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when we reach that city of the new jerusalem i know we're gonna sing we're gonna sing hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] in that mighty chorus voices will so sweetly i know we're gonna sing hallelujah sing hallelujah and go on will be our sadness pleasures oh what joy when we get home i know we're gonna rest be neat rest beneath that cloud they have storm well in that in that land in that land we're saying we'll never die i know we're gonna sing hallelujah we'll sing hallelujah bye and bye the victory and love will be our everlasting thing no we're gonna sing hallelujah [Music] [Music] storm wheel in that in that land in that lane and we're saying whenever now i know we're gonna sing we're gonna sing hallelujah bye and [Music] i'm gonna trade my earthly home for better when bright and fashion no cross left to prepare a mansion for children in the air and i'll join him in that land which is no sorrow can be found when i receive my mention let's [Music] why don't you let [Music] thy 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the new jerusalem i know we're gonna sing we're gonna sing hallelujah and how the ransom [Music] when we get home i know we're gonna rest being deep rest beneath that cloud let's don't well in that in that land in that lake we're saying we'll never die i know we're gonna sing hallelujah sing hallelujah in that mighty chorus voices and will so sweetly i know we're gonna sing we're going to sing hallelujah bye and sing and know what oh what you're oh what joy when we get home i know we're gonna respect rest beneath that cloud they has done well in that in that land in that land we're saying we'll never have i know we're gonna sing hallelujah we'll sing hallelujah bye and by the victory and love will be our everlasting thing no we're gonna sing hallelujah sing hallelujah bye hang on praising our redeemer there beside the crystal stream i know we're gonna sing we're gonna sing hallelujah and sing and oh what oh what y'all [Music] when we get home i know we're gonna rest beneath rest beneath that cloud last time well in that in that land in that land we're saying we'll never die i [Music] home for better one bright and fashion no christ left to prepare a mansion for children in the air and i'll join him in that land which is no sorrow can be found when i received your mansion let's sing about a man i wanna mention a robin [Music] lord [Music] [Applause] [Music] rain will fall there for the sun shines ever bright that's why i need no heavy garments i'll just wrap my robe around when i save [Music] we're going to sing hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] good morning welcome to the worship service here at the fifth ward church of christ in houston texas let us now begin our worship service by bowing our heads in a word of prayer to our great lord our heavenly father we we know you as a gracious god we know you as a merciful god and we thank you we thank you for that we've come father in obedience to you up on this first day of the week to offer up a worship service unto you to glorify your name to lift you up father we pray father that as we go into this worship service that you'll be pleased with us as we try to worship you in spirit and in truth and according to your word we pray this prayer in your son jesus name amen good morning church our first election this morning will be jesus is coming soon jesus is coming soon i think we all know it trouble sometimes feeling his heart with freedom we all hold thee now as i say humbling your heart to god save from the chastity will i ever would buy love with so many nicole losing their home up this and god's word is told evil's my jesus is commencing morning or night or the minute we'll meet there the trumpets will sound and all of sheriff righteousness made in the sky go away where no one ever would buy troubles will soon be all happy forever when we meet our nation free from all care rising up in the sky telling this world [Music] no one die everywhere back my jesus is called mister morning or night or no man it will meet there do trumpets will start and all of the deadshot go away where no one die ever would buy our next election will be the song you've probably been hearing already matching roman crown before we have a scripture in prayer matching roman crown now we can all join in instead of just listening i'm going to train my earthly hope for a better one bright and fear christ left to prepare our mansion for his children in the air i'll join him in that land where tears no sorrow can be found and i receive my mention rope and cry don't you wanna make john [Applause] the weather there is always fit the sunshine the night no cold and the rain will fall in for the sunshine every i'll need no heavy garments i'll just wrap my rope around when i receive momentum now don't you wanna make your robot up you know their [Music] but one day i'll be rewarded with the crown so bright and new i'll wear a smile so brightful there be no cause for a frown when i receive my mention now don't you wanna make john robert you know who their love will always crown good morning today's scripture reason comes from second thessalonians chapter three verse one through two second thessalonians chapter three verse 1-2 and it reads finally my final brethren pray for us that the word of the lord may have free course and be glorified even as it is with you and that there may be delivered from unreasonable and that we may be uh delivered from unreasonable and wicked men for all have for all men have not faith this includes in reading the scriptures second that's alone in verse chapter three verse one through two please understand for word prayer let us pray gracious heavenly father thank you for today and the opportunity to come together to worship you in spirit and truth lord please prepare our hearts so we hear and receive your word and participate in the uplifting of your name praise the lord thank you for being our refuge in the days of our distress and we thank you for being our stronghold and showing us loving kindness heaven and father thank you for delivering us from from our enemies and and making them ashamed of true they've caused thank you for jesus christ your son and our savior we're very thankful that lord please unite us in mind and spirit that we may be perfectly united join and speak the same thing the truth according to your word lord please strengthen those who are struggling today give them strength to overcome god heavenly father we pray for our children we pray for our grandchildren for their hearts that they remember you in the days of their you and stay close and use your words to guide them as they grow and navigate this world towards adulthood please bless them heal the father and since we are your children give us the wisdom and do it to endure and strengthen to do the same lord we ask for strength to comfort those who have lost love on us and father lord we pray for the fatherless we pray for the motherless we pray for the homeless lord please supply all their needs let us not forget them ourselves lord jesus and lord we