Preaching with Power: Rev. Dr. John R. Adolph

[Music] welcome to this final evening of preaching with power as president of united lutheran seminary it's been my honor to be with you along the way for this wonderful series i know that our mission to spread the love of god revealed in jesus christ is carried out powerfully in this preaching series and we are strengthened through it in our call to live out that love in our regard for one another in our care for our neighbors welfare i trust that you have been encouraged in your faith and inspired to love and service through these sermons as i have as we hear tonight's final preacher the reverend dr john adolf i know we will again be inspired to live in love as christ first loved us i thank dr adolph in advance for his sermon i thank you siblings in christ for being with us and i ask god's blessings on you on our seminary and its urban theological institute and on our broken world god be with you i'll see you next year thank you president our guy irwin for your opening remarks this evening and welcome back to preaching with power 2021 and the first year again that we are hosting virtually each year united lutheran seminary brings leading african-american preachers from around the country to our seminary community to preach and to lecture and we share this experience with the local church community in the past those local churches would host each evening and we would raise funds to support our students in the black church concentration at the end you will see a slide on how to donate both online and how to mail your donation and i want you to know that all gifts are appreciated as you support our students in that vein of appreciation on this last night let me thank our communications department linda and granier and let me thank rit chair don redman who has helped to make this event this year a success thank you from the office of the urban theological institute this year we do not just host locally but we host globally and because of that i say again welcome welcome to this final night of preaching with power 2021 and tonight our preacher is the reverend dr john r adolf and allow me to introduce to you my friend and former classmate in seminary the reverend dr john r adolf is the pastor of the antioch baptist church in beaumont texas he is a native of houston texas was ordained in the ministry by his late father the reverend seymour v adolf at the new hope baptist church in houston he earned his undergraduate degree from texas southern university his master divinity degree from the interdenominational theological center morehouse school of religion and his doctor ministry degree from houston graduate school of theology he was called to antioch baptist church in beaumont in 1996 and by the help of god he has seen a growth in that church from less than 60 members to well over five thousand under his leadership the church acquired over 75 acres of land developing 60 new homes 148 unit town homes and other living complexes for seniors thus adding four new streets to the city's infrastructure he is also an author he is the author of i want some more it is a life-changing look at paul's letter to the church in ephesus after the samanic selection by minister scott cumberbatch the next voice you will hear is that of the reverend john r adolf hear ye him [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] [Music] [Music] do [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] room foreign [Music] [Music] praise the lord and what a joy it is to be found in your company man to be alive and well knowing that the grace of our god has made divinely inspired provisions to smile god's face upon us i greet you in the strong and able name of our redeemer whose name is above every name that the bible is replete and clear regarding it every knee will bow and every tongue will confess he is lord to the glory of god the father to my friend and brother dr quinton robertson man thank you for this wonderful invitation to share with you all that the united lutheran seminary what an honor and esteemed privilege it is to be a part of this black preaching forum with power man and i'm so excited because you could have chosen anyone but favorite and always fair god has permitted me to be a part of this college of clergy this beautiful tapestry of men and women of god who are going to share their convictions about jesus christ and so i say thank you in the latin root of those who understand where the glory goes i say soul i day o gloria to god be the glory thank you for this invitation and it is my prayer my plea before heaven that something will be said or taught that would cause you to hold god's hand and walk with god a little closer god bless you genesis chapter 3 verses 10 and 11 read on this wise and he said i heard thy voice in the garden and i was afraid adam says because i was naked and i hid myself and he said and god said and the lord said who told thee that thou was naked hast thou eaten up the tree well whereof i have commanded thee thou should is not eat that's enough for today that's enough for us to pull on and preach from say amen for the reading of the writ and so i'd like to tag today's text with this samonic thought lord help me handle who i listen to uh not long ago i was blessed to visit the holy land jerusalem for a second time in my lifetime it's interesting because i noticed things this time that i just didn't pick up on during my first excursion there all my friends i noticed that everywhere i looked there were stones everywhere i also took notice to these little clay jars that they sold all over the place in every little market shop i kept seeing these little jars shiny jars doll jars clay jars but all of