1 00:00:01,040 --> 00:00:04,000 Welcome to the First Apostolic Church Podcast. 2 00:00:04,520 --> 00:00:08,000 Our church mission is to love as God loves, showing compassion 3 00:00:08,000 --> 00:00:11,480 every soul, thus winning those souls and equipping them to be 4 00:00:11,480 --> 00:00:13,680 sent out to plant and to harvest. 5 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:17,000 Thank you for joining us today and we hope that you're blessed 6 00:00:17,000 --> 00:00:24,880 by today's podcast. Here's by the Ministry of of of 7 00:00:24,880 --> 00:00:26,920 Brother Michael Malpen. I know tonight will be no 8 00:00:26,920 --> 00:00:28,020 different. Amen. 9 00:00:28,020 --> 00:00:29,540 Can we give the Lord a grand hand? 10 00:00:29,540 --> 00:00:31,220 Amen. As he comes to minister the word 11 00:00:31,220 --> 00:00:35,580 of the Lord. Let's give the Lord a great 12 00:00:35,580 --> 00:00:41,740 praise tonight. Come on, let's praise him. 13 00:00:43,740 --> 00:00:45,460 You're worthy. You're worthy. 14 00:00:45,460 --> 00:00:48,140 You're worthy. Hallelujah. 15 00:00:49,020 --> 00:00:50,820 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 16 00:00:52,500 --> 00:00:54,940 So good to be in the House of the Lord tonight. 17 00:00:54,980 --> 00:00:57,620 And. You'll have to excuse my voice. 18 00:00:58,340 --> 00:01:01,580 I am not sick. I don't have COVID. 19 00:01:02,660 --> 00:01:05,019 I don't feel bad at all. Little little tired. 20 00:01:05,379 --> 00:01:08,940 But other than that. But I preached Texas camp last 21 00:01:08,940 --> 00:01:12,780 week and then just been in so many different climates and 22 00:01:12,780 --> 00:01:16,260 allergies and sinuses and it's really taking a toll on my 23 00:01:16,260 --> 00:01:20,460 voice. But so don't be scared and just 24 00:01:20,460 --> 00:01:22,900 preach with me tonight, even though I may not be able to 25 00:01:22,900 --> 00:01:27,920 preach to my fool. Capacity, but so good to be back 26 00:01:27,920 --> 00:01:30,080 here. I think it's been a couple years 27 00:01:30,080 --> 00:01:33,480 now since I've been here and excited to be back and give 28 00:01:33,480 --> 00:01:35,280 honor. Probably the easiest way to do 29 00:01:35,280 --> 00:01:37,840 it is to say the McGee family. What a. 30 00:01:38,920 --> 00:01:42,200 But I give honor to all the McGee family, leadership, 31 00:01:42,280 --> 00:01:46,440 pastors, Bishop, all the Saints of God. 32 00:01:46,960 --> 00:01:50,640 Thank you for all of your kindness to the years, your 33 00:01:50,640 --> 00:01:54,160 friendship and as I've said many times before. 34 00:01:54,530 --> 00:01:58,530 Sister Don McGee and she's like me, she's a East Tennessee 35 00:01:58,530 --> 00:02:03,770 hillbilly transplant. And so we go way, way back and 36 00:02:04,290 --> 00:02:06,570 and I'm just thankful for the friendship through the years of 37 00:02:06,570 --> 00:02:10,770 your pastoral leadership team and myself. 38 00:02:10,770 --> 00:02:12,970 And I appreciate them very, very, very much. 39 00:02:12,970 --> 00:02:15,970 If you have your Bibles, turn with me to the book of Matthew. 40 00:02:17,450 --> 00:02:19,170 Thank you for letting me be here tonight. 41 00:02:21,650 --> 00:02:27,120 Matthew, the 13th chapter. And we're going to read 3 verses 42 00:02:27,120 --> 00:02:33,800 there, beginning with verse #53, Matthew 1353. 43 00:02:34,440 --> 00:02:38,160 If you have it, say Amen. If you didn't look at all, say 44 00:02:38,160 --> 00:02:43,560 that's me. Nobody's going to take that one. 45 00:02:44,880 --> 00:02:49,800 Matthew 1353. And it came to pass that when. 46 00:02:49,960 --> 00:02:52,600 Jesus had finished these parables. 47 00:02:52,600 --> 00:02:55,810 He departed thence. And when he was coming to his 48 00:02:55,810 --> 00:02:59,890 own country, he taught them in their synagogue in so much that 49 00:02:59,890 --> 00:03:03,450 they were astonished. And they said, whence had this 50 00:03:03,450 --> 00:03:07,450 man, this wisdom in these mighty works? 51 00:03:08,290 --> 00:03:11,250 And verse 55 is what I want us to really key in on tonight. 52 00:03:11,250 --> 00:03:12,770 That's where I'll get my title from. 53 00:03:13,330 --> 00:03:18,650 Is not this the carpenter's son? That's what I want to preach 54 00:03:18,650 --> 00:03:22,860 tonight, the carpenter's son. Would you set your Bible down? 55 00:03:22,860 --> 00:03:26,300 Let your hands and hearts to heaven, and let's talk to the 56 00:03:26,300 --> 00:03:28,300 Lord one more time. Lord, we love you and we thank 57 00:03:28,300 --> 00:03:31,180 you for your power. Thank you for your majesty and 58 00:03:31,180 --> 00:03:36,380 your glory, your anointing that we feel God strengthened My 59 00:03:36,380 --> 00:03:39,500 voice, and anoint me to preach your anointed Word tonight. 60 00:03:40,860 --> 00:03:44,740 God, annoint your people to hear your Word, to receive your Word, 61 00:03:44,740 --> 00:03:47,340 and most importantly, to respond to your Word. 62 00:03:48,180 --> 00:03:50,100 God, I ask you to move in here today. 