Worship Service | Dr. Errol T. Stoddart | 08-14-21

feeling so very weak you say i can't be strong i feel [Music] like you tell me [Music] is [Music] standing there [Music] where do i go [Music] so [Music] do [Music] [Music] so [Music] uh [Music] two [Music] bye [Music] oh [Music] me [Music] do [Music] [Music] so [Music] bye [Music] i was glad when they said unto me let us go into the house of the lord worship and magnify his name let's stand together as we worship our god and save you amen amen [Music] lift your voice [Music] drink of the water [Music] come find his mercy come to the table he will satisfy his taste of his goodness find what you're looking for with one that he voice us [Music] [Music] bring [Music] jesus is [Music] is [Music] is [Music] the world foreign he gave us his one and only son to save us whoever believes in him will live forever [Music] now it is [Music] god [Music] bring all your failures bring your addictions come lay them down at the foot of the cross jesus is [Music] come on i think you can put your hands and bless god on that come on bless the lord everybody for god is good i'm so glad that he loved me enough that jesus came to die for my sins come on bless the lord today if you love him bless the lord today if he's been good to you bless the lord today if he's kept you glory to god hallelujah to the lamb of god we give you praise we give you glory and honor o lord for keeping us safely through this past week god for many of us there were many bumps in the road there were many accidents along the turnpike of our lives but you kept us you protected us you preserved us you placed a shield around about us the devil wanted to wipe us out but god blocked it we just want to say thank you lord hallelujah glory to your holy name we pray that as we linger in this place and worship and adore and lift up your matchless name that we will feel the brush of angel's wings that will see glory on each face and we'll know surely the presence of the lord is in this place this is our prayer lord we pray in jesus name let everybody say amen amen and amen come on just give somebody a wave offering from a long distance to all those who are watching online we give you a wave offering this morning we say hey god bless you we miss you we love you come on in the house god is moving god is doing a mighty thing it's great to be in the house of the lord god bless you you may be seated [Music] amen and amen and amen today is uh one of the days that we continue our series on doctrine and today we're going to be teaching about speaking in tongues and matter of fact i think we're going to teach on that subject this week and next week there's a lot of philosophy a lot of ideas a lot of differences in how people view this concept should christians speak in tongues most christians speak in tongues is that a sign that you have the holy spirit we're going to discuss that uh in our teaching today uh i don't know about you but i i i i want the holy spirit to fill my life i thank god that the holy spirit is working in my life right now anybody just want to thank god that the holy spirit is working in your life anybody know for sure that the holy spirit is working in your life thank you jesus thank you we don't take anything for granted but the holy spirit not only does the holy spirit give gifts but the holy spirit convicts of sin of righteousness of judgment and godliness and so i i want the infilling of the holy spirit in my life today we're excited also because today we have baptism [Music] come on come on folk come on now come on now heaven is rejoicing and if heaven is rejoicing there ought to be some rejoicing down here because uh in spite of all that's been happening with this pandemic we still have baptism we still have precious souls who are committing their lives to jesus christ or going down in the water grave of baptism to rise fresh clean to walk with jesus in newness of life remember we're still practicing all of the safety measures measures prescribed by the cdc and the state of new jersey social distancing to the best of our ability and even though that has not been so much a part of what's been advocated we still advocate social distancing don't don't come upon my space give me my distance give me social distance give me long distance can i get a witness somebody uh um but in addition to that we remind everybody to keep their face mask on uh except when you come up here and there's a reason we put all this time and energy and money into these plexiglass uh of shields so that um you know we can make sure that when people are speaking from this podium from this pulpit that there's some way to ensure that uh we we block what's coming from here to there in addition we encourage you get your vaccine hello i got mine and what is being proven ladies and gentlemen in spite of what the conspiracy conspiracy theorists have been saying what is proven is that the vast majority when i say vascular i mean like 90 plus percent of people who have the delta virus and who are hospitalized because of covert 19 90 plus percent of them did not get vaccinated that's a fact so whether you believe in the vaccine or not the fact is that the vast vast vast majority of people in the hospital as a result of covert 19 are unvaccinated so i want to encourage all of us um you know you know if somebody said well you know pastor the vaccine is the mark of the beast your cell phone is more for mark of the beast than the vaccine because they can track you with this foolishness hello you think the vaccine is your problem this is your problem as long as you have this the man knows where you are so if you're not giving this up if you if you still have one of these and talk about you're not getting a vaccine you are crazy if if your problem is not being tracked throw this away y'all didn't hear what i just if your problem is not being tracked throw this away because it has a thing on there where when you touch it it shows where you're located gps your global positioning system come on somebody so i'm just talking facts i'm talking reality i've heard all the conspiracy theories ladies and gentlemen and uh you know uh the fact the proof is in the pudding and right now the states who are under vaccinated are the states where the delta virus is running rabbit so i want to encourage you to do your best to get yourself uh in a healthy place and in a in in the best possible place for the preservation of your health um i we have a wonderful guest today mr alfred bundy is here from essex county community college and i had the privilege of meeting with him and with president of essex community college uh just a few weeks ago some of us clergy were invited to this meeting to find out about this free education thing we've been hearing about in essex community college is this free education thing and although at seven day adventists we advocate our schools and we talk about oakwood and andrews and so on and so forth all we are also realistic enough to know that all of our children will not attend those schools and if if we can get a free education and if there's a way to get a free education i think we ought to know about it what do you think i think we ought to talk about because because all of our families need to be elevated by the grace of god and i think it's good stewardship when we bring people in to help us better our young people and better some of us older folks who want to go on to greater and better things by the grace of god so i'm going to invite mr bundy up if you'll come now mr alfred bundy and share just a few words with us in greetings from essex community college and tell us about this uh this possibility of free education not only the essex community but i understand there's a way to get free education at rutgers too so i'm sure you know a little bit about this and you'll bring us up to speed uh is there a uh brother just use this okay great thank you thank you mr bundy please take a minute and share with us uh a little bit of what's going on and how the broader community can benefit from it uh good morning good morning i thank god that your leader here your pastor cares enough about the community and the world and all of you that he knows that education is important certainly i love the lord and i'm glad to be back in this house and y'all say we're back in this house well i'm not a member of this church but y'all were a bridge over troubled waters y'all were a place that helped my church that i'm a member of saint matthews a.m e church and while we were building and re constructing our new edifice for saint matthews we came here every sunday in this marvelous church one of the things i'm going to tell you that we got from your church because we didn't have all this electronic digital stuff up on the wall but i noticed rev jackson copy that from this wonderful church here and and we we we replicated that in saint matthews when we reopened our doors you know malcolm x said education is our passport to the future and tomorrow belongs to the people who prepare for it today i think malcolm is right and i'm proud to be from essex county college my name is really al bundy and i'm the executive director of institutional advancement at essence county college and on behalf of our interim president dr augustine bowati i'm just glad to share a few minutes with you this wonderful warm congregation here to death essence county college has all you any student really needs to succeed we are proud that essence county college has been serving this community for over 50 years we provide a high quality of education and around wide range of support services you know we that includes free tuition opportunities a laptop loaner program a food pantry a wellness center or internet access counseling tutoring mentoring we have won the largest financial aid eof programs in new jersey our fall semester begins on september 2nd but if you missed that that's okay because we got another fall two starting in october 20th and if you just call our wellness center our welcome center at the free 973-877-4477 for money at the college thanks to our