Jesus Bought A House - Part 13 | Pastor Paul McGee

The glory of the Lord covers the earth as the water covers the

sea. Scripture says Amen.

Just a few things to be again reminded of.

This coming Sunday will be our camp focus Sunday in the event

that we are going to pray for camp and we're also going to

take up a special offering for camp meeting to help offset the

cost. Camp is always expensive and of

course it gets more expenses over the years.

You go to the grocery store, you know you don't pay for groceries

what you did five years ago. And so to feed all those folks,

we still have a cheap camp in my estimation because I've been to

a lot of camps, preached at a lot of different camps and we

still have a cheap camp. Whenever you consider you get a

place to stay for five days and you get 2 meals a day with that

registration. So we're going to try to pay,

help pay and help pray for camp. And then on the 27th Monday,

that Monday will be camp registration.

And so again, I know you're like you kick a dead horse because

you talk about this all the time.

Well, whenever you don't have a room, you're going to say, I

should have listened to him. I'm just saying it goes that

quick folks. So just just be mindful, be

mindful of that. All the things looking again

toward May, May, we have Mother's Day.

We'll be feeding our firefighters for National

Firefighters Day. We'll be feeding our teachers

across our city for national teacher appreciation.

We'll have a revival that will start at the end of that the

very end of that month. We'll have our summer kicked off

over Memorial Day weekend with one service and such and potluck

food on the ground. However you want to state it

always was kind of adverse to the idea of food on the ground,

but nonetheless, mom said I could eat it.

So nonetheless, man, we're going to be turning to 1st Corinthians

chapter #11 tonight. We are still talking about the

the identity principle or the principle of identity.

Probably wrap that part of it tonight.

Still got some other things, principles to look at, but

again, just as a over overarching, just think tonight,

anybody that comes into this church is welcome.

All right. There's people all different

walks and stages of life come from different backgrounds.

Some with more what we may call volatile histories than the

others. But whenever Jesus came in his

earthly ministry, he said it's not the whole that's in need of

the physician. It's not the whole that's in

need of physician. He said he came for the sick.

They come to call the righteous, but sinners Amen us to

repentance. So as each of us are on our own

salvation journey and even after we receive salvation, a journey

of maturity, right? It's just your birth

certificate. We still got growth and maturity

that takes place. And some some areas of our

maturity are faster than others. All you got to go to is in the

real world nature. Go just to a junior high, you're

going to see people towering, people small, you're going to be

seeing people in different phases of muscular structures

and all the things, girls approaching things at different

ages and times, Amen. Through this maturity process.

And so the great thing for us is that God loves us at every stage

and he's loving us to growth and he's loving us to maturity, and

he's patient with us. And so tonight I want to look at

another identity, identity thing that again, for the distinction

and distinguishment of male and female.

First Corinthians Chapter 11. I'm just going to read a couple

1 Corinthians 11 · chapter mention

of verses and we'll look at a few of more of them before we're

set and done. But just verses 14 and 15 here

this evening. First Corinthians 11, verses 14

1 Corinthians 11:14

and 15, Death, not even nature. Here we are again, Apostle Paul

referring back to nature. Does not even nature itself

teach you that if a man have long hair, it is a shame unto

him, but if a woman have long hair, it is a glory to her.

For her hair is given her for a covering.

Her hair is given her for a covering.

Just tonight, want to talk about distinction that directs glory?

Distinction that directs glory. Hallelujah Father, I thank you

again God, for those that have made the effort Lord and come

Lord, on this Wednesday night, God, to center our lives one

more time about your word. God, your word is settled.

Your word is true. It can be depended upon.

It is God, a good Lord Jesus book of guidance for our life.

I pray, O Lord, that you have to help us tonight.

God, we look into this word. God, we'll praise you.

Thank you Lord for what you accomplished and do in the name

of Jesus Christ said I pray in the church, Amen, Amen.

Praise the Lord. I paused as I read because

again, the Apostle Paul is taking our attention and

directing it back once again to nature.

That's not even nature itself. Teach us.

And whenever he has used this, and I've told you this before,

but let's the repetition sometimes helps our memory and

for us to learn something. That Greek word for nature is

fusus, all right? It is meaning the original

inherent constitution of a thing, basically speaking about

its origin, its beginning. And so there are in scripture

that we have already looked at, there are some natural

distinctives between men and women.

