You Can Count On Grace | Bishop McGee

Let it rise. Oh, let's let the praise of the

Lord rise. Come on, let the praise of the

Lord rise tonight. Hallelujah.

Come on, let's let it rise. I feel His presence in this

house. The glory of the Lord is in this

place. Amen.

I want to let that rise tonight. I don't want that to fall

unnoticed that His presence is in this house tonight.

Thank you for being here tonight.

I appreciate you being here, praise the Lord.

Hopefully tonight, before I'm through that, God's going to

encourage and strengthen some of you.

Hallelujah. I feel the Lord in here, Amen.

I'm going to be turning to Romans chapter 5, and then I

Romans 5 · chapter mention

will be turning to 2nd Corinthians 12.

Amen. Hallelujah.

Greetings to you. That's online tonight.

I'm sure we've got some of our shut insurance there.

Sister Margaret and sister Angie, Sister Jessup.

Amen. Let's remember all of these

tonight. Hallelujah, Romans 5 and verse

20. How many is going to help me

preach tonight? I feel something.

God's been working me over just kind of the last few weeks, and

I've went to bed sometimes and had to get up and go sit down

and pray and study and read and do the same thing again.

It's been a week full of that, and that's all right.

As long as it's for the Lord, then that's all right, Amen.

I've even had helper this week that's helped me a little bit,

and I appreciate that. I want you to tell, I want you

to know that that I appreciate the help.

Amen. Romans 5 and verse 20.

Moreover, the law entered by the offense might abound, but where

grace or where sin abounded, grace did much more about now

I'm going to turn to 2nd Corinthians chapter #9 very

familiar scriptures that you have all read and all your life

far starting at verse #9 of chapter 12.

Paul here. And he said unto me, My grace is

sufficient for thee, my strength.

Everybody said, My strength is made perfect in weakness.

Most gladly, therefore will I rather glory in my infirmities,

that the power of Christ may rest upon me.

Therefore I take pleasure in infirmities, in reproaches, in

necessities, in persecutions, for when I am weak, then am I

strong. Heavenly Father, I pray tonight,

Lord, you would surround us tonight with your presence.

God, I have prayed, I have sought you.

Lord, I've run references and read and read and read.

And this week, God, has been a hard week, but God, you've came

through and I'm glad for that, God.

And I'm asking you that you would help me in my weakness,

God, to minister strength, Lord, And to your hearers tonight,

that they would be encouraged and they would be in strength in

God, by your word, not my word, Lord, but your word in the name

of Jesus right now, Lord, Amen and Amen.

And you can be seated. Hallelujah.

What a great God we serve. I want to preach tonight on this

subject. It's been rolling through my

mind now for weeks. And I want to preach to you.

You can count on grace. You can count on grace.

I want you to look at your neighbor and say you can count

on grace. We know it because we've got her

in our midst. You can count on grace.

Amen. Let's just, let's just go to the

where. In fact, if you wouldn't mind,

I'm, I'm just going to go on and drop down and read 2nd

Corinthians 12 and 9 through 10 in the amplified version.

Just a minute. But he said unto me, my grace,

my favor and loving kindness here.

Here's that word and and mercy is enough.

Everybody said it's enough. It's enough for you, sufficient

against any danger. Here we go, and enables you to

bear the trouble manfully and fully.

For my strength and word and again and power are made

perfect, fulfilled and complete. Glory or that.

Brother Jerry read this and now and show themselves most

effective in your weakness. Therefore I will all the more

gladly glory in my weaknesses and infirmities, that the

strength and power of Christ the Messiah may rest, yes, may pitch

a tent over the over and dwell upon me.

Oh, I like it. Going to pitch a tent over me.

I'm going to make sure I'm safe. So for the sake of Christ, verse

10, I am well pleased and take pleasures and infirmities,

insults, hardships, persecution, perplexities and distresses.

For when I am weak in human strength, then am I truly

strong, able, and powerful in divine strength.

Oh, I like that. Praise the Lord, man.

Merriam Webster's dictionary says grace means unmerited

divine assistance given humans for their regeneration.

Mercy, pardon, special favor and charm.

Glory, the Interpreters Interpreter's Dictionary of the

Bible, when I began just to look at it, it's got 5 pages to

describe grace. Think about that.

Amen. So I want, I want somebody to

shout, somebody shout. Grace is a big deal.

Grace is a big deal. It is grace is a big deal, Amen.

For grace encompasses everything that God is, all of the things

that speak about God, His goodness, His strength, and all

of it. All of this encompasses God.

