Maturing in Your Walk With God (Mid-Week)

today uh good afternoon family i tell you it is definitely raining in the family uh we've thank god we got through with the young lady is even rollins homegoing service this morning at 10 uh the 22 year old so we have to continue to pray for her family uh the vessel family the raleigh and family the jones family and then early this morning like 4 13 at 4 17 i think it was the time when my phone rang and miss amy dennis her husband apparently had some cardiac issues cardiac arrest issues and we went and of course they took him to the hospital and right now they still have him on a life support system right now so i want to remember the dentist family in our prayers uh on tomorrow we have two funerals tomorrow uh we have the morgan family which is just the cookie prince a father homegoing service at 10 o'clock in the morning and then we also have brother ivory funeral at 1 30 uh tomorrow evening and then we also have friday morning's funeral at 10 o'clock for sister katie um henson uh and then we still have others yesterday my wife and uh we have a nephew uh that went home to be with the lord yesterday as well so when i say it's raining it's all over the place and family we have to continue to keep our eyes focused on the things that matters most so if you don't mind family can we bow can we pray most gracious heavenly father we just say thank you lord thank you lord for your hand of mercy and grace over all of our lives and father right now god we pray that you would god give us the favor we need right now god show yourself faithful to us lord and then father as we continue god to trust you not with some things but trust you with absolutely everything father would you lead as in god as god in these dark days and then touch every family in a bereavement way every mother father sister or brother a cousin a granny a grandpa in the name of jesus god cover all those who are crying and heart has been broken father we lift up god brother trent dennis to you right now god continue to touch his body lord touch him lord cover miss amy cover their children god peyton and page god cover their family over all as they cry out to you and call upon your name and seeking a miracle god then all death in the family is god all funerals pending god you give us wisdom lord cover the church call bethel's family right now god and give us a spirit of urgency god to believe that your word is born and your word would never come back void so father would you teach us today thank you for your favor this morning god with the homegoing service of baby girl sister raleigh and thank you god that you were able to minister to the family and allow them to fear your presence we love you we bless you it's in jesus name we pray and we say amen and amen family as you get a little older like i am some of you have not got that yet but y'all keep on saying good morning keep on saying good morning [Music] you're going to find out that life is not as long as we would like it to be in every moment every hour every day is important you should never take one minute for granted because time is something you and i cannot stop have you ever noticed you can be mad you can be angry you can fuss and fight but time don't stop time continue to march on some of you experienced that when your lights went out still out but time did not stop because your electrical power went out [Music] and so time is your most precious commodity family our message today and i'm asking god to keep allowing the messages to not just deal with one or two people but all of us and we we have to mature in the word and i'll walk with the lord we have to grow we have to get to a level to where we totally trust god not for some things but for all things and then there must be evidence in our lives that we're growing what tripped us up last year or not be tripping us up this year when we lost it last month whatever that was we shouldn't be losing it this month over the same thing that's why babies they have an extended time to drink from a bottle there's a certain time when they move from that bottle to a sipika [Music] from that sippy cup to one of those bigger cups and look at you now got a glaze amen when babies don't grow the parents take them to the hospital when people not maturing spiritually this is where the word of god come in and challenge us so if you don't mind we're going to partake in some texts that god's going to give us hebrew chapter 5 verses 11 through verse 14 and then colossians chapter 2 verse 6 to verse 14 is where we're going to be and for those who are online today the message is for all of us we're blessed to have hundreds of people that tune in online to our bible study that's live but they're able whether they're at their offices or whether they're at home or whether they're riding around and able to tune in to our bible study maturing in our walk with god is the message we have to always continue to get better you never graduate on this side you never graduate on this side as long as there's breath in your body you still have an opportunity to grow even greater when you get to a point the bible well the bible don't say this but this is one of the forsaken things that we tell men when you stop learning you stop earning and the bible would say it like this when you stop working you should stop eating i knew y'all would knew that one says a man who does not work you shouldn't even be at the table lord have mercy but we look here family at verse 11 hebrew chapter five it says we have a great deal to say about this and it is difficult to explain since you have become lazy to understand he is although by this time you ought to be teachers but you need someone to teach you the basic principles of god's revelation