In The Mix | Bishop Paul McGee

Amen. Hallelujah.

Well, we're going to ride bicycle tonight, I guess.

Hallelujah. Turn to Genesis chapter #1 We

did come off the same block, you know, Genesis one.

But I'm, I'm, I'm going to, it's, it's easy because it's

just the first verse In the beginning.

God, let's just all say that in the beginning God created the

heaven and the earth. And I'm going to turn to Saint

Mark chapter #16 man, we want to start at verse 15.

And he said to them, go into the world, Jesus speaking here, and

preach the gospel to every creature.

He that believeth and is baptized shall be saved.

Glory. I like that.

But he that believeth not shall be damned, and these signs shall

follow them that believe in My name.

They shall cast out devils, they shall speak with new tongues,

and they shall take up serpents. And if they drink any deadly

thing, it shall not hurt them. They shall lay hands on the

sick, and they shall recover. Now these last two verses are

special. Verse 20 is key.

So then after the Lords had spoken unto them, he was

received up into heaven, and sat on the right hand of God.

And they then went forth and preached everywhere, the Lord

working, everybody said with them glory and confirming the

word with signs following. Amen.

Heavenly Father, I thank you for your word, because your word has

never failed God, Lord, I'm asking you tonight, Lord, that

you would take a special note tonight.

God, Lord, because we know there may not be many here, but God, I

know that you feel all space. So Lord, if you fill all spaces

in God, anything is possible, even in this service tonight.

I'm asking, Lord, for your anointing.

I'm asking you, God, to direct my paths, Lord, and to walk

ahead of Maine in the name of Jesus.

Speak, Lord, to your people tonight in that lovely name of

Jesus, Amen and Amen, and you can be seated.

Thank you, Jesus, Hallelujah. So our journey begins.

We're going to take a journey tonight.

So our journey we're going to take a bicycle ride.

Our journey begins in Genesis. And then we were it carries us

to Mark 16 and and let me let me just understand, let me make you

understand where we're at. The Lord has just risen from the

dead. He's come out of the grave and

right before this he has come out of the grave and he is went

and he is he is went to visit Mary Magdalene, the Mary that he

cast 7 devils out of. And so she goes and tells the

rest of them, well, I've he's risen.

He's a they didn't believe her. You imagine that disciples

believers. They didn't believe him.

So he just, you know, he just, he gets among them so they know

that she's telling the truth. And a while back, I was reading

my daily readings and I was, I was reading in a in a book too.

In the midst of all of this, and while I was reading, something

hit me. This thought came to me in the

mix and I couldn't turn it loose.

And I, I don't know, I'd, I'd wake up during the night and

that thing was on my mind. I'd go write a few notes down.

I'd put it down and it just seemed like it wouldn't leave me

alone. So I just thought, well, OK,

God, we'll just do something with it.

If we can just help me out, Lord.

So I, I thank God for that. But I I think also Sister Jen,

if you're watching, thank you and thank your daddy for

providing the bicycle for his take his journey on.

And I don't think he knew where the towers of era.

Sister Jen. Yes.

I'm sorry, sister. Yeah.

Sister Eric is here. Yeah.

Tell daddy that I was glad he provided it's her daddy too.

So riding bicycle. So we we're going to take a ride

on a bicycle built for 2:00 tonight.

In fact, it could hold 3. And and so it's a great thing

that, you know, God worked this out just for me.

I needed a bicycle built for two.

So he, he, he provided that. And that bicycle, I'm going to

tell you represents you and Jesus or me and Jesus, or

however you want to say it. If you will bear with me for a

while, I want to take you on a journey with me through the

Bible that I hope somehow will encourage you, will increase

your faith and drive you to be a better Christian than you are

right now and be a more productive Christian than you

are right now. How many of us wants to be the

best we can be? I want to be the best I can be.

I don't want to be under. I want to be over the top if I

can. Amen.

So our journey begins in Genesis 1, and I'm going to just lay a

little groundwork and then you'll see where I'm going.

