Saved by The Shed Blood of Christ (11:00 a.m.)

okay praise the lord everybody come on let's stand to our feet this morning as we get ready to begin our time of worship amen come on we're going to do an old song praise god i ocean and it's moving away oh oh away is oh is oh is is crazy is i'm crazy yes i'm crazy yes yes come on is praise god stand to your feet and praise the lord give him some praise as we stand family if you would now right where you are let's bow and go before the throne of grace eternal and the most gracious god our father lord we come this morning just lifting up praise this lord wanting to let you know that we love you we love you and we love you god we thank you this morning for giving us the opportunity to be able to praise without any restrictions that we can worship you in spirit and in truth and in public so god i'm just asking this morning that as we come before you lord we come before you with humbled hearts and open minds father that as your word goes forward we would realize that we need a savior and we would realize that you are the one who sent your son father that your son jesus is the one who hung bled and died for our sins today father we want to thank you for the blood thank you for the blood that covered us thank you for the blood that keeps us thank you for the blood father that washed away our sins because father if we're honest with ourselves we realize that if it was not for the blood that was shed there's no way that we could have been saved so father i'm asking right now that you would touch those who need to be touched this morning there's hearts that are heavy lord there's minds that are confused father they're spirits that are downtrodden and i pray right now in the name of jesus lord that you would touch this morning father there are those that are in need of healing other that you would heal their souls that you would heal their emotions lord that you would heal their bodies so we're just asking right now in the name of jesus that you touch but father we now ask that as the man of god comes and the word of god goes forth lord would you open our hearts and our minds that we'll be receptive father for there may be someone in the audience who does not know christ as their savior father i'm praying right now that your word would touch and they would hear the gospel message today and they would turn from their wicked ways and turn towards christ our savior so god we're praying that your word would do what it does we're praying that you would hide the man of god behind your word and we're praying lord god that your word would penetrate the hearts of stone and turn them into hearts of flesh god we love you for loving us loving us so much that you gave your only son we praise you because you're the only god who deserves praise because you're the only one who can save us and we thank you lord god that you saw fit to send your son to die and it is in jesus most holy and precious name that we pray and i will agree with say amen and amen come on dear sanaya yes my young sister shania mira come on give her a hand as she comes she's 11 years old and she has made a private confession that jesus christ is lord and she's here today to publicly say that she has accepted him as her savior amaya you believe that jesus christ on the cross and died for your sins and on the third day he rose from the dead and that he's coming back again one day for you and me as church my sister by your public profession of faith family you raise your right hand i now baptize you in the name of the in the name of the in the name of the uh hallelujah come on hallelujah welcome to the family of faith hallelujah to the land yes if the angels rejoice so then we can we have just the one this morning but all the angels rejoice when one sinner gives his life so come on let's go ahead and have some church hey man come on let's see i've got a hand craze how many know that god just keeps on blessing he just keeps on blessing us in spite of what we do how we do it when we do it over and over he keeps on blessing y'all ready hallelujah come on let's get some more let's give him here we go y'all ready oh oh my own oh my is he's gonna bless me oh oh one more time oh them come on um oh we i oh i i'm oh we invite you to stand up on your feet and praise god and grinding is oh oh are you is oh oh if me come on somebody to celebrate the king gay man come on somebody lift your hands and tell god thank you everybody glory be to the lamb of god come on somebody say hallelujah come on somebody scream hallelujah come on somebody scream hallelujah glory to god if you're on the lord's side make some noise if you're truly on the lord's side make some noise that's what makes me a soldier in the army of god i got my walls well now hey god glory to the lamb of god thank you jesus that's why no matter what i face no matter what may come i am confident in this and that is god got me do you believe god got you come on give god a worship hallelujah whatever battle you're going through whatever trial you're facing right now in life be encouraged that god will never leave you nor will he forsake you even if you make your bed in hell he said i'll be there with you glory be to god hallelujah no matter what i face no matter what may come i am confident in this i am comfortable he's got me he's got me he's got me god got no me what i think is he's got me me standing here today i'm confident no matter what you're going