What a legacy, huh? Living for something that's
bigger than ourselves and understanding what a turning
point is. A definition of a turning point
in life is a significant event, decision, or experience that
causes a major shift in a person's life trajectory,
perspective, or direction. It's a moment after which things
are never quite the same, fundamentally altering the
future path. It involves A profound change in
a person's circumstances, such as career, relationships,
beliefs, or health. Once a turning point occurs,
there's usually no going back to the way things were before.
It often leads to a new path, a new set of priorities, and a new
understanding of oneself in the world.
While others might observe a change, the true impact is
deeply personal and felt by the individual.
Turning points, even those stemming from difficult
situations like a crisis or a loss, often serve as catalysts
for personal growth, resilience, or self discovery.
I'm sure this event has impacted your lives.
I know it's impacted mine. It's 74 years old.
Most guys my age are thinking about retiring and shutting up
pastors. We did our thing and we just
fade into the sunset. But I feel as I do along with
the rest of the leadership, this is a pivotal time for our church
as well as our community, our county, our state, our country
in the world. And so our Savior Jesus Christ
in Matthew chapter 5 began a turning point when the greatest
sermon that was ever preached in the world, the Beatitudes.
So I'm going to read these verses and as I read them, think
about them in your own heart. What do they mean to you?
What does it cause you to think about?
How might you be in the process of change, wanting to live these
powerful truths out instead of reading them and just thinking
about them? How can I be more like what
Jesus is wanting us to be? Let's pray.
Father God, we thank you this morning for your Holy Spirit
who's with us, speaking to us, Lord, in the building online, on
YouTube, Facebook, whatever other media that you allow us to
use to get the word out. We ask you today, God, for your
favor and your grace to speak to each of us as individuals and as
a church, what it is you want us to do moving forward in the days
ahead. That we would get the gospel out
of the building and into the streets, into the marketplace,
into the political arena, Lord, into the neighborhood and the
communities we live in, into our workplaces.
And that Lord, we would be salt and light as you tell us in the
section of Scriptures. Lord, bless your people today.
Encourage them. Encourage husbands and wives to
have conversations with their children that they would have a
biblical worldview that as they go into the public school that
they would have the ability to have a turning point choice not
to go this with the culture, but to go with your teachings.
Lord, from your word. Change our lives, Lord, change
our hearts, change our minds to make us like you.
Jesus, we know that your will and we thank you in advance for
what it is you're doing and will continually do in the days
ahead. And we pray these things in
Jesus name, Amen. And seeing the multitudes, he
went up into a mountain, and when he was set, his disciples
came unto him, and he opened his mouth and taught them, saying,
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the Kingdom of
heaven. Blessed are they that mourn, for
they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek, for they
shall inherit the earth. Blessed are they which do hunger
and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be filled.
Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy.
Blessed are the pure in heart, for they shall see God.
Blessed are the peacemakers, for they shall be called the
children of God. Blessed are they which are
persecuted for righteousness sake, for theirs is the Kingdom
of heaven. Blessed are you when men shall
revive you and persecute you, and shall say all men are of
evil against you falsely for my sake rejoice and be exceedingly
glad, for great is your reward in heaven for so persecuted they
the prophets which were before you.
You are the salt of the earth. But if the salt have lost its
savour, wherewith shall it be salted.
It is therefore good for nothing but to be cast out, and to be
trodden under foot of men. You are the light of the world.
A city that is set on a hill cannot be hid, neither do men
Light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a Candlestick,
and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.
Let your light so shine before men, that they may see your good
works and glorify your Father, which is in heaven.
Amen. That's what we're called to do.
It's Jesus and His gospel, the Good News and the focus today
and every day that we gather at Calvary Chapel.
Our worship gathering His, His Word and how His Word can change
our lives. Many of our lives have been
changed and are being changed because of the simple teaching
of the Bible through the men and women in this church that
faithfully teach the Bible weekly to the people that they
love and care about. Salt and light.
I have been convicted since this event happened that how much
salt is coming out of my life and how much light is being
manifest from my life and the questions I asked myself and I
asked you today. Are we salt and light outside
this particular building in this ministry, in this church?
Do we look for opportunities in our conversations with people to
be salt and light? Or are we intimidated and
fearful or feel unable to express our convictions?
That's one of the big challenges I think we have as Christians.
If you turn to Isaiah 6, if you have a Bible, turn there.
If you don't, that's OK. Isaiah had a turning point and a
vision. In this chapter.
