1 00:00:00,000 --> 00:00:05,120 like me recently the Lord has done something above and beyond. 2 00:00:05,120 --> 00:00:07,560 Could you just thank him for that? 3 00:00:07,560 --> 00:00:10,480 Lord I thank you. 4 00:00:10,480 --> 00:00:19,440 I praise you for your goodness. 5 00:00:19,440 --> 00:00:36,920 With every breath that I'm able I will sing of the goodness of God. 6 00:00:36,920 --> 00:00:49,240 I don't want to stand before him one day with strength left that I didn't pour out praise 7 00:00:49,240 --> 00:00:51,240 on him. 8 00:00:51,240 --> 00:01:00,600 I don't want to stand there in front of him having just brought part. 9 00:01:00,600 --> 00:01:04,320 He's worthy of it all. 10 00:01:04,320 --> 00:01:08,760 He's worthy of it all. 11 00:01:08,760 --> 00:01:13,960 So with every breath he's good. 12 00:01:13,960 --> 00:01:14,960 Amen. 13 00:01:14,960 --> 00:01:23,600 If you have your Bibles return with me to Mark's Gospel 13th chapter. 14 00:01:23,600 --> 00:01:27,760 Mark 13 again thank you so much for being here in the house of the Lord today. 15 00:01:27,760 --> 00:01:33,400 I honor all our graduates, our high school graduates this morning. 16 00:01:33,400 --> 00:01:41,640 Also just prior to service we found out we had a master's graduate. 17 00:01:41,640 --> 00:01:46,560 Let me just say I congratulate him in that. 18 00:01:46,560 --> 00:01:49,040 I'm not going to call him out. 19 00:01:49,040 --> 00:01:53,280 That's a great honor, a great accomplishment. 20 00:01:53,280 --> 00:01:54,560 Amen. 21 00:01:54,560 --> 00:01:59,840 So congratulations sir on your great task and accomplishment. 22 00:01:59,840 --> 00:02:01,560 Amen. 23 00:02:01,560 --> 00:02:04,280 I remember when late in life I got my first one. 24 00:02:04,280 --> 00:02:05,280 I remember that. 25 00:02:05,280 --> 00:02:08,960 And it was hard to get. 26 00:02:08,960 --> 00:02:16,360 And so anybody that gets one they need a little recognition. 27 00:02:16,360 --> 00:02:17,760 Amen. 28 00:02:17,760 --> 00:02:19,800 Wow. 29 00:02:19,800 --> 00:02:23,520 Presence of the Lord's here today. 30 00:02:23,520 --> 00:02:34,480 I started to say 12 is out but it's just 25 after 11 so there's potential. 31 00:02:34,480 --> 00:02:39,520 At least 20 after maybe you'd be good. 32 00:02:39,520 --> 00:02:44,640 We're continuing in this series the Lord is. 33 00:02:44,640 --> 00:02:46,080 Late on my heart. 34 00:02:46,080 --> 00:02:50,200 Living in the meantime. 35 00:02:50,200 --> 00:02:53,080 Just a few weeks ago we celebrated the resurrection. 36 00:02:53,080 --> 00:02:55,280 We're resurrection people. 37 00:02:55,280 --> 00:02:57,160 Hello. 38 00:02:57,160 --> 00:03:00,320 We're resurrection people. 39 00:03:00,320 --> 00:03:01,320 It's Christ. 40 00:03:01,320 --> 00:03:05,000 It's all about him. 41 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:07,320 Everything else is contained in him. 42 00:03:07,320 --> 00:03:12,240 All before him he's the top and shadow and the fulfillment of everything before his birth. 43 00:03:12,240 --> 00:03:13,920 Are you hearing me? 44 00:03:13,920 --> 00:03:14,920 Everything. 45 00:03:14,920 --> 00:03:15,920 It's Christ. 46 00:03:15,920 --> 00:03:19,960 From now on it's Christ and Christ alone. 47 00:03:19,960 --> 00:03:22,680 We're resurrection people. 48 00:03:22,680 --> 00:03:26,200 And we're living in between the time of the promise. 49 00:03:26,200 --> 00:03:27,840 The promise of his return. 50 00:03:27,840 --> 00:03:30,840 And so we live in the meantime. 51 00:03:30,840 --> 00:03:36,200 Mark's gospel 13 verse 31 says heaven and earth shall pass away. 52 00:03:36,200 --> 00:03:39,080 My word shall not pass away. 53 00:03:39,080 --> 00:03:41,840 But of that day and that hour knoweth no man. 54 00:03:41,840 --> 00:03:45,880 He's in referencing his return and his coming. 55 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:50,300 Not the angels which are in heaven neither the son but the father. 56 00:03:50,300 --> 00:03:56,120 Make ye heed watch and pray for you know not when the time is. 57 00:03:56,120 --> 00:04:03,160 For the son of man is as a man taking a far journey who left his house gave authority 58 00:04:03,160 --> 00:04:07,480 to his servants and to every man his work. 59 00:04:07,480 --> 00:04:09,880 That's going to be our emphasis today. 60 00:04:09,880 --> 00:04:12,440 And he commanded the porter to watch. 61 00:04:12,440 --> 00:04:16,440 Watch ye therefore for you know not when the master of the house coming. 62 00:04:16,440 --> 00:04:21,000 At even or at midnight or at the cock crowing or in the morning. 63 00:04:21,000 --> 00:04:26,120 Lest coming suddenly he find you sleeping. 64 00:04:26,120 --> 00:04:29,200 What I say to you I say to all. 65 00:04:29,200 --> 00:04:32,200 Watch living in the meantime. 66 00:04:32,200 --> 00:04:35,760 As we pray over the word and the message this morning the Lord open our hearts to hear and 67 00:04:35,760 --> 00:04:44,120 receive for the meals gave a request this morning of a missionary in Africa who has 68 00:04:44,120 --> 00:04:51,920 been diagnosed with a very serious condition that only about 50 percent of the people who 69 00:04:51,920 --> 00:04:53,880 have this come down with this survive. 70 00:04:53,880 --> 00:04:59,360 I forget the sister's name but the Lord knows and we're going to hold her up before him. 71 00:04:59,360 --> 00:05:04,480 She's been flown out to another hospital area in the region in Africa for better care. 72 00:05:04,480 --> 00:05:07,640 So let's just ask the Lord to do a work today would you. 73 00:05:07,640 --> 00:05:10,680 Heavenly Father we come before you as we've broken the bread of life. 74 00:05:10,680 --> 00:05:14,600 The bread of life declares that there's healing in you. 75 00:05:14,600 --> 00:05:19,960 And so Father we pray for our sister who is now in jeopardy of life and death. 76 00:05:19,960 --> 00:05:22,560 You are the holder of life the giver of life. 77 00:05:22,560 --> 00:05:24,240 We pray for her body. 78 00:05:24,240 --> 00:05:28,480 Lord you are the healer you are the creator and we ask God that you would touch her in 79 00:05:28,480 --> 00:05:30,160 the name of Jesus. 