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Destroying Shame: Finding Your Seat at the King’s Table

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  1. Welcome to the Southwest Apostolic Church podcast.

  2. This podcast is brought to you by the Southwest Apostolic Church,

  3. located at 3161 South Rowena Street in Indianapolis, Indiana, 46241.

  4. The podcast will feature preaching,

  5. from our pastor and from other ministers, so we hope you enjoy it.

  6. Without further ado, let's get right into it. God bless.

  7. To listen and not to run my mouth Praise the Lord, praise the Lord,

  8. praise the Lord Has anybody got any prayer requests or anything?

  9. Sister Marie, we need it Brother Jimmy, we're in the back Okay,

  10. okay, alright Alright, sister Okay,

  11. okay Anybody else?

  12. Yes, sister Pardon me?

  13. Okay, okay. Well, let's go before the Lord in prayer.

  14. Lord Jesus, please answer all these prayers. We know that you heard them, Lord.

  15. And please be with all these people and just help them, Lord.

  16. Help them, Lord, in their endeavors.

  17. Just be with them, Lord, and let them feel your spirit. Let them know that you're with them.

  18. In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name. We love you, Jesus. We love you,

  19. Jesus. We love you, Jesus. Hallelujah. hallelujah hallelujah praise Jesus we

  20. praise Jesus we praise just,

  21. worship with us as we sing tonight.

  22. Great job. Thank you. Amen. Hallelujah. Can you watch this offering, bro? Oh, God.

  23. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  24. Thank you, Almighty. Let's collect the offering now. Thank you, Lord.

  25. Thank you, Jesus.

  26. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. I told the last thing we

  27. actually did was the Saltwood River. That would be.

  28. All right, Brother Young's going

  29. to preach to us. Let's get behind him and back him up. Might need this.

  30. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah.

  31. Amen. Praise God. Praise God. God bless you. You may be seated.

  32. Thanks for being here and appreciate the service tonight. It feels good just

  33. to be the visiting preacher. Praise the Lord.

  34. I'm just a visiting preacher tonight. I'm glad Brother Sims could be proud of you.

  35. Everybody come to church, and that's good. And I'm glad to see some of our folks

  36. here tonight. They must be gluttons for punishment, I guess. Praise the Lord.

  37. Praise the Lord. But we're glad you're all here tonight. And just by way of

  38. announcement, we're having a special speaker tomorrow night.

  39. Brother Josiah Spall will be here to preach tomorrow night. If you're interested,

  40. and you're free, come be with us tomorrow night as well.

  41. Amen. All right. If you have your Bible tonight, 2 Samuel 9.

  42. We're glad to just see you, like I said.

  43. I had something I thought was going to go with tonight, and then I was getting ready.

  44. And the Lord drops a little thought in my mind that I've talked about before.

  45. And so we'll just try to follow the Holy Ghost. Is that okay?

  46. I don't think you can go wrong if you try to follow the Holy Ghost.

  47. You know, it's not about just giving a sermon, you know.

  48. It's not just about picking one out of the folder. It's trying to find the mind of God.

  49. Amen. because it's all about helping somebody. Isn't that right?

  50. It's about doing something to lift somebody up. The Bible says.

  51. Seek to edify, and that means build up, and we're an edifice.

  52. An edifice is a building, so we're here to help somebody tonight. Amen?

  53. The Lord's in the helping business. Anybody believe that?

  54. Amen. 2 Samuel 9.

  55. And we'll just go to verse 13, and then we'll come back up a little bit.

  56. But we'll just start there. The Bible says, So Mephibosheth dwelt in Jerusalem,

  57. for he did eat continually at the king's table and was lame on both his feet.

  58. And my little thought tonight is destroying shame, destroying shame.

  59. Let's pray. Jesus, we love you tonight.

  60. Thank you for your blessings. Thank you for your goodness. So we ask you to

  61. help us tonight, help somebody here, let the word go out, God, the way you want it to.

  62. And we ask it in Jesus' name. We ask you to bless your wonderful people tonight,

  63. great people of God that came to your house tonight to hear your word and be

  64. in your service tonight.