again you need milk not solid food now everyone who lives on milk is inexperienced with the message about the righteousness because he is an infant but solid food is for the mature for those whose census has been trained to distinguish between good and evil maturing is an act of behavior that one get to reflect on based on past decisions you see sometimes we are so much in a hurry to just do we never pause to think and so since we don't get a grade on a regular basis we don't know how we do it or even worse we just keep up with the worst person out there just go a little bit ahead of them i don't have to come out first or second but i'm not coming out late [Music] that's how it was when i was in school and by the way happy belated birthday mcclure i saw your little cake and everything you didn't bring me none so god bless you when i was in school you know my main objective was just to pass and they told me if i get all these i'm gonna be good in our graduating class in high school we had 214 graduates wanna know my number [Music] lord have mercy i probably told you that number you say we gonna fire [Laughter] you no it would have been extremely bad had i not woke up i woke up as i was going into the 11th grade because all i knew i just needed to get by but when you get to the 11th grade you realize another year and a half of this and i'm out of here what i'm gonna do what have i learned what if i learned what have i matured while i was in high school and in in spiritual your spiritual journey is just as such the writer began to talk about it's time to mature he says you're not ready for solid foods but he look upon us and he says you know by now many of you ought to be teachers he look upon us now and say you know something yet your age you should be teaching [Music] but it's something about the spiritual atmosphere that people choose on their own recognition not to grow now we grow in other areas we grow in ignorance we shall grow in our physique yes we do do y'all remember sisters that size 4 in 94 amen so we grow but when it comes down to spiritual things and when it comes down to eating solid meat from the word a lot of people are not ready to eat solid meat you ever went into a bible study i came to church and the word was on point it was the word of god but you got offended [Music] some people leave the gospel ministry when the truth is being told because they're not ready to eat solid food they want some more milk and that's why they never get a chance to grow to be used by god to do something greater than what they're currently doing now and not to make matters worse worse you've got children in the children's ministry building that's more spiritual mature than them because adults bypass sunday school because they think it's for kids do you not know in nicodemus i think chapter number three when it comes down to matthews when nicodemus asked christ what must i do to be saved he was a grown man he was the teacher of the law but still was immature in the things of the lord and sometimes what happened my brothers and sisters are circular education somehow you allow that to eclipse your spiritual education from the lord haven't you remembered that mother and father and grandparents them had only a nickel of education but they had a whole lot of spiritual wisdom many of them did not even finish high school but when it came down the spiritual thing they had spiritual sense they had spiritual clout [Music] and do you not remember when they went on the glory they left a house they left some money they left some acres not people with all the education with all of this all of that dying and they got to collect a burial what happened they did not grow spiritually [Music] but as i look at the writer he says he says this is a spirit that falls upon many and it's called laziness i'm too tired to grow it's just like going to one of those fitness centers and you know you walk on the inside and there's people there on the treadmill some are on the climbing bike and summer on those bicycles you know just doing it up and you look around and say i ain't doing none of that i ain't killing myself but you're paying for a membership [Music] and just you told people that no i got a membership at that fitness center i go every week but you don't tell them when you go in there you don't do nothing you sit there and watch everybody else amen get in shape and your pain but you're leaving they're still weak not strong enough vitally important my brothers and sisters he says here when it comes down to that we got to stop being lazy and i think laziness is something that can creep on us at any time i i know i supposed to be doing some push-ups in the morning but you know how hard it is to start so i'm gonna start in the morning and just do one that's how i have to start i can't jump down there and do you know 45 50 at one time i'm gonna do one the next day praise the lord i might try to do two but i'm gonna do that one but i'm trying to do two third day three four day four i will keep doing a little bit more until amen i can get my body in a way that is strong enough to handle my weight when i do a push-up because i want them to i want my physical physique to mature i want to get my abs back i used to have some abs in 1977. amen you could wash your clothes and scrub them on this scrubbing board [Applause] don't try that now you'll wrinkle them all up they get stuck in the grooves [Music] and so the writer says dr luke says this he says listen you become lazy you don't want to understand but by this time you should be teachers and but you need somebody to teach you the basic principles of god's revelation all over again in other words we're having to repeat the same class you were taught this but some kind of way it went