Community Worship Center SDA featuring Dr. Abraham J. Jules - "Self-Talk"

[Music] sabbath morning to sabbath school sabbath school here at community worship center of seventh day adventist it is time for us to take another look at our cyber school lesson this quarter we are studying god's agreement with humankind though every time i say that it challenged my mind for those words even to come out of my mouth god agreeing with these subjects what a god that's what we're talking about this entire quarter god's agreement is covenant with this people today we are studying under the caption children of the promise children of the promise and our memory is taken from matthew chapter 28 and verse 20 let's say together lo i am with you always even to the end of the world this is a passage of scripture which is often misquoted look at the words with me it says law i am with you a-l-w-a-y not a-l-w-a l y s there is no s there no s it says all way now that has some significance it was jesus talking with his disciples as he was about to leave he says go into all the world and preach the gospel to every creature those who believe and are baptized shall be saved and i will be with you all the way to the very end in other words i am making myself responsible for the success of the preaching of the gospel i will be with you alway even to the end of the world last week we studied mo uh god talking with abraham call abraham from the land of our you are said uh come i'm taking you somewhere and abraham by faith followed god and the bible says it was counted to him for righteousness faith is what matters with god one of the things the lord promised abraham was that he says abraham i will be a shield to you not only am i going to take you to the promised land not am i only am i going to multiply your seed but i will be a shield now what does god always promise a shield from a shield from i will be a shield from you've got to be shielding from something anybody know what is god shielding his people from anybody god is shielding his people from the darts of the enemy from the dart of the enemy hallelujah oh we need we need shield you know in the garden of eden god said to abra adam he says adam i want you to keep wanting to dress the garden and keep it seems like dressing it would be enough but then he says keep it keep it from what the servant of the lord says the lord was alerting a uh adam to the fact that there is a devil out there you need to keep it from him and that's what the lord is saying to his children not only to israel but to his children today he says i will be a shield between you and the devil and that the devil has to pass through me to get to you what a shield keeping you from from being tempted above that which you are able to bear you will not be tempted god will never allow the devil to tempt you beyond that which you are able to respond so we do not have to crawl on our hands and knees to the devil and follow him whatever you say we do because god says i am here i will help you i'll be a shield what a promise thank you lord then so pastor yes ma'am i have a question yes sir if he's a shield for us does it mean that bad things is still going to come our way ah good question is the lord going to shield his shields from some of these stuff that will come your way well they will come like they will come like job right and they do come no but how do we handle it amen how do we handle those stuff that comes our way sickness temptation you see this eyes here are tempted all different kind of way we with the help of the lord we can overcome can't we amen psalms 18 verse 30 speaks about trust in him so when we trust in the lord we just have to trust in the lord that whatever comes and whatever we can handle he will take care of it for us yes our trust in god will always see us through so we have a shield not only did israel have that shield but we today spiritual israel the bible says if you belong to christ then you are abraham's seed that means us and so the shield covers us so i do not have to do whatever the devil suggests to my mind whatever he does i do not have to buckle on to sickness to privation and all these things that are neighbor we do not have to book launder to that because the lord says i am here i am with you yes oh thank god for that promise pastor this is a general question i'm just going to back up a little um the text says god will be with us always yes what about the people in this pandemic here where they have lost loved one going through tough times and you know thousands of people are dying each day is god still with us he's definitely with us i think the problem that we make and we have our mother and merry moments we believe that when the presence of god is not there or god is not there that bad things should not happen and when they do happen we're saying oh god is not in this what if god was in this why would this happen that's what mary and martha was saying but the truth is we are just seeing what's immediate we're seeing once there and like job what i realized everything that comes into my life everything that comes into your life it has to pass through this oh hallelujah lord that's the lord so you got to if he says i'm signing off on this one you know when when biden got into the office and he had this a slate of executive once he signed it doesn't matter what congress it doesn't doesn't matter what he's approving it god approves it that means he knows there's enough in us to deal with whatever is coming amen that means the silence of god doesn't mean the absence of god right that's right oh that's provocative did you hear that the silence of god does not mean the absence are you getting heavy here preacher you got to watch that stuff silence of god does not mean the absence of god and how true that is so insults will come reproach will come abuse mockery rejection death will come but as the pastor says it's got to pass through god's hands amen bless of the lord another promise god made as abraham traveled from ur to the land of canaan the law says abraham i'm going to make unto you a great nation and the lord fulfilled his promise didn't he how many approximately 2 million children of israel left the promised left uh egypt after bondage two million until today and here we are spiritual israel god has fulfilled his make unto you a great nation and in the midst of that great nation the lord says i'm going to send you shiloh who is shiloh jesus anybody know jesus when when jacob the father of israel passed the scepter on to judah he says judah the scepter shall not depart from israel until shiloh comes and when he comes you pass the scepter onto him because to him shall be gathered the nations of earth and how does that sound like it's jesus that sounds like jesus doesn't it amen and in him through the jewish nation jesus was born a jew honored the jewish nation kept his word jesus surfaced from among the jews and through him all the nations of the earth are blessed today we await his coming one day he died for all of us on calvary's cross he's coming back again the question is are you going home with him when he comes again a quick question with regards to that before we move on what about the nations who didn't know god are they a part of the promise say that again the nations the nation who didn't know who god is are they a part of the promise ah all right yes the nations who did not know god are they a part of the promised believer i'm telling you when god says something from his mouth it incorporates every living human being he might speak to the jews but he spoke to the jews for us and for all humankind so the answer brother whether you be a slave whether you be a pygmy where wherever you are god's promises include you amen so by faith yes sir by faith i think we are all part of the promise so we just have to claim that promise right let's claim that promise amen we have the messianic promise and in this promise we have a very key text it's from thessalonians 4 16-18 for the lord himself will descend from heaven with a shout with the voice of an archangel and with the trumpet of god and the dead in christ will rise first this is part two of a promise that we all can be a part of the text says for the lord himself he's not sending somebody else for us he's not you know getting the servants he himself will descend and we understand this promise more because you know before he left he gave some departing instructions he said the comforter is going to come the holy spirit he's going to stay with you and while he's here i am going to go prepare the place get that place ready so you all can be ready and then he's saying there is going to be a shout a trumpet and the good thing about this is i always wonder pastor goff if those who are deaf can't hear my my father is getting old now and my mother always said he she had to speak to him loudly so he could hear i i wonder those who are deaf how are they going to hear what about those who are far off into some place who don't use anything how how will they hear oh my you got to watch that word hearing hearing is not just sight oh i hear some things in here in my mind i hear it without seeing it with my eyes and i think and i think that that's what makes the promise so beautiful because if if if god is coming rather not if when he's coming when he's coming you you can hear and you can see somebody don't need to tell me in australia that that he's down there you know from scripture that is incorrect because all eyes will she see him and those who are alive and well will be caught up to meet him in the clouds but that's all that all rest on what was said before we have to accept and we have to trust in him some trust in triad some trust in horses but who do we trust we trust in the name of the lord the songwriter says trust and obey why because there is no other way to be happy in jesus but to trust and obey and there is going to be a great and mighty nation you asked the question elder earlier that that what about those people is is it inclusive of everyone it is because the text says for god so loved this world that he gave his only son that whosoever that's the key part whosoever incorporates everyone even the people that we don't like persons that we think are not deserving whosoever believe in him all that we need to do all that you need to do i need to do is to say yes i want to accept and be a part of his promise and once we accept once we say yes he will definitely see us through you you have a question i was just saying amen amen amen it says finally it was god's purpose that by the revelation of his character through israel men should be drawn to him to all the world the gospel invitation was to be given in other words there's an invitation the preparation is made we are the guests the question is are we going to dine with him mercy mercy every human being can be saved in the kingdom of god every human being because that's what jesus says i am gone to prepare a place for you he says that whosoever believe that whosoever is comprehensive yes all human beings in my father's house there's plenty of room so there is a place for every human being and i can't say this often enough hell was not made for any human being the fires of hell was not for any human being god's desire is that all humans should be saved in his kingdom in other words pastor you're saying to me that if i was the only one on earth was a sinner jesus would come and die yes sir absolutely if i was the only sinner jesus would have died and notice what you said if you were the only sinner not the saint sinner because he died for sinners not saints if we go to hell that fire was prepared to destroy sin and the devil and his angels not human being but if you won't get rid of sin then you going there so in other words much against jesus's will in other words if i cling to sin i'm going to get burned with sin