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Yeah, they do it. Hoigly loujah, Thank you Jesus, hoighlylujah.

We get praised under God this morning, Amen, in our

precious name of Jesus Christ, who is our Lord and

our savior. Not just I save you, but yet our

Lord as well. Amen. I greet you this morning the

precious name of Jesus Christ. Amen, thanking and praising God

for each and every one of you who are here today. Amen,

we thank God for another day. We say that, we

say those things like you know, and and I've always

uh emphasized that we say we thank the Lord for

yet another day. But do we really I mean, it's

it's the thing to say, But what are we really

feeling about the very thing that we're saying? Are we

really grateful that God woke us up this morning? You

know some people, some people are not grateful are thankful

that God woke them up. But I truly am thankful

that God woke me up this morning and then allow

me to go on into a deeper sleep, Amen, to

see another beautiful day that God has made given opportunity

for me to tell somebody else about the Lord Jesus Christ,

to minister his word to his people. Amen. God is

truly merciful and graceful. He truly is merciful, and he

truly has grace that he applies to us. Amen. We

thank God, Amen, and allowing him to be the head

of our lives. We have to allow God to do that.

God's not going to just take over and do that. Amen.

We have to allow him to do that. And we

cannot compromise. And as I spoke earlier this morning, how

we have to completely do the will of our Father completely.

We can't compromise because of people's feelings being hurt. We

must tell them the truth. We can't get into our

emotional state. We must tell people the truth because they

gonna learn the truth. But if God give it to

you to do it, you don't do it, You're gonna

have a penalty. Amen. You don't want a penalty from God.

You might want one from me. Man, I promise you

don't want one from God. Amen. Amen. Let us let

us pray. Father. We thank your Lord, We think and

praise you and give you glory, for you are the

reason that we're even here today. And we thank you

for allowing us in such a holy God's presence. Your

presence is so holy. God, Help us, dear Lord, to

be holy as you are. Holy Father. God, we know

you didn't call us to be good, but you called

us to be holy. Help us to be holy. Help

us to know the difference. God, that being good is

not being holy. Help us Father, because we do not

want to be deceived. Lord, Let the light so shine God,

that we can see our way in all Always in

the name of Jesus Christ. Rebuke the enemy that he

don't vamboozle hood winker our smartest because of the Lord

Jesus Christ that lives in us. God. We thank you, Lord,

that you continue annoint us afresh each and every day.

Thank you for this day. And Lord, if we said

anything God outside of your character, we spoke anything, if

we read anything, we looked at anything, if we thought

anything God that was not pleasant to thee. God. For

our eyes need to see what you see. Our minds

need to imagine what you and think what you think. God.

Forgive us God, search us. Lord. We just want to

be right God. We want to be covered God. We

want to cover everything God, because we know scashly shall

the righteous make it in? We want to be right God,

that we make it in God, in the name of Jesus,

we want to live this life according to your will,

giving you the glory, showing your glorious work in us

to the world that the world may want to be

just like the Jesus that's inside of us. In the

name of Jesus Christ, this is our prayer of God.

Now as your word go forth, God, your anainted word

goes forth by your anointed man of God, your anointed servant.

Let it go into these anointed vessels in this house

in the name of Jesus Christ. Let it grow us.

Let it turn on the light where there's darkness that

we may have thought was right but really was wrong.

Or let the light so shine God that we'll even

see that thing that's trying to hide. In the name

of Jesus God, do it for us. God, We'll be

mindful always to give you the glory in the praise

and the honor. And this Jesus name God, in Jesus name.

In Jesus' name, there is no name above his name.

There is no name that can do what his name

can do. There is no name God but the name

of Jesus. Jesus, Jesus, we call it on your name

even now, Lord, in the name of Jesus Jesus. Yes, Lord,

every year that here is today God, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

Here's the name. Know the name, have strength in the name.

Know that the name gives strength in the name. Either

demons tremble at the name, the powerful name of Jesus.

They don't tremble it our name. They tremble it his name.

And God, we thank you. You give us every weapon

we need to fight the spiritual war. Help us, Holy

Spirit to use it rightly in Jesus Holy name. In

the church said thank God. Amen and amen, Thank you Jesus, hallylujah.

