1 00:00:01,800 --> 00:00:05,440 Praise the Lord everyone. It's good to be in the House of 2 00:00:05,440 --> 00:00:07,680 the Lord today. I like what I feel and I feel 3 00:00:07,680 --> 00:00:14,080 what I like in the house. We're so honored today to be 4 00:00:14,080 --> 00:00:17,840 here with Pastor McGee and his wife. 5 00:00:18,680 --> 00:00:25,640 I want to give honor today first to God because without him we 6 00:00:25,640 --> 00:00:29,520 would have nothing. Would we want to give honor to 7 00:00:31,600 --> 00:00:36,760 Bishop and Sister McGee, Long time friends as well and I 8 00:00:36,760 --> 00:00:41,000 appreciate them. Of course, Pastor and Sister 9 00:00:41,000 --> 00:00:44,240 McGee and Mariah and Trevor, we appreciate them. 10 00:00:46,440 --> 00:00:49,480 I miss my friend, Brother Mason today. 11 00:00:49,920 --> 00:00:53,440 I don't know what you call him here, Brother Mason, Dr. Mason, 12 00:00:53,440 --> 00:00:56,000 I don't know. He preached for me not too long 13 00:00:56,000 --> 00:00:58,320 ago and I introduced him as Brother Mason. 14 00:00:58,320 --> 00:01:01,160 I told him I didn't want to introduce him as doctor because 15 00:01:01,160 --> 00:01:03,560 I was, I had some older people in our church and I was afraid 16 00:01:03,560 --> 00:01:06,080 they would go to him and want a prescription. 17 00:01:06,080 --> 00:01:10,320 And so I I tried to save him from that. 18 00:01:11,360 --> 00:01:16,200 And of course, we appreciate Brother Alex, Sister Grace, this 19 00:01:16,200 --> 00:01:19,960 wonderful church family and congratulations on paying your 20 00:01:19,960 --> 00:01:23,640 church off. That is a tremendous blessing, 21 00:01:24,160 --> 00:01:27,080 no doubt. Thankful to have my wife with me 22 00:01:27,080 --> 00:01:32,160 today, and I was pleasantly surprised to see my friend 23 00:01:32,160 --> 00:01:35,480 brother tag Short here today when I walked in. 24 00:01:35,480 --> 00:01:37,840 I appreciate him. I've known him for many, many 25 00:01:37,840 --> 00:01:41,680 years as well, and we're thankful to see him today. 26 00:01:41,680 --> 00:01:46,320 We're going to get into the word of the Lord, and I know that I'm 27 00:01:46,320 --> 00:01:49,320 the only thing standing between you and lunch. 28 00:01:50,320 --> 00:01:55,440 I still have another service to go to after this, but I'm 29 00:01:55,440 --> 00:01:58,480 standing between you and lunch. But I have an assignment today 30 00:01:59,440 --> 00:02:02,440 from the Lord, and I pray that it will touch somebody. 31 00:02:02,440 --> 00:02:04,440 I pray that it will help somebody, and I pray that it 32 00:02:04,440 --> 00:02:07,600 will encourage somebody, and I pray that it will challenge 33 00:02:07,600 --> 00:02:10,000 somebody. If the Word of God doesn't 34 00:02:10,000 --> 00:02:14,240 challenge us, we can't grow. But I'm grateful today if you'll 35 00:02:14,240 --> 00:02:20,200 turn with me to the book of Luke today, chapter #18 the book of 36 00:02:20,200 --> 00:02:32,600 Luke chapter #18 I want to start with verse #18 today the Bible 37 00:02:32,600 --> 00:02:38,280 says in a certain ruler, ask him saying, good master, what shall 38 00:02:38,280 --> 00:02:44,160 I do to inherit eternal life? And Jesus said unto him, Why 39 00:02:44,160 --> 00:02:49,000 call us thou me good? None is good save one that is 40 00:02:49,000 --> 00:02:52,720 God. Thou knowest the commandments. 41 00:02:52,960 --> 00:02:57,760 Do not commit adultery, do not kill, do not steal, do not bear 42 00:02:57,760 --> 00:03:00,920 false witness, Honor thy father and thy mother. 43 00:03:01,600 --> 00:03:05,640 And he said, all of these I have kept up from my youth up. 44 00:03:06,800 --> 00:03:12,400 Now when Jesus heard these things, he said unto him, You 45 00:03:12,400 --> 00:03:19,320 like us, thou one thing so all thou has and distribute unto the 46 00:03:19,320 --> 00:03:24,040 poor, and thou shalt have treasure in heaven, and come 47 00:03:24,680 --> 00:03:28,000 follow me. And when he heard this, he was 48 00:03:28,000 --> 00:03:31,360 very sorrowful, for he was very rich. 49 00:03:32,760 --> 00:03:36,880 And when Jesus saw that he was very sorrowful, he said How 50 00:03:36,880 --> 00:03:41,280 hardly. Shall thou they that have riches 51 00:03:41,280 --> 00:03:49,520 enter into the Kingdom of God? I want to minister just for a 52 00:03:49,520 --> 00:03:54,480 few moments today, by the grace of an almighty God, cutting 53 00:03:54,480 --> 00:04:02,040 loose my broken limb, cutting loose my broken limb, and you 54 00:04:02,040 --> 00:04:05,080 set your Bibles down and let us go to the Lord in prayer. 55 00:04:05,640 --> 00:04:07,800 Heavenly Father, we come before you today. 56 00:04:09,320 --> 00:04:12,280 God, I'm so thankful and honored, God, to be able to step 57 00:04:12,280 --> 00:04:16,800 into the pulpit again one more time to minister your word. 58 00:04:17,760 --> 00:04:21,079 I pray, God, that you would open our ears that we might hear, 59 00:04:22,160 --> 00:04:25,480 open our hearts that we might receive God, and open our minds 60 00:04:25,480 --> 00:04:29,280 that we might comprehend God, what you're trying to tell the 61 00:04:29,280 --> 00:04:33,400 church on this day. God, I'm asking, Lord God, that 62 00:04:33,400 --> 00:04:36,840 everyone of us, Lord God, will fall in love with you more today 63 00:04:36,840 --> 00:04:40,960 than we have ever had before. God, we thank you and we give 64 00:04:40,960 --> 00:04:44,000 you glory and we give you honor. We ask God that you would bless 65 00:04:44,000 --> 00:04:47,280 this word. God to our hearts Lord, and we 66 00:04:47,280 --> 00:04:51,000 give you the thanks for it. We give you the thanks for it 67 00:04:51,520 --> 00:04:56,680 and everyone saying Jesus name, You may be seated today. 68 00:05:00,360 --> 00:05:06,400 I don't take this assignment lightly Today I understand and 69 00:05:06,400 --> 00:05:12,120 realize that I am not near the minister that your pastor is. 70 00:05:13,040 --> 00:05:17,240 I understand today that there are many evangelists and other 71 00:05:17,240 --> 00:05:20,120 pastors that could probably feel this pulpit today. 72 00:05:21,160 --> 00:05:25,960 But God's Word is the same yesterday, today, and forever. 73 00:05:25,960 --> 00:05:30,000 He said my word will not pass away and it will go out and it 74 00:05:30,000 --> 00:05:33,000 will do what is intended to do, and it will not return void. 75 00:05:34,160 --> 00:05:37,600 And so I've come humbly today to step into this pulpit and 76 00:05:37,600 --> 00:05:41,560 minister something that I felt like that God had laid up on my 77 00:05:41,560 --> 00:05:45,200 heart today that this generation, not just this 78 00:05:45,200 --> 00:05:47,360 church, but this generation needs. 79 00:05:48,280 --> 00:05:51,240 If there's ever a time the generation needs God, it's in 80 00:05:51,240 --> 00:05:54,440 this hour. We need God more than anything 81 00:05:54,440 --> 00:05:57,600 else. I came across the story. 82 00:05:57,600 --> 00:06:00,800 Let me if you could just lay a little groundwork here. 83 00:06:00,800 --> 00:06:06,880 I came across the story, he said his surgery was on May the 5th, 84 00:06:06,920 --> 00:06:13,600 2003, Saint Mary's Hospital in Grand Junction, Co. 85 00:06:14,480 --> 00:06:18,240 His harrowing story was carried in newspapers and on television 86 00:06:18,240 --> 00:06:21,840 around the world. Since this 27 year old didn't 87 00:06:21,840 --> 00:06:25,360 show up for work at his hometown in Aspen on Tuesday morning. 88 00:06:26,280 --> 00:06:29,600 It's not the kind of celebrity that anyone would willingly 89 00:06:29,600 --> 00:06:30,280 choose. To be. 90 00:06:30,280 --> 00:06:35,680 Sure, for this season expert it was only supposed to be a day 91 00:06:35,680 --> 00:06:40,240 long adventure in an extreme sport of canyoneering that 92 00:06:40,240 --> 00:06:45,280 combines hiking and climbing up and down rugged remote terrain 93 00:06:45,280 --> 00:06:49,640 using rock climbing gear to negotiate narrow canyons. 94 00:06:50,280 --> 00:06:55,840 After solo winter expeditions to the summit of 49 of the 54 peaks 95 00:06:56,080 --> 00:07:02,080 in Colorado there that are 14,000 feet and above since 96 00:07:02,080 --> 00:07:06,960 December of 1998, a few hours of hiking around Blue John Canyon 97 00:07:06,960 --> 00:07:11,480 in southeastern Utah's Canyon Lands National Park seemed to be 98 00:07:11,480 --> 00:07:15,640 a walk in the dark. Something went badly wrong for 99 00:07:15,640 --> 00:07:20,960 the time for Aaron Rasslin. As this scrappy mountain climber 100 00:07:21,280 --> 00:07:25,120 moved through the three foot wide slot Canyon, he pushed his 101 00:07:25,120 --> 00:07:29,640 arm into a crack in the Canyon wall and 1000 LB slab of 102 00:07:29,640 --> 00:07:33,800 sandstone suddenly shifted. It broke loose and crushed his 103 00:07:33,800 --> 00:07:37,760 right hand and his forearm and pinned him in a horrifying, 104 00:07:37,800 --> 00:07:41,640 excruciating prison. He tried to use his robes and 105 00:07:41,640 --> 00:07:45,560 his anchors to free himself, but couldn't budget the massive 106 00:07:45,560 --> 00:07:48,680 boulder. They turned into night and hours 107 00:07:48,680 --> 00:07:52,080 turned into days as Aaron, who had narrowly escaped death in 108 00:07:52,080 --> 00:07:56,040 the avalanche in February, was forced to wait for help that was 109 00:07:56,040 --> 00:08:00,080 unlikely to arrive. He heard the rescue helicopter 110 00:08:00,080 --> 00:08:03,760 and begin to scream. They flew by time and time 111 00:08:03,760 --> 00:08:07,360 again, and Aaron felt that surely they have seen him and 112 00:08:07,360 --> 00:08:10,440 was sending help. But Tuesday morning he had 113 00:08:10,440 --> 00:08:14,080 completely exhausted his water supply and by Thursday morning, 114 00:08:14,440 --> 00:08:19,400 after 5 agonizing days of force standing or the unforgiving 115 00:08:19,560 --> 00:08:23,440 elements of the remote Utah wilderness, he realized that 116 00:08:23,440 --> 00:08:26,960 drastic measures would have to be taken if he was going to 117 00:08:26,960 --> 00:08:30,760 survive. Aaron had only two choices as 118 00:08:30,760 --> 00:08:35,120 the sun rose over Blue Canyon, Blue John Canyon last Thursday 119 00:08:35,120 --> 00:08:38,000 morning. He would die with his arm 120 00:08:38,000 --> 00:08:42,000 trapped beneath 1000 LB Boulder alone in a desert. 