63 00:03:50,100 --> 00:03:52,220 I ask you to work in this house tonight. 64 00:03:52,740 --> 00:03:56,060 Do what only you can do. We give you praise for what 65 00:03:56,060 --> 00:03:58,980 you're going to do. In the mighty matchless name of 66 00:03:59,140 --> 00:04:01,060 Jesus, we pray. Amen. 67 00:04:01,060 --> 00:04:03,140 Why don't you clap your hands one more time? 68 00:04:03,780 --> 00:04:06,420 And the Bible says not only to clap, but to shout. 69 00:04:07,180 --> 00:04:08,940 Can you add a shout? To your hand clap. 70 00:04:18,399 --> 00:04:20,000 Thank you. You can be seated. 71 00:04:22,000 --> 00:04:26,760 When the people from the holy ones hometown heard him speak, 72 00:04:27,320 --> 00:04:32,240 they began to question. Many questions arose. 73 00:04:33,120 --> 00:04:37,000 Where did this woodworker? Surrounded by wood chips. 74 00:04:37,360 --> 00:04:42,160 Get such wisdom. Could a savior come from the 75 00:04:42,160 --> 00:04:44,760 shavings lying. Littered on the carpenter's 76 00:04:44,760 --> 00:04:48,290 floor. Could Salvation come from the? 77 00:04:48,290 --> 00:04:53,490 Shop of the Carpenter. Could an average artesian be the 78 00:04:53,490 --> 00:04:57,730 anointed one? Could a teacher arise from the 79 00:04:57,730 --> 00:05:00,930 tools of the carpenter's bench? Could. 80 00:05:01,130 --> 00:05:07,810 This Craftsman be the Christ. Could this builder be the one 81 00:05:08,370 --> 00:05:12,970 the one that over 300? Prophecies were written about. 82 00:05:15,330 --> 00:05:19,850 Now when it comes to the first. 30 years of the life of Jesus 83 00:05:20,330 --> 00:05:24,610 Scripture. Is mostly silent, except. 84 00:05:24,610 --> 00:05:28,650 For a brief glimpse of him teaching at the synagogue at the 85 00:05:28,690 --> 00:05:32,530 early age of 12, we really don't know much. 86 00:05:32,930 --> 00:05:37,330 About him. No miracles are recorded, no 87 00:05:37,330 --> 00:05:40,850 ministry that we are aware of. There are no quotes. 88 00:05:41,050 --> 00:05:43,170 There are no scriptures that were written. 89 00:05:43,650 --> 00:05:48,610 But Jewish tradition would suggest that Jesus, around the 90 00:05:48,610 --> 00:05:52,490 age of 10, would have been The Apprentice of his earthly 91 00:05:52,490 --> 00:05:57,290 father, Joseph, in his trade of being a Carpenter. 92 00:05:57,850 --> 00:06:04,610 Just a common Carpenter. I find it amazing tonight that 93 00:06:04,610 --> 00:06:09,130 he wasn't born into a physician's home, even though he 94 00:06:09,130 --> 00:06:13,420 is our great physician. He wasn't born the shepherd's 95 00:06:13,420 --> 00:06:18,580 son, even though he is our Good Shepherd, our Great Shepherd, 96 00:06:18,820 --> 00:06:22,940 and our Chief Shepherd, even though he is the Lamb of God. 97 00:06:23,180 --> 00:06:26,380 And along with the fact that shepherds were the first to 98 00:06:26,380 --> 00:06:31,340 witness his birth, he wasn't born in the castle of the King, 99 00:06:31,740 --> 00:06:36,420 even though he is the King of Kings and the Prince of Peace. 100 00:06:37,130 --> 00:06:41,130 He wasn't born to the Lord of a Manor, even though he is the 101 00:06:41,130 --> 00:06:45,890 Lord of. Lords, He wasn't born into the 102 00:06:45,890 --> 00:06:50,930 home of an owner of a vineyard. Even though he is the truth, I 103 00:06:51,570 --> 00:06:56,050 he wasn't born into the home of a psychologist, even though he. 104 00:06:56,050 --> 00:06:59,370 Is our counselor. He wasn't born the son of a 105 00:06:59,370 --> 00:07:02,290 professor, even though he is our teacher. 106 00:07:02,850 --> 00:07:05,570 He wasn't born into the home of a candle maker. 107 00:07:05,890 --> 00:07:11,490 Even though he is the light of the world, he wasn't born. 108 00:07:12,050 --> 00:07:15,850 The son of an astrologer. Even though he is. 109 00:07:16,250 --> 00:07:20,250 The Bright and Morning Star. He wasn't born the. 110 00:07:20,250 --> 00:07:23,850 Son of a zookeeper. Even though he is the lion of 111 00:07:23,850 --> 00:07:31,970 the tribe of Judah. He wasn't born the son of a 112 00:07:31,970 --> 00:07:36,290 wedding coordinator, even though he is the bridegroom and we are 113 00:07:36,290 --> 00:07:43,690 the bride of Christ. He wasn't born the Baker's son, 114 00:07:44,290 --> 00:07:46,250 even. Though he is the bread of. 115 00:07:46,250 --> 00:07:52,250 Life, he wasn't born. Into a lawyer's home, even 116 00:07:52,250 --> 00:07:54,730 though he is the law. And our advocate? 117 00:07:55,410 --> 00:07:57,890 He wasn't born into the home of a judge. 118 00:07:58,290 --> 00:08:02,730 Even though he is our righteous judge and mediator, he wasn't. 119 00:08:02,730 --> 00:08:05,530 Born the. Son of an author, even though he 120 00:08:05,530 --> 00:08:09,970 is the author and finisher of our faith, he. 121 00:08:09,970 --> 00:08:12,890 Wasn't born the. Son of a fisherman, even though 122 00:08:12,890 --> 00:08:16,970 many of his disciples were fishermen, that he later made 123 00:08:17,130 --> 00:08:21,610 Fisher of men, he wasn't born the son of a priest, even though 124 00:08:21,610 --> 00:08:23,010 he is our. High Priest. 