Bishop Jackie McCullough - "The Heart of a True Congregant"

to take just to rest upon his promise just to say the Lord Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus for grace to trust [Music] amen the Lord bless you this morning Amen with all the gentlemen making their way around the sanctuary to cover the house we're going to open up in prayer amen how many become the worship this morning how many you come to bless his name no did you really come out this morning to exalt the Lord your God hallelujah he's a good father come on lift your hands in the sanctuary tell him something sweet exalt his name lift his name turn your affection and attention towards him give him what's do you have breath this morning because of him Lord we thank you this morning god we thank you lord we thank you we have so much to say thank you or for and this morning God we come to express as a community of believers and worship together we come Express God a love toward you Lord to say thank you a meaningful thank you I thank you from our heart for all that you do Lord I thank you Lord God that your word comes to heal and deliver and set us free so we anticipate the hearing of your word this morning and the follow through of your word thank you for our Bishop that shall deliver the word today strengthen her body sharpen her mind thank you Lord God that she will declare your word with a mouth this morning and you strengthen her body God I think you look out for piercing this very atmosphere you know exactly what's needed and you know exactly how to put your finger on it I thank you Lord God for moving by your power and your spirit your power and your spirit destroy the yokes of the enemy this morning that's on our lives that's over our hearts and our minds thank you for destroying the yoke of bondage this morning in the name of the Lord Jesus deliver your people set us free God and I think you Lord God for holding us to the cross God you see the appetites in it in the atmosphere this morning God you see the appetites that's represented this morning in this place you see the very appetites Lord and I think you got forgetting to these appetites change our appetites this morning thank you Lord Jesus direct our paths direct our feet I think you Lord God for giving us understanding we don't know what lies ahead this week Lord but you know and I think you God for giving us direction move throughout this place God speak to us got a fresh I think you Lord God for doing just so have your way Lord we put this entire service in your hand Scott actually to have your way move by your power and your spirit and touch us afresh lord thank you for oversee all the leaders our children Lord and as we as we spoke this morning God and cried out this morning we want to say again thank you God that we don't have to hide it hasn't come to the place where we have to hide as a body of believers hiding in a cave hiding in a tomb just to read the word just to say Alleluia but Lord there's something wrong and I'm asking you to put your finger on it because we function as if there's a gun held to our head if we say hallelujah we function as if we just can't say thank you lord we function as if we don't remember all that you do I thank you Lord God you have a you have a special way of reminding us that you're in control you're running this you're running this Lord you're running this you're running all things you're in control Lord and I thank you God that you will get the glory this morning however you have to do it I thank you Lord that you would get the glory in Jesus name Amen amen okay where the people are coming in and we're getting a little crowded I'm going to ask a reverend Cory if you can just sit on this side uh sure help him so he can get on this side he and his wife all right yes and the youngsters can go on that side as well yes thank you go ahead help assistant mushers to the other side front row they have the CD a ribbon Christine you be able to move over and there should be some room here for Reverend Cory and and the children over there move quickly move quickly as we've already started our service yes and just find a seat for the children yes you can find a seat find a seat for the children thank you thank you so much yeah and maybe right alongside there thank you so much good morning Beth Rafa come on and stand to your feet good morning to our streaming audience god bless you good morning to our bishop come on god bless you this morning bishop so i oversee it god bless you Pastor George god bless you all of our leaders come on and greet your neighbor one more time the Lord has been good amen amen amen [Music] wonderful you look good Beth Rafa you look good amen amen amen [Music] come on and let's lift our hands to the Lord come on streamers and just lift your hands to the Lord one more time how they knew you we thank you Lord the song we sing this morning we come I come to The Garden alone while the dew is still on the roses and the voice I hear falling on my ear the Son of God discloses come on and sing with us [Music] Wow the roses and the voice I hear falling on my ear [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] No the sound of his voice we his us me the words hush there see [Music] to me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] we share the [Applause] [Music] [Music] Oh [Music] through [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] I [Music] [Music] [Applause] Oh [Music] let us pray O God for as much as without thee we are not able to please thee mercifully grant that thy holy spirit may in all things direct and rule our hearts through Jesus Christ our Lord who with thee and the same spirit liveth and reigneth one God now and forever amen you may take your seat good morning Beth Rafah I'll be reading in your hearing our Old Testament reading for instruction which will be taken from the Book of Psalms Psalm 51 verses 1 through 12 if you need a Bible the ushers are in the aisles and are available to assist you again that's psalm 51 verses 1 through 12 it's gonna wait here a few pages turning Psalm 51 verses 1 through 12 here begins the reading of God's Holy Word have mercy upon me O God according to thy loving-kindness according to the multitude of thy tender mercies blot out my transgressions wash me thoroughly from mine iniquity and cleanse me from my sin for I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me against thee thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight that thou mightest be justified when thou speakest and be clear when thou judges behold I was shapen in iniquity and in sin did my mother conceive me behold thou desirous truth in the in word parts and in the hidden part though shall make me to know wisdom purge me with hyssop and I shall be clean wash me and I shall be whiter than snow make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones which thou has broken may rejoice high thy face from my sins and blot out all mine iniquities create in me a clean heart O God and renew a right spirit within me cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy Holy Spirit from me restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit so far the scripture please stand as we read responsively our New Testament reading for admonition which will come from the First Epistle of Paul to Timothy chapter 1 verses 12 through 17 again that's 1st Timothy chapter 1 verses 12 through 17 I will read the twelfth verse you will read the next and we will conclude together at the seventeenth verse first Timothy chapter 1 verses 12 through 17 here begins the reading of God's Holy Word and I think Christ Jesus our Lord who hath enabled me for that he counted me faithful putting me into the ministry and a persecutor and injurious but I obtained mercy because I did it ignorantly in unbelief and the grace of our Lord was exceeding abundant with faith and love which is in Christ Jesus this is a faithful saying and worthy of all acceptation that Christ Jesus came into the world to save sinners of whom I am chief howbeit for this cause I obtained mercy that in me first Jesus Christ might show forth all long suffer for a pattern to them which should hereafter believe on him to life everlasting now unto the king eternal immortal invisible the only wise God be honor and glory forever and ever so far the scripture please remain standing let us recite together a declaration of faith the Apostles Creed it can be found in your bulletins and on the boards to my left and to my right let us begin I believe in God the Father Almighty maker of heaven and earth and in Jesus Christ His only Son our Lord who was conceived by the Holy Ghost born of the Virgin Mary suffered under Pontius Pilate was crucified dead and buried he descended into hell the third day he rose again from the dead he ascended into heaven and sitteth at the right hand of God the Father Almighty from thence he shall come to judge the quick and the dead I believe in the Holy Ghost the Holy Catholic Church the communion of saints the forgiveness of sins the resurrection of the body and the life everlasting amen now when we say one Catholic and Apostolic Church we are not only referring to the Roman Catholic Church but the Church Universal and by one baptism for the remission of sins we mean the baptism of the Holy Ghost and when we say he descended into hell we mean he went into the grave for more information on the Creed's please refer to our bulletins or our website Beth rafa org under the heading why'd we do the things we do please remain standing [Music] come on Beth Ralph and continue to worship Him your neighbors that are just coming in come on and greet them again to our streaming audience god bless you come on tell him something sweet [Music] yes come on and worship Him and we're just greeting him we can worship and greet at the same time he's worthy come on and lift your hands we thank you Lord this morning we praise You God because you're worthy to be praised from the rising of the Sun until the going down of the same he's worthy to be praised come on lift your hands and tell him thank you thank you for making our way in easy thank you lord thank you for giving us the mind to worship [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Jesus [Music] [Applause] give clarity to [Music] Bob of sound [Music] [Applause] [Music] sounded [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Oh Oh [Music] [Music] dumb people friends [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] Oh Oh Oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh yes [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] let us pray Lord God we will be fulfilled according to your will we thank you right now Lord Jesus we thank you that we can open you Lord God we're serving we just do people like you see the more girls memorize that we may see you people like you see it then we may see the need of meet the needs or God we thank you for the ability to do it in Jesus name for God we lift up the new convert Lord Jesus uh and she brought them into the house of Lord we have such a tiny of beat to the altar titles of Jesus look forward count them the cow all sakes Lanza Oh