Sunday Morning 11a Service 02-21-21

[Music] he's a friend he's good [Music] yes [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] is [Music] hallelujah we're giving god praise this morning we're giving him glory he's good [Music] hallelujah [Music] is is [Applause] [Music] he is [Music] right here [Music] is [Applause] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] me [Music] [Music] is [Music] oh come in the on [Music] [Applause] celebrate we've got the praise jesus we're so excited to give him glory hallelujah [Music] is [Music] i'm so glad to be in service hallelujah [Music] living on the lord's side you gonna keep the lord [Music] is welcome to the upper room church of god in christ and the god first broadcast hallelujah to our facebook youtube we honor you joining us this morning hallelujah have you looked at your neighbor this morning and say good morning hallelujah glory to god the bible says in matthew chapter 3 verse 1 it says john the baptist came preaching in the wilderness in judea saying repent for the kingdom of heaven is at hand well in 2021 in these days we have a leader who is preaching the bible preaching god's truth let's give it for our bishop bishop patrick l wooden senior hallelujah to our first lady wooden we honor you on this morning to our elders hallelujah to first and second assistant john ambachuku hallelujah and to all of the missionaries and evangelists we give honor to you as well and to our district missionary margaret mose praise god for you and to our beautiful mothers aren't they looking beautiful on this morning hallelujah we give honor to you all as well to mother williams uh president of our mother's board we honor you this morning hallelujah and to our founding mother mother william turner praise god for you we're going to move on along with our service on this morning our prayer will be by elder damian little our old testament scripture will be by evangelist shelley mcneil new testament scripture will be by elder jude albert the statement of faith is by elder robert williams and i him in the morning will be about the ruling praise team and be seated after that him my soul loves jesus oh my my soul my soul loves jesus my soul my soul loves jesus so i bless his name my soul my soul loves jesus oh my soul [Music] my soul loves jesus oh my soul loves my soul loves jesus so help me bless bless his name let the church say yes [Music] we sing yes [Music] we sing [Music] father god in the name of jesus lord our soul says yes to you this morning god we give you a yes today god lord we give you a yes lord god yes to your will yes to your way lord and father god we will obey you god lord we thank you this day god lord we thank you for one more day's journey god god we thank you for coming into your household today god god just to lift your name up jesus and to give you praise lord because you're worthy of the praise jesus god you worthy of the praise lord from the rising of the son to the going down of the same lord jesus you're worthy jesus you're worthy and god we tell you thank you god lord we tell you thank him god we put clapping in our hands god we have a shout on our feet god god we have a hallelujah in our voice lord we tell you thank you god how you kept us from seeing in unseen danger lord you kept us over the dangerous highways god and lord we tell you thank him god you gave us food to eat god to a roof over our heads lord and lord we tell you thank you for that jesus oh god let the word come with power god to do them as power with god in the name of jesus god that the let the word come god that someone can be saved today god in the name of jesus god we need you like never before god to god we ask that you sweep through this room lord god come in our midst god to god we want you to rest here today lord in the name of jesus lord that your holy ghost fall on us god god give us power god to rebuke the enemy god god give us power god to lay hands on the sick god oh god give us power god to to walk right god to god give us power god to talk like god to god give us power god we need power to save this dying world god we need power power to cast out the devil power to lay hands god god we rebuke the enemy we rebuke cancer we rebuke homosexuality god we need you god like never before god bless our leader god as he stands for from the word to oh god in the name of jesus god bless every member god that's here on today god lord you know their knees and god you know their thoughts god in the name of jesus oh god bless the first family god in the name of jesus oh god bless the praise team as they sing zion songs uh god we want to be pleased to you we want you to be pleased with us god in the mighty name of jesus lord you're saying in your word who shall abide in thy tabernacle he that have clean hands and appear hard to god we want to be clean god to god shine the light on us god from heaven god and if you find anything in this god god take it out right now god to god we want to walk holy we want to walk up right to you god in the name of jesus god and we give you a praise and we give you a praise god because you're worthy and we lift your name of god because you're worthy and we clap our hands god because you were worthy you're worthy to be praised lord set us on fire for you god set us on fire lord we just thank you and we give your name the glory and the honor in jesus name we pray in jesus name we pray amen [Music] i will be reading first chronicles chapter 16 verses 28 through 31 king james version given to the lord ye kindred of the people given to the lord glory and strength given to the lord the glory do unto his name bring an offering and come before him worship the lord in the beauty of holiness fear before him all the earth the world also shall be stable that it be not moved let the heavens be glad let the earth rejoice let men say among nations the lord reigneth in the word of the [Applause] [Music] lord our new testament scripture can be found romans the 13th chapter verses 1 and so i'm sorry verses 11 through 13. and that's knowing the time that now it is high time to awake out of sleep for now is our salvation nearer than we believe the night is far spent the day is at hand let us therefore cast off the works of darkness and let us put on the armor of light let us walk honestly as in the day not in rioting and in drunkenness not in chambering and unwantedness not in strife and envying and the word of the lord is blessed statement of faith will be on the screen i believe concerning the bible i'll believe concerning god i'll believe concerning the church i'll believe concerning sin i believe concerning salvation a belief concerning christ i believe concerning the holy ghost our belief concerning sanctification we believe in the sanctifying power of the holy spirit by whose indwelling the christian is unable to live a holy and separated life in this present world amen i am thine oh lord i have heard thy voice and it's hold thy love to me but i long to rise in the arms of faith and be closer drawn to thee draw me nearer near a blessed lord to the cross where thou hold [Music] come on put your hands together jesus give god some praise you may be seated in the presence of the lord [Music] hallelujah glory to god now we'll have our welcome address by sister joanna mccoy and our greetings from our first lady and announcements by evangelist patricia lester receive them in this order good morning good morning to the saints gathered in the house of the lord to our facebook live audience and youtube live audience so glad to see everyone this morning we stand at this time to welcome all of our visitors and guests if you are worshiping with us for the first time today or visiting at the upper room we would like for you to stand good morning to you good morning god bless you so glad to have you please remain standing we would also like to acknowledge the presence of our visitors at the eight o'clock service this morning we're so glad that you chose the upper room to worship with us today our ushers are approaching you now to pass out visitors cards we would like for you to complete those and then return them during the offering and attach to the visitors card is a name tag that we would like for you to fill out and to wear so that our members may greet you properly today we are glad that you chose the upper room this morning if you have any needs during our service we have hospitality workers that are standing at the back doors with black dresses and yellow flowers they'd be eager to assist you with any needs that you have this morning we know there is a word from the lord that shall come forth with power and authority we pray that you would hear and receive from the lord this morning he has something special in store just for you and if you noticed or may have been wondering about the rainbow flags hanging in our rafters we at upper room are reclaiming god's rainbow we believe that the rainbow belongs to the church the one that you see hanging to your right is the one that god promised us in the opening book of the bible that he would not flood the earth again with water and the one directly behind me is the one that he promised us in the closing book of the bible that we'll see around about the throne when we get to heaven we're the saints of god we believe in the things of god and the rainbow belongs to the church upper room we're glad to have visitors today please stand with me and clap for them visitors we're glad you're here give glory unto the lord indeed our god is worthy he's worthy to be praised we thank god for being here in the house of the lord on this sunday morning oh every time we have the opportunity to come it is a blessing indeed it is so good to see you you and especially you on today and we're excited about what the lord is doing right here at the upper room church of god in christ we thank god for our great leader the mighty man of god 2020 2021 pandemic pastor of the year bishop patrick lane wooden senior we thank god for him to the first assistant the second assistant to all of these fine men of god to our district missionary god bless you woman of god to these women of god in ministry to our founding mother mother turner our church church mother mother williams to all of our mothers members thanks friends to all of you the saints of the most high god i just want to take my little few minutes to thank the saints of god the women of god for registering for second tuesday night sisters we are in our registration season and so many of you have already registered we appreciate it and we are excited about what the lord has in store for this a bible study for women only it's our time to talk about us and sharpen our ourselves so that we can be better in the kingdom of god and i want to extend a personal invitation to our young adult ladies the women's ministry is for women 18 and over yes if you're 18 you are a woman and you belong to the women's ministry want to encourage you to come out and to participate and be a part you will not be disappointed you will be blessed by the lord in doing so debra indeed was a powerful woman in her time she was a woman of influence she had the power she had the influence to affect men and women alike praise god she was she was a courageous woman and there's so much that we the women of god can learn from her in these last days god called her because of the times in which she was living and god is calling us as women of god because of the times that we are living godly needs us to be courageous he needs us to be influential he needs us to have the courage to stand and say what needs to be said in these last and evil days without one a major part of who deborah was is that she never stepped out of her femininity she never stepped out of her womanhood she was a judge she was a powerful person but she was a great woman of god so i encourage you to come out and be a part of this bible study let's learn let's grow in