through he's got me god's got me oh he's got me in the palm of his hat sometimes your pillows may be somebody ain't got no money oh but god knows what you need he's the same god yesterday and forever he'll never never leave no matter what can you oh i want to be fitted for the skies we will be to jesus is god anybody it let them talk about you let us come on god give god glory come on somebody get the glory somebody say y'all i don't feel nobody told me nobody now nobody told me i haven't been to the store anybody oh let the church say amen family why don't you stand on your feet baby let's go ahead and give the lord a hand type of praise and thank god for an opportunity to be back in the lord's house one more time it is a blessing thank you quiet thank you musicians for playing and ushers and greeters all that goes on in the body of christ i'm going to ask our deacons to come all the way to the front so we don't have to delay them anymore but family while we preparing to pray let us continue to stay focused that prayer is all we have to commune with the lord we can commune with him through our praise and worship but prayer changes things we do have a lot of families that are still going through a spirit of bereavement and we still got to continue to ask god to provide the healing that's necessary in folks lives because it's serious we have a home going service tomorrow for brother trenton dennis this past friday we had sister ophelia funeral and we went to our own family's funeral yesterday as well a nephew of ours and so nobody is exempt is everywhere so let's go ahead and prepare the bowel family and pray in the season like this one over here most gracious heavenly father we just say thank you lord thank you god for just loving on us and blessing us and giving us god the peace that we need even in the midst of all the storms god we say thank you and we ask right now in the name of jesus god that you'll continue to rest on all the families god that truly needs you right now god is not a few families is every family stand with them god counsel them comfort them allow your spirit god to always go before them and god i pray that no more weapons formed against families shall prosper but father we petition you grow us prepare us for your message today prepare us to partake in the lord's supper today prepare us lord please jesus then father would you receive your tithes your offerings your sacrificial gifts that come from the hands and heart of your people let it be used to continue to build the kingdom of heaven that every man woman boy and girl might know that jesus lived it's in his name we pray and we say amen you may be seated family if you don't mind family as we prepare uh for those who might be visiting today we want you to know that we thank god he goebbelani may give these we want you to know we thank god that you're here visiting with us today you could have went anywhere to go worship but we're glad you chose bethel's family and i want you to feel the freedom to allow god to use you in this season because we know it's serious business uh we're going to partake in the lord's supper but tony uh we're going to partake in the lord's supper uh right after they get through with the offerings family in the book of matthew while the deacons are doing this jesus was in the upper room with his disciples and while they were in the upper room jesus taken some bread he blessed it he broke it and he told his disciples to take it and eat it for this is his body and he took the cup and he gave things and he told him to drink all of it because this was his blood of the new testament shed for the many remissions of sin today is first sunday and i want us to really honor him as we understand the power that's in the shed blood of christ that's where our message is going to go overall but tony you guys can because it's very important that we don't take the shed blood of christ lightly can i also tell you there is too much bloodshed in the land there's too much bloodshed in the land in any direction you look in today somebody's doing something to somebody the killing of women is at an all-time high and a high percentage of the time they know that person they trust that person domestic violence is serious business if you don't desire to be with a person a person don't desire to be with you then let them go let them go because we got too many children that are being left as orphans because of the bloodshed that's in the land too many individuals packing guns that's not in law enforcement and i know it's it's for my protection it's for my defense i want to make sure if anything go down dawg i'm ready the bible says if you live by the sword you're going to die by the sword and i'm a firm believer that god is more than enough to protect you and so i want us to focus in on the shed blood of christ because of his blood there's no other blood amongst humans that need to be shed so this message today is to help us align in the will of god to understand that we ought not to take matters into our own hands if you are a christian a believer you carry the cross you say you are christian well you got to be focused in that you don't run nothing that god runs everything god don't need us for anything but we owe everything to god in our scriptures today my brothers and sisters based on the sheep that you have in your program saved by the shed blood of christ the book of isaiah chapter number 1 verse 17 and 18 says