Spe should well good morning and good evening to those who be watching uh later and Welcome to our Wednesday morning Bible study this happens to be the last Wednesday of 2023 uh the last Wednesday this year and Sunday what I want to do since is uh fifth subject uh is to have pray service and S service let see our Bible St and uh looking on the calendar the church C I think we scheduled to have a prayer service anyhow and uh so
After we on this service uh let’s close out this year uh praying and and maybe the brothers might have a song they practice and we do that as well and then the following Sunday when we year willing we’re going to study the Book of Esther Book of
Esther it’s a short book but it’s a lot of good historical uh information and I I want to thr something out to you uh our teachers and our students when you read through the Book of Esther God is not mening God is not mening at all and what’s your thoughts about that and
We we’ll look at that in just a moment so I always try to do a an overview when you begin a book and try to search for the theme of why would the Holy Spirit inspire a wrer of scripture and not mention God so that that that’s that’s theological
Question that you can try to put your fa since God is not mentioned in the text what’s the thing and it’s going to be fun have a lot of fun studying rest all right uh for this last Wednesday I I I have a thought and a
Thing topic not a thing but a topic that I want to share with you from Hebrews 13 And1 Hebrews uh 13 and one and I’m going to read it out of the uh New King James Version does anyone have just the King James version uh I want to see if it’s and
And welcome to those who are watching uh online uh as King see what it says King James as well yeah if you have okay Okay all right does anybody have a different translation I I want to talk about love Brotherhood that’s really what I want talk about and maybe I was thinking about the uh passage in Peter I think it might first Peter where it actually says love brother and I want to be thinking about
That what does it mean to love the Brotherhood or to let Brotherly Love continue so I’m not trying to do an etical textual study of Hebrews chapter 13 it’s the topic that I want you to be thinking about what does it mean to love the Brotherhood or to let Brotherly Love
Continue uh we are part of a fellowship we are part of Faith Fellowship and the Faith Fellowship that baptized Believers are a part of will determine their eternal Destiny there are a number of fellowships that exist Under the Sun and some of them may uh influence where we spend eternity but I’m talking
About spiritual Fellowship a spiritual entity um that has Eternal ramifications and we need to love that Fellowship we need to love the Brotherhood Fellowship so when I talk about Brotherhood Fellowship I’m not being General and just talking about faith fellowships I’m talking to members of Churches of
Christ I’m talking to us I’m talking to those who hold to the restoration please sweet with the Bible sweet silent with Bible silent call B things by Bible names to do Bible things in Bible ways now we don’t necessarily have Creed but that phrase captured a movement uh in the
1800s I I do not want to spend a lot of time on Restoration History except to say that um we need to go beyond Alexander cell and bar Stone when we Trace our history I remember taking uh Restoration History from BJ Dr BJ humble at a Christian
University and for the life of me I cannot find the paper that I wrote he assigned me where I selected to write on the black Alexander C there was a black SL by the name of Alex cell uh who who impacted uh the African-American churches of
Christ I’m trying to get away from using certain africanamerican because um I have to go back way way back to find my descendants that came from Africa I’m Le were just said I’m I’m a black American you know it’s like I born in America black my mother was born in
America black my grandmother was born in America black I I didn’t do ancest DNA to find out which tribe they came from but in the black uh American Churches of Christ there was a man by name of Alexander Cleveland cam uh who was influential often times to trace our history like you
Trace other Faith movements religious Faith movements uh they’ll trace it back to uh the Churches of Christ they’ll trace it back to Alexander Campell from bar Stone and they’ll call it the stone Camp movement um lutherans will Trace their history back to Martin Luther Presbyterians the Church of Bap John
Calvin Baptist will uh go back to John SM roer Williams um uh Methodist will go back to John Westley and so if you if you looking at an academic historical record some people may see uh GED Stone in alexand County I I simply approach that by saying that uh God may have used
Those men to uh for movement in Marland um and we’ve read in in the Bible where God used Kings and use uh other people for different uh reasons doesn’t mean that the Church of Christ started with G Stone started with alexand C we know that the church in the Bible which we
Call the Church of Christ started in Jerusalem on the day of Pentecost there were Dark Ages when uh God was Sil had no Prophet spoke there was no word from the Lord uh for I want to say over 400 years and then finally John the Baptist spoke so I look at
