"Blessed to Brag" Psalm 34: 1-3

jesus i'll go yes lord lord he is that's why i surrendered [Music] i guarantee you nothing [Music] with hope and nothing [Music] good morning everybody i'd like to welcome you all to our services here at the south side church of christ my name is willie davis one of the elders along with brother victor comedy and we shepherd this flock of god's people if you're visiting with us we're glad that you're here if you're online watching us live streaming we're glad you're here also part of our protocol please keep your mask on while you're inside we have a sort of a limited directions we ask you to keep them on till the end of services and at the end of services please keep them on until you exit the building we try to get people out as quick as possible when you get outside you can hug and do all the stuff that you want to do but we just want to try to keep the building as clean and sanitized and safe as possible but we're glad to have you here hope you have an attitude of worship god has brought us through another month we started a new month here in september i'm excited about it how about you okay all right okay i know it's a lot of things happening around the world in our country in our state and it's just a lot of tough things hard things to handle at times but we serve an awesome god there is no limit to his power you know all of my members here know my favorite saying is god is sovereign so he's not unaware of anything so he let's happen that what happens but he's in charge and we must never forget that never forget it regardless of what's going on so i just want to encourage us to to be excited to have our joy uh song's been ringing in my ears all week about joy even when things are tough you can still have joy and the joy is just not just being happy the joy is the fact that we serve such an awesome wonderful and powerful god that this awesome wonderful powerful god loves us his children and as children our key thing is that we need to trust him and we need to obey him again hopefully you got one of the communion packets on your way in uh as that time approaches if you're here and you need a have a prayer request we're requesting all of you to write that down on the green card and someone will pick that at the appropriate time if you're here and you hear something today and you're not a member of the body of christ you desire to be studied with or to be baptized please let us know by raising your hand at the appropriate time we have a great message planned for us by our senior minister wessie t leonard i'm looking forward to it and i hope you are too would you pray with me our god and our father we are so thankful thankful for salvation thankful that you are still so very patient with us as disobedient children disobedient creations father we repent we ask you to forgive us of our transgressions help us to prove our repentance by the deeds that we do by the lives that we live help us to keep in the forefront of our minds that all we do needs to be to your glory to your benefit god and not ours help us to not be selfish we know it's a lot of selfishness going around these days people's attitudes superseding the importance of life we ask god that you would influence our leaders our political leaders our religious leaders around this world people that held in high esteem that are making some bad choices god but we ask that you would intervene my constant prayers that you would mitigate this virus but in the process help us all to look to you help us not be afraid to share the good news the gospel of jesus christ with those who are around us to know that you are more than able to handle all situations we pray for those that are grieving uh it's at this time many have lost loved ones and continue to each and every day god we just ask that you would help them help them to continue to fight for it to continue to trust you regardless of this but more importantly to live to understand the the joy of the lord we understand what that means to trust in you to know that you carry us and you hold us throughout it all and as long as there's breath in these bodies help us do things to praise and to honor you father we pray for our senior minister prayed you would strengthen him we thank you for his efforts these past 17 months god continuously around the clock thank you for he and his family his sister pam his mother and sister we pray that you'll be with her and strengthen her others in our congregation that are hurting at this time father we ask that you would heal and strengthen them father we love you you know all these things we just bring them and place them on your altar and we thank you and offer this prayer in jesus name amen amen all right hard fighting soldier is that all right amen i am a hard fighting soldier and i'm on a pedophile i'm a heart fighting soldier no more the bad [Music] i keep on bringing souls to [Music] [Music] i keep on bringing souls to jesus by the service that i keep on my head [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] i keep on bringing souls [Music] [Applause] [Music] my jesus by amen amen let us let's see here all right falling falling for you and i just can't help myself jesus i'm falling i am falling falling for you and i just can't help myself jesus i'm falling one more time i am falling falling for you and i just can't help myself jesus i'm falling i am falling calling for you and i just can't help myself jesus i'm falling i keep falling in love with him over and over and over and over again i keep falling in love over and over and over and over and over again and he gets sweeter and sweeter as the days go by oh what a love between my savior and i keep falling in love with him over and over and over and over he keeps on blessing me blessing me over over and over and over