1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Welcome to the First Apostolic Church podcast. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:07,960 Our church mission is to love as God loves showing compassion 3 00:00:07,960 --> 00:00:11,440 every soul, thus winning those souls and equipping them to be 4 00:00:11,440 --> 00:00:13,680 sent out to plant and to harvest. 5 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,000 Thank you for joining us today, and we hope that you are blessed 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:26,440 by today's podcast. Praise the Lord, everybody, man, 7 00:00:26,480 --> 00:00:29,720 good to be in the House of the Lord this morning. 8 00:00:30,880 --> 00:00:34,840 Amen. See all these smiling faces this 9 00:00:34,840 --> 00:00:39,400 morning, Praise the Lord, Amen. Hallelujah. 10 00:00:40,760 --> 00:00:44,960 Well, Amen. Just want you all to know that 11 00:00:45,200 --> 00:00:48,080 if you were to ask if there's a doctor in the house, yes, there 12 00:00:48,080 --> 00:00:52,840 is. And we are thankful, so 13 00:00:52,840 --> 00:00:55,160 appreciative of Brother Mason this morning. 14 00:00:55,160 --> 00:01:00,280 Doctor Mason, if you please. And we're so happy for him. 15 00:01:00,280 --> 00:01:01,800 Amen. So let's give let's give the 16 00:01:01,800 --> 00:01:12,950 Lord and him a clan clap. Praise the Lord. 17 00:01:13,430 --> 00:01:19,430 I want to welcome this morning our online crew this morning and 18 00:01:19,430 --> 00:01:23,910 don't want to forget. Sometimes I think maybe you 19 00:01:23,910 --> 00:01:26,070 know, I I know we're there. They're there. 20 00:01:26,070 --> 00:01:29,150 But sometimes it's good to know they're there. 21 00:01:29,150 --> 00:01:31,430 Sister Angie, good morning to you this morning. 22 00:01:31,430 --> 00:01:33,190 I know you're there, Sister Sharon. 23 00:01:33,680 --> 00:01:36,720 God bless you this morning. Sister Margaret's here this 24 00:01:36,720 --> 00:01:37,800 morning. Thank the Lord. 25 00:01:37,920 --> 00:01:40,360 Amen. Amen. 26 00:01:40,400 --> 00:01:44,120 Praise the Lord, Brother Chris, God bless you. 27 00:01:44,120 --> 00:01:45,960 Even though you're not able to be here. 28 00:01:45,960 --> 00:01:49,400 I know you're probably watching. Sister Joella, God bless you 29 00:01:49,400 --> 00:01:52,520 this morning. I know she's dressed and ready 30 00:01:52,520 --> 00:01:54,160 this morning. I can tell you that. 31 00:01:54,520 --> 00:01:56,320 Praise the Lord. I'm going to be turning to 32 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:03,440 Jeremiah chapter #1 Jeremiah chapter number one, Praise the 33 00:02:03,440 --> 00:02:08,320 Lord. Hallelujah, Jeremiah chapter 34 00:02:08,320 --> 00:02:10,120 one. I'm going to start at verse one. 35 00:02:10,120 --> 00:02:13,160 I'm just going to read 3 verses and then you can be seated. 36 00:02:13,640 --> 00:02:17,040 Hallelujah. The words of Jeremiah the son of 37 00:02:17,040 --> 00:02:23,240 Hilkiah of the priests that were in Ammonoth in the land of 38 00:02:23,240 --> 00:02:27,520 Benjamin, to whom the word of the Lord came in the days of 39 00:02:27,560 --> 00:02:33,520 Josiah the son of Ammon king of Judah, in the 13th year of his 40 00:02:33,520 --> 00:02:37,400 reign. It came also in the days of 41 00:02:37,400 --> 00:02:43,840 Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, until the end of the 42 00:02:43,840 --> 00:02:50,000 11th year of Zedekiah the son of Josiah king of Judah, unto the 43 00:02:50,000 --> 00:02:56,000 carrying away of Jerusalem captive unto the 5th month. 44 00:02:56,760 --> 00:02:59,720 Heavenly Father, I thank you for the word this morning. 45 00:03:00,080 --> 00:03:05,000 Knowing God today that your word is true and steadfast, Ask you, 46 00:03:05,000 --> 00:03:08,280 Lord, that you would move God, anoint the lips of clay. 47 00:03:08,720 --> 00:03:11,720 I realize, Lord, that without you I'm nothing but God. 48 00:03:11,720 --> 00:03:15,640 I know that through you I can do all things through Christ, which 49 00:03:15,640 --> 00:03:18,680 strengtheneth me, Lord, and I'm dependent on you this morning. 50 00:03:18,960 --> 00:03:23,120 Bring our minds together, God, for such a time as this, Lord. 51 00:03:23,120 --> 00:03:26,320 It's a time when the world is full of trouble, Lord, but today 52 00:03:26,320 --> 00:03:29,160 you're able to bring peace in the midst of that. 53 00:03:29,160 --> 00:03:34,560 I asked you, Lord, in Jesus name, Amen and Amen, you can be 54 00:03:34,560 --> 00:03:36,520 seated. Amen. 55 00:03:37,440 --> 00:03:42,480 Hallelujah. This morning I want to preach to 56 00:03:42,480 --> 00:03:45,440 our shut insurance. Not only our shut insurance, but 57 00:03:45,880 --> 00:03:48,720 I'm reaching for a group of people. 58 00:03:48,720 --> 00:03:52,880 I'm reaching for individuals this morning that maybe you're 59 00:03:52,880 --> 00:04:02,280 not sure who you are and then maybe even to the place that you 60 00:04:02,280 --> 00:04:08,200 you're not sure of your purpose, not sure of your purpose, or 61 00:04:08,200 --> 00:04:12,200 you're down on yourself and you need a little encouragement. 62 00:04:12,200 --> 00:04:14,280 You need strength. Anybody been there? 63 00:04:15,640 --> 00:04:20,320 I don't know, but I can't imagine Jeremiah prophesying for 64 00:04:20,320 --> 00:04:24,840 more than 60 years and negative, negative, negative. 65 00:04:25,920 --> 00:04:30,680 Brother James he went through it, but he continued to prophecy 66 00:04:30,680 --> 00:04:35,720 he continued to preach those sixty years hoping to awaken 67 00:04:35,960 --> 00:04:43,400 some people of God and you're a while back I've I've been I'd 68 00:04:43,400 --> 00:04:49,720 finished a book about Eugene H Peterson running with the horses 69 00:04:50,840 --> 00:04:56,840 and it stirred up this message. And so if you'll humor me a 70 00:04:56,840 --> 00:04:59,080 while. I want to relate to you how I 71 00:04:59,080 --> 00:05:03,360 feel that God would have me to speak to you this morning. 72 00:05:03,760 --> 00:05:09,000 Jeremiah a prophet, you know, called the weeping prophet and 73 00:05:09,520 --> 00:05:12,360 just I want to preach this subject. 74 00:05:12,840 --> 00:05:15,680 What's in a name What's in a name. 75 00:05:15,680 --> 00:05:20,080 Let me use that subject. What's in a name I began to 76 00:05:20,160 --> 00:05:26,440 Jeremiah is is a prophet and preach more than 60 years and 77 00:05:26,760 --> 00:05:29,840 and seeming like there was nobody that listened. 78 00:05:30,560 --> 00:05:35,240 They turned a deaf ear to him and Jeremiah kept on preaching. 79 00:05:36,000 --> 00:05:42,120 But I want you to know that he stood good to his name Amen. 80 00:05:42,440 --> 00:05:50,280 In the Hebrew his name means JA Jah and it means God will arise. 81 00:05:50,800 --> 00:05:57,760 So it's abbreviated Yahweh, Jehovah or which means self, 82 00:05:57,760 --> 00:06:04,920 existent, one or eternal. 1 So this should be a testament to us 83 00:06:05,600 --> 00:06:09,080 that Jeremiah lived out his name. 84 00:06:09,080 --> 00:06:14,320 If we read just the 1st 3 verses of the first chapter, we find 85 00:06:14,760 --> 00:06:19,520 the book of Jeremiah starts out with personal names and then 86 00:06:19,520 --> 00:06:26,200 seven other names follow Hilkiah, Benjamin, Josiah, 87 00:06:26,200 --> 00:06:30,640 Ammon, Judah, Jehokam, and Zedekiah. 