The Danger of Prophetic Identity: Reclaiming Biblical Authority

• Scripture Reading and Context [00:13:39 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor emphasizes the importance of reading scripture in its full context (Exodus 16 and Deuteronomy 8) rather than just isolated verses, establishing the historical background of the manna and Sabbath laws.
• Obedience and Trust in God's Provision [00:17:01 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using the example of the Israelites gathering manna, the pastor illustrates that God's instructions (gathering two quarts) are precise; disobedience leads to spoilage, while obedience results in having 'just enough,' teaching that God knows our needs.
• The Sabbath as a Gift [00:21:50 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor reframes the Sabbath not as a burden or a time for church attendance out of obligation, but as a special gift from God that requires rest and trust, criticizing those who treat it with reluctance.
• The Role of the Pastor as God's Mouthpiece [00:26:19 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor defines a prophet as 'the mouth of' God, asserting that his preaching is not based on what the congregation wants to hear, but on what God prescribes for their specific spiritual and personal conditions.
• Divine Sovereignty and Knowledge [00:27:37 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that God knows exactly what each person needs, unlike humans who can be fooled, and therefore the sermon is prescribed based on individual spiritual needs.
• The Deceitful Heart [00:52:39 ▶️ 📄]
  > Citing Jeremiah 17:9, the pastor debunks the idea that humans know their own hearts, asserting that the heart is deceitfully wicked and only God sees the true motives.
• Human Authority and Responsibility [00:54:29 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor explains that the world's mess is not God's doing but the result of humans misusing the authority God gave them in Genesis, leading to bad decisions and blaming God.
• Identity in Christ [00:57:18 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor corrects the misconception that humans are lower than angels, citing Psalm 8 and the Hebrew 'Elohim' to argue that God made humans 'a little lower than God' (or angels), emphasizing their high status as children of God.
• Divine Identity and Image [00:58:58 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that believers are made in God's image and likeness, not lower than angels, and that losing this identity leads to spiritual failure.
• Ancestral Covenant and Prayer [01:05:42 ▶️ 📄]
  > He explains that God often honors promises made to ancestors (like Abraham or David) rather than relying on the current generation's righteousness, emphasizing the power of intergenerational prayer.
• Complaining vs. Gratitude [01:08:17 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor contrasts the Israelites' complaining in the wilderness despite miracles with the necessity of moving forward, using Harriet Tubman as an analogy for not turning back.
• Sufficiency of God's Provision [01:10:48 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using the example of Manna (two quarts per person), he teaches that God's provision is exactly enough for the assignment, and believers should not worry about God's part but focus on obedience.
• Obedience and Trust [01:12:52 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor argues that believers should not worry about God's part or their own capacity, but rather focus on doing their part and obeying God's word, trusting that God will provide the means and blessings.
• Reliance on Scripture over Logic [01:16:41 ▶️ 📄]
  > Using the biblical account of the manna, the pastor illustrates that human logic and rationale fail, and that God's instructions (gathering twice as much on the sixth day) must be followed literally to avoid negative consequences (maggots).
• Corporate Worship vs. Private Worship [01:21:35 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor distinguishes between private worship at home and corporate worship in the church, asserting that God commands believers to come together to the 'house of God' to receive blessings, rather than trying to replicate the experience alone.
• Salvation and Confession [01:22:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor clarifies that infant baptism is a parental promise, not a saving act, and emphasizes the necessity of a personal confession of Jesus Christ as Lord for salvation, addressing a common misconception in the congregation.
• Communion and Covenant Theology [01:36:00 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor leads the congregation through the liturgy of communion, including confession and consecration, while explaining the theological significance of the bread and blood as establishing a new, superior covenant.
• Israel and the Chosen People [01:43:54 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor corrects the common cultural/political narrative that Israel is uniquely 'God's chosen people' in a way that excludes the church, arguing instead that believers in Christ are the true chosen generation and royal priesthood.
• Old vs. New Covenant [01:45:36 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses an analogy of a shadow to explain that the Old Covenant was merely a representation or shadow of the reality found in the New Covenant, which is now active for believers.

• Sermon Illustration [00:07:34 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor tells a humorous anecdote about the church choir, joking that he told them to 'stay out of my service' and 'stay out of my business' because they were distracting, before clarifying it was a joke and praising their singing.
• Sermon Illustration [00:27:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses an analogy of a doctor treating a broken leg: just as a doctor would not operate on a patient's chest when they have a broken leg, God (and the pastor) will not preach what the congregation wants to hear, but rather what is medically/spiritually necessary for their specific 'broken' condition.
• Sermon Illustration [00:27:25 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses an analogy of a patient with a broken leg going to a doctor who operates on their chest instead, illustrating that God knows exactly what is needed and will not provide irrelevant solutions.
• Sermon Illustration [00:55:29 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references a personal anecdote about seeing a man on Instagram expressing frustration and anger at God for allowing suffering, using it to illustrate the 'bad witness' the church gives by blaming God for human mistakes.
• Sermon Illustration [01:02:26 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor references the biblical story of the Shepherd leaving the 99 sheep to find the one lost sheep, illustrating God's personal care for each individual.
• Sermon Illustration [01:03:32 ▶️ 📄]
  > He cites Dr. King quoting R.C. Davis regarding the negative connotations of the word 'black' (e.g., 'black sheep', 'in the black' meaning ink/not debt) to discuss identity stripping.
• Sermon Illustration [01:09:06 ▶️ 📄]
  > He tells the story of Harriet Tubman using a pistol to ensure enslaved people did not turn back during the escape, illustrating the necessity of moving forward without looking back.
• Sermon Illustration [01:10:48 ▶️ 📄]
  > He uses a humorous analogy about his wife and him having an 'empty nest' and needing 'four quarters' of manna to illustrate that God's provision is precise and sufficient for one's specific situation.
• Sermon Illustration [01:14:23 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses the biblical story of the Israelites gathering manna in the wilderness. He contrasts the first six days, where gathering extra manna resulted in it becoming maggot-infested and stinking, with the sixth day, where gathering double the amount for the Sabbath resulted in it being preserved. He uses this to illustrate that God's specific instructions must be followed to avoid spiritual decay.
• Sermon Illustration [01:23:56 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor shares a personal anecdote about a person who had been in church all their life, believing that infant baptism was sufficient for salvation. After a conversation with the pastor, this individual realized they needed to make a personal confession of faith in Jesus Christ, highlighting the difference between religious tradition and genuine salvation.
• Sermon Illustration [01:45:49 ▶️ 📄]
  > The pastor uses an analogy of a person's shadow cast by the sun to explain the relationship between the Old and New Covenants: the shadow (Old Covenant) is not the person themselves, but a representation of who they are, just as the Old Covenant was a shadow of the New Covenant reality.

• Pastoral Charge [00:30:00 ▶️ 📄]
  > Invite congregation members to come forward to pray for the pastor.
• Pastoral Charge [01:04:23 ▶️ 📄]
  > Recognize and affirm their identity as children of God and heirs of African civilization.
• Pastoral Charge [01:09:29 ▶️ 📄]
  > Watch the movie 'Harriet' to understand the resolve required to move forward in freedom.
• Pastoral Charge [01:13:16 ▶️ 📄]
  > Obey God's specific instructions without worrying about the results or God's part.
• Pastoral Charge [01:21:08 ▶️ 📄]
  > Attend corporate worship to receive God's provision and blessing, rather than staying home.
• Pastoral Charge [01:23:20 ▶️ 📄]
  > Come to the pastor for a conversation to publicly confess faith in Jesus Christ if they have only experienced infant baptism.
• Pastoral Charge [01:37:11 ▶️ 📄]
  > Repent, love neighbors, lead a new life, draw near with faith, fill the altar rail, and kneel to make a humble confession.
• Pastoral Charge [01:41:09 ▶️ 📄]
  > Eat the bread with thanksgiving.
• Pastoral Charge [01:48:07 ▶️ 📄]
  > Drink the cup.

