Community Worship Center | Live | Pastor Silburn Reid -" Stand Still And See"

and jacob came on this scene of action god made jacob leader of israel and called a leader of his children israel and called him israel now in our sabbath school lesson now you're going to find three different israels israel as jacob israel as the nation of israel and israel who is jesus the promised messiah so you've got to know when the scripture is making reference to jacob or to israel the nation or to jesus that's why you've got to read the bible contextually so that you understand what it's talking about now here is jacob god gave him the scepter of israel israel was taught to expect the messiah the promised messiah from the garden of eden i will put enmity between thee and the woman that's jesus jacob taught the children of israel that the messiah was coming jesus is coming the messiah is coming they didn't lack that information they knew all along that messiah is coming then jacob when he was about to die he called his children together and he said to his fourth son judah he said judah i am going to leave with you the scepter of israel and the scepter shall not depart from god's house until shiloh comes who is shiloh shiloh is the messiah when he comes you shall pass on to him the scepter and the nations shall be gathered to him the day came when shiloh came although the jews were expecting him when jesus came they didn't even care to think it was christ until today the jews still do not believe that the messiah has come but he came as i went into prediction isaiah says the messiah is coming you see satan decides that the name of god was to be blotted out from the earth and god decided that his name was to remain in the earth and he entrusted that to the jewish people that's why jesus says salvation is of the jews all my oracles all that i want the jews to know it is entrusted to the jews but satan says the name of god is to be blotted out from the earth and so the lord says israel they started disobeying the lord and going contrary to the will of god and the lord sent them into captivity for 430 years in egyptian captivity and thank god they were released from uh egyptian egyptian right egyptian captivity and then back home and again they started disobeying the lord what the lord says my name is to be maintained in the earth and you have it i'm not going to give way to the devil so i'm going to send you again into captivity and so for 70 years the lord sent them into babylonian captivity at the end of 70 years daniel says lord it's time to go home that's why daniel prayed with his window turned towards jerusalem three times a day he said i read from the book of jeremiah that it's 70 years it's time to go home but now you see the lord was waiting for something a message was sent just as in last week's lesson good news was on its way the good news of the liberation of the jews was on its way and so the lord dispatched gabriel from glory and the devil held him up for 21 days up there it's coming to tell them to give them their freedom and then the day came when michael got up amen that's jesus's fight name oh yeah bank hell that satan is very conscious of michael he has lost many battles to michael and michael stood up and marcus said just get out the way will you and my bible tells me gabriel came and went straight to daniel and says daniel you are greatly beloved in heaven oh i wish the day would come when the lord would say that to me you are greatly beloved in heaven so daniel you are beloved in heaven and you know michael accompanied gabriel he went to cyrus and gabriel went to daniel why was daniel at the gabriel held up for 21 days because cyrus was making up his mind to issue the decree and it took that amount of time and the lord watched him and when he fully made up his mind the lord came to him and to daniel and the children of israel was sent back home but then a hundred and fifty years by the pastor before cyrus was thought of god says my servant cyrus will relieve my people send them back home and the day came when that was done cyrus came took over babylon the medes and the persian took over babylon and sent god's people back home built the temple of jerusalem build the walls of jerusalem build the streets of jerusalem and observe that the lord says my servant uh what's his name that king cyrus my servant cyrus and that was done and so the lord has never abandoned his children he has guided us all along and today here we are jesus came into our world died on calves cross fulfill the ministry and i want to as i close my section here i want you to note this jesus was born on time according to the promise of god but then the jews did not even know that he was the messiah it took anna that old woman prophet she says the messiah is here and a little bit later in the temple old simeon says lord let now thy servant the part for mine eyes have seen in other words simeon says the messiah is here whether you believe it or not you know some pastor uh uh the angels was coming down the earth they knew that when jesus was gonna be born and he said let us go down and see how it's coming they went to the temple the angel came to temple because the messiah was about to be born and when they got to the temple it was just like you know someone was reading and some were studying they was doing their own thing he said that this is not right and he went and he found the shepherds they were the only ones that were talking about the messiah because the rest of the jewish people were not expecting the messiah to come at that time it was far from their thoughts but the shepherds were talking about the messiah so they said all right we're going to use these shepherds let's lead them to where the messiah is going to be born oh bless the lord and the shepherd came far from the east they came and identified the messiah jesus came died on the cross went back to glory and promised he says if i go i will come again today we are awaiting the second coming of jesus amen you have uh tuesday no i have two you have a question i think i see a question i have a question i just have a question um it says that god quote was it a humiliation that jesus who is god and is equal with god was called by the father my servants was that a humiliation to jesus that he was called a servant and he was equal with god but yet god the father calls him my servant oh my goodness jesus quickly answered that question he says i thought it not robert to be equal with god what an honor to be a servant of god oh they understood that quite well you know i found this text yesterday when i was reading i think it was a great controversy uh matthew 20 28 is the nlt version of the bible says for even the son of man came not to be served but to serve others and to give his life as a ransom from many jesus was a servant leader and we are supposed to be servant leaders because he is our example we are here to serve and not you know i think we get hunk upon the word leader you know leader and if you're a leader uh the world's definition of leader is uh you're in charge you don't have to do anything but you give orders you tell them this is what you have to do and everybody jump in other words they say jump and somebody say how high it's not that way jesus showed us by his example and he wanted his people the israelites the jewish people to lead by example by if you if they found people that were poor you go help them you serve them and it went over their heads because even peter james and john and all the rest of the disciples were sitting there in the upper room wondering what in the world is jesus doing he's getting up he's taking off his coat he's getting on his knees he's taking some water and he's washing my face what's going on here but jesus was a servant leader and we as seventh-day adventist christians we have to get that into our heads we are here as servant leaders yes sir amen i remember them christ said my will my will is nothing but to do my father's business that's my will to do my father's business nothing else i have to see it talks about the persian messiah now the persian messiah we know is cyrus isaiah's ministry lasted from about 745 bc to 685 bc which 60 years and as a questioning a conqueror from the east and from the north and implying that this was to be a good news for jerusalem isaiah actually accurately predicted cyrus by name and described his activities he did not come from the north and east of babylon and conquer it in 539 bc he did serve god by releasing the jews from their babylonian exile now this is just like it says in sabbath school lesson this is like if it would be like george washington predicting that a man named general dwight eisenhower would help liberate europe in 1945. god predicted that cyrus would be the one that would release the israelites from their 70 years of captivity and just like pastor goff said he had to convince him now it's a funny thing when the jews were in captivity in egypt pharaoh would not let them go but here is another man a persian messiah now he was not the messiah the messiah means that he came to save them allow them to go back home not only to go back home as we found in in ezra go back home but to send back home all the things that the babylonians had taken from the israelites when they went into captivity now the problem is and it comes to this israel would not have gone into captivity if they had not turned their backs on god when moses wasn't was in leader of the israelites and you find this in leviticus and we i'm overlapping over until tuesday into wednesday he told them in in leviticus if you do what i tell you to do if you keep my commandments i'm going to bless you you're going to have this you're going to ride up on the high places of the earth but if you turn your back on me then you will go into captivity but here's the thing he didn't i'm going to keep you there i'm not going i'm not gonna keep you in captivity i'm gonna bring you out but you must learn who is in charge of the universe and that is god almighty because jesus had to come at the at the right time at the right time when jesus showed up on the scene of time it was exactly the time that that that that was predicted i heard a pastor this morning i was i was watching i think henry wright and he said how god predicts the future if god tells you 500 years from now it's going to rain you get up that morning 500 years later and put on your raincoat because it's going to rain if god tells you that this is going to happen my brothers and sisters is going to happen cyrus was god's anointed messenger to release the jews unfortunately not all the jews went home some of them stayed they integrated themselves into persian society and they didn't go home but when they got home the ones that left and went home they had to start to build their nation from scratch now it's a beautiful thing when the brethren came from egypt i heard this one year it took them to get to the border of the promised land but it was 39 years for them to go in but when they went in the cities was intact the farming system was intact everything was all they had to do was go in and take care of business and if they had to fight any wars god was with them here we come now to when they came out of persian or babylonian captivity they had to start from scratch they had to build from scratch because they had disobeyed god even when god told them not to fight against the assyrians oh they oh we got this they will constantly fighting against the prophets that god had sent them to tell them and to show them they were hard-headed and because of their hard-headedness they went into captivity