BONES - Moment of Truth Bible Baptist Church 10/12/2025

[SPEAKER_00]: Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

[SPEAKER_00]: A righteous one keeps all his bones, but one of them

[SPEAKER_00]: is, but not one of them is broken.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, once you remember that, Scripture, because at the end, we're going to court again in a different way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me read it to you one more time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Many are the afflictions of the righteous, but the Lord delivers him out of them all.

[SPEAKER_00]: A righteous one keeps all his bones, not one of them is broken.

[SPEAKER_00]: God bless and honor the reading of his word and you may be seated.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is the timing here.

[SPEAKER_00]: One thing you're going to see an awful lot and often there's a lot of goofy things, spook things, a weird things and sweet things and bitter sweet things and sour things and creepy things to that you're going to see enough about politics.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm joking.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's a lot of things you're going to see, but you're going to see all sorts of things but one thing you're going to see a lot is bones, bones and skeletons and things like bad and decorations.

[SPEAKER_00]: One thing I've noticed a lot in the last couple years, people will decorate their yards with skeletons.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've noticed a lot, I've seen worse things than that, but I noticed a lot of lost skeletons out in the yards.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some are life size, some are small.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some are very small, and I've seen some that are so big.

[SPEAKER_00]: Are they staying taller than the houses?

[SPEAKER_00]: In fact, my mom is not at with us at this moment.

[SPEAKER_00]: She's gone in the back of that's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: But she's complained so much because we have a neighbor who had to put out a life size skeleton.

[SPEAKER_00]: and it has been out there for over a year, setting in one of the neighbor's yards when you go into the neighborhood, it's all set now and it's doing something stupid, almost every time.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, she's been playing out for a year and I said, well, mom, it's not going to work, but it's been out there for a year.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now they've got a whole slew to join.

[SPEAKER_00]: And some look like a band, but they have skeletons there, which we're I've seen some so tall and some even taller just so big skeletons air which we're I'm sure you've seen it's trending all over big skeleton of the are some stay up all year long now when I was a kid and Jeremy you remember this maybe a few of you will.

[SPEAKER_00]: maybe it's even over to the night of call, but I know what happened in the 70s big time.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I was a kid, it became kind of popular.

[SPEAKER_00]: They hang out with these little plastic toy coffins at Halloween time.

[SPEAKER_00]: They had little, I guess they were like sweet cards.

[SPEAKER_00]: These little candy bones, do you remember?

[SPEAKER_00]: They were like, and the weird thing about the coffins, it was usually kind of like a orange, a red, or purple, but anyway, they had the kind of had like this little loop at the end that could kind of be like a keychain,

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't think he went ever used like that, who knows?

[SPEAKER_00]: But I remember that he had this little candy skeleton's bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you try to put together a skeleton there.

[SPEAKER_00]: I never really worked because he'd have it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you know, but it would get mad.

[SPEAKER_00]: It was this fun, fun little candy, you know?

[SPEAKER_00]: And it was fun and you'd get to the Halloween and other times.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I remember, I don't remember this really well.

[SPEAKER_00]: My father told me a million times my grandma and others there too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Apparently, we had a family member who passed away.

[SPEAKER_00]: that time at that time in the fall.

[SPEAKER_00]: And on the way down there, because this is about two hours away.

[SPEAKER_00]: Down the way down there, one of the family members stopped on the way down at the gas station a bot.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of those, a couple of those.

[SPEAKER_00]: And when they were there, they were at the head of when they were pocket.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they brought them out of their pocket and say, look at the gate, it was at the funeral parlor.

[SPEAKER_00]: And people said, well, I didn't get one.

[SPEAKER_00]: There was all that, they thought it's terrible.

[SPEAKER_00]: Wait, I didn't get one.

[SPEAKER_00]: They thought it was awful, yeah, they wanted one.

[SPEAKER_00]: They thought they got cheated.

[SPEAKER_00]: And then they laughed at it.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, I bought this at the gas to anyway.

[SPEAKER_00]: This was one of the candies we had as kids.

[SPEAKER_00]: You all remember, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: So a few of you do.

[SPEAKER_00]: They had those.

[SPEAKER_00]: So skeletons were always kind of funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I was a kid, one of my favorite cartoons was from silly symphony called The Skeleton Dance.

[SPEAKER_00]: The fact that I watched it about three times this week.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I love the skeleton dance.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I was a kid, I went to Bagna Dam.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't know if you all remember that, but with the bag on them, and I remember they had it on this little thing where you put in some coins like 50 cents and you can watch the whole cartoon.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I love it so much, I watch like twice, so it's been a whole dollar, there's a lot back there.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I watch a whole dollar's worth, watch it twice in a row, and I love that cartoons.

[SPEAKER_00]: What am I favorite?

[SPEAKER_00]: didn't win any awards but it sure was memorable and it took a lot of a lot of a wonderful talent animation to make this.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you had a chance to watch it, it looked on YouTube it might be our notes on Disney, but you watched the skeleton dance a beautiful cartoon sounds stupid to say that when you see Skeleton's dancing and all the stuff we're just funny though.

[SPEAKER_00]: But maybe you know this maybe don't.

[SPEAKER_00]: Did you know there's two hundred six bones in the human body?

[SPEAKER_00]: Just, I figured you would, 206 bones in the human body and there's rumors that women have more bones than men, that's not true.

[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the truth.

[SPEAKER_00]: We all have the same amount.

[SPEAKER_00]: Although there are some people who sometimes are born a little different and we need to have one bone more or less.

[SPEAKER_00]: Because we're all different, we're all different.

[SPEAKER_00]: But here's the thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: God all made us.

[SPEAKER_00]: The same yet different.

