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The Antioch Christian Rev Edward Agyekum Kufuor 4.5.25

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  1. Now let us pray, Father God, we thank you for

  2. your Holy Spirit. Holy Spirit, come take your place, Come

  3. and preside over this meeting. Bring illumination, understanding, wisdom, enlightenment.

  4. Allow your servant to deliver with clarity, so that your

  5. people will be edified and the devil will be horrified.

  6. The Mighty name of Jesus. We have prayed.

  7. Amen.

  8. Please say you sees, praise the Lord. If you are

  9. just happy to be alive, make some noise in the house.

  10. Just show some appreciation. That's what we need to learn

  11. how to do, is show some appreciation. God is faithful.

  12. God is faithful. Okay, so time is a little fire expenser.

  13. We're going to go right into the Word. And the

  14. last couple of weeks I've dealt with the Trying God,

  15. the God, the Father, God, the Son God, the Holy Spirit,

  16. and we've talked about the Holy Spirit and his function

  17. and what he does and what he comes to do.

  18. That is main fundamental primary assignment to come and magnify

  19. and glorify Jesus Christ, to shed abroad in the hearts

  20. of all men. What Jesus Christ came to do. Jesus

  21. Christ was the perfect sacrifice. He came down to earth

  22. to reconcile man to God by offering himself as a

  23. perfect sacrifice on the cross. He shed his blood, and

  24. because he knew no sin, it's the only blood that

  25. could make atonement for us. That was Jesus. The Holy Spirit,

  26. as we discussed, is the power.

  27. Of the Trinity.

  28. He's the third person personality, God, the Father, the creators,

  29. the first Jesus Christ, the Sun, the perfect sacrifice. The

  30. Lamb of God is the second personality, and the Holy

  31. Spirit is the third personality. And as I've mentioned to you,

  32. his job was too broadcast to men. If Jesus was

  33. going to come down from eternity and give up his

  34. life so that you and I can be made the

  35. righteousness of God, then the Holy Spirit took it upon

  36. himself that he would be Jesus's hype man.

  37. He would be the one to broadcast.

  38. He will be Jesus' blogger, if you will, so that

  39. all of mankind would know about Jesus and they will

  40. be drawn to him. Amen, say thank you for the

  41. Holy Spirit. Thank you for the Holy Spirit. Now this

  42. week we're going to talk about discipleship, discipleship, discipleship. Who

  43. can tell me what it disciple is anyone what a

  44. disciple is. Who is a disciple? Who is a disciple?

  45. Who is.

  46. If you're a disciple of somebody, that means you follow them,

  47. so they're teaching you.

  48. You're directly under them. It's kind of like an apprentice

  49. sort of thing.

  50. Yeah, Amen, as give God some praise. Well, by the way,

  51. that's my baby. Last, that's my daughter. And today Bishop,

  52. with the permission, today she makes twenty six. I know

  53. a lady doesn't tell her age, but she's twenty six today,

  54. and I thank God for a life.

  55. And I'll ask my bishop to bless you in prayer.

  56. Okay, So yeah, a disciple is one who follows, learns, imitates,

  57. takes after whoever their leader is. Okay, you follow hard,

  58. follow first, and live by their values and the principles.

  59. That's what a disciple is. Now, you can be discipled

  60. into many things, so you need to be careful tend

  61. torybody say, be careful what you're a disciple of. But

  62. for us Christians, we are disciples of Jesus Christ.

  63. Amen. That means we are to take.

  64. On his nature, his values, his characteristics, his teachings.

  65. We had to imitate him so.

  66. That at some point in your life, in your Christian walk,

  67. it's so evident that you are his disciple, because not

  68. just your words, your walk, your talk, everything about you.

