Sunday Morning Worship | The Power of Praise | 04.26.20

[Music] it's crystal Castillo and I am Larry Brown I am tearing Pittman and I am ocbs I am Aaron Watkins and I am Elsevier Trina Latour and I am my name is Darryl Thomas even my name is Steve Buscemi and I am on your brand and I am OCD M my name is Jeff with Scott I am o CBL sometimes the G I'm the associate pastor fellowship and I miss you and I am OCD M [Music] what depression discouragement despair often brings is distorted information Elijah is by himself depression gets worse if there's nobody to change your see if you feeling sorry for yourself and you're talking to yourself that's a bad conversation for yourself you already feeling sorry and there's nobody to talk to but you about you regarding you to tell you what you ought to do and you aren't in a place to even hear you correctly then your discussion with yourself is helping yourself to become worse off about you so god then enters the picture and tells him like you tell me how you feel stop talking to yourself till you talk to yourself you were getting depressed or suicidal start talking to me okay now I'm gonna show you the wind in the rain and all that stuff y'all talk to me cuz you talking to you it's killing you kill you stop talking you to you and y'all talk to me God has an angel for you he's got a person for you he has himself for you he gave realize you all three of those to give him a supernatural experience to lift him out of his depression and one of the reasons that the church exists is to have people available in your life when you are down who can embrace you minister to you lift you up and he can use you to do the same thing for somebody else because when we are depressed we need another perspective that doesn't deny the reality of how we feel but what it does is double let you live [Music] good morning Oh's tvf church we are glad to be able to do another Sunday worshiping with you another Cathedral different rooms gonna give you another another vibe but it's a still family it's still the same field for everybody who is a member of ocbfs welcome back for everybody's here who's here for the very first time globally we want you to know that we are excited that you are here with us we want to worship with you today we want you to experience God in just a few moments we're gonna hear a new message from from my dad who has been just pumping out new messages week by week to encourage us through this time and he's been reminding us recently that we have no need to fear and that our hope is alive so if you believe in say this [Music] [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] freedom [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] raise and hope is rise Jesus even through my pain [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] because I because [Music] well [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] ah [Music] all right listen I know that our church we haven't been able to do this because we haven't been in the physical room but what I believe that our church is so good at is making people feel welcome just making people feel like we're not this big monster Church so I think that we should do it this way if you are visiting Oh cliff Bible fellowship for the very first time and you are on YouTube or Facebook I want you to let our church family know in the comments that you are visiting this week for the first time and knows to be a family let's go find somebody in those comments and do what we do at the church make these people feel so welcome that are visiting our church who can't necessarily get here physically I'm even when we're meeting together y'all make them feel welcome so y'all first time visitors tell us in the comments that you're here for the first time a tocbs family let's do what we do so well alright find them right now I'm gonna sing this course one more time here we go I hope [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] he's coming all the clouds kings and kingdoms will bow every chain will break it's broken hasta Claire his braids [Music] [Music] me [Music] open up the gauge McQuaid before come on Eclipse finger with me the guy who comes to save the guy who comes to say [Music] [Music] to ring with power every day [Applause] Wow [Music] [Applause] who can stop the 100 [Music] Oh [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] with [Music] Lord we are thankful for your presence in our lives we are grateful we are grateful for you even in this time of of chaos may be reminded that you fight for us and that you are here and we ask that you would meet us here in the same way you've done week after week year after year showing us your plans showing us your purpose for us for those hearts who are home right now God all of us are as the hearts that are home but we are a part of this family got out of believers I pray that you remind us that you are working that you are working in our hearts and in our lives we pray for our pastor I pray for my dad as he juggles a lot of things in his life in his heart right now and still studies to make sure that we have a new message every week I pray that you pray a special blessing on him in his life and I ask you God that you would meet him here and that you would meet all of us here again the same way you always have we are grateful for you of God can't go back I can't control what's the matter with me but I know here in there is the place where you promise [Music] I'm now dinner