[SPEAKER_00]: He made us with it, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Wonderful human body.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we all have 206 bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: And yes, sometimes we have more joints.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we have you never know.

[SPEAKER_00]: You never know, but we're all wonderful.

[SPEAKER_00]: No bones about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We all have bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: No bones about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: We all have bones now.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can really realize all you want to have sex is true.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I have a bone to pick.

[SPEAKER_00]: And no, okay, then you hear all this stuff, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Bona my bone.

[SPEAKER_00]: You've heard that too.

[SPEAKER_00]: when he saw Eve be created.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, he's the one who had one last bone.

[SPEAKER_00]: Why?

[SPEAKER_00]: God took out his rib, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: He took a rib out.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you can say, he made a rib eye.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, he did.

[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't make a mick rib either.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, he made Adam from the rib from his side.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he said, bone of my bone, flesh, my flesh.

[SPEAKER_00]: He made Eve from Adam and they together were one.

[SPEAKER_00]: They were one flesh.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Adam said that, bone of my bone.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I know there's a TV show named bones, and it's an issue.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't really watch them, not at all that, but we're going to talk about bones today.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I can close.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I have other pictures to draw later.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can close to draw bones today.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've drawn a weirdo.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't do it though.

[SPEAKER_00]: I had to sat down.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no.

[SPEAKER_00]: Less is more.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I can close.

[SPEAKER_00]: The first thing we're going to talk about is aching bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now a lot of us older here, not all of us, and some of us have physical problems.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I believe that most of us, even for not older, we can all relate to aching bones, most of us can.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen, amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I was little, and we had a lot of wonderful people in the church, many that were older, and they would talk about their aching bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: I could not relate.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't understand aching bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: I sure do now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I understand the joints that hurt.

[SPEAKER_00]: I understand arthritis.

[SPEAKER_00]: They've talked about arthritis.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know what they meant.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, whoo, I understand arthritis and then something.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh boy, it's terrible.

[SPEAKER_00]: When the weather gets bad, you just like a pain, bone of my bone, it really hurts, but no bones about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, it hurts, it hurts, it hurts bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's aching bones, right?

[SPEAKER_00]: Arthritis, you get real sore.

[SPEAKER_00]: You sometimes have throbbing pain, and you can feel it in your bones, can't you?

[SPEAKER_00]: You can feel your bones when it's bad outside.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you've had broken bones, everybody's different.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you had a broken bone in your body when you was a little kid into this day, you still feel it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'd have a broken skull, we'll talk about that here a little bit.

[SPEAKER_00]: You have feelings in your bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a different thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a saying, I have a feeling's deep in my bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's a different thing, but you feel it.

[SPEAKER_00]: You feel it deep in your bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Something's about to happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can feel it sometimes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes the top I have feelings in your bones, the top I have deep sorrow, the something you've gone through, a sadness, a depression.

[SPEAKER_00]: maybe you're home right now you're watching and you're not able to come here and you have a deepness in your bones as sorrow because you feel like you're stuck believing your pastor knows I went through almost seven years and I've been able to drive now some people thought that meant that I never was able to leave the house and I'm stuck with the folks but I didn't leave the house I've never been a pastor no I was he I was out but I felt stuck I felt trapped I felt trapped

[SPEAKER_00]: But God, there's times I would say I'm never going to be able to drive again, but God, the better, I've been driving now for two years, two years this week, two years and couple of days with two years, two years that I've been driving.

[SPEAKER_00]: God got me out of that trap.

[SPEAKER_00]: In my bones, I felt like I wasn't going to get out, but God knew better.

[SPEAKER_00]: God knew better.

[SPEAKER_00]: Just because you feel something your bones don't mean that you need to listen to those bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: God knows better.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I've gotten this way.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're very physical bones, one day, that one pain's gonna be in them, you're gonna have a new spirit to body.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're gonna be on a newer feeling better than you could possibly imagine.

[SPEAKER_00]: How do I know you?

[SPEAKER_00]: How do I know you, amen?

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what it says in Psalm 6 2, be gracious to me, O Lord, this is the, this is David's be.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak.

[SPEAKER_00]: O Lord, heal me for my bones are terrified.

[SPEAKER_00]: Right now, we might feel terrified, the things we're going through.

[SPEAKER_00]: We might feel scared, and we're going to talk about some at this month, different feelings, different things we go through, and even coming up in November.

[SPEAKER_00]: We may talk about feelings, but folks, it's okay, if we feel scared.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's okay that we may be overcome sometimes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't let it overtake you, because God is with you, you're not alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't fact to feel that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be gracious to me, O Lord, for I am weak.

[SPEAKER_00]: Some people say, don't ever say you're weak, that's giving in, don't now wait a minute, don't lie to yourself either, don't lie to myself, you know, I could lie to myself right now, say, I'm so strong, I could run five miles, folks, I could even run a mile, they're a little fine, I know I have weaknesses in my knees, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting better, I'm getting

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to the gym.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm trying to get stronger every day.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't start off as strong as I am now.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm getting there one day at a time.

[SPEAKER_00]: God will help you.

[SPEAKER_00]: God didn't say if you have faith all let you run like Elijah ran.

[SPEAKER_00]: He doesn't say that.

[SPEAKER_00]: And by the way, that was a strength of the Lord God anyway.

[SPEAKER_00]: The point is that God will help us one step at a time.

[SPEAKER_00]: One day at a time we put our faith in Him, not in ourselves.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter 17 verse 22.

Proverbs 17:22

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter 17 verse 22, and Mary Hart does good like a medicine, but a broken spirit dries up the bones.

Proverbs 17:22

[SPEAKER_00]: It dries the bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Have you ever woken up and you feel like you could take on the world, but you feel so sad, you feel so sad, you feel so depressed, you just want to take out that thumb.

