Beware of the Praise Police

Welcome to the Rheem Sound Church of God podcast.

Wherever you're listening from, we hope you are blessed by

today's message. And by the way, this week, April

3rd being Good Friday, there are a lot of, there's a lot of buzz

about that because there's a number of historians who will

tell you that they have traced the actual Good Friday

experience all the way back and it was actually on April 3rd.

Now whether that's true or not is immaterial, but it just so

happens that this is April 3rd coming up for Good Friday.

So in all that you do, keep the Lord before you all week long.

You've heard me say this before, but in 1972, then President

Richard Nixon, they, he made a shocking trip to the world at

that time because he travelled to Beijing, China and went met

with Mao Si Dong, who was the Communist Party leader.

And he was there for a week and the headlines read The Week that

Changed the World. And I don't know about changing

the world. I think it did probably have

something to do with some of the Cold War that was taking place.

It kind of simmered it down a bit, but I wouldn't say it

changed the world. But we are today beginning to

celebrate the real week that really did change the world.

And I am thankful for the change that came by Jesus Christ coming

into Jerusalem, spending that week there dying on the cross of

Calvary, buried and raised from the dead and ascended back to

the Father. What an awesome God we serve and

we celebrate Jesus today. Amen.

I want you to stand with me, if you will, for the reading.

A word I want to speak today on this thought.

I want you to beware of the praise police.

I want you to beware of the praise police.

You know, I have a on my phone, as most of you do.

You have AGPS and you might be using whatever.

I typically use Waze for the most of the time and I'm

traveling and sometimes it will tell me that there is a

policeman ahead and sometimes it will even tell me he's hidden.

Now, that's just in case I might have accidentally just, you

know, got over the speed limit just a little bit.

I'm not so sure that the policeman likes that, that that

is being revealed. But you know, I kind of don't

want to get a ticket. How about you?

I don't want to pay a fine if I don't have to.

Well, there's a different kind of policeman and they're

everywhere today. And that's the praise police.

And we're going to read about them from Luke chapter 19 and

Luke 19 · chapter mention

then from John chapter 12. This is about Palm Sunday.

John 12 · chapter mention

It says then as he was now drawing near that verse 37,

Jesus is drawing near the descent of the Mount of Olives.

The whole multitude of the disciples.

That's not just 12. The whole multitude of the

disciples began to rejoice and praise God with a loud voice for

all the mighty works they had seen saved.

Blessed is the king, who comes in the name of the Lord, peace

in heaven, and glory in the highest.

And some of the Pharisees, they decided to get their own badges

and be policemen. And some of the Pharisees called

to him from the crowd, Teacher, rebuke your disciples.

But he answered and said to them, I tell you that if these

should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.

Now as he drew near, he saw the city and wept over it.

This is quite a paradox, saying if you had known even you,

especially in this year day, the things that make for your peace,

but now they're hidden from your eyes, may that not be true of

us. Many came from all over the

world, really of the known world at that time for Passover.

It was a highlight of the religious calendar then, and we

read about it in John chapter 12 as well.

John 12 · chapter mention

It says in verse 12, the next day, a great multitude that had

come to the feast. A great multitude, lots of

people that came to the feast, and when they heard that Jesus

was coming to Jerusalem, they took branches of palm trees and

went out to meet him and cried out.

Hosanna, blessed is he who comes in the name of the Lord, the

King of Israel. Then Jesus, when he had found a

young donkey, sat on it as it is written, Fear not, daughter of

Zion, behold, your king is coming, sitting on a donkey's

colt. His disciples did not understand

these things at first, but when Jesus was glorified, then they

remembered that these things were written about him and that

they had done these things to him.

Therefore, the people who were with him when he called Lazarus

out of his tomb and raised him from the dead bore witness.

For this reason, the people also met him because they heard that

he had done this sign. The Pharisees, these are the

praise policeman. They said among themselves, You

see that you are accomplishing nothing.

Look, the world has gone after him.