is what's going to take you to hell but the lord's desire is that all human be saved in the kingdom of god and that's why the lord says i will be a shield to you and the promise the promised seed says the ultimate promise is i am coming again if i go i'll come again and he says we we are hears we're children in other words our relationship to the father means that we are sons and daughters it's not like we're cousins we're not in-laws you know because you know how we do it you won't give to other um family members things that you will definitely give to your children because they are yours so you show them fear favor we are here stuart we we all have access to it so if we don't take it if we don't accept it the fault would not be on god it would be on us absolutely absolutely all right thursday's topic is make your name great let's first ask what's in a name names in biblical times were accurate depictions of a person and were seemingly supernatural indications of one's life and character solomon's name means man of peace and during his reign as king he never encountered one battle even when he turned his back on god by contrast nabal means fool and because of his foolish actions he paid the price with his life jacob as we know means deceiver and was a fitting name for someone who would deceive his father on his deathbed it was only after he wrestled with the angel of the lord that jacob was ready to become great god caused a certain type of paralysis in his hip and that gave him a limp it is then that god changed his name it is then that god calls him israel one who prevails with god shakespeare once wrote some are born great some achieve greatness and some have greatness thrust upon them take for instance michael jordan or hussein bolt although they trained and practiced they had innate abilities that they were born with that gave them the ability to be such excellent sportsmen president obama and oprah winfrey they achieved greatness through education through excellent communication skills being influential and reaching out to lift up their fellow man now here's a question for the panel abraham was abraham born great or did he achieve greatness through his own efforts or was greatness thrust upon him because of his faithfulness to god oh the very name abraham suggests greatness and that's because of abraham's faith in as a matter of fact all religion that you analyze it properly all religion comes under the abrahamic promise so when god says abraham i'm i'm changing your name from abram to abraham i'm going to impose greatness upon you and the answer to elders absolutely is because of his faith in god amen amen indeed god thrust greatness upon him and if you notice most of the great men of the bible were not born great they were relative unknowns and they had humble beginnings daniel and joseph found themselves in captivity but because of their faithfulness to god they became prime ministers of their respective kingdoms john the baptist who wore the clothes of a caveman and who ate insects and who lived in the wilderness jesus said of him that there was not a man born on earth that was greater than he god says i will make you great when moses thought he was ready to lead the israelites out of bondage god says no you're not ready it's only after moses was a humble shepherd in the fields of midian for 40 years and became the meekest man on earth that's when god says yes now now i'm ready to bestow greatness upon him the request of a question yes what is greatness through the eyes of god i mean through man we look at man being great like you mentioned usain bolt or michael jordan you know some sport person that person is a great person but through the eyes of god is that great it might be a great achievement for us here on earth but through the eyes of god what does he expect from that greatness like abraham he you mentioned trusted greatness upon abraham what's the purpose of it what's the end result what does god hope to achieve by that making someone great making a nation great is he trying to point other nation to that nation that great nation or so that they could does it involve worship does it involve highlighting the who is the true god at the end at the end of the day what is what's this going to boil down to is just showing your allegiance to god your your a lot of these men they are great and but like you you rightly said the those greatness is going to cap at a certain limit but when you have greatness in god seek ye first the kingdom of god and everything shall be added on to you that's very important what we see in genesis especially the promise starting from abram to abraham when we get down to the new testament especially revelation years would have passed and throughout the years the promise was in danger so many times we see so many different things happening but god showed that he was faithful and we are hearers we are living because of what god said so the truth is when we show our allegiance to him accept him that's where we're going to become great because of him so basically they the end goal is that god wants to save each and every one of us that's right man that's right also all of us i was going to say also an answer to your question israel was supposed to be a beacon to all the other nations if you notice where israel is actually located it was located in a place that people had to traverse in order to get from one country to another so it was centrally located so yes indeed god wanted them to be a beacon to the nations to disseminate his word to them right so they were supposed to be the light and they were supposed to shine that light on all the other nations right so god is looking at the character of the person and um their allegiance to him trying to show the other nations basically that i am the true god these are my people goodness will come through them you know as you use that word goodness oh so much thing just flood into my mind this god that we serve who has condescended to bring about an agreement with humankind this is a god who speak and it was done who command and it stood fast that's god yet one day moses says lord show me your greatness show me how great you are the lord says moses let me put you in this rock hole i'm going to show you how great i am and the bible says god caused his goodness to pass by before moses and he says moses in my goodness is my greatness is how great i am a matter of fact not to finish that when when when when moses would have had his interaction with jesus he he would descend from the mountain and and they would they would be able to see the the the grand of the glory his face glowing and and imagine if if if moses didn't just get a glimpse imagine if he was face to face he he probably would still be glowing right now yeah so our greatness is not that throwing that ball from the back then three-pointers all the time that's not where the greatness is greatness jesus says is in our goodness and i saw in my study here that god wants to attract other nations to himself through israel and that's why he made israel great he wanted to attract israel attract other nations around to himself through israel and it's the same thing with us today isn't it god wants to use you to attract others to himself the question is are we there are we doing that are we by our who we are our daily relationship with others in our neighborhoods are people attracted to god because of us sometimes the lord okay the lord make promises and sometimes they are not fulfilled uh within the time that we expect right or perhaps not in our lifetime because i'm sure all the promises of abraham was not fulfilled during his lifetime how do you prepare yourself for that because our perspective of time is different from god's time god's on a different time from our time how do you prepare yourself for that when his promises you're holding on to his promises and his promises are not fulfilled within your time it's important to to be ready and not to get ready by this i mean when i i dislike i was going to use another word i dislike waiting on someone i don't want to be ready and and and then we supposed to leave here at 10 and at 10 a.m we're still waiting on i i don't like that if we're saying we're going to leave at 10 i want to get ready for 10 and we leave at 10. it is annoying to get ready at 10 get ready 4 10 and then when you're at 10 o'clock you're still waiting 10 30s waiting with with god it's important for us not to get ready but to be ready and by that i mean when you're getting ready you could still be doing something and you're not ready but when you're being ready you're in a state of readiness prepared that any time god decide to descend you're ready you're not putting your clothes together you're not trying to fix your tie you're not trying to brush off certain sins like you are ready and you're just waiting to leave with him and like you said we don't operate under god's time i i i don't think god has an app watch looking at checking his time to see you know what time is it no i think not think i know he has his own time and what that means cronus is what we have to wait on a certain order so for us today is tuesday i mean today's sabbath tomorrow is going to be sunday it's the first tomorrow is going to be the second it happens in a chronological order for god it's kairos it can happen at any time once he says it it can happen so it's important for us to be ready so we have to wait upon the lord with prayer thanksgiving elderin in uh answer to your question earlier um as far as the the differences in in greatness i'm about to answer that right now let's examine the dissimilarities between when god makes you great and when you strive to make your name great for self-aggrandizement in genesis 11 4 it says come let us build a city build ourselves a city and a tower with its top in the heavens and let us make a name for ourselves let me ask you what man today likes to build towers and put his name on everything and wants to make or wanted to make america great again uh-oh both the men of babel and trump have the same vainglorious intent they both wanted to build structures to big up themselves without the blessings of god well i have to say sarcastically if the tower of babel got built so did the wall that mexico is supposed to be paying for the tower of babel and the border wall to mexico ended in ignominious failure second chronicles 7 14 says if my people which are called by my name right there if you're called by god's name you're already on your way to greatness if they will humble themselves and pray and seek my face and turn from their wicked ways then i will hear from heaven and will forgive their sin and will heal their land now america's great original sin was what slavery i don't believe a miracle will ever be truly great until it deals with that sin and its consequences america truth be told has never been great for black people what if ever that it lives up to its christian principles that it allegedly was founded on that all men were created equal then it will be truly great true greatness comes from god and only when a man city or nation humbles themselves before him can he make them great amen further thought on friday god basically tells abraham to get up and go no google maps to tell him where he's going don't know where any gas stations are along the way no 7-elevens to stop and get some refreshments you gotta leave all your peeps that you grow up with say goodbye to family and friends no cell phones to tell your fam if you got there safely this was a hard test for abraham but god wanted to prove his faith he had to leave everything in his past behind now god repeated several times to abraham that he was going to make a great nation out of him and that the redeemer would come through him his descendants were to be given a land as far as his eyes could see as the spiritual descendants