When Faith Becomes a Transaction: A Call to Grace-Centered Preaching

[00:00:38] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_04]:
Whatever you need My God's got it
[00:01:10] Whatever you need My God's got it He's got Happiness Whatever you need
[00:01:36] Everything, you need everything Whatever you need My God's got it Whatever you need My God's got it
[00:02:10] Happiness Whatever you need God's got it Everything Whatever you need God's got it Got it God's got it Whatever you need
[00:02:42] My God's got it He's got it Happiness Whatever you need Everything Everything Everything
[00:03:11] Everything Whatever you need My God's got it My God's got it My God's got it Everything Everything Oh God's got it
[00:03:34] My God's got it.
[00:03:37] My God's got it.
[00:03:40] My God's got it.
[00:03:43] My God's got it.
[00:03:45] He's got love.
[00:03:48] He's got joy.
[00:03:51] He's got peace.
[00:03:53] My God's got it.
[00:03:56] He's got everything, everything you need My God's got it My God's got it My God's got it My God's got it Whatever you need My God's got it
[00:04:17] He's got peace y'all, unspeakable peace He's got joy, He's got mercy My God's got it, My God's got it
[00:04:33] He's got joy overflowing He's got peace sharp, unspeakable peace My God's got it My God's got it Whatever you need My God's got it
[00:04:55] My God's got it.
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[00:05:01] Power in His hand y'all.
[00:05:03] He's got joy.
[00:05:06] He's got peace y'all.
[00:05:09] He's got love.
[00:05:12] Whatever you need.
[00:05:14] My God's got it.
[00:05:17] My God's got it.
[00:05:19] My God's got it.
[00:05:22] He's got love He's got joy He's got love Oh, whatever you need My God's got it Whatever you need My God's got it
[00:06:03] Whatever you need, He's got everything you need.

[00:06:19] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
Amen.
[00:06:20] Amen.
[00:06:20] God's got it.
[00:06:21] Everything you need.
[00:06:22] That's why we say God is all-sufficient.
[00:06:26] Doesn't matter whether it's not just spiritual.
[00:06:28] It's the spiritual that brings the natural into being.
[00:06:33] Anybody listening to me?
[00:06:35] So people say, well, they want to separate the two.
[00:06:38] Like this has nothing to do with that.
[00:06:40] No, the spiritual brings the natural.
[00:06:42] The spiritual creates the natural.
[00:06:45] Huh?
[00:06:47] and so Bishop Wall said it like this we suffer in the church because we don't put the emphasis on the spiritual that brings about the natural help me somebody God is spiritual amen somebody and because he's spiritual he created what we see that which we do not see created that which we see amen somebody
[00:07:10] So you want God to fix stuff in your natural life, you got to get it right in the spiritual life.
[00:07:15] Come on, somebody, huh?
[00:07:17] Oh, somebody, but hear what I'm saying this morning.
[00:07:19] If you want God to fix the natural stuff, get right with the spiritual stuff.
[00:07:25] Amen.
[00:07:26] That's why Jesus healed.
[00:07:29] All right, let's blame the choir every Sunday, amen.
[00:07:32] Let us stand for the call to worship.
[00:07:35] O come, let us worship the Lord, and let us bow down before God our Creator.
[00:07:40] For we are his people, and the sheep of his pasture.
[00:07:44] Remain standing for the invocations.
[00:07:46] Gracious God our Father, we come this morning to worship you in spirit and in truth, but we know we cannot do it unless you are present with us.
[00:07:54] And so we ask, O God, that you will reveal and manifest yourself in terms of your
[00:07:58] Shekinah glory again we respect your omnipresence but we ask again God you would manifest yourself in a spiritual way so we'll know that you are indeed in the house come Holy Spirit come heavenly dove and fall afresh on all of us even right now in the mighty marvelous and majestic name of Jesus who is the Christ we pray amen and we are going to lead you in a song God yes God is real all right amen

[00:08:37] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
Let us pray.
[00:08:49] Let us pray.
[00:09:45] Let's pray.
[00:09:56] Let's pray.
[00:10:22] Let's pray.
[00:11:33] Let's pray.
[00:12:50] Thank you.