through one ear and out of the other my brothers and sisters the way you grow in the word of god as soon as you hear it implement it practice it you see it's like kissing you can't teach somebody to kiss you just gotta get with it you get better the more you do it in that writing tillman brother barnard you got some aviva routine you know about that growing in christ you've got to take that word of god you got to begin to eat that word of god and implement the word of god on a regular basis sometimes you know i go back and i'm so past the home and do it you know if we go back and we look at previous sermons that we preach we go back and i go i just type my name in in youtube pastor walter august junior and you know a hundred sermons pop up and some i preached eight years ago ten years ago i began to to look at some of those same sermons and i relive that message for me i go back in and look at and it helps me that's one sermon on there that i love to listen to and i'm probably the only one listening to my message because amen every time i grew up it had the same number of views but the next time i go back it click one so i guess i'm watching my own videos by myself and that is blessings and obedience i look at that one because i go back in and i said lord you know if i obey and i continue to hear the voice and i stay obedient to you then blessings will continue to flow in my obedience it might not make sense to nobody else but i go back in and so i preached to myself all over again and it's the same thing i'm digesting i'm doing what the cow does he get a cod of grass and he chews it for a minute he swallows it and while he's walking back to the bone he remembered look there it is again he's going to start chewing on it again that's what it means to take the word of god begin to chew it swallow and get the nutrient from the juices of the word and allow it to strengthen you on the inside because when amen satan come you have something to defend yourself you have enough god on the inside to defend yourself [Music] this funeral we just did less than an hour and a half ago some of the hardest funerals you have to do to officiate is when a life has been taken young woman is 22 years old well you know the the family members you know and they would it was well attended you know and in in some important sites so you know it's hard how do you deal with this without being angry [Music] without wanting to get back strike back well that's when the preach word have to go out and encourage them to let god handle what you shouldn't be trying to handle it take a man a woman that have god on the inside in order to fight the battles that come your way and the less gods you have in you the more crazy and destructive you're going to become because you've got to be able to weather the storm spiritually to keep the testimony that god has placed in your heart so we can't be lazy we can't be stuck on that and then we got to exchange this milk for some food you know you drink a lot of milk drink a lot of milk drink a lot of milk drink a lot of milk yeah it's good it's got a calcium in it but you need some other proteins you need some other vitamins you need something to balance you you need the five food groups fried chicken fried fish fried pork chop french fries there you go sister girl and fried onion rings y'all know that's not defied food groups let me try to write that down to the tillman but we need to get that down we need fruits we need bread we need meats we need vegetables you need to balance it out for your body vitally important so we got to get off the milk and we got to go ahead and get to the meat of god's word so we're able to embrace god's word even when we are convicted you know you you should never seek the dog on a mailman for delivering your man god's mail [Music] because some of us do god that way you know as long as god is blessing sending the blessings our way boy it's good it's hallelujah oh you're awesome god amen [Music] but when god gives you what you really need and our grandson crossing at the house this morning and he got a little cough going on so we're getting some medicine and so i asked him i said now you got to tell me because it was more like a uh more of a cream type of medicine and he's and i said well how does it taste man like ice cream i said it tastes like ice cream [Laughter] he said no don't tell no ice cream and then says dog and said that's why i put it in the refrigerator because it'd be cooler it might have a better taste when it's colder well i know it doesn't taste good carson but this medicine is going to help you so he takes it and that's the same thing if you want to get well you want to get stronger you've got to begin to take the meat of god's word and many times my brothers and sisters we have to walk out our faith you know because storms gonna roll upon us we have to walk our faith and it's important that the faith that god has placed on the inside of you you have to be able to say you know something i'm not as weak as i thought i was i'm able to bear this storm it was a blessing and i got in this fresh in my mind it was a blessing to see this family in this last past hour where the mother and father of that child they were not even together but they both remarried and a wife the mother sitting with her husband and the father sitting with his wife and they ain't fell as you've got to grow to do that come on i say amen you've got to grow in god to do that that's a sign of maturity i don't want them sitting by me y'all go sit over there foolishness we got to grow beyond that and so he says listen we need to get onto that solid food because and we need to stop being inexperienced when it comes to the message of righteousness and it says because we're nothing but