Amen, Thank you Jesus. We're gonna talk abo about Paul today.

Man, And if you would turn with me to the

Book of Acts, chapter twenty and verse twenty four, Chapter

twenty and verse twenty four. When you get there, saymen. Amen.

When you get the saymen, I her page is turning.

Somebody that's still not there yet. Amen. Amen. I'm not

talking to everybody. Amen. Amen. Amen, Thank you. Jeeves. Sometimes

I can't hear. You have to be a little loud

for me. Somebody told me that's read why I talk loud,

Because I can't hear that? Good Amen anyway, Acts Chapter twenty,

verse twenty four, the Bible says, but none of these

things move me. It's Paul talking. What things is Paul

talking about. Paul's proclaiming putting himself entirely in the hands

of the Lord. That's the only thing that moving. None

of these things move me. He said, neither count out

my life, dear unto me. Neither count of my life

dear unto me. See, his life belongs to the Lord,

and the Lord could do with him as he desired.

This was Paul saying. When he say use me, Lord,

he meant that. He meant that. We all say a

lot of things, like I said earlier, But is there

any depth in it? Do it really meaning? Paul is

telling him? Paul is talking, and he's saying, here, neither

count my life, dear unto myself, because my life belonged

to the Lord. That's what he's saying. And in all

of my desires or whatever his desires is for my life.

And he goes on to say, so that I might

finish my course with joy. That's why if God is

in control and he's taking control of your life, he

said this, I want you to do, because all of

them your desires. I want him to be my desire,

so that I might finish my course with joy and

the ministry which I have received of the Lord Jesus,

to testify the gospel of the grace of God. So

he proclaims the basics of what this course is. Amen.

The message of Paul is Jesus Christ and him crucified.

That's his message. Amen. Now we're gonna look at this

Paul's statement of his priority. This is paul statements of

his priorities. This is his priorities, this is his values.

It is a great perspective for any believer of any age.

Self preservation must be servered to the faithful completion of

the work assigned by the Lord Jesus to each and

every believer. Amen. Paul was a single minded person, and

the most important goal of Paul's life was telling others

the good news. Amen. Amen, let us turn to Philippians

chapter three, and you may be seated in the House

of the Lord. In Philippians chapter three and verses thirteen

and fourteen through fourteen, Paul here is saying. In chapter

three of Philippians, he says, Brethren, I count not myself

to have apprehended. He repeats this. This is a repetition,

repeating this of what he said back in the latter verses.

He's repeating it again. He says, brother, other than I

count not myself to have apprehended. What is he talking about?

But this one thing I do forgetting these those things

which are behind Paul is talking about the past, Amen,

talking about things people depended on, all the apostles that

depended on to have favor with God, and the failure

of the type of the efforts brought because of those

things that they depended upon. Amen. He says, I reached

forth unto those things which are before. So now his

attention is not on the past. His attention must be

on which is ahead, not the past, and not on

what is passed. So these things consist of all victories

of the cross. Amen. And he goes on to say,

I press towards the mark. I press towards the mark.

So he has a spiritual mark that he's pressing towards

and forgetting those things that are behind him the past. Why,

because he's pressing forward, he's not going back. He's not

gonna let nobody take him back. He's not gonna consider

you talking about his past. He's gonna coach. He's going

towards the future of what God gets for him, because

he's pressing forward towards the mark. What mark for the

prize of the high calling of Jesus. That's the Christ's

likeness in Jesus Christ is what he's pressing forward towards.

Because he says, in Christ Jesus. And so he's telling

you in what manner and the means in which all

these this is done, which is in Christ Jesus the Cross.

Hey man, let's look what Paul says to us by

the leading of the Lord. In First Corinthians Chapter one.

Paul was a powerful apostle and a follower of Jesus Christ.

