And welcome back this week.
Back again, back again.
Goodness.
And technical difficulties abounding.
I have no working camera tonight for some strange reason that
I cannot even begin
to understand or explain.
So that's going to be fun to figure out later on.
Hey, at least
the internet didn't go down because that's that same thing that has the
dock that has that on it is also where the internet's plugged in.
So, uh, you know,
Yeah, the internet stayed up, the laptop's still charging off of it.
So, well, I assume it's charging off of that or the other one.
don't know.
It's charging off of one of these 2 docks.
So, you know, something's working.
So
we'll, uh, we hopefully we'll have that fixed before next week,
but, um, how's your week been, brother Brian?
Awesome so far.
Yeah, yeah, I had a good day.
So today's my birthday.
And, uh, yeah, so I've been getting all the all
the birthday wishes and the Facebook birthday wishes and all the things.
So, yeah, so...
Actually, did not realize that was today.
52 years young today.
Hey, there we go.
Yeah, just thankful to live another day.
Hey, amen.
That is that is always a blessing.
And this week, Dennis is off enjoying
the ski slopes and hopefully not breaking anything.
He threatened to come back with a cast.
So, yeah.
Hopefully he's doing well and
we're definitely praying for him and glad he's getting to go have some
a good time with his son and his family and spend time with all them.
And so tonight we have brother Carter here with us.
Yeah.
Awesome.
Good to have you with us tonight.
Now you were here last year, year before last?
Yeah, last year.
Probably early
in the year, January, February.
Yeah, it wasn't long ago.
About a year ago.
started, yeah.
Yeah, you, uh, you had, uh, I don't
think you had taken the church at that or the, you've done it because
we were talking about youth ministry when I was here.
I was fresh, though.
I'm saying something like that.
Yeah, yeah, really early on.
So nearly no knowledge of anything.
And, you know, only a year and a half in now, maybe a year
and a couple of months, but maybe a little more knowledge than what I had before.
Hey, well, we are we were very glad to get you to come
back and play some for us and talk with us about things.
I know I know doing youth.
I think I said at that time was, it's
a special calling, takes a special heart, and it is tough.
It is really tough because, you
know, you can youth can always catch
you off guard sometimes.
There's nothing more rewarding, though.
I think seeing, not
that you don't in adults, but seeing kids grow in their faith and
watching them watching
the discipleship process and then becoming disciples themselves and
going and making more.
and uh, I don't know.
It is great to see adults, but there's just something about watching kids grab
a hold of what the Lord wants to do in their life.
And so it's fine.
And lately you've been, you've been like throwing some
questions out there, like if they got some questions to bring them in and
answering some tough topics, that kind of thing.
Yeah, so maybe not using the big vocab terms,
but, you know, having the hard conversations and explaining some stuff to them.
And I've watched, I've got a set of twins
that are in the 8th grade and they've
came to me lately with all these, you know, huge questions about free will
and about, you know, uh, what we've
talked about eternal security.
And, you know, kind of more in-depth stuff.
And, uh, anyways, they, uh, they started a
little Bible study on FaceTime with their friends and they were telling me about it and
they're like, it's going real well.
I leading it tonight.
I'm like, that's great, guys.
you know, 8 little 8th graders.
And I said, how many people are on there?
And last night we had 40, not before 38.
And I'm like, holy cow.
Oh, wow.
40 kids on a FaceTime Bible study and just watching stuff like that.
That's awesome.
Yeah, it's been fun.
awesome.
Yeah, man.
Man, you can't beat that.
Knowing those kids learning how to be leaders at a young age, you know?
So, man, that's awesome.
I love it.
Well, hey, keep encouraging them because we definitely
want kids to keep doing that.
We need leaders.
I mean that's what we're supposed to be doing.
We got to be bringing them up as leaders and being ready to do
what God's called them to do because sometimes that's step up
into leadership positions and take over things.
And sometimes it's, you know, it's to, here,
you can go clean the floor and, you know, whatever it is, just getting kids
ready to accept that calling as it comes.
Because that's tricky.
It's tricky because a lot of kids, they maybe have
the ability and have the knowledge, but they really don't want to be leaders.
Yeah.
And, you know, there's a common misconception that, you know,
although these kids are the church of tomorrow, they can be the church of today too.
Oh, absolutely.
I think that that was something that I, uh, learned
early on and was kind of, uh, you know, taught early on
at the church I grew up at was, you know, uh, I
was a teenager getting up and leading worship and uh, able to do things
like that and Sunday school we'd have random Sundays
where the teens would lead it and they'd be the ones teaching and it wasn't.
So it was, you know, we want y'all to be just involved as the adults are.
And although you may not have it all figured out yet.
It's good for you to be stepping into those
opportunities being involved in the church like the rest of the congregation is.
And there is nothing better than having, um,
adults that will come alongside of these
young kids, these teenagers as they're coming up
and say, here, I want you to lead this particular
thing for us on this youth Sunday or whatever and working
with them and saying, let me help you plan it out.
Let me show you how to, um, that was one of the things that when
I was growing up, this church was so small, we really didn't have anybody doing that kind
of stuff, it was just kind of like, hey, we need you to do this.
It's like, what do I do?
You know, get up and read a Bible's verse.
Yeah.
What?
And it would have been really helpful to have
somebody that could have, uh, you know, come alongside there and gone,
okay, so here's what the Sunday school lesson's going to be about that Sunday,
and so we need you to, you know, we're going to try to get something that goes with this
and pray about it and see what, you know, how this works in and things like that.
It would have been very helpful.
I, you know, I, and I was blessed to grow up in a church where
they really did pour into the youth at Mount Carmel.
And I know I've talked about this before, but,
um, but I think part of the reason that I'm here today, not only
the, the pastors, the pastors that poured into me,
uh, and mentored me and my dad mentoring
me and leadership and those types of things, but there was
some sweet little old ladies that poured into me too.
man.
We would have you Sunday.
And uh, and they had a, they had a class called uh,
the Habaka uh, Sunday school class
and it was just all these little old
ladies in the church and those ladies were
brilliant when it come to the word of God.
I mean, it was, it would make you more nervous to be in their class than
it was anybody else, but they would, they would bring me in on you Sunday
and they wanted me to teach.
And so I can remember, I really feel like that's
when God began to develop my calling is teaching Sunday
school at a young age and really bearing
down and studying not to make a fool out of myself in front of those ladies.
And even if I had of, and I probably did, they were so encouraging.
They were super encouraging to me and like, you know,
just thank you for teaching us today,
you know, I didn't teach them anything.
