And father of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ we give you praise tonight praise for what our eyes have seen and our ears have heard up until now thank you Lord for the gospel the message that we’ve heard tonight already and and I ask oh God that you would speak
Again in the name of Jesus we pray Lord that you would save the soul that’s nearest hell here in the auditorium and those who are watching God May conviction touch those who need to be convicted and encouragement those who need to be encouraged strengthen us where we’re
Weak build us where we’re torn down anoint us to preach with power and authority tonight in the name of Jesus we declare that you’re Lord and there’s no one like you now God we give you praise and we thank you in advance in Jesus name amen everybody give praises
To the god of the Bible in this place praise the Lord what a mighty God we serve you might be seated I do honor him tonight and I thank God for being good to me I want to give honor tonight to our great leader our presiding Bishop Bishop Charles Edward
Blake not only do I want to honor you Bishop Blake but I want to thank you sir for this opportunity and for how God has used you to show me kindness throughout my ministerial career Bishop Blake consecrated me and I thank the Lord for him and for how he’s
Leading this great church would you give him a big round of [Applause] applause first and second assistance presiding Bishop Bishop PA Brooks and Bishop Jerry Wayne Macklin we certainly praise the Lord for them and for the members of the general board we praise God and honor every one of you I would like to just take a moment to highlight Bishop Sedrick
Daniels who has certainly played a tremendous role in my life Bishop Daniels stopped me one day and asked me to assist him in working with North Carolina 3D jurisdiction ition and when he talked with me I asked him if he had talked to my Bishop my spiritual dad Bishop Leroy Jackson Ward
And he told me that he had talked to my Bishop before he even approached me I learned from Bishop Daniels I said to someone the other day today as a matter of fact I said I took notes from the master I watched him as he maneuvered and took the jurisdiction
From one place to the other were it not for him I wouldn’t be standing here tonight as prelate of North Carolina 3D thank you Bishop Daniels for your hard work God bless you sir to Bishop John Henry shear and the board of Bishops to my spiritual dad whom I love I talk about
Him everywhere he’s a man of God indeed he loves Jesus and um I said to him one day Bishop I want you to be my spiritual dad and he treated me like a father would treat a son and uh the thing about Bishop Ward is he’s big enough to let
Someone else be big he was so kind as to recommend me to be auxiliary Bishop that was the first time that any person had been an auxiliary Bishop in Greater North Carolina jurisdiction and when the opportunity came to become jurisdictional prelate of nc3 he gave me the nod I thank God for
My spiritual father God bless you Dad we just love you sir and praise the Lord for him to our general superviser mother Barbara maku Lewis God bless you woman of God Amen amen and to the first lady of our national church lady May Blake our Bishop calls her his secret weapon
God bless you woman of God to our general supervisor ameritus mother really May Rivers we thank God for mother Rivers God bless you ma’am and to all of the national and appointed officers of our church when I first met this woman of God I
Said to myself what a joy it would be if I ever got to work with her not knowing that we would share together in the Lord’s work the supervisor of North Carolina thir jurisdiction mother Beverly Dean would you please stand mother that’s the supervisor amen of
Nc3d and what a supervisor she is Mother Louis she’s doing a tremendous job and I’m enjoying working with her amen we thank God for her I’ve been married uh in December it would be 38 years to a young lady who I talked into marrying me when we
Were uh 19 she took a chance on me I tell people I didn’t have but $20 and she off says but he had a job but she married me and um here we are almost 31 years later God has brought us this far by faith I thank God for my lovely
Wife Pamela honey would you please stand there’s my baby right there amen amen she’s my wife my love and the mother of my only two children Patrick Jr and Crystal amuku they’re here and my son-in-law Elder John amuku I thank God for my family would you all just you all
Stand up and let them see you praise the lord it’s my son and my daughter and my son-in-law and Saints tonight my mother is here the lady who brought me into this world brother gwindel and Ellison there’s my mama sitting right there on the front row wave you there’s my mama
