And that’s what it’s all about, really and truly. That’s what everything is really about. Eternal life. I spoke with someone just yesterday, and we’re talking about what is the most important thing that you can do in life, and that is to help someone see the glory of God and the opportunity to receive eternal life.

Because everything else we do in this world is temporary. It’s only temporary. But salvation is eternal. Rebuilding together is the title today, and we are going to be over in Nehemiah. You can go ahead and turn there if you would like.

But I want to talk about a few things before we get there. So have you ever seen a house that was neglected for many years? You know, when you drive by sometimes and there’s a house and maybe nobody’s lived there for a while or maybe someone who was not able to take care of it or whatever the case may be, it was neglected. There was no maintenance done. It wasn’t taken care of when, there were leaks or there was damage, and, the roof may be damaged.

There’s all kinds of things that have happened. And if you watch over a period of time, that house that may have once been a big, glorious, beautiful house begins to deteriorate. It begins to fall apart. When it’s not touched for so long, it starts to completely fall apart. Everything about it that we see, things fall apart and unwanted pests show up.

There are a lot of things that, move in, animals and and bugs and all kinds of things, and sometimes, people that, just move into it and and just utilize it for all kinds of illegal activities and everything else. A lot of stuff happened, and so as the house begins to deteriorate, it looks terrible. There was a house recently in our neighborhood that’s been that way for years. But sometimes, people buy a house, and they make it beautiful. In our neighborhood, they’ve done just that.

They’ve made a house that was falling apart beautiful. You drive down the street and go, wow. It looks so great. What a beautiful thing that they’ve done with that old house. Now listen, they didn’t tear it completely apart.

They tore it down to the studs, and then they rebuilt it. The studs and the foundation and all of that that was there was good. The outside was not good. Today it seems that our nation has become like that old house. Today, our nation has become like that old house.

And I don’t mean just our nation. What I mean when I say our nation is I mean the people in our nation. The people in our nation have become like that old house that had they have not received what they needed. They haven’t taken care of their self. They haven’t taken care of their walk.

They haven’t taken care of the life that’s been given to them. And so the whole nation, and especially believers, have become like that old house and are beginning to be deteriorated. It’s beginning to be deteriorated. And so we look around on a daily basis and we see that this nation is just not what it used to be. God’s people have not been diligent to take care of this nation, to take care of the church universal, to take care of any of those things as we need to, and therefore, it has began to crumble.

It has began to crumble. It’s cracked. It’s dilapidated. There are things that are holes that’s falling apart. All of these things that’s going on, and because of it, unwanted pests have moved in.

The main unwanted pest that has moved in and all of that, his name is Satan. Satan has moved in because God’s people have not taken care of the church universal. They’ve not taken care of the nation like we need to. We have not risen up and done the things that we needed to do as a people. We are not doing what the great commandment tells us to do.

We’re not going and making disciples. We’re not baptizing. We’re not doing any of those things. And because of not doing those things, we can see that the church universal is crumbling. The church has fallen down.

The the the people in the nation are turning away from God. God is not mentioned in so many places anymore. That’s because God’s people have allowed his house, the church, to begin to be in disarray. We’ve allowed it to fall apart. And I don’t mean physical buildings, I mean the church universal.

I mean the church that’s made up of people. We’ve allowed it to literally deteriorate. Satan has moved in, and he’s caused many, many problems. Satan’s been here all along. Okay?

It isn’t that he wasn’t here. In fact, we’re studying Genesis on, Wednesday night, and he was in the garden. Right? He was in the garden with Adam and Eve. He’s been here the whole time.

It’s not that he hasn’t been here. He’s been here. But the thing is, when God’s people were doing what we were supposed to do, and people prayed, and people shared the gospel, and people walked in the way that we’re called to walk according to biblical standards, we did not see the effects of Satan in the way that we see him today. Today, we see it very clearly. We know that it’s there.

