's time for the church to
get on their feet and declare who she
is.
She's heir of God and adjoined heir of
Jesus.
We've had every Tom, Dick and Harry come
by and we followed everything they've said because
they might have had a little money or
they might have had a little prestige or
they might have had a little this or
a little that.
I'm just telling you what the Word says.
But now commandeth all men everywhere to repent.
Repent.
I cry out to God.
Forgive me today.
I'll be anything that I've done wrong.
Forgive me today.
Look deep inside, oh God, and everything that's
everything that would be wrong, anything that's crossfire,
anything that's cross-threaded, anything that's not right.
Take it out, oh God, and put a
song in my heart.
I can tell you, church, you may be
going through the dark hours and we may
be persecuted and we may be laughed at
and scorned and mocked.
But that's when you sing anyhow.
Paul and Silas in the midnight hour, when
everything was wrong, they'd been beaten, they'd been
ridiculed, they'd been scorned, they'd been put in
stocks and bonds.
But Paul said, Silas, I may be crazy
and you may think I've lost my mind,
but I've got a song down in my
heart in this midnight hour.
Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all
that is within me.
Bless His holy name.
Somebody needs to sing your song in the
face of the enemy, in the face of
Satan, in the face of the world, in
the face of your problems.
Hallelujah.
Oh God.
My.
My, my, my.
Let me tell you, lack of repentance will
steal your song.
Lack of repentance will steal your victory.
Lack of repentance will steal your joy.
But when you repent, you can have a
song in the midnight hour.
When you repent, you feel the love of
God that flows like a river and the
peace of God that bubbles like a fountain.
Oh God, this is the time for the
church to sing in the face of it
all.
The reason this world's in a mess is
because we got today tele, tele, mega television
evangelists who aren't telling the truth.
You can soft-soap it if you want
to.
Tell the truth.
I beg every preacher that's listening to me,
if there's any preacher that wants to listen,
I beg you to tell the truth.
I beg you to stand in your pulpit
and tell them, you must repent.
There's only one way to heaven, and that's
through the power of the blood of Jesus
Christ.
You must repent.
There's only one way.
I want to fall on my face and
say, Lord, everything that's within me that's wrong,
clean it out, cleanse me, purify me, wash
me whiter than the driven snow.
There comes a time when God laughed at
it, but now he says, you need to
repent.
It's not fun and games anymore.
No, no.
It's serious business.
We're down to the wire.
We're down to the end.
This nation is crumbling.
I told you the financial part of it,
and yet I just hit the highlights.
I'm telling you, if you knew the inside,
and I just know the highlights, but if
we really knew the inside, there would not
a one of us in this room that
right now would not stand to our feet
and run to this altar.
Run to this altar and say, God help
us.
God help us.
China owns us right now, and when they
come into this mix within the next month,
they have already been approved to do so,
only God knows what will happen.
Only God knows what will happen, but it's
time in the face of it all for
the church to sing it out, sing as
she's never sung before.
There is a fountain filled with blood drawn
from Emmanuel's veins, and sinners plunge beneath the
flood, lose all their guilty stains, lose all
their guilty stains.
At the cross, at the cross, where I
first saw the light and the burden of
my heart rolled away, it was there by
faith.
I received my sight, and now I'm happy
all the day.
It's time for the church to cry out
to God, Lord, forgive us of our inactivity,
forgive us of our apathy, forgive us of
the things that we have just laid back
and let ride on.
I credit the church for not standing up.
We should have stood up in the face
of the enemy, in the face of the
politicians, and told them, we will not put
you in office if you let them take
prayer out of the school.
We will not stand and let you go
in office if you take Bible reading out
of the school.
We will not put you in office.
We could list a long line and say,
do you agree with these?
If you don't, we're not voting for you.
And it's time, you know, you say you're
going to lose your tax status for this
or that or the other.
I'm talking about moral issues.
I'm talking about issues from the Word of
God.
I'm not talking about whether you're, as I
said Wednesday night, whether you're a Democrat, Republican,
Independent, or Ignorant.
It doesn't make any difference.
I'm just talking about the Word of God,
what it says you need to repent.
You can't lie and get to heaven.
You have to repent.
I'm halfway through, but stand your feet across
this room.
Come back here.
There is a fountain filled with blood.
Draw up Emmanuel Faines.
God's in this room this morning.
God's in this room.
The Holy Spirit is calling men and women,
He said everywhere, but I now commandeth all
men everywhere to repent.
To repent.
This should be an easy altar call.
I don't care whether you've been saved, sanctified,
and filled with the Holy Ghost, and standing
in the way for 50 years.
I don't care whether you've just been saved.
I don't care what position you find yourself.
I call for this entire congregation to repent.
Lord, I'll lead the pack.
I'll lead you.
Lord, forgive me for anything.
I say it publicly, I say it privately,
Lord, forgive me for anything that's unlike you.
Forgive me for anything that's hidden in the
recesses of my heart.
Folks, the choir is singing.
Signs are everywhere.
He's coming.
There is a fountain filled with blood this
morning.
I want you to come one and all.
I know we can't all kneel, but you
can come stand from one side to the
other down these aisles and shut yourself in
with God and say, Lord, I stand in
your presence today, and I ask you, I
repent of anything.
I repent of anything that's unlike you.
I repent of anything.
I plunge beneath that flood.
It's a solemn assembly.
It's a solemn time when the priest fell
between the porch and the pillars and began
to cry out to God.
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The pastor, Bobby Johnson, spoke from his heart.
If this would be my last sermon to
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Pastor Johnson passed into eternity only hours later
in his sleep.