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foreign [Music] i don't think they heard you say it again come on [Music] everybody [Music] come on and help us [Music] come on [Music] crazy [Music] [Applause] and no matter what happens [Applause] [Music] [Music] we ain't here for a show we're here to give god some praise come on come on come on i said bless [Music] foreign [Music] not just on [Music] i said bless his name [Music] [Music] we come to magnify your name [Music] for your love that never [Music] come to lift up [Music] hallelujah i know that you created me [Music] and all you've given me i give all praise for all the [Music] out blessings [Music] forgiven yourself day and night thank you [Music] oh [Music] and it's all because your love has never [Music] changed [Music] take a little time today [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah [Music] thank you [Music] lord you're so worthy [Music] god is a spirit [Music] [Music] [Music] singing and praying to the lord worship in your holy name i was glad when they said unto me [Music] for a while and meditate on the one who gave you everlasting [Music] let everything we do [Music] we've got to worship [Music] is [Music] pray to the lord [Music] jesus said [Music] god cause he gave us this song [Music] our praise today let's worship god he's been so good so good to me nobody but god no matter what you're going through god will be there for you look for that glorious morning [Music] this is [Music] let us [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] jesus made that sacrifice [Music] my face [Music] everybody [Music] [Music] my oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] they want a brand new [Music] it's you it's me it's us that's why that's why i know that it is [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] good morning church and good morning to all of you out there that are watching us and welcome to the live stream broadcast of the belford church of christ whether you are joining us for the first time or whether you are a returning viewer we thank you for giving us this opportunity to share a portion of god's word with you and we want to thank all of our friends and our guests who are joining us from around the country and we want you to know that you are our honored guest and we thank you so much for your continued support we want to invite all of you to keep up with us by downloading our belford app where you will find all of our updated announcements our links to our online bible classes our wednesday night bible study as well as our ministry virtual classes and lastly you will find links to our worship services which can be seen live on the band for our church members or facebook youtube and if you have a smart tv we have our own ruku channel so we are extremely excited to keep meeting the challenges of this pandemic by providing all of you all with a quality worship experience we want to continue to implore you to be vigilant and conscious of the fact that this virus is still prevalent in our community so we want you to be safe in all of your actions and not to let your guards down however while we are making preparations for a return we will only return when we are confident that when we are the leadership is extremely confident that it is safe to return and that the infection rate is decreasing around our city around the state and around our nation so we want you to be mindful with all of your actions we also ask that you be mindful of all of our our loved ones all of our people who have lost uh loved ones as a result of this pandemic or as a result of some other type of sickness or debilitating disease and this week our our prayers and our hearts go out to the families of uh deborah booker and sister carey simons and also sister mavis miller they had to stand on the stand on the shore of jordan and watch the ship go passing by so keep them in your prayers and also we want you to know that if you are in need of a if you are in need or have a special prayer request we encourage you to join our prayer line daily we join our prayer line daily monday through saturday at 1 50 p.m where you can make your requests known and we go sharply before the throne of god at 2 pm so if you have a prayer request or if you have a praise report we invite you to join us daily also we want to continue i want to encourage all of you all to continue praying for the effectiveness of this vaccine that we are receiving we have prayed pray prayed so diligently for god to send us something that will eradicate this virus out of our nation so we want to continue to pray for all of our health care workers all of our doctors all of our administrators that are working so feverishly to help us eradicate this virus and we want to again we just want you to continue to do those things that you need to do that will keep us safe that's going to conclude our announcements this morning now i ask that you prepare your hearts as we get ready for our morning inspirational reading this morning our inspirational reading will come from the book of psalms psalms 37 for those of you that are with me today we ask that you stand for the reading of god's word and if you are at home out there watching us we ask that you just pause in your actions for just a few moments for the reading of god's word again this morning's reading will be from the book of psalms chapter 37. starting out at verse number one and i will be reading i will be reading from the niv do not fret because of those who are evil or be envious of those who do wrong for like the grass they will soon with them like green plants they will soon die away trust in the lord and do good dwell in the land and enjoy safe pasture take delight in the lord and he will give you the desires of your heart commit your way to the lord trust in him and he will do this he will make your righteous reward shine like the dawn your vindication like the noonday sun be still before the lord and wait patiently for him do not fret when people secede in their ways when they carry out their wicked schemes refrain from anger and turn away from wrath do not fret it leads only to evil for those who are evil will be destroyed but those who hope in the lord will inherit the land a little while and the wicked will be no more though you look for them they will not be found but the meek will inherit the land and enjoy peace and prosperity verse number 25. i was once young and now am old yet i have never seen the righteous forsaken or the children begging bread that's been your reading of the word this morning we ask that we continue to have your attention while we are now led in prayer let us pray oh heavenly father i want to thank you for allowing us to wake up this morning to see a wonderful day lord be the ones who struggle with the covet virus lord be the ones who's at home sick be the one who lost loved one this week lord put your arm around there and help them lord deal with the pain that they suffering right now lord also lord be with us as we go through this service lord beat the man so you're going to come preach the bread of life lord help us to take it in our everyday life and apply it all our beauty wants of this nation lord be the people here that having pains having any kind of ailments in anybody lord we're asking all these blessings your daughter and son's user name amen i want to say good morning everyone songwriter and titled the song where could i go where could i go living below in this so sinful world hardly a comfort can afford [Music] tell me where could i go but to the lord and now tell me where could i go [Music] [Applause] to [Music] to tell me where could i go but to the lord and now tell me where could i go lord and where could i go well let [Music] tell me when [Music] is [Music] tell me [Music] [Applause] [Music] tell me where could i go [Music] can [Music] temptation sword tell me when i come to the lord [Music] for my soul [Applause] [Music] i need to know it [Music] [Applause] [Music] i need to know [Music] for my [Music] liz gonna be a little mad at me she came all the way up to the front to ask what song i was gonna sing and i switched it up this quick so liz i apologize in