That to say that perhaps Christianity from a perspective of Churches of Christ didn’t AR in America until the 1800s or late 1800s but that doesn’t mean that Christianity did not exist prior to Stone C so you might Trace our history in America to Stone C but
Ad33 uh on the day of Pentecost in city of Jerusalem of the Lord’s Church which had been prophesied and promise was prophesied Isaiah 22 Daniel 244 and and other passage of scripture as well uh Jesus promised to build it and the church again in Jerusalem on the
Day of Pentecost so whenever a person obeys the gospel and becomes a member of the Lord’s Church they’re part of a Brotherhood they’re part of a spirit Fellowship our Brotherhood is Churches of Christ I went to school with rst I went to school with Presbyterians I went to school with
Lutherans and I went to school with members of Churches of Christ so when I say Church of Christ I’m not saying that to demean insult criticize other Faith movements I used Church of Christ proudly because that’s the Brotherhood that we belong to now with that said the Baptist faith is different from the
Methodist Faith the Baptist in Methodist Fai is different from the Catholic faith the Baptist Methodist Catholic faith is different from the Pentecostal Faith uh all of those Faith movements uh may agree on certain things things but by different movements the Churches of Christ uh have taken position that in Jerusalem
Ad33 that was the first church that was the first church that’s the only church you can read about in scripture um so the restoration we was a return was a plea to return to New Testament Christianity and that’s why you hear saying speak when Bible speaks be silent
When Bible silent call Bible things by Bible names do Bible things in Bible ways our plea over the years have been to share that restoration ple with the entire world so that religiously we could be with so that Baptist Methodist Catholic Presbyterian Lu Pentecostals could all be members of One
Church one body of Believers that’s just history that’s just no history but what I want us to really uh grab hold to is the Faith Fellowship movement that we are part of we should love we should love the Brotherhood you got to love the Church of Christ now um no one’s
Perfect individually members are not perfect um sister’s daughter is ready to get good da is get good no one’s perfect individually as a member of the church but that form of doctrine that we Obey from the heart is perfect is Right Romans 6:17 but thanks be to God that
You were the servant of sin but you have obeyed from the heart that form of doctr which was delivered unto you there’s a form of Doctrine out there uh that uh that’s has been delivered you you come to that form you you you don’t change the form the form is there and
You and I make make the change so that form of God is called Apostolic Doctrine or Apostolic tradition often times we use the term tradition to mean to and we and we mean by that something that men have invented a trend a culture an idea a concept that
Individuals have uh have uh uh developed as forign scripture and Jesus used word tradition Matthew 7 Mark 7 uh to talk about the tradition me but the word tradition simply means teaching uh and when we talk about Apostolic tradition we’re talking about the teaching of the Apostles what did the apostles teach so
When you love the Brotherhood not only are you loving the fellowship but you’re also loving the teaching the practices what the Bible teaches you embrace all of that uh so I have to love this Faith Fellowship I’m a member of the Lord’s church I’m a proud member of the Church
Of Christ I’m not proud how we act sometimes I’m not proud of our Behavior just as God was not proud with Israel but Israel did not stop being his chosen people because some individuals uh of Israel uh behave or misbehave so I look Beyond certain people or individuals who lifestyle may
Not be Godly and I look at that form of doctr that form of doctr that was once delivered you you we come to that now in order to love the Brotherhood in order to love The Fellowship of Churches of Christ that we have and we need to have Fellowship Fellowship means joint participation
Fellowship means communion commonality uh we participate we support one another you need to have an understanding of the fellowship what the fellowship believes you need to know that on the front end I I I want to say that it’s important to know on the front end what your faith fellow what a particular
Faith Fellowship and concepts are because once you become a member that face Fellowship you to love you to love the Brotherhood let me just say like this everybody family no no family is perfect everybody’s family father mother children cousins somebody in that family got something they need to work
On but y’all still family we’re still family I love my family they love me we love each other we I’m imperfection we don’t stop being family because we got some we have some shortcomings but when we talk about a religious spiritual body a brother good then there are Concepts there are
