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#ChristOurCovering

“You see, God's clothing was the only adequate covering for their sin and shame. Adam and Eve tried to clothe themselves and cover their selves, their sin and their shame, But God's clothing was the only adequate covering. And if you look here, this was the first blood sacrifice which points forward to Christ. Only Christ can clothe our nakedness, our sin, and our shame.”

#WhoDoYouSayHeIs

“as we finish this this series of who do you say he is, the question has to be very personal. Who do you say he is? I can't answer that question for you. It has to be a question that you answer for yourself. Parents, you can't answer that question for your kids. Grandparents, you can't answer that question for your grandkids. It has to be a personal question that you answer. Who do you say he is?”

#PeaceBeStill

“Let me tell you this, church. The peace of God when we're in the middle of the storm is the only thing that will stand up and say, peace be still. The peace of God in our hearts, even when the winds and the waves around us are raging, even when it seems like we're going to drown, even when it seems like we're gonna fail, we're going under and it's all over. The peace of God is the only thing that will say peace be still, and the winds and the waves will cease.”

#TrueForgiveness

“True friend forgives and does not hold grudges. There's two aspects to this. Forgiveness and not holding a grudge. What does that look like? I forgive them, but... I can't tell you the amount of conversations I've had with people. Yeah. I forgive them, but I need them to know what they did to me. I forgive them, but soon as you add that but, it's what I was always told. You add a but in a sentence. Everything you said prior to it doesn't mean a hill of beans. I forgive them but. No. You don't. If there is a but, if there is a contingency, if there is whatever, a requirement, I forgive them, but they have to forgive me. I forgive them, but they have to admit they were wrong. I forgive them, they need to know what they did to me. I forgive them, but there is not forgiveness.”

#FreedomInChrist

“And you can't do that as long as you're still in the same prison. You see, prisons have no power to to have other prisoners get free. You gotta be set free by the power of God brought out of the mess you're in, and then you reach your hand back to those who are in prison and say, come on and go with me where God's brought me.”

#JesusIsTheHero

“Remember what your role was. Your role is just a witness of what Jesus did. You're not the hero of your story. He is. See, when we look at Hollywood, Hollywood's always about the hero. The whole movie, the whole story is about the hero that comes and rescues. You're not your hero. You're not good enough to be your hero. You're not righteous enough to be the hero. He is the hero of our story.”

#JesusIsGoodNews

“This man is the good news. This man is the gospel. When we share about Jesus, we're sharing the gospel. When we share about Jesus, we're sharing good news. This man is the good news. Man is the good news. He has always been the good news, and he will always be the good news. If you've ever heard a gospel that is not of good news, then you've heard a false gospel. Because this man is a healer. This man is the one who forgives. This man is powerful. This man is good.”

#CenteringExhortation

“``urging believers to live closely aligned with God's truth as well as and giving warning and advice. And so, exhortation would be urging people to live close to God's truth. God's truth, not the world's truth, not individual truth, anything like that, but God's truth. Living close to God's truth. Or or coming closer to God's truth than one on one's own life. And and so we're we are called to live in God's truth. And and and what the word of prophecy will do will urge us to move back towards the the word of truth. Maybe we get off on the right hand or the left hand, whatever it may be. The the word of prophecy is to bring us back center, bring us back onto the path, bring us back in the place. And it it could be a word of correction, of course, in love and and grace and mercy. But but a word of prophecy will build us up, and it will exhort us. It will give us wise advice or or warning about maybe a path we're going down or a path we should go.”

#praiseSetsYouFree

“``They didn't wait to praise them until they're out of jail. Sometimes, you know, we act as though it's not enough, and we wait to praise them until we're delivered out of our situation or until our situation's a more favorable circumstance. But let's look. It says here that in '25, it says or in '26, actually, then it says, suddenly, there was a violent earthquake that the foundations of the prison were shaken. At once, all the prison doors flew open and everybody's chains came loose. The stocks fell off. The doors were open. And what a, what a great picture of what praise can do in our lives. It can set us free from the prison we may feel that we're in. And I believe that we can be free even in our current situation.”

#GodProvides

“God wants to do the same in your life, church. Each one of you in this place right now are facing a battle, facing a trial, tribulation. God wants to speak into that, that he has the power to do so. He has the ability to heal. He has the ability to provide. He has the ability if even now, if you're saying that I won't prove that you exist, he has the ability to prove to you that he is your father, that he loves you.”

#FaithIsAJourney

“``Those who walk with God have consistent encounters with God. We made our faith too much in events instead of a journey. make salvation an event. We get somebody to come to the altar and and and and they pray their sinner's prayer, shed a few tears, and we'll say, you're good to go now. You had the event today. No. No. No. No. No. No. If that's the case, then the day you got born was an event, and you're not supposed to have any other experiences after that moment.”

