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  1. Amen. Has it the Lord been good to us already and you all gonna

  2. Lord saved the best for last. Amen. So we're looking forward to what

  3. the Lord you'n't talk to us through, Brother Jesse. Amen. I hope

  4. to not be too long winded tonight. Amen. I don't know that I've

  5. ever been, except for the time I've got pushed into it by the Lord.

  6. And I think I went up well over an hour and then while we

  7. were singing over there. Amen. I don't do that too often anymore.

  8. Amen. Let's start in the Philippians, chapter number four. Amen, this

  9. is what the Lord has put it. Put it on my heart, and

  10. I hope to share it with you and hope it will encourage you. Amen.

  11. I lift up your heart. In the Lord Email Philippians, chapter number

  12. four and verse number four says, rejoicing the Lord alway and again, I

  13. say rejoice. Amen, stretch your hands towards having asked God to help us

  14. here to night. Lord, we thank you for your mercy, your grace,

  15. your many blessings. God. We thank you for your presence that we've

  16. already failed. Lord, we thank you that we know your with us,

  17. and that he is the most important daing God, what you wouldnt be to

  18. say nothing, Lord, nothing left God, and you would have me.

  19. Let me speak to your oracle. God, speak curly. Let it not

  20. be a God with you, Lord, that is talking, Lord, working

  21. the lives of many mind every hendret and distraction in Jesus's Holy name. We're

  22. praying, believing, and asking, thanking you God for all that you've done,

  23. all that you will do, Lord God, and we praise you for

  24. evermore a man and Jesus name. And the church said, he man,

  25. you may be seen and praise God. All right. The Philippians here verse

  26. chapter number four. Verse number four said, rejoicing the Lord always and again,

  27. I say rejoice. Now, let's turn over, give me into the

  28. preacher. Let him preach to us. Amen. I don't know what that

  29. is, Ecclesiastes. Amen, we're going to the third chapter. Amen.

  30. And I felt the Lord lead me here as well as kind of my co

  31. text. Amen. And we'll take a great portion of what we preach out

  32. of here to this. Amen. Tonight Ecclesiastes will begin reading the verse number

  33. one and said, to everything there is a season and a time to every

  34. purpose under the heaven, a time to be born, and a time to

  35. die. A time to plant and a time to pluck up that which has

  36. planted. A time to queue and a time to heal. A time to

  37. break down and a time to build. A time to weep and a time

  38. to laugh, a time to mourn and a time to dance. A time

  39. to cast away stones and a time to gather stones together. A time to

  40. embrace in a time to refrain from embracing, a time to get and a

  41. time to lose, a time to keep and a time to cast away,

  42. a time to rend and a time to sow. A time to keep silence

  43. and a time to speak. A time to love and a time to hate,

  44. a time of war and a time of peace. Amen, Praise God.

  45. Here we see time mentioned so often. Amen. Now it is up

  46. to question, Amen, But knockman to do question the author of the Book

  47. of Ecclesiastes and may because if you'll read through here, he doesn't and as

  48. he does in some of his other writings, he doesn't identify himself. Amen.

  49. But he does see Amen, he was a son of David that reigned

  50. over Israel in Jerusalem. Also, he identifies himself as the wisest king to

  51. reign in Israel, Amail. Now, if anybody else took credit for that,

  52. Amen, they'd probably be sadly mistaken here Emen, so it's safe to

  53. say this is more than likely. And then the writings of the great King

  54. Solomon, who was a wise man, and he Amen, was given the

  55. wisdom from the Lord when he gave was given an opportunity to ask for something,

  56. he asked Amen, something Amen, not upon to consume upon his own

  57. lust. And thenbod he didn't ask a myth. Rather, and then he

  58. asked something that would benefit others. Amen. He had a great responsibility.

  59. And then many were going to be leaning on him Amen, to give righteous

  60. judgment. Amen. And here we see him right under us. Amen.

  61. Of times that will come and times that will pass. Amen, we find

  62. in our text that there is a time for some things to begin and a

  63. time for them to end. Even we often used time as our basis to

  64. start projects, and it is used to calculate the leaks thing will take or

  65. last. Amen. Time it's hard to define. But if passing is something

  66. that and will assuredly happen, Amen, as sure as you're living and breathe

  67. in a middle seconds or passing seconds will turn. Amen, the minutes and

  68. minutes to hours and amen, hours, We'll be amen a lot time.

