September 19, 2021 8AM Keep Going

[Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] do so [Music] bless you god hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah do you have a hallelujah in your spirit this morning to god be the glory for the great mighty awesome and miraculous things that he's already done psalms 34 say i will bless the lord at all times and his praise shall continually be in my mouth my soul will make it boast in the lord the humble shall hear thereof and be glad so wherever you are worshiping with us this morning in the sanctuary in your home on your job could be in the parking lot we stay all magnify the lord with us today let us let us let us exalt his name together hallelujah but truly he is the worthy god amen let us pray abba father our father who art in heaven and earth father i come in the name of jesus first thanking you for being the breath in my lungs thanking you for your mercies that are new every morning lord if we've done a thought or said anything to hinder this prayer the move in this house father we repent again in the name of jesus see god you are omnipresent you are everywhere present at the same time so holy spirit i reference and acknowledge your presence in this house right now flood this place and fill this atmosphere in your house oh god lord your glory is what our hearts long for to be overcome by your presence lord lord someone this morning is crying out to you they're saying oh god touch so father i ask you this morning in touch with your healing and dunamis power someone is saying master savior savior hear my humble cry god they are saying do not pass me by they are saying save my family heal this land so sovereign and immutable god we stand on your word today and are not anxious about anything we ask that you manifest healing and deliverance loose bands of wickedness and set the captives free draw men women boys and girls unto you through the rhema word this morning god we will praise and bless your name we will continue to worship in the spirit and truth lord god i ask these blessings and commit this prayer and surrender this service to you in jesus name we pray let everybody say amen amen amen hallelujah we bless god come on let's continue to give god a praise today isn't he good through it all regardless of what we may be going through today how many know god is always standing by in your darkest hour [Music] sometimes a little rain gonna come in our life but god is still standing by even when the pastor can't be there with us sometimes god is still standing back even when your deacon can't be there for you god is still standing back [Music] by god is always standing by [Music] when there are days that you're burning [Music] more [Music] you need a friend and there is no one around who seems to care and when your days grow so dark and weary i know you don't ever oh no you don't have to worry because god sometimes it may feel like this there may be times when your faith will scatter just like the wind [Music] your blows around you sometimes seems so hard and there is no one not even a loved one [Music] are you got to do is call remember [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] is [Music] god is always is children too [Music] listen to me when i tell you he's is here with his arms [Music] come on brother [Music] you have to believe that god is standing by because as i stand here right now my wife is laying in the hospital [Music] [Music] second [Music] [Music] [Music] yes [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you is [Music] i want you to hear me oh my [Music] say say is i'm calling oh i'm waiting on you right now lord but i need you right now me [Music] oh come on oh come on oh come on come on and bless the lord bless the [Music] lord hallelujah hallelujah [Music] come on and bless the lord in this house bless the lord in your home hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] [Music] [Music] my come on and cry out to him oh [Music] sing it one more time but i want you for a moment [Music] before we all sing this congregationally to think about what you are crying out to god for i want you to think about why you need him to not pass you by [Music] i need you to dig deep into the frustrations and the pain and the the hurt and all that's going on in your life and in this world i need you to think [Music] on what you need jesus to do [Music] and when you sing this time i i don't want you to worry about how it sounds when you cry you don't worry about how it sounds the cry is about just getting it out when a child cries for his parent a child cries for her parent it's all about daddy [Music] i need you so so so this time i i want you to cry at home i want you to cry to moan like you need [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah oh yeah father in the name of jesus we thank you for hearing our humble cries we thank you o god for hearing our moans and our groans our aches and our pains we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you for waking us up seeing us through this week for lord so many didn't wake up this morning so many didn't make it through this week but you saw fit to see us to this moment now god may we not miss what you desire from us in this moment that you have blessed us with in the seconds the minutes the hours the days the weeks the months the years that we have left may we not miss what you desire of us touch us now oh god in this season of enduring this race to hear a word from you that refreshes our soul and re-energizes our spirit give us insight direction inspiration and lord