Mighty good and uh it’s not because we’ve been good but because God has been good to us and uh because he continues to be good to us uh we have this opportunity to get ourselves together yet again uh for these series of Revival meetings this week didn’t we have a wonderful time on
Yesterday amen amen we’re off to a wonderful start and we know it’s going to continue on on tonight and so uh we’re going to go ahead and and prepare to get started because uh we want to try to start on time uh so we can get you out on time so
You’ll come back tomorrow amen somebody amen amen we’re going to go ahead and and uh begin in our devotion for this evening one of our song leaders here and uh family life Minister brother gin Moore uh is going to be lead meeing us in our singing tonight and then after several
Selections uh to direct our hearts in prayer uh one of the uh great uh longtime preachers in this city in fact the senior preacher uh in the city of Memphis just recently received recognition from the Tennessee State lectureship for his Labor uh across uh this city and across the Brotherhood uh
For many years of Labor brother Charlie shed who ministers to the South Memphis Church of Christ we’re glad to have him tonight he’s always here to support us and whatever’s going on in the city we just thank brother shed uh for always uh uh supporting whatever is going on so uh
Join in lift up your voices uh as we uh engage in this devotion tonight uh and let’s get ready for another good time in the Lord amen amen God bless you come on if you love the Lord sing along with me amen I’ve Sinn against you Lord I admit
That I’ve done wrong I’m just like a prod son I on my way back home I’m down on my bending knee begging you to say the soul of my oh please forgive me Jesus and try me one more time you know I’ve sinned against you Lord I admit
That I’ve done wrong I’m just like a prod son I on my way back home I’m down on my bending KN begging you to say soul of M oh please forgive me Jesus and try me one more time so wonderful to have a savior who forgive us all our sin so good to
Know he forgive us all over again over again to sin is human to forgive it so Divine oh please forgive me Jesus and try me one more time I went astray from you Jesus I thought I having fun you’re allowed me to come to myself and now I’m
Under run just make me one of your servant I’m not worthy to be your child oh please forgive me Jesus and try me one more time you know I’ve Sinn against you Lord I admit that I’ve done wrong I’m just like a prod son I’m on my way
Back home I’m down in KN begging you to say soul of my oh please forgive me Jesus and try me one more time amen without you lord without you lord I can’t make it no no without you lord without you lord without you lord oh Lord without you lord my my
God I can make it on now without you lord I keep a falling in love with him over and over and over and over again I keep falling in love with him over and over and over and over again it get s sweeter and sweeter as the day goes
By oh for the love between my savior and I I keep falling in love with him over and over and over and over again he keep blessing me over and over and over and over and over again a haake blessing me over and over and over and over and over
Again it sweeter and sweeter as the day go by oh what a love between my savior and I I keep falling with him over and over and over and over again a haake cleansing me over and over and over and over and over again a he cleans in me over and over
And over and over and over again it gets sweeter and sweeter at the day goes oh what a love between my savior and I I keep falling in love with him over and over and over and over again let us together bow Everlasting father the creator of life and The Giver
Of every good and perfect gift we come now bow humble heart thanking you first of all for all the blessings that you have so richly and given us you keep cleansing us over and over again help us that we may continue to have a love for you that can be manifest and
Shown throughout this city we come though thanking you for all the blessings of this life for allowing us to awake this morning to allowing us to have a blessed day and now allowing us that we may assemble together in your presence that we may give Glory and Honor unto your
Name and be able to listen to your Divine truth that we may continue to strive to grow closer to you and closer to each other thank you dear Lord thank you for Jesus who was willing to give his life so that we can have everlasting life dear God we say thank you for
Loving us enough that you you were willing to give your son on our behalf to give us something that we did not deserve but we are thank you for Jesus we come tonight again s we’re just grateful for this opportunity to be able to come together at their uh congregation here on the
Boulevard that we may glorify praise and give honor to you thank you for brother Jackson all the work that he done here so many years may he continue to to do what you want him to do here we’re grateful for brother Huffer who have come our way to bring us this word from
God’s word tonight that would give us strength and encouragement because we need strength and encouragement in a sinful world we are praying for this world so much violent from our president all the way down in this world to the streets of our city we ask you the Lord to just bless mankind
They may learn how to dwell together without violent we have so much violent in each other in other country wars and rumors of wars and it’s sometime fex our soul but help us Lord regardless of what man may do we know you still have Rule and
Authority bless us as we go through this worship tonight and help us that our Liv may be a blessing to somebody else in Jesus blessed in holy name we pray and give thanks let us all say amen and amen if God’s been good to you why don’t you say
Amen if God has brought you through brought you out brought you around uh if he’s lifted You Up made a way somebody ought say thank you Lord thank you Lord amen God is good not just some of the time but he’s sure enough a mighty good God all the time and we just
Ought to be thankful that we have this blessed privilege of being called children of God ain’t it Wonder to be able to come together and praise God and magnify His holy name on a Monday night amen somebody amen amen and we’re just thankful for your presence here on tonight as we continue
Uh in this revival meeting as we mentioned earlier we got off to a wonderful start uh on yesterday with brother uh Donald ballad and uh we know that we are going to continue tonight uh with our speaker that we will uh introduce momentarily but let me just
Say quickly uh to all of those who are visiting with us particularly uh those who are sisters and brothers from across the city uh from Sister congregations thank you uh for being here tonight and for supporting uh this effort as we try uh to reach lost souls through the
Preaching of God’s holy uh and divine word amen so thank you we don’t take your presence lightly uh and again we thank you for being here uh on tonight it’s our great Delight to introduce uh our speaker for uh this evening uh he has uh been with us earlier this
Year uh uh with uh as he spoke uh for our youth banquet as we celebrated our graduating senior and so uh for the Boulevard or to the boulevard he really has already introduced himself amen because he did an outstanding job uh at that Gathering but we are we’re just happy to have him
Back uh with us on tonight to be a part of uh this revival uh brother Raphael Hubbert senior uh is married to uh I believe this is Brena Hubbert for 19 years amen and they have uh three children Abigail uh rafhael Jr and Bryan uh Abigail 13 uh rafhael 11 and