  69. Oh I'm trying to get somewhere y' out there with me here, Amen.

  70. Times effects are seen on everything here on earth in some way. Amen.

  71. Truly we all go through the seasons of life. He describes here Amen,

  72. the truth that we are. Or amen, someone that faces struggled. We

  73. know the old song that said, sometimes I'm up, Amen, and sometimes

  74. I'm down, and like us seem to throw us that roller coaster. Amen.

  75. Where it is a time to plant, a time to pluck up in

  76. our team. Here amen, ears praise God. Amen, while they're still

  77. time, I will and then of the titles I began to study and pray

  78. and I and uh, you'll bear him and it'll make more sense later.

  79. Even but the title I got his prayer was, it's always rejoice o' clock.

  80. If it it's always rejoice o'clock. Amen. And here there is a

  81. time and amen for sadness. And then we see here a time, mayben,

  82. will someone will be born. We see a time where some will die.

  83. Maybe if we see a time, ayben, where someone will struggle,

  84. maybe some will build up and some will tear down. Maybe, but if

  85. we get, ain't ben a divorce four Philiprians. Or maybe he said rejoice

  86. in the lorna. Oh may that so through the ups and downs, and

  87. we must rejoice. Get the struggles and trials, and we must rejoice.

  88. They be nobtter what you're in that season of life? It is bearing the

  89. clock, isn't it's midnight, Amender? If there's lunch drive, it's always

  90. rejoice the crocking many. We've always got a hall a song. We've always

  91. got halla try, but we've always got a happy three doubt our show,

  92. Amenda. God, let's babble wild and we may get to feel the powerty

  93. Oh God. Truly, there is no new thing under the sun, and

  94. there are dark days. Let's seem to affect us. Amen. But we

  95. must believe the sun will shine again. Amen. The Bible said joy comes

  96. in the morning, Oh, joy coming in the morning. Amen. But

  97. the joy that comes in the morning will do no good for those who are

  98. not looking for a reason to rejoice. Amen, Oh God. Even if

  99. day full of sunshine, Amen, can be avoided by hiding in case.

  100. Oh God, we see many Christians Amen, they live Amen with Jesus in

  101. their hearts. Amen. They live with the blessings of God in their life.

  102. Amen. And then but they still seem to be down all the time.

  103. Amen, because the rays of sunshine can be avoided. Amael Oh,

  104. God's not truth. Amen with you. The Bible said Psalm Sturdy in five.

  105. In his favor is life. Weeping may endure it fortnight, but joy

  106. cometh in the morning. Amen. We know of David and of King Amen.

  107. Of David at zeke Laggey wasn't yet kinga Amen. But we know of

  108. how the enemy came and destroyed all the those things that seemed precious to him,

  109. all those things he health, dear and health too, and men,

  110. it was seemingly stripped from him in a moment of time. Amen. And

  111. he left. He was left with nothing but ashes. Even when we heard

  112. the Bible, see, even David encouraged himself in the Lord. Amen.

  113. So when he was looking bleaker, Even when David had lost his wife,

  114. aben, David had lost his children. Amen, He still has to have

  115. a song in his heart. He still has to have the joy the Lord

  116. that he is a streamed up Amen. Week Christian, And yes, I

  117. said week Christian. Amen. If you know how joy you are but weak

  118. Christian. Because the Bible has been right yesterday, the Bible's right today,

  119. the Bible will be like tomorrow. And if he don't like to join the

  120. lorda you have to straight my God, A man. If you don't have

  121. joy, you have no strength, O God. Because David was able to

  122. encourage himself and the Lord, he was able to recover all. We have

  123. many that because of discouragement, they could sit on a church we put you

  124. oney or thirty years and they sit there and they blame God because they haven't

  125. had victory in their life. Amen. Yes, it's a trial and a

  126. struggle, but we can't blame God. But even because we have no victory,

  127. Amen, if you're sitting there with an attitude of discouragement, up expecting

  128. God, Amen to give you a shot of adrenaline. And then Holy goes

  129. to adrenaline to get you move, hit up, they get you out of

  130. the valley. You'll never happen. And then, because it is an individual

  131. responsibility, while there's time, Queen Master, encourage ourselves of the Lord,

  132. while there's kind, lead by something calling out of the fire. YEH got

  133. back, I said, while there's time, lead my straet choice out shot

  134. got here. They don't gotta look the pennel start. They don't. I

  135. don't want it done. Be a family. They don't batter, make a

  136. start the go oh my god, it's still in choice. The clock shot

  137. out at the high. But I get any man in the last amen some

  138. one twenty six verse five said they that's so in tears, shall read who

  139. is so in tears, shall read the joy about it. So it is

  140. an action sowing his work. And then so it takes effort. And men,

  141. you must put effort into it if you expect to seek God Amen to

  142. work in your life. If it bursts, seeks those on the say,

  143. he that doth for the weeping, very precious seats, shall doubtless come again

  144. well, recrossing being in the season with him. Maybe something will calm doubtless

  145. again, or will rejoicing. Because even in the hard times they went back

  146. the soul. Even in the hard times, when tears rolling down their face,

  147. they had a Hallelujah in the house of cod even of the hard times.

