Who Told You That? (Genesis 3:8-13)

i'm traveling here all right [Music] got enemies [Music] my [Music] but i know oh [Music] oh this morning [Music] [Music] you talking about somebody [Music] i want y'all [Music] uh all right but nice to meet you anyway say hi man wow come on [Music] good to see you [Music] so [Music] [Music] i want to praise him [Music] i just want to praise no matter what the people say about you no matter what they try to do [Music] i just i just want you crazy i woke up this morning with my mind my mind was stayed on jesus i woke up this morning with my mind my mind was still on the lord well i woke up this morning with my mind my mind was stayed oh jesus hallelujah [Music] hallelujah hallelujah well i'm walking and talking with my mind my mind is stay on jesus i'm walking and talking with my mind my mind is stayed on the lord while i'm walking and talking with my mind my mind is stayed on jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah you know i woke up this morning with my mind my mind was day oh jesus i woke up this morning opened up my eyes and it will stay on the lord well i woke up this morning with my mind my mind was stay oh jesus hallelujah honda hallelujah like to say good morning to everyone we want to welcome all of those who are visiting with us to the greenville avenue church of christ so good to see all of those in-house who have come to worship and we welcome those who are streaming with us as well we want to uh thank the congregation for your continued cooperation with our ushers as we are being seated uh during this covey protocol time also if you desire a response card just ask one of the ushers and they will give you the response card let us prepare our minds for worship this morning if you will please stand at this time and we'll recite psalms 96. oh sing unto the lord a new song sing unto the lord all the earth sing unto the lord bless his name show forth his salvation from day to day to declare his glory among the heathen and his wonders among all people for the lord is great and greatly to be praised he is to be feared above all gods let's go to god in prayer most righteous and heavenly father we come before you this morning with thanksgiving in our hearts that you've allowed us to wake up see this day be in our right mind to come and worship you in spirit and in truth lord we've come for no other reason but to honor you and magnify your holy name we pray that the offering that we bring to you this day our worship will be pleasing and acceptable in thy sight father i ask that you clear those things that may be concerning us that may be troubling us that we may give full attention to you and to your word we just thank you dear father for this opportunity and thank you for this fourth quarter kickoff that father already says show help us the lord as we look to generational faith that we will continue to share our share your word within our families with our children and with our grandchildren that we may be found faithful in thy sight these things we ask in the name of christ jesus i pray amen like to say good morning everyone all right so i had a request come in um just a moment ago for manchin robin crime so stream team please don't be too mad at me all right but that i believe this one we know pretty well all right so i'm gonna trade my earthly home for a better one bright and fair christ left to prepare a mansion for his children in the air and i'll join him in that land until no sorrows can be found when i received my mansion robe and crown lord i wanna mention lord robin a crown and love will always abound so let me in your thrones around lord please reserve a [Music] now from the work that i've tried to do but one day i'll be rewarded with a crown so bright and new i'll wear a smile silver right for there'll be no calls for a crown when i receive my mansion rope about [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] please reserve a mansion roll back around [Music] amen next we'll look at uh him number 19 him number 19. let's start with him number 19. actually we're going to do a little bit of a medley on this we haven't done those in a while i feel like let me get back to those methods um and uh this week as i'm thinking about this song i wanted to sing something that would uh really talk about how we could glorify god how great he is and i got stuck on three songs and that's why i ended up with the medley because i said well why not all three so uh we're gonna sing uh we're gonna start with how great thou art and roll into how great is our god just the chorus and then our god he is alive just of course all right kingdom 19 oh lord my god when i end also [Music] i see the stars i [Music] displayed and then sings my soul my save your god to thee how great thou art [Music] [Music] [Music] when christ shall come which out of acclamation and take me home what joy shall fill my heart and then i shall bow in humble adoration and their proclaims my thou art and then sings my soul my savior god into thee i how great thou art how great thou art [Music] and then sings my soul my savior [Music] how great thou art [Music] great [Music] is our god and sing with me how great [Music] how is is our god well how great [Music] is our god and sing with me how [Music] from [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] and he is our god [Music] [Applause] there is a god [Music] [Music] and we survived [Music] we survived from our goal he created [Music] [Applause] [Music] he is [Laughter] [Music] [Applause] [Music] our scripture reading will be taken from genesis the third chapter beginning at verse 8 through 13. again there's genesis the third chapter beginning at verses 8 through 13. and they heard the sound of the lord walking in the garden in the cool of the day and adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the lord god among the trees of the garden and the lord called to adam and said to him where are you so he said i heard your voice in the garden and i was afraid because i was naked and i hid myself and he said who told you that you were naked have you eaten from the tree of which i commanded you that you should not eat then the man said the woman whom you gave to be with me she gave me of the tree and i ate and the lord god said to the woman what is this you have done the woman said the serpent deceived me and i ate let us all stand for a word of prayer our most kind and gracious father we come this morning sitting around in your classroom this morning god sitting at your feet looking at you and thanking you for so many blessings that you give us there are blessings lord that you give us every day that many times we're not even aware of but you bless us you touched us this morning and let us arise out of our beds to see this day and to have this privilege to come and assemble together that we may worship and praise you but god in the midst of these times lord we have so many families that are are hurting this morning because among our families we've had so much loss so much hurt so much heartache we've lost family members due to over variety of different health issues but lord even with those things that are going on you still give us joy you still give us hope you still give us encouragement because lord each one of us that walk through this door today has something going on in our life something that we need to stop and just say thank you lord please help me lord reach out to you and say lord i give my all to you and lord this morning as we are assembled together we know that lord you knew long time ago that we needed each other we needed each other to make it from day to day when we can look around and see others look like me who are saying i want to make heaven my home lord we're grateful this morning for a minister who will come before us and we ask that you give us the open and receptive heart of the message that will be taught because it's so easy to hear something that pricks our heart and walk away with a blind eye but we pray that lord that while we're here this morning we leave better than when we came in the door lord thank you for so many blessings we thank you for our leaders here at this congregation knowing that it's not easy being a leader when you're leading so many people but you please lord wrap a hedge around them that they're able to continue with boldness soundness to lead all of our teachers as our new teaching programs and bible schools begin more today we pray that we all take advantage of the opportunities that are before us because they're going to be a time when we know that satan will back us up into a corner and we need to be able to come out victorious we just thank you again for your blessings in jesus name we do pray amen as we prepare our hearts and minds for communion let us recognize number 296 him number 296. [Music] and and i love that old cross where the deer rest and best for [Music] reach the older again [Music] i lay down [Applause] [Music] [Music] good morning i stand before you as this is the part of our service that we call the lord's supper this is where we commemorate the death the burial and the resurrection of our lord and savior jesus christ our scripture reference this morning will come from the book of first corinthians chapter 11. beginning with verse number 23 and the king james version reads for i have received of the lord that which i have delivered unto you that the lord jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he break it and said take eat this is my body which is broken to you this do in remembrance of me after the same manner he also took the cup and when he had sucked sand this cup is the new testament in my blood this do you as often if you drink it in remembrance of me for as often as you eat of this bread and drink of this cup you do show the lord's death until he comes let us pray most kind and gracious father in heaven it is again that we come before your throne of mercy the lord has given thanks for this day and this opportunity we have to commemorate the death burial and the resurrection of our lord and savior jesus christ come father we come at this time just thanking you for that ultimate sacrifice so that we all may have a right to spend eternity with you kind father we come at this time just thanking you for this bread which represents his body and this cup which represents his blood and we pray to the lord that we'll take every clean hands in the pure heart as it could take this in remembrance of him until he comes again in jesus name we pray amen [Music] is shame and reproach gladly bear and then he'll call me someday into my home far away where is glory forever i'll share until my troll be set last i lay down i will cling [Music] to the [Music] the church say amen i just believe you can do better than that let the church say amen again turn to the person beside you let them see you smize amen that just means smile but since you can't see their faces they can see your smile through your eyes i know that you feel like i do and that is thankful to be in the house of god on this morning and this morning we have a a treat for you and the treat comes in the person of brother sam bailey we are