Sunday Morning 11a Service 09-12-21

there's [Music] so [Music] hello [Music] come on let's put our hands together [Music] let's give god some praise on today god has been good he's been gracious he's been merciful he's been kind come on lift your voice let's give god some praise because you care for us in such a special way we have a glory and honor and praises unto the god of the bible man come on put your hands together one more time and give god some praise we thank god the father jesus christ our savior and our lord amen we thank each and every one of you for being in the house of god on today we thank god for our pastor bishop patrick el wooden senior put your hands together for the man of god on today [Music] amen and to the first and second and sister el armachuca another wilson we thank god for each one of the men of god amen until the the fragrance of this ministry our first lady first lady pamela wooden amen we thank god for her on today amen we are truly glad to be in the house of god on today look at your neighbor and say i'm glad to see you and i'm glad to be in the house of god come on put your hands together one more time and give god some praise hallelujah [Applause] [Music] amen at this time we're going to have our opening prayer by elder little our old testament scripture by missionary blanquita williams our new testament scripture by elder sherrod mccoy we ask that you'll receive them in that order [Music] my soul loves jesus my soul loves jesus my soul love jesus bless his name my soul [Music] love jesus my soul [Music] my soul loves jesus my soul bless jesus bless his name yes [Music] yes yes yes yes [Music] yes father god in the name of jesus lord we just want to tell you thank you lord we clap our hands in the sanctuary we praise your holy name jesus lord you've been good to us father god and we just want to tell you thank you god one more day in your house god and we give your name the glory and the honor lord ask that the word come with power today god god save a soul that's near as hell on this morning lord lord we just want to give your name the glory and the honor god you're worthy to be praised from the rising of the sun to the going down of the same lord you were the jesus lord we just want to lift you up this morning god father god we love you lord lord we just want to tell you thank you lord god you put food on our tables and lord we tell you thank you lord oh god we thank you for our pastor god as he preached the word lord the father god touched everyone in the name of jesus lord god touch the ones that's on their way to this house of god lord in the name of jesus lord god let your word go with power god to save in power in the name of jesus lord oh god touch the minds of the saints lord in the name of jesus god oh god renew our strength in the name of jesus lord to father god we lift our hands up to you lord oh god we stretch our hands to your lord to god we need your help today lord god we need your help god to god we're troubled on every side lord but god we know you god you are our a healer god to lord we know that you're a bridge over troubled water lord oh god you are you are asking a time of a battle asks lord oh god we tell you thank you jesus oh god we tell you thank you lord to god you healed our bodies god and lord we tell you thank you jesus oh god you healed us from cancer lord and god we tell you thank you lord oh god let the holy ghost fall right now lord in the name of jesus lord oh god touch heart every heart god to god sweep in this room right now jesus oh god we tell you thank you lord to say that the lord rebuke you out and the blood of jesus is against you satan the lord rebuke you and the blood of jesus is against you oh god we tell you thank you jesus oh lord bless this service god touch everyone in the name of jesus god we thank you for our pastor as he stand on the word of god oh god bless this service in jesus name amen the old testament scripture will be coming from numbers chapter 6 verses 24 through 26. the lord blessed thee and keep thee the lord make his face shine upon thee and be gracious unto thee the lord lift up his continents upon thee and give thee peace let the church say amen a new testament scripture will be coming from philippians the fourth chapter fourth verse through the seventh rejoice in the lord alway and again i say rejoice let your moderation be known unto all men the lord is at hand be careful for nothing but in everything by prayer and supplication with thanksgiving yet let your request be made known unto god and the peace of god which passeth all understanding shall keep your hearts and minds through christ jesus and the word of the lord is blessed concerning god our belief concerning the church of the church our belief concerning sin [Music] our belief concerning salvation [Music] [Music] our belief concerning the holy ghost [Music] our belief concerning sanctification of the holy spirit by whom it's in dwelling the christian is saved to live a holy separated life in his present world amen [Music] [Applause] [Music] oh bless it ashore [Music] purchase [Music] this is my story this is my song everybody praising my savior [Music] oh perfect submission [Music] all is at rest i am my savior and happy and blessed marching and waiting looking upon [Music] lost in his love everybody this is my story this is my story this is my praising my savior this is my song praising my savior come on let's give praise to our savior and our king jesus christ is his name he may be seated in the presence of the lord amen at this time we're going to have our welcome address my sister amen we thank god for each and every one of you that are here on today if we have any visitors that are in the room today we're going to ask that you would stand and rest on your feet so that we can acknowledge you on today god bless you god bless you come on put your put our hands together for our visitors on today amen we thank god for each and every one of you we know that there are some churches that you could actually go through but we are grateful to god that you have chosen to come to the upper room church of god in christ indeed there is a word for you on today from our pastor bishop patrick l wooden and senior we ask those that are in the area if you were just greet them and let them know that we're glad to see them and glad that they have come to the upper room church of god in christ on today [Applause] amen amen at this time we're going to have greetings by our wonderful first lady amen immediately following our greetings will be our video announcements by evanus patricia lester and then there will be a special presentation by the departments and auxiliaries immediately following will be our elder anthony wilson with the presentation of our pastor we ask that you receive them in that order come on put your hands together for our first lady as she comes thank you god bless you come on and clap your hands for the lord jesus ah and give him a mighty praise and the sanctuary on this morning for surely the lord is good and he is worthy to be praised we thank god for this privilege to be in the house of the lord we do honor our great pastor our leader our mighty man of god for 34 years he has stood on the wall right here at the upper room church of god in christ and we thank god for him and i tell you my my remarks are brief all i have to say is tonight tonight tonight tonight oh my goodness the men of god are going to be joining in in prayer for the women of god on tonight and i tell you as the bishop prayed on last sunday when he prayed that prayer on last sunday i felt a strong wind in my back praise god and i just felt like god was putting the wind behind us so that we can go forth and do the things of god like never before i'll tell you there's something special that the lord wants to do for the women of god on tonight and i want to say to you you need to be here we start promptly at 6 00 pm and i tell you the men of god are going to be praying for us and i say this to you come hungry praise the lord hungry for a move of god hungry to get in the lord's presence hungry to be blessed and i want you to know that the lord will indeed meet us at our point of need god bless you all thank god for our many visitors who are here today to all of the saints who are worthy of honor i love you and i thank god for each of you pray for me god bless [Applause] good morning upper room church family elder harry and mother carolyn burwell lost their son mr shawwan derek east on thursday night the arrangements are incomplete at this time please keep the entire burwell east families in your prayers amen our beloved first lady pamela wooden will celebrate her birthday on thursday september 16th please join me in wishing her a very happy birthday happy birthday first lady hey man this concludes this morning's announcements please direct these announcements please direct your attention to our monitors for our video announcements [Music] intercessor arise join first lady pamela wooden and the upper room women's ministry for the summer empowerment prayer retreat finale to be held tonight at 6 pm in the sanctuary our pastor bishop patrick l wooden senior will be the featured prayer warrior and will lead the men of god in interceding on behalf of the women ladies get yourselves ready for this prayer explosion and meet us tonight everyone is encouraged to join us for tuesday night service to be held september 14th at 7 30 p.m in the multi-purpose room the speaker will be elder giulio simul upper room's newest young adult ministry focus is proud to present an 80s 90s throwback social this event will be held september 25th at 6 30 p.m at arize event space located at 300 south town circle in roseville we're inviting all members of the church ages 18 to 40 to come out for an evening of food fun and fellowship come dressed in your favorite 80s 90s attire and be sure your clothing is consistent with church standards this is a free event but registration is requested for food headcount visit the tables in the front lobby after service to register i was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the lord if you are in or visiting the raleigh area and looking for an opportunity to gather with the saints for a god first experience the upper room is pleased to offer two services every sunday morning join us at 8am and 11am for sunday worship service in the sanctuary 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 upperboomgospel.