88 00:06:31,160 --> 00:06:35,600 And it seems like in our day today that personal names seem 89 00:06:35,600 --> 00:06:38,600 to take up the biggest part of our conversation. 90 00:06:38,880 --> 00:06:42,520 Names are important. Your name is important whether 91 00:06:42,520 --> 00:06:46,640 you realize it or not. And as the longer that I studied 92 00:06:46,640 --> 00:06:51,400 and the longer that I prayed about this, I found out in my 93 00:06:52,000 --> 00:06:56,800 studying that a lot of times people's names are named for a 94 00:06:56,800 --> 00:06:59,800 certain purpose. But a lot of times people's 95 00:06:59,800 --> 00:07:03,040 names are given to them and they live out their names, whether 96 00:07:03,040 --> 00:07:06,720 they realize it or not that they live out their names. 97 00:07:07,000 --> 00:07:11,440 So this morning, if I could just call your attention to 98 00:07:11,440 --> 00:07:15,120 Interpreter Interpreter's Dictionary of the Bible. 99 00:07:15,120 --> 00:07:18,960 It states this. In biblical thought, a name is 100 00:07:18,960 --> 00:07:22,400 not a mere label of identification. 101 00:07:23,120 --> 00:07:27,920 It is an expression of the essential nature of its bearer. 102 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:32,360 And a man's name reveals his character. 103 00:07:33,400 --> 00:07:37,560 And it is said Adam gave names to the beast and the birds 104 00:07:37,560 --> 00:07:40,040 because he understood their nature. 105 00:07:40,960 --> 00:07:44,040 Men. Hence, to know the name of God 106 00:07:44,040 --> 00:07:47,440 is to know God as he has revealed himself. 107 00:07:48,080 --> 00:07:51,920 I don't know about you, but I began to be stirred when I found 108 00:07:51,920 --> 00:07:55,040 out that our name reveals us many times. 109 00:07:55,040 --> 00:07:58,840 I I don't know my name means humble and means small, so I 110 00:07:58,840 --> 00:08:00,200 don't know. I hope I fit that. 111 00:08:00,200 --> 00:08:03,080 I don't know about that, but you know, it'll be on your end to 112 00:08:03,080 --> 00:08:06,920 judge that or not. But I began to study this and, 113 00:08:07,080 --> 00:08:12,440 and the names began to flow through my mind and meanings of 114 00:08:12,440 --> 00:08:17,720 names and, and, and, and Jeremiah's, he lived out his 115 00:08:17,720 --> 00:08:21,160 name. He, he, he tried to do exactly 116 00:08:21,160 --> 00:08:25,760 what God would do, Amen. He, he was, he was trusting in 117 00:08:25,760 --> 00:08:30,840 Jehovah God to help him. And Psalms 9 and 10 says And 118 00:08:30,840 --> 00:08:35,480 they that know thy name will put their trust in thee, for thou 119 00:08:35,480 --> 00:08:39,159 Lord has not forsaken them that seek thee. 120 00:08:39,400 --> 00:08:44,039 I want you to know God does not forsake those that seek after 121 00:08:44,039 --> 00:08:47,120 him. Jeremiah sought after him and 122 00:08:47,120 --> 00:08:52,160 for those sixty years God led him and told him what to speak 123 00:08:52,560 --> 00:08:55,640 and and he was a guy that I'm sorry, he used props. 124 00:08:56,760 --> 00:08:59,120 Just think about all the things that he done. 125 00:08:59,120 --> 00:09:02,360 He done this and he done that. He took he took a brand new 126 00:09:02,360 --> 00:09:05,680 garment and he hid it in the mud and went to get it months later 127 00:09:05,680 --> 00:09:09,120 and it was it was of no good. It was no count for nothing. 128 00:09:09,240 --> 00:09:11,080 He used props. Amen. 129 00:09:11,360 --> 00:09:16,440 And the Full disclosure of his nature and character is given in 130 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:21,880 Jesus Christ who has manifested his name to us and not just 131 00:09:21,880 --> 00:09:25,800 manifest. He still is today, man. 132 00:09:26,200 --> 00:09:30,840 He's been real to me, He's been real to you, Amen. 133 00:09:30,840 --> 00:09:34,880 He's been there for us. John 17 and six. 134 00:09:34,880 --> 00:09:39,200 And Jesus was speaking, and he said, I've manifested thy name 135 00:09:39,600 --> 00:09:44,800 unto the men which thou gave us me out of the world thine they 136 00:09:44,800 --> 00:09:48,560 were. And thou gave us them me, and 137 00:09:48,560 --> 00:09:52,920 they have kept thy word. A man here's, here he is, He's 138 00:09:52,920 --> 00:09:56,280 speaking to the Father. And then John 1726. 139 00:09:56,400 --> 00:10:02,160 And I have declared unto them by name, and I will declare it, 140 00:10:02,520 --> 00:10:06,760 that the love wherewith thou hast loved me may be in them, 141 00:10:06,880 --> 00:10:09,840 and I in them. Oh, Hallelujah. 142 00:10:09,960 --> 00:10:13,320 He's trying to tell us that I wanted to be in them and I want 143 00:10:13,320 --> 00:10:16,440 them to be in me. A man this morning. 144 00:10:16,440 --> 00:10:20,680 Hallelujah. A name is associated with words. 145 00:10:21,080 --> 00:10:26,280 It's associated with fame and renown and memory and memorial. 146 00:10:26,720 --> 00:10:31,080 It's associated with remembrance and even fragrance. 147 00:10:31,400 --> 00:10:34,040 I like that it got to me. Fragrance. 148 00:10:34,320 --> 00:10:36,960 How many do you ever think about your name having a certain 149 00:10:36,960 --> 00:10:40,280 fragrance to it? Well, I want you to know it 150 00:10:40,280 --> 00:10:44,680 does. 980 times in Scripture. It is. 151 00:10:44,680 --> 00:10:48,280 It refers to scent. Scent. 152 00:10:48,280 --> 00:10:51,720 Smell. OK, important. 153 00:10:52,240 --> 00:10:54,160 I think so. Amen. 154 00:10:54,520 --> 00:10:57,640 Nothing exists unless it has a name. 155 00:10:58,320 --> 00:11:01,880 Its existence is concentrated in its name. 156 00:11:02,680 --> 00:11:06,680 I said its existence is concentrated in its name. 157 00:11:07,120 --> 00:11:10,160 To cut off the name. Therefore it's the end, The 158 00:11:10,160 --> 00:11:14,000 existence of something. Oh, Hallelujah. 159 00:11:14,520 --> 00:11:16,840 Praise God. I'm glad his name didn't cut off 160 00:11:16,840 --> 00:11:18,720 this morning. Hallelujah. 161 00:11:18,720 --> 00:11:20,240 I need some help to preach this morning. 162 00:11:20,240 --> 00:11:25,080 Anybody going to help me preach? Let me remind you, you have a 163 00:11:25,120 --> 00:11:28,560 set apart place that only you can feel. 164 00:11:29,040 --> 00:11:32,720 See, I think sometimes we get it all caught up that well, I'm 165 00:11:32,720 --> 00:11:34,720 noble. I'm a nobody, ain't you know, 166 00:11:34,760 --> 00:11:37,920 anybody can take my place. Anybody feel that way? 167 00:11:38,600 --> 00:11:43,160 Ever felt that way? Say, get, it wouldn't matter if 168 00:11:43,160 --> 00:11:48,160 I say or not or would it? Well, I won't tell you something 169 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:56,240 that God has taken you and he has set you apart for a place to 170 00:11:56,240 --> 00:12:00,040 fulfill. He has, He has chosen us as 171 00:12:00,040 --> 00:12:02,840 members of the body in particular. 