SUCOC 2021.09.26 - 9AM Morning Service

[Music] oh yeah [Music] is [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Music] i'm [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Applause] [Music] me [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] hallelujah [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] oh [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] hallelujah [Music] this video was uploaded by humble is [Music] you shed your blood for me [Music] sweet jesus [Music] oh lord jesus [Music] my lord jesus [Music] [Music] oh [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] he's always there me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] you died for me [Music] [Music] i'm so glad [Music] for me [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] when you're talking to him [Music] [Applause] for me [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Applause] [Music] having [Music] oh jesus [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] jesus christ [Music] when i'm hungry [Music] oh [Music] oh jesus jesus i thank [Music] you [Music] [Applause] thank you [Music] [Music] [Music] thank you thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] thank you [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] lord thank you [Applause] [Music] my you know [Music] well you know i woke up this morning with my mind you know say it on jesus well i woke up this morning with my mind you know we said said on the lord oh lord i woke up this morning with my mind you know we said oh jesus singing hallelujah [Music] [Music] well you know you can't hate your neighbor with your mind you know we said it [Music] oh says singing hallelujah [Music] good morning and welcome to the south union jesus christ 2021 homecoming we are pleased to see all of you who have joined us for in-person worship we're also pleased that many of you have tuned in by way of media we want to thank you and we want you to just sit back and enjoy we have a wonderful homecoming planned for you we've already kicked it off we had an exciting day on yesterday and i just want to thank the youth ministry and all those who put together such a wonderful program that displayed the talents of our youth if you missed it as they say you really missed a treat so i want to thank our youth and the parents of our youth and everyone who put that together i won't get into any detail i'll leave the introductions for later on so at this time would you buy with me please to the great god of heaven to the father of our lord and savior jesus christ father we come with bowed heads and humble hearts just thanking you father for being our god and being so good to us and father we just thank you for watching over us and protecting us while we slept and slumbered on last evening father realizing that there was some father who did not uh have the privilege of seeing the new day we just thank you father for blessing us and the father we come on behalf of our elders and their wives we just pray father that you would bless them follow those who are ill we just pray that you would be with uh brother and sister holland we understand that they are both under the weather this morning we just pray father that you would bless and strengthen them that they would once again be able to come out and go about their normal duties and chores we just pray father that you would be with all of our elders blessing them we just pray father that you would be with the south union church of christ father that we would always do your will we just pray father that you would be with us this morning helping us to clear our minds father that we would be able to uh receive the blessings father in the way of your word father that will shortly be brought unto us father that we would be able to understand it and use it in our everyday lives and if it be thou will father we would be able to uh teach those things to others we just pray father that you would uh look down upon us father blessing us in this community in our city um and in the united states and in the world together father as we are still under this pandemic we just pray father you would bless us protect us and keep us safe we pray father that you would be with us father amongst all the lawless and his father that we are facing we just pray father that somehow your word and the truth will prevail and that those fathers who will do lawless things father will come to their senses father and do the right thing we just pray father that you would bless us in the furtherness of the service father that things will work well with us father as we continue to celebrate our homecoming we just pray that you would be with those fathers who are visiting with us either in person or on the airways father and perhaps they may not have been familiar with us or the church of christ we just pray father that something would be said father that will open their minds in their hearts father that they may come running or wanting to know what they must do father to be saved and it will be given unto them we just pray father that you would bless them in a special way now follow these blessings we pray in your darling son jesus name amen i'd like to say good morning to each and every one of you this morning those here and those who are looking online salvation has been brought down jesus gave his life for ransom yonder on calvary on mount calvary calvary well you know we failed blood then we might win amen salvation has been broken down [Music] [Music] [Applause] just [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] around [Music] [Applause] [Music] salvation is [Music] [Music] salvation has been brought down amen amen as we prepare our minds and hearts for scripture reading and also prayer leaning on the everlasting arm [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] what [Music] is [Music] [Music] [Music] oh [Music] from oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] on [Music] and you know oh [Music] [Music] [Music] still [Music] good morning church family and to those watching virtually today scripture will be taken from the book of jeremiah the chapter is one the verses that i'll be reading this morning will be four and five again that's the book of jeremiah the chapter is one the verses are four and five if all found say amen and it reads then the word of the lord came unto them unto me saying before i formed thee in the belly i knew thee and before thou camest forth out of the womb i sanctified thee and are ordained thee a prophet unto the nations i've read for you jeremiah 1 the verses were four and five the title for this morning sermon i was on his mind i was on his mind please prepare your hearts and minds for prayer let us pray to the only wise god to the god of all existence to the awesome father of our lord and savior jesus christ the father as awesome as you are you've allowed us to call you father as amazing as you are father you sent your son that he might establish a church that we might be a part of and have an opportunity to live with you throughout all eternity and father for that we are [Music] forever grateful for we come approaching you in your throne of grace with much thanksgiving thanking you father for allowing us to wake up allowing us to put one foot before the other for that many father who did not wake up this morning and we're grateful the father help us not to stop there and just be grateful to be alive but help us to share the life and the love that you give to us to those who do not know you father we come on behalf of the body of christ here at south union we thank you for another homecoming day we ask that you bless us father that we might be the people that you would have us to be and we come on behalf of the entire body of christ throughout the world that you would help us to speak the same things to to love one another in a manner follow where all those who see us would know they were indeed your son's disciples father we ask that you bless those among us who have broken homes fractured lives loss of jobs who are ill we ask you to stand in the gap father and be the god that you've always been leading the children of israel over the red sea we ask that you comfort us strengthen us and lift us up follow where we are weak we come to you at this time thanking you for the country in which we live in knowing there is not one perfect country on this planet but we ask that you give us understanding and give us more knowledge and help us to in a dark world to be a light we pray for the leaders of this country that you would give them those things that they stand in need of to lead the people that you put them in charge of father we come praying for the minister but the most who would come before us and share the word of life we pray for his family back in dallas that when he returns that he would find them in a fine manner we pray for him today father that you would give him a ready recollection of the things in which he has studied we thank you for his life father that the experiences that you have given him that he could share those things with us and help us father to be better christians today and tomorrow than we have been in the past we come praying for our leadership here at the south union church of christ that you would strengthen them father give them health continue to bless them father that they might be the men that you would have them to be blessed their wives and bless their children as well and come on behalf of the membership here at the south union church of christ that you would help us to stand up and be a light in a dark world help us to understand what walking with jesus means and sometimes we won't be accepted by the world sometimes we'll be embarrassed by the things that we say about loving jesus help us father to be the salt of the earth that you might be pleased with us father that you forgive us for the sins that we've committed against you we pray that you remember them not in this world nor the world to come continue to bless us father and keep us as we strive to imitate christ in everything we think say and do forgive us for the sins that we've committed against you father remember not in this world nor of the world to come we love you we thank you for all things we appreciate