Song number 412.
On that first verse.
Onward Christian soldiers marching.
Marching as to war
With the cross of Jesus
Going on before
Great singing. Let's open the service to the word of prayer, shall we?
Father, thank you for this wonderful and beautiful day that you're giving us.
Thank you for being able to come to church, Lord, but especially two times in one day
to be able to hear your word.
It was good preaching to this morning Lord and we're waiting for the message tonight Lord.
I pray that you please be with the preacher to come and may we be attentive to your word
and may he be filled with your Holy Spirit and especially may our singing glorify you as we
prepare for the preaching. We love you in Jesus name, amen. You may be seated. Song number 36, Christ Arrows.
It's not that Jesus died. He had to raise from the dead for us of eternal salvation, amen.
Song number 36, Christ arose.
On that first verse.
Low in the gravy lane, Jesus my Savior.
From the gravy arouse, with the
And I
great singing all right great singing welcome to first works Baptist church just a few announcements
here before we sing our next song which will be song number 145 it is well with my soul if you
want to get that ready in your songbooks 145 of course we're welcoming to come back to our Thursday
evening service 7 p.m that is our bible study we're currently going through the book of john
we'll be in john chapter 4 this coming thursday so we hope to see you then you see the soul winning
Of course, today was the birthday breakfast,
and so happy birthday to you all.
In the month of August,
you have the list of expecting mothers,
keep them in prayer,
and then the stats for salvations and baptisms
for the month of July.
We got a great month there.
On the right-hand side is the upcoming church events.
We have the ladies' prayer breakfast
coming up on Saturday, August 9th,
meeting at the building at 10 a.m.
Ladies, I want to encourage you to participate in that.
If you have any questions,
you can talk to Mr. Janell Gonzalez.
She's the one who heads that up and so that will be on August 9th TJ
Mission's trip will be on Saturday August 30th leaving the building at 9 15 a.m.
And that's once a month of course and just make sure you bring your passport
coordinate with brother Hernandez and even if you don't speak Spanish we had
a couple non Spanish speakers come with us as silent partners they got to
participate in the soul winning and so if you're interested in that just make
sure you talk to brother Hernandez men's prayer night will be on Friday
And then the church anniversary will be on Sunday, September 14th.
We'll give you more details as far as what we're going to do on that Sunday as we approach that day.
Just want to remind everybody, parents, please make sure you watch your kids.
They're not playing around the construction site right here.
This will probably be finished by...
this coming Thursday and so just bear with us for a little bit but watch your
kiddos make sure they're not playing around that
there's some rubble there at the bottom that they could potentially get hurt in
and so and if they do get hurt don't sue us because
that's not very Christian of you to do that all right
and I will preach against you please silence your phones during the preaching
so as to not be a distraction during your service I do want to mention I'm not
preaching tonight brother Maury is going to be preaching tonight brother Maury
lemons so we're excited about that it's going to be great
So on number 145 it is well with my soul very powerful song on that first verse
When peace like a river
Attend if my way when soul
has taught me to say
No. 145 on the second.
Though Satan should buff it, though trial
His stage and has shed His own blood for my soul.
Usher's come forward for the offering. Please turn your Bibles to Psalm 73, Psalm 73
Good evening, tonight we're in Psalm 73.
Psalm 73, the Bible reads,
Truly, God is good to Israel, even as such as are of a clean heart.
But as for me, my feet were almost gone, my steps had well nice slipped,
for I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
For there are no bans in their death, but their strength is firm.
They are not in trouble as other men, neither they plague like other men, therefore pride
compasseth them about as a chain, violence covered them as a garment, their eyes stand
out with fatness, they have more than heart could wish.
They are corrupt and speak wickedly concerning oppression, they speak loftily.
They set their mouth against the heavens, and their tongue walketh through the earth.
Therefore, his people return hither, and waters of a full cup are wrung out to them.
And they say, how doth God know, and is there knowledge in the most high?
Behold, these are the ungodly who prosper in the world.
They increase in riches.
Verily, I have cleansed my heart in vain and washed my hands in innocence.
For all the day long have I been plagued and chastened every morning.
If I say, I will speak thus, behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children.
When I thought to know this, it was too painful for me, until I went into the sanctuary of God,
then understood I their end. Surely thou didst set them in slippery places,
thou castest them down into destruction. How are they brought into desolation,
as in a moment, they are utterly consumed with terrors.
As a dream, when one awakeeth, so, O Lord, when thou awakeest, thou shalt despise their image.
Thus my heart was grieved, and I was pricked in my reigns.
So foolish was I, an ignorant. I was as a beast before thee.
Nevertheless, I am continually with thee, that was holding me by my right hand.
Thou shalt guide me with thy counsel, and afterward receive me with your glory.
Whom have I in heaven but thee and there is none upon earth that I had desire beside thee my flesh and my heart
Faileth but God is the strength of my heart and portion of forever for low
They are they that are far from thee shall perish that was destroyed all them that go a hoarding from thee
But it is good for me to draw near to God
I have put my trust in the Lord God that I may declare all thy works
Let's pray. Dear Lord God, just thank you for this evening. We have Lord to hear the preaching of the word Lord
We pray that you bless brother Maury right now as he preaches your word unto us Lord
Just please fill him with the spirit Lord and give him boldness and give us in the congregation ears to hear Lord
We pray this all in Jesus name. Amen
Alright, good evening everyone. Obviously it's always a blessing for me to come up and have the opportunity to preach to you guys.
It may not be a blessing for you, but it's going to be a blessing for me, amen.
Alright, so we're there. Look down in your Bibles at verse number 11 and it says,
and they say, How doth God know?
And is there knowledge in the most high behold? These are the ungodly who prosper in the world and increase in riches and verily
I have cleansed my heart in vain, and washed my hands in innocencey, for all the day long I have been plagued and chastened every morning, if I say, I will speak thus, behold, I should offend against the generation of thy children, when I thought to know this it was too painful for me, until.
went into the sanctuary of God and understood I there and so this is a
portion of the text and actually before I start I actually want to thank Pastor
Mia for letting me have the opportunity to preach it like I said it is a
blessing and I pray that this is a blessing to you too but as we're here
in this text here we see something that all Christians at some point that have
served the Lord to a certain extent they come to this realization where it's
You know, I'm I'm living righteous. I'm doing things and we just see we see the the wicked people of this world prospering
We see
We see the you know, if you will the celebrities of the world doing getting all the things that we want, right?