  148. When life is als Ayben, you call Marria of the hot ties.

  149. You gotta have a phrase. It can't set the reek card or despite the

  150. burnings, the strike, despite them struggles. Amen, he will doubtless huh

  151. death, But it's gonna happen now, shout, they said, I come,

  152. I get rejoicing, ary pressa seed ahead. What the hell have I

  153. seen that? Boy? Here? I studied in my mind's eye, I

  154. seen a man Amen with a sexual seed. Amen. And yes he went

  155. away crying. He went into the field burdened way down. Oh, but

  156. I could see him coming again. He had somebody with him though. They

  157. said, Hey, because that brother Amen, Joe's I mean, who boy,

  158. say that that's their brother Jefti. Aman's that brother Jefty in the distance?

  159. He must have met someone in the field today. Amen, Joy,

  160. it's coming with brother Joy. Shot. I got ahead, Amen, brother

  161. Joy, follow you. They been by the child. Don't hit the hard

  162. eyes and that sister Choy, they'll follow you on to tell you of your

  163. life. And man, if you're making a dear kids, then there's a

  164. story of a brother that I heard it and then as a child, and

  165. it's always stuck with me. And then he was almost I've heard he was

  166. a little ascentric, a little strange comparative to something they would say. And

  167. there were many people that noticed, they meant on the bottom of his light

  168. colored shoes, and they meant they would catch flipses of words written there.

  169. Amen if they realized that. Amen. Finally, one day, hey,

  170. he really is writing something on the bottom of his shoes. And when they

  171. got to look it closer and asked him about it, he said, I've

  172. got glory, hallela many glory written on this foot and Hallelujah written on this

  173. one. Listen, why do you do that? He said, because every

  174. step I take it's glory and hallelujah. That's someone literally cloyer, that's someone

  175. doing up. Gave it out. They're coming in again, a very imprecious

  176. seas and anything about oh my god, there's some water that needs your song.

  177. There's some water. There's the real life there ship tire your life to

  178. rejoice They're still tire your life and hit the break list that get breathe.

  179. The Brussel Paul said, rejoice in the Lord alway, and again I say

  180. rejoice about how about you? There is time and any time for repentance.

  181. There is a time for reconciliation. There is a time for renewal. But

  182. there will be times we experience restoration I mean there is a time for being

  183. bod and a time for being refilled. There are times were Anna reaching at

  184. it up, and times we reflect the liter are times we reminis them,

  185. and times ain't matter we recrect. There are times when we recounted were God.

  186. At times we written ourselves up. Ain't remember They're always should be a

  187. time up. We rejoice there never should be a time. If we talk

  188. to abo, have a song? Got the Bible told us a things and

  189. songs and the sundown of the strange ragder. And they didn't have a song

  190. though. Hey, they even put their instruments in the side to sing the

  191. vide sing it down time soon? Whoa exact you tonight? If you put

  192. your song to the side, are you not seeing it? Or you saying,

  193. ah, LiF's been to run? Oh god, I've had this for

  194. two weeks. So don't nobody take it personal and say, hey, he's

  195. preaching what he heard. Amen, he's preaching just something out of the blue.

  196. And then this has been on me through thicking theatera amen, through slubber

  197. Amen, in a week. Times I've thought of this and it's stirred in

  198. my heart. Amen. You say, yeah, that's easy Amen, for

  199. a young twenty five year or twenty four year old to say, and when

  200. you're twenty five right, twenty four year old to say, Amen, he

  201. had to been through nothing. And I think only once if I ever shared

  202. this in a service, Amena. But you don't know me, U,

  203. and you don't know what God has done for me. You don't know me,

  204. and you don't know how I've gone pulled me out Amen of what could

  205. be a demising situation. And when you say, hey, you're young,

  206. he ain't been through nothing, my God, when you're there after you in

  207. the morning and they're asking you that you want to pull Amen, you're in

  208. the twenty week Amen, like twenty two week baby offlights a point and let

  209. him shot. I let him be gon hope to be with God. And

  210. then many people would wrap it off, going the towel, say I ain't

  211. gonna leave to the singer, and yes you do. Oh God's still a

  212. god in a long time. I still good in the black hiding when life

  213. was Rotha, when I lost things, he was still there. Oh God,

  214. you didn't bounce back. It took you six months, a year,

  215. five years, No, not on me. But he put strength in there,

  216. and Sunday morning I reported to my respective place in the whole class teaching