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 bishop wooden will be the guest speaker for the north carolina faith and freedom coalition salt and light conference to be held saturday september 25th from 9 a.m to 6 p.m at temple baptist church the church is located at 3615 rockford street in mount airy complimentary tickets are available for members to obtain send an email to info p.o wooden.org with salt and light conference in the subject save the date for women's weekend 2021 to be held october 21st through the 24th this year's theme is women united and sisterhood for the faith and the weekend is filled with a powerful lineup of inspirational speakers including our pastor bishop patrick l wooden senior evangelist vandaling kennedy and prophetess janet floyd ladies there is so much more in store so be sure to save the date for this year's women's weekend october 21st through the 24th [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] hi my name is rufus pritchett jr and i've been a member of upper room church of god in christ for 22 years now bishop patrick elaine williams you have been an awesome encouragement on how to stand strong and remain unmovable in word of christ you have shown us throughout the years that there is ways that we can fight no matter what stage of life we are in from children's church to college ministry now young adult and men's ministry you have found different ways to inspire us and no matter what stage of life we have reached i want to thank you for remaining unmovable throughout the years whether it's keeping christ and christmas fighting to save the life of unborn babies or resisting against the ways of the lgbtq community you have shown us that we can be strong and stand strong in the word of god and to be proud of our christianity happy 34th pastoral anniversary bishop wooden hi my name is alecia faison and i've been a member at upper room for about 23 to 24 years when i think of unmovable i think of second corinthians 4 8 and 9 and it says we are trouble on every side yet not distressed we are perplexed but not in despair persecuted but not forsaken cast down but not destroyed bishop you exemplified this scripture to me because when the world tries to push on every side you push back and you stand on the word of god with authority and with boldness and you don't fold you have faith in god to take care of the rest and that encourages me as a young adult to stand on the platforms in my life as a director of social work this year for a charter public school region i am encouraged all the time to stand as a christian first and to sometimes even stand alone so i want to thank you pastor for being consistent throughout the years and remaining unmovable while always reminding us to be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the lord thank you and happy 34th pastoral anniversary we love you get ready for the 34th pastoral anniversary celebration of bishop patrick l wooden senior unmovable sunday september 19th prepare to be a blessing to our man of god during two power pack services at 8 a.m and 11 a.m we're pleased to welcome guest artists michael boone and jarrell smalls [Music] but that's not all prepare yourselves to hear the priest's word from bishop destree c bell when i was lost upon the cross it's the 34th pastoral anniversary celebration of bishop patrick l wooden senior unmovable sunday september 19th at 8 a.m and 11 a.m at the upper room church of god in christ [Music] let's give all glory honor and praise to the king of kings and the lord of lords [Music] for his triumphant leader our bishop our pastor bishop patrick l wooden united and first lady pamela wooden amen when paul talked about god given us a triumph he was talking about when a leader would go out to war and they would gain new territory or cover new ground that was a triumph and they would celebrate that triumph with a triumphant procession well we have so much to celebrate how many know that preaching the gospel through the pandemic is a many know that opening your church doors when others are too afraid and keep them closed is a triumph how many know that letting the church flourish in the pandemics going forward and not backward that's a triumph how many know that taking this gospel to new territory in this city and around the world is a triumph well because of those triumphs we are going to have a triumphant professional and bishop we celebrate you for being steadfast unmovable and always abounding in the work of the lord so saints music department men's department youth department administration evangelism saints let's get ready to forget [Music] hey [Music] come on [Music] oh [Music] come on [Music] 70 weeks operations on [Music] oh all right [Music] let's welcome in the youth department [Music] and we thank [Music] thank you for showing us and not just telling us how to be courageous happy anniversary [Music] oh bishop they said congratulations on 34 years we saw you go before the lord thursday and friday out to get a word we saw you prepared to conduct interviews because people wanted to know what you thought about church's closing we saw you exude confidence and courage we saw you come to the office and the church day after day for 70 weeks never wavering knowing that safety was in the sanctuary we saw you gain a brand new following online as people requested to join and sent money because you stood that fastly we saw you declare god's truth as our media team put your face all over social media and broadcast television we saw you encouraged by those who wrote letters and sent gifts even traveling hours just to put a check in the prophet's hand and we saw the first lady under the action of god sure up the finances and administration tirelessly keeping the women connected we see you and we deem you as the best ceo and president and vice president in the world come on let's celebrate them [Music] hallelujah next we have member services [Music] [Music] [Music] you have reached so many people for christ the member services makes up sunday school the usher board the medical unit the visitors and transportation and new members who are local here in raleigh but are in new york new jersey pennsylvania maryland tennessee south carolina georgia florida alabama and iowa and all together we say congratulations on your 31st anniversary hallelujah oh lord i want come on hey look at those ushers marching let me see you marches hey [Music] hospitality sunday school they are marching yes now we're moving on to evangelism [Music] hallelujah they said good morning bishop happy 34th anniversary through your expository and evangelistic preaching your compassion for unborn lives and souls being saved you have reached people domestically on foreign land we just talked about new york and other places in america but you've reached israel germany palestine al jazeera tel aviv south africa australia florida texas georgia and we the people are behind you come on look at these signs and we wish you a happy 34th anniversary hey yes look at the size [Music] testimony come on is that your testimony let's say that [Music] [Music] next we have the the focus young adult ministry come on give it up for them hallelujah some people say that you can't preach the gospel and reach young adults they say you can't preach a true gospel and reach young people but our young adult ministry is behind our leader 100 we are not ashamed of the gospel hallelujah come on let's give it up for them yes [Music] [Music] all right now we have the women's department and before they come i need everybody to make stadium noise for the directors of women's ministry and vice president and co-honoree first lady pamela wooden amen bishop the women's department said now listen we look for a man with a pandemic plan one full of knowledge who would take a stand not compromising but preaching truth with integrity because this man's goal is to live with jesus in eternity while others trembled and failed with colvin 19 blues this man stood tr stood firm and preached the good news he did not break at this great test of getting 2 000 worshipers in church to be blessed he did it and we are glad but boy is satan mad hallelujah some thought he would crumble some thought that he would fall but he looked at satan and said let's get ready to rumble [Applause] for 34 years he remained the same fighting the good fight of faith has always been his aim he's simply unmovable his belief in god unmovable supporting the cause of women unmovable his doctrinal beliefs unmovable his stand against abortion and his love for god's people so we have something that we want to say as the women of god and intercessors we arise and we need all the women you see our signs bishop we are uh-huh women for bishop woody women for this show what you said women women [Music] [Applause] [Music] and next we have i can't say it the way they would say it but man up the men's department bishop the men's department said for 34 years you've taught and preached to the men for 34 years you've encouraged brothers for 34 years you've challenged manhood for 34 years you've led by example for 34 years you've done the most important which is you've pointed countless men to christ so we they the men's department of the upper room are the benefactors of your great untiring leadership so on behalf of the men's department we say congratulations and happy 34th anniversary come on y'all let's make some noise for these men look at those banners hallelujah victorious men come on we need some news cameras [Music] [Music] [Applause] all right we have one more oh just [Applause] awesome man also we have one more group we have the board of directors of the peru church of god in christ led by chairman joseph morgan this board together has more experience in years and numbers of people who have been under bishop wooden leadership than any other auxiliary many of them were here before bishop wooden came and bishop they said that they have celebrated 33 of your anniversaries and by the grace of god they want to celebrate the 34th they are glad to see you blessed and glad to see you prosper because over the years you have been consistent but i wanted to ask them right quick board how strong has bishop's stance been against abortion what about his stance about fornication what about his stance about homosexuality what about same-sex marriage what about adultery all right so as a result bishop and first lady wooden they wish you a happy anniversary they want to express their love and admiration and celebrate you on this great occasion and once again we celebrate you because you have been come on let's clap your hands for them hey come on let's celebrate all of us together [Music] come on everybody [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] all together [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] well if you got the victory put those hands together right now [Music] come on and clap those hands if you got the victory make some stadium noise in this place if you got the victory say yes [Music] hey [Music] listen if you are on the anniversary committee please make your way to the stage i have a big announcement that i want to make right now if you are on the anniversary committee please make your way to the stage right now i have been holding on to an announcement for several weeks and i want to share it with you right now god is going to do something miraculous on next sunday come on come on come on come on if you're on the anniversary committee make your way to the stage [Music] all around the world people want to know what's causing all this anybody know about rick flair this morning rick flair stayed right here walk around just a little bit but i'm excited i'm excited i can't help myself i can't can't hold my peace we're getting ready to raise a whole lot of money next sunday if that bothers you something's wrong with you because this man of god has been unmovable on behalf of the greatest committee in the world the pastor's anniversary committee a committee that i've had the privilege of working with and leading for these past five years men and women who have been on the committee some five some 10 some 15 some 20 25 and 30 years faithful serving the man of god i would like to announce this morning that collectively as a committee along with our spouses on next sunday this committee collectively will be giving over twenty six thousand dollars come on make some noise for that [Applause] [Music] as a commander over 26 000 will be given from this one group and i believe that god is up to something miraculous i don't want to share all of what bishop wouldn't mention this morning but i believe that god is getting ready to do something for somebody who's been faithful during this pandemic you did not resist what the man of god was saying bishop wooden said that he believed that worship was worth the risk you heard the call of the man of god and you readied yourself and came to the house of the lord i believe that on next sunday i believe that miracles shall show up in this place i believe that deliverers will show up in this place i believe that healing and breakthroughs are going to show up right here if you believe