That’s my mother and God bless you Mama amen and she’s sitting right beside my spiritual mother mother Willard Dean Turner we certainly do honor God for you tonight the members and officers of North Carolina 3D members of The Upper Room Church of God in Christ a few of
Them came tonight those who have come from nc3d and upper room let me hear You thank God for you thank you thank you a friend of our ministry she flew in from mcken Texas to be here tonight she’s an awesome woman of God and a tremendous preacher prophetess Barbara Callaway we are honored to have you with us tonight God bless you woman
Of God and to all of the Lord’s people we are grateful tonight for this opportunity to stand before you and Minister the word of the Lord how about Elder Blake did he not preach earlier tonight amen God bless him I would like to call your attention to Isaiah chapter 52 52nd chapter of
Isaiah and we’re going to begin reading at the first verse it says awake awake put on thy strength o Zion put on thy beautiful garments oh Jerusalem that is get dressed up get ready to go somewhere Jerusalem the holy city for henceforth there shall no more come unto thee the
Uncircumcised the Babylonians will not mess with you anymore and the unclean Shake thyself from the dust arise and sit down oh Jerusalem loose thyself uh from the bands of thy neck oh captive Daughter of Zion for thus sayth the Lord ye have sold yourselves for not and you
Shall be redeemed without money for thus sayith the Lord God my people went down a four time into Egypt and sojourned there that was in the 13th century around 1200 BC and the Assyrians oppressed them without cause in the 8th Century around 740 BC and then I hear the Lord says now
Therefore what have we he saith the Lord speaking of what would take place in the 6th Century around 586 BC you know we call we serve a God who speaks the things that be not as though they were that is he speaks of future events as
Though they have already come to pass he says what have we have here uh thus saith the Lord that my people is taken away for not they that rule over them make them to how sayith the the Lord and my name continually every day is blasphemed therefore my people shall
Know my name therefore they shall know in that day that I am he that doth speak behold it is I how beautiful upon the mountains are the feet of him that bringeth forth Good Tidings and publisheth peace that bringeth forth Good Tidings of good that publisheth salvation that says unto Zion thy God
Reth thy Watchmen shall lift up the voice with the voice together shall they sing for they shall see eye to eye when the Lord shall bring again Zion Break Forth into Joy sing together ye waste places of Jerusalem for the Lord hath comforted his people he hath redeemed
Jerusalem for the Lord made bear his holy arm in the eyes of all Nations and all the ends of the Earth shall see the salvation of our God depart ye depart ye go from hence from V touch no unclean thing but go ye out in the midst of her be ye
Clean that bear the vessels of the Lord Matthew 5 and 13 ye are the salt of the earth but if the salt has lost its Savor wherewith shall it be salted it is henceforth henceforth good for nothing but to be cast out and trodden under the foot of men I want to preach
Tonight from the 11th verse to be Clause of Isaiah chapter 52 from this subject be ye clean amen that bear the vessels of the Lord be ye clean right that bear the vessels of the Lord right now this subject flows in the same vein as the theme that the Lord has given our
Presiding Bishop our great leader for this 100th 11th holy convocation which is the church seasoning the world our Lord uh said this about the church’s assignment uh to season the world the Bible says to the church while Jesus was preaching during The Sermon on the Mount he said
To his disciples you are the salt of the earth and he also said you are the light of the world now when we talk about Salt and Light we’re talking about one thing by and large we’re talking about uh influence the church is called to influence the world and if we’re not influencing
The world then we’re not doing our job as a church we’re called to influence we’re called to engage the culture amen many today practice what is called abandonment theology they say well that’s the world let the world do what the world is doing but we cannot abandon the world we can’t
Practice abandonment theology because we’re called to be the Saint the the salt of the earth and we cannot influence a culture that we’re not willing to engage if we say nothing and if we do nothing and if we um uh disengage from the world then we cannot
Influence the world right now hear me tonight strictly speaking salt cannot lose its saltiness sodium chloride is a stable compound most salt in the ancient world was derived from Salt marshes rather than the evaporation of salt water and there were a lot of impurities in the salt because they got