[00:02:45] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:02:45] I said, that's a good start off the conference year. Put it in the hands of the Lord. People say they don't understand the Bible. We missed the whole point. The entire Bible is just this simple. God is saying, do everything just like I tell you. Period.
[00:03:14] yet. Everybody can understand. It's summed up in the Ten Commandments. Hello, somebody. Can I tell you what Bible is saying in so many words? Honor God and leave other people alone. You listen, you listen. I promise that's all God got to say. Stay out of their business. I don't want to talk
[00:03:43] to you. So help me God. Remember that I made you. Come on, so help me somebody. So honor me as your mother your father like like children honor their mothers and fathers and because they provide for
[00:04:02] them they protect them are y'all with the church okay then i'm asking you to do that and leave other folks stuff alone now that's the fight i gotta go do all this stuff just to get her to do
[00:04:19] that that's all the bible is saying i can understand that y'all come on huh i don't get it it's simple made you come on somebody huh who woke you up this morning who started you on your
[00:04:45] way night long you mean i can't give my creator honor you know amen i'm okay let me leave that alone but i'm just saying because people want to make like the bible is hard and i just can't do
[00:05:04] all of what god said you know can i be honest with you a minute then we're gonna do the call to worship so we notice in a physical sense what is somebody talking to you to get right
[00:05:16] too close to you what do we call that that's right your personal space i talk back getting your personal space am i right y'all talk back i'm all right but that's what god is trying to say
[00:05:34] four or the ten commandments about the first four about honoring god and the other people about mind your own business. Old Testament call them busybodies. I mean not the Old Testament but the King James
[00:05:50] Version call them busybodies. I wonder why they bought that car. Your nose got a nose a problem.
[00:05:58] It's not your business. Why they get that color. I wonder why you wore that suit this Sunday. I wonder Well, she wore that dress.
[00:06:26] Okay, I promise y'all I'm telling you the whole truth.
[00:06:29] And nothing but the truth.
[00:06:34] Leave other folk business alone.
[00:06:37] Young folk usually say, you need to go buy you some business or find you some business so you can stay out of mind.
[00:06:43] All right, now, so y'all asked for that.
[00:06:45] I didn't know.
[00:06:45] I'm sorry.
[00:06:46] See, this choir always gets stuff started.
[00:06:50] And then y'all blame me for it.
[00:06:52] But I'm just only expressing more where they started.
[00:06:57] They do it every Sunday.
[00:07:00] They want that Michael Jackson, Brother Donald, got on my shirt.
[00:07:02] I don't know how he found it.
[00:07:05] See what I mean?
[00:07:06] Steve Manuel Vinton, leave my stuff alone.
[00:07:10] Amen.
[00:07:10] He wore my shirt.
[00:07:11] Amen.
[00:07:12] Something like that in my face.
[00:07:13] Amen.
[00:07:13] Okay.
[00:07:15] Amen.
[00:07:15] I do like that shirt.
[00:07:16] Amen.
[00:07:17] Something like that.
[00:07:17] I really do.
[00:07:18] I've been looking for one kind of like that.
[00:07:20] I'm not asking for yours, but just tell me where you got it from.
[00:07:24] Amen.
[00:07:25] All right.
[00:07:26] But I'm going to wear mine at the church.
[00:07:28] got to wear it somewhere else.
[00:07:29] He got them done on his shirt.
[00:07:31] Okay, let us stand for the call to worship.
[00:07:34] That's on the choir, amen.
[00:07:36] So I don't know, maybe we should sit them down on Sunday so they can, amen.
[00:07:41] It's a joke now, it's a joke, it's a joke, all right.
[00:07:43] I told them, stay out of my service, stay out of my business, amen.
[00:07:47] Okay, O come, let us worship the Lord and let us bow down before God, our creator.
[00:07:52] For we are his people and the sheep of his pasture.
[00:07:55] the hour cometh and now is when the true worshipers of the father shall worship him in spirit and in truth but they are the listen church they are the kind of worshipers the father seeks that's what
[00:08:08] god is looking for are y'all with me so let's just stop there right there let's do the invocation gracious father our god we ask that you will come make your boat with us and turn to your
[00:08:22] shekinah glory we are recognized and appreciate your omnipresence we have no doubt that you are Indeed, everywhere at the same time.
[00:08:31] In fact, time is not an entity of itself.
[00:08:35] Time is in you because you're the creator of all things.
[00:08:39] And then, oh God, our Father, we ask that we keep our minds and our hearts stayed on you as we go through this experience and that you would show up in a mighty and powerful way
[00:08:49] and especially in our personal lives.
[00:08:51] So come in terms of your Shekinah glory and fill our hearts and minds.
[00:08:55] All of this we ask in the gracious and marvelous name of jesus the christ we pray amen amen our hymn our praise is our song of praise is i am dying oh lord one of my favorite songs amen there's a line in there that i love so much but i am

[00:09:12] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[00:09:12] dying oh lord it's on your screen you may be seated it is quiet be listening to michael

[00:13:39] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:13:39] jackson during the week i want to be starting something amen uh scripture lesson this morning that is rather lengthy in comparison to what we normally read. But then I have a conviction

[00:13:55] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:13:55] in my heart, I think sometimes that's the problem. We just read a few verses just for the message, but don't give the

[00:14:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:14:03] context. And that just means how I feel. I think the reading of the scriptures is one of the most important things we can do, along with prayer itself.
[00:14:11] Because after all, we are a word-centered church, where word and sacrament sent to church.
[00:14:19] But anyway, so from Exodus, the 16th chapter, and this is one of the issues that the Lord is addressing in Deuteronomy the 8th chapter.
[00:14:30] So you need to get the context why the Lord is saying what he said in Deuteronomy the 8th chapter. This is one of the references that happened in Exodus, the 16th chapter.
[00:14:40] So start reading that verse.
[00:14:42] I know we got 12, I'm 13, but I'm going to read 11 and you just put it up there and then I'll just you'll pick up after I read a couple more verses. That's my bad. I didn't
[00:14:51] give it all. Then the Lord said to Moses I have heard the Israelites complaints you know so I'm reading at verse 11 16 Exodus 16 and 11 now tell them he's speaking to Moses in
[00:15:08] the evening you will have meat to eat and in the morning you will have all the bread you want now watch what he says then you will know that i am the lord your god a god done many miracles for them already so can i be honest with you he said you still don't
[00:15:32] know me i'm gonna leave that where it is that evening vast number of quail flew in and covered the camp and the next morning the area around the camp was wet with dew when the dew washed
[00:15:52] is evaporated a flaky substance as fine as frost blanket the ground their ears are light was puzzled when they saw it what is it that's what manna means in the hebrew don't we get the word
[00:16:11] manner they said what is it what is it what's that that would matter me what is it are we together on that oh they're pretty anyway so amen so the ears of light were puzzled when they saw it what
[00:16:28] is it they asked each other they had no idea what it was and moses told them it is the food the lord has given you to eat they are only these are the lord's instructions each household should
[00:16:47] gather watch this now as much as it needs pick up two quarts for each person in your tent so he's giving them a measure how much to pick up well i know some of them they eat a lot i need four
[00:17:01] quarts for them what the lord said what did he say two quarts for each person i'm saying what he's saying right see he wants to do exactly what i said and nothing else then you'll know i'm the
[00:17:22] lord if you don't do that you won't know who i am all right this we don't don't bother me now all right get my first son in bed amen all right so verse 17 so the people of israel did as they were
[00:17:40] told but hold on some gathered a lot some only a little but watch this when they measured it out everyone had just enough see why god said what he said oh okay you don't act like you you know
[00:17:58] what i'm talking about amen smile or something all right let's read on let's read them those who gathered a lot had nothing left over and those who gathered only a little had enough every family had
[00:18:16] just what it needed then Moses told them do not when I hear you do not keep any of it until morning but some didn't listen and kept some of it until morning but when it was
[00:18:37] but then it was full of maggots and had a terrible smell and Moses was angry with them and this the people gathered I'm sorry after this the people gathered the food morning by morning each
[00:18:53] family according to its need and the sun became hot I'm sorry after yeah and after the sun became hot the flakes they had not picked up melted and disappeared y'all listen to what god is doing now i mean this is a lot of miracles
[00:19:13] within itself on the sixth day they gather twice as much as usual four quarts for each person instead of two then all the leaders of the community came and asked moses for an explanation he told them this is what the Lord
[00:19:33] commanded tomorrow will be a complete day of rest on a holy day set apart for the Lord so bake or boil as much as you want today and set aside it set aside what is left for tomorrow so
[00:19:53] they put aside some aside until morning just as Moses had commanded and in the morning the leftover food was wholesome and good without maggots or odor Moses said eat the food for today is a sabbath dedicated to the Lord
[00:20:15] there will be no food on the ground today you may gather the food for six days but the seventh day is the sabbath there will be no food on the ground now watch verse 27 i'm almost done with it
[00:20:31] some other people went out anyway on the sabbath day but found no food now he just told them and they did it anyway y'all know they're gonna talk to me huh i never do no food out there tomorrow
[00:20:46] now on sunday y'all but get what's on there where's the food where's the food i want you to see the hard time god has with us all right let's move on we're gonna get through it amen so verse
[00:21:07] 30 i'm at verse 30 no you're trying to make me rush so this uh i'm gonna think i'm at um but i just read that's through 29 again because i can yeah that's who lord i don't want to leave no
[00:21:24] first let's do verse 28 that's where i am the lord asked moses how long would these people refuse to obey my commands and instruction. Now this really is a series by itself where I want you to hold your hat.
[00:21:38] I want you to hold on to it. This is a life changer right here for everybody. So help me God. This will change your life forever.
[00:21:50] If you grasp this point, the next verse, verse 29, I stand by it. Now watch what he says in verse 29. They must realize that the Sabbath is the Lord's gift to you.

