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Holiness Heritage - Bro Thomas Sterrett 5-19-2024

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  1. Can we all stand for the verse that the Holy Ghost picked up. I'm

  2. gonna be reading in Isaiah fifty four seventeen. No weapons that is a formed

  3. against these shall prosper. And every tongue that shall rise against thee in judgment,

  4. how shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the Lord,

  5. and their righteousness is of me, saith the Lord. I'm thankful,

  6. you know, may me see that. And I'm thankful that the Holy coast.

  7. I'm gonna follow his leading. And really I'd love to hear a pastor

  8. preaching, because i know I'm nobody, but I'm thankful that if it wasn't

  9. for the Lord, it wasn't for the Holy Ghost. And I just be

  10. like mister Wooton said, the faith sit on now. And but I know

  11. that he can be in that voice that sparees not and lifts up a voice

  12. like a trumpet and cries alive. And I know he can be that still

  13. small voice. Holy Ghost can speak in any way, in any means.

  14. He can even use the Samaritans, he can use the talkings and the roosters

  15. praise God. He can use whommever he will. Now I'm not saying they're

  16. going to heaven. But if God's gonna speak to somebody, and the Christian

  17. that's got blood on his head won't warn somebody, the Holy Ghost will send

  18. somebody else. And I don't want the Holy Ghost. I mean, we're

  19. all I know, we're all replaceable. But I'm thankful that God loves each

  20. and every one of us. I'm thankful that we have faith over fear.

  21. And I'm just gonna get here in the reading of the words, get my

  22. glasses on so I can see kay d it's the Lord. I'm thankful that

  23. he give me another year. I have asked. I had a family and

  24. happy birthday, Grace, and I know little sister. Ever, as many

  25. people got some birthdays as Buch and I don't want to stray from the message

  26. because someone asked me. They said, I hope you have a great birthday

  27. this year. I'm like, it's only fifty six over antieth and half a

  28. century, but why has it got to be my greatest? You know?

  29. You know, and but you know, my greatest birthday was when I was

  30. born, and there ain't nothing gonna cop that birthday. But in the natural,

  31. if I if I made my greatest birthday was my fiftieth birthday, which

  32. I was kind of grudguant that I was afraid of all the black broom balloons

  33. and over the hill stuff and all the silly stuff and boom and bloom kind

  34. of birthday. But it was my best and I think my life. She

  35. invited a bunch of family members to church on a Sunday. I had nineteen

  36. family members in church on my fiftieth birthday. Now, unfortunately, I don't

  37. think hardly none of them came back. But you know why today was my

  38. birthday. Grace. I'd be thankful for all my family right here, all

  39. my family right out here. I'll be thankful for a pastor. This is

  40. a great birthday. This is a great Sunday Sunday. Hallelujah. Oh help

  41. me Lord. I'm excited about this message, and I hope it's one of

  42. encouragement. And again we can turn to these verses, but I want you

  43. to know the Holy Ghost wants you to know Isaiah fifty four seventeen. We're

  44. gonna turn to some verses for this message, and I appreciate this off opportunity.

  45. Again, Peter, how I appreciate his prayer at the beginning of the

  46. service. I want to say nothing more and nothing less than what the Lord

  47. would have me to say. And I don't want to take up too much

  48. time. And I know some of you need to recoup and be getting ready

  49. for the worship and praise for tonight. And I'm looking forward to hearing Brother

  50. Jesse preach and just the singing and the worshiping and the praising God. That's

  51. what it's all about, was praising God and Hallelujah. Let's turn the songs

  52. thirty three and verse well, I apologize I should have marked these pages.

  53. I can find them quickly. And the songs chapter thirty three and verse well,

  54. bless is the nations whose God is the Lord, and the people whom

  55. he have chosen for his own inheritance. Amen. Now, I don't know

  56. if you know this, but in Isaiah fifty four and seventeen, if I

  57. can find that word inheritance, I believes in there, Oh, it says

  58. this, This is the heritage of the servants. Amen. This title,

  59. this message today is holiness heritage. Now, and I'm thankful for a holiness

  60. heritage I brought in le Let's read this other verse here, so that verse

  61. there and songs thirty seven, thirty three, and twelve is plus as a

  62. nation whose God is the Lord, and the people who he have chosen for

  63. his own inheritance. The other place we'll be turning to is judot me,

  64. and it's gonna be Chapter four, verses seven through nine. You brod me

  65. for verses seven through nine. For what nation is there so great to have

  66. God so nigh unto them? As the Lord? Our God is in all

  67. things that we call upon him? You call upon him for? And what

  68. nation is there so great that his statutes and judgment so righteous? Has all

  69. the law which I set before you this day? Only take heed to thyself

  70. and keep thy soul diligently. Least thou forgetting things which thine eyes have seen,

  71. and least they depart from thy heart all the days of thy life.