beginning our fourth quarter theme rebooting god's plan for perpetuating generational faith and that's saying a lot and sam is going to talk to you about that but my goal is to introduce him and i'll just tell you a little bit about him in terms of his bio and then i'll tell you a little bit about him from my personal experience sam is originally from corsicana he comes from a wonderful family our families go way back his mother and his sisters his brother and his dad who passed on last year have meant a lot to the brotherhood sam is married he has two daughters madison and reagan he is a graduate of southwestern christian college he is a graduate of acu as well he has his masters in education curriculum and instruction he is currently working on his masters in marriage and family therapy and lice and licensure as well sam is historically been a teacher and a coach and he is currently the minister at the cedar valley church of christ where he has been ministered for 11 and a half years now let me tell you about sam amen sam is one that i respect sam is one that i admire personally we went uh we graduated rather from southwestern and we also uh graduated from acu together and there's a lot that i could say about that time but i'll just say this more more recently uh sam and i have really rekindled our bond just in terms of lunches and those types of things and sam has the key to language you'll see that there are things that he is able to unlock in terms of communication that other people sometimes find difficult and there was i guess it was about a year ago now that people had been trying to convince me to run for judge and i had people coming to me saying that you should run you should run you should run and i wasn't convinced and i had been praying about it and sam and i went to lunch and just with one question three words the next day i decided to run for judge where people try to you know break down doors in terms of communication or people try to spend hours picking a lock he has the key with simplicity with great wisdom he is able to communicate practically and profoundly in ways that i admire and respect and he's a person that i often come to uh when i'm trying to figure things out he's a sounding board and i'm blessed to call him my friend and so we're going to stand amen and we're going to sing a verse of a song and you're going to have an opportunity to to hear this powerful man of god my friend sam bailey let us recognize him number 790 hymn number 790 when we all get to heaven seeing the wondrous love of jesus sing his mercy and his grace in the mansion's bright and blessed he'll prepare for us a place where when we go and get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be yes and when we all see jesus we'll see and shout the victory [Music] [Applause] well onward to the prize before us soon its beauty will be old and soon the pearly gates will open we [Music] [Music] yes and when we are seeing jesus who will sing and shout the victory [Music] [Applause] well let us then be true and faithful trusting serving every day cause just one glance of him in glory will the toys of life repay yes and when we are and get to heaven what a day of rejoicing that will be yes and when we all see jesus who will sing and shout the victory yes and when we are and get to yes lord what a day of rejoicing that will be yes and when we are and see jesus who will sing and shout the victory [Applause] he's awesome and there are no words that can adequately describe how good he has been to all of us i don't have to take up a lot of time asking you questions to try to make you figure out how good god has been to you you and i are living testimonies we are witnesses to the fact in that we are here this morning the fact that you got up this morning and knew who you were come on the fact that you were able to put one foot in front of the other whether you rolled in here walked in here or limped in here truly you can testify that god is good you may not have everything in your life that you want your life may not be perfect but last time i checked none of our lives are perfect but truly god has been good and we are here this morning because he's the audience we're here this morning because he has provided for us he has protected for us and most importantly he has made a way for us and it's because of his grace and his mercy that any of us can be anything in him i'm like the apostle paul who says it's by the grace of god that i am what i am and we understand grace and mercy we understand that this is a privilege not a right and god desires our true worship jesus once told a woman in john chapter 4 that worship is not going to be at a location it's not going to be here on this mountain or in jerusalem but god is looking for true worshipers those that worship him in spirit and in truth so when we come together it behooves us to abstinent our minds from anything on the outside that may distract us from both giving our praise to god but receiving what he has in store for us and so i believe god has a blessing for for all of us i'm so thankful to be here today i'm so grateful and i'm humbled by the invitation to be here at greenville avenue so many times throughout the years we've been here and we fellowship together and i see people who have been influential in my life people have been impactful to my life people who have poured into my life and to our family and it's just such a blessing especially during this time of covet we've all been at a distance for a while and we haven't been in the presence of one another but i just want to let you know that it's so good that you're here and many of you who prayed for our family last year as shelton said as we lost our father and uh your prayers meant a lot to us you sent cards and words of encouragement and i know this has been a season of losing of sorts for many of us but one thing i know that god is still in control god is still able and we are leaning on him for our strength and for our encouragement and god is so good that he allows you to get through what you may not ever be able to get over but if you keep your hand in your hand trust in him he'll lead us in guidance i see my mother and my sister here i just want to always acknowledge them in the balcony so good to see them here to today and and they have been encouraging and supporting me as well as i know uh some members of cedar valley said they will come and support and i appreciate them as well all those that may be watching online supporting as well and to the fine leadership of this congregation many of us know that leadership in the age of covet has been challenging and difficult so hat goes off to all of your leaders appreciate them and as i walked in here this morning what a beautiful edifice to see all the changes that have transpired it's wonderful and here god has blessed you all and what a what a blessing and it's warm and inviting and the people have been warm inviting as well as i stated earlier uh to brother gibbs a long time minister here and just so influential in my life some of the words that he shared with me i quote him often some of the things he said that i've heard him say publicly but even more importantly privately to i've always appreciate he and sister gibbs their spirit of faithfulness humility the ability to stick with the word and just to give us an example of what it means to be a godly man with a godly family so so thank you and to the elders here thank you as well you all have fine elders and shepherds and just to see the minister and elders work together uh that's a great example to all of us and i've been able to work with the elders i've worked with brother hart and brother greene throughout the years on many things as well as the other elders so just thankful for that and i said the cowboys used to have when i was a cowboy fan when i was a cowboy fan uh i've been with the patriots for 20 years but i don't want to start no stuff this morning but so now i'm with the bucks but uh that's a whole nother issue but um but when i was a cowboy fan the cowboys had some triplets uh troy edmond and and mike and uh greenville has some some triplets now uh dynamic trio of ministers and uh and a blessing brother worthy uh who i appreciate his introduction this morning brother brother worthy has invited me to be a part of many things he's come and participated many things with us and we have like spirits like backgrounds i appreciate he and sister worthy and and the work brother bradshaw which he and i have throughout the years have talked and chat and i love him and his family i know my wife's family and his family go way back to california i appreciate him and his spirit and his enthusiasm and then last but not least uh shelton uh me and shelton i could sit up here and talk about him all day uh and as we got an older i always joke with him like what happened all i thought i was a pretty nice guy but what happened to all my real friends uh and shelton and i have become real friends if if the word is true which iron sharpens iron shelton has truly sharpened my life and i'm thankful god for him and i'm proud of him to see what he's become not only in the gospel but i believe we need more christian and influential places and god has blessed him because of the life he's lived and the example he's lived and my feelings for him are just as uh as just as affectionate as he is are toward me and i appreciate appreciate that that work that encouragement today and it means a lot so thankful again my family couldn't be here today for a number of things my wife wanted me to tell you guys she's sorry but under the weather you know some of y'all who have seasonal allergies know during kova you can't sneeze or do nothing sneeze or or cough or anything so you know so we're together we're good and uh you know people are always doing stuff we're fine and just thank you all for for the blessing i want to sing a song uh today and i know i was working see i i know how it goes we've been doing two services since covis so the people at the first service know they got me back against the corner uh because you got to get me out of there to get the second service in uh but you know in the second service y'all know we gonna be a little bit but i almost still be mindful of it and state of my my text and in my sermon but i wanna sing a song uh and it's a song we sing i think it'll go uh with with where we are for the theme and it's it's called lord you renewed me uh and it goes oh lord you renewed me and it goes i never would have made it you renewed me and then it goes jesus jesus jesus you renew me so i'm gonna sing the the first verse a few times until you get it and we'll go from there and i said oh lord i said oh and i said oh [Music] lord and i said oh oh lordy you re he knew y'all got it one more time everybody sing oh when i said oh oh oh [Music] never would have made it and i never would have made it i never would have made it lord i never would i never would have made it i never would have made it you really knew oh i never would have made it i never would have made it lord i never would oh you know that i never would have made it you renew me we call on him jesus