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Speaker 1Morning everybody. How are you? We're here. Good morning. And it's beautiful sunshiny day outside, so nice.
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We had a lot of those this week. Would you stand with me and we're going to start off the song service with I love to tell the story. I want you to be thinking about thinking about hymns that you love, hymns that you love and really really care for, like things that you hang your hat on in hard times, in good times, in joyous times, and by the way, happy Mother's Day. Glad that y'all are here this morning. If you will, sing out loud with me.
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We're going to start off with I love to tell the story.
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Speaker 2I love to tell the story of unseen things above of Jesus and his glory of Jesus and his love I love to tell the story because I know it is true it satisfies my longings as nothing else can do I love to tell the story it will be my theme and glory to tell the old old story of Jesus and his love I love to tell the story more wonderful it seems than all the golden fancies of all our golden dreams I love to tell the story it did so much for me and that is just the reason I tell it now to thee I love to tell the story will be my theme in glory to tell the old old story of Jesus and his love excuse me, sorry. Love to tell the story 'tis pleasant to repeat what seems each time I tell it more sweet I love to tell the story for some have never message of salvation from God's own holy word I love to tell the story will be my theme in glory to tell the old old story of Jesus and his love I love to tell the story for those who know it best seem hungering and thirsting to hear it like the rest and when in scenes of glory a new new song 'twelve be the old old story that I have loved so long I love to tell the story twill be my theme and glory to tell the old old story of Jesus and his
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Speaker 1love Amen. Amen. We're going to sing day by day. Do you know, do you know this one? Some of the songs that we sing here regularly on a regular basis when Judy is playing the piano, I have never heard before I got here and some of em I know very, very, very well.
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I'm asking you, think about him. Be thinking about it while we're singing these hymns because I'm going to ask you about it later in the service, alright? Day by day, think about the words to this one as you're singing it.
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Speaker 2Day by day and with each passing moment strings I find to meet my trials here trusting in my father's wise bestowment I've no cause for worry or for fear he whose heart is one beyond all measure gives unto each day what he deems best lovingly it's part of pain and pleasure mingling toil with peace and rest everyday the Lord himself is near me with a special mercy for each hour all my cares he fain would bear and cheer me he whose name is counselor and power the protection of his child and treasure is a charge that on himself he lay as your days your strength shall be in measure this the help me then in every tribulation so to trust your promises oh Lord that I lose not faith sweet consolation offered me within your holy word help me lord when toil and trouble meeting heir to take as from a father's hand one by one the days the moments fleeting till I reach the promise plan
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Speaker 1Amen. Y'all can have a seat. You sound good this morning too. That's really nice to hear it coming back this way and not just going out that way. Monday nights at first B are happening tomorrow night, Monday night, 06:00.
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Starts down the hall over in the fellowship hall. Carl is preaching through Luke kinda section by section, and that should be good. Meal, music, and a message tomorrow night. By the way, if y'all ever think, you know what? I'd like to make a meal for that Monday night crowd.
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We have a sign up sheet on the wall down there, and that's always available a few weeks out. If you think our small group could do that, and it would just be a good thing, you can do that. So we like to kinda keep it in house as it were. But if you want to do that, you're welcome to. Monday nights at first B, 06:00.
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We do a potluck once a month, but most of the time we have a family or a small group or a person come in and set things up for us. So Monday nights, first B. Awana is happening tomorrow night, but this is the last one before the summer starts. Can you believe it? Last one before summer.
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So that's happening tomorrow night in this room. That's what the big game circle is down on the floor. Awana is a kids club we have here every Monday night at 06:00. Kids matter to God and so it's a time where lots of volunteers pour scripture into the minds to get it to the hearts of the kids and since this is the last one, we'll have a big party next week after the 11:00 service. There will be a big Awana Grand Prix race track set up right down the center aisle here, and we'll have a pinewood derby as the close of the Awana season.
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That's happening next week. Youth group is happening Tuesday night. Weather permitting, they'll probably be outside, but they'll start off in the building. 06:30 to eight is youth group right here, middle school and high school. My Sister's Closet.
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This is happening next weekend. So Friday evening is when to drop off clothes that you no longer want, mildly used. Yes, ma'am. Okay. Okay, down there.