80 00:05:30,160 --> 00:05:34,600 And fathers we're here this morning standing in your presence so near as we've lifted our 81 00:05:34,600 --> 00:05:39,240 voices and lifted our hearts to glorify you for you are God. 82 00:05:39,240 --> 00:05:40,320 Hallelujah. 83 00:05:40,320 --> 00:05:41,640 We magnify your name. 84 00:05:41,640 --> 00:05:44,400 Now touch us again. 85 00:05:44,400 --> 00:05:45,400 Move on us again. 86 00:05:45,400 --> 00:05:48,520 Where the spirit of the Lord is there is liberty. 87 00:05:48,520 --> 00:05:53,640 So let the liberty to preach the good news of the gospel be in this house and the liberty 88 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:59,440 to hear and receive what the spirit said to the church in this hour in which we live. 89 00:05:59,440 --> 00:06:01,440 Do you be praised forever. 90 00:06:01,440 --> 00:06:03,520 In Christ's name the church says. 91 00:06:03,520 --> 00:06:04,520 Amen. 92 00:06:04,520 --> 00:06:17,880 You can be seated this morning as I approached the pulpit today I did a little research since 93 00:06:17,880 --> 00:06:22,100 our subject is living in the meantime. 94 00:06:22,100 --> 00:06:25,520 What time is it. 95 00:06:25,520 --> 00:06:29,920 Many of you may know or heard of the doomsday clock. 96 00:06:29,920 --> 00:06:39,880 The doomsday clock was set in order in 1947 and it was set in accordance by the Bulletin 97 00:06:39,880 --> 00:06:43,920 of the Atomic Scientists. 98 00:06:43,920 --> 00:06:55,440 And when they first set the clock it was set to seven minutes till midnight. 99 00:06:55,440 --> 00:07:02,080 And since 1947 the doomsday clock has went backwards eight different times. 100 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,080 They've set time back on the doomsday clock. 101 00:07:06,080 --> 00:07:17,000 It's went forward 17 times for a total of time adjustments clock adjustments for 25 102 00:07:17,000 --> 00:07:18,360 times. 103 00:07:18,360 --> 00:07:22,240 The latest time setting was 17 minutes. 104 00:07:22,240 --> 00:07:29,520 It had reversed with mankind it kindly beginning to mind their own business enough to set time 105 00:07:29,520 --> 00:07:36,120 back and time back and the jeopardy of annihilation of the earth when the big red buttons get 106 00:07:36,120 --> 00:07:38,840 pushed and we just wipe ourselves out. 107 00:07:38,840 --> 00:07:39,840 That's what it's all about. 108 00:07:39,840 --> 00:07:42,380 It's a metaphor for the ending of time. 109 00:07:42,380 --> 00:07:49,120 How long is man going to last till he destroys himself. 110 00:07:49,120 --> 00:07:57,280 Well the latest has been 17 minutes till January of this year they moved it up 10 whole seconds 111 00:07:57,280 --> 00:08:04,680 and we're now closer than at any point since they set the doomsday clock to the end of 112 00:08:04,680 --> 00:08:05,680 humanity. 113 00:08:05,680 --> 00:08:15,160 90 seconds till they've moved the clock up because of the jeopardy that mankind is putting 114 00:08:15,160 --> 00:08:29,640 themselves in as more world powers rise up and get nuclear capability. 115 00:08:29,640 --> 00:08:34,760 These scientists say that it's only just a matter of time until someone pushes the 116 00:08:34,760 --> 00:08:37,600 wrong button. 117 00:08:37,600 --> 00:08:44,760 So we're living at 90 seconds to midnight. 118 00:08:44,760 --> 00:08:47,760 We're living in the meantime. 119 00:08:47,760 --> 00:08:57,400 I think the church is going out before the button gets pushed. 120 00:08:57,400 --> 00:08:58,400 Can you prove that? 121 00:08:58,400 --> 00:09:00,560 I don't know that I can but I just feel that way. 122 00:09:00,560 --> 00:09:03,900 I just kind of just preach from my heart a little bit. 123 00:09:03,900 --> 00:09:12,200 I feel like the Lord's going to get us out before some idiot and I know the magnitude 124 00:09:12,200 --> 00:09:17,440 of the word pushes the red button. 125 00:09:17,440 --> 00:09:21,920 I firmly believe that we're going to be out of here. 126 00:09:21,920 --> 00:09:22,920 So we're living in the meantime. 127 00:09:22,920 --> 00:09:32,000 If it's 90 seconds until man destroys himself how close are we to hearing the alarm of heaven. 128 00:09:32,000 --> 00:09:35,240 How close are we to hearing the trumpets blast. 129 00:09:35,240 --> 00:09:38,500 How close are we to hearing the archangel's voice. 130 00:09:38,500 --> 00:09:44,920 How close are we to seeing the Lord in the air himself calling the church up. 131 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:45,920 We're close baby. 132 00:09:45,920 --> 00:09:46,920 We're close. 133 00:09:46,920 --> 00:09:50,800 That just gives me cold chills. 134 00:09:50,800 --> 00:09:58,520 I'm ready to see Jesus but until we see him we've some work to do. 135 00:09:58,520 --> 00:10:04,960 Until he appears in those clouds we can't just be sitting idly by waiting for that event. 136 00:10:04,960 --> 00:10:05,960 Why? 137 00:10:05,960 --> 00:10:14,640 Because our souls are in jeopardy of not being ready for that event. 138 00:10:14,640 --> 00:10:20,000 And we have been commissioned to help get others ready for the event. 139 00:10:20,000 --> 00:10:21,000 Commission. 140 00:10:21,000 --> 00:10:23,000 The great commission. 141 00:10:23,000 --> 00:10:26,400 Going into all the world right. 142 00:10:26,400 --> 00:10:31,560 Teaching, preaching, spreading the gospel, baptizing, make disciples. 143 00:10:31,560 --> 00:10:35,040 That's our mission. 144 00:10:35,040 --> 00:10:41,880 To this moment the church and its mission is unaccomplished. 145 00:10:41,880 --> 00:10:44,560 The mission is still before us. 146 00:10:44,560 --> 00:10:48,960 All we have to do is stop for a moment take a good look around us and we'll see that there's 147 00:10:48,960 --> 00:10:51,880 a lot to do. 148 00:10:51,880 --> 00:10:58,200 Society and its degradation and its despair as it's beginning to manifest more daily and 149 00:10:58,200 --> 00:11:03,540 currently there is a work to do. 150 00:11:03,540 --> 00:11:08,320 And that work has been left for us in the meantime. 151 00:11:08,320 --> 00:11:14,160 We stop to think about what Jesus said about the coming of his return as it was in the 152 00:11:14,160 --> 00:11:18,240 days of Noah so shall the coming of the Son of Man be. 153 00:11:18,240 --> 00:11:22,120 I think about how bad it must have been in Noah's day if he's not come to get us out 154 00:11:22,120 --> 00:11:24,960 of here yet. 155 00:11:24,960 --> 00:11:32,080 We go back into Genesis we'll read we'll see where man's heart was only on evil continually. 