0:01 [Music] ship you. We have come into this gathered in his name in his name to worship him. We have come into his 0:24 house gathered in his name to worship him. We have come into his house gathered in his name to 0:43 worship Christ the Lord. We worship you Lord Jesus Christ the So let's forget about ourselves and concentrate on 1:00 him. Let's forget about ourselves. Concentrate on him and worship him. Let's forget about 1:18 ourselves. Concentrate on him and worship him. Let's forget about ourselves. Concentrate on him and 1:36 worship Christ the Lord. [Music] worship, worship you, Lord Jesus Christ the Lord. Let's lift up our hands together and 1:53 sing. Let's lift up holy hands. Magnify his name and worship him. Let us lift up holy 2:11 hands, magnify his name and worship him. So let's lift up holy hands. Magnify his name and 2:30 worship Christ the Lord. Worth We worship you for all you've done Christ. [Music] There's no greater name. There's no 2:50 greater name than Jesus. The name of him who came to save us. In that saving name so gracious every knee shall bow. 3:06 Oh, let everything that's beneath the ground, let everything in the world around, let everything that's high on the sky bow at Jesus name. 3:25 in our minds by faith professing in our hearts by inward blessing on our tongue by words confessing Jesus Christ is Lord. Sing it 3:41 again from your heart. There's no gater nameus name of him who came to save us in that saving name. So gracious, every knee shall 3:59 bow. Let everything that's beneath the ground. Let everything in the world around. Let everything that's high on the sky bow at Jesus 4:16 name in our minds by faith professing in our hearts by inward blessing on our tong by words confessing Jesus Christ is Lord. [Music] 4:47 Give all blessing and honor, glory and power to him. When the stars burn down and the earth wears out and we stand before the throne. With the 5:04 witnesses who have gone before, we will rise and fall upon singing blessing and honor and glory and power forever to our God. 5:21 Sing him blessing and honor and glory and power forever to our God. When the hands of time might fall 5:37 down and the earth is like a trumpets will the world will fall to its as we go home. singing blessings and honor and glory 5:55 and power forever to our God. Singing blessing and honor and glory and power forever to our God. Star of the morning, light of 6:17 salvation, [Music] majesty, God of all mysteries, Lord of the universe, righteous, star of the morning, light of 6:36 salvation, [Music] majesty, God of all, mysteries. Lord of the universe, my king 6:54 come standing face to face. In a moment we'll be like him. He will wipe our eyes wide. take us up to his side and forever we will be his singing blessing and honor and glory 7:17 and power forever to our God. Singing blessing and honor and glory and power forever to our God. singing blessing and honor and glory and 7:36 power forever to our God. Singing blessing and honor and glory and power forever to our God. [Music] 8:02 Blessing and honor, glory and power to the ancient of days. From every nation, all of 8:17 creation bow before the ancient of days. Every tongue in heaven and earth shall declare your glory. Every knee shall bow at your throne. In worship you will be exalted, 8:37 oh God and your kingdom shall not pass away. Oh ancient of kings, soon blessing and honor and glory, power, blessing and honor. 8:53 Glory and power near to the ancient do from every nation all of creation bow before the ancient of every tongue in heaven and earth 9:16 shall declare your glory. Every knee shall bow at your throne. In worship you will be exalted, oh God, and your kingom shall not pass 9:32 away. Oh ancient of days, your kingdom shall reign over all the earth. Sing to the ancient 9:49 days for none can compare to your matchless words. Sing to the ancients of days. Every tongue in heaven and earth shall declare your glory. Every kne 10:07 shall bow at your throne. In worship they will be exalted. Oh, and your kingom shall not pass away. Oh ancient, every tongue in heaven and 10:28 earth shall declare your glory. Every knee shall bow at your throne. in worship. You will be exalted, oh God, and your kingom shall not pass 10:45 away. Oh ancient of days, oh ancient of [Music] days, you think about what it means that he is the ancient of days. Doesn't mean that he's old. It just means that he's 11:04 been from the very beginning. It means that there's nothing new for him. Everything that is even yet to be that we haven't seen that we think is going to be new is he has seen before the foundations of the world. By his 11:18 fornowledge he's chose you dear child of his dear son dear daughter and predestined you to be conformed into the image of his son Jesus. This is a plan that he has fixed. And let not anything here on this earth distract you or 11:34 discourage you from that plan that he has set for your life. Don't let the ups and downs, the successes or the failures, the glories and the uh defeat of this earth cause you to lose sight of the vision. Lose sight of his wonderful plan 11:52 for your life. Dear young people, remember that God has a plan for your life. your children. Remember that God has a plan for your life. Parents, God has a plan