[00:15:17] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_02]:
We bow our heads and go unto the throne of God.
[00:15:22] Precious Father, in the name of Jesus, we come this morning, we just want to thank you because you've been so good to us.
[00:15:32] You cared for us, God.
[00:15:34] You woke us up this morning closed in our right mind, activity of our limbs, and brought us to the house of the Lord to worship you.
[00:15:45] We come to give glory and honor unto your holy name, because you are Alpha and Omega,
[00:15:51] The beginning and the end.
[00:15:53] You started it, oh God, and you're going to finish it.
[00:15:57] As we look and we see the clouds, we see the sun, we see the moon, we see all that you have created.
[00:16:06] Oh God, you brought forth rain this morning.
[00:16:09] Oh God, the water, the earth, we give glory.
[00:16:14] God, because you're so grateful and you're so merciful.
[00:16:19] Oh God, we thank you.
[00:16:21] We thank you for who you are.
[00:16:25] We thank you, God, for you our healer, you our deliverer, you our yoke breaker.
[00:16:31] God, we thank you.
[00:16:33] Have your way, Lord God.
[00:16:36] Have your way, Jesus, because we need you right now as never before, Lord.
[00:16:43] Help us to pray and call on your holy righteous name.
[00:16:47] You will answer, Lord God, and we believe your word.
[00:16:50] We stand on the promises of your word.
[00:16:53] Heaven and earth will pass away, but your word will stand forever.
[00:16:59] We thank you for your word.
[00:17:00] Your word don't change.
[00:17:02] You're the same yesterday, today, and forever.
[00:17:06] And we thank you.
[00:17:08] Stretch out your hand, God.
[00:17:10] Touch those that are sick in their bodies.
[00:17:13] Pray healing because you're the healer.
[00:17:16] You is the deliverer.
[00:17:18] Hallelujah.
[00:17:19] Those that's in dimension of God, you can change their minds.
[00:17:24] You can regulate their mind.
[00:17:26] Oh God, we thank you.
[00:17:29] Thank you for your blood.
[00:17:31] There's power in the blood of Jesus.
[00:17:34] Wonders work in power that moves all stains, that takes away all guilt.
[00:17:40] God, we thank you.
[00:17:42] Oh God, have your way.
[00:17:44] Look down on the earth today, on the nations today.
[00:17:50] God, have mercy, oh God.
[00:17:52] In Jesus' name, we thank you.
[00:17:55] We need your mercy.
[00:17:57] We can't make it without you, God, and we need you right now.
[00:18:03] We thank you for the pastor.
[00:18:05] Strengthen him, God, we thank you.
[00:18:07] Oh, God, as he brings forth the word, oh, God, giving us the truth, God, we thank you.
[00:18:15] Ever keep him.
[00:18:17] Oh, God, in Jesus' name, open the doors that, oh, God, as he walked therein.
[00:18:24] First Lady, we thank you.
[00:18:26] Touch your body, touch your feet, God, because you're the healer, God.
[00:18:31] You're able to do exceedingly above that.
[00:18:33] We can ask to thank you.
[00:18:34] We thank you right now for us.
[00:18:37] Oh God, their family, their grandchildren.
[00:18:40] Oh God, have your way.
[00:18:43] We thank you for Seals Creek.
[00:18:46] Strength in Seals Creek Garden and Ephesus knit together.
[00:18:51] Oh God, being concerned of one another, loving one another.
[00:18:55] Oh God, in Jesus' name we thank you.
[00:18:59] We thank you for the choir.
[00:19:02] Continue to anoint them afresh.
[00:19:05] Oh God, to bring forth, oh God, the Zion songs.
[00:19:09] Oh God, to bring deliverance and healing and comfort, God.
[00:19:14] Oh God, help those, oh God, comfort those that need comfort that have lost loved ones.
[00:19:19] Strengthen them, oh.
[00:19:21] God, in Jesus' name, we thank you for the instruments, God.
[00:19:25] We thank you for everything you have done.
[00:19:28] Oh God, you continue to work the work that need to be working every one of us, oh God.
[00:19:33] Because we need you as never before, God.
[00:19:36] Oh God, building up our holy faith in you more and more, God.
[00:19:40] Oh God, knowing that your word is true, God, help us, Lord.
[00:19:46] Oh God, we thank you.
[00:19:48] We thank you.
[00:19:50] We won't fail to give you all the glory and all the honor.
[00:19:55] We ask in Jesus' name, in the church, amen.
[00:20:17] Amen.

[00:22:49] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
People have a hard time forgiving sins.
[00:22:57] They don't have a problem with being forgiven.
[00:23:00] Come on somebody.
[00:23:01] We all want to be forgiven.
[00:23:04] Come on somebody.
[00:23:05] But we have a hard time.
[00:23:07] It's a broken human nature.
[00:23:08] A lot of things you say, it came with a broken nature.
[00:23:14] So that means I've got to work to get rid of it.
[00:23:19] The stuff that we find in the challenges we have in life, we were born that way.
[00:23:25] I didn't say we became that way.
[00:23:27] We were born certain ways.
[00:23:29] Amen.
[00:23:30] So let me work on it to come out of that.
[00:23:33] Well, this is what the church is for.
[00:23:35] And that's how it would be a balance about who God is and what God is calling us to do.
[00:23:42] Because see, what's in your lopsided gospel nowadays, what God is going to do.
[00:23:46] And I tell you, yeah, God can do it.
[00:23:50] But I have to do my part.
[00:23:53] See, it's a covenant.
[00:23:54] A covenant means God is responsible for certain things.
[00:23:58] Amen, somebody?
[00:23:59] And we are responsible for certain things.
[00:24:01] So I cannot realize the promises of the covenant if I don't do my part.
[00:24:10] See, that's what a church fails right there.
[00:24:12] God is going to do.
[00:24:13] God is going to do.
[00:24:14] God is able.
[00:24:15] That's true.
[00:24:16] But what is my role?
[00:24:21] And if I don't do my part, it won't happen.
[00:24:25] Come on somebody.
[00:24:26] And whenever you turn yourself into trouble, and they came back, especially Nehemiah, the first chapter, that's what he deals with.
[00:24:35] We have not kept your covenant.

[00:25:24] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
I've been through the fire And I've been through the flood Broken in pieces And left all alone But through it all God blessed me
[00:25:49] God kept me and I still have a praise inside of me Yes I still have a praise inside of me I think I'm going to say that one more time.
[00:26:15] I've been through the fire
[00:26:19] and I've been through the flood broken in pieces and left all alone but through it all God blessed me and through it all God kept me and I still
[00:26:44] Come on choir, help me out.
[00:27:03] Up in.
[00:27:06] And I've been through the flood I've been through the flood Broken in pieces Broken in pieces And left not alone
[00:27:37] Yes, I still have a praise inside of me Although I've been wounded
[00:28:07] And I've been scarred I never gave up I trusted in God
[00:28:43] Come on choir, hit me up.
[00:28:47] Although Although I've been wounded And I've been scarred And I've been scarred I never gave up I never gave up I trusted in God I trusted in God But through it all But through it all God gave me Yes, yes

[00:29:32] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]:
There's a praise in my spirit.

[00:29:55] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
There's a praise in my soul.
[00:29:55] Glory, hallelujah, that cannot be denied.

[00:29:56] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
There's a praise in my spirit.

[00:29:57] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
Is that still?

[00:30:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
There's a praise in my soul, Glory, Hallelujah, And I need to know, That I never have a praise inside of me.
[00:30:54] Hallelujah!

[00:30:59] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]:
Oh yeah!

[00:31:02] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_07]:
Hallelujah!
[00:31:05] Oh yeah!
[00:31:10] Hallelujah!
[00:31:31] Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you Lord I love you and I thank you for your goodness for your grace for your mercy for your favor are you thankful are you thankful are you thankful Lord I love you
[00:32:03] Lord I love you, Lord I love you, Lord I love you, Lord I love you, Lord I love you, Lord I love you, Lord I love you Are you thankful, are you thankful for your goodness, for your grace, for your mercy
[00:32:25] For your favor Are you thankful?
[00:32:30] Are you thankful?
[00:32:32] Are you thankful?
[00:32:34] Are you thankful?
[00:32:36] For your goodness For your grace For your favor For your favor For your favor Do you still have a praise inside of you?
[00:32:56] I still have a praise inside of me
[00:33:51] are you thankful are you thankful are you thankful are you thankful are you thankful

[00:35:09] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
Hallelujah!
[00:35:12] Hallelujah!
[00:35:14] My God, my God!
[00:35:14] Thank you Lord!
[00:35:19] Hallelujah!
[00:35:19] Knock on that new rock crowd for me now!