Brendan is five amen and they are here tonight and uh along with uh sister Hub I’m going to allow uh brother hubber to get him some extra points and and introduce his wife and and family amen ain’t going to steal his Thunder uh but he comes uh Hometown brother holler
Springs mississipp Mississippi currently resides in Olive Branch uh Mississippi he has a bachelor of Business Administration from Mississippi State uh University and a bachelor’s degree in biblical studies uh from the Memphis School of preaching uh and a Masters in Education uh from Christian Brothers uh education you need to get you some
Degree yeah amen amen uh he he is curently and and this is one of the things in addition to him being a great gospel preacher uh brother Hubbert is an elementary school teacher in Memphis city school systems and he teaches first grade amen some somebody a brother yeah teaching first grade amen
That’s awesome that’s and we just thank God for for his desire uh to labor in the school system uh in addition to being a man of God a gospel preacher and I just think that’s awesome awesome because our schools are hurting for male figures and and we we’re thankful for men like brother
Hubber uh to to labor uh in our in our school systems he uh has been preaching uh the gospel for 20 years amen and he currently serves uh as the minister has been there for three years to the Central Avenue Church of Christ in cold water Mississippi and uh
We just thankful for how God is using him in that area and across this Memphis and mids South area and in the Brotherhood uh because he is a d MC young gospel preacher uh and we’re just glad to have him with us tonight and and in addition to that he’s my frat brother
Amen yeah blue and white yeah all right amen F Beta Sigma don’t y’all be hating amen amen amen and he he’s going to be laboring tonight as we are laboring for our theme this year we’re studying from the book of Hosea and uh as we stud uh from the theme renewing a
Ruined relationship uh brother ballad kicked it off on yesterday uh with when a harlot has to help you out of a hole oh my oh my goodness we had some kind of some kind of time and then uh he started with chapter one and then brother hubber is
Going to pick up tonight with chapter two uh as he come coms with his assigned uh subject until you do right by me uh and we ain’t talking about CA from Color Purple amen amen he going to be talking about Hosea uh how he is trying to help
Israel uh to to see themselves as we label from this book of symbolism and figurative language God has a powerful word uh for the people of God uh not only for Israel but for us if we’re here amen somebody we here what God uh has to say we know that brother Hubbert is
Going to encourage us tonight and so we’re going to uh get out of his way uh and let him have his way thank you brother shed for that fervent prayer amen I always thank thank God for the opportunity to fellowship with you brother Mo if you will come uh with the
Song of your choosing uh let’s bring this great preacher up and the next voice you will hear will be that of our uh Minister for tonight from the Central Avenue Church of Christ in cold water Mississippi brother rapael hu come on well I’m going to hide behind going to hide behind the
M Mountain well I’m going to hide behind going to hide behind in my well I’m going to hide behind going to hide behind my in I’m going where chilly are we going well chilly chilly winds won’t blow well don’t you know that Jesus is Jesus is a my Mountain don’t you know that
Jesus Jesus is my M don’t you know that a Jesus is Jesus is a man Going a we going where chil come and go where chilly Chilly Winds won’t blow Let the church say Amen um I saw brother Ballard last night or I watched it online and he sung before he preached I kind of bagged up I don’t have that voice to carry the
Song I wish that I did though so that’s why I backed up I’m glad he stopped because that’s one of my favorite song and before I knew it I would have been singing like nobody was in here and everybody probably would have left out of here so I appreciate you being here on
Tonight I’m thankful for this opportunity as always to stand and proclaim the word of God God it’s always a blessing when we as members of the body of Christ can come together to hear the word of God on days other than Sunday and for some of us on days other
Than Wednesday and so we should be thankful and grateful that God has given us this opportunity to assemble ourselves to hear what thus sayth the Lord uh thankful to my beautiful wife for being here with me and my children for accompanying her uh we appreciate
Her and I’m glad I have her helped me let me just say that I’m I’m glad I have have a strong woman in my life to help me because I can get beside myself some sometimes really beside myself and so I appreciate her for helping me to stay in
Line stay in on the straight and narrow and so I’m thankful to God for her um I don’t want to take up any more of your time with this but I got to say one thing um I see brother Rogers over here from the uh Quin Road Church of
Christ um I believe he was the one that started this it it I went I went in Pre his appreciation and this is what they gave me small bottle of water I again I don’t know if it was a jab at my statue um I don’t know I don’t know if they
Were trying to tell me you don’t have that much water so don’t preach that long I don’t know and then um I preached I I came to to the graduation ceremony that’s what they gave me again then I went to a family reunion at the Hilton in Memphis and preached St
And this what they gave and so I just knew tonight though when I walked in brother Jackson’s office it was sitting right there and I was saying to myself that that that can’t be just can’t be for me then brother Jack said that that’s your water you
Going you need you need another yes I do need another I do so I I appreciate it at least they gave me something to drink at least they gave me something so I I appreciate that very much so so let let let’s let’s do what we came to do and
That is to preach uh the word of God uh I I heard brother ballot last night and the brother did an outstanding job on introducing the book of Hosea he did an outstanding job of reminding us of why the book was actually written to show us the relationship ship between God and
Israel to show us how Israel had fallen away so far and not even realizing the condition that they had put themselves in and and what the world does not recognize and sometimes even us in the church sometimes we fail to recognize is that God has always wanted to be in a relationship with
Us and whenever we get in the relationship with God we not God have a tendency to stray away from God we usually ask God where are you when God is not the one that has moved we are the ones who back away from God we are the ones who creep away from
God we are the ones who turn and we walk away from God and God sees us and he seeks after us and he calls for us to come back but because of God’s holiness and because of his righteousness and because of his wisdom and because of who he is when man comes to
God he must remember that he is coming on God’s terms and believe it or not after all of the evil things that we have done after all of The Wretched lives that we have lived God still wants to bless us than Lord he still wants us to be with him but it’s not
Until as God said you do right by me when we do right by God we can expect the blessings of God to come now I was assigned chapter 2 and I read mainly the entire chapter but our text will come from verses 1 through 13 but I want to
Read verses 14 14 and 15 and the verse says in Hosea 2:1 14- 15 therefore behold I will Allure her and bring her into the Wilderness and speak comfortably unto her and I will give her Vineyards from this from then and the valley of acor for a Door of