pray for our preaching and the leadership of this congregation give them strength and patience and wisdom health and father continue on and do what they said your word heavenly father and lord if it's your will we pray to all these things be done and your son i'll say with jesus christ's name we pray amen our next election will be he's my king and we have our sermon brother smith he's my king all day long with jesus i am singing he's my soul of joy will ever be all the while he keeps my heart's bell ringing for his love is everything too you know that he's my king and oh i dearly love him he's my king no other is above him all day long enraptured praise i say he is my savior he's my king streams of love around my soul are flowy for his heart lost everlasting spring that is why my faith in him i'm showing that is why an endless song you know that he's my king and oh i dearly love him he's my king no other is above him all day long enraptured praise i say he is my savior he's my king in his life i'm going home in glory with the souls who trust his saving grace go away whole to sing and tell his story in the play says sunshine of you know that he's my king and oh i dearly love him he's my king the other is above him all day long enraptured praise i see he christ my savior he's my king amen good morning to everyone it is good to be in the house of the lord this morning how's everybody doing oh just good it's good to see everybody uh if welcome to the worship service of the fifth world church of christ uh those who are joining us here in physical presence those of you that are in the social media realm the website media realm all over the world to some it's not morning some is evening some it's night but this is the day the lord has made and let us rejoice and be glad in it um you look good you look good can't see all of you but uh it's good it's good to see something yeah it's good i'm just looking around i know some people bro gary i was at church i said i didn't know it i couldn't tell who you were uh i met some new individuals i say new reacquainted with some this morning as i was coming in and um god is still good he's still good and and we are we are people of faith we are people of faith i want to dive right into my lesson this morning it's not a it's a teaching lesson this month i've been giving excerpts snippets from the word of god and i'm entitling it excerpts to the church to the church uh primarily most of the new testament was written to the church christians i mean the first four books of the new testament matthew mark luke john we call them the gospels about the life of christ the book of acts the history of the church and the apostle paul through the inspiration of the holy spirit wrote 13 some say 14 of the letters that are written to the church we're in in second thessalonians chapter three is where we're beginning this morning and verse number one second thessalonians three and verse one uh if you are at home hopefully you get steel get still for a minute those of us as members of the body we know that that though our physical presence is not here we're still worshiping god because we worship him how in spirit and in truth and and so so so you the spirit we can't see with our eyes but the spirit is just as real as our physical bodies uh you can close your eyes and now all of us if we close our eyes we can't see but i got a question for you are you still here amen and so so so don't tune us out i know i won't say i used to say uh get up out your bed but i know that's not gonna work all the time for folks at home but at least sit up hey man open your eyes right yeah if you got your coffee that's all right no coffee in here but but that's all right if you got your coffee uh second thessalonians let's get into the word stay with me for a moment i need to end on time verse one finally notice last week i was in in first peter and we said to sum up to sum up it summed up all of the important facts and here in this particular letter of the apostle paul writing to the church at thessalonica he's writing to the church matter of fact i see as i said we in second thessalonians 3 1. finally brothers and sisters he he identifies see these letters were to be written to what were to be read aloud to the church that's how they knew you you i quoted uh last week when he wrote to timothy in first timothy 4 13 he says until i come he says i want you to give your attention to the public reading public reading so when are they when is he going to read when the church comes together he says to exhortation in the word exaltation sometimes i use the word encouragement but i don't know if that gives all of the definition of it it means to exalt to means to incite with words or to stimulate with word that's why see preaching is a little different even than teaching you know and even the preacher he god don't want the preachers to just be monotone you know when you read something you read it and you put all of you to sleep he says timothy i want you to give your attention to public reading to ex it's to stimulate to incite to action with words but make sure you're using my words yeah and then he says we're teaching doctrine so we read the word that's what would matter in fact that's what a sermon ought to do every time it also it all you you re-read from the word of god you don't want my feeble opinion we try to incite people to to to action for god amen and teach them the truth the truth of god's word so go back to second thessalonians chapter one finally brothers and sisters so this to everybody that's right hold up wait a minute just a second well it's really to those who really have already obeyed the gospel right yeah and we know from acts go to acts acts 17 go to acts 17. i didn't put this in my notes but from acts 17 uh verse number one through four we see that the apostle paul he established the church at thessalonica in the book of acts 17 let me read this real quickly now when they had traveled through amphi and philippus um fipolus and apollonia they came to thessalonica where there was a synagogue of the jews notice this a synagogue of the jews and according to paul's custom he visited them for three sabbaths reason with them from the scriptures explaining and giving evidence that the christ has had to suffer and rise from the dead and saying this jesus whom i'm proclaiming to you is christ and listen verse 4 and some of them were persuaded and joined paul and silas along with a large number of the god-fearing greeks and a significant number of the leading women notice they came to thessalonica a synagogue was there folk were worshiping god somebody needed to hear this this morning folks were worshiping god but they were not saved according to the scriptures and that's for everybody those of us that we see an individual can be religious and not be saved oh my goodness and paul went there to preach the gospel the good news of jesus christ and that's still people in the world that need to hear it every single day i was talking to a guy the other day he said bro you know i like studying religion all kinds of religions and i tell them that's good i do too i study all kinds of religions