Sermon
Destroying Shame: Finding Your Seat at the King’s Table
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Transcript
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Welcome to the Southwest Apostolic Church podcast.
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This podcast is brought to you by the Southwest Apostolic Church,
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located at 3161 South Rowena Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, 46241.
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The podcast will feature preaching,
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from our pastor and from other ministers, so we hope you enjoy it.
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Without further ado, let's get right into it. God bless.
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To listen and not to run my mouth Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,
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praise the Lord Has anybody got any prayer requests or anything?
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Sister Marie, we need it Brother Jimmy, we're in the back Okay,
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okay, alright Alright, sister Okay,
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okay Anybody else?
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Yes, sister Pardon me?
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Okay, okay. Well, let's go before the Lord in prayer.
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Lord Jesus, please answer all these prayers. We know that you heard them, Lord.
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And please be with all these people and just help them, Lord.
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Help them, Lord, in their endeavors.
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Just be with them, Lord, and let them feel your spirit. Let them know that you're with them.
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In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name. We love you, Jesus. We love you,
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Jesus. We love you, Jesus. Hallelujah. hallelujah hallelujah praise Jesus we
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praise Jesus we praise just,
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worship with us as we sing tonight.
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Great job. Thank you. Amen. Hallelujah. Can you watch this offering, bro? Oh, God.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Thank you, Almighty. Let's collect the offering now. Thank you, Lord.
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Thank you, Jesus.
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Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. I told the last thing we
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actually did was the Saltwood River. That would be.
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All right, Brother Young's going
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to preach to us. Let's get behind him and back him up. Might need this.
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Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah.
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Amen. Praise God. Praise God. God bless you. You may be seated.
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Thanks for being here and appreciate the service tonight. It feels good just
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to be the visiting preacher. Praise the Lord.
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I'm just a visiting preacher tonight. I'm glad Brother Sims could be proud of you.
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Everybody come to church, and that's good. And I'm glad to see some of our folks
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here tonight. They must be gluttons for punishment, I guess. Praise the Lord.
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Praise the Lord. But we're glad you're all here tonight. And just by way of
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announcement, we're having a special speaker tomorrow night.
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Brother Josiah Spall will be here to preach tomorrow night. If you're interested,
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and you're free, come be with us tomorrow night as well.
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Amen. All right. If you have your Bible tonight, 2 Samuel 9.
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We're glad to just see you, like I said.
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I had something I thought was going to go with tonight, and then I was getting ready.
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And the Lord drops a little thought in my mind that I've talked about before.
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And so we'll just try to follow the Holy Ghost. Is that okay?
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I don't think you can go wrong if you try to follow the Holy Ghost.
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You know, it's not about just giving a sermon, you know.
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It's not just about picking one out of the folder. It's trying to find the mind of God.
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Amen. because it's all about helping somebody. Isn't that right?
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It's about doing something to lift somebody up. The Bible says.
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Seek to edify, and that means build up, and we're an edifice.
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An edifice is a building, so we're here to help somebody tonight. Amen?
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The Lord's in the helping business. Anybody believe that?
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Amen. 2 Samuel 9.
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And we'll just go to verse 13, and then we'll come back up a little bit.
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But we'll just start there. The Bible says, So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem,
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for he did eat continually at the king's table and was lame on both his feet.
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And my little thought tonight is destroying shame, destroying shame.
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Let's pray. Jesus, we love you tonight.
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Thank you for your blessings. Thank you for your goodness. So we ask you to
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help us tonight, help somebody here, let the word go out, God, the way you want it to.
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And we ask it in Jesus' name. We ask you to bless your wonderful people tonight,
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great people of God that came to your house tonight to hear your word and be
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in your service tonight.
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And it's so appreciative. Amen.
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Amen. You may be seated.
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David and Jonathan were great friends, best of friends.
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And after David became the king, he began to think about his friendship and
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the covenant that he had with his friend Jonathan.
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And he asked the question, he said, is there yet any left at the house of Saul,
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that I might show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?
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And the Bible says that there was one of the house of Saul, a servant whose
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name was Zibia, and they called him unto David.
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And David said, are you Zibia? And he said, yes, that's me.
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And the king said, is there still someone of the house of Saul to whom I may
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show mercy that I can show mercy to because of my friendship with Jonathan, because of Jonathan?
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Does he have a, he said, Zibia said, Jonathan has a son, but he's lame on his feet.