[00:22:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:22:06] The Lord says,

[00:22:16] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:22:16] it's going to be in a general sense, but in a special way, this day is a special gift I'm giving to you.
[00:22:23] So it's not for me, it's for you.
[00:22:34] Well, I guess I'll go on to church.
[00:22:38] Okay, let's leave that alone.
[00:22:40] Dragging their feet.
[00:22:42] Come on, somebody.
[00:22:44] Rather than understanding, God has given me a gift

[00:22:47] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:22:47] and I'm coming to the Lord's house to get my gift.

[00:22:55] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:22:55] Baptists and Methodists won't get it.
[00:23:00] Because we got too many bedside Baptists and Baptist Methodists and I call them Presbyterian pillows. A pillow Presbyterian and couch Catholics on Sunday morning.
[00:23:13] Oh, let me just finish this.
[00:23:14] So, Lord's gift Why y'all keep doing me this way? That's a shame.
[00:23:20] That is why he gives you a two-day supply on the sixth day. So there would be enough for two days on the Sabbath day you must you must each stay in your place do not
[00:23:34] go out to pick up food on the seventh day so the people did not gather any food on the Sabbath day oh I'm sorry now I gotta go gotta go if I don't do nothing else I gotta do this now let's go to
[00:23:48] Deuteronomy the eighth chapter verses one through three this is part of the reason why God is saying this based on what they did in Exodus 16.
[00:23:58] Are y'all with me now?
[00:24:01] Now, Exodus 16 is when they didn't go into promised land.
[00:24:07] Now, Moses is on the plains with the Israelites on the plains. This is at the second time around now. After the 40 years has passed, and they're on the plains of Moab.
[00:24:20] And before they go in, Moses is giving them final instructions.
[00:24:23] so he's calling them back to memory how y'all acted back then so don't do this mess again alright are y'all with me church so in fact if you got your bible makes got sometimes the scholars put a subtopic up there they got a call
[00:24:43] to remember and obey well that's what he's doing so anyway so be careful to obey all the commands I'm giving you today that you may live and watch this that why is he doing it we said it before that you
[00:24:57] may live and multiply and you will enter and occupy the land the Lord swore to your ancestors remember how the Lord your God through the wilderness led you through the wilderness all these 40 years humbling you
[00:25:15] and testing you to prove your character and to find out whether or not you will obey his commandment his command he humbled you yes he humbled you by testing you by letting you go hungry
[00:25:28] and then feeding you with manna a food previously unknown to you and your ancestors he did it to teach you that people do not live by bread alone rather we live by every word that comes
[00:25:50] from the mouth of God. So if I preach to you anything that does not come from the mouth of

[00:26:01] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:26:01] God, I want you to obey it.

[00:26:14] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:26:14] See, that's another life forward. I'm a prophet.
[00:26:16] You don't even know what a prophet means.
[00:26:19] Prophet means the mouth of. It means it will tell the future. Satan told us

[00:26:25] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:26:25] that lie. Prophet means the mouth of.
[00:26:35] I'm from God's prophet. I'm God's mouthpiece. I can preach and teach. What comes on his mouth?

[00:26:55] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:26:55] That's why you don't want disposition.
[00:26:59] You don't know the responsibility that comes with it.
[00:27:03] Huh? I can't just preach to you what you want to hear on Sunday.
[00:27:09] Amen, somebody.
[00:27:11] You're like, you're going to the doctor. I'm sorry.
[00:27:13] Here's what it is this morning. You're like, you're going to the doctor. You know, you got a broke leg, God forbid, and the doctor you know, start operating on your chest.
[00:27:25] Come on, somebody.
[00:27:26] That's not what you need, is it?
[00:27:28] Huh? Come on, somebody. You need the doctor to fix the broke leg.
[00:27:32] Am I right, somebody?
[00:27:33] Well, the same thing.
[00:27:34] God knows what everybody in here needs.
[00:27:37] You can fool everybody.
[00:27:38] You may be able to fool your pastor.
[00:27:40] But guess what you cannot fool?
[00:27:42] You cannot fool Almighty God.
[00:27:45] God knows everybody's problem.
[00:27:47] And guess what?
[00:27:48] The message is medicated and prescribed for everybody based on where we are.
[00:28:01] That's why I can't preach what I want to and what you want me to.
[00:28:04] huh because god knows what you need huh amen somebody okay let's leave that there oh lord what are we gonna do with this choir y'all you don't know what i'm saying your holy ghost feel
[00:28:19] so i want you everybody out there to know i'm now i love my i love this choir i really do and they always sing with the spirit and fire amen one thing y'all know but sure every sunday
[00:28:32] you may not get good preaching but we know we're gonna get some good singing come on y'all i mean Can we be real about it?
[00:28:39] Amen.
[00:28:40] The choir got my back.
[00:28:41] Amen.
[00:28:42] If I fail, hey, listen to the choir.
[00:28:44] All right, that's enough of that.
[00:28:46] I just had to say what I had to say.
[00:28:49] I mean, not me.
[00:28:50] I believe the Lord put it on my heart.
[00:28:51] Because sometimes we learn more in these sessions than we do with a regular sermon.
[00:28:56] Amen, somebody?
[00:28:57] Because I want you blessed.
[00:28:59] All right.
[00:29:00] So the topic is, when all else fail, follow or obey his instructions.
[00:29:06] okay amen somebody I don't know what to do let me have a talk with mama before I ask her to pray again if you're good I'm okay but I don't want to interfere with anything
[00:29:22] amen let me have a conversation because I'm responsible church amen amen so let me have that conversation so I'm going to ask this morning is there anybody among us in the church, anywhere that feels up to praying

[00:29:38] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:29:38] this morning. But go ahead.

[00:29:53] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_11]
[00:29:53] Amen. I ain't mad at you. I'm happy for you.
[00:29:58] Amen. Amen.

[00:30:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[00:30:00] I'm going to ask for those who want to support me, please come up and help us send a prayer.
[00:30:07] For those that are willing, please come. Let's go to God in prayer. Lord, thank you for giving us the opportunity to come together in this house of worship.
[00:30:39] We give you, sir. Thank you, Lord. We say thank you for all that you've done, for all you're going to do, and all you're going to do right now. I want to say thank you for
[00:30:49] right now, this moment.
[00:30:51] Lord, bless this church.
[00:30:53] Bless everyone inside the church.
[00:30:56] Lord, we ask you to be with the sick, be with the bereaved families, be with those that are locked up behind the wall. Lord, just touch us where we are in our lives. Lord, continue
[00:31:09] to help us be the church on the hill that is looking down to help everyone. If you're looking for help, come to Sears Creek, Lord, because we know you're here.
[00:31:19] Lord, thank you once again for giving us the opportunity to come together in this new conference here.
[00:31:25] Lord, we want to say thank you, Lord, for giving us the passion back.
[00:31:28] We say thank you for everything that will get you home in the future. Lord, thank you for giving us the word. Thank you for giving us the opportunity to come to your cross. Lord, once again,
[00:31:42] we want to say thank you.
[00:31:43] being in this United States of America and living a Christian life that people can see Christ in our life and all the things that are going on in this world let people see that Christ is
[00:31:57] the answer Christ will always be the answer look to Christ for all your answers and you will find it, he's there Lord thank you for giving us this opportunity once again to praise your name
[00:32:10] Lord we lift all prayers to you, Lord. We are a praying church.
[00:32:14] Lord, I'm asking you to give me the words, the right words to say that can touch everyone and anyone just looking for a place, looking for a person, looking for a God that will always be there for you.
[00:32:28] Thank you once again, Lord, for giving us this opportunity to pray all that I ask in your name. Amen.

[00:32:36] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_11]
[00:32:36] Amen.

[00:32:49] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:32:49] Remain standing so we can affirm our faith through the use of the Apostles' Creed. Amen.
[00:32:55] I believe in God the Father Almighty, the maker of the heaven and earth, and in Jesus Christ, the only Son of our Lord, who was conceived by the Holy Ghost,

[00:33:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:33:03] born of the Virgin Mary, suffered on the Pontius Pilate, was crucified, dead, and buried. The third day he rose from the dead.
[00:33:11] He ascended into heaven and is seated on the right hand of God the Father Almighty. From thence shall come the church to quicken the dead.
[00:33:18] I believe in the Holy Ghost, the Holy Catholic Church, the communion of saints, the forgiveness of sins, the resurrection of the body, and life everlasting.

[00:33:28] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:33:28] Amen.
[00:33:29] You may be seated, and we shall give you another wonderful selection.
[00:33:33] Amen.

