1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:08,160 Music 2 00:00:10,160 --> 00:00:14,800 I'll talk to us again about outliving your life. 3 00:00:17,760 --> 00:00:21,280 Outliving your life. 4 00:00:21,280 --> 00:00:32,480 An unknown Sunday school teacher named Ed Kimble, 5 00:00:35,120 --> 00:00:41,360 one a young man to Christ named Dwight L. Moody. 6 00:00:41,360 --> 00:00:49,520 Dwight L. Moody preaching in England, 7 00:00:51,600 --> 00:00:57,040 one a young convert named Frederick B. Meyer. 8 00:01:00,000 --> 00:01:06,160 F. B. Meyer preached at Furman University in South Carolina 9 00:01:06,160 --> 00:01:16,560 and inflamed the heart of a great preacher of another generation named Robert G. Lee. 10 00:01:19,040 --> 00:01:27,280 Meyer preached in New England and set afire the heart of J. Wilbur Chapman. 11 00:01:27,280 --> 00:01:38,000 The preaching of J. Wilbur Chapman converted a young man named Billy Sunday. 12 00:01:40,320 --> 00:01:48,240 Billy Sunday's preaching inspired Mordecai Ham from Louisville, Kentucky, 13 00:01:48,240 --> 00:01:56,000 who in turn preached the gospel and Billy Graham was saved. 14 00:01:58,160 --> 00:02:04,480 All because of an unknown Sunday school teacher named Ed Kimble. 15 00:02:06,960 --> 00:02:15,280 I am the preacher and the musician and the pastor that I am if I am at all. 16 00:02:15,280 --> 00:02:25,440 Because of the names of some unknown people in my yesterdays that you will never meet until we see Jesus. 17 00:02:28,080 --> 00:02:34,560 Moses and Claudia Pickney let me make noise on the piano in their home. 18 00:02:36,720 --> 00:02:43,280 Arthur Baptiste who was the superintendent of our Sunday school at the True Light Baptist Church 19 00:02:43,280 --> 00:02:47,440 would open the door to let me learn how to play the organ. 20 00:02:48,240 --> 00:02:58,240 But the Albey Alfred would leave his house to let me in because I was getting in through the window at the New Zion Baptist Church 21 00:02:59,760 --> 00:03:01,760 to learn how to play the piano. 22 00:03:03,760 --> 00:03:08,880 Before I told my mother and father I told a man by the name of Clifton Lemail 23 00:03:08,880 --> 00:03:14,000 that I had been called to preach the gospel. 24 00:03:15,520 --> 00:03:24,400 Brother Lemail brought me to Baton Rouge, Louisiana to meet J.K. Haynes who was at that time chairman of the board at Bishop College. 25 00:03:25,200 --> 00:03:29,120 And Brother Lemail said if you're going to preach you need to learn something 26 00:03:30,160 --> 00:03:33,760 because there's enough little ignorant preachers running around here who don't know anything. 27 00:03:33,760 --> 00:03:44,160 My first set of books I received as a preacher came from Ms. Dolores Owens. 28 00:03:46,000 --> 00:03:55,600 Lewis and Mabel Victoria would not let me come back from Bishop College unless they sent me back to school with their money. 29 00:03:55,600 --> 00:04:05,600 When I was in Innis, Texas playing the music at the New Hope Baptist Church Ms. Tillie Lister and her daughters, Jule and Lola 30 00:04:07,600 --> 00:04:09,600 took me in as a member of their family. 31 00:04:11,600 --> 00:04:19,600 And Ms. Tillie would send me home every Sunday evening with a crumpled up $5 bill and a bag of fried chicken. 32 00:04:19,600 --> 00:04:31,600 It was not Popeyes fried, it was not Kentucky fried, it was Ms. Tillie's fried chicken and a crumpled up $5 bill. 33 00:04:31,600 --> 00:04:39,600 Ms. Tillie said I never got a chance to get any learning, but I want to see God bless your life. 34 00:04:39,600 --> 00:04:47,600 And I'm in this church this morning because my pastor Reverend John Wilkerson let me preach my first sermon 35 00:04:47,600 --> 00:04:57,600 November 27th, 1977 Luke chapter 12 verses 13 through 21 what are you collecting? 36 00:04:57,600 --> 00:05:03,600 Reverend Joshua Frank let me preach in his pulpit at the New Zion Baptist Church. 37 00:05:03,600 --> 00:05:09,600 Preachers have opened doors for me across this country. I can't name them all, we won't meet them until we get to heaven, 38 00:05:09,600 --> 00:05:15,600 but I am standing in this place today because somebody opened the door for me. 39 00:05:15,600 --> 00:05:25,600 And you are in here this morning giving God praise, giving God glory, raising hands in the hallelujah and thanksgiving 40 00:05:25,600 --> 00:05:35,600 because if it had not been for somebody else opening a door for you, you would not be where you are right now. 41 00:05:35,600 --> 00:05:51,600 You must be of a certain generation or a lover of music to remember the singing group called the Fifth Dimension. 42 00:05:51,600 --> 00:06:07,600 In 1976 a duo split from the Fifth Dimension named Marilyn McCool and Billy Davis. 