Oh, I wish that were true today. Wouldn't it be awesome if our

whole world was going after Jesus today?

What a difference this world would be.

What a great place it would be to live if the whole world was

going after Him. Well, that may not be true for

the whole world, but it can be true for our world here today.

We can all go after Jesus in this house today.

We can forget about everything else and go after him.

In fact, I just tell you that Aaron Hall shared with Pastor

Joel and I, he was at A at a service yesterday, installation

service at Zion Baptist Church in Philadelphia, PA.

They had a four hour service. He inspired me.

You think we might could do half of that four hours in the House

of the Lord? Wouldn't that be awesome?

We better pray before you lose it.

Father, in the name of Jesus, anoint us, God, to bring this

word. Help us to all.

Beware of the praise police and help us to give back to you the

praise of the glory and the honor that you're so worthy of.

We thank you for it. We give you praise in Jesus

name, Amen. You may be seated.

For one brief, shining moment, it seemed like people finally

got it. It seemed like that what should

have been clear to them for three, at least three, 3 1/2

years was this was the Messiah. This was the Savior.

It seemed like on this one day, for this small amount of time,

they finally got it. They recognized and they praised

and magnified the name of the Lord.

That was the same Jesus that had been dogged and haunted.

Even as a babe. Herod tried to kill him.

We know that he sent out to kill all of the male children from

two years and under just so he could get rid of the Son of God.

This was the Jesus who had been lied on.

He was the Jesus that had been disrespected.

He'd been laughed at, made fun of, blasphemy, insulted,

ridiculed and rejected. But not this day or at this

moment. The one who had fed the hungry

multitude. The one who had healed the sick

and even raised the dead and gave forgiveness to troubled

minds. He was finally getting some

praise. He was finally getting some

Hallelujah. He was finally getting some

glory that was due. His name for one brief moment,

as it were. He's now exalted.

They're praising him. People left their fields and

they left their homes and places of business.

They heard the Son of God is coming in.

As I said earlier, there were masses from all over the known

world that had come from Passover, and they heard that

Jesus was coming into town and they lined up the road and they

began to praise and bless Him. And no matter what the reason

was, the terrorist already mentioned their reasoning wasn't

what we know it was really for. But I do want to say this about

it at least once. There was a triumphal entry for

him. For once, he was finally getting

praised and glorified and honored.

It was a great moment. I want you to, if there were

children involved in it, just like these kids that were up

here, kids were involved in that moment.

Mothers and dads were involved that moment.

And God was blessing the people and they were shouting praises

to the Lord. But there were the praise

police, verse 39 of Luke 19 says, and some of the Pharisees,

these are the religious people. Some of the Pharisees called to

him from the crowd, Teacher, rebuke your disciples.

It seems that they thought that they knew more about church than

Jesus did. It seemed like that they were

experts at how services should be conducted and people who were

religious should conduct themselves.

So they're saying, we really don't like what's happening

here, and we think you ought to stop it right now.

We need you to rebuke your disciples.

We need you to rebuke the people for what they are doing.

And so we don't think you should get this kind of worship.

We don't think you ought to have this.

And we, we really think you ought to put a stop to this,

because if one thing we know is that there should be no

excitement with church, it should be lifeless, it should be

dull. There should never be anybody

saying Hallelujah. Nobody should ever raise their

hands and praise the Lord. And certainly nobody should get

religious enough to put them together and clap them and give

God praise. Why don't you try that?

Could you do that? Give him praise and glory and

honor in the name of the Lord. The Pharisees that the praise

police said, stop it when you listen to them.

Don't listen to me when I tell you that.

Don't do that. But this isn't the first time

that Jesus ran into that attitude.

The Bible tells us in Mark 14, three.

And being in Bethany at the House of Simon the leper, as he

sat at the table, a woman came having an alabaster flask, a

very costly oil of spiker. Then she broke the flask and

poured it on his head. But there were some who were

indignant among themselves. Think about that.

This woman comes in and pours this fragrant oil on Jesus that

cost them nothing and they're indignant about it.