[00:33:35] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]
[00:33:35] Lord, I want to say thank you.
[00:34:34] Thank you for all you.
[00:34:41] thank you for all all you've done for and help me say I want to say thank you

[00:35:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]
[00:35:18] for all you thank you for all say thank you thank you I see why you're

[00:38:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]
[00:38:06] mountaintop Jesus thank you for all you should be ashamed of God cause he's not ashamed of us been too good bless you imagine your manservant coming to this most sacred moment to

[00:50:35] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:50:35] impart it with a life and truth again I acknowledge I have absolutely nothing I think on my own merit to share with these great people.

[00:50:42] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:50:42] So I ask, O God, my Father, that Thou would dislodge and dismiss any and everything unlike You.
[00:50:48] Fill me with the Holy Spirit and bring me the complete auction of Your Spirit

[00:50:52] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[00:50:52] so the words that come from my mouth with those ordained by You.
[00:50:56] And then I ask, O God, that You would consecrate our hearts and minds so we would receive it and apply it to our daily lives so You would glorify Christ, magnify, church edify, world evangelize,
[00:51:07] and we know Satan is already horrified.
[00:51:10] This we ask in the marvelous and gracious name of Jesus the Christ, we pray.
[00:51:14] Amen.

[00:51:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:51:17] Our brother Clyde or Osborne or somebody, I need me a fire extinguisher up here.
[00:51:29] We may need a fire truck.
[00:51:32] An extinguisher may not do.
[00:51:34] Amen.
[00:51:36] Let's get God, let's start with our great musicians.
[00:51:38] Amen.
[00:51:39] Thank God so much for your brothers, our wonderful choir.
[00:51:42] As I say every Sunday, our great deaconess, thank God for you, our ushers.
[00:51:46] Thank God for you, Audio Tech.
[00:51:48] Amen.
[00:51:48] Lottie, Dottie, Roddy, Marty, and everybody.
[00:51:51] Amen.
[00:51:52] Thank God for each and every one of you.
[00:51:54] Really, we've had church, so I'm going to do my very best.
[00:51:57] I'm very serious.
[00:51:58] I'm making it very brief as I can that God give me the grace to do it.
[00:52:03] So many words, I've already preached it.
[00:52:05] so we're still dealing with the theme of wilderness experience because there are some things that God teaches us in the wilderness it may or may not be that we've done something wrong sometimes God has to take us through it to get us to the next
[00:52:20] level and it builds character if you will and we may think we don't know how much character we really have until we're in certain situations and I know what everybody's thinking I'm a good person in my heart
[00:52:34] Let me tell you what the Bible says about the heart in Jeremiah 17, 19.
[00:52:39] The heart is deceitfully wicked.
[00:52:42] Who can know it?
[00:52:43] Otherwise, we really don't know what's in there.
[00:52:46] See, I know what we think, but I'm telling you what the word says.
[00:52:51] And then Paul said our doctrine of our church, and really the scripture is trying to tell us there's nothing good in the heart.
[00:52:57] Bishop Starn did a great job at teaching that yesterday morning at the annual conference.
[00:53:04] in the preacher's class the motive of the heart why am i doing it see and he said in the day of judgment the motive of the heart would be revealed come on somebody huh and if i didn't do it
[00:53:20] primarily for the glory of god and to help others then god said i don't know who you are are y'all with me church all right i'm gonna leave that where it is now because if everybody
[00:53:33] think they know the heart real well nobody really knows it that's a word god had to show us what's in that thing amen somebody you know we said someone's got a good heart yeah based on what
[00:53:46] you know okay but god sees everything right god knows our thoughts come on somebody huh amen somebody could be in church we're real but sit down just joking now just joking okay but let me get into this real
[00:54:03] quick. So we're still teaching. Now here's what God wants as we said. He wants to live and that don't mean just existence. That means have real life.
[00:54:16] The same quality of life that God himself lives. Now we've already taught that this mess we see in the world is not God's doing.
[00:54:29] God gave us full authority in the earth and we read that Genesis the first chapter make that clear and in other verses that that's why the earth is messed up God was just telling us excuse my language
[00:54:46] my movement did I bring it up or yes it did what God was telling us in the church is this is how I operate heaven now you operate earth the same way and you get the results that I
[00:55:01] get cause this is how

[00:55:04] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:55:04] I set it up so you rule of heaven and the church confusing time in fact i was on instagram or somewhere this man

[00:55:29] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:55:29] expressing his frustration the same thing i've been teaching with god how can a god be so loving and let all this mess happen in the earth he was angry with god they cannot be a god
[00:55:45] this is the bad witness the church has put out there thinking they're doing god a favor who messed up in Genesis?
[00:55:59] Come on now.
[00:56:01] What did God tell Adam before he did it?
[00:56:05] What would happen? Don't do it and if you do it, what's going to happen?
[00:56:10] What's going to happen? Huh?
[00:56:13] You're going to die.

[00:56:19] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:56:19] So God, now why he did? God gave him authority to make the decision.
[00:56:24] What we do in the world is to make bad decisions and blame God. That's what Satan wants.
[00:56:34] Make people angry with God

[00:56:36] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:56:36] and thank God for loving God let all this mess go on the earth and we are doing this mess as a people people don't want to accept who God made us to be see Satan wanted to belittle ourselves
[00:56:52] amen somebody like I said we know we already covered it we know we have a problem with it most folks not going to say I'm a child of God we afraid to say in general
[00:57:03] that I'm a son or daughter of God you know I'm right and I know I'm right come on now y'all talk back to him huh and we even make ourselves angels angel is a demotion

[00:57:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:57:18] you're greater than angels show me the bible where god made us less than angels

[00:57:26] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:57:26] but we can't fathom that in our mind you know why because we don't take i don't mean because we don't take god's face value at what god said because i don't see it i don't see how

[00:57:43] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:57:43] see that's the whole project to it rationale to it

[00:57:55] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:57:55] and then we won't see it can't see it and then I don't buy it and how many times Jesus said to her over and over again don't you take good care of your children come on somebody
[00:58:13] then how will your heavenly father not take care of you I'm going to go ahead and tell you what he said he said you being evil know how to take care of your children how much more your heavenly father
[00:58:27] why still give the Holy Spirit to his children now I'm going to leave that word here but see this is a hard sell among God's people that's why again I told you that's why they call it embedded theology
[00:58:41] once that mess gets embedded in church's heart it's hard to get it out I know I'm right about it you got to know who you are amen did the bible say he made us in his image
[00:58:58] and after his likeness see we don't know that but then I know got the wing last night

[00:59:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[00:59:06] come from God

[00:59:18] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[00:59:18] the scholars was careful you read it now most translations are going to have when you read Psalm 8 and it says what is man that thou art mindful of him and the son of man that thou
[00:59:39] this is the King James Version visited him and the King James Version said he made him a little lower than the angels but then they started putting in the footnote that word is Elohim which means God said
[00:59:52] I know watch what God said I didn't say it I made you a little lower than I am come on somebody y'all I know you're going to talk to me I know church they don't want to believe that
[01:00:02] but that's what God said I made you a little

[01:00:06] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:00:06] lower than I am but when Jesus came

[01:00:12] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:00:12] he was coming to show our we shall speak to the wind and say shut your mouth but we don't want to believe it you know I'm right about it again I don't mean God knows
[01:00:33] if I miss you I'll just say it I wouldn't say it on here though because now you got to be careful what you say if we got into it I'll deal with us internally you know what I'm trying to say
[01:00:44] I'll just cut the mic but this is stuff that's spread over the body of Christ that church folk don't know who they are anymore I know I'm right about it and you can't accomplish anything
[01:00:58] the first you know who you are Why do you think that people try to strip up of our identity by calling us everything but who we are?
[01:01:07] Come on somebody, huh?
[01:01:10] And the word, the N word came from the word Niger in the first place.
[01:01:16] Nobody is equal to, and the only reason you're going to heaven is to serve them.
[01:01:29] If you steal a people's identity, you can't control and manipulate them.
[01:01:36] them but they control me I'm a child of almighty God I still believe that if either we the one of us had been the only sinner in the world I still believe Jesus would have come and died for that
[01:01:55] one soul that's how important that you are to God that Jesus still would have come and said I'm coming to die I came down for Eliezer and you insert your name in there because it's the father's
[01:02:11] will that none shall perish you missed it i said you missed it it's the father's will that none shall perish and jesus even told the story about there were 99 in the fold huh that will return
[01:02:26] safely that night but when the shepherd uh counted his sheep and he found out one was lost he left the 99 safe and he went out looking for the one and when he found the one the bible says he didn't
[01:02:40] dried the sheep back. He picked the sheep up, put them on his shoulders and brought them back to the fold.
[01:02:46] It's spiritual. That's what Christ has done for everybody.
[01:02:51] He picked us up

[01:02:52] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:02:52] out of the muck and fire of life, put us on his shoulders and brought us back into the kingdom.
[01:02:59] That's how much God loves us.
[01:03:01] If that doesn't make you special, I don't know what would make you special.
[01:03:07] You're called by his name.

