You’ve Got Work To Do // Viral Revival: Bloodline Edition // Charles Metcalf

There is a quote that is going to shape how I preach tonight, and I heard it, and it really stuck with me, and it says this.

I wrote it on the side of the podium.

It says, and when you preach...

You must preach unsure to ever preach again.

A dying man preaching to dying men.

And I wanna be clear with you tonight, this is not a sermon about when you're gonna die.

Jesus said only the Father knows when the end time is coming.

This is not a sermon about when you're gonna die.

My sermon tonight is about the choice you have of when you're gonna live.

And do not get it twisted, being alive and living are not the same thing, friend.

If I were to ask you how long do you think you're going to live, I'm not asking you how many years God will grant you on this planet until you drift over into eternity and see him face to face in his hair of wool, in his eyes of fire, in his bronze feet.

That is not the question.

I'm asking how long will you be alive before you make the decision to live? And I'm afraid it is not enough to just want to change your bloodline.

You should start there.

It's important.

There's a courage.

There's a strength.

There's a desire.

And many of you over the last couple of hours, you've gotten a desire that, man, I want to do it.

But I've got some news for you, friend.

In the most kind, loving, considerate, compassionate way, you want to know who else wanted to change your bloodline? Everyone before you.

You think people want to stay alcoholics their whole life? You think people want divorce to run in their family? You think people want to shy back from every opportunity God's put in front of them? You think people want to walk around questioning people? No,

no, no.

Everybody wants something different.

Some people, they reach a moment in their life where they stop considering all the stuff they want to do And they realize there are a few things they have to do.