of abraham we too must realize that here we do not have an enduring city but we're looking for the city that is to come the promises of god are faithful and true let's hold fast brethren until soon and very soon those promises are fulfilled and we shall be citizens of a city that's bright and fair where unimaginable delights await us throughout all eternity is my hope and prayer for us all thank you so all that was applicable to ancient israel is applicable to us today well the bible says if we belong to christ then we are abraham's seed and we are heirs according to the promise all of the promises the lord made to israel they are applicable to us something significant about our name as we see in our study this week abraham's name there was greatness in his name when you gave your life to the lord and you were baptized jesus gave you a new name now you're called christian that's the name and revelation 2 17 says that name as a matter of fact let me read it for you says he that hath an ear to hear let him hear what the spirit saith unto the church to him that overcome it will i give to eat of the hidden manner and will give him a white stone and in that stone a new name which no man knoweth saving he that receive it that new name is your character when you were you accepted the lord you took the name christian oh that name is going to surface in glory the big thing about that is we can bring shame to the name of god we as god's children we can bring shame but the opposite is true god wants to use us to bring glory to his name in the earth we've got to be careful as we live aren't we yes those who have the name of christ you've got to be careful because the lord is using you to reach others yes amen i want to add some some balance to the promise that we see here quickly we talk about the promise and we talk about the good things that we're going to inherit but but let like all of us most times tend not to read the fine print the fine print in the promise means that hey even though we have a promise and it's great and we're going to get it if we accept it the truth is it's going to be tested it's going to be tested and it was interested in me pastor gaff that that god would see the struggle of abraham praying for the son and then after praying for the son giving him the son and then ask him to sacrifice the son it it it doesn't make sense to me and and so often we find ourselves in our own life there's certain thing that god will test us and and it doesn't make sense but the truth is it's not like the promise is changing but it's in the fine print and we as christians even though we decide to follow god let's remember that it will be tested it will be tried it will be hard but the end result is the promise and just oh yes that's what peter says when we are tempted just remember that jesus been there before you some cases we are honored to be tempted even as jesus was okay i was going to say tempted coming from the devil and sometimes we'll fall but remember his grace is greater than our sins we messed up every day so we just have to not throw in the towel and say i can't make it but still hold on to the promise of faith in the lord and ask his forgiveness and he will impart his grace as needed it's a daily thing and don't judge people so we learned today that god is your shield no matter what once you give your life to the lord and you are baptized the lord is going to be with you he will shield you he will protect you you do not have to crawl on your hands and knees to the devil the lord will permit the devil to put some stuff on you but thank god it has to be permission servant of the lord says whatever comes to god's children has to pass through god's hands first and if it passed through his hand it means that he permitted it some cases to make you stronger make you a better christian a better person so that the joy of certain temptation is that i share some of these with jesus and peter says when these things come don't count them as something strange the lord permitted for a reason but he will be your shield and buckler even to the end i was going to say in other words no tests no testimony no test no testimony precious lord how we thank you for entrusting us with the bible thank you for your words thank you for the promise thank you for keeping your promise lord to be a shield to your children you promise law that nothing will come to them that you will not permit we ask now that your blessings will rest upon them keep us faithful come soon lord take us home to live with you forever we ask in jesus name amen god bless you see you next sabbath same time same place [Music] my favorite movie is the ice age the movie starts off with scrat chasing after an acorn that never ever seem to stay with him some will say he's obsessed with it he's addicted to it or even foolish for continually chasing after an acorn that doesn't seem to like him very much but the reality is despite the acorn running away from scratch scrat continually chases after the acorn even when it caused him pain when it goes into the sea he goes after it when it falls off the earth he goes after it even when it traveled out into space he went after it why because he loved his acorn jesus is our script and when we like the acorn run away from him and fall into sin jesus keeps coming chasing behind us because he loved us romans 5 8 tells us that while you and i were sinners christ died for us and he did that so that we can live with him the question is are you going to let him catch you [Music] [Music] there is a blood that caused life that paid my away [Music] [Music] my sins were gone my sins forgot there is a grace that tried to hide this precious blood that gave me life [Music] but in three days he breathed again to stand in my [Music] defense [Music] [Music] that he [Music] that he's coming back oh there is a blood that cites the blight [Music] that heals the sick and the lonely fight [Music] they fall upon the ground so pour it out to cleanse my soul and let its liquid glory flow because it lives to make me whole i 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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] boys [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] and i saw another angel fly in the midst of heaven having the everlasting gospel to preach unto them that dwell on the earth and to every nation and kingdred and tongue and people saying with a loud voice fear god and give glory to him for the hour of his judgment is come and worship him that made heaven and earth and the sea and the fountains of waters let everything that hath breath praise the lord praise thee the lord [Music] [Music] and [Music] is [Music] eternal god and father of mankind your children have come now to this place to worship at your feet we come with hearts well up with gratitude to you lord for your goodness and mercy blessings of the week that has drifted off into eternity here we are now at your feet to worship and to praise and to adore thy matchless name for you have been good to us may your blessings rest upon us as we worship now in jesus name we pray amen [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] is [Music] amen on behalf of on behalf of dr abraham jews and member of the community cwc worship center we come to worship you this morning bear with me i'm shy on behalf of us dr abraham jews and the member of cwc we welcome you worship with us this morning please don't please don't focus on the trial and covet 19 issue of the week just relax and enjoy special lunch which will be served by the press team prior team scripture team type type person and supervised by the chief the chef chief and service of christ dr jews to to alter this concept a plate of love a spoon of hope a fork of care and a glass of prayer so sit back wherever you are youtube our zoom and join the cover and join the launch for we are covered under god's love episode amen it is time for children's story our story today is titled god is the rock it comes from the book of matthew and we will refer to other books in the bible do you know what god is like what are the characteristics of god why is god the rock let's look at a few characteristics god is the rock he is almighty he is absolute power powerful god is the alpha and the omega the beginning and the end the first and the last the creator god is one who forgives if we ask for forgiveness god forgives and cancels our sins god is good all the time and all the time god is good god is righteous morally righteous ethical everything just god is holy god is perfect the opposite of sin totally 100 sinless god is holy god is one who guides he has given us the ten commandments and every time we pray god gives us guidance and direction god heals if you pray to god the power of god is within you and you are whole you may become spiritually and physically better god heals well there are some things in the bible to remind us about the symbol of the rock in deuteronomy he is the rock his works are perfect in the book of psalms it is said you are the rock you are my fortress you lead and you guide me in the book of matthew jesus said on this rock i will build my church in the old testament the word in the language of hebrew the word rock means faithful stable strong well in the bible we learn many many many stories of people who go through trials and tribulations but what we also learn is that when you build your character through jesus and because of jesus you can face these trials and tribulations so we learn that god is the refuge that means protects you you don't protect yourself god protects you and you build your foundation in jesus so this is a house and jesus told a story about a house actually two houses in the book of matthew a wise man built his house on the rocks i brought some rocks for you yeah those are rocks they're loud hear that solid house on the rocks then he built the foolish man oh wait before i go there i forgot the wise man had some windy days and some rainy days and the rain came and the wind came but the house stood because it was built on the rock then this foolish man said i'ma make my house on the sand he bought some a beach property and he built his house on the sand look at that all that sand he said i'm even gonna make my house higher than yours and he built his house on the sand it's the tall until all that rain came and the wind came and the house went lower and lower and it crashed because it was built on the sand what does this story say because even those who heard jesus in the crowd said oh he teaches with authority not like the scribes there's some meaning to his words what did it mean just like people on the outside your house can look good or you can look good but on the inside what is your character are you connected to jesus are you trying to be like jesus on the inside are you being genuine about what you do for others or are you just doing it to look good um that's a question but the real question is is your life on the foundation of jesus christ so let's go back to our first house built on the character of god if we are made in god's image and we are like the like god and try to be like god and build our character on the life of jesus then guess what we trust and believe that jesus died on the cross we repent we turn away from all those temptations and building our house on the sand and all the material things and we turn to god when we turn to god that is salvation we ask for forgiveness and we build our life on the rock that means we trust and believe in jesus and we trust and believe and understand salvation so boys and girls build your life on the rock because god is the rock so now let's close our eyes and bow our heads and pray dear lord jesus for every child listening to this story and for every parent guardian or mentor who is responsible for guiding a child please we pray lord jesus that we learn about