In the beginning. The story is God is riding the

bike. OK, Just think about this with

me. Stay with me.

God is riding the bike. There's no one else, right?

He's the first one. He's, he's, he's God and he's

riding the bike. All right, so we're starting on

this little journey and there, there's no one else.

So it has to be God, right? There's not 3 gods, there's not

2 gods, there's not, there's only one God and he's the one

that's riding the bike. So let's just and, and God is

the spirit and they the worship, He must worship him in spirit

and in truth. So God is the spirit.

So he's invisible. He's riding the bike.

You may not be able to see him, but he's riding the bike.

OK, all right, but, and, and, and think about this and no man

can discuss or say anything against it because first John or

John 118 says no man has seen God at any time, so nobody's

seen him. So he's the Spirit and he's

riding a bike. Stay with me, I will get there.

Hallelujah. So I want to ask you tonight,

are you comfortable with the Spirit being in the first seat,

the Lord, because he's the one that's in the front seat all the

way through the Old Testament. Just check it out.

Well, we'll, we will check it out.

I'll, I'll give you some examples, OK, See.

And, and let me tell you about that.

So, so if you are not comfortable with the one in the

first seat, you're going to be in bad shape because first thing

you got to do is believe that he is, you got to believe that.

So God likes fellowship, right? All right, so OK, God begins to

create things. Don't it ain't that what he

does? He begins to create things.

I can't. You see him, He's going, he's

looking around 1st and he says, man, it's dark in here.

It's it's chaos. It's a it's, it's, it's chaotic.

It's just it's black, it's dark. It's there's no light.

So God says, I believe I'll turn on some light.

So he makes light. OK.

Then he says, I, I think I'll separate that too.

So he separates the dark from the light.

And he calls one day and one night.

Amen. Hallelujah.

So here we go. He makes the light and, and,

and, you know, here we are the first day.

So the second day he says, you know, I think I'll separate the

waters a little bit. I think I'll put some up above

and some below. I'm going to separate him a

little bit. So he makes a firmament in

between. So then God comes along and he

says, you know what, add a little bit to this.

He's he's, he's, he's looking around, seeing what else he

needs. And he says, you know what, I

believe we need some earth and some seas and we need grass and

we need some trees and we need some fruit.

If we're going to, if we're going to make this livable, then

we got to have these place. So he puts that all together.

The third day and the fourth day he put, he makes a lesser light

and a greater light. He, he makes the moon for the

night. He makes the sun for the day.

And he said he's see, I want to, I want to, God is on my side in

my home. He likes Night Lights.

He loves Night Lights. So he started to begin brother

Alex to sprinkle the stars and kind of stands back and looks at

and say, well, that looks pretty good, but I think it'd be good

if I just put a few more. So he sprinkles a few more up

there. So he makes the stars and the

light and what a great thing that is.

Then on the 5th day, he said, you know, we need something

moving. So he makes, he makes the, the

whales and the living things and the fowl and he does all that.

He puts that in order. So now he's, he's got things

flying around, things wiggling around in the seas and the

ocean. He's got, he's, he's got some

movement now. God's feeling at home.

Now he's, he said, you know, I, I like, I like a little company.

So every time he does something, he felt like he was in company

with something. God's riding the bike and he's

doing all these things. So then he, he looked at it and,

and done and made the cattle and he made it made the, the beast

and man and everything that he made, he said it was very good.

He's, he's starting to almost see God get off the bicycle and

kick back and recliner a little while just looking around, you

know, and the night comes, boy, that's pretty, you know.

So on the 7th day, after seeing all that, God said, I'm going to

rest from all this. So he rest OK, So God creates

all these things and it's all good, but I wanted to tell you

something. God is still lonesome.

So he makes man, he makes Adam and, and he makes Eve, you know,

he begins to create the man and, and, and, and now he, he in the

midst of this, he, he makes man. Now he builds a garden and he

and he puts man in the midst of that garden after he makes it to

dress it and take care of it. And, and he, he puts animals in

there and he runs all those animals by Adam and he names

them all and what they're going to be and what their names is

going to be. And, and he's seen after all of

that, after that, after everything had passed by Adam

and he had named the names of the animals and all of that.

