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[Music] [Applause] jesus [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] the trumpets will sound [Music] [Music] is [Music] telling this world world by bite [Music] [Music] good morning good morning good morning how's everyone doing good good oh is that my brother what's up phillip what's up rural haven't see it's good to see everyone out this morning um if you're watching from home we ask that you do a couple of things first thing we ask that you do we ask that you share we ask that you like this video amen the second thing that we asked that you did we asked that you take a moment you kick off your shoes if you at home if you here you can keep your shoes on if you want to but if you're at home you can kick off your shoes and worship the lord this morning is that all right amen we have an exciting spirit-filled day for you all today and we're ready to get it moving kevin said he wanted to start this morning so i'm just up here getting it kicked off so kevin i'm gonna move out the way and let you do your thing okay man amen good morning good morning good to see y'all this morning i woke up this morning with my mind on jesus i woke up this morning with my mind my mind it was staying on jesus well i woke up this morning with my mind you know [Music] [Music] [Applause] and i'm singing hallelujah [Music] [Applause] and praying with my mind you know it stay on the law well well i'm singing and praying with my mind my mind it was dead [Music] [Applause] well i'm [Applause] hallelujah [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] well [Music] [Applause] and i'm singing hallelujah [Music] [Music] how great thou art y'all know that one we gonna find that but by the end of this song y'all gonna do it if you don't know it it's 76 in the blue book if you need a book [Music] oh [Music] i hear [Music] [Music] ah [Music] to thee [Music] [Applause] [Music] when christ shall come with shouts of climation and take me home would your fill my heart [Music] then i shall buy and um and their proclaim oh my god [Music] dancing my soul i have great day [Applause] [Music] good morning church let us bow in prayer i'm a summoner and gracious father uh we come as humble as we can and father first of all we come with you with thanksgiving in our heart just thanking you for your son jesus who died and bled on that cross for us father we thank you our families our loved ones for our kids our grandkids father uh we just can't thank you enough for all the things that you've done for us in our lives and father we come praying this morning for the sick and shut in the one that's in tv land that's watching this services online father we just ask your blessings on them and for whatever reason they couldn't make it this morning father we just appreciate them watching them and trying to learn something more about you and father i have a special prayer for my son and my grandson that's overseas right now planning a little tournament just ask you to bless them and be with them and be with them tomorrow as they try to return on a plane father just just thank you for that whole ordeal father my heart just goes out how wonderful and how gracious you be even in the midst of a storm father we just come thanking you for everything that you do for us father and father be with the press pastor uh brother tibble as he come and prepare us another word uh render to us in our heart and maybe we can learn something and and take it and use it in our our everyday look application father and father we don't always do the things that you have us do and when we sin we just ask you to forgive us his old sin be with us now and the father of this service these are many more blessed race your personal son jesus name amen and many many man we make a miracle worker promise keeper light in the darkness my god that is who you are way when we make a miracle you're the promised giving light in the darkness my god that is who you are when you make a wavemaker mirror very cold light in the darkness [Music] me [Music] you are here moving in this place i worship you i worship you with you you are here [Applause] [Music] you are here moving in this place i worship you i worship you that is who [Music] [Music] my [Music] [Applause] [Music] in the my god that is who says this one more time says one more time your mind [Music] in the promise yeah my god that is who you everybody's angers god is my way maker [Music] every single day we make a miracle working promise light in the darkness my god that is who you are [Music] amen amen how many of y'all believe that god is our waymaker when i was when i was coming to church this morning i stopped i stopped to get breakfast right and the line at the at the place that i stopped there was so long and i was just like man i'm trying to get to church and then as i was on the way i saw it was an accident that happened on 45 and i just think about that like man if the line was a little bit faster or i left a little earlier that could have been me a man so let's be patient sometimes patience is so important y'all y'all know that patience patience patience my god is awesome my god is awesome my god is awesome is [Music] my god is awesome [Music] and today i am for giving his graces why i'm livin and praise his holy name my god my god is all [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's [Music] [Applause] he is [Music] [Applause] protect them i [Music] my god is awesome and he can [Music] my god is also good morning church and we pride our minds and we bow for our lord and savior most christian lord father we just want to say thank you lord for his day thank you father god for providing us with comfort and sleep last night provided us father god with our right mind lord we ask lord that you will continue to watch over our loved ones lord no matter where they may be father we ask prayers father god that your will be done in our life as well as this world lord we pray father god for all the things that are going on in this world lord lord it's not a surprise to you father but we understand lord that judgment day is coming and as the psalmist says that jesus is coming soon we pray father god that we are right with you we pray father god those that are watching or write with you lord because in that day father god every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess so we pray father god that we live our life as we're going to be judged help us follow god because you said out of love hope and faith lord that love was the greatest that be the case father god help us to forgive lord help us to forgive the way we want to be forgiven so father god no matter who we may bear grudges against lord we ask prayers lord that you remove them away from us lord we ask father god for those that are in the far country to come back home we ask prayers father god for those who feel like they've done too much sinning glory to come home they come home father god we ask prayers father god for the man of our lord we know that you've already crowned him with thorn of knowledge we pray father god that we shall allow those seeds to be planted we love you father god and we hope and understand father god that one day you say well done our good and faithful servant father these prayers we ask and your beloved son jesus christ's name amen come on and sing blessing come on and sing blessings to be god so we love the lord basis meet me there come on come on and see good morning good morning good morning y'all ready to be cause y'all ready so we love the lord everybody sings and sing praises to sing praises to sing praises to sing