By your PR Holy Spirit Holy Spirit Holy Spirit you are come blood his place and feel the atmosphere the your glory god your glush in this place to be overcome overcome by your presence oh your presence Lord your Presence your presence Lord Holy Spirit you’re welcome here oh Holy Spirit you are here yes you are the your glory god your glory god is what our hearts long for to be over Holy Spirit you’re welcome here Holy Spirit you are welome Here Holy Spirit Holy Spirit Holy Spirit you are Welome yes one more time Holy Spirit Holy Spirit you are welome Yes God Holy Spirit Holy Spirit you are wel Hallah prise praise the Lord family praise the Lord Family come on and give God some praise in the house come on and bless his name for God is worthy he is worthy of Our Praise amen amen amen we thank God and we praise him we honor him
Today for allowing us to come once again into his house of prayer in order that we may worship him together you may be seated in the presence of the Lord we give God praise for all of these preachers that are here in the pull pit for those who are absent
Uh for chaplain Steve any other preachers that are out in the pews to our deacons our chairman of our Deacon board Deacon Douglas Barry to our Deacon S chairwoman mother Doris Turner to our former first lady back in the house ditched me last week she ditched me
Last mother Lula May urry and to our first lady first lady Kimberly Renee Thomas amen all of you brother Brothers Sisters in Christ it is good to be in the house of the Lord once again amen come on if you just glad to be here you’re just glad to be
In the house I’m just out of all the places you could be you’re just thankful that God spared you one more time to come into his house and to praise and to worship His holy name God bless you all let me say to many of you if I did not to you on
Thursday Happy Belated Thanksgiving we were here on Thanksgiving morning we had a great time in the Lord amen God blessed powerful testimonies and singing uh had a little bit of the word and we had everyone out right around 10:33 about 10:33 we were out of here amen few
Minutes past our committed time I apologize once again for that but I’m thankful for all of you who came out on Thursday it was a great time in the Lord and we appreciate your presence on that day to all of our visitors first time or otherwise we want to greet you just wave
As if you’re visiting with us all of our visitors bless you bless you bless you bless you amen bless you good to see you we pray nothing will be said or done that would discourage you on today couple of things that we want to mention briefly want to make sure that you are
Aware of we do have a leadership luncheon on next Saturday that’s the leadership for those of you who are part of the leadership committee you already are aware of that the time Etc so we play pray that you will be able to make it that we’ll have a great time of
Breaking bread and fellowship that’s next Saturday secret power review Monday December 4th I don’t know what that means but I’m assuming those who are in it do amen that’s all it says so I don’t know what that means so uh secret power review amen uh we know what that mean
Right mother okay all right uh community holiday Outreach we’re going to uh feed those who are displaced on December 9th a little bit different this year we normally have meals that are donated to the church we’ve had as much as 500 750 meals donated this year we don’t have a
Donation but thank God we have resources amen so we’re still going to feed some people amen so mother Turner and Deacon Barry first lady Kimber they are working currently on what that will look like but we’re going to go out and bless some people in spite of the fact that we did
Not get the donations this year it’s okay the good thing is that we have faithful givers faithful givers and we’re going to take some of those resources and we’re going to use them to be a blessing to others so that would be on December 9th more information will be
Coming forthward uh we do have our children’s program if your children have not got their speeches yet that’s a problem uh you can get them today but on December 9th we will not have Bible education as we normally do in the morning at 9: we will meet in here and
Our young people will uh go through their Christmas speeches and singing Etc that will be on the 17th amen we will have watch Night Service coming up in December more to come on that we’re early so we don’t have to deal with that yet and then finally The Whiz tickets
For Saturday February 17th 2024 at the Pantages if you’re interested in going you need to see sister Mara McGee today today is the last day if you’re interested in going to The Whiz in February with uh numerous church folk I think we got like 70 something people that’s going sweetheart
Ises that sound right all right uh so if you’re interested in going please see sister marget McGee today amen uh want to also greet our folk who are watching uh via the Internet YouTube Andor on our the mount app we thank God for you we appreciate you uh and we thank uh God
That you are at least participating in some form or fashion today in service we want to see you back in the house of the Lord amen uh bedside Baptist is closed it’s closed amen we want to see you in the house of the Lord so for those of
You who can come then we expect you to come there are some who who can’t come because they’re ill Etc so we’d ask that you would just follow the unction of the Holy Spirit and you would do accordingly as God has purposed and he has planned
For his people with that we’re going to prepare ourselves this morning for our altar prayer it’s a lot of announcements we’re going to keep moving today we want to be mindful of those who are sick and shut in those who are bered those who are going through their uh time in their
Season of uh being disenchanted and being dis uh can’t think of the word disenchanted and also um disconnected excuse me from not only the body of Christ but in general for some people this time of year is a very difficult time of year loved ones have gone on and transitioned and they don’t
Have the friends that they used to have and the connections that they used to have and uh it is a very lonely time of year for many people and we ask that you be mindful of that we pray that uh if you are part of that category we ask
That you would be strengthened from the inside out that God would help you in that process but for those who are the least the lonely and the left out among us we ask that you be mindful of them uh and that you would pray to God that he
Would come in Fellowship whispering to their spirit and remind them he has not left them nor forsaken them this morning as we prepare our hearts and Minds minister laru is going to come here in a moment and lead us in prayer but I want to read a scripture before she comes and