governor many of you may have read that governor murphy has made it possible that all people who live in households with less than 65 thousand dollars a year can now go to community college free we were part of that pilot program and we are now instituting that program so please it's not a pilot progress law is a legal law here in new jersey we want to thank governor murphy for that so feel free to come take advantage of this opportunity to go to college free we have over 50 associate degrees 20 academic certificates that we offers offer because of covid and us practicing social distancing and being concerned about cdc guidelines this fall you can go to school online in person hybrid remote uh we got all kinds of choices you can pick what's best for you we have continued to be fully accredited by middle states we also have one of the largest workforce development centers in north jersey we have there you may not need a college degree maybe you'll need six weeks two months to get back in the workplace and you become a nurse's aide or a certified medical assistant or get your computer skills sharpened so that you can get back into the workforce you can also earn your ged if you don't have it see we open access the community college is a place you can come you ain't got to have the highest gpa we're going to give you a chance just come on down you're young and old don't make no difference we got people all ages just this past year we had 60 high school students graduate with both their associate degree from essence county college and their high school degree at the same time we also had six seniors who graduated with their associate's degree just this past year when we graduated another eighteen hundred essence county college is also very very proud of our long time success in sports we have a women and men's soccer team basketball team cross country track and field just in this past olympians olympics in tokyo we had three essence county college students in those olympics we're proud to say that over the 50 years we've existed we've had 38 olympians both of them most of them track and fields eight gold medalists from the from our track team in the olympics over this many many many many years remember esse county colleges has all you need for any student to succeed so call us today 877-4777 [Music] essex.edu it has been my delighting pleasure just to come on back home i used to live on this street i was telling representative not that long ago god bless you all y'all have a great day remember essence county college doors are open and waiting for you thank you so much amen come on put your hands together everybody put your hands together thank you so much mr bundy and again uh for for for some of us this may be a bridge this may be your bridge to oakwood or andrews maybe as a parent you're thinking i want my child to go to local ranches but i don't have what i need right now or you may think as a young person my grades are not where they need to be right now i need a bridge to take this bridge and then transfer on after you've done your associates here for two years uh mr bundy uh just to be clear i understand also that new jersey is providing for families with less than 65 thousand dollars a year after they finish essex they can go to rutgers is is that correct sir and i should have asked you that while you were come on out please so so again this is an opportunity for those who um who are financially challenged family less than 65 000 a year do the essex county um associate's degree transfer that to rutgers it certainly is transferred to my state kane especially rutgers newark we have a special program set in place it's a ladder program that allows you if you've gotten those first two at essex for free you can get them last two at rutgers for free so amen this is all about yes that's part of the program that the governor put in place thank you again thank you so much sir i appreciate that come on put your hands together folks this is this is about our young people this is about the next generation we want to see them well do well we don't know when the lord is going to come uh it may be at morning maybe at noon it may be at eve time it may be later this year maybe next year we don't know it maybe in another two years and maybe in another five years i don't know uh with all the trials and tribulations around our world we need to keep praying and stay in the grace in the mercy and under the protective hand of almighty god pray for our brothers and sisters in haiti just this morning seven point plus earthquake 7.2 earthquake struck haiti again we have not yet gotten the because of course it's so early we have not yet gotten the full report of damages but from videos that came out many lives are going to be lost and so to all our members here who are a haitian or of haitian descent our prayers our support are with you and with your family back home uh i tell you this folks and uh i'm gonna get out your way in a minute as we hear the news the rise of the the new strains of the covet virus what's happening in afghanistan the report came out this week about what's happening with global warming and whether or not the tide can be reversed scientists are saying that irreparable damage has been done to the earth i saw an article on the death of the gray whales and the scientists were asking what's killing gray whales in the ocean and with the taliban insurgents in afghanistan [Music] and and i'll tell you now we got to watch that because the taliban take over afghanistan as it appears they are going to do we are going to experience a level of terrorism that heretofore we have never experienced before not only do we have terrorism that's domestic terrorism we have domestic terrorism and domestic terrorists and that's what they are but we're going to be hit from inside and outside as a nation and i hear the lord saying it won't be long this earth cannot continue on its present trajectory are y'all listening to me today something has got to give my spirit was overwhelmed this morning as i heard about haiti and for those who don't know port-au-prince haiti is on the same fault line as kingston jamaica the tectonic plate on which port-au-prince sits that causes those earthquakes runs right to kingston jamaica so who knows who knows fires consuming california heat wave east coast west coast and middle america unprecedented confluence of events across the world are you ready for jesus to come are you tired of all of this are you faithful in all that you do can you look up and say this is our god are you ready for jesus to come if you're not ready i want to encourage you my brothers and sisters to get ready because it can't be long it won't be long so let's get ready let's get ready let's get ready lord help us all lord help me lord help me somebody just say lord help me anybody need the lord to help them got some things in your life you need god to help you with anybody got some challenges you need god to help you with lord help me lord help us and get us ready for your second coming go shift gears brother smith come on up and do the welcome my friend uh they help us to kind of uh transition our minds a little differently here now and uh again ladies and gentlemen next weekend get ready for next weekend it's gonna be great we're going to have our social event next week uh we have the fun sunday fun day next week sunday and then right after that shortly after that we're going to be we're going to be blocking off central avenue like we'd normally do and it's going to be our health fair back to school event central avenue uh right there uh it's going to be absolutely magnificent the first sunday labor day weekend in the month of september god bless you thank you brother smith good morning everyone with all the catastrophe going on in our world today i'm so glad to know that god is still in control i'm here to do the welcome this morning and i want to welcome each and every one to the churches of the oranges those who are visiting online welcome and our members and our visiting friends welcome the songwriter puts it in these words when he said safely through another week god has brought us on our way let us now a blessing seek while we wait in his courts today so as we wait upon god to richly bless us i say welcome welcome welcome just wave to your neighbor and just say welcome have a wonderful and a blessed sabbath day give me that thing again so of worship this morning is number 27 rejoice ye pure in heart shall we stand as we ascribe praise and glory and honor [Music] your king rejoice rejoice rejoice [Music] [Applause] be voiced that's full and strong [Music] rejoice [Music] by [Music] one god forever [Music] is [Music] praise the lord everybody praise the lord everybody praise the lord it's been a trying week for many amen but i'm so glad that we have come together today to worship and praise our god amen so we want to sing together and lift our voice and give our highest praise to the most high god amen praise him praise him jesus our blessed redeemer he is worthy to be praised you can stand if you want to stand you can sing if you want to sing we want you to sing with us amen because god is worthy to be praised come on sing praise him praise him everybody praise him lift your voice praise him praise him [Music] praises come on say jesus jesus [Music] come on i don't want you to look at me i want you to open your mouth and say praise him praise him him he's a good god praise him open your mouth say praise him praise him [Music] went [Music] jesus [Music] [Music] until they're going down [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] open your mouth and say praise him praise him come on say [Music] this is my favorite part [Music] hope of salvation [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] saint jesus christ [Music] [Music] he's [Music] somebody here he's myself [Music] my blessed hope jesus [Music] jesus call on jesus jesus [Music] every mountain will be made [Music] heal your relationships [Music] your education you didn't get it on your own jesus [Music] one more time call his