Sermon
Assembly Required - Bro Jeremy Howell 11-5-2023
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Man, direct your attention to Hebrews, chapter number ten, verse number twenty
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five, Brother Nathaniel, Matthew, chapter number eighteen, verses eighteen through twenty
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and Brother Jesse, Hebrews chapter number ten and verse number twenty four, Brother
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Nathaniel, which you read that tonight, Matthew eighteen eighteen through twenty. Fairly,
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I say it to you, whosoever whatsoever you shall bind on earth,
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shall be bound in Heaven. And whatsoever you shall loose on earth shall be
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loosed in Heaven. Again, I say to you that if two of you
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shall agree on earth as touching anything today shall ask, it shall be done
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for them of my Father, which is in Heaven. For where two or
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three are gathered together in my name, there am I in the midst of
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them. Praise the Lord, AmAm, Brother Jesse, Hebrews, chapter number
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ten and verse number twenty four. And let us consider one another to provoke
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unto love two good works. All right, let's stand for the reading of
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our text. Hebrews, chapter number ten and verse number twenty five. Brother
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Jesse, read that for us tonight. If you will please my brother,
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not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together as the manner of some is but exhorting
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one another so much the more as you see today approaching and the church says
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Amen, Heavenly Father, we think and we praise you for the opportunity to
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be in the House of the Lord with this precious people, which are definitely
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people of light, precious faith. I thank you for the kindred spirit that
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we fill with these true worshipers. I thank you for the way they have
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worshiped you tonight and the way you have poured out your spirit upon them.
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I thank you for every testimony that I've heard tonight. I thank you for
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our little baby that's here tonight for the first time. We thank you for
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missus Tabitha Grace. Would we pray that you would bless her as this is
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her first service blessed dead Mom. I prayed, Lord that you would anoint
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these lips. I pray set a guard at my mouth and help me to
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say the things that you would have me to say, nothing more or less,
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knowing the ears of this people, that they might hear what the spirits
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say it under the churches through this preach word God, I pray that we
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would not be hearers only, but be doers. We thank you for the
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privilege to be in the house of God. We give you the praise and
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the honor and the glory, and the Church said Jesus' name, Amen,
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you may be seeded. Our text is found in a New Testament book of
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the Holy Bible, the Book of Hebrews. This book isn't an instructional for
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the man of the household who desires to know how to make a good cup
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of coffee. A man doesn't have to wake each morning, get dressed,
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and go to Starbucks or dunk Donas to get the perfect cup of coffee.
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He can learn what ingredients must be assembled for someone to produce and partake of
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the perfect cup of coffee. That man can locate some good quality filtered water,
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not stumpwater. Could the church say, amen, man tainted or polluted
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water, But he can locate some good quality filter the water. Some of
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you young people did not know this, But one of the tricks to perciate
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or whatever it has called percolate the perfect cup of coffee is to have filtered
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the water. And so this man he can bring that filtered water into the
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house and they can bring the right roast for him. Mister and missus however
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many means they prefer, they can put them into that mix, and they
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can brew that cup of coffee for as long as they desire. Then add
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the creamer of their choice, know us, and they will not add any
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sugar to it. But then they could put that cup of copy up to
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their little lips and simp until their little hearts are contempt. Now, remember
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I had this message before Brother David Brought Junior came and preached a message titled
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God Knows how to Cook. And what a wonderful message it was. When
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did he preach that? I believe it was last Sunday morning, on the
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twenty ninth of October. Brother David Brock Junior preached a message so well to
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us, and we received it in the name of the Lord. What a
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bliss that it was to all who heard it. I believe if I not
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have exhorted as much as I have done of late to you little angels that
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are so perfect, I would have already preached this message to you all before
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he preached that message, and y'all would have known that I had this message
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and intended to reaching to you all. On the twenty fifth of October,
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the Bible students and readers among us tonight. We know that this Holy Bible
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is an assembly of literary writings. It is a composite work from various authors.
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I mentioned that regarding the Book of Psalm this Morning, the Bible is
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also a composite work comprised by various authors. I'm thankful that they contributed to
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this blessed book we call the whole Holy Bible. You see the Holy Ghost
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the symbolm this book we call the Holy Bible. I believe that there's a
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lot of people that believe that there are things missing out of this book of
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the Bible. I do not believe that. I believe that the Holy Ghost
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song to it, that this King James translation has in it exactly what the
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believer needed in order to make it to heaven. You see, this book
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does not need to be revised. We do not need another version. It
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certainly does not need anything to lead it from it or add him unto it.