They're they're not just watching it, they're angry about

it. And they say, why was this

fragrant oil wasted? Can you tell me how you could

ever waste on Jesus? Now you can waste on me and you

can waste on probably most all of us here, but you could never

waste on Jesus. You'll never give him too much,

too much praise, too much glory, too much honor.

You won't even give him too much money.

And I'm not taking up an offering.

You will never out give God for it might have been sold for more

than 300 in there and given to the poor.

And they criticized her sharply. Here's the praise police right

there in Simon's house. But Jesus said, let her alone.

Why do you trouble her? What's the big deal here?

Why are you bothered that somebody loves me?

She's done a good work. She's done a good work for me.

For you have the poor with you always, and whenever you wish

you may do them good, but me you do not have always.

She has done what she could. She has come beforehand to

anoint my body for burial. They didn't see that.

A Surely, I say to you, wherever this gospel is preached in the

whole world, Stevens, PA, what that woman has done will also be

told as a memorial to her. I'm telling you here on this

hill in Stevens, PA, so you know that this woman did a good work

and the praise police tried to stop her.

But you know what? Jesus knew what was going on in

their hearts and minds, and he's actually going to tell us that

what you're witnessing on this day that we call Palm Sunday is

really what should be happening because he says in Luke 1940,

and he answered and said to them, I tell you that if these

should keep silent, the stones would immediately cry out.

In other words, Jesus said I'm going to be praised.

You don't have to do it. You don't have to like it, and

you can even shut people down and shut people off, but I'll

still be praised. And if it takes it, God will

even move on in eight objects. He will move on things that

don't even have life, and you'll hear them begin to praise me

because God will have our people that praise Him.

And if not, His creation will praise the name of the Lord.

Now the next day, and we didn't read about this, but the next

day Jesus goes into the temple. And you remember when he got

there, what happened? He saw the money changers and

they were selling doves and they were making money and they were

running to and fro through the temple and going from one court

to the other court. And he cleansed the temple.

And he said this is not the purpose of my house.

My house should be called the House of prayer.

He turned over benches and tables and like a Wildman, and

he said, you've made the House of God a den of robbers.

But I want you to notice what happens in Matthew 2114, right

after that in the temple. This is in the church.

The blind and the lame came to him at the temple, and he healed

them. He healed blind people and he

healed lame people. Now that should bring praise,

right? No, no, no, no.

But when the chief priest here we go praise police, when the

somebody blew the whistle, when the chief priests and the

teachers of the law saw the wonderful things he did and the

children shouting in the temple, The Who, the children, the

children were there. The children were at church like

these kids were up here and they were shouting in the temple

course Hosanna to the son of David and they were indignant

again, do you hear what these children are saying?

They ask him. They looked at Jesus and say,

you hear this Lord? And he said, yes, have you never

read? Do you not read your Bible?

Don't you know the Scripture said, have you never read from

the lips of children and infants?

You, Lord, have called forth your praise.

Brothers and sisters, I am so honored and so blessed when

these kids step up on this stage and sing their songs and do

their motions and bless and praise the name of the Lord.

That's what they did in the temple.

And the praise police called them down and said, Jesus, you

ought to stop them now. But Jesus said, have you not

read the Bible? Do you not understand that God

has called children to praise and bless the name of the Lord?

He's called those little guys and gals and they don't mind

making noise. Why is it when we get old we get

quiet? When you were young you were

loud, and now you're sedate. We've learned better.

What I want to tell you, though, is the Bible tells us in in

Psalm 33, one to rejoice in the Lord.

O you righteous. For praise from the upright is

beautiful. It's beautiful when people

praise the name of the Lord. The King James Version there

says praises comely for the upright.

The New International Version says it's fitting for the

upright to praise him. In other words, it's proper you

that like the forks and knives on the right side of the table

and I don't know where they belong and the dessert.

I don't know where that, but that's important to you.

The Bible tells us that praise is just as important.

It's comely it's it's it's the right order of the day.

