FOUNDERS DAY 2025 WITH PASTOR TROY & PASTOR T

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Amen, amen, I am just so elated to be here

with you on today. I am Reverend doctor Tanya Merriweather

Gibson Miller, co founder of Merriweather Global Ministries, co founded

it over twenty years ago with my father, the late

great Reverend Doctor J. E. Meriweather Senior, and my mother

with her encouragement, Lady Betty Rose at More Meriwether. I'm

just elated to be here today. Let me tell you

it took me a minute to get myself together to

be able to share.

As we reflect.

On this Founder's day, I want to read my dad's

just his bio to you in his lifetime so that

you will be able to see what a great man

of God that he was. We're just so elated to

be with you here on today. I'm going down through

everything and I just want to read it to you

my father. He attended Andrew Junior High School and graduated

from Westfield High School, where he played varsity football and

community baseball.

He continued his.

Education at the following institution, Birmingham Baptist Bible College, where

he received his Bachelors of Theology and Bachelors of Art

and Religion, and Gaston State Community College, New Era Baptist

Seminary Incorporated, where he received an honorary doctor's degree and

universal Bible Institute, where he received his Matters of Divinity.

He also received a bachelor's degree from Morehouse School of Religion.

Preaching was his passion, but also he loved singing. He

was a member of the Gospel the Revelettes. That's where

he met my mother when they were fifteen and fourteen

years old, a love affair that lasted a lifetime. In addition,

he was the lead singer of the Delta Airs of Birmingham, Alabama,

and organized the Gospel Crusader as a bestment. He received

his calling into the ministry in nineteen seventy and passed

the Little Truvine Primitive Baptist Church investment. Shallow Baptist Church

in Gaston for ten years and was a part of

the Wills Creek District Association, where he served in several capacities.

He was an intricate part of social, civic, civil rights,

and community affairs of the city. In April of nineteen

eighty four, he was called to Friendship Missionary Baptist Church

and reached beyond the boundaries of his church and was

the senior pastor until his death. He actively participated with

Habitat for Humanity, starred at the Birmingham Baptist as Sonia

Bible College in Anniston, and also Meriwether Bible Institute. He

was president of the snow Creek District Congress of Education,

former moderator of the snow Creek District Association of Anniston,

Past second vice president of the Northeast District State Convention,

former advisor for the Matrons.

Of the North East District Association.

Member of the Alabama Baptist State Convention, Member of the

National Baptist Convention USA and Corporate SCLC NAACP, the New

Alabama Voters League, Member of the Waterworks and sewerd Board

of the City of Anderson. Oh, as we reflect on

my father's life and all the great things that he

has done and what he did in his lifetime, I

have to tell you the dream is still alive. And

I think and I praised God for him, for his life,

for his legacy, and for his testimony.

Oh.

When I look back over my life, I tell you

I thank God that he gave me the parents that

he gave me, who encouraged me to continue on with

Meriwether Bible Institute. When my father passed away, my mother said,

you are to continue on with the assignment. So on

today I am so honored to share with you on

this twenty twenty five Founders Day. God has been so good.

Meriwether Bible Institute, after twenty years, is still in existence.

We have extended to Merriweather Global Ministries as well as

to the uic OH and to other things that we

are doing in the ministry. We serve a mighty God

on today who is able and if you don't know it,

you better believe it. God will do exactly what he

said he will do. After this song, you will hear

a word on today on our Founder's Day from our

senior pastor, the Reverend Doctor T.

Welcome Miller Junior.

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We just thank God for you joining us on today.

We just want to.

Welcome you, reiterate the welcome that my wife, my beautiful

lovely wife, Pastor t Doctor Tony, you merri Brother Gibson

Millard gave to you, and we just greet you in

the name of our Lord and.

Savior Jesus Christ.

I'm Pastor Troy And as she was saying, we are

here just to be able to celebrate Jesus.

On this Founder's Day.

All we are celebrating the life and the legacy of

doctor J. E.

Merriweather.

We also give honor to Lady Beatty Rose at More Merriweather.

And we here at Tabernacle the Praise Merriweather Global Ministries.

We are the beneficiaries of the rich, beautiful life and

legacy of doctor Merriweather.

So on this Founder's Day we honor him.