  69. Must resemble Jesus Christ.

  70. There's a saying that goes the offspring must bear some

  71. kind of semblance to the progenitive. If you are Jesus's disciple,

  72. then something about you, everything about you, really should show

  73. that you are indeed his disciple. So, yes, who is

  74. a disciple one who follows Jesus in this case a Christian,

  75. a disciple of Jesus Christ, one who follows Jesus and

  76. his teachings and shares his message. John chapter eight, verse

  77. thirty one and thirty two. John Chapter eight, verse thirty

  78. one and thirty two then said Jesus to those Jews

  79. which believe on him, if you continue in my word,

  80. then are ye my disciples indeed, and ye shall know

  81. the truth, and the truth will make you free. So

  82. Jesus is telling us here, if you follow continue in

  83. his word, then you are his disciple. That means you

  84. must have his word in you. Jesus Christ is a

  85. word made flesh. And if he's telling you, if you

  86. say your mind, if you say I'm your leader. I'm

  87. the one whom you hunger after. Then you must continue

  88. in my word. Whatever I'm teaching, whenever I'm professing, whatever

  89. I'm everything about me, My prayer, my talk, my walk

  90. is what you're supposed to imitate. A scripture also tells

  91. you thy word have I hidden in my heart so

  92. that I may not sin against you. So it is

  93. incumbent upon you who says you're a disciple to know

  94. the word it is written, because the enemy will come

  95. and tempt you and test you and try you. Also,

  96. you are a disciple of Jesus Christ here. So what

  97. are you going to do in this situation when your

  98. friends come to you and say you to put the

  99. Bible down for one day, Let's just go and chill

  100. after a drink or two will make a difference. Or

  101. let's just look at this movie. You know that way

  102. I'm talking about that will cause things to arise and

  103. things to happen. Aha. You see, But you are proclaiming

  104. to be the disciple and you are to take after

  105. his nature. I don't see Jesus keeping company or sitting

  106. in the midst of people who are watching certain videos

  107. and people are holding certain conversations. So if you say

  108. you are his disciple, then you're very walk. It's not

  109. enough to just talk about it. You must walk the talk.

  110. Turn to your neighbor and say, walk the talk. It

  111. must be evident everything about you. You must be peculiar

  112. as you're called to be. You must be set apart,

  113. called out from. You are supposed to bring the change.

  114. Don't get caught up in the crowd. You are supposed

  115. to be the leader in your environment. Don't get caught

  116. up in the crowd where the crowd is going one

  117. way and like they're saying, goes. If you can't beat them,

  118. you join them. You are supposed to effect the change,

  119. so that if the crowd is going the wrong way,

  120. by your life and by your example, they're supposed to say,

  121. this guy something different about more, let's follow you. You're

  122. not supposed to be going behind them and saying, well,

  123. you're going to drink me and let me go and

  124. drink some adauras. I won't fit in. You're not supposed

  125. to fit in.

  126. Amen.

  127. So as a disciple, you must make sure that your

  128. life mirrors in every sense, in every area, the life

  129. of your leader.

  130. Amen.

  131. So the disciples first received power power for the Great Commission,

  132. because that is what your discipleship.

  133. Requires of you.

  134. To go out, as the scripture tells us, as Jesus

  135. said to him, go out everywhere, to the ends of

  136. the earth to tell people about him. You're supposed to

  137. witness about him. So they first received power in the

  138. great for the Great Commission in the per room, after

  139. they had gone out. After that they had gone out

  140. to witness about Jesus. Pay their missionary assignment of the

  141. Great Commission. Matthew twenty eight sixteen through twenty Matthew Chapter

  142. twenty eight sixteen through twenty.

  143. Then they lived.

  144. Eleven disciples went away into Galilee, into a mountain where

  145. Jesus had appointed them seventeen. And when they saw him

  146. they worshiped him, but some doubted twenty eighteen. Sorry, Jesus

  147. came as fake unto them, saying all power is given

  148. unto me in heaven and in earth twenty nine.

  149. I'm sorry. Nineteen.

  150. Go ye therefore, and teach all somebody, say oh not

  151. some all teach all nations, baptizing them in the name

  152. of the Father and of the Son and of the

  153. Holy Spirit. This is the Great commission. And if you

  154. are a disciple of God, of Jesus Christ, who is God,

  155. God the Son. Then this is your assignment. See, it's

  156. not the assignment of the pastor alone or your shepherd.

  157. Is the assignment of everyone who follows God, who follows

  158. Jesus Christ, who is proclaiming Jesus Christ to be.

  159. Yeah leader.

  160. So don't sit down which you're saved and sanctifi itself,

  161. and expect that your pastors and your shepherds are going

  162. out to do the word to witness. You, having experienced

  163. your knowledge of who Jesus Christ is, should go out acquiet.