your works we study the word of god we trust and believe in salvation and we build our life on the rock which is you lord jesus christ in the name of jesus we pray amen today's old today's old testament scripture reading comes from jeremiah 7 verse 1-7 the word that came to jeremiah from the lord saying stand in the gate of the lord's house and proclaim their this word and say hear the word of the lord all ye of judah that enter at these gates to worship the lord thus saith the lord of hosts the god of israel amend your ways and your doings and i will cause you to dwell in this place trust you not in lying words saying the temple of the lord the temple of the lord the temple of the lord are these for if you truly amend your ways and your doings if you truly execute judgment between a man and its neighbor if he oppressed not the stranger of the fatherless and the widow and shed not indecent blood in in this place neither walk after other gods to hurt to your hurt then i will i will cause you to dwell in this place and the land that i give to your fathers forever and ever amen today's new testament reading is from galatians 3 1 7. o foolish galatians who hath bewitched you that ye should not obey the truth before whose eyes jesus christ have evidently set forth crucified among you this only would i learn of you received ye the spirit by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith are ye so foolish having begun in the spirit are ye now made perfect by flesh have ye suffered so many things in vain if it be yet in vain he therefore ministereth to you in the spirit and worketh miracles among you do with he by the works of the law or by the hearing of faith even as abraham believed god and it was accounted to him for righteousness know ye therefore that they which are of faith the same are the children of abraham [Music] one piece [Music] thou sought me to say it is well it is well with my soul [Music] it is well [Music] with my soul [Music] my soul [Music] that glorious [Music] oh [Music] no more just praise the lord praise the lord oh my soul [Music] it is well with my soul it is well oh with my soul [Music] it is oh my god [Music] [Music] from [Music] my [Music] is [Applause] is [Music] oh [Music] oh it is well [Music] it is well with my soul it is well oh with [Music] my soul oh it is well it is well with my soul [Music] is thank you sister pierre what to god that those words are the true sentiments of our hearts today and always that it is well with our souls you know there's a song that we used to sing a long time ago some of the words are just a little talk with jesus we'll make it right and i've learned that to have a god that i know who loves me cares about me to take all of my concerns and requests and burdens to him in prayer it's an awesome privilege it's a privilege beyond measure and today my brothers and sisters we can go to the lord in prayer we can take our burdens we can take what concerns us our anxieties our fears our frustrations our failures our voice we can take them all to the lord in prayer knowing that god cares deeply about each and every one of us you know i'm happy today to announce one of our beloved eldest elder china who was hospitalized this week but he's home and doing a whole lot better the saints prayed for him he prayed his family prayed to god be the glory god answers press and he meets our deepest and most urgent needs wherever you are if you would join me in a sign of respect and honor to god either stand for prayer or kneel whatever makes you confident in your respect today your love for god and honoring him let's take that posture kneeling or even standing as our prayer praise team sings for us our prayer song el mac will prepare to lift us all before god [Music] [Music] my [Music] you are my fortress [Music] [Music] oh [Music] and i call you when i call you [Music] feelings [Music] oh [Music] me eternal god and our father in heaven truly we are grateful for this awesome privilege of coming before you oh lord it's a privilege because it's not like we're worthy lord it's not like we have a we we have done anything good to come in your presence because truth be told lord all week all day this week all we did was fail you and fail you miserably but we're thankful that we have a god that is compassionate forgiving loving caring always waiting with your arms open wide to receive your children that are running to you begging you to have mercy upon us and that is the position that we are in this morning oh lord jesus here we are with our hearts lower than our knees lord jesus bowing in your present falling prostrate in your presence as it were lord asking of you to do for us that which we cannot do for ourselves do for us lord that which we are not worthy of do for us lord that which we do not deserve forgive us of our sins lord blot out our iniquities wash us lord and make us clean and so lord as we come before you this morning just so thankful that your ears are not stopped so you can hear your sinful children crying unto you and lord you not only hear us but lord you forgive us of our sins and we are thankful here we are in your presence lord we have come to worship you today and oh how grateful we are for this day that was put aside for us and you to communicate one-on-one oh lord jesus we're thankful that we don't have to be worrying about the things of the world today we don't have to worry about our jobs and school and other things that occupy us during the course of the week that we barely have time to spend with you these hours lord are ours with you and so lord as we spend time with you today i pray that we will hear you when you speak to us through song and through the spoken word that will come to us i pray loving lord that you will give us receptive hearts so that when we hear your words lord our hearts will respond and all we will want to do is worship you oh lord jesus we're thankful for your hands of healing lord your children throughout this week somewhere or another suffered pain and affliction and hurt and sickness some of them are still experiencing that even now but lord we want to remind your children today that you are still the bomb in gilead you are still the great physician and so no matter what our sickness on our illnesses are lord you have the powerful hand of healing and you will heal us from our diseases not only will you heal us from the maladies of this world but lord you will restore us from our sins and lord we pray for the day to come when you will eradicate sickness and death and sorrow and pain and all will be joy in you but until that day lord i pray that you will keep us steadfast i pray that you will keep us holding on to you i pray that you'll help us to be thankful and to be cognizant of the fact that you are our provider lord i pray that you will help us to continue to lean and depend on you and lord as your manservant comes with a word from heaven today i pray that it will be a word of instruction a word of rebuke a word every word it is lord i pray that we will accept and we will obey and i pray lord that it will help us to strengthen our walk with you so lord jesus keep us until you shall come is my prayer in my asking in jesus name amen [Music] it's [Music] [Music] oh oh go [Music] [Music] angels are wrong [Music] [Music] please [Music] brings us to god's creation by asking us to consider the lilies of the field they toil not yet solomon in all his glory was not arrayed as one of these it is now time for us to honor the lord with our tithes and offering we often tend to worry about how am i going to pay the mortgage how would i pay the rent god's only requirement of us is obedience and obedience often means blind faith a faith that says god you have always taken care of me you've always taken care of my needs and i know that you will continue to do so i know with every fiber of my being that you will do what you promised i will be obedient to your will and willingly return the tenth as is required of me in addition though here's a generous offering so that my local congregation will also be able to continue its service in this community i recognize your promise to take care of my needs so i place all in your hands today we a seventh-day adventist understand the principles of tithing we understand it well but we often seem to fall short on free will offerings and free will offering is god i know that you will do what you promised for me and it's predicated solely on generosity of the spirit and we often show serious lack the psalmist says i have been young and now i'm old yet have i not seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread we have provided you several means by which you can return the information is on the board take a screenshot take a picture of the screen so that you can use that information but please remember god loves a cheerful giver bring you all the tithes into the storehouse that there may be meat in mine house and prove me now herewith saith 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 and i will rebuke the devourer for your sakes and he shall not destroy the fruits of your ground neither shall your vine cast her fruit before the time in the field saith the lord of hosts and all nations shall call you blessed for ye shall be a delightsome land saith the lord of hosts let us pray loving father we come before you now with thanksgiving in our hearts because you continue to provide for us in spite of our shortcomings in spite of our unbelief lord you continue to carry us through father we lift up our hands today and thanks for the jobs we have for the cars we're able to drive for the food you've provided us and lord we ask you speak to our hearts so that we will develop that generosity of spirit that prompts us to become cheerful givers father take what has been given today i pray even now bless it lord multiply it and may it be used in precisely the manner it's intended may your work on this earth be finished in jesus name i pray with thanksgiving amen amen it's time now to celebrate our birthdays and anniversaries and those who have had something to celebrate over the last month and we will ask sister ingrid now if she will read the names of those who have had their birthdays and some of them we have this screen we have a picture of some of those celebrants if you would ingrid go right ahead lauren barca and her birthday was the third of april melody murphy april 3rd tracy and taylor richardson april 11th fabiola talbot april 23rd she's on the screen debbie howard 24 maureen campbell the 24th as our storytelling lady dylan jules the 25th beautiful apr april drummond reed the 26th tiana thomas the 27th and we see her picture also joshua armstrong the 28th velma marshall the 28th diana lovelace the 29th and roof shaw the 29th these are uh birthday celebrants they've enjoyed a wonderful month i trust even my lovely son it's a special month for me my beloved son in whom i'm well pleased was born in that month all right so we're going to sing ingrid and then you'll tell us about the anniversaries after that let's sing the okay elder combs is here let's sing a happy birthday uh to all of our lovely celebrants at this time [Music] happy birthday to all of you we love you god bless you and thanks for allowing us to celebrate this with you on this god's holy sabbath day documents so now we have the april anniversary celebrant and so she'll get this to this um couple will get to celebrate with everybody because you're so special you're the only um pair so april 17th they celebrated five years of bliss and they will continue to do so tell us the name mingo and tiffany shaver mingo and tiffany shavers congratulations to you on your fifth wedding anniversary thank you so much you have something else for us documents yes so nine members from our church um uh enrolled in the medical missionary program and there are nine graduates so