Just One Hour & Alone | Bishop McGee

Praise the Lord everybody. Amen.

It's good to be in the house, Lord tonight.

Glad our visitors is with us tonight.

They're home folk, but they're visitors, Amen.

Glad to have them. Let's give them a hand clap.

Thank you Jesus. Jesus, I don't know whether you

looked or not, but blah. Below the Bible stands.

Sister, sister Sheila asked me this morning said you need to

just leave that there and see how much it would settle.

And so it's it's cleared up, but there's residue in the bottom

notice. Thank you Jesus for taking the

residue down the streams when we was baptized.

Amen. Praise the Lord, thank you.

Thank you. Well, I appreciate the presence

of the Lord tonight. Amen.

I want to give honor tonight to the ministry of this church, my

son and daughter-in-law, which is not here, but man, I know one

sometime they're going to be listening to this.

So appreciate brother and sister.

Mason Man ministering this church for the Alex and Sister

Grace and their way in Bloomington tonight.

Ministering. We're so glad for them and

Sister Malin and Brother Zach. We appreciate them.

Amen. Hallelujah.

I've always told her that she's a breath of fresh air around

here. I told her at night she should.

We had to be just a breath because she's not very big, but

we love them dearly. They're just, they're great

people. We love them.

They're children. Amen.

Hallelujah. Brooke.

Bryce, it's good to see you back here again tonight.

Amen. Amen.

We appreciate him being here. Amen.

It's a great thing. Thank the Lord.

Tonight I'm going to be turning to Mark chapter #14 in your

hearing. And I feel like tonight, I don't

know, I'm, I'm going to read a, a story that we're used to

reading also mark the 14th chapter and I'm going to start

it verse #32 and I'm going to read down and then I'll jump a

little bit. And they came to a place which

was called Disseminate. And he said to his disciples,

Sit here while I shall pray. And he taketh with him.

Everybody say, taketh with him, Peter, and James and John, and

began to be sore amazed, and to be very heavy, and saith unto

them, My soul is exceeding sorrowful unto death.

Tarry ye here and watch. Everybody sayeth, watch, drop

down to verse #37 And he cometh, and findeth them sleeping, and

saith unto Peter, Simon, Sleepest thou, couldest not thou

watch? One hour glory.

I want to turn now to First Corinthians.

First Corinthians chapter #12 and read a few verses of

Scripture here. 12 and 17. If the whole body were an eye,

where were the hearing? And if the whole we're hearing

where were the smelling? But now have God set the

members, every one of them in the body that it has pleased him

have to help me now one drop down to verse #25 He says about

the body that there should be no schism in the body, but that the

members should have the same care one of another.

God help us tonight. Lord, I need you.

I feel your presence in this house.

I'm asking Lord for the Holy Ghost to move in here.

Oh shut up. Oh my God.

Oh my God. No.

You're the most have your way. Lord Jesus, I pray touch lives

tonight. Change us God, change us through

this message. I pray in your holy name.

Amen. Amen.

You can be seated in Jesus name. I want to preach on this

subject. Just one hour and alone.

Just one hour and alone to me as this has been moving and working

on in my mind for some time. The saddest scripture that was

ever read is the one about Gethsemane.

Because if you'll notice in scripture that the Lord tells he

takes three with him leaves the first bunch back here.

But he said, Peter, James and John, I want you to go with me.

And he took them up to a certain spot, and he said for them to

stay there. He said, I, I want you to stay

here, tarry here. I want you to tarry here.

Amen. I want you to tarry here and

watch. And the Bible said he went a

little farther and he began to pray and be sorrowful.

The saddest story in the Bible is that Jesus took three men

that were his disciples and you know as well as I do that the

reason he took them is because these are the ones that stood

out. That was always by side even

later, but he took three with him.

But there was nobody else to help him in so much so that the

Bible teaches that there was angels come that ministered to

him, but yet his own disciples would not pray and watch.

What a sad thing. Hallelujah, praise the Lord and

I I want to I want to just kind of bring this to life tonight.

