Pastoral Installation Celebration Of Pastor Reginald W. Sharpe Jr. Sunday September 19, 2021

first church anniversary celebration we will celebrate like only fellowship does and honor three living legends of fellowship on this day dr ludella evans read reverend ferris evans and reverend jesse jackson you do not want to miss this after church we are having an anniversary drive-through we will have music and special anniversary gifts to give away pull up from 12 p.m to 2 p.m to fellowship with us september 18th 19th 21st 22nd and 23rd is the official installation celebration for our very own senior pastor sunday september 26th is hero sunday a fellowship hero is someone who goes over and beyond at the church in their community or in their career we will honor those so so so so so sunday september 26th do hmm welcome aboard the virtual ship with fellowship chicago while we can't have church traditionally we can still be the church consistently new method same message new platform same power new season same dove now let's go into our worship experience everybody yeah let's go all aboard all aboard we got to go good morning fellowship good morning did anybody come to lift up the name of jesus today come on if you don't mind could you just call his name this morning and say jesus oh come on sin like you mean it said jesus could you put your hands together we just want to lift his nail today if you don't mind standing you can stand we just want to honor his presence this morning can somebody say hallelujah call your name it's something we cannot explain that happens when we proclaim your great name your great name that happened is there's power in the name of jesus power in his name anybody understand that this morning there's joy in the name of jesus joy is i'm is oh together anybody love to call the name of jesus we something we cannot explain that happens when we proclaim your grace on right here can you just whisper his name come on just say his name whatever he is to you dr hilla come on strong tower waymaker oh tell me who can stand be for you when you call on his great name come on what is his name jesus jesus his name is time to read is somebody ought to give god some glory today for victory i said somebody ought to give god glory today for victory somebody write in the chat this morning there's something about the name jesus yeah i know a lot of people's names i've met a lot of people but it's something about the name jesus i know we can't touch anybody for those in the sanctuary but just look around and anybody you can find and say is something about that name something about that name he's a healer he's a keeper he's our savior nobody like him a lily in the valley a brighter morning star the prince of peace the rose of sharon bridge over troubled water a keeper in a storm a ladder in a dungeon a leader in danger savior redeemer propitiation for our sins stepped in and took our place somebody ought to bless him yes sir that's what i'm talking about somebody just shot jesus that's the name that'll carry you through something about the name jesus hey something about the names yeah it is everybody lift your hands all over the country this morning something about that name something about it yeah that's it right there there's something about their names is come on one more time just call his name personally jesus jesus jesus every now and then you can't get comfortable with it don't take that name lightly jesus jesus he's a keeper does anybody have that testimony this morning jesus christ and i've seen him do some healing this year didn't just heal me physically but emotionally mentally spiritually financially what's his name jesus come on put those hands together and bless the name of jesus this morning i think that's an appropriate place to start this worship service yeah i know we're celebrating installation but there's still a name that's above every name and at the name of jesus every lease still must bow every tongue must confess that he is lord i'm so happy to be with you this morning to those of you in the sanctuary god bless you you may be seated and to all of you who are watching aboard the virtual ship can y'all make some noise for the virtual ship this morning amen amen amen some family some friends some preachers are in the house and we are just so excited we are continuing our celebration from yesterday didn't we have a time up in here yesterday was an amazing day my wife came in here trying to uh tell us something she was trying to tell us a little something something yesterday came in here looking like michelle obama and today she's looking like meghan markle can we thank god for lady bree and all of her elegance and her beauty and her spirit come on let's celebrate our leading lady y'all let's celebrate her such a queen in her own right beautiful inside and out and then dr charles jenkins i mean he set us straight yesterday he gave us some marching orders yesterday come on y'all help me celebrate the pastor meredith of fellowship chicago let's thank god for our pastor emeritus i salute him i thank you sir for that message yesterday is one of those messages i will never forget for the rest of my life and then to the evans family that are here and all of our guests and our friends stand up evans family and jonathan jackson my brother come on the evans and jonathan jackson come on jackson family thank you all so much for being back in the house again and it's such a such a special day drop those anchors as you're watching live on the virtual ship we're live this morning and can we thank god for the music ministry that's already set us on fire with miss led by miss keisha mcfarland we are so so grateful for her ministry everything yesterday the only word that i could use to capture yesterday was meaningful word spoken was meaningful every song that was sung was meaningful every prayer that was prayed was meaningful and i want to thank you for your presence i know some were not able to get in the sanctuary but thank you for watching live from wherever you were yesterday bree and i felt your love and then for all of you who have expressed such warm and thoughtful generosity pouring into our ministry yesterday can i give you a big virtual hug and tell you i thank you from the bottom of my heart thank you for believing in us my wife and i sowing into us and then praying for us and then on top of that just rocking with us i mean we're in an unprecedented time still and the fact that you wonderful people continue to support the ship continue to pray for the ship continue to tune into the ship i want to say thank you today i'm going to get out of our way because we have some good singing and lord knows there is a preacher in the house and i'm excited i i almost couldn't go to sleep last night i had to take me some melatonin or something just to calm my mind i was excited i was on 10 dr smith i'm just excited to hear what god is going to do through you today to pour into me and our church family and so i'm just elated i've been excited all week i told my wife i'm so happy and it's just good to be happy isn't it ain't nothing wrong i don't have any complaints i ain't mad at nobody and even if somebody is annoying they can't annoy me this weekend nothing is bothering me today i'm just as happy do y'all see this do you see this smile my grits were good this morning my chicken side y'all better holler at your boy i was having a good day and i just had a good day yesterday having a good day today and i'm excited for next week dr marcus cosby and miss kathy taylor will be with us on tuesday dr fry brown teresa fry brown and and the first lady of the church of god in christ lady karen clarkshere will be with us on wednesday and then to close us out is bishop walter scott thomas and the one and only uh the reverend doctor i i call the reverend dr jachalyn carr can we thank god for all the guests that are on the way to bless us this week so stay with us tuesday