Bows father we come this evening just asking you father just thanking you father for allowing us to be here first father we just come to get a little more what we what the word we got from this suay father father just to reload father BL even that you fill us
Father so we can be a blessing to your people father father I ask that the word that comes this evening father just continues to flow through us and fill us up father that we continue to be blessed father father we thank you for everything that you’re doing for us this
Evening thank you for your continued love for us father nobody can love us like do father father this you that we know that you father you are all those things everything that we need this even father father we love you this evening Father Yes God and I know that you love me this even thank you for my family father thank you for our church family Nazar Nation father this evening continue to bless us this evening father father I just ask that you a special blessing on our pastor tonight father his family kids father father
Thank you for bringing them here father we needed that word father continue to bless father as I ask father this just continue to fill us this evening we love you father just thank you for this everything going to do your son Jesus name I pray Amen Grace and peace be multiply to you through our Lord Jesus Christ so grateful for you all being here on this afternoon if you’re glad to be in the house of the Lord one more time go ahead give God a hand clap of praise for he’s worthy to be praised
Amen so glad to see your faces already feels like church up in here amen feels like service already what it’s supposed to be like amen I could already feel the spirit of the Lord moving in this place when we think about the fact that when she says our God is a
Champion I want you to see the imagery I want you to see the imagery right away I want you to see the imagery a professional boxing match it’s 12 rounds and it’s three minute rounds and each person you have a champion and you have a challenger and the one thing I love
About it the Challenger has never been there before but the champion is like this is what I do and he steps into that ring and when the bell rings the challenge is doing all these things and then the champion just chilling it’s chilling one of the greatest fights of all
Time you got to be a sports historian to know this the great fight between George Foreman and Muhammad Ali in Africa the famous fight called the Roper do when I loved about it Foreman was just huge and he was a puncher I mean he could punch and Ali had fast feet and fast
Hands but he just lured for and to the r just took the and Foreman was giving everything he had and they said keep punching him George and Ali would just get to that Ro and all of a sudden he said you know what I ain’t going to have to fight you
Like the rest I’m just going to outlast you and then he just came in one lightning strike hit po foring was lights out and like the 10th round or something like that it was over with and every time the enemy comes your way don’t get nervous you’ve been built to take them Punches because if your savor took it every time they hit him on his back oh he just took it every time they put the crown of thorns on his head he took it every time they beat him and pulled out his beard he just took
It they nailed him to the Cross he just took it pierced him in the side he just but early on the third day with one p he knocked out death hell and the grave with one punch you ought to Rejoice right now that your God is a champion I’m talking
About you ought to praise him that you know what so God if you if you won that battle you going to win every Battle so God God built you to so let me encourage you before we start our lesson you ready be steadfast unmovable always abounding in the work of the Lord knowing your labor is not a me and having done all stand stand encourage somebody to just say just keep standing
Keep standing I want you to find somebody and pick their faith up and say I don’t know what you’re going through but I want you to keep standing God I don’t know why you taking me here right now but I feel the spirit of the Lord saying to somebody just keep standing
You’ve been built to last the whole fight you not going to fallou you’re not going to falter they thought they counted you out but God has put something on the inside of you greater is he on the inside of you then he that’s in the world and God is saying
I’m putting enough power on the inside of you that all you got to do is just get one punch all you got to do is just get one praise through one prayer through all you got to do is just get one Hallelujah one more punch somebody
Look at somebody and say one more punch just one more punch just one more punch just one more punch he’s still a champion I said he’s still a champion one more punch when you want to give up just throw one more prayer give him one more Hallelujah give
Him one more thank thank you Jesus that’s The Knockout blow right there you getting ready to win you don’t don’t don’t don’t throw in the towel just H just stay on the Rad just one more Victory is already yours in Jesus name amen come on give God praise for that we love him because that’s how it feel sometimes when you Pastor folks how you feel right now in the church but we taking a lot of blows taking a lot of hits you oh my
Gosh and we’re going to see tonight in our lesson as we’re talking about still the history of the church Acts chapter 17 we’re going to begin at verse 16 all the way to 32 we can make it amen we can make it and the thing is that God wants
To show us that the the people that we are talking about tonight Paul Silas and Timothy Paul and Silas and Timothy they were taking some incredible hits and they weren’t doing anything wrong they weren’t out there sliding and colliding lying and cheating they were doing one thing that got them in trouble