There are some nature driven distinctives and another one of

those has to do with the hair of men and women.

Stephen Jay Gold, who wrote The Pandas Thumb.

It's a book, he said. He said baldness is apparently

inherited and is in a small way a sign of masculinity, since the

tendency does not manifest itself even though inherited,

unless there is more than a certain critical concentration

of male sex hormone in the blood.

As a result, women rarely go bald.

Men who are castrated before adolescence apparently never do

so again. Although baldness in, in, in, in

humanity is an inherited thing, what brings its manifestation to

pass is whether or not that individual has a male hormone of

masculinity in it that will bring it to pass.

So I think we could all, I don't think there'd probably be anyone

who participate that's in that upper age group, but not all men

are going to go bald. Or it might not be inherited,

but those of us who are inheriting it and have that male

gene, if we were all to stand up here like this tonight or maybe

like this and had ladies of the same or similar age up here, we

are by virtue of nature headed toward a determination that that

if you have that male gene and you're predisposed to the

inheritance, you're going to go bald.

It is a rarity for women to experience that.

I'm not saying it never happens, but usually if it does, there's

some type of imbalance or some type of illness or something.

There's something else that is going on inside of the human

body if that is taking place. But it is very much so more of a

normal occurrence for men than it is women.

That's one thing. But another thing is looking at

the Scripture in the Book of Revelation chapter #9 and verse

number 7 and 8, the Bible states these words and a description is

really being given of, of, of some locusts.

And this is not your typical locus.

So it is describing different aspects of this locus in order

to bring the full picture into view.

And it says, and the shapes of the locusts were like unto

horses. So see, it's given us some

descriptors here to really put all this together.

Prepared into battle and other All their heads were as it were

crowns like goat and their faces were as the faces of men.

That word for men right there means mankind or humanity.

It's just speaking about the generality of humanity.

Their faces were as the faces of mankind or humanity.

In other words, it's differentiating that this is not

like the the face of an insect or animal, but it's the face of

a human face and verse 8 it says and they had hair as the hair of

women and their teeth were as the teeth of lions.

Now being that their faces were as humanity, if it were just

proper just to make a description of their hair and

wanted it, well that's like humanity too.

They could have just easily use the same word mankind or

humanity men in order to differentiate that.

But it didn't. It specifically got specific

with what part of humanity that this hair was like and said it

was like the hair of women. And so John the revelator makes

a distinguishment here in the description of their hair being

like the hair of women. So there must have been some

difference of some sort between what was man's hair and women's

hair for John to describe it like that.

And maybe we even back that truck up just a little bit more

for God. The Bible says that the

Scripture, when you read in Revelation chapter one, this is

the revelation of Jesus Christ that was given to John by God

for God to have John state it like that because here's the

sin. If there was no difference, it

would make no sense to make the statement, make no sense to make

the statement. In Luke chapter #7 and verse #37

we read of a story that many are familiar with, and this is kind

of diving into the story just a little bit.

And the Bible says and behold a woman in the city which was a

Sinner when she knew that Jesus sat at meat and the Pharisees

house brought an alabaster box of ointment.

Many of you are familiar. Anybody familiar?

Someone just help me. I want to make sure someone

reads their Bible out there. Amen.

Alabaster box of ointment and stood at his feet behind him

weeping and began to wash his feet with tears and did wipe

them with the hairs of her head and kissed his feet and anointed

them with with the ointment. Now we know per custom of this

day that when they're eating at a table, it's not as we eat,

pull out the chairs, sit down that they ate on on beds or

couches and they would recline with their head toward the table

and their feet away from the table.

I get that. But nonetheless, with these feet

away from the table as he is eating, here's this woman, her

her tears is becoming the water for washing his feet and then

the hairs of her head she uses for wiping his feet.

Even if even if that couch or bed was elevated to a certain

degree, Paul McGee, washing your feet with my head of hair is

going to be quite a I'm I'm not trying to I'm really not trying

to. But what I'm saying is this,

that there must have been some length to this woman's hair in

order to accomplish what the Bible says she accomplished.

As a matter of fact, several other just a few commentaries.

