Harold Hoffman - Brothers and Kings | Church ONLINE

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] good [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] yes [Music] miracles can because he opened that before me I have this I see [Music] [Music] [Music] so I afraid he will make away we don't have to be afraid in Matthew 24 we read an account where Jesus begins to tell us a few things he said hey nation will rise against nation Kingdom against Kingdom wickedness will rise that the love of many would wax cold it would get cold and we're seeing that happen in today's culture right now wars and rumors of wars but then who is pretty cool as in John 16 jesus said hey I've told you all of this to let you know that I have overcome the world so you don't have to be afraid the world so that we don't have to live in fear that there is an authority and so here first church we have a core value that states that prayer is our anchor and there are just some things that only come through prayer and fasting and in today's world where you can't fight every single fight that's going on out there you can take it to the Lord in prayer where there are things plaguing your family your finances your relationships I want you to know that prayer is the answer you can take that SECAM right now and we're gonna do that as a family we're gonna pray they're gonna be some needs behind me and we're gonna pray for those needs we're gonna pray over city over this the virus all the pyramids because where you are just clap let's take him together [Music] thank you thank you Lord as you make your way back to your seats and you're seated for a few minutes if you are a guest in this room on behalf of First Church thank you for being here for a stretch when we give it up for every guest that's in this house why y'all can do better than that act like you've been in your house for the last two months and haven't seen a soul it's a good day to be here and I am just excited that I get to see everybody's face I've enjoined our online experience and to all of you that are online right now watching us we love you and we're thankful that you have joined us online to be with us so we love you all and I'm expecting and I am trusting that you're having a great time worshiping right there in your own home the difference is you're allowed to be in your pajamas in your coffee and us in here we're all suited and booted with water that's all right except for us coffee drinkers we're a little bit jealous of y'all online but it is great to be in this house this week starts our sixth week of life groups yes they have been incredible life groups are a place where we typically would connect outside of these four walls where we grow spiritually and relationally together every week but we're not able to do that obviously in this current climate so we are doing those online so if you have not joined a life group you can do that by getting on to our church website First Church Sterling Heights calm and because we're not limited to somebody's living room there's plenty of room for you to join a life group so please go ahead and get online and join a live group we've got just a few more weeks of those left and so we are back here for a bible class with pastor during the week so just go ahead and join one and maybe you're here as a as a guest trying to figure out is First Church a bunch of wackos are we normal well for say we're normal second I would like to say we ought to call growth track it's a vehicle where you could find out what first church is all about and we really do believe that everybody isn't poor into the kingdom of God everyone everyone has a place everyone has value so if you'd like to know a little bit more about First Church of may be how you can plug in what you're gifting is then tract happens the first two weeks of every Sunday and it happens to be the first Sunday of the month so guess what you could do life but you could do a growth track class today and that happens after the third worship song so our once we're done singing this this next song here you can go to my right your left will be a sinuses growth tract go through those doors Josh blasek will be walking through some things with you and maybe you've been here a long time and you're wondering hey I'd like to plug into maybe a different ministry or something else and haven't gone through growth track that's for you too so please go ahead and be there for that this Monday yeah everybody say Monday 7 o'clock family prayer I'm telling you last Monday night was incredible we had 88 people and prayer with us our first one back in the building it was awesome and so please join us we had an incredible time just encouraging each other and we just prayed together just an awesome awesome time so I am thankful for that so I'm asking if you are comfortable at all please be here tomorrow night at 7:00 p.m. you will not regret praying together it is something amazing and for those of you that are online are not able to be there please take some time and pray at home or wherever you're able to but I believe God's gonna use right prayer is our anchor that is a value we believe in so we hold fast to that so join us in prayer and before we move on to the next portion of our service I just wanted to kind of set the expectation and what the rest of this day will look like in just a few moments here one of our worship directors Lauren Hill and our worship team they did a great job do they not let's give it up for that team they will lead us in worship one more time and then our senior pastor Harold Hoffman has an incredible word that God has given him it'll challenge you it'll inspire you so I am excited for that and that's a conclusion of that message pastor will lead us in prayer we'll have