Embracing God's Love: Reverence and Purposeful Gathering

### Quotes for Outreach

1. "The love of God reaches further, reaches further than anything else can reach to get a hold of our hearts and our minds. God will never stop reaching for you, and I thank God for that. When I was lost and undone, he kept reaching for me. He kept calling for me because he is our heavenly father. Amen. One of the greatest pictures of his love is the prodigal son. He's the son of the Lord. He's the son of the Lord. He's the son of the Lord. son was a father standing there with open arms. Didn't matter what the son smelled like. Didn't matter what the son had done. None of that mattered. He was standing there with open arms. Amen. And I'm thankful for that." [01:21](52 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "God, Jehovah God, our God, He will not be mocked. They took the Ark of the Covenant and they put it in the temple of Dagon. God will never be a little G God. Everybody know what I'm talking about? You got a capital G and you got the lowercase g. God, our God, will never be a lowercase g God. He's capital G. I don't know how to do it, Mandy. Help me out with the sign language. Is that the G? The big G? How do you do it? Whatever. He'll never be more than He's going to be the capital G God." [08:15](56 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "You can't fix God to what you want God to be. His ways. His thoughts. Amen. You see, the second thing that we need to understand about God is that He chooses us. We don't choose Him. He chooses us. Amen. He calls everybody. But the deal is this. Amen. You can't fix God, but I'll tell you what you can do. You can make a decision and do the right thing with God. When God chooses us, there's got to be something that happens in us that says, you know what I need to do? I need to make sure I'm doing the right things with this God." [20:16](44 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Maybe it's time for some of us that are chosen men of God to change our ways to God's ways. Maybe it's time for you to quit doing what you want to do start doing what God wants you to do. Amen. Maybe it's time to be a man. Of God. Or a woman of God. I'm preaching to everybody. Come on. Maybe it's time. Maybe it's time. Well, Ruth Jones, I'm 95 years old and I've stuck in my ways. No, you're not. God can fix anything. He can fix anything. You know what? He made us to change." [26:16](50 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "We are here for a purpose, a reason. There's a reason that we're in this house. Amen. I'm glad for everybody I see. I love to come and talk to you. I love to come and talk to the kids. Amen. One of the first people that when I came out of my office this morning after people started showing up was Apollo and he started talking to me immediately amen I didn't know what he was saying but he was talking amen and we was having fun and he was grinning and clapping his hands and showing me his whatever that is monkey that he's holding right now or whatever it is amen I love that kind of stuff I love to aggravate Zyla amen it's so fun when she starts talking to me I love that kind of stuff I love to aggravate everybody by the way amen if you hadn't been aggravated by me well just hold on for a minute or two and you might amen but here's one of the things I love everybody that's here I love talking to you I'll talk till the sun comes up tomorrow amen I'll talk amen but can I tell you something that is not why I'm here I am here for a purpose and a reason we are gathered here to worship we're gathered here to worship the king of kings and the lord of lords we are here to give honor and glory to the one who loves us to the one who went to the cross and shed his blood for you and for me to save us amen that's why I'm here I'm here to magnify the name of Jesus I'm here to worship the one amen who created everything and if I don't praise him and if I don't worship him he said that the rocks would cry out come on I'm not going to let any rock take my place I'm not going to let any tree take my place I came to magnify Jesus" [39:21](112 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


### Quotes for Members

1. "David is now king of Israel. And one of the first things he wants to do is to bring the ark of the covenant to Jerusalem where he lived. The first thing that he wanted to do and the first thing that caught my eye in this text is the very first verse where it says that David gathered all the chosen men of Israel. There was 30,000 of them. Amen. These were men that knew how to fight. Got any fighters in the house? These were men that knew how to worship. These were men that knew how to play some instruments. These were men that knew how to sing a little bit. Amen. These were men that knew what it took. Amen. To get God back into their presence. We need some men in our world that knows how to get God back in our presence. David said, how am I going to get this ark of the covenant to me? You need to make this personal. I need some men that will make this personal and say, hey, I need to know how to get God back to me. I love my neighbor, but I'm not real worried about him right now. I'm worried about me. I need to get God back to me. And so he chose 30,000 men that knew how to do that." [12:39](89 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