let's go kaha will you meet me here ksama it's all you will you leave me here again as I walk as I walked [Music] like [Music] come on bless you [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Oh meet me here again [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] come police beer drop away [Music] the spam not [Music] [Applause] [Music] this beer [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] oh come on [Music] come on try it with this thing I'm not it [Music] will you make me here again [Music] it's all you your baby here [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] meet us a change made us hit you we need you here I need Thee Oh I need thee every my Savior oh so needy oh I need every hour I need Thee Oh pants my Savior I come sue me [Music] amen one of my favorite portions of Scripture is in second chronicles in second chronicles chapter 20 and in this passage the king of Judah King Jehoshaphat is being attacked on all sides not by one army ended by two but by three armies who have formed an alliance against him and that's kind of how many of us feel right now just kind of feel like we've got stuff coming at us from all sides but as he's being attacked and it says that he feels very afraid because of what's happening it gets to about verse twelve or so of this chapter and he says Lord we are powerless against this great army and we don't know what to do but our eyes are on you I love that verse so much I love that prayer our eyes are on you that's what exalting our God is all about it's about taking our attention intentionally off of everything that's causing more fear and anxiety and you know what you concentrate on is what's gonna grow it's gonna be exalted it's gonna be larger so today let today sort of be your reset where you remind yourself that even though you feel powerless and even though you may have no clue what you're gonna do remember to keep your eyes on him again we welcome you to oh click Bible fellowship today online we're so glad that you're joining us we want to make sure that not only those who are a part of this local church but all of you know exactly what is happening through ou CBF ministries so that you can have the opportunity to be ministered to even when we're not meeting online on Sundays in this way so there's so many things happening in the life of our church you get an email regularly if you remember here at Oak Cliff and we want to encourage you to open up that email you've got to read the email and all the things that have been written there to just remind you of the things that are happening all week long through our church so that you can get involved remember the church is not just about a Sunday morning meeting it's never been about just having a Sunday morning meeting it's always been about the living breathing pulsing body of Christ Monday Monday through Saturday infiltrating the community and all walks of life and your family's being affected by what we'd hear on these days that we have together so I just want to tell you some of the things that are happening in our church first of all small groups are still meeting so we have a lot of people that have signed up to be both virtual hosts we need more hosts so if that's of interest to you we used to say you had to open up your home to let people in but now it's just opening up your virtual home to sort of host folks that are coming that are new that maybe haven't connected with people from our church before and you're gonna make a comfortable space for them in your online living room okay so if you'd like to sign up to be a host or you already have thank you so much you're gonna go to OC bfj org slash small groups and you'll see information there if you'd like to join a small group we want to invite you this is where discipleship happens when we get inspired on a Sunday morning discipleship that happens Monday through Saturday when we're being accountable with the people that live maybe in our family dynamic but also with other members of the body of Christ our sisters and brothers and so this small group dynamic is put in place so that you can continue to grow and mature in your relationship with the Lord not only that but Oakland Bible Fellowship also offers something that I think is really necessary especially in times like these and that's counseling if you found that you have been experiencing a heightened level of grief during this time maybe through other losses that you've experienced listen my family knows so much about that to be honest the last two years have been tough and then on top of all of the other things that we were experiencing now that the developments through this pandemic it's just been one thing on top of the other and if you find yourself in a situation where man you are a little bit overwhelmed by all of the things that have crowded into your life please know that counseling is available through our church and you can find that online through our website at OSI bf Church org slash counseling real simple to find somebody who can be a listening ear and offer you godly advice we also want to remind you that the turnaround agenda is in full swing for those of you don't know that is the outreach ministry of our local church and they offer so many different elements of help to people that are not only in this community but outside of it as well everything from public school mentoring nationally to food and financial support and technical training and I mean there's so