He didn't even even Adam was lonesome.

So he said, you know what, I don't see nothing here that,

that, that fits him. So then he put Adam to sleep and

he took a rib out of him and he made wool man.

So now we've got, we've got a couple now.

God's still riding the bike. The others are on the back.

See, just can I, you know, I only, I was talking asking for

a, a bike the two. But you know, actually they

could be 3. I got the, you know, this all

put together before that. And I thought, you know, OK,

Adam's first. So he's sitting here and Eve's

back here, but God's still riding the bike.

He's in control. He's a spirit, but he's in

control. You know what?

He's still a spirit today, but he lives inside of us.

And the truth is he's still control.

Yes, he is. Thank you, Jesus.

So he builds a garden and he puts man in it to dress it.

And in the beginning of God, all that God wanted was fellowship.

He wanted someone that he could teach his ways.

He wanted someone to follow after him.

So God he is, he is so happy to have somebody to fellowship with

that he comes in the cool of the day and he takes a walk with

Adam and Eve. And now I can tell you right

now, if you will, you just go back to Scripture with me.

But they didn't see God. He came and walked in the cool

and they heard the voice of the Lord walking in the garden.

I'm telling you, he can slip up on you.

Oh, glory. So now he's got fellowship.

He's he's walking with he's walking with him in the garden.

You know they hey, how they know he's coming.

They heard his voice. Adam, where art thou?

Where y'all at today? So they go take their little

morning walk. Come on in this great.

We got a we got a God. We've got, we've got a pretty

earth now and we've got a nice garden and and God has got

something to mix with. He's he's in the mix of them.

Oh glory. So, so God, he, he now he's got

Adam and Eve. But you know, you know what

happens the, you know, the story.

Oh, I'm not can't go through all of it because it can take you

all the way through the whole Bible like this.

But anyway, anyhow, Adam and Eve come into the garden and

everything was fine until Eve found there was somebody else in

the garden, the old serpent. And you know what happened

there. I don't have to go ahead with

that story, but we know that children were born after that.

There was Cain and Abel. I'm I'll, I'll put some of this

in order and some I'm just going to hit the top of the trees.

See, God or man has always desired to be in the front seat.

Eve showed that very well. And Abel, think about it.

We had Cain and Abel and Abel was willing to ride in the

second seat. He had no problem with that.

But Cain had something within him that he did not want to ride

in that second seat. He wanted to do his own thing.

Isn't that where we're at today? People wanted to do their own

thing and they separated from the truth and they went to a non

truth and they're doing their own thing, but they're going to

get in trouble because God's still in control.

Thank you Jesus. So we know that Abel thought,

you know, I like it kind of in this second seat.

This is pretty nice place. But Cain was jealous of Abel

because Abel was favored by God because he brought the right

kind of sacrifice. But Cain didn't and therefore he

was jealous of Abel. And what did he do?

We find right off of the start, he murdered his brother.

Oh glory. So we know the story.

So let's start taking our journey.

What you say we, we went a little piece.

So we'll, we'll just go a little farther.

Let's, let's, let's just start this journey and then go ahead

and and get this thing started. Now God finds he, he takes this

little journey and he finds a man named Enoch.

So God starts walking with him, right?

He starts walking with God. And the Bible said in Genesis

524 and Enoch walked with God and he was not for God took him.

Now I want you to notice he finds he finds somebody that

that is just fine in the second seat.

He loves it so much that he walks with God daily and and

they they become such good friends and fellowship so well

together that they were walking one day or riding their bike and

God says, you know what I I really like having you around.

I could use you all the time. So he takes him home with him,

couldn't find any after that. You know why?

Because he was such a good friend to God and he fellowship

so well and he loved the second seat that he took him to heaven

with him. I'm telling you, it's important

to be willing to ride in the second seat.

Oh Jesus, Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.