  65. And it's so appreciative. Amen.

  66. Amen. You may be seated.

  67. David and Jonathan were great friends, best of friends.

  68. And after David became the king, he began to think about his friendship and

  69. the covenant that he had with his friend Jonathan.

  70. And he asked the question, he said, is there yet any left at the house of Saul,

  71. that I might show him kindness for Jonathan's sake?

  72. And the Bible says that there was one of the house of Saul, a servant whose

  73. name was Zibia, and they called him unto David.

  74. And David said, are you Zibia? And he said, yes, that's me.

  75. And the king said, is there still someone of the house of Saul to whom I may

  76. show mercy that I can show mercy to because of my friendship with Jonathan, because of Jonathan?

  77. Does he have a, he said, Zibia said, Jonathan has a son, but he's lame on his feet.

  78. And if you go back to chapter four, you find out that when the word came that

  79. Jonathan and Saul were killed in battle, that the servant was carrying this

  80. young man named Mephibosheth,

  81. and she was running away, and she dropped him,

  82. and he became lame on both his feet.

  83. And so David is finding out, and they said, okay, David said,

  84. send him for me. Send him. I want to talk to him.

  85. So he goes and he sends for Mephibosheth, and the Bible says that he came to

  86. David, and he fell on his face, and he did reverence. And David said,

  87. Mephibosheth, and he said, Behold thy servant.

  88. And David said, Fear not, I will surely show thee kindness for Jonathan,

  89. thy father's sake, and will restore thee all the land of Saul thy father,

  90. and thou shalt eat bread at my table continually.

  91. And he bowed himself and said, What is thy servant, that thou should look upon such a dead dog?

  92. As I am. So here we have a story of the king showing grace and mercy to somebody

  93. that didn't expect it. Can anybody relate to that tonight?

  94. Did you get any grace from the king tonight? Praise the Lord.

  95. So he says, I want you to eat at my table continually.

  96. Now you have to understand that I'm getting somewhere. Just stay with me.

  97. You have to understand that to eat at the king's table, it meant something.

  98. That's where David or the kings or the president, it's like being in a cabinet

  99. meeting. It's where they all came to eat.

  100. And this while back, I was thinking along these lines, and some of our people

  101. have heard me talk about this, but I'll talk about it again.

  102. But being at the king's table meant something.

  103. And the recorder was there.

  104. The generals were there. It's like a cabinet meeting. Your secretary's there,

  105. and he's there, and they're all sitting there, and they would eat together.

  106. And I looked it up a little bit. I'm trying to find it here before I go any

  107. further, but I looked it up.

  108. Sitting at the king's table meant enjoying a lavish meal at the social banquet,

  109. or it could refer to biblical grace or royal treatment.

  110. And if you look at it in the phrase, sitting at the table carries profound and

  111. historical and spiritual weight,

  112. transforming a simple act of dining into a powerful symbol of authority,

  113. legal validation, and divine grace.

  114. In medieval ancient history, the king's table was not just furniture.

  115. It was a monument of state power and judicial administration.

  116. In medieval England, the king's table was a massive, permanent fixture made

  117. of dark, purebeck marble in Westminster Hall.

  118. It literally represented the source of all royal judgment, where the monarch

  119. or the lord chancellor sat to dispense laws and settle disputes.

  120. When you got a place at the table, you were somebody.

  121. All right. Amen. In the palace of Versailles under King Louis XIV.

  122. Dining at the royal table was a highly choreographed public ritual.

  123. The public and the foreign ambassadors were invited to watch the king's feast,

  124. to witness his vitality, wealth, and his spirit, his supreme control.

  125. In political alignment, to

  126. be granted a seat at this table meant you were part of the inner circle.

  127. Is signaled to the rest of the kingdom that you possessed the monarch's direct

  128. protection, favor, and political trust.

  129. Can I tell you tonight, Jesus invites you to come and sit at his table.

  130. Amen. God has a place for you at his table.

  131. Okay. And aren't you glad that you got invited to his kingdom?

  132. Aren't you glad he made a place for you at his table?

  133. All right. So here's what I got to thinking about. Now, this,

  134. you know, when you start thinking about the Bible and it all goes together,

  135. it comes together really good. You can trust your Bible.

  136. And I thought about this. I've told this story before.

  137. We all have our own backstory, but I'll talk about me for a minute because I

  138. know me more than I do most of you.