[00:35:26] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
There are many things that music does for us, but one of them that we don't talk about much nowadays is broken spirits.
[00:35:39] Saul came, Saul was a broken spirit, and David played music with him.
[00:35:49] A lot of things we try to kick out of the church, but it used to be
[00:35:57] Come and sit quietly.
[00:36:01] And the music will be playing before we even start in worship.
[00:36:07] Come with somebody.
[00:36:09] And let the music get a heartbeat all week long.
[00:36:14] And you come in this sanctuary, come in this quietness, except for the soft music is playing.
[00:36:25] Saul understood that in this day.
[00:36:28] I got a whole series on what I have to deal with the sanctuary, how it is set up, and why it's set up in a certain way.
[00:36:44] Amen, somebody.
[00:36:45] We don't just do what we do.
[00:36:49] The communion table, where it is, represents
[00:36:53] The Ark of the Covenant.
[00:36:55] Really, that's what it's for.
[00:37:01] That's why it's placed.
[00:37:03] No, church can do a lot of stuff now.
[00:37:04] Get away from that.
[00:37:05] I'm not knocking anybody's theology out there.
[00:37:08] But it does belong in the back.
[00:37:11] Because that's where the Ark of the Covenant.
[00:37:12] See, in the Old Testament, where the people, you all were sitting, that was called
[00:37:24] There was a veil that went up and separated the holy place from the most holy place.
[00:37:38] Only the priest could go back to the high priest who was on duty that year could go behind the holy of holies
[00:37:53] We, no one was allowed back there on a normal basis.
[00:37:59] Because Christ had not come to atone for our sins.
[00:38:05] Atone somebody.
[00:38:06] I know what I'm talking about.
[00:38:07] Just be careful what I'm teaching you.
[00:38:10] And so the high priest would go back once a year to atone for the sins of his people.
[00:38:17] He wore what we call a caper toe around his waist and had bells on
[00:38:23] That normally the folks heard it because he went but first he had to atone for his own sin.
[00:38:27] That's why we commute first.
[00:38:29] It's not out of privilege.
[00:38:31] It's out of responsibility.

[00:38:33] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
Amen.

[00:38:35] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
Amen.
[00:38:36] So he had to atone for his own sin first because if he went behind there with unconfessed sin and unforgiven sin, he died.
[00:38:46] When he died, nobody could go back and put him out.
[00:38:49] So they had to cape him toward him just in case.
[00:38:52] Well, Christ got rid of all of that, and that's why I said that when he was crucified, the wall on the grave was torn down.
[00:39:08] Now we all have assets.
[00:39:09] Y'all not talking to me.
[00:39:12] You don't want to talk to me.
[00:39:14] That's why we thank God for Jesus.
[00:39:17] You can go to the priest first.
[00:39:19] You can go.
[00:39:20] Man, you got direct access to Christ for yourself.
[00:39:31] You have the Holy Spirit in you.
[00:39:34] No one had the Holy Spirit in them.
[00:39:38] Only the prophet, priest, and king had the Holy Spirit upon them.
[00:39:43] But no one had him inside until Jesus came.
[00:39:48] And that was for Pentecost.
[00:39:53] It's not about speaking in tongues and all that stuff.
[00:39:56] We missed a point.
[00:39:59] It's about the indwelling of the Holy Spirit.
[00:40:03] Every believer.
[00:40:05] When you're born again, the Holy Spirit comes to take a residence.
[00:40:10] He's moving in.
[00:40:12] Okay, let's get out of that.
[00:40:13] The Manhattan was saying that's not part of the show.
[00:40:18] For those who may be watching on social media virtual platforms, I cute a lot, so let's ask God, let's pray for this drinking choir.
[00:40:34] Amen.
[00:42:00] You hear me say a lot of things about, because it's Satan's trick, about the church and us.
[00:42:08] It's Satan wanting us to not understand what God is saying.
[00:42:13] So he comes to confuse us.
[00:42:15] But he uses scripture and he uses things or sayings in the church that because it sounds right, most people, just being honest now, I'm not knocking anybody, do not research for themselves
[00:42:39] You can put it on Jesus at least he tried.
[00:42:42] That's what those temptations were about.
[00:42:44] And remember that he used scripture.
[00:42:46] He just misquoted the scriptures.
[00:42:49] Are y'all with me?
[00:42:50] So Satan does the same thing today now.
[00:42:52] And then remember too, the Bible said he comes in the house of God or the temple to set himself up as God or as a messenger of God.
[00:43:03] And he masquerades as an angel of light.
[00:43:07] So it looks right.
[00:43:09] Huh?
[00:43:10] Y'all with me now?
[00:43:12] And that's why it's deception because he deceived, you know, he wanted us to think what's right is wrong and what's wrong is right.
[00:43:22] And so the church has always, you know, the P's and Q's in order to get what God wants.
[00:43:29] Now, let's just deal first of all with a few people in the natural realm that we know that made a high impact life.
[00:43:36] All of us are called, it's a high calling, I don't say that, but we're called, the thing is living a high impact life.
[00:43:43] Everybody in here is called to live a high impact life.
[00:43:46] Now that doesn't mean our name will be a prank.
[00:43:50] That does not mean they're living a high impact life.
[00:43:53] Your life can impact others as much as anybody else's life can.
[00:44:01] Amen.
[00:44:02] Amen.
[00:44:05] Amen.
[00:44:31] So don't get caught up into that.
[00:44:34] Don't think pastors more than you or you more than the pastor or somebody that's hold position in the church are more important than you.
[00:44:42] You've got to understand that God has created you and God made you to make an impact in the world and you can do it by carrying out your assignment.
[00:44:55] That's all he requires of us.
[00:44:59] What's your assignment?
[00:45:01] And so one thing we talked about already is you gotta forget the past.
[00:45:09] That could mean we have no recollection of the past, but not that the past become a hindrance to us.

[00:45:14] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
Come on, come on.

