When Things Go from Bad to Worse

[Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] this is the day that the lord has made we shall rejoice and be glad in it what's up bishops our church good afternoon family and friends you're tuned in to the eastern star church noonday bible study this is the place where jesus is exalted and the word is explained my name is pastor jay i'm so excited that you decided to take a little bit of time out of your day to worship god in spirit and the truth and to discover god's word for your life i am confident that the word that god wants me to share today will be a blessing to your life matter of fact not only to you but to those who are around you so why don't you text somebody tag somebody share this let somebody know that god is present and his word will be delivered and revealed here at the eastern star church why don't we take a moment to invite god's presence into this worship experience gracious god our father we are so amazed by your glory by your power thank you god for the blessings that you continue to bestow in our lives thank you god for the grace and the mercy that you continue to display every single day well your mercies are new every morning and we are grateful for that thank you for the body of christ thank you for the internet the online space where we can worship your name in spirit and truth even though we can't get into the building we can still experience your presence so god we ask that you will be in the midst of this worship experience today touch our hearts touch our minds and allow for us to be open to what you are trying to speak to your people today it is in jesus name that we pray amen now listen before we hop in today's word i want us to worship god together let us praise god together as we thank god for his protective power his covering power through the blood of jesus christ i don't wanna sing the latest song i don't want to percolate the crowd i just want to make you smile i don't care who thinks i'm right or wrong i don't care who tries to calm me down i just want to raise you now you covered me in the midst of it all you love me you gave me another chance you saw my knees while others saw my faults you forgave me yes lord hallelujah thank you jesus [Music] thank you jesus i don't have to listen for my name they don't have to walk me down the aisle i just wanna make you proud should i make the hall of fame or they save a special seat i just hope that you'll all be pleased [Music] gave me another chance you rescued me i was born gonna fall but you saved me so in my life [Music] [Applause] [Music] you get the glory you get the praise you take the honor i just want to say you get the glory [Music] take all of the honors want you to get the praise you take the honor i just want to say you get the glory how do you get the praise you take the honor thank you [Applause] [Music] thank you [Music] [Applause] [Music] thank you jesus for everything you will do for your grace and your mercy thank you [Applause] [Music] jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] i just wanna say thank you thank you for your goodness jesus thank you for your mercy god [Music] [Applause] [Music] you take [Music] you get the praise you take beyonce i just wanna say i just wanna say thank you glory to your name father god you're worthy you're worthy of all the praise glory and honor well praise the lord family hallelujah listen if i had the gift of song i would just sing that again right there but because i don't i'ma just recite it because god gets the glory god gets the praise god gets the honor and sometimes i ain't got much so i'm gonna just say thank you lord for all that god has done for me and if you're grateful for what god has done for you why don't you drop in the comment section thank you lord just thank you lord thank you lord thank you for the doors you've opened thank you for the ways that you made thank you for the sins that you've forgiven sometimes you just even on a wednesday afternoon just gotta throw your head back and say thank you lord for all that you've done for me lord of the words of my mouth and the meditations of our hearts let them be acceptable in our sight guide you are strengthened our redeemer in jesus name that we pray amen all right um throughout the month of july we've been in a series of sermons entitled getting to know jesus getting to know jesus and we've been exploring through the book of john who jesus is not just thanking god for what god has done but understanding who jesus is and the essence of his personhood and so we've been exploring the book of john um the i am statements the i am statements first we talked about jesus saying i am the bread of life um then we talked about jesus being the light of the world just a couple days ago we talked about jesus being uh the gate and the good shepherd as the abundant life and now today we will be in john chapter 11 where in verse number 17 jesus says i am the resurrection and the life and today we will talk about when things go from bad to worse when things go from bad to worse jesus says i am the resurrection and the life john chapter 11 verse 17 is where we will begin um i'm reading from the new revive standard version and verse 17 says when jesus arrived he found that lazarus had already been in the tomb for days now bethany was near jerusalem some two miles away and many of the jews had come to martha and mary to console them about their brother when martha heard that jesus was coming she went and met him while mary stayed at home martha said to jesus lord if you had been here my brother would not have died but even now i know that god will give you whatever you ask of him jesus said to her your brother will rise again martha said to him i know that he will rise again in the resurrection on the last day then jesus said to her i am the resurrection and the life those who believe in me even though they die will live and everyone who lives and believes in me will never die do you believe this she said to him yes lord i believe that you are the messiah the son of god and the one coming into the world john 11 verse 25 says i am the resurrection and the life those who believe in me even though they die will live briefly i want to discuss when things go from bad to worse when things go from bad to worse the