many things that the turnaround agenda has been doing since the 1980s so it's a faithful ministry that has been serving the body of Christ at large for a long time but of course right now the needs are specific and related to Coba 19 and the new and escalated needs that have presented themselves in people's lives we need your donations we need your donations of food we need your dinette donations of financial support and we need your prayers like for real not in theory like we really need the body of Christ to show up in a big way the turnaround agenda has already fed over a thousand families and they're gonna be teaming up again on April the 27th with the North Texas Food Bank that's gonna be showing up and listen I mean a line of cars show up with their trunks open ready to get the food supplies that the turnaround agenda is gonna be able to give them and and supply them so that they can support their families during this time so I'm asking you to join with if you've got a family dynamic that's around you or maybe some friends of yours that you know that are a part of this church and will y'all get together and come up with a plan about what you can give to the turnaround agenda this week so that the pantries are full come on y'all let's show up and be the body of Christ in a great big grand way so that people can feel the love of Jesus in our community so we're asking you to do that and then finally just know again that the Word of God is getting ready to go forth in just a few minutes from dr. Tony Evans and we want you to be prepared to hear the word of God so listen if you've been multitasking and doing a whole bunch of other stuff during of the first part of this service would you prepare down to just sort of Nestle in and get ready to see what it is that God is gonna speak to you in just a few moments and as you write some of these notes down and these scripture references use them throughout the week if you've got kids use them throughout the week to continue to mull over them with your children disciple them with your children you and your spouse go over them together because this is where growth takes place it's gonna be a beautiful Sunday as we continue in the presence of God well good morning this is Chris will executive director for the turnaround engine and the outreach ministry at Oakland Bible Fellowship Church as you can see we're here again serving our community I've just been thankful and excited about the way the church has come together and it's just been a good combination of all of our ministries to try to make this happen we're just thankful I'm delighted to be able to serve and we recognize that the need is great even prior to the pandemic that we're experiencing there's been so many people that need it food and that's why we have a food pantry that we've been able to serve the community we serve about 200 people a month in our food pantry individuals that may not have needed to have food before are losing jobs they're having situations where they're trying to figure out how to make ends meet and so by us being able to do this a little something to be able to help them for a couple of weeks we're just thankful for that now we know the need is going to continue so this is not something that we want to do one or two times but as often as we're able to work this out where we can be able to have the North Texas Food Bank we're gonna be here so if you have a need and you need to be able to utilize our food pantry and maybe you weren't able to come to one of these events you can actually give us a call but again this is for our local community so the number is four six nine five six seven one seven nine three again four six nine five six seven one seven nine three we're gonna need for our church family to continue to give donations as you've already done we've been so blessed by so many people that have come and dropped off food and we needed to continue because we recognized again the need is great and so again on behalf of Oakland Bible fellowship turnaround agenda and also the vision of dr. Tony Evans our senior pastor we just thank you and we prayed if you have a blessed day [Music] it is time to continue worshiping God and worshiping God in giving are you excited to give a toklas Bible fellowship we get really excited to give because the only reason why we can give is because God has first given to us and so all of the givers out there you know who you are it should be everyone because even in a pandemic and even in a mess God is still working out a miracle in all of our lives and he does that through the body of Christ and so it's time to partner with him with the resources the gifts time talent and right now the treasure that God has given us to do so and there are several ways that you can give the first way is is you can just give by text you can text o CBF 2 7 9 7 9 7 9 text o CBF right now - 7 9 7 9 7 9 and you can give that way to all of our members you know how you can give you can go online to ocbfs org or you can go to the ocbfs and we know we have a group that wants to just put it in the mailbox you can mail o CBF at 1808 West camp was them Road you can mail us at 1808 West camp wisdom Road Dallas Texas 75232 we're excited and while we're giving while you're thinking and considering what the Lord would want you to give right now to support the Church of Jesus Christ and all of the things that we're doing in and for the community for his glory now we're gonna go to one of our