It’s happening all around us, and we can see that because there’s holes in the wall. There’s roofs falling in. There’s things that are done with no type of repair. God’s people have just become complacent. We’ve allowed Satan to just do his thing however he wants to do it.

You know the crazy thing about, a dilapidated house? Once it reaches a certain point, nobody cares. You know, up to this point, maybe somebody tries something, but once it reaches a certain point, they just let it go. It it’d be too hard to fix it. There’d be too much to do to make it right again.

You know, it’s just it’s not worth it, and they just leave it alone. And unfortunately, the church of God is being treated like that today. It’s gone too far. There’s no way we could build it back. There’s no way that all that could happen.

So, you know, we’re just we’re it’s just come quickly, Lord. Forget about all this. We’re just done. Just go ahead and come and and take us all home, and we just don’t worry about the rest of it. Well, there’s a problem with that.

The problem with that is that if God comes today, probably most of us in this room will have family in our life that will spend an eternity in hell because they’ve never given their life to God. And instead of giving up, maybe the church needs to band together and begin to rebuild. God’s people had neglected God. God’s people had neglected God. So look with me to chapter four of Nehemiah verses one through nine.

Chapter four of Nehemiah verses one through nine. It’s on the screen if you don’t have your Bible. Now it came about that when Sanballat heard that we were rebuilding the wall, he became furious and very angry and mocked the Jews. He spoke in the presence of his brothers and the wealthy men of Samaria and said, what are these feeble Jews doing? Are they going to restore it for themselves?

Can they offer sacrifices? Can they finish in a day? Can they revive the stones from the dusty rubble, even the burned ones? Now Tobiah the Amorite Ammonite, I’m sorry, was near him, and he said even what they are building, if a fox would jump on it, it would break down their stone wall. Hear, oh god, how we are despised.

Return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for plunder in a land of captivity. Do not forgive their iniquity and let not their sin be blotted out before you, for they have demoralized the builders. So we built the wall, and the whole wall was joined together to half its height, for the people had a mind to work. Now when Sanballat, Tobiah, the Arabs, and the Amorites, and their Ashdodites heard that the repair of the walls of Jerusalem went on and that the breaches began to be closed, they were very angry. All of them conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause a disturbance in it.

But we prayed to our god, and because of them, we set up a guard against them day and night. God’s people had neglected God, and their city was destroyed, and they were taken into captivity. All these years later, God has allowed Nehemiah to come back and gather the people to begin rebuilding the city. Why? Because Nehemiah had been faithful, because Nehemiah had prayed, because Nehemiah desperately wanted to see the city rebuilt and god’s temple repaired.

And because of all of that, God allowed it to happen, and he allowed him to come back. Now he came back and he gathered the people, and they began to build. God allowed him to do that, and he allowed the people to come together. Here’s the thing. It took Nehemiah to start that process.

It took Nehemiah to get that process started. Up until that point, nothing had happened. But Nehemiah was stricken for the condition of the city. He was stricken because God’s people had so neglected God that all of this had happened. He was heartbroken over the fact that God’s people were not able to worship in the city in which they desired to be there.

God’s people were not able to come together and worship freely as they once had. He’s he was heartbroken over that. And so instead of saying, it’s so sad, and then going on to Starbucks to get him a coffee or whatever it was that he decided to go do, he was so heartbroken, he began to pray. And he began to pray, and God took that and he used it. He used it to make him a leader.

And as a leader, he began to be a leader of the people, and he led the people to go back and rebuild. God’s people today have neglected God. Now I want you to be clear and understand what I just said. I didn’t say lost people today have neglected God. What I said was God’s people, those who know him, those who say they gave their life to him, those who call themselves believers and Christians have neglected God today.

God’s people have neglected God. That’s what got, the Israelites in trouble to begin with, neglecting God. Today, God’s people have neglected God. For too long, the people in America have neglected to serve God with all our hearts. Therefore, the nation that was once called a godly nation is no longer called a godly nation.