name jesus [Music] [Applause] [Music] is come on give god praise hallelujah amen so because of who you are we've come into this house to praise god amen amen not because he did anything for us but simply because of who he is god doesn't have to do anything else for us he's still god amen amen so because of who you are i give you glory because of who you are i will lift my voice and say lord i worship you amen lord i worship you because of who you are i want you all to sing this with us amen we're here to give god glory and praise this morning so we are here to praise his name everybody church sing with us come on because of who you are i give you glory of everybody you are i give you glory i can't hear you come on open your mouth because of who you [Music] you are because of who you are jesus because of who you are [Music] because of who you are [Music] one more time let's do that again you sound so sweet because of who you are come on say that like you mean it because of who you are because of who you are [Music] [Music] are who you are [Music] he's my provider [Music] [Music] you're my prince of peace [Music] lord i worship you lord i worship you because of who you are [Music] because of who you are [Music] victory [Music] please because of who you are [Music] am i speaking to somebody today [Music] lord you've never lost the battle [Music] you are victorious [Music] because of who you are [Music] because of who you are [Music] you are [Music] hallelujah [Music] come let's worship him everybody just worship him amen just worship him thank you lord if he never does anything else for me he still deserves our worship amen he's already done enough he's kept me when i couldn't keep myself provided for me when i couldn't provide for myself healed me when the doctors didn't know what to do made a way when every way was shut can i get a witness is there anybody who knows about the god i'm talking about what a mighty god what a mighty god what a mighty god he is thank you lord it's prayer time it's time for us to call on him to seek his face in prayer we invite you to assume a prayer posture where you are and if you want to come down you can do that as long as we social distance and keep our mask on keep your mask over your nose as we come down if you if you feel the need to come down if not just slip out to the edge of your seat to fall on your knees whatever god impresses on your heart to do right now we invite you to do that as we seek god in prayer let's pray come on [Music] we want to pray for sister raquel gilpin again today saw a note from her on facebook [Music] not only did she lose her father a few weeks back but on top of that she lost an uncle and an aunt within just a few additional days so she needs [Music] our prayers for all of those who are grieving [Music] so many people that we know family and friends have been lost you just need god to heal and to touch [Music] for those of us who are traumatized from the chaos in the world and we need we need god's presence [Music] this is the time god this is the time come on elder leslie pray for us please call on his name we need [Music] our grace of god and father we applaud you once more for your greatness for your goodness for your faithfulness for your righteousness and for your justice lord we are so thankful that we are here in your presence your holy spirit moving in this place on the line in the homes where persons are joined to worship you and we want to exalt you heavenly father because you are worthy to be praised from the rising of the sun and to the going down of the same and we want to be clear that we are not daunted by circumstances of our lives because we will give you thanks in every situation because we know that you are indeed our refuge and strength our present help in times of trouble and so father we want to take the opportunity to first give glory to you to honor you to praise and bless you joining with the celestial band that is in worship at this time because we are given the privilege to join in the fellowship of the mystery and to delight ourselves in thee we do not only deny it when things are going good because we have studied this week's lesson and we have found out that even in the the trials we should have opportunities to rejoice and take them and rejoice in you because we know that you are good in the good times you are good in the bad times no matter the circumstances father you are good and here we come father because the week was not all smooth it was not not all guarantee and good but indeed we have some challenges we have some setbacks we have some serious painful experiences this week and indeed further if we do not recognize the situations that are upon us we can lose sight of the reality of life and so far that we take time out to make mention of that which we're going through this week is a tremendous week and yet a tumultuous week because in all the beauties and goodnesses that we can rejoice and testify about we have to acknowledge that there are some skirmishes along the way some lives have been lost some families are plunged in the morning and souls are crying souls are weeping souls are wailing heavenly father but we know that there's a sore word that you have given unto us that you will comfort us in these chain times this week oh lord sister mcpherson lost their mother but the lord ask them one they're mourning hope they're more knowing that there is a day coming that very mother will rise again but in the interim heavenly father they deal with departing the fact that they will not be able to speak with mother again sister raquel gilpin likewise lost her dad and this week she lost her mother or aunt and yet another member is hospitalized oh lord we ask when will it end oh lord in this life the struggle will not end only death will end the struggle but we are here to live for jesus because that's what's matter so lord have mercy upon our souls that we will be strong in tolerance we'll speak strong to withstand these effects of life oh lord just yesterday my friend i lost my friend oh jesus and while i was processing that i learned that my sister lost two of her sisters and she needs comfort oh father we are thankful that you have sent the comforter to impress us on how to address these issues to help our loved ones to know that yes these things will happen but god has given us a special gift yes that we need to employ in these times of declining goals memories don't live like people do they will always stay with you whether they be good or bad our families our loved ones they have gone on but they have left us with good memories memories that we can cherish memories we can talk about memories we can praise god for and remember them knowing that they will be with us again as the resurrection comes and so father we pray them up this morning and we thank you for the opportunity that we are able to reach out and touch somebody's heart let them know that it is not the end and the spirit of god is comforting them oh father we pray for we know that we are here to worship you and we're gonna hear from you a word fitly spoken as apples of gold in pictures of silver so we ask that you will place a special anointing on your minister and servant yes because he needs it and we need an anointing too upon our ears and our hearts so that they will be playable and the world will fall upon our hearts as it fall upon the good ground oh lord we pray that none of us will be wayside heroes none of us will be throwing place here none of us oh lord will fall short of the blessing that you are given to us oh father we thank you we bless you we honor you yes and we praise you in the blessed name of jesus christ our lord and savior amen and amen [Music] all you've done lord [Music] lord we give you [Music] [Music] amen bless the name of the lord bless the name of the lord thank you lord jesus today we have two testimonies in terms of individuals who have heard the call of the lord who have been inspired and impressed by the unction of the holy spirit to make a decision to go all the way with jesus in baptism and so we're excited for them today we delight in the lord and what he has done in their lives uh dmitry nestor uh dimitri police stand please stand dimitri and sister kelly barnett sherwood please stand sister kelly come on somebody ought to praise god heaven is rejoicing right now there should be some rejoicing in the church of the oranges because heaven is rejoicing we say welcome welcome welcome we are delighted for you glad that you've consented to the heart tug of the holy spirit you have said yes lord what you want for me is what i want for me lord and so we praise god for your decision we will do what we typically do an abbreviated version of the examination of the candidates matter of fact i'd like you all to come out and stand here facing congregation so everybody can see your faces and um as you see them we're not going to hug them we're not going to shake their hands we'll give them some pound or some dap and uh give them a wave let them know we are delighted that they are part of the church of the oranges come on put your hands together and bless god one more time everybody amen and so we say thank you jesus we say thank you lord for them now we have just a few questions we want to ask you and we want you to respond by saying yes just say yes i think i do is um you know we are kind of ancient with that but just say yes do you believe in god the father and his son jesus christ in the sweet holy spirit do you believe in the authority the revelation of the word of god as the only source for doctrine and for guidance for your lives and it is it your desire uh giving your life to jesus christ today making that surrender is it your desire to order your life according to the dictates and precepts and instructions found in the revelation of the word of god is that your desire today amen having been studied with and understanding the centrality of the commandments of god the centrality of the sabbath the uniqueness of the seventh-day adventist church in bible prophecy is it your desire to be a part of this