Precepts there are uh uh teachings that are are associated with that Faith Fellowship and you need to know those precepts Concepts teachings on the front of you now I want to use example I’m still in Hebrews 13 brother love but did first Peter sobody might find that this said love
Brotherhood um um when I was uh let me go back to high school or let me go back to uh sixth grade I started playing basketball in the sixth grade the E leue Lon Center uh re in D started playing I I was part of a
Team and from what I can remember uh we had to practice so every teammate R Us uh was obligated to come and practice you didn’t get in the game if you didn’t practice don’t expect to play in the game you PR part of that Fellowship of The L Center
Uh Class E te was we had a practice you know that on frontend I think we had to buy jerseys or something like we to pay a fee to get in there are certain things you know going in with the high school and you you go out for sport there are
Certain things that they require of you you know on the front end what you get it into when I went to college my freshman year I was at a HBCU historically black uh college or university and I was mesmerized because I saw these brothers out of nowhere they just came and they
Called it stepping you know they called it stepping and and these brothers I mean I’m a war from DAV Ohio in Pennsylvania away from home and then all a sudden these these guys come out and They you know making all the sounds and all I mean it was it was like so and I said who are they I said that’s the cubes or that’s the alphas that’s the campas and I’m just brigh eyed and bushy tail look at those guys they they side
By side arm to arm dress real nice stepping and uh you know cating attention and and and and the girls likeed it girls really like that I oh man I stay here I on one of these fraternities but then as I thought about joining fraternity which one which which friend which Brotherhood
Would I try would I be a cap would that be an alha you know would I be a Q and then certain fraternities had reputations there was one fraternity I’m not going to name which one because it might be different in different places but some fraternities were were were
Known for their scholarship smart people was part of the servic fraternity think you had another fraternity that known now all fraternity pretty much do some of the same things uh for what I can remember was service oriented they were known for the community service but then there was another Fratney that was
Just known to party if you become part of this fraternity you know it’s a party fraternity so the same go for sororities fraternities for males sororities for for female why you saying this so my point is you have to investigate you just don’t join a fraternity or sorority because you like
The way they step you like the way they dress you need to know on the front end what they required everybody with me all right all right all right so you you do now you don’t Join one one fret and then become a member of the Fret after
Becoming a member of the Fret get this interested in the Fret leave the Fret and join another fret you you don’t join a sorority and then fall out with one of the sisters online or after after you cross the line and fall out with the leader of frat or
Sority I don’t want to be accute no more I want on the Catholics you know maybe that happens but in my mind I’m thinking you’re loyal to the Brotherhood you’re loyal on the front end well when you look at scripture Jesus emphasize teaching for on the front
End what was expected of all right let’s turn to Mark 10 Mark 10 uh vers 17 and following this is one of the first sermons that I I tried to preach uh when I was a younger preacher Mark chapter 10 and I’m talking about loving Brotherhood now I want sh say you need
To know on the front end what’s expected of you and I’m saying that to say that when one becomes a member of the church and then when one takes on responsibility of preaching you may not know everything but you know enough on the front end to
Make a commitment and to be loyal to that commitment you don’t you don’t get in the church or start preaching and then Midstream change up you need to know on the front end what’s piing up Mark 10 beginning with verse number 17 now as he was going out on the road
One came running KN before him and asked him good teacher what shall I do that I may inherit eternal life why do we become members of the church because we want we want eternal life we want to be saved uh why why choose Church of Christ
And not choose Baptist why why Church of Christ and not Methodist why why Church of Christ and not Presbyterian because our faith is in the doctrine that is preached and taught in Churches of Christ there’s good people everywhere you don’t have to be a member of the
Church of Christ to be a good person all right but we chose you chose to obey the gospel fellowship with Churches of Christ because uh your belief is that uh this Jesus is the way he establish his church and you want eternal life so Richard ruler prior
To the Cross is asking the question what shall I do that I may endure eternal life Jesus said to him why do you call me good no one is good but one that is God now he tells him the requirements on the front end now of course you can learn things