And and we have this we we lose our biblical perspective our understanding that
that you know ultimately they have their day, but as Christians we know the end and so
The the purpose of the sermon is to to give us an understanding that
you know, sometimes we lose our biblical perspective and
And we end up regaining our biblical perspective when we come into the house of God
And so we don't get it through scrolling on Instagram or social media or and we don't get it from social media
Influencers, but we get this from the house of God and we get our our perspective our biblical perspective
We're from the house of God
And over the past couple of weeks, or actually I'll say over the past couple of months,
Pastor me has preached sermons that kind of hit the topic that I'm getting at right now,
where he preached a sermon where he talked about the distinctives of the...
Of what type of church we are that we're an independent fundamental Baptist church teaching
teaching us that basically the things that that makes us distinct from
Like other Christians so that we're KJV only, you know that we that were hard on soul winning
We live we live sanctified lives
But then he also kind of tuned in a little bit and he kind of and he preached a sermon in which where he went in detail of
Not only just that we're independent fundamental Baptist, but we're new independent fundamental Baptist
this which which obviously I'm not going to rehash his points but but he preached
that sermon to show like the distinctives that we have as a church and so
tonight you know I want to address the topic on what the actual blessings of a
local New Testament church are so in the past we've all heard sermons about
what kind of church we are and or we've heard that sermon where what type of
church we are what kind of members we ought to be how should we conduct
What does this place actually offer for you spiritually speaking?
All right, what is this place offer you spiritually speaking for turn your bottles the first Timothy chapter 3 first Timothy chapter 3?
So that's why today I want to preach on the blessings of the local New Testament Church the blessings of the local New Testament Church because
If you are part of this church, you understand that this is a soul winning church, you understand that this is a Bible believing church, this is, we're sound on doctrine, we take pride in the Lord, we take pride in the things of the Lord.
And these things we hold in high regard. Why? Because ultimately the important thing to understand is that church is where we are.
Where we get spiritual blessings from the Lord church is where we get where we get a chance to spiritually grow
For sympathy chapter 3 look down at verse 14
It says but if I tarry long that thou mayest know how to honest to behave thyself in the house of God
Which is the church of the living God the pillar and ground
the truth. So what is church? Well the church is not necessarily a building
it's the it's built among the people that are in the church and the church
building is not you know it's not my home it's not your home the church is the
house of God and this is this is the the church of the living God. We don't
believe that this is a dead institution that as as the
as the religions out there, where they have a dead institution, stale traditions, and ultimately
there's no power. And religion, religion, the goal is to not ultimately have, where ultimately
powerless by, it's propped up by the culture, excuse me.
And so this is not the religion of the Philistines,
this is not the Muslims, you know,
this is not a man-made ordinance of going to church,
but this is the house of God.
And so these dead churches don't have anything to offer you.
These churches out here don't have anything
of substance to give you when it comes to spiritual matters.
And so the Bible says that this right here is where we should be this is the place that we go
this is the pillar and ground of the truth and
This is where we ought to be Sunday morning Sunday evening Thursday evening. Why because this is the house of God
And this is where we need to be
We hold that we hold the truth this is a place where the truth is held up high
that when we live in this world that we live in we have to understand that this
world is fading away it's being destroyed and and we need to understand
that when we step into this building that this is not just like a lecture hall
this is not where you come and you just get a TED talk and pastor comes and
tells you you're so great you're so amazing we love you God loves you God's
not angry with you but this is a place where you hear the truth
And that's very important.
This is not a social gathering,
although we do socialize, right?
When we're here, when we're in the sanctuary of God,
we gotta understand that we have to be grateful
for the things that we do have.
And so we need to be grateful for the fact
that we actually do have a church,
because there's places, there's locations in America,
there's locations in the world
where they just don't have a church.
And we have to be grateful for the fact
that, hey, you have a Bible, believe in church.
We have a good thing here, amen?
And it's not by accident,
We're all here. We all came from different walks of life and somehow we're all here. So that's that's obviously through the to the providence of God and
So what I want to address this evening is the blessings that a Christian gets from plugging into a local New Testament church God restores
He gives us, he gives us restoration by coming to church.
He gives us various strengths, but he blesses his people as well.
So tonight I want to show you four blessings that we receive by being part of the local
New Testament church.
First and foremost, the first blessing that we get from the local New Testament church
is sight.
This is where church gives us spiritual clarity.
Church gives us spiritual clarity.
Turn your Bible to Psalm 73.
And hold your place there, because we're actually going to be there.
We're going to go back and forth.
Psalm 73.
The first blessing is of the local New Testament churches that
We receive sight meaning that there's spiritual clarity in this world full of confusion and
disorder and
Where we see things like the righteous
The the righteous are perceived as evil and Eve the evil are perceived as good
You think of like the ditties of this world where you know there
Nothing seemingly bad is gonna happen to him per se or let's just say other obviously
I believe he actually got convicted, but there's people out there that have done things like OJ where he
He kind of just got off scot-free because he had money.
And so evil is called good and good is called evil and you know if we listen to this world
What what can happen is we see what's going on in the world and we can kind of see like hey
we have a distorted view of of faith and like how things work out in
In our lives and the lives of the wicked and this is exactly what ASAP what happened to ASAP in Psalm 73
Look down at verse 2 it says but as for me my feet were almost gone
My steps had well nigh slipped for I
for I was envious at the foolish when I saw the prosperity of the wicked.
Go down to verse 16, when I thought to know this, it was too painful for me.
until I went into the sanctuary of God,
then understood I their end.
And we see Asaph here, he's on the verge of backsliding, right?
And so he's not gonna backslide
because he doesn't believe in God.
It's not that he doesn't trust on the Lord,
but we need to understand that his vision was clouded.
And so what we get from coming to churches
is that we get our sight back to us.
We have it restored from the foolishness of this world.
And so,
What he the way he felt was that hey, man, you know like why is the wicked surviving?