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I remember hearing some people years ago asked the elders within our church what
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about the Book of Enich, And as a little girl, I remember thinking,
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well, what about it? It is not in the English translation of
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the Holy Bible, And so Why would I need to seek out a copy
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of it and to read it? There must have been a reason why it
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was excluded from this pressive book of sixty six books of the Bible? Can
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you find it listed in the table of contents at the front of your Bible?
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Has anybody ever book for the Book of Eder? Can this divide library?
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If you did? Who was it there? Did you find it?
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To come home? Now? I don't care who not here lifts tonight.
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I'm not looking for mere reading material to be added to this blessing book of
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the Bible. There is no further a similar required to find out a little
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wildlife. The devil spighty me in the manner that he's foting me tonight.
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You trust me now in this If you have the sixty six books of the
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Bible, who have enough in your hand to help you to think the enemyia
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and to help you return return on O in that plesson even of rest.
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In fact, most people that I'm no love, that have sought out other
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books of the Bible and track who allow themself to add unto this booker have
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ended up confused in some way. I found them to be spiritually deranged.
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Her spiritually deluded and tain it because they decided to the symbol a bigger broker
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to add to this divide life. Prailly, I could debate this with you
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after church tonight if you want to that. I believe that our children are
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women, are boys and girls, and our meal. They need to be
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satisfied and content with the sixty sixpence of the Bible. We can find somebody
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that has not talked it Mester No. Sixty six books. They do not
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have a genuine experience with God. They donnot keep her the commandments founder in
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the sixty six books or the Bible and Dooza or the people that you will
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find her or on whats that are in search of something else? Can I
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tell you muster or the people have searched her for sacred writing outside of the
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Word of God, andre looking for some way out of something that they have
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solved in this pssing book. I want you to know what is found in
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this Bible. The content of what's in this Bible is enough for every believerer
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of everything in the way, sir preachers, you start going out preaching,
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somebody's gonna ask you, have you ever read the Book of Edict and Your
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answer needs to be what about the Book of Edict? What about it?
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I have no interest at all in that book. You see, this book
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of the Bible is very special to me. The Book of Hebrews is a
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very unique look of the I will because of it was specifically addressed to Jewish
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believers. I've been reading and studying something. How did this book of the
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Bible? And I've come to understand the author's reason for writing these words and
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sending this letter to the hebrew people to whom it was addressed to. He
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intrusted the people that had been scattered, to those who would not a si
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lord, those that could not as symbol, but those that needed to assembil
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themselves together with the believers as soon as they had an opportunity to do so.
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Also, he made it clear that Jesus is a superior to all beings,
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but to manal and immortal. I heard tell that there are some within
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an a customer and holding us churches who believe that Jesus was a creative bee.
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That supposition is a purity foolish. It is nottaining at all. Look
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one ounce of intelligence or wisdom is pure data foolestnes Sir I said, it
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is pure data foolestness for somebody to believe that Jesus was that is a creative
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being. We don't go that deeper than they used to here tonight. We
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are a living soul. Christ himself is an eternal bee. Christ himself is
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the Word of God. He is the creator of all living things. In
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him is a life. We are living souls because of the determination of the
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try you, God haead to create human beings. Let me be clear that
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Jesus Christ is superior and everybody that his word is superior to everybody else's a
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word. Again, his word is superior to your word. Your opinion means
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nothing. His word means everything. But it is his word. It is
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superior to everything. And if his word is superior to everything, that it
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would be diminipian to every believer and non believer. And read and study this
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blessed Book of More carefully. Rock it on you teeth, and listen to
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some mad full uncle his life tell you about the coming of the Lord.
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Did this blessed cook and read it? Read it. This is what takes
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primitives overall things. The superior word of God. The superiority of the Word
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of God is unquestioned by all true worshipers, so many Jeremiah. If his
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word is superior to everything, then I must be benefited by it. Would
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I read it? And if I keep this commandment so dis serving? Tonight
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real rich the intended recipients. You know who needs to hear this? You
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all do. The Lord laid this messager on my heart for this group of
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people. People that are symboled together have this look on assembly. This writing.