Later in your development but there are things you need to know on the front end you know the Commandments do not commit adultery do not murder do not steal do not bear false witness do do not defraud honor your father and your mother and he answered and said to him teacher all
These things I have kept from my youth then Jesus looking at him love him and said to him one thing you lack on the front end on the front end one thing you lack go your way sell what you have give to the poor and you will have treasure in
Heaven come take up your cross or take up the cross and follow me all right what’s the question on the floor what must I do in your eternal life who is he asking Jesus who better than Jesus to give the answer all right I want to be I
Want eternal life I want I I want to be part of this Fellowship of believers who have eternal life all right okay keep the Commandments um okay Jesus I’ve kept them and I just didn’t start keeping I had good home train I kept this from my youth up all right
Jesus said could have said slide on in bro come on in but Jesus said what what there’s one thing you lack there’s one thing you lack one thing you lack is sell all you have give it to give it to the poor yeah get sell all you have give to the poor
And this is a Rich Young Ruler rich and he’s young and he has a position he’s a ruler and uh sell what you have get to the cour and take up the cross and follow me now the cross is the issue the money and the
Cross is the issue but at least on the front end he had some idea of what to expect what what I’m saying is as you love the Brotherhood uh you don’t you don’t criticize the brother Brotherhood you don’t point fingers at the Brotherhood because the demands of Fellowship in the
Brotherhood don’t coincide with your values you learn on the front end you learn as much as you can because this Fellowship this commitment ought to be a life commitment I’m going to love the Brotherhood until Jesus comes I’m going to be loyal to the Brotherhood till Jesus come my my love for the Brotherhood is Big than the person in the P My Love for the Brotherhood is bigger than the person who stands in the pull pit P pull pit and PE make up the Brotherhood but I demonstrate my love for God by demonstrating my love for the Brotherhood I I I’m I value the
Brotherhood I value the standards of the Brotherhood I I I stand on I’m I’m willing to give my life for the Brotherhood because the head of the church gave his life for the Brotherhood Jesus died on the cross so that we could have a Brotherhood there would not be a
Brotherhood if it wasn’t for Jesus dying on the cross so when I become part of the Brotherhood I don’t get in there and try to change the Brotherhood try to upset the Brotherhood try try to uh transform the Brotherhood I don’t transform the Brotherhood I’m transformed because I become part of the
Brotherhood how I sound sister Britney do I sound all right Luke Chapter n um I’m talking about counting the cost I’m talking about knowing uh ahead of time what’s respected and then after you affiliate with that Brotherhood being loyal to Luke chap 9 uh and around verse number 57 one one
Of my favorite passages of scripture now it happened as they journeyed on the road that someone said to him Lord I will follow you wherever you go well this person saying I want to be part of your Brotherhood I want to be part of your fellowship Jesus I I I want to be
Part uh perhaps he heard that uh Jesus had sent out 70 and they came back uh saying we have power over demons and and uh and unclean spirits and Jesus said don’t Rejoice because of that but Rejoice because your name is in heav maybe he he saw the 12 following Jesus
Whatever this person person wants to be part of the Brotherhood the fellowship that Jesus was having with others Lord I will follow you wherever you go and Jesus said to him foxes have holes and birds of the air have Nest but the son of man who nowhere to lay his here now here
Here here here’s the thing um and I’m going to get to where I’m Bor no one twists anyone else’s arm to obey the gospel no one holds a gun to anyone’s head and forces them to be a member of the Lord’s church that’s a free will
Choice um but if a person if I can be loyal to my sixth grade basketball team if I can be loyal to my high school basketball team if person can join a fraternity and a sorority and be loyal to that frat or that sorority a Christian ought to be loyal to the
Brotherhood and you are loyal to your Brotherhood by your service in the local congregation Brotherhood Church Universal encompasses all churches of Christ all members of church but I serve God through my local church my local church is first my local church is my home Church my my my local church I I
Don’t neglect I got to have a I got to have a home I got to have a local church I I I got to have accountability I I got I I I I pay my dues at my local church I I’m responsible at the local church I’m
Accountable to local church I I receive uh love and give love at a local church I I there would not be a Brotherhood without local churches all right but I need to know on the front end what’s expected of me as because no one is is uh holding a gun to