It from the salt mark mares sodium chloride being a stable compound was also soluble so it would seep into whatever it was placed upon many times when the salt uh seeped uh into uh or leaked into or leaked out of the container into whatever it was placed on
What was left were the impurities but the impurities look just like salt so when Jesus asked the question if the salt loses its Savor wherewith shall it be salted that was actually a question that he didn’t intend to receive an answer for that was a rhetorical question for the people whom he was
Talking to knew that you could not make salt salty again but the point of the question was that we as the church can only discharge our duties of influencing society and preserving Society by retaining our own virtue we’ve got to be real we’ve got to
Be who the Lord has called us to be in order for us to fulfill the the assignment the Mandate that God has given the church to be both salt and light in ancient times Above All Else salt was used as a preservative it was used to slow Decay the salt would be
Rubbed on the meat and nothing could could stop the Decay but the salt was used to slow the Decay we are called to slow the Decay I know know that the Bible says in the last days evil men and seducers would wax worse and worse Daniel said that which is determined
Must be done many things are going to happen that we cannot prevent but we are called to slow the decay of society but we cannot slow the decay in any society that we’re unwilling to engage are you with me tonight in order to slow the Decay We’ve Got To Shine the
Light the light is the gospel the Glorious Gospel of Our Lord is the light that we must shine and see uh in this day in which we live we must prepare to engage and to speak up because in the Kingdom hear me tonight in the Kingdom indifference is an endorsement that’s
Right whatever we preachers choose not to address our members assume that it’s all right if we don’t speak to a thing the world assumes the church assumes that we’re with it see because Jesus put us in a peculiar situation Jesus said this he who is not for me is against me he
Who is not gathering together is spreading abroad there is there are no demilitarized zones there’s no neutral ground we’re either actively speaking up for God are we in silence are speaking for the devil but we are speaking whether we want to realize it or not are you with
Me we must say something everybody say say something say something you know there are many issues in society today uh The Washington Post uh did an article and this is a a May 7th Washington Post article uh dealing with the police and and and the killing of unarmed persons in
2015 the police shot and killed 94 unarmed individuals 51 in 20 2016 um before rising to 68 in 2017 so far in 2018 18 unarmed people have been killed eight fewer than the same time last year and uh and we don’t know the uh particulars of this I don’t know whether
They were lawful shootings or what but the people were being killed and this gives rise this should cause concern for all of us but from January the 1st 2018 to May the 7th 2018 while 18 unarmed black men were killed by the police during that same time 2 38,2 52 black babies is were [Applause] aborted tonight sir 18 is too many 61 is too many but when you look at 238,000 why am I bringing this up in our churches few of us talk about the issue of life the sacredness of The Unborn let me tell you something as
Wicked as the clan is and as wicked as their track record is in this country every two weeks we voluntarily exterminate more of our own every two weeks than the clan did in its entire history and most of the time from our pulpits I’m gonna preach to him out [Applause]
Here from our pulpits we don’t we don’t talk about it let me say this to all of us we’ve got to be too wise we’ve got to be too wise to allow politicians to tell us what we should or should not preach because many times now when the
Politicians grab hold to an issue we let it go because we say that we don’t want to get involved in politics but let me tell you something the issue of Life the last time I check it wasn’t a republican that breathed into man’s nostrils it wasn’t a Democrat that breathed into
Man’s nostrils the last time I checked it was the god of the Bible who breathed into man’s nostrils and Man became a living soul and last time I checked it was David who in Psalms 139 who wrote about how he was he was fearfully and wonderfully made and shapen in the lower
Part of the earth which was his mother’s womb and while he was being developed how God wrote a script for his life let me tell you something we African-Americans people who are darker than blue we nobody Shout like us nobody worship like us but let me tell you something we
