Rev. Corwin Cain- "The Storm is coming!"

Rev. Corwin Cain delivers an urgent wake-up call about the spiritual storms coming and our dangerous complacency in the face of them. Using recent tornado destruction in Kentucky and the historic Galveston Hurricane of 1900, he illustrates how ignoring warnings leads to devastating consequences both physically and spiritually.

• The recent tornado that hit Kentucky killed approximately 20 people, many caught unaware while sleeping
• Drawing from Mark 6:45-51, Rev. Corwin Cain shows how the disciples quickly forgot Christ's miracles when faced with storms
• The 1900 Galveston Hurricane killed 8,000-12,000 people who ignored warnings due to complacency
• Prosperity and the cares of life have pushed revival "out of sight" for many in the church
• We must develop urgency about spiritual matters before the storm of judgment arrives
• Wake up from spiritual sleep and warn others that "the storms are coming"
• Revelation 20 reminds us of the final judgment where those not found in the book of life face eternal consequences
• We need revival and spiritual awakening before it's too late

Wake up, church! The storms are coming. God has called repeatedly and messages have fallen on deaf ears. Come alive, Zion, come out of ease and come to Him for the revival He wants to send.

Chapters

• 0:00 Introduction to Holiness Preaching
• 2:53 Storms on Life's Ocean
• 5:24 The Biblical Storm - Mark 6
• 13:30 Destruction in Kentucky
• 20:07 The Galveston Hurricane of 1900
• 31:29 The Coming Judgment
• 36:30 Call to Spiritual Awakening
• 44:00 The Voice of God Speaks

Transcript

Speaker 1: 0:28

This is Pastor Brent Gabbard, thanking you for joining us at Holiness Preaching Online, where the voices of the past and present come together to preserve, protect and promote the timeless truths of our holiness heritage.

Speaker 2: 0:54

Well, have you obeyed the Lord?

Speaker 3: 1:00

Have you obeyed the?

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Lord this morning.

Speaker 3: 1:01

Yes, sir have you obeyed the Lord this morning.

Speaker 2: 1:05

Yes, sir, praise God, the Lord's trying to minister. Yes, praise God, I feel like that he was trying to help somebody. I'm on assignment here this morning, good, good, I'm on assignment here this morning, so y'all pray for me and we'll see if the Lord will help us. There's a storm out On life's ocean and it's moving this away, and if your soul's not Anchored in Jesus, you will surely drift away. There's a storm out, come on sing, sing it. You will surely drift away. Go ahead. There's a storm out in the ocean. There's a storm out in the ocean. Anchored in Jesus will drift away, will drift away, will drift away. You will surely drift away. If your soul's not anchored in Jesus, you will surely drift away. Oh God, help me today.

Speaker 2: 2:53

Lord Mark, chapter 6. Mark 6. Verse 45 said and straightway he constrained his disciples to get into the ship and to go to the other side before unto Bethesda. While he sent away the people, and when he had sent them away, he departed to the mountain to pray, and when evening was come, the ship was in the midst of the sea and he alone on the land, and he saw them toiling and rowinging, for the wind was contrary unto them. And about the fourth watch of the night. He cometh unto them walking upon the sea and would have passed by them and he would have passed by them. But when they saw him walking upon the sea, they supposed it to be a spirit and cried out, for they, they all saw him and were troubled and immediately he talked with them and saith unto them be of good cheer, it is, I be not afraid. And he went up unto them into the ship and the wind ceased and they were sore, amazed and themselves beyond measure and wondered With the tornado that hit yesterday. The Lord yesterday at some point began to deal with me with this and they said it started in Somerset. Probably most of you have seen the pictures of the path that it had, that it landed in Somerset and come all the way up to 80 and made a path and went through London with just the awful destruction 1006 in the airport and then it went on to Manchester. You know, you all know, probably all, and it took probably the lives of 20 people in the state. People were caught unaware, mostly sleeping, and they ended up in destruction because they were asleep.

Speaker 2: 5:37

I feel the burden this morning upon me. I feel like the Lord was wanting to lift up someone and you may have wished you obey the Lord, but I feel like I'm on assignment this morning, that I have about 30 minutes. I have about 30 minutes to get your attention. I have 30 minutes to wake you up out of sleep. I feel like that the storm has landed and is coming. That's what I want to preach about this morning. The storm is coming. The storm is coming. It's on its way. It's landed. There is a message of destruction and you will be lost. The storm is on its way. Oh, help me, holy Ghost.