[00:45:15] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
And I kind of listed some things here that, so our failures can be a hindrance, our past failures can be a hindrance.
[00:45:26] Amen, I don't have time to get into that now.
[00:45:28] Our past successes can be a hindrance.
[00:45:34] One of the greatest things that causes a business or any institution or person to fail is living off past successes.
[00:46:00] I understand and thank God for the past, but I got to move on to the future.
[00:46:07] So you can name business after business that succeeded and had a great business at one point, but then all of a sudden they faded off the scene.
[00:46:18] Younger people, you better not remember, but a lot of us grew up when Kodak had the camera market.
[00:46:25] Y'all remember that?
[00:46:26] A Kodak moment, and they're all about Kodak.
[00:46:29] Now, where is Kodak now?
[00:46:34] Where is it?
[00:46:38] Sometimes I look online and there's a number of restaurants or fast food chains that they expect to fail or go into bankruptcy this year.
[00:46:48] They were once at the top of their game.
[00:46:52] Blockbuster, where is it?
[00:47:01] You won't find one.
[00:47:03] But once upon a time, they were everywhere.
[00:47:07] Am I right, somebody?
[00:47:10] And you can name business after business.
[00:47:13] And their failures all have the same thing in common.
[00:47:18] Churches have the same thing in common.
[00:47:21] People have the same thing in common as to why they go down versus moving
[00:47:29] And then we talked about the forgiveness of our own sins too.
[00:47:32] I don't ask, I just do stuff and never ask God to forgive me.
[00:47:35] Amen, somebody.
[00:47:36] And then the willingness to forgive others.
[00:47:39] Now, let's go to today.
[00:47:42] So we must know what the first one, let me go back.
[00:47:47] So I'm gonna name a few people first and then the second round that made a higher impact.
[00:47:52] Amen, somebody.
[00:47:54] Charles Drew.
[00:47:56] Y'all heard of him?
[00:47:58] What did he do?
[00:48:00] Blood plasma.
[00:48:02] And guess what?
[00:48:04] He died for the lack of somebody giving him blood plasma.
[00:48:10] I think it was an accident.
[00:48:12] They took him to a white hospital and they refused to serve him.
[00:48:20] Book of T. Washington.
[00:48:21] Although frankly, it was Louis Adams who was the church school superintendent at Tuskegee that started the institution.
[00:48:29] What about Henry Ford that started the car?
[00:48:34] Amen.
[00:48:35] What about Robert Fultz on the steam engine?
[00:48:38] What about George Washington Carver?
[00:48:41] What about Madam, what's the lady with the... CJ Walker.
[00:48:46] CJ Walker and somebody else with the pasteurized milk.
[00:48:51] We know the sister?
[00:49:01] Alexander Graham, although I'm told that there was a black person that first applied for the patent, but he's giving credit for the telephone?
[00:49:20] I know that's important because we don't know what to do without that cell phone.
[00:49:28] I know I'm right about it.
[00:49:29] I feel lost without it.
[00:49:32] Amen?
[00:49:36] When my brother told me his granddaughter told her father, she took her phone but something she had done and she said, Daddy, can you just whip me and give me my phone back?
[00:49:53] What about Facebook?
[00:49:57] What about Amazon?
[00:50:14] Jeff Bezos right?
[00:50:16] But my point is that these are individuals in the natural realm that did something to change the world.
[00:50:30] Usually when God calls us to do something, we are people that are not known by the world.
[00:50:36] Well, could it be you?
[00:50:42] David, God told Jesse,
[00:50:47] Not Jesse.
[00:50:47] Samuel the prophet go down to Jesse's house and anoint one of his sons as king of Israel.
[00:50:55] They didn't mean no harm or no negative.
[00:50:57] They didn't even invite David to the ceremony because they assumed David wasn't the one.
[00:51:06] He and Jesse invited all his other sons.
[00:51:10] David was out doing the sheep and even Samuel won't make the mistake.
[00:51:17] Because when all them want to walk with all muscular and physique like I am, or six pack like I am,
[00:51:25] That Samuel said, watch this, surely this is the Lord's anointing.
[00:51:33] For God said, no Samuel, not him, for you are looking on the outside, but God looks at the heart.
[00:51:41] And so the all of them passed by Samuel, and not him, not him, not him.
[00:51:46] So Samuel, wait a minute now, do you have any more son?
[00:51:51] Yeah, David.
[00:51:53] He's out tending sheep, go fetch him.
[00:51:58] And so we've got David, and the Lord said he's the one.
[00:52:04] See God chooses the most, most of the time it's the unlikely people.
[00:52:10] I'm telling you what I know now, you better read the scripture.
[00:52:14] See we got our man, our eyes on what we call big time folks.
[00:52:20] God usually chooses folks that nobody knows about, but God has been working on them all the time to prepare them for their assignment.
[00:52:33] And I say to you, God has been working on you all your life.
[00:52:38] You are no accident.
[00:52:40] You are no accident.
[00:52:41] And while you are where you are, God had you in mind before your mom and daddy ever met each other.
[00:52:51] Nobody has for you.
[00:52:54] My job is to embrace.
[00:52:59] We just embrace and accept the calling of God on our lives.
[00:53:03] Stop looking at where you came from.
[00:53:05] Stop looking at the color of your skin.
[00:53:06] Stop looking at your education level.
[00:53:08] Stop looking at how much money you got.
[00:53:12] Stop looking at that mess.
[00:53:18] Because too many people never realize their purpose
[00:53:22] We're using stuff that may not, you know, when life may not have gone so well in the past.
[00:53:28] And this is what Paul is saying in his text.
[00:53:30] Paul persecuted the church.
[00:53:35] When Paul was not old enough to throw stones at Stephen, the first martyr inscribed in the New Testament, when Paul was too young to throw a stone, Paul held the clothes of those who did.
[00:53:52] So the way he participated in the murdering of Stephen.
[00:54:01] Moses had murdered the man.
[00:54:05] Because one day he saw an Egyptian and an Israelite fighting.
[00:54:12] And Moses killed the Egyptian and buried him in the sand.
[00:54:18] And then the next day he saw two Israelites fighting.
[00:54:22] And when he said, brothers, why are y'all fighting?
[00:54:25] They said, what you going to do to us?
[00:54:27] Kill us?
[00:54:28] Do us like you did the Egyptians?
[00:54:30] Moses didn't think anybody knew.
[00:54:33] And that's when he ran to Midian, trying to hide from his sin.
[00:54:39] Anybody listen to me this morning?
[00:54:41] See, there are many people that have done, but I don't know what you've done in your past that has nothing to do with your future.
[00:54:48] Don't you know some of the greatest people are going to use it?
[00:54:51] Or those who realize they messed up, they got a messed up past?
[00:54:58] Because sometimes we're holier than thou.
[00:55:01] God wants you to know that you messed up, but I can still use you.
[00:55:07] I don't care about your past, because the Bible says, God takes the past and removes it from us as far as the east from the west, and the truth shall never meet again.
[00:55:19] He buries your past.
[00:55:21] He wants to learn from it, but not hold it against us.
[00:55:25] See, that's what forgiveness is.
[00:55:26] And what it means if you don't remember it, it means that it's like a scab.
[00:55:47] Somebody murdered our cousin.
[00:55:49] Yeah, I felt some kind of way.
[00:55:54] I didn't know that well, but the fact that you've met with one of my cousins, beautiful young lady, and somebody murdered her?
[00:56:03] She stopped by a convenience store, went to get some gas, and went inside the store, and this young man followed her out?
[00:56:12] We should not have been out in the first place based on the other mess he had already done.
[00:56:18] And murdered her.
[00:56:22] It's different when he is home.
[00:56:25] We tell everybody else how you ought to forget and forgive, but when they come to your house, can you forgive others?
[00:56:35] I'm always mindful of my own challenges in life.
[00:56:41] See, that's how you got to serve.
[00:56:43] You can't serve holy in the doubt.
[00:56:46] You gotta serve, realize that I'm just as broken as the people are!
[00:56:55] Both effective leaders, in fact the only effective leaders, are those that realize their own mess!
[00:57:03] I'm not qualified to serve.
[00:57:06] Honestly.
[00:57:10] I'm telling you the truth.
[00:57:11] This is what leadership is about.
[00:57:14] And Paul, all through his scripture, he's trying to remind us of his own mess.
[00:57:21] Huh?
[00:57:22] You want perfect pastors?
[00:57:23] What you gonna do with one?
[00:57:25] All right, all right.
[00:57:27] Because you're not perfect.
[00:57:28] Amen.

