E good morning church it’s so good to see you all this morning please let us stand who all can and for our invocation father God you have brought us together one more time on this first Sunday morning and father we just thank you for waking us and guiding us along the way father
Bless the service today bless all that attend bless what we hear bless the word father bless our pastor as he deliver the word father bless every heart father that we may leave here better than we came and is in Jesus name I pray amen am come on clap your hands if you’re
Glad to be in the service just one more time just one more opportunity to praise and thank God the Bible says oh clap your hands all you people and make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord if you have something to be joyful about put your hands together and tell God thank you
Because he is a merciful and a wonderful God he’s one that blesses us In Spite of Ourselves he’s the one that keeps us when nobody else wants us he’s the one that loves us when nobody else could love us and for that we give God praise
This morning so just join us in worship this morning Than come with me hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah yes hallelujah oh Lord Oh Lord we bless name and we come to give you all the glory all the Glory all the praise oh Lord we bless your name hallelujah hallelujah [Applause] hallelujah oh Lord Oh Lord we bless your name and we come to give you all the glory all the glory all the praise oh Lord we bless your name let’s take it up yay hallelujah hallelujah sing yall yeah yeah yeah Hallelujah oh Lord Oh Lord we bless your
Name and we come to give you all all the glory yes all the glory and all the praise all the praise oh Lord Oh Lord we bless your let’s stay there and we’re singing Hallelujah Halu and we’re singing Hallelujah Hallelujah oh lord lord we bless your
Name and we come to give him all the glory all the glory and all the praise all the praise oh Lord Oh Lord we bless your name come On come on you should have it by now hallelujah hallelujah singing Hallelujah Hal oh lord lord we Bless yeah all the glory all the glory and we’re giving you all the praise all the praise oh Lord Oh Lord we bless your name hallelujah hallelujah and we’re singing Hallelujah H [Applause] hallelujah oh bless all the glory all the glory and we’re giving you all the praise all the praise all the glory all the glory and we give you all the praise all the praise all the glory all the glory and we’re giving you all the praise all all the
Praise Glory all the glory and we’re giving you all the praise all the praise GL all the glory all the glory all the glory all the glory all the glory all the glory all the glory all the glory all the glory and we’re giving you all the praise all the [Applause]
Praise Lord we bless your name oh Lord Oh Lord we bless Your oh Lord Oh Lord we bless your Name Come on is there a praise in the house this morning is there somebody that came today to bless the name of the Lord for all of his goodness and all of his Mercy if that’s your testimony this morning just lift your hands and tell God thank
You because he is a merciful and a wonderful God he’s a God that blesses us In Spite of Ourselves and when you begin to think of his goodness and his mercy your heart just has to move a little bit different it just has to move a little
Bit different your feet begin to move when you begin to think of his goodness and his Mercy all the glory the glory all the praise all the praise all the glory all the praise all the prise the glory all the glory all the praise all the all the glory all the
Glory all the glory the glory all the glory we give you all the praise all the [Applause] praise oh Lord we bless your Name good morning SBC family and friends here is the men’s emphasis season announcement we’re having an A Bridge season this year however we’re still coming and coming strong so men we need you to get in and work with us get ready for men of song and praise as we salute
The Hawkins so if you know anything about the Hawkins everything that the Hawkins wrote has blessed the house of God for so many years and continues to be a present song when you think about the songs like marvelous when you think about the songs about never alone when
You think about the songs what is this so I’m just naming just a few that the Hawkins wrote so we’re going to do a snippet of it but come and be blessed on November 18th at 6:30 p.m. men if you like to sing and can sing rehearsals are
Tuesday and Thursday at 6:30 p.m. once again man I want to repeat that if you like to sing and can sing so I’m seeing a couple brothers that can sing I need you to come and join us so we have we we’re going to make it we’re going to
Make it work whether it’s two or three we’ll make it work cuz all I need is three for three-part Harmony but I would love the Unity of the brothers to come together to sing so if you know anyone if you know someone that sings and they’re not a member of this church
Please invite them to come and sing with us rehearsals are Tuesday at 6:30 and Thursday at 6:30 culminating service will take place on November 19th at 8:00 service Only Our Guest preacher is Reverend John gamble who is the moderator of the north Jersey district also a frat brother of mine who I love
Dearly so he’ll be coming to bless us with the word of God on that Sunday the 19th men are assessment are $200 so please we haven’t had a lot of activities this season so I need every man to do $200 or better so I won’t even
Charge you a little bit $200 or better women we’re asking for $50 if you can if not give us what you can if it’s your best we’ll take it and we thank you and be blessed Good morning good morning good morning Shiloh family and friends how’s everyone doing this morning praise the Lord God is good this is the day that the Lord has made and we will rejoice and be glad in it so good to see everyone on this first Sunday the fifth day of
November in case you did not know our pastor Reverend Dr Daryl laru Armstrong will be celebrating his 55th birthday on Saturday November the 11th what a blessing what a blessing hallelujah what a blessing today we will be collecting a special birthday love offering for our pastor special envelopes were handed out
At the registration table last Sunday and today if you did not receive an envelope please let us know however if you would like to cash app your special birthday love offering pastor’s cash app is dollar sign r v d a r r e l l Armstrong a r m s r o n
G and it’s also on the um on the screen so please join us next Sunday as we celebrate pastor’s birthday with cake after the 8 A.M service thank you for your time have a blessed day and enjoy the service Amen Pastor Armstrong shall be with us any moment now but uh sister Deaconess latu bonap poar uh asked that she be in the program for moment to thank the church for for um all the love and support shown to her in the passing of Deacon bonapart so I’m going to take a
Mic down to her and let her thank the church I think she’s out there morning sh I’m standing chur and many thanks to answer I don’t know where pass what the name my son to speak I’m to say he born a child born my son put on the
Phone I gave so much tough love I have not seen my son in five years I refused to I saw him when was sing when I walk in cour he was at time I was angry I took his sick father I just passed in the courtroom or very I said many many
Thanks to you you well for me did so much I’ve been in his church from the time I came from Africa 1982 and I’m married in this church and I’m still here I know where to go this is my home now very where are you this
Morning good to see you the case in Africa they saw the fire on the video my family yeah I’m not well I decid to to church this morning that they he my voice thank you than so welcome so welcome so welcome amen amen when she said Reverend
