The King's Return Is Enough | Pastor Paul McGee

Go to the scripture of Second Samuel 19.

I know it's been mentioned more than once, but this is Pentecost

Sunday. But, and that's true, but in my

ministry world today, it's Mephibosheth Sunday.

All right, Second Samuel, chapter 19.

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Some of you that don't even know who Mephibosheth is, is saying,

what in the world is he talking about?

So you read the book of Second Samuel, you'll get a good, a

good taste for it. Second Samuel 19 and I'm going

to read a few verses of Scripture tonight.

I know a lot of times we just give you a little snippet, but

I'm going to read a few verses this evening if that is OK.

If it's not, I'm still going to do it.

And the Bible says some verse 24.

And Mephibosheth the son of Saul came down to meet the king, had

neither dressed his feet, nor trimmed his beard, nor washed

his clothes, from the day the king departed until the day he

came again in peace. It came to pass when he was come

to Jerusalem to meet the king, that the king said unto him,

Wherefore went this not thou with me, Mephibosheth?

And he answered, My Lord, O king, my servant deceived me.

For thy servant said, I will saddle me in the ass, and I may

that I may ride there on and go to the king, because thy servant

is lame, he saith, and he hath rather slandered thy servant

unto my Lord the King. But my Lord the King is as an

Angel of God. Do therefore what is good in

thine eyes. For all of my father's house

were but dead men before my Lord the King.

Yet didst thou set thy servant among them that did eat at thine

own table? What right therefore have I yet

to cry anymore into the king? The king said unto him, Why

speakest thou anymore of thy matter?

I have said, Thou and Ziba divide the land.

And Mephibosheth said unto the king, Yeah, let him take all,

for as much as my Lord the king has come again in peace unto his

own house. We'll look at it tonight.

But whenever Mid FIBA chef was once introduced to the King's

table, there was some things given back to him of the House

of Saul land to a great degree. We see that land transfer from

Mephibosheth's hands to Ziba hands and now it being split

almost like a compromise between both.

And so I want to minister just a little while on this tonight.

The King's return is enough. The King's return is enough.

Let's ask the Lord to help us the next little while.

Father, I need you got to thank you, Lord, for your people that

have been diligent all this week and faithful Lord, to your

house, God to come and worship and sing and Lord be

participants, the Lord in the ministry of the word.

I pray God, you'd strengthen their minds, their hearts, their

bodies. Pray God for your anointing.

God upon my lips of clay tonight, God, touch me one more

time. Touch my voice, the Lord

tonight, God, as I the Lord share this word, Lord, with your

people. God will thank you and will

praise you, Lord, for what you accomplished in this place.

In the name of Jesus Christ that I pray, Amen and Amen.

And you may be seated tonight in Jesus name.

In order to appreciate Mephibosheth's interaction with

King David at this particular juncture in the story, it's

important to understand Mephibosheth's back story to

appreciate this. When David initially sought out

Mephibosheth, he was, in essence, royalty that was living

beneath his privileges. Mephibosheth lived like a broken

fugitive in a place called Lodobar.

No land, no legacy he had. He was a mirror, and I say this

respectfully, but he was a mere cripple that was just scraping

out his existence amid bareness, believing that he deserved

nothing better. A few moments though, in David's

presence changed everything for Mephibosheth's life.

In addition to getting a place at the King's table, David said

I will restore the all the land of Saul, thy father, which was

in reality his grandfather. He got a restoration of

inheritance, not just a seat at the table.

Everything that his lineage had lost, the king restored.

As a matter of fact, I think it can be the reality of every

modern day individual that's been crippled by a fall.

Even today, some of us have family trees that are littered

with failure and with addiction and with trauma, and that has

left us, some of us, bewildered and on the backside of nowhere.

Similar to Mephibosheth. We don't believe we deserve

anything better because we've been handed a subpar legacy by

our forefathers and all those that went before us.