To my head no one is forcing me I I I freely make this choice to become a member of the Lord’s church when I become a member the Lord’s church I’m part of the Brotherhood and scripture says I need to let brother love continue I need to love the Brotherhood but what
Does it mean to be a member of the church what does it mean to be part of this Brotherhood it means that there cost that have to be counted on the front end Jesus said f have hold birds of the air have Nest but the son of man
Has nowhere to lay his head then he said to another follow me but he said Lord let me first go and bury my father and Jesus said to him let the dead bury their own dead but you go and preach the kingdom of God a whole lot of
Implications in that text about Let the dead their own dead in Bible times if a if a a living person touch a dead person the living person would be considered unclean if a living person became unclean then there were certain days or some things he had to go through
To be purified what Jesus saying is you got to get priorities right I I understand how affectionate uh you are uh with your parents your father but if you if you’re going to be involved in Kingdom Business your love for the Brotherhood makes Kingdom Business a priority amen somebody oh I should have
Saved this for Sunday morning um let’s did very again you go and preach the kingdom of God all right now let me talk to preachers since he said you go and preach the kingdom of God preachers need to know on the front end that preaching is difficult and with preaching comes
Hardships just as Russ Russ was in the military sister do has a daughter that’s in the military she you a military okay but she has a daughter that’s in the military all right when you enroll in the military you expect certain hardships one of the hardships of being
In the military is you might have to go to war you don’t you don’t you don’t join the military and then get upset when you go walk that’s part of your responsibility how s right all right the spiritual warfare there’s a spiritual warfare that exists for every member of the
Church but Paul wrote to Timothy about Warfare that Ministers of the Gospel go through you know you don’t become Minister and start crying about warfare that’s what you sign up for you don’t become a minister of the gospel and then expect everybody to love you cuz they ain’t going to love you you
Don’t become a minister of the gospel and then uhh have a fit when you’re criticized they crucified Jesus and if they crucified Jesus what you think they going to do to you now now there are some loving congregations there’s some there’s some some some some churches that that the love is greater
Than the hater ha don’t be hating no FK you know that and then there are some congregations that are not as loving as as others but Paul told Timothy to endure hardship as a good soldier of Jesus Christ what what’s what’s happening now is in some instances preachers think is better in
Another Faith than it is in the Church of Christ and people are people whether they’re Baptist Methodist Presbyterian or Church of Christ they still people when when I was in school uh one my one of my classmates and and and and even I had a similar bad experience in the church
He’s Baptist I’m Church of Christ it don’t matter whether what faith you are in the devil affects everybody but you don’t start preaching the gospel and then uh because folk criticize you or make your ministry difficult you you going to switch up and think that because there are more
Folk over there and the pay is greater uh in another Faith religion that uh it’s going to be better now you got to you on the front end let me let me pause here pause here pause um when you become here this this man is going to let the dead bury their
Own dead but you go and preach the king of God before you start preaching you need to learn what to preach you need to get a hold on the fundamentals that’s related to The Fellowship of the Brotherhood that you are a member of Churches of Christ are different and
Distinct well somebody asked me that once how are we different in distinct we different in the s in the way we worship our worship is different and we’re not different to be different we’re different because scripture dictates that we’re different you know is it’s it’s real sad
It’s real sad to love the to say you love the Brotherhood but you don’t uphold Brotherhood principles so there idea of instrumental music being optional well we don’t use it here some say but we’re not going to criticize others who do one of the first acts of giving that
We find is in the Book of Genesis y’all with me Kan and a all right and the Hebrew writer said that Abel gave a more excellent sacrifice than K Cain and Cain’s uh sacrifice was not accepted by God Abel’s was so that mean Cain made a decision made a
Choice chose an option that God did not authorized you know you know we’re free will beings you can make a decision God won’t push a button and he won’t pull a string he’ll give you an option to either obey or disobey so when I become a preacher in
The Church of Christ I need to know front end just like if I’m going be a q or Alpha Kappa um can’t think of what the sisters are called Del the sisters are Del uh what’s another sisters AKA okay uh when when you become part of that Brotherhood Sisterhood