Isaiah is believed that he was somewhere between the ages of 18
and 21. It's interesting how God chooses
to work with young people. Young people impact old people
and old people are to impact young people.
It works both ways. But Isaiah, he had this vision.
The king had died. He was a good king.
He stood for moral convictions and right type of leadership and
government and his reign as one of the good kings in Israel at
the time. And he died and it says in the
first verse of chapter 6, in the year the king Uzziah died, I saw
the Lord sitting upon a throne high and lifted up and his train
filled the temple. The anytime you have a personal
encounter with Jesus, you and him one-on-one could be praying,
it could be in a church environment, it could be
anywhere where God, this begins to move in your life in a way
that you've never experienced him before.
When that happens, it's intimidating because we always
usually look at ourselves among ourselves and say why I'm just
as good as this person or I'm not as bad as that person.
So I'm cool, everything's good with me and God, right until you
have this kind of encounter. And you'll see now as we begin
to get into this, what happened to Isaiah is he had this
experience, tremendous vision, seeing heaven as it was in the
next dimension. Above it stood the seraphims.
Each had six wings. With two he covered his face,
with two he covered his feet. And with two he did fly.
Boy, what a wild vision, huh? Can you imagine seeing something
like that? And one cried unto another and
said, holy, holy, holy is the Lord of hosts.
The whole earth is full of his glory.
That's what's going on in heaven right now.
This worship and this tremendous chorus of angels always singing
before the throne of the Most High God.
Holy, holy, holy is the Lord of host.
And the post of the door moved at the voice of him that cried,
and the house was filled with smoke.
There was this atmosphere of God's glory that was so
overwhelming for Isaiah that he didn't know how to respond other
than what he said in verse 5. He said then said, I woe is me,
for I am undone because I am a man of unclean lips, and I dwell
in the midst of a people of unclean lips.
For my eyes have seen the King, the Lord of hosts.
When you are before this great throne of God as an individual
human being, you begin to see yourself as you really are.
You think you're clean and righteous and you got it all
together. And all of a sudden you realize,
man, I am messed up. And God's grace and His mercy is
so kind and so patient and so good.
And he, he allows us to see ourselves as we are, not to
depress us or destroy us, but to help us to see that there's so
much he wants to do in our lives to make us more like Jesus.
And that's a one-on-one thing. Whenever you begin to see
yourself this way, you want God to cleanse you, you want to
repent, you want to make amends, you want to be reconciled to God
at times and to others and family and people.
You may be offended in your life, whatever all of a sudden
like your life is before you. And you say, I wish I wouldn't
have done that. I wish I wouldn't have said
that. I wish I wouldn't have acted
that way. I wish I wish I would have been
more open to what God wanted for me instead of being too busy for
what it was that God was telling me He created me for.
We all are the same. And I encourage you to ask God
to give you an encounter with Him if you haven't had one like
that yet. Because first of all, when you
do, it'll cause you to believe that you need a Savior, you're a
Sinner, and you need someone to help you out of the problem that
you're in because of what your sin has done to you and to
others. God Forgives sin.
He cleanses us as we come and ask Him for forgiveness.
And if you're a believer and you've gotten cold maybe or
lukewarm. And that happens to all of us,
including pastors. You can just say, Lord, this is
a fresh start. This is a new turning point.
I see things from a different vantage point now.
And because of that, what I'm living for and how I'm living is
going to be changed dramatically.
You're going to begin to be the priority of my life and not
everything else that I allow to become the priority of my life.
And God is so good. He's so patient, so merciful.
So he has this experience. Then God in his mercy in verse
6, then flew one of the seraphim's under me, having a
live coal in his hand, which he had taken off from the tongs of
the altar. He laid it on my mouth and said,
lo, this has touched your lips and your iniquity is taken away
and your sin is purged. So I don't know about you, but
like I am so at times like why am I?
Why am I up here today like, Lord, why are you allowing me to
do what it is you are allowing me to do, to talk to these
wonderful people that you've created, that you love so much,
knowing what I am and where I've come from?
But the good news is, is that God isn't looking for perfect
people. Charlie Kirk wasn't perfect for
sure. We know our president isn't
perfect. I know I'm not perfect.
But God uses imperfect people to perfect his will and his
Kingdom. And So what happened was he's
purified, he's refined, he's cleansed.
So he's at one point like, man, I can't do anything, certainly
can't be used by you God, because I'm such a a
knucklehead. And then all the sudden he has
this revival in his heart. He knows he's OK with God now
and he hears this voice of the Lord saying, whom shall I send
and who will go for us? Question mark for all of us
today. And we had this last week a
little bit we talked about it. Here am I Lord send me.