[00:57:29] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
Come on.

[00:57:30] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
That's right.
[00:57:31] I'm serious.
[00:57:32] What would you do with a perfect pastor?
[00:57:35] Nothing.
[00:57:35] What would I do with a perfect people?
[00:57:37] And I messed up.
[00:57:38] Nothing.
[00:57:41] And like I always say, you find a perfect church, you can't join it.
[00:57:45] Because it won't be perfect anymore.
[00:57:49] Amen, somebody.
[00:57:51] Amen.
[00:57:51] We all make mistakes.
[00:57:53] That's why if y'all know what they really call, we're wounded healers.
[00:57:57] That's what leaders are.
[00:57:59] You're wounded, but you understand brokenness in others as you do yourself.
[00:58:05] Amen, somebody.
[00:58:06] And you can have compassion.
[00:58:08] See, I'm deviating, but I really believe this is why God spared David's life when David
[00:58:14] David committed adultery with Bathsheba because Nathan had asked him to tell David and when Nathan told David the story David said what man would do such a mess he should be killed and Nathan said thou art the man but David had mercy on other people and in fact
[00:58:38] Long ago, Saul had already tried to kill David many times before, but David had many chances to wipe Saul out, but David refused to do it.
[00:58:49] And there were others here that had mercy on him.
[00:58:53] They say sometimes God beat the stew out of some folks because they don't have mercy on others.
[00:58:59] I'm serious about that church.
[00:59:00] You ever read the scriptures?
[00:59:02] Huh?
[00:59:03] Let us learn to have mercy on others like God has mercy on us.
[00:59:06] And that's why I say you can't even pray the Lord's Prayer because it forgives us our trespasses as, that means in the same way that we forgive others.
[00:59:15] Alright, let me just get back to this quickly.
[00:59:17] So here's a few little things I want you to say today.
[00:59:25] So, this is probably the only one I'm going to get out.
[00:59:28] I'm going to get the whole thing out today.
[00:59:30] We must know
[00:59:32] I can't describe this something when I have no idea what it's like.
[00:59:41] Let me give you two words of God.
[00:59:43] First of all, we want to know how and who we were created to be.
[00:59:51] You're made in the image and likeness of God.
[00:59:54] Amen.
[00:59:55] I don't care.
[00:59:56] Remember how we say that you take a diamond ring and drop it in the mud?
[00:59:59] Has it lost its value?
[01:00:03] Because sin on us, within us, doesn't mean we lost our value.
[01:00:08] You're still just as valuable after sin as you were before sin.
[01:00:13] Amen.
[01:00:14] You just might have missed that.
[01:00:16] Because God put himself in us.
[01:00:19] Amen.
[01:00:20] That's why we treat everybody a certain way.
[01:00:23] Helped me somebody, huh?
[01:00:25] We became inflated egos, where a deflated ego is just as bad.
[01:00:30] You can think too much of yourself or you can think too little of yourself.
[01:00:34] So you got to have a right balance as to who we are.
[01:00:38] And God said you're somebody.
[01:00:40] Amen.
[01:00:40] That's why I'm saying I'm just a nobody trying to tell somebody.
[01:00:44] I'm somebody because God made me somebody.
[01:00:49] It's what God did.
[01:00:50] And then he crowned, I know we say that God didn't share his glory with anybody, but the Bible says in Psalm 8, he crowned us with glory and honor.
[01:01:00] The Holy Maker, but my crown is glory and honor.
[01:01:05] God made us that way.
[01:01:06] You gotta know who you are.
[01:01:08] I don't care what sin you have in your life.
[01:01:15] I don't care what you've experienced in your life.
[01:01:17] It doesn't change who you are.
[01:01:20] I may act of food with no meaning of food.
[01:01:25] And y'all know, some of us know that our parents had standards for us growing up, am I right?
[01:01:30] They don't care what other children do, but you live in this house.
[01:01:34] You are Cornelius, amen somebody?
[01:01:37] And other folks may act up, but you can't act that way.
[01:01:40] Because you, your parents, do not subscribe to that mess.

[01:01:44] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
Your last name is a Cornelius.