  139. So, but we all have our own backstory. And I was, you ever gone into a room,

  140. Brother Miles, and the longer you were there, the smaller you felt?

  141. Can I get an amen on that? You're sitting there and you're saying, I don't belong here.

  142. These people are too good for me. You know, these are people that,

  143. you know, I'm just a little nobody.

  144. You know, but the old songwriter said, I'm just a nobody trying to tell everybody

  145. about somebody that can save everybody. Amen.

  146. Amen. I'm just a nobody here. Praise the Lord.

  147. But I'm glad he said, come on in. I want you to sit at my table. Praise the Lord.

  148. Amen. All right. So just to give you an example, Brother Matthews called me

  149. one time, and he said, they're having a meeting.

  150. I forget the guy's name. He ran for governor, and he was a big political activist

  151. on the conservative side. And he was friends with Brother Mooney,

  152. and he had this big meeting, okay?

  153. And so Brother Matthews asked me to go, and I went. And if you ever go to these

  154. things, you go to these meetings, or if you go to a class or a seminar,

  155. the part I always hate too much. Let's go around the room and let everybody introduce their cell.

  156. I hate that part. And so we're sitting there.

  157. And brother so-and-so, so-and-so, Marion County Chaplain of the Sheriff's Department. Oh.

  158. Bishop James E. Tyson, diocesan bishop of the tri-state area.

  159. Okay. And all the time I'm shrinking in my chair. and,

  160. brother so-and-so I'm a district secretary for the United Pentecostal Church of the state of Indiana,

  161. brother Floyd Matthews pastor Southwest Apostolic Church and all these people

  162. go around and they all had something to say and when it got to me I was nobody

  163. I just said James Young from Indianapolis,

  164. That's all I had, brother. Calvin, that's all I had. I didn't have a bunch of

  165. stuff to say, praise the Lord. I didn't have a big title, you know.

  166. And I said, James, I thought about it later. They probably thought I was making

  167. fun of them or something. You know, they thought I was being ornery maybe or

  168. something, but I really wasn't. I just thought, you know, I'm just out of place here.

  169. You know, sometimes we feel that way because the devil tries to put shame on

  170. us, tries to tell us we're not good enough to be saved, tells us we're not good

  171. enough to be in that crowd.

  172. But I'm here to tell you tonight, the Lord wants you to know,

  173. let's destroy some of that shame tonight.

  174. Amen. Praise the Lord. Let's destroy some of that shame tonight.

  175. Praise God. You are good enough to be at his table.

  176. And I thought about that. And as I was reading this story, shame is a painful

  177. emotion caused by consciousness of guilt or shortcoming or improprietary.

  178. And it's the susceptibility to such emotions. Some of us are more susceptible

  179. to that than others. Some people don't have no shame.

  180. Donald Trump, he didn't have nothing to repent over. He ain't worried about it.

  181. Oh, hallelujah. But anyway, but some people, but some people do,

  182. and some people really are susceptible to shame. They really take it personal.

  183. They feel like they're not good enough, and it really bothers them.

  184. So I got to thinking about this, and then I looked up the name of Mephibosheth,

  185. but a condition, not this is not Mephibosheth, I'm still on shame,

  186. a condition of humiliating disgrace or disrepute, something that brings censor,

  187. or reproach, something to be regretted.

  188. It's a cause of feeling shame.

  189. And I looked up the name Mephibosheth in the back of my school-filled Bible,

  190. and his name means destroying shame.

  191. And I thought, wow. And then I got to thinking along those lines,

  192. Brother Miles. I got to thinking about how did Mephibosheth feel the first time

  193. he showed up at that meeting?

  194. Because he couldn't walk, remember? He couldn't walk. He he was lame on both his feet,

  195. so here they are they're all sitting at the table and they're all,

  196. and and here comes little old the but the king said i want him at my table can

  197. i tell you if the king says come up to the table come on up to the table,

  198. amen just just come on up to the table praise the lord make your way to the

  199. king's house praise the lord make your way to the king's table because every

  200. time you do, you destroy some of that shame.

