1 00:00:02,360 --> 00:00:06,800 How many is glad that he rescued you? 2 00:00:06,800 --> 00:00:13,320 He didn't have to, but because his love for us, he did it. 3 00:00:14,120 --> 00:00:18,000 I'm so glad of that tonight. I feel the presence of the Lord 4 00:00:18,000 --> 00:00:20,800 in this place. Amen. 5 00:00:22,280 --> 00:00:27,760 I got just really a thinking, just a little bit of gold was 6 00:00:27,760 --> 00:00:32,520 talking about Sister Sharon. My wife and I were talking the 7 00:00:32,520 --> 00:00:35,000 other night and I want you all to think about this when you 8 00:00:35,000 --> 00:00:39,040 think about helping. We was talking the other night 9 00:00:39,040 --> 00:00:41,800 and you'd see Sister Sharon in the kitchen working. 10 00:00:43,800 --> 00:00:45,920 She was washing dishes and whatever else. 11 00:00:45,920 --> 00:00:50,600 There was anytime there was a church function, and it don't 12 00:00:50,600 --> 00:00:56,400 stop there. But I remember church camps when 13 00:00:56,400 --> 00:01:02,320 it was our day in the kitchen. Sister Sharon was there also. 14 00:01:05,640 --> 00:01:09,120 She was a helper. She was somebody that worked a 15 00:01:09,160 --> 00:01:12,440 man. So I'm telling you, we owe it to 16 00:01:12,440 --> 00:01:14,800 her to help her. Amen. 17 00:01:15,040 --> 00:01:17,760 The last time we can help her, we deserve to help her. 18 00:01:18,480 --> 00:01:20,960 Hallelujah. Praise the Lord. 19 00:01:21,640 --> 00:01:26,200 Well, I tell you, I'm planning on preaching different than I've 20 00:01:26,200 --> 00:01:32,080 preached for a while. I appreciate the minister of 21 00:01:32,080 --> 00:01:35,320 this church. I appreciate Brother Mason. 22 00:01:35,520 --> 00:01:39,640 He may be my son-in-law and he's just like a son, but I 23 00:01:39,640 --> 00:01:43,800 appreciate him. He's walked a many a mile with 24 00:01:43,800 --> 00:01:48,280 us up through the years. I thank God for my pastor. 25 00:01:48,840 --> 00:01:53,200 I was once his pastor. Now he's my pastor and I'm glad. 26 00:01:53,200 --> 00:01:55,880 I'm glad that to call him my pastor. 27 00:01:56,320 --> 00:02:02,760 We're blessed, Amen. So glad for brother Alex Mason. 28 00:02:03,640 --> 00:02:08,360 We are blessed, Amen. Hallelujah in this church. 29 00:02:09,080 --> 00:02:13,240 Hallelujah, Brother Zach McGee, we're so happy, Amen. 30 00:02:13,320 --> 00:02:18,080 Brother James that's in here. And God's just blessed us, Amen. 31 00:02:18,080 --> 00:02:23,280 With men to help. And ladies, praise the Lord. 32 00:02:24,520 --> 00:02:31,560 I needed church camp this year and before I even got there, I 33 00:02:31,560 --> 00:02:35,040 I'd already been asked if I'd leave prayer one night. 34 00:02:36,320 --> 00:02:40,360 The last time we had fellowship rally at this church, Brother 35 00:02:40,360 --> 00:02:43,320 Gil come to me and he said, I hear that you're going to try to 36 00:02:43,320 --> 00:02:46,240 come to camp this year. And I said, yes, Sir, I am. 37 00:02:47,240 --> 00:02:51,240 He said, well, I want to just let you know early and these 38 00:02:51,240 --> 00:03:04,520 bottles are he said I would like to use you 39 00:03:04,520 --> 00:03:10,200 and your son. I would like you as elder and 40 00:03:10,200 --> 00:03:16,560 Bishop to start the service in prayer and I would and brother 41 00:03:16,760 --> 00:03:19,680 Pastor McGee that he would end that. 42 00:03:20,200 --> 00:03:26,560 Could you do that? I said yes Sir, not knowing that 43 00:03:26,560 --> 00:03:30,880 that was the start of something God had laid out for me. 44 00:03:36,420 --> 00:03:39,740 Been struggling for a while, but you know what? 45 00:03:40,460 --> 00:03:51,700 God always comes through and he came through and some things 46 00:03:51,700 --> 00:03:58,200 that I needed and sought for he come on the scene and give me 47 00:03:58,200 --> 00:04:02,680 back some things that I felt it slacking and I thank God for 48 00:04:02,680 --> 00:04:06,000 that. I'm going to let you know that 49 00:04:06,000 --> 00:04:08,320 this this message that I'm going to preach tonight. 50 00:04:08,320 --> 00:04:10,920 I can't tell you how long I've been working on it because it's 51 00:04:10,920 --> 00:04:14,680 been a while that I had read a book and it stirred me up and I 52 00:04:14,680 --> 00:04:17,079 began, you know how you'll do. I don't know how everybody else 53 00:04:17,079 --> 00:04:21,040 does, but when I'm reading, I'm I'm underlining things and write 54 00:04:21,040 --> 00:04:27,520 little notes and all of that. And this just somehow I wrote 55 00:04:27,520 --> 00:04:31,520 some notes out and put it down there and and then little bit 56 00:04:31,520 --> 00:04:33,720 little God would just add a little to it. 57 00:04:33,720 --> 00:04:38,800 And then when this come up, I felt like God, you was speaking 58 00:04:38,800 --> 00:04:43,240 to me to do this tonight. So if you'll help me minister 59 00:04:43,240 --> 00:04:50,360 tonight, we're going to have church Hallelujah, all of you 60 00:04:50,360 --> 00:04:54,400 online. God bless you, Hope God reaches 61 00:04:54,400 --> 00:04:58,240 down and touches you tonight because there's there's no 62 00:04:58,240 --> 00:05:01,160 shortness in God's arm. I don't care where you're 63 00:05:01,160 --> 00:05:03,800 watching from. He can still, he can still get 64 00:05:03,800 --> 00:05:07,440 your attention. I'm thankful for that tonight. 65 00:05:08,560 --> 00:05:10,720 Hallelujah. I'm going to turn to Matthew 66 00:05:14,400 --> 00:05:20,400 chapter #7 and I'm going to just read 2 verses and then we'll see 67 00:05:20,400 --> 00:05:23,000 what God wants. This is about him. 68 00:05:23,000 --> 00:05:28,840 It's not about me. Matthew Chapter 7 verse #13 and 69 00:05:28,840 --> 00:05:33,920 14 very familiar scripture. We've probably all used it 70 00:05:33,920 --> 00:05:36,080 ministry or used it time after time. 71 00:05:37,200 --> 00:05:43,920 Enter ye in at the straight gate, for wide is the gate, and 72 00:05:43,920 --> 00:05:47,480 broad is the way that leadeth the destruction. 73 00:05:48,080 --> 00:05:53,640 And many there be which go in there at, because Strait is the 74 00:05:53,640 --> 00:05:58,920 gate, and narrow is the way which leadeth unto life. 75 00:05:59,160 --> 00:06:04,320 And few hereby said few there be that find it. 76 00:06:05,400 --> 00:06:10,000 Heavenly Father, I ask you tonight I need your help, Lord, 77 00:06:10,400 --> 00:06:14,720 to minister tonight. Lord, I ask for your anointing. 78 00:06:15,960 --> 00:06:22,200 Halobasha Talaba, ha ha ha. Lord, let this spirit God sweep 79 00:06:22,200 --> 00:06:27,120 over this sanctuary tonight, God, for that there's many or 80 00:06:27,120 --> 00:06:28,920 few. God, you're in our midst. 81 00:06:28,920 --> 00:06:33,160 I know this from years gone by, Lord, that you've anointed and 82 00:06:33,160 --> 00:06:36,840 helped us, Lord God, and I'm dependent on you tonight. 83 00:06:37,360 --> 00:06:41,880 Lord, as we minister, anoint the lips of clay God, and speak to 84 00:06:41,880 --> 00:06:44,600 this congregation to encourage and strengthen. 85 00:06:44,600 --> 00:06:49,200 Lord, I pray in Jesus name and you may be seated. 86 00:06:51,840 --> 00:06:56,880 Thank you Jesus. In a book that I'd read quite a 87 00:06:56,880 --> 00:07:00,360 while back I'd come across something that stirred my soul. 88 00:07:01,080 --> 00:07:02,840 I want to say I thank God for my wife. 89 00:07:02,840 --> 00:07:10,880 She's still with us. Could have been much worse When 90 00:07:10,880 --> 00:07:14,320 you come home and see blood every place and splattered over 91 00:07:14,320 --> 00:07:20,400 the trailer and all over the rocking chair that's sitting out 92 00:07:20,400 --> 00:07:24,200 there and all over the porch and a lap full. 93 00:07:24,200 --> 00:07:28,640 And but God was with her too. And I thank God for her. 94 00:07:29,280 --> 00:07:34,880 Amen. She has been my help meet pretty 95 00:07:34,880 --> 00:07:39,360 close to 59 years and I thank God for her that she has stood 96 00:07:39,360 --> 00:07:42,520 by my side and she's been my encouragement and my strength so 97 00:07:42,520 --> 00:07:46,000 many times. And I'm glad she's here still 98 00:07:46,000 --> 00:07:50,200 with me tonight, man, I want to minister on this subject. 99 00:07:50,200 --> 00:07:52,840 And maybe maybe at first you won't get it, but you will 100 00:07:52,840 --> 00:07:58,560 before I get through this book began to talk about front door 101 00:07:58,560 --> 00:08:04,520 happiness versus back door happiness, front door happiness 102 00:08:04,520 --> 00:08:09,600 verse versus front door happiness versus back door 103 00:08:09,600 --> 00:08:12,800 happiness. And there was some things that 104 00:08:12,800 --> 00:08:18,560 began to unravel and my spirit picked up on some of this. 105 00:08:18,560 --> 00:08:22,480 And I want to minister tonight to you because there is a 106 00:08:22,480 --> 00:08:24,640 difference. You know, the front door is 107 00:08:24,640 --> 00:08:30,480 usually the most used door. I, I don't know, there's maybe a 108 00:08:30,480 --> 00:08:33,720 few people that I've ever seen that use the back door all the 109 00:08:33,720 --> 00:08:36,880 time, but most people use the front door. 110 00:08:37,720 --> 00:08:42,200 You know, it's, it's, it's, it's a custom, we, we just kind of do 111 00:08:42,200 --> 00:08:47,080 it. So, you know, and, and I began 112 00:08:47,080 --> 00:08:52,320 to study it out and began to grab a hold of things and, and 113 00:08:52,320 --> 00:08:57,240 began to study about it. And, and it is said that when 114 00:08:57,240 --> 00:09:02,600 you look and, and people's doors, that custom front doors 115 00:09:02,600 --> 00:09:06,280 can run from 5000 to 20,000 installed. 