that shall glory now [Music] for 69 weeks 69 weeks this man of god has been preaching and telling us to come to the house of god and on next sunday we will celebrate the 70th week which represents biblically a time where god brought judah out of captivity if you have something up before the lord i feel my help coming on in here if you got something up before the lord i dare you to show up in the house of god on next sunday with your offering ready to be a blessing to the man of god because i see god turning things around if you believe that give god some glory in this place [Music] hallelujah [Music] god bless you we'll see you next sunday be prepared to be a blessing to the man of god i see god working it out for you right now i see god bringing you out of that bondage bringing you out of depression bringing you out of captivity and if you believe that you want to put something in your feet what comes out of your mouth to show up in a dancer and you might as well give god glory right here when i think of the goodness of jesus and all that he's done for me my soul cries out hallelujah god bless you till we meet again i feel god moving in this place hallelujah [Music] you might have would swell go ahead and honor the god of the bible on this morning amen you might as well give the king of kings and the lord of lords some praise we're resting on our feet all over the sanctuary we're standing and resting if you're visiting and wondering why why would we be standing for a man i want you to know if jesus christ himself came into this sanctuary we would all fall on our face before him worshiping him saying holy holy lord god almighty thank you jesus saints and friends but we stand to honor man and this is a man that is worthy of double honor he has proven himself to be unmovable on the things concerning the god of the bible we are privileged and blessed here at the upper room church of god in christ to call him our pastor many of you that are on facebook and youtube live you have become a part of our family and we love you and welcome you in to this service on today so without further ado saints and friends this unmovable pastor put your hands together for bishop patrick lane wooden senior let us give praises to the god of the bible the god and father of our lord and savior jesus christ who is the first and the last the beginning and the ending dear god we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you we thank you and we thank you we thank you lord for being so good and for being so kind thank you father for blessing us oh god week 69 you have been faithful and caused your face to shine upon us wherever we're glad and we're grateful to be in the sanctuary of the lord today lord you're so good you're a mighty god and we give you all of the glory and we give you all of the praise you've been faithful to us you've been better to us than we've been to you you've been better to us than we've been to ourselves and we just give you praise for being so good now god take the furtherance of the service lord i thank you for even the saints how they've gotten together with this processional and all of the effort that have gone in to trying to encourage the heart of this your servant well lord i am touched i am encouraged because only you can touch people's hearts people don't have to do anything people don't have to say anything people don't have to celebrate you and many fail to understand when people do and yet god you have touched this people and put it on their hearts and minds to encourage your servant and to show such love and kindness i pray a special blessing upon each one of them i pray of special blessing upon their families on their finances on their lives oh god keep covet away keep cancer away keep disease away bless your people everywhere oh great rock of our salvation our god and king bless us now in jesus name we pray thank god amen and amen give the god of the bible praises once more hallelujah what a mighty god we serve isn't he good amen you might be seated in times like these with everything being topsail turvey and is out out is in with the world right is wrong and wrong is right i'm glad that the god that we serve i i'm glad that i have a rock someone that i can stand on a solid foundation and he never changes he's always there every time i call him he answers every time i need him he comes through and in times like these we just want you to know that jesus is a rock in a weary lane he's a shelter in the time of storm how many know that's right jesus [Music] is [Applause] [Music] [Music] jesus is [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's a rock of shelters a rocking shotgun [Applause] [Music] [Music] um [Applause] a rock of shelters [Music] [Applause] [Music] is [Music] in [Music] but he's still [Music] racism everywhere there's trouble is [Music] [Music] [Music] yes is [Music] [Music] jesus [Laughter] ah what a mighty god we serve we give him all the praise this morning this afternoon here at noon day hallelujah hallelujah it's good to be in the house of the lord we give honor to the god of the bible our lord and savior jesus christ the first and the last the beginning and the ending i want to thank the lord the wonderful first assistant the elder john aman chukwu just did a tremendous job today amen and he chairs our anniversary committee and and i tell you the excitement that they've generated has been it has certainly touched me you know i often say people don't have to be nice and then some people get mad at other people for being nice um but i thank god for congregants and members who love me and who pray for me and who stand by the leader amen and what a powerful powerful demonstration of love that they've just demonstrated and to my second assistant elder anthony wilson amen what i said about my first certainly goes double for him just a tremendous man of god and i thank god and to all of the elders uh here today our elders and ministers we praise the lord for them and to our administrator evangelist patricia lester the job well done district missionary district missionary margaret mose we certainly praise god for her i want to thank the lord for all of the mothers and the saints of god and i praise god for my lovely lovely wife who have been with me every step of the way all 34 of these years and and uh it blessed me she marched in leading the chant women for wooden i said wow thank god and uh i the mistress of ceremony doing the uh the processional with my daughter amen and then she do a fantastic job and she just loves jesus christ and a fantastic mom and a fantastic wife to her husband and i'm proud of them to all of our mothers today god bless you mother williams mother turner to all of the mothers to my mother who is watching to the friends who have gathered here today our members as well as friends visitors thank you for coming it means the world to us that you will come and be a part of our service and i hope that you have enjoyed this service thus far god is good and uh and worthy to be praised and i uh we we love you and we appreciate your coming we realize that you could have gone uh elsewhere but you're here with us today and we pray that when you leave you will leave stronger and more determined to serve the lord amen and just to everyone everyone who is watching to everyone who is streaming my brother that i just finished talking to that i called before we came out for the service i tell you god's healing you right now god's healing there's no distance in prayer there's no distance in prayer you're one you're in one state we're in another but the lord is touching you right now as a matter of fact you with your lovely wife there with you just put your hand on your chest and just believe god and and i'm asking his wife i know they're watching just put your hand on your husband's chest and just watch god touch him and heal him and bring him out god's a healer he's a healer heal right now lord just deliver and set free in the name of jesus how many know that god's able how many know that the lord works through various mediums he's a healer he's a deliverer and it's all in the name of jesus christ praise the lord how many still love jesus celebrate jesus christ where we speak healing and blessings in jesus name thank you lord thank you thank you lord draw up cancers glory covet 19 is not too big for god and i'll tell you right now covet 19 would be in our rearview mirror if man would have just gotten out the way see we you prolonged it when you shut the churches down i'm telling you that right now spiritually speaking so anytime you shut god down the bible says cursed be the man that trusteth in man and make it flesh his arms see we close the churches and turn to the cdc uh and with with 40 to 50 of them not willing to put the vaccine in them according to tony voucher we closed god's house the house of prayer when the lord said if my people that are called by my name would humble themselves and pray we close god's house and we're still dealing with something that god can get rid of just like that and much of the reasons why we're dealing with it is number one it's a pandemic but number two it's a plan dimming [Applause] they more than proven gain of functional research was done on that virus to make it much more uh infectious yes and and whether they released it or it got away it got out and people have died but one of the things that we've done see when you turn away from the lord i'm i'm i'm like peter lord if we turn from you to whom do we turn you have the words of eternal life amen so i'm i'm grateful today uh that the lord is in control and in times like these he's still god and he's yet moving by his spirit and i want to say to those who are watching today keep your hands in the lord's hand amen because god god's got you here we are celebrating week 69. six to nine weeks back in live services and i thank the lord for his goodness his kindness and his tender mercy and yesterday at the abortion clinic you know there are people who watch and they keep count and we thank god one baby was saved yesterday thank god for that one thank god for that one thank god for that one thank you jesus thank you jesus thank you jesus two souls were saved yesterday at the food pantry and 675 people were fed this week including 375 on yesterday so we're reaching people we're reaching people we're saving lives with and saving souls with the gospel saving lives at the clinic reaching souls and feeding people food and we thank god and tonight every man every man i think it's i i don't it doesn't bother me that this is the first any uh sunday for the nfl matter of fact it makes it more more of a delight more of a delight to come back tonight i don't care who's playing at six o'clock every man worth his salt will be right here because the brethren are gathering with the women and we are covering our women in prayer in prayer in prayer we're having a prayer service amen and uh there will be no preaching we're not coming to preach we're coming to pray and we're praying for our women and uh what a marvelous thing what a marvelous thing to do together and to pray the men are going to lead out and we're praying we're praying against sicknesses we're praying against disease we're praying against covet we're praying against cancer we're praying against anything that will come against our women and we're calling on god the god of the bible and you know what i and we're going to stream it i'm not i'm not concerned about uh whether or not i'm not concerned whether or not the men will come back and pray i'm not concerned about that because we're spiritual we're spiritual you have you have to be uh the most carnal cat in town say well my team playing tonight well we want you to you stay home and watch your team because your prayers wouldn't touch get to the ceiling no way but for