them were just jars and i kept wanting to know what are these here for these perfume vessels you know just what so i asked a gentleman near the via de la rosa what these jars were he said my friend these are tear jars he said uh these are meant to hold the tears of certain people right away i'm intrigued about like you up and so thank god for a google search engine that works no matter where you are in the world i googled it i took my trusty iphone out and i discovered brothers and sisters that these little jars are called the crematories yeah they're tear jars uh you give them as gifts when people uh literally have a newborn baby yeah you give them a tear jar you give them a tear jar when a young couple gets married and you give tear jars when a loved one passes away i grappled i struggled i tried to figure out what the significance was between the burial of a loved one the birth of a child and the beginning of a new life together was for a couple why would you need tear jars for all three i went and i asked that gentleman in the market why do you need jars for all three of these people these groups he said because all of them require tears from time to time ah if you were married you've had to cry at least one good time because can't nobody hurt you like a spouse if you've ever had to pick a coffin and a last outfit for somebody you love nothing can crush you like death in the family likewise the same is true with one of your children my god hear me every parent nobody can bring you to your knees like a child can especially those in their years just beyond puberty and adolescence where they can put deodorant on straight have a certain look and have grown up enough to think they know as much as you do it's the most frustrating piece because you are at a place where you realize that they hear you but they just don't listen wait hold on there are some things and people that our younger folk listen to they listen to internet people all of the time no matter how much foolishness may surface they listen to crazy classmates who they know are crazy but they still listen they listen to pugilistic peers from time to time who can just put stuff on the table of their intellect you have never placed there okay hold on let's go ahead and be honest our teams at some point have an interesting argument and it goes like this you see children see parents up close and they know that there are no perfect people so there are no perfect parents either and because they see the flaws of their parents often brothers and sisters young young folks say well if your life ain't perfect and my life ain't perfect why should i let your imperfections rub off on me but what parents have the edge on is this teenagers listen carefully the stuff you're doing your mother and father wrote the first volume of it and in many instances the edit version and the version you're learning from that you just don't know it it's it's difficult because you can want different things for them but you can't make them habit they have to want it on their own all my friends they have their own language they have their own lingo they have their own etymological constructs they have their own dress code they have their own everything when you look at our young folk today they don't say i look nice they say check out my drip if you if you're wearing blue that day they're going to say hold on it's just not your drip y'all see that you're cripping and if you're not cripping you're doing something far-fetched that they can appreciate and when it's really crazy and far out they don't say that you're dripping they don't say that you they don't say that you're cripping they just say that you're tripping my brothers and sisters it's a lingo of their own not long ago a frustrated parent of a teenager at our church brought her teen to her pastor single mother of one young lady 16 years old absolutely beautiful and adorable she brings her to see me i get the counseling requests for him i sit down and because of anonymity i won't mention the name just listen to the story we sit down in my office i open with prayer as i always do and then i ask this question what brings you to see me mother said pastor radov my my daughter is just she needs god i said to her what makes that such because all of us need god what's your burden today she then says it's just so much then i asked the teen and i said listen i'm your path like i'm your mother's pastor would you feel more comfortable talking in front of your mother or in her absence okay y'all already know the answer to this question she said she can leave so i can talk i said cole i asked her mother to be stepped away from us ask her to you know excuse herself she took a seat in our conference room i told our staff get her a nice cup of coffee or a cool beverage whatever her preference is i sit in a pastor's study with a teenager absolutely beautiful i mean just a halle berry lookalike a heart kill a heartthrob and i say to her why is your mother burdened with you she says to me church that my mama's tripping she doesn't understand okay those are words you need to get a plow run through a shovel and dig in so i did just that i said why do you think your mother is tripping she said well it's about my it's about my private life i said okay what about your private life so she just sat there she stared i stared she smirked i looked harder so i just asked her does she think you're struggling with promiscuity she said well kind of shorter i said but does she think you're struggling with lesbianism you know are you struggling there she said man pastor adolf that's old school we don't struggle with that no more which led me to an open door i said so what is your struggle she said pastor adolf