we have nine medical missionaries added to the ones we had we have here before so um their names are sister elaine laidley elder ruth shaw sister claudette samuels sister pauline brown sister alfreda miller sister cassidell plummer pastor glenn roy price sister tiana thomas and yours truly elder coons congratulations let's put our hands together those of you who are in the sanctuary with us the few of you that is we praise god for you and for all of you who have completed this assignment and curriculum congratulations we bless the lord for your interest and the time you have put in to invest in knowing more about your health and to become a conduit for the health message god bless you congratulations to one another [Music] [Music] what shall he stated these things they still can't answer so much easier and what [Music] [Music] so many questions but still one answer [Music] if god before me who can be against me if god is with me whom shall i fear if no one knows me still his heart adores me yes i am safe i am loved and i am here [Music] watch out we say that these things so much violence it's getting hard to believable and one shot we stated these things so many people [Music] so many questions but still one answer if god be for me who can be against me if god is with me whom shall i fear if no one knows me still his heart adores me [Music] who can be against me if god is with me who shall i fear if no one knows me still his heart adores me yeah cause i am safe i am loved and i am healed nothing but the blood of jesus [Music] nothing but the blood of jesus [Music] is [Music] i know it was nothing but the blood of [Music] jesus i could pay no price that i could say nothing but the blood of jesus we're singing [Music] [Music] it was nothing but the blood [Music] it was nothing but your blood my jesus if you are for me who can be against me if you are with me if no one knows me yes i am safe i am loved and i am here if you are for can be against me if you are with me whom shall i fear if no one knows me still his heart adores me i am safe i am loved i am healed oh i am safe i am loved i am healed i am safe i am loved yes i am here [Music] join us as we sing him this morning oh lord my god [Music] oh [Music] the world i see the universe [Music] my savior [Music] [Music] is take away all of our stuff [Applause] though [Music] [Music] god [Music] oh [Music] [Music] your admiration [Music] oh [Music] [Music] god [Music] me i will break that part [Music] [Music] [Music] precious you how i lift high my boy [Music] [Music] as my lips [Applause] [Music] i am persuaded [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] with holy spirit i am my heart as my lips i [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i am [Music] foreign am i am [Music] is i am persuaded lord to love you i [Applause] i [Music] am [Music] is [Music] peace me [Music] well well well we've had a feast in church today i praise god thank you for praise team and their ministry uh musicians russ and the band thank you guys appreciate you so much thanks to charles and our media ministry i appreciate his leadership and the members of his team alfres roll alana um brother uh charles and uh sis over here on the camera we thank all of you for your service we appreciate your ministry and what you make possible each and every week we inadvertently left out sister annie baker's name who graduated from the medical missionary program also so she gets a special shout out today all right thank you sister and we are proud of you listen on next sabbath evening uh at 8 00 p.m the women's ministry of our church under the direction of uh elder ingrid providence they are having their virtual fireside chat please join them uh on next sabbath in the evening at 8 00 pm they will also have a very special all woman presentation on sabbath morning for the divine service the women are in charge under the direction of our leader sister ingrid so they're inviting you the zoom id information was posted on our website uh for the 8 pm meeting we will remind you again on next sabbath about that service all right let me uh thank all of you for participating in our service today and for making possible this wonderful uh sacrifice to god through the uh avenue of worship thanks to saira and your team for leading us so well today again we bless bless the holy name of the lord for your ministry and for all of you who come each week to make certain that what we put out on the internet as our worship service is one that is well planned and certainly executed with precision and you have done that and we appreciate you let me thank this young lady sister pierre for really it's amazing uh the spirit of god was with us during her presentation it's amazing that you will see that the words of that song the lyrics of the song she last saying it is a part of the message that you will hear today now i didn't consult with her i didn't even know who was singing today but as i was listening to that song it took me right to the message that i will bring to you today all right pastor would you come pastor reid will read to us our simonic text then we'll have word of prayer and get right into the word the sermonic study is coming from the book of corinthians first corinthians chapter 10 are reading a hearing verse 3 to 5 king james and did all eat the same spiritual meat and did all drink the same spiritual drink for they drank of that spiritual rock that followed them and the rock was christ but with many of them god was not well pleased for they were overthrown in the wilderness all right thank you pastor thank you so much please bobby heads with me as we pray loving father we call up your name now to instruct us in your word and to guide both our minds and our hearts to be receptive to this word we pray that our lives will be enriched and our souls elevated and our spirituality deepened because of our worship experience this day thank you for all that has gone before through song and prayer and scripture reading now during this moment it is not about anyone else but you we lift our eyes heavenward to you we pray for your spirit to come into our living rooms into our homes into our automobiles into our hearts as we worship you on this your holy sabbath day thank you for giving us this opportunity to worship even in a virtual sense and to know that you are with us wherever we are bless this your word now as we study i pray in jesus name amen listen folk you know i always believe as i prepare to preach during the week when i'm studying and praying and preparing that the sermon has to get in me before it can get through to you well i want you to know i'm confident that you will be blessed today because this one really got into me don't let your tongue lick you you know what we say to each other has profound significance and profound impact for example when we celebrate each other that is a great source of encouragement in fact one of job's friends said this about job in job 4 and verse 4 your words have kept men on their feet your words have kept men on their feet how many of you have someone in your life who can say the right words at the right time and it has kept you on your feet words are powerful in fact look at what proverbs chapter 12 and verse 18 says it says thoughtless words can wound deeply i know god has had mercy on that fool who coined the saying sticks and stones may break my bones but words will never hurt me that's the most moronic statement you will ever repeat wounds from sticks and stones heal faster than wounds from unkind words in fact right now some of us are still dealing with some wounds because of an unkind word solomon said solomon said thoughtless words can wound as deeply as any sword but wisely spoken words can heal that is why charlie brown was so messed up as a matter of fact i love charlie brown i don't know about you as a matter of fact i love charlie brown so much i have a nephew that i don't call him anything else but charlie brown he's an attorney and lives in virginia but to this day i still call him charlie brown when he was a little boy about two three years old in brooklyn i used to call him charlie brown he's 40 years probably and i still call him charlie brown well charlie brown was so messed up lucy told charlie brown on one occasion charlie when you were born the doctors looked at you and said not right for the part and many of us are messed up because we have some lucy's all around us as important as words that others say to us are and they are nothing is more important than the words you say to yourself your self-statements your self-talk the most powerful and important conversation you will ever have in your life will be the conversation you have with yourself now you've heard me say that before in sermons just in snippets but i'm giving you an entire message on this today your self-talk can hinder you or it can help you it can be a stepping stone or it can be a stumbling block we are sometimes fatigued and frustrated and defeated because we are listening to ourselves it's our inner dialogue it's our self-conversation that is sabotaging our lives psychologists tell us that we speak out loud to each other about 150 to 200 words per minute but we speak to ourselves through images and pictures and thoughts 1300 words per minute i'mma say this again because somebody needs to get it this is foundational for all i'm about to say psychologists tell us that we speak out loud to each other i speak so you can hear me and i speak about 150 to 200 words per minute but we speak to ourselves the conversation you have with yourself never stops so you tell me your age and you've been talking to yourself non-stop so i've been talking to myself for 61 years non-stop even in my sleep i'm talking to myself through my dreams because you're constantly dreaming in fact the bible teaches us that our self-talk influences us influences us in at least five ways five areas number one the things you say to yourself your self-talk influences you in your attitudes so if you're sporting etude even saints sport tubes it has to do with your self-talk now let me give you a definition of an attitude an attitude is my reaction to life's interactions and psalm 55 and verse 2 tells us hear me and answer me my thoughts trouble and i am distraught now why am i distraught not because of what someone else is saying to me i am distraught and i am troubled because of my thoughts that's my self-talk listen to me folk if you attempted to tune me out stay with me because you probably need this message more than anybody else your whole life is a mess because of the conversation you've been having with yourself for the last 50 years everything you failed at is because you've been telling yourself that and everything you succeeded with you told yourself that not only does the bible teach us that self-talk influences our attitudes but it influences our attractions and by attractions i mean what you attract into your life your self-talk tells you i cannot get a good man because all men are dogs your self-talk tells you he doesn't love me because you have told yourself nobody can love you your self-talk has told you that you don't deserve better so you will take any piece of man that comes down the pike what you attract into your life has to do with what you've been telling yourself or bad look at proverbs chapter 4 and verse 23 y'all should write these texts down because it can help you and your family be careful how you think your life is shaped by your thoughts so my self-talk influences my attitudes and it influences my attractions and thirdly my self-talk the bible teaches influences my actions look at proverbs 23 and verse 7 for as a man thinks in his heart so is he you are what you think your thought life is you [Music] just like you are what you eat your pressure is high and you're eating a bunch of salt sodium still you can't