christ together god bless you prepare your hearts to hear and to receive the word of the lord god bless [Music] the first leg of the new horizon district tour will be held this evening at 6 pm at salt of the earth church of god in christ a live stream of the service will be available on the salt of the earth church of god in christ facebook page the upper room church business meeting scheduled for monday february 22nd has been postponed and will be rescheduled to a later date everyone is invited to join us for tuesday night service to be held february 23rd at 7 30 pm in the multi-purpose room the speakers will be missionary whitley morrison and evangelist shekinah hearst the fourth tuesday night men's meeting scheduled for february 23rd has been cancelled due to the church of god in christ quadrennial election bishop wooden will be the guest speaker for the mountain metro district meeting hosted by superintendent ronald gates to be held sunday february 28th at 6 p.m here at the upper room church of god in christ bishop wooden's message of deliverance will be available for viewing on our facebook live and youtube live streaming platforms ladies be sure to make time to join the weekly women's ministry prayer call to be held every thursday from noon to 12 30 pm join first lady pamela wooden and the women as they stop and pray at noonday prayer request can be sent to you our sisters at plwooden.org ladies also get ready for the return of second tuesday night sisters beginning march 9th at 7 pm this time the featured book will be the deborah anointing by michelle mcclain walters registration is required via constant contact to receive group placement on zoom it's back on save the new dates for the vision keepers leadership conference to be held thursday march 11th friday march 12th and sunday march 14th are you ready for the vision more details are forthcoming we are calling for all of the k through 12 youth worshipping servants who worship god to join our youth pastor john ammanchukwu every wednesday night for youth bible study he will continue in the series faith that works and will minister from james 4. be a part of this powerful teaching as we begin 2021 also as some churches are closed we want to extend an opportunity to allow your friends to join us in our bible study invite a friend and let's pack out our zune call in big numbers we look forward to seeing you wednesday at 7 p.m please email gn po wooden.org to receive the zoom link i was glad when they sent unto me let us go into the house of the lord be sure to spread the word to your family friends and the community the upper room offers two services every sunday morning join us at 8am or 11am for sunday worship service in the sanctuary the upper room church of god in christ continues to abide by cvc social distancing guidelines our ushers will see all individuals entering the sanctuary and overflow areas only members from the same immediate family will be permitted to sit together and everyone will be seated using designated markings providing a six feet diameter around each area additionally temperature checks and hand sanitizing protocols have been added to further promote measures of safety a hand sanitizer containing at least 60 alcohol will be provided and is required for entry your cooperation is greatly appreciated for additional information on face covering requirements in north carolina visit nc.gov you can also join the upper room church of god in christ every sunday at 11 a.m and thursdays at 7 30 p.m for the live stream of our services on facebook live and youtube live bishop patrick l wooden senior will bring a fresh word from the lord relevant to our times and equip you to contend for the faith thank you to our viewers throughout the united states and abroad for your weekly support of our broadcast please be reminded there are several ways to give to the upper room church of god in christ for online giving please visit easytithe.com forward slash urc also please use only one email address for each easytive account so we can properly track your giving you may also visit our website upperroomgospel.org and select the giving tab or you can mail your gift to the upper room church of god in christ post office box 447 garner north carolina 27529 first time text to give users can text urc give to 4577 and you will receive a link to complete your giving if you have used text to give before you can simply enter the amount and fund for example 25 tithe to 4577 as always thank you very much for supporting the upper room church of god in christ [Music] amen we have two additional announcements mark your calendars bishop wooden will be the guest speaker for the greater triangle district meeting hosted by superintendent will nichols to be held on tuesday march 2nd at 7 pm at victoria's praise church of god in christ located at 2116 2116 page road in durham additionally bishop will be the guest speaker for the south carolina district meeting hosted by superintendent thomas quick to be held on friday march 5th at 7 30 pm at the promised land church of god in christ located at 150 kensington drive in spartanburg south carolina this concludes this morning's announcements thank you for your attention good morning all right as you know we're celebrating black history month at the double room and we have a presentation for the upper room heroes and after the presentation we have the musical selection by our praise team and the presentation of our pastor receive them in this order [Music] when i hear black history what actually comes to mind to me is just all the individuals that i am so familiar with that have worked so diligently just to pursue their specific careers and their specific paths some of the ones that stand out to me is like my mom and how hard she worked just to put food on the table and also my father and how hard he has worked over the years just to put food on the table my journey arriving to this particular date has been a very interesting journey i was born in greensboro north carolina and i am the oldest of four siblings and we had we it was a very tough life however you know our parents they did the best that they could we're very fortunate to be where we are and i am very thankful for the journey that god has put me on i am a graduate of shaw university i graduated with a bs degree in accounting i have always enjoyed working with math even when i was in school math has always been my favorite subject so working with math always came easy for me so i went to college received my four-year degree at shaw university and i continued to be involved even with the alumni association at shaw so i am a proud shaw bear i started actually i've been working with wake county human services where i'm currently employed at least 32 years now i am currently the department budget manager for human services it is a very rewarding position i am responsible for the overall budget for human services which is a little over 200 million dollars and i'm also responsible for business planning strategic planning and financial models which has also been very rewarding but the most rewarding part to me is actually working with the staff that i've had the pleasure of working with and also working with the group of people that's involved with the human services agency we provide services economics economic and social services child welfare services public health clinical operations and transportation related services and i work with a great group of people who always sacrifice their own time and just make time for others so it's been very rewarding the growth of raleigh has really affected what i do today mainly because there's so many opportunities just in the raleigh area and even with wake county we serve over 200 and something thousand people on an annual basis so just this growth has just been amazing because i started back here you know it's been a while and just being in this area starting at shaw university a very small university just seeing how raleigh and the downtown area has evolved it's just been really amazing i give credit definitely to my lord and savior jesus christ for where i am today i thank god for the opportunities that he has allowed me i also give thanks to my husband i am very appreciative of him he's been very supportive it hasn't always been easy because just balancing life and prioritizing time and and just the management of time has been pretty challenging for us but i just very i'm very thankful for him and i'm also very grateful for my children who have been an inspiration throughout the entire process but definitely just keeping god first in every aspect of my life and definitely applying just godly principles and god's truth in every aspect of my life and just whatever my hands find to do just do it with all my might and it just has afforded me a lot of great opportunities well most of the ministries that i am attached to at upper room has to do with being a servant um just you know and i just really admire pastor's theme for this year as far as worshiping servants i enjoy working on hospitality i enjoy working at the food bank those are some of the things that just brings me great pleasure and brings me great joy just the opportunity to serve other people i definitely look forward to the next chapter of my life and i know it will land somewhere in that arena as far as continuing to provide support to other people i'm patricia pritchett and i'm a 2021 hero [Music] hmm continue to celebrate black history month and namely or more specifically gospel music black gospel music one of the constancies or staples if you will has been quartet music it is the true hand-clapping foot-stomping church music that we have grown to love over across the years put your hands together as our praise team renders for you come and go with me [Music] come on and wave your hands somebody if you know you've been born again come on don't fool me here this morning [Music] have you been washed in the blood of the lamb you are the way the way wave your hands if you've been sanctified if you got the holy ghost you ought to stand up on your feet shout hallelujah and sit back down one two three we gotta move on in here this morning anybody got the holy ghost say i got it in my hands i got it in my feed i got it all [Music] right [Music] listen we're getting ready to go to the meeting can we go to the meeting come on clap your hands [Music] sound real churchy in here come on put them together listen i want to be at the meeting i want to be at the meeting [Music] i want to be at that meeting [Music] [Music] and then we'll have a meeting around the throne let me sing this verse when i get to heaven i'm gonna see my grandmother there she gon say lord there go my boy said he must have got here by prayer i'll talk to [Music] [Music] come on clap your hands right there [Music] i come this morning to give you a special invitation [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] man [Music] we got the legendary mr kevin wilson on league guitar this morning talk to him kevin one time talk to him sound real good to me jesus he'll be waiting in that promised land how many know that jesus is waiting jesus will i know [Music] [Music] peace [Music] tell jesus all about my troubles [Music] [Music] they got that city 12 song to that city it's gay after a precious precious stone watch it i'm gonna walk the streets so go i'm gonna walk i got a story that's never been told i got a song by the blind [Music] [Music] y'all got it [Music] oh [Music] [Music] listen oh is that enough is that enough [Music] my [Music] come on let's thank god for this awesome tribute by way of quartet give it up for the first assistant elder john i'm on youtube amen [Music] ah how many all are glad are there any worshiping service in the house on today oh bless his wonderful name facebook live youtube live welcome to the upper room church of god in christ or should i say the hebrews 10 and 25 church ah