Where are you I had hearken back to my fifth grade principal here I am ma’am we thank God for Deaconess latu and for her um Spirit of Thanksgiving and gratitude it it is a blessing in anytime we can serve any family in our church uh particularly at moments such as those transitions anniversaries
Celebrations um and particularly around death and so whatever we can do if it’s humanly possible we will certainly consider it um and small things like receiving a phone call to make sure that Deacon Ben and Deacon latu son could be in the service is a small thing but it
Goes a long way for what latu and her family wanted to be have be a part of that service and so you’re very welcome Deacon latu and um as I said then and I say now we celebrate the cultural diversity of our congregation with our brothers and sisters particularly from
Africa East Northwest South Central as well as the Caribbean islands um as part of this worship body and experience and I really really to push hard that we understand as people of African descent we embrace all aspects of our culture amen um African African Caribbean africanamerican you name it and so we
Bless the Lord today for a blessed opportunity to worship couple of quick things before we move into our moment of prayer um I am excited about um November because it’s the day the the month of gratitude and so we want to say thank you to a number of folk number one we
Want to say thanks be to God for our um veterans and so next Sunday the 12th of November if the Lord says the same uh we want to honor our veterans I’m going to ask all veterans to please stand if you’re here whatever branch of service in which you serve would you please
Stand so we can just thank you a couple of times today and next Sunday amen come on y’all put your hands together we can sleep at night because some of them were on the battlefield amen and so next Sunday we’re having a veterans appreciation service for Veterans Day an honor Veterans Day
Veterans day is the 11th um which is a Saturday and I always like to say when I was growing up my birthday is on Armistice Day and they said what is Armistice Day I said well I don’t know either but someone told me it’s Armistice Day uh Veterans Day Day
November the 11th and because of the celebration um it will be uh recognized on that uh next Monday and so we’re going to take our moment in Shiloh to do what we’ve been doing for the ma past several decades which is to say thank you to our veterans um and our very own
Colonel Walter R null Will Be Our Guest um speaker for that day uh faithful member is shlo former um acting Deputy Commissioner for Department de deala as we call the Department of military and Veteran Affairs and so um we want to certainly thank God for his leadership
And we’re going to invite brother Ley Austin who is the Commander for the merca County VFW there are five of them in Mera County and as you hear me say um of the five Trenton is the only one that doesn’t have a physical location um Hamilton Lawrence you named
The other ones physical locations buildings we’re the only one and that to me that’s my personal opinion serves as a disadvantage for black and brown veterans who live in Trenton cuz they have to go further to get the services that they need and so we want to see a
Veterans VFW here in Trenton right and so we’re going to collect a a special love offering next Sunday to help defay um help go towards the cost of a VFW and to support the work of ly Austin and the VFW and the veterans in our city my own
Returned like many of your family members returned from Vietnam a different person he was not the same thewi Armstrong who went to Vietnam who came back from Vietnam and he needed services in South Central LA and we didn’t have the kind of access to services that Hollywood veterans had or
Santa Monica veterans had or San Pedro veterans had and so this is personal for me um but it’s also personal for all of us cuzz all of us know somebody who needs these Services all right and so thank you for um supporting that we also have a very special event um close to
Thanksgiving a coat drive that is being sponsored by our missions and evangelism Ministry our very own trustee Caroline McMahon and all the missionary Caroline you’re here um stand up to the Caroline Caroline is over to my right your left if you yep give her a hand encouragement if you
Have some gently used everybody say gently and look at your neighbor and say neighbor you know what gently means don’t you if you don’t want to receive it don’t give it that’s what gently means you have a gently used coat that you can donate cuz it’s getting colder and we
Also if you’re inclined to buy some new coats go see Caroline let her know you can sign up you can ship them to her you can drop them off whatever you need to do sister Caroline will make sure that they are received and that they are we are disseminating them to where they
Need to go all right so thanks be to God brother Clarence you in the house par um we need uh brother Harry in the house brother Harry can you go downstairs and check with the um ladies downstairs for our fellowship sister Karen um we are having our post service Fellowship
Moment hour uh between time of 9:30 and um and 10:30 and it reminds me how many you appreciate the extra hour of sleep you got last night anybody daylight savings time so we we’re going to do our post service Fellowship hour and this is something we’re doing now every first
Sunday and we’re excited about that and so another way to Express gratitude for our members of our church and we say thanks be to God for sister Karen trusty a and other Ministries that are helping to sponsor that event um and then we also on Fourth Sunday this month are
Excited to do our throwback second throwback Sunday um and I thank God for that amen give God some praise y’all enjoyed the first throwback Sunday um I’m sure you will enjoy this second throwback Sunday and the third and um that leads me to my last announcement we have a couple of um special
Announcements that our board voted on just this past week one is the um support of our throwback Services until further notice we endorse the board the church endorses this idea that every fourth Sunday we will look back and look forward look back we have our little virtual um Museum outst to lift up
Artifacts from downstairs from the Betty Carter Lacy Museum um and we thank God for that our throwback choir how many throwback choir members are out there in the audience throwback choir members amen amen I see brother Wayne sne back there we going to wrap you into the
Throwback choir brother Wayne and a few others of you ENT into the Men’s Choir uh for brother Derek’s upcoming Men’s Day Jason you too and everybody else out there in the Men’s Choir um and so we’re excited about throwback Sunday in addition though we have um voted that we
Would reopen our 11:00 a.m. service amen we’re going to reopen our 1100 a.m. service there are is a steady flow of folk who come to those doors every 11 :00 um hour looking for service and we have to tell them we’re sorry we’re only doing eight right now but until further
Notice um that that will change and so that further notice is now we’re starting today going to um do our 11:00 service with live worship we were doing both but the 11 o’cl service a year ago was with recorded music and that was because we were coming out of the
Pandemic and a number of other things now we’re having live worship music at 8 and 11 and I thank God our praise team has carried us throughout the pandemic give God some praise for them as well as our other aspects of our liturgy praise and worship Ministries we