i'm pansexual listen carefully i'm 54 years old i have taken classes in graduate level psychology to the tone of nearly attaining a psyd i thought i was educated and up on my game i said hold on pansexual what is that she said well i i believe you can express your intimacy with anything you love or anybody you care about so if i love my dog my i stopped her i said hold on who told you that where did you get that from who are you listening to that can define you like that she looked she stared her eyes got big a tear began to well in her eye and this is what i told her whoever you listen to will lead you and if they're leading you astray both of you end up lost and will need help finding home whoever you listen to can literally put a confining spirit on you because if they want to define you it's because they don't deserve to write because they have not created you who told you that who have you been listening to you are greater than their definition because god created you you are an imago day of god you are fearfully and wonderfully made tears began to stream down her face when all of a sudden genesis trapped the three just waved at me because the same question i had for her god had for adam in the garden come here to this embryonic book of the bible it is the first of 66 books of the authorized text i love the book of genesis because in chapter one god is creating in chapter two god is explaining in chapter three god is working walking talking and defending come here it's a wonderful book and it's loaded chapter three it is rich because we have what scholars call the fall of humankind but there is no word fall in the text so just listen to the whole story the bible says that the serpent was the most subtle beast of all creation and if you read it carefully you know that when the serpent showed up he wasn't crawling he might have been strolling he goes up to eve and begins to talk i think i need to make sure i'm clear here that when the serpent talks adam is listening but when god talks eve is listening the serpent knew who to test he rolls up on eve and begins to talk and says now listen did god really say that you're not supposed to eat of any of this fruit and she says hold on i got the instructions we can eat up all these trees here except for the tree in the midst of the garden and that's the one we're not supposed to eat from she even adds you're not supposed to touch it unless we die here is the line chapter 3 verse 4. satan lucifer the serpent says you will not die he said but god don't want you in on the secret so you can know the real deal and that but really if you eat of this tree you'll be able to have knowledge of good and evil and you'll be like gods wait a minute she forgot to check the spelling in the contract not capital g o d but little g o d sister girl observes the fruit sees that it looks good looks at it and says it can't be all bad observes it eats it nothing happens takes it to her husband who is in near by proximity and brother man eats their eyes come open they notice that they're naked and they hide behind some bushes they make themselves a covering and all of a sudden man the most wonderful thing takes place the lord god comes walking through the garden and he says hey adam well are you he says hold on lord i'm over here hiding behind these bushes cause i'm naked god says hold up how do you know you naked who told you who have you been listening to have you eaten from the tree that i commanded you not to eat up and the story flows and the story goes adam says hold up the woman you gave me messed me up eve said the serpents you put here messed me up the serpent said it's just like that ladies and gentlemen the real query of the day is who do you listen to all of your life people have been trying to get you to listen people will tell you stuff like you're the black sheep of the family when you read the bible ain't no black sheep there's only blessed people and god made them all people have always been trying to get you to listen the teacher in the classroom who said you will never make it the teacher that said you're average or below average it's always somebody trying to tell you how it ought to go and getting you to listen to them but hear this today i want to breathe the word of sure concrete biblical truth you got to be careful who you listen to because if you listen to a fool you'll walk like a fool live like a fool and act like a fool if you listen to a dog you'll act like a thug live like a thug and be like a if you listen to the wrong people you end up going the wrong direction traveling the wrong path and stuff you don't need to be in i have come today hey it lets you to let you know that who you are to listen to is god and god by himself hold on this does not negate parental influence it does not erase teachers and elders it does not push away all of those who have more wisdom but it does say this be careful who you listen to be careful who you get your advice from if they are not married and been married six times and then flunk wrong don't listen to them all they can tell you how to do is mess it up if they broke and they trying to tell you how to manage your money run learn who to listen to learn who to trust learn who to find a way to say god give me those i can listen to or only let me hear your voice it's in the text here is what it says that i'm almost out of your head how is it that we know what voice to listen to there are three voices in this passage that resonate to me that we got to pay attention voice number one watch this is the voice listen carefully an internal voice of satan himself i got bad news and i got good news let me give you the good news well let me get a bad news let me get i'll give you