There are other people that come to bear on this, John Gill says,

Speaking of the hairs of her head, he said which were long

and hung loose about her shoulders.

It be unusual and comely for women to wear long hair.

Jameson Fawcett and Brown says she hastened to wipe them,

Speaking of the feet off with only the towel.

She had the long tresses of her own hair.

The pulpit commentary says she wiped the tear wet feet with her

long hair, which she evidently loosed for this lovingly

purpose. And so again we have revelation,

we have Luke. Here we go to the Song of

Solomon chapter #4 and verse #1 and the Song of Solomon, of

course, Solomon is, is adoring and there's this companionship

and courtship between Solomon and the Shulamite, which I've

told you before, which basically means Mrs. All right.

And so there's this courtship that's happening to their

wedding and after their wedding day and they ofttimes are

admiring one another, even even physicalities of one another,

they are admiring. And the Bible says the Song of

Solomon four and verse one. Here's Solomon admiring her and

says, Behold thou some ladies just say they don't talk like

that no more. Behold, thou art fair, my love.

Behold thou art fair. Thou hast dove's eyes within thy

locks. Thy hair is as a flock of goats

that appear from Mount Gilead. You tell me, Ray, the last time

a man said to you, your hair is like a flock of goats that

appeared from the Mount of Gilead.

But the mountain in in as the mountain of Gilead is a mountain

in Israel that that is beyond the Jordan.

And that is a place that commonly that that that

shepherds and people that were tending their flocks, they would

feed them up on the mountain slopes of Gilead where goats

were fed. And according to John Gill,

being well fed, their hair was long.

Speaking of the goats themselves, neat and glistering,

but even more so than that at a distance, a group of goats

leading up or even down a mountainside.

Who these goats we know in particular had smooth knee

glistering long hair. When you have them in a row

going up a mountain, You can almost get the picture then of

why he may have said your hair is like a flock of goats that

appear on the mountainside. Just just goats after goat head

to tail, head to tail, head to tail is a long line of goat hair

that is trailing up the mountain as almost looking like strands

of hair. And then in the Old Testament

scripture we know this that and God does this for the New

Testament church as well. He OFT times refers to them in

the female the female sex or female gender.

Israel's even described as that the Old Testament oftimes

described as as as God's wife. We see this relationship that he

depicts in the Old Testament prophets in Scripture and so

always symbolically a woman. So whenever God deals with

Israel at different times when she is not in good standing with

God, when she is not listening to the Lord or turning her back

on the Lord or refusing His, his commandments and His ways, God

brings judgment many times upon Israel.

And that's Israel, she being in her backslidden state.

And whenever she's in that state of being backslidder, that state

of being away from God or not in covenant with God as she should,

that He, he refers to her and He symbolizes her by cutting of the

hair or the shaving of her head. That's the way that he talks

about it in Scripture. And Isaiah chapter 3 and verse

Isaiah 3 · chapter mention

24, he says basically, you know, you're away from me, you're part

of me, you're breaking covenant with me.

Basically he tells her this. He said instead of well set

hair, he said baldness shall be upon thee.

It was a emblem really of a breaking of covenant with God or

having being a refusal toward God.

He, he spoke to her in one place because of her separation from

him at that moment he's speaking this, he's saying cut off thy

hair because it was going to be a shame unto her.

It was going to be a note of someone that was out of step of

covenant, his wife, his bride, so to speak out of covenant with

him and God used cut hair on a woman even as a symbol then the

course of Israel's backslidden condition.

And so when Israel disobeyed God, she was told at different

times and other places in Michael one and verse 16, she

was told make thee bald and pull thee basically pull thy head or

trim, trim your hair, trim it because you disobey that we

we're just going to put a separation right here.

And then there were times that his blessing would be upon her

when she would be back in covenant with her.

And whenever that covenant came back or they're back in

relationship with one another, such as in Ezekiel 16 and 7, he

would speak of her in these terms and say thine hair is

grown, Amen. Now there is the growing of the

hair rather than the the shaving off or the cutting, there's the

growing because before this he says that you were naked and

bare, but now your hair is growing white.