previously recorded worship experiences with our OC bf unity choir I know you'll enjoy it [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] well I thought we'd do something different this time I've been missing my pulpit of church so I thought I'd feel a little bit more regular today still in a somewhat casual environment but I'm still behind a little pulpit here and I can kind of feel more normal okay but I am glad to be able to come with you again and to to challenge you doing these challenging days that we're all facing let me ask you a question if your if your health is falling apart you're probably gonna go to the doctor because you think the doctor can help you get it back together again if your house is falling apart you're gonna call a repair person to kind of come and fix what's broken if your car is making all kind of noise that means you need a mechanic somebody who knows what they're doing who can bring resolution to your car dilemma if your clothes are tattered and torn and you're gonna go to a tailor to kind of put it back together again if you're not doing well in school and the grades are falling then you got to go to a tutor to help help you learn what you need to learn so you can pass what you need to pass what do you do when your world is falling apart when your nation is in trouble what do you do when you've hit a crisis so big that you have no way to go what do you do when all human options have disappeared on you and no matter which direction you look in north-south-east-west the answers are difficult and everybody is trying a lot of things but nobody has a definitive and and it's not only affecting you and your family it's affecting your neighborhood your church your nation and the whole world well that's what Caronia business it's a pandemic which means it's a national and international negative crisis a crisis is a situation that overwhelms you crisis can come in a whole lot of forms they can be economic crisis we know what that's like due to Corona there can be relational crisis there can be social crises there can be career crisis crisis can come in all kind of shapes and forms and sizes one thing is true though it is overwhelming it can bring tears to your eyes it can it can cause you to be disconcerted emotionally what do you do when there's nothing you know that you can do well that's why I love second chronicles chapter 20 it is the story of King Jehoshaphat King Jehoshaphat has a problem on his hands it's a problem that has affected his whole nation he says in verse 2 a great multitude is coming against us he looks out and he says every direction that I look and he names him he says every direction that coming against us and they're closing us in he is in a predicament a dilemma he's in a crisis he says that this crisis is hitting him in every direction and you you pretty much know when you've hit that kind of crisis because your emotions begin to take charge because verse 3 of second chronicles 20 says Jehoshaphat was afraid he was scared he was terrorized we this was a problem he didn't know how to fix this was an enemy he didn't know what to do with this was his own Corona a problem too big for him to handle we're told that in the midst of this problem he turned his eyes to seek the Lord that's what verse three says he looked up because know we're looking out could solve its problem right now we're seeing more people talk about God talk about faith talk about religion talking about Jesus quoting scriptures or newscast and yeah there are those detractors out there but it is pretty clear we in a dilemma that is a little bigger than us and even if it wasn't this corona so many of us have our personal Coronas don't we the viruses that have messed up our lives he sought the Lord he wanted to bring God into the equation of his dilemma you know you in a crisis that you can't fix when the harder you try to deeper down you go like quicksand you know the harder you try to get out of quicksand the more suck you under that's what a dilemma does that is a pandemic kind of crisis in your life and in your world well that's Jehoshaphat's problem what he decides to do is turn to the Lord get everybody else to do it too because verse 4 says he gathered together to seek help from the Lord and they even came from all the cities of Judah to seek the Lord in fact we told him verse 3 he proclaims a national fast you know that's what we need today we need to call our whole nation to a fast and prayer not just prayer but a fast let me say a word about fasting fasting is a Bunsen burner underneath prayer fasting is giving up something physical to gain something spiritual see most people visit the spiritual while we live and are controlled by the physical but what fasting does is it shifts it says right now the spiritual is more important than the physical heaven is more important than earth because I can't fix earth with earth because my problem is too big I need the unseen world to enter to the seen world to effect my dilemma my crisis so he calls a fast right now everybody should fast you should pick up a meal a week a day a week well you leave the smart devices you cut off the television you walk away from a meal and you say God we are crying out to you now for ourselves our families our churches and our nation because we all in trouble and we're crying out to you where this is so big and so bad that we're willing to give up something to gain something more and that is to gain you in the middle