That's what God is. He is grace.

Amen. Under the law, righteousness was

demanded. But under grace, righteousness

is a gift. Under the law, blessings came by

obedience. Under the law, Amen.

Under grace, blessings are a free gift.

Under the law, men were judged by the law.

Under the law, men became the judge by the law, but under

grace, God is the judge. Aren't you glad of that

Hallelujah. So the definition of grace that

I read somewhere the other day and I don't even remember where

it got, but I I read it and I liked it and it said this

because I thought if this don't describe God in his grace, it

says to bend OR stoop in kindness to an inferior.

If that isn't God, because when I think about how he got down

and he got his hands dirty for you and me and we're inferior to

him, yet he bowed to our knees. And I want you to know all these

years later, God is still bowing to our knees.

You can count on grace. Grace will not fail you.

He'll bend down every time to you and He'll pick you up out of

the the miry sinned and he'll show you grace.

Hallelujah. Thank God for grace, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah. I want you to know though, that

grace is humble. Grace is young.

Mayor merited favor of God toward man Hallelujah, the death

and the great nation of grace is is just so as how he bends to

us. Yeah, I want to.

I want to show you. I want you to get a picture of

grace. Hallelujah.

I want you to see grace. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah.

I've got grace, but I want to put it on.

OK. I want to put on grace.

Thank you, Jesus. I mean, he's got grace.

I got grace. But I want to put on grace

because I don't taste them. We don't look at grace.

I think enough. I I think we look at it, but not

seriously. I'm going to tell you something

about grace. See, look at this shirt.

I don't know, Back and forth behind someplace you might find

a few smudges. That's what grace does.

It gets its hands dirty for you. And we think of Grace that it's

all well put together and it's, it's so fine.

And you know, it's, it's in its best, but Grace does its best in

the dirt. Come on.

Because Grace, it gets all twisted up, you know, You know,

there's not always that you could really read Grace.

But Grace works. Grace puts on its work clothes.

Let me tell you, Grace is no different than any one of us.

We get Grace and we think it's all dressed up in a suit, you

know, and it's got its tie on and it's got its Sunday shoes

on. And we think that's Grace.

But I want to tell you, Grace is humble.

Yeah, man, it, it comes in, it's comfortable.

It feels good. No matter what's going on, Grace

feels good. And and we twist it up.

Grace don't twist himself up, but we twist up Grace.

If we're not careful, we hurt Grace's feelings.

Every time you go against God, you've hurt his feelings, but he

loves you enough that he gets down in the dirt right where

you're at and he says it's all right and he'll pick you back up

again. I don't care if it's a dozen

times or two dozen times. God will never fail you.

Grace, you can count on him. Grace is good, you can count on

him. Poor Jesus.

Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.

Hallelujah. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Aren't you glad for favor?

It's the favor. It's the goodness.

It's the mercy. It's everything.

Hallelujah. Did you catch that?

That, that God bows to your knees.

Did you catch that, that Grace sees you at the altar?

When you think I've done everything that anybody can do,

I've been the worst of sinners, I'm not worthy of anything.

And Grace gets right down there beside you.

And, and if you have to Waller in the floor a little bit, Grace

gets down, the Waller's in the floor a little bit with you.

And he says it'll be all right. Hey, you've not lost it.

Everything will be all right. I'll still take care of it.

I'll forgive you. You know why?

Because you can count on grace. Because grace will never fail

you. Grace is what he wants you to

have. And it will not fail you.

Oh, Jesus. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.

This is the way it is. You know, we got to watch

Hallelujah. Let me tell you something.

Hebrews 4 and one says, let us therefore fear lest a promise or

by said a promise being left us of entering into his rest.

Any of you should to come see to come short.

I don't want to come short. And if we come short, it's not

God's fault. He's got enough grace to save

you. Come on, woo, Paul said I, I

prayed 3 times for God to heal me of this thorn in the flesh.

I don't know what it was. You can you can have your own

little thing on it. But nobody really knows what

that thorn was but he. But he said I prayed for it

three times. I've sought him that he would

heal me. You got to understand Paul's a

man that he prayed for others and they were healed.

Why can't I pray for myself and be healed?

Anybody ever been there? Come on, come on.

You've prayed for somebody else and God touched them and healed

them, but here you are. You're going through all of this

mess, Paul said. I've sought him three times and

he's turned me down three times. But then he said, he said, Paul,

my grace is sufficient. The truth is, I'm right down

where you are, Paul. It's all right.

Come on. If you get in prison, I'm going

to be there. Come on.