And he meant what he said, and he did what

he meant. He did not compromise. He continued to go

forward and go straight amen. He continued to go forward

and go straight amen. First Corinthians, Chapter one and verse seventeen,

Paul says, for Christ sent me not to baptize, but

to preach the gospel. He's talking about the reason why

God sent me with the priest the gospel. This is

the manner in which He sent me because He sent

me in this manner to be to save people from sin,

not with wisdom of words, not with his intelligence, not

with his own intellect. Least the Cross of Christ should

be made of none effect. So he's saying, in knowing

certain terms, I have to preach the Cross of Christ.

It must always be emphasized, always emphasized in my message.

This is what God saved me for, and I'm compelled

to do it a man. So here, Paul, brother, and

I count not myself to be apprehended, but this one

thing I do for getting those things which are behind,

reaching forth unto those things which are before. So here,

Paul did not consider that he had achieved spiritual maturity.

He did not achieve it. He was not all he

knew he should be. Some of us think we all

this and that, But we ain't all this and that

in the Lord. Yet, hey man, and Paul recognizes, this

is what we gotta do. We gotta recognize our maturity.

We can't be comparing ourselves to other folks. We have

to compare ourselves to our own spiritual growth. Amen, and

understand that we have not yet achieved that which is

to be achieved. Yet this is what Paul is saying.

He said, brother, and I count not myself to have apprehended.

I ain't got there yet. But although he's saying, he's

not saying that to make an excuse for maybe some

failures that he may have in life. That's not what

he's saying. He's not trying to comfort people. Oh okay,

I see what he's saying. Yeah, see see he ain't perfect.

Uh uh. He's not saying this before you can use

for an excuse. But he was just saying it because

he was not all he knew he should be, but

he lived in absolute confidence of his ultimate our vation.

Like we must have perfection as our goal. Perfection should

be our goal. Why because God said, be ye perfect

So perfection should be our goal. Why because God didn't

asked us to do it as a commandment. Let's look

at Matthews. I'm gonna move pretty swift here. Swift is

he allowed me to move Matthews, Chapter five and versus four,

Starting at verse four. Matthew Cha five. First four He said,

Blessed are they who he said, Blessed are they whom

on for they shall be comforted. Blessed are the meek,

for they shall inherit the earth. Blessed they would do

hunger and thirst after righteousness, for they shall be felled.

Blessed are the merciful, for they shall obtain mercy. Blessed

are the pure and heart. This is where he was

trying to get to Paul in these scriptures. He's fourth verses,

Blessed all the pure in heart, for they shall see God. Amen.

This is his goal in right standings. So he's saying,

we must have the perfection. That perfection be our goal,

and not to pretend that sin does not exist, because

it exists. We're not to pretend that sin does not exist.

As we read in First John, chapter one and verse eight.

First John, chapter one and verse eight, and the Bible

reads again a new commandment. I write unto you which

thing is true in him, him being Christ, and in you,

if we are in him, because the darkness is past,

because we in Him, and the true light now shine.

The true light is Christ, which light will shine forever

and pertains to the time since Christ has come. Verse

eight of First John. First John. I'm sorry, y'all, my

ayes jumping around again. But nevertheless, I'm coming to I

should be coming to that too. God I had to

read that too, I wouldn't come into it. But it's applicable.

It's applicable here in the attitude and character that Paul

is pertaining to. But what I wanted to read and

what I was sinned to read is different. Verse eight

of chapter one of First John. It says, if we

say that we have no sin, because this is what

we were alluding to, the fact that we cannot pretend

that sin don't exist. And it says, if we say

that we have no sin, and this is referring to

the sin nature, okay, because you must understand this that

Jesus Christ did not come for sin. He came for

the sin nature, hey man, because we had a sin nature,

and so he came to change the nature of us

to a holy and a righteous nature. See, we were

bored in sin shaped and iniquity. So we had a

sin nature and our nature was the sin. But when

Jesus manifested, walked, died, buried, resurrected, counseled it out allowed

us to recognize and be saved from sin and have

power over sin. Now our nature must change when we

received Jesus Christ as our Lord and savior. So if

we say that we have no sining, we deceive ourselves.