church to support the church by your tithe your offering your influence by your example by your witness is that your desire to represent jesus christ and the principles and standards established in the seventh-day adventist church is that your desire amen understanding the nearness of the coming of the lord jesus christ the evidence signs all around us is it your desire by the grace of god to order your life in such a way to testify and witness for christ in such a way that when he appears you'll be able to with open arms lift up your hands and declare hello this is my god i've waited for him and he will save me is that your desire and your intent ladies and gentlemen you've heard them respond to this abbreviated version you can rest assured that they've been studied with by the bible team we thank god for the bible team uh sister vilma uh elder hutchinson elder morris who are here today where where's the team where's the team give them a hand give the team a hand everybody give the team a hand because i want you to know that uh during covet the team did not take time off y'all didn't hear me the team did not take time off during covet they worked throughout the entire covert experience they were online on zoom conference call whatever they needed to do to get the bible study done that's what they did and so i celebrate them thank god for them for their hard work and thank you all brother dmitry sister kelly for accepting the call to be a part of what god is doing in the church of the oranges today in preparation also for his second coming ladies and gentlemen we'll entertain a motion then granting them transfer or granting them membership subject to baptism do we have such a motion at this time do we have a second all right any discussion all in favor say aye oppose you may leave eyes have it it is so carried come on come on come on we bless god this is a good time and so take me to the water take me to the water i'm going to ask that the deaconesses will lead them here to the baptismal pool where elder morris is prepared uh for the baptismal process itself take me to the water priest team are you going to help me thank you [Music] come on everybody take me take me to the water take [Music] [Music] take me to the water [Music] take me [Music] none but the right [Music] first of all brother dmitry nest story is our first candidate coming to baptismal pool today he's a young man who's determined to go all the way with jesus his favorite bible verse is the 23rd psalm because he truly believes that the lord is his shepherd his guide and he also loves psalm 92 because he will always give thanks to the lord and psalm 100 because he will always praise the lord his goal is to consistently draw closer to the lord and help people in his community come on everybody one more time put your hands together for brother dmitry nestor so brother dimitri we welcome you to the church of the oranges i want you to know that whatever challenges come your way god is on your side and he will see you through amen and so because you love the lord jesus you've accepted him as your lord and savior you have said yes lord we will go all the way with you it is now with great joy that we baptize you in the name of the father in the name of his son jesus christ and in the name of the sweet holy spirit amen [Music] hallelujah sister sister kelly barnett sherwood has a fire in her belly for god she wants to be whomever the lord wants her to be to do whatever he wants her to do she's blessed with a loving family who is here to support her put your hands together for the family everybody amen amen glad the family is here and uh they're excited about her new church family uh and uh we hope that they too will come on and be a part of the family amen amen and amen uh her favorite scripture is psalm 61 and she has decided to follow the lord completely rejoice with her heart as we hear her favorite song goodbye world and we're going to play that now donna mcclurkin goodbye world that's your favorite song yes lord goodbye pleasure yes lord [Music] [Music] amen goodbye world on everybody i stay no longer with you goodbye pleasure no longer with you i made up my mind to go clock away the rest [Music] and so sister kelly we praise god for you because you've said yes to the lord jesus you've committed your life to him all the way it is now with great joy that be baptized you in the name of the father in the name of jesus christ [Music] [Music] [Music] [Music] with you goodbye [Music] the rest of my life [Music] [Music] do [Music] happy cyber church [Music] oh for [Music] his grace all glory and grace shall rest upon him so willing to die in my place i will glory [Music] in the cross in the crossless is suffering all be in vain i will weep no more for the cross that he bore i will glory [Music] in the cross [Music] sin was all that i [Music] [Music] unworthy to peace from his table of life till love made provision for me and i [Music] [Music] supreme [Music] see i will weep no more [Music] for the cross that he bore [Music] see i will weep no more [Music] [Music] hallelujah [Music] [Music] [Applause] amen come on bless god one more time everybody our sister thank god for her uh she was a professional singer for uh jamaican reggae star back in the day toured europe did all that and then she said i'm giving it all up for jesus come on somebody come on come on [Music] so we're just glad you leaned that you're here and uh you know she got that straight no-nonsense face but she is a joyful saint of god god bless you girl thank you for ministering to us today uh the song of inspiration and meditation uh i will tell you this i i suspect i'm gonna be more teaching today uh you know when you get a certain age you can sit down if you want to can i get a witness somebody is that right mama is that right you can sit down if you want to [Laughter] so i'm going to sit down a little bit today and i suspect i suspect that uh there'll be a lot of people who are not gonna be happy with me today but it's okay that the people who love speaking in tongues are not gonna be happy with me and the people who don't believe that anybody should speak in tongues they're not gonna be happy either so buckle up and get ready for a little ride but we're gonna go into the word is that all right everybody is that all right and uh next week i will deal a little bit with the charismatic movement in the seventh-day adventist church in early adventism i'm going to give you a little history next week just to let you see where we have come from i think a lot of us don't know where we have come from and we were given them a really and and hear me well we were given a really modernized version of adventism but i'm going to take you back to some stuff next week that will make you a little uncomfortable but if you love the lord you'll be all right is that all right everybody my sermon really is coming out of my book my first book i'm going to really share from a chapter on the worship and speaking in tongues my book the silent shout a guide for biblical praise and worship so i'm going to be kind of sharing directly out of out of my book from that chapter quite a bit of research was done and got a lot of input from people that i respect as scholars uh adventist and non-adventist scholars to give their input and insight so i think it's a balanced book on the subject and i will also add this i've never spoken in tongues [Music] all right i've never spoken in tongues my mother told me she spoke in tongues and she was a good adventist you already know that though my mother was one of them sanctified hat wearing adventists cold rice and peas chicken leg eating on sabbath non-heating she's not heating up her food she's on them original adventists can i get a witness somebody anybody can say that's my mama too anybody that's my mama too anybody had their mama like that had some cold macaroni and cheese on sabbath god rest her soul my girl tulu juanita stoddard my girl my mama uh but um she said she spoke in tongues and i thought that interesting i want us to make sure we go back to the foundation of this manifestation uh acts chapter 2 is the foundational passage for the subject matter of speaking in tongues all right to all of those who are watching online thank you for taking the time to join us and uh you can type in the chat if you've spoken in tongues or not spoken in tongues sorry i type in the chat i have or i haven't uh want us to kind of be interactive as we share this message today i want us to share this with the people that we know because there's much debate and discussion about this subject and those who are of a particular persuasion believe that it must be this way and others who are of opposite persuasion believe that there's no way it should be this way so let's let's let's go to the word and then we're going to pray can we stand for the word today is that all right everybody i know we've gotten used to the covet thing of not standing on all of that but let's go to the word remember to keep your face mask on over your nose also and um let's go to the word the bible says and when the day of pentecost was fully come they were all what everybody in what and suddenly there came what as of a and all the house where they were and it filled all the house where they were sitting and there appeared onto them what cloven tongues like as of fire and it sat upon each of them and they were all filled with the holy ghost and began to speak what kind of tongues what kind of tongues other tongues notice the text does not say unknown tongues it says other tongues as spirit gave them utterance all right next verse says and there were dwelling at jerusalem jews devout men out of every nation under heaven and the next verse uh when this was noise the broad when the word got out the multitude came together were confounded because that every man heard them speak in his own what everybody language and they were all amazing marvel saying one to another behold are not all these which speak galileans and how we're here we every man in our own tongue wherein we were born are you there with