#LoveOverPride

“``You know what the truth of the matter is? This is my personal feelings. I'll apologize to somebody even if I didn't do anything wrong. Even if I'm not in the wrong, Who cares when it comes to mended relationships, when it comes to eternity? My pride is not bigger than somebody's salvation, than somebody's relationship. I apologize even if I'm not right wrong. You know why? Because it's covered in love. It's covered by love. My love is so deep to see people healed and and relationships put back together and people find, Christ and and live for him and and have a relationship with him, that that if I have to apologize, if I have to eat crow, I'll eat crow. Because none of that matters in light of eternity. But what does matter is that people live in healed relationships.”

#SalvationIsGreatest

“``there is no greater miracle than salvation. Amen? Amen. Amen. There there is nothing greater because salvation deals with eternity. God can heal us a a cold all day long. God can heal cancer all day long. God can, you know, as I've been studying gifts of healing, I like to read accounts of healings. And and God can make one shorter leg grow longer to match the other leg. God can make a foot appear inside of a shoe. God can do all of these things, but there's nothing greater than salvation because salvation speaks to our eternal souls. Every person in this place who is a believer, you have received the greatest miracle God will ever work.”

#BaptismIsNotSalvation

“``you know, we just talk about what baptism is. So this morning, we're talking about baptism. I wanna start with, baptism, what it is not. K? Baptism is not a prerequisite for salvation. Baptism is not salvation. Salvation is salvation alone through Jesus Christ. And, because of that, I want us to understand this morning what baptism is. For those who are being baptized, for maybe someone who's considering being baptized and and you you just don't know what it's all about, so understand that's not salvation. That that comes first.”

#PrepareInTheWord

“``It's in those moments when we're not in the battle, we're not in the tense times that we should be in the word so that when they do happen, we're ready. It's not a if. It's a win, church. Amen? If you're not going through a trial right now, you're not going through a battle, you will. you just got past one, guess what? There's another one on the way. I made this statement many, many times. A walk with Christ most of the time happens in the valley. Very few mountaintop experiences that we go through. Most of it is in the valley. Most of it is the trudge. Most of most of it is through the trials and tribulations. Most of it is through persecution and and hatred of those around us. Most of it happens in the valley. And it's a faith that we need growing to get us through. It's the faith that grows. the gift of faith is completely different in how it operates than our saving faith and our growing faith. See, saving faith is we put our faith in Christ. Christ saves us. Growing faith is we, we read the scripture, our faith grows.”

#TruthCanBlindUs

“So many of us are blinded by the truth. K? Y'all remember this? Blinded by the light. It's not the light that's blinds. It's the truth. So often, we're blinded. So often, we come to an opinion of something, and and because we think it is the right opinion, we think it's the truth. We we close everything else off. There's absolutely no room for anything else because we we've made up our mind, and we're stubborn and hardheaded. I'm I'm sorry. I'm stubborn and hardheaded. And so we need the gifts of the spirit to operate in our lives so that he will reveal the truth.”

#DiscernGodsVoice

“There are people that are following careers and paths in their life that god never intended for them to be on because they've taken the word of one man or one woman that has stood before them and said, I've got a word from god for you. I can promise you this church that if god's gonna say it through one person, he's gonna say it through multiple people over multiple years, over multiple timelines. It's not gonna happen once. God will confirm his word time and time and time again.”

#SpiritGiftsNotStatus

“The truth of the matter is the holy spirit wants us to operate in whatever gift he needs at that very moment. The other thing I'll say as we talk about this just at this moment that just because one person operates in in a spiritual gift does not make them a super Christian or a better Christian than you. That's not how this works. It's it's the holy spirit, not human effort. And so when when we think about the gifts of the spirit, say, none of these gifts are operating in my life. Does that make me a worse Christian? No, it doesn't. It doesn't change your saving salvation.”

#FilledWithHisPower

“But if you're lacking this morning, he wants to fill you. Ask and you shall receive. Seek, and you shall find. Don't wait another moment. Don't go another day without being filled with his power. Maybe you've neglected the altars, and you feel weak, and you've been walking in your own strength. He wants to fill you with his strength this morning. He wants you to walk out of here this morning filled immeasurably more than all you can ask or even imagine so that you can take that sweet fragrance and spread that throughout your journeys this next week.”

#FruitByTheSpirit

“``They're not works that are created by human effort. They are the result of the holy spirit living in a person. So when we talk about the aspects of the fruit of the spirit, this is not something that we as individuals can make happen in our life. They are the result of the spirit that lives within our life. The fruit of the spirit is cultivated, grown, and produced by the spirit. Cultivation is needed. We can cultivate the fruit of the spirit in our life by prayer, reading our bible, and walking in the spirit.”