learn to do what is good pursue justice correct the oppressor defend the rights of the fatherless plead the widow's cause come let's settle this says the lord though your sins are scared they will be as white as snow though they are crimson red they will be like wool isaiah 53 verse 3 he was despised and rejected by men a man of suffering who knew what sickness was he was like someone's people's turned away from he was despised we didn't value him yet he himself bore our sicknesses and he carried our pains but we in turn regarded him stricken struck down by god and afflicted but he was pierced because of our rebellion crushed because of our iniquities punishment for our peace was on him and we are healed by his wounds hebrew 10 verse 19 therefore brothers and sisters since we have boldness to enter the sanctuary through the blood of christ jesus he has inaugurated for us a new and living way to the curtain that is through his flesh and since we have a high priest over the house of god let us draw near with a true heart in full assurance of faith with our hearts sprinkled cleansed from an evil evil conscience and our bodies washed with pure water saved by the shed blood of christ family i must share with you there are seven things that you need to know about when it comes down to the seven areas where jesus shed his blood if you are a bible student and you like the word of god get your ink pen out and i'll give you more scriptures because it's very imperative because you don't just get a lesson just to keep a lesson you get a lesson to share a lesson oh i said something right now you don't get a sermon just to keep a sermon you get a sermon to share a sermon and it's vitally important because satan don't mind you hearing long as it don't stick long as you can't bring it back to recall now i know this pastor has some humorous science in him and sometimes the jokes and the laughter is just to kind of help you to digest the word of god or to find the true meaning based on the level of where you currently are but the shed blood of christ it's no joke when i looked here carefully we are saved from the wrath of god because of his blood because of the shed blood in romans chapter 1 verse 18 it says though for the wrath of god is revealed from heaven against all ungodliness and unrighteousness of men who hold the truth in unrighteousness all through the bible you see when man decided that god is not enough matthew chapter 25 verse 41 then jesus says then shall he say unto them on his left side depart from me you curse into everlasting fire prepared for the devil in his angels all through the bible god speaks in the wrath of god is serious and family right now we are actually dealing with the residue of past sins and past disobedience and in life we got to break curses some are generational curses and some that are just developed to put on future generations if you're repeating bad habits from the past that didn't work for your mom and them didn't work from your granting them but you're still doing them you're wrapped up in a curse it needs to be broken the shared blood of christ have come in to break those in the book of luke chapter 22 verse 44 it says when jesus was in the garden of gethsemane you remember that right and jesus was praying and remember when he prayed he asked god if this cup can pass from me but he says not my will let your will be done it says he was sweating and the drops of his of his perforation was like blood drops to the ground his face his pores were open and it seemed as though blood was running out of his pores so the blood that was shed because of the amen iniquities and transgressions and the sins of mankind it ought to allow you to understand that you need to do better because in the garden jesus won back your willpower because he took on the agony of your sins when you look in his face according to isaiah 50 and 6 he says i gave my back to the smithers my cheeks to them and to pluck out the hair and watch this i hid not my faith from the shame as they were spitting on me not jesus allowed them to do that to him so that you can gain your honor now you know it's a dangerous thing to spit on a person it's dangerous it was dangerous before covert 19. that's one of the last things you ever want to do is spit on somebody you can get killed spitting on folks that's one of the lowest forms of humiliation when somebody take the slava out of their mouth and spat it in your face that's what they did to jesus but he took that so that you can gain your honor think about his head according to matthew 27 verse 29 30 it says when they had planted a crown of thongs they placed them upon his head and the reed in his right hand and they bow uh the knee before him they mocked him saying hell be to the jews now watch it and then they spat on him and took the wreath and they smote his head with it see we only see jesus as the little baby that mary gave birth to in the manger but we don't see the gruesome details of what in this life just so you and i could have a right to live and not just live but live eternally in the kingdom of heaven then you think about what happened to his back do you not know that the stripes the strap that they use had metal bits and rocks within the laces of it so when they would slash his back they would jerk back and plug out skin from his body painful then have him carry an old rugged cross his own cross but it's by his stripes you and i got healed the