jesus jesus yes jesus jesus jesus oh it's jesus jesus jesus you renew oh and i know that it's jesus jesus jesus in the morning jesus jesus in the nighttime jesus jesus jesus yuri oh [Music] and i said oh lord [Music] your fourth quarter theme rebooting god's plan for perpetuating generational faith when i looked at it and was examining the theme control alt delete i i believe that metaphorically speaking the church and where we are in terms of computers technology was an analogy i think to describe where we are and i think it's accurate and it's true i've often said through the past few years that we have been pressing the refresh budding the refresh button is when you press a button and the screen might disappear for a second what's on the screen but then the same thing comes back up again we don't need to keep refreshing things we need to reset and reboot um and you all have said throughout the years and you know that we state that the definition of insanity is to keep doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results well if unless you've been hiding under rock you you would know that this world is headed in a crazy direction and there's an author of this there's an originator of this there's a perpetrator involved jesus described in john chapter 8 and verse number 44 that he was a liar from the beginning and when he speaks he speaks of himself there is no truth in him and he's still working today he's prevalent among our societies he's doing his work he's busy and if we are going to pass on the faith that was instilled in us if we're going to fast on the principles that that those that came before us poured into us then we've got to be aware of some things i believe that in the church if you speak a revival people talk about revival all the time we need a revival well i believe if we're going to have a revival we must have a return i believe that we have gotten away let's be honest parents uh we have gotten away i i was joking this morning brother a word that called me a young man which i am appreciative of it you know on the court sometimes i think i'm young till some of these young guys remind me of that uh you know i i used to think i was jason kidd shelter now it's more like jason are you kidding me and they had to remind me my knees remind me that i'm no young and so now i look up i'm i'm in the child rearing years and i realize sometimes and even being a teacher school coach there's a great disconnect in some of the principles that i received the and and then the new generation today and so uh what happens is sometimes why do we do that as parents we receive all of these things that sometimes we look back and in the moment we feel like our parents or our mentors or our instructors they were hard on us but after a little time elapsed we go back and thank them and we appreciate them for what they instilled in us and we appreciate them i appreciate my dad for bringing me to the business meetings and i appreciate him for teaching us how to center the communion and i appreciate them for teaching us that if nobody showed up at the church you got to read the scripture you got to sing the song you got to preach determine baptize them if you had to and we were equipped to do anything that needed to be done in the lord's church and so what happens is parents grow up and you turned out okay and now you grow up and you say that what worked on you will no longer work on your children because now we are in different times but i want to to dispel that myth this morning that just because we are in different times human nature still remains the same and just because we are in different times the enemy in which we are fighting is still the same he has not changed his methodology he's just fighting us on different turfs and i want to let you know if you're going to fight an enemy you cannot fight him on his turf you've got to bring him out and fight him on what you've got to fight him on and i maintain i'm ready to preach this second time around and i maintain that when you fight the devil you've got to fight him with the word of god and so we're trying to fight him with mitts and and wives tales and and cliches and that stuff won't work no more and we got a generation that's walking around that don't know nothing uh they don't know nothing don't want to be nothing don't want to do nothing but i got to defend this generation they were raised by us and some of us say what's wrong with this generation well the same thing that was wrong with y'all y'all was hiding behind barns and sheds and creeks and all kinds of stuff and it's the same thing because human nature is not changed and as i go through this message today i was thinking i debated all week and brother bradshaw gave me this thing months ago back in february and i as i'm prepared and thinking and meditating i said so much i want to and the spirit i even had two sermons two sermons prepared today but the spirit led me back to the beginning if you want to know how to get back on track you got to first know where you went off and i think there's some great insights to be uh gleaned from this text now somebody says i heard the text before i know the story of of adam and eve but but as i approached approaching george williams always told me this you know when you approach a text empty yourself and ask god to give you revelation on some new insight because there's some things in the text that will reconfirm what you already know but then there's some things that god will give you that will be relevant to the moment and one thing i love about the bible that even though it's an ancient book it's not antiquated in other words what that means is these these principles these precepts these ideas they can be extracted from history and be brought into the present day and time for us to find application and when you hear this word the bible says you ought to be a hearer of the word and not a doer of the word according to james if you hear this word and do not do it you deceive your own self now the hebrew writer says in hebrews chapter four and verse number two the word was preached to us as well as to it was to them but it will not profit you if you do not mix this word with faith the just shall live by faith paul says now we don't walk by sight we walk by faith the opposite of faith is not fear the opposite of faith is sight so to put faith in our children means to put something deep down inside of them where they have a sense that they trust god's word for what it is even no matter where they are no matter what they're going through no matter how they feel about it they trust that god will guide them and direct them because they are staying with him it's passing that faith down and i said this morning and uh the devil has given us a lot of lies and i i got to say this because it's just on me i say this where god says everywhere to go the devil wants you to believe this morning uh that you're in more danger coming to church than you are going to kroger y'all have an outstanding we've been doing it for a whole year we got an outstanding group of brothers come they wipe down the stuff they spray we got our mask on after you do all that what more can you do y'all went to the football game the cowboys game the grocery store the concert your kids go to school you do everything go to the gym and all of a sudden on sunday morning everybody gets scared [Applause] the devil knows what he's doing it's all about the information he said now in this particular sermon they normally this is the point of the sermon i would say this is my title or my subject i'm going to go on a little bit further and then i'm going to give you my subject all right so i need you to stay with me because i'm going to my subject i'm not going to be long now to go back to the beginning we know the story but just to kind of summarize it we know that god said let us make man in our image and he made them male and female that's a whole nother sermon right there because one thing the devil wants to do is is to to to make there an area shaded gray and i think he's trying to demasculize manhood and men are no longer want to be men men want to be women women want to be men children don't want to do anything and so the home is dysfunctional because anything that anytime anything is dysfunctional that means it does not work according to the manufacturer's design god had a design for the family i don't care what you say what you think it is there's all kind of families you can study on blended families there's single parents those things are good and if you're a single parent you've been holding it down you take home you know go work the bacon bring it home fry it up in the pan that's good and that's fine as well that's not god's design for the family it was god's design that a man and a woman be in a home and they'd raise their kids and the man would be the head and he would be abandoned around his home and the woman would take care of that home that proverbs 30. i know that sounds good on paper but that's how god designed it and sometimes when we mess up and we distort things and we tame things we believe that that it is the way it is that's just my that's your story but god has a way god put them where he put them and he said that he wanted them to be fruitful and multiply and subdue the earth god says look i've given you everything every plant on the surface of the earth every tree that has bears of fruit after his own kind and god saw everything that he made and he said it was good and god saw everything he made he said it was good but there was one thing he said it was not good that was good it was not good for man to be alone god took the man he placed him in eden to work in the garden and to watch over it and the lord god commanded the man he said you are free just stop right there you're free to do whatever you want to be see there's liberty in christ the bible teaches us that we don't use our liberty to sin we use our liberty to serve and i want to tell a young person something if you are blessed to have a mentor or blessed to have somebody who's guiding you and direct you god has put them in your life for a reason and the bible we look at it as some kind of restricted book that's trying to keep us i'm a christian and i have a good time i have a good time and i enjoy my life i i join my family i i and that's a lie from the devil that being a christian obeying god keeping his word that that's a boring life that's a lie from the devil i need one person this morning to get up and testify who's lived in the world and who has gone to the far country to tell us how good that world has been to you that world will bring you in it'll chew you up and it'll spit you out and it'll waste precious years and time off of your life and somebody ought to testify about that this morning remember the young man in luke chapter 15 he took his inheritance in a spirit of entitlement and said give me what's mine that's the first step when you know you headed down the wrong road is entitlement god doesn't owe you and i anything we are in debt into him it's the only type of of relationship that the law of reciprocity doesn't work most of the time in relationships they only