[01:03:10] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:03:10] Made in his image and his likeness.
[01:03:14] See, I would say the number there is right now.
[01:03:18] Huh?
[01:03:19] They don't know who they are.
[01:03:21] Huh?
[01:03:23] Really?
[01:03:24] See, that's a game that's being played.
[01:03:27] Huh?
[01:03:28] Amen, somebody.
[01:03:29] That's why I'm right there.
[01:03:32] Dr. King used to quote R.C. Davis as saying that everything negative is black.
[01:03:37] The black sheep of the family.
[01:03:40] Y'all want to talk to me, huh?
[01:03:41] Why the black sheep got to be negative?
[01:03:44] Think about it.
[01:03:45] Don't think about it now, huh?
[01:03:47] Amen.
[01:03:47] Look up in the dictionary.
[01:03:49] smut dirty everything negative there are only a few things considered to be positive if you're not in debt you're in the black and they mean ink that means not red that's what they're trying to
[01:04:07] say huh and and we're not careful we'll buy into it how many of us there was a time in our lives we're the we didn't want afraid to go to a black dentist or a black doctor oh you don't know you
[01:04:23] and talk now huh you gotta know who you are you gotta know who built this country you gotta know that our invention was stolen from us amen somebody you gotta know the cradle of civilization
[01:04:40] that didn't come from europe that came from the cradles of africa you gotta know that the greatest continent in terms of minerals and materials that the world needs come from africa you know why because Africa is the mother
[01:04:54] of all nations in this world.
[01:04:59] They know that.
[01:05:00] We just don't know that.
[01:05:06] That's why they even say, even the map, they don't make it the size that it is.
[01:05:13] They make it smaller than what it really is.
[01:05:17] Amen.
[01:05:18] And it got us thinking negative.
[01:05:20] I can't tell you the number of black people I've talked to.
[01:05:22] I ain't going over there to get sick for everything they say.
[01:05:26] I'm going to leave that alone.
[01:05:27] Amen.
[01:05:28] I said I'm going to be quick, didn't I?
[01:05:31] Okay, so here's what's going on in this text quickly. Now again, the Lord keep reminding them, I made a promise to your fathers Abraham or to your ancestors.
[01:05:42] A promise. I'm going to honor my word.
[01:05:44] Can I tell y'all the truth?
[01:05:45] Moses told him in Deuteronomy 9 chapter, he said, now listen now, I'm going to tell y'all the truth.
[01:05:50] Y'all ain't going over because of your righteousness. He said, you're going over there because your God made a promise with your great-great-great granddaddy Abraham.
[01:06:02] Huh?
[01:06:03] And sometimes we need to be honest in the church.
[01:06:06] We think that what we're doing, it may be that your grandmama didn't pray for you.
[01:06:13] See, that's the importance of prayer.
[01:06:16] Sometimes God can promise your foreparent he's going to take care of you, not because of us, but because of them.
[01:06:22] Oh, you better hear what I'm saying this morning, huh?
[01:06:24] See, church, and that's the danger when we bankrupt the system.
[01:06:28] Now we need nothing left for our grandchildren to cover them.
[01:06:32] They always go, oh, I just praise the Lord.
[01:06:34] That's why I'm being blessed.
[01:06:35] Maybe, maybe not Maybe it's called mama name, grandmama name Big mama name, some mama name Pray for us And God kept his word I will bless your children It would be so great to think because of us
[01:06:52] It may be because of them God even told Solomon If it wasn't for your father David I would snatch the kingdom out of your hand But I'll let you sit on the throne Only because of David
[01:07:08] But when you pass on the kingdom gonna be snatched and torn into 10 pieces and two pieces with me 12 tribe 10 tribe to the north to know they said to kingdom and and and two
[01:07:25] kingdoms to the south God why did God bring the devil all you want to God that I ripped it apart wonder there you can declare decree you want to if God has ordained otherwise it gonna be like God said I don't get what I declare decree
[01:07:41] and that's another thing yeah I believe that is something but God no we use it loosely nowadays everything I did already clouded you know and they predicted a hundred percent rain I declare decree it's gonna rain
[01:07:53] y'all will catch that tomorrow a lot of things has appropriate use but sometimes we take it we take it out of context or we make it everything there's something God has already ordained you can't
[01:08:08] change it amen somebody all right Okay, anyway, that's a long story.
[01:08:14] Let me just, so quickly, so here's a little, so here's a story of complaining.
[01:08:17] That's another thing, don't complain.
[01:08:20] Whatever you do.
[01:08:21] Here's a word complaining about, they about to starve in the wilderness, and God had put on all these miracles.
[01:08:26] What do you think about it now?
[01:08:27] All of these miracles for them.
[01:08:31] By this time, at least, well, I know at least 10 miracles, probably more than that, but at least 10 that I do know.
[01:08:42] No, 11.
[01:08:42] at least 11. The 10 plague and the crossing of the Red Sea. So that's at least 11 plague. Now they're saying to Moses, you brought us out here to starve.
[01:08:53] Who? No food because they're in the desert. No food, no water, no nothing.
[01:09:00] Why did you bring us out here in the first place? Now watch what they would say. We were okay being slain.
[01:09:06] You didn't hear what I said.
[01:09:08] Do you all know that Harriet Tubman said she could have saved thousands more, set them free had only they knew they were slaves and they said she kept a pistol and they were serious because someone wanted to turn back you see the movie harriet if you haven't seen it you need to
[01:09:29] see it you know and she'll pull a pistol said no now you're going here you started and you're not turning around because if you go back all the rest of us gonna get killed and that's the end
[01:09:41] of setting people free so you got a decision to make march or die huh but you're not going back y'all not hearing, so you're going forward or you're going to be buried right here now you decide which way you want it
[01:09:54] huh, amen somebody I'll leave that where it is, but you need to see the movie but let me just, I got to go ahead, let me rush very quickly so again, okay, so bottom line
[01:10:03] is the Lord said, okay Moses tell them I'm going to give them some food some meat and bread now the Lord would have made us a barbecue sandwich, I know come on somebody, we would have made some barbecue sauce
[01:10:16] anyway, let's just faithful. So the Lord said, now let me just deal with the man apart, the man apart, the bread.
[01:10:23] Okay, I'm going to send bread,

[01:10:26] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:10:26] but gather enough one day at a

[01:10:30] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:10:30] time. Don't gather enough for two days for the first six days or five days. Let me read five days. All right, I can explain it in a moment. I want you to get what he's saying. So then
[01:10:41] the Lord said, okay, now two quarts per person in your house.
[01:10:48] So I mean, just my wife and I got an empty nest now so just four quarters we can't say what now my husband eat a lot so he need five quarters then it's what god said and i'm serious he got me this because he's saying
[01:11:03] when you follow my instructions precisely whatever your situation is is enough honestly that's what god is saying in every case devil's advocate oh i get so sick of church folks saying that cooks my blood you don't see my blood boiling you somebody said that some of y'all know
[01:11:30] all right no really i'm not like getting angry i'm saying you know something you should not like the devil how he get in god's conversation what i'm saying if god plans fail now what we're gonna
[01:11:50] do that's really what that means huh and there's no failure in god don't fail you're in god and God has spoken shall come to pass until the Lord is saying I don't care just do
[01:12:08] exactly what I said people if I don't care you got two quarts per person I'm able to fill them up with the two quarts that's enough huh whatever God called us to do as a church know what God said you got enough members you missed it you're
[01:12:28] coming tomorrow huh you got enough but what I've given you never give us an assignment without giving us what we need to fulfill the assignment i may have my brief moment but as a general school of thought i never worry about what god's part is god taught me that in
[01:12:52] the 80s don't ask the lord i got the message you're trying you're saying to me that i just work just do my work just obey your word and you got the rest because the average god took me
[01:13:04] through several experiences looked like it wasn't going to work out until the last moment and God added his blessings at the last moment now it's okay God I got you now you're saying to me stop

[01:13:16] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:13:16] worrying about my part just do your part and I will bless it when I get ready to bless it

[01:13:22] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:13:22] if God say he's gonna pay out the mortgage by a certain date I don't care we ain't raise another dying by that date.
[01:13:34] Huh? If we follow God and everything, when that day come, God's going to do what God got to do.
[01:13:42] Y'all listen to me, church.
[01:13:43] It's never about what we can do.
[01:13:45] It's about the promises of God.
[01:13:47] And that's true in your life also.
[01:13:49] God is saying this. Stop worrying about everything else.
[01:13:51] Stop worrying about Martin, Rod, God, and Lot, and everybody else.
[01:13:55] Just do what I tell you to do.