Why are the wicked having good things happen to them? I'm serving God. I'm living for God. I'm going to church
I'm reading my Bible. I'm I'm getting sent out of my life, but somehow, you know
blaspheming Bill over here is just, sorry not you Bill, blaspheming Bobby over here is over here
getting the raises, he's getting the promotions, he's getting the recognition, when I'm over here
serving you Lord, why can't I, why, why, he becomes, he has this perception that God was unfair,
that God was unfair, but, and that's a big word there right, but he walked into the sanctuary of God.
then his perspective was changed. So how does church, how does church give a
sight? Well one way is confusion is clarified, confusion is clarified. And
church is where we come to church ultimately so that we can see
Clearly, meaning that everything makes sense or when you look at the world you understand that the Bible actually brings clarity
It blocks the confusion for the things that we that we may perceive as unfair in the world
So your Bible is the first Corinthians chapter 14
First Corinthians chapter 14. I read Psalm 119
Verse 104 it says do thy precepts I get understanding therefore I hate every false way
When we read God's Word or when we go to church and God's Word is preached and
teached, what we understand is that we get understanding from His Word. We get
understanding from His presets, from His teachings. Look down at verse 33. It says,
but of peace as in all churches of the saints.
And so, church is the place that you should get a clear answer.
And when it comes to certain doctrines, we should be able to have a clear answer, right?
We should have a clear answer when it comes to salvation, right?
When it comes to salvation, you just believe on the Lord Jesus Christ
and thou shalt be saved in that house.
And so, there's churches out there, there's people out there
in the world that just don't have a clear answer.
And so when I so I was given the gospel to this guy on only TV
I spent five minutes trying to figure out what he actually believed to go to heaven
So he's like oh you have to do this
I'm like oh is it possible to go to heaven and I do that well
Yeah, and I'm like okay
Well if you do this and he just went back and forth and I'm just like what do you believe?
We just have to cut the conversation because he believed everything
Confusion is not something that should be present in church
And we don't have secret doctrines either where I forget it's like the Muslim not Muslims are like the the Mormons
They have like this secret doctrine about the special underwear. Is that the Mormons or is that Joe was witness?
Okay, Mormons. Yeah, so they have like the secret doctrines, you know
And they have all these things like you don't you don't get this truth until you're ready. You're in there, brother
You know, you know what I mean?
but
What we see is that confusion should never come from church and we and I believe that our church is a great church
We don't have that issue where you know when pass me a gets up here. Everyone's like what what did he say?
What was he what did he mean by that?
Me and my chapter 8 verse 8
He says so they read so they read in the book in the law of God distinctly and gave the sense
And let me just stop here for a second
We need more churches that are willing to give the sense
Amen, we need more churches to go out there and preach God's word and teach God's word
And we need more people to to proclaim the word of God. Why because?
Nobody has any sense
When it comes to just doctrine and just various teachings like they just don't people just don't understand what the Bible says
But oh wait, wait a minute. It's the reason why the reason why is because they're saved. They're not saved. Excuse me
Near my chapter 8 8 it says so they read the book in the law of in the law of
God distinctly and gave the sense and calls them to understand
So we need more understanding in this world. We need more people to preach and teach and you don't get this kind of eye
Do you don't get this kind of clarity understanding?
from
Isolation right we don't get this kind of clarity from
YouTube or tiktok or or you know named the the political party we get this clarity in the house of God
We get this we get this clarity in the sanctuary of the Lord
So how does the church, how does the church give a sight?
Well, it causes confusion to be clarified.
But then we also see that the church gives a sight
by having our perspective restored.
Turn your Bible and say Ecclesiastes chapter seven.
Ecclesiastes chapter seven.
What we see here is that Asaph, when he went into the house of the Lord, the sanctuary of God,
he no longer compared lifestyles with those of the wicked.
So he didn't compare himself amongst the wicked people, the evildoers.
What he did was he started remembering the fact that eternity has its place.
That the end that their end is nigh and that the end will come and destruction is coming for them
And so church allows us to be able to stop thinking horizontally and think vertically stop thinking 2d
But think start thinking 3d thinking spiritually minded thinking about the eternity. What do we are efforts in?
How how we live our lives? How is that going to affect the afterlife?
Probably chapter 23 verse 17 it says let not thine heart and be sinners
But be thou in the fear of the Lord all the day long for surely there is an end and on expectation
Shall not be cut off and you know, it's it's normal
I would say to a certain extent for us to kind of envy certain people is like why are they getting the things that I want
You know why are why is this guy?
You know this guy didn't even like God. He does he hates God. He blasphemes God and why is he getting blessed and I'm getting cursed
And I believe that this is normal to kind of have that thought but
But wait a minute, you have to come into the house of God to get the understanding.
You got to come into the house of God to make the sense. Amen?
Ecclesiastes chapter 7 verse 8 says,
better is the end of a thing than the beginning thereof.
And the patient in spirit is better than the proud in spirit.
What am I saying?
We need to stop thinking about today and start thinking about tomorrow.
We need to stop thinking about tomorrow. We need to start thinking about eternity. Amen?
Why or what's an illustration of this where we see that this is an issue where there's young people that just have like a desire
To like get married really quickly like man. I'm 18. I'm gonna get married
First woman that says I love you. I'm gonna say I do amen
And so but here's the thing when you talk about marriage. This is such a huge thing
It's one of the most important decision that you're making your life, right? I mean because this is
If you make a mistake, this is going to cost you until you die.
We're talking about an 18-year-old.
You're probably not going to die until 60, 70, right?
So we're talking about, amen, God called you to sing when this brother.
But here's the thing, this is the reason why we need to take marriage very seriously.
Why?
Because this is going to affect you for the rest of your life.
This is going to affect you for the rest of your life.
And so we don't want to rush into marriage.
You don't want to just jump in there.
It's like the first pretty girl that says, hey, hi, then it's like, oh, will you marry me?
Why? Because at the end of the day, you want to understand that, hey, this is a big decision.
And so we don't want to rush into this. We want to think about the future. We don't want to just think about today.
We want to think long-term, not short-term.
So the decisions you fact you make today will affect your future second Corinthians chapter 4 verse 18
It says while we look not on the things which are seen but the things which are not seen the things which are seen are temporal
But the things which are not seen
Eternal what is the sanctuary do what is the house of God do a refocus of us, right?
What does it do it it it gives us our spiritual eyesight?
It gives us our perspective on reality on how we should live our lives and how we should conduct ourselves on a day-to-day basis.
Right and so and listen here when you're when you're thinking vertically, you know
We ultimately need to stop trying to seek man's appraisal approval
Excuse me
So like if you're for for wives if you're married and your husband doesn't see every little thing that you do
Hey, don't worry. God saw that if you're in the ministry of our church and you're doing things and you're and you're serving our people
Serving the people in the church. Hey, look past me is not gonna say thank you to every single thing because maybe he doesn't even know what you did
Right? But here's the thing, you don't need to seek pasameha's approval,
what you should realize is, hey, God's going to get me.