  164. Our commission mandated to go out and to witness. Now

  165. how do you witness? I've just told you that in

  166. the Upper room the Holy Spirit came upon them and

  167. he gave them power. After all, witnessing is shedding the

  168. name of Jesus Christ abroad and letting people know how

  169. much he loved mankind, how it came and paid the

  170. price to reconcile us to God. So you are very

  171. much taking on the Holy Spirit is infusing you, if

  172. you will, with part of His essence, so you can

  173. go and do the work, because that's what he came

  174. to do to magnify and glorify Jesus Christ to all

  175. of mankind. So you are now deputies if you will

  176. of the Holy Spirit, tend to your eihybody and say

  177. you are a deputy.

  178. You are a.

  179. Deputy of the Holy Spirit, and you are to go

  180. out and witness.

  181. Now.

  182. If you do not have the Word in you, and

  183. if you are not filled with the Holy Spirit, where

  184. do you get your unction? You can't give what you

  185. don't have. So if you don't have Him in you,

  186. how are you going to minister to anybody, witness to

  187. anybody effectively for them to want to come and follow this?

  188. Your Jesus Christ you're talking about. So your job is

  189. to make sure that you follow hard, that you're taking

  190. on His nature. You are teaching preaching. Whatever you do,

  191. you must ask yourself what would Jesus do? How would

  192. Jesus handle this? But not only that, you must have

  193. the Word in you so that you'll be able to

  194. be effective, because if you don't, then it's just going

  195. to be another social gathering, another meeting where you could

  196. talk about just anything. And those kinds of conversations have

  197. the potential to go anyway.

  198. It can be swayed anyway.

  199. But when you go with pepper and in the name

  200. of Jesus Christ, understanding your commission, you go with power

  201. because you're going under the unction of the Holy Spirit.

  202. And then what you witness.

  203. The testimony that you give, can penetrate, that spirit, can

  204. cut asunder.

  205. That's what the scripture says. Amen. It can get in

  206. between and reach that soul. Amen.

  207. So the disciples first received power. But and thank you

  208. Bishop for the correction today. I had a little senior

  209. senior moment earlier and I miscoded something. But tell your

  210. laghbor is good to learn. Be open to learning, be

  211. open to receive correction.

  212. Amen.

  213. So it was a Antioch. It was an Antioch when

  214. Paul and Barnabas had been living for about a year

  215. and they.

  216. Had raised disciples.

  217. But they were so intense about their following and their

  218. demonstration of the qualities of their leader, Jesus Christ, that

  219. the people, these people are peculiar. There's just something, you know,

  220. what this their Christ that they're following. They're so much

  221. like him. The way they talk, the way they walk,

  222. the way they preach, whatever they do, it's like seeing Jesus.

  223. So they began to call them Christians spiritually, not just

  224. in the natural, spiritually even everything they did on that plane,

  225. that the people around them were able to identify them

  226. as say, these people, they are so much like the

  227. Christ that they profess that we call them Christian. Amen,

  228. what a privilege? Ask your neighbor. Can the people around

  229. you identify that you're a Christian? The people around you,

  230. can they look at you and say, hey, ask for

  231. this one not just by talking walking the talk, even

  232. in the natural, but most importantly in the spiritual, because

  233. if you're carrying spirit, what comes out of you is

  234. guided and guarded by the spirit. The Holy Spirit would

  235. order your footsteps. It doesn't physically mean just walking somewhere.

  236. Your footstep as in how you conduct yourself, how you

  237. represent him. If you have him in you, you allow him,

  238. he would demonstrate he will go out through you as

  239. his vessel.

  240. Amen.

  241. So discipleship begins with personal transformation. You must experience the

  242. change because that's the only way you're going to be

  243. able to testify about Him. You must be committed, and

  244. you must be willing to sacrifice. Say sacrifice, that's what

  245. we don't like to hear. Sacrifice. That means I have

  246. to give up my friends. That means I have to

  247. give up those movies I like watching. That means I

  248. have to give up those places that I go sacrifice.

  249. But how about this. The flesh always likes comfort. But

  250. you are first a spirit man living in a vessel

  251. of flesh. So the correct order, the divine order, is

  252. spirit over mind, which is part of your flesh. Your

  253. mind and you sow your flesh and your soul. They

  254. go together. But it's supposed to be your spirit man

  255. dictating the order of things in your life, not your flesh.

