I’m pressing T I’m pressing T I’m pressing T to live with with Jesus deter detered deter detered Deter and you shall not perish but have everlasting life we’re excited that we are the children of God and that you are a heavenly father and that you love us and you care about us God father thank you for the breath of life that resides
In us God because we know know what we look like when there’s no Breath of Life in us God we’re like rocks we we there’s no life but we thank you that we have life in us and we have it more abundantly thank you that you allowed us
To press our way to midweek service tonight God we don’t take it for granted because last Wednesday God we weren’t able to come out oh God the streets were icy and it was cold outside and God we thank you for a pastor who’s sensitive to to the needs of his people for his
Sheep God because he knew that accidents could have taken place and that we could have fallen God but through the wisdom that you’ve given him oh God we thought it not he thought it not robbery Lord to have us come out but thank you God for his sensitivity to his people we thank
You for the word that will come forth tonight teaching God open our hearts our minds oh God that the rich word that comes from our pastor’s teaching will dwell within our hearts and we’ll be able to eat on that word all week long God thank you oh God for our first
Family Reverend Monique God and Dr Daniel and Timothy Carter and cornia and Jima God thank you for everyone that’s here God we give you the glory honor and praise in Jesus mighty name we pray amen and amen thank praise the Lord come on singers and bless us in the Glorious
Presence of the Lord praise and worship thank you so much Deon night for these uh petitions lifted in prayer Glory to God Jesus I’ll never forget Praise Him all Right I’ll never forget how you set me free Jesus I’ll never forget me out Jesus I’ll never foret I forget you done for me how can I forget Freeus I’ll never forget never how I for you Ahee I For oh Jesus I’ll never forget how you said Never foret never forget never for foret you for me Jesus I’ll never forget how you set me free Jesus I’ll never forget how you brought me out Jesus I’ll never forget oh may take your seat again God bless you and welcome and certainly thank the Lord for those who join with
Us here in the house of the Lord and for those with us joining by means of social media part of our virtual church family the saints of God again it’s good to be in the house of the Lord good to be on his Divine program we certainly thank the Lord for
The past weekend God bless you Dr Henry Baines the message that you preached for our leadership we dedication service setting the tone for the year 2024 that’s before us continue on in the things of God and uh certainly I express appreciation to those who are able to
Join with us as well at our mother Church Sunday afternoon at the new psalmist church as well God bless you for those of you who are in uh prayerful support and presence thank you kindly and again we bless the Lord for the ministries of the church even this week with prayer each morning
Last night with the women’s prayer call and certainly you are encouraged to be on tomorrow those called Thursday 15 minutes with Reverend Carter as well be mindful that uh Saturday church school prayerfully will be in person did resumed this year this past Saturday albe it virtually brother Strickland and others were able to
Share I know that this coming Saturday will be no different other than the fact that God willing will be here in person and so you’re encouraged under the leadership of our superintendent Reverend West and all of the team 10:00 is the time and to any and all of our
The aconet we do have through the leadership of Deacon Knight a planned post holiday Fellowship amen at around 12:30 or so uh this coming Saturday afternoon again for deacons this Sunday uh we’ll be here for worship and our monthly holy communion service as well as a part of the 11 amm worship
Service again encourage help get the word out remind others this will be our first scheduled communion of the year and so want to want to make certain that you’re here and uh to start the year off as a part of this sacred uh ordinance of our
Savior asked of all of us that you will set the tone for you and your family and certainly your Christian Journey for the Year Praise the Lord amen singer’s going to return yet again again and bless us we’re going to get into our teaching for tonight uh thereafter amen Come on B
Week worship singers God bless You Yeah oh my Soul yeah be a sweet sweet in your I Love You Lord and I lift my Voice to worship you all my Soul Rej my King in what You and let it be a Sweet Sweet Sound in your the exal we Exal we exalt oh Lord yeah we exalt we exalt The we ex Oh we Exalt thank you Lord to God we exalt we M Lord praise the Lord amen you may take your seat those of you were standing I want that uh we would again maybe what’ll end up being for the next um couple of weeks that will take us up to Ash Wednesday which comes early this year deep year
And it also falls on Valentine’s Day February the 14th but till then God willing we’re just going to be at one verse and to that end you have your Bible your Bible on your device line that is familiar in the gospel of Matthew chapter 11 Matthew chapter 11 and quite frankly I mentioned
This as a comment last weekend context of message and the morning worship here terms of the word come actually week before last how the word uh seen especially throughout the New Testament pretty much from beginning to end in one way or another so that’s what we’re going to be