advance jesus is coming soon jesus is coming soon jesus is coming soon trouble sometimes are you [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] and my jesus is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Music] this is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Applause] troublesome [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] and all of them [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] there will be peace [Music] nowhere [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] just allows me right [Music] i [Music] [Music] he [Music] [Music] i found out [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes they will yes [Music] oh [Music] and i know [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] i'll make sure i tell everybody more wherever i go [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Music] but i'mma stay right here [Music] sweet [Music] and good morning this is the lord's day and we are the lord's people and this is the time for the lord's supper i want to bring your attention to the book of first corinthians 11 chapter and about verses 23 and the bible gives us information concerning jesus in his death and us remembering this time of the lord's supper the bible reads it says for i have passed on to you what i received from the lord himself on the night when he was betrayed the lord jesus took some bread and he gave thanks to god for it then he broke it into pieces and said this is my body which is given for you he said do this in remembrance of me in the same way he took the cup of wine after supper saying this cup is the new covenant between god and his people an agreement confirmed with my blood do this in remembrance of me as often as you drink it for every time you eat this bread and drink this cup you are announcing the lord's death until they come again so anyone who eats this bread or drink this cup of the lord unworthy is guilty of sinning against the body and the blood of the lord that is why you should examine yourself before eating the bread and drinking the cup but if you eat the bread or drink the cup without honoring the body of christ you are eating and drinking god's judgment upon yourself that is why many of you are weak and sick and some have even died but if we would examine ourselves we will not be judged by god in this way yet when we are judged by the lord we are being disciplined so that we will not be condemned along with the world so my dear brothers and sisters when you gather for the lord's supper wait for each other if you're really hungry eat at home so you won't bring judgment upon yourself when you meet together let's go to god in prayer god thank you thank you thank you so much for your love thank you for expressing it through your son jesus by allowing him to hang on the cross one of the most shameful and humiliating deaths but because of that we have life thank you for so much for so lord help us all to remember that moment as jesus hung on the cross and as the soldiers pierced him in the side and as blood came forth and it was shared we pray that as we take of this broken bread that it symbolized your body and as we take up this cup that it will symbolize your shed blood and we just pray that we would do it in a way that's worthy and pleasing and acceptable to your son jesus let us all say amen and this brings us down to another portion of our service and that is given gives us an opportunity to be be reminded of how good god is to us how god just keeps loving us over and over and how god keeps giving over and over and and he is able to give us so much and then he in return tells us that we should give not because he needs it but it's because it's commanded of us to give god doesn't need what we have to give but again it's commanded of us to give and we should do just as god has asked us to give so we're going to use second corinthians the ninth chapter and about verse number six as a reference to the giving the bible reads it says remember this a farmer who plants only a few seeds will get a small crop but the one who plants generously will get a generous crop you must each decide in your heart how much to give and don't give reluctant or in response to pressure for god loves a person who gives cheerfully and god will generously provide all you need then you will always have everything you need and plenty left over to share with others as the scripture says they share freely and give generously to the poor that good deeds will be remembered forever for god is the one who provides seeds for the form and then bread to eat and the same way he will provide an increase in resources and then produce a great harvest of generosity in you yes you will be enriched in every way so that you can always be generous and when we take your gifts to those who need them they will thank god so two good things results from this ministry of giving the needs of the believers in jerusalem will be met and they will joyfully express their thanks to god as a result of your ministry they will give glory to god for your generosity to them and to all the believers who prove that you are obedient to the good news of christ god thank you thank you so much for giving us your son jesus and showing us through that example of how we are to give we pray that we will give generously not out of necessity but god again loves the cheer forgiver and we pray that as the funds are taken up that the leaders will be mindful and and do those things that are necessary in order to distribute these funds the way they are needed and use them in the way that they are needed god we ask that you would just bless their efforts it's in jesus name we pray amen i'm gonna train on my earthly home for better when bright and fair christ's left to prepare a mansion for children in the air and i'll join them in that atlanta where tears no [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] i [Music] [Applause] [Music] please reserve [Music] [Music] [Applause] i will just [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] let me be here [Music] oh [Music] i wanna roar [Music] if you hold out till the end i know i know i know i know i know jesus [Music] isn't everlasting foreign if you stay [Music] within the choice if you stay within the church he found i believe that you [Music] if you stay in the church that he found i believe you [Music] shall wear a gold [Music] a golden golden crown [Music] so just watch ye therefore you know not the day or the day when the lord shall call your soul away we'll leave you a labor striving for the right i know you go the crowd oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] will [Music] he's coming and we don't know where [Music] oh [Music] [Music] yes don't you know jesus he is my everlasting friend well if i stay with in the church of christ [Music] you know that is i know i should [Music] when the truth is [Music] lord i know i am [Music] when your work here is done yet no more preaching no more teaching no more laboring you'll be able to [Music] come on lift your praise this morning he's so worthy to be praised will you just praise [Applause] [Music] you ought to lift your praise in your living room god is so worthy [Applause] [Music] oh let the lord know you gonna wear a crown lord have mercy lord have mercy somebody ought to say man let me tell you on my way to church today i was listening to uh by the name of myron williams i believe that's his name his name was myron williams and his song said that he said now draw he said now god draw me nearer and i will worship you y'all got to get it he said draw me nearer and i would worship you this is why we have to be careful about the songs that we've seen myron said if god would draw me nearer than i would worship him however james says if i would draw near to god then god would draw oh y'all missing it i'm missing it we are looking for god to draw us nearer to him while he expects us to draw nearer are y'all seeing this let me tell you something let me drop this in when jesus died on the cross when he died on the cross and and and when he told his disciples he said now if i be lifted up he said then i'll draw all men unto me now at that time jesus was