all that you do for us first in christ's name we pray let the body of christ say amen good morning good morning how we doing this morning happy homecoming to everybody i hope everybody that's out there that's at home still wearing your t-shirts yeah we still we're still doing it we're still doing it amen amen yeah do you believe that jesus rose jesus rose and if all found let's together sing jesus rosa with all power in his hand [Music] [Applause] [Music] that he died on friday evening and he roars on sunday morning jesus rose with all power in his hand or in his hand and jesus rose with all power in his hand and jesus roll with all power in his hand or in his hand and they tell me that he died [Music] with all power in his hand or in his hand and they tell me that the angels came down [Music] [Music] jesus [Applause] with [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] and they tell me that the angels came down from glory and they wrote and they tell me that the angels came down from and i believe that they rolled the stone away they tell me that the angels came down [Music] [Music] in his hands [Music] with all power in his hands [Music] [Applause] [Applause] sunday morning [Music] with our power in his hand or in his hand and jesus [Music] [Music] [Music] that he died [Music] in [Music] [Applause] amen amen let those who love the lord say amen we welcome everyone to this lord's day morning because we know we realize we trust and believe that god has been so good is there anyone here this morning who's thankful that god woke them up this morning amen somebody we've come to give god praise we've come to glorify his holy name we have come because god has been so good i thank the lord that he blesses us even in spite of us through all of our ups and our downs through all of our peaks and our valleys there is one consistent thing in our lives and that is our faith in god that is our hope in christ jesus to know that with the lord on our side there is no battle too big for god to fight and so we are just thankful and privileged to be here in this house and we're thankful to have all who have chosen to worship god with us online real time on this lord's day morning it is our prayer that your soul will be encouraged that your spirit will be revived and that someone someone will say yes to jesus perhaps you are in a moment of transition in your life and you're looking for the hand of god to move in a mighty way we want to encourage you to stay with the lord and to trust the lord to not doubt what god is doing in your life for even in your season of desertion god knows how to bring about true and total deliverance to those that are here in person it's marvelous to see you hear this homecoming sunday and we believe at south union that god has blessed us that we might be a blessing to all who come in contact with our being and so your presence here means so much to us has anyone enjoyed this 2021 hybrid homecoming experience amen [Applause] amen i have enjoyed myself immensely already let's take a moment and just say thank you we thank god first and foremost we thank jesus christ his son and our savior we thank the holy spirit for guiding and guarding our lives we thank the leadership here at south union our elders our deacon our men servants our ministry leaders we thank god for them because today would not have been a major success as it is being if they were not here working faithfully in the lord and so i'm thankful i'm grateful for our elders and for our deacon i'm grateful for our ministry leaders and i'm thankful for each person as we have prayed for this day now i do have to say something about friday night on friday night we had the jump off if you will the kickoff of our homecoming weekend we thank god for brothers carrie rockmore and desmond wright our media team and ministry they have done a phenomenal job all week long how many people enjoyed the singing on friday night amen amen we thank god for them and we also praise god for our youth and now if you missed or if you missed last night you missed the treat we thank god for our young people who have been gifted who have been gifted with many many skills and abilities and god was praised on last night we take a moment to salute all of our youth all of our youth and parents of our youth we thank god for their support system and we thank god for our youth director brother sisway lewis didn't he do a marvelous job amen amen amen we thank god for sister patricia isom uh as they continue to uh lead and guide us and and give us encouragement along the way we thank god for our communications from sister christine lemitry and we thank god for our deacon uh brother walter jeffrey this team has worked feverishly to make sure that uh not only is god glorified but that the church is edified we're living in some times where we need some encouragement and it's just so good to know that when we come to the house of god you may come in feeling down but you can leave filling up you may come in burdened but you can leave having your burdens released because god is a mighty god and we praise his holy name now on uh on today uh it's a big day today we will have worship and then at the end of this worship uh experience uh we will have uh some lunch some light lunch for those that are here with us in person uh we will give you instructions at the appropriate time but we will have some light lunch and i better say light lunch to go you can you can grab the lunch and you can go to where you need to go too amen but we wanted to just say thank you and we wanted to keep the homecoming experience special so we're thankful for each person that's here with us and we also are thankful for our little general we're thankful for sister jewell wright amen sister media has come through yet again and blessed us and we thank god for her hands and we thank god for those sisters and brothers who work collaboratively and collectively with her now at 2 p.m at 2 p.m we have our men's and women's round table discussion this is a hybrid experience so wherever you are just tune in to our youtube channel at 2 p.m and you're going to be blessed as well as you're going to be blessed by some inspirational singing that is peppered throughout the broadcast so we know that you will be encouraged to know that god has brought us through this pandemic he's bringing us through this pandemic we're not out of the woods yet but we thank god and we trust him that he'll continue to preserve us and guide us and for this we give him praise so at 2 pm virtually tune in on youtube and you will be blessed by our men and women's round table discussion and we thank those who worked in that effort and we thank them for uh what they have done and how god is going to bless all of our lives through their gifts and their talents then at 6 30 at 6 30 p.m we're going to have a special a special bible class with our evangelist brian moss now if you have not uh sat at the feet of brother moss you are in for a treat uh this again will happen virtually at 6 30 p.m we will sit live in the studio with brother moss and we're looking forward to having a wonderful wonderful and glorious time now if there are any visitors here if you would please just stand all of our visitors all of our visitors you received an invite somebody said come on to church and let's give god glory amen amen amen now what we like to do family we know we're in this uh pandemic period but we would like to just say to you that we are thankful that you've come here to the church of christ we we know you have a choice where you will go and worship but we're just so delighted to see you here at south union we love it when visitors come our way and if anyone does not give you a special greeting it's only because we can't recognize who is visiting and who's not because of our mass but if we were unmasked and if we were unbridled in this pandemic we would love on you and we would fellowship with you and you'd have to peel us off of you so you could get out of here but since it's a pandemic we are going to be respectful and considerate of personal spacing but we want you to know that we're just thankful to have you here and the doors to the church swing open on welcome hinges on friday on friday brother moss came to our fair city and we thank god for brother john lewis for transportation logistics we thank god for him and his uh his time he made sure that the preacher got to where he needed to be and we're thankful for that while we were making our uh our course through the city we pause because you know the preacher has to eat and uh we wanted to feed the preacher uh he didn't fly the plane but he had to eat amen somebody uh amen yeah yeah the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak so we had to break a little bread you know jesus refreshed himself and so as we were refreshing ourselves uh at the restaurant uh we had a great time and as we began to pack up and to leave um there was uh a a lady two ladies uh uh two friends that were sitting at the table kind of next to us and um they overheard our conversation and one of them said to us uh you all are preachers aren't you and um we kind of looked and smiled and uh brother lewis said well i can preach and so we we entered into short dialogue with them and they were experiencing some things in their lives and they said look we just need to have a moment of prayer would you pray for us and we stopped and we prayed with those two ladies they had wonderful spirits and brother moss and i agreed we said look we need to invite them to today's fellowship and i want you to know that one of those lovely ladies is here with us today i'm going to ask her to stand up just stand up amen [Applause] amen she is a single parent she says that she's doing all that she can to please god and she was serious about her walk you know you never know you never know who is serious about their walk and while you are thinking about all of the things you've got going on we are all going through something but isn't it good to help one another we're not in this by ourselves we are in this as a team and we're just so thankful to have her with us on today and give me your name again sis amelia sister danielia sister denelia is here with us please don't let her leave without