If you're preaching against the enemies and they're beating you,

I'm going to be there. Come on.

In fact, really, if they're beating you, they're not beating

you, but they're beating me. It's for me that they're beating

you. It isn't for yourself, Paul.

So my grace is going to be physician going to going to be

all right. Hey, my grace is sufficient for

you because I'm going to make it to where you won't feel the pain

so bad. Come on, Paul, I'm going to take

care of you. No matter where you're at,

whether you're in prison. I don't care where you're at.

I'm going to take care of you. You know why?

Because you count on grace. God's grace is real.

Come on. You don't have to worry about

it. It's strong.

Come on. You can't destroy it.

Come on, somebody say Amen. I said you can't destroy it.

There's some of you that think you've done went past grace.

But honey, I don't care how far you go away from God, you'll

never destroy the grace of God because you can count on grace.

You understand, Bishop, I've been the worst of sinners.

I don't care how bad you are, God won't fail you.

Grace is always there. It's around the next corner.

If you've not found it yet, maybe it's there.

Hallelujah, glory, Hallelujah. Well, what made grace so?

You know what made it so good? Well, I want to tell you what it

made. Why Grace is so good is because

He made it accessible to us when He had taken all the sins of

this world on his body and he hung on the tree and every one

of those sins was nailed to that cross.

I'm talking about grace. And he threw out his arms and

said it's finished. And when he said it's finished,

Grace opened up and the temple from the top to the bottom, the

veil was rent into. And you think he's going to fail

you now Come on, can I tell you the doors open to grace?

Come on, the curtain has been wrenched.

Come on, you, you, you don't understand.

You can dig it into grace now and first hand you can go before

the Lord and say, OK God, I lay all my sins down there.

And the Lord said, OK, you're forgiven.

You just got to ask him and he'll forgive you.

That's how simple grace is. Come on, somebody ought to

shout. You can count on grace.

I said you can count on grace. Thank you, Jesus.

Grace is real and it's wonderful.

Hallelujah. Grace opened the door whenever

he died on the cross and the veil was renting twain.

He opened the door for every one of us and from then on he's been

saying my grace is sufficient. You know why?

Because you can go in at will. I don't care if it's 3:00 in the

morning. You go in and Grace said I'll

take care of it. Come on.

I had a high the other night. It was 330, I don't know, 4:00

in the morning. I made my way down the stairs

and I walked back to that there fancy, you know, workouts place

that we've got with all of the latest tools.

I'm talking about old, not new. And I walked in there and I

worked out for an hour and I went back to bed.

Guess what? Next morning it still wasn't

down like I wanted it to be. But guess what?

Before the day was over, it was all right.

You know why? Because grace is sufficient.

Even at 3:00 in the morning. You can't count on grace.

If you can't find the doctor, you can't find the nerves.

You haven't got enough pain pills.

Take care of it. I'm here to wait to testify to

you that you can't count on grace.

Because grace will never let you down.

Rory. Hallelujah, Hebrews 4 and verse

1516. For we have not a high priest

which cannot be touched with the feeling.

Everybody said the feeling of my infirmities.

Somebody say my sickness, my pain, my troubles, my

temptation, whatever. Oh Jesus, Hallelujah.

But was in all points tempted like as we, yet without sin.

That's why you can count on grace that he's he's he's not

sin. He's never sin.

You've never caused him a burden.

He's always giving you grace. So verse 16, let us therefore

come boldly. Everybody said boldly unto the

throne of grace. All right, I want to tell you

something. I want to tell you something.

I want you to get the right picture of grace when I go to

the throne room. Grace is there and there's

always a welcome sign in front every time you enter in and you

think Grace and mercy's done. You've you've done used it all

up. There's there's no more grace

given he he don't have enough for me.

Come on. It's what he he's a he's a too

bad. I wish Kevin was here.

Kevin, I know you felt like you've done gone too far and

you've used all the grace of God.

I'm telling you right now, there is a welcome sign right before

the throne of grace and you can walk.

Come on now, you can walk through the door and you can

kneel down and you can lay all the cares, all the sins, all of

your troubles, everything that you've gone through, what you're

going through right now, and grace will take care of it

because you can count on grace. Oh Jesus, grace will never fail

you. Hallelujah.

Let's not forget there is a throne of grace.

Let us not forget that we can find grace there.

If you forget everything else about this message, remember one

thing. There is always a welcome mat at

the grace, at the door of grace. When you walk through that door,

when you walk through where those curtains once was, there's

a welcome sign that says come on in, I've got you.