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Okay. Okay. So Casey McCooey has had, and you can be praying for her, she had some knee surgery a while back and she's had complications and pneumonia. She's the one who usually heads this up, and she's insisting that she is going to do it this time too. So it's happening, but the drop offs, you could start about Wednesday bringing stuff in, and then Saturday from ten to twelve is the shopping time.
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And $10 donation, you come in and treat it like your sister's closet. Just take whatever else that's in there that you want. I think that's the idea. The Bar J Chuckwagon is hosting a a lot of folks for supper every night all summer long, y'all know that. But the beginning of the summer, they do one of their shows on the Tuesday after Memorial Day.
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That's the twenty ninth this year, Tuesday the twenty ninth. Gates will be open at 05:30 with dinner at seven auctions and all kinds of different ways to participate and help raise funds for the Turning Point Pregnancy Resource Center. And I'll just go ahead and say, they could use your help. This year is going to be tough. So if you are already a supporter and you think, you know, should I do more?
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This would be a good time to do more. RJ Chuckwagon, you all know the show, most of you do. That'll be $25 for adults, dollars 12 for age 12 and under, and you have tickets for that, don't you Diane? All right. Rolling River Rampage is our Vacation Bible School.
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That'll happen. It's a three day extravaganza this year, twenty fifth, twenty sixth, twenty seventh from 9AM to noon. You can sign up on our web page, the church website, firstbjackson.org, or you can speak to Liz Owings and she will be glad to hear from you. If you want to volunteer, you're welcome to volunteer. You want to sign up a child, the easiest way is through the website, but we can walk you through that.
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If you need help, call the church. And I think that's it. Does anybody have something that I forgot? I will I will say this. Yesterday, we had a all church cleanup.
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I mentioned it nine times last week probably but we had some folks show up yesterday from nine to twelve and they just went through this place as my mama would say like a white tornado. They just went through here and cleaned up a whole bunch of the things that are kinda yearly things. So if you notice that it's kinda spick and span even more so than usual, it's because a whole lot of people came together and made it happen, I wanted to say thank you about that. And anything else, you have a paper bulletin. If you didn't get one on the way in, you can get one on the way out, and you'll have it all written down in front of you to help you remember.
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Anything else? Would you all stand up? My brother says that during this time we should play the music like that is circus music. He hates this portion of the I apologize if you hate it. But would you all greet one another?
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Take care of this. Extend the right hand of Christian fellowship. We'll bring you back together with a song.
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Speaker 2Okay. I will sing of my redeemer and his wondrous love to me on the cruel cross he suffered from the curse to set me free sing or sing of my redeemer with his blood he purchased me on the cross he sealed my pardon made me free I will tell wondrous story how my lost estate to save in his boundless love and mercy he the ransom freely gave sing or sing of my redeemer with his blood he purchased me on the cross he sealed my pardon paid the dead and made me free I will praise my dear redeemer his triumphant power I'll tell I hold the victory he giveth over sin and death and hell sing or sing of my redeemer with his blood he purchased me on the cross he sealed my pardon paid the debt and made me free I will sing of my redeemer and his heavenly love for me he he from death to life hath brought me son of God with him to be sing oh sing my redeemer with his blood he purchased me he purchased me on the cross he sealed my pardon pay he the death and made me free
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Speaker 1Amen. Thought I'd try that without Scott and it just didn't go so well. I can see all of the words. Y'all can only see those words. Alright.
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Near the cross. Oh, what a beautiful hymn this is. Near the cross. Amen. He's savoring every moment.
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The sermon's coming.
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Speaker 2Jesus keep me near the cross there are precious fountain free to all healing stream flows from Calvary's Mountain in the cross in the cross be my the cross a trembling soul love and mercy the bright and morning star sheds its beams around me in the cross in the cross be my glory till my raptured soul shall find rest beyond the cross oh lamb of God bring its saints me walk from day to day with its shadows on the cross in the cross be my glory till my raptured soul shall find rest beyond the river on the last. One more verse. Near the cross I watch and wait oh, being trusting ever till I reach the golden strand just beyond
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Speaker 1Amen. Y'all can have a seat. Now, I'm going invite the frontline team to come forward. Thank you for doing that. Would you pray with me?