He said I want you in verse 34. He said I want you to tarry here

and watch. He told the three, I want you to

Terry here and watch that word. Terry there in the Greek means

to endure. Everybody said endure.

Now sometimes enduring is not easy.

Hallelujah. Then it says to persevere is

another meaning or to be alive, not to sleep, to be an

expectancy. I don't know about you, but when

I think of the three that He took with them, this is what He

wanted them to do. He wanted them to stay alive.

He wanted them to be an expectancy.

He wasn't after them to sleep, He was after them to pray with

Him. Glory, Hallelujah, glory.

Let us break it down a little farther yet.

The word endure means this is not going to be an easy task.

So he called them because he had faith in them.

Yet he had already told Peter before the cock crows.

You're going to deny me three times glory Hallelujah.

So he is already using the wording that he used.

He is already letting them know that this is not going to be

easy tasks. This is this is not everyday

thing, but this is going to be hard.

Oh, Jesus, Hallelujah. Then he said to persevere, which

means to continue in spite of difficulty.

Come on, church. Ha, Oh my Lord, I'm about to.

I feel the Holy Ghost in here. I'm going to tell you, church,

it's not easy to praise God. There's going to be times when

we'll come through the church doors that we don't feel no more

like worshiping and nothing. It's not going to be a easy

task, but God has called us to worship him.

He's called us to lift up the name of Jesus.

He's called us to be alive. He's called us to persevere.

Thank you Jesus. Verse 38 kind of pinpoints it

and tells exactly you know it. You'd think that they'd get the

picture. You know, if I say I want you to

tarry here and watch verse 38, he kind of spills the beans.

He said watch it and pray lest you enter into temptation.

The Spirit truly is ready, but the flesh is weak.

I'm going to tell you this is where we have most of our

problems. It's with our flesh.

I don't know about you, but I battle this flesh every day.

Come on and and I'm going to tell you it's hard to preserve

in that it's not a easy task to keep the flesh under control.

The only one that can do it is the Spirit of God that dwells on

the inside of me. But I got to learn to listen to

it. Glory, Jesus says Peter verse

#37 Jesus says Peter, could us not thou watch one hour think

about hey, how come he called Peter out?

Pick on Peter's day, right? Yeah, pick on Peter day.

Jesus already knew who was going to be the leader on the day of

Pentagon. Jesus knew ahead of time what

was going to happen. So what he's doing, he's calling

his leader out. He said if you're going to lead

by church, you're going to have to learn to be well.

You're going to have to learn to be awake.

You're going to have to learn to worship.

You're going to have to learn to pray.

An hour. Come on.

Nothing's going to happen in the church, Peter, unless you pray.

And it's not a 5 minute prayer, but it may take an hour or two

to get the thing done. Glory, glory, whoo Jesus, oh

glory. On the day of Pentecost, they

came together with one mind and one purpose to receive the

promise. And the whole crowd of 120 was

there. You know what?

They was all there for the same purpose.

And they didn't meander around. They wouldn't, they wouldn't

just visiting. You know what they was doing?

They was watching and praying, you know what?

Because they had already had the promise that there was something

going to show up on that day. So they was there.

You know what? The real reason we come to

church, I hope, is we come expecting something with

expectancy, knowing that I'm going to go home with something.

Brother Aiden, come on, I may not have what I want right now,

but honey, when I get to church, I'm planning on getting it no

matter what. Just like the Lord knew what

Peter's assignment was going to be for the church pastor, Paul

Poole, some of you know him. I guess he was maybe the first

one. Well, maybe not.

Maybe it's been Sue's grandmother.

I don't know. But he was one of the first, I

guess that that noticed that maybe God had worked and done

something in me and I was going to be a leader and I didn't know

it. But I will never forget Brother

Mason, what he told me one day. He told me, he said, Brother

McGee, you've got leadership in you.

Watch where you take your people.

I will never forget that as long as I live.

He spoke into my life before Brother Sizemore ever did.