those who know how to get a practice and understand the importance of prayer they asked me my wife said that she said honey uh uh we were we could if we wanted to we could put the prayer off since the anniversary is next sunday and we just put the prayer off or we could reschedule i said oh no then we're going to reschedule some rescheduled anniversary you don't reschedule prayer because you don't know what you are averting when you pray when god tells you to do a thing see when god tells you to do a thing you have to move with god we there is no way week 60 and my 60th birthday were lined up on the same sunday had we not opened up the moment we were able to do so had we drug our feet for one week or two we would have missed that now here we are the anniversary is on week 70. there's no way we could have done that had we been afraid and drug our feet god is setting us up for something and i believe i believe that this prayer tonight this prayer tonight just not just for the women but for for the saints of god i believe you know i mean we are the upper room [Applause] what did they do in the upper room they prayed i believe that in praying to the god of the bible and coming back and the service will last about an hour so uh i believe that god is going to do something but but i'm really not praying because i think god is going to do something that's not the only reason see there is an intrinsic value in prayer itself see everything in god can't be a bridge to get to somewhere else you got to see the value of a thing like righteousness has to be its own reward you can't do right so that the lord will bless you because see sometimes when you do right you get fired sometimes when you do right you get your feelings hurt sometimes when you do right you get forsaken or talked about like a dog ask me sometimes that's what happens when you do right but the reward is that you did right see righteousness has to be its own reward see tell the young lady live holy and god will provide the perfect man for you she starts living holy but she can't just live holy for mr perfect to come along because he might not come you got the value holiness because it's right in and of itself amen so i'll i'll leave that alone but that's good preaching that's good preaching and uh i want to say to the bereals we're praying for you we're praying for you you're powerful man amen lost the son but he and his wife they're right here praising god carrying on in the name of the lord we're lifting up brother price he was in the eight o'clock service he laid his mother to rest yesterday but right back here in service today ready to carry on in the name of the lord god is good isaiah the 54th chapter isaiah chapter number 54. and we're going to read in your hearing the first through the 10th verse and if i didn't do it already god bless our friends online and members alike from near and far far thank god for you i want you to know i feel your prayers i feel your support and the wonderful things that you say the things that you do the kind gestures uh and i want you to know they it is a tremendous source of encouragement for this preacher there's no one who doesn't need to be encouraged amen there's no one who doesn't need to uh have someone to say i got your back amen because at the end of the day we all have gifts and treasures but we have these treasures in earthen vessels am i right about that amen if you have isaiah chapter number 54 we're going to begin reading at verse 1 it says sing o barren thou that didest not bear saying o barren woman who have not ever given birth to a child break forth into singing cry aloud thou that dittest not travailed with child you've never been in labor you've never given birth to children in fact while you while and when you were married you could not give your husband a child god says to the baron sing for more are the children of the desolate or the children of the baron then the children of the married wife saith the lord enlarge the place of thy tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of thy spare not lengthen thy cords and strengthen thy stakes for thou shall break forth on the right hand and on the left and thy seed shall inherit the gentiles and make the desolate cities to be inhabited fear not for thou shalt not be ashamed neither be thou confounded for thou shall not be put to shame for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth and shall not remember the reproach of thy widowhood anymore for thy maker is thine husband the lord of hosts is his name and thy redeemer the holy one of israel the god of the whole earth shall he be called for the lord have called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit and a wife of youth when thou wasted refused saith thy god for in a small moment i in a small moment have i forsaken thee but with great mercies will i gather thee and in a little wrath i hid my face from thee for a moment but with everlasting kindness will i have mercy on thee saith the lord thy redeemer for this is as the waters of noah unto me for as i have sworn that the waters of noah should no more go over the earth so have i sworn that i would not be wrath with thee nor rebuke thee for the mountains shall depart and the heels be removed but my kindness shall not depart from thee neither shall the covenant of my peace be removed saith the lord that hath mercy on thee for your consideration today i would like for you to peruse with me the first fourth and the sixth verse of isaiah chapter number 54. in verse 1 you see the oracle you see the prophet of god saying sing o baron the barren woman is the woman and in this case the married woman who had never given birth he tells her to sing you see that in verse 1. in verse 4 you notice at the last clause of verse 4 he tells when in the first clause he tells the woman to fear not in the last clause he says for thou shalt forget the shame of thy youth and shall not remember the reproach of thy listen to this widowhood anymore so he speaks to the baron he speaks to the widow and in verse 6 he says for the lord have called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in her spirit in verse six ladies he speaks to the woman she had not been um divorced but her husband left her she was a woman not divorced but a woman forsaken and so we see the metaphor we see three different conditions if you will three women the baron the widow and the woman [Music] forsaken or the abandoned wife i want to preach today from this subject barren [Music] widowed and forsaken no longer barren widowed and forsaken no longer and for those who are taking notes just write this down beside of it as an additional thought the blessed reversal the blessed reversal barren widowed and forsaken no longer bless us lord as we preach the word may we preach that which becometh sound doctrine and gospel and may we do no damage to your word in jesus name amen barren widowed and forsaken no longer the blessed reversal on last sunday i preached a message entitled the blessing as you know that message came from numbers chapter number 6 verses 22 through 27. the lord told me said i want you to preach and pray the blessing on my people i'm pleased to report to you that i've heard from people to whom the blessing is taking place god is good the lord bless thee and keep thee the lord maketh his face to shine upon thee the lord look upon thee god but sets his countenance on thee what a mighty god we serve he's so good and he's so kind after preaching the blessing and as you know we're in a season right now a little time where god has me i'm not in a series but i am locked into fighting the right fight the right way ephesians chapter number six and we're doing battle with the devil and we're talking about the armor the armor of god and thus far we've preached about two pieces of armor we've talked about uh the girdle the belt of truth have you launched gert about with the truth and on this past thursday night we talked about the breastplate of righteousness and that righteousness was not self-righteousness nor is it imputed righteousness but practical righteousness it is so important that that the believer who has been saved by the god of the bible and stamped righteous spiritually that practically we live out who and what we are spiritually much damage has been done to the kingdom of god because too many christians fail to live this thing practically we are saved but we curse save but we fornicate claim to know jesus but drink we you know we we went too far with the uh doctrine with the co the charisma the charismatic movement the free grace the grace gift thing to the point where uh we said it doesn't matter how you live you're saved by grace but it matters how you live and we went to the scriptures and showed where paul even encouraged them in a practical way to live right people want to see christians who are living this thing they'll hear you if you live it but if on the job you cheat like they do in the classroom you do like they do if if when you get angry you behave the way they behave then you you they may like you and you all may be cool until you try to call them out or bring correction and they'll tell you right quick hey you just like me you can't tell me anything so it is so important that practically we we live this life and having your lawns gird about with truth the believer should care about truth and being a truthful person believers ought not to spend all their time um becoming experts on how to get away with things and how to do underhanded things just not get caught no the believers should just live clean things that i used to do i don't do them anymore i came out the lord saved me and i and i want to be able to look my wife in the eye my husband in the eye i want to be able to look my children in the eye when i tell them i was in such such a place that you you were actually there truthful it matters it's supposed to matter to the believer so between talking about these pieces of armor are you following me god says preach and pronounce the blessing we did that after sunday i had a dream and in my dream i was preaching from isaiah chapter number 54. and of course in my dream and you preaching from isaiah chapter number 54 you know verse 17 has got to be in it somewhere because probably the most popular verse in isaiah chapter number 54 is verse 17. and we all know it no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper and and it should be popular because it is true and i thank god that that's in the bible because there are so many weapons that get formed against the believer formed against the church praise the lord and god says no weapon that is formed against it shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise up against thee in judgment don't worry about the people who are making accusations and all that say what you want to say with your will o may but god says every one of them thou shalt condemn and then he says and this is the heritage of the servants of the lord not servant but servants all of god's servants have this heritage because of something and i'll show you in a few minutes that god's righteous servant did the servant of the lord did something that bequeathed a heritage to every servant of the lord who carries on who carries out and continues in the legacy of god's righteous servant and his righteous servant is jesus christ and when we live for christ the lord promised a particular blessing for the saints who live for christ the six verses preceding the 17th verse of of isaiah chapter number 54 are very powerful because in verse number 11 the prophet switches his attention to from the the northern kingdom and israel uh the northern kingdom to the southern kingdom judah but jerusalem in particular and he begins to prophesy of a divine makeover a divine reversal a divine remake that god was going to do