Bucks and Stuff- Week 2- Pastor Kipp Penrod

Thank you for listening to this message from Life House Church.

Good morning, good morning, good morning. This is Baptism Sunday. Turn to somebody,

give them a high five. Right now, tell them it's good to be in God's house.

It's good to be here on Baptism Sunday. Amen. I love the energy of Baptism Sunday. We love

the celebration. We're here to celebrate what Jesus has done in some lives. Stories that are

changed forever by the power of God and by the power of salvation through Jesus Christ working

in our lives. And we want to celebrate that. Water baptism is that. It's about being immersed into

the body of Christ through the power of salvation. But before we get to celebrating, we're going to

celebrate, we're going to be baptized in a few people at the end of gathering. I'm going to

continue on with a message series that I started last week called Bucks and Stuff. All right, look

at the walls right now. Look at the walls. Bucks and Stuff. Say it with me. Bucks and Stuff. If

you're visiting, you're like, what's going on? All right. Well, this is really about Bucks and Stuff.

It's about money and possessions. What do I do with my Bucks and my Stuff? How do I, as a Christian,

as a follower of Jesus Christ, how do I handle money in a godly manner, right? How much do I spend?

How much do I save? How much do I give to God? How much do I give away to others? How exactly do I

give glory to God through my Bucks and Stuff, right? What does the Word of God have to say

about Bucks and Stuff? How do I get the Holy Spirit involved in my Bucks and Stuff? What should I do

with my Bucks and Stuff? So, I use it in a God-honoring manner. So, this morning, this is

going to be the second message in this series, and that's where we're going to go in the Word

of God. If you would, though, before that, we're just going to bow our heads, prepare our hearts

for the Word of God. Father, we thank you for this day. God, for your blessing, for your mercy,

I thank you for each one that's in the house this morning. God, thank you for the presence,

the sweet presence of God that we felt during worship. Lord, we thank you for the opportunity

to baptize, and Lord, we just give the rest of this day. God, over to you. Lord, we've prayed all

morning doing that, and we just continue. Lord, place it in your hands. We give you glory in

Jesus' name. Everybody said together. Amen. Well, last week, we learned some things about Bucks

and Stuff, and if you weren't here, I handed everybody, or everybody got the chance to get a

key, and this is an old-fashioned master key, and we've got some back in the connection station.

You can grab one today on the way out if you didn't get one, but really what I started this

message series off with is the idea that God has to be the master key holder in our lives, right?

He's got to be the one that has the key to every door. He's got to be the one who can open every

room. He's the one that has to have access to everything, including my Bucks and Stuff, so

this key was a reminder. If you want to grab one today, please do that. My wife Dixie standing

right back there by the connection station. She'll wave her hand. You can stop right there. They're

in a really cool LifeHouse mug that you can buy for a $5 donation. That's a shameless plug right

there. All right, so you can pick a key up that knows, but we want to be God-honoring in our Bucks

and our Stuff, but how exactly do we flesh that out on our end? What do we need to know?

What do I need to do? How exactly do I go about doing it, right? So God is in control of my Bucks

and Stuff, so one of the things we have to understand about God's economy and how God works

in this area of money and possessions is that we either live in God's blessing or we live in God's

curse. You're there under God's blessing or curse, and blessing and curse has been around since the

beginning of time, right? It's not a new thing. It's read it all throughout Scripture. If you read

the Bible, you're going to find out God's blessing in hand. You're going to find out what blessing is.

You're going to find out what curse is, and blessing is this. If I can give you a little

definition, blessing is God's supernatural favor or hand on my life. How many of you want God's

supernatural favor and hand upon your life? Raise your hands right now. I do. All right, it's God's

supernatural touch. It's God's supernatural hand on my Stuff and on my Bucks, and it's a supernatural

addition, multiplication, anointing on anything that we have that's God's, and we want God's

blessing. Now, what is curse? Curse is the opposite. Curse is the absence of God's favor and hand on

something. Curse means that it's just subject to natural forces, my natural hand, right? My natural

efforts with something. Curse means that it lacks God's favor wherever it is in my life.

Curse means that Jesus' unlimited power, resources, grace, righteousness, right? Gracious hand is not

applied to that area of my life. In fact, curse is, it really opens you up for lack of protection.

Curse means that you're open to Satan's schemes. Curse means that the enemy can come in and he

can steal and he can kill and he can destroy, right? And evil can begin to permeate.