feeling the love amen amen amen we're glad to have her good to look out and see our dear friend dr virgil fry good to see you brother fry he slipped in unaware i don't know if he's an angel but he he slipped in unaware and uh good to see him with us lifeline chaplaincy lifelong partners with the south union church of christ good to have everyone here listen if we don't come to you personally like we usually do it's not because we're acting funny or standoffish we just want to respect everybody's space do you feel comfortable on hit on today do you feel comfortable i believe we have plenty of room but it's good to see this very good number and we'll get some crowd shots and add this to the historic portfolio of south union now i want to introduce to some and to present to others our evangelist in person in the minister brian moss of fort worth texas the late como church of christ if you were with us on last year for our virtual homecoming experience uh then you are already a witness that brother brian moss is gifted of god he is he is a gifted speaker and i will say this he is one of my favorite preachers in the brotherhood i don't i don't shy away from that he's one of my favorite preachers in the brotherhood he has a way of connecting the dots he has a way of pulling you into the message and when you leave you leave on fire for the lord he's going to challenge us to grow he's going to inspire us to continue to trust in god but i thank god for his ministry i thank god for his preaching ability i thank god for his family he's married to children he's been in the pulpit for many years he's a seasoned preacher he knows how to do it he's a skilled tactician and we are blessed to have him here with us this man of god this great man of god brian moss the minister to the late como church of christ in fort worth texas now how we always used to do before pre-pandemic we've got to sing up the preacher amen we've got to sing up the preacher if you don't mind if you are able to stand just stand where you are as we give god glory and as we encourage all of those who are online worshiping with us we want you to sing along with us amen amen anyway you bless me lord well i i'll be satisfied anyway anyway [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] any way [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] praise god [Music] [Applause] [Music] i know that i'll be satisfied with singing [Music] just like me [Applause] [Music] [Music] i'll be satisfied anywhere anyways [Music] anyway anyway anyway anyway [Music] [Applause] [Music] come on [Music] [Music] anyway [Music] anyway [Music] [Applause] [Music] when i'm lost [Music] you bless me lord i know i'll be [Music] anyway [Applause] is [Applause] yes i know anyway [Music] come on put your hands together and give god a hand clapping praise in this place what a mighty god we serve oh no you can do better than that this is homecoming and and god saw fit to bring us through 2020 i was here for last homecoming and with nobody in here but me and your preacher and look at what god has done now or you are to lift up your voice put your hands together and give god some glory in this place what a mighty god we serve what a mighty god we serve what a mighty god we serve after all we've been through you think about what i just said what a mighty god we serve you go ahead and close your eyes for a minute and think back over the last 18 months what a mighty god we serve i'm gonna keep saying it till you get it in your spirit what a mighty god we serve what a mighty god we serve what what a mighty god we serve what what a mighty god we serve and in the morning he's a mighty god and at noon time he's a mighty god in the middle of the night he's a mighty god when you got to cry yourself to sleep he's a mighty god when the bills pile up he's a mighty god when trouble's knocking at your door he's a mighty god in the hospital room he's a mighty god in the courtroom he's a mighty god in a pandemic he's a mighty god in the sanctuary he's almighty god i need somebody early in this morning to say thank you that we serve almighty god we serve almighty god i said we serve a mighty god we serve almighty god what a mighty god we serve what a mighty god we what a mighty god we serve what a mighty god we serve what a mighty god we serve what a mighty god we serve i'm sorry but he's been good to me what a mighty god we serve when this pandemic threatened to take me out of my righteous mind he he kept me what a mighty god we serve and and i feel like that when we come into the house of god we all not have a problem at this point of all of our lives telling him thank you every sunday when i stand in the pulpit in fort worth texas i i i remind our church that we serve a mighty god because there was a time when most if not all of us took for granted gathering together on sunday what a mighty god we serve and each and every one of you know people who were with us before the pandemic who have left us since the pandemic yes we will miss them and hopefully prayerfully we're trusting god that we'll see him again but you and i are still here what a mighty god we serve i want to say first and foremost that we thank god for being who he is for allowing us this opportunity to come together to gather together to worship whether you're in here or in the cyber sanctuary wherever you may be we've come to give him glory and we got to tell them thank you i said we ought to tell them thank you thank you for waking us up and giving us another opportunity to live on this side of eternity perhaps if we would venture to put him first when we've gone the last smile of the way when we have breathed our last breath when we've laid our left our head on our final resting pillow we open our eyes on judgment day we'll hear him say well done family it's good to be in the house of the lord it's good to be in the house of the lord and i'll tell you like the saints of old would say it's good to see you but it's also good to be seen we say in fort worth is good to be seen and not viewed now amen somebody because that used to be a catchphrase in the church but it's real now because we've gone through a season where we learned in a very real sense that you just don't know where death is but we're thankful that god has allowed us to come together one more time listen do me a favor and and and let's give god a handclap of praise for my brother and your preacher the ministering adventures of the south union church rf tucker amen somebody that's my brother and i tell you this every time i come and i'll tell you this every time i see you y'all got you have an amazing preacher he is one of the most gifted one of the most talented but most importantly one of the most hard-working men in this brotherhood and you ought to be grateful because a good preacher is hard to find and when you find one you ought to hold on to him help him and his family treat him right love him love him amen love him and lift him up because guess what preachers get tired too preachers get sick too preachers families have needs too and and the and the reality is is that it is the church's responsibility to meet the needs of the man of god and his family just like it's his responsibility to meet your spiritual needs if if you now i'm going to say this and i'll get to my sermon in a minute but but not every preacher at every church comes to work every day not not every preacher takes advantage of the time that god has given him to preach and prepare and lead the local congregation not not every preacher stays up late at night to study and gets up early in the morning to serve not every preacher can sing like that now that's where he get on my nerves right there that's where he worked my last nerve he i tell you i told him when he come to fort worth don't open your mouth to sing now him amen don't open your mouth to sing now him in fort worth amen because see what happened is they expect that out of me when he leave and i tell him real quick ain't but one randall tucker now ain't no one amen but that's my brother and i love him dearly and and it's good to see my south union family um i love coming to houston i love seeing your faces and most of you i know your faces but i don't know your name and i'm glad to see that most of you are still with us amen that means that god has been good to you i was looking on the security uh cameras and i saw you driving up amen not many of you jumped off the bus this morning i didn't see nobody walking up to the church let you know god has been good that mean your bill's still being paid amen and so we're just glad to be in the house of god and i have to say this because as a father of two boys i understand the level of seriousness that goes into raising boys uh when the preacher came to pick me up this young man got out of the truck and i was trying to figure out who he was i said he was a little boy before the pandemic he looked like a grown man now i said look i said he little randy no more big randy amen he's such a fine young man uh and and and the tucker family such a beautiful family and uh we thank god for not just the the man of god but for his entire family sister tucker you keep loving him amen okay all right i'm gonna leave y'all alone i say that because i know as preachers sometimes we can be hard to deal with at home because we have to put on a smiling face everywhere else we go and uh we we are grateful for wives who love us the way they do and on that note sister moss told me to tell y'all hello amen and she said if i try to come to houston one more time without bringing her with me it was going gonna be some smoke in the city amen and so next time y'all see me y'all gonna see her amen and so but that's not why we came today we came because there is a word from the lord and so i want to invite your attention today to the book of jeremiah it was read into your hearing we're going to read it one more time for emphasis sake jeremiah the chapter is one and we're going to begin reading at verse number four jeremiah chapter one and we're going to begin reading at verse number four for those of you who are at home i want you to do me a favor put in the comment section i got it and for those who are in the sanctuary once you've got to do me a favor stand with me