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The Book of Hebrews reached this intended recipients. The Jews habit, the
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outsider's habit, the gentile's habit. And so those Jewish people that have been
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scattered, those that have been separated from their whole land, those that have
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been separated her from their teachings of teas and are teaching of Jehovah. If
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you do not have or relationship with your Master and with his word, you
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will find yourself being love lost lost. This word of God is so much
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more than a roadmap. It is a treasure map. This epistle is for
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those who met Jesus while he ministered the people upon earth. This word was
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meant for men like the Apostles. It was meant for women such as Mary,
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Magdalene and John Mark's mother and the mother of the Messiah himself. This
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word has meant for those that lived during his time that he was on earth,
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and it is meant for those who are witnessing the mere ministry of his
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written word, people such as ourselves. By more, is no longer the
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hand broker of the church. You may not realize this, sir, You've
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been protected and shielded from understanding this, But most servants are nothing more than
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it'll make you feel good message prea church very improve dead may have a clut
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handle. Oh what does say it the word of come who may not realize
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they, but the foul that is no longer that church has a hand up.
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We need it. We need it. Raise your hands and thread as
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little. In this epistle new Christians, the new converts, newly converted Jews
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that are converted from two days of unto Christianity, or being told that there
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is a new Covenant for them to embrace. It is to be embraced,
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not embellished. Come on now, it is to be embraced, to not
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imbellished. It is to be embraced, as it is written literally, the
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devil don't want me preaching this message. He's I've never had a problem with
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w Lewis. He does not want you to get this known it tonight,
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the same way he didn't want you to get that message. Lucifer and his
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leish. I have fought incessantly in my family since I unmaster Devil with that
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message Lucifer in his leash, He's find his message in the same many.
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It is to be embraced. It is not to be embellished. It isn't
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to be made beautiful by adding to it, we're taking away from it.
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It does not need ortmentation to make it lovely. Know his word is beautiful
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as it is written. If it offends Jayzabel, it is beautiful as it
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is written. If it offendse A Have, it is as beautiful as it
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is written. I believe this. With this in mind, glanced down at
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your Bible and look at what our gold intent says. When you look at
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it again, what does it say not forsaking the assembling of ourselves together has
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the matter of some in us, but exhorting one another, and so much
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tomorrow as you see their day approaching. Who is that directed to? Metasteric
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believers are infidels. Who's receiving this directive, believers are let's embrace this version
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of scripture and not attempt to embelliship. Now. I remember one time talking
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to a coworker on the job and we talked about Jesus for maybe two minutes.
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Whenever I invited him, it's her church. That following Sunday, he
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said, there's no need at all for me to go to church. I
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said why not? He said, because I just had church with you,
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my brother, And he began to abuse the scripture that brother Nathaniel read to
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us tonight. He said, you're a man of God, you're a preacher,
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and two or three of us have gathered together in His name, that
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we have had church. He ballister that burst subscripture Cloud and Matthew chapter number
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eighteen and bursal betrore. He embellished it. For where two or three are
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gathered together in my name, they're a mine in the midst of them.
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The context of that scripture can be found in three verses, and they are
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namely Versus number eighteen through twenty. And before I bailed into this, in
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the context of it, may I know that prayer is powerful. The Lord
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makes him clear of the prayer has been official to the believer and the household
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of the believer. For church, we are to assemble at the house of
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prayer, not the pacha or the wing house. The Lord told his disciples
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of every age that there are those that would forsake the sibling of themselves together.
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That the Lord also told his disciples of every age, those there at
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that time, and those present right here to night, that it was thus
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been official for the church pamper together to pray. Is that not what broll
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Sister Wallace asked us due to do tonightra is to open the service with prayer.
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They called on the elders of the church, which included the pastor,
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and corporately as a body, we pray the benefits of gathering together. Prayer
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is a mighty force, I said. Prayer is a mighty force. Corporate
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prayer is a greater force. Ask the damsel Rhoda again, prayer is a
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mighty force. You pray by yourself is a powerful thing for you to do.
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But when you come to church and you put two or three together over
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here and two or three together over there, you have a greater force.
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As their prayers and sisters begin to pray for Peter. You can ask the
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damsel Rhoda what happened when they're gathered together that clean that prayer pay John Mark's
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mother had a prayer meeting at her house. She had a prayer meeting at
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her house. Church is not a gathering other believers down at the sports pub
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or the rodeo. Aretha, are you looking it out now? A lot
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of rebels trotting by voice, but never I'm gonna tell you something that p
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don't get off my back. I'll preach this five times in a row.
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I tell nature devil, she might as well go on. I'll tach the
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same message, say the same tisays for five services in a row. I
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will you want to tell her out there? I can't tell me that since
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I Marn's father had a prayer meeting in a house. Again, Church isn't
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a gathering don't die the seashore. Church is not a gathering of people calling
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themself. Believe her still over there on the baseball field, don't do battleship.