praises to because we love the lord everybody sings praises unto the king [Music] is [Music] [Music] hands lift your hands give him praise [Music] [Music] [Applause] last thing we're gonna shout hallelujah [Music] hallelujah sing praises singing praises [Music] [Music] that's the reason why we sing one more time [Music] amen amen amen good morning church it's definitely good to see everyone here this morning um right before the preacher comes i think he's coming down right now um let's see jesus rose with the power in his hand i said whoa whoa jesus rose with all power in his they hands me that he died on a friday evening but he rose on a sunday morning [Applause] [Applause] [Music] on a sunday morning [Music] oh [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] jesus [Applause] [Music] i am going with [Music] everybody [Music] lift your [Applause] [Music] amen amen amen see the little baby and he's lying in a manger and it looks just like jesus ain't amen amen amen i can see him in the temple and he's talking to the doctors [Music] [Music] [Music] [Laughter] [Music] can you believe amen [Music] thank you jesus amen amen what a joy to be in the house of god again may i may i encourage you because we're human and sometimes we get distracted and so if you will allow me to speak for god don't get distracted don't get distracted right now sometimes we allow the present pressures last week's pressures next week's pressure we allow distractions but but but i believe this is the lord's house i believe this is the lord's power i believe we're the lord's people and i believe the lord deserves praise if you have you have a copy of the word of god may i encourage you right now to begin opening the word of god find in your bibles the book of acts and i would like for you to meet me in the 20th chapter at verse number 35. acts chapter 20. and verse number 35. acts chapter 20 verse number 35. there the word of god reads in everything i did in all things i have shown you that by working hard in this way we must help the weak and remember the words of the lord jesus how he himself said it is more blessed to give than to receive it is more blessed to give than to receive i'd like to entitle this lesson this morning the blessings principle the blessings principle i want everybody under the sound of my voice whether you are present in this facility or whether you are with us virtually i want you to be blessed if you want to be blessed would you just shout bless me lord have a seat have a seat someone i believe has rightfully said that the most sensitive nerve in the whole body is the nerve that goes from the hand to the pocketbook that is that is without a doubt the most sensitive nerve in the whole body and so and so this morning i don't want to get on your nerves in fact what i'd like to do today is i'd like to help make sense out of dollars and cents with somebody smile and look at your neighbor and say to your neighbor i i need you need dollars and cents i want to ask you to i want to ask you to grab a pencil i'm going to ask you to grab a piece of paper what i what i really like to do is i'd like to turn this into a big bible class many times the good lord allows me to stand in this place and preach and and i enjoy the opportunity to preach to the people of god but but but every once in a while as opposed to preach a lesson i want to teach a lesson and and so this is one of those mornings that that if you will grab a pencil and grab a piece of paper i i want you to take some notes and and then what i like is later on at your convenience for you to go back and review the notes i want you to see what i've said and i want you to see what you've written down and so you need a pencil and you need some paper and you need your thinking cap on i want to begin i want to begin this lesson this morning by contrasting the natural laws scientific laws with spiritual laws i want you i want you where you are to be able to see the value of scientific laws and then at the same time i want you to be able to see the value of spiritual laws first scientific law you already know it is the law of gravity you know that law that that law was that law was made famous by a gentleman by the name of isaac newton and what what isaac says is what goes up must what that that's that's the law of gravity but but isaac had another law that he was famous for and that was the law of inertia inertia is a scientific law and that scientific law says every object in motion will stay in motion until it is acted on by an outside force he says every object that is in motion will stay in motion until it is acted upon and the effects of it then will be reversed an outside force that stops motion that is the first law of inertia but then there is another law and it is both scientific and natural it is a universal law it says everything has a equal and opposite reaction everything has an equal and opposite reaction you know those laws and then you also know the laws of math there are a number of laws of math that when we got into elementary school they started teaching us those laws the law of addition two plus two equals four the law of subtraction two minus two equals zero the law of multiplication two times two equals four the law of division two divided by two equals zero we know those laws of math but the question this morning as as we talk about those scientific laws as we talk about those natural laws the question this morning is do we as the people of god know spiritual laws can i can i suggest to you today that within the confines of the bible there are some spiritual laws about addition there are some spiritual laws about multiplication there are some spiritual laws about subtraction and and this morning as as you write these down i want you to be able to go back and reflect on them because i believe that if we can put our arms around these spiritual laws we will be blessed anybody today want to be blessed say bless me lord the first lesson that has to do with the blessing principle is the lesson of the seed harvest principle anybody heard the harvest seed principle here is the harvest seed principle soy seed reaper harvest somebody somebody help me help me say say i want i want it in your heart somebody say harvest seed principle say it again harvest seed principle let me let me just tell you that that that again it's so a sea and reap a harvest it is the concept that the size of your harvest directly corresponds to the scope of your sowing there is a correlation between the harvest the harvest size and the seed this principle is found all over the bible and so and so this morning i i want as your sunday school teacher i want to spend a moment with you and and i want to teach you some of these principles there are there are four principles and for proof texts and for references and i need you to be able to write these references down i need you to be able to study these references yes some of them are in the new testament some of them in the old testament but the fact of the matter is it is principles it is scriptures that god has used to talk to his people throughout the ages write this one down the first one located in proverbs chapter 3. proverbs chapter 3 verse number 9 verse number 10 proverbs chapter 3. verse number 9 the bible says honor the lord with your wealth with the what help me church with what with the first fruits of all your crops here's another one luke chapter 6 luke chapter 6 verse 38 the bible says give and it will be given to you a good measure press down shaken together and running over will be poured into your lap for with the measure you use it will be measured to you