and over and over say he keeps on blessing me over and over and over over and over again he gets sweeter and sweeter as over and over and over and over last time he keeps cleansing me cleansing me up over and over over and over and over said he keeps on cleansing me over and over and over and over and over i keep falling in love with them over and over and over and over again amen let us stand amen let us stand before the word of god how many of us know our god is alive amen he died but he got up he got up hey man just a little bit more volume a little bit more there is beyond the ends of blue [Music] a god consumed from the human side eating his skins with heavenly hue and framed the worlds with his great mind he is [Music] within his [Music] and i'm so glad there is a god he is [Music] [Applause] he is a god [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] we oh god [Music] [Music] is [Music] there is there is yes it is i know i know personally that he's not dead he's not dead is right now right now man [Music] is is [Music] whatever your situation your [Music] [Music] and we [Music] me and you you and he is am [Music] [Applause] if if you know the law is alive say amen do do you have good sense i'm not playing do you have good sense everybody alive don't have good sense if you got a sin teller with a sense knowing that our god is alive then you ought to show some life uh dead children can't serve a living god the church was born by the blood of jesus it was not a still birth we ought to be lively stones you're lively everywhere else before church can't keep you quiet in the parking lot making noise have to go to the foyer sometime before the pandemic can tell people but when they come in the house of god they get a lock jaw i asked y'all did you have good sense for when i look back over my shoulder take a panoramic view not in my life just the last week and i know that the lord brought me from last sunday to this sunday and i know when i opened the obituary column of the newspaper or the internet that many who were here last sunday not only are dead but they were buried yesterday sleeping in a grave and here i am standing here with the blood running warm in my veins if you got any sense not now i know i know i don't know church of christ folk been conditioned and lied to that church is for the quiet and church is where you settle down and show your dignity and your pseudo sophistication but every time i open my bible i read what the lord said if you won't cry out if you won't say amen the law say if you can't say hallelujah not i'm calling jesus now now you may not say amen for me but when the lord speak you ought to say amen you know he said if you can't wave your hand in the air if you can't say thank you lord he said i go out and find a rock and i just made up my mind years ago ain't no rock gonna beat me serving god i no no he's done too much for me kudos and accommodations to our praise team i still think they're the best in the business i i i i i know i'm prejudiced i know i'm bist but when it comes to revelation and and all our praise leaders when it comes to genesis our children's group i say in the words of jay-z i got a lot of millennials watching i said i said in the morning words of jay-z at south side we got 99 problems but singing ain't one preach brother lady but love let's let's open i i i feel a preach coming i'm trying to fight it off because i ain't got a whole lot of help but i feel it coming but i've learned to let the spirit rule and super rule uh it's been a good week my anniversary 41 years was monday my my wife turned 60 on thursday [Applause] my gators won last night my rattlers gonna win today it's been a good week let's open as we always open below one two three when you talk with god no breath is lost when you walk with god no strength is lost when you wait for god no time is lost and when you trust in god your soul will never ever be lost i hope you all at home speak it out a little more enthusiastically than those in this sanctuary but i'm thankful for all of you whether you're here or whether you're on internet our facebook south side our youtube south side our website sscoc.org or our southside app below it is football season and many of our members are traveling and supporting their selected teams and and many folk now back to vacationing and getting back into society and all i ask is if if you can go out amongst center people you ought to be able to come with a mask and set them up save people uh i that that's all i i watch people i don't watch what they say i watch what they do and uh some people said i'm scared of the virus no you just get to church because you everywhere you ain't got no better sense than to put it on facebook uh you everywhere eating everywhere going everywhere uh i ain't mad at you you know i'm i'm not gonna sit at the house either but i ain't gonna come to the lord's house and as long as we got the pandemic going we're gonna wear our mask and be safe as possible hopefully and prayerfully the delta of variant and the lamba uh variant will all be uh succumb soon and remove any remaining alibi you have alibi is different than a reason some of y'all who've been in trouble with the law you know what alibi is that's different than a reason if you don't know what alibi is ask your cousin your cousin know i want to announce or remind some of us that at the end of october the weekend of october 23rd and 24th we're scheduled to have our fall festival now we've not had any events here for well over a year and a half because of coronavirus from march 8 2020 to now we've not had any church event we're scheduled the end of october to have our annual fall festival barring any uh debilitating turn in the ver virus we will have evan daniels the senior minister from the hope church of christ miami