They didn't know, but, uh, but, but, but, man, that,
that, that was my, my foundation in my background,
you know, um, that they, they, they did.
They poured into the youth.
They didn't just sit back and say, yeah, one day.
No, no, you can be, if you're saved and
and you're a part of the church, then you
need to be, you need to dig in, right?
Diggy Hills in and do something.
Yeah, and that's the beauty of like Christianity.
If you were a novice at any other thing jumping
in and trying to teach a class would not necessarily go
well, but I bet they got so much out of, even if you made a fool of yourself, just,
uh, the Lord could use you in a way just to bless them because
they see a young person or reveal something to you that they
didn't see in that light or just, I
feel like over the years, uh, the Lord's grown me
and shown me things and, you know, as a teenager, I've shared
something with somebody and they can see the Lord working in my life and that being a big thing.
And so that you don't get that in any other place
or occupation where somebody who is a beginner at something can
stand up and lead, you know.
Well, it's a blessing too, to watch when
those when those young people grow up.
Right now, I think we've got, I
don't know, 4 or 5 different men
and young men who have came from our church
just since I've been here in the last 20 years, who
are now pastoring churches themselves.
And that's just, to me, it's
not like I've done anything, but just to watch them develop
and to watch God, um, take them
and use them because that's what we're here for.
You know, I hate to lose them when they go somewhere.
But, but really, that's, that should be our job to to
raise them up and send them out.
Right, right.
Yeah, it's absolutely.
Absolutely.
Um, Yeah,
so, uh, what do we what do we got for tonight?
Let me, let me, I want to do.
I want to do one little thing and then we're going to get into the into some
worship here and because that's what we're here for tonight.
But I do, I do want to, because this, this is the, the,
uh, the elephant in the room with everybody right now and,
and I'm not going to get deep into it.
might get a little bit deeper into it next week when we get back into Revelation.
But, you know, we got to all those things that are going
on right now with the U.S. and Iran and
Israel.
Um, And I just want to say, I've
seen some crazy posts out there about some
crazy prophecy stuff that really are
not biblical and they're not right.
And I've seen some good stuff out there too, some solid
stuff that they've used scripture to back it up.
Guys, we know that we're living in the last days.
And we know that Christ could come at any moment.
There's, there's no prophecy left that
would keep Christ from coming back and or at least,
uh, meeting us in the air and rapturing the church out.
Okay?
The rapture could take place at any moment, at any time.
Nothing in prophecy.
It has to be fulfilled to keep that from happening.
There's other things after that that will be fulfilled.
But nothing is holding that back.
Um,
And so when we look at all this,
all this that's going on right now, war in Iran.
This is nothing neat at all.
Nothing new at all.
They've been fighting for over 2000 years.
They've been, the only
difference now they're, they're, they're shooting missiles instead of throwing rocks, you know?
But this has been going on forever.
And this does not mean that the end is here.
In fact, Matthew 24 tells us that, you know,
when you hear wars and rumors of wars, that,
you know, that this, the end is not yet.
And so, so, again, are we in the last days?
Yes.
Does this war that we're having?
Does every little thing that happens
over in the Middle East mean that now, okay, it's fixing to happen right now?
No, no, it doesn't mean that.
Pay attention.
Israel is a time clock for God's promises,
but pay attention to the word of God, pay attention to scripture,
and and just pay attention to what we're supposed to be doing
because the church has
the greatest opportunity that I believe that
has ever been since, since Christ died.
I mean, with technology, with opportunities
to get out and to spread the gospel, to be able to go
and uh, to to evangelize and
to to do mission work.
We have a greater opportunity today to do all those things
than we ever had before.
And so I'm saying today, just be about the father's business, right?
I preached on 2nd Chronicle 714 last night,
that familiar chapter and verse.
Um, and, and, you know,
he gives us this list of things that we've got today, humble ourselves.
Pray, seek his face.
And when we go through that process, when we do that,
he says, then I will hear from them and
I will heal their land.
So we need to be focused on that.
We need to be focused on being humble.
We need to focus on prayer.
We need to focus on seeking the face of God when we worship.
And one of the things I talked about last night is
not manufacturing worship, right?
worship cannot be man-made.
It cannot be manufactured.
We can't drum it up and say, okay, you
know, if I play this song, then because
this happened when I played this song last time, then
it's going to happen again today.
I think we get caught up in that.
You know, we get these, we got certain songs that we like to hear and
we think, man, this is going to break out, but let's
count on more on the Holy Spirit being in any song or
any type of worship than than just
one particular thing and putting God in this box over here.
Uh, true worship is when we worship in spirit and truth,
because God is a spirit.
And so we must worship in spirit and truth.
That's what the word of God tells us.
And so that's what we want to do.
And I know that that's what I know that's what you put into it every
time you pick up that guitar, every time you step up to
that mic and I'm thankful.
I'm thankful for you and for that.
Uh, thankful uh, to have a son-in-law
to lead my daughter and and uh,
and to lead other people into worship.
And so that's that's just what we want to do tonight.
I want you to feel free and the freedom to worship and
to seek God's face tonight as we play.
I think we, uh, for anybody that's new or
maybe wasn't here earlier last year when Carter got come.
This is Brother Brian's son-in-law.
Just in case somebody missed that.
And it is.
It comes across when I've gotten to see you here,
come and sing with us and perform for us.
It really comes across that you've put some, you've put prayer
into it and you are trusting God's spirit because
it's obvious when people don't.
I mean, we've had groups here from time to
time that come in and it's like, wow, that was dead as
a doornail because they were they were showy.
They were exciting, but it was just dead spiritually.
And unfortunately, a lot of the modern churches
have gotten this idea that they have to create the
atmosphere of worship rather than entering into
the atmosphere of worship.
You know, you're coming to worship.
You're not bringing the worship or creating it.
You're entering into it.
And I think people forget that a lot because there's a reason it's worded that way.
There's a reason we are, we're stepping
into the presence of God and into his house, dividing him in the room.
Yeah.
Yeah, yeah.
an invitation to and just an invitation.
It's, you know, God come in and do as you will
and surrender.
It's a surrender, but you see a lot of the modern churches do.
They, they, absolutely.
I mean, and I think I've said it before on here.
There are modern churches that literally have classes
for their worship leaders on how to create an
atmosphere of worship and it is all about just
getting people so excited and so fired up.
And so, and it's like, wow, what are you guys trying to do here?
Yeah, and it's not a new music against old music.
vice versa.