[SPEAKER_00]: suck on that thumb and be like, you all remember to try to brown, be like a lioness, take out that little blanket, take out the thumb and just get the sucking on the thumb and stay a bed for the rest of the day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, your pastor's been there.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can't do anything, folks.

[SPEAKER_00]: We don't need to focus on how we feel, we need to focus on how God will make us feel better.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I'm not saying this is sin, the feel bad.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm not saying that at all.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm saying we need to focus on the very heart that is good medicine.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know how I continue to have Mary Hart, the word of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: A Mary Hart through prayer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord God, I can't do it alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: I need you to pick me up because I can't do it alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's how we do it, folks.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's how you do it, get away from the aching bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I still have aching bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's true.

[SPEAKER_00]: I still have aching bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: But folks, Jesus Christ helps me with my aching bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: your past or sometimes uses a cane.

[SPEAKER_00]: Did you know every day that, I don't go to the gym every day, so you know, but when I do, do you know I kick my cane with me?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because the first couple of times I went, I didn't pick my cane and getting out was difficult.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I'm not gonna let my pride keep me from walking well.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, sir, fact you may not be able to tell right now, wearing a knee pad on my left knee.

[SPEAKER_00]: because my knees still not great.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna get ready to take some therapy with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But do you know why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because I have to admit that I have problems.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: God's with me to help me with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's all right.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's all right.

[SPEAKER_00]: God will help us with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter 14 verse 30.

Proverbs 14:30

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter 14 verse 30.

Proverbs 14:30

[SPEAKER_00]: A sound heart is the life of the flesh.

[SPEAKER_00]: A sound heart.

[SPEAKER_00]: is the life of the flesh.

[SPEAKER_00]: But envy, the rottenness of the bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: We need to have a sound heart.

[SPEAKER_00]: Keep your eyes on God.

[SPEAKER_00]: But if you get invious, it's going to rot in the bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: What do we mean by that?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, be joyful for what you do have.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be joyful for what God's

[SPEAKER_00]: But if we keep looking around at other people, how come I don't have the health and the wealth and this and that of other people, it's gonna rot inside out?

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, I hope you don't think I sound arrogant.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I know that when you're out there, it's hard looking at me.

[SPEAKER_00]: No one how good looking I am and how come God didn't bless you that way, hey, by the way, I'm joking.

[SPEAKER_00]: I know you know that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna call it a movie, it's really funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: In this movie, this guy says, what's good for me is a good for the weak hearted.

[SPEAKER_00]: For the, for the, for the, it's a joke, but here's the truth about it.

[SPEAKER_00]: What's good for you, God has blessed you with.

[SPEAKER_00]: You go with what you got.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe right now you're going through difficulties.

[SPEAKER_00]: I understand that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I really do.

[SPEAKER_00]: And that's difficult, but don't look it, by the way, I've been guilty of it too.

[SPEAKER_00]: How come they have us so good?

[SPEAKER_00]: How do you know they got us so good?

[SPEAKER_00]: how do you know they didn't go through two, three, four, five years of difficulties and now they're on the down hill where they went uphill for five, six, seven, eight, nine, 10 years.

[SPEAKER_00]: How do you know?

[SPEAKER_00]: Just because they have a smile on the face doesn't mean they're not going through difficulties.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe they're putting on a happy face.

[SPEAKER_00]: How you know that's I've felt teeth?

[SPEAKER_00]: My point is, is you don't know?

[SPEAKER_00]: You're on the ground for what the grass looks greener.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've said it many times.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yeah, I've grasped me a little greener on the other side, but maneuver is green too.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's true, it's true, it's true.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be very careful.

[SPEAKER_00]: Be very careful what you want.

[SPEAKER_00]: And here's something else.

[SPEAKER_00]: Even after sin,

[SPEAKER_00]: and I'm not promoting sin, incidentally.

[SPEAKER_00]: But even after sin, God can restore our bone.

[SPEAKER_00]: So let's look at David for a minute.

[SPEAKER_00]: David sin and did wrong and he felt like he should die.

[SPEAKER_00]: But God restored his bones and made him stronger.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's look at Psalm 51 verse eight.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let me just tell you about Psalm 51 verse eight.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is after David sin and done wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is the whole thing he had done with best sheba.

[SPEAKER_00]: And all this sort of, what do you do after back?

[SPEAKER_00]: She went, he killed a man.

[SPEAKER_00]: Did he literally take a knife and get me out?

[SPEAKER_00]: He manipulated.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was a politician.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was a politician.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was a king.

[SPEAKER_00]: He politician the whole thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: He used someone else to manipulate someone else.

[SPEAKER_00]: Something else.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he put this man out there in the line.

[SPEAKER_00]: Put him up front.

[SPEAKER_00]: Make it sure he got killed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, I couldn't literally do it.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, he did it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He had a man murdered.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know what he did.

[SPEAKER_00]: You ever have people do that?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, turn your glory out, didn't she?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, you cheated, you know what you did.

[SPEAKER_00]: People manipulate truths to try to get out of it, you know, that's what they do, politician.

[SPEAKER_00]: Got a man killed.

[SPEAKER_00]: But let's only says in Psalm 51 verse 8, he says, make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones that you have broken may rejoice.

Psalms 51:8

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't what does he mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: When he's saying you've broken, what does he mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: He's talking to God.

[SPEAKER_00]: He means that he had done wrong and God broke all the things that he had done wrong.

[SPEAKER_00]: But from that God brought gladness and joy.

[SPEAKER_00]: God brought gladness and joy.

[SPEAKER_00]: A lot of times, God will break.

[SPEAKER_00]: the joy of sin.