The nation, United States Of America, One nation under God. You know, there is a massive push to remove that phrase out of the pledge of allegiance because the nation is no longer considered a godly nation. This nation is no longer considered a godly nation because God’s people, who are called by his name, have not done what we need to do. Instead, we have allowed the church to deteriorate. We have allowed the roof to start to fall in.

We have allowed the walls to start opening up with holes. We have allowed mold in the building. We have allowed all of these things to happen in the church of God. We have allowed it to be torn down and fall apart. The bad part is for most of what has happened, it’s not due to what the enemy has done.

It’s due to the fact that god’s people didn’t do anything to take care of it. You know, it’s one thing when the enemy comes in and destroys something, But when God’s people just simply neglect it and it falls apart, that’s so much worse. That’s what’s happening today. That’s where we are today. That’s why when we look around today, we have a church congregation that even one section is not full.

We can go down the street and check another church and another church and another church, and guess what? Almost every one of them look just alike. God’s people have neglected God. The churches of America have been complacent and derelict in our godly mission. What is our godly mission?

Go and make disciples, baptizing them in the name of the father and the son and the holy spirit. That’s what we’re supposed to be doing. That’s what god has called us to do. That’s what when we receive the salvation from god, we didn’t receive the salvation, and God said, okay. Now you’re saved.

Go chill out until it’s time to go home. He said, now you’re saved. It’s time to be on mission for me. It’s time to get out and see the other people. Go and tell.

Go and tell. You know, it’s amazing thing. We can have some little funny thing that happens, and we want everybody to know about it. Oh, we tell them on the phone. We we text them.

We send it out on Facebook, all this stuff. It was so funny. We won’t tell everybody about that. But we don’t do the same thing to tell everybody about god. We don’t do the same thing.

You say, well, you know, sometimes people get mad when you tell them about god. I know. Yeah. They do. Sometimes they get mad.

I would rather they be mad today, convicted tomorrow, and saved the day after that, than to be okay with me today, lost tomorrow, and spent eternity in hell. They might be mad at me. I might lose them as a friend. That doesn’t mean I’m gonna stop praying for them. It doesn’t mean I’m gonna stop trying to tell them.

We never know. How many times does it take to tell somebody about God before they receive him? There’s no answer. There’s no answer. We don’t know.

Sometimes you tell somebody about God, and the very first time, God convicts them, and right then and there, they receive Jesus as Lord and savior. Hallelujah. Sometimes, it took four people to share the same story before they finally had their eyes open, and they were convicted and received Jesus Christ as lord and savior. Sometimes it takes forty years before they finally are convicted and receive Jesus as lord and savior. I’ve I’ve said before, I’ve talked to people who have been told over and over and over and over their whole life.

I I’ve talked to at least one person literally on their deathbed that had rejected and rejected and rejected their whole life. But someone said, will you come and talk to them? Nothing special about me. It’s just a different person talking to them. We prayed about it.

I went and talked to him, and the person gave their life to Christ. And a week later, they were in heaven with him. What if nobody talked to him? What if they decided it’s falling apart? There’s no chance.

There’s no way that we can, save this. Let’s just leave it. Don’t worry about that one. Just move on to something else. The churches of America have been complacent and derelict of godly of their godly mission.

However, if God’s people rise up and begin to rebuild, they will succeed. Verses one through three says, it came about when Sanballat heard the rebuilding wall, he was furious, angry, and mocked the Jews. He spoke in the presence of the brothers and the wealthy men, and they are going to restore it themselves. How can this happen? Basically, it’s what he said.

In verse three, it says, now Tobiah was near him and said even what they were building, if a fox jumped on it, it would fall down. God’s people were mocked. They were mocked. They were scorned. They were told it can’t happen.

No one believed they could. You know what typically happens when that occurs? The people that are trying to do the building believe it. They believe it. It can’t happen.