very thing that was put on him he did it because it should have been put on us think about his hands pierced in his hands now one thing it's somewhere in the middle of the palm of the hand but it wasn't directly here it was right in here between the tenants and between the bone and right here this is where the nails went to hold him up in any time you bind somebody and in that manner i'm doing this while you're alive it's one thing to nail me once i'm dead when i have no feelings but it's another thing to nail me while i'm still conscious so when you think about that he was pierced in his hand so you can have dominion over what you touch i said something right there please don't miss that he took that so you can have dominion in which you touch you think about his feet caught in the psalms 22 16 when he pierced him in his hand pierced him in his feet watch this they pierced jesus in his feet watch this because of that you now have dominion every place you walk that's why david said yeah though i walk through the valley of the shadow of death i fear no evil thyroid in thy staff they comfort me see there's never a place you're going to go where god won't go with you you can ask daniel he was with him in the lines then at shaq rack me shack in the bendigo he's with him in the fiery furnace as paul and silas he's down there in the dungeon of the jail cell with them pastor august asked the neighbor on your pew god did not leave us god did not forsake us even with our back to him god would not leave us alone he kept reaching out for us holding us so every place that your foot would tread god have given you dominion you might not claim it but you have it then think about him being pierced in his side close to his heart in other words family he was pierced in his heart so that you can have the joy that's unspeakable part of the shed blood of christ have come in to give you some nuggets now here's the first nugget i want you to get now when you got saved you got saved from the wrath through the shed blood but the secondly you've been cleansed you've been forgiven when they look inside your book there's nothing that you've done wrong it's not that you've never done any wrong it's just the blood of christ comes in and wash away every transgression every decision that you ever made in your life now man will not forgive you but through the bloodshed of christ you've been forgiven the woman was the the woman that was caught in adultery guilty as sin but when jesus looked upon him didn't see anybody there he says or do you have any accusers she said no man lord and jesus said neither do i he told that woman to go and sin no more see when you caught up in the world the world has this magnetic field that keeps drawing you back into the things where you came from and sometimes my brothers and sisters we end up talking to people who don't want to come out of bondage so when you want to be set free you got to understand the shed blood of christ have freed you that's why i don't let nobody play with handcuffs with me a few years ago we had the christmas deal the wonderland and we had blue santa and you know the police officers that come and they want to just play a little game and say well pastor come on go handcuff you say you ain't gonna handcuff me you're not gonna do that to me that's bondage i've been set free why in the world i let somebody play with me putting real handcuffs on me i don't homie don't play that homie don't play that and when you've been free that mean you're free in your mind you've been set free you don't have to amen be in a cave in a prison in your past yes we've all played a fool yes we've all done some things we're not proud of we're not excited about we don't post it everywhere but because of the shed blood of christ sisters because of the shed blood of christ the pole never existed because of the shed blood of christ you've never told a lie never stole never did anything never said anything never cursed before because of the shed blood of christ and so not only are you forgiven and cleansed but you are justified justified is not by your behavior according to romans chapter 4 abraham it says that abraham was counted as righteousness because abraham believed god so his faith in god was counted for righteousness that's why sometimes many people say i'm going to church i'm going to be right i'm going to do this i'm going to walk right i'm going to talk right i'm never going to do this then before you get home you didn't broke all of them you know why it's not good to have new year's resolution because most of the time you drunk when you make them um i'm gonna lose weight starting monday you're not serious it's important to understand you only are justified by the bloodshed of christ you're not justified by your behavior well i never curse i've always been good been a good girl been a good guy it doesn't matter all flesh is dead then you've been redeemed you've been reconciled god has brought you back into the fold he knew you were away from him adam and eve the first adam screwed up got evicted from the garden the second adam is christ brought you back into the garden because man couldn't do it on his own so jesus became the sacrificial lamb the shed blood of christ brought you back into right relationship with god that's why in the book of hebrew it says now you have access you have access you don't have to go through pastor august you don't have to go through another preacher pastor