Pineapples | Pastor Robert Coffey

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Today just give the Lord a praise.

Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord.

Amen. Amen.

Thank you very much. Thank you brother McGee.

What some fun I was must've been to thing to do because I was

reminiscing and if it hadn't been for brother McGee Junior I

would have never met brother McGee senior senior, I would

have never met this guy back here.

And what's funny is all these people have preached for me.

Every one of them have been to Portsmouth and preached in my

Pulpit from my church. And I want to say, I appreciate

this church, allowing them to get out and do that.

They have all and I am in all to Stand Here.

Both of these fellows brother. Jerry and brother McGee.

And I'm sorry if I refer to People by first name basis, you

just have to look over me, okay? But I mean, I told him last

night, let me just tell you what.

We're not going to do today. We're not going to talk about

Revelations. I'm not going to talk about

Daniel, and I'm trying not gonna go to Ezekiel today or tonight.

You just had a, you just had a Revelations conference last

week, real Moses, and I ain't going there. because his

smartest brother Moses is, I'm that ignorant Oh I know is

there's a scorpion, got a lot of tales and I'm staying away from

that cat. Any animal that has multiple

animal parts mixed together. I don't want anything to do with

it. I was telling brother really

Mason last night, he took me to supper when I got in and I still

in him that years ago, my dad, I grew up in Richmond, Indiana,

same a Hoosier, and I grew up in Richmond and if you know

anything about Richmond and you anything about end time, you

know what, brother? Irvin Baxter had pastured there,

my dad got sick. Saved under his father.

My dad got the Holy Ghost under Revival is brother verbal Bean.

Just show you some history there.

And so, my dad brother backs were best men, each other.

So, I've known the Baxter family and and I remember years ago, I

actually was evangelist got an invitation to go preach for the

Irvin Baxter and I had family in that church a minute.

I just considered that a great honor that he would even

consider me. And let me tell you, I didn't

talk about Revelations that night either.

I preached Revival for the walls and talk about Revival and no,

Revelation no Revelator. I have a revelation but I'm

talking about the revelations. If you have your Bibles today.

Thank you, brother Maggie. Thank you First.

Apostolic church for allowing me to come.

Thank you for the room, the gift basket.

I am going to say that she stepped out, you know, we we

love myself my family. We love your pastor's wife,

she's a special case. But we love her and she put this

wonderful gift basket and I must she prophesied evidently and I

come in first thing this morning, sister Maggie.

I said there's a reason that you put two bottles of SmartWater.

Yeah, you understand. So I got it out this morning

drink some of it and she asked me if I was feeling the effects,

I said no but I hope it kicks in.

If you have your Bibles today, it's Nehemiah chapter number 1,

a mean-looking. I'm looking around.

You do you realize today? Do you realize if I was at home,

we would be going to eat right now.

I just want you to know that the next week.

Next week, you're going to spring forward, and we're going

to change, and we're still not going to be together.

And I will say, let me just follow brother James has

announcement this morning if you get a chance to go to Shiloh to

be in that in that missions conference, you folks, it's

phenomenal. It's phenomenal to rub shoulders

with people that are mission might out tonight.

We're going to talk about missions again.

If you can't make it the next week in the 17th and 18th, we're

having the Ohio District missions conference in

Portsmouth Ohio, just a short drive from here.

About five hours, you've never been there.

We would like to say you're welcome, we've got something

Indiana, doesn't have this year. I've got Israel Garza priest,

cooking Mexican after church. All you think about that and

said we're going to do some throw down on some grub Nehemiah

Nehemiah 1 · chapter mention

chapter 1. I do appreciate brother and

sister Maggie, brother, and sister Maggie, senior, and

brother, Jerry and sister. Burton Mason search company says

I'm getting dementia. I told her I just have too much

going through the computer at once and I don't have enough

hard drive to make it all work. So I try to reboot it every

night. Nehemiah chapter 1 verse 1.

Nehemiah 1:1

I'm going to read this. Now here, we got to make it up,

we go make a deal. We're gonna make a deal for a

start. I'm gonna read these names and I

didn't do a lot. I didn't do a lot of.

I didn't spend hours researching these names.

I'm going to pronounce them. If you laugh?

Then I won't have you come up here.

And read them. And then I'm going to laugh at

you that way. We're laughing together and not

Soul. Okay.

The words of Nehemiah, the son of huckle Aya.

And it came to pass in the month of just flew in the 12th year,

as I was in shushan. The palace that hen and I wanted

the one of my brethren came, he and certain men of Judah.

And I asked them concerning the Jews that had escaped, which

were left of the Captivity concerning Jerusalem.

They sent in to me. The remnant are left of the

Captivity They're in the Providence that are great in

great Affliction. And reproach the wall of

Jerusalem also is broken down. The gates thereof are burned

with fire verse 4. It came to pass when I heard

these words, and I sat down and wept, and mourned certain days

and fasted and prayed before the god of Heaven.

If you look to chapter 2, just in my Bibles, just across the

page verse one, it came to pump, it came to pass in the month of

mission. That, in the twelfth year, Our

taxes, the king that wine was before him and I took up the

wine and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been before times

sad in his presence, where for the king said, unto me.