to jerusalem he says in verse 11 oh thou afflicted tossed with tempest and not comforted behold i will lay stones with fair colors and thy foundations with sapphires he says to judah even though right now you're in ruins i'm going to rebuild your wall i'm going to rebuild your infrastructure and how many know when god gets ready to rebuild the infrastructure it doesn't have to be a massive 3 trillion tax bill say amen and he says i'm going to rebuild and and listen if you if you think what god has done in in jerusalem is amazing right now and it's it's if you know anything about the history of israel it is it is a wonder it is a wonder it is amazing that israel exists that there is a place on earth today called jerusalem is a miracle in and of itself with the attacks with the things that have happened to that little tiny uh piece of land not much greater if larger than the state of florida designated by god to be the most beautiful place on earth the bible says that that jerusalem is beautiful zion is beautifully situated in the earth surrounded by enemy nations for a long time the jews were driven from their homeland but god promised he says i have made a covenant of love and kindness with you so as far as i'm concerned it's like the waters of noah i promise that those waters again would never flood the whole earth he says to zion i promise you you will never be separated from your homeland you will never not exist you will never not be a people america may be and i'm i'm being kind to mention may america is dying our great land i love this country i'm proud to be an american now i'm not i'm not with the anti-american crowd i hate this country i'm a black man living in america opposed to being a black man living anywhere else where where else do you want where else can a black man live and make what we make in america raise your hand name some places and do as well as we do overall in america in america and have the opportunities that we have here there's a reason that people fight so hard to get into america praise the lord and and and i say this from time to time and people get mad but you know you have they're your emotions get any way you want i don't care the wrong things are told to african americans other people come here and prosper hispanics again they own banks every time everywhere you look now drive home at five o'clock in the afternoon in the rush hour traffic i'll be looking for the black folk in the cars see what's going on drive past work sites see what's happening where are our people now if you go to any abortion clinic you can find a steady stream of them every saturday going down there to kill them babies but but notice this and now they're flying uh afghanista afghanis into the country dropping them off now let's watch that development bringing people in here who do not respect our laws do not respect our culture women they don't view you let christianized men view women all women should love christianity because it was christianity that raised the value of the woman to where she is today it is the cr it is christian teachings that says giving honor unto the wife as unto the weaker vessel it is christian teachings that says thou shall not lay with mankind as with womankind it is in the bible where we find solomon as and in the song of solomon as he described the beauty of his wife and how precious she is it is in proverbs that we find the writings and the teachings of the virtuous woman oh yeah it's in the bible where we find jesus dying on the cross dying on the cross dying for the sins of everybody and he interrupted death and said wait a minute whoa whoa whoa whoa whoa i can't die yet hey john john john said yes he said hey man take care of my mother and say to mary john's got you until i come back then he went on in showing a son how to treat his mother don't get me started don't get me started it's in the bible it's in the bible when men are taught chivalry and to work and to respect the woman it's in the bible that fathers are taught not to provoke their children yes we're disciplined but but you don't go overboard yeah that's good preaching and now we're bringing people in we're bringing people in whose culture and the books they've been reading teach men to beat the woman to flog her oh yeah oh my tell you to go to your room and tell and you can't come out for a week and you know what they go in this state the cultures are different and we're bringing them in and we're dropping them off right here in america our country's in trouble the debt load is one that uh them little children barley boys would you all stand a little barley y'all stand up you see them fine have some young men them boys their children children will be paying the debt back that we're accumulating now and we're and we're still trying to add trillions to that debt the dollar is in trouble and and and this kind this kind of spending can't go on forever see the problem with socialism is as we move you think you all might be saying as we move to more of a socialist form of government problem with socialism is sooner or later you run out of other's people's money but the government gives me free money every month no no no that money comes from someone else and most of the the numbers that they give us are talking and they talk about people in poverty those numbers are not accurate because when they talk about people in poverty they do not include grants and other government help monthly handouts they don't count that as income so you may actually be uh in terms of what you work and make live underneath the poverty line but by the time you finish all of the other freebies that you can apply for oh man you got a good thing going you're doing better than most people who are middle class why do you think it's so hard right now to find people who will work i went to i went to uh i went to uh chick-fil-a yesterday i went there around about two o'clock clothes sign on it due to no help so i walk across the street well let me go over here if i can't get some chicken let me at least get a cup of coffee went to a starbucks clothes no help i had to go to two or three different when i finally pulled a door and the thing opened i i walked in the restaurant told the people thank god for you when you start paying people not to work the country's in trouble y'all don't like this kind of preaching our country has turned its back on god and uh there's so much i can say on it and uh and and and by the way now you can never in this life call former president donald trump a bully if you don't call joe one from what he said the other day now you talking about bullying the president of united states telling people we've been our patience is running out we're not on what on whether or not we let you put a shot in us i mean i didn't know we uh elected a a king i thought we elected the president now whoever wrote that speech for him he didn't write it you know he didn't write it because if you're talking about something that important why don't you stand and take questions why don't you explain to the people what what you mean you can't just dictate and then walk off unless you're not quite unless you can't defend your argument if anybody want to discuss any of this with me make an appointment i'll be glad to because i love to talk about stuff like this because i know where i'm coming from and um and when we talk you'll notice that i won't scream i won't holler i don't get mad and all that kind of stuff you know some people because they can't defend their argument they call you names they get mad and they they get emotional that's a sign that they can't defend that position but we're being bullied and americans now the man said he was going to be a united campaign on uniting america now he's dividing people on the basis of vaccines he said that this is a this is a um a pandemic of the unvaccinated i got this uh notice from um someone the other day in our national church someone wrote in and said my family and my family eight people have coveted seven were fully vaccinated two of the fully vaccinated are in icu one is about to have the plug pulled have been on a ventilator for 15 days the lone unvaccinated person is now in the hospital but the rest of them that got sick are doing better it closes with a very good line covet makes no sense it hits hard and can kill you even if you're vaccinated this wasn't from a politician it's from a regular person whose family went through the point is you better put your faith in the lord that's the point see that that's that's that's what we used to preach that's what we used to preach that's what we used to tell people matter of fact i shouldn't tell you all this but i'm working on a sermon right now i shouldn't tell you entitled i still preach what i used to preach i'm not changing my gospel see i still have the same messiah same savior same bible god is still a healer he's still a waymaker and if you live is because the lord let you live and when we die is because god said it's time to go home whether you have the shot or not my faith is not in a vaccinated status or a unvaccinated status my faith is in the loud [Applause] well i'm vaccinated so i'm safe safe from what you're saying from that bullet that may go through your head you're not safe from cancer you're not safe from all the other conditions that kill a hundred and fifty thousand people every day pre-covet eight thousand every day in this country pre-covet before we know knew anything about covert while they were doing gain or function testing to make the thing uh worse than what it would have been people are dying you know why because the bible says it is once appointed unto man to die and after death the judgment that's true that's bible but the saints used to believe that to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord [Applause] i'm so glad i got saved when i did i'm gonna move on i'm spending too much time on this i'm gonna move i'm so glad i got saved when i did i'm glad i gotta say mother you know i can still hear the late elder herbert bullock singing oh heaven heaven is mine don't you want to go to heaven heaven is mine and if he sung that today oh heaven heaven and mine don't you want to go to heaven saying say no cut that song we don't want anything about going to heaven that's the problem that's the problem that's why so many christians are depressed the bible says if in this life only we have hope in christ we are above all men most miserable our greatest joy is not supposed to be tied to the lord giving us a new house a new suit or a new car our greatest joy is supposed to be tied to the blessed hope which is the rapture of the church of god which is in christ at his return [Applause] ah let me move quicker but i'm just telling you he says he says jerusalem i'm gonna i'm gonna redo you and you know what in revelations america you you you have an expiration date i hate to say it but you do that's right we do we do but jerusalem doesn't the bible says in revelations 21 and 2 1 and 2 21 verse 1 through 2 and i saw a new heaven and a new earth for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away and there was no more sea and i john saw look at this the holy city new jerusalem coming down from god out of heaven prepared as a bride adorned for her husband god says i promise you jerusalem i promise you i'm going to redo you i'm going to make you over but you have a glorious future are you praying for me and he says to jerusalem not only will i bless you but i will bless your citizens and all thy children shall be taught of the lord and great shall be the peace of thy children in righteousness thou shalt be established and thou shalt be far from oppression god's going to do a reversal the word oppression there that the word there that's tyranny and we're living in a day where tyrants are out the council