172 00:12:03,520 --> 00:12:06,040 So he's got a particular place for us. 173 00:12:06,240 --> 00:12:10,480 He's got a particular job for us, and we must fulfill that 174 00:12:10,480 --> 00:12:13,600 place to fulfill God's purpose in our life. 175 00:12:13,880 --> 00:12:18,240 He meant to live up to our name. Come on, we must fulfill that 176 00:12:18,240 --> 00:12:22,080 place because God has called us for such a time as this. 177 00:12:22,680 --> 00:12:25,840 Hallelujah. So nothing exists without a 178 00:12:25,840 --> 00:12:28,960 name. Its essence is concentrated in 179 00:12:28,960 --> 00:12:32,560 its name and to cut it off is to do away with it. 180 00:12:33,040 --> 00:12:36,120 Hallelujah. You, you have got a set apart 181 00:12:36,120 --> 00:12:37,680 place. You have got a place that's 182 00:12:37,680 --> 00:12:41,080 different than anybody else. God has chosen you for a 183 00:12:41,080 --> 00:12:44,880 particular position, for a particular time. 184 00:12:45,400 --> 00:12:48,160 No one can. I'm going to tell you no one can 185 00:12:48,160 --> 00:12:54,040 substitute you. Hallelujah. 186 00:12:55,120 --> 00:12:58,280 I'm going to give that time to say again, I said nobody can. 187 00:12:58,720 --> 00:13:05,040 Nobody, nobody can substitute you because God has chosen you 188 00:13:05,440 --> 00:13:11,720 for a certain position. A man thank you Jesus, no one 189 00:13:11,720 --> 00:13:16,360 can replace you. Before you were good for 190 00:13:16,360 --> 00:13:22,960 anything, God decided that you was good for what he was doing. 191 00:13:24,280 --> 00:13:27,560 He told Jeremiah that I've called you from the mother's 192 00:13:27,560 --> 00:13:29,840 womb. I I called you before you ever 193 00:13:29,840 --> 00:13:32,320 hear, I called you to be a prophet. 194 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:36,480 He he told Jeremiah, he said, I know I had your life lined out. 195 00:13:36,480 --> 00:13:39,240 I'm going to tell you, I think sometimes God's got our life 196 00:13:39,240 --> 00:13:42,800 lined out and I don't know about you, but there's sometimes that 197 00:13:42,800 --> 00:13:46,200 I kind of hold back from what God has got for me to do. 198 00:13:47,200 --> 00:13:49,960 Come on, we, we don't want to step into that part. 199 00:13:49,960 --> 00:13:53,800 I, I fought that I, I fought that in my life. 200 00:13:54,040 --> 00:13:56,560 I fought the minister. I told Mama you're wrong. 201 00:13:57,280 --> 00:14:00,880 You know, she said you God saves you for a purpose, son, one of 202 00:14:00,880 --> 00:14:02,200 these days you're going to be a preacher. 203 00:14:02,200 --> 00:14:05,160 And I I tried to make a liar out of her, but I couldn't make a 204 00:14:05,160 --> 00:14:08,040 liar out of Mama. Hallelujah. 205 00:14:09,120 --> 00:14:11,880 Your place in life. Amen. 206 00:14:12,840 --> 00:14:18,000 Doesn't depend on how well you did in the entrance exam. 207 00:14:21,440 --> 00:14:26,480 Your place in life is not determined by what market or 208 00:14:27,120 --> 00:14:29,640 there he is for your type of personality. 209 00:14:29,640 --> 00:14:31,600 He didn't he didn't say, well, I've got that. 210 00:14:31,600 --> 00:14:33,280 Let me look at these personalities. 211 00:14:33,280 --> 00:14:34,800 I got there. Let me see what I can do with 212 00:14:34,800 --> 00:14:36,480 it. You know what God always done 213 00:14:36,480 --> 00:14:39,680 the impossible when you look around in Scripture, he chose 214 00:14:39,680 --> 00:14:41,800 men that you and I probably wouldn't have chosen. 215 00:14:42,480 --> 00:14:47,040 He chose the fishermen come on each each of all things. 216 00:14:47,040 --> 00:14:50,760 He chose the tax collector. You know that that everybody 217 00:14:50,760 --> 00:14:52,840 looks at and said, well, he's nothing but a cheat. 218 00:14:53,520 --> 00:14:57,960 You know he but God said, I see something in him I can use. 219 00:14:58,240 --> 00:15:00,800 He even chose a Judas. Think about that. 220 00:15:01,400 --> 00:15:04,920 A betrayer, one that just betrayed him. 221 00:15:05,080 --> 00:15:09,440 Come on, Hallelujah. I'm going to tell you we may not 222 00:15:09,440 --> 00:15:13,200 have betrayed the Lord the same way, but we've betrayed him many 223 00:15:13,200 --> 00:15:15,160 times. We've made mistakes many times. 224 00:15:15,160 --> 00:15:19,040 We've done things and, and, and God Chuck, he said no, but I'm 225 00:15:19,040 --> 00:15:20,720 going to tell you he loved us anyway. 226 00:15:22,600 --> 00:15:25,080 Come on. When I always didn't do what he 227 00:15:25,080 --> 00:15:29,040 wanted me to do or how he wanted me to do it, He still loved me. 228 00:15:30,600 --> 00:15:34,960 He loves you in the midst of your trouble in the truth, He 229 00:15:34,960 --> 00:15:37,280 loves you in the midst of your sin. 230 00:15:38,240 --> 00:15:43,320 Come on, I said he loves you in the midst of your sin. 231 00:15:43,320 --> 00:15:47,880 He loves you wherever you're at in life and he don't quit loving 232 00:15:47,920 --> 00:15:51,120 you. Glory, Hallelujah. 233 00:15:51,360 --> 00:15:52,920 They didn't turn my clock on this morning. 234 00:15:52,920 --> 00:15:57,080 So in trouble. Oh Jesus. 235 00:15:57,080 --> 00:16:00,040 I'll, I'll try, I'll try. Keep eye on my watch here. 236 00:16:01,200 --> 00:16:07,800 Hallelujah. Your place is not determined by 237 00:16:07,800 --> 00:16:10,880 some market of what personality you are. 238 00:16:11,880 --> 00:16:15,640 Hallelujah, Glory, somebody shout. 239 00:16:15,640 --> 00:16:19,400 I'm important. I think we can do. 240 00:16:19,960 --> 00:16:25,400 I'm important, Sister Jen. You're important. 241 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,160 I know sometimes we look at it Yeah, we we don't think we're 242 00:16:29,160 --> 00:16:30,920 important, but you are important. 243 00:16:34,280 --> 00:16:38,200 Eugene Rosenstock Hesse wrote this. 244 00:16:39,240 --> 00:16:43,680 What's in the name? The history of the human race is 245 00:16:43,680 --> 00:16:47,920 in names. Our objective friends do not 246 00:16:47,920 --> 00:16:52,840 understand that since they move in a world of objects which can 247 00:16:52,840 --> 00:16:56,880 be counted and numbered, that they reduce the great names of 248 00:16:56,880 --> 00:16:59,600 the past to the dust and the ashes. 249 00:17:01,600 --> 00:17:04,680 This they call scientific history. 250 00:17:05,839 --> 00:17:10,599 But the whole meaning of history is in the proof that there have 251 00:17:10,599 --> 00:17:16,560 lived people before us and before this present time whom is 252 00:17:16,560 --> 00:17:19,000 important for us to meet. And the only way we can meet 253 00:17:19,000 --> 00:17:23,520 them is through history. Sometimes we learn about people 254 00:17:23,520 --> 00:17:27,119 by reading their books. You know, if you want to know 255 00:17:27,119 --> 00:17:30,120 about somebody, what you do is if if they've got a book out, 256 00:17:30,120 --> 00:17:32,440 you read about them. Come on. 257 00:17:32,440 --> 00:17:36,800 I don't know about you, but you know, I've been reading this 258 00:17:36,800 --> 00:17:39,080 book all of my life. Even when I was a kid, I sat on 259 00:17:39,080 --> 00:17:41,760 Dad's lap and I'd read that. He'd give me scripture reading. 260 00:17:41,760 --> 00:17:43,560 I'd read it. You know why? 261 00:17:43,560 --> 00:17:47,240 Because I wanted to find out about this man called Jesus. 