infants you know the milk is not going to do us any good we need some solid food so then we can distinguish watch this when you start getting the meat of god's word you will begin to distinguish that which is good and that which is evil because you better see it i promise you maturing mean you're growing now i've been preaching and pastoring our church for 27 and a half years and in each year i do believe i need to become a better pastor i need to become better at what god has called for me to do i need to continue to grow i need to continue to study and i need to get better in my sermon preparation time and the message that god give i need to make sure when i when god used me i'm giving my everything i'm not uh coming you know lucifer i'm not coming with just my uh mere thoughts in my mind i gotta come and i gotta be who god say that i am and i gotta deliver a message of hope and i gotta be on point and i gotta do it with the power from on high that you ought to see my growth you ought to see my maturity when i make decisions decision that comes against the body of christ when i make decisions that we have to fight we got to serve god when i make decision it ought to be mis decisions that's from a mature mindset and i find myself from time to time you've got to amen even uh do things that others might not agree with but it's the right thing to do because there's always the right time to do right and what i do that's right has no subject bearing on what one does or what one says because sometimes we get the opinions of other people and we go right back into that level of immaturity and we agree with them but let's look carefully family because colossians paul gonna go ahead and unpackage this force in colossians chapter number two verse number six he says so then just as you have received christ jesus as lord continue to walk in him be rooted and built up in him and established in the faith just as you were taught and overflowing with gratitude just put a pen right there we got to always remember who we gave our lives to you did not give your life to me i did not give my life to you we gave our life to jesus jesus is the lord of our life he is director the manager of our soul he is the author and finisher of our faith he is god all at the same time being man and god all at the same time and god's word settles everything so we have to go back and remember that we receive christ as lord and because we received him if i went with you to ephesians chapter four it says this he says paul says i beseech you that you walk worthy as the prisoner of the lord he says i beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation which you've been called ephesians 5 ephesians 5 and 1 begin to tell you be imitators of christ you have to begin to look at what christ did what he has done what he's doing and you have to begin to mirror your actions according to the life that jesus lives is not what pastor august would do is what jesus would do you got to go back there because if you don't remember amen what christ have done for you because you received him and you amen can't see him you definitely won't walk in him and you've got to see christ all the time and it's vitally important my brothers and sisters that you have an authentic relationship with christ every single day you have to pick up your cross pick up christ daily and follow him pick up christ daily and follow him pick up christ daily and follow him because the challenge is no man can serve two masters [Music] you're gonna serve one and hate the other you're going to hate one and love the other you can't do them both in other words you would not be bringing kumbaya to jesus and satan and i know at times we think we can do certain things but you can't serve two masters you can only serve one and so when he says you have to walk in him that mean you've got to know him now for those who have not heard i'ma give this invitation to you now so you might sign in uh chime in every night now we moved our regular 10 o'clock phone prayer time to zoom because we have been going at it it's all it's almost three years now every single night we're on the prayer line praying at 10 o'clock the reason why god chose 10 o'clock to give to us that's the time that most of the news channels come on and i don't want you going this bad skin so if you have not got a chance to sign in in the zoom all you got to do is send me a text me an email your email and i will send you a link every night from 10 o'clock until the prayer in is blocked for an hour and everyone that's on we've been averaging 35 people on the zoom every single night [Music] and so it's easy just go ahead and text me your email and i will send you the link out for those who need my phone number make it easy for yourself it should be on the program but for those who might be in their office don't have a program in front of them my number is simply seven one three nine six two six six zero two seven one three nine six two six six zero two i only have one cell phone and you can somebody dial my number right quick 713-962-6602 is the only phone i have and as members of this church family you should have your pastor's number amen 713-962-6602 i'm waiting on somebody to call me i want to know when you're going to pay your taxes they hung up hello oh they calling me now hello [Music] hello hello boy they call it now hello hello they call it now hello y'all doing all right oh they call and i tell you family this is a black pass hoping this thing works [Laughter] somebody else comes out of you come on hello hello hello how you doing thank you so much for calling what you must be online with us today thank you so much [Music] lord have mercy girl y'all making my day but if you call that phone number i will go ahead and