Listen. You think Christians can change the world? There’s no way Christians can change the world. They can’t even get together and decide on the color of the wall. There’s no way Christians are gonna change the world.

They can’t even make up their own mind. There’s no way Christians are gonna change the world. They can’t even decide whether they stand on this side or whether they stand on that side. They don’t know. How is that gonna happen?

And most Christians look out and go, they’re right. They’re right. We can’t change the world. All we can do is take care of ourself. We just had to take care of ourself.

That’s all we have to do. Listen. You have to take care of yourself in order to take care of others, in order to complete the mission. A soldier has to be in shape and do exercise and, have a a good diet and do all that he has to do to be ready that when the time comes, he can fight for the country. A Christian has to be ready and pray and spend time in god’s word and take in the right nourishment and get the right exercise by serving God even in their own house so that they can be ready to go and help rebuild the church.

But instead, after being mocked and scorned, God’s people believed it. They believe there’s no way. But here’s what I want you to know. When Satan and the rest of the world say, there’s no way. It’s not even a worry.

It’s not even a fear for us. Saint Ballet said, even the rocks they got won’t fall stay up. Nothing to it. It’s not gonna happen. They didn’t think there was any chance.

And so they didn’t worry about it. You know what God’s people did? They built the wall. The most important thing to us, the most important tool one of the important tools that we have is that when they don’t believe it, then we don’t have the opposition. They’re not fighting against us while we’re trying to rebuild, and all of a sudden, guess what?

It’s rebuilt halfway, and they go, wait. I didn’t expect that to happen. It won’t be done if we don’t put our selfishness aside and serve god completely. What do I mean by that? I mean, if we don’t stop thinking only about self and start thinking about god and the mission of god, we can never complete the mission.

We live in America where it’s all about me. What’s best for me? What’s in it for me? How can I get something out of it? What happens if I do this?

How am I gonna be promoted, lifted up, have my name written in the history books? It’s about me. Well, I got news for you. To put it in my country, Alabama vernacular, it ain’t about you. It’s about God.

And until we understand that it’s not about me, it’s about God, we’re gonna continue to walk in that selfishness. We’re gonna continue to do that. The world says, you you need to be taking care of number one. Well, number one is god. Amen?

So if number one is god, yeah, let’s take care of number one, but I’m not number one. I’m not even number two. Verse four says, here, oh god. What did they do? After they got chastised and scorned and told they couldn’t do it, they prayed.

Here, oh our god, how we are despised, return their reproach on their own heads and give them up for the plunder in the land of captivity. They prayed. God, take care of them. They’re they’re despising us. They’re scorning us.

They’re trying to stop us from what we’re doing. You take care of them. We can’t. You take care of them. So first of all, Nehemiah prayed.

That is the number one thing that god’s people today have neglected. First, pray. Pray. Survey says that the average Christian in The United States Of America prays approximately four minutes per day, and that includes praying over your meals. So if it takes me thirty seconds to pray over my meal Lord, thank you for the food.

Amen. That’s how some people pray. Right? Thank you for the food. Amen.

That’s it. If it takes me thirty seconds pray over my meals a day, that’s three times a day. That only leaves me with three and a half minutes to talk to god on a personal level. You can’t even make a post on Facebook in three and a half minutes. How are you gonna spend time talking to God in only three and a half minutes of your life?

First of all, pray. Nehemiah prayed. He prayed before they began and all during the restoration. It wasn’t one time. I prayed about it, brother George.

How many times did you pray about that? What do you mean? You said pray. I prayed about it. Check.

Time to move on. Why did you only pray once for that? What do you mean? I prayed about it, didn’t I? You say you did.

Prayed about it once. Is it that trivial, whatever it is, that you could only talk to god about it for thirty seconds and move on? We will rant and rave over the service we received in the drive through longer than we talked to god. Is it worth it? God wants to have a relationship with his people.