your glory it for your praise Lord God lets us see that there was no good thing in the loss that's good in you and they press forward in you Oh Lord God we thank you for your handprint being on there harder thank you for your handprint being in this spirit uh thank you for sitting on the throne of the hearts of your people take just a cast down the Ayatollah that try to rise up against the Lord my god we want to serve you in spirit and in truth O God we want to serve you in spirit and in truth cuz you're not Elijah and uses the truth you set the standard let us be dream it with your standards and with your truth O Lord God everything that you call good is good enough and everything that you said is bad is bad everything that you said is good it's good and everything that you say is bad it's bad Lord God it's not healthy for our soul it's not healthy for our spirits up it's not healthy for our minds and your choosey sets up wrap us in your truth Lord God we thank you for the pleasantness of your Juba hey Senor - they're helping your tooth Lorna let us be quick to agree in the name of Jesus we thank you for those who are sick Lord God and we pray this we bring them before you today you're a healer Lord God you are a healer before time began because you call healing into the third touch the sick bodies Lord it doesn't matter how hard the case is because your word said there's no thing that's too hard for you nothing is too hard for you no case is lost when it's in your hands up and so God breathed on the sick Lord Kanha were you going to right now from the front of the head to the stolen it beat up that they may run for you and agree with your purpose and say yes even on the sick bed let there be a yes Lord let there be a yes in the spirit let there be a yes to their body let there be a lesson your soul Allah let there be a yes on your live in the name of Jesus and we thank you for financial blessing we thank you for opening the windows I haven't we thank you for pouring out what only you can for Allah in the name of Jesus we thank you for the financial blessings now Lord God we thank you for it pouring into the Alpha to meet your purpose and to meet your Cola for that you've established for this alpha and for your kingdom in the name of Jesus we pray we love you Lord amen [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] light has the power to dispel darkness please be assured that there is no power so dark and evil that God cannot destroy we all were born in darkness and lived in darkness there is a dark side to all of us yet for the believer we are not hopeless because Jesus is still the light of the world he overcomes and swallows up the dark thoughts and the dark feelings and the dark practices in our lives let the light of his word permeate your heart right now and uproot the darkness from your soul through his sanctification process on behalf of our senior pastor bishop jacqueline in McCulloch welcome to Bath Rafah where you can experience healing to heal by loving Christ bienvenido abbot Rafah la luz en el poder de disapper los corrida Tenga por seguro que no I un poder tomas koroa Malvado que dios no puede destroyer todos nós somos en oscuridad IV vemos en los corrida iolaous oscar o en todos nosotros sin embargo para el Craig NT no estamos in Esperanza porque hay so sigue siendo la luz del mundo l ven say y destro de los pensamientos sentimientos las prácticas oscar a--'s en nuestras vidas de que la luz de su palabra impregnates uh Corazon en este momento que le mean a loss corrida de su Alma otra vez de su proceso de Santa fication de parte de nuestra pastoral Obispo jacquelina McCullough bienvenido a pet Rafa don't usted puede experimenter Sunita para cenar por amor a Cristo Lavinia bet - la lumière and approve of the disability net s'il vous plait sway asura kini opera buffa see sublimation Caggiano the palette will do some to snarl obscurity yahuveh Quillin obscurity Illya amputee sober a notice subhana paul acquire nan some passes s Paul Caligiuri and to jalal wa l-jamaa l su mod en kuchela person you are blessed SEMA Soma Le Petite Maison de la vie la se la lumière disable a premier photo a kilometer no terrorist militant ever before ham person possesses the scientific a CEO or no no the bastard city layer live attracted a McCullough be a vineyard casa móvil experimental again his of bulgaria Parimal [Music] good morning that's Rafa welcome to the services this morning give yourself a hand for getting up out of the bedroom thank Holy Ghost removing you for hastening your steps to come into the house of God we're delighted to be in your presence this morning my job is to welcome any first or second time visitors but before we do we always like to give honor to whom honor is due we welcome our illustrious Bishop to the services this morning the esteemed Reverend dr. Jacqueline McCullough the Shepherd and angel of this house who Shepherds us all so well we thank God for Bishop we thank God for bringing her back home to us this week bringing her home safely and sitting her in her chair this morning we just thank God for her presence in the city in the sanctuary today while you're yet standing we give honor to our overseer who's always in place devoted woman of God holding up the arms of our Bishop we thank God for our overseer today we thank God for pastor George Hyman we thank you sir for being in place always we always know you there for doing all that you do to all the pastors and leaders in the house we thank God for your presence this morning if there are any first or second time visitors in the house joining us for the first time thank you so much for standing and if there's anyone else just them to your feet that we might recognize you otherwise it looks like all family this morning except you and we're gonna make you family before you leave so all the best rights in the area just welcomed this this pleasant lady to the services today greeter with the love of Jesus a man a man it's time for your morning announcements oh I'm sorry Reverend Amy before we go yes grace and peace be unto you better ah good morning come on put your hands together god is so good we are here in the land of the living enjoying the Lord and we honor you bishop we thank God for you such an a wonderful woman of God who's created such a wonderful environment and it is our privilege to share it with the world so look at your neighbor and say great news Beth Rafa has a YouTube channel [Applause] I also look at your neighbor and said we've been had a YouTube channel yes we had a channel and we have three hundred thirty three hundred subscribers so put your hands together because we've been touching the world with the word but the word that comes forth from this ministry from this sacred desk and we're so honored to facilitate that so we want to encourage you on Google I'm actually YouTube who is owned by Google has a mechanism in place called Google Adsense revenue educate you today look at your neighbor's say Google Adsense revenue then say what does that mean that means for every view on our YouTube channel no matter what the channel and also of course our bishops channel we can't pay the church gets paid somebody say payday y'all so I want to encourage you to subscribe look at your neighbor and say subscribe and tell a friend share it with your friends and watch our videos Reverend Doreen says that when she's at her office she turns on our YouTube channel and lets it go on loop how about that and the church gets paid it runs continuously so just let the videos play and because we know we have a channel we are developing new programming we are refreshing it we're sprucing it up so that we can preach the gospel to this whole world then the end will come but until he comes we're gonna preach this gospel we're gonna declare it and we're gonna bring some money for the 5 and the 5 and the 5 [Music] [Applause] I'm excited and just in case you don't think it works there are individuals who are taking advantage their YouTube partners they're buying cars they're buying homes so why should we not have a home for the people of God so come on y'all turn on the YouTube channel visit Bishop Jacqui McCullough's channel as well it's youtube.com slash Beth Rapa and youtube.com slash dr. Jackie McCulloch okay so we encourage you to support our channel share it with our friends so that we can build it up and allow oh god thank you for what you're yet to do come on let's pray with me father we thank you for the word that we'll proceed from this house Thank You Lord God for yokes being destroyed for souls being saved from minds being healed snatching people out of homosexuality snatching people out of fornication snatching people out of depression snatching people out of suicide and depression and father we thank you for what you're yet to do to send the word to bring healing and deliverance from all destruction and we thank God even now for what you're yet to do through your sheep because we know that sheep birth sheep so we thank you that each sheep will share this message and allows sheep to be birth throughout this world and be brought unto your face in Jesus name we pray amen god bless y'all [Applause] welcome to bed Rafa the best from a Christian college and Theological Seminary 2019 for Porter is here it's time to register registration begins on Monday September 23rd and will run through October 4th classes begin on Monday October 7th and run through Friday December 20th over 60 courses are available for your spiritual growth and development online in the schools of Christian education theology and ministry prayer and missions biblical counseling and sacred music and worship for those students working towards specific degrees you are reminded to follow your curricular program of study to work towards completion you may register online at www.teamvedoe.com for more information all new students interested in being admitted to be RCC you are encouraged to visit our website at www.uvu.edu/library will be taken from Psalm 92 verses 14 and 15 for further information you can contact pastor Carlene Brown or junior missionary Sharon Palmer and Patrice Bridgewater and all are invited to join us for Beth Rafa's annual men's revival it will begin on Monday September 30th and run through Friday October 4th this year's theme is fighting the good fight of faith and our theme scripture will be taken from first Timothy chapter 6 verses 11 and 12 prayer will begin each night at 7 p.m. Monday September 30th pastor Brian Mackenzie on Tuesday October 1st Reverend Willie lilz and Reverend Anthony Jackson on Wednesday October 2nd Pastor Dan o Brown on Thursday October 3rd Deacon Josh Thomas and Deacon Josh Braxton and Friday October 4th pastor George hymen see you there these have been your announcements any further announcements will come from our bishop and put your hands together it is offering time into temple this week with the tithing as rotation and the thoughts considered as have we yet believed okay so our reading you're hearing the scripture Luke 18 verses 1 to 8 here begins the reading of God's Word and he's making a parable unto them to this end that men ought always