121 00:08:42,679 --> 00:08:46,120 Or he would have to amputate his arm with his own pocket knife. 122 00:08:47,440 --> 00:08:52,760 Utah Park Ranger Steve Swanky was in all he I said. 123 00:08:52,760 --> 00:08:57,680 I've never seen anybody who had such a will to live and is as 124 00:08:57,680 --> 00:09:01,880 much as a warrior as Aaron is. I've been doing this for 25 125 00:09:01,880 --> 00:09:06,320 years, but I have never seen anyone in this position. 126 00:09:06,880 --> 00:09:11,720 Because of his strong desire to live, Aaron was somehow able to 127 00:09:11,720 --> 00:09:16,560 tie a tourniquet to his right arm and then painstakingly do 128 00:09:16,560 --> 00:09:21,160 the unthinkable, crudely sever the crushed limb just below the 129 00:09:21,160 --> 00:09:24,760 elbow with his own knife on the grim. 130 00:09:24,800 --> 00:09:29,000 Once the grim task was done, he found a way to set up his 131 00:09:29,000 --> 00:09:33,160 climbing ropes and hooks, and he repelled 60 feet down the 132 00:09:33,160 --> 00:09:37,720 Rockwall to the Canyon floor, where he began to trick back out 133 00:09:37,720 --> 00:09:40,920 to his vehicle. That's where rescuers found him 134 00:09:40,920 --> 00:09:44,920 late on Thursday afternoon, bloody and dehydrated, figuring 135 00:09:44,920 --> 00:09:48,840 along a stream where what was left of his right arm was still 136 00:09:48,840 --> 00:09:52,880 wrapped in the tourniquet and he was only two miles from his car. 137 00:09:53,240 --> 00:09:56,480 He had walked seven miles with his wound and he was quickly 138 00:09:56,480 --> 00:10:00,760 airlifted out of the Canyon to the hospital where he began to 139 00:10:00,760 --> 00:10:04,760 be listed in serious condition and begin to have medical 140 00:10:04,760 --> 00:10:08,880 procedures taken. Authorities at the medical ex 141 00:10:09,160 --> 00:10:12,880 medical experts said that if Aaron had not cut off his arm to 142 00:10:12,880 --> 00:10:15,720 free himself, he would have surely died from either 143 00:10:15,720 --> 00:10:19,800 dehydration, exposure or the effects of his limb being 144 00:10:19,800 --> 00:10:23,920 crushed. But what such drastic measures? 145 00:10:23,920 --> 00:10:28,880 Were they really necessary? According to Aaron? 146 00:10:28,880 --> 00:10:34,000 Yes, it was necessary because I would have eventually died from 147 00:10:34,000 --> 00:10:37,600 my injuries. But what if I had just postponed 148 00:10:37,600 --> 00:10:40,240 the tough decision? Wouldn't somebody have found me? 149 00:10:40,560 --> 00:10:44,200 He said I don't believe so. And they talked to the Utah 150 00:10:44,200 --> 00:10:48,360 rescue helicopter pilot, Terry Mercer, and he said if he had 151 00:10:48,360 --> 00:10:51,840 not made the decision to cut off his own arm, he would have never 152 00:10:51,840 --> 00:10:56,760 survived because no one we were flying directly over him and no 153 00:10:56,760 --> 00:11:00,200 one could see him down in that Canyon. 154 00:11:00,440 --> 00:11:05,440 Can I tell somebody today? The psalmist said in 146 and 2. 155 00:11:05,760 --> 00:11:10,720 Psalms, while I live will I praise the Lord, and I will sing 156 00:11:10,720 --> 00:11:14,760 praises unto my God while I have my being. 157 00:11:15,240 --> 00:11:19,360 The devil will try to tell you it's time to sit down and shut 158 00:11:19,360 --> 00:11:22,800 up and sit back and don't worry about it. 159 00:11:23,120 --> 00:11:27,880 But I've come to tell somebody in this house today that God is 160 00:11:27,880 --> 00:11:33,280 too good for us to sit back and hold our praise back from Him. 161 00:11:33,680 --> 00:11:38,120 If He's ever healed your body, body, if he's ever put breath in 162 00:11:38,120 --> 00:11:41,400 your body, and by you being here today, you have breath in your 163 00:11:41,440 --> 00:11:44,680 body. If he's ever touched your mind, 164 00:11:45,000 --> 00:11:49,240 if he's ever touched your finances, I'm telling somebody 165 00:11:49,240 --> 00:11:55,120 God is too good for me to sit back and say I refuse to praise 166 00:11:55,120 --> 00:11:58,000 him. I'm here to tell someone in this 167 00:11:58,000 --> 00:12:01,000 house today. When he woke me up this morning 168 00:12:01,000 --> 00:12:05,440 and I put my feet on the floor, I said thank you God for a 169 00:12:05,600 --> 00:12:08,360 another day. You didn't have to let me see 170 00:12:08,360 --> 00:12:10,600 it, but I'm thankful that you did. 171 00:12:10,920 --> 00:12:14,440 There have been times in my life that I have been down. 172 00:12:14,720 --> 00:12:16,920 There have been times that I've been discouraged. 173 00:12:17,280 --> 00:12:19,440 There's been times that I've faced trials. 174 00:12:19,760 --> 00:12:23,120 There's been times that I've faced test, but I want somebody 175 00:12:23,120 --> 00:12:27,600 to know God has never failed me. He's never let me down. 176 00:12:27,960 --> 00:12:31,480 Every time that I've been down, he come and picked me up. 177 00:12:31,840 --> 00:12:35,320 Every time that I felt alone, he's been there in the middle of 178 00:12:35,320 --> 00:12:38,520 the night when I had tears rolling down my face. 179 00:12:38,840 --> 00:12:41,840 I want you to know what he did, He said joy. 180 00:12:42,080 --> 00:12:46,080 Weeping may endure for the night, but joy comes in the 181 00:12:46,080 --> 00:12:51,000 morning. I'm thankful today, the 182 00:12:51,000 --> 00:12:53,680 songwriter says. I'm going to praise the Lord 183 00:12:54,280 --> 00:13:02,040 while I have a chance for I may not have a chance anymore. 184 00:13:03,400 --> 00:13:05,400 I don't know about anybody else today. 185 00:13:05,920 --> 00:13:07,600 I don't want to wait till Wednesday night. 186 00:13:09,840 --> 00:13:13,480 I don't want to wait Brother McGee to to Easter Sunday 187 00:13:15,520 --> 00:13:17,400 Bishop. I don't want to wait until the 188 00:13:17,400 --> 00:13:20,240 next prayer meeting to get myself right with God. 189 00:13:21,640 --> 00:13:26,360 If the Bible says today is the day of salvation, if there's 190 00:13:26,360 --> 00:13:30,160 ever a day that we need God, we need God in this day and hour. 191 00:13:31,560 --> 00:13:35,080 If there's ever a time that we need to praise God, it's in this 192 00:13:35,080 --> 00:13:37,640 day and hour. I don't believe. 193 00:13:37,640 --> 00:13:40,480 I don't believe that I have time to believe the report of the 194 00:13:40,480 --> 00:13:43,360 adversary. I choose to believe the report 195 00:13:43,360 --> 00:13:46,160 of the Lord. I've got too much to gain, to 196 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,920 lose. My grandmother used to say I got 197 00:13:48,920 --> 00:13:51,920 a heaven to gain and I got a hell to shine. 198 00:13:52,280 --> 00:13:56,040 I don't know about anyone else to tell you, but my desire is to 199 00:13:56,040 --> 00:13:59,320 make heaven my home. I don't know about anybody else 200 00:13:59,320 --> 00:14:01,640 today. I'm not worried about seeing my 201 00:14:01,640 --> 00:14:04,480 father who's went on. I'm not worried about seeing my 202 00:14:04,480 --> 00:14:07,920 grandmother who's went on, or other family members that's went 203 00:14:07,920 --> 00:14:10,760 on. But my God, let me see Jesus, 204 00:14:11,080 --> 00:14:12,960 the woman that bled and died for you. 205 00:14:12,960 --> 00:14:16,840 And I let me see him. Let me dance around his. 206 00:14:16,840 --> 00:14:19,520 Throne. Let me cast my crown at His 207 00:14:19,520 --> 00:14:26,760 throne today. I can't afford to have grudges 208 00:14:26,760 --> 00:14:32,480 and bitterness in my life, can't afford to have things that's 209 00:14:32,480 --> 00:14:37,240 stopping me from making heaven. I don't want to be hanging on to 210 00:14:37,240 --> 00:14:39,840 a broken limb and die within the sound of the trumpet. 211 00:14:41,720 --> 00:14:46,440 We've we sometimes we hang on to things in the past that we feel 212 00:14:46,440 --> 00:14:48,760 like have some meaning and some value. 