So Enoch liked the second seat and he, he just went on to

heaven. So let's take our next little

journey. Let's make another stop.

We'll go to Genesis chapter number 689.

But Noah found grace. Well, how about that?

In the eyes of the Lord, That's where she was found.

In the eyes of the Lord. How about that?

These are the generations of Noah.

Noah was a just man. Everybody said just man.

And perfect in his generation. Now notice it says perfect in

his generation, perfect in his generation.

And Noah, what does this say? Walk with God.

No, walk with God. So brother Alex, he was, he was,

he was comfortable in the second seat.

OK, God, just tell me what to do.

God tells him to build art, all of that stuff.

He he goes through all he does everything God asked him to do.

He said, hey, Noah, I like you and your family better than the

rest of the world. So I guess what I want you to do

is build you a boat and I want you to bring all the animals in

male, female. He told he'd give him

instruction and and Noah listened to every bit of it.

He was second and sitting in the second seat taking notes.

Come on. And he didn't mind it at all.

He was doing exactly what God said.

And he said no, because you have followed me right down to the T.

I'm going to bring your family in this ark, and I'm going to

save you and your family. Now, I don't know about you, but

that says something to me. All right, in the second C, if

you're going to take my family to heaven, you bet I'm going to

ride in the second C. That's all right with me.

God, you take control. Oh Jesus Hallelujah.

Oh Jesus Hallelujah. Praise God.

So Noah liked the second seat and his family was safe for it.

Now, I didn't put this in there, but I did.

So you wouldn't. I know I let you leaving a lot

of important people out here, but I'm trying to hit just a few

and I'm just going to put this in here just quick because it

take a long time to put all of Moses in here.

We could stop an exodus real easy, you know, and we let the

people out. It'd be easy to do that.

Most Moses listened to everything he did.

I wanted him to do too, except for one thing.

And that cost him going to send promised land.

You think that was such a small thing?

Well, wasn't to God. You disobeyed orders.

I'm sorry. So you're going to pay the

penalty. You don't smite me twice.

So he said because of that, Moses, you're not going, you're

not going to get a go in the promised land.

I'll I'll take you up on the mountain.

You can look at it before you die, but that's all.

And he married, he buried Moses. Nobody knows where he's at.

All right. All right.

So I did throw that in her. So, you know, I I didn't forget

him. I just kind of catching the top.

So our next journey we're going to stop at first Samuel 3 and

one. I've got scripture tonight,

buddy. You're going to love Scripture

and the child Samuel ministered unto the Lord.

Everybody said unto the Lord before Eli, and the word of the

Lord was precious in those days, and there was no open vision.

Samuel began to minister in the Tabernacle when he was just a

young child. But notice that he ministered

before the Lord unto Sam or unto Eli.

Think about that. He is, he is, he is.

God's put him ahead of the priest.

Come on. So he is, takes his he's, he's

laying down. He's just a child and God begins

to speak to Samuel. He uses Samuel early on and Eli

knows that God is with Samuel and after God had spoke to

Samuel, the next morning they woke up and of course, you know,

he opens up the House of the you know, the Lord for him and

everything and he comes in and and he says, OK, Samuel, you

tell me what the Lord spoke to you.

Don't you hold back and back nothing.

You, you tell me what he said and he did.

What I'm trying to get at is Samuel was willing to set in the

second seat. I said he was second seat, but

he was having to give orders or having to tell the guy what to

do. That's in charge.

Come on now. Oh, God, you tell me.

God don't put some things first. He does it.

Thank you, Jesus. So Samuel liked the second seat.

And the Bible teaches us that Samuel rode in that second seat

all the days of his life. He followed God.

He was all right with God leading him.

He was all right with that guy that you couldn't see.

Come on, he would. You couldn't see him, but he was

writing and he was given the direction.

He had a hold of the handlebars that turned you whichever way he

wanted him to go, did he not? And Samuel obeyed those orders

for a life long journey. Oh what a what a precious man,

Glory and I. I don't know of anybody else

Pastor, if you do, you tell me. But I begin to think about this.

