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[Music] [Applause] [Music] [Music] Reading the scriptures, His Word is true. There is no secret what the Lord can do. Miracles and blessings He has for you. Believe and trust in Him. Great things He'll prove. He has the power to see you grow. There is no secret what my God can do. [Music] So many blessings He has for you if you just trust in Him. [Music] Great things He'll prove. He'll brew. Jesus the same yesterday, today, forevermore. Jesus the same yesterday, today, forevermore. Oh, how precious. [Music] Forever in your or. [Applause] For Jesus. [Applause] [Music] You're the same. Yes. Today, forevermore. Jesus. Jesus the same. Today. You're the same. Yesterday and today forevermore. Forevermore. [Music] Oh Jesus. Jesus the same, today and today forever. Forever. Forever. Forever. Jesus. [Music] [Applause] Forever. Forever and ever. [Music] [Applause] Jesus. [Music] Yesterday and today forever and ever and nevermore. [Music] God's Word. [Music] You are, you are always. [Applause] Thoughts were. [Music] Always burn. [Applause] [Applause] God's Word. [Applause] [Music] We never. [Applause] Learn. His holy Word will always. [Music] It will never. [Applause] [Applause] [Applause] [Music] Jesus the same yesterday, today, and forevermore. That's why we yet believe in anointing with oil, laying hands on the sick, asking God to heal, commanding demon spirits to depart. Because the same Jesus that did it in days gone by, He has not changed and He will never change. Come on and just give God another hand of praise. That's right. [Music] [Applause] I'm going to go immediately to the scriptures. This is one of those days. We have a number of members that are living out of town that have come in today, and some that's been in the hospital that's back today. And oh, and uh, yeah, the vacationers that are back. And I'm scared that if I call one, I'm going to mess up. So, I'm just going to say to all of you all, I'm glad to see you. Amen. And hope to speak to you after the service. Philippians chapter 4 and verse 4 is where I want to center our thought for today. One little verse of scripture that simply says, "Rejoice in the Lord always." And again, I say, "Rejoice." Rejoice in the Lord always. Now, King James does not have an S on the end of that, but if you would consult most of the other versions, it would say, "Rejoice in the Lord always, uh, continuously, regardless of what's going on, whether by day or by night, whether in sickness or in health. Whether you are faring sumptuously or flat broke, if you have a job or if you're without one, surrounded by friends or surrounded by enemies. Rejoice in the Lord always. When people think you're crazy, rejoice. [Applause] If they tag you as a holy roller, rejoice. [Applause] No matter what's going on, rejoice. When circumstances are of such that everybody else would have a case of the blues, rejoice. When most people would be somewhere sitting in a corner, stock, grieving mad. No matter how much is heaped upon you, rejoice. Y'all just tell somebody that no matter what you're going through, no matter what you're going through, rejoice in the Lord. Amen. Rejoice in the Lord. So many times we have talked about it, and I know that if I wanted to just, uh, dissect different words, uh, that we could, uh, talk about rejoicing in many realms. Well, to rejoice itself, there's a little difference between rejoice and rejoicing, but, uh, we're not going to get technical today. Uh, so many times you have been told from this pulpit and, uh, from radio and television and from so many ministers and ministries that the Lord has somehow looked like put the body of Christ in a praise realm. And so many are bringing messages that are admonishing and exalting us to praise, letting us know that this is the best way to confuse and even dumbfound the devil himself. Because when the enemy would expect to see you hang your head in sorrow in a state of defeatism, if you can just keep on rejoicing in the Lord, it doesn't matter what you're in. Sooner or later, you'll get out of it. Amen. And I, I, I do, I do quite a bit of traveling by car, and, and you know, people don't always understand the motive behind things. Uh, it was 1987, August of '87, when I finally decided that I would go ahead on and get a Mercedes. And, uh, oh my God, to some folk, preachers don't need that, you know, these big cars. And that's, but see, I don't like to fly. I do, I do, I do a lot of flying now. Started back because there are some appointments that I'm scheduled too tight to make any other way. But I prefer to go by car. And knowing I was going to be doing a lot of extensive traveling by car, I, I thought I'd better get something that would stand up. And, uh, right now, I've got almost 114,000 miles on that car, and it has never one time let me down on the road. You know, never have any problems with it. But the point I was trying to get to is that in traveling, there are times when I have run into some black storms. I mean, it gets dark as night. And I don't do much driving at night. Basically, daytime, stop at the hotel at night. But daytime, I've seen it get dark, and I've seen the rain come and the lightning flash and the wind blow and the trees are bending, and you see cars pulling over to the