Why is like counting? It's sad seeing Thou Art not

sick. This is nothing else.

But sorrow of heart, then I was very sore afraid, and you may be

seated if you'll say, amen, I take it.

I have the youth class, so glad the young people here today.

I when our church, Church. When we dismiss Sunday school

and all the people leave, it's such a depressing thing.

I don't know about here but they all the young people leave and

you know who I'm left with. And And I'm in the ranks now

too. So I understand it's funny when

you turn 50 after you turn 50 commercials and advertisements.

All them people, 50 and older are nearest funny.

I get hearing aid offers, AARP keeps want me to join.

Beltone loves my house. Anybody here like coffee?

He had not had enough for you. About have another Deuce right

now. Okay, here we go.

No, I want to talk to you this morning.

I want to talk to this one of my titles.

He got that upper it. No, he brother.

They're they're really loving my title tonight.

Today, I want to talk to you about worshiping at the dung

gate. In a hush comes across the crowd

worshipping at the dung gate. Let's talk about Nehemiah for a

little bit here. This morning Nehemiah and kept

Israel has been in captivity, it's toward the end of their

captivity and Nehemiah is serving as the keeks king's cup

bear and as he serving outside of Jerusalem outside the country

there, he gets word as we read this when he gets word that the

wall of Jerusalem, Is not, it's bad.

It's in shambles, it's in need of repair.

It's got breaches. And if you know anything, if you

maybe some you've been there, I know some of you ham.

I've been to Israel actually, and when you go to that old city

of Jerusalem, there are many gates and I wish I'd paid more

attention when I was there to the only gate I was really

worried about was the Eastern Gate.

I'll be honest, I want to know where the Eastern Gate was I

because that that one has a significant place in my future.

Does it you one of these days we're going to Jesus is coming

through that Eastern Gate and Kim.

Well, I can't wait to, you know, meet me by that Eastern Gate and

all that sort of stuff and and so, but they had all these, got

all these gates in this wall and Nehemiah finds out about that.

It's in disrepair. And the Bible says it Nehemiah

in verse 4 of chapter 1, the Bible says that when Nehemiah

heard these words, now, I'm going to preach this morning,

like I would at home and I want you, this Nehemiah was

concerned, the Bible said that he become, he become very, very

sad. His talents was sad.

He set down. And wept he he Mourns certain

days you know, sometimes we see something that upsets us and

that's it. The Bible didn't say that

Nehemiah thought. Oh, that's a shame and just went

on about his life. No Nehemiah stopped, he paused

and he said, this is a bad thing.

Not only did he Paul's, but Nehemiah was concerned enough

that he prayed about it all. How many times do we grab

another state and say, oh, did you hear about sister Sally?

Oh Sister, Sally's gone through something.

But, but neither of you'd even take the time to pray.

We're sad for a little while and the sadness just kind of carries

us through, but we're not concerned enough to go do

something about to talk to God? The Bible says, no, I did.

He pray. Oh, yeah, I know you ain't gonna

like this one. He fasted.

Oh, tell me a person that likes to fast.

Oh, you wake up. I think I'll faster day.

Woohoo. Never never my body goes in

convulsions when I say the word I mean I'm getting hunger pangs

talking about it right here in amazing when you fast that's

when they bring donuts to work. That cheap tight.

One co-worker. Never buys nothing for nobody

until the day you fast. And he says, I was down at the

supr quicker, I was down at the speedway or I was down to

Casey's Carry Out and I just saw them doughnuts and thought I'd

be generous no he never does that.

On days when I can eat the doughnuts.

Nehemiah me to my soul. What was going on in here?

Might was moved. He was moved enough and know he

was he moving up. He goes and brings the King's

Wine to him. And the King says he said, why

is your cat? He said your there's something

wrong with you. You're not sick, he said that

this is, this is a heaviness of heart.

This is sorrow. There's something going on, in

Nehemiah, begins to Spill the Beans.

He begins to tell the king. Hey King, here's what's going

on. He said, there's some problems

at home. There's some problems in my

homeland and he said, man, we Been taking over for all these

years, we've been in captivity and and we're finally getting

our city back. Things are starting to break

loose or is he said the man that wall that wall did just, it

needs some work and he said, the gates are all broken down and he

said we we really need to. We really need to go and

somebody needs to go. Somebody needs to do something.

He said, there's there's just some bad things happening at

home and the Bible said that the King was so moved by nehemiah's

presentation that he even, even, even obligating himself to help

sponsor. He said I'll send you some men

and I'll send you some money and I'll send you some supplies and

he said Nehemiah, why don't you go back to Jerusalem?

Won't you go check it out? Why don't why don't you do?

He said I'm going to help you do something with it.

I'll help you. So the Bible says, it Nehemiah

goes. Back Nehemiah chapter 6, verse

Nehemiah 6:15

15 says that in 52 days. In 52 days, near my head that

wall up and going and looking better and repaired and

rebuilding it. But not only did me on my, go

back to rebuild the wall, but the scripture says he had to

redo the gates the doors now in Nehemiah, three and three, it

talks about a fish gate. Now, I didn't go deep into all

this but it's called the fish gate.