a prayer team come up here so if you would like prayer we'll have the prayer team here and we'll have masks on for your protection and ours and we'll also have will sanitize our hands after everyone we have prayed with if you're still not comfortable coming up then pastor will be able to pray over you right there in your seat so however you're comfortable we want to encourage that at the end of the service that we spend some time in prayer and take the challenge that God has given us that this X portion of our service is a place where we return our tithes and offerings this is a biblical principle again if you're a guest we're not asking anything from you we're just excited that you're here but if you feel like you want to partner with us I promise you pray about it listen to what God will have you do and just follow after that but I want you to know that first church is a giving Church first church has been responsible for partnering with so many in our community and right here in our church family as well as globally so because of everything that you're doing in your faithfulness and return your tithes and offerings you guys are going to places that you could never go on foot but you're making a difference globally so thank you so much for everything that you do matter of fact give yourselves a hand because y'all deserve it because of everything that you have done for the kingdom it's been incredible so our Usher's have brought these these offering boxes right on the side of me and so if you're comfortable and doing that here in a minute I'll pray over our time of giving and you can be able to do so there'll be a slide that'll come behind me different ways you can partner with us online if you're not comfortable doing it in person we do have a station in the kiosk that you can give and there's also you could do that right online and it'll be a two-minute timer at this time we love people that's what first church is all about and so as we return our tithes and offering we'd like to put two minutes up there so you can find something that you haven't seen in a long time maybe somebody that you've never seen before and go ahead and find them and let them know how excited you are that they're here but remember we're doing an air high-five or we're doing a hello we're asking if you're not comfortable don't engage and contact somebody just you just remember to keep people's their distance there but just remember which is high-five way the hello we're just happy everyone's here is that all right Lord we come before you just so thankful that you've already met us in a special way and I believe there's going to be something incredible that's going to shift we're gonna see one more song and worship to you and then God you're gonna you're gonna inspire us and you're gonna challenge us and we're ready for that God and so Lord as we return these tithes and offerings I know that you're multiplying it it'll go outside of these four walls and create global impact and we're thankful so Lord we give the rest of this time to and worse ready for whatever it is that you'll have in the name of Jesus amen [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] in creation [Music] what a beautiful name what a beautiful name [Music] what a beautiful name nothing compares what a beautiful name [Music] my sandwich grades [Music] what Gaja it's like so can I speak your name I think the energy for every situation in this way [Music] you son Oh [Music] thank you Jesus [Music] Wow what a privilege to be in the house of the Lord what a privilege to be in the house alone Jesus name I'm gonna read you from the book of Judges chapter one it says now after the death of Joshua it came to pass that the children of Israel asked the Lord saying who shall go up for us against the Canaanites first to fight against them and the Lord said Judas shall go up behold I have delivered the land into his hand and Judah said unto Semmy and his brother come up with me into my lot that we may fight against the Canaanites and I likewise will go with thee into thy law so Simeon went with him Judah went up and the Lord delivered the Canaanites and the parasites into their hand and they slew of them in Bezeq ten thousand men and they found a denied be Zek in Bezeq and they fought against him and they slew the Canaanites and the parasites but Adonai be Zek fled they pursued after him and caught him cut off his thumbs and his great toes and Adonai Bees exed threescore and ten Kings having their thumbs and they're great toes cut off gathered their meat under my table as I have done so God hath requite at me they brought him to Jerusalem and there he died now most of the time I just preached the word of the Lord and and that's enough but I will stay within the word of the Lord during this message but I will direct a lot of my comments into what is trying its best to tear this country apart right now I'm gonna ask you a question are you a brother or are you a king you may be seated in Leviticus chapter 21 are given the requirements to be a priest there are also many verses there that highlight things and conditions that if they exist in your life then you are exempt and you basically are disqualified from ever being a priest in chapter 21 and verse 19 there's a simple verse that says for a man that is broken footed or broken handed this was a king who understood how important it was to an Israelite to have your physical body intact to this day if you're an Orthodox Jew you cannot be buried in an orthodox cemetery if you have a tattoo it's not by chance that the very first thing that the Nazis did when they took Jewish people captive in the second wars they tattooed a number on their arm it was heartbreaking to an Orthodox Jew and this was just as devastating