2. "You see, these were the chosen men of Israel. Uzzah was a chosen man of Israel. He was one of Abinadab's boys. He had lived for 20 years. He had lived with the ark of the covenant in his house. He had walked by it every single day. He walked by the ark of the covenant. I don't find anywhere in Scripture that it talks about Uzzah getting in front of the ark of the covenant and worshiping. I don't find anywhere in Scripture that it talks about that he did anything with the ark of the covenant. It's not in there. Not until it was on an ark leaving away from his house. Amen. That he touches the ark of the covenant and God kills him for it because he didn't have respect towards it. He was trying to help God. Amen. Can I tell you this? We, we cannot be God and try to help God be God. One of the things that our world is trying to do, they're trying to fix God in today's world. Amen. There's one thing you better realize today. You're not going to fix God. Matter of fact, God ain't broke. Oh, I'm preaching today. I'm going to let it fly because too many times, we got a world that's trying to fix God. They think that God's messed up. They think that God's broke. Amen. Can I tell you, my God is not messed up. My God, his ways are not wrong. Amen. His thoughts are not bipolar. Amen. He is not, he is not messed up in his thinking. Quit trying to fix God to match your messed up life. It don't work. God will never match your messed up life. We got to match him." [15:22](118 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


3. "One of the most interesting things to me is that God chose me and He chose you. He chose us. He called us out of darkness. He called us to come out from among the world. He called us. He chose us. I began to think about this and I thought, you know what? God chose a lot of idiots in the Bible. He chose Judas. He chose King Saul before David. He chose Uzzah and he killed Uzzah. But He also chose some good. He chose David. He chose Obed-Edom. Obed-Edom was a Philistine. He still chose him. He chose murderers. Moses was a murderer. The Apostle Paul was a murderer before he was the Apostle Paul. He chose adulterers. Judah was an adulterer. David was an adulterer and he chose them. He chose Isaac. He chose idol worshipers. Abraham was an idol worshiper. I can name a bunch of them out of Scripture that were idol worshipers and He chose them. Amen. He chose people that lied and cheated. Jacob was a liar and a cheat. He chose all these people. So I began to think, well, you know, He chose me too. And I was quite a few of those things myself. Not all of them, but a few of them. I wasn't the best person. He chose all manner of people. But what mattered is how they responded to Him." [30:05](116 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


4. "Some of the saddest scriptures to me in the Bible is when it talks about kings and their sons and it says this, when their sons would take the throne to be king, that they sinned in the same way that their fathers did. Come on, I'm going to tell you something. I've had people ask me over and over and over, Pastor, you believe in generational curses? No, I really don't. Amen. Because we all have the choice to do what we want to do. You do not have to be an alcoholic like your father was. You do not have to be a dope head like your father or your mother was. Amen. You don't have to be that way. You have the choice to say yes, Lord. Come on. I don't believe that a generational curse can harm you. I don't believe that at all in my life. I'll never believe that. Because God's power is greater than anything that your mom and dad did. Your grandparents, people in your past, it doesn't matter what they did. God has more power than any sin. Amen. Where sin doth abound, grace does much more abound. Come on somebody. You better be thankful that God called you out." [32:17](74 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)


5. "This is a gathering to worship. It's what church is all about. We get together to worship together. To worship together. Amen. This is getting together to give honor to the Almighty God. Amen. It didn't matter where you came from. It didn't matter whether you were a Philistine or an Israelite. Because Obed-Edom was there. And Uzzah was there. It didn't matter whether you were somebody of status or not. Could have been a peasant. It didn't matter. Could have been a slave. You could have gone to worship. Didn't matter whether you were rich or poor. Didn't matter. They were gathered together. Whoo! I feel it to worship. They were gathered together to give honor to the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. Man, you might feel that I'm feeling the Holy Ghost. They were gathered together to give honor to God Almighty. Amen. I came to tell you this morning, we are here for a purpose, a reason. There's a reason that we're in this house." [37:10](97 seconds)(Download raw clip | Download cropped clip)