So evidently it must be near some water. the fish come in

through the gate, not walking, but people carrying them You

know, things like that, then they Nehemiah 36, there's an old

gate that Gates been there a long time, you know, it's old.

In Nehemiah, 3:15, there's a fountain gate.

I read this morning, I think the commentary said that outside

that, that, that Fountain gate was to pull.

Salome, you can get some water through the, through the

Watergate, then there's the horse gate, and then there's the

East Gate, and then there's another game, myth cat.

And I, it's just weird that I can't hardly pronounce him.

There's that game. But I skipped one on purpose and

him and 314. There is the dung gate.

The dung gate. Now, do you know anything about

that word? You know, what goes through that

gate? That's where the trash goes out.

That's where the Refuge goes out.

You know, they're fake one commentary this morning.

As I was looking, it said that outside the dung gate that it

was it for years. There was, there was a heap of

trash where people take their trash.

It was it was the door to the dump.

I don't know about you, I do not know about you, but I have a

great respect for my trash man. Could you imagine what our lives

would be like? Without a trash man, I don't

know 4z Trashmen and he might worked in that industry.

And in here today, I've got a guy that comes to my church.

He doesn't gather trash, but he repairs, the dumpsters at the

trash goes in. I'm so thankful that every

Tuesday, I magically roll, my trash can in front of my house.

These guys, women come up the street in his trunk.

They dumped all my refuge in that truck and it just magically

goes away. I roll the cam back in.

We start the process all over again.

I've put stuff inside my trash container, you're not really

surprised. I put paint cans in there.

I put grass, I've put limb, I've put mulch.

I've even got so bad as put some dirt in there.

I was covered up with some good trash.

You need some good camouflage you know that way they don't

know what I mean. There's been times I've rolled

that can to the sidewalk blue McGee.

I'm T it was so heavy. I could I don't know how they're

little look, it should have busted outside that plastic and

one day I'm going to come home and it's just gonna be linear in

Smithereens and and eggs do it at my house and they're going to

say, Oh, I love my trash people, I love my trash people, they

take all the Refuge away. They took all the trash away,

but this dung gate. Now, the interesting thing, the

reason I come with this title this morning and brother,

brother, Alex, his thoroughly enjoyed this title.

I just want, you know, he is, he is just what time I've been in

this building today, he is just got this sheep.

He's looking grin on his face and he wanted to know what kind

of illustration. Well, you know why?

Why he did that because he knew his all going to blame him.

That's not what he had in his mind.

Just just want y'all to know. The dung gate, he's back her

smiling right now, you know him, you know how he is.

He has brain operates or doesn't operate, you know how that goes,

but here's the deal, here's the deal.

Here's what we're talking about the dung gate.

What odd title brother coffee broke off.

He's trying to act like brothers were.

No, not really, I could never do that.

But when they got all of the wall repaired and they got all

the gates repaired, they get together.

And Nehemiah says, we're going to have Dedication service.

We're going to rededicate, this wall.

We're going to rededicate these. These Gates, we're going to.

Well, have so the Bible said, you can read it.

I'm going to read it all today but chapter 12 and it all gets

done. He brings everybody, he said

we're going to break up. We're going to divide up into

two groups and one group is going to go around the wall one

way. And one group is going to go

around the wall the other way and, you know, it's kind of like

when you when you put new carpet, new pews, paint the

church, whatever your excuse is, we're gonna have a rededication

search. It's a reason to celebrate Let's

assume he said, but we're going to start.

We're gonna start this rededication Elder McGee's ever

going to start it? He said, but we're going to

start it at the dung gate. What that's exactly what I said.

Why would you know, Mariah were gonna have a birthday party and

we're going to have a little parade.

We're going to start at the dump.

We're going to start at the dung gate.

Why in the world would you start Arie?

I don't know. The reason I'm not here to

present a reason but he said we're going to start here and

then we're going to go to the around to the fish gate and the

old gate and the the fountain gate in the Watergate and the

horse game, the East Gate. He said, before we get now.

I don't know about you, but if I think it's been so honorable

them, if they could have started a celebration at the old gate

honor, honor, our elders. Let's start at the old gate or

maybe they could start the fish day, you know, hem these if

you're serve Captain D's or Long John Silver's are Or something,

they could have started the fountain gate with the waters,

and it's a beautiful Fountain, the pull supposed to loans

there, let's start there, let's start the Watergate.

Let's start the horse game, these key anyplace, but let's

not start anything dumb game. Matter of fact, when we get by

the donkey will just get it with him.

Simple, God bless using, we'll move on.

I don't know about you but I'm just supposing that it stunk at

that gate. You know there's trash Heap

outside and there's garbage out there and You know, Sally, the

cat died last week and she's out there.

There's gerbils and hamsters in fish carcasses.

I don't know if you know anything about garbage the other

day. I had to leave my garbage can

lid open because God it stunk. And I thought man I gotta hear

this thing out. I walked in my driveway, neither

That's Wonder. Sister coffee.

Didn't say anything. But she must have just thought

as me. And we all had Are you can you

imagine let's start a celebration.

We're going to invite all these people.

We're going to pray and seek God and we're going to start at the

at the dung gate. A place you wouldn't think so

we're refuge and trash and garbage and things that are to

be thrown away things that were through with things that were

finished with. We're just gonna, we're just

going to throw it out there and we're going to leave it there,

but we're going to start the celebration.