You're lying to your own self. Self deception, I've told

you on many occasions, is the worst deception you could

have one. Thank my daughter for point me in the

right direction. Let me say that, but self deception is

the worst deception. Anybody can help. I could be trying

to deceive you and somebody can come. You know he

lying to you, don't you? But when you lie to yourself,

it's hard for anybody to tell you lying to yourself,

you don't believe. You just rooted and ground and anything.

So if we say that we have no sin, we

deceive ourself, it is say you deceive everybody else. It's

saying you deceive your own self, and the truth is

not in us. So your nature will still be sinful.

If you deceive yourself and say that you have no sin,

not that you continually have a sinful nature. Heymen, don't

get in twist because people run with discript and say

we send a save bad grades. We still sinners. No,

we ain't had you gonna be a sinner and a

saint don't mix. Don't matter how you gonna be a

new creature in Christ. If you're still a sinner as

a sinner, that's the old man. Are y'all with me?

People run around try to convince you that. I see

people on TV say that, people ministering the word of

God telling them we still sinners. But yet God, No,

he ain't. You might be, but I'm not right, No,

we're not. We're a new creature in Christ. If you're

a new creature in Christ, Dick, you ain't no sinner.

Saint sinner? Don't you think those two have two different definitions?

Saint sinner? Paul saying, don't deceive yourself, don't vamboozoo yourself,

because sin can creep right up on you if you

ain't paying attention. Amen. So Paul here is telling us,

don't deceive ourselves. Don't pretend that sin does not exist.

The past should not be used as a barrier to

the future. Amen. Everybody likes to go back to the

past when they want to comfort themselves in what you

used to, You used to, you used to, you used to,

you used to? And then I tell people the word

used to is the very key in your sentence. The

key in my sening is I don't know more. The

passion I be used as a barrier to the future,

as an excuse for dropping out or for avoiding proper

spiritual conduct in our relationship with God. It's no excuse.

There's no excuse, because God said, man's without excuse too.

That's the most important thing. So you can't use your

past as an excuse, Amen, because Paul says, Paul said,

I ain't even looking at my past. I'm looking forward.

I got my head turned this way. I can't even

see that. What you talking back? You remember, brother, when

you used to when I want I can't see that?

Is that Backhuy? I can't see that. I don't walk backwards.

I walk forward. So we can't. We have to avoid

looking back and using our past for an excuse. Is

why our conduct is not of God, Amen, is why

we're not in the right relationship with God. Some people

believe I've done so much God will never forgive me,

and people actually tell people that mess him up. You're

not the forgiver God is. You're not the savior God is,

and God will saved whomever he pleased and whomever he

pleased it once it wants to be saved, Amen, you're not.

You have to save your checker. You see, Paul would

forget his past, his past credentials, how great he was,

a scholar in the law. He will forget his past,

he said, I count those things as not and his

accomplishments and sining. He forget his his his credit, his credentials.

He forgets his accomplishments, he forgets his the sin that

he's sinning, and run the race, reaching for the finish line,

pressing towards the gold. I gotta leave that stuff behind me.

I can't let this stuff weigh me down. It's called baggage.

You can't run with fifty pound weights around your ankles,

thirty pound weights around your wrist, and a vested weighs

one fifty. In other word, Paul was saying, I count

not myself to have apprehended it. Whatever gifts, grace or

honor I may have received from Jesus Christ, I consider

everything as incomplete till I have finished my course and

got this crime. See See, the race ain't over because

you done got saved. The race ain't over because you're

giving God the glory. The race ain't over because you're

living a righteous life before God. It ain't over. It's

not complete. Revelations. Lets you know it's not complete. If

Bible says in the Book of Revelations that those that

endure to the end, that's the completion, shall be saved.

So you ain't complete yet, you ain't totally saved yet.

You're walking into playing salvation right now, trying to get

the prize of the Crown of Christ Jesus ay Man.

He said, I consider everything is incomplete till I have

finished my course, got the crown, and have body, and

have my body raised and fashioned after his glue. Ray see,

because when Paul is talking about when I'm gone, resurrected

and got that glory fact body, then I don't count

that thing complete. That thing complete now incomplete? Now dec

when I raise up in that glorious body, Oh yeah,

that's it. That's it. But until the end, I stretch

forth toward the mark. I continue the race, looking forward

for the prize. But I yet not apprehended it yet.