[SPEAKER_00]: In other words, he doesn't let us get away with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't let us get away with it.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you're out there trying to get away with a party of impurity, he's not gonna let's get away with that.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not gonna let's get away with lie, cheating.

[SPEAKER_00]: It may appear as if you are all, but look out one day, that road's gonna get pulled out from another year and have you ever seen those old cartoons?

[SPEAKER_00]: They pulled a road and you see the person, woo, woo, woo, and circles on boom.

[SPEAKER_00]: I can almost hear the whole hand of our bare sound effects.

[SPEAKER_00]: If they land out hard on their back, folks, it's going to happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now that we want that to happen to people, I'm simply saying we want God's will to be done.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes we've got to let them fall in their face.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't try to save them from God's will.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let them fall in their face so they'll learn so that they'll get out from under the horrible situation so that the bones that are broken can bring joy and gladness.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what has to happen sometimes.

[SPEAKER_00]: You get built back up again, build the bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: And how do you build bones?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, there's lots of ways.

[SPEAKER_00]: The word of God, prayer, following his will.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned the Flintstone sound effects and all that way.

[SPEAKER_00]: One of the ways, according to this, support bone health.

[SPEAKER_00]: How you support complete bone health in vitamins, playstone vitamins.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've used this as an example of four folks.

[SPEAKER_00]: You need to have spiritual holy Vitamins.

[SPEAKER_00]: Read the word, bring it in, bring it out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Make it a part of you, each and every day, pray, make you a part of your life.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let it come into your spiritual body.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let it come out of your, live it daily.

[SPEAKER_00]: Bring it in, let it be a part of your bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're a Jesus, kids.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ha ha ha, 10 million strong growing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hallelujah, eight men.

[SPEAKER_00]: Psalm 23 verse 3, he restored, how metal Lord, he restored my soul.

Psalms 23:3

[SPEAKER_00]: He leads me and paths the righteousness for his name's sake.

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 16 verse 24, Proverbs 16, 24.

Proverbs 16:24

[SPEAKER_00]: Pleasant words are as a honeycomb.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sweet to the soul and health to the bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sweet to the soul.

[SPEAKER_00]: health through the bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Praise the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: They build you up.

[SPEAKER_00]: They build you up.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm going to talk for this amount about the school, about the school.

[SPEAKER_00]: First of all, your school protects you, protects your brain, protects the way that you think.

[SPEAKER_00]: When we have headaches, doing here, if you have a headache, you can, yeah, we all have headaches.

[SPEAKER_00]: Once in a while, pain, ache, fracture, headaches, migraines, tumors, all these relate to us.

[SPEAKER_00]: Unfortunately,

[SPEAKER_00]: But another thing it has, our mental condition, our spiritual surroundings, sometimes it hurts so bad, it hurts the thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes, our surroundings are so loud, so obnoxious, even here, it tired of the news.

[SPEAKER_00]: I do.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes the news is, I'm not watching news, but if we get to obnoxious, I'm saying, I'm out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes, even the things I agree with, I'm out.

[SPEAKER_00]: because sometimes nothing but gossip, irritation, frustration, it's key to me for my spiritual vitamins, spiritual vitamins.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is the stone, we need that stone.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is the rock.

[SPEAKER_00]: Jesus is what we need.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's the blood, he's the truth, the way the truth, the life, the life.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we need that to shine as the girl when it's teaching every day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Colossians three, two, it's a great one.

[SPEAKER_00]: When you're going through pain and ache, and you're hurting so bad, it hurts to think at all the world's going around, you feel like it's closing in on your mind.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember this, Colossians three, two.

[SPEAKER_00]: Set your affection on the things above.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not on things on earth, not on the things around you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Set on the things above.

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs, chapter 16 verse 3.

Proverbs 16:3

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs 16 verse 3, commit your works to the Lord and your thoughts will be established.

Proverbs 16:3

[SPEAKER_00]: If you commit yourself the God, he will establish your thoughts.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, there's others that we know, because we talked about a lot at Romans 12, too.

[SPEAKER_00]: Romans 12, too, says, do not be conformed to this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the renewing of your mind, that you may prove what is the good, acceptable, and perfect will of God, God transformers our minds to think about what He wants us to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, now, the next part is dry bones, dry bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: is why we're supposed to take our vitamins, so our bones get too dry.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I'm going to tell you, let's now turn to Zekeel Chapter 37.

[SPEAKER_00]: And Zekeel Chapter 37, first of all, let me just tell you, Zekeel Chapter 36 is very important.

[SPEAKER_00]: What happens in a Zekeel chapter 36?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, a Zekeel chapter 36 at the very end tells us that the Lord is talking to the land, the land of Israel, the land of Israel, the land of Israel because he says this, the land that he was building up.

[SPEAKER_00]: And a lot of times they were desolate land, he says this, I'll just quote what he says.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord God says this.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, this land was a desolate and become, it had been desolate.

[SPEAKER_00]: You came for the garden meeting.

[SPEAKER_00]: in the West, in the desolate and ruined cities, had become fenced and inhabited.

[SPEAKER_00]: So the land was becoming nothing.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's becoming waste and God had to reform that land.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he had to say this.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said, this is the very end of verse 37.

[SPEAKER_00]: He says, thus says the Lord God, this is also, I will let the house of Israel ask me to do.

[SPEAKER_00]: For them, I will increase their men like a flock as the flock for sacrifices, the flock of Jerusalem and their her solemn feet, so shall the way cities be filled with a flock's men, then they shall know that I am the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord God was rebuilding Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: So when Ezekiel chapter 37 comes, a lot of times, people will read Ezekiel chapter 37, and it's about dry bones.