work when there is reciprocity i give to you you give to me and there's a flow but god there's nothing that we can give to god that satisfies the debt in which we owe him and he said give me what's mine and he took his journey into a far country and i asked this morning how many are in the house some of us are like the older brother we lost in the backyard then some of us are are like the younger brother some see you're in the far country before you take one step outside of the house it's a far country mentality he went to the far country he wasted his substance on riotous living and then he came to himself after he had messed up after he had wasted let me tell you something you ain't got to go out on these streets and into the world to learn look listen you don't have to tell me i've seen enough meth addicts to know i don't need to be taking meth [Applause] the bible gives us some examples of things to avoid but no we don't like freedom somebody says i don't like freedom then break the law a free man lives like a free man see you only as free as the constitution says you are i can do whatever i want to no you can't you can only you're only free to operate in the bounds of god's law and that freedom is what gives you liberty and then he says he told him you're free of doing everything but you must not eat the tree of the knowledge of good evil for that day you will certainly die he told that to adam now think about it right here when god spoke to adam the woman was not present present this was a direct command to adam now as we fast forward we see that that god said it was not good for man to be alone and and what he did he took a rib from his side and he brought the woman to the man and adam that said this is bone of my bone and flesh of my flesh she was taken from the man and he said for this reason a man shall leave his father and his mother and he shall cleave to his wife and the two shall become one flesh and then the bible says they were naked and not ashamed or naked and not afraid let me stop right here say there is absolutely nothing wrong with being naked that's the way god made it i want to show y'all from the beginning everything that god made was good until the enemy comes in to distort it so say ain't nothing wrong being naked just depends on why you're naked and who you're naked with remember moses had a mountaintop experience with god he came down they were dancing naked and worshipping idols moses said why are y'all naked i think some of us are spiritually naked right now the devil strips us down to where our shame and our guilt takes a hold of our lives they were naked and they felt no shame and here we see the first family in which god has ordained and instituted is now dealing with dysfunction because the bible says now the serpent was more cunning or more subtle subtle y'all hear me this morning the devil is not operating overtly you're not going to see it somebody says that's the devil no the devil the devil works in smoke screens you think you're looking at him over here but he's over there he's not up in your face he works in deception you know what deception is is when you promise something that you cannot deliver on he promised the woman something in which he could not deliver the world is offering our children society and politics we're offering uh our children and even some of us things that that that do not satisfy and he came to the woman now now i liken this this as i mentioned this morning my brother was here my mom tells me to tell shannon not to jump on the bed first of all she tells me don't jump on the bed and then i go and relay that to shannon you know shannon mama said don't jump on the bed god gave an express direct command to adam now the devil if he's smart uh which he is and cunning and crafting he didn't go to adam so he says how do you know that was significant if if he knew he would have been able to get he's going to go the least the easiest route to accomplish his thing he knew exactly what he was doing i'm going to go indirectly i'm not going to come directly at him adam heard the commandment god told him what to do i'm gonna come indirectly around and i'm going to get the closest thing to him i'm gonna get the one who has it here i want to stop right here today say bro you know i i love y'all but brothers the devil might be working through your rib to get to you i love you all sisters i really do look at the brothers don't want to move like amen he's going to work well because y'all don't believe this now i know i sound old school but if you want to cut off any organization if you want to cut anything off that's alive and move it cut it off at the head make all the men act like women make them be afraid to lead make no one have any values or morals or standards anymore make them not know what it means to protect your house and to pour into your children and to be an example of faith and of love and of charity and exercise the fruit of the spirit in your life if he can cut off the head he's cut off everything same thing same thing he says to the woman did god really say man you know what god's saying did god really say and that that's why he gets some of us we don't read the bible i say this all the time you can be pitiful or powerful but you can't be both the reason why some of us are so pitiful is because we don't plain and simply put we don't read the bible you can have as many desk flip calendars of thoughts positive affirmations the bible app reminders you can have a bumper sticker that says hunk if you love jesus you can have 10 black jesuses hanging up in your bathroom you can drape crosses around your neck and do as many hail marys as you want to do i don't care what you say at some point at some point you got to believe god for what he says you got to start putting this word into practice changing one word adding one word we like to add to the word in the church we don't take away a lot i've seen a lot of folk add stuff i had a lady attacked me one time she said you sing a song that's not in the red book because that's god's authorized song i say yes ma'am but we add stuff but he says has god not said or god has not surely said right god didn't say that i know what god is saying in other words i'm adding because i want you to believe that god is holding something back from you i want to tell you this morning god ain't holding nothing back from you his divine power has given us everything pertaining to life and godliness everything you need to know is right here to get to glory listen and so there's no reason there's no getting the glory and saying jesus my homeboy you're gonna let me in this your boy hook me up listen people are always running around talking about i'm going through hell hell is not something you go through hell is somewhere you go to [Applause] and listen there is no alternative for missing heaven king agrippa told paul paul you almost persuaded me to get a be a christian there is no uh consolation prize for almost teaching your kids almost wise how do you feel if your husband came home on valentine's day say i almost bought you some flowers i almost passed my class i almost did it i almost won i almost finished the race there is no consolation prize and we live in a generation where we say you get a prize for participating that ain't how life works in life you win or you lose the song we used to sing oh lord you know i have no friend like you and if heaven's not my home then lord what will i do there is no alternative and the devil knows that and so he attacks us from our foundation he attacks us in our home front he attacks us with this idea as if he's all you know while we're moving around trying to find what he's doing he's working the same way he worked in the beginning but we ought not to be ignorant of his devices and so what he says he comes in and changes god knows this god god's holding us back from you he says god knows when you eat it in verse number four verse number five that your eyes will be open you will be like god knowing good evil and then the woman saw the same three pitches y'all he's working same three pitches ain't nothing changed i used pitches as a metaphor baseball metaphor i used to play baseball and and i was a fastball hitter which means i could sit back on it and if they was coming right down the middle and i knew it was coming i could d off on it and get all my power and i love that but if a guy had multiple pitches he became more difficult to hit because multiple multiplicity of the pitches kept you off balance and i often say apprehension exists because of lack of comprehension where there is comprehension apprehension is reduced the more confident you are in god's word that's why when paul says be anxious for no thing when you know who god is and what he has done your apprehension level goes down because you know god's in control but the more pictures you're throwing at it the satan only has three pitches y'all think about this i like to make it plain three pitches john chapter 1 john chapter 2 for all love not the world neither things in the world for all that is in the world lust of the what flesh the lust of the what i and the pride of life is not of the father but of the world same three pitches if he's gonna get into our homes and to our church we're looking for some magical form it's gonna come to the flesh through the eye and through pride of life hasn't changed somebody said you don't believe it look in the text in verse number six the woman saul [Music] y'all remember a song we used to sing a little be careful little eyes what you see be careful that eyes for the lord god above is looking down on love and we were singing those songs that was cute in vbs that's real everything that look good to you is not good for you looking to get a lot of y'all in trouble brother ain't nothing wrong with looking [Applause] looking wrong looking long looking to get you in trouble you better turn the other way satan knows if he go the eyes are the window to the soul uh if you look long you you'll never know what'll happen in your mind and in your heart and your spirit you can't minimize be careful our kids are looking at a lot of things on youtube and looking at a lot of things on hbo and looking at a lot of things on tv and those things are impacting many of them in their formative years what you see impacts you this is true i i don't really like scary historically i don't like scary movies and um but i'm i'm old my my i have a teenage daughter she tries to watch some and i try to watch a witch and i've got a little better now and it's not because i'm scared it's because i really i i i see y'all older folks when you get older your nerves get bad i understand now just over stuff that normally didn't bother you trucks driving around your nerves get a little worse and i i i'm becoming y'all see no progressive commercial i'm becoming my dad you're becoming your parents and and uh so you know i was watching a movie one night and it was michael myers or somebody in the in the thing and i don't like real stuff i can deal with aliens but i don't like real psychotic real people and uh fell asleep and i woke up the lice was off and i saw some in the corner and i