[01:13:57] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:13:57] When everything in your life is fair, obey my instruction and you shall be blessed.
[01:14:03] Because your blessings are always in obedience unto God.
[01:14:08] That's what he's saying in the text.

[01:14:10] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:14:10] That's what God is saying in the text.
[01:14:13] But you know the folk, they gather some, some did right, but some gathered too much anyway. Well, I don't trust God, so all this bread out here. See, watch this.
[01:14:23] When they gathered what they needed, watch this. The rest evaporated.
[01:14:29] Huh?
[01:14:31] That's what the word said. It evaporated.
[01:14:33] And so then, anyway, so some gather too much anyway guess what the next morning maggots was in it boy that'll teach you on it come on y'all am I right somebody that'll teach you a lesson
[01:14:45] maggots in it and every time we may have maggots in our lives because we didn't obey God I'm going to leave that alone somebody amen somebody you better be careful got some maggots you might want to check yourself
[01:14:56] got some maggots in your bread you might want to check did I obey God I'm wrapping it up right now I promise you when I get my iPad to come down.
[01:15:05] See, if I just come down, I may have got some more to say.
[01:15:10] Amen.
[01:15:10] But if I grab my iPad to come down, it's over.
[01:15:13] Amen, somebody?
[01:15:14] All right, so y'all don't know now.
[01:15:15] So don't make me get fooled.
[01:15:17] You see me coming down.
[01:15:17] Oh, he's about to finish up.
[01:15:19] No, do I have my iPad or not?
[01:15:20] He's iPad-less.
[01:15:22] That means he ain't through yet.
[01:15:24] Amen, somebody?
[01:15:24] But I got the iPad.
[01:15:25] Y'all probably say, Lord, let him grab the iPad.
[01:15:28] Yes, yes, yes.
[01:15:29] Okay.
[01:15:30] But so, but Mac has got in it because God was trying to teach them a lesson.

[01:15:34] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]
[01:15:34] obey every word just like I said right there then you will know I am the Lord other than that you will not honor me as God you are your own God

[01:15:49] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:15:49] because you're doing it your way and not my way amen somebody and then I'm through next day that was for the first five days alright then on the sixth day they were together enough for two days.
[01:16:13] Everybody got it?
[01:16:14] Because no one's going to fall on the Sabbath on the Sunday for us.
[01:16:20] No one's going to fall.
[01:16:21] Y'all got to gather enough now for two days right there.
[01:16:25] Now watch it. The first time when we said gather enough for one day, it didn't keep maggots was in it.
[01:16:30] And it was stinking.
[01:16:33] This time, watch what he's saying now.
[01:16:35] He's trying to show us something.
[01:16:36] It's all about my word. I don't care what you see.
[01:16:40] See what he's trying to tell me?
[01:16:41] stop using your logic and rationale.
[01:16:45] See, that always fails.
[01:16:47] That always gets us in trouble.
[01:16:49] Honestly. I already know.
[01:16:51] I can just let you know now. I'm a ready pastor now. I can let you know right now.
[01:16:55] I already know where we're going when we're ready to go.
[01:16:58] Based on conversation.
[01:17:00] Amen, somebody, huh?
[01:17:02] Because we're shouting church, but coming to the business meeting is another story. I see that all the time. I know you don't want to talk now, huh?
[01:17:08] Amen. But anyway, so this time on the Sabbath, it's kept. See the difference? Let's just say if I got too much on Tuesday to carry over to Wednesday, maggot was in it. If I got twice as much
[01:17:25] on Sunday, in other words, just because my wife and I, so there's a quart each.
[01:17:29] Is it a quart each, I think? Yeah. Two quart. A quart each.
[01:17:33] Okay, anyway, so we get twice as much now on Saturday for Sunday it kept. But if we tried it on Tuesday, maggot was in it. Are y'all with me now?
[01:17:43] Do you see the difference, church?
[01:17:45] Do you see the difference? It's all in what God is saying. So God's going to show us, now listen carefully, I promise you, we'll never win without doing it God's way. That's it.
[01:17:56] Because see, His word cannot be defeated. Once God has spoken it, that's it.
[01:18:01] Stephen Warner said, sign, seal and deliver. I'm yours, baby.
[01:18:07] Huh? Really?
[01:18:09] That's what God's trying to tell us.
[01:18:11] You don't need to do it another way. You don't need anything. All that shall live by or shall not by bread alone but what? Every word that comes out of the mouth of God. So God
[01:18:29] want to bless us church.
[01:18:31] God want to heal our body.
[01:18:33] God want to bring our families back. God want to prosper his church. God want his people to flourish so the world will know that he's God.
[01:18:43] We didn't do it but God did it. That's what God's trying to tell the whole church, I'm God, not you.
[01:18:51] Amen? Like, Mr. Soren, now, I done come to my conclusion. I done said my conclusion, so if I get enough amen, it's over.
[01:19:00] Huh? Huh, amen? You know what he say, if I can get enough amen, I go to my next point, and in the end, he'll say, I'll go to my conclusion.
[01:19:08] If I get enough amen, I done done my conclusion.
[01:19:12] Can I get an amen? See, I know when y'all want some more, you don't say amen enough.
[01:19:17] amen so say amen enough that I know you're ready for me to start amen amen alright you saved by Dr. Pinkston you saved by her amen y'all said a mild amen I'm not going to be offended
[01:19:36] I already know church folk want a 10 minute message at best you don't think I know yeah now that's the kind of preacher we want yeah know what they want amen you don't need what you want you need what you need
[01:19:50] alright that's it so we extend the invitation I said very little that was on my notes I spent all of that time writing this stuff out oh it's coming out amen because I can't go by that
[01:20:04] I said what my notes said what God said and then it gets worse like Adam blamed Eve I can always blame the choir amen somebody that'll work right they got it started but anyway so
[01:20:25] Christ wanted to come into every heart and every mind what he's saying to everybody hands off let me handle it

[01:20:35] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:20:35] for you because you can't do it in the first place it's not hard church

[01:20:45] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:20:45] I swear it's not it's so simple don't let people make it life is complex or complicated it's not it's simple I already told you what God said recognize I'm your creator come on somebody huh
[01:21:00] if I said this is my day it's your day but guess what it's a gift for you I created the Sabbath to bless you and folk don't come get their blessing wondering why they're catching air
[01:21:10] I'm very serious on that church if the church forgot that the church would fill up see that's why a lot of folks are struggling they can't make it because they don't understand that this is a gift
[01:21:23] the gift is to get me through whatever I need for next week or whenever I need it. That's what God's trying to say. I provided it for you, but you didn't come get it.
[01:21:32] Amen. You decided to do it at home.
[01:21:35] So I can worship at home.
[01:21:37] Yeah, that's private worship, but not corporate worship. We come together in the house of God.
[01:21:44] Why? Because this is the Lord's house.
[01:21:46] Amen, somebody.
[01:21:48] He said, come to the house. I can pray at home. Yeah, but he said, come together to pray. See what I mean?
[01:21:54] How we're twisting around and making fit situation? No, it doesn't work that way. Right. Invitation is extended. I don't care where you are in your life. The first call always is salvation.
[01:22:05] Now, I'm going to break this down.
[01:22:07] I do not mean being baptized as an infant. That does not save you.
[01:22:11] I'm sorry, but it does not.
[01:22:14] We got a lot of our people in our churches in this situation right here. They can only say I was baptized as an infant.
[01:22:22] What that is, the parents and everybody come up with that person or those parents or we're sponsoring the child for baptism is saying we promised before God in the church to teach the child these things. So when the
[01:22:39] child grow up, they're already pointed in a direction to accept Christ.
[01:22:46] They've been taught the Lord's prayers.
[01:22:48] They've been read the scripture.
[01:22:50] And so God is working on them.
[01:22:52] See what I mean, church?
[01:22:53] That's really what it's saying.
[01:22:55] But the child still, or that person whenever, you know, the time is, still got to come up and confess with their mild Jesus Christ for themselves.
[01:23:04] We already know that's a major issue in the church, but the church folks admit it or not.
[01:23:08] Most people, I can't say modern but a lot of people only can say, I got baptized as an infant.
[01:23:14] Well, they don't even know. Mom and dad, did I get baptized?
[01:23:16] Yeah, yeah, you did. And I'm going to leave that where it is. But it's more than that, church.
[01:23:20] If that's all that's happening in our life, we really need to get to come, you know, do it publicly or come see me.
[01:23:27] But we need to have that conversation.
[01:23:28] because I confess with my mouth.
[01:23:30] What's in my heart, I'll confess it with my mouth that Jesus is Lord. Amen, somebody.
[01:23:35] I'm going to tell you what the Word says.
[01:23:36] Don't blame me for it.
[01:23:38] I'm trying to make sure everybody's saved.
[01:23:41] Amen, somebody. Don't worry about fun. Let me tell you something about people.
[01:23:45] A lot of people have the same question in their mind like you do.
[01:23:51] They say, I'm the God of truth. Usually you're never alone by yourself. Usually the other people.
[01:23:56] So I have to teach it and explain it. And I have had people so help me God that was in church all of their lives have come up and said but one person really met me after church and said
[01:24:05] pastor I didn't know I didn't even know I was supposed to do anything else I really thought all was required is to be baptized as an infant and that's all happened and the person ended up making a confession
[01:24:20] of Jesus Christ for that person's self amen and I'm going to keep teaching it and keep teaching it They may stand.
[01:24:31] The second call is, so the first one is always for salvation.
[01:24:36] The second one is the rededication of your life.
[01:24:39] Amen.
[01:24:40] And the third call is we want to unite with this church fellowship.
[01:24:43] You're already saved.
[01:24:44] I want to thank the church for class one appreciation on last Sunday.
[01:26:13] We truly appreciate it to the utmost.
[01:26:17] I don't know how they pull it away from my mouth every time like this.
[01:26:23] I want to thank you doctor but I want to thank the church for a class A appreciation last Sunday my wife and I truly enjoyed it it really is encouragement you know you don't know what it's like to do what we
[01:26:40] do and when the church encourages you it means a lot to us amen and I really mean it and that's why I try to say thank you to you all I really do appreciate it it's not
[01:26:49] words you all I mean what I with my heart. I appreciate what people do. Amen.