All Merriweather Global Ministries, Meriwether by Leinstitute, Tabernacle of Praise,

Unified International Convention Online. We all benefit from the beautiful

life and the work that he did, and we through

the work that.

We're doing, we help to carry on his legacy.

Of reaching people with the Gospel and the compassion of

Jesus Christ.

Amen. Amen.

So we're gonna go ahead and we're gonna jump in

to the Word of God.

We just want to say, for those of you that.

Are joining us live or online, we thank God for you.

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So today we're asking if you would join.

Us in Matthew the sixteenth chapter, Verses thirteen through eighteen.

Matthew sixteen versus thirteen through eighteen. Matthew sixteen Versus thirteen

through eighteen. So if you have your Bible, flip over

to Matthew, the first book in the New Testament. If

you don't have a Bible, pull up a Bible lap

like you version on your phone or your chaptain. Today's

message is entitled built to Last. Built to Last, So

Matthew the sixteenth chapter, verses thirteen through eighteen, and the

ESV says, Now, when Jesus came into the district of

Cesarea Philippi, he asked his disciples, who do people say

that the son of Man is? And they said, some

say John the Baptists, others say Elijah, and others Jeremiah

are one of the prophets. And he said to them,

but what do you say or who do you say

that I am Simon? Peter replied, you are the Christ,

the son of the Living God. And Jesus answered him,

blessed are you, Simon barge On, a Simon, son of John.

For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you,

but my Father, who was in heaven, And I tell you.

You are Peter.

And on this rock I will build my church, and

the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it. Built

to Last, Brothers and sisters, Today we stand on an

unshakeable undeniable, unbreakable foundation of Jesus Christ. This text that

we're looking at today is one of the most profound.

Declarations in all of the New.

Testament because it speaks of the power, permanence, and purpose

of church. When Jesus said on this rock, I will

build my church, he was not talking about a temporary shelter,

a fragile structure, or a man made institution. No, he

was talking about an indestructible, eternal, and victorious movement that

would withstand every attack of the enemy.

And I came to tell somebody.

Today, what God builds all, the devil can't brave. On

somebody ought to be able to say that what God

builds all the.

Devil cannot brave.

So, first of all, in our text for today, we

see the revelation.

Before the foundation.

Listen, Jesus makes the statement about Before Jesus makes the

statement about building the church. First, he asked the question,

who do people say the son of Man is?

Who do people say that I had and the disciples?

They replied, some are saying you're John the Baptist, that

preacher of repentance.

Ah.

Some are saying you're Elijah, that prophet of miracles, and

some are saying that you're Jeremiah, that prophet of lamentation.

But then Jesus he flips the coin. He turns the

question personal, and he asked his disciples, who do you,

ah say that I am?

And that's oh.

That question is still being asked today by men and

women throughout our world. Who is Jesus? So who do

you say that I am? And Peter, out of the

silence he answers, he said, you are the Christ, the

son of the Living God. Oh, he answered correctly. And

here's the first thing that we need to understand. The

church is built on the right confession. Before there can

be a foundation, there must be revelation.

You can't build a strong church on week doctrine.

You can't build a strong faith on false foundation.

So Peter's confession.

It shows us that if the church is going to

stand ah, it must stand on Jesus and Jesus alone. Oh,

Jesus is the foundation of the church.

AH.

But secondly, we see in our text for today, we

see the rock that cannot be shaken, the rock that

cannot be shaken.

Peter respond on.

Jesus responds to Peter and says, oh, hell, you, Peter,

all this rock I will build my church. We see

that in verse eighteen. Now let me let me clarify something.

Jesus wasn't saying that Peter himself was the rock. All

the word Peter petross in Greek it means small stone.

But Jesus said, all this rock petra in Greek, which

means a large rock.

It means a large immovable found dason, like the clift

of a rock.

Oh what is that rock?

That rock is the truth that Jesus is the Christ.

All that that truth, that Jesus is the Christ, the.

Son of the living God. All this is the same

rock that David was talking about it Psalms eighteen and two,

where he said the Lord is my rock, my fortress.

And my deliverer.

All same rock that the apostle Paul was talking about

in First Corinthians ten four friends when he said.

That rock was Christ.

Ah.