side. But many times, if you just keep on driving through the storm, if you stop, you may have to sit there and ride it out for a couple of hours, but you can sometimes drive another five to ten miles. And before you know it, you have driven out of the storm. And in life, you're going to have many storms. But you're going to have to learn how to not just keep driving, but you're going to have to learn how to rejoice your way through the storm. You're going to have to learn how to praise your way through the storm. Don't get all upset because the storm comes and pull over to the side of the road. I'm not going to go to church. I'm not going to give another dime tithe. I'm not going to get up and shout Hallelujah. Out one more time. I'm not going to join the saints in the dance no more until the Lord deliver me out of this. You are just like that driver parked on the side, waiting for the storm to somehow pass over. But if you decide, no matter what I'm in, if the twenty's and ten's that I used to give have turned into quarters and dimes, I'm going to keep on giving it. If my body is afflicted and I can't run down the aisle no more, if I can just take three steps, back up. I'm not going to park on the side. I'm going to keep rejoicing in the Lord, and one day my storm is going to be over. Now, the word rejoice, it simply means that you look in Webster's New World Dictionary, to be glad, happy, or delighted. Be full of joy. It's hard to be full of joy when somebody just got through lying on you. But Jesus said, "Blessed are you, when men shall revile you, persecute you, say all manner of evil against you, falsely for my sake." He said, "Even when they've named you everything but what you are, when they've hung your name on the highway, Jesus said, don't park and get sad." But he said, "Do what? Rejoice and be exceedingly." Don't you know the devil can't understand it when he has put enough on you to bury you? And instead of you lying there like in a coffin, you up on the floor. Oh, praise the Lord. [Applause] In this little book of Philippians, Paul uses the word rejoice in eight verses. It's, it's a short book. It's only four chapters, but in this little short book, there are eight verses of scripture where he uses the word rejoice. In, uh, chapter 1, verse 18, he rejoices over the fact that Christ is preached. He said, "Now, there are others that have some bad motives." And see, a lot of times we get messed up because of other folks' motives, but you're not responsible for somebody else's motives. He starts in verse, uh, 15, "Some indeed preach Christ even of envy, strife; some of goodwill. One preach Christ of contention, not sincerely, supposing to add affliction to my bonds. The other preaches of love, knowing that I'm set for the defense of the gospel." He said, "Well, what then?" In verse 18, "Notwithstanding every way, whether in pretense or in truth, Christ is preached." He said, "A lot of folk got a wrong motive for preaching Christ, but I rejoice because He's preached." Yes, you can say what you want to. A lot of times people don't even have the same motive that you do. But when you start messing around with that name, Jesus. When you start talking about He who was hung up for our hang-ups, sometimes folk get saved by accident. No matter what the other person's motive was, Paul says, "I recognize the power that is in the name of Jesus." And whenever He's preached, I rejoice. Well, He also mentions the word rejoice in chapter 2, verse 16. And He seems to be talking of, uh, a future hope, looking forward to the day of Christ. And He's hoping that his labor will not be in vain. And He rejoices in Christ as He considers the work that God has assigned to His hand. Verse 17, He rejoices with the saints. Verse 18 of chapter 2, He wants the saints to rejoice with Him. See, sometimes you got to learn how, uh, if nothing is going on in your life that's got you on a high, you got to learn to rejoice with other folks. Rejoice with those that rejoice. You've been waiting for God to save your family and look like things are getting worse at your house, and then here comes a sister that says, you know, the Lord saved my husband. Well, you ought to just break up service and start, you know, doing your dance. Well, praise the Lord. Well, what you shouting about? Because I know that if He did it for her, sooner or later, He's going to do it for me. Then we go down just a little bit further, and we find Him rejoicing in verse 28 of chapter 2 over the healing of Epaphroditus. Epaphroditus, I believe that's the way it is. Epaphroditus, he had been from the church to where Paul was located and got sick. And, uh, in this letter, He's writing and He's rejoicing because Epaphroditus has been healed. Well, that's another thing. God is still healing. I mentioned this past, uh, Tuesday night, and I, I just wanted the sister, uh, to get it, uh, certified by her doctor. Amen. And we had a sister here that mentioned how that, you know, she was terminal, and we just spoke a few words of faith following the message and laid hands on her, and, and when the Lord laid her out there, I heard the Holy Ghost say, "God's operating now." Amen. And, and see, when, when God operates. See, I, I don't believe in this kind of healing that won't stand to go back to the doctor because