the bad news satan always has something to say but here's the good news god keeps talking too my brothers and my sisters listen to this text because in chapter 3 satan the serpent does a lot of talking the first thing that he does if you take note is he gets them to listen when they ought not to he just offers advice to eve that she didn't even ask for hey listen here's a footnote be careful about free advice because all free advice ain't always good advice at all he begins to talk to her and solicit her mindset here is the problem if you listen you'll always end up confused hold on it gets deeper down and further in he tells him not only does he get him to listen but he pushes listening and tells her a good lie here is the lie chapter 3 verse 4 you shall not die my brothers and sisters i want you to get this the lie of the enemy is the greatest trickery and treachery time has ever seen since creation in genesis he's been lying and he hasn't stopped yet hold on not only does he get her to listen and tells her a lie but watch this he pulls her with her own lust he says the reason why god don't want you to eat of this treat is because you'll be like him ladies and gentlemen listen to me very carefully it's one thing to be made in god's image is another thing to be god we are never god we are made in his image what she missed ladies and gentlemen cost her everything it literally put her in the place where she thought that that was some equality between deity and humanity and there will never be can i park here for a moment i'm glad that god occupies his own sovereignty i'm thankful he is not up for reelection i am grateful that there is only one god there is no options for god there is no buffet of gods there is no choice of gods everything that thinks is god is not god but there is one hey who sits high and looks low and has all power in the hollow of his hand check it out not only does he get her to listen and tell her a lie but watch this he pulls her with her own lust and from lust watch this he gets her to leave god he gets her to do what god said not to do okay this for all of y'all who've done exactly that at least one time hold on i'mma wave my hand first cause i know what it's like to do exactly what god said not to do can i give you all the shout out the morning hear your first shout after disobeying god his goodness and his mercy and his love did not give you hey what you know you deserve is there anybody watching me who can say thank god he looked beyond my fault to see every one of my needs hear this announcement as i stand today he lied in the garden he lied throughout the bible he lied in revelation every time you see the devil remember this the devil is a liar he lies about everything he's lied to you about your life that's why he wants you to commit suicide he's lied to you about your failures that's why he wants you to think you are a failure if you have failed can i go ahead and shout by myself right quick your failure is not final it's sometimes a preparation for your future because if you don't know how to kneel you won't ever be able to stand my brothers and sisters the shout of the day is this he's always lied because i tell y'all my shouting knows you have the truth in the word of the living god it is why every lie is always the same all lies my brothers and sisters are to get you to believe what is not true and that's why when you learn the truth is to prevent you from having to deal with any lies at all i came this morning with truth can i just give you some truth there is one god and there was one mediated people between god and men the man christ jesus can i give you some truth the lord is my shepherd i shall not want he maketh me to lie down and green pastures he leaded me beside the still waters he restores my soul can i just give you some truth i will look to the heels from which cometh my help my help cometh from the lord which made heaven and earth he will not suffer thy foot to be moved he that keepeth israel will neither slumber nor sleep listen the sun shall not smite me by day nor the moon by night can i give you some more truth no matter what happens weeping may endure for a night but if you can just hold on to the nighttime joy will come in the morning can i give you some more truth the lord is my rock my fortress is my deliverer my god my strength and whom i will trust my buckler and the heart of my salvation can i give you some more truth if you call him he will answer if you stand firm he will help you and if you trust him he'll never leave you i'm about to shout by myself is there anybody know that god gives us the truth watch that biblical matthew chapter 4 jesus is being tempted by the devil watch this you know if the devil is bold enough to tempt jesus emmanuel well yeshua a mashiach god wrapped in a body you know he'll tempt you check it out here's how it goes he rolls up on jesus after 40 days of fasting he says i know you're hungry jesus says this watch this yeah i am but man shall not live by bread alone why it is written hold on he takes jesus to a high place in the pinnacle of the temple he said listen i got all this jesus says hold up i ain't worried about dashing my foot against the stone because i'm not going to tempt the lord how do you know that it's what's written hold on last temptation he looks at jesus listen if you just worship me i'll give you everything the lord looks at satan and says these get out my face that's what i want you to do because it is written that no matter what anybody says i will only worship the lord i go my brothers and my sisters when you know what's written you know what's right you don't have to get somebody else's view on what's been written there are critics about what's