There has been a change of relationship, a change of

covenant, Amen, with me, Amen. Also in the scripture, and this

is according to the Jewish Talmud, but we also have

scripture to support this, but in the Jewish Talmud, Talmud

there is an instruction that every 30 days all the priests

which were men were to cut their hair every 30 days.

And the instruction is so because otherwise their hair

would continue to grow and grow long.

And so the priests were well aware of this in Ezekiel 44 and

verse 20, the Bible says neither shall they shave their heads nor

suffer their locks to grow long. They shall only pull or trim

their heads. And so he said, we're going to

do a trim job here. It's not to be long, and you

don't necessarily have to shave it totally off, but you got to

trim it. You got to let there be a moment

of trimming. And so God intended the priests,

who in this day were males only to do what set the example for

the rest of the male community. Amen.

As a matter of fact, further investigation in the Jewish toll

mode, right? And why you say that?

Because that's like a primary source.

We're going way back whenever we're talking about that reveals

that the hairstyles of men in that day were Julian or what

they would call a Caesar cut, like Julius Caesar of the Roman

Greco day of like around the time when first Corinthians

would even be written. It was of a Caesar cut.

You look it up on your phone what a Caesar cut looks like.

It's just short off off the ears, off the collar type of

cut. And so that's the type of things

that matter of fact, every Roman emperor from Julius Caesar down

to 1 by the name of Tarjan had short hair.

And for that day in that culture, listen, the Jews, I

mean, we were a separate community of, but at that time

the community was under Roman rule, all right.

And so the emperor, it was on that day, this is government

cultural thing. The emperor set the pattern in

the style of mode of dress and appearance for those that were

under his, his, his rule. And so we see it very common,

not just in Rome, but even among the Jews.

Amen. Whenever we even look back, and

this is something that's been hard for years, and that is

archaeologists going back and finding artifacts or unearthing

artifacts that would find Jewish people and depictions of Jewish

people like graven on, on, on anything.

Number one, because the Lord made his mission clear, they

shouldn't have any graven images.

So I mean, there's even, you know, whenever he talked about

making an altar, a lot of times it was of a hewing stone because

he didn't want the Israelites to even have a temptation that

while hewing the stone, they would make it into any likeness

of anything that was going to be knelt down at.

And so you don't see a lot of images of graving archaeology

wise because of the command of the Lord.

However, there are a lot of depictions of like Assyrian

people and Philistine people and other heathen nations that you

see depictions of and a lot of them have long hair.

However, a little more recently in the past few years in order

in Israel, they did come across a piece of of a pottery or a

piece of clay of some sort that they found that they have a time

whenever the Israelites were enslaved by the Philistines.

And all of the Israelite men that are depicted in that and

that little fresco or what it was that they had on there had

very short hair, unlike the heathens that they were enslaved

to. Revelation chapter #1 and verse

14 says his. Everybody say his It's speaking

about Jesus Christ. It's speaking about the Son of

Man that's being spoken of here in Scripture.

His head and his hairs were white like wool, as white as

snow, and his eyes were as a flame of fire.

That phrase white like wool or white wool.

According to the Jews, white wool is the wool of a lamb just

born of a lamb just born, and the wool on a newborn lamb is

typically short and a fluffy coat that's over across the

skin. The description of the Son of

Man of Christ Jesus was that his hairs were white like wool.

I know what we are conditioned for because someone grabbed the

canvas and a palette and a brush and painted their depiction of

the Lord Jesus Christ a particular way.

But according to the Book of Revelation, that's not the way

that he's described. Number one said, well, Jesus was

a Nazarite. No, Jesus was a Nazarene.

He grew up most of his life in Nazarene, thus he was called

Jesus of Nazareth. There's a difference between

being the Nazarite and being the Nazareth.

Being of a Nazarite held some particular roles according to

Numbers chapter 16 that you were to follow and no contact with

Numbers 16 · chapter mention

the dead, not to drink any wine. There were certain things of

covenant or things that they abided by in the vow.

But a Nazarene being brought up in Nazareth, that's was Jesus.

He was an inhabitant growing up as Nazareth and this

Furthermore, if Jesus did have long hair, which would have been

a totally at odds with with his time, then why did Judas have to

betray him with a kiss among all these different ones to point

out who He was? If all the other time was sure

here but He had long hair, why did He have to point Him out?