[01:01:48] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
You don't do what other people do.
[01:01:50] You've got to stand up in this family.
[01:01:53] Am I right, somebody?
[01:01:54] That's what God is trying to say to us.
[01:01:56] You are somebody, but that's a standard.
[01:02:00] That's what everybody is told.
[01:02:04] God knows what you're called to.
[01:02:08] You're wonderfully and fearfully made.
[01:02:12] No one else in this world is made just like you.
[01:02:15] No one has the DNA that you've got a twin.
[01:02:18] No one got your fingerprint?
[01:02:24] Footprint?
[01:02:26] You are uniquely made and there's no one else exactly like you.
[01:02:34] Your sons and daughters of God, I'm closing out.
[01:02:39] Children are the most high God.
[01:02:42] You're the household of God, the bride of Christ.
[01:02:46] You part your branch on the true vine and your sheep are the good shepherd.
[01:02:53] And what God is trying to do is what salvation is, brother.
[01:02:57] See, the emphasis on salvation is not going to heaven.
[01:03:01] There's a lot the devil told the church.
[01:03:04] There has never been the emphasis.
[01:03:07] That's why sometimes folks they get saved and that's all they want to do.
[01:03:11] I'm saved.
[01:03:12] I'm going to heaven when I die.
[01:03:13] You missed the whole calling of God.
[01:03:18] The calling and you're saved to be recreated in the image and likeness of God.
[01:03:25] That's what it's all about.
[01:03:29] Show me what God said you go to heaven.
[01:03:32] He saved you to recreate you.
[01:03:39] This is why I was going to be hashed up in the church.
[01:03:43] I'm saying we're going to heaven, that's all I want.
[01:03:47] That's not what you're saved for.
[01:03:49] You're saved to be recreated.
[01:03:50] Heaven's going to take care of itself.
[01:03:52] If y'all hear me say that I don't deal a lot with heaven, they're going to take care of themselves.
[01:03:57] What are we going to do in the meantime?
[01:03:59] Because all that God saved me for to go to heaven, the moment I got saved, you're gone.
[01:04:04] Amen, somebody.
[01:04:05] But no, you got a purpose in the earth.
[01:04:08] It has to be recreated in His image and likeness.
[01:04:11] The whole salvific process, honestly God, is about that or the way the Methodist Church says it, work out your soul's salvation.
[01:04:18] They're saying the same thing.
[01:04:20] When I did the teaching on adding to your faith, all that means the same thing.
[01:04:24] Like I'm saying, but I gotta add to my faith.
[01:04:29] So I become like Christ.
[01:04:31] And that's what being a Christian is all about.
[01:04:33] Christ-like.
[01:04:35] That's why we call it discipleship.
[01:04:38] I'm learning from Christ because I want to be like Christ.
[01:04:42] That's the goal.
[01:04:43] And everybody should have that as their end goal.
[01:04:47] I want to be like Christ.
[01:05:01] What is God's creed for?
[01:05:05] What is God's standard for the church?
[01:05:07] Not what our standard is for ourselves.
[01:05:09] What has God ordained?
[01:05:11] Where has God taken the church?
[01:05:13] Not our church, not my church, not your church.
[01:05:19] It's God's church.
[01:05:21] Isn't that Jesus up on this rock?
[01:05:25] I will build my church so I can't ruin it like I want to ruin it.
[01:05:30] You can't ruin it like you want to ruin it.
[01:05:32] And I'm just generalizing that nobody can if how God wants it.
[01:05:37] We'll do what God is calling us to do.
[01:05:39] Amen.
[01:05:40] Amen, somebody.
[01:05:40] Amen.
[01:05:41] And somebody said it like this, If I was so tall that I could reach the pole, or the grasp of the ocean under span, I must be measured by my soul, for mine is the standard of the land.
[01:05:52] Dr. King used to quote Longfellow as saying that, If there can't be a pine on the top of the hill, be a scrub in the valley.
[01:05:58] But be the best little scrub on the side of the rill.
[01:06:01] Be a bush if there can't be a tree.
[01:06:02] If there can't be a highway, just be a trail.
[01:06:05] For if there isn't
[01:06:14] It's a high calling.
[01:06:17] It's not a low calling.
[01:06:19] And again, you don't need to be nobody special.
[01:06:21] Don't need a special last name.
[01:06:22] Don't need to have a special address.
[01:06:25] Don't need to have a special car.
[01:06:28] Don't need to have designer clothes.
[01:06:29] Y'all want somebody to come and heal you just as we are.
[01:06:32] But the mind and the heart that I want to obey Christ.
[01:06:36] So you must know who will make the greatest difference in life.
[01:06:41] That's not for us to decide.
[01:06:47] John Oxen wrote to every man that is open in a way and ways in a way.
[01:06:52] The high soul climbs the high way, the low soul gropes the low.
[01:06:55] And in between on the misty flats the rest drift to and fro.
[01:06:59] But every man decided which way his soul would go.
[01:07:02] That's up to us.
[01:07:03] God gave us that decision.
[01:07:06] You will decide.
[01:07:10] Amen, somebody?
[01:07:11] Amen.
[01:07:11] And nobody, I have to say, the local church is a lot.
[01:07:13] You know, I, a general officer in local church growth and development, I have to say the church is something that nobody can stop the local church but you, those of us who are in the local church.
[01:07:22] We're in it, it's not the claims, it's not the bishop, it's not nobody.
[01:07:26] You think God can't oversee that?
[01:07:28] Huh?
[01:07:29] I mean, I'm serious about it.
[01:07:31] I don't care what's going on up where nobody can stop the local church but us.
[01:07:35] Come on.
[01:07:36] Who are in the local church?
[01:07:38] Be quiet up in here.
[01:07:40] And then I'm closing out.
[01:07:41] Somebody said, What a peaceful work is man, how noble in reason, how infinite in faculties, in form and movement, how expressed and admirable in action, how like an angel, in apprehension, how like a god, the beauty of the world, the paragon of animals.
[01:07:58] So I've clothed a lot more to say, but I'll close with this story.
[01:08:02] You probably already heard it, the story of little baby Eaglet.
[01:08:08] that got left behind with chickens.
[01:08:11] And because the eagle didn't know, little baby eaglet didn't know what it was to be an eagle, he grew up with chickens.
[01:08:21] They scratched on the ground trying to find food, cracked like a chicken.
[01:08:26] Everything chicken did, the little baby eaglet did.
[01:08:29] But one day there was an older eagle flying above and looked down and spotted the little baby eaglet walking around with chickens.
[01:08:39] And he came down and asked the little baby eagle, what are you doing down here with chickens?
[01:08:44] And I don't know, that's just where I was born.
[01:08:47] That's how I was born.
[01:08:49] He said, but you're an eagle.
[01:08:51] And when you're born,
[01:08:56] And he started saying, stand back from the rest of them.
[01:08:59] Now start moving your wings.
[01:09:01] And he started flapping his wings.
[01:09:03] All of a sudden he started rising off the ground.
[01:09:06] And then the old eagle said, come on, follow me.
[01:09:08] And he showed them how to fly and how to soar.
[01:09:11] What's the moral of the story is that sometimes churches are scratching like chickens not knowing they were born to be
[01:09:26] We are scrapped and act like chickens, not crapped like a chicken, not knowing that God made us to be eagles.
[01:09:38] We are not made for the ground.
[01:09:40] You are made to soar to majestic heights of holiness and righteousness.
[01:09:45] You are made to do good to everybody.
[01:09:48] God made us for higher heights.
[01:09:56] Everything in my life I scribe for excellence.
[01:09:59] It may not be deep, but I will always give you my best.
[01:10:08] Honestly, sometimes I get confused with being in competition with other folks and competing with nobody.
[01:10:19] I know what God called me to do.
[01:10:21] Amen, somebody?
[01:10:23] I'm trying to measure up to Christ.
[01:10:25] Paul is saying in this text here, I'm taking hold of perfection for which Christ took hold of me.
[01:10:31] See, Christ took hold of us, not to leave us here, but to take us on to perfection.
[01:10:37] Not necessarily perfect, but spiritual maturity, because we won't reach perfection in this life.
[01:10:47] So keep in mind,
[01:10:48] It's a high calling.
[01:10:51] So this is what challenges us.
[01:10:53] Here's what people love.
[01:10:56] And I said it in Sunday school.