Hope and she shall sing there as in the days of her Youth and as in the day when she came up out of the land of Egypt this is what God is saying to Israel I want to restore this ruined relationship I want to bring you back to
Me I want to give you hope I want to give you a new song but it’s not going to happen until you do right by me now we may have some who are in the audience who are visiting tonight who are not members of the body of Christ and we are
Glad that you are here but brothers and sisters this lesson is mainly designed for us sir because we’re good at preaching to other people but sometimes we miss the mark when we’re talking about us so before you ever sit in your seat tonight and say I wish such and
Such was here to hear this lesson or I hope such and such come to hear this lesson leave such and such out of the picture and focus on self so what was it that ruined the relationship what is it why did God have to use a harlot to show Israel how evil
And how Wicked they were what did they do for God to say you know what uh Hosea go find you a harder than marry her and like brother Bor said last night I’m not made like that cuz I don’t think I could have done that sometimes when my wife and I are
Walking and somebody look at her funny I get mad okay and for me to to to go find a harlot I I don’t think I could have done that but what what happened was God said I want you to show just howy evil my people really are and so what is
It that ruined this relationship now we know sin generally separated us from God we know that sin is what ruins the relationship with God and what ruined the relationship back then is the same thing that’s ruining the relationship today see there’s really nothing different about us today and Israel of
Old because you see sin is just that is sin it doesn’t matter if it happened way back when or if it happened until the day the standard of God Still Remains the Same that sin is the transgression of God’s law so if they transgress God’s law back then and if we transgress God’s
Law today it was sin back then and it was sin for us but I want to be specific about it because you see we say the word sin and it really doesn’t sting we’re not specific about our sins oh I sin yeah but what do you do and I’m
Not saying it as I want to know but we use the word yeah I sin but have we ever been specific about what we’ve done because you see when you start to be specific you begin to see just what you really are and so we avoid the being
Specific and just use the general term sin because we don’t want to feel so bad but in order for us to change we got to feel bad God had to show them what meant by bringing a harlot in he didn’t tell him to just go get any
Woman he said go get a harlot and yes going to be your wife don’t you know how many people were going to talk about Hosea don’t you know how many people going to point and laugh and make fun of him but nonetheless God said Israel I
Need to show you what you are so let’s look at what specific sins they had and how that applies to us so in Hosea chapter 2 and verse two listen to what he told to do he says plead with your mother plead for she is not my wife
Neither am I her husband let her therefore put away her whoredoms out of her sight and her adulteries from between her breast now see this term whoren has to do with connecting yourself with other people okay so when he told her that she was to put away her
Whoredoms GMA became intimate with other men other than her husband she allowed other people to get close enough to her where the Bible says that she need to put them away from between her breath that’s pretty close that’s a level of intimacy where those men were so close
To her that they were close enough enough to her breast and God said put those whoredoms away see what we need to understand is that our intimate relationships need to be with God and from there we can experience other intimate relationships with other people because the term intimacy does not only mean
Sex but for most men when we hear the term intimacy we know what we want but see the term intimate end of itself simply means to be close it means Oneness it means a level of connectivity that I have with somebody else as husbands and wives you should be
Intimate but as mothers and daughters you should be intimate as Fathers and Sons you should be intimate intimacy does not only occur within a husband and a wife but it is a type of relationship that you should connect with other people but the most intimate relationship that man should ever have
And should ever know is the relationship that he has with God and see we have allowed these other relationships to take place of God we have allowed to be intimate with other people instead of being intimate with God GMA was out all in the streets men
In and out and God said Israel that’s you you have allowed these other people to come and take my place and what God is saying is I want to be intimate with you but in order for you to do that you got to move these other people out of the
Way husbands and wives love one another cherish one another honor one another be kind to one another be thankful to one another forgive one another be intimate with one another but before you become intimate with your husband and your wife make sure you know what intimacy is with
God that way you can properly give it to your spouse see we we don’t understand what it means to be close to God because we have allowed people of the world and their influence to rub off on us because we have gotten too close to them our level
Of intimacy should be with God but we have given that to people of the world Israel gave their intimacy to people of the world and you know what they started to live like people of the world just like we do they started to believe the doctrine like children of the world just
Like we do they started to talk like people of the world just like we do they started to believe like people of the world just like we do that’s why we need to separate ourselves from people of the world and draw closer to God so that level of intimacy can
Grow and we can begin to think like God wants us to think walk like God wants us to walk believe what God wants us to believe and that brothers and sisters is the level of intimacy that God wants to have with his people it’s not to say you can’t be with other
People but we got to be smart we got to be wise why do you think God told the children of Israel not to marry other nations because they were going to get too close to them and then once they get too close to them you know what they
Were going to do pull them away see I need to learn how to get closer to God I need to learn how to be intimate with God I need to draw closer to him see what he wants me to know learn what he wants me to learn live how
He wants me to live and then when I come across other people I’ll know how to deal with them 1 Corinthians chap 15:33 the Bible says be not deceived and that just simply mean don’t fool yourself don’t fool yourself and see we trick ourselves all the time into doing stuff y’all know
We’ll set our alarm clock 15 minutes fast and then we’ll wake up and look at it and don’t know the right time why why do we do that ourselves why but that’s what we do we trick ourselves God said be not deceived here’s what I’m telling you don’t think
Of it you’re getting out of this you’re not don’t be deceived evil communication corrupt good manners evil Communications corrupt good maners here’s where we deceive ourselves at I can hang around them long enough it ain’t going bother me yeah I’m I’m strong enough to deal with him it ain’t going to bother
Me the longer we hang around them the less time we spend with God and the longer I hang around them the more they going to rub off on me now what he’s speaking of is that there was a doctrine that was being taught in Corinth and this Doctrine was the doctrine of the