Come on, come on in. I've got this.

Come on in, we've got this. Come on.

If you just lay your head before him, if you'll lay your heart

down there on there and say, OK, God, take my heart, take my

flesh, Take everything that I've got.

Lord, I lay it on the altar before you.

I want to taste something. You can count on grace because

they'll do it. Grace will do it.

Somebody said grace will do it. Some of you that don't believe

say grace will do it. Amen.

It will do it. It will every time praise the

Lord. Hallelujah.

I dare say tonight that in the midst of this congregation are

Christians and sinners may be alike in here, that the devil

has been condemning you about some mistake or sin you have

done and telling you how worthless you are.

Come on, How there's no hope for you.

In fact, he's telling you that you have went beyond the grace

of God. I want you to know you can count

on grace. Come on.

The come on. The veil's been ripped.

It's not there anymore. It's not keeping us out anymore.

We're welcome in. Oh, Jesus, Hallelujah.

Thank you. Jesus, Hallelujah.

I began to think about this and I I don't know.

I hope I brought it. I didn't.

I know where there's one at. Real good quick.

Jesus, Lord, where's it? I want to tell you what's going

on. Something struck me this

afternoon. Wasn't really in my message, but

it fits so well that I thought I might seem like God just began

to take to me. God is.

So, you know, we're living in a time of measuring now.

I'm going to talk to young people a while.

I'm telling you, we're living in a generation and then I'll get

to the middle age and the older people.

But we're living in a world today that you all young people

are up against some things. There is somebody always

measuring you. Come on.

Somehow you, you know where it is in the youth there, there is

this thing that goes through them.

Nobody has to say anything, but you know it is because it just

happens and you can see it. They get so messed up, you know,

because there's there. It seems you don't know where

you're with the in crowd or the out crowd.

So you begin to look around and see what's wrong with you.

And, you know, you've looked around and you see the football

players and the cheerleaders and all of that.

And everybody seems to be, you know.

Oh, right. That's how you do.

Yeah. That's how you get in with the

good of the people is you. You take those, it's, you know,

that's popular and and you get. And that's nothing but a lie of

the devil. What he's doing is trying to

lead you away from God, not to God.

So we're living in that kind of world every day.

Every day they're measuring. Well, we'll see what Mariah is,

you know. Hey.

Yeah, we'll we'll check her out. We'll see.

You know, we we got to see. Well, maybe it's the people you

work with. If I can get on the good side of

them, you know, it's. I've got the wrong friends.

I need to change my friend, you know, I need to put some of

these on the blacklist and I need to accept some of these

that I haven't had anything to do with.

And maybe that's the way that I get on the good side.

So here we go. We're hey, sports is a thing

today. We're sports, mind.

I don't care if we're in church. You're sports minded.

I'm not preaching against sports, but I'm preaching too

much of it can take you away from God.

If you're if you're staying home from church because there's a

game going on, you know what? You're asking God to get down in

the dirt with you because it ain't dirty, but it is when you

make it dirty. It is when you stay home and and

then and you're watching the game and at church, there may be

something going on that night that you needed to hear.

God may had a blessing stowed up for you.

He had that night all sewed up just for you and you missed it

because you weren't there. Or help us and we ain't the

game. And the rapture takes hold.

I won't be at the right kind of game.

Come on. Hey, you can count on grace.

It won't fail you. This world will fail you.

The friends that you thought were your friends will fail you.

But grace will not fail you. Well, watch it, Bishop.

You know, you're in a vulnerable place there.

You're in a you're in apartment and there's all kinds of people

lives there. And I'm kind to all of them, but

they're not all the same. They don't all know God.

Now I hope before we're through they will, but they don't right

now. So I'm going to tell you the

grace of God counts. If we will take them to the

throne of grace, Don't you think God will answer our prayer for

them the same as He will if you come yourself?

Is any sick among you? Let him call for the elders of

church anointing with oil and the prayer face shall save the

sick and the Lord shall raise them.

Grace you can count on. Oh, yeah.

Thank you, Jesus. Oh, glory, I've got to get busy.

You got to work on grace here a little bit.

Hallelujah. You know, here it is who made

the last winning point and won US that ball game.

He didn't win you that ball game.

You were a team. But whoever made those last

points, hey, they led us to victory.

No, the whole, the whole team did.

Come on. We're working for each other

right now. We're trying to help each other.

Then we can go to heaven. But it ain't going to be me that

you got you through the gates. Come on.

You got to understand that we got to do this for ourselves.

Come on. Grace is the same to you as it

is to me. It's no different to any of God.