Fellowship you you try to find out on the front end what do they believe and the reason you want to find out what they believe is what they believe may not line up with your values you need to know the front end you know you know what does this group
Believe I mean I don’t know everything they believe but I know on front end I’m comfortable with this I’m comfortable with that because you don’t want to draw a group that believes in in in uh child sacrifice you don’t want to believe uh become part of a group that believes in devil
Worship you don’t want to believe in in in in Illuminati there might be a group that believes in the illum whatever that is so preachers need to know the fundamental if you going to be a preacher in Churches of Christ this is what we believe on the front
End and the difficulty or I shouldn’t say difficulty what I find lacking Among Us is there is no official structure in Churches of Christ we do ordain and recommend individuals but there’s no accountability on a on a national level so individual preachers in Church of Christ can preach and teach whatever
They want and you’ll find a segment or group that will Embrace embrace you so um uh uh when I went to school uh one of one of my classmates came here on Sunday um and uh and she she uh graduated i y hear she graduated and then she she took she was
Taken her boards because she is a preacher in preser church and I’ve told you this story before single and she said she she was teaching with me she said when I come to her ordination you know she said you know going be ordained you come to an
Ordination I said that Grace you I can’t come to that but now I will come to your wedding if you get married I’ll come to your wedding but I can’t come to your ordination but she she was telling me when she was studying for her board now what that implies is she studyed
Presbyterian Doctrine so that she can be ordained as a presbyterian preacher which means that she’s going to support Presbyterian principles so what I’m saying to Churches of Christ preachers is that we need to uh defend the fundamentals that’s affiliated with our Brotherhood you you there’s so much doubt
Now that uh and if you if you take the devil’s uh scheme of doubt you going be doubting uh uh what the Pioneers preach you’re going to be doubting what Bowser and ke and H and Winston uh Steward and some of the Pioneers in Black Churches of Christ uh
And and and and I take this approach the devil has three approaches now there’s different uh options to those three approaches but the Bible says that uh love not the world the things that are in the world love the world love the fathers not him
All is in the world lust the flesh the lust of the eyes and the pride of life and when the devil tempted eeve in the garden he used the pride of life that caused her to doubt what God said y’all stay with me she doubted
Uh God said that the day that you eat of that tree that’s in the midst of the garden you shall surely die Satan came and said Thou shalt not surely die she saw that the fruit was good and she started doubting what God Said She gave it to her husband and he
Should have known better and he gave him as well but what happening today is that uh some of us are doubting what we were Tau and uh now you can grow and you can learn I I think you know baptized s some of you will baptize you teens and some
Of you baptized as adults I would I would hope that know more about God no more about Christ no more about the Holy Spirit after 6 years of being in the B but I’m not going to doubt the fundamental structure of who we are and what we believe so you don’t doubt the
Way you worship you don’t start doubting whether or not Isam is uh uh uh prohibited in in Christian worship you know you follow the the uh the doctr of the Apostles um I’m I’m I just wrote I just wrote a position paper and U in Mar present this position paper Preacher Brother
And I think he’s asking other preachers to do same thing so I’m not just the only one and I’m praying that everything’s above War so he said okay so I’m asking guys to select what topic they choos and um and then on Sunday evening got present it and then just
Make yourself available for questions so that’s almost like being on hot se you state what you believe why you believe it and then uh you open to questions so I’m telling y’all here time what I what I just s in last night so I’m in Colossians one vers
9-4 Colossians 1 9-4 that’s the verses that I see Colossians 1 Matthew 14 just to give you a short synopsis of it uh it’s a Christian himym it’s a Christian prayer it’s is verses 9-4 is one long sentence in the Greek well Paul talks about walking worthy he talk he talks about walking
Worthy and then he shares why they should walk worthy uh uh because God has enabled them and then God rescued them and God transferred them into the kingdom all right all right so the position uh that that I’m taking in that paper is because Paul wrote to the church in
Colasse the reason Paul wrote to church colos is because of the colossian heresy there was false Doctrine being taught and there was an element of syncretism where folk were borrowing from different religions and trying to merge that into Christianity so at the end of my paper because you have to make