The scripture is coming from Isaiah chapter 40 for those who are able to stand to your feet for the reading of God’s word we ask that you would do so we ask ask that you would do so and then we’ll call upon the names of
Those whom we are aware of that are sick and shut in those in need of special prayer those who are bered we will do that here in a moment but I want to read a few verses from Isaiah chapter 40 beginning at verse 28 beginning at verse 28 I’ll be reading
From the English Standard Version of the Bible and here is what the word of God says un to us have you not known have you not heard the Lord is the Everlasting God the creator of the ends of the Earth he does not faint or grow weary
Somebody all say Amen right there his understanding is unsearchable he gives power to the faint that’s another amen right there and to him who has no might he increases strength that’s another amen even you shall faint and be weary and young men shall fall exhausted but they that wait for the
Lord shall reew their strength that’s an amen right there they shall Mount up with wings like eagles can I get a amen amen they shall run and not be weary amen they shall walk and not faint amen amen is agreement it is biblical nomenclature for I agree with what
Was said amen I just read for you Isaiah chter 40 verse 28 through verse 31 May the Lord add a blessing to the readers the hearers and the doers of his holy word going to ask that of course if these individuals are here in the house
They would come and or family member or friend would come and stand in the gap for mother Reena Carter from Mother Mary Ford for sister Pat Johnson for mother Hattie Jones for sister Kathy King for Mother Evelyn Mitchell mother Queen Pritchard mother cor Taylor I ask that you also be in prayer
For my mother-in-law this morning uh Sister Pauline Webster was having problem with one of her uh ankles or her legs she had to go to iser this morning I’m praying for her we’re praying for sister Margo Barry who was here uh sister Margo if you’d like to
Come you can you don’t have to it’s up to you um who has been diagnosed again with breast cancer uh so I’m asking you all pray for her she’s going to have surgery on December 8th we ask that you be mindful and prayerful uh the numbers are very low
But anytime you’re being operated on it’s serious amen so I ask that you pray for her we’re praying for sister Erica Harris who’s out sick today ask that God would touch and heal her on the special prayer list we’re praying for Deacon S Roberta Barry who had a procedure on
Friday procedure went well she is home recovering we ask that you all continue to lift her before the Lord sister Buffy Gordon who is here still going through treatment we ask that you all continue to pray for her on the bere list we’re praying for mother Cleo Hall lost the
First cousin in Bakersfield California a couple of weeks ago and then we’re also praying for sister Julia synagogue who lost a great nephew this past week in the city of Detroit was shot five times 30 years old and killed his name was Anthony uh we’re praying for his
Grandmother Millie Johnson who is the sister of sister Julia synagogue Julia’s right over here wave at them so they know who you are sweetheart we’re lifting you up in prayer before the Lord all others who’d like to come we ask that you come now whatever the situation whatever the circumstance is you are
Welcome to come in order that we make our petitions known unto God you’re welcome to come whoever wherever whatever the circumstance or the situation is we serve a god who’s able to meet us at the point of our need amen going to ask that Minister laru would come now and lead us in
Prayer good morning please bow your heads most kind and gracious Heavenly Father we just come before you Lord just to say thank you thank you Lord we thank you for how you woke us up on this morning how you clothed us in our right minds and gave us a reasonable portion
Of our health and strength God we want to thank you not only for what you’ve done but what you continue to do in each and every one of our Lives Lord we are grateful to you father for you are the only one you are the true and the Living
God and there is none like you God they’ve searched the whole world through but they can still find that there is none like you so father God we come to you this morning with bowed down heads and Humble Hearts just to thank you thank you for you are a God that watches
Over your people God you will never leave us and you will never forsake us God you’ve heard and you know all about each and every one of us and God we ask that you would just continue to have your way in our lives Lord let it be all
Of you and none of us God we ask you right now to just forgive us for father we have truly truly sinned against you we have done those things and that were not pleasing in your sight but God we ask you right now to forgive us of our
Actions for our words and our deeds and help us Lord to be more like you God fill us with more love for you and for your people God God we ask you you right now to look down upon the sick Lord you’ve heard all the names that were on
The list father God and you know what each and every one of them stand in need of so God we’re asking you right now to touch and heal if it be thy will Lord Jesus for you said by your stripes we are healed and we thank you Father God
We thank you even right now and we count it done in Jesus name Lord we come also lifting up to you those that are bed Lord Lord we’re asking that you would comfort as only you can God there’s violence in our street there’s wars and rumors of wars and there’s innocent children being
Killed on our streets Lord we know that vengeance is yours so we pray even right now for the victims and for those who use violence to take lives Lord would you save them save them Father God we ask you Lord right now to continue to just comfort
Those as they go through the coming days and weeks Comfort is only you can father God give them that peace that passes all understanding and now Lord I ask that you would just be with angel of this house continue to use him as he brings forth the word with great power and
Anointing on today Lord God we ask that we’d not just be hearers of your word but doers of your word help us to grow father God grow in Grace and become more like you so father God continue to have your way bless these and your people and