213 00:14:49,760 --> 00:14:52,680 If I had to ask today, how many of you have? 214 00:14:52,680 --> 00:14:56,960 Garages or barns or storage areas that are full of stuff 215 00:14:57,520 --> 00:15:00,120 that we'll probably never, ever use. 216 00:15:02,240 --> 00:15:04,040 Come on now, how many will agree with that? 217 00:15:04,040 --> 00:15:08,320 Today we got stuff that we'll look at and say, you know, I'll 218 00:15:08,320 --> 00:15:12,600 use that someday. I got stuff in a storage area 219 00:15:12,600 --> 00:15:16,720 that I haven't looked at in 10 years, but it's important to me. 220 00:15:18,880 --> 00:15:23,360 You know what I'm talking about, I got stuff in, in our barn 221 00:15:23,360 --> 00:15:26,120 that, you know, when I first started out getting married, we 222 00:15:26,120 --> 00:15:29,320 just had a little room that we put stuff in and then we, we 223 00:15:29,320 --> 00:15:34,000 bumped up to an 8 by 8 and and then we moved up into A1 car 224 00:15:34,000 --> 00:15:36,200 garage. And then, then I had a 2 car 225 00:15:36,200 --> 00:15:38,280 garage. My cars didn't go in them, but I 226 00:15:38,280 --> 00:15:41,720 had them and I had them full. And, and then now I got me a 227 00:15:41,720 --> 00:15:45,800 seat of a 40 by 60 barn that is packed full of stuff. 228 00:15:45,800 --> 00:15:48,800 And, and I told my wife, I said, you know, the other day I told 229 00:15:48,800 --> 00:15:50,960 her, I said, I'm just going to give me a big dumpster. 230 00:15:51,040 --> 00:15:54,000 We're out there and I'm going to start off loading some things. 231 00:15:54,360 --> 00:15:56,480 I want to tell you what we need to do spiritually. 232 00:15:56,480 --> 00:16:00,000 Sometimes we need to get into the barns and into the attics 233 00:16:00,000 --> 00:16:03,560 and into the basements and we need to clean out some things in 234 00:16:03,560 --> 00:16:06,840 our life that God said I'm trying to get rid of. 235 00:16:07,200 --> 00:16:11,520 I got a place for you to go, but you can't go there as long as 236 00:16:11,520 --> 00:16:15,240 you got stuff that stacked there that you think is valuable to 237 00:16:15,240 --> 00:16:19,320 you. Oh Hallelujah. 238 00:16:20,560 --> 00:16:25,200 Too many times we take what we think is valuable and we place 239 00:16:25,200 --> 00:16:28,200 it there. We place more value on that than 240 00:16:28,200 --> 00:16:29,880 on what God wants to do in our life. 241 00:16:32,920 --> 00:16:38,160 How many understands the theory behind the rear view mirror and 242 00:16:38,160 --> 00:16:42,600 the windshield? The rear view mirror is about 243 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:46,840 this big and the windshield goes across the whole car. 244 00:16:46,840 --> 00:16:49,360 You know why? Because it's not important 245 00:16:49,360 --> 00:16:54,040 what's behind me, it's important what's in front of me. 246 00:16:55,080 --> 00:16:58,360 But we allow the devil too many times to get us focused on the 247 00:16:58,360 --> 00:17:01,960 rearview mirror, and we try to turn it around and make it 248 00:17:01,960 --> 00:17:03,360 bigger. And we look about all of our 249 00:17:03,360 --> 00:17:06,160 problems and we look about all of our failures. 250 00:17:06,160 --> 00:17:09,640 And we look about all the things the devil brings to our mind and 251 00:17:09,760 --> 00:17:13,520 the baggage that we're carrying and all the things that the 252 00:17:13,560 --> 00:17:15,960 devil begins to try to trip us up with. 253 00:17:16,280 --> 00:17:19,720 And I'm trying to tell somebody in this place today if there's 254 00:17:19,720 --> 00:17:22,880 ever a time you need to quit worrying about what's behind 255 00:17:22,880 --> 00:17:24,760 you. Don't think about the things 256 00:17:24,760 --> 00:17:28,480 which are behind, but press toward the mark of the high 257 00:17:28,480 --> 00:17:30,080 calling of Christ. It's. 258 00:17:30,160 --> 00:17:38,360 In this day, an hour that we find ourselves Hallelujah, after 259 00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:40,920 10 or 15 years, we'll say, yeah, we'll get rid of it. 260 00:17:42,320 --> 00:17:45,120 I usually don't get rid of things out of my barn until the 261 00:17:45,120 --> 00:17:49,880 mice have got it or the water's got it or something's crushed 262 00:17:49,880 --> 00:17:51,880 it. Well, now it's not important. 263 00:17:53,400 --> 00:17:57,960 Now I can throw it away. I didn't need it as much as I 264 00:17:57,960 --> 00:18:00,600 thought I did. But in those 10 or 15 years, I 265 00:18:00,760 --> 00:18:02,520 moved it from one place to the next. 266 00:18:03,720 --> 00:18:06,200 I did. I moved it from one corner or 267 00:18:06,280 --> 00:18:11,240 one room to another and it's taken up space that was used for 268 00:18:11,240 --> 00:18:19,120 things that I really needed. But I I'm going to tell them 269 00:18:19,120 --> 00:18:24,560 myself just a little bit. My stepfather passed away and I, 270 00:18:24,640 --> 00:18:30,760 I, I was given his tools and stuff and, and I brother 271 00:18:30,760 --> 00:18:32,480 champions are here to defend yourself. 272 00:18:32,480 --> 00:18:36,440 So hopefully he's not watching on live stream. 273 00:18:39,160 --> 00:18:42,360 But years ago, he gave me one of these big signs that you put 274 00:18:42,360 --> 00:18:48,880 them letters on that sits outside that I have in my barn. 275 00:18:50,560 --> 00:18:54,480 And I set my stepfather's table saw on the outside and covered 276 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:59,040 it with a tarp. And the tarp has since blown off 277 00:18:59,040 --> 00:19:01,760 and there's a little rust on it. And I was sitting there thinking 278 00:19:01,760 --> 00:19:04,080 the other day, this don't make any sense. 279 00:19:05,240 --> 00:19:08,600 You got a nice table saw that's sitting outside, and you got a 280 00:19:08,600 --> 00:19:10,680 junky sign that's sitting in the barn. 281 00:19:10,960 --> 00:19:13,760 But how many times do we do that spiritually? 282 00:19:15,200 --> 00:19:18,880 How many times does God try to bring a blessing into our life 283 00:19:18,880 --> 00:19:22,680 that we'll say, I'll sit it on the outside, but things that 284 00:19:22,680 --> 00:19:25,720 don't matter, I'm going to keep on the inside. 285 00:19:26,120 --> 00:19:30,360 I'm here to tell somebody today. There's things in our life that 286 00:19:30,360 --> 00:19:33,720 we need to cut loose. There's things in our life that 287 00:19:33,720 --> 00:19:37,400 God desires to take out of our life in order to put something 288 00:19:37,400 --> 00:19:41,320 better inside of it. If there's ever a time that we 289 00:19:41,320 --> 00:19:45,080 need to cut some things loose, it's in this day that we live. 290 00:19:48,720 --> 00:19:50,640 We need to cut some things loose in our life. 291 00:19:52,640 --> 00:19:54,320 Fine. In the Bible, the story of 292 00:19:54,320 --> 00:19:56,720 Samson, she went to Delilah's barbershop. 293 00:19:58,880 --> 00:20:00,720 She found it cost him in the end. 294 00:20:02,520 --> 00:20:08,000 First it was just buying me with green widths and I'll be just 295 00:20:08,000 --> 00:20:13,040 like any other. And they did that and he broke 296 00:20:13,040 --> 00:20:18,760 them without any problem. Next they found that if you'll 297 00:20:18,760 --> 00:20:23,520 just do it with some new ropes, then I'll be like any other man. 298 00:20:24,880 --> 00:20:29,160 And they bound him, Brother Reese, and he broke them no 299 00:20:29,160 --> 00:20:32,000 problem. And then it got closer to the 300 00:20:32,000 --> 00:20:35,080 source of his strength. Weave the seven. 301 00:20:35,080 --> 00:20:38,440 Locks of my. Hair together with the web and 302 00:20:39,160 --> 00:20:41,120 and then I'll be like anybody else. 303 00:20:41,120 --> 00:20:44,720 And that didn't work. He stood up and he was just as 304 00:20:44,720 --> 00:20:49,680 strong as he ever was. But then he got to the source. 305 00:20:51,240 --> 00:20:54,600 I want to tell somebody in this place today, the devil doesn't 306 00:20:54,600 --> 00:20:59,600 care if you come to church. I know Brother McGee and Sister 307 00:20:59,600 --> 00:21:02,360 McGee is excited for everybody to be here, but the devil don't 308 00:21:02,360 --> 00:21:07,320 care whether you came to church or not as long as he can get to 309 00:21:07,320 --> 00:21:11,640 your source. And he can take what God has for 310 00:21:11,640 --> 00:21:14,640 you today. He doesn't care how many times 311 00:21:14,640 --> 00:21:17,880 you walk through that door and how many times you sit and 312 00:21:17,880 --> 00:21:21,760 listen to the preaching, as long as you don't respond to the word 313 00:21:21,760 --> 00:21:24,560 of God. But I've come to tell somebody 314 00:21:24,560 --> 00:21:29,080 today it's time to get out of Delilah Barber Shop chair. 315 00:21:29,560 --> 00:21:33,880 Then say, God, whatever you have for me today, that's what I 316 00:21:33,880 --> 00:21:38,080 desire. I'm not leaving here until I got 317 00:21:38,080 --> 00:21:41,120 what you have got for my life today. 318 00:21:46,280 --> 00:21:53,360 He said if you shave my head, I'll be like any other man and 319 00:21:53,360 --> 00:21:57,080 I'll tell somebody today. If you allow the devil to speak 320 00:21:57,080 --> 00:21:58,880 to you, you can be like anybody else. 321 00:22:01,000 --> 00:22:04,920 You can be like anybody else. But when you want God to do 322 00:22:04,920 --> 00:22:08,480 something different in your life, you have to stay away from 323 00:22:08,480 --> 00:22:11,960 Delilah. And the Bible says he awoke 324 00:22:11,960 --> 00:22:17,640 himself, and he shook himself like he had the other times, but 325 00:22:17,640 --> 00:22:19,240 this time he had lost his strength. 