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0:07baptism is
0:10baptism
0:11is done for the forgiveness of sins acts
0:13238
0:15baptism
0:16is done to save us first peter 3 21 acts
0:202 40 mark 16 16.
0:23baptism
0:25is done to wash away our sins acts 22
0:2716.
0:29baptism is done to be reborn to new life
0:32john 3 5 romans 6 3-6
0:36baptism is done to clothe ourselves with
0:39christ galatians 3 26 and
0:4227. trust in the lord with all your
0:45hearts and lead not into your own
0:47understanding
0:48in all your ways acknowledge him and he
0:50shall direct your path
0:52[Music]
0:56i'm going to ask you to turn with me to
0:58the book of
0:59john chapter number 16.
1:05while you're turning there
1:08i know that this is a revival month
1:11and
1:15i'm i don't know where this falls into
1:17the line of revival except to tell you
1:21that if you don't need this message
1:22tonight you will need it sometime in
1:25your life
1:27and some of you may say i wish i'd heard
1:29this earlier
1:32but
1:33i
1:35i know this is a revival
1:38month
1:39and um
1:41i was going to i was planning on
1:44preaching this and
1:46and uh
1:48but i'm we're driving to church tonight
1:50and i have a a a gallon
1:52bag of scriptures and names there's
1:55hundreds and hundreds of scriptures i
1:57don't have all of them i don't have 31
1:59000 plus there but i got a lot of them
2:02and i reached down and i dug around and
2:05i pulled up
2:07the text that
2:09we're going to read tonight
2:11and that was a sweet confirmation so god
2:14knows
2:15god knows god knows
2:18and your pastor and others here recently
2:21heard me preach this
2:23and um
2:25here we go
2:26this morning we talked about the garden
2:28anybody thankful for the garden
2:31anybody thankful for the garden
2:34[Applause]
2:37well this is something that jesus had to
2:39say in verse 33
2:42of john 16
2:44verse 33
2:49these things
2:50i have spoken unto you
2:54that in me
2:55you might have peace
2:57in
2:58the world
3:00you shall have
3:02tribulations but
3:05be of good cheer
3:07i have overcome
3:10the world
3:11amen let's pray and ask that our
3:14gracious god would talk to every one of
3:16us lord thank you for your presence
3:20god it is so rich and so real
3:23you are so kind you are so faithful
3:27again anoint our every heart our every
3:29soul and mind and spirit
3:32to receive ye god of your goodness daily
3:36we thank you we stand in all of you and
3:39we love you
3:40in jesus name amen god bless you so much
3:44you may be seated thank you for standing
3:49we
3:54mean something to live for god in any
3:56age
3:58any season any time
4:01and the words that in the world you
4:03shall have tribulation apply not just to
4:05us
4:06in the end time
4:09everyone that has ever lived for god
4:11pays
4:12a certain amount of price
4:15and there are sacrifices the book of
4:17psalms
4:18i think it's chapter 50 speaks of those
4:20that make a covenant with him by
4:22sacrifice
4:24and uh but the thing about god and
4:27making of sacrifices
4:29those sacrifices don't tend to last very
4:31long
4:33the reason being
4:35is that
4:36god keeps very very good books
4:38and when he
4:40he's very mindful and when we make a
4:42sacrifice
4:44he steps on the scene and it doesn't
4:46remain
4:47sacrificed again very long he knows he
4:50keeps good books he will owe no man
4:52anything
4:54and he knows his business
4:57and uh
4:58when we cross the river
5:00we will see
5:02the blessings that he has given us here
5:04on earth the things he has protected us
5:08of
5:09our mind-boggling things that we never
5:11even considered
5:13amen he may show us a panorama of the
5:16times he saved our hides
5:20and we didn't even know it to say thank
5:22you on my way here tonight
5:29a guy in a blue truck
5:31apparently didn't his blue truck did not
5:33like my red truck
5:36and
5:37anyway we we came close to colliding
5:41and uh he had he had a lot of room to go
5:44he just didn't want to whatever
5:46i didn't see him coming he must have
5:48been coming fast and blah blah blah blah
5:51and my wife said larry
5:55god really keeps his hand on you is all
5:57i can tell you and i said he
6:00he really does he really does he really
6:03does
6:04amen
6:05i remember years ago when i gave my
6:07testimony first time in california and
6:10brother carl ballestero was standing at
6:12the back
6:14i wasn't positive it was him but
6:17it was and after service i went back and
6:20i said are you brother balester and he
6:22said yes
6:24he said larry booker when
6:26the nights you prayed through to the
6:28holy ghost i have no doubt
6:30angels were falling in corners
6:33all over the building saying
6:35thank god that's over
6:38and
6:40i i think those same angels have
6:42probably stuck with me all these years
6:44and protected me
6:46because uh in the world again no matter
6:50what what what age
6:52you come into
6:54there's things that happen
6:56it's things that happen
6:58in this life you say but i started
7:00living for god and because of that i
7:03shouldn't have any more problems
7:05i actually thought that in the early
7:07days of living for jesus that
7:10now it was just
7:14if i had the vocabulary that said
7:16i'm in the garden now
7:20and believe me it's better to be go west
7:23and get in the garden than to stay out
7:25east of eden by far
7:27but jesus with his disciples he said
7:30these things i've spoken
7:32that in me
7:34you might have peace the peace is not
7:36found in this world the peace is found
7:38in me it's in knowing me
7:41walking in me
7:42allowing me to be in you and to be alive
7:45and well etc
7:48some other
7:50transliterations of this
7:52one puts it this way i've told you all
7:53this so that you may have peace in me
7:56here on earth you will have many trials
7:58and sorrows but take heart
8:00because i've overcome the world
8:03another one i've told you that
8:05i've told you all this so that trusting
8:07me
8:09you will be unshakeable and assured
8:12deeply at peace
8:15that's in him
8:17in this godless world you will continue
8:20to experience difficulties
8:23another one i have told you all this so
8:24that you have peace of heart and mind
8:27here on earth
8:28you'll have many trials and sorrows
8:31and then the amplified i've told you
8:33these things so that in me you may have
8:36perfect peace and confidence
8:38in the world you have tribulation and
8:40trials and distress and frustration
8:42but be of good cheer take courage be
8:45confident
8:46certain be certain undaunted for i have
8:49overcome the world
8:52i have deprived it of its power to harm
8:55you
8:56and conquered it
8:58for
8:59you that's our god
9:01and that's why we take him by the hand
9:03and walk with him
9:05daily hallelujah
9:08when i came
9:10to god again
9:12and it was it was a very small church
9:16uh but it was immediately to me the
9:19safest
9:20sweetest most wonderful
9:22place i had ever known
9:25i remember sitting on the front
9:29seat about where these boys seat sit and
9:32the pew that was much closer to the
9:35pulpit the pulpit was not raised up it
9:37was on the floor
9:39and and the guy that was in 70 fights
9:43from the time his middle of ninth grade
9:44year till the year after he graduated
9:47some of them gang fights
9:49and the bad
9:50bad stuff
9:52and if my friends would have saw me
9:54sitting there with a big chief notebook