43 00:06:07,600 --> 00:06:21,600 In 1977 they won a Grammy Award for a song they wrote entitled You Don't Have to Be a Star to Be in My Show. 44 00:06:21,600 --> 00:06:37,600 The words went baby come as you are with just your heart and I'll take you in. 45 00:06:37,600 --> 00:06:45,600 You rejected and hurt but to me you're worth what you have within. 46 00:06:45,600 --> 00:06:53,600 I don't need no superstar because I'll accept you. Yeah, yeah, yeah, y'all know it. 47 00:06:53,600 --> 00:07:01,600 And you won't be denied because I'm satisfied with the love you inspire. 48 00:07:01,600 --> 00:07:09,600 You don't have to be a star baby to be in my show. 49 00:07:09,600 --> 00:07:15,600 You don't have, well I don't want to sing it for you, you already know it. 50 00:07:15,600 --> 00:07:21,600 Andrew is referred to eight times in the New Testament. 51 00:07:21,600 --> 00:07:27,600 In the Gospel of Mark at chapter one, chapter three and chapter 13. 52 00:07:27,600 --> 00:07:33,600 In the Gospel of John at chapter one, chapter six and chapter number 12. 53 00:07:33,600 --> 00:07:43,600 He's mentioned in the book of Acts at chapter one and the book of Revelation at chapter 21. 54 00:07:43,600 --> 00:07:51,600 Andrew does not have a starring role in the drama of redemption. 55 00:07:51,600 --> 00:07:59,600 He is constantly referred to in the scripture as the brother of Simon. 56 00:07:59,600 --> 00:08:09,600 Men who are known by their relationship to other men are almost always unobtrusive. 57 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:15,600 Not strikingly impressive to other people. 58 00:08:15,600 --> 00:08:20,600 Boys were scared of me and Johnny in units not because we were so bad, 59 00:08:20,600 --> 00:08:27,600 but because Carl and Lee and Ray and Steve and Bobby were our brothers. 60 00:08:27,600 --> 00:08:37,600 His name Andrew, Andreas in the Greek means manly. 61 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:46,600 Moreover, he was a man marked by moral courage and insight as is evidenced by the 62 00:08:46,600 --> 00:08:58,600 immediateness of the way in which at a critical moment he left John the Baptist to follow Jesus. 63 00:08:58,600 --> 00:09:06,600 Brothers and sisters, it's impossible to find Christ in such a relationship as Andrew did 64 00:09:06,600 --> 00:09:15,600 without realizing the birth in the soul of a missionary passion. 65 00:09:15,600 --> 00:09:20,600 The man can become a living follower of the Lord Jesus. 66 00:09:20,600 --> 00:09:30,600 No man, no man can become a living follower of the Lord Jesus without immediately finding compassion, 67 00:09:30,600 --> 00:09:38,600 moving in him and driving him to go and find somebody else. 68 00:09:38,600 --> 00:09:49,600 Although Andrew does not have a starring role, we never would have heard of Simon Peter were not for Andrew. 69 00:09:49,600 --> 00:09:59,600 It was Andrew who brought that lad to Jesus with two fish and five barley loaves. 70 00:09:59,600 --> 00:10:05,600 When some Greek speaking Jews said, sirs, we would see Jesus. 71 00:10:05,600 --> 00:10:12,600 It was Andrew along with Philip who brought them before the Lord Jesus. 72 00:10:12,600 --> 00:10:19,600 Every time we meet Andrew in the scripture almost, every time we meeting meet him, 73 00:10:19,600 --> 00:10:30,600 he is bringing somebody to Jesus because you have to be saved before you can share. 74 00:10:30,600 --> 00:10:38,600 If there is confidence in your salvation, there will be power in your witness. 75 00:10:38,600 --> 00:10:47,600 You can't lead anyone to somebody you've never met yourself. 76 00:10:47,600 --> 00:10:50,600 Walk with me around the text. 77 00:10:50,600 --> 00:10:56,600 The next day, verse 35 reads, John again was standing with two of his disciples 78 00:10:56,600 --> 00:11:04,600 and as he watched Jesus walk by, he exclaimed, look, behold, here is the Lamb of God. 79 00:11:04,600 --> 00:11:11,600 The two disciples heard him say this and they followed Jesus. 80 00:11:11,600 --> 00:11:19,600 The simple statement by John the Baptist is pregnant with meaning. 81 00:11:19,600 --> 00:11:26,600 The imperavital interjection, behold, I've been waiting all week to use that word. 82 00:11:26,600 --> 00:11:39,600 The imperavital interjection, behold, is dramatic, pointing out, look only at Jesus, 83 00:11:39,600 --> 00:11:50,600 riveting our eyes upon him, opening our ears to hear only what Jesus has to say. 84 00:11:50,600 --> 00:11:59,600 The Lamb of God with its significant article, look, thee, Lamb of God, 85 00:11:59,600 --> 00:12:06,600 points out Jesus as the one particular Lamb of God. 86 00:12:06,600 --> 00:12:16,600 The Lamb in the most imminent sense of the word, the Lamb which belongs to God, 87 00:12:16,600 --> 00:12:25,600 his Lamb which he ordained as a sacrifice for himself. 