  217. children and man, my God and my God's God, the song, watch

  218. your song, love. They've never been got by that. You ain't got

  219. something can't got for The sun will shine again, but it's raised of splendor,

  220. and then will not have us glorious an effect on those that are not

  221. looking for here's a beauty. Oh yes, the sun I'm looking for had

  222. the moon and starts the sun I'm looking for. But the rises to the

  223. occasion on the back days. Even the sunthing that's light shine into me when

  224. I'm in disper need of And learned the spar and then he had named the

  225. sauna and said it would God as a strong man. And then I hit

  226. the world. Weep. It will come to an end, sorrow one morning.

  227. We don't have times of reprieve. Amen. We were experienced times when

  228. we're not laughing. We were experienced times where rest comes to an end.

  229. We were experienced times amen, when a day of work comes to a close.

  230. Amen. But we must not let our rejoicing have an end. It

  231. must only have a beginning. Well, God saw him seventy one and fourteen.

  232. Oh, I really will shaw. Let the word of God get to

  233. you right now. Could you open up those everlasting doors and let this amen,

  234. the worth the god breathed holy word of God speak to you. Amen,

  235. he said, But I will hope continually, you say, preacher,

  236. I've tried it before. I got two eaks down the road. Oh and

  237. I was damnas stead. No I knew health continually and well, yet pres

  238. him nor more. Oh God, I still got a song shut out,

  239. my God, My God, my head. I got my head through the

  240. hard ties. I praise him through the stud of the tires. I craze

  241. him, creuse a back in the NLIS through sickness and David Cathy even through

  242. ain't the loss of health through Lord piece through plenty of favorite I will praise

  243. him that's not difflict or must beloved. I mean, I would dare say

  244. the world most beloved. Scripture, Psalms twenty three. No one wrote good

  245. tips that wouldn't wont with little data. Was flying high. He could have

  246. been in the Dillys were the down and a shout up down, let me

  247. go, and then he conna be out in a fields rounded by enemies.

  248. He wrote down I'm with me. He should die for Paris or table before

  249. me in the presence. Y'all get this, and you listening to the night,

  250. it's always rejoice to talk. You say, we shouted this morning,

  251. you shay, we praise this morning, my friend, brother Shamuel. For

  252. those of us that like the praise. I've got some good news. I've

  253. got some good news. You say you're after fanantical. Oh, you should

  254. see me in my house while they were sleeping this afternoon. I shall praise

  255. you at the round show in the me guy here always, little guys,

  256. are somebody more abound, somebody praying. I'm gonna pray anything more. And

  257. morn more and Morne more, and Morne knocks on a raft. I've got

  258. more to preach. I remember, I just fell laughing to leave you with

  259. this, hey man, okay. In my time of prayer, my time

  260. of prayer, I was praying, and the Lord made a connection I've never

  261. seen before, and it was so good and rich to me. He brought

  262. to my mind the words of my Savior is yours who to envision him?

  263. Right now? Your King, your personal king, my brother Nathaniels, your

  264. personal savior. He spoke these words unto you and under me you say,

  265. lo, I am with you alway, even until the end of the world.

  266. This is how Paul could say, rejoice the Lord alway a man.

  267. We know that word alway is not the same as always, because always describes

  268. particular moments in time. Remember a shot of the again always means whatever?

  269. And then why will you, trim be able to praise him in the hard

  270. times because he's with you? Why will you be able to glorify him when

  271. it seems hopeless because he's with him? Oh? God, how often should

  272. you praise him? As often as he's with you? Now, if you're

  273. in this building tonight you say I praise him this morning, I don't have

  274. to. But the next time you and then in a bad situation, God

  275. can have the same definition of all you get there are you listening? What

  276. have good interpreted the hallway like you do? WoT he be down the back

  277. day? Just on the good days, every service on the best choice?

  278. All right? First, sister Lordians five at sixteen re choice, Hey anymore,

  279. don't stop. You don't have a reason to quick your bad day nor

  280. struts not then praise now your rup time is not stillson, rejoicing the Lord,

  281. not a song. This word crazy. I look up the definition of

  282. one of the scriptures I was reading. He said it was to be Atham

  283. bad man. Look, I love to consider myself and he has someone that

  284. fanatically phrases. I said, because he's with you, ain't getting like a

  285. feeling of my soul? I live that crazy? Could we? Could we

  286. praise it every more in the middle of the freature, in the middle of

  287. the season. Every one and author, service, everyone bar bar all praising

  288. you. Can we just craise him? Can we praise him? Brother Nathaniel,

  289. that Golden text didn't say rejoice in the Lord. In the Lord,

  290. right, rejoice in the Lord. You don't have to rejoice in your employer.