order our steps according to your holy word o god touch our ears that we would hear touch our hearts that we would receive and touch lord your servant that lord i would be a yielding vessel unto you bless now this preaching moment in the name that's above all names the name of jesus the christ we pray and all the children of god said amen amen and amen come on and bless [Music] hallelujah let's give these sinking brothers up here big hand hallelujah music department give yourselves a big hand amen as you know the lord spoke to me a little while ago and said that we have reached that part in this year of restoration it's all about endurance and we've been talking about enduring enduring enduring how we endure in this season the race is not given to the swift nor to sway but to either we'll endure he that will endure and so i want to encourage you before we take our texts i want to encourage you to run a race that is about finishing not about being the fastest not about being the quickest not about being the smartest not about running the hardest is just about getting to the end philippians 3 verses 12 through 14. philippians 3 verses 12 through 14. i'm running in a race of endurance running a race of endurance i'm getting stronger i don't know about you but i feel my faith getting stronger feel my mind getting stronger my hope is growing others see like i hear them they they feel like there's no end in sight but i i say no i'm i'm running to see what the end is going [Music] ends gonna be i'm hopeful i'm hopeful philippians 3 verse 12 if you have it say i've got it and here now the word of the lord through the apostle paul to the philippian church not that i have already attained or am already perfected but i press on that i may lay hold of that which christ jesus has also laid hold of me brethren i do not count myself to have apprehended but one thing i do forgetting those things which are where are they where are they come on where are they forgetting those things which are behind and reaching where reaching forward to those things which are ahead i press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of god in christ jesus look at your neighbor and say neighbor keep going amen keep going you ought to look at somebody else point at somebody point at somebody just tell them tell them through your mask keep going keep going keep keep going keep keep going hit the chat section up and type in keep going text somebody tell them keep going you may be seated you may be seated keep keep going i i don't really have anything profound today to tell you other than keep going for there are seasons in life that it seems like things are well but there are seasons where all seems to fail there are seasons in life where it seems that everything's coming together well falling in line seasons where there are no major health concerns seasons where there's no major grief seasons where everything is copacetic at your job seasons where bills are paid and things finally seem to be lining up but there are seasons where it seems that everything is falling apart there are seasons where it seems like i just can't get a break can i get a witness there are seasons where it seems that the next moment will just bring another problem there are seasons where we just can't seem to get ahead seasons where i am still grieving from the last family member that died and now i've got to attend another homegoing seasons that seem hard long and just keep on going seasons where we're out of the church because of covet 19 and when it seems that things are getting better it turns out that they're actually getting worse than they have ever been before seasons where hardship pain and difficulty is my reality there are seasons where all you can do is try to keep going sometimes you can mistakenly look at somebody else's life and think that everything is going great only to find out when you peel back the veneer that it was all a farce many people looked at folks like alex murdoch and thought he had it all and now you look as the veneer is peeled back as the veil is pulled and you find out that you can have all the riches you can have all the power you can have all the credentials in the world but if you don't have jesus if you don't have jesus then all you have are things that are going to die and decay and worst of all you may become a part of that yourself see there's an old song that i found myself singing this week i found myself saying to myself in the morning when i rise in the morning when i rise in the morning when i rise give me jesus give me jesus give me jesus you can have all this world give me jesus the philippian church found itself in a place where it was worried about its founding apostle worried about his situation in his circumstance worried about what was going on in his life because paul was in prison just like brother alex murdoch paul found himself in jail but paul wrote a letter to his brothers and sisters in philippi to let them know although he was in a difficult place his joy had not diminished at all his joy did not diminish because his joy didn't come from the world which means the world could not take his joy away the world could take his car away the world could take his job away the world could take his clothes away the world could recall his credentials but the world can't take jesus from you and because the world can't rob you of the savior the world can't rob you of your joy if your joy is rooted in jesus no this joy that paul had the world didn't give it in the world couldn't take it away his joy came from the lord and he was