Resurrection and what he was telling them was you need to stop hanging around them because the people of the world was telling them that there is no resurrection and the more they hung around them the more that they believed them stop hanging around people of the word and listening to the doctrines that
They teach they don’t know what God said if they did they would obey the gospel and yet we steady run to them and we get spiritual advice from them things of of God what we call of God from them and they don’t know anything that that’s
Us we listen to Steve Harvey we quote him all day Steve Harvey don’t know God’s word but we’ll sit and we’ll listen and hear his little talk at the end of the day he say something he ain’t said a thing be not deceived and then listen to this because
We got some other stuff to cover second Corinthians chapter 6 16 and 17 I want us to listen to Just how intimate God wants to be with us the Bible says and what agreement ha the temple of God with Idols for you are the Temple of the
Living God you me he’s not talking to the world we got to learn how to own what God gave us people of the world call themselves children of God they live any kind of Life they want to but we scared to say it why why are we
Scared to take what God has given us we are the Liv the Temple of the Living God not people of the world not everybody we are the ones who have obeyed the Gospel of Jesus Christ and who have been baptized for the Forgiveness of their sins and added to the body of Christ
That’s who he’s talking to not everybody else but see we don’t want to exclude anybody well the Lord’s Church ain’t for you then cuz it’s all about exclusion if you don’t believe me listen to what he said he said I God is speaking I will dwell in them and
Walk in them and I will be their God and they shall be my people I don’t know how intimate you can be God said I’m going to dwell in you I’m going to walk with you I will be your God and you will be my people but
We can’t get there until we do right by him how do we do that he says wherefore Come Ye out from among them and be ye what separate be Sanctified get away from them sayith the Lord and I and not touch the unclean thing and he says what I will
Receive you this intimacy only comes when we make up in our minds that God is going to be first that’s the only way that God will walk with us that’s the only way that God will dwell with us that’s the only way that God will be our God and we can
Be his people when we have decided and say to ourselves that God you are number one and there is no one above you right but there was something else that ruined that relationship they were harlots Hosea chapter 2 and verse 5 the Bible says for their mother hath played the
Harlot she that ha conceived them have done shamefully for she said I will go after my lovers that give me my bread and my water and my wool and my flax my oil and my drink drink playing the harder in this particular text has to do with going
After false gods and see she went after those false gods because she felt like she could get what she needed if you notice she said I’m going to go after my lovers because they’re going to provide for me they’re going to give me what I need they’re going to give me the things
That will sustain me in this life they’ll give me my bread they’ll give me my water they’ll give me my clothes they’ll give me my flesh they’ll giv me my oil they’ll give me something to drink and God said Israel that’s what you’ve done instead of you coming to me you
Went after your lovers you went after these Idols you went after things that were built by men because you felt like those things could give you what I couldn’t but see verse eight said for she did not know for she did not know that I yeah God said your lovers didn’t give you
That your false gods didn’t give you that your Idols didn’t give you that God said I gave you corn and wine and allil and multiplied your silver and your gold and what did you do with it you gave it to be you misuse the blessings that I gave
You see going after false gods is anything that gets in my way of my love with God and anything that I believe which will sustain me in my life that God cannot do do you know what the children of Israel said when they came out of
Egypt they built a golden calf and they looked at it and said this is the god that brought us up out of Egypt and we look at them we said they some fools they got to be foolish to think that what they bit with their hands
After they got out of Egypt is the very thing that brought them out of Egypt knowing that it was God all the time and you see God blesses us over and over and over and over again and sometimes we use those blessings for our own selfish desires we don’t praise him
We don’t thank him for those blessings we look at it as something that I have done that is Israel and that is us when we think those things those Gods can do what God can do and we trust in them more than our own God then brothers and sisters we have played the
Harlot and you know sometimes we look at the Harlot in the mirror every morning yep why we brushing our teeth putting our makeup on not me we see the har we we we see our own God because you see when I trust in myself and my own wisdom and my own
Might and my own will and my own smarts more than I do of God I’m just like G I’m just like Israel I’m trusting in myself more than the one who created me more than the one who sustained me see we don’t have buildings that we
Build like they had back then for baale and and the gods that they had but but we do have our own Gods in this world one of those Gods is our job we become so loyal to these jobs because we are afraid of getting fired we are afraid of losing benefits we
Don’t hesitate to tell them sure I’ll work on Sunday knowing that I need to be in the Lord’s House sure I’ll work overtime do all of that overtime work and then when somebody say hey we doing something at the church can you come out and help us well I’m too tired I don’t
Work too much overtime that job has become your God see we are afraid we really think that that job is giving me what I need don’t you know they’ll replace you as fast as they hired you and won’t think twice about it go ahead and die watch
The position be filled tomorrow and you know what your family’s going to get a flower and it won’t even be a real flower but we become loyal to these jobs because you know they’ll give us health insurance but you know that health insurance didn’t heal you you can have the best insurance in
The well the insurance is not healing you it is God that’s healing you they’ll give you a 401k a savings a retirement but you know what when you die you can’t take that 401k with you you can’t take that retirement with you you can’t take that savings with you you do know you
Live after the eulogy has been preach but we so loyal to these jobs we give our all to these jobs and then when God ask us to do something we too tired then money y money some of us think because we have money we good right we good
1 Timothy 6 7-10 I’m not going to read all over because I got I got some more I got to get to the Bible says for we brought nothing into this world nothing into this world but boy when we get a little bit of money in our
Pocket you think we can’t tell us nothing I remember in college when I used to get those refund checks somebody was talking about all them degrees yes a lot of degrees and a lot of money being paid back for them too get the old little refund checks you
Know some I wouldn’t even eat for about five or six hours cuz I had money in my pocket wasn’t even hungry but soon as I got down to nothing start because for some reason money had it does something to us if we’re not careful with it and let me say this