And we deem ourselves in, in a sense, as cripples.

No shape to approach the King, but I think it's important

tonight to understand that the King is seeking you out.

Someone say, mean a little time spent in his presence can change

your location, change your status, change your future.

In essence, what sin took, grace can restore.

Amen. Because grace has the ability of

not just forgiving us of our past, but it also can restore to

us what we had forfeited in our past.

The apostle Peter was a great spokesperson in the New

Testament for Jesus Christ. He was notably a leader among

the other. 12 He was tenacious in his spirit.

But after everything that took place at Gethsemane and the

activity that took place there. The Bible describes the apostle

Peter as following Jesus from a distance or from afar, and it is

recorded in Scripture that he denies that he has any

association with the Lord three times, whether he's himself by a

fire, whether someone interjects something and says, aren't you

one of those Galileans? He denies his association with

the Lord of three times. He was forfeiting, if you will,

what he felt like was his calling.

But after the resurrection, Jesus shows up on the scene

within the life of the Apostle Peter and he not only forgives

him but reinstates him with this command.

Feed my sheep. What he had lost, he is now

regaining. We read in the Old Testament

that Naomi is trusting her husband and leaves a famine

stricken Bethlehem Judah for a 10 year stint of time.

While there she loses her husband, she loses her two boys.

She says that whenever she left her home that she left full, but

when she returns back there, she's returning home empty.

Moab has taken much from her, more than just persons, but a

zeal, Amen, a zeal, Amen and a legacy that she once had.

She wants the natives as she's returning to Bethlehem, Judah,

She says, don't call me Naomi anymore.

Call me Mara because I'm bitter. I I feel like I've been dealt

with bitterly. So call me Mara.

But by the end of the book of Ruth, the Bible tells us clearly

that grace had given Naomi a grandson and a rich legacy

through Ruth that led all the way to Jesus Christ.

Grace can restore what we lost Samson in his lifetime of the

book of Judges. He betrayed A Nazarite vow that

was a on his life. And as a result of that, he's

blinded, he's imprisoned, he's made a mockery of among his

enemies. But in his final moments, the

Bible says, as his hair begins to grow back, he's standing

there and he's crying out to God and praying.

God, give me strength one more time.

And God grants it in so much that the Bible says the dead

which he slew at his death were more than which he slew in his

life. Can I tell you that with God,

He's a restorative God, and your last chapter can be stronger

than your failure even in weakness.

Grace gave Samson one more victory in addition to the

restoration. We're looking at Mephibosheth

here this evening. He not only got the land that

was restored, but the Bible tells us that Mephibosheth

received provision. Amen.

Without having to labor for it himself.

The Bible says that David set up Saul's servant Ziba and his sons

and the people that were committed under his care to till

the land for Mephibosheth to bring in the fruits for

Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth is a cripple.

He's lame in his feet. He could not work the land even

if he wanted to. But grace allowed him to reap

where he didn't even sow Amen. They bowed over their backs.

Amen. Ziba and his fifteen sons and

his 20 servants, ensuring that there would be a harvest that

would continue to flow for Mephibosheth.

And so God was providing grace, even through others, for

Mephibosheth. Mephibosheth was one of the

King's grandsons. Amen.

But David has him eating at his table as one of the King's sons.

Mephibosheth is the Old Testament rags to riches story.

He went from nothing to something from nowhere to

somewhere from an outcast as it were, to royalty again.

Grace adopted him back in the family, so much so that the

Bible says in Second Samuel 913. So Mephibosheth dewelt in

Jerusalem. For he did eat continually at

the King's table and was laying on both his feet.

Please note this was a A1 off with a meal.

This wasn't a one time invitation, but he continually

went to the King's table. Hey man, he ate there

continually. And almost as a side note at the

end of the sentence as and he was laying on both his feet.