Application you know you got to make application we’re faced with syncretism now and is manifested through post the postmodern mindset of of Truth be relative is no absolute truth you can’t judge people uh biblically and my point is is that we follow the apostles Doctrine and because we follow the
Apostles doct um we’re we’re Limited in what we can do then I want some something else that always stuck in my mind about liberalism and legalism and what I want us to understand as a preacher in the Church of Christ is we should teach and preach people we should teach and preach to
People that they should obey God that’s the bottom line simply be obedient if you add to a word that could be legalism if you go be beond was WR that’s liberalism so you don’t start out preaching in the Church of Christ occup sing and then you learn later on that
That’s not right no you know you Embrace on the front end what BR te you and you be Lo that because you love the Brotherhood now if you’re Fearless courageous enough brave enough to the the track from there you don’t want to be Church of Christ anymore then that’s your choice is is
Not the right choice I hate to see anybody take that position one of the reason I hate to see someone take because the history of our church this congregation in 1947 a Baptist preacher became a member of the Church of Christ now we have preachers in the Church of
Christ leading for denominations so it’s being flipped now and uh it’s and I want to say somebody say you judge it now what I’m really saying you got love the Brotherhood and if you love the Brotherhood then you embrace the tenants of brother now I’m not saying Embrace false doctr I that is
Not what I’m saying I a say that you start denying that Jesus is the son of God that’s false GOP you start denying the Virgin Bird that’s called doct If you deny the vicarious sacrifice of Jesus and his visible return that that’s called doct but now there are things
That that that are Brotherhood to us I can go on and on but let me finish M that go and preach to the king and another said also said Lord I will follow you let me first go and bid them pray well which at my house when Jesus
Said them no one having put his hands to the plow looking back is fit for the kingdom of God um the church members of the church are not perfect and some do you think y’all right and everything I said when it come to worship I think we have the right I I
Said we better have it right somebody on Earth better have it right now that doesn’t mean everybody in the church is going to live a Godly life when it comes to Doctrine and worship somebody under Heaven ought to heav and I just want to say it goes for
Loving loving Ling Ling brother you got love so and we teach people to be obedient there’s nothing wrong with being obedient God desires obedience from the heart we love God I’m I’m I’m part of this congregation because I love God I’m part of the Brotherhood because I love God
And um since this is the last Wednesday going on today uh we talk about being authentic and we think that being authentic means uh being transparent and sharing how we feel and what we think what we feel and what we think you may be transparent about it
But it may not be authentic what what’s needed today is authentic righteousness and authentic Holiness and authentic righteousness and Holiness has to do with pleasing God from heart it’s not if we be honest what does the music do the music doesn’t attract more members because if if the music
Attracted more members then all the denominations will be bigger than what they are so some some Churches have said well we’re going to instrum music because we want to ATT trct a crowd that we had been reaching before but he’s still not reaching the music is people are using
The instruments of Music In The Name of Jesus but the truth of the matter the authentic transparent truth of the matter is it’s because they like it you like it is not because God authorized it so um what what what’s involved in loving the Brotherhood and even when the Hebrew
Writ that love Contin Peter said love the Brotherhood he’s writing to an imperfect group of people but there are foundational teachings fundamental teachings that make you the Brotherhood love that Embrace that now I tried to change my tone approach because you know it’s EAS to
Get needs with honey than it is with v they said so you don’t want to run people away but you don’t want to compromise truth to Wi it was where but somewhere down the line they going to hear one Lord One Faith one baptism somewhere down the line they going to
Hear that women don’t uh leave in the worship service somewhere down the line they going hear we take little serer every Sunday somewhere down the line they going to hear that music instrument of music is against just in scripture so you try to get them in and not coaching but
Uh coachs yeah coach coach and and just hope they say no CH you love the Brotherhood you love your church members you love the leaders of your church you love yourself because when you love the Brotherhood the church the leaders the members that’s your demonstration of Ling