326 00:22:20,560 --> 00:22:25,040 Can I tell us today, don't wait until your strength is gone to 327 00:22:25,040 --> 00:22:26,840 shake off some things in your life. 328 00:22:28,600 --> 00:22:32,360 The devil is dying to kill us. The Bible says steal and destroy 329 00:22:32,360 --> 00:22:36,480 and SAP us of our strength by singing us a lullaby. 330 00:22:36,480 --> 00:22:39,600 And we're suffering from it. And our families are suffering 331 00:22:39,600 --> 00:22:41,800 from it. And our marriages are suffering 332 00:22:41,800 --> 00:22:44,400 from it, and our children are suffering from it. 333 00:22:44,400 --> 00:22:47,360 And yes, our churches are suffering from it. 334 00:22:47,680 --> 00:22:50,800 And there's some cutting that needs to take place if we're 335 00:22:50,800 --> 00:22:53,680 going to live. And I'll ask the question today, 336 00:22:54,000 --> 00:22:56,480 how bad do you want your family to live? 337 00:22:56,840 --> 00:23:00,760 When you look at the kids, how bad do you want them to live? 338 00:23:01,040 --> 00:23:04,360 I'm talking spiritually today, Mom and dad, if you're not 339 00:23:04,360 --> 00:23:07,560 parenting on the same page, you're killing your kids 340 00:23:07,560 --> 00:23:10,200 spiritually. When you look at your next door 341 00:23:10,200 --> 00:23:13,400 neighbor, how bad do you want them to live? 342 00:23:13,800 --> 00:23:17,000 My friends, if you're not praying for your neighbor, 343 00:23:17,240 --> 00:23:21,040 you're killing them spiritually. When you look at your spouse, 344 00:23:21,320 --> 00:23:23,520 how bad do you want them to live? 345 00:23:23,880 --> 00:23:27,160 I'm not just talking about unsaved ones, but I'm talking 346 00:23:27,160 --> 00:23:30,240 about the ones that are sitting beside you today. 347 00:23:30,600 --> 00:23:32,960 How bad do you want them to live? 348 00:23:33,280 --> 00:23:36,840 Husband and wife, If you're not praying and working with your 349 00:23:36,840 --> 00:23:40,200 spouse to make your marriage stronger, you're killing them 350 00:23:40,200 --> 00:23:42,720 spiritually. When you look at the kids that 351 00:23:42,720 --> 00:23:46,480 come to Sunday school, how bad do you want them to live? 352 00:23:46,800 --> 00:23:50,400 When you look at your child's daycare center, how bad do you 353 00:23:50,400 --> 00:23:53,680 want them to live? When you look at the backsliders 354 00:23:54,000 --> 00:23:57,240 and say, I know they need to be in church, but I'm here to tell 355 00:23:57,240 --> 00:24:00,920 somebody, don't stop praying. Don't stop believing. 356 00:24:01,280 --> 00:24:03,600 How bad do you want them to live? 357 00:24:08,280 --> 00:24:12,680 Time is of the essence. We can continue to do enough to 358 00:24:12,680 --> 00:24:18,520 make us feel good, or we can cut some things off that hinders us 359 00:24:18,520 --> 00:24:23,320 from going after the lost. We can feel good about inviting 360 00:24:23,320 --> 00:24:28,440 someone to church and I want us to where we can go in a 361 00:24:28,440 --> 00:24:33,760 travailing prayer for the Bible says when Zion travaileth it 362 00:24:33,760 --> 00:24:37,400 brought forth children. I'm here to tell somebody in 363 00:24:37,400 --> 00:24:40,120 this house today. We don't need to worry about the 364 00:24:40,120 --> 00:24:42,360 critics. You're always going to have 365 00:24:42,360 --> 00:24:44,280 them. You don't need to worry about 366 00:24:44,280 --> 00:24:48,640 those who say you're crazy to go run to the van and pick up kids. 367 00:24:48,920 --> 00:24:51,320 There's always going to be those individuals. 368 00:24:51,680 --> 00:24:55,880 We need to let them know I care about you enough to know that I 369 00:24:55,880 --> 00:24:58,320 want you to live. I want, I want you to be in the 370 00:24:58,320 --> 00:25:01,400 House of God. I'll do whatever it takes. 371 00:25:06,880 --> 00:25:11,680 I don't know what your what your pastor preaches about this and 372 00:25:11,680 --> 00:25:15,680 he preaches against it. That's OK, go with him. 373 00:25:17,960 --> 00:25:23,680 But we set up a food booth at our 4H fair, all right, And we 374 00:25:23,680 --> 00:25:27,720 set it up at the corn festival that they have in September on 375 00:25:27,720 --> 00:25:30,840 the square. And we have found a lot of 376 00:25:30,840 --> 00:25:34,680 favor. I'm telling you, you won't find 377 00:25:34,680 --> 00:25:38,880 any better pork rinds around and you won't find any better 378 00:25:38,880 --> 00:25:43,160 Alaskan Pollock fillets, the stacks of sandwich that tall 379 00:25:44,080 --> 00:25:46,360 around anywhere. I'm, I shouldn't be saying that 380 00:25:46,360 --> 00:25:51,320 at lunchtime, but my wife, I know you're going to think this 381 00:25:51,320 --> 00:25:54,920 is crazy. My wife, she got the idea at the 382 00:25:54,920 --> 00:25:56,560 corn festival. She said I'm going to take a 383 00:25:56,560 --> 00:25:59,520 clipboard. I think there was a clipboard 384 00:25:59,520 --> 00:26:02,680 right back here somewhere. You got one. 385 00:26:03,080 --> 00:26:04,560 You don't have to go get one if you don't. 386 00:26:06,040 --> 00:26:09,760 My wife got a clipboard and she said, would you print me out a 387 00:26:09,760 --> 00:26:14,160 piece of paper that says, if you have a prayer request, sign your 388 00:26:14,160 --> 00:26:19,920 name. So I, I went to the, I went and 389 00:26:19,920 --> 00:26:23,720 got on my computer, made her a quick paper to, to put out there 390 00:26:23,720 --> 00:26:26,840 and, and my wife was excited about it. 391 00:26:26,840 --> 00:26:30,120 Thank you, sister McGee, I appreciate that My wife was 392 00:26:30,120 --> 00:26:33,360 excited about it. And she took that clipboard and 393 00:26:33,560 --> 00:26:36,440 she got her an ink pen and she set it out there on the table. 394 00:26:36,440 --> 00:26:40,120 And I, I watched the some, some people begin to move it around 395 00:26:40,120 --> 00:26:43,040 and they begin to set it on the back and, and I said, Hey, hang 396 00:26:43,040 --> 00:26:46,640 on just a minute. At least the last I knew I was 397 00:26:46,640 --> 00:26:54,200 still past make sure this stays on the front table because it's 398 00:26:54,200 --> 00:26:59,520 important what it just said we're we're selling fish and 399 00:26:59,520 --> 00:27:02,120 pork rinds but but this says something about prayer. 400 00:27:02,320 --> 00:27:04,600 I'm here to tell you, if you don't have prayer, pork rinds 401 00:27:04,600 --> 00:27:10,240 and fish ain't no matter if you're not sharing the gospel of 402 00:27:10,360 --> 00:27:12,800 Jesus Christ. A fish sandwich ain't going to 403 00:27:12,800 --> 00:27:16,240 help them. My wife set this out there and 404 00:27:16,240 --> 00:27:19,720 there was only after four days there was one person that put a 405 00:27:19,720 --> 00:27:21,200 name on there. Please pray. 406 00:27:21,200 --> 00:27:23,920 But you want me to tell you what? 407 00:27:24,960 --> 00:27:28,200 Ever since that day, my wife has picked them up and. 408 00:27:28,200 --> 00:27:30,960 Her and her. Kids up every service and she's 409 00:27:30,960 --> 00:27:35,400 sitting on the second seat with my wife and she says my desires 410 00:27:35,400 --> 00:27:37,920 to be in the House of God, brother short. 411 00:27:37,920 --> 00:27:42,040 If it was all just for one individual, if it was all for 412 00:27:42,040 --> 00:27:45,160 just three children, then it was worth it. 413 00:27:45,520 --> 00:27:49,080 I'm telling somebody, let's not get caught up in the things that 414 00:27:49,080 --> 00:27:51,840 don't matter. Let's worry about what God 415 00:27:51,840 --> 00:27:56,480 desires for his church. Let's ask Him to lead us, direct 416 00:27:56,480 --> 00:28:00,200 us, and guide us with His power and His anointing. 417 00:28:03,720 --> 00:28:08,520 Hallelujah. We need to quit looking in our 418 00:28:08,520 --> 00:28:13,560 past and strive for our future. We need to reach more. 419 00:28:14,680 --> 00:28:18,280 We need to love more. We need to pray more. 420 00:28:19,040 --> 00:28:23,960 We need to fast more. We need to care more, we need to 421 00:28:23,960 --> 00:28:28,080 do more than we ever have and I'm not in competition with 422 00:28:28,080 --> 00:28:31,840 anybody or any other church. I'm striving for the prize that 423 00:28:31,840 --> 00:28:35,120 is set before me. If you're having revival, then 424 00:28:35,120 --> 00:28:38,600 I'm thanking God because I'm having revival because we're 425 00:28:38,600 --> 00:28:41,320 part of the body of Christ. Hallelujah. 426 00:28:41,320 --> 00:28:44,160 I got excited when Brother McGee put home there. 427 00:28:44,360 --> 00:28:47,560 We had a mortgage burning. I'm telling what y'all telling 428 00:28:47,560 --> 00:28:49,320 you Something to tell you the devil. 429 00:28:49,320 --> 00:28:53,080 Would like to try to even keep us hindered by our finances. 430 00:28:53,560 --> 00:28:57,120 But if I give unto the Lord, he'll give some more to give. 431 00:28:57,520 --> 00:28:59,680 I want you to know you can't out give God. 432 00:29:00,000 --> 00:29:03,480 I'm here to tell you today, don't hold back what God has 433 00:29:03,480 --> 00:29:06,400 blessed you with. Brother McGee hasn't said 434 00:29:06,400 --> 00:29:10,360 anything to me, but don't hold back anything that God has 435 00:29:10,360 --> 00:29:13,920 blessed you with because you can't out give God. 436 00:29:14,200 --> 00:29:17,760 You can't out bless him. You can't out do him. 437 00:29:18,000 --> 00:29:20,520 He will be there more than you ever know. 438 00:29:24,240 --> 00:29:31,480 He's faithful, he's faithful. Can I side note, just for a 439 00:29:31,480 --> 00:29:35,840 minute, I just want to give you just a snap of my, of my story, 440 00:29:36,840 --> 00:29:39,560 brother, Brother McGee said. We've been there 20 years. 