Now that last phrase is important and it's a great

preaching point that most preachers preach all the time as

you see as a highlight. And that is different from the

New Testament where they would lay down and their feet would be

sticking out away from the table during the time of the kings.

And even in Hebrew culture they had low setting tables and OFT

times their feet were found underneath.

Just as we would sit at a table today, so Mephibosheth lameness

is covered by the table. Amen that he's been invited to.

I think it's important tonight to understand that his

brokenness didn't get fixed, but it did get covered.

All of these perks that he's getting at the hand of David the

king. He's been loaded down with

benefits, land restored, eating at the table of the king.

Amen has Amen, the very thing that he might be conscious of

and feel a little indifferent about.

Amen under the table of the king because he's accepted the

invitation of the king. If he had a list of check boxes,

all of them are being toggled. All of them are being checked

off. He's a blessed man.

Look at all of the perks of Mephibosheth.

That's why, in our text, David is confused.

That's why whenever David's own son Absalom is seeking to have

his throne, seeking to usurp his father's authority, and David

left Jerusalem, there's all sorts of people that's coming

alongside David as he's leaving, some leaving with him, some at

least taking him to the the brink of the Jordan.

And now David Mephibosheth, I restored his land.

I gave him a seat at the table. I brought him from nowhere to

somewhere. I've done all of these wondrous

things for Mephibosheth and when I was going through one of the

darkest hours of my own time, he was nowhere to be found.

He wasn't there alongside me. He didn't make the trip with me.

Where are you, Mephibosheth? David could even begin to argue

in his mind. Amen.

Where anybody that would listen. He said.

I had people that went with me, such as the man it Thai, the get

tight who is a Philistine from God.

The Bible says that it Thai had just newly aligned himself with

David. Did you understand he's a

Philistine that's often an enemy of Israel, a enemy of David.

David says I even had Itai that came alongside with me and he

vowed his Allegiant to allegiance to me.

And so David David even told Itai he says, hey, you don't

need to go. You're a Philistine.

You just even got here just yesterday.

Why go with me? But Itai's response was this.

In Second Samuel 1521, he said, As the Lord liveth, and as my,

the Lord the king live, surely in what place my Lord the king

shall be, whether in death or life, even there also will thy

servant be. Here is Itai.

He is a stranger. He is at most along the heap of

enemies. That would have been against

David. But Itai proves that loyalty

doesn't require a long history. Amen.

But we don't have a Mephibosheth.

You must understand it. Dies presence cast a greater

shadow on Mephibosheth's absence.

The Bible again describes that it.

I just joined the force yesterday.

If that's to be taken literally or figuratively, I don't know.

But Mephibosheth has been sitting at the table of the

king, reaping the benefits of his restoration, according to

Scripture, for about 25 to 30 years at this point.

So I got someone who's usually with my enemies that showed up

yesterday that's willing to make the trip with me and I got a

boy. I've showed every bed of

kindness I could show to and have for 25 to 30 years and he's

nowhere to be found. The Bible even says just give me

a moment here tonight. The Bible even says the show by

and Makir, and let me just Shobi is an Ammonite Makkir.

That should sound familiar because whenever David as Zyba,

is there anybody left I can show kindness to?

He said, yeah, there's one in the House of Makkir, the son of

Amiel in Lodibar. In other words, this is the same

man who previously sheltered Mephibosheth and he made the

trip and he said there's Barzilai, who, if you read

Scripture, was a very, very elderly man, a elderly

Gileadite. And now all of these three, an

Ammonite, mind you, again, which is historically an enemy of

Israel, shows up. A man who housed Mephibosheth

shows up, and now an elderly man shows up.

They're bringing beds, they're bringing food, they're bringing

supplies across the Jordan. But no Mephibosheth Bishop.

And so, in Second Samuel 1926, when Mephibosheth finally

appears before King David, after Absalom has already started his

rebellion, the Bible describes Mephibosheth.