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We come to praise praise him in the Midnight Hour come to praise we come to praise we come to praise His we come to praise him to praise His we going to praise we come TOA and and And and [Applause] [Applause] And Let the Church Say Amen come on and say Amen We’ve Come To Praise Him amen you don’t have to coers me you don’t even have to try to convince me I am an instrument of Praise anybody come to praise God today in spite of what’s
Going on in your life in spite of what’s going on in in the world you know that he inhabits the Praises of his people go go go on and give him just some praise come on come on and bless him bless him bless him bless him come on and bless
Him come on and praise him for he is worthy of Praise pray with me ET God our Father how we bless how we praise how we honor thy holy name God we thank you that your spirit is within us alive and well and that it is convicting and
Converting in order that we would be the people people that you’ve called us to be we thank you God that we don’t have to be coer into praising you all we have to do is look back over our lives and see where it is you’ve brought us
From all we have to do is examine this past week the past 24 hours we are reminded Lord God how you encamped Angels about us how you kept us from danger seen and unseen danger and it creates within us an outburst of praise God we thank you for what you’ve
Done we thank you for what you’re doing we thank you Lord God God for your people that have gathered in this place now God it’s the preaching hour set the preacher down and stand your word up on the pedestal of my personality let your word go forth boldly and
Clearly that father God you would be glorified that Jesus our savior that he would be magnified Di and by the unction and the conviction of the Holy Ghost your people would be edified now God be with us we pray if there’s any Among Us who
Do not know you in the pardon of their sins pray that when the doors of the church are open you will inspire and encourage them to come and and to inquire what must I do to be saved now God have your way have your way Lord open the windows of heaven and pour
Out blessings we won’t have room enough to receive it’s in the mighty and matchless name of Jesus our savior that we ask these and all blessings let the people of God say amen amen and amen give God a hand praise if you will grab your Bibles and stand with
Us grab your Bibles and stand with us i’ ask that you would turn your attention to Galatians chapter 6 Galatians chapter 6 Galatians chapter 6 be reading a few verses from Galatians chapter 6 but before we go there we have to do our theme for the
Year family are you ready family are you ready in 2023 I beseech you therefore Brethren by the mercies of God that you present your bodies a Living Sacrifice holy acceptable unto God which is your reason service and be not conformed to this world but be ye transformed by the
Renewing of your mind that you may prove what is that good and acceptable and perfect will of God Romans chap 12 verse one and two amen amen amen here in the book of Galatians chapter 6 beginning at verse 7 these words are recorded do not be deceived God is Not
Mocked for whatever one ss that will he also reap for the one who SWS to his own flesh will from the flesh reap corruption but the one who sows to the spirit will from the spirit reap eternal life and finally verse n and let us not grow weary in wello for in due
Season we will reap if we faint not from those three verses i’ like to use as a focal a focal point as a theme for the few minutes we have left today the writing is on the wall you may be seated in the presence of the Lord the writing is on the
Wall what an inter resting time we find ourselves in within the modernday church it appears for whatever reason God is allowing us to Bear witness to the repudiation of self centeredness self-interest and egocentricity at its highest level personality and principles seem to be in major conflict with one
Another yet for the people of God it’s important that we are reminded that what you do and what you say and how you behave is undoubtedly a reflection of who you are here in Galatians 6 this mindset is reiterated because the overarching theme is that of stewardship stewardship is the managing
And the manifestation of that which has been entrusted to us as children of God and in Galatians chapter 6 The Apostle Paul speaks of The Godly conduct that is expected from those who profess and Proclaim to be born again the word of God reminds us in 2 Corinthians chapter 5 verse
17 wherefore If any man is in Christ he is a new creature the old things are passed away behold they are become new the power of walking in the newness of life is predicated on the conjunction if for the Bible says if any man be in Christ to be in Christ is to
Be in a fixed position in which one is grounded and solidified there is no ambiguity there is no indistinctness there is no vagueness in the statement by the Apostle Paul Paul says if you are in Christ you are a new creature and that the old things are passed away
Behold they are become new in other words if you’re in Christ everyone will hear it everyone will see it everyone will feel it and everyone will know it because the writing is on the wall you cannot fake it till you make it if you are in Christ there is something about
Your decorum there is something about your mannerisms something about your poker toe that will tell on you that you have spent time with the master that you have been in Christ and Christ is operating in you because your way of thinking your way of talking and behaving are
Completely different to what it used to be it is oxymoronic for someone to say that they are in Christ and yet continue to do everything they used to do you you cannot be in Christ and continue to sleep around you cannot be in Christ and continue to drink around you cannot be
In Christ and continue to smoke around you have to be different because now you are a new Creature if I if I could talk to the body of Christ if this was the last message I would ever preach I would make sure that folk know the writing is
On the wall because who you are is a reflection of what you do you cannot say you’re in Christ and yet act ungodly you cannot say you were in Christ and never display love joy peace and long suffer you cannot say that you’re in Christ when your behavior is antithetical to
The will to the way to the word and to the work of God there has to be something different in you that begins to Bubble Up uh from the inside uh there has to be a proclamation that is displayed by your behavior that says I am a new creature there is something new
About me why because the Bible says do not be deceived for God is Not mocked you can fool some of the people some of the time you could even P fool some of the people all of the time but you cannot fool God because God is omnicient which means he is all knowing