letting them know don't worry about me because i already know the outcomes see we can have joy because you already know how the story ends you you already know what's going to happen at the end of the book which means no matter what the chapter looks like no matter what the paragraph says we know in the end we win when you know where your joy comes from when you know where your health comes from you will be able to look at your current circumstances just like paul did in chapter 1 verse 19 in this same epistle and say for i know that this will turn out for my deliverance through your prayer and the supply of the spirit of jesus christ according to my earnest expectations and hope that in nothing i shall be ashamed paul is in jail paul is shackled up paul is locked up and he's saying i already know my deliverance is on the way oh come on somebody we may be socially distancing we may be in a season a struggle it may be hard to endure but it's just like paul i know my deliverance is already on the way i know my healing is already on the way i know my breakthrough is already on the way i am hopeful because not just i hope things will happen i know i know that god's going to bring us through paul felt he needed to encourage the philippian church paul felt this way because he knew they were experiencing persecution from non-christian authorities people who don't walk with jesus don't know jesus don't care about jesus will criticize you and ridicule you for your walk people will be insulted by your peace rattled by the fact that you still got joy they'll want you running around and screaming and crying and yelling just like them you'll show up at work and they'll go doesn't this bother you why are you so calm about this why are you so cool about this why do you have it all together and it's because you got something called jesus somebody in the savior and because of that you've got peace see they might make you uncomfortable at work or even some of your family gatherings they will try to steal your joy by undermining your beliefs they will say little things to discourage you to turn you off or even belittle you they will try to make you feel small because you have a big faith they'll try to make you feel little because you believe in a great big god see paul wrote this letter because there were some presenting a different gospel paul called them dogs and doers there were those who were preaching freedom from moral restraint there was a jewish gnostic perfectionist group who claimed spiritual and moral superiority all of this was confusing and causing problems within the church so here in the third chapter paul sends them an encouraging word about how they should just keep going and in doing so i would like to highlight just three things that paul suggested to them told them to do in order to keep going and i'm out of your way paul tells them church in order for you to keep going you need to set a new goal paul tells them i've got a new goal said there are some things that i have obtained but there's something else i have yet to reach there is a deeper place in my relationship with god that i have yet to reach there is a deeper place in my walk that i have yet to go as a matter of fact i can hear paul saying maybe this season of being in prison is really just a cocoon so that god can morph me and transform me into who i need to be for my next season of life paul is saying that there are some spiritual levels in warfare that i have yet to obtain i need to set a new goal it was andrew carnegie the scottish american industrial philanthropist who led the expansion of the american steel industry for all of our pittsburgh steeler fans out there he's the one that said this and he was so rich that in the late 19th century he became one of the richest americans in history he said this if you want to be happy set a goal that commands your thoughts liberates your energy and inspires your hopes can i say that again he said if you want to be happy set a goal that commands your thoughts liberates your energy and inspires your hopes we need spiritual goals doing this fall fitness challenge i have become surprised and amazed at what we are capable of we got folk who are of a certain age i would say showing out and doing push-ups some of them shocking themselves folk eating differently one one person put on the facebook page i'm not even a part of the challenge but i have been inspired to eat better and combat my diabetes it's amazing what we can accomplish when we set new goals when you are motivated within a community to do something positive that matters to yourself and others you will be amazed at what you can accomplish because all things are possible with god and with christ there is nothing that can hinder you or stop you the only thing stopping us is us and when we set some new goals and we get together with folk who know jesus and who can pray we'll be amazed at what kind of race we can run paul says here there are some goals i have already attained but there are others i have yet to reach celebrate your past goals but reach for new goals celebrate what god has brought you but keep reaching for where god is taking you see paul uses the word here for perfection that really means to bring to perfection so what paul was doing was he was digging at the theology of the gnostic jewish perfectionist who were claiming they were already perfect you ever met somebody who acts like they're perfect don't if if they're here don't don't look at them now don't don't you got a mask over your mouth not your eyes not your eyes don't don't look if you if