culture is a tyrant you say something that they don't like and they try to have you de-platformed put you off of facebook put you off of youtube and there's a lot of social public shaming going on i want to say this to you you can't move me to do anything you want me to do by trying to embarrass me on social media you can post whatever you want some of these cryptid messages all that stuff uh if you if you want patrick you want me to to move like cement try something like that cause i don't care what people read on social media well i got uh three hundred thousand friends okay we got three million makes no difference to me saints have began to do on social media what god told you to do to the individual the bible says if you think someone has an ought against you go to them show me in the bible what the bible says post it come on after service i give you a thousand dollars cash show me in the bible where the bible says let your first move to be the posted you know that is that is carnality at its best carnality and cowardiceness and then when you call them on it oh i wasn't talking about you that's carnality that's calling out now you can try to dress it up you can try to dress up all you want but that's carnality if someone is doing something to you the bible says go to them if they won't hear you the bible says get some witnesses and go to them if they won't hear them bible says bring it before the church if they won't hear the church the bible says if the church told the church to put them out now that that's what we need to post well the the tyranny look at how people's jobs are being threatened and by the way if it is as bad as the president say it is and if it's so necessary it will take your job if you don't get the shot putting pressure on you and all that kind of stuff how did in less than 24 hours the whole post office get exempt the whole the uh the whole postal service don't nobody in the postal service have to get a shot they're exempt from the whole thing now that's over 600 000 people now either it's that bad or it's not the whole post office these are these are the kind of questions that you should be asking i think i think they're reasonable questions they're government workers praise the lord they're government workers now whether or not you want to get a shot that's your business i don't talk to people about that don't call me asking me about it you didn't ask me about the last shot you got did you so i don't want to know about this one that's your business but my point is i'm not talking about shock as much as i'm talking about this tyranny saying it's not about your rights it is it is it's about our rights and it's about the law now let me prophesy to you you you are seeing a precursor you're seeing the the the foundations being laid to promote the mark of the beast you're seeing how they're going to do it threaten people's jobs threaten people's livelihood threaten people's lives and i'll tell you what's going what's necessary the people need to stand together [Applause] that's what need to happen cause you can't you you can't fire everybody well if my workers don't uh they don't have a certain status i'm gonna let them all go all the workers need to walk out right then he'll drop that you'll drop that because you can't run you can't run a restaurant and cook the food and buff the tables and wash the dishes and answer the phone and escort people to their seat you can't do it you can't run a business i know i'd be in trouble up here in my administration if the ladies who worked for me all them walk out at one time i i wouldn't last a day trying to answer the phone trying to answer the door trying to answer uh fedex up ups all of them praise the lord emails coming in texts coming in this coming and that oh lord you find me just holding the altar saying lord i can't take this it's too much it's too much are you praying for me i got to move on but but see this tyranny and god gives us a promise he says thou shalt be far from oppression don't you be afraid god's got your job god's got your life he has everything in his hands and he's coming back he's coming back to get us but until he comes he's still a keeper he's still a waymaker he's still god he's yet god [Applause] thank you and he promised them you will be far from oppression and i want to say to the believers out there who are watching don't you be afraid see these are times that test men's soul and it's time for the saints to do like everyone else it's time for the saints to dig in dig in see we're not going to get anywhere being wish-washy and uh uh docile and oh my we have the we we we've become uh liquid praise the lord we whatev whichever way they turn us that's the way we flow no no no no no it's time to make your stance it's time to make your stance and i found out with god if you stand he'll stand with you he's just looking for somebody who will stand praise the lord moses stood noah stood elijah stood elisha stood daniel stood nehemiah stood see when you go down the list you got to stand john the baptist stood who's on the lord's side he promised us we will be far from tyranny and then he says and look at this this is for your job and from terror that is from ruin nobody wants to lose their house their cars nobody wants to lose all that they work for and that's what the devil's trying to threaten you with with ruin terror ruined god will take care of his own amen and from ruin for it shall not come near thee it shall not come near thee and then he lets us know that he's really in charge he says behold they shall surely gather together says now they're gonna they're gonna be conspiracies now people say i don't believe in conspiracies the greatest conspiracy of them all is the conspiracy that convinced people that there are no conspiracies that's the greatest one once you've gotten convinced that there are no conspiracies now you know where the devil wants you conspiracy is mentioned at least five times in the bible they conspired against jesus they conspired against jesus they conspired against paul they conspired against the apostles and i want you to know right now somebody's conspiring against you they're conspiring against me the antichrist the mystery of iniquity paul says it's all that is already at work is a conspiracy all antichrist is a conspiracy they're conspiring and god says yes they shall gather together he said but don't worry about it i'm not in it he says but not by me i'm not in it see if god is not in it then you ain't got to fight it because it'll come to naught anyhow if the lord is not in it then it's already defeated it's like the snake with his head cut off the rest of it is still the the tail is moving but he's dead said they're going to gather but not by me and then he says whosoever shall gather together against thee shall file for thy sake he says i'm in charge i created the smith that blow the coals into fire that bring forth and the instrument of his work he says i'm the one who is in control of the uh people uh who make weapons i'm the one i'm the one who uh created the waster to destroy having said that i want you to know no weapon no weapon that is formed against you shall prosper and every tongue that shall rise up against you in judgment let them talk let them talk every tongue that shall rise up against you in judgment god said thou shall condemn for this is the heritage of the servants of the law this is for all of us you ought to grab your heritage and your inheritance and say oh god i believe let me move on from this or i'm preaching verses that's not even in my text you know that's not proper amen but see the uh this was about jerusalem's glorious future god's gonna make it over but in verse one through ten are you praying for me verse one through ten he speaks to the northern kingdom he speaks to israel at large and this doesn't exclude the southern kingdom because god knew even in the days of uh the prophet isaiah that the day would come when israel would no longer be divided into northern and southern kingdoms as it is today it's not divided there's one israel even when jesus walked the earth there was one uh israel that was samaria but we we and and and and the land of samaria was the home of the northern kingdom because israel had it first and for ii king chapter 17 you see what happens the assyrians calls the uh conquered the israelis and they repatriated the land with samaritans and that's how it became the land of samaritan samaria but god brought it back so let me show you something here in um i won't i want to mention this this is just for the bible buffs out there and we're getting ready to take off in a minute and we're going home because we got to come back tonight and pray but for you bible buffs and i realize not everybody is everyone ought to be y'all love the bible you ought to love the construction of the bible the nuances yes the hyphens the commas the colons and semicolons everything that has anything to do with the bible you ought to love it the mood of the bible the mood of the prophet shifts abruptly from chapter 53 to chapter 54. and the and there's a good reason for this shift something happened in chapter 53 that is the cause for the joy of chapter 54 that gives us joy today what happened it was something that god's righteous listen to this servant did not servants [Music] but his servant did something that guaranteed the glorious future for israel for judah and for us and we see it in chapter 53 verse 10 it says yet it pleased the lord to bruise him for he have put him to grief when thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin jesus died for us he shall see his seed he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the lord shall prosper in his hands he shall see the travail of his soul and shall be satisfied he's talking about what christ will do on the cross for us i said earlier today and i'll say to you be careful when you tell your story always link your story to god's story see we're quick to say neighbor if you knew me there's nothing wrong with it maybe if you knew my story you would understand my glory but your personal testimony is not the source of your joy it's what christ did for us jesus died the lord told me warn the believers about this because people are moving away from christ's story and so we think our testimony is more interesting but it's not what jesus did on the cross unless you tie your what happened to you to what jesus did then nobody will get saved just because you were born in hardship or just because you made it it's got to be tied to what jesus did on the cross he shall see the travail of his soul and he shall be satisfied and by his knowledge shall my righteous servant singular justify many for he shall bear their iniquities therefore will i divide him a portion with the great and the spoil with the look at this i will divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the portion with the strong saints because he have poured out his soul unto death because jesus died for us i can't thank him enough for dying on the cross for my sins and he was numbered with the transgressors and bear the sins of many and made intercessions for the transgressions jesus interceded on our behalf and because of what god's righteous servant did because of what he would do as isaiah prophesied we find the prophet in chapter 54 shifting from the pain of the and the death of the righteous servant but the results of his death brings forth joy to the baron so he shifts from the gloominess of 53 and he goes to the joy of 54 and he says to of all people the baron he says sing sing o barren woman sing i ain't got nothing to sing about yes you do and notice this he didn't say you had to be able to sing saying god you don't have to win a grammy to sing he said just sing everybody's got something to sing about everybody's got