116 00:09:06,920 --> 00:09:10,280 That's crazy, but that's what they say. 117 00:09:11,280 --> 00:09:14,000 Amen. And I want you to notice 118 00:09:14,000 --> 00:09:18,240 something about the wide door, the the front door. 119 00:09:18,720 --> 00:09:21,800 I'm going to call it the the front door, the wide door, all 120 00:09:21,800 --> 00:09:25,320 right. And what is attributed to it? 121 00:09:25,320 --> 00:09:31,040 Is there as many that goes there in and it's a wide door. 122 00:09:31,040 --> 00:09:35,800 Everybody said why? And everybody say many, you 123 00:09:35,800 --> 00:09:39,000 know, in the world today, they would say, all right, that must 124 00:09:39,000 --> 00:09:42,080 be the right door to go in because it's many and it's wide. 125 00:09:42,080 --> 00:09:46,560 It's easy to get through. But then there's a narrow door 126 00:09:47,200 --> 00:09:49,400 that I'm going to call the back door. 127 00:09:50,320 --> 00:09:56,680 And it says that the normal back door will cost you 300 to $1000 128 00:09:56,680 --> 00:10:00,600 to install. Hey, man, that sounds like a lot 129 00:10:01,080 --> 00:10:04,280 and I but there's some attributes that go with that 130 00:10:04,280 --> 00:10:06,480 door that I want you to pick up on. 131 00:10:07,480 --> 00:10:10,480 It's attributed to those are few. 132 00:10:10,480 --> 00:10:15,160 There's just a few that goes in at that door, but it's straight 133 00:10:15,240 --> 00:10:19,400 and it's narrow. It's maybe not that you have to 134 00:10:19,400 --> 00:10:23,040 turn sideways to get through it, but there's not many people that 135 00:10:23,040 --> 00:10:26,800 goes through it. It's not the chosen door if you 136 00:10:26,800 --> 00:10:28,960 please. Hallelujah. 137 00:10:29,600 --> 00:10:36,200 And in our world today, there is many people that spend big bucks 138 00:10:36,320 --> 00:10:41,520 on the front door entrance because it's what draws the 139 00:10:41,520 --> 00:10:46,160 attention of people and it's a it's the curb appeal to your 140 00:10:46,160 --> 00:10:50,240 house, all right? It's it's what people notice 141 00:10:50,240 --> 00:10:51,160 first. Amen. 142 00:10:51,160 --> 00:10:55,400 It's your front door, so that's the one that you choose for 143 00:10:55,400 --> 00:10:58,720 people to walk through because when they start walking up your 144 00:10:58,720 --> 00:11:02,760 sidewalk, if you've got one and they start walking up your 145 00:11:02,760 --> 00:11:06,440 sidewalk and they see the beauty of this front door, they can 146 00:11:06,440 --> 00:11:09,480 almost imagine what's going on inside. 147 00:11:10,280 --> 00:11:13,440 It looks like this is just an excellent. 148 00:11:13,440 --> 00:11:16,960 This is a good place to walk in. It's the front door. 149 00:11:18,800 --> 00:11:22,600 Hey man, Hallelujah. It's got it's got appeal. 150 00:11:22,600 --> 00:11:26,040 It's, you know, this is the important door, so it must look 151 00:11:26,040 --> 00:11:28,320 good. And I want the church to look 152 00:11:28,320 --> 00:11:31,480 good, don't you? I want it to look good. 153 00:11:31,480 --> 00:11:34,040 I want it to look better than my house. 154 00:11:34,040 --> 00:11:38,400 I want it to, I want it to be a place that people and joys 155 00:11:38,400 --> 00:11:41,160 coming to and then they think it looks good. 156 00:11:42,600 --> 00:11:47,560 But the important thing is that all that you put in that front 157 00:11:47,560 --> 00:11:52,920 door, the 5000, the 20, whatever you've put in that front door 158 00:11:53,320 --> 00:11:57,240 does not make, even though that is a house, that does not make 159 00:11:57,480 --> 00:12:02,480 that house a home. Because I'm going to tell you 160 00:12:02,480 --> 00:12:06,520 church, it's what's on the inside of the house that counts 161 00:12:06,640 --> 00:12:10,120 and not just the front door. Oh my, I'm feeling this. 162 00:12:10,560 --> 00:12:13,360 Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. 163 00:12:13,600 --> 00:12:17,480 It doesn't make it a home even though it looks good. 164 00:12:18,400 --> 00:12:21,840 Hallelujah. It's what people see first. 165 00:12:22,120 --> 00:12:28,360 The front door may have bragging rights while the rear door, the 166 00:12:28,360 --> 00:12:33,440 back door may not be so excellent and exquisite. 167 00:12:33,440 --> 00:12:38,480 It may not look as beautiful, advertising companies say. 168 00:12:39,080 --> 00:12:44,000 In advertising, they say, acquire and aspire to drive 169 00:12:44,000 --> 00:12:49,200 faster, the dress trendier, drink more. 170 00:12:49,800 --> 00:12:54,200 Happiness depends on what's in your closet, what's parked in 171 00:12:54,200 --> 00:13:00,040 your garage, what's in the bank, what's on your ring finger or 172 00:13:00,040 --> 00:13:04,960 what's served at your table. It's the wide door if you please 173 00:13:05,280 --> 00:13:08,320 and it aspires to some things. I want to tell you I don't 174 00:13:08,320 --> 00:13:12,880 believe there's ever a time that we have seen aspiration in homes 175 00:13:12,880 --> 00:13:16,400 like we have now. They are building bigger and 176 00:13:16,400 --> 00:13:17,600 better. They can only. 177 00:13:17,680 --> 00:13:20,880 They may only have two that lives in it, but they build 5 178 00:13:20,880 --> 00:13:23,200 bedrooms homes. Tell me why. 179 00:13:23,960 --> 00:13:27,080 Why do you need five bedroom home when there's only two of 180 00:13:27,080 --> 00:13:29,160 you in it? It's because we have got to have 181 00:13:29,160 --> 00:13:32,360 great rooms and we got to have this and we've got to have that. 182 00:13:32,560 --> 00:13:35,120 But I'm going to tell you, that doesn't make it a home. 183 00:13:35,240 --> 00:13:42,120 It does not make it an inspiring place to be or to go, but it's 184 00:13:42,120 --> 00:13:45,760 the feeling inside. It's what's inside that counts. 185 00:13:46,160 --> 00:13:48,720 It's the inside that inspires you. 186 00:13:48,960 --> 00:13:53,440 It's the feeling when you walk through that door that inspires 187 00:13:53,440 --> 00:13:56,000 you. It's not the front door, but 188 00:13:56,000 --> 00:13:57,880 it's what's on the inside. The house. 189 00:14:00,360 --> 00:14:07,080 Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Jesus, Hallelujah, Hallelujah, 190 00:14:08,040 --> 00:14:10,840 Hallelujah. It's what's served on your 191 00:14:10,840 --> 00:14:13,640 table. This is the world talking. 192 00:14:13,640 --> 00:14:16,920 It's the advertising. It's a wide door. 193 00:14:17,800 --> 00:14:19,640 It's what you serve at your table. 194 00:14:20,240 --> 00:14:24,720 But I'm here to tell you as well as I do. 195 00:14:24,720 --> 00:14:30,160 You know this. We have all seen happy peasants 196 00:14:30,440 --> 00:14:36,360 and miserable millionaires. Many a millionaires took their 197 00:14:36,360 --> 00:14:40,760 life and had everything that life could offer except for 198 00:14:40,760 --> 00:14:48,800 what's inside the house. No wonder it says that a rich 199 00:14:48,800 --> 00:14:51,880 man can hardly enter the Kingdom of God. 200 00:14:53,840 --> 00:14:57,680 Because if we've got all of these things and aspire to the 201 00:14:57,680 --> 00:15:02,480 look and to everything that the world looks at, the first thing, 202 00:15:02,480 --> 00:15:05,520 I believe this has slipped itself into the church 203 00:15:05,520 --> 00:15:10,320 sometimes, that we get to aspire for things that really doesn't 204 00:15:10,320 --> 00:15:13,360 matter. Sister Sheila, it's not the 205 00:15:13,360 --> 00:15:17,240 front door that matters, but it's what's inside the house 206 00:15:17,240 --> 00:15:20,680 that matters. It's the God that I serve that's 207 00:15:20,680 --> 00:15:24,080 inside my house that you can feel when you walk through the 208 00:15:24,080 --> 00:15:29,360 door. Hallelujah, Praise your name, 209 00:15:29,520 --> 00:15:34,040 Jesus. The front door happiness says 210 00:15:34,040 --> 00:15:37,880 this. Listen to me carefully, stay 211 00:15:37,880 --> 00:15:40,600 with me. The front door happiness has 212 00:15:40,640 --> 00:15:44,800 this saying. Happiness happens when you get. 213 00:15:44,920 --> 00:15:50,640 Everybody said get, get. You receive what you receive 214 00:15:50,640 --> 00:15:54,040 what you get. It's all about you. 215 00:15:56,360 --> 00:15:59,160 Come on. I'm talking about what the front 216 00:15:59,160 --> 00:16:04,000 door aspirations are. It's what I can get. 217 00:16:04,720 --> 00:16:06,880 There is people that come to church today. 