God got me on that one. Why? Because here's the thing, when pasameha says thank you,
hey, that's it. You got your reward, amen? But if God says thank you, you know, hey,
you know, that's going to make some money, amen?
The goal should not be, well, if they don't notice me,
you know, I'm just not going to do anything anymore.
The goal should be our perspective.
The way we should view it is that, you know,
the way we should view it is that...
As we're in the sanctuary, I was doing the how to say God,
we understand that God's gonna see us.
God's gonna see what we're doing.
God's gonna see how we're living our lives
and conducting ourselves.
And we want God to be pleased with us.
Second Corinthians, excuse me, Colossians chapter three,
verse 20, 23 says,
and whatsoever ye do, do it heartily as unto the Lord,
not unto men, knowing that the Lord ye shall receive
the reward in the inheritance,
for ye serve the Lord Christ.
So what I'm trying to say is that God sees it.
And if you just think that, well, God doesn't see it,
well, you just need your perspective restored.
Amen, you need your eyes to be cleared
because God does see when you serve,
when you do these things, even if we don't see it.
God's gonna reward you for your efforts.
God is going to acknowledge you
even when you think that no one else does see.
The Bible said Job chapter 21 Job chapter 21. I'm going to read Hebrews chapter 9 verse 27
It says and as it is appointed unto men wants to die
what we see is that as
As we as it is appointed unto men wants to die
But after this the judgment what we see here is that when ASAP went into the house of God we see he
Got the understanding that hey the end of the wicked is going to happen. It's coming
The end of the wicked is coming and because of that he understands that there's that what we see in the Bible is that the
Judgment is coming right after them. So yeah, they may have their day
They have the cars. They have the money. They have the girls. They have the possessions
But wait a minute the Bible says that you can't take these things with you, right?
Job chapter 27, excuse me, 21, verse 13,
it says they spend their days in wealth,
but in a moment go down to the grave.
And you know what I think of when I think of this verse,
I think of like celebrities, when they,
you know, they have all their money,
they have their possessions,
they have their great feats that they've done,
you know, they're, as Pastor Meir preached earlier this morning,
that they have, you know,
they have the levels of success, amen.
And so they have all those things that we want,
but here's the thing, they go down.
to the grave in a moment.
They go down to the grave in the moment,
and celebrities do, we see this all the time
with celebrities that, you know,
they just waste their life away.
They have everything that we think that we want to be happy.
They have all, they have the money, the cars,
the girls, the possessions,
they have all the things that we want
and they're still unhappy.
They go down in a moment to the grave.
Psalm 37, verse one, it says,
fret not thyself because of Ibadours,
neither be thou envious against the workers of iniquity,
for they shall soon be cut down like grass
and wither as the green herb.
So when Asaph went to the sanctuary,
You know, we could say that he was a very emotional person at this point, right?
So he was very emotional.
You know, he didn't have, what happened was he didn't get his understanding sharpened just yet.
The reality of the judgment that comes from behind the pulpit,
the reality of the rewards that comes from behind the pulpit,
the reality of not having the understanding the accountability that's going to come into view.
So suddenly the the wickedness when he went into church he realized that hey, you know what?
Maybe it's not that great that that wicked guy is getting all these blessings
Maybe it's not that great that he's that he has all these things because look at the end
You know, there's times where like I made a bad decision
I'm like man. I just wish I would have just like thought this you know thought this through
You know what I mean? And I'm like man if I would have if I would have known if I would have known that if I did this
This would happen. I would have never made the decision
In like manner, it's going to be the same way because they don't understand the severity of their actions
So the church is where believers go to be renewed to be refreshed and
We constantly hear preaching and when you constantly hear preaching that magnifies God when you constantly hear preaching that
Warns us of hell that points you to the eternal you realize that those little things that you kind of
stumble that, you realize that those things weren't even that big of a deal.
And so, what I'm saying is that we should not have the desire to think to live just for the weekend.
Just live for today, but we should live for eternity.
Because once the fog clears, we realize that the prosperity of the wicked will come.
We understand that the path of the righteous is actually worth it because ASAP was questioning that
Hey, is it even worth serving you if you're just gonna treat me like this?
And we see multiple people in the Bible where they go through this where they're just like man
I just feel like I can't I can't do anything like I'm not getting anything from you
You're just you're against me, but wait a minute. Is he really against you or is he putting you through a trial?
But the reality is is that hey at the end of the day
God God is on your side, and you don't get this clarity from Instagram
You don't get this from binge-watching Netflix or going on inch or or going on any social media influencer
You get this we're in the house of God
so what does the church do for your brings back reality and
Not only that but when you
When you have the word of God being preached, the fog that comes over your mind from being
in the world, what happens is, Pastor Mead is like rubbing all that fog away.
He's washing your brain.
He's washing your eyes.
Proverbs chapter 7 verse 4 says, Wisdom is the principal thing, therefore get wisdom,
and with all thy getting, get understanding.
And so what our goal is, is that we should just have a desire to get understanding, right?
We should have the desire to learn about God. We should have a desire to come to church.
We should have a desire to have the Word of God wash us and renew us every service that we possibly can. Amen.
So when you're rooted in the local New Testament church, it's not only about instruction.
It's not only about information, but it's also where we get illuminated,
where we get indwelled with God, excuse me, and you don't get this teaching,
or you don't only just get teaching, you actually get the sight as well.
So we're talking about the blessings of the local New Testament church,
and we see that the first blessing is the fact that he gives a sight.
for being in church. But he also gives us strength as well. Strength for being in the local New
Testament church. And what do I mean by that? He renews our spirit. So by coming to church,
our spirit is renewed. So once Asaph saw things clearly, what happened next? He got his strength
back. He got his understanding back. And so you see when, at this point, when your emotions are
Your emotions are also out of whack when you're in this position because he was very emotional.
He's like, what was me?
But once he got into the church, he was like, oh, that's not even that big of a deal.
So once the truth was restored, his strength came back, and Asaph went from almost backsliding
in verse 2 to in 26 being strengthened again.
Proverbs 73 looked down at verse 26. It says my flesh in my heart faileth, but God is the strength of my heart and my portion forever
You know that happened in the sanctuary
That didn't happen when he was on vacation that didn't happen when he was going out and hanging out with the Philistines
That didn't happen when he was in isolation that happened when he was in the house of God
So how does going to church cause us to or gives us strength within our spiritual life? Well?