welcome welcome welcome if you're in the raleigh durham area next time come on in the doors are open here in the upper room and we're having church uh we serve an awesome god we're resting on our feet [Music] just for this order we thank god for our leader we thank god for the pastor that the lord has set here the watchman the angel of the house that's leading us from earth to glory and is he not walking in the word hebrews i mean first corinthians he first corinthians chapter 10 excuse me has been blessing us richly and i thank god for them saints we're in store for a treat on today at this time i would normally say to you prepare your hearts as our first lady says and our pastor would come and prepare to preach and teach the word but there is a special gift on today look at your neighbor and say a special gift today we're going to be blessed with a sarmonic selection and i do mean bless so before i put up our pastor let's show some love and appreciate the durhams come on let's praise the lord everybody come on let's give him god give god all the praise that's due unto his name we honor the lord the god of the bible amen we thank god for our pastor the bishop honorable bishop patrick layne wooden senior we got honor you man of god we thank god amen we just honor you first lady wouldn't we bless god for you and to amen to first assist assistant second assistant amen we praise god for all of you amen to the elders and the preachers of the gospel and to the mothers of the church we love you we love you and to all of god's people we're glad and we're excited to be here amen we're excited to be members of the upper room church of god in christ hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah one thing about desire of the lord that i may seek after that i may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life hallelujah to behold the beauty of the lord and to inquire in this town we thank god for this space amen we are we honest we honestly we love bishop singing amen and we just thank god for him for allowing us amen to minister at this time amen we're just the old song of the church that says i don't feel no ways tired i come too far from where i started from nobody told me that the road would be easy hallelujah but i don't believe that it brought me this far just to leave me hallelujah y'all pray with us [Music] i don't feel no waste time i come too far from where i started from [Music] that it brought me this far to lead me come on sing me i don't feel no way [Music] nobody told me [Music] he brought me i don't feel no [Music] [Applause] [Music] placebo [Music] nobody told me the road would be easy [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] know [Music] he brought me this far i don't believe he brought me this far i don't believe he won't be this [Music] oh the lord's been good to me [Music] he brought me [Music] just another day [Music] kept me [Music] [Music] my [Music] [Music] jesus [Music] yeah hallelujah [Music] is [Music] this [Music] he brought me [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] i know i don't believe you one more time i don't believe he brought me he carried my burdens every day hallelujah he's such a wonderful savior i never known him to fail jesus he brought us he brought us by my side yes lord yes lord yes on our feet all over the sanctuary please continue to put your hands together for the greatest pastor we know bishop patrick hill wooden senior [Music] glory [Music] dear god of the bible thank you thank you thank you thank you for what our eyes have seen and our ears have heard and lord we don't believe that you have brought us this far to leave us march of 2020 shut us down and in may oh god you blessed us to open and here we are now in 2021 going strong for you you've been faithful to us you've been kind to us you've been merciful to us and we thank you you've watched over us and you've caused your face to shine upon us lord you have given us the acer blessing you have shown yourself strong on our behalf and yes lord while our members like members everywhere else have come in contact with the coronavirus we thank you lord that there has been not one outbreak that can be traced to the church you've been good to us and god you've healed us and raised us up hallelujah you've been good to us lord you've been good you're good in life and you're good in death we thank you we thank you now lord as we preach the word of the lord today we pray god that you would bless us real good and cause your face to shine upon us you are a great god oh how great is our god your mighty god and an everlasting king in jesus name amen would you give him praises today would you give him praises sweet praises to our god amen you might be seated in the house of the lord haven't the lord blessed us so far today amen praise the lord i tell you um the durham's are amazing aren't they let's give them a big hand tremendous tremendous job tremendous job and how about our priests team and church house band and i tell you elder alma chuco you you took us there today tremendous job amen i i was just so blessed and then i had to i had to pull myself together because you start talking about angels singing and enjoyable ringing i want to go to crying and and go get happy and start worshiping but i got to preach see so i said you need to leave that alone one or two more stanzas on that and i'd still be laying on the floor over there and then i knew that this couple was highly anointed because i had heard them before and but it's been a while and lord have mercy lord have mercy thank you i want to tell you something funny they said to me we would this is funny we were talking last night and uh they said to me uh now bishop we we it's funny we enjoy hearing you sing so now we're not gonna take your place are you i said just as soon as i get off the phone talking to you i'm going to call rocky and tell him when the durham's get through just put me up to preach so you got to know when hey man give me a big hand or you got to know when that cake is baked and i tell you praise the lord and brother durham are you a preacher that's what i heard see as he was walking off said he couldn't he started preaching and i felt something right here that's all right and he's a preacher too sister durham are you a preacher also praise the lord ma'am you like the teacher okay and uh i think he was from new york he's from new york and they met and uh he told me she was a little reserved at first so that's what a good man does and uh and he he warned her she told him yes and look at what's going on and we're honored to have them as a part of our church what about our hero or our heroine today sister pritchard tremendous tremendous amen amen and as i was listening to her i thought to myself there's not a word there's not a lick of exaggeration that she's uh employing there's no hyperbole she is a servant she serves in the church and works hard and you can tell that she derives joy from serving and she's happily married to brother pritchard and i thank god for their their marriage and their wonderful family amen since the preacher sitting there beside her mama look like two sisters praise the lord god is good you thank god for those good genes girl that's sister facing now she's married hey amen brother face i meant no harm don't turn the mic off basically he could get me amen amen you if you're dating a lady you're thinking about marrying her a good rule i don't care how pretty she is a good rule is meet her mother because her mother is the future so yeah that you want to see tomorrow meet him and if you're happy with that i was watching a movie one time and uh a guy was marrying a girl and he met her mother and a mother showed her the wedding dress that she got married in and the man saw the dress he says oh so she got married and a mother a mother got married in the she showed the daughter the wedding dress and the wedding dress i don't know my wedding dress that looked like it would fit a girl maybe a size 10 no round seven or eight and the mother said that she got married in that wedding dress somebody somebody's laughing and uh um so the guy says oh you got married in a wedding dress just like this one she said no the mother said i got married in that one but at the time her mother i don't know if there's any such thing as a 50. or 60. so that's why she was so i said to him amen while watching i said that's the future y'all don't like that do you hear the dawn on you so my point is brother facing you did good [Applause] amen thank god for brother donny he started clapping to try to pull me out but i'm waiting right there hey man i'm i'm i'm saying something it matters and i thank god uh for your hard work and uh she's a sharp bear amen and uh and uh is doing quite well so give her another big hand now god bless everybody we saved two babies yesterday amen fed 700 people and two souls got saved and of course tonight we have our first leg of our district tour in burlington so we're going to get out and be there on time i want to thank god for mother hinton mother hinton is back and she lost her grandson but mother hinton is a a warrior to a heart name antonio praying for all of y'all the whole family amen thank god for you and i got a feeling that uh joy over yonder in the promised land and then combined with i don't feel nowhere's time was two that were right on time for you to help you get through amen you just never know god knows and god arranges things amen so i thank the lord i'm going to ask brother sierra for where's sierra brother faulk to stay but he's standing right there he is such a warrior i want to say that i'm proud of this young man and god i've been praying i've been praying for quite some time asking god to speak to me and god is has beginning to he's speaking to me about uh certain appointments and there are others that i have uh in mind and i'm waiting to hear from the lord but i'm proud and pleased to announce to you that this brother uh is 25-year member of uninterrupted impeccable service you see him every sunday out there getting you in getting you out doesn't matter whether it's rain snow sleet or shine he's a godly man his beautiful wife is right there sister falk and his beautiful daughter right there y'all wave your hands and god has spoken to me and i had him to pray about it and god gave him the confirmation and i met with a quorum of our board i am appointing him and i'll have the certificates and do it uh officially as deacon of the upper room church of god in christ and i'm he's going to be the newest member of our executive board we praise the lord for him amen a good man a good man a godly man a saved man he's he he's of honest report he's filled with the holy ghost amen he checks all the boxes that you want checked for a deacon and a a brother in the church he loves jesus christ he loves the church he loves me he loves his family amen and since you've worked with him he loves you he's a part of our military he's trained he's disciplined a command sergeant major a mighty man of god we love you sir and uh he prayed and god gave him uh the confirmation and uh i want you to give him another big hand amen i mean i'm excited to announce to announce that and uh god is speaking and and uh um we have a tremendous board and uh the lord took deacon smith home to be with him and god took deacon morgan home to be with him and uh sister beverly moved to charlotte and we're looking at uh um replenishing and there are others that i have in mind and will reach out to and see what the lord says amen i want to call your attention to the word of the lord first corinthians chapter 10. i've spent some time in this chapter i didn't know when god gave it to me that we would be here as long as we've been but god knows god knew one of the things i find so interesting about this powerful chapter and book is that the saints at corinth corinth was 1922 miles from israel corinth corinth is over