to an Israelite if you didn't have your thumbs or you didn't have your big toes names have always been important to me if you're a cursory student of the word you know that the word for Lord is Adonai this is Adonai be Zek Adonai of course means Lord be Zek means lightning he is the Lord of lightning he's an Old Testament picture of the enemy of our soul a lot of noise a lot of flash but he never builds anything he just destroys John 10 and 10 said when the thief comes he will steal kill and destroy I've come that you might have life and life more abundantly most translations says he will kidnap he will kill and then he will mutilate the enemy of your soul it's going to do everything he can to destroy you if you've ever been around law enforcement some of you here tonight are involved in law enforcement you know that when you get into mutilation it is almost without exception a crime of extreme jealousy and hatred I promise you you are the ultimate creation of the Lord and the enemy wants to do everything he can not to just kidnap you stop you he wants to mutilate you and destroy you it's not by chance that those prophets of bail cut themselves when they took Samson they just didn't chain him up they plucked out his eyes the demoniac of Ghaderi would cut himself Bible said in the Book of Amos chapter 3 and verse 12 thus saith the Lord as the Shepherd taketh out of the mouth of the lion two legs or a piece of an ear so how the children of Israel be taken out of them that dwell in Samaria the rhyme says all the king's horses and all the king's men couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again well we're not just dealing with any king here the Lord that we serve has the ability if all you have left is a leg or a piece of an ear he can put you back together it's God that we serve as a restorer he's a restorer ladies and gentlemen you can do thousands of things wrong you know you have to do is one thing right and it can change your life forever I don't care what's in your past I don't care what mistakes and what terrible judgments you have made when you make the decision to serve the Lord it changes all of that because sometimes all he has left to work with are a few pieces but he can put Humpty Dumpty back together again when the dinner was done this King would push himself back from his table and throw the scraps that were left over from what I'm sure was a very sumptuous meal threw it under the table to the seventy kings that he had chained underneath of his banquet table and that was the entertainment for the evening to watch those used to be Kings and the clanks of those chains Scrabble for those leftovers and the scraps from this man's dinner no thumbs no toes this King had done everything he could to take away any hope that these people would ever have a ministry and when he was finally caught by these two men I wish I had time to deal with this but we don't but it wasn't just Moses it was Moses and Aaron and they were replaced with Joshua but it wasn't just Joshua it was Joshua and Caleb now we're into judges it's not just Judah it's Judah and Simeon God has spoken to Judah told him I'm going to give you this victory but Judah went to his brother Simeon Judah means praise means obedient one and when he went to his brother he said I need your help to accomplish what I know God wants to do in my life and these kings seventy Kings were not able to topple Adonai Bizet but two men were able to do something that 70 Kings never could tell you I they were brothers and we are in a time right now when we've got enough Kings we need brothers sisters I need one we called ourselves oneness pentecostals for years it's time to be more than just oneness in doctrine it's time to be together and this is interesting to me because I don't think we're ever going to be able to accomplish what God wants in our life without an obedient brother to be in the harness with us you read The Book of Daniel in Daniel chapter 9 in verse 2 he said when I Daniel understood by the books reading Jeremiah the the the number of years that were determined that Israel would be in bondage 70 years now we still have the Book of Jeremiah and it's there twice but one of those times is Jeremiah 29 and 10 here's Daniel who's in Babylonian captivity and he reached jeremiah and jeremiah says you're going to be in captivity for 70 years Daniel does the math he realizes 70 years is almost over but now get into verse 3 and 4 and later on in Daniel 9 and he said I understood we were going to be in captivity for 70 years and then he says this I started to pray I started a fast I started to repent for myself and for my people and the question is obvious why in the world would you pray and fast and repent if you already know what God's going to do and the answer is just as rhetorical and it's just as obvious the answer is I don't want to just know what God's going to do I want to be involved I want to be involved in what God is doing robert e lee in 1863 wrote out his battle plan for the next six months it was known as special order 191 he sent it to his generals and as the story goes an indiana soldier in the UN army was walking across the field and saw a bundle in the grass and kicked it and it was an official-looking document wrapped around three stogies three cigars we don't know whatever happened to the cigars but what is interesting is when that man Barton Mitchell opened up someone had dropped special order 191 and the Union Army had within their position robert e lee's plans for the next six months they kicked it all the way up to George McClellan who was the general of the Union Army and he did nothing with it and the war would be waged for another two years it could have been stopped a year and a half before the story goes