God I just need to get that all about yes anybody got any questions or comments about the Brotherhood the Brotherhood you you are part of a Brotherhood and the Brotherhood is greater than the fraternity and the sorority the Brotherhood is greater than your basketball or football team all
Right but one thing I will say as I try to close I watch when they honored wasn’t the 75 greatest NBA players 75 whatever recently and I watched how uh the younger players and the older players interacted with one another and and I and I and I watched how D waye
Wade and Steph Curry and James Harden just stood in the back Jordan and and Magic Johnson were talking to one they just they were in allwe to be in the Pres those guys I watched how even Reggie Miller would go up to Jerry W and
Then some of the guys would go up to the older guys and the older guys would call the young guys by name and the young guy would say look I’m just hble being your pres and now everybody wants to be on the same level and I say this I say this
And I love you I say that some guys have not paid their dues but they want to be on the level of guy of preachers who have paid good D and I had to learn that I remember I I used to Brown said the and I don’t know how long I’ve been here
Get how you get onip and U and uh like I thought there was a secret that they were keeping from folk how you get onip and both of them in different way but Brown said they said the same thing but they said different said just do a good job where you
Are grow that church build that work and then when you get the call don’t blow see you go get the call you’ll get the opportunity but don’t don’t blow and in one way I took it is that tell be humble don’t be so aggressive and and try to make a name for yourself
Just do a good job and you will be noticed FS us to say same thing but now we got fellas you know that come out the gate have not paid any dues but want the respect then you got on hand then you got old preachers who um are not as friendly does not
Embrace but that that wasn’t my I can’t I can’t Endor I can’t say Amen to that because older preachers always uh welcome me with with open arms I mean you know I’m here because brother recommended me come and um I I probably stay longer than I thought I was going to stay
Because brother Bradley and brother F older men uh you know encourage me to stay brother Bradley as I close out I’m just reminiscing that I be down here at the office and and I used to read the front door sneak up on end up being BR you need to lock that door need lock the door said you going stay with us so at least give seven years seven years you he was real quiet sof spok and uh I gave him seven times two and and then the Lord blessed us to come
Back but uh I never had in older preachers um you I was blown away when GB at Le I was walking past he had a table he selling books and I knew he was I didn’t think he knew from the man in the room and I
Was like scared to say something to him and I I walking pass gr he said cruso come here and I said in my mind I said he know me by name and he asked me to come to his table and so so what I’m saying it you know the disrespect and
The dismissive on both sides has to be addressed and talked about but preachers if any preacher is listening to this don’t don’t leave the Brotherhood because you feel disrespectful don’t leave your Brotherhood because you feel you’re not being recognized and preachers don’t leave the Brotherhood because another Faith
Fellowship can offer you more money there’s some ethical commitments that we make when we start preaching the gospel and you stand on that you stand on that and your influence is greater than what you realize um and we may have the change our approach the Mage coms Question first Peter 2 verse number 17 read first 2 in verse number 17 we do need to love the Brotherhood when I say Brotherhood sisters y’all are included in the brother all right and uh if all the sisters got together said they leaving the church my next and final sermon is Farewell My
Brothers I’m not going to stay around here with a bunch of Brothers all first Peter 2 verse 17 honor all people love the Brotherhood fear God and honor the king love the Church of Christ you you love the Church of Christ you want everybody to be a member of Christ’s
Church you you want God to save everybody you want to try to save as many people as you can so yes let’s let’s love the Russ give us close prayer and Sunday um as said we we close out with prayer service and U in s and you on screen
Our Father who are in heaven father we come to you at this time thank you once again father for the bless that you with help um we to move to her to make decisions we ask that you forgive us father sin of transgression that we have committed against you your word father
Thank you for this place that we come to Fellowship worship and study your word more in dep thank you for placing instructive and teaching that you have placed Among Us at this time father thank you for your holy Divine word father bless us to continue to study and investigate your word father
We ask all these in Jesus name Amen all right thought you said
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