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And if you go back to chapter four, you find out that when the word came that
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Jonathan and Saul were killed in battle, that the servant was carrying this
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young man named Mephibosheth,
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and she was running away, and she dropped him,
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and he became lame on both his feet.
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And so David is finding out, and they said, okay, David said,
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send him for me. Send him. I want to talk to him.
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So he goes and he sends for Mephibosheth, and the Bible says that he came to
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David, and he fell on his face, and he did reverence. And David said,
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Mephibosheth, and he said, Behold thy servant.
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And David said, Fear not, I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan,
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thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father,
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and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.
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And he bowed himself and said, What is thy servant, that thou should look upon such a dead dog?
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As I am. So here we have a story of the king showing grace and mercy to somebody
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that didn't expect it. Can anybody relate to that tonight?
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Did you get any grace from the king tonight? Praise the Lord.
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So he says, I want you to eat at my table continually.
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Now you have to understand that I'm getting somewhere. Just stay with me.
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You have to understand that to eat at the king's table, it meant something.
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That's where David or the kings or the president, it's like being in a cabinet
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meeting. It's where they all came to eat.
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And this while back, I was thinking along these lines, and some of our people
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have heard me talk about this, but I'll talk about it again.
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But being at the king's table meant something.
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And the recorder was there.
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The generals were there. It's like a cabinet meeting. Your secretary's there,
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and he's there, and they're all sitting there, and they would eat together.
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And I looked it up a little bit. I'm trying to find it here before I go any
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further, but I looked it up.
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Sitting at the king's table meant enjoying a lavish meal at the social banquet,
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or it could refer to biblical grace or royal treatment.
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And if you look at it in the phrase, sitting at the table carries profound and
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historical and spiritual weight,
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transforming a simple act of dining into a powerful symbol of authority,
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legal validation, and divine grace.
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In medieval ancient history, the king's table was not just furniture.
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It was a monument of state power and judicial administration.
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In medieval England, the king's table was a massive, permanent fixture made
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of dark, purebeck marble in Westminster Hall.
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It literally represented the source of all royal judgment, where the monarch
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or the lord chancellor sat to dispense laws and settle disputes.
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When you got a place at the table, you were somebody.
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All right. Amen. In the palace of Versailles under King Louis XIV.
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Dining at the royal table was a highly choreographed public ritual.
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The public and the foreign ambassadors were invited to watch the king's feast,
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to witness his vitality, wealth, and his spirit, his supreme control.
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In political alignment, to
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be granted a seat at this table meant you were part of the inner circle.
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Is signaled to the rest of the kingdom that you possessed the monarch's direct
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protection, favor, and political trust.
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Can I tell you tonight, Jesus invites you to come and sit at his table.
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Amen. God has a place for you at his table.
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Okay. And aren't you glad that you got invited to his kingdom?
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Aren't you glad he made a place for you at his table?
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All right. So here's what I got to thinking about. Now, this,
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you know, when you start thinking about the Bible and it all goes together,
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it comes together really good. You can trust your Bible.
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And I thought about this. I've told this story before.
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We all have our own backstory, but I'll talk about me for a minute because I
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know me more than I do most of you.
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So, but we all have our own backstory. And I was, you ever gone into a room,
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Brother Miles, and the longer you were there, the smaller you felt?
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Can I get an amen on that? You're sitting there and you're saying, I don't belong here.
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These people are too good for me. You know, these are people that,
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you know, I'm just a little nobody.
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You know, but the old songwriter said, I'm just a nobody trying to tell everybody
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about somebody that can save everybody. Amen.
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Amen. I'm just a nobody here. Praise the Lord.
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But I'm glad he said, come on in. I want you to sit at my table. Praise the Lord.
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Amen. All right. So just to give you an example, Brother Matthews called me
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one time, and he said, they're having a meeting.
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I forget the guy's name. He ran for governor, and he was a big political activist
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on the conservative side. And he was friends with Brother Mooney,
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and he had this big meeting, okay?
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And so Brother Matthews asked me to go, and I went. And if you ever go to these
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things, you go to these meetings, or if you go to a class or a seminar,
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the part I always hate too much. Let's go around the room and let everybody introduce their cell.
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I hate that part. And so we're sitting there.
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And brother so-and-so, so-and-so, Marion County Chaplain of the Sheriff's Department. Oh.
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Bishop James E. Tyson, diocesan bishop of the tri-state area.