125 00:08:24,360 --> 00:08:26,760 He wasn't. Born into the home of a 126 00:08:26,760 --> 00:08:30,400 mapmaker. Even though he is the way he 127 00:08:30,400 --> 00:08:34,679 wasn't born the son of a scribe. Even though he is the word 128 00:08:34,679 --> 00:08:38,039 tonight, he wasn't born the son of A. 129 00:08:38,039 --> 00:08:43,400 Mason. Even though he is our rock. 130 00:08:47,480 --> 00:08:50,760 He wasn't born. The stone Mason son. 131 00:08:51,120 --> 00:08:53,120 Even though he's a chief cornerstone. 132 00:08:53,740 --> 00:08:59,900 And the stone that the builders rejected, he wasn't. 133 00:08:59,900 --> 00:09:01,420 Born in the home. Of a jeweler. 134 00:09:01,940 --> 00:09:04,020 Even though the gates and walls of heaven. 135 00:09:04,340 --> 00:09:08,220 Are made of precious jewels. He wasn't born the. 136 00:09:08,220 --> 00:09:10,700 Son of the Goldsmith, even though the. 137 00:09:10,700 --> 00:09:12,620 Streets of heaven. Are made of gold. 138 00:09:13,780 --> 00:09:18,420 No, when the Almighty God of heaven and earth, the Creator of 139 00:09:18,420 --> 00:09:21,500 the universe, when our Heavenly Father. 140 00:09:21,870 --> 00:09:25,390 Decided to come to. Earth Rd. in flesh he could 141 00:09:25,390 --> 00:09:27,070 have. Came to any of. 142 00:09:27,070 --> 00:09:32,390 Those families, but he chose to be born in the family. 143 00:09:32,710 --> 00:09:39,190 Of a Carpenter, he. Put on a tool. 144 00:09:39,190 --> 00:09:44,430 Belt and a nail apron instead of royal robes and find jewelry. 145 00:09:46,390 --> 00:09:50,450 Because the carpenter's Kingdom. It's not a flesh. 146 00:09:50,450 --> 00:09:53,930 And bone or wealth, or earthly royalty. 147 00:09:57,890 --> 00:10:05,330 And if you study it out, the carpenter's son created 148 00:10:05,330 --> 00:10:10,250 everything. Paul Rice and Colossians one for 149 00:10:10,250 --> 00:10:16,010 by him where all things create that are in heaven and in earth. 150 00:10:16,570 --> 00:10:18,370 Visible. Invisible. 151 00:10:19,050 --> 00:10:22,610 Whether they be Thrones or dominions, principalities or. 152 00:10:22,610 --> 00:10:27,810 Powers. All things were created by him. 153 00:10:28,090 --> 00:10:31,370 And for him and. He is before. 154 00:10:31,370 --> 00:10:35,410 All things, and by him all. Things exist. 155 00:10:36,850 --> 00:10:41,250 The writer of Hebrews would say it like this, for every house is 156 00:10:41,250 --> 00:10:47,530 builded by some man, but he that built all things is God. 157 00:10:49,860 --> 00:10:53,340 And not only did he create everything, but he's working on 158 00:10:53,340 --> 00:10:57,500 us tonight, Paul writes in First Corinthians 3. 159 00:10:57,820 --> 00:11:00,380 He said, For we are laborers together with God. 160 00:11:01,140 --> 00:11:05,980 You are God's husbandry. You are God's building according 161 00:11:05,980 --> 00:11:10,820 to the grace of God, which has given it to me as a wise master 162 00:11:10,820 --> 00:11:14,180 builder. I have laid the foundation and 163 00:11:14,180 --> 00:11:18,480 another builder thereon. But let every man take heed how 164 00:11:18,480 --> 00:11:22,000 he buildeth. Thereupon for other foundation. 165 00:11:22,000 --> 00:11:25,120 Can no man lay than that which is laid? 166 00:11:25,360 --> 00:11:36,650 Which is Jesus Christ, Paul rights and Ephesians too. 167 00:11:37,050 --> 00:11:40,650 Now, therefore you are no more strangers and foreigners, but 168 00:11:40,650 --> 00:11:44,490 fellow citizens with the Saints and of the household of God. 169 00:11:45,090 --> 00:11:49,330 And you're built upon the foundation of the apostles and 170 00:11:49,330 --> 00:11:52,850 prophets. Jesus Christ himself being the 171 00:11:52,850 --> 00:11:58,090 chief cornerstone in whom all the building fitly framed 172 00:11:58,090 --> 00:12:00,170 together. I guess he was a framing 173 00:12:00,170 --> 00:12:07,610 Carpenter fitly framed together groweth unto a holy temple in 174 00:12:07,610 --> 00:12:10,570 the Lord in whom? You also are building. 175 00:12:10,570 --> 00:12:13,490 Together for a habitation. Of God. 176 00:12:13,930 --> 00:12:19,010 Through the spirit. Peter would add this. 177 00:12:19,710 --> 00:12:22,790 He also has Lively. Stones. 178 00:12:23,590 --> 00:12:25,830 Or build up a. Spiritual House. 179 00:12:26,790 --> 00:12:31,910 A holy priesthood to OfferUp Sacre spiritual sacrifices 180 00:12:32,470 --> 00:12:36,070 acceptable to God by Jesus Christ, I wonder. 181 00:12:36,070 --> 00:12:40,430 Could we just praise? And magnify the carpenter's sons 182 00:12:40,430 --> 00:13:05,850 of life. And in Matthew the 16th chapter, 183 00:13:07,210 --> 00:13:10,610 Jesus and his disciples come to the coast of sensory of Villipa. 184 00:13:12,130 --> 00:13:16,170 Jesus looks at his disciples and he asked him a question. 