if you're really healed, the doctor will certify it. The test will show it. You don't hear what I'm saying? Praise God. Real healing. I'm not talking about that stuff that some folk fake in order to make you believe that they are some kind of sensation or some kind of a wonder. I, I, I'm wary of anybody who tries to steal God's glory. Amen. Most of the healings that take place here, my God, we may just have everybody coming through the line, and sometimes I may anoint with oil, and the preachers lay hands. Sometimes I stand back and let them lay hands. We're not trying to see who's going to get credit. It doesn't make me any difference whether they said, you know, "I came through the prayer line and the Bishop laid hands on me," or Elder so-and-so, or Sister so-and-so. Amen. Because when all is said and done, we didn't heal nobody. When the healing takes place, Jesus did it. And, and you better make sure that even if you are the agent that He used, you better make sure you don't try to steal His glory. Amen. He doesn't stand for people to take His glory. You read over there in Acts what happened when Herod was so displeased of those of Tyre and Sidon, and he went and made a certain oration on a day, and the man was so eloquent that the people said, "This is the voice of a god, not the voice of a man." Now, God didn't hold him responsible for what the folks said, but the man has got to have sense enough, hello, to not take glory that is given to God. Some of you might remember a Sunday, it's been maybe about three, four, maybe four years ago, when one of my elders, one of my worship coordinators, uh, well, he had been somewhere and it seemed like where he was, that they shouldn't have said anything that was not scriptural. And it was on the program that the prelate was referred to as the chief shepherd. And so my, uh, worship coordinator that Sunday said, "After this number by the choir, our pastor and chief shepherd shall come." And, uh, I had to, you know, let him know, I'm not getting on you necessarily, but I can't preach under that. God would hold me responsible. That title, chief shepherd, is reserved for Jesus Christ alone. And I had to get up here and disavow that. Yes. And then go back and preach because I could not afford to stand up trying to take the Lord's honor. Amen. Now, to some, to the sheep in the flock at Temple of Deliverance, I'm your shepherd, but I'm an undershepherd. The chief, the chief, He's seated at the right hand of power in heaven, and I can't take His glory. Amen, somebody. And you've got to learn, don't ever try to take that which belongs to God. And Herod sitting there deified because the people said, "It's the voice of a god, not a man." And he refused to give God the glory. And you remember what happened? The angel of the Lord smote him. He died. And right there before the people's eyes, the worms consumed his flesh. And the scripture said it was because he gave not God the glory. Amen. And we've got to learn how to give God the glory in all things. Is that right? Now, I come down to the sixth time that he uses that title in, uh, uses the word rejoice in the third chapter, verse one. He bids them rejoice, really as a word of farewell. Philippians 3 and 1. "Finally, my brethren, rejoice in the Lord." This is more or less a farewell bidding. I, I, I'm going, but I don't want you to stop rejoicing. Now, He's not with them now. He's writing a letter. So, He's evidently talking about the time of His death is coming near. So, He bids them farewell, letting them know that no matter what goes on, even the death of the one that preached Christ to you, you keep on rejoicing. He tells them to rejoice even though He is aware of what the church is going to have to face, what they're going to have to confront. He tells them in the next verse, "Beware of dogs." You've got some folk in church with dog spirits. Amen. Beware of dogs. Beware of evil workers. It would be great if everybody who came to church came with Jesus on their mind and had good and, and, and well-doing, uh, as their motive, but it's not. So you find some folk that'll come and they'll sit, they just want to see that sister start dancing and run up the aisle and leave a purse on the pew. I mean, you've got folk that got all kinds of motives. Beware of dogs. Beware of evil workers. Beware of the concision. And that word simply means a cutting off. It has to do with a division. And you've got people in the church, some of them because their own actions cause them to be separated. But then there are some whose deeds are so dastardly that God cuts them off. And there's no need in getting mad at the church when God cuts somebody off. Hello. Don't, don't fool yourself. God isn't dead. There's so far that He will allow people to go. And when you go so far, God Himself, some things we can't straighten out. God has to straighten them out. Paul said, "But even in the midst of, of a cutting away, in the midst of some divisions that's going to come," he said, "don't you let none of that stop you from rejoicing." I'm almost finished, y'all. The seventh time he comes to verse three of chapter 3, as a Gentile church, and I love this one. He says, "For we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit." In other words, everywhere that Paul went and preached the