#IntegrityWhenNoOnesLooking

“Because each and every one of us come in here and put on a church face. Every last one of us who walk through that door, I won't make you raise your hand but how many had a bad morning? A fight in the car on the way here, a kid that irritates you or a situation that irritates you so much and and from you get out of the car and you walk across the parking lot from the time you get out of the car, you get to the door, all of a sudden, face is changed because you know you gotta put on a face. Integrity is who you are when no one's looking.”

#LoveWithoutReturn

“But this love is a a a love that is willing to love even if there is no reciprocation of love. I'm going to love those who may not love me. And because it is a a aspect of the fruit of the spirit is is a a work of the spirit that is opposite of the flesh. The flesh would say, I love you and expect I love you too.”

#ResurrectionChoice

“But he didn't have to go that way. He didn't have to do it, but he chose to do it because he'd seen he's seen resurrection Sunday. He's seen what was on the other side of the cross. He's seen the right relationship that he give you the option to choose if you so would be, you know, willing to do so. The sacrifice that he was willing to make with his own life. He modeled a self sacrificial life even unto death. But somehow we still think we can superimpose our will over his will or on his will, however you want to say it, and just pray he will accept it and work it out. It doesn't work that way, church.”

#PreparedNotFear

“If we use the doctrine of the second coming as a scare tactic and and fear mongering to say you better get light right or you're burning forever, then we miss what Jesus did on the cross. Jesus didn't pay for us to escape hell. He paid for us to spend eternity with him. We've gotta be prepared. We've gotta be ready. As I said, the rapture of the church will be sudden. It will be sudden and we can live prepared and walk with god without living in fear.”

#HealingIsAtonement

“But as we talk about divine healing, as we talk about healing of our bodies, as we talk about miracles, we start with this. Divine healing was paid for and is a part of the atonement. We talked last week about salvation, the work that that Christ did on the cross, the sacrificial work of he died on the cross rose again. We talked about that last week through salvation. But salvation not only paid for our eternal soul, salvation also paid for healing of these bodies. It's part of the atonement.”

#ResurrectionSunday

“But for us this day because of resurrection Sunday morning, Christ died for us. He took our place. He took and and became the substitute sacrifice so that our death did not have to happen. Now, we have life in Christ. Romans chapter five verse eight says this, but god showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. Before we ever knew him, before we were ever saved, before we ever give our lives to Christ, Christ paid that ultimate price.”

#ScriptureNotSpin

“No amount of words I can speak is going to convince you, and that's okay. I'm not trying to convince you of anything. What I'm presenting is the Bible. Amen. These are the stories that happen and if it was one time in the scripture, okay. But it's multiple times time and time again Paul even writes I speak in tongues more than anybody but if you don't have love, you have nothing.”

#ChristPaidItAll

“Christ is enough to pay for salvation. Amen? Amen. Amen. His work on the cross was complete and there is nothing that we can do to earn salvation. I don't care how good you are. You will never earn salvation through what you do. Amen. Y'all could be the best people in the whole wide world and I know y'all ain't. Amen. I love you. But if you're anything like I am, you ain't. You just ain't got it, okay? And there's no possible way that we can be good enough to receive what Christ paid for.”

#ChristAlone

“In all of this, throughout church history, I'm thankful four times like the reformation that points us back to the cross. It points us back to the work that Jesus did is sufficient. Because I don't know about you, but I feel like in my personal life, I don't think there's enough good that I could do to cover up the bad. I am thankful that it is Christ alone.”

#SitAtHisFeet

“In too much of our life, it's being busy as believers, running to and taking care of us, making sure that's done, planning this, coordinating this, multitasking this, burning the midnight oil. We have no problem being busy to stay busy. Right? But in fact, we will accomplish more when we stop being so busy and just take time to sit at his feet and to listen and to absorb from heaven. Obey.”

#OffTheFenceFaith

“and take that step, get it off the fence, live, and on fire life for God following his calling following after what he has designed for you and doing the things that he wants you to do in your life and not just living with one foot in the world one foot in heaven. So it doesn't work that way. Satan owns the fence.”

#ProgressiveSanctification

“We're going to be a disciple. Becoming a disciple is not just a a one time heroic act of taking up our cross. It is a daily, daily practice. Taking up our daily, following our simple life don't just pass away overnight. Takes to be changed, and this is called progressive sanctification. We're not instantly righteous. We're not instantly perfect and holy in all this. We have work to do, and it's a daily picking up our cross.”

#FastingIsPrayer

“But the number one aspect of fasting that we have to consider and understanding is that it's just not abstaining from food or TV or or social media, whatever it is. Fasting without prayer is pointless. If we start a fast and yet we don't take the time that we've laid aside the meal to communicate with god, then our fasting is pointless. We're just skipping a meal for the fact of skipping a meal. Fasting includes communicating with god. Spending focused time with him.”