And and we're going to start at the thing and I understand we've

got some guests this morning. We're so glad I'm a visiting

pastor, but I'll tell you what 80 pastors, glad to have people

in the house of the Lord, especially new people.

Thank you. Amen.

You you need to come back and hear this guy.

This guy's one of my favorite preachers.

Paul McGee can preach like, nobody's business when I grew up

on preach, just like him. But you know, they got this dung

gate and I got to thinking I don't really own McGee.

It just got though, it. Definitely, I thought God.

Why why? And, and I got to thinking about

that. And I got to thinking that if

you can't worship at the dung gate.

You probably can't worship at the Watergate.

If you can't worship at the dung gate, you probably can't worship

at the fountain gate. If you, if you can't worship at

the dung gate, you probably can't worship at the Eastern

Gate because sometimes sometimes in life and may, I just say this

in the nicest way that I know sometimes our life is like the

dung gate, it's stinky, it's smelly, it's messed up, it

should be thrown away. And never forgotten.

But if you can somehow stand up today in the middle of that dumb

date and say I'm going to start right here.

Yeah, I'm gonna get to the Fountain gate, and yeah, I'm

gonna get to the Watergate and I'm gonna get to the Eastern

Gate, but you know where I'm going to start my journey for

Christ. I'm going to start it right

here, right? In the heat, running my mess,

run in my, in my refuge. I made a recommend life, but I

think I'll start right here if you can't worship God.

All the smelliest day, you'll never make it on the prettiest

thing goes friend. You got again, Worship.

The Lord every day. In all things.

Give praise and honor to gun. Come on.

Let's Magnify Him. God is so good.

God is so good. At the dung gate at that place.

Anybody ever said or heard this said you know I'm so you may be

seated. You ever heard that said that

when I get my life together, Brother McGee.

When I, when I get some things taken care of, I'm coming to

church. They're not coming, they'll

never be here. Well, real coffee, I'm not being

negative. I'm being truthful because

they're never going to get it together on their own.

Because if you can get your life together, you don't need God.

If you consider your situation out, you don't need the Lord.

I don't know about you. But I've got things in my life

that there can't no psychiatrist, no therapist.

There can't no doctor there. Can't no lawyer, the can't

nobody take care of them. I need to go to Jesus because

only Jesus can satisfy only. Jesus can touch.

I've got things going on in my life that I need God, I need God

to help me with. I mean the war to drink my path.

Oh Pastor. I can't I can't come to church

right now because I'm living, I'm living by the dung gate.

Yeah, my life and Pastor if you knew what was going on past,

what you don't know is we don't know your particular situation

but we can take some pretty good guesses.

You know why? We know is going your life

because we live too. When you look around this church

you see some he's pretty folks, sitting around their pretty

little suits and pretty little ties, pretty little socks.

And messed up hair. All three of you not one don't

shake him son? No, no, no, don't do that.

You're all three in the same boat without an or don't don't I

will bring you a brush tonight if you need one.

I look, I know there's a lot of men, this church with no hair.

I have here. I can help you.

I went to Walmart this morning. I forgot my hair gel.

Okay, you guys. All right?

You going to make it? Did you did you realize you're

part of the problem and not the solution?

Okay. Don't don't leave me now.

Yeah, that just like us, oh yeah.

It's not me, it's somebody else. Your reason we know that your

wife's messed up, is because we've been there, we've dealt

with these people. I said, sit around pre-suit,

Street ice, you should have seen them you ought to see some of

the messes God, the missus we've got ourselves into brother

Pastor McGee, I don't know, I don't know.

I've been raised in church, my whole life.

I don't, I've never, I've never really went out of the church

and back slid. You see?

I did it differently. I back slid inside the church.

I did it in church. I did it with my suit and with

my tie. I don't have it.

I don't have to pretend You see sometimes a smelly stuffing

outside. There's some smelly stuff in

here, too. Because we know we know what

people go through. We know how it mr.

Lives up. Oh God.

But at the dung gate, man, it's messed up.

And it's all, it's all Blood Brother coffee.

But again, it's just, there's no but friend.

If you can learn to Worship in the midst of your worst day, you

will never have problems worshiping the Lord ever.

Because if you can do it there, you can do it.

The Bible. Don't saying it's not the Bible

to bother the old saying says Bloom.

Where you're planted. I don't know, it's been years

since I've been to a dump. but if you ever go to the dump, They

dump all the trash and most evenings, they've got these huge

bulldozers and before they can go home, that trash has to be

covered. You know why the trash has to be

covered the smell so that the neighbors and the people in the

city will not complain about the smell Cincinnati, it around

Cincinnati, Cincinnati, has a huge Rumpke dump out there used

to go up and down, 27, going to Richmond and Cincinnati years.

Years years and I mean it's just a it's a mountain of trash and

bulldozers work in. There's birds and you know what

to do, they bring good soil in, they put that good soil, you

know, it kind of reminds you of Jesus it.

He takes his blood and all your garbage, you come to him and you

repented, you get baptized, you get the Holy Ghost, it, he

brings that spiritual bulldozer, and he just begins to cover up

all your. You don't smell no more and

you'll look, bad. No more and things begin all.