  256. Nothing good can come from the flesh. That's what the

  257. scripture said. The flesh profiteth nothing. Tell your neighbor getting

  258. divine order, lead by your spirit.

  259. Amen.

  260. So personal transformation, commitment and sacrifice. Let's look at Luke

  261. chapter nine, verse twenty three and twenty four. Luke chapter nine,

  262. verse twenty three and twenty four speaks about denying yourself.

  263. And he said to them all, if any man will

  264. come after me, let him deny himself. Say deny yourself,

  265. humble yourself, bring your flesh into subjection. Understand that you

  266. are operating under authority. Amen, deny yourself and take up

  267. your cross. Be committed to this, take up your cross

  268. daily and follow me Verse twenty four. For whosoever will

  269. save his life shall lose it. So if you decide

  270. you do not want to sacrifice and be committed, uh huh.

  271. If you decide you don't want this transformation, you want

  272. to save your life as you know it, you shall

  273. lose it. But whosoever he lose his life for my sake,

  274. they shall save it. Jesus is saying, unless you accept me,

  275. subject yourself to the order that I'm giving you to emulate,

  276. to follow hard, to copy, to take on my values,

  277. my characteristics, to do the things I.

  278. Do, to pray like I do, to teach like I do.

  279. To submit yourself, you shall surely lose your life, the

  280. life that you're trying to preserve, because that means you

  281. are master of yourself and you can't save yourself. The

  282. only person that can save you is Jesus Christ, and

  283. he came to die for you. So if you reject that,

  284. then you're choosing death. Choose you this day, life or death.

  285. So rejection of that is an indictment on yourself. You

  286. have made the decision that you don't want to be

  287. a disciple. Rather, you want to be the master, the

  288. master without authority, the master without locusts, without domain. You

  289. will left to your own devices. But if you choose him,

  290. you have protection, provision, deliverance, whatever it is that you need,

  291. it's in him.

  292. Amen.

  293. So we have to follow the example of Paul and

  294. Barnabas and what they did in Antiochy by imitating Jesus

  295. so well and all their actions and endeavors in the

  296. natural and in the spiritual that they were labeled Christians.

  297. And these days the word Christian is thrown around so

  298. easily that it actually means nothing. You fill out a form,

  299. or what is your favor? I'm a Christian. Pachop and

  300. I were discussing in the room and he just gave

  301. me an example, and he gave me permission to use it.

  302. Here's a man who has gone to a sperm bank.

  303. You're all adulty. I can talk to you who has

  304. gone to a sperm bank to donate. You go in there,

  305. give you a magazine and put on a blue film

  306. and ladies. I don't want to be too graphic, but

  307. he must get to a point where you can donate

  308. the semen. You fill out a form and ask you

  309. what is your faith, and you write Christian. But look

  310. at where you're standing, look at where you are, look

  311. at the act you're about to go and commit. But

  312. yet you write Christian. So it's so loosely used and

  313. thrown about that it is almost offen. It is derogatory

  314. to us who say we are Christians. Everybody out there,

  315. and Bishop was sharing with me families who have mixed families.

  316. Maybe a family member is a Muslim one is. It's

  317. like anything goes. But you're called to be peculiar. You're

  318. not supposed to fit in. You are supposed to bring

  319. the rhythm. So how do you subject to yourself and

  320. the spirit of God that you carry in? When you

  321. enter any place, you must change the atmosphere. Have you

  322. gone places where people you walk in the room and

  323. all of a sudden, everybody's head turns.

  324. Who is that? Why you think it's because you're so beautiful?

  325. I have news for you.

  326. That's that glow has nothing to do with how beautiful

  327. you are.

  328. That's just a gift God has given because some of

  329. us are fearfully. No, the wonderful part can compass.

  330. It can be general for looking nice, but one he

  331. is fearful, right, my Lord. So you have to understand

  332. that whatever it is that aura that you carry when

  333. you go into a place, it is the anointing, and

  334. it is given to you.

  335. Not to go in there in all your grandeur and

  336. look at nice and Helen. I know I'm cute. Hey,

  337. it is not about being cute.