you're at home and they're in your house don't be careful you ever met somebody maybe you worked with them maybe they're at your job and they act as if they don't ever do any everything is always somebody else's fault because lord knows it can't be them they didn't mess up on the assembly line they didn't speak out of turn they didn't make any kind of mistake they didn't send that email that clearly they did they're never sorry never admit to any wrong nothing is ever there paul sees such individuals as dangerous to the church paul sees them in their theology as dangerous to the work of the cross why because in order for you to reach for a new goal you have to realize that you have not yet obtained everything that god has for you in other words god is still working on me i still got some stuff that god is still dealing with in me god is still perfecting me god is still working on my attitude god is still developing my work ethic god is growing my discipline god is making me a better husband a better man a better father a better friend hopefully a better pastor and leader god is not done with me yet that's why you don't have to get upset when people call you out god is just helping you to see that he's not done with you if god was done with you then guess what your work would be done on this earth but i woke up this morning simply because god is not done with me god still has need of me god still wants to use me god still wants to work me and god wants to work through me so i might mess up but god's going to clean me up and make me better paul's telling them yes i'm your founding apostle yes i preach the gospel yes i've got joy even in the jail cell but god is still not done with me yet yes i'm going to write the majority of the new testament but god is not done with me yet yes god is using me to establish churches but god is not done with me yet is god done with you i think not you ought to thank god that he's not done with you you want to thank god that he's still working on you you ought to thank god that he hasn't given up on you if god gave up on you he'd be done working on you but i'm so glad i'm still on the potter's wheel he's still molding me he's still he's still shaping me therefore you don't have to feel ashamed about the areas that god's working on in your life because if god is working on them in your life god is with you therefore you don't have to be ashamed god's working on that marriage god's working on that career god's work for some of us god is having to work on you just to keep your mouth from cussing oh i'm the only one god had to work on that with oh i wish we had some real folk up in here today who can be like paul and say i have not yet obtained i'm getting better that's why i keep going because there's more for me to get i hope that those who are here two years from now look back and say pastor preachers better past pastor preaches better pastors getting better why because i keep going and so this causes us to ponder the question what is the spiritual goal you need to set to keep going so you can get better what is the spiritual goal that you need to set so that you can keep going and get better but the apostle doesn't stop there he says i have already tamed or i am already not that i am already perfected but he said i press on that i may lay hold of which jesus christ has also laid hold of me brethren i do not count myself to have apprehended but one thing i do forgetting those things which are behind me paul is letting us know you've got to set a goal but he's also letting you know you got to let go of yesterday we've got to let go of yesterday i don't know about you but there are some things in my yesterday that i've needed to long let go of one of our biggest issues as believers is dragging yesterday's garbage into today's the only time you bring something back out of the garbage into the house is when you threw something away that didn't because it's yesterday's trash and the crazy thing about yesterday's trash is included in it with something that in the moment you needed to live there's some food that's been discarded that you ate that you needed in that day but now it's spoiled it's yesterday and no matter how much you want that food again the only thing that food's going to do if you go and dig it out is make you sick it's something you've got to let go of it's something you've got to forget about it's something you've got to no longer look at because it was yesterday's news yesterday's food yesterday's substance yesterday you must let go of your past self to embrace the new self in christ it was mother teresa who said yesterday is gone tomorrow has yet has not yet come we have only today so let us begin you must let yesterday pass away if you were going to embrace your today there may be some relationships in yesterday there may be something that happened a year ago but let whatever happen in your last experience go something may have happened in your last church experience something may have happened at your last job but you must let it go and stop trying to resurrect things that aren't a part of god's plan for your life paul is using here as he is known to do through his epistles the running athlete analogy this language is of an athlete and he's saying in order for a runner to run his race in order for her to run her race she can't focus on what have you ever seen the olympics and seen a runner do this if you turn around if you look at who's behind you if you look at what's behind you you won't finish your race you might wreck yourself you might fall on your face you can't run your race