walked over and i checked the door i looked outside i was looking for him to be on the street why because i had something i had just seen on a movie [Laughter] no matter how strong i thought i was it affected my head it messed me up on the inside those image pornographic images images have affected society in ways that we can't even understand used to be a man would have to leave out of his house to go see it now it just come in through his computer and his phone then the wife's like why are we intimate no more i wish i could talk to a real audience this morning he saw the food she saw it then she said it was good her belly became our god it was good to her that's lust of the flesh listen paul says to be carnally minded romans chapter 8 is death but to be spiritually minded is life and peace the oldest principle in the book seed time and harvest to sow to the spirit is to sow everlasting life to sow to the flesh is to reap corruption he says in galatians the spirit and the flesh work against one another they're contrary to one another so you can't even do the things that you want to do stop walking around talking about i don't think the devil is all knowing can read our mind but sometimes i'm weak oh i'm weak then why are you going over there why are you inviting them over why are you exposing yourself to it you got to look for that hook as i said this morning you know james says every man is tempted and enticed when he's drawn away of his own lust you can't blame anybody else and the devil knows he's going to he's going to tempt you customly based upon your patterns your habits and he's going to test you he's good at testing there's anybody here that's been has been in the test going through a test right now anybody know going through a test i want to encourage you right along through here let me tell you something i spend time in the classroom and no good teacher worth their salt will talk to you while you're taking your test no good teacher will do that in other words i've given the information even if it's a pop test all a pop test says is that you don't know when the test is going to occur but you know i will not test you without giving you some sort of prior knowledge in other words this is what it's about god will not tempt us we don't tempt god god cannot be tempted of any man don't test god but god will test us to prove us to try us to see where we are y'all don't believe me go to matthew chapter four the bible says that jesus was led by the spirit on purpose into the wilderness to be tested of the devil you want to be something but you don't want to be tested how do you know if you're really walking with god until you're being tested some of our homes are being tested some of our marriages are being tested many churches are being tested during this time and he's testing us to prove us to to strengthen us and you think about it the same three pitches he was throwing at jesus y'all remember matthew chapter four jesus was led by the wilder about the devil to be by the spirit to be tempted of the devil wilderness and first he was hungry after he had fasted he came in his flesh and he says turn these stones to bread and jesus replied the same way we ought to reply when we're being tempted and tested it is written i know what the word of god says i know what they're telling me on cnn i know what biden and trump are saying i know what they're saying down the street but i know what oprah and dr phil is saying but it is written i know what the word of god is saying and when you've got the spirit of god guiding and direct you you can decipher truth from error and we're thankful that with the holy spirit in us gives us the power not only to have discernment but it seals us according to paul in ephesians chapter 3 to the day of redemption i was ordering i was opening some vitamins the other day and that my family hates when i you know tearing stuff in my teeth and it was a plastic thing on top of the cap and it said sealed for your protection and okay i'm trying to get into it tear it off open it up and there's another one on top of there says seal for your protection then i take that off there's a cotton ball down inside and i was like i'm never getting these things it's frustrating but i thought about i said isn't that the holy spirit sealed for your protection means that there is no contamination in this bottle see when the holy spirit is involved in the church churches don't spit i've never seen spiritual men split a church you can't have spiritual leadership and have a dysfunctional family it don't work like that so the holy spirit when he is present he seals you what that means is nothing on the outside can get in that don't supposed to be there but that also means there ain't gonna be nothing on the inside that gets out as well some of us we try to front and food what happened why is that boy like that you know why that boy is like that i cussed him out but i didn't mean it bible says it's that which comes out of the mouth which defiles a person which comes out of your heart that stuff was already in you and then what happens is when the holy spirit seals us for our protection you can be in the world but not of the world many of us are parents that start letting down our guard and we start doing things and letting them go and i think sometimes i like to purposely put my children my children think adversity is making a bed like many of your children can't do nothing can't say nothing to them some of these young guys you know used to be anybody could say something to you can't say nothing to him guys now guys don't smack where i'm from [Applause] smacking me and then twist off uh walking away and nobody says nothing because it's not popular we came up we struggled a little bit earned our way through school shouting to my abilene man i'd go to i'd be so happy y'all give me a twenty dollar bill i'd go give me a uh make chicken sandwich uh some fries and and ice water and i'll be good what y'all know about a syrup sandwich what you know about a sugar butter sandwich and if you're really down you know about a mayonnaise sandwich and you ate and you were satisfied and nobody gave you nothing you worked for what you had you were appreciative of what you had now kids got cell phones playstation how you got a playstation 5 and you can't pass your classes i shouldn't have to ask you to make up your bed or read your bible or come to church i lay down my life for you i give you everything you need and all i want you to do is trust and follow the lord you ought to look at your parents look how god has blessed your parents and you all gonna be somebody says children oh why'd i gotta obey my parents cause it's right not because you understand it not because you agree with it i don't agree with everything my parents said but i did it because it was right [Applause] honor your father and your mother and you'll live long upon the earth that's what the bible says man should not live by bread alone but by every word that proceeded out of the mouth of god then he took him up to the pinnacle of the holy city to the temple and then he he he tempted him in the area of pride throw yourself down show off charge angels to come catch you then lastly he says in verse number seven in the area of eyes he says after he took him up to exceedingly high mountain he says if you bother to worship me i'ma give you all this let me ask you something how can you give me what's already mine [Applause] [Music] we are not ignorant of his divisives jesus says after that he says verse number 10 he says get behind me worship the lord god and serve him only same three pitches y'all i'm moving toward a close i got three closes usually that was my first one i got two more short ones and then i'm almost done but back to the story i'm about to give you my title and i'm done after he played them after she took the fruit she ate it she gave it to her husband wouldn't it be different if her husband had said when she brought him the fruit no sweetheart i heard god what if adam was a little bit like job job all this stuff you're going to want to curse god joe said you speak like a foolish woman see how they know say i want to stop right here because we let adam off the hook but adam had a chance to stop it you got a chance to stop some things in your when you know truth or marry you got to stop error in the tracks you can't let it you can't let it manifest you can't let it grow same thing in the church i say okay we ain't got time for slander gossip and foolishness in god's house and if you see it you got to stop it in his tracks adam should have stopped it right there it had been a whole different story their eyes were open they knew they were naked they sold fig leaves and they hid from god you know why because it's the nature of a sinful man to hide from god there are a lot of people who are not here this morning we got to keep preaching and teaching them and do our best to restore them galatians 6 1 if you see your brother overtaken in the fault he with your spiritual restore such a one in the spirit of meekness if you see somebody if you're in a boat and somebody falls over you don't give them swimming a boat etiquette instructions while they are drowning what you do is you send them a flotation advice get them back up to safety and then talk to them about where they are and we got a lot of people who have been overtaken and false because they believe that they get themselves together then they come back to god's house but we know different you cannot get yourself together apart from the lord the young son did not repent when he came to himself there are a lot of people who know they're in the wrong you you know him your nephews your grandson i know i should be back there at the church my grandmama raised me in that church that don't mean nothing you knew he repented when he showed back up at his father's house you know the repentance is the return it's not the desire to return it is the return repentance is when i get back on track that's when i walk away from it i'm not trying to walk away from it i turned my back on it i'm walking from something good to the best i'm walking toward the best and he says he says he says we hid from you what are you hiding from the lord came walking in the garden in the breeze can y'all see it and they were hiding never before had they hid from god now god asked a rhetorical question right here which means he already knew the answer we do it to our kids all the time why did you do that [Music] god says to adam and this is my sermon title right here well this not yet but two when god asked adam god said where are you god knew where adam was god knew what had transpired but god didn't ask adam that because he didn't know where he was god asked adam that so adam would realize where he was what had happened what had transpired how he had transgressed what had gone down and i want to ask you this morning where are you i know you're sitting here in the audience but but i said this morning you know uh the the ojs the gospel according to o.j says your body is here with me but your mind is on the other side of town [Applause] but then again y'all don't listen to ojs this is a