  338. It's about discipleship, fulfilling the Great Commission.

  339. If he has given you.

  340. That aura that attracts, he has done half of the

  341. job for you. Because whether you like it, human beings,

  342. judged by appearance, they take one look at you and go.

  343. The ladies will grab their purses and step out of

  344. the way. Some of the brothers.

  345. Will blow you will up you look at it.

  346. But if he's given you that aura, his presence is anointing,

  347. and it's evident he has done the work, half of

  348. the work for you. Now you must go in and

  349. disciple others. According to the Great Commission. You must be

  350. able to witness and share effectively so that somebody will

  351. come to recognize the leader you are professing, Jesus the Christ. Amen,

  352. let us look at Acts chapter one Versus eight. Because

  353. I talked about the Holy Spirit empowers us to be

  354. witnesses of Christ. Even to the ends of the earth.

  355. I'm just supporting what I've said with the scripture. But

  356. ye shall receive what beauty swag. You shall receive what.

  357. After the what.

  358. Has come upon you, and you shall be what onto,

  359. both in Jerusalem and in and in and onto. That's

  360. your assignment with your God yourself. Don't be God just

  361. just sitting. Don't be a pew a bench warmer. Don't

  362. expect your pastor or your bishop or your shepherd to

  363. go out there and win souls, to minister, to witness.

  364. You are the church.

  365. They must tarry, they must wait before the Lord to

  366. hear what the Lord has for his people. But after

  367. you have received it, don't just be here as be

  368. what Now it's time turn to them and say it's

  369. time to do Jesus Christ has done enough. If he

  370. chooses to do nothing else for you, what He has

  371. done for you is greater than anything anyone anywhere. You

  372. can never accomplish in your life, not your mother, not

  373. your father, not your siblings, not your significant others. So

  374. asks one and eight gives us exactly what our commission is.

  375. And I told you earlier the reason why it takes power.

  376. The power of the Holy Spirit is because as the

  377. third personality of the Trinity, that was what his primary

  378. assignment was, to magnify and glorify Jesus here on earth,

  379. so that all mankind would know about him and his

  380. love and sacrifice for us. Connect the power of the

  381. Holy Ghost to be able to witness fulfill the commission.

  382. Turn to your neighbors, say you need the power.

  383. You see, you cannot go of your own will and

  384. accomplish anything.

  385. You don't even have the power to save yourself. You

  386. rely on.

  387. Him to infuse you, to take possession of this vessel

  388. and work through you. Your very presence must be an example.

  389. Amen.

  390. But there has to be evidential characteristics of a disciple,

  391. the key of which is love for one another. Turn

  392. to your labor and say love for one another. Turns

  393. your neighbor and say love for souls. Somebody took time

  394. to minister to you. You heard the word. Somebody gave

  395. out of their spirit, out of their experience with God.

  396. You see, you cannot have.

  397. An encounter, You cannot experience Jesus Christ and remain the same.

  398. But somebody took time to minister to you. That's why

  399. you're saved. That's why you can say you're a disciple.

  400. That's why you can say you profess that Jesus Christ

  401. is your leader. Somebody took time. But now that you're

  402. s you want to just sit and be preached to

  403. be sank too. You want to come and get fed

  404. and then go out there until next week. You cannot

  405. run on fumes. You must study to show yourself approved,

  406. have the Word in you. But even more important, you

  407. must now exercise that gift. You must now go out

  408. and witness so that somebody else who is lost and

  409. on their way to hell will have the same opportunity

  410. that you were given to become a disciple. So love

  411. for one another is key. And like Paul said in

  412. First Corinthians eleven and one, First Corinthians eleven and one,

  413. we are to lead by example.

  414. You have to walk the talk.

  415. You cannot live one way and tell people to live

  416. another way. Your life, behavior, actions must be an example

  417. for Them's not do as I say, but also do

  418. as I do. If you are the example, just turn hey,

  419. turn like hey, you're going to die. You're going to

  420. turn left, Turn to Jesus Christ, repent, and then you

  421. go in there you're and then you are looking at

  422. things and sending messages. Yes, those messages you were sending

  423. last night, and those conversations you were and those pictures

  424. that you were looking at, and you think you were

  425. doing it alone. I have news for you. He is everywhere.