will be here as i guess speaker that sunday we want to have some singing if if the virus allows singing is the number one uh projector of the virus in a church so we'll be governed by the statistics and the science uh that we can also we want to just remember and celebrate the life of sister adrian skinner as you know she passed away in the middle of the virus and we were not adequately able to celebrate her life remember revelation and uh here at this church from the start so we want to uh do that if the science allows so start governing yourself for october 23rd and 24th if the virus will not allow us to have some singing saturday night we'll just meet here at nine o'clock on sunday 9 30 on sunday morning and uh do some presentations and memory of her life and legacy and then we'll just launch right into the service everybody feel me and for those of you at home and who are part faithful members uh i mean really faithful members of the south side pajama church of christ i'm so glad you're some of the best pajama members in all the brotherhood i i was talking to a friend of mine in chicago he was telling me he had some good pajama memories i said your pajama memories don't beat my pajama members they they were pajamas so that would be the sunday that you would want to come here if at all possible market calendar october 23rd 24th 24th and sunday uh dear beloved evan daniels who second to me only was adrian skinner's favorite preacher now how do i know this because she told me and one time she said he was number one and i threatened her uh so i thought it'd be apropos and fitting that he come keep that family and many others as you know at the south side family please keep him in your prayers uh even at this time pamela leonard had a birthday september 2nd so did jackson tobert my man that great basketball star at uh what's that school out there my bird yeah teresa patterson also linda adams is tomorrow happy birthday sasha robinson oh one of my favorite members carol frederick uh naomi berry young naomi happy birthday ramon leo howard johnson mama johnson this week tyree green lim halls has a birthday ryan williams wanted to hey ryan happy birthday 19 or 20. excuse me yeah okay no one he he put it deep too 21. yeah trevor you're gonna have some trouble for a long earth but say he 21. well how old is uh adam 22 oh well your girl should be a high boy i could have only imagined tootie davenport fritz roy haynes my man fitzroy uh elisha thompson in that shade name yeah why don't you just say shay i mean shea thompson tanisha richardson t rich sandra turner ramona warren yeah september marilyn benjamin has a birthday uh who else is no no i'm sorry not maryland marilyn and james benjamin have a anniversary yeah jonathan and tiffany robinson rolando and o'shea williams and darius and monica davis also have a happy anniversary this month beloved unless i be indelibly long which is never my attention but i do reserve the right for the holy spirit to move us to the contrary if you would be so beneficially kind good to see my friends here from saint pete look like is that the saint peter but yeah i thought it was psalms 34 verse number one if you are able and willing stand for the reading of the word of god psalms the voluminous book of psalms the 34th division verse number one if you don't have a bible or and oh my god it's so good to have officially at the church sister lisa dupree just placed their memories wave your hands sister lisa yeah lisa places her membership today now she's been teething around south side for a while thinking she's gonna find better nourishment somewhere else and the lord just had to show her she went all around high and low all the way to mexico but she decided that southside was her choice welcome sister lisa do pray god bless you and god keep you psalms 34 verse number one the bible says i will bless the lord at all times man i could preach there for a month and a half his praise shall continually be in my mouth here's what david says my soul shall make her boast in the lord the humble shall hear thereof and be glad oh magnify the lord with me and let us exhort his name together verse number two is the hallway from whence i will walk a few phonetic moments on this morning my soul make her boast in the lord the humble shall hear thereof and be glad south side you can take your seat you know what i want to tell you we are blessed to brag or we brag because we're blessed i love to preach when david is the author a brief bit of hebrew history will lend you to know that david is the son of jesse david is the father of solomon david is the grandfather of real bone and jeroboam david was the king of israel as a matter of fact he was this sweet singing psalmist of israel god jehovah declared and spoke of david by saying that he is a man after my own heart i always found that interesting how god declared david one of his star children even though he was wrapped in the devilish dusty frame and the flesh of a man it lends me to know that what you have done does not matter to god it's what god can do with you after you meet jesus do i have any help in here today well well as i build a track to run this train i want to remind you that this psalm psalms 34 is a psalm of praise because david now takes inventory he was on the brink and the cusp of tragedy now he celebrates a conquest he has enjoyed victory over a hardened enemy by the name of abimelech god now has delivered him from his fears and his foes uh david then declares i will bless the lord at all times some of us only bless the lord at good times some of the lord some of us are just like james in florida and jj and thelma and michael and valona we celebrate good times but how many folk ain't here today like brother leonard like david said i want to bless the lord at all time when