Emphasizing pretty much in light of our theme as well seeking to save the Next Generation our next Generation so the word come is intertwined and that theme as well and so it’s um the 20th verse it’s really connected with verses that follow it but it’s also connected with verses that
Precede it but uh I just just want us to look at um the one verse 28 over the next several weeks come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest that’s it again I say I’m mindful that the next few verses kind of follow after
That but um that’s the that’s the um verse that we want amen one more time see it now come to me all who are weary and heavy laden and I will give you rest so we’re going to break this up under a few headings probably three
Or four I get to that in just a moment just so you have some sense of the emphasis and outline um but tonight essentially we’re just going to we’re just going to deal with the word come and then we will continue on um Jesus Jesus um has made an extraordinary
Claim that takes him into these verses blessings upon and all of you my dear wife Reverend Carter Reverend Daniel Carter by the way is United this week in his intensive of and dat in Ohio our prayers are with him for good week and and safe traveling mercies certainly again to all of our
Leadership and you the saints of God and our family Timothy of course cornit and JMA again Jesus has already made a very striking claim and now he makes a striking offer come back to the claim in just a moment but he makes this claim or this offer to all who would quote unquote
Hear him or come to him to hear him or come to him so he claims and I don’t use that word as sarcasm claim it as truth he claimed or he asserts going back to verse 25 in this 11th chapter and I’m going to be done rather quickly but um he says
Going back to verse 25- 27 let me read them in you’re hearing at that that time Jesus answered and said again I’m reading from the new revi standard I praise thee oh Father Lord of Heaven and Earth that thou D hide these things from the wise and intelligent and did reveal them to
Babes or if you will to those who are ignorant in the best sense of the word yes Father for thus it was well pleasing in thy sight all things have been handed over to me said Jesus by my father and no one knows the son except the
Father watch this nor does anyone know the father except who the son and any anyone to whom the son Wills to reveal him key line right and anyone to whom the son or Jesus desires Wills to reveal him I’ll stick on the participle too even though it’s not you’re not supposed
To to to do that with the participle but anyway uh there it is to reveal him to Okay so so so that’s that’s what Jesus has already asserted and that’s an extraordinary for Jews that’s an extraordinary clay that that he has that kind of relationship with capital F father or
Let’s just say with with god with with Yahweh okay now that’s highly important to understanding verse 28 and following quite frankly and we’ll seek to open that up so so again Jesus says on the strength of that claim he comes along and he says anyone who hears me I’m
Putting that in quotes because he actually said anyone who comes to me that’s the word come right anyone who comes to me um he says that that that that that person anyone who comes can give get to know the father can get to know God only if he
Jesus is desirous or has the will to reveal him to reveal God to said person okay here’s what’s actually happening here in terms of what’s implicit that the text doesn’t say um outright okay but behind behind the Jewish thought in terms of what’s Happening Here or
Implicit what’s going on here is that is that um is that Jesus’s Jewish listeners because that’s whom he’s essentially speaking to had been engaged and this is nothing new to Jesus’s day ago go back to the Old Testament but they have been engaged in a great struggle to know God the
Father I know the father is a new testament term where the Old Testament is concerned but let’s just leave it at that because that’s the language Jesus uses here as well okay o again I I mentioned Yahweh just a few moments ago but in any event the deal was is that
The struggle for the Jew or Jews to know God to get to know God was really real that was their Quest their spiritual Quest and so as a as a result their their religious leaders Pharisees Sadducees priests rabbis scribes Etc the the Jewish religious leaders placed enormous burden on the Jewish
People operative word burden placed enormous burden on them to make that happen um and so turn with me now to this is this is a little bit obscure but turn with me to Matthew 23 Matthew chapter 23 but you’ll get a sense of what I’m saying uh in this 23rd chapter few
Chapters over from chapter 11 but Matthew chapter 23 I want verse is really want verse four in chapter 23 but I’m going to start at verse one okay and probably read down through verse five then Jesus spoke to the multitudes everybody got it all right amen then Jesus spoke to the
Multitudes and to his disciples saying the scribes and the Pharisees have seated themselves in the chair of Moses religious leaders okay therefore all that they tell you do and observe but do not do according to their deeds for they say things and do not do them okay verse four and they tie up
Heavy loads now that’s metaphor right and they tie up heavy loads and lay them on your or on men’s shoulders they put the burden of doing stuff in the name of religion on the masses but the leaders do not do what they tell the masses to do but again Watch The Language there
Right the language is they lay or they tie up heavy burdens it’s like putting sacks on a mule and tying them around the mule or the horse or something you know we call them what uh Beast of Burden right okay and they lay them on the men’s shoulders on people’s