His appearance is unkempt. No, no, no trimming of the

beard, no washing of his clothes indicating a clear picture of a

man that's in mourning because the king hasn't been around.

And David begins to question him about why didn't you come alone?

Why when it when, when individuals of enemy forces

showed up, why didn't you show up?

When, when, when you've been sitting at the table for 25 and

30 years and I've lavished everything I've known up on you,

You didn't show up. He's he's, he's questioning him

about all of this. And what pours out of

Mephibosheth, Mind you, it's not just an explanation, but it's

really the glimpse into a wounded heart that was still

loyal. Mephibosheth essentially says,

David, I know what you're saying, and I understand a

little bit where you're coming from, but I'm still living in

the shadow of something that happened long ago in my past.

I'm lame. And David, I wanted to go with

you, but my own weakness held me back.

And the one that I trusted to help Cyber, that servant, the

one that I trusted to help, he left me without taking me.

He didn't saddle a donkey on me. He didn't lift me up on that.

Don't don't get me wrong David, I'm not making excuses, I'm just

letting you know I've longed for you the whole time you've been

gone and my heart wanted to go where my crippled feet just

could not carry me. Because the deception of Ziba is

real. Imagine being in Zyba shoes.

Imagine the resentment that could have built up over 25 to

30 years as he and his sons and his servants has formed

Mephibosheth's land for him, brought in the goods and the

harvest for him, that old cripple.

Someone say man. For that matter, whenever David

initially asked, is there any sons of Saul?

You know, again, you can go back to Second Samuel 9 and verse 3

where that question is asked. Ziba says yes, but he didn't

leave it as though, yeah, there's still a son left.

He had to throw something else in, he said, but he's lame, as

though his lameness to disqualify him from David's

kindness. Cyber even takes it up a notch.

He wants it to make it look like in the eyes of David, that

Mephibosheth is disloyal and Mephibosheth is unthankful.

Let me read some more scripture. Second Samuel 16, verse one.

This is the deception of Ziba as David is leaving Jerusalem.

He's he's topping the Mount of Olives.

He's going to cross the Jordan because of the rebellion of his

son. And the Bible says, And when

David was a little past the top of the hill, behold, Zibah, the

servant of Mephibosheth, met him with a couple asses saddled and

up on them 200 loaves of bread and 100 bunches of raisins, and

100 of summer fruits, and a bottle of wine.

And the king said, And the Zibah, what meanest thou by

these? And Zibah said, the asses be for

the King's household. Look at this, look, look at

everything that I've done for you, king.

I showed up, Mephibosheth. But look at everything I've done

for you, the asses before the King's household to ride on the

bread and the summer fruit for the young men to eat, and the

wine that such as be faint in the wilderness may drink it.

Because I know you're going to crossover, Jordan, you're going

to enter the wilderness, you're going to need this.

I've thought ahead and verse 3 And the king said, and where is

thy master, son? He's referring to Mephibosheth.

And Zybush said unto the king, Behold, he abideth at Jerusalem.

For he said, Today shall the House of Israel restore me the

Kingdom of my father? Ziba is trying to make it seem

that Mephibosheth is more interested in the Kingdom than

he is the king. He covers Mephibosheth in such a

way that all the restoration that David is given, all the

land that he has restored, the status that he's placed upon his

life, all the kindness that he has shown, he's covering

Mephibosheth in such a way that David, everything that you've

done isn't good enough. Verse 4 says, then said the king

to Ziba, behold thine are all that pertained unto

Mephibosheth. Look at this.

Now what happened, Fred? Mephibosheth had it whenever he

came, but now he's saying, as a result of all this, I'm

transferring what was his and I'm giving it to you, Ziba.

And Ziba said, I humbly beseech thee that I might find grace in

thy sight, my Lord, O king. So here is David.

He's taken everything that was Mephibosheth and he's

transferring it over to Ziba. It was Mephibosheth, but now it

is Ziba's. And Ziba's probably thinking in

the back of his mind, success. I did it.