Thank the Lord and at 11:00 we’re looking to do the same and and for those caregivers of children and Elders who can’t get up at 8:00 because it’s a little too difficult to make the 8:00 service we want you to come to our 11:00 service those of you who are watching
And listening by way of YouTube and Facebook we look forward to welcome you back to our 11:00 a.m. worship experience this going to be experimental quote unquote um at least for the next month maybe two months November possibly December get a feel for how this is working right so the deacons and myself
And all of us are constantly taking in information to ensure that we are serving the needs of our congregation if by chance this isn’t working then we’ll pivot again and figure out additional opportunities and options to engage as many of our shallow members as possible all right the second big announcement
That we made this this week at our Jen board meeting is that we are going to start doing repass again for funeral homegoing services and that will entail if the family wishes to have their service here at the shalow church that’s one thing they may wish to have their
Service and the repass here that’s another thing they M they may wish to have their service elsewhere but have the repass here at the shalow church and there’s a different scales of fees depending on um the status of the member or member right so if you’re an active
Member if you’re an inactive member please be clear both of those means membership active member inactive member both members but different status in terms of what the cost and those different things will come out to be then there are nonmembers and the nonmember may say hey we’re not a member
Of shalow but we like the location the parking the access um all of that and we want to use your facility for the service or downstairs Auditorium for the repass and they can rent it out out as if if they were running out the ambassador’s ballroom up on New York
Avenue right and we have fees and scales and all of that to correspond so point is Shiloh’s back doing repass and remember the last repass we did here at Shiloh was March 16 2020 three and a half years ago we have not had a repass service here at the
Charow church and that was for the late trust uh late truste a and Usher and Ross who served our church so faithfully and one of the biggest Pains of my hearts during the pandemic was that we couldn’t do service or repass for so many deserving families who sold so much
Into this church during 2020 21 22 and half of 23 3/4 of 23 and so I’m very pleased to announce that we are being able to do repass call the church talk to line and we will work what whatever will help you identify whatever bucket you fall into and the status and the
Corresponding fees all right but just know we’re doing repass we’re back to doing 11:00 a.m. service and I am um extremely thankful to God for the way our church right can speak for other churches our church has responded to the pandemic being mindful of the pandemic but also understanding pandemic doesn’t
Stop Ministry from going forth to do God’s work amen so let’s give God a praise offer come on Deacon Hood um as we move now into our time of offering a few additional announcements I’ll make during the um period of um During the period of um offering uh to give keep
You updated Deacon Hood thank you Pastor it’s prayer time Shiloh and uh we should see on the screen some homegoing announcements prior to Celebration of Life Services past Services wanza Cole age 62 passed Tuesday October 24 in curry North Carolina uh funeral was held November the 4th and she is the cousin of Shiloh member Stan
Willis Willie May Williams bets age 88 passed October 28th homeg goinging service was November the 5th and she’s a sister to Lorraine Williams Bernett Benjamin and family celebration of life Services upcoming Services shallow Baptist Church member senior Usher charity D Shaw age 72 passed away October 23rd 2023 funeral
Will be at 12:00 p.m. Wednesday November the 8th 2023 at Shiloh Baptist Church calling hours will be 10:00 a.m. until time of service inter interment will be Ying Cemetery Ying New Jersey celebration of life Services pending Services Karen Randall mlan homing service will be held Pittsburgh PA Arrangements pending cousin the Shiloh
Me uh members Deacon S Patricia hood and deacon willly Memorial board is lit this day for Henry S Chester November 6th 1967 uh amethyst L carry November 7 2005 and Memorial board uh Sunday uh November the 5th uh 2003 in honor of these are birthdays and we honor these birthdays
Today Sharon l young birthday November the 5th trusty Aid ORV Brown birthday November the 9th and Dr Daryl Reverend Dr Daryl L Armstrong birthday November 11th and now it is time for us to go before the throne you may take any posture that you so desire just know who you calling on
Let us go before the Lord father God you you have elected to take us and bring us through another week and Deliver Us to this house of worship this morning to give you all praise give you all honor and father we thank you you woke
Us up this morning you started us on our way and we just thank you Father and father we we thank you for for the peace that you give us father we know that you are in heaven and you alone are king of all Kings and you alone have all
Power and we know that father and we’re here to give you all the honor father we ask that you forgive us of our sins father forgive us of our sins on this day father and we ask that you you bless us to forgive those who have trespassed against
Us father let us forgive them Father have no chains anchoring us down father holding us back for moving forward into your kingdom and father we just love you this this morning we ask father that you give peace and comfort to those who are ill going through illnesses may they be physical or may
They be mental and wherever they may be father bless them on this day father give them comfort and courage father because in knowing you and knowing the Holy Spirit father knowing our lord Jesus father we have faith we have hope just believing father in our our Holy
Trinity we have hope and we just thank you God for that hope that you give us and father we just ask that you continue to bless Shiloh and our pastor and his family and F father we ask that you bring peace to the land the land that is
Near and the land that is far father we know that you can do it we know we can’t understand how you’ve done what you’ve done cuz only you could do it and so we know there’s no limmit to what you can do and we’re asking and calling
On you on this day father to step in and show us signs that you are going to see us through and father it is in Jesus name that I pray Amen You B it’s no goodness of my own but it’s the hand of the Lord that’s upon me It’s no goodness of my own but it’s the hand of the Lord that’s upon me help me sing and it is no goodness of my own but it’s the hand of the lord it’s the hand of the Lord that is upon me it’s no goodness of my own But it’s the hand of the Lord that is upon me wo the hand of the Lord hands upon me wo W it’s the hand of the Lord that is upon me it’s no goodness it’s no goodness of my own hand of the Lord the hand of the Lord that’s upon Me it’s no goodness of my own yes but it’s the hand of the Lord that is upon me woo with the hand of the Lord that is upon me W it’s the hand of the Lord that is upon me I’m so thankful that I’m here I’m so thankful that I’m
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Oh hand of the lord it’s the hand of the Lord that is upon me oh oh of the Lord is the hand of the Lord that’s upon Me Yo God as I look back over my life come on come on y’all and I think things all over I can truly say that I’ve been blessed I have a Tex more morning let me see back over my life and I sit down and think about I can Tru I got