This tells me hallelujah that no matter what storms may come,

when my life is built on Jesus, Oh it.

Cannot be shaken.

Oh.

People may leave me, they may turn their backs on me,

ministries may change. But when my life is built on Jesus,

it's built to stand, Oh, hallelujah.

Oh.

Thirdly, we see in our text for today that the

church we see, the church that cannot be defeated, All

the Church that cannot be defeated.

Jesus says in verse eighteen.

Also, and the gates of Hell shall not prevail against it.

The gates of Hell shall not prevail or overcome the Church. Now,

let's break this down. Gates in the Bible symbolically always

represented authority, all the gates of hell. They symbolize the

power and strategy of our infernal enemy.

The devil. But WA's this. Gates don't attack. Gates don't attack.

Gates are defensive structures meant to defend houses and cities

and regions. All gates are defensive structures, which means, Jesus

it's saying that the Church is not on the defense, oh,

but that we're on the offense. All the devil's been

trying to stop the church all for over two thousand years,

but the Church stills stands all. Persecution can't stop it,

politics can't corrupt it, and pandemics can't kill it.

All.

Jesus guarantees that his church all that it will never

be defeated, that means that we're not fighting for victory,

but that we are fighting from the victory.

Oh.

But then, lastly, friends, we see in our text for

the day, the builder who never fails, the builder who

never fails. Because listen, Jesus says I will build my church.

He says I will build my church. He didn't say

that he was building Peter's church. He didn't say that

he was building my church or your church. It's his church.

And because his church, he's responsible for it. If Jesus

is building it, then you better believe, my friends.

Oh, it's built to last. Colin Willia, Oh, somebody all a.

Shout right now, Because when God builds, he builds with purpose,

no weapon fall againstant will prosper.

But God starts, he finishes.

Oh.

He began a good work, and you and I he

will complete it.

Oh.

If you're in Christ, you're not built to break. You

are built to last. Listen, brothers and sisters, this is

not the time to waiver because of what's going on

in our world. This is not the time to doubt.

This is not the time to retreat and tucktail.

This is the time to stand on the ruck.

Oh, when people attack your life, stand on the ruck

when people walk away, Stand on the rock.

When when life gets hard, stand on the rock.

Because Jesus said, upon this rock I'll build my church,

and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.

All. The church is not just a building. It's the

body of Christ. The Church is not just an organization.

It's a living organism.

And as long as we stand on Jesus, Oh, we

will never be defeated. So I leave you with this question, Oh,

what is your life built on?

If it's built on Sheese, The winds may bow, all

the waves may crash, all the trials may come, But where.

The dust all settles, oh, you'll still be standing.

Oh, somebody out of be able to shout a shout

of prase all because we're built to last, Holly Lullian,

we're built to last when our lives are founded on

the solid rock of Jesus.

There may be one here today.

And you're saying, fast and Troy, I'm on shaky ground.

I'm on unstable ground, and I need this this stuff,

this solid rock that you're talking about. Well, the Bible

says that we're all sinners, we're all messed up, we're

all born on shaky ground, and we fall short of

God's standard for living. Oh, but the the good thing

is that to rob Jesus, he died for our sins.

God commended his own love toward us, that while we

were yet sinners, Christ died. The wages of sin is death,

but the free gift of God is eternal life in

Jesus Christ. And all we have to do confess Jesus's Lord.

Believe in our hearts, that God raise them from the dead,

and we hand we will be saved.

All friends, everybody who.

Calls on the name of the Lord shall be said,

you might want to trust Jesus today. I'm gonna pray

a prayer for salvation. If you want to pray with me. Oh,

you can pray the words that I pray, and if

you truly mean them, they can be your confession of

the trust, the faith, the hope that you're willing to

put in Jesus.

Today.

Bout with me today, friends, pray with me Lord Jesus.

I just thank you, Thank you for dying for me.

Thank you for paying the price and the penalty for

my sins. I admit that I'm a sinner. I need forgiveness.

I need you Jesus, I just pray that you would

forgive me for my sins, come into my life and

be my Lord and savior. Jesus, I confess you as

Lord and savior right now. Thank you for forgiving me,

thank you for saving me and coming into my life.

Thank you for being my Lord and savior.