Are mocked for distinction for extinction sir we’re Mark we are 43 million strong in this country we should be 60 million we used to be the largest minority group in the country the Hispanics have surpassed us and the major reason they’ve surpassed us is that they give birth to them
Children and we are aboring more of ours than we’re giving birth to as I stand [Applause] here you know yourself if if if a if a white man was was was killing uh us and if it was the clan or somebody was wiping us up out with a number like that
We would be crying bloody mutter but the because it’s done to those who have no voice often times we find other things to preach about Destiny our haters going to the next level the atmosphere you know the Lord called me to be of the Earth Light of the World atmosphere and
All this stuff but we’re not addressing this this this this plague of death that’s killing us and you get you get politicians of either party if you gain their trust they will tell you whether it’s a democrat or republican or even an independent if you gain their trust cuz
They’ve told me they would tell you neither party is depending on us in the future to I to shape uh the outcome of Elections because we are not having our children let me tell you something preachers Bishops superintendent pastors supervisors all of us it’s time to engage the culture and say something
My mama was poor but Mom I’m glad you had me I come from a poor family we didn’t have much but the Lord been good to me don’t get me stopped somebody say Amen we’ve got to say something we deserve to live we deserve to be
Here we too we also built this country about it you say what you will or may 8% of our population that is our that’s the number of our precious women should not be responsible for almost 40% of the nation’s abortions I’m going to move on I’m going to move on praise the Lord
This is not pretty but indulge me for a minute you heard you heard what Elder Blake said and God knows he was dead on it somebody said in this salt shaker that we’re shaking tonight is it’s really salt ain’t no sugar in this Shaker and uh and uh it may not be sweet
But I’m telling you the truth somebody shout amen yes sir and listen when I die when I when when I can no longer do it and my grandbabies I have three wonderful ones are grown what answer am I going to give when they say to me Grandpa what did you
Say what did you do yes sir when we were being wiped out did you ever visit a clinic and try to stop it did you ever preach in your church and say something about it did you take your time at a convocation when you should be preaching something that
Would fur your career did you take the time and say something for those who have no voice proverbs 31 and8 says speak up for the voiceless who are appointed to death wow I don’t really need anybody speak up for me I can but there are those who have no
Voice and let me just say this for those who are watching tonight if there’s someone here tonight who has had an abortion and the Lord Jesus and you’ve confessed your sins the Lord Jesus has forgiven you you are washed and you are clean and you don’t have to repent again
You don’t have to you don’t have to fix anything you’re forgiven so we’re not after you so don’t you leave don’t don’t feel bad you you’re forgiven but please say Amen please help me as we try to save the next baby well I can’t say anything I’m not
Qualified because I did it well I’m glad Peter didn’t follow that when Peter preached on the day of Pentecost Peter told him and you denied the Lord Peter said that you denied the Lord and and among the things that he did was he denied the Lord nothing disqualifies
Us from telling the truth that’s right and Jesus said if we don’t we’ll s that has lost its Savor that cannot be fixed are you with me good for nothing but to be walked on and troden under the foot of men but we cannot we cannot engage praise the Lord if we’re not
Willing to speak to the society now let me let me preach to you here and uh I’m going I’m going to get out of your way but the question tonight is uh with the theme that God has given our leader who’s influencing whom the truth is in this day which we
Live we see the church influence the world influencing the the church more than the church is influencing the world oh my everything that go on out there makes its way in here who’s winning the battle look at how they have their influence in us we’re not called
The strength of a church is not reflected in its ability to assimilate my God but it is revealed in our ability to remain separate and to influence the world to come over to our side the world has invaded our noren clature even Among Us now you find gospel preachers talking