for you and for your families, for your children. Let's pray together and 12:06 consecrate our lives aresh to him at the beginning of this week, the beginning of this day. Give your life to him as a living sacrifice and he will work out all things. He causes all things to work together for good to those who love him 12:19 this way and are called according to this purpose that he has made for them. Heavenly Father, our lives are yours fully. We They were from the very beginning, Lord. Even before we realized that they were yours, they were always 12:33 been yours. But thank you for opening our eyes to see that you are our maker. You are the one that not only created us after we had tried to take back our lives for ourselves and given the devil foothold in our lives, you purchased us 12:46 back, you redeemed us by the blood of Jesus. And so we are yours twofold. You are not. We are not only yours because you created us, but we are yours because you shed the precious blood of Jesus to purchase us back from the clutches of 12:59 the enemy. Thank you, Lord. I pray that we'll never lose sight of that. That we were in the clutches of the enemy. We had gi sold our souls back into slavery and you want us back. Hallelujah. Praise your name, Lord. We give you glory and 13:11 honor as we have sung glory and honor and blessing belong to you because of who you are and because of what you've done. Thank you, Father. We give you praise. I pray that you will be exalted. Not just when we're here together and we 13:22 sing to you and pray to you out loud, but throughout the day when you search our hearts and you see if there's anything in us that makes you sad and we cleanse ourselves off it that you are pleased with us and you are you you see 13:35 that we really mean it when we say that we want you to have all blessing and glory and honor and power. Lord, may you be the blessing of our lives. May you be the glory in our lives. May you have all the honor in our lives. May you be the 13:47 power alone in our lives. Lord, that's what we mean when we just sang that. So Lord, we give ourselves to you and pour out your Holy Spirit. We pray in a fresh way this morning, Lord, that none of us here will have any lack. We will have 13:59 all that we need, Lord. You've already stored it up in heaven. It's there waiting to be poured out into our lives. We open our mouths wide and drink of it. We lift our hands to you. We lift our heads up and say, "Lord, we're receiving 14:10 it by faith because we're thirsty. We're needy. We're helpless unless you come and and sustain us and strengthen us and empower us, Lord. and save us Lord from ever thinking that we can do it on our own that we can go even one minute let alone a day without 14:25 the power of your Holy Spirit Lord to empower us save us from that deception help us all Lord open our eyes this meeting to see our need of you and the need of your power that and so we trust in ourselves nothing at all no trust no 14:39 self-confidence no trust in our own ability Lord this is the life we long for and this is the life of bearing fruit where we realize we can do nothing on our own but because we are simply branches in the vine and as the vine has 14:51 richness of fruit so we too the branches have richness of fruit and you might be glorified by that fruit Lord that's why we're here and we believe you'll do that will you speak to our hearts a word of faith oh what a transformation one word 15:05 of faith can do for us Lord and that's why we're coming to you not just for one but for as much as you have planned to give us this morning a word of faith that comes from hearing the voice of our bridegroom Jesus the captain of our 15:16 salvation the head of the body who deserves the first place in everything. You're going to speak to us, Lord. We believe it. And Lord, we pray in the name of Jesus against the work of Satan who wants to dilute that word and 15:28 confuse it or bring unbelief or bring worry or anxiety or discouragement or self- condemnation. And we stand against you, Satan, as as the church of Jesus Christ, to whom he has given the keys of the kingdom to bind on this earth 15:41 knowing it will be bound where you are. and to loose on this earth and knowing it will be loosed where you are. Satan, we bind your work in the name of Jesus. Lord, come and ma and fill this place with your glory. Lord, fill our hearts 15:53 with your glory. Fill our eyes with your glory, Lord. Fill our thoughts and ambitions with your glory that we'll never again chase after the things of this earth. Whether we had success this last week or not, whether we think we'll 16:05 have success this next week or not, no matter how we feel today, Lord, you want to be glorified in our circumstances today. And we believe it shall be so. Thank you, Father. I pray for any who are defeated by Satan, Lord, where the 16:18 devil has a foothold in some area in their life, whether it's a bad habit, addiction, or bad moods or a lack of gratefulness or discontent or jealousy or envy, whatever it might be, Lord, bitterness, unforgiveness, Lord, come 16:31 and loose them in the name of Jesus. And bind the work of Satan, Lord, that would cause that and loose these ones that need to be loosed, Lord. whoever they are. That thank you that every head can be lifted up, every hand that's hanging 16:43 down can be lifted up, every knee that's weak can be strengthened because of you who are on the throne that's never changed. You're still on the throne. You've not forgotten us, Lord. We believe it. We proclaim it in faith. 