faith that we have in god gives us perspective even in our problems to the point where we can say god is good all the time and all the time god is good even when things are not good all the time we still serve a good god to the point where when things are bad god is still good and when things get worse god is even gooder i know that's horrible grammar but it's good faith in essence we begin to learn more about god in our problems we begin to learn more about who jesus is in our circumstance we begin to learn and become more intimate with god even when things go from bad to worse that's when we begin to discover all who god is and what god can do i am reminded of the children of israel as they were escaping bondage in egypt being laid by moses they were trapped at the red sea red seas in front of them pharaoh and his army is behind them and it seems as if things have gotten worse in that situation but all of a sudden moses tapped in by faith and god split open the red sea and the children of israel walked on dry ground and they were able to be delivered they learn in that situation that god is a deliverer matter of fact even while they were in the wilderness hungry starving even desiring slavery all over again it was in the wilderness where they discovered that god is a provider and god provided manna from on high even as they got to the promised land or on their way to the promised land they had to deal with one bad circumstance after another one battle after another but it was the generation the joshua generation who discovered that god is a promise keeper because when things go from bad to worse that's when we discover who god is and what god can do matter of fact this is what i'm beginning to learn even as we peruse through the book of john we've touched on the i am statements of jesus christ and one thing that i'm learning as we are diving into this book into the book of john i am learning that in our it is in our need where we begin to discover and unfold who jesus is that if we don't need anything that if we don't have a need for anything if we've never experienced a problem if we've never had a bad day then we can't discover who jesus is it is not until you've gone hungry that you've discovered that jesus is the bread of life it is not until your soul gets tired that you'll discover that jesus is that soul food that he can meet all of your needs even your spiritual needs according to his riches in glory it is not until you experience dark moments in your life it is not until you experience depression and dark seasons that you will begin to discover that jesus is the light of the world and ain't until you've been lost it's not until you needed protection that you discovered that jesus is the gate that protects and jesus is the good shepherd that directs because it is in our need that we begin to discover who jesus is here in john chapter 11 jesus makes it makes a claim that i am the resurrection and the life but you can't experience you can't appreciate that jesus is the resurrection until you've experienced a dead season until you've experienced death in your life it's not until you've gone through a a dead moment a dead circumstance a dead situation that you can begin to appreciate the fact that jesus is the resurrection and the life and this is what mary and martha had to discover here in john chapter 11. i begin reading to you at john chapter 17 but in order for me to do my job correctly we got to scroll back up to john chapter 1 because the bible starts off this story not with the death of lazarus but with lazarus becoming sick mary and martha their brother lazarus became sick and because uh they had a sick brother they reached out to jesus lazarus is sick lazarus had an illness lazarus had a disease and we don't know what type of illness this was we don't know what type of sickness this was we don't know what type of disease this was but it had a physical toll to the point where he ended up dying but but he was sick first they had a bad situation what was the bad situation mary and martha had a sick brother and let's just pause right here because if we can be honest even on a wednesday afternoon that lazarus ain't the only sick brother that there are some other sick brothers who can testify that they that they are not well that they are ill because physical sickness ain't the only sickness physical disease is not the only type of disease uh physical illness isn't the only type of illness and if we can testify there are those of us some brothers who are sick we got some sick brothers we got brothers who are tuning in right now who are still sick we got brothers who populate the pulpit but are still sick we got brothers who sing glory and honor to god who participate in ministry who try to be there for their family and community and still are sick because physical illness isn't the only type of illness you can be in your best shape and still be sick you can have the best job making the most money you've ever made and still be sick because there's not just physical illness but there is emotional illness there is spiritual illness there is mental illness and all of us can attest to this over the past year and a half we've experienced a traumatic situation and we can attest to the fact that we've experienced some sickness we've experienced some illnesses we've experienced some diseases not just physically but mentally we've been depressed emotionally we've been tapped out uh spiritually we've been disconnected from god and the faith in the church but the good news about it is that even though there was a sick brother he had some sisters in his life who was willing to reach out to jesus oh my goodness that's some good news right there because even though you've experienced some sickness in your life you need some people around you who can get in touch with jesus i'm so glad that i'm up here preaching the good news of the gospel not because i ain't never been sick but because i have some sisters in my life who had the audacity to reach out to jesus because that's what some sick brothers need sick brothers need some sisters of faith who are determined and who are persistent in their praying and reaching out to jesus sick brothers don't need no sisters who perpetuate the sickness sick brothers don't need no sisters who leave in the