in macedonia in that area europe 1 922 miles from israel the nation of israel at the time was not a super power in fact israel at the time of paul's writings was yet under the rule and domination of the roman empire israel did not have her sovereignty it had been it had been quite a long time since israel dominated david and solomon and all of them their days were long past the disciples even wanted to know from jesus before the lord left they wanted to know that would he at this time restore the kingdom to israel and the lord told them it's not for you to know the times or the seasons that the father have put in his hand but you will receive power after that the holy ghost have come upon you they wanted sovereignty they wanted to be free from roman rule what is uh your point uh bishop my point is even though there would be little to no reason for some christians living almost 2 000 miles away from israel and the christians were gentile christians the majority of the saints at the church at corinth were gentiles there were some jews because you remember they put paul out of the synagogue and he went next door and started the church and the gentiles came and there were some jews but it's safe to argue that the church at corinth was uh dominated by gentile christians they outnumbered the jewish christians and yet he writes to these people about self-discipline about the favor of god about what happens happened to israel and caused god to overthrow many of them in the wilderness in verse five and he gives examples of things basically these are these are examples of what you don't do all right if you are doing it you got to stop and what he does is he throws out events but he doesn't spend much time teaching each event see uh first corinthians is an epistle it's an epistle first corinthians is an epistle it is not a sermon it is a letter a letter that paul wrote to be read to the saints not a sermon where you spend time being didactic and give it expository attention but a letter to be read to the believers and then he expected the recipients of the letter to be able on their own time to go back and look up and study all of the historical events that took place so that they could get the meat of what he was teaching them he put that much responsibility on them to learn the lesson now they had no google in those days there were no encyclopedias like what we have been accustomed to uh the database is much different from all that we have and yet he expected them to use their brains to get the lesson i tell you we're in a day where you will have to use your brain i've often said that christianity is the ultimate thinking man's religion and that that might explain why many men male and female don't do well in christianity because it requires that you think it requires that you do your homework there are no successful lazy christians in god the lazy lose their joy the ladies drop out after a while see they come out bam like a bullet coming out of a gun but they they lose their velocity they lose their strength over time because it takes individual effort to know what you need to know to keep you going 10 years 20 years 30 years 40 years 50 years for the rest of your life so forth and so on preachers out from time called me wouldn't this what are you preaching what was that is that a word from the lord many of them run out of sermons you know why they're lazy we're living in a day where you cannot afford to be lazy you can't afford to be ignorant of certain things our country god bless our streaming audience today our country the world is telling everybody take the shot i hope they don't take me down they're telling everybody take the shot take the shot some preachers who have stopped preaching scripture are not preaching take the shot pastors whose churches have been closed since march are now opening their sanctuaries for people to come into the sanctuary and take the shot then they go back and close the church and they do this with a straight face even though these men know nothing about that vaccine and you know what in the truest definition and the truest sense of the word vaccine it's a stretch to call it that i'm not here to tell you i'm not like the preacher i won't go on and tell you what to do and what not to do it's amazing uh what these guys will do but i will tell you this the proper approach to science has always been up until this vaccine if we call it that doing this plan i mean pandemic see i said something to you then go look it up go look it up do your homework it's 2 000 miles away from you but look it up you corinthians get it but uh they are putting things in people and uh they want us to just go along with it now something happened last week i've already talked about it and i'll you know i can get on a thing and talk from now on you get tired of hearing it amen my mother mother gwendolyn louise ellison she brought me into this world she was here last sunday my mother after service she came by to see me i was so glad to be in her presence i'm glad that i still have her and uh my mama's a very proud lady she's always you want to make sure she always looking good i said mama you're beautiful to me oh to see a walk in i'm so glad that i have the thursday of this week my brother heath heath the baby the youngest iraq war victim a veteran served this country he's a fine man i have so much respect for him so much he called me mother as i was getting ready for service to get ready to come to work here and said big brother i took mama to the hospital because she was having some discomfort and they told me that mama tested positive for covert 19. and uh he said i said to them what and they told me that i can't go back there and see her or anything he said well y'all gonna tell me something and then he called me and i said to him push get back there and check on our mother and call me i said i'm getting dressed you push you push and you get back there and you check on my mother i'm getting dressed you called me and while getting dressed my mind went to praise the lord several places and one of the things i said to the lord i said well god you know we're just like everybody else we're not immune and if this has happened to my mother i'm going to praying ask you to heal her but whether you heal her or not you're god and i'm going to serve you i'm going to love you and if there's somebody because there will be see there see what happened and as always the naysayers you know i don't know why i mean i mean you got your church clothes but they're always people that way but i want to say to the naysayers that wouldn't bother me because we've already acknowledged that we believe that worship is worth the risk and we already know that the virus is in the world but we are hebrews 10 25 church and if something happens i'm not going to change my doctrine i'm not getting mad with god praise the lord i'm not going to go somewhere and croak i'm going to do like i've asked you to do believe god and trust god we believe in when we ask him for healing we trust him with the outcome that's all you can do and you can't preach it to others then when it's your turn uh uh you need something i don't like people i don't like that i don't like that i really don't on a personal note i don't like so you can't be a lion when nothing is going wrong and then be a little cat when it goes south no and i'm not saying that you won't cry it won't hurt but you got to grab hole you have to grab hold amen anybody can preach it but i want to know can you walk it can you walk it out you can talk it out but can you walk it out so by the time i got dressed i had not heard from my brother so i called and i couldn't reach him so i'm headed this way and he called me back and he told me he said brother big brother mama mama's home and she's doing good drive you know that'll make you good news like that you change lane so i said what happened said oh they all began to apologize they ought to begin to say they were sorry they said they made a mistake it gets worse when my brother took my mother home my mama didn't know and my mother is in her right mind she's in her right mind my mother didn't know that any of this had happened she didn't know that they told her son that she has coveted and for him to go home and he can't go back there now if she didn't know then uh unless they've changed the tests because i don't think anybody can take the suave and put it in your nostrils and do all that they do which i got something to say to you about that amen see you know you you don't get in every line i want to teach you to think i'm going to teach you to think just don't get in every line that well they line up this this church is testing this had i had our schedule i cancelled i sure did and i'm glad i did say amen now she didn't know that she had tested positive because he pushed they apologized my question is what would have happened to my mother sitting back there in a room by herself 85 years old cut off from the arrows in her quiver because she got four he's got four boys cut off from her sons and then they tell her something like that i tell you what she would have had it by the time they finished with i feel some kind of way about that and i'm sharing it with you because it opens the door for me to tell you don't be so trusting don't be so trusting with your with your loved ones i know that she may be uh 80 or 85 or 82 or 78 or whatever case may be a year old person to them but to you that's your mother [Music] and y'all you ought to see well to see our senior citizens a certain kind of way with a level of respect they are trying the news fascism let me rephrase this fascism is when government and corporate and media all work together all of them get involved they they they are trying um to coerce us and to convince us to behave in ways that they that we would not normally behave in and they're trying to get us to accept or approach i'm preaching i'm laying my foundation science and medicine like it's a religion see see religion don't lie christianity doesn't lie we're saved by faith we accept our christian doctrine through faith the bible does not try at all to convince us that god created the heavens and the earth the bible makes no attempt to convince us of that it just says it in the beginning first verse in the first book in the beginning god created the heavens and the earth amen ain't no convincing in there and then the preceding verses doesn't explain how he did it they explained how it was restored because in verse two it went from a perfect creation in verse one chaos in verse two and then at a certain time god said let there be light and he began to restore the universe that he had made but it doesn't set out to prove it to you you have to accept it by faith by faith we understand hebrews uh chapter number 11 that the worlds were formed by the word of god by faith that's what you do with religion you approach your religion by faith up until now we've never approached science by faith we approach science through skepticism doubt see if they can repeat it see if they can the scientists need to be able for it to be true signs it needs to be repeatable that's why i don't bow this global woman says the science says it's in well how show me the test that you run even if we're in a warming trend how many years have we been keeping up with the weather 200 300 well the earth has existed for thousands of years how do we know you don't like what i'm saying do you a wise believer will not replace scripture quoting jesus with quoting the cdc you have to think before you put certain things it's your body before you let them put certain things in your body you got to think now and all of the commercials that are out there and all of them they talk about the side effects am i right i mean to me some of some of the side effects would keep me i just i would just keep keep the condition so if you you do you have a you are you itching you got a rash on your arm