deacon or pope or a bishop or prophetess a prophet you can go right to god for yourself because now the veil has been torn through the flesh the curtain is open and then listen it says in john 14 and 6 jesus says i'm the way the truth and the life no man going to the father except by me which means you have access directly to god that's why i often share with you be careful who you hand your prayers off to you have access to god now you might not have joe biden's phone number you might not have the governor abbott's phone number or the mayor turner's phone number but i tell you what you can have jesus and that's the only one that count because in the name of jesus by that name the day is coming when every knee shall bow every tongue must confess the lord jesus doesn't matter what position they have in this society everybody gonna have to bow so you've been reconciled back into the family now you've been redeemed that mean you've been purchased that blood purchased you nothing you could do on your own we see it all the time and that's why whenever you have been redeemed you need to honor that let me give you an illustration and let's say you can swim but somehow you go on efficient expedition away from the shore and let's say a wave top of the boat you own you're in the water you got a life preserve are you going to do what you need to do but as you're floating out there you see something on top of the water with a fin lord have mercy but now you don't see one you see six and now they put a circle around you lord have mercy now you've seen jaws one you've seen jaws two you seen the revenge of the jaws three and four you can't see underneath the water at all and you begin to panic scared to death then all of a sudden another boat come out of nowhere and somehow get in the middle that circle and reach down and grab you and get you on the boat let me ask you a question will you ever forget that person who came in the midst of what could have been your demise and rescued you from the mouth of some sharks no you would do everything you could every time you see that person of those individuals you would want to thank them again for extending your life there is nothing they would ask you for that you wouldn't do if you could because you would not be here if they hadn't went and rescued you well i put it in a biblical sense you're on your way to hell and you are on this treadmill that won't stop you moving but not going nowhere and satan is preparing your homecoming and while satan grabbed you by the neck and dragging you into his pit called hell jesus reach down and snatch you and place you right next to him how much honor how much glory how much praise would you give to him who snatched you from the jaws of hell see the shared blood of christ did exactly that for me and if you're honest with yourself that's what it did for you you we are all sliding our way into amen a hell that we couldn't stop but jesus reached down and grabbed us just in the nick of time pulled us out of that situation and then he covered us and shielded us and he stepped between hell and us so when we talk about redemption we talk about jesus paid the ultimate price this is what i'm talking about your life don't belong to you you belong to him the other thing you're going to see and i'm almost done because you got things to do i want you to know that out of that shed blood he also provide deliverance see i don't go where i used to go i don't do what i used to do somebody ought to say amen you see when you get delivered from things that you used to do you just don't have a taste or a desire to do it anymore somebody ought to say amen because if you're still struggling wandering between your past and your present then you haven't been delivered yet and the way you get delivered say god listen i need you to come into my life and begin to take those things that i can't control and i need you to wash me and purify me and cleanse me i want to let go of the reefer bad come on now say man i want to let go of the crack rocks and rock cracks i want to let go of the alcohol i want to let go amen of old friends and old neighborhoods and all things that kept me in bondage and sometimes family you got to walk away from family sometimes you got to walk away from family there are family members that want to stay in hell they ain't going the way this is where we are my mama was here daddy we're here granddaddy then we're here that's where we gonna be we ain't going no further we're gonna be right here the devil is alive because the shed blood of christ amen break curses one of my other favorite movies the five heartbeats eddie cain you remember his father cursed him he told eddie he told his son i can't say what he really said but he said you i'm nothing and you ain't nothing he cursed his son and eddie king remembers that it left a stain and a star it got connected got deposited and somehow in his mind he hit saved all your folks can be in jail they had nothing to do with you everybody in your family can be on drugs that has nothing to do with you you have to amen take the bloodshed of christ and break the curse break it so future generations won't be going through the same situation time and time again and getting the same results everybody in your family could cuss up a storm god will take that from you my biological father i do believe he had up above 20 kids 20. he was a moving and a rolling brother but growing up pastor straud i