looking at what's behind you but here's what's interesting about what paul is saying here paul's not just talking about the bad stuff behind because leading up to this verse paul said i was circumcised on the eighth day member of the people of israel the tribe of benjamin a hebrew of hebrews a pharisee as a zeal a persecutor of the church he called and recalled of his own righteousness and paul is saying i'm leaving all of that behind in order to press towards the call of a higher calling in christ what are you saying pastor what i believe paul is saying here is that in order for us to embrace what is ahead of us we have to stop living in the past whether it's a good thing or a bad thing yes it was good and yes those credentials are great and yes you have highly achieved but that is in the past and that was only preparation for whatever god has in front of you that's why we must pay attention to where we are looking we must pay attention to where we are gazing our eyes wherever you are looking is influencing where you are going and you don't want to keep moving in the wrong direction but what owns your attention will control your desires you will develop a desire for whatever you give your attention that's why most of us pay attention to what and where we are looking when we're driving if you desire to go home the only reason why you check your review mirror or even your side mirrors is to make sure that there's nothing coming upon you that would keep you from getting to your destination and you only glance otherwise you will get in a wreck god must have our complete attention but if we are focused focused on worldly status whatever owns your attention will control your desires if you spend all your time looking at dating apps it's going to impact your desires if you spend all your time on social media it's going to impact your desires companies spend millions of dollars acquiring information from social media so that they know what to advertise and put in front of your face to what help control what you do have you ever been watching something and there's an advertisement and now all of a sudden you feel you need something you didn't even know existed before you saw it they knew you enough to say if we can just get their attention we can get them to desire something they didn't even know existed before this 30 second clip amen somebody you ever been up late at night watching an infomercial amen somebody and all of a sudden this new gizmo i do something that you don't even need and so now you're acting and not only are you acting to get that one if you buy it now you get another one so now you got two some of us have two sitting somewhere and have never been opened don't look at your spouse in here don't look don't look just let it go just let it slide i'm saying this to prove the point of what we give attention to we begin to desire if you spend all day watching netflix what you watch on netflix will influence what you desire if you spend your time in the word if you spend your time in prayer if you spend your time in worship if you spend your time in the presence of god guess what you'll begin to desire more of god in your life if you spend your time on positive things meditating on the scripture day and night guess what you will begin to desire god's will for your life watch where you're looking if we spend our time looking in yesterday all we'll desire is yesterday paul said i'm reaching ahead which means his gaze had to be in front of him i'm looking from where i'm reaching otherwise how will i see to grab it i'm looking for where i'm reaching so that i can pull back all god has for me yesterday is gone for better or for worse but god has something even better than whatever yesterday brought you and so while you may be proud of some things i'm proud of yesterday in some ways i'm proud of the things god has blessed me to do i'm proud of my undergraduate degree i'm proud of my mdiv i'm proud of my phd but i have to let go of yesterday because that means nothing unless i'm reaching forward to my tomorrow i'm reaching forward to what god has purpose for my life yesterday is gone and i'm letting it go it says you need to set a goal it says you need to let go of yesterday but lastly what i'd like to highlight out of this text is paul says press press press forward for the third time paul tells the philippian church in verse 13 that he has yet to reach his true goal this time he uses a verb that means to lay hold or make my own paul says in verse 14 i press toward the goal for the prize of the upward call of god in christ jesus he names his goal and what he's doing here is continuing to play on this athlete who is running a race and as an athlete what you need to run your ways stronger and faster is good competition there is a difference between worldly competition and godly competition can i unpack this worldly competition is about me being better than you worldly competition is about me being ahead of you and having an advantage over you and winning over you winning worldly competition will go by any means necessary to win godly competition is about us making each other better but really only being in true competition with our past selves let me help you godly competition says i want my iron to sharpen your iron and i want your iron to sharpen my arm and there may be some sparks that fly but as long as we become our best selves i feel like i win worldly competition is about the award given by men godly competition does not care if man gives you an award does not care if man recognizes your output and input because it's