wednesday thursday i want you to chill tomorrow find you something good to just your netflix and chill do what you got to do do you take a load off it's been a long weekend we had enough church for everybody yesterday don't no church need to have church in america after the service we had yesterday we had some good church but we're going to gather again on tuesday and i want us to pause now this time to sow into the god who make sure that we have everything and we thank god for an opportunity to give come on put those hands together wherever you are and just thank god for an opportunity to sow i'm so glad that i don't pastor a church where i have to coerce you and convince you to follow god's word over here on the ship we believe that if you follow god's principles god will take care of god's promises and every promise has a principle attached and so if you give and bring all of your tithes into the storehouse 10 dime out of every dollar god said i'll open the windows of heaven i'm gonna do my part if you do your part if you give he said i'll i'll i'll give it back to you good measure press down shaken together and running over so we follow god's word over this way and i want to encourage you today to sow into the kingdom of god today would you lift your hand right where you are and of course you see those seven ways to give there's multiple ways to do it but wherever you are i want to connect my faith to your faith so that we believe together that as we sow into god's house that he's going to take care of our own houses as we take care of god's business he's going to bless our business god right now in the name of jesus we come so grateful for the worship and the spirit that is already flowing in this house we feel your presence this morning and we know that you're with us god we have a simple prayer today would you bless bless bless every gift every seed every tithe every offering and everything that will be sown into your house today and then god bless bless bless every giver let nobody lack because of what they sow by faith today god do it do it for your glory do it to prove your word do it to take somebody to another level do it to take their business to another level i pray for increased favor and larger territories to be released this month in the name of jesus we connect our faith in faith and together we say in jesus name it is so and amen clap your hands o ye people and shout unto god with the voice of triumph i'm going to get out of the way i have a few things to tell you and i'm going to get out of the way because the praise team is coming back to bless us sister keisha mcfarland is our special guest today and she's already blazing on fire come on let's give her a good fellowship chicago welcome we love you my sister you're at home do your thing and right after that uh we're gonna be blessed by my pastor my pastor the reverend dr e dewey smith jr a lot come on let's thank god for him y'all let's thank our forum i'm so so happy we have a video introduction to formally introduce him that will come as soon as i sit down after that the praise team will bless us and then he will come but can i give you all some good news can i just sneak some good news in to make you smile underneath all those masks today let me give you some good news we're returning to limited imperson worship on the first sunday of october can y'all thank god for that come on oh wait a minute wait a minute fellowship we we've been trying to get this thing together a long time we ought to turn up and thank god for bringing us back together officially on sunday morning the limited capacity will be 300. i know it looked thick in here yesterday but you know black folk like to sit up on each other amen amen but it was about 300 ish people in here yesterday and that's the cap that we're gonna leave it on until we feel safer to expand it let somebody say man so it's gonna open up on wednesday what's the time what's the time what's the time wednesday at 5 00 pm this coming wednesday at 5 pm it's going to open up and you'll be able to lock in your sundays even if you miss the first sunday of october jump in on the second sunday if you miss the second sunday uh-huh jump in on the third sunday and i'm gonna see you when i see you and even when you're not in the building i want you to stay on the virtual ship because we have more people watching out there than we will have in here so we love you and we're excited we're prayerful about this new normal that we're walking into so i'm looking forward to it i'm going to get out the way now let's receive our video introduction of our guest preacher my pastor we're going to be blessed by the praise team and let's go higher in god let the church say amen ministering the gospel of jesus christ for more than 30 years dr e dewey smith jr is the senior pastor and teacher of one church in two locations the house of hope atlanta and the house of hope maker a proud native of macon georgia dr smith began preaching at 17 and began his pastoral ministry at 19 with degrees from morehouse college ambridge university and his doctorate from the united theological seminary dr smith serves on the board of directors for the morehouse school of religion and the united theological seminary and bible column he created the tab at the house to help young girls affected by human trafficking and the haven house a fully staffed professional and licensed counseling center dr smith loves to share the gospel with people around the world let's welcome to fellowship chicago dr e dewey smith hallelujah hallelujah could you just say something sweet to the lord right here as we prepare for the word hallelujah come on appreciate him in this moment as we celebrate his name today his great name his strong name praise the name of jesus praise the name of jesus for he's my work and he's my fortress and he's mine delivered praise the name of jesus should we magnify your name glorify your name oh god oh oh is so one more time is i love to play here is i love to praise is everybody oh it um who worship and to glorify you for you alone are worthy to be praised we bless you this morning for your compassions that fail not and your mercies that are new every morning great is your faithfulness how we honor you for being faithful to us even when we've been so unfaithful to you you've blessed us and you've brought us and we've come to give your name the glory the honor thank you for jesus thank you for the holy spirit we give you praise for this historic place called fellowship thank you for the wonderful history of this church and yet the marvelous destiny that you've ordained thank you for allowing us to witness the insulation at the third of this triumvirate of trial trombones who prophetically proclaim and bring inspiration to the world thank you for the legacy of dr clay evans and the ministry and life of pastor charles jenkins and now we give you praise for this joshua pastor original wayne sharp jr that you've consecrated and elevated for such a time as this thank you for his lovely wife who stands by side and we ask that you breathe afresh on our time of sharing for those who are here those are watching online and when you speak in the name of jesus i pray that you'd open our eyes now that we may behold wondrous things out of that law breathe afresh and we give you praise now in jesus name amen amen you may be seated friends of the lord let's put our hand together and thank god for this wonderful wonderful time of installation did anybody come to give god praise did you come to give god praise come on put some hand claps in the chats clap your hands if you're in this room we've come to worship and glorify him i was just sitting there having a moment of reflection talking to pastor jenkins and it's just it seems so surreal i stood in this pulpit for the first time 23 years ago for fellowship's broadcast and preached in front of dr evans for the first time and i remember when pastor jenkins