to pray and not to faint saying there was in a city a judge which feared not God neither regarded man and there was a widow in that city and she came unto him saying avenge me of mine adversary and he would not for a while but afterward he said within himself though I fear not God nor regard man yet because this Widow trouble with me I will avenge her lest by her continual coming she weary me and the Lord said hear what the unjust judge saith and shall not God avenge his own elect which cry day and night unto him though he bear long with them I tell you that he will avenge them speedily nevertheless when the Son of man cometh shall he find faith on the earth so far the scripture so as we were discussing this morning this chapter begins with Jesus given a parable with emphasis being on or the point being on prayer his discourse points out that men should pray and not to faint or lose heart okay so although he begins on prayer it's worthy to know he ends it on faith persistent prayer is a demonstration of faith in God which we see in first Thessalonians 5:17 it says pray without ceasing it takes faith to continue in prayer to the Lord regarding people situations matters whatever may come it takes prayer I mean it takes faith to not cease in our prayer or give up so she had come the widow had come to him because she was facing opposition as whatever Sri means or opponent specifically when you look into it it's talking about a week a legal martyred matter so the judge refused to do anything about her situation for a while until he decided within himself to do something and the reason why he decided to do something is because he did not want her to weary him or annoy him none of the matter he did something and she went to him knowing that he could do something so after concluding this parable Jesus says do you see what this judge says this unjust judge says he ends it by saying not only will he come to their aid but he'll do so quickly or speedily but by the time he comes will he find faith on the earth and that faith there when you look at it it's saying will he find this kind of persistent faith the faith that he was discussing so what is faith faith is the conviction of the truth of anything as a relation to God is the conviction that God exists and is the creator and rule of all things the provider and the store of eternal salvation through Christ so when we say what is faith we know we always say faith is the substance of things hoped for the evidence of things not see Hebrews 11:1 but to read in your hearing Hebrews 11:1 well he was 11 a few verses in amplified version says now faith is the assurance title deed confirmation of things hoped for divinely guaranteed and the evidence of things not seen the conviction of their reality faith comprehends as fact what cannot be experienced by the physical senses for by this kind of faith the men of old gained divine approval by faith that is with an inherent trust and enduring confidence in the power wisdom and goodness of God we understand that the world's universe ages were framed and created formed put in order yet equipped for their intended purpose by the Word of God so that what is was not made out of things which are visible by faith Abel offered to God a more acceptable sacrifice than Cain through which it was testified of him that he was righteous upright in right standing with God and God testified by accepting his gifts and though he died yet through this act of faith he still speaks by faith that please God Enoch was caught up and taken to heaven so that he would not have a glimpse of death and he was not found because God had taken him for even before he was taken to heaven he received the testimony still on record that he had walked with God and pleased him but without faith it is impossible to walk with God and please him for whoever comes near to God must necessarily believe that God exists and that he rewards those who earnestly and diligently seek Him so far the scripture okay so we're talking about prayer last week faith this week what does this have to do with tithing because it takes faith to tie it takes faith to give now we know the word says give your tithes bring into the storehouse but if we do not believe God at his if we don't believe God and then believe him at his word we will cease like everything else we won't pray we won't give we won't we won't anything right so why does that matter because we have mountains before us on this table here just faith versus fact right so what's the fact about many of us it takes money to pay bills and live in to eat right where some of us are not employed some of us are employed but not being paid enough some well north or unless your children have rent mortgage car nope do some overdue health issues bills mounting no coverage no health coverage we have children that need to be careful and there the list goes on and this is just talking about on our personal lives right we haven't talked about things that are required with us in the kingdom like giving tithes giving offerings being benevolent getting the property that was promised so we have some scriptures here I won't read all but one of the scriptures Philippians 4 verse 19 says but my God shall supply all your need according to his riches in glory by Christ Jesus we have to believe that word Deuteronomy 8:18 but that shalt remember the but that shall remember the LORD thy God for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers at is this day Matthew 10:29 231 it talks about the sparrow and how much more valuable we are than the sparrow we have mountains as I said before us now if we don't believe God or his word will put our mountains over God's word so what that looks like is I have I have this bill and I have that to do and I have this to do do I do that or pay my tithes but that's the word right so we're not asking anyone to do anything ludicrous we're just living by the word pay your tithes pay your tithes give your offerings there's a promise in it but how can we believe God for some big things like getting the property collectively if as a as a body if on an individual basis we have not learned to believe God for ourselves on a personal level right so there's there's believe in God and what that looks like is we believe God for salvation that's the first thing we have to believe God is and believe himself for salvation but outside of that we need to believe God for everything else so what that means is we're challenged throughout our walk everything takes faith right again prayer worship believe in God doing it takes faith so because he knows the frailty of man when Jesus started the arm Scripture he said men ought always to pray always and he talked about the woman going day and night we have a duty we need to always go to God praying and believing him he knows our frailty and he knows that if we don't do this the way he prescribed we will eventually lose heart or give up right so where are we today with our faith when we say have we I believe do we believe or will we eventually believe the Lord will we eventually will take him at his word and when when we say yeah we I'll believe him one day okay so when is that day because some of us have been saved a year but then some of us have been saved 20 years fit when will we believe God the way the word says or the way the scripture says having this kind of persistent faith when will we have that faith and then lastly um or do we believe him do we still yet believe him meaning are you did you start off believing God trusting God and are you still there remember God is not like the unjust judge he rewards our seek right and the seek is not things the seek is him if we seek Him diligently Matthew 6:33 seek ye first the kingdom of God and we can't seek his kingdom without seeking him so if we seek Him and believe him then he will bless that's his promise and he can't lie amen amen so if you'll stand with me be encouraged this morning as you bring your tithes and offerings as we bring in today's tithes and offerings and over and above given we are believing the Lord for jobs and better jobs jobs and better jobs raises and bonuses raises and bonuses resurrected stocks and bronze resurrected stocks and bonds explosive growth in mutual funds explosive growth in mutual funds benefits and settlements benefits and settlements sales and commissions sales and commissions estates and inheritances estates and inheritances gifts and surprises yes and surprises interest and income interest and income rebates and return rebates and return checks in the mail checks in the mail finding money finding money bills paid off bills paid off debts cancel debts cancel royalties receive royalties received old loans paid back old loans paid back multiplication and new businesses multiplication and new businesses we shall finance God's harvest we shall finance God's harvest we will finance the ministries of Rafah we will finance the ministries of bedrock we will bless others and probably support our families we will bless this and properly support our family amen Gabrielle is standing for sweet five [Music] well then we know he will supply all my needs he is my L to die he always me well the fear is Miss and the fullness thereof anything that you need you can be sure she told my Tara [Music] [Applause] [Music] behold the Tyra [Music] Tyrel [Music] [Music] well you know I've had Eagles gathering I've had clergy Institute's I've had safe harbor and convocations and we have always been blessed by these endeavors but this is the first time that we've literally called it a pastors and leaders gathering longevity is going to be held September 19th through the 21st 2019 and I want you to join me if you have been a part of my legacy if I have signed your document anointed you with oil consecrated you ordained you license you installed you elevated you if you're a part of the legacy of my hand and my anointing and the cathedral International this message is for you I need to make sure you're registered that your leaders are registered and that you are willing to sow a seed hopefully into this endeavor it's going to be amazing I want you to be a part of it dr. Danielle brown Bishop Jackie McCulloch Bishop Paul Morton pastor Jamal Bryant Pastor Mike and Laura dr. Darius Daniels Bishop John Brian co-pastor Suzy Owens elder Mark Moore pastor Phyllis Hilliard Bishop George C right pastor Ishmael Wilson pastor Michael Lewis and lead pastor a Austin elder Phillip Meriwether it's going to be outstanding and I need you to have your face in the place and show your support by registering I do recognize that even though we put this out in early January that some of your calendars were already in place so some of you are coming in only able to get in for one day I'm appreciative because that says a lot it's going to be amazing and we have and we have a legacy you hear me the Lord has done so much through us over these 36 years and one of the greatest things that God has done for us is that he has put us together in the same space the same time on the same page I'm looking forward to you being a part of longevity 2019 pastors and leaders gathering let's celebrate