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TR can you truly come on I need a few folk who don’t mind praising the Lord testimony a few folk got a testimony yeah God yeah God yeah God testimony H testimony evidence of what God has done in your life testimony testimony testimony testimony you shouldn’t have got out of
It but you did you shouldn’t have made it through it but you did you shouldn’t have got off the hospital bed but you did you shouldn’t have gotten the job but you did you shouldn’t have made a way but God did it anyhow testimony thanks be to God for his Miracle working power
Testimony somebody shout testimony I’ve got a testimony to God be the glory for the great things that he alone has done in our lives amen we have praised God we prayed unto God and now it’s time to preach about the me immeasurable Riches of our god of
Our savior of our deliverer of our way maker amen I want you to stand to your feet if you can join me in an exploration of the scriptures Philippians chapter 4: 1-9 Philippians chapter 4 verses 1-9 say Amen you’ve located the text and uh certainly draw your attention to the
Screens we try to print or or display the text as well as direct you to to your word cuz the screens aren’t going home with you the word is all right we want you to take your Bibles and Mark it and bookmarket and put placeholders in
It so you can go back he Pastor preach even if you don’t know where the book of Philippians is in the New Testament I want you at least bookmark it and then you can go back and reference it Philippians chapter 4 starting in verse number one the Bible reads as follows I
Therefore my beloved and longed for Brethren my joy and Crown so Stand Fast in the Lord my beloved I implore Yoda and I implore stii to be of the same mind in the Lord verse three and I urge you also True Companion help these women who labored with me in the
Gospel with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the Book of Life verse four and five rejoice in the lord always again I will say rejoice let your gentleness be known to all men the Lord is at hand be anxious for nothing but in
Everything by prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving let your request be made known unto God and the peace of God which surpasses all understanding will guard your hearts and Minds through Christ Jesus verse eight finally Brethren whatever things are true whatever things are noble whatever things are just whatever things are pure whatever things
Are lovely whatever things are of good report if there is any virtue you and if there is anything praiseworthy meditate somebody say meditate meditate on these things the things which I learned and received and heard and saw in me these do and the God of Peace will be with you here ends the
Reading of God’s Divine and Eternal Word May edify and sanctify by God’s people would that you pray with me on the title of today’s sermon formula for Spiritual success formula for Spiritual success let’s pray Father in Heaven May the words of my mouth and our mouths the
Meditations of my heart and our hearts be acceptable in your eyesight Lord you who are Our Redeemer and Lord you who are our strength I plead the blood of Jesus Christ over everybody watching viewing listening and in the sanctuary participating and I ask oh God holy ghost that your anointing will continue
To fall fresh in the awesome name of Jesus I do pray let God’s people say amen and amen God bless sure you may be seated on this first Sunday of the 11th month as we reopen our 1100 a.m. Services I’m excited um to announce a very guest
Lurgical artist who’s going to be with us next uh today at 11:00 and if any of you care to come back and stay for this 11:00 a.m. service you’ll be treated to to a spiritual gift uh I’ve invited a young lady who is a multi-instrumental talented artist who plays all genres of
Music and yesterday I was at John and Karen Weaver’s mother’s homegoing service the late Irma Hollis Weaver some of you got the text about checking out the live stream yesterday and Karen and John appreciated those of you who could and those who prayed are praying for
Them um I met a relative of theirs at the repass service sister letia and uh she is the gospel violinist about whom I speak and I want to show you a little snippet of her Ministry CU I’m just pleased that she was able to accept my invitation to come be with us
Today at our 11:00 a.m. service and if any of you um who are listening on our radio broadcast we certainly invite you to come back and share with us on 11 so take a little snippet of sister Latisia Yeah Lord amen Yes [Applause] Yes [Applause] [Applause] yeah [Applause] Lord [Applause] Now now [Applause] Now hey W [Applause] Right Right amen so that is Miss Leticia James so if you want to come on back and share with us at 11:00 service we invite you to do so we’re going to have a good time in the Lord amen all right it’s preaching time The Book of Philippians is known as one of
Paul’s um Epistles to the churches the Apostle Paul is a great Theologian a great author a great Pastor uh perhaps he’s known for his Evangelical Crusades and the most his church historians ascribe three major Crusades that Paul took to spread the gospel outside of Jerusalem to what we call Asia Minor
That includes places like the Greek Isles today even as far west for for him and them it would have been west of the Middle East where war is Raging right now west would have been Northwest and North directly north would have been into turkey and then Northwest would
Have been across the aan sea into these lower places of what have been called Caledonia and um what the Bible calls uh the land of Corinth and Ephesus and Philippi modern-day Greece and islands around and southern Europe and Far West as Eastern Italy would have been where
Paul’s Crusades took him and when he planted churches in these areas Paul being one person could not stay and Pastor that church because he was on to another church plant another Ministry site and so he would leave in these places in which he founded congregations men and women
Y’all yes some who say Paul had a thing against women if you look at the biblical record one is hardpressed to really conclude that what some take is one scripture in one book in one chapter of the Bible in which he says women be silent we take that and describe that to
All of Paul’s Theology and that is incorrect cuz surely if Paul meant women to be silent he wouldn’t have elevated Priscilla the wife of Aquilla to help P the church in Ephesus he surely would not have called out women as he does in this particular text Yoda and santii
Santii those women who are helping him do the work of ministry and so the Bible is not just a simple book that you read a couple of verses and extrapolate conclusions that are unfounded one has to the text one has to dig into the text one has to compare if
There is a Biblical author like Paul who writes over 15 books of the New Testament uh 13 books of the New Testament 27 books one has to ask what on this topic what do we find Paul writing in every book he wrote It’s just good not only biblical
Exeresis it’s just good research make sure you don’t jump the conclusions based on one study that you extrapolate and read across the body of literature that that you know in in in these programs that I’m in one of the first things they make you do is do a literature review so you
Can indoctrinate yourself with the entirety of the body of literature on that particular subject in biblical senses an exegetical literature view is to say on this topic what does the Book of Genesis to the Book of Revelations have to say about this topic and who
Said what and when did they say it and what was the historical context in which they wrote it so that you can then get as much evidence about theological and christological and numerological and ecclesiological and you name it conclusions on a particular matter so Paul writes this particular letter to