Ezekiel 37 · chapter mention Ezekiel 37 · chapter mention

[SPEAKER_00]: But when they read it, they read it in a literal sense as if this is literally gonna happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right, literally did happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is a symbol, a symbol of Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm gonna point this out as we go, because I'm gonna read you the whole chapter, but I wanna point this out because I've had people tell me this tale before now, I have my aunt used to read this to me.

[SPEAKER_00]: She always liked scary movies, kind of fun, scary movies, but I'll read, I'll read that to you, I'll talk about that next week, but either way.

[SPEAKER_00]: In reality, this is not a literal thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: That happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will give that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's go to the Zekele chapter 37.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Valley of Dry Bones, it's also known as.

[SPEAKER_00]: Verse one, the hand of the Lord was upon me.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, who's saying this?

[SPEAKER_00]: Is Ezekiel?

[SPEAKER_00]: Is Ezekiel saying this?

[SPEAKER_00]: He's seeing visions, okay?

[SPEAKER_00]: The hand of the Lord was upon me.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he carried me, now, let's know this, he carried me out in the spirit of the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: What does this mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: The spirit of Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't have the Holy Spirit.

[SPEAKER_00]: Holy Spirit carried him out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Does that mean he literally picked him up and took him to another land?

[SPEAKER_00]: No.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's the sin again.

[SPEAKER_00]: The hand of the Lord is upon me and he carried me out in the spirit of the Lord and set me down in the midst of the valley, which was full of bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: So this is a spiritual vision.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's having a vision.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's what this is.

[SPEAKER_00]: which was full of bones, and he caused me to pass among them all around, and there were very, there were very many in the open valley, and they were very dry.

[SPEAKER_00]: He said to me, no, what does that mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: They were old.

[SPEAKER_00]: And he said to me, son of man, can these bones live?

[SPEAKER_00]: And I answered, oh Lord, you know, again, he said to me, prophesied over these bones, and say to them, oh, drive bones, hear the word of the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Thus says the Lord, God, to these bones, I will cause breath to enter you so that you live.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I will say,

[SPEAKER_00]: excuse me, and I will lay CNU's, now what's a CNU, is a CNU is a ligament.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a ligament.

[SPEAKER_00]: a ligament on this, okay, so I will lay CNU's or ligaments upon you and you will grow back flesh upon you and cover you with skin and put breath in you so that you live then you shall know that I am the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I want to stop for a second.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now see, this is why I want you to know this is a vision.

[SPEAKER_00]: because I've actually had people say, why did guy bring these people back to life?

[SPEAKER_00]: Why they walk around like zombies?

[SPEAKER_00]: Why they walk around and these brand new bones they're walking around their alive again?

[SPEAKER_00]: And that kind of threw me for a stump for a while.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was like, I don't, I was, I was stumped.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know what to say to that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I started praying on it, studying on a little bit, and I thought, wait a minute, he could say that he picked him up literally and took him to a place where all of his was happening, took him in the spirit, meaning in the vision, and then I looked up, and another minister said the same, I was, oh, oh, okay, I'm not alone.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, I understand.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now I get it.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is he saw it in the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: The Lord showed it to him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Besides, guys, I'm a author of confusion, he wouldn't bring some back to do this thing.

[SPEAKER_00]: We'll get

[SPEAKER_00]: So over seven, so I prophesied as I was commanded, and as I prophesied, there was a noise and a shaking, and the bones came together, bone to its bone, when I looked, the sinews, and the flesh grew upon them, and the skin care is cool, look, and I would like to see that computer, anyway, and the skin covered them, but there was no breath in them, so they were

[SPEAKER_00]: Then he said to me prophesied to the wind, prophesied Sonaman, and say to the wind, thus says the Lord God, come from the four winds, O breath, and breathe upon the slain so that they live.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I prophesied as he commanded me and the breath came into them and they lived and stood up on their feet and exceeding great army and he said to me son of man These bones Let's see this now.

[SPEAKER_00]: Let's see this now.

[SPEAKER_00]: You understand the vision

[SPEAKER_00]: Sonaman, these bones are the whole house of Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: They say our bones are dried up and our hope is lost.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are cut off completely.

[SPEAKER_00]: Therefore, prophesy and say to them,

[SPEAKER_00]: Thus says the Lord God, pay attention to all my people.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will open your graves and cause you to come up out of your graves and bring you into the land of Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then you shall know that I am the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I have opened your graves, oh, my people, and brought you up out of your graves, and I shall put my spirit in you, and you shall live.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I shall place you in your own land.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then you shall know that I, the Lord has spoken, and performed it, says the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, he's talking to Israel about what will be.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not saying that he literally made dead folk come alive and breathed into them and made a whole bunch of zombies.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's still like he's seeing the movie.

[SPEAKER_00]: Really?

[SPEAKER_00]: No, no, no.

[SPEAKER_00]: He didn't do that.

[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine it?

[SPEAKER_00]: It almost sounds like an old Disney cartoon or something.

[SPEAKER_00]: It didn't happen like that.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, God is giving a vision because the land of Israel had grown

[SPEAKER_00]: out of God's will, we're not following God, right now you see churches everywhere, they've not been following God, not preaching his word, and all of a sudden now we're starting to have a revival because people are sing things they're going on, and I pray and hope the revival gets bigger and bigger and people get up.

[SPEAKER_00]: out of their pews and start preaching the Word of God when they leave the church.

[SPEAKER_00]: They're not just coming up and saying, how long are you in the pews and staying there?

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray and hope that they continue to live the Word, preach the Word, and allow a revival to happen in their hearts, in their souls, in their bones, and to every single syllable that is said to everyone they see.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what I pray for.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it goes on to say,

[SPEAKER_00]: in chapter 37 of Ezekiel, verse 17, the word of the Lord came again to me, Ezekiel said, saying, more over Son of Man, take one stick you're going to like this, take one stick and write on it for Judah and for the sons of Israel, his companions.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now you got to remember, what happened to Judah?