9:56tablet and a number two lead pencil like
9:59a little bird
10:01writing down every scripture i had no
10:04idea how to spell them but i'd figure it
10:06out i'd find it eventually
10:08and i'd write down and i go and i'd
10:11look up it'd take me a long time to find
10:13the books
10:14and it's not really how i learned
10:17where the bible was laid out
10:19and then i would call my pastor and
10:22drive the poor man crazy with questions
10:24every day every day every day and
10:27finally he said
10:29why don't you save up all your questions
10:30and call me once a week
10:33and i said
10:34sounds good to me
10:36i mean i didn't i didn't i didn't think
10:38you had anything better to do than to
10:40just answer my questions
10:42boy i have paid for that folly
10:49so the years have come and gone
10:51i still
10:53do the big chief deal
10:54nostalgic
10:56it's nostalgic that's the reason i do
10:58that
10:59and i have to use a pen i can't see the
11:01number two lead pencil anymore but
11:04i um
11:05you never quit learning you never ever
11:08ever ever ever quit
11:11learning
11:13but when i kind to god and everything
11:15was so sweet and wonderful i remember
11:17there was a lady in the church
11:20she was up in years and i honestly my
11:22my concepts i had concepts that some
11:26were right and some were
11:27really stupid but i had them
11:29and and i had a concept that the longer
11:32you were in church the naturally sweeter
11:36you were
11:37and the more holy
11:39you
11:40became and and i just i couldn't
11:44wait
11:45and i had to wait but apparently i
11:47didn't have to wait long here i am
11:48and uh
11:50and
11:51and so
11:52this lady she if i had to name her in
11:54those days if i had known how to name it
11:57i would have called her the testifier of
11:59israel
12:01because
12:02when she would stand during testimony
12:04service
12:07the
12:08sweetness that would pour forth
12:12the comfort
12:15the
12:16the beauty
12:18just almost angelic
12:21the smile
12:25and uh and i was just oh
12:27oh
12:29i thought she's like my grandma on
12:31steroids and
12:34and uh
12:36anyway months came and went and time
12:39goes on and
12:40and i met my
12:42my brenda the first time i ever saw her
12:44i was at a camp meeting i came to god in
12:47in
12:48april and in july was a camp meeting my
12:51hair had been down to here and
12:53my pastor said i was like the guy that
12:55had a dog with a bad tail
12:57rather than cut it off all at once he'd
12:59just kind of take it an inch at a time
13:02so when i met her my hair was still over
13:04my ears but i was i was at this camping
13:08i was praying
13:09for
13:10one of my buddies that had come back
13:12from pueblo with me his name was ed and
13:14we always called him special
13:16and
13:18and there he was we were praying and all
13:20the young people had gathered around
13:22and i'm praying
13:23and i saw this girl
13:25and i'm praying and i looked at her and
13:28i said to myself that's the girl i'm
13:30going to marry
13:32and i thought that's crazy and then um
13:35afterwards we went to the concession
13:37stand and
13:38and we're talking and this and that and
13:41me and special we're talking to
13:44these girls and we go back to the dorm
13:46and i'm on the bottom bunk and ed's on
13:48the top bunk and
13:50i'm looking out the window and there's
13:52the moon and they had said hey larry i
13:54said yeah he said you know that brenda
13:56girl i said yeah
13:58he said i kind of like her
14:00i put my foot
14:02on the lowest part of the bunk and i
14:04shoved it
14:06and he wow and he came back down
14:10and i said forget it
14:17low
14:18it beareth witness
14:20i said uh
14:22forget it eddie
14:23i said i'm gonna marry her.
14:26and i looked out the window and i
14:27thought i am losing
14:29my mind
14:31but
14:32we sure enough got married
14:34and she got to hear the testifier of
14:36israel and all was well
14:38and then one day i was
14:40we were in
14:43our first apartment and it was a
14:45saturday afternoon and i was going to
14:47take a nap and
14:49i was lying on my back and i was in
14:52i wasn't asleep yet but i wasn't
14:54fully awake and i
14:56and and there before me
14:59was this angelic
15:01testifier of israel
15:03and she was just just
15:06and
15:07and while she was
15:09she was doing that and i i just got i
15:11was like seeing her and she went
15:15and i jumped
15:19and i was wide awake
15:21and i thought whoa what was that all
15:24about so a week or so later i was in
15:27tulsa with uh
15:29my pastor i can't remember why we were
15:31down there but we were we're walking the
15:33sidewalk down to the car or whatever i
15:35said you know brother moss i had a
15:37strange thing happen and i don't know
15:38what to think about it it's really weird
15:41he said well what is it so we're talking
15:43and i'm telling him and he stops
15:47and and
15:48he was tall but not quite as tall as me
15:51he looked at me
15:53and i looked at him he said
15:57i said what's that mean he said
15:59we'll see
16:02well apparently he had to do business
16:05with the testifier of israel
16:08and and so it wasn't all that many
16:11months
16:12before i began to find out the
16:16side
16:17of the testifier of israel
16:20and and i realized
16:22it was a less than stellarly perfect
16:25situation
16:27and if i would have approached her
16:29husband apparently and said your ma your
16:32wife
16:33is like my grandma on steroids she's the
16:36testifier of israel
16:40i would have probably gotta look
16:42something
16:43of that nature
16:45and then
16:47this was a really sad part the young man
16:49that was so unbelievably instrumental
16:54in my salvation he had been in church
16:56six months longer than i
16:59and i used to be a running buddy of his
17:01in pueblo
17:03and
17:05we were we were a pair he was brilliant
17:09utterly unbelievably brilliant he could
17:12he was very very good looking healthy
17:16he could open the bible anywhere read a
17:18chapter twice
17:20sometimes you might have to read it
17:21three times he could shut the book and
17:23quote you the chapter
17:26he was he was brilliant
17:29and the potential the young man had was
17:31just
17:33literally unbelievable and he was the
17:34one that
17:36the night
17:38that i finally broke i snapped i was
17:40shattered
17:41and i made it back home from denver
17:44still alive by the mercies of god
17:46totally
17:47and i fell by my bed and i said god i
17:50will do anything
17:52anything in the world for you just get
17:55me out of here
17:57and he was 650 miles away praying for me
18:00and the lord said arise go get larry he
18:03is ready now
18:05and he drove all night long
18:09picked me up
18:11and the long story short gets me back to
18:14bartlesville on easter sunday i go we
18:16get five in the morning we go to church
18:18that night i bawl and squall and sob i'm
18:21baptized in jesus name five nights later
18:23i get the holy ghost
18:25and so this young
18:26man i loved dearly and on and on
18:31but
18:32he went sideways
18:34it was very sad it was very very
18:37tragically sad
18:40and how far he went and how bad he went
18:42and how how crazy he got in the spirit
18:45he got so tangled up with bitterness and
18:47envies and
18:49it was breathtaking and um
18:52and and
18:55he
18:57in front of my parents i hadn't been in