441 00:29:40,200 --> 00:29:42,920 I was in Farmington, NM when they were wanting me to come and 442 00:29:42,920 --> 00:29:47,160 pastor a church there in Farmington, NM in 2006. 443 00:29:48,920 --> 00:29:51,440 I got up in the middle of the night on a Saturday night and 444 00:29:51,440 --> 00:29:55,160 God spoke to me and he said, I, he said this is not where I want 445 00:29:55,160 --> 00:29:58,000 you. I said, God, if this is not 446 00:29:58,000 --> 00:29:59,400 where you want me, then where it is? 447 00:30:00,520 --> 00:30:02,840 He said, I want you to go to Solomon and I'll anoint it and 448 00:30:02,840 --> 00:30:07,640 I'll bless it. Bishop I, I, I grew up in Terre 449 00:30:07,640 --> 00:30:09,240 Haute. My father pastor the church in 450 00:30:09,240 --> 00:30:13,400 Terre Haute and I was 16 when he died and I left there. 451 00:30:14,040 --> 00:30:17,160 I, I just gotten my my permit and I hadn't drove around. 452 00:30:17,160 --> 00:30:20,240 I didn't know that Sullivan was 25 minutes South of where I grew 453 00:30:20,240 --> 00:30:24,440 up from. So I got off of the airplane in 454 00:30:24,440 --> 00:30:28,640 Louisville, KY, and my kids asked me, said, Dad, are you 455 00:30:28,640 --> 00:30:30,480 going to New Mexico? I said, no, I'm going to 456 00:30:30,480 --> 00:30:31,640 Sullivan. They said, where's that? 457 00:30:31,640 --> 00:30:35,440 I said, I don't know. But I went across the terminal 458 00:30:35,440 --> 00:30:38,960 there to a book shop and I went and got, I know you, you young 459 00:30:38,960 --> 00:30:41,600 people don't know what this is, but they had Randall, Randall 460 00:30:41,600 --> 00:30:45,480 Mcnally's Atlas. You don't know what that is 461 00:30:45,520 --> 00:30:51,280 because now we got GPS, you know, But I went and got one of 462 00:30:51,280 --> 00:30:52,760 them. I looked it up and I said, well, 463 00:30:52,760 --> 00:30:56,960 right, here's where it's at. So the next weekend or that 464 00:30:56,960 --> 00:31:00,400 weekend, my wife and I, we drove to Sullivan and we begin to look 465 00:31:00,400 --> 00:31:04,240 around and man, I'll tell you what they were once some 466 00:31:04,240 --> 00:31:06,160 astronomical prices for buildings. 467 00:31:07,440 --> 00:31:10,280 I knew nobody there. It was going to be me, my wife 468 00:31:10,280 --> 00:31:12,960 and my kids. I knew nobody there. 469 00:31:13,920 --> 00:31:16,760 I found out later why this guy was giving me such high prices. 470 00:31:16,760 --> 00:31:18,240 I didn't know he owned so many buildings. 471 00:31:19,480 --> 00:31:22,000 He said this is going to be 2000 a month and this was going to be 472 00:31:22,000 --> 00:31:25,120 1600 a month and I knew what my ties was. 473 00:31:25,120 --> 00:31:27,560 And this is kind of my business mind a little bit. 474 00:31:27,560 --> 00:31:30,640 I I wanted to make sure that I could pay my rent and all my 475 00:31:30,680 --> 00:31:32,960 utilities and the insurance on the building and everything with 476 00:31:32,960 --> 00:31:36,360 my ties. I was working at a plant in 477 00:31:36,360 --> 00:31:38,320 Seymour, IN. I was a manager of safety, 478 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,160 health and security for 3000 employees at a plant there for 479 00:31:41,160 --> 00:31:45,160 20 years. And I was driving 2 hours one 480 00:31:45,160 --> 00:31:51,600 way to work. And so after about 18 months, I 481 00:31:51,600 --> 00:31:54,600 had moved or actually before then I had moved over to 482 00:31:54,600 --> 00:32:00,200 Sullivan and and my boss told me, he said I need you 30 483 00:32:00,200 --> 00:32:02,400 minutes from the plant. I said I got a church. 484 00:32:02,400 --> 00:32:04,880 I can't. He said you choose your church 485 00:32:04,880 --> 00:32:07,600 or your job. I said OK, no problem. 486 00:32:08,680 --> 00:32:11,840 I came home, my wife was getting ready for Easter service with 487 00:32:11,840 --> 00:32:14,080 the with the sign team and the seniors and all that. 488 00:32:14,080 --> 00:32:16,440 And I walked in the back door of the church and she looked at me. 489 00:32:17,040 --> 00:32:18,520 She said you quit your job, didn't you? 490 00:32:20,120 --> 00:32:23,480 I said, how did you know? She said, I've been praying and 491 00:32:23,720 --> 00:32:29,240 I felt like it so that that evening I wrote out my 492 00:32:29,240 --> 00:32:32,400 resignation letter really short and I took it in to the boss and 493 00:32:32,400 --> 00:32:36,560 I set it down and within 30 minutes, Japan was on the phone. 494 00:32:36,560 --> 00:32:38,320 That was where the mother company was. 495 00:32:38,320 --> 00:32:40,240 They were on the phone. So what can we do to keep you? 496 00:32:41,200 --> 00:32:44,640 We'll give you anything you ask. It don't matter how much money 497 00:32:44,640 --> 00:32:46,800 you want. If you want it, we'll do it. 498 00:32:47,560 --> 00:32:51,080 I said no, it ain't worth it because if I make concessions 499 00:32:51,080 --> 00:32:59,560 now, I'll have to make concessions later and to me the 500 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:02,680 church and God is worth more to me than that job. 501 00:33:06,800 --> 00:33:10,400 I walked out of there. I never looked back. 502 00:33:11,280 --> 00:33:13,760 I've continued to. I went and tried to look for a 503 00:33:13,760 --> 00:33:17,040 job closer to home doing the same thing and they said we got 504 00:33:17,040 --> 00:33:20,040 all kinds of jobs, if you want to work the weekends and on and 505 00:33:20,040 --> 00:33:22,960 nights. I said I'm pastoring the church. 506 00:33:22,960 --> 00:33:25,640 I can't. I've got to be there. 507 00:33:25,800 --> 00:33:28,320 It's mandatory for the pastor to be there at church. 508 00:33:30,680 --> 00:33:33,000 I wasn't going to trade one thing for another. 509 00:33:35,320 --> 00:33:38,240 So the first year that. I was not at ISON. 510 00:33:38,880 --> 00:33:42,120 In Seymour IN making good money and having insurance and 511 00:33:42,520 --> 00:33:46,120 vacation and all the things, all the perks that I needed and the 512 00:33:46,120 --> 00:33:49,560 gas card and I could take off whenever I wanted and all those 513 00:33:49,560 --> 00:33:52,680 kinds of things. I, I had the keys to all the, 514 00:33:52,840 --> 00:33:56,520 the plants around and in the United States and I could go set 515 00:33:56,520 --> 00:33:58,280 up their safety departments and everything. 516 00:33:58,440 --> 00:34:01,040 They flew me everywhere. I, I, I had no problem with 517 00:34:01,040 --> 00:34:03,040 that. And, and I looked at it all and 518 00:34:03,040 --> 00:34:08,360 I, and the first year that I wasn't at ISON, I filed taxes on 519 00:34:08,360 --> 00:34:13,639 less than $20,000 and people looked at me, Brother McGee, and 520 00:34:13,639 --> 00:34:17,320 they said you're stupid. I had pastor friends that called 521 00:34:17,320 --> 00:34:19,159 me, said you're out of your mind. 522 00:34:20,120 --> 00:34:23,280 I had individuals in my family that said it isn't going to. 523 00:34:23,280 --> 00:34:27,679 Hurt for you to just concede just a little bit, but I looked 524 00:34:27,679 --> 00:34:31,800 at my wife and my children. I said I can't concede to what 525 00:34:31,800 --> 00:34:34,679 the adversary wants. I have got. 526 00:34:34,719 --> 00:34:38,960 I do my best to take my steps and let them be ordered by God. 527 00:34:40,320 --> 00:34:45,120 So I continued what I was doing and God begin to move and begin 528 00:34:45,120 --> 00:34:49,600 to bless and our church begin to grow and I was working doing 529 00:34:49,600 --> 00:34:52,679 everything that I could. You know what I did one year? 530 00:34:52,679 --> 00:34:56,840 It was on, it was in a January and it was in the middle of of 531 00:34:56,840 --> 00:34:58,600 the. Of the month we were in the 532 00:34:58,600 --> 00:35:01,680 middle of an ice storm and my son-in-law and I, brother 533 00:35:01,680 --> 00:35:05,000 Champion and I was three story trying to put windows in in the 534 00:35:05,000 --> 00:35:06,960 middle of an ice storm that month. 535 00:35:06,960 --> 00:35:10,000 We made $200. Thank God or we'd have starved 536 00:35:10,000 --> 00:35:12,360 to death. But I'm thankful today that I'm 537 00:35:12,360 --> 00:35:15,440 still standing. Whatever the devil had planned 538 00:35:15,440 --> 00:35:19,320 for me, it didn't work. Whatever the devil has planned. 539 00:35:19,320 --> 00:35:24,800 For you, we'll fail because God intends for it to fail, because 540 00:35:24,800 --> 00:35:27,600 God's got a purpose and a plan for your life. 541 00:35:27,920 --> 00:35:31,840 And if you'll put your hand in the hand of God, He will lead 542 00:35:31,840 --> 00:35:39,960 you and direct you engage. I had people that told me 543 00:35:39,960 --> 00:35:41,760 brother. McGee, you'll never build a 544 00:35:41,760 --> 00:35:46,120 church there. You'll never build a church 545 00:35:46,120 --> 00:35:48,920 there. You ain't got what it takes. 