The Christians in Philippi and anytime you read Paul’s writings you have to say it that way Paul is writing to the Christians in Corinth in Ephesus in Philippi in galatia and there are particular things that are unique to each of those communities that Paul is addressing as he writes his
Letters and so he writes to the Christians in Philippi in this particular text and he’s already written three chapters to them about variety of different Christ christological things because the one thing that Paul is doing is clarifying what Jesus said Paul isn’t saying or doing anything
That Jesus did not say or do and part of fact he says very in a variety of different times follow me but he appends that with the phrase follow me as what I follow Christ don’t just follow me without me following Christ you see me going off
The deep end don’t you go off the deep end if if if if that’s not somehow uh justified in scripture because there is a deep end that some of us may have to travel which is giving it up all or giving up all for Christ and some folk don’t want to give up
All for Christ you say you love Christ but you when it comes down to it are you willing to give up some things or some people for Christ amen somebody and so Paul is very clear about his mission and his message Paul is writing about the mission the message of
Christ and the mission is to carry that message as far wide as he possibly could and so this letter is in that context Paul writes to the Christians in Philippi he says these things in verse number one he says to the Christians in Philippi therefore my beloved and I
Believe he’s extrapolating this to both brothers and sisters even though he uses the one word brethren my my beloved and long for Brethren I I believe Paul is writing to everyone but there is a particular message I believe he is saying to the men of that Community as
It relates to the women of that Community he says look there in the text Stand Fast in the Lord I implore uoda and I implore ctii to be of the same mind in the Lord and so in some cases Paul is addressing conflict in God’s church and one of the
Key things that Paul wants for all Christians in every church is to be unified can I say that again unified Paul is very clear why would you be in a church and you trying to tear that church apart can I say that again why would you be in
A place where you say you’re a member of but you don’t like being there that doesn’t just go for the church why would I stay in the sorority and I say I’m a member of it but I don’t like anybody in leadership I don’t like anybody in the sorority but I’m in the
Sorority and I’m just causing all kind of Chaos let me jump to the fraternity let me jump to the lodge look over here Mike let me jump to the lodge let me jump to your job and job might be a little different cuz you may put up with some stuff cuz
They giving you a paycheck I’m not giving you a paycheck the lodge the the the fraternities are already not giving you a paycheck so why are you stand there causing chaos Paul implores the people in Corinth to be of the same mind I can get into every Ministry why
They a part of that Ministry and you causing chaos I can apply that to every point in life because the question comes why what am I contributing and am I contributing something to the positive and so Paul says in the text that in verse in in this first point
That I want to make I want to use three M today I want to use the words uh mediate modulate and meditate and I’m just going to go through them really quickly and then we’re going to move into communion mediate mediate in imates that I am engaging between two people or two
Groups of persons to try to bring some either resolution or unification to what is going on Paul says in verse number one and verse number two Brethren put it back up there Brethren I need you to be of the same mind and to stand fast in the midst of
Whatever is going on so that we can build this thing and not tear this thing down I implore Yoda and I implore CTI to be of the same mind in the Lord male female older younger be of the same mind uh and and he goes on in in other books
To say let this mind be in you that was in Christ what is that mindset that God did not consider it robbery to send his beloved son from Heaven to Earth and that Jesus came down and gave up what he had in heaven to take on the bana of man
And woman to help show us what it means to love God that means Jesus gave up something in order to give something in order to get something gave up for a moment his ecclesiastical perch to come down to earth to give up his life in order to
Get the lives of those of us who were lost and so it is that Paul understands the mindset of Christ and he wants that mind to be that which dominates you and I as we go about our daily lives he goes on to say in verse number three three and four this very
Interesting he says I urge you also True Companion help those women who labor with me in the gospel with Clement also and the rest of my fellow workers whose names are in the book of life that word help ought to jump out at you because every now and again every single one of
Us needs some help as strong as I may think I am I know that I am not strong enough to carry this thing by myself and I need some help I need some deacons I I need some Deaconess I need some clergy I need some praise worshippers I need some
Instrumentalists I need some registration folk I need some administrative folk I need some folk on the door I need some folk in the security Ministry I need some help cuz this thing isn’t about one person this thing is about Christ we all need some help you cannot do this
By yourself even in your marriage that’s why they call your spouse a helpmate to help you in times of need when you’re weak I got you baby I’m strong when you’re strong I may be weak but together we can do this thing come on somebody God God never intended us to be long
Rangers God never intended us to be solo artists God intended us to work in community in the body of Christ and the key word in community is Unity to be of the same mind and so he says my first word is mediate because we constantly have to mediate our relationships with each
Other and then my second word is modulate because how many you know when you’re dealing with people folk can get on your last nerve I’m not looking at anybody I’m looking up and I’m looking at me because y’all may say I get on your last nerve because in our mediation there is
The need to modulate and regulate our emotions can I say that again cuz in when we are dealing with people and personalities including yours one has to understand not only is there a constant mediation process going on but there must be a constant regulation process going on Grandmama
Said it this way don’t let everything that comes up come out I can’t stop it from coming up but you may be able to stop it from coming out cuz once it’s out it’s hard to get back that’s why the Bible says be slow to speak quick to listen slow to
Judge cuz once it goes out it’s heart to then mold that thing and massage that thing and try to make it palpable and make it acceptable I know you just want to tell them what you were thinking I’m going give them a piece of my mind but you better hold back a
Piece because human emotions are what they are but I believe inmic in the Biblical scripture is the ability to regulate our emotions how do you say that Pastor look at verse number four and five verse four and five Paul says rejoice in the lord always again I will say rejoice let your
Gentleness be known to all men and women I believe he will say for the Lord is at hand uh that word gentleness ought to jump out at you because in the book of Galatians Paul talks about the fruit of the Flesh and he talks about the Fruit