88 00:12:25,600 --> 00:12:32,600 He is the savior of sinners and the sacrifice for sin. 89 00:12:32,600 --> 00:12:39,600 He was the Lamb that redeemed the children of Israel from Egyptian bondage. 90 00:12:39,600 --> 00:12:46,600 He's God's final answer to the question that Isaac posed to Abraham 91 00:12:46,600 --> 00:12:49,600 as they were walking up Mount Moriah. 92 00:12:49,600 --> 00:12:54,600 Isaac said, Father, I see the wood. 93 00:12:54,600 --> 00:12:56,600 I wish I had a Bible reader. 94 00:12:56,600 --> 00:13:02,600 I see the fire, but where is the Lamb? 95 00:13:02,600 --> 00:13:12,600 Abraham said, my son, God will provide himself a Lamb. 96 00:13:12,600 --> 00:13:21,600 And this morning, God has provided not the pascal Lamb of Genesis chapter 3, 97 00:13:21,600 --> 00:13:29,600 not the Passover Lamb of Exodus chapter 12, but the Lamb that takes away the sins of the world. 98 00:13:29,600 --> 00:13:42,600 We are in here this morning because God provided himself a Lamb. 99 00:13:42,600 --> 00:13:48,600 Have you been to Jesus for his cleansing power? 100 00:13:48,600 --> 00:13:55,600 Are you washed in the blood of the Lamb? 101 00:13:55,600 --> 00:14:10,600 That's power, power, wonder working power in the precious blood of the Lamb. 102 00:14:10,600 --> 00:14:18,600 Sadly, brothers and sisters, sadly we have let the blood flow out of Christianity 103 00:14:18,600 --> 00:14:26,600 and we have tamed the lion of Judah and turned him into a house cat. 104 00:14:26,600 --> 00:14:33,600 And we try to make Jesus palatable and make the cross sanitary and make Christianity disinfected. 105 00:14:33,600 --> 00:14:39,600 But if you're going to be a follower of Jesus, you got to be washed in the blood. 106 00:14:39,600 --> 00:14:42,600 If you're going to be saved, somebody had to die. 107 00:14:42,600 --> 00:14:49,600 And the somebody who died was Jesus, the Lamb of God, who became sin for us, 108 00:14:49,600 --> 00:14:53,600 who knew no sin that we might become the righteousness of God. 109 00:14:53,600 --> 00:14:59,600 The cross was blooded. 110 00:14:59,600 --> 00:15:03,600 Christianity is glory. 111 00:15:03,600 --> 00:15:07,600 Crucifixion was brutal. 112 00:15:07,600 --> 00:15:12,600 I read in the news this morning that they are going after Jamie Foxx 113 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:17,600 because Jamie Foxx said the Jews crucified Jesus. 114 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:22,600 And Jennifer Aniston and all of these movie stars are getting on social media 115 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:26,600 and all these other people are talking about he's anti-Semitic 116 00:15:26,600 --> 00:15:30,600 because he said that the Jews crucified Jesus. 117 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:33,600 That's not anti-Semitism. 118 00:15:33,600 --> 00:15:36,600 That's Bible doctrine. 119 00:15:36,600 --> 00:15:45,600 A wicked government, Rome, was in collusion with a blasphemous religion 120 00:15:45,600 --> 00:15:50,600 of the Jews of the scribes and the Pharisees to crucify Jesus. 121 00:15:50,600 --> 00:15:57,600 The chief priests, scribes, and elders of Jerusalem conspired with Rome to crucify Jesus. 122 00:15:57,600 --> 00:16:00,600 Peter stood up on the day of Pentecost and said, 123 00:16:00,600 --> 00:16:07,600 you men of Israel, this Jesus that you crucified. 124 00:16:07,600 --> 00:16:11,600 I wish I had somebody bold enough to help me preach this morning. 125 00:16:11,600 --> 00:16:18,600 It's not anti-Semitic, it's Bible doctrine that Jesus was crucified by the Jews, 126 00:16:18,600 --> 00:16:23,600 but God raised him up. 127 00:16:23,600 --> 00:16:28,600 Early Sunday morning, 128 00:16:28,600 --> 00:16:39,600 the power of God raised him up. 129 00:16:39,600 --> 00:16:45,600 Crucifixion is about the love of God, 130 00:16:45,600 --> 00:16:50,600 but resurrection is about the power of God. 131 00:16:50,600 --> 00:16:52,600 There's power. 132 00:16:52,600 --> 00:16:54,600 Power. 133 00:16:54,600 --> 00:16:58,600 Wonder-working power. 134 00:16:58,600 --> 00:17:01,600 I need somebody who's saved in here this morning, 135 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,600 and you're not ashamed of the gospel of Jesus Christ 136 00:17:04,600 --> 00:17:08,600 because it is the power of God under salvation. 137 00:17:08,600 --> 00:17:11,600 You don't care who knows it, you don't care who's looking at you, 138 00:17:11,600 --> 00:17:14,600 you don't care what they think about you. 139 00:17:14,600 --> 00:17:20,600 I'm saved because Jesus died for my sins. 140 00:17:20,600 --> 00:17:29,600 What can wash away my sin? 141 00:17:29,600 --> 00:17:36,600 Nothing but the blood of Jesus. 142 00:17:36,600 --> 00:17:39,600 That's the claim. 