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I like it just the way it is. This the rectang little building,
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and I'm talking little building or square building. I like church just the
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way it is. I still like the old time preaching ray. I still
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come for all type prayer. I still like them for all type shady.
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We don't need a part with you any don't need my team. Oh the
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mean he's a group of believer. They want to balish it, they want
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to ordinate it, they want to make it beautiful. The Church has not
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always been a beautiful thing, and the Church will not always be represented by
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a beautiful sanctuary or a beautiful edifice. I thank God tonight for this beautiful
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place that will be worship the Lord Hill. I thank God for the nine
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or ten chandeliers that hang from the seabl I thank God for the pantopews that
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you want are sitting in. I thank God for beautiful musical instruments and the
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musicians that can play them skillfully. But you know what, not every believer
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has been blessed with such a beautiful house to worship. Gaudia. We find
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the them believers in the early church and had to be contented with having church
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in somebody's house. They had to have church in the Catacolta, which was
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doing an underground grave yard. Or come on now, who cannot ride where
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they had church? They're at the state in Rika they're in the pub where
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the public line. Oh no, don't em medicine. I'm telling you who
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we can get it together in a can somewhere. We can gether together in
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a calcunda if we have to. The church must come back together. Nevertheless,
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nevertheless, church is not tuning into a good sermon that has been published
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or posted on a podcast. Church is not tuning in the holiness church onliney
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and listening to the law, relaxing in your reclintery. They said, a
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man between baes or popping or me seeing it now whether they were not working
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to princessor or color or not, you see church of his talk to something
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doing bea down not to stating Rinka with the youth group. We do not
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take her our young people out of services during the midweek service and got in
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a staining Greek and party at home and they had improve the posing up before
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we send them home to see our guilty and content. That is not church
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and young people. You need to remember this. Jesus was speaking concerning binding
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and lucy. The verses number eighteen verse from between. Jesus was saying if
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his people would come together in unison with the harmony people of my precious faith
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people right here on physical earth with the right motives, not to get high,
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not to get drunk, not to find an affair, not to get
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into relations with a boss man, to get a pay raised or a persistent
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advance, or but come with the right motives. Then they would be put
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in touch with a heavenly audience and a heavenly Father in a heavenly word.
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If they would come together, the spirit of God would move upon spirit,
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feel a spirit, let believers say, and they would pray for us,
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and they would pray with us. How many of you know that persecution is
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a very real Say, there's been a lot of people trial strength at the
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local assembly or in the House of God because they came to the House of
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God whenever everything else was not working, tried the House of God. I'm
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talking about a physical attress, a certain geographic location where the saints of God
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gathered together to pray and to praise the Lord. I wonder how many young
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people came to church tonight, aimlessly tripting her from my shore the l see
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unconcerned about them, never done so, and the things of the Lord.
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How many of them are you in this building tonight? Unconcerned about their well
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being spiritually, are concerned about their devilment adversaries thinking to destroy. That is
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wid become to church because some spiritual believer, the spiritual preacher, will save
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their lives and let them know they ought to be concerned. Have you ever
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seen it? Have you ever seen it? Some young person's about to make
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shipwreck spirits there, and it was avoided because some sisters started crying in the
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church service. Some brothers started praying in the spirit. Somebody talked with annoying
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somebody preached with annoying somebody testified with annoying it. Somebody exhorted with annoying it.
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Somebody praying for that individual in that local assembly, and they were spared
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from spiritual shipwreck. In the day of the early Church, the body of
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Christ, the believers met in Jewish temples and sentate dogs and houses of fellow
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believers. Believers meant and they had church. They did not pick up seashells.
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They did not turn bottles. Oh, come on now, they did
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not saddle up and white bulls and brocks. No, they had church.
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They prayed the cotton and they saved the cot. They had church. I'm
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not saying you can't read the Bible to play at a rodeo, but I've
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never seen it roam the Papa protractor and everybody put tact about their pills.
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The propos poc Jesus, I said, I'm puting Tonnaca. You must come
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to tell her. You must come to church. You must put on the
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uniform, you must put on your church clothes. Field churching and had church
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in the days of the early church Brother Jesse, there were people just literally
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begging to get inside him and to hear Jesus, to hear his followers,
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to hear what appeared to them to be ignorant, not learned men preaching,
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to see the manifestation of the whole he goos working among the apostles and the
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believers. They just had to get into church. That they had to tear
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the roof off one tile of the time. They had to get the church.