They they they had the audacity to preach the gospel and because of that they getting beat up they getting beat up and they were taking a lot of hits so if you weren’t here last week let me catch you up by the time we get to verse
16 where we’re going to start our lesson tonight the verses prior to they were doing a good work in all of these different cities and as they preach the gospel and wanted people to know who Jesus Christ is and and what he did for Calvary and what he did for their
Salvation what he did for them they started getting beat up accused and chased and put in jail and talked about people travel just to you ever had people travel just to put mess on you I mean they they made it in their attention when they left one city they
Went to another city and the folks from the other City came and said we going to follow you and stir up stuff man I’m trying to leave y’all alone but you just want to keep bothering me and here’s the thing y’all this how you know you really got to
Pray this how you know if you’re really saved or not some of y’all say you saved know about that you ain’t saved until you’ve been tested this kind of way the people that were trying to discredit them the most were their own it came from within the attack Came
From Within in you’re not saved until you can pick somebody to roll with you walk with them for three years and then they sell you for 30 pieces of silver and you still die for their sins y’all ain’t ready Jesus Christ watch this he actually handpicked every disciple
Including Judas as scariot and said I want you on my team knowing the whole time you were going to be low down and do me in but I’m I’m telling you ain’t there something like I want you to get in your mind let me tell you how awesome
God is let me tell you how awesome the father is he picked Judas knowing he was going to betray him but he said it’s necessary for you to betray me because that’s the very sin I got to die for I can’t die for the sin unless you
Commit it and I need you to be here to commit it so I can forgive you my God from Zion I’m getting ready to take off up in here because God needs to let you understand that he forgave all of your sins and he picked this man to walk with him and he
Knew he was going to betray him you are not saved until you can look people in your in the face that betray you and say father forgive them oh I wish I had no I feel like I feel like Sunday morning up in here I know I’m supposed to be teaching tonight
And I’m going teach but I I need you to understand principle you are not to the point until of of of true salvation until the people that betray you you tell them I’ll still lay my life down for you pray for me cuz I’m telling
You right now I don’t even know if I’m there yet I I pray every day God please take these streets out of me cuz you done took me out the street but that’s street is slowly but surely trying to leave me and I needed to leave
Me amen because see Street GCO say hey bro we got beef on site but the Lord is saying okay but now Wesley true you go there how does that glorify me Paul and silus are being beat up and harassed and hated on by their own kind we always watching out for the
Person outside the house the person within amen when the Lord is saying I want to I want to teach you some things amen amen so now we get to verse 16 get to verse 16 Paul leaves his company that he’s with he’s with Silas and Timothy leaves Timothy
Behind and Silas behind now we get to verse 16 Paul is now going he’s waiting for them at Athens he said okay because they keep harassing us and they keep chasing us I’m going to leave y’all here but I’m going to go head on going go to
Athens and as he waited for them in Athens I love what the text says the text says that while he was waiting in Athens let’s read it verse 16 now while Paul waited for them at Athens his Spirit was what provoked within him when he did what when he saw that the city
Was given over to Idols boy let’s unpack this right here Paul the Bible says as he was waiting for his friends to come and join him he was waiting in the city of Athens but his Spirit watch this was provoked within him when he saw observed that the
City had been given over unto Idols let me tell y’all something when you see the tumult of the city it ought to rise make something in you just rise up when God calls us to be his disciples his representatives there is no way that we can sit inside of the city where we
See the debauchery and we see the downfall and the lawlessness and something not rise up in you if righteousness does not rise up in you I doubt that you have the Holy Ghost the spirit from within given to you by God ought to tell you something’s
Not right and it’s not because you so deep and because you know the uh Theology heric and hermeneutics no it’s because you did something that God blessed you to do since you’ve been born and when he saw he observed with his own eye that the city had been given over to
Idols well see the spirit can’t rise up within you if you don’t have any word the only way something going to bother you if you know it offends the word of God that rest in your heart but if you don’t know what the word say it don’t bother
You amen he said the city have been given over to what and he learned a long time ago two things Thou shalt not have any God before me Exodus 20 he also learned that thou shall not make unto thyself any Graven image that’s word So based upon the word word that’s in
Him it ought to bother you here is the plight of our churches today in 2024 we see it but we don’t say anything we see it but we want to act as if we didn’t see it and the reason why the church right now is in an apostate