It's in Jesus' name we pray a man amen.

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God Bless you God, Bless you pastor t.

Amen.

Amen.

We're just so a lady.

We're in two different locations today. That's different for us,

and so we think and we praise God that we're

able to do our service this morning and to celebrate

the life and legacy of our co founder, my father,

the late Great Reverend Doctor J. E. Meriwether Senior, as

well as celebrate my mother, Lady Betty Rose at Morris Merriweather.

I thank God for them. I tell you, I had

a moment here when I just had to cry when

I think about how wonderful they are are, they were,

and how instrumental in establishing Merriweather Bible Institute, Meriweather Global Ministries,

Meriwether Global Outreach, all of the different things that we do.

Tabernacle of Praise Church Reverend te Meriweather, and House of Prayer.

They're in Dallas. For those that partner with us around

the world. We just celebrate on today. We're not just

giving glory to a man, but we're giving glory and

praise to God for us sharing that vision, my dad

and I and for all these years later to see

that it's still going on in the name of the

Lord Is there anything you want to say? Pastor, I'm

going to close out with for every mountain, but.

I thank everyone that tuned in.

Today to share with us on this Founder's Day. Pass

the Troy, have anything you wanted to say.

Just want to thank everybody that came on or joined

us during this Founder's Day.

Just want to say that doctor J.

Merriweather and Lady Betty Betty Grogs that were Merriwether, they

weren't just people who loved the Lord and just worked

hard in the vineyard, worked hard in building the kingdom.

But they were just good loving people, just good loving people.

And you know, just thank God for just being able

to know them, you know, and know the type of

people that they were up close and personal. So I

just thank God for just the benefit of being able

to know them and just clean from their lives.

Amen.

Amen, Amen, never knowing when you met them all those

years ago when you came home when you were in college,

then oh my goodness, over twenty some years later that

you would, you know, with thirty some years later you

would marry their daughter.

And so just look how God works.

They're no longer here, but you knew them through my

brother praise the Lord when you guys came home from

Visual College out there with the lyceum to preach erin Annison, Alabama.

And so I'm so grateful and thankful for that time.

But see, God knows from afar off how things will be.

We only see that moment, but God knows what's coming.

And so that's such a blessing to know that they

knew you as well. And so we're going to just

close out with for every mountain and we will be

with you on next week. Let me turn this volume

up to make sure I have turned the volume down.

We know, and we turned it up so we will

be able to hear it. I think I turned it

all the way off here.

Pray for me.

This is a let me turn it all the way

back up and man, let me just start it over here.

Hey man, this is one of my favorite goals, one

of the ones that I would share that my mother

loved as well as my father.

I've got so much.

Thank God for.

Every blessing.

Every home.

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For waking me up this morning, starting me.

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What hallelujah for this, I give you praise once again.

We thank you so much for just being on with

us as we celebrated Meriweather Global Ministries Founder's day. And

I just want to take this opportunity to say happy

birthday to you.

Dad. We love and we miss you.

Home.

Y'all sad, but it's about Jesus, not me.

Goodnight.

It's allow you.

To look at you.

Let us tell out Jesus. Hold y'all, let's.

See the boss come cut off, pretend my body.

I didn't sacrifice.

I just hop the.

B We just thank God on today and we are

going to just close out with Pastor Troy closing us

out in prayer and benediction.

At this time, Heavenly Father, we just come before you, just.

Praising you, giving you glory and honor for all that

you have done, are doing, and will do in our

lives and through the work that we do. O God,

thank you for the life and for the legacy of

doctor J. E.

Merywether.

Thank you for the life and the legacy Lady Betty

Rose at More Merriweather. Thank you, O God, for the

impact that they had and that impact that we.

Still feel the repercussions of.

Thank you that we have the opportunity of being able

to carry on their legacy through the work that we do,

that work of sharing the Gospel through preaching and teaching,

and that work of showing just the love and the

compassion of Jesus Christ in a tangible way of God.

As we go through this week, help us to remember

that no matter what we face, that our lives are

on You, Jesus, the solid rock, and that with You

we can stand against anything.

We thank you for that. Help us to be mindful

of that. In Jesus' name.

We just thank you for joining us once again, friends,

and until next week.

May the Lord God continue to richly bless you.