16:54 Thank you, Lord. And we pray, Lord, for our material needs as well and our earthly needs. We think of those that are sick and couldn't be here today, Lord, and others that deal with constant pain or other forms of sickness. In the 17:06 name of Jesus, we ask heavenly father that you will heal them. Lord Jesus, lay your hands on them. We have no power and ability in our own in ourselves, Lord. But you have all power. There's nothing impossible for you and there's nothing 17:17 impossible to the one who believes. So we come to you as your children, believing, Lord, that there's nothing impossible. Will you heal according to your will, Lord? Lay your hands on them even right now and heal every part of 17:28 their body that needs healing. We thank you that we can ask for that, Lord. You said that if we ask for anything in your name, it will be granted. Lord, if it is your will and according to your name, Lord, we ask this that you will heal 17:39 those completely. Bring complete healing. Thank you for our jobs. Lord, we think of many who are in job situations, uncertainties, or looking for jobs. Lord, you know the future. We're not here on this earth looking for 17:50 any success or any permanent uh thing here on this earth. Lord, our home is in heaven. That's our future. That's our hope. That's what we're looking forward to, Lord. But you've called us to live on this earth. And so Lord, because of 18:02 our commitment to your kingdom and seeking your kingdom first, we believe that you will provide all that we need. You said you would, Lord. So we're asking you in faith to do that. Provide jobs for those that don't don't have 18:13 them now. Lord, other forms of sustenance. Lord, you provide all that we need for us and for our marriages, for our homes, for our children, Lord, for their futures, for the ones that are doing finals this week and other forms 18:25 of homework or might feel nervous or uncertain about it. Lord, I pray that you'll come and strengthen them. Help them to know that when they at their young age, even 8 n 10 teenagers, put your kingdom first, that you will 18:37 provide all that they need. You will help them in their exams. You will help them with their homework because they want to glorify you. Thank you for these children. Lord, watch over them. As we pray often, Lord, we believe in faith 18:47 that not one of them will be lost. That every one of them will be your disciple. That they will be taught of the Lord. You said all would know me from the least to the greatest. And thank you, Lord, that we can ask in faith for each 18:57 of these children of yours. They're yours before they are ours, Lord. And we pray that they will be saved. Every one of them, they'll be your disciples. For any of them, Lord, who are uncertain, who are still playing around with sin or 19:09 playing around with the world in their thoughts, Lord, I pray you will come and open the eyes of their heart. Lord, open their eyes, shine a light into their dark hearts that they will see you, Lord Jesus. See you in your glory and your 19:19 majesty, and they will want to follow you, knowing that you will take care of every aspect of their lives. Thank you. Thank you, Lord, that you're you're the same yesterday, today, and forever. You will meet all our needs because you are 19:31 rich. You are God, our father, shall supply all our needs because Jesus Christ is rich. There's no lack in him. Thank you, Father. You've heard our prayer. You've heard our prayer, Lord, and you will answer in Jesus 19:48 name. Amen. Jesus said, "If you follow me, you will become fishers of men." And he said again later in first John that anyone who calls himself a Christian, a follower of me must live as I lived. This is our calling, dear church 20:06 family, as the body of Christ to live as the head lived when he was here on this earth. He came in a body and lived a certain way. And now he has left his spiritual body here on this earth that we are a part of that we will live as he 20:18 lived. A soul who would be like a master must heed, must listen and obey and follow his example and his word. And as we sing this song, you think about all the situations that Jesus faced. Not the big 20:35 miracles that he did, not even his dying on the cross, but the everyday dying to himself, taking up his cross every day for 33 and 1/2 years so that we would be able to follow his example. We're not told much about it in 20:50 scripture, but we're given the command to follow him in taking up our cross every day. Think about that. The cross that is going to be ahead of you today and tomorrow and the rest of this week. Are you willing to take up your 21:03 cross? I have decided to follow Jesus. There's no turning back. Help us, Lord, to follow you. Open our eyes to see the example that you set in taking up your cross for the situations that we are in today. and help us to follow in 21:20 Jesus name. Father we pray. Amen. A soul would be like a masterful and worthless for 21:40 him through what his always faithfully preached heaven's kingdom. The prisoners of sin were set 21:58 free. All sickness and [Music] me. When Jesus the master passed by. When all went their way and were 22:16 sleeping, he went to the mountains to pray. [Music] And there he received from his father. The strength that he needed in 22:34 his so mighty and clear was his message. [Music] happened just as he was saying. The sea and the wind were both silent. 