262 00:17:48,200 --> 00:17:49,960 Come on. I I wanted to learn his 263 00:17:49,960 --> 00:17:52,240 character. I wanted to learn what this 264 00:17:52,240 --> 00:17:55,840 Bible was all about. I wanted to know his history. 265 00:17:57,200 --> 00:18:00,040 You know, I know some of you might, might think, well, I 266 00:18:00,040 --> 00:18:01,440 haven't got very much of A history. 267 00:18:01,440 --> 00:18:03,920 And I don't know, I feel that way that sometimes I don't have 268 00:18:03,920 --> 00:18:05,880 much of A history. But I'm going to tell you, 269 00:18:06,080 --> 00:18:11,000 you've all got a history there. We've we've got times in our 270 00:18:11,000 --> 00:18:14,480 life that if it comes to the end of our life and when somebody 271 00:18:14,480 --> 00:18:17,960 goes back and write a book on us, we've got some good things 272 00:18:17,960 --> 00:18:20,600 and bad things. All of us, have we? 273 00:18:20,600 --> 00:18:23,720 We've not, we've not been left out, but you've got some good. 274 00:18:23,920 --> 00:18:26,800 There's some things we could probably testify about where 275 00:18:26,800 --> 00:18:31,440 you've been used of God in a mighty way, you know, and maybe 276 00:18:31,440 --> 00:18:34,480 it seemed like for you it was only for a moment or one or two 277 00:18:34,480 --> 00:18:37,400 times, but you don't know how many people that touched in that 278 00:18:37,400 --> 00:18:40,120 length of time. I want to tell you, your name 279 00:18:40,120 --> 00:18:42,080 should not be blotted out of history. 280 00:18:42,240 --> 00:18:48,200 Your name is important. If Jesus name is important, then 281 00:18:48,200 --> 00:18:53,080 your name is important. And Jesus name is important 282 00:18:54,360 --> 00:18:56,760 because every kneel's going to bow and every tongue's going to 283 00:18:56,760 --> 00:18:58,400 confess that he's Lord. Yeah. 284 00:18:59,280 --> 00:19:02,000 There's no other name given among men whereby we must be 285 00:19:02,000 --> 00:19:05,720 saved, only the name of Jesus. It's it's important name. 286 00:19:05,720 --> 00:19:08,640 It's a saving name. You can use that name. 287 00:19:08,840 --> 00:19:12,640 Heard people have heard, heard testimonies of people that were 288 00:19:12,640 --> 00:19:17,360 about in the accident and said Jesus, and somehow they open 289 00:19:17,360 --> 00:19:21,120 your eyes and it's all over and it's they're all right. 290 00:19:21,120 --> 00:19:25,040 Nothing was touched and you're still alive. 291 00:19:26,880 --> 00:19:29,920 And it was all because of the name of Jesus. 292 00:19:30,160 --> 00:19:35,080 What a powerful name. Jeremiah, a whole book written 293 00:19:35,080 --> 00:19:38,320 about him and it's it's full of stories, it's full of 294 00:19:38,320 --> 00:19:40,720 happenings, it's full of prophecies. 295 00:19:40,720 --> 00:19:44,680 It's it's full of him trying to get people to change their ways. 296 00:19:45,000 --> 00:19:46,440 I believe we're living in that time. 297 00:19:46,440 --> 00:19:50,640 We're living in a Jeremiah Day today when the world is is just 298 00:19:50,640 --> 00:19:54,240 at odds and everything it's going on, especially if it's a 299 00:19:56,080 --> 00:20:03,440 toward God, It's important. Our name is important. 300 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:08,200 Hallelujah. We take a child. 301 00:20:09,200 --> 00:20:13,320 I began to think about this. We want to take a child into my 302 00:20:13,320 --> 00:20:21,440 arms to dedicate that baby. And I asked the parents what is 303 00:20:21,440 --> 00:20:28,320 the child's name? We're not asking who is this 304 00:20:28,320 --> 00:20:33,320 child, but we're also asking what do you want this child to 305 00:20:33,320 --> 00:20:40,040 become? What are your wishes for this 306 00:20:40,040 --> 00:20:46,160 child? So we're always in the process 307 00:20:46,680 --> 00:20:50,920 of becoming something. More or less. 308 00:20:51,880 --> 00:20:56,760 Our life is filled full of becoming something I don't know 309 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:58,920 about you, but I want to become like him. 310 00:21:00,360 --> 00:21:03,160 So that's why I read this book. That's why I pray. 311 00:21:05,120 --> 00:21:08,080 Come on. That's why I go to church, 312 00:21:10,040 --> 00:21:13,480 Hallelujah. That's why I worship him is 313 00:21:13,480 --> 00:21:17,200 because he's worthy to be worshipped, Lori. 314 00:21:17,960 --> 00:21:22,400 Hallelujah. So I'm asking when I dedicate 315 00:21:22,400 --> 00:21:25,520 that child, what is the wishes you have for this child? 316 00:21:25,640 --> 00:21:27,520 What do you want this child to become? 317 00:21:29,640 --> 00:21:32,240 That's why you bring them for dedication because you want them 318 00:21:32,240 --> 00:21:36,040 dedicated to something to do with the Lord and life to be 319 00:21:36,040 --> 00:21:38,920 filled with with happenings of God. 320 00:21:38,920 --> 00:21:43,280 You know, be part of the Kingdom of God to have a calling, maybe 321 00:21:43,280 --> 00:21:46,800 may maybe to be a singer, maybe to be a musician, you know, 322 00:21:47,000 --> 00:21:52,280 maybe to have a part in the Kingdom, you know, something 323 00:21:52,280 --> 00:21:54,160 that would stir lives and hearts. 324 00:21:55,720 --> 00:21:59,520 Hallelujah. There are all kinds of changes 325 00:21:59,520 --> 00:22:05,320 that's going on in our body and our mind right up until the day 326 00:22:05,320 --> 00:22:08,400 that we pass from this life. We never quit thinking about 327 00:22:08,560 --> 00:22:13,400 things. Come on, when you get up the 328 00:22:13,400 --> 00:22:17,080 morning, you're thinking, Brother Reese, you're getting 329 00:22:17,080 --> 00:22:20,120 your late day lined out. What I'm going to do today. 330 00:22:21,200 --> 00:22:23,440 What's Grammy going to have me doing today? 331 00:22:24,320 --> 00:22:28,000 You know, what will I do today? Come on, you there. 332 00:22:28,040 --> 00:22:29,520 There's not a day that don't go up. 333 00:22:29,720 --> 00:22:33,440 You're thinking when you get up and when you're going to bed, 334 00:22:33,520 --> 00:22:39,160 your mind don't quit. It's still thinking even when 335 00:22:39,160 --> 00:22:41,280 you're sleeping. You're so much thinking that 336 00:22:41,280 --> 00:22:44,720 sometimes it wakes you up. Come on. 337 00:22:44,800 --> 00:22:47,600 I'm talking about your name is important. 338 00:22:48,480 --> 00:22:53,200 When God calls your name and he said it's time for you to go 339 00:22:53,200 --> 00:22:58,520 home, you're going to go home. It's important. 340 00:22:58,520 --> 00:23:02,760 Names are important. Jesus name is important. 341 00:23:03,960 --> 00:23:07,320 Hallelujah, we go to bed thinking. 342 00:23:07,320 --> 00:23:13,120 We get up thinking, Hallelujah, we're going to become something, 343 00:23:14,600 --> 00:23:18,880 you know, And if I'm going to tell you something, all this 344 00:23:18,880 --> 00:23:23,440 thinking affects your name or what you're becoming, good or 345 00:23:23,440 --> 00:23:27,960 bad. What are we going to do with the 346 00:23:27,960 --> 00:23:30,440 name of Jesus? I wonder? 347 00:23:32,280 --> 00:23:35,240 I wonder what's what's going to happen to the name of Jesus? 348 00:23:35,240 --> 00:23:42,520 What are we going to do with it? I want you to know something. 