Guest Speaker
Little Bobby was in his room sitting on the bed. He was trying to
get his shoe on. He was getting ready to go to church tonight with
his mother. He finished getting ready, he had his cute little three
piece suit on. He walked out of the room and down the hallway to
the living room, where his mom was. She was talking on the
phone, she stopped and said, Bobby honey, why are you wearing
your suite?
He said, Mom it’s Sunday, we have to go to church again tonight.
She said, Bobby I don’t know if we are even going tonight or not,
mommy is awful tired. Bobby said, Tonight they said they were
having a guest speaker, we have to go. She said, When they have
guest speakers that means it’s OK not to come, thats why they
have them, to give mommies a break.
Bobby was only six, he liked church and especially his Sunday
school teacher. He made her cards all the time, and she brought
cookies and games, and was really nice. Bobby’s mom didn’t like
her because she is a police woman, and she gave his mommy a
parking ticket for parking in a handicap parking place at the mall.
Bobby convinced his mother to take him to church that night.
They went in and sat in the back row. Bobby wanted to sit up
front, but his mother wanted to sit in the back close to the door so
they could get out faster. She told Bobby You never know when a
fire may break out, and you have to get out quick.
The regular preacher got up and introduced the man sitting on the
front row as the Guest Speaker. He said, The man had just been
called to preach and this would be his first Sermon.
The Guest Speaker started off like most everyone else did, by
going to the Lord in Prayer, Afterwards he said, I’m new at your
church, I’m a Christian, could I see the hands of you that are
Christians also. Most of the church raised their hands. Bobby’s
mother and a few others didn’t. Bobby did, he was baptized a few
weeks ago. The guest speaker looked at the raised hands and said,
Good, now lower your hands. He said, There was a few that
didn’t, but they must be in someway interested or they wouldn’t be
here. God Bless the visitors of this church. He said, Now
everyone that wants to go to hell stand up! Nobody did. He said,
Good, I don’t want to see anybody go either. I plan to help keep
you out, bring you to Christ if that be the will. Hell is not any kind
of a place a person would want to go. You will hear people say
Well I won’t be the only one there. Thats right it will be full.
These same people don’t want to go to prison, where there are
murders and rapiers and worse. Well what kind of people do you
think Hell will be full of.
The people you won’t dare go around here on earth, will be the
kind with you in hell. Do you think they will be any nicer there?
Do you think the Devil is going to care what these people do to
you in hell. No, he will probably be helping them, the rapiers, the
torturers of children, the wife beaters, the one’s who knock down
little old ladies in the street and take the little money they have to
eat on for the next month, until they get another Social Security
Check, then they will come back and try to take it too.
Everyone locks their door at night to keep these kind of people out
of their home so the can sleep at night. Well there is no locks in
hell to keep them out, you won’t be sleeping either, there is no rest
in hell.
When you come home tired after work, your looking forward to
the weekend, when your off. Hell doesn’t have a time clock, you
punch in, but you never punch out, there is no weekend there, no
holidays, you can’t retire after 20 years. It is 24 hours a day, seven
days a week, for ever. After a million years you don’t even get a
coffee break.
Bobby looked over at his mother, she is usually messing around in
her purse or day dreaming about something else and not paying
attention . She was paying attention tonight, she wasn’t chewing
the gun she had put in her mouth when he first got up there to
speak.
The Speaker said, You don’t have to go there. Jesus, by going up
on that cross and staying. And he didn’t have to stay there either,
he could have brought himself down at anytime. He paid the
price to keep you and me out of hell. You can go to Heaven, he
has already bought the ticket with your name on it and is holding
it out for you to take, It’s already arranged for you.
The ticket is paid in full, travel arrangements made, a confirmed
seat on the flight, accommodations when you get there, you don’t
have to worry about a place to stay. Jesus has already went and
prepared a place for you . It says so right here. The speaker help
up the Bible. He said, Read it for yourself in John Chapter 14 the
second and third verse, it says: "I go to prepare a place for
you. And if I go and prepare a place for you, I will come
again, and receive you unto myself; that where I am, there
ye may be also".
With that, my time is up for speaking with you here tonight, I’ll
turn it back over to your pastor so he can give the invitation. The
regular preacher got up and gave the invitation. Bobby’s mother
was in tears as she walked up and took the preacher’s hand. She
told him she would take the ticket and give her life to Christ as her
young son had already done. Then they knelt, both on their knee’s
and prayed. Then they stood and faced the church members. He
told the church members to come shake her hand and he would
talk more with her after the services was dismissed. When Bobby
came up in line to shake his mother’s hand too. He said, Now we
both will be in heaven and I can see you everyday. She picked
Bobby up, hugged him and stood there a while weeping. One of
the things she was thankful for was Bobby, she would not have
went to church that night if he hadn’t insisted on it so. He was the
one that got his mommy to go.
Before he got dressed in his room that afternoon, he had asked for
Jesus to find a way to help his mommy to be saved, because he
wanted her to go to heaven, like he was someday.
Written by: Johnny lee Hall