me parthians and meads and illamites and dwellers in mesopotamia and judea cappadocia and punctures and asia uh phrygia pamphilian egypt parts of libya about cyrene and strangers of rome jews and proselyte cretes and arabians we do hear them speak in our tongues the wonderful works of god all right and they were all what everybody and were in doubt saying to one another what meaning this others mocking saying these men are full of wine ah father god in heaven bless your word today stretch it multiplied encourage inspire direct speak life over your children fill us with the anointing of the holy spirit we pray in jesus name let everybody say amen and amen most christians speak in tongues is speaking in tongues a sign that you have the holy spirit and if you don't speak in tongues does that mean you do not have the holy spirit that is the question that is the ultimate question i heard a televangelist say uh a couple of years back he said and and i'm getting as close to his quote as possible now he said the reason why the devil is so upset about people speaking in tongues is because speak when they speak in tongues it's a heavenly language that the devil does not understand and i thought oh problem why because the devil was lucifer up in heaven he was the covering cherub that means whatever heavenly language there was he knew it unless god created a language separate after the devil was cast out of heaven not likely because you remember when the sons of men and the creatures of the universe came to present themselves before god during job's time satan came and presented himself hello everybody so if your concern is that speaking in tongues is going to give you a secret heavenly code that the devil doesn't understand in the words of gomer pyle surprise surprise the devil fully understands whatever language there is and so uh that has no biblical foundation here's another here's another thing i want you to get ladies and gentlemen nowhere in scripture do we find god or an angel speaking any other language than the known language or dialect of that time and culture did you get what i just said nowhere in scripture do we find god or an angel or a prophet speaking any other dialect other than nowhere in the old testament no other dialect than the known dialect of that age of that era of that community of that society i want that to settle in your spirit right now nowhere in scripture this is this is another point i want you to settle in your mind nowhere in scripture do we see an example or an incident of anyone speaking in a non-translatable dialect nowhere in scripture do we see anyone after the day of pentecost okay and we're going to get to first corinthians chapter 12 13 and 14 in a minute to discuss the essence of what those passages are talking about um and and we're going to get to that so stay with me is that all right everybody but even in those chapters hear me now even in those chapters elder leslie there's no example of anything other than greek aramaic or hebrew whatever the language was it's very very important ladies and gentlemen i would urge that speaking in tongues is not the only sign of receiving the holy spirit speaking in tongues is not the only sign of having the holy spirit in your life if that was the case then jesus didn't have the holy spirit because he didn't speak in tongues hello nowhere in scripture does jesus speak in anything but the language of the day and if jesus didn't have the holy spirit and the bible says the spirit of god came upon him like a dove after his baptism come on if jesus didn't have the holy spirit uh we are all in trouble because it was the spirit of god that moved jesus into ministry come on we are in trouble if john the baptist didn't have the holy spirit we're in trouble john the baptist clearly had the holy spirit and john the baptist did not speak in tongues [Laughter] moses guarded by the holy spirit elijah calling fire down from heaven had the holy spirit did not speak in tongues i'm suggesting ladies and gentlemen that if if people say the sign that you have the holy spirit is that you must speak in tongues then none of the aforementioned individuals had the holy spirit because none of them spoke in tongues there's another thing i want to leave with you what we call glossa today glossolalia where people fall on the ground foam at the mouth and sitting on the mourners bench until holy ghost comes down and you know they say a couple of words and so on and so forth and then somebody said that's a sign that you received the holy ghost ladies and gentlemen i would like to suggest to you today that what happened in the book of acts had nothing to do with that what happened in acts chapter 2 had nothing to do with glossolalia had nothing to do with what's happening in most churches today that practice speaking in tongues are y'all with me so far are y'all with me so far everybody and i don't like to make fun of people uh and we shouldn't do that but some of it is funny you know when the preacher take off his jacket and i said man i'd like to be able to do that one day have all the members of my church standing all of them standing up y'all stand up and y'all you know and i take my jacket off and just wave it around and my jacket the breeze from my jacket knock you all down come on somebody anybody seen that he didn't even hit them with the jacket just the breeze and and and and forgive me but people believe that stuff only to find out in many instances that people were paid to fall hello and and and people were paid to say they that a miracle happened can i get a witness somebody there's a lot of deception out there and folks are looking for hope and looking for a miracle and looking for a way up and away out and there are charlatans and and unscrupulous people taking advantage of the vulnerable come on talk to me somebody we are advised don't believe every spirit but try the spirit try the spirit don't believe everything that people tell you test it because many false prophets have gone out satan himself has transformed into an angel of life jesus says if it were possible they would deceive the very elect you've got to be careful of what you're watching and listening to and what you're believing all that glitters is not gold can i get a witness somebody and so what happened in the book of acts the bible tells us clearly what happened in the book of acts what happened in the book of acts is god trying to address what we call in in theology god trying to address the phylological problem the study of philology the origin of languages and you remember what happened you remember what happened how did the world come to speak multiple languages the bible tells us that after the flood people came together and they decided they're going to build a tower that reaches all the way up to god just in case god changes his mind and brings a flood again they say we're going to build a tower and we're going to construct that tower way up into the atmosphere and if it ever floods again we will be preserved from the flood and the bible says that god came down and saw that the will of man was so driven he was so determined that if he continued he would indeed accomplish his purpose and so god came down and confounded their language and so as god confounded their language ladies and gentlemen they would ask for mortar and they would bring leaves they couldn't communicate one with another and so and so god himself intercepted that's a good word god himself intercepted the will the machinations the stratagems of men and that ladies and gentlemen that that idea of man's ability man's determination man's resolve that that in itself is something for us to consider that man was so determined that god said i gotta stop him all right there's a genius in man because we all after all we're made in the image of god come on somebody recently you know my rich brothers flew up into space yeah mr amazon and mr virgin atlantic they both went up fifty thousand feet sixty thousand feet i don't know how many of you are planning to to bid in the auction to pay a half a million dollars to go up into space to look at the earth and see what it's like being 60 miles up in the sky any anybody hearing me today if you got that money i'm going to check to see what you've been doing with your tithe and offerings to see what's going on are you consistent i just want to tell somebody today just just just just so you know i want you to know today ladies and gentlemen i i'm going to have that experience and i ain't got to pay for it because jesus paid it all can i get a witness somebody i'm going to have that experience and i'm going to go where no man has ever gone before way beyond the atmosphere way beyond the stratosphere can i get a witness somebody wave car y'all listening to me i plan to mount up with wings like eagles when that day comes i'm gonna be able to look back and see earth convulsing we shall all be caught up the righteous to meet the lord in the air i'm looking for that day i don't have money for the boys right now i don't have money for virgin atlantic i don't i don't have money for jeff my boy jeff don't have money for him right now but my father is rich houses and land holding the wealth of the world in his hand and he got a plan for me to experience outer space i plan to be there can somebody say amen out there i plan to go i plan to go i plan to go and so ladies and gentlemen back to the tower of babel now the tower of babel was being constructed by man because man determined he's not going to trust god the concept of babylon comes out of the tower of babel because babylon represents another way man's attempt to save himself the essence of all that is babylon represents man's defiance against god and man's intent to save himself in spite of what god said so everything babylon is founded on that and so it was that nimrod led out in the construction of the tower of babel and god confounded their language and so now in acts chapter 2 god is about to address the multiple linguistic challenge the phallological challenge of how do we get the gospel the question god was answering