here's a here's another one here's another one second corinthians 2 corinthians chapter 9 verse number 6 through 11 2nd corinthians chapter 9 verse 6 through 11 the bible says remember this whoever sows how church whoever sows sparingly will reap also how church and whoever sows generously will also report church each of you should give what you have decided in your hearts to give not reluctantly or under compulsion for god loves what kind of give a church i don't want you to miss it bring up the next verse for me and god god is able to bless you abundantly so that in all things at all times having all that you need you will abound in every good work as it is written they have freely scattered their gifts to the poor their righteousness endures forever now he who supplies seed to the sower and bread for food will also supply in what church and increase your store of seed and will enlarge the what church give me the next verse you will you will be enriched in every way so that you can be generous on every occasion and through us your generosity will result in the thanksgiving of god one more verse i want you to see i want you to write this down galatians chapter 6. galatians chapter 6. i want you to see verse 7 through 10. these are proof texts these are references these come all through the bible they verify the harvest seed principle the bible says do not be deceived god cannot be marred a man what say a church a man what a man reaps what whoever sows to please the flesh from the flesh will reap destruction whoever sows to please the spirit from the spirit will reap what let us not become weary and doing good for at the proper time we will reap a if we do not give up i've entitled the lesson again the blessing principle if you want to be blessed this morning say bless me lord in fact in fact in fact what i what i really like in this big bible class this morning is as i want everybody listening to me everybody under the sound of my voice every member of this church family to be blessed i believe i believe there is a blessing involved for people who obey the word of god listen listen to what the bible says to the children of god in the book of deuteronomy deuteronomy chapter 28 i want you to write that down deuteronomy chapter 28 verse 13 listen what the bible says the law will make you the head and not the tale if it's conditional the lord will make you the head not the tale if you pay attention to the commands of the lord your god that i give you today and carefully follow them you will always be at the top and never at the bottom with somebody anybody just just shout loud as you can obey the word of god john 10 10 jesus made this proclamation john 10 10 jesus says the thief comes only to steal kill and destroy i have come that they may have life and have it to the full jesus said jesus says now you need to understand the reason i left the courts of heaven jesus said now you need to understand the reason i put on flesh you need to understand why i'm here i'm here because i want you to be blessed i i i don't i don't want you to see me as a god that slaps your hand every time you does something wrong no i want you to see me as a god that is blessing you with me through this lesson would you first point the first point i want you to see and i want you to hear we're talking about spiritual principles now first point that i want you to hear is that god knows math and he wants to be added first god knows math didn't sit in a math class but god understands math and he understands being first everybody again i don't want you to get tight on me so everybody kind of look at your neighbor and smile and say uh you need dollars and cents just just smile you you you need dollars dollars and cents dollars and cents dollars and cents i need dollars and cents so as we as as we understand the idea that god knows math and he wants to be first then it is important for children of god to understand the first fruits principle there is a first fruits principle that runs through the threads of the bible first fruit say first fruit again and as we talk about first fruits it's important for me to tell you that jehovah god the one that said let there be light the one that said to the moon shine to the stars twinkle that very god is a philanthropist a philanthropist is someone who has so much that that that philanthropist gives here gives here gets here gets here and he never runs out because the philanthropist has it all and so god is our great philanthropist he graciously gives us everything and he he wants to be treated first before we treat mastercard before we treat cable tv before we treat the nail salon god says now now listen listen i need to be first i want first fruits somebody said junior where you get that from well look look back look back in proverbs chapter 3 verse 9. old testament passage it's going to run all through the bible proverbs 3 verse 9 bring that up with you proverbs 3 verse 9. proverbs 3 verse 9. honor the lord with your what with the what god that says this people honor me with your will honor me with your first fruits of your crops god god is in stealing in the heads of his children i don't want to be last everything you have i gave it to you i am the great philanthropist i am the great giver and so as i give to you don't make me last there's another principle that i want to teach this morning and that is the principle the stewardship principle everybody's stewardship the stewardship principle states yes jehovah god is the great creator but more than the great creator more than the great philanthropist jehovah god owns everything he made it all he owns it all and i don't care how high you climb up the ladder i don't care how many zeros behind your bank account we owe nothing you and i are managers i don't care how many clothes in your closet i don't care how many cars in your garage i don't care how many dollars in your bank account it doesn't belong to us somebody somebody says no preacher you're stretching it i worked eight hours 40 hours a week 60 years for what i got in the bank how you gonna tell me it's not manuel i'm glad you asked me first timothy chapter six first timothy chapter six verse number seven for we brought nothing somebody shot nothing we brought nothing into the world and we can take i have never ever seen a u-haul following a hearse huh the bible says we brought nothing in we can take nothing out and so it magnifies the point that all that is in our hands is temporary and we are just stewards of things that are in our hands i love how the writer of the book of deuteronomy moses puts that idea of first fruits and ties together i want you to write this one down deuteronomy chapter 26 come go there with me we'll shout next week if that's all right we'll we'll just we'll just we'll just meditate on the word of god this morning is that all right church deuteronomy chapter 26 beginning at verse number one here's here's what god said when you have entered the land the lord your god is giving you as an inheritance and have taken possession of it and settled in it take some take some of the when you enter the land that the lord that god has given you take some of the first fruits of all that you produce from the soil of the land the lord your god is giving you and put them in a basket somebody shall basket shall basket again and put them in a basket then go to the place the lord your god will choose as a dwelling for his name and say to the priest in office at the time i declare today to the lord your god that i have come to the land the lord swore to our ancestors to give to us the priest shall take the basket from your hands and