There’s nothing wrong with having money there’s nothing wrong with being rich it’s not but you can’t trust in it you can’t take it with you you can’t worship it you can’t serve it you can’t love it for the Bible says For the Love of Money is the root of all
Evil well let’s move on let’s go back to hosia chapter 2 and verse 13 because there was another sin that God pointed out to them and the Bible says and I will visit upon her the days of balam where and she burned incense to them and she decked herself
With her earrings and her jewels and she went after her lovers and the Bible says and forgot forgot me say the Lord see this type of forgetting is becoming oblivious it it it simply means she was not aware nor concerned about what was happening around her and see when Israel got to a
Certain position they forgot about God they they they they got comfortable they got everything that they needed so they forgot about God did they mentally say there is no God no but by their actions they say there is no God God warned his people in Deuteronomy chapter
8 10-15 he says when you have eaten and you are full you shall bless the Lord thy God for the good land which he hath given thee verse 11 says this and listen well he says beware though see we got to be careful of the blessings that we get and not get to
Comfortable in those blessings and forget the one who blessed us with it he says beware that you forget not the Lord and not keeping his Commandments his judgments and statutes which I have commanded thee this day lest when you have eaten and are full and have built goodly houses and dwelt
Therein and then thy herds and thy flocks multiply and thy silver and and thy go is Multiplied and all that thy has is Multiplied see when we get a lot we feel good that that’s how we feel and we forget that God gave it to us and that’s
What God is reminding Israel when I give this to you don’t forget that I gave it to you because it’s going to come back and bite you verse 14 he says then thine heart be lifted up and thou forget the Lord thy God which brought thee out of the land of Egypt
From the house of bondage in verse 15 because he says who led thee through the great and terrible Wilderness wherein was fiery serpents and scorpions and droughts where there was no water who brought thee forth water out of the rock we we’re becoming like this I’m
Afraid and and and to show you what I mean there was a story that was told I don’t think it’s true of a man that was working on the skycraper very tall skyscraper and so as he was walking from place to place he tripped and he began to
Fall and the whole while he was falling he cried out and he said God please please save me Lord please don’t let me hit this ground please do whatever you have to do to stop me from hitting this ground and that was his plea that was
His cry he knew he was in trouble he knew he could do nothing else and all the while he was falling and falling and falling and then finally before he hit the ground a nail caught him on his jacket and he looked up to God and he said Thank You Lord I can
Take it from here and that’s us oh we we we cry out to God when everything is going wrong we’ll call on him all day and all night when things are not going our way but as soon as we begin to see a peak of
The light at the end of the tunnel we don’t need you no more and what God is saying who was it that led you through your depression who was it that c kept those Suicidal Thoughts From going on into your life that’s what God is saying
Who was it that led you through your financial walls who was it that helped you through your divorce when you thought you couldn’t live without him or without her who was it that helped you with your drug and your drinking problems who was it that help you with
Your emotional hurt from your childhood who was it that led you through your family problem who was it that helped you through your medical scare who was it that loved you when you lost your loved one who was it that helped heal your body when you were in pain who was
It that helped you feel the peace and the joy that you have right now who was it that brought you to Christ and gave you a better life because you experienced what love love is you experience what peace is you experience what Joy is who was it that loved you
Through all of that it was God so let’s stop acting like he was not the one to help us through what we’re going through and see we forget about God we forget that God is the one that helped us we’re not here today because of our own strength and because of our own
Power so we need to start giving God praise not only when things are going bad but when things are going good and so God said until you do right by me but what is right though what what is right see we have our own definition of
Right and you know there are some rights that really don’t matter you know in certain countries it’s right to drive on the left side of the road right but in our country it’s right to drive on the right side of the road and your house the way you fold towels
Your way is right but see if you go to somebody else’s house you’ll probably look up them all upside their head and say you know you ain’t fold that towel right see those rights really don’t matter when you squeezing toothpaste some people like to squeeze
It from the top some like to squeeze it from the bottom but whatever you do it’s right and see when people have their own way of doing what’s right we’ve coined a phrase called to each his own but you know this is not new because the children of Israel had the same saying
Except it sounded like this in judges 17:6 in those days there was no king in Israel but every man did that which was right in his own eyes so in other words to each his own and don’t you know that man has adopted that phrase when it
Comes to God and his teaching that whatever you feel is right it’s right no matter what the Bible says if that’s what you say is right then it must be right if you don’t believe me common law marriage is Right according to man that’s shocking up that’s
Fornication but man said that it’s fine who said I got to be married to have sex God said amen see we we we told you we need to be personal if we plan to do right we got to know what the right is we got to
Stop being so General when we talk about Sin and understand what our sins are so that we can clean them up then we got same- seex marriage that’s fornication well if a man want to love another man and have a sexual relationship with him that’s they business that’s right by them no it’s
Not see the problem is if you want to keep at your business stop telling everybody about it but they quick to tell us I’m I’m I’m I’m a homosexual I don’t care my sister and niece uh back there and this past uh this past uh Saturday I
Went to Russ colge to the found day and a young dude hit on me yeah he did he spoke and waved and greened all kind of ways now I’m good sir I’m married I got a woman you know I don’t but people have made same-sex marriage right
And then this is one that really bugs me the gender reassignment they said that’s right it is a shame when you got four five six seven 8 9 10 11 12 year olds talking about they want to be a opposite sex of what they are and it’s really a
Shame when the parent say sure we can make that happen that is a shame so you telling me God didn’t know what he wanted you to be you telling me you know more than God knows about who he wanted you to be wasn’t it God that told Jeremiah I knew
You before I formed you in the womb wasn’t it God who told Paul before you came out God knew what he wanted us to be and what we are is what he wanted us to be if you were born a boy then that’s what you are a boy if you were born a