of our pain uncertainty sickness and death from an unseen enemy now before we go any further I need to tell you something if you want God to do something about the problem in chapter 20 you have to address something in chapter 19 you see in chapter 19 came King Jehoshaphat got all the nation to get right with God it says in chapter 19 verse 4 that King Jehoshaphat brought the nation back to the Lord to the God of their fathers you see being right with God is a prerequisite to hearing from God you can fast and pray all day but if you refuse to get right with the one you're talking to then you have no guarantee he's gonna respond because he doesn't want to respond so you can leave him out more so that you can ignore him more so you can say a prayer to get out of it and then skip him so they got right first and then they saw the Lord we're in trouble and even before this dilemma we see all kind of trouble in our nation political class race you know all that's kind of kind of become secondary to this bigger problem but we've had a lot of problems that we need solutions for but that starts with God going God would and so he calls everybody in fact verse 13 says that they even brought their children along with their wives which means the men went front and center they brought their wives they brought their children in other words everybody in on this cuz this thing affects all of us and we this invasion hits us everybody's gonna be destroyed Jehoshaphat said and we're seeing with this coronavirus it can hit any of us and it can be deadly with a blow and so everybody got on board that's why we want our church our church in Dallas to at least find some time every week and maybe a portion of every day to call you to a fast to tell the children no not now we're not we're gonna take 15 minutes 30 minutes an hour whatever works we're going to give up meat today or we're going to give up a television for this period of time and we're going to talk to each other we gonna talk to God because we want our family protected from this virus and we want our nation to be healed of it and we want our medical experts to find a solution to it so let's cry out to God it's called a solemn assembly in Scripture a sacred gathering where people were called to invoke on heaven because history was in trouble and so he calls on them he makes a statement in verse 12 he says the reason that we're calling on you as we don't know what to do and I eyes on you oh you don't know what to do huh this is outside of your control see we'd like to be in control we'd like to be able to handle stuff well God will let you know how bad you need him by allowing things in your life in my life and our lives collectively that we can't fix on our own he says we don't know what to do and I'm not too proud to beg I'm I'm gonna be humble with this thing he prays a prayer beginning in verse 5 let me tell you the ingredients of this prayer you start your praise with a prayer he starts his prayer by rehearsing God's person and then graduating to God's power let me say it again he starts his prayer by rehearsing God's person then graduating to God's power he tells God how great he is how awesome he is he tells God that he rules from heaven he tells God that he rules over all the kingdoms this is good to know that that there's no problem when they're so big that God can't overrule it he tells God that the enemy coming at him is no competition for the God of the universe so he brags on God's person and then he talks about God's power that's what you want don't just ask for his power and skip his person because his power is tied to his character you want to know what he is like in order to get what he can do so he brags on God makes a big deal about God because he got a big virus a big invasion that he needs to be able to address and everybody was with him because that's how big the problem was from the outhouse to the White House everybody should be dropping on their knees ideally at the same time so he can hear all the voices calling down heaven in history and calling on God to invade this dilemma that we face after his prayer he got a prophetic word it says God heard what he had to say and he called a prophet and he called the Prophet in verse 14 he said if you listen to the Prophet verse 20 you will succeed you know right now we need a word from God let me tell you about the Prophet the Prophet was not a particularly popular person because they usually showed up during times of calamity and difficulty often with negative things to say but always with a positive goal and saying to get right with God so that things could be reversed so the deliverance could take place so that the agenda could be changed and so you want a prophetic word we all that a Rhema word let me give you a few Greek words here that will help you understand the Rhema word there is the graph a the graph a is the book it is as it sits on your shelf on your coffee table it is the written recorded Word of God that's the graph a then there is the logos the logos is the content and meaning of the graph a so you could never even open the Bible but it would still be the Bible because it is the written word of God but the logos is what it says and what it means about what it says that's why Jesus Christ by the way is called the logos of God in John 1:1 because he came to explain the Father to us so it is the content and its meaning that's the logos but then there is the Rhema word the Rhema word is the specific