set it down in front of the altar of the lord your god then you shall declare before the lord your god my father was a wandering aramid and he went down in egypt with a few people and lived there and became a great nation powerful and numerous but the egyptians mistreated us made us suffer subjecting us to harsh labor then we cried out to the lord the god of our ancestors and the lord heard our voice and saw our mystery and toil and oppression so the lord brought us out of egypt with a mighty hand and with an outstretched arm with great terror with signs and wonders he brought us to this place and gave us this land a land flowing with milk and honey and now i bring the first fruits of the soil that you lord have given me place the basket before the lord your god and bow down before him then you and the levites and the foreigners residing among you shall rejoice in the good things the lord your god has given you and your household don't don't don't miss this come come back for a second that that that is the prophet and the law given moses writing to the children of israel they have been in the land of egypt they have been mistreated they have been in slavery but all of a sudden god heard their cry and when he heard their cry he brought them out of slavery he brought them out of misery he brought them into the promised land this is encouragement for them to be grateful can i can i quickly say underneath that black americans black americans also have a promised land story black americans need to be grateful you say what are you trying to say preacher i'm trying to say we are the people who rode on the back of the bus i'm trying to say we are the people who drank from colored fountains we are the people who work the cotton fields of alabama and mississippi and georgia we are the people who had to pay the poll taxes we are the people who will lynch from trees all over the south but thank god or y'all miss your moment to shout i i said but thank god but thank god this is a new day with new blessings just like god bless the children of israel just like god heard their cries he heard our cry and today he has blessed the children of america to escape from the jim crow laws of the south now now we are lawyers now we are principals now we are business owners now we are anything that we can dream up and so i want to say in front of this church we oh god excuse me you didn't pull yourself up by your bootstraps don't tell me you were on the honor roll don't tell me you went to a prestigious school no what we have today is because god is a good god and just like he told the children of israel when you recognize you are blessed then act like you were blessed let me let me let me hurry point point number two point number two is that god knows math and he will multiply the additions that we're given god knows math and he will multiply the additions that we give him i know it's mighty quiet because i'm trying to get in your pocket but i'm trying to get in your pocket not for me but for you and so smile real big and just say it's just dollars and cents just dollars and cents what i need you to see at this point is i need you to see overflowing blessings i i i need you to see blessings that that that that are so numerous you can't press down i i need you to see harvest time blessings every where you step there there's a blessing it's like god what are you doing i'm opening the portals of heaven i'm raining down a blessing but in order to get to this blessing in order to get to this place where there is blessings there is a passage that we have been examining that we need to continue to examine proverbs 3 verse 10 look what the bible says there your bonds will be filled to what church and your vats will bring with new wine and so you cannot isolate that verse that's verse number 10 verse number 10 belongs to verse number nine don't separate the two in fact magnify the word then verse number nine says you give the lord from your wealth from your first fruits and then god says i promise you god says i guarantee you your bonds will be filled to overflowing your vac with brim with new wine it's so important to link the two together a lot of times a lot of times we talk to children of god they walk around say i'm blessed and i'm highly favored blessed and blessed i'm blessed well well well are you blessed because that's just verbiage or are you blessed because god is really blessing you we're in bible class stay with me i need you to understand the concept of a tithe we've looked at two concepts looked at first principle the first fruits we've looked at stewardship now look at the tithe principle tithe is a old testament term for a tenth the first tenth ten percent is what god asked the people in the old testament under an error that was not as blessed as the error we're under he asked people to give a tenth leviticus chapter 27. leviticus chapter 27 verse number 30 leviticus chapter 27 verse number 30 a tithe of everything from the land where the grain from the soil of fruit from the trees belongs to who oh church y'all hear me now belongs to who it is holy to the lord in fact that 10 that was so holy that god says i want you to trust me with the 10th i want you to watch me when you give me the 10th i need you to look at malachi chapter 3. bring that up media team malachi chapter 3 verse number 10. the bible says they'll bring the whole what church bring the whole tie into the storehouse that there may be food in my house test me in this says the lord almighty and see if i will not throw open the floodgates of heaven and will pour out so much blessing that there will not be room enough to store it verse number 11 says i will prevent pests from divine your crops and vines in your fields will not drop their fruit before it's ripe says the lord almighty god come come close for a second god says i want you i want you to put me to the test god god understood that the most sensitive nerve really is the nerve that goes from the hand to the pocketbook and so god says now now what i want to do is i want to create a test and i want you to watch the results of the test and as you watch the results of the test i promise you i promise you five things are going to happen right there in the text verse number 10 he says now when you test me in this i am going to throw open the floodgates of heaven he says now when you test me in this not only am i going to throw the floodgates open but i am going to pour down a blessing upon you i'm gonna open the floodgates i'm gonna pour a blessing down on you but win the past when life tries to eat away at your blessing god says i'm gonna prevent the past he says now when your fruit starts to develop and it's premature i'm not going to let it be prima too he says i'm going to perfect your timing many times we miss our opportunity to enjoy the blessings of god because we have not obeyed god god says god says now i understand i understand that you think that what's in your pocket belongs to you i understand that but what i want to tell you is it does not belong to you it belongs at least a tenth the first fruit belongs to me and when you test me i promise you i'm going to deliver point number three point number three god knows math and if there is no addition uh-oh oh oh if there is no addition then there is what so here's some questions here's some questions every lord's day we ought to ask ourselves here here's some questions we're going toward the end now here here's some questions that every lord's day every child of god ought to ask themselves when the collection played is passed week after week the question that all of us must ask ourselves are we