And saying you know in my first life I was this or that or in my next life I’m going to do this that or the other next life stuff that has no place with a gospel preacher that’s Hinduism that’s that’s wicked religion and the way the devil Creeps in often is through
Language we got to be careful as we allow the world’s sayings the world’s uh to language to infiltrate the church we we we think that the key to reaching the Millennials is to learn to talk like a millennial no the key to reaching the Millennials is to just live
It you talk to the Millennials that problem is not the way we dress it’s not the way we talk it’s not the way we shout they’ll tell that problem with us is that we preach one thing and live [Applause] another somebody shout amen oh my we adopt their phrases we
Adopt their Lifestyles we adopt their ways are you with me you won’t say Amen into this but preachers be careful how you quote the secular psychiatrist we we quote them but if you notice they never Quote us in the world of secular Psychiatry they view the
Preacher as their enemy and for no other reason is because we counsel free we’ll sit down and talk to our members for hours on end and the Lord sets them free and yet we we allow them to tell us how long we should PR preach we allow them to tell us how long
People’s attention span is well the people can only pay attention according to the psychologist for so many minutes I tell you who don’t listen to them the NFL the NBA Hollywood the movies hadn’t gotten shorter they they’re the same length the games hadn’t gotten shorter they’re the
Same length but now when it comes down to God everything got to be quick fast and in a hurry Sunday used to be the Lord’s Day now’s the Lord’s hour quickly becoming the Lord’s 15 minutes it’s time to [Applause] Shi somebody say Amen if you will oh let
Me hear the Church of God in Christ praise the god of the Bible you won’t like me now but I’m just a COR pH preacher I have nothing to lose amen I’m privileged when I get to heaven my question with God will my conversation will not be what I went
Through I want to know why we why you were so good to this nothing person who had nothing going for him and who basically came from nowhere so there’s nothing that anybody praise the Lord can take from me but I’m telling you I want to warn you tonight of the spirit of
Modern enity oh it is invading our church modernity is the idea when you take the the modern and replace the traditional with the modern and you get rid of all of the traditional things all of the ecclesiastical things what is this churches without crosses what is this praise the Lord dark churches
Churches where the ceiling is black the church is dark it looks like a a a rock and roll stage and all you don’t hear me tonight and uh we’ve gone on the suits and the ties and and I tell you what’s a mess of 50 or 60 year old preacher
Somebody my age preaching the gospel in cutout jeans trying to look like a teenager trying to be who you are not there comes a time when we’ve got to aim praise God grab hold to who we are and declare for God I’ll live and for God I die somebody shout
Yeah I don’t know about you but I’m going to stick with the old time way I don’t know about you but I’m going to continue to preach God didn’t call me to be a glorified dror field God didn’t call me to be praise the Lord a preacher
Who’s ashamed of his Heritage I am an African American black preacher who come up in the Church of God in Christ I shout when I get happy I hope when I feel like it I’m not ashamed of our culture I’m not ashamed of who we are
But God has been good to us and everybody in here owes the god of the Bible a great big praise for how good he’s been somebody lift your hands and praise him in heav hey Lord thank you Jesus thank you Jesus I want you to know something tonight I
Was honored when I was called to preach I was honored as a young Minister when I got my minister license oh it was something and when I became an ordained Elder in the Church of God in Christ you couldn’t tell me anything and then when I started under the leadership of my
Great Pastor the late great James Henry Turner he’s up there around the flone we started the Lighthouse Church of God in Christ and I was appointed pastor of the church and I remember the weight of responsibility and a few years later under my spiritual dad I made superintendent and after a while first
Administrative assistant and then lat auxiliary Bishop I’m headed somewhere and then they made me a jurisdiction Apprentice Hallelujah now ain’t no way I’m going to let God Raise Me Up and do all of these things and then after I get up and get to be a little somebody now I’m going to
Call myself a life coach I’m no coach I’m a preacher I want to know how many preachers do we have in here who not asham to be a preacher who’s not ashamed to be a preacher my God let the preacher just praise God for being preachers tonight yeah I feel my help