One reason is that worshiping recharges the spirit worshiping
Recharges spirit and so when we come together as a church we lift our voices up as a church and we sit under preaching
Here what happens is that?
Our spirit is lifted because of the presence of God in church
This is not a TED talk. This is not necessarily entertainment, although it can be entertaining.
Preaching is not necessarily a form of entertainment.
Pastor's not coming up here and just like,
hey man, there's a Jew and a black guy walked into a bar.
No, he's not doing that, and the reason why is because he's not a stand-up comedian. He's a preacher.
Right. He's not coming up here just like hey, man
Let me just tell you some jokes instead of the Bible. No, he's coming here because he has a job
He's coming in here because he because he understands that we need to worship the Lord
And he knows what he needs for us because the Bible says that he watches for our soul
now
Obviously, you know church is for worship, but
When you come to church, you have to understand that this is where the spirit and truth is, and because we're hearing the word of God, it revives us as we're going throughout our week.
And, you know, we all have those days where, you know, we don't want to come to church, you're in a bad mood, you know, I was kind of like that this morning. No, I'm joking.
Right, but here's the thing sometimes we come to church and we're in a bad attitude
Sometimes we come to church and you know, it's not it wasn't a great morning there all the kids got a spanking
Right, and that's why sometimes when people come to church and they're tired and they're single, you know
I'm I'm like flabbergasted. I think I take that offensive
When you see when you don't have anything like man, I'm just tired. I'm like of what?
From what a four night asleep. You got too much sleep
I take that offensive so don't ever tell me you're tired because I'm just like look
I got I got four little ones and I'm just telling you right now if you ever tell me that
I'm not gonna slap you in the face, but I'm gonna think about it. Amen
But I come to church sometimes not necessarily a right spirit, but what happens?
I come to church and then I start hanging out with the brother and we start roasting someone
We start hanging out with each other. You know, maybe I'm just I'm in the conversation
I don't want to talk, but you know, they we're getting on brother so-and-so. I'm like, yeah, get them get them get them
That's making me that's reviving my spirit
I'm serious. That's reviving my spirit because I'm like, man, you know, I don't have it that bad because at least I didn't come to church and get roasted
Come on, T.J., that revives my spirit.
Maybe it doesn't for you, but it does for me.
Turn your back, what's John chapter four?
John chapter four.
Hebrews chapter 10 verse 25 it says and let us consider one another to provoke unto love and to good works
Not forsaken the assembly of ourselves together as the manner of summons, but exhorting one another and so much the more as you
See the day approaching
We should have a desire to be in church. Amen. We should have a desire to come to church
So I'm 84 look down at verse 40. Uh, you're not there. Excuse me. So I'm 84 verse 4 says blessed are they to dwell in that house
They will be still praising the Esala
So I'm 122 verse 1 it says I was glad when they said unto me. Let us go into the house of the Lord. I
Pray that this is something that resonate was with all of us here
And I would say I'm probably speaking to the choir right because who who comes to church on Sunday evening. You know what I mean?
But here's the thing. I pray that this is the highlight of your week. I
Pray that this is the highlight
Like going to come into church on Sundays is the highlight of my family
Nothing's better like oh, we're gonna go to church now my kids know the days of the week
So they don't just ask us every single day, but at one point it's like oh, we're gonna go to church tomorrow
I was like no baby. We just went church was yesterday. So we're gonna we're not going to church today
But church is a highlight and it should be the highlight of your life
Why because this is where you get spiritually fed you get spiritual you get your friends
That's why your friends should never be in the world your best friends should not be should be one of these people here
And like well, I don't like any of them. Well
Too bad. I'm sorry
You know, maybe go bring some of your worldly friends and bring them in here get them saved obviously get them saved
You know get them saving and now you got your best friend. He's saved and you guys have the history, right?
This should be the hideout of your week. This should be this is the highlight of my week
John chapter 4 looked down at verse 23 it says
But the hour cometh and now is when the true worshippers shall worship the Father in spirit and in truth
For the Father seeketh such to worship him
God is a God is a spirit and they that worship him must worship him in spirit and in truth
So what do you get in here? What you get in here is not duplicated online
Right? What you get in here is not something that is replicated for those that are on YouTube, or Rumble, or whatever social media platform that the sermon's on.
You can't replicate what we get in here. You can't replicate the blessings that we get in this church. Why? Because they're not in church.
And obviously God bless, you know, online preaching. That's how I was reached. That's how a lot of us in here were reached, excuse me, reached, but here's the thing. That's not church.
That's not that's not the that's not the sanctuary of God
You know and so those that are listening online if there's people in this church that drive very far to come here
And there's people that are a part of our church and I don't mean quotes
Obviously they come to our church and whatnot, but they live 10 minutes away
Right. How do you live 10 minutes away and you're never here? How do you live 10 minutes away and you're late? I?
Mean come on
Church starts at 10 if at at worst if at worst if you wake up at 9 30 you can still make it and get Starbucks. Amen, I
Don't understand. I don't understand it, but maybe that's just me
So worship ultimately is not only for God obviously we do worship the Lord
But worship is also for us to it fills our soul it fills our spirit it refreshes us it redirects our mind
So when we walk in heavy, you know what happens when we worship the Lord our spirit is lifted when we are tired
The Lord strengthens us
What's another way that the going to church strengthens us well the word
Fortifies our soul. What do I mean by that? It's provides nutrition for us, right?
So when we come here and get a sermon where Pastor me is preaching
you know at an hour an hour and a half amen all right all right when he's
preaching his sermon here's the thing he's feeding us and you know what don't
buck at the hour and 30 minutes don't buck at the hour and 15 minutes say hey
I want more I want more
You don't want to be a spiritual anorexic because there's too many anorexics out there
You know what I mean? Spiritually speaking there's too many anorexics out there. What do I mean by that?
That means that they just don't feed anything, you know where we go
We don't go days without eating they go months without going to church
They go months without reading the Word of God they go months without thinking about the things of God
They go months without soul winning
Spiritual anorexics
The Word of God builds you up. It's it it strengthens the inner man
It gives endurance to our bodies.
It allows us to be able to have our spiritual battles,
gives us the stamina that we need.
And even if there's physical weaknesses as well.
So your Bible's to Psalm 19, Psalm chapter 19.
Jeremiah chapter 15 verse six, it says,
that words were found and I did eat them.