was in birmingham at miles college prior to moving to chicago i'm having a dream uh prior to moving to chicago and he had a dream about moving to chicago and that god gave him a vision one night that he would be pastoring a church in chicago named fellowship he had never been to chicago didn't know pastor evans but he had a dream that he would pass the church in chicago called fellowship and he subsequently moved chicago and got married and allowed me to be a part of his wedding and my wife and i love he and dr tara we want to give her a hand in her absence as well what uh my sister we love you and uh to witness that transition it's just been amazing and pastor jenkins and pastor evans would come to my first church in macon and do tag team revivals just an amazing blessing when i got installed my first service at greater travelers rest pastor jenkins and dr tara caught a flight and flew down to atlanta just to be a part of my first bible study there when pastor shepherd hebert floyd shepard retired that's the pastor who baptized pastor sharp when he retired i asked pastor evans would he come and preach his retirement pastor jinx and i just talked about it pastor clay evans came down to preach the retirement of my predecessor and pastor sharp's first pastor in june of 2006 reverend evans did that for us to preach his retirement a pastor that reverend sharp loved so dearly and that's the kind of connections and the intricate details that have been happening here for a while it just is surreal when my mother passed five years ago on a saturday monday morning i woke up and guess who's at my front door pastor charles jenkins flew down to atlanta to help me pick out my mother's casket help me pick out my mother's cemetery plot he was there came down to be a part that's five years ago and to see the hand of god orchestrating all of these things it really brings to bear the truth that all things work together for good to them that love god god god's hand has been at work this whole time before we ever knew it and now to have this young man who i met when he was 12 years old and he acted like a 40-year-old when he was 12 years old and you just saw the oil of god on him you saw god's hand on him and his first time at 15 took the pulpit and stood there like he had been doing it all of his life at 16 he became my preaching assistant and to see all of his walks i could leave the church in his hands for weeks and not worry about anything as long as he was there that's the kind of of of just gravitas that he carried to see him lead well his parents raised him well and we honor the lord for them for faith sharp and reginald wayne sharp jr brandon his grandparents he studied well and then god knows he married well mary's someone who fits him who brings out the best in him and all of that god was orchestrating to bring that evans family and this family together a few weeks ago when pastor sharp's aunt died to have pastor evan's daughter to come to celebrate and just be there with him as he was preaching his aunt's funeral it just brings tears to my eyes even now how god's hand it's much bigger than ours and we all just give god a handclap of praise for all the great things that god has done this is the lord's doing and it is marvelous come on let's thank god for the evans family for the jenkins family and for the sharks family god's hand has been at work the whole time and we honor the lord for you and certainly my wife and i here under and i are here to offer our support and our love pastor jenkins we love you and thank you for this this paradigm of transition and we thank god for what god is doing in your life and we thank god for what god has done these past few months i've never seen a pastor to take the ham of a church three months and a pandemic arises and having to have it's hard enough pastoring black folks when there's not a pandemic and to have to lead a church in the midst of a global pandemic and when you look at the integrity and the power and the anointing and the progression with which this pastor elect prior to being installed let this church fellowship we all give god praise for you that's a that's a tremendous gift what an anointed an anointed gifted vessel of god i want to jump right into this word the book of philippians and um man i'm just i'm just so full the book of philippians that's the word i want to share with you it's in the first chapter of philippians and the 27th verse and when you have philippians 1 i want to lift it for you it's so befitting i believe i'm going to read it from the king james version that i read from the message paraphrase philippians 1 27 says only let your conversation be as it becometh the gospel of christ that whether i come and see you or else be absent i may hear of your affairs that you stand fast in one spirit with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel i like the message bible's rendering it says meanwhile live in such a way that your credit to the message of christ let nothing in your conduct hang on whether i come or not your conduct must be the same whether i show up to see things for myself or hear it from a distance meanwhile live in such a way that your credit to the message of christ i want to talk for a few moments from this thought in the meanwhile in in the mean while paul had been commissioned for his first journey by the church of jerusalem and after obeying that first commissioning from his home church paul was getting ready for his second journey getting ready to leave asia minor western asia wanted to go to bithennia and macia had plans on the second ground took with him silas luke and timothy and was going to take the gospel in those regions thought he was going in one direction but the holy spirit blocked him and while paul was trying to figure out directions for the next chapter i was obedient in the first chapter after being commissioned by his home church in jerusalem he's trying to get discernment about what's the next chapter what does the next piece look like and then one night he had a vision and that dream a man from macedonia said won't you come over here and help us he thought he was going in one direction but god blocked that and god sent a man with in a vision to say come over here and help us and so he leaves the adriatic he leaves the aegean and comes to a territory called philippi this territory which had been named in honor of philip ii of macedon this coastal territory about eight miles inland this epicenter of the first century world he gets there to philippi and upon arrival in philippi he's met with a young girl who has a spirit of divination luke tells us in acts chapter 16 she brought her masters much gained by sue saying she had been affected and afflicted by a mythical snake spirit this python spirit this ventriloquist spirit which was worshiped at the temple there in delphi it was believed whoever had been smitten by this spirit would have the ability to be a fortune teller the caste system in patriarcha of that day had her in some form of first century human trafficking she foretell and predict the futures but when she saw paul and when she saw silas she ran after them saying these men are servants of the most high god would show us the way of salvation paul did not want to be credentialed continuously by the demonic so it turned and cast the spirit out of that young girl and when her master saw that the hope of their gains were gone they drew paul in silas to a marketplace and after beating them with many stripes they threw them in a jail there in philippi it's at that time that we get the great miracle that at midnight paul and silas sang and praying sang praises to god and god sent an earthquake and brought deliverance in that territory called philippi paul is only there in philippi uh he had no thought no inclination about going to philippi he'd just been obedient to what his first church sent him out to do but but a man had a vision say come over here