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It used to be in this United States of America. Then whenever there
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was a tragedy that struck the nation and crippled this nation to her knees.
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While this nation was on bend and knees, she prayed the church house would
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fill out with default and felt the need to go to Churchill, have you
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seen the strategy of Satan? Do you not understand what he has done?
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He is in bellished church and said, you know, you can have church
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out there after devotion on the sea show and then just take in the waves.
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I heard one brother tell me about ten years ago. He said he
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got disgusting weed of the Methodist church that he was attending because his grand baby
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got saved, and the pastor said, let's have a baptismal service. He
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said, well, that sounds good, that sounds decent and in order.
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But he said, by the Jesse, when they got riverside, he could
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tell that the women had little strings up in none of their shirt, and
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little boat ties tied behind their nets. And he could tell that the pastor
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had somewhat of something that appeared to be swim trunks on underneath his soup pantser.
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And he said, oh, my God, surely not. We're not
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gonna baptize my grandson and just prayed in the altar and then have a party
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in the river. He said, the pastor baptized his grand baby in the
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name of the Father, in the name of the Son, did that name
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of the Holy Ghost, and then he put the will to the side.
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Then he said, all right, everybody, there will be no church service
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tonight. We're gonna have a riverside party and we're just gonna have a time
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of fellowship. And they send them girls to wrap their topsa and was in
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their bikinis, bikini tops of bikini bottoms, and there was the pastor in
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the swim trunks and the deacon of the church in the swim trunks. Can
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I tell you they did not have your service? Not doctor or no,
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you did not. That's the strategy of safand it's the kid set to the
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place where we take there in the Church of hampowsled me. We don't want
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to their priority. That Devila started winning thirty years ago when he got us
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down there one service a week, I said, the devil started winning.
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They started having youth back a big week service and the trunk the youth out
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of the House of God. Now I'm telling you the temple shatter and the
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leeds, that's whim they shadowed. That's the Church of walk time and the
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house up talk. I said that donal salad, but that's the trunch to
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dal down to got the house of doll. It's my successor ever tells you
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we're gonna have a river party down there opm service, not after we have
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baptismal service. None. May God open your eyes to real life. You
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have seen the end of something that was once so beautiful. What about here
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in our country? What about in Iran? What about in China? Are
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there people meeting in houses tonight? There are certain believers meeting and houses tonight
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because they cannot meet publicly. Oh, come on, now, their national
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leaders have not approved of their assembling, but nevertheless they are assembling themselves together.
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What about here in our country, our nation called America. Are we
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continuing to have services? Are the doors continuing to be left open and the
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lightshold word? No, there's a lot of churches that have their door closed
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up. When you come to church on Sunday night, when you come to
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church on Wednesday night midweek services, the lights are off at the neighbor houses.
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Oh God, I want you to know that the churches of Malaysia had
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church and they left the lights home. The churches of Asia they had church,
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and the churches of Macedonia had church, and the Church of Jerusalem had
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church, and the Church of Antioch had church, and a Church of God
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at correct they had church and a church at this in Anaco they had church
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fully concilan was there system of clearly? Was there a policy? Was there?
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Peter's father, what's there? I'll telling you that believal church regularly.
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I said that bel was at ending the church regularly. Where's the here's a
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love on Jim. In that day, certain disciples were found as symbolt together
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in this day, Charity Howell an Irish looms still go to church regularly.
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Bethel, we are blessed to be able to freely meet in this period tonight
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in a forty eighty house to worship. We meet freely right now for now.
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But will persecution come up to part Americans American Christians? Yes, let
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me be clear, Americans that are non Christian will not be persecuted. They're
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gonna lay their head down or the devil's chap baka that are received the mock
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of the peace and be eternally down. No, non Christians will not be
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persecuted. They will go with the spirit of the Antichrist. But in these
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United States of America, do you see now why the devil's fighting me the
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way he is? So It's true that persecution we'll come to America. I
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said, it's true that persecution will increase in the last days. In the
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Last Day Church will be a persecuted church. Even though the Last Day Church
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will be a persecuted church, they will steal meet in a symbol, even
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if they are forced to meet again in people's houses, in the fields of
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wood or in the catacombs. The word of God is clear, and so
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much more. As you see the day of approaching, there won't be any
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coward hard people in heaven. There won't be anybody with a chicken liver for
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a heart in heaven. There won't be anybody that says, you know what
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persecution has come been the how? And the congregation is going to be martyrs
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tomorrow. I believe I'm got a little bit sick to my stomach and just
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have thought of it. I'm gonna lay out, No, you're gonna have
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to drag yourself to the House of God, thank God, less of work
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by top. That's so much fase, he said, if they will to
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preach it. But did I'm not saying this is the word of God,
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this is the sun God, this is his word. And he said,
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he leave us so much bad doesn't seen the day a prince it. Let's
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look at one more things in this golden text. Didn't it say that at
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the local assembly we will have folks fellow believers exhorting. It said that,
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Yes, a thousand times, yes, that said that. Now, let's
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teach you something here. A person can only exhort to someone if they let
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them exhort to them. And they can exhort to someone who is close to
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them. If you're involved in their lives, you can exhort to them.