take this cream it will kill it will cure the rash side effects are kidney failure this and that and liver failure this you know what i just scratched my own two just too many side effects i just put up with the rash but in with this if anybody try to talk about side effects and there are many they get taken down facebook drops them youtube dropping you're automatically labeled as uh promoting misinformation anytime that's communist stuff see that's communism when the only doctrine and the only version of anything that is allowed to be said is the government's official version then if somebody dare say something else it's a conspiracy theory it's misinformation it's this that and the other in it anytime things are presented to you that way you should have doubt you should question because this that they want you to put in your body is something that once in your body will never be taken out and listen uh you'll be crazy to drive up you you have a drive-in shot somebody getting paid eight nine ten dollars an hour you're gonna sit there and give them your arm no no some things something just by how how much i value myself i got to go into office i got to make an appointment sit down and talk you're not going to just do this kid just graduate don't even know how to use the thing right and you're going to be that trusting the last person i'm talking now because you got to do your homework do what you want to do with your body amen because you're going gonna live with yours i'm living with mine somebody told me he said what jesus said the sick need a physician well my question is are you sick i'm not saying i'm not sick so at least let me get sick i'm as serious as i can be because we're living in a time where they're not allowing people to hear the whole story and they're suppressing people and every time you suppress the other side that means you got something to hide and uh uh last time they came out with something that black folk wouldn't take they went and got the black preacher margaret sanger came out with her eugenics and birth control people see when they first made that pill it wasn't made for white women that was made to to cut the growth of the black population put the pill on the market and lo and behold white women bought the field and black women wouldn't and uh margaret sanger liked to had a hissy fit so we got to do something she went to harlem and she got the black preacher to preach from his pulpit and to convince the black people our women to behave a certain way and now we're getting preach here they come again you want to open your church but you're telling people to take the shot there's something wrong with that there's something wrong with now if you want to take it that's your business if you've taken it i hope everything i'm concerned all my fears i hope i'm wrong but if i'm right you need to pray i'm not putting anything in my body if it's the lord's will with a 666 patent that's too close to the devil got lucifer raised in the stuff that's just that i mean that i'm a christian i've read the bible and among the things that the bible teaches that that satan would use to deceive nations is the bible revelation says sorcery you look up that word sorcery and in the greek it comes from the word uh the word pharmakia which gives us the english pharmacists big farmer so you have to i'm doing like i'm doing you you corinthians the way paul did them i want to give you enough you go think about it you look it up you do your your your your homework somebody said well you know you take the shot or you die last time i checked god controlled that kept me for 59 years here amen and i'm not against medicine i'm not against any of these things i'm for it but but i'm not for the way this is being done uh hitler said this i use emotion for the many and reserve reason for the few he knows in order to control a lot of people you get them all emotionally whipped up amen he said through clever and constant application of propaganda people can be made to see paradise as hell and also the other way around to consider the most wretched sort of life as paradise he's right you just pump him with the same message all day long for almost a year all we heard was coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee coffee go to sports they shut it down go to this they shut it down shut churches down all you hear then some of you you sit there and you watch the news 24 hours a day building that fear building that fear the manipulation of the numbers if you died with covert amen they treat it like you died from it and once the people are scared enough you can offer them anything for a solution for a remedy and you know what they'll do they'll take it but they're saved sanctified and holy ghost for yourself we'll say okay so we've got lucifer rays in here and a 666 patent and by the way all the people who are pushing this are depopulationists now the depopulation don't want you to live the depopulation is believed that the world is overpopulated that there are too many people here and by default when they think like that blacks are on the menu to get rid of been down there giving shots to people children in africa and uh i'll tell you this and i'm going to go to my text and and uh and get out the way uh but i need to talk to you so i'm your leader and and much of what i'm telling you you're not gonna hear anywhere else amen you see and so we want to want to inform you at where you will be a believer who is paying attention these the problem john amanchukwu um jerome king corey mcneal melvin um monet email hope people like that uh sharon dooley um they caused the problem sister douglas because of the problem see abortions are down call reeve you call the problem love life the happy warriors abortions uh one man said they're as low as they were in 73. now that's horrible news to the depopulationists so in their minds if we can't slow down the birth rate we will speed up the death rate we can't get you on one end we're going to get you on the other because the depopulation is believed that we have too many people here and none of them offer themselves up as a solution my position is i go along with you and just just you go that makes sense right you go if you think that too many people then on the earth you die no you know what they're doing they're experimenting cryogenics and everything they're gonna die and freeze themselves hoping that you can bring them back later on they want to live forever but they want to kill your mama and kill my mama and wipe out those who are not paying attention and i'm here to sign the alarm for as long as i can praise the lord so you will be aware but now after the alarm is sound corinthians you got to do the work chapter 10 and verse 10 says and neither murmur ye as some of them murmured and were destroyed of the destroyer it was their responsibility to find numbers chapter 14. call your attention to it and uh god have just been tremendously provoked numbers 14 describes what the bible calls the provocation god had been provoked because they did not respond properly to his goodness psalms 95 and verse 8 says heart are not your heart as in the provocation the provocation is is a time when they provoked god to anger they were right there at the promised land in kadesh baniya you could all but all but look over and see the promised land two spies brought back up a positive report 10 a negative report and they believed the ten but what provoked god wasn't just there believing the ten negative it was what they said they impugned god's motives they accused god of trying to kill them there and their children what had the lord done brother curling he had delivered them from egypt he had came down and visited them on mount sinai he'd given them a pillar of cloud by day and a pillar of fire by night he had brought them out with a high hand brought them out of slavery and after god had done all of that they said something that even provoked him and god is perfect you're learning something though about this perfect god he can be provoked you can go too far sister mcneil they went too far they said this about god verse 3 of numbers 14 and why half the lord brought us and unto this land to fall by the sword that our wives and our children should be a prey worried not better for us to return to egypt that was the provocation they said we've been verse two well it would have been better have we died in egypt god was insulted had we died in the wilderness god's insulted but it kept getting worse says no you wanted you brought us out so we could die in war and to kill our wives and kill our children when god brought them out to give them life to give them a land flowing with milk and honey be careful what you say be careful what you say brethren these were the men talking you can bring all kinds of things on your family by talking the wrong talk amen don't don't go home and talk a whole lot of doubt and uh and and put the church down you can curse your own house next thing you know you afflicted all kinds of ways god knows how and when they said this thing to god and when joshua and caleb and moses and aaron try to get them to see another way he says to them in verse 9 only rebel ye not against the lord their response in verse 10 was we're going to stone them and when they got ready to stone god's messengers the bible teaches that a divine intervention took place uh verse 10 the second clause says and the glory of the lord appeared in the tabernacle doesn't tell us what happened but it tells it didn't tell us it didn't describe it but it tells us what happened god showed up in his glory and in his power and when he showed up in his glory the bible says in verse 11 and the lord spoke to moses and then god god did something that would have been oh you talk about devastating the lord in verse 13 verse 12 said to moses i will smite them with a pestilence and disinherit them and make and will make of thee a greater nation mightier than they you know what god was saying to moses i listen since they won't listen and they accuse me of wanting to kill their families it really angered god it provoked him he said i wanna i'll wipe them all out today i'll send the pestilence that will kill everybody but you your family caleb his family joshua and his family and i'll raise up a nation mightier than they than these people and i'll do it today that's what i'm going to do right now now that's the provocation god you talking about a mass slaughter over a million close to two million people laying there just they just dropped dead that's what god threatened to do on the spot and raise up a new race praise the lord uh the progenitor of the hebrew race was abraham god said to moses i'll make you the progenitor of the of the race i'll start over with you moses didn't even hesitate he said to god don't do that don't do that because moses was concerned more about god actually than he was about the people moses says if you do it if you do this if you wipe out all of these people right here in this wilderness he said your reputation be messed up he said the he the egyptians will hear about it according to uh verse 13 the egyptians were here and the egyptians would say that because uh you were not able verse 14 to keep them because you were not able verse 16 to keep this people and to bring them to the land because you couldn't do it you killed them and he said even though you did something for them that was quite i remarkable you to know says god's been good to us follow me now i won't preach very long but you need to hear this moses talked about the goodness of the lord and how outstanding god's goodness toward israel was and i see parallels to god's goodness toward us in deuteronomy chapter number 4 and verse 32 moses says for ask now of the days that were passed he says go back to the earlier times which were before the go back to the days that that preceded your arrival go back to the earlier time which was before thee