  72. But teach them thy sons and thy son's sons. Hey man, aren't you

  73. glad for the heritage of the Lord. Your son's sons aren't children of heritage

  74. from the Lord. They've got songs one seven low children are a heritage of

  75. the Lord, And the fruit of the wound is his reward. Hallelujah.

  76. This heritage that we have, maybe some of you are like me, and

  77. you didn't have the holiness heritage. And not to embarrass anybody, because you

  78. got the heritage out praise God if you're in the house of God. But

  79. if you never had the heritage of holiness, can you stand this? All

  80. right? Never had heritage of holiness from here? And if I were to

  81. say those that had the heritage of the holiness stand, we have the whole

  82. house stands. Amen. And I'm not talking about a heritage breed turkeys or

  83. heritage chicken. And that's the kind of birds that people want. Holiness should

  84. be something that people want. You want a heritage. You want holiness,

  85. Ama, And I'm just looking at you know where it says you pass it

  86. down from your son's sons. And I think about the prophet Joel. He

  87. says, tell your children, eat your children of it, and let your

  88. children tell their children and their children another generation. Amen. And we and

  89. we read from let's let's turn the song seventy eight, verse six through eight.

  90. We're gonna be in this chapter probably most of the time anyway, but

  91. we'll just go ahead and turn their songs seventy eight. We're gonna read verses

  92. six through eighth, that the generation to come might know them, even the

  93. children which be born, who should arise and declare them to that children,

  94. that they might set their hope in God, and not forget the works of

  95. God, but keep his commandments. Amen. I don't want to be like

  96. that. Next verse, it might not be as their father's. A stubborn

  97. and rebellious generation. A generation that's setting out in their heart a rising spirit,

  98. is not steadfast for God is past me? Wasn't that far end steadfast

  99. standing for the Lord? Amen? I don't want to be in that place.

  100. Amen. And I'm always reminded of that generation. It's also mentioned there

  101. in Proverbs thirty. I'm gonna turn there just for a moment, Proverbs thirty,

  102. verses eleven through fourteen. I don't want to be like this generation.

  103. Unfroward generation man, this generation that says this. There is a generation that

  104. curses their father and doesn't not bless their mother. There is a generation that

  105. are pure in their own eyes, and yet it is not washed from their

  106. filthiness. There's a generation of how lofty are their eyes that they're high lives

  107. or lifted up. This is a generations whose teeth are as swords and their

  108. jaw teeth as knives to devour the poor from off the earth and the needy

  109. from among men. Amen. I don't want to be a part of the

  110. generation, every generation that thinks the right in their own eyes, or any

  111. generation that thinks they can live without God. Amen. I'm thankful for the

  112. things of God and all that he does and say and and uh. I

  113. was thinking about even as a young ignorant and you and you know what people

  114. are watching, but especially God, God is always he's God sees way more

  115. and here is way more than those that are watching you. God sees and

  116. hears every eye to where he even sees the thoughts and the intents of the

  117. heart. Amen. And as a young ignorant, and in some ways this

  118. is a little bit hopeful, I was thinking about those two young boys that

  119. are in the best ministry, and I apologize I can't remember the name right.

  120. Yes, they witness the testimonies, they've heard, they experienced some answering

  121. prayers. Amen. And as a law center. Now the boy, I'm

  122. sorry. I remember my mother taking me to churches and my grandparents taking me

  123. to churches, and even though I was lost, ignorant and didn't know anything.