giving god first fruits or are we giving god leftover fruits just left over well i i had i had to get my nails done i had to get my hair done had to pay the cable b and so and so god god god you pardon me this time this is not the beginning of what you've given me this is the crumbs of what's left another question when the collection basket is passed after week after week the question that all of us must ask are we tipping god or are we tithing to god let's see maybe i got a dollar i'm just tipping you today god when the collection basket is passed week after week the question that all of us must ask ourselves are we robbing god or are we robbing ourselves there is a curse in the bible for people children of god who disrespect god i read you just a moment ago the promise let me read you the curse the book of haggai chapter one verse number five how god chapter one verse five now this is what the lord almighty says give careful thought to your ways you have planted much but harvest it a little you eat but you never have enough you drink but never have you feel you put on clothes but are not warm you earn wages only to put them in a purse with holes in it this is what the lord almighty says give careful thought to your ways go up into the mountains and bring down temper and build my house so that i may take pleasure in it and be honest says the lord you expect it much but see it turned out to be a little what you brought home uh [Music] why declares the lord almighty because of my house which remains a ruin while each of you is busy with your own house that's the curse let me give you the final point we'll be going home here's the final point yes yes i hope i have shown you in this class this morning through your notes this morning that yes god knows man and i hope i have shown you that nobody can add or subtract from him i hope i have shown you this morning that nobody can ever beat him giving listen listen don't don't miss hearing me say this our god is a good god i i need to say it again the the god we serve is a mighty good god i i i need to stop right here i need to pull my car over to the side i've been teaching but i want to pull my car over to the side and right here i want to give him some praise i want to give him some praise because he has put a roof over my head i want to give him some praise because he laid me down to sleep last night i want to give him some praise because he woke me up this morning i want to give him some praise because he woke me up in our in my right mind i want to give him some praise because i'm in his house anybody else been blessed by god and you know you know you know that if it had not been for god on your side come close don't close i need to tell you something because maybe you walk out of here with the wrong impression what what i need to tell you is that god doesn't need me well what i need to tell you is god doesn't need you what i what i need to tell you is god doesn't need any the nickels and dimes that are in your purse right now he doesn't need it he is god and he has got all by himself love under those days god got to sticking out his chest in the bible book of psalms chapter 50. god says now i need to set it straight i need you to understand that i'm god and i'm god all by myself psalms chapter 50 verse 9 through 12 god says i i have no need of a bull from your stall or of goats from your pens for every animal of the forest well you say god you see god with his chest stuck up for every animal of the forest is mine and the cattle on a thousand hills i know come on god let us know you god all by yourself i know every bird in the mountains and the insects in the field are mine if if by chance if by chance i was hungry what do you say god i don't need your nickels i don't need your dimes i don't need your cattle no i'm god if i were hungry i would not tell you for the world is my and all that's in it listen listen i i i want to i want to tell you that our god is a good god he has given us so much we can't count our blessings that that song about name your blessings count them one by one that's hogwash we cannot name our blessings we cannot count them one by one our god is a good god somebody ought to just shout god is a good god i love the fact that one of his choice blessings was his son you you can see god walking through the courts of heaven saying i'm going to bless my children with a blessing that they cannot even imagine john 3 16. john 3 16 the bible says for god so loved the world that he gave his one and only son that whoever believes in him shall not perish but have everlasting what you're doing god i'm going to give them a gift that they cannot believe but not only not only did god give us his son god gave us eternal life did you hear what i said and don't tell me don't tell me you earned eternal life because you've been trying to keep the ten commandments the bible says in ephesians chapter two [Music] verse eight and nine for it is by what church for it is by grace you have been saved through faith and this is not from yourselves it is the gift of god not by works so that no one can boast come close anybody today anybody today want to get right with god any anybody anybody made up your mind that's too good a god for me not to be on speaking terms with him that that's that's too good of god for me to walk through life and walk through life by myself i don't have to if i get covered if i gotta go to the hospital god says never will i leave you he's too good a god for us not to walk with him well i'm asking today i'm asking today anybody want to get right with god can i come here can i can i tell you what he wants from you i already told you he doesn't really want your nickels and dimes can i can i tell you what he really wants what he really wants is he wants you he wants all of you let me illustrate it this way there was a little girl sitting in church when the collection basket was getting ready to be passed she knew oh yes she knew that soon the basket would get to her she sat there and she listened and she watched she knew god had been good to her she knew he had been with her in good times and bad times she knew he had been her protection she knew he had made a way for her she knew she owed him she knew she loved him but she also knew she didn't have any money at all so she started to cry tears started to run down her face thoughts race through a man what am i going to give god he's been so good to me he's blessed me he's taking care of me i wouldn't be here i wouldn't i would i wouldn't have any i just she started to cry tears streaming down the face and then the brother got close to her with the basket really big tears started streaming down her face then she was wrestling in her head now i don't have any money what am i gonna give god what am i gonna give god he's such a good god i love him i love him i love him so the brother got that with the basket it's time for the basket to go down hurrah the basket came to her she told the brother with the basket lower the basket she looked up to you streaming down her face she said i said lower the basket lowered some more and then she got in the basket somebody needs to hear me today god doesn't want your sunday sigh god doesn't want your praise the lord highly favored side what god wants is god wants you 24 7. oh that that little girl said it all lower the basket i'm gonna get in i'm i'm talking to somebody today that god has really blessed if if you went back if you went back to your neighborhood if you went back to your childhood if you compared yourself with the people you grew up with if you compared yourself with the people in your family