Shoulders but they themselves are what unwilling verse four to move them with so much as a finger verse five but they do all their deeds to be noticed by people for they broaden their filteries and lengthen the tassels of their garments I’ll sto there but you get the
Point right so come back to verse uh chapter 11 verse 28 Jesus now comes along verse 28 as a result of that burden placed on the Jewish people by the religious leaders right and that burden going back in this chapter chapter 11 uh to to push people to quote unquote do things at
Their request right to get to know God huh I hope y’all see this before I get to it um before be you know so so here comes verse 28 here comes the invitation right um and the invitation really is now it really now should speak for itself right come unto
Me see it come come come come come to me um they’ve been laboring and carrying this burden or burdens been placed on them in hopes of being approved by God or getting to know God desirous of following the request being made uh by these religious leaders that they had to do certain
Things in order to get get to God over and against all of that Jesus shows up Jesus says come come come come again he had just said that he is the one who can reveal the father he just said that right he can reveal the father to those that he wants
Or he desires to reveal the father to and so he immediately offers and this is getting way ahead of our teaching but here it is he immediately um offers rest huh rest to everyone everyone who is or who was here it is we down burden down because people can put demands on
You that will weigh you down that will burden you especially when you trying to to live a certain way that’s spiritual or religious right um there’s a certain advantage that people can take over other people or over others in the name of religion and so that’s what these phes
Scribes have been doing but Jesus I need you to understand Jesus is not necessarily um talking about um physical rest that’s a part of it huh but but but Jesus when you keep reading of course and you and you know the teaching of Jesus he’s he’s really
Talking about um more along the lines of rest for your soul your inner your inner person okay so now we’re offering running I think we got that under under under our our thought belt or something along those lines and so and so not not the least among what I’m going to say
The Great Bible verses is this verse right Matthew 11 I mean it’s it’s it’s not necess you hate to do this with scripture I guess but it’s not necessarily John 3:16 but at the same time it is because when you unpack it and we only looking at verse 28 but if
You do the next couple of verses and hold them all together it’s really the gospel it’s really John 3:16 in miniature or it really parallels with you know cuz you you’re called to do certain things just like um John 3:16 but it’s all about faith and belief we’ll we’ll talk about that in
Quick quick moment but it’s about faith and belief not necessarily that you have to do anything other than just believe or come right because he who comes to Jesus must believe that he is H okay so so basically the entire um purpose of Jesus’s coming is expressed in these few lines
In these few words so it is it is the gospel think about think about the the aches Pains of a sinick world um that can be Removed and the systemic or inate uh needs of all Humanity all Races Nations that can be met can be dealt with just by receiving these few words and so let me give you the the the headings that we’re going to going to be using tonight I just want to I just want
To say something about this verse Under The Heading of its Simplicity that’s why I’m just starting with the one word come okay come and then next week we’ll probably will do because I’m going this is alliteration so they’re all S’s so Simplicity and then scope it’s
Scope three I had to kind of struggle with this one to come up with a s but here it is it’s it’s shity s u r e t Ty y shity it’s sure um and then finally um it’s significance number four its significance and I’m going to put in
Parenthesis for number four greatness it’s greatness again we deem John 3:16 is a great verse similarly here it’s it that you know this verse is a great verse so so Jesus said come now the Greek the Greek understanding for the word come c m our English word come in the Greek if you
Say the word that it’s transliterated so it goes goes from Greek to English and then back to Greek again and to that end the word for in the English for us is is the word become I’m give you several words become become when you come where Jesus is
Using the word come he’s asking that those who do come to become or just to be to be to be what to be who you who you were originally intended to be that’s implicit there so be come or be uh another word that comes out of the Greek understanding and where the Bible
Is concerned for the word come is um the word grow word grow um attain to reach for by coming you’re you’re you’re you’re striving you’re reaching for something to attain something uh and then lastly to start out now Jesus is not asking his or anybody
Who who who would come to him to just start out and that’s it you’re supposed to start out and stay the course you know or to ultimately become what he desires for the one who comes to become so Jesus says come come come in in contrast watch this in contrast to to many
Of the tiresome and even even uh requirements tiresome requirements of other entities that pull at you in the religious realm if you will IE sex s c CS sex or orders you know little little um groups uh clubs that get together orders um sororities fraternities um in that in that sense