143 00:17:39,600 --> 00:17:45,600 John said, look at this lamb. 144 00:17:45,600 --> 00:17:50,600 He takes away sins of the world. 145 00:17:50,600 --> 00:17:53,600 But then in verses 37 through verse 39A, 146 00:17:53,600 --> 00:18:00,600 there's a call that emanates from this claim. 147 00:18:00,600 --> 00:18:04,600 Verse 37, look with me at verse number 37. 148 00:18:04,600 --> 00:18:06,600 The two disciples heard him say this, 149 00:18:06,600 --> 00:18:10,600 talking about John the Baptist, and they followed Jesus. 150 00:18:10,600 --> 00:18:12,600 When Jesus turned and saw them following, 151 00:18:12,600 --> 00:18:16,600 he said to them, what are you looking for? 152 00:18:16,600 --> 00:18:21,600 What are you looking for? 153 00:18:21,600 --> 00:18:26,600 What are you looking for? 154 00:18:26,600 --> 00:18:28,600 The two disciples in the text, 155 00:18:28,600 --> 00:18:31,600 one is Andrew and the other is John, 156 00:18:31,600 --> 00:18:33,600 who writes the gospel of John. 157 00:18:33,600 --> 00:18:38,600 The two disciples in the text heard John the Baptist. 158 00:18:38,600 --> 00:18:49,600 They heard John the Baptist, but they followed Jesus. 159 00:18:49,600 --> 00:18:58,600 They heard John the Baptist, but they followed Jesus. 160 00:18:58,600 --> 00:19:01,600 Let me run it by you one more time. 161 00:19:01,600 --> 00:19:06,600 They heard John the Baptist, 162 00:19:06,600 --> 00:19:11,600 but they didn't follow John the Baptist. 163 00:19:11,600 --> 00:19:14,600 They followed Jesus. 164 00:19:14,600 --> 00:19:18,600 And when they hear you teach in your Sunday school class, 165 00:19:18,600 --> 00:19:23,600 they ought not follow you. 166 00:19:23,600 --> 00:19:26,600 They ought to follow Jesus. 167 00:19:26,600 --> 00:19:29,600 When you hear me preach on Sunday morning, 168 00:19:29,600 --> 00:19:34,600 don't become a disciple of Terry Anderson. 169 00:19:34,600 --> 00:19:37,600 If you have a heaven or hell for you to go to, 170 00:19:37,600 --> 00:19:48,600 you need to follow Jesus. 171 00:19:48,600 --> 00:19:53,600 Jesus asked these two men who are following him 172 00:19:53,600 --> 00:19:57,600 to articulate what is on their mind. 173 00:19:57,600 --> 00:20:01,600 But the evangelist John wants his readers and us 174 00:20:01,600 --> 00:20:06,600 to reflect on the deeper question. 175 00:20:06,600 --> 00:20:13,600 The Logos Messiah confronts those who make any show 176 00:20:13,600 --> 00:20:18,600 of beginning to follow him and demands that we articulate 177 00:20:18,600 --> 00:20:25,600 what we really want in this life. 178 00:20:25,600 --> 00:20:34,600 Jesus does not inquire whom do you seek? 179 00:20:34,600 --> 00:20:39,600 But what do you seek? 180 00:20:39,600 --> 00:20:45,600 Because many are seeking what they should not 181 00:20:45,600 --> 00:20:51,600 while others are not seeking what they should. 182 00:20:51,600 --> 00:20:59,600 What question casts out all self-seeking, 183 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:03,600 all worldly ambition, 184 00:21:03,600 --> 00:21:10,600 all unworthy aims when you join Jesus? 185 00:21:10,600 --> 00:21:16,600 What did you come here for? 186 00:21:16,600 --> 00:21:20,600 Why did you wake up this morning? 187 00:21:20,600 --> 00:21:25,600 Why did you dress yourself and drive from Baytown, 188 00:21:25,600 --> 00:21:31,600 Sugarland, Pearland, and Clear Lake? 189 00:21:31,600 --> 00:21:34,600 Why did you go through all that trouble to get in the car, 190 00:21:34,600 --> 00:21:37,600 get on 288, 45, or 59 to come? 191 00:21:37,600 --> 00:21:44,600 What are you looking for? 192 00:21:44,600 --> 00:21:48,600 Because when you get what straight, 193 00:21:48,600 --> 00:21:55,600 you can shout over who? 194 00:21:55,600 --> 00:22:06,600 And many of us are here only for the fishing lures. 195 00:22:06,600 --> 00:22:10,600 Somebody ought to help me preach here. 196 00:22:10,600 --> 00:22:13,600 When you read John chapter 6, 197 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:17,600 they will follow in Jesus until he starts talking about 198 00:22:17,600 --> 00:22:22,600 his flesh and drinking his blood. 199 00:22:22,600 --> 00:22:25,600 And the Bible said when Jesus started talking like that, 200 00:22:25,600 --> 00:22:28,600 they started walking away. 201 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:31,600 And they started walking away so fast 202 00:22:31,600 --> 00:22:34,600 that Jesus turned and asked his disciples, 203 00:22:34,600 --> 00:22:38,600 will you also go away? 204 00:22:38,600 --> 00:22:41,600 Peter said to whom shall we go? 205 00:22:41,600 --> 00:22:46,600 You have the words of eternal life. 206 00:22:46,600 --> 00:22:48,600 We got the what straight. 