the legacy and let's rejoice as you know I'm a little nervous because this is major it's a major output of energy finances but I know that your prayerful support is with us and we're going to do well be a part looking forward to seeing you god bless and praise the Lord [Music] five four two amen amen and we want to thank those who packed there was some who came to the church and packed some all day when I thanked sister Teresa high men reverend car Steen Deacon poppy Reverend Katrina Pastor Dan and Reverend Kendra thank you so much for your time they did a wonderful job wonderful job and then I just wanted oh well yes pastor G yes Cassie gene under the leadership of pastor G and I mean he sure knows how to pack a box and he thinks of all the things that we don't think of in men when it comes down to this sort of thing it's just in him amen and of court yesterday Reverend Katrina - amen amen and the new course in the Bible College you've been asking the school of biblical counseling presents biblical pragmatism biblical practicality do biblical principles constructs and ideas work in the real world if so how do we apply them to our daily challenges so I'm encouraging all the counselors anyone who wants to break down the how-tos of living by the scriptures to register for this class and even those of you who say people come to you all the time and asks your advice now you can help break it down okay so this is one of those classes that really will help you and it begins on October 7th at 8 o'clock and we're encouraging you to register for the Bible College this semester everybody goes to school to fall and then love it let's say we start but we also finished Cheryl you're coming at this time Cheryl sewer man Gabi's using her lap cloth yes yes ma'am all right oh I'm really somebody specials to be so early on a Sunday I wasn't shot all of the cast are the pinnacle of temptation please stand that's here today and those of you that I spoke to could you come sister Kayla I didn't get a chance to talk to you could you come forward for a minute I did something that somebody said they shouldn't do but I'm gonna do it anyway thank you ma'am what I want could we bring up Deacon Norman the flowers a man our Bishop says it's nice to be nice and she says when you want to be nice you need to do it well and I'm praying that we didn't do this well we want to we didn't get a chance as a cast to think all of the wonderful people that worked with us ain't man so the real professional people of that she's in character again right all righty all right we wanna we when I think Reverend Amy would she please come come on remedy me she is so patient with us and worked so well with us she could've came down the front look at this he does she does things we Thank You Reverend Amy you helped us to remember all our lines and all of that and okay and then now we want to ask for a wonderful sister Beverly Lockwood she come professor live I'm telling you we I know what it is to have deadlines and to work so diligently in the field of education and she did that and we and she was able to help us and I just we just wonder there's a loved one you guys a little bit yes don't stand so far off and then finally our Reverend Wanda Moses [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well we gave her a hard time and she gave it to us back and this look at that extra look at the wrap and picked with the main wanna see Bishop I did it nice like you said wrapping nice I was listening and and we do have some extra sheets with your name's Ian names on it and all and that just for you we love you so much and I know I gave you a hard time right she said do you feel comfortable I said no I don't feel comfortable with these lines we got four weeks right for every little burn but I was in and we were all in and we thank you and we're gonna turn it back over to two to the overseer okay man I love that wrapping paper we have to see you for Christmas wrapping paper it's almost Christmas you know all right we're we're right on time bishop and we are putting this figure up and she's none other than our bishop for the morning come on and stand there you see the angel of his house and a person of Bishop jack on the color that's a cigarette she come in case you're wondering what they meant by the pinnacle that was a play that they put together for founder's and it was a great success amen everything was wonderful including the cast lord have mercy amen amen just tell your neighbor I'm glad to see you today and you may be seated praise the Lord praise the Lord we have so much to thank the Lord for and we're going to move very quickly thank you for being so time conscious just to a right to remind you that the doors of the church are open every day and for those of you are in the area during your lunch hour you can come by and have noonday prayer I don't know about you but coming in the sanctuary at noon can be extremely refreshing amen Deacon straining as we said before at 3:30 and the last finance revival is this Tuesday September 17th and it has really been a blessing reminding people to get out of debt reminding people to get a good credit score because it looks good high credit score good Christianity amen praise the Lord and then to help us to have enough access to resources so we can be a blessing to the community amen amen not all of us should be broke all the time but anyway ministers prayer help us father ministers prayer this Saturday at 8 p.m. we do have the information that we'll pass on to pastor Diane and others we do have the information Jonathan Cain lost his sister and here is the information and you know what you do here at Bethel Rafah amen so it's going to be the information is there it's going to be tomorrow amen amen but we already sent out our letter and we'll be doing what we do to support the family amen praise the Lord just remember brother Ernest he's still in the hospital Westchester hospital amen and we just want to continue to pray for brother Ernest amen we pray for a pastor seamen's mother she's still in ICU but the tube is out of her mouth her vital signs are strong amen they're just trying to keep the accumulation of fluid on her brain so they're putting a shunt so once the the fluid has gone down then they can start their rehab amen so we're praying for full recovery for this wonderful woman now we do not accept credit cards anymore in the church you either pay online or you pay by cheque and many of you are still putting credit card information on the envelopes it is not safe amen we don't want your credit card information available to anybody now our finance team is a team of integrity amen they are people that we can trust isn't that right yes so it's not a matter of integrity but god forbid if the envelope flies out of here you know flies a good block we don't want your number flying anywhere so just keep it simple amen just just use the check or we told you how to get online and and so you can be safer we're thinking about your safety in a time of identity theft we want to make sure that you're safe is that Alright praise the Lord amen now we're so glad to have a guest in 200 I hate my life hello hello that's really the reason but there's one error in there it says Hebrews 16 through and verse 18 is Hebrews 6 and 18 I don't know where that one came from you know if you look at it chicken you can fix it for me I'm not gonna pay you to fix it but you can fix it for me we have a guest you know and our our sister and honorary member sister and Marie hudley Simmons is such a such a friend to this family amen a quiet force comes in and out but if we ever need her for anything musically it's just good to have her on the team is it good to have her on the team amen just stand up so we could see you so good to have you this morning praise the Lord amen and she she brought a guest this morning all the way from his in Texas yes what part of Texas San Antonio Texas amen we have friends in San Antonio amen and this is sister Finnian Vivian Skinner now how many of you have heard of Tom Skinner yes you have Cory good to see you Corey it's 15:40 run - all right what you all know about it you all know about Tom Skinner Tom Skinner impacted my life many many years ago when I was a member of elam Tom Skinner came and taught us evangelism how to reach the community excellent teacher a man of passion passion about souls and so this is his wife and we know that he's going on to be with the Lord but she came to be with us this morning just stand so we could out you out amen praise the Lord amen man amen thank God for visitors and friends and we have another visitor - sir Jackie this your friend yes hi did you stand up before no you didn't and this is your first time oh you've been here before I was out when you were here that's what it was but it's so good to have you and may the Lord bless you today anybody else am I missing no no no no no why korie's son looks sad I know why cuz you have been here that's right okay okay I'm gonna ask you to turn your Bibles I'm gonna use my time wisely Nehemiah eighth chapter name Maya chapter 8 and I'm gonna be reading [Music] I'm when rereading starting verse four and I'm gonna read very quickly verses four through 12 that's Nehemiah chapter eight if you really want to know about fasting and what fasting should mean to you did I say fasting how many of you have ever fasted how many of you like fasting I mean if you like to eat there's a problem right there that's a problem but if you want to know about fasting and what it does for the soul listen to Reverend Rob Edie's sermon this morning never be the same again you'll never fast the same way again you'll never fasten fuss all right Nehemiah chapter 8 they named my chapter eight beginning at verse four he begins a reading of God's Holy Word and Ezra the scribe stood upon a pulpit of wood which they had made for the purpose and beside him stood method ayah and shima and honor ayah and Uriah and he'll kaya and mossy CI a-- on his right hand and on his left hand paid the daya and Michelle and mkhaya and Hashem and hash bar inada and Zakaria and Missoula and Ezra opened the book in the side of all the people for he was above all the people and when he opened it all the people stood up and Ezra blessed the Lord the Great God and all the people answered amen amen was lifting up their hands and they bowed their heads and worshiped the Lord with their faces to the ground also Joshua and Bane I and Cher abaya and jaemin and a cub and Shabazz I and ho deja and mother CI and Kel eita and Azariah and Joseph bad and Hainan and pail a liar and the levites they better be right and levi's cause of people to understand the law and and and the people stood in their place so they read in the book in the law of God distinctly and gave a sense and caused him to understand the reading and Nehemiah which is the turcica and Ezra the priest prescribed and the Levites that taught the people said unto all the people this day is holy unto the Lord your God more not nor weep for all the people wept when they heard the words of the Lord then he said unto them go your way eat the fat and drink the sweet and send