You know what? There is times that God gives

men of God where you're headed even before you get there.

Brother Steve Wilson I'll never forget a man that was Brother

Meredith's church. Well, it was actually, it was in

the gymnasium, I think it was, or something.

But I'd been asked to preach and it was their anniversary

service. I don't remember what

anniversary it was, but of the church and I, I still don't know

how I done it, But you know, they, they give me the first

night I had to preach the first night.

Brother Steve Wilson preaching after me.

Lord help you talk about pressure.

We all know Brother Wilson. He is a preacher, extraordinary.

And he preached a sermon that night that stayed with me

forever, and they brought me back to this scripture and he

preached on this subject. God always works upstream.

If we'd only realized church that every place we go He's done

been there. Come on, it's not He's not a

stranger to where you're at. He's done been there.

He's hopefully he's walking ahead of me.

Come on, He's paving the way for me.

Come on. If it wasn't for him, I'd still

be back there. But he's paving the way.

Come on. Peter, couldn't you pray Just

one hour yet you're leaving me alone to pray.

I just all going to tie together before I quit.

Glory. Hallelujah.

Hallelujah. Oh, that we could all get on the

same page. Come on, I said.

Oh, that we could all get on the same page if we could all just

come to church and get on the same page for a change instead

of scattered minds here, you know, at work tomorrow what I've

done today. Come on, the week's worth of

work that's ahead of you. If I could just get on the same

page with the Lord, and if you could get on there with me, you

know what? It's hard telling what God would

even do in this house tonight. If we could all in this house

get on the same page. Hallelujah, Hallelujah, glory,

glory, glory, Hallelujah. I feel though, I like, like the

church, no one should have to pray alone.

I'm going to drill this hard because I'm a brother Freddie.

I remember second church. I remember first church, but it

really stands out in the second church.

But that's because that's when God really began to move.

He moved in the first one don't get me wrong, but the first the

the very first of church number another 128 brand new souls in

1996 and I've got names written down. 28 brand new souls that we

baptized in Jesus name and they were filled with the Holy Ghost.

Hallelujah first church God started.

He let 6 get filled with Holy Ghost without me ever preaching

or else or even singing a song. Come on, I'm telling you, if we

can all get on the same page, there's nothing to keep that

from happening right here. Hallelujah.

He can do it right in the midst of our service.

There ain't nothing wrong with the Lord taking over and

preaching a while. I told him.

I laid up here on my face this afternoon on this carpet.

I said, Lord, I don't have to preach.

You do the preaching, You do something.

It's not about me, Lord. It's all about you.

It's all about your Kingdom. I don't need no accolades.

The Lord needs the accolades. Hallelujah, Hallelujah,

Hallelujah. No one should have to pray

alone. Now I'm going to, I'm going to

be just as nice as I can, reach just as straight as I can.

It bothers me when I see people come to the altar and there's

nobody praying with them. Nobody should have to go in a

March alone. Hey, I remember second church.

People began to March. Before you know it, the whole

church was marching. Come on, stay with me tonight.

We're going to bring this around.

It's a, it may be a complete circle, but we're going to bring

it around. Hallelujah.

When somebody run. Next thing you know, I've seen

somebody run. Brother Ethan.

I thank you. Brother Ethan got up and run.

As soon as I seen that, I got up and run with him.

Nobody should have to run alone. When somebody stands up and

shouts Hallelujah, there ought to be somebody else standing up

and say Hallelujah, you should have to do it alone.

Man, I feel the Holy Ghost in here.

Whoosh, Hallelujah. We shouldn't have to be alone.

If Jesus didn't need to be alone and he didn't want to be alone,

why you think he called the other three with him?

I need a backup. I need somebody to pray with me.

Come on, Church, Did you slap? What you doing, Peter?

Sleep us now, Peter, could you not watch one hour and then the

next time he makes it very plain, watch and pray that you

won't enter into temptation. You know what Temptation comes

when we ain't got our mind on God.