how do i get everybody to hear the gospel who speaks a different language how do i do that and so it was on the day of pentecost pentecost being one of the high festivals people had come from all over the world proselytes and and and those who had converted to judaism and and jews who had lived in foreign lands that they were all now back in jerusalem and they come from all over the world ladies and gentlemen they all were speaking uh different languages when they came and so the jamaican jews would hang together trinidadian jews come on somebody the the jews from rome and and from libya and and from india from all over the world and the prosecutor had been converted from all over the world with their with their variety of languages that were there on that day and the bible says that when the holy ghost came upon peter peter opened his mouth and between peter's mouth and their hearing the holy spirit translated the words so that the people heard in their own language a miracle of god so to be sure and to be clear to be sure and to be clear the gift of the holy spirit as manifested in the speaking of tongues was given for the proclamation of the gospel don't forget that don't you don't you dare get it confused it was not to show off lord have mercy it was so that when the when the anointed holy ghost-filled speaker got up to speak there's somebody in the audience who did not speak the language of that society some foreigner was in the crowd the holy spirit would translate so that the foreigner would hear in his or her own language the holy spirit anointing for the gift of tongues was so that the gospel could go forward ladies and gentlemen they didn't have they didn't have a facebook they didn't have they didn't have twitter no youtube and you know there's a new there's a translator now where you know you see people with this translator that they take up their cell phone and they speak english and the translator translates it to spanish you saw that you saw that that wasn't there then all they had was the holy ghost god have mercy sometimes to tell you the truth i wonder with all the new found contraptions that we have if we're relying more on those than we rely on the holy ghost oh lord and so it was ladies and gentlemen um watch this so so a foundation is established a foundation is established mama there's a foundation established holy spirit comes spoken of the tongues prophesied which represents proclamation declaration prophecy represents proclamation declaration prophecy was not just about foretelling for telling which is telling about the future but prophecy was also considered fourth telling so so the fourth teller was carrying out a prophetic function in some instances what i'm doing right now is carrying out a prophetic function as a fourth teller i'm not a prophet proper but the work that i'm doing right now as a fourth teller is a prophetic work are you all understanding what i'm saying everybody so the the the kerygma the declaration of the word is a prophetic function are you with me and and i want you to understand that so uh we find then not only in acts chapter 2 that the holy spirit fell and they spoke in other tongues but we come back to acts chapter 10 verse 44 to 46 acts chapter 10 44-46 the bible says while peter was still speaking these words this is to cornelius now the holy spirit came on all who heard the message the circumcised believers who would come with peter were astonished that the gift of the holy spirit had been poured out even on the gentiles for they heard them speak in tongues and praising god so they were speaking in tongues and praising god the gentiles were now in the home of cornelius ladies and gentlemen i dare suggest that what happened to them was the same thing that happened in acts chapter 2. luke is not introducing a new phenomenon now he's talking about the same thing that happened in one happened in the other same thing happened in one happened to the other move across then to acts chapter 19 verse 6 the bible says paul placed his hand on them the holy spirit came on them and they spoke with tongues and prophesied so we see this happening over and over and over again why because god is adding to the church god is multiplying his work the gospel is going to lands afar it's going from place to place because god must fight must now fast track the redemption of man in the proclamation the declaration of the gospel to the ends of the earth and so the only way in an age where there was no internet was for the holy ghost to simply give a gift an inexplicable gift a supernatural gift to multiply the effectiveness of the spreading of the gospel now are we together there everybody everybody understand that part everybody together we all right all right we get that now my pentecostal brethren will say to me well pastor explain first corinthians chapter 14. are you ready to go to first corinthians chapter 14. contextually you cannot go to first corinthians chapter 14 unless you come first to first corinthians chapter 12. matter of fact you need to deal with first corinthians chapter one yeah come to first corinthians chapter one what's happening in first corinthians chapter one that led to the writing of first corinthians chapter 14. are you with me let me stand up for a minute this week i had some hip problems uh i don't want to hear anybody say anything about age at this particular time um but i had some challenges with my hip and uh i found myself walking like fred g sanford and um you know but praise god with a little stretching a little elbow in it and slapping it and stretching and you know all that stuff by the grif dock you know all that stuff i didn't take i didn't go see the fresologists and get any injections i'm not doing that i'm sorry i hate needles so you know it took a lot for me to get my covert shot if i hate needles right hello i don't like needles so when i tell when i go to give my blood i tell them you got one shot i'm giving you good veins take it the first time all right because i get to stick you every extra time that you stick me so first corinthians paul is writing to the church in corinth ladies and gentlemen because there are some hard-headed people read the story of how paul formulated that church in corinth and the challenges of the corinthian church was a divided church it was a conflicted church it was an immoral church it was a church that that that espoused epicurean concept it was a it was a church where philosophy was the mainstay everybody come to common there's always some new religion some new philosophy some new idea some new construct and so when paul's opposers those who opposed and went to current and started you know teaching in the church they were they were receptive to it and it began eroding and undermining the influence of paul that's why uh in the early chapters in in first corinthians paul paul says paul is writing now he says listen uh some say i'm of paul some say i'm of peter some say i'm of apollos because the church people were like peter is a true disciple he was actually with jesus others like apollos did you hear apollos preach apollos that man got a silver tongue that brother can preach he was the cd brooks of that day apollos when he spoke his words were like like petals falling from the leaves of the the rose bud he was meticulous and artistic in his verbiage apollos they were like paul paul he's a cross-eyed guy got this long bony nose he's not impressive at all he writes these big letters but he who is he he doesn't talk well he doesn't look good that's the big deal furthermore he didn't see jesus so there was a question there was a question about his apostolic authority so a divided church and a church prone to schisms and so paul begins to right now and he's addressing the schism he's addressing the division and he gets to first corinthians chapter 12 and he speaks about the priority of gifts he talks about the importance of gifts and he says in first corinthians chapter 12 ladies and gentlemen he says in essence the same holy spirit gives different people different gifts as he wills he drews home this point that speaking in tongues is no greater gift than any other gift matter of fact go in your bibles with me to first corinthians chapter 12 i'm going into my uh my cell phone bible this is where we are now this is where we are there's time we used to carry the big old i used to carry my mother's big old brown bible not bible isn't a cell phone that i can't hardly read anyway don't say anything about age please all right so let's go to first corinthians chapter 12. and i want you to get this whole because we're building to something here now we're building to something he says first quantities chapter 12. are you there are you there are you there he says not concerning spiritual gifts brethren i do not want to have you ignorant you know that you were gentiles carried away onto these things unto these dumb idols even as you were led wherefore i give you to understand that not every man speaking by the spirit of god called jesus a curse let us read that again if i give you to understand that no man speaking by the spirit of god called it jesus a curse and that no man can say can say that jesus is lord but by the holy spirit now he says now verse number four i want to go to verse number four you had verse number four now there are diversities of gifts but the same what you see it there are diversity of administrations but the same lord diversities of operation but it's still the same god who worketh all in all but the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to profit what so everybody gets a gift to benefit the whole everybody gets a gift to benefit the whole the gift is not for your self-aggrandizement the gift is not for you to show off the gift is not for you to say look at me the gift that god gives you is for the benefit of the body now that's a whole nother sermon in itself because if i had time i i delve into the fact that many people get confused about serving in church because for them it's not about serving and the gift is about position and power i i said a