18:59church for just a few months and they
19:00drive 650 50 miles away and
19:03i didn't go
19:04uh i had to go to work i went to church
19:07twice they got in on saturday i went to
19:08church twice on sunday and then and then
19:10i worked monday spent monday night with
19:12them had to go to work on tuesdays
19:14tuesday night we had church
19:16and they were leaving wednesday and they
19:18were upset they said we're leaving
19:19tomorrow
19:21and
19:22and i said i'm sorry i
19:25i said you know what i was before god
19:28found me
19:30and i i can't go back to that doctors
19:32couldn't help me you couldn't help me
19:34police good police and bad police
19:36couldn't help me my probation officer
19:38couldn't help me psychologists could not
19:41help me doctors couldn't help me
19:43teachers couldn't help me counselors
19:44couldn't help me nobody could help me i
19:46said i finally found my help it's it's
19:49through god through the church
19:51and i said i i can't
19:54i
19:55can't miss
19:57i'm sorry
19:59to which he in front of my parents
20:02said
20:03if you loved your mother and father you
20:05wouldn't go to church tonight
20:11and it got really quiet
20:16why he would do that
20:19and i said
20:21mom and dad
20:23i'm sorry
20:25i gotta go
20:27and that night was the night my pastor
20:29was preaching i felt so horrid
20:33and it was somewhere in the book of
20:34psalms and my bible was on my lap and i
20:37told a brother
20:38this morning he asked me when did i know
20:41for sure i was called to preach
20:44that night feeling so rancid and broken
20:47and wretched
20:48when my pastor was preaching and i've
20:50got my bible open i felt like i was on a
20:53high high high
20:54high diving border
20:56and i was going in slow motion down
20:59towards the pool
21:01of the waters of his word
21:04and going into the waters
21:08and i knew that moment i'd spend my life
21:11preaching this word
21:13that's the night i knew
21:17and the thing about oklahoma they say if
21:18you don't like the weather stick around
21:20it'll change
21:22and this took apparently all peoples by
21:24surprise
21:26there was no weather warning whatsoever
21:28that night a blizzard came into town
21:31and my parents couldn't get out of town
21:33nobody could get out of town i could not
21:35go to work
21:37i got to spend all day wednesday
21:38wednesday night i couldn't go to work
21:41on thursday i got to spend thursday with
21:43him my pastor didn't stop church for
21:45nothing and he we had but i don't live
21:48down the street and so me and four
21:49others went to church that night and
21:50then
21:52and then and then
21:54on friday they couldn't get out of town
21:55until wednesday but on friday we're
21:57driving around until saturday and we're
21:58driving around on friday and
22:02my dad said larry i said yes sir
22:05i'm going to tell you something i said
22:07yes sir
22:08if you're going to live for god
22:10yes sir and he did not
22:13he said
22:14you better do it with all your heart you
22:16better do it with everything that's in
22:17you you hear me because if you don't
22:19you're not worth your salt
22:22i said yes sir he said that includes
22:24going to church don't miss church
22:32god knows his business
22:36god knows his business
22:38so things i began to find out happened
22:40in the kingdom
22:42all was not perfect
22:44there were situations
22:47and and as i go through this i'm trying
22:49to make my adjustments my mental
22:52emotional spiritual adjustments that
22:55that thank god for the kingdom i've been
22:58east of eden thank god for the garden
23:01but it's not always
23:03perfect
23:05in the garden
23:06and then when you go back you find out
23:08that the the kingdom
23:10has always
23:13had its troubles
23:15we know that cain and
23:17his brother abel
23:20both offered up sacrifices but canes
23:23were of his own
23:25mind
23:27it was not the the blood of the
23:29firstborn lamb
23:31and so the writer saint john writes in
23:34the first book
23:36of the gospel of the the
23:38epistle of john he said not as cain who
23:41was of that wicked one and slew his
23:43brother abel wherefore did he salute
23:46wherefore slew he him because the vote
23:49works were evil and his brothers
23:50righteous
23:52so back back in the earliest days of the
23:54kingdom
23:55there was bad troubles
23:57and every patriarch you want to name if
23:59you want to talk about abraham
24:02you cannot talk about abraham without
24:04bringing up hagar
24:06when you bring up hagar you bring up his
24:08son ishmael
24:10when you bring up hagar and ishmael you
24:12also know that he had a first wife by
24:14the name of sarah
24:16and he had a nephew by the name of lot
24:20and and life got really interesting
24:22between hagar and sarah
24:25and then between ishmael and isaac
24:28and then with his nephew lot who pitched
24:31his hand towards
24:33tent towards sodom and and so in
24:35abraham's life this epitome of the
24:37kingdom the father of the faithful we
24:40find that that it's not perfect there
24:42but he's the father of the faithful
24:44and we see the towering figure that he
24:48is
24:48but there were times that were better
24:50than others
24:52amen isaac
24:54found his wife rebecca or she was rather
24:57found for him
24:58and he has two boys
25:00jacob
25:02and esau
25:04and we find there's problems
25:07in their world
25:08and in their life then jacob
25:11we find he deceives his father isaac
25:14he gets the blessing
25:16he has to leave home lest his brother
25:18kill him
25:19he goes to his uncle laban's
25:22and there he meets rachel he falls
25:24instantly in love
25:26and then the years come and go basically
25:2920 years of the tug of war
25:31with laban
25:33and his machinations his business
25:36machinations versus this young man
25:38jacob who god would bless through every
25:41situation
25:42and just help but but it wasn't all
25:45peaches and cream there were problems
25:47there were traumas in jacob's family and
25:50and between
25:52rachel and her sister leia and then
25:55bildad and zilpah the the the the other
25:58concubines that there are servant girls
26:00that he took to wife so that so that
26:03she could have more kids and this and it
26:05got it was a mess
26:07but it became the patriarchs of israel
26:11and and and it was interesting and then
26:14we find that these sons got a boy
26:17uh
26:18jacob's got a boy named jacob
26:20the son of rachel
26:22and
26:24just in case you wondered what it was
26:26like
26:28and uh
26:29at one point he's meeting his brother
26:31esau that still he thinks is bent on
26:33killing him
26:34and he separates he starts sending off
26:36cattle and sending off portions of herds
26:38and he's he's giving him presents and
26:41and then he takes his family
26:43and he takes the
26:46build and supports zilpah and biljar and
26:49sets their kids together and you go
26:51first then there's leia
26:53and her sons and dinah the daughter
26:56and in the far back is rachel and joseph
26:59and nobody ever forgot that day
27:06they looked back
27:09and the ones out front thought well
27:12this is the words we'd use today i guess
27:14apparently we're cannon fodder in this
27:16house
27:19and maybe by the time esau gets done
27:21killing everything he'll be too tired to
27:24take out sweet little joseph
27:28and so the animus between these kids