Thank God. When we're tempted, if we go to

the Holy Ghost, it's on the inside that's bigger than the

temptation on the outside. And we have trouble with that.

I have trouble with that. You have trouble.

It's something we fight all the time.

But I'm going to tell you we've got power over it in Jesus.

That's why we all want to praise God together.

We ought to worship him together.

We ought to shout Hallelujah together.

We ought to say Amen together. Oh Jesus, just one hour, but

alone. I've got to pray alone.

I'm going to pray an hour and I've got to pray alone.

Oh, Jesus. We probably wouldn't have been

so nice to Peter, James and John.

We not might not have spoke that nice.

He treated them as these kids. Thank you Jesus, let me, let me,

let me, let me bring this together.

Genesis 218 and the Lord said it is not good that man should be

alone. If if he said that in the

beginning, it's still good. Come on, it's not good.

I will make him a help meet for him.

You look it up and it says aid or assistant.

God is looking for assistance from His church.

He's made us all into one body and He's brought us together for

such a time as this that He'll have assistance in winning Mount

Carmel. He's brought us together so we

can have prayer together so our families would come in, so the

prodigal that went out the door would come back in so we can

have a revival of restoration. Can it happen, Bishop?

Yes, it can happen. I believe it's going to happen.

But we all got to get on the same page right now on page #1

Stay with me, Lori. Your residue's in the bottom,

Lori. Hallelujah.

Thank you, Jesus. Numbers 11.

It's a reference only. You don't have to turn there.

Allow me to paraphrase. Moses tells God, he said I'm not

able to bear all this people alone.

He talked to God about it. He said, Lord, I can't do this.

What you're wanting me to do, I can't do it.

I can't bear him alone. So guess what, God sends 70

elders out of Israel and he said, Moses, we're going to

bring them down by you and I'm going to take off your spirit

and I'm going to put it up on them.

Now, I'm going to tell you, if the church ain't together, we

need to get together because the same thing that pastor preaches

here and all the minister of this church, all of us need to

get in that spirit that they're in.

You need to feel the burden the pastor feels.

You need to feel the burden that your youth leader is having.

You need to feel the burden of the next Gen.

Come on. God wants to do something, but

we've all got to work together and be obedient before it's

going to get done. Hallelujah, praise the Lord,

Hallelujah. So God gives him 70 elders to

bring together and he puts the Spirit upon all of the helpers.

Can I tell you I can't preach alone?

I need you. I can get up here and shout my

guts out, but if you ain't helping me, I can't preach.

The preacher gets gets his encouragement.

It's when you're out there saying Amen, Hallelujah.

It's so when he's preaching, he can feel like coming back.

And when it hits the preacher, you're going to make him preach

harder even yet, and he's going to preach with more meaning

because somebody is accepting it and sending it back.

Oh, Jesus, Hallelujah. Stay with me.

Hallelujah. See, pastor says that all the

time. Many hands make light work.

Come on, you know what? Wouldn't have to stand up here

and scream his head off if we'd all get on the same page,

Brother Mason wouldn't have to sing his heart out and beat his

fingers to death if everybody just get on the same page.

But Ethan, if we could all get on the same page.

And my Lord, hey, I can remember those days that nobody ever done

nothing alone. Nobody prayed alone.

Because if somebody hit the altar, somebody's going to be

there by their side praying for them.

All right, I know Brother Reese told me I could do use him for

anything, but I'm more surprising.

Brother Dakota's going to be my helper.

Brother Dakota, I want you. I want you to come up and sit

down my chair. Good helper.

Now I'm going to show you what we do in our churches.

Peter, James and John, they're back there.

You know, they're not doing anything.

They're sleeping. Who's praying?

Jesus, He's the only one. He's alone and he's praying.

He's got three right there. And the other bunch back there.

They've been asleep already forever.

Got all his disciples with him. There ain't none of them.

What if we're not careful? We come to church and our

disciples are all sleeping while the preachers preaching.