mary mary mahenya jackson straight company type of artist but o.j said i told you this morning there's a lot of good o.j sermon you got your hooks in me stairway to heaven um you know a lot of good sermon titles from lj's but but but this one your body is here with me but your mind is on the other side of town and then he says you messing me around the lord said you should have no other gods before me no other god but me anything that you put ahead of god has become your idol you're messing with iran you're playing with him and you want him to bless you but you don't want to follow him and keep his commandments where are you this morning do you still study the word with your family do you still put god into the home do you still strive to be godly examples and pray together and grow together do you give as god as prosperity do you serve those who can't help you do you love your enemies i think a lot of us haven't been challenged on some of the the harder things of christianity amen i read one one time when jesus said if they hit you they slap you on one cheek give them the next i wonder how many of us could actually do that i'll give you one but i i ain't gonna give you the other one cause i'm not jesus well well we ought to be like him and growing like now i ain't gonna say what i would do but i would like to think that i would be like jesus i ain't gonna start off saying i can't do it i'd like to think that i'll be like jesus and sometimes the spirit is willing but the flesh is weak [Applause] but there ought to be a standard they ought to be a stand you know how you know when a dollar is counterfeit and when it's not hold it up to the light the light exposes when we hold our light up to the light of the gospel of christ the good news of christ the mercy and the grace of christ the gospel transforms you inside out and you can no longer be who you were why is it that our old man is so close don't let me go get the old man why is he in proximity i thought you crucified him i thought he went down in the water why do you still have him around always ready to throw out the old man i'm crucified with christ any man in christ he's a new creation old things have passed away and all things become new i'm giving the invitation right now but he said adam who are where are you then he says i heard you in the garden i was naked i was afraid and then here's my sermon title as i told you i would be who told you that where how how do you even how you know you're naked i don't even know what nakedness is because when i designed it i placed you here i told you what to do i gave you everything you need to be successful and all of a sudden you were hiding from me who told you that matter of fact i believe god already know who told to him i believe even in the infinite wisdom of god that this is even for us who told you some of the things that you believe in check your sources this morning i think we got to start checking sources and clarifying sources that's why i make sure i tell my girls everything i don't care what it is i want me i want to be the source of all of your information not out there in the world and what you get i'm going to tell you how it really is versus how the distortion that the world tries to offer you who told you that it's a lot of stuff that people believe listen listen people 50 is the new 30 no who told you that [Applause] i'm out here giving these young girls a run for their money who told you that [Applause] last time i checked 50 was 50. but see if you don't embrace 50 you won't embrace god's new calling for you in that face because the bible says the older women ought to teach the younger women but you can't teach them because you're trying to be them god has moved you into another phase of your life and be where you are who told you that and brothers we got to stop celebrating doing stuff we supposed to do i came home didn't i who told you you were supposed to do anything other than that i bring you my check you know we listen every man who sit in this audience ought to be able to come and stand up here and offer a prayer read the scripture i'm gonna go a little further now i know there's different gifts and variations again but every man ought to be able to at least attempt to try to do it what if you were the only one here and no who told you you couldn't do it who told you you couldn't get out of debt who told your marriage would not be here who told you your kid is so far gone that god couldn't reach you who told you that you don't need to study the word of god no more who told you all this stuff that you were believing and digesting who told you that you two are these kids and these kids don't listen no more and things are not the way that they are oh the nature of human beings has not changed has not changed and i want to say this too before i go that if you want to get someone two things uh the the way the devil works is he works in isolation i find this being true in my life if he he doesn't want me to be sharpened by iron he wants to pull me out by myself like he did with jesus and work on him in the wilderness the wilderness is a place of scarcity the wilderness is a barren place y'all don't think the wilderness will cause you to lose your mind remember what happened when moses when he got out into the wilderness god sent him down there the great emancipator of of of of israel and he went down there and told the mighty pharaoh to let his people go god the bible says let him with a pillar of fire by night and cloud by day and here he is taking all of these people they weren't soldiers they weren't warriors they weren't fighters they were slaves over 400 years and here he is and he's leading them out just as god lead them out the way that he brought him out the way that he wanted to bring them out and he's leading them out and all of a sudden here they are they have the red sea in front of them they have 600 the chosen chariots coming after him he got complaining folks around him and he cries to god and god comes back to moses and he says moses amen why are you crying to me you already know what to do he said speak to the people and tell them to go forward now i don't know i think a bigger miracle than the red sea opening was what moses uh understood with his ride now sometimes god has put us in rod training remember when god called moses and moses didn't think he was adequate enough to do what god wanted him to do remember he said moses what's that in your hand he said a rod he said i want you to throw it on the ground he threw it on the ground and became a serpent then god asked moses to pick the rod up now god has a sense of humor because anybody knows who's watched the crocodile uh king and snake handlers and all that know that when you pick up a snake you don't grab it by the tail you grab it by the back of the head god told moses to grab the snake by the tail and the bible says that moses didn't argue with god but god grabbed us grab the serpent then the serpent turned back to a rod in his hand see many of us are frustrated because we're asking god to change it then we'll grab it god says grab it then i'll change it and i believe when moses got out there because of his experience and what he had gone through and he saw pharaoh behind him in the red sea in front of him he took what was in his hand and he stretched it in the direction he wanted to go and for the first time ever there was a footprint on the bottom of the red sea god has given you what's in your hand god has given you everything that's in your hand to raise your family and to raise them in the lord god has given everything that we need to make this journey and let's not believe the lie that the devil is peddling around to us that you don't have all you need to be happy you are just as happy as you make up your mind to be and comparison is a thief of joy stop wishing your life was well somebody else you want somebody else listen i in my life i'm at this point i don't want one nobody else has i only want what's god god have for me listen you can drive up here and a lambo 360 10 horsepower and i'm gonna come sit in it i'm gonna smell it and uh god bless you on that payment will be no i don't want what you got i want what god has for me and for my family and we we gotta pass that around we gotta pass it i'm done y'all thank y'all for being such a fine artist i i won i wonder where we get our sources sometimes you see a lot of church people believe things i'm learning that where'd you get that from you better verify it you better cross-check your sources and even christians have fallen into this whole political realm we'll do things in the name of christ but really we turn a lot of folks off to christ because some of our beliefs who told you that check it i think i think i think uh i did a sermon years ago called tear up your notes when you follow christ you were in a constant ongoing theological deconstruction and reconstruction zone jesus taught us to rethink how we viewed people how we reviewed life how we loved one another how we grew in his word i don't know where we're getting some i don't know where the kids get some of the stuff they get today some of it's from us you just let it go isn't that isn't that a shame that some of stuff we allow to go on in our homes i see now uh um i become that dude who goes to the house on a tirade about lights being on because now i'm walking in his shoes you know but we want the best for our children and god wants the best for us god's not holding anything back from you he's he's the enemy's work in the same three pitches in our churches and our families like lust of the flesh lust of the eye proud of life if you know that know that he's not coming direct he's using misdirection he's in distortion he's using distraction he's in deception and if he's going to fight with our child we got to fight for our families we got to fight for our children we got to fight to pass down our legacies and our beliefs to them we can't just take this fight sitting down we can't just fold our arms and say we can't win this fight yes we can that's the reason why we're here now because some people have gone but our forefathers went before us and they paved the way for us to be here and i just want to leave the world a little bit better place and my kids may not like everything i have but they know what they daddy stands for and we got to continue to stand for it even when everybody says this ain't the way robert foss had a poem said two roads diverge in a yellow wood i took the one less traveled by and that has made all the difference in my life it's the road less traveled sometimes they might call you a square sometimes i call you a holy rollie sometimes they i say you think you know i don't think i'm holier than now you think that i know i'm flawed and i know i'm depending upon jesus christ but if my light shining bright disturbs you that ain't my problem put on some shades move around let your light so shine that men may see the good works and when they do they'll give all the glory to god all the glory to god y'all been such a fine artist today by being here today this has uplifted my spirits to be a part of this i'm humbled as you begin a new quarter