Of the Spirit and the fruit of the flesh are envy and jealousy and anger and all of these negative things that we know generally link to our human emotions but the fruit of the spirit is what joy and peace and kindness and longsuffering and gentleness and self-control against which there is no
Law they’re actually nine fruit of the spirit and you and I every day we get up must figure out how are we going to appropriate those nine fruit of the spirit how am I going to control my tongue today amen somebody how am I going to control my
Outburst today how am I going to control my anger today how am I going to regulate my mind today that goes for any kind of human relationship that goes for marriages that goes for spousal relationships that goes for parent child relationships cuz your children can take you there but a
Good parent understands just cuz you or your children want to take you there doesn’t mean that you have to go there that goes for your professional relationships that goes for your interpersonal relationships that goes for your fraternal relationships that goes for your soral relationships that goes for your ecclesiastical
Relationships it goes for every relationship that we have the fruit of the spirit joy peace kindness gentleness meekness love self-control against which there is no law because Paul understands that these are things that are going to help you regulate put verse four and five back up
There and Paul elevates a couple of them he says joy and gentleness Grandma you said this way this joy that I have the world didn’t give it to me this Joy I have I missed that note the world didn’t give it to me this joy that I have come on y’all
Y’all see me struggling the world didn’t give it the world can’t take it away put your hands together give God some Praise Paul says joy Rejoice all always that means when they take you there get some Joy dig deep and find some Joy I don’t know what brings you Joy in the Lord but you got to push that button when they’re trying to push your buttons push the joy button and go
Ahead and just say I know you trying to rob me of my joy but I’ve come too far by faith God has been too good to me to let you rob me of my joy This Joy that I Have gentleness I’m learning these things as you are gentleness okay I know you just gave me this heavy thing let me be slow in my response gentle perhaps even in my reaction harsh reactions bring about harsh reactions to your reaction and I’m guilty of it we’re all guilty of
It but watch when someone brings you a harsh reaction and you give them a soft reaction back they don’t know what to do with that cuz they’re trying to push you to that harsh reaction and when you give them something that disarms them that’s why the Bible says when your enemy is
Hungry give them some food when your enemy is thirsty give them something to drink for by so doing you Heap coals of fire upon their head they don’t know how to handle the devil doesn’t know how to handle a Godly response and so mediate modulate then the last one is this phrase
Meditate Paul ends this little what I call formula and I’m always a little mindful of formulas because you know just like theories that can be disproven formulas don’t always working every time but I think this one can hold I think this one can hold cuz how I mediate my
Human inter relationships is based upon my internal ability to modulate my emotions which then also culminates in my ability to keep ongoing refreshment into my spirit which is upon that which I meditate what do you spend your time thinking about what do you give your energy to and the Bible says in the
Latter parts of these verses 67 8 and n look at the text the verse says in verse number six be anxious for nothing but by all prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving to let your request be made known unto God keep that verse up right there verse number six cuz I need you to
Understand one of the keys to verse number six is not that you’re not going to get anxious but the Bible says when you are anxious I need you to counter your anxiety with prayer and Thanksgiving I need you to say Lord you know where they’re trying to take me you
Know what they want me to do but I’m going to just focus for a moment and some of the folk used to say I’m going have a wooa moment how many you know what a wooa moment is will you just take a deep breath hold it and you exhale everybody say
Woo because the Thanksgiving part is that you have to counter The Narrative that’s coming at you and when the negative is coming remind yourself of what God has done for you and get into a space of Thanksgiving and say Lord I understand what’s going on here but I
Thank you for your kindness I thank you for your love I thank you for your provision I thank you for your protection and you have a conversation with God as they’re having a conversation with you and you continue to give God the f focus of what’s going on at that
Moment and he says with Thanksgiving let your requests be made known unto God Lord keep me in this situation Lord deliver me out of this situation Lord don’t let me do something that brings dishonor to your name and to your ministry Lord help me right now in the
Name of Jesus and then he goes on to say in verse number seven he says that not only ought you give thanks thanks with with Thanksgiving but the peace of God which surpasses all and some versions say human understanding will guard your hearts and guard your minds in Christ
Jesus just like last week I preached about the armor of God put all the whole armor of God that which repels the fiery darts that are coming against you prayer and supplication with Thanksgiving will guard your heart and guard your mind meditation and then he concludes he says
Finally brothers and S sisters in verse number eight whatever things are true whatever things are noble whatever things are just whatever things are pure whatever things are lovely whatever things are of a good report if there be any virtue is anything praiseworthy meditate on these things to meditate is to give your
Attention to to meditate is to focus in on to meditate is to direct all of your energy to to meditate is to spend time uh reflecting upon not the negative but the positive and I need some Christian Blood Bought sa Blood Bought Saints who are watching and listening to me today
To understand that that on which you meditate will grow can I say that again that on which you meditate will multiply itself so if I’ve meditate on that which is negative don’t be surprised when negativity starts to grow but if I meditate on those things which are positive those
Things which are Godly those those things which are spiritual those things which are anointed those things which are scriptural can I get a witness in the house today if I meditate on those things which are biblical those things which are uh theological they will begin to grow and
As they grow they will become bigger than the things that’s coming against you I don’t know about you but I serve a big God and the big God I serve is able I said he’s able to handle my big problems because my big God died on a
Big cross shed his big blood to deal with my big problems and early on the third day he got out of that big grave with all power all all power and authority in the world to handle my big problems there’s no problem that God cannot handle there’s no demon that God
Cannot deal with there’s no challenge that God cannot mediate there’s no bridge that God cannot build there’s no sickness that God cannot heal there’s no check that God cannot write I serve a big God I serve a big God does anybody else here serve a God who is able to do exceedingly
Abundantly above all that I could ever imagine it’s there in the text y’all as plain as day if you meditate on negative negative will grow but if you meditate on the things of God the things of God will grow and as I cross the Midway point I’m asking God for 110 years y’all