to macedonia and come over here and come on and help us and paul gets there and he's incarcerated and released but his relationship to the philippian people has continued you would think he'd be frustrated you think he want nothing to do with the philippian people but he's still connected but yet he picks up his quail in parchments and he's in jail now in rome and while he's in jail in rome uh only familiar with the philippian people because somebody had a vision to say come over here to macedonia and help us he was obedient to his first church and served that well thought he had plans to go to my and bithynia but somebody had a vision saying come over here to macedonia and help us over here he's only connected to macedonia in the philippines because somebody had a vision that said come over here and help us it's a precarious predicament for the age of the apostle and he's trying to lead the philippian people and so you have pastor paul and the philippian people he's only connected with them because somebody had a vision they said come over here to macedonia and help us he was obedient to the commission of his first church he served their will had plans but somebody had a vision i think y'all gonna get in a minute come over here in macedonia and and help us and so now he's connected to the philippian people he he wants to pastor them only because somebody had a vision to say come over here to macedonia and to philippi and help us but now there's a problem because he's trying to provide pastoral leadership to the philippian people that somebody had a vision to say come over here to macedonia philippi was in macedonia and help us but that's a problem now here's the problem he can't pass to the people because he's imprisoned and so pastor paul and the philippian people can't gather in the same space uh yeah it's it's it's it's it's it's greco-roman quarantine he he wants to get to them and get him to get to him but he's trying to pass it in a place with a people that he can't even see he wants to he wants to provide faith to people with whom he can't even fellowship uh how do you pass the people that you can't even be in the same place with him at the same time i mean he could have bible study in the same place he he couldn't have his pastor's insulation in the same place couldn't have revival in the same place here's a pastor who can't get to the people but trying to provide can't sing together can't worship together call the greco-roman quarantine he didn't ask for this he's only in connection with the philippian people because somebody had a dream and said come over here to macedonia and come over here and help us and now he's trying to help them but can't help them because he can't see with them so he's trying to be with the people and lead a people he can't even see oh fellowship you do know you do know that pastor reginald wayne shaw was commissioned by his home church on his first journey he went and served well and did everything in his power and after serving well and fulfilling that assignment trying to figure out what's the next chapter in my life do i go to houston do i go to academia do i plant do i start and wally's trying to figure out do i go here do i go there do i go to bithynia do i go to myself somebody had a vision uh somebody by the name of charlie jenkins from saint pete and said come over here to 45th and princeton and and help us and so here he is now he's in connection he's been introduced to this new philippian people and wants to pass to them but they are the problem something beyond his control it was incarceration for paul it's a climatic global pandemic for shop he's trying to pastor a people that he can't even see oh god can't even be in the same place with him at the same time what happens when the new pastor gets called a fellowship and three months into his pastorate fellowship came fellowship oh god y'all wha what what happens when you're trying to be of faith and can't fellowship with the people that you've been called to help do the assignment and here you are almost two years into the assignment and still can't meet with the people that you love because of something beyond your control because you tried to be wise and prioritize public safety and here we are now with the delayed installation but it's a delayed human installation but he had a divine ordination uh he had a prenatal ordination before he was in his mama's womb god had already appointed and ordained his footsteps for such a time is this it's delayed for us it's right on time for god oh and he is pastor sharp paul is trying to pass the people he can't see so what do you do when fellowship came fellowship what do you do when you just been assigned to a ministry that you had no idea anything about just somebody had a dream saying come over here to macedonia and and help us paul said that even when you are betwitched in between a precarish predicament paul says you still can have church in the meanwhile you still can do ministry in the meanwhile what happens when your business has been thwarted because of a pandemic you still can be successful in the main somebody shout in the meanwhile oh i'm not going to twiddle my thumbs we still can do it in the meanwhile i had to ask paul paul what can i tell this pastor who's only here because somebody had a vision to say come over here to macedonia and help us what what what what do we do in the meanwhile what how do we lead how do we progress in the meanwhile and paul says here's what you can do he speaks to these philippian people and said you want to have church in the meanwhile you want to be progressive in the meanwhile here here's what he said he says resolve to keep growing yeah yeah resolve to keep growing verse 27 he says meanwhile live in such a way that you are a credit to the message of christ that that when i can't see y'all and y'all can't see me in the meanwhile live in such a way let growth be so evident that you are an asset to the message and not a liability to the message meanwhile live in such a way fellowship that when folk look at you they can speak to the fact that you are a testimony to his message oh pastor sharp and i spoke with this whole pandemic first arose and i got to be honest many of us wanted to privatize faith and safety for the people but many of us were concerned a lot of pastor didn't have the faith to shut down to put people first because we're trying to figure out how we gonna make it i mean how do you do ministry and your people can't meet but we've been preaching every church anniversary upon this rock i'll build my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against it and here's fellowship 71 years later for the first time in her history has gone 18 months without public worship but yet somehow someway you are a credit to the message when he says that the gates of hell your quiet shall not prevail against it death won't prevail covet is from hell and you are a credit to the message that god will keep your full speed ahead with a brand new preacher in the midst of a global pandemic because when his hands is on the ministry you are a credit to the message somebody i'll be a credit to the message when the message says if you have faith the size of a grain of a mustard seed you can say to your mountain be thy rem somebody say i'm a credit i'm a credit to the messenger that i can testify in 18 months god has provided god has made a way some of us should have been crazy by now but god has kept you you all testify i'm a credit to the message cause i've grown even in a pandemic am i talking to somebody right now whose faith is stronger now in september of 2021 that it was in march of 2020 because god has shown you i'll provide for you oh i wish somebody give god praise right there that god is a provider that god is a healer you got to keep growing to be a credit so members of fellowship who are not here when people see you are you a credit to the message or are you a liability to