It should have belonged to me. For the past 25 years, I'm the

one that deals the land. I'm the one that works the land.

I'm the one that plants the seed.

I'm the one with the long hours harvesting the land for years,

everybody doing all right. Do you understand the scope of

this land? The land in question, the Bible

says was all the land of Saul likely held.

Royal lands that was for agriculture, royal lands for

provision. Because this was customary for

ancient kings. He had family lands that he

inherited through others that were part of the tribe of

Benjamin because it would never leave the tribe.

It would stay with the tribe. He had strategic property, no

doubt around about Gibeah, which was his hometown and his seat of

of rule. There's a possibility through

the wars and the battles that he thought that he had even

confiscated some lands and tributes that he ruled.

And now we know that all of this belongs to Ziba.

We know it was enough land that it supported Mephibosheth, Ziba,

his fifteen sons, and his 20 servants.

I'm talking about multiple fields, multiple vineyards,

multiple if you will, possibly even livestock.

And now it's all given to Ziba. Someone say man.

So as Mephibosheth informs David, he tells him, David, I've

been slandered. I've been slandered by Ziba.

I know you've heard his story. I'm just telling you I've been

slandered by Ziba and David. Here's what I got to say.

You're like the Angel of the Lord, he says.

You just do whatever you believe is right.

You just do whatever you believe is honorable because I

understand my position, David. I understand.

I don't have a leg to stand on. I I don't have any right to

complain. When you found me, I was in Loda

Bar. I don't have no right to lift up

my voice in in contesting. Hey man, this switching, if you

will, of lands. When you found me, I was in a

barren, desolate place. Just a cripple eking out my

life. I have not a leg to stand on.

I was a nobody from nowhere. And you gave me a chance.

So. So you just do what's right in

your sight, David. And so David, Amen.

David, it's summertime or almost Amen.

David tries then to resolve the issue, and he proposes them a

little split. He says, I tell you what we'll

do. We'll give all of the lamb that

was Mephibosheth, that became all the lamb that became Zibas,

that used to be King Saul's. We'll now just split it right

down the middle. And we'll give half to

Mephibosheth and we'll give half to Ziba.

And that will be good half for one and the other half for the

other. I'll just make a little

compromise gesture here between them and but the Bible says in

verse thirty of our text and Mephibosheth said unto the king,

yay, let him Speaking of cyber, let him take all for as much as

my Lord the King is come again in peace unto his own house.

You know what Mephibosheth is saying, His heart is right where

his heart needs to be. Mephibosheth is telling David, I

don't care about the property. I don't care about the

restoration of everything that was my dad's.

I don't care that I I partook of some of that over the past 25

years and 30 years. I don't care about all the perks

that came to me. I don't care about all of the

things that you're giving and all the kindnesses, he says.

There's only one thing I'm concerned about.

It's not riches, it's not lands, it's not blessings, it's not

gift. But as long as I know the king

is back, as long as I, he says all of the gifts and the riches

and the kindness pales in comparison to having the king.

Because the gift came from the king, the restoration of the

land came from the king, the kindness came from the king.

I could have all of that and not have the king and never have

another thing. But if I got the king, I have

access to riches. If I got the king I have.

I don't care about the land. I don't care about how many

bushels it produces. I realized, David, I was a dead

man without the king when you found me.

And I understand that the King's table is worth more than all of

the fields and all of the fields of the world.

I'm just glad the King's here. I'm satisfied with the King's

presence. Sometimes we're grappling for

what God can do for us than the God that does it.

Look at all the perks, yes, but look where they come from.

Fibber Chef, he says, really, all this restoration stuff isn't

about getting things back, it's just about getting the king

back. You can take everything, but

just give me the king. His attitude is I'm a cripple.

I may always be a cripple, but even if you told me that I could

have a field and not be crippled, I'd rather be a

cripple in the palace and still have the king.