185 00:13:16,970 --> 00:13:23,490 Who do men say that I am? One of them says well. 186 00:13:26,140 --> 00:13:30,220 Some say you're John the Baptist, some say you're Elias, 187 00:13:30,220 --> 00:13:33,740 Some say you're Jeremiah or one of the other prophets. 188 00:13:34,980 --> 00:13:39,380 But then Jesus says, But who do you say? 189 00:13:39,380 --> 00:13:42,980 That I am. Because he's not, really. 190 00:13:42,980 --> 00:13:46,380 Concerned tonight? With what the world says, he is 191 00:13:50,580 --> 00:13:53,020 the. World says he never existed. 192 00:13:54,990 --> 00:13:58,870 The world says that he was just some prophet that's dead and 193 00:13:58,910 --> 00:14:02,270 gone. The world says he's just a 194 00:14:02,270 --> 00:14:05,150 figment of our imagination. The world. 195 00:14:05,150 --> 00:14:06,910 Says he's just a. Reason. 196 00:14:07,230 --> 00:14:10,670 That a fat man in a red suit comes down our chimney on 197 00:14:10,670 --> 00:14:13,430 Christmas morning and brings us presents. 198 00:14:13,710 --> 00:14:17,230 The world says he's just a reason for a Bunny. 199 00:14:17,430 --> 00:14:20,910 To hop with a. Basket full of eggs, but he's 200 00:14:20,910 --> 00:14:23,670 not concerned with what the world says. 201 00:14:24,060 --> 00:14:27,940 He wants to know who will you say that he is tonight? 202 00:14:28,540 --> 00:14:30,900 Because it's not about who they say he is. 203 00:14:31,180 --> 00:14:36,860 It's about who we say that he is and who is the Carpenter's son 204 00:14:37,180 --> 00:14:40,740 to you. I know him as my savior. 205 00:14:41,060 --> 00:14:45,940 I know him as my healer. I know him as my deliver. 206 00:14:54,430 --> 00:14:59,590 And Simon Peter said, Thou art the Christ, the Son of the 207 00:14:59,590 --> 00:15:02,390 living God. And Jesus said, Blessed art 208 00:15:02,390 --> 00:15:06,190 thou, Simon Barjona, for flesh and blood had not revealed this, 209 00:15:06,470 --> 00:15:08,070 but my Father, which is in heaven. 210 00:15:08,430 --> 00:15:13,870 And I say unto thee, Thou art Peter, and upon this rock. 211 00:15:15,870 --> 00:15:19,430 Upon this truth. Upon this revelation. 212 00:15:20,380 --> 00:15:24,140 What's he going? To do he's the carpenters, he 213 00:15:24,140 --> 00:15:32,180 said. I'll build my church, and not 214 00:15:32,180 --> 00:15:37,100 only will I build it, but the gates of hell shall not prevail 215 00:15:37,100 --> 00:15:40,180 against it. They'll try their best. 216 00:15:40,660 --> 00:15:43,420 They'll come at us, they'll knock us down. 217 00:15:43,820 --> 00:15:46,180 They'll bloody us, they'll bruise us. 218 00:15:46,700 --> 00:15:49,620 But we're built on a firm foundation. 219 00:15:50,110 --> 00:15:54,390 And hell, you could try your best, but the carpenter's son 220 00:15:54,750 --> 00:16:00,110 has built us on his foundation and we will not be deceded. 221 00:16:09,910 --> 00:16:22,660 The carpenter's son is preparing a place for us and John 14 Jesus 222 00:16:22,660 --> 00:16:25,380 said, Let not your heart be troubled. 223 00:16:26,470 --> 00:16:28,390 You believe in God, believe also in me. 224 00:16:29,390 --> 00:16:31,430 In my father's house are many mansions. 225 00:16:32,070 --> 00:16:38,910 If it were not so, I would have told you, I go to prepare a 226 00:16:38,910 --> 00:16:42,550 place for you. And if I go to prepare a place 227 00:16:42,550 --> 00:16:47,910 for you, I will come again, and I will receive you into myself. 228 00:16:48,470 --> 00:16:52,550 That where I am there you may be also now. 229 00:16:55,350 --> 00:16:58,510 I don't know if you've ever thought of it or not, but 230 00:16:59,630 --> 00:17:04,869 everything that we see, everything that we know, it only 231 00:17:04,869 --> 00:17:10,670 took God six days to build. And it's pretty amazing. 232 00:17:11,710 --> 00:17:15,430 The splendor of the Smoky Mountains, the grandeur of the 233 00:17:15,430 --> 00:17:20,829 Grand Canyon, the majesty of the Rocky Mountains, all the lakes, 234 00:17:20,829 --> 00:17:23,790 rivers, streams, the planets, the stars, the moon. 235 00:17:25,030 --> 00:17:29,550 Six days and it blows. We can't even comprehend it. 236 00:17:30,950 --> 00:17:35,030 So if it took him only. 6. Days to make all of this. 237 00:17:35,830 --> 00:17:38,230 Imagine what 2000 years is going to bring. 238 00:17:41,710 --> 00:17:45,840 If he did all this in six days. Imagine what the carpenter's son 239 00:17:45,840 --> 00:17:51,520 can build with 2000 years. No wonder no eye has seen and no 240 00:17:51,520 --> 00:17:54,960 ear has heard. We can't even fathom what he's 241 00:17:54,960 --> 00:17:57,160 building. But he's going to prepare a 242 00:17:57,160 --> 00:17:59,160 place. And I don't know if you can tell 243 00:17:59,160 --> 00:18:03,640 by the news, but daily in town prophecies are being fulfilled. 244 00:18:04,000 --> 00:18:06,960 He is coming back for his people. 245 00:18:07,240 --> 00:18:17,510 He's preparing a place for you. Paul writes in Second Trident 5. 