about what i'm doing for christ and my reward is on the way and i want a reward that has eternal implications and not are going to wither and weigh and die can i make it plain every degree i've got can't go with me to heaven every credential i've got can't go with me to heaven one day they're going to take it down off the wall they might burn it they might throw it away but everything that we do for christ shall last see godly godly competition part of the reason why we are all working so hard in this fitness challenge is because we are having godly competition think about it folk are working hard and you win absolutely nothing but there's something about the inspiration of watching your brother take it to another level your sister take it to another level and you go my god i gotta take it to another level too so that we can be leveling up together godly competition pushes each other to be the best they can be without jealousy envy deceit or sin see it's okay and you should be celebrated if you made 30 under 30 or 40 under 40. what paul is saying here is that the real reward you want is a well done what paul is saying is that the goal for each runner is to finish the race he uses this analogy of running throughout his epistles and then he tells timothy in his second epistle that i have fought a good fight that i have finished my race in other words i kept on moving forward i kept going on when they lied on me i kept going on when they turned their backs on me i kept moving when they put me in jail time and time again i kept moving when they put me on a ship transported me across stormy seas i kept moving when the ship got wrecked and we had to dive into the sea i kept moving when i got to the shore the sandy shore of the aisle a snake bit me but i kept moving oh and timothy i want to tell you i see the finish line it's a lot closer now than it used to be and i'm getting happy because i see my savior waiting there with my crown of righteousness but i came to tell you there's not just one winner of this race but there's a crown a gold medal for all all the children of the lord who have been faithful faithful through a pandemic faithful through economies faithful through wars and rumors of wars faithful through sickness disease and death there's an award for all who are faithful and can't wait to see the appearing of our savior ah don't know about you but i have made it up in my mind no matter what comes my way i'm going to keep going keep going do the ups and the downs keep going whether in or out keep going in good times and bad times keep going church full on nobody here keep going and money luck or money plentiful keep going because jesus didn't give up on you and i can't give up on him he kept going despite the pain of the cross he kept going despite the nails in his hands he can't he kept going [Music] one night two nights but only harry sunday morning he kept going and not only did god raise him he can't can't go in ascended to the right hand keep look at somebody point to him say keep keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep keep going [Music] yeah yeah yeah do you feel like going on run your race don't worry about who's behind you don't worry about who's beside you we just all running to inspire one another keep keep going keep going keep singing your song keep preaching your sermons keep praying your prayers keep going keep keep reading your word keep going keep fasting keep pressing keep pushing keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going keep going you gotta keep gotta keep going even if you got a limp in your step keep keep going may not be able to run like you used to be keep going keep going maybe one here or watching who needs to join the race maybe like paul you were running the wrong race and you were doing all the things the world told you to be successful a pharisee of pharisees but god is saying it's time for you to leave that rat race enjoying this spiritual race to which it's all about running your race setting your goal forgetting yesterday impressing your first press is to jesus the first press is to a savior who died that you might have life more abundantly tomorrow is not promised every day so many lives are transitioning young old and in between you need to make sure that when your race is finished you know that you're going to end up on the podium if you need to receive jesus the christ as your lord and savior for the pardoning of your sins the salvation of your soul and access to eternal life with every head bowed in every eye closed rather here or online i invite you to say this prayer with me say father i am a sinner i confess with my mouth believe with my heart that jesus the christ is lord and savior over my life say i commit myself to him and i give myself away in complete surrender to his will for my life [Music] in jesus name now father i ask that you would touch all those under the sound of my voice some lord have grown weary this week from the race they're tired and in need of an energy picked me up and we pray that you would touch them right where they are that your spirit would begin to stir and move like only you can stir in us o god all that is needed for us to complete this race that we are running for those who are grieving may they find comfort as they run their race those who are wounded whether it be physical mental emotional or spiritual may they find healing and wholeness just as the seven lepers experienced as they ran back to the city may we find healing as we run towards the mark of this higher call we thank you o god for all that you have