546 00:35:50,640 --> 00:35:59,000 Well, four years ago we moved into a brand new building that 547 00:35:59,000 --> 00:36:07,960 was debt free. I'm not here to gloat about it 548 00:36:07,960 --> 00:36:10,640 because it was not me. My. 549 00:36:10,840 --> 00:36:14,400 Son-in-law and I, we worked. Some long nights, but it was not 550 00:36:14,400 --> 00:36:18,640 us, it was all God. I'm telling somebody when you 551 00:36:18,640 --> 00:36:21,880 begin to cut some things loose in your life and say those 552 00:36:21,880 --> 00:36:25,320 things don't matter as much as God does, then you'll see God do 553 00:36:25,320 --> 00:36:28,600 some things in your life that you never dreamed of. 554 00:36:28,920 --> 00:36:32,280 I don't want to have something broken in my life that I'm 555 00:36:32,280 --> 00:36:36,280 keeping a hold of that keeps me from getting to where God wants 556 00:36:36,280 --> 00:36:40,960 me to be. I know sometimes. 557 00:36:41,760 --> 00:36:47,440 In preaching, it's not popular. I know some of the things that 558 00:36:47,440 --> 00:36:50,600 we preach doesn't tickle everybody's ears. 559 00:36:52,920 --> 00:36:55,920 Bishop McGee, I I just found out last night that here a while 560 00:36:55,920 --> 00:37:00,720 back you had a, a heart attack. But I also found out just last 561 00:37:00,720 --> 00:37:03,440 night that here a while back you also got up and preached. 562 00:37:07,640 --> 00:37:09,440 I want to tell you something milder and I know. 563 00:37:09,440 --> 00:37:13,360 That I know this may sound kind of corny, but you're my hero. 564 00:37:14,800 --> 00:37:17,680 Keep preaching. Keep preaching. 565 00:37:19,160 --> 00:37:20,640 You may not. Kick as high. 566 00:37:21,160 --> 00:37:24,640 You may not run as fast, but keep bringing the word 567 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:27,280 Hallelujah. Pastor. 568 00:37:27,280 --> 00:37:29,520 McGee, I don't care what they say. 569 00:37:29,720 --> 00:37:32,040 Whatever you do, keep bringing the word. 570 00:37:32,400 --> 00:37:36,880 I know, Doctor Brother. Whatever Mason is, he, who he 571 00:37:36,880 --> 00:37:39,720 is, I know he, I know he can preach. 572 00:37:40,120 --> 00:37:42,720 I'm, I'm trying to encourage him today. 573 00:37:43,120 --> 00:37:46,200 Preach the word. Brother Alex, I want you to keep 574 00:37:46,200 --> 00:37:49,000 preaching the word. It don't matter what anybody 575 00:37:49,000 --> 00:37:51,800 else says or what anybody else does. 576 00:37:52,080 --> 00:37:56,040 People say it's safer on shore, but I choose to go out in the 577 00:37:56,040 --> 00:37:58,400 deep. You know why I want? 578 00:37:58,400 --> 00:38:00,880 To go out into the. Deep because bro in short I 579 00:38:00,880 --> 00:38:04,920 found out my enemies can't swim and when I get out into the deep 580 00:38:05,240 --> 00:38:08,400 I can get away from the enemy. I don't want to listen to the 581 00:38:08,400 --> 00:38:13,920 voice of the adversary when God is telling me go deeper in me. 582 00:38:18,320 --> 00:38:23,160 As long as I've got King Jesus. Come on now. 583 00:38:23,200 --> 00:38:28,280 As long as I've got King Jesus. My God, I. 584 00:38:28,280 --> 00:38:32,440 Love my wife but as long as I got King Jesus I love my 585 00:38:32,440 --> 00:38:34,200 children but as long as. I got king. 586 00:38:34,200 --> 00:38:37,080 Jesus, I love my church, but as. Long as. 587 00:38:37,080 --> 00:38:40,320 I've got King Jesus. I don't need anybody else. 588 00:38:40,680 --> 00:38:43,120 Hallelujah. There's been times during COVID 589 00:38:43,440 --> 00:38:47,040 I stood in our pulpit on live stream and I preached to an 590 00:38:47,040 --> 00:38:50,440 empty building because I had everything shut down. 591 00:38:50,680 --> 00:38:53,920 But I want to tell you what happened when I got a hold of 592 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:57,320 God and his presence in that building, that was just me and 593 00:38:57,320 --> 00:38:59,720 him. I still felt the presence of 594 00:38:59,720 --> 00:39:01,840 God. I'm here to tell you that when 595 00:39:01,840 --> 00:39:05,400 you get into a place where you can't get a hold of Pastor and 596 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:08,080 you can't get a hold of Bishop and you can't get a hold of 597 00:39:08,080 --> 00:39:10,720 Brother Mason. Oh, Brother Alex, I want 598 00:39:10,720 --> 00:39:15,200 somebody to know that all you got to do is call upon the name 599 00:39:15,200 --> 00:39:21,200 of Jesus and every demon begins to tremble because it knows the 600 00:39:21,200 --> 00:39:24,320 power that is in the name of Jesus. 601 00:39:28,560 --> 00:39:32,520 As long as he's the focal point. Of the church, as long as he's 602 00:39:32,520 --> 00:39:36,560 the focal point of our families, as long as he's on our. 603 00:39:36,560 --> 00:39:40,400 Side I don't have to worry. I don't have to be concerned. 604 00:39:40,400 --> 00:39:44,040 When I see doubters around. Me, I don't have. 605 00:39:44,040 --> 00:39:46,400 To worry when the service. Isn't just what I thought it 606 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:49,000 should be. I don't have to. 607 00:39:49,000 --> 00:39:51,240 Worry when I'm seeing the. World in a mess. 608 00:39:51,720 --> 00:39:56,760 Because I know as long as I've got King Jesus, he's going to be 609 00:39:56,760 --> 00:40:00,160 there every day, every moment of my life. 610 00:40:00,480 --> 00:40:03,240 As long as I allow him to order my steps. 611 00:40:03,600 --> 00:40:06,040 As long as I allow him to light my way. 612 00:40:06,360 --> 00:40:08,520 As long as I allow him to direct my path. 613 00:40:09,120 --> 00:40:11,640 Then I don't have to worry about anything else. 614 00:40:15,200 --> 00:40:21,640 Psalms 27 and one. The Bible says it's a Psalm of 615 00:40:21,640 --> 00:40:24,720 David. The Lord is my light and my 616 00:40:24,720 --> 00:40:27,680 salvation. Whom shall I fear? 617 00:40:29,120 --> 00:40:30,840 The Lord. Is the strength of my life. 618 00:40:30,840 --> 00:40:35,800 Whom of whom shall I be afraid, when the wicked, even my enemies 619 00:40:35,800 --> 00:40:40,200 and my foes came upon me to eat in my flesh, They stumbled and 620 00:40:40,200 --> 00:40:43,680 fell though the host. Should encamp against. 621 00:40:43,680 --> 00:40:47,000 Me, my heart. Shall not fear the war should 622 00:40:47,000 --> 00:40:51,840 rise against me, and this will I be confident one thing that I 623 00:40:51,840 --> 00:40:56,320 had desired of the Lord my. God don't desire riches. 624 00:40:57,160 --> 00:41:00,360 Don't desire better jobs, or better cars, or better homes, or 625 00:41:00,360 --> 00:41:03,440 better clothes. One thing, if you got one thing 626 00:41:03,440 --> 00:41:07,360 to desire, David said. One thing have I desire of the 627 00:41:07,360 --> 00:41:11,560 Lord, and that will I seek after her, that I may dwell in the 628 00:41:11,560 --> 00:41:16,120 House of the Lord all the days of my life, to behold the the 629 00:41:16,120 --> 00:41:20,640 beauty of the Lord, and to inquire in His temple for in the 630 00:41:20,640 --> 00:41:26,160 time of trouble. He shall hide me. 631 00:41:26,520 --> 00:41:30,560 In his pavilion, in the secret of his Tabernacle. 632 00:41:30,840 --> 00:41:34,600 Shall he hide me? He shall set me up on the rock. 633 00:41:34,960 --> 00:41:38,520 I'm telling somebody we need to put our foot up on the rock, 634 00:41:38,880 --> 00:41:42,800 square our shoulders and say my mind is made-up. 635 00:41:44,200 --> 00:41:45,720 I refuse. To allow the. 636 00:41:45,720 --> 00:41:49,760 Adversary to sidetrack me. My mind is made-up. 637 00:41:52,960 --> 00:41:56,240 And now shall my head be. Lifted up above my enemies 638 00:41:57,520 --> 00:41:59,120 around. Me, therefore will I. 639 00:41:59,120 --> 00:42:02,120 Offer in his Tabernacle sacrifices of joy. 640 00:42:03,160 --> 00:42:06,560 I will sing, yeah, I will sing praises unto the Lord. 641 00:42:07,560 --> 00:42:13,440 Hear, O Lord, when I cry with my voice, and have mercy upon me, 642 00:42:13,440 --> 00:42:17,440 and answer me when thou. Settest seek ye my. 643 00:42:17,440 --> 00:42:22,600 Face my heart said unto thee, Thy face, Lord, will I seek. 644 00:42:25,440 --> 00:42:27,120 Psalms chapter 30 and verse number. 645 00:42:27,120 --> 00:42:31,520 Four says saying into the Lord, all you Saints of His give 646 00:42:31,520 --> 00:42:37,120 thanks at his remembrance of His Holiness, for his anger endureth 647 00:42:37,120 --> 00:42:40,440 before a moment, and His favor is life. 648 00:42:40,440 --> 00:42:46,280 Weeping may endure for a night, but joy cometh in the morning. 649 00:42:47,880 --> 00:42:49,600 Can I? Just give you my twist on. 650 00:42:49,600 --> 00:42:52,320 That just a minute the morning May. 651 00:42:52,320 --> 00:42:53,880 Not always be in the. AM. 652 00:42:58,000 --> 00:42:59,600 The morning may be when you finally. 653 00:42:59,600 --> 00:43:04,320 Realize he's been there all the time the morning. 654 00:43:04,320 --> 00:43:08,000 May be when you finally. Realize God, you never left me, 655 00:43:08,320 --> 00:43:12,280 nor did you forsake me, but you're still right by my side. 656 00:43:12,600 --> 00:43:14,440 Family may forsake. You. 657 00:43:14,840 --> 00:43:20,120 Friends may forsake you, cars may fail you, houses may fall 658 00:43:20,120 --> 00:43:25,680 down, jobs may close, but I'm here to tell you today Jesus is 659 00:43:25,680 --> 00:43:28,960 the same. Yesterday, today and forever. 