doing the drawing he's doing the drawing now that he's died he's been buried and he rose again now he expects you to draw nearer to him draw nearer to him in your singing draw nearer to him in your praise and draw nearer to him in your everyday walk you don't just draw near to god on sunday morning you don't just draw near to god on sunday evening you've got to draw near to god every day of your life you got to get up in the morning draw in near you got to lay down at night draw in here you got to go through crisis drawing near for the bible says if you draw not good god almighty if you draw now to him he will he will not he might brit he will draw now to you somebody say well glenn he's not drawing to me you know why you are not drawing to him beloved let me tell you god is not like a spare time he is nobody we put in the trunk and wait till a crisis come into our lives before we pull him out i've got a long way to go my soul is happy i think our worship team for just elevating us and taking us to another level i just appreciate that i just pray now in your home in your living room in your bedroom that you would just relieve the daily activities of your mind and for the next 40 to 45 minutes just focus in on the engraft work see what god's word will do for you if you give it your undivided attention it's not going to do much if you're running here and there it's not going to be do much if you're more concerned about the beings than you are about the world it's time there is a time when you should be worried about but right now god wants to speak to you through his servant i better say it again god is trying to speak to you through his servant beloved and the reason i know it works like that is because i can have something in my heart in my spirit and and work on it all week long and all of a sudden something changes and and there's a deep burning desire on the inside help me just a little on the on the monitor's harvey uh just a burning desire on the inside of me that caused me to go in a completely different direction so i know with all of the love in my heart that i'm talking to somebody today we welcome you all over the world those who are worshiping with us we are glad that you've allowed us to come into your home wanted to say a special hello to orlando florida i appreciate the compliments and our conversation on last week i want to say hello to ella williams who uh just let know that i'm praying for you tried to wanted to pray with you this morning god knows that i'm praying and just want to say hello to all of those in alabama and and california we have a tremendous following from the alabama area and from from the california area and we thank you i suspect in gary indiana god bless you we appreciate you we appreciate your gift we appreciate your love for this work at the church now i want you to do me a favor i want you to turn your bibles to the book of ruth the book of ruth and i'm telling you i've been studying this book and the lord has laid some things on my heart and i pray today that you would receive the word now if it's possible for you to stand i'm asking that you stand by the reading of the word stand in your home stand in your kitchen lord i just ask that you just stop and listen to the word and and allow it to find a residence in your heart if it's possible look at verse number 19 luke ruth chapter 1 and the verse is number 19. i know i changed it on your list but that's all right i'm the preacher i can do that every now and then ruth chapter 1 and the verses number 19. so when the two went unto the that came unto bethlehem and it came to pass when they had come to bethlehem that all of the city moved about them and they said unto is this not naomi notice now they come back to bethlehem and when they get back to the city the people little robert in the city looked and say is this not naomi and look what she says and she said unto them call me not naomi call me maura good god of mine she said don't call me by my name because my circumstances has changed who i am are y'all seeing this you better walk with me now she said she says unto them call me not naomi call me mara for the almighty have dealt very bitterly with me i went out full but but the lord has brought me home again empty why then call me naomi seeing that the lord has testified against me and the almighty has afflicted me so naomi returned and ruth the moabite the daughter of in her daughter-in-law watched this with her and they returned out of the city of moab and they came to bethlehem and began the beginning of the new barley god i just thank you now my heart is heavy my soul is ready speak to your people through me use me as your instrument that they might see very little of me and more and more of you and will be careful lord to give you all praise all honor and all glory i want to use for my subject today you may be seated you may be seated thank you so much i want to use for my subject today the high cost of a foolish decision can i talk to you the high cost of a foolish decision the high costs of a foolish decision beloved's ralph waldo emerson wrote in his book the conduct of life he said now just because god has given us freedom of speech shayla he says we can ignore his will we can argue with his will we can destroy his will we can fight against his will he says but at the end the will of god shall prevail he said now you can do whatever you want because you have freedom of choice he says but at the very end it's going to be the word of god that's going to stand before you beloved this is just as true today as it was when it was written in 1860. see you might not understand god's will but there are serious consequences when you don't obey it can i say that again you might not understand his will but there are some serious consequences when you don't obey it beloveds the book of ruth is only one of two books that's named after a woman the other is esther the book of ruth is told uh from a woman's viewpoint which makes her very unique which makes this book really unique because it is told from a woman's viewpoint beloved it makes her unique amongst any other book in the bible because it is set in a woman's world now i want you to see that the book of ruth have a lot to say about the consequences of decisions she has a lot to teach us about the consequences of this this first chapter began with the foolish decision that ultimately destroyed her whole family good god almighty look look look this chapter one is so pregnant with information because it us the danger of making foolish decisions because of this decisions roof made in chapter one the decision was made three men were dead and three women was widowed beloved this decision left one woman bitter and broken but on the other hand on the other hand the decision also caused another woman to start down a new path and eventually changing her life so marlon here's what i want to do this morning i want to spend some time in this book today and i want to look at john smith the high costs of a foolish decision i want you to see i want you to see roshika that there are some decisions that you make in life that are very trivial some some seasons that have no no bearing whatsoever while there are other decisions that are devastating oh y'all stay on the bus don't you transfer me you're gonna miss something you're gonna miss something stay on the bus because some decisions that we make have no value at all beloveds god don't care what kind of car you drive you know you just make sure you can pay for it beloved he don't care he don't care how you wear your hair you can be bald-headed or have dreadlocks it don't make a difference he don't care whether you eat beef or chicken for lunch it might make a difference down the road but god doesn't care contrary to what we have been taught all of a life it doesn't matter if you have a tattoo or not it doesn't matter if a man have an earring in his ear or not he can still go to heaven beloved is what i'm trying to tell you some of the decisions that we make in life have no direct pressure to us because it makes no difference with god but now watch this while some decisions have no value others have great value you see it matters who