God wants us to be close to him. How can we be close if we don’t pray? Everybody has seen this plastered all over the place, but it is so true. Second Chronicles seven fourteen. Second Chronicles seven fourteen.

If my people, who are called by my name, will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and, get this, turn from their wicked ways, then I will hear from heaven. I will forgive their sin, and I will hear their land. The key to rebuilding is, first of all, we have to ask that God forgive us for the things that we’ve done and the way we’ve been living. Second, God has forgive us for those things that we’ve done because he says he will. Then when we pray and ask all that, then he will hear from heaven and forgive our sin and heal our land.

If my people the first key word in that is if. Is that not break your heart? That the scripture, inspired by god to be written down said, if my people if. Not when, but if. If my people who are called by my name god says if these are the people called by his name.

Why is there a if? It should be a when. Of course, god’s people are supposed to be doing this. Why is there a if there? Because God’s people have been derelict in what we’re supposed to do.

God’s people have been complacent. We just let things happen, and we’ve not spent our time serving God. If, my people, the most important thing we can do today is pray. Pray. And I don’t mean a thirty second prayer on your way out the door.

I don’t mean just a casual reference to God in something you’re doing throughout the day. I mean a heartfelt conversation with God. Take that time to pour yourself out before him and not just pour yourself out and say, God, I need, I need, I need, I need. We all tend to do that. Oh, I pray to god.

Yeah. When you need, you need, you need, you need, you need. You pray. But what about god? What do you need?

What can I do for you? How do I serve you better? What do you want me to do today? Well, I’m glad you asked. I want you to go over to that neighbor that you really dislike and tell them that god loves them.

Oh, hold on. Wait a minute now, god. You know, we don’t get along in him. He’s not even a Christian. Why you think I want you to go over there and talk to him?

I want you to go talk to him and tell him about me, but you don’t understand how bad that guy is. He’s just rude. It’s because he don’t know me. Go tell him about me. Well, what if he gets mad?

Well, he’s mad at me, not you, so go tell him anyway. Well, he might not like me after I do that. He don’t like you now anyway. He already doesn’t like you. It’s not gonna change.

Go tell him about God, and then he might love you because he finds his salvation. If my people, first of all, pray. Secondly, we need to come together and work to rebuild the kingdom. We need to come together and work to rebuild the kingdom. Here’s the thing.

I wanna make sure you understand this. If I ask today for volunteers to raise your hand and say, who will be with me to help rebuild the kingdom? And everybody’s hand goes up. I want you to understand before you raise your hand, I’m not gonna ask the question. Before you raise your hand, you will face persecution.

I need a volunteer, but, oh, yeah. It’s gonna be difficult. I need you to volunteer for this, but people are not gonna like it, and they’re gonna talk bad about you. I want you to volunteer for this, but people are gonna flat out hate you. They may come by and and throw eggs at your house.

They may plaster your name all over Facebook. They may say horrible things about you. All this might happen, but I need you to volunteer. Most of us go, yeah. No.

Not that. I can’t do that. I can’t do that. I told you, we’re gonna face persecution. I don’t I don’t wanna do that.

Why are we surprised when persecution comes? Understand this. God told us in the beginning, we will face trials and tribulation. We will. Why?

Because he did. He walked on this earth, god in the flesh, and faced trials and persecution and tribulation in the time that he was here. Why would we think we’re better than him? We’re gonna face persecution. Here’s what happens when Christians are persecuted in America.

Hun, they said bad things about me. I don’t wanna talk about that anymore. I’m just gonna do my thing and leave them alone. What if somebody felt that way about you before you came to know god? We’re going to face persecution.

In The United States Of America, we are blessed that we haven’t faced the type of persecution that people around the world have faced today. There are places in the world today by simply mentioning the name of Jesus, you’re condemned to death, And people die every day because they did. There are places in the world today where if you mention the name of Jesus, you’re gonna be go to jail for the rest of your life. There are people in jail sharing with other prisoners about god. Some say that The United States is the worst form of persecution of all.