but you there is only one christ amen yeah you can study them you can even admire some of them but you got to obey the lord jesus christ and see and so so so paul preached in such a way that that that many folk believe but but but but we'd be very naive to think everybody's gonna believe everybody some people just hear the gospel and they just they just they don't get it or they reject it and but that's no reason for us to reject god if somebody else want to reject god amen that's the way god works he does he didn't make us robots we get to choose for ourselves now go back to ii thessalonians i got off track a little bit second thessalonians chapter 3 he says finally and so so this letter part of this excerpt i'm selecting is a teaching and and i i can almost promise you that that when this was read it wasn't nobody doing a whole lot of shouting but hopefully they were listening and it was for them but it's also for us today amen amen and every now and then the church needs to be taught a whole lot of times the church needs to be taught how we ought to be acting amen and so so that's why i say well probably wasn't a whole lot of shouting after you hear what he said he said finally brothers and sisters pray for us that the word of the lord will spread i'm reading from the new american standard translation that the word of the lord will spread and i my translations uses the word rapidly and be glorified so he's telling the church paul is a missionary he's preaching all over the world he's preaching and he says he says pray for that the word will be he uses the word rapidly that puts a sense of urgency on the teaching of the word uh do we need a sense of urgency today yeah yeah see you know uh i mean i hope to preach i hope to preach word and he says to exalt i hope it sometimes make us uncomfortable because sometimes we get too comfortable don't we and we we just act like we got all the time in the world and we put off things we know we don't i need to pray more i need to i sure need to pray more what you waiting on yeah i need to pray with my children i need this i need to start teaching my children some bible verses what you're waiting on yeah i need to get involved in the church i go brother barry and break back in them for just a second for those that sit here we'll bury one of our elders with a pastor a pastor where yeah bro pastor one of our elders you need to get involved check with them amen brothers are sisters we need teachers we need a brother we're not back together yet we got still got something for you to do the lord got something for you to do amen yeah some of us we boss on our job tell them hey you go here you late you don't take united time and we come to the lower sides act like we can't do amen amen i'm smiling while i say it yeah and so sir so there was a sense of urgency back then all that mercy there's a sense of urgency today my goodness man i don't know i mean we we all watching the same thing you know i can understand somebody 20 years old and younger you know you think your life is just ahead of you but you shouldn't think it either early one morning about nine o'clock in miami folks were sleeping in their bed and the whole building came down didn't know what hit him yeah i just be praying lord oh jesus oh dude i mean you know i i pray lord you know i know we all got to go but paul said paul says pray he says pray that the word spread rapidly why why the words need to spread rapidly because folks still need to be saved there may be someone in here that's watching right now there may be someone sitting here that may be someone watching right now and you know you need to be baptized you know it marry in the morning i'm trying to get my life together you're not going to do that you cannot get your life if you can get your life together you wouldn't need god yeah and so so so so don't be waiting all day to do things that we goodness and he says and be glorified there's a whole lot of preaching in this he says and be glorified and then he goes on to say just as it was also with you now he's writing to the church oh let's see go go to first thessalonians chapter one chapter one i want you to just understand what it what it means that and you see the word need to spread rapidly and it needs to be good in other words see we we we got the saints in here all the soldiers in here this morning you didn't accidentally come to the lord's house you came to hear god's word you came to be uplifted and you came to be filled with the spirit of god you love god you love christ but you know what with the word the church needs to be glorified what do you mean the world needs to see us and know about us they need to know god's work and god's people especially in times like the reverse food can you put it up there i don't have it on my in my notes first thessalonians chapter one and verse number four bear you gotta read it for me knowing brothers beloved by god okay okay look look look i'm sorry i go to second thessalonians second thessalonians that's my fault second thessalonians chapter one and verse number four second thessalonians glory and you as in the church of god churches okay okay go back again go back again so go back and read it again so that we ourselves glory in you now he's writing he's writing to the churches to the church at thessalonica and he says you know what i'm telling everybody i'm telling everybody all the churches of god about you and your perseveres and how you went through suffering i'm talking about it because i want them to be encouraged because god is glorified in the way you were acting and that's what he's talking about when he go we go back to second then it's chapter three he says and be glorified just said it was also in you and that we will go back verse two and that we will be rescued from troublesome and evil people for not all have the faith right yeah everybody don't believe right and some people some people so much so that they would they would even be enemies of the cross they would try to deter others from believing and some would go even a step further and they try to do harm to folk who trying to tell folk about the lord's church and jesus christ and he says y'all pray for me that the word is spread that it spreads rapidly and pray for me that that that evil folk won't stop the word and they won't hurt me yeah and so so it not only hurt me hurt us as we try to spread the word sometimes they don't hurt us physically but folk can do other things to hurt us and then everybody everybody i i sometimes rag my brain while some people don't obey the gospel you know you teach it just as plain uh you can teach it you can teach it just as kindly and lovingly as you can and uh everybody everybody you know everybody just don't believe some people believe in all kinds you know some of it i believe some people just don't want to be accountable some folks just want to do what they want to do and they want to act like it ain't no god and they would just reject jesus christ it happened then and it happens right now amen it's just the truth and sometimes it's in our own family verse three but the lord is faithful isn't he faithful god haven't changed listen