I'm just glad that I have his presence.

I don't need what I've lost. I just need what I've been

longing for, what I've been missing, the reason why I unkept

myself. There's been a longing and a

desire. I had the land while you was

gone. I had the riches while you were

gone. I know the servants while you

gone. But what I needed was the king.

And they'll subtract that line of blessing and that line of

blessing and that line of blessing.

But when all the subtraction has taken place, if the net value

still adds up to him, if the net value still adds up to him,

that's sufficient. But if you just based upon

everything you can get from his hand rather than getting the one

who owns the hand, then you got the misconception.

You need the Lord, you need his presence.

Nothing compares to that Bible talks about in the Old Testament

with the allotments of lamb that was given to the tribes of

Israel. That whenever it came to the

Levites in particular, the Bible says that they were denied any

allocation of land, any any physical inheritance as it were.

Because the Lord says these words, He says I'll be your

portion, while others are being given this portion of land and

the boundaries being described as it often is in the Old

Testament about that tribe, and they get in that allocation of

land. You're not reading any of that

for the tribe of Levi because the Lord is, suffice to say to

them, I am your portion. They may not have got property

per SE that they could call absolutely their own, but they

got His presence, they got Him, they got the King of Glory.

Honey, you don't have to outline what's coming to me.

Just let it outline with a circle about about him.

Just let it outline the circle about the Creator, the great

giver, the Almighty God, the everlasting Father.

If I could just raise my voice and sing the song, Give me

Jesus, give me Jesus, give me Jesus Jesus.

Jesus is hard teaching in New Testament scripture.

The Bible describes that many of the followers left, but the

disciples stay not because of the benefits, but because of

Jesus. Note what the Scripture says.

John 667 then said, Jesus and to the 12 will ye also go away?

That tenacious Simon lifts his voice and Peter answered him.

Lord, and the next two words are important.

To whom it wasn't. Where should we go?

The subject wasn't aware or what it was a whom it wasn't.

But Lord, what about the land? It wasn't.

Lord. What about the finances, Lord?

What about my servants, Lord? What about my esteemed status?

It wasn't none of that. It was the whom, and the whom

was Christ. To whom would we go?

But there's people making raw deals in society today.

They're trading the whom for what?

They're trading a whom for where.

They're trading the whom for a promotion.

They're trading a whom, if you will, for riches of the world.

They're trading a whom, if you will, for notoriety in the

world. Listen, none of that is as

valuable as the whom, Amen. The King's return is enough.

That's sufficient for the church, Mary said.

At Jesus's feet she chose presents over performance.

Habakka declared. And Habakka 3 And I know we

don't read a lot, it seems like from Habakkuk sometimes, but

Habakkuk 317 says, he says, although the fig tree shall not

blossom. Oh, I like this, he said.

Neither shall fruit be in the vines.

Labor of the olive shall fail, and the fields shall yield no

meat. The flock shall be cut off from

the fold. There shall be no herd in the

stalls. Verse 18.

Yet I will rejoice in the Lord. I will joy in the God of my

salvation. You know what Habakkuk is

saying. Take the trees, take the vines,

take me all the press, take the meat, take the flock, take the

herbs, but give me the Lord. I find my joy in the Lord.

A fibba chef, though he feels lost because of a passive in

that has no no doubt prohibited him and prevented him from

reaching David. He acknowledges in this point in

our text that now that David has returned, he has access even

when others like Ziba refused to help him.

The King's return is coming back to Jerusalem, gave all of them

access, and now he's in a measurable distance where even

Mephibosheth can reach him. We can listen to the heart of

Mephibosheth, he said. Just take it all, Take the

inheritance. Just don't take my king.

Just don't take my king. The chef, he said.

Just take it all, take the inheritance.

Just don't take my king. Just don't take that.

There have been, baby, maybe you have missed moments where you

wished you hadn't missed moments.