And he said, go and tell this people here and indeed, but they
probably won't understand much and see indeed, but they won't
perceive. So that's a challenge we have as
believers. We are in a culture war.
We're in a environment where most people have a worldview
that's anti God against God, Pagan, ungodly.
And they really don't have a lot of patience for us, nor do they
like us. We have to understand that
that's a reality. So how do we go into the world
to preach the gospel with grace and with love and care about
people that really don't like us and don't have the time of day
for us? Now, if we're going out there
thinking we're better than everyone else, and that's the
wrong, don't even start right. But if you go out and you
realize like these people were like you at one time, they can't
see, they don't understand, they're lost.
They need to hear the good news in order to believe the good
news. And who's going to tell them the
good news? So as you think about this, in
lieu of what Isaiah said, here am I, send me.
Maybe today you're going to say, Lord, here am I send me.
First of all, how do you share your faith in love, not
judgement, planting seeds and giving people things to
consider. Charlie was a master at having
conversations with people and dialogue to get him to think a
little bit differently. And because of that work of the
Holy Spirit through that man's life many times liberal college
students, high school students, people like us that maybe saw
the podcast that didn't know the Lord maybe at one time all the
sudden said I never thought about life that way.
That makes sense and send our views begin to change and then
eventually our hearts become open to hearing the gospel.
And so our job is to help hurting people and invite them
to a a relationship with Jesus Christ, invite them to church
and they might say no, but don't ever give up asking people to
come and hear the gospel and hear the word of God.
Encourage these high school club America leaders, which we'll
have one speaking here in a few moments.
Morgan from Latrobe High School, she's out there with a table
with a lot of cool buttons and pens where you can get involved
and find out more about what she's doing by the power of God
on the high school campus. Along with students at Norwin,
Penn Trafford, Hempfield, Ligonier, Greensburg, Salem,
many, many high schools and more and more are signing up to have
Club America's in. It's amazing what God's doing
through these young people. We want to meet and pray and
encourage Morgan today. She's here as well as others to
use the resources that we provide through Calvary Chapel
and Grace FM 91.7 that we can interview them, that we can have
them tell their story and invite their constituents and people
that go to school with them to get involved in their wonderful
camps and groups and things that they do in their high school
campuses. We need to vote.
As Kerry said, we need to know the platform of the candidates
and we have the voter registration guides so you can
vote biblical platforms that are for the truths of the Word of
God in regard to pro-life and other issues that are very, very
important to the Lord and to what the Word of God teaches us.
We need to know who's running and why we're going to vote.
I don't have to tell you who to vote for and you don't have to
tell me who to vote for. You should know who you should
vote for based upon knowing what their platform is and what they
believe and what their convictions are.
I was told at the meeting that I spoke at over at the Hempfield
Park by some of the leaders of Turning Point, the 30% of
Christians didn't vote in the last election and 20% of gun
owners didn't vote. That's shocking, isn't it?
Can you imagine if you get those folks voting for moral causes
and values that the Lord has given us through His word, how
different our society could be and would be?
Maybe you need to run for office.
Maybe you need to be active in your local school boards.
Maybe you need to show up at the meetings and pray and encourage
those who are there that are on the same page as the Lords word
of Word of God and then pray individually as a community and
nationally. Fred Warnbrock's going to help
do some training in regard to our meeting and I'll talk about
that. Our first turning point meeting
to to study our Constitution and understand our rights as
citizens and how we can be salt and light.
How we can get into conversations with people and
engage them to think about their need of a Savior.
We will have prayer guides on platforms of Pennsylvania and we
will have prayer guides for every other state in America.
So you will know what other states are dealing with in
regard to liberal ideologies that are circumventing the truth
of the Word of God and know how to pray for these other States
and leaders. As family and parents, it's
important to teach your children the truths of the Word of God
and to help them maneuver a culture that is going to try to
teach them and train them to rebel against the Word of God
and learn to be humble, turning from what you know needs to
change in your own life. There's things since all this
has happened that the Lord has tapped me in the shoulder, say,
Clark, this area needs to go in your life.
This needs to be thought about differently.
These judgments need to be put down.
These love and these opportunities to be a better
husband, a better father, a better grandfather, a better
son-in-law, a better brother-in-law, all these better
son, all these different hats I wear, a better employee for the
companies that I work for, a better pastor.