27:32grows to the place and then
27:36god bless his heart joseph starts having
27:38dreams from god
27:42and then bless his heart he doesn't know
27:44any better but then to tell his brethren
27:47his dreams do you know i had a dream
27:49that my sheath was out there in the
27:51field and every one of you were big
27:52sheaves and all of you fell down and
27:55bowed did obeisance to me
27:59well
28:00that
28:01that dream went over like a flock of
28:03dogs
28:06and he said well try this one
28:08i was a star in the heavens a bright
28:11star and you were all stars
28:14and daddy was the son and mum was the
28:16moon and all of you were doing obeisance
28:20to me
28:23that
28:24dream didn't go over either
28:27and the bible says they hated him
28:32they hated him
28:34and no one has a right let me tell you
28:36some hatred is like
28:38battery acid trying to carry around on a
28:41plastic jug it'll just eat you alive
28:46but here we go
28:47and god
28:49listen closely
28:51knows how to make the best out of bad
28:54situations
28:58and so joseph goes on
29:00as a prisoner
29:02his brethren are going to sell him
29:05they go over the hill to eat here comes
29:06the ishmaelites they steal him away they
29:08sell him the midianites the midianites
29:10selling the egyptians egyptians sell him
29:12to potiphar
29:13and we know the rest of the story
29:1620 years later
29:19famine is hitting the world
29:21here comes ten older
29:24brothers and they're standing before a
29:27strange enigmatic man
29:29they don't know he speaks hebrew because
29:31they don't know it's joseph and he's the
29:33second most powerful man
29:36apparently in the world order at that
29:38moment
29:40and they're all doing obeisance to him
29:45so
29:46the kingdom
29:48has had its problems
29:50moses had
29:52a sister named miriam one day god
29:55turned her into a leper because she
29:56didn't know when to keep her mouth shut
29:59aaron
30:00made a golden calf
30:02and god would have killed him had not
30:04moses interceded
30:06there was a mixed multitude that
30:07followed the children of israel out and
30:10moses himself one day instead of
30:12speaking to a rock
30:13he smites the rock
30:16amen once too many
30:19and he's not allowed to go into the
30:20promised land
30:22this is the kingdom of god you go to the
30:24book of judges
30:25and you find israel backsliding seven
30:28times
30:29you have good good judges like gideon
30:31you have bad judges like samson then you
30:34end up with the last set of judges you
30:36have eli his sons and then their samuel
30:39samuel's sons are not the greatest
30:42and then god raises up king saul
30:45and king saul goes bad
30:50me give you the title of what i'm
30:51preaching tonight
30:53i'm talking to us about
30:56the ragged
30:57edges of the kingdom
31:02brothers and sister there's no place i'd
31:05rather be
31:08but i'm here to tell you the kingdom has
31:10ragged edges
31:12but there's no place i'd rather be
31:14try east of eden if you want
31:18i'd rather be in the garden with its
31:20ragged edges
31:22any day
31:24any day any day
31:26[Applause]
31:28you say well yeah but finally god raised
31:30up a king he was a man after god's own
31:33heart
31:34and his name was david
31:37and david had his problems
31:40if you don't believe that ask
31:42uzziah well i guess you can't because
31:44david had him killed
31:47and it got bad
31:49but he knew how to repent
31:52and he knew how to go forward
31:54and god actually made him the benchmark
31:57for all future kings he judged every
31:59future king of judah based on what they
32:01did or did not do according to david
32:04god said he's a man after my own heart
32:07and there's not many clues we don't know
32:09why but we do know this but king james
32:11version i have not checked this out in
32:13hebrew but in king james english he's
32:16the first man to tell god he loves him
32:22i'm sure abraham isaac jacob loved him
32:24but they never told it or it never found
32:26its way into scripture david's the first
32:28one to tell god i love you
32:32and also technically he's the first man
32:34in king james english to say
32:36thank you
32:40now jacob got close he said i'm not
32:42worthy of the mercy and the truth which
32:44thou has shown me
32:46but to actually say thank you david is
32:48the first
32:50i'm not saying they didn't i'm just
32:51saying scripturally god pegged it he was
32:55the first
32:56so when i see unthankfulness you say i'm
32:59not going to church there's too many
33:00problems there no no no i'm going to
33:02tell you something you need it's like
33:03going to the hospital
33:06you go to the hospital there's things
33:08that stink there's moans and groans
33:10there's pain
33:11hey there are mistakes made in hospitals
33:15people more people die in hospitals than
33:17anywhere else
33:19yeah that's true
33:21but i'm going to tell you something i
33:22know this god used the hospital in a
33:25surgeon after 10 years of doing
33:27everything and and finally
33:30my my children
33:32we begged god my wife we'd prayed we'd
33:35prayed we'd prayed until we were purple
33:38with praying and beseeching and my wife
33:40had a problem and and she had to go into
33:42emergency and i'm back east somewhere
33:45and and erica was taking her and i said
33:47erica let's pray right now tell the boys
33:49tell the girls
33:51jesus send the perfect
33:55doctor
33:56that can figure out what's wrong with my
33:58wife and so here's a man in his 70s
34:01he's on the sixth day
34:04of 12 hour shifts
34:06and he's like i'm getting out of here
34:09and he's listening to her but he's not
34:10crying and my wife's telling him and
34:13finally eric is telling him and he said
34:16i think i know your problem and he did
34:18and he performed surgery and fixed her
34:21after 12 years of suffering
34:31and i i don't pretend to understand all
34:33this stuff but i told that to brother
34:35barry sutton
34:36and and we went on a cruise with the
34:37suttons years ago and we were we were in
34:39the baltic sea or somewhere and and and
34:42and he said i told him that story he
34:44said you remember when we were on that
34:46trip i said yes he said did you know my
34:47wife was sick every day
34:50i said i think you mentioned it but she
34:53hid it well she goes my wife's tough she
34:55was deeply nauseated every day in fact
34:57she was nauseated every day for years
35:01and she went to doctor after doctor we
35:02prayed and prayed and prayed and prayed
35:04one night she had a dream
35:07in this dream our youngest daughter went
35:09to her mother in the dream i can't
35:12remember the doctor's name i'm going to
35:13say faraday said
35:15mother go see dr faraday he knows your
35:19problem
35:20and she woke up she called her daughter
35:22who's dr faraday she said i have no idea
35:25she told her about the dream said well
35:26if i was you i'd get in the phone book
35:27and find dr faraday
35:30so she got in the phone book and she
35:31found a doctor faraday
35:33and she sat down in his office
35:36he said tell me your problems and and
35:38she goes well i'm nauseated are you
35:39taking the medical yes i do have a
35:41problem with arthritis and i take
35:44arthritis medication he said you have
35:47any with he said yes she said yes he
35:49took the bottle
35:52this is after years years and many