but god in his awesome mercy and his wisdom brought them out of captivity allowed them to go home to build up the waste places and to prepare the way for the real messiah to come we have a lot to be thankful for because our jesus is coming back our messiah is coming back to take us home we have to stay faithful amen amen um question on predictions and god's predictions now how many isaiahs were there the thing about it is that they're saying because of the fact that the prediction was so accurate that cyrus his name was even mentioned before he was born they're saying that there was another isaiah now is the world or people feeling that because the prediction was so accurate that there must have been another reason that there must have been another isaiah what do you say to that what do you think of that there was not another isaiah let me put it this way in our this recent uh vernacular that was false news you see there's always going to be false news there's always going to be somebody saying how can that be we forget we're dealing with god who knows the future he knows the past and he knows the present and if god says this is going to happen my servant isaiah i gave it to him and he predicted it right on time there was not another isaiah that was the one and only isaiah that predicted it he didn't even know who cyrus was all he knew that god said write it down because it's going to happen that's right that is that is in only one isaiah the other is speculation there is nowhere in the bible or in medieval roman whatever history it might be one isaiah one day isaiah was in the temple court praying and as he prayed he says lord sennacherib the syrian army is coming to take over judah powerful nation they're going to destroy judah lord what's your way and isaiah prayed he cried to the lord the lord said isaiah hold on just a moment let me give you let me show you something look up here lord took his mind in the glory and as i looked around and lord show him in the temple as i said i saw a temple full of smoke angels flying all over the place and i looked a little higher and i saw god sitting on his throne and the lord said to me isaiah don't worry about tsunakarib and the assyrians not one thing is going to happen to my people judah oh yeah isn't that comforting god says i am still in control i ask a question is he still in control today is god in a in control of american politics today i have this thing that god has boots on the ground and they're called the angels the angels have always been here with the authority from god to make sure that prophecy will be fulfilled it's not going to get out of hand when the devil oversteps his bound god has like a uh uh uh what is this thing we wear suspender snapping back in the line snapping back you say you can go so far my brother but you cannot go further because i have not unleashed the four winds of strife until then stay in your place you might get a little uppity but i'm gonna snap you back in line oh may i encourage you my friends my brothers my sisters no matter what is happening in our world today we are looking terrible with this pandemic that building the world but let me inform you god is still in control we must learn to trust him finnish all right your time sir as we look as we look and thursday um under the caption of a feeling and a suffering servant a servant they must have a certain qualification to be a servant you got to have certain characteristics a servant must be humble a servant must be obedient and as christ said it is my will to do not my business but the will of my father who sent me so he to to to um to be a leader to be a servant for the people of god you must emulate certain characteristics and god wants you to be you know an example a representative of him to his people so that his people will just know that listen we need to fall in line we need to come under the binder of christ question now this month is a good month to ask this question and because we're on this topic servitude does the bible condone servitude or any type of slavery what is your opinion on that because you were just talking about servitude the certain characteristics does the bible condone it are we supposed to be slaves of any type slaves of christ we are not slaves as god said when he calls us we have a choice satan says we don't have a choice because he said you must do this but god say no i stay at your door and i knock the knob is inside you need to not let me so therefore you have a choice so there's no slavery no you don't have to do it but he said i wish that you would accept life instead of death so we can be voluntary slaves of christ right just like in the bible it talks about the slave when he had his the all put through his ear and he was um forever the servant or the the slave of that master i guess we too can voluntarily you know be servants of god can i say this can i say this if you want to bring in the word slave when it comes down to religion if we continue to keep sinning we become slaves to sin yes but when it comes to serving god we are to serve god with a humble spirit that does not mean that we're weak that means that we are subservient to the will of god and we are to serve others just like jesus did not slaves yes there are slaves out there but not slaves to god we are servants of god and if we sin then that's where slavery would come in then we are slaves to sin looking over on fridays now we see where a servant of duties okay a good servant of duties in that his duty christ also our duty as the children of god is to save we our duties to reach out to humanity christ's duty was to seek and to save that which was lost and you know in in his saving of humanity he you know sometimes you will have a child your kid would do something wrong and you are disciplining that child and you know the the way in which you go about it the child feels good to come back to you afterward and say dad ma'am you know i know i had messed up but your discipline was harsh but i was it was well deserving so christ he discipline us in the way that we feel that we deserve this discipline and he tried us in such a way that there is love it's filled it packed with love his compassion is there and he oozes us he said come my child though he sin you have an advocate the father jesus christ the righteous so he said come he builds us come come in a loving passionate way and when he look he said father i wish if i didn't have to take this cup but because i love the people i've got so much i will go under urbana in your power in your strength i will go and i will rescue the nation you know according to the scripture peers um that jesus felt that his work was in vain like we read that i think believing in thursday's lesson now do you feel that's because out of the billions and billions of people that were born on this earth that so so very few of them will be saved do you believe that's why jesus believes his work well he actually said that he feels his work was in vain uh he wants you to repeat the question and make oh okay powder now what i was saying is that um according to the scripture where we read in thursday's lesson it says that jesus felt that his work was in vain and i was saying is it because out of the billions and billions of people that were born so very few are actually going to be saved it's always going to be a remnant you know we have the good news of salvation and unfortunately everybody does not uh accept the good news of salvation and that's because of sin it's easy to sin but it takes work through the power of the holy spirit to live a god-like life and so many people can see things but they're they're spiritually blind you can you know there's a saying you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink god has given us his word he has he demonstrated his love for us and if we choose not to accept it because when he created us he created us as free moral agents to decide whether we would accept his his mercy and his grace or to reject it and unfortunately majority of the people will reject this great message but god has not given up on mankind he could have said okay because of sin i'm not gonna send jesus down here but he did and jesus moved into our neighborhood because he loved us so much he moved in with us to give us a demonstration of the father's love because he did not come to talk about himself he talked about the father and he said if you see me you see the father when you hear me speak you hear the father speak so we know how much god loves us because he sent jesus his only begotten son to to redeem us to save us and die for us and shed his blood for us beloved let me say this hell was not made for a single human being all humans can be saved in the kingdom of god if we are saved it is by our choice if we are lost is because we choose to be lost right so god opens the door and i saw in our study here that there are times when jesus could have become really discouraged moments of discouragement but he looked beyond today and he sees that so many of us are going to a lot of people are going to be saved praise the lord for that a lot of people are going to be saved yes sir like sands of the sea but jesus said says i saw them pastor all many of us are going to be saved let's be faithful god help us to remain loyal god wants to save every one of us all we have to do is remain faithful and when he comes he will keep his promise and save us all thank you dear lord for what we have studied from the bible we ask that you would continue to bless your children as we continue to study in the name of jesus we pray amen [Music] are you growing one important factor for something or someone that is living is that it needs to grow a puppy grows from a pup to a dog a plant grows from a seed to a flower likewise we as humans must be growing in christ from a sinner to a saint there are different things that you can use to ensure that you're growing healthy in the lord and one such thing to do is to study the word of god if you want to stand tall in the lord and be fit spiritually you have to study his words and feast upon it because that way you won't be malnourished second timothy 2 15 tells us that we need to study to show thyself approve unto god if you and i are going to ensure that the next time god puts us on the scale and we're not losing weight i implore you to read the word of god are you growing [Music] is [Music] [Music] god i look to you i won't be overwhelmed give me vision to see things like you do god i look to you you're where my help comes from give me wisdom [Music] you know just what to do yes and i will love you lord my strength and i will love you lord my [Music] i will love you god [Music] [Music] say god i look to you [Music] to see things [Music] you know just what to do [Music] [Music] you know just what to do know just what to do you know just what to do and i will love you lord my strength and i will love you lord my chair say i will love you i will love you [Music] [Applause] [Music] hallelujah [Music] hallelujah i said it's hallelujah and i will love you oh forever or my day ever [Music] the lord is [Music] are you growing one important factor for something or someone that is living is that it needs to grow a puppy grows from a pup to a dog a plant grows from a seed to a flower likewise we as humans must be growing in christ from a sinner to a saint there are different things that you can use to ensure that you're growing healthy in the lord and one such thing to do is to study the word of god if you want to stand tall in the lord and be fit spiritually you have to study his words and feast upon it because that way you won't be