leave the table without without dousing some more salt on your food pressure is high and you're sitting around watching television all day long you are what you eat you're also what you think not only does my self-talk influence my attitude my attractions and my actions but the bible teaches that my self-talk influences my abilities mark 9 23 yes said jesus if you yourself can everything is possible to the person who has faith many of us put what is known as a governor over our abilities a governor is what you put in your cause or what is put in cause my car and your car can go much faster than it does but the manufacturer has put a governor on the car to slow it down and to put a limit on how far fast your car can go and so you and i have abilities that are never maximized never are realized because our self-talk becomes a governor that puts a limit on what we can do are you all hearing me how many of you have children that frustrate you because they have abilities on one level but they are living on a much lower level the ability says win but their self-talk says lose their ability says advanced program academically but their self-talk says d's and f's their ability says i can graduate from college but their dog says i can barely make it out of high school and you find yourself talking to yourself about yourself with nobody to hear you but yourself your self-talk influences your attitudes your attractions your actions abilities but also your aspirations what you venture to do proverbs 29 and verse 18 says where there is no vision the people perish i have a friend he's a great preacher he's preached here before dr patrick vincent he adds another piece to this he says where there's no vision the people perish and then he says where there's no people division perishes now that ain't got nothing to do with my sermon but i liked how it sounded that word vision is a simple word it literally means what you see god doing in your life that is your vision your aspiration and some of us don't see god doing much in our lives not because god cannot but because our self-talk says not me in fact the father of african american history cottage c woodson a brilliant historian harvard educated established african american history month in february because he realized what was crippling african americans or negroes was their self-talk or what martin luther king jr would say the clouds of inferiority floating through the negro's mental skies self-talk because what we are saying to ourselves i'm unattractive i'm uneducated i'm nobody special you became ashamed of who you are and people have played on that in fact the first black millionaire was from indianapolis madam cj walker who made products to lighten black woman up or as the poet gwendolyn brooks said to hot comb your anger down when babies were born the first thing a mother would do because of self-talk would look at the baby and say oh she's light or she will say good here you know what i call good here here that you have so they they they after they look at the little baby and say good here because it's straight at that time but six months later africa shows up [Music] and that straight here goes curly up so carter g woodson said you're not getting anywhere as a race until you can reprogram and reset the self-talk of african-americans and so he established african-american history to celebrate black folk and he wrote a book called the miseducation of the negro in 1933 and in that book what he was saying was the reason the negro is not aspiring to be more than he could be is because of miseducation and self-talk in my home forgive me for using myself as an example i tell my children i don't want to hear any negative words i don't want to hear the words i can't do this i don't want to hear anything i don't want any negativity around me because we can do all things through jesus christ and stop sitting around and complaining about what you cannot do so carter g woodson said in his book when you control a man's thinking you do not have to worry about his actions you do not have to tell him to stand here or go yonder the problem is many of us are allowing others to control our thinking we are people pleasers and until we tell some folk get out of my face you are not going to be free there's some people you've got to kick out of your lives you got to kick them to the curb they are not good for you you do not have to tell him to stand here or go yonder carter g woodson says he will find his proper place and he will stand you do not need to send him to the back door his thinking will make him go there in fact his thinking has so conditioned him that if there is no back door he will cut one out for his own special benefit and a whole lot of us are living in the back door because we think we belong at the back door and you can't be front door with with back door thinking listen to me you need to tell your children and you need to be your children's cheerleaders stop spending your time putting your children down putting your husband down putting your wife down life is too hard for that you need to tell them they belong that they can do it that skin color doesn't make one superior that here texture does not make one superior or inferior now here are the abcs of emotions listen to it i'm gonna give you a formula a activating event plus believing belief system b a b equals consequences activating event plus belief system equals consequences you are a product of what i just gave you you are who you are today because of a b c activating event belief system equals consequences and the way you process it what you believe about the event your belief system is your self-talk in fact let me tell you three things about your self-talk your self-talk is quick to rush to judgment number two your self-talk is believed it is your subjective reality it's true to you and number three it is learned you learn to think the way you do you heard it in your house you heard it from friends and you began to believe it you learned it listen to this i'm about to give you something that should help you listen to this whenever someone talks to us we sift through what they say we take only a part of what they say and the part we sift and take away is the part that reinforces what we already believe about ourselves they said a whole lot but you didn't hear it all because you just zeroed in on just two words that reinforced what you already believe about yourself and that is why if you want to get an evaluation of a piece of property do not send a group of buzzards to tell you about the property why because buzzards would fly over the property and there are flowers but they would not put that on the report and there's carpet of green grass and honeysuckles popping up through the green grass perfuming the air and there are beautiful trees but the buzzards would not put that in the report the buzzards would only put one thing in the report it would say over in the weeds is a dead rabbit so you will get the report and you would not buy the property because all you think the property has is dead stuff but it has more than dead stuff but because of the nature of the budget the budget is programmed and conditioned only to see dead stuff and many of us are only programmed to hear what we are capable of hearing and what happens is we look and we focus on one thing that reinforces what we believe let me tell you something about self-talk the bible teaches that satan is the father of all lies john 8 44 you are the children of your father the devil and you want to follow his desires the desires of your father from the very beginning he was a murderer and has never been on the side of truth because there is no truth in him when he tells a lie he is only doing what is natural to him because he is a liar and the father of all lies if satan can use people to lie to you don't you know that satan can use you to lie to you in fact nobody in your life has lied to you more than you have lied to yourself the greatest liar in your life is you and the problem is you have believed that lie it is satan's goal to make your mind his headquarters he knows me he knows my insecurities he knows my weaknesses he knows my fears and he will plan doubt and suspicions and conspiracy theories and i will become extremely paranoid my paranoia is not based in reality it's based on the way i think whenever satan does that the bible calls it a stronghold a stronghold is an area of our life that we experience defeat simply because of the way we think you cannot have a good life if you think bad thoughts you cannot live right if your thinking is wrong ii corinthians 10 3-5 for though we walk in the flesh we do not war in the flesh for the weapons of our warfare are not carnal but are mighty through god to the pulling down of strongholds casting down imaginations our imagination goes into overdrive over things that are not real and every high thing that exalts itself against the knowledge of god satan will put things in our minds that will be superior or will exalt itself above what god's been trying to tell us i just gave you a profound truth right here and some of you missed it so pastor is going to say it again satan will put things in our minds that will be superior or will exalt itself above what god's been trying to tell us our entire lives you've got a thought in your mind that is greater than what god has been telling you for 25 35 years and that is a stronghold and that is how satan sets up his strongholds he conquers our minds he's not concerned about your money he's concerned with your mind because if your mind is right even if you don't have money you will be still okay but if your mind is not right even with a lot of money you will try and do like many of these rich folk who commit suicide or find solace in drugs he wants to conquer the way you think if you want to get your life right get your thinking right paul said be transformed by the renewing of your mind not your wardrobe some people changed your wardrobe hoping to change their lives but you can change your life by changing your wardrobe you've got to change your life by changing your mind dr maxwell moss a doctor who performed plastic surgery and woman who had scars said in his book psycho cybernetics even when i performed perfect plastic surgery the scars were gone they looked in the mirror no scars and still said i'm ugly because while the scars on the outside were healed the scars on the inside were not and satan wants to play mind games with you not only does he conquer our minds but satan wants to secondly contaminate our minds verse 5 casting down imaginations he's gonna put all kinds of stuff in your imaginations they don't like me i'm too fat um let me tell all the women who have extra weight on it's yours go ahead and love it and all these men who put down their wives who have put on some few pounds they've got pot bellies and talking about these women who put on a few pounds doesn't make sense i'm too fat i'm ugly if you tell yourself you're ugly you did not make yourself i didn't make myself if i were gonna make myself i was gonna make a much better looking dude than this one amen i would have biceps and triceps will make you fawn all over me but i didn't make me so i had to level who i am amen somebody you didn't make you god made you and god made you the way you are you are your height because god made you that height you have that skin texture because god made you that way love god enough to love you the way you are we've got too many self-haters calling themselves christians i can't be a christian if i'm hating myself i'm hating god's creation he thinks i'm too fat i'm too ugly i'm not smart enough too skinny listen to me whenever you feel insecure about how smart you are just tell yourself they don't know what's in my mind when i'm preaching you don't know what i'm about to say yes sometimes i miss my cue