  291. You don't have to rejoice in Bethel hold his church, or any other

  292. holding his church, or Pentecostal church, or in pastor howell. But you

  293. always have to rejoice in the Lord. Rejoice in the Lord. I appreciate

  294. this, don't you? Can we praise the Lord right now? Praise the

  295. Lord? Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. If

  296. you're looking for a reason I praise him and rejoice. You ought to just

  297. rejoice in him because of who he is and because he's with him. Alway,

  298. that's right. When it's raiding the darts of the enemy, When the

  299. darts of the enemy are showering down upon you, all you gotta do is

  300. stuff at chill of faith. Right, the preacher said, just rejoice in

  301. the Lord alway, it's always rejoice the clock. Amen, Praise the Lord.

  302. Come on, brother Jesse and preach tonight. Praise the Lord, Praise

  303. the God, Praise the Lord. I feel the presence of the Lord in

  304. here this evening. He is definitely here. I feel like I'm in the

  305. boat with uh brother Larah Moore this morning. I feel like what I guys,

  306. just don't go. But I want y'all to to to uh thank you,

  307. to stay in this atmosphere because I ain't gonna be that long and some

  308. of us need to really pay attention to take key to what the Man of

  309. God told us. And whenever it hits author service, if you need to

  310. rejoice, just go right ahead and rejoice, because there's gotta be somebody else

  311. that needs to do something else. But I believe that God has spoken to

  312. someone here tonight. I'm forever grateful and faithful for him. I want to

  313. give honor to my pastor, a mighty man of God that I look up

  314. to greatly, my role model. It's uh, it's so good to be

  315. in the house of the Lord. As I already said, Um, I

  316. was praying last night, and uh, the thought come over and over to

  317. my mind. Who believes that it's God's will for us to rejoice? I

  318. believe that will. This dog kept running over my mind. Let your will

  319. be my command. I don't know where we come off that we have a

  320. choice in the matter. I said, if God told you to do something,

  321. it is no choice. It's a commandment, the cruel to heaven for

  322. you to retrust in the Lord or whatever it is, it is, ain't

  323. command. His will is our command. I couldn't get away from that.

  324. I wanted to share that have nothing to do with my message and just call

  325. I just over and over again last time. That's all I can think about.

  326. So let his will be our command? Asks the sixteenth chapter, a

  327. very familiar passage of scripture. But the word of God should never get hold.

  328. But you don't say, oh, here he goes with this story.

  329. We know what his end point is here. I believe someone here needs to

  330. hear this. The Lord dealt with me. I have a terrible time with

  331. titles. I ain't gonna lie to you or I wrestle with it. And

  332. I said, God, I need you, I need you well. I

  333. knelt down to pray for about ten minutes, about a week and a half

  334. ago, and I declare, if I've ever feel like I've got a title

  335. from God and a message from God, is this one right here? I

  336. believe He's spoke into my heart. Acts the sixteenth chapter, first number twenty

  337. five and twenty six reading. And at midnight, Paue and Silas prayed and

  338. sang praises under God, and the prisoners heard them. And suddenly there was

  339. a great earthquake so that the foundations of the prison were shaken. And immediately

  340. all the doors were open and everyone's bands were loosed. Would you lift your

  341. hand and praise to night, let God have his way? If God be

  342. asking to and hand your parding feeling way the service God, hide me behind

  343. the frond that didn't see you and not mean God, let him see her

  344. love, great God, let him see your breath in your power. God,

  345. lets your annoy me go through that pas and break the bands of the

  346. enemy. God, will you gonna break her every change that hands us bound,

  347. You'll give your colory and honor. Be praying your sons name Jesus from

  348. God on the front and gave his all for us. We praying His holy

  349. name in Jesus name, Amen and AmAm. We read of Paul and Silas

  350. in prison. Now, real quickly, just right off the top of your

  351. head. Does everyone in the building know why they were imprisoned? Because they

  352. cast out of the devil? O girl, Now, I don't know if

  353. everyone knew that. So we're gonna back up a little bit. I'm gonna

  354. give you some context, and then we're gonna get into the why they're in

  355. prison, because some of you spit it out real quick, and some of

  356. you got that there in the headlight. Look, you know what I'm saying.