It's just, it's across the board.
It really is.
Yeah, because they can do it with any of the music.
It's not it's not specifically new stuff or old stuff.
They can do it.
It's amazing to watch how they will do this training
and stuff and they'll use amazing grace.
And that'll be part of it and they'll use, you know,
old hymns and I'm like, Lord have mercy.
Why are you so focused on trying to make people feel a certain way?
I think there should be a balance that's not there anymore between
leading people because you are a worship leader.
You're trying to lead it, but also worship yourself and worship,
not worship not worshiping yourself, but worship for yourself.
And if I am leading
worship somewhere, my goal should
be, I'm leading them absolutely, but it should be to worship the
Father and I extend an invitation for the congregation to do the same.
Yeah, come with me and worship me with me, right?
absolutely.
Y'all worship and not entertain you, but worship, let's worship together.
Yeah, yeah, absolutely.
And it is.
It's very sad when I see churches that have entered
into that newer idea of we're going to make
people feel a certain way and create this thing.
creative atmosphere.
Yeah, it's like, no, no, just enter into worship.
Yeah, because God's already...
Hopefully God's already there.
Now, if he's not there in the church to begin with, you've got a completely different problem.
You
know, I have to, you mentioned that about the Iranian
stuff going on, and I do have to share.
I was rather stunned.
I don't know if you knew about this.
They, they actually, the, the number
one goal was to take care of the, was to get rid of the leaders that were over there.
I mean, they were they were killing the Iranians that were protesting, what
was it, like 40,000, I think, a couple of months ago, they just went out and just murdered them.
It was awful.
And so our goal was to get rid of, obviously, the leadership.
And the entire mission was pretty much done in about 4 hours.
Um, something that they were expecting
to take, you know, several months and a couple hours, they were done.
And I'm like, whoa.
And then, so the the,
these are the largest producers
of terrorists in the world right now.
The Taliban is a 100 is primarily
funded from Iran.
Uh, um, um, Hezbollah,
all of these other terror groups are primarily funded by Iran.
And, I mean, it's awful.
So they obviously wanted to get another leader lined up.
Um, I think they got the new guy about 2
or 3 hours ago.
I think he was in office a grand total of about 20 minutes.
Oh, yeah.
So, so their their leaders over there are kind of
panicked today and going, no, no, we don't want to step up.
We'll stay in our cave.
So, be praying, be praying.
Pray, pray, pray, Christians for it because, like, brother
Ryan said, it's, it's really not, you know, anything
that signs anything more than just, it's another war and
it's another, or it's another battle.
I'm not even going to go so far as say this is a war.
This is really looking and feeling more like this is going to be a fairly short skirmish.
It's going to go on for a little bit and then we're going to be done.
And I can only hope for the Iranian people.
I've heard stories from people that had to come to America when
the Shaw was overthrown back in the 70s and it was awful.
I mean, they have, there are people in our area.
I don't know if you know this, but there are people that live right here in our area
that have family.
They don't get to see, but like one or 2 members at
a time every few years because they're not allowed to leave Iran
together and have not been since the 70s.
And I'm like brothers and sisters and kids that grew up not
getting to see their aunts and uncles.
And that's awful.
That's terrible that they've been in that in that position for so
long and it's like, hey, we might might actually get out, get that gone.
So I'm praying for those people.
I'm praying for them that, hey, it'd be great.
Some of these folks get to see their grandkids and great grandchildren
and nieces and nephews that they've never even met.
That'd be awesome.
And and so I pray that God can use this to kind of kind
of bring some bring some peace to some folks.
Um, and that's a weird thing to say when people are shooting at each other.
But hopefully what's on the other side is a little bit of peace for a time
because we know that when things go real peaceful over there, I'm going to be honest.
when I'm real worried.
Well, patient, you know, if it gets completely peaceful,
I'm concerned because I miss something.
No, yeah, peace is a person anyway, right?
That's right.
It's in Jesus, and that's what we find, and that's who we're worshiping tonight.
Let's worship you.
So let's worship.
Yeah.
Look at the flowers.
In all of their beauty.
I
don't have to wonder You
know what you're doing.
So
why would I worry it all?
You're faithful to supply.
Everything I
need, everything I need.
My father has.
My father has it every
single time.
The Lord will provide my
father has it.
My father has it.
Ooh,
look at the sparrow.
It's lacking for nothing.
No
fear of tomorrow.
And what it will bring.
Always,
I have you, I have enough.
Cause your love will satisfy.
Everything I
need Everything I need.
My father has it.
My father has it every
single time.
The Lord will provide.
My father has it.
Everything I need.
My father has it.
My father has it, every
single time.
The Lord will provide.
My father has it.
My father has it all.
So seek first the kingdom
and its treasures.
Everything else, it will
be added, all that
I'm needed.
I know the
Lord will provide.
I
know my God's not empty
handed.
He gives us blessings.
Blessings, and I'm
still believing.
I know the Lord
will provide.
So
seek first the kingdom and
its treasures.
Everything else it will
be I did, all that I needed.
I know the
Lord will provide.
I
know, my God's not empty
handy.
He gives us blessings all apart.
Blessings.
I'm still believing.
I know the
Lord will provide.
Everything
I need Everything I need.
My father has it.
And every single time the
Lord will prove I.
My father has it.
My father has it,
oh, everything I need.
Everything I need.
I know my father has it.
My father has it.
And every single time.
The Lord will provide My
father has it.
My father has it.
I
know the Lord will provide.
Hey,
man, amen.
Amen.
I think we, uh, we
get caught up in worry and anxiety and all the things,
you know, and and I mentioned yesterday and in
our, uh,
our marriage, uh,
messages that I've been preaching the series.
I've been preaching that, uh, you know, we we do get
worried sometimes and and if we
say that we don't, we're we're lying, right?
But, uh, but man, when you sit and think about it,
whatever we need, he's got it.
you know, and and I don't
want to get materialistic with it or or, you know,
prosperity gospel with it.
But, but I will say this, you know, all
all the spiritual things, of course, is what we're really,
that's 1st and foremost, and that's what we deal with when
we're dealing with scripture most of the time, but, but he
does provide for us everything else too.
Food, shelter.
The Bible says you'll never see one of his begging bread.
And, um, so there's been times
that, I know when Nicole and I, uh, in,
in our, in our marriage in the last, uh, 20,
um, 29 years, uh, that, uh,
that I thought, man, how are we going to pay this bill or what are we going to do here,
especially when we were younger and, and, uh, you know,
the income wasn't as much.