  124. I knew that I knew the presence of God when I was down in

  125. that basement Sunday school class and a saying of God. Elderly saint would put

  126. the little felt people on the felt board and teach about Abraham and Isaac and

  127. Adam and Eve and Jesus and and then I and then I remember going to

  128. other churches and it was all about games and board games and hopping and skipping,

  129. jumping ropes on the Halloween parties and dating, and I was like,

  130. fucking the world. I'm you know, even a sinner can tell the difference

  131. when they're out in the world. They see you're dressing different, you're living

  132. different, and you're speaking different. You're not cussing, you're not smoking,

  133. you're not drinking. Oh, they can be ignorant and blind, amen,

  134. but they know there's something different. There's something peculiar about those people. Amen.

  135. They might accuse you of being in a call or leadless some of this

  136. other silly false accusations, but they they know truth. They know right and

  137. wrong. God instilled some form of morality that people can just you know,

  138. I know that Isaiah said, well and then to call good evil and evil.

  139. Good people know that there's just some things that even some sinners or you

  140. know that some of them might not skip. Some of them are true with

  141. the word, and some of them look better than some of these worldly Christians.

  142. But living that, you know more mortals and God forbid, you know,

  143. as holiness, as pure and righteous. But I remember in those classrooms

  144. and spending time with my grandparents, and and I'm thankful for my holiness heritage.

  145. This is an invitation pastor how yeah, just black and white. I

  146. don't think they had colored printers back then. And it's got a picture of

  147. my grandmother and Grandpa Banks. And it's just a special invitation from us to

  148. you. And it left the location, day and time blank, But it

  149. says everyone welcome, and everyone is welcoming. God is, And I'm thankful

  150. to have that heritage. I'm thankful of the memories of going to and from

  151. church, having church. You know, it was an hour drive to go

  152. on Counnel Hill Brotherhood. I remember when we went to church together back in

  153. the days, and I remember that hour long ride of going to church and

  154. the hour ride going back. I remember going just with me and my children

  155. before my wife came and a lot of times I would, you know,

  156. my heart would break up, oh that my wife would come. But she

  157. always had faith. He believed that one day things were going to change and

  158. God was gonna help us. And he has help us a lot. And

  159. uh, I just and and her testimony, and I know she's seen three

  160. people race from the dead, one being her husband. And she's cast out

  161. there as she never had a TV, she never had a cell phone.

  162. Take God, I remember the days of landlines. And and she never took

  163. medicine. I mean, she just she got to the point where she just

  164. trusted and had faith in God. And I'm not saying not to take medicine

  165. because it's according to one faith and I don't want to get into that,

  166. but her fame, she she she felt led to do it that way.

  167. But I remember her testimony as a young Christian. One of the first miracles

  168. was her husband getting saved and we're not saved, race from the dead.

  169. And they called family in. He was laying there that pretty much giving up

  170. on him. They called family in the were playing in their funeral arrangements and

  171. everything. And she made a promise. I want to tell some of these

  172. sisters that like to sit quiet still, and I expect that I respect,

  173. you know, I know, let me be careful here. I want to

  174. say that she wanted to mind the Lord. And she said, Lord,

  175. if you want me to, I'll get out of my pew. I'll testify.

  176. And I worked the altars, I pray for the sick, and and

  177. she just pleaded for her husband. And the Lord told her, I'll do

  178. it. And you know, even when we break our promises, God keeps

  179. it. And I'm not saying she broke it. She didn't. She was

  180. a testified warrior. Amen. A lot of people are. I probably thought

  181. she was a preacher, you know, her testimony and in diary and and

  182. but yeah, she and she worked the altar. She had fir meetings at

  183. her home. And but she she got up and she would praise and shout

  184. and worship God. And she was fearless man, and she feared God.

  185. She always prayed to don't ever let me stop fearing you God. She didn't

  186. fear nobody. And I remember as a young child going to spend the weekend

  187. with her and my dad. That's when they had black and white little TVs.

  188. And he said, well, they're don't gonna spend the night at their

  189. grandparents. They need to have something to watch. She don't have no TVs.

  190. He thought he was gonna bring those TVs. So she said, dog,

  191. you could take those TVs back. There's plenty of wounds to play in,

  192. there's plenty of things to do. Leave them in there. So she

  193. told my dad. Praise God, my mom feared my dad and my grandma.