malnourished second timothy 2 15 tells us that we need to study to show thyself approve unto god if you and i are going to ensure that the next time god puts us on the scale and we're not losing weight i implore you to read the word of god are you growing [Music] is [Music] [Music] this is a personal prayer that i share with you that god will bless you and that you will trust him in all his am ways you carry every burden when i'm alone you're just a breath away when i am restless you're the one who steals me and when i fail you'll always be the same [Music] [Music] wings when i reach the end of you are just beginning in you alone i find all that i need when you are lost he'll rescue you from nature and when you fall he'll pick you up again when you resist he'll love past your defenses and though we stray is faithful to the end in god lord we're lifted up to heaven [Music] when we reach the end he is just beginning [Music] [Applause] you alone [Music] when i reached [Applause] you are just in your lord [Music] psalm 65 verse 8 says the whole earth is filled with awe at your wonders where morning dawns where evening fades you call for songs of joy today another opportunity has dawned and we have the joy to worship our savior he is calling each one of us to enter into a worship experience with him leave behind the baggage and just enter into his presence today welcome and thanks for tuning in let's join the service that's already in progress [Music] is [Music] is so [Music] do [Music] before his presence with thanksgiving enter into his horse with and be thankful to [Music] him [Music] [Music] come before his presence with thanksgiving [Music] unto him and be thankful unto him for the lord is good [Applause] [Music] and be thankful [Music] [Applause] for is lord is good and his mercy is everlasting and his truth [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] and for his wonderful works to the children of men let us let them exalt him also in the congregation of the people and praise him in the assembly of the elders amen glory be to the father [Music] is [Music] lord we come before your presence this morning lifting up our hearts and our voices to you and songs of praise father we invite your holy spirit presence to come and dwell with us even now as we give you thanks for this holy sabbath day of rest lord bless us touch each and every one who is engaged in the service today so that when we leave our lives would have been changed by the message that was received we give you all the thanks and praise and honor and glory dear lord and may all that we do lift you up in jesus name i pray with thanksgiving [Music] amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] praise him all preachers [Music] [Applause] [Music] praise him [Music] praise god [Music] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] [Music] man [Music] ring with [Music] joyce [Music] [Music] has full of the hope that the presence has [Music] [Music] let us march [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] keep us forever [Music] is [Music] we forget [Music] foreign we'll keep marching fighting till the victory is won your head up brother till the victory is [Music] is i will be reading a black history month scripture mae jemison in 1992 mae jamison flew into space she was the first black woman to do this throughout her life she maintained excellent grades in school she graduated stanford university with a degree in chemical engineering and then later on went to cardinal university and became a medical doctor in 1987 from a field of 2000 dr jemison was one of the 50 chosen for nasa astronaut training program dr jemison achievements has made it easier for black kids everywhere to dream bigger pleasant sabbath to all and for those online who speak hebrew for my french speakers bon saba and for those who speak spanish feliz sabado i would like to give you an acronym for love to write on your hearts today and always l lasting beyond feelings and comprehension o openly vulnerable for the holy spirit to guide you v very connected to the direct power line with jesus e embracing christ-like compassion today let's practice love the way god showed us beyond our human camp compass depending on the lord for guidance through his examples on behalf of our pastor dr abraham j jewels and or board of elders i would like to welcome you all today online to our service and i pray it will be a spirit-filled one [Music] you may be down has somehow forgotten that you are faced with circumstances that you can't get through [Music] but right now it seems that there's no way out and you're going under [Music] he'll take care of you and he'll do it again he'll do it again [Music] he [Music] god knows the things you're going through and he knows how you're hurting you'll see he knows just how your heart hasn't broken into but he's the god of the stars and the sun and the sea and he is [Music] he'll do it again [Music] he's the same now [Music] oh yes he's still gone and he will not fill you oh yes he's still gone and he will not change oh yes he's still god and he's fighting for you oh yes just like moses just like daniel just like [Music] we all just take a look at where you are [Music] you may not know [Music] you may not know how [Music] but i know [Music] another year and another month has started it's a special month black history month but what about it can i relate i mean coming from the caribbean island of trinidad living in new york what do i know enough to tell my story being black is not a curse being black is earth strong it's sweat and toil way back on the cotton field plantation ground being whipped and bruised while the blood and tears fall to the ground into the dirt the one that will echo my name being black is marching for human rights to be recognized as equal and fighting for justice while being hosed down like we are dirty and disgusting or being attacked by dogs that are trained by the masters of hate they see the savage beasts ripping our clothes and our flesh to see blood the flesh is hanging like chopped meat being black is being shot at for no reason while walking home jogging on the street or playing in the park with the last breath we can only speak maybe a whisper a prayer asking god to forgive me forgive them save my soul from damnation being black is being choked daily not physically but literally speaking all voices are not heard we are forced to keep them shut as we are verbalized stigmatized even brutalized because of our knowledge to become better to become leaders teachers inventors preachers or even president the black in me is here to stay can't change my black [Music] i'm in peace [Music] like season [Music] and whatever my life [Music] [Music] is it is my soul [Music] it is well it is well [Music] [Music] my sin oh the joy of this [Music] is [Music] praise the lord o my soul [Music] it is [Music] it is well with my soul and lord hates the day when my faith shall [Music] us [Music] shall [Music] is it is well [Music] with my soul [Music] is with my soul it is well it is my songs [Music] what a wonderful day it is and what a wonderful day it will be when it is well with our soul thank you so very much today we are celebrating the young people the youth of our church uh under the leadership of sister angela sandy and her team the officers and sponsors and elders who work with them we appreciate the ministry of angela and the leadership she brings to our young people today we celebrate youth day with them and we praise god for all of our young people who have already participated and who have blessed our sitting here today and what a wonderful job they have done we praise god for them we praise god for their talents and gifts but also their devotion and commitment to god and to the church of the living god we praise god for that thank you angela so much for your leadership we appreciate you and all those who work with you today is the last sabbath of the month and what do we do on the last sabbath of the month we celebrate those who have birthdays and anniversaries we just started that this year and so it has been a blessing thus far we all we ask is that you call into the church you leave a message with the um the on the voicemail our administrative assistant will retrieve that message say that you've had a birthday or if you're calling on behalf of your son your daughter your wife your husband you can also call it and give the date of your birthday you don't have to give the year um we are not that interested in how old or young you are we are interested in the fact that you're celebrating another milestone another year that god has gifted you with now we are asking you uh also if you don't mind sending a photograph of yourselves we'll place it up as uh media team will uh also uh post that picture up for us while we are recognizing you uh so that we can put the name and the face together uh we've asked you to do that today we i believe we only had one who sent in a a photo but there are a number of them who have sent in their names celebrating their birthday now i'm gonna make one slight shift someone brought to my attention this week that there's sometimes the month ends and we still have four more days or five more days to go and people keep feel kind of funny about saying it's my birthday upcoming and we celebrate it today so this is what i'm gonna do we will celebrate all of the birthdays angela and the anniversaries we will do that uh on the first sabbath of each month so no one can feel like we are robbing them all right but uh the first sabbath of each month we will celebrate the previous month of anniversaries and um also your birthdays all right so we'll have the birthdays read by angela and um ingrid at this time angela our february birthday celebrants goes as followed jayden smith february 5th justin smith february 7th xander channer february 9th kyle simmons february 10th maya murphy february 15th and natalie andrews february 19th all right go ahead we have rudika malcolm february 22nd alana barca february 21st connell riley february 21st michelle williams february 19th marissa haywood january 2nd that's the late entry harrison providence february 18th sonia harris february 27th and lorna irving february 25th oh wonderful we want to wish all of these celebrants a happy birthday and god has been good to you in spite of all that's going on around us we have been gifted with another day of life another year of life we praise god for his blessings on each and every one of you and we want to say happy birthday just before we sing our happy birthday uh ella coombs will read for us the names of those who celebrated wedding anniversaries all right okay so happy anniversary to calvin and annette hansfield february 5th ransay and esther barker february 13th and to brother and sister adrian douglas for 45 years of being together thank you happy anniversary amen thank you ella combs listen folk what i want you to do for me uh when you call in your anniversaries please leave for us the information how many years i think that is worth uh repeating and acknowledging when we acknowledge your birthdays and your anniversaries we're going to sing now or there was a picture of one of our celebrants uh our media team should uh play that put it up for us at least and who is this say net hansfield calvin and annette hansfield happy anniversary amen beautiful beautiful and they're well dressed for the black history celebration we acknowledge that thank you so much thank you very much let's sing together happy birthday happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday happy birthday [Music] pastor god will give us a