35:55doctors he said
35:57here's your problem
36:00this medication has a certain ingredient
36:02and he named the ingredient one out of a
36:05thousand people it makes them nauseous
36:09he changed her medication that moment by
36:12that afternoon she was fine
36:15[Applause]
36:22so yes hospitals can be a deal but at
36:26the same time i'm glad they're around
36:30and the point is there can be situations
36:32less than stellar and problems in
36:34churches but thank god for the thank god
36:37for the garden
36:38thank god thank god
36:42jesus said look you're going to have
36:44problems i'm the fixer i'm the comforter
36:47i'm the friend that sticks closer than a
36:49brother i'm here to help you it's going
36:51to be okay i've overcame the world and
36:54the church belongs to me
36:57hallelujah
37:01you say well
37:03well thank god there was no problems in
37:05the church in the book of acts well
37:07that's not quite the case
37:10in chapter 6 there arose a murmuring of
37:12the grecians against the hebrews because
37:14their widows were neglected in the daily
37:17ministrations
37:19and what that's talking about was
37:21they're all baptized they all got the
37:22holy ghost they've all repented but the
37:24grecians were hebrews
37:26that
37:27had been hellenized they the grecian
37:30influence had affected them they they
37:32had walked away from the righteous
37:34decrees of the torah but they caught the
37:36revelation of who jesus was they
37:38repented of their sins they were
37:40baptized in jesus name they were filled
37:42with the holy ghost and they were as
37:44saved as were the hebrews that had stuck
37:48with the torah
37:51but when the daily administration was
37:53giving they were giving out food and
37:54stuff
37:56those
37:57were being somewhat neglected
38:03yeah you know
38:04you were hellenized we'll get to you
38:07later
38:08and so
38:10this is the church
38:13and the apostles say we we can't
38:15we gotta stick with our book and bible
38:18and prayer and preparing get seven men
38:20full of the holy ghost set them over
38:22this matter
38:24and those seven men full of the holy
38:26ghost put the matter at rest
38:30but there was
38:32there was some ragged edges in the
38:34kingdom
38:36and at one point you have a guy by the
38:38name of saul of tarsus breathing out
38:40threatenings and slaughters
38:44but he's on his way to damascus he's got
38:46letters of intent from the high priest
38:48he's going to go into the synagogues of
38:50damascus and anybody that says they're a
38:52christian he's going to do to them what
38:54he's been doing in jerusalem he's going
38:55to compel him the blasphemy if need be
38:57put him to death do everything he can to
38:59get him to recant but while he's on his
39:01way a bright light shines it knocks him
39:05down to his knees a voice says saul saul
39:09why persecute us now me
39:11and he says who are you and he says i am
39:14jesus
39:20he praised him fast three days no food
39:22no water
39:24ananias
39:26the
39:26disciple comes in lays hands on him
39:30he receives his eyesight
39:32he says why are you tearing get your
39:34sins washed away he baptizes him in the
39:37name of the lord jesus
39:40and then we know he got the holy ghost
39:43he said actually
39:45i speak in tongues more than you all.
39:49and so here he is
39:51barnabas searches him out
39:53after three years he goes to tarsus he
39:56comes back to antioch antioch is a
39:58church
40:00full of jews that fled jerusalem because
40:03of the great persecution in jerusalem
40:10and i can see in my mind's eye barnabas
40:12saying
40:16we have a special speaker today
40:23i've talked with him at length
40:27he's a good man
40:30he's repented he's been baptized got the
40:32holy ghost
40:35and he brings saul of tarsus
40:38to the podium
40:43and there's people out there saying
40:46well if you were going to save him why
40:47didn't you save him before he had my
40:49husband killed
40:55why didn't you save him before my boy
40:57was put to death
41:02but that after his intro
41:04to the church of antioch
41:06in my mind that's why the very next
41:10verse says
41:12they were called christians first in
41:14antioch
41:18somewhere you got to know where to lay
41:21down
41:22the ragged edges and say
41:26let god be true and every man liar
41:28if god saved him he saved him
41:31you say there they all lived happily
41:33ever after
41:35until
41:37that same saul now called the apostle
41:39paul
41:39is is is that any ark and here comes
41:42simon peter and simon peter
41:45has been
41:48hanging around
41:49the gentiles having a good time
41:52until here come other believers from
41:53jerusalem straight from james and they
41:56get up and and
41:59disassociate from the gentiles even
42:01barnabas
42:02backs away and he'd want a bunch of them
42:04to god
42:06and so
42:07sweet paul
42:11he rebukes peter to his face in front of
42:14god and everybody hey boy you come down
42:17here and live like the gentiles and then
42:19you want the gentiles to live like the
42:21jews i'm rebuking you you're not walking
42:24uprightly according to the gospel
42:27read it for
42:28yourself
42:30but
42:32peter would later write about his
42:34beloved beloved brother paul
42:38whose writings are sometimes hard to be
42:39understood and which are unstable take
42:42his writings and other scriptures and
42:44twist them up to their own destruction
42:46he could have put ps but when he speaks
42:49he's very clear
42:53and at one point
42:55he takes this is he and barnabas become
42:57the greatest missionary team probably in
43:00all of history
43:02and they go forth and he takes his
43:04nephew with him some say his cousin his
43:07name's john mark and they go to two
43:09cities and john mark says whoa dude i'm
43:11out of here i'm going home
43:16paul says
43:19free kingdom
43:20you want to go
43:23well they do great great great works
43:25they go back to antioch they're there
43:27for a couple years and paul said let's
43:29go back and check out
43:32the churches we started and he said good
43:33i'll get john mark
43:35for what
43:38you go with us why
43:41because he wants to go i mean he's a
43:43good young man
43:45well then why didn't that good young man
43:47stay with us the first time
43:50well i don't know i mean he's a he was
43:52just a kid he just
43:55well i don't care what he was now we
43:56don't have the details
43:58but the bible said the dissension was so
44:01great between them
44:03i mean i could i could see i could see
44:05barnabas saying you know you're being
44:07pretty hard on the boy
44:08he made it hard on himself
44:12well if my memory serves me correct i'm
44:14the one that fetched you out of tarsus
44:16and brought you to this place to begin
44:18with nobody would touch you with a
44:2010-foot pole until
44:22i came and got you
44:26well that might be and to that i say
44:27thank you
44:29maybe you can show the same mercies
44:31towards john mark because he's not going
44:33with me
44:36it's there
44:39and so john mark takes
44:42barnabas takes john mark
44:44and paul takes silas
44:46and they go their ways
44:50i'd say that's a pretty ragged edge
44:53in the kingdom
44:55and i can see
44:57however
44:58barnabas this son of consolation sitting
45:01around a fire
45:06it's okay john we'll take care of you
45:10john's calling