Condition to be in apostate condition to which means you you have fallen into the great apostasy which means a falling away from the truth of God and we ain’t talking about Sinners we talking about the church and the reason why the church finds itself in an apostate situation or
A condition is because we see it but we don’t want to say nothing because we don’t want to hurt nobody feelings but you better start calling what you see see that’s why you can swag FL Surf and do all that stuff inside of a church because you don’t see it you just want
To make sure you don’t offend nobody and you be holling talking about well that’s my Bishop let me tell you something don’t let your Bishop send you to hell because the Lord ain’t going to hold your Bishop accountable for your actions and if we act like we don’t see it
Y’all going to pray with me tonight or y’all going to be scared we have to if we see if we see it what’s the old what’s the term they give it something on that Dreadful day of 911 when it hit and and terrorism was now
Part of our Lives you go to any airport any major airport they they on the announcements no matter what you’re doing while you’re walking to your terminal and your your next flight the announcement comes on the general announcement that is heard throughout the whole airport that says if you see
Something do what say something and boy we’re oh yeah if I see something I’m going to say something in the church we see it well we ain’t going to say nothing don’t be mad that the Episcopal Church just celebrated the 20th anniversary of their first gay Bishop you should have said
Somebody 20 years ago you saw it then but you ain’t want to say nothing now he’s going to his coronation his 20th coronation with purple fingernails but if you see it uhhuh okay I’m gonna mess I’m gonna mess with you tonight if you see say something now you got another
Bishop married to a man call him the first gentlemen but don’t nobody want to say nothing I’mma say something hey you’re wrong that’s not of God and that you know what I’m gon to say something cuz see what I hate is what one of y’all do
They think that’s how all the rest of us act you cannot be married to another man sir not a bishop not not not period but especially outlined the scripture 1 Timothy 3 says that if anyone desires the office of the bishop that is a good
Thing but let him be the husband of one wife not one serve come on now if you see something like Paul there ought to be something that rises up the Bible say his Spirit it rolls up within him he like no this is not right I have to what say
Something if we are going to be the Church of the Lord Christ it’s not saying anything in condemnation it is to say no you’re in error sir no you’re in eror MA all right I’m G to mess with you for real now all right hey the Lord honors marriage not forever girlfriend forever
Boyfriend you cannot come to get marriage counseling from me because everything I’m going to tell you is for a husband and a wife we want marriage are y’all married well no are y’all trying to get married well not really well nothing I’m G to say to you is going to make
Sense because the Lord didn’t honor just us getting to get no he honors Covenant marriage we see something say something we’re not condemning we’re not we’re not harping on the sin but we have to give instruction a man and a woman they come together young people come and have a
Baby you know we bless that child but then we pull them aside and said now guess what just because you had one that don’t mean you got to have two outside of the Covenant of marriage oh you offended me I’m going to take my tie and go okay well this that’s
How you feel then I’m you have to go because I ain’t changing the word don’t change don’t change for me don’t and it says here is what we can do to correct this but if we see something we cannot be the apostate church that says well
I’m just not g to say it because I’m worried about who go here and that this they get this is what I when I first found Pastor n the the the the politically correct committee every church has one now Pastor you know that this person is a part of this
Family so you don’t like want to say that cuz the family CU that’s a large family now oh you know they say I would not be worth my Souls my job is to tell you the truth amen and if I see got see Wesley Davis if I see things in
You I got to say something to me unless you know you can’t do that that’s not God oh yall y oh I I I preach to me first before I come out here to you cuz I I have to measure up the same way amen Paul says something rose up within
Me right now this is where y’all really now Bob brand check this out Bob brand my auntie that’s my Auntie Bob brand that got say name my mama got but I’m my granddad from fitgerald so we say Bob R so look at this verse 17 therefore watch this yall ready y’all
Watch this teaching right here therefore so after he saw that the city was given over the idols therefore he what reasoned in the synagogue with Jews and with the Gentile worshippers in in the marketplace dailies who happen to be here let’s go back therefore he reasoned now when you reasoning with
Somebody you trying to convince them and try to persuade them in your argument that hey what you’re doing is not correct the text says he was reasoning with who Jews and Gentiles worshippers first of all two things why do I have the reason with Jews Paul being a Jew how do
Y’all who know better and I’ve Got to Now reason with you church folks that God is who he said he is and he’s to be worshiped as holy I got the why do I have to explain this to the people in The Covenant you hear what he say said he says I’m