Speaker 2: 6:31

These men experienced one of the greatest miracles that any man could witness, and just had experienced it in the feeding of 5,000 people with just a few loaves and fishes. And Christ, seeing that it's getting late, he tells these men I'll disperse the crowd and you, fellows, go on ahead. To sum it up, you all go ahead. It's getting late and so you all get in the boat and go across. So they get into the boat and I feel like that it was a sunny day when they got in the ship and they begin to row across the lake or the sea, the Sea of Galilee, which was known for sudden storms, and so Mark said he saw them toiling and rowing, for the wind was contrary unto them. And Matthew said but the ship was now in the midst of the sea tossed with waves, for the wind was contrary, and it was the fourth watch of the night, which was from three to six in the morning. So the disciples had been rowing all night long. You ever been there? You feel like you've been there. Oh, help me, holy Ghost. The one thing that they did not expect this storm at. Mark said that their heart was hardened for the miracle of the loaves. How unbelievable is that. That Christ done all this and that fast they forgot it, that fast they didn't count it worth anything in the situation that they were in. Oh God, help me, holy Ghost. The miracle, all that God had done and all that God is doing and all that God has wanted to do.

Speaker 2: 8:46

We stand like that this morning, all the miracles that God has done and all the wonders that God has worked, and we stand not alert, and we stand not knowing and not loving and not on our toes of what God has done. All we can see is the current place we are. There's a storm coming. The force of the storm is great. The force of the storm is great. The force of the storm will discourage. The force of the storm will determine your fate. Oh, help me, lord. The force of the storm will bring fear. It ain't no accident you're here this morning. The force of the storm will bring unbelief. You're afraid of the possible danger and the possible destruction. Oh, can you get it fresh in your mind of all the destruction and tragedy that we've read about just across town? Oh, I wish someone this morning. Oh, god, help us, lord. I wish someone this morning would take me serious. There's a storm coming. It's landed and it's on its way. I said there's a storm coming. Is anybody listening? There's a storm coming.

Speaker 2: 10:23

Hurricane Sandy become one of the largest hurricanes in history. It was first predicted to hit Florida and then it turned and it went to the East Coast. And the television, the article I was reading that said Good morning America, the news show, or whatever it, interviewed multiple New Yorkers that said they didn't believe the hype. The wind may be strong, the noise, the sound, but I really don't think it's going to be as bad as they said it will. So many people from New York to Atlantic City chose to ignore the warnings and ride it out? Oh, are you ignoring the warnings this morning that there's a storm coming? Oh, help me Lord, there's a storm coming.

Speaker 2: 11:17

Sandy came and the New Yorkers woke up. Submerged neighborhoods and water soaked electrical everywhere and the high tides wiped out chunks of the whole city of Atlantic City. The shelters they ran to were flooded. It rushed salt water into the subways and other tunnel systems of lower Manhattan. The skyline was flashing with transformers exploding, leaving millions without electric and hundreds and hundreds and hundreds, oh God, lost their lives because they ignored a four word sentence A storm is coming, a storm is coming, a storm is coming. Are you ignoring it this morning? Have you ignored it? There's a storm coming. Oh, the faith. There's a storm, it's on its way. Oh, I wonder how much damage has to happen in the lives of the people of this church. I wonder how much damage has to happen till somebody gets serious, till somebody gets a burden, till somebody gets an urgency that a storm is on its way. Oh, is there anybody this morning that wants to get with me?

Speaker 2: 12:43

and get in an urgency that a storm is on its way. Oh, is there anybody this morning that wants to get with me and get in an urgency that there's a storm coming? Oh, warn somebody, tell somebody it's on its way. Oh, help us, holy Ghost, wake us up, lord, god, wake us, holy Ghost, wake us up, lord, god, wake us up, lord.

Speaker 2: 13:07

Galveston, texas, was on the coastline of Texas and it was rapidly growing from in 1890, 29,000 people and it jumped to 38,000 in 1900. It was the fourth largest city in Texas and among the highest in per capita income rates in the US. This is in 1900. It was considered the Wall Street of the Southwest. The position on the bay made it the biggest trade hubs in the nation. But with this prosperity, oh God, came a sense of complacency. You hear me, are you listening? They had got complacent. The residents believed any future storms would be no worse than the previous storms that they'd already withstood. And it even went as far as a man named Isaac Klein. He was over the weather bureau for the city, the area of Galveston, and he wrote an article in the paper that it would be impossible for a hurricane of significant strength to strike Galveston Island. So no seawall was built, no sand dunes was put in place to fight off the weather that would come in from the ocean. So the weather forecasters had seen a storm in September of 1900, and they were following it. It was a major storm. They said it would hit Florida and Louisiana. They didn't do it like we do today, but they were following it. The Weather Bureau had just been in business for about 10 years and so they wasn't naming storms and all this stuff that they're doing now. They wasn't naming storms and all this stuff that they're doing now. And so they were saying that it would hit Louisiana and Florida. And there was a Cuban Weather Bureau fellow that said that it's going to continue. What I'm seeing into central Texas, that what I'm seeing into central Texas.