  194. No, she didn't fear nobody, especially when it came to the things

  195. of the Lord, and we shouldn't fear nobody. Amen. Amen. But

  196. I'm thankful for the holiness heritage. I'm gonna try to stick in the word

  197. here. I can share a lot of things, but going old baby,

  198. holy ghost. I want to say nothing more, nothing less than what he'd

  199. happy to say. And uh definitely want to talk about the definition of heritage

  200. here for a moment. Sometimes we gotta look words up. I'm thankful for

  201. the westerns Unabridged English Dictionary. Amen. You think they're modernized a bottle.

  202. They're trying to do that to the dictionary, the hymnals about every history book

  203. they're trying to read write. And you can't even get on the internet anymore.

  204. They're changing that Stuff's all control. The definition of heritage something transmitted by

  205. or acquired from a predecessor, legacy, inheritance, or an established way of

  206. thinking. Thanks God, how would you think anything else. I don't want

  207. to lean on my own understanding. I don't acknowledge him, Amy, let

  208. him direct my way. Amen. A feeling, amen, doing, or

  209. a person's unique in heritage, sense of family identity. Amen. Just like

  210. the devil, he wants to confuse identity. He wants the men to think

  211. of the money and women in and just even animals. It's silly, these

  212. furs and everything else. But God give us an identity. We were created

  213. in his image and his lifness. He established marriage between one man and woman.

  214. Hence hence Mother's Day, Praise God, honoring thy father and thy mother.

  215. That we do it every day, not just one day out of the

  216. year. But you let that be a reminder to the Heathens. Hey,

  217. you got a mother, you got a father. So I believe in holidays

  218. which are derivative for only days. Amen, it's Christian holidays that we celebrate

  219. the birth of Christ. All they want you to think is about fables.

  220. You know, That's what Paul told us. You know, in the last

  221. days, he wants to get us away from sound doctrin and turn the truth

  222. and took favors. That's why they likes I call him the Satan class.

  223. Give me anybody that's attended by that, Santa Claus or Easter Buddy or eggs

  224. and things like that. And I'm not against culture, culture or traditions,

  225. but when it goes against God's youth, God's holiness, I'm sorry. I'm

  226. not gonna have no part in it now. But the other thing is heritage,

  227. is the saints for the people of God that are called by called,

  228. and his heritage as being claimed by him. That's not what he said there.

  229. And songs or Isaiah. I don't know why I keep I'm gonna keep

  230. reading as long as he tells me to repeat it. That I'm kind of

  231. hide it. And there was Isaiah fifty four seventeen. No weapon that is

  232. formed against these shall prosper, and every tongue that shall rise against thee in

  233. judgment, thou shall condemn. This is the heritage of the servants of the

  234. war, and their righteousness is of me, saying the Lord, right man,

  235. be again say it the Lord. I don't. I don't want to

  236. ever forsake that heritage. I mean, I don't want to. I don't

  237. want to keep you all too long. So I'm not gonna read this whole

  238. Psalms at seventy eight. But there's a lot of holiness heritage in there that

  239. I believe that God speaks about them forsaken and then keep them and not to

  240. forsake. And and I know, as as young parents, you know,

  241. we've we've got to, as Pastor as Well said, to keep seeking the

  242. Lord. You know, there's a growing, there's a there's a constantly moving

  243. forward into faith. There's a constantly maturing and a perfecting. And I don't

  244. want to ever reach that point where I'm like, hey, I have to

  245. eat up nothing. You know, I'm like to loop warmth church. Amen,

  246. oy the time you do need something, when you start saying things like

  247. that, you do need something. And I wrote this down to here,

  248. I'm gonna leave these notes alone. My children, they were brought up in

  249. the church, and I believe Grason is the only woman was from the infant

  250. to present that was in church the whole time. But unfortunately, my oldest

  251. son and my oldest daughter didn't start going into after I got saved later on

  252. in life. In those ten years was without mom being there. But I'm

  253. thankful that she is there now. And even their friends noticed there was something

  254. different. I remember my son telling me when he was thirteen and some girl

  255. that like and said, I never met a boy that not kissed the girl

  256. away from herself, and she was troubled. End up. She was one

  257. that ended up in the youth shelter pool. A knife on the teacher.