349 00:23:42,520 --> 00:23:46,960 We are our brother's keeper. What? 350 00:23:47,400 --> 00:23:50,960 What we do effects those that follow us. 351 00:23:54,560 --> 00:24:00,400 What we say effects others. The direction we're headed 352 00:24:00,400 --> 00:24:04,840 effects others. If God set you up as a leader, 353 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:07,400 there's going to be people following you, and you want them 354 00:24:07,400 --> 00:24:09,760 following you down the right Rd. not the wrong one. 355 00:24:12,720 --> 00:24:15,520 Come on. If we're going to be example, 356 00:24:15,520 --> 00:24:20,720 let's be a good example. Come on, Hallelujah name's 357 00:24:20,720 --> 00:24:23,520 important because you'll remember somebody if you've if 358 00:24:23,520 --> 00:24:25,480 you've if you're following somebody, you're going to 359 00:24:25,480 --> 00:24:29,240 remember them. They're all of all of you've got 360 00:24:29,240 --> 00:24:33,520 somebody in your mind that you'd like to be like, come on, 361 00:24:36,240 --> 00:24:40,160 there's somebody that you admire in your life and you want to be 362 00:24:40,160 --> 00:24:44,560 like that individual. You know, we all want to be like 363 00:24:44,560 --> 00:24:46,840 God, but there's there's somebody we're watching. 364 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:50,840 And I want you to know that we we, if we're not careful, we'll 365 00:24:50,840 --> 00:24:54,880 get let down. Come on. 366 00:24:56,480 --> 00:24:59,720 I've had my eye on people and all at once something come up 367 00:24:59,720 --> 00:25:02,480 and I'll go, hmm, that's Plumb out of character. 368 00:25:03,680 --> 00:25:05,360 I'm going to tell you we all make mistakes. 369 00:25:05,360 --> 00:25:09,240 There's none of us above sin. We've all sinned and we've come 370 00:25:09,240 --> 00:25:13,680 short of the glory of God. We've come short of the glory of 371 00:25:13,680 --> 00:25:14,880 God. We've come short. 372 00:25:15,960 --> 00:25:19,640 God's not always glorying in US. He's, he's not always liking 373 00:25:19,640 --> 00:25:21,760 what we do. He's not always liking what we 374 00:25:21,760 --> 00:25:23,560 say. He's not always liking the 375 00:25:23,560 --> 00:25:25,680 things we do. But I'm going to tell you 376 00:25:25,680 --> 00:25:27,400 something. Your name's still important 377 00:25:28,280 --> 00:25:30,560 because one of these days it's going to be written down in the 378 00:25:30,560 --> 00:25:36,520 Lamb's book of life. That's going to have everything 379 00:25:36,520 --> 00:25:41,360 to do with where you go. Glory Hallelujah. 380 00:25:42,360 --> 00:25:48,800 Thank you, Jesus, Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus, Hallelujah. 381 00:25:49,360 --> 00:25:55,160 Names are important. We start out as out as children, 382 00:25:55,960 --> 00:26:00,600 but we end up as adults. We may not see the results of 383 00:26:00,600 --> 00:26:04,520 what we're becoming, but we know that the goal is to be like 384 00:26:04,680 --> 00:26:08,280 Jesus. I want to become something. 385 00:26:08,680 --> 00:26:11,320 Come on. I want to be in the process. 386 00:26:11,320 --> 00:26:14,320 If you're becoming, you're, you're trying to, you're working 387 00:26:14,320 --> 00:26:17,600 on something. I always want to be coming as 388 00:26:17,600 --> 00:26:20,080 long as I'm living. Brother Reese, I want to, I want 389 00:26:20,080 --> 00:26:23,800 to be becoming. I want to be trying to witness 390 00:26:23,800 --> 00:26:26,040 to somebody. I want to try to encourage 391 00:26:26,040 --> 00:26:28,320 somebody. I want to strengthen somebody in 392 00:26:28,320 --> 00:26:30,560 their, in their trouble or in their heartache. 393 00:26:30,840 --> 00:26:33,080 Sister Jen, I want to encourage somebody. 394 00:26:33,280 --> 00:26:37,240 I want to be coming. I've not arrived. 395 00:26:38,040 --> 00:26:41,280 I won't arrive until I'm taken out of here, but I want to be 396 00:26:41,280 --> 00:26:44,960 coming all the time. Thank you. 397 00:26:44,960 --> 00:26:47,320 Jesus. Hallelujah. 398 00:26:48,440 --> 00:26:51,480 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 399 00:26:53,800 --> 00:26:55,800 Sister Angie, I know you're listening this morning. 400 00:26:55,800 --> 00:26:59,040 I want to tell you something. Your name means messenger of 401 00:26:59,040 --> 00:27:02,800 God. I want to be a messenger of God. 402 00:27:04,480 --> 00:27:07,440 Come on. I want to be a messenger of God. 403 00:27:07,440 --> 00:27:10,400 And she does that sister Angie does it. 404 00:27:10,400 --> 00:27:12,520 She does it on Facebook. She not, might not be able to 405 00:27:12,520 --> 00:27:18,000 get out here to church and only once in a great time, but she's 406 00:27:18,000 --> 00:27:21,720 a witness. And and I'm going to tell you 407 00:27:22,400 --> 00:27:24,960 your main, your name stands out to somebody. 408 00:27:27,040 --> 00:27:30,160 And, and, and you're going to, you're going to be, you're going 409 00:27:30,160 --> 00:27:34,240 to be exactly what God wants you to be. 410 00:27:34,640 --> 00:27:38,200 If you'll walk with him, if we'll walk like Jeremiah did and 411 00:27:38,200 --> 00:27:43,160 do what Jeremiah prophesied, if we'll do the things that God 412 00:27:43,160 --> 00:27:45,960 wants us to do and say the things he wants us to say, he'll 413 00:27:45,960 --> 00:27:49,280 always be there. Sister Joella Jessup, I know 414 00:27:49,280 --> 00:27:53,400 you're listening this morning. Your name means Jehovah is God 415 00:27:55,160 --> 00:27:57,840 that fits you. Amen. 416 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:03,440 Hallelujah. Because if she was here, she'd 417 00:28:03,440 --> 00:28:06,240 probably be back here saying Amen, we're doing this little 418 00:28:06,360 --> 00:28:12,080 number or something. You know, Sister Margaret's here 419 00:28:12,080 --> 00:28:14,720 this morning. Thank God she's she's able to be 420 00:28:14,720 --> 00:28:17,960 here this morning. Her name means Pearl. 421 00:28:23,600 --> 00:28:26,000 Yes, Sir. Pearl. 422 00:28:26,800 --> 00:28:33,480 You're a Pearl. I want to tell you, God is 423 00:28:33,480 --> 00:28:36,800 always looking out for his own. Your name means something. 424 00:28:36,920 --> 00:28:40,640 You may not think much of it, but if you really knew what the 425 00:28:40,640 --> 00:28:45,720 meaning of your name was, Amen. Sister Sharon Roberts. 426 00:28:46,560 --> 00:28:48,800 Well, I almost hate to tell her here because she'll start 427 00:28:48,800 --> 00:28:51,960 smiling, says spiritually intense. 428 00:28:53,320 --> 00:28:56,040 But I want you to listen to the last little phrase, Sister 429 00:28:56,040 --> 00:28:57,440 Sharon. Listen real close. 430 00:28:58,240 --> 00:29:02,840 Intense. Spiritually intense can sting or 431 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:09,360 charm. I guarantee her daughter, Sister 432 00:29:09,360 --> 00:29:16,400 Ron, it's a Amen, man. What a great thing. 433 00:29:16,400 --> 00:29:19,640 So your name does mean something, Sister Angie. 434 00:29:19,640 --> 00:29:21,160 That was your name too, Sister Angie. 435 00:29:21,160 --> 00:29:27,600 So you know what your name means now, Glory Hallelujah. 