To you guys, these are things that the Lord is causing me to
wrestle after. So the benefits of being
involved as a collaborative partner with Turning Point Faith
is churches like ours. Many Calvary chapels are already
involved, many more signing up as we speak.
I have communication with Jack Hibbs at Chino Hills to get some
direction and help as we maneuver this a little
differently than we have in the past.
We want to teach one another how to stand for biblical truth, how
to combat cultural compromises, and pray for a God centered
revival on our nation. There'll be citizenship classes,
national faith tours, faith leadership summits, and a lot of
other things that we can be involved in to live out the
Great Commission. The Lord wants us to go into all
the world and preach the gospel to every living creature.
One of the problems of where we are in our country as a culture
that has unfortunately been not as focused upon in in many of
our lives as Christians. And now's the time to be
involved. Not tomorrow, next week, next
month, maybe next year, but today is the day to be involved.
The harvest is plenty old, plentiful, Jesus says, but the
laborers are few. Lewis has been so eloquently
teaching us the importance of being doers of the word and not
hearers only in the book of James.
You ever notice like how you can say Amen and listen to sermons
and and then go out the door and nothing changes next week that
happens. We're human, right?
But like the Lord, show us how to apply these things in real
life circumstances and situations.
All of us. And that's what our training
will be involved in. We need to understand that
there's a lot of people that don't know Jesus.
We need to understand that the LBGTQ agenda is very well
organized and very focused on accomplishing their agenda.
We need to know how to counter that in love in a biblical way.
There's people that are homeless that need help, there's sex
trafficking happening in our country and our own communities.
There's people that are worshipping Satan, and there's
people that think the church now is irrelevant and so they don't
attend anymore. And that's one of the worst
things that can be happening right now.
We want to be a church that is relevant so when people come not
only they hear truth but they learn how to apply the truth and
live it out in everyday life. We need to do this to protect
our children and our grandchildren.
As I said, we need to know how to to vote biblically.
So who can be involved in this? Anybody that is attending here
or listening online or curious or interested, you can get
involved in this small group. One part of our ministry, we
have many ministries at Calvary Chapel.
We're praying that somehow we'll be able to connect with the
prisoners at the West Morning County Prison.
All the listeners on Grace FM, this goes out live right now on
the air as we're preaching the word.
And so when are we going to get together?
The first meeting will be Tuesday, November 4th at 7:00 in
the social hall, fellowship hall, and we'll probably be
doing that once a month, the first Tuesday of the month if
everybody agrees on that being a good time to get together.
Some people say, well, what am I signing up for?
What do I have to do? All you have to do is follow
Jesus. That's all you got to do.
And so there's not more work or you know where you expect you to
do this or do that. Just live out your life and be
salt and light. That's all you got to do, right?
And share ideas and share ways that we can be more effective in
our community. Get engaged.
What's exciting about this is, is that last week 22 people
signed up to get involved in this as a as a, as a group.
And the four specific people that I already see as dynamic
leaders that'll help us understand how to do this in the
culture. Kerry's been involved in the
political arena for a long time. She's very passionate.
She kept trying to drag me into this stuff the last five years.
And I said, well, I'm busy. I can't, you know, we can't go
at all. Kind of flimsy excuses.
But she loved me anyway and prayed and didn't leave the
church state here. And, and, and she, I know she's
want to jump in out of her skin now.
She never dreamed this would be happening.
Amy Kirkland, you know, I can see passion in her life.
All the people that signed up, Fred, he's a retired Lieutenant
Colonel from the Air Force. This guy's no joke, and we're
fortunate to have him here. He's also an intercessor with
Calvary here on Thursday nights. But also him and Mary Ellen are
intercessors for everything that's happening all across the
country in the world. So he'll be able to give us
information and how to pray so we know what to pray for.
So the next steps are, as you think about this today, pray
about your possible desire to be involved somehow.
You can ask us questions, whatever.
There's sign up sheets in the lobbies you leave down by the
offering and same thing in the back.
And Fred will be at one door, I'll be at the other along with
some of the other leaders and pastors.
Pray for a boldness that will not be intimidated, that we'll
be able to to share the good news with people without
compromise. That's really, really important
be praying about how you can mobilize others and other
churches in in the community that need to be involved in this
for such a time as this. The the beautiful thing about
the work of the Holy Spirit is that none of us are beyond God
using right? All of us are able to be used.
I guess the challenge for all of us, though, is that are we
afraid? Are we concerned about people
not liking us? Are we afraid of persecution or
or whatever? Erica said something about
Charlie, which impressed me, something I got to pray and work
on. I like people to like me.
