Serving This Present Age: Purpose, Promise, and Pardon

``Religion had to restrain your your your behavior but god told me to tell you today that if you want to be pardoned from sin, you've got to accept Jesus Christ that Jesus Christ died for you. He came for you and he left this Earth knowing that if you accept him, his blood was shedded. His life was given and your debts were paid and when god pays your debt, he pays your debt in full. He didn't leave anybody to pay debts but the one who was unsinned, the one who did not sin, the one who would not change, the one who would not bend, the one who would not bow, the one who would take abuse, the one who would be humiliated, the one they didn't understand, the one they crucified, he wanted you to understand that everything that Jesus did was so that you would be pardoned and when god pardons you, it is blotted out. It is removed and when he does this, it's so that you understand that it's not about what you're doing. It's about the service you have unto god. [00:59:02] (65 seconds)  #ForgivenInChrist

I want to be able to hear them say, he served the lord. Notice Jesus He had a charge from heaven. They whipped him but he still served. They mocked him but he still served. They lied on him but he still served. They nailed him to a cross but he still served. They hung him high, stretched him wide, and he stayed right there in service. Because service will keep you. Service will keep you Whether you want to quit you keep on going because you're doing it unto god. [01:04:21] (62 seconds)  #ServingUntoGod

God said it and god did it. That's why when god allows us to see things and move things for us, god will tell you about it before he shows it to you. God will make a promise to you and you have to have faith to believe it and when you have faith in god and you see it, you want to shout sometimes. You you you see, you see the Bible says, that David died, he was buried, and his body decayed but if you read your Bible, it does not say he said, Jesus died, he was buried, but his body never decayed because what happened was difference between Jesus and David was the fact that god raised who? Jesus from the dead. He raised them after three days and because he raised him after three days, the stitch of death had not set in yet because god wanted us to understand because I promised you in in Psalms that his body would not decay and because I made you a promise, you ought to have faith enough to be. If I did it then, I can do it again. [00:41:44] (64 seconds)  #GodKeepsHisPromises

Jesus never abandoned the gospel. He stood with it. Everywhere he went, he went encouraging people. Every place, every town he came into, it it he changed lives and that is what the church is called to do. We have to go places where we have impact on lives. We have to speak to this generation that we're living with right now because the truth be told, if we don't speak to them, nothing's ever going to change. [00:49:57] (32 seconds)  #GospelChangesLives

The church is not speaking on issues that are relevant to young folks. And when we do speak, we speak in antiquated old language because they don't understand it. We talk above their head but I want you to think of it from this perspective. If you want to talk to somebody who's younger than you, try using their language. Try using a language that they understand. Sometimes, you have to say it like they said. Sometimes, when when when they're going through something, you have to remind them how it felt to go through it in your day but say it in their language. Sometimes, you have to say, I know you're going through it, baby but let me tell you how they did it in our day. In our day, we we we we prayed and asked god to move the mountain and we watched god and we prayed and asked god to deliver us and god to sometimes you have to just tell them, sometimes you gotta steal away into a soul place. Sometimes in life, you have to tell those young people, let me put it in your words, in your words, sometimes you have to look at your situation that you find yourself in and write LOL and laugh out loud because if you know who god is and have faith in god, you can laugh in situations that seem demeaning. [00:52:40] (72 seconds)  #SpeakTheirLanguage

That was the conclusion of David's obituary. That that was nothing else that needed to be said but but god wanted us to realize that in our lives sometimes, we we have to realize that god is placing us in a position and it's this present time that you're responsible for. You you you know, you know, often times we look back over our lives and talk about what my grandmama did and what my grandfather did, and and sometimes we even look forward in hopes of what we can do, but god is calling us right now to live in this present time. We got present time issues that we have to deal with. You see, god gave us an assignment and my assignment is for this time that I'm living in. I I I'm not assigned to take care of tomorrow. I'm assigned to take care of my life What god has called me to do and god called us to stand up and speak up. [00:36:48] (54 seconds)  #CalledForThisMoment

If you've ever been on the top and ended up at the bottom and god took you back to the top, you appreciate your bottom experience because you understand that god had to take you through something to establish you to a place of staying power. You you have to be able to stay at the top and realize if god brings you down, he can take you back up. If god moves you to the left or moves you to the right, god knows what he has for you. [00:39:56] (30 seconds)  #ValleysBuildStrength

I can still hear my fifth grade teacher, miss Bell, saying, you won't amount to nothing. I I I can still hear her proclaiming that I was never gonna be nothing, never was going to go nowhere, and never was going to make it. She was speaking over my life something that god was not telling me. Oh yes, I was a tired. I was a a bothered child. I was an abused child. I went through a lot of stuff but I did know this that I had the power and the strength to trust god and sometimes in your life, when people are discouraging you, god will use their discouragement to encourage you. [00:43:33] (42 seconds)  #RiseAboveTheDoubt