gospel of Jesus Christ, he preached a plain, simple gospel. "By grace are you saved through faith; that not of yourselves. It is the gift of God, not of works, lest any man should boast." And when you read that entire epistle of Galatians, what you find happening there, those who were called Judaizers, every time Paul would go into Gentile territory and preach salvation through pure faith, the Judaizers would try to come and make the new Christians Jews. Let them know, now wait a minute. If you're going to be a member of the church, then you're going to have to live like the Jews. You're going to have to abstain from certain meats. You're going to have to observe the Sabbath day as the seventh day of the week, not the first day. And all of your males have got to comply with what God told Abraham and what He told all of those children that He's going to have to have that's what circumcision is. It's simply the cutting away of the foreskin. It means the same thing in the Bible that it means at your house. Circumcision is circumcision. And they tried to make circumcision a grounds of salvation. But Paul said, "Now look at what circumcision meant. It was for cleanliness. It was to certify that all of the males of Israel were dedicated to the Lord. It was a sacrificial thing to show that they have a part in the covenant. It's also for cleanliness. But Paul says when Jesus came, we got a new kind of circumcision. He said, 'We are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit and rejoice in Christ Jesus and have no confidence in the flesh.'" That circumcision was a fleshly thing. He said, "But ours is a spiritual thing." He said, "And I want you to know that if you are really saved, if you're really a child of God, He has made you clean. He has washed you in His blood. And you don't have to get caught in the traps of Judaism. But you can rejoice in Christ Jesus. Because we are the circumcision which worship God in the spirit. Nothing about the flesh. A whole lot of folk today, they are trying to make it a fleshly thing. And I know somebody's going to get mad at me right here, but, uh, I believe, I believe that saints ought to dress decently. Hello. I don't believe that makeup will send you to hell. But I think that when you use it, it ought to just be something that helps to bring out something without making you look like a clown, you know? I mean, whatever color you are, uh, you don't have no, your eyelids are not green. You're not one of the purple people eaters. You're not, you know, you, you don't need there. Ain't nothing about your texture that's purple. But what I'm trying to say here is that although there are those who preach nothing but how to dress, how to make up, you know, don't none of this, none of that, you know, it's all flesh. Real salvation is not what you wear or what you don't wear. Real salvation is a spiritual matter. [Applause] Now, that's my point. Let me close here. Finally, he uses that word for the final time in chapter 4 when he says, "Rejoice always." How could he say this to the church at Philippi? This was the best church for him to say it to. You go back into that 16th chapter of Acts and you can follow his steps as that church was founded. Paul was getting ready to go somewhere else. And in the nighttime, the Holy Ghost embodied Himself as a man, stood in Paul's dream, said, "Come on over into Macedonia and help us." And when Paul got to Philippi, the chief city of that portion of Macedonia, he didn't even find a man. But what he found was a group of women. Women that were gathering around, uh, the little pond, having their daily prayer meeting. And Paul and his evangelistic companion Silas, they sat down with those women and expounded unto them the Word of God more perfectly. And of course, as they were teaching the Word of God, there was a woman named Lydia who was from the town of Thyatira. The Word of God pricked her heart, and she opened her home. And as they would go from Lydia's house to the prayer meeting every day, there was a girl, the Bible says, a damsel, she was probably just, uh, in her early teens. And she was possessed with an evil spirit. She saw these men walking from Lydia's house to the prayer meeting every day and said, "These are the men of God that show us the way of salvation." Finally, one day, Paul's spirit was grieved because he recognized that what the girl was saying was not really her own words, but a demon spirit that was in possession of her body. And when Paul recognized the demon spirit had taken over in her, he commanded the devils to come out of her. And you see, there were pimps in those days. But these pimps were not using her body. They were using her spirit. They were using that spiritual power, that demonic force within her to make money off of her. But when Paul cast the devil out of that girl, she didn't have the power to tell fortunes anymore. And you folk that are always running to fortune tellers, you ought to realize that that's not a Holy Ghost gift. You go looking for folk that's got palms out there displayed, talking about "Sister Mystery" that can read your palm and can tell you all of your friends and all your enemies by name, you better keep on moving. Uh, because when you get saved and get the Holy Ghost, the Holy Ghost is a discerner of the thoughts and