I believe that there is a word within this scripture today in which Paul has blessed us by way of the holy spirit that will Aid us that will help us that will sustain us uh in days and weeks to come we have to chase the text because
You will quickly know that if the writing is on the wall there are certain things you and I should see well if the writing’s on the wall Pastor what should we say see the first thing you should see is the clarification you should see the clarification because the Bible says in
Verse 7 be not deceived in other words don’t be fooled because God is Not mocked you can’t be fooled because you cannot fool him for whatsoever a man Seth that shall he also reap the Bible says here be not deceived in other words don’t act as if you are tricking God
Because God knows all and God sees all the first thing that I see on the wall is I see the clarification this is a principle that is steeped in the evidence and it pertains to farming and gardening the word deceive means to cause to wonder or
To go astray this word is often used of deceiver it is often used of those who engage in doctrinal Era it is often used of those who are religiously deceitful however it’s also used of self deception it is one thing to be tricked it’s one thing preachers to be
Bamboozled into believing something or following behind someone but when you begin to specialize in self deception when you are literally tricking yourself when you begin to ignore the truth that is before you when you begin to turn a blind’s eye to the realities that are present in your life when you
Unknowingly or otherwise are setting ourselves up for a Monumental and epic fall uh the Bible says be not deceived God is Not mocked for whatsoever a man Seth that shall he also reap the word the word here from mocked M Romi it means that this in this verse that ones knows is
Turned up in other words God is Not mocked in other words you cannot just ignore the principles and the realities of God’s desires and expectations in your life uh this word means to turn up your nose at someone it is intensified from the word ECM toizo and
It’s used to depict scorn with which the Pharisees rejected Jesus the Bible says that they derided him in Luke 16 verse1 14 the same word is used to describe the mockery of the ruler rulers of Israel on Calvary for the Bible says in Luke 23:35 that the rulers also with them
Derided him they literally turned up their nose to God they literally turned their backs to him they tried to ignore the reality of who Jesus was telling him them that he was but he had to clarify ify who he was every word from the cross clarified his love for mankind uh every
Word that he spoke clarified his desire for man to do right Every Act of his hand was a descriptive of how God loves and how his desire is that man would be saved uh but they turned up their nose to the the true and the Living God uh
And when you will say that you’re in the body of Christ uh and yet you don’t do any of the things uh to fulfill the principles uh the precepts and the statutes uh of God’s word uh you are turning up your nose to him uh I know
You said I should give uh but I ain’t going to do it uh I know you said I shouldn’t shack up but I’mma do what I want to do uh I know you said I should love but I ain’t G to love nobody uh I know you said I should extend myself uh
But the fact is I’m going to turn up my nose unto you but be careful family because Jesus says that if you deny me before a man I will deny you before my father uh the clar ification is is that you cannot fool God why is it that we
Come into the body of Christ and we pretend that we’re all that and then some and the fact is you ain’t about being nice you ain’t about being kind you ain’t about Joy you ain’t about peace there is nothing in you that describes that God is living in your
Life uh Jeremiah reminds us uh in Jeremiah 17 verse 9 our hearts are deceitful Above All Things uh and desperately wicked uh I didn’t call you Wicked uh but God says uh there are some Wicked hearted uh people in the world uh and if they’re in the world they’re in
The church uh and if they in the church they’re in pull pits uh they’re in choir stands uh they’re on Usher boards they on the Deacon bench uh audio and video uh the trustee board uh the Bible says uh our hearts uh are deceitful uh Above All Things uh and desperately uh Wicked
Uh the Apostle Paul attempts to clarify for the people of God he says do not be deceived uh God is Not mocked uh whatsoever a man Seth uh that shall he also reapuh whatever you put out there is coming right back unto you uh fivefold uh tfold uh 30 fold uh one of
The most pertinent uh one of the most potent examples of this is none other than the person in King David uh King David uh used his autocratic Behavior Uh his power uh his authority to take advantage of a sister by the name of basheba the Bible said to add insult to
Injury not only did he take advantage of bash Sheba he put a hit out on her husband by the name of Uriah the Bible says that the deceitfulness uh the depravity uh the debauchery of David’s mind and his he told the people that listen when in battle I want you to put
Yah at the front of the line and In the Heat of the battle uh I want you to retreat uh and back off uh in order that he’d be killed uh the Bible says uh in 2 Samuel chapter 12 that Nathan comes to David and confronts him about his
Behavior uh the Bible says that David’s anger was kindled in him uh Nathan said there was a rich man with a lot of animals a lot of resources a lot of money a lot of influence and yet he had a neighbor with one you lamb and the
Bible says that a friend came uh and instead of cooking meat from his own farm he goes and takes his neighbors animal and sacrifices him in order that his friend might eat uh David was mad uh David was angry uh but David didn’t see the writing that was on the wall the
Bible says that David spoke his own punishment into existence for the Bible says that David declared that this man shall repay fourfold uh for his dastardly Deeds uh and guess what uh go back uh and read the history of David uh you’ll know that David had four Sons uh
Who died in the Fulfillment of Nathan’s prophecy uh David sold to adultery David sold to murder and he reaped uh adultery and he reaped uh murder uh keep going around with that bad attitude with your nose up in the air you’re going to reap that which you sow uh the Bible says uh
Be not deceived uh God is Not mocked uh for whatsoever a man Seth that shall he also reap you cannot avoid the reaping of what you s that which comes from us will come back to us it’s called the boomerang effect you throw it out there it may travel around in a large