and send you the oh lord all right we read through there they got the message come on now come on with it baby that's a good thing and i'll make sure after i get through with bible study i will send you our prayer link for the zoom amen thank you so much now you remember my church yes right yes all right baby what's your name you always tell miss patricia houston's sister hello your church family say hello baby she said every wednesday she watched every wednesday amen thank you so much baby the lord's will will get back with you thank you you're welcome bye-bye [Music] that's a blessing but i will send out that link to you because it's important because prayer is the foundation of our faiths it's our time when we commune with god and believe it or not when you own that prayer line you get encouraged because people that are praying and even those who don't pray they get blessed because they know there's somebody in the city praying amen each and every night and i'm on that zoom call pretty much i've been on every night because i'm kind of orchestrating it right now but i think it's it's only right that we actually connect with god every single day and if we do it collectively there's power in prayer that's power when we pray amen so we want to do that because he says now being rooted and built up in him and established in the faith just as we were taught with the overflowing gratitude verse number eight says this be careful that no one take you captive through philosophy or empty deceit based on human traditions based on the elements of the world rather than christ so we have to make sure we got to guard ourselves as much as we can family because the world will encroach us and and paint us into a corner to where we're non-existent to where we're not even relevant for the times we're living in that's why i share with couples those who are married i said listen your marriage is your ministry your marriage is your ministry [Music] you have to use your marriage as a ministry even if it's just for your own family amen even when there's times of struggle in your marriage still use it for ministry testify about the good the bad and the ugly it'll help somebody amen and then when we talk about that he says listen it's important because based on traditions based on elements of the world rather than the things of the lord we have some marching orders that we got to be mindful of the world want us to be totally worldly while we are even spiritual and so that's going to be a war between that which is good and that which is evil and god will be the one that comes in and separates so we got to guard ourselves to keep growing the other thing family says for the entire fullness of god it says nature dwells bodily in christ and you have been filled by him who is the head over every ruler in authority lord have mercy pastor olman that blessed me every ruler in every authority do you not know that the president have to sit in this front pew when he come in here he has no ruling authority in the kingdom of god at all but in our world you know positions and titles in the of world has been lifted up and that's why king herod if you remember when christ was born the ruling authority of that day king herod wanted to kill jesus because that's a threat to his own empire or his own kingdom but when you look in isaiah you know that even the government rests on christ's shoulders the government is not over god no matter what they tell you the government is not over god no politician is over god at all that's why when we yield to the things of this world we find ourselves missing out on the blessings and the miracles that god want to perform dr luke says now not that but paul says in verse 11 you were also circumcised in him with a crew with a circumcision not done with hands but putting off the body of flesh into the circumcision of christ so there's been a new circumcision and that's the blood of the lamb of god and when you were buried with him in baptism in which you were also raised with him through faith in the workings of god who raised him from the dead and when you were dead in transpasses and in the uncircumcision of your flesh he made you alive with him and forgave us all of our trespasses see as you begin to mature in god's word than family you can walk on water with jesus you can walk on water with jesus i promise you when you mature with the lord at a level when he says peter come and get out of the boat you will get out of that boat and walk on water not because of man not because of you but because of him you see when god tell you to do something won't make sense to most people but when you mature in him you know that there's nothing too hard for him to do and so you believe that he's still a miracle worker by all means if god say i got you if god say i'm not going to leave you i'm not going to forsake you when god say that you need to know he got you and one of the things you got to learn to do my brothers and sisters stop checking with flesh to do spiritual things because natural flesh rebel against spiritual things because they don't make fleshly sense lord have mercy and so we are made alive because in him because of his forgiveness of all of our trespasses look at verse 14 he erased the certificate of debt with his obligation that was against us and opposed to us has taken it away by nailing it to the cross lord have mercy you know it's a wonderful thing to have good credit brother earnest it's a wonderful thing to have good credit i just sleep better i just sleep better when i got good credit my children appreciate it but once upon a time i did not have good credit [Music] you know i never even thought about it i needed to get my credit together and i thought you know 300 man i'm good [Laughter] i didn't