the message do you add to the message or do you take away from the message one minute when it's time to get back to worship in two weeks will you be a credit or would you be a liability he says i want you to resolve to keep growing but not only should you resolve to keep growing secondly he says i want you to remain consistent remain consistent while not gathering i said remain consistent while not gathering remain consistent while not gathering he says listen he says listen i want a pastor y'all i want to be with y'all but something beyond my control i'm in jail i can't get y'all y'all can't get to me i can't pray for y'all i can't lay hands on y'all the past and the people are separated but because of something beyond their control he says but in the meanwhile i want y'all to do this i want you to live in such a way that your credit to the message let nothing in your conduct hang on whether i see you all tonight y'all y'all y'all proud of me uh uh uh let let nothing in your condo let nothing in your behavior uh be based upon whether you're in my face or not oh god i want you to be the same oh y'all quiet on me here were you at 45th and princeton or were they whether whether you in englewood were you're in west side i want you to be the same i want your faith to be the same i want your walk to be the same i want your prayer life to be the same i want your fasting to be the same i i want your giving to be the same y'all quiet on me here i want your worship to be the same everybody won't be able to gather back in two weeks but be the same and even on this third sunday uh only a few of us in this room but you ain't got to be in this room to be appraised right in your house turn your living room into a living room of love you're dead into a deen of dignity you catching until kitchen of kindness your bedroom into a bedroom a blessing i double dog dang you right where you are to shout hallelujah in your home see see some of you got to have keisha and ducey on the organ some of you got to have vassa and the choir to pray you happy no that's not meanwhile saints what i want you to do is be your own praise thing do your own invocation be your own choice sing all five parts soprano al totena baritone and baseball preach your own sermon after sharp preachers and then raise your own offering is there anybody around this how can testify i'm going to be the same i will bless the lord at all a long time and his prayers shall continually be in my mind listen give your own self a high five and say i'm gonna praise him in the good and the bad whether i'm happy or whatever i'm saying whether i'm sad listen i need you to i need you to be consistent and when we get back in two weeks for worship when you're coming to these doors don't act like you forgot how to have church when you come matter of fact what i need some of y'all do right now go ahead to your closet right now and pick you out of outfits you're gonna wear on first sunday and i know you probably gained 10 pounds if you can't shout in that go to walmart and buy you a bigger size cause when you get up on the fresh sunday you want to have something you can run in if you can't shout it don't you wear it somebody said i came and so and and so in the meanwhile you got to resolve to keep growing uh remain consistent while not gathering but but number three i'm almost finished uh in the meanwhile not only should you uh resolve to keep growing and remain consistent while not gathering but but number three remember to stay focused on the goal oh y'all going to help me for a moment i said remember to stay focused on the goal here is in verse number 28 he says listen now meanwhile live in such a way that your credit to the message of christ uh don't let don't don't let your conduct hang on whether you can see me or not your conduct must be the same whether i show up to see things for myself or hear from a distance he says now here's your goal stand united singular envision can i put a quarter in the meeting park there for a second stand united now now i i'm going i'm probably gonna make somebody upset here but uh i'm almost finished and i love y'all but i got to tell you what god gave me the the problem with legendary pulpits is that we unintentionally create what paul says that psalm was saying in the church of corinth i go to paul's church i go to a policies church i go to barnabas's church we unintentionally separate ourselves and become tribal when you think about the fact that dr clay evans who can who can you can't walk in the shoes of dr clay evans one of the most one of the craziest ideas is i'm going to feel his shoes those are shoes you can't feel but what you can do is get your own pass shoes and put your shoes as close to his shoes and point your feet in the same direction and see what happens a lot of times what we don't want to happen here is that you have one church but these are evans folks these are jenkins folk and these are chops folks we we want to honor and honor and celebrate dr evans because he's one of a kind and will live forever we always do that we want to honor the 20-plus years that charles jenkins served this church but it would be the height of unfairness to expect pastor reginald wayne sharp jr to do everything envisioned the same way that dr clay evans did it and pastor charles dickens did it see i watched college football and and the number one team in the country is the university of alabama but alabama just hadn't become great so y'all football fans they had a coach whose name was paul bell bryant that brian is a legendary coach when you saw him on the sidelines he wore suits he wore derby he won championships they have a statue of paul bear bryan outside the stadium it's called bryant dennis statham in tuscaloosa out of alabama but a few years ago they had a coach whose name is nick saban and nick saban also now is a legendary coach who's won championships paul val bryant only threw the ball 10 times a game y'all quiet on me here nick saban may throw the ball 30 or 40 times again oh nick saban wears jogging suits on the sideline same institution two leaders two leadership styles but the hat got the same a on it meaning alabama y'all quiet on me here fellowship gonna always be fellowship but evans was evans or jenkins was jenkins and let saul be sobbed the vision is worship the vision is discipleship the vision is ministry the vision is outreach the vision is evangelism but don't expect him to be his oil will only pour on who he is authentically and i know your heart pastor sharp you love people and that's why god has blessed you but do me a favor don't ever allow them to make you feel so much pressure that you got to be and do exactly exactly what they did because god has never anointed a counterfeit fellowship i'm charging you to stand united it's okay to love pastor evans pastor jenkins it's okay to have special memories with them but bring the church together three leaders three personalities but one fellowship it's a kinship it's a friendship it's a relationship what a fellowship what a joy divine ringing because at the end of the day it's not about pastor evans pastor jenkins or pastor sharp at the end of the day how to reach the masses men of every birth for an answer jesus gave the key and i if i be stand stand united singular is one vision this is not die not trivision not quadrivision not octavision it's not sanctivision it's now now um pastor up is interesting here i was praying this morning and and i thought about vision and and the lord reminded me of some pastor jenkins when i was a boy uh they had a cartoon waiting for you born before i was one too they had some cartoons one was called the flintstones yeah it was a it was a convergence of the stone age and the prehistoric times so you had dinosaurs stone age we had fred flinstone we had wilma flintstone we had dino uh we had barney rubble we had betty rubble we had bam bam we had mr slade we had the rock quarry we had the puba