Circle but eventually it’s coming back to you the writing is on the wall well Pastor what do we see we see the clarification the clarification but then we see the ramifications for the Bible says in verse 8 for he that Seth unto his own flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption
But he that Seth unto the spirit shall of the spirit reap eternal life not not only do we see the clarification but we see the ramifications for the law of sowing and reaping is just as much a law of Soul as it is of soil you cannot escape the moral and spiritual
Consequences of your behavior any more than one can escape the physical consequences of our Behavior whether they be good or whether they be bad uh everything that comes from you is going to come back in some form or fashion whatever we seow generat Ates ramifications it generates consequences
It generates results uh and you cannot flaunt God’s doctrines God’s rules and God’s expectations in his face and think that you can get away when not doing what he says uh the farmer reaps the same as he or she SWS uh but not exactly the same because the apple seed doesn’t
Just grow more apple seeds but the apple seed grows more apples with seeds uh therefore we sow to the Spirit uh even when it comes to material things and what we reap is not always necessarily material things but something better uh well what could be better than material
Things of the spirit we reap everlasting life uh I don’t know about you uh but my money cannot buy me everlasting life uh I don’t know about you uh but my fraternity cannot help me get uh Everlasting uh life uh I don’t know about you uh but those degrees uh
And those titles uh cannot give me uh Everlasting uh life uh but if I sow to the Spirit uh the Bible says uh I’m going to reap uh of the Spirit uh Eternal everlasting life uh Even in our monetary giving uh we don’t give a crude investment uh or moneymaking scheme that
Is not to be said of the people of God uh and though we are completely confident uh you cannot lose forgiving we don’t give uh in order to get back uh that wh we’ve given the farmer is fully aware that the more he or she SWS the
More he or she will reap uh and the relationship between the sewing and the reaping is exponential uh one seed can produce hundreds of results over time uh one kind act can generate a harvest of sewn good behavior uh one kind word uh can generate uh a harvest uh one ride
For a person uh can generate uh a harvest you got to realize God does not expect you to help everybody but he does expect you to help somebody uh and the fact of the matter is there are ramifications to our sewing uh I told you about David uh but there are others
In the Bible who also unfortunately and mistakenly and foolishly reaped the same in return uh the Bible tells us that Abraham sowed to the Flesh and reaped uh Ismael the Bible says that Isaac sowed to the Flesh and reaped Esau the Bible says that Jacob sowed to the Flesh and re reaped Simeon
And Reuben the Bible says lot solded to the Flesh and reaped Moab and Ammon the Bible says Samson sowed to the Flesh and reap blindness and bondage the Bible says Eli sold to the Flesh and reaped hne and phas the Bible says David sowed to the Flesh and reaped the heel the
Grandfather of basba and thereafter absalon’s Chief advisor in wickedness the Bible says Solomon sold to the Flesh and reaped raob there are some things that can’t be hidden because the writing is on the wall it’s on the wall it’s on the wall but what do you see
Fast I see the clarification sir but I also see the ramifications there are always consequences and ramifications for our actions the allseeing and all knowing God sees everything that is going on and all that’s being done there are some things some people some saints of the Lord who are proclaiming one
Thing but they’re living something different they’re perpetrating falsifying impersonating misrepresenting perverting the things of God and I pray today that somebody would send them a message put it on X formerly known as Twitter put it on Facebook put it on Instagram that he that Seth unto his own
Flesh shall of the flesh reap corruption but he that s unto the spirit shall of the spirit reap eternal life you and only you can determine by way of the Holy Ghost which side of the track you going to end up on the writing is on the
Wall first thing I see is the clarification the second thing I see is is the ramifications but finally family we got to go after to the determination for the Bible says in verse 9 and let us not be weary in wello for in due season we shall reap if we faint
Not there is an inference there is an implication to grow weary in well doing probably because the Reon in of the benefit and the blessing always seems to take longer than the ramifications of the wrongness that which is right takes longer to manifest the investment thereof may take years in order for it
To give you a return on the investment so Paul confronts here the problem that we all face at times and that is we grow weary in well doing we we get tired of doing the right thing for the right man every now and again there are times when
The people of God say why should I do it when nobody else is doing it uh there are many factors that are involved in the equation of not growing weary uh our motives and our efforts are often misunderstood uh not only are they misunderstood but they are unappreciated uh people are slow to
Respond or they react to efforts with anger or indifference uh the flesh gets in our way uh our only physical resources can become depleted uh Satan Whispers discouraging words uh in your spirit uh in you Windows uh that you are wasting uh your time uh but the word
Here for weary means to lack courage uh to lose heart uh well doing means to do that which is right and to act honorably uh in other words Paul is attempting to encourage the people of God that our time and our season will eventually be manifested uh when is it going to happen
Uh in due season we shall reap if we faint not uh Paul reassures the people of God that we are going to get a return on the positive Investments that we made uh will it be in Winter uh will it be in Spring uh is it coming in the
Summer and or the fall well that would be man’s mentality because man breaks down the seasons by a group of four but the Bible says there is another season and it’s called due season uh it does not say uh what the weather will be like uh it does not say uh whether it’ll
Be raining or Sunshine but there is a due season that’s coming my way uh and I am determined to wait uh on the Lord uh and to be uh of good courage uh he’s going to strengthen my heart uh I’m going to wait uh I’m going to wait uh