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God, thank you for what a beautiful lord week this was. I saw sunshine and hope and I saw a rain that nourishes and the grass turning so green so fast. God, you're amazing. Heavens declare the glory of God and earth speaks it forth. It's just screaming lord about you, the creator, creation is singing your praises and we want to do the same lord.
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I pray that you would spread your good gospel through your obedient people that you would, lord, through these redeemed ones, redeem others, that you would work through the message, the word of their testimony, and the blood of the lamb. I pray God that you would overcome every obstacle and you say that you will, that the gates of hell cannot stand against it. For this mighty moving force, lord, the love of God. Would you spread it to the ends of the earth through your obedient people? Right now, we will give lord resources.
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We know that you've entrusted those resources with to us and we want to be faithful stewards with them. Would you take this, lord? And do with it as you will on earth as it is in heaven. Would you spread your good gospel? In Jesus name, would you bless these gifts?
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Multiply them and the giver. Lord, would you bless them too? Jesus name. Lorraine, is that song a song? Is there other words to that song?
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A heavenly choir is calling us as humans to come to God. Yes. Yeah. And receive the his eternal life. I started to say that is a it's got darkness in there.
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I've heard you play that multiple times and and I love it. It sounds like there's it's difficult on earth here. It's difficult. There are times that are trying, but there's victory in Christ. You can hear every bit of that.
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That's cool. That's really good. And music has a way of doing that. So I've asked you to think about hymns. I've been asking you to think about it because I'm gonna ask you in a minute to start telling me some lines for some hymns, okay, that you hold on to.
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We're talking about first Timothy three fourteen through 16. That's only three verses. You know that. Three verses, a song, and a prayer. Now, I say three verses.
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There are three verses, fourteen, fifteen, 16. At the end of verse 16, it's Paul is quoting from a song. Everybody that studied this agrees that it is a hymn from around that time period about Christ. It's a very high Christology or a Christ centered hymn. And then we'll have a prayer.
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We'll close after that but three verses of song and a prayer. I'm going to let you add to that. I want for you to be thinking about songs because I want for you to tell me, what are the songs that you hold on to? Alright? We've been talking in first Timothy three, one through seven, then eight through 13.
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First of all, it was the attributes or qualifications of an elder, an overseer, and that they should be these type of people. And then qualifications for deacon, women, wives, is the next section eight through 13, and it is the they should be these type of people. Attributes, you could say qualifications. When you are choosing overseers, leaders for the church, and when you are choosing deacons, servants of the church, official capacity of office, then they should be this way. Now, it gives attributes, but it does not give skills necessarily.
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It's not saying they should be necessarily a great business person or must be a certain way. Except for teaching, it does say they should be able to teach or apt to teach. But most of them are about characteristics of the person. And so he's been doing this and been saying it, and it sounds like do this, don't do that. Live this way, not that way.
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That's good. I'm fond of saying Christianity is not a list of do's and don'ts. Now Paul does have several lists of do's and don'ts. When you're choosing your leaders, they should be people that fit this category and not these categories but then, he turns really personal back to it. All of a sudden, it's a switch back and he goes, I hope to come to you soon.
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It's a personal letter. It reminds us, oh yeah, this is a personal letter. Now, a lot of places we build our ecclesiology, the church on the doctrine. Well, this is not terribly doctrinal passage. Now, it will be.
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The next chapter will be but he's changing the channel. Right now, he's going from something that is a personal letter and some instructions about how Timothy should be doing things. Right here, it reminds us. This is Paul talking to Timothy. I hope to come to you soon.
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I hope to come to you soon, Timothy. I hope to see you before long but I am writing these things down to you so that if I delay, you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God. It's talking about how one ought to behave. Yeah, behavior. He's been talking about behavior, and so he's pointing back and saying, I hope to get there soon, and I could say all this stuff in person and be sure and I could even help you pick the leaders by who fits the bill.
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But if I delay, I want you to
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Speaker 2know it. I want you
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Speaker 1have it written down so you can remember it. You know this stuff too, Timothy, right? So, that you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God. The household of God, he has an appositive right after this. It's which is the church of the living God.
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So, Christ said, I will build my church. I'll call people out from every tribe, tongue, and nation. I'll bring them into this new thing called the church. The church triumphant. All believers, all of the redeemed, all ages, past, present, future.