156 00:11:32,080 --> 00:11:35,800 And in the midst of that evil Noah found grace in the eyes of God. 157 00:11:35,800 --> 00:11:40,520 My Lord there's going to be some folk find grace and it's those who are living in that 158 00:11:40,520 --> 00:11:48,620 grace hallelujah who've discovered the grace of God that frees them from sin. 159 00:11:48,620 --> 00:11:54,520 There's a flood that came then but there's a trumpet that's going to sound and we're 160 00:11:54,520 --> 00:11:58,520 going to be saved from it all my Lord. 161 00:11:58,520 --> 00:12:03,400 But when we think about how the church is operating in this world when we think about 162 00:12:03,400 --> 00:12:10,280 how the world is in such despair offering our young and our children and generations 163 00:12:10,280 --> 00:12:18,440 that are rising we offer them up seemingly without resistance to the God of this world. 164 00:12:18,440 --> 00:12:21,420 Just let them go their way. 165 00:12:21,420 --> 00:12:25,740 We talked about a little bit of that authority last week in the generations how they look 166 00:12:25,740 --> 00:12:31,240 at authority and how they despise authority as time goes on. 167 00:12:31,240 --> 00:12:36,480 So they believe that themselves are the authority but the church it is our responsibility as 168 00:12:36,480 --> 00:12:42,600 we are living in the meantime to fulfill what the master had left to be done. 169 00:12:42,600 --> 00:12:45,640 He left them his house which the church is his house. 170 00:12:45,640 --> 00:12:46,920 We talked about that. 171 00:12:46,920 --> 00:12:51,440 He gave them authority it's his authority it's not ours but it's his authority and 172 00:12:51,440 --> 00:12:53,700 we move in his authority. 173 00:12:53,700 --> 00:12:57,200 Now he has left them a work to do. 174 00:12:57,200 --> 00:13:01,680 Can I tell you today that there has been no permission from Jesus Christ for the saint 175 00:13:01,680 --> 00:13:04,120 of God to be on a seat of do nothing? 176 00:13:04,120 --> 00:13:05,320 Hello? 177 00:13:05,320 --> 00:13:10,360 Can I tell you it's not just come sit and soak and get sweet and go on about your business. 178 00:13:10,360 --> 00:13:15,360 No we've been left a work to do and the work that we have been left to do is to fulfill 179 00:13:15,360 --> 00:13:19,640 and complete the mission that Jesus Christ himself came for. 180 00:13:19,640 --> 00:13:26,400 He came to seek and to save that's what was lost and you and I have been empowered. 181 00:13:26,400 --> 00:13:31,840 We've been left behind the spirit we've been left his word we've been left the power of 182 00:13:31,840 --> 00:13:37,560 prayer whereby we are to accomplish the mission that he has mandated us to be about. 183 00:13:37,560 --> 00:13:44,320 He has commanded us he has commended you and I that we cannot sit idly by but we are to 184 00:13:44,320 --> 00:13:51,600 occupy until he comes and to occupy means that military dominance we are to rise up 185 00:13:51,600 --> 00:13:52,600 and take over. 186 00:13:52,600 --> 00:13:54,520 What are we taking over pastor? 187 00:13:54,520 --> 00:13:59,720 We are to arise and take over darkness and let the glorious light of Jesus Christ that 188 00:13:59,720 --> 00:14:03,200 lives within us shine into a darkened world. 189 00:14:03,200 --> 00:14:09,080 You've been mandated oh just by a poll this morning how many of you claim in salvation? 190 00:14:09,080 --> 00:14:11,680 How many of you have been saved by the blood? 191 00:14:11,680 --> 00:14:13,440 Your sins have been washed away. 192 00:14:13,440 --> 00:14:15,600 Then I'm talking to you this morning. 193 00:14:15,600 --> 00:14:20,000 If you're a sinner in this house I'm going to give you the best news that you can hear 194 00:14:20,000 --> 00:14:23,520 and that is the good news of the gospel of Jesus Christ. 195 00:14:23,520 --> 00:14:25,200 He was sent to this earth. 196 00:14:25,200 --> 00:14:26,760 He was born in a manger. 197 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:28,320 He was nailed to a cross. 198 00:14:28,320 --> 00:14:32,320 He was placed in a borrowed tomb and he arose on the third day. 199 00:14:32,320 --> 00:14:38,360 Whereby to seal your redemption when you confess your sin and accept him as Lord you got the 200 00:14:38,360 --> 00:14:44,400 best thing going. 201 00:14:44,400 --> 00:14:49,680 If you couldn't raise your hand you get the best news of the house this morning. 202 00:14:49,680 --> 00:14:54,080 But before you leave if you decide to get in condition where you can raise your hand 203 00:14:54,080 --> 00:14:58,140 then I'm going to tell you what your work is. 204 00:14:58,140 --> 00:15:06,360 We live in an age of laziness. 205 00:15:06,360 --> 00:15:13,480 I wondered why the preacher in Proverbs Solomon wrote so much about the sluggard. 206 00:15:13,480 --> 00:15:17,600 Evidently the Holy Ghost knew there was a day coming when we were going to raise a whole 207 00:15:17,600 --> 00:15:27,400 ... well there's going to be a whole group of sluggards rise up and they know what a 208 00:15:27,400 --> 00:15:29,000 sluggard is. 209 00:15:29,000 --> 00:15:32,760 Oh no wonder you're not a man. 210 00:15:32,760 --> 00:15:38,760 Let me tell you what a snail... have you seen any more slimy snails that go across 211 00:15:38,760 --> 00:15:41,720 your porch and leave that mud streak behind them? 212 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:42,720 That's a sluggard. 213 00:15:42,720 --> 00:15:45,640 How long does it take them to get across the sidewalk? 214 00:15:45,640 --> 00:15:46,640 All day. 215 00:15:46,640 --> 00:15:47,640 Right? 216 00:15:47,640 --> 00:15:53,760 A sluggard is a slow moving individual. 217 00:15:53,760 --> 00:15:55,400 They don't get in a hurry about nothing. 218 00:15:55,400 --> 00:15:56,680 You can set their tail on fire. 219 00:15:56,680 --> 00:15:59,520 They're still just going to eat right along. 220 00:15:59,520 --> 00:16:02,000 They're not going to get in a hurry. 