midst of them being sick who reject them because of their sickness but sick brothers need some sisters of faith who are determined to reach out to jesus because that's what it's all about here the bible says that because lazarus the sick brother was at the home sick it was his sisters that sent word to jesus about what was going on with their sick brother and that's what our brothers need that's what we need as individuals in our lives we need some people around us who are willing to cover us when things go bad um this happened in new york just a few months ago i think it was last month in june there was a shooting that took place outside of a candy store and it was a ten-year-old a girl and her five-year-old brother that was in between the one who was pulling the trigger and the one he was aiming at with his gun and the the the the shooter began to shoot his gun pour that trigger and all there were so many bullets that were aiming towards his target and so when the 10 year old daughter saw that uh her and her brother was in danger of the daughter the the sister had the audacity to lay down and to cover her brother in the array of bullets here is a sister 10 years old found her and her brother in danger but she had the bravery and the courage in the midst of a sick situation in the midst of a bad situation she had enough courage to cover her brother and that's what we need we need some wives with enough faith to cover their husbands in prayer we need some mothers with enough faith to cover their sons in prayer we need some sisters with enough faith and courage to cover their brothers in prayer matter of fact had it not been for moses and sister we don't know where moses would be when his mother put him in that river and it was his sister that went alongside the bank of the nile to keep an eye out for her brother we need some sisters with some faith who can keep their sick brothers in prayer and that's what happens jesus gets word that there was a sick brother at the house and the bible says that lazarus and mary and martha just weren't anybody but these were people that jesus loved these were people that that jesus had an intimate relationship with these were people the bible says that the one you love is sick and it teaches us that even even when we have a relationship with jesus and we love jesus and we know that jesus loves us too it doesn't immune us from the fact that sickness can show up and not only did sickness show up in a family that loved jesus but but jesus didn't even move when they asked him to move when he got word about his sick brother the bible says that jesus stayed where he was two more days and because there was a divine delay the problem went from bad to worse the problem went from lazarus being sick to lazarus ended up dying because of this divine delay jesus didn't move when the family who loved him told him about his sick brother he decided to stay where he was two more days and i wonder who's out there tuning in in the virtual space who knows what it's like for god to be delayed in your situation where you reached out to god you called on god by faith to move in your situation that has gone from bad to worse but instead of god showing up to handle your bad situation it seems like god has ignored you it seems as if god has turned god's back on you it seems as if that god has forgotten about you there has been a divine delay and because of this delay the problem that you took to jesus has now gotten worse what do you do when your problem goes from bad to worse where your spouse you and your spouse are no longer not just talking to each other but now y'all on the verge of divorce where where you and your child were no well y'all weren't getting along but now your child has turned their back on the family that that at one point you couldn't find a job but now it seems as if you're running out of money more bills than you got money it seems as if the problem has gotten worse but guess what jesus helps us to understand that even though we are in a bad situation we serve a good god and even though our situation may go from bad to worse god gets gooder because when our situation goes from bad to worse it is a set up for god to get glory out of your situation that's what jesus says jesus says that lazarus is sick so that the son of man can become glorified a few more verses later the bible says that jesus told his disciples that yeah lazarus is no longer sick he's sleep and the disciple says well if he sleep maybe he'll wake up better but then jesus had to keep it playing with him he said now lazarus is dead and he says i'm glad for your sake that he's died so that you can believe in verse 40 he says that this is all taking place so that god can be glorified so even in our situation when things go from bad to worse it is god setting the situation up so that god can get glorified even in your worst situation he told the disciples y'all got to go see this so that you can believe and things go from bad to worse as an opportunity for us to grow in our faith because if we never had a problem how did we know that god can solve them how how would we know what faith in his word can do so god says i'm gonna allow your situation to go from bad to worse so that you can begin to believe in who i am and that you can give god the glory because let's be real our praise gets more serious when our pain gets more deep the more we are in pain the more our praise increase the more we are down and worried the more our worship becomes more real it is in our pain that god begins to get the glory out of our life but wait a minute this glory that jesus speaks of is really twofold he is not just talking about the praise and the glory and honor that's going to come to jesus and that's going to come to god in the midst of this sick situation but jesus is speaking of the crucifixion that's on its way that whenever jesus spoke of the crucifixion he always speaks of the crucifixion as the transportation to his glorification yeah he he told he told the disciples in john chapter 12 that or in john chapter 7 that the spirit can't come until the sun is glorified in john chapter 12 jesus was trying to speak some things into the life of the disciples and john records that the disciples didn't know what he was talking about until the son was glorified he is speaking