  258. You know how things go. And but thankfully God used that as an open

  259. door and I was able to teach Bible studying that Monroe County you shelter for

  260. many years, for it was closed. But God, our children, our

  261. children are their heritage and his parents and moms and dads. And I know

  262. they're little and they're gonna try your patient. I remember those days. Sometimes

  263. even teenagers can try your patience. Sometimes they didn't say, know it all

  264. children? I don't blame it on all? Do Is anybody other than the

  265. teenagers claimed it all? Anybody there raise their hair pasts right here. I

  266. like you to, Okay, thank God for humbleness a man invented. But

  267. now we we're I'm so thankful again for Pastor How and Sister How in their

  268. family. I see the fruits in their in their works. You know,

  269. the sistant house speaks in in the Sunday school and ask all preaches and even

  270. their their children and even their grandchildren. Ay Man, they get in.

  271. They may not understand everything. Their little hands are praising God and you know,

  272. laying hands and just that's what it's all about. It. You're you're

  273. you're putting your you're passing down a herodage. You're teaching them. You're obeying

  274. there and Deuteronomy six talking about when they when they rise up, when they

  275. sit by the way, and when they at the table, and when they

  276. lay their head at night. When you go back and read there in Douteronomy

  277. chapter six, I'm not pulling a word for word, but those every prompt

  278. from the time they wake up to the time they go to bed, it's

  279. important. There's lessons that can be taught, you know, prayers that can

  280. be caught, you know, mule time, the beginning of the day,

  281. end of the day. Those are important. And I remember as young Christian

  282. that was one of the verses I start going on Infrick the rator Deuteronomy six

  283. about are children so definitely want to obey. I don't want to be as

  284. these generations that are before us. Hearing song seventy eight. Let's look at

  285. verse nine. You're talking about fighting a good five parry pastor that keeping the

  286. armor on is setting verse nine the children will be from being armed and carrying

  287. bows. They were armed. What does it say they turned back in the

  288. day of battle? Right, there's no I believe it's in that hyminal,

  289. that song turning from the Lord. No coward will who knows the worst?

  290. But amen, And we promised the Lord that we were serving till till we

  291. die. I hope we will. You know we're gonna, We're gonna.

  292. We're either gonna die in the Lord or God forbid dying and be a part

  293. of this world. But they kept in verse ten and says they kept not

  294. the cousin of God, and they refused to walk in his law. Marvelous

  295. things in verse twelve that he did in the sight of their fathers. Amen.

  296. And I'm sure the things that they see and it talks about as you

  297. read through there, I'm not gonna have time to read through all this.

  298. But they they seen many great moods of God, miracles. God fed on

  299. me. I mean, I appreciate that pastor's musing that talking about what you

  300. eat and the spiritual food, and said in verse twenty four, and they

  301. brained down Man upon them to eat, and had given them of the corn

  302. of heaven grown corn and heaven God Man did eat angels too, and set

  303. them me to the full in verse twenty nine. And so they get eat

  304. and were well filled. But He gave them where He gave them their own

  305. desire. You know, I hate to be well fed. And I was

  306. thinking about this out on the street, pastor, how you can have the

  307. best pastor. And I've heard people use this illustration with Jews Jesus, all

  308. of Jesus, seeing them over the Jesus, you know, but you're under

  309. the teaching the pastor or the preaching. Go to the best church I consider

  310. in the United States of America. A Lord, forgive me. I'm not

  311. trying to be prouder arrogant to saying that I don't worship my pastor. I

  312. love him. God is number one. But you know, when when it

  313. comes to the pastor and each one of you, my heritage is my holiness,

  314. heritage is under under him and this word, the Word of God.

  315. And but honestly, if you can have the right by amen, you have

  316. the right pastor doing the right church, God forbid fall away, don't do

  317. it. I mean, if you got to pray for the fruits, meet

  318. for repentance. If you can't repent, you better pray for the fruits,

  319. meet for repent. Pray to God will help you repent. Pray for humbleness,

  320. you know. I just I don't want to ever be part of that

  321. following away, but people can't and people do. One of the co workers

  322. I take to work with me, I need to be careful because I don't

  323. want embarrassing because I believe God's gonna save that man. But you know,

  324. he he don't even believe in the Word of God. He believes it's a

  325. made up revision. But yeah, he'll tell me the ark of the covenants

  326. of battery, I mean the pyramid. He's all the angels are aliens.