been written there are those who say don't trust what's been written but i want to stand flat-footed while i've got breath in my body and tell you you might want to learn what's been written what's been written will heal you what's been written will strengthen you what's been written will save you once they've been written will lift your bowel down head what's been written will help you push on what's been written matters forever you just gotta choose which voice you're gonna hear because satan talks but so does god watch them the 2020 graduate that i honor the most is not even my own daughter i love her simone elizabeth graduated doing well doing her thing headed to preview but she's not the one i seek to honor i've got kids who have been gay scholars who are top scholars for my church i highlight them but i don't want to highlight them today because there is another graduate i want to talk about she's 70 years old and graduated from bizarre college with her degree in applied technology her name is rosa burns hey rosa if you're watching i'm bragging on you because it took her 51 years to earn her degree okay y'all don't know when to shout y'all don't know when to get happy if it takes you 51 years to earn a degree everybody ought to shout but what shouts me is a story i read rosa's story and here is what she said she said the reason she gave up and just decided to quit school was because she heard a voice in her head telling her she would never achieve it she could never do it and she didn't have the aptitude to succeed she said but she started going to church god i'm about to shout about myself and she started reading her bible and stumbled across philippians chapter 4 verse 13. hold on y'all it's one of my favorite verses here's what it says i can do all things i'm about to shout by myself i can do all things through christ who strengthens me ladies and gentlemen rosa went back and registered and she had the best semester of her life she took 21 credit hours and had a 4.0 when she graduated she graduated with young folk that were 20 and 22 and 23 and when they called her name at the commencement they clapped and rejoiced but they missed something important on the top of rosa's graduation cap she had 4 13 why because if it had not been for the lord who was on her side can i ask is there anybody know that satan will speak but god gives us truth you got to decide or who you're going to listen to can i go deeper down and further in watch this not only is there the voice watch this of of of this whole issue of satan but check out the second shift there is the fraternal voice of sinful submission i'm almost finished listen carefully be careful who's in your corner be careful about the company you keep because sometimes my brothers and sisters people who are right near you can be the greatest deficiency you ever have watch this watch this beware of people who tell you stuff like don't knock it until you try it run from people who will give you their advice but never do it my brothers and sisters notice if you will in this text that eve is in conversation with the serpent and what he gets her to do is simply give heed to what he has to say hold on she she she knows what's right and what's not but she falls privy to the fact of three key elements that are nothing more than the framework of all natural depravity he gets her to look at this through the lust of the eye the lust of the flesh and the pride of life here's what he does he says to her listen you can use this tree right here isn't it amazing y'all the whole doggone garden is yours all the trees except for one and we just got to touch that watch this it's because my brothers and sisters he knew how she was wired so here's what he did he couldn't make her sin he just made sin convenient god help me you got to be careful my brothers and sisters around people who will make sin convenient for you oh god i throw this in the gumbo while i'm staring my rule every bad habit you've ever learned you've had somebody in their proximity teach you how to do it okay watch you think i'm lying check this out the first time you had one mixed drink you didn't even know okay wait you ain't had a mixed drink i ain't talking to you yet the first time you ever had a mixed drink you had to have a friend say get this kind of mixed drink the second time you got to go out they told you hold on don't eat all day so that when you put on your spandex your stomach will look flat they have to teach you how to say it they gotta teach you how not to mix alcohols don't drink the brown with the clear because if you mess it up you'll end up telling everybody all the disciples that you've ever met they have to teach you how to roll weed the first time you've ever smoked you didn't smoke by yourself it was somebody going puff puff your turn i wish i had about 10 people who have been in the wrong place at the wrong time and you ended up doing stuff you had no business doing because it was just convenient all my brothers and sisters i gotta echo the sacred sentiments of barbra jean jackson adolf my mama everything that looks good to you ain't always good for you everything that tastes good ain't always sweet and everybody's smiling in your face ain't always your friend you got to be careful around the company you keep i know i'm helping myself today watch it whenever you are around anybody who offers you what god said not to do they are agents of satan sent to derail you but i got good news i got great news god is a great conductor and he knows how to get a life back on track like nobody else okay wait some of y'all ain't never been off track you've never missed you've never seen you've never fallen you've never done something wrong i ain't talking