you marry for you don't marry for muscles you marry for mine you see it matters where you go to church you don't go to be seen you go to be saved it matters it matters how you raise your children see the value you invest in them will determine the return you get out of them it matters how you care for your body it might not affect you now but it'll certainly affect you later it matters how you live a single life i'm trying to tell you if you don't care about you then nobody else will care about you priest james glenn it matters even it matters even how you socialize because their habits will end up becoming your habit there are some some some consequences to the decisions that we make in life but i want you to watch this book because here is a dangerous consequence look the text unfolds in the life of a man by the name of elimiel and his wife naomi and their two sons which made a decision to run from their problem good god almighty listen listen this man saw a problem he gets his wife and his two sons and they run from their problem beloved i'm i'm here to tell you this is my sermon but this is somebody else's message because you have been running from your problem you've got a problem and you will not face it to save your life if you're going to have to get over this problem you're going to have to face your problem running from your problem don't solve your problem this man took his wife his two sons and they decided to run out on their problem i better tell you this i better stop and tell you from the outset erwin coleman that life is full of problems and one way you don't solve it is by running a few weeks ago i left the church left the church we were over here ray brown and i they were sitting up the tent for uh for the kovic testing and and i left and headed home and i got right there at binga la robert right around bengal and and and pine mount and i don't got old now i uh when my bladder have to run i got to stop use it could go all the way to rust holding it but but i can't hold it no more so i i jumped off the freeway right there at bingo i run into a mcdonald's irwin run into a mcdonald's and when i got to the door watch this they say clothes for cleaning look look i've been holding it since i left the church so when i got off the freeway ran into the mcdonald's it said clothes for cleaning so what i had to do get back in the truck and rush home in order to relieve myself don't miss what i'm trying to say i had to hold it there are some problems in our lives that we just have to hold good god almighty let me go over here there are some problems that you don't run from but you hold it let me let me let me let let me show you let me go a little deeper because too many of us are running from problems when we need to hold them beloveds beloved in this text it was a time of judges beloved it marked a serious period of rebellion against god's law i want you to know that immorality and bloody bloody deeds and all kind of civil war wander was taking place here in this text beloved it was a time it was a time uh uh uh during the period where where moses and joshua had died beloved it was at the end of this saul had been anointed to be the first king of israel but the time of judges was a dark stain in history it was a dark stain george glenn on on israel look look look the bible says eight times in the book of judges uh eight times the bible tells us uh uh that that uh that israel did evil good god almighty let me give you some background eight times in just the book of judges alone so and ruth is a a rollover from the book of judges but now watch this eight times over and over and over they said that that israel did evil israel did evil and i want you to know it it sums up what he did in the last verse of the of the book of judges judges chapter 21 and verse number 25 when the bible says that in those days there was no king in israel and every man did what was right in his own eye are y'all saying this they said there was no king there was no law and every man did what was right in his own eyes beloved let me just show you go back to genesis because of man's sin man was put out of the garden and god promised in genesis chapter 3 and verse number 15 god says i will put enemy between thee and the woman and between thy seed and the woman and it shall bruise thy head and i shall bruise his heel it is what was called a theoretic a a theoretic administrator a theocratic administrator now watch a theocratic administrator meant that men would go around saying that i have received something from god they were saying that i have received something from god they were they were administrating under their own power but the bible tells us in genesis chapter 6 that the spirit of god will not always dwell with man beloved you got to see this israel was always rebelling against god they were always rebelling against god let me tell you something they were quick they were quick to criticize the leaders they were quick to demand their own way over god's way they were always rebelling against god beloved i'm trying to tell you you can do wrong for so long and god is going to let you know y'all missed that i'm trying to show you something watch this look god is going israel had did wrong after wrong after wrong after wrong after wrong and god says i need to get your attention i need to get your attention and can i tell you something he's getting our attention today there's only two reasons that i i want you to learn about suffering about suffering two reasons we suffer and we miss this and we miss this because we think all suffering is because god is punishing us god's punishing me god i have time to punish you there's only two reasons uh aaron bourgeois that we that we suffer number one we suffer for the glory of god say the glory of god type it in the chat the glory of god come on the glory of god the number one reason we suffer is for the glory of god watch this in john chapter 1 and john chapter 9 and verse number one you remember that text and as jesus passed by he saw a man who was blind from birth and the bible says in verse 2 and his disciples asked him master who did sin this man or his parents that he's born blind now you got to understand that when you sin under the law that it would go down four generations so they were thinking because this boy was born blind that either he had sinned which was foolish because if he was born blind he ain't had a chance to sin he said now wait a minute who's seeing this boy or his parents that was their question but look what jesus says in verse three jesus says neither neither of them have seen not this man nor his parents he says but the work of god may be manifest in him are y'all saying this he says i allowed him to suffer blindness that i might be glorified good god almighty y'all not feeling me he said i allow this to happen to this boy that i might be glorified in his blindness god if i had time y'all looking like you're not feeling me that was a boy in acts chapter 3 that was born he was paralyzed from his birth they carried him to the church every day and he asked for arms he gets there and he says silver and gold and then see two preachers coming and ask them on seven gold have i none he said but such as i have i give unto you and the bible says he took him by the right hand look look look look he took him by the right hand and he says in the name of jesus rise up and walk the boy was paralyzed from his birth for the glorifying of god some of us asked why is this in my life why did why was i diagnosed with cancer why did i have a baby that special needs god bless you that's a blessing when he trusts you with a special needs baby because everybody can't do it beloved and it is not for you it is for the glory of god so the first reason i could spend all day here the first reason we suffer is for the glory of god but the second reason we suffer is for disobedience disobedience say disobedience beloved let me tell you something get this don't miss this just because god haven't stopped you doesn't mean he haven't noticed let me say that again see some of us think because we're getting by with it that god don't know about he knows he knows man he knows everything if he