Not that you know necessarily anything’s wrong with you know them but I’m looking at it from this point of view of those institutions and entities where you have to do something to get in right um um um even some Churches or even what some might call D church right Capital C Church The
Universal Church Catholicism um I guess to be safe there let me just simply say uh denominations some certain or some denominations required that you do something or you have to um um um give something huh to get in and we all understand that once once you’re in discipleship once you’re in
Christ yes there are things that we are obligated to do but we are not obligated to do anything other than just come when it comes to our Christian faith right but um there are those again entities for example sometimes when it comes to joining stuff or being a part of
Something you have to go through a waiting period uh probationary period um uh you got to pay dues up front I mean the list goes on and on and on and on and on um um uh sometimes you need somebody says you need references you gotta you gotta get
Somebody to to to um to uh to speak on your behalf to vouch for you right uhhuh yeah um just to get in sometimes you got to perform certain rituals was a time sacrifices got to bring this and bring that Penance huh yeah see what I’m saying so all of
These things but here comes Jesus Jesus over against all of that burdensome stuff see when we read this and we love to put it in the context of who we are and what we’re dealing with and we feel you know all wiped out and tired and everything and we think that
Jesus was exclusively saying anybody who just wor out right tired and weary and that’s okay that’s okay because he still can handle that but in the context of what he’s saying he’s saying those of you who are burdened by the by the load that religion is putting on you I didn’t say
Faith I said religion is putting on you huh he says come I don’t roll like that come come come come everybody else wants you to give them some money up front right or even when it comes to Cults you got to give up your land your property your
House got to break away from your own family just to that’s cult just to get in right and so and so Jesus over against all of that praise the Lord said come come just just as simple as that come when you think about it come come is the first word in all of
Our vocabulary we don’t necessarily speak it but it’s done it’s done to us I just did it U when when when we B born almost without without question um you know Midwife or nurse or or kitra or or a doctor or whatever you know once the biblical cord is cut or
You’re taken out of the womb whatever the case is um um the mother the mother does this CU she wants that child come so so that’s that’s that’s that’s the first impression huh that is to be wanted no no no let’s press that to be received glory to God huh that’s innate
Within us and as soon as we get here it was already there I said in N but once we get here then the demonstration mama mama reaches out to receive us to to to receive her her baby so we get it from from if not before we get it from day
One this word come and and ideally doesn’t happen always but ideally it’s conveyed through our upbringing infant seeing you know the whole nine adolescence and whatever up until and some you know it’s hard to break away from Mama because huh because we still need that attachment that we first
Had even in the womb but certainly again after we experience our first breath of life so this this act of a mother conveys meaning um even when other things are confusing and sounds are trying to interrupt but all we need is that sense of spirit of being
Received and so what has happened is that comparative religions declare or have come to ask of us in the broader sense of us um to to request of us certain things that we must do or or places that we need to go in order to continue to be received or to be
Accepted and therefore comparative religions or other religions therefore um can have a way of enticing us if you’re not careful false doctrines what have you um certainly certainly certainly when you think about how the language Satan was with Jesus in terms of being tempted for those 40 days um
And even going back to Genesis to the Garden the promises of something that would happen to to to to humanity or happen to Jesus if Jesus would just allow himself to come to Satan or Adam and Eve to the serpent because a serpent like quote unquote a mother was trying
To offer them reception receivership come huh and I will I’ll give you the kingdoms of the world you know and that all of that you know all those promises I give you life and we can easily be distracted be deceived um if we’re not prayerful if we’re not careful going into this new
Year and you know you’ve been you’ve been a Christian long time but doesn’t mean that you’re without possibility keep keep praying right yeah keep fasting to keep doing what you have to do because you know yeah the the enemy also wants you to come right we’ve all
Kind of been there right or been there and so and so you get this sense again where other other religions are concerned comparative religions want us to do something in order in order to to get in they want us to accomplish a certain task but Jesus is majorly different
Because he does not require of us to do anything or to go anywhere to prove our worthiness or to prove that we uh are are eligible to be accepted so here in this verse come is expressed not so much as a command but as a request do I dare say a
Loving friendly request or desire and to come to Jesus to come to Jesus is to apply faith in him not only faith in him but hope or the hope is that he has all things somebody say all things that he has all things um uh that we need in him in him