Samuel liked the second seat, and he rode in all of his life.

And God used Samuel to speak to Saul even after Samuel's death.

Yes, Sir, it might have been the devil that brought him up, but

Samuel spoke to Saul and told him exactly what was going to

happen to him. Come on now, we're going through

a journey here. It'll change in a little bit.

OK, so our next journey, we're going to stop it first.

Samuel 1314 But now thy Kingdom shall not continue.

The Lord has sought him a man after his own heart, and the

Lord has commanded him to be captain over his people.

Because thou has not kept that which the Lord commanded, He

said. I have already had my eyes on

David, and because of your rejection of me, because of you

not following orders, I have found a man that's going to be

after my own heart. Now that's pretty strong words.

So Samuel anointed him king. Guess what?

David was all right to ride in that second seat, David.

In fact, David loved it so well that David didn't do anything

without first seeking God. Every time he went to battle,

he, he, he sought the Lord. How am I going to win this man?

Well, don't do it this way, but do it this way this time, David,

David always, he was always humping up the priest garment

and the Urim and therm. He, he wanted all that in his

presence so he could ask God questions, but God's in control.

He's in the first seat, David's in the second seat.

But David knows that that guy in the first seat knows what he's

doing and whatever he says I'm going to do.

He knows that the guy in the first seat, the one that's

bringing him blessings, he's the one that's increasing him.

Have you ever sat down and realized where your increase

comes from? Have you ever realized why

you're where you are? And I've heard some people say,

well, it ain't too good right now.

Well, maybe you wasn't in the second seat.

If you don't follow in the second seat, if you're not

seeking the one in the first seat, then there's something

wrong and you've got to get on the bike.

Come on, you got to get on the bike.

You got to ride it with him. You can't let him go out way

ahead of you, honey. I want to stay close to him.

Oh, Jesus glory. So let's take our next little

journey, stopping first King 17 one and Elijah the Tish bike,

who was the inhabit of Gilead. Send Ahab as the Lord God of

Israel, liveth before him who I stand.

There shall not be dew nor rain these years.

But according to my word, he had such a relationship with God

that he spoke it into existence. He must have liked the second

seat. So here we go.

We got somebody else that's just fine with the second seat.

Elijah trusted, trusted the one in the number one seat.

And the chariot horseman came and picked him up.

And he had such a close relationship with God that God

sent him a a chariot to pick him up.

Take him to heaven. Come on now, glory pretty close

relationship. Elijah just he was he was quite

he was quite all right to sit in the second seat.

God give him 7 miracles. That's all right.

And then it come then the Lord sent him to get him a helper

named Elijah. I know when I was, when I was

putting this down and I and I hadn't seen the bike yet putting

it down, I thought, well, I guess Elijah was riding on the

handlebars. I know, you know, God's in the

first seat. Elijah's on the second seat and

he's his servant. Elijah's his servant.

I guess he's sitting on the back.

At first I thought, well, maybe you have to ride on the

handlebars. So it's 3 seater now.

So that's all right with him. He hey, Elijah didn't care.

He followed Elijah wherever he went.

He done whatever he said because he knew he was a man of God.

And he wondered what Elijah had come on.

I wish to God we could get some people so excited that they want

what pastors got. I wish they'd get so excited

that they don't want what you got.

And whatever it takes to get it, I'm going.

If I have to follow you the rest of the days of my life, I'm

going to follow you. I want what you got and, and

Elijah felt so strong about it, but Elijah was going to be taken

from him. He said, well, I he said, I want

a double portion of what you got.

He said, well, that's a hard thing.

But nevertheless, if you see me when I leave, then it'll happen.

So Elijah makes Elijah makes some trips and he goes across

the waters, you know, he flips that thing together.

They walk across on dry ground and he'll he says, OK, now

Elijah, you stay here because I'm going here.

He said, no, no, no. I know you are not leaving me,

buddy. I'm staying right with you.

You got the goods and I want them.

Come on. We got the first seater, the

second seater and the third seater.