of the process in which he is going to claim his crown as the king of kings that jesus had to go through the crucifixion in order to get glorified it reminds me of what chance the rapper said when he said i don't have losses i have lessons we gotta have a perspective in our problem that yes it's bad yes it's gone worse but there's some good that can come out of this and if jesus had to go through the crucifixion to get glorified then how much more shall you and i have to go through the pains of life have to go through difficult situations have to go through resistance and pain so that god can get the glory out of our life but it's all about perspective it's all about how you see the issue that you're coming up against jesus says i'm glad that this had to go down so now you can believe that i am the son of man so that god can get the glory but it's all about perspective it looks bad but there's some good that's gonna come out of it it's the crucifixion but then there's the resurrection but you gotta have the right perspective my mom a few months ago she sent my brothers and i a picture of her new sunglasses well they weren't necessarily new what it was was it was when my grandfather passed some years ago she he left her um his old glasses his old frames the frames she collected the frames as a way to remember her father my grandfather and so when she took the frames uh she removed the lenses from the frames and she put her own stylish lens she put some sunglasses in and so now my mama is walking around viewing life through the framework of her father ain't that so dope she's viewing life through the framework of her father because her father left her something in an attempt to view life through and she's now walking around being able to tap into the remembrance of her father because she's viewing life through the framework of her daddy and this is what god the father has done for us that god the father has left us a framework to view life through that even when things go from bad to worse god has left you through it god has left you with a framework you can do all things through christ who gives you strength when things go from bad to worse god has left you with a framework and we know all these things will work together for good when things go bad god has left you with a framework no weapon that is formed against you shall be able to prosper jesus says i'm glad that things went from bad to worse so that you can believe and you can give god glory even in a bad situation and so here is jesus he's he's letting the disciples know yeah things gone from bad to worse and when he showed up martha he showed up to the funeral i thought it was four days late but really in the jewish tradition he was right on time see the jewish people they took serious their death of family and friends and they uh was intentional about um carving out time and space for grieving and mourning and for a funeral they would grieve for weeks for months on end they would take time to grieve their loved ones and they took serious about honoring those who have died and being and coming alongside and encouraging of those who have lost a loved one so jesus shows up around the time where family and friends have made their way uh to bring their respects to dead to the dead and to come and encourage mary and martha and so when martha and mary finds out that jesus is on his way the bible says that martha ran from the house to meet up with jesus while mary stayed at the crib martha comes and meets jesus while mary stays at the house it shows us that people grieve differently here is martha she was the servant one she was the one that was always serving she was the extrovert so when she heard that jesus was coming she didn't mind going out to meet jesus while mary was the one that stayed at the feet of jesus she was the introvert she stayed at the house so when martha showed up to jesus and said jesus had you been here my brother would not have died and i love what jesus says jesus says your brother will rise again and notice what martha says martha responds with a doctrinal belief with a doctrinal belief she says i know that he will rise again on the last day and then notice what jesus says i am the resurrection in the life and those who believe in me will never die maybe things go from bad to worse in an attempt for god to challenge us in our theology in an attempt for god to grow us in what we believe about god see martha when jesus showed up to the funeral martha ran out and said uh jesus had you been here my my brother would not have died jesus says uh i promise you that your brother will rise again see mary uh martha interpreted that as some type of encouragement so like if a pastor showed up and said oh to be absent from the body is to be present with the lord yeah we believe that we believe that to be true but but what jesus was doing wasn't just encouraging her with the words he was giving her a promise that your brother will rise again and notice how martha responded to the promise she she didn't she didn't think that jesus meant that personally to her she took that as an encouragement she said yes i know that my brother would rise again in the last day see what she was doing she was reciting what she had learned from the jewish tradition she was reciting uh she what she said was consistent with the belief that the jews had about those who died that on the last day they would be resurrected so martha wasn't wrong in her response but what she knew about god was going to change based off what she was getting ready to experience about god jesus says i know that you jesus says i know that you are aware i know you've been to sunday school i know you grew up in the synagogue i know you got the information and the knowledge i know you got the principle but i want to reintroduce you to the person jesus says i know you are aware of the principle of resurrection but i am the resurrection and the life see he says i know you believe in the resurrection but you're standing in front of the resurrection i know you've got some idea of the resurrection but you are standing in front of the resurrection and jesus says i will allow your problem to go from bad to worse so that you can experience who god is you can go from beyond the knowledge to your experience jesus says i'm trying to push