if you can and if you don't mind stand with me in reverence and respect to the reading of god's holy uh and divine word jeremiah chapter one and we're going to begin reading at verse number four i also want to say thank you to brother lewis because brother lewis blessed my uh spirit soul and body in the time that i was able to spend with him i probably have drank three gallons of water this weekend amen he made me put my left hand on the bible and raised my right hand that i wouldn't drink nothing but water for the next 21 days so y'all pray for me amen but we appreciate the hospitality that he and the south union church have shown in my time here that's that's normal but i don't want you to think i take it for granted so i'm grateful jeremiah chapter 1 and the bible says in verse number 4 now the word of the lord came to me saying now don't miss that i know it doesn't seem significant but sometimes we hear things and we hear voices speaking into our lives but i want you to know every voice is not the voice of god and just because somebody tells you who you should be and how you should be don't mean that that's where god is calling you and who god is calling you to be but the bible says now the word of the lord came to me saying before i formed you in the womb i knew you and before you were born i consecrated you i have appointed you a prophet to the nations i'ma read it one more time before i formed you in your mother's womb i knew you before you were born i consecrated you i have appointed you a prophet to the nations let's go to god in a word of prayer good god almighty we come with our heads bowed and with our hearts humbled lord to tell you thank you for being such an awesome god lord you are good you are great and you are greatly to be praised lord we thank you that you've given us this hour to worship you in spirit and in truth we ask simply lord that you will send your sweet holy spirit into this place not just into this place but into every space where the people of god are meeting right now lord show up and show out do something so great and so mighty that everyone around this world will have no choice but to give you glory and now lord may the words of our mouths and meditation of our hearts be pleasing and acceptable in your sight that every child of god who agrees say amen and amen you may be seated in the presence of the lord i want you to help me as i move through this text and preach i put a tag on this text called he had me on his mind he had me on his mind why don't y'all i want y'all to help me just look at somebody down your row and said i was on his mind now y'all didn't do it uh like you meant it so look at somebody else with an attitude and say i was on his mind family i want to begin today to unpack this particular pericope or preaching paragraph by suggesting to you that in this season if in no other season the people of god have got to come to the place of spiritual maturity that we again prioritize purpose purpose purpose the reason for which something exists purpose the reason for which it was created purpose in short purpose answers the question why why do i exist why am i here why am i going through this why does it hurt so bad why does it feel so good why biblically speaking purpose is defined as an anticipated outcome with planned activities that is it is an anticipated outcome with intention that ought to guide our planned activities family i told the people in fort worth and i want to say to you that one of the reasons in my preaching on a regular basis that i come back to purpose is because i understand that when we grab a hold to purpose it can lead us to a place where we live in and thrive in prosperity now i know this is a church of christ and we don't like to talk about prosperity but i believe that the bible is right when jesus said the thief came to steal kill and destroy but i have come that you might have life and have life more abundantly listen god did not come for you to be the tail god came for you to be the head god did not send his son so that you can be the borrower god wants to position you to be the lender god did not come so that you can be in the back god wants to call you to the front listen if you don't want to be successful then you can fold your arms and sit on your hands and cross your legs but i came today to tell you that god has something in store for his people and he said that you need to know that eyes have not seen and ears have not heard neither has it entered into the heart of mankind the great things that god has prepared for those who love them and so when i start talking about prosperity don't get shy on me just know that when you walk in purpose and on purpose and for purpose god will lead you to a place of prosperity and you don't have to take my word for it ask joseph see joseph knew something about walking on purpose in purpose and for purpose and let me be crystal clear brother tucker you don't have to look like you walking in purpose and feel like you walking in purpose as long as god knows that you are walking in purpose people you don't have to be on a mountaintop to walk in purpose every now and then the people of god have to walk through a valley but as long as you are walking through that valley on purpose and with purpose and for purpose god will walk with you in that valley that's why it's okay i'm not i'm not ready to go there yet but just just watch this family joseph could be in potiphar's house he could be in a pit and he can be in prison and he still walked on purpose with purpose and for purpose and early in my sermon today i came to talk to somebody who's going through a difficult time right now don't let your problems get in the way of you walking on purpose with purpose and for purpose there ought to be a few saints in here early this morning who can say you know what if i got to go through hell i'm going to go through hell on purpose with purpose and for purpose you got to tell the pain that you deal with listen i've got to deal with this pain but this pain gonna produce something for me it's gonna help me walk on purpose with purpose and for purpose listen i came today to tell you that purpose is powerful purpose is pivotal and purpose is paramount and when you make up in your mind that you're going to discern that you need to be dedicated to walking on purpose with purpose and for purpose god will lead you to a place that no matter what you're going through you will be successful ah i feel my help coming early now you you got to be able to say to yourself that i can go through a divorce and god will still be on my side i i can i can have to i can have to drop out of school for a season to deal with my situation but as long as i deal with my situation and don't let my situation deal with me then i can walk on purpose with purpose and for purpose and it won't be long till they start playing that song and you get your cap and your gown and you'll be dancing across that stage and you'll be able to look back over your life and say i may not have graduated on time but i did graduate end time i feel like preaching in here because god can walk with you through your problems if you decide you're gonna walk with purpose for purpose and on purpose and i want you to know purpose that we serve a god of purpose yeah yeah we purpose comes from the mind of god that is that when you come to the understanding that god before the foundation of the world had an intended outcome for your life that god before the foundation of the world had an order for your steps that god before the foundation of the world made up in his mind that what he wanted you to do and who he wanted you to become should guide your planned activity and so let me be crystal clear that's why sometimes the best choice for you and the best word in your vocabulary is a two-letter word no no i'm not gonna be able to go to the club with you tonight no i'm not gonna be able to sleep with you tonight no i'm not gonna be able to run with you tonight every now and then you got to tell folks no no i'm not going to take my tithes and turn that into a vacation to cancun no i'm not going to spend all of my money so i can't say yes to god no i'm not going to let you fill up my calendar so i don't have time to serve the lord sometimes you got to learn how to say no watch this on purpose with purpose and for purpose i see y'all not gonna help me let me let me let me i'll get to jeremiah in a minute but i got to lay a healthy foundation because we as the people of god get so wrapped up and tied up in romans chapter 8 and verse number 28 and we quote it when we in trouble and we quoted when we got to cry and we quoted when we have to grieve and we quote it when the bills piled up and we quoted when things are not going our way and we quote it in the preacher walk in the room and it don't matter what you were going through as long as he said baby and you know that all things work together for the good to those who love the lord and are called according to his purpose and we get caught up in for the good and we forget about his purpose and we forget about his purpose and we get caught up and it's going to all work together for our good and we live and we die in romans chapter 8 and verse number 28. and and and the problem is when you lift a verse out of context it becomes a proof text to make to prove to you that god will move for you even when you don't move for him but the truth of the matter is and the reality is if you don't know romans 8 29 see y'all real quiet in the church it did then romans 8 28 won't work for you did you hear what i just said see you can quote romans 8 and 28 but you got to live romans 8 and 29 uh y'all not gonna help me i need a few bible readers who know that the bible says that he predestined us to be conformed to the image of his son and so if you're not living romans 8 29 the stock misquoting misappropriating and misapplying romans 8 and 28 so you got to walk on purpose with purpose and full purpose if you want god to work it out for your good somebody need to help me in here because you need some things to work together for your good i know that you gave it all to the lord and you gave your life to christ and you're trying to live right and you're trying to walk right and you're trying to talk