436 00:29:27,600 --> 00:29:29,840 I hate to tell Brother Mike what your name is. 437 00:29:30,240 --> 00:29:33,120 Means something. I'm going to tell you something. 438 00:29:34,120 --> 00:29:39,800 It says who is like God? Who is like God? 439 00:29:40,480 --> 00:29:42,200 I don't know, but I want to be like God. 440 00:29:43,600 --> 00:29:47,880 Who is like God? Answer that question for me, and 441 00:29:47,880 --> 00:29:49,920 if I'm not there, I want to be like him. 442 00:29:50,040 --> 00:29:54,360 Come on, I don't know about you, but sometimes names will propel 443 00:29:54,360 --> 00:29:58,960 us forward instead of us taking a back seat and, and, and not 444 00:29:58,960 --> 00:30:01,960 doing anything or want not one to be involved in nothing. 445 00:30:02,120 --> 00:30:05,200 It'll get you involved because it propels you forward. 446 00:30:05,560 --> 00:30:07,640 It tells you what's expected of you. 447 00:30:07,760 --> 00:30:10,920 If you want to live up to your name, you know, sometimes you 448 00:30:10,920 --> 00:30:23,560 got to get down to business. Lord Hallelujah, Brother James, 449 00:30:23,560 --> 00:30:28,000 your name means shall follow guard or protect. 450 00:30:30,360 --> 00:30:34,960 Thank God, Hallelujah. We need some people that will 451 00:30:35,480 --> 00:30:40,960 follow God, that will protect. Come on, we need some protectors 452 00:30:40,960 --> 00:30:43,640 in the church. What I'm telling you is we need 453 00:30:43,640 --> 00:30:47,200 all these names in the church because they all mean something. 454 00:30:50,520 --> 00:30:58,280 Glory Hallelujah, Sister Jen. I know what you hope. 455 00:30:59,040 --> 00:31:01,040 Hope Kevin's listening this morning. 456 00:31:04,120 --> 00:31:07,440 The word Jen or Jennifer means Fair Lady. 457 00:31:10,600 --> 00:31:14,040 Glory. I I don't even want to tell you 458 00:31:14,040 --> 00:31:18,680 what your husband's name means. He'll get a big head and he 459 00:31:18,680 --> 00:31:21,000 won't be able to wear his hat for a couple days. 460 00:31:25,400 --> 00:31:29,560 But names mean something. Glory Hallelujah. 461 00:31:30,720 --> 00:31:39,760 Kevin means handsome or beloved. Come on, church, I'm telling you 462 00:31:39,760 --> 00:31:41,880 about names. What's in a name? 463 00:31:42,880 --> 00:31:46,360 Your life could be in a name. It could be all laid out before 464 00:31:46,360 --> 00:31:48,880 you in a name and you don't even realize it. 465 00:31:50,480 --> 00:31:52,360 Come on. God's got a purpose for you, 466 00:31:52,360 --> 00:31:54,440 even. Maybe for your name, if you 467 00:31:54,440 --> 00:31:57,840 please. He's even got a He's Reese. 468 00:31:57,840 --> 00:32:02,600 Do you know what Reese means? Enthusiasm. 469 00:32:03,480 --> 00:32:06,920 Popularity. I see both of them hanging over 470 00:32:06,920 --> 00:32:14,000 your head. This is enthusiastic guy. 471 00:32:14,000 --> 00:32:16,720 Just ask the people that work for him on the Creek cleaning 472 00:32:16,720 --> 00:32:20,480 crew. He's wanting to get the job 473 00:32:20,480 --> 00:32:22,000 done. Could you be here a certain 474 00:32:22,000 --> 00:32:26,800 certain time Tuesday and we're going to clean this place up and 475 00:32:26,800 --> 00:32:30,880 he's he's after it. He was after it this morning. 476 00:32:31,240 --> 00:32:33,240 He he was after it. He's standing there at the back 477 00:32:33,240 --> 00:32:37,560 door and I I'd been in the back praying I was here first course 478 00:32:37,560 --> 00:32:40,720 and then and and standing back in that doors, Brother Reese and 479 00:32:40,720 --> 00:32:42,680 he was looking at me. Just give me this real funny 480 00:32:42,680 --> 00:32:47,320 look. He said, Bishop, can you, can 481 00:32:47,320 --> 00:32:49,240 you, I, I've just got a question. 482 00:32:49,240 --> 00:32:53,120 Can you help me? So I hope so. 483 00:32:53,880 --> 00:32:56,480 She had a little job. We went upstairs and took care 484 00:32:56,480 --> 00:32:59,080 of that job. He was in the process and needed 485 00:32:59,080 --> 00:33:00,400 a little help. So I helped him. 486 00:33:00,400 --> 00:33:02,000 Come on. You know what? 487 00:33:02,200 --> 00:33:04,000 This is what the church is all about. 488 00:33:04,000 --> 00:33:07,880 It's we're supposed to help each other, not just with the things, 489 00:33:07,880 --> 00:33:11,280 but I'm talking spiritually. We need to help each other. 490 00:33:11,760 --> 00:33:14,480 We need to least. Oh, Hallelujah. 491 00:33:15,640 --> 00:33:18,360 If this church is ever going to grow, we're going to have to 492 00:33:18,360 --> 00:33:22,520 help the pastor. If this church is ever going to 493 00:33:22,520 --> 00:33:24,600 grow, we're going to have to help each other. 494 00:33:25,440 --> 00:33:27,960 Come on it. And one of us or two of us or 495 00:33:28,120 --> 00:33:30,920 ten of us cannot take the job and do it by ourself. 496 00:33:31,280 --> 00:33:34,320 Someplace there's got to be some people that have put their 497 00:33:34,320 --> 00:33:37,080 shoulder to the wheel and say, I'm going to do it. 498 00:33:37,400 --> 00:33:47,160 And names mean something. Glory, Hallelujah, thank you 499 00:33:47,320 --> 00:33:52,080 Jesus. Hallelujah, thank you Jesus. 500 00:33:54,880 --> 00:34:00,560 Ephesians 413 says, Till we all come into the unity of the faith 501 00:34:02,120 --> 00:34:05,240 and of the knowledge of the Son of God and to a perfect man and 502 00:34:05,240 --> 00:34:09,560 to the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that's 503 00:34:09,560 --> 00:34:13,480 our ultimate goal. That's what we're working for. 504 00:34:14,440 --> 00:34:16,920 Are we there yet? No, but I will tell you 505 00:34:16,920 --> 00:34:19,400 something. I'm striving to become. 506 00:34:20,199 --> 00:34:23,560 Somebody said become. I want to become. 507 00:34:24,920 --> 00:34:27,840 Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. 508 00:34:29,199 --> 00:34:32,320 We do not deteriorate. We do not. 509 00:34:33,880 --> 00:34:37,000 We don't disintegrate, but we become. 510 00:34:37,920 --> 00:34:41,719 I said we don't deteriorate, We don't disintegrate, but we 511 00:34:41,719 --> 00:34:46,480 become I am what I am because of Christ. 512 00:34:46,480 --> 00:34:56,050 Can we really say that? Don't blame who you are on your 513 00:34:56,050 --> 00:34:59,610 parents or your genes contributed by them. 514 00:35:00,330 --> 00:35:03,850 Don't blame who you are on your parents or the genes that they 515 00:35:03,850 --> 00:35:05,930 contribute. Amen. 516 00:35:05,930 --> 00:35:08,410 Because those genes are compound. 517 00:35:09,770 --> 00:35:16,240 Compound with godly genes wasn't just it's, you got to understand 518 00:35:16,240 --> 00:35:18,560 it's not just your parents that's involved in this. 519 00:35:18,560 --> 00:35:21,560 It's a God thing. It's a God thing that you're 520 00:35:21,560 --> 00:35:24,880 here and I'm here. It's a God thing. 521 00:35:25,080 --> 00:35:27,040 Amen. Hallelujah. 522 00:35:27,960 --> 00:35:32,920 So what we become is up to us. It's not up to our genes. 523 00:35:32,920 --> 00:35:37,720 It's not up to come on. It's not up to God only. 524 00:35:37,720 --> 00:35:40,640 It's up to us. We got to do something about 525 00:35:40,640 --> 00:35:42,400 ourselves. We got to do something about our 526 00:35:42,400 --> 00:35:44,280 own life. There comes a time in our life 527 00:35:44,280 --> 00:35:47,240 that we got to say, OK, I got to straighten this out. 528 00:35:47,560 --> 00:35:50,000 If I'm not doing what I ought to be doing, then I need to 529 00:35:50,000 --> 00:35:53,600 straighten this out because I I got to become something. 