[SPEAKER_00]: What happened to Israel?

[SPEAKER_00]: What happened?

[SPEAKER_00]: Well, they split and they

[SPEAKER_00]: They haven't separated.

[SPEAKER_00]: The lands were off on the floor.

[SPEAKER_00]: They've separated.

[SPEAKER_00]: Can you imagine me have separated for such a long time?

[SPEAKER_00]: For 70 years, the folks of Judah have been taken.

[SPEAKER_00]: I couldn't imagine 70 years of your life like I'm never going to get to go home.

[SPEAKER_00]: You can imagine thinking that, if this 70 years folks, most of you not even close to 70,

[SPEAKER_00]: So, if you are, but you would have been a little bitian, you could imagine getting taken when you're six years old.

[SPEAKER_00]: And now here you would be 76 and be like, I'm finally getting to go home.

[SPEAKER_00]: It almost seems like it would never happen because they're thinking with their own eyes, their own minds, their own hearts.

[SPEAKER_00]: But the Lord God made a word on one.

[SPEAKER_00]: God says it, it's guaranteed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it still seems impossible for us.

[SPEAKER_00]: It seems like a kid never had, but with God, it is true.

[SPEAKER_00]: And it will happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: So I go back to this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Then join them, I'll say it again.

[SPEAKER_00]: God was gonna bring them back.

[SPEAKER_00]: The house of Israel's their campaign is then joined them

[SPEAKER_00]: into one stick.

[SPEAKER_00]: So you talk about this.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's a one stick.

[SPEAKER_00]: And so that they become one in your hand.

[SPEAKER_00]: So it took a stick that's separated now.

[SPEAKER_00]: And to one in your hand, when the sons of your people speak to you saying, will you not show us what you mean by these things?

[SPEAKER_00]: Say to them,

[SPEAKER_00]: which is in the hand of Ephraim and the tribes of Israel, his companions, and we'll put them with it with a stick of Judah and take them with one stick.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they shall be one in my hand.

[SPEAKER_00]: the sticks on which you write shall be in your hand before their eyes, say to them, thus says the Lord God, I will take the sons of Israel from among the nations where they have gone, and I will gather them on every side and bring them into your own hand, and I will make them one nation in the land upon the mountains of Israel, and one king shall be king over them all,

[SPEAKER_00]: Nor shall they be divided into two kingdoms anymore.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nor shall they defile themselves anymore with their idols, nor with their detestable things.

[SPEAKER_00]: Nor with any of their transgressions, that means sins as such.

[SPEAKER_00]: but I will save them out of all their dwelling places in which they have sin and will cleanse them.

[SPEAKER_00]: So they shall be my people and I will be there God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now let's say this, now David was already gone.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, we know that, David was already dead.

[SPEAKER_00]: We know that, here we go.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's equal 37 versus 24.

[SPEAKER_00]: David, my servant shall be king over them.

[SPEAKER_00]: And what does he mean?

[SPEAKER_00]: How could David be King over them?

[SPEAKER_00]: David is dead.

[SPEAKER_00]: How could he be King?

[SPEAKER_00]: Folks, he's not talking about David, is he?

[SPEAKER_00]: He's talking about Jesus now.

[SPEAKER_00]: You see, so this has already happened, this is the interest of thing about the Lord God when he's talking about prophecy.

[SPEAKER_00]: sometimes he's talking about literal things that happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Sometimes he's talking about spiritual things that happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's not talking about things that have already necessarily happened.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's talking about some spiritual that's going to happen still because now he's talking about last day stuff and that amazing we're just talking about that in a sense, it's going to go away.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now he's got my stuff that's still going to happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: And folks, it will happen.

[SPEAKER_00]: And every new Shabal, every tongue shock of this, both of the sticks of Israel, Judah, though, that has been brought together, it will all be brought together again, and we will all be one nation under God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen, and we're not talking about America.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, we're not.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, we're not.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay.

[SPEAKER_00]: I die here.

[SPEAKER_00]: As here we go.

[SPEAKER_00]: Verse 24 David, my service shall be King over them and they shall have one shepherd.

[SPEAKER_00]: They shall also walk in my judgments and observe my statutes and do them.

[SPEAKER_00]: they shall dwell in the land that I have given to Jacob, my servant, in which your father's lived, and they shall dwell in it, they and their sons and their sons sons forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: And my

[SPEAKER_00]: I will make a covenant of peace with them.

[SPEAKER_00]: It shall be an everlasting, listen to this now.

[SPEAKER_00]: It shall be an everlasting covenant with them.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I will place them and multiply them and will set my sanctuary in their midst forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: My Tabernacle, also shall be with them indeed.

[SPEAKER_00]: I will be there God.

[SPEAKER_00]: And they shall be my people, the nation shall know that I, the Lord, do sanctify Israel.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'm going to say it's again, because you know some pieces going on right now, but listen to this now.

[SPEAKER_00]: This is what God says, not what it says on CNN, not what it says on the MSNBC, not what it says on Fox News.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now what it says on Newsmax, not what it says on Facebook, not what it says on YouTube, not what it says in your mind, not what it says in mind is what the Lord God says in His word.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says, the nation shall know that either Lord do sanctify Israel when my sanctuary is in their midst forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Bono, my bone.

[SPEAKER_00]: These bones, these bones, these dry bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Here, the word of the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: God was saying, nothing about bringing the dead back to life again when it comes to literal people.