i'm up bless the lord when i'm down bless the lord when i'm on the mountain bless the lord but when i'm in the valley bless the lord when i got money in my pocket bless the lord but when i can't rub two nickels together bless the lord when i got good health bless the lord but but but but when i'm sick in my bed bless the lord when i got employment bless the lord but when i got unemployment bless the lord i wish i had a church in hell you got to learn and practice to bless the lord at all times i came by to tell you all i'm doing is regurgitating the words of david he said i will bless the lord at all time his praise is chronic in other words it's continually in my mouth then he declares what i want to preach about my soul makes her boast in the lord and the humble shall hear and be glad and then he says oh let us magnify the lord together and exhort his name together folks when we get ready to praise and worship it ought to be a collaborative and corporate thing why am i happy and you say it say amen when you can all of us in here david said let's come together and celebrate the good things god has done for us my soul makes her brag a boast in the lord church god blesses us so we can brag on him some folk brag about everything and everybody but god but oh no i learned how to build him up i learned how to blow him up that's what magnified means i learned how to have bluster and bravado when i talk about the lord i i can gloat about god you see you don't boast before god what we should do is boast about god and i'm so sure that i am sure that he's god that when i talk about him i got some swagger i got some moxie i got some mojo i know i get on some of y'all nerve how demonstrative and dramatic i could be but i don't care i don't care i don't care i know what the lord has done for me and he blessed me so i can brag on him you'll not hear what i'm saying i have excessive pride when i talk about god whatever god has done for you is worthy of discussion am i doing all right y'all making me feel insecure in here am i doing all right the lord has blessed you if the lord has protected you if the lord has provided for you if the lord has had pity on you you and i ought to articulate dissimulate and propagate his name in the ear of somebody else now remember this church because i'm trying to cut across the field but i feel a preach coming remember this whatever however and whenever god do what he's done for you he didn't do it for nothing he wants you in turn to sing his praise and proclaim his name he wants you to serve him and bless others he did not do for you and i what he did for us for nothing he had a divine objective god had an agenda when he blessed you y'all hear me here his agenda was once you are the recipient of his blessing that you boast and brag about him david says after you delivered me over abimelech and the enemy my soul boast a brag on the lord he has blessed you to brag on him that's why david went on in psalms 107 and 2. he said church folk have to be reminded that the redeemed ought to say so i got any help in here the bible says if it's so redeemed folk ought to say so if you heard your prayer you ought to say so if he woke you up this morning started you on your way and you glad about it you ought to say so if god has ever made a way out of no way you ought to say so if he's ever answered your prayer if he's ever lifted you up if he's ever opened the window or opened a door in your life you don't say so if he's ever been a burden bearer and a heavy load sharer if god has ever wiped some tears from your eyes if god has ever healed your body and bless your children if god has put food on your table clothes on your back shoes on your feet you ought to say so you ought to brag on him now folk i got some problems with bragging on guard ain't one he picked me up when i was down i can't help but brag on him he cleaned me up when i was dirty i can't help but brag on him he brought me back to life when i was dead in trespasses and sins i can't help but brag on him he healed me when i was broken he helped me when i lost a loved one he found me when i was lost he heard me when i was crying he com confident me when i was in sorrow he gave me sight when i was blind he set me free when i was bound he gave me hope when i was in despair he made a way out of no way he called me out of darkness into his marvelous light i don't have no problems in saying so and see here's what i know david said after god delivered him from his enemy abimelech david said as i say and you ought to say he said it wasn't nobody but the law uh he didn't have to do it but i'm so glad he did psalms 100 is an anthem that every child of god ought to recite the psalmist declared make a joyful noise unto the lord all ye lands where you get it from the god wants you quiet everywhere i read in the bible the bible says make some noise what bible y'all read out of oh you have been you're synchronized that's culture not bible preach brother leonard the bible says make a joyful noise until the lord all ye lands he says serve the lord with gladness come into his presence with singing know ye that the lord is good it is he that has made us and not we ourselves we are his people david says the sheep of his pastor subsequently we ought to enter his gates with thanksgiving and enter his courts with praise be thankful and bless his name for the lord heals good his mercy is everlasting and his truth endure all generation okay y'all still don't like the bible do you psalm 150 says let everything that has breath praise the lord okay y'all still choir now let me qualify you you don't think you ought to be praying the bible says let everything that has breath praise the lord do one thing for me take it deeper hold it not let it out you ought to be a praiser if you got breath i came by to