And everybody's saying, Elijah, you know your master going to be

taken from you today. I can almost hear him.

Shut up. I know it.

What you think I'm going to know?

Hey, it's my master. I'm around him all the time.

I know how he operates. I know he's going to be taken,

but I'm going to be there to see him leave.

In fact, I'm going to see him off.

Yeah. So.

So here we go. He just he was, he was quite

Elijah was just he, he loved it. He he set in that number C2C No,

no problem. So let's take our next journey.

Drop in on 2nd Kings 4-5 through 7.

So he went, So she went from him, and shut the door upon her,

and upon her sons, who brought the vessels to her.

And she poured out, came to pass.

When the vessels were full, that she said to her son, Bring me a

vessel. He said to her, There is not a

vessel more. And the oil stayed.

Then she came and told the man of God, and he said, Go, sell

the oil and pay the debt. Live thou and thy children the

rest of thy life, Elijah. He took over from where Elijah

left off because the sons of the prophets on the other side, they

went back and they watched to see if Elijah and he did.

He took the mantle. He wrapped it together and smote

the waters. And they they said now that the

the the spirit that that let was on Elijah is now on Elijah.

But what they didn't know that it was even greater.

They didn't know that, you know, their master now had asked for a

double portion. Glory.

What a great thing. So, So Elijah, he trusted God,

He walked before him. He done all that.

He said he was all right to sit in the second seat.

It was all right. Just give me direction, Lord,

tell me what to do, and I'll go wherever you want me to go.

Fact, you're leading. You're leading anyway.

You just take me where you want me to go.

So he was all right to sit there.

So Elijah, because of his faithfulness and what he wanted,

he got 14 miracles. He got a double portion.

Now, are you beginning to get the picture?

Things began to change from here on where I'm going.

See what I've been trying to tell you in your spirit all

night is this. God is not interested in how

many high class people you hang with.

That's right. Or how many followers you have

on media or how many you are connected with.

He's not he's, he's, he said he don't care nothing about all of

that. He is not even interested in

your popularity. But what he really wants is God

wants to be mixed in whatever you are doing and wherever you

are doing it. God wants to be in our mix.

Come on, come on. I don't care if you're shopping.

God wants to be with you. You notice all of these men in

the Old Testament, they followed God because He was the writer.

He was the number one and anybody who was working for God

as a prophet, they're going to be in that second seat and

humbled and very precious to be sitting there.

Feel feel good about being there, but it's about to change

now. Oh glory, Hallelujah.

God wants to be in the mix of what you're doing.

Come on, Hallelujah. I said he wants to be in the mix

of what you're doing. He wants to be in the mix of

your worship. He wants to be in the mix of

your job. Come on.

Yeah. He wants to be in the mix of

your school. He wants to be in the mix with

your friends. God wants to be there no matter

what you're doing. So I don't know how that makes

you feel, but that makes me feel special.

But you know what it is today? Some people get scared because

God knows what they're doing all the time.

You can't hide it from Him. He's a spirit and if you're not

willing to ride on the seat, you're going to get along.

Oh Jesus. Oh glory.

In fact, He's not even interested in the sins you

committed, no matter how bad you think they are.

He's interested in what you're going to become from this day

forward. He's not interested in your

past. He's interested in your

becoming, oh Jesus, Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Come on. I, I think sometimes if we're

not careful, we are beating ourselves to death over the has

been and over the past. And you cannot change the past.

And then they're funny and then and then it's true.

You know what the devil devil don't keep after you about your

future. It's always about your past.

He always tells you what you have done.

And I've always told people, you know, when he starts to remind

you of his path, of your past, you tell him about his future.

So I've read the end of the book and I know where you're going to

be. Come on, I may have done that,

but there's something I can be forgiven.

But you can't. You try to get equal with God.

You see what happens? You don't even get a seat.

You got to run. Do your own thing.

Hallelujah, Laurie. So, So don't beat yourself to

death. Hey, I don't want you to beat

yourself to death because the blood has already been shed and

you're free. And I and I could, I could, you

know, I could sing this little song because it's old and I

could sing it. I can sing that song right now.