that Lincoln went to George McClellan and he said general if you're not going to use the army I'd like to borrow it this weekend if that would be okay they criticized their president for releasing an Army General recently but he's way behind Lincoln Lincoln find he fired five generals before he finally came to us grant McClellan's compromise and he was so angry McClellan ran against Lincoln in the next election thought that he was better suited to be president than Linc and but he chose us grant McClellan said he's a drunk too which Lincoln replied I wish I could find out what brand of whiskey he drinks I'd give a gallon of it to all of you we are in that position ladies and gentlemen we know exactly what God wants to do and we know exactly what the enemy wants to do we have the war plans what are we gonna do with them you want to know why God took Enoch I made some people they were just so frustrated when I said this years ago I'll tell you why God took Enoch it said he was not he was not and people said what in a world are you because the word not in Hebrew means less without nothing I'll tell you why God took Enoch he was a nobody from nowhere who had a new birth in his life and when that happened it changed everything about him because nothing is impossible with God we've used that scripture and I believe appropriately we say God can do anything but it means more than that listen to it very carefully nothing is impossible with the Lord it means that I don't care how dismal and how bleak and how dark it gets if you have the Lord with you it is impossible for you to ever say you have nothing because if you have him you've got enough Jesus went to disciples and he said do you have any meat and they said we have toiled all night and caught nothing wrong I'm here now who else but Jesus would ask you to try again in the very place that you have failed again and again and again and he said cast your nets on the right side the Bible it says nets but it said they cast their net they didn't throw the nets plural they threw one net they encompassed a great cloud of draught of fish it says to where the net is breaking to where their pals who have already beached their boats and their nets are already drying on the racks they're screaming come out here and help us that's my idea of a harvest revivals what goes on in the church harvest is where a revival is what goes on in the church and harvest is what goes on in the lost i what what I would like to see happen is for us to have such a harvest here that we call our area pastors and say we have 10 families up there by where you live we don't have enough people to teach Bible studies to would you teach Bible studies to these people have you ever heard of a pastor giving another group of people to another pastor because he didn't want any of the harvests to be lost that's the Bible way ha ha ha that's the Bible way be you we have nothing listen to this verse perfect piece of them that love thy law and nothing shall offend them and people say oh that means we should never be upset that's not what it says it said nothing should offend you if you're not baptized than anybody that oughta offend you if nobody's been filled with the Holy Ghost that oughta offend you if nobody's going into growth track and other advanced classes and nobody's opening up their ministries that oughta offend us nothing is offensive because God said if you got me don't you ever say you don't have anything nothing is impossible with the Lord this is Bible here they think that they it's what you get it said I was praying this week and and I came by the church and just on a fluke just start saying Lord I want that Cornelius angel I want that Cornelius angel I that that that angel it said his prayer and his giving came up before the Lord and an angel visited Cornelius and said your giving and your prayers have come up before the Lord and I'm going to take you to a place I'm gonna tell you I want to meet people in this city and say are you a pastor yes I am did does your church have a big white steeple on it yes as a matter of fact it does is it yeah you know what God showed me that in a dream and said that if I I'm gonna find somebody that pastors a building like that and they're going to show I believe those see angels never die the angel that was in William in the lion's den with Daniel is still alive the angel that was with those boys than the furnace is still alive the angel that led Peter out of the inner Paul said there stood by me this night the angel of the Lord there is an angel that could come into a city and find the praying people looking for truth looking for insight and I'm saying God I want that Cornelius angel to come to this city and to begin to minister to people that I don't know but you know see Israel was the diadem of the Lord they really died him what does that mean it mean it means God took Israel see if read history it's just other countries that they felt sorry for Israel because they only had one God they called him God poor and we've got lots of God's Israel's only got one of them but read that scripts you're gonna find it they were the diadem what does that mean it means God took Israel and took them way ahead of everybody else and gave everybody else a point of reference to come towards that's why there's all the difference in the world between someone who has this revelation and walks away from it and someone who doesn't have this revelation but is coming to it our job as the church is to be ahead of the others to give people something to come towards something to come to that's why the Bible says in the book of Mark 5 and 25 a certain woman the the word certain has to do definitions it means a very particular person or a very determined person you read the New