Reasoning trying to convince you how are we convincing church people that Holiness is still right church people grew up in it your whole life and I now got to convince you that the agenda of the lgbtq is not of God first of all how do you
Want to think lgbtq and God can be in the same sentence unless he’s saying come unto me all the who are late in heaven late and I’ll give you rest and save you amen you cannot practice lawlessness and expect to be blessed but I’m trying to convince church
People and here’s a thing that that that got my spirit he says he was reasoning with Gentile Jewish right Jew and Gentile what but the previous verse said they were worshiping Idols so what are you worshiping just because you worshiping that don’t mean you worshiping the true and the Living
God you worshiping Idols you can’t make statements and brag on social media well 150 people got saved saved to what and to who not the true and the Living God can’t be because the Bible said a verse before they were worshiping idols and they were worshiping so now you got people worshiping
Wrong and we have to make sure that in our churches that our worship is to the almighty God that’s why I’m always talking to the music Ministry and say make sure that the songs we sing is not about us but it’s about him we should not be anywhere found in
The worship the worship ought to be all praise and honor to the Lord God who sits on the throne that’s where worship belongs true worship is not about I the worship is Lord you amen and they were worshiping which means at the what we in the church right
Now 2024 have got to understand that people are worshiping they just not worshiping God okay people are worshiping they are not worshiping God which means when they come into the house of worship there ought to be a different sound it should not sound like anything else but worship it ought to sound like
Church people are already worshiping there ought to be a difference amen what are you trying to illustrate Pastor I’m trying to tell you the same issues that were dealing with then we’re dealing with now okay our job is to make sure that when you walk through here
You see Jesus that’s why you’re so important beloved Body of Christ when you the pastor well yeah I’m the pastor that’s my job you know what your job is be nice smile speak say good morning what you can do I’m not asking you to preach Genesis through Revelation but what I
Asking you to do if somebody comes and it’s already crowded in here on Sunday don’t be sitting there well my purse got to be here take your purse put it on the floor well my mama said don’t put a f purse on the floor do you know what that
Purse was before it got to the rack it was on the floor in some dirty warehouse and they poxed it up and then they kicked it around and they moved it on the shipping crate before they got it here they fixed it together in some sweat shop in China and then they made
It available to you at a cheaper price talking about don’t put my purse on the floor that’s where it started tell the truth Shan the devil all that stuff we get imported in has been marked down don’t put my purse on the floor because my mama say if you put that on
The floor then you going to be broke if you put the purse on the floor no you’re going to be broke because you keep buying Michel Jordan tennis shoes for a three-year-old boy that’s why you broke that boy foot is growing every day but you going to sit there and spend
$100 for a tennis shoe on a boy his foot going to be bigger than it was two weeks ago that’s why you broke ain’t because your personal flow okay then my bad okay did I I I I’m gonna stand up in it because it’s the truth anyhow when we when we have to
Understand that people are coming to have an experience we are a vital part of that experience how do you not know that your one good morning your one hello your one I love you you your one I’m praying for you is the difference between somebody trying to go home and blow their brains
Out everybody put this in your know say man I got I I got a part to play put that I got a part to play because people are coming they are coming have you seen this place on Sunday morning they’re coming they’re already here amen and they want to worship the true
Living God the scripture says this the Lord is seeking such you remember when Jesus was at the well with the woman he says the Lord is seeking such now a worshiper who will worship Him in spirit and in truth worshippers are coming but we have to Worship in what spirit and in truth
Amen here’s here’s here’s something let’s let’s teach this Verse 18 then certain epicurian stoic philosophers encountered him and they said what is this baber talking about now to understand this you got to understand what an epicurian philosopher is and a stoic philosopher epicurian philosopher are those who pursue
Pleasure as the chief purpose in life okay and value most of all the pleasure of a peaceful life free from Pain disturbing passions and superstitious fears including the fear of death they did not deny the existence of the Gods but they believ they had nothing to do with
Man these were the epicurian these were the people the affluent of society the fool has said in his heart that there is no God and they believe that they were superstitious of dying and now remember they’re the greatest influence because they are the philosophers of this time of the
People and they have taught people to be afraid oh we don’t want to die but for the believer for me to live is Christ but if I die it’s only for my game you got to tell people you know what your situation may never change that’s real
Spill that’s real talk I no real spill me that’s what we say back that’s real talk all right your situation may not even change but let not your heart be troubled believe in God believe also in me for the Lord has gone to prepare a