Coming I’m a [Applause] preacher somebody shout amen the devil is a liar are you glad tonight to be in holiness are you glad to be saved are you glad to be delivered let me tell you something here I’m almost done thank you Jesus but we’re called to influence the world and I
Heard Paul say when I was uh among the Jews I became like the Jews and when I dealt with them with the law Hallelujah he said I I became like the Gentiles you know when I when I dealt with the weak I became as weak that I might gain some
Here Paul is speaking of making concessions without sacrificing Divine truth I hate my daughter say there’s never been a time when Paul wasn’t Paul I believe we got to reach the loss I believe that we got to be wise but that ain’t all Paul said Paul said Come Ye
Out from among them and be ye separate set the law and touch not the unclean thing and I will receive you and I’ll be your father and and you’ll be my sons and daughters lift your hands and say Yes Lord say yes Lord we as Saints we
Got to show the world that there a difference between us and them you know the story Hallelujah the young lady in Acts chapter 16 she endorsed Paul and she endorsed Silas there was nothing wrong with what she said she said these men have come to preach unto us the
Words of life but Paul was grieved in his spirit that because she had the devil in her and after 3 days he rebuked her let me tell you something church we have the best we have the best we’ve got the best preachers we’ve got the only
True and living God we got the finest presiding Bishop we’ve got the best national mother we got the best Bishops we have the best seniors we have the best PR preaches and I want to tell everybody since we’re the best don’t let the world pull us down into their mess
Don’t let the world cause you to compromise tell Snoop Dog tell Mickey Manaj tell JayZ they need to be saved they need to be born again because we’ve been washed in the blood of the lamb say see [Applause] yeah somebody give him praising here somebody give him praise thank you Jesus
Let me close but I dare he prophesied about the things that God’s going to do he tell Israel he tell Zion wake up and I want to say to the church get ready for the lord to bless you this is our day this is our hour I believe
That he’s going to use us but we got to be real we got to be holy he says to Zion get all dressed up put on your traveling clothes because I’m bringing you out and he said it is written how beautiful are the feet of them that
Preach the gospel of Good Tidings I want to tell somebody that a blessing is on the way you ought to praise him if you believe it you to give him glory if you receive it yeah yes Lord yeah hold on it he said I’m going to clean you up and
I’m going to let you go back down to Jerusalem he said pack your bags but on your way out the door he said now you got to go by you got to go and get the vessels that Nebuchadnezzar had taken from the house of God 70 years ago go back and get the
Holy vessels because I’m going to rebuild the temples when you get there Isaiah lived over a 100 years before Hallelujah the Babylonians invaded Jerusalem he prophesied 150 years PRI but he spoke about it and though it was real time he said go and get the vessels and bring them with
You but he said be clean ye that pass the vessels of the Lord I have preached almost all night I preached almost my whole sermon and I haven’t asked you to tell your neighbor anything but right here right now tell your neighbor be clean be clean that
Bear The Vessel of the Lord be clean say yes say yes Lord Jesus wo somebody Praise Him in here praise him we got to be clean clean clean SE clean holy singers be clean preachers be clean everybody be clean if we’re clean he will he’ll bring us out
And I want it on record oh Lord I want it on record oh Lord when the Lord let me preach in the ho convocation I want it to be on record that I spent my time telling the world to be clean yes sir be holy yeah be real somebody help me
Praise Him somebody help me praise woo clean and if we’re clean and we bear these vessels we bear the word we preach the word We Live the Life as we carry these things God is going to do something great we got to be clean see we can’t be a clean
Church we can’t be a clean church and have many walking around in our services dressed like a women we can’t be [Applause] clean we can’t be clean in our church with men that got hair extinctions they were women suits women Nails we can’t be clean when when when we take our
Children to the aim service just like I took mine my sonin-law and my daughter took my little grandson and that’s set in front of him a young man in the Elder section where the ordained people sit oh Lord extended nails hair like a woman dress like a woman this my we’re becoming a