I don’t know if he give it to me but I’m at the Midway point and Truth is every year you’re at the Midway point I hope I’m learning something as I grow older time out for this petty stuff this negative stuff this little stuff let me focus on the god stuff
Let me focus on the things of God and the more I focus on the things of God the more he helps me what mediate and modulate my meditation helps me with my mediation my meditation helps me with my modulation my meditation helps me with my elevation in the name of
Jesus Let the church say Amen Let the church say Amen again and one more time for the Holy Ghost won’t you stand to your feet pray with me father thank you for your word it’s as plain as day it’s right there in the word I thank you for
It preaching not with standing it’s right there in the word god and I thank you for your word help us all to learn these things to be spiritually successful I pray that you would touch your people and draw them nigh unto thee in the name of
Jesus and if someone doesn’t know you in the pardon of sin I pray that you would draw them now in Jesus name anyone listening under the sound of my voice on YouTube or Facebook listening on Free Conference Call watching on in the service today I pray that if they don’t have a relationship
With you God that you would help them to have that relationship man or woman I pray that you listen to me and all you have to do is say Lord I’m sorry Lord forgive me Lord come into my life very simple father save someone today and if they’re already saved but
They’re out of fellowship with a church I pray that they would come give us their hand and give you their heart today in the name of Jesus Let the church say amen and amen and amen deacons Deon clergy help me extend this invitation as the deacons and Deaconess
And clergy are taking their positions in the aisles we only do this so that you know you have somebody to walk with you down the aisle or up front we would love to have you we would love to have you we would love to have you we would love to
Have you anyone here today we would love to have you they’re not perfect I’m not perfect none of us are perfect but we’re here just as servants just as servants anyone here today if you don’t have a church on we would love to you to become a member of our congregation if you’re
Here today if you’re here if you’re here here if you’re here if you’re here if you’re here if you’re here if you’re here anyone here who doesn’t have a church on we would love to have you if you don’t have a relationship most importantly we invite you to
Come and let God have God’s way in your life go ahead and sing one more time praise Team to show show the way from the Earth to the my anybody here anybody here anybody here the cross to the from the grave to the Lord Lord I Lift Your Name on High Lord I Lift Your Name I Lift Your Name God bless you you may be seated God bless you you may be seated sing your pra I’m so glad yes I am I’m so glad during my Life I’m so came come on if you know the song open up your voice you came you came from heav to Earth to show the way from the Earth to the my to from the cross to the Grave from the grave to the sky I LIF thank you Lord yes we do that’s what we Endeavor to do every Sunday come on give God a praise we lift his name on high God bless you listen one of these deacons Deaconess clergy women or clergy men myself would be happy to talk to
Anybody at any time so whether it’s a first Sunday third 2 third fourth and fifth before service after service grab one of us we would love to have a conversation with you all right God bless you may be seated deacons deess you may take your seat
All right um we’re going to move quickly now into our time of giving um I do want to yeah we’re going to Hal for a minute while we do the giving um we want to invite I think the table’s going to come forward right uh who’s doing the
Birthday pieace and I want to certainly thank god um for that uh you all are church members are ever so kind and I thank God for you and my family my children um my three three children y’all didn’t know I had three children yeah let me clear it up two children and a
Dog I list dog I list Annie as the dependent on my RIS taxes she needs to eat too y’all but I thank you for your kindness and your generosity so thank you I’m not sure who and what’s going to happen now but thank you thank you thank you
Okay all right now I can hear myself good morning okay I I am mity high tower teal and I stand before you uh to bring the short birthday announcement uh Pastor Armstrong will be cele celebrating his 55th birthday on Saturday so we Shiloh Baptist Church
Want to just um say a little prayer May the peace of God be with you Pastor Armstrong on your special day May the gifts of Grace surround you as you follow in his way may the blessings rest upon you and his his wisdom guide guide you to and always in all
Places May the love and care for you be a blessing happy birthday Pastor Armstrong to come on Saturday as sister Cheryl announced this morning some of you may have missed an announcement that we are inviting all next Sunday next Sunday although we’re having little refresh downstairs after the service but
Next Sunday we will celebrate Pastor Armstrong with a cake all right but we didn’t want you to wait till next Sunday the leadership brought you your own personal Strawberry Shortcake that you can and we’re asking God to bless you with every kind of joy thank you and you’ll have one more opportunity to
Say happy birthday to our pastor and uh in that beautiful sitter basket today this is his happy birthday basket so have it upon your heart please uh say happy birthday to our pastor so our time of offering today will be this way that Center basket will be for
Pastor’s birthday and the outer two plates will be our regular tides and offering the and so having said that under the leadership of the ushers let us proceed with our time of giving and thank you for all that you do for this church and for this community and for the community at
Large outside Place tithes and offerings Center basket love for the pastor B It’s Amen amen all things come of thee Oh Lord know we amen all right listen um before we the deacons actually move it over um to the deacons over here Deacon ER Ernie because we’re going to move in front of the communion yeah so as I’m finishing these announcements deacons and Deaconess let’s go and prepare the table um immediately following the
Service is a fellowship moment so I didn’t get a chance to greet this side so if y’all go going downstairs I think I can slice up that that that strawberry cake into about hundreds little pieces and I’ll share some with you but I didn’t get a chance to greet this side
I did greet that side I thank God for all of you to God be the glory um I’m so excited about this election cycle that’s happening on Tuesday November the 7th um I’m excited because at least four of our members are running for reelection or election amen and one of our members is
Here miss Elise Carl Michael Henderson stand up Miss Elise she those of you who live in Ying she is running for the uing board of education so I want you to Mark sister Elise what what column is it D column D for sister Elise all right so
Put her on the Ying board we already have Nicole um Harris on the Y board sent up Nicole there’s Nicole she’s already on the Ying board so we want to get a lease to join Nicole on the Ying board so all my Ying IES make sure that
You cast your vote for sister at leise all right not knocking any other candidate but I know at leise and we know at leise all right and Trenton my Trenton is and need you to cash a vote for my dear sister Addy Daniels Lane who’s already on the board and we want