And that word was unto me,
the joy and rejoicing of my heart for I am called by thy name oh Lord God of hosts first Peter chapter 2 verse 2
You're going to Psalm 19 first Peter chapter 2 verse 2
It says as newborn babes desire the sincere meat milk
Excuse me milk of the words that she may grow thereby
so what happens when we come to church is the fact that we get a chance to get fed spiritually speaking and
We get a chance to come to church
three times a week to be able to come here and get a preaching,
get our face ripped off a little bit. That's why I sit in the back so that you don't see my face
actually get ripped off. But what I want you to understand is that at the very basic level,
we all at one point were babes where we needed milk. And the reason why we need milk is so that
we can grow thereby. So we want to grow when it comes to coming to church. We want to grow when
And so, that's the reason why we need to come to church, so that we can spiritually grow.
You're there in chapter 9, Psalms 19, verse 7, it says,
The law of the Lord is perfect, converting the soul.
The testimonies of the Lord is sure, making wise the simple.
The statutes of the Lord are right, rejoicing.
rejoicing the heart the commandment of the Lord is pure enlightening the eyes
You know, this is the reason why church is vital. This is the reason why church is necessary
It's necessary for us to come to church because when Christians do not have preaching in their lives
When Christians do not have a church that they can go to when they don't have hard preaching that they can listen to
That Christian is not going to spiritually thrive
That Christian is not going to spiritually thrive well because they have nothing that's going to support them
There's nothing giving them strength and if you're hearing sermons where the pastor or the preacher is saying God's not mad at you
He's never gonna be mad at you. It doesn't matter what you do. He will never be mad at you
You know, it doesn't matter if you go to Sunday night service
It doesn't matter if you go to Wednesday night service. Everybody gets the same rewards
That's not the type of church that you want
Because the Bible says that God is gonna reward us for our effort and if a pastor's saying
If a pastor is saying that everybody gets the same reward, well, there's a problem here.
Right, there's a problem because why would God tell us to work for him if he's not gonna give us anything now obviously here's the thing
Let's just say hypothetically
God said I'm not giving you anything, but you just get people say that's worth it
right just for the fact that he gave us salvation and we can and
And now we're not gonna go to hell
But here's the thing God promises that he's gonna give us he's gonna reward us for our labor
And so we need to take this serious and that's the reason why you don't want to go to church
Why even sir why even serve God if that's the case if God's not gonna reward you?
From their perspective, from that perspective,
why would you even serve God?
You know, I can make way more money
if I just, if I worked on Sundays.
Why?
I've had an interview, obviously I'm not trying to,
don't feel bad for me.
I've had an interview where everything went great.
Everything went great.
Hey, look, they liked me.
You know, I was, I, you know, I answered all the questions.
I told them, hey, I have these, this accolades,
I can do this, I can do this.
They're like, oh man, that's great.
Then I get a notification that's saying when I told them after I told them the fact that hey
You know I can't work on Sundays, and I can't work on Thursdays. I
Get a notification. Sorry. You're not hired. I
Can make way more money, but here's the thing what's more important making financial gains or spiritual gains
What's more important?
making a dollar or
Getting someone saved now obviously you can do both
But what I'm saying is is that at certain times like sometimes it's gonna cost you something to be a Christian
It's going to cost you something to serve God, and we need to be willing to pay, amen?
So why serve God then?
Well, because God does reward us, no matter what the pastor says.
You know, although I know we have a kitchen over here
Although we have a kitchen over here. You know what pastor me is doing Sunday morning Sunday evening Thursday evening is the fact that he what he's doing
He's whipping up a sermon and you know, he's he's this is the kitchen right here
Actually, no no his office is the kitchen right so where he's whipping up the sermon. He's putting a little paprika in there
He's putting a little saw. He's putting a little seasoning. He's gonna throw some vegetables in like just kidding. Let me throw that out
Let's put a little seasoning with a little more meat. Amen
And so he's he's whipping up that sermon for you so that when he comes out here that you're you know
You're here. You're listening to the sermon
Why because he cares for you because he loves you
This is where he's gonna give you where God is gonna strengthen you
Now, why does he do that? Why does he create a sermon for us?
Why does he spend all this time teaching and doing all these things?
Well, he has to spiritually feed us, right?
And so that's the that's the that's what I'm trying to get across is that we have to spiritually eat
And so he needs to be able to preach a sermon for the newborn babes. Amen
But he also needs a preacher sermon for let's just say the more mature Christian and so and everything in between
So he this one sermon that he preaches has to feed all of us. Amen
And so we need to consider that when it comes to coming to church
When it comes to reading our Bibles
We need to get fed at church and here's the thing when we go into this world and we go on social media
We see so many social media influencers
Catholics and Mormons and Jehovah's Witnesses where they have all these reels and where they're spewing all this heresy and all these
doctrines various doctrines and you know what happens is all these people online. They you know, they're not really feeding anybody, right?
You know, it's beyond meat
It's beyond, it's beyond Bible because it's just, it's so far away from the Bible that it actually has nothing to do with the Bible.
It's all about their heresy.
The spiritual, the, the, those so-called spiritual influencers, you know, they, they don't really care about you.
They don't really care about you.
All they care about is the likes, they want the clicks, they want the comments, boost
the algorithm, and then they get the reward of being able to sell you a course on how
to be spiritual as them.
You get a chance to donate to the Israel Fund, amen.
But what did they give you if they give you anything and obviously sometimes it's all prophet in the word of God
So if you just quote the King James virgin Bible, I mean that's something better than nothing right where they're giving you a stofu
They're giving you soy milk
They're giving you estrogen filled soy milk
But the truth is that majority of the content all if not all not all of it obviously pessimism is on there
There's there's only a few there's only a few it's obviously it was a joke, but there's all there's not much on online
It's all heresy false doctrine idolatry
Heretical nonsense and so what we need is we need the strong meat of the word of God
We need the strong meat of of the word of God being preached behind the pulpit
We need this and how do we get this what we get this from obviously being in the local New Testament Church?
The third way that ultimately the church provides strength to us is that weakness is then exchanged for strength.
Our weaknesses are exchanged for strength.
And so strength in the Bible doesn't necessarily always come from the strong person, right?
Because we think about Samson.
Most likely the reason why Samson was the strongest man in the world was because he probably didn't look like the strongest man in the world.
And so the, the, the, the feet was the fact that, Hey, Samson probably looked like it, just like a regular guy, an average person, nothing special about him, nothing great about him or anything.
But what we understand about Samson is the fact that, Hey, he was filled with God's spirit. He was filled with the Lord.