tell you today beloved christians have some responsibilities learn doctrine live duty and praise in doxology god does not do what he does for us for nothing praise praise is the rent we pay for blessings y'all not getting me our praise is to rent we play pay for our blessings when god blesses you you become a billboard for god the church is his advertising agency you ought to be on a commercial selling jesus you're not hearing what i'm saying and the more he does for you the more you ought to be advertising him have you ever noticed when they when they make commercials they look for famous people i wonder why they're taking so long to call me they don't want me making no commercial they want lebron james and tom brady and then they they want famous people because the more you're blessed the better you are the pitch a product y'all still don't get it they go get famous people to sell stuff they don't even use because they know you think that if they famous and advertise that then i ought to buy it y'all still don't know when to shout if christians start making advertisements for jesus and folk can see that we use the product we're trying to sell more people would accept him as lord and savior am i doing all right i'm trying to tell you he blessed us so we can brag on him it's a lack of spiritual maturity when people brag on everything and everybody but god some people shout and brag when they get a new house ain't nothing wrong with that some people get happy and brag and tell everybody about a new car or the land they purchase of the clothes they wear they brag about gaining employment on a job or when they get promotion on that job they even celebrate when they get a raise or more pay on the job some of you sisters can't help it you flaunt that new coach bag on your shoulder and then go in the bag and show the coach wallet that you got in the coach bag preach brother leonard you cross your legs so we can see them red bottom shoes you brag and boast that you can afford michael kors salvador ferragamo you bragging boats that you wear hugo boss y'all hear what i'm saying but you won't say a word about the goodness of god ain't no wrong with bragging and boasting except you need to learn that first and foremost like david my soul make a boost in the lord yes yes bragging and boasting it's about bragging rights you'll be surprised that length folk would go to to brag on something they love in this season there's some people who call themselves a rattler so they can brag their people ain't got no better sense than to call themselves a wildcat say amen song leader mario they call themselves a rattler and a wildcat so they can brag their people who ain't got an ounce of indian blood call themselves a seminole and chop like an indian just so they can brag there's some folk who had never been to the zoo who call themselves a gator just so they can brag there's some folk who went to evans high school they call themselves a trojan and they never been in their army just so they can brag there's some folk who went to jones high school and call themselves a tiger just so they can brag because when your team gains victory over the rival team and bcu you know what i mean for years now you've had bragging rights for 364 days you get to brag about your team when you beat the enemy y'all don't get what i'm saying well if you can brag about your team when y'all defeat the rival of the enemy so much the more should you brag on god when he defeats the enemy the devil and brings a blessing in your life i'm trying to unpack this suitcase i'm trying to cut this sermon up and slice it so you can chew it david said i would bless the lord at all times that's a greek word barack it means i will always chronically systematically with longevity i would bless him my soul make her boast in the lord david says i will kneel down that's what blessed me i will have adulation and appreciation because god is worthy of praise he says i will honor god not just with my thoughts but with my speech dave is celebrating the victory over his hardened enemy abimelech god helped him and israel to march over the enemy david said now i got some bragging rights because i had victory over my enemy and he's saying now my soul makes boast i'm bragging about the goodness of god never in the bible are we instructed to brag or boast about ourselves you need to quit and i need to quit bragging about things and people you don't even know and bra and withhold praise from the god who blessed us all i was at a church in here some of us brag about our education good to heaven brag about your money wish i had it brag about your children and grandchildren with their beautiful selves you can brag about your possessions you can brag about your good looks your race your family your friends but david said in psalms 23 the lord is my shepherd whatever you get in life don't forget about the lord i'm disturbed seem like the more god bless us the less we recognize him the more blessed we are the more secular we become in america shame for some time we shake the finger of rebellion in the face of god we even tell god now god you got the wrong definition of what marriage is we tell people karen and kate or the kiss in public we tell people ike and mike ought to get a marriage license and then they got the nerve the chitlins and the gall to try to raise a straight child in a crooked house now do it look like i'm scared i got some folks said man you know you on the internet you got a big following you better be careful and don't deal with nothing controversial i ain't got no better sins than to preach what the bible said i'm not talking about sinners i'm talking about sin because we all are sinners i preach against sin and not sinners now if i step on your foot don't raise your feet change your ways okay some folks will brag