Place for you that where he is you shall be also and like Thomas they going to say well Lord where is this place and how what is the way to get to this place you talking about and that’s when you say Jesus says I am the way hey the truth and the
Life no man come to the father but by me but the epicurian had a certain belief that oh we don’t think pleasure way to live and we don’t want any pain can I have about three witnesses that will tell you pain is a part of the Christian
Experience some of us are going through right now either some type of physical emotional spiritual pain but it’s in pain that God births Ministry out of you you ever heard of birthing pains every woman in here that has had child like yes sir anybody that’s a parent you understand what growing pains
Are pain is a part of it amen but pain is used to let you all know that guess what we ought to go through pain every day because we should be feeling our flesh being Stripped Away from our man he says and he who did not hold back
But who may conform to the image of his son you know what that means to be conformed to the image of Christ every day the Lord puts you up against that cross and everything that’s hanging off he’s got to cut it off so they don’t see
Any part of you or me they see the cross so every day you have to examine and put yourself on this table because it’s necessary to produce a promise pain produces PR promise my dear good friend Ken little today he is cancer free in Jesus name had the surgery cancer free but you
Know what had to happened on the 18th of January he said big brother I got to go in I said what they going to do they said they’re going to put me on the table and they going to open me up and it’s going to be an8 hour surgery and
They got to clean and cut everything out of me that should that’s got to get out so that I can be healed it’s a painful I got to recover they got to stitch me up but when he get through when the surgeon gets through at me there will be no
Trace of the cancer anymore what are you saying preacher pain is necessary God puts us on the table and he cuts out everything and he scrapes it out that’s not like him and it’s going to go through it’s going not going to feel good but when we get
Through I said when we get through pain was there to produce purpose we got to stop telling lies in church from the pull pit I’m talking to preachers now quit telling people that oh if you do this and you do that your life is going to be good let me tell you
Something there was a man named Joe and he lost everything within one hour that he held close to him and we’ve got to tell people pain is coming but you have to know how to respond in the middle of pain there are people that are going through pain right now but you would
Never know it because like job they have washed their themselves they come to the house of the Lord they say the Lord has given the Lord has blessed taken away but blessed be the name of the Lord in the midst of pain that’s what the epican believe the stoic
Philosophers this was their belief and I’m coming down through here and I’m about done the stoics believed they were pantheists who put a great emphasis on the moral sincerity and a high sense of Duty moral sincerity high sense of Duty they cultivated watch this I’m GNA mess
With you now they cultivated a spirit of proud dignity proud they they were the prideful folks of your Society upper eons you know walk around like they arve I’mma get in your business now these are your sororities your fraternities your law groups your medical groups your law enforcement groups your your millionaire Your
Country Club gos these are the people that believe I’ve arrived at them and because of of my status that makes me somebody can I just give you Greek letters don’t make you anybody you don’t need a Greek letter to tell you that you belong because the
Bible says I feel my right I said the Bible says that when he made me he ain’t make me in the image of a Greek letter but the Bible says that he made me in his own image and in his own likeness and he gave me Dominion before you gave
Me a letterman jacket before I played football before I signed the nil deal that you blowing my head up thinking that I’m all that and I ain’t played one down to college football yet and I might absolutely suck but guess what I walk around with pride because I didn’t read my word my
Word said I’m fearfully and wonderfully made whether you give me an Accolade whether you give me a letter whether you give me colors I am a child of the Living God is there anybody here I feel like preaching now I said is there anybody here that said I’m a child of the Living
God and the stoics of society will confuse the church to make us believe that if we do not have certain accul and credentials that we have not AR also believe this that even if I lose it all they believed that suicide was a better option than living a life without this Prestige or
Dignity them the people that Paul got to preach to does not not sound like the people here we believe that we have arrived if we got a six bedroom three and a half bath we drive Mercedes and BMW and Land Rovers and Range Rovers we drive nice
High-end cars escalate we we have told ourselves and we even told people to church that means you are blessed we ought to be ashamed of ourselves in the church because we have relegated God to the emblem of an automobile we got people think you blessed because you’re driving Mercedes
You ain’t blessed cuz driving Mercedes you just want to drive that because that’s what you can afford amen God bless you uh note yourself that maintenance fees though can’t get him at Auto Zone can’t get no shots over there at Auto at Auto marks my brace cost 35 yours cost about