numbered the hairs on your head surely he knows the dirty deeds that you do and because god has not stopped us we think we don't got by we think we don't slip down through he didn't see this he he knows are you seeing this and let me tell you something the bible says in hebrews chapter 12 and verse number five he says and ye have forgotten that exaltation would speak it unto you as children he said my son despise not the chasing of the lord nor faith when you are rebuked of him here it is here it is don't miss this here it is verse six the bible say for whom the lord loveth he chasing you know what that means you know what i mean in six war terms whom the lord love it he beats him god will beat you are you hearing me so the two reasons we suffer number one is for the glory of god and number two we suffer because of disobedience beloved god the lord in an effort to call israel back to obedience he's son of famer y'all better stay on the bus trying to get good in all that they had been messing up messing up judges say they had been been doing evil over eight times so in order for god to get their attention the text says he's center famine he said a family can i tell you something god is a disrupter he's a disrupter every now and then every now and then he will disrupt your life every now and then he will disrupt your your order you can be going good in life going good and all of a sudden yeah cause god is a disrupter he'll stop you just he'll stop you he'll stop you so god is now trying to stop israel from from disobedience get this y'all and he sent a famer he sent a famer now what's a famous i'm glad you asked that question it is extended shortage and extended shorty look shortage of food shortage of crops shortages of work people didn't know what to do and things were getting worse watch this y'all the famine was a result of divine judgment and israel had been warned by god he had been warned you're going to keep messing up you're going to keep messing up and i'm going to get you watch it okay look at deuteronomy chapter 11. deuteronomy chapter 11. deuteronomy chapter 11 verse 16 the bible said take heed to yourself that your heart be not deceived and ye turn aside and serve other gods he said you listen to me don't you turn and serve other gods don't you turn and serve other gods are y'all seeing this and worship them but then in verse 17 he says and then the lord wrath was kindled the bible says that god got angry he says and and the lord's wrath was kindled against against us and he shout the heaven that there was no rain and the land yield no fruit at least he perished quickly from the good of the land which the lord had given you he said they had done wrong god says now if you keep doing it if you keep doing it if you keep doing it i'm gonna shut up the heavens and it ain't gonna yield no water do you know what happened if the crops didn't get no water they died and if the crops died guess what happened you didn't eat so now they're in the midst of a famine here's where our text picks up so the bible says in the book of ruth chapter 1 verse 1 the bible says and it came to pass in those days when the judge when the judges ruled watch this he said that a famine was in the land and a certain man uh from bethlehem judah went to sir john in a country of moab he and his wife and his two sons here's what you gotta see look emmelack saw that it was going to be a famous so he wanted to put one foot in bethlehem in the famine but he wanted to take the other foot and put it in more have you got to see this now in other words he wanted he didn't want to just turn his back on god but he wanted to get right to the edge y'all not seeing this he wanted to get right to the head see he thought that that he could escape the chasing of god beloved he thought that that his plan would work better than god's plan he thought that he could run from his problem beloved he believed that that he would prosper in moab and he decided to pick up his family and move he he decided that he would and his decision here here it is y'all his decision had a a powerful impact on his family good god almighty beloved you got to see this don't you know that the decisions you make just don't affect you the decisions you make affect your family are you listening to me man it just don't affect you this decision this dumb decision he made to run from god did not just affect him it affected his family can i just show you let look look look look here's what get me his name eliminate his name guess what his name means his name mean god is my king his god is my king that's what his name means now his family inheritance was in the town of bethlehem god told him he said he said now here's what your inheritance is here in bethlehem watch this the word bethlehem means the house of bread the house of bread his name don't miss this his name mean god is my king his inheritance meant that uh uh the house of bread not not not bethlehem uh was in was in the land that belonged to the tribe of judah and judah mean praise y'all missing this thing let me run by his name meant a god is my king watch this bethlehem meant the house of bread judah the tribe where he was been praised beloved because of the rebelliousness of israel there was no bread in the house of bread watch this because of the rebelliousness of israel there was no praise in the land of praise beloved here's what i want you to see all because of a bad decision all because beloved beloved because of a lack of food there was no bread because of a like a praise there was no prayer emily picked up his family and left town and failed to praise god in the midst of his suffering good god almighty i don't know who i'm talking to but you're suffering and you are failing to praise god in the midst of your suffering but turn the hebrews real quick hebrews chapter 13 and verse number 15. hebrews number 13 and verse number 15. this will bless your life hebrews number 15 13 and verse number 15. look the bible says by him by him therefore watch this therefore let us offer the sacrifice of praise to god continuously that is the fruit of our lips giving thanks to god always you gotta slow down and see this in this context notice what he says he said therefore by him let us offer offer let me tell you something just because you offer something don't mean a prince offer me your phone offer me that phone i don't want it hold on he offered it to me but i don't want it what i'm trying to tell you he offered me his phone but i refused it you got to get this he said now he said now the offering is the sacrifice of praise some of us are offering god praise god get y'all better come on in here we are offering god praise but he don't want it why because there's no it's right in the text there's no sacrifice beloved there is no the word sacrifice see see all praise is not sacrificed beloved it's got to cost you something oh i i which i can just bury here your praise has to cost you something if i had time in the book of hebrews 7 6 7 8 it costs him a tuttle dove pigeon it costs them something beloved david says in second samuel chapter chapter 24 and verse 24 he said neither will i offer a offering to god that didn't cost me nothing can i tell you something we want free praise free pray it ain't costing you nothing god wants you to sacrifice some praise see let me tell you something we we off loaded with free praise everybody want to pray well i like that song i pray i'm praying i ain't praising god that didn't cost you nothing he don't know when you're running around this church if you're running around this church because you have been thanking him or you just got a hangover from your jack daniels amen god says that your praise ought to cost you something and if it didn't cost you nothing you can offer it to him but he won't accept it he said it's the fruit of your lips here's what you got to see see what's up here comes out right here you preaching glenn whether they getting it or not you preaching see what's in the heart comes out in the mouth look so he says i want to see the see god knows if you say oh god you're all mine i love you to death you up you're my life you're my up you're my dying he knows that that's true