So I'm not sure where you stand on this whole idea of blessing and curse. Not sure if you ever even

thought about it until today, but I know for me personally, I'm on God's favor. I'm on God's hand.

I want his blessing in my life. I want to stay away from what the Bible describes as curse, and I

certainly don't want to open myself up to the enemy's influence. I don't want to open myself up to

what Satan can do in my life. And Jesus, he really revealed this source of blessing and curse, and

this is really a staple scripture in this church. I go to it often. If you've been here any last time,

you've heard this many times, but John 10, 7 says this, and Jesus said to them again,

most assuredly I say to you, I am the door of the sheep. All who ever came before me are thieves

and robbers, but the sheep did not hear them. I am the door. If anyone enters by me, Jesus, right,

he will be saved and will go in and out and find pasture. The thief does not come except to steal,

stay with me, steal, kill, and destroy. But I have come, Jesus came, that you may have life,

that you might have it abundantly. It's simple. What Jesus touches is blessed. What the enemy

touches is cursed. It's going to lead to thieving. It's going to lead to robbery in your life, right?

And there are supernatural forces at work with this, and we want that favor of God and not the

curse on our lives in any area of our life, not just in bucks and stuff, but literally in every

slice of my life. And this truth is shared all throughout scripture. It's in the Old Testament

and the New Testament. The Old Testament is this. The Old Testament is a teacher of God's expectation,

God's law, right? The Old Testament was God's law, and it was God's expectation for us, and it was

really kind of a list of actions that usher in God's blessing into our lives. He spoke to Israel

all the time. He was telling Israel, if you do this, and he'd list something, then I will do this,

and it'll bring blessing into your life. He'd say, if you do this, I'll bring blessing. If you don't

do this, it's going to bring curse. Now, when you get to the New Testament, Jesus drives home that

salvation in Him, right, an ongoing relationship with Him. Holy Spirit shifts our hearts, our

attitudes, which changes our actions and empowers us to move forward in God's way of doing life

that brings blessing into our lives. Salvation is a free gift from God. You can earn it, right? We

don't try to earn salvation from God. It's a free gift, and I say this often. God's love is completely

unconditional. You can't get away from God's love. I don't care where you run on the face of the earth.

You can go to heaven. You can go to hell. You can go anywhere in between there. You cannot get away

from God's love. He loves you. Just know that this morning. You don't get anything out of this

message this morning. God loves you, all right? You can't get away from that, but His blessing

is conditional. His love is unconditional, but His blessing is conditional, and you see it in the Old

Testament. You see it in the New Testament. Even salvation is conditional, right? If you want to

get saved, you've got to repent. You've got to confess before the Lord, and you've got to commit

to follow Him. There's a condition with that. Now, He loves you no matter what you do, but salvation's

conditional. God's blessing is conditional, and this starts the whole way back in Genesis. It starts

at the beginning, so if you've got your Bibles, you can go to Genesis chapter 2. I'm going to go to

Genesis 2 · chapter mention

verse 15 this morning, and I'm going to start there and read a couple of verses. Genesis chapter 2

Genesis 2 · chapter mention

15 says this, then the Lord took the man and put him in the garden of Eden to tend it and keep it,

and the Lord God commanded the man saying, of every tree of the garden you may eat freely eat,

but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil you shall not eat, for in the day that you eat of

it you shall surely die. Now, give you a little picture. God places the first man, Adam, right?

Creates Adam, and even this garden that He creates, and as the Creator, He does something. He marks the

earth as His. If you create something, you're the owner, right? If you create something, you're the

owner, amen? Right? Just a few months back, I got to go to one of my grandchildren, my oldest

grandchild Kip, who's getting saved, or getting, he got saved. He's getting baptized today. Maybe