221 00:16:02,000 --> 00:16:07,320 The Spirit knew that there was going to be some sons because Proverbs is talking to the 222 00:16:07,320 --> 00:16:08,320 sons. 223 00:16:08,320 --> 00:16:12,520 There's going to be a generation of sons raising up one day that wasn't going to be fit for 224 00:16:12,520 --> 00:16:13,520 nothing. 225 00:16:13,520 --> 00:16:18,160 Well, hear me sons of Jesus Christ. 226 00:16:18,160 --> 00:16:20,520 You and I can't be as the sluggard. 227 00:16:20,520 --> 00:16:22,620 We've been given and mandated. 228 00:16:22,620 --> 00:16:25,200 We've been given responsibility for the house. 229 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:29,960 We've been given authority to get the job done and the work has been laid out for us. 230 00:16:29,960 --> 00:16:32,920 That work is commissioned by his mission. 231 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:37,920 He's not giving you and I anything more to do than he came to do himself. 232 00:16:37,920 --> 00:16:43,440 And he gave you the authority and the power in which whereby to get the job done. 233 00:16:43,440 --> 00:16:48,040 But what we have in the church world today, we have too many who have compromised and 234 00:16:48,040 --> 00:16:49,720 are sitting by the wayside. 235 00:16:49,720 --> 00:16:55,460 We have too many under the guise of acceptance have compromised the faith and the truth because 236 00:16:55,460 --> 00:16:57,480 we don't want to offend anybody. 237 00:16:57,480 --> 00:17:02,000 But let me just tell you this morning, you cannot come before the cross of Calvary and 238 00:17:02,000 --> 00:17:08,120 not be offended by your sin because there is a righteous God who sent a righteous son 239 00:17:08,120 --> 00:17:16,800 who gave his righteous life and righteousness is an offense to sin. 240 00:17:16,800 --> 00:17:21,920 Now you won't get this kind of preaching in a lot of places because it gets offensive. 241 00:17:21,920 --> 00:17:24,120 Hello? 242 00:17:24,120 --> 00:17:27,040 We got too many hirelings and pulpits. 243 00:17:27,040 --> 00:17:29,440 I'll just call on my own kind. 244 00:17:29,440 --> 00:17:30,440 Hello? 245 00:17:30,440 --> 00:17:35,400 We got too many hirelings and pulpits that want to be a big numbers and big buildings 246 00:17:35,400 --> 00:17:37,880 and big crowds and have a lot of feel good. 247 00:17:37,880 --> 00:17:40,560 I don't really care if you feel good or not. 248 00:17:40,560 --> 00:17:46,560 I want you to feel prepared for the trumpet to sound and make heaven your home. 249 00:17:46,560 --> 00:17:52,360 And if I can get into your mess in your business, I'm going to. 250 00:17:52,360 --> 00:17:56,760 You cannot be comfortable in your sin. 251 00:17:56,760 --> 00:18:01,680 The church has lost the convicting presence of the Holy Ghost and the Holy Ghost is the 252 00:18:01,680 --> 00:18:03,520 convictor of sin. 253 00:18:03,520 --> 00:18:10,360 And I want to stir up some conviction. 254 00:18:10,360 --> 00:18:15,840 You know, you know, Jesus didn't have to say anything when he went down the street. 255 00:18:15,840 --> 00:18:18,400 Demons cried out when they walked by. 256 00:18:18,400 --> 00:18:24,320 He didn't have to look them in the eye and he didn't have start rebuking and casting 257 00:18:24,320 --> 00:18:25,800 them and stirring them up to get them out. 258 00:18:25,800 --> 00:18:26,800 He just walked down. 259 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:29,640 He's just in the marketplace and it start screaming out. 260 00:18:29,640 --> 00:18:32,640 He tell him, hush. 261 00:18:32,640 --> 00:18:46,080 Wouldn't it be wonderful again that the lifestyle of the church was so convicting that when 262 00:18:46,080 --> 00:18:50,880 you just get in their presence, I love it when it happens to me. 263 00:18:50,880 --> 00:18:51,880 I love it. 264 00:18:51,880 --> 00:18:54,400 Oh, I do. 265 00:18:54,400 --> 00:18:57,880 Saturday, yesterday morning, went over to what? 266 00:18:57,880 --> 00:19:02,280 Well, it's Friday first and then yesterday to Friday evening. 267 00:19:02,280 --> 00:19:08,960 I went to get me a bottle of said lane and some some hard gone from a well room, a little 268 00:19:08,960 --> 00:19:11,400 hobby shop I got going there. 269 00:19:11,400 --> 00:19:20,640 And so they know when I come in as the preacher and he preaches over at that church of God. 270 00:19:20,640 --> 00:19:27,480 So I come in, there's an announcement, hey, preacher out loud so that everybody in there 271 00:19:27,480 --> 00:19:30,800 knows that the preacher's in here. 272 00:19:30,800 --> 00:19:32,480 Hello. 273 00:19:32,480 --> 00:19:36,760 And then when others come, I'm sitting on the stool, people start coming in. 274 00:19:36,760 --> 00:19:38,880 Hey, you remember the preacher? 275 00:19:38,880 --> 00:19:40,360 He's the one that builds those smokers. 276 00:19:40,360 --> 00:19:41,360 Oh yeah. 277 00:19:41,360 --> 00:19:42,360 Putting them on notice. 278 00:19:42,360 --> 00:19:44,320 Guy gets a phone call. 279 00:19:44,320 --> 00:19:46,280 He normally just puts it on speaker. 280 00:19:46,280 --> 00:19:47,280 He gets off the phone. 281 00:19:47,280 --> 00:19:48,640 They said, well, why didn't you put it on speaker? 282 00:19:48,640 --> 00:19:50,200 He said, well, it was so and so. 283 00:19:50,200 --> 00:19:51,720 I'm glad you didn't do that. 284 00:19:51,720 --> 00:19:53,280 The preacher was here. 285 00:19:53,280 --> 00:19:55,480 What do you what do you what point are you trying to make? 286 00:19:55,480 --> 00:20:00,640 I'm trying to make the point that your life is so filled with righteousness that your 287 00:20:00,640 --> 00:20:05,080 presence becomes a conviction of those that are around you. 288 00:20:05,080 --> 00:20:06,400 That's what I'm talking about. 289 00:20:06,400 --> 00:20:08,160 You don't have to say anything. 290 00:20:08,160 --> 00:20:10,160 You don't have to announce yourself. 291 00:20:10,160 --> 00:20:11,160 You've been commissioned. 292 00:20:11,160 --> 00:20:12,880 You've been given authority. 293 00:20:12,880 --> 00:20:14,480 You've been given a work to do. 294 00:20:14,480 --> 00:20:19,440 But would it be good for the church to be so separated again that when you showed up, 295 00:20:19,440 --> 00:20:25,240 they start announcing your presence. 