brief prayer for those who've experienced another milestone a birthday and also pass please remember those who have had anniversaries let's bow heads our pastor will pray for us gracious lord how we thank you for calling us from darkness to light the joy of this message the hope of salvation thank you for your people lord they are celebrating the end of this month many years how you have kept them you have taken them from far and near from ups and down lord you have kept them faithful although we asked you will continue to preserve your children they lift their hearts in gratitude and in thankfulness to you today we ask now lord that you would come by and bless your children bless these celebrants those who are celebrating the birthdays who are celebrating their anniversaries oh lord we pray your blessings upon them then lord save us when the work is finished we ask in jesus name amen amen amen thank you best [Music] so [Music] god sent his son [Music] they called him jesus he came to love [Music] he landed he lived and died to buy my [Music] an parents grave is there to prove my saviors because he lives i confess to because he lives all fear is gone because i know i know i know he holds the future and life is worth the living just because he lives how sweet to hold a newborn baby [Music] to feel the pride and joy he cares but great i still this child can face uncertain days because he lives because he lives tomorrow [Music] because my god lives all there is gone because i know i know the future and life is worth the living just because he lives [Music] because i [Music] [Music] [Music] he holds my future and life is worth the living just because he [Music] [Applause] [Music] all of my worries are gone because [Music] [Applause] he has my future and life will always be worth the living just your life is worth the living just [Music] because because god lives [Music] here [Music] um [Music] um [Music] um [Music] you [Music] [Applause] [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning to all i'm watching around the globe today's scripture reading is taken from the old testament psalms 89 4-6 it states thy seed will i establish forever and build up thy throne to all generations salah and the heavens shall praise thy wonders o lord thy faithfulness also in the congregation of the saints for who in the heaven can be compared unto the lord who among the sons of the mighty can be likened unto the lord the new script the new text testament scripture reading is taken from matthew 22 verses 37 to 40. jesus said to him you shall love the lord your god with all your heart with all your soul and with all your mind and this is the first and great commandment and the second is like it you shall love your neighbor as yourself on these two commandments and all the law and the prophets may god bless the reading of his holy word [Music] there is a name that is so precious a name so wonderful to me this name is worthy of all praises because of him i am made free that name is jesus oh how i love him the one who gave his life for me because of love so unconditional i will have life [Music] eternally [Music] this name speaks peace on to my storm clouds this name speaks come into my fear and when i feel that no one loves me his loving presence is so near that name is jesus oh how i love him the one who gave his life for me because [Music] i will have life eternally that name [Music] praise that name that name [Music] this earthly dwelling through time and space my soul was sore and finally see the face of jesus and praise that name [Music] is [Music] because of love so one conditional i will have life [Music] each is [Music] [Applause] is [Music] thank you crystal we praise god's name today this is the day our lord hath made we will rejoice and be glad in it it's time for prayer we are privileged people to call upon the name of the lord be assured of this that when we pray we are not informing god of anything all we are doing is affirming our faith in god that he's able to meet our needs and acknowledge us as his children and he will do that which is in our best interest and for our most good today as we ascend this mountain of prayer i want to ask you to not only seek god and make requests of him but to praise him for already prayers that have been answered he has already answered many prayers many of us are rejoicing today we're alive today because god answered prayers so we want to thank him but we also want to seek his face and at this moment bring to your attention there are those in our church family whose hearts are aching who have experienced loss this week i want to remember sister sandra freeman who's our care ministry director and she's always reaching out and comforting others when they have laws she lost her cousin in jamaica this past week a young woman 50 something we want to remember sandra a long-standing member of our church sister sue's jean-pierre passed this week and we want to extend to her children and her family our deepest sympathy prayed with them and talked with them the funeral service for sister sues jean-pierre will be here at our church on this coming wednesday the viewing will be from 9 30 a.m to 11 and 11 onwards will be the service and then we'll go to the cemetery from here everyone is invited to come only for the viewing there are only about 60 individuals who are or will be allowed in the sanctuary for the actual service that will be in consultation with the family brother emmanuel and sarai you can call them and talk with them and they can probably make you a part of that 60 individuals who will be here for the actual service at 11 a.m on wednesday morning the viewing however is from 9 30 to 11 and elder smith will make certain that there's a procession that allows you to come in and leave the sanctuary so that we can properly social distance and that we can have a service that will honor god and bring hope and comfort to the family but we'll do that very safely we also want to bring to your attention um not only sister suez and sandra but reminding you that sister claudette samuels lost her mother we informed you on last week we want to remember to pray for them there are others who we've been praying for they are up and around they're out of icu some of them have even been discharged and are at home and to god be the glory for his marvelous blessings in their lives well the channel will pray for us those of you who may have needs in your life whatever you bring to god today his promises if you ask you shall receive if you seek you shall find if you're not he shall open onto you finally sister jennifer allen many of you may know her she passed this couple weeks ago i believe it was in february 7th we neglected to announce this because that information did not get to us but today we receive this word and we are passing it along please remember to pray for the family of sister jennifer allen and to hold them up in prayer jesus has promised that if we come to him and cast all our care upon him he will help us carry the load he will answer our prayers he'll meet our needs he'll bless our lives we provide for our needs whatever they may be today i want you wherever you are to stand with me or kneel in prayer as we ascend the mountain of prayer let's sing our prayer song after which elder channel will pray for [Music] us there is a stillness in the eye must be [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] to break thee [Music] oh [Music] foreign our most righteous heavenly father we than unworthy children come here today we are in few numbers lord but we know on all the internet and every avenues others are watching and you have provided that what a mighty god you are you said knowledge would have increased and we have seen it so that tells us lord that your coming is near you are such a great and mighty god and we are here today to praise honor and glorify your mighty name when david was here he said i'm glad to be in the lord's house we are saying the same thing this morning but those in media land we know he's in your heart even though you're not here so for that we give you thanks dear god father we thank you for taking us through another week so many things would have happened we did not see it but we know you protected us across that street you protected us while we were sleeping so for that we thank you dear god some of us have passed through our red sea and we are on the other side we are here on this holy sabbath day so we thank you dear god we have crossed over bridge that you have made for us and we did not see it so we thank you what almighty god you are father in heaven we thank you for the food that you have provided we thank you for the heat that you've provided in this winter lord remember those who are unfortunate enough not to have those kind of amenities we pray that you will be with them we pray that you'll be the unfortunate ones but we come here today just we just want to bless honor and glorify you because you've been so good to us we thank you lord for this church we thank you for our brothers and sisters in christ we thank you that they are praying in these times these are rough times but lord you promise that you will be with us and you lead us through the waters to the fire so we thank you again lord father we thank you for everything that you have done for us this moment we want to present to you families that are grieving in your in your temple our brothers and sisters that are grieving we pray dear lord for the guinness family we pray for them for the elder samuels and family we pray for them sister sam sister freeman we pray for her lord as she mourn the loss of her cousin in jamaica and at this time we want to present to you sariah and emmanuel lord who have lost their mom a long-standing member of this church sister jinpir we pray that you'll be with them comfort them as no other can no other one we know you are the great god who will comfort everyone today dear god is you today and we present the youth to you remember his leadership since sister sandy and all everyone lord be with them we pray that you will continue to give them a great message and great attitude to go out to tell others of you father god we pray that you'll be with pastor as we'll break to us the bread of life today be with him pastor reid this leader of this flock lord have mercy upon him according to your loving tender kindness whatever we feel and ask indeed today we pray in your goodness that you'll grant it unto us in jesus name we pray amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] bye [Music] [Music] god and last [Music] you [Music] god church is here to win souls and our presence is important in our community the church is a refuge to many who are troubled and is in seek of help our community knows that if you need grocery you go to a supermarket if you need clothes you visit the mall if you need sports and entertainment you visit an arena but if you're searching for god and for peace many know that you visit our church this community worship center to find help to seek in god you see when our pastors stand here and they said come unto me all he that labor and are heavy laden and i will give you rest when someone who doesn't know god seek rest they find this community worship center and its pastors and leaders to help them so today remember when you give your free will offering it is for the maintenance and the upkeep of this beautiful building a symbol a symbol of god's presence a symbol and a building dedicated to do an aid in the furtherance of god's work in addition remember that god commands us to return one tenth of our increase as our tide that's one tenth of