If you're doing things precisely right, you will praise the name

of the Lord because that's part of the whole deal is to praise

God for his goodness. Church, Amen.

Bless the Lord, bless the Lord. And so we praise him on this day

and we glorify him and we honor him for all that he has done for

us. The, you know, you and I today

can, we can take that moment back.

You know, there's evidence all around us in our world.

There's a lot of hostility toward the Lord today.

We see it every day. It shows up in the workplace.

It shows up in government, it shows up in entertainment,

terribly in entertainment, in music, in the media.

His name is blasphemed all the time.

Again and again. You have to turn a channel, you

have to turn something off, you have to move to.

But let me tell you something. That's the world.

That's a lot of the world. Not all the world, but that's a

lot of the world. But you and I, we can give him

the moment back. I said we can give him that

moment back. We can give what that what the

enemy's tried to steal from the Lord, we can give it back.

The Bible says in Psalm 22, three, but you are holy

enthroned in the praises of Israel and that would be the

same for the church today. So God is enthroned in our

praises. If you want to the presence of

the Lord, the Bible says that God is enthroned in your

praises. When you are praising the Lord,

you are lifting him up. You are making Him king of your

life. Now, brothers and sisters, don't

ever give up on praising the name of the Lord.

He is worthy of all glory and He's worthy of all honor today.

And so we need to give him the moment back.

We need to praise Him and bless Him and glorify Him.

You see, we can give Him. The world isn't doing this, but

you and I can give Jesus a triumphal entry again.

We can give Him one every time we come to church.

We can say King of Kings and Lord of Lords, we're going to

bless you. That's why we have praise and

worship songs and bless the name of the Lord.

So we can give Jesus that entry. We want him to come, right?

We want the word of God to be declared, but we'd like to have

him come in. So we like to praise him and

sing and glorify. Lift your hands, inviting the

presence of the Lord. We don't want to be those that

say stop that. We want to say, Lord, we want

you to come. We want you to come.

We won't have church until you come.

We won't know that we've been in the presence of the Lord until

you come in. The Bible says He's enthroned on

your praises. If you want the presence of God

in your life, begin to praise him, begin to bless him, begin

to glorify, begin to honor him. Begin to lift up the name above

every other name, the name of Jesus Christ, so we can give the

Lord a triumphal entry into our church and not just that, into

our hearts. More than anything, more than

anything. Because you know, when Jesus

went into Jerusalem and that next after he got a night of

rest and I went to Bethany, went to Jerusalem the next day.

And when he purged the temple, he went to the temple.

He cleansed the temple. He made it the place that it was

supposed to be. He got rid of stuff that

shouldn't have been there. And he said this is the House of

prayer. This is the House of the Lord.

And he said this is going to be the right way to do it.

Well, brothers and sisters, we don't have a temple in Jerusalem

anymore. Now we do have churches all

across America and around the world.

And we are in a sense, as the people of God gathered because

that's what a church is. It's the people of God gathered.

We come together, the people of God, and we form a church.

We form a body. And so we can have the right

thing at the right time at the right place.

And so when we have church, we have the right and the privilege

to invite him to have a triumphal entry.

But not only that, you are an individual temple of the Holy

Spirit individual, so you have the ability to welcome and have

your own personal triumphal entry where you give God praise

when nobody's looking. It's just you and him.

Are we thankful for that today? Thankful for that?

The Bible says in Psalm 24/7, lift up your heads over you

gates and be lifted up you everlasting doors, and the king

of glory shall come in. How many want the king of glory

to come in? The king of glory shall come in.

Who is this king of glory you ask?

And he said, it's the Lord strong and mighty.

It's the Lord mighty in battle. Lift up your heads, O your

gates, lift up you everlasting doors, and the king of glory

shall come in. Who is this king of glory?

The Lord of hosts. He is the king of glory.

Sila, I'll pause and think about the King of Glory today.

We want to give him praise. Amen.