any of y'all everybody else who's had god take your life up and set it back on a straight and narrow and dust you off and bless you in spite of you i want you to thank god like right where you are i want you to bless god for being the one who did not hold your past against you but dusted you off showed you love gave you grace held you with mercy and let you start over one more time okay if you like me you started over a whole bunch of times but the good news is this god doesn't leave you where he found you he puts your life back on track every now and then you gotta learn how to say this one word to anything the serpent has to offer y'all ready no okay hold on that's it you gotta learn just how to say no okay hold up if you got a little hood and you you can just lean back and say no you got to learn how to say i ain't with it i'm not for it i'm not having it i'm not trying to do it my answer is no hey ladies and gentlemen joshua what does it and joshua 24 israel is confused about who they're gonna follow but joshua is in concrete he says listen choose you this day who you gonna serve he said i can't speak for you and your house but for me and mine we will serve the lord man i have a young man of this congregation who is now 25 years old works at a plant just bought a house i'm so proud his first name is dante dante if you're watching i'm talking about you i i love him so much because when he was in high school he hung around the wrong crowd and his mom and them were frustrated because they didn't raise him to be like that he just turned out like that hey can i ask you are you the one in your family that knew better but didn't do better you just like dante so pay attention here is what happens they riding down silver street and they bawling and shot calling music blasting rims shining and they doing they think but the boy in the front passing seat pulls out some marijuana that's synthetic marijuana it ain't even real it's known it has written on the package not for human consumption but his so-called friend in the front seat pulls it out takes two puffs and hands it around the corner watch this y'all dante in the back seat and when it gets to him he said to his friends y'all about to shout he said no i'm good and hold on the driver said hey dude if you're riding with us then you're riding with us so you gotta hit this twice dante got to the red light a fourth and sarah and said y'all can let me out i'll walk home ladies and gentlemen you ought to shout with me cause some walks you walk by yourself but when you know you've done the right thing here's what i got to say walk on with your backs i'm through that's enough i'm actually over time let me just squeeze this last one you have the internal voice of satan you have the fraternal voice of sinful submission but watch this and i'm done you have the eternal voice of our living god here's the best news of the day yes satan talks but can i give you the shout and if this ain't gonna make you so happy you ain't gonna be happy can i give you the good news god has the final word lord have mercy okay listen satan can talk all day but your god has the final say so wait wait wait i'm gonna say this about four more times yes the devil is always finding ways to devour us divide us and conquer us but i've got good news your god has the last word wait hold on how would you rejoice at home in your comfortable clothes if i told you yes he talks but god got the final say so how would you shout if i told you the last final word belongs to the god who sits high and looks low i gotta quit y'all watch this notice this what's in the text god comes walking through the cool of the day hold on watch this is so important don't miss this and in genesis 2 25 the text says they were naked and not ashamed don't miss that because in 3 chapter 10 and 11 they are naked and they're hiding okay you don't know when to get happy okay watch the condition of adam wasn't ever the issue it's who told him about his condition listen he was naked either way i'm about to shout why because god knows who you are behind your necktie he knows who you are under your weave and your haircut he knows who you are behind your steering wheel he knows who you are when you can't front for nobody cause you can't front for god so you may as well be real with him but the truth is the issue is not your condition is who you've been listening to god help me teach this because they have been listening to the wrong source they fell into a place where they shouldn't have ever been watch this i like this whenever you fall into a spot that you shouldn't be in we all do the same thing watch this we try to cover it up can i just ask can i just be nosy do you have at least one sin you tried to cover up yourself hey wait hold on don't listen listen don't don't change preachers yet i'm from the clothes i'm out of here let me ask you have you ever had at least one fault you tried to cover up isn't it amazing no matter how much you try to cover it it's just not enough material to cover all that is it so watch what happened god does something i'm about to shout for adam adam can't do for himself he says adam i'm not gonna throw you away i got a point to prove so i'm gonna keep you what god does is he takes an animal kills it in the garden and puts skins on adam and eve he covers them with skins we're so happy about the skins we forgot about the animal that had to die in order for them to have it i argue right quick that what god did was say hey adam and eve i'm about to do a trial run on what it's like for somebody to have a little blood on them what he did was he sacrificed an animal which is a type and a shadow of a greater lamb that is to come i'm about to shout by myself because