Thank God. I am free, free, free from this

world of sin. Been washed in the blood of

Jesus, been born again. Hallelujah.

I'm saved, saved, saved from this world below.

I'm so glad that I found out He would bring me out and show me

the way. Come on.

That's what the second seat does for you.

Oh, Jesus, somebody shout. The change is coming.

Yeah, well, I've been up here probably too long.

But our next journey is to the New Testament.

Go to STOP Matthew 3, verse 1/2. In those days came John the

Matthew 3:1

Baptist preaching the wilderness, in the wilderness of

Judea, saying repent, for the Kingdom of heaven is at hand.

Oh, glory Hallelujah. So John the Baptist is a

forerunner of Christ. He's before him.

He's preaching repentance, but that's all he knows.

He's baptizing him, but he he's he don't have a name to put on

it. Baptize the baptism of

repentance, wouldn't it? Yeah.

And then we could just drop on to Matthew 311 and 13 or 11 or 3

and 11 through 13. I indeed baptize you with water

until repentance, but he that come after me is mightier than

I, whose shoes I'm not worthy to bear.

And he shall baptize you with the Holy Ghost, and with fire

whose fan is in his hand. And he will thoroughly purge his

floor and gather his wheat into the gardener, but he will burn

up the chaff with unquenchable fire.

Then cometh Jesus from Galilee to Jordan and to John, to be

baptized of him. Now he's visible.

Come on, the Spirit was leading you before, but now he's

visible. He's not in the tomb anymore.

Oh Jesus, Hallelujah. So now he is flesh and born,

born of a virgin, conceived by the Holy Ghost.

He is in the seat Jesus. Now he's got a name.

Now you know who to follow. Now his name is Jesus.

So he's, he's in the first seat now.

All right, the Almighty God flesh now is in the first seat,

Lord Hallelujah. And he's in that seat now for 3

1/2 years. And he's along the way, he is

collecting disciples and he's, he's, he's getting his pastels

and he's getting his ministry together to minister the world.

OK, He's, he's getting ready to evangelize the world.

So he's putting everything in order.

In 3 1/2 years. He puts it all in order.

Glory. I'm about to get excited, Mercy.

Our next journey is Matthew 16, 16 through 19.

And Simon Peter answered and said, thou art the Christ.

Everybody's wondering who whose men say I am, who you think I

am. Peter says Thou art the Christ,

the Son of the living God, Jesus.

Anderson answered and said to him, Blessed art thou, Simon

Barjona, for flesh and blood have not revealed it unto thee,

but my father, which is in heaven.

And I say also unto thee, that thou art Peter, and upon this

rock I will build my church, and the gates of hell shall not

prevail against it. And I will give unto thee the

keys of the Kingdom of heaven. And whatsoever thou shalt bind

on earth shall be bound in heaven, and whatsoever thou

shall loose on earth shall be loosed in heaven.

Catch that glory. Our next journey is to our text

map Mark 16. And he says, Gee, we, we read

this. But 15 Jesus says, Go into all

the world, preach the gospel to every creature.

He that believeth is baptized shall be saved.

He that believeth not shall be damned.

These signs shall follow them believe.

And my name shall cast out devils.

They shall speak with new tongues, shall take up serpents,

and drink any deadly thing. It won't hurt them.

They shall lay hands on the sick, and they shall recover.

And if you haven't listened, listen Mark 1620.

That's my favorite key verse. And they went forward so well,

maybe I would just go ahead and read 19 too.

So then after the Lord had spoken unto them, come on, he

was received up into heaven and said on the right hand of God,

and they went forth preaching everywhere, the Lord working

with them and confirming the word with signs following them.

Now are you getting the picture? You understand now that Jesus

has now ascended, and guess what, He's passed that You know

who's in the seat now? The church.

We are the only, we are the closest thing to Jesus, a

representation that's in this world today.

So everybody's got their eyes on the church.