I’m going to wait uh on the Lord uh due season is when God manifest himself uh in your situation due season is when God wipes the tears from your eyes due season is when God touches your body uh and raises you uh from a bed uh of Affliction uh and strengthen
Your body due season is when God regulates your body uh regulates uh your thinking due season is when God multiplies your resources I’m going to wait for my due season I don’t know when and I don’t know how but I know my God cannot lie the god I serve is a promis
Keeper he does not because he cannot lie the Bible says let us not be weary and wello in other words you cannot afford to fall apart to fall by the wayside the Old Testament says it this way in Ecclesiastes to everything there’s a season and a
Time sometimes we want to just throw in the towel but let me encourage you to throw up your hands and know that God’s word cannot change God Says by way of the Apostle Paul don’t grow weary of doing good of doing right of following the plan and the expectations
Of God for in due season we shall reap if we faint not I’m glad I’m glad I’m glad that the Living Word was familiar with the written word because can you imagine it what would have happened if Jesus had grown weary in wello can you imagine that as he was on
His way to Jerusalem as he was making his way and he encountered people like blind bmus where the Bible says that the people told blind bamus to shut up when he began to yell out Jesus Son of David have mercy on me so somebody could have
Convinced barus you may want to wait and when he comes back next week maybe you can deal with him then but the fact is Jesus wasn’t coming back uh next week uh cuz Jesus was on his way to Jerusalem uh Jesus was on his way uh to Calvary uh
And praise be to God uh he did not goow weary in well doing uh when he went to the Garden of Gethsemane uh and he told his boys uh Peter James and John he said will you just pray with me and watch out for me uh and the Bible says uh every
Time he came back uh they were sleep uh they were snoring they were drooling and the Bible says he kept praying uh he kept praying he did not grow weary in welld doing uh when they put the crown of thorns on his head he did did not
Grow weary in well doing uh when they pierced him in his side he did not grow weary in well dooing uh when they put the spikes uh in his right hand he didn’t grow wey and well doing when they put the in his left hand he did not
Grow weary in well doing when they put the spikes uh in his feet uh he did not grow weary uh in well doing uh because he knew in due season uh in Du season in Du season he’d reap uh if uh he fainted not uh well guess what uh Friday went by
Uh and he was in the Tomb and Saturday went by uh and he was in the Tomb but Sunday morning was due season I got anybody uh in here that says can you wait for your Sunday morning uh experience due season came on Sunday morning he got up with all power in his
Hands his due season his due season the writing good is on the wall family what you say what you do how you behave is indicative of who you are you cannot fake God you cannot fool the one who is all knowing all powerful omnipresent you cannot fool
Him first thing we see is the clarification you can’t fool them can’t trick them I used to when I first got married mother Ur y’all sit down sit down I ain’t done I a done sit down I used to see something that I really wanted sister Tony I wanted some new
Speakers for my my sound system at home or something or want a new watch new pair of shoes or something i’ call my wife and blueeyed tell her I already got it and based on her response would determine whether I deviate on my way home and pick it up after year or
So she got hip to the game and I’d say oh my God I would go oh my gosh I saw this watch sweetheart I couldn’t I couldn’t help myself I had to get it okay how much was it like $750 either you spent $750 I said I know I
Shouldn’t have got I know I shouldn’t but it’s okay I budgeted we’re GNA be good and she’d just get silent she’d say you didn’t buy no watch this is around the same time that bank accounts became available online so at the time that I’m pitching this story she done pulled up the account
Online and she know it ain’t true do you know that God has access to your spiritual account and it is ever before him it’s ever before him you can’t deceive him can’t fool him first thing is the clarification but then there is the ramifications trust me though God forgives you there are still
Ramifications for your actions there’s still punishment that you’re going to have to deal with in some form of fashion how can a holy God allow us to do anything we want to do forgive us and then there’s no ramifications when my grandmother used to whoop me when I was
Young she would always say to me it hurts me to do this and I would always say no it don’t no it don’t no it don’t cuz if it hurt you you wouldn’t do it but she’d explain to me I have to do it in order to change your behavior there are
Ramifications for your actions he tells us clearly that if you SE to the Flesh of the flesh you’ll reap corruption but if you s to the spirit of the spirit you’ll reap everlasting life wow not only is there the clarification there’s the ramifications but then there’s the
Determination yeah I don’t I don’t know when but I’m determined to wait till my change comes whatever that looks like I’m determined to stand firm I’m going to have my loins G about with truth breastplate of righteousness feet shod with the preparation of the gospel of peace going to have the shield of
Faith the helmet of salvation and sword which is the word some old mother asked her pastor one time after he preached she said pastor I got it I got my feet covered and I got my loins gted and I got on the breastplate of righteousness and I I got the shield of
Faith I got my head covered with the helmet of salvation I got the sword which is the word she said but what about my back my back is exposed and the pastor say no it ain’t God got your back God got your God got your back back and guess what when you’re
Determined to not grow weary and well doing for in due season you’ll reap if you f not God has your back the writing is on the wall the Lord has spoken blessed be the name of the Lord stand with us stand with us stand with us stand with us amen stand with
Us I ran into a couple couple of weeks ago at a grand opening one of my restaurants in Hollywood matter of fact I ran into one of Deacon Barry’s old boys I took a picture of me and one of the chief of the fire department for Hollywood sent it to
Deacon Barry Deacon Barry said yep that’s one of my dogs back there that’s one of my dogs back in the day I met this really nice couple really nice couple older than I am both of them and they were talking to me and say you the manager I said yeah I’m one of