he knew you couldn't cover sin with leaves you had to have the blood hey of the lamb my brothers and sisters i'm through when i tell you this i thank god for the blood i thank god for the blood of the crucified lamb in genesis he is the lamb that is discussed in chapter three listen to me in exodus he is the passover lamb that they took the blood of the lamb and put it over the doorpost and the side post and when the death angel came he passed over that house can i shout you right quick we are in the corona virus big time covet 19 is at an all-time peak all over texas okay i'm not trying to criticize governor abbott but at the end of the day governor i love you but if you would have held us just a little bit longer this wouldn't be like this in beaumont texas last friday and saturday a hundred and ten people were infected infections are running so rampant in houston they're getting stay-at-home orders dallas and terrence county are going crazy and i've discovered something the other day that blessed me i had a friend of mine call me and say pastor adolf we discovered something that could possibly save people's lives i said okay drop it on me what you got he said well if you know anybody who's had the corona virus and they didn't die there is a plasma in their blood that we're making a treatment out of that if you can get them to give lifeshare some blood what's in their blood will heal others who's infected y'all i'll call one of my members and tiffany collins if you listen i'm telling your story tiffany contracted the corona virus they had to move up from baptist hospital beaumont to houston to a hospital she laid in her bed for six days tip couldn't eat couldn't holly swallow nothing tasted right but she back home and she healed y'all ain't clapping her body is healed she no longer has the virus so i called her i said till he said hey pastor i said this my hug and my kiss to you i just want to ask you a question has anyone called you about your blood she said no sir i said tiffany we are working to get people who have had the corona virus and got healed from it to give us one pint of blood she said okay i'll do it i say wait tiffany you don't know why i said there is healing in your blood for other people she said pastor adolf i'll go down there tomorrow if my blood could help somebody live oh i shouted while i was driving down the street because if tiffany's blood can cause other people to live that was the blood of the crucified lamb that is bled on a hill called calvary i love the story of because they hung him high and they stretched him wide and the blood came streaming down it bled for me and for you there is healing in the blood there was salvation in the blood that was deliverance in the blood thank you jesus for dying for my sin whoa i wish i had to pray in church the old saints sang it like this what can wash away my sin nothing but the blood of jesus christ what can make me fall again nothing but the blood of jesus christ amy all right i didn't intend on going this far but my soul didn't gotta happen i think my soul didn't gotta happen thank god for the blood of the lamb saves its shoes it's satisfied yes yes hallelujah i said hallelujah hallelujah bless his wonderful name bless his wonderfulness yes thank you lord thank you lord thank you lord i feel happy in my soul [Music] [Applause] another songwriter put it like this it will never it will now it will matter it will match and lose its power [Music] hallelujah thank you jesus for those who know who to listen to for those who know who to take their advice from the bible says lift up your hands while you're right where you are and bless the lord the bible says that you ought to make a choice with those and to the lord all you ladies thank you for joining us i pray you were blessed by our guest preacher please note that the thoughts and opinions of our guests are not necessarily the views of the seminary at this time i would like to appeal to you to consider making a contribution to support preaching with power and in so doing you support scholarship funds that support students that are in the black church concentration there are three scholarship funds the main scholarship fund that all of our students in the black church concentration receive assistance from is the reverend dr joseph q jackson scholarship fund there are two other funds that we also collect for each year there's the bishop ernest c morris senior scholarship fund that is designated for students who are members of the church of god in christ and then there's the dr grover and irma wright scholarship fund which is designated for african-american lutheran students who are inseminated of course you can give online and if you do give online you just go to uls.edu backward slash give and as we show that on the screen you will see that site and you can choose either those funds you will see them listed designate your amount and submit giving some of you would like to send a change please make your check payable to united lutheran seminary and in the memo section make sure you identify which scholarship fund you would like to go to and you can mail it to united lutheran seminary attention uti office that is 7301 germantown avenue philadelphia pa 19119 and please keep in mind that if you do not have the ability to give today you can always send a gift or go online later to give but help us to support as i've said there's never been a more pressing time to help students that will serve the black church as we see what is happening in our world today so help us to produce those leaders for the black church thank you and god bless [Music] so so [Music] you

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Published: Wed Mar 17 2021