your gross income or any gifts you receive we have provided four ways for you to do just that and they should be displayed at this time on the screen but if you're traveling and listening to us just remember that you could call one of our deacons our elder or pastor or our treasury team and they will be able to make the arrangements for you to return your tithes and give your free will offering malachi 3 and verse 10 says bringing all the tides into the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house and prove me now herewith said the lord of hosts if i will not open you the windows of heaven and pour you out a blessing that there shall not be room enough to receive it let's pray our most righteous and loving father thank you for providing for us that we are able to return your tithe and give you a free will offering we ask their god that you use it for the furtherance of your work may you bless each and every one who gave towards this cause their god and those who have a heart to give but do not have the means we ask for you to open up the store windows of heaven and pour them a blessing that they too can participate we give you all the praise thanks and glory to jesus name we pray amen in honor of african-american history month and a ghost nothing compares to the feeling of answered breath nothing compares or comes remotely close to that feeling you get inside not only when your prayers are heard but answered when i was 15 i prayed to see 19. on my 21st birthday before i blew out the candles on the cake i asked god to get me to 25. who even understands what it means to be us in america who who even understands the brown-skinned brother aka the black man being targeted by the men in blue as well as other men in brown melanin against melanin forgive me please forgive me if this poem is coming across as if i'm a tad bit angry bible says something about anger and my pastor says you can pull up at anger but don't put the car in park and stay there for a while and while we're on the topic of he said she said who said what there's this jamaican lady from country with all her many saiyans one of them tops them all she said don't feel sorry for maga dog because they will turn around and bite you bitter and better let's work on swapping those letters anger only makes you bitter anger only makes you better so for all the trauma that we have endured all the psychological atrocities at least my brother let's not be enemies and love each other pray for me bro and i'll pray for you too because nothing compares to the feeling of answered prayers nothing compares or comes remotely close to the feeling you get inside not only when your prayers are heard but answered thank you thank you brother dylan we appreciate your peace today and you are a sterling example of the gifts that god has given to us we appreciate you always a joy seeing you and having you in god's presence here today i would like to bring to your attention a couple announcements that are important for us tonight our singles ministry will have their singles chat and chew at 8pm it's a hands-on cooking class and interactive discussion afterwards the information to access this will be on zoom it will be on zoom but this information is on our website cwcsda.org and then tomorrow everyone is invited to the uh singles ministry book club they meet at 7 p.m they're discussing chapters 37 and 38 from the book adventism and 39 from the aventis home please meet with them all of the details to get on this program is at our website cwc.org i want to remind you that we are still in the uh building up phase of our media upgrade we are still seeking funds and there are many of you who are blessed and you're able to contribute and to help us whether you're members of this church or not our media team just placed the four ways that you can contribute to this and i want you to help us uh by contributing to this upgrade that will certainly be a great blessing to one and all around the world as this uh ministry goes forth as people's lives are blessed and enriched you will be an integral part of making that happen and making that possible please contribute one of these ways to our cwc media upgrade you will see it and also i'm being reminded that on march the 6th we have our poetry program it's on our website you will see the information there we want you to tune in and to join us it will be a wonderful event please be with us let me ask that you also remember that on next sabbath we have friday night and sabbath all day we have our weekend of health ministries emphasis pastor daley will be with us on friday evening on sabbath morning and saturday evening we will send out a flyer this week that will have the information for zoom for friday night and sabbath afternoon during the 11 o'clock hour he'll be live here in the church for our live stream service please join us for that we know that you will be blessed our health ministries weekend also our next sabbath right after the preaching service we will have a baptismal service there are many who have already made the decision to go all the way with christ if you're one of those and you want to be baptized on next week please call us call the church office called me if you have a friend a family member that you've been working with please let us know so that you can get them ready for the baptism on next sabbath we are delighted today on this youth day to have with us as our speaker pastor sylvan reed i want to welcome him to the pulpit uh our ay leader sister angela sandy will say a few words about him and then we'll proceed with our song of meditation and also uh with the praise team and then the word of god before i do that i neglected to thank all of you who participated in our service today i want to thank our media team led by brother charles i want to thank sister alan uh audio i want to thank our head deacon and the deacons of our church uh who make possible our service each and every week elder matthew smith and the deaconesses who this week came along with the deacons and prepared this church for our service thanks to each and every one of you thanks to angela and her team our musicians uh thank you again russ and the team thanks to our praise team uh thanks to each and every one of you for all that you do and for the blessings that you bring to so many around the world [Music] is to and honor god he is a proud product of christian education having attended northern caribbean university from which he graduated with a bachelor's in criminal justice to his final year at oakwood university where he is completing his masters of divinity silver has preached for revivals week of prayers crusades having a special affinity for youth ministry he is currently serving as the associate pastor of youth at this community worship center in queens under the leadership of dr abraham jay jules when he is not studying preaching or teaching he can be found playing football or rooting for his favorite team manchester city silburn's greatest life goal is to infect others with the word of god so that all can be saved his favorite hymn is hymn 99 be not dismay wherever be tied god will take care of you his declarative mantra is if prayer cannot do it it cannot be done [Music] fearless lord jesus [Music] oh [Music] thee thou art my glory joy and christ [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] jesus pure to see [Music] beauty sun of [Music] god [Music] forever [Music] forever [Music] forever [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] you are worthy and no one can worship you for me for all the things you've done for me [Music] my worship [Music] is [Music] you are [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] i [Music] will as long as i am breathing i will always be [Music] oh i am [Music] i [Music] is [Music] oh is [Music] i will [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] you [Music] for the lord god almighty [Music] god [Music] are you [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh is [Music] [Applause] [Music] me [Music] [Applause] is is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] never let me go down again to hear you say that i'm your friend you are my [Music] no one else will do i laid all down again cause nothing else can take [Music] bring me back [Applause] [Music] [Music] am [Music] [Applause] you're hello i am [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] know [Music] thank you all of you who have participated in our service thus far making it what it has been we are grateful for you i also want to thank the senior bishop reverend dr abraham jules i am proud to be partnered with you sir the fact that you allow me to share in this space i am always humbled and honored to do so thank you so much and to sister sandy and the rest of the team thank you again for allowing me to speak to you we can get right into the word so if you have your bibles i'm going to ask that you go to the book of exodus whether you are scrolling or turning you don't have to go too far it's the second book in acts that in reverence and the reading of the holy word the few of us who are here i'm just gonna ask that you stand we're gonna take it from chapter 14 the book of exodus exodus chapter 14 the new king james version exodus chapter 14 and i'll read in your hearing verse 10 to 14 exodus 14 10 to 14. and when pharaoh drew near the children of israel lifted their eyes and behold the egyptians marched after them so they were very afraid the children of israel cried out to the lord then they said to moses because there were no graves in egypt have you taken us away to die in the wilderness why have you so dealt with us to bring us up out of egypt is this not the word that we told you in egypt saying let us alone that we may serve the egyptians for it would have been better for us to serve the egyptians than that we should die in the wilderness and moses said to the people do not be afraid stand still and see the salvation of the lord which will accomplish for you today for the egyptians whom you see today you shall see again no more forever the lord come on somebody the lord will fight for you i didn't say you i said the lord will fight for you so while the lord is fighting here's what you and i need to do we need to hold our peace for the time that is allowed for preaching purposes for the next few minutes i want to talk under the caption stand still and see stand still and see father god this is your time amen stand still and see for decades the principles and policies that govern the divided states of america was not applicable to black folks as we were sold slogged and worked hard as slaves and even though this was somehow deemed to be a free country for so many years black folks wasn't free we weren't free because we couldn't live where we wanted to live we were not free because we couldn't go to the schools that we wanted to go we weren't free because even the very system that was oppressing us we had a hard time voting against it because we were just not free and to help us with that freedom one of the great man man that helped us with that great freedom was the great doctor martin luther king who followed in his footsteps the footstep was his father and in following the footstep of his father he became a prominent and early leader when he spoke up against the first lady or spoke of four rather the first lady of the civil rights movement rosa park who decided she's not going to give up her seat to someone who was paying the same fare as she was paying and she continued to do that and while they were doing that martin luther king continued to lead what was called a civil protest