And what happens is that when we're at church, we come in, the beautiful thing about church is when we come into church, we come in empty and we leave filled.
right? We come in weak and we are then strengthened to the Lord. God allows
himself to show that he's strong on our behalf and so you don't need to
pretend when you come to church that you have it all together because you don't
right? You don't need to pretend as though you are spiritually jacked. You're
You just need to bring your weakness to this place.
Sit down, allow pass me your depreciation sermon.
You get cooked.
You say amen.
And then you move on with your day.
You get strengthened.
You get the power of the Lord dwelling inside of you.
Turn your Bible to 2 Corinthians chapter 12.
2 Corinthians chapter 12.
I'm gonna read Isaiah chapter 40.
Verse 31, it says,
But they that wait upon the Lord shall renew their strength.
They shall mount up with eagle wings.
Shall run and not weary they shall walk and not faint
God is gonna give us our strength. He's gonna give us our power. He's gonna give us. He's gonna bless us
With his with his word, but we get that from church
We get the power from God at church second where they shot the 12 looked down verse 9
It says and he said unto me my grace is sufficient for thee
For my strength is made perfect in weakness my most gladly therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities
That the that the power of Christ may rest upon me
therefore, I take pleasure in infirmities and reproaches and necessities and
Persecutions and distress for Christ's sake for when I am weak
Then I am sure it cannot challenge you guys to to not necessarily think to holly yourself and just kind of realize ask God hey
For my weaknesses, can you turn those into strengths for you on the areas where I'm weak?
Can you be strong on my behalf so that why so I can get the glory, but so that you can get the glory, Lord?
Turn your body with the Ephesians, chapter three, Ephesians, chapter three, Ephesians, chapter three.
So I'm 138 verse three says in the day.
When I cried, Thou answered me and strengthened me with strength in my soul.
So we just need to ask God to give us the strength. We need to ask Him to give us the ability.
And we need to get this strength from where being in church so that we can eat the Word of God and grow thereby.
If you just chapter 3 verse 16 it says that he would grant you according to the riches of his glory to be strengthened by his
With might by his spirit in the inner man, and this is obviously I address Samson
But you know when when the world the world tells you know to hide your weaknesses
Don't show that you're that you're weak and you know to a certain extent. Yeah, that's true
like you don't want to just walk around and it's just like a bleeding heart, right, but
We we take our weaknesses and God says yeah, I can do something with you if you can serve me
I'll do something if you if you understand that you're weak
I can do something for you, but those that are proud and puffed up. He can't use
Right because they're just it's gonna go to their head. I'm some great one. I'm special. I'm the strongest
I'm the smartest. I'm the wisest. I'm the most good-looking
Which that's none of you know, I'm talking I
Got there from past me here. Amen
So, what we see is that if you want to be used of God greatly, well, you need to abase yourself.
Because once you're abased, then God is going to elevate you.
So, if you want to have some prestige in church, you know, if you want prestige in church,
hey, how about you just serve in the ministry?
Maybe you could clean some toilets, right?
You're like, oh, I don't want to do that. I want to preach.
Well, here's the thing.
Everybody can't preach. So if you're a lady, I'm sorry, you're not preaching up here.
If you're a child, if you're a late, if you're a child, you're not preaching up here.
And that's just the way it works, right?
But finding out a capacity of how we can serve God, and how we liberalize,
and what we see here is that God says bring me the weak ones and I'll make them strong. Amen.
So the trend this transaction doesn't happen, you know from YouTube by just buying like a course or something
This transaction doesn't happen when you know from a political party when we walk into sanctuary God
That's where God meets us and when God meets us there. That's when he can revive us where he can give us power
So when a staff said my flesh in my heart felleth I don't believe that he was exaggerating I believe that he was
About ready to kick in the towel
Or kicking the bucket one of those two the towel of the bucket right and throw it in the towel
Amen. Thank you pastor. That's why you're the pastor and so he was about he's about ready to throw the towel in he was like
I'm cooked. I'm done
He was about ready to throw the towel in but here's the thing when he went to the sanctuary
That's where his strength was renewed
He was like hey, you know what actually I can keep going and that's what we get from church, right?
We when we're in church we come to church. We're like, oh man
The bills aren't getting paid. My wife's not listening to me. My you know my kids don't listen to me
Everybody hates me and you hear a sermon on bypass me. Hey, tell your wife what to do
Make a sandwich. I'm hungry
You heard that Angela, amen bring it up here right now. I
Believe he was ready to throw on the towel, but his strength was renewed and so when we feel weak, you know, we go to church
The the the the idea is that you go to church whenever so when you're distraught you go to church
When you're weak you go to church when you're strong you go to church when you're emotionally worn out you go to church
Why because this is where we're gonna get strength through this is where we're gonna get renewed we this is where we're gonna be revived
And I obviously I know I'm speaking to the choir because this is again who's who's here in church on Sunday night
You could there's other things you could be doing you can go work
You can go to a barbecue you can go to the beach
We live right by the beach, right?
but you chose to be in church and
I'm realizing that my this is longer than I thought I have like 20 pages and pass me a gave me the right to say all of it
I'm joking, but ultimately
He did not say that he told me make it 30 minutes, and I'm at 80. No, I'm joking, but here's the thing
Let me just might add like I
Did not preach my whole sermon. I'm almost out of time, but here's what I want to say
Although God uses, can use the weak things of this world,
and when we come to church, we can be weak,
but let me just also add that,
can you come to church on time?
You know, am I like tripping here?
Am I wrong?
Like, can you come to church on time?
Why?
Because maybe you needed that five minutes, right?
You needed that five minutes that you weren't here.
You know when you went to get to Starbucks,
instead of coming to church?
You know, on time?
You remember that?
And he's like, oh, should I go to Starbucks?
It'll be quick.
And then you wait, and the order's not ready.
Right?
You know, I think at a certain point,
you should be embarrassed by walking in church late.
You know what I mean?
Like, you should really feel embarrassed
that you're walking in church late.
Why?
Because this is the house of God.
Can you have some respect?
Do you show up to work late every day?
Why are you five minutes late?
You cannot consistently be five minutes late every single service.
You cannot consistently be late ten minutes every single service.
The problem is that you're not prioritizing the church of God.
You're not prioritizing our Lord, right?
And so church is a very important thing and here's the thing, you may need it those five minutes.
What if those five minutes was the thing that you really needed and guess what? You didn't hear it.