word if you can't say men say ouch it's about having authority over the people rather than understanding this gift is to edify to build up to make the body better somebody talk to me today it's not for your ego we got nominating committee coming up pretty soon your gift is not for your ego somebody shout out it's not about you it's not about you it's about what god has given to you to be used to build up his kingdom somebody ought to say amen out there say so the verse seven but the manifestation of the spirit is given to every man to prophet wither for the one is given by the spirit the word of wisdom to another the word of knowledge by the same spirit to another faith by the same spirit to another gift of healing by the same spirit to another the working of miracles to another prophecy to another discerning of spirits to another diverse kind of tongues to another the interpretation of tongues but all these work at that one and the self-same spirit dividing to every man severally as he wills so god gives the gift to whomever he wills it's not your conjuring is what god gives for as the body is one and as many members and all the members of that one body being many are one body so also as christ for by one spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we be jews or gentiles whether we be bond or free and have been made to drink into that spirit as a matter of fact if my audio team can throw that up on the screen for me uh the video team media team if you can throw first corinthians chapter uh 12 up on the screen for me so that uh i could see it better than i'm looking on my cell phone right here right now and that the rest of us who are 50 plus and the rest of us can see it too amen and amen all right so so he says for by one spirit are we all baptized into one body whether we be jews or gentiles will be bond or free we have all been made to drink of that one spirit for the body is not one member but many if the food shall say because i'm not the head i'm not the body is therefore not of the body and the ear shall say because i'm not the i am not of the body is therefore not of the body if the whole body were an eye where were the hearing if the whole body were hearing where were the smelling but now have god set the members every one of them in the body as it had pleased him there it goes again ladies and gentlemen god saying in his word i give the gifts as i please to meet the needs of the body and all the gifts are different just like all the parts of the body are different and all the parts serve different functions so the gifts serve different functions some people are teachers some people have the gift of hospitality some people are ushers can i get a witness somebody some people are greeters some people are are preachers some people have the gift of discerning some people are y'all with me everybody so god says i give the gifts to edify the body everybody can play the piano and god knows everybody can sing stop it don't ask me pastor can you sing for church and you know you can't sing no i love you just the same can i just get one witness in the house can we stop playing singing the choir in the back row in the back back row when the mic is far from you you can make a joyful noise and get away with it are we together everybody are we together do you still love me i still love you we agree you don't love me anymore it's all right jesus loves me this i know for the bible tells me so is that are we gonna be all right we're going to be all right just the same so so the text is here is what i want you to leave with this is what i want you to get mike this is what i want you to get i want you to get that speaking in tongues is one of the gifts of the holy spirit so is knowledge so is prophecy so is teaching and god will not give everybody the gift of speaking in tongues that's what he says that is what is being driven home in first corinthians chapter 12. because there was a group in corinth who believed that this special tongues thing was a sign of their unique relationship with god and their deeper sense of spirituality now there are a couple of philosophies about this and i will give you both and you take you you you take what you feel the lord is giving you uh when we were in the seminary one professor came down on the side of the bacchus bacchus they said was a group in corinth who used to make a special sound with their tongues special noise with their tongues and and it was like no no no no no and it was it was it was uh a sound made by these people before they became christians it was one of the pagan practices in corinth are y'all with me so far all right and so as people came from the various culture into the christian church they brought some of that with them that was commingled with gnosticism gnosticism i know i'm giving you a lot of isms but i want y'all to get what i'm saying gnosticism was rampant in early christianity because the the idea was narcissism comes from the greek gynoscope which is to know the idea of to know it represented a people who felt that they knew more about god and knew more of god's will and had a special relationship with god that the regular joe blow couldn't have it was almost a sign of spiritual pride not almost it was a sign of spiritual pride i'm really close to god because you know i can speak in tongues you with me and so this idea of the bacchus one for one professor said crept into the church again commingled with gnosticism and that became this business of speaking in tongues became the highest priority in current and it became the go-to sign that you had the holy spirit that is why you follow first corinthians chapter 12. go right in the first corinthians 13 paul now says in first corinthians 13 even if i speak with the tongue of men and angels but have not love it profits me nothing are you with me everybody so paul says y'all say you corinthians say this is an angelic language okay even if that is the case if you don't have love it doesn't profit you anything and when paul says love vaunteth not itself love is not puffed up he's slapping them right in the face because they are puffed up because in their view my gift is the superior gift i got this special gnostic relationship with god that makes me deep i'm heavy i speak in a tongue only the angels know he's speaking irregular english are you with me everybody and so what paul does in first coming this i'm giving you a context now i want you to follow the the trend of what's happening in corinth and and i believe i'm doing justice to the text rightly dividing the word of truth text with context so when paul says in first corinthians chapter 13 man you can speak with all of that stuff if you don't have love and your pride and your arrogance suggest that you don't you putting down each other in the church suggests that you don't you calling each other all kinds of names suggest that you don't have love you thinking you better than anybody else walking around with your nose stuck up in the air because you speak in tongues and keep this i mean keep it but you don't have love paul says it profits you nothing that all the knowledge you want profits you not a thing and so that is where the apostle paul goes and then you come down to the main chapter that deals with tongues first corinthians chapter 14 and paul hits the nail on the head go to first corinthians chapter 14 if you can and i want you to get this i want you to get first corinthians chapter 14. so you see in verse chapter 13 then he comes to verse he says in verse in first one chapter 14. oh our time is done everybody our time is done uh i'll pick this up next week all right i'll pick this up next week because i don't want to give you too much i think i might have overloaded you already some of you look hungry you're going to be all right you're gonna be all right you're gonna be all right it's all right we gonna let you go get a little water right now so as long as as long as you're not like uticas in the window i want anybody falling out in the window busting their heads all right are we together everybody we together so so are you following the trend of thought though are you following the idea so you see acts chapter 2 speaking in tongues is the language a clear language in first and and all through acts it's a language luke introduces the idea he's not changing his idea it's an idea that's established in acts chapter two and he's simply shares with us every time that incident repeats in a different setting when you come to first corinthians scholars are divided like i said and i shared with you about the bacchus others are at the opposite extreme and they believe that this manifestation in corinth is an authentic spiritual manifestation and i will say scholars in and out of adventism by the way and by the way by the way hello hello i got a good one for you next week there were early adventists who spoke in tongues i'm going to share that with you next week i will also share with you that the the the anointed ellen white that we believe god gave this insightful prophetic gift this insightful prophetic gift she had a gift of prophecy and insight appointed to the church by god this woman of god she never really gave credence to the business of speaking in tongues but there were those who did it that she heard of and she was she always approached it cautiously did you get what i just said she always had a cautious approach however however the charismatic expression in early adventism was rich oh y'all y'all not ready for me are y'all ready for me no you're not ready for me but i'm gonna give this to you i'm gonna leave you i'm gonna leave you with a cliffhanger in early adventism people used to fall out in the spirit i'm going to show it to you next week i'm going to show it to you actually people used to be slain in the spirit just laid out if somebody came and was laid out in the church of the oranges right now how would you handle that i just have a easy how would you would that be god or the devil something to think about isn't it so when we come back next week we're going to delve a little bit into that and i'm