218 00:16:07,640 --> 00:16:11,200 It's not what I can do for the church, but what can the church 219 00:16:11,200 --> 00:16:15,840 do for me? Come on. 220 00:16:16,520 --> 00:16:26,480 And it's not about money, but the blessings of the Lord 221 00:16:26,680 --> 00:16:29,400 surpass all the money that you can get. 222 00:16:30,280 --> 00:16:34,880 Come on, I'm telling you that we aspire when we walk through the 223 00:16:34,880 --> 00:16:38,120 doors of this church. I don't know how you aspire, but 224 00:16:38,120 --> 00:16:42,600 when I walk through the doors I wanted to aspire to of God. 225 00:16:42,600 --> 00:16:44,480 I want the power and the anointing. 226 00:16:44,480 --> 00:16:47,640 I want, I want the worship to come over me. 227 00:16:47,800 --> 00:16:51,520 And I want to worship God for all that's in me, to do it with 228 00:16:51,520 --> 00:16:54,280 my might. Come on, I I'm going to, I'm 229 00:16:54,280 --> 00:16:57,160 going to just be open with you. I haven't been doing it with all 230 00:16:57,160 --> 00:16:59,520 of my mind. And God got onto me. 231 00:16:59,640 --> 00:17:03,280 It's time to worship. It's time to get out of business 232 00:17:03,280 --> 00:17:06,440 again. We've got a world on the outside 233 00:17:06,440 --> 00:17:09,680 of these front doors that need us lol. 234 00:17:10,319 --> 00:17:18,280 They need us, they need us. Hallelujah. 235 00:17:19,280 --> 00:17:22,680 Whoo I aspire the souls. How about you? 236 00:17:24,280 --> 00:17:29,400 Hallelujah, Oh glory. Hallelujah, Jesus. 237 00:17:30,080 --> 00:17:34,080 I want you to notice and I want you to listen to the 238 00:17:34,080 --> 00:17:37,240 characteristics of the front door. 239 00:17:38,680 --> 00:17:42,400 It's wide. The Bible said it leads. 240 00:17:42,920 --> 00:17:47,280 It's a Broadway. We know all about Broadway. 241 00:17:48,720 --> 00:17:52,960 Turn off your TV. Pick up your Bible lately, 242 00:17:52,960 --> 00:17:59,720 Sister McGee and I has has has inspired in our home to plug in 243 00:18:00,320 --> 00:18:07,080 some some video DVDSVHS. Oh, I know some of you don't 244 00:18:07,360 --> 00:18:12,440 remember them maybe, but the VH s s and the Goodmans and this 245 00:18:12,440 --> 00:18:15,600 and that. We thank God for brother Pat 246 00:18:15,600 --> 00:18:17,480 Brother Pat, if you're listening, thank you for the 247 00:18:17,920 --> 00:18:19,920 thank you for the tapes. Appreciate them. 248 00:18:20,800 --> 00:18:24,280 Hey, man, the BHSS, man, we had a box of them. 249 00:18:24,280 --> 00:18:27,120 Brother Freddie, he brought give to me. 250 00:18:28,000 --> 00:18:32,120 So we started way back, you know, kind of as far back as we 251 00:18:32,120 --> 00:18:34,040 could go. And we began to plug them in. 252 00:18:35,160 --> 00:18:37,320 We started watching one or two of them at night. 253 00:18:37,320 --> 00:18:39,920 And I'm going to tell you the truth, Church, I ain't sure that 254 00:18:39,920 --> 00:18:41,920 the others aren't better than the newer ones. 255 00:18:42,760 --> 00:18:45,640 You know why? Because people have changed. 256 00:18:45,640 --> 00:18:50,480 You could watch sister, Sister Angie Cruz, you could watch as 257 00:18:50,600 --> 00:18:54,480 as people, they started changing over the years and not for the 258 00:18:54,480 --> 00:18:56,840 good. It was for the bad. 259 00:18:56,840 --> 00:18:59,400 You know what? The anointing kind of started to 260 00:18:59,920 --> 00:19:03,640 wane in a little bit. Hey, man, you didn't feel the 261 00:19:03,640 --> 00:19:07,640 anointing like you used to. Hey, they, they had church 262 00:19:07,640 --> 00:19:11,120 almost back then people began, Hey, there was people shouting, 263 00:19:11,680 --> 00:19:15,280 hey man, there was tears running down faces. 264 00:19:15,280 --> 00:19:18,840 There was people getting up and telling what God had done for 265 00:19:18,840 --> 00:19:20,760 them, what God had done in their home. 266 00:19:20,960 --> 00:19:24,960 Let me tell you, it's not the front door that matters, but 267 00:19:24,960 --> 00:19:27,800 it's what's on inside that front door. 268 00:19:28,000 --> 00:19:30,480 It's what you meet when you go inside. 269 00:19:33,000 --> 00:19:34,960 There been a home that when you walked through the door, you 270 00:19:34,960 --> 00:19:40,640 felt and loved. We had teenagers used to come 271 00:19:40,640 --> 00:19:44,880 through our home in Princeton. We didn't have a beautiful home, 272 00:19:45,760 --> 00:19:50,240 just had an ordinary home. But my kids brought kids from 273 00:19:50,240 --> 00:19:53,240 school through the doors of that, and they had money. 274 00:19:53,240 --> 00:19:57,640 They had white rooms with the grand piano sitting in it. 275 00:19:57,640 --> 00:19:59,800 Nobody was allowed in. It couldn't walk. 276 00:19:59,920 --> 00:20:02,880 You know what's used to have a room like that and nobody can 277 00:20:02,880 --> 00:20:04,520 use it? Well, what's it for? 278 00:20:04,840 --> 00:20:07,360 You know what it's for? It's for just like the same 279 00:20:07,360 --> 00:20:11,360 thing of the front door that's so exquisite and expensive. 280 00:20:11,360 --> 00:20:16,720 You know, it's a show off room. God, I tell you, my show off 281 00:20:16,720 --> 00:20:19,880 room is any place in my house that I can feel the presence of 282 00:20:19,880 --> 00:20:22,640 God. Come on, when we get a good 283 00:20:22,640 --> 00:20:27,560 report, Hallelujah through the prayer request and and the 284 00:20:27,560 --> 00:20:30,120 prayer band. When we get a when we get a good 285 00:20:30,120 --> 00:20:33,600 report of it, The Sister McGinn, I does this little happy dance. 286 00:20:33,600 --> 00:20:36,640 We get up and we dance around a little bit, start thanking God 287 00:20:36,640 --> 00:20:38,400 for it. You know what, we'd be better 288 00:20:38,400 --> 00:20:40,320 off if we'd all doing that in our home. 289 00:20:40,480 --> 00:20:44,200 When there comes something good that God has done, we ought to 290 00:20:44,200 --> 00:20:47,560 do a little happy dance. Say, oh, thank you, God. 291 00:20:47,600 --> 00:20:52,920 Thank you, God. I don't think we celebrated near 292 00:20:52,920 --> 00:20:55,720 enough. Hallelujah. 293 00:20:56,760 --> 00:20:59,040 Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. 294 00:20:59,800 --> 00:21:02,840 Hallelujah. It's a wide, it's a wide gate 295 00:21:04,120 --> 00:21:10,480 and it, it leads to a, it leads to a Broadway that leads you to 296 00:21:10,480 --> 00:21:14,600 destruction. That that wide door. 297 00:21:14,600 --> 00:21:18,880 I don't care how beautiful it is, if you're following that 298 00:21:18,880 --> 00:21:23,080 just because of looks, if you're following things in the world, 299 00:21:23,080 --> 00:21:27,600 because let me tell you, they got a lot of bright lights, they 300 00:21:27,600 --> 00:21:29,880 got things to draw your attention. 301 00:21:30,880 --> 00:21:33,960 Every commercial comes on is going to draw your attention to 302 00:21:33,960 --> 00:21:37,640 something, whether it's good or whether it's bad. 303 00:21:38,440 --> 00:21:41,720 But I found out, brother Freddie, that I can drown it out 304 00:21:41,720 --> 00:21:44,120 by turning some good gospel music on. 305 00:21:44,360 --> 00:21:48,160 I don't need the TV only just plug the the tape in and. 306 00:21:48,320 --> 00:21:51,480 And we sit there and sometimes the tears is rolling down our 307 00:21:51,480 --> 00:21:53,760 face. Sometimes we got our hand in the 308 00:21:53,760 --> 00:21:55,760 air. Hallelujah. 309 00:21:56,200 --> 00:21:58,960 You know what? I decided I needed that more 310 00:21:58,960 --> 00:22:02,040 than I needed anything on TV. There's nothing but junk on 311 00:22:02,040 --> 00:22:08,640 there. Yeah, when it gets, when it gets 312 00:22:09,400 --> 00:22:12,320 spring and summer at our house, we can't get 14. 313 00:22:12,360 --> 00:22:14,880 Like I just got ATV antenna up there, just a regular one. 314 00:22:15,480 --> 00:22:19,000 I don't pay for it. It just you know and it don't, 315 00:22:19,000 --> 00:22:22,360 it don't cost me every month and I plug it in, I usually get by 316 00:22:22,360 --> 00:22:25,240 29 channels. But guess what, when it comes, 317 00:22:25,720 --> 00:22:28,880 when it comes to the spring of the year and all those trees 318 00:22:28,880 --> 00:22:31,680 grow up down there in that hollow, you can't get nothing. 319 00:22:32,960 --> 00:22:35,800 That's all that's left is 7. That's about it. 320 00:22:36,800 --> 00:22:40,320 So we decided this year we're not going to just sit there and 321 00:22:40,320 --> 00:22:42,040 do this. We're going to plug in something 322 00:22:42,040 --> 00:22:45,080 and we're going to fill our house full of gospel singing. 