We need church. You're not prioritizing church and
It's a priority problem. It's not a scheduling problem
So when we come to church it strengthens us it gives us the ability to be able to be filled with the spirit of God
You know, we need all the minutes of the church. We need all the minutes of the sermon. Why well the reason why we need it is because
You don't know what you need until you need it, right?
So there's times where it's just like I've heard a sermon from pastor Pastor Mejia
I've heard a sermon from Cody
I've heard so many sermon from Marcos where they just kind of repression on something and
The point that I got from the sermon had nothing to do with they said and I was like ooh
Oh that got me
Right, and I'm like man like God obviously that has to be God. How else can my heart be pricked like that?
So I still have actually two more points, but I'm actually I'm just gonna I'm just gonna wrap it up here
What I want you to understand is that church is important and the reason why we come to church is obviously
One because we need our spiritual site to be renewed
But we also need our strength to be renewed to be for us to be revived on the inside
So, you know church isn't just something that where you just come and get entertained where we get preaching
But it also pumps you up emotionally
it grounds us in spirituality and it fuels our soul, why?
To direct our heart, to direct our path,
to get us through the next day.
My, Asaph said, my flesh and my heart faileth
and look sometimes, you know, art is us too, right?
There's times where my heart, where I just look at the world,
I look at things that are going on
and I kind of come to, I'm like, man, like, what can I do?
I'm just, I'm trying my hardest and it's just not working.
But I need to be reminded like ASAP where he's where God says hey
I am the strength of your heart and your portion forever
And that's a powerful thought. God is my strength. Amen. God is my power
God's on my side. God got my back
If you're feeling weak disconnected drain the last thing that you want to do is not come to church, right?
because nobody, obviously, actually I won't say that,
but here's the thing, when it comes to,
when it comes to you being distraught,
here's the thing, nobody comes out
when they're in this position, in this vulnerable state
where it's just like, man, being by myself
was the best thing ever.
You know you being by yourself when you're in emotional state. It's probably not the best thing
That's the reason why I like to come to church because when I come to church we start making fun of people
Lord willing, it's not me. You know, because I just got beat up
You know at work and then I come here and just get beat up by by the brethren
Obviously, I don't want that right. I don't I don't want to get beat up
But the reality is is that hey, I try my best, you know
To make sure the conversation is not about me
So we need to understand that we need to plug into church. We need to come to church
We need to dig deeper and we need our strength
We understand that the strength of the Lord is in the church. So in conclusion
Or I'll tell you guys my other points. My other point was that not only does the church give a sight
But it also gives us strength
Not only does it give us strength, but it gives us stability where we it's it's beneficial to be in a stable environment, right?
So we need stability within our lives.
We need stability within our world.
So think about, you know, I hope that this is your vision
that you guys all have children here.
You know, obviously if you're in that position
but that you grow old here,
I would love to see all of you guys in 30 years.
I would love to see all of you guys in 40 years
if we make it that far, amen.
The rapture might happen, Evan.
Having the vision of having a long-term relationship at this church where you build will you develop deep love root deep roots in this church?
You know obviously it may not be in this building because Lord willing in 30 years. We're gonna have we're gonna have our own building. Amen
We're gonna have our own building. We're gonna be able to we're gonna be able to have our own signs. No one's gonna tell us what to do
Suffer pastor me here
Telling the kids not to run around
making tornadoes, so it's being stable, having a place where the Bible is being
preached and we were founded on a stable foundation, we're founded on the
Bible, we're founded on just the various doctrines, but then the other thing was
that
that my last point that I was gonna have is that
we get support from church.
And so there's times in our lives
where we go through hardships, we lose someone,
we lose a job, we're going through a hard situation.
And what we need is not, can someone,
if you can rebuke or if you can debunk
the five points of Calvinism,
when you're going through a hard time,
I'm just gonna be perfectly honest,
I really don't care about doctrine.
You know, you know what I mean, so if I'm I just I just lost my job
You're like hey, well, let me tell you about the end times Bible prophecy. Let me tell you about when the rapture is gonna come
You know what? Yeah, thanks, but I don't care
You know me cuz I'm I'm hurt and what we need and what we get from churches the fact that hey when you're in a
When you're in depressed state, we have people here that are willing to what come and help you
It doesn't always have to be financial sometimes. It's just a text. Hey brother. Love you
Hey brother, how you doing?
Is there anything I can do for you?
You know when you say that, what are you going to do, man?
You know what I mean?
What are you going to do at that point?
But ultimately, when it comes to...
But when it comes to this, what I want you to understand is that
this is our support group.
This is our group where, hey, look, I'm trying to grow old with you people, amen?
I want to see your grandbabies. I want my children to marry your children.
You may not want that, but I do, amen?
And I want my children to marry your children, amen?
And we're going to be in-laws, amen?
We are going to be in loss you're gonna be having lunch or not lunches. You're gonna have Thanksgiving turkeys
Amen
And all that good stuff
So what do I want to take what I want you to take away from this sermon or I'm a read Psalm 92 verse 13
It says those that are planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of our God
What's the takeaway I want you to get planted in this church
I want you to get plugged into this church.
I want you to get the blessings of the local New Testament church because this is not just an event
And I know that we got the lights. We got the AC. We have the food. We have the coffee. We have all this stuff
But this is not an event
This is not an event. This is a lifeline
This is this is our sanctuary where we get a chance to be with God and we get a chance to be with our brothers as well
And so this is why you should never miss church. Obviously it happens
But your but your spirit should be hey, I go to church Sunday morning Sunday evening Thursday evening
Every day for the rest of my life
It's about his in a word of prayer the Lord. Thank you for allowing us to be able to have this sermon here and Lord
I just pray that that just your truth was
was
Given in this sermon and Lord. I just pray that
That I was that you were able to use me in a way that it would glorify you and and Lord
I just pray when it comes to
When it comes to the the points that I had about having the sight and that we have the strength Lord and that we're stabilized Lord
By being in church
but I just pray that you're able to work in our lives working our hearts and remind us the truth the perfect truth about coming to church this the
Sanctuary the house of the Lord and Lord. We just pray that we go closer to you and thank you for the fellowship to follow
We love you. Praise every name. Amen
song number 192 on that first verse
ring the bells of heaven in every joy today
for a soul returning from the wild
see the father meets him out upon the way
welcoming his very watery child
ransom army like a mighty sea,
feeling forth the ethem of the free.
Ring the bells of heaven every joy today,
for the wander now is reconciled.
Yes, the soul does rescue from a sinful way,
and is born a new one.
It's a ransom