Testament and it's there again a very a very certain a very certain soldier a very certain woman we need to be that type we need to be a determined group of people certain that when we go to him something is going to change I'm a hillbilly kid I am nobody from nowhere from a small little coal mine town called McKinley Ville on the banks of Buffalo Creek that's where I was raised I was continued as a firm that's where I want to be an eating he was not he was nothing God can do something with people that I don't think there's something special I am NOT a king I'm just a brother I just want to be in league with another obedient spirit and say I can't give this done by myself even though I know God told me it's going to happen I've got to have enough sense to be in the harness with another brother and with another sister because the day of The Lone Ranger is over the solo acts are a thing of the past this is duos where two or three are gathered in my name this is about being in league with one another in the name of Jesus Christ look at those demons that came there and said have you come to torment us before our time absolutely you read the book of Acts in the book of Acts twelve and four when they got that hustle the Bible said they were they were delivered unto him for quaternions of soldiers what's that mean that means every six hours they're changing out the guard why you tell you ask this guy a sister who's afraid of you who's afraid of who they're not gonna let one guy be chained up with that man all day long because they know before the days over he's gonna be converted he's gonna start believing the message so every six hours they're changing the guards you got to look at this enemy and understand what we're dealing with I want to know let me when you think of Satan do you think of a trio but let me give you some Bible verse he is the father of lies he is the son of perdition he is an evil spirit so he's father son and spirit but I don't ever think of terms of him being a trio I don't ever think of that but the enemy or our soul has done the best that he can to divide up our God separate father from the son separate from the Holy Spirit because he understands the value of division how would you like to be a devil right now and you know you backed the wrong horse you know you're on the wrong side why have they never voted Satan out of office because they know their only hope is to stay together we are called oneness pentecostals isn't it time to be more oneness than just doctrine isn't it time to be together and I understand the value of our brothers and our sisters is it time for us to get the revelation of that Satan knows more about the vision than we will ever know you know what the Greek word for Satan is Diablo you know what the Greek word for slander is Diablo gossip is when you tell something that's not true and it shouldn't be repeated it hurts people slander is when you tell stuff that is true and you shouldn't have repeated it oh we don't ever gossip everything we say is true there are some things that don't ever need to come out of our mouths baba said wouldn't bring a railing accusation against him I'm telling you that when we are putting our mouth on our brother and sister we're doing Satan's work we're doing his work for him Paul when I read the epistles of Paul 2/3 of the New Testament there are two messages I find within every epistle every epistle Paul talks about two things number one he said I'm the apostle I'm the boss you're the apple sauce you got that I'm the chief I'm the you you're just the Indians you got that you work for me I'm the Apostle I'll tell you everything he talks about in almost every one of his epistles you are called to be Saints I'm the Apostle you need to be a saint but he breaks precedent in the book of Philippians because in Philippians chapter 1 and verse 1 this is what he said Paul and Timothy the servants of Jesus Christ to all the saints in Christ Jesus which are at Philippi with the bishops and the Deacons please notice how he begins this he doesn't state as he does it almost in every other pistol Paul an apostle not this he said I'm a servant of Jesus Christ and he said I'm not writing to people who are called to be Saints I'm writing to people who already are and he said I'll tell you why you are something that the others aren't because your with your leadership you are with your bishops and you're with your deacons and when we have that kind of oneness and harmony nobody's got to be screaming I'm in charge I'm the boss I got the corner office with the windows I got the microphone I got the platform I got this stage a pastor can be exactly what he was called to be a servant and when you get servant leadership going on something powerful something powerful happens every time praise praise God praise God it's just the Bible said agree with your adversary quickly while you're in the way and if you don't you're going to jail and you're not getting out - you pay every dime to the bailiff I know in Peter it says your enemy is the adversary but that's not who Jesus is talking about in Matthew he's talking about your brother you're on the road with your brother but you're fighting with him he is now your adversary Jesus said forget the fighting agree with your adversary quickly otherwise you're going to jail and I preached the Pentecostals for years who are in jail and all bound up because they're determined I'm gonna win the argument and don't understand the fallout from all of that because right after that it says if you're bringing your gift to the altar you're going you're gonna leave your gift at the altar you're going back and get reconciled with your brother you're not taking your gift with you your gift stays at my altar until you go and get