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Okay. And all the time I'm shrinking in my chair. and,
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brother so-and-so I'm a district secretary for the United Pentecostal Church of the state of Indiana,
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brother Floyd Matthews pastor Southwest Apostolic Church and all these people
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go around and they all had something to say and when it got to me I was nobody
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I just said James Young from Indianapolis,
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That's all I had, brother. Calvin, that's all I had. I didn't have a bunch of
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stuff to say, praise the Lord. I didn't have a big title, you know.
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And I said, James, I thought about it later. They probably thought I was making
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fun of them or something. You know, they thought I was being ornery maybe or
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something, but I really wasn't. I just thought, you know, I'm just out of place here.
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You know, sometimes we feel that way because the devil tries to put shame on
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us, tries to tell us we're not good enough to be saved, tells us we're not good
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enough to be in that crowd.
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But I'm here to tell you tonight, the Lord wants you to know,
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let's destroy some of that shame tonight.
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Amen. Praise the Lord. Let's destroy some of that shame tonight.
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Praise God. You are good enough to be at his table.
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And I thought about that. And as I was reading this story, shame is a painful
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emotion caused by consciousness of guilt or shortcoming or improprietary.
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And it's the susceptibility to such emotions. Some of us are more susceptible
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to that than others. Some people don't have no shame.
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Donald Trump, he didn't have nothing to repent over. He ain't worried about it.
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Oh, hallelujah. But anyway, but some people, but some people do,
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and some people really are susceptible to shame. They really take it personal.
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They feel like they're not good enough, and it really bothers them.
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So I got to thinking about this, and then I looked up the name of Mephibosheth,
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but a condition, not this is not Mephibosheth, I'm still on shame,
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a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute, something that brings censor,
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or reproach, something to be regretted.
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It's a cause of feeling shame.
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And I looked up the name Mephibosheth in the back of my school-filled Bible,
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and his name means destroying shame.
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And I thought, wow. And then I got to thinking along those lines,
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Brother Miles. I got to thinking about how did Mephibosheth feel the first time
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he showed up at that meeting?
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Because he couldn't walk, remember? He couldn't walk. He he was lame on both his feet,
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so here they are they're all sitting at the table and they're all,
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and and here comes little old the but the king said i want him at my table can
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i tell you if the king says come up to the table come on up to the table,
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amen just just come on up to the table praise the lord make your way to the
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king's house praise the lord make your way to the king's table because every
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time you do, you destroy some of that shame.
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So I got to thinking about this, Brother Miles. I thought, he come in the door. So here he is.
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He's getting ready to come in the door. Now, I don't know how he got there.
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I don't know if somebody carried him in. I don't know if he had a couple of walker sticks.
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I don't know if he had some kind of chair. But I know how he felt when he entered that room. And.
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Can anybody relate to that? I know what he felt like. I guarantee I know what
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he felt like when he came in that room.
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And he came in that room, and I don't know if he was kind of walking real slow
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or if somebody was carrying.
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You talk about humility when you come into a room of big shots,
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and you can't even walk, and your grandpa was king, and he's dead,
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and your dad's dead, and you feel like you're a nobody, and you come into this room
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full of power, full of ambition, full of political rivalry, and you come in
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and you think, man, I am just a nobody.
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You think I don't belong in here. So I don't know how I got there,
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but I want to tell you something. He made his way to the table.
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Somehow he got to the table. I'll never forget when I was getting my preaching
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license and what they do, they make you sit outside and all the big shots are in there.
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This was at Calvary, and Brother Mooney was the superintendent then,
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and they had a big conference table, and they called me in, and I walk in,
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and I'll never forget, Brother Mooney was at the end of the table,
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and he had his glasses like this, you know,
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and he's looking down the end of the table, and I thought, oh,
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man, and I look around, and all the guys,
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but I'm here to tell you tonight, let's destroy that shame.
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Don't let the devil put shame on you. Amen.
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You see, the thing is, no matter what you've done or where you've been, God will forgive you.
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God will forgive you. He can wash away your sins. You repent of your sins,
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get baptized in his name, get full of the Holy Ghost, and you've got a place
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at the table. Hallelujah.
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You've got a place made by the King. Praise the Lord.
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Nobody can do anything against it. Praise God. God's got a place for you at the table. Amen.
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Amen. Come on in. Praise the Lord.
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Now, I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope that they made him feel welcome.
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And let me pastor a little bit. When people come into our assembly,
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we need to make them feel welcome.
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We need to be good to them. Come on, somebody. We need to say,
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how you doing? We're glad you're here.