I'm the one that needs to get saved. My name is Kip too, by the way. He's getting baptized today,

but we got to go to one of, to a school where his art was on display, and I gotta say, his was the

best, by the way. We went to this art show, and you know how we found his artwork? His name was

on it. You know why? Because he created it, right? It was awesome. It was spectacular. It was the best,

and his name was on it, and it got displayed at a school, but afterwards he got to take it home

because it was his name on it. Psalms 24.1 says, the earth is the Lord's, and all its fullness,

and the world and those who dwell therein. Everything that you walk, touch, and see, smell,

feel, here is God's, and you dwell in this place that he owns, right? His name is on it. So the owner,

the gardener, right? In the garden, the owner, God himself tells Adam and Eve,

you can eat from any tree in the garden. Anything, anything that produces fruit, it's all yours,

except this one tree that I own, and it was, and he even gave the tree a name. He called it the tree

of the knowledge of good and evil. He said, there's just one tree that I own, and you're forbidden

to eat from it. You can't eat from that one. You can have all the other ones. You can, you're welcome

to any other fruit that's in the garden on the face of the earth, but this one, I don't want you

touching this one, and he told him that because he's given each one of us free will. I mean,

oh, you have free will this morning, right? You can choose what you're going to do. Adam and Eve

were the same way, right? Even the angels have free will, and you can eat from any of my trees,

but if you touch this tree, he said, if you touch it, if you eat from it, you're going to end up in

curse. You're going to die. My favor goes away. You step into curse. My favor comes off of you

if you touch this one thing, the tree of the knowledge of good and evil. Now, that tree wasn't

evil in itself. It was the fact that it was God's, and God said, don't touch it, and he said, don't,

don't go near it, right? You can use anything else for your benefit, nourishment, health, right?

There's thousands and thousands of other trees to pull from. The majority all goes to you and Adam

and Eve. I made this for you, but don't touch what is mine. The tree, I'm telling you not to touch.

Are you hearing me, Adam? Are you hearing me, Eve? You'll get cursed if you touch it. This is the

first place in scripture that we begin to understand the truth of blessing and curse on this earth,

and, you know, if we want to get ourselves to a cursed position, just go ahead and start messing

with what's God's, right, and what he said not to touch. If you want to kick the door open so that

the devil can steal, kill, and destroy in your life, just start going and grabbing a hold of the

things that God said don't touch. Leave alone, right? Just start, just start talking, taking

what's God's, or just start taking what he says or grabbing a hold of what he says not to touch.

Let me ask you something. If you allow someone access to all your things, all right, all the

majority of your possessions, you let somebody have access. You let them come into your house,

you let them live in your house, you let them drive your cars, you let them eat your food,

that you let them get $10 out of your wallet when they need it. How many know I'm talking about your

children? Come on, right? What if you let them have access to all that stuff, but there's this

one thing in your house you say do not touch that thing. It's all mine, you got access to almost all

of it, but this is one thing I don't want you to touch, and if they steal it, how many know your

favor goes from here to here, amen? They're gonna be living in some curse, right? It's true. We want

God's favor, we want God's blessing over our bucks and over our stuff, and don't take what is His. Now,

I want to go in conjunction with that. I want to read you another portion of the scripture. I'm

going to Malachi chapter 3 verse 6, and it says it's in Malachi 6, 3 and 6. This falls right in

Malachi 3:6

line with this. It says, for I am the Lord, I do not change. How many know that means God's immutable?

He doesn't change. He's yesterday, He's the same yesterday, today, and forever, always, right? For

I am the Lord, I do not change, therefore you are not consumed, O sons of Jacob, yet from the days

of your fathers you have gone away from my ordinances and have not kept them. Return to me,

and I will return to you, says the Lord of hosts. But you say, in what way shall we return? Now,

let me tell you who He's talking to here. He's talking to the nation of Israel, and He says this,

will a man rob God? Yet you have robbed Me. But you say, in what way have we robbed you?

And the Lord answers, in time and in offering. You are cursed with a curse, for you have robbed Me,

even this whole nation. Bring all the tithe into the storehouse, that there may be food in My house,

and try Me now. And this says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven

and pour out for you such a blessing that there will not be room to receive it. God's talking to

Israel, right? And He's telling them, listen, a surefire way for you to not have the blessing

and favor in your life is to withhold the tithe, withhold the offering, and don't bring that to

the storehouse of the Lord. And you might be sitting here and you might be like, what's tithe? I've

never heard of that before, right? It's a thing. Well, in Scripture, in Old Testament, tithe was 10%,

and it represented one-tenth. And tithe was 10% of your increase. And actually, if you study it back,

it was called first fruits. Say first fruits. First fruits. It was supposed to be the first tenth.

And God says the first tenth is mine. This is also called first fruits in Scripture. And He says the

earth is mine, everything in it's mine. You have access to all of it. I give you access to all the

things that you have. And when you get increased, I want you, He's telling Israel this, I want you

to return 10% back to me. All the nation of Israel was not tithing. They were not giving offering.