So whatever we’re looking for peace Comfort all of those things that you know from my from my Earthly point of view we want from our mother uh uh peace Comfort uh Happiness joy in the list is infinitum right uh but but but here is where it becomes distinctive to Jesus
Over and against another human and that is salvation because because the one thing mama can’t give us one thing daddy can’t give us one thing no other human can give us is salvation so rest for our soul gives us rest for our soul so it is
The it is the the exercise of love for him Faith and Hope in him belief in him for those who do come as Sinners as Sinners to a full and Able Loving savior that’s Jesus full and aable savior but I need to back up real quick let me
Just give you kind of a theological thought before we close tonight um so back up slightly in in terms of our thought process here so come and and um who who is actually this just Ponder who is actually giving this invitation we have Jesus right on Earth right Son of
God who has this unique relationship with his father capital F father right um and so when Jesus throws it out there come we know it’s we know it’s Jesus who’s speaking it but but what person of Jesus so something I don’t have really words for it per se but
Here’s what I’m after we do not know whether um this is this is this is um the Majesty of Jesus that is predominantly speaking here the Majestic Jesus the Christ Jesus or is this the tender Jesus the the meek and lowly Jesus um that says these words come that
Says this word come you get my distinction there is this the God Jesus or is this the son Jesus um the Majesty or the Majestic Christ The Majestic Jesus uh has a desire to penetrate into Humanity’s true condition um to get at us that’s why he sent his
Son that’s why the father that’s why God so loved the world that he gave his son to to cut through all of the stuff um clutter the the baggage the boundaries whatever and just cut to cut to Humanity’s heart believes on him the the the tender
Jesus the the the the the the human on earth Jesus is is in my this is you know my My Talking this out um is the is the um the Divine the Divine um pity that’s a good word the Jesus who looks on us with pity right um that that that Christ
Jesus you know he just believeing you know and come get yourself straight so I’m not sure which one the pitiful one looks at us and y’all y’all y’all just messed up right just just just y everybody just come because you can’t handle where you are you have no no real understanding of
What happened to you you just you can’t fix it yourself and there’s nothing you can do about it I came so that you can come to me just come on right you under that burd burden and you trying your best right got these people putting pressure on you weighing you down and
You just about to lose your mind um because your spiritual self is going crazy if I Can’t Get Right with my Creator right now those are words that a lot of people ultimately have to come to because they don’t know why they doing what they doing but the reason why most
Of us if not all of us you know have been jacked up all of us have sined and come short of the glory of God is because we did not really know upfront that ultimately we were acting out huh yeah trying to trying to please you know uh uh uh our
Creator but we were doing it in all the wrong ways because we thought if we could please ourselves first H yeah that that would handle that um that uh that sanity that or Insanity like for that matter and anyway before I get too far on that psychosis thing so let’s come back to
Here as we kind of wrap up and I’m giving you that tension right which one who is who’s actually speaking this let’s just say both and I mean you’ve already probably come to that conclusion right so we probably have both both um both persons um both as both personas both
Personalities of Christ cuz I mean if Christ wanted to he could he he would get you straight you know wo cor and wo Beth SATA huh better for you more tolerable for Sodom and gomorra you know yeah he would go off huh yeah but let’s just say that we have
Both both here um son and father are are are making this invitation so so we have we have the first two persons of the Holy um of the Holy Trinity in this verse so here’s what the verse ask of us and we’ll bid you good evening at least
The line or the word come and we’ll pick up again next Wednesday God willing so what we have here is number one an unconditional promise now put if you’re taking notes put unconditional promise in quotes but it is an unconditional promise but I need you to put it in
Quotes and here’s why it’s an unconditional promise of Welcome right invitation come so it’s it’s an unconditional promise of Welcome watch this to all who need him so so it’s not it’s not without condition cuz some people even though all all need to need him not everybody
Comes to that reality that they need him I just said that four minutes ago when I said we had to come to that thank God we’re here tonight but there are some people who have a reprobate mind and we’ll never we’ll never make that decision to come
So it’s an unconditional promise with a condition forgive me but the condition is is that you have to know that you need him it’s unconditional even as his love is what unconditional right okay so we can come to him just as we are we can come to him just as we are
Watch this again without pretense or hesitation just said come didn’t need anybody to vouch you don’t have to put it off don’t have to wait no hesitation just come somebody shareing tonight just come just as you are no hesitation just come we put we put the we we put the stuff on
Ourselves I’m not ready Jesus didn’t ask if you were ready sister my brother young person Jesus never asked if you were were ready he just said come that’s number one and then number two again number one is an unconditional promise of Welcome to all who know that they need him and then number