Speaker 2: 15:58

And on the morning of September 8th, because of the remarkable weather, very few residents saw the cause for concern. They were at ease. The weather was good. Don't mess my life up. I'm good where I'm at. Don't tell me what's going to happen. Don't burden me. Don't burden me with this church stuff. Don't mess my life up. I've got everything under control. I'm at ease. Anybody listening out there? Don't mess my life up. But on that morning they were going about their ways, they were working on the ports, they were doing everything Because it was a beautiful sunny day. Isaac Klein, according to his memoir, he began to see evidence and he knew what he wrote and he knew what he said. But with all the stuff they were saying and he began to look and see, he began to scrap his idea and he went and got on his horse and he began to ride. Glory to God.

Speaker 2: 17:16

The great Galveston hurricane made landfall September 8, 1900, with 140-mile-an-hour winds. Category 4, as we categorize in modern times, pushed a 15-foot high, tall wall through the city. To this day, 125 years later, it is number two on the all-time cost in today's money $1.25 billion and by far it has the most casualties, with eight to twelve thousand fatalities. Oh, it was such a tragedy. They was. I think it was 3 600 homes and it was 7 000 businesses that was destroyed and what kept it? There was a catholic home there that the nuns tied 10 at a time of the orphans to them and they all died. Oh god, help me. Oh god, help me. It was such such a horrendous damage that it changed the whole weather bureau that they do it like they do it today. That's why they do it because of this storm. It wiped the whole place out.

Speaker 2: 18:41

And Isaac Klein, when he finally seen it coming, he got up and he rode down the beach in his horse and he screamed and he cried, but nobody would listen, nobody would take heed. There's a storm coming. Is anybody listening? There's a storm coming. We're at ease, we're in complacency. We're not eager, we're not desiring a move of God. We've come complacent in our pews. And there's a storm coming. Oh, there's a storm coming and there's a storm coming.

Speaker 3: 19:14

Oh, there's a storm coming.

Speaker 2: 19:19

Oh, god, help us. Because of prosperity. God help me and the cares of this life and the deceitfulness of riches. They would not heed the warnings. And 8,000 to 12,000, none of them. There's been hundreds, I think, the ordinate of those 20 maybe, and that's too many, I know, but 8,000 to 12,000 people, by far this was the worst tragedy. How many souls is going to be lost from this church? I could talk about the worldly church and all the destruction.

Speaker 2: 20:09

I come on the radio and I mentioned to Melinda this morning coming over here I'm not going to get off my subject, but he was talking Calvinistic doctrine and how can you say that God created all these people to go to hell? It doesn't even line up with the love of God. But how many people from this church has to be lost? How many people from this church will backslide? How many right now is cold I'm on assignment this morning, pastor how many right now sitting in your pew? That you're not what Rodney said. You're not what you was, but you're not what you ought to be. Hell hath enlarged itself. The reason hell hath enlarged itself, reason hell hath enlarged itself because it was created for the devil and his angels, so it wasn't this big, massive place and it's. It's a certain size to contain the devil and his angels, but hell every day has to enlarge itself, for so many souls is lost and going to hell, and how many souls does it take out of this church? How much of our family has to be lost? Oh God, help us. The storms are coming. The storms are coming. Oh, I wish I could get an urgency. I wish I could get somebody to wake up. Wake up, the storms are coming.

Speaker 2: 22:00

Jake meant Corey Patton out at Lowe's or somewhere, stephen Patton, and he knew somebody that was in one house and another soul was in another house. They made it on the house beside and the house beside of them didn't make it and all they could conclude is they were asleep. They were asleep, they were asleep. Oh, I fear in my soul that complacency and the cares of this life revival has gone out of sight for this church. Oh God, help me. I'm preaching to us this morning. The cares of this life and the problems and the troubles and the struggles that we have, and all the pressure that's on us to achieve and to do, and all the things in life that we have to do, oh God, and then here we are, oh God, souls that we have to do, oh God. And then here we are, oh God, souls that's going to hell, and souls and families here this morning that's got lost, people. Oh God, help me. Oh God, help me. And where's?