296 00:20:25,240 --> 00:20:27,200 Happened again yesterday out running dogs. 297 00:20:27,200 --> 00:20:28,200 Hey, preacher. 298 00:20:28,200 --> 00:20:30,200 Oh, you're a preacher. 299 00:20:30,200 --> 00:20:31,200 Yep. 300 00:20:31,200 --> 00:20:32,200 Are you really one? 301 00:20:32,200 --> 00:20:33,200 I am. 302 00:20:33,200 --> 00:20:38,000 It's not just a nickname. 303 00:20:38,000 --> 00:20:41,840 Haven't preached one sermon in front of them. 304 00:20:41,840 --> 00:20:44,600 Haven't stood up and proclaimed anything. 305 00:20:44,600 --> 00:20:46,720 Hello. 306 00:20:46,720 --> 00:20:49,640 Just merely walking in the room. 307 00:20:49,640 --> 00:20:52,720 That's the way it was with Jesus. 308 00:20:52,720 --> 00:20:54,560 He just walked in. 309 00:20:54,560 --> 00:20:57,720 Devil start crying out and it just makes me smile. 310 00:20:57,720 --> 00:21:00,600 I'm thinking, yep. 311 00:21:00,600 --> 00:21:02,000 So I'll leave them with a little something. 312 00:21:02,000 --> 00:21:03,000 They know who I am. 313 00:21:03,000 --> 00:21:04,880 I got to fulfill the role. 314 00:21:04,880 --> 00:21:07,200 So I'll leave them with a little something. 315 00:21:07,200 --> 00:21:09,520 You know, they always want to throw in their little jabs. 316 00:21:09,520 --> 00:21:12,520 Well, I'm a Baptist. 317 00:21:12,520 --> 00:21:14,200 The other said, well, I'm a Lutheran. 318 00:21:14,200 --> 00:21:17,840 They start talking about, you know, the difference between the Baptist and the Lutheran. 319 00:21:17,840 --> 00:21:20,400 That is said, no, he said, what's that? 320 00:21:20,400 --> 00:21:22,200 So well, we Lutherans, we go into beer store. 321 00:21:22,200 --> 00:21:23,200 We can talk to each other. 322 00:21:23,200 --> 00:21:26,560 You Baptist cake. 323 00:21:26,560 --> 00:21:27,560 So I looked at him. 324 00:21:27,560 --> 00:21:28,560 I said, well, boys, I'm Pentecostal. 325 00:21:28,560 --> 00:21:34,960 We can't even pull into the parking lot. 326 00:21:34,960 --> 00:21:39,600 You see, you don't have to put on a big sign. 327 00:21:39,600 --> 00:21:44,400 You don't have to cover the back window of your car with Jesus stickers and crosses and 328 00:21:44,400 --> 00:21:45,400 all of these things. 329 00:21:45,400 --> 00:21:46,400 You don't have to do that. 330 00:21:46,400 --> 00:21:51,760 All you got to do is when they cut you off his wave with the whole hand. 331 00:21:51,760 --> 00:21:52,760 Hello. 332 00:21:52,760 --> 00:21:58,480 Slow down and bless them and let them get in for they hurt you or someone else or themselves. 333 00:21:58,480 --> 00:22:03,760 I thought about just be Christ in the world and we can do that. 334 00:22:03,760 --> 00:22:05,640 We've been commissioned to be that. 335 00:22:05,640 --> 00:22:10,780 Let your presence be the conviction of those who are around you. 336 00:22:10,780 --> 00:22:13,600 You don't have to say anything. 337 00:22:13,600 --> 00:22:22,720 They recognize and since they have more discernment than a lot of believers do, they can discern 338 00:22:22,720 --> 00:22:23,720 at this point. 339 00:22:23,720 --> 00:22:24,720 He different. 340 00:22:24,720 --> 00:22:25,720 Why? 341 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:30,380 Number one, I'm not saying what they're saying, not agreeing with what they say when they 342 00:22:30,380 --> 00:22:32,380 say it. 343 00:22:32,380 --> 00:22:34,880 Don't chuckle at a joke. 344 00:22:34,880 --> 00:22:35,880 Hello. 345 00:22:35,880 --> 00:22:39,960 My, I got so far off track. 346 00:22:39,960 --> 00:22:42,960 It'll take us 30 minutes to get back. 347 00:22:42,960 --> 00:22:50,160 I mean, I just thought it was worth a little footnote that if the church would get back 348 00:22:50,160 --> 00:22:59,760 to being the church, the body of Christ, come on, the bride, you do realize that he's coming 349 00:22:59,760 --> 00:23:02,240 for his bride. 350 00:23:02,240 --> 00:23:09,960 But he's coming for his bride that is without spot, wrinkle. 351 00:23:09,960 --> 00:23:14,040 Were you at Bible readers or blemishes? 352 00:23:14,040 --> 00:23:20,520 So iron your wrinkles out in your prayer closet, get under the water of the washing of his 353 00:23:20,520 --> 00:23:29,360 blood, which is that regenerating factor and clean up the blotches. 354 00:23:29,360 --> 00:23:33,080 Let's be the church because we're living in the meantime. 355 00:23:33,080 --> 00:23:38,320 We've compromised our mission because there's such a fear of being rejected, ostracized, 356 00:23:38,320 --> 00:23:40,080 deemed unloving. 357 00:23:40,080 --> 00:23:43,720 We have believed that to be loving, we must be accepting. 358 00:23:43,720 --> 00:23:52,480 No, Jesus was the most critical person of sin of any of us, but yet he was the most 359 00:23:52,480 --> 00:23:56,720 compassionate and loving of all of us. 360 00:23:56,720 --> 00:23:58,300 It was his example. 361 00:23:58,300 --> 00:24:05,340 He never shied away from directly confronting sin ever. 362 00:24:05,340 --> 00:24:09,440 But too many in the church today, we think we have to be accepting. 363 00:24:09,440 --> 00:24:15,040 Yes, we accept people, but I'll never accept the sin of the people. 364 00:24:15,040 --> 00:24:18,480 People is what's requiring our compassion and love. 365 00:24:18,480 --> 00:24:24,280 People are those who need to hear the good news of the glorious gospel that Jesus saves, 366 00:24:24,280 --> 00:24:28,520 Jesus saves and Jesus saves. 367 00:24:28,520 --> 00:24:35,880 We don't have to compromise our belief in order to declare that message. 368 00:24:35,880 --> 00:24:42,520 You can't look at talk like the world except to have the world see you separate. 369 00:24:42,520 --> 00:24:47,800 But your and my lifestyle must be convicting enough of the righteousness which we've been 370 00:24:47,800 --> 00:24:55,560 clothed in, not of our own, but of Christ so that the world may see. 371 00:24:55,560 --> 00:24:57,200 People are lost in sin. 372 00:24:57,200 --> 00:25:06,400 And it's so sad that the church has lost its way, but we must redeem that way. 373 00:25:06,400 --> 00:25:11,240 We have been commissioned, Matthew 28, 19, go therefore, make disciples of all nations, 374 00:25:11,240 --> 00:25:15,320 baptizing them in the name of the father, son, the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe 375 00:25:15,320 --> 00:25:18,160 all that I have commanded you. 376 00:25:18,160 --> 00:25:21,440 Behold, I'm with you always to the end of the age. 377 00:25:21,440 --> 00:25:25,480 Mark 16, 15, and he said to them, go into all the world and proclaim the gospel to the 378 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:26,480 whole creation. 