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If they let you be involved in their life, you can exhort to them.
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Some people stay away from the assembly, the gathering of the Saints,
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in order to keep someone from trying to speak into their life. They keep
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the church at a distance on purpose. They keep the preacher at a distance
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from them, a safe distance from them on purpose. The reason why they
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don't draw now to the street preacher is because they're keeping a safe distance between
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them and the street preacher. Very few people will approach her, the street
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preacher, because her. Even if they approach the street preacher with the mindset
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to challenge him and to set the record stranger, if that is a man
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loaded with the gospel gun is loaded with the word of God. He will
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blow them away with their gospel. And they know this. But come on,
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now, what did the person before to say? And let us consider
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one another to provoke her one another UNTI love and good work. So Mala
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tessey, you notice to be true. If they only attend service every once
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in a while, they feel like they will avoid a personal relationship with the
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pastor and the person lady. They want to pull in a personal relationship with
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them and the church family. They want to put personal interaction between them and
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the preacher. How could the preacher ever hit them if they only show up
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a f Eastern and Christmas, I say, ah, you will all go.
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Why then, know what? It won't be treaching us. The matter,
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the reason of God for what kind of trucks with you is because they
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have had what that person cooks say golu that who cares what Jesus said?
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What is that? Just the book? Now go back to the first fifteen
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minutes of my preacher were well established what this is, and it's perfect the
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way it is, and I embrace it to what it says, and don't
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embellish it. Believers meant and believers had church by the Jesse. People try
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to avoid personal interaction with the preacher or with the pastor. I thought the
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members of the Body of Christ are in a relationship with the Lord and with
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one another. We need more interaction, not loss. I'm going to say
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that again. We need more interaction, not lost. We need more church
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services, not less. How many of you understand that I thank God for
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that youth service and the pri one Friday of the month, I thank God
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prepare services at Pride thirty on sudden evening. And we need bayor church services
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or not less than how many of you know the close server we get to
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leave it out of here, the mayor church that we need. And if
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you got the Holy Ghost, that does not mean it's okay for you to
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sit in your fine house and the lay outrapal service. If you've got the
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Holy ghost to have a little world cuts you at church that God blessed to
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you, that does not mean now he just putting new trump that coaster cuts
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your daser and aside. We and we are not to a church out your
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church as preaping her as our rest her becau I seen that day approaching her
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with Jesus respect that Eastern style. I must have church. I must have
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church. The stand I must have church. I've heard sister wouldn't say there's
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time and again, time and again, over over and over over, time
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after time, again after again and again she'd say, I don't know what
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I'd do if I didn't have this little church to come to. Does everybody
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in this building feel that? Does everybody share listen to this? Does everybody
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in this building really feel that? What if I didn't have that pastor,
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what if I didn't have that teaching, What if I didn't have that first
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lady, What if I didn't have them elders? What if I didn't have
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a place together. I've already said, it doesn't matter if it's the house
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of Mary, the mother of John Mark, or if it's Peter's house,
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or if it's a senate God or a temple, or come on, a
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tent or something, or this precious building that we're in tonight. We are
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together together. The devil will figured out how to disarm the church. He
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deactivated the church in the eighties. I witnessed it when they started taking the
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youth groups out on Wednesday night. I remember that first service that our youth
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pastor spoke to us in our midweek service family Training Hour class. We quit
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having regular service inside of the church. They had Family Training Hour. Basically
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it was just another Sunday school of sorts and they separated everybody that had Royal
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Rangers. They had the teen class. I will never forget when our youth
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pastor said, I talked to the pastor and the senior pastor and the associate
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pastor said, it's okay, we're fixing the load. Everybody up and we're
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gonna go to the McDonald's in town and we're gonna have a good time of
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fun and fellowship. He said, I ain't teaching anything tonight, and Brother
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Staring, I will say this. By the time those people got done partying,
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he felt guilty about that and had a brief devotional with everybody and then
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praying a quick prayer that he was ashamed of because he was praying in public
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and he felt like a big hypocrite. And I know some of the things
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that went on between some of them young people before they left McDonald's and before
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they got back to the church to meet up with their parents and Brother Jesse
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may I say there would have been a whole lot safer in the house of
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God with spirit. Filled with spirit, move people obeying God. Come on,
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I'm telling you you never know when that young person standing next to you
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needs that prayer, needs you to put that hand on their back and to
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pray that prayer of faith, having to pray those encouraging words. I'm telling
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you there's some children in this building tonight. Well, and the only teens
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perhaps are in their mental early twenties. There's some young people in this building
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tonight. They are unconcerned about their soul. It doesn't matter to them.