Transvesti church we better clean up we better clean up we better speak up we better say something you better say something my little grandson looked up at his daddy and said daddy that’s a man now I would expect him to say it if his daddy took him to the club
Yeah come on now I would expect him to say to ask that question if his daddy had him at the fair oh Lord I wouldn’t be surprised if they were at the ball game but at the Holy Church of God in Christ something got to change we got to say something
Oh we got to say something we’ve got to say Something well preacher do you want us to stop him from coming no no we want people to come to church but let me tell you something there’s a world of difference between saying the wrong things yes sir using analogies that we should use right talking about things that are not even anatomically
Correct on one hand that’s one extreme but going to the next extreme saying nothing that’s right one is as bad as the other do you hear me world one is as bad as the other the Bible is right and we are called to preach the
Bible yes sir and you know what we don’t have to use slang use the language God used Abomination say what God Said our women deserve better precious black women I’m wrapping this up you are beautiful you’re the among the most beautiful women in the world I’m bias I think you are the most
Beautiful women in the world but you also you the most unmarried and it’s not because you don’t make good wives right the country singer Tammy wet sing Stand By Your Man the black woman has had to in many cases carry her man our women have a track
Record of being good child our men and yet they can’t find husbands because too many of our men are chasing each other and you know what we’re doing you know what we’re doing we’re finding other things to preach about we’re finding other things to talk about we’re acting
Like all of us you know what we need we need praise the Lord what’s that thing when you’re a good actor we need a Oscars Oscars cuz we’re the best Pretenders I’ve ever seen you act like you don’t even notice that man switching you act like you don’t see that Butch in
That girl we pretend not to notice who will stand up and preach a real word and tell the world that Holiness is right it ain’t no going to a Next Level there is no higher height and deeper dep without being [Applause] clean some of you some of you new motivational preachers you couldn’t
Preach you couldn’t preach to be a Gates because according to you all the elevations have to do with money and standard of living what you going to tell a rich a billionaire what we going to say yes sir we to tell him the same thing we tell the paa on a hill far
Away stood an Old Rugged Cross we have the power we have the numbers Church of God in Christ we have the strength we have it question is do we still have the will we are waving the white flag of surrender after a while there’ll be nothing left us to
Preach some of you have been given bad advice key to get doors open for you Don’t Preach against sin don’t say anything about this that and the other just go and preach him happy and uh they they get the money and they’ll they’ll call you back what you going to say when
You stand before the almighty on that great day and he show you all the blood of all the soul that are on your Rich hands was the Mercedes worth all that how big does the house need to be how many suits is enough Why sell out why compromise for popularity you know we’ve changed because there was a time the compromising preacher got no appointments because like Blake said that was sugar in that salt shaker but today when you preach like this you know what you accused of being judgmental
Oh I fully expect somebody said well we didn’t come to beat anybody up if I could beat this in you I would but God hadn’t called us God hav called us we’re not called to be belligerent but we are called to tell the truth and that was a time Holiness
Church that we had an appetite for the truth [Applause] today who appreciates it who wants it you preaching Co conventions now stuff like this and they blow you up online saying he’s too mean he’s too direct he’s too hard I’m preaching what Bishop Mason preached I’m preaching I’m preaching
What Holiness I’m preaching what Paul we’re preaching the Bible it’s in Scripture God says be clean God says be separate I got saved in 1977 what I loved about salvation Salvation back then was like uh making the football team I I knew I did something when I made the team you know
Why I knew I knew I did something because other guys got cut not everybody made it it was an exclusive group yeah and you had to be good to make the T well there was a time in Holiness the bar was so high that it meant
Something to be a part of the Church of God in Christ it meant we were the Good Housekeeping seal of the church when you had coic Church of God in Christ on the on your church sign the church grew now many times when we start our