[SPEAKER_00]: He was talking about bringing his people who, in that land, as a symbol, he was talking about a land that was once dead, people that had not worshiped him, people that had let him down and may sing dead.

[SPEAKER_00]: But folks is not dead.

[SPEAKER_00]: It will live forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: It will live forever.

[SPEAKER_00]: At the very end here, we were talking about the spiritual skeleton, spiritual skeleton.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mentioned a moment ago the complete vitamins for your complete your bones, your spiritual bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: You need the word, any prayer, you need a personal, living relationship that never dies.

[SPEAKER_00]: I've mentioned this before many times, but I've mentioned how we will always be related to our folks, always.

[SPEAKER_00]: Your mom is still your mom.

[SPEAKER_00]: Your daddy's still your daddy.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray and hope you had a wonderful relationship with your mom and dad and even if you're father and your mother didn't know you and you didn't know them or let's say you did and they're now with the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's still your mother, father.

[SPEAKER_00]: There's still the ones that God gave you, no matter what occurs, but you know what, if you have chosen or they chose, not that relationship with you, that doesn't mean that they're not your parents.

[SPEAKER_00]: It does help or mean that maybe you were not able or blessed to have a good relationship with them or maybe you're someone else in your life.

[SPEAKER_00]: That doesn't want to have a relationship with you because they chose that or you chose the same.

[SPEAKER_00]: All I could say is, while you have a chance, it could go relationship with them.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you possibly can't, if you can't, that's not your fault.

[SPEAKER_00]: More importantly, if you feel you're not close to God like you want to be, you have every possibility right now.

[SPEAKER_00]: to save that relationship with God.

[SPEAKER_00]: He's reaching out to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: When people say, I just feel close to God, well that's your fault.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not God.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now maybe they're saying to your life that's keeping you from that, but it's not Him at you.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now maybe they're saying to you, don't know why God will show you.

[SPEAKER_00]: You just gotta listen.

[SPEAKER_00]: You gotta listen.

[SPEAKER_00]: But you can have a spiritual skeleton, it's take those vitamins from the word, from prayer, from reaching out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Maybe you're not going to church enough, because all of us come together, by the way, I'm not trying to make feel guilty.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's not what I'm going for.

[SPEAKER_00]: I just let you know that you're not alone with all going through it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 530 says, for we are all listening now, for we are members of his body, once again, Ephesians 530, for we are members of his body, of his flesh and of his bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are of his flesh and of his bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you don't feel like you're connected to the Lord God, I don't know what to say.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're supposed to be a part of him.

[SPEAKER_00]: People say, oh, I've asked you to send my heart out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Okay, but folks, you're supposed to, you're part of his bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: You need to feel it.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you feel like you've been taken apart from it, don't feel like the leg there's been taken off.

[SPEAKER_00]: Put yourself back to it again.

[SPEAKER_00]: I was mentioned earlier, there's little candies that came in those little coffin boxes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Listen, put the leg and attach it back for pity's sake.

[SPEAKER_00]: You'd be a part of a walk with them, talk with them, be a part of the body of Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are a body of Christ.

[SPEAKER_00]: We need to church where a part of it, be a part of it, be the bride.

[SPEAKER_00]: Prior to 1530, the light of the eyes rejoices the heart.

[SPEAKER_00]: A good report makes the bones healthy, have healthy bones, walk with them, talk with them.

[SPEAKER_00]: Proverbs chapter three, verse seven and eight.

[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I told you about having the spiritual vitamins.

[SPEAKER_00]: Attendance is a part of having healthy vitamins with the Lord obedience.

[SPEAKER_00]: What?

[SPEAKER_00]: Why attend this is so important?

[SPEAKER_00]: People say, oh, why?

[SPEAKER_00]: So you have bigger numbers on the back of the board.

[SPEAKER_00]: No, I don't care about that.

[SPEAKER_00]: I mean, yes, I would love it.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's great.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ah, bigger.

[SPEAKER_00]: The views are full.

[SPEAKER_00]: That'd be great.

[SPEAKER_00]: I would love it, man.

[SPEAKER_00]: It'd be great to have a full church.

[SPEAKER_00]: It'd be great to have meant you feel wonderful.

[SPEAKER_00]: is so that our bones be strong in the spiritual sense.

[SPEAKER_00]: So that everybody's but why?

[SPEAKER_00]: Because attendance means obedience.

[SPEAKER_00]: attendance means nothing can pool your bones away from the body of God.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's why attendance is important.

[SPEAKER_00]: Don't have it you noticed.

[SPEAKER_00]: Have it you noticed when you haven't eaten in days.

[SPEAKER_00]: So he's going to say, Pastor, I've never eaten in days.

[SPEAKER_00]: That's got my point, kind of my point.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you haven't eaten upon the word and been with your body, you see what you start feeling weak.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says in Provers chapter three or seven, eight, do not be wise in your own eyes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Fear the Lord, I'll talk about this.

[SPEAKER_00]: Come and soon, fear the Lord and depart from evil.

[SPEAKER_00]: It will be health to your body and string to your bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Oh, I'm gonna say it again, you know it.

[SPEAKER_00]: It says Provers three, seven and eight, do not be wise in your own eyes.

[SPEAKER_00]: Fear the Lord and depart from evil.

[SPEAKER_00]: to your body and strength to your bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hebrews 412.

[SPEAKER_00]: Hebrews 412.

[SPEAKER_00]: For the Word of God is alive and active and sharper than any two-edged sword, piercing even the division of soul and spirit, the joints and marrow

[SPEAKER_00]: and able to judge the thoughts and intense of the heart, bones of moral, join tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_00]: Yes, that's part of the bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: When I was a little kid, mom would feed us really good, try chicken.