323 00:22:47,440 --> 00:22:53,600 I want something that inspires. I want something in my home that 324 00:22:53,640 --> 00:22:59,440 inspires me. I want something that'll inspire 325 00:22:59,440 --> 00:23:03,360 people that walks through my doors that they can say, hey, 326 00:23:03,520 --> 00:23:05,600 there's been something going on in here. 327 00:23:08,680 --> 00:23:11,160 Like the little old prayer warrior lady. 328 00:23:11,160 --> 00:23:13,760 You know, you've seen the movie. Yeah. 329 00:23:15,000 --> 00:23:16,160 Yeah. War Room. 330 00:23:17,200 --> 00:23:20,120 You know, that little old lady Betty, she had her a special 331 00:23:20,120 --> 00:23:23,120 room. She cleaned the closet out and 332 00:23:23,120 --> 00:23:25,240 she had her a prayer room built in there. 333 00:23:26,480 --> 00:23:31,800 And isn't it amazing that that the old minister comes in and he 334 00:23:31,800 --> 00:23:37,520 walks in that room. He walks through that door and 335 00:23:37,520 --> 00:23:42,920 he goes and he backs back out and he walks back in that door 336 00:23:43,880 --> 00:23:48,800 and he backs back out and his wife says, what's wrong, dear? 337 00:23:49,040 --> 00:23:51,000 He said there's nothing wrong. We're buying this house. 338 00:23:51,400 --> 00:23:53,880 He said, you know what? When I walk in there, I feel 339 00:23:53,880 --> 00:23:56,360 something. There's been prayer going on in 340 00:23:56,360 --> 00:23:58,520 there. Let me tell you something, 341 00:23:58,520 --> 00:24:02,920 Church, when people walk through their door, your doors, if your 342 00:24:02,920 --> 00:24:06,400 house is right and it's anointed like it should be, they're going 343 00:24:06,400 --> 00:24:09,600 to feel something. You don't have to tell them 344 00:24:09,600 --> 00:24:12,520 you're a Christian. Come on, they're going to feel 345 00:24:12,520 --> 00:24:14,640 something extraordinary. You know why? 346 00:24:14,880 --> 00:24:17,080 Because he's the God of your house. 347 00:24:17,080 --> 00:24:24,280 And I tell you, I want him to be the God of this church. 348 00:24:25,080 --> 00:24:27,920 When people walks through the doors, in fact, before they ever 349 00:24:27,920 --> 00:24:30,520 get to the door, I want them to feel the presence of God. 350 00:24:34,920 --> 00:24:39,000 Brother Mason, you'll probably remember some of you older ones 351 00:24:39,000 --> 00:24:45,080 that come from Second Church. I remember Brother Elkins, we 352 00:24:45,080 --> 00:24:47,960 had a, the first rally, I think we'd ever had a second our 353 00:24:47,960 --> 00:24:53,120 church and we had church full. It was, it was, it was packed 354 00:24:53,120 --> 00:24:55,440 out solid. Amen. 355 00:24:55,440 --> 00:24:59,640 And that usually happened on a Saturday, I think it was man, it 356 00:24:59,640 --> 00:25:01,280 was people drove in from every place. 357 00:25:01,280 --> 00:25:03,640 Some of them we had to help them get there because our van kind 358 00:25:03,640 --> 00:25:06,040 of broke down. Somebody had to take them go, go 359 00:25:06,040 --> 00:25:07,600 with our van and bring them on in. 360 00:25:08,720 --> 00:25:13,640 But I will not forget a few weeks later I received this 361 00:25:13,960 --> 00:25:20,000 letter through the mail from both the Elkins and he wrote, 362 00:25:20,960 --> 00:25:25,280 Brother McGee, when we drove into the parking lot of your 363 00:25:25,280 --> 00:25:30,120 church, he said it just looked like an old country church. 364 00:25:30,800 --> 00:25:34,640 He said, but man, when we got out of that van, he started, he 365 00:25:34,640 --> 00:25:38,560 said I could feel something from the outside, said there was some 366 00:25:38,560 --> 00:25:43,280 shouting going on inside. God was moving inside that he 367 00:25:43,280 --> 00:25:46,840 said when I walked through the doors, I thought this reminds me 368 00:25:46,840 --> 00:25:50,400 of a home mission church. But I'm going to tell you what 369 00:25:50,600 --> 00:25:55,360 he said they're doing it. God is in that place. 370 00:25:55,760 --> 00:25:57,560 God is doing things. Come on. 371 00:25:57,880 --> 00:26:00,200 It may not look the greatest on the outside. 372 00:26:00,360 --> 00:26:03,160 We may have had some problems with it, but I'm going to tell 373 00:26:03,160 --> 00:26:06,440 you something. It wasn't the God of the front 374 00:26:06,440 --> 00:26:08,360 door, if you please. It wasn't. 375 00:26:08,600 --> 00:26:11,840 Just because it had double doors didn't mean nothing. 376 00:26:11,840 --> 00:26:16,160 It wasn't fancy, but when you walked inside, it was fancy. 377 00:26:16,680 --> 00:26:20,840 Oh, it felt like heaven on the inside. 378 00:26:20,840 --> 00:26:25,560 You know why we was worshipping and praising our God, and there 379 00:26:25,560 --> 00:26:32,080 was a feeling in that place. Hallelujah. 380 00:26:33,200 --> 00:26:36,920 Thank you, Jesus. I'm talking about front door 381 00:26:38,000 --> 00:26:40,320 happiness and back door happiness. 382 00:26:41,560 --> 00:26:44,640 There's a difference, you know. Hallelujah. 383 00:26:46,560 --> 00:26:50,000 Yeah, you know the front door, you know, you, you take a look 384 00:26:50,000 --> 00:26:56,560 and it, it describes this, you know, that front door or that. 385 00:26:56,680 --> 00:27:00,080 Yeah, that front door. It describes it as many, it it 386 00:27:00,360 --> 00:27:04,720 says many there be that find it. It says you don't have to feel 387 00:27:04,720 --> 00:27:06,720 around for it. Come on. 388 00:27:06,760 --> 00:27:12,000 It's the truth is if you come of the night that that big old door 389 00:27:12,600 --> 00:27:14,840 on the outside has probably got lights. 390 00:27:14,840 --> 00:27:20,320 You know, I didn't see the I didn't know where they something 391 00:27:20,320 --> 00:27:22,480 up there earlier or not. Maybe it was I missed it, I 392 00:27:22,480 --> 00:27:25,840 guess. Oh, yeah. 393 00:27:25,840 --> 00:27:26,840 Look, front door. Yeah. 394 00:27:29,720 --> 00:27:34,320 Hey, it may not look like that on the outside, but there was a 395 00:27:34,320 --> 00:27:42,120 feeling inside our little home on 137 N Brown. 396 00:27:42,480 --> 00:27:44,440 Maybe it didn't look great on the outside. 397 00:27:44,440 --> 00:27:46,520 We kept it painted up. We hey, come on. 398 00:27:46,520 --> 00:27:48,800 We tried to take care of it. It wasn't ugly. 399 00:27:49,440 --> 00:27:53,600 It it it was it was just home. You walked in, you felt homey. 400 00:27:54,200 --> 00:27:56,120 People wanted to sit down and enjoy their self. 401 00:27:56,240 --> 00:27:58,560 They won't sit down on their table and eat because Sister 402 00:27:58,560 --> 00:28:04,240 McGee could cook, still can. She's not up to it much anymore, 403 00:28:04,240 --> 00:28:07,320 but she's, she can cook. She was a cook. 404 00:28:07,320 --> 00:28:10,280 She, hey, you know what? When the evangelist come, we had 405 00:28:10,280 --> 00:28:12,520 the Parsonage. They stayed in the Parsonage and 406 00:28:12,520 --> 00:28:17,400 we, we fed them and all the people could get in there, would 407 00:28:17,400 --> 00:28:20,800 come out to church and we'd eat come on church. 408 00:28:21,200 --> 00:28:26,960 I'm talking about the big wide door and the narrow door and how 409 00:28:26,960 --> 00:28:32,280 exquisite Lord the wide door is and how kind of shabby maybe if 410 00:28:32,280 --> 00:28:40,040 you compare it to the front. Didn't look so well, but when 411 00:28:40,040 --> 00:28:42,560 God's in the house, everything changes. 412 00:28:42,560 --> 00:28:51,280 Lord, see backdoor happiness says happiness happens when you 413 00:28:51,520 --> 00:28:55,880 give. Let's let's let's move the back 414 00:28:55,880 --> 00:29:02,840 door a little bit. Backdoor happiness is when you 415 00:29:02,840 --> 00:29:08,680 give it happens. Backdoor happiness is when you 416 00:29:08,840 --> 00:29:14,120 give the front door happiness is when you get you receive. 417 00:29:14,120 --> 00:29:18,800 It's all about me. Look at me, look at my house, 418 00:29:18,800 --> 00:29:24,760 look at what I've got. And people get their self in a 419 00:29:24,760 --> 00:29:31,520 mess that they can't get out of because of that old bills for 420 00:29:31,520 --> 00:29:36,440 the rest of their life because they've got a $20,000 front. 421 00:29:37,640 --> 00:29:41,960 And I got you hear me? I said it's a $20,000 front. 422 00:29:43,560 --> 00:29:48,040 They're dead head over heels. They can't even enjoy it. 423 00:29:48,880 --> 00:29:51,720 I don't know about you, but I'd rather have a door that's just a 424 00:29:51,720 --> 00:29:55,240 single and looks a plain old door and have my debts paid. 425 00:29:57,600 --> 00:29:59,720 Come on. I'd I'd rather owe no man 426 00:29:59,720 --> 00:30:01,880 nothing. Come on. 427 00:30:02,480 --> 00:30:09,760 Hallelujah, oh Jesus, Hallelujah, glory, Hallelujah. 428 00:30:10,240 --> 00:30:14,640 Let's turn to Acts chapter 20. Amen. 429 00:30:16,120 --> 00:30:25,400 Acts chapter 20 and verse #35 said I have shewed you all 430 00:30:25,400 --> 00:30:28,760 things. How that's so laboring. 431 00:30:29,800 --> 00:30:35,960 You ought to support the weak and to remember the words of the 432 00:30:35,960 --> 00:30:43,440 Lord Jesus, how he said It is more everybody said blessed to 433 00:30:43,440 --> 00:30:50,080 give than to receive. You get more of a blessing out 434 00:30:50,080 --> 00:31:00,200 of given than you do receiving. Oh, glory, when you come into 435 00:31:00,200 --> 00:31:04,360 the door of the church, I'm going to tell you early that 436 00:31:04,360 --> 00:31:06,800 you'll get more of a blessing by giving. 