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I will build this church. The gates of hell won't stand against it. I am writing to you so that you may know how one ought to behave in the household of God which is the church of the living God. It is a pillar, a pillar, and buttress of the truth. Now, it is not the, doesn't say the pillar.
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It's not just because we are a club and this is all there is and whatever we say goes goes. It is a pillar and a buttress for the truth. Now, the truth being God's word. What God says will stand will stand. Not a jot nor a tittle will ever pass from the word of God and that is the truth but we as the household of God or the church of the living God are a pillar and a buttress to that truth.
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We hold up the truth. We hold it up and to the extent that we're true to the truth, we make an appeal to all of those who don't know God to know God, to come the only way that the scriptures point to. So, you've got the church and you've got God's word and you've got God's spirit that's very active and drawing people to God. A pillar and buttress of the truth.
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Speaker 2So, you can look
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Speaker 1at those things, those attributes or those lists or the way of living that he has described and think, well, I don't have to do that. Well, you don't. But if you don't live that way, then you're not being a pillar or a buttress of the truth. Does that make sense? If you tell somebody, Jesus love you, Jesus love you, Jesus love you, and cut them off in traffic.
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What have you said? What I believe is not true. Because if Jesus loves you and I'm seeking to be like Jesus, I'm going to act like Jesus. All of our behavior is grounded in who our savior is. Does that make sense?
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Or all of our behavior should be. If we're yielded to the spirit, it should be. So, this passage is about who we are. We are, I mean, just to think that Antioch was the first place that they call Christians Christians. Little Christ.
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We are seeking to be like Christ, the church of the living. God is seeking to be. This is who we are. I read this many commentaries this week. There are stack of em about like this.
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I I do every week. I try to stay do the homework, you know. And I read every one of these things has passages. And usually they have a pretty tight little pattern. It means this from here to here, you know.
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This week, it was wider than usual. These three verses for some reason, people get bogged down in details and go weird places, I think. It happens, you know? I see a brother nodding nodding his head like, yeah, it does happen. I think it's about who we are.
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Next, we will talk about this is what we do when we come up against heresy, when we come up against lies, when we come up against people who just reject sound doctrine and doctrine does matter but this is who we are and this is how we should behave. And then he goes right to this, great indeed, we confess, is the mystery of godliness. Now mystery does open it up. I shared mystery musterion last week that it is something that can be known, but it takes familiarity with the plot. Takes familiarity with the story to come up to the place of the revealing of the the mystery.
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So great indeed, we confess and we all know we confess it together is the mystery of godliness. When he says that, do you feel like you know it all? No. Do you understand trinity? No.
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Do you do you have a little succinct paragraph you'd like to stand up and talk about the problem of evil? No. We don't have it all figured out and so Paul's acknowledging that to Timothy, great indeed we confess is the mystery of godliness and then he goes immediately into a song. This is a hymn, first century hymn within thirty something years, thirty years after the resurrection of Christ, Paul sings this little ditty to Timothy. He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, and taken up in glory.
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Amen. I say amen because I agree with it. I I don't know structurally because Paul is quoting someone else right here. And so structurally, you know, I might pick this thing apart. But verb wise and grammar wise, this thing's all over the map.
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Have you ever noticed in songs how the grammar in songs is just terrible? Most songs. They they it's just terrible. It's all over the place but it makes its point and it drives its point home. Sometimes with the music, sometimes with the lyrics, sometimes with repeating, refrains.
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A refrain of a song is something you sing over and over, right? This is probably a refrain from a song. We don't know how much of the song we have. It might have been the seven eleven style where you got seven words that you say 11 times a piece. It might have been a longer song.
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We don't know. But that's what we have. He was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the spirit, seen by angels, proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world, taken up in glory. So the commentaries go all over the map as to where this goes from here. The ESV, that's the version.
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The chronological folks say, well, that makes perfect sense. He was manifested in flesh. He was born. Remember that? In a stable in Jerusalem, laid in a manger.
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He was vindicated by the spirit. He's justified by the spirit or in the spirit. It's actually probably a better translation. Vindicated in the spirit, meaning, he yielded his life in the spirit. He yielded his life to the spirit.