know that thing went over to 800. one million over that is 850 850 yeah yeah i didn't know that but a few years ago my credit began to look better i felt better i was able to call the little place and listen i'd like to get this than the other he said come on and just sign this and get out of here praise the lord you mean no down payment so that's not important went to get something and they gave me more than i asked for you got good credit family let me tell you something you know how it is when you don't have the burden of debt in all of your everything you own everything that you owed has been zeroed out [Music] oh what a feeling now i don't want you doing a show of hands in here but there's some people that know what i'm talking about amen that mean your home is paid for your vehicles are paid for you can knock out the little bills that come in every month in full never blanket eye sooner bill hit the mailbox and hit the mailbox going out somebody had to say mine you're not waiting on the 15 or the first it's just automatic that's a good feeling well the better feeling or the greater feeling is that all of the things of your past everything that you've ever said done did thought about that was contrary to the work in the will of the lord has been nailed to the cross and god has given you now a certificate clearing all of your past debts so there's nothing that satan can use in your past against your future that's good news and when you know that then you don't get stuck you don't continue to go back to bad habits a matter of fact now that i got my credit kind of clean with a 6 30 i'm going to go ahead and that's not a good that's not good i was at 300. so hello from where i can get give me at least i made some amen some strides 6 30 gonna do it [Music] but i tell you what though since i cleaned up my credit i protect it i protect it as much as i can you know years ago pastor holman you gonna get that a little bit you you chair and call you he said listen dad i need this that and the other i know you can co-sign i love my cheering yeah did that won't do that no more amen won't do that one no more because they purposely know that they don't have to pay for it i cut that program out so i protect it amen i don't co-sign for nobody no more i learned i have to learn that and i protect my credit well just like i protect my credit in the physical sense for material things how much more do i protect my certificate of all of my transgressions being washed away eradicated and nailed to the cross you got to protect that you got to honor that because that's what has freed you up and when you talk about the nail on the cross you got to remember that was painful that wasn't easy that nail on the cross was painful even unto death that christ himself cried out to his own father why have thou forsaken me all the stuff that we did all the things that we said all the things that we thought about that was negative and no good and evil and wicked was now up on the cross and he did it for me [Music] that ought to compel you to grow to mature now what happens if you have a child and you feed the child but the child won't grow you're rushing to the doctor hospital specialist check out my child something's wrong well that child is also a man when you see men and women who are not growing you can bring them to the hospital there's an evangelistic message here you and i can't change nobody but we know somebody that can sometimes you got to go out of the way to pick them up and bring them to the hospital call the church and let the word of god minister to them to get them the healing the restoration that they need in the same doctor that cured you and me is the same doctor that will cure them so we have to look around and continually bring people and faith to christ jesus as we continue to grow stronger day by day and do it so well where you're not faking it [Music] because you can fake maturity because we live in a world where you know everybody's an actor an actress we all can act and we can do it very well but you don't have to desire to do it that way let the transformation of your maturity be genuine dr tony evans share a story about a man that you know people thought he was an expert marksman that mean that he could take a rifle and shoot any target anywhere in bull's-eye automatically so much so that he had daughters and he had an old barn on the back side of the property but close enough that people that's driving down the street could see it and it was had targets all up on it plastered all around and in every target in the center of the target was a hole in the center and the word got out around town that this man was an expert shooter and he had some daughters and they were getting up age where they're able to date and the young men had got word that their father was an experts marksman a shooter so they would somehow bypass those girls and so the girls would tell the young men at school you can come by my house and meet my father because my father is a very nice man he's very nice man a matter of fact he he would welcome you into our house but these young men would drive by the house and they couldn't get what they saw out of their mind and the rumor in the neighborhood that this man is an expert shooter and you know when you amen as a young man you go to a man's house and you know apparently he got a gun you just can't roll up over there then one day the father had went to the barber shop and they was talking and he didn't know it for real but it was brought his attention and says you know uh i got a son that is interested in your daughter uh but he he's fifth he's a good kid make straight a's you know he's good in sports love the lord but sir he's afraid of you he's still kind of like your daughter so