437 00:31:06,800 --> 00:31:11,200 I'm not talking about money now, but when you come into the House 438 00:31:11,200 --> 00:31:13,880 of God, you ought to give your all to God. 439 00:31:13,880 --> 00:31:16,480 Come on, He deserves our worship. 440 00:31:17,320 --> 00:31:20,040 He deserves the praise of His people. 441 00:31:20,200 --> 00:31:24,200 That's why He made us his people, so we could praise Him, 442 00:31:24,360 --> 00:31:29,200 so we could worship Him. It was his desire in the Garden 443 00:31:29,200 --> 00:31:31,920 of Eden to walk with Adam and Eve. 444 00:31:32,080 --> 00:31:36,240 He liked that little daytime thing when he, I can almost see 445 00:31:36,240 --> 00:31:38,320 it, that God come to walk with him. 446 00:31:38,320 --> 00:31:41,680 I, I don't know how they did it, but I've got the feeling, 447 00:31:41,840 --> 00:31:45,080 Brother Mason, that, that he might have just put one on the 448 00:31:45,080 --> 00:31:48,720 one side and 1:00 on the other and went through there with arm 449 00:31:48,720 --> 00:31:52,840 in arm. Oh, Jesus, Hallelujah, man, what 450 00:31:52,840 --> 00:31:54,840 a good feeling. Can you even I, I don't know 451 00:31:54,840 --> 00:31:58,840 whether you can think about it or even today, but it it feel 452 00:31:58,840 --> 00:32:02,200 pretty good with Jesus on ones, you know, Jesus on this side, 453 00:32:02,200 --> 00:32:05,680 Jesus on this side, you know, Hey, hey, I'm going to walk arm 454 00:32:05,680 --> 00:32:07,880 in arm with this couple. Come on. 455 00:32:08,120 --> 00:32:10,640 Does he not walk arm in arm with you every day? 456 00:32:11,080 --> 00:32:13,480 Come on. How many times have you felt him 457 00:32:13,480 --> 00:32:17,160 and knew he was there but you couldn't see him but you could 458 00:32:17,160 --> 00:32:20,160 feel him? Come on. 459 00:32:20,400 --> 00:32:24,320 People may not see the fanciness of your home, but what they will 460 00:32:24,320 --> 00:32:28,200 do, they'll see Jesus before they leave there because things 461 00:32:28,200 --> 00:32:32,000 are happening in your house that happens no place else. 462 00:32:36,160 --> 00:32:42,040 Glory Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus, the back door 463 00:32:42,040 --> 00:32:45,240 many times. I want to, I want to bring this 464 00:32:45,240 --> 00:32:46,720 in because I think this is right. 465 00:32:47,480 --> 00:32:51,160 Many times the back door is a place that's used to slip in, 466 00:32:51,160 --> 00:32:59,560 hoping nobody will see you. I ain't going to tell you where 467 00:32:59,560 --> 00:33:01,440 we live. No matter don't don't matter 468 00:33:01,440 --> 00:33:04,800 where we lived. I remember somebody, Sister 469 00:33:04,800 --> 00:33:12,200 McGee and I, we lived and these people would come in and we got 470 00:33:12,200 --> 00:33:17,120 to noticing that one of them, they don't really pay a lot 471 00:33:17,120 --> 00:33:22,160 attention, but one of them when they got out, we're all careful, 472 00:33:22,160 --> 00:33:28,000 look around and slam the door and they run as hard as they 473 00:33:28,000 --> 00:33:38,520 could for the house. You know what? 474 00:33:39,000 --> 00:33:41,360 Because they knew about Pentecost and they wouldn't 475 00:33:41,360 --> 00:33:47,640 dress like Pentecost. All right? 476 00:33:47,640 --> 00:33:48,400 I felt that. Go. 477 00:33:51,280 --> 00:33:54,320 Come on, holiness, without which no man shall see God. 478 00:33:54,520 --> 00:33:56,840 You're not even going to see him if you're not holy. 479 00:33:57,680 --> 00:34:00,520 He said to be a holy, for I am holy. 480 00:34:02,960 --> 00:34:06,960 I preach holiness. The Bible teaches holiness. 481 00:34:07,600 --> 00:34:09,600 I don't think we need to veer from that. 482 00:34:09,840 --> 00:34:13,480 I don't care how fancy your door gets on the front end, don't 483 00:34:13,480 --> 00:34:21,480 change your dress for the door. Oh, Jesus, I know I'm stepping 484 00:34:21,480 --> 00:34:22,639 on thin ice. That's all right. 485 00:34:22,639 --> 00:34:26,560 I'll swim if I have to. Glory. 486 00:34:27,480 --> 00:34:30,480 Hallelujah. It's the last used door, so 487 00:34:30,600 --> 00:34:34,360 everybody runs for it. Well, think about it. 488 00:34:34,360 --> 00:34:35,920 That was the back door, too, wasn't it, dear? 489 00:34:35,920 --> 00:34:39,239 Oh, I didn't think of that. That wasn't. 490 00:34:39,239 --> 00:34:41,400 That wasn't. I didn't write no notes on that. 491 00:34:42,960 --> 00:34:45,920 Oh, Glory. See, it's the less used door. 492 00:34:45,920 --> 00:34:48,360 It's a, it's kind of out of the way brother Mason. 493 00:34:48,360 --> 00:34:52,120 It's it's nobody. Nobody aspires to the back door. 494 00:34:52,320 --> 00:34:56,000 Nobody, nobody just parks in your yard, goes around just to 495 00:34:56,000 --> 00:34:59,040 get a glance at your back door. But they may be people that come 496 00:34:59,040 --> 00:35:02,880 and look at your 20,000 door up front, your $20,000 door. 497 00:35:03,080 --> 00:35:08,800 They said, man, isn't that beautiful? 498 00:35:09,680 --> 00:35:13,720 But if you got to have beauty to go to hell, why go that way? 499 00:35:14,600 --> 00:35:18,840 I'll just use the back door. Come on. 500 00:35:19,200 --> 00:35:22,240 If that's what it's going to cost me, Sister Milan, I'm not 501 00:35:22,240 --> 00:35:25,440 going to have a a front door that's so exquisite. 502 00:35:25,440 --> 00:35:29,240 I'm not just just let it be a plain door with maybe a little 503 00:35:29,240 --> 00:35:31,600 wind in it where I can peep out it. 504 00:35:31,680 --> 00:35:34,640 Don't it don't Come on. It don't have to be fancy. 505 00:35:37,160 --> 00:35:39,160 Come on. It don't have to have double 506 00:35:39,160 --> 00:35:43,480 doors and and and brass door knobs and and and windows out 507 00:35:43,560 --> 00:35:46,760 from it. You know, all all this garnished 508 00:35:46,760 --> 00:35:58,240 and and looking so pretty and only used for visitors so 509 00:35:58,240 --> 00:36:04,960 everybody sees what's out front. Oh God, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 510 00:36:07,320 --> 00:36:10,400 See it's it's the last used door. 511 00:36:10,400 --> 00:36:14,520 It's, it's kind of out of the way and so, so to speak. 512 00:36:14,520 --> 00:36:18,320 It's, it's, it's not crowded. You, you know, nobody's standing 513 00:36:18,320 --> 00:36:22,800 in line at the back door. It's, it's, it's just a common 514 00:36:22,800 --> 00:36:25,880 door. It's not fancy. 515 00:36:25,880 --> 00:36:30,480 It's just kind of normal door looks like every other home. 516 00:36:30,480 --> 00:36:37,640 Maybe just just just, you know, just common, ordinary, everybody 517 00:36:37,640 --> 00:36:40,040 said ordinary. But you know what? 518 00:36:40,040 --> 00:36:46,000 We're not ordinary. He has set us apart as a royal 519 00:36:46,000 --> 00:36:51,400 priesthood, a holy nation. He has, he has set us apart as 520 00:36:51,400 --> 00:36:55,880 something different. In fact, I, I just yesterday I, 521 00:36:55,880 --> 00:36:58,440 I had mowed and I was, I was hot. 522 00:36:58,440 --> 00:37:00,440 So I, I went in and sat down at the table. 523 00:37:00,440 --> 00:37:03,640 Sister McGee was visiting her family and I went in there and 524 00:37:03,640 --> 00:37:06,240 sat down and got me a Gatorade and sat down there. 525 00:37:06,240 --> 00:37:10,080 And Brother Mason, for some reason I had pulled out my 526 00:37:10,080 --> 00:37:11,920 little MP3. You remember them? 527 00:37:12,480 --> 00:37:14,080 It's old hills. It still works. 528 00:37:14,440 --> 00:37:16,520 It's got 100 preaching messages on it. 529 00:37:19,080 --> 00:37:21,120 I plugged that in and sat down at the table. 530 00:37:21,120 --> 00:37:25,720 Sister Sheila and and I didn't, I didn't look through it to see 531 00:37:25,720 --> 00:37:27,760 what I was going to listen to. I just punched it. 532 00:37:28,440 --> 00:37:31,800 And guess what? It was all at once a voice that 533 00:37:31,800 --> 00:37:35,520 I recognized so clearly. And guess who? 534 00:37:35,840 --> 00:37:42,800 But Brother Sizemore, senior preaching it because of the 535 00:37:42,800 --> 00:37:48,280 times. And he started preaching about 536 00:37:48,920 --> 00:37:53,400 the high priest garment. He said in his church, and I 537 00:37:53,440 --> 00:37:56,760 bring it to he, he said in his church, he had a lady that was 538 00:37:57,000 --> 00:38:00,280 good at sewing and said she began to read up on that. 539 00:38:00,280 --> 00:38:02,920 And he said, I, I told her, I want one of those. 540 00:38:03,440 --> 00:38:07,600 And she made me one with all the little stones on it. 541 00:38:07,840 --> 00:38:13,360 And he brought something that that was so simple yet so great. 542 00:38:13,960 --> 00:38:19,200 They was talking about that that high priest garment, that when 543 00:38:19,400 --> 00:38:23,200 the garment was put on him, he become a high priest. 544 00:38:24,280 --> 00:38:27,520 Before the garment he was a normal person, but when the 545 00:38:27,520 --> 00:38:30,960 garment was put on him, he became a high priest. 