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He did not bow to the flesh. He had ample opportunity. He was tested and tried in every way that we're tested and tried yet he was without sin. So, was vindicated or justified by living a life that was in line with the Holy Spirit of God. There are some people that argue that shouldn't be spirit.
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It's just, I mean, Holy Spirit, it can just be spirit. That's fine. If they argue that, he was still vindicated by his spirit. Seen by angels. Well, if he's manifested in the flesh as a baby, all his lifelong vindicated by the spirit, seen by angels.
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Proclaimed among the nations, believed on in the world. Some people say the scene by angels is at the resurrection, right? At the resurrection, the angels are there present. Proclaimed among the nations is resurrection, believed on in the world, and taken up in glory. Amen.
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That's good. Chronological kind of works. There are other people that say, well, it's alternating these two themes of earthly and heavenly and I see this one too. I can see the chronological. I can see the earthly or heavenly.
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He was manifested in the flesh just like you're in the flesh right now. In the flesh, really. He's vindicated in the spirit though. Something that's not seen, it's spirit. He was seen by angels, heavenly angels but he was proclaimed in the real world.
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The preaching of the gospel, the proclamation of Christ and he was believed on in the world and he was taken up in glory, heavenly, unseen. So, seen and unseen, earthly, heavenly. Do you see that one too? You can see that arrangement. Emphatic.
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Oh, this one emphasizes the verbs. So the way that Greek works, the way the grammar works, I'm not gonna hit you with lots of terms today, but the way that it works, this screams out the verbs are in an emphatic position. So it is manifested, vindicated, seen, proclaimed, believed on, and taken up. It's like that. And that's a beautiful just to remember that much of this would be great.
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That's our savior. Manifested, vindicated, seen, proclaimed, believed on, and taken up in glory. Seated at the right hand of the father. Right. Chiastic.
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Oh yeah. No Greek scholar or Hebrew scholar for that matter would be happy. If we didn't find a chiastic construction in here somewhere. So, this sees he was manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the spirit, seen by angels, and it kind of takes a bit of work on this one because angel, Angalos, the word in Greek means angel like we think of angels but it also means messenger. Anyone who carries a message isn't an Angalos, an angel.
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So, a divine message especially. So, seen by messengers and proclaimed by those messengers among the nations believed on in the world and taken up in glory. That's a good way of looking at it too, I think. So, I see what all their point is but when it comes down to it, it is a Christ centered song. That's it.
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It's a Christ centered song. So, now, I'm going to give you the opportunity to share a Christ centered song or something that you just hang on to. I'll back up to that right there. Anybody? What a friend we have in Jesus.
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All our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege to carry everything to him in prayer. Anybody else? Holy, holy, holy. Santo, Santo, Santo in Spanish.
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I've sung it so many times, so many times. Holy, holy, holy. Lord God almighty. God in three persons. Bless the trinity.
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Yes, ma'am. I'm just a passing through. Amen. Hymn number three eleven in the church I grew up in. Yep.
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Great is thy faithfulness. Wow. Sun, moon, and stars in their courses above. Join with all nature and manifold witness to thy great mercy, faithfulness, mercy, and love. Yeah.
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Thou changes not thy compassions they fail not. As thou hast been, thou ever wilt be. Yes, sir. Wonderful the matchless grace of Jesus. For then the mighty rolling sea.
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Yeah, that's such a beautiful song and so true, so good, so Christ centered, so edifying, and and when you are going through it, when you pass
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Speaker 2through the waters, I will be with you. Isaiah four. And the waves, they will not overcome you. Do not fear. For I have redeemed you.
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I have called you by name.
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Speaker 1You are mine. Amen. So good. Anybody else? Dave, I know you got one.
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Blessed assurance. Jesus is mine. Oh, what a foretaste of glory divine. It is well with my soul. That's a good one no matter what's going on.
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There was a lady here in the first service who lost her son several years ago and I, she couldn't say it and I couldn't say it during that service but you give and take away. You give and take away. Yeah. Yeah. Profound.
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Because he lives, I can face tomorrow. Amen. Ma'am. Ein Feisterberg. Yes.
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A mighty fortress is our God. A bulwark never failing. Our helper, he amidst the flood of mortal ills prevailing. Yeah, so good. He lives, he lives, Christ Jesus lives today.