done and all you are doing now lord for those who just need a touch we lift our hands up and as holy spirit that you would fill us a new and afresh fillish oh god phyllis phyllis fill us up to the place of overflow rejuvenating all that is within us readying us for another week of running our race we thank you now in the name of jesus the christ we pray and all the children of the most high god said amen amen and amen come on and bless the lord in the house family if you gave your life to the lord today if you're here in person we invite you to step out of your seat and come down and be convincing and deacon withers will gladly welcome you and we'll say a prayer with you if you want to make mount moriah your home if you say pastor this is where god wants to plant me i want to invite you to come i want to invite you to come hallelujah come on and bless the lord family while our sister comes if you're at home and watching you can click in the description area if you want prayer if you want if you gave your life to the lord or you want to become a member of mount moriah simply click on that link fill out your information and we will be with you come on let's give our sister a big hand hallelujah we continue to grow even in the midst of this season of social distancing and main viewership online if you filled out the information we will be in contact with you today if you're watching this live if you are like several are now and watching this in syndication watching this during the week or not live any other time my brother sister we will be with you as soon as we can if you don't hear from us within 24 hours please please call the church office talk with our church clerk and she will make sure that you get plugged in we don't want to miss you you matter so much to us and we want to make sure that we connect with you amen come on mount moriah let's give god praise for [Music] the continued growth of our church amen you may be seated at this time [Music] each and every third sunday we try to take a moment and recognize all of those of our members who have lost loved ones who have transitioned to the other side of the eschaton so at this time i call your attention to the screens if you're here and of course to whatever you are watching this broadcast on and to pray for all the names that you see that scroll by amen [Music] all [Music] [Music] still [Music] the master's [Music] walk away from here [Music] walk away from here that's powerful word of prayer o heavenly father most gracious and merciful god the god of all comfort father god we come lifting up these families father god in the passing of their loved one father god we know that you are comforted father god we thank you for your holy spirit father god we ask that you pour out your spirit fresh on each one of these family father god father god we know father god that weep and may endure for a night but joy will come in the morning father god just like you've done it for others father god we know that you can do it for us so father god we just extend our hands to these family members father god father god we thank you father god for peace in their life father god we thank you father god for even father god the joy that will come in their life father god father god we just reach out father god and even as we continue to comfort them father god even through our grief and recovery ministry father god that they can reach out and we'll reach out to them father god father god we know that there is nothing too hard for you father god so we give you praise now we give your honor and we give you glory for all that you're doing in our lives in jesus name amen amen amen let's give god praise as we thank him for the comfort that we have amen there is also cause for praise as we are able to celebrate god in giving amen hallelujah we actually have a special gift that was given to the church today that i want to recognize as you know we have been celebrating our 129th anniversary and they're still giving that is coming in amen this is a donation in honor of brother andy walker for some of our newer members you may not know that name so let me just briefly tell you how important that name is there's so much i could say but let me tell you one reason of why important that name is andy walker chaired our pastoral search committee that ended up bringing and presenting me before the church to ultimately be called to be the 10th pastor of mount moriah missionary baptist church what none of us knew as that process went on is that he was battling a number of cancers and the lord took him home soon after i was installed as pastor what amazes me though is how even beyond his physical years here he still keeps on blessing us and blessing us particularly through his wife ruthie and so we have a special donation for our church anniversary of twelve thousand nine hundred dollars oh maybe you didn't hear me hold on let me let me let me say that one more time we have a special donation because we're going to be debt free by the end of 2023 we have a special donation of twelve thousand nine hundred dollars to god [Music] be the glory [Music] now i want you to get you can go ahead and stand to your feet i want you to get in your hand your phone if you gave online if you have in your hand to give you can hold it up the value of what you sow is not in the number this is a spiritual thing what is ten thousand to one may be one dollar to another but god knows and god will bless it because giving is a faith thing giving is a what thing it's a faith thing and so here is what we are believing that god's going to