more about bright lives matter watch this you were marched in the sun where black lives matter won't sit in the air condition and praise jesus christ y'all don't got quiet on me i know y'all putting some stuff in the chat on the internet but i got staff dealing with you they're gonna tell you what i would say to you good thing i ain't on that black lives do matter amen but that's not the only thing that matters i'm talking some folk this month black businesses matter black schools matter the black vote matters black children matter if you got an ascension the black dollar matters black neighborhoods matter the black church matters the black preacher matters your black character matters your black dignity your black interior integrity and wherever you spend your destiny that all matters more than your skin matters and if there's ever been a race of people who ought to boast on god if there's alphabet okay i i know i've been there if there's ever been a people who ought to brag on god that's you and i i need to hurry let me tell y'all one or two more things and i'm i'm gone some people don't brag on god because they feel like they've been dealt a bad hand like life is not fair okay come here close to me life ain't fair they ought to take fair out of the vocabulary fair is something or somewhere you ride stuff fair is when they show pretty pigs fair is the place they sell cotton candy and cotton and candy apples fair is the place there's a man guessing your age and your weight that's the fair life ain't fair but god is righteous okay i'm trying to help somebody listen to the preacher if i never told you nothing true it's right now god is not equal but he is righteous he don't treat us the same okay all you have to do is be a parent and have more than one child you can't treat them the same you treat them based on who they are and what they need and what they can handle what you can do with one child you mean i can you judge god because your mama died and mine's still alive he ain't fair but he is righteous my daddy died 22 years ago 23 years ago your dad is sitting in the church house and you ain't even speaking to him he ain't fair some of y'all rich and super rich some of us robbing peter to pay paul and other folk ain't getting paid at all he ain't fair but he is righteous so you don't brag on god you don't make your boast on god because you don't think you're blessed but just the fact that your heart is beating in your chest you blessed the fact you ain't in the jailhouse you're in god's house now that ain't cause you ain't dead nothing it's just that they found you say amen when you can you blessed you're not in the hospital your child not in the hospital your parents not in the hospital therefore right now hospitals are full in orlando and this state and the people on ventilators who will never come off you blessed you got to stop thinking blessing this money houses and cars and education bless is when you got what you need that's when you bless bless is not the absence of trouble being blessed don't mean you ain't got no trouble let me give you some good news when god can't get you out of trouble he'll get trouble out of you let me go under my seat here i felt something else coming y'all not ready for all this when god can't get you out of your circumstances he will keep you safe in your circumstance see you gotta learn stop thinking that blessings is always something tangible that you can put your hands on you listen folks you blessed to have a job quit complaining to everybody about your boss and your situation just say thank you lord every two weeks the eagle flies you can't afford to quit so be thankful say amen where you came uh okay i'm gonna let you go david said not brother letter was one of my daughters by that list when he ascertained and gained victory over his enemy that's when he said i would bless the lord at all times his praise would continually chronically systematically be in my mouth he says oh let us magnify the lord together exalt his name together verse two he said my soul make her boast in the lord he blessed me so i can brag on him you bragged on the devil girl you should have been at that party last night you bragged on the good time say maybe you can you brag on crown raw girl you ever had that peach flavor you're pregnant girl they had that apple flavor before you but you got to get that peach girl you ever had some white colored cabaceae kanye we brag on devilish things we pray hey they gotta sail at macy's carol listen i got amazon prime we brag on things but not on the god who provide the things okay i'm sticking to my seat i'm gonna let you go i got a six-year-old grandson i got two beautiful grandchildren one six one two i hope they're listening right now the six-year-old who's soon to be seven has got better sense than some of y'all here's what the psalmist says that my grandson's never read but instinctively intuitively he got it the bible says god inhabits the praise of his people what he would do thailand wesley scanner about once a week unprovocated without any provocateurs he'll just say to me papa you the best papa in the world they ain't no papa like my papa he brags on me you know what a man would do when you brag on him see some of you women i got to drop this some of y'all listen to me you thought the bible says nag the bible says brag am i doing all right you should see the faces of some of these sisters your eyes can't lie no the bible didn't say nag god the bible says brag on god girl let me tell you something the way to get a man to do what you want and do more of what you want is to brag on him did you know the bible says man is made in the image of god god does more for people who brag on him and your man your husband will do more for you children your dad will do more for you if you brag on