you from principle to person and jesus says that i am the resurrection he is about to allow martha and mary to experience all who he is because every now and again god will allow our problem to go from bad to worse so that we can get a different experience of who god is see mary and martha knew that jesus can heal the sick but what they didn't know was that he could raise the dead he was trying to move them from knowledge to experience see somebody tuning in right now you've heard that jesus was a healer you heard that god could heal but there's one thing about hearing about god being a healer it's another thing about experiencing the fact that god can heal see somebody tuning in you heard that god can provide it's one thing about hearing god can provide it's another thing to experience the provision of god you heard that god can deliver but god is trying to get you to experience his deliverance and once you allow your problem to push you from principle to person you will discover that jesus is the resurrection and the life and jesus says those who believe in me will never die he wasn't talking about physical death because even though he raised lazarus again he lazarus died you see jesus wasn't talking about physical death because even though we give our hope and our faith in jesus all of us will experience death at some point what jesus is speaking of is the death that comes in sin and the fact that when we believe in him we can have eternal life jesus says that i am the resurrection that when you get when you get connected to me by faith i can restore what has died see jesus wasn't just speaking he wasn't just speaking of the physical with lazarus he was speaking of the emotional he was speaking of the mental he was speaking of the spiritual i can bring life to a day at home i can bring life to a dead community i could bring life to a dead nation i could bring life to a dead workplace i could bring life to a dead marriage i could bring life to a dead career jesus says that when you tap in to who i am you will discover that i am the resurrection and i love it because as jesus is explaining this martha rush is off to grab her sister yo jesus want to come holla at you mary comes out she's crying she's in tears had you been here my brother would not have died jesus sees the tears of mary and the tears of the people around her and jesus begins to cry and the bible says that jesus wept then jesus prayed and then when jesus prayed he began to look for participants who can be included in the miracle because when things go from bad to worse god is looking for us to participate in our own miracles god is looking for us to put our faith on display yes yes jesus prayed about it but then he was trying to get some folk to participate in the miracle yeah man jesus says mary mary and martha i know you reached out to me i know that you got a message to me about your sick brother i'm glad that you prayed about it but now it's time to participate in your own miracle notice what jesus says he says uh somebody needs to roll this stone away jesus is trying to bring life back to a sick brother but there was a stone that was in the way jesus was trying to revive a family again but there was a stone in the way jesus was trying to bring life to somebody who had died but there was a stone in the way jesus said i know you prayed about it but now i need you to work with me in this miracle somebody needs to roll the stone away maybe somebody need to drop that in the comment section roll the stone away what does the stone look like in your situation what does a stone look like in your family what does a stone look like in your life jesus is saying i'm trying to come to bring life to your dead situation but there's a stone of unbelief there's a stone of pride there's a stone of sin there's a stone of baggage jesus says roll the stone away but wait even as they rolled the stone away he calls lazarus forth and when lazarus comes forth lazarus walks out of the tomb with grave clothes on with the wrappings that they tied on him after he died after they've given up on him after they threw in the towel after they thought it was over it's been four days now the sister told him it's been four days he stinked now four days see the jewish people thought that the spirit of the person who died would hover over the body for four days and on the fourth day the spirit will take off to the afterlife jesus shows up four days late four days after he had been in the tomb and and jesus says where you have given up on the situation that you have given up on the the person that you have given up on the very thing that you have buried i'm trying to bring life to but i can't give it to it until you roll the stone away and remove the grave clothes remove what represents his past remove what represents his sickness remove what represents his failure remove what represents his death and it was in that moment where jesus was able to bring life to a dead situation after he found some people who was willing to participate in their own miracle and this is what jesus is trying to get across to all of us today jesus says i'm looking for some people who are willing to pray about it who are willing to fast about it but i'm looking for some people who are willing to participate in their own miracle it was when jesus was at that wedding reception and they ran out of wine jesus says i i don't mind allowing the party to continue and and to kick the party off but jesus says i need some people who can take these jars of water these jar these empty jars and fill them with water and bring them back to me participate in your own miracle it was a man who was paralyzed who was able to find the healing after the friends carried him and put a hole in the roof it was after they participated that they were able to experience a miracle it was that man who was staying at the the body of water for 35 years and jesus told him pick up your man and walk it was when he participated that he was able to find his healing and his wholeness how do you what are you looking for god to do in your life what are you looking for god to perform what miracle have you been begging god for jesus says is right here but you gotta roll the stone away it's right here but take off the grave clothes it's right here but participate in your own