530 00:35:58,600 --> 00:36:02,760 Oh, Jesus. See, names come from a lot of 531 00:36:02,760 --> 00:36:05,600 times from a relative. Somebody wants you name 532 00:36:05,600 --> 00:36:10,360 something because of your relative was named that or a 533 00:36:10,440 --> 00:36:13,720 Bible name. They want you named a Bible name 534 00:36:15,040 --> 00:36:19,880 or you've got a namesake that you're following after. 535 00:36:20,760 --> 00:36:22,840 Paul didn't have no choice in his name. 536 00:36:22,920 --> 00:36:25,680 He was named after his daddy, Junior. 537 00:36:25,680 --> 00:36:29,560 So Paul R McGee Junior, he didn't have a choice. 538 00:36:30,440 --> 00:36:32,000 You know, people don't have a choice. 539 00:36:32,000 --> 00:36:36,000 Their names. Your name, your name. 540 00:36:36,000 --> 00:36:40,200 Because of your parents, they've allowed that name to be put on 541 00:36:40,200 --> 00:36:41,800 you. Amen. 542 00:36:42,920 --> 00:36:45,960 Or or you're named after someone that you admire. 543 00:36:46,480 --> 00:36:49,360 Maybe you name somebody. You name your child after 544 00:36:49,360 --> 00:36:55,800 someone that's admired by you, so you would like your child to 545 00:36:55,920 --> 00:36:57,240 be like them. Maybe. 546 00:36:58,520 --> 00:37:04,040 See, names mean something, but there's other names that you 547 00:37:04,040 --> 00:37:06,000 don't want. I've I've never heard anybody 548 00:37:06,000 --> 00:37:09,680 that really wanted just had a yearning to name their child 549 00:37:09,680 --> 00:37:11,880 Ichabod. Only in the Bible. 550 00:37:12,840 --> 00:37:14,960 You know I don't I don't want to name my child. 551 00:37:14,960 --> 00:37:19,560 God is departed. You know that's not a name you 552 00:37:19,560 --> 00:37:20,680 want. You don't want to. 553 00:37:20,840 --> 00:37:22,920 Well, I'm just going to name him Devil. 554 00:37:22,920 --> 00:37:25,160 You ain't nobody wants to name their child Devil. 555 00:37:25,480 --> 00:37:27,840 There ain't nobody wants to name their child stupid. 556 00:37:32,520 --> 00:37:35,480 Sometimes they'll be that without even being named that 557 00:37:36,200 --> 00:37:38,880 you don't want to do that. You don't want to name your 558 00:37:38,880 --> 00:37:44,400 child loser. I don't want him to be a loser. 559 00:37:44,600 --> 00:37:45,280 Come on. He's got. 560 00:37:45,280 --> 00:37:48,600 I want him to have a real name. Nobody wants their child to 561 00:37:48,600 --> 00:37:54,920 aspire to these kinds of names. But we're living today in the 562 00:37:54,920 --> 00:37:59,920 age that I doubt if any people, many people looks up the name of 563 00:37:59,920 --> 00:38:01,480 their child before they name them. 564 00:38:04,240 --> 00:38:07,680 But you would be surprised how many times that people live out 565 00:38:07,680 --> 00:38:12,120 their name. Jeremiah lived out his name. 566 00:38:13,560 --> 00:38:16,760 The whole this whole book that I read was about Jeremiah. 567 00:38:16,760 --> 00:38:21,000 The whole thing about his prophecies and what he done and 568 00:38:21,000 --> 00:38:25,200 how he tried to get people to change, yet they didn't listen. 569 00:38:25,880 --> 00:38:28,240 I'm going to tell you names mean something. 570 00:38:29,200 --> 00:38:33,400 We're living in that age today. You would be surprised. 571 00:38:33,880 --> 00:38:37,480 You would be surprised how many people live out their name. 572 00:38:39,080 --> 00:38:43,600 Hallelujah. I'm wondering if God don't have 573 00:38:43,600 --> 00:38:46,720 a lot to do sometimes with names that we give her children even 574 00:38:46,720 --> 00:38:48,560 though we don't realize it's happening. 575 00:38:49,640 --> 00:38:56,840 He has everything to do with it. Praise the Lord, Hallelujah. 576 00:38:58,000 --> 00:39:02,400 I really, it kind of struck me as I was studying this and she's 577 00:39:02,400 --> 00:39:05,360 she's in there in classroom, but mom and daddy's in here. 578 00:39:06,440 --> 00:39:08,720 I'm beginning to think about little Natalie and all that 579 00:39:08,720 --> 00:39:12,800 she's been through. She's a miracle child in our 580 00:39:12,800 --> 00:39:20,040 midst. Truth is medically and all that 581 00:39:20,040 --> 00:39:22,400 she probably even shouldn't be even be here, but she's here 582 00:39:23,040 --> 00:39:25,840 because of God, because of prayers. 583 00:39:30,160 --> 00:39:35,120 And somehow I just had to look up her name and her name means 584 00:39:35,120 --> 00:39:38,080 the birth of the Lord. Now listen to this. 585 00:39:38,640 --> 00:39:41,840 But it's got another little refreshing thing on the end. 586 00:39:42,120 --> 00:39:44,560 It's linked to rebirth or refresh. 587 00:39:47,040 --> 00:39:53,080 I'm telling you, that little girl's lived out that not 588 00:39:53,080 --> 00:39:59,320 supposed to ever walk, not sure she could ever talk or do any of 589 00:39:59,320 --> 00:40:01,240 that thing. She does both of them plenty. 590 00:40:01,240 --> 00:40:07,400 Well, I'm talking about when God, when. 591 00:40:07,400 --> 00:40:11,720 A lot of times when God puts a name in a mama's mind, it's more 592 00:40:11,720 --> 00:40:16,000 than we even realize. It's more than we even realize. 593 00:40:16,000 --> 00:40:19,400 And a lot of times, I think sometimes it'd be good to look 594 00:40:19,400 --> 00:40:23,120 up the name of that child after you've done it already, just to 595 00:40:23,120 --> 00:40:26,000 see, you know what? Maybe God had something to do 596 00:40:26,000 --> 00:40:28,000 with this. No, I think he had a lot to do 597 00:40:28,000 --> 00:40:36,720 with it in a lot of cases. Oh, yes, thank you, Jesus. 598 00:40:37,040 --> 00:40:38,880 Somebody thanks. Thank you, Jesus. 599 00:40:41,240 --> 00:40:44,360 Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. 600 00:40:45,400 --> 00:40:48,920 Thank you, Jesus. But Freddy, your name means 601 00:40:48,920 --> 00:40:56,200 peaceful ruler. I believe that's pretty fits him 602 00:40:56,200 --> 00:41:00,120 pretty good. He just does it. 603 00:41:03,240 --> 00:41:06,320 A lot of times what he's saying he don't, he don't a lot. 604 00:41:06,320 --> 00:41:10,880 A lot of times what he's thinking, he don't say, come on, 605 00:41:11,640 --> 00:41:14,680 you know what? We need some peaceful rulers 606 00:41:14,680 --> 00:41:18,840 that we pray about it instead, instead of just opening my 607 00:41:18,840 --> 00:41:21,560 mouth, I have a lot better off sometimes just pray about it. 608 00:41:21,560 --> 00:41:25,360 Say, OK God, you've got this, I'm dependent on you. 609 00:41:26,080 --> 00:41:31,800 Hallelujah, thank you Jesus. Your wife's name means heavenly 610 00:41:33,240 --> 00:41:36,720 glory. Hallelujah, thank you Jesus. 611 00:41:41,200 --> 00:41:50,680 Rebecca, your name means tie or bind that guy you're setting 612 00:41:50,680 --> 00:42:00,880 beside his name means handsome in the great what God does so 613 00:42:00,880 --> 00:42:05,720 many times church if we would just take a look at what God is 614 00:42:05,720 --> 00:42:09,400 doing names mean something. What's in your name? 615 00:42:10,480 --> 00:42:13,000 Where are you headed? What are you becoming? 