intent of the heart. And the Holy Ghost will tell you what you need to know. This girl couldn't tell fortunes after they cast the devil out of her. But the men that had been making money off of her gift, they got angry, drew Paul and Silas into the marketplace, beat their clothes off of them. And then that evening, they threw them in the prison dungeon. You know the story. And probably early in the evening, men might have been talking and conversing one with another from one cell to another. But over in the nighttime, when everybody had gone to sleep, the Bible said at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God. That's all I'm trying to do is tell you, you've got to learn how to deal with your midnight. Midnight when the meal is low and the money is gone. Midnight when it seems like one of your children is on dope and you don't even know where your spouse is. Midnight when you've lost your job and don't know how you're going to pay the rent. Midnight when the doctor said, "Looks like you got that incurable disease," and I don't know how much longer you're going to have to stay here. At midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God. And I don't know, Paul might have been singing his little raspy baritone. Silas was probably singing a beautiful tenor. But after a while, when they got to the chorus of the song, God joined in with a rumbling bass and shook that old prison, and the doors came open. The Bible said all of the doors were open. And about the time all of the doors were open, the jailer woke up out of sleep, and he thought the prisoners had escaped. And when he took the sword, getting ready to take his own life, I hear Paul from the inside saying, "Do thyself no harm. We are all here." The doors are open, but we haven't gone anywhere. And I heard that jailer say, "What must I do to be saved?" And Paul didn't tell him what he had to stop doing. He told him what he had to do. He said, "Believe on the Lord Jesus Christ. Not only will you be saved, but your whole house will be saved if you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ." Years later, Paul is writing back to the members of that same church. And I hear him letting them know, rejoice in the Lord. Whatever is going on, don't you stop rejoicing. When I was there in Philippi, you know how I was put in prison. But Paul and Silas, we never stopped rejoicing. We rejoiced until God shook the prison. We rejoiced until the doors flew open. We rejoiced. [Music] That's all I'm trying to tell you. The devil wants you to sit there with a wounded spirit and a broken heart. He wants you to sit there like you lost your best friend. But all I want to tell you today, whatever you are going through, rejoice in the Lord. And again, I say, rejoice. I've got to close. Most of us rejoice when we've got money in the bank. We rejoice when our friends are gathered around our house. We rejoice when everything is going our way. And then some of us are more spiritual. We rejoice when we see somebody get healed. We rejoice when we see the devil cast out. But I heard Jesus tell His disciples, "I beheld Satan as lightning fall from heaven." You don't have to wait till devils are cast out to rejoice. Are you saved? Rejoice because your name is written in heaven. If you don't see nobody get healed, if you don't see a devil cast out, if it looks like nothing is going your way, if you are saved, rejoice. Rejoice till heaven gets the news. Rejoice until hell begins to tremble. Rejoice until your prison doors come open. [Applause] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Music] [Applause] You ought to grab somebody by the hand and tell them, "Neighbor, I don't know about you, but all the devils in hell can't stop me from rejoicing." Yeah. Oh. Oh. When I was a little boy coming up over at Holy Temple, my father was pastoring, and I'm just a little boy sitting on the seats. But the saints had some psalms. Oh my God, that would go down into your heart. And even at 50 years old, I still remember, I think it was Sister Lerene Williams that used to stay with you, Mother, 'cause she had one. She sang, "The Lord delivered me. Why should I be bound?" Have you been delivered? Rejoice. [Applause] Satan wants you to sit there like you've lost your best friend. Satan wants to take a molehill and make a mountain out of it. He wants to tie your hands and seal your lips. But if the Lord has delivered you, rejoice. [Applause] Hey. [Music] You say, you say you just like a dead person. I don't feel nothing no more. Lazarus was dead. In the grave, his body was decaying. But when Jesus called him out, his spirit went back in the body. And the body was wrapped and tied in grave clothes. But when Jesus called him, he was a corpse, but he started coming out. He came up till he got to the entrance of that cave. And I heard Jesus say, "Loose him and let him go." Let the devil know. I don't feel like I want to help. I don't have much strength, but I'm going to do what I can. I'm going to rejoice till my hands get free. I'm going to rejoice till my feet get free. I'm going to rejoice until everything in me comes alive again. [Applause] Glory. [Music] [Music] Heat. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Woo! Woo! [Music] [Applause] [Music] Hallelujah. [Applause] [Music] Wait a minute. The devil is a liar. That's all he is, 'cause he's a liar. I just heard him in my spirit. I heard him tell somebody, "Where he got these folk preaching a sermon on rejoice? These folk dance and shout too much anyhow." But the devil is a lie. In Nehemiah, he said, "Neither be ye sorry." Because the joy of the Lord is your strength. That's why some of y'all so weak now. You trying to sit there like a turnip, all dried up, and you getting weak as water. If you want some strength, [Music] Glory. Hallelujah. Glory. Hey. Glory. [Music] Hallelujah! Woo! Hallelujah! Woo! [Music] Hallelujah! [Music] Heat. [Music] Heat. [Music] Glory to Jesus. Glory. [Music] Woo. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Woo! Heat! [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Heat. Heat. [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Hallelujah. [Applause] [Music] [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] [Music] Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] Woo. [Music] Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. Hallelujah. My soul magnify you, Jesus. Bless the Lord, oh my soul, and all that is within me, bless His holy name. We praise you, Jesus. Oh, we praise you, Lord. Hallelujah. Something down in you, a wheel ought to be turning. You ought to lift up holy hands now and open your mouth and speak words of praise. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, my soul loves you. My soul magnify you, Jesus. Bless your name. Hallelujah. Oh, thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Blessed be God in our heed over sea. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Oh, my soul loves you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Hallelujah. If you just praise Him now while this spirit is in the room, somebody could be healed now. Somebody can be delivered and set free right now while you give Him the fruit of your lips. Praise your name, Jesus. Oh, we praise you. [Applause] Oh, my soul loves you, Jesus. Bless your name. Bless your name. Bless your name. Bless your name. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Oh, thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. [Music] Glory to Jesus. Glory to Jesus. Glory to Jesus. Hallelujah. Sunday. Hallelujah. [Music] Well, take your seat if you can. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. Glory to God. Glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. [Applause] Thank you, Lord. Glory. Hallelujah. [Applause] Thank you. Hey. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. [Applause] My, my, sweet air. [Music] Sweep over my soul. Oh, my joy is complete as I wait at Thy feet. Sweet spirit, sweep over my, my soul. Sweep over my soul. [Music] Sweep. For my soul. Sweet spirit, sweep over my soul. My joy is complete as I wait at Thy feet. Sweet spirit, sweep over my soul. Yes. [Music] Yes. Yes. [Music] Yes. [Music] Yes. Hallelujah. Yes. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. Yes, Lord. [Music] Yes, Lord. Yes. [Music] Hallelujah. [Music] Who hath believed our report? To whom has the arm of the Lord been revealed? Somebody today who entered this building without a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. And even though my message was not really a message on salvation, you have found yourself under conviction and you want to give your life to Jesus Christ. If there is a sinner in this building and you're tired of your sins and ready to give your life to Jesus, I want you to get up out of your seat wherever you are and come down the nearest aisle. If you're in the balcony, get up, go to the elevator, push one, and come on down. If you're in the wing, get up and come down the nearest aisle. And if you're out here in front of me in the main sanctuary, get up and come now. Lost in sin, Jesus loves you. And in one minute's time, all of your sins that you've committed since you've been in the world can be blotted out. And you will become a new creature in Christ Jesus. Backslider that have known the Lord and you strayed away from Him and went back to that old life. He didn't leave you. You left Him. So He bids you return unto me and I'll return unto you, sayeth the Lord. I want you to get up and come right now. Sinner that wants to be saved, backslider that wants to be reclaimed, and even those who may already be saved and you want to make this your church home. The door of the church is open. Get up and come down the nearest aisle. Hallelujah. My soul loves you, Jesus. Glory to God. [Music] Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, Hallelujah. There are many others that the Lord is speaking to, and I want you to come. I want you to obey the Lord right now. God bless you, young man. Somebody else over here in the wing, I want you to get up and come. You that are out here in front of me, I want you to come now. Glory to Jesus. Someone coming from the balcony. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Lost in sin and want to be saved, backslider that wants to be reclaimed. Are you that's already saved and want to make this your church home? I want you to get up and come right now. You don't have to wait on anybody else. It's between you and God. Hallelujah. I'm waiting on 17 people right now. There are 17 souls that the Lord is speaking to. And you know who you are. God bless you, my sister. Come on. There are 16 more. And I'm waiting on you. Hallelujah. The Holy Ghost bids you come. Hallelujah. Thank you. Come on, my brother. God bless you. Hallelujah. 