He told them, you're stealing from me what is mine, right? Just like it happened in the garden.

You're taking what is mine. What I said, right, it's the same principle. Blessing or curse with

our bucks and stuff. Then God reminds Israel, right, He kind of chastises them. He speaks to them

and He says, you're not doing this, right, and because of that you're cursed. And then He reminds

them. He starts to remind them, but if you don't do this, if you listen to what I'm telling you to

do, if you begin to engage in this, He says this. He says there's a huge blessing in store for you.

Actually, there's a guaranteed blessing in store for you. I call it the big guarantee. Say the big

guarantee. Say it with a little attitude, the big guarantee. All right, thank you. The big, huge

guarantee that God makes is that it's this, that if we follow His word in this particular area of

our life, He will bless us. He will move us. Now, this is kind of one of those no worry kind of

guarantees. I don't know if you've ever had one of those, and if you've ever bought a new car, you

get something called a bumper to bumper warranty. How many of you know what that is? Raise your

hand if you know what a bumper to bumper warranty is. A bumper to bumper warranty is awesome,

because if your car breaks, what you do is you drive it to the dealer, you pull it in, there's

this really nice smiley service person that will come up to you and you say, I'm here to drop off

my car. I'm having an issue with such and such. Here's my keys, right? So you give them the keys,

you go into their waiting area, you go buy yourself a snack, all right, the best snack you can find,

and usually, how many of the TVs on in waiting area all the time, right? And it's going to be

international house hunters. You can just about guarantee it. I don't know why, but right, so you

sit down, you watch an episode or two of international house hunters, and the service man comes right back

in, or service lady comes back in, they're like, sir, your vehicle is finished, and you know,

that's beautiful, that's wonderful. How much do I owe you? Zero, all right? It's under guarantee.

It's under warranty. You don't owe a thing, and you just have a, it's a wonderful thing to get a

guarantee. It's a nice thing that they're paying. I know I'm paying for it on the front end, I get

it, right? But it's a guarantee, and there's a place in Scripture, in this portion of Scripture,

if you go just a little further, where God says, it is blessing. It's blessing. Bring all the tithe

into the storehouse so that there may be food in my house. He says, try me in this, right? How many

of that's, hey, go ahead, give it a whirl. This is the only place in Scripture you're going to say,

where God says, give it a whirl. Try me out, try my guarantee out, give it a shot, right? He says,

says the Lord of hosts, if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour you out such a

blessing, that you will not have room enough to receive it. Now look, he begins to state the

guarantee. He starts to give like the clauses in the guarantee. He says this, I will rebuke the

devourer for your sakes. How many of Satan's the devourer? He's the one who steals, kills, and

shows. He said, I'll rebuke the devourer for your sakes, so it will not destroy the fruit of your

ground, nor shall the vine fail to bear fruit for you in your field. That's supernatural favor over

whatever you're putting your hands, your heart, and your mind to. Whatever you're working in at

the time, this is God's favor. He says the fruit's not going to fail on what you're doing. Whatever

you're spending your energy on, whatever you're spending your talents and gifts on, you are going

to be fruitful in that field. And then he says all nations will call you blessed. That means people

on the outside are going to be looking on the inside, they're going to be scratching their head,

going, what's going on with them? You know, why does it seem like God's hands upon, right? And you

will be a delightful ant, says the Lord of hosts. He's telling Israel this. He's extracting them.

He's letting them know. He'll rebuke the devourer. God himself will rebuke the devourer. The vine will

not fail to bring fruit. The nations will call you blessed. People are going to be scratching their

heads wondering what in the world is going on? And do you know how many times I've seen this to be true,

this guarantee that God lays out with people that I know that practice this?

100% of the time. I could walk around this room right now and hand the mic to people that practice

this and they'll tell you it'll blow your mind. It's insane. God never fails in this. He never fails

to keep his end of the deal. Never, ever, ever. And it's an incredible thing. And there's stories

in this house. And you say, well, why are you, you know, this is celebration Sunday, Pastor,

and you're preaching on money. No, I'm not. I'm preaching on a principle. I'm preaching on what God

has to say. And some of you might be choking on 10%. I get it. Like, what? You know, a tithe, a

tenth? What is that? And I encourage you to do this. If this is something brand new to you,

check it out in God's Word. I'd be glad to sit down and talk with you. It's threaded all through

scripture. But if you're just starting out, just start giving, right? Just start out somewhere.