since the day god created man upon the earth and ask from one side of heaven to the other whether there have been any such thing as this great thing is or have have been heard like it did ever look at this did ever people hear the voice of god speaking out of the midst of the fire as thou has heard and lived he asked had any race ever heard god speak out of fire you know god spoke to moses from the burning bush god spoke to the people of israel from mount sinai and lille he said check out the record see if any deity of any kind any false god has ever done anything like this verse 34 or hath god attempted to go look at this and take him a nation from the midst of another nation that is check it out to see if any god has ever reached into a nation egypt and pulled out a nation and made that nation a sovereign nation says do your homework to see if anybody has ever done this by a temptation that is by trial or by signs or by wonders and by war and by a mighty hand and by a stretched out arm and by great terrors according to all that the lord your god did for you in egypt before your eyes he said check the record and see if that has ever happened before unto thee it was shown that thou mightest know that yahweh that the lord he is god there is none besides him out of heaven he made thee to hear his voice that he might instruct thee and upon the earth show thee his great fire that thou look at this and thou heardest his words out of the midst of the fire and because he loved thy fathers because he loved abraham isaac and jacob and therefore he chose their seed after them and brought thee out in his sight with his mighty power out of egypt to drive out nations from before the greater and mightier than thou to bring thee in to give thee their land for an inheritance as it is this day he says think do your homework see if these mighty things has ever been done for anyone know therefore this day and consider it in thine heart that the lord he is god in heaven above and upon the earth beneath there is none else since god have done this unique thing for you israel moses says thou shalt keep therefore his statutes and his commandments which he command thee this day that it may go well with thee and with thy children after thee that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth which the lord thy god giveth thee forever he said just think about how good god has been and all he wants us to do in return is to be obedient mrs liberty out there in new york harbor looks toward europe and she asks for your poor you the the masses that's toward you our ancestors didn't come from an invite of a statue i've brought through slaves think of this have you ever seen a people brought in and separated from their homeland separated from their name separated from their families soul into lifetime slavery treated as cattle regarded as nothing treated like the scum of the earth and yet in a few hundred years not four because the country ain't 400 years old but in a short time we went from that low place to being senators congressmans business owners president of the united states oh but my lord moguls wealthy powerful and and yet when we talk about our history most of the time down all we do is complain the truth is we should be proud of what the lord have done for us and where the lord have brought us from our story is a unique one in this country and we ought to love jesus too much to join blm as they march saying f your jesus well to love jesus too much to team up with anybody who puts him down because the truth is the true story of the black man in this country is that god did a quick work he brought us out and let me tell you if let me tell you if you're not out today if you're not out today it ain't because you can't get out now now if you break the law and get locked up you get on drugs you do this you go to school you won't learn you fight you get you do things that are wrong you can't blame that on the nation that's your doing we are people for whom god turned everything around for uh this is america's not a utopia it's not without its sins and her faults but all lands are but but if you're talking about countries and opportunities praise the lord this is indeed this has been for us the land of opportunity and and so the question is i'm preaching now ah how do you respond to the goodness of god to what the lord have done for us in this nation how do we respond to the lord god says obey me obey me don't provoke me don't provoke me obey me now let me preach this i'm almost done but but you know i get into this stuff and i get happy because if you take what i'm telling you go home and watch it again you know once it's out there you can watch it 50 times and and take notes and see count your many blessings and see what the lord have done oh oh most of us especially my age group we were born in poor conditions amen we come from a poor family and god did a great work and god did a quick work amen amen uh uh i wasn't on nobody's list but most likely to succeed but god but god but god amen amen take taking this little funny voice and then when we're getting we're getting the correspondence all the way from zimbabwe praise the lord only a god only god can take a little illegitimate hallelujah and uh and raise you up give you a voice oh my to declare god's truth a lady called the other day in tears and she said oh this gospel said we're praying for brother wood and said how does this is his member standing by he said because that kind of truth i would imagine uh that they walked away and i'm glad to be able to say i got the best church in the world because the saints love the truth and the answer the answer is no i'm not standing alone hey man somebody may have gone but you know i ain't missed you but overall god's been good to us god is good god is good and uh amen worthy to be praised let me preach this he said moses said uh if if you do it verse 14 then they will tell it to the inhabitants of the land because they saw how you uh were with them and how you were among them and all that and it'll get out and in verse 16 he says the word will be that you because the lord was not able to bring this people to the land which he swore unto them therefore he has slain them in the wilderness then moses district missionary uh first lady moses asked god a question acts a request of god that created a dilemma are y'all praying for me it created a dilemma now let me read the question moses says in verse 17 and now i beseech thee let the power of my lord be great that's not a problem according as thou has spoken saying moses i i heard you say this the lord is long-suffering that's true isn't it god of that and great in mercy that's true i'm glad forgiving iniquity and transgressions i'm glad and by no means clearing the guilty uh-oh wait a minute this is another sign long-suffering forgiving and by no means clearing the guilty visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation in israeli families sometimes three or four generations mother lived in the same house grandmamma mama and the children so if god visited and hit either generation the whole house would be in mourning so on one hand he's saying to god lord forgive on the other hand he's saying god you're a god who don't let the guiltless go free are you following me now let me say this about god god is a forgiving god god is a merciful god all the time that's one trait that's consistent in god all right are you following me but he is a god who avenges sin and punishes sin all the time god don't forgive on monday and then punish saying on tuesday forgive again on wednesday then go back to punishing on thursday no these traits are present in the god of the bible all the time so as he appeals to god he wants the lord to forgive them but at the same time he knows that god must do something about sin because they rebelled against him are you following me see and so he describes in verse 18 um two sides glory to god to our god because god is a holy god he must punish sin and because god is a gracious and merciful god he must forgive sin so the question is here god what are you going to do how how how do we solve this dilemma ah all of us love to preach about how god punishes sin and how he's a holy god when we're talking about other people's sin but when we talk about our sin we love to talk about how he's merciful he's kind he's gracious and he's forgiving because we want forgiveness but we want god to get them but god is these things all the time what the lord did here i'm watching the time see y'all should have y'all should have shouted when john was singing he gave it to you and you should have got with the durham's because i may be as high as i'm going to go amen i'm going to teach you this today uh romans chapter number three and verse 21 i want to show you what is referred to by many theologians as the center and the heart of the book of romans the center and the heart of the book it is not located in the middle of the book obviously because we're in chapter 3. so um but this teaching in this in this third chapter of the 16 chapters of this book this teaching is the heart of the book of romans and it says this in verse 21 but now the righteousness of god without the law is manifested that is but now at this present time the righteousness of god apart from the law has been revealed being witnessed that is being declared to be true by the law and the prophets even the law and the prophets prophesied that there would come a righteousness that would be apart from the law are you following me even here's this righteousness which is above the law because remember the failure of the law the failure of the law was that men human beings couldn't live up to it that was the weakness of it the law itself had no weakness but people couldn't live up to it so how then can man be made righteous see god had god came up with another way says human beings couldn't dot all the eyes across the t's that then the law predicts a righteousness that would be by faith so he says even the righteousness of god which is by faith of jesus christ unto all them that believe and there is no difference whether you are a jew or a gentile god will give you righteousness will declare you righteous through faith i want you to follow me now and uh and it says for all have sinned look at that all have sinned and come short of the glory of god whether you are a jew or a gentile so jews if you're trying to hold to the law you fail because all have sinned gentiles you've never known the law and you failed all have sinned and come short of the glory of god but he speaks of three things uh in the next two verses he speaks of justification redemption and perpetuation he says in verse 24 being justified freely the word justification justified is a legal term what you see now is someone in a courtroom standing before the judge and the judge declare you righteous no matter what the charge is the judge says you're righteous so we are justified freely not by the works of the law but by his grace through the redemption now redemption is a slave market term for the slaves were sold on the market and you could redeem them and buy them back when man fell we became slaves to sin through the faith of jesus christ we've been redeemed verse 25 whom god have set forth god have four ordained set forth foreordained to be a perpetuation through faith the propitiation is to uh to perpetuate deals with and what he did was he borrowed a term from uh some pagan rituals the propitiation is the sacrifice that is offered to take the place of the sinner so jesus christ is the perpetuation he's the mercy he died in our place through a perpetuation through faith in his look at this in his blood as they sprinkled the blood on the ark of the covenant and the the people were declared clean the priests did that then when jesus died jesus made it prop possible for us to be declared righteous to declare his righteousness for the remission that is the