  426. So while you thought you were alone, Jesus was right there.

  427. What are you doing.

  428. I shed my blood for you, and you are sitting

  429. here looking up for you, and you call yourself a disciple.

  430. You go out there and you shame me like the

  431. rest of the world. You say, we can understand because

  432. they don't know him. But we are to go and

  433. bring them so that they can repent from their ways.

  434. But until we do that, we understand they don't know him.

  435. By you, the one who says you know him, are

  436. his disciple. You are doing things that even they are

  437. not doing. For unication, lies, gossiping, backbiting. Look, a sin

  438. is a sin as nothing, as a white sin, a

  439. little white lie. That this is a trap of the enemy,

  440. or a's for this one. God won't mind. Really, on

  441. the day of accountability, I wish I'll be a fly

  442. on the world. I'll have my own issues. Trust me,

  443. the Lord has done a lot of work with me.

  444. If you don't know, ask my father, my biological I say,

  445. which one of your way?

  446. Way?

  447. Wait?

  448. Wait ahuahweh And today, but look what God can do

  449. can turn your life around. Give God some praise. Listen.

  450. I never thought I'd be turning on a poopy tool.

  451. This was not my lord. Don't bring my swag. I

  452. give my head right. Look, and I'm not judging you

  453. because that was my I had my diamond. I was

  454. feeling myself going to the gym. You know what's so?

  455. You know what time it is. You want to do something,

  456. you want to take this outside? Yes, and you know

  457. when you're doing the devil the devil's work. He also

  458. wants to keep you engaged. He'll give you everything that

  459. you need on you want money, he'll give you. You want

  460. wraps you give you, You make you fluid, you can flow,

  461. You make you look good, smell good, everything, But at

  462. what cost?

  463. At what cost?

  464. So Jesus is the pioneer, the author, and the finisher

  465. of our faith. But he tells us that he's not

  466. just asking us to do those things just out of

  467. Vein John fourteen and twelve, that's my last script. John

  468. fourteen and twelve. Some translations say verily, verily. Some say verily, truly, verily, verily.

  469. I say, unto you, he that believeth on me the

  470. words that I do, he shall also do. Can't your

  471. neighbor and say, I can do what my leader does.

  472. I am empowered to do what Jesus does. He shall

  473. do what I do, And greater works than these shall

  474. he do. Because I go on to my father, Jesus

  475. is saying, if you are in him, I was telling

  476. the first service a song we used to sing a

  477. Sunday school. I'm not going to sing. You have a

  478. good voice, and look at my face. I was off

  479. my vision. With all due respects, I don't want him

  480. to run out. I want him to stay the other way.

  481. If you abide in me and my word abide in you,

  482. you can ask what you want. Have you heard that

  483. song before? That's what he's saying. If you are in him,

  484. not only will you be able to do what he does,

  485. but you shall do even greater things. Why because he

  486. has given you his spirit, the spirit that gives you

  487. the unction, the power of the authority to be able

  488. to go out there and be effective.

  489. It is the Holy Spirit.

  490. And we talked earlier about being in the day of Pentecos.

  491. There was the day of Pentacons, the event when they

  492. were in the Upper room and the Holy Spirit came

  493. and dwelt on them, each and every one of them

  494. as tongues of fire. But we are in the day

  495. of Pentecons. Why because the Holy Spirit is the one

  496. who is with us. Now God came. He used to

  497. visit Araim and even the garden. Then we sinned and

  498. he went to reconcile us. Jesus Christ came. We killed him.

  499. Don't say ah bah. Tell your neighbor and say ah bah,

  500. the one who came to fix your problem. We killed him.

  501. But he had the power and the authority to take

  502. back his life. So on the third day he resurrected

  503. and ascended into heaven, where he's seated at the right

  504. hand of God, the Father, the Creator, as our high priest.

  505. Whoever makes intercession on our behalf, you and I, he

  506. is still advocating for you. In spite of all that

  507. you do. Listen, even when we are friends, and you

  508. do you cross me.

  509. Or love.

  510. Eh, yes, but you see the flesh if you allow it.

  511. Isn't it amazing that I can stand here and talk

  512. about for so Jesus is telling us, this is what

  513. your inheritance is. You can raise the dead, you can

  514. cause blind eyes to open, you can heal the sick.