22:52 The moment he made them to sing from the masses, God has spoken crunch and 23:09 grief. He taught them the way of life's wisdom. Their sickness and pain may be relieved. He wept for mankind with compassion and suffered 23:28 unspeakable grave. His soul did he offer for sinners. His soul he poured out unto death. No judment he gave up. 23:49 The spirit man he deserved. No friend in the flesh favor. He spend our relationship in weakness and came to 24:10 perfection. From lion of lamb he became in silence and patience he [Music] follow me the 24:34 blue will to be offered complete A corn of wheat made to be buried. My will, oh my fire, 24:51 my so poor and so we give was planted in power and might in our bones with sh we must 25:09 cover in glory majestic [Music] This is the church of Christ even today. The body of Christ hidden in weakness, buried, not what it will 25:28 be. But as it dies and God gives it growth, it rises up in majesty and power. Dear brother, dear sister, this is the only way to follow Jesus in simplicity, in nothingness, and not seeking reputation here on this earth. 25:45 Thank you, Father. Thank you, Lord Jesus. We're going to sing one more hymn, a wonderful old hymn. We've sung it before, but just want to us to think about the words. You know, when we think about what we gather here for, it's not even just to listen to a 26:01 word. We can do that online. You can listen to messages all at home by yourself. But why is it that we gather here in person? Why is it that we seek to come and edify the body and be together? It's that people leave here. 26:12 Every one of us leaves here with our hearts warmed. And as you as we sing this song, dear friend, dear brother, even dear dear sister, dear, and even dear children, think about God using you today to warm somebody's heart. They 26:27 don't need a cute interpretation of something in scripture. They don't need some wild idea that you come up with this last week. What they need is uh a heart of compassion, the mind of Christ so that heaven's fullness can come in. Think 26:43 about throughout the rest of this meeting and our time together that your calling, dear friend, dear brother, dear sister, even dear children, amidst all the fun that you'll have after the meeting and all the games you play or 26:55 conversations that you have, leave their hearts warmed. Let heaven's fullness come into their hearts through your kindness, through even a smile to a child, through a warm word of encouragement to say, "Press on, brother. Let's do this. Christ is coming 27:13 back soon. Be encouraged. Don't give off hope. Don't lag behind. Be encouraged. God is on our side against the devil. Help us, Lord. Pour out your Holy Spirit who is the warmer of our hearts. Who is the encourager of our hearts? Who 27:30 is the comforter, the strengthener? Their hearts beloved brother, heaven's goodness to them. May the mind of Christ the 27:56 Lord will come in their hearts. Warm them with simplicity. [Music] 28:15 Hold them like a loving [Music] mother. Look upon them tender. [Music] All their hearts beloved 28:32 [Music] brothers they do not with the mind of [Music] Christ then their [Music] 28:54 heart like a [Music] All our young beneath her we'll feel her heartbeat tender. Save from all that 29:16 [Music] wor like a loving [Music] mother with the mind of Christ 29:36 on earth show that heaven [Music] Soon their time here will be through the days of death they'll 29:57 pass. Streng them with that. I was thinking even this morning as we sang this, I thought about these words 30:16 in that last couple lines. Soon their time here will be ended. Think about if sometime this week we heard that one of us had died and were in the presence of Jesus. I thought about what would I think about what were my last words to 30:32 them? What was the last thing I said to leave them with before they left this earth? We never know when the Lord will call any one of us home. Think about being in readiness in our own hearts for Jesus coming, which is soon. We will all 30:46 stand before him soon. Very, very, very soon. Think about being in readiness in your own heart. But think about also what you leave the others that you interact with. What was the last look you gave them? Think about Peter and the last 31:00 look Jesus gave him. a look of compassion that caused him to repent and turn around right after he had denied Jesus. And think about being the eyes of Jesus here as his body here on earth. What is the last look you'll give 31:14 somebody? What's the last word you'll give somebody? What's the last touch you'll give somebody? A a heart of compassion. This is what it means to be the body of Christ. Soon their hearts pure will 31:30 be through the gates. Through the gates of death they'll passen them with heaven. [Music] 31:46 Now there is the golden [Music]