  201. So I got to thinking about this, Brother Miles. I thought, he come in the door. So here he is.

  202. He's getting ready to come in the door. Now, I don't know how he got there.

  203. I don't know if somebody carried him in. I don't know if he had a couple of walker sticks.

  204. I don't know if he had some kind of chair. But I know how he felt when he entered that room. And.

  205. Can anybody relate to that? I know what he felt like. I guarantee I know what

  206. he felt like when he came in that room.

  207. And he came in that room, and I don't know if he was kind of walking real slow

  208. or if somebody was carrying.

  209. You talk about humility when you come into a room of big shots,

  210. and you can't even walk, and your grandpa was king, and he's dead,

  211. and your dad's dead, and you feel like you're a nobody, and you come into this room

  212. full of power, full of ambition, full of political rivalry, and you come in

  213. and you think, man, I am just a nobody.

  214. You think I don't belong in here. So I don't know how I got there,

  215. but I want to tell you something. He made his way to the table.

  216. Somehow he got to the table. I'll never forget when I was getting my preaching

  217. license and what they do, they make you sit outside and all the big shots are in there.

  218. This was at Calvary, and Brother Mooney was the superintendent then,

  219. and they had a big conference table, and they called me in, and I walk in,

  220. and I'll never forget, Brother Mooney was at the end of the table,

  221. and he had his glasses like this, you know,

  222. and he's looking down the end of the table, and I thought, oh,

  223. man, and I look around, and all the guys,

  224. but I'm here to tell you tonight, let's destroy that shame.

  225. Don't let the devil put shame on you. Amen.

  226. You see, the thing is, no matter what you've done or where you've been, God will forgive you.

  227. God will forgive you. He can wash away your sins. You repent of your sins,

  228. get baptized in his name, get full of the Holy Ghost, and you've got a place

  229. at the table. Hallelujah.

  230. You've got a place made by the King. Praise the Lord.

  231. Nobody can do anything against it. Praise God. God's got a place for you at the table. Amen.

  232. Amen. Come on in. Praise the Lord.

  233. Now, I hope, I hope, I hope, I hope that they made him feel welcome.

  234. And let me pastor a little bit. When people come into our assembly,

  235. we need to make them feel welcome.

  236. We need to be good to them. Come on, somebody. We need to say,

  237. how you doing? We're glad you're here.

  238. We don't want to look down our nose at anybody, do we?

  239. Can I get an amen on that? Because you know why?

  240. People know what condition they're in. People know how they've been living.

  241. They know what they've been doing. And when they come in, you know,

  242. they say it like this. Well, I'd go to church, but I'm afraid the roof would

  243. cave in on me when I got there.

  244. What they're saying is, I know who I am, and I don't really deserve the grace

  245. of God. But I want to tell you, none of us deserve the grace of God.

  246. Thank God for his amazing grace. Thank God he gave us a place.

  247. Thank God he said, is there anybody else I can show kindness to? Praise God.

  248. Is there anybody else I can be good to? Praise God.

  249. I want to tell you, he's still being good to people. if they'd just take advantage of it.

  250. But my thought is, after a while, now he was supposed to go every day.

  251. Can I tell you, that's why you need to be at church every time the church is open?

  252. Because every time you come to church, you destroy a little bit of that shame.

  253. You destroy a little bit of your bad history. You destroy a little bit of the power of the devil.

  254. You take away the power of the devil to put shame on you and you take away the

  255. power of the devil to make you feel bad praise the Lord that's why every time

  256. the doors open you need to walk in here and say thank God for his grace

  257. thank God for his goodness thank God for his mercy thank God for saving me thank

  258. God I got a place at the table,

  259. get you a seat and pick it out. And every time they have service,

  260. let you be found in your chair. Because.

  261. Once you start sitting at the table, you see, when they was at the table,

  262. they'd talk about battle and they'd all give their opinion and they'd talk about

  263. maybe how much money they had. Can we afford this?

  264. And, you know, let me say, Mephibosheth's legs might have been bad,

  265. but his brain wasn't bad.

  266. He had a good enough brain to be right there with any of them.

  267. And I'm glad that when you sit at the table and everybody slides up to the table,

  268. everybody's legs are under the table.