  515. All the things that Jesus do because the Holy Spirit

  516. was on him in him, you can also do as

  517. his disciple because of the power of the Holy Spirit.

  518. But I want.

  519. To share with some because I believe there's some here

  520. who do not know Jesus Christ in the power.

  521. Of his death and suffering and what it means.

  522. He came, he suffered, he died, was buried, but rose

  523. up on the third day. He went to Hades to

  524. he took the keys, He took away the sting of

  525. death and the power of.

  526. For you.

  527. He became cursed so that you can become the righteousness

  528. of God. I'm here to tell you your mother won't

  529. do it for you, your father won't do it for you.

  530. And if I'm your brother, what loss. Yes, as much

  531. as we want to show love, if you're my friend,

  532. and if I go and do something wrong and become

  533. and say, okay, we are looking for Reverend Eddie. But

  534. since you're his friend, will take you that's going and

  535. put you in jail, or let's go and cut off

  536. your head. Will you go? What would you say? He said,

  537. I'll show you where he is your own. You won't

  538. carry anybody's sin. But this is what Jesus Christ did

  539. for us free of charge. You can't earn it by

  540. your works. You can't do it anything that will merit,

  541. because it is only his blood that could make atonement.

  542. And that same blood is speaking for you this morning.

  543. That same blood is speaking for you this morning. If

  544. you do not know him as your Lord and savior,

  545. and if he cracks the sky right now and wants

  546. to come back to take his own. I always tell

  547. you those of us who are parents here, when you

  548. go to your child's school is nurseryal, elementary school of

  549. primary school, You don't going to take everybody's children and

  550. take them home. You go and get your what your own.

  551. Same way, when Jesus Christ comes, he's coming for his own.

  552. If you are not his own, you will sit down

  553. and watch him leave with his own. So if you

  554. are here and you don't know him as your Lord

  555. and savior, this is your chance. Don't worry about what

  556. you have on. He's not interested on anything outside white

  557. is nice. He wants you to have all the good things.

  558. Why do you think you get the good taste from?

  559. I wish above all things that you prosper and be

  560. in good health. Even as you're soul prosperous. Your target

  561. is so all that. Listen, if you seek him first,

  562. what does the scripture say? Oh? All the nice things

  563. that you want when z Abecca? Sometimes it is hard

  564. for you to fall them, like, how can he?

  565. I mean, how is it possible? Listen?

  566. God can cause man to give into your bosom, pressed down,

  567. shaking together and running over. My sister gave a witness

  568. testimony last week about how every time she comes to

  569. church and she goes back, the Lord blesses her. Sometimes

  570. she doesn't have money. Then God will send somebody to

  571. give her money so she can get home. She'll get home.

  572. There's no food, someone will send. God will send somebody

  573. with grocery people she doesn't even know. That's the God

  574. you're serving, and that's what he can do for you.

  575. So if you're here and you don't know him, I

  576. want to invite you to the altar today. Listen, church,

  577. if you're saved already, don't just warm the seeds you

  578. should be praying. It's not time to spectate. This is

  579. the most important part of the service. The word is good,

  580. there's praises and thanksgiving is all good.

  581. But this is what your commission is. We're to minister.

  582. So if you're saved, if you've accepted Jesus Christ in your.

  583. Lord and say that this is your job.

  584. Right now, you should be praying that the Holy Spirit

  585. will move in this place.

  586. Convict hearts.

  587. Let them come to understand what Jesus Christ has done

  588. for them on the cross. Anybody here this is so important.

  589. You have no idea. You can step out. God forbid.

  590. We pray that everybody has good, long life. But if

  591. it is your day to go, if it is your

  592. time and no man knows, I told you before. In

  593. New Orleans, I've seen a pastor finished preaching, went to

  594. sit on his chair and then gone, It could be

  595. the next minute. So all you have is now now, now,

  596. the day that you hear my voice to you're not

  597. heard in your heart. If you're not sure, if you

  598. have any doubt, if there's any inkling, even if you're

  599. certain you are messed up, you can read dedicate yourself.

  600. But if you are here and you don't know him

  601. as your lord, and said, I want to invite you

  602. to come. Don't worry about anybody, because on that day

  603. it'll be you and him. Your friends won't be there,

  604. your mother won't be there, your father won't be there,

  605. and be one on one. Tell you Reverend Befote told

  606. you about me at that ten o'clock service.