660 00:43:29,120 --> 00:43:32,200 He will never. Leave us, nor forsake us. 661 00:43:32,560 --> 00:43:35,840 If you've ever had a doubt in your mind, God are you there, 662 00:43:36,200 --> 00:43:40,080 all you've got to do is just reach out and you begin to feel 663 00:43:40,080 --> 00:43:44,400 Him and you begin to touch Him. I'm here to tell us today. 664 00:43:44,720 --> 00:43:48,960 I'm going to praise the Lord while I have a chance in any way 665 00:43:48,960 --> 00:43:52,000 that I can. While I have breath in my body, 666 00:43:52,320 --> 00:43:59,360 I'm going to give Him my praise. Stand with me if you would music 667 00:43:59,360 --> 00:43:59,920 if. You'll come. 668 00:44:05,720 --> 00:44:07,440 At our church we have some elderly people. 669 00:44:07,440 --> 00:44:11,480 With some physical issues, probably do here. 670 00:44:11,480 --> 00:44:16,400 I just don't know who you are. Some use a cane and some use a 671 00:44:16,400 --> 00:44:21,120 Walker. I had one person asked me said. 672 00:44:21,680 --> 00:44:23,200 I don't understand the pastor Scott. 673 00:44:23,200 --> 00:44:27,920 How come I see people walking in with a Walker and later on I see 674 00:44:27,920 --> 00:44:34,920 them running past the windows? But when the Spirit of God is 675 00:44:34,920 --> 00:44:37,440 ushered in. They may not. 676 00:44:37,440 --> 00:44:41,320 Be as fast as some of the young. People, I got one girl that runs 677 00:44:41,320 --> 00:44:44,080 like a gazelle. I mean, she's flying. 678 00:44:45,720 --> 00:44:49,840 They may not run as fast, they may not jump as high, they might 679 00:44:49,840 --> 00:44:51,200 not dance. And twirl like some. 680 00:44:51,200 --> 00:44:52,560 Of the young ladies in our church. 681 00:44:54,600 --> 00:44:57,680 Pastor McGee, I watched as they. Get out on the aisle and they 682 00:44:57,680 --> 00:45:04,480 walk as fast as they can. I got 179 year old man. 683 00:45:04,480 --> 00:45:08,360 That he got out just the other day and he he ran just as there 684 00:45:08,360 --> 00:45:11,240 was people passing him in the aisle, he was running. 685 00:45:13,920 --> 00:45:16,520 And I know. I know. 686 00:45:16,520 --> 00:45:18,720 That there are those that said. Pastor, they need to stay in 687 00:45:18,720 --> 00:45:22,600 their seat. But you don't. 688 00:45:22,600 --> 00:45:32,240 Know like he knows you got you got to understand he was 689 00:45:32,240 --> 00:45:39,040 diagnosed with cancer. He came up and he said, pastor, 690 00:45:39,040 --> 00:45:42,680 I need prayer. We prayed for him. 691 00:45:44,840 --> 00:45:47,280 He went back to the doctor to see how they were going to treat 692 00:45:47,280 --> 00:45:49,440 him. The doctor was looking at 693 00:45:49,440 --> 00:45:53,080 everything and checking him out and they did another scan and he 694 00:45:53,080 --> 00:45:55,000 said I don't understand why you're here. 695 00:45:57,360 --> 00:45:59,080 He said. I don't see any form of. 696 00:45:59,080 --> 00:46:05,760 Cancer. You want me to tell you what 697 00:46:05,760 --> 00:46:08,440 Brother Passage did he? Reached in his wallet, he pulled 698 00:46:08,440 --> 00:46:10,720 out a church card. He said Here, come to church and 699 00:46:10,720 --> 00:46:19,040 see what God is doing. Hallelujah. 700 00:46:21,400 --> 00:46:24,760 Had another individual. Had 95%. 701 00:46:24,760 --> 00:46:28,160 Of her heart arteries blocked, she. 702 00:46:28,160 --> 00:46:32,760 Came and got prayer. She went back to the doctor and 703 00:46:32,760 --> 00:46:34,280 the doctor. Says I don't need to see you, 704 00:46:34,280 --> 00:46:40,280 everything's cleared out. I'm telling you what God can do. 705 00:46:41,800 --> 00:46:43,240 I'm telling. You what God can do, there's no. 706 00:46:43,240 --> 00:46:44,880 Problem. What I'm trying to tell 707 00:46:44,880 --> 00:46:46,560 somebody, there's no problem and that's too big. 708 00:46:47,720 --> 00:46:49,400 You're sitting here. Today saying I got a. 709 00:46:49,400 --> 00:46:51,520 Big problem. I'm telling somebody I got a 710 00:46:51,520 --> 00:47:01,130 bigger God. My mom in 2007. 711 00:47:01,130 --> 00:47:04,890 Was diagnosed with Nash disease of the liver, Non alcoholic 712 00:47:04,890 --> 00:47:08,360 cirrhosis of the liver. She went through a terrible time 713 00:47:08,360 --> 00:47:10,680 and numerous treatments and medicine about medicine. 714 00:47:11,440 --> 00:47:15,680 She got so sick with the ammonia building up in her brain and it 715 00:47:15,680 --> 00:47:17,240 would cause. Terrible spells. 716 00:47:17,240 --> 00:47:20,520 And trips to the hospital and she had no idea where she was at 717 00:47:20,520 --> 00:47:22,160 and she would talk out of her head and. 718 00:47:24,280 --> 00:47:25,840 They finally told her the only way you're going. 719 00:47:25,840 --> 00:47:29,960 To live is you're going to have to have a transplant, she. 720 00:47:29,960 --> 00:47:34,320 Waited for five years on a. Transplant list she was. 721 00:47:34,320 --> 00:47:35,760 Sitting on her side of her bed, 1. 722 00:47:35,760 --> 00:47:39,120 Night so sick and she told God, if you want me to live, you're 723 00:47:39,120 --> 00:47:43,840 going to have to help them find a liver for me. 3 1/2 hours 724 00:47:43,840 --> 00:47:46,520 later, IU. Med center called and said you 725 00:47:46,520 --> 00:47:51,480 need to get to the hospital. We drove up there. 726 00:47:52,360 --> 00:47:56,600 And we got. There about 3:40. 5:00 in the 727 00:47:56,600 --> 00:47:59,240 morning, but it wasn't until almost midnight before they took 728 00:47:59,240 --> 00:48:01,920 her in. They had to harvest the other 729 00:48:01,920 --> 00:48:03,240 liver. They had to wait until that 730 00:48:03,240 --> 00:48:07,560 family decided it was time. My mom stayed ready. 731 00:48:10,240 --> 00:48:13,120 The doctor said it's going to be an 8 to 10 hour surgery. 732 00:48:13,760 --> 00:48:16,200 We're going to send a nurse out every couple hours and give you 733 00:48:16,200 --> 00:48:22,640 an update. A couple of hours passed, a 734 00:48:22,640 --> 00:48:26,520 nurse came out and then the. Doctor stepped out. 735 00:48:29,120 --> 00:48:30,840 We held our collective breath because. 736 00:48:30,840 --> 00:48:34,240 He was not supposed to be out until it was over. 737 00:48:36,880 --> 00:48:38,360 I stood up. I walked over to. 738 00:48:38,360 --> 00:48:41,080 Him, I asked him. I said is everything OK? 739 00:48:42,440 --> 00:48:44,240 He said once. We got to her liver. 740 00:48:45,120 --> 00:48:49,120 And we saw the condition of it. She had about two hours to live. 741 00:48:51,240 --> 00:48:54,680 Her liver was completely hardened except for the tip of 742 00:48:54,680 --> 00:48:59,680 it. He said. 743 00:49:00,560 --> 00:49:04,600 What should have took? 8:00 to. 10 hours to complete, I 744 00:49:04,600 --> 00:49:06,280 was able to get the new liver in her. 745 00:49:06,280 --> 00:49:10,200 In two hours. He said. 746 00:49:10,200 --> 00:49:13,920 But you need to enjoy. The next five years, because 747 00:49:13,920 --> 00:49:17,320 that's about all she'll. Get with a new liver, she'll 748 00:49:17,320 --> 00:49:25,640 still die. That was in 2016. 749 00:49:27,440 --> 00:49:35,400 We're. In 2020. 6 Bishop A few weeks 750 00:49:35,400 --> 00:49:39,000 ago, my 82 year old mother had to grab a hold of the. 751 00:49:39,000 --> 00:49:40,880 Bench, but she. Began to dance. 752 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:49,240 She wasn't dancing like. Everybody else but, she said. 753 00:49:49,240 --> 00:49:57,920 I know what they told me, but I. Know who God is, but that didn't 754 00:49:57,920 --> 00:50:01,840 satisfy. Her she came out of the seat and 755 00:50:01,840 --> 00:50:07,280 she said I got to make a trip around Zion and praise God for 756 00:50:07,280 --> 00:50:13,920 what he has done in my life. I wonder is there anybody in? 757 00:50:13,920 --> 00:50:17,560 This House today they would say I'm going to cut some things 758 00:50:17,560 --> 00:50:23,400 loose that has been holding me back and I refuse to be bound 759 00:50:23,400 --> 00:50:28,960 any longer. Oh, Hallelujah. 760 00:50:29,520 --> 00:50:34,600 I wonder if there's anybody here that would say, pastor, if you 761 00:50:34,600 --> 00:50:39,200 need a worshipper, I'll be a worshipper if you. 762 00:50:39,240 --> 00:50:42,400 Need an owl runner? I'll be an owl runner. 763 00:50:42,640 --> 00:50:46,960 If you need somebody in Sunday school, I'll be there. 764 00:50:52,760 --> 00:50:55,640 If you need somebody to cut the. Yard Pastor. 765 00:50:55,640 --> 00:50:57,520 Don't worry about it. I'll cut the yard. 766 00:51:00,080 --> 00:51:03,080 I call you if you need. Somebody to clean the church. 767 00:51:03,080 --> 00:51:05,760 I know Brother Reese should do a great job, but if you need 768 00:51:05,760 --> 00:51:08,760 somebody to clean the church, I'll help clean the church. 769 00:51:09,200 --> 00:51:12,440 I'll be a doorkeeper. I don't need a position. 770 00:51:12,720 --> 00:51:14,840 I just want to be in the House of God. 771 00:51:19,240 --> 00:51:21,000 Pastor, tell me what you need done. 772 00:51:22,160 --> 00:51:24,280 I want to be a part of the church that's getting ready to 773 00:51:24,280 --> 00:51:27,160 leave this place, Pastor, I'm cutting some. 774 00:51:27,160 --> 00:51:29,840 Things loose. Hallelujah. 