Because He had the appearance of any other man of his day?

Amen. To know who to apprehend.

So according to the scripture here, men are not to have long

hair while women are to have long hair.

This is just another distinguishment of the sexes.

How long is longwell, verses 14 and 50, when the word long is

used, there's a few different words that come to bear in the

Greek and the their root words and both of them mean let the

hair grow or uncut long. Then hair for a woman, it's not

well, it's three feet, so that's longer.

It's 6 feet or it's longer, it's 2 feet or it's long, it's uncut

that's long. The amazing thing about that

someone can come to the Lord and they can stop practicing cutting

their hair and the moment they stop their hair's long in the

sight of God. By definition, it's long because

we have different people even in this church today, hair just

don't grow anymore, or it only grew so long.

But they've never, never cut their hair.

Their hair's always been long according to Scripture,

according to these verses. And so when we look at that, the

verbs that are used here, the verbs that are used here in the

Scripture, in these particular verses and throughout First

Corinthians chapter #11 they imply their, their, their tenses

and their voices. And I ain't go get all that, but

that they have a present. Well, maybe OK, a present tense,

active voice, all these different things concerning

these verses is describing a condition which remains to be

seen expressed. All right.

It's the expressing of themself in this manner.

Paul is saying a man that continues to have short hair, so

thus regularly trimming that continues to have short hair.

Then he maintains and he respects his authority, which is

the Lord Jesus Christ and the presence of God, and he doesn't

have to worry about being shamed.

And then a woman that continues to have her hair uncut,

therefore long by that definition, then it's a glory to

her according to Scripture. And she maintains and, and she

honors her authority, which we'll look at in a little bit,

which is her husband in the presence of the Lord.

Amen. So with, with the tense of the

verses, it's something that isn't just a moment or a segment

of time. And you know, is it for two

weeks? No, it's something that's a

continuous thing that occurs and happens.

And so the condition of a man or a woman's hair is a continuing

yet incomplete action. If you could think of it like

that, it's a continuing yet incomplete action because the

man is always going to be trimming and the woman is always

going to be abstaining from trimming men.

So here in Scripture, we want to talk about, we could talk about

other things, and I don't have time to talk about everything.

That's First Corinthians 11. I've done that before, and I

think it took me 3 maybe times. So we don't have time for all of

that. I'm trying to stay in alignment

with the distinction aspect, OK. Because we could talk about the

power on the head because of the angels.

We could talk about if there be contentious, if there be

anything contentious, then we have no such.

We could talk about all that and we could talk about the whole

veil aspect. But we need to stay on track

here with this, this distinction thing.

And so with that, I'm going to start with verse #3 you say

you're not going to read it all. Well, verse three, wow, you

really took some off, but I'm not going to read them all

right? Verse #3 First Corinthians 11.

But I would have you know that the head of every man is Christ,

and the head of the woman is the man, and the head of Christ is

God, head of woman, man and a man, Christ, head of Godhead of

Christ, God. That word head is important

there in Scripture. Some consider that the Greek

word head to mean nothing more but source, that God is the

source of Christ. Christ is the source of man.

Man is the source. If you think back to Genesis,

taken from the side of Eve, source almost like a river

source that has the head of a river right where its origin,

where it begins. But Paul isn't just saying that

a man came from Jesus, or that woman came from man, or that

that that Jesus came from God or was even God.

All of that is true, but it goes just a little deeper, a little

scratching the surface goes a little under that, that a source

has to do with an inherit authority in a person's life,

inherit authority in someone's life.

If someone has come from me, there's some appropriate

authority that I have and sway that I have and I like to stay

better like this responsibility that I have.

I mean, I got two people sitting right in front of me.

That is a result of my wife and I.

So to a degree we have certain sway of responsibility by virtue

of being the head, if you want to say that of them.

So yes, origin, yes, but also that that idea of of

responsibility of relational responsibility toward them.

First Corinthians 11 verse 4, Every man praying or prophesying

1 Corinthians 11:4

having his head. A note this word head is

speaking about your literal natural head.

Every man praying or prophesying having his head covered

dishonoreth his head. It switches on us.

Now it's talking about his spiritual head.

So every man having his natural head covered dishonoreth his

spiritual head. Who's his spiritual head?