right and you're serving in the sanctuary and you're giving your little bit of dollars in the in the in the in the collection play or whether y'all giving online these days we don't pass them into place no more but however it is but i want you to know that just because you walk on purpose with purpose and for purpose that doesn't preclude you from life's problems should i say it again let me say it in the way that that everybody can get it my preacher where i grew up his name was brother odell reinhardt jr and brother odell reinhardt jr had a fifth grade education but he said the bible is such that or rather brian if you're going to be a preacher don't you go off and get so much education that you're talking over people's heads he said when you preach you ought to put the see he was a farmer and i know y'all in the big city y'all know nothing about what i'm about to say but you'll look it up on your way home most of y'all came from east texas anywhere y'all our country y'all just moved to the city and and what happened was brother odell round hard junior said he said brian preaching is like like tendon to the calves and the mules he said if you put the hey where the calves can reach it you don't have to worry about the cows y'all missed it see all everybody here cows ain't got no calves in here that's what the problem is and what happens is that's what i used to say before i want to make it real plain when you call yourself a christian that does not mean there won't be some casualties in your life i'm gonna say it another way giving your life to christ don't mean the enemy going to give up on you just because you come to church don't mean you're not gonna go through problems and when you realize that problems are for rich people and poor people help me somebody problems are for sophisticated folk and simple folk problems are for young folks and old folks problems are for i want to say this same sinners and saints problems are for preachers and pew members now i don't care what your address is every now and then problems are going to knock on your door one thing i have discovered you can't run from problems you can't hide from problems you can't avoid problems you just got to learn how to live with your problems because if you can live with your problems then god will give you the power to deal with your problems and if you can deal with your problems god will give you the strength to overcome your problems and when you overcome your problems you ought to open up your mouth and give god some praise what does that have to do with jeremiah god wanted jeremiah to know before he ever entered in to what he was being called to do and who he is being called to be god wanted to him to know something about himself and here it is family he tells him i knew you i got some time doing a preacher listen he says i knew you y'all missed it he's looking at jeremiah and he says before i formed you i knew you i'm gonna try it one more time jeremiah before you ever existed in a physical manifestation of yourself i knew you you missed it he says i knew you see this is this is the part of the message for folks who know something about what trouble trials and tribulation look like for one it's also the part of the message that's for those of us who know what sin look like and y'all get real quiet if you want to this is what i know i'm walking all over your toes when when when you know where seeing is you know what it smells like you know what it looks like you know what it feels like and you know where to find it god says i knew that about you too before i formed you i knew what your it was he said yeah y'all don't look at me like that cause every last one of us having it and that's why the hebrew writer said that we ought to lay aside whatever it is that so easily besets us now i ain't in i can't be us by myself i can only be me and so if he said us that means it's me and you your mama and your cousin too you don't look at me like that i'll go back to fort worth on y'all i get real country see i have to be dignified when i come to houston put on a nice suit and some boots and look good cause that's how y'all preach a role but i go back to the country if i have to and tell you you are not better than the next person on your row i don't care what your stilettos look like what your suede blue shoes look like how nice your tie is or how pretty your blouse is paul said all have sinned and do come short of the glory of god and that's why we ought to say thank you because the wages of sin is death but you still in this sanctuary with cool breath in your lungs and warm blood on in your veins you can still inhale and exhale and that's why david said let everything that has breath praise the lord i know we in the middle of the sermon but can we take a praise break to tell somebody thank you this morning lord i'm sorry i i just need you to know uh that that yes we praise the lord because he has brought us a mighty long way but along your way you need to remember in your problems in your pain you still need to walk on purpose with purpose and for a purpose don't think for one minute that god made a mistake when he made you i don't care what your fourth grade teacher told you that didn't look like you i don't care what your mama who was mad at your daddy because he didn't want to be with her and looked at you and said you're gonna be just like him forget what she said god said i knew you before i formed you in your mother's womb and if that don't move you he moves from saying i knew you before i formed you and i still called you i'm gonna land this plane cause y'all ain't trying to ride with me i formed you i formed you you were not an accident hear me when i say this you were not an accident you were not an afterthought you were not a coincidence maybe your mom and dad didn't plan on you but god was planning on you and let me let me be crystal clear let me be crystal clear just because they did were not intentional don't you believe one for one minute that god was not intentional listen god had you on his mind before the beginning of time he took the time to get to know you before there ever was a you he knew where your problems would be he knew where your shortcomings would be he knew where your issues would be and he still said with them flaws and all i'm going to form them i'm going to mold them i'm going to make them into who i want them to be and that's why it doesn't matter how long you've been saved you need to know that god is still working on you you don't believe me as paul paul said in philippians chapter one and verse number six i'm not sure of a whole lot of things but i do know one thing and that is he which has begun a good work in me will perform it until the day of the coming of the lord so what does that mean preacher it means that i don't care how long you've been sitting in the sanctuary he's still working on you now i need five of y'all in this sanctuary that's just thankful that he ain't through with you yet to go ahead and put your hands together and say thank you for not giving up on me yeah that's real right there because there will be people in your family that will give up on you there will be friends that will give up on you folk on your job will give up on you school teachers will give up on you but god said not you i knew you were gonna struggle right here because i knew you before i formed you and still i have called you it may take you a little about a little while longer but if you hold on y'all don't mind if i go ahead do you if you hold on just a little while longer i gotta feel it that everything is going to be all right text says that that god knew him he knew him and then he formed them formed has to do with a potter and clay watch this with your broad nose your nappy hair your big lips and your black skin in america they might not like it but god loves it y'all didn't hear what i just said listen i know too often they want our culture but don't want our character but god knew us he saw the value in us and he said i'm gonna make him anyway y'all not gonna help me preach today listen listen listen he formed you like like a potter and the clay and let me parenthetically insert that no clay in the history of clay ever said to the potter this is what i want to look like this is how i want to how tall i want to be this is how no that's not how it works the the clay doesn't have to give permission to the potter about when it comes to how they are formed but every piece of claim ought to be thankful to the potter that he breathed life into him that he gave him the capacity to be who they wanted to be or who he wanted them to be and do what he wanted him to do but here he is reason why it's important for you to know that god formed you on purpose with purpose and for purpose is because our problems come when we don't live in formation i'm preaching and y'all don't even know it our problems come when we don't live in formation because here it is you can't live a life of transformation if you don't decide to live in formation i'm preaching you ain't got nothing to say listen when you live in formation it leads to transformation and that's why god said to jeremiah jeremiah what he said to him before he ever sent them because he wanted him to know something about himself and who god was calling him to be and what god was calling him to do because he knew just like us that jeremiah would find himself in some sticky situations and when you get in some sticky situations you need to remember that god is calling you to live in formation and when you live in formation then you can lead people to transformation and see some y'all not gonna help me i'm gonna come get you the reason why the church is in the situation that it is in around the world is because too many of us grown folks are not living in formation and so our children are growing up and they don't see no transformation in our life and so they say if that god didn't do anything for them then that god ain't gonna change me either but we've got to decide family as grown folks that not just in the sanctuary but monday through saturday we're going to walk in transformation talk in in formation walk in formation pray in formation praise in formation and then that would lead our children to see some transformation