Will do the same for you that he will for me.

I've had people say I need you to come and pray.

So no, you got the same Holy Ghost.

I got this. You just pray, come on.

The same power that's in your, in your prayers in mind, It's

the same. It's come on, I'm no different.

I don't care if I'm a Bishop. I make mistakes just like you

do. And every now and then God's got

to get his hands down in the dirt for me.

You know what I can count on grace.

So say, what I know is if I get down, if God has to get down in

the dirt with me, I know he's going to forgive me because you

can count on grace. Oh, yeah, yeah.

Let's work on this a little bit. Now, who's the who's the king

and queen of the homecoming game?

Oh, if I could get in with that, maybe maybe I could get in high

priority place. Maybe people would start looking

at me. I'm going to tell you God's

grace is good, but I'm going to tell you he's not going to put

you in a place that'll put you in a bad place.

Amen. Yes, Sir.

He's not going to take you to a place where you shouldn't be.

He's going to make you safe where you're at.

Oh, glory Hallelujah. Who's the top of the class?

Here we go. Well, bless God, did you see

where they're at up there? Let me tell you something.

And I ain't going to tell you which ones or nothing.

I've, I've had kids at the top five, the class and I've had

some that wasn't that high. They was mediocre like me.

Not that I couldn't do it. Not that you couldn't do it.

You just didn't have the desire to do it.

You know what? There's a lot of people in

church that knows they've got what they need to get it done,

but they don't want to work at it.

He loves you all the same. Come on.

He's not going to quit loving you just because you say, well,

I don't think it's worth it. I can't do it.

It's it's I've done too much wrong.

I'm going to tell you. You can count on Grace.

Who's the most popular? Well, let's we don't watch it.

This works its way into church. I want to be with that elite

group at church. I want to be on Brother Reese's

side. He got a lot of friends I want.

I want to be where he's at. You know who his friend is?

Jesus, you know how I found him, He walked into the throne room

one day, he said God, I'm tired of where I'm at.

And he said I forgive you and guess what?

He got baptized in Jesus name, filled with the Holy Ghost and

he's with the elite group. Can I tell you if you've got the

Holy Ghost, it don't get no better than that.

You're with the elite group. Come on, you've got power, same

as I got power. When you receive the Holy Ghost,

ye shall receive power. Eight.

Yeah. Acts 1 and 8.

Oh, yeah. All right.

We've dealt with the young people now.

Now let's deal with people as a whole.

I'm going to deal with this because this hits everybody.

Yeah. Oh, bless God.

You never believe how many followers I got on Facebook.

How many you got? I got more than you got.

Big deal. I don't have Facebook.

My wife does. I'm going to tell you I'm really

concerned about Facebook. I love Facebook because the

other day she picked it up and started reading me something.

So I dear, if I want Facebook, I'd have it.

I care less about it. I don't.

I don't want it takes up too much of my good time.

I can spend more time reading the Bible and praying and

seeking God. I can go before the throne of

grace and get things straightened up my own life.

Come on, how many? Has any got anything you'd like

Straighten up with God. If you want to get it straight,

you better drop Facebook and drop to your knees because this

is where it happens. That's how you get with the

Elite crew. You're not going to find him out

there on that Harley-Davidson. Well, you might, but I know the

story because he told me the same night from the path.

Hey, it's a God thing. He's even here.

He hadn't hadn't hit that beam at the end of that road and the

Lord threw him up over that beam and then the if he hadn't have

thrown him over, he didn't have a helmet on, he wouldn't be

here. He'll tell you that.

He'll tell you that God put him on over that thing.

And he said if it wasn't there, I'd have probably went on out

and died anyway because he didn't have a helmet on.

And there's a great big ditch there.

Come on now, come on now. And he said when I was in that

helicopter headed to Champagne, he said I was praying to Jesus

all the way. I want to tell you there is a

time in you. All of this stuff.

If you neglect God's mercy enough, he'll put you in place.

You got to pray. If if you forget God, God will

forget you for a while. You'll know when you come to the

end of mercies because something's about to happen.

He won't kill you. He might make you wish he was

dead. The pains get harder.

Oh, yeah, yeah, it's, it's that way.

You know, Facebook friends, you know who's got the best video on

YouTube? I got all kinds of these files.

If I get enough, I can make money.

Baloney. If you pay your ties, you can

make money too. Sister McGee and I can tell you

that because it's been over well over 60 years, and we paid our

ties in the church, I'm going to tell you something.

God took care of us, always has, always will.