546 00:38:30,960 --> 00:38:33,240 You know why? Because the anointing was in the 547 00:38:33,240 --> 00:38:35,160 garment. That was before the Holy Ghost, 548 00:38:38,320 --> 00:38:41,920 man, I could about sit at my kitchen table and her dining 549 00:38:41,920 --> 00:38:45,920 room table and then and it just, I felt the Holy Ghost all over 550 00:38:45,920 --> 00:38:47,760 me. And he, then he went in and took 551 00:38:47,760 --> 00:38:50,240 it a step farther. Brother Mason, he was talking 552 00:38:50,240 --> 00:38:53,680 about going when the high priest went into the holiest of holies. 553 00:38:53,920 --> 00:38:56,680 And you know well as I do, there's no light in there. 554 00:38:58,760 --> 00:39:02,520 But you got to notice that the priest put on the garment before 555 00:39:02,520 --> 00:39:05,400 he went in. And when that high priest walked 556 00:39:05,400 --> 00:39:07,920 through the doors, he said the lights came on. 557 00:39:08,960 --> 00:39:12,520 All those little 12, come on, tribes of Israel, those little 558 00:39:12,520 --> 00:39:15,520 stones lit up. Come on. 559 00:39:16,000 --> 00:39:18,640 I'm telling you. I began to think about it. 560 00:39:18,800 --> 00:39:22,560 He was talking about that, that God has called us all to be high 561 00:39:22,560 --> 00:39:25,280 priest. And he said we're not living up 562 00:39:25,280 --> 00:39:28,800 to it like we should. There needs to be light in us. 563 00:39:28,920 --> 00:39:33,800 We've got the Holy Ghost inside. He's a lamp under my feet and 564 00:39:33,800 --> 00:39:37,320 he's a light to my path. I don't have to go anywhere in 565 00:39:37,320 --> 00:39:46,320 the dark because God is with me. Oh, Jesus, Oh Lord, Hallelujah, 566 00:39:46,400 --> 00:39:53,800 Hallelujah, glory Hallelujah. You know, it's amazing. 567 00:39:54,000 --> 00:39:56,560 People are lined up to get into the sports events or the 568 00:39:56,560 --> 00:40:01,040 concerts. You got to go early of evening 569 00:40:01,040 --> 00:40:04,280 if you want in, tickets be sold out for you. 570 00:40:04,280 --> 00:40:07,240 Get in if you don't. Come on now, stay with me. 571 00:40:07,680 --> 00:40:12,080 Don't get mad at me now. I'll pray for you later, but I 572 00:40:12,080 --> 00:40:17,600 don't see them lined up to get to the church unless. 573 00:40:24,880 --> 00:40:30,920 Unless there's a concert or a special event, you can't. 574 00:40:31,120 --> 00:40:34,680 You can't tell how church, how good church is going to be by 575 00:40:34,680 --> 00:40:44,640 watching the front door come on. It may look ordinary on the 576 00:40:44,640 --> 00:40:48,360 outside, but there's something that grabs you and walk through 577 00:40:48,360 --> 00:40:51,640 the door. It happened in the first church. 578 00:40:52,840 --> 00:40:54,400 There's a guy right sitting right there. 579 00:40:54,400 --> 00:40:56,480 My son-in-law, he'll tell you it happened. 580 00:40:56,640 --> 00:41:00,920 He who sat back on him and his son used to sit on the back row 581 00:41:00,920 --> 00:41:04,240 at the first church. It's been long years since 582 00:41:04,240 --> 00:41:06,440 Brother Mike Penrod been to church at that time. 583 00:41:07,400 --> 00:41:09,920 He walked through the door and his son walked through the door. 584 00:41:10,080 --> 00:41:12,920 They'd sat on that back row. Brother Freddie, you know what? 585 00:41:12,920 --> 00:41:15,440 They come for entertainment, and they got it. 586 00:41:18,640 --> 00:41:20,160 Man. I've known Paulie all my life, 587 00:41:20,160 --> 00:41:22,760 but I've never known him to act like this. 588 00:41:22,760 --> 00:41:24,320 Come on. Act like what? 589 00:41:24,320 --> 00:41:26,440 Come on. Hey, when you get the Spirit of 590 00:41:26,440 --> 00:41:28,880 God on you, you can act all over. 591 00:41:30,880 --> 00:41:33,040 My Lord, I feel the Holy Ghost in here. 592 00:41:33,200 --> 00:41:35,960 I don't know what's keeping you on your seat, but I'm telling 593 00:41:35,960 --> 00:41:40,760 you, I'm feeling it up here. That Holy Ghost is real. 594 00:41:41,000 --> 00:41:43,800 It'll give you the move. You don't have to seek for it. 595 00:41:47,800 --> 00:41:52,760 Oh, glory Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 596 00:41:53,640 --> 00:41:55,800 But guess what? There was the one night he 597 00:41:55,800 --> 00:41:58,840 couldn't sit there no longer. The next thing you know, he's 598 00:41:58,840 --> 00:42:01,600 down the altar praying through. You know what? 599 00:42:01,600 --> 00:42:04,040 If you stay around the long enough, you're going to be a 600 00:42:04,040 --> 00:42:06,920 part of it. I guarantee it. 601 00:42:10,000 --> 00:42:13,400 You know why I don't care? It don't matter about the front 602 00:42:13,400 --> 00:42:17,040 door, what it looks like, but it's a spirit inside that front 603 00:42:17,040 --> 00:42:19,240 door that can't that'll grab you. 604 00:42:20,320 --> 00:42:23,240 It's what's happening in there. It's a spirit of the living God 605 00:42:23,240 --> 00:42:25,200 that's in there. It'll stir you. 606 00:42:25,200 --> 00:42:28,840 Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 607 00:42:32,080 --> 00:42:34,560 You can't tell how good it's going to be but just watching 608 00:42:34,560 --> 00:42:41,080 the front door. But you sure can at the sports 609 00:42:41,080 --> 00:42:45,440 event or the concert because they're all lined up out there. 610 00:42:45,440 --> 00:42:48,320 Some of them has probably been sitting there for hours at their 611 00:42:48,320 --> 00:42:50,160 own little seat. You know, they got a little 612 00:42:50,680 --> 00:42:53,920 something there to drink and they're waiting on time to 613 00:42:53,920 --> 00:43:00,200 enter. 0 God, you know what? I'm glad that God's got a door 614 00:43:00,200 --> 00:43:05,880 that we can enter anytime the door is open. 615 00:43:06,240 --> 00:43:12,480 The veil's been rent in twain, Brother Reese, I know for a fact 616 00:43:12,480 --> 00:43:15,040 you can just go right on through the door because you done it 617 00:43:15,040 --> 00:43:21,000 last Sunday. Now Holy Ghost is in there and 618 00:43:21,000 --> 00:43:27,080 you've got access to it. Glory Hallelujah. 619 00:43:29,640 --> 00:43:31,640 I want to tell you, the church is the back door. 620 00:43:32,000 --> 00:43:35,440 The world's the front door. Church is the back door. 621 00:43:36,520 --> 00:43:40,480 Few there be that find it. They're going to say it's too 622 00:43:40,480 --> 00:43:44,200 strict for me. You all got too many rules and 623 00:43:44,200 --> 00:43:46,360 regulations. Well, so is Walmart your 624 00:43:46,360 --> 00:43:50,440 workplace. Every other place has got their 625 00:43:50,920 --> 00:43:53,000 standards too. Why not the church have a 626 00:43:53,000 --> 00:43:56,840 standard? Don't be ashamed your standards. 627 00:43:57,560 --> 00:43:59,840 Don't be ashamed of how you dress. 628 00:44:00,520 --> 00:44:07,880 Thank God for it. At least I can tell a man from a 629 00:44:07,880 --> 00:44:13,840 woman and a woman from a man. It'd be all right, dear. 630 00:44:13,840 --> 00:44:16,080 I'm I'm preaching, but it's, it's, it's going to go out. 631 00:44:16,080 --> 00:44:18,720 That's all right. Let the world hear it. 632 00:44:20,320 --> 00:44:24,080 Oh, glory, Hallelujah, Hallelujah. 633 00:44:26,240 --> 00:44:31,040 See, the church is the back door because it's not crowded now. 634 00:44:31,040 --> 00:44:33,360 I'm I'm going, I'm going, I'm going to get down business here 635 00:44:33,360 --> 00:44:35,680 because hey, I'm, I'm going to do it way. 636 00:44:35,680 --> 00:44:38,680 The Holy Ghost let me do it. I'm, that's, I'm, I'm hold back 637 00:44:38,680 --> 00:44:40,000 too long. I'm going to get it. 638 00:44:40,000 --> 00:44:47,920 I'm going to get back to old Pastor Mcgee's preaching back 639 00:44:47,920 --> 00:44:50,200 years ago when I was pastor. I'm, I'm going to get back to 640 00:44:50,200 --> 00:44:51,760 that. You know why? 641 00:44:51,760 --> 00:44:55,960 Because it's not crowded. It's not crowded at the church 642 00:44:55,960 --> 00:45:01,760 door. And if it is, oh boy, I'm. 643 00:45:02,640 --> 00:45:05,800 And if it is, Are you sure it's church or is it entertainment? 644 00:45:12,720 --> 00:45:15,200 Just to begin, I met a pastor your way back from this city. 645 00:45:15,200 --> 00:45:21,160 And I'm, I'm not going to mention no names or nothing, but 646 00:45:21,160 --> 00:45:30,080 we've talked a lot in the past. We've talked rolled his window 647 00:45:30,080 --> 00:45:35,000 down. He said, Brother McGee, we're 648 00:45:35,000 --> 00:45:37,040 living in the world today. That's crazy. 649 00:45:37,040 --> 00:45:39,640 And after entertainment, he said that's what it's all about. 650 00:45:39,640 --> 00:45:44,160 Now. Don't have entertainment in 651 00:45:44,160 --> 00:45:45,680 church. A lot of times people ain't 652 00:45:45,680 --> 00:45:49,560 going to come. Well, that's her choice. 653 00:45:49,560 --> 00:45:50,880 If they want to go to hell, go ahead. 