lodge oh i see somebody around here know the flintstone huh not not people love the flintstones because it was a reminder of what was in the prehistoric age and in the stone age and the flintstones made it multiple seasons because it was a regurgitation of what had been but now another cartoon came out by the same company it was called the jetsons yeah now it was produced in 1962 but it was predicting the year 2062. uh-huh the first time i saw a smartwatch y'all quite the first time i saw skype or zoom or computers or robots you remember george jesse i'm on jane jesse now here's the iron there the jetsons only made it one season the flintstones made it multiple seasons the justin's only made it one even though it was futuristic why because the jetsons was produced in color and at that time only 80 percent of america 80 of american tvs were black and white so people hated the jetsons because they couldn't see in color the thing that pushed them forward they hate it but a thing that kept them stuck in the past they loved let me ask y'all one question fellowship are you going to be fred flintstone or you're going to be george yes cause we can't serve the present age if we're going to stay stuck in 1952. stan united singular envision contending for the people's faith in the message we're going to love pastor forever and we're going to build the foundation but but there's got to be one vision it may be hard to come up with that reality but you got to have one you got to be together somebody said we got us we got to stay together let's stay together and here's the thing pastor i love this he says and sometimes it's going to get hard when you're trying to be united he says but here's why what you do sharp if you find some difficulty he says i love this verse y'all it's right there he says no flinching no dodging when you put one foot in front of the other and god tells you to go forward i don't care what kind of eras oh god pastor jinx and i were talking 20 what night january 2001 i was on the same pulpit when he was installed and boy i tell you some of the shots he took some of the hate he got that's why yesterday was such a blessing uh my god cause my god was it was different the the the path have been paid for you got the blessed pastor evans and pastor jenkins and sometimes i'm telling when you're trying to serve as a new leader doubts will come oh god if when you're trying to do what god has called you to do church sometimes storms will arise but here's what paul says no flinching no dodging i wish somebody typed in the comments i'm no flinching no dodging enemy take your best shot trying to destroy my family trying to destroy my mind trying to destroy my finances and my health somebody type no flinching no dodger i know who's got a cancer diagnosis or somebody's watching now got covered 19 but tight in the comments no flinching no dodging because god ain't giving you a spirit of fear but of love and the power and said i ain't got no flicking i'm finished point a thing in the neighbor say no flinching because the lord is your light in your salvation whom shall you can do it but hold your head up listen listen he says he says he says listen listen no flinching no dodging then in verse number 22 and through 26 this thing blessed me he says and because i ain't flinching i ain't dodging past you up this thing will bless me he said i got the vision he says he says listen now they tell me they're going to kill me and that's fine he says in verse 21 so if i live as christ if i die it's gain i i know they may cut my head off i know i may not get that with i know the devil don't want us to meet as pastor and people he says but here's what i want to tell y'all so i plan on being around here a while you miss your shout so i plan on being around here a while i want to talk to the folk who've been dealing with covet somebody got stage 3 cancer watching me right now i need you to type in the comments so i plan on being around here a while i know seven hundred thousand folk have died of covert and we're sensitive to those deaths but i know my assignment ain't over yet so by faith i decree so i plan y'all quiet oh man right here oh wow i want to talk to the folk the devil trying to take your mind i need you to open your mouth and shout so i plan on being around here wow oh god pastor sharp i saw some the other day in research oh god that most new pastors don't make it five years on their new assignments 1500 preachers leave the ministry every month the leading occupations for suicide are doctors lawyers and preachers y'all quiet on me here 300 churches in detroit shut down last year alone they're predicting a quarter of a million churches to shut down in the next five years but can i prophesy to this man of god and to this fellowship body y'all gonna be around here a while i don't care what happens in this anti-faith society god's got his hands on pastor shop and on this ministry i wish somebody said the lord is my keeper he's my shade upon my right hand therefore the sun won't smite me that day not the moon by the they're trying to drive paul crazy external persecution internal persecution perpetration folk even preachers inside the jail are preaching christ trying to irritate him he says but devil i plan on being around here a while it reminds me of a woman old lady who was raising her grandchild and she was broke y'all in poverty and every day she'd be hollering and screaming praying lord provide lord take care of me and my grandbaby she was hollering and screaming every day so loud but the man who lived next door in the apartment he was an atheist and he got tired of his old lady crying and praying about being broke and lord feed her grandchild so he went to the grocery store bought a bunch of groceries and came and put it at the front door oh god they ran the front door and stood around the corner already got the groceries and started shouting start praising god holly lord you did it lord you did it lord you did it the man who the atheist went back and rang the doorbell say oh hey i'm tired of you ain't no god tired you fussing and crying and praying to god about god buying you these groceries god didn't buy you these groceries i bought these groceries ladies start praying and shouting and giving god more praise thank you lord thank you lord for sending me these groceries uh the man said i bought these groceries he said lord i want to thank you because not only did you buy me some groceries you let the devil pay for him y'all quiet on me here and i came to let you all know yeah that through the storm and through this rain the devil has been trying to discourage pastor sharp the devil has been trying to discourage fellowship oh but i want you to know that even when the church came together god's going to use the enemy yeah and the attacks of the enemy to make fellowship and evil stronger ministry do i have a witness here in the building yeah so in the meanwhile resolve to keep growing remain consistent while not gathering remember to stay focused on the goal but then forth that recognize will soon give god glory uh it's right here in the text paul said listen he said yes lord so i plan on being around here a while as a companion of your joy and then he closes by saying yeah in verse 26 we'll soon be together i plan on seeing y'all again even though we've been disconnected a great reunion is around the corner i've got to close here but i'm thankful that uh 18 months later fellowship has been separated for a while but because you kept on ministering in a global pandemic and had some meanwhile missionaries the lord has allowed shop to have an installation and a little while y'all will be back together praising god real soon give yourself a high vibe and said it's gonna soon be over yeah that's why the book said that i like afflictions or only for a moment but they work it for us a farmer exceeding an eternal weight of glory the old baptist deacon would say it like this i'm