And, uh, and then there would be a,
a check come in like, uh, from I overpaid insurance company
or, or, you know, uh, got a
refund back on something that I had no idea was going to get a refund
back on and just all these things that, that God
just, our neighbor comes over and says, hey, cook
supper tonight, you know, God takes care of us.
Yeah, does.
And his word reminds us in so many ways too.
You find it.
I mean, the song talked about looking at
the flowers and the beauty and you look at creation and
think, man, he's got this or scripture
in that song too, just talking about, you know, him caring for the sparrows.
if he's going to care for them.
He's going to care for us too.
And you look at most popular scripture, like, you know,
I looked at the 23rd Psalm for so long,
Lord's my Shepherd, I shall not want.
And then I looked at the part about green pastures and
still waters for so long as like, man, that's a peaceful
scene and just imagine tranquility and that kind of stuff.
And maybe that is good and the Lord can provide us with that kind of stuff too.
But for a sheep, that's that's sustenance.
That's food and drink.
And so, I mean, we stress
out and worry about all kinds of stuff.
We can be confident knowing that he's
going to provide for what we need.
Amen.
He is our provider.
And so we trust in that.
And what a good song.
What a wonderful song, uh, if that voice sounds familiar
to you and you hadn't, uh, you wasn't here last time,
uh, our, our song, um, that
we, our intro song that we have.
That's that's Carter singing with some
background girls and Tatum.
Tatum, my daughter is in there. and a
couple of partain girls.
So, uh, but, uh, but yeah, uh,
I've, uh, I appreciate that.
I wrote down some words and Carter made
them work and put music to them.
You get a credit.
You got to write the credit.
That's all it takes.
Hey, and like
I said last time, y'all, y'all threw that together super quick, so...
It was very spur of the moment, and, hey,
I'm going to send gel an audio file, listen to it, and come tomorrow
to record it, and we had it done in 2 days, and yeah,
yeah.
And here we go.
Here we go.
So, man.
What else you got in there?
Oh, this is a new one.
I love a
lot of elevation worship stuff.
I may not agree with all their their doctoring at their church, but their
songs most of the time are pretty scriptural. and I
have like, they maybe released this a week or 2 ago.
So I really don't know it that well, but I have been worshiping
to this, just ministered to buy this song.
So I'll play it real quick.
Okay.
I
don't have a halo, but I wanna
sing with the A.
I
don't know the future that I know
the God of the ages.
When
I think of
all you've done.
I
could see my
whole life long.
This simple song, thank you.
Thank you.
For the wonders you've
done, and the ones that you're still gonna do.
Thank you.
I
was a bed now, I have a
seat at the table.
I
was an orphan, now I have a
father who's faithful.
And
when I think
of all you've done.
I
could see mine.
Oh, last long.
This simple song Thank
you.
Thank you.
Before the wonders you've
done And the ones that you're still gonna do.
Thank you.
All my worship belongs
to the one who has carried me
through.
Thank you.
I
can't breathe in your breath and not sing
of your love.
Oh, you've done too much for me.
I care for back my heart,
my hallelujah.
Oh, you've done too
much for me.
I was lost, but you Wash me
clean with your blood.
Oh.
Look what you've done for me.
I will never stop singing
hallelujah.
Oh, look what you've done for me.
I can't breathe in your breath
And not sing out of your love.
Oh, you've done too much for me.
I can't pull back my heart on
my hallelujah.
Oh, we've done too much
for me.
I was lost in you.
Wash me clean with your blood.
Oh, you won't do much for me.
I will never stop singing
Hallelujah.
Oh, what you've
done for me.
Thank you.
Thank
you.
Oh, for the wonders you've done.
And the ones that you're still gonna do.
Thank you.
All my worship belongs
to the one who has carried me through.
Thank you.
For the wondrous you've
done And the ones that you're still gonna do.
Thank you.
I
know we're done enough.
But I'll keep showing up with these two.
Thank you.
Amen.
Well, forever be thankful to him
all throughout eternity, won't we?
There is nothing that we can do
to give back to him or to repay
what he's done for us, but to
give us, to give our lives up, to be a
living, to be a living sacrifice for him,
um, and to just uh, holy
and fully worship, like what we've
been talking about doing and realize that he is our
provider, and he does give us everything, and then when we realize that,
to thank him for it.
Yeah.
So, say, what can we say to him other than thank you.
Yeah.
I see it.
Yeah, the least we could do is be a sacrifice ourselves.
If he sacrificed his life for us, why can't we do the same?
Yeah.
Amen.
absolutely.
Well, and Paul, you know, makes that very clear
to us that that is very possibly what we're going to be called
to do and that, hey, that's that's just more for us.
That's just gain.
Yeah, yeah.
you know, sacrifice comes in so many different ways.
It can come monetarily.
It can come with our time.
I think sometimes we're more apt
to throw some money at something that we are to
give our time to it, right?
I can put some money in the plate.
But when I'm asked to, uh, uh, to teach that
VBS class or to, you know, fill in that Sunday
school class or to go on that mission trip or,
you know, step out of the box some way or somehow and
God's calling us to something.
Uh, that's when it gets harder and we start,
we start uh, sacrificing time and and
we start uh, sacrificing resources and different things like that.
So, but I think whatever it is that he wants
us to sacrifice, we need to be willing to do it.
All of those things are forms of worship.
I feel like the word worship, although it can
be through song and it can be through raising your hand
in service and praise that way.
you know, giving is just as much of a form of worship.
It really is.
And I, you know, and I've preached on time, I think before, and it's
not like people like to hear it, especially from the pasture, but I
don't want them to look at.
God doesn't need your money.
And he really doesn't need your time or your resources.
But he does want you.
I always go back to that casting
crown song, you know, that says that he doesn't, he doesn't
need me, but he wants me.
And so for me to be willing to say, okay,
God, if you want me, that's what could
be better than the God of the universe, the creator
of everything, actually wants to have a
relationship with me and wants me to serve him.
I mean, we should be willing to give it all up.
But it is a form of worship, right?
Whether it's monetarily or whatever it is, because what you're
doing is saying, okay, Lord, I trust you with
what's not mine anyways, but I trust you with what you've given me.
I'll give it back to you and you you take care of it and you multiply it.
Yeah, I think having the posture of a manager is
what's lacked most of the time now.
We're here to manage the belongings we have is us
managing and not owning it.
Yeah, right.
Even that being our time.
We're here to manage it, not take ownership over it.
It's all the Lord's.