Now, what I'm trying to get across is what I think we do

sometimes. And I'm not saying that anybody

is trying to do this. I'm saying it's something that

we got to check out. And God, I'm going to tell you

this wasn't in my sermon, but I'm going to tell you I'm going

to preach it or told me go get that fence I had back there, he

said. Because what we're doing in

church is we're fencing somebody in that's come for prayer.

Nobody can get to them. Come on.

We, Oh my Lord, help me preach. We've tied God's hands.

He can't do nothing. We're the church.

We're the body of Christ. If the body of Christ isn't

going to do nothing, Jesus can't do nothing.

I've got to go farther. And

if I take it on farther. Truth is, we don't even seem.

We're gazing down. Oh, my phone just went off.

Let me see who that was. You'll remember in this church,

a lot of years ago when we first moved in here, I preached a

sermon. Loving God more than you love

your cell phone made everybody come up and lay their phones on

the table. You remember that?

You know what I still stand on? That we ought to love God more

than the cell phone. That cell phone ought to take

all of our time in the day. We need to watch and pray part

of it. Hallelujah.

Thank you, Jesus. See what, what?

What God began to he began to burden me down this afternoon.

But we need to get together. We shouldn't be alone.

Not alone in our trial, not alone in our testing, not alone

in our sickness, not alone in our pain, not alone in our

broken heartedness and our depression.

It ought not be in the church. If that's happening in the

church, the church ain't where it ought to be, because this is

the Church of the living God. We are the bride.

Oh yes, Jesus, we need each other.

See, truth is, I need you. I'm still here after 30.

Lost track now. Been a long time.

I started helping this church in 1988.

That's been a while, and I've been around here and I've

watched us come up through the revival, and that's good and it

ought to be. But now we've slowed down in the

slump. You know why?

Because we can't get on the same page.

I don't know how many was up here at the altar this morning

that was praying, but I didn't see 1-2 people or three people

around them all. We're not on the same page.

Come on. God does not lose our vision.

Let us not lose. Let us not lose our sympathy.

Let us not lose our compassion. Church, we can't live for God

without compassion. We can't live with God without

love. We got to love one another as He

loved us. Oh, oh, oh, I said we got to

love each other as he loved us. Oh boy, that puts a different

twist on the story. He who, glory man, He thought

enough of us that He took our sins and nailed them to the

cross. And if it wouldn't been for him,

you and I wouldn't be here tonight.

Glory Hallelujah. Glory Ecclesiastes verse chapter

4 and verse 9. I'm trying to hurry.

Help me. Two are better than one.

Everybody can say that. You could.

You could testify that 2 are better than one because they

have a good reward for the labor. 2 can do more than one

and else one is sitting on their prat doing nothing.

Hey, everybody can do something in this church and you've been

called to do. If you're a part of this body,

you're not a loafer. The truth comes out.

Come on, We all got to do our part, brother.

Even if we want to have church, we'll have to jump a little bit.

Come on, we'll have to run a little bit, go have to shout a

little bit, maybe a whole lot. Because some things you got to

shout your way through, some things you got to pray your way

through. Just one and you fell asleep.

Why aren't you praying, buddy? You're going to have a job when

I come up out of that grave. You're going to have a job on

your hands. Oh, yes, Lord Hallelujah.

Who's better than one? Because they have a good reward

for their labor. I'd like now notice and take

hold of this. For if they fall, the one will

lift up his fellow. Oh God, if Brother Reese gets

down, I'm going to have to help pick him up.

Brother God still loves you. It's going to be all right.

He's going to thank you through the hard times.

He's never going to leave you. He's never going to forsake you.

He's able to do exceeding and abundantly.

Above all, we ask or think, Come on, we got to lift one another

up. Come on.

We got to encourage one another. We've.

I'm sorry you're sitting back here alone, but you won't be

sitting here. We got him fenced in.

Nobody can get to him. He can't get out.

Come on, God saying, why don't somebody pray for him?

Somebody needs to find a way to get in.