so glad that trouble don't last all week and i've got to close it now but before i close yeah point at your neighbor and say neighbor your blessing is coming uh real soon y'all not saying nothing to me your breakthrough is coming up real soon your favor and increase are coming up real soon your marriage is going to be mended uh real soon yes lord somebody shout i'm gonna give god the praise real soon because the lord has not promised me a flowery bed of ease but if i keep the faith it's coming real soon come on y'all prophesy to each other it's coming real soon jobs and better jobs real soon rather than bonuses real soon unexpected checks real soon sickness and poverty will cease real soon and the devil is defeated i've got to close the message but somebody testify is going to work out in my favor it won't always be like this the lord will perfect everything concerning you sooner or later it's gonna turn uh in your own favor somebody say real soon and be not dismayed be tied to you the lord will take care of you i've got to close right here i feel the holy ghost yes i do it's going to happen real soon type in the comments real soon point at three people say real soon he's gonna restore the years that the locusts have eaten the palmer worm and the cankerworm have taken away fellowship you've had a hard time yeah pastor evans passed his wife passed daughter passed the pain of pastor jenkins retirement y'all not saying nothing the inability to fellowship with pastor shah for 18 long months but i just heard the lord saying it's all getting ready to work out real soon that's why the bible says yeah yeah that weep in me y'all quiet on me here yeah have you ever been through something the last 18 months let me see you wave your hand if you have some frustration the past 18 months i call that midnight midnight is when the pastor emeritus dies midnight and sometimes and difficult transitions happen uh midnight is when a global pandemic comes but remember i told you this midnight only last for one minute midnight only last stop for 60 seconds at midnight that's midnight but at 1201 that's morning time and weeping may endure for the night but somebody shall jog i said john i said weep and mercy endure for the night but just tomorrow somebody said i'm happy and it's gonna work out yo i need y'all to open your mouth and say it's working out for my good now do me a favor i need someone to take a minute and don't wait until it works out to give him glory but right now in advance praise him like it's already worked out somebody shot left us already worked out so many games like you already broke up one two one two three died somebody does somebody dance hallelujah i gotta take my seat here i gotta take my seat do me a favor point at your neighbor say neighbor i don't know how hard the last 18 months have been for you but neighbor this next shot is for your victory that's right around the corner one two one two three died ah everybody too come on lift it up give them glory in here come on one more time he's been provided tell three people no flinching and no dodging come on tell three people no flinching no dodging some of y'all ain't saying nothing you got to put it in atmosphere no flinching no dodging now look back at them and say be ye stand fast unmovable always abounding in the work of the lord that sacrifice is not in vain your servant is not in vain those tears are not in vain here trying to hold it together can i just get 15 of y'all to just praise him one two three go raise him in your kitchen why is it in your bathroom take a lap around the dining room somebody gonna ask you what's wrong with you just say i'm waiting for him to pay me back double 100. this is what we do in the meanwhile this is what we do in the meanwhile this is what we do he'll do more than you ever expected i've seen him do more if you ever expected he's done more only god can do it only god can do it don't you know it don't you know it or don't you don't you know i need you to minister tell one more person hang on in there hang on in there hang on in there he'll pardon you it is no secret he's is what god what is oh um yeah somebody just lift your hands and tell god thank you for keeping me in the meanwhile between the prayer and the answer between the problem and the solution between the sickness and the healing between the storm and the peace he'll meet you in the meanwhile i'm not by myself here somebody could testify i'm here right now cause i know him as a meanwhile god to god be the glory for this message and the messenger come on let's thank god for heaven for sending dr e dewey smith jr come on fellowship come on let's celebrate this man of god i need people to understand as we open the doors of the church you don't make it anywhere by yourself there are people who push you they're people who believe in you and you don't believe in yourself for the rest of my life i owe this man so much for pushing me into my purpose and i didn't even know it so thank you doctor thank you doctor can he come back to the ship one day can he come back can he come back look he's coming back whether we want him to a naughty family family's family thank you lady andrea for being with us today let's celebrate this queen you're so beautiful so beautiful listen i need you to know that the word that the man of god has preached today was not just for me but somebody needed that for you and if you don't know the jesus christ who will keep you united keep you whole and keep you in peace peace i want to invite you to know christ the information is at the bottom of the screen i just shoot us an email some of you told me yesterday i want to be a virtual member this is how you do it info at fellowship chicago.com all you got to say is i want to know more about jesus i want to join the church and our staff our team our first touch ministry would be so happy to connect you to the god who's able to save and deliver if you need a fresh start come on email us or text us if we do church or home come on email us or text us you need christ come on email us or text us we'll be so happy to join you in with our family somebody just shout to god be the glory yeah yeah yeah that means god gets all the credit god gets all the credit for what's happening our praise team is going to bless us with elder vassa and i'll be back to close us out in worship listen for those of you who have not given already the seven ways to give are coming back on the screen again we don't leave before the benediction so look at those seven ways to give make sure you sow today into the house of god and god will bless you for keeping that principle he'll keep his promise come on praise staying blessed and because god is the greatest power we shall never never be defeated and because god is the greatest power you shall never never be defeated come on nothing i've been saying come on and because god i want you to sing it with the greatest power we shall never we shall never never be defeated every defeat is i want you to lift those hands because in the meanwhile no matter how you feel god's hand is still on you god is still going to work it out i need some worshipers that know how to open your mouth beyond your mask and let the lord know i know i know i'm victorious i'll never be defeated again come on just wave those heads in the sanctuary everybody i want to hear you singing with us come on the devil is a liar god is exalted never be defeated i'll never be defeated can i say it again the devil is a liar and today god is exalted that's why i'll never be defeated oh i'll never be defeated come at me the devil is alive the devil is the light who's exhausted that's all he is is is i don't care what it looks like don't be scared to say is is says come on say it loud it is so we thank god listen we got to get off of the virtual ship i thank god for each of you today to god be the glory the devil is a liar god is exalted i shall we shall never be defeated oh lord