realized i didn't have a relationship like i could even though we lived in the same town and when i got my first son i said well let me put a time out here i can play that absent father syndrome look just like me but i don't take care of it look just like me but i don't take him nowhere look just like me i don't provide for him i could have took that same but i said no i'm going to take care of mine family you got to get a made-up mind in christ to start breaking the curses that's in your own family and stop allowing those curses to keep us in bondage because the shed blood will give you the power to break the yolk you don't have to be what they call you because through that shed blood there is victory victory is yours and victory is mine that's why i don't stress that's why i don't worry that's why i let nothing i can't control control me at all whatever day you catch me it will be the same that mean red you don't have no problems you don't have no challenges the devil ain't trying to get in your kool-aid oh he's all over the program i just refuse to buckle down and yield and give him any credit any glory because i serve a god that's always on time i serve a god that i look back over my life and i really see how the lord has taken care of me when i went taking care of myself and i read somewhere that if he before me is more than the world against me i read somewhere that greatly is he that's in me and not that's in the world i read somewhere that the lord is my shepherd i shall not walk so even though i might have some stuff coming at me i'm not going any man let it amen defuse me or get me in a low self-esteem i will never have a bad day now those who follow satan you'll have a bad day because i'm not gonna give you what you're looking for because i know in the nick of time god can step in in the next time and change everything because that's how he works so you've got victory family the other thing and i'm done you got a realized family that is the shared blood of christ that made the difference in your life and what he done for others he'd do it for you what he has done for others he'll do it for you because i'm just a nobody trying to tell everybody about somebody who can save anybody find that song for me steve i'm just a nobody don't worry about old pastor august i'm a nobody titles don't mean a thing if you're not walking with jesus somebody ought to say amen and the only title god give is servant somebody ought to say amen we're nothing but servants you are my brother you're my sisters we are the children of god come on i say amen and there's nobody greater or bigger or better than anybody else in the house god love us all the same come on now say amen because it's the shed blood of christ that covers all of us so i'm just a nobody trying to tell everybody about somebody they can save anybody yeah that's it that's it i'm glad he found it because i had to sing that thing if you want to come to jesus if you want to surrender your life to the lord jesus just say god my shed blood still covers over multitude of sin yes you can come if you want to surrender your life today to the lord you can come right here you want to join this church come right here you can come thank you my sister come on my sister come on my sister you're not the only one there others in here come on while you can this is your day this is your opportunity come on my brother thank you jesus keep on clapping saints you're going to encourage somebody come on my dear brother come on i'm just a nobody trying to tell everybody yes yes come on my dear brother yes lord will another one come don't wait on tomorrow tomorrow don't wait for nobody you have today come why you can this is your invitation to come to the lord you can still come walk the streets telling the people about jesus from corner to corner from door to door but they all make fun of me and say trying to tell everybody somebody what a blessing man i'm glad you're here and you're dead right what a blessing dad you already remember aren't you yes what a blessing that's a good thing man y'all y'all come with us over here come on family pastor strong can i use it young man pastor odom how you all doing what decision are y'all making today what decision are you making today thank you so much keep on clapping keep on clapping family what a blessing we thank god for the increase today because we serve an awesome god family before we partake in the lord's supper it'll be the last thing we do we have you out of here in a few minutes there's a lot that's going on in the month of october at our church and i want you to be in the know uh starting of course tomorrow we got homegoing services men bible study class on mondays at seven women have a bible study at 11 o'clock on tuesday morning 11 to 12 and they also have an evening bible study at 7 00 pm here in this building here in this room here wednesday at 12 noon we have a noon day bible study in here for everybody and then of course choir rehearsal but we also have a next saturday we have a home buying summit if by chance uh you're looking to buy a home upgrade from the home you're in uh if you live in an apartment and paying you know that eight nine hundred dollars a thousand dollars and some pay even more than that in apartments and you've been dreaming of buying your home uh through the cares act they have some incentives and got enough incentive to where i saw one program where they would give you a hundred and