  357. So we're gonna let you. We're gonna catch you up to speed real

  358. quick. The Great Apostle Paul has had a vision. The great missionary Apostle

  359. Paul has had a vision before they got into this place. And in the

  360. vision he saw a man from Macedonia saying, come over and help us,

  361. Come over and help us. So they leave the trou AzID, and the

  362. Bible says they leave from troue AzID, they make their way to Macedonia,

  363. where this man is asked saying, come help us. So they make their

  364. way into Philippi, which we read is the chief city in Macedonia. And

  365. I don't know how long they were there before the sabbath, He don't say,

  366. But then it says, and on the sabbath they went down to the

  367. river where a few women were praying, and there they met the notorious Lydia.

  368. I'm sure we've all heard of Lydia. The Bible tells us that the

  369. Lord opened her heart and then she soaked up every word of the apostle Paul.

  370. The story goes on to tell us that Lydia, the seller of purple,

  371. was baptized, and afterwards she can strain the men of God, and

  372. she won them to come back to her house and listen. Then we get

  373. into verse number sixteen by this time, and and it tells us that as

  374. they journey a prayer, a girl meets them in the way that was possessed

  375. by a spirit of divination. And we read in the story that she would

  376. that she would bring her masters much gain so so her master's made a lot

  377. of money or whatever. I don't know what they considered game, but maybe

  378. it was a food in those days, or maybe they just said, oh

  379. yeah, that's that's his you know. Maybe they got praised out of it.

  380. I don't know, but regardless of the matter, I'm sure it was

  381. monetary. But they got much gain by soothsaying. And we know the story

  382. how she followed, how she followed Paul and the other men of God,

  383. saying, these men are there, the men, these men are the servants

  384. of God, the servants of the Most High God, would show us the

  385. way of salvation. And the Bible tells us, Now, that sounds good

  386. to me, But the Bible tells us she did it for many days,

  387. right, every everywhere they get. So so everywhere Paul goes, you're this

  388. girl a few feet behind him, all these minute of them servants of the

  389. Most High God, which a precious salvation. And uh, well that happened

  390. for many days. And so the men of God and Paul and all him

  391. is starting to become very well known around the city because they have this this

  392. little girl following them around hollering everywhere they go, making a big seating.

  393. The Bible tells us that Paul got grieved, he got greed, and he

  394. turns to the girl and he rebukes the spirit. And we read that that

  395. that the spirit which wasn't he found that interesting? I didn't look into a

  396. bunch, but he said he came out of her that same hourum and verse

  397. nineteen. We read that her master's were not happy at all about the little

  398. girl receiving their freedom. And that's a sad state. Whenever someone can be

  399. can be set free by the them kind of power of God, and and

  400. somebody gets greed or all, they don't like that every much. So so

  401. these men, after this girl was being set free from this spirit, they

  402. take they take Paul and Silence into the marketplace to the rumors, and the

  403. master of the girl, the masters of the girl kills the magistrates of the

  404. city that Paul and Silence exceedingly troubled their city. Now we don't read it

  405. in the Bible where Paul and Silence and them were troubling the city. I'll

  406. read where the girl was. But that was their little they're little starting knows,

  407. Brad, you know that that was okay. But the vult two rose

  408. up against the men of God, and the Bible says, just hang on

  409. with me. I'm trying to catch you up so that you know that you

  410. know what, why, where, why these guys are where they're at.

  411. The magistrates says, ripped their clothes and commanded them to be beaten, and

  412. after they had been beaten, they cast them in the prison, and commanding

  413. the jail or to keep them safely. And I found it interesting that when

  414. the jailer, I don't know, maybe it was normal, maybe it was

  415. every every prisoner got the same treatment. But when the jailer received a personal

  416. command to keep them safely, he throws them in the inner prison and made

  417. their feet fastest stocks. So so now now you know. So now you

  418. know why we're where we're at. So now you know why these men were

  419. locked up in prison. And we're getting to our texts now. And at

  420. midnight, Paul and silence praying, they began to sing, praise this unto

  421. God, don't fall out with me here. But I don't think they were

  422. singing that old my poor me crying in the rain with my new eyes kind

  423. of song. The Bible said that, and it's easy whenever we get into

  424. a place like that, to fall into that trap whenever we get into a

  425. bit of a little bit of a struggle and a little bit of a hard

  426. time, to go ahead and lay on down and just let the devil do

  427. what he wants to do. But but that that wasn't the case with Paul

  428. and silence. We neveritely got in his heart shield. The Bible said they

  429. sang praises to God, and there are songs of deliverance in the Bible.