not like what you see in the capital a few months a few days ago but a civil protest because he wanted everybody to understand that we should be all treated fairly and equally his protest was bathed in love and soaked in unity because what he was trying to tell other people is that it doesn't matter the color of your skin once the blood inside your body is red we are all equal and we are all the same people but because this was something that he was trying to do he was trying to help us martin luther reminded many of us the famous quotes that we use that hate doesn't get rid of hate we use love to get that done we don't use violence to get rid of violence no we try to use peace to get that done and what martin luther was trying to sell and push to the other side is to help everybody understand we are all equal people and we are all destined to get to the same place and that we will be born and we will die and i feel like this is a word for someone this is this ain't part of the sermon but this might be a word for someone who's might be carrying out hatred animosity towards someone else we don't have to hate each other we don't have to do harm to one another because when we do that to one another we are doing it to god here's what the bible says in as much as you do it to the least of them you are doing uh doing it unto him we should learn to love one another martin luther continued to do that continue to exercise civil disobedience but he was constantly his life his family was constantly repaid with death strength and bombings and did and been locked up in jail and when he was finally released from that burning birmingham jail with the help of j.f kennedy jeff kennedy was asking assassinated and while he was assassinated in dallas texas many that day was asking what they believe was the pertinent question who shot kennedy more than a hundred decades later uh lincoln was shot also and the question they were asking who killed kennedy but i had a more interesting question it's not who killed him but what killed him and many like martin luther in his book where do we go from here he began after alliterating those things he started to ask the question how long will we have to wait when this america that we talk about will be great again where do we go from here pastor goff i i wasn't there with the children of israel but textual evidence and thorough exegesis helped me understand that could be a possible question the children of israel would have asked moses when they came to the red sea mountains on either side and the enemy behind them and they would have asked the question where are we going to go from here now for those of you who haven't seen prince of egypt or you haven't seen veggietale allow me to help you understand how we get to exodus chapter 14. the children of israel have been in lockdown and quarantined for over 400 plus years and having been in quarantine for so long they are now finally released and they are going outside of the place where they have been slaves and in bondage for many years and when they received the charge pharaoh received the charge that listen you should let my people go and moses went and said let my people go they were released but but pastor pharaoh told the the guards the army stand back stand by and i know that's true because when they were released the the text says especially when you read from the patriot on probably chapter 24 you understand that moments after they were released the army they were right behind them and with the enemy coming in from behind and now they are at the red sea and mountain on either side they are saying mo what do we do now where are we going from here we we know there were grays in egypt we would rather die in egypt why did you take us out here to die but in the midst of their complaining in the midst of their crying in the midst of them being coward moses assured them with some words that i believe can help you and i today because you and i will face red sea and if you ain't there yet you will get there and i just here on assignment just to help you understand when you find yourself at a red sea all you and i need to do is to stand still and see i know there's a red sea in front of you but here's what i want you to do stand still and see i i know the enemy is coming in from behind but stand still and see i know we as people of color have been oppressed for more than 400 years but i need you all to stand still and see i know that stimulus check should have hit the account by now but i'm here to help somebody understand stand still and see here's why we're standing still here's why we're gonna keep our eyes open the very first reason you and i are standing still and seen is number one we have protection that that's point one you can type that in a chat we're standing still and seen because we have protection it doesn't matter what you're faced with we're gonna stand still and see because we have protection here's the protection they are coming out of slavery and and and while they're coming out of bondage they're going into the promised land and watch this they meet on the red sea enemies behind mountains on either side and they turn to moses and say hey mo we want to go back don't worry i preached this already to myself and so i knew it was a slow moment i'm gonna help you they're coming out of quarantine for over 400 years they come on a problem the red sea enemies behind mountains on either side and when they see all of that they turn to moses and say hey mo we want to go back you see what they didn't understand what they were failed to re what they were failing to remember is the red sea that they saw in front of them was their actual protection see is i'm gonna help you i'mma help you it was the actual protection here's what we know they said moses hey we want to go back because in verse 11 and 12 they say we would rather die in bondage because when they look and assess their situation they say we would rather have our past frustration than our future possibility the the they are saying to moses we would rather go back to what we were dealing with than to go forward into the uncertainty and trust that god will deliver us and here's what they're failing to understand is that listen god has been and is still protecting them now now before you get into your business trying to take the speck out of their eyes let me help you with the log in your eye because you and i are not much different with all the things we've seen god do with all the ways god have made with all the things god have protected and kept from us every time we find ourself at a red sea every time we find ourselves at a place of uncertainty we tend to forget that the god who has led us in the past is still able to deliver us from what it is here's what i want you all to understand whenever we find ourselves at the red sea we need to see it as our possibility as our protection because get what this ain't the first time they are dealing with water problem come on where where are my bible student at where can i talk to pastor well this ain't the first time they are dealing with a water situation you should know they had 10 plagues the very first plague was a water issue and if god who dealt with water before in the past why should i be worried why should i be scared why should i be a coward no i am not going to worry because god who protected me in the past will still do it again and that's what you and i brothers and sisters need to understand when we find ourselves in a red sea at a place of a red sea it's not time to be cowered it's not time to be afraid it is time to pull out your memory stick to look back in what god did in the past because our scripture tells us if he did it back then god is able to do it again why he's the same yesterday today and forevermore god will protect us children of israel were at the red sea and they're saying to themselves we want to go back because we don't know how to deal with this problem what is it that you're facing and you're looking at it and say hey i can't make it i can't go forward you're complaining you're crying but they should have known by now that god is an expert when it comes on to water here's what my bible tells us in isaiah when you pass through the waters nothing will happen to you the rivers will not overflow you god is an expert when it comes to water so when you find yourself at a red sea it is time to celebrate and say hey let me just stand still and see how god is going to do it this time i know he did it in the past therefore i'm just going to wait because god is an expert with water come on talk to me he's not just an expert with water he is living water bible tells us that if the water is too much he will turn it into wine if there is no water he will bring it from a rock and if the water is bitter he knows what to put in it to make it sweet and guess what if the water is coming from your eyes god knows how to draw your tears all i'm trying to say to someone in the hearing of my voice god will protect you because he's an expert with water these children of israel they came to the the the sea and they were saying i don't want to go forward i want to go backwards no we stand still and see because god will protect us secondly not only would he protect us but secondly god says stand still and see because we have provision you already know it's going to be all p points protection we also have provision they are complaining about the red sea being a problem when it was actually their provision for safe passage okay i i know you know how the story goes i i know you know it but but but just help me for a minute help me for a minute because they are complaining on what was going to be their very solution and here's what they needed to understand is the red sea a problem or a possibility can i meddle for a minute is it a obstacle or an opportunity you see when we find ourselves at a red sea when we find ourselves at a place where we don't know where to go things coming up all at once it is the time for us to take an assessment to find out what is this is this a problem or this is something for god to show me that he's still able to do the impossible is your red sea a problem here's what they didn't understand god was not only protecting them but the red sea was their provision what they thought was gonna be the problem was their possibility what they thought was going to be an opposition became an opportunity what they thought was going to drown them actually stood as a guard of honor [Music] they they they thought that this was a problem but it was actually their provision for them to get away and here's how i know it the bible said that when they started to complain moses declared listen stretch out god to stretch out your hand the rod over the sea and watch this when he stretched it over what was together started separating what was once wet ground is now dry ground what seemed impossible became possible why because what we think is a problem not only god used as a protection but he makes it our provision so that we can get to the other side the bible said before we call on god he will answer and guess what while we're asking he's already moving so guess what god is not worried about our problem god is not scratching his head wondering how he's going to figure this out no god is just waiting for you and i to catch up on what he's already done god has made our provision and brothers and sisters i want you to pay attention to something special here the text says when we i believe in verse 16 it says that they when they stretch the rod over they they walked on dry ground dr jews you're a scholar i i was playing with this for a