god's not gonna change because somebody don't believe in him the same need to go for us we we sometimes we get discouraged but if you serve in god if you're serving them through trials and tribulations if you're serving them in good time keep sir be faith faith being faithful the sun rises every day on time amen and that's what we need to keep in our minds when we're going through some trials a brother brother gary if my crazy husband would act right he might not never act right she might your wife might not ever i wish my wife was just a faithful i wish she would pray for but she might not change amen amen don't say it too loud cause she might he might be in here but but but but he says god is faithful and he will strengthen and protect you from the evil one you got to believe that sometimes sometimes trials hit us things happen to us but god the bible says god will protect us from the evil one what do you mean bro again sometimes life can beat us down but can't nobody take our soul god says that he says i i'll protect you from the evil one if you keep your faith in me then he goes on to say we have confidence in the lord concerning you boy he's uh paul was exhorting he was exalting this church he was exhausted he got confidence in you in the lord he says that you are doing amen and we'll do what we command now this was a this was a a fairly young church when the apostle paul most scholars would say he wrote this letter this first and second thessalonians within three to six eight months after the church was stabbed after he left them so he writes this letter to the church he's bragging on the church to everybody not saying not so much bragging but he's telling all the other churches about it man the church of thessalonica they haven't been around that long they were made up of jews and gentiles so it was a mixed diverse church and he's talking to other churches about this church and he encouraged listen y'all pray for me and he says you keep doing what you've been doing amen now you can't say that about it some for some churches need to start doing amen but he says you keep doing and so that means they were doing but he also says keep doing see some folks say you once you once you once you're saved you always say that don't sound like that to me it sounds like to me that we better keep if we doing what's right we need to keep doing right amen just because you were faithful this year again i used to do this and i used to do that that's good janet jackson say whatever you've done for me i know that's an old song but yeah i mean you think about it boy when i heard one writer i don't know why i heard it recently says you know people remember people remember the last thing you do you know what uh simone biles well she's tough ain't she tough i believe she's the greatest gymnast woman gymnast of all time but she has some trials this time no did she and and you know what it was real shaky for a minute there and and but you know and folk focal forget all about what she had done that's how people do don't you some of them are in here right now yeah we we we like to remember the bad stuff but but paul told them he says this you keep up listen to this passage i put this in my notes colossians chapter 4 verse 14. luke the beloved physician sends you his greetings and demons does also luke was a physician lucas is attributed to the book of luke and the book of acts demas was one of the disciples he traveled he traveled with the disciples faithful faithful in the lord amen yeah but look at this listen to second timothy chapter four verse 10 second timothy 14 for demus having loved this present world has deserted me and gone the same faithful demons not very that long ago faithfully faithful in the lord what happened in between time you know what happened life happened the world happened right temptation happened yeah it made influence happen i don't know trials may have happened i don't know drugs maybe alcohol man but can anybody trip up and paul he's writing this he says look i know what you did and that's good i've been bragging on you but you got to keep doing it yeah yeah revelations 2 10 the latter part of that verse say be thou faithful unto death lord i mean if you're a senior citizen right now oh if you 60 well you say see i better go higher than that if you i mean you've been in the law you're 70 years old 75 you 80 years old been serving god god faithful to god now this little pandemic has come through here and just just troubled your soul troubled your spirit don't you give up on god don't you stop being faithful don't you stop don't get lazy and say i ain't worshiping today cause i can't come to the to the physical body and stop reading your bible and stop praying and stop serving god and stop being kind to folk you better keep doing what you've been doing amen somebody not just for the whole for all of us for all of us i know sometimes i'm a little i'm a little concerned some of my brothers and sisters they text every i mean they call us it's still some folk that i you know i don't know the elders have individuals that they they try to encourage they have a certain amount that they try to encourage and call but there's still some folk that i i'm wondering where they are that's just me personally you know because i can't see everybody and some have come back some have not come back and i'm just wondering what you're doing you know maybe maybe i just don't see them but i surely hope i surely hope that you you you you're not letting the devil get in your spirit and get in your heart and and paul he writes this he says he said listen to this he says he says uh that you're doing and we'll do what we command see command is not a suggestion from god see command is something god expects us to do and you know power was converted it converted to the gospel he became god one of god's messages and and well he gives some commands serious command he says may the lord direct your hearts to love the to the love of god and to the perseverance of christ that's what we have to do yeah yeah see i you know i i see when i don't worry about sundays you know the lord's day we spiritual on the lord's day are we most of us we you know we love that's why i'm glad we come back together it's not sundays that it's not the first day of the week you know because most of us we get up with a spiritual song on our heart on the first day of the week you get up just humming oh i love jesus [Laughter] it's not sunday's it it it's mondays is it that way with you too it's mondays it's tuesday it's thursdays oh it's show fridays fridays and saturdays what you doing on those days i just i'm just it's just me talking to myself i mean i mean see perseverance through the you know and i'm and and you know you know how you hear things and i don't like to go off what i hear but i'm hearing things we talking to the body now you you guess we just just love you but every now and then you have to talk to the body and i've been hearing some troubling things and see when you hear things you don't know if they all true or not but we we christians we still christians right don't let satan take your soul don't don't don't don't make