you would say my god has been so good to me i owe him somebody today worship leaders would you come elders would you come somebody somebody today ought to get right with god somebody ought to get right with god church would you stand the bible says in the book of mark he says jesus himself says it he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved what do you what are you saying jesus i i i believe jesus is saying today anybody gonna get in the basket wash your sins away let the blood of jesus cleanse you from all unrighteousness today softly and tenderly jesus is calling if you're out of relationship with god if you've been touching things saying things and doing things that you know is not pleasing to god why don't you come and make it right today he's calling the reason he came to planet earth was to give his life the reason he established the church so that you could get in the basket the basket that goes to heaven we're going to sing a song you need to come you want to come you come right now as we sing the invitation i surrender [Music] [Music] [Music] because my god [Music] and i give myself away [Music] [Music] i want him to have me [Music] i want him to have [Music] is [Music] review i give myself away [Applause] [Music] i give myself away away [Music] all right hey god bless y'all hey do i need to apologize did i if i stepped on somebody's toes i'm trying to figure out whether or not to say i'm sorry [Music] maybe i ought to say ajala pass what what the people of god needs is not it's sugar coated somebody needs to tell us the word of god so we can obey the word of god and so we can be blessed by god and so so today i i did i did i did i i setting up saying to myself you know what this this this is too good a lesson to go and shout through it now go teach this lesson go give the people some scriptures even if they can't go in their pockets today they can make up their mind i'm gonna do better for god because when i rob god i'm really not robbing god because he doesn't want my nickels and dimes i'm really robbing myself all right all right i'm not preaching i'm sorry god bless you amen god bless you amen let us say amen thank you john thank you for the lesson you didn't get a lot of amen but that's a that's a tough lesson to teach but you know i think if we look around i don't think he grabs anybody's pocketbook you still have your pocketbook right so you did okay but you know what those are the type lessons that help us get to this place called heaven so john you continue to do what uh thank you thank you timothy was told preach the word in season out of season thank you rebuke reprove so you're going to get that jesus went and the devil told him said you think you if you believe that you're the son of god take these stones and turn them to bread and of course we know what his response was that man does not live by what bread alone but every word that proceeded out of the mouth of god there was also brother webb an instance where all the disciples started murmuring jesus had taught them a lesson but they didn't get it and they said this is a hard sin who can hear it and of course they turn and walk with god no with jesus no more and he turned and looked at his twelve disciples and he said will you go also and peter said you have the words to uh eternal life where can we go so if you don't if you don't like the teaching hang in there because those are the words to eternal life thank you so much and the results we have our brothers and sisters that came forward and then we're going to ask them to come step up to the microphone here and make a statement and let us know what's on what's on your heart good morning brothers and sisters my name is crystal sanchez i um one of my students was one of the valets that was killed this weekend so it's really sad because he was 18. i mean we were in our first month of freshman year um so just pray for his family and then whatever role i have in it as i have to tell the students on monday and then pray for juan and i just with our marriage and our role as parents thank you i'm sister mabel charles and i come on behalf of sister marcela johnson who is battling breast cancer she has completed the first phase the chemo portion and she will be entering the hospital on tuesday for another phase of it where she will undergo surgery and she asks that you pray for her she says she would love to be able to attend but because of her immune system being weakened she has to avoid crowds so please pray for her recovery good morning i'm brother keith hayes i come this morning asking prayers on behalf of um brother spencer middleton in gainesville florida yesterday morning his wife um passed away from medical complications um it's a young couple so please pre keep him and his family and her family in your prayers good morning church i'm brother brown most of you all know me um it's very hard you know for any man in life when he can't take care of his family and that's the most important thing for a man to take care of his family i haven't lost my job or anything like that but uh my wife and i had a big scare yesterday with our daughter uh she ran a big temperature and uh she was very weak and um there's not a lot that can break me down but when my child gets sick that gets me so i just asked the church to uh pray for my family and pray that some more gets gets better and i i love you all and i'm always privately praying for you all in my prayer closet it's very rare that i get up here and ask for prayer please pray for my daughter and my wife and myself thank you let us go to our heavenly father in prayer almighty god in heaven the father of our lord and dear savior jesus christ we're so thankful for this day you you woke us up this morning and you brought us to this this place to hear your word we thank you almighty god as you had your servant brother john tillman stand and teach your word your word is a lamp to our feet and a light to our path so we thank you for the results many have came forward expressing the desires of their heart some is dealing with friends that was passed on some sickness some just some problems whether it be physically or mentally we call it on you to help us at this time we're asking you almighty god to look deep in our hearts whatever we're dealing with members of the church uh every one of us and find out what is wrong and if it's your will would you please fix it for us this day help us to be that all that we can be the light of the world the city that sits upon a hill and almighty god we we we're thankful that we are christians we're thankful this morning that we are able to call upon your holy and righteous name and almighty god we pray that you continue to forgive us for the sins when we make mistakes forgive us for the sins that we commit whether it's words thoughts or deeds whatever it is almighty god if it's your will please forgive us of those missteps almighty god we we pray that you continue to bless our families you've heard the confessions almighty god we just pray that you be with brother brown as he expressed a desire to to take care of his his his loved one and almighty god we all feel the same way we pray for our kids we pray for our grandkids we pray for our family almighty god that we that you will bless them protect them and almighty god we we also ask a question because of the time we live in to hide us from this virus but we understand almighty god that uh you will do your part when we do our part so we we praying that each and every one of us would take the responsibility to to to do what is necessary to avoid themselves from being affected uh with with this