Well, that takes perspective too, because you've got to realize
why you're here and what you're, you know, why do I have this job?
Well, I've got this job so that I can provide for my family so that I
can, you know, so that we can eat so that we can do whatever.
But really, I mean, God's going to take care of all that too.
But our main purpose is in everything that
we do and our jobs that we've been given, our positions
that we have, the blessings that we get, our job
is to just, like you said, to manage
it and let God use it for the glory of him, to
A be lifted up in it, uh, and and not us.
So, because like I said, we own nothing.
when he comes right down to it.
We own nothing.
Well, you have to recognize that you own nothing and then there's
the added piece that, um,
I think it's lost
because a lot of places put so much emphasis on tie,
tie, tie, tie, tithe.
And like I say, I get really nervous when I see churches
puts the emphasis on it, followed by, and here's
how God's going to bless you.
That's where you have a problem.
It's not saying you need to tithe.
You need the tithe, you got to give.
But it's not for the blessings.
It's not for these other things, but we get so focused on that that
we forget and people get so caught up in that.
like, well, I wrote my check.
What more do you want from me?
And it's like, I don't know.
You know, maybe the fact that he saved you from from hell and
he gave you a new life and he's given you a home in heaven for
eternity, you could give him a few years on earth.
Yeah.
Well, every act should be done
with the purpose of exalting the Lord and to receive something in return.
And go ahead.
No, no, I was just going to say, he tells us to give out a thankful heart, too.
Not begrudgingly.
right?
So when we're when we're putting that dollar in
the plate or what or that $1000 in the plate, if you're if
you're pulling back on it and trying to
keep it in the same thing with your with your time, right?
Well, I've got so many other things that I could be doing right
now, but I'm over here at the church and I'm doing this.
Well, if that's the way you feel about it, then you're
not doing it right anyway, right?
I mean, this should be a blessed opportunity just
one more time to lift up the name of Jesus and to proclaim his name to the world.
Yeah, we talk about tithing.
The 1st thing that comes to mind.
First story is Mary with her alabaster
box and anointing the Lord's feet,
and then you have the disciples who speak up
and they say, what a waste.
Like, and they're all confused.
Like, I was preaching about this to my kids
and, you know, set a year's wages and I'm like, average American salary.
65 grand.
And you imagine pouring that out at the feet of Jesus.
And so they're sitting there saying, we could have gave this to the poor.
We could have we could have done so much else for this.
We could have bought more food.
We could have done whatever else.
And, uh, that's their mindset and I probably
would have the same in that moment.
But Jesus looks at them and says, you do not realize what
beautiful things she just did.
And, uh, so, you know,
giving your money towards the Lord is the same thing.
You know, you're making those sacrifices and he looks down on
that and uses that to exalt himself.
Well, and think about that story in contrast,
you have the rich young ruler that came out.
And he says, give up everything you have and come, you know, sell it
to the 4 and give all of it away and then come follow me.
And he was like, oh, well.
You know, can't do that.
And then here she is.
s a year's wages.
Here you go.
I mean, he was able to keep the commandments, right?
to do those things, but when he said, okay, you
know, give everything up and follow me, just another time Jesus
turned everything on its head.
Yeah.
And there's the Mary story, they're sitting in Simon the leper's house.
That Hardy is crazy, you know?
So it's assumed that he healed him beforehand, but I can only
imagine the people in the room that are like, man, we're we're,
you know, eating dinner with the leper.
And he she comes out and does this.
And so, yeah.
And I just wonder, you know, I wonder so many times why
she bought so early this this
ointment because the ointment was made for to
bury a body and they would place the ointment on
the body to keep it from stinking, right?
Because it would get it would get the time
that they left it out until the time that they were able to mummify
the body and wrap it up and all that, they would put the ointment on
it to keep it from stinking.
So I just, I wondered a lot of times if, if,
if she had something that was going on with her that she might have been dying.
Yeah, it was just...
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But anyway, she she bought it.
It was very expensive and she didn't waste it at all, didn't she?
She didn't waste it at all.
Yeah.
Maybe she knew.
Maybe it was, you know, if she...
Because Jesus says, you've prepared me for burial now.
And so maybe that would have been a, you know, just insight that she had.
I don't know.
It was a stay up.
Well, and you got to think, I mean, here she is.
She's, you know, had all the all this stuff leading
up to that and everything that had happened and so many people healed and so many people.
Maybe it was a family member that she bought it for that.
He just walked by one day and went, okay, you're not.
you're fine now.
And she's like, yeah, yeah, Lazarus.
could have been Lazarus.
Yeah.
That's her that's her brother.
And at this point, he's healed.
That's right.
Yeah.
Or not healed, but resurrected.
That's what I'm saying, yeah, healed from death.
pretty good healing.
Absolutely.
Yeah, absolutely.
Absolutely.
That little inconvenient sleep he took for a few days.
Yeah.
Man, that,
that, that right there is one, one of the stories that has always just floored
me because here, here Jesus is.
And this was a family he cared about.
He spent a fair amount of time with them from the way
it reads and the way it talks and the way they speak to him when they see him.
It's obvious that he had a connection there that went a
little deeper than most.
And he shows up and they're like, well, if you'd just been here.
Okay, Martha, if you'd just been here just a
few days ago, everything would have been fine.
And he's like, no, it's it's going to be fine.
I'm still here.
Well how can you do anything now?
Well, okay, just hang on.
I'll show you.
Yeah, and I think the Bible is intentional
was showing the gravity of the situation when it says that he wept, you know?
And so, uh, I don't,
I, I think that keeps you from having the mindset of Jesus
didn't care and he was just nonchalant and walked up and healed him.
there was some depth to this.
Whatever he was weeping about, whether it was the fact that they didn't
believe him or whether it was him actually grieving the death of Lazarus or whatever.
Or both.
Yeah.
And I mean, he had to get he had to get really blunt with the disciples.
We've got to go.
I've got to go and see Lazarus.
and I've got to wake him and they're like, well, I mean, if he's sick and
asleep, he need he's dead, guys.
He just had to spell it out for him.
Yeah.
Yeah, but and it also teaches us a lesson
of future too, because it
should teach us how to deal with death, right?
Because we get so called up in the finality of death.
And if we know Jesus and that person that died,
no knew Jesus, then this is not the end, right?
It may not be 4 days later that he's raised from the grave, but he's going to be raised from the grave.
Yeah.
And we know that.
So amen.
And, you know, I have to ask this.
You guys have, you know, worked with kids and worked with pastoring a church.