a impulsive something that's going to affect your family in you we got to persevere through the trying times through the trouble we got to come back to god come back to the table come back to spirit come back to jesus i understand what you're saying paul i understand the young church and you know we we we feel up on sundays before the devil get on us all are when we nobody's around that's right see you know that's my biggest i'm good most of the time but you get by yourself or the devil can work on you your heart he'll have you doing something oh that means you think you're getting away with it and he's just sucking your little spiritual life out of you and then he goes on to verse number six listen to this verse six now we command you notice this is it's like we command you brothers and sisters sometimes we say you know you know we want the brothers to be this is to the brothers and the sisters that's there's no greater honor than to be called a brother and sister in the lord amen in the name of the lord jesus that you keep your keep away from every brother or sister who leads a disorderly life what are you saying paul now you writing to the church you ain't writing to the world he says to keep away from every brother that's in the church our sister who leads a disorderly life listen and not and not one in accordance with which the tradition which you've received from us that's why i say you won't be shouting on this one because this is in this this this in-house stuff it does matter how we act amen and what we say and what we do and how we treat each other yeah it matters he said now you you need to you need to know the definition of what it means i know somebody asking it so i'm going to answer it with the bible what does disorderly mean bro gary well paul he also wrote a letter to the corinthians and they had they had some stuff going on incorrect and in first corinthians chapter 5 verse 9 listen to this now he says now this was also to be read to the church i wrote to you in my letter not to associate with sexually immoral people i know you want me to run on past that he says i wrote to you not to associate he said in verse 10. i did not all mean with the sexually immoral people of this world are with the greedy and we talk about disorderly with the greedy or swindlers or with the idolaters for then you would have to leave the world but actually i wrote to you not to associate with any so-called brother if he is sexually ill sexually immoral person or a greedy person or an idolater or is verbally abusive habitually drunk or swindler not even to eat with such a person now do you know what this all it means now so paul said he said look you young church you serving the lord you're doing good he said now watch yourself in the church because everybody in the church not in there for the same reason right and you be careful now he uses the word associate see you know we love each other we see each other we're going to speak to everybody and we're supposed to be an example to everybody not saying for you to mark some excommunication but he said look don't don't see even in the church you know we have associates some people that we hang closer with but he says in the lord's church if you somebody that is living this continent now now we all make mistakes amen now we all have seen and we will still sin even after we've been in the body and and so we're not to be a judge girl i wonder she's saying i want to be saying matter of fact you need to point to yourself say you see it but but if we're you know somebody is living a life of sin you know you you you got a brother in the lord in the church i'm gonna use a brother so brothers don't be mad i'm just using just as an example you got a brother in the church and he he married or single and he he just just he just wow right hitting on those single sisters hitting on the married sisters and and and and you you know it oh you know he said man hey man who is that over there he talking to you who is that over there i don't know brother i don't know oh yeah you oh man she sure fine and you know what i i'm gonna see if i can man can you come i'm going out tonight we and your brother in the church okay what you talking about this is worldly talk this is church talk this morning and you know what he doing you know what he's up to right paul said don't don't go with him amen don't hang with it now let me let me let me turn it around don't hang with her either amen we ought to be collaborating in the lord's church with somebody who's crooked folk out of you in business and you just you you're not doing you're not treating people right and and and you know they're not you know you're unfair paul said don't hang with nobody like that and he says i'm commanding you amen wow yeah see you now do you see why the lord wants this to be read publicly notice this so everybody can hear it everybody in the church and and and and see the bible says the word of god is quick it's powerful it's sharper than any two it's and if the word don't you see if the word don't stimulate if the word does not incite us to change our ways or stop our way nothing's gonna stop you because if a person if you're in here right now if i was looking and quick as a folk and i'm here and i don't know what i'll be like no i ain't know that was in the box i need to stop doing this amen yeah see some stuff we need to hear this comes from god and if god if this don't scare you yeah and so so powerful he says you read this to the church i want to hear this is the brothers and sisters in the law ooh goodness yeah listen to verse eight i'm i'm hasting listen to verse eight he says he said i'm screwed let me finish verse seven he says for you yourselves are to follow our example paul said i gave you that because we did not act in an undead you see me chasing no chasing no women in the church right i wasn't lying habitually to you i wasn't cursing folks out i wasn't wishy-washy i'm the same person all the time the way among you in verse number eight nor did we eat anyone's bread without paying for it oh hello but with labor and hardship we kept working night and day so that we would not be able paul said you know i preachers we have this air bottle sometimes i hope i don't have that kind of air i hope i don't have that kind of air pray for me pray for me sometimes we do think you know we speaking like jesus you know but i can tell you i'm sure i'm not close to jesus but he said i'm the preacher and i when i came among you i worked for my food what are you saying brother paul is saying look don't nobody in the church should be a freeloader of nobody i mean we all need some help sometime amen things happen we might need help i mean i might need to stay at your uh one of the members houses for a couple of days but gary if you stay in somebody's house wash the dishes sweep the floor take the trash out don't sit up and lay up all day all night long everybody go and all you do is sit at the table and eat their food notice brothers and sisters he said look that's not the example that's not god's people we don't act like that we don't do that you know what we need to start early teaching our children how