775 00:51:30,200 --> 00:51:32,680 What would Pastor McGee do if somebody walked up and said you 776 00:51:32,680 --> 00:51:35,360 got a new St. I'm not in the same way that I 777 00:51:35,360 --> 00:51:39,360 was when I walked in here, but I've been changed because of the 778 00:51:39,360 --> 00:51:49,800 power of an almighty God it. Was a lady that came in that had 779 00:51:49,800 --> 00:51:51,320 a. Cancerous growth on her arm. 780 00:51:52,160 --> 00:51:54,960 It was oozing, it was bloody. It was nasty as stunk. 781 00:51:59,480 --> 00:52:04,120 I need prayer, Pastor. Most people would. 782 00:52:06,400 --> 00:52:07,320 Can I? Use you just to. 783 00:52:08,040 --> 00:52:12,520 Most people just do this. I don't want to touch that nasty 784 00:52:12,520 --> 00:52:19,080 stinky mess, but oh God, I want you to heal this harm. 785 00:52:20,000 --> 00:52:21,520 Hallelujah. Your. 786 00:52:21,520 --> 00:52:25,120 Stripes was for my healing. There's nothing that you can't 787 00:52:25,120 --> 00:52:27,440 do. I want somebody in this house. 788 00:52:27,440 --> 00:52:29,360 Today. That is ever doubted. 789 00:52:29,360 --> 00:52:32,800 If God can heal your body, there's nothing that he cannot 790 00:52:32,800 --> 00:52:37,120 do. We prayed for her. 791 00:52:37,640 --> 00:52:41,400 She went home after church. She called up on the phone. 792 00:52:41,800 --> 00:52:45,520 She said, Pastor, I begin to take that bandage off and that 793 00:52:45,520 --> 00:52:49,720 cancer fell off in the bandage and God has healed my body. 794 00:53:01,120 --> 00:53:04,680 We had a blind individual that. Walked in and said I need prayer 795 00:53:05,080 --> 00:53:08,120 because I'm blind and I've been blind all my life. 796 00:53:08,520 --> 00:53:13,560 We laid hands on them and begin to pray and God begin to move. 797 00:53:13,960 --> 00:53:18,680 And they looked around and said I once was blind, but now I see 798 00:53:19,080 --> 00:53:23,800 I'm telling somebody we need to cut some things loose in our 799 00:53:23,800 --> 00:53:27,040 life. Doubt has to go. 800 00:53:27,320 --> 00:53:30,720 Fear has to go. Unbelief has to go. 801 00:53:35,200 --> 00:53:37,000 Is there anybody in this House today? 802 00:53:38,000 --> 00:53:40,200 That would come up around this front and say I'm going to cut 803 00:53:40,200 --> 00:53:43,520 some things out of my life. God has set me free. 804 00:53:44,040 --> 00:53:46,760 And if God has set me free, why? Should I be bound? 805 00:53:47,680 --> 00:53:48,840 I'm going to the. Next. 806 00:53:48,840 --> 00:53:51,320 Level. I'm tired of sitting on the 807 00:53:51,320 --> 00:53:54,640 sidelines. Put me in the battle, Pastor. 808 00:53:55,040 --> 00:54:04,880 Put me in the game. I came across something. 809 00:54:06,800 --> 00:54:10,880 Let me pass it on to you. It says I'm a soldier in the 810 00:54:10,880 --> 00:54:13,920 army. Of God the Lord Jesus. 811 00:54:13,920 --> 00:54:17,160 Christ. Is my commanding officer the 812 00:54:17,160 --> 00:54:18,160 Holy Bible? Is. 813 00:54:18,160 --> 00:54:22,800 My code of conduct, faith, prayer, and the Word are my 814 00:54:22,800 --> 00:54:26,240 weapons of warfare. I have been taught by the Holy 815 00:54:26,240 --> 00:54:30,880 Ghost, I've been trained by experience, I've been tried by 816 00:54:30,920 --> 00:54:34,240 adversity, and I've been trusted by fire. 817 00:54:34,600 --> 00:54:39,120 I am a volunteer in this army and I'm enlisted for eternity. 818 00:54:39,480 --> 00:54:43,680 I will either retire in this army at the Rapture or I will 819 00:54:43,680 --> 00:54:46,760 die in this army. But I will not get out. 820 00:54:47,080 --> 00:54:50,080 I will not sell out. I will not be talking. 821 00:54:50,840 --> 00:54:53,840 I will not be pushed out. I am faithful. 822 00:54:54,000 --> 00:54:56,680 I am reliable. I am dependable. 823 00:54:59,600 --> 00:55:03,200 If God needs me, I'm here. If he needs. 824 00:55:03,200 --> 00:55:06,160 Me to teach Sunday school. To teach children to work with 825 00:55:06,160 --> 00:55:08,600 the youth or to help adults or just sit and learn. 826 00:55:09,200 --> 00:55:12,200 He can use me because I'm a soldier. 827 00:55:13,760 --> 00:55:14,720 I'm not. A baby. 828 00:55:15,720 --> 00:55:20,440 I don't need to be pampered, petted, primed up, pumped up, 829 00:55:20,440 --> 00:55:24,240 picked up, or picked up. I'm a soldier. 830 00:55:25,120 --> 00:55:29,440 No one has to call me, remind me, write me, visit me, entice 831 00:55:29,440 --> 00:55:33,040 me or lure me because I am a soldier. 832 00:55:33,680 --> 00:55:37,280 I'm not a. Wimp, I am in place saluting my 833 00:55:37,280 --> 00:55:40,840 King, obeying his orders, praising his name and building 834 00:55:40,840 --> 00:55:44,080 his Kingdom. No one has to send me flowers. 835 00:55:44,080 --> 00:55:47,920 Or gifts, or food, or cards, candy, or give me handouts. 836 00:55:48,360 --> 00:55:51,880 I do not need to be cuddled or cradled, cared for or catered 837 00:55:51,880 --> 00:55:53,640 to. I am committed. 838 00:55:53,960 --> 00:55:57,400 I cannot have my feelings hurt bad enough to get me to turn 839 00:55:57,400 --> 00:56:00,000 around. I cannot be discouraged enough 840 00:56:00,280 --> 00:56:03,960 to turn aside. I cannot lose enough to cause me 841 00:56:03,960 --> 00:56:06,440 to quit. When Jesus called me into the 842 00:56:06,440 --> 00:56:10,760 army, I had nothing. And if I end up with nothing, I 843 00:56:10,760 --> 00:56:16,920 still come out ahead. I'm more than a conqueror. 844 00:56:17,680 --> 00:56:20,960 I will always triumph. I can do all things through. 845 00:56:20,960 --> 00:56:23,920 Christ, listen to me very carefully. 846 00:56:24,680 --> 00:56:26,240 Devils cannot defeat. Me. 847 00:56:27,320 --> 00:56:28,800 People cannot. Dissolution. 848 00:56:28,800 --> 00:56:31,520 Me weather cannot weary. Me. 849 00:56:32,000 --> 00:56:37,280 Sickness cannot stop me, battles cannot defeat me, money cannot 850 00:56:37,280 --> 00:56:42,000 buy me, government cannot silence me, and hell cannot 851 00:56:42,000 --> 00:56:47,520 handle me. I'm a soldier. 852 00:56:48,840 --> 00:56:53,520 Even death cannot destroy me, Bishop, for when my commander. 853 00:56:53,520 --> 00:56:57,320 Calls me from this battlefield. He's going to promote me to 854 00:56:57,320 --> 00:57:00,760 captain and bring me back to help him rule the world with 855 00:57:00,760 --> 00:57:03,360 him. I'm a soldier in the army. 856 00:57:03,720 --> 00:57:05,760 I'm marching. I'm claiming victory. 857 00:57:06,120 --> 00:57:09,040 I will not give up. I will not turn around. 858 00:57:09,320 --> 00:57:12,520 I'm a soldier. Do we? 859 00:57:12,520 --> 00:57:14,560 Have any soldiers in? The house. 860 00:57:20,880 --> 00:57:25,240 Is there anybody that's willing? To say the things that I've held 861 00:57:25,280 --> 00:57:28,320 on to, I've held on to for too long. 862 00:57:28,640 --> 00:57:32,760 I've got to give some things up if I'm going to move forward. 863 00:57:36,360 --> 00:57:38,040 I wander all over this house, right? 864 00:57:38,040 --> 00:57:40,920 Now can we lift our hands to the? 865 00:57:40,920 --> 00:57:43,880 Heavens, and can we ask? God. 866 00:57:44,560 --> 00:57:49,640 Lord, take a look at my life. Search me right now if there's 867 00:57:49,640 --> 00:57:52,640 anything God in my life that you need to remove. 868 00:57:53,080 --> 00:57:55,640 Remove what needs to be removed. God. 869 00:57:56,000 --> 00:58:00,160 Put in what needs to be put in, but God. 870 00:58:00,160 --> 00:58:03,080 Change me. Change. 871 00:58:03,080 --> 00:58:05,800 Me. Change me. 872 00:58:07,080 --> 00:58:07,760 Come on. I know. 873 00:58:07,760 --> 00:58:09,040 We got lunch here. In a little. 874 00:58:09,040 --> 00:58:13,800 Bit I know we got activities and plans in our life, but nothing 875 00:58:13,800 --> 00:58:17,760 should take the place of getting to meet God and getting a chance 876 00:58:18,080 --> 00:58:20,680 to have a better relationship with the Lord. 877 00:58:25,120 --> 00:58:28,400 Nothing else matters. Nothing else. 878 00:58:28,400 --> 00:58:39,160 Matters. I feel like. 879 00:58:39,160 --> 00:58:43,400 There's somebody in this? House right now, the desires 880 00:58:43,400 --> 00:58:44,960 right now. God, I want to go to another 881 00:58:44,960 --> 00:58:48,120 level in you. I want to go to another place in 882 00:58:48,120 --> 00:58:49,720 you in which I have not been before. 883 00:58:50,440 --> 00:58:52,960 God, I want you to do things in me that you've never done 884 00:58:52,960 --> 00:58:54,760 before. Hallelujah. 885 00:58:54,760 --> 00:58:57,600 I don't care, my friends. Make fun of me. 886 00:58:58,040 --> 00:59:00,600 I don't care my coworkers make fun of me. 887 00:59:01,080 --> 00:59:03,520 I don't care if my family forsakes me. 888 00:59:03,960 --> 00:59:08,320 I have got to have you. More than anything in the world, 889 00:59:09,640 --> 00:59:14,000 I've got to have you. Hallelujah. 890 00:59:31,880 --> 00:59:33,720 God. Touch her in Jesus. 891 00:59:33,720 --> 00:59:36,960 Name. Touch her in Jesus name. 892 00:59:38,600 --> 00:59:43,640 Touch her in Jesus name. Come on, God. 893 00:59:43,640 --> 00:59:46,840 I put my. Trust I put everything in you 894 00:59:47,000 --> 00:59:56,200 today. Oh Hallelujah. 895 00:59:56,200 --> 00:59:58,240 Oh. Hallelujah. 896 00:59:59,880 --> 01:00:25,320 Oh Hallelujah. Come on. 897 01:00:26,720 --> 01:00:27,800 Reach your hand. Out to. 898 01:00:27,800 --> 01:00:29,800 Somebody. And pray with them right now. 899 01:00:30,720 --> 01:00:32,440 Believe and trust. That God. 900 01:00:32,440 --> 01:00:36,160 Is going to do something powerful in their life today.