fifty thousand dollars for a house if you buy it in houston so they'll be unpackaging all that at the home buying summit that starts at nine o'clock next sunday next saturday here in this room right here so we're trying to make sure we are bridging the gap in bringing folks together so you can get what you need because home buying is very important amen the other thing is that we have a senior adult day where all the seniors we're going to it's on a friday i think it's the 14th if i'm not mistaken but it's from nine to one o'clock all senior adults gonna bring them all in whatever they want to do that day they are free to do it uh they can play this and play that they can listen to music we're gonna feed them the whole time they're here we want to celebrate all seniors amen and so that's on the 14 on a friday i think it is from nine until one o'clock we want to do that amen amen uh and then huh is the 15th thank you so much thank you so much because pastor i slept two days now family uh where am i from originally the birthplace of christ right yes y'all know from abbeville louisiana right yeah home of everything the best shrimp the best gumbo the best okra yeah yeah yeah red beans and rice yeah cornbread mustard green trite boudin cracklins come on now steam sarah are y'all better y'all better come with it popcorn balls the whole nine yards well you know over the last 10 12 years we've been working doing programs in abbeville we brought hundreds of kids to houston to come to camp and give them a camp experience we've sent scholarship dollars down there we've blessed the educators through the pathway to success program and we've done that consistently over a number of years but even though we would spend you know forty fifty thousand dollars a year to do all that we still had nothing that was permanent because we go back we gotta almost start all over again so sit in the last nine months and i'm being redundant let me just let you watch a clip so you see where i'm going amen so the light's going to go out momentarily and then you get a chance to see and then we're going to partake in the lord's supper hi my name is walter august junior i happen to be the board chair of the nehemiah projects of acadiana we're housed right there in abbeville louisiana my place of birth this is where i was raised i graduated abbeville high school in 1977 ventured into the marine corps and eventually making my home here in the houston texas area where i've been over 40 years and over the last 10 to 12 years we've been working in vermillion parish working in the schools to make a difference with the young people and also the parents in the community as a whole just to do a few things to make things better over the last nine months i've actually joined and to organize the neomi projects of acadiana an organization that's geared to transforming communities and transforming the lives for generations to come we end up buying property in abbeville of the old school where james harrett used to be and we have uh schematics and architectural drawings for our new facility which is a 136 000 square foot facility that will eventually house a charter school grade 6 to 12 that will also have a health care unit on the inside for the adults and children alike also economic development would happen there job placement and job training and much more to bring the kind of development that every generation and every family in that abbeville area will be blessed of a million parish for that particular program we also have our headquarters we're office out of the downtown abbeville area the physical address is 100 south state street and our office is manned uh the lord has provided the nehemiah project with a 13-member board we're not paid to do this we all volunteer our time and all of these individuals are highly skilled and they're all professionals working in their own arenas but we have come together for such a time like this one to help our community help our parish and help our state uh make a difference in the lives of everybody that lives in the vicinity of that area so go to our website is www t-h-e-n-p-a-i dot org go to our website you will see everything that you need to see and learn about the vision about our board members about what we're planning on doing and here's where i need your help we're raising uh the funds to build the educational facility the facility that would house you know 800 kids at one time uh teaching them and educating them with technology giving them uh a scholar a college educational uh curriculum so once they finish high school hopefully they would have enough credits to also receive an associate degree at the same time then providing the health components there's nobody in that community that need to go with our general health screenings and health checks ups and immunizations and all that goes on that we need from that perspective and then of course we want to also help economically uh helping with job placement job training business development so that model would be able to sustain and also enhance and encourage generations to come when you go to our website you might see a form like this one or you should see it or you can even glue into this one here it's a membership form we're asking you to consider becoming a member of the neomi project of acadiana and it's a simple form even your children can become members in the simple donation of the children a dollar a month twelve dollars a