There might be some that says there's been other people that

slandered me. There's been other people lied

on me. There's been other people that's

passed over me. There's been other people that's

taken what is mine. But I'm here to tell you today

that the king is returning. He's going to return and his

presence is already here and he's coming back for you.

He's not far from every one of us, not far from the cripple,

not far from the hurting, not far from the wounded, not far

from the forgotten, not far from the confused, the whoever, the

whatever. The king has come back for you.

You stand with me. And is that he did not defend

his reputation. He did not demand what was

rightfully his. He didn't even ask for, oh, only

half. I want it all back.

Just wanted the king, Brother Malone.

And when you live in a world like we Live Today that's

obsessed with getting back what's been taken, Here's a man

that stands diametrically different from them.

He's just saying let them have it all.

As long as I've got the King back in his rightful place,

that's enough for me. And I'll tell you tonight,

that's the heart that God honors, the one that values His

presence over presence. I'm not, I'm not saying I'm, I'm

not enamored sometime by God's blessing and His goodness and

kindness, but I am saying this. If it's that or him, I'll lay

down my claim to the field. I'll try to erase the slander

from my mind. I'll let go of what I lost back

on Zion. Because the king is back.

That's all that matters. You know what that means?

That means I can come to the table, sit down again.

Because the king is home. The king is home.

As long as the king is home. Ladies and gentlemen, there's

still a seat with your name on it at the King's table, but

there's no table to sit with the king.

If there's no king, people surrounding themselves with

their goods just surround me with the presence of my king,

because his return, it's enough. He came looking for me.

He came looking for me. All the other perks that were

given to me, they couldn't do that search, but the king could.

For that matter. None of those things per SE knew

I was missing, but The Who knew I was missing.

I'm going to hold these things loosely, but I guarantee you

this, in the day without him, without experiencing him,

without his presence at the table, I'm in a posture of

longing for him. I'm in a posture of desiring

him. There's not a day that goes by

that I don't want to spend time in his presence.

He's blessed me with a house and cars and money to take care of

my family, but I don't want there a day go by that I just

surround myself with the things that not surround myself with

him because his presence is what matters to him.

I'm challenging us in this place that we would we would just get

the heart of a Mephibosheth. He says you can just take it

all. I know what used to rightfully

be in my hand, but you can even have it as long as I got the

King. I wish somebody would search

their heart and be introspective tonight.

Are we living our lives at a lesser degree because we are

just living off the things rather than living off the King

we surrounded our lives with, with things that are temporal

and things that fade away and things that moths can eat and

rust can corrupt? But folks, the eternal is the

King. We need the King tonight.

Every day we need to sit at the table in the presence of our

King. This altar is open right now

because I think the King's return is enough.

He found you on the backside of load a bar.

He found you in, in barrenness, with no legacy, no hope, without

anything. If you look at your life right

now, anything that you have that is even notable, it stemmed from

him, it came from him. It boiled down in the overflow

of it was from him. Give me Jesus, give me Jesus,

give me Jesus. You can have it all.

It's just like I don't even need half.

Just knowing the King is safe at home, just knowing the King is

safe at home, that's good enough for me.

That's good enough for me. I wonder if somebody could just

bump the relationship up just one level.

That the Lord is sufficient for you suffices.

It's not like the Lord and this and the Lord and that, Just

having him, that's sufficient. It's sufficient.

The return of the King is enough.

Oh, I feel the Holy Ghost. I feel the Holy Ghost.

I need the Lord above every other need, above every other

want, above every other aspiration in this life.

I need the Lord, I need Him. I need him.

Who would we go to Lord? We left you who?

Who? Who would we go to, Lord?

There's not another who that can substitute for you.

There's not another who that can replace you.

There's not an adequate who that could be in your stand.

That's none like you. There's nothing that compares to

you. I need you.

Oh, let's talk to Lord here at the end of the service for a

little while. They they prepare a song.