But I'm stretching forth and I ain't going back. He said,

this one thing I know. If he don't know nothing else,

he said, this one thing, I know, this one thing

I know. This one thing ain't I do. This is

his concern. It is the soul business. He says, of

my life forgetting those things which I behind m mm hmmm,

soul business that his conduct is not regulated nor influenced

by others. Mm hmm. Pass. This only thing gonna influence me,

This only thing gonna drive me for. Not what you say,

not what you say, not what you say unless you're

saying this, If you're saying this, yes, I don't want.

I wanna talk about how I used to date four

five women, forgetting those things which I'm behind me because

see I got a wife. Now I'm going forward. You

don't hear what I'm saying. I consider my calling, amen.

I will not be influenced by others. I regulated by

them either. Ay Man, I'm considering my calling. That's why

my master, my work and my end, Oh glory, he said.

I'm considering my calling. I'm not gonna be influenced by you.

All my life be regulated by you. You got your

own life to live, trying to live my life in

your life. No, I'm not considering you, noother regulations you're

trying to put upon me. What I'm considering is the

call that God has called me to my Master's What

I'm considering my work for him is what I'm considering,

and my end to my work is what I'm considering.

You don't hear what Paul is saying. If others think

that they have time to be slow full, I play games,

I don't mind it. I have not that time. I

don't have that cantain. Pausa, I hain't got that kind

of time because time is flying and eternity is at hand.

She ain't got that cantaime. Eternity is at hand, Dick.

Look at the world. We're in, the end of it all.

Prophecy is being fulfilled for the end time Possa, I

ain't got that cantaion. I'm saying the same thing, y'all.

Thomas said, I ain't got that cantain more and Moi's day,

I'm realizing I don't have that kind of time more

and mois day, hey man, because you gotta grow every

day more and Moy's day, I'm realize that I don't

have that kind of time. Why because eternity is at

hand and my all is at steak. My all is

a steak. What's my all? My soul, it's a steak.

That's why I'm reaching fourth, I'm reaching forth. This lets

us know Paul's point in the race that he's running.

He's running this race with every muscle, every nerve in

his body, and he's putting fourth, every particle, every piece,

every micro of his strength in running this race. He's

putting his all in it, everything his mind, body, spirit, soul,

his physical, his spiritual, everything in this race. You know

why he was doing all that same reason you should

be doing it, because he's running for his life. That's

why you running for your life. Paul was running for

his life, and you running for yours right now. You

either running backwards in your life or you're running forward.

You know, when you're running backward, you are definitely definitely

gonna trip and fall. You definitely gonna stumble. You can

stumble running forward, but you can get up and dust

yourself off. See, at least you won't hit the back

of your head. If you're running forward in your trip,

you can you can brace yourself with your hands. But

if you fall backwards, you're gonna bust your head. I

used to hear him say one of the running backs

in the NFL, he ran, You've never seen dirt on

his back. You're running Ford, hey man, he's running trying

to make a hundred because ninety nine and a half

won't do. He's running trying to make a hundred because

he said I stretched forth for the prize. He stretched.

You see those Olympic runners when they running and when

they get close to the finish line and some of

them are so close together, they stretch out. They stretch

all the way out like that next stretched out head.

They just stretched out. Why because they trying to win.

Every fight where they body, every muscle in their legs,

in their arm, they stretching trying to get cross the

finish line. They stretches. They're trying to get cross that

finish line. I'm trying to beat you in. They're all

trying to win the race because they were one person

gonna get the prize. So every fight where they body

they putting into the race, they swing in, they arm,

they moving their legs, they're keeping their feet straight. They

striving for the finish line, and when they get there

and it looks so close, they stretch. The difference in

that race in this race is that you all win.

When you cross the finish line, there ain't one winner.

And not only the fact that you run, you're not

even running to win the race because you already won.