  327. And just I mean, you talk about perception, a strong delusion. What

  328. kind of reminds me of But he claims to be a realist. If he's

  329. a realist, he really know that God is real man, how could we

  330. not know that God is real? But uh, anyway, let's not forget

  331. our holiness heritage. I was thinking that without it, you know, our

  332. children would be lost. And what I was getting ready to say earlier about

  333. my children is they still there's there's some things that they don't see, but

  334. I see some values that I instilled in him that they still hold you and

  335. they not hold on to God, but they there's still some morals and values

  336. that they learned in the church. Praise God, you trained your children up.

  337. I'm I'm I'm banking on these things. God will pull them back into

  338. the fold and save their souls and that they'll return. And there was another

  339. verse about children and the heritage. But here in last verse here and I'll

  340. be wrapping up here the Psalms one hundred and nineteen and eleven. Thy testimonies

  341. like testimonies. Hey, we got the old and new testimonies right here.

  342. And man, when we got the testimonies of each and every one of you,

  343. man, I've taken as a heritage forever. These testimonies are heritage forever.

  344. For they are the rejoicing of my heart. And we need to rejoice

  345. and be thankful for the heritage that we have. We may not understand some

  346. of the pastors preaching and exhortation and and some of the things that he does

  347. and the fight, the good fight and faith. You know, he hears

  348. babbling spirits and the enemy is attacking because the devil, if any if the

  349. devil hates anybody more than anybody, I say pastors on the top of the

  350. list. Amen, because he sees what Bethel Holiness Church is doing. He

  351. sees the heritage and the legacy that's being laid in the foundation. Amen for

  352. others to following and to come to the knowledge of the truth. And I

  353. don't want to ever forsake that hair dye. Amen. You can say what

  354. you want, and you may not agree with certain methods and certain terms.

  355. And and I know a lot of times things go over my head pastors,

  356. but I'm still learning. And then and and but I don't want to ever

  357. take just because I didn't understand something or something hurt my feelings. I don't

  358. want that to be an excuse to sit quietly, you know, because it's

  359. because God is watching, you know, He's speaks, he speaks a spokesman

  360. for God, and it's God. I mean if he were to say something

  361. contrary to the word of God, and then that might be one thing.

  362. But he's not right, and it's about God and it's not about what other

  363. people are doing. You can watch him out of the quarner yard and you

  364. know, I've seen some people like you know, they're looking around. I

  365. know probably everybody's been guilty of looking around. And sometimes I'll be looking for

  366. my daughter. I'm guilty. Ofttimes I'll be looking for my daughter. I

  367. can't see her, and I'm looking over whatever verse. Yeah, getting in,

  368. I'm looking for my son. Better not have been going to the rest

  369. of you, Amen, and you know, or my wife. And so

  370. I'm thankful that get in and stuff. Don't worry about what other people think,

  371. Grace, don't don't worry out. You know, Oh I'm not good

  372. at It ain't about being good enough. This is He's good enough. Give

  373. him the praise, give him the glory. Words is God, and then

  374. he'll help you to be good enough. And that's what it's about a man,

  375. about praising him, serving him, being on vis it to him.

  376. I mean, talk about jump food and and God will help him. But

  377. you know, you want spiritually fed. This is where you're gonna get You

  378. go out them darts and the minute you flip up in your phone, or

  379. you turn your raid on or your computer, or just out Walmart. I

  380. don't think Walmart employees. You're hard workers. But you went to see the

  381. War. They say you need the holy ghost to go to Walmart. I

  382. can't you need holy ghosts to step out them dogs. I don't care if

  383. it's Walmart anymore. You can't go to the grocery store, you can't go

  384. to anywhere. Sometimes you can't even go to the each of the parties your

  385. job. I mean, I've heard Brother's testified. I've been there. All

  386. you got that rap music and rock music and country music. And what are

  387. they always singing about? Cheating and drinking and doing drugs, against authority,

  388. against God and all they might profess. They know God, I know people

  389. I work with they do. I won't get nobody in trouble. But there's

  390. people out in the world that do drugs, drink sheat, and do all

  391. kinds of evil things that they think they're Christians. Now what kind of where

  392. they get their heads? They don't get it from God. They didn't get

  393. it from his truth. I need to suppose this. I love eat and

  394. every one of you, every family. To me, you're my heritage.

  395. What's left for my heritage? What's left of my life? You know I'm

  396. not promised tomorrow. I know none of us have really promised tomorrow even now.