379 00:25:26,480 --> 00:25:31,480 And again, in Acts one and eight, you shall receive power when the Holy Ghost has come 380 00:25:31,480 --> 00:25:35,920 upon you and you will be witnesses of me in Jerusalem, Judea, Samaria, and to the other 381 00:25:35,920 --> 00:25:37,960 most parts of the world. 382 00:25:37,960 --> 00:25:42,140 He didn't just give us a commission without telling us what to say. 383 00:25:42,140 --> 00:25:45,400 We've been commissioned in our speech. 384 00:25:45,400 --> 00:25:49,040 He has told us what to say. 385 00:25:49,040 --> 00:25:54,560 When we think about the mission of Jesus Christ, first and foremost, to seek and to save that 386 00:25:54,560 --> 00:25:56,600 which are lost. 387 00:25:56,600 --> 00:26:01,520 Matthew 4, 23, and Jesus went about all Galilee teaching in their synagogues, preaching the 388 00:26:01,520 --> 00:26:11,280 gospel of the kingdom and healing all of many sicknesses and all manner of diseases among 389 00:26:11,280 --> 00:26:13,120 the people. 390 00:26:13,120 --> 00:26:18,560 Jesus's mission, according to Acts 10, 38, how that God anointed Jesus of Nazareth with 391 00:26:18,560 --> 00:26:24,560 the Holy Ghost and with power who went about doing good and healing all that were oppressed 392 00:26:24,560 --> 00:26:28,800 of the devil for God was with him. 393 00:26:28,800 --> 00:26:31,880 You ever felt like you've been oppressed? 394 00:26:31,880 --> 00:26:37,040 You ever felt like you've had a weight attached to you? 395 00:26:37,040 --> 00:26:43,600 It's like the devil's riding piggyback on your life. 396 00:26:43,600 --> 00:26:47,960 Well Jesus has come by to get him off your back. 397 00:26:47,960 --> 00:26:56,280 He come to deliver the oppressed and if need be cast out the possessed. 398 00:26:56,280 --> 00:26:57,280 Hello? 399 00:26:57,280 --> 00:27:04,000 And you and I have been sent and commissioned in like manner. 400 00:27:04,000 --> 00:27:08,880 Better works than these shall you do because I'm going to the Father and as I go to the 401 00:27:08,880 --> 00:27:20,160 Father and the Holy Ghost is coming back, I will send you another Comforter. 402 00:27:20,160 --> 00:27:21,880 That's his mission. 403 00:27:21,880 --> 00:27:27,620 His mission has been passed on to you and I, Acts 10, 42 and 43. 404 00:27:27,620 --> 00:27:34,620 He commanded us to preach to the people and to testify that he, it is he which was ordained 405 00:27:34,620 --> 00:27:39,720 of God to be the judge of the quick and dead, the living and the dead. 406 00:27:39,720 --> 00:27:46,760 To him gave all the prophets witness that through his name whosoever believeth in him 407 00:27:46,760 --> 00:27:51,920 shall receive remission of sins. 408 00:27:51,920 --> 00:28:02,200 It is important that we receive remission of sin for without it there is no access into 409 00:28:02,200 --> 00:28:03,200 heaven. 410 00:28:03,200 --> 00:28:11,000 Now I know we're in the world today, in a church world today that tries to tell you 411 00:28:11,000 --> 00:28:15,120 there's 19 different ways to get to heaven but there's not. 412 00:28:15,120 --> 00:28:16,120 I'm sorry. 413 00:28:16,120 --> 00:28:18,820 There's one. 414 00:28:18,820 --> 00:28:27,080 And the way himself declared it, I am the way, the truth and the life and no man cometh 415 00:28:27,080 --> 00:28:33,000 unto the Father but by me. 416 00:28:33,000 --> 00:28:34,680 He made that declaration. 417 00:28:34,680 --> 00:28:37,480 It doesn't matter how good a life we try to live. 418 00:28:37,480 --> 00:28:41,480 Doesn't matter how kind you try to be. 419 00:28:41,480 --> 00:28:44,840 Doesn't matter how much you try to give. 420 00:28:44,840 --> 00:28:49,120 It matters on what you have received. 421 00:28:49,120 --> 00:28:51,600 What is that? 422 00:28:51,600 --> 00:28:55,200 Remission for your sin. 423 00:28:55,200 --> 00:28:57,000 How do I do that? 424 00:28:57,000 --> 00:29:00,240 You simply ask him. 425 00:29:00,240 --> 00:29:07,400 According to 1 John 1 and 9, if we are faithful and just to confess our sin, he is faithful 426 00:29:07,400 --> 00:29:14,400 and just to forgive us of our sin and all our iniquity. 427 00:29:14,400 --> 00:29:23,120 If a man sinned, we have an advocate with the Father, Christ Jesus, the righteous. 428 00:29:23,120 --> 00:29:30,680 We've been left a task to perform and the ability to perform that task has been provided 429 00:29:30,680 --> 00:29:31,680 by him. 430 00:29:31,680 --> 00:29:34,800 It's through that anointing that touches our life. 431 00:29:34,800 --> 00:29:41,600 Isaiah 10, 27, the yoke shall be destroyed because of the anointing. 432 00:29:41,600 --> 00:29:47,720 1 John 2 and 27, the anointing which you have received of him abideth in you. 433 00:29:47,720 --> 00:29:48,720 So what is the anointing? 434 00:29:48,720 --> 00:29:55,480 It is that divine enabling of the human through the impartation of the power of God which 435 00:29:55,480 --> 00:29:57,760 is at work in mankind. 436 00:29:57,760 --> 00:29:59,000 That's what it is. 437 00:29:59,000 --> 00:30:00,360 It's that touch of God. 438 00:30:00,360 --> 00:30:07,480 It's the hand of God that rests upon our life enabling us to do and perform the work that 439 00:30:07,480 --> 00:30:11,840 we have been given to do. 440 00:30:11,840 --> 00:30:19,560 We have, like so many other things, we have magnified the work to where we work and never 441 00:30:19,560 --> 00:30:25,880 accomplish the committed task. 442 00:30:25,880 --> 00:30:34,440 We get busy doing church stuff but we never do the right stuff. 443 00:30:34,440 --> 00:30:41,200 As you leave this place today and you enter into the world that you're living in and the 444 00:30:41,200 --> 00:30:46,960 circumference of your life and the people that you come into contact with daily, that's 445 00:30:46,960 --> 00:30:49,760 your mission. 446 00:30:49,760 --> 00:30:50,760 That's the mission. 