miracle and i'm a living witness that once you participate in your own miracle god can take you from faith to faith and from glory to glory jesus says when you give i give it back to you not just money in your tithe but when you give some energy i can bring a miracle that when you bring some productivity i can bring a healing that when you bring some creativity i can take it to the next level that when you participate in what god is doing jesus will show you that i am the resurrection and the life and that when you believe in me even though you die in the physical you'll have everlasting life and maybe that's what somebody needed to hear even on this wednesday afternoon jesus is looking to save you jesus is looking for you to experience eternal life but you can't experience it until you participate in your own miracle how do i participate the bible makes it clear when you confess with your mouth believe in your heart that jesus is lord that god raised jesus from the dead at that moment you are saved jesus has already given the gift he's just waiting for you to remove that stone that hard heart and walk into what god has for your life so my brother my sister if that's you this afternoon before you get back to work before you get back to doing what you're doing today why don't you participate in what god is trying to do in your life confess with your mouth believe in your heart that jesus is lord you too can be saved in fact we're going to say a prayer together in a few moments and when you say this prayer with me you are either accepting jesus christ for the first time for forgiveness of sin or you even want to uh get connected to the eastern star church as a church home let's participate in this prayer together and let's allow god through jesus christ to bring life and rest and resurrection restoration in your life let's pray together father i come right now i know that i've sinned i know that i've done wrong but god i pray that you will forgive me for my sins i believe that jesus christ died on the cross and i believe that god raised him from the dead i received the holy spirit into my life for forgiveness of sin in jesus name amen listen if you said that prayer for the first time or the 10th time congratulations and welcome to the family of faith listen why don't you um do us a favor and email us at membership eastern starchurch.org the information is right there on the screen if you need jesus for uh salvation you we want to continue uh to walk you through that process of what it means what that looks like and how you can participate in what god is doing in your life or if you need a church home a place where you can grow and develop as a child of god email that email us right there membership at easternstartchurch.org and we can walk you through how you can get connected and engaged here at the eastern star church amen i pray that that word uh was what you needed on today as you hide that word into your hearts today i pray that you will allow god to continue to take you from faith to faith and from glory to glory that even when your situation goes from bad to worse jesus is up to something god is up to something and he is looking to bring life to a dead situation well family it's time for the offering this is the moment in our worship experience where all of us can participate in the miracle of what god is trying to do here at the eastern star church and the only way we can do what god has called us to do is by your generosity your giving and your obedience to the word of god jesus or god says just try me test me in this area and i'ma blow your mind and so we want to give you an opportunity to test god in your giving there's three ways in which you can give here at the eastern star church you can text to give the info is right there four five seven seven seven esc in the message field or you can um mail us the check cash coins whatever you got at 5750 east 30th street indianapolis indiana 46218 or you can give through our website online at eastern easternstarchurch.org again this is how we do what we do god has called this ministry to do great things and we can only do it through your generosity your time and your giving and even as our pastor is on sabbatical god has called us to do the work as unto the lord and so we ask for you to continue to be obedient in this area let us pray for today's offering god thank you so much for the gifts that you have given us and we pray that you will receive these gifts as we give them back to you to further your kingdom on this earth it is in jesus name that we pray amen amen um so i got a call from pastor and um he asked me to do a favor okay um he wants to check in he was going to record himself like a selfie of some sort and send it in to us as a sabbatical check-in all right he's in the mountains with god but he wants to check in to make sure that we ain't made no idols or nothing like that so he wants to check in with us and i told him or you can send a video or we could just go live and we can just have a conversation on on online live and so we are going to do that tonight at 7 p.m on facebook live tonight we will check in with our senior pastor and first lady make sure everything good and they're going to check in on us to make sure everything is good here and we just want to make sure that our pastor is getting the rest that he needs the restoration that he needs even as we continue to do what god has called us to do uh here at the eastern star church so tune in tonight at 7 p.m tell everybody that we're going to be on our eastern star church main page tonight at 7 00 pm with a conversation with pastor johnson as we do a sabbatical check-in and we checking in on our pastor making sure everything is good all right now may the grace of our lord and savior jesus christ and the sweet communion of his holy spirit may god rest with you and abide with you i pray that even though things may go from bad to worse you will allow god to get the glory in that situation you will grow in your theology and experience god's power and personhood and you will participate in your own miracles and i pray that this will happen today tomorrow and forevermore in jesus name amen we'll see you all sunday you

Channel: Eastern Star Church

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Published: Wed Jul 14 2021