The managers you know I said okay I never seen you at this store we’ve been open for about a month I said well I got other stores I go to too so gave me his name gave me the lady’s name I said okay how how long have you
Guys been married or we’re not married I said oh okay he said we’ve been together for 27 years I said 27 years and you haven’t got smart enough to marry this beautiful woman in 27 years and she said if it ain’t broke don’t fix it and I
Said y’all know I ain’t going to let that go I said well it depends on who’s doing the assessment of whether it’s working or whether it’s broke I walked away and it dawned on me she was okay and comfortable being a longterm professional girlfriend she was okay with that and
When you’re okay with just being okay there’s really nothing that the Lord can offer you if you’re okay with being okay but when you’re ready for a change a Monumental change when you’re ready to give up that which is good for that which is better that’s when God is ready to meet
You at the point of need today as we open the doors of the church I don’t know your situation I do not know your your circumstance what I do know is the and who I know is the true and living God and I know that when he comes into your
Life it’ll never ever be the same if you’re here today and you don’t know Jesus as your savior listen to me you do not know him as Lord of your life you have not accepted him as the master and the architect of who you are how you move where you’re
Going what you do I’m telling you today is the day today is the day trust me the writing is on the wall today is the day if you’re here today and you don’t know Jesus as your savior if you don’t know Jesus as your savior if you don’t know
Jesus as your savior listen to me today is the day you want to accept him today is there one that would come you’re not embarrassed you’re not ashamed you’re not scared you are fortified you’re situated knowing that this is my moment this is my turning point if you’re here
Today is there one that would come we’re not trying to coer you we’re not begging we’re not pleading we’re extending invitation if you’re here and you’re saved but you do not have a church home that’s not God’s best for you that’s not God’s best for you that’s not God’s best
For you you say I’ve been coming here and I’m going keep coming here so I might as well join here amen that that that’s your mentality come on sweetheart I’ve been coming here I’mma keep coming here come on chaplain I’mma keep coming here I might as well join
Here amen I I’ve been coming here I’ve been coming here there are others there are others there are others I’ve been coming here I’mma keep coming here I might as well join here is there another that would come today once again we’re not begging we’re not pleading we’re extending an
Invitation is there another that would come don’t know Jesus as your savior you don’t know him as Lord of your life you you know him but you’ve been out of Fellowship Church hurt you did your wrong did your dirty and now you just been out there drifting from place to
Place and you’ve condemned every Church based on what a church did to you today’s the turning point today is the turning point I’d love to be your pastor I’d love to be your pastor I’d love to have you as a parishioner is there another that would come last call last call last
Call let the people of God say Amen you may be seated in the presence of the Lord amen give God a hand praise we’ll get a report here in a minute we’ll get a report in a minute we’re going to prepare ourselves here in a moment for our giving but we’re going to
Hear from uh some folk here Deon blue is going to do it right okay let’s start with let’s start with chaplain Steve let’s start with chaplain Steve let’s start with chaplain Steve yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah come on Deon blue come on Deacon blue first of all we have chaplain Steve
Low who’s come by his Christian [Applause] experience this is a warm Church a faith-filled church you know Jesus you love Jesus the eyes of God go to and fro looking for people whose hearts are inclined to him that he can support Jesus is looking for faith in the
Land when their eyes when their eyes are on this church they’re pleased and I want to be a member of a church that pleases God bless you you’ve got a pastor and on his business card it says pastor and teacher most pastors can’t really advertise that correctly we’re lucky
That we have one that can I’ve been asked kindly and Polly a couple of times where’s your wife Jan had a stroke B it was a big one had a second stroke that was life-threatening took her down to Bare Metal absolutely life and death couldn’t speak couldn’t
Swallow God has done a great miracle but it’s hard for her to navigate but she’s with me today church amen bless you sweetheart bless you amen and there is more to me than what you see amen amen amen bless you very good I got it right so second
We have um Miss canester White she is also coming by her Christian experience amen hello everyone no no no no no no no not yes s okay y’all see how y’all jumped up and clapped when Steve was up here chaplain Steve do the same for her
There we go there we go there we go there we go and chaplain Steve my Gody he my God but this is now my girl too amen amen bless you Sweetheart give an honor to God Pastor bless you this lady Deacon Deaconess my name is canester um I’ve been coming to
This church for over almost a year and a half off and on but I always wanted to join but I couldn’t because I worked too far away and I know when you join the church there classes and participation that is expected of me and I was saying
Lord if I joined this church I would not be able to participate in anything because of the distance that I drive for work so November 1 I relocated to MLK so I will be able to participate and meet with the ladies and the gentlemen of this congregation so
Thank you for having me amen come on to give God a hand praise for both of these [Applause] folks amen we thank God for both of these faithful folk I you know I encourage people uh because I’m not confident in me or in us but I am confident in God
That if you keep coming eventually we’re going to reel you in amen I believe that because we don’t change we’re going to be as warm and welcoming the first day you meet us as we will be on the 385th day that you come here we’re still going to be the
Same way and I thank God for that I thank God for this congregation and Leadership uh chaplain Steve is well versed in prison ministry something that we have prayed for for years at this church he and I have already conversed a little bit about it but that is