45:15and and they're sitting around the fire
45:17and john's feeling so glum and so sad
45:20barnabas
45:22scoots down on the log next to him puts
45:24his arm around and says boy come on it's
45:26going to be all right
45:30you're going to make it
45:32man
45:34he was really upset i really blew it
45:37and he said no
45:39paul
45:40will probably go down in history as one
45:43of the greatest
45:45christians that have ever lived
45:48you can make it listen to me son
45:51learn from this
45:53don't let it
45:54make you bitter
45:57don't let the ragged edges of the
45:58kingdom throw you out of the kingdom
46:01learn from them
46:03and say god okay i'm gonna i'm gonna
46:05learn what i'm supposed to learn and i'm
46:08going forward and i'm gonna be what god
46:10wants me to be
46:16and then
46:19somewhere
46:20he gets hooked up with simon peter
46:23to the point that simon refers to him in
46:26his gospels as
46:28my son marcus my son
46:31so they're very very close
46:33and some are in the process of it i can
46:36hear him i heard you had a bump with
46:39paul
46:40well it's more like a mack truck hitting
46:43me but yeah it was a bump
46:45yeah i've been hit by that same truck
46:48he hit me at antioch in front of god and
46:50everybody
46:52yeah
46:53but i'm going to tell you something john
46:55listen to me listen to me buddy
46:58paul is a piece of cake compared to
47:00jesus
47:03i remember the day i was just he was
47:04telling us he's going to be crucified
47:06and die a horrible death and i stepped
47:08up and said hey going to happen not as
47:10long as i'm around here
47:13and he looks at me and says get behind
47:15me satan
47:16you're an offense unto me you don't
47:18savor the things of god you're saving
47:21the things of man
47:22and he turned his back on me and all of
47:25the other apostles were like
47:29he said he could have said they all
47:31turned their back on me
47:34said so
47:37don't worry about it i survived
47:40you'll survive then he starts telling
47:42him other stories which is why they say
47:44the gospel of mark
47:47tells us more of simon peter's problems
47:49than any of the other gospels
47:52and it's really simon peter speaking
47:54through john mark
47:58the ragged edges of the kingdom are very
48:01important if we learn from them and we
48:03don't stumble over them
48:05there's something that we've just got to
48:07say god i'm not going to be bitter i
48:09promise you by the grace of god i'm
48:11going to be better i'm going to learn
48:13from this
48:15i'm going to get it
48:17i'm going to get it
48:19and if you think the kingdom is perfect
48:21all you got to do is go to the book of
48:22revelation and read the letters to the
48:25seven churches of asia and only two of
48:29them were not rebuked
48:32five of them and one of the best of the
48:34five
48:36ephesus you've tried them would say
48:37their apostles and are not and i found
48:38them liars
48:40but as much as i admire that
48:43you're allowing yourself to get hardened
48:46you're leaving your first love
48:50and if you don't get it right on pull
48:53your candlestick out
48:59this is why
49:01this is why
49:04that same apostle
49:06told us again and again and again and
49:08again
49:09come on suck it up love one another go
49:12forward be what god wants you to be
49:17i'm closer to being done than what you
49:18think
49:22the kingdom has always had
49:25its ragged edges and i talked this
49:27morning about the garden of eden listen
49:30closely
49:31even the garden of eden
49:33had a serpent
49:37that would whisper
49:40and would lurk
49:41so whenever you find that things are
49:44less than perfection or stellar in the
49:47kingdom of god just be thankful there is
49:50a kingdom of god
49:52just be thankful
49:53[Applause]
49:55just be thankful
49:58[Music]
50:00i remember
50:02hearing a man tell this story
50:05i'm not even sure if he's still alive
50:07but
50:07he's extremely highly noted
50:11preacher
50:13and and and i've preached in the church
50:15that he was pastoring
50:17at that time not when he was there but
50:19later
50:20but he
50:22he told a story about how
50:24one morning and he said
50:26they were early risers but not like six
50:28a.m they would get up start their days
50:30relatively early but not at six and he
50:32said
50:33he said he uh
50:35he was lying on his back
50:38and all of a sudden his eyes came wide
50:40open he wasn't drowsy he was wide
50:43awake
50:45he turned he looked at the clock it was
50:47six a.m
50:49he knew something was up he turned
50:52and looked at his wife she was lying on
50:54her back her eyes wide open
50:56and she turned and looked at him
51:00and he said what's up
51:03she said i just had a dream i just woke
51:05up
51:06and the dream was from god
51:10he said what was the dream
51:13she said the dream
51:15was that we were in this bed
51:18we were seated up
51:21our back's against the backboard you had
51:22full pajamas i had a robe
51:25and our entire church
51:28was in our house
51:30everyone in the church was in our house
51:33but they were every one of them little
51:34children
51:36she said i knew every single one of them
51:39they were little children and they were
51:40doing what little children do they would
51:42laugh and play and run and go and tag
51:45and said but but the children
51:48said it happened
51:50continually a couple would two or three
51:52would come over to your side of the bed
51:54and they'd want to hug and you'd give
51:56them a hug and and two or three would
51:58come over to my side of the bed and i'd
52:00give them a hug and they'd smile and
52:02they'd go and they're playing in some
52:03more and some more
52:05and she said but honey
52:07you know brother so and so
52:10there was a man in the church
52:12he said yes
52:16he didn't come up for a hug
52:19he said i'm not surprised
52:22he was
52:24a trouble
52:26a man of trouble
52:29he said
52:30he'd like go from one mess to the next
52:34be with people said to be with him
52:37he just was contrary
52:39she said honey he was in the far
52:42corner of our bedroom he was in the
52:44corner and he was like this and he was
52:46looking around he wouldn't move the kids
52:48weren't playing with him he just stood
52:50there
52:53said okay
52:55i'm just
52:57she said
52:58baby
53:00he was
53:08she said what do you think that means
53:12he said i don't know what it means to
53:13you
53:17but i know what it means to me
53:20and i will never as long as i live look
53:22at that man the same way again
53:27it's just him
53:30and he's our child
53:33and we love him
53:36and he said he never did look at that
53:38man the same
53:39from that day
53:41he considered
53:43him a different spiritual situation
53:47he would be kind when he felt like
53:48screaming
53:50he would be patient
53:51when
53:52and he said
53:55he always went from one mess to the next
53:58but said from that day forward when i
54:00would
54:01get involved
54:02he always had remorse
54:05like
54:07i'm sorry i let you down pastor
54:12because he saw him differently
54:15and sometimes in this kingdom there's
54:17ragged edges and there's things we have
54:18no idea
54:20about what people have gone through
54:24like a young man that i pastored for
54:26years that he could he could he could
54:28snap he could have anger issues and
54:30struggle
54:33but he loved me and i loved him and in