minute that my my my my professors always say i'm always inquisitive with the text but that's why you have to be as a preacher they it says dr jews they they walked on dry ground you you you i'ma let it soak watch this dry ground you're talking about the sea the most of us were from the caribbean when you have days of rain even when the sun comes out it takes a while for that era to be dry that's one that's two watch this they didn't just pass through the red sea they passed on dry ground none of them slipped none of them fell in the mid they didn't mess up their shoes they walked on dry ground not only god will provide but he will do it in a way that you and i can't imagine or think when you read pictures and profit the uh the ellen white account you would understand it was more than 600 000 people men and and when you count women and children you're looking at over a million people with their kettles and their baggages and everything and watch this none of them lost anything none of them fell god provided for them in such a way that they got safe passage to the other side here's what i have to say to you my beloved brothers and sisters what are you looking at and not just saying you don't know how god is going to do it but you're worried about god doing it you know a friend said to me this week you know you you got two options you either going to pray or worry can't do both if you're going to worry don't pray just worry but if you're not going to worry pray and when you pray you turn it over to god my mom my old preacher used to say listen why should i stay up all night god neither slumber or sneak makes no sense for both of us to be up imma go to bed i'm gonna pray and leave it in the hands of god because we trust and obey that god will be our provider what is it that you are facing that you need god to deal with but you're just worried about it and so often you and i find ourselves in a place where we're saying i don't know how this is going to work out i don't know where the money is going to come from i don't know how this is going to be fixed but we need to trust and obey that the god who is bringing us to this far won't leave us but he will take us through to the end here's what they were failing to forg here's what they were forgetting they were forgetting that listen god always heard their cries those of you you read the exodus story every time god hear from them or whenever god was hearing from them is when something went wrong is god your spirit tire that you pull out when you're in an emergency situation or is him or is he your staring at your wheel rather and maybe god when he has us at the red sea and he's trying to do something maybe he's saying to you hey this is when i hear from you the most this is when you're close to me this is when you talk to me this is when you fall out and pull out your heart why why would i just get it done all the time for you i i gotta have something show up in your life so you can remember to come to me not when does the things are falling apart but you can come to me even when they are going right god says listen not only do you have protection but you have the provision and this provision is the very thing that you have in front of you now there's something about god that i don't like god likes to turn the heat upon you do i have one growing saint i'm not talking about if you're in your first grade with god no i'm talking about someone who's in grade six or higher god knows how to turn up the heat because the truth be told we don't hear when the sun is shining but but but but when the heat is there my grandmother used to say my grandma used to say that my ears are not bored she used to tell me there's there's no hole in my ears because i don't hear i don't hear and she always tells me that when my father comes if you don't hear you're gonna feel and sure enough i felt and my father ensured that i felt it and the truth be told i didn't behave when my grandma said don't go over there i just went she would tell me hey don't don't pick those tangerines those are for the foreigners when they come i'll just pick it but but when my father comes he will ensure that i'm properly disciplined and that's when i listen and say i'm not going to do it no more maybe god is trying to reach us into a place where listen you're not hearing when he's just casually talking to you therefore he turns up the heat so you can feel we see the provision we see his protection but finally we're standing still and see because we have a promise i'm done we got god protection we have his provision and finally we have his promise therefore we are going to stand still and see this is going to be the easiest pop quiz in the sermon where are they going promised land thank you you got an a plus they are going to the promise promised land and they are going to the promised land and guess what god didn't tell them they won't have trials wouldn't it be nice if if if god should if if god had this itinerary system where we could track our issues where are my folks who order stuff on online amazon you you know you could track it you just hit submit and before you submit it you're already there going to the link waiting for the tracking what would it be nice you know if god had a a tracking system you you you would already know next week there's a problem going to show up so come on but the truth is i would love for god to do that but here's what god does he said listen you're going to the promised land and the bible readers should know that in exodus chapter 6 when he told them fear he should let my people go because you're going to the promised land he didn't tell them there won't be a red sea he told them you're going to the promised land i i didn't say that it won't be hard but rest assured you will get to the promised land one of my elders used to say if somebody kicked me in heaven before i complain that it hurts i'm gonna be thankful that i'm there you know why because getting to the destination is what i'm interested in many of us we focus on how tough the road is how we expect christianity to be cute and when it's not how we expected it to be you complain you cry but if you trust and stand still god has given us a promise that we will get to the promised land and here's the interesting thing brothers and sisters about this promise it was not given in exodus but bible students would know it was instituted and inserted in genesis before god changed abram's name to abraham and he told him from generations before that your people your kind will get to the promised land and that's all you and i need to know to understand that no matter what it is if i understand what god said back then i know he will do it isaiah the prophet tells us the grass will wither the flowers will fade but the word of god will stand true if god said it it will be done and it will come to pass therefore i charge you i command you know your promise know what the history says because you will be prepared better for the future here's what roosevelt said roosevelt is like this the more you know about the past you will be better prepared for the future marcus garvey didn't want to miss out on the action and so he added and said a people without a knowledge of their past are like tree without roots therefore we need to know what happened back then so we can know that god will sure do it again you know why that's important brothers and sisters these people that are there at the boundary of the promised land these aren't the people that were there from the beginning they are these are the generations they are descendants and if they were listening and paying attention in history class they would have known that god protected them he provided for them he gave them a promise therefore we will get to the other side i'm going to stand still and see him here's what god said listen we're getting there because i need you to stand still and see stand still and see stand still and see you know why that's important here i worked all sermon long to get to this point every preacher knows that all sermon long to get to this point stand still and see i i need you to stand still and keep your eyes open you know why that's important here's why that's important it's important because many of us psychologically speaking when we are afraid when we don't know how something is going to turn out when we are scared we like to close our eyes because it somehow makes it feel better it makes it feel like you can get through this better but i love how the text says stand still and see ya stand still keep your eyes open so you can know what god is doing don't just stand there and wait for god to do it and close your eyes stand there keep your eyes open so you can know the only person who did this was god and beloved i came by here this afternoon to remind someone we're standing still and keeping our eyes open because we have the provision of god we have the protection of god and finally we have the promise of god therefore i'ma keep my eyes open and wait for god to do it see you see see when you keep your eyes open russell when we keep your eyes open now we can stop singing that travis green song don't know how but he did it you don't have to sing that no more because you opened your eyes you saw how he did it and so you can sing that kurt carr song i've seen him do it y'all need to listen some gospel song i've seen him do it and i just wonder is there anybody here in the center on this virtual space who can declare i've seen god do it i know god is going to take care of it the next time why i kept my eyes open and i saw him do it and because he did it back then i know god will do it again i am going to stand still and see my brothers and sisters i'm just here on assignment to help some of you understand that all we need to do at this moment is to stand still and see and don't close your eyes i know you might be nervous i know you might be worried i know you might be acting like a coward but i need you to stand still and see what god is going to do so that the next time god do it he will know that he is the one who did it i've seen him heal the sick i've seen him provide in ways that i didn't expect him to but because i kept my eyes open i know and i saw him do it i know god will do it because he has provided for me he has given me a promise and he has given me his protection stand still and see i don't know where you are in life brothers and sisters but here's what i want you to understand we will all get to a place where we're worried about what's ahead of us but i want to ensure that you get your perspective correct maybe you need to see the ophthalmologist get your vision corrected because god is not looking at it how you see it because maybe you close your eyes and here's what we're going to do when we find ourselves at a red sea we're going to remember that there's protection there's provision there's also a promise and embedded and nestled in that promise is a promise that he will come back for us so that we can all be with him and see forever april of this year will be will make it 16 years that i've saw him do it and i decided that i don't just want to see him do it down here but i want to see him do it up there i want to hear all about it i want to hear him talk about it i want him to show me how it was done i want to see it all because i want to see it i accepted him as my personal savior so i can see him do it in eternity there's going to be a baptism here next week brother lovett and wherever you are in this world wherever you are feel free to reach out in the chat feel free to make your request known we will study with you we'll pray with you we will prepare