something to shout about if nothing else you sing because christ triumphed on your behalf in isaiah 53 and 11 you see as he that he mentions the righteous servant in 54 and 17 he mentions the inherit the heritage of his servants because of what jesus did we have this heritage are you praying for me and so as a result of this uh incredible triumph he prophesies that a new age is coming a new age and the proper response to the new age is joyous praise to make the point he uses three metaphors a barren woman a widow and a forsaken woman and he promises all three that in this new age the reason you should sing is that no matter how low your situation may be i promise you that a reversal is coming that gives you hope won't be this way always there is something that god is up to in times like these we need to be reminded that the god of the bible is in control and one of the things that helps us and i can't go into it due to time but if you read at your leisure second kings chapter 16 it's about judah and second kings chapter 17 that records the fall of the northern kingdom and second kings chapter 18 the challenge of sennacherib and how god raised up hezekiah and gave him victory when you read these things and then you read in ii kings chapter 21 the wicked reign of the of king manasseh then you see the context that the prophet isaiah prophesied in isaiah when he spoke these words the society of uh the northern kingdom and of judah was very much like america is today one of the things that they were doing was they were boarding babies left and right in the northern kingdom they were feeding their children to the false god molech molech is the god of convenience i can't get any help he's the guard that they thought controlled the weather and they felt that if they would just sacrifice their children to molec their lives would get better 98 of all abortions are had because the child is a nuisance when they talk about rape and incest rape and incest accounts for less than one and one and a half percent of all abortions all of them less than one percent the preacher criticized the texas law bishop paul martin said to the people of texas shame on you what kind of bishop would say that because because they passed the law you know in six weeks the heart begins to beat in the baby the heartbeat starts so in the state of texas i sure we do it in north carolina in the state of texas they pass the law where once that heart stops beating you can't kill the baby now what christian would have a problem with that what bishop would have a problem with that one person who claims to be sanctified would have an issue with that and yet we find sanctified folk who have issues with stuff like that and i believe saints that we've made a big mistake i believe that we're putting political parties ahead of our christianity you can't be a democrat before you are a christian you can't be a republican before you are a christian we're christians first praise the lord now christianity ought to govern everything and uh if anybody passes something into law that violates your christian beliefs you ought not to support that that's why that's why i am a registered non-affiliate and independent praise the lord ain't no way in this world i could be a registered uh democrat with them supporting same-sex marriage supporting abortion supporting transgenderism supporting uh uh socialism supporting things that the bible says wrong now how you gonna be saved sanctified and filled with the holy ghost and then support things that god says are wrong somebody actually wrote me and said well what about the republicans i wrote them back i said i'm not a republican but i asked them i said can you tell me one law that they passed that was against your christian values write me write me write me call me call me call me hey i hadn't got any takers yet i said one day publicly here i said it publicly and i said it to my friends online nobody's called me yet when uh donald trump was president i said i'm not talking about his personality i'm not talking about his tweets not talking about his language what i'm talking about is one thing his policies would you tell me one policy that he promoted just one i don't want to just one that was against biblical teachings nobody's called me yet nobody's called me yet nobody's written me written me but as soon as the man who's in office got in now we started to pay for aborted babies overseas as soon as he got that the man who's in there now who said while he was running that if a nine-year-old wanted to get a sex change operation that that child should not be discriminated against that's wickedness what kind of parent would let that nine-year-old boy get his penis removed cause he thinks at nine he's a girl you better be concerned about what he's gonna think when he's ten [Applause] someone the child should be supported and a person can say stuff like that and still have your support something's wrong we got to be christians first christians first somebody better pray for me yes sir we're in a time we're in a wicked day we're just like they were when isaiah prophesied this the children were being aborted in the streets and they brought false gods they put they took the brazen altar that was in the sanctuary and moved it to a less conspicuous place and put an altar to a false god in the main place and we're living in a danger where america gives more support more respect to the religion of our enemies than they do to the religion that made this country great we pay more we give more respect to islam and buddhism and all these other isms especially in hollywood they give respect they they show the muslim on television and in the movies in a respectful way they show the buddhists in a respectful way but they're gonna make a fool like the christian every time that's the way of the world that's the way of the world and that's the way it was when the prophet isaiah prophesied and said baron you better sing why what baron baron now he's using women as a metaphor but he's not talking about the female per se he's talking about the nation and i want to say to my wonderful black community i'm a proud african-american male i'm a proud black man i wouldn't have it any other way i don't know life any other way i don't i'm not white i don't envy the white man i imagine he's glad to be white but he's no glad her to be white that i am to be black and i imagine you ladies are glad to be female but you're no more glad that you're a female than i am that i'm a male i'm so glad god got it right the first time the bible says woe be unto him who strives with his makeup my maker didn't make a mistake when he made me the way he made me and i thank god for my maker and i thank god for what he did but i'm telling you the wrong things has been said to us so because we're bearing not that we're not giving birth but we're barren why can't we grow beyond 13 of the population the hispanics are growing others are growing but black folk has stopped growing we're killing our children in the streets and what the abortion clinic doesn't do we do to each other it's time to turn from this stuff and turn back to god come on back to church and then when you get to the church house how about preacher preaching the bible how about telling people what god said how about declaring thus saith the lord you don't hear what i'm saying god said to the baron you better sing he said don't just sing but break forth into singing break out sing like you sing when you're in the shower sing like you're singing when you're in a place and you don't think anybody can hear you and when you sing he said cry loud make sure you sing and you sing loud now you have to wonder why would he tell the baron to sing because you see in uh biblical times the childless woman a woman who was childless she was scorned she was made fun of and in many cases she was replaced by what is called a secondary wife and that secondary wife would have the children for the husband and he's having all the babies by the secondary wife you saw what happened with abraham sarah and hagar hagar and sarah got along until hagar became a secondary wife her spirit changed because she delivered something to abraham that sarah couldn't deliver and it divided the house sarah didn't like her position and god said to the barren woman who was placed in a position of disadvantage the barren woman who was dismissed by her husband the barren woman who because she had no children and had no husband then therefore in her old age she was vulnerable because she had nobody to look out for her and she looked over and there was the secondary wife with all the children she's got all of the support she's living in the house she's sleeping in the bed everything is going her way when the legitimate wife because she couldn't have a baby she's out in the cold she's afraid she's vulnerable she's messed up what i had the lord said i know you are in a bad way but a divine refresher is about to take place so i'm telling that barren woman you may as well begin to sing because i'm getting ready to do something miraculous i wonder is there anybody here who will break out in praise right now even though you don't see it the lie told me to tell you that a change a reversal are turning it around it's on the way yeah if you believe it claim it for yourself claim it for yourself claim it for yourself if you felt like you were on the outside looking in claim deliverance for yourself if you feel like you were misused mistreated left up throw up your hands and praise the lord because the lord the lord is gonna turn it around yeah yeah if you believe it let me hear you praise him ah i want you to know he's not gonna do a 360 because if he does a 360 degree turn you will end up where you started but god is doing a 180. whereas you were headed off the cliff somebody give god praise all over the a praise church and get somebody to dance with you can you believe [Music] [Applause] [Music] point at your neighbor and say neighbor receive this baron baron sing god said sing god said praise me [Music] so [Music] [Applause] [Music] hey [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] him say [Music] i heard him tell the baron he said baron you're gonna need a relative hold on baron you're gonna need a real estate agent he said ow verse two he said enlarge the place of your tent and let them stretch forth the curtains of thine inhabitation spare not lifting your cores and strengthen your states you need to get a new house you're gonna need a bigger place gonna prophesy to somebody tell them you're gonna need a bigger plane life because i heard the lord sir in verse three baron you're gonna break forth on the right hand break forth on the left hand children are coming from everywhere children i know you never gave birth but i'm going to bless you with children everywhere yeah i wonder can i get somebody to praise the lord for the blessing to praise the lord for what's coming in the midst of all this trouble in the midst of all his strife god made a promise yes he did can you say that [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i wish i could get about i wish i'd get about 10 people who said well preacher i'll tell you to be honest in my situation i just can't see that happening i wonder if i'll get about 10 who are there to just praise him like they even though you can't see it you praise him anyhow because if you don't see it before you sin you'll never see it but if you can see it [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] turn around turn around [Music] abraham turn it for me [Music] in this [Music] hallelujah in your body wow [Music] no more i was [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] ah somebody said well no promises for today galatians 4 27 says for it is written rejoice thou barren that did it's not bear i'm