  397. Don't you know it's a little baby they're going in the world. But

  398. I just, uh, don't forsake your family. I mean, you got

  399. heritage, got holiness. What more is there in life? And we need

  400. this, We need Jesus every day, we need we need God's presents.

  401. The Holy goes. There's a holiness heritage that don't don't let it go,

  402. don't let it slip, don't backslide, don't get it. Look more,

  403. don't be cold. And as we all stand, well, get things this

  404. service and yeah, you know when when you get time today, read that

  405. Isaiah fifty four and seventeen, as Holy goes, and remember what Pastor said,

  406. the harmor of God. You need the armor of God on that God's

  407. trying to tell us this ain't And as Pastor will said, this ain't our

  408. first robeo, this ain't a new We're always gonna I don't know that we

  409. don't want to get sick. Sickness comes problems done, trials and battles.

  410. The day we died. I remember my grandmother when couldn't go to church and

  411. broke her heart. Pastor she couldn't drive the church. You get old,

  412. you can't do the things that you want. Excuse to do, the thought

  413. of losing my wife or her losing me. I want to, I want,

  414. and you lose a spouse. You gotta remain strong and stead fast in

  415. the faith. Ain't time to run, ain't time to back up. You

  416. gotta never give up. Did y'all get up? He lost ten children,

  417. asked he lost his well, he didn't lose his integrity. He didn't curse

  418. God. He's got every people cursed God and stubbing her finger right, He's

  419. kept his integer. I want to keep on tagert. I want to be

  420. perfect and upright, one of these fused evil and fears God. And uh,

  421. I know we can, we can. We can reflect on our memories.

  422. I know Memorial Days coming up, and just didn't have anything to do

  423. with Memorial Days. The way it comes to mind of saints gone by.

  424. I'm truly thankful for Mecca hold in this journey. This is your herintage,

  425. back your pastor pray for sister, how I've passed, How pray for these

  426. children? You know you're not out of my kid. The enemy wants to

  427. break up homes and he wants to break up parage. He wants you to

  428. get mad at your children and does not spend time with I'm guilty of that.

  429. I'm living the consequences. But you know what, I don't. Thank

  430. God he's saved and he forgave me. But just because you gotta live with

  431. consequences, it's not a time to I'll give up, get mad and bitter

  432. and unforgiving. I have three children. Well, I'm sorry, I I

  433. just I'm gonna open these altars and just remember your heritage. Thank God for

  434. those that went on, praying that you continue it on. Continue the past

  435. is heritage ohn to teach their children Aman, because there is there's a lot

  436. of hurt if you don't trade him up and down in the way that you

  437. go. You know, if there were some verses in the Bible about mother

  438. going against son and father against daughter in law and the family fighting, and

  439. I've been through that, it's horrible, and I know many of you have

  440. been through families fighting and lost family. Pray for them, our love our

  441. enemies, and pray for them that dislike will use us to persecute us.

  442. Pray for our fellow in ploueens. Pray for the loss, and then pray

  443. for one another. You see a brother slipping or a sister slipping up,

  444. flip them up. Amen, walk on that enemy. I love that children's

  445. song. Pick your father up and pick your sister out. Ah, tread

  446. down on. Put your foot on that enemy. Keep him under your feet,

  447. not on your shoulder, not in your head. Man, you gotta

  448. be in a sound night right, have that fenimous I dish on that sword

  449. of the spirit with shield of thick breastplate of righteousness. And then pastors all

  450. over it. Got to fight the good fight again. I appreciate each and

  451. everyone. Let's pray. Don't pay to be a sanctu. You're and holy

  452. riding the true who, and with thanksgiving I'll believing. Thanks you way for

  453. you, oh Lord. Repair to be a thanks you w you're in hodly

  454. you're riding true, and with thanksgiving I'll be living. Thanks you for Oh

  455. Lord. Prepair me be a thanks you You're and hold try and try thanks

  456. you I'll be thanks you are for h M, Lord, free pay it

  457. be a thanks you will. You're in, holy to ride and true and

  458. well, thank you. I'll believing. Thanks you with fool. Oh,

  459. Lord, repair it be a thanks you. You're in homely to ride and

  460. true you and with a thanksgiving I'll be aliving. Thanks you with food.

  461. Oh it was you, Lord who came to say, the hearty soul will

  462. every name man, It's you, Lord,