Two it’s a summons welcome it’s an invitation it’s a summons to submit to him and when I’m when I when I was writing this out note wise I put in parentheses um to his teaching it’s a summons to submit to in parenthesis his teachings when you come to Christ you
Come to his word his word essentially is what he taught when he was here on Earth right so you come and get under Jesus’s word because he is word his teaching so so we submit it’s a it’s a it’s it’s a summons to submit to him and so let’s skip again to
Other verses in this section he says when you come to me let me see if I can back that back out of that um the submission is according to the language in these verses and I’m only I’m kind of going into verse 29 um and 30 for that I emphasis here
But but essentially said you you come you come get under who I am my teaching by being submissive but when I say come to him or his teachings his word he says come unto who me so come to me and watch this and I I will do do certain things right and
Then my yoke and my whatever but you know so so we we are coming we’re coming to him to be submissive to him here’s the word God bless you this evening we’re coming to accept him be submissive to him come to him we’re coming to accept who he
Is again John 3:16 tells us who he is he is the son of God only begotten Son of God we come to accept we come to accept that that’s who he is he’s the son of God the verses before 28 let us know that that he has a special relationship with his
Father and when we get to him again again we’ll flesh this out next two Wednesdays but when we get to him he’s able to lift some things and handle some things um that in and of ourselves we do not have the capacity to handle or lift we have to get to him
First we have to accept him first again I asked the question why and the an is in the context of the text why him why why him well I’ve kind of laid that out but we’ll press that out over the next couple of weeks amen why him why Jesus amen and praise God
Come all right you can stand if you want we are ready to extend the invitation an invitation to anyone tonight who wants to come especially if you’re sharing virtually virtual space virtual world to give your life to Christ now deacons are right here at the front to receive
Anyone who needs to rededicate his or her life to the Lord or need a church home glad to see each and every one of you tonight but if you need a new start a new beginning for this new year and those who are sharing virtually step on out in faith as well
And reach out to us and contact us you see a phone number there you see an email address there and uh you can get in touch with our church and Ministry and we will respond in kind to you but you have to take that first step and uh reach out to us and
Therefore reach out to Christ is there one this evening who will say yes to the Lord is there one is there one I surrender all is there one wants to say say yes to the Lord then I Surren all to thee my bless s savior I thank you deacons God bless you sing that chorus again one more time I Surrender I Surrender all in I Surrender Oh oh to thee my bless S saor I Surrender Oh Glory to God Amen all right we will we’ll Worship the Lord with our evening’s offerings midweek worship offerings uh once the basket is here have if you haven’t already given online or when you came through the lobby this evening and if you just want to walk to
The Altar and as we sometimes say and touch the basket do so indicating that you have given or by all means Place something in it if you have not done so pray prior to now it’s okay to stand right in the middle amen that that yeah that sign not going to jump up
You it’s all right come on saints of God let’s give us unto the Lord Amen Sing it again we are we are Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder We Are Climbing Jacob ladder We Are Climbing Jacob’s Ladder soldiers of God every round then every round goes higher higher every round goes goes every round goes higher and Higher if you love him why not serve him then if you love him why not serve him if you love him why not serve him if you love him why not serve him we Are Soldiers rise shine give God the glory then rise shine give God the glory give God
Glory R shine give God the glory soldiers of The amen thank you for your presence tonight and again we’ll be right here God willing next week in terms of the text scripture and uh get a little bit more out of it uh couple more words next next Wednesday and then the Wednesday after that as God shall guide
Lord we ask your blessings upon these offerings now and ask oh gracious God that you’ll consecrate the same the furtherance of the work here at new Shiloh but all the more to express as expressions of our appreciation to you as we worship you and give back to you that which is already
Yours so we pray that you will receive the same and that uh we’ll be all the more blessed because we have sought to worship you with our best and now we pray that your abiding presence will go with us and that you will keep us and protect us sustain
Us and use us as we go from this place but not from your presence that you’ll keep us until we meet again if not again here then Over Yonder to keep us till we get to see each other again and get to see you over Yonder where the wicked shall cease from
Troubling and our weary Souls will be at rest be with us we pray now lest we forget lest we forget in the name of the father in the name of the son in the name of the holy spirit amen amen and amen God bless you and may heaven smile upon you
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