Christ and verse 5 but every woman that prays for prophesieth

Let's let's hooked. I'm fine next work through me.

Amen Prophesieth with her head again literal natural head

uncovered, dishonoureth her head spiritual aspect.

So if she does this with her head uncovered, her natural

literal head uncovered, she's dishonouring her spiritual head,

which is what the man husband, the Bible says for this even all

as if she were shaved, she might as well just be totally shaved.

Let's quickly address something the matters of the head being

covered or uncovered. Well, it said, if you're praying

or prophecy, Oh well, potato, potato.

The book of Thessalonians tell us that we should pray without

ceasing. All right.

And so it matters in everyday life. 1st Corinthians 11 verse 6

The Bible says, For if the woman be not covered, let her also be

shorn. But if it be a shame for a woman

to be shorn or shaved, let her be covered.

Verse 7 For a man indeed ought not to cover his head, literal

natural head, for as much as he is the image and glory of God.

But the woman is the glory of the man.

So if she isn't, if she isn't covered, she might as well be

shorn or shaved, leveled at stubble, if she'd be not

covered. And he says this is an action of

shame. He tells us in the verses that

we read that it's a shame. It's a shame for a woman or a

shame for a man to have long hair and for a woman to have it.

It is her glory to not have it. Then the inverse would be true.

It would be not glorious. It would be shame.

So man, look at it here in your scripture again, verse #7 man is

the image and glory of God. Woman is the glory of man.

This is what always has got me. We see long hair, short hair.

God sees who's getting the glory.

Just wait a moment. We see long short, God sees

who's getting the glory. Man, don't cover your natural

head because to do so you are the image and the glory of God.

When you remain trimmed quote UN quote uncovered, the glory of

God is showcased woman whenever you remain covered, which are

beginning Scripture there verse #15 her hair's given her for a

covering. When you remain covered, then

you're concealing the woman is the glory of man.

You're concealing man's glory. So when the woman has her long

hair and the man has her short hair, man's glory is covered up,

but God's glory is visible. It's not just, it's not just

about long and short. The difference of the sexes

brings us back to Genesis of who gets the glory.

Everything that Christ did in the beginning, the planetary

systems, the animals, the grass, the creation of mankind, the

possibility of reproduction. What was that?

To bring glory to each of those individual things?

No, it was to do as we should do.

Scratch our head and say there's a designer here somewhere.

It's to point the fingers back to a sovereign God.

He gets. He deserves all the glory, all

the honor and all the praise. But when we tamper with the

origin from the beginning, we're messing up who gets the glory.

Amen. So I want to, I want God,

through the way that we live our lives, bring honor and glory to

the Lord of anything. Bring it to the Lord, not to

yourself, not to an institution. Give it back to where it came

from. Give it back to the Lord.

And that's the case in all these things, Fred, we talked about

ideas to begin with, discerning, you know, good ideas from bad

ideas or God inspired that man. Whenever you get that right,

that gives glory to God, that that's where we talk about, you

know, let your light so shine before men in Matthew 5 that

they may see your good works, yes, but what they glorify your

Father, which is in heaven. I know you were a participant in

the way, but the glory goes to God.

It doesn't go to me. It doesn't go to you when it's

all properly ordered and organized, it goes to where it

should go. It goes to God.

So I want not, not to cover her natural head so that she doesn't

dishonor her spiritual head. And he should not, he should

not, he should not cover his natural head so he doesn't

dishonor his spiritual head. I want to give honor.

I want to give honor. And so the prescription through

Scripture again, uncovering the glory of God and we're going to

cover up the glory of men, so to speak.

And this, this, this distinguishment in a sense, long

hair, short hair covered, uncovered God's glory revealed

God's glory concealed. In doing so, God gets ray all

the glory. I don't want it to be blurred.

I don't want it to be confused because we talked several weeks

here over the past several weeks concerning identity, and the

adversary to identity is confusion.

I, the adversary to identity is confusion.

Mix it, muddle it. Let it be so loosely defined it

could pass either or confuse it. What I want to do tonight, I'm

coming to a close. I'm not even holding you that

long. What I want to do tonight is as

a man. I want to commit as a man to

reflecting the image and the glory of God openly.

