Sound the Alarm! It’s Go Time!

Sound the Alarm! It’s Go Time!

Num 10:1-9; Ezek 33:1-7

Today more than ever we have to considered God’s will, we cannot afford to just sit idle, rather we must put the pedal to the metal and say it’s go time!

Matthew 28:19 Go ye therefore, and teach all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, and of the Son, and of the Holy Ghost:

Mark 16:15 And he said unto them, Go ye into all the world, and preach the gospel to every creature.

What are the first 2 letters of the gospel? GO!
Psalm 126:6
He that goeth forth and weepeth, bearing precious seed, shall doubtless come again with rejoicing, bringing his sheaves with him.

Nothing happens until we go!
Acts 5:20 Go, stand and speak in the temple to the people, all the words of this life.

ILLUS: I heard about a football game being played on the home field. The home team was being smeared by the visiting squad. Someone on the sidelines kept yelling, "Give the ball to Calhoun! Give the ball to Calhoun!’’ They tried another play, and again the home team was smashed to the ground, losing valuable yardage. Again came the cry, "Give the ball to Calhoun!’’ After this happened two or three times more, the familiar cry rang out again, "Give the ball to Calhoun!’’ Then a tall man raised up from the pile of human bodies on the field after the next play and responded, "Calhoun don’t want the ball!’’



I am afraid this is true of many Christians today. They do not want to carry the ball of evangelism. They need to hear the cry of the crowd in heaven cheering them on…that great cloud of witnesses in the grandstands of glory urging us to run the race before we leave this earth. They need to hear the voice of the coach as He calls the plays…the coach is Jesus Christ—can you hear him:

Luke 10:1-3 After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come. [2] Therefore said he unto them, The harvest truly is great, but the labourers are few: pray ye therefore the Lord of the harvest, that he would send forth labourers into his harvest. [3] Go your ways: behold, I send you forth as lambs among wolves.



John 15:16 Ye have not chosen me, but I have chosen you, and ordained you, that ye should go and bring forth fruit…

Paul States…

Romans 15:25 But now I go unto Jerusalem to minister unto the saints.
Galatians 2:9 … we should go unto the heathen…

It’s go time! It’s time to stop sitting still and go to work!

Let me ask you: Is the purpose of the fire company to put out fires, or to keep the fire truck shiny and the fireman’s uniform neat? There is surely a need for both. There must be a balance between reaching souls and caring for the saints, but to forsake one for the other must be displeasing to the Lord.

It’s time to SOUND THE ALARM!

Num 10:1-9 KJV And the LORD spake unto Moses, saying, (2) Make thee two trumpets of silver; of a whole piece shalt thou make them: that thou mayest use them for the calling of the assembly, and for the journeying of the camps. (3) And when they shall blow with them, all the assembly shall assemble themselves to thee at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation. (4) And if they blow but with one trumpet, then the princes, which are heads of the thousands of Israel, shall gather themselves unto thee. (5) When ye blow an alarm, then the camps that lie on the east parts shall go forward. (6) When ye blow an alarm the second time, then the camps that lie on the south side shall take their journey: they shall blow an alarm for their journeys. (7) But when the congregation is to be gathered together, ye shall blow, but ye shall not sound an alarm. (8) And the sons of Aaron, the priests, shall blow with the trumpets; and they shall be to you for an ordinance for ever throughout your generations. (9) And if ye go to war in your land against the enemy that oppresseth you, then ye shall blow an alarm with the trumpets; and ye shall be remembered before the LORD your God, and ye shall be saved from your enemies.



It's time to SOUND THE ALARM, and declare war against the devil for our Church, our Families and our Friends



Whe we sound the alarm the walls will fall-The Walls of Jericho

Joshua 6:5 And it shall come to pass, that when they make a long blast with the ram's horn, and when ye hear the sound of the trumpet, all the people shall shout with a great shout; and the wall of the city shall fall down flat, and the people shall ascend up every man straight before him.

Joshua 6:20 So the people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.