Things are all old things are passed away.

All Things become new. Oh Jesus has a way of taking

care of the dung gate. He has a way of taking care of

the Refuge, well, but the problem is you got to start your

start with God. While it's still smelly Well,

it's still nasty. You see, let me talk about

worship for just a moment. Worship isn't dependent on

circumstances. Okay, and I know I know you've

got great preachers church so I'm not here to correct or to

say something they haven't said, but there's a difference between

worship and praise. Praise, let's praise them.

Praises when you give God, thanks giving you you.

You Lord. Thank you for keeping me from

that wreck and God, thank you for keeping me.

Healthy and thank you for giving me a job and thank you for a

reason. Some of you boys and girls,

thank you for letting me pass that test.

And thank you for getting me through the day.

Thank you for touching my grandbaby when she's sick.

Thank you. Thank you.

But, but worship has nothing to do with blessing.

It has nothing to do with anything that God is giving you.

Now that God doesn't have to give you anything to get your

worship. Because worship is about who he

is, and when you realize that he's God, he doesn't have to

bless me. He doesn't have to heal me.

He doesn't have to do anything fun.

I'm just going to stand and lift my hands.

I'm going to lift my worship because I understand that.

He's the Supreme Being that he is God and I was treating

worship him. I'm going to stand in the middle

of my mess in the middle of my if you're here today and you

don't know the Lord if you'll begin to worship Him in spirit

and truth. I promise you he doesn't care

what your skin. And Hannah, he doesn't care what

you're living in. He can steer judge somebody.

It's giving me the homage that are worthy of Well, praise the

Lord. Am I doing?

Okay. And all right.

BC, be seated for a moment, talk about this dung gate.

Man come to church. I realized you know what, I

really I like this, you young people, I like that.

You cannot that was that was cool.

Run a youth conference up here. Worshipping I standing here the

old folks I'm glad you young people here.

I did notice a couple of older folks trying to drift in over

here. Couple of folks in denial.

Which side the church, you ought to be on.

That's all right. I like that.

And, and Elder McGee McGee was tell me them little kids up

here. I got a, I got a granddaughter.

She'll be for in September. Chloe, I got a second

granddaughter coming, the end of April, God, help us.

Khloe Khloe likes to worship. Remember when Khloe gets a

little too much sometimes, hit the pool or in, he's on the

front row while back with me and they were singing some song and

she was jumping and dancing, I thought that's all right.

Well, she kept getting closer to the older and closer to the

front close the front end. I'd pull her back but it wasn't

unique great that are little kids.

They don't understand. They know they don't know what

they're doing. They're they're just mocking and

mimicking. What we're doing but can I can I

just I just tell you I'd rather them be doing that.

Same big, their second like they're smoking.

I'd rather them be doing in sitting back here after I give

an orc and each other. There's a lot of things they

could be doing that. We wouldn't be happy with, but

these kids are trying to worship.

No, they don't know who they're worshiping.

They don't know why they're worshiping.

But one day, when that Revelation comes, when they go

to Sunday school class, they don't understand how we may be

at the dung gate, but we're going to start here.

We're going to start worse. I don't know why.

I don't know why I'm lifting my hands.

I don't know why I'm jumping up and down.

I don't know why I'm singing, I don't know why I'm crying.

I don't know why I feel this way.

I know why you feel that way? Because there's a God of

Eternity that is walked in and Sansa and he said, if you

worship me, If you worship me. Well, glory to sermon for

another day. But let me give you all just a

little hint. God's attracted to worship.

God's attracted to praise. God is attracted.

So if you want goth you can't feel God.

If God is not moving in your life, start doing things that

attracts him. Several years ago, I was at

Shiloh dad brother sister, Elkins now and sister Elkins is

a just a uniquely guy loves to steal cars but she's she's

different good different, she's smart different.

See, I'm not smart. So I'm not that different.

I'm coming since different, she's smart different as won't

get in, and they got a bunch of flower beds around their church

and they divide them up. This lady had this section, this

lie had this section number one, none of them matched that really

bothered me. You know, this lady had this

kind of flowers and but if it's if they're happy with it, I was

through with it. And I said, well who's flower

bed? Is this sister?

Elkins says that's my flower bed and I call brother, sister,

Elkins mom and dad. They're my other Mom and Dad.

I've they just come take him in sister company years ago under

the wing and I'm in my own. All these flowers right in the

middle, this flower bed is a milkweed I mean it's got that

big pot up. You're getting open up and

Bloom. You don't have some milk, we

blooms. Don't you all them seeds.

You don't get one milkweed. You're getting to get a whole

bunch of milk weeds and I sister Elkins.

I said why. Why do you allow that weed to

grow in those flowers? Well, brother coffee. she said,

don't you know that milkweeds attract butterflies and

butterflies pollinate, the flowers, And I said sister

Elkins don't you know it's a weed.

We both understood but she would rather have a weed.

And attract butterflies. What, what did he say?

One time he was gonna let the wheat and the tares grow

together until the Harvest. Whoo.

Hey, can I tell you why? God, tolerate some of us around

the church for a while? We're doing bad.