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We don't want to look down our nose at anybody, do we?
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Can I get an amen on that? Because you know why?
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People know what condition they're in. People know how they've been living.
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They know what they've been doing. And when they come in, you know,
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they say it like this. Well, I'd go to church, but I'm afraid the roof would
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cave in on me when I got there.
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What they're saying is, I know who I am, and I don't really deserve the grace
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of God. But I want to tell you, none of us deserve the grace of God.
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Thank God for his amazing grace. Thank God he gave us a place.
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Thank God he said, is there anybody else I can show kindness to? Praise God.
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Is there anybody else I can be good to? Praise God.
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I want to tell you, he's still being good to people. if they'd just take advantage of it.
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But my thought is, after a while, now he was supposed to go every day.
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Can I tell you, that's why you need to be at church every time the church is open?
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Because every time you come to church, you destroy a little bit of that shame.
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You destroy a little bit of your bad history. You destroy a little bit of the power of the devil.
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You take away the power of the devil to put shame on you and you take away the
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power of the devil to make you feel bad praise the Lord that's why every time
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the doors open you need to walk in here and say thank God for his grace
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thank God for his goodness thank God for his mercy thank God for saving me thank
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God I got a place at the table,
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get you a seat and pick it out. And every time they have service,
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let you be found in your chair. Because.
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Once you start sitting at the table, you see, when they was at the table,
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they'd talk about battle and they'd all give their opinion and they'd talk about
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maybe how much money they had. Can we afford this?
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And, you know, let me say, Mephibosheth's legs might have been bad,
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but his brain wasn't bad.
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He had a good enough brain to be right there with any of them.
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And I'm glad that when you sit at the table and everybody slides up to the table,
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everybody's legs are under the table.
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Amen. You don't see anybody. We're all equal at the foot of the cross.
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Isn't that right? We're all equal at God's table. Hallelujah.
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I said we're all equal at God's table. Amen. God's not under the table checking
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out who's got good legs and who's got bad legs,
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but I got.
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And he, after he kept coming, brother, and I remember he's supposed to be there
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every day, every day, so no doubt the first time he came, he felt really uncomfortable.
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Maybe he still felt a little uncomfortable the second day, and maybe you come
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to church, and you, I remember I sat right here when I first started going back
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to church, and they would sing.
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And I was so shameful or just felt like, you know, this is God's people and
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here I am and I don't belong here.
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And I don't, I just sit there and have my head down. I'll never forget.
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Brother Oliver got up and brought me a songbook one day. Like here,
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it's okay for you to sing.
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Can I tell you, it's okay for you to praise the Lord. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.
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It doesn't matter where you come from. Doesn't matter what your name is.
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Amen. Get involved. Praise God. Take your place. Praise God.
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And let God destroy that shame out of your life.
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We've all done some bad things. We've done some things we don't tell nobody about.
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We've got some weaknesses we don't tell nobody about.
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But you know what? The more he came to that table, the better he felt.
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I'm convinced after a while, this is kind of comical, but I'm convinced after
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he sat there a while and listened to those guys, he thought these guys ain't all that.
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That Joab, he might be the captain but you know he's kind of dingy really when
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you get right down to it you know he might be mighty in valor but his ideas ain't very good.
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And once you find once brother miles knows what i'm talking about once you get
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around some of these so-called big shots you find out they're not really all
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that they're not as big shot as they think they are and they're not as smart
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as they think they are and you're out of your mind is just as good as their mind. Hallelujah.
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And your place at the table is just as valuable at their place at the table. Praise the Lord.
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God gave you a place just like he gave them a place and you can give your opinion.
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You can be involved and you can be part of the kingdom just like everybody else. Amen.
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Woo. Hallelujah.
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So he's sitting there and he's
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listening and he finally probably brother breeding got to a place where,
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He raised his hand. Maybe they're talking about a project and maybe they don't
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have the answer and they're trying to figure it out.
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And he's sitting there and he says, well, that's over by my place.
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I know where that road is.
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I know what needs to be done over there. Yeah, I know. And he raises his hand.
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And one day they call on him. The king says, Mephibosheth, you got something to say?
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And he says, yeah. Said, here's what you need to do. I'm going to tell you,
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God can give you the answer.
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Amen. And I said, God can help you. God can lead you. God can guide you.
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God can give you the wisdom. If he's got a place at the table,
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come on in and get it. Praise God.
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Don't let anything hold you back. You're just as valuable as anybody else.