You're just trying to get to the finish line and

receive the prize that you already won. Hitting that awesome,

that that physical race, they like the spiritual one. Only

one person gonna stand on the top pole, they with

the golden medal around his neck. But when all of

us run the course and cross the finish line, the

pedalestal is for all of us. We all win us

because we've already won. Jesus is standing at the finish

line holding the prize for everybody, y'all. Don't hear what

he's saying. I pressed towards the mark. Paul was like

a runner in a race, straining towards the finish line.

Paul pressed on and on in life to reach the

end of the race and receive the prize. The prize

the prize of salvation in Jesus Christ. The prize is

the salvation in Jesus Amen. First Corinthians, chapter nine, in

verse twenty four. First Corinthians, Chapter nine and verse twenty four.

Know ye not that they which run in a race

run all but one receives the prize. So run that

ye may obtain the prize. What's the prize. All who

run for Christ, spiritually speaking, wins the crown. There is

no losers. Amen, There ain't no first place, second place

in third place, is all first place for those that

run the race for Jesus Christ. Amen two. Timothy, I

gotta give you some proof, tewod Timothy Chapter four, in

verse seven, he said, I have fought a good fight.

I have fought a good fight. Paul fought his fight

with sin to a finish and was rested in a

complete victory. He fought the sin to the victory. He said,

I fought a good fight. I have finished my cause

faithfully here undid this? I have kept the faith. Then

you see that, Then you see that. And then he says,

hence fought. There is laid up for me, laid up

for me a crown of righteousness. That's the victorious crown,

by the way which the Lord, the righteous judge shall

give me at that day, at the day of judgmency

of Christ, that day. And not to me only somebody

out to say hallelujah, not to me, only, not to me.

There's some more folks, there are some more folks me.

We'll raise my hand. And not to me only, but

unto all them also who love his appearing. This crown

is for all of us who consider the appearance and

the preciousness of our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. Amen

Paul's aim, just like I aim, is to win the prize.

That's how I aim to run. You ain't just running

to be running. Some folks get the running and they

quit running because they get behind. But there's no losers,

so you ain't behind. So that's your sad office. Start

running again. Because everybody that cross the finish line wins

is a winner. Hey man, all who run, all who run,

Somebody say, all who run and finish the race win

the race as well. All for the prize. Christ. Jesus

is calling us up to heaven. The heavenly call is

the summons to win the victorious prize of salvation. We've

all been summons. We've been summoned. July. You summons to

go to court. Y'all scared not to go, frightened not

to go. Why you scaged to death because you're gonna

be locked up if you don't take heed to the

summons of the court of this world. Yeah, but when

Jesus summons you, you you ain't fearful. You're not fearful.

You're good. He don't want nothing I get with him. Later.

You don't tell the judge that when you get that

summons come in your mailbox. When you when you see

the court name on her, you get shaky for you

open up the thing. And then when you open it,

they got it in bold letters on top of the

reading summon us. What your eyes get bunked at your head?

And what all is about? But when Jesus summons you,

it ain't about nothing but something good. It's all good.

But we don't get scared to life when Jesus summons us,

But we get scared to death when the when the

court summons us. Why can't you get scared to life? Huh,

I'm scared to life. I promise you I ain't scared

to death. I'm scared to life. The summons of Jesus

Christ is to win the victory, the prize of salvation,

h the reward which God from above calls us by

Jesus Christ to receive. See, God got this reward. Come on, y'all,

God got this reward for you. You know how you

like to be You know you like to be noticed.

Uh Huh. You know you're on your job and you

want to be Uh. You want you you want them

to notice you for a raise. God got the best

raise in the world. You want you want to be

noticed for a raise. You want to you want to

be noticed for your accomplishments. Hey man. But God has

a reward for your accomplishments too, not for your good works,

not for you being good, but for you being holy.

Hey man, he has a reward for you for that.

It's called heaven. Again, I say, he already went. He

ain't waiting to go. He already went. Everybody, he told

you that he was going. And he said when he

gets there, he gonna prepare place. So that place is prepared.

If Lisa cooked me a cake, it's for me, I

might shad. But she prepared it. She went, and as

she went to the store, she came home, broke egg,

mixed it up, baked it, icing it. All that prepared

it for me for me mine. That's what Jesus said.