with this virus and if so if we are we know that you will be with us we know it's your will so we know that you're in control of everything so continue to be with us and help us and help us to understand your will we pray for the whole church we thank you for every member that is that is here this day and those that are watching in tv land we pray almighty god that we understand that you had control and the only thing we can do is pray and praise and just stand aside and let you do your work so bless us this day bless each and every one of us take care of us whatever our needs are almighty god we pray that you will you will bless us be with brother john as he continues to teach your word we know it's a difficult task for him to stand and deliver a message as he delivered this this morning but but we we thank him for it because this is giving is a part of living so the bible tells us to to be good to do good to all men's and especially those of the household of faith so so thank you almighty god be with us and we pray that uh everything we've said and done here with that you will hear our prayer and grant us with our heart desire that be your will ask this in jesus christ our lord amen [Music] in the sight of the lord [Music] amazing grace how sweet the sound amazing breaks how sweet the amazing embrace how sweet the [Music] foreign [Music] us but now i see [Music] [Applause] [Music] amen amen we now come down to the porch of our service which we taketh communion we take this bread and memorial of christ's body and we take of this fruit divide with more of his blood that was shed upon the cross of calvary we read in acts chapter 20 and verse number seven how disciples came together upon the first day of the week to break bread and paul preached unto them ready to depart on tomorrow before our communion reading this morning we will take our reading from first corinthians to chapters 11 and beginning with the 23rd verse and it reads for i received of the lord that which also delivered unto you that the lord jesus the same night in which he was portrayed took bread and we had given thanks he break it and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me after the same manner also he took the cup and we had stopped saying this cup is a new testament in my blood this do you as often as you drink it in remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you do proclaim the lord's death until he come wherefore whosoever shall eat this bread and drink this cup of the lord unworthily shall be guilty of the body and blood of the lord but let a man examine himself and so let him eat of that bread and drink of that cup for he that eateth and drinketh unworthy and drinking damnation to himself not discerning the lord's body for this cause many are weak and sickly among you and many sleep at this time let us now give thanks for the lord the communion dear lord our most loving and almost kind heavenly father again we approach our throne of grace and mercy the father thanking you again for sending your son jesus dear father thank you so much that he endured the pain the agony and the shame of the cross and their father we want to thank you so much that he died for each and every one of us dead father that through his death and through his blood we may have forgiveness their father and be able to be with you in heaven after this life is over their fathers we take of this bread and we take of this fruit of vine we pray that our minds will be centered upon that sacrifice that christ made for all of mankind we pray to spread your son jesus name amen [Music] oh and that's why i love [Music] how sweet it's been saying god i know how sweet the lord has been oh and he he's such a loyal friend on the cross on the cross let it die [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] that he gave the victory that's why i i love him i love him and i really love [Music] we come to a portion of our service that we're able to give but before we do so we have some changes that being made so those that use the give plus app to give it's okay for today but the app will be going away so we ask that if you have recurring gifts on the gift plus app that you stop them we have a new way to give which is faith life giving so as you come into church this morning we gave you a little card that tells you how to download the app where you'll be able to give so the app is up on the screen this is what it looks like when you go to your app store you can download it and so we have four ways to give now you can give online you can give in person and you can give by texting and you can give on the app so with that in mind when you download the app it's going to ask you to find your group when you type in the garden oaks church of christ and several will come up you want to choose the ones with the praying hands the picture of a guy with his hand holding his hands like he's praying and from there you you'll be able to give once you set up your uh half so now let's go into our giving first we're going to go into when we should give which is taken from first corinthians 16 and 2. on the first day of the week each one of you shall set aside a sum of money in keeping with the income save save it up so that when i come no collections will have to be made and then how we should give second corinthians 2 9 and 7 reads each of you should give what what you have decided in your heart to give not reluctantly or under compulsion for god loves a chill forgiver let us pray dear heavenly father we just thank you for another blessed day lord we thank you for all the many blessings that you have bestowed upon us lord and lord as we come today and are able to give back from all the blessings that you have given us lord that you just continue to bless us and keep us in your safe arm of protection lord and that we will do the things that we need to do as christians and so let our light shine in jesus name we pray amen has a lord done anything for you come on children you are to run and tell that way whoa lose my shackles and set me free that oh lord i've come i've come to receive to receive god bless you i'm a patient is [Applause] [Music] [Music] yes [Applause] [Music] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] see i've been patiently waiting [Music] is [Music] this week i want to give a quick shout out and that ministry is the greeters greeters we see you we appreciate you and we love you we love you for checking our temperatures as we walk in for providing masks being here on time on sundays we appreciate everything that you all have been doing so if you're a greeter please stand up so we can acknowledge you and let's give them a round of applause amen amen amen we appreciate you while you appreciate everything that you all are doing in order to keep us safe here at the garden oaks church of christ also if you're a visitor we ask that you take them over and stand up so we can acknowledge you so visitors please take a moment to stand up amen amen let's give the visitors a love deposit let's give them a love deposit we thank you all for coming out today we hope that you all had a spirit filled time and we hope to see you all again soon as we get started with this week's announcements i want to invite you all to wednesday night bible study we've been having some awesome series and i don't know about y'all but our preacher can think outside the box when it comes to naming these series so this next one that we have coming up is called the best is yet to come let me say that one more time the best is yet to come let's all say that together one time the best is yet to come and this is a series