or not he knows he knows he knows so he says you uh uh uh uh eliminate wanted to offer god some free praise he wouldn't stay in bethlehem where god had told him to stay and suffer and his name mean god is my king if god's your king and god's cellophane then why don't you stay on the umbrella of god good god almighty i don't know who i'm talking to but if you say that you are a child of god and you're going through some stuff why are you giving up beloved god wants you to praise him in the midst of a fame god wants you to praise him he he wants you to praise him regardless can i tell you something that by see a lot of us are doing this lip service and that don't move god your lip service don't move god beloved when you are broken when you're broken and you're still praising him that's what get god's attention when your back's against the wall and you're still praising him david says in psalms 34 verse 1 i will bless the lord at all time he says his praise will continuously be in my mouth he said there's not a time in my life that i won't bless the lord if i'm diagnosed with cancer i'm going to bless him beloved let me tell you something let me tell you something we have been adopted into the family of god so we are children of god beloved we have been translated into the kingdom of god so we are residents of god we have been called by a new name so we are followers of god so when a famine come in your life don't run but brother glenn i got a pink slip stand there god make a way out of nowhere you cross me over other bridges you'll cross me over this one are you listening to me beloveds watch this get this this is what this is what blew my mind look look look in psalms 32 it tells us that the tribe of mobach mobile was from ruben and gad and half a manessa see when they were headed watch this don't miss this girl like this good stuff when they were headed for the land that god had given them reuben and gag and some of manessa looked over and saw all of this green grass in moab he said oh look at look at all man look at these hills and all of these green all of this green grass watch this george so instead of going where god was telling them to go they decided to build a camp and a family right there in that city because they could see cattle being raised and and and and crops being raised all they could see was the glory but that was not what god told them beloveds when emiliac saw that it was a famine in the land the bible says he looked over and saw all of that green grass and moab the bible says he went to satan territory in other words he thought satan territory was better than god's territory how many of us believe that satan's territory is better than god's beloveds watch this can i can i go deeper can i go deeper let me tell you something the moabites were descendants of an ancestorous relationship between lot and his oldest daughter can can i tell you let me tell you something the the the population grew when lot started sleeping with his daughter are y'all following me can i just share this with you watch this don't don't miss this the more bites had a long have been long enemies of israel they were enemies of israel look they opposed israel as they journeyed through the wilderness toward the promised land israel was going toward the promised land and the more bites kept messing with them and starting war against them i'm trying to show you something man don't miss this because the moabites conspired with the minion knights and and went to the prophet balaam and asked him to pronounce a curse upon israel in numbers chapter 22 and 2 25 i just wish i had time to teach all of this to you but because of the the morbid worshiping the canaanite god baal uh who who who involved himself with immoral sexual behaviors uh bear would have have your children to run through the fire you know human sacrifices and and all of these kind of things man because of the pagan relationship get this because of their pagan relationship and worshiping god god forbided them to marry moabites now keep that because we're going to see that his two boys married more bites all because he made a foolish decision to leave where god had bought him and as a result his entire family suffered beloveds what i want you to see is that eliminate had no business taking his family to moab he failed to live up to his name god is my team see you got to trust god if he's your king you got to trust him we sang autumn my steps in your word dear god and when god's order our steps and they don't go up we don't want him to order our steps any longer we think all steps go up but some steps go down so even when you sing for god to order your steps in his word even if that means going down even if he sends a favor don't you run because god had ordered the shortage of a food let me show you this watch this watch this later and maybe next week i want to teach you about boaz see boaz was another man that was there see boy has stayed in bethlehem and he prospered watch this boy as boy has stayed where the lord told him to and god blessed him but imalac chose to leave the promised land and he lost everything he had come real close to me right now let me tell you something emily calls his family much pain can i ask you a question how much pain are you charging your family how much pain are you causing your family with some of the decisions that you're making how much pain beloveds drop down to our text look at verse twenty look at verse twenty uh a roof one and twenty she says she says call me no more naomi don't call me naomi no more she said call me mara watch this she says for the almighty has dealt very bitterly with me she says i went out full you know what she's saying i left bethlehem i was full but when i came back good god almighty she says i was empty beloved watch this she said so why call me naomi saying that god had testified against me and that the almighty has afflicted me see the word naomi means my joy my joy it means my joy she says she says don't call me my joy because i've lost everything i had i lost my husband i lost my two children i lost my land i lost everything so don't call me naomi call me mara mara means bitter peter she says i had everything but now i have nothing look at verse 21. she says i left out fool but the lord brought me back empty can i ask you a question right here beloveds when your role change does it mean your identity have to change can i say that again when your role change does it mean your identity see see your decision can change your circumstances but it shouldn't change who you are can i tell you if you're alcoholic you went on a venge and you turned in to be an alcoholic you don't have to be known as an alcoholic you're still a child of god you just slipped and messed up because of what had happened to her she wanted to change her name good god almighty beloved let me tell you something can i come into your world i'm almost through y'all i'm almost through but come on can i come into your world will you allow me to come in for just a minute beloveds to that world of bad decisions can i tell you something we've all made them everybody that's listening to me have made some bad decisions maybe maybe maybe it was a relationship decision maybe brother house it was a career decision maybe you've done something that that that you know was wrong and it's been hard for you to recover maybe maybe maybe maybe maybe life has taken you to taking away all of your pleasure and your bitter and you're alone maybe you've messed up maybe you've made bad decisions and as a bad as a result of your bad decisions your entire life is on hold god see when your role change doesn't mean your identity needs to change your decision shouldn't change your circumstances listen listen listen you're still a child of god i know you've made some bad decisions no ma'am you shouldn't have had a abortion but you are still god's child i know you've made some mistakes i know you slept with people that you shouldn't have slept with but you're still god's child just because just because you went through some things or i know you was a crackhead but but you're still god's job beloveds our circumstances don't have to change who we are we are children