portions unto them for whom nothing is prepared for this day is holy into our Lord neither be sorry for the joy of the Lord is your strength so the Levites till all the people saying hold your peace for the days only neither be grieved and all the people went their way to eat and to drink and to send portions and to make great mirth because they had understood the words that were declared unto them so far the reading and hearing of God's Word you may be seated I know I have preached from the sticks sometimes many some time ago but I just thought since the Lord pressed it on me I should press it on you okay I love Spurgeon's devotional one of one of the devotional I use dispersion and Spurgeon on his exhortation on how to respond to the Word of God because that's what we're talking today the title is the heart of a true congregant the heart of the true congregants you know the last time I spoke I talked about the fake worshipers the ones who come and act like they're really interested ask questions seek counsel but they already come with their minds made up to do them but now the Lord is saying there's some people were really true in their desire for the Lord not perfect but they have a true earnest desire so this is what Spurs Dan is talking about how should that kind of a person respond to the Lord or to the word he says Jesus summoned it summed it all up when he said man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeds out of the mouth of God the Bible is a marvelous unequalled book in fact is my judgment that somebody should put a warning label on the Bible and maybe it ought to be read like this warning this book is habit-forming regular use causes loss of anxiety decrease appetite for lying cheating lusting hating and stealing symptoms of condition are increased feelings of joy peace love and compassion amen end of quote here we are in the book of Nehemiah and Nehemiah is one of the most reverenced historical book of the Hebrew history they have no qualms atheist agnostic people who are secular historians all acknowledge that if you want to get a true understanding of that period of time Nehemiah is a legitimate credit credit credible account so it's a historical book that describes the rebuilding of the city walls of Jerusalem and it is really centered around this man who decided to take on that assignment so he was a cup bearer you know those of you who work with with pouring the water and many people criticize you for it because they don't understand how key it is that the person who serves the water and serves the person of the king is really a key person because in those days that were poisoned all the time so they have to have somebody who would who were true is trustworthy so when somebody serves you the drink that you're putting in your body they must be trust with was a key position come on cut beers lift up your head anyway nehemiah was a very trustworthy cup bearer and he received this impression this burden you know you don't always get an alarm or some deep prophetic whatever it could be just an imprint impression a burden this this this really this ministry really burdens me you know it burdens me when I see young people straying maybe I can do something to be involved don't need a special title or whatever he just wanted to do to to help build back the safety of his city so he went in took time off he didn't just jump up with his burden and didn't do protocol I know you're gonna like protocol cuz you just go by what you feel you know you feel so anointed you don't have to do protocol well anointing with our protocol is chaos you have to follow the steps he went and asked you know and this is his job can I have some time what's gonna have a leave of absence so I could do this and the King released him supported him and gave him aid and he went and he did this work this tiring work this slow tiring work in the midst of enemies and opposition and he was able to build the walls because the people had one a mind to work so he's building walls and Ezra is building people so ministry in the last couple of decades went on a rampage of building great edifices you know you're a success successful as a size your church as the state-of-the-art equipment as how churches are measured in terms of success but the greatest greatest assignment is to build people because you can have all of that and only have an audience like a theater but building people so Ezra's assignment was to build the people and that's what this chapter is all about you're talking about now exiles coming back from babylonian captivity people coming out of babylon because only fifty thousand came out and they came out in three courses and these people came back while the walls are being built no temple yet they don't have a temple they don't have a church but they're coming back and the ones who opted to come back are bringing their families and these people many of their families many of their children were born in babylon or raised in babylon and they were not familiar to the traditions that they could practice in their homeland they did have religious practices in babylon they had prophets who prophesied to them but there were certain peculiarities like coming together as a community as a whole and practicing the feast and the festivities and the Passover's they didn't have an edifice they didn't have a one location because we used to one location then we used to coming to the temple walking up the steps that's where all the Psalms a 120 first Psalms that were written musically to depict their convocation their gathering rehearsing their tradition so the children could carry on the religion in the next generation so these were crucial things crucial things so here they are coming back trying to build life again trying to build a wall again trying to build their homes again try to build a temple again so Ezra job was to give them the Word of God as their foundation for building this is what you're going to build this is what you're gonna build your family back on this is what you're gonna build your life back on somehow being in Babylon you have to deal with your sins you had to deal with your idols you were down there because you didn't behave well you forgot about God you wanted to be like everybody else so you had to go down to Babylon to get rid of your idols you never say all right little sidebar since you didn't understand that that's it sometime you have to get in it not to want it you ain't convinced you're not convinced that Jesus is enough you're not convinced that he is all that you need so you have to go in it go in it and he allows you to go in it he opens the door he sends mama mama you go hello streamers I say Baba a lot because it is my way of saying that the things that we were taken out of our things of the world that we get attached to and many times God allows us to go and stay in it so we could wake up and find out this is not what I was born to do this is not what God wants for my life I didn't believe it when they told me I didn't want to hear it because I was having I was feeling some kind of way but I am feeling no way right now the only thing I'm feeling is Jesus so you know he brings you he brings you to that point he brings it to that point so they're back now and and they're they're hungry they realize we didn't pass it on right we were in a place where we couldn't get it into our children the way we should we could not practice the tradition of our religion and rehearse it and live it out so that they could be in call Cayden in it so we want to hear it as a matter of fact Ezra didn't do it it says in the first verse of the eighth chapter and all the people gathered themselves together as one man the people call their own church that's a congregation that once God the people gathered themselves together as one man into the street that was before the water great gate and they spake to either the scribe bring us the book oh my god the Levi's didn't call for him the priest didn't call for the people who is sitting next to you that's sleeping through the whole sermon there is a true cry of a true people don't be discouraged there are people that are crying out hope would you please open the book would you please stop performing and telling those stories in the pulpit will you please stop prophesied all this crack stuff and just or is there a book to be open tell your neighbor there's a book so the paper said to Azra open the book we are missing information we don't have enough information to come back and restore our lives and our community we need information to build back up our religious community and people are not giving us the information but you Israel you open the book we trust you to do so so how did he open the book they've built a pulpit this was the first time pulpit is mentioned in the scripture and it's not you know fancy plexiglass that we have today it's just a nice wooden booklet to accommodate the fact that he would stand higher than the people because that's what happens when you're teaching you have to stand above the people and the people sit at your feet that's the Jewish way of teaching of disciple of giving out information you stand so you could see the audience and make good eye contact jesus said to Peter move the boat out in the middle I want to see these folk that I'm talking to because I want to connect with the people say when to connect with the people say stood up in the pulpit and this is the most beautiful sight similar to the day of Pentecost and the thirteenth stood with him now when it's a confusion about church today nobody's standing with each other everybody got their own book you know you can't go to one church and hear a simple gospel and then trail over here and hear the same thing it's just so much confusion it wouldn't it be wonderful even in here even in if we could all believe the same thing from the book the thirteen stood with him you see there was no other book ladies and gentlemen we have too many books we have too many authorities we have too many places we go for standard and righteousness and truth and the power of God and the character of God but the thirteen stood with him they built it so that it could support leadership and they stood on the platform we have platforms today many people have platform on different you know platforms like internet and you know social media and television but what are we saying that's a problem they stood up and the Bible said he started to teach now he read the law and when he opened the book of the law in the sight he opened the book in the sight of all the people this is good visual connection he opened the book in the sight of all the people he wanted the people to see him hold the book we don't think that that that body language is important everything we do or to make a statement we too we do smart into ourselves we just do what we want to do but there's a certain intentionality in everything that we do with our body with our eye contact with our posture this may be a little storefront Church but this is a cathedral here and everything we do ought to be speak of our convictions that's why we have a communion table that's why we have