654 00:45:52,920 --> 00:45:55,160 I don't know about you, but I choose the spirit of the living 655 00:45:55,160 --> 00:45:57,400 God. I choose worship. 656 00:45:57,920 --> 00:46:00,000 I choose the Holy Ghost. Come on. 657 00:46:00,000 --> 00:46:02,760 I choose the move of God. I choose running. 658 00:46:03,000 --> 00:46:05,280 I choose shouting. Come on. 659 00:46:05,800 --> 00:46:11,960 I choose holiness. Come on, I choose the I choose 660 00:46:11,960 --> 00:46:14,680 that narrow way. I choose that front that that 661 00:46:14,680 --> 00:46:20,080 rear door. I'll go in it, Lori. 662 00:46:20,880 --> 00:46:23,000 Hallelujah. Hallelujah. 663 00:46:25,760 --> 00:46:28,200 Few there be that find it. It's not crowded. 664 00:46:32,720 --> 00:46:39,080 See, it's been said. And I was stirred about this. 665 00:46:40,080 --> 00:46:45,240 That 100, and I don't know how old this statistic is, probably 666 00:46:45,240 --> 00:46:50,520 may not be opened up to date. I don't know, 158 billion 667 00:46:50,520 --> 00:46:55,640 dollars are spent on return on entertainment a year. 668 00:46:58,760 --> 00:47:03,080 That's staggering. Yet you can't get people to come 669 00:47:03,080 --> 00:47:07,040 to church and even pay their tithe much less anymore. 670 00:47:09,200 --> 00:47:11,640 Thank God for people in this church that pays or ties. 671 00:47:12,280 --> 00:47:15,280 I praise God for it. I thank God everybody said thank 672 00:47:15,280 --> 00:47:18,720 God for it. That's what keeps the doors 673 00:47:18,720 --> 00:47:20,160 open. That's how we keep the 674 00:47:20,160 --> 00:47:22,480 missionaries going. Come on in. 675 00:47:22,480 --> 00:47:27,760 Don't stay here. And I hope the Spirit of God 676 00:47:27,760 --> 00:47:30,600 don't just stay here. But it works it way out these 677 00:47:30,600 --> 00:47:33,440 doors and around this city. And when they see it, yeah, 678 00:47:37,200 --> 00:47:38,880 you're a witness and you don't even know it. 679 00:47:43,120 --> 00:47:44,680 Sister McGee. I don't know how long we had 680 00:47:44,680 --> 00:47:48,320 lived there, but where we live right now, there's a man that 681 00:47:48,400 --> 00:47:50,920 moved down here and his son that moved down on the corner from 682 00:47:50,920 --> 00:47:56,080 us, and he had a couple lawn mowers that was sitting up there 683 00:47:56,080 --> 00:47:59,080 about his trailer. I don't know. 684 00:47:59,080 --> 00:48:00,520 Walked up one day and he's talking. 685 00:48:01,200 --> 00:48:03,480 He said, I'm going to throw these mowers away. 686 00:48:03,480 --> 00:48:06,240 He said, you want us, you're going to throw them mowers away. 687 00:48:06,240 --> 00:48:08,000 He said, yeah, that's OK, take them. 688 00:48:12,000 --> 00:48:13,520 I thought that one looks almost new. 689 00:48:13,840 --> 00:48:16,240 He said, well got a he says he's got a rope broke in it ain't no 690 00:48:16,240 --> 00:48:19,800 good. I went home, took top off, put a 691 00:48:19,800 --> 00:48:24,240 new rope in it, put gas and oil in it, fold it and just got rid 692 00:48:24,240 --> 00:48:27,040 of it. Just just this year it the IT 693 00:48:27,040 --> 00:48:30,680 wasn't because the motor quit, but it was a it was hey, it was 694 00:48:30,800 --> 00:48:32,920 it was self-propelled mower. Nice mower. 695 00:48:32,920 --> 00:48:35,440 It starts first time. I don't care if it's that there 696 00:48:35,440 --> 00:48:38,840 all year it start. I mowed my lawn with it. 697 00:48:39,680 --> 00:48:42,840 Sister Jessup's lawn with it. Lady next door to me mowed it 698 00:48:42,840 --> 00:48:45,040 too. Mowed all them years. 699 00:48:45,360 --> 00:48:48,600 We've lived there 17 years and I know, I know it was. 700 00:48:48,840 --> 00:48:52,560 I don't know how many. 1215 years old. 701 00:48:54,120 --> 00:48:56,120 Took it to my brother and he's going to use the engine. 702 00:48:56,120 --> 00:49:01,920 She's still good. Come on church, he gave me 703 00:49:01,920 --> 00:49:04,520 another little mower and it looked like brand new. 704 00:49:04,520 --> 00:49:07,280 I I never heard of a weed eater mower, but it was a mower, a 705 00:49:07,280 --> 00:49:09,880 weed eater mower. Is it green and little bitty old 706 00:49:09,880 --> 00:49:12,240 thing? And and when they was using 707 00:49:12,400 --> 00:49:13,840 mowers around here, I told brother. 708 00:49:14,200 --> 00:49:16,440 I said, man, this thing's just like new of it. 709 00:49:16,520 --> 00:49:18,200 It runs, but it just needs a little help. 710 00:49:18,800 --> 00:49:21,720 Brother pat take us home, fix it and I'm going to take it to 711 00:49:21,720 --> 00:49:24,520 church and they can use it to, you know, trim mower. 712 00:49:24,520 --> 00:49:26,720 So the dead they put it over here. 713 00:49:27,080 --> 00:49:29,640 Guess what? But wasn't it just a little bit 714 00:49:29,640 --> 00:49:32,760 to my other mower went bad too? So two went bad and within two 715 00:49:32,760 --> 00:49:37,760 weeks and I asked bro Freddie, I said is that more already been 716 00:49:37,760 --> 00:49:39,400 used downstairs? He said ain't nobody using a 717 00:49:39,400 --> 00:49:41,080 Bishop, you brought it over, take it home. 718 00:49:41,600 --> 00:49:43,240 So I took it home. Now I'm using it. 719 00:49:45,040 --> 00:49:48,520 Come on, that guy, give them to me, you know. 720 00:49:48,600 --> 00:49:51,920 Now he'd moved away for a good while and directly all at once 721 00:49:51,920 --> 00:49:54,040 he showed up and he moved up in the center part. 722 00:49:54,040 --> 00:49:57,600 And the other day he he came over and he's he come and talk 723 00:49:57,600 --> 00:49:58,800 to me once. Well, I didn't even know his 724 00:49:58,800 --> 00:50:01,160 first name. He didn't know him, but we 725 00:50:01,160 --> 00:50:04,960 talked and he come over one day and I, I was out there and I 726 00:50:05,000 --> 00:50:10,720 was, you know, I, well, I was wrenching my car and shammying 727 00:50:10,720 --> 00:50:11,960 it. Imagine that. 728 00:50:16,920 --> 00:50:19,960 And we stood there and we talked a while and the next thing he 729 00:50:19,960 --> 00:50:23,320 know it said Brother Mason, he said, I want to say one thing to 730 00:50:23,320 --> 00:50:26,120 you. He said all the time that you 731 00:50:26,120 --> 00:50:28,720 have lived here. He said, I can say you're a 732 00:50:28,720 --> 00:50:36,680 godly man. Let me tell you, Church, let me 733 00:50:36,680 --> 00:50:41,320 tell you, when you walk out the doors of your house, you've got 734 00:50:41,320 --> 00:50:44,920 to remember that you're not alone because you got Jesus 735 00:50:44,920 --> 00:50:49,240 inside you. His reflection comes from you. 736 00:50:50,280 --> 00:50:53,560 People see you differently than they see the world. 737 00:50:53,680 --> 00:50:56,320 Something's going on inside this house. 738 00:50:57,080 --> 00:51:00,360 Come on, something's going on inside this house. 739 00:51:00,640 --> 00:51:03,720 This isn't an empty house. It may have a it may. 740 00:51:03,720 --> 00:51:05,880 Hey, I may be wrinkled enough. All of that. 741 00:51:05,880 --> 00:51:06,720 Come on. That's. 742 00:51:06,840 --> 00:51:07,800 Yeah. Come on. 743 00:51:07,800 --> 00:51:11,240 I'm, I'm, I'm, I'm getting up there in them 70s and getting 744 00:51:11,240 --> 00:51:15,400 ready to go over the hill, you know, and soon be 76 years old. 745 00:51:15,400 --> 00:51:16,440 But I'm going to tell you something. 746 00:51:16,640 --> 00:51:19,480 There's something burning on the inside of this house. 747 00:51:19,720 --> 00:51:23,600 The fire hadn't went out yet. It's still burning in here. 748 00:51:23,880 --> 00:51:27,440 Come on. Oh, glory, Hallelujah. 749 00:51:27,480 --> 00:51:29,720 Somebody needs to help me preach a little bit. 750 00:51:30,160 --> 00:51:33,520 Hallelujah. I think we need to worship as 751 00:51:33,520 --> 00:51:37,000 long as we can. I don't care how old you are. 752 00:51:37,200 --> 00:51:39,800 If we can worship, we need to worship. 753 00:51:39,800 --> 00:51:50,120 Hallelujah. Yes, Hallelujah. 754 00:51:51,160 --> 00:51:54,040 Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. 755 00:51:54,880 --> 00:51:57,520 Hallelujah. You know what? 756 00:51:58,640 --> 00:52:02,440 It's a sad thing, but people will miss church to go to a 757 00:52:02,440 --> 00:52:05,920 sports event or a special concert. 758 00:52:17,000 --> 00:52:18,600 You know how to get a crowd in church? 759 00:52:21,640 --> 00:52:23,520 Have a big old dinner and they'll show up. 760 00:52:27,240 --> 00:52:29,680 They'll show up for the word dinner. 761 00:52:37,400 --> 00:52:40,320 You might want to say Amen. In fact, you'd be better off. 762 00:52:40,320 --> 00:52:43,440 We'd just say Hallelujah. That's the truth. 