passing over of sins that are passed through the forbearance of god god's restraint god's forbearance gave us this out thank you lord to declare i say now follow me follow me on this i know i'm getting a little technical but i want you to follow me this is my thursday night but let's just pretend this is thursday night to declare to declare amen i say to make the declaration paul says at this time at this present time his righteousness that he might be just and the justifier of him which believe in jesus now what am i saying what is he saying right here he says to declare i say to demonstrate at this time his god's righteousness that he that god the father might be just and the justifier of him that believe in jesus now what what is this saying you see god can justify us if we believe in jesus without betraying his holy demands for punishment for sin see because he's holy if we disobey him somebody's got to pay or he he's betraying himself how can he keep from betraying himself when we fall and yet justify us at the same time by the blood of jesus because for what jesus did god is able to look at us and when we deserve to get our heads cut off god is able to bless us to forgive us and to strengthen us because christ paid the price he was the perpetration so this is why the lord can exercise great mercy toward us without betraying his demands for holiness because of what jesus did on the cross every believer should love jesus because jesus christ is our hero jesus christ made all of this possible for us can i get a witness this this may not shout you but it'll get you after a while and it says so since we can be justified in jesus since all have sinned since our righteousness is by faith verse 27 says where is boasting then ah it is excluded by what law of or or by what law of works nay but by the law of faith that is if you are righteous you can't brag you can't boast it's not because you kept the law but it's by the law of faith jesus did it therefore we conclude that a man is justified not by works but by faith without the deeds of the law because jesus justified us and he redeemed us and even when we fall beneath god's law we're justified by faith now look at this and look at this now follow me is he the god of the jews only the answer is no is he all he is he not also of the gentiles the answer is yes of the gentiles also seeing it is one god which shall justify the circumcision the jew by faith and the uncircumcision through faith he says do we then make the law do we then make void the law through faith do we throw the law away then since we're justified whether we live up to the law or not do we make it void the answer is no way god forbid yay we establish the law since god have declared us righteous he don't want us now to go send up a storm and do whatever we want to do he now he expects us to live up to it because we've been redeemed we're no longer slaves to sin so god have fixed it so that he won't have to uh deny his righteous demands for punishment when we do wrong so watch how this teaching worked out with god dealing with moses so moses says in verse 19 of chapter 14 moses said facebook live youtube live moses said pardon i beseech thee pardon the iniquity of this people according to the greatness of that mercy and as thou has forgiven this people from egypt until now moses says god instead of killing us all today part of us instead of wiping us out pardon us now he's talking to a provoked god who threatened to wipe them out and who had the power to wipe them out moses says don't do it pardon us lord i know that you have righteous demands your your holiness demands that somebody pay god will you pardon us look at god's response to moses pardon us i beseech thee pardon of the iniquity of this people god's response in verse 20 and the lord said i have pardoned according to thy word god says all right moses you've asked me not to wipe them out all right i won't kill them i'll pardon them according to thy word are you following me i'll get them i won't kill them today see because the threat in verse 10 van the threat in verse 12 was to wipe them all out that day moses said please don't do it the egyptians will hear about it pardon us god says i will potter i have potter as you've said asked me to do he says verse 21 but as truly as i live all the earth shall be filled with the glory of the lord because all those men which have seen my glory and my miracles which i did in egypt in the wilderness and have tempted me now these ten times two temptations at the red sea twice they demanded uh water twice they demanded food twice they demanded flesh once the golden calf once they heard the spies god said you've tempted me ten times he says and i have not and have not hearkened to my voice he said surely they shall not see the land which i swear unto their fathers neither shall any of them that have provoked me see it so moses i gave you what you asked for i'm not going to kill them today but they will never see this land that i promise what is the takeaway what is the takeaway in this day and time forgiveness doesn't always mean that there are no consequences see see just because he says i'm going to forgive you you've been pardoned it sounds like a contradiction you've been pardoned but you also are disinherited you're not you're not going in see because you you tempted me your temptation came up to a perfection in rebellion 10 is a number of perfection so you've you tempted me 10 times now now this 10 is the number of perfection but they literally tempted it ten times it was too hard for them to believe they gave god too hard of a time there come a time young man young lady oh man only there comes a time when you have to get right you can't just you can't just keep ignoring the goodness of god the mercy of the lord the blessings of the lord the kindness of the lord and every time every time eve listen the loved one who loves you the most who keeps bailing you out of jail sooner or later they're gonna get tired and say you know what you call well this is a call from the county jail where you accept the call click up you'll hang up because you took you took nine calls the tenth call did it there's been too much it's too much so god said moses i have pardoned them but as the lord lived my uh my glory as truly as i live my glory shall be revealed and as sure as my glory is in the earth these who have come against me he said they will not go into the promised land i want to show you something look at psalms 99 i'm almost where i'm headed today glory to god the 99th song i want to show you this and verse 8 it says thou answered this them o lord our god thou wast a god that forgave them though thou tookest vengeance of their inventions that is you forgave them but you still took vengeance on their sinful actions the righteousness of god the holiness of god see the devil wants us to believe that in this day and time you can do anything you want and god's a forgiving god you ain't got to never be concerned about anything and everything will go on and you know the lord told moses here's what he was telling him it can't go back to being business as usual it you can't look to hit us and america's in trouble you can't go back to the pre-provocation days you shouldn't have provoked me that time we can't go back to that this that you should have just gone into the promised land and and entrusted me to defeat the amorites the malachites the hittites and all the rest of them should have just trusted me i i would have taken care of the giants for you but when you accuse me of killing wanting to kill your wife want to kill your children you said too much sometimes you can say too much sometimes you can go to a place that you can't come back from and that's what they did in the provocation and god displayed great mercy because here's what the sentence was that the lord gave them verse 29 he says your caucuses shall fall in this wilderness and all that were numbered of you according to your whole number from 20 years old and upward which have here it is first corinthians 10 and 10 which have murmured against me who talked under that breath who said out in the congregation i couldn't tell you a murmur against me because you had your mask on i don't care what wooden says he talks too much i don't agree with that i'm going i'm going to do what i want to do i'm grown keep remembering he said all those that murmured against me you see that he says doubtless you shall not come into the land concerning which i swear to make you dwell therein nobody is coming in except caleb the son of jeffery and joshua the son of none but your little ones which you said should be a prey them will i bring in and they shall know the land which you have despised but as for you look at god god says this is the best i can do with what you've done now be happy cause i didn't kill you today which is what i started to do he says as for you you see that your carcasses shall fall in this wilderness look at this and look at this your children shall wander in the wilderness 40 years and bear your whoredoms until your caucuses be wasted in the wilderness and look at this after the number of days which you have searched out the land even 40 days each day for a year shall you bear your consequences even 40 years and ye shall know my breach of promise that is you will experience my displeasure now this was a good news bad news sentence and i'm getting ready to pray the good news is i'm not going to kill you today see i'm giving you 40 years that's mercy you're going 1 to 40 years in this wilderness that's the best i can do i'm not letting you go in for what you did the best i have to offer is i'm going to let you wander in this wilderness for 40 years and you're going to die in it and uh but your children are going to go in because the children had no say in this they had no they had no they had no voice in the mischief uh that you brought upon yourself he said but as for you the good news is you're not going to die today bad news is you'll never see the promised land you're not going to see it aaron is not going moses didn't make it miriam didn't make it and they were all right there and you know what killed them i'm closing the people murmured the people complained they com the people were too negative and they talked themselves out of the heritage that god had for them america is trying its best to make you negative to make you talk yourself out of what god has for you the there are powerful people i want you to know that listen to my young brothers and sisters there are powerful people behind these so-called pro-black woke movements and these powerful people are old white men and they know that the direction that they're trying to push us into is one that is bad for us they all of a sudden they hadn't all of a sudden these powerful uh gray-headed powerful uh 70 and 80 and 90-year-old white elites have not fallen in love with black folk um they just want chaos they want to push you and push the country to the brink of no return these are the things that you're seeing while at the same time frighten everybody have everybody afraid that they're going to catch this virus offer remedies offering poison to cure paws introducing substances that they've never put in humans before and don't want you to ask questions god is saying say something but when it comes to me to the lord god is saying when it comes to him don't murmur replace the murmur with the praise replace the murmur with a commitment to serve replace the murmuring with a commitment to be holy and if we do this the lord will bless us i the lord have said i will surely do it unto all the evil congregation that are gathered together against me in this wilderness they shall be consumed and they and there they shall die that was god's word on that i want to live i want to please the lord amen i want to please the lord oh bless his name and the men which moses sent to search out the land who return and made