I'm preparing the place for you. You you you you, you, you, you, you,

you and you. That place it's prepared just for you.

Nobody else can happen. It's for you. So the reward

that God has is a prepared place in heaven for you.

There's nothing better that can be prepared for you. God

is setting there waiting to give it to you. You

ain't waiting on God as people he say, waiting on

God to bless me. Dog, you know what I'm saying, God,

I don't know what taking him so long. He ain't

taking him along at all. It's you. You haven't gotten

in position to receive what God got for you. You want

to get it, Get a position and you'll get it.

We ain't wait on God. Who wants to wait on

God regime? Not me? Why would we have to wait

on somebody to say they're omnipresent. He's an on time God. Yes, yeah,

he's an on time God because he's right there. Y'all

get happy about them them slow songs. Folks be saying slow,

they slow. I don't agree with them. So he's an

on time. He ain't on time. He ain't got me

on time. He's already present. You gotta be you an

on time person, Yes you are. That's how you got

to saying it, saying it all wrong. God's on time

because he's ever a president, and his reward the reward

which God, The reward which God from above calls us

by Christ Jesus to receive, is salvation in Jesus Christ.

Paul yet still keeps in view. He's still kept in view.

Even though he was continuing, he kept this is what

he kept in view. This is what we got to

keep in view. We talk about it. We got to

keep in view the crown, keep the crown in view.

He kept in view, the margin that he would die

for Christ and his glorious resurrection. These are the things

that Paul kept in view. He kept in view, the

crown and the mardam, which means he was gonna die

for Christ. He kept in view. The crown he kept

in view, dying for Christ, now for the devil, dying

for Christ. The crown that God has for us, dying

in Jesus Christ. He kept that in view. And he

kept in view. The resurrection he kept in view. The

crown he kept in view of dying. And he kept

in view resurrecting, resurrecting, going up to be with the Lord,

his glorious resurrection. Not just the resurrection, but the glorious resurrection.

That's what he kept in view. Paul kept these things

in view. Paul was an attic. He was a He

was a fanatic. You gotta think about Paul now. He

was a fanatic about whatever he did. He learned from

gamniellis a gamniellarrow I have his name is pronounced. He

was a scholar of the law of the Jews. Paul

became a scholar. Paul was just. He was just ain't

all about his stuff. He knew that law back and forward, sideways,

upside down. He persecuted the Christians with everything in him.

Everything he did with everything in him. He learned the

law with everything in him. He persecuted Christians with everything

in him. He persecuted the Church with everything in him.

And then on the road to the mind he got

he got shined upon so bright that the darkness had

to leave, and the light prevailed. And when the light prevailed,

he was an attic and doing the will of God.

He didn't care. We're gonna lie you up. You mentioned

Jesus one more time. We're gonna put you in prison. Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus, Jesus.

What you're gonna do? We have commanded you to do death.

And so Paul said, let me ask you to think

about that fact. Do you think I don't obey Man?

Do you think I should obey God? What do you think?

This is what he told them. He already knew the himsel.

He was absolutely dedicated the service of the Lord Jesus Christ.

And he made his statement, and he made it his

priority and his views and his values and his faithfulness

in completing his work in the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Nothing.

You know, when he got on that road, he began

to walk like Jesus. You see, Jesus didn't come. He

didn't let anything get in his way. He didn't compromise anything.

He continued the work no matter what they said. They

sped on him, they slapped him. This is before he

went to the cross. They mocked him, they abused him,

they called them things he wasn't. But he stayed focused.

He stretched forward towards the mark. What was his mark,

the cross? Why was his mark? The cross? You and me?

That was his mark? You and me the cross? And

he failed not he stayed focused. We have to stay focused.

Paul was focused. Paul was dedicated. You can't let people

cause you to cuss them out. You can't let people

cause you to not like him. I didn't say hey them,

I said not like them. You can't let people cause

you to not love them even though they hate you.

You can't do it. That's part of stretching forth towards

the mall. You gotta stay on the mark. Hey man,

you can't let people frustrate you. All it's gonna come,

but you gotta shake it off. It's the Holy ghosts. Fuck.