him but when you're riding him like a government mule when you find fault in everything he does see let me help you here buy my book buy both of them may help you when that man gets home he put his key in the door and you on the phone talking to elsmerelda you let him hear you say i gotta go hercules home yeah y'all now hear what i'm saying she said girl i got to go you got to go yeah this man take care of me and my girl we ain't never been without what we needed girl my lights ain't never been off girl we always got another girl i got me a good man you anything to mess up my if you if a man hear you brag on him you'll be surprised my grandson brags on papa knowing that the more he brag on papa the more papa would do for him come here all you need is kailyn wesley's inner scent the more you brag on god the more he hears you brag to other people about him the more he'll do for you [Applause] so let it be written so let it be done the grass withers the flower fadeth away but the words of god should stand forever my soul make her boast in the lord i i need you to come those who are listening here at home you need the posture and position yourself in a place you can brag on god the number one boost we can make is he save my soul can't nobody else do that amazon don't deliver salvation walmart don't sell it and amazon don't deliver you need to hear of the vicarious ignominious death of jesus you need to believe he died for your sins you need to repent of your tranquilities and your iniquities you need to verbalize audibilize speak it to the masses i believe that jesus is the son of god and then you need to be baptized submerged immersed covered in water for the remission of your sin and you need to come out of the water bragging i once was lost but now i'm fine if you're subject to the savior's invitation raise your hand if you're online email us call us contact us and let it be known that you want to put on christ if you're here today raise your hand in auditorium we had a baptism last sunday we can have another one this sunday all i'm saying to you beloved if you hear and you need prayer i want prayer beseech prayer if you can fill out a call make a request our attendance will get it to brother crumbly by the end of the service we acknowledge and pray with you and for you that the fervent effect your prayer the righteous evadeth much so if you need salvation if you need a prayer come right now while we stay and while we sing for you you are running you all to run until that will i know i'm a living witness what god he really can do you are to run whoa [Music] amen amen that's what you do when you run and tell it you're bragging our beloved is time it is that weekly memorial of the death burial and resurrection of our lord and savior jesus christ it is he in the upper room at the last supper who left the inscripted words that you see on the communion table do this in remembrance of me it was the lord even jesus who took a piece of unleavened bread he declared to his twelve disciples and subsequently to his church that bears his name he declared that this represents his body he then turned to the fruit of the vine the red ruby red wine in the goblet and said that the wine represented his coagulated blood he then declared that we the members of his bloodball heaven-bound church we the recipients of salvation on the first day of every week should make it known that we acknowledge his sacrifice and so now keeping with his commandment you and i if you're prepared if you don't have a communion cup please raise your hand and the attendants will make sure you have one expeditiously shall we pray before we communicate father god we're mindful glad happy and thankful for this opportunity to remember the horrific price of the crucifixion we're thankful for jesus and his willingness to bleed suffer and die for the sins of humanity we're thankful for the church he built through the spirit of his blood we're thankful for this congregation all of the parishioners that comprise this body lord we ask you to bless us and keep us forgiven of our sins bless those who are suffering physical mental emotional psychological maladies in their body hide us all behind your cross cover us with this blood and we ask now as we partake of this cup and this bread and then when we give our tides our offering are laid by the first fruit of our increase all will be done pleasing accelerate your sight in jesus name we pray amen please partake of their living breath now look up amen oh beloved it's time to get happy glad joyful it's time to give it's time to show god uh you can brag with your money y'all get quiet on me now yeah let your money do some talking it is time to show god the deep level of appreciation you have for his bountiful blessing you can't bless somebody else until you bless yourself so god blesses us so we can bless him and he blesses us so we can bless others it is time to be sacrificial it is time to be committed in our giving you can see on your screen whether your home or here in the building that you can mail in your lay by those who live out of the region and you can't make your way to the sanctuary and you are not comfortable giving online mainly to the p.o box it is very much appreciated and acknowledged but those who are in the sanctuary remember there's two baskets in the back we don't pass the basket you can drop your lay-by in on your way in all your way out and then below predominantly speaking most of our members overwhelmingly give online give a fight the top of the page is our most popular safe and swift and secure download it and give on giveaway paypal save swift and secure and of course the cash app all of these keep a running record of your tally of your contribution to god and since he's been so good that i want to brag on him i want to give to