207 00:22:48,600 --> 00:22:50,600 That's why we can follow who, 208 00:22:50,600 --> 00:22:54,600 because we know what we're in this for. 209 00:22:54,600 --> 00:22:56,600 And if you're in it for a reputation, 210 00:22:56,600 --> 00:23:00,600 if you're in it for glory and popularity, 211 00:23:00,600 --> 00:23:03,600 if you're in it because you want folk to like you, 212 00:23:03,600 --> 00:23:06,600 if you're in it because you want to teach to be seen, 213 00:23:06,600 --> 00:23:09,600 if you're in it because you want to make a reputation or name 214 00:23:09,600 --> 00:23:15,600 for yourself, you're in it for the wrong reason. 215 00:23:15,600 --> 00:23:21,600 Because when you know what you're doing, 216 00:23:21,600 --> 00:23:24,600 you're going to make some enemies. 217 00:23:24,600 --> 00:23:27,600 I wish I had one or two more believers. 218 00:23:27,600 --> 00:23:31,600 When you know what you're following the Lord Jesus for, 219 00:23:31,600 --> 00:23:34,600 some people are going to misunderstand you. 220 00:23:34,600 --> 00:23:37,600 When you got your heart fixed and your mind made up 221 00:23:37,600 --> 00:23:40,600 that I'm not in this for any reputation, 222 00:23:40,600 --> 00:23:44,600 I just want to follow Jesus because I want to know him 223 00:23:44,600 --> 00:23:45,600 for myself. 224 00:23:45,600 --> 00:23:47,600 I want to be saved. 225 00:23:47,600 --> 00:23:49,600 I want to be a missionary. 226 00:23:49,600 --> 00:23:51,600 I want to lead somebody else to Christ. 227 00:23:51,600 --> 00:23:54,600 I want to be compassionate towards the loss. 228 00:23:54,600 --> 00:23:57,600 I don't want any outside show. 229 00:23:57,600 --> 00:24:05,600 People will misunderstand you. 230 00:24:05,600 --> 00:24:06,600 Because brothers and sisters, 231 00:24:06,600 --> 00:24:10,600 let me see if I can stop right here and work on this part. 232 00:24:10,600 --> 00:24:13,600 We Christians who are real Christians 233 00:24:13,600 --> 00:24:18,600 are strange people. 234 00:24:18,600 --> 00:24:22,600 We are not at home in this world. 235 00:24:22,600 --> 00:24:25,600 We are strangers. 236 00:24:25,600 --> 00:24:29,600 John the Baptist had a strange diet, 237 00:24:29,600 --> 00:24:33,600 locusts, and wild honey. 238 00:24:33,600 --> 00:24:37,600 John did not wear Breone's suits. 239 00:24:37,600 --> 00:24:42,600 John did not wear a messlin shoes. 240 00:24:42,600 --> 00:24:47,600 John had a camel's hair and a leaven girdle. 241 00:24:47,600 --> 00:24:52,600 We have gotten so accustomed to church being fashionable 242 00:24:52,600 --> 00:24:58,600 and church being a place where you can go to hook up with somebody. 243 00:24:58,600 --> 00:25:01,600 Single women can't hardly get to their car 244 00:25:01,600 --> 00:25:04,600 for men trying to hook up with them after church. 245 00:25:04,600 --> 00:25:06,600 Somebody looking for somebody's phone number. 246 00:25:06,600 --> 00:25:08,600 Somebody's trying to get a job. 247 00:25:08,600 --> 00:25:10,600 Somebody's trying to network with somebody 248 00:25:10,600 --> 00:25:12,600 and to move from this place to another. 249 00:25:12,600 --> 00:25:16,600 That's not what church is about. 250 00:25:16,600 --> 00:25:19,600 That's not what the fellowship of the body of Christ is about. 251 00:25:19,600 --> 00:25:22,600 And if we don't change our attitude, 252 00:25:22,600 --> 00:25:27,600 if we don't change our mindset, listen to this. 253 00:25:27,600 --> 00:25:36,600 If the apostle Paul came to Lilligrove this morning, 254 00:25:36,600 --> 00:25:44,600 he would be getting a letter next week. 255 00:25:44,600 --> 00:25:52,600 A letter to the church at Lilligrove. 256 00:25:52,600 --> 00:25:56,600 Watch how you sit here. 257 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:00,600 Watch how you move among other people in this church. 258 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:02,600 This is not about you. 259 00:26:02,600 --> 00:26:05,600 This is about the Lord Jesus Christ. 260 00:26:05,600 --> 00:26:10,600 If you come here to this large church on this large day, 261 00:26:10,600 --> 00:26:15,600 you don't have to be a star, baby. 262 00:26:15,600 --> 00:26:18,600 You never have to have your name called. 263 00:26:18,600 --> 00:26:20,600 You don't have to be the president. 264 00:26:20,600 --> 00:26:22,600 You don't have to teach a class. 265 00:26:22,600 --> 00:26:24,600 You don't have to lead a song. 266 00:26:24,600 --> 00:26:26,600 You don't have to play an instrument. 267 00:26:26,600 --> 00:26:28,600 I wish I had somebody to help me. 268 00:26:28,600 --> 00:26:31,600 You just got to come here with your mind, 269 00:26:31,600 --> 00:26:36,600 lead on Jesus and leave here and go do what you heard me say 270 00:26:36,600 --> 00:26:45,600 and God will tell you one day, serve it. 271 00:26:45,600 --> 00:26:49,600 Well done. 272 00:26:49,600 --> 00:26:54,600 You've been faithful over a few things. 