When we sound the alarm we will win the battle-Gideon's army of 300

Judges 7:18-22 KJV When I blow with a trumpet, I and all that are with me, then blow ye the trumpets also on every side of all the camp, and say, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. (19) So Gideon, and the hundred men that were with him, came unto the outside of the camp in the beginning of the middle watch; and they had but newly set the watch: and they blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers that were in their hands. (20) And the three companies blew the trumpets, and brake the pitchers, and held the lamps in their left hands, and the trumpets in their right hands to blow withal: and they cried, The sword of the LORD, and of Gideon. (21) And they stood every man in his place round about the camp: and all the host ran, and cried, and fled. (22) And the three hundred blew the trumpets, and the LORD set every man's sword against his fellow, even throughout all the host: and the host fled to Bethshittah in Zererath, and to the border of Abelmeholah, unto Tabbath.



I. LET’S GO and Bid them to come!

Luk 14:21-23 KJV So that servant came, and shewed his lord these things. Then the master of the house being angry said to his servant, Go out quickly into the streets and lanes of the city, and bring in hither the poor, and the maimed, and the halt, and the blind. (22) And the servant said, Lord, it is done as thou hast commanded, and yet there is room. (23) And the lord said unto the servant, Go out into the highways and hedges, and compel them to come in, that my house may be filled.



Let’s go get them! Let’s go out where they are and bring them in where we are. But, whom shall we get?

Maybe the poor people like Bartimaeus;
the rich people like Zacchaeus;
religious people like Nicodemus;
sick people like the impotent man;
wicked people like the woman at the well;
black people like the Ethiopian eunuch;
working people like James and John who were mending their nets;
political leaders like Cornelius;
the social people like Lydia;
and the little people like the children Jesus spoke of in Matthew 19:14.


Nowhere does the Bible command the lost to come to church. We are to go and bring them in. Where should we go to invite them? Jesus said, "Into all the world.’’ He also said, "Into the streets and lanes’’ (Luke 14:21), and "into the highways and hedges’’ (Luke 14:23).

God will lead us to the thirsty, the seeking, and the interested, and there are many…the fields are white unto harvest!


II. LET’S GO and INSPIRE THEM-Passion is Contagious

Notice that the process begins with an individual’s discovery of a personal PURPOSE that ignites a CONVICTION. This conviction generates a VISION in the person’s heart that stirs a PASSION. This INSPIRES others, who are stirred with the vison and are “INFLUENCED”


III. LET’S GO and get them INVOLVED
Once people are invited to come to Christ, instructed in the ways of the Lord, and inspired to do the work of God, it is time to involve them.

We have to be ready for what is coming. Isn’t this exciting? No more church as usual…it’s go time!

Illus.--Somewhere recently I read of a tribe of natives in a South American jungle who learned that the leaves of certain trees would give them extra energy and strength and would keep them from getting hungry. So they began to eat them regularly. They seemed strong, energetic and seldom got hungry. A few days later some died. An investigation revealed that they had starved to death. The leaves had tranquilized them and tricked them with false drug-like energy.

It is quite obvious that Satan has had great success in getting Christians to be perfectly satisfied with the humdrum routine of going to church, taking part in the formalities of the services, carrying on the functions of a social ministry, and thinking they are pleasing God; but they are really starving to death.



Surely the only answer is to get back to the basics of going after people, and carrying out the Great Commission. It’s Go Time!

Sound the Alarm Jesus is coming!

Joel 2:1 Blow ye the trumpet in Zion, and sound an alarm in my holy mountain: let all the inhabitants of the land tremble: for the day of the LORD cometh, for it is nigh at hand;



We are commanded to sound the alarm

Ezekiel 33:1-7 Again the word of the LORD came unto me, saying, (2) Son of man, speak to the children of thy people, and say unto them, When I bring the sword upon a land, if the people of the land take a man of their coasts, and set him for their watchman: (3) If when he seeth the sword come upon the land, he blow the trumpet, and warn the people; (4) Then whosoever heareth the sound of the trumpet, and taketh not warning; if the sword come, and take him away, his blood shall be upon his own head. (5) He heard the sound of the trumpet, and took not warning; his blood shall be upon him. But he that taketh warning shall deliver his soul. (6) But if the watchman see the sword come, and blow not the trumpet, and the people be not warned; if the sword come, and take any person from among them, he is taken away in his iniquity; but his blood will I require at the watchman's hand. (7) So thou, O son of man, I have set thee a watchman unto the house of Israel; therefore thou shalt hear the word at my mouth, and warn them from me.



We are the watchman!
It’s time to sound the alarm!
It’s go time!