to be responsible you brush your teeth put your own cap on the toothpaste you you drink a cup don't leave it in it then go put your cup up what you doing teaching them how notices he says with labor and hardship we kept working yeah yeah and let me let me finish reading this he says not because we didn't have the right to do this paul says i'm the preacher i could have just i could have just said you know what y'all serve me i i'm working i'm teaching and preaching preaching the word of god and and uh but paul says i i could have i could have taken that route but he said this but in order to offer ourselves as a i'm using the new american standard translation he says as a role model everybody say role model see that means that we none of us are an island see in other words the best way to teach a boy how to work is for the daddy to work hey man somebody boy look at brother can i say this on the side not in my lesson if you were daddy and you got some i'm i'm you know i got girls and i'm telling you they know how to work but you got a boy you ain't i don't know many things that's worse than a lazy you got yourself something on your hands when you get a lazy grown man and he says for us this taste he says we all notice this all of us you want to teach a girl how to be a lady how to learn you you be a roach don't run your mouth show them you'll be a role model that's teaching that's that's what parenting is yeah and he said he says this he says for you so that you would follow our example for even when we were with with with you we used to give you this order if anyone is not willing to work i heard that a lot of times that's pretty strong isn't it yeah yeah you know i think i'm gonna try that on my grandkids i'm trying you know because you know all they do is eat and play i think i'm going to try that i'm going to try that big daddy i'm ready to eat i'm saying let me let me go check it let me go check your toy box let me i thought i'm going to do that you when you get through doing what you doing then you can come to the tape oh i gotta heard him stop let me read this notice listen this for we hear that some among you are leading an undisciplined life doing no work at all but acting like busy badges men and women you know i've learned this men can be just as big and big about busy bodies than women can men can gossip just as much as a woman can't cater so all this all this person doing this in the church i don't know what was going on i don't know what was happening there in the church and somebody just somebody either not either lost a job or they weren't working or what didn't want to work and some one pastor said some folk are acting like they're looking for jesus to come now the bible tells us jesus is coming one day but he don't want to sit up looking in the sky all day long and being a busybody is a sin in of itself in other folks business and now we command and exhort there it is again such persons in the lord jesus christ to work peaceably and eat their own bread but as for you brothers and sisters do not grow weary of doing good that sometimes happens to him yeah just don't grow where you you won't get a pat on the back all the time for doing the mundane things that you know that just need to be done somebody need to do them right yeah just doing the mundane things keep keep keep keep keep come brothers thank you all for working in worship service we know you know somebody don't say well thank you brother for praying and leading the song thank you brothers for working in the booth and sisters for we got so many people behind the scenes to put all our announcements and messages and social media posts and god to make sure nobody's acting bad on social media we got folks watching out for that people reading the visitors cars some of you you send out cards to everybody you call folk send flowers some of you go to funerals and nobody knows it but you ain't gone and pile right into the church this this is real church this is real he says he said don't grow weird god see all of that god see what you're doing he sees what you're doing and then he goes on if anyone does not obey our instruction in this letter he tells the church he says take special notice of that person so it's not to associate with it because see when you when you see when he says associate see when you make that person a buddy when you give that busy body a ear to listen you participating in what they do sometimes you decide you know what let's let's let's talk about something else he said not to associate with him so that he would be put to shame you know you sometimes some some some woman coming to you with all some stuff you know girl i hear blind brother gary and brother they always you know what what you know let's pray for them right now i tell you what they ain't calling you too many more times and then verse 15 and yet do not regard that person as an enemy see we all got some growing to do though see and i don't want you to take this the wrong way i want you because i'm glad we're good preaching this today because i know some people just like you know just pray for them because we want everybody to get to heaven don't we that's what god wants you no we we're not the enemies of each other we're just trying to learn we're trying to grow we're trying to god for god to teach us some of them didn't may not have known this was in the bible he says don't regard but admonish he uses the word and money now that manish means a little bit different than of exhortation it means to reprove or to warn but it means to do it mildly you know with with the spirit that that you you're not condemning them but just you know what you know brother you know you know what that's we don't need to do that yeah you know that that's that's that's that's not good he said that as one as a brother or sister in christ jesus god is good yeah i don't know about you but i got i got a ways to go and i need all the word i can to help me to do what god would have me to do you hear the day you're not a child of god you need to be you come by faith believe me jesus christ is the son of god and if you believe that jesus christ is the son of god and you're willing to repent of all of your sins and confess jesus christ be baptized in water for the forgiveness of your sins god adds you to the church and we work on our souls salvation and we are all on a journey we're trying to get to heaven we're trying to do it god's way but if you're not in christ if you're not in christ your sins are not covered by the blood of jesus christ and if you die in your sins where god is you're not going to be in peace and if you hear you have a prayer request you can send your prayer requests in on our prayer line uh you can do it virtually or you can come and we'll pray for you even this morning come as we stand and sing the song of invitation when the savior calls yes i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere i'll be somewhere looking for my name and if my heart is somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening for my name and i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening for mine and if my wrong be is why when he calls me