It's cause he's hoping that something is going to change.

He's a hoping this something that happens your life's going

to track something different than what you're doing right

now. Hey, I might look like a

milkweed, but if I can get God's attention, if God can cut, Well,

Glory. Okay, here's something.

Here's something. I got this from somebody else so

you can write this down, this is smart.

This thing SmartWater. This is just smart.

Somebody said that we need to quit looking at Jesus through

our problem. And start looking at our problem

through Jesus. Let me say that again.

You got to get this instead of looking at you through your

problem to Jesus. You need to switch that and

start looking at g at your problem through Jesus.

Because when you begin to look at your problem through Jesus,

the problems not going to look near as bad.

In perspective when you look at it differently.

So so what I'm going to do is I'm going to come to church and,

and My dog ran away. My cat is mad at me.

My wife. Doesn't like me.

My boss is threatening to fire me.

The battery was dead. I had a flat tire, I mean, you

can name whatever you want to name every street.

I try to get home on there was a tree down or a pothole, or is

under construction little coffee.

It was horrible. It's the worst day of my life.

But you know what, I'm going to do, I'm going to go to church.

I'm going to the house of God. I'm going to walk in here and

I'm going to throw my hands up and I'm going to Worship the

Lord. What do you mean?

Because I understand and that none of those things I just

mentioned have any effect on who he is.

I mean, no. I mean I testify about those

things. I'm in that Praise Him for those

things but I'm going to worship him for who he is.

I'm going to magnify him for who he is, because God don't care

what you're going through. If you worship him and, you

know, it's going to happen. It's going to attract him and

then he's gonna begin to move in.

All the, I'm telling your friend, you need to start

dedicating your life and don't start the fountain gate, the

East Gate, the fish gate, you need to start right here at the

dung gate. Well, somebody say praise the

Lord. Worship.

Praise praise. Is when you think him you said

Lord I Thank you for healing. Thank you for my job and think I

was preaching Louisiana years ago and we were in Revival.

When that during bible I don't know what church is that when I

dream viable, this got back from the DL.

Know how much you pass you you evangelize in Louisiana but this

church had a lot of guitars Y'all remember that years ago

churches, you know we might have one drummer one piano player we

had 15 guitar players, your guitar player, no offense.

I mean there's line up everywhere.

Always guitar players, there's one church had always get to

choose one guy played the guitar.

Did he come to church my second third night of Revival in it?

They had testimony service every night.

I know, I'm old. Prayer.

Request was you lift your hands, everybody spoke it out and we

took we took 15 minutes get per request to pray to Second.

So we can we want the service this little guy that if I got

testimony he stands up. He said I just want to give God

some praise. I lost my job today.

I don't know, but anybody else I look this guy.

Nothing you stupid. Crazy.

I thought how in the world can you who's thankful for losing

her job? I don't know.

He's who's thankful for that, anybody know.

It was it the pie was in my eye because about two or three

services later in that Revival really McGee.

That guy said I got a testimony. I thought what?

Now your wife left you No. He said, I want to thank the

Lord. I sent the house today and some

guy come knock on. Door said you need a job.

Now, I'm just going to preach to you Common Sense here, that

never happens to me. If I lost my job and I'm sitting

home waiting on a job, I'd still be sitting here now, in fact,

I'd come got one, your food boxes this week cuz I wouldn't

have nothing to eat. Because I ain't never had nobody

call me. I've always had to go seek them

down, big pleading borrow. Would you please my wife's

hungry? My babies under?

Would you, please would you please give us some money?

I'd be staying on side of road that sign.

Fell on bad luck. Anything will do.

God bless you. Sorry, we have an overabundance

of those important. How do you, how do you?

And I thought God, this cat, this is cats to thanking you for

losing his job that he come. But I thought, you know, he he

may be on to something. You know, sometimes we're

waiting for that miraculous thing to happen, but I want to

worship him. I'm going it's not difficult to

praise because everything's going your way.

It's not hard to praise because you got what you wanted.

Things are moving your way but but worship worship is hard

sometimes because you don't have good health you don't have a

good situation you see you got to start.

Now in Job, chapter 1 job job is an interesting guy, also and

Job 1 · chapter mention

joke 1. And 21 job, says Naked came out

of my mother's womb and naked. Shall I return?

Thither the lord gave and the lord taketh away.

Blessed, be the name of the Lord.

Now jobs lost all his kids, always camels always cattle

Barnes. I mean you read the Rita, he

lost everything. Except his wife.

She's gonna tell him to curse God and die.

He's going to try to help him get out of his misery.

Here's a guy who's lost everything.

And he says, the Lord gave and the Lord hath taken away.

Blessed. Be the name of the Lord.

Wow. If we don't know how to worship

God, in bad times are worships, probably not worth much in Good

Times. I'm just telling you, folks, you

know, if the stores have to line up in the planets and the moon,

and everything has to just Celeste, really fall into place.

And, you know, on that particular morning, everything

went well, husbands and wives that ride to church together.

Yeah. Sometimes give you live two

minutes from the church. But it it funny how when you and

the kids get in the car that the devil gets in the car too.

Two minutes met, my wife evangelize.

We were parked next to the church.

And sometimes we couldn't get into church and agreement.