in galatians now break forth and cry thou that this is not travail for the desolate have many more children and she that have a husband now we brethren as as isaac was are the children of promise but as then he that was born after the flesh persecuted him that was born after the spirit even so it is now nevertheless what saith the scripture it says cast out the born born woman and her son for the bond bound woman born woman shall not be heir with the son of the free woman so then brethren we talking to the galatians and not of the children of the bondwoman but of the free galatians were gentiles galatians were not jews and yet here's paul telling them that we're all of the free woman because when you're in jesus you're free indeed how many are glad to be free how many are glad to be a part of this divine reversal with the time with my time running out he went he goes from the baron he goes from the baron to the widow and he tells the widow and in those societies the only woman whose faith was worse than the baron was the widow the widow was in bad shape widows had nobody to protect them widows had no husbands widows often had no children the widow had no one ah and yet god spoke to the widow and said to the widow fear not for thou shall not be ashamed neither shall thou be confounded for thou shalt not be put to shame notice how he says it you won't be ashamed don't be confused you're not going to be put to shame you won't even remember the shame of your youth and thou and shall not remember the reproach of thy widowhood anymore the pain from that god says i'm i'm going to bless you where you won't even remember and he says widow for thy maker is the husband what she's a widow your maker is your husband the lord of hosts is his name and check this out and he is thy redeemer i'm going to redeem you from widowhood [Applause] and who's going to do it the god of the whole earth is what he shall be called and then he moves to the last woman and that's the woman ladies whose husband he hadn't divorced her but he left her he forsook her you you really see in this hosea who was a contemporary of isaiah and gomer god told hosea a woman who was a she was a woman she was an unfaithful wife and god told the prophet to marry her and the the picture here was how god deals with israel see because god is faithful god is faithful but israel wasn't god is faithful to us but many times we're not faithful to him and in order to get us where we should be sometimes you have no choice but to have to step back and he says you were like an estranged woman he says verse six for the lord called thee as a woman forsaken and grieved in spirit a wife of youth so she's married when thou was refused that is cast off saith thy god and then he says in verse seven for a small moment i forsook you but with great mercies will i gather thee and a little in a little raft i heard my face from you yes for a moment and the assyrians conquered the land look at god views time but with everlasting kindness will i have mercy on thee and saith the lord thy god and for the time that they spent in assyrian bondage look at all the years that they've been free when you compare the time it was just a few years so god says it's just like the waters of noah i'm never going to leave you like i left you damn i promise you that and they exist today because of god's covenant he turned it for all three women these metaphors baron sing widow your widowhood is over hey girl your husband came back and when he came home he came right and you received him because you in this case he had no choice but to leave because she wouldn't do right because god is perfect god couldn't have forsaken them for a moment and been at fault because he's god but he had to forsake his own because they wouldn't hear him then when they got to where he would hear him they would hear him he came back the point is he did reversals for all three and he promised he told me to tell you that in this time see i don't want to wait until it looks like it's over that's that's what leaders do leaders lead sometimes we say things that you don't understand but even if you don't understand them don't talk about us because we don't arrive at the same place at the same time you're not the watchman so it stands to reason that the watchmen can see things that the regular member can't see so if the watchman says something you don't you don't go home and over the dinner table have roasted watchmen you say man i'm gonna be on the lookout for that and you watch and see i want to tell you why we're in the throes of this while the terran tyranny of the white house is going on why the lbgt and all these people have gone crazy i mean the same day you get on people for not taking the shot they sue the state of texas for trying to save babies um lord help us god says in the midst of all this i'm doing a reversal i'm going to bless you [Applause] hallelujah and i believe it the same god who had brought us to where we are today week 69 who would have thought we had no way of knowing when we came out the blocks what would be everybody's talking what wouldn't got them doing now they're crazy they all die 69 weeks later we're here in the name of the lord [Applause] and we're not here because we've been so righteous we've been so intelligent we're so smart none of that stuff that'll get you killed we're here because god is good and the lord is merciful [Applause] and he wants to bless you he wants to turn it around if there's some things that you want god to reverse for you [Music] you need from him some things you can't turn there's nothing that he can't turn people concerned about their jobs people concerned about how this new tyranny this new pressure is going to play out people are concerned hallelujah i want to challenge you today to put your concerns in the hands of the lord we're going we're going to cast today we're going to throw the bible says casting all your care upon him for he careth for you if i'm talking to you stand at your see i want to pray for you if i'm talking to you god turn this for me god turn this for me hallelujah god turn this for me hallelujah of course just there but to come just happen to come amen somebody got to know they sent this note up here okay hallelujah father in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name in jesus name lord you're the god of all flesh you're the god who made heaven and earth you're the god who will not suffer our foot to be moved you're the keeper and the lifter of our head and you're also the god who promised in the midst of the turmoil that was taking place during the reigns of the kings of both judah and israel then jotham's reign and ahaz rain hezekiah's reign other kings when sin was entrenched in the land and the people had become spiritually destitute yet through hosea and amos and isaiah and others you prophesied of a reversal god reacts that you perform a reversal in the lives of the saints in the lives of the people who are gathered here now in the name of jesus the lord told me to tell you he's turning things just trust him those who are streaming those who are watching the prayer there's no distance in prayer the prayer goes the way you are today god's turning things god's watching right now in the name of jesus hallelujah god we grab it god we believe it we hold on to it in the name of jesus you know what we need you know where we are we actual god we ask oh god that your glory prevailed that your glory prevailed and that this divine oh my reversal that causes the baron to sing that causes the widow to no longer be ashamed that causes this strained the estranged woman to be comforted that kind of reversal we thank you for it right now we receive it and we sing to you and we praise you and we give you all of the glory in jesus name amen give the lord praises right now hallelujah is this the little girl praise the lord oh bless his name what a mighty god what a mighty god amen she's scheduled to depart for basic training congratulations hallelujah the blessings of the lord be upon your life god keep you ashante god keep you and bless you and the lord calls his face to shine upon you god keep you safe even as you go and serve this country god bless your mama and your folk who are going who are proud of you excited and they're weeping and scared at the same time watch over lord in the name of jesus cause your face to shine upon her and it is so god cover you cover you with his blessings in jesus name amen amen the lord bless you and bless you to come back whole and safe and silent in jesus name give god praises right now hallelujah it's time to bless the lord by the way of giving i see god working it out for me right now i see god and he's working it out for me [Music] i see god working it out for me right now i see god working it out for me he's working and working working and working working working and working working and working he's working and working working and working he's working and working working and working working it out for me i see god working it out for me right now i see the last [Applause] our friends online.com [Music] working and working [Music] he's working and working working and working it out for me you see the lord fixing it [Music] [Applause] [Music] he's [Music] [Music] who's making it better and that's a fact he's working it out for me he's working he's moving this and he's moving that working it and out everything he's working it out for me and all around and working it out for me right now i'm glad that i know that he's working and working working it out for me i see god working it out for me right now [Music] hold your right hand up father bless this offering bless our gifts bless those who are giving on life bless the saints in the sanctuary multiply multitudes of blessings back to the people in jesus name amen [Music] he worked it [Music] for my mouth [Music] [Music] for my friends [Music] fixed it for my leader yeah [Music] he fixed it he keeps fixing fix he keeps working and working everywhere i go [Music] he keeps going good god almighty [Music] i'm so glad he's working working it out for me he's working it out for me and he's working it out for you and he's working and working and working going to the hospital and he's healing then going up marilyn wayne and he's healing up there [Music] he's working whoa and i'm glad about it yes i am [Music] father bless this offering in jesus name amen we're going home we're coming back tonight [Music] after service we're going home sometimes i'm not talking about business now but sometimes some of the members who talk to you for 45 minutes after service won't come back for sunday night they're tied up all your time well i got to be back at six cause i'm praying i want to pray for our women i want the women folk to stand up look at these precious sisters we're praying that god covers every one of you and that god take care of you from the crown of your head to the soles of your feet god bless you and god bless yours god keep you god keep yours i want jesus to hold your hand i want jesus to help you sting i want jesus to lead the way i want to keep you every day just watch over through the night i just want him to shine his light oh yeah i [Music] our senior citizens are leaving first [Music] thank you for coming join us next sunday right here for the anniversary of our unmovable pastor bishop patrick lane would have seen you make sure you get here early you want to be in the sanctuary no later than 10 50. amen oh young adults we have a table out in the lobby if you're 18 to 40 18 to 40 please meet us at the table we're having a social that's taking place the 80s and 90s social that's taking place later in the month and we want you to attend please meet the young ladies at the table in the lobby thank you you

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