Even with five kids at home with when I got laid off on a job, he

still took care of us. My own pastor would come to me

and say, Brother McGee, Are you sure everything's all right?

I said, Brother Sizemore, I got money in my pocket just like I'm

working every day and I was working every day.

Hey, God will even take care of you when the one that laid you

off right about Christmas time in October when nobody's harmed

as a mechanic, that guy that that guy that laid me off, he

went and tried to get my unemployment shut off and I

hadn't even received a check yet.

Guess what that this guy was offered a job and didn't take

it. I went, I kept myself.

I kept myself even though I never did draw but one check, I

think part of one check. And after that my phone started

ringing and customers started calling me and I started working

and just like I was always and I work from October through March.

And somebody was waiting till I said, soon as bigness picks up,

you're hard. And he said I turned down a job.

This guy, this guy that laid me off said he, he turned down a

job. Guess what?

I went into the unemployment office that day and walked up to

that guy because I had done this all the time I was there and any

money that I had made, anything, I kept track of it on piece of

paper and I laid it down before him.

I stayed honest. I didn't try to do it without

paying the government. I paid the government.

And that guy took one look at me and he said don't worry about

it. He can say what he wants.

I've seen you every week. Come on, you can count on us,

Grace. Grace will work when you haven't

got any money. Grace will take care of your

family. I don't care what kind of shape

you're in. God's grace works.

Hallelujah. He took care of us and we got a

job and went back. Thank you, Jesus.

Everybody said thank you, Jesus. So you know how many followers

you got on YouTube with your little video?

Oh, I can beat that. Mine's gaining all the time.

Yeah, but how about the grace of God?

How's it doing? Are you growing in grace?

Hallelujah. Well, glory.

Who cooks the best? How about cooks better than

everybody? Bless God, I'm.

And all of you can cook something.

Some of you may be better in Aries, another, but I I doubt if

there's one in here that can't cook something that I'll eat.

So that don't matter. Who makes the best cookies?

Yeah. Whose church is the biggest?

Oh, oh, whose church is the biggest?

Well, y'all run? Well, I run every day.

I put in three miles a day. No, no, no.

I mean how many people you got in your church?

What does that matter? How many you got, How many

sinners you got in your pews? How many people you got in your

church? It's filled with the Holy Ghost

and baptized in Jesus name. Come on, come on.

I'm sorry, but my Bible says if you're not filled with the water

and the Spirit, you can't even see the Kingdom of God.

There's not a chance of going. And else you're right and his

grace is sufficient for you, but you've got to seek after it.

This part Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus, Hallelujah.

All right, whose preacher is the best?

Whose music's the best? My music's better than you.

Our piano player can. Oh, yeah, they can play better

than yours. My preacher preaches better than

yours. Man, Man, you know what's the

difference? I've heard people say it.

I don't, I'm not, I'm not in for that Holy Ghost.

But I'd like to preach like you all do.

Well, if you're wanting the power, honey, you're going to

have to get to the throne of grace and repent and be baptized

in Jesus name, filled with the Holy Ghost.

Then you'll have that power. Then you can preach like so and

so preaches. Come on.

Because I'm going to take you counting on grace.

Oh yeah. Oh, Jesus.

Thank you Lord, I want to tell you something.

We got to remember something. See, I began thinking, I thought

the the lady that give the might Lord says she give more than

y'all. It wasn't how much she gave.

She gave all she had. When you, when you give all you

could have, Sister McGee, during that time, I was laid off.

We never missed paying ties. When you obey the word of God,

God will take care of you in the midst of it because grace don't

fail. You can count on grace.

God sees and he knows. It'll work, Y'all, It'll work.

Hallelujah. And then then let's, let's,

let's, let's, let's, let's look at this a little bit.

Yeah. I'm just giving this to you for

a reference. Not I'm not.

Don't. It's not up there.

It's all right. Matthew.

Amen. 13 and 14. You know what Bible says?

Many that go into that wide gate.

Many, everybody said many but few that go through the straight

gate. Come on.

If you want to go with the crowd, honey, you're going the

wrong way. Come on.

If you want to go with those, it's popular and seems to be

more of, go ahead. But I'm telling you, the fuse,

what's going to make it? See, you got to remember

something. It wasn't heaven that enlarged

itself, but it was hell enlarged itself.

What I'm saying here tonight is God was counting on you.

So he wasn't going to have to make hell any bigger because

it's, you know, he may have to enlarge a little more, but he

ain't going to make heaven any bigger because he knows you're

in the right faith going to be all right.