utterance into your specific situation you need a Rhema word because you got a real dilemma a real problem a Rhema word is not a general word it's just it's not even a sermon because the sermon can can be one word for everybody a Rhema word is God's Word to you they're in a dilemma and they need a Rhema word which is a prophetic word he says if you'll listen to the prophet now now just cuz somebody preaches I mean at the Prophet they've got to be consistent with the written word and with the Living Word before I think it can even be considered to be a prophetic word so if the Rhema word is not consistent with the Living Word and the written word it in fact is not a Rhema word and that's a false prophet but he does give his applicational words to specific scenarios to the prophetic voice today that's why the Bible says in 1st Thessalonians 5 despised not prophecy I know we're listening to the medical experts we're listening to our political leaders but we ought to be listening for word from God and the more of those people that you can get to listen for God the sooner we can get solutions to the dilemmas that we face even in your personal life you want to listen for prophetic word it may come through your pastor it may come through another believer who has the gift but you want to listen to a word that speaks into your specific reality after they prayed God brought a prophet and then it was time for praise look at how much praise goes on in this chapter without the problem yet being solved it says in verse 18 they fell down before the Lord and worshiped him they say in verse 19 they stood up to praise the Lord they say in verse 21 they sang to the Lord those who praised him in holy attire it says in verse 22 when they began singing and praising the Lord set an ambush in other words praise made the difference they had a problem a virus they couldn't fix an invasion they couldn't overcome that led to a prayer the prayer opened the door for a prophet and then it was time to get your praise on let me talk about praise praise is that accentuating and expressing value to God you can worship privately without saying a word you can worship you can worship in your heart you can worship with your mind you can worship in silence but you can't do that with praise praise is worship gone public praise is declaring your stand that's what the psalmist meant in Psalm 34 when he said o magnify the Lord with me and let us extol exalt and extol his name together in other words he says get your praise on when you magnify God you can't make God bigger but a magnifying glass doesn't make something bigger it just shows you in a bigger way what's really there the Bible says that God inhabits the praise of his people he hangs out in praise when praise is coming from the right heart get your praise on even though your problems that so praise God that he's bigger than Corona praise God that he's bigger than your private Coronas however they may show up in your life praise Him that he's greater than whatever the greatest challenge is in your life and says when God heard their praise he said an ambush for the enemy in football but my son Jonathan was a fullback a fullbacks job is to run through the line and open up a hole in one of the gaps for the halfback as one of his main jobs the quarterback receives the ball the linemen at first are coming after the quarterback because the quarterback has the ball but when the quarterback hands the ball off to the lineman excuse me when the quarterback hands off the ball to the halfback everybody shifts to go after the halfback now Jonathas job was to block them on the shift you see because you've shifted the problem to somebody else well you may have the problem right now but when you get your praise on you shifted it over to God that's why when David was facing Goliath he says in 1st Samuel 17 verses 26 and 26 who is this uncircumcised Philistine that challenges the armies of the Living God he shifted it over to God he said no you messing with God now in other words he made it a spiritual battle not just a physical battle with big boy no he said big boy is big but he ain't dead because I know somebody bigger when you learn to ship your pain your problem your dilemma your Coronas over to God now you have somebody bigger than the problem you face and the problem that the medical environment faces that's that's worldwide it's time to shift that thing over it's time to give that thing over the Bible says in your praise so I'm fifty four fifty verse 23 is your deliverance that God will deliver you in your praise you say but my problem has not been solved yet I know your problem hasn't been solved yet get your praise on what am i praising for when my problem hasn't been solved I'm praising for the God who can solve it I'm praising that it's not so big that it's bigger than him I'm praising him for what I've seen him do in the Bible see that's why you have to know the Word of God because you need to know what he did yesterday to remind you when he can do today that's why all through the Bible that rehearses God delivering from from Egypt it rehearses God delivering through the Red Sea why to show them when they ran into their next Pharaoh when they ran into their next Army when they ran into their next dilemma that same God can handle it because he's already handled it before the problem is if you don't have a history with God and you don't haven't seen what he can do then you won't be as energized