The Road To Good Friday

Trish, your husband's overseas. You're not sure what's gonna happen. We're not sure what's gonna happen, but we know we're trusting Jesus. Amen? And she could still sing and get up. She didn't use as an excuse of not to do. Come on. Amen. So my thing is to you today in all love and compassion is what is your excuse for not doing anything? Jesus had a decision that he could have made. He could have made that Good Friday. He could have called a bunch of angels to come down, but instead he did what his father had called to them. Three times he asked, can this cup be removed? Three times. But Jesus accepted that cup and drank of that cup for us. Fact, not fiction. [01:11:52] (58 seconds)  #FaithOverExcuses

But you know our lives are intertwined together even today. You're not here today by just somebody just a whim. I didn't have nothing else to do. You're here today by divine appointment. I believe that. Fact. Fact, not fiction. What are you gonna do with this divine appointment today? Will you turn the volume of life down? The Bible says, for whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved. Fact. Fact. He also said that if you shall believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, confess him with the mouth, believe in my heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. Stop worrying about what somebody's told you to clean up. Stop worrying about what you're doing and start just trusting Jesus like childlike faith and accept what he did on the cross and allow him to change you. Amen? Amen. Today is the day of salvation, and we ask you to come if you don't know Jesus Christ as your lord and savior. [01:13:13] (73 seconds)  #DivineAppointment

If you're one of those that say, pastor, I know that if I die right now and go to heaven, I know I'm saved, but I have walked away. You just don't know how churches hurt me, baby. Life hurts. Life hurts. Come on. Amen? Amen. Let let's let's be honest. And sometimes we need to get along with god. He says over in Jeremiah thirty three three, call on me and I will show thee great and mighty things that thou knowest not. Amen. Sometimes we just need to get in our prayer closet. We need to start calling on him. And and asking him, I'm just trusting you at your word. Show me the things that I don't know. Show me where you want me to go. Keep me on your path and not my own. Come on. Amen? Amen. This altar is open today. Every head bowed, every eye closed for just a moment because I wanna pray with you. [01:14:26] (64 seconds)  #PrayerCloset

A lot of people know the name of Jesus. Even say that he is the Messiah, but never truly turn the volume of life down and accept him for what he did on the cross for you personally. See, the only reason I'm going to heaven is not because I'm a good person. I'm going to heaven because of what Jesus did on the cross of Calvary. Amen. Amen? Amen. If you're going to heaven today, the only reason you're going to heaven and let's not lie about it, let's not let's take this Baptist exterior off and throw it to the side because we're not to put on denomination whether it be Baptist, Methodist, Pentecostal, or undenomination or traditionalism. We're supposed to put on Jesus every day. Amen? And when we understand that we're supposed to put on Jesus every day, if you go back through your life, I sat over there and I listened to these songs, the words of the songs. I looked on this platform and seen how God's working through the lives because I know stuff other people don't know. Amen? And watching how God's working in the lives of the people. Amen. Amen. [01:10:34] (79 seconds)  #PutOnJesus

You know, and that comes to this at the cantata. We need to turn the volume of life down and understand that god has a purpose for each and every one of us. Fact, not fiction. Amen. And are we truly living in his purpose or are we living for self? You know, you can make excuses, but one day we're gonna stand before holy and just god to where we're not gonna be able to make any excuses. He's gonna say that I've tried. I sent. I did everything to get your attention, but you chose to do it your way. And as a gentleman, God, he's not gonna force himself on you. Amen. And you can quote as much bible as you wanna quote. But a thing that haunts this pastor is that in Matthew, it says, people are going to stand before me one day and say, I prophesied, I've healed, I've done in your name. And he's gonna say, depart from me for I knew you not. [01:09:04] (76 seconds)  #LiveHisPurpose

Now if y'all had a hey. Has the Lord met with you today? Yes. Hi. Have you had church? Come on. Now let me tell you a little secret about that when I said have you had church. Do you realize that this building's not the church? This is old concrete building, and they tried to pretty it up a little bit by adding red brick to some of it. Amen? But it is a cold building when nobody's here. Yesterday, it was cold in here. Can I get an amen? Amen. And, let me tell you something. The only time it comes to life is when the church is here. Amen? And if you're saved and born again today, I don't care if you're Catholic, Methodist, Pentecostal, bapticostal, whatever he is, or whatever you want to claim, whatever label you wanna be. If you're saved, born again today, you are part of the living body of Christ on earth. Fact, not fiction. Amen? So that's what we celebrate. And you wanna know what kind of church in you in a real church for real people in the real world. Fact, not fiction. [01:23:36] (69 seconds)  #WeAreTheChurch