It's going to be all right. Hallelujah.

Matthew 20 and verse 16. I'm not, it's not, I'm not going

there, but says the last shall be 1st and the 1st shall be

last. He says few that many are

called, but there's just a few chosen.

Is that the way God is? Hallelujah, Hallelujah, thank

you Jesus, Hallelujah. So let us not forget the throne

of grace. Let us not forget there's people

in our midst that needs God. See Romans 81 says there is

therefore now no condemnation to them there when Christ who walk

not after the flesh. Let me let me remind you Amen.

There is no condemnation to them that love the Lord none.

You hear that Jonas sin by obeying, by not obeying God and

ended up in the wells belly, but he he went to the throne of

grace and found favor again with God and the Lord restored him

back to the ministry. Come on your, your past, your

past and those things you've done wrong.

I'm going to tell you it's not going to matter because God's

grace is enough. It's enough to take care of

every one of your sins. He he don't look at you and say

no, you're you know, hey, people think, well, I can never get

back to where I was. Oh yeah, you can.

You can go past that because I believe when you come back to

God, he's going to take you farther than you've ever been

just to show you that his grace is sufficient.

You're going to understand the Bible better than you've ever

understood it because you're going to read it with passion.

You know why? Because grace.

You can count on it. It won't fail you.

Hallelujah, Jesus. Well done.

Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Peter denied the Lord, but he

found favor at the throne of grace.

That's right. And Day of Pentecost.

And he became the messenger. You know what?

Can you imagine how Peter's shirt must have looked?

He denied him. He covered up the grace of God.

But the Lord didn't forget him. He didn't even forget Judas.

When they come to get him. Come on, when, when he he even

sold the Lord and whenever he they come in the Garden of

Gethsemane, he called him friend.

Come on, you can count on grace. So the Lord says, I'm going to

take care of it, Peter. So on the day of Pentecost, you

know what? Peter didn't go back to the

denier. Guess what?

Grace, Grace, grace drove him to a new place in God that he'd

never been. Come on.

Instead of being a denier, he became somebody that would

preach the gospel no matter what.

You know what? Because you can count on grace.

Oh Jesus, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

See Jesus, don't condemn. He convicts and whether you that

that is a conscience feeling that God puts in every one of us

from birth to know right from wrong.

In other words, He don't sentence you to death, but he

brings to life conviction in you and you know when you've done

something wrong. Y'all know what I'm talking

about You ever space you get the Holy Ghost through it.

You know it's before it's there anyway because it was born in

you to know right and wrong. But did you know after you get

the Holy Ghost, there's something that grabs you and

says you really know when you've done something because the Holy

Ghost is your teacher and it gives you a feeling.

What you saying, Bishop? I'm telling you, grace will not

fail you. Even when you're in question,

grace will not fail you. Thank you, Jesus, Hallelujah.

Got to hurry up, got to got to get done.

Hallelujah. What he does is he brings to

life conviction in you and now you know when you're doing

wrong. Matthew Henry says this and I, I

thought my, this is good. He says the stream of grace and

righteousness is deeper and broader than the stream of

guilt. He said we are not only feeding,

we are not only freed from our chains, but like Joseph, we're

advanced to the second chariot. Not just pardon, but prefer.

I can all get you all thinking like that, that God prefers you

when he when he come down and he picked you up out of sin, he

handpicked you, Sister Ray, and he's not sorry at that.

He's glad Brother Ray's when Reese, when he picked you up out

of the sin and set your feet on the rock, he preferred you.

Grandma told me that she preferred you to be in this

church. And I I told her I preferred her

to be here with him. You can come in and sit down

with us. Grammy, Be fine.

So she gave me a little spill, and I just let it go.

You know, I'll get her another time.

Come on. You know why?

Because, Grace, you can count on it.

So. So you know what?

I don't give up. Easy daddy over here she come

and the first thing she did she walked through the door.

She told my son, she said he don't give up for Jesus.

He's after me every day she she come and she she talked to me a

little bit and I'd tell her so well, you're try you're try come

to church. She said I tried that anymore

except besides that God don't care where you're at church or

not certain. No place in the Bible says you

get Oh yes Sir. Hebrews 10/25 says fail not to

assemble yourself together in the manner some isn't so much

more as you see the day approaching.

Really. So yeah, you don't come to

church. You've got to come to church If

you want to be a part of the church, you got to come to

church. Come on.

Hey, this is a family of God and I don't care.

I need you as much as you need me.

This isn't just one or two hands.

It's got their hand in the pie here.