273 00:26:54,600 --> 00:27:00,600 I'll make you ruler over many things. 274 00:27:00,600 --> 00:27:04,600 This is the last word that I'm through. 275 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:08,600 In verses 39b through 42, I don't have time to read it. 276 00:27:08,600 --> 00:27:12,600 From that claim, there's a call. 277 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:16,600 And then when there's a call, there's a change. 278 00:27:16,600 --> 00:27:21,600 Jesus said, what are you looking for? 279 00:27:21,600 --> 00:27:30,600 Andrew and John said, Rabbi, where you staying? 280 00:27:30,600 --> 00:27:36,600 And Jesus said, come see. 281 00:27:36,600 --> 00:27:42,600 The answer of the disciples' question with a question 282 00:27:42,600 --> 00:27:52,600 belies the desire to have a private undisturbed conversation 283 00:27:52,600 --> 00:27:59,600 regarding the high hopes which had begun to stir in their hearts. 284 00:27:59,600 --> 00:28:06,600 Because once you get straight what you're in it for, 285 00:28:06,600 --> 00:28:11,600 then you can ask Jesus, where you staying? 286 00:28:11,600 --> 00:28:18,600 And Jesus answered them by saying, come, see where I'm staying. 287 00:28:18,600 --> 00:28:22,600 Because brothers and sisters, if you're going to follow Jesus, 288 00:28:22,600 --> 00:28:31,600 it's more than about being saved, it's about being a disciple. 289 00:28:31,600 --> 00:28:37,600 Because many of us have been to Calvary for pardon, 290 00:28:37,600 --> 00:28:44,600 but we have not been to Pentecost for power. 291 00:28:44,600 --> 00:28:50,600 We are post resurrection, pre Pentecostal. 292 00:28:50,600 --> 00:28:55,600 When was the last time you told somebody the good news 293 00:28:55,600 --> 00:28:58,600 that Jesus is mighty to save? 294 00:28:58,600 --> 00:29:03,600 It's not about you coming in here on Sunday morning shouting and having a good time? 295 00:29:03,600 --> 00:29:05,600 That's what you ought to do. You ought to praise God. 296 00:29:05,600 --> 00:29:08,600 You ought to give God your most enthusiastic worship. 297 00:29:08,600 --> 00:29:14,600 But when you get through worshiping, you ought to be a witness. 298 00:29:14,600 --> 00:29:19,600 I want to say to the people who are watching us on Facebook 299 00:29:19,600 --> 00:29:26,600 and watching us on YouTube, and you haven't been to church since the pandemic. 300 00:29:26,600 --> 00:29:33,600 Because it seems like your vaccine works everywhere but at church. 301 00:29:33,600 --> 00:29:36,600 Your vaccine works at Target. 302 00:29:36,600 --> 00:29:38,600 It works at Walmart. 303 00:29:38,600 --> 00:29:41,600 It works at the doctor's office. 304 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:46,600 I want to ask those of you who are watching me online on your phone or on your computer, 305 00:29:46,600 --> 00:29:56,600 are you watching or are you worshiping? 306 00:29:56,600 --> 00:30:04,600 Don't brag on the fact that you belong to bedside Baptist. 307 00:30:04,600 --> 00:30:07,600 That's not anything to shout over. 308 00:30:07,600 --> 00:30:15,600 If God wakes you up and you are physically able, you ought to make your way to the house of God. 309 00:30:15,600 --> 00:30:20,600 Because coming to God's house is not a sacrifice. 310 00:30:20,600 --> 00:30:24,600 It's a privilege. 311 00:30:24,600 --> 00:30:27,600 God lets you praise Him. 312 00:30:27,600 --> 00:30:30,600 God lets you give Him glory. 313 00:30:30,600 --> 00:30:32,600 God lets you honor Him. 314 00:30:32,600 --> 00:30:42,600 Because if you stop praising Him, He's still going to be praised. 315 00:30:42,600 --> 00:30:53,600 If you say that Jesus is leading you, how come He ain't led you to church? 316 00:30:53,600 --> 00:30:59,600 If Jesus is leading you, He's going to lead you to His house. 317 00:30:59,600 --> 00:31:06,600 I was glad when they said unto me, I need two or three Bible readers, 318 00:31:06,600 --> 00:31:11,600 let us go to the house of the Lord. 319 00:31:11,600 --> 00:31:17,600 That's something that happens in God's house that can't happen at your house. 320 00:31:17,600 --> 00:31:23,600 Because this is the house designated for the worship and the praise of God Almighty. 321 00:31:23,600 --> 00:31:30,600 That's something that goes on when deacons stand up and read the Scripture and pray to God on our behalf. 322 00:31:30,600 --> 00:31:35,600 That's something that goes on when the choir sings and then you add your voice, 323 00:31:35,600 --> 00:31:40,600 no matter if you can sing or not, you just add your voice to the chorus. 324 00:31:40,600 --> 00:31:42,600 What a fellowship. 325 00:31:42,600 --> 00:31:44,600 What a joy divine. 326 00:31:44,600 --> 00:31:47,600 Leaning on the everlasting arms. 327 00:31:47,600 --> 00:31:51,600 That's something that happens when you sing amazing grace at church. 