  269. Amen. You don't see anybody. We're all equal at the foot of the cross.

  270. Isn't that right? We're all equal at God's table. Hallelujah.

  271. I said we're all equal at God's table. Amen. God's not under the table checking

  272. out who's got good legs and who's got bad legs,

  273. but I got.

  274. And he, after he kept coming, brother, and I remember he's supposed to be there

  275. every day, every day, so no doubt the first time he came, he felt really uncomfortable.

  276. Maybe he still felt a little uncomfortable the second day, and maybe you come

  277. to church, and you, I remember I sat right here when I first started going back

  278. to church, and they would sing.

  279. And I was so shameful or just felt like, you know, this is God's people and

  280. here I am and I don't belong here.

  281. And I don't, I just sit there and have my head down. I'll never forget.

  282. Brother Oliver got up and brought me a songbook one day. Like here,

  283. it's okay for you to sing.

  284. Can I tell you, it's okay for you to praise the Lord. Let everything that hath breath praise the Lord.

  285. It doesn't matter where you come from. Doesn't matter what your name is.

  286. Amen. Get involved. Praise God. Take your place. Praise God.

  287. And let God destroy that shame out of your life.

  288. We've all done some bad things. We've done some things we don't tell nobody about.

  289. We've got some weaknesses we don't tell nobody about.

  290. But you know what? The more he came to that table, the better he felt.

  291. I'm convinced after a while, this is kind of comical, but I'm convinced after

  292. he sat there a while and listened to those guys, he thought these guys ain't all that.

  293. That Joab, he might be the captain but you know he's kind of dingy really when

  294. you get right down to it you know he might be mighty in valor but his ideas ain't very good.

  295. And once you find once brother miles knows what i'm talking about once you get

  296. around some of these so-called big shots you find out they're not really all

  297. that they're not as big shot as they think they are and they're not as smart

  298. as they think they are and you're out of your mind is just as good as their mind. Hallelujah.

  299. And your place at the table is just as valuable at their place at the table. Praise the Lord.

  300. God gave you a place just like he gave them a place and you can give your opinion.

  301. You can be involved and you can be part of the kingdom just like everybody else. Amen.

  302. Woo. Hallelujah.

  303. So he's sitting there and he's

  304. listening and he finally probably brother breeding got to a place where,

  305. He raised his hand. Maybe they're talking about a project and maybe they don't

  306. have the answer and they're trying to figure it out.

  307. And he's sitting there and he says, well, that's over by my place.

  308. I know where that road is.

  309. I know what needs to be done over there. Yeah, I know. And he raises his hand.

  310. And one day they call on him. The king says, Mephibosheth, you got something to say?

  311. And he says, yeah. Said, here's what you need to do. I'm going to tell you,

  312. God can give you the answer.

  313. Amen. And I said, God can help you. God can lead you. God can guide you.

  314. God can give you the wisdom. If he's got a place at the table,

  315. come on in and get it. Praise God.

  316. Don't let anything hold you back. You're just as valuable as anybody else.

  317. Brother Tom Spall quit high school to help his dad build the West Side Church back in 59, 60.

  318. And eventually he got a job at American Fletcher National Bank.

  319. You have to be old to remember that because it went to be Indian National,

  320. Indiana National. Then it became something else.

  321. But God raised him up. He became an executive vice president of Indiana National

  322. Bank. and he had an office, Brother Miles, up there in the tower.

  323. Now, he just, you know, he lived, they was raised out on the east side.

  324. He's just an old east side boy.

  325. You know, his dad just pastors a nice church over on the west side,

  326. but he's not anybody special.

  327. Now, I don't know how he felt. I imagine the first time he ever got around a

  328. bunch of those big shots, big wigs, big shots, big heads.

  329. They think there's somebody sometimes. You can feel it too, can't you?

  330. You can go into a room and you know when you've got a bunch of people think there's something.

  331. And then you hear them talk and they use a word out of place and it ain't the

  332. right word and you just kind of giggle.

  333. You think, ah, these people ain't all that. And let me tell you something.

  334. We're children of God. You see me now, I got a tie on and a suit.

  335. I didn't know how to tie a tie until I was 25. So I'm not here to act.

  336. Let me tell you, God's people might look good and they might be trying to act

  337. good, but we're not here to try to act like we're better than everybody.