447 00:30:50,760 --> 00:31:00,520 To seek out, to teach, to testify of what good things the Lord has done for you so that 448 00:31:00,520 --> 00:31:07,480 others may receive it for themselves and come to the knowledge that they must accept him 449 00:31:07,480 --> 00:31:12,480 as Lord and Savior. 450 00:31:12,480 --> 00:31:18,760 That's our mission and we've been commissioned to do that. 451 00:31:18,760 --> 00:31:22,720 We've been given the authority to do that. 452 00:31:22,720 --> 00:31:26,700 We've been given the power to do that. 453 00:31:26,700 --> 00:31:36,240 We simply must obey and get busy while we're living in the meantime because no man knows 454 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:37,240 the hour. 455 00:31:37,240 --> 00:31:40,040 It's in our text. 456 00:31:40,040 --> 00:31:46,000 No man knows the day nor the hour when the Master's going to return. 457 00:31:46,000 --> 00:31:48,480 The angels in heaven do not know. 458 00:31:48,480 --> 00:31:51,480 The Lord himself, he's reserved it from me. 459 00:31:51,480 --> 00:31:53,480 It's the Father. 460 00:31:53,480 --> 00:32:00,800 I'm waiting on my commission to return. 461 00:32:00,800 --> 00:32:08,840 So when I see and I look at our world and I think about the jeopardy that we're in, 462 00:32:08,840 --> 00:32:16,360 when I think about the condition of the hearts of humanity, sinners sin. 463 00:32:16,360 --> 00:32:19,600 I was a good one when I was a sinner. 464 00:32:19,600 --> 00:32:20,600 Anybody else? 465 00:32:20,600 --> 00:32:21,600 You did your best too. 466 00:32:21,600 --> 00:32:26,440 I did pretty good at sinning. 467 00:32:26,440 --> 00:32:33,960 I'm just trying to put in as much effort now as a child of God. 468 00:32:33,960 --> 00:32:38,560 My concern for the world is that they hear the gospel. 469 00:32:38,560 --> 00:32:41,640 That they hear the gospel. 470 00:32:41,640 --> 00:32:48,760 My concern for the church is that we live the gospel. 471 00:32:48,760 --> 00:32:50,760 That we live it out. 472 00:32:50,760 --> 00:32:56,640 Do you realize that your life is the only God some people see? 473 00:32:56,640 --> 00:33:03,600 It's the only Jesus that some people come in contact with is you. 474 00:33:03,600 --> 00:33:07,840 Do people start cleaning up other people's language when you walk in the room so that 475 00:33:07,840 --> 00:33:13,920 you don't have to? 476 00:33:13,920 --> 00:33:15,280 It just makes me smile. 477 00:33:15,280 --> 00:33:17,280 I just agree. 478 00:33:17,280 --> 00:33:20,580 There's at least a little bit of conviction in the world. 479 00:33:20,580 --> 00:33:25,440 You just may have to take it in with you. 480 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:30,640 What if you're the only conviction that they're receiving? 481 00:33:30,640 --> 00:33:32,180 I better stop. 482 00:33:32,180 --> 00:33:43,040 You need to stand. 483 00:33:43,040 --> 00:33:45,000 Somebody say we get a little reprieve next week. 484 00:33:45,000 --> 00:33:49,760 It's Mother's Day. 485 00:33:49,760 --> 00:33:52,680 So we'll get a little reprieve on living in the meantime. 486 00:33:52,680 --> 00:33:56,160 Actually, you're going to get two weeks reprieve. 487 00:33:56,160 --> 00:33:59,680 I'm going to preach a good sweet loving sermon next week. 488 00:33:59,680 --> 00:34:01,920 Hopefully the Lord will give me something sweet for Mother's Day. 489 00:34:01,920 --> 00:34:03,720 Say amen, Mama. 490 00:34:03,720 --> 00:34:07,160 The pastor needs something sweet. 491 00:34:07,160 --> 00:34:11,380 This is hard gospel truth, isn't it? 492 00:34:11,380 --> 00:34:15,600 It convicts me when I preach it. 493 00:34:15,600 --> 00:34:17,680 Convicted by the word. 494 00:34:17,680 --> 00:34:21,160 Is my life lining up enough? 495 00:34:21,160 --> 00:34:26,160 So it encourages me a little when you walk into places and other people. 496 00:34:26,160 --> 00:34:27,160 That's the preacher. 497 00:34:27,160 --> 00:34:32,280 And see, one or two of them, those little boys had actually come and visited and they 498 00:34:32,280 --> 00:34:34,000 got to hear it for themselves. 499 00:34:34,000 --> 00:34:39,560 And so when I'm in front of them, I got to be that same guy. 500 00:34:39,560 --> 00:34:47,760 There has to be a consistency in my testimony. 501 00:34:47,760 --> 00:34:53,160 What they saw here, they need to see come through the door of the store. 502 00:34:53,160 --> 00:34:56,160 That's what they need to hear. 503 00:34:56,160 --> 00:35:02,240 Doesn't it make you feel good to know that you're doing something right? 504 00:35:02,240 --> 00:35:09,440 When others recognize the Jesus that's in you, they recognize it. 505 00:35:09,440 --> 00:35:13,560 Which were the only conviction that a lot of people see. 506 00:35:13,560 --> 00:35:16,080 Your life that you're living. 507 00:35:16,080 --> 00:35:19,640 We've been given a work to do. 508 00:35:19,640 --> 00:35:22,000 The master of that house left them a work to do. 509 00:35:22,000 --> 00:35:25,160 He called each one of them up and he gave them their assignments. 510 00:35:25,160 --> 00:35:28,280 We've been given one assignment. 511 00:35:28,280 --> 00:35:31,080 Tell the good news. 512 00:35:31,080 --> 00:35:33,240 Just tell the good news. 513 00:35:33,240 --> 00:35:35,840 You don't have to get into theological discussions with folks. 514 00:35:35,840 --> 00:35:37,920 You just have to tell them. 515 00:35:37,920 --> 00:35:41,360 You know Jesus loves you. 516 00:35:41,360 --> 00:35:46,120 And if you don't know how to go into any further and witness into that, say, I've got a pastor. 517 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:49,000 If you'll just come listen, he'll take you. 518 00:35:49,000 --> 00:35:56,480 It might be a little rough for some folks, but I'm going to tell them the truth and try 519 00:35:56,480 --> 00:36:00,760 to love them all the way to the cross of Calvary. 520 00:36:00,760 --> 00:36:03,960 You do realize I love you, right? 521 00:36:03,960 --> 00:36:09,040 I know my children sometimes used to say, Dad, you've got a hard way of showing it. 522 00:36:09,040 --> 00:36:15,040 Well, if I didn't love you, I'd just let you be a heathen and do what you wanted to 523 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:16,040 do. 524 00:36:16,040 --> 00:36:21,640 But I love you enough to try to bring some correction into your life. 525 00:36:21,640 --> 00:36:25,240 Because as a father, that was part of my commission. 