[01:26:57] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:26:57] And like I said, your work is not unnoticed. You may think pastor not paying attention, but I pay attention. All right.
[01:27:05] Amen. So thank you all so very much. I want to say that before we receive the offering and God bless you. And hopefully I'll send a note out

[01:27:10] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:27:10] you know, an email and to express it even more.
[01:27:14] Amen. Amen. All right.
[01:27:16] But grandma said until better notice that that's going to have to hold us. All right.
[01:27:23] And I'll send hours as soon as I get a chance to.

[01:27:36] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_12]
[01:27:36] I'm sorry, God.
[01:27:56] Oh.
[01:27:59] Trying to send hours.
[01:28:02] I'll do it in just a minute.
[01:28:05] I'm going to hold my phone up until I can get it.
[01:28:09] Amen.

[01:28:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:28:17] All things come to thee, O Lord.

[01:28:20] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_12]
[01:28:20] Dr. Nita.

[01:29:07] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[01:29:07] Good morning, church.
[01:29:08] Good morning.
[01:29:09] Of course, first thing, welcome back, Pastor and First Lady Mary Webber.
[01:29:14] Amen.
[01:29:15] It was definitely a long week this week, but I was grateful when they announced Seals Creek and Pasta in First Lady's name.

[01:29:24] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_10]
[01:29:24] Amen.

[01:29:26] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[01:29:26] Coming up next Sunday, all high school graduates will be recognized by the scholarship committee.
[01:29:32] Again, if you would like to donate to that organization, please just label your envelope or your cash app with scholarships so those monies can be allocated to the correct location.
[01:29:48] From outside of the church, of course, our very own Sister Shante is one of the leaders of the Kannapolis Juneteenth celebration.
[01:29:59] So, of course, we are invited to celebrate with her at the Veterans Park in Kannapolis on June 19th from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.
[01:30:09] um so if we can support sister shantae as we celebrate with her on june 19th also from outside of the church um it says dear pastor and members the pastor members of new hope amy zion church cordially invite you to his annual men's day um on sunday june the 14th
[01:30:34] at 3 p.m. The theme for this year's observance is Man of God.
[01:30:40] The Reverend Dr. Eliezer Meriwether, the pastor, our pastor, is the afternoon speaker.
[01:30:49] It says music will be rendered by the men from various churches in the area.
[01:30:55] So please come and celebrate with us on June the 14th.

[01:30:59] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:30:59] And then this will be available too, right?

[01:31:02] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[01:31:02] It doesn't say, but I'm sure knowing New Hope is from New Hope, Amy's Island Church in Salisbury or East Spencer, they usually do dinner.
[01:31:12] But I will find out and put in announcements.
[01:31:17] Lastly, because it will be here before you know it, if y'all recall a couple years back, Bishop Starnes said that he no longer wants us to have a 26-week first quarter.
[01:31:30] so with that being said first quarter will be ending very soon first quarter will be ending I have counted up the weeks so we have about two weeks and first quarter will be ending but as always
[01:31:47] I will make sure that I update numbers I will make sure that I get with those persons that need help with your reports and we will as always have our reports done and submitted in a timely manner
[01:31:59] this is all that I have

[01:32:02] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_11]
[01:32:02] when was our last quarter

[01:32:05] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]
[01:32:05] the last quarter was it was March well our last quarter was April 22nd so it would have ended the first week of April so you're saying

[01:32:19] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:32:19] another two weeks wow okay

[01:32:23] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]
[01:32:23] I have a quick announcement because I know I know my folks but if I don't stand in front of y'all y'all let the money go by you forgot you didn't mention it again I'm talking about the port-a-pit tickets
[01:32:38] it's June the 27th at New Hope but I have we have 35 tickets I said that and I'm putting myself out there because I want you to again remember eat that day port-a-pit and I'm stepping out by saying
[01:33:01] if you in my route area if you buy your ticket I'll probably bring a box to you if you're in my route that way if you eat that day you may not have for breakfast but you have for lunch
[01:33:12] or dinner time so please buy a ticket let me know the tickets are the ticket on this thing say $13 the brochure have $14 I'm going to verify that you need $13 or $14 so I'll verify that but I want to make sure
[01:33:30] that y'all know this is the first Sunday in June you got that many weeks I know I give y'all that many weeks to prepare for a meal.
[01:33:37] So please, let me know.
[01:33:39] I'll give you the ticket if you say you want the ticket.
[01:33:42] I trust you. Y'all haven't never let me down.
[01:33:45] I'm waiting for $13, $14.
[01:33:47] If you say, Jeff, put me down, put your name down, you'll get a ticket.
[01:33:50] But you've got to pay us.
[01:33:52] It's not free. That's all I'm saying.
[01:33:54] Amen. Thank you.

[01:33:57] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:33:57] I'm not going to, because of time, have the certificate of appointment. I'm just going to ask those who were there, I think Sister Annie and one leader I think I knew I saw you all at the conference
[01:34:09] did I receive the appointment at Seals Creek so y'all

[01:34:13] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:34:13] have a witness amen okay all right so we're good we're good then right all right now y'all want to read next Sunday you can read we can take two days and read the whole thing all right but they got a witness because of time
[01:34:25] we're going to move on it was something okay let's just do the communion if I think of something I will so now we do we have a graduate next Sunday, am I right?
[01:34:36] Yeah.
[01:34:38] It's Saturday.
[01:34:40] But what is Sunday? The open house?
[01:34:43] I thought it was something Sunday.
[01:34:46] Or the graduate celebration.
[01:34:48] Because I used to tell the kids at my previous churches, well, you want me to bring a door or a window or what?
[01:34:54] You say you got an open house.
[01:34:56] Amen.
[01:34:57] That's why I should tell them, you want me to bring a door, a window?
[01:35:00] What do you want me to bring? So you fix that open house that you have. So the celebration, but that's at 3-2, right?
[01:35:05] well y'all do what you gotta do I just need some folk to sing I believe in celebrating our young people that's a one time life experience see what I'm trying to say so if somebody goes we're going to be alright
[01:35:18] if not I'm going to sing solos on behalf of Seals Creek amen but no we want someone to go at least the men should go many men that can but celebrate with her is it 3 o'clock at the same time
[01:35:30] ok same time we got it I know who won't be there next Sunday Am I right, somebody?
[01:35:39] I know we will not be there.
[01:35:41] Amen.
[01:35:42] Y'all excuse.
[01:35:43] Do what you got to do.
[01:35:45] Well, I'll leave that alone.
[01:35:47] Okay.
[01:35:48] All right.
[01:35:48] And she will hear from us, and she's not heard from us already.
[01:35:52] I asked my wife.
[01:35:53] She's already taking care of it.
[01:35:54] Amen.
[01:35:55] So she probably bought her a car already.
[01:35:57] Amen.
[01:35:58] All right.
[01:35:58] Okay.
[01:35:59] All right.
[01:36:00] That's enough.
[01:36:00] Let's go right into the communion.
[01:36:01] We're going to do the invitation, confession, and consecration.

[01:36:08] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:36:08] All right?
[01:36:10] Okay, very well.