  338. We're not here trying to say how good we are. We're saying about how good he

  339. is. Look what God has done. Look where he brought me from.

  340. Look what the Lord has done. He brought me out of the miry clay.

  341. He set my feet on a rock to stay.

  342. God has been good to me. Woo!

  343. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. God's been good to me.

  344. Hallelujah. He didn't get me from the bottom of the barrel. He had to move the barrel to get to me.

  345. He had to move the barrel, get me out from under it, Brother Calvin.

  346. But he called me in his church one day, come knocking on my door.

  347. You want to go to church? No.

  348. I went to church. God gave me the Holy Ghost. Amen. God began to work in my life.

  349. And here I am today, not because of who I am, but because of who he is.

  350. Amen. Because the King is merciful. The King is looking for somebody to be good

  351. to the king is there anybody else out there is there anybody else out there I can be good to,

  352. can I tell you he's got a lot of people in Beach Grove he'd like to be good

  353. to he got a lot of people out here in Mars Hill he'd like to be good to.

  354. But you know what? They're going to feel shame, you know. So I don't know how

  355. Tom felt, but eventually they were having a problem.

  356. I think if my memory serves me right, Tom got into the computers back when computers were new.

  357. They were all sitting around the table, and they had a problem,

  358. and nobody knew the answer.

  359. Big problem at the bank, as the story goes, if I remember it right.

  360. Tom goes home, and he's laying in the bed one night, and he's meditating on the problem.

  361. And God begins to unlock it.

  362. And God begins to, he's meditating on it. And all of a sudden,

  363. click, click, that's what you need to do.

  364. So he goes back to the next meeting and the little old guy from East side,

  365. you know, not born into riches, but he is at the King's table.

  366. Amen. He is in the church. Hallelujah. He is living for God. Hallelujah.

  367. He is one of the King's children. Praise God. I said, he is one of the king's children.

  368. He has been invited to the table and he's sitting at the table.

  369. And he tells him, he says, here, I think this is what we need to do, dust and dust and dust.

  370. And he said, the whole room got quiet. That's it.

  371. That's what we need to do. So let me say, God can destroy. He wants to destroy your shame tonight.

  372. He wants to destroy your shame tonight. You can go down in Jesus' name.

  373. You can get baptized and let God wash away all your sins. You can go down and

  374. you can come up out of that water and get the Holy Ghost.

  375. And God's got a place for you at his table continually.

  376. Amen. Every time the church is open, you are welcome. Amen.

  377. Every time something's going on at the church, you've got a place there. Praise the Lord.

  378. Have a dinner. Be there. And let me say, that's good advice for anybody.

  379. Anytime, you know, I was young.

  380. I might have been dumb, but I thought when the church had an activity,

  381. I was supposed to be there.

  382. I didn't have something else to do. I was going to be where the church was.

  383. I was doing what the church was doing. They had service revival.

  384. I thought I was supposed to be there.

  385. Let me pastor you a little bit. I know I'm not your pastor, but I'll pastor you anyway.

  386. The church is not something you do when you don't have nothing else to do.

  387. The church is the thing that's first and foremost in your life. Praise the Lord.

  388. It's a thing. Amen. that takes preeminence over everything else. Praise God.

  389. Make that, make that, because let me tell you, that seat at the table is valuable.

  390. There's a lot of people who'd like to be sitting where you're sitting.

  391. There's a lot of people who'd like to have what you have.

  392. Don't take it for granted. Don't take that seat for granted.

  393. Don't take your position in God for granted. Take advantage of it.

  394. Amen. Because what God wants to do is destroy our shame.

  395. He doesn't want us to carry shame.

  396. You ever thought about Mephibosheth? His dad was the king. His grandpa was the

  397. king. His dad was Jonathan, man.

  398. The king's son. Jonathan was famous for battle. But here he was. He couldn't walk.

  399. He couldn't be like his dad. He couldn't be like his grandpa.

  400. He just went through his life feeling like a nobody.

  401. He couldn't walk.

  402. He had a shame that was destroying him.

  403. And sometimes people carry that around and they carry, but let's turn it around.

  404. Just don't let the shame destroy you. Let's destroy the shame.

  405. I said, let's destroy the shame tonight.

  406. So as the music comes tonight, I don't even know how long we went. It don't matter.

  407. It don't matter. God's got a place for you. You see, it didn't matter what old

  408. Joab thought. It didn't matter what Jehoshaphat thought. It didn't matter what

  409. anybody else thought because David said, that is Mephibosheth's seat.