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Brother Tom Spall quit high school to help his dad build the West Side Church back in 59, 60.
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And eventually he got a job at American Fletcher National Bank.
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You have to be old to remember that because it went to be Indian National,
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Indiana National. Then it became something else.
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But God raised him up. He became an executive vice president of Indiana National
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Bank. and he had an office, Brother Miles, up there in the tower.
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Now, he just, you know, he lived, they was raised out on the east side.
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He's just an old east side boy.
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You know, his dad just pastors a nice church over on the west side,
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but he's not anybody special.
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Now, I don't know how he felt. I imagine the first time he ever got around a
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bunch of those big shots, big wigs, big shots, big heads.
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They think there's somebody sometimes. You can feel it too, can't you?
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You can go into a room and you know when you've got a bunch of people think there's something.
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And then you hear them talk and they use a word out of place and it ain't the
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right word and you just kind of giggle.
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You think, ah, these people ain't all that. And let me tell you something.
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We're children of God. You see me now, I got a tie on and a suit.
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I didn't know how to tie a tie until I was 25. So I'm not here to act.
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Let me tell you, God's people might look good and they might be trying to act
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good, but we're not here to try to act like we're better than everybody.
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We're not here trying to say how good we are. We're saying about how good he
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is. Look what God has done. Look where he brought me from.
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Look what the Lord has done. He brought me out of the miry clay.
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He set my feet on a rock to stay.
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God has been good to me. Woo!
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah. God's been good to me.
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Hallelujah. He didn't get me from the bottom of the barrel. He had to move the barrel to get to me.
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He had to move the barrel, get me out from under it, Brother Calvin.
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But he called me in his church one day, come knocking on my door.
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You want to go to church? No.
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I went to church. God gave me the Holy Ghost. Amen. God began to work in my life.
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And here I am today, not because of who I am, but because of who he is.
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Amen. Because the King is merciful. The King is looking for somebody to be good
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to the king is there anybody else out there is there anybody else out there I can be good to,
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can I tell you he's got a lot of people in Beach Grove he'd like to be good
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to he got a lot of people out here in Mars Hill he'd like to be good to.
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But you know what? They're going to feel shame, you know. So I don't know how
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Tom felt, but eventually they were having a problem.
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I think if my memory serves me right, Tom got into the computers back when computers were new.
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They were all sitting around the table, and they had a problem,
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and nobody knew the answer.
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Big problem at the bank, as the story goes, if I remember it right.
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Tom goes home, and he's laying in the bed one night, and he's meditating on the problem.
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And God begins to unlock it.
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And God begins to, he's meditating on it. And all of a sudden,
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click, click, that's what you need to do.
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So he goes back to the next meeting and the little old guy from East side,
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you know, not born into riches, but he is at the King's table.
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Amen. He is in the church. Hallelujah. He is living for God. Hallelujah.
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He is one of the King's children. Praise God. I said, he is one of the king's children.
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He has been invited to the table and he's sitting at the table.
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And he tells him, he says, here, I think this is what we need to do, dust and dust and dust.
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And he said, the whole room got quiet. That's it.
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That's what we need to do. So let me say, God can destroy. He wants to destroy your shame tonight.
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He wants to destroy your shame tonight. You can go down in Jesus' name.
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You can get baptized and let God wash away all your sins. You can go down and
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you can come up out of that water and get the Holy Ghost.
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And God's got a place for you at his table continually.
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Amen. Every time the church is open, you are welcome. Amen.
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Every time something's going on at the church, you've got a place there. Praise the Lord.
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Have a dinner. Be there. And let me say, that's good advice for anybody.
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Anytime, you know, I was young.
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I might have been dumb, but I thought when the church had an activity,
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I was supposed to be there.
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I didn't have something else to do. I was going to be where the church was.
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I was doing what the church was doing. They had service revival.
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I thought I was supposed to be there.
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Let me pastor you a little bit. I know I'm not your pastor, but I'll pastor you anyway.
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The church is not something you do when you don't have nothing else to do.
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The church is the thing that's first and foremost in your life. Praise the Lord.
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It's a thing. Amen. that takes preeminence over everything else. Praise God.
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Make that, make that, because let me tell you, that seat at the table is valuable.
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There's a lot of people who'd like to be sitting where you're sitting.
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There's a lot of people who'd like to have what you have.
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Don't take it for granted. Don't take that seat for granted.
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Don't take your position in God for granted. Take advantage of it.
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Amen. Because what God wants to do is destroy our shame.