going to share some some readings with you on from both sides of the spectrum okay i want to share with you from both sides of the spectrum but but i want us to know ladies and gentlemen i want us to know and this is this is what i want to leave you with don't always believe that the way that you think it is is the only way that it is did you get what i just said don't believe that your way the way that you think it is or the way that you saw it done in jamaica or you saw it done in haiti or you saw it done in trinidad or you saw it done in guyana or you saw it done down south don't think that that is the only way it's ever been done the one thing we know is that time has changed our approach time has changed our customs time has changed our practices the one thing that remains constant is that no matter what happens god is still on the throne the one thing that remains constant is that god is still in charge can i get a witness somebody and soon and very soon the god that created this world and put things in place and watch man take it and mess it up soon and very soon that same god will come and say enough and his children will be gathered home with him i long for that day how about you it is with this hope that i stand it is on this promise that i stand i stand on the promise that soon and very soon we're going to see the king soon and very soon we're going to see the king hallelujah hallelujah we're going to see the king no more dying there we're going to see the king no more crying there we're going to see the king hallelujah hallelujah we're going to see the king on that promise i stand in the name of jesus somebody ought to stand on their feet with me right now and give god a praise i want to go home [Music] i want to go home i want to go home want to go home want to go home want to go home thank you lord for blessing us with your word today and for taking us a little deeper in your word we want to learn we want to grow we want to be able to have intelligent conversations and we want to know also lord god that what we think may not be as perfect as we think it is so next week we'll dig a little deeper in first corinthians chapter 14 and we look at our own history as seventh-day adventists because while many of us don't speak in tongues and don't believe in speaking speaking in tongues there are times when we are so drawn into your presence that words are not enough to express what we feel and we groan in our spirits because something has moved upon our hearts in such a unique and powerful way so lord god bless your people give us grace to show grace give us grace to show grace remove from us the spirit of condemnation and judgment help us to remember that all of us are being brought to a more perfect day because the path of the justice is a shining light that shineth more and more until the perfect day and so hear our prayers today lord thank you jesus for the anointing of your spirit thank you lord that you're still in the business of saving people thank you that the spirit was given for proclamation and we pray that the same spirit that moved 2 000 years ago will continue to move in this age in this day and bring conviction and conversion and transformation under your rich anointing we pray in jesus name let everybody say amen and amen put your hands together and bless god right now everybody in the name of jesus thank you lord for those who you may be seated you may be seated we're done for those who are looking for a church home for those who want to just say lord i i give you my life today for those who want to to say i'm interested in joining the church of the oranges i want bible study i want somebody to help me to to get to a deeper place with god please go to our website kodosda.org send us a message on facebook send us a message on the website take your bulletin if you're here fill out the back of your bulletin see one of our bible workers i'm going to ask the bible workers we're the bible workers sister vilma where are you brother hutchinson where are you eliminates where are you where are you i'm looking for my bible workers elder morris i need you at that door and it's just a film over this door and elder hutchinson at this door because i want people i want you all to see these bible teachers and if you're looking for somebody to help you make a decision for christ please let them know sister velma where are you ella hutchinson where are you one here one there two here one there i don't see my bible workers i'm going to ask one of my elders to go then i'm going to ask one of the elders who are here to stand at that door and for anybody leaving this place today if you want to make a decision for christ elder kelman is going to stand at this door and the leslie is going to stand at that door elder morris is going to stand in the back we want you here god has a plan for you and we trust that god's plan will be manifested in your life god bless you this time our tithing offering will be lifted come on up god bless you happy sabbat everyone um it is now time for ties and offerings so i'm reading from luke 6 38 which says give and it will be given to you good measure press down shaken together and running over will be put into your bosom for with the same measure that you use it will be measured back to you jesus calls for us to give into his kingdom and the beauty of his calling is that not only will our gift return to us but our blessing will be pressed down shaken together and running over isn't god truly omni-benevolent he blesses us first with enough to give and then blesses us even more after we give so today believe that when you give into god's kingdom that your gift will be returned blessed pressed down shaken together and running over there are five ways to give you can use the tithe and offering envelope you can give online at the church website which is kodosda.org give you can use the adventist given app you can give by mail making checks payable to sda church of the oranges you can use the cash app dollar sign c-o-t-o-s-d-a may the deacons and deaconesses please come forward [Music] [Music] okay let's bow our heads to prayer dear heavenly father thank you for all of your blessings and as we give back our tithes and offerings toward the work of your kingdom we pray that we will do so faithfully cheerfully and sacrificially in jesus name amen [Music] [Music] you've lost it all your dignity and pride a sinking soul swimming in the tears you've cried and loned and hopeless without a word to say cause guilt it is away [Music] except for [Music] knowing grace god's love will forgive mistakes there's nothing that can clear our painful past bear or a bit of pain or could ever take a place except for [Music] we've grace stood right where you're at facing the shame of failures and regret leaving us empty broken and afraid to dream [Music] cause sinners stripped us clean of everything and their faith knowing that god's love will forgive mistakes that nothing that can clear [Music] except for grace the price is much too high for us to ever pay we could try forever and find a way [Music] except for grace and their faith knowing that god's love will forgive mistakes there's nothing that can clear our painful past [Applause] [Music] [Music] except for grace [Music] except for grace [Music] warehouse [Music] because he's given jesus [Music] because of what the lord has [Music] give me let's bow heads for the benediction our father in heaven we thank you for your words today that can make us wise unto salvation we are thankful that you have not left us ignorant concerning your word we are thankful for the expression of the holy spirit in our lives galatians 5 22 23 says that the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace patience kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness self-control we pray god that these attributes may be lived out in our lives which should be a sure sign that your holy spirit resides with us as we're about to leave this place now we pray your divine protection and guidance as we go to our several places we pray god that your spirit will lead guide and direct and we pray we continue to worship you because it is all due to you in your precious name we pray amen all right praise god everybody um remember long distance hugs you know while it's great that we see each other and we want to hug long distance hugs let's remember to keep do all the safety protocols may god bless you today we have board meeting on tomorrow we do have our deacon deaconesses ushers and greeters meeting also at 9 o'clock we have a funeral tomorrow sister macpherson her funeral is going to be at from three to five on tomorrow the barrel is going to be a monday at fairmont cemetery please remember to keep the mcpherson family in our prayers also the gilpin family in our prayers let's continue to support and to encourage one another i have two weddings tomorrow afternoon so full day tomorrow full weekend this weekend let's keep on keeping on in jesus name uh love you god bless you remember to take out your cell phone [Music] remember to take out your cell phone next week we're going to make sure everybody texts at least two people invite them to the picnic next week sunday the family fun day and matter of fact everybody take out your cell phone right now let's let's get a practice running everybody take out your cell phone right now everybody get your cell phone get your cell phone [Music] all right this is what i'm going to do are we ready all right here we go here we go there you go everybody say this after me feliz sabado philly that's happy sabbath in spanish now this is what we're going to do text your friend tell him i spoke in tongues today text him tell him i spoke in tongues today come on you can speak in tongues next week all right see you next week all right everybody find somebody to text and let's text them tell them i spoke in tongues this week i'll see you let's speak in tongues next week god bless [Music] this us lord with blessing we pray worship we go [Music] [Music] the praise [Music] you

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