bless you and your house and your family not just for you though so that you can be a blessing to others and the more faithful we are the more god's going to bless amen amen amen deacon pendergrass is going to pray now over our giving father god we come together again to say thank you thank you for continuing to bless us and let us see another day we didn't know about this special blessing from the walker family but we thank you and we ask you to just continue blessing them beyond their wildest dreams we thank you for all who have supported the funding of mount moriah missionary baptist church whether it be online or brought in person dropped off bill pay or however we just ask you to continue blessing the church so that it can be used in ways that please you so we give you all praises honor and glory and just ask you to continue leading us guiding us and directing our paths so that what we do with the funds that come in whether it be for the church or in the outreach ministries that you will be pleased in the results of what they were used for in jesus name we pray amen amen amen come on and give god praise for all those who have to give in hand our deacons are at the exit points after the benediction is given on your way out you can give just a couple of announcements you can be seated if you want or you can remain standing because i will go through this fast on tomorrow somebody say tomorrow from 10 to 2 federer health will be here giving vaccines tomorrow from what time 10 to 2 federal health will be here giving vaccines they will have moderna they will have pfizer and they will have johnson and johnson they will give first doses they will give second doses if it's time for your second dose and you may have heard the news that all individuals 65 years and older who got pfizer qualify for a third shot now i know there's a lot that is confusing so let me just tell you what to do if you're confused if you're confused just grab your card that you've got if you've already received your first two doses and show up and they will talk to you and explain to you what you need to do whether you qualify now or not amen amen so get that from the horse's mouth so to speak get it from the professionals you can come the pediatrician will be here to answer questions for parents that might have questions about getting their children vaccinated ages 12 and older there may be if you have a senior parent that you're a caregiver of they will be here to walk with you and assist you from what time from 10 to 2. so they will be here in our family life center you will end up entering through the parking lot they'll route you to the back and that will be that amen so tomorrow what time where family life center in in the gymnasium one other announcement um the lowcountry food bank many of you uh know that there is a virtual walk or you can come and walk in person at the riverfront park in north charleston anytime from 12 to four low country food bank is what supports our food pantry and there is immense need for service in our community and making sure that we have enough food for everybody they will also have a canned food drive non-perishable items during that time you are welcome to come by i will be there for some of the time and we want to continue to address hunger in our community and to make sure that there is no child no senior no adult no person that goes hungry because god has given enough for all to have enough amen and amen if you missed friday night life you want to go back and catch it because it was a blessing and how many of you saw it and were blessed by it amen you want to go back and catch it either on youtube or facebook and last but not least sunday school sunday school everybody said sunday school we've got sunday school classes for all ages except the nursery amen and we working on that because lord knows they need some sunday school feel free to join us you do not have to be a member we welcome you we welcome you we welcome you to sunday school yes we just made up a theme song for sunday school and with that let us stand as our men's corral leads us out with a song and benediction [Music] don't know [Music] not knowing how we'll get through this test [Music] but holding on to faith you know that nothing can catch you by surprise you've got this figured out and you're watching us now and when it looked as if we can't win [Music] you wrap us in your arms and step in [Music] and everything we need you supply you've got this in control and now we know that you you made a way when our backswing [Music] [Music] only because [Music] father we thank you today we thank you for the eyes i've seen our ears have heard and our hearts have receded we thank you for the strength to keep going thank you for the motivation we thank you that we can let the past go and reach forward to a new and bigger and brighter future we ask now that you would seal the word deep in our hearts seal it so the devil doesn't steal it [Music] and now may the peace of god that surpasses all understanding may that peace that goes far beyond any worldly possession may that peace guard your hearts and your minds in christ jesus as you travel the highways and by ways of life may that peace be with you in jesus name and all of god's children said peace peace peace be with you amen and amen god bless you and have a wonderful week [Music] three [Music] [Music] you may [Music] don't know don't know [Music] [Music] [Music] only because [Music] there's something you want to say today lord

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Published: Sun Sep 19 2021