Speaker 4: 23:27

the urgency.

Speaker 2: 23:28

And where's the oh God, where's the? Scared that we're scared that something's fixing to happen. Look, is anybody looking? There's a storm coming. Wake up, church Wake up, wake up.

Speaker 2: 23:51

How long? How long can we come, y'all? I don't think nobody's getting this. Nobody's listening, nobody's waking up. How long will we sleep as others go to hell? How long will we be satisfied with that revival? Was that Leonard Ravenhill that said we were content to live without it? That's why we don't have revival. It's because we're content, and I'll say this much. It's not that only we're content, it's that we're asleep and the storm. Say this much. It's not that only we're content, it's that we're asleep and the storm's upon us. I've spent enough time that it's made it from Somerset to London. And here we are this morning. The storm is upon us. Are you awake? Are you awake? Are you awake? Read it. And there was found no place for them and I saw the dead, small and great, stand before God and the books were opened.

Speaker 2: 25:24

And another book was opened, which is the book of life, and the dead were judged out of those things which were written in the books according to their works, and the sea gave up the dead which were in it and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them and they were judged, every man, according to their works, and death and hell were cast into the lake of fire. This is the second death, and whosoever was not found written in the book of life was cast into the lake of fire.

Speaker 2: 26:11

The storm's here, Is it a fairy tale? Is that Bible real?

Speaker 4: 26:23

that we're reading.

Speaker 2: 26:25

The storm's coming. I said the storm's coming. Somebody get some urgency Somebody get?

Speaker 2: 26:32

some urgency. Somebody get some emergency. Somebody get some emergency. I don't know how many of you heard it. Brian McIntyre and Justin and Alicia House got hit and they got up. I guess they were asleep and somebody got them up or they heard it and Justin and his mother was going to the bathtub to get in the tub, as they tell you do in tornadoes. Brian was behind him, coming a little bit behind him, and he come to the door and it hit and blew him through the wall into an outside wall in Justin's room and they went the other way and they never even made it to the tub. God was with them, had to be Darkness, no electric rain and a storm and Brian come to his cell and he got up to go find his wife and child and didn't know how he was going to in the darkness and the only thing that led him to was he heard Justin crying as loud as he could pray God, help us, god, save my family.

Speaker 3: 28:16

God, help us God save my family.

Speaker 2: 28:17

God help us, god save my family. Oh, somebody ought to be praying about now. Somebody ought to be praying. The storms are coming. God help us, god help us, god help us. God save my family. God save my family. God save my family, god save my family, god save my family. The storms are coming. Oh, I ain't preached it good enough. I'm trying to wake us up, pastor, read that last verse again.

Speaker 1: 28:59

And whosoever.

Speaker 2: 29:02

Was not found Written in the book of life, was cast into the lake of fire. There's no purgatory.

Speaker 2: 29:12

There's no exceptions, there's no ifs, there's no exceptions, there's no ifs, ands or buts. You're either saved or you're lost. And the storm of judgment's coming. You hear me, you hear me, church, the storm of judgment's coming. The storm of judgment's coming, and we sit idle, and we sit unmoved, and we come to church without a song, and we come to church without a song, and we come to church without a testimony, and we come to church not praying and we come to church not concerned and we come to church with no urgency.

Speaker 1: 29:43

My God somebody ought to cry out.

Speaker 2: 29:46

God save us. God save my family. The storms are coming. The storms are coming. The storms are coming.

Speaker 3: 29:53

The storms are coming.

Speaker 2: 30:02

I wish somebody would get on the phone. I wish there was some young people that would get on the phones. Instead of every junky thing that's going and coming, they would start telling their friends, they would start telling their family the storm's coming, the storm's coming. I wish us middle-aged folks and us older folks would get off the cares of this life so much that it's burdened us down, that we can't see nothing, that we can't think and get out from under the burdens of the house of God and a move of God, oh God. And I wish some of us, I wish some of us right now would cry out God, save my family. The tornado's here, the storm's here, it's real, it's dark, I can't see and all they can hear is us praying God, save my family.

Speaker 2: 31:03

God save us, god save my family, god save us, god save us. Are you out there? Yeah, I ain't preaching good enough. All it took. After the storm In Galveston, they raised the shoreline with sand in 1,918 feet. After the storm it was too late. They built a 10-foot seawall and with the destruction I can't remember I got all the houses and debris piled up, or it would have been worse. It stopped the sea from coming in because of all the destruction, and all it took was Isaac Klein before then, say there's a storm coming, it's going to happen. The residents was at ease, though, when he said it was impossible for a hurricane of that magnitude to hit the shore. They've said he's coming for years. He don't have to come. We can walk out of here, this place, and get in our car and go meet the Lord in judgment.