616 00:42:13,760 --> 00:42:16,520 Oh, Jesus Hallelujah. Thank you. 617 00:42:16,640 --> 00:42:19,960 Jesus Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 618 00:42:22,320 --> 00:42:25,280 Thank you. Jesus Hallelujah. 619 00:42:27,000 --> 00:42:28,920 Sister Ray. I know she's taking care of 620 00:42:28,920 --> 00:42:42,520 children someplace, but I know her name means something great 621 00:42:43,280 --> 00:42:49,840 means it's a female sheep, but it says one most most tenderly 622 00:42:50,200 --> 00:42:54,760 loved one most tenderly loved. Lot of times when you get to 623 00:42:54,760 --> 00:42:57,320 thinking bad about yourself, sometime you ought to look up 624 00:42:57,320 --> 00:43:03,360 your name and see what it means. We're so great, so privileged. 625 00:43:04,480 --> 00:43:07,960 I'm here to remind you this morning that you can be a nobody 626 00:43:07,960 --> 00:43:12,040 and still become a somebody. I said you could become. 627 00:43:12,360 --> 00:43:15,760 You can be a nobody and still become somebody. 628 00:43:19,720 --> 00:43:22,280 Hallelujah. I want to become. 629 00:43:23,240 --> 00:43:24,840 Come on, let's say I want to become. 630 00:43:26,520 --> 00:43:30,240 Gideon did. Gideon declared. 631 00:43:30,440 --> 00:43:36,080 My family is poor. I am leased in my father's 632 00:43:36,080 --> 00:43:39,280 house. It's not how you see yourself. 633 00:43:39,280 --> 00:43:43,320 It's how you see how God sees you. 634 00:43:44,400 --> 00:43:46,920 It's not how you see yourself. It's how God sees you. 635 00:43:47,280 --> 00:43:53,240 And God seen Gideon as a mighty man of valor when he said, hey, 636 00:43:53,240 --> 00:43:55,520 Gideon, Gideon's out there hiding. 637 00:43:57,360 --> 00:43:59,160 He's hiding in the thrashing floor. 638 00:44:01,200 --> 00:44:03,320 He said he's trying to get away from the Middonites. 639 00:44:03,320 --> 00:44:05,360 He's he's getting away from the Midians. 640 00:44:05,360 --> 00:44:08,400 They're, they're, they're, they're stealing from him and 641 00:44:08,400 --> 00:44:10,360 they're taking their crops and all of that. 642 00:44:12,200 --> 00:44:15,600 And then Lord, Lord says, you mighty man of valor, he's 643 00:44:15,600 --> 00:44:18,880 looking around like man, who you talking about? 644 00:44:19,320 --> 00:44:24,200 It's just me out here, Lord, but the Lord labeled him. 645 00:44:25,040 --> 00:44:28,080 Now I, I got news for you. I think God has labeled some 646 00:44:28,080 --> 00:44:31,840 people in this church and we're not, we're not doing very good 647 00:44:31,840 --> 00:44:34,320 with our name. We're we're, we're standing back 648 00:44:34,320 --> 00:44:37,200 and we're not doing what we should be doing because our name 649 00:44:37,200 --> 00:44:38,920 is much different than what we're doing. 650 00:44:41,960 --> 00:44:44,840 Oh, Glory. Thank you. 651 00:44:44,840 --> 00:44:50,480 Jesus. Sister Brenda, you're just a a 652 00:44:50,480 --> 00:44:54,280 warrior. Your name means a, a flaming 653 00:44:54,280 --> 00:45:03,440 sword, a fighter and sakes. Hallelujah, Brother Aaron. 654 00:45:03,440 --> 00:45:05,400 Your name means a mountain of strength. 655 00:45:06,640 --> 00:45:11,240 Glory, Hallelujah. We are so blessed this morning 656 00:45:11,880 --> 00:45:16,240 to have a God that loves us so much today. 657 00:45:16,360 --> 00:45:22,480 Hallelujah, glory Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. 658 00:45:24,200 --> 00:45:26,280 Amen. I'm through y'all. 659 00:45:27,800 --> 00:45:29,160 Hallelujah. Let's stand. 660 00:45:33,800 --> 00:45:38,680 Thank you Jesus. Hallelujah, God, I pray this 661 00:45:38,680 --> 00:45:42,640 morning, Lord, you would move in this service, God. 662 00:45:46,520 --> 00:45:48,440 Lord, we want to become something. 663 00:45:54,550 --> 00:45:57,230 I don't want to become what I want to be, Lord, but I want to 664 00:45:57,230 --> 00:45:59,110 become what you want me to be, Lord. 665 00:46:01,590 --> 00:46:03,390 I need your guidance and all of that. 666 00:46:03,390 --> 00:46:07,150 Lord. I need you, God, I need you, 667 00:46:07,150 --> 00:46:11,200 God. Help me, Lord, Hado bocha tada 668 00:46:11,200 --> 00:46:17,000 bojosa hayon dodo bojosi. Amen. 669 00:46:17,000 --> 00:46:22,400 Or maybe somebody in here this morning that you don't feel like 670 00:46:22,400 --> 00:46:25,480 you're living up to the wishes that Lord has for you. 671 00:46:26,280 --> 00:46:28,480 This altar's open for you this morning. 672 00:46:29,840 --> 00:46:34,560 Maybe you Facebook Live this morning. 673 00:46:34,560 --> 00:46:39,520 Somebody's sitting there and you think you got no calls in life. 674 00:46:39,560 --> 00:46:43,320 I want you tell you something. God's got a purpose for you 675 00:46:43,320 --> 00:46:49,040 being here. He sees you right where you're 676 00:46:49,040 --> 00:46:54,720 at and He can make something out of you. 677 00:46:54,760 --> 00:46:57,720 You can become something. It's His. 678 00:46:57,920 --> 00:47:02,560 It's his desire for you to become something for Him, for 679 00:47:02,560 --> 00:47:09,080 His Kingdom, for His glory. Hallelujah, thank you Jesus. 680 00:47:10,120 --> 00:47:15,920 Hallelujah God. Thank you Jesus, God touched 681 00:47:15,920 --> 00:47:21,720 somebody this morning. God, I know my nothingness. 682 00:47:22,720 --> 00:47:27,200 Lord, I know your abilities. Lord, this morning, what a great 683 00:47:27,200 --> 00:47:33,880 God you are able to do, exceeding and abundantly. 684 00:47:35,000 --> 00:47:43,160 Above all we can ask or think. Lord, I need you in this house 685 00:47:43,160 --> 00:47:48,920 this morning. Lord, follow my Shandorobo 686 00:47:48,920 --> 00:47:58,360 pussy. Oh Lord, Hallelujah Lord, my 687 00:47:58,360 --> 00:48:05,320 desires to become like you. Lord, I want to have ears open 688 00:48:05,320 --> 00:48:07,920 to hear you, God, when you speak to me. 689 00:48:09,800 --> 00:48:15,240 Dear God, I want to have eyes. I want to look through your eyes 690 00:48:15,240 --> 00:48:20,680 and not my own, 'cause God, if I look through your eyes, I'll see 691 00:48:20,680 --> 00:48:24,840 what you see. Help me, Lord, this morning, 692 00:48:26,000 --> 00:48:28,480 God, I need you in this hour right now. 693 00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:34,560 The world's in trouble. Lord, I'm praying, Lord Jesus, 694 00:48:34,560 --> 00:48:39,000 for a Holy Ghost revival. I'm praying for an awakening in 695 00:48:39,000 --> 00:48:43,080 this city. Lord, I'm praying for the word 696 00:48:43,080 --> 00:48:48,160 of God that's in this church to be spread, Lord, outside this 697 00:48:48,160 --> 00:48:50,560 church to the north-south and the east and the West. 698 00:48:52,600 --> 00:48:55,040 I'm praying for a holy presence, God, in your house. 699 00:48:55,960 --> 00:48:58,000 Thank you for listening. If you would like more 700 00:48:58,000 --> 00:49:01,160 information about our services and activities, you can find us 701 00:49:01,160 --> 00:49:06,040 on Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter with the username FACMC. 702 00:49:06,240 --> 00:49:10,440 Again, that's FACMC. 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