thinking about rebooting refreshing let's get back to the fundamentals the devil wants us to get off we have to have a dog and pony show we got to have all these things to trick kids into you don't have to trick kids into worshiping god they got to have you got to have the word because after a while that stuff is going to run out if you don't have the word david said thy word have i hidden in my heart that i might not sin against thee if the word is not hidden in your heart then you will continue to sin against god what about when your parents aren't around what's inside of you what about when they take you off of the training wheels and you're able to go by yourself how do you know who you are unless you've been tested by it let's not get tired in this fight y'all let's let's take the fight to the devil he can't have our children stop letting them go somebody says i'll just let my kid they're going to do what they want to do anyway but listen you might you might get out that window but i'm gonna make it extremely hard for you to get back in i'm gonna make you extreme we ain't making them work hard enough she says i don't check their phones they got privacy [Music] i gotta go y'all are your name on the bills that come in that means i can go any room any room i go and there's a story my man said sometimes he was somebody came to his house for dinner he was sitting in a chair and then someone said to him uh hey you know i see you not sitting at the head of the table i thought you was a head table he says in my house wherever i sit is the head of the table [Applause] in your house check everything go through them phones clothes i don't i wish we would have told my parents we i don't want to go to church i'm staying home [Applause] y'all go tell me about it even if you didn't like it you're going to be sitting there like p3 right there i don't know what he's thinking about but he he's he here he's getting snippets of it but he here he's trying to see the cowboys like many of you so i'm done god bless you all today uh and i've been blessed to be here and hopefully i don't even know i'll say it sometimes when you don't even know if this is what was needed or wanted but i just try to speak as a spirit um gives me utterance and and i'm thankful and blessed to be here today may god bless all of us god bless our families this quarter uh stay on the battlefield keep keep keep knowing that we know this fight we know how to fight the enemy uh but the weapons of our warfare are not carnal uh and we've got to understand that uh we were spitting in the spirits and you can only you can only win a spiritual battle in the spirit walking in the spirit love you all god bless y'all let's keep praying for one another and and y'all pray for me uh as an individual pray for my family if you would call me by name pray for our congregation we are on the same team and we're just at different locations but we're members of the one body and one family and uh it's been enlightening by being here today if you have not obeyed the gospel of christ we are most of us in here are believers i believe and that means we've been born again as jesus told nicodemus in john chapter 3 he must be born again you must be born again of the water and of the spirit and then except you'll be born again of the water and spirit you cannot enter into the kingdom of god baptism does now save us the word says it is not the putting away of the filth of the flesh but it's an answer of a good conscience toward god and what happens is when we go down in the watery grave of baptism we come up a new creature a new creation in christ our sins having been washed away christ saved us he gave it all for us he became the sacrificial lamb for us and for our sins so thankful that jesus was in the mind of god before the foundation of the world he was ordained before the foundation of the world sent into the world to save the world we have new life in him and not only do we have new life in him but paul says jesus christ is the hope of glory we have hope in him for glory there are better days ahead if we change our mindset and our hearts and our attitudes i pray this morning if someone wants to make that great decision this is a great day to do it the day you gave your life to christ the day that you decided to make him your lord and your savior and have your sins washed away well what about those that need prayer god's house is a house of prayer i believe that these uh praying members here at greenville avenue this is evidence of all of you here today this is a praying church a faithful church uh maybe you stumbled in maybe somebody invited you maybe you need prayer for your marriage prayer for your children prayer for yourself prayer for your family to pray for your faithfulness i don't know what you stand in need of this morning but god knows we nobody's here to judge you but we're here to pray for you uh we're here to restore you to build you up and encourage you along the way what a great day what a great opportunity i'm convinced that satan wants us to think that we're in church too long we don't have time for prayer if you're like me i'm going to watch like three or four games today i might even watch clint eastwood movie tonight i got so many things that i'm a watch and i spent so much time during the week doing me we got jobs at work and this is a time for prayer uh so we got time for prayer i know we got time for prayer especially if we are god's people god bless you all today and i pray that we continue to check our sources because the devil is on a misinformation campaign unlike anything that we've seen during these times but we know how he's going to fight us flesh the eye and the pride of life and now we know that we equip let's take that battle to him and let's win it back for god in the kingdom and for our future generations let's leave our future generations a legacy a legacy of faithfulness a legacy of determination and a legacy of purpose that god is going to do something greater than us and let me say this before i go i do believe i'm not a cynic i believe that god it always raises up people who will stand in the gap and do what he's supposed to do people say what's going to happen when we die well what happened when your forefathers died he raised you up what's going to happen when you die he's going to raise up somebody else what's going to happen when i die he's going to raise if as long as god has a plan and god has made an investment he's going to see that investment to completion and it has nothing to do with us that's why none of this has never been about us we're just serving our purpose in our time and then we're going to die all the glory and the honor goes to god god god bless y'all thank you all for being such a fine arts we'll stand and sing a song of encouragement before we dismiss thank you have you been to jesus for the cleansing power are you washing the blood of the lamb [Music] [Music] spotless or they're white as snow and all you wash in the blood of the lamb are you walking daily by the sea yes are you washed in the blood of the lamb do you rest each moment in the crew see if i know you wash in the blood of the lamb and all you are well in the blood well in the soul cleansing blood [Music] spotless all the white as snow and all you wash in the blood of the lamb lay aside the garments that are stained with sin and be washed in the blood of the lamb but there's a fountain blowing for the so unclean oh be washed in the blood of the lamb and all you wash well in the blood well in the soul cleansing blood of the lamb all your and spotless are they white as snow and all you wash in the blood of the lamb oh in the bright groom cometh will your rose be white pure and why in the blood of the lamb and will your soul be ready for the mansions bright or be washed in the blood of the lamb and all you washed well in the blood well in the soul cleansing blood of the lamb [Applause] are your garments spotless are they white as snow now you wash in the blood of the lamb and all you wash well in the blood well in the soul cleansing blood of the lamb [Applause] well all your garments and spotless are they white as snow and all you wash in the blood of the lamb [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Music] you [Music] i have in jesus all our sins and grace to bear and what a prayer to carry [Music] everything to god in prayer hallelujah [Music] [Music] ya [Music] [Music] amen we want to thank brother bailey for a wonderful message this morning we have one who would like to come and put their faith in baptism we're going to ask anastasia anova ivanova and anastasia i'm going to ask you a question do you believe that jesus christ is the son of god yes that confession brought death to our lord and savior jesus christ but will bring life unto you once you complete your obedience in baptism are you willing and ready to serve god for the rest of your life yes i am amen amen [Applause] amen as i said earlier we what a way to kick off the fourth quarter ready said show and we really heard from my brother bailey this morning we just want to thank him for his study and his the way he's presented the word of god this morning and we are so thankful for all of those who have responded we're asking that you uh continue to pray for these our brothers and sisters as as we call your name satan has [Music] i'm [Music] [Music] for jesus [Music] upon my [Music] jesus i was pierced and bled [Music] me [Music] that i finally [Music] all that i might [Music] he poured [Music] okay [Music] oh [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] oh [Music] [Music] mountains fall into the heart of the seas uh [Music] [Music] [Music] is [Music] [Music] fall into the heart of the roar and fall [Music] [Music] is [Music] oh [Music] he loves you more today than [Music] he loves you more today than yesterday but no no not as much as tomorrow take a look around me the life it seems so scary i know that he is with me because he tells me he loves me so dearly so dearly i cannot imagine how he loves me that's how much he loves me he loves you more today than a yesterday but not as much as tomorrow he loves you more today than yesterday than yesterday when [Music] when [Music] remember these words that he loves you more today than yesterday oh but not as much as tomorrow [Music] you more today than yesterday than yesterday but no no one had as much [Music] [Music] really something wow thy word o lord is a lamp unto my feet and a light unto my path please o lord order my steps and i'll praise your name [Music] [Music] humbly i ask you to teach me your will while you working help me be still satan is busy god [Music] in your word [Music] [Music] my step in your word jesus christ upon your confession that jesus is the christ the son of the god and the holy [Applause] to spirit jesus i have decided to follow jesus i have decided to follow jesus no turning back no turning back oft we come together oft we sing and pray and hear we bring our offering on this holy day so help us lord thy love to see [Music] [Applause] [Music] good morning church stand before you for the collection it is commanded that we give each lord's day up