and if my robe is right i will hear him and if my room is white when he calls me and i'll be somewhere listening for my name and i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening for my name and i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening for my name and i'll be somewhere i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening for my name and i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere this i'll be somewhere listening for my name and i'll be somewhere i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening for my name [Applause] and i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening i'll be somewhere listening for my name he's sweet i know [Music] [Music] i'm telling you that i have found the same yeah and he sweet i know i tell the world that the sweet [Music] and you know that stone claws is [Music] [Music] let's church say amen i want to thank brother gary for that lesson and we pray that god will continue to bless him we have three that came down and felicia johnson she's our sister felicia johnson she's been living in new york and she moved back here she got baptized here so she's coming home so we want to tell her welcome home and when our guys get more information from you since pearl murray she said i stand in need of prayer and robert moore brother robert moore said i stand in need of prayer so we're going to pray for those and those that didn't send a call in for those that went online so we're going to say a prayer this morning for them let's bow here for a word of prayer to our father and our great god we come with our heads bowed and heart lifted up to thee father we thank you for allowing us to open our eyes and see this beautiful day father we thank you for all your wonderful blessing father we just thank you for the opportunity we're able to move and find this place and father this time we come in a special way we thank you for allowing sister felicia to find her way back we ask you to bless her and continue to bless her sister murray we ask you to bless her and continue to keep your loving arms around her she says she's standing in need of prayer and you know what's on her heart even before she wrote those words and for brother robert moore we ask you to bless him whatever he stand in need of we know that you know that you can continue to bless him and allow him to keep his hand in your hand and father for all of us those that may request that we haven't seen and those that stand in need of prayer we ask you to continue to bless them and father for those that's the question they have seen we actually move the sins for us east from the west by the way father we all have sin and come short we ask you to forgive all of us and help us to keep on fighting a good fight of faith and father as we go further in his worship say we ask you to be with us god and protect us we love you it's in your son jesus name that we pray let us all say thank amen thank you good morning now is coming time for us to remember christ died for us all that we might have a chance for eternal life for those of you that didn't receive your communion package if you would raise your hands and the brother to come your way to give you one as we go to acts 20 and 7 upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread paul preached unto them ready to depart on tomorrow and continue his speech until midnight as we go to first corinthians 11 23-24 for i receive the lord that which also i delivered unto you that the lord jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he break it and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you do this in remembrance of me let us pray dear lord again we thank you for this opportunity that you've given us to remember your son jesus christ who died for us all that we might have a chance for eternal life we pray that we will take of this bread in a manner that's pleasing and acceptable to you this is our prayer in your darling son's name amen you may now take the bread as we continue after the same manner he also took the cup and when he had sucked sinned this cup is a new testament in my blood this do ye as often as you drink it in remembrance of me let us bow again lord we thank you for this opportunity that you've given us to remember your son jesus christ we pray that we would take this cup in a manner that's pleasing and acceptable to you this is our prayer and darling on his name amen amen now take the cup here for the strike we had living after our labors are all rest to our souls will begin on the eternals and we're singing a mother's soul beauty for hope there we share rest never too we are free from our care happy and bright jesus is there he is satellite off in the storm lonely are we signing for home longing for this of for the true children of god where there will be no complaining never adjusting wrong and we're singing home of the soul beautiful home and we shall rest never to roam we are free from all care happy and bright [Music] [Music] now it's also a time for us to give back a portion of the lord has blessed us with as we go to first corinthians 11 corrections 16-1 now concerning his collection for the saints as i've given orders of the churches of galatia even so do ye upon the first day of the week that every one of you lay by in store with god has prospered him that there be no gathering when i come for those who did not give their often on the way in just raise your hands and the brothers will come your way let us pray for the offering dear lord again we thank you for this opportunity that you've given us to give back a portion of what you blessed us with pray that we continue to use these monies to build your kingdom here on earth this is our prayer in your darling son's name amen like to say good morning again everyone and the gears already said but i'm gonna say it again welcome to the fifth ward church of christ we're so glad to have you here to worship with us to worship our great god let me test stuff up can you hear me better i like these masks but you know i don't have to say it um we uh appreciate you so much for being here in person to help us worship god in spirit and in truth and in your case in person so thank you we uh we know that these are trying times we're going through that's right but we have a god who cares a god who loves us a god who just wants the best for us but you know we have a part that we need to play also so we encourage you do your part didn't get a preach on that this morning you know let us do our part let us be mindful to do our part okay i'm here to read some announcements and i appreciate if you would bear with me we extend our love and sympathy to the following lee and dorito powers and family on the loss of her brother anthony carl davis jr the viewing is 9 to 10 45 a.m and the funeral is at 11 00 a.m that'll be tuesday august the 17th at the lighthouse church as in humboldt texas and it has a big bowl all caps masks are required so when you go to these funerals for family members and stuff where your math when you come here for four funerals wear your mask those services are entrusted to frazier metro funeral home also sympathy is