  430. And I couldn't help my mind went went went off and let field. When

  431. I begin to think about this, I thought maybe they got maybe they borrowed

  432. Moses the song of deliverance. As they tapped their feet and the change sounded

  433. of a melody on the call stone floor, and then began to sing,

  434. I'm gonna see one too, the Lord where he had triumphed gloriously, the

  435. horse and his rider, and they grow into the sea. The Lord is

  436. my strength, and the soul in song he is become my salvation. He

  437. is my God. I thought, maybe maybe they sang the song of King

  438. David. I ain't in casing me on the Lord cline, none of it.

  439. He heard my crime. He brought me up astle, and I'm a

  440. horrible pit out of the mirin play, set my field a rock, established

  441. my clothes, and put a new song in my mouth, even praise unto

  442. our God. And I saint begin to sing praises to the God. To

  443. God. The Bible says, suddenly, that was a great earthquake and the

  444. foundations of the prison were shaken, and everyone's banned for losing. That's where

  445. I want to I want to preach for just a few more minutes tonight.

  446. And God gave me this right here. And when your trouble turns to rouble,

  447. God gonna turn your trouble or you ain't get it. I said,

  448. when your trouble turns to robla mar your life turning nothing, God gonna take

  449. your trial that's facing turn that to nothing, out loud and nothing. They

  450. called point silence pray and sing praises to God him the midnight. Because I

  451. showed up and didn't having their praises. He shook the prison and destroyed the

  452. vands. He broke the chains. And if anyone has a situation tonight that

  453. you can't seem to get through, why don't you try what pot Silence tried.

  454. I can't work pretty good for them. I believe the Bible. I

  455. believe the Bible. I ben't even it is true. I bet even work

  456. pretty good for them. And said they begin to same, they begin to

  457. pray good change for loose. You throw up your hands and give God a

  458. praise, and see if He don't have happit your praises, just as he

  459. did a call with sciences. And this wasn't the first time. I'm gonna

  460. move quickly. This wasn't the first time that they caught his loose change for

  461. his children. And the short isn't gonna be the last. And then shore

  462. ain't the only time we have testimonies of broken change in our lives that would

  463. take hours to tell. All the praise and glory goes to God. As

  464. I studied, my mind went back to chapter twelve of the same book,

  465. chapter of the Book of Acts. And Peter therefore was kept in prison.

  466. Book prayer was made without ceasing of the Church under God for him, and

  467. when Herod would have brought him up, brought him forth. The same night

  468. Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains, and the keeper

  469. before the door kept the prison, and behold the Angel of the Lord came

  470. upon him, and the lights shame in the prison. And he spoke Peter

  471. on the side and raised him book, saying anna, rise up quickly,

  472. and his chain fell off from his hands. The angel said under him,

  473. guard thyself and buy hold thy sandals. And so he did, and he

  474. saith under him, cast thy garment about them, and followed me. And

  475. he went out and followed him and whist not that it was true, which

  476. was done by the angel, but thought he saw a vision. And we

  477. can read in verse number eighteen that there was no this is now as soon

  478. as it was day, there was no small store among the soldiers. Well,

  479. I tell you some some soldiers turned a little prison upside down looking for

  480. that man upond. Hey, hey, hey, I'm telling you. Maybe

  481. the soldiers were talking one with another. Hey, I thought you I thought

  482. you locked him up. I thought you had his pants tighter. I thought

  483. you had his praise. I thought I thought you are his soul. I

  484. thought you locked them up dead. Well, they said they ain't gonna happened

  485. to him, And I'm gonna happened one day with the Lord team into my

  486. life, and the d I thought he had me. He walked in a

  487. room one dance, and where he go? I said, where they gone?

  488. Yea in my sist of Alice, Yeah, it is the money raised

  489. the outside of the prisons. And I got something the backing ball. The

  490. only evidence but Peter ever read in that prison, I said, the only

  491. evidence of Peter ever been in that prison. On a pole fucking chains,

  492. I sat up the saints, I set the only evidence. The soldiers turned

  493. to place upside down? Where did he go? Oh? We gotted these

  494. change and used to brag the god burners change in the rouble nothing for I

  495. want to tell you tonight. Then God will take your situation and it's truthless

  496. that you have no way to control, and he will take your trouble and

  497. turn into rubble. He will make it just the memory on the way it

  498. once was, but it isn't anymore. As I study, I just began

  499. to think about all the situations of my close friends in here and night there,

  500. and I could just name off where God turned change that nothing but broken

  501. things lying on the ground, and whenever he made it just a misery on

  502. the way in your stuffing. God made Jericho walls that stood so calm with

  503. such a hindrance to the israelife just crumbled a nothing but rubble. It wasn't

  504. even hard from the waf across you. The Bible said it fell flat.