Have you ever put it together for people that they completely
ignored him with Lazarus, right?
I'm going to wake him up.
He's going to be fine.
Well, you know, and he's dead.
Well, what are you going to do now?
It's been 4 days.
It's been so long.
Right before he goes into the tomb.
He had told him, I'm gonna wake up.
I'm getting back up after 3 days, and it's not until after he's
risen, and after the stones roll away, and after there's an earthquake,
and after there's all this commotion, hull blue, they're like, oh, yeah,
I remember he said something about that.
Yeah.
It's like, did, seriously, you had 3 years with a guy?
Did you ever listen to a thing he told you?
a lot of things begin to click at his resurrection, you know, yeah.
And tear this temple down in 3 days I'll build it back again.
But we tend to think on an earthly aspect
and his thoughts.
That's what the Bible means when they say his thoughts are so much higher than
Nigers are so much greater than ours because his he's looking.
He sees future, he sees, he's
passed, he sees left, right?
He's got this heavenly perspective on things that we cannot see.
And that's why we're told to lean
not on our own understanding, right?
Proverb 3 says, you know, in all your ways acknowledge him.
And, uh, and, and, and he will direct your paths.
We see things from this earthly perspective from
this human perspective when God says, look, it's so much bigger than that.
so much bigger.
And I don't know, hindsight's 2020 and I'm
sure I can look at scripture
now and say, man, them disciples were just stupid for not seeing it coming
because, you know, they, uh, he
flat out said it, but he fled out said it before, too.
To be fair, they even said that after it was, oh, yeah, we were like,
it even talks about how they started talking to each other and going, hey, you remember he
kind of told us this.
Yeah, but then I'll look back at my life and see things
I've went through when his word says he's going to provide for me and he's done said it.
And all I have to do is trust in what he's already said.
However, I guess in the midst of
a situation, it may be a little harder to do.
It's hard, like, God, why?
Why am I going through this?
And not that it's not that it's bad to say that.
I mean, I think that's how we talk to God and he talks to us as
long as we're respectful, know who he is and he's holy, but I
think that that, um, that we do get caught up in the
situation and it's like, this is never going to, this is never going to end.
This is this is a permanent thing and we're never
going to get past this, but he will he will take us
past this and he will take us to a better place.
So he's, you know, weeping
is today, but joy comes in the morning, morning.
Yeah.
Amen.
What else you got?
I
am an instrument.
The exultation.
I was born to
lift the name above all names.
You hear the
melody of all
creation.
But there's a song of
praise that only I can ring.
Who else is worthy?
There is
no one.
Only you, Jesus,
who else is worthy?
Who else is worthy?
There is no
more Only you,
Jesus.
You are the infinite
God of the ages.
Yet you chose to make my
heart to dwell in place.
You healed my brokenness
and showed me your glory.
So I have songs of
things, not even angels sing.
Who else is worthy?
There is no
one Only you,
Jesus Who else is worthy?
Who else is worthy?
There is no one.
Only you Jesus.
Oh, I'm of
God, anointed one, who was and
is and is to come.
We seated on the throne above.
Holy, holy,
righteous one who shed his blood.
You proved to us the father's love.
Jesus Christ believed it up.
Holy, holy,
lamb of God, anointed one,
who was in his and his to come.
You're seated on the throne above.
You're holy, holy,
righteous one shed is blood.
It cools to us, the Father's love.
Jesus Christ be lifted up.
Who else is worthy?
There is no one.
Only Jesus who
else is worthy.
Who else is worthy?
There is
no one Only Jesus
who else is worthy.
Who else is worthy?
There is no
one Only Jesus
who else is worthy.
Who else is worthy?
There is
no one, only Jesus.
Amen.
Who
else is worthy to open the scrolls and then they they
looked across heaven, right?
No one, they knew that, right?
That question was for us.
They, they, there was no question in who and
who he was and what he would do.
I always get tickled in
the song that we sing, and it's a good song,
what a savior, but they, they, they,
they, they looked across heaven to try
to find a savior.
Ah, he got there.
There's a few of the older hymns.
I don't know if that's how it's supposed to go.
Every now and then I'll point out one in the co- what we're saying.
that even makes sense right there?
Is that biblical?
I told her, I told her yesterday, I can't remember what song he
sang, and it was just one little part in it, and I said, I
said, theology is tearing this song book up for me.
Yeah.
Keeping me from being that would have saying this right here anyway.
Well, you know, some of those old songs, it's kind of, you
can't look too hard and you got to remember the guys that wrote it probably,
some of them had trouble reading the Bible.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
And, and, you know, and a lot of times they're just trying to rhyme.
Boy, some of the words that they come up with to try to make the word
fit in there and now I'm with the other word, it's like, okay, there is power.
That's a strict.
There's power, power.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Wonderworking power.
Oh,
but there he is in there.
I wish I could get away with that stuff.
Writing my own music, just changing words around to make it work like that.
Oh, yeah.
Well, you know, the rule of thumb is, you
ask forgiveness, not permission to do stuff like that.
You know, some of the best songwriters I've
known over the years have always said, the rules are there while you're learning,
but you know, once you've learned them, I mean, you're just a guest.
Yes.
But amen.
But I am I'm glad he's worthy.
I'm glad that there's no one else.
The Bible tells us he's the
way, the truth, and the life.
No one comes to the father but by him.
And so, so we trust that, right?
We trust that he's the only one.
And I, for me, I'm glad that there's
not other choices because I
would definitely make the wrong choice, right?
I need I need one choice.
I go into a restaurant and and and Carter
does I get food anxiety, you know, and then if
I'm looking at a big menu, I mean, a big menu,
you go into the, some places you go in and they got everything on there, right?
from hamburgers to chicken to to steaks
to to seafood to whatever, you know, and I'm just
like, 0 gosh, what am I going to get, you know, and what's
the biggest plate, you know, across my mind?
But there's all these choices, and I may make the wrong choice,
and I might not get the best thing on the menu, you know?
And then I'll ask this waitress, so this little skinny waitress
over there and she goes, well, I don't know.
I hadn't tried that, but the sandwich is good. and I'm like, okay, no, I'm going to ask you again.
But, but anyway, I'm getting off
subject, but they, but
I'm glad that he's our only choice.
I'm glad that there's not there's not other other ways.
He is the way.
And we can, we can find confidence
and clarity and hope and all the things
in Jesus.
Absolutely.
You know, they, it's funny you mentioned that about the multiple choices.
It kind of reminds me of, I don't know if you've ever eaten at the city cafe
up in Champagne, you know, 10 pages long on the menu.