you because we also want you to be a part of that promise where you can stand still and see what god will do i'm gonna invite my pastor here to come and pray for with us [Music] because the truth be told is no matter what we face in this world it will be something that looks like we can't make it but because of what we see god do we know he will do it again and i prayerfully ask that you make it your deciding factor that you will see jesus all the way so we can all enjoy his promise [Music] amen amen every head is bowed every eye is closed gracious god we are thanking you for the feast that we've had thanking you for a confidence generating word we've been reminded god that whatever we face if you are with us we will be much more than conquerors thank you for this preacher today who touched our hearts who elevated our minds and who spoke to our needs thank you for your provisions thank you for your protection when we go through the fires and go through the waters and thank you for the promise god that if we only stand we will see if our eyes are on you i pray god for everyone who may be going through some difficult season at this moment whose hearts have been tugged at whose lives have been rearranged and whose souls have been in turmoil today god there is somebody who having heard this word will receive a renewed sense of confidence in you through your provision and your protection and your promise would you please bless our people especially our young people and our young adults who may have difficulties along the way sometimes feeling alone sometimes not knowing which way to turn in some seasons god their hearts have been shattered into a million pieces but god help them to keep their eyes on you who is both author and finisher of their faith we bless your name for the young people of our congregation and we bless your name god for their willingness to serve and their love for you and your commitment to you would you bless them all in a special and unique way their needs are different their burdens are different but god would you help each of us in our own unique way to remain faithful to you until that day when we shall see you in peace and live with you throughout the eons of eternity we pray this prayer in the name of the father and of the son and of the holy spirit amen amen we were richly blessed today thank god for this service and thank god for the preacher and for the word of god and i want to thank you pastor for blessing me and for the words spoken from this desk today just before we close i want to thank those who brought us special music today sister amanda dakers sister lillian richards clark lillian clark clark [Music] okay lillian clark crystal ward russell paul gave us a wonderful piece on the organ ancestor jada grant did i get all the names right all right thank you sister clark you blessed us today too and thank you for correcting the name you must always know your name right yes thank you so much all of you blessed us so richly and our worship was indeed a redemptive one thank you one and all let me thank sister uh jack preether for providing for us each sabbath of this month a young person a child who gave us a reading on someone who made an impact for black people in this country and year around the world and highlighted for us and instructed us and taught many of us and our children did that and all four of our children we are grateful to them and we thank them for their contribution to our worship this month amen amen finally our ays today you don't want to miss this at 4 pm the subject matter is creating healthy boundaries and our guests are sister lavona cassimy lcws child and youth therapist and the tristan trower uh please join our young people at 4pm via ays and you will be richly blessed thank you so very much finally where after our benediction i will ask for you to remain in the sanctuary those of you who are here but if you must leave leave quietly because we'll continue streaming there is a baby dedication we will end the service those of you who want to stay on for the baby dedication you can do so the rest of you we want to give you a sabbath day's greeting and a holy hug so i'm going to give you a virtual hug please send one back to the pastor and to the members of this church we love you we pray that you be remain careful and prayerful we anticipate that god will do something marvelous for us to bring us back together again until that time you must be vigilant and do what needs to be done to keep you and your family safe let us now give to each other a virtual hug on this god's holy sabbath day [Music] god bless each and every one of you let us bow our heads as we have our benediction turn up the microphone please [Music] [Music] in keeping with our theme love your neighbor as thyself jesus once gave a parable about a good samaritan a complete stranger who put away his own interests to cater to the needs of another expecting nothing in return it's the second great commandment imploring us to love others as god as love us keep on loving one another as brothers and sisters do not forget to show us built hospitality to strangers for by doing so some people have shown hospitality to angels without knowing it may this be a testament of how god is great to us amen amen [Music] ah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] you're worthy to be brave [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] [Music] pastor we have one baby to be dedicated today savannah alexis ava reams all right i just checked with mom savannah alexis ava reams will be one year old tomorrow since she's being dedicated just before she hits the first year of life and we are grateful for god's leading in her life we thank god for safe passage to this earth she is here with us today only because of the grace and mercies of god and god is the one who gives life so she's a gift from god and she gave it to you mom and to your family as a gift a precious gift and every gift that god gives us is given to us on consignment in other words he's one they're gonna ask you what did you do with the gift i gave you and i'm sure that you want to answer on that day lord i did my best i taught her about you i tried to be a good example to her i tried to show her the ways of righteousness not only through precept but through example god has a calling on your life even jesus christ when he was about six weeks old we're told that he was taken to the temple by his parents placed in the arms of the priest and the priests prayed for god's blessings upon jesus who was a perfect man who was god in the flesh and so we know little savannah alexis ava today needs the blessings of god but i want to just say to you as i say to many parents who come here for a blessing that this is not hocus pocus this is not just one prayer and for the rest of her life she is fine we must continually daily momentarily surround our children with prayers my children are teenagers now and i pray for them every day like i did when they were babies and i believe as parents and you who are parents know that the day will never come when you stop praying for your children they may be 40 and 50 years old and they still your children because you love them so mom i want to say to you little savannah must be taught of the lord i know we want to buy our children all of the beautiful gifts and give them the best material things in life but the best gift you can give to her is the gift of life eternal through introducing her to jesus christ the best gift listen my parents tried their best to give us everything that they could afford and they gave us a lot of things most of the things are almost 100 of the things they gave me i don't know where it is they gave us cars when we got our driver's license bicycles when we learned to ride they bought his clothes and coats and winter coats and summer clothes and sent us to school but you know what i don't know where any of those things are but i'ma tell you this much there's one thing they gave me that is with me at age 61. you know what that is the knowledge of jesus christ and knowing jesus has helped me to deal with tragedy it has helped me to deal with disappointment it has helped me to deal with people when they hurt me it has helped me to deal with failure because of christ and the best gift you can give little savannah and i know you love her to death but the best thing you can do for her is not only tell her you need to go to church with grandma but you need to bring her not only tell her jesus is good but show her from your life amen amen well listen because of covert 19 pastor is not holding the babies anymore we let us stay in your arms but we'll pray that prayer of dedication for her at this time all right let us bow our heads as we pray loving father thank you this day for this wonderful family that has come to this altar and those who are looking at this service the family members via internet who are also praying with us for little savannah alexis ava for her mom her dad her family members and all those who will have something to do with the development and growth i pray even in this moment that you would bless this home and bless this family may there always be a food always be food on their tables and a roof over their heads may there always be the ministry of holy angels to protect little savannah alexis ava from the evil that's in this world we pray that angels may stand with drawn swords at her home each doorway and entrance way and window to keep out intruders we pray father that you may touch a young and tender body with your holy hands to keep her from the melodies that are common to infancy we pray that she may grow to be a young strong woman who will honor you and love you having taught at her mother's knees about your amazing love and your grace little savannah alexis ava will seek to know you for herself read your word sing the songs of zion love to attend worship and be baptized into your remnant church and prepare to meet you in peace we pray god for mom for all the adults who will have anything to do with her raring and her nurturing and her development may they sense the need to depend on you for wisdom knowledge and understanding so that they can impact little savannah alexis ava positively and for eternity may you provide for every need i pray would you bless a life may she grow to be a productive citizen in this world and one who will be a witness of your amazing grace and might and power would you bless her every day of her life i pray would you be near and dear to her i pray may her days be long upon this land and may the day come soon when we can see you in peace and little savannah alexis ava along with her parents and her loved ones will be saved in your eternal kingdom to live with you and to reign with you throughout the eons of eternity we pray this prayer in the mighty and precious name of jesus our lord and our soon coming king amen amen god bless you all if you want to take pictures just anywhere here you don't have to rush out god bless you all glad to have you today all right thank you for joining us today we're so grateful we were able to worship together despite the covet crisis and distance if you were blessed by the content please follow us on facebook youtube instagram and twitter at cwcsda we look forward to another worship experience with you at our next broadcast until then god's favorite blessings upon you and yours and please remember to stay safe socially responsible and that god loves you have a blessed week [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] so [Music] so [Music] so [Music] you

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