  505. We're looking up these walls one minute. How are they gonna do it?

  506. God makes some crumbling. Just walk across like it's nothing. It wasn't even

  507. bumping. And if you have walls or something standing in your way, that's

  508. beyond your control of your power to change. I come to night to tell

  509. you that if you will turn it over to God and trust him, he'll

  510. take care of it. Right now, there is some folks in this building.

  511. There's some change any round if they have abound tight and you can't that

  512. like they don't. But if you'll get it to the chain breaker, I

  513. said, if you'll get it to the chain breaker, to destroy her is

  514. here? The spirit of God is in this place. Let's let God handle

  515. it. You've got something you can't change. You've tried everything you can and

  516. there's nothing you can do about it. Just give it a God. Just

  517. trust him. You'll do the risk. Just pick up a priest and my

  518. calling, sis, dear, just try it one time. Have you ever

  519. tried it? I'm trying it works. I said, right here, there's

  520. some change on the ground. I said, all right, here's the change.

  521. Marri you chansing tonight, Marri you changing tonight. Let's just give around

  522. the front right now. Come on, come on, brother away head lay

  523. that chanel right there in front of the pool to somebody might need to pick

  524. that up and obey the lawn sisters, Come on over, brothers, come

  525. on over. Let's just praise the Lord, hey, mad, Praise the

  526. Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Go ahead, he praising

  527. God. I spoke out of here tonight. Just go ahead and praising.

  528. But God times your trouble in the rubble plays the Lord. He's doing just

  529. that right now, Say Lord, my days have been full of trouble.

  530. Only you know about this Lord, and I believe we're gonna turn it into

  531. rubble right now, Did you do that? I'll tell you how I feel.

  532. Pray for that person standing next to you. Would you pray for that

  533. person standing next to you? Pray one for another? Right now? There

  534. could be a spiritual placing and right here walls falling flat, chains follow up?

  535. Yeah, I slipt, God turns out, stroll the liver rubble plays

  536. coming the public quickly, the suvival crazes or choice and a prison. Go

  537. ahead and rejoice. If you don't rejoice, the enemy will rejoice. Remember

  538. what the man said, rejoice that it gets me by enemy, for I

  539. shall arise. I'm don't go ahead and rejoice tonight so that my enemy doesn't

  540. rejoice. Y'all know what problem of silence was doing in the prison. They

  541. were rejoicing at the difficult times. You know what the tunity is where we're

  542. doing outside of the walls of Jericho. They were rejoicing because they knew this

  543. day something's different. We're not hunching around one time. Jostle one knows what

  544. he knows. We're gonna go around seven times? Is that what the Bible

  545. said? Don't we know what we know here to not? Don't we feel

  546. what we feel here tonight? Can y'all feel that earthquaking? You need your

  547. feet? Somebody said, alf feeling in my soul? You know what good

  548. is? That's flesh, that's earth. God cussed you out of the earth,

  549. out of the destin around. How do you know that what you're feeling

  550. inside it's not that earthquake that earthquake right out trumble being turned the rubber.

  551. That's right, girl, I'm go ahead, crazy, just before ahead crazy

  552. row Yes, rejoice in the law not here tonight. Perhaps that's what Paul

  553. and Silence we're doing. It's that parent ald heil, rejoice and greatly at

  554. bout Y'ALLU crass a little one he man, ain't ben, ain't been any

  555. can't any been. I'll tell you what I feel like. There's a devil

  556. book and some people in here till lie. That's what I feel. I

  557. know we have worked these preachers mighty heart already. But brother Jesse, if

  558. you get on that piano, Brother Nathaniel, if you get on that guitar,

  559. sister hand, if you get up here to sing, maybe your brother

  560. came the help for sing. I want to sing the old Kentucky song.

  561. Satan, take your hands off my church, safe, Take your hands off

  562. my family. It goes on to say, I want to make it clear,

  563. you ain't got no power here, Satan, take your hands off my

  564. church. I don't know how y'all want to sing for y'all don't want to

  565. sing, sat. Take your hand off my husband safe, Take your hand

  566. off my wife safe, take your hand off my kidness safe, Take your

  567. hand off my church. Safe, Take your hand off my mind. I

  568. don't know how they're gonna sing it, but you sing it the way you

  569. want to sing it right here any time, Come home down, resisted them

  570. home less the devil. Let's make it clear that the devil has been evicted,

  571. the devil hast. Let's all just take it together. Boy, take

  572. my hand, Let you take my hands on my friend, make it take

  573. ain't you take? Make it clear kind can't take take my brother sake.

  574. I make it here on my son, take my, my, my faus,

  575. my king, my my, my, about to take my sake,

  576. my your my, my time, my mind, my yeah, my mind,

  577. my shore. When he had made um I taking what Bolas pray