And he was always one to be in the mix of everything.

And now more than ever, he's one to be in the mix of his people.

Come on, because I'm going to tell you pastors in the front

seat. I'm behind.

Come on, come on. But there is an unseen God that

walks before him. Come on, church, somehow we need

to get excited that there is a God.

He may be out in front of that by well, I'll just be truth with

you. I really believe he's in the

second seat. He's working with us.

I don't know, it may not excite you, but I'm going to tell you I

have to think about this every time, every now and then.

You know that every time, every time, every time you hear, every

time say every time, every time I anoint somebody with oil, the

Lord is touching. Jesus wants to be.

And if you want healings and miracles and signs and wonders,

you're going to have to. Yeah, It's not from you.

It's from the other hand. That's on you.

Come on. He wants to be in the mix.

I said he wants to be in the mix in everything you're doing.

Jesus. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. You understand that every time

pastor gets up here to preach that he's in the front seat, but

there is a God that's behind him that you may not see, but he's

there. I've had a, I've had a few

people that said to me, hey, I've seen the, I've seen the

Angel up there by you. Well, I'm glad he was there.

If you'll do what he says, he'll always be there.

When we quit, when we quit following him, when we quit

following the man of God that God put in charge of us, we're

in trouble. Come on now.

If you drop out of that second seat, honey, it's hard to tell

him what's going to happen to you.

I want to tell you something. He's he's with you in the

business affair. If you make him a part of your

business, he'll keep you. Got right, brother Fred.

He'll keep you. I don't care what the

circumstances. Come on, Church, if you get

behind him, come on. COVID won't shut you down.

Come on, I said. COVID won't shut you down.

Influenza won't shut you down. The devil's a liar, I said.

He's a liar. We've got authority and power

over him. Whatever we bind on earth will

be bound in heaven. That is Bible.

That's not come on, that's not Bishop saying it.

That's what the word of God said.

He told Peter that he passed it down to the church.

We've got it now. He said greater things than me.

Shall you see? Done you do.

Oh Jesus. Hallelujah, glory, Jesus.

So they went forth everywhere, Bible says, preaching Lord,

working with them, working with them.

That's why there were signs following them, because he was

working with them. Everybody they everybody they

touched he touched everybody they spoke to, He spoke to glory

Hallelujah. I'm about through Hallelujah.

Thank you. Jesus, I really like the very

end of that because it says Amen.

So be it. See, because I I could, I could

take you on back really I could take you on back to Revelations

19. You know, we're in the seat

right now, but once again, Revelations 19, Jesus has taken

the first seat. He wants to be in the mix.

But I want to tell you, though, this journey is not over yet.

The book of Acts is not complete yet.

There's still a journey for us. And we're in charge right now.

And we're writing things. We're you're.

Come on, we're writing things down.

We're, we're, we're putting new chapters.

And if we ain't, there's something wrong.

There needs to be something. And if what?

And if we don't, if we don't learn to take this second seat

and hold on for dear life because right now I'm telling

you, there's things happening right now that I believe we're

getting closer to the end. And I believe the bike's

speeding up. I don't know about you, but I

I'm not so sure I'm not going to be here when he comes.

Grandson tells me a will, Andrew said Papo, you ain't going no

place. You ain't going until the Lord

takes you. Said he's going to come back and

get you for he's going to come back before you leave.

Well, I hope you're right, Andrew.

Either way, he's don't come back.

Get me. Thank you, Jesus.

So, Church, I want you to be in the mix.

I want you to let him in. I said I want you to be in the

mix. I want to be where he's at.

Hallelujah, Jesus. I know I'm in red.

Thank you. In the mix, in the mix.

Well, I've taken taken you a bike ride all the way through

the word. Just a fast clip.

But I'm so now I'm tired of the road so far, but it'll be all

right. It's a long journey.

Thank all the places we've been, we've been from the beginning

and we're not the revelations yet to Jesus to take over, but I

believe it's about there glory. Somebody shout Hallelujah.

I'm through pastor, it's all yours.