[01:10:58] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
Tell them what all God is going to do.

[01:11:01] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
I think I said it here this morning too.
[01:11:03] Do this and God's going to bless you.
[01:11:05] Well, keep waiting.
[01:11:22] They had a crowd of folks out there, a multitude, and no food.
[01:11:27] What did Jesus tell his disciples?
[01:11:30] Don't send the folks away hungry, you give them something to eat.
[01:11:34] Well, first of all, they said, we ain't got enough money in the treasury to feed all these folks.
[01:11:40] Are they talking to God now?
[01:11:41] Oh yeah.
[01:11:43] See, we forget, this is really what raises me.
[01:11:46] We forget we're the church and talk about what we can't do.
[01:11:56] And I say we're the church and talk about what can happen.
[01:12:00] And then I get up in church and quote the scripture.
[01:12:02] I can do all things through Christ who spent this man.
[01:12:06] But then, when the project comes, but we can't do it.

[01:12:10] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
What?

[01:12:11] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
How'd that go together?
[01:12:14] Somebody help me out.
[01:12:18] See, I don't have time to get into this y'all, but I'm going to teach you how to increase our faith.
[01:12:22] Faith comes by hearing the Word of God.
[01:12:26] If we don't have faith, that means we're not receiving the Word of God because the Word of God creates faith.
[01:12:36] See, God deliver us if we do on our own.
[01:12:38] The Word creates faith, but the true Word creates faith.
[01:12:41] The false Word creates doubt.
[01:12:44] So if I tell you a lot of stuff that sounds good, but not the truth of God, that creates doubt in your mind and heart.
[01:12:53] But if I preach you the truth, and you receive it, it's going to create faith.
[01:13:02] Huh?
[01:13:02] Huh?
[01:13:02] Read Romans 10.
[01:13:03] See, don't you remember I said God has made it so easy for us?
[01:13:07] We're going to teach that all the time?
[01:13:09] So I know when there's a church, I know when folk receive it and when they ain't receive it.
[01:13:12] They tell me anything, but I know
[01:13:14] I watch your faith.
[01:13:17] Amen, somebody.
[01:13:18] I watch what we say in church, sing in church, justify about in church, pray in church, say in Sunday school, and then when it comes to the business meeting and when I lay through there, then God comes out.
[01:13:29] Tell me somebody, huh?
[01:13:31] You ain't receiving the word.
[01:13:33] But when I receive the word, the word connects the faith that I lack on my own.
[01:13:39] And Paul gets up on what God said, what Moses said to the Israel.
[01:13:45] Nobody got to cross on the sea, you get it?
[01:13:47] I bring you up and we may obey.
[01:13:50] Nobody got to go up in heaven, I get it, that we may obey.
[01:13:53] No, the word is near you, it is in your mouth, it is in your heart.
[01:14:14] Amen.
[01:14:52] You have a covenant agreement with God.
[01:14:54] All this stuff.
[01:14:56] People are telling us, just do this and God's going to do that.
[01:14:59] No, you got to do your part.

[01:15:00] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
Amen.
[01:15:00] Come on.
[01:15:01] Amen.
[01:15:03] Come on.

[01:15:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
Amen.
[01:15:03] It won't be possible.
[01:15:05] But I know when I'm giving my best.
[01:15:07] He takes my best.
[01:15:08] He takes your best.
[01:15:10] Amen.
[01:15:10] That's why everybody can do it.
[01:15:11] See?
[01:15:12] I love it when everybody is in their shoes.
[01:15:14] Amen.
[01:15:15] You want to go out and do this.
[01:15:17] Whatever I can get, God, that's my best and my pure heart, that's all we got under here.
[01:15:21] You take that, because all they did was took the two little fish and climbed over the bay.
[01:15:28] Amen, somebody.
[01:15:29] That's all they had.
[01:15:30] That was just enough for the little boy.
[01:15:32] How are you going to feed 5,000 men, not counting the women and children?
[01:15:37] But when you put that in God's hand, look at somebody, huh?
[01:15:41] God has multiplied that all.
[01:15:43] God will multiply your commitment to everything God needs to be.
[01:15:52] See, that's the whole point.
[01:15:57] But we look at self.
[01:15:59] What I can do, exactly what the disciples did with Pehe.
[01:16:04] What are these among so many?
[01:16:06] Now these folks walk with Jesus day in and day out in some miracle day in and day out.
[01:17:06] Amen.
[01:17:09] Amen.
[01:17:38] Do not turn unto women, children, and animals.
[01:17:41] If you tell me to give these folks meat, not a bird is in sight, not an animal is in sight.
[01:17:46] How am I going to do that?
[01:17:48] And God ain't asking Moses or Hussein to arm the Lord too short.
[01:17:52] Anybody going to tell me that God ain't not able?
[01:17:54] You think God ain't able to pray off his mortgage?
[01:17:57] If he's not, we need to find another law.
[01:18:03] If he's not able to heal sick bodies,
[01:18:08] Amen.