246 00:18:17,950 --> 00:18:20,870 For we know that if our earthly House of this Tabernacle were 247 00:18:20,870 --> 00:18:26,630 dissolved, we have a building of God, a house not made with hands 248 00:18:27,070 --> 00:18:32,070 eternal in the heavens. He is our master builder. 249 00:18:33,470 --> 00:18:38,030 Isaiah 4413 says this about the Carpenter, the Carpenter stretch 250 00:18:38,030 --> 00:18:42,390 it out, his rule he market it out with a line, he fit it with 251 00:18:42,430 --> 00:18:44,690 with planes. He marketh it out with a 252 00:18:44,690 --> 00:18:47,290 compass. Then he says, and I say 41, 253 00:18:47,290 --> 00:18:49,650 seven. So the Carpenter encouraged the 254 00:18:49,650 --> 00:18:52,810 goatsmith and he that smoothes with the hammer that smote the 255 00:18:52,810 --> 00:18:55,410 anvil, saying it is ready for the soldering. 256 00:18:55,730 --> 00:18:59,090 And he fastened it with nails that it should not be moved. 257 00:19:00,210 --> 00:19:03,970 So what does a Carpenter do? He measures the wood. 258 00:19:07,370 --> 00:19:12,470 Then he saws the wood. Then he guides the plane and 259 00:19:12,470 --> 00:19:17,390 sands the wood. Then he dries the nails and the 260 00:19:17,390 --> 00:19:20,670 Carpenter creates something. And you know what? 261 00:19:20,670 --> 00:19:22,990 The carpenter's son's doing the same thing tonight. 262 00:19:23,750 --> 00:19:28,150 He's measuring us. He's not measuring me by the 263 00:19:28,150 --> 00:19:30,310 world. He's measuring me by his word. 264 00:19:31,870 --> 00:19:34,950 He's measuring me to. Find out what should. 265 00:19:34,950 --> 00:19:38,320 Be and what shouldn't be. And what he doesn't need. 266 00:19:38,640 --> 00:19:41,080 And what is not valuable he'll saw. 267 00:19:41,160 --> 00:19:43,080 It off. He'll cut away some. 268 00:19:43,120 --> 00:19:47,600 Things that don't belong. He'll trim away some edges that 269 00:19:47,600 --> 00:19:50,800 are going to keep me from. Becoming who he wants me to be. 270 00:19:51,120 --> 00:19:55,160 But if I'm willing to be built by the carpenter's son, I have 271 00:19:55,160 --> 00:19:58,840 to say, God measure me, God cut away. 272 00:19:58,920 --> 00:20:02,320 It might be painful, but cut off some relationships. 273 00:20:02,680 --> 00:20:05,880 Cut off some phone apps. Cut off some friendships. 274 00:20:06,240 --> 00:20:09,040 Cut off some. Things that I don't need in this 275 00:20:09,040 --> 00:20:18,000 world. And then the carpenter's son has 276 00:20:18,000 --> 00:20:23,760 to sand the rough edges on us. We don't like it. 277 00:20:25,040 --> 00:20:28,280 It can be painful. But if we're going to be what he 278 00:20:28,280 --> 00:20:32,760 wants us to become, if we're going to be willing to be built 279 00:20:32,760 --> 00:20:35,680 by the carpenter's son, he has to measure. 280 00:20:35,970 --> 00:20:40,650 He has to cut and he has to sand the rough edges because I don't 281 00:20:40,650 --> 00:20:42,370 want to be abrasive to this world. 282 00:20:44,570 --> 00:20:47,730 I don't want to be abrasive. When I'm out there witnessing 283 00:20:48,330 --> 00:20:51,890 God, get rid of the rough edges, get rid of the things that don't 284 00:20:51,890 --> 00:20:57,850 belong. And then the carpenter's. 285 00:20:57,850 --> 00:21:05,010 Son drives the nails. Not to hurt me, but to make 286 00:21:05,010 --> 00:21:07,220 sure. Then I'm stable. 287 00:21:09,700 --> 00:21:12,900 God, I don't want to be movable. I don't want to. 288 00:21:12,900 --> 00:21:17,780 Be blown about with every wind of doctrine and if it takes the. 289 00:21:17,780 --> 00:21:21,620 Nails God. I want to be a sure foundation. 290 00:21:22,140 --> 00:21:23,300 I want to. Be a. 291 00:21:23,300 --> 00:21:27,980 Bedrock I want to be a pillar. I want to be somebody that 292 00:21:27,980 --> 00:21:31,180 pastor can look too and say I know they're going to be there. 293 00:21:31,650 --> 00:21:32,970 I know they're going to be. Faithful. 294 00:21:33,330 --> 00:21:34,930 I know they're. Going to give their ties and 295 00:21:34,930 --> 00:21:36,930 offerings. I know they're going to worship. 296 00:21:37,170 --> 00:21:39,530 I know they're going to be there every time the doors are open. 297 00:21:39,890 --> 00:21:44,250 God, drive the nails deep and make sure that I am stabled. 298 00:21:49,970 --> 00:21:55,130 And then the carpenter's son is creating something in us and out 299 00:21:55,130 --> 00:21:58,450 of us. The old song I Ain't Got the 300 00:21:58,450 --> 00:22:02,920 Voice to sing it tonight. The old song I learned many 301 00:22:02,920 --> 00:22:06,240 years in Sunday school. He's still working on me. 302 00:22:08,960 --> 00:22:11,840 You. You might not like what you see, 303 00:22:13,000 --> 00:22:18,040 but he's still working on me. I may not be what you think I 304 00:22:18,040 --> 00:22:20,760 should be, but don't give up just yet. 305 00:22:21,600 --> 00:22:26,400 He's still working on me. He's making me what I ought to 306 00:22:26,400 --> 00:22:29,120 be. It just took him a week to make 307 00:22:29,120 --> 00:22:31,630 the moon and the stars. The Sun and the Earth. 