Now I realize that we're not going to every time we gather,

we're not going to be jumping over the fuse and, and, and

hanging on the chandeliers. If you can do it here, I say

more power to you. If you get up to those things,

I'd be fine. But I want to tell you what we

can do. We can offer him praise and we

can offer him worship. We can invite him in.

I I, I sense it. You know, I feel this like I

have to tell you, though, I was, I was on my way back to my car

to get something. And Sister Carmen stepped out

where I was and she said, Pastor, and could you give us

just a few minutes? We want to pray for you.

If it's all right. Am I going to turn down prayer?

No, no, no, no. I'm going by those ladies.

There was some heat in that room.

I got that room and they're praying, man.

I thought, Lord, if I wasn't ready before, I got to be ready

now because they prayed down heaven.

Thank God for praying people. He said my house should be

called a House of prayer, a House of prayer.

Amen. You know the thing that amazed

me of the story I just read to you a moment ago in Matthew 21

of Jesus healing blind people and lame people and the

Pharisees criticizing him. How could you possibly watch a

lame man walk that couldn't and a blind man see they couldn't

and you still find fall? You know, some people are so

critical. It doesn't matter what God does,

they find something wrong with it.

How can you go to church and see three or four people get saved,

which is the greatest miracle of all, get their names written in

the Lamb's Book of Life and their past forgiven, and then go

out and criticize something about it?

Well, you, nobody here does that, I understand, but there

are places where they do. They'll go from church and

choose somebody up, I think. Did you not just in the presence

of God and see what God did in that man's life, that woman's

life? You didn't see what God did

there? How in the world?

I'm still baffled by how we can find fault.

I better get off that. OK, you know what?

I asked the Lord and I'm not this is true.

I'm this was before church and before anything, before they're

praying for me or anything. I, I asked the Lord, I said,

Lord, let me be like that little donkey and let me transport

Jesus to the people today. Let me be just like that donkey

and just transport Jesus. I don't know if donkeys think a

lot. I don't know much about donkeys.

I've met a few but I but I don't know how much they reason, but

I'm sure this donkey. But you how many know that was a

borrowed donkey? Disciples just went up to some

guy's house and said it started losing the donkey.

Tell him wait a minute, Ho ho, where you going?

Said the Lord needs him. Take him.

Wouldn't it be great? That'd be like me coming to your

house and you have your purse sitting out, ladies, and I'm

men, you have your wallets. Where are you going, Pastor?

Lord needs it. The Lord needs it.

Sure, Take it. Take it all.

Here's my debit card. Here's the here's the password.

Go, no, I, I, it's amazing story.

But what I, what I'm thinking about is that little donkey is

going along that road and that path and, and he's caught Jesus

on his back and people are shouting and praising God and

they're putting branches in the way of that little donkey.

If he can think, he's probably saying, I've never got praise

like this before. Nobody's ever appreciated me.

But it wasn't the donkey that they were concerned about and

praising. It was Jesus.

Let me be a donkey, but let me bring Jesus to you so you can

bless him, glorify him, honor him and worship him.

It is all about Jesus, not some donkey in the pulpit.

But we can have this. We can have this same thing.

We can give him back the praise that the enemy is trying to

steal today. And I want to close with this.

He's coming back to. I got three more hours.

Where's Aaron? Aaron, I'm working on it.

I told Aaron. I said, brother, I know because

I grew up in the South and I preached in all kinds.

I said white people don't know how to have church, I'll just

tell you. And four hours.

I've been in a few of those and they've been marvelous services.

Praise the Lord. Amen.

Anyway, I want you to contrast something with me.

So Jesus is riding in on a donkey.

So I want you to realize that that was when he first came into

Jerusalem on that Palm Sunday. They've been to the city before,

but this was the coming in for the final week and I want you to

contrast that with a second coming.

Here's the first one in Zechariah 9.

This is where the Jesus was quoting this earlier.

Zechariah 9 verse 9, Rejoice greatly.

Zechariah 9:9

O daughter of Zion, shout, O daughter of Jerusalem, behold,

your King is coming to you. He is just and having salvation.