Churches we don’t want to name the name of the church we wait we wait 6 years and then surprised the folk oh by the way did I tell you it’s this the Church of God in Christ let me tell you something we deserve better yes sir this church deserves
Better yes sir and it starts yes sir simple yes sir with being clean being going back after being separate I’m not denying that some changes are necessary but come on y’all we’re a Holiness Church we’re the last line of defense the Masons have walked in amongst us the the fraternities are now
Amongst us the sororities are amongst us oh now I done go I done stop preaching and go to medling oh yeah all of them now all of the Greek letters everything now is uh amongst us and listen it affects your anointing because see when you get saved
See Christianity is a religion of light Jesus calls us to the light you can’t walk in the light having made secret Pleasures to esoteric groups that are exclusionary because Jesus Christ is for everybody he’s for every man mother I felt a cold breeze blow on me there but I’m right I’m Right I love this church I’d be nothing without It we have a great leader God God has given him a great thing to have an awesome general board let me tell you something every one of us who are on this stage today will sooner or later have to retire that’s right we’ll sooner or later have to move over and make room
For someone else nobody stays on top forever either you going to die or you have to retire amen nobody stays on fire forever you stayed on fire you burn up everybody everybody has to step off the scene here’s the question every one of us should be asking ourselves what kind of
Church will our Offspring conduct but now we are we are relegated now to sitting on the front row we’re being honored but we’re not in power anymore will we sit there and wonder like many Wonder today where did the songs go what happened to have you tried Jesus but they Wonder like many Wonder today whatever happened to hard preaching truth telling if we keep going when we sit and all of us are in church on Sunday mornings in tennis shoes and short pants and t-shirts and we serve communion look like we’re going to the grocery store what kind of
Church are we setting up my God raise your children to love you because they going if if if life takes its natural course they’ll be the ones to have to take care of you I love my mama take care of my mother I pray that Crystal and Patrick
Are watching me as I take care of my mother for if I live I hope they remember how I took care of my mother what are we leaving what are we doing the god of the Bible is saying be clean everybody stand [Applause] father in Jesus name in this 101th holy
Convocation of the Church of God in Christ we ask you oh God to cleanse us again Lord we tonight we don’t open the Altar for the whole arena is the altar tonight the whole Arena every place in here we I’m not going to ask who needs
To be touched we do yes starting with the preacher we do we do we need to get closer to God father in Jesus name cleanse us again sh the most high God take us Lord Jesus bring us back to where we should be in you anoint us Lord with that old time Holiness
Anointing oh God destroy every yoke revive us again strengthen us while we’re weak and build us where we’re torn down in the name of Jesus from the pull pit to the door deliver break yolks thank you Jesus oh God we fall in love with you again we repent Lord for
Our straying away and we ask you to bring us back to that place of holiness while we will rejoice in you in the name of Jesus Lord turn our precious women turn our young men Save Our Youth save our senior citizens use us for your glory in the
Name of Jesus now we praise you and we thank you and we worship you in Jesus name amen would you lift your hands and just worship the god of the Bible Hallelujah th the Glory Hallelujah am Hallelujah th the GL Revival revive us hallelujah hallelu the glory hallelujah hallelu amen hallelujah hallelu r do it find the glory we need a holy ghost Revival hallelujah amen hallelujah the glory Rive reive usive us us us from the last time we glory glory to God I’m going to be
Clean I’m living this thing with the Lord’s help I want to be soft soft let us bless the Lord now by the way of giving would you clap your hands for him [Applause] tonight before I take my seat I want to speak to that great unseen Audience thank you for watching the Jonathan deser gospel channel make sure to hit that like button and subscribe to the channel let me hear you say hallelujah hallelujah let me hear you say I am blessed I am bless let me hear you say thank you Jesus Jesus let me hear you
Say I am bless I am bless
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