54:34the course of talking to him one day
54:41i'll never forget this moment as long as
54:42i live
54:45he said you know i was adopted i said
54:47yes
54:50my father was
54:51military we traveled all over the
54:52country
54:54different places of the world yes he was
54:56a high officer told me
54:58yes
55:00he was a disciplinarian's disciplinarian
55:04yes and said
55:07i was i was a boy and i got an attitude
55:10because he got he beat me so much
55:13he said when i got about 12 or 13
55:16and he pulled off his belt
55:18i knew it was just another beating
55:22and he said i remember
55:25the beating
55:27where i couldn't cry
55:29i didn't cry
55:32and because i wasn't crying i wasn't
55:33even tearing up
55:35he beat me some more
55:38and after a while he shook me and said
55:40what's wrong with you
55:41he said dad you can beat me to death
55:43i've shed my last tear i don't have any
55:46tears left i don't know what to tell you
55:47i'm sorry i wish i could cry i can't
55:52so he said he never beat me again
55:59he would just tie me up with clothesline
56:00wire and put me in the
56:02closet for three days at a time
56:14and now i'm his pastor
56:18and now i'm trying to help him and his
56:19wife get along
56:22there's things we just don't know why
56:26some
56:27edges are so ragged
56:31but i think
56:32there's things in life if we really
56:35really knew
56:38such as
56:40the lady that we pastor
56:42love very much
56:45she's went through hades in her years
56:48but
56:50things have happened and
56:53she said i remember when i was a little
56:54girl
56:56she said she had the holy ghost baptized
56:57in jesus name
57:00she said all i can tell you is my mother
57:02had issues
57:04and
57:06i think there's
57:07chemical names involved today if it was
57:10diagnosed there's other terms that could
57:12be used i think the woman might have had
57:13i don't know
57:15but she said i remember when i was seven
57:17years old my mother would make me hang
57:19my dresses up on the hangers not just to
57:22hang them up but i had to i had to weave
57:24a straight pin through each shoulder
57:28between there and the and the wire so
57:30that
57:31the dress was secure
57:34on the hanger
57:37and you couldn't pull it off you had to
57:38remove the pen to get the dress off
57:42and she said one night i was in a hurry
57:43and i just put a pen pen
57:45and every now and then my mind it was
57:47happening to me that night my mother
57:48came through and she went
57:50with the dresses and one that i didn't i
57:53just stuck a pin
57:54and it fell off
57:58she said that was the night
58:01my mother beat me to death
58:06she said when she left the room
58:10and i came to
58:14how i crawled to my bed i don't know but
58:16she said i crawled
58:18how i got on my bed i don't know but i
58:20got there and i laid back on my back
58:25and she said i died brother booker i was
58:27seven years old
58:29i left my body and i saw
58:32my body
58:34i saw the blood the lips
58:37over the eye
58:39the bruises already formed
58:43and said i'm staring at my body and then
58:46i turned and i didn't see the roof of my
58:48house she said it felt like a gentle
58:52vacuum
58:53took me away
58:56and she said i came
58:59into
59:00a garden she said if i can use the word
59:02garden she said
59:06it was beautiful beyond what words can
59:08tell
59:10the beauty
59:12the peace
59:13she said i'm just
59:15it was majestic there was no pain in me
59:19and she turned and she said there was a
59:20girl she was she she looked to be about
59:23eight maybe nine
59:25and
59:26she
59:28there was a bench if you could call it a
59:30bench it was
59:31and she sat down on the bench
59:34and she said
59:37come sit by me nina
59:39and she patted come sit by me
59:41but her lips never moved
59:44and i sat down and i noticed she was
59:47staring around
59:48me
59:50and she was staring
59:52and i wondered what she was looking at
59:54so i i turned
59:56and she said
59:58i saw it brother booker
1:00:03i used the word city
1:00:06because there's no other
1:00:08word in our language that it's even tiny
1:00:12close
1:00:13but it was a city times
1:00:1610 million
1:00:19beyond
1:00:21and the glory
1:00:23and the beauty
1:00:24colors i never knew existed
1:00:29and so
1:00:31peaceful and she said oh
1:00:34i want to stay here and she said that's
1:00:37as far as i got i felt
1:00:41and then
1:00:43i was back in my room
1:00:46and i saw the dead little me
1:00:50and i went back into it
1:00:53and i opened my eyes
1:00:56and she said
1:00:57i didn't know
1:00:59that a human could feel this much pain
1:01:06but she said
1:01:08i never forgot what i saw
1:01:14and i determined
1:01:16as a seven-year-old girl from that
1:01:18moment
1:01:20that's where i'm going
1:01:23it don't matter what happens
1:01:28it doesn't matter what comes
1:01:30or what goes
1:01:32no no no
1:01:36and now she's in her 50s
1:01:39and she's living for god
1:01:42nothing is perfect
1:01:46i love this church this church will
1:01:47spoil you fast
1:01:51but i'm not pastoring it
1:01:55and you find out churches because people
1:01:58are not perfect
1:02:00if you don't believe that check out your
1:02:01family
1:02:04if you don't believe that check out the
1:02:05mirror
1:02:08check out the mirror
1:02:11everybody was so kind that introduction
1:02:13to this morning was so touching i think
1:02:14of jt pew he was preached one of his
1:02:17first camp meetings and it was going he
1:02:18people getting the holy ghost left and
1:02:20right he said people were bragging on
1:02:21him and he was just he said it was ooh
1:02:23he said he was this and he said i was
1:02:24walking across the campground he said i
1:02:27was rather enjoying myself and he said
1:02:30the lord spoke to me and said what if
1:02:32they knew you like i do
1:02:39he said he never looked
1:02:41at another introduction the same
1:02:44after that
1:02:46amen i'm almost done
1:02:51if you ever get a chance
1:02:54and you're on vacation
1:02:56go to kentucky i don't remember where
1:02:58it's at
1:02:59but it's noah's ark go to kentucky and
1:03:01say i want to see noah's ark everybody
1:03:02will tell you how to get there
1:03:04it's a replicated nose arc i actually
1:03:07myself think it's a little shorter than
1:03:09the original but who knows
1:03:12be that as it may
1:03:14there ain't nothing to make you think
1:03:15like that
1:03:17huge boat
1:03:19makes you think
1:03:22and as big as it was and laid out as it
1:03:25was
1:03:27and there was one window at the top
1:03:32do you think that boat ever started to
1:03:33stink
1:03:39and
1:03:40and somebody had to know how to use
1:03:42shovels
1:03:44and and we know that when they got off
1:03:46the ark
1:03:47and it was long enough time to plant a
1:03:49vineyard and there's long enough time
1:03:50for it to grow and there's long enough
1:03:51time for it to produce there's long
1:03:52enough time for it to make wine
1:03:55that ham
1:03:57was apparently looking for problems with
1:03:59his father
1:04:02and he had an attitude
1:04:04and was thus cursed for it
1:04:07makes me wonder if he had an attitude
1:04:09off the ark did he have an attitude
1:04:11while he was on the ark
1:04:14do you suppose the smell bothered him
1:04:18do you suppose amen
1:04:20the chores bothered him do you suppose
1:04:23he got bored on the ark
1:04:26amen when coveted hit in 2020
