Hold on Help is on the way.
1 Samuel 11
And they said unto the messengers that came, Thus shall you say unto the men of Jabeshgilead, Tomorrow, by that time the sun is hot, you shall have help. And the messengers came and showed it to the men of Jabesh; and they were glad.
Most people that know us would assumed that we have it all together, in face many if you asked some of your friend and relatives to be honest and tell you where on a scale of 1 to 10 do they believe you fit in many would give you a score of eight or higher. If you asked them to asset you finically, spiritually, socially, and physically most if not all would rate you higher then you would rate yourselves.
Because if I could get you just to honest with yourself you would have to admit that you’re in a fight for your life. If I could just get you to be transparent most of you would make it known that the devil has given you an ultimatum that you are really considering taking him up on.
That married man or woman whispering you ought to be tried of being alone.
Those debts sayings just get it and make the minimum payment
That so call friend saying everybody is doing it.
That fornication telling you every body won’t any body knows.
That drug saying you won’t get hooked.
Beloved these are just a few of the ultimatums that keep slapping us in the face but I came here to serve notice to you and the devil that if you just hold on help is on the way.
There are times when all of us in the church feel like we just can’t take another day of sorrow, there are times when we all want to throw in the towel. I recently learned last week of a person who I considered to be a friend from the police department in Savannah that he took his life and I had to try to theorized what could be so bad that would drive that brother to do that. Of all the people that I worked with when I was an officer this was the one person who I trusted with my secrets. And to know that he served for over twenty years and had no one that he could go to makes me wonder how effective are we as a church body.
Are we the church that continues to put mascara over our wounds?
Are the church that refused to offer real answers to a dying world
Are we the church that cone into the building and have a H/G with no effect
Are we the church that is simply serving ourselves?
Are we that church that no longer testifies of God Mercies?
Have we become that church that has no power?
Beloved I believe that this sermon will revive us and get us back to out purpose as well as our first love. It’s a sermon for you and that that was ordained to remind us that we are not alone. You see when one feels alone then one operates and makes decision with out much thought to the repercussions.
Now lets me clear from the bishop to the Sunday school there are times that we feel that we are alone.
In our reading today we find the children of Israel who had it going on in the beginning. They were promised by God himself that if they would serve him and him only he would continue to bless them and provide for them, God lead them with judges who would lead them from victory to victory, Judges who would help them with the difficult decision that had to be made. But for the life of me the children of Israel they wanted to be like all of the other nations around them, all the other nations had a king so they to wanted a king.
Stop trying to keep up with the Jones’s even though they look good you don’t know the hell that they are going through. You see they have problems too they just hide it better then you, when they get ready to come outside the house they okay now the neighbors will be watching, they say stuff like honey and sugar, and darling while you refused to even look at your partner
If we really to a deep look at the children of Israel how God dealt with them then we can see where we are heading as a New Testament church and how God will deal with us. The children of Israel got in trouble because they wanted to be like every body else.
So here we hear Samuel crying to God In 1 Samuel 10 saying they the people have rejected me but God makes it known to Samuel it’s not you who they are rejecting they are rejecting me.
For those of you who know the word you would remember that God had required the children of Israel to go to a place three times a year in the beginning, that place was Shiloh
When we read 1 Samuel we see that the place was Shiloh it was the place where Hanna had a son.
Shiloh is where hophni and phinehas lost the Ark of the Covenant to the philistines. So after that God did a pyridine shift and rose up Jerusalem. The only reason they went to Shiloh was because that where the Glory of God dwell.
One of the reasons why people come to this church is because this id where the glory of God dwells.
We to operate in the Glory of God because when you lose the Glory of God there’s no reason for anybody to come anymore.
When you lose the Glory of praise just become noise.
When you lose the Glory of God serving has no purpose.
When you lose the Glory of life isn’t worth living
Let me prove that 1 Samuel 4:18 David said in Palms 51 ;11 Cast me not away from your presence, and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Because the people were no longer in the presence of God they were now about to make a bigger mistake they sent out messengers asking if anyone would come and help.
Don’t get so high that you wont asked for help.
Don’t get so big that you refused to ask for help.
Don’t get so lost that you don’t know how to seek help.
Don’t get so disconnected that that you refused help.
Don’t get so holy that you won’t seek help.
Because if you called of the Lord he will send some help. And let me be real sometimes instead of sending Help God will show up him self.
When the messenger came to David the bible said the spirit of the lord came upon him and he became angry.
There are some thing that we ought to get angry about
Our young people falling to the hands of the drugs dealer.
Our marriages ending do to adulators affairs.
Our churches being driven by an unsaved congress.
Our children being taught by unmoral and unethical instructors
When we look at some of the things going on in our society we ought to get angry. And after getting angry we ought to stand up and say devil that where you crossed the line. And once you stand up please know that you’re not alone but three hundred and thirty thousands soldiers are on the way and by this time tomorrow.
Hold on help is on the way.
Hold on God has heard your cry.
Hold on Jesus is standing up.
Hold on angels are being dispatched
Hold on your break through is just around the bend.