extended to denise graham family on the loss of her grandson brandon t davis those arrangements are still pending so bear with us please ex sympathy is extended to majority madre i guess and louis medlo on the loss of her brother-in-law that's a lee metlo again those arrangements are pending we have some new members people who've been baptized and placed memberships we have jeremiah's grimes august the 8th tiffany boyce articles the 8th mary edwards august the 8th and edmond carter august the 2nd i'm sure you guys remember edmund he was one of our interns here a while back let me uh read this um make sure i got this correct you know covet has been rampant here in our midst here lately and uh not to mention the the delta variant it's been it's been running wild so in order to help com combat that we have vaccinations that are being available even today he says the second covet 19 madura vaccinations are due to all persons who had the first test last shot had the last shot the second shot will be available this sunday today august 15 from 12 to 2. so you go across the street and you get your shot also let me read this correctly now vaccinations will also be available this sunday also for children 12 and above so children 12 and above and any adult who wishes to take the first shot this will be given across the street in the family life center so please if you have not been vaccinated and your kids have not 12 or uh or older come across the street the nurses will take care of you over there okay they're over there now waiting on you go there and roll your sleeve up and take you a shot it won't hurt much it's just boom and it's over but just think of all the good that it'll do tuesday morning conference call it says joining for five minutes of great inspirational message to start your day tuesday august the 17th at 5 30 a.m the speaker this tuesday brother dwayne basic it says your pen and phone number indian bulletin so if you don't it's 605 475 three three three that's the phone number pin number one two one four five nine pounds but that information is in your bulletin so if you got a bulletin check it out right also let me say this i know a lot of us we have say deaths in the family or whatever and sometimes when we make out an announcement you feel slighted i may feel slighted that your loved one's name didn't get called in the assembly but it says due to time constraints we are only we will only read our immediate family sympathy notes you know what immediate family is right mom and dad is such a brother grandchildren cheering not your brother-in-law's and your sister-in-law's your cousin-in-law none of those so we're not trying to be funny but we're just trying to make sure that our worship service is timely and decent but please if you have those send them into the to the office we will publish them in our bulletin but they just won't be read aloud here in the assembly okay so don't get mad with us all the others because your stuff didn't get read it to be done decent and orderly we want you now to please be with us and guide us and as we prepare to leave this place but never god's presence we pray that things will be better you have an announcement raj jamel davis has an announcement just real quick uh for all our young people uh we we still have y'all on our minds and we understand that they have not canceled the school activities the uil has not canceled school activities as of yet so if you are participating in any activity or school whether it be football basketball choir theater whatever performance you do please look in your bulletin i have my my email address send it to me and i have brother murphy but levi we have a number of brothers that are that still like to support you if you plan the game you might see me in there we can't make everything but at least one game a year we would like to come and see you perform jordan i know you playing basketball so i want to see uh i want to see you on that cut um uh you two jobs and so there's many others that participate in the things we want to support you in your endeavors so let us know what you're doing and in that way we can still have a sense that we can see together see each other physically that's my announcement thank you thank you roger and thank you too for mentioning school is going started shortly so uh we asked all our kids where your math we know that there's some controversy about don't do it and do do it but uh me brother patterson personally say where are your masks i'm not speaking for anybody else other than myself and i encourage you to wear your mask to protect yourself and your family okay so those who are going to school be viligent be be careful and god loves you so let us be standing as we led in prayer to be dismissed pray with me almighty creator in heaven lord we thank you for this worship service this morning thank you for bringing us together to sing and hear a word from your servant god thank you for the message that we heard and we pray that it may prick our hearts dear god that your word might spread rapidly that it may spread rapidly to our hearts and to the world dear god that we might be a light to this world to spread holiness to spread love to just be a light that can overcome all the darkness that we see each day as we go through our week may we persevere through the weak their guide and persevere through the rest of our lives be a shield of protection around us dear god that we might not be tempted that we might not waver but that we might be steadfast in your word and uh in your way help us to be more like jesus and uh just um just be consistent and keep it up their god it is in jesus name we pray and give you thanks amen you know i don't know the elders have individuals that they they try to encourage they have a certain amount but they try to encourage and call somebody i'm wondering where they are you know they can't see come back hallelujah we're going to sing hallelujah rest beneath that cloud layer we'll sing hallelujah bye and bye victory and love will be our everlasting thing no we're gonna sing hallelujah sing hallelujah bye hang on praising our redeemer there beside the crystal stream i know we're gonna sing we're gonna sing hallelujah and we're singing oh what oh what joy oh i joy when we get it home i know we're gonna rest be neat rest beneath that cloud there's stoneworld in that in that land in that land we're saints [Music] when we get home i know we're gonna rest beneath rest beneath that cloud last time well in that in that land in that land we're saying we'll never die i know we're gonna [Music] better when bright and fashion no christ them to prepare a mansion for children in the air and i'll join him in that land which is no sorrow can be [Music] and you [Music] [Music] lord please reserve my mansion rope and cry thy weather there is always fair then sunshine day and night and you know no cold no rain will fall there for the sun shines ever bright that's why i need no heavy garments i'll just wrap my robe around when i receive my mention [Music] and you know them and their peace and love will always [Music] please you

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