He's bringing salvation lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt,

the foal of a donkey. Now leave that up, if you will,

for just a moment, if you will. The animal he came in on was a

donkey. You know, and study and probably

many of you know this, but in ancient times, kings were coming

with a message of peace would often come on a donkey.

But if it was a time of conquest, a time of conflict,

and a time of war, that came on a horse, not a donkey.

A donkey shows humility. Jesus, think of that.

The king of kings, of Lord Lord, riding on the little donkey's

back. Jesus demonstrated something to

us there, that he was gentle. He was a peaceful king at that

point rather than a warrior king.

There was something about how he came.

But we see a whole different picture now in the Book of

Revelation chapter 19, because there's another coming and let's

Revelation 19 · chapter mention

read this one. Now keep in mind, he came on a

donkey, peaceful Revelation 19. Let's look at it verse 11.

Now I saw heaven open and behold, a White Horse.

Look at your neighbor. Say it's a horse, not a donkey,

it's a horse. And I hope you know the

difference, right? It's a horse and not a donkey.

It's a White Horse. And who sat on him was called

faithful and true. And in righteousness he judges

and makes war. His eyes were like a flame of

fire. You get the contrast.

His eyes were like a flame of fire.

On his head were many crowns. He had a name written that no

one knew except himself. He was clothed in a robe dipped

in blood, and his name is called the Word of God.

And the armies in heaven, Oh, cold and fine linen whited

clean, followed him on white horses.

Horses, not donkeys on horses. And out of his mouth goes a

sharp sword, that it with that he would strike the nations, And

he himself will rule with the rod of iron.

He himself treads the winepress of of the fierceness and wrath

of Almighty God. And he has on his robe and on

his fine name our name written King of Kings and Lord of Lords.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. The first time.

He's humble, he's peaceful, he's gentle, he's lowly and he's

bringing salvation, an opportunity for people to get

saved. But after being rejected and

refused and hundreds and even thousands of years that go by

when he has been mocked and his name has been drug in the mud,

we see a different picture. When he comes that back, he

doesn't come on a donkey, he comes on a white, and the armies

of heaven are with him, and he is coming the first time for

salvation. This time He will execute

judgment on a world without Him. Aren't you glad you're saved by

the blood of the Lamb? Aren't you glad you're washed in

the blood of Jesus Christ? Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah. Brothers and sisters, He offered

salvation the first time, but the second time he's offering

judgment. We're not there yet, though.

We're not there. We haven't seen this yet.

In fact, Holy Week is just beginning.

We not even gotten to the garden yet in Gethsemane.

We've not gotten to the cross. We've not gotten to the burial

site. We've got not gotten to the

empty tomb. It's all ahead of us.

But by brothers and sisters, let's take the journey with him

this week. Let's take the let's go with

Jesus for these next seven days. Let him take us with him and let

us go with him. Let us read about it.

Let us pray about it. Let us meditate on it.

Let us think about it. Let us talk to people about it.

Let's tell the wonderful story of the grace and the love and

the majesty and the power of an almighty God.

Do you agree with me today? Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. And the truth of the matter is

the bleeding and bruised Good Shepherd has carried all of his

sheep on his shoulder. Not just one that wandered away,

but He has carried every one of us, I said.

Everyone of us as his sheep, as his lambs.

Everyone of us have needed him. Everyone of us have needed him

to put us on his shoulder and carry us through a troubled

situation, a troubled world, a trial, a difficulty, A

heartbreak, A heartache. And every time He comes through

for us. He is the Lamb of God, the Son

of God. And I don't know about you, but

on this Palm Sunday, I feel like raising a hand and waving a

branch and giving him glory and honor and praise and worship.

Stand with me in the House of the Lord, if you will, my

brothers and sisters, today, this is the day.

And I want to, I want to encourage those kids that are

with us right now. They were up here before.

And those that are after them, the JYC.