235 for one tire but we have lied to our society to think that you’re blessed because you have things and the Stokes believe that if I lose it all then I need to commit suicide because killing myself is better than not having stuff this is the church that Paul had
To preach to but this n a church that Wesley Davis got the pastor right now but can I tell you something if you get bust it down from a six bedroomroom three and a half bath house to a one-bedroom apartment you know what you need to say Lord I want to thank you
That I got a roof over my head father God I want to thank you that I did not sleep out there in the cold God I want to thank you that God you see the lies of the field they neither tall nor they spin but yet their heavenly father has
Arrayed them in all of your glory god I thank you that the birds they neither gather nor sew into bars but yet you provide for them am I not greater than a bird I’m absolutely greater than a bird and because I’m greater than the bird I sing because I’m happy I sing because
I’m free His Eyes On The Spar We have to combat con the ideology of our apostate church and Society if you lose it all Jesus told the Rich Young say hey look here you want to follow me give it away and follow me he couldn’t do it we have to teach our children stuff don’t make you saved accumulating
Wealth it does not save your soul he said okay what you going to do with all this stuff he says Master I’ll build another barn and he said to him fool your soul is required tonight so lay up them Treasures mhm in heaven not on Earth where thieves and
Breakin can get to but and moth can eat to and bugs can tear up no no but lay up your treasur got the sto last thing I’m done I love the text verse 19 and we’ll stop here so they say who is this B other said he seems to be a
Proclaimer of foreign Gods why because he preached to them Jesus and the resurrection can I put a side note on my way to my clo Jesus in the resurrection is foreign to the society we live in now that’s a foreign concept don’t take it for granted everybody understand
Because now we’re living in a society where it was see me and my wife we 44 right going to be 45 this year God say the same and so we grew up where our friends went to church our M and daddies raised up Us in church our children go to church but now
We’re finding out that we have a society where people are absolutely unchurched there are children right now that don’t even know what Sunday school is that a foreign idea to them the cross is foreign but here is the indictment on the church the cross and the resurrection is foreign in
Church because if we want to be a popular church and want to make people come to our church you don’t rarely hear preachers finish their sermons at the cross no more anymore proper grammar family anymore because we have came up with this idea that oh if you preach the cross that’s old
Fashion so we got a lot of motivational speeches on Sunday morning because when you start preaching about the cross the people in the church like what is that we cannot make the cross foreign in church that’s why we need to teach our kids the early catechisms that we were
Talking who died for you Jesus who was buried on the third day and rose again Jesus ask a kid that now I don’t know it’s forign they thought that he was a bab because it was a foreign idea to preach Jesus help us Lord that we always preach the cross if
You don’t know nothing else you need to leave Adam nazarine for Gospel Church know this he was born of a virgin he lived a sinless life he walked and had a public Ministry for three years but you need to know this and hear me when I
Tell you right right at the camera I want to let you know that one Friday on a hill far away stood an Old Rugged Cross it was the emblem of suffering and shame he was nailed to a cross he died hung his head buried in the grave and he
Rose on the third day and he’s on his way to get us back that ladies and gentlemen is the gospel that can never be foreign now I’m done for real and they took him Paul the people the epicureans and the stoics they took him and brought him him to the arrow
Pigas stop going no further than the arop pagus in the Greek it was a Hilltop where philosophers would debate they have their great meeting they call it Mars Hill okay Mars Hill the great place of philosophical th tribe if you will the a pagas it’s a Hilltop where philosophers would debate
But it was also where the city officials would hold trial for those who committed murder and those who committed crimes against public as God is calling us out of this apostasy he’s using all this I’m tell you I’m start off low I’m strike five I’m sit down and get out
Here the Bible says he was taken to Mars Hill and it’s a place where philosophical debates went on right but it was also a place where uh they tried people warned for murder and also who were responsible for civil arrest have you ever come to a place in
Your walk with God where you realize you are standing in a place that you really don’t have no business standing in in the first place hold on son Paul remember put them in people who murder folk go down they try well before he was PA his name was
S and his profession was murder for high and had Paul got there maybe years earlier than this day he wouldn’t be preaching he would be executed because he was shown up guilty of murder did he not murder but when the Lord has a plan for your life and he overshadows all of your
Faults and then he says I’m going to take the same person that’s supposed to be tried for murder I’m going to take the same person that’s supposed to be run out of town but I’m going to use you and all of your background to stand in the place where they should have killed