Speaker 3: 32:44

That's right woe to them that are me. Thank God, I feel the Holy Ghost. Woe to them that are knees Die.

Speaker 1: 32:54

Live God this morning.

Speaker 3: 32:56

I feel the Holy Ghost coming All day, except right now, if we don't wake up In the last call and come alive and come awake, awake, awake.

Speaker 1: 33:09

God said.

Speaker 3: 33:11

Unto his people. Today, you must wake, you must spare yourself. God or else thou shalt find thyself destroyed in the midst of the storm.

Speaker 1: 33:24

I'm sorry, I'm sorry.

Speaker 2: 33:30

Lift your hands and thank God, come on church, come on, we're in urgency. Oh, come on church, come on, we're in urgency. Oh, come on church In urgency. Our children's at stake, our parents is at stake. Our brothers are at stake. Our sisters are at stake. Can somebody hear what I'm saying? Storms are coming. I don't believe it's going to happen. God said it's our last call. Oh, my lord, have mercy. Is anybody hearing this?

Speaker 1: 34:07

wake up wake up let me say something here brother, let me say something right here. Do you know, during all this, what I was doing? I was so stupid. My wife was in the hallway. She's trembling. She's crying on God. You know what Darrell was doing. God help my soul. And she's crying on God. You know what Darrell was doing. God help my soul. I was eating ice cream and people were dying just miles from me. I went to the freezer, I got me an ice cream bar. I walked around the house. My wife was trembling, people were dying just a few miles down the road and Daryl was eating ice cream, trying to show just how brave I was. And these people dying all around us and this church is eating ice cream this morning.

Speaker 3: 35:19

Say Kay Me, no, no, hey. Cassie Coro Ty, yeah, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey, hey hey, hear me, says the Lord. I have called.

Speaker 2: 36:18

And I have called, and I have called.

Speaker 3: 36:23

Messages have laid upon death ears.

Speaker 2: 36:28

Again, now, today, my voice goes out. It goes out strong For yea, the storm comes, but today, will you listen? Yet again, the voice of my servant speaks, as I have moved upon by my spirit, again I have called Yea. Will you listen, yea, will you listen, for the storm is at hand. Warn, warn your families, warn your neighbors, but even so, warn yourselves. Come alive, zion, come out of ease and come unto me, and let me send you the revival that I bid to do unto thee. Wake and come unto me, sayeth the Lord.

Speaker 1: 37:18

And we will follow this preacher this morning in repentance to God storms are coming storms are coming.

Speaker 2: 38:09

Storms are coming. Take shelter. The storms are coming. The storms are coming. Take shelter. The storms are coming. The storms are coming. God's talking to you this morning. God's talking to you this morning. The storm of judgment is real.

Speaker 1: 38:33

Oh God, oh God.

Speaker 3: 38:45

Oh God.

Speaker 2: 38:57

Oh God, in your people's way. Storms are coming, storms are coming. Storms are coming.

Speaker 3: 39:37

oh God, get an urgency the storms are coming, god get your people an urgency.

Speaker 2: 39:51

Let the lukewarm get on fire. Let the lukewarm get on fire. Let the cold rise up. Let the sleep awaken. Let the sinner repent. Judgments are coming. Judgments are coming. Judgments are coming. God spoke to us. Oh, god spoke to us. Don't live under your privilege. Don't blame it on everything else God wants you to do your best and get an urgency in the house of God.

Speaker 2: 40:45

He spoke to us. God, come on sinner. God, come on sinner. Storms are coming, sinner, you can't avoid it. They think this life's been bad and rough and tough. It ain't even compared to what he read at the judgment day when all this was cast into the lake of fire. The storms are coming. I'll get an urgency center. The storms are coming. Amen, oh God. God spoke to us Church. God spoke to us. Church. God spoke to us. Hell is real. Hell is real. It's a real place when addictions don't turn loose of you, where lust and desire don't turn loose of you, where all manner of wickedness don't turn loose of you and you're there for eternity Without God, without the love of God, without the grace of God, without the mercy of God. All the storms are coming. Get up now.

Speaker 3: 42:22

Get up now.

Speaker 2: 42:40

Oh God, oh God, oh God help us. We can loosen up, we can let up, let down, take down, let pressures on and revival disappears and men go to hell and the church is asleep. God help us, god help us, god help us, god help us. God help us, god save no-transcript.

Speaker 4: 47:18

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