reconciled with your brother and come back and then you can offer your gift notice those men before the Christ child would remember the wise men that's what they're called it said and when they came to where the young shall lay the Bible said they fell down and worshiped him and then they they presented gifts gold frankincense and myrrh - many people are trying to impress the Lord with their giftings but they didn't give the gifts first they gave themselves first in worship then they gave their gifts no wonder the Bible said they went home a different way it's not your gift that he's after he's after you you fall down and worship Him then you can give him your gifts otherwise your gifts are staying at the altar until you get reconciled with your brother and if you're too stubborn to reconcile with your brother then stay in jail I don't want to be bound I don't want my ministry to be tied up it's not important who wins the argument what's important is that the kingdom is advanced you want to win the argument fine you win good game set match let's go over you can't be bound by this ladies and gentlemen this is important Esau the Bible said listen to this verse this is Genesis 10 and verse 9 talk about Nimrod he was a mighty hunter before the Lord wherefore it is said even as nimrod the mighty hunter before the Lord compare this with this first in Genesis 25 and 27 where it says Esau was a cunning hunter Jacob's brother is a cunning hunter but when you get into Genesis 10 it's something about Nimrod and it said that he was a mighty hunter before the Lord you know what it says in the Hebrew language it said he was a hunter of the souls of men it fascinates me if you ever study astro astrological symbols if you've ever studied what's called lint if you ever the basis of all of this see this is the story Nimrod had a wife named simmer Amos Semiramis claimed to be impregnated with a sunbeam which is a spurious virgin birth she gives birth to a miracle boy named Tammuz Tammuz starts growing and on gets killed by a wild boar she fasted for forty days and he rose from the dead which is a spurious resurrection and this is where lint comes from and this is the beginning of the mystery religion about what was the mystery religion of Babylon the mother-son cult it morphs through the ages if you read Jeremiah 44 17 through 19 it he's berating them and judging them for the worship of what was called the Queen of Heaven the Queen of Heaven because that mother child cult spread across the civilized world in Assyria her name was Ishtar her son's name was bukka's in Egypt her name was Isis the boy's name was Osiris in the Indy her name was this he the boy was is Warren and aja her name was Sybil the boy's name was the osius in Greece her name was Aphrodite her boy's name was eros in Rome her name was Venus her son was Cupid this morphed into the early church - all of a sudden Jesus is all God and if he's all God then Mary gave birth to God and so now it's Holy Mary Mother of God pray for us sinners now it's just the latest version of this mother child cult it's an enemy that's done everything to divide us and help us not worship the one they said your mother's out here and she's calling for you and he said who is my mother but whoever hears the word of the Lord and keeps it see the purpose of Mary was to bring the holy to the world Jesus was saying now that I'm here don't you dare exalt her because it was a great thing when Mary gave birth to Jesus but it was a greater thing when Jesus gave birth to her because Mary was there on the day of Pentecost and needed the baptism the Holy Ghost just like everybody else needed the Holy Ghost do you understand what we're dealing with you this is what the enemy does he makes us exalt the means and the method and gets it all confused because the the the the the the purpose is to get the Christ child to the earth but no they're gonna exalt the womb that brought the Christ to the earth I'm glad we never did find that rooster that crowed and preached Peter under conviction I'm glad we never did find that donkey that that preached to Balaam I'm glad we we we would have put that dude in a display case I'm wearing Church five bucks to see that thing because we're memorabilia minded we you know we want a bat signed by Mickey Mantle or a baseball signed by Babe Ruth or a man guess what this is the rooster that preached Peter under conviction or guess what this is the woman that brought the whole it no no no though he said you listen to me now that's what really matters please don't just hear me feel me right now we don't need kings and we don't need queens in the kingdom of God we need brothers and we need sisters we need people that understand the value of one another you have to understand the value of one another right now I was so I was so privileged I I wish you could have known my grandmother my niece she was such a special lady my grandpa was a very very unique man he he never finished formal schooling he was just an old coal miner but I used to watch him do the crossword puzzle from Pittsburgh in ten and he'd go down to Woolworths and he tried glasses on $0.50 for glasses he finally finds something he could read with and that's was his optometrist the racket Woolworths and he'd seem put his glasses on and he'd do that he'd do the page there he had the only black family that lived in that little village mr. mrs. Owens and I never heard my grandfather or my grandmother ever disrespect those people in my house is this amazing vase I should have brought it this amazing crystal vase that was hand-cut I don't know how old it is but it is so obvious to me it was not made in a press it wasn't made in a mold it was all hand-cut and ground I don't know how much it's worth I just know that when