Churches in Easley

“your shell is important to you. Right? But you need to be able to grow. I've watched many of you grow up several of you from being little, man. I I you know, just going back, which I obviously, Madison. I wiped your butt when you was little. I hope I can say that up here. But Lily, Chloe, Jace, now some of y'all, I've I've known since y'all were little, little. So I know that you have amazing foundations. I know that you have what it takes. the foundation is not enough. You gotta keep growing. You gotta keep building. You have to keep pursuing that relationship with god. So your shell has to change.”

“Scriptures closed, meaning, there's no need for new revelation. I don't need a special revelation from the lord to to do anything. I already have everything I need. Why do I need something else? Which is the danger guys when we see stuff where somebody says, hey, I've got a word from the Lord to share you. Okay. Is it a word from this word of the Lord or is it a word that God has just given you?”

“So, I know this isn't your typical graduation message. I'm supposed to get some graduates up here and speak into them and and and we're gonna do that, but I believe that god has spoke to me regardless the the significance of each of you passing your mantle. I called you graduates up here as you have built and set a standard for each of these younger ones that are coming after you. The mantle represents many things like calling, responsibility, purpose, and the weight of what you've been through. Right?”

“I'm not gonna lie to you. Life as an adult is not easy. But one thing that I know, and I will tell you is that some of the most beautiful days of your life are still ahead of you. Man, like, I know it's hard to see, but one day one day, there'll be a wedding. One day, there'll be kids. One day, like, purpose is coming. I promise. I promise you. stay focused. Trust god. And go be good people. That is something that is so overlooked this day and age, and good people are so hard to find. So go be one.”

“I wanna say to my graduates this morning, the shell can represent many things. It can represent your faith. It can represent the discipline, one that you had in the previous stage and what you're gonna have to have in the next. Because, man, you're gonna have like, it's gonna require more of you. Right? it represents everything it took to get you to where you are right now. But the reality is the shell from last season cannot carry you into your next season. It's just the bottom line. But you know what's crazy? There's people that live a whole life in the same shell.”

“When you come to Christ, you don't get the weight to use it. Well, when I'm ready, when I went through this class or when I started doing this or when I prepared this or when I've got this or when I have this or this or this, then I'll go use them. That's not what it says. It says they immediately put them to use. That's how a believer works. They're given responsibilities, they carry it out, there's no waiting. The keyword is immediately.”

“There's no question in this story of who gets to be the one that evangelizes. Well, that's for the pastors and the missionaries and the evangelists. I'm just a church member. I'm on this committee or I just do this. I just sing. I just usher. Sorry. That's not you. That's not what's told here. This is a responsibility for all of us to make use of the talent slash responsibilities to increase them.”

“Do you have the right to wait and let someone else do it? That's a question you need to wrestle with yourself. Do I have the right to allow someone else to do it? What's my responsibility? As I tell a couple of my children who can't seem to not worry about the other ones, you worry about you. You drive in your lane. You focus on what you've been given. It doesn't matter what he's doing.”

“"Sinclair Ferguson had this comment I came across this week. I love it. He said while the presence of sin can never be abolished in this life. We agree with that right? Even though we're Christians we continue to wander. Prone to wander. Lord I feel it. Prone to leave the God I love. We still continue to do that right? While the presence of sin can never be abolished in this life the influence of sin can be altered and the dominion of sin must be destroyed if a man is to be a Christian. Amen. It means we've got some work to do beloved. It means when we look at the law we don't see the law as a hindrance or a stumbling block we see it as something that is beautiful and listen to me we don't follow it looking for salvation because salvation can never come from the law but listen to me we follow it after salvation because it leads us to holiness and righteousness. God's expectations aren't an enemy they're our friend when it comes to diminishing the influence of sin and destroying the dominion of sin and we can't keep it perfectly therefore we can't depend on it to save us but beloved we can allow it to guide us. Are you allowing the law of God to guide you?"”

“"The law was always meant to bring people closer to God. Amen? It was always meant to bring you closer to God. Listen. You're either following God's expectations well. You're doing what God expects you to. Either you're doing it well or the law was meant to illustrate and point out to you what you're not doing well so that you can repent get right and start doing it well. That's the purpose of the law. But sin twists that and contorts that and sin perverts the law and instead of allowing the law to bring life sin causes the law to bring death."”