appraised him right now because you don't have a history with him oh but throughout the Bible when folk got their praise or when God did something if you don't believe me ask Joshua when they were walking around the wall of Jericho once a day for seven days for six days on the seventh day seven times and they were letting out a shout you know what that shot what everyone just noise that's a shout of praise what were they walking around a thick problem a wall that wouldn't fall in an enemy they wouldn't fall but when they got their praise on crack started cumberly rumbling started taking place when they got their praise on things began to collapse the problem came to an end if you don't believe that praise works as Paul and Silas in jail the in chair in change they're in jail but they got their praise on and when they got their praise on things started to shake things started to rumble and they were delivered they even did evangelism by leaving the Philippian jailer to salvation you see when you get your praise on it causes heaven to move so that earth shakes so that the rumbling down here occurs because God is moving praise is not praise and tell us expressed when's the last time you've gotten your praise or so in your face get your praise on in your prayer get your praise on in your dilemma celebrate God because he deserves you pray magnify make a big deal about it again Psalm 34 says my fears looked up to him and they got caught if you're nervous about Corona if you're nervous about your economic situation if you're scared about your job tell your fears you want them to take a look at somebody else because as long as they're looking at you they're gonna control you but tell your fears that somebody someplace else I want you to look because there's somebody else that I want you to respond to so the more fearful you get the more enclosed you feel get your praise on I love in football when a football player makes a big play he makes a really big play and then he walks and he does this particularly the defense now do that you know what they're saying to the crowd give it up I mean he's giving up that means make some noise now did you see what I just did make some noise and celebrate with me you can't hear what I say but I want to hear what you have to say make some noise cuz of what you know I have done and can do you know what they did they gave it up they gave up their praise you will never know God is all you need until you discover God is all you have right now God is all you have so let's let him know we know he's all we need because heaven can overrule earth it's time for us to take communion together to remember our Lord in a special way so let me give you a moment to get your your cup or your juice for your crack or your bread let's prepare to just commune together as we do regularly it Oh cliff I'm a fellowship Jesus said will you take communion you proclaim my death Tilikum that raises a question proclaiming it to hoot-hoot listening to this Proclamation and what exactly are we proclaiming well you remember on Good Friday Jesus died on Easter Sunday he arose but never forget what happened on Saturday scripture tells us he went and proclaimed victory can help he declared I will that means you an hour we win because he won Friday he died Saturday people claim victory Sunday the Gatto so why do you need to take me because as you look at this new week with all the challenges that we're facing I want you to claim victory I want you to claim the victory that he proclaimed because now guess what you can say you can say devil you won't only this week circumstances you won't control me this week problems you will not dictate to me this week you may be then but you're not gonna win because I have Christ and I proclaim victory get anything out of your life that doesn't belong there tell the Lord you confess your sin name it to him whatever it is that is not in keeping with the relationship he wants to have with you and then proclaim victory you can have a conversation with the devil what because Jesus Christ on the cross paid the price to be boss Sunday he demonstrated by the receipt of the resurrection it was paid in full on Saturday he let he let the spiritual well know he wins that means you and I win this upcoming week the brand was broken for you and me to be winners and to be victorious let's be together [Music] the cup was shed for you and me to be winners this week to tell the devil Oh Paolo over thank you Lord but the devil has already lost because you told me that we're gonna build our lives around it was a great experience this morning being able to worship together and even though the church is empty we know that the body of Christ is totally full there's a great experience and it was a great word but I want to make sure that we all take that word and we use it this week in practical ways and applying it in our lives because my dad always told me that Sunday is just a little bit of what we really should be doing all week long can't wait to see you next week when we go live again at 10 a.m. at ocbs Church or Facebook and YouTube so can't wait to see it [Music] you

Channel: Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship

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Keywords: church, Sunday Morning Worship, God, Jesus, Holy Spirit, Praise, Oak Cliff Bible Fellowship, Tony Evans

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Length: 64min 3sec (3843 seconds)

Published: Sun Apr 26 2020