It's not closet Christianity for the apostles, he said.

This thing was not done in a corner somewhere.

Was it done in a corner somewhere?

You're talking about men that were willing to unabashedly

pronounce the name of Christ, even pulled off to prison, told

not to do it again, go right out to the street and do it again.

That gave their life's blood as martyrs.

Now, if you don't believe they believed in it, we're all just

eating baloney here tonight because they gave their life's

blood. They believe it so adamantly.

I saw something done in the corner, mom.

Now that's something they said I unashamedly and we'll get to

this next week. But folks, it leads us into the

next principle, right? The principle of love because

we, we, we do some of the things we do.

We think we're really doing it because we love him, but we're

really doing it because he first loved us.

And I'm overwhelmed. I'm overwhelmed that he would

predispose love to me, what I'm doing to.

I'm just reacting. I'm reacting to love.

I know it looks like me loving him, but I'm really just

reacting to this super abundance of love.

Oh God, man, I feel the Holy Ghost because I there's some

things you all are in relationships.

There's some things you do in relationships.

And when I ask why, why I love her.

But when it really comes down, you have just been loved so much

by that individual. It's just a response for you.

It's just a response. I don't need to get in the next

week. Get me up here.

Teary mess here, though not why do you do what you do?

It's what did he do? I can't believe.

I can't believe you do that. I can't believe they make you do

that. Nobody's making me do anything.

Listen, my name is Paul McGee. I decide when I want to get up

in the morning, when I'm going to take a shower, when I'm going

to eat my meal. I decide what time I'm going to

come over here to the church. I'm a grown adult.

I decide what I decide who I'm going to work for.

Cindy. At the end of the day, it's not

about me. It's about him.

And I want my life to point the glory in the proper direction

because Paul Mcgee's a slob. Paul Mcgee's a no good low down

Sinner. Had it not been for the grace of

God, I wouldn't have a chance. I don't have nothing to stand up

here on my own. I can't make my own way and

chart my own path. So if anybody's going to have a

testimony about what Paul Mcgee's done, they're lying.

The moment they start speaking, we better be testifying about

what He has done. Look what the Lord has to He

healed my body. He changed my mind.

He saved me just in time. Oh yeah, My shield vocoda, my

tie on my you'll stand with me tonight.

God, I love you. Can we just raise our hands?

Man? I feel the Spirit of the Lord

right now. God, you deserve it all.

God, you deserve it all. You deserve it all.

You deserve it all. You deserve it all.

It's yours, God. It's yours, God, It's yours,

God, The glory, the honor, the majesty, Lord, it all belongs to

you, Jesus. It all belongs to you, Jesus.

It all belongs to you, Jesus. I love you, O Lord.

I love you, O Lord, I love you O.

Lord God is all things. Lord, to you, through you.

Lord Jesus, from you. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus, thank you. Jesus, Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Maybe when's the last time just

I mean, do you ever just have moments in prayer or any other

time that you just kind of set there every once in a while and

just in All in all of your God, whether it be just little

sentences like in Genesis, where kind of like a footnote it says

and he made the stars also. And we can't even number him.

But it's kind of like if I don't he did that or then

understanding what he's done for you personally, Do you ever just

step back? Why me?

Why then? God, I love you, man.

He's a good God. You can shake hands and be

friendly, hug one another's neck.

Hannah, just all. He's been good to me, Brother

Reese been good to me. When I look back over my life

and I think things over, I can truly say I've been blessed.

Lori, I'm serious folks. You, you all can.

I'm just going to sit up here and just be a blurry mess, OK?

Amen. I hope you have a great week.

Remember our things for Sunday Spring conferences this Friday

and Saturday in Indianapolis at where the Canons Church.

If anybody desires to go, I'll kind of put this out here,

Brother Ethan. Brother Ethan was asking if

anybody was going to go up Friday and come back home

Friday. I told him I didn't know.

I told him he could pay something and maybe the connect

group linked and maybe find out. So if that happens to be you,

talk to Brother Ethan. I think he would like to ride

with you or maybe have a group effort.

So just kind of putting that out there.

God bless you tonight in Jesus name, Amen.

Thank you for your attention, your diligence tonight, Amen.

God bless you.