15 more. I'm waiting on 15 more souls. [Applause] Thank you, Jesus. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get up. Get up. The Holy Ghost says get up. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, glory. Saints, if you praise God, some yolks would break. Praise Him. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. I'm waiting on souls from that balcony. And you know who you are. Make your way to the elevator. Push one. Come on down. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. God bless you, young man. Thank you, Jesus. I'm yet waiting on 14 more. M. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, my soul magnify you, Lord. Glory. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. We wait now. We wait, Lord, for Your will to be manifested in these souls that You've touched. [Music] Give them the courage to break loose and come now. Oh, if you come now, He'll deliver you from that addiction. If you come now, He'll set you free. M. God bless you, my sister. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Hallelujah. I'm waiting on 12 more. God bless you, young man. I'm waiting on 10 more. God bless you, young lady. I'm waiting on nine more. Hey, I'm waiting on eight more. The Holy Ghost is moving. Jesus is in the room. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Come on out of here, Satan. Come on out. Take your hands off. God bless you, young lady. Come on. Hallelujah. I'm waiting on seven more. Woohoo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Deliverance is in the room. Victory is in the room. God's glory is in the room. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Woohoo. Hallelujah. My, my, my, my. Thank God for the blood. That's right. Come on, young lady. Six more. Come on. Five more. Oo. Glory to God. Glory to God. Glory. Glory. Glory. Glory. Hey. Thank God for the blood. That's right. Come on. Hallelujah. My, my, my, my, my. What a wonder about Jesus. That's right. Come on, young lady. Come on, young man. Hallelujah. Woo. [Applause] [Applause] Oh, glory. I believe there's two more I'm yet waiting on. God bless you, young lady. Come on. Come on. The glory. Hallelujah. I know this one is real old-fashioned, but I hear it down in my spirit. I'm on the altar, Lord. Want you to bless my soul. On the altar, Lord. I'm on the altar, Lord. I'm on the altar, Lord. I need a blessing, Lord. I need a blessing, Lord. I need a blessing, Lord. I need a blessing, Lord. I'm on the altar, Lord. I'm on the altar, Lord. Bless my soul, Lord. [Music] Bless my soul, Lord. While I'm waiting, while I'm waiting, while I'm waiting. [Music] While I'm waiting, bless my soul, Lord. Bless my soul, Lord. Now, some of y'all are saved, but you need this. I need the Holy Ghost. I need the Holy Ghost. You ought to be praising Him everywhere. Need the Holy Ghost. He can fill you right there. I need the Holy Ghost. While I'm waiting. While I'm waiting. Woo. Glory to Jesus. Oh, glory. Bless your name, Jesus. Oh, what a wonder. What a wonder. What a wonder. What a wonder. My, my, my, my, my, my. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Anybody yet got a praise down in here? Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Woo! [Applause] [Music] Oh! Hallelujah! [Applause] Woo! [Applause] [Music] [Applause] [Music] [Applause] Thank you. [Music] [Applause] [Music] Listen, I'm going to just shake hands with all of you that came up, and I want you to follow these worship coordinators where they can intelligently ascertain your spiritual need. And those who want to make this your church, there'll be someone downstairs to sign you up. And unless you are part of this office staff that's got to go out with these souls, I want you all beginning today to break this thing of leaving before the benediction. You wouldn't leave work before your day is complete. God is the one that gives you the strength to go to your job. This is His day. Give Him full time. God bless you. Just follow. Bless you. Just follow. God bless you. Just follow. God bless you, my brother. God bless you. Just follow. God bless you. [Applause] God bless you. Not. [Music] Let me show you. Hallelujah. Woo! All right. [Music] [Applause] [Music] All right. [Music] Woo! [Music] Heat! [Music] [Applause] [Music] Well, give God a hand and take your seat for a moment if you can. Oh, praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Praise the Lord. Hallelujah. [Applause] [Music] Praise God. Praise God. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. We are enjoying the Lord Jesus. And I say to each and every one of you, do your best to be back tonight. Tonight, as you know, following Faith Clinic and YPWW, they're held simultaneously at six o'clock. And then at 7:30, the evening worship begins with water baptizing. Elder Finney is in charge of that ministry. And those who need to be baptized, you need to be back into the pool area. The ladies around behind the choir, up the steps, there's a room on the, uh, east side of the building. Brothers, there's a room back here on the west side of the building. You should be there around 7:20, 7:25.