Come on, I said. Somebody needs to find a way to

get in. We need to get him out.

It's going to take more than one.

There's some people that's behind the fence that's going to

be there till somebody comes and drags them out of there.

You can't leave them where they're at.

You got to do something about it.

Oh, yeah. Somebody's going to help.

Oh, yeah. Thank you.

Jesus. Help him out there.

He just get a hold of his hand. Help him out there.

Come on. Come on, you ever, did you?

Do you ever, do you ever think that the person is in bondage

when he's at the altar and the only way he's going to be set

free if you go up and help him get free?

Sometimes you can't pray your way out of it.

But if I can get enough people on the same page, they can help.

Pray me out. Come on.

He's real. If we're the body of Christ,

when somebody in our church is hurting, Sister Sam, when you

hurt, if I'm where I would it be, I hurt for you.

You're not doing it alone. You're not in this.

There's somebody praying for you.

That's why we got the prayer band.

Come on church. That's why we got a prayer band.

So when somebody's got problems that you can call pastor, you

can call me, you can call Brother Mason, Sister Mason,

come on. And they'll put you on the

prayer band. And I don't I've not counted up

how many there's there's 12 different.

There's a bunch, the whole bunch of people praying.

Now, I'm going to tell you something when this happens.

Me and my wife. I thank God for my wife.

I give her honor tonight. She's put up with me for over 59

years. We're headed for 60.

And it ain't been easy for either one of us.

I'm going to take you know what you do?

You learn to work with each other.

Come on. That's your partner.

She's my help me. Come on.

She's my greatest cheerleader. She cheers me up when I'm down.

She encourages me when I'm discouraged.

She preaches to me when I need preach too.

Hallelujah. We got to get on the same page.

We've been on the same page for 59 years plus time.

We went together and was engaged and all that.

In fact, we kind of been on the same page ever since I was about

7 years old and then about 11 years old when I was playing

guitar on the platform at Kingsburg Pentecostal Church.

She began to smile at me and I said well that's see what you

don't knows. Sister Mcgee's mom and dad was

going there when she was born. This church, come on.

But we've been on the same page. When we come to church we need

to get on the same page. Sure.

The brother Reese we ought to have somebody at the door may

come in. So what page you on?

Well, I'm on page one. OK, good.

I'll write you down. Come on, come on.

We need to stay on first page through the singing, through the

worship. We don't come to page 2 until

the message starts and Oh yeah, I'm going to say it.

I'm going ahead. And what we need to understand

that in that first page, it needs to be built.

There ought to be a crescendo by the time the pastor gets up that

he don't have to just get up and and shout his braids out.

He'd get up to say Hallelujah and the church goes wild.

If I remember those days, both Freddy, I will never forget

this. I don't you was probably there

that night was first church. I will never forget it.

I'll tell you why, because I had never seen Brother Homer Madden

move. I was preaching one night.

The Lord was moving in that place and all at once Brother

Homer Madden got up and got out of his spook.

He said, huh. He he the only place we had to

walk is up around the pulpit and around and he he got the pulpit.

He said I just had to take a walk.

It shouldn't have been him alone.

Come on. I don't remember.

There was probably other people did.

It happens. It happened.

It still ought to happen. When somebody's walking,

somebody's running. Come on.

Be the first stuff for your peer then.

I'm going to not let him do it alone.

I've been up here too long already.

Thank you, Jesus. How?

I better hurry. Thank you, Jesus.

Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.

Now for if they fall, one will lift his fellow up.

Corey. But whoa, everybody said whoa to

him. That is alone.

I wondered how long it's going to take for somebody to just

help brother code out. Thank you, sister, because it's

if we come on, we can, we can fence them in and they'll never

get help. But if we'll free them and make

them a part of us. Come on.

You shouldn't have to feel alone in this church.

You ought to have to feel like you got plenty of company to

help you worship Woo. You ought to feel like you're a

part of the church. Who knows, right?

But my brother Mike Penrod out here doing this show.