Yeah, yeah.
Because they have like 4 different continents menu sections.
I mean, you know, you got American next to Greek next to
I think there's some Italian in there and maybe a little bit of Mexican.
It's like, what in the world?
But then you look at their desserts and you're like, yeah, okay, I don't care because I know what I'm getting at the end of the menu.
Right, yeah.
Yeah.
But it is.
I mean, we are.
one direction, one choice, one way to get into
heaven, and people want, people like choices.
And I'm like, no, no, no, no, thank you.
No thank you.
I'll choose Jesus every single time.
Because if you got choices, one of them's got to be, one of them's got
to be easier than the other choices, right?
And so you're, so what?
We're just going to pick the more difficult choice because that's the one
you decided to pick and you can't change your mind or can you change your mind since there's multiple weights?
I mean, makes no sense to me.
I don't I don't know why people don't just go with the simple one.
You know, like there's so much simplicity to the gospel when it's he died for you.
You deserve death.
He died for you, so accept that gift.
And give your life to Jesus.
And it's it's not a not a complicated thing.
People overcomplicated.
It's not.
And the problem is that, you know, all these other things
that we call choices never chose us.
He chose me.
He chose me before the foundation to the world.
He chose me.
And so for me to accept that, as you just said,
is, man, that's what it's all about.
Yeah, and all these other religions and choices
and whatever, you see so many based on works and what you can do.
I heard somebody said the other day, I loved it.
And that kind of got me in the 1st half, but they
said, your salvation is based on works, just not yours.
And I loved that.
Oh, yes, taking that one.
Absolutely. absolutely.
Because, and, and, and the problem, again, with those other religions
is either, uh, is on both sides of
it that you are working yourself to get there
and and and your lack of
work is what keeps you from there.
You know, so again, it puts
it solely on you and it takes it off Jesus.
Look, he said, my yoke is easy.
My burden is light.
you know, come to me, come unto me.
And I'm thankful that he does, he done it all.
I just I just accepted the free gift.
And just remember at the end of the day, it is Jesus plus nothing.
That's right.
I drilled that for a while, didn't I?
You did.
I love it.
Now, I love that.
Every Wednesday night for a couple of months, it was Jesus plus nothing.
You know, Paul, he pushed that.
He pushed that.
It's like, look, you're going back and you're taking, you're taking this
part of, of, of your, your Jewish faith and
you're trying to put this into Christianity and you're going back and you're
trying to add this and you're saying, hey, circumcision
plus this or, or, you know, or
your diet plus this or, or, or a,
um, a sacrifice plus this.
But that's not what it is, right?
It's Jesus plus nothing.
And you got to remember who was the one that was saying that to us.
He kept all the laws.
Paul was a Pharisee of Pharisees, man.
He was the best.
He was good at keeping those laws.
But when it came down to it, he went, yeah, I'm glad I don't have to do that anymore.
But just like we said earlier, you know, you look at your actions
should be to exalt Jesus.
Exactly.
The extra stuff was exalting themselves.
And that was the fair sequel mindset of, you
know, look what I can do and look how holy I am and righteous
I am compared to, you know, the things that Jesus
commands us to do exalts him instead.
Right.
That's right.
And it boiled down to a lot of it was just they
couldn't accept how easy it was.
It can't be this easy.
Yeah, it is.
It is.
So you got one more in your pocket?
Yep, Yep, sure do.
The wages
of my singing was death.
You
knew I couldn't pay the debt.
You
paid it with your final breath.
Oh, hallelujah.
You took
the ride, did I deserved?
Your
holy blood broke every curse.
Your
mercy had the final word.
Oh, hi, hallelujah.
We sing Christ in Christ.
Crucified you.
We're raised From
death to life, we sing
Christ, and Christ.
Crucified hallelujah.
No sin is
bigger than any old blood.
No
shame is stronger than your love.
You said it's
finished, it is done.
Oh, hallelujah.
Death couldn't
keep you any blue ground.
You
rose in powering to kill down.
That power's
living in us now.
Oh, hallelujah,
hallelujah.
We sing Christ, and
Christ, crucified
in you, worries
from death to life,
we sing Christ, and Christ,
crucified,
and hallelujah.
Oh, death.
They couldn't even hold you down now.
They couldn't steal your clown theres.
Resurrection power.
Really, you're naming your name, live.
All the years cry out.
Up a holy sound, give All
the glory now to Jesus'
name, death.
It couldn't hold you down, love.
Couldn't steal your ground, there's.
Resurrection power in
your name, in your name.
All the earth's cry out.
Well, up a holy sound, live all
the glory now to Jesus' name.
We sing Christ
in Christ crucifying
in you.
Released from death to
life when we sing cries.
And Christ, crucified,
hallelujah.
Amen.
Thankful for the cross tonight.
Leave me.
absolutely.
My sins were nailed there.
Amen.
To be forgotten.
Amen.
Thrown in the sea of forgetfulness, right?
Amen.
As far as the east is from the west.
right.
He remembers our sin no more, and that is the promise
of the cross.
Yeah.
Amen.
I had somebody ask me, um, not long ago,
uh, you know, do you think my past is holding
me back from from being all that God wants
me to be and from enjoying all the blessings
that God has in store for me.
And, you know, there's no doubt that, you know, we make choices
that affect us, right?
They affect our paths, they affect our futures
and those types of things.
And there's consequences for our sins and consequences
for things that we do here in this world.
But when we completely surrender to him,
um, He's not over there
bringing those things back up.
right?
I mean, he's, he's, he's, he said, I've thrown them into the sea of forgetfulness.
Like you said, as far as the east is from the west, and guess what?
You can't get there from here, right?
You can keep going east and you'll never get west.
You can keep going west and you'll never get east.
So it's you'll never get there from here.
It's gone.
It's forgotten, and we don't have the ability to do that, so it's hard
for us to comprehend that.
Our finite minds can't understand that God can,
the God who created everything and knows everything can actually forget
our sins and has forgotten our sins.
And so that
don't let Satan tell you, hey,
because of who you were, you can't be who he
wants you to be.
He's called us out of darkness in the marvelous light.
And when he done that, I mean, we're more than conquers, right?
That's who we are.
We need to realize who we are in him.
In my experience, the only reason our past holds us back
is because I'm hanging on to it.
Sure.
Yeah.
Oh, yeah, it holds us back because we let it hold us back.
We're the one remembering, not him.
When you when you grab a hold of that anchor and just,
I'm not letting go, I'm dragging it with me and
God's like, I already got rid of that.