Girl that’s what you are a girl and parents stop being so soft and tell your children I’m not going to pay for you to have your sex reassigned how else can they do it they six they don’t have a job and then I work with six and seven
Year olds don’t you know they eat crayons and eat glue how are they able to say I want to be a boy or a girl but see our society has said that’s right then we got this whole rooll reversal moms go to work dads stay at
Home that’s not the way God intended for it to be but people would tell you well in your marriage that’s how you do it you go to work your wife stay at home no no God was the one who ordained marriage so therefore if you’re going to get
Married you need to make sure you do it by the standard that God has set if you go all the way back to the beginning with Adam and Eve before God ever gave adam Eve God gave adam a job and told him to keep it but see now you got women going to
Work and the men staying at home that’s not the way God designed it God said if a man does not provide for his own house he is worse than an Infidel and the woman’s job is to be a keeper of the home but we have made it
So that if a woman stays at home she’s lazy she’s no good she doesn’t provide but God biblically wants the wife to stay at home amen but that role revers people say that that’s right any God would do people say that that’s right you got some people burning sage to get rid of
Evil spirits in the house how you got better have some good good fire Insurance home insurance God ain’t never said do that and the one that burned the sage is probably the most evil one it is but you see we got to get back to
What is meant by right God is the one who determines what’s right 2 Timothy 3:16 Says all scripture is given by the inspiration of God and is profitable for Doctrine for Repro for correction for instruction in righteousness for instruction in righteousness so it is God who determines what’s right so when God told
Them until you do right by me he’s saying you got to listen to me so you know what right is we got to stop coming up with our own definition of what’s right in God’s eyesight and go back to the book to find out what right really
Is because you do know it’s right to pray for your enemies Matthew 5:44 you do know it’s right to attend the assembly Hebrews 10:25 you do know it’s right to love those those who hate you Matthew 5:44 you do know it’s right to study the word of God 2 Timothy 2:15 you
Do know it’s right to forgive Ephesians chapter 4 and verse 32 see those are the things that are right but people of the world would tell you you got to be a fool to pray for somebody that don’t like you you got to be a fool to forgive
Somebody that they’ve done wrong to you see that’s what the world says but we are in the Kingdom now so we don’t listen to what the world says we listen to what the king says back then there was no King in those days but now there
Is is a king his name is Jesus Christ he’s always going to be on the throne he always knows what to say he has set the standard of how we should live he has said what we ought to do so brothers and sisters we can’t give the excuse that we
Don’t have a king to listen to in the kingdom of God Jesus is the king and that’s the one we need to listen to you see the standard has already been set Jesus has already spoken there’s a rule that we need to live by Philippians 3:16 God said he
That rejected my words and receive he that rejected me and receiveth not my words as one that judges him the same word that I have spoken the same shall judge him in the last day so what do we need to do this right if we go back to hosah chapter 2 and verse
Two God is about to tell them what they need to do that’s right we’ve already read this verse he says plead with your mother plead for she is not my wife neither am I her husband that are therefore put away that’s the right thing to do put
Away now see when you look at that particular term put away it has various meanings one of those meanings simply means to withdraw yourself from God is telling Israel you need to withdraw yourself from these people see what we got to understand in this spiritual walk
With God there are certain folk in our lives that we need to withdraw ourselves from because they are hindering our spiritual progress then Paul tell us to withdraw ourselves from every brother that walkth disord so why are we still getting so close to him because we don’t want to do what’s
Right wasn’t it Solomon who said my son if Sinners entic thee consent thou not if they say come with us let us lay weight for blood let us lur privilege for the innocent without cause then he tell us don’t follow them so why are we still following people that are
Hindering our spiritual progress we knew what they were up to they’ve always been that way what makes you think this time they’re going to change it reminds me of uh Peanuts Charlie Brown and Lucy y’all know them right you know Charlie Brown tried to kick that football and every time Lucy said hey
Come on Charlie Brown let’s kick the football Charlie Brown said okay and never kick the football why did he keep going we are Charlie Brown the same people that has drug us down through there and always want us to do evil still telling us to come with us and
Still doing evil and we be like okay Lucy let me kick the foot and we never kick the football we got to put away certain folks in our lives another thing we got to put away or that word put away it means to remove and you know what in the
Lord’s church we got to remove Discord and division there was a northern kingdom and a southern Kingdom they were divided God was not pleased with that God did not want that he always wanted his people to be one in the congregation we need to learn how to work together
And rid ourselves of petty and immature Behavior it’s time for the Church of Christ to be unified we preach we are the one body but brothers and sisters we don’t act like it we preach like we the Church of the Bible but brothers and sisters we don’t act like it we say that
Jesus is coming back for us but brothers and sisters we don’t act like it it’s time for us to remove the division and the Discord that we have towards one another in the Lord’s Church because a lot of us not going to make it into
Heaven amen see we we don’t we don’t we we we like to hear well I’m in the Church of Christ that’s good and that’s fine but not everybody in the Church of Christ is going to heaven you can live a divided life if you want to you can s Discord among the
Brethren if you want to you won’t be in heaven with God so we need to remove that the Bible says in Ephesians chap 4 verse 1-3 therefore the prison of the Lord I beseech you that you walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called
How am I to walk he says with all loneliness and meekness which simply means I’m not what I really think I am you know the Lord’s church still exist if you die tonight don’t you know that God is going to be just fine without
Us see some of us feel like well if I ain’t going to be in it ain’t going to work right yes it is it’s probably going to work even better but see we like to think things go the way they go because of us he says with all loneliness and
Meekness with longsuffering forbearing one another in love forbearing simply means to put up and to deal with other people because everybody in the church is different do you really want a church full of you you honestly do you really want a church full of Youth so he’s telling us we need to
Learn how to deal with each other and work together and allow our differences to come together and show the world that we can be unified even though we are different and then he says endeavoring to keep the unity of the spirit and the bond of Peace see one thing we got to