year and then you as a parent you as a business leader you can figure out what you would like to contribute to the overall success of the nehemiah projects of acadiana this is here for you and for us if you like to call me personally my cell phone number is 713 713-962-6602 i'm located in houston uh three or four of our board members are not in the louisiana area but we are from louisiana we have 70 percent of our board who live in vermillion parish in proximity and so we are there to serve we are there for you and whatever we can do we want to make a difference we have the mayor support mayor mark piazza we have the city council of abbeville we have vermilion parish police juror who has also given us their blessings the city attorney many of the business owners in that region and also faith leaders have also shared that they're in support of what we're doing so thank you for the privilege of giving me this opportunity to invite you to join us in our efforts of raising those funds necessary so we can see better days for generations to come god bless you and may god continue to keep us it's in his name we always pray but thank you god bless family it is very imperative that in times like these uh we have to be involved with things for future generations it cannot be just about us and louisiana next to mississippi these are states that struggle academically especially in those areas that's kind of rule where the majority of the population happen to be you know of african-american descent well this is an opportunity and i'm just going to pray and ask if you would join us in the efforts when you leave out of this building today there's a table set up in the corner right outside these doors and they have cards they have information there for you and if god lead you and you want to join us in that effort please ma'am please sir we love for you to join us in that effort one of the things about this pastor i will never come to you personally and ask you to do anything for me personally when i come to our church it's going to be about making a difference in somebody else's life and if we're not going to invest in children then tell me who will and i believe i believe that building that is going to be built is going to challenge the public school systems in louisiana to do a better job not with teachers i think the teachers are doing what they need to do but with facilities because there are several schools in my hometown elementary schools they've been there before i was born you know it's like going back and wearing your clothes you wore 25 years ago you know when you look good you dress good you're in an environment conducive for learning it changed the whole mental aspect of what you're doing so please man please sir that we're going to be doing more but this is something i want to bring to you because we've already spent money we're already supporting the efforts down there and we just have to do more and we're going to still work in houston still do what we're doing and uh and god's going to bless children for generations to come amen and if you're from louisiana abbeville is just one of the cities in acadiana area acadiana have about i think it's 22 different parishes in louisiana that covers about 30 small cities overall so we have a good footprint of what we're doing amen so that's for you let us stand family as we prepare to partake in the lord's supper we're ready dr steve see a man grace how sweet the sound lord that says night let me do you know that i'm alone right now right now right now i'm sure i was thank you heavenly father we just thank you god we thank you lord for your spirit your power your grace and your mercy as we partake in the lord's supper god would you please touch us top of our head to the bottom of our feet anything in us god that is not right god in the name of jesus remove it by the power of your blood forgive us o lord cleanse us o god from all unrighteousness so that god we won't bring condemnation on ourselves we thank you lord for jesus it's in his name we pray and we say amen in the 26th chapter would you take your bread and would you toast it to heaven in the 26th chapter of the book of matthew it says as jesus was eating with his disciples he had taken some bread he broke it and he blessed it and he told them to take it and eat it for this is my body and then he took the cup and we toast that also to heaven and he shared with them he says i want you to drink all of it for this is my blood of the new testament which was shed for the many for the remissions of sin and to him who is able to keep us from falling may the sweet commune of the holy spirit may it rest rule and abide with all of us here until we all come together again let us all sing a man amen and amen amen god bless your family have a great and godly godly godly day wow what an awesome message the lord provided to us challenging yes but empowering always thank you so much again for tuning in and ways to donate to this ministry whether on facebook you can do it that way or our text to give to our church you can mail in your gifts or you can just call the office and do it however you want to do it online but either way god bless all of you thank you for your support and continue to share the messages that god is putting in our hearts god bless you we love you thank god bye-bye so you

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Length: 104min 5sec (6245 seconds)

Published: Sun Oct 03 2021