328 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:55,600 That's different from when you sing amazing grace in your house. 329 00:31:55,600 --> 00:32:02,600 That's something that happens when you hear the preaching of the Gospel, live and in person. 330 00:32:02,600 --> 00:32:05,600 Then sitting down watching it on the screen. 331 00:32:05,600 --> 00:32:11,600 I know some people are physically unable to get to church and God be praised for electronic devices 332 00:32:11,600 --> 00:32:16,600 and God be praised for technology, but as soon as you get your breath, 333 00:32:16,600 --> 00:32:23,600 as soon as you get your feet under you, you need to come see. 334 00:32:23,600 --> 00:32:26,600 They said, Lord, where are you staying? 335 00:32:26,600 --> 00:32:30,600 Jesus said, come see. 336 00:32:30,600 --> 00:32:34,600 I don't want to tell you what I'm doing. 337 00:32:34,600 --> 00:32:38,600 I want you to come see for yourself. 338 00:32:38,600 --> 00:32:40,600 You're going to help me close this, won't you? 339 00:32:40,600 --> 00:32:47,600 And when you come see for yourself, when somebody like John the Baptist gets discouraged, 340 00:32:47,600 --> 00:32:51,600 you can go back and tell him what you saw. 341 00:32:51,600 --> 00:32:59,600 John was put in prison and he told his disciples, go and ask Jesus, 342 00:32:59,600 --> 00:33:02,600 are you the one? 343 00:33:02,600 --> 00:33:10,600 Or look we for another and since they came and they saw, 344 00:33:10,600 --> 00:33:15,600 they went back and told John what Jesus was doing. 345 00:33:15,600 --> 00:33:23,600 The blind see, the lame are walking, the deaf are hearing, 346 00:33:23,600 --> 00:33:30,600 the dumb are speaking, the poor are having the Gospel preached to them, 347 00:33:30,600 --> 00:33:34,600 and dead people are coming alive again. 348 00:33:34,600 --> 00:33:40,600 When you meet Jesus, something happens in your life. 349 00:33:40,600 --> 00:33:47,600 When you come on the Lord side, he puts clapping in your hand. 350 00:33:47,600 --> 00:33:51,600 He puts a smile on your face. 351 00:33:51,600 --> 00:33:55,600 Monday morning is a drudgery sometimes, 352 00:33:55,600 --> 00:34:01,600 but thank God you can face Monday morning because you got to happy on Sunday morning. 353 00:34:01,600 --> 00:34:08,600 You can meet your enemies on Friday because you have a friend in Jesus Christ. 354 00:34:08,600 --> 00:34:16,600 You can bear your burdens on Wednesday because the Lord lifted your spirits on Sunday. 355 00:34:16,600 --> 00:34:22,600 Is there anybody here who came and you saw? 356 00:34:22,600 --> 00:34:28,600 And if you came and you saw, you ain't have to talk about what somebody else said. 357 00:34:28,600 --> 00:34:32,600 You don't have to shout on somebody else's testimony. 358 00:34:32,600 --> 00:34:36,600 You don't have to clap your hands because somebody in the choir says, 359 00:34:36,600 --> 00:34:39,600 give God a hand of praise. 360 00:34:39,600 --> 00:34:45,600 When you start thinking about what God has done for you, 361 00:34:45,600 --> 00:34:51,600 when you start musing over, how many doors God has opened for you, 362 00:34:51,600 --> 00:34:57,600 when you start thinking about the ways God is preparing for you. 363 00:34:57,600 --> 00:35:04,600 Your enemies have set some traps for you, but God has led you all around them. 364 00:35:04,600 --> 00:35:12,600 The devil has tried to stop your forward progress, but God is the wind in your sails. 365 00:35:12,600 --> 00:35:15,600 The devil has tried to pull you down. 366 00:35:15,600 --> 00:35:21,600 Some people walk out of your life and thought you'd never be anything without them. 367 00:35:21,600 --> 00:35:27,600 But look where God brought you from. 368 00:35:27,600 --> 00:35:32,600 Look where the Lord has brought you from. 369 00:35:32,600 --> 00:35:39,600 If the Lord has kept you this morning, why don't you give God some praise? 370 00:35:39,600 --> 00:35:49,600 If the Lord opened doors for you, now is the time to tell God thank you. 371 00:35:49,600 --> 00:35:57,600 If the Lord let you see some things that other folk told you would never happen, 372 00:35:57,600 --> 00:36:00,600 you ought to tell God how much you appreciate it. 373 00:36:00,600 --> 00:36:07,600 If you are in the supporting cast, you don't have to be a star this morning. 374 00:36:07,600 --> 00:36:15,600 You just need to be in the supporting cast because you do know there is an Oscar for best costume. 375 00:36:15,600 --> 00:36:20,600 There is an Oscar for original screenplay. 376 00:36:20,600 --> 00:36:25,600 There is an Oscar for best supporting actress. 