of the most high and i want you to see this okay okay okay let me let me try it like this let me give you a few examples beloveds maybe maybe your marriage is in the famine and one partner decided to leave and the other is left behind to put the pieces together called uh uh uh confused children financial difficulties a broken contract with god or maybe or maybe you had a a a church famine in your life and and and you went down you went to the church down the street and when you got down there you saw that that church was worse than the one you left and you're too proud to come back or maybe maybe you had some spiritual uh falls in your life causing you to turn your back on god and turn back to your old lifestyle turn back to drinking and turn back to sex turn back to drugs or some of them other things that fear the voids in your life you didn't intend to go that far you just went off for a minute but then you find yourself stuck in that position before you leave your marriage before you leave your church before you walk out to sin before you make any major decision if you would just bury yourself in prayer if you would just fall on your knees and say god i stretch my hands to thee there's no other help i know if thou shall withdraw thyself from me then where where should i go beloved if emiliac would have just prayed if he would have just prayed he would have never left bethlehem if he would have said lord it's the famine and i don't know what to do lead me guide me direct me he the stained right there oh i wish y'all could see this i don't know who i'm talking to but don't you turn your back on god i know you've made a bad decision i know you don't know which way to go but oh god if you would just drop down to your knees and say fire i don't have anybody i don't know which way to go beloved immalag left israel watch this because he thought grass was greener look at verse 21 he had it all where he was the bible naomi said uh when we left we left fool he said we left but we didn't left leave because we didn't have nothing we had stuff but i think it's a little better over there can i tell you when we're looking over the fence and think grass is greener can i tell you many times that that's artificial turf and you don't really get to know it until you get over there oh i wish i had prayer and folk with me i'm going i'm gonna bring this thing down i'm gonna slow it down but but you gotta see this man you got to see this please walk with me please walk with me right here because you got to see man uh uh emily the box see you got to understand that things are not as bad as they look shayla i know you're looking and and and and here's where we go wrong brick get this girl baby you better grab this if you don't grab nothing else you better grab this because here's why we go wrong we're looking at everybody else and saying well why are they married why they have children why they have a good job what's wrong with me what's wrong with me why am i suffering can i tell you this right now and robert will tell you our schedule is so backed up with counseling it's unreal because everybody you think is doing a good job in their marriage not see married folk want to be single single folks want to be married people with no children want children people with children want to get rid of children i'm telling it's just the opposite of everything you got short hair you want long hair you got long hair you want to cut it off if you're fat you want to be skinny you're skinny you want to be fat if you got one call you need to i'm talking about we'll never you got to understand something it's not as bad as it look it's not as bad as it look i had a been some years ago a church had some even had some elders to come into church i had no idea that they were here visiting with us they got back to pontiac where i shouldn't even they got back to where they were and they called me and they sent me a vid that's when uh uh uh not cds their mother v-a-b-h sent me a video of that church showing me all of the stuff that they had and da da da da da da da da da and it looked and i mean on paper the package looked beautiful but then i i wanted to figure out how is it then that the church had only been in existence for 25 years and has had over seven preachers something was wrong beloveds i said belford is not as bad as it seems i don't know what's going on in your life but it's not as bad it's not as bad and if you allow oh let me i'm almost through i promise you church let me tell you this let me tell you this emiliac learned the hard way he learned later in life that that when you make a decision please hear me you make a decision with your eyes open aaron bourgeois let me tell you something you make a decision with the leadership of the holy spirit you don't make no decision just up and make a decision i don't care what it is if you finna buy a home you ask god god is this is what you want me to do is this what you want me to is this where you have me to go man you don't make a decision apart from the holy spirit you pray and let me tell you how you know when the holy spirit speaks to you let me help you the bible says in first corinthians chapter 14 verse 33 he says for god is not the author of confusion he's not the author of confusion so if you're in in the process of making a decision and that's confusion confusion confusion confusion you know what god is saying no no no brother again he didn't speak to me in my ear if he did you would run out of here you wouldn't listen you wouldn't listen let me tell you something he says but of peace when things are just falling in order just falling in order you know god is saying you've got my stamp of approval let me give you this i'm almost through i promise you watch this how many times have i said that roshan you said you were through about six times but that's okay that's number seven watch this what i said watch this i'm convinced i'm convinced i want you to see this i'm convinced that emilek did not go to moab to stay i i think that he believed that i could go over here and get a little food feed my family and i appreciate him wanting to take care of his family man i appreciate that but i believe little robin he was going over there to give him a little food and then come back but let me tell you something what he meant to be a short journey turned into a permanent situation later later we'll read that emma emiliac's sons married two more by girls and god had said don't you marry them moabites but we'll find that he and they lived together for 10 years the decision to leave israel for moab to wait out the former the famine rather became a permanent change of lifestyle beloveds when we think something is temporary we'll be messing up our the decision to leave your marriage might not be the decision you need to make the decision you think to leave your church be loving the decision you meet you need to try this or that beloved here's what i want you to see the decision is not always to walk away man let god lead you a few years ago a few years ago i was privileged to to counsel a couple and this is a true story to counsel a couple i uh uh whose husband had a fantasy i'm just a for real preacher you ain't gonna get this from everybody her husband had a for real pre uh a real fantasy he had a real and she loved her husband she loved it and his fantasy had always been to be with two women and him so the wife sit it up she says baby i'll set this up for you but you got to promise me that you'll never ever do it without me so she sit it up they set it up and all three of them got together and can i tell you something she ended up falling in love with the woman and now he's stuck out his wife leaves him behind let me tell you good quality might i wish i could just tell you how i go i'ma tell you something be careful about the decision you make you might think it's a temporary decision but it can have permanent effects are y'all listening to me just just just a little deeper man it has been said that that sin will take you farther than you want to go it'll keep you longer than you want to stay and it'll make you pay more than you want to pay let me just share this with you this blew my mind in