these little banners that's why we have things to let you know this is that office space the understand we don't gather here just have off this is a place where people come to get answers and to go into the presence of the Lord so you open the book and the people want were attentive they weren't walking there weren't texting through their phone or their watch they weren't texting you they had a Dex oh come on I travel so I know the game let me taste something I can write the book I should write a book big game of traveling in the ministry I know the game pastors sitting in the pulpit crossing their leg playing with your phone because they're bored I don't know why they stay that speaks volumes to the audience that let people know you are not here with us you're not present you want to be somewhere else you want to be on the golf course you want to be with Annie Lou and she's not your wife you don't want to be here because anything that you love your give undivided attention when you're serious there's a certain way you get you walk a certain way to let them know I'm in it I'm in it I'm in this I'm in it all the way you understand I just want you to look at the text real good he openings in the side of the people and and and he started reading and the 13 you know Levites Levites these are men that were consecrated to aid in the religious service they were present yes they weren't missing in action no big Church yet the other Sam no big Cathedral just the people gathering wanting God wanting the book and they showed up you want God we're gonna be here to help you you understand they understood the necessity of being present they understood the urgency of recovering a broken nation and understood the need for preparing a next generation so they show it out this ain't nuts don't gathering to just eat and drink we're shifting the scent of the Babylonian captivity where we're removing the connection from idolatry we're calling repentant people back to the order of things oh come on we going to show up this is why we caught Levites because Levi's show up you have to beg you to sing and beg you to dance and beg you to do sign language and beg you you don't understand those assignments are designed everything is designed to pull people into a deeper relationship with the Lord because people to carry on the purpose of God from one generation to the other we don't have to have no counseling to ask you to continue what are you looking for well what are you looking for a special platform the platform is people are hungry for the world is hungry for this Living bread if the same they're up for all the worlds see that's the only that's the only thing that should turn you on position open door open door open door connection no no no the cry of the people should be the sense of peace of your desire Levi's show up ezra soda had the book open and he began to read began to read now the people had forgotten Hebrew see they're hung around Babylon for 50 years and they forgot they forgot the language that God gave them of how God revealed to them you see they forgot the language and people are forgetting listen young people raised in church they're forgetting young people in church are forgetting there's so much distraction someone's going on thank you for forgetting the language they don't even use the language of the text anymore to describe or articulate their relationship with God they pick up secular language to describe their spiritual experience so we don't know what that is we don't know what that is that could be you talk to a snake it could be and talk to so-and-so it could be you talk to deep marine you don't like to use the language cuz you want to be so connected to the world come on we want to drive babbling out of you we have to talk so that we can reach them I'm telling you how it works right here they forgot the language here Oh Israel the Lord your God is one Lord teach it to them when they get up in the morning they knew what they were saying and Deuteronomy teach it to them when they're walking the way riding over the tour pulse put it on their risk put it on there Florida so that that next generation can pass it on but these 12 stones right here what are these stones mean that they need a point of reference never to forget and the way to forget is to be introduced to babylonish language Babylonians activity and whatever so here they are they're standing there and he's reading and they don't understand what is it because they had started speaking Aramaic in Babylon two different languages that's why when you go to certain churches you have to preach a little longer anila harder because the language of the text is no more familiar they're not even familiar with the Bible anymore so you got you got to stand there and start from a then you go to be it's you gotta go in the alphabet you'd be surprised in a big church it's large churches prominent people and you suddenly realize they don't know what you're talking about so you got to stop it's right here and start dealing with some basic stuff this means that Jesus is Lord he's God in the flesh Oh y'all think I'm lame I'm very serious same thing happening so what happens the Levites I don't know if they did it you know one of the time or they went into little small groups and huddle so if Ezra read something then he probably paused and then the Levites now spoke to them in Aramaic interpreted the Hebrew into Aramaic so they could say Oh under no use opening the book if there will not be any understand we're wasting time impressing people with all kinds of theological phrases which are necessary for the faith but they don't understand we're talking about sanctification is an ancient word it's almost an anachronism it just doesn't fit in to anybody's mind in popular religion so you've got to stand there and break down the necessity you understand when you have a 3 minute 5 minute sermon no it becomes an hour so I agree so long it's a preacher that teach and a stop and a pause and then what it's a work cuz you're talking to people who are clueless to the privilege of their relationship with God o generation that sits there clueless to what you're talking about how does that have to do with me what does that mean what does that text mean that's why they don't like the Old Testament and they barely know the new Ezra started from early in the morning until after 12 o'clock and y'all would die y'all would die and they stood - some of y'all would faint cuz you can't hardly do anything without sitting in your seat while we ask you to stand up it's painful and when you sit down you're plop cuz you're so angry to have this these people were so desperate for the word that didn't care we don't need a cushion seat we just need you to open the book so that our lives can be saved [Applause] they stood and they huddled this is what it means they translated it you know when we travel sometimes we need a translator and I was in Africa a couple of years ago in Nigeria it's a huge crowd and they put me in the middle and they were about almost a million people sitting there and I'm preaching and teaching and the man was translating and you can tell you insane straight because they were hollering from the scene I had translated over here translated over there figure out who is translating right so I kept saying it over and over again then I said you all got that y'all got that and they say yeah they changed it up cuz the translator didn't always get it right but these guys got it right they were trained to get it right ain't no use you have 14 people that ain't trained what'd you get what'd you get all them people standing behind you for in colors like decorations just have them lined up they're ordained ornaments and they don't they're not getting it right how do I know you're telling them what I just said how do I know you're giving them what the book says you wanna counsel but you don't want to take no counseling course you want to tell people what to do how do I know that you're not messing up somebody's like how do I know that you're not giving them your opinion how do I know that they're making adjustment in their lives based on your experience how do I know that but the Levites were trusted you see all their names are names they are then you see cuz they all knew here o Israel the Lord your God is one Lord they are understood the Pentateuch they all were inculcated in the same school I don't know why this is I'm almost finished yeah you you you want to marry somebody we didn't even go to the school no wait I came for [Music] they don't know they don't know what you're talking about when the law begins to talk to you about seeking him early in the morning and when the Lord said give me all that you have and surrender to me they say you're in a cult that's of course where they telling you what to do like that no it's the book do you know what the book looks if they don't have any book run at least let them have a book yeah they never seen the book are you getting ready to buy a veil oh no no I can talk like that cuz I've been there so if you think I'm talking about you then it must be you but I've been there I have been there I didn't ask about no book see but I did get a let's hook cuz there was no book you don't think I'm joking I'm very serious why open the book I'm late why open the book listen to thickness I want to read this scripture and I'm gonna tell you about the imposter and then I'm finished why open the book Isaiah 819 I say 819 I want us three together quickly as he begins a Word of God and when they shall say to you consult mediums and spirits is who whisper and mutter well let's read it from here and when they shall say you seek unto them that have what familiar spirits and onto wizards that peep and that mutter should not have people seek unto their God for the living to the dead God to the law and to the testimony if they speak not according to this word it is because there is no light in them and they shall pass through it hardly be stead and hungry and it shall come to pass but when they shall be hungry they shall fret themselves and curse their King and their God and look awkward so it says when they tell you to do that let's listen let's read the 22nd verse situation and they shall look unto the earth and behold trouble and darkness and dimness of anguish and they shall be driven to darkness without the word you shall be driven to darkness without the word you will seek counsel somewhere else wizard spirit is me Capricorn I'm a Sagittarius Virgo you won't cause somebody you gonna read some book you're gonna look at some gurus cup statement because the soul is gonna find answers somewhere Matthew four and four but jesus answered it is written man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that what proceed out of the man of God so he opened the book and they got understanding repeat after me open the book get an understanding open the book get an understanding if you can't get it get somebody to help you so when they stood up and they received the word the Bible said they had a certain posture that's what I want to talk about they had a certain posture they opened the book and