377 00:36:25,600 --> 00:36:29,600 There is an Oscar for best supporting cast. 378 00:36:29,600 --> 00:36:32,600 You don't have to have a starring role. 379 00:36:32,600 --> 00:36:36,600 Just get in the number and be in the support cast. 380 00:36:36,600 --> 00:36:39,600 God has a reward for you. 381 00:36:39,600 --> 00:36:46,600 If you get satisfied in the support cast, you're going to help me close this, won't you? 382 00:36:46,600 --> 00:36:48,600 I was on Broadway. 383 00:36:48,600 --> 00:36:55,600 We went to see a production of the Lion King on Broadway. 384 00:36:55,600 --> 00:36:58,600 And we got in there and got our seats. 385 00:36:58,600 --> 00:37:01,600 There was multiplied thousands of people. 386 00:37:01,600 --> 00:37:08,600 My friend in New York, Glenda's daughter was Nala in the play, The Lion King on Broadway. 387 00:37:08,600 --> 00:37:12,600 We stayed throughout the entire performance. 388 00:37:12,600 --> 00:37:18,600 The Lion King is marvelous on video, but you ought to see it on Broadway. 389 00:37:18,600 --> 00:37:21,600 You ought to see it live on the stage. 390 00:37:21,600 --> 00:37:25,600 We watched the entire production of The Lion King. 391 00:37:25,600 --> 00:37:30,600 Went back to New York and watched The Lion King all over again. 392 00:37:30,600 --> 00:37:33,600 Because it's a marvelous production on stage. 393 00:37:33,600 --> 00:37:43,600 But what I liked about the end of The Lion King, when the curtains closed, everybody came out to take a bow. 394 00:37:43,600 --> 00:37:48,600 Nala and Simba took a bow. 395 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:52,600 Rafiki came out and took a bow. 396 00:37:52,600 --> 00:37:56,600 The giraffes came out and took a bow. 397 00:37:56,600 --> 00:37:59,600 Your mother helped me close it. 398 00:37:59,600 --> 00:38:03,600 The elephants came out and took a bow. 399 00:38:03,600 --> 00:38:11,600 But the real applause, the real excitement happened when Mufasa came out. 400 00:38:11,600 --> 00:38:15,600 Because Mufasa was the Lion King. 401 00:38:15,600 --> 00:38:21,600 And when the Lion King came out, Rafiki started clapping. 402 00:38:21,600 --> 00:38:24,600 The giraffes started clapping. 403 00:38:24,600 --> 00:38:26,600 The elephants started clapping. 404 00:38:26,600 --> 00:38:31,600 Because the star of the show was the Lion King Mufasa. 405 00:38:31,600 --> 00:38:36,600 One of these days, the real Lion King. 406 00:38:42,600 --> 00:38:46,600 One of these days, the real Lion King. 407 00:38:46,600 --> 00:38:49,600 The lion from the tribe of Judah. 408 00:38:49,600 --> 00:38:52,600 The pharise of ten thousand. 409 00:38:52,600 --> 00:38:54,600 The bright and the morning star. 410 00:38:54,600 --> 00:38:56,600 The way out of no way. 411 00:38:56,600 --> 00:38:59,600 The wheel in the middle of a wheel. 412 00:38:59,600 --> 00:39:01,600 Y'all know him, don't you? 413 00:39:01,600 --> 00:39:05,600 One day Jesus will step away from the Father. 414 00:39:05,600 --> 00:39:08,600 Move from the right hand of power. 415 00:39:08,600 --> 00:39:16,600 Raise his hand and swear the time that has been shall be no more. 416 00:39:16,600 --> 00:39:25,600 He's gonna put one foot on a quaking earth and the other foot on a troubled sea. 417 00:39:25,600 --> 00:39:32,600 And Gabriel will blow his heart and they will rise from the north and the south. 418 00:39:32,600 --> 00:39:40,600 And the east and the west and the real Lion King will stand up at the right hand of God. 419 00:39:40,600 --> 00:39:54,600 And he himself will take a bow. All hail, all hail, all hail the power of Jesus' name. 420 00:39:54,600 --> 00:40:03,600 Let angels prostrate forth, bring forth the royal dalyadim. 421 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:25,840 And crown him! crown him! crown him! crown him crown him crown him crown him crown him 422 00:40:25,840 --> 00:40:35,280 on a hill called Calvary. He died, didn't he die. But a huh, 423 00:40:35,280 --> 00:40:45,640 Sunday morning, the real lion king got up from the grave with all power in his 424 00:40:45,640 --> 00:40:53,440 hand. If you know him and you're not ashamed to testify, if he brought you out 425 00:40:53,440 --> 00:41:00,920 and you don't mind being a witness, why don't you grab somebody, shake somebody's 426 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:11,440 hand, tell them I know him, far more myself, tell them he's the real lion king. 427 00:41:11,440 --> 00:41:27,680 He is, he is the root of Jesse. He is the stem of David. He is the Lamb of God. 428 00:41:41,440 --> 00:42:08,640 He walks with me, he talks with me, he tells me I am his own. And the joy, the joy, 429 00:42:08,640 --> 00:42:20,880 joy, joy, joy. Do you have joy? Do you have holy ghost joy? If you got real joy, why don't 430 00:42:20,880 --> 00:42:38,880 you tell somebody this joy that I have, the world didn't give it, the world can't take 431 00:42:38,880 --> 00:42:56,880 it.