Oh Jesus, we might have a sister Adam going.

We might after might have sister Sheila American and it keeps

building, building. I ain't got that fine voice like

she does and get up there. She does somebody, Brother Reed,

if we could all get on the same page.

What I'm trying to tell you, this can happen every service

night. If we'll get on page one and

begin, God will take us through it.

Hallelujah. Well, all right.

Thank you, Jesus. 2 lie together.

They have heat, but how can warm one warm alone?

You know, we got snugglies, Sister McGee and I in our first

trailer we had we learned to snuggle.

We had a wonderful big trailer. It was 38 by 8.

Lot of windows, windows every place, shadow boxes if pretty.

It's just, it's just gorgeous. It's just little.

It had a tub about. You got in, you couldn't get

out, you fenced in. We slept.

We had one bedroom. Paula was born.

She slept on the couch. Well, I slept in the baby bed

1st and then slept on the couch. Come on.

I'm talking about being on the same page.

It'd get cold and guess what? In our bedroom, there was a door

there and those windows and they'd get frost on them walls.

2 is better than one. I guarantee you.

In those circumstances, you thank God for your wife.

Oh yeah, I'm getting here, y'all.

I'm. I'm trying to close here, but

I'm having a hard time. Hallelujah.

And a three fold cord is not quickly broken.

In other words, if I get on page #1 Brother Reese and I stay

there long enough, come on. If there's two of us and we get

on the same page and the Lord says, hey, my Lord, this is all

right, I believe I'll just join their worship.

Come on. I I believe I'll just start

letting things happen. I'm going to make it happen.

Come on. You don't understand what I'm

saying, but I'm saying we need to not leave anybody alone.

But when we get together, we need to do something about our

position and we need to worship the Lord till the Lord joins in

our party. And if we can get 2 by twos in

here and God joins 2 by twos, before you know it the house is

full of God and it's none of us. Jesus, Hallelujah.

Well, glory Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus, it's not

quickly broken. Hallelujah.

Notice something reference only Mark six and seven Jesus sent

his disciples out two by two. I'm I'm I'm just giving you some

proof in the word Acts 3 and one Peter and John reference only

went up over to the temple together at the hour of prayer

glory. You didn't catch it, did you?

Peter and John, he couldn't pray for an hour just for his Jesus,

come on, when he was in the Garden of Gethsemane, but now

he's going up with John, they're going to pray an hour.

Woo glory. Come on church, we can do it if

we want to and we have to. We can do it.

Hallelujah. First Corinthians 12/12 for as

the body is 1 and that many members and all the members of

that body being many our one body, so also is Christ.

Oh glory Hallelujah, I'm trying to hurry y'all Hallelujah.

First Corinthians 12/17/18 of the whole body where I wherever

the hearing of the whole body where the ear where is the

smelling But now verse #18 has God set members every one of

them in the body as it has pleased him.

Come on, He's put us there for a purpose.

Oh Jesus, Hallelujah. I got to get the movement.

I I know Hallelujah, glory Hallelujah say First Corinthians

12/25 that there should be no system.

Everybody said division, division or split in the body.

Glory Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus.

We need this church, we who should have the same care one

for another. There's no big eyes and little

you's in the church. We're all servants, one to

another. The pastor is a servant to you.

You're a servant to him. We are all servants.

Oh glory, Hallelujah. Praise God, Hallelujah.

Let me tell you right now, there are no unimportant members in

the body. We all have got a function.

Everybody said to everybody, everybody's got a function.

Grandma Camel used to say, in fact, she even, she told I was,

I was going to throw this in a while ago because it fits so

well. My brother Poole talked to me

and I don't know, it might even be before that.

He's the grandma spoke. She I believe it was in fact,

maybe even when we was going together.

The grandma camels told my my fiance at that time she said,

Sue, what are you going to do if God calls Paul to preach.

Maybe she reckoned the first recognize it.

I don't know. It took three different people

before I swallowed it and went ahead.

Jesus, stubborn. It's like you all are.