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He walks with me and talks with me. That reminds me of my mother's favorite song. This in the first service, I said I didn't have a Mother's Day song and then it turned into, I mean, a Mother's Day sermon, really, but I did because my mama taught me almost all of these songs and her favorite song was her mother's favorite song and it
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Speaker 2was in the garden. I come to the garden alone while the dew is still on the roses and the voice I hear falling on my ear the son of God is closes and he walks with me and he talks with me and he tells me I am his own and the joy we share as we tarry there none other ever
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Speaker 1Now, think of my grandmother. Just singing that. It's linked together like that. I think these songs all day long. Oh for grace, my grandmother's name is Grace.
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The end of the song,
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Speaker 2it says, oh for grace.
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Speaker 1Do you love him more? Amen. He touched me. Shackled by a heavy burden. Meet the load of guilt and shame.
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Then the hand of Jesus touched me and now I am no longer the same. He touched me. What's that? His eyes on the sparrow and I know he watches me. Yep.
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I'll fly away. Amen. We sang a lot of songs about heaven in the church I grew up in. Yeah. Some glad morning when this life is over.
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I'll fly away. Amen. Like a bird from prison bars has flown. Yeah. So good.
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Amazing grace. Amen. The fact that there is such a thing as grace is amazing. When we don't get that which we do deserve, the punishment that we do deserve. Amazing grace, how sweet the sound that saved a wretch like me.
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That is a high Christology. It it lifts up Christ. It recognizes our human frailty. It recognizes our weakness and our need. He was manifested in the flesh.
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Who we are depends on who he is. Does that make sense? If you are a Christian, who you are depends on who he is. That's where you find your identity. That is where your behavior will be driven by what you truly believe.
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Anybody else have another? What's your mama's favorite song? How about that? In the garden was my, a lot of mama's like that. New life in Christ.
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I don't know that one. Leaning on the everlasting arms. Fantastic. To God be the glory. Great things he had done.
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So loved the world that he gave us his son. Holy faith. Yeah, exactly. God of our father. Victory in Jesus.
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Yep. Know who holds my hand. Amen. What's that? Jesus paid it all, exactly.
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See, we can do this because they're in there. They're in there. Go ahead. How great thou art. Yes.
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How great thou art. That one around here, especially even during the prayer today, I thought about how beautiful this place is and immediately it takes us upward. You know, how great when lofty mountain grandeur. Yeah. Jesus loves even me.
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Amen. Amen. Jesus loves me. From the cradle, we've been hearing these songs and they're true and we should use em. Now, I will go back one more slide I think.
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I have quoted lyrics from the following musicians or groups since I've been here. I had the audacity four or five four years ago, think it was, to, on Mother's Day, actually use a Lynyrd Skynyrd song. Say it because I was closing the book of James and I said, James has been giving us all this good advice, motherly type advice. And then I sang the song Simple Man by Leonard S. Kennard.
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I cannot believe it. Still can't believe I did it. I listened to it, the audio of it yesterday. I've quoted Led Zeppelin, Rush, Pink Floyd, the Eagles Fleetwood, Mac Bob Dylan, band, Beatles, George Harrison, Stevie Ray Vaughan. I did not always tell you who I was quoting, but neither does Paul.
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Paul quotes this. He quotes pagan philosophers several times. Actually one time in Acts 17. I didn't just stick with rock and roll and boogie woogie there, but it went on to George Strait, Roy Rogers, Allen Jackson, Merle Haggard, Merle Haggard. Mama tried to raise me right but I refused.
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Turned 21 in prison by the way. Anyway, Don Don Williams, Waylon Jennings, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Chris Christopherson. I have sung and backed up Doyle for singing, why me, lord? Right? Why me, lord?
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What have I ever done? To deserve even one of these blessings that you give. Hank Williams Senior Junior, Blyde Willie McTell. I didn't mention that one when I quoted Old Blue song. BB King, Huddy Ledbetter, Woody Guthrie, T Bone Burnett, Carole King, James Taylor, James Brown.
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I feel good. I really do. I love it. Dave Mason. Dave Mason comes up a lot.
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It comes up more in the counseling room because that's the guy that's saying,
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Speaker 2there ain't no good guys, there ain't no bad guys, there's only you and
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Speaker 1me and we just disagree. Comes up in marriage counseling a lot. So Peaches and Herb though has reunited and it feels so good. So that one, hopefully, George Clinton, the Reverend Al Green. I love Al Green.