[01:36:12] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:36:12] Thank you, Deaconess, for always doing such a marvelous job.
[01:36:21] Well, we're preparing for that.
[01:36:22] Make sure I wash my hands.
[01:36:24] Amen?
[01:36:27] I don't touch y'all immune anyway.
[01:36:29] Amen.
[01:36:30] I'm messing with y'all now.
[01:36:32] You're like a kid.
[01:36:34] Amen.
[01:36:34] That's why we never know.
[01:36:35] we should be clean anyway I hope you can tell I'm thrilled to be back we're thrilled to be back and I do have some other things I share with you all later but I don't have it today
[01:36:55] so let us stand if anyone's saying we have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous and he is perpetuation for our sins and not for ours only but for the sins of the whole world
[01:37:11] wherefore ye that do truly and earnestly repent of your sin and are in love and charity with your neighbors and intend to lead a new life following the commandments of God and walking from henceforth in his most holy way
[01:37:25] draw near with faith and take the holy sacrament to your comfort amen you may come as in the leaders of the church to come but would by all means fill up the altar rail amen
[01:37:36] devoutly kneeling make your humble confession to almighty God now the prayer of general confession ready Almighty God Father of our Lord Jesus Christ make of all things judge of all men we acknowledge and beware of our
[01:38:04] manifold sins and wickedness which we from time to time most grievously have committed by thought word and deed against our divine majesty provoking both justice and wrath and inclination against us we do earnestly repent and are hardly
[01:38:18] sorry for these our misdoing the remembrance of them is grievance unto us have mercy upon us have mercy upon us most merciful father for thy son our lord jesus christ's sake but give us all that is past and grant that we may ever hereafter serve and please

[01:38:33] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:38:33] thee in the newness of life to the honor and glory of thy name through jesus christ our lord amen

[01:38:40] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:38:40] the prayer of consecration almighty god our heavenly father who of thy tender mercy this give thine only son jesus christ to suffer death upon the cross for our redemption who made there by his oblation of himself
[01:38:54] once offered a full, perfect and sufficient sacrifice oblation and satisfaction for the sins of the whole world and did institute and in his holy gospel command us to continue a perpetual memory of his precious death until his
[01:39:10] coming again. Hear us, O merciful Father we humbly beseech thee and grant that we receive in thee thy creatures of bread and wine according to thy son our savior Jesus Christ his holy institution in remembrance of his
[01:39:22] death and passion may be partakers of his most blessed body and blood who in the same night that he was betrayed he took bread and when they give him thanks he gave it to them and say take eat
[01:39:37] this is my body which is given for you do this in remembrance of me likewise after supper he took the cup and when he had given thanks he gave it to them saying drink ye all of this but this is my
[01:39:50] blood in the new testament which is shed for you and for many for the remission of sins do this as oft as you drink it in remembrance of me amen the body of our lord jesus christ take an equal
[01:40:07] thanksgiving in your heart remember what christ has done for you then he took the cup and said

[01:40:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:40:17] this is my blood that was shed for you and for many for the remission of sin take and drink may it preserve your body and soul till Christ comes again

[01:40:25] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:40:25] it is very meek right in our bounding duty that we should at all times and in all places give thanks unto thee O Lord Holy Father Almighty Everlasting God therefore with angels and archangels and all the company of heaven
[01:40:46] we Lord and magnify thy glorious name evermore praising thee and saying holy holy holy Lord God of hosts heaven and earth are full of thy glory glory be to thee O Lord most high. Amen.
[01:41:05] Jesus took bread and broke it and said, this is my body that was given for you.

[01:41:09] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:41:09] Take and eat with thanksgiving in your heart. He took bread and said, now this is my body that was given for you.
[01:41:34] My nails are too short.
[01:41:36] I got it. This is his body that was given for you. Take and eat with thanksgiving.
[01:41:42] The blood that was shed on Calvary's cross. Take and drink.
[01:41:50] The body that was given for you.
[01:41:55] Take and eat with thanksgiving.
[01:41:57] the blood that was shed on Calvary's cross taking drink he took the cup and said this is my blood that was shed for you and for many for the remission of sin take and drink
[01:42:10] thanksgiving and he took the cup I'm sorry that's it he took the cup while you're on too thank you you may rise and go in peace

[01:42:22] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:42:22] what y'all saying

[01:42:24] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:42:24] yes while these retire let others come amen with your humble confession to almighty God then Jesus took the cup took the bread and he broke it and said this is my body that was given
[01:43:08] for you take and eat with thanksgiving he gave his body to be an object of wrath in other words God poured his wrath out on Jesus the wrath that was saved for us he released it on Jesus
[01:43:27] amen so take and eat the bread then he took the cup

[01:43:34] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:43:34] now I really want to please let me say this church here because I hear this I hear so much and part of our nation's rationale for doing whatever Israel want is to say they're God's
[01:43:54] chosen people honestly God and God said don't do whatever to Israel Israel only like God chose me to be a preacher and be a pastor like this time Seals Creek it doesn't mean I'm any more special than you
[01:44:13] but now all believers is his real chosen generation we are more chosen than they are and I hear them say that even politicians just to justify whatever they say don't mess with Israel God said don't mess with my people
[01:44:38] I don't care who they are they were never special like special to carry the word to the rest of the world and they chose not to because they thought God was their special individual God. That's the problem. I'm going to tell you the honest God truth.
[01:45:03] You read 1 Peter 2 chapter 8 and 9 or 8 and 9. You are a chosen generation.
[01:45:10] You are royal priesthood. The same thing God spoke to them in Exodus 19. Now God is speaking it to the church.
[01:45:18] so why don't we talk about that part you don't hear that in church so what I'm saying is he said this is my blood in the New Testament I'm establishing a new covenant and the book of Hebrews says
[01:45:36] the new covenant is better than the old covenant the old covenant was a shadow of what was to come it's like a shit go outside and your body you see the shadow from the sun
[01:45:49] the shadow is not you come on y'all not talking to me huh the shadow is a representation of who you are where the old covenant is on a shadow of the new covenant now everybody can understand that
[01:46:06] y'all got it church so don't be walking around you do people walking around you can't do that to Israel no don't bother his people covered by the by the blood so he took the blood let's go
[01:46:23] but that's what he said this is my blood in the New Testament that means covenant I'm establishing a new covenant it is much better in fact the covenant ain't nothing compared to yours okay that's enough
[01:46:52] why are y'all sitting down and waiting on more this is so serious sure. I mean, I like, you know, I kid about stuff, but it's so serious.
[01:47:03] Huh? Everybody got that? I got it. Did you take care? We took care.
[01:47:17] Okay. And devoutly kneeling, make a humble confession to Almighty God. All right, that's enough. Don't get me cranked up. You know better than that. Okay. Amen.
[01:47:28] So he took bread and he said, this is my body that was given for you. And then he took the cup and he said, this is my bread taken Then he took the cup.
[01:47:43] That's the whole point.
[01:47:44] He said, I'm paying for your sins.
[01:47:47] That's what we've done in this body.
[01:47:49] The blood is, see, any time God, there's a shedding of blood, the Old Testament, it meant covenant.
[01:47:58] Y'all hear me, church?
[01:48:00] A covenant.
[01:48:03] So I'm establishing a covenant with you.
[01:48:07] Take and drink.
[01:48:13] Why do you thank God for Jesus?
[01:48:14] May he rise and go in peace.
[01:48:16] We ain't never been out there on trails this long.

[01:48:20] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:48:20] I'm sorry, Russia?
[01:48:27] just make devoutly kneel then he said this is my body that was given for you give God some praise for us amen and he said this is the blood that was shed for you and
[01:48:44] for many for the remission of sin it's my blood in the new testament take and drink amen may rise and go in peace go and sin no more the deaconess may come those who serve shall be served
[01:49:07] and thank you and first of all thank god for placing you in such a position to prepare the holy meal amen so god restored upon you great honor because this is what purchased our salvation

[01:49:29] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:49:29] devoutly kneeling they go home a confession almighty god he took bread and broke it and said

[01:49:37] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:49:37] now this is my body that was given for you take and eat with thanksgiving in your heart and then he took the cup and said this is my blood in the New Testament which was shared for you
[01:49:52] and for many for the remission of sin take and drink and preserve your soul until Christ comes again you may rise in peace I'm going to pray when they cover the table

[01:50:14] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:50:14] all be served that want to be served okay then I will I'm going to pray the Lord's prayers

[01:50:23] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]
[01:50:23] from here we're going to pray amen this is what we call the model prayer Our Father, who art in heaven, hallowed be thy name.
[01:50:42] Thy kingdom come, thy will be done, on earth as it is in heaven.
[01:50:46] Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our trespasses, as we forgive those who trespass against us.
[01:50:53] And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil.
[01:50:57] For thine is the kingdom, and the power, and the glory, forever. Amen.

[01:51:04] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]
[01:51:04] And now unto him who is able to keep you from falling, and to present you faultless before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy to the only wise god our savior be glory and majesty dominion and power
[01:51:16] both now and forever let the saints of god say cut the feed i guess just uh i promise i don't need