mr. Owens died and mrs. Owens had to move away to be with one of her kids she came over to my grandma my nice house and she said mrs. Osmond I want you to have this it's the most expensive thing we have in our house but you've been kind to me I want you to have this and I've kept it all of these years and every time I see it I'm not just amazed at the beauty I think of the story of what should have been - very biased prejudiced old hillbilly people but who treated people with respect and with dignity and kindness we are the Church of the Living God I don't care what somebody has said about you in the past are you honestly going to look at me and tell me you haven't said something stupid about somebody in the past are you honestly gonna tell me you're ready to throw stones because you're sin-free don't go telling me that it doesn't work that way I'm begging you forget things that have been spoken in the past forget things that the enemy don't you get it if it wasn't if it wasn't George Bush then it was Clinton and we were mad at Clinton and if it wasn't Clinton then it was Hillary and if it wasn't that it was Obama and then it was another Bush and then all of a sudden your honor you then it's Obama now you got Trump if it's not Trump it's the coronavirus and it's not the coronavirus it's somebody getting killed on don't you get what's going on this is not gonna stop it's gonna be one issue after another trying to keep us distracted trying to keep us diverted trying to keep our eye off of the goal and off of the prize so I charge you and I challenge you to go out in your city and to be the Church of the Living God what does that mean I'll tell you exactly there's not a week that goes by that I don't do something for somebody most of the time anonymously and they have no idea it was me I can't wait for restaurants to open up again because Sunday after Sunday I'd go down here usually to the to the water and hole down here whatever what things called you know the what's that place we go to Texas Roadhouse and I'd go in there and I just walk in and I just start talking to somebody I've never met in my life and I go over there waitress and I said I want you to give me their ticket and they had no idea was me I have no intention of them ever knowing I it's not about to be bad I'm trying to get him to come to church I wanted them to say there's still good people in this world there's still people I with I'm asking you to go it's I'm not ask you spend a lot of money we've been criticized the last couple weeks people said stupid things and all of a sudden we got back to him and said when was the last time you ever complimented the pastor on his message where's the last time you you do nice things for me and I'm grateful for everything you do but I'm asking you you want to do something for me don't get me a gift card to a restaurant cuz I'm jealous go tell you what to do I give it to somebody else in this church that I know needs to go out to eat and can't afford it that's what I do you want to give me something give me cash or give me a woodcraft that's what I like I'll buy machines for my woodshop I need a joint on a planer I've been saving for two years I got two years yet to go so your 10 year your $10 woodcraft I got when I go down there get oh my god here he comes again and I gots taxes that's the sexism thing and that's what I do with that I'm just asking you you want to give some go back to Chris Olson in that in that nursery and say I want to send you and your family out to dinner say something to this worship team say something to the ester if you realize how clean this building is do something for the helble's do something for the team that cleans between services do something amazing for people do it anonymously be the Church of the Living God when you grow the grocery-store intentionally pick out somebody and just talk to them and be kind to them be a servant be a brother your sister the stand has stand a stand a man these people are skilled skilled Saul said call me call me a musician call me someone that can play skillfully you read that Bible in two times Saul threw a javelin at David while David's trying to comfort him and I'll tell you what never happened so never her David never picked up the javelin and threw it back these people are going to play insane skillfully if you want prayer amen spirit of harmony and unity is where God works God can do amazing things here right now in this place if you want special prayer you come and this prayer team will pray for you if you don't want to do that and you want to stand your seat I'm cool with that but whatever you do in the cedar of it's worship magnify God make a pledge and a covenant with me that the way we're gonna address this whole thing is I'm going to be a child of God I'm gonna be a legitimate brother to somebody and a sister to someone and I'm gonna show myself kind and I'm gonna be a witness the Bible said we are ambassadors we are from another world and we've been beamed down on this planet and as something from another world lives inside of us it's gonna look stranger and weirder and goofy errs these times go by but that's our antidote and that's our way to combat all of this hatred and all of this ugliness that's going on right now I intend to be an agent of change in this community then Jesus take let's worship Lord Jesus I magnify you in this house right now I magnify you in this place right I do not know who this those are watching on what I do know is the god that's hearing my prayer right now I've just done like this to play chicks I'm asking you God right now that you would shoot straight he restored [Music] but you could bring [Music] [Music] you

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Published: Sun Jun 07 2020