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Ira Sankey, Fanny Crosby, Charles Wesley, John Wesley, Martin Luther, one of the one of the ones, the mighty fortress is our God. John Wesley, Mosley Lister, the Gaither Vocal Band. He touched me. Patsy Cline, the Allman Brothers, the Doobie Brothers. I think of the Doobie Brothers quite a bit if Jesus is just alright.
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If Jesus is just alright, keep on coming. Dig deeper. If he's just alright because he's great. He's amazing. He's wonderful and he needs to be lifted up.
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I mean, yeah, he is he's your friend. Jesus, he's my friend. It's that's fine but keep on going. I also quoted magic in the first service. It was a pop song.
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It didn't go so well. I'm saying that songs stick with us and people, you, they can be kind of with you and then you say, like this song and they go, yeah, exactly. So, Paul points to this, Jesus Christ was manifested in the flesh. He lived in the flesh. He was tempted in all the ways just as we're tempted.
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Yet, he was without sin. He was vindicated by the spirit or in the spirit. Seen by angels, both heavenly angels and messengers on earth. His disciples became those sent out ones that carried his message and we are here today because they were following after their savior. He was proclaimed, preached among the nations, all the nations.
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To think about for a Jewish guy to be writing this or to be reading this or be singing this, for him to think, angels, heavenly beings, oh, how exalted in the very next phrase to be proclaimed among the Gentiles. That's what nations is, Gentile. The dogs, the lowest of the low, from angels to Gentiles and he was believed on in this world, in this life. There's a time and there is a time coming that there will be a judgment and we have time right here, right now in this reality. About what's going to be for us.
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Whether we will be taken up in glory or left behind. He's manifested in the flesh, vindicated by the spirit, seen by angels proclaimed among the nation, believed on in the world. Do you have another one? If you were sitting back there and just wishing you could but somebody spoke over you, please share. No one ever cared for me like Jesus.
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Amen. Amen. Anybody else? Oh, we sang a version of the Psalm 23 this morning that reminded me of how reverent and beautiful the Lord's prayer is. Yeah.
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Just wonderful. Anybody else? Yes, sir. Glorious things of they are spoken. Fantastic.
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I don't know that one But it's it's beautiful. Yeah. I mean, I do know the title of it, but I've skipped over that one. It sounds majestic. Glorious things of thee are spoken.
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Amen. Anybody else? Alright. So we're gonna sing another one. And this one is something that if we just sing it like I were just singing it, we're not paying attention to it.
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It's easy to just do that sometimes. I wanted you to, I wanted to stop today and say, what are the things you hang on to? Where he leads me, I will follow. Think about what that means. I mean, we're leaving right now.
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This is the last thing in this service, right? I know it's ten to twelve but we're leaving. This is the next thing that's going to happen and you're singing before you go out affirming it. Great is the mystery. We confess it all together that where he leads me, I will follow.
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So, let's do that. When we go this week, we want to be in touch with and in contact with the spirit of God and be yielded to it. When he says, speak, we speak. When he says, be quiet, be quiet, alright? Where he leads me, I will follow.
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Would you stand with me? We're going to send him number 593.
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Speaker 2I can hear my savior calling I can hear my savior calling I can hear my savior calling take thy cross and follow me Where he leads me, I will follow. Where he leads me, I will follow. Where he leads me, I will follow. I'll go with him with him all the way I'll go with him through the judgment I'll go with him through the judgment I'll go with him through the judgment I'll go with him with him all the way where he leads me I will follow where he leads me I will follow where he leads me, I will follow I'll go with him, with him all the way he will give me grace and glory he will give me grace and glory he will give me grace and glory I'll go with me with me all the way where he leads me I will follow Where he leads me, I will follow. Where he leads me, I will follow.
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I'll go with him, with him,
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Speaker 1Amen. And now, this New Living Translation of this verse from Luke 12. Seek the kingdom of God above all else and he will give you everything you need. That's the seek you first the kingdom of God.
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Speaker 2Would you join me? And his righteousness and all these things shall be added unto you.
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Speaker 1In Jesus name, would you go and bless this week? Amen.