Maybe it's 1% and work your way up to 2%. Maybe you got to adjust your income over here or your

debts or whatever it is. But start setting aside and start giving to God and watch what God does in

your life. This is the only place in scripture where God comes and says, I'll guarantee this.

I will do this. Here's how bold I am about this. And my board's going to cringe a little. But I've

done this in the past. I remember twice I've been along these lines. And I remember getting up and

saying, listen, try this out for six months. If God does not hold his bargain, do it with all your

heart. Do it the way the Word of God says. Make sure it's first fruits. Do it the way He says. Do

it for six months. And if God doesn't hold His end of the bargain, come back and talk to us.

If you're tithing to the church, we'll write you a check back because He always does. I've never,

ever had anybody come back. Nobody. Because God always keeps His hand. And I can't, as a pastor,

not talk to you about what God's going to do in your life. And He wants to do this. And He wants

to place this guarantee in your life. God wants to bless you. He wanted to bless Adam and Eve when

they were in the garden. They got themselves in trouble when they touched what God was cursed.

Amen. It's true. It's true. There's a blessing. Can I get an amen for blessing? Amen. It's true.

Zach and the worship team is going to come at this time. They're going to make their way to the front.

God's favor is with bucks and stuff when we hand them the key, right? The master key to your life,

the room of your life. And listen, I'm not going to have an altar call. I'm not going to make you

stand. I'm not going to give you a reason. I'm just telling you, it's in God's Word. Go look,

right? If you don't blame me, check it out because I want you to walk in a place of blessing

and just get the key. Give the key to God and say, okay, God, this is your deal. I'm going to be

obedient and I'm going to see what you do. And He'll do it. I'm telling you. He'll rebuke the

devourer. The vine will not fail to bear fruit and the nations will call you blessed. He will

rebuke the devourer. The vine will not fail to bear fruit and the nations will call you blessed.

Amen? Amen. Amen, it's true. Well, listen, typically at this point in the gathering,

Pastor Eric would be coming at the East Shore campus and we would get ready to close out.

But we wanted to include everybody today in this celebration, in baptism celebration.

And we're going to baptize today at the end of gathering. We've got several baptisms are going

to take place this morning. And I'm going to begin with all this. I'm going to start the baptisms off.

And I want you to know this. This is a time. This is a blessing. This is something we need to

celebrate. So can I, we got to, we got to get, I got to get your cheer going on, right? Okay.

So I want you just to give the Lord a hand right now. The best hand you can possibly get. Yeah,

come on. Give Him glory. You can shout, give Him glory. So baptism, water baptism is this. This is

an obedience to Christ. Once you come from death to life and you get, accept Jesus as Lord and Savior,

and you get saved, you move from truly death, right? You go in the old man or the old woman and

you come up doing Jesus Christ. And it is a celebration. It is something to celebrate. We

love doing this. We're excited about doing this. I'm going to ask if Bethany would come. She's

first and they're going to bring the children back in. We want, we love for our children to

come in from kids church and to see baptism. We don't want them to miss this. We want them to be

apart. You ready to get wet? Yes. She's like, yeah, it's warm. It's awesome. All right. Come on,

swirl around. This is like a church spa tub right here. So beautiful. Mr. Dave helps us all week

long. Get this thing good and warm. See, that's not bad, is it? Good, good. And I love so much that

Bethany is here this morning. I'm going to ask you to just take a few steps forward. I don't want

to hit your head on the back of the mattress. But I love that she has a testimony of what God's done

in her life and she's going to speak. She's going to let you know a little bit about that. Everybody

smile because it's hard to be up here speaking. All right. Smile real big. But God has moved in

her life and I love hearing stories. So here's, here's the mic. Hello. My name is Bethany Reiner.

Um, I cannot believe I'm here today. Um, last year at this time, if you told me I would be

getting baptized, I would have laughed in your face. Growing up in Philadelphia with a big family,

we always went to church, but I never went there to build my relationship with God.

It was always to see my friends or because I was me too. As I got older, I would purposely pick up

shifts at my work or lie that I had shifts just to go out with my friends and basically be up to

no good. I became addicted to some things and eventually I got to the point not even wanting

to hear anything about God. If someone said his name, I would get mad and walk away. I didn't want

to hear anything about church or God. I would push my family away when they tried to help me,

but they didn't give up on me. Eventually I moved up to Carlisle with my brother and my sister-in-law.