I like you guys to be happy. Is everybody happy here?
Well, probably maybe 80% are happy at 20%.
What's that guy talking about up there?
But I can't worry about like what you think of me or, you
know, this prayer, You pray for me.
I'm not here for a popularity contest.
I'm here to be faithful to God, right?
So Erica said Charlie had a lot of good friends and when he
began to get engaged in the culture wars and speak out
against it, he he lost a lot of friends.
But she said it never bothered him.
He just kept doing what he knew God told him to do.
Now there's there's contrary or conflict comments about Charlie
and some of the ways he communicated.
At times it offended some people.
Some people thought he was a racist.
Well, he wasn't a racist, but maybe the way he answered a
question once in a while, maybe it sounded like he was, but he
wasn't. He had African Americans in his
team. And Vodi Bakkam, one of the
great preachers of the word of God, good reform guy, died
recently. He is in the training on how to
deal with this issue of racism and white and black and all this
baloney stuff that's separating and dividing people because of
woke culture right. So that that was not true or
thinking women were subservient to men.
There's no way all the women that are involved in turning
point Morgan here today, Erica running the organization and I
would listen to her last couple lectures at the at the Missouri
University of Missouri. She spoke and Vance spoke.
He tried to answer questions like CC did a good job and she
shared the reason why we're doing what we're doing.
Our answer isn't in Washington and it isn't in politics.
Very clearly stated. It's in the Lord.
We need the Word of God. We need the Lord as front and
Center for everything we do. Keep that in mind.
Keep that as your focus and and the noise.
Don't listen to the noise. I mean, some of these scandalous
things that are being said to to try to destroy turning point is
is ridiculous. You know, on YouTube Annette,
just turn off the noise. Keep your eyes on Jesus and do
what you know he tells you to do from his word.
Amen. Morgan, if you could come up
that's welcome. Morgan from Lake Trout of high
school, he's going to share some things.
How she got involved, why she got involved.
Tell us what the push backs are, all that stuff you know.
Hi everyone, happy Sunday. I'm Morgan Glessner and I'm 16
years old. I'm vice president of Turning
Point Westmoreland. My jersey to my journey to Jesus
started from a very young age. I have everyone in my family to
thank for that. Every Sunday I would go to
church not far from here and as a young girl I sometimes didn't
understand at all. As I got younger through COVID,
honestly my faith kind of fell off.
I started my own faith journey to better my relationship with
God by reading my Bible, watching online church, and
praying. I would like to call my
relationship to God my coming back and my coming back my
turning point. Turning Point has very true that
he brought me across the closer to God.
I started with Turning Point USA because I enjoy discussing with
people about what is happening in our country and I strongly
encourage anyone who is in high school or college to take a
current issues class. That's where I started.
The best way I like to describe Turning Point is people with
conservative religious values. I do not agree with people
hating someone on the other side.
I encourage the opposition because I enjoy others opinions
as long as we are with God. In my chapter at Latrobe, I
helped run the chapter with my best friend Mateo.
We first thought about creating a chapter towards the end of
last school year. We got approved in July this
summer. We currently only have 25
students even though we just started, which is fantastic.
I have friends who have opposite opinions and they don't agree
with it, but I continue with how I am and many of the people in
the club have very full schedules.
I do my best to go to as many events as I can.
People my age will be the newest ones to vote in this next
election. Please everyone vote on Tuesday.
As Pastor Clark and Kerry said already, I encourage that anyone
my age educate yourself on how the world works and enjoy
enjoying Turning Point. We are not one for just
political for just one political party.
If you are interested in joining, please come talk to me.
Even if you were just wanting to know what we're about going to
the Turning Point website and have amazing resources about
anything government. I can also talk to anyone if you
need help. If you're willing to learn about
what's happening in the world, this is for you because we're
not just for one. I know I dragged on, but I'm
extremely excited for Calvary to join the Turning Point faith
community. This, this organization does
amazing things and it has done many things for me, brought me
amazing opportunities and opinions and people for me to
talk to and things for me to talk talk to people about other
opinions. If anyone has any questions I'll
be out in the lobby with collectibles from Turning Point
and I have a bunch of pamphlets and I want to thank everyone for
letting me talk and talk about what I'm interested in.
Morgan, come on over here for a second.
Thank you for your boldness and what you're doing for Jesus.
Your labor is not in vain in the Lord Father God, we're inspired
by this young woman's life, her wisdom at a young age, her
insights, and what she understands to be true because
of you, Jesus living in her heart.