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But whether or not we have church here. We're down on the seashore.
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They're just good. From whatever goes. I'll just come with a blow.
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If you're comfromise tomorrow, I'm okay with that. I'm telling you it should
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devastate you at the base of the church designed by Jesus. Changes in the
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class of the church TVs will one degree, of course. It should be
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an alarment to you, Sister how and I know exactly what I preach about
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tonight. Sister Wood knows exactly what I preach about tonight. No charismatic churches
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found everything to do with their young people but church, but expose them to
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the spirit of God, and when them young people figured out they had to
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entertain people, and when they figured out that they had poor entertainment in the
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House of God and could have got a better show up the road. I
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remember when my peers decided they'd rather go to the movies on Sunday night.
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I know what I'm on here to night. I remember when they felt disinterested
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in going to church. I remember sitting out on the porch at Buddy's Bready's
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restaurant with a prominent family and a local Assembly of God. We were between
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services. I remember the first time I heard that prominent woman that was a
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Sunday school teacher in that first Assembly of God that looked like it ran nearly
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two hundred people. She said, you know what I think, rather than
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going to church tonight, we'll just go across the street and watch a movie.
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You get that mindset when you bring movies to church, when you bring
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entertainment on the platform and you get rid of the anority. You develop that
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mindset when you take away the church dress and the church a uniform that we
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all wear, and you start trying to look like you belong in a rodeo,
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and you start looking like you blow on a skateboard instead of in the
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house of God. We lose our respect for the House of God, the
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things of God, and they're people of God. When we bring the world
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into the church, I say, let the world be the world and let
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the church be the church about God in heaven. I feel liberty. I
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feel liberty. Assembly required it. Do you know why you're here tonight?
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Sixty something people are other together tonight? Huh? Do y'all know why you're
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gathered together? To not? It's by divine providence, It's a divine assembly.
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It's by orchestration of God. Almighty God has put each one in their
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proper place. And I'm preaching to somebody right now. You watching YouTube the
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way you're doing concerning end time prophecy, it's making you mad, it's making
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you crazy. When you prophesy and say things are going to happen and they
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don't happen. You are a false prophet or a false prophetess who get deranged
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and deluded when you listen to their false prophets on YouTube that are nothing more
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than entertainers. I'm telling you, I'm not looking for the Book of Enoch.
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Somebody gave me a copy of the Book of Enoch. Do you know
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where it ended up? Do y'all know what foul number thirteen is? The
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trash Kim, I've never read it, and I don't think I'm any less
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of a preacher by not having read it. If it ain't in this book,
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in that Bible, I said, if you ain't he was holding Bible.
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Oh ain't Bible. And for the hippopinco we left that side of them
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goes to die and say what I like the book to read it. We'll
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see if you're still a lover of this book ten years from now. You
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gotta be careful with that extra cur report reading material. But ask for me.
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I will not embellish the Bible. Ask for me. I will not
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embellis him to church. I will embrace it to just the way it is.
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I will thank God for his suitor and his time. I will thank
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God for his trust frights and his trust shirt. I will thank God for
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her pet, for Tressa. I will thank Tod. Can I mean still
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know how be addressed? And I wouldn't still understand how woman's pras my God.
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We just bow our heads tonight. We've been giving something very valuable.
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We have been entrusted with it. We must be consistent and prove faithful when
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it comes to our church. We can prove ourselves faithful by having great church
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attendants. I feel the Holy Gurst in this place. It was a blessing
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to my soul two weeks ago where my son sam it takes to me an
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hour and a half before church, and he said, I'm ready for some
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church. It was the beginning of this message. I'm ready because the church.