the people stood up they gave full attention we know that standing is very biblical second Chronicles 2019 and the Levites of the children of the courts and the children of the court stood up to praise the Lord so when we ask you to stand it's not a better other thing it's a biblical thing you stand why do you clap your hands o clap your hands all the people it's a worship it's included like prostrating and lifting up your hands and worshiping the Lord it's a sign of giving honor it's bringing sound and attention to the things of God why do you kneel why do you kneel it means you pay homage to pay homage why do you prostrate and prostrate is something that we won't do because we're too clean we're too wonderful when they prostrate they stretched out on the floor until their noses hit the ground that was a sign of prostrate because they realized that in front of a king you see so for those of you make fun about people just falling out maybe you should fall out sometime find out okay and they said and then they said amen amen I'm telling you this is a posture of a congregant who responded to the word because you can't really get the word in you and sit stoic Levi come on you may not be as demonstrative or than yin as your neighbor but something a little clap a little raising of the hand come on a little hallelujah under your breath come on yeah when you hear that word that word that is sharp and quick like a two-edged sword that word that brings answer it demands a response I know you want this to be a mausoleum but it ain't gonna never be no mausoleum and to his case with plants tipping into his courts with praise be thankful I am and bless His name for the Lord is why you can't praise it why are you ain't got no feeling for him you ain't feeling nothing why isn't he wonderful why does he taste good why isn't there no joy you have it all in your head and dine up in your soul come on you have all that information and detached from who he hears every now and then you got to get close are you close without a response the response something is why you're still bitter he's still angry and still special it's still special you're too special because when you worship Him you lose all your speciality are you King are you a worshipper let me sit back up the king now back up the king I don't want to be called king right now I just want to be called worship a day they just watched for David I wanna dance until nobody even knows I'm a king I want to give up my title to all the to worship Him and when you say amen amen they don't say amen amen to everything which we all do you know we listen to them things we say amen amen it literally means it confirms a statement it's an old it's a covenant it is a truth and the Bible said in Isaiah 65 and 16 the Lord is called the dawn of truth and the original Hebrews mean he's a god of the amen that means he never says anything that's a lie so when you say Amen you're saying God is truth that's what you're saying God is speaking and it's true so even if it kills you say Amen even if the word hurts you amen because it's not about you it's about the God of truth [Applause] he's true and he's reliable he's eternally true he's not just temporarily true he's eternally true he's not conveniently true he's always true so even when he the truth hits me is a man I just I just got offended amen amen you got offended amen I didn't like it Amy why cuz it's true anybody ask you the light truth you receive true you bow there's nothing wrong with bowing we don't kneel anymore we don't have an altar but the other chair bring your cushion bring your cushion if you don't want to hit your pretty knees our knees are not pretty anyway you know when hit your knees on the ground you really really push it every now and then you got to need oh come let us bow down let us kneel before the Lord our maker for he is our catch you in another environment and we didn't know you were a stripper catch you in another situation with another kind of music and we didn't know your hips roll like that come on we didn't know you could move like that I'm surprised only when it comes to God your hips strain kneeling standing hands hands stretching hands confessing hands receiving oh come on hands surrendering that's what it means when I raised my hand that's why you don't like to raise it I raised my hand to surrender I raised my hand to confess I raised my hand to receive all of that is a proper response when the book kissing kissing kissing adoration it really means you know you tell your child throw kiss and look at it throwing kids to uncle so-and-so that might be touching them later look uncle uncle nice to touch you don't you teach it how to throw kiss for somebody who is not saying but you don't want to throw kisses to God see it's just not proper what you're throwing kisses somebody else let bring them people that you throwing kids do I want to meet them I wanted me introduced to let me introduce to all them people you'll be throwing kids too I really would like to meet them I'd like to shake their hands at least we know it's to everybody else but we can hardly we have to beg you to praise him people kind of walk around and lay hands on you and roll you on the floor or we spend your hair cuz you sit in the trash rocking like you don't know God but you busy throwing guests come on he's worthy he's not we sang this morning he deserves it we should have to beg you to give it to him he didn't listen he doesn't need your praise but you need to praise him [Applause] the people started praising another thing they started doing that we don't do anymore they started crying see because we saw we saw big bad and awesome we don't cry anymore but this time when you break call a broken and a contrite up that's a sweet thing right there when you're melting down in front of the Lord and it's not a fake cry it's a going down cry you feel everything that everything that was built up against him sought crumbling all the feelings and the thoughts that stood up against him started falling apart and all of a sudden you're looking for a place to hide cuz a brokenness a brokenness a brokenness brokenness is what I long for brokenness is what I need brokenness is what he wants for me when you get like that baby you're ready you're ready you're ready to be trusted you're ready for God to use you and to manifest they were crying why are they crying because they got that what they missed see if you don't miss it you ain't gon cry if you don't you have to you have to really be brokenhearted when you miss that place that you used to have something got in the way of something something kind of interrupted that and you miss it you know every now and then sister Anne you know you you were you came to the house and mother was alive so even though she wasn't walking around you know her presence was there so there was that connection and we're there and she made herself known she may have known the anything she inquired and so every now and then I'm going towards that direction I miss something comes over me and I feel the absence of her physical presence here I'm saying and you long to hear even even the sound you know that she made you know when she was walking around and she wanted your attention she would take the cane and run it on the staircase your G by G you know what that means you better come here now or she say you right Robin it means whatever you are you need to come now you miss that you miss it well that that's people and men mother and family but God there's a place he ought to have in your soul that when things are not going right in order bother you you you you are the bride you are the cry you shouldn't be sleeping all night long you want to jump my body or bat and say God where are your job said I could take it I can take anything you put on me but I can't take your absence when I look to the right I can't find you in a look to the left I can't find you well come on here I can go through anything if I had better shardis of your eminent presence so listen to want to read one more scripture and then I'm at my yeah one more scripture where is it where is it right here yeah I'm coming fast Robin you don't have to move because it will confuse me I just oh here it is here it is second Corinthians seven and eight in fact cause you Sarabhai my letter I do not regret it though I did regret it I see that my letter hurt you only for a little while he was correcting him about something so they got hurt they got offending yet now I'm happy not because you were made sorry but because your sorrow led you to repentance I'm not happy that you're some but I am happy that your sorrow broke the back of your offence to us listen I'm sorry that you're crying but if the crying don't mean you gonna get it right I want you to cry send the crying gods and the cry I feel a shift right here send the tears holy ghost this is getting out of control send it send it God and send in early send it early so that the soul won't get so consumed with something else sad that all it goes this this repentance is necessary change of mine says here godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regrets but worldly sorrow brings death so the book was open and then they were crying so hard that they said now listen you understand now what you have to do you have to go home and set up your tradition the feasts of trumpet the feast of tabernacles you have to reorder your whole life and your community you have to teach your children what to observe and how to come before God there's a whole new readjustment of your lifestyle putting your house in order putting your house in order putting your life in order so don't cry now lift up your head and start praising God that you got it and you got it right tell your neighbor that's when you are the shout cuz you got it right if you felt bad that you almost lost it but you thank God that you got it right you felt bad that you got distracted but now you're happy that you got it right you felt bad that you were acting you're funny but say your neighbor how happy I know I went off but I'm so glad I'm back I'm so glad I'm back tell your name I'm so glad I'm back so what's gonna happen how do we know that they're really back and this is my last verse I have it right here the seventeenth verse and we are closing see you can be happy that you're back but you can't be back without practice that's why you need that coarse Christian pragmatism meaning you have to practice what you just learned you got the instruction you cried you repented now you're happy then they had fellowship they went together and started and that's another aspect you go and hang out with people that just heard what you heard you'll find somebody that's somebody that won't take you up you just heard the word but you went home and talked to some strange person and then now you forgot what you heard or you put on some strange TV something you start watching some stands movie and all that you heard went right out the window you got to fellowship with what you heard tell your neighbor fellowship you got to nurse that baby I said you got to nurse that thing you got to say it over and over then you're