You ain't got the Holy Ghost. You got a problem

the Holy ghosts for shaking it off. When Paul was

bit by the viper when he crossed over through the storm,

when the boat broke up and he reached into the

sticking to get the viper reached up, the most poisonous

snake on the island bit his arm, and he shook

it out into the fire. They were setting around like

this because they knew the venom of that snake, and

they were waiting for Paul to drop dead. But the

Holy Ghost helped them to shake it off. So, when

you've been bitten by the snake and the vipers of

the words of people, shake it out off. Are the

things that people do to you and try to do

to you. Shake it off and stay on the mark.

Stay on the mark. I'm not telling you it's easy,

but shake it off. If you stay in this word

and this word stay in you, it's not hard to

shake it off. But if you are any many money

more Christian, you gonna have a problem. You gotta stay

with this word. This word will strengthen your spirit and

weaken your flesh. And when your flesh is not as

strong as your spirit, you can't shake it off. Are

you with me? Amen? We gotta stay dedicated. We gotta

run this race, and the race is ran individually. You

might run faster than me. I might run faster than you.

I might not run very good good. I made job

pretty good. But as long as I crossed the finished line,

I'm still a winner. I'm still a winner. I'm won.

It don't matter that fifteen hundred people beat you across

that line, like they what are those things? They have

a marathons? They ain't got but one person gonna win.

When I was in high school, a junior high school,

this is what they told me. We had a race

they called the Turkey Truck and it was on national TV.

I found out later and they said the winner would

get a turkey and some money, and the winner would

be the only one that would be on TV. And

you were grown folks in this turkey truck. I was

in junior high school. I was in yeah, junior high school.

Bru diggon. I put everything I had in me in

that race because I wanted to be on TV. Oh yes, sir,

this is a true story. I won that race. I

beat all of them, mark out. I was so excited

to run the race. At the start line, when they

popped the gun, I slipped and fell. I got up, though,

y'all don't hear what I'm saying. Let me say that again.

When they popped the gun, I took off salt. We

were in grass, had to run from the grass and

the concrete and dollar. We were in the grass when

we took off a big field cause we had to

run around these areas. And when they said fou, I

did like that and slipped and fail. Caught myself with

my hands, all them folks in front of me. But

I got up. Got to hear what I said. I

got up. I didn't just get up deep. I won.

I ran through those little flags. It was a little

red and yellow and blue flags with my head up

like that. Come wait and get home and see myself

on TV. I had to be on TV. I ain't

caring about no turk act. I want to be on TV.

But young buck, I want to see myself on TV.

I saw myself coming through them ribbons ball I was

jell like that. I want that race at Southern Middle School.

Never forget it. But see this is a different marathon here.

See everybody that runs this race, that crossing the finish

line is gonna be on TV. Everybody gonna be on TV.

Then you hear what I'm saying. Everybody is a winner.

Everybody gets the prize. Ay man, Amen, give God a

handclap of praise. Aymn, praise the Lord. Gotta run the race,

but run it well, aymen, we gotta run it well.

How do we run it well? See when people run

a marathon, you know what they do. When they run

a marathon, they pace theyselves. They pace theyself. So when

you run this marathon, you gotta pace yourself. You won't

run too fast because you might run by something, or

you might run into something. You want to pace yourself.

That way, when you pace yourself, you can see it

coming before it comes, hey man. And so when you

see it coming, for it comes, you don't have to react.

You can respond to it. See what I'm saying. You

can get a response. See, reaction is different than a response.

A response mean you got time to think about it,

time to analyze it, time to figure it out, time

to make the right move on it. But when you react,

you might react the wrong way. See that's why you

gotta pace yourself in this race. Pace yourself. Don't stop running,

pace yourself. Don't stop running, just pace yourself, pace yourself,

keep going forward. Sometimes you might need to slow down,

walk a little bit, but walk fast, Go fast, go fast.

It's imperative that you cross that finish line. All I'm

trying to do is tell you that whatever it takes

to get across that finish line to hear well done,

run the race, Run it well. Amen a man, give

God a hand clap of prayers. Amen,