while i'm preaching but you don't know any better i just keep going because i know my destination i know where i want to get you don't know you never will know i'm too good at this i've thing doing this thing for 40 years and when you feel insecure that you don't know enough you're not smart enough nobody knows what's in your mind be confident tell yourselves i can't do it he contaminates our minds and then ultimately he controls our minds he conquers our minds he contaminates our minds and then he controls our minds because if he can control your mind he is controlling you how are you going to win the mind game number one consider how your thoughts may be limiting you consider how you place and how you allow others to place a governor on your thoughts your aspirations and your ambitions you've got to consider your thoughts because jeremiah chapter 6 and verse 14 says you can't heal a wound by saying it's not there number two how you win the mind game capture your thoughts now consider your thoughts secondly capture your thoughts arrest it every thought that comes into your mind every thing people say about you and you say to yourself capture it and arrest it just don't accept it as facts say before i let you settle down into my reality i'm gonna capture you and then after you capture your thoughts number three challenge your thoughts ask yourself questions like this is this really true is this a lie is this my insecurity speaking is this a satanic distortion and then after you consider your thoughts and you capture your thoughts and you challenge your thoughts then the next thing you do i gave you all c words so it can make sense and you can remember it change your thoughts look at verse 5 again casting down imaginations and every high thing that you've been thinking that exalts itself against the knowledge of god bring it in bringing it into captivity and every thought into obedience to christ everything i'm telling myself should be in compliance with what christ has said about me it's not if it's not in compliance with what christ has said about me i am getting rid of it let me give you five basic things about what christ said about you i'm hurrying on the first thing christ said about you is i am acceptable romans 15 and verse 7 says except as christ has accepted you and anything that makes you feel that you are not acceptable is not of god it's a lie get rid of it purge it pray over it and some of you have been abused by men and women and parents and fellow christians and people on your job you've been abused by them and it has made you feel like this but jesus says you are acceptable just as i am god accepts me i may be old i may be black i may be white i may be urban i may be suburban i am acceptable but then i am also lovable isaiah 54 and verse 10 says the mountains and hills may crumble but my love for you will never end anything that makes you think that god does not love you get rid of it it's a lie any thought that makes you think that god has picked you out to be picked on get rid of it anything that makes you think that you are a target of divine wrath and judgment get rid of it because god loves you i'm gonna tell you this much there a whole lot of things was i can't control but there's one thing i have control over i can control what i think about every day 24 7. you are lovable because god loves you you should not be anybody's body toy you should not be that sexual play thing you don't have to subordinate yourself to anything less than the best remember you are loved by god you're not supposed to be abused you're not supposed to be smacked you're not supposed to be cursed out you are lovable and any thought that makes you think you're not lovable is a lie nobody should talk to you like you're nothing you should not allow anybody whether they're husband or wife or friend or whoever they must speak to you respectfully you've got to require it now i have one philosophy and that is the first time you disrespect me i'm not waiting for you to do the second time hoping that you'll get some better sense and not do it the second time i know if you did it once you're gonna do it again i know that that's how human beings are so the first time you do it i'mma fix your behind and many of you are hoping that people will change people will only change when you change when you will not accept it anymore you all don't like this kind of straight preaching but you know what this is what you got you should be treated with dignity respect talk to a certain way because you are lovable number three i am valuable i'm me give you a text i got a text for all of them luke 12 24 consider the ravens for they neither sow nor reap but god feeds them how much are you better than the fowls you're valuable it makes no difference if they don't say you're valuable you're supposed to say you're valuable if you don't invite me over to your house i don't care i'm somebody without you inviting me over i don't need you to speak to me i don't need you to be my friend because my value is not predicated on what you think because you attract to your life what you're telling yourself and when you start telling yourself you're valuable your valuable attractive things start coming into your life say amen you cannot live right and think wrong you mean to tell me you are not valuable but god so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believeth in him should not perish but have everlasting life it was for you jesus died he could have sent seraphims and cherubims but god took off his divine prerogatives laid down his diadem of glory took off his crown and came into humanity to die for you and me you are valuable i've been rejected before i've been turned down before but i will not give anybody permission to make me feel like i am not valuable so walk like it and talk like it number four i am also forgivable psalm 103 and verse 3 says he forgives all my sins every one of us has fallen short but you don't have to keep digging up your past wondering if god has forgiven you romans 8 1 for there is therefore now no condemnation to those who are in christ jesus no condemnation god forgives and when he does he throws your sins in the sea of forgetfulness and puts up a sign that says no fishing you are forgivable don't let folk throw up your past in your face when satan reminds you of your past you better remind him of his future i am forgivable that means god does not is not going to hold anything back from me maybe you think you're not blessed today because god is holding back some things from you because of something you may have done that's a lie you have been forgiven your sins have been atoned for what can wash away my sins nothing but the blood of jesus walk in your forgiveness do not walk in condemnation number five i am capable philippians 4 13 i can do all things through christ who strengthens me whatever god says to do you are capable god says shacking is not for you so you need to start packing if god says go back to school you are capable god says i can heal your marriage i can heal your cancer god says i can open a door every dream god gives you you can bring it to fruition don't you put a governor on it go ahead and take it not only are you capable but he will give you more than you could imagine paul says now unto him who was able to do exceedingly abundantly above that you're able to ask or think anything in your thinking that is making you believe you're not acceptable you're not lovable you're not capable you're not valuable and you're not forgivable that is a demonic lie from the pit of hell itself notice you always push energy to anything you're telling yourself if i'm telling myself i'm tired then i just gave fatigue my life and my energy let's say i'm saying i can't make it i just gave gave up i can't make it if i said that i'm pushing i can't make it energy into my life a woman was bleeding for 12 years and she heard about jesus she has spent all her money but no cure there's a crowd in front of her but she said to herself she said to herself she said to herself if i can touch the hem of his garment the bible says she pressed and kept talking to herself they are in my way but if i can just i know i've been sick for a long time but if i can just i know i have no money but if i can just and she talk herself into a healing what are you telling yourself an eagle egg got lost and the hen found it and the hen rode the eagle egg to the chicken coop the hand sat on the egg and the egg hatched and emerged an eagle anatomically physiologically genetically dna and chromosomes were that of an eagle but it was born in chicken circumstances and it got raised in a chicken environment so although it was anatomically an eagle he thought he was a chicken and he played chicken games and he dreamed that chicken dreams he walked like a chicken and talked like a chicken and entertained the chicken ambitions when he went to chicken high a chicken counselor asked him what do you want to be when you grow up and he said i want to be like a rooster who hops and skips around the barnyard gets on a fence bowl and cries out cockle dougaldoo now the other chickens knew what he wasn't that he wasn't a chicken they knew he was an eagle but they engaged in psychological warfare and mind games to keep the bird ignorant of who he really was they laughed at him they made him ashamed of his eagerness they called him names made him the butt of jokes they targeted him for ridicule they called this large curvaceous beak ugly and said his wings were a sign of deformity they poked fun at his razor-sharp steel strong eagle talons and after all these messages and this self-talk of this messed up bird he began to filter it and he became ashamed of his eagleness so he made an appointment with a cosmetic surgeon to have his talons removed to have his beef to have his wings clipped back so he can be like the chickens but one day while playing in the barnyard he saw the contours of a mighty shadow it was his father who had been looking for him and for the first time he decided to look up beyond the chicken coop and he saw his daddy saw his daddy flying in grace and majesty and beauty through the air but he dropped his head and said i can never be like that because i have low test scores and chicken highs said my sct scores are too low i got to be a thug i can't be anything but a barnyard bird but the father who was looking for his lost bird soup down from yonder heights and came right next to him and said boy you are no chicken your talents are no accident your talents are not to dig for worms and caterpillars you got talons so you can grab hold of big mountains your eyes were never meant to be limited to the narrow confines of a barnyard but you've been given eyes to get a view of distant horizons in order to fulfill unfulfilled potential your wings the sun nothing is wrong with them they were designed to help you catch the wind so you could fly off into immeasurable genius and you are an eagle you're not a chicken and the minute that bird changed what he said to himself and said you know what i am not a chicken i am an eagle the minute he spread his wings and said i am an eagle a wind hit his wings and he began to soar but they that wait upon the lord shall renew their strength they shall mount up with the wings of eagles they shall run and not be wary they shall walk and not faint tell yourself you're pretty tell yourself i should have blown my brains out but i'm going to another level tell yourself that man left me but i'm going on tell yourself i just told myself what god told me i just told myself no weapon formed against me will ever prosper i just told myself i am more than a conqueror tell yourself i can do all things through christ who strengthens me tell yourself greater is he that is in you than he that is in the world tell yourself if god before me who in this world can be against me