from the book of ruth we're going to be uh discussing and talking about whatever it is whatever your problems are whatever you're going through god will work it out so wednesday night at 7 pm this is in person in the um living room or on facebook or youtube live you can join us in this exciting bible study as we study the book of ruth as we study the book of ruth i look forward to seeing you all there family i know that for the past couple of weeks we said that we're going to be changing our giving system here at the church and that time has finally arrived we want to let you know that if you're using the gift plus app that we want you to stop your recurring payments if you have those set up and also if you're like me just so that we can clear up some space on your phone you might want to delete the app i deleted the app off my phone and i downloaded our new app that we're going to be using is called faith life faith life what we want you to do around the church you'll see some qr codes i'm going to show you all in this video how to use the qr codes to give if you have an iphone or android also you're able to give via text message in other ways as well so um please make sure you follow the instructions you can set up recurring payments and things of that nature if you need to again our new app is called faith life and we want you to search the garden oh church of christ on your app you can set up your payments through there and again you can pay via online you can pay you can pay uh via the app and you can pay via text message so if you have any questions please reach out to sister kim stewart or brother patrick austin and they'll help you out in that endeavor thank you so much october 16th and 17th october 16th and 17th we're calling all youth to come out to the mendoza ranch we're going to be worshiping with the hidden valley church of christ for the bob owen is going to be out there giving a devotion and remember we are going to have tacos you heard me right tacos so um if you're interested in going please reach out to myself brother dedrick or brother mendoza and we can get you signed up so we can have the right accommodations to get everybody out there again that's october 16th that's a saturday for the youth devotion and then that sunday morning brother bob owen will be preaching so october 16th and 17th every next weekend on october the 23rd we're going to be having our trunk or treat so we're looking for people and volunteers to lend their trunk decorated there's going to be a trunk decorating contest it's going to be lots of candy it's gonna be food we hope to see costumes i'm probably gonna put my picture in my costume from last year right here again we hope to see you all out there invite your nephews your kids your your grandkids everybody invite the whole neighborhood out because we want to make this a successful event and again that's october the 23rd coming up on october the 30th the united ladies invite you all out to an evening of inspiration and music this is going to be a fundraiser for the southwestern christian college and we're going to have groups such as the houston coors shady acres third warden also your very own garden oaks worship team we have a couple of more groups that are set to be there to attend so please make sure you reach out to sister wanda como for your tickets the tickets are going to be 30 and again this is a fundraiser so let's do all we can to support southwestern christian college any clothes that you're willing to donate for the garden oats clothes closet um we are going to be collecting donations for that on every thursday some things that we're looking for are casual or dress attire that's new or gently used clean and it has to be on hangers don't just throw it in the bag and drop it off make sure you you know put some thought into it gently worn shoes and also no donation should be in need of repairing so what that means is if it has holes in it if it needs to be patched up or hemmed up and the hem is all jacked up don't bring it don't bring it we want to make sure that what we give to the people in need is ready and it's um up to par with something that we will want i get an amen amen amen amen some things that we're not looking for we're not looking for any party wear or formal dresses no sweatshirts or t-shirts or undergarments so we want to make sure that um also when you come to donate that you have a mask on when you're donating any uh items so please reach out to brother lc or brother bob butcher if you need any more details again reach out to pops or brother bob butcher if you have if you uh need more details in what you can bring or what they might need again this is going to be on thursdays from 10 to 12 from 10 a.m to 12. we hope to uh to to give them more than what they need amen amen so coming next week coming next week we are going to be having old school sunday old school sunday old school sunday so if there's a specific um old 100 or old school song that you want to hear on old school sunday please reach out to one of the worship leaders and we will try to squeeze that in for you so we're going to try to try our best to hit um as many as we can next week so again pull us to the side um shoot us a message or just catch up with one of us and we will try to squeeze that song in for you so next week old school sunday with that being said uh once again we appreciate you all for tuning in today please make sure that you take note of these events that we have coming up there's a lot of stuff going on in october so like i said earlier if you uh if you're not involved it's because you choose not to be it's it's on you we have a lot of stuff to get into so please make sure that you all are involved in the things that we have coming up in the next couple of weeks i will see you all next week peace we've been truly blessed today brother john you did us a good job today we're appreciative to you for that we're very appreciative to those of you who are worshiping with us in person appreciative to those of you who are worshiping us with us in other ways and we invite you to please continue to worship with us let us pray our father in heaven you're so good to us we know that we thank you we thank you for letting us know that we thank you father for the beauty of this day we thank you father for allowing us to worship this morning we thank you for the reminders that we have from the scriptures of first the fact that you have given so much to us and that we should be givers to you please help us father to take these words into ourselves and help us father to submit ourselves to your to your word please continue to be with us please continue to be with those who made the request this morning please continue to be with this congregation in the name of jesus we pray amen i packed my bags and i'm headed for the gospel train and i know the train is on time because the lord is never lame [Music] and for those of you that are out there listening in the audience you need to know that this facility that we worship in is a facility that has the capacity of roughly 2 000 people and so if you say 25 occupancy i believe you're in the neighborhood of four to five hundred people and so as i glimpse the audience today there are roughly 100 or so people so that means 400 more of you 300 more of you could come and we'd have plenty enough space to worship god [Music] my friends to experience heaven's fees singing praying always praising things we can't comprehend because i got all i need and i'm on a mission to bring people oh yes i'll pack your bags [Music] is [Music]

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