on the first day of the week and i have scripture texts that i will be reading and it would be taken from the king james version first corinthians 16 verses 1 and 2. and that's first corinthians 16 verses 1 and 2 and it reads now concerning the collections for the saints as i have given orders to the churches of galatia even so do ye upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by him in store as god has prospered him that there be no gathering when i come let us pray dear heavenly and gracious father father we are so thankful that you allowed us to wake up this morning to be able to come and serve you dear heavenly father and father you have blessed us in so many ways and father we pray that we give back just a small portion that you have blessed us with and father we pray for these funds that are collected here today that they be used for the upkeep of your kingdom amen and so father we do this praying all prayers in your son's name jesus christ and we pray amen there's a total of four ways that we can that you can give the first way is to drop off your offering here at the building the second way is to mail your offering into the church and that address is 1013 south greenville avenue richardson texas 75081 and again that's 10 13 south greenville avenue richardson texas 75081 and if you do mail in your offering we ask that you do not mail in cash the third way is to go online at gacoc.org and click on the link and follow the instructions for giving the next way the fourth way is to text the word give to 972-440-2335 and again that's text the word give to 972-444 and if those in the audience today if you brought your offering with you you can drop your offering off in the back there's a box or basket that you can drop your offering in at the back thank you amen whatever wonderful day of worship we've had we just thank god and we thank brother bailey for again once for a wonderful message we want to welcome those who are visiting with us this morning we want to know that you want you to know that you are honored guest we have several cards and i'm just going to call your name and if you would stand and we're going to ask all of our visitors to stand so we can just put our eyes on you i have a caroline richardson kevin terrell joy thomas michael williams uh bessie um okay lisa ricks and carly bovee and any other visitors do we have any other visitors in the audience would you please stand at this time we just want to say welcome welcome to greenville avenue church of christ it's so wonderful to have all of you here with us anytime you're in the area please feel free to come back and and be with us in our services just want to say thank you for joining us this morning just a few announcements i say a few uh just a few announcements this month is service group awareness month and so this uh all of us are in a service group so all of us can participate but this month is dedicated to to service and there's a service areas and this week we'll focus on encouragement and mentoring so encouragement and mentoring so let's encourage each other in our service group let's reach out to those and encourage and mentor them as we go throughout this week on the website there is an opportunity for you to to to register and i'm going to say register but submit and volunteer for service in your service group there's serv there's what's five or six service areas and we would love for you to be able to to sign up for those uh various service areas so that you can continue to work in your service group so go out to our website and you'll see there's where it says service areas and then you can work you can sign up for those areas then also this friday we will have gratitude part two brother green last month uh focused on gratitude we had gratitude part one uh brother patrick worthy will be focusing on gratitude part two that's gonna be on friday at 7 00 p.m and we'll your service group leader will be providing you all of the zoom information that you need to participate in that then on saturday we got a lot going on then on saturday we were asking for all of our families to come together at 10 a.m and pray for it pray for our families pray for generational faith pray for our children pay for our relationships let's just pray for our families because we know that god that satan is attacking our families but through prayer the power of prayer we god will help us in our families then at 7 30 we're asking those who can to come out we're going to have a movie night there's going to be a drive-in you know y'all remember where the driving movie okay we're going to have a drive-in we're gonna have a drive-in movie you know you're getting i don't think we'll have the things where you sit on your okay uh but this is gonna be a drive-in movie where you can listen on your radio and then we'll we'll have a movie so 7 30 in the parking lot they're going to have a drive-in movie that's on saturday so it's saturday at 10 we're going to pray for our families then we're going to come out saturday saturday night and go to the go to the movie all right the other announcement i want to make sure that you're aware is pack the pulpit in times past we this congregation has been very uh supportive of pack the pulpit and typically in pre-covet we would have this pulpit full of different kinds of dry goods and paper towels paper paper goods and all of those things last year we had packed the parkit packed a parking lot where we drove in and we distributed goods this year because of covet and some of the challenges that they've had we're asking that the congregation provide a donation so we're asking for you when you get when you're giving so the month of of uh october through the first week in november we're going to ask the congregation if you would to provide a donation and all of this goes to the arms of hope uh and that's bowls home bowls and medina homes and also uh housing for the crisis center all right so your donations will go towards that so when you just like when we did the disaster relief there would be an option for pack the pulpit and if you so desire where we would love for you to be able to donate and that will be available for the month of october so we just really appreciate your your participation in cooperation in that and the funds will be divided equally between bulls homes bose and medina home children homes and the housing crisis crisis center you can make those donations online like i just mentioned you can write a check and then in the memo area put write it out to greenville avenue and put pac put or write pack the pulpit right easy enough for me to say or you can or you can give a cash donation put it in a offering envelope and write pack the pull pit okay so you can do it online you can write a check or you can give cash but we just appreciate everybody's support on that the last announcement that i have is concerning the covet and so we wanted to make sure that we want to thank the congregation first of all while we're in continuing this covet situation the leadership uh continues to evaluate on a weekly basis all of the the different challenges that it presents to us as a congregation and we want to just say thank you for your cooperation um starting today and you should have received a text message and or an email starting today our bible classes will move have moved from saturday to sunday and so our bible classes going forward uh will be sunday at 3 p.m so all of our youth and adult classes will be on on uh sunday at 3 p.m okay i think the preschool is still on saturday but all of our our all of our bible classes are now back on sunday at 3 p.m going forward while we're in this covet situation also wanted to make sure that the congregation is aware is that we will also uh only have uh 8 and 10 a.m services we will no longer have the 5 pm services okay while we're still in this covet situation so we will have the 8 a.m the 10 am and then we'll also obviously have the live streaming as a as a worship option as well so we will have that we will no longer have the 5 pm service during this time now once we get past all of this lord's will and and uh we resume normal worship service we will bring back evening services at that time but we'll make sure that the congregation is well aware of every step that we take as we go forward we just just pray just pray for us as we continue to try to navigate and make decisions um just thank you for your cooperation and your flexibility as we continue to do this all right okay if you have any other questions please see one of the elders or one of the ministers and we can certainly answer some questions any further we're going to have a closing song please remain seated oh i'm sorry we got to introduce [Music] get my mask on anesthesia come on anastasia anastasia ivana this is your spiritual family typically we would come down and greet you but we can't do that because of the pope but all of these people are here to help you in your christian walk god bless you for the decision that you've made and we will be here to support you as you all right amen thank you all right [Music] he's sweet i know he's sweet i know they tell me the storm clouds may rise and the strong winds may blow [Music] wherever i go i'll tell them that i found a savior and he's sweet and he's so sweet you know he's sweet i know oh he's sweet i know they tell me the storm clouds may rise winds may blow but i'll tell the world i'll tell them where wherever i go i'll tell them that i found a savior and he's sweet i know amen brother let's pray father in heaven thank you for blessing us all to come to this place to hear an excellent message it is our prayer that everything that has been done here today has been pleasing and acceptable in your site as we bring this message to this service to a close it's our prayer that you protect and keep every last one of us as we go to our different destinations until we meet again just continue to bless this great church bless everyone the entire congregation and just continue to just protect us in this crazy world father in jesus name we pray amen um [Music] you up and magnify your name [Music] [Music] you up and magnify your name me oh me [Music] as i look around and i see all the things your hands have made the awesomeness of you and now your love will never fade me words could not express how i feel inside i can't describe your glory divine as a token of my love this is what i'll do i'll lift my hands [Music] holy [Music] oh [Music] [Music] [Music] to tell you how much i appreciate the wonderful things you've given me your loving kindness and tender mercies [Music] want to tell you that i really really love you you're worthy of glory lord i don't know why you love me why you show me so much mercy why you suffering die for me way back on calvary but i thank you thank you i thank you thank you [Music] and we give you all the praises [Music] [Music] [Music] [Applause] so [Applause] holy [Applause] [Music] [Applause] lord of everything [Music] [Applause] [Music] um [Music] is [Music] [Applause] [Music] holy [Music] [Applause] [Music] uh [Applause]

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Published: Sun Oct 03 2021