amen god was intentional and so you need to be the best you you can be when you decide that you're going to be the best version of you that's when god can really use you one thing and brother will tell you this as younger preachers we used to be young preachers now we just younger preachers y'all see the difference we got about seven more years and then we're just going to be preachers amen just going to be preaching y'all won't be able to tell we got a young preacher no he he 50 he's just a preacher now amen uh i'm sorry you won't be 50 in seven years but anyway uh but no no no we've got to decide when we were when we were young preachers we all looked up to certain preachers and we would try to emulate them because we looked up to them but all of us had to come to a place where we realized that if god was really going to use us that he he called us to use the voice that he gave us because my voice was designed by god before the beginning of time and there was a people that my voice was designed for there was a place that my voice was designed for but that's not just for preachers that's for you too family come here young person don't worry about trying to be like nobody you see on tv that's fake anyway god had you on his mind before the beginning of time he wants to use you for christ's sake and for his glory but if he's going to use you you got to walk in formation so god can take you to transformation but not only did god shape you in formation god knew you before he formed you sometimes we face insecurities sometimes we feel inferior and every now and then if you're honest with me our souls slip into a place of inadequacy and so we go to work feeling like we don't deserve this position and we don't deserve this raise and we'll even go as far as applying for a job that we pray to god to give us and then we'll say stuff like i don't deserve it i'm not prepared for it and but what i want you to know is that god designed you for whatever he gives you but here is the shouting news god knew you and yet he still chose you i preached to a gentile church y'all know what that mean most of my church didn't grow up in nobody's church and so when i say god knew you and still chose you it's different but i've been in the church my whole life in the church of christ let me be clear my whole life my mother brothers was the charter member of the church i grew up in i she was nine months pregnant with me when they were doing the door knocking campaign so when i say i've been in the church my whole life i've been in the church my whole life and here's what i have discovered about the church it is as many sinners in the sanctuary on sunday as they are in the streets on saturday and sometimes those pseudo-sanctified saints drag themselves in the sanctuary on sunday morning still smelling like the club from saturday night and some of y'all walk in the back sit in the back with her eyes glossed over you're not going to help me still got the stamp on the back of your hair because you washed everything but your hands amen somebody and you think we don't know what it smell like but not everybody in the sanctuary has been saved their whole lives and so there are a few of us who know the people that we used to be and so when we realized that god knew us and he still chose us that's why we act the way we do because we know where we have been we know what we have done we know who we have done it with and god knows it too and he still chose you you ought to say thank you i'm gonna let y'all go cause he said we get out of church at 10 45. listen listen yeah can i stay right there for a minute i need to i need to drill down on that because um i talk to you can i take three minutes there's a group called next gen leaders um from north america that is canada the us and mexico and these are the powers that be kind of in our white circle of fellowship created this initiative and they did a study on 10 000 churches of christ in north america and and they decided and i was humbled they chose 24 preachers from north america between the age of 35 and 45 and i was one of those preachers and the reality is is that our circle of fellowship is in such drastic decline um that the average age in those churches is 72 years old the average sunday morning attendance is 34 years old 34 members on sunday mornings this is before the pandemic so it wasn't an excuse and one of the issues was was that our circle of fellowship de married truth and divorced transparency you missed your place to shout they married truth and divorced transparency and so what we adopted was this mentality that if i put on my son to go to meeting clothes and sit in a sanctuary and worship him in spirit and in truth then that removes my history and so i can act like i have never been in a place i've never been i can act like i've never said anything that i should have never said and i've never done anything that i should have never done and what the problem was is that all along our children were watching us monday through saturday and seeing us being so pious on sunday and so they grew up and said i need to go and find a group of people who i can get connected to that love truth and transparency you're missing this because it's time out for saints acting like we don't know what sin is because the world needs a church that knows how to relate and not assimilate oh god i'm preaching really hard here we need to be able to relate which means that you need to remember when you're raising a 14 year old that you were once 14. when you're trying to convert somebody who is a single mother with children don't ask her where their daddy is when you celebrating your 36th marriage anniversary and junior is 40. [Music] every time we go back to fort worth i'm sorry because if we're going to save the next generation they have always needed truth but they also need transparency because here's what transparency says if if god can fix it for me [Applause] but if they don't know you ever needed to be fixed okay i'm going back to fort worth in seven minutes we got to give them truth and transparency because if you don't when they turn 18 they're going to tiptoe out the back door and so the reality is one of the reasons why we act like that is because we've created a culture where we got to cover things up because if we don't cover things up then we're afraid that people won't love us and like us and they won't choose us and so we keep all of our skeletons in our closet and we cover them up with good-looking clothes and i like to look good we haven't the preacher was in the back talking about i'm gonna tell y'all something i'm gonna say this for all the black men in this room ain't nothing better than a good-looking black man in a good-looking suit amen somebody all the sisters say amen and that was weak brothers y'all helped me ain't nothing better dinner okay all right let me get back to my sermon but but it's not about your clothes it's about your character because we grew up in a time where where the brothers would serve communion in a three-piece suit and be in the back of the sanctuary smoking is that in your sermon because i didn't see that but we cover things up we hide things and we catfish people so we can still be chosen but the reason why i shout the way i do is because i can stand before god with all of my flaws and he can look at me and say i see your mistakes i see your problems i see your propensity towards sin and i still love you he said i can see your idiosyncrasies and i still love you i can see where you make mistakes and i still love you i can see where you slipped and sometimes you were sliding but i still love you and i still chose you and i can still use you if you decide to walk in formation so you can live a life of transformation can i give you one more then let y'all go i got time good news is that god doesn't stop with knowing you and still chosen choosing you god calls us to operate in the lane of our ordination ordination is where we run from in our circle of fellowship anointing is the word that he uses in the text the bible says that god anointed him and all that means is that god chose him but he chose jeremiah to be a prophet to the nations now if jeremiah tried to be a king he would be he'll be running his race outside of his lane i'm getting ready to get real messy but this is my last message for this weekend so uh it was very important for jeremiah to realize who he was and what he was called to do and then realize who god was and what god was supposed to be doing and too often we want to put play god's role and then put him in our role here's the reality now now for this to make sense in your spare time you got to read the book of jeremiah this week and you'll say oh i see what i was talking about but in jeremiah chapter 10 jeremiah lost his mind and started blaming god for his problems and god listened to him and then he started talking back to him and he had to put jeremiah in his place because all of us have a place in the kingdom of god husbands have a place in the home wives have a place in the home children have a place in the home let the church say amen the preacher has a place in the church el does have a place in the church deacons have a place in the church members have a place in the church let the church say amen and when we all operate in the lane of our ordination god gets the glory and we all get blessed but when you start trying to run in my lane and i just try to run in your lane then i'm not doing what god called me to do and you're not doing what god calls you to do and the only one that gets happy is the enemy i'm going to preach in a minute it's important that i don't try to get up in front of my church and sing this is deep why you looking at me like that brother louis i can see that smirk on your face through that mask it's important that i don't get up in front of my church in fort worth texas and try to sing because don't nobody get no glory when i sing but every now and then i got to remind the singers at my church god didn't call you to preach just like he didn't call me to sing and so don't get mad when church run over 30 minutes because in in between every song you had to preach for five minutes y'all missing what i'm saying are y'all missing what i'm saying church ain't