1:04:29and streets were clear and homes were
1:04:32full and all that stuff people were
1:04:33going crazy can you imagine being on a
1:04:36boat for a year
1:04:39one window at the top
1:04:41and i know that but anyway
1:04:43i just wonder if one day i wonder
1:04:47if noah said boy we're gonna have a
1:04:49little talk come with me
1:04:50that i i said come with me
1:04:57and they go up the ladders and they go
1:04:58from one floor to the next floor to the
1:05:00next one they go they go up to the top
1:05:01and he lifts the lid and he takes him
1:05:03out
1:05:04and he looks over the edge he said take
1:05:05a look boy
1:05:08you see them bloated bodies
1:05:10[Music]
1:05:13you see those sharks swimming
1:05:17i'm here to tell you yes it gets stinky
1:05:20in there but the stinks better than the
1:05:23storm
1:05:26i'd rather be in the church on its worst
1:05:29day
1:05:30than in this world on its best day
1:05:36it's got ragged edges but i ain't going
1:05:39nowhere
1:05:46musicians come
1:05:50there are you can be seated for just a
1:05:52moment there are less than stellar
1:05:54situations
1:05:56there's problems and trials and traumas
1:05:59and there will be listen to me
1:06:01even during the millennial reign
1:06:06in the millennial reign there will be
1:06:07nations that will not come up and do
1:06:09homage to jesus
1:06:13so they don't get no rain that year
1:06:16in the millennial reign there will be
1:06:18sinners
1:06:20they'll live to be 100 years old and not
1:06:21live for god and they will die but
1:06:23they'll be sinners
1:06:24he'll rule and reign from jerusalem
1:06:26we'll rule and reign with him
1:06:28and there will be people the devils
1:06:31bound
1:06:32the earth brings forth its increase
1:06:34it's the most perfect government the
1:06:36world has ever known
1:06:38and there will be still be people not
1:06:40living for god
1:06:41but there will be people that will
1:06:45so even in the millennium
1:06:48there'll be ragged edges
1:06:50but i want to be there to rule and reign
1:06:52with him
1:06:56i want to be part of it
1:07:00amen
1:07:03now let's stand
1:07:05in the kingdom
1:07:07thank god there's help
1:07:10in the kingdom thank god there's hope
1:07:12in the kingdom thank god you can find
1:07:14peace
1:07:15in the kingdom there's love and there's
1:07:17goodness and there's mercy
1:07:19in the kingdom
1:07:21the church is not perfection but it's
1:07:23the best hospital on earth
1:07:34so what do you do when you're living in
1:07:36a kingdom that's got ragged edges
1:07:38listen to me closely you get a needle
1:07:42and thread and you keep it on you at all
1:07:44times and you do your best not to make
1:07:47problems but to make it better
1:07:50to make it better
1:07:52i'm gonna i'm gonna show this up best i
1:07:55can i'm going to help best i can
1:07:57[Applause]
1:08:00and i'm going to tell you something i
1:08:02believe this about his son
1:08:03[Music]
1:08:06i watched brother copeland
1:08:09last many years
1:08:13i was able to say this about another man
1:08:15whenever i meet a man like this i'm so
1:08:17thankful
1:08:20he walked around with needle and thread
1:08:24[Music]
1:08:26and those of you that were here you know
1:08:30he walked around with needle and thread
1:08:34he's sewn up
1:08:36he's sewn things up
1:08:39there's times when other preachers would
1:08:40have took people's heads off
1:08:44[Music]
1:08:48that's what you do in the kingdom with
1:08:50his ragged edges he said i'm not going
1:08:52to be part of the problem
1:08:54i'm going to be part of the
1:08:55solution
1:08:57i'm going to stitch where i can
1:09:00i'm going to pray all i can
1:09:02i'm going to love i'm going to care
1:09:04i'm going to do my best
1:09:08to make it better
1:09:10hallelujah
1:09:11i'm just glad he let me be in the
1:09:13kingdom
1:09:15[Music]
1:09:16i'm just glad
1:09:18i've got brothers and sisters in the
1:09:20kingdom
1:09:21[Music]
1:09:23i'm glad i've got friends
1:09:26mothers in israel that are real and love
1:09:29and care and watch out for them
1:09:33[Applause]
1:09:34that care
1:09:36people with wisdom and grace
1:09:38and nobody's perfect
1:09:40[Music]
1:09:41[Applause]
1:09:42but one of these days
1:09:46a trumpet is going to sound
1:09:49and as for you and i
1:09:51the millennial will have its problems
1:09:53but we won't be part of that problem
1:09:56this this corruption will put on
1:09:58incorruption
1:10:00this mortality will put on immortality
1:10:03our souls have been redeemed our spirits
1:10:05have been redeemed but we ourselves
1:10:08grown within ourselves waiting amen for
1:10:10the adoption to which the redemption of
1:10:13our bodies
1:10:15no more trial no more tears
1:10:18amen no more weakness no more no more
1:10:22we will be changed
1:10:24and we'll be like him
1:10:28so till then
1:10:30till then
1:10:33until then
1:10:35you just hang in there baby
1:10:36[Music]
1:10:39pastor
1:10:41i want to be a blessing
1:10:44i don't want to be a burden
1:10:47if if if and when and where i need it
1:10:50talk to me
1:10:51don't be shy come to me
1:10:53i know you do it with love because you
1:10:55love me
1:10:59and we need to have ears to hear
1:11:01and say god
1:11:03i'm going to do everything i can
1:11:05to help build this new church
1:11:07to help support the building of that new
1:11:09church
1:11:10and to make this that one it is already
1:11:13but to make this one of the greatest one
1:11:16god jesus name apostolic churches
1:11:19in the kingdom
1:11:23that we continue
1:11:24to start churches that we continue to
1:11:27send out missionaries that we continue
1:11:30it just gets bigger and better and more
1:11:33powerful because we're part of the
1:11:35kingdom
1:11:39and so if anybody's here that's thankful
1:11:42that god would take the likes of us
1:11:46put us in the kingdom
1:11:48maybe you want to come down and lift
1:11:51your hands and say thank you
1:11:53thank you if you're here tonight and
1:11:55you're not a part of the kingdom and
1:11:57you're just in full you're in a world
1:11:59full of trouble and chaos and trauma and
1:12:02tears and it doesn't look like there's a
1:12:04way out i'm telling you there's a way
1:12:06out tonight there's a kingdom there's a
1:12:09garden no we're not perfect but jesus is
1:12:14he'll be a friend that sticks closer
1:12:16than a brother
1:12:20come on young man come on young lady
1:12:22that's it god loves you
1:12:24come on mama come on daddy god loves you
1:12:28[Applause]
1:12:30he's here to help us
1:12:36need me
1:12:46[Music]
1:12:55the next day john saw jesus coming
1:12:58toward him and said
1:13:00behold the lamb of god
1:13:03who takes away the sins of the world
1:13:07[Music]
1:13:26[Music]
1:13:33[Applause]
1:13:37[Music]
1:13:41thank you
1:13:46[Music]
1:14:04baptism then what
1:14:07baptism is a burial in water for
1:14:10accountable beings into the remission of
1:14:12sins for salvation to get into christ to
1:14:15become a new creature to get into the
1:14:18one body
1:14:19then
1:14:20walk in the new life
1:14:22study and grow
1:14:23become a servant of righteousness
1:14:26keep self pure be an example
1:14:29have faith in god
1:14:31follow jesus
1:14:33put first things first
1:14:35resist temptation
1:14:37be faithful
1:14:38and be fruitful
1:14:41[Music]

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