  410. That's Mephibosheth's seat, and it belongs to him. And don't nobody mess with it.

  411. And when he comes in here, I want you to be good to him. I want you to smile

  412. at him. I want you to get up and shake his hand.

  413. I want you to pat him on the back.

  414. And I want you to say, Mephibosheth, we're glad you're here. Amen.

  415. We're glad you're here, Mephibosheth.

  416. So we're glad you're here tonight.

  417. Can we raise our hands and thank God for our place? Can I tell you how valuable that place is?

  418. Sets you at the table. He wants to hear your opinion. He wants to hear what

  419. you've got to say. He wants to have communion with you.

  420. He wants you to be part of his inner circle.

  421. Anybody want to pray tonight? Anybody got any shame? You say,

  422. I think I'm going to destroy it tonight.

  423. Can I say, come on up to the altar, leave that shame, sit back there and say,

  424. devil, I'm cutting that shame off tonight.

  425. I'm not going to feel ashamed no more. I'm going to make my way to the altar,

  426. I'm going to lay that shame down there at God's feet.

  427. And I'd say, Lord, I want to be at your table and I'm thankful for it tonight.

  428. Don't matter where you come from. Doesn't matter what your name is.

  429. Hallelujah. Doesn't matter what your background is. Come on up to the table.

  430. Come on up and get everything God's got for you.

  431. Come on up and let God destroy that shame out of your life tonight.

  432. Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

  433. Yeah, that's it. Call on him. Call on the Lord tonight. Amen, amen, amen.

  434. Woo! I'm going out of here tonight knowing my place is secure.

  435. I'm going out of here tonight knowing God's got a place for me at the table.

  436. You are good enough. You are smart enough.

  437. You are smart enough. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Yes. Yes.

  438. Have your way, Jesus. Yeah, call on the Lord tonight. Destroy that shame.

  439. We rebuke shame in Jesus' name.

  440. Amen. We're calling on the goodness of the King tonight.

  441. Amen, amen. Amen. Destroy it.

  442. Destroy it. I'm going to stomp on it tonight. I'm going to make my way in tonight. Praise God.

  443. Woo! Hallelujah.

  444. That's it. Come on, come on.

  445. On us, Lord. Amen. You called us into the kingdom.

  446. You gave us a place. We don't have anything to be ashamed about tonight.

  447. If you've never been baptized, the water's warm tonight. If you've never been

  448. baptized in Jesus' name, I turned that baptistry on earlier today just so somebody

  449. could come and get baptized in warm water tonight.

  450. You know, when you go down in the name of Jesus and your sins are washed away,

  451. and they're washed into the sea of forgetfulness,

  452. never to be remembered against you again, God destroys the work of the devil.

  453. The devil can't put shame on you because God don't know what he's talking about.

  454. So tonight, if you've never been baptized, we got water, we got robes, we got a towel.

  455. And let me say, if you haven't been baptized in Jesus' name,

  456. you need to be. If you never got the Holy Ghost, you need to.

  457. Amen. So tonight, let's raise our hands one more time. Thank God for his word

  458. tonight. Thank God for his place at the table for us.

  459. Let us cherish it. Let us love it. Let's make our way there every time we can.

  460. Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. Hallelujah. God bless you, sis. It's all yours.

  461. Whatever you say, praise.

  462. We'll be dismissed in Jesus' name, but just remember, Sunday we'll be at the community center.

  463. Community center. Community center for Beach Grove. Praise the Lord. God bless you tonight.

  464. Shake hands. Be friendly. Tell somebody you're glad to see him in church tonight.

  465. And remember, remember Southwest, we've got a special speaker tomorrow and anybody.

  466. Wants to come tomorrow and be with us. You're welcome. Amen. God bless you.

  467. Thank you for listening to our podcast. Southwest Apostolic Church is a place of refuge.

  468. If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. Pastor's cell number 317-469-3100.

  469. If we can help you, we'd be glad to do it. God bless.