You anybody in that place I should have been killed sleeping in my grave but the Lord said I got my hand on you I’m going to convert you and Turn you and guess what as he stood there and defended the gospel here we go here we go no one knew what he did
Before so when God is calling you now to stand up in this apart State world stop giving him that excuse God I used to be this I used to be that I used to do this and I used to get down like that let me
Tell you right now the grace of God has covered you the mercy of God has covered you the love of God has overshadowed all of your faults can I give you reminder as a father pies his children so the Lord Pi those and as far as the EES from the
West so has the Lord removed and the Lord will always bring bring you to a place where you stand and you get a nudge but for me this could have went another way boy look at here I’m done you got to wake up every morning walk into where God has allowed
Your feet to stand and say but for me this could have went another way the only thing that’s going to help reach this world is God using the people who are the least qualified to do his work but you can’t stand there afraid of what people might have said about me and
What people may know about me can I can I do you realize most people don’t know who you are we have confused ourselves people going to know this going know that ain’t nobody studying you we have made ourselves Facebook famous and we have used that as an
Excuse Lord I’m not going to do this because somebody might recognize me if they recognize me then this a testimony of God look what God can do God can take even me and turn my life around so I can go back and get somebody else so I need
You to get off off that tied testimony and realize that there is now therefore am I talking too fast no condemnation to him who is in Christ Jesus all that guilt you trying to carry ain’t nobody stutting that get up here and proclaim the gospel because the world that you are in they’re
Dying and they need to hear the truth even if it comes frombody that’s got a pass like Paul and he stood the Bible says our pagas go study it in the Greek that’s Mars Hill and that’s where they try murderers and God said yeah I know but I want to use you right
Here that’s what keep you humble cuz you like God you use me and Jesus looked at that woman and said yeah you know I know all about you my husband ain’t here so I got to going no actually you right your husband ain’t here but the man you with right now
Ain’t your husband as a matter of fact you got seven but she was the same woman that went back to her town and became an evangelist and she said come see a man who is the Messiah God says the condition of my world of my church is
Deteriorating and I need to use the people who have sold out to me the remnant to make my name famous and we keep trying to disqualify ourselves based upon indiscretions of our past if we believe that goodness and mercy follows us all the Days of Our Lives we also got to believe that
Goodness and Merc takes care of the track record if we can if we can Rejoice or we can accept that the president of the United States can pardon criminals how come we can’t accept that God will pardon our sins so as we get ready to leave this place
His God is saying look at what Paul went through look at what the church look at the society look who I’m going to use I’m not trying to use people that’s got on no no I didn’t call many noble I didn’t call many mighty but I looked out amongst and I
Looked at him among we say yeah they work everybody in here has got a check of pass from the pastor to theing God is saying I’ll use you if you are willing to stand flat footed and preach the gospel the same gospel that Sav you is the same gospel that can save the
People that hear you if you believe that the blood covered you it stays if you can if you can believe that the blood covers you stand for him and say God I declare your goodness to somebody else somebody needs to hear the hope that lies on the inside of you
Trish can I tell them a story two weeks ago y can listen for me because I got to tell this story Trish stopped me she said pastor you know you taught Wednesday night that how do you not know that your person ass witness to somebody and tell somebody I said yes she said
Pastor you talked about the break room and everything yeah she said pastor I was at the break room and that young lady was like I just don’t know what to do TR said just come on back to church just come on back to church she said for
Real I ain’t been she said no no no and she pleaded with her come on back to church and in that moment the spirit of the Lord didn’t tell the girls you thought n you know when 96 this what Trish did in 97 this what she did 98 he used the vessel of
God and she heard the word that it may not have been scripture she said come on back to church that is because the Lord says I’m married to the black side and when the young man had come to himself climbed about the hog pin and saw running back home his dad ran to
Meet him she gave her the greatest thing since Christmas she gave her Christmas in January and said just come on back to church so whoever I’m preaching to tonight don’t disqualify you God say I’ll use you because I need somebody that believes that God is still on the
Throne I need a church that’s still going to preach the word the living True Word of God cuz all of us had this experience that started at the cross you look at that cross let it take it down memory L it was there by faith I receive my sight and
Now not quit woring about yester you let’s talk about now amen the church is redeemable still he needs the remnant who has not yet their need today to stand up and say I’ll preach this gospel because the epicyon in the story they need to hear the word of God Amen
Come on let’s stand it was there by faith am
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