308 00:22:32,030 --> 00:22:35,350 Jupiter and Mars. How loving, patient he must be, 309 00:22:35,870 --> 00:22:39,950 cause the carpenter's son is still working on me and he's 310 00:22:39,950 --> 00:22:43,190 still working on you. We're not a finished product 311 00:22:43,190 --> 00:22:48,270 just yet, but if we'll hold on, he's still working, He's still 312 00:22:48,270 --> 00:22:52,830 moving, he's still building, he's still creating and we're 313 00:22:52,830 --> 00:22:56,390 going to come out becoming who he wants us to be. 314 00:23:04,200 --> 00:23:06,400 A Carpenter. You know what? 315 00:23:06,400 --> 00:23:08,400 I don't know if anybody in here is a Carpenter. 316 00:23:11,200 --> 00:23:13,320 If you are, and if you got a voice, maybe you ought to be 317 00:23:13,320 --> 00:23:18,360 preaching this. But I'm not a Carpenter. 318 00:23:19,280 --> 00:23:22,760 But I've tried and I've spent time with some. 319 00:23:23,800 --> 00:23:25,680 But you know one thing I know about a Carpenter? 320 00:23:26,680 --> 00:23:29,490 A Carpenter. It can take what seems to be 321 00:23:29,490 --> 00:23:32,530 nothing and make something out of it. 322 00:23:34,970 --> 00:23:38,490 When we were building our house a few years ago, it was just a 323 00:23:38,490 --> 00:23:42,770 field one day, then it was dirt the other day, then it was 324 00:23:42,770 --> 00:23:46,770 blocked one day, then it was concrete one day, and then 325 00:23:46,770 --> 00:23:49,930 another few days. They had it framed, had the 326 00:23:49,930 --> 00:23:53,930 siding and the roof on it, and it started out as just nothing, 327 00:23:54,930 --> 00:23:57,920 just a pile of sticks. The. 328 00:23:57,920 --> 00:24:01,640 Carpenter has a unique. Ability to take what? 329 00:24:01,640 --> 00:24:04,840 Seems to be. Nothing and make something out 330 00:24:04,840 --> 00:24:08,800 of. It and the carpenter's son has 331 00:24:08,880 --> 00:24:12,040 that same ability. He's been doing it since the 332 00:24:12,040 --> 00:24:15,960 beginning of time, when he reached down into the nothing, 333 00:24:16,200 --> 00:24:20,150 the dust of the earth. Any created man, when he spoke 334 00:24:20,150 --> 00:24:24,790 into the void and the darkness and began creating, he can make 335 00:24:24,790 --> 00:24:28,510 something out of nothing. And if you came here and you 336 00:24:28,510 --> 00:24:31,910 feel like nothing and you feel like you have nothing to offer, 337 00:24:32,150 --> 00:24:35,590 you're in the right place. Because the carpenter's son did 338 00:24:35,590 --> 00:24:38,310 take your nothing and make something out of. 339 00:24:45,110 --> 00:24:46,430 It you know what else a Carpenter can do. 340 00:24:48,040 --> 00:24:51,200 I've seen it many times in the town I live in. 341 00:24:52,280 --> 00:24:54,760 I'll drive by this old dilapidated house, Bishop. 342 00:24:57,040 --> 00:25:01,840 The yard looks like it's grown up, about up to my eyes. 343 00:25:02,880 --> 00:25:07,720 Shingles are missing, windows are busted out, front doors 344 00:25:07,720 --> 00:25:11,080 kicked in. I'm just thinking, man, I wish 345 00:25:11,080 --> 00:25:15,520 the city would bulldoze that thing to the ground, but all of 346 00:25:15,520 --> 00:25:19,920 a sudden? A for sale sign goes up and then 347 00:25:19,920 --> 00:25:24,880 they slap a sold sign on it and within just a matter of weeks, 348 00:25:25,480 --> 00:25:30,040 that old dilapidated house. Somebody comes in, they. 349 00:25:30,040 --> 00:25:31,200 Put a new roof. On it. 350 00:25:31,520 --> 00:25:33,400 They put new Windows and a new door. 351 00:25:33,680 --> 00:25:36,800 They mow the yard. They paint it, they read through 352 00:25:36,800 --> 00:25:40,760 the inside, and now it's a beautiful home that once was 353 00:25:40,760 --> 00:25:43,240 nothing. But a dilapidated mess. 354 00:25:43,600 --> 00:25:46,840 And you know what? The carpenter's son can do the 355 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:52,800 same thing. Life may have let you roar down 356 00:25:53,000 --> 00:25:55,160 and lure out. You may be had. 357 00:25:55,160 --> 00:25:59,120 Come here tonight and you may feel like I don't have anything 358 00:25:59,120 --> 00:26:04,040 off to offer God that life has used me and abused me. 359 00:26:04,280 --> 00:26:07,200 But let me introduce you to the carpenter's son. 360 00:26:07,480 --> 00:26:10,680 The one who can make beauty out of ashes. 361 00:26:10,880 --> 00:26:13,320 The one that can take nothing and make something. 362 00:26:18,910 --> 00:26:20,550 You know what else a Carpenter can do? 363 00:26:21,470 --> 00:26:27,030 He can take what's broken and fix it, and so can the Carpenter 364 00:26:27,030 --> 00:26:30,470 sign. Cuz the song said he healeth the 365 00:26:30,470 --> 00:26:34,590 broken and heart and he bindeth up their wounds. 