763 00:52:47,600 --> 00:52:49,880 You have people come in the doors that you ain't seen for 764 00:52:49,880 --> 00:52:56,440 five years. You know what? 765 00:52:56,640 --> 00:52:59,360 Because Brother Freddie, the truth is some of them saying, 766 00:52:59,480 --> 00:53:08,760 what can the church do for me? Boy, I'm going, I'm, I know I'm 767 00:53:08,760 --> 00:53:10,960 meddling, but that's all right. I'm going to meddle a little 768 00:53:10,960 --> 00:53:12,560 bit. I think it needs to be stirred 769 00:53:12,560 --> 00:53:18,320 up a little. Sister Sheila, I remember time 770 00:53:18,680 --> 00:53:21,240 being pastor. My wife was sick. 771 00:53:22,360 --> 00:53:26,560 Somebody needed some food. Sister Sheila asked her. 772 00:53:26,560 --> 00:53:27,880 I said, Sister, will you go with me? 773 00:53:27,920 --> 00:53:30,040 We'll go to the grocery store and we'll get some food, take 774 00:53:30,040 --> 00:53:35,200 his people. And we got kind of surprised 775 00:53:38,920 --> 00:53:40,880 these people needed food. And I started just telling 776 00:53:40,880 --> 00:53:43,200 people, you know, we'll bring you food, but you're going to 777 00:53:43,200 --> 00:53:50,910 have to come. Church once walked in that 778 00:53:50,910 --> 00:54:00,310 house. Hey, big old TV, cell phones. 779 00:54:00,750 --> 00:54:08,510 I didn't have cell phone, didn't have big TV either. 780 00:54:14,280 --> 00:54:17,720 You know what people do and get what they want to get. 781 00:54:19,680 --> 00:54:23,000 If you've got a strong desire to go to church, ain't no devil in 782 00:54:23,000 --> 00:54:28,320 hell can keep you out of it. I understand sickness, 783 00:54:28,320 --> 00:54:31,080 understand that, I understand that. 784 00:54:31,640 --> 00:54:34,720 But I'm going to tell you if I'm well, I'm going to go to church. 785 00:54:36,040 --> 00:54:40,000 I'm either going to church, you know, if, if, if I'm out of 786 00:54:40,000 --> 00:54:43,800 town, that's one thing. But if I'm home and I'm well, 787 00:54:43,840 --> 00:54:45,800 I'm going to church. You know why? 788 00:54:45,920 --> 00:54:49,480 Because I'm figuring on getting well or yet I'm going to get 789 00:54:49,480 --> 00:54:52,840 feeling better. Come on, I'm going to worship 790 00:54:52,840 --> 00:54:55,480 and you can worship with me if you want. 791 00:54:55,600 --> 00:54:57,800 You don't have to. You can go home feeling drab, 792 00:54:57,800 --> 00:55:00,120 but I'm going to home and I'm going to feel good. 793 00:55:00,120 --> 00:55:09,120 Oh, Jesus. Oh, well, I know I'm meddling. 794 00:55:09,120 --> 00:55:10,400 That's all right. I'm going to do it. 795 00:55:11,280 --> 00:55:15,240 Hallelujah. I know. 796 00:55:15,240 --> 00:55:15,960 Here we go. I'm. 797 00:55:16,000 --> 00:55:18,560 I'm about to close. I better be. 798 00:55:18,560 --> 00:55:22,000 And it's turning red up there. That's usually where I end up in 799 00:55:22,000 --> 00:55:26,520 the red. Now here. 800 00:55:26,600 --> 00:55:34,560 Here we go, Pastor. I won't be at church Wednesday 801 00:55:34,640 --> 00:55:39,040 night. So and so's going to be in 802 00:55:39,040 --> 00:55:45,320 concert in Evansville and, and, and I'll probably never, ever 803 00:55:45,320 --> 00:55:56,360 get the chance to see her again. You know Lauren, Daigle and 804 00:55:56,360 --> 00:55:59,920 Wilson. You know all of the. 805 00:56:00,520 --> 00:56:02,960 I'll never get a chance to see them again. 806 00:56:03,600 --> 00:56:05,720 I want to tell you something. This could be your last chance. 807 00:56:05,720 --> 00:56:11,400 You'll see the church. You don't got no promise 808 00:56:11,400 --> 00:56:15,120 tomorrow. Today the Bible says it's a day 809 00:56:15,120 --> 00:56:17,800 of salvation. Tomorrow you may die. 810 00:56:19,800 --> 00:56:22,040 You better praise him while you can. 811 00:56:23,360 --> 00:56:25,360 Come on. You could sit on your seat 812 00:56:25,360 --> 00:56:28,960 tonight and die tomorrow. I don't know about you, but if I 813 00:56:28,960 --> 00:56:32,040 die worshiping, all right, just let it happen. 814 00:56:32,320 --> 00:56:34,480 Come on. I'm planning on worshiping. 815 00:56:34,680 --> 00:56:37,040 I'm planning on. Come on, I'm planning on 816 00:56:37,040 --> 00:56:45,360 preaching my heart out. I'm by red closure. 817 00:56:46,320 --> 00:56:48,640 I really am. Hallelujah. 818 00:56:52,640 --> 00:56:57,320 See, I'm thinking that one of the problems we have right now, 819 00:56:58,960 --> 00:57:03,800 we've been looking for the that real nice, exquisite front door, 820 00:57:06,280 --> 00:57:09,400 and all it'll do is point you to hell in troubles. 821 00:57:13,080 --> 00:57:15,160 See, I don't know about you, but huh. 822 00:57:16,080 --> 00:57:19,080 I'm hunting the back door. I'm going to tell you why. 823 00:57:19,080 --> 00:57:23,320 I'm going to give you Scripture, and I know probably I might, 824 00:57:23,320 --> 00:57:26,040 might be the only one that ever preaches us this way, but I've 825 00:57:26,040 --> 00:57:28,240 studied that long enough that I feel like I'm right. 826 00:57:28,240 --> 00:57:29,440 So you can believe what you want. 827 00:57:31,880 --> 00:57:36,040 Luke 6 verse #38 This is my last scripture. 828 00:57:39,840 --> 00:57:42,880 I want to be on the given team. Give. 829 00:57:43,480 --> 00:57:49,120 Everybody said give and it shall be given unto you. 830 00:57:49,120 --> 00:57:57,600 Now you catch that give, and it give and it. 831 00:57:57,840 --> 00:58:03,040 Now there's what you give, it shall be given unto you. 832 00:58:03,040 --> 00:58:15,640 Now listen, good measure, everybody press down, shaken 833 00:58:15,640 --> 00:58:18,960 together. You know corn, you can shake it 834 00:58:18,960 --> 00:58:28,960 up and it'll go down and running over it shall men give unto your 835 00:58:28,960 --> 00:58:32,800 bosom. For with the same measure 836 00:58:32,800 --> 00:58:40,000 everybody said same measure that you met with all it shall be 837 00:58:40,000 --> 00:58:44,640 measured to you again. Are you catching it? 838 00:58:45,000 --> 00:58:47,440 I don't know about you, but anything you give your your 839 00:58:47,440 --> 00:58:53,400 promise a double portion back. You read that verse you, you go 840 00:58:53,400 --> 00:58:55,240 through and take all the commentaries you want to. 841 00:58:55,400 --> 00:58:57,040 But I'm telling you, that's the way I read it. 842 00:58:58,080 --> 00:59:01,160 Give and it shall be given to. OK, right off the bat, I'm going 843 00:59:01,160 --> 00:59:03,720 to get back, back what I got. But he said, now it's going to 844 00:59:03,720 --> 00:59:05,440 be pressed down, shaken together and running over. 845 00:59:05,600 --> 00:59:07,960 In other words, what you give is going to be running over. 846 00:59:08,640 --> 00:59:11,160 It's a double portion. Which do you want? 847 00:59:11,160 --> 00:59:13,080 I don't know about you. You can go in the front door if 848 00:59:13,080 --> 00:59:14,920 you want to. I'm going to take a back door. 849 00:59:14,920 --> 00:59:16,960 There's a double portion waiting on me back there. 850 00:59:27,840 --> 00:59:29,800 Thank you for giving me some time tonight. 851 00:59:30,680 --> 00:59:35,840 Thank you for helping me preach. I'm going to open this altar 852 00:59:35,840 --> 00:59:39,560 tonight. And if you're a little 853 00:59:39,560 --> 00:59:41,920 questionable on some areas in your life, I'd be you. 854 00:59:41,920 --> 00:59:44,240 I'd be hitting the altar and straightening it up. 855 00:59:45,080 --> 00:59:48,200 And no matter if you are, if you just want a little more, if you 856 00:59:48,200 --> 00:59:51,200 want it like pressed down, shaken together, running over, 857 00:59:51,440 --> 00:59:54,080 I, I'm going to leave this altar open for you because I believe 858 00:59:54,080 --> 00:59:58,480 God's got something. I don't know, but I want my 859 00:59:58,480 --> 01:00:00,520 house to be one of those that you walk in, you feel the 860 01:00:00,520 --> 01:00:04,200 presence of God right away that they know something's going on 861 01:00:04,200 --> 01:00:05,920 And there's prayer going on in there. 862 01:00:06,880 --> 01:00:17,360 There's a sister Jen, when you walk in my house, I want you to 863 01:00:17,360 --> 01:00:20,120 feel comfortable. I mean, comfortable so much. 864 01:00:20,120 --> 01:00:24,960 And she say man and I, I, I feel a little hard in here. 865 01:00:32,520 --> 01:00:42,830 For you, Sister McGee and I, the older we get, the better 866 01:00:42,830 --> 01:00:58,180 listeners we become. I can remember a lot of time, 867 01:00:58,180 --> 01:01:02,140 remember times, Sister McGee and the Parsonage. 868 01:01:06,240 --> 01:01:08,200 I remember a young lady come knocked on our door. 869 01:01:08,200 --> 01:01:11,160 It was after midnight. She barefooted. 870 01:01:15,520 --> 01:01:18,280 You know why? She wanted in a home that she 871 01:01:18,280 --> 01:01:21,920 felt comfortable and she began to spill her guts to us. 872 01:01:25,920 --> 01:01:27,720 They wanted to get hold of somebody could pray. 873 01:01:28,280 --> 01:01:29,800 And guess what? She didn't come to our front 874 01:01:29,800 --> 01:01:31,520 door. She come to our back door. 875 01:01:37,880 --> 01:01:41,800 I'm on church. It don't matter what that front 876 01:01:41,800 --> 01:01:45,280 door looks like. It's what they feel inside the 877 01:01:45,280 --> 01:01:53,100 house that counts. Altars open. 878 01:01:54,540 --> 01:01:58,420 I feel Holy ghosted. I preach my soul. 879 01:02:02,540 --> 01:03:06,660 Edward Al, It's you the.