[SPEAKER_00]: really good for a chicken.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's really sick though.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't realize it's sick.

[SPEAKER_00]: I'd get to eat on that bone.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I guess Herman hated me for it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Herman was my dog.

[SPEAKER_00]: I still love him.

[SPEAKER_00]: I still think it was my dog.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, he's been gone since I was 16 years old.

[SPEAKER_00]: But I love him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Anyway, I get to eat on the chicken so deeply.

[SPEAKER_00]: I get to eat him through the bone.

[SPEAKER_00]: And I would because he's still meeting it.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't realize that was tomorrow.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't realize what I was eating was really blood.

[SPEAKER_00]: But all that being said, I mean, really kind of gross.

[SPEAKER_00]: I didn't know it was half vampire work.

[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, all that being said, what a deal it's good.

[SPEAKER_00]: I don't wanna say it's like a liver.

[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, all that being said, ah, I do that just to make Jerry feel sick.

[SPEAKER_00]: But anyway, all that being said, I used to choose so deeply into the bone that I would get something out of it.

[SPEAKER_00]: But an extra treat.

[SPEAKER_00]: in the bone because they're joints at the end and the marrow inside.

[SPEAKER_00]: God wants you have healthy, spiritual bones.

[SPEAKER_00]: You want you to be strong in the spiritual body.

[SPEAKER_00]: Never be weak.

[SPEAKER_00]: You're a stronger everyday.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know, it's hard about getting older as you get older to get weaker in the body, the physical body.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you know what your doctor's always tell you, are you taking all your vitamins?

[SPEAKER_00]: All right, I could tell your eyes are wanting to roll.

[SPEAKER_00]: I could tell that.

[SPEAKER_00]: It gets older than it.

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you taking your vitamins?

[SPEAKER_00]: Are you doing your exercises and they give you this little bitty, little bitty weights.

[SPEAKER_00]: They may weigh a half a pound.

[SPEAKER_00]: And you're laughing.

[SPEAKER_00]: But it's true that you get a little half pound weights that you're like, ugh, but you know what's funny.

[SPEAKER_00]: If you do a malotics start to work, but the point is that they want you to stay healthy.

[SPEAKER_00]: You know why?

[SPEAKER_00]: They don't want you to get so weak that you can't do anything.

[SPEAKER_00]: God wants you to do the same.

[SPEAKER_00]: Spiritually, do your spiritual exercises.

[SPEAKER_00]: Take your spiritual vitamins every day.

[SPEAKER_00]: Never give up, never surrender.

[SPEAKER_00]: Ephesians 530 says, once again, as I said, what'll go, are we our members of his body of his flesh and of his bones?

[SPEAKER_00]: If you take one verse away today, let it be that.

[SPEAKER_00]: We are members of his body of his flesh and of his bones, if he's in 530.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now, earlier on, when we opened up this sermon, we quoted Psalm 34, 19 and 20.

[SPEAKER_00]: And we spoke about the one to keep his bones, not one of them broken.

[SPEAKER_00]: But as we close today, and as I tell you to continue to strengthen your spiritual bones, I'm going to quote to you as I end here, John chapter 19, verse 33 through 36, as Psalm 34 verse 20 comes to fruition.

John 19:33–36 Psalms 34:20

[SPEAKER_00]: And it says this, and John 1933 through 36,

[SPEAKER_00]: But when they came to Jesus and saw that He was dead already, they did not break his legs.

[SPEAKER_00]: However, one of the soldiers pierced his side with a spear and immediately blood and water came out.

[SPEAKER_00]: Now that was a fulfillment of another verse.

[SPEAKER_00]: He who saw it has testified.

[SPEAKER_00]: And his testimony is true.

[SPEAKER_00]: It's not matter of self-taught.

[SPEAKER_00]: He knows that he is telling the truth, that you may believe.

[SPEAKER_00]: For these things happen, so that the scriptures should be fulfilled not one of his bones shall be broken.

[SPEAKER_00]: It seemed kind of weird at first.

[SPEAKER_00]: To start putting together a sermon about bones, it seemed kind of strange at first.

[SPEAKER_00]: but we need to remember that our bones are part of God's body.

[SPEAKER_00]: Not just in the spiritual sense, but as you walk to follow Him and serve Him,

[SPEAKER_00]: your very bones are in your body to follow him, serve him, do what you will with your body to give it into him.

[SPEAKER_00]: Your body is to be a temple.

[SPEAKER_00]: Everything you say and everything you do is to be a temple under the Lord.

[SPEAKER_00]: We need to remember that when we're tempted to do things that are unholy.

[SPEAKER_00]: God has given you what you have and even we don't understand why we're suffering like we do.

[SPEAKER_00]: Remember to continue to give our body to God.

[SPEAKER_00]: to remember that even your very bones belong to God, every single one of them, all 206.

[SPEAKER_00]: Bless bound prayer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Dear precious Heavenly Father, thank you for the bodies that we've been given.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray as we get older and as we hurt and as we suffer.

[SPEAKER_00]: Lord God, I pray that you will bless us that we are able to give ourselves to you.

[SPEAKER_00]: that we will follow you and walk after you and step by step over Jesus Christ, the true bless.

[SPEAKER_00]: Bless our every step, our every movement.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray to our Jesus Christ, the true strength in us and help us, Lord God, help us, Lord God, to follow you.

[SPEAKER_00]: To search for your will.

[SPEAKER_00]: and follow your will.

[SPEAKER_00]: I pray Lord Jesus Christ that you will bless the bones in our body and bless our spiritual bones or Jesus Christ so that we Lord Jesus Christ will allow you will to be done within our lives.

[SPEAKER_00]: Glory be pray for all of this in your holy precious name.

[SPEAKER_00]: Amen.