And then also I want to say thank you to every worker, every

leader that devotes your time a Sunday after Sunday, starting in

the nursery or the kids check through the nursery, the tots

right on to the Kingdom kids and right on down to the JYC.

I want to thank every one of you for instilling something in them

for giving them something that they can stand on.

One of our long term kids workers, leaders, teachers will

close the service in just a little bit.

But right now we want to honor the Son of God.

We want to bless him. We want to praise him.

We want to thank him, but just in the event that on this Sunday

someone is here and you haven't received that salvation offer

because that's what Jesus brought.

And listen to you, to you that are lost in sin.

He loves you so much, He came. He was willing to suffer.

He was willing to die because he thought you were worth it.

I said He thought you were worth it.

He knew you were worth it because you were making the

image of God. No matter what the enemies done

to that image, and no matter how marred you might feel like

you've become today, or whether or not you feel you've been

marred at all. But there's something missing.

I don't want you to let the praise police stop you from

making the move toward that one that can save you and change

your life and turn it around for his glory.

So I want you to bow your head for just a moment in the House

of the Lord. And I want us on this Palm

Sunday as Jesus is making his entry.

They're lining the street. Somebody is saying, what's going

on here? We've never seen anything like

this before. And maybe you're in church here

and maybe it's the first time or maybe it's the first time

you've, you've been in a, in a church.

It is, is demonstrative. And and I'm not here to take a

diminish anybody's form of worship or how they worship.

But what I am here to tell you is there's one that's worthy of

all our worship, whatever style, whatever type, whatever kind,

he's worthy of it. He's worthy of white worship,

black worship, red worship. He's worthy of all.

And he makes US1. Thank God, I said he makes US1

through his blood and he saves us.

Would you bow your head with me a moment?

And if you're here today and you say, pastor, you're talking to

me, you're talking to me and you've been, you've been like a

donkey. You, you brought Jesus to me.

And I want to give my heart not to you, but to Jesus.

I want to give my life to Jesus. I want to be saved in this house

today. Raise your hand where you are.

Keep it up for about 30 seconds. I'm not going to take long with

this, but I don't want to miss somebody that God that may have

sent you here specifically. Maybe the Lord woke you this

morning or last night or yesterday.

God spoke somehow now through a neighbor, a friend, someone to

invite you and bring you here today in the House of God.

And you know you need Jesus. We're not going to embarrass

you, although I will tell you this, Jesus was humiliated.

If you talk about shame and embarrassment, He went through

it all. He went through it all, but he

did it because he loved us. Is there one that would raise

your hand anyone at all, anyone at all in the name of Jesus, Oh

God, anyone, anyone save a soul, Lord here today in the House of

the Lord, Thank God, thank God for one, thank you Jesus.

Listen, 1 is so that's a great number, one Hallelujah.

It's a great number because you're in the Bible.

You're in the Bible as one because the Bible says there's

rejoicing in heaven over 1 / 1 that repents more than over 99

that don't need to repent. So you have raised your hand,

You're 1 and you're a special one.

And there may be another, I don't know, but let's pray.

And if you, if you raised, if you are the one that raise your

hand, join the church. Let's invite Christ into your

life. We'll do it together because we

are all fellow servants of the Lord.

And when you're going to become a disciple of Jesus, a follower

of the Lord, and God has something great for your, your,

your life, and it's going to begin right now.

So let's do it. Lord Jesus, I come as a Sinner

and thank you that you came with salvation.

You brought it 2000 years ago and you paid the price on

Calvary's cross. And today, right now, I ask you,

come into my heart, come into my life, make me a temple of the

Holy Spirit, Live in me, change me from the inside out, save me,

wash me, cleanse me. I receive it now in Jesus name

and for the glory of God, Amen and Amen.

Give God praise, give God praise.

Hallelujah, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Blessed be the name of the Lord. Give him praise.

Church. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Are you glad to be saved today? Church, I said, are you glad to

be saved? Are you glad to know that your

name is written in heaven today? Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Let's give him more praise. Let's give him more praise.

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