526 00:36:25,240 --> 00:36:31,000 To teach and to raise up my children. 527 00:36:31,000 --> 00:36:33,000 So I did my best. 528 00:36:33,000 --> 00:36:37,840 It just transpires over across this podium. 529 00:36:37,840 --> 00:36:40,840 I know sometimes that I sound really rough. 530 00:36:40,840 --> 00:36:46,480 My eyes bulge out and that blood vein gets big. 531 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:54,160 It's because I'm passionate about your life and the well-being of your life and the well-being 532 00:36:54,160 --> 00:36:57,320 of those people that you come in contact with. 533 00:36:57,320 --> 00:37:01,000 Because see, I understand that you're the conviction that's in their presence. 534 00:37:01,000 --> 00:37:03,080 It's Christ in you, not you. 535 00:37:03,080 --> 00:37:05,000 It's not me. 536 00:37:05,000 --> 00:37:09,480 It's Christ in us. 537 00:37:09,480 --> 00:37:15,000 So that when he shines through, that's a good thing because you're crucifying yourself daily 538 00:37:15,000 --> 00:37:21,800 and he's shining through you. 539 00:37:21,800 --> 00:37:22,800 Bring them to the fountain. 540 00:37:22,800 --> 00:37:26,040 That's all you got to do is get them in here. 541 00:37:26,040 --> 00:37:30,240 My responsibility is to preach the gospel. 542 00:37:30,240 --> 00:37:33,160 You get them and we'll preach them and love them. 543 00:37:33,160 --> 00:37:36,480 Amen, Father, I love you. 544 00:37:36,480 --> 00:37:42,880 Prepare me to be a sanctuary. 545 00:37:42,880 --> 00:37:49,800 Lord, we're the body of Christ. 546 00:37:49,800 --> 00:37:57,600 We're endeavoring to be you to the world. 547 00:37:57,600 --> 00:38:03,680 That we are your express image. 548 00:38:03,680 --> 00:38:11,080 It may be our face and our body, but it's your glory that shines through us. 549 00:38:11,080 --> 00:38:16,520 It's your testimony that others see in our life that yes, even in this world, you can 550 00:38:16,520 --> 00:38:19,200 live right and enjoy life. 551 00:38:19,200 --> 00:38:22,200 You don't have to sin to have fun. 552 00:38:22,200 --> 00:38:33,040 It's a good life that we live, but it's eternity that we're concerned about and where they 553 00:38:33,040 --> 00:38:35,320 spend it. 554 00:38:35,320 --> 00:38:44,400 Father, recommission us this morning that as we're going into this world, that we be 555 00:38:44,400 --> 00:38:52,560 your light, that people see you before they see us and begin to announce it to those who 556 00:38:52,560 --> 00:38:58,200 are around us, to those that are around us. 557 00:38:58,200 --> 00:39:06,400 I wonder how many of you have some folks that you'd like to see saved. 558 00:39:06,400 --> 00:39:10,920 You'd like to see them in heaven one day, but right now that if the Lord came tonight, 559 00:39:10,920 --> 00:39:15,760 most likely it wouldn't happen. 560 00:39:15,760 --> 00:39:18,440 If he came right now, you know it wouldn't happen. 561 00:39:18,440 --> 00:39:23,800 I'm not trying to cast judgment on people, but you know you see an apple hanging on an 562 00:39:23,800 --> 00:39:28,120 apple tree, it's an apple. 563 00:39:28,120 --> 00:39:35,440 We know by the fruit of our life and the fruit of their life what's on the inside. 564 00:39:35,440 --> 00:39:41,640 I'm not casting judgment, I'm just calling it like it is. 565 00:39:41,640 --> 00:39:47,440 Father forever hand is lifted. 566 00:39:47,440 --> 00:39:56,960 Represents a soul, loved ones, neighbors, friends, acquaintances. 567 00:39:56,960 --> 00:39:59,600 They need you. 568 00:39:59,600 --> 00:40:03,640 And I pray Father that they see you through me. 569 00:40:03,640 --> 00:40:07,480 That they see you through me in my testimony, in my witness. 570 00:40:07,480 --> 00:40:12,120 It's not that I'm perfect, it's not that I'm without mistake or without failure, but that 571 00:40:12,120 --> 00:40:16,520 they see me in my failure, repent. 572 00:40:16,520 --> 00:40:22,320 Be a right and new before you. 573 00:40:22,320 --> 00:40:27,840 That they long to have what I possess. 574 00:40:27,840 --> 00:40:32,520 Save our friends, save our family. 575 00:40:32,520 --> 00:40:35,680 Holy Ghost you are the convictor. 576 00:40:35,680 --> 00:40:41,000 Begin to draw them, begin to draw them in. 577 00:40:41,000 --> 00:40:42,200 Bring them Lord to Calvary. 578 00:40:42,200 --> 00:40:48,640 I don't care what church they go to, as long as it's one preaching Jesus. 579 00:40:48,640 --> 00:40:49,640 Take them to Calvary. 580 00:40:49,640 --> 00:40:56,160 Take them to Calvary. 581 00:40:56,160 --> 00:41:00,640 May we be about the Father's business. 582 00:41:00,640 --> 00:41:04,280 Amen and amen. 583 00:41:04,280 --> 00:41:14,360 Give the Lord praise for his word. 584 00:41:14,360 --> 00:41:21,000 Don't forget the ladies brunch Saturday, I think it starts at 10 from 10 to 12, I think 585 00:41:21,000 --> 00:41:22,000 is what it is. 586 00:41:22,000 --> 00:41:23,000 Ladies you need to sign up. 587 00:41:23,000 --> 00:41:24,000 It's a Mother's Day. 588 00:41:24,000 --> 00:41:32,720 Hallelujah there it is, killed that battery. 589 00:41:32,720 --> 00:41:34,680 So with that, going grace, going peace. 590 00:41:34,680 --> 00:41:39,760 If you're visiting with us today, please stop by out those doors to my left. 591 00:41:39,760 --> 00:41:40,920 We have some folks waiting for you. 592 00:41:40,920 --> 00:41:42,400 We want to give you something special. 593 00:41:42,400 --> 00:41:43,880 You say what is it? 594 00:41:43,880 --> 00:41:47,080 Well, it's something's got our church name on it. 595 00:41:47,080 --> 00:41:51,440 When you look at it, I want you to pray for me and this church. 596 00:41:51,440 --> 00:41:52,440 Amen. 597 00:41:52,440 --> 00:41:53,440 So take it with you. 598 00:41:53,440 --> 00:41:54,440 God bless you. 599 00:41:54,440 --> 00:41:59,440 Going grace, birthday and anniversary folks for April, May, what month we in? 600 00:41:59,440 --> 00:42:03,240 May go get you a cupcake or a cookie. 601 00:42:03,240 --> 00:42:04,240 God bless you. 602 00:42:04,240 --> 00:42:24,640 Happy birthday and happy anniversary.