All you got to do is just let it go.
There's a Christian artist, Joseph Habadank.
I forget who he used to sing with, but it was a
quartet that was pretty well known.
while he was,
I may be getting this wrong, but from what I remember, while
he was on the road singing Christian music, he had a major addiction problem.
And uh, kind of put on a face and uh,
you know, still traveled and did that kind of thing, but his his heart wasn't in it.
And, uh, he talks about that, that verse talking
about, uh, casting his sins into the sea of forgetfulness.
And, uh, his testimony, he'll talk about
how he's sure that,
uh, he sinned so much that eventually those are going to
surface and that, uh, he's going to fill up that ocean because
he looks at all the stuff that he's done wrong.
But the next part about, as far as the East is from
the West is what, you know, what kind of changed his mind about that.
And he wrote a song.
I pulled up the lyrics, but the chorus, the end of the chorus
says, just when you thought you've exhausted his kindness, his gentle
compassion pulls you out of hiding.
And just when you thought that his grace somehow reached the end, you
find you're forgiven again.
Amen.
That's good stuff.
Good stuff.
That's good stuff.
And you, again, you can go north and
you'll eventually go south.
You can go south and you'll eventually go
north, but you cannot go east and ever get west.
It doesn't happen.
You know, the amazing thing is,
and...
Whew, that's one of the things I always point out, that that verse
is one of the verses I always point to when people start talking about, uh,
how,
Well, you know, the scripture's just written by men, and it's just this, and it's
just that, they really didn't, they
didn't fully understand that back then.
Yeah.
I mean, back then, most people thought the world was flat and
and took up about the size of, you know, Egypt.
Yeah, they did not.
they could not comprehend just how big the world was.
And so for, for, you know, that statement to be
made that the, your sins are for, are forgiven and and
forgotten, and it's as far as the East are removed as far as the East
is from the West, that meant they did not understand that back then.
God had to inspire it.
Yeah.
And it was a hundred.
It was several 100 years later before we really started realizing, hey, wait a minute.
The math shows that this thing's a sphere.
Yeah.
And then it's another thousand, two thou-
Well, yeah, 1500 years or so after that before somebody finally went all
the way around and went, oh, it is a sphere.
Wait, you never change from east to west?
If you're going east, you're going east forever.
If you go west, you're going west for it.
Like, it took that happening, and the thing is, they're
looking at going, oh, it's a sphere.
Same way with north and south, right?
No, nope.
For some reason, when you get far enough north, all of a sudden everything starts, you're heading south now.
And it's like, wait a minute, what?
I hate to break it to you, all you flat earthers out there.
Yeah.
Yeah, that blows that theory yet.
Yeah, sorry guys.
Oh, yeah.
Hate to break it to you, but that is it is not flat.
Ask anybody who does construction on large scale construction projects.
You gotta, gotta account for the curvature when you get far enough out.
But I, hey, I appreciate.
I appreciate you coming in that, Carter.
I kind of ask him on some short notice, but, you know, he's out of here.
Well, like 20 minutes before we got here?
No, I didn't know that.
A little more note.
Yeah, yeah.
24 hours, maybe, but...
But no, I knew you'd have several things.
And, and, and I almost, and Nicole reminded
me that this is, this was dinner night at...
Okay, okay.
I'm still going to go for a little bit my grandparents.
Okay, yeah, yeah.
I thought, oh, man, I wish I hadn't taken him away from that.
But anyway, I'm glad you got to come.
And and yeah, we probably need to get out here.
So you can go and the coach.
Absolutely.
And the Coles cook supper for me.
Um, so, so yeah, I'm going to... birthday
cake waiting on you when you got...
Well, I've kind of been on a diet, so I don't know about birthday cake.
I mean, you know, I don't think cupcake.
Yeah, yeah.
Calories don't count on your birthday do they?
No, no, that's how that works.
So, yeah.
Oh, man.
Well, we appreciate everybody joining us tonight.
And if you see it this week.
This will be up on Rumble all week, and then it'll
shift over next week, and it goes live next Monday night
right after the show, so it'll be on Facebook
and YouTube at that time, along with the podcast.
We appreciate it.
and we look forward next week.
We be picking back up with the book of Revelation.
I can't remember what chapter we got to.
13.
I think we were on 13.
And so we'll be picking that back up next week when
Brother Dennis gets back, hopefully with lots of stories
to tell and excited and feeling good and not feeling like
he got ran over by a truck.
Or got caught in an avalanche.
Um, so uh, be praying for us that.
We'll be back for that.
And, uh, just a reminder to anybody listening this
weekend, um, Saturday night,
if you have old clocks that don't adjust
for you, you need to move them forward an hour because Sunday
we're going to be an hour early.
So don't show up for work or for
church an hour late Sunday morning because you forgot that
everything spring forward Sunday.
Um, so, uh, I don't know about y'all.
I start getting in bed early the week leading up to that.
Yeah, I mean, I will.
Well, I used to not do that, but yeah.
I used to not do that.
And then I got old.
And it turns out it works.
So I've even done that with my kids.
I'm like, okay, 30 minutes early every night getting in bed and you're getting up 30 minutes early every morning.
They're like wine?
I'm like, you'll figure it out next Monday.
So,
that's something I try to do.
So, uh, hope but, you know, try to do that yourselves.
And if you can't do that, at least just remember to set your clocks
forward before Sunday morning.
Counting on election of work.
That's right, that's right.
Or if you, and if you, if you do everything like I do with your cell phone, you shouldn't have
to worry about it because it does it automatically, unless it doesn't.
So, uh, Brother Carter.
Will you praise a dismissal tonight?
absolutely.
Lord, we love you.
Lord, thank you for who you are and what you do.
Lord, we are, I say we.
I'll speak on my behalf.
I'm undeserving to call on your name.
God.
Thank you for the kindness you've shown me.
Lord, thank you for the breath you've given me.
Help me to be motivated
to give that back to you.
Lord, thank you for the opportunity to be here.
Lord, I pray that you'd bless the people in this room.
Lord bless this church.
Bless this podcast.
Let something that was said tonight, go out there and pierce the heart of somebody that needed it.
God, we trust that we
are giving these efforts for you and that you would honor that.
And Lord, so work,
Lord, we are here to provide
the bread and the fish, Lord,
and we want you to multiply it.
Lord, go out there and let
your spirit work amongst people that are receiving
this end of this ministry.
God.
Thank you so much for all you do.
Your name we pray.
Amen.