gonna call somebody and talk to them about it then you gotta underline it in Scripture then you gotta go look it up in the dictionary they gotta get a word the word and break it down so you could apply the word then they gotta get collaborative scripture to underscore what you heard and then you gotta talk to somebody about it then you gotta pray with them about it then they got the accountability remember remember remember you countability partner cuz i want this that's what fellowship is you know i got the word but I went home and I've got some kind of way I know what happened when you went home you can't go home and go back to that same stuff you cannot hear cry and snot and fall out and then go back home and get on the phone with somebody that's gonna take you off or go watch something or pick up something you're used to - you gotta do some time you can't go to bed right away that thing got to get down in you yet you walk the floor you know knee then saying I hear you god that's what they told us in the old school see they they taught us to walk not just in church but at home I hear your thumb I hear what you said I feel you're calling her I heard your word and help me to walk can you help me to walk in it everybody else sleep what you're walking while you're walking cuz I want this to get down in my belly I don't want it to leave me tomorrow I got decisions to make and I can't make decisions without this word and this word is my compass so I can't go off course now I've been on course too long not gonna hold it hold it hold it right there tell your neighbor I got to hold that word right there hold it hold it hold it until it marinade come on ever try dancing I feel appraised in the house [Music] you see nehemiah said eight sixteen and seventeen and then I'm I'm late here begins reading of Ellsworth so the people what and brought them and made them says what they went and did what they were told to do see that's where you and I mess up it's not that we don't get the information we just don't like to be told what to do we don't want me to tell what to do cuz we feel like what we wanted to make sense you're too smart too smart you're just too smart for your own self that's why you shooting yourself in the foot you're too smart they didn't what other question you gonna ask when you had it broken down to you huh they spoken to you so that you had personal personal personal attention you had a personal leave light breaking it down you could ask your question and you got answer you come that's why they were crying but it was not just an emotional moment it was a transformative moment until your emotions become transformative ain't none Hammond [Music] we can impress by the emotion and they're not wrong with it but I get emotional too that's wonderful but when you get up did you change and get some boots did you change it did you cut off the telephone did you change your facebook did you cut the conversation did you change your [Music] did you seven seven seven you know it's just so sad I know I know I still I got a little a little babbling in me I'm just just a little person ain't nothing wrong with a little babbling I mean come on God is God is just so wonderful he's so kind he understands that we need we have these little babylons they left and made a move tell your neighbor you got to make a move now again Indiana more so you gotta make it you can't you can't just hear all of that you can't get all that clarity I just we mall over in your mind no you got to watch cuz you had clarity before and you got in it you didn't get any cuz you were dumb you got in it cuz you wanted so it's not because you are dumb now you got more clarity and if you don't make a move you'll just have more clarity doing the same stuff they immediately went and made boots and everyone up on his roof made adjustment in his house made adjustment in the house in the house see you you know you got Barry White and your daughter got Beyonce same thing you can't tell her to get rid of Beyonce when you got Barry a you can't do that you can't tell her to don't drink when you got a wet bar for you and your sophisticated friends to turn around the glass to see the richness of the grape before you taste it you're living a double life they made an adjustment let me tell you something it takes a lot of courage to make a judgement that means I'm really serious now I've been in babbling long enough I want to go to Jerusalem there's a place called Zion [Applause] [Music] everyone up on his roof and in their courts and in the courts of the house of God and in the streets of the water their whole community was infected with it go ahead and in the street of the gate of ephraim go ahead and all the congregation of them that will come out again of what but what you coming out of what you Hey what you coming out of I want to hear it Shoshanna what you coming what [Music] [Applause] I made boost and sat on the boots for the since the days of Joshua the son of nun unto that day had not the children of Israel were done so and they were great gladness they were glad that they got back this is the way God wants me and my house to live I was in so much captivity I couldn't do it I had gone so far from the traditions of my faith and when I taught my empty rituals I'm talking about holding on to the practice of my faith to the living of my faith and I want it back let me announce to you that this message didn't come easy they are socialized this message came much agonising from the last message how could they come in here and seek counsel and then put their Idol before the word what are you saying the Lord said opened the book and if you open the book there is a cry that is out there that's coming in here and what they're asking for is not how well the choir sings they came from a singing choir it's not how well the music is they came from music as a matter of fact these show boasts a theater they're musicians themselves but what they don't have is an open and the Lord said you don't have to fight with them that's what he told me I don't know what you telling you he said when you open the book and get the understanding and make sure that you have people around you that can give the same understanding it's called hermeneutics same understanding they will follow through by living it is called a remnant that's ready don't try to make anybody else there's a cry coming in here who knows what it is to be in captivity or be captivated captivated by their own desire captivated by somebody else's desire and they want somebody to tell them how do I get out of this how do I live differently so today let me announce to you the book is opened it's always been open but it won't stay open let me announce to you that we're going to give ourselves to serious study so that we can give the understanding and let me announce to you that they're going to go home and build booths hey Scott so they come on Sutra schematic and they're going to order their steps according to the Word of God where we have to beg you to even listen they're going to go and that's what we save from the book men of every birth for enhancer Jesus he said [Music] [Music] to me Indians are coming Asians the comedy South Americans are coming Europeans are coming Aborigines from Australia accompany even the remote people are coming and all they want is for the book to be open the very book that some of you despise the very book that many of you won't read the very book that many of you have laid down to talk philosophy and to talk social causes the very thing that we have laid aside and made performance more important connection titles all of that stuff we're put in place of the book and the people are saying don't give me that I'm in too much captivity and I'm coming out I want to know what to do with my coming out life how many people coming out coming out coming out coming out coming up Oh somebody help me praise Him I said how many people coming out coming out of it shut up you some again it works again I'm coming out of captivity I'm coming out of imprisonment I'm coming out of fear and anxiety and I need to know how to come out I need instruction not only for me but for my children I want my daughter to live a life free of Babylonian captivity so you got to teach me sue me make me understand open it up so I could understand and when I get it I'm gonna make the adjustment for the world his [Music] Oh I wanna sing it [Music] Patty's [Music] still Peter [Applause] [Music] right [Music] don't exert let's go [Music] [Applause] [Music] Wow [Music] [Applause] Rami chase [Music] today we're just going to we're just going to challenge those of you who have a desire to be a real hearer and doer of the word to the point that we are willing to make major adjustments where we live and how we live for the next generation now whatever it takes wherever that word hits you know one of our one of our one of our young ladies and she was in pastor Robbins class about how to minister to young people and she went home and she called her son who was in college he said she said I beg you not to drink and carry on in college when I had a wet bar she says I want you to forgive me because I told you to do what I don't do he said mother sriracha said no it's not alright I'm moving in right now that child got a message I got a message not by words but by his father's mother's conviction that's why his father's running in the air that's my husband comes in and don't know why he you look around you say how did I get here cuz you can't live like that and people not begin to sense their need for God you can't you can't be that dogmatic nevermind Bishop McCullough what about the McCullar that walks the streets what about the mccullough that goes to the grocery store by the color that sits in the airport there's got to be something so strong the babylonian said cannot be so strong that the Spirit of Christ cannot reach when somebody will say you look so nice today unless you're worse rageh today it's not about what you were wearing it's about who you were gathering until we get like that when I'm thanking him for the open doors of the church I'm thanking him for a congregation that was stand and weep from early morning until noon in the Sun congregation that will say open the book and don't close it and whatever you say the book says is amen amen to the word amen so bad that I'm going home to change amen so deep that if I have to put my son in the street plan to get it right I will a me man could me to take a stand to the perversion that goes on in the back room in my house amen amen to my best friend amen to my closest friend amen come on it's gonna be hard but I got to live this thing that I just heard I can't keep hearing and I'm not living it I'll lose my mind I got to live it so that the world can see their need for Jesus anybody wouldn't make adjustment I know I'm late I know talk to me peuta lies me later but there's somebody here that needs to come need to come quick and we are gonna pray for you for three hours open the book and [Music] Raisa Henan worship thank you really another tune [Music] [Music] you

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