tell yourself i am acceptable i am lovable i am forgivable i am capable i am valuable tell yourself if i fall down i'm getting up to fight another day tell yourself if god before me who in this world can be against me listen to the words of this song as i come to ask you to make a decision for jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] softly untended lovely jesus is calling calling for you [Music] and for me [Music] he's waiting and watching watching for you and for me [Music] come home come [Music] come home [Music] jesus is calling calling for you and for me why should we tarry when jesus is bleeding pleading for you and for me [Music] his mercies o mercies for you and come on [Music] tender my jesus is calling calling o sinner come home think of the wonder full of he has promised promise for you and for me [Applause] we have sinned he has mercy and the burden is pardoned for you and for me so won't you come on my jesus is calling or calling no sinner come home [Music] come home [Music] my child earnestly and tenderly my jesus is calling calling oh sinner come on [Music] come on [Music] i'll just continue singing softly in the background for me please [Music] somebody who's heard this message today you're an eagle you're not a chicken this god is calling you home [Music] like that father eagle swooped down and reminded his little eaglet that he was not a chicken jesus is calling you if you want to make a decision for christ today you can go on our website cwcsd cwcsdate.org and there's a decision card there you can place your request say pastor i want to accept jesus as lord and savior well i want to come back home to the church i need somebody to pray with me and for me oh i need a counselor i need to study god's holy word you go to our website you can call our telephone here at the church leave a voicemail we'll call you back make that decision for jesus christ today the rest of us who are already believers jesus is reminding us that he'll give us a new mind he'll get rid of the old person he'll put a new spirit in our hearts new hope new aspirations new desires and you need to reconsecrate yourself today to the power and the might of god's spirit i want to ask you as our elder begins to get ready to pray for us that you make a recommitment to christ rededication of your life and your soul to living like an eagle in a chicken world every head is about every eye is closed as elder brown prays for us [Music] holy holy holy lord god almighty you are calling today come home wherever you are around the world come back to jesus he's waiting for us come on lord we can truly say today that we have dined with you we have seen you today we have tasted that you are good just over 2 000 years ago you declared man shall not live by bread alone but by every word that proceed out of the mouth of god we thank you for your manservant lord he declared unto you thus said the lord in a timely fashion oh god we pray that we will take heed oh god in your in this sanctuary today and around the world in your living rooms dining rooms whatever space your children are allowed we worship you we thank you we praise you like your servant david lord purge us and we shall be clean create in us a clean heart perform the clean art oh god and we renew a right spirit within us you are this surgeon cast us not away from your presence through us not the way of god restore us bring us back to the joy of your salvation then make us to hear the joy and gladness again for we are bought with a price not with man's made money what can washed away our sins nothing but the blood of jesus the cross the cross redemption yes we were stolen but dear god you paid the price for us there is a restoration we praise you for your grace and your favor because you ransomed us because you healed us because you restored us because you have forgiven us and because you have given us a promise let not your heart be troubled he believe in god believe also in me in my father's house are many mansions if it were not so i would have told you i gone to prepare a place for you and if i go i will come again to receive you unto myself thank you god for your promises you can't lie you will not lie and you told us that you're coming so lord wherever we are let us come on come home because soon and very soon you will come back for your children ready or not you are coming lord jesus may we be ready in jesus name i pray amen amen thank you so very much listen folk we are delighted that you've joined us for worship today trust that you've received a rich blessing through this worship experience may god be with you for the rest of the day during these sacred hours of the sabbath we anticipate that someday soon the lord will allow us to be back together again where we can worship and fellowship until that day comes we want to wish god's blessings upon each and every one of you be careful be prayerful stay vigilant do not give up keep praying and keep hoping and keep trusting in god's eternal power we miss you we are not able to be near and close to you but we want to give to each of you a virtual hug and let you know that we love you and we certainly miss being with you i'm going to send you one on behalf of pastor goff the elders and the members and leadership of our church please send us back a virtual hug god bless each and every one of you let's bow our heads as el brad show gives us our benediction may the spirit of god encompass you may the grace of our lord envelope you and may the strength of god empower you both now and forever amen [Music] is [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] is [Music] my lord [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] from the earth you came from i [Music] pastor today we have a little baby to be dedicated to the lord and her name is rain karyana kalnick rain carriana did i say it right i reign carriana kalnick well happy reign sounds like the future president of the united states yeah and she probably knows what i'm saying huh well we are happy to welcome you to church today and to this service and it's a special service of dedication we call it child dedication service but it's really more importantly um parent dedication because little rain may be smiling and laughing and looking at us but she is no doubt oblivious of the import of this service so this service is more about mom and dad and aunts and uncles and family members making it a priority in their minds and hearts to expose little rain to the principles of righteousness and godliness and fairness and justice and peace loving all of these principles you will inculcate mom and dad and refresh the family by showing through your example and teaching through your words and preparing a soul not only for this world but for the kingdom of god ultimately the bible says what will it profit a man if he gains the whole world and loses his own soul we want our children to make it into god's eternal kingdom and to be saved we want them to have a great life here on earth with education and money and a nice house and a car and a good family but we want most of all that they make it to god's eternal city and so today i challenge you to teach her about god's love and for her not only teach her but to exemplify that love to her not only that but she should be in church with mom and family uh on a consistent basis where the words of christ are taught many times people believe this is a little hocus-pocus blessing we show up for a blessing and that's it but the blessing is only made available when there is consistency in christian living and so i encourage you to do what is right to expose it to the teachings of righteousness and truth we will pray today for her that she'll have a wonderful life that her days will be long upon this land but we'll also pray that she'll make the right decisions especially to serve her lord and her savior we will pray for her today because of covet we don't hold the babies anymore we don't want to expose them so you'll hold her as i pray for her all right let us pray loving father today we lift up little rain carry anna kalnick to you and we pray that you would in this moment as family and loved ones and friends stand in your divine presence that you will honor their request to bless her with abundance to bless her with long life to bless her with good health to bless and to keep her from the maladies that are very common to infancy to bless her with the ministry of holy angels in her life all the days of her life to keep her from harm hurt and danger to keep her from the evil that's in this world i pray god that you may form a hedge around this little child and that you'll keep us safe we know god that the days are evil that evil is running rampant in our world and god we need your presence in our lives for little reign god we pray that you will make a home to be a little heaven here on earth we pray that at her home angels will stand with drawn swords to keep out intruders we pray that her home will be a place where there will always be food upon her table that there will always be the ministry of hope and happiness there we pray that laughter will be the order of the day in her home peace and and and and peace and congeniality will be uh very evident through the dealings of all the adults in that home who will exemplify before her that love is the order of christ i pray father that in her home she will not only hear about you and your amazing love but that she'll see it exemplified through the actions and interactions of all the inhabitants of her home i pray father that you will be near to her and she shall have grown to the age of accountability we pray father that she will seek to know you for herself and be baptized into your remnant church and serve you for the rest of her days as she prepares to meet you in peace i pray that you'll grant good health to mom and dad so that they'll always stay employed to provide for her needs and necessities i ask on this day god that you'll bless the extended family and friends who stand at this altar that they will be committed to the process of being the best examples in word thought and deed to little rain i thank you god on this day that they have brought rain like you were brought to the temple presented to the priest and dedicated to the lord as we dedicated this day we thank you that your presence has been with us and we crave for every blessing to be reigns for the rest of our day for the rest of her days in the mighty and precious name of jesus we pray with joy abundant and thanksgiving amen amen amen god bless you all feel free to stay around and take pictures and relax thank you duck homes thank you for joining us today we are so grateful we were able to worship together despite the covid 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 be upon you and yours remember to stay safe socially responsible and that god loves you have a blessed week [Music] [Music] the lord is my light and salvation whom shall i fear whom shall i be afraid the lord is my light and salvation whom shall i fear whom shall i be afraid i will wait on you yeah i will wait on you and i will trust in you i will trust shall i fear [Music] i will trust [Music] no matter how long it takes [Music] i will trust in you i will trust in you oh i will remain confident in this i will see the goodness of the lord i will remain [Music] oh [Music] one more time [Music] [Music] my salvation [Music] yes [Music] i will [Music] i will see [Applause] [Music] one more time one more time i will i will see [Music] oh [Music] [Music] god [Music] who is [Music] oh [Music] [Music] girl [Music] [Applause] [Music] one more time yeah i can't let it go [Music] [Applause] i will remain confident in this year i will see the goodness of the lord help me say i will [Music] confidently last time i will [Music] the lord you

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