all the congregation to murmur against him by bringing a slander against the land even those men that did bring up an evil report upon the land died by the plague before the lord god killed every one of them joshua the son of nun and caleb the son of jeffery which were of the men that went to search the land isn't that something and moses told these things saying unto all the children of israel and the people mourned greatly i'll stop right here it is the will of the lord that the believer remained positive that the believer not descended into murmuring complaining and fear and doubt but to trust him to bring us out everybody's standing i want to pray i want to pray i want to pray facebook live youtube live streaming audience i want to pray to the saints all in the congregation the saints are here praise the lord if we had any more focus here we couldn't social distance thank god for you it was like this eight o'clock thank god for you people people grabbing hold of faith and coming to church and god's going to take care of you god's going to keep you amen god's going to keep us and then then when he gets through keeping us uh he's going to take us home because like i said all the time ain't none of us getting out of here alive we're going home and your bill will be ringing angels will be singing over there let us pray father in the name of jesus servant your servants your worshiping servants stand before you right now god we repent of murmuring we repent oh god of complaining we repent for being negative we repent lord we repent for some of the things that we've said at home as the congregation of israel did the whole congregation repent for some of the things that we've said at church and god we commit to you you you who are streaming some of you you need to repent some of the things that have come out of your mouth you listen to the wrong people even if you're not able to come back to church don't surround yourself with people who haven't come back anyway either because all you're going to do all you're going to do is uh engage and talk that will uh justify and make you feel good about staying home even when your church is open oh no be careful what you say be careful what you say of me be careful what you say about god's servants be careful what you post some people have cursed their lives and prophesying they have cursed their children because they try to embarrass the church be careful be careful how we treat each other be careful how we respond to god's love you don't hear what i'm saying because i'm telling you that god pays attention and then i know i i'm i'm praying and prophesying someone is saying but that's the old testament but you're forgetting we're only here because we took our text in the new it was first corinthians chapter 10 and verse 10 that's new testament where he said don't murmur that's new glory to god and he uses the old as an example so you can't forget that we're in the new but we had to go back to the old yes lord tell the men be careful what you say at home about the church about the lord in front of your family praise the lord the men that got israel in trouble they got themselves cursed and they wandered 40 years and they died can you imagine the sheer amount of death every day every day somebody was dying of that plague every day god let us live god keep us god give us strength and the breath in our bodies to declare that you're god and that you're good and that you're holy in the name of jesus let this word sink deep into the hearts and the minds of the saints and give us power to speak a different language a language that says to the world god is good and worthy to be praised that the lord is holy and that the lord is righteous that the lord is kind that god is a keeper that we're better than we deserve we're doing better than we deserve if it wasn't for his mercy we wouldn't be here anyway thank you thank you for your healing thank you for your healing thank you for your deliverance thank you for spaying my mother thank you for making a way lord thank you for touching the saints thank you for raising them up lord hallelujah some have contracted you covet but you didn't let it kill them you raised them up and they're back in the house of god serving and praising the lord they got a testimony uh he brought me out of the my enclave thank you jesus for being a waymaker thank you for being a healer thank you lord for blessing us in this great land of ours this is our country god bless america god save our nation god deliver our nation god send revival god prayed yokes great yokes lord in the name of jesus wow do it lord and if you do it we'll praise you if you do it we'll live for you and god if we've reached the tipping point i heard you say except those days are shortened no flesh will be saved if you need to god shorten the days but come back and get us up don't leave us down here come back lord in the name of jesus we want to be caught up in the rapture when you come [Music] yes lord yes lord yes lord yes lord let him see your hands let him hear your voice tell him yes tell him he asked become a full-time praiser become a worshiper become a checkbooker give him praise lift your voice give him praise lift your hands give him praise for he is god his name is above every name and he's worthy to be praised and our hearts will say great [Music] [Applause] green [Music] yeah yeah oh lord praise him right now praise him right now praise him right now in the name of jesus in the name of jesus father we lift our hands and we just give you all the praise and we give you all the glory in jesus name thank god amen and amen hallelujah praise him in the sanctuary hallelujah ah all i want is just five minutes to praise the lord to declare to the world that our god is good our god is great our god is mighty how many still believe he's great how many still believe he's great you ought to rap back [Music] with your loud voice and shout how great is our god [Music] good god almighty you ought to point up toward heaven you got a name that's above every name and you will there to be thy brave will sing how great [Music] how great is my god wait a minute how great is is [Music] and our hearts will sing how great is our [Music] [Music] i like your name [Music] if you do you you got a name [Music] [Music] worthy oh [Music] worthy [Music] you got a name for the last time you you got my jesus jesus jesus jesus what a name jesus i love your name jesus you you got a name [Applause] [Music] how grace is our god sing with me how him like you know he's great how great on your name [Music] oh [Music] do [Music] um [Music] all right time to bless the lord by the way of giving see see what the lord has done see what the lord has done you ordered count and just see what the lord has done see what the lord [Music] many blessings [Music] ah see what the law youtube facebook something we're getting ready to let it go i hope you can feel like that what i can feel in here and you'll see what the lord look at the house you're living in see what the lord [Music] the holy ghost but he healed my body do i have anybody who's been healed [Music] [Music] [Music] now [Music] you who are watching go to [Music] www.easytime.org.com let me say that again easytime.com urc and our various methods of giving are on your screen let's give to god father we bring our offerings in and we give them to you in jesus name we pray amen i got so much to be thankful for [Music] i got so much to be thankful for [Music] i've got so much to be thankful for i've got so much how many kids i got so much to be thankful i've got brother and sister roughing thank you all for that wonderful the reference thank you i'm gonna put it to good use thank you all glory to god [Music] so [Music] [Music] [Music] hallelujah glory to god glory to god pray for us we're praying for you that god will keep you and cause his face to shine on you in the name of jesus father we thank you for every gift and every giver in jesus name amen we're going home got to be in burlington tonight amen this church don't know how to stop man so but we're looking forward to being up there for the first part of the district tour amen saw the earth church of god in christ burlington north carolina and uh i want to thank you all who came out friday night we had a marvelous time with the virginia district our district is growing the virginia district is now made up of three churches praise the lord we launched a year and a half ago maybe two and look at what god is doing and so that's about the uh third south carolina virginia new horizon and uh a greater triangle yeah since we've been present god of blessings and sister renee cork jacqueline caulk now you some of you who were with us back from 2901 uh lakewood road renee lakewood road now she is a district missionary she's the district missionary of the virginia district and she's made history because out of the upper room since my tenure out of the upper room we've had two ladies to become district missionaries one is district missionary margaret mose amen she was the first uh appointed her as district missionary um once i became superintendent and then renee is uh the district missionary of the virginia district and i'm proud of that i think that's a a wonderful thing god's doing so many great things so we thank god for all that he is doing thanks i hope you were blessed by the word different today uh but uh you know um as long as it's the word uh we don't care how it is delivered and i hope that you you uh uh got the the point that we were uh attempting to make amen and uh uh we're gonna see where the lord uh i got to ask god um are you through with first corinthians chapter 10 or not because if god's not through i learned that what you preach is you state what god tells you and and it'll work when you go off on your own you get in trouble mother we thank god for every one of you today you you look beautiful thank you for coming out today saying we're going to make sure we let these wonderful seniors uh exit first and uh everybody still remains smart and still stay wise um i heard that the covet is real our faith in the lord is not our denying the existence of the virus i mean look at how we social distance in here that tells you everything about what we do tells you that we believe it's real you said they wiped this down ever you see how all the protocols you'd have to open the door to come in did you somebody's on the door they're taking your temperature they they sanitize your hands all of that says that we believe that it is real but real or not we are hebrews 10 25 church and we believe that we are supposed to worship the lord and gather together uh in his name amen somebody text me and say well when we when he said gather together in his name uh that could have meant online and i told them i'm pretty certain that the heb that the hebrew writer i'm pretty certain i'm pretty certain at that time that ain't what he had in mind amen i'm pretty certain all right may we all stand congratulations ladies i pray that uh that you have all of you have signed up and something the first lady said that really rung a bell uh the younger ladies don't pass on these opportunities amen make time you ain't that busy uh and if the women's department just don't have anything that they can teach you then sign up and teach your department amen so if you're that advanced we need we need to sit at your feet stay man uh when something's going on we want full participation and you are you do a great job so i thank you it's for every visitor thank you uh for coming and thank you for praying for us and staying for the service and we're going home now did did they close go look around one of them closed down didn't it one of them at on 70. glenwood yeah that one did that ain't the one you go to no way is it all right i've been striking out today everybody say god first i love you god bless you you

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