To keep her on the board all right and so we thank God for um those two candidates and then I I know I don’t need to say it but I I need to say it which is Shirley Turner is running for reelection member of Shiloh we need to
Put her back and make sure she stays the senator for the 15th legislative district all right and then certainly um assembly woman Verina Reynolds Jackson and assemblyman um Anthony verelli they’re running back to get to to represent um the county or the assembly seat and then we want to um also ensure
That for this County election for Mercer County Executive Democratic this is just darl Armstrong saying this not Shiloh that Dan Benson who’s currently the assemblyman for the 14th District Hamilton and other places out there he’s running to be the new Mercer County Executive all right and I believe that
He will do an awesome job any of you saw a seat at the table this past Thursday I want you to make sure that you see it uh my co-host for my election series every year is Dr Diane Campbell raise your hand Dr Diane over here to the left she
And I interviewed as many of those candidates as we possibly could check out we’re going to send out the links to all of them there are five different links for the election series watch them learn about the candidates platforms here at leise talk about her platform here assemblyman Dan Benson talk about
His platform mayor Palmer Janine Laro so many of us are endorsing Dan Benson to be the new County Executive for Mercer County all right but you have to vote your own conscience and wherever you live in Mercer County make sure you vote wherever you live in the 14 14th 15th
Anywhere vote vote vote we’re having a rally here tomorrow at uh the shadow Baptist Church for the annual pre-election rally I believe it’s at 6:00 pm. is that right folks 6 PM downstairs in the L aitor all right let’s stand to our feet as we get ready to take communion and participate in
Holy Eucharist um I’m going to we’re going to recite our church covenant together having been as we trust brought by divine grace to embrace the Lord Jesus Christ and to give ourselves holy to him we do now solemnly and joyfully Covenant with each other to walk together in him with brotherly and
Sisterly love to his glory as our common Lord we do therefore in his strength engaged that we will exercise a Christian Care and watchfulness over each other and Faithfully warn exhort and admonish each other as occasion may require together that we will not forsake the assembling of ourselves
Together but will up the worship of God and the ordinances of that we will not omit Clause of the family religion at home nor neglect the great duty of religiously training our children and those under our care for the service of Christ and the enjoyment of Heaven
Together as we are the light of the world world and the of the earth we will seek Divine to enable us tood and every world to ccum the world that may wi soul of and that we will cheerfully contribute of our property according as God has prospered us for
The maintenance of faithful and Evangelical Ministry Among Us for the support of the poor and to spread the gospel of the earth through the work of missions together that we will in all conditions even St to live to the glory of us out repeat after me May the God of Peace
The God of Peace who brought again from the dead our lord Jesus who brought again from the dead our lord Jesus the great Shepherd of the sheep the great shepher of the sheep through the blood of the Everlasting Covenant through the blood of the Everlasting Covenant make
Us perfect in every work to do his will make us perfect in every work to do his will working in us that which is pleasing in his sight in us that ising in his s through Jesus Christ Jes to whom we glory to GL forever and ever for
Amen let’s pray father bless now these words that this time of communion that we may not eat nor drink judgment unto our very Souls that we may take of this table with the right spirit and a right heart forgive us of sin have mercy upon
Us we pray and Lord may you continue to be glorified thank you Lord in Jesus name amen we’re going to invite you to go ahead and take your seat our deacons will now come as we serve communion to God’s people we invite our praise team to help us with singing songs of
Preparation as we partake um let me say this now before we end our communion experience there’s a whole host of birthdays that we are going to show in our screens at the end of our service today um actually and then but I do want to draw special attention to Sister Lorraine
Cooper it’s a little known fact but Lorraine has been working here at the shallow church for 2 years this is her 25th anniversary the only two employees longer than that would be our very own sister Betty Louise young who is coming up on nearly 30 years of work here at
The shallow Baptist Church and myself so I want to do something special for the 25 and 30y year employees of our church and you’ll be hearing more about this um a little bit later but when you see uh Lorraine October 12th was her 25th anniversary here at the charotte
Church give her a big hug let her know you appreciate her and I’ll be singing a little bit more about Betty and a few others as well all right to God be the glory let us continue to sing together Mye with my to the Merc to the rising oh Lord Mercy To Oh Mercy is there anyone who has not been served raise your hand we want to make sure we serve everyone if you can would you please take your rise to your feet as we partake of communion together you don’t have to if you prefer to sit that is perfectly fine
But we want to invite all who can to stand to their feet as we partake of this Holy Eucharist we’re going to sing a very familiar song of God’s church let us break bread together also if any of you joined our church in the last um really
The last year since January one of the things of throwback Sunday we’re going to do is the right hand of fellowship and I know we haven’t done that in a long time so we’re getting our new members ready today and tomorrow next week for the fourth Sunday where we’re
Going to extend to them the right hand of Fellowship on throwback Sunday so we invite all of you who are new members if you have not um finished any new member process come see me right after the service all right all right we need another communion uh packet anyone who
Has not been served or needs another packet please ensure that we you raise your hand let us sing let us break bread together Together us when I fall on my knees my knees with my face to the Rising Sun oh Lord have mercy Merc on me amen the Bible says in Matthew chapter 26 verse number 26 that as they were eating which means they were eating a Passover meal Jesus Took bread blessed it broke it gave it to his disciples and said take eat this is my body broken for
You as often as you do this do this in remembrance of me we do now eat likewise in like manner Jesus Took the cup and said this is the cup of the New Covenant of my blood shed for the remission of your sins I should not
Drink of this cup with you again until I drink it new with you in my father’s Kingdom as often as you drink this drink it in remembrance of me we do now drink likewise there was no benediction on that day but the Bible does say that
They went back to the Mount of Olives where they were staying they went singing a hym and so I invite you to go and sing a hym with us we want to wish these baby happy birthday babies on the screen whose names you will see happy
Birthday to all of them come on let’s sing a little bit upbeat let us us together let usak together when I fall my with my face my face Oh Lord us us together let us Together oh Lord in the name of Jesus
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