Come on, we're in this together and there is power in numbers.

The more people that worships God in here, the more that's

going to. I just got to get somebody to

get excited with me, to run with me a little bit.

Been trying. I've been trying to talk to

Brother Pat, see if he wouldn't do a couple wheelies for us

tonight while we're preaching. I told you so, Brother Pat, I

could use you tonight. I need, I need people

worshipping while I'm preaching because see that that gives the

preacher more strength. I know you all wishing.

I just shut up. It's already red.

I told him. I said, man, you could do a

little wheelie on that, you know, with that thing.

Raise them front wheels up off the ground.

He didn't act like he won't do that.

That's where I preach. Maybe he'll you know, grace of

God, but do it right. Hallelujah.

Grace went with Joseph to the pit.

Grace went with him to Egypt. Grace went with him to Potter's

house. Grace went with him to prison,

and grace went with him to Pharaoh, and he became the

second in the chariot. Let me tell you, the devil and

people condemns you, but conviction comes from God.

You hear me that? Did you get that?

I said the devil and people condemns you, God don't.

He convicts you, convicts you, draws you to God.

You hear me? I said conviction draws you to

God. Conviction is God's way of

letting you know that you've made a mistake, but he invites

you to the throne of grace so you can take care of it.

Where you find the Bible says mercy and grace, mercy and

grace. Hallelujah, you can count on

grace. Come on, I'm here to tell you

the devil condemns you for your past because he knows you've got

a bright future. Oh, glory.

The woman caught an adulterer in John 8.

Mercy found her, and Grace got his hands dirty for her.

And Jesus got down and he was, you know.

Hey, here you go. It was some of these hell, you

know, we found her in the very act of adultery.

The Bible that the the law says that we are the Stoner.

What do you say it's down rights on the ground.

They were on the ground twice. Last time he got up and

everybody was gone. He said woman or is your

accusers. He said I have none.

Lord, I nobody condemned you. No, nobody said neither do I

condemn you. Go and sin no more.

Come on, you can count on grace. I don't care what you've done,

you can count on grace. Oh Hallelujah, thank you Jesus,

Hallelujah, Hallelujah. John 9 verse six and seven.

When he had said thus, he speed on the ground and made clay of

spittle, and anointed the eyes of the blind man with clay and

said to him, Go wash a pool of salon, which is interpretated by

interpretation sent. And he's went his way therefore

and washed came sing glory, Hallelujah Jesus.

And that just like Jesus, sometimes grace has to get its

hand dirty. Come on, church, you can count

on grace. Don't frustrate grace.

Don't cast it off. Don't set it aside.

Don't reject it. Don't count it as not musicians

can come. Hallelujah.

Micah 7 says that he'll take our sins and he'll cast them in the

depths of the sea. Psalms 100 and 312 says our sins

is removed from us as far as the east is from the West.

Jesus, you can count on grace. I want to promise you one thing,

you are not left out a stand. I promised myself I wasn't going

to preach our see. I did.

I feel like tonight there's some people in here, sorry, but

there's people in church that's got out their take.

But I want you to remember one thing.

There was a time, I don't care how much of A Christian you are,

how long you been a Christian, there is a time somebody could

have measured you because we've all depended on the grace of

God. There's not one of us that's

walked past His mercy and his grace.

He's been gracious. And he wants somebody tonight in

this house. Somebody's been wrestling.

There's some of you in this house been wrestling with the

old devil for a long time. And you've thought I'm never

going to be able to live for God, but you can.

He never removes the welcome sign.

It's always there. It's open night or day, 24 hours

a day. He visits you in the most

unusual time. Sometimes he'll put somebody in

your life that you just been praying for, or he'll deal with

some of your family members that you didn't think it ever changed

because they've been brought up a certain way.

But I'm going to tell you one trip sometimes to Apostolic

Church, and you start feeling something you've never felt

before. Lexi, I've never cried like this

for I don't understand. From the very first song, she

sat down by my wife and she was crying all the way through

church. She said I'm dying.

I don't know why I'm crying. Patty, it's all right.

It's normal. Know what that is?

That's God with his mercy. He said, come on, come on, come

on. I've got a welcome sign.

I can't come and pull you out. He's not going to make you come,

but he's inviting you because he, he tore the veil from the

top to the bottom and he give you entrance and there you are.

You're sitting there with all this problems and troubles and

heartaches and not knowing what to do with it.

And he's got the mercy, the throne.

He's got the he's got the the throne of grace open and

inviting you in. This altar is open tonight,

brother. You can sing something, just go

ahead.