I'm going to bring this out. I'm trying to come close, y'all.

I'm about done. See, I I've got an arm, you

know. Come on.

I'm talking about a member of the body.

I've got an arm. But guess what?

All is connected to that arm. Different function.

I've got fingers. 5 fingers and a thumb. 4 fingers and a thumb.

I've got a risk. It can go like this.

Hallelujah. That elbow has got a bend.

I can straighten it out. I can kick the devil.

Hit him with my fist. I've got a shoulder that I can

move around. I can get a wind up.

Throw at him. Come on, come on.

That's just the arm. That's just the arm.

And you're all part of the body. Think of all the movements.

I think the Jewish people, I've read this someplace when my end

of in my study, I don't know whether it's true or not.

Probably all of a sudden use sinus and and people of the body

know. But they said the Jew claims

there's 248 limbs in the body movements, whatever.

I don't know. But I know one thing.

The body's supposed to work together, huh.

Come on, have you ever thought about it?

Just think what all you can do with all the parts of your body.

That's the way it ought to be in the House of God, I said.

That's the way it ought to be in the House of God.

Everybody needs to find their place in the body and we need to

function in it. Hallelujah, Hallelujah.

Without the function of one of these, we can't do what we

could. Do you hear me?

If a member of our body hurts, all hurts.

I said if a member of our body burst, every one of us are hurt.

I make sure finger your whole body's going to.

If one of them hurts, then we need to all gather around that

one body because we all hurt, Sister Sam.

When you're hurting, man, we all are to be carried to your side.

Brother Freddy, when you're going through problems at work,

we all are together around because a member of the body is

hurting and we need to help lift them up.

We lift one another up. Come on, come on.

Yeah, Yeah. You're part of my problem.

I'm part of yours. Glory Hallelujah.

Thank you, Jesus. We got to bear another one

another's burdens. Bible said in Galatians 6 and 2,

Hebrews 13, five says let your conversation be without

covenants. Be content with such thing as

you have, for he has said, I will never leave thee nor

forsake thee. Can I tell you that that's a

divine adage that was passed down from the very beginning,

even though it may not say that in just every word that it says

it some way or other, that I will never leave you?

In Genesis 2815, he talked to Jacob that way, and Deuteronomy

31 and 6 and 31 and eight. He talked to Israel and told

them that in Joshua one and five.

He told Joshua that in First Chronicles 2820.

He told Solomon that come on church, the Lord don't want his

people alone. I said the Lord don't want his

people alone. He wants them together on the

same page, worshipping together, praying together.

Oh Jesus, I'm closing first Samuel 23 verse #23 Moreover, As

for me, God forbid that I should sin against the Lord and ceasing

to pray for you, but I would teach you the good in the right

way. And I wrote a little notation

down below that says even for your enemies, we're sinning if

we don't pray for our enemies. They need saved.

The murderer needs saved. I'm just telling you the truth.

That's right. The people in prison needs help.

Thank God we got a pastor that visits and preaches to him, and

we had one just here the other night.

Thank God that he's still taking care of people in prison.

Now I don't know if God can get a hold of you tonight as we

stand. Thank you for helping me preach.

I appreciate it. I'll go home and sleep good

tonight. I better I got to take Sister

McGee the Evansville morning. Hallelujah.

Shut insurance. We forgot about you.

That's right. We still pray for you.

Call came in just the other day outside.

Sister McGee was inside. I was outside busy working.

She come out the front door. I don't remember who it was at

the time, but somebody put in a prayer band.

You know what? When that happens, no matter

where I'm at, no matter where Sister McGee is, I we meet in

the middle. We pray earnestly.

God, take care of it. This is a brother.

This is a sister. It's part of the body.

Lord, if they're hurting, I'm hurting.

Lord, heal them right now. Bring deliverance right now.

Because why 2 are better than one.

Thank you, Jesus, the altar is open.

I don't want anybody to be fenced in tonight.

Go ahead, bring the Mace. You're my brother.

You're my sister.