deuteronomy 23 and verse number three look get this get this don't miss this and the ammonites and the moabites shall not enter into the congregation of the lord listen listen the ammonites and the moabites shall not enter into the congregation of the lord either share ten generations of them shall enter into the congregation of the lord listen eliminate knew that they were cursed and he knew that they could not enter into the congregation of the lord so why did he take his family there are y'all seeing this beloved i want to just tell you this emma like made the wrong decision when he decided to leave home why was his decision bad i'm done number one he walked by sight and not by faith beloved how do you walk by faith by claiming the promises of god and obeying the will of god in spite of what you see what you feel or what you think might happen look look it means to commit yourself to the lord and rely on his will no matter what it glorifies god it witness to the lost world and it brings christian character in your life beloveds he made a major decision he made a major decision on physical things and not spiritual things this husband left he left and went to a place where god told him not to and then he he got comfortable in enemy territory i want you to know this i want you to know emily died in moab good his sons took two wives and then they end up dying in moab watch this look naomi was broken and she leaves and she comes back home and she said i left full but i'm coming back empty all because of a decision my husband made been beloved i want to ask you a question what bad decision have you made today can i ask you again what decision have you made have you made a decision to turn your back on god what's your decision have you allowed your decision to separate you from the love of god the bible says in romans nothing nothing shall separate me from the love of god nothing no height no death nothing nothing i don't know who i'm talking to but i had a whole different route to go and thursday god laid this message on my heart it's my message but it's your call god is calling you to return back to him today you've made a bad decision you're not a bad person but you've allowed the things in this world to cause you to get off track will you come today will you come today because i want to tell you what can wash away your sins nothing nothing but the blood of jesus what can make you whole again nothing but the blood of jesus there is a fountain filled with blood drawn from emmanuel's vain beloveds we've got to get back to the cross because at the cross at the cross where i first saw the light it was a little girl in church she was sitting next to her daddy and they had a visiting preacher that sunday and and and she leaned over to her dad and she said daddy daddy i can see the cross behind the preacher she says why don't i see that every sunday she says because your regular preacher is too tall beloved have we made ourselves so tall have we made the cross so small will you come today and at the cross what jesus paid for the sins of the world sailor you too blessed to allow animosity or anything to stand in the way of you and your god you ought to just say today lord it's me my heart was pricked because you spoke to that preacher and that preacher spoke to me i made a bad decision but today i'm coming home if you've never been a part of the body of christ if you've never been a part of this kingdom this is the kingdom this is the kingdom and in every kingdom that has to be a king and a king reign over his kingdom god has told us what to do in his kingdom he said he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved he said he that believe it or not shall be there man just confess i believe that jesus christ is the son of god we'll take you down in this water or grave of baptism and we'll baptize you for the remission of your sin you made a bad decision but don't let it separate you from god come on robert sing i want you to come put up put up some time [Music] will you come to the fountain today free oh will you come both is for you and me and thirsty [Music] oh [Music] you and me and thirsty [Music] tears for you [Music] if this message has spoke to your heart today if you made some bad decisions then you're ready to turn things around oh god thank you for your grace thank you for your mercy [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] god says if you if you open up the door i'll come and sup with you and you can sup with me [Music] will you come [Music] he's calling you we've got about 50 [Music] seconds [Music] god is calling you today will you come [Music] oh [Music] i pray today i pray today that you have been moved by the spirit of god i pray that you have examined your own life and those bad decisions you're willing to let them go i'm going to ask the secretary if she had any response today yes sir we have sonia tizeno we have john starks hillary smith antonio latier wendy moultrie cecilia mckinney sherian king jp watkins and willie mooks they all stand in need of prayer at this time we also have verna rand susan harkey amber hill um megan antoine finis turner emea mckinney and rashanda jenkins they all are confessing and repenting of their sins and asking god for forgiveness in the church to pray for them amen god bless each and every one of you we want you to know that we're praying for you and we know that god is so able god is willing and ready to forgive us of our sins many times we present god as if though he wants to punish us he wants to love you he wants you to confess your sins and he's faithful and just to forgive you god bless you i'm going to ask brother bourgeois if he booty rather if he would direct us as we go before our lord and savior jesus christ let us pray dear heavenly father we just come humbly for your throne of grace once again we thank you father god for this blessed day you have given us we thank you for the word that have went forth we pray father god that we would just just apply to our lives each and every day father god that we would just draw closer to you lord we need you right now father god we know without you we are nothing father god we thank you for everyone that have uh called in father god and and asked father god for for forgiveness father god and some father god uh just they didn't send anything lord but you know everything they already need before they even ask so we ask father god right now that you would meet their needs father god we all need you father god in some way form or fashion father god lord we ask the lord that you just heal those that need healing we ask father god give those a new heart father god that need a new heart give them new minds father god that we may all just serve and worship and honor you father god and all that we do in all that we say father god help us on this journey father god we know lord that it gets tired sometimes but lord if we just trust and hold on to your unchanging hand we know that all is going to be well father god is not easy sometimes sometimes it can get rough but father god we know that you are present help in a time of need and we thank you that we're able to even come before the throne of grace father god and just allow you to work in our lives we thank you father god for all that you have done and as we leave this place but never your presence father god may we truly give everything to you and those that we need to hold on to that we would hold on and fight the good fight of faith we thank you and we ask all this in jesus name amen [Music] play [Music] but those plans were changed somehow along the way yeah when she got [Music] until he got into some trouble now everything he has is gone and he's all alone so we sing this song [Music] everything will be all right [Music] he's broke out of money so he can't buy food to eat [Music] johnny [Music] everything that he had when he was at his father's house [Music] everything will be all right [Music] [Music] oh [Music] he said i'm going home and i'm going home [Music] johnny's gotten older and his troubles are all fast and gold [Music] who's in his teenage years and thinks that he's good and grown 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