Understand there is unity in the Lord’s Church because we can’t keep it if it ain’t there I just got to Endeavor that means work hard you know what that means that means I got to yield to somebody else when what I wanted to do didn’t get
Done see that that’s what we got to learn how to do we got to learn how to say you know what they didn’t take my idea this time that’s fine I’m going be in the front line and I’m going to help this brother or sister out with whatever
Said they need to get done I’m going to be right there help but you know what we do I ain’t going mad and we power let me tell y’all something don’t back here do you do you really think we want that attitude with what we’re about to
Do I’m glad you stayed at home if that’s the attitude you going to have honestly is that what you want to work with what did Jesus tell the disciples when they told him don’t you know that some walked away Jesus didn’t said well let me tuck my coat in and go get them
Jesus says let them alone if people don’t want to do the work let them alone but it’s time for us to remove that and then we need to excuse Evil 1 Peter 3:11 let him excuse evil and do good let him seek peace and ensue it excuse simply means to deviate from
It it means to avoid it it means to shun it it means to decline it because you cannot have peace with God living an evil life you cannot have peace with God following after evil right because you see the peace that we get from God is
Knowing that God is going to save me because I’m not doing evil but I can’t have that peace when I know I’m doing and living and Evil evil so God was telling Israel you need to put away those things until you do right by me and then through faith and
Repentance we can come back home to God see when we do right you remember I read verse 15 it says and I will give her vard from then and the valley of a COR for a door of hope God wanted Israel back God said I got a Door of Hope for you to
Go through but until you do right by me that door is going to stay closed see God wants us back and God has hope for us and his name is Jesus Christ that is our hope of glory according to uh Colossians 1 127 and 28 that is our hope
Today Jesus the Christ is our hope out of all the evil and wicked things that we have done God is still telling us there is still hope for you no matter what you have done in this life no matter how you have lived no matter what
You have said no matter who you have betrayed no matter who you have lied on no matter who you have slept with no matter who you have cussed out God is saying there is hope for you but until you do right by me and the right is to
Repent and once we begin to change our minds about who we really are God will then save us and then it says that she will sing she will sing as in the days of her youth when she came up out of the land of
Egypt I’m glad God gave me a new song to sing I’m glad that I have a new song I’m glad I don’t have to sing woe is me and woe is me I’m glad I don’t have to sing that song but if you don’t do right that’s
The song you will continue to sing when you do right by God you’ll have a new song to sing your life will be changed your soul will be saved you will be in fellowship with God Jesus will be your savior he will be your king he will be
Your lamb he will be The Great I Am he will be the lion for you but you must do right first now if you’re not a child of God and you’re here today you need to do right God told us what right is for them now he’s going to
Tell us what what right is for us right is first of all understanding how sinful you are understand that I’m going tell you in God’s eyesight you not what you think you are your friends might Build You Up and your family might tell you good this
That and the other and God’s side if you hadn’t obeyed the gospel you are evil Wicked sinner yeah but see we can’t say it cuz we don’t want to offend folks you know why I obey to God I realized how messed up I was I realized how sinful I
Was and so if that’s you you had no B you are a sinner but see there is hope Jesus came to save Sinners so you got to believe that Jesus is the Christ the son of the Living God John 3:16 after you believe that you got
To be willing to repent uh Romans 2:4 tells us that the goodness of God leads us to repentance when you realize what God God has done for you and how good that is that ought to make you change your mind jump up and shout Lord take me to the
Water the goodness of God because we should all be wiped out we should all be wiped out ain’t no Little sin and big sin and and and your sin ain’t as bad as mine Sin is Sin we should all be wiped out but the goodness of God that you are still here giving
You another chance is the reason you ought to repent and then after you repent confess Jesus to be the Christ after repentance has taken place or confession you must be baptized for the remission of your sins once you have been baptized God will add you to the church he’ll put you into the
Kingdom that’s doing right by God and then you live a faithful life now if you are a child of God remember that lesson was for us I’m sure if we take a deep Long look at ourselves repentance is going to take place tonight because we have not been
What we ought to be we have not Liv like God wants us to live we have not met the expectations that God has set for us and some well it’s too high some of us don’t even try I got God’s grace and his Mercy those are for the people that
Try so if you are a child of God repent and God will take you back no s is too big for God to forgive stop sitting and beating yourself up for what you have not done repent and move forward so if you have a need tonight don’t sit in your
Seat you better make a move I don’t know if you realize that not time is running out the world not getting any better so if you don’t want to get caught up when Jesus come back better get it right tonight so whatever need you now make it stand I am learning Learning to
Lean I am learning Learning to Lean yes I am learning learning to Le on Jesus well I’m finding finding more power then I ever ever dream yes I am learnning learning to lean on J well I’m learning learning to love I am learning learning to love yes I am learning learning to love like Jesus well I’m finding finding more power than I ever dream yes I am learning learning to love like Jes well I’m learning learning to pray I am learned learning learning to pray yes I am learning learning to Pray like J well I’m finding finding more power than I had ever dreamed yes I am learning learning to Pray like Jesus somebody ought to say Amen tonight y my my my until you do right by me brother rapael man brother thank you so much wonderful wonderful job tonight that brother walked that book I mean he came all the way down the street there last night on yesterday rather we
Had the pleasure of hearing from this book of hose when a harlot has to help you out of a hole and tonight uh tonight until you do right by me when we do right by God he says we can expect blessings from God and only
Until we right by God thank you so much so much for a powerful is on tonight brother rapael we do have one who is standing uh with a uh we’ll give you this opportunity now say what’s on your heart amen amen that’s what Revival is all about you all that’s what this whole
Thing is all about is to help us to see thank you tonight again once again because you helped us to see exactly where we stand as children of God and that’s real talk you all we have to be honest with ourselves if we are going to do what God wants us to do
So we going to go to God now in prayer oh gracious father we come tonight thanking you so much for who you are and when we look at our lives and when we look around us and when we see what you have done in our