You're with me. You all live in the same world,

I live in. Walk in the church.

We come in here. I hope brother Mason sings.

I shall not be moved. Because that's what I am a tree

planted by the water. Hello.

Every time you hear the holy hush, that means you're getting

close to something. Well, you know, why?

Why do they get it, right? They have to sing those songs.

I think my daughters are praise team.

Leader people time. Well, they sing the same songs

all the time. Why can't they sing something

else? They sing.

They look too happy. They sing.

They look too. Sad seem to me fast song seemed

to me. Slow songs.

Won't you come try out for the praise team?

I'm not home. An amazing two people, they're

always the most critical. I'm just talkin to her cleanly

the day and I said, I had a complaint She said, what?

I said you're putting the toilet paper on the rolls wrong.

Y'all folks that's got stuff I deal with.

You know, the toilet paper should come off the top.

And I don't know. I don't know about all the noise

Land of Lincoln, I don't know. She said well brother come up.

He the reason I did that is because I got tired of all that

toilet paper, just being all the way to the floor.

Mama, Maggie's understanding, she's with me.

I said well sis. Let's in keeping peace and

Harmony in our blessed Church. I said maybe you could put the

top roll over the top and we it's got an extra roll dinner.

You know I said maybe the second roll could go wrapped up under

the bottom. You know, you I had I had some

people one time we just talked about church problems minute.

I had some people one time sis they got in a fight over the

front row before church, this sister always sit on the front

row and some other sister. I've got three Fighting over for

church. I mean, we started church yet

when he said, hallelujah. Amen.

Let's pray. And this one.

Lady says, she wants to sit in the middle section on the front

row. So she comes in and plants her

self down there, her stuff, and kids, and the other leg comes

in. She walks up.

She's a, you know, this is where I said.

Do you understand? I've got three front rows.

No, we going, we're going to fight goes everybody wants the

middle because they think Jesus is in the middle.

And I won't be a feet. so this thing, escalates they they get

into where they go to the whole way and somebody said real

coffee there after arguing, I've got to preach after this mess.

So I got in the hole in there. They're both, they're both been

to leave the leave it there going home.

I said what's going on guys? Well um, she sent my seat

memory. The one ladies, don't dare she

left and I'm looking the other guy, his family.

Pardon me. I'm going to say something

offensive to some y'all by see if you go home over this, you're

stupid. It's exactly what I said and

he's stupid cause he went home. Thankfully, the old come back.

Can you imagine people? We don't come to church to

argue? Who cares?

Who cares? What seat you sit in.

Let me live it. Well, I'm here.

Anyway, let me just go one step further with you if a visitor

comes in here and they sit in your seat.

They should never knew that your seat.

They should never know. They sat where you sit.

You just get your little stuff and go sit somewhere else.

Why? Because I've come to worship

him. I've got enough mess.

I've got enough situation. I didn't come to argue with this

seat. How I got over here.

I don't know what chase the rabbit.

You'll see that rabbit go by. I chased him Elder.

I chased him. I'm gonna wrap this thing up.

I see, I'm getting hungry. Brother brother, brother Joel

ershon, maybe statement a while back and he said when you fear

God you don't have to fear anything else. when you

reverence God, when you get God in the proper perspective, you

don't have to fear nothing else because you know you reverence

God. God's got my back, God's Got Me

taken care of. Did you know in the scriptures

in the scriptures in Mark chapter 5?

Mark 5 · chapter mention

the Bible says that when Jesus comes to the other side of the

sea, into the country of the gadarenes, that when the ship

was coming, meet me there, a man, a man met him out of the

tombs. This is this man's got demons.

He's got an unclean Spirit. Matter of fact, the Bible later

said he says his name is Legion which is means many.

When Jesus comes to the shore on the boat that day, this man

that's got demons runs to Jesus and worships him.

Now in verse 7, the bible says, and here's what he says and

cried with a loud voice and said, what have I to do with

thee? This man's got demons.

He's got devils in him. And even a man, full of the

devil. The devil still can't stop him

from worshipping Jesus. Don't tell me you went through

too much this week. Don't tell me how bad you've got

it. This cat's naked running through

the tombs. Got a legion of demons in him

and he still realizes who Jesus is and he runs to him, throws

his head. You know, he says he said,

Jesus, thou, son of the most high God he even has a

revelation brownie McGhee of who he's worshipping.

He's not worshiping one in the godhead.

He's worshiping. God Almighty ruled himself came

down in flesh to redeem and Save his people romantic tell you

that you need to worship right now in the dung gate, start

where you're at. You see?

My life is full of of all kinds of havoc.

Makes no difference. Makes no difference.

Worship him where you're at. Start right now.

Start where you're at. God got to take care of.

You got to make it. Got to make a difference.

I do believe. It was Bartimaeus.

Blind Bartimaeus sitting, by the way side, here's it.

Jesus is coming by. What does he say?

He didn't just say Jesus. Jesus.

You see when you say Jesus, thou, son of David.

You're connecting Bible prophecy.

Oh, I thought I wasn't going there.

Bible prophecy and revelation of who Jesus was because it's been

told that he would come through the lineage of David.

So, blind Bartimaeus isn't just saying Jesus, Jesus.