got to be in here all day if i do what i'm supposed to do and you do what you're supposed to do then all god gets the glory and we all get blessed y'all missed it let me tell you a little something about me i make jokes when i get uncomfortable to ease the tension in the room what i'm saying is is that jeremiah got out of line and he got out of lane and i don't care how fast you run your race you can beat everybody to the finish line but if you don't run in your lane you ain't gonna win the reward did you hear what i just said the church is at a place where the people of god have got to remember that god has always had a plan before the beginning of the world god had a purpose a plan and a will for me and for you he had a general purpose a personal purpose and a specific purpose for each and every one of us and we would serve ourselves well to remember that god has called us to walk on purpose with purpose and for purpose to let purpose be that which guides our planned activities and so if if god didn't put it in you to sing i don't care how bad i want to sing like my brother if i try to sing like my brother i put the whole church in a precarious predicament said nobody in their whole life brother moss i brought my guests to hear you sing ain't nobody never said that you'll pick up what i'm putting down in a minute i don't cook in my house that's not my role it's not my calling it's not my gift and if i could cook i will help my wife with that i'll take the meat and we go outside put it on the grill when it's my turn to put some food on the table but what i'm real good at is making sure we got enough money to buy some groceries that's my role amen amen somebody they mean somebody now if i tried to make my wife walk in my lane y'all not gonna help me and sometimes it's hard to walk in my lane sometimes there's pressure from every side in my lane but here's what i have discovered about god if i make up in my mind that no matter how hard the wind blows i'm going to keep running in my lane then god will hold me up when everything is trying to pull me down but if i decide to tiptoe out of my lane then all things won't work together for my good because i was too selfish for it to be about god's purpose i made it about my plan the bible says many are the plans of man but it's the lord's purpose that will prevail it was the lord's purpose for each and every one of us to be saved it's the lord's purpose for each and every one of you to be saved that's why god gave us his son to die on an old rugged cross it was an emblem of agony suffering and shame one thursday he was in the garden of gethsemane and the pressure of the world's problems was weighing on his shoulders jesus left the crowd even peter james and john behind and he went to a place to pray the family if i'm honest sometimes the only way you're going to be able to walk on purpose with purpose and for purpose is you're gonna have to learn how to pray y'all gonna help me close won't you and on that thursday late in the night time jesus had a conversation with his father and jesus said father this is a bitter cup i don't know if you've ever had to drink a bitter cup before but a bitter cup don't taste good going down and jesus said father if thy will let this cup pass from me and i want to have our witness in here this morning that every now and then you have some bitter cups in your life some bitter cups on your job some some bitter cups in your relationship some some bitter cups with your children some some bitter cups in your body and jesus said lord i don't want to drink from this bitter cup but but not my will lord but thy will be done then when he got finished praying they came and took him away and they marched him in front of three kangaroo courts and it's a it's a shame that even though you can walk on purpose uh with purpose and for purpose people will still bring up trumped-up charges against you and jesus stood before that kangaroo court and he never said a mumbling word and and when it was all said and done even those who walked with the lord turned their backs on them and i don't know who i'm talking to late this morning but somebody in here today knows what it feels like to be in a place where you feel like you're all by yourself but but like jesus i want you to know that god has called you to walk on purpose with purpose and for purpose and jesus because he had purpose on his life he never said a mumbling word and and then early on friday morning they stripped him of his clothes and they beat him till he was black and blue and if that was not enough church they marched him down that dusty via delarosa they took him out to golgotha they hung him high and they stretched him wide they put a nail in his left hand and a nail in his right hand and they pierced him in the side lord knows they tried to kill king jesus but jesus looked at him and said you not taking my life but because of purpose i'm gonna lay down my life and church is good news today to know that you serve the kind of god there can't nobody take nothing from him unless he gives it to him that's good news when the enemy tries to take what god has given to you to know that if god don't let it go that you can hold on to it too but on that friday he died didn't he die he died until the dog stopped barking he died till the cat stopped meowing he died till the sun stopped shining he died till the rock start quaking he died till the dead got up from the grave he died till the veil was rent from top to bottom he died didn't he die he died he died i said he died aren't you glad that he died somebody ought to say yes he died on friday but he didn't stay there that's where y'all ought to be shouting this morning he died on friday and the enemy got happy he started throwing a party in hell on friday night and he stayed dead all day on saturday but early sunday morning he got up from the grave and there is an empty grave there to prove that my savior lives and i got good news family i got to get out of here but before i go can i tell you that if god can raise the crucified christ from the dead then god can do anything but fail i don't know where you are in here this morning but if you're going through it right now i want you to know that if god can raise the crucified christ from the dead then god can give you a new job if god can raise the crucified christ from the dead then god can give you a new home if god can raise the crucified christ from the dead then god can help you raise those children if god can raise the crucified christ from the dead god can help you deal with irremediable remembers if god can raise the crucified christ from the dead then god can raise you up too i need somebody in here today to put your hands together and tell god thank you that when the enemy tried to keep you down god raised you up yes he did yes he did i said yes he did yeah i know he did because i'm looking at you and you're looking at me too so i know that if god raised me up this morning then he raised you up too close in your right mind you got shoes on your feet you got clothes on your back i can tell you got food on your table he's been good to you i said he's been good to you i said he been good to you i gotta go but he's been good to you he's been good to you and i want you to know family he's given you purpose and i'm gonna let you go but before i go i got to tell you as a collective congregation as individual christians you need to remember that god wants you to walk on purpose with purpose and for purpose and when you do he has promised that all things will work together for your good if you know that's right go ahead and give god a handclap of praise in this place [Applause] jesus went to that cross to pay a debt that he did not owe for crime he did not commit he didn't have to but 12 of us are glad that he did you got to make a decision that you're going to believe that there is a god who loved you enough to give it all with one lump sum payment not in credit nor cash silver no gold but with blood he paid the price for all of mankind eternity past present and future believe that with all of your heart that he loved you enough to lay down his life but not just to lay down but to get up so that when life knocks you down you have the power to get up see i believe that the gospel will get us to heaven but i also know that if you understand the gospel it'll get you through next week there's power in the gospel to save your life but there's also power in the gospel there's also power in the gospel are y'all hear me there's also power in the gospel to help you shake off addiction there's also power in the gospel to save your marriage there's also power in the gospel to help you raise your children there's also power in the gospel to help you live a life that god has called you to but you got to believe it and jesus said he that believeth and is baptized shall be saved listen make a decision to change your life that's what the bible calls repentance and acknowledge jesus christ to be both lord and savior and we will baptize you today for the remission of your sins let me let me be crystal clear today you don't have to leave not knowing where heaven is not knowing that heaven is going to be your home you don't have to leave today being confused you you don't have to leave today with your head held low listen you can come today and be saved for the rest of your life i i know it ain't cool but it's true baptism is still essential for your soul salvation it is of absolute necessity that you make a decision to give your life and put on christ through the watery graves of baptism because jesus said verily very i say unto you except a man be born of the water and the spirit you cannot see the kingdom of heaven don't you want to see it don't you want to go to heaven okay i got an amen on this side i'm looking at this side don't do any of y'all want to go to heaven over here amen i want to go to heaven your preacher said something when he was introducing me that alluded to the fact that i was old i'm not old but i'm older amen but the reality is i've lived long enough to know that time will bring about a change and and when you get to the stage in your life where you begin to know that time really is filled with swift transition when we were singing them