366 00:26:36,020 --> 00:26:39,380 If you came here broken hearted, if you came here with a broken 367 00:26:39,380 --> 00:26:44,380 marriage, if you came here with your mind, destroyed your heart, 368 00:26:44,580 --> 00:26:47,300 your. Life destroyed, you've come. 369 00:26:47,300 --> 00:26:51,580 To the right place. The carpenter's son can fix what 370 00:26:51,580 --> 00:26:53,540 is. Broken in this house? 371 00:26:57,380 --> 00:27:02,600 You know something else I learned about carpenters? 372 00:27:03,360 --> 00:27:08,640 It's ain't even in my notes, but they're rarely ever. 373 00:27:09,810 --> 00:27:14,450 On time. But in their mind, they're never 374 00:27:14,450 --> 00:27:18,050 late. And so is the Carpenter sign. 375 00:27:18,970 --> 00:27:21,810 He may not be on time like we think he should be. 376 00:27:22,410 --> 00:27:26,090 Just ask Mary and Martha. If you'd have just been here 377 00:27:26,090 --> 00:27:29,090 four days ago, our brother wouldn't have died. 378 00:27:29,530 --> 00:27:31,970 But they didn't realize that the carpenter's. 379 00:27:31,970 --> 00:27:35,730 Son was building something. He didn't come to heal him. 380 00:27:36,170 --> 00:27:38,330 He came to raise him from the dead. 381 00:27:38,980 --> 00:27:42,980 And he may seem late to you tonight, but the carpenter's son 382 00:27:43,220 --> 00:27:46,100 is going to show up right on time. 383 00:27:46,420 --> 00:27:49,100 He's going to show up and he's going to work. 384 00:27:49,460 --> 00:27:53,820 Maybe not on your time, maybe not on my time, but right on his 385 00:27:53,860 --> 00:28:01,700 time. So the carpenter's son. 386 00:28:02,460 --> 00:28:06,580 He's building, he's creating and he's fixing. 387 00:28:06,580 --> 00:28:10,380 Something tonight? And I draw your attention. 388 00:28:10,460 --> 00:28:17,780 I'm almost done, John. The 19th chapter, verse #30, 389 00:28:19,420 --> 00:28:25,460 when Jesus therefore had received the vinegar, he said it 390 00:28:25,460 --> 00:28:29,020 is finished. So I guess he was a finished 391 00:28:29,020 --> 00:28:36,140 Carpenter too, And he bowed his head and he gave up the ghost 392 00:28:36,980 --> 00:28:40,780 now. Can you imagine being at the 393 00:28:40,780 --> 00:28:45,140 cross that day? Ken weren't there. 394 00:28:46,340 --> 00:28:50,580 One was dead, the other was there with Mary. 395 00:28:51,620 --> 00:28:56,540 Can you imagine hearing the man that you just gave three years 396 00:28:56,540 --> 00:29:01,380 of your life to say it is finished and then he bows his 397 00:29:01,380 --> 00:29:06,180 head and dies. Those around him. 398 00:29:07,230 --> 00:29:11,390 Thought it was over those. Around him thought. 399 00:29:11,390 --> 00:29:14,190 That was the end. Of the carpenter's son. 400 00:29:15,950 --> 00:29:21,470 But he wasn't finished. But the carpenter's son was 401 00:29:21,470 --> 00:29:25,470 merely saying I'm finished building a bridge. 402 00:29:27,310 --> 00:29:32,990 I'm finished building Mercy's Bridge that will span across 403 00:29:33,150 --> 00:29:37,460 this last 6000 years. And 2000 years into the. 404 00:29:37,460 --> 00:29:41,140 Future because he. Used two pieces of wood and 405 00:29:41,140 --> 00:29:46,060 three nails and he built an eternal bridge that you and I 406 00:29:46,340 --> 00:29:50,780 don't have to be separated, that we don't have to go to the high 407 00:29:50,780 --> 00:29:53,610 priest. In the Holy of Holies anymore. 408 00:29:53,890 --> 00:29:58,530 But now we have direct access to His throne, and we have direct 409 00:29:58,530 --> 00:30:02,450 access to His mercy. I'm thankful that it is 410 00:30:02,450 --> 00:30:05,050 finished. I'm thankful that He built a 411 00:30:05,050 --> 00:30:07,290 bridge. I'm thankful that He paid the 412 00:30:07,290 --> 00:30:10,090 price. I'm thankful that He buy up all 413 00:30:10,090 --> 00:30:13,370 my sins and pay the price I can never pay. 414 00:30:13,610 --> 00:30:20,410 And then I can. Never replay Christ. 415 00:30:21,690 --> 00:30:27,130 Christ was a Carpenter, and a rare Carpenter too, for he made 416 00:30:27,130 --> 00:30:31,650 a ladder that reaches all the way from earth to heaven, and up 417 00:30:31,650 --> 00:30:35,330 that ladder souls are continually ascending to the 418 00:30:35,330 --> 00:30:39,370 palace which he has gone to prepare for now. 419 00:30:39,370 --> 00:30:48,690 So tonight, as we stand, the carpenter's son is calling 420 00:30:48,690 --> 00:30:53,490 tonight. Will you answer the call of the 421 00:30:53,490 --> 00:30:59,490 Carpenter tonight? And I close with this Psalms 127 422 00:30:59,490 --> 00:31:11,450 one, except the Lord, except the carpenter's son, except the Lord 423 00:31:12,090 --> 00:31:17,170 build the house. They labor in vain that built 424 00:31:17,170 --> 00:31:20,090 it. So let me tell you tonight in. 425 00:31:20,090 --> 00:31:23,130 Closing as every head is about, every eye is closed. 426 00:31:24,330 --> 00:31:25,850 If you're. Building your Life by. 427 00:31:25,850 --> 00:31:30,930 Yourself. It is in vain, and it will fail 428 00:31:31,810 --> 00:31:33,370 if you're. Building your marriage. 