We Are in the Last Days

Sammy Allen, SermonAudio

You Can Stand Out

Now.. I never… Let me say this… I’ve seen nights when if it hadn’t been against the law, I could driven my vehicle… not even… not even turn on the lights… Moon full… No clouds… Elements full of stars…. On a night like that, I don’t care how good a light you got, it don’t stand out. I don’t care how good a light you got. But you let it get smooth cloudy… No… No moon… No stars… I’ve seen it so dark, you couldn’t even hardly see your hand. Now on a night like that, just a little bit of light stands out. Don’t take a lot. And you young people… I mean you can really stand out now. You can stand out.

Television and The Internet

Now as far as I know in Fite Bend… That’s where I was born and reared… in Gordon County, but in Fite Bend… And everybody listen real close(t)… The first television that I know of in our country… Mr. Coot Austin and his wife, Mrs. Winnie Austin, their son, Mr. Gilbert Austin, their daughter, Ms. Sis Austin, had the first television in our country, and I used go up there and watch the Lone Ranger. Is everybody listening? And there’s not a person here… You never did see Gene Autry or Roy Rogers kiss a woman. Is everybody listen’n? And who woulda thought… who woulda thought that television woulda been like it’s been for the last thirty years? Who woulda even thought it? Who would have even thought that television… I’ll tell you one man thought… Dr. Oswald J. Smith. He said in the late fifties… He wrote that pamphlet in the late fifties… What is television doing to our youth? He said television will finally turn America and Canada into a state even worst than Sodom and Gomorah. But now we’ve got something worst… The internet… We got something worst now than the television. The internet. The inter-net. The INTER-NET! Is everybody listening? God help us. Serious thing, friend. Now, if you think you can cut it all out, then you need to… you need to go out here somewhere tonight and vomick. You can’t cut it all out. And if you’re not a strong Christian… I mean if you’re not a strong Christian and can not look at none of that filthy ungodly stuff, you better leave it alone. That’s what you better do. Leave it alone! Amen! Come on now? Amen! Stay with me friend. God help us.

 

The Secret to the Christian Life

And I wanta thank the good Lord… Everybody look at me tonight. I coulda been out there, them Sunday afternoons, playing with the other young… them boys, them teenage boys and everything… I love sports. I coulda been right out there. But I’d come in from church and get… get my bible or get some books… And all Sunday afternoon, I was out there alone with the Lord. Absolutely. That’s it, friend. Them Sunday afternoons and a lot of nights… You’da thought I was brave man… down in them bottoms, winter and summer, praying. Where the Holy Spirit would impress me to pray, that’s where I’d go pray. Winter and summer. Oh yes! Yes! Amen, friend! Yes! And I’d tell you the secret in the Christian life, if you want me to. Same thing Brother Joe Parson told me 49-50 years ago, Rocky Acres Bible Camp. We’s up walking across the grounds… Look at me boys and girls. I said, “Brother Joe! Where’s the secret at in the Christian life?” He said, “Samuel” He said, “Sam, the secret is that you spend more time with him than you do anybody else.” That’s it. That’s the secret, friend. That you spend more time with him… And dad loved… my daddy loved to go with me to the Conasauga River to run… to raise the nets. But there were times I didn’t even carry my daddy. I just wanted to be over there… alone. Walk up and down them cotton rows or that plowed ground before we’d plant, fellershipping with the Lord… I mean fellershipping with Him. I’ve been so close to him that when I’ve laid down in the bed, it’s just like he laid down with me. That’s how close I’ve been, friend. You say, I don’t believe that. That don’t bother me any. You go ahead.  Don’t bother me a bit. I don’t get a bit upset at you if you don’t believe that. Not a bit. That don’t bother me a bit, friend. Brother would say, “Who you whispering to?” And I’d be fellershipping with the Lord. It’s wonderful. Nothing like it. Nothing! Nothing on planet earth!

I Wanta Be The Same

Now I’ve narrowed it down. I’ve narrowed it down a little more. You’ve heard me say… And you can talk to my… call my wife… call my boys. I wanta be the very same at home, the very same. I WANTA BE THE SAME AT HOME as I am out in public. But I’ve narrowed it down a little friend. If I was 500 miles away from anybody… 500 miles away from anybody on planet earth and nobody’d ever know what I’d done, I wanta be the same. I wanta be the same. I wanta be the same, friend. I wanta be the same. God help us.

Dixie Belle Mills

When I worked at Dixie Belle Mills, seven and a half years… I did… the last two or three years take over the cut order department, cut’n the large rugs.  But the only reason why I’d done it, Brother Larry, I knew we could work hard and if I need’d to get off early about going to revival or about the Lord’s work, we could do it. And uh… Now you better listen at me real close now… I told Mr. Wallace Roland, Mr. Tramull Burchan probably, “Long hours Monday. Long hours Tuesday. I wanta be off early enough Wednesday to go to our prayer service, prayer meet’n.” One Wednesday, Mr. Wallace Roland said, “We’re gonna have to just… Sammy, we’re gonna have to just work over. We gotta get this order out.” I said, “Okay, Wallace. It’ll be on you and Tramull if I miss church tonight.” And about 6:30… He wadn’t even saved… Here come the supervisor and said, “You go on to church. I’m gonna take your place.” He feared God enough… And you ain’t fit to be a deacon if you’ll work over on prayer meet’n night to make a little extra money and work on Sunday. Oh no, friend! Oh No! I said, “Long hours Monday, long hours Tuesday, long hours Thursday, long hours Friday, I’ll even work on Saturday, but I won’t be here on Sunday.” And I never was. Never. Never. NEVER! It wasn’t a preference. It was a CONVICTION! Won’t be here on Sunday now. Oh no! I won’t be here on Sunday. And I don’t think I could’ve gone any higher than what I did. Don’t think I had the ability. But, they might have wanted me to, but it would’ve required more of my time. Oh no. Amen now.

It’s Me or the Tent

I courted this young lady three years, went to school with her… She went on to Grady when she graduated. And I was afraid to drive in Atlanta. We’s engaged eighteen months, but I never did go to Atlanta to see her. And when she come home, precious young lady… And when she head that we’s getting that tent, that first tent, uh… She wrote me a letter, said it’s either me or the tent. That’s it. Said it’s either me or the tent. That’s right. M-hmm. It’s either me or the tent. And when she come home… I had a speaking engagement probably over in Summerville… And as we rode over, I said, “I got your letter. I guess you know we didn’t answer it. You said it was either you or the tent.” and I said “I know it’s God’s will for us to get the tent, so you’ve got your answer.” We’s engaged eighteen months, buddy. You’ve got your answer young lady. You’ve got it young lady. Noh yes, young lady! You’ve got your answer. Amen friend. So, get on the possum’s trail. You’ve gotta work at it. Get on the possum’s trail of God’s perfect will for your life and don’t let no boy… Don’t let nothing or nobody side track you.