Lives father we we know that you are a good and gracious God and that your mercy endureth forever you continue to shower your mercy and Grace down upon us day in and day out even when we don’t deserve it that’s why we know that you are more than worthy to be
Praised and so we come tonight thanking you so much father for this blessed privilege thank you for the privilege to be called children of God thank you for the power of your word and the might of your word that that it is able to save our
Souls and thank you so much for giving us the understanding to know that father through your word and because you loved us so you gave the very best that you had thank you for Jesus who makes it all possible thank you for salvation in Christ Jesus and thank you Father for the great
Sacrifice that he made on Mankind’s behalf giv us the right to the tree of life and everlasting salvation thank you so much for Jesus and thank you so much father for this blessed privilege that we had on tonight to be able to witness another portion of your holy Divine
Truth and oh how have you used this man of God tonight thank you for blessing Him Father and giving him not only physical strength but thank you for the spiritual strength that you blessed him and the wisdom that you have crowned his head with that he
Was able to go into this blessed old book The Bible and read from the word and take your scripture from the book of Hose chapter 2 beginning at verse one and ex Jesus script father and find where it is written the things on this blessed page
Of inspiration and be able to explain it to us so clearly that we are able to see that father when we do right by you we can expect blessings from you thank you so much for being a good and gracious God thank you for blessing this
Man of God and we ask that father that you would just continue to be with brother Raphael bless him his family his wife his children we pray for the congregation there in cold water father we ask that you just continue to bless them in that area the ministry there
Father the work that they’re doing there father that you will bless it father to be able to continue to reach lost souls and all the Brotherhood and the brothers who work with him father we ask that you please bind them together in love and peace in unity that they would will
Always build one another up and never te one another down thank you for how you have used him here in this place to help the people in this place father we thank you for Reviving us again from a word from your word father and as we continue
To move forward we pray for these men of God who will come on tomorrow and on Wednesday if it Be Your Will we ask that you would just bless them Crown their heads with knowledge and wisdom with the things that they have prepared for us from this blessed old book Hosea thank
You for the leadership here in this place thank you for our Minister our elders and our deacons and thank you for binding us all together in peace in love in unity that we continue the same father to build one another one another up and never tear one another down oh
Lord please we come now on behalf of sister Lenard asking that you bless her tonight father strengthen her what she needs strengthen we know father that you have forgiven her because you said you would if we will confess our faults one to another and so we ask that you would
Just strengthen her father you know what she needs and most of all father we know that you are able and so we ask that you just continue to bless her Christian walk help her in the areas that she needs father that she is weak build her up and strengthen her father that she
Continue to be a light not only to family the people in this place but all those whom she come in contact with and thank you Father for the courage that she has to step out on faith knowing father that you are able to see her
Through and so we pray for her now and we ask our church family we’re going to continue to encourage her and build her up father and we ask dear Lord please forgive us of our sins as we truly turn it is in Jesus name we pray and ask it all amen
Two buildings over is Our Family Life Center uh there we have a commercial kitchen and there’s an ice machine there and for those of you who need to possibly go by and get ice to put on all of your bruises and bumps your your toes that have been stepped on my con’s hurting
You know I got hit all upside the head Lord have mercy didn’t this brother preach amen somebody amen amen he took that subject apart and put it back together uh as he labored from this thought on this evening brother hubber God bless you man God bless you you outstanding outstanding a message from
The word of God uh God’s been good to us and and if we’re not careful we can find ourselves like Israel and what God shows us is that when we when we get out there until we do right by him and I Echo the same sentiments my fear is is that uh if
We’re not careful as as a body of believers we’re drifting farther and farther and farther away from God and my fear is is that God is going to have to show us ourselves and until we do right by him Church let’s not let’s not get out there like
Israel was let’s hear the word of God let’s hear what Hosea uh as he spoke to Israel let’s hear what he is saying to us tonight amen amen thank you again brother Hubbert uh man you you blessed us tremendously now I had made up my mind
As he was talking uh about those short bottles of water uh that the next time he comes to preach I’m going to make sure I have him a tall bottle of water but evidently it doesn’t affect his preaching amen cuz he walk tonight amen amen somebody amen amen uh
Just just just a tremendous time we’re having in the Lord and brother hubber uh these men uh so far they’re complimenting each other brother ballad uh kicked it off did an outstanding job and then uh brother hubber just complimented uh what he did on last evening with another powerful word uh
Tonight from chapter two and we just thank God for how he is using these means uh to preach his word and to encourage and revive us on this week now on tomorrow night uh as we move into chapter three uh we we we ought to we ought to
Be thankful that God gives us hope and gives us not a second chance but another chance because uh we we we blown more than more than two he he he gives Israel another chance he tells Hosea to take a back after GMA has messed up we all be glad that God takes us
Back when we mess up and so tomorrow night Dr leel Hayes uh from chapter three is going to speak to us from the thought that’s the power of love you ought to be here tomorrow night we looking forward to another great time thank you for being
Here on tonight there we see many from across uh the city uh who have come uh to visit with us see some preachers in the audience and I’m not going to start calling names because I’m going to miss somebody and then I’m going to be in
Trouble amen so thank you for being here uh Lord’s willing we’ll see you back on tomorrow night as we continue uh this this fall uh Revival if I can believe it I can believe it God can’t achieve it so help me to show it so that others will know
It give God some praise uh as we stand on our feet uh to be this Miss God bless you God Has Smiled On Me he has Set Me Free and God [Applause] Smiled On Me and he been good to me Amazing Grace How Sweet the Sound thanking you for this day father we
Touch her with a finger love this morning woke us up close in our right mind dear father gave us traveling grace to this place which we have come to and dear father we thank thank you for this message on T night de father until you
Do right by me de father we pray that father you’ll be with us as we leave here but never leave your presence bring us back at the next appointed time asking for forgiveness of sin in Jesus name we pray amen
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