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He doesn't want us to carry shame.
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You ever thought about Mephibosheth? His dad was the king. His grandpa was the
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king. His dad was Jonathan, man.
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The king's son. Jonathan was famous for battle. But here he was. He couldn't walk.
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He couldn't be like his dad. He couldn't be like his grandpa.
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He just went through his life feeling like a nobody.
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He couldn't walk.
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He had a shame that was destroying him.
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And sometimes people carry that around and they carry, but let's turn it around.
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Just don't let the shame destroy you. Let's destroy the shame.
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I said, let's destroy the shame tonight.
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So as the music comes tonight, I don't even know how long we went. It don't matter.
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It don't matter. God's got a place for you. You see, it didn't matter what old
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Joab thought. It didn't matter what Jehoshaphat thought. It didn't matter what
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anybody else thought because David said, that is Mephibosheth's seat.
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That's Mephibosheth's seat, and it belongs to him. And don't nobody mess with it.
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And when he comes in here, I want you to be good to him. I want you to smile
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at him. I want you to get up and shake his hand.
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I want you to pat him on the back.
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And I want you to say, Mephibosheth, we're glad you're here. Amen.
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We're glad you're here, Mephibosheth.
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So we're glad you're here tonight.
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Can we raise our hands and thank God for our place? Can I tell you how valuable that place is?
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Sets you at the table. He wants to hear your opinion. He wants to hear what
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you've got to say. He wants to have communion with you.
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He wants you to be part of his inner circle.
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Anybody want to pray tonight? Anybody got any shame? You say,
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I think I'm going to destroy it tonight.
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Can I say, come on up to the altar, leave that shame, sit back there and say,
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devil, I'm cutting that shame off tonight.
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I'm not going to feel ashamed no more. I'm going to make my way to the altar,
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I'm going to lay that shame down there at God's feet.
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And I'd say, Lord, I want to be at your table and I'm thankful for it tonight.
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Don't matter where you come from. Doesn't matter what your name is.
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Hallelujah. Doesn't matter what your background is. Come on up to the table.
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Come on up and get everything God's got for you.
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Come on up and let God destroy that shame out of your life tonight.
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Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
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Yeah, that's it. Call on him. Call on the Lord tonight. Amen, amen, amen.
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Woo! I'm going out of here tonight knowing my place is secure.
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I'm going out of here tonight knowing God's got a place for me at the table.
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You are good enough. You are smart enough.
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You are smart enough. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yes. Yes.
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Have your way, Jesus. Yeah, call on the Lord tonight. Destroy that shame.
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We rebuke shame in Jesus' name.
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Amen. We're calling on the goodness of the King tonight.
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Amen, amen. Amen. Destroy it.
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Destroy it. I'm going to stomp on it tonight. I'm going to make my way in tonight. Praise God.
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Woo! Hallelujah.
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That's it. Come on, come on.
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On us, Lord. Amen. You called us into the kingdom.
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You gave us a place. We don't have anything to be ashamed about tonight.
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If you've never been baptized, the water's warm tonight. If you've never been
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baptized in Jesus' name, I turned that baptistry on earlier today just so somebody
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could come and get baptized in warm water tonight.
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You know, when you go down in the name of Jesus and your sins are washed away,
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and they're washed into the sea of forgetfulness,
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never to be remembered against you again, God destroys the work of the devil.
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The devil can't put shame on you because God don't know what he's talking about.
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So tonight, if you've never been baptized, we got water, we got robes, we got a towel.
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And let me say, if you haven't been baptized in Jesus' name,
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you need to be. If you never got the Holy Ghost, you need to.
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Amen. So tonight, let's raise our hands one more time. Thank God for his word
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tonight. Thank God for his place at the table for us.
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Let us cherish it. Let us love it. Let's make our way there every time we can.
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Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. God bless you, sis. It's all yours.
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Whatever you say, praise.
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We'll be dismissed in Jesus' name, but just remember, Sunday we'll be at the community center.
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Community center. Community center for Beach Grove. Praise the Lord. God bless you tonight.
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Shake hands. Be friendly. Tell somebody you're glad to see him in church tonight.
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And remember, remember Southwest, we've got a special speaker tomorrow and anybody.
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Wants to come tomorrow and be with us. You're welcome. Amen. God bless you.
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Thank you for listening to our podcast. Southwest Apostolic Church is a place of refuge.
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If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. Pastor's cell number 317-469-3100.
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If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. God bless.