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Why are the spiritual leaders of most churches today not allowing the congregation to
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meet more frequently. If they were Samuel's pastor, he would still be saying
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I'm ready for a church, but there would be no church. Why are
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people in church families becoming less involved in their communities in their churches. Why
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do people not love church? I've been preaching a lot here lately about Asaf.
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There's been much said about Asaf, and we have given him high regard
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and commendation. But Brother Nathaniel, this just came to mind. I'm nowhere
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near my notes, and you'll see this is not in my notes. Psalm
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chapter number seventy three speaks of the burden of Asaf's heart. Asaf said,
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when I consider the prosperity of the wicked, and when I see how just
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nonchalantly go on, and he seemed to prosper and succeed in life. I
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questioned certain things. But then asf goes on to state, but when I
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went to church, I considered their end, sweet love of God. Some
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of y'all are getting this, and some of y'all. It doesn't matter whether
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we have a church here or not. But I can say I thank God
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for a physical address of eleven fifty three corpo you'll drive. I thank God
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for people to still put a high value on having good altars in between the
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front pie and the platform. I said, I thank God for a church
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and still has altars in it. I thank God for a church it still
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puts a value on our prayer warriors. I said, I thank God for
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people he put a high value on praise all. Thank God, Thank God,
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thank God. Let's find a place to pray. Could we do that?
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I really feel like we need to embrace church for what it is.
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We should not be looking for anything more than what we have. It's enough.
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It's enough. Let the church be the church and let the people rejoice.
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Do you love church? Do you love church out forsaking the sibling of
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ourselves together as the mayor of son is, but exhorting one another so much
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the more as you see the day of trach braces, embracing as we don't
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need a dance team. We don't need a biotea. We don't need flashing
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as we need tear stack alts. We need tears saved. We need preachers
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that are we need so fine. That's a church, be the church.
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I feel the sweet holy ghost in this place. Let's have a church,
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shall we? Let's have church, not online church. Let's get together.
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Should simply it's requiem. It's not option, it's a requirement. Songs people,
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it's there a congregation, a congregation, a little town called the Bell
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and no fever, twas table age with their still you're persecuting the child the
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church for gentlemen, there's going to rains on this place on pason. Thank
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God. The church is still church. It's not a circus. Enter this
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church. It's not a circus. Teacher, take away all the search,
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learn me borrow that without the victory, the Calvary, Jesus name visa,
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there's gors on we can take away from it's going back to the ass b
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to war. The term stands roll back to where the lot there is a
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role that way back you see the day force in that day. No,
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you're going bad, You're coming back. You are person were builtful by turn.
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We're going back to the eyes from that stance roll blasion there rollo.
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You see difference is you're bad. Day you're go fan her you no tree
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back you see serving God has going in the tree. Were cold here battle,
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he said the bad gob it's coming down to leave. Let no time
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for battle out. We're going back to the loss the battle. We're going
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back. Just do we gotta go back to through. We're going back to
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your building back lay it's where I sail cut play the ride stay swaying lo.
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You see him sees that thay. We're going about the day. We're
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going back to ours. I wanna go back to ing through. We're going
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back to your back where said raw all but the later language were not long
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the seen the like day. The we're going to we're talking about to back
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out stroll tack a black we've seen the Dame Forte saday Now we roll back.
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Think you love press were no fact the answer. They all lie tack
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away, all even the terms on sis like you've got glus. We gotta
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go pers you go a tree far through see sir gods between were the fool,
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the sad my please come down to look up Sat a long time we'll
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play now look back to the lost house, the door night to stand the
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back way Sat, the lady walk into my soul love this black night and
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go over that stay about we go back in. I was that faj was
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born. There's the horse refl the carrots faces till worryb w to your research.
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When the cant is by, it's time to take the also love going
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back to live in the home. Don't coming back bay to single out though
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we got lady as the term drawn back to last, I go lie say
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the difference is like you go back, we're going down. You will never
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happened him, do it fall Do's the whole scene I when the ball bill
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girl faces the little worldly fine VOLUNTI the churst, but the casine, the
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lie, this charge urns, don't a leave out the fool. You'll copy
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by daddy side. You see your boat. We'll just go back. You
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gotta go back to leave. We're going back to the stretched roll, the
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lame you say, you can see it here for say no, but we're
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going backthing, Go go, We're going back. You have word,