Something I foresee uh being a part of our regular Cadence in 2024 U so thank you brother our dear sister has been coming she’s a friend of my aunts I believe Sandra one of your friends coming for a long time she said it on and off every now and again she’ll
Pop up there were times when I didn’t see her so I thought she was a new visitor amen and then I had to be reminded no she’s been here before amen so now she’s part of the family you all know know we don’t vote people in So at
The end of service make sure you greet both of them and welcome them into the Mount Si family amen amen amen amen all right with that Minister Parker is going to come and prepare us for our alory period for our offeror period we’re fortunate we’re not a begging Church we’re not a begging
Church when not a begging church so we’d ask that you would stand as Minister Parker comes to lead us in Our Moment of giving amen amen good morning Mount Si it’s giving time here at the [Applause] mount and our scripture this morning is going to come from Deuteronomy the 16th
Chapter the 17th verse and it reads as follows every man shall give as he is able according to the blessing of the Lord your God that he has given you may the Lord add a blessing to the readers the hearers and the doers of his holy
Word let’s go before God In Prayer dear be dear heavenly father we come before you this morning just to thank you for the opportunity to bring to you that which you already have Lord we thank you for the blessings that you’ve given us we thank you for the opportunity to be
Obligated to provide to a church that we have membership in Lord we ask that you would bless the gifts and that you would bless the givers that your work would go forth Lord and that we would continue to just do that which you’ve asked us to do
Because you are a good and amazing God so Lord we lift you up we magnify your name and we ask that you bless this gift today in Jesus mighty name we pray amen amen amen amen we thank God we thank God for all of you listen uh let me just say
This real quick I meant to say it last week then I meant to say it on Thursday I’ll say it today um I am so thankful for the prayers of this congregation I know beyond a shadow of a doubt that you all continue to lift me my family up in
Prayer uh two weeks ago uh when we went to New Joy had an incident where I left my phone on the hood of my car had my license in it my bank card and my American Express Platinum Card and all of a sudden I’m asking my
Wife where’s my phone because my car is connected to the music so I can hear the Christmas music playing from my phone but I don’t know where the phone is and then all of a sudden doing 65 75 on the 91 freeway something hits the windshield bounces off the car and my
Wife said there’s your phone so mother UT be I immediately pull over my wife said what are you doing I said it’s okay I got people praying for me put the car reverse backed up down the freeway on the 91 free it was stupid but I did it and my daughter said
I think I see it so we got out and got the phone wasn’t broke too bad it wasn’t damag damage the case was messed up and you know that if you have if you drop your phone or something they call you because they get a shatter alert the
Phone company hey is everything okay you all right we got a shatter Alert on your phone yep phone flew off the car we’re good so my wife after she finished yelling at me you shouldn’t have did that you should Hey listen I got to
Preach I know I know I know so she gives me my phone I said where’s my license and my credit cards cuz there’s a magnetized little wallet that goes on the back of phone she said it wasn’t on there I put the car in Reverse mother arber this so the
Stupidest stuff I ever done but listen I can tell you when I do foolishness I can tell you so my daughter said I think I see it it’s in the lane though I said Kim get out and get [Applause] this I got out the car and let me tell
You the only thing I’m thinking now please don’t let a church member drive by on the way to New Joy and see me out standing on the freeway got out my wife said do not try to bend over and pick that thing up on the freeway I said I’m not
Ran over kicked it over got my license my American Express Platinum Card my ATM card and my phone and immediately when I had them I said God that was the dumbest thing I’ve ever done in my life but I got them and I’m telling you it’s CU of folk like you
All that pray for me pray for me continue to pray for me the last thing I’ll say mother otterberry mother Turner uh mother Clem is no longer here I can’t remember who else was it was four of you all I think I can get a Harley now I
Think I can get a Harley if I could do that I should be able to get a Harley now amen no still no they won’t let me get me a Harley-Davidson but it’s okay pray for them too pray for them too uh that they would be better givers that
They would be better givers in spirit in spirit listen family we love you all we’re praying for you we only have another month left and this year is over it is over some of us would have never thought we’d make it through 2023 and now we’re preparing ourselves if the
Lord says the same to enter into 2024 we got the theme for next year you’ll hear about it here in a few weeks we’re excited about what God is doing in this ministry excited about God who God is bringing into the ministry excited about what God is already doing uh with the
Folk that are here I’m expecting if God says the same we’re going to have a great 20124 amen but we need your help in the process you have a part to play because in 2023 as we begin to shift out you have to be reminded that there’s
More to me than what you see people see the exterior they don’t know nothing about the interior of you but you have a part to play in the process what happened huh they told me we weren’t doing baptism that’s what I was told who who was supposed to get baptized today who
Was supposed to get baptized today cuz I was told that earlier then they told me we weren’t doing it who who was supposed to get baptized oh they left oh okay well oh okay I would have baptized you if You’ to sa but we could have went back there
And dunk somebody real quick I don’t is there is there water in the pool there is water in there I I was told they weren’t scheduled that’s what I thought I was told that there was no baptism today so thank you sweetheart I appreciate you good good looking out for
Me good looking out it’s my daughter up there good looking out for me listen where was I you have a part to play in the process you have a part to play in the process the first thing you have to do is be what second thing you got to do is
Be what and the third thing you got to do is be what o obligated God bless your family we’ll see you next week You
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