I pray you would bless her and use her mightily.
In Latrobe High School. We have grandkids that go there.
I pray, Lord, that I know they've already checked the
meeting out. I pray they would get involved.
Lord, God, this this do a revival in Latrobe and all these
other high schools. Lord, we're looking forward to
meeting some of the other leaders from some of the other
schools and colleges as well to form a partnership and a unity
together for the same purpose of being salt and light.
And so Lord use her and thank thank you for bringing her
today. Bless her and her family, her
father, her mother, everybody, her grandparents that belong to
Calvary. Lord, just thank you for what
you're doing. And we're just excited to be a
part of what she's doing. And we pray all these things in
Jesus name and all God's people said Amen.
God bless you, honey. So in, in conclusion, Tuesday
night 7:00 fellowship, Paul will have the, the beginning of the
training and teaching of, of how to be more active in the, in the
culture with the gospel. We also want to make everyone
aware that this is not something we expect you to do.
You have to be led by the Holy Spirit and desire to do this and
God calling you to it, right? There's all kind of ministries
you can be involved here at, at Calvary.
I I'm, I'm on board because this is like making me come alive
again in my faith in Jesus. I'm thinking too about the, you
know, the opportunity that this church has because of Grace FM.
So what I would ask you to do, and many of you have come
because of other people inviting you today.
Tell people to go to the Calvary Chapel Westmoreland County
YouTube station and watch the service today.
OK, it's it's going to be archives, it'll be there.
Social media, you can get it out there through using Twitter and
Instagram and Facebook and all these other things.
We have several people here today that are specialists to
help us get it out. Do some reels so that they can
see a short overview of what we had captured today, what was
important in the service. So let it go viral.
Seriously, what you can do, your first step involved, even if
you're not going to be at the meeting, there's a Christian.
Let people hear about what we said today.
Let him see the video. Let him hear Morgan's testimony.
You have grandkids and kids in high school and junior high,
Tell them to watch the service completely OK and ask him for
feedback. So that's my story, and I'm
sticking to it. And I wanted to thank the Echo
Burgers for bringing my dear mother here.
Sheila's with us today. No, you're, you're what, 100
years old now? Is that what?
You're 100, 92 now, right? We're praying you make it to
100. And same with Alice.
My, my, my mother-in-law back there with Cindy.
She's here today. So just thank you for coming
today. We love you guys.
We'll be around if you have any questions.
And Gina, if you can come up and close us and the service, that'd
be great with the worship teams. Oh, yeah, yeah.
Got too many things going on in my head.
OK, this is really important our communion because this is where
we become one every week in body, soul, mind and spirit as
we remember Christ's sacrifice for us, his shed blood that
forgave us of our sins and his body was given for us on the
tree. So let's let's do this together.
It's interesting, I think about that night he he did do this
supper and he knew he was going to die for what he believed and
what he was teaching. And he also knew that his
closest followers that were with him were mostly going to end
their lives the same way. I'm so thankful that I'm not in
Nigeria where they're martyring Christians and killing people of
any kind of religious faith. And President Trump is getting
the Pentagon to get involved and get involved in that country
because this shouldn't be happening anywhere in the world,
that people can't have freedom of religion, right?
And so we pray for these dear sisters and brothers in Nigeria
this morning, as well as ourselves.
And thank God that we are in a country that we still have the
freedom to do what we're doing today.
That's not normal in most places in the world, right?
Father, we are thankful today and for all that you're teaching
us what you're doing in US, and we are so grateful that we can
be representing you on this planet for such a time as this.
We ask for God that you would be glorified in everything that
we're endeavoring to do for you and your Kingdom for sake of one
another and our country. We pray, Lord, as we take the
supper today, that maybe there's a little deeper meaning because
we see things maybe a little bit clearer as to what is being
required of us as your people, that we would sacrifice
ourselves and meaning that we would surrender our will to your
will so that your will would be done in our lives instead of our
own. And we praise you and we thank
you for what you've done for us, Lord.
And the night that Jesus was betrayed, he took the bread in
his hands. He broke it.
He gave thanks. He said, take, eat, this is My
body which is given for you. Eat this in remembrance of me.
In the same manner, in that evening he took the cup and he
said this cup is a new covenant in My blood which was shed for
the forgiveness of sins of many. Drink this in remembrance of me.
As often as we eat this spread together and we drink this cup,
we show forth the Lord's death till he comes again.
Amen. God bless you guys.
I also wanted to shoot.