  607. I was there.

  608. I was talking through him and let him show you

  609. in my word.

  610. But you chose because he gave you free will.

  611. See. Everything you do is a choice. But whatever you choose,

  612. there's repercussions. If you choose not to you're right, but

  613. you will surely reap the harvest of your choice. If

  614. you choose to yield to him, you become a disciple.

  615. You get to get trained, you get to learn, You

  616. get to walk in his ways, become more like him.

  617. You get to represent him. You get to be his ambassador.

  618. If there's anybody here, please come. I have one more minute.

  619. Please come, even if it's one soul, please come. If

  620. your neighbory sleep, and tap them with them up. This

  621. is not the time to sleep. Please come, anybody, please.

  622. Jesus is standing today here knocking. He's at the door knocking.

  623. Give God some praise.

  624. Come, on. Don't be lazy. Listen.

  625. This person now is given that he is going to heaven.

  626. We'll meet him in heaven. You're sitting there, you won't

  627. go a minister. But yet, when somebody is coming, you

  628. won't praise God, just as all of heaven, the angels

  629. are rejoicing because of one soul.

  630. Oh come, my brother said, honor to meet you.

  631. Anybody else. I'm closing that it is never too late.

  632. God gives you another chance, another chance to fix it.

  633. Whatever is wrong in your life. You can't fix it.

  634. He has to fix it for you. It is only

  635. he who as a power. Please come, Chad, are you praying?

  636. Because some of you are doing this.

  637. A hurry to go.

  638. Five minutes can be the difference between heaven and and hell.

  639. Five minutes one minute can be the difference between heaven

  640. and hell for someone, So please pray.

  641. Pray.

  642. In fact, I want everybody to turn to their neighbor

  643. and ask them, look, I mean, I are you sure

  644. you belong to Jesus? Are you sure you are his?

  645. Because when he comes, he's taking his own. If you're

  646. not sure, come, you can't pay for it. Don't worry

  647. about what you have on listen, you come now, get

  648. secure internal life for your spirit, for your soul.

  649. That's the most important thing. Anybody else.

  650. While I hear you give you the nice clothes, you

  651. give you anything you want, but get your priorities in order.

  652. Telling you turnt to your neighbor and tell him put

  653. your priorities in order. It is a matter of priority

  654. the spirit first, because when the spirit is in order,

  655. everything else will line up. Amen, anybody else. So we

  656. are all saved, we are scientified. We believe by faith

  657. and we have received.

  658. Well.

  659. Give God a hand clup of praise for that one

  660. soul that we got today. All of heaven, all of heaven.

  661. Are you rejoicing or are you just up in because

  662. it's time to go? No rejoicing is not.

  663. Listen.

  664. Can you imagine what is going on in heaven right now?

  665. I want you to go there in your mind. One

  666. soul has joined the Kingdom of God. One.

  667. Come on, my brother, I want to thank God for

  668. your life.

  669. A scripture tells us, if you believe in your heart

  670. and you're speak it with your mouth, that Jesus Christ

  671. is the son of the Living God, that he came

  672. died Rosa and as I said it to heaven, then

  673. you shall be saved. But you need to profess it.

  674. I'm asking you. So I'm going to lead you in

  675. a prayer where you get to profess that, so that

  676. there's witnesses that's on this day. You've chosen. You've made

  677. the right choice. By the way, don't worry about whatever thought.

  678. Having God will give you an experience and encounter you

  679. will never be the same.

  680. Amen.

  681. Repeat up to me, Dear God, thank you for the

  682. sacrifice your son.

  683. I believe you maybe make it into SUSA. Thank you

  684. for what I'm saying.

  685. I'm saying, I'm saying, I'm saying, and I'm failed and

  686. I'm seeing well chance.

  687. Give God some praise. It is done. I want you

  688. to follow us to Frances Churdge. Give God some praise. One.

  689. We all came to change for this one, the same

  690. way on your day. Somebody came to church for you.

  691. One person has given their life to Christ. All of

  692. Heaven is rejoicing. So let us all go out there,

  693. having heard this word, to become disciples, committed, transformed, and

  694. putting our hands to the plow, not turning back, made

  695. the Lord the glory fly