Because instead of seeing that there’s an absolute something and defying it anyway, it’s a subliminal persecution. It’s one that flies under the radar, and we’re persecuted and don’t even realize it. And so fighting against it is difficult. You will be persecuted when you stand up for God. Just as a reminder, when he stood up for you, he was beaten beyond recognition.

His beard was literally pulled out by the roots. A crown of thorns forced down upon his head to the point that blood poured down his forehead. He was beaten with so many lashes across his back that the law said if they’d hit him one more time, it would have been illegal because that could have caused death. Then he received nails in his hands and feet and was raised up on a cross to die when he stood up for you. He hasn’t asked you to be persecuted like that, but he said we will face persecution.

It could come to that. We don’t know. God told us that we would face persecution. So when it happens, instead of being surprised, we need to push through. Look at verses six through eight.

So we built the wall, and the whole wall was joined together to half its height. When they say the whole wall was joined together, it means that all the holes were closed up. It was only halfway the height that it was supposed to be, but the whole wall had been rejoined together. That in itself was a phenomenal feat. They didn’t think it could be done, but it was.

The people had a mind to work. They all came together for that purpose of rebuilding that wall. Why? It wasn’t about the wall. It was about bringing God’s people back together for him.

And it started with the wall. Now when Sambowed Tobiah and the Arabs and the Ammonites and the Ashlanites heard the repair of the walls, Jerusalem went on and that the breaches began to be closed. They were very angry. They all compire conspired together to come and fight against Jerusalem and to cause a disturbance in it. When the world sees God’s people began to come together and began to build the church back up, It’s gonna fight against it.

They’re gonna be terrified. Satan is gonna say, wait. It can’t happen. Go fight. We’re gonna be persecuted.

We’re gonna be some of us killed, but nothing can separate us from the love of God. Amen? We’ve got to rebuild. The people in Nehemiah’s day had a mind to work. They had a purpose.

They were coming together to build it back, the kingdom of God, and they kept doing it even knowing they were gonna be attacked. The rest of the story comes later. You read on down in there, you’ll find out what happened. But what I want you to see is this, Nehemiah and the people were not discouraged. They were told, we’re going to come battle against it.

They weren’t discouraged. They kept on working. They kept on working. They said, we’re gonna keep doing it. I know it’s hard, but we’re gonna keep doing it.

If you come and fight against us, we’re gonna pray, and we’re gonna keep doing it. We’re gonna keep on doing what god wants us to do. It’s exactly how we need to work today. Verse nine says this, we pray to our God. They said, we’re coming against you, but we pray to our God, and because of them, we set up a guard against them day and night.

That’s exactly how we need to work today. That’s exactly how we need to work today. What did they do first? When all the persecution was coming, everything that happened, they prayed. That was the first thing.

Today, those who are able need to work diligently. I understand. There are some people that aren’t physically able to do certain things. Those who are able need to work diligently. Those who are not physically able, you know what they do?

They’re the ones standing on the wall praying while the rest are working. I can’t physically do this, but I can pray. I can stand firm on this wall, and I can pray while God’s people rebuild. I can do that much. Understand that power of prayer is greater than anything we could ever imagine.

No. I’m not strong enough to do that anymore, but I can pray. I can still pray. Many people in this congregation have gone to be with the lord today and said, I don’t know why god has still kept me here. And I said, god has something for you to do.

Maybe it’s to pray. And they would say, you know what? I can do that. I can do that. Those who can physically do it need to be doing it.

We need to be rebuilding. We need to be working. We need to be trying to build the kingdom of god back up and not just watching it fall down and go, it’s so sad. That’s so sad. It is sad.

Do something. Those who aren’t physically able should be praying for those who are working. And all of us should be diligently in prayer every day before, during, and after work. Continually in prayer. Before we go and try to build up the kingdom, we pray.