429 00:31:33,370 --> 00:31:35,770 By yourself. It is in. 430 00:31:35,770 --> 00:31:39,890 Vain and it will fail. If you're building your family 431 00:31:40,170 --> 00:31:42,730 by yourself. It is in vain. 432 00:31:43,090 --> 00:31:45,170 And it will fail. If you're building your. 433 00:31:45,170 --> 00:31:48,330 Finances by yourself. It is in vain. 434 00:31:48,570 --> 00:31:51,210 And it will fail. If you're building your future 435 00:31:51,210 --> 00:31:53,010 by yourself. It is in. 436 00:31:53,010 --> 00:31:57,490 Vain and it will fail because. Unless you're letting the 437 00:31:57,490 --> 00:32:01,810 carpenter's son build. The house you're laboring in 438 00:32:01,810 --> 00:32:09,140 vain tonight. You know a lot. 439 00:32:09,140 --> 00:32:10,380 Of times when I. Preach. 440 00:32:11,260 --> 00:32:15,660 I like to make May, May believe that this alters a certain 441 00:32:15,660 --> 00:32:17,980 thing. You know, if I'm preaching about 442 00:32:17,980 --> 00:32:21,020 the Potter's house, this alters the Potter's will. 443 00:32:22,180 --> 00:32:24,260 But tonight I'm preaching about the carpenters. 444 00:32:25,220 --> 00:32:27,020 And you know what? I just want to believe tonight? 445 00:32:27,020 --> 00:32:31,940 That this alter area is the carpenter's workbench and he's 446 00:32:31,940 --> 00:32:36,900 just wanting you to bring your life, Bring the pieces. 447 00:32:37,340 --> 00:32:42,860 Bring the brokenness, bring the hurt, bring the frustration, 448 00:32:43,180 --> 00:32:47,980 Bring the addiction. Bring the sin, bring the. 449 00:32:47,980 --> 00:32:50,940 Heartache. Whatever it is, bring it to the 450 00:32:50,940 --> 00:32:52,900 carpenter's. Son and say here. 451 00:32:52,900 --> 00:32:54,940 God. I don't have much to give. 452 00:32:55,220 --> 00:32:57,180 I don't. Have much to offer, but the 453 00:32:57,180 --> 00:32:59,260 preacher said you can. Build out of. 454 00:32:59,260 --> 00:33:02,020 Nothing and I'll give. You what I do have? 455 00:33:02,400 --> 00:33:06,680 And I'll let the carpenter's son begin to work and begin to make 456 00:33:07,040 --> 00:33:09,120 and begin to. Create and begin to. 457 00:33:09,120 --> 00:33:15,440 Fix what is broken in my life. So I wonder. 458 00:33:15,440 --> 00:33:19,920 Tonight, is there anybody that would like to come in contact 459 00:33:19,920 --> 00:33:22,440 with the carpenter's son? Come on. 460 00:33:22,440 --> 00:33:24,040 Whatever. Your need is tonight. 461 00:33:24,560 --> 00:33:26,000 Would you bring it? To an altar. 462 00:33:26,720 --> 00:33:30,000 Whatever your problem is tonight, would you bring it to 463 00:33:30,040 --> 00:33:35,190 an altar? Jesus, we need you. 464 00:33:37,470 --> 00:33:39,630 Come on, he's. Got his nail? 465 00:33:39,630 --> 00:33:41,350 Apron on. He's got his. 466 00:33:41,350 --> 00:33:42,390 Stool. Belt on. 467 00:33:43,030 --> 00:33:46,670 He's came on this Sunday night. To work on somebody. 468 00:33:47,070 --> 00:33:50,870 He's got his hammer out, he's got his nails, he's got his 469 00:33:50,870 --> 00:33:55,830 soul, he's got his Sander. He's working, he's moving, he's 470 00:33:55,830 --> 00:33:59,100 making miracles. He's making families. 471 00:33:59,460 --> 00:34:02,500 He's making marriages. He's fixing heartache. 472 00:34:02,820 --> 00:34:05,540 He's fixing minds. He's fixing troubled. 473 00:34:05,540 --> 00:34:13,739 Hearts tonight, come on, answer the carpenter's call. 474 00:34:13,739 --> 00:34:16,860 Tonight, the carpenter's son is here. 475 00:34:20,699 --> 00:34:23,659 Come on, let him work. He'll work. 476 00:34:23,659 --> 00:34:25,620 Boo, let him. You got to let him work. 477 00:34:26,780 --> 00:34:30,780 Here it is God, take my nothing and make. 478 00:34:30,780 --> 00:34:35,860 Something take the brokenness. And begin to fix it and mend it. 479 00:34:35,860 --> 00:34:39,219 Tonight God, give me beauty for ashes. 480 00:34:41,420 --> 00:34:46,380 Bind, bind the broken. Hearted tonight. 481 00:34:47,820 --> 00:34:51,260 Heal, fix. Work. 482 00:34:51,659 --> 00:34:56,889 Create. In the name of Jesus. 483 00:35:18,970 --> 00:35:20,770 Come on, give him all the pieces tonight. 484 00:35:23,980 --> 00:35:26,620 Give him all the pieces, Give him all. 485 00:35:26,620 --> 00:35:29,100 The brokenness. Give him all the hurt. 486 00:35:29,780 --> 00:35:34,500 Give him all the pain. Give him all the frustration and 487 00:35:34,500 --> 00:35:38,140 see what he can do. The doctor couldn't fix it. 488 00:35:38,500 --> 00:35:41,900 The medicine couldn't fix it. The judge, the lawyer. 489 00:35:42,340 --> 00:35:44,460 The politician? They couldn't. 490 00:35:44,460 --> 00:35:48,300 Fix it, but the carpenter's son can do the work. 491 00:36:03,750 --> 00:36:05,830 Thank you for listening. If you would like more 492 00:36:05,830 --> 00:36:08,990 information about our services and activities, you can find us 493 00:36:08,990 --> 00:36:13,590 on Facebook, Instagram and Twitter with the username FACMC. 494 00:36:14,070 --> 00:36:18,270 Again, that's FACMC. Thank you and have a blessed 495 00:36:18,270 --> 00:36:18,470 day.