lord lord we can stay there all day can't we we can stay there all day greatest power but we got to leave it alone we shall never be defeated listen i promise i don't want to move on cause i the lord is in this holy place i know you feel what we feel on the virtuous ship but i'm telling you the lord is here the lord is here the lord is here the lord is here the lord is here the lord is here the lord is here lord have mercy listen i have to i got to move on we got to dr jenkins would you like to say anything today if you want to say anything you're welcome to spirit lead you want to say something grab that microphone right beside you y'all give our pastor meredith a hand come on yo i think we can do better than that after 20 years of service let's give our pastor meredith a hand one of the greatest messages i've ever heard in my life y'all help me celebrate dr e dewey smith jr again my brother my sister andrea and this is the season that we're in we're in a season of celebration and so we celebrate yes sir and so again pastor reginald sharp jr lady brianna sullivan sharp come on y'all make some noise for them again celebrate them encourage them i don't know when i hold this mic again so i just want to say thank you i just want to say again publicly that i couldn't be prouder i couldn't be prouder of the spirit the bible says that daniel and joseph they had a spirit that was unlike anybody else they were exalted because of their spirit you do what you do because you are who you are and so what a spirit i found it would say a great spirit a great spirit a great spirit but i just want to i just want to encourage the church pastor smith couldn't have preached a better message a more on time end time rhema word to speak to the time that we're in and i just want to say really fast directly in it's only so much you can do with online dating it's only so much you can do in a long-distance relationship and so the man of god said it today in the meanwhile we gonna do what we can do but in between be patient with one another pastor and people be patient everybody will be back together real soon and it's completely a different kind of thing when it's face to face in the same place but here's the blessing even though it's been a quarantine we ain't got no problems over here things are going well and y'all are doing a fantastic job come on y'all make some noise for him again come on give it up for our pastor meredith that was weak i said y'all make some noise for them again i want to do something really quickly with the three minutes mama daddy come up here real quick some of y'all never seen come on up here miss face sharp come on she's shy pray for y'all give him a hand give him a hand give him a hand where's my little brother is he in in the service come on up here come on up here come on up here y'all get my mama hand take the mans off so you can see how pretty you are yeah say cheese y'all give it up for my little brother say something good afternoon i'm so glad to be here thank you all for loving on our children and i just want to say i appreciate you all thank you amen it's been a blessing being here i thank you all for loving my son as i love him probably even more maybe but just continue to support him stand with him and you guys grow together i just want to say thank you for um embracing us loving on us loving on my brother and his family and our extended family and just continue to grow and full speed ahead sound like a preacher doesn't they sound like a preacher and then y'all watch this today is my mother-in-law's birthday come on up here mama sullivan come on up here mama sullivan well we're singing happy happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday to you we're singing to you happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday well happy birthday happy birthday anywhere near the snow we're singing happy happy birthday to you happy birthday to you happy birthday to you y'all give it up for mama celebrate birthday happy birthday we love us from you you preach yesterday she was a first lady for over 20 years before bree's father passed so she just wasn't talking from as a mother to a daughter she was talking with over 20 years of being a first lady experience mama sullivan say something to us we all been vaccinated i just like to say thank you so much uh for just even thinking about me today and i thank you again as fay said and mr sharp and brandon for just loving on our kids we were just sat talking yesterday and i was telling mr roosevelt that we're so thankful faye and i and mr sharp are so thankful that um you guys have shown us that you love our kids and it makes us feel very comfortable knowing that they're here they don't have family here but knowing that you love them puts the ease on us on us and we're so grateful and so thankful for you loving on them continue to love them and i know that they love you happy birthday now she did it again y'all she did it again y'all give it up for our lady bree come on my wife here we are hey y'all we love y'all so much haven't we had an amazing time in god today amen thank you pastor shot for this amazing service thank you to dr e dewey smith for that amazing sermon rhema word and of course thank you to our pastor emeritus pastor charles jenkins we love you so much love y'all thank you all for everything for people who've traveled out of town to be here we love you for those watching online we love you we will not have this service be as long as yesterday so would you all stand for the benediction and the blessing next sunday we're celebrating our heroes and our pillars so we're going to continue our church anniversary celebration is miss fran bell here today and miss fran bill here today she's not miss serena edwards please come forward she and miss fran put this installation together come on up here y'all show her some love pastor pope come up here he was working y'all give it up for our executive pastor miss i mean just so many people helped make this great miss serena thank you so much to you and your husband for all your sacrifices keep your mask on and say something i'm just honored we this was supposed to be april 4th of 2020 and we wanted to make sure that this man of god and this amazing woman of god got all that they deserved and more and i think that we exceeded every expectation and thank you all for being here showing up and showing out for our pastor and first lady lift your hands for the benediction to the staff i love you each and all to our church i love you to my media team we can do this without you to the music team couldn't do it without you may your struggles keep you near the cross may your troubles show that you need god may your battles end the way they should and may your bad days prove that god really is good i pray your whole life proves that god is good and let all the people say i know that's right and amen come on put those hands together and praise god come on bring that beat back in and let's close with some flow and flavor y'all be safe getting out of the sanctuary let's fellowship outside i love you all i love you i love you i love you i love you everybody when i think about when i think about it when i think about what he's done for me they stretched hallelujah me he's done more more than the doctors expected so much more than even i expected if you look over your life there's so many times when god showed you he can show up on time shocked your mind shot your spirit thank you for worshiping with fellowship chicago on the virtual ship we've always had a commitment of service and during this season we've increased our efforts to serve you better we have made it easy for you to stay connected to get the complete resources you need you can email us at info fellowship chicago dot com call the church office tuesday through friday 9 a.m to 5 p.m at 773-924-3232 and our social media on instagram twitter and 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