the man started laughing and uh he said why are you laughing he says why are they afraid of me the word out man i seen you born man you got all of them targets and you got a bullseye and everyone and it's known in the community you are a expert marksman you started laughing some more he said now why are you laughing tell me why you're laughing he said what most people don't realize i'm not a marksman i'm not an expert you see the bone you see here's what i do at night i shoot at my lawn then i paint a target around the chop so when you see it you assume and that's why his daughters realized that their father was a nice man and because he was a nice man others didn't know him that way so what i'm sharing with you today as you grow and as mature everything is not what you see because sometimes it's the fear of what we don't understand or don't know or don't ask the right question that keep us away from the best things that you can ever have now the story ends where i don't know if the young man ever got to the house but i share with you you can get home because sometimes people say no god is too perfect for you to be around and it's the very reason you need to pursue him because none of us were truly good enough [Music] but all of us were good enough because he chose us we did not choose him so let's help our brothers and sisters grow in the word of god that's what it's about help me to grow i help you to grow we sharpen each other as solomon says iron sharpens iron one man sharpens another and when somebody trying to sharpen you don't get all been out of shape they're just trying to make you better amen father god we thank you master for this day we thank you for your hand of grace and mercy over our lives and father we do pray that you grow us but to us strengthen us in a real way lord that our life god will never be in vain we pray for the entire body of believers around the city around the state around the nation around the world praying for every preacher teacher leader god praying for every choir member every usher every greeter that we all grow god in the spirit all grow and mature in the word of god so one day god there will be no need to have to warm up god christians god they will already be on fire they will come into the house god on fire they will leave the house god burnt up to go out and tell a dying world that jesus lived so mature us lord please jesus then father would you receive tithes or offerings gifts that come from the hands and heart of your people let it be done in jesus name and we say amen and amen family the deacons are going to go ahead and take care of our time of giving uh now is that just the uh page uh that's page i don't have my glasses on put my glasses on do we and that's miss amy do we have a word baby yes man y'all are a picture of maturity [Music] thank you all for being an example of still walking in faiths even though it seemed that things are falling apart god got you all thank you all so much ms amy [Applause] let the deacons take care of that family remember tomorrow us thursday we got two funerals one at 10 one at 1 30 and then on friday we have another funeral at ten o'clock on this coming friday uh family i gotta i gotta share with you it's important very important that you mature in your walk with the lord even when things happen that's out of your control amen you cannot lose your weight you can never let go of god you see at 4 13 4 17 this morning 4 13 my phone rang at 4 13 this morning and it was miss amy and my husband is not responding the paramedics is here trying to revive him get up quickly and refresh a little bit and get some clothes on be lying to her home i get there it's probably 4 40 am this morning they're bringing him out and they have that automatic pump pump in this chest you got four or five paramedics there loading them into the ambulance amy is sitting daughter and son is there her father's there her sister is there we prayed with him they took him to the hospital and it's critical why are you telling us this she came to bible study she know where her help come from she placed her husband in the hands of the lord [Applause] because she know that she is limited but god is unlimited and that's what you and i are supposed to be doing we can't lose our way when stuff happens it's for god we live for god we die blessed be in the name of the lord look at the examples of faith around you and grow do not lose your way we got to grow amen amen depends on anything else new members orientation is coming saturday morning at nine o'clock anything else passed over you have anything yes but earnest not not ivory williams it's a it's another ivory it's gemeric ivory last name is ivory for all tomorrow evening at 1 30. thank you so much for asking sir i've rained going nowhere until jesus call him home you know y'all don't know that but i raised 200 years old no i'm kidding [Laughter] is there anything else family yes ma'am what a blessing [Applause] god the praise amen amen prayer works amen thank you for your faithfulness amen now how long you been here my dear sister ten years do y'all know that sister right there tell him your name baby who is she what's that first name how much money she made come on we know you don't know nothing yeah i'm kidding sister rita but listen yeah i know you you oh you're not gonna talk to because apparently there's a guy on the prayer line every night we get ready to close the haunters will back me up he always good night sister rita how many y'all know i picked that passed over you picked that up no no no no no but it's the way he say it good night sister rita bye-bye everybody thank you sir okay

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Length: 65min 58sec (3958 seconds)

Published: Wed Sep 15 2021