[01:18:16] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
Smile on me.

[01:19:32] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_05]:
God bless you.

[01:20:22] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
Amen.
[01:20:29] Amen.
[01:21:34] Amen.

[01:22:21] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_00]:
Good morning church.
[01:22:49] Please do not forget that if you are the president or the secretary of an organization, your slides are due by this Saturday, the 24th, or the information that can be included in your slide.
[01:23:06] Pastor has asked that you not only find supporting information from the discipline, but scriptures as well to support what you will be saying.
[01:23:19] and please, please, please, please, please keep your information three to five minutes because this will be taking place during our members meeting on the next Saturday the 31st and we don't want to be up here all day.
[01:23:35] So please make sure you keep your information three to five minutes.
[01:23:39] Okay.
[01:23:41] Third quarter will also end this Saturday.
[01:23:44] So that means anything that has come in up to today, so everything that comes in up to today, will be included on your quarter reports.
[01:23:53] As always, y'all have done a great job doing your own reports.
[01:23:59] After Saturday, next Sunday, I will be available to help anyone that needs assistance.
[01:24:06] As always, I'll make sure numbers are updated.
[01:24:09] Just make sure you get with me next week and I will have everything updated and ready for you so that we can do reports and they can be done and turned in in a timely manner.
[01:24:22] Bible study has started back, so I will be sending out the Zoom link and the email tomorrow.
[01:24:30] So if you are one of those that attend Bible study faithfully, and if you're not one of those that attend Bible study faithfully, please make sure that you take the time to try to log on and attend Bible study on Wednesday nights.
[01:24:46] This is all that I have.
[01:24:54] We do have some visitors.
[01:24:56] If any of the visitors that would like to stand and speak.
[01:25:27] Well, welcome.
[01:25:28] Hopefully you have been made to feel welcome and you get much more welcome invitations to come back and join us.

[01:26:03] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
And I want to tell, I don't know if I have it 100% right, but his father is a bishop in our church.
[01:26:11] Some people call it a different name.
[01:26:14] I want you to pronounce it.
[01:26:16] Dogby.
[01:26:17] Dogby, okay.
[01:26:17] So he's over in western West Africa, which includes Ghana, Liberia, and we'll be going there in April.
[01:26:24] But I think I heard your father say that when he came to the U.S. from Ghana, did he stay in New York
[01:26:33] With Dr. Betty Stich
[01:27:04] Yeah, name, Hilliard, from, named after the bishop that passed through St. Paul in the church, who became a bishop in the church.
[01:27:16] So what I'm saying is you never know what things people do.
[01:27:20] They call somebody up to land somewhere.
[01:27:22] Amen.
[01:27:22] Amen.
[01:27:24] Amen.
[01:27:25] We don't know these things.
[01:27:36] Oh, I forgot to thank God for the wonderful program yesterday that we did mighty pure grace.

[01:27:45] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_06]:
That's all right.
[01:27:47] Why are you laughing?
[01:27:50] Why are you laughing?

[01:27:53] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
Amen.
[01:27:54] I thought we did pretty good.
[01:27:55] Amen.
[01:27:56] We did great.
[01:27:58] We did great.
[01:27:59] We did great.
[01:28:01] Amen.
[01:28:02] Did we do good yesterday?
[01:28:04] That's right.
[01:28:05] We did good.
[01:28:05] We did.
[01:28:49] Yes, sir.

[01:28:51] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_01]:
Good morning, church.
[01:28:52] Good morning.
[01:28:53] I was so proud of the people who prayed, maybe not able to come, that support us.
[01:29:00] And when my pastor and the first lady came there, it was a warm feeling of just thanksgiving that they thought enough of one of their members to come by and just see what they were doing.
[01:29:11] And I thank all of you for being a part with your prayers and your thoughtfulness to make this program a grand success.

[01:29:42] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
Oh, today, tomorrow, she almost forgot, I didn't remind you.
[01:29:47] Amen.
[01:29:49] It's Brother Amos' birthday.
[01:29:51] Happy birthday, Brother Amos.
[01:29:53] And we're going to sing, I wouldn't need it, but I'm going to let the choir do it.
[01:29:58] Happy birthday.
[01:29:59] I don't want to take the thunder away from them.
[01:30:00] So, y'all just sing happy birthday, church, to Brother Amos.
[01:30:03] Oh, by the way, today is our favorite grandson's
[01:30:16] Thank God for him.

[01:31:14] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
I got a kid with him.

[01:31:16] [SPEAKER SPEAKER_03]:
I thought that was my brand.
[01:31:21] We share.
[01:31:22] We share.
[01:31:24] I know.
[01:31:28] We got another one.
[01:31:34] Remember when we were telling them that was just for me?
[01:31:52] You've been good.
[01:31:55] It's time to go.
[01:31:56] Tomorrow we're going to have a recognition.
[01:31:58] We're going to have an observance of Dr. Martin Luther King.
[01:32:03] You hear a lot of crazy mess out there.
[01:32:05] You've got to know it.
[01:32:06] So I'm going to say it, and I want to apologize for saying it.
[01:32:09] I heard even somebody out of color yesterday, last night on YouTube, said something about
[01:32:23] Amen.
[01:32:23] Amen.
[01:32:33] Amen.
[01:32:52] Now unto him who is able to keep you from falling and to present you fallen as before the presence of his glory with exceeding joy.
[01:33:11] To the only wise God our Savior be glory and majesty.
[01:33:16] Dominion and Power, now and forever, that the saints of God sing.

[01:33:43] [SPEAKER UNKNOWN]:
Amen.
[01:33:43] Amen.
[01:33:43] Amen.
[01:33:44] Amen.
[01:33:44] Amen.
[01:33:45] Amen.
[01:33:45] Amen.