songs growing up in the church we didn't know what that meant nod of earth on the move can stand build your hope on things eternal and hold on to god's unchanging hand it means something by the time you turn 40 amen somebody yeah that means it hit different that hit's different but i want you to know you can be young jeremiah the person the prophet we talked about scholars say he was 17 when god called him so you're not too young for the lord to use you abraham moses didn't start his ministry until he was 80. you're not too old for god to use you but if you're gonna walk on purpose with purpose and for purpose it begins by putting on christ in the water graves of baptism if you're here today and you want to be baptized now is the time to come if you're here today you need prayer now is to come why don't you come as we together stand and sing i want to thank you anybody want to say thank you [Music] [Music] hold on [Music] thank you for all you've [Music] thank done thank you lord thank you lord for all for all you've done [Music] [Music] oh [Music] come on come on those of you online go ahead put your prayer requests in the comment section we'll pray with you we'll pray for you thank you thank you [Music] you've been here [Music] forever [Music] [Music] let the church say amen again we truly want to commend brother moss for coming our way this morning and presenting the message of jesus christ we trust and pray that we take heed to the message and we pray that it has encouraged our lives as we travel this life journey again brother moss we truly want to thank you i'm before you to acknowledge all the prayer requests first of all we have brother and sister dogan request prayers for their son anthony dovin who is ill sister jernigan request prayers for her good friend gene lipson lipscomb who was hospitalized sister clarissa turner want to thank the church for their prayers on behalf of sister wanda ballard for a successful procedure and she's home recovering sister karen cooper thanked the church for their prayers for her son alvin cooper and his fiancee and kids all have tested negative for covet and doing much better sister rochelle jacob requests prayers for herself in school due to rising covert exposures sister juror wright and gray's family request prayers for the passing of their niece belinda renee graves munson the funeral is scheduled for saturday october the 2nd please pray for sister helen wilmore who will be having eye surgery on tuesday and pray for her brother michael wilmo who is in the hospital at this time please pray for sister jernigan and family for the passing of their aunt odessa jones the funeral will be saturday october the 2nd at the north wayside church of christ the viewing is from 10 to 11 and the funeral will begin at 11 a.m and the burial is in midway texas please pray for brother and sister holland who are not feeling well this morning and sister danita hill requests prayers for traveling for her fiance and family as they travel on thursday and let us continue to keep all of our sick and shedding in our prayers and those that are home or recovering at this time let us go to god in prayer to the all-wise and everlasting father it is that this time we humbly approach approach your mighty throne of grace thanking you for all the wonderful blessings of life that we have been able to experience from the beginning of life into this present moment and we're indeed thankful for your son jesus who sacrificed his life in all of that we are able to live and have eternal life and father we just so thankful for your manservant brother moss who stood and expounded on your word father we just so thankful for his ability and we're thankful for the message and we pray that the message did not fall on deaf ears but that is recepted into our lives and that we'll take heed to the message as we travel this christian journey we just pray that you continue to bless him and his family and continue to use him in a mighty way for the spreading of your word and for the edifying of the body of christ and now father we come on behalf of those that desire prayers for various reasons father we ask that you will look down on every prayer request and we pray that you would grant them a blessing according to their desires we pray that you be with those that are ill at this time we pray that you with touch with your mighty hand of healing that their conditions will improve be with those that are and bereave at this time we pray that you would comfort them lift them up and give them the peace that passes all understanding we pray for those that are traveling we pray that you grant them traveling grace that they arrive at their destination without any harm or danger and father we just pray for those that are recovering through surgery and those that about to have surgery we pray that you be with the doctors that would be administering to them that all things will be a success be with all of those that are at home recovering from surgery and those that are ill and father we know you're a god that can do all that exceedingly and abundantly according to the things that we ask in the things that we think and we know that you can supply all our needs and we pray the law that you would just look down on this audience this morning and those in virtual land and just bless us according to the things that we stand in need of and we pray that you continue to be with us and guide us as we go through the furthest of our service that everything we say and do will magnify your name it's in your son jesus christ's name we pray amen before we get to the contribution i ask that if there's anyone in the audience that need to turn in their offering will you please raise your hand and usher will come by to collect your contribution now we come down to our powerhouse service noah's contribution this is an opportunity for us to give back a portion of god in which he has blessed us with we find spiritual reference in second corinthians chapter nine and the verses are six and seven and the bible reads now this i say he who sowed spiritually will also reap sparingly and he who sows bountifully will also reap boundfully each one must do just as his purpose in his heart not grudgingly or under compulsion for god loves a chill forgiver let's go to god in prayer of all which are in heaven we thank you once again for this day and all the many blessings that you have bestowed upon us we thank you for allowing us to be stewards over the blessings and everything that you have given us we thank you for your son jesus who died on the cross for remission of our sins now we come praying that at this time o lord on behalf of the funds that was collected we asked that these funds be used to advance your kingdom and that you just grant wisdom and knowledge to the leaders of the congregation to best see these funds so your kingdom can advance we want to thank those who had who i gave and those who have mine to give but didn't have any funds to give oh lord we ask that you just keep making provision in our lives and that you keep blessing us as we need in jesus name we do pray amen now we come down to another part of our service which is known as the lord's supper this is a time for us where we should reflect back when our lord and savior jesus christ hung bled and died on a cross for the remission of our sins following the examples of the early saints or when we should take of this lord's supper we find spiritual reference in the book of acts chapter 20 and the verse 7 and the bible reads on the first day of the week when we were gathered together to break bread paul began talking to them intending to lead the next day and he prolonged his message until midnight we find further scriptural racism on how we should take ourselves an attitude that we should have in first corinthians chapter 11 beginning at the 23rd verse at the bower reads for i receive from the lord and that which i also deliver to you that the lord jesus and his sin in the night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he broke it and said this is my body which is for you do this in remembrance in me in the same way he took the cup also after supper saying this cup is a new covenant in my blood do this as often as you drink it in remembrance of me for as often as you eat this bread and drink the cup you proclaim the lord's death until he comes therefore whoever eats the bread or drinks the cup of the lord in an unworthy manner shall be guilty of the body and the blood of the lord but a man must examine himself and in so doing he is to yield the bread and drink of the cup for he who eats and drinks eats to drink just with to himself if he does not just abide it rightly let us pray of all watchers in heaven we come once again thank you for sending your son jesus to die on the cross for the remission of our sins we come praying at the time o lord on behalf of the symbolism that we will take to remember his death we pray on behalf of the bread that represents his body that was broken on the cross and we pray on behalf of the cup that represents his blood that was shed off of many for the remission of our sins we just as though whoever said take this bread and take this cup but do so with clean hands and our pure heart jesus name do pray amen why did my savior come to earth [Music] [Music] the soul [Music] [Music] he gave his precious [Music] almost gracious father father we come to you in the most honest way we know our father father first of all just saying thank you father paul thank you for allowing us to be able to come out to worship you in spirit and the truth father father we also pray for unity throughout the brotherhood father specifically here at the south unity congregation father for just like your son i pray for unity and pray for unity father and father we just say thank you thank you for the man of god father that gave us spiritual spiritual food for that we use in our everyday lives father father but as we partake of the physical food father we're about to be blessed with father father we just want to say thank you for it in jesus christ's name we pray amen

Channel: South Union CoC Media

Views: 859

Rating: 5 out of 5

Keywords:

Id: QQRA56TlGzM

Length: 146min 57sec (8817 seconds)

Published: Sun Sep 26 2021