I was trying to start over and for the first time I actually felt God's presence. It was a Sunday

morning after my brother dropped me off from church. I was home alone and suddenly I went into

a panic attack. I sat on the kitchen floor and tried to keep myself from passing out.

I was so scared I didn't know what to do. All I remember is thinking I didn't want to be alone.

I wanted someone here. The best I can describe what happened was it just felt like a hug. I felt

peace throughout my body. I never felt this way before and I immediately started sobbing.

I got goosebumps and even though I couldn't stand up and walk around, I felt so strong.

I feel God really spoke to me through this experience. From that moment on, I knew that I

wanted to grow in Christ. I'm so thankful that God blessed me with my family and I'm very excited to

see what God has planned for me. I'm by no means perfect and I still struggle with certain addictions,

but I know that Jesus is my Savior and He's the only way into heaven.

So Bethany, I'm gonna ask you just to take a few steps forward.

Do you publicly confess that Jesus Christ is your Lord and Savior?

I do.

And I now baptize you in the name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.

We have another baptism and this one is my grandson Kip. Can you give him a hand as he comes?

Yes. I am super excited. I am grandpa, actually poppy to my grandson and he is our oldest

grandchild and Kip gave his life to Jesus and told me personally that he said, actually pop,

I gave my life to Jesus three times. So I got saved about a hundred when I was young.

So but he has given his life to the Lord and something that was super special for me,

when him and I talked about this and he was very clear on giving his heart to the Lord.

I had a one of the things we do here, we talk about this necklace,

wearing a cross necklace to represent being an ambassador for Jesus wherever you go.

And I gave him the one that was on my neck and I have seen him wear that thing all over the place.

He's playing sports, out playing with the kids. He's broken a couple times. He just keeps

patching it back up and putting it back on and he knows Jesus is the Lord and Savior. So I am super

excited to baptize my grandson this morning. So I'm going to ask you to step just a little bit

forward here. So Kip, do you profess publicly that Jesus is your Lord and Savior? Yes. So I

now baptize you in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit.

Oh,

I have the special privilege of baptizing my daughter this morning, my daughter Lucy.

Come on in Lucy, get in here. We're going to have you stand right over here.

She's a little bit of a short stack, so she can go deep down.

Lucy accepted Jesus as her personal Lord and Savior on Easter Sunday a couple years ago.

Whenever we announced that we were doing baptisms this morning, she said,

Dad, can I get baptized? I said, well Lucy, well why do you want to be baptized? And she said,

she said, because I love Jesus and I want everyone to know that I'm a Christian.

That's it. That's all you know. That's all you know. That's all you got to know.

And this morning, Lucy, I have one question for you. Have you accepted Jesus as your personal

Lord and Savior? Yes, I did. She did. All right. With that, I baptize you in the name of the Father

and Son and the Holy Spirit.

We also, I also have Patrick, and I both have the privilege of baptizing Elisa this morning.

Elisa serves in the youth ministry team here. She's an amazing youth leader, and I know that

she has, I'd ask her, but I think, don't think she can get it out, but she has accepted Jesus

as her personal Lord and Savior this morning and has made the decision to take that next step in

baptism this morning. So Elisa, I just got one question for you. Have you accepted Jesus

as your personal Lord and Savior? Yes, I have. Do you want to say anything?

I just want to thank all of my family and everybody in this whole church. I've been going here

ever since I was a lot younger, so everybody who's been here to watch me grow up and grow

in the Lord. And I want to thank all of my family and friends that aren't here today because I

this decision very much so on a whim. I just want to thank all of you from the bottom of my heart.

Just thank you for leading me and towards the Lord and having every ounce of confidence in me.

Thank you. Absolutely, absolutely. Well, then it is our privilege, Pastor Kipp and I both,

she said, it's our privilege to baptize you in the name of the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit.

Well, this morning over East Shore campus, Pastor Eric is coming to close and the worship team is

going to lead us in another song. But I'd be remiss if I didn't give an opportunity to anybody

in the house this morning that knows Jesus. And you're sitting there this morning and you

feel the Holy Spirit tugging you, you're like, I got to get in the water. I got to follow

Jesus's example in baptism this morning as the worship team is singing this song.

I want you to come and I want you to talk to Pastor Kipp. Come on in and we'll dunk you right then and now.

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