No, he says, Jesus thou, son of David.

It was, he realized who Jesus was?

He had a revelation of who is coming by and he just want an

opportunity, he was worshipping him.

And because of his worship, Jesus stops and says, bring him

to me and he gets his healing. Could I preach you this morning?

If you'd get off your problems and and get off your situation

and start worshipping, the Lord, that maybe while you're

worshiping the Lord, he'll get you fresh site.

You'll heal your body up. You'll fix your family.

He'll give you a job. He'll touch your finances.

Why? Because I'm going to worship and

the dung gate stand with me this morning.

Well, I hope I'm helping somebody.

Paul. Paul was talking the New

Testament. Paul begin to list this long

list of sins. Fornicators adulterers, think

offended, all kinds of stuff, he listed his long list and it

funny, Pastor McGee. When we preach about Sin, It is

funny. How people that aren't

committing that sin. Amen.

Real wild. It's almost like sickle.

And then you start preaching about something else that

they're doing and they shut up. And the people that were doing

the other sin, start a mineral and a cousin to get them back

to, I'll get them back, Paul list, this long list, But then

Paul made the most palmate Paul made the best statement.

I think he could have ever made and such were some of you.

Now everybody shut up. Everybody shut up.

You know why? Because we all know what we

were. We all know.

We know what God's done for me. Please don't raise your hands.

With think this morning, some of us in this place.

We didn't think we were savable. We didn't think we deserve

Mercy. We didn't think we deserve

Grace. But his Amazing Grace, his blood

tones. If you've not repent of your

sins this morning, you need to repent of your sins.

You've not been baptized buried in Jesus name, you need to have

your sins remitted. The only way to do that is in

the name of Jesus. You've not received them,

feeling the Holy Ghost, you need the Holy Ghost, you see

repentance gives you a release of of your sin baptism.

Washes it away. No it doesn't wash your sins

away but the names applied to you you take on his name and he

doesn't leave you there. Because he knows, you can't stay

that way without his spirit inside of you.

That's as simple as it can get. Young people.

You may have read this you guys made read this also.

Somebody made a post the other day and said the difference

between sinner kids and church kids.

Is it church kids make their mistakes in the church?

Wonderful group of young people over here, wonderful.

And with that being said, boys and girls.

You're going to do some stupid stuff.

You've already done it, I think. But sis.

Jesus name. I commend mommy and daddy right

out of you. It's just brothers. when you

mess up when you fail, don't leave the church.

Don't let the devil tell you. Don't let snarly nose is sitting

back here. Run you off.

You got a pastor right there and other ministry here that love

you. Brother McGee, we love them even

sometimes when they're standing at the dung gate, you've messed

up Tom brother Mason. Last night took me to supper.

This isn't Regional either. Listen, appu Avengers brother

Morgan the other day on YouTube. And Morgan said something, it

really just hit just rattled me. he said the Lord sometimes even

Allows for your mistakes in his plan because because ultimately,

he said, Peter, you will deny me three times.

He prophesied ahead. You haven't failed yet Peter but

you're going to fill me three, but you're going to preach the

greatest message on Pentecost. Let me, let me close with this.

Let me close out your doing. All right, you.

All right, let me close with this.

David is the most lovable character in the scriptures.

How many like David? You wouldn't let David on your

platform. David couldn't preach in this

church. David couldn't sing in my church

map. That David probably won't even

take the offering to my church. Well broke almost all David.

Well he's an adulterer. Anna murder.

Well, let somebody do that today.

Well, it got real quiet. But I love David.

That one song is sung. Today was primarily David Psalm,

we sing about him. I want to dance.

Like, David. Sing like David.

Pray, like, We stopped short of what the other stuff David did

doing. Want to send like David. well,

that would go over well, What do you say about coffee?

I'm not sure. I know what the Bible says.

I believe the Bible. I know, I know structure and but

what I'm trying to get at is sometimes even after, you know,

the Lord, You get some trash on you.

And thank God for Grace. I want to right now if we just

extend our hands toward Heaven, come on.

I want to right now. We just begin to call if you're

here and you don't know the Lord and you don't know him in a

greater. You want to know him in a

greater capacity? Won't you lift your hands with

us? Oh God, we need you today.

God we need you. Come on somebody, we need you

today. God baptized, he's young people

again with the Holy Ghost. God, touch these moms and dads

today. Again, look for summer here.

That doesn't have the Holy Ghost.

God, fill them with the Holy Ghost as they worship.

You got a Summer Hill, has not repented gun drawn, God wrong

God. If they haven't been baptized

got drawn, give him a revelation of who you are.

Come on today. When we just begin to step out

of our seats, here we come on. Would you come I'm with us.

Oh, when we just begin to come to the front of this church,

what are you doing? I'm going to worship at the dung

gate. I may have done something this

week. I'm Just Gonna Worship in the

dung gate. I'm gonna start right here in

the midst of all my garbage. I'm going to start right here in

the middle of my refuge. Come on, somebody.

Go on that. Manage your down here.

Why don't you lift your hands. Close your eyes.

Now, your head, whatever it takes.

He Ko No CL Oliver. See, come on somebody.

If you want the Lord he said you draw nigh to Him He will draw

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