While we’re working, we pray. And when it’s over at the end of the day, we pray. And if we’re spending that time praying, God’s gonna give us what we need. God’s gonna give us what we need. We wanna rebuild.

The rest of the story, by the way, is Nehemiah did succeed. He did succeed. The wall was rebuilt. God allowed it to be done. Oh, they faced plenty of persecution.

They had to fight battles. They had to do all of those things, but they prayed, and they worked. And as the persecution came, they fought, and they prayed, and they worked, and they continued on and on until it was all finished. And you know what? When it was finished, they didn’t stop there.

They kept praying, and they kept working. The question that I have today is, are you ready to be a construction worker? Children said no. The real question is, do you want to be part of the crew that rebuilds the house of God? Do you want to do that?

We, as God’s people, who are called by his name, first, humble yourself. It’s not about you. And pray and turn away from your wicked ways. Well, why you say I’m wicked, brother George? If you’re not praying and serving God, what you’re doing is wicked.

Turn from your wicked ways and seek his face, then he will hear from heaven, forgive your sin, and heal our land. Are you ready to be part of that construction crew? If you’re not, then this is my first task for you. Pray. Pray that God would prepare your heart.

Pray that he would get you ready to be part of that. You might need to be a foreman on that crew. Maybe God wants you to be a leader. I don’t think I can be a leader. You can’t, not without God, but if he calls you, you can.

Maybe he needs you to be a worker. Maybe he needs you to be somebody that stands on the wall and prays for those that are working. Whatever that he needs, we need to be ready to serve him. We need to have a desire to see god’s church rebuilt. Rebuilt.

Not so we can say, ah, see. Christians, we did it. We did it. No. So we can say, God loves you.

God is greater than all this other stuff. And you know what? He stands with his arms open wide and says, come. I’ll forgive you of everything that has happened. I will wash you white as snow.

I will cast your sin as far as the East is from the West. I will wash you with the blood of Christ and I will bring you into the kingdom forever all of eternity. That’s what we need to be sharing to the people of the world. That’s why we need to build up the kingdom of God. Are you one of God’s people?

Listen. If you’re one of God’s people today, that question, are you ready to work, is a valid question. Are you ready? If not, pray. Ask God, how can I be used?

Maybe you today are here and you say, you know, I’m not one of God’s people. I mean, I I I I’ve heard of God and I I read my bible sometimes, and I come to church every once in a while, I sing the songs and all of that, but I don’t have a personal relationship with him. Good news. He stands with his arms over wide today waiting. If you need to come to know him today, he’s he’s there.

If you’re are one of God’s people, it’s time to get back to work. We’ve got to rebuild. We’ve got to rebuild Because people need to know the Lord. Without him, there’s an eternity in hell waiting for him. God said, it is not my desire that any would spend an eternity in hell, but that all would be saved, but he leaves it up to them.

But he wants you to tell them and give them that choice. What if nobody ever told them there was a choice? Nobody ever shared with them. You don’t have to live this way. You can accept Jesus.

What if they never knew? Understand that this country today is one of the most unreached people groups in the world. That’s why we like to give to our North American missions to try to reach people for God today. There are many people that the only time they’ve ever heard the word Jesus is as a swear word. We need to rebuild together.

We have a time invitation. God’s placed it on your heart that today you need to come and let me tell you how you can give your life to him, then please come. If god placed it on your heart that today you need to come and throw something down at the altar so that it can be given over to him and you can take that away and you can rise up and serve him the way that you’re supposed to, the altar’s open. If there’s someone on your heart that you know, they don’t know Jesus, but I want them to know, and I need help. I need to be able to be strong enough to come come bring that to the altar.

The altar is a great place to do it. Nothing magic. It’s just symbolic of the altar in heaven. I’ll say this. As we have this time of invitation, if the Holy Spirit puts something on your heart, on your mind, please just move.

Do whatever it is that he tells you to do. Let’s pray.