him if i bless god then certainly god would bless me it's been my distinct honor privilege and pleasure to stand before you again and brag on king jesus may god bless you and keep you is our prayer friendly reminder once the service is over please beloved we ask that you fellowship outside of the building keep your mass erected up on your nose and face until you leave the premises we'll be highly highly appreciative don't forget october 23rd and 24th when brother evan daniels will be here god bless you god keep you this is our prayer always remember and never forget south side loves you and there's nothing you can do about it brother crumbling the church say amen thank you preacher for that uh message i got the wrong one carlos good can y'all hear me i'm just gonna yell it out first of all we don't appreciate our minister for his uh wonderful lesson this morning [Applause] among all of you all and blessed to brag and bragging about being blessed and i really am and i appreciate the message because we don't always say to god how thankful we are all the time and we certainly don't tell it to people outside so thank you brother west for bringing that to our memory uh for those of you in social media land we know that you're there we feel your presence there are hundreds and in some cases i think we have well over a thousand if not often who are listening in from the pajama church as brother west likes to call you but we've all been there before before we met in the corporate building we were there with you and we're still with you so keep tuning in and keep being blessed and keep bragging just a couple of things sister eunice is going to have outpatient surgery this week so let's keep her in mind along with some friends of hers uh melvin jones and um another young man who's or calvin nicole who's um calvin noble rather who's in dialysis so sister eunice would definitely be praying for you this this week we got a couple of visitors card i got a card from gilbert dargan from baltimore raise your hand gilbert there he is good to have you brother and also all the way from the west coast in las vegas please pray for those folks is burning up in lake tahoe right now this um this is shirley christian from vegas she's heading back tuesday shirley thank you are there any visitors who didn't give us a card raise your hand okay we got one over here brother trevor part me mask oh baptism we had a baptism last week apparently we have one today we did have last week okay yeah we did is that young man here what's your name young what's your name michael michael welcome to the family brother we appreciate it thank you brother lamont um let's keep in mind that those who didn't give me a card god knows your your desires he knows your prayer needs he knows what you need lord knows we don't know anything other than what you have told us but god is always aware so for those of you here those of you in social media land please continue to pray to brag to give god the glory and the honor he will certainly hear your prayer i want you all to know that god loves you and so do i and with that we're going to stand and we're going to be dismissed we definitely appreciate you being here today whether in person or socially let us go to god in prayer most heavenly righteous father we thank you so much for those who have made it this way this morning we definitely do not take for granted the fact that we are blessed and we are prayerful after this wonderful message this morning after this powerful message this morning that you will help us to feel comfortable and bragging about the goodness of you thank you father for all those who are intended elsewhere for those who for whatever reason cannot make this journey to this building for those who are outside the the city limits and the state limits we appreciative thank you god for blessing us from last week to this week we know that some of us have it hard we know that financial issues we know that social issues we know that health related issues even beyond covet we know father that there are all kinds of things that we deal with and yet here we are so thank you thank you for those who are going to have medical procedures this week sister eunice among others we don't know about thank you for those who are going through things mentally father help us to say mentally tough help us to understand that these are times that could very easily swallow us up in our misery these are times that could very easily crush us because we feel like we're all alone these are the times not just covet wise but things are happening out of the country things happening in tallahassee things happening in dc and parts even here locally in orlando we could be overwhelmed and just consumed by it help us father to just allay the noise help us to look to you for all of our help help us to look to the heels from whence cometh our health our help coming from the lord and we appreciate you father we brag upon you we give you the honor we give you the praise as we bring this prayer to a close bless those listening and give them things that they need and even sometimes father the things that they necessarily want but in always help us to appreciate the goodness of god in the name of jesus christ our lord and our savior let this magnificent church say amen give thanks with a grateful heart give thanks to the holy one give thanks because he's given jesus christ his son give thanks with a grateful heart give thanks to the holy one give thanks because he's given jesus christ his son and now let the weak say i am strong let the poor say i am reach because of what the lord has done for us and now let the weak say i am strong let the poor say i am reach because of what the lord has done for us give thanks give thanks if

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