the cross 04-06-2023

The speaker starts by greeting everyone and mentioning the weather. They then introduce the topic of the cross and how important it is. They talk about how our sins separate us from God and lead to condemnation. The speaker emphasizes the significance of Jesus going to the cross and the role it plays in our salvation. They also discuss the concept of iniquity and how it relates to sin. The speaker mentions that some people deny the existence of hell, but they believe it is real based on what Jesus said. They conclude by highlighting the importance of the death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus and how it is the defining moment in history. Good morning, everybody. Good morning, Ray, good to see you, brother. Good morning, everybody. Good to see you. Good to see you. Good to see you. TLBS. I think it's TLBS 4. Good morning. This little voice, good morning to see you, sister. Good to see you this morning. Good to see you all this morning. Praise God. I'm wearing my sweatshirt. It's going to probably be the last day. I thought yesterday was going to be the last day, but it'll probably be one of the last days by Easter Sunday, we were going to be up to 90 plus degrees. So good morning. Good morning, sister. It's good to see you. Praise God. Nathan, good to see you this morning. Miss Joy, good to see you this morning. Praise God. Another beautiful day. Great mustache. Thank you so much. Good morning. Jim, good to see you. What's the title today? We're going to just be talking about the cross. The cross. Let's just put it that way. Someone said, great mustache. Thank you so much. It's incredible how God has a sense of humor. When I was young, I was very vain about my hair. I was very vain, wouldn't leave the house unless it was perfectly round. I'm called the natural. Some people call it afro. Miss Kim, good morning. But then I lose my hair, but God gave me a good mustache and a beard. So thank you. Thank you. Appreciate it. Sister Kim, good to see you this morning. Good morning. Brother God's radiance, you is bright today. Amen. Praise God. Praise God. Great topic with upcoming weekend. The cross. I used to sing a song as a kid, at the cross, at the cross, where I first saw the light. Man, the cross. I mean, hang on real quick. This was not what I was going to read, but let me see something real quick. Hang on. Hang on. Oh, let's get here. Please, Lord, help me here. Let's see. Ooh. Hang on. Hang on. Sons of God with power. Hang on. Oh, I just read something last night. I wanted to catch it again. Oh, well. But yes, the cross is our subject. So how many of you know what the cross is? How many of you know what the cross is? How many of you know what the cross is? How many of you know what the cross is? How many of you know what the cross is? How many of you know what the cross is? How many of you know what the cross is? How many of you know what the cross is? How many of you know what the cross is? How many of you know what the cross is? Oh, well. But yes, the cross is our subject. So how many we got? 176. I believe without a doubt that's enough to get started. Let's go to the book of Isaiah chapter 59. The book of Isaiah chapter 59. The old rugged cross. Amen. Amen. I got my coffee. Let me take a sip. Let's pray real quick. Father God, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you for waking me up. Father, your grace and your mercy. Thank you. Your son. Your beloved son. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. We praise you. We honor you. We lift you up in the name of Jesus. Amen. The book of Isaiah, chapter 59, we're going to read one and two. You know, folks, as we approach this Sunday, Resurrection Sunday, Easter, the death, burial, and resurrection, it's a day that we as Christians should talk about every day. Not just one day, but every day the death, burial, and resurrection should be at the forefront of our thoughts, of our heart. And while I know this one day we take time to have an elaborate program at church, I know we take the time to have maybe micro plays and the speeches, and we dress nice. Some of us go to church for the first time all year, with the exception you might have went Christmas, which was last year. But this is a day that we should think about every day, what Jesus Christ did on the cross. And you know, without Jesus going to the cross, there was no communion with God. Read your Bibles in the book of Isaiah, let's look at chapter 59, one and two. Verse one says, Behold, the Lord's hand is not too short that he cannot save, nor is his ear so dull that he cannot hear. But your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so that he does not hear. Thank you. Thank you so much. Did you guys capture what that said? He said in the first part, he says, the Lord's hand is not too short. It's not that the Lord is limited. That's not the issue. It's not that the Lord doesn't have the ability or the power. That's not the issue. It says on the next part, nor is the ear so dull that the Lord can't hear. It's not that the Lord can't hear. It's not that he doesn't, he has an attention problem. But the next verse, two, says this, but your and our iniquities have made a separation between you and your God. Let's make that more personal. My iniquities have separated me from the Lord. My iniquities, my sin, my wickedness, they have separated, and some people don't want to grasp that. They don't want to wrap their mind around that. What they want to do is they want to keep executing their iniquities. Good morning, Ms. Lacey. They want to execute their iniquities and still at the same time think they're serving God. You know, one foot in the world and one foot in Christianity. And that's not how it works. But it says right there, but your iniquities have made a separation between you and your God, and your sins have hidden his face from you so he does not hear. Joshua, good morning, friend. Our sins have separated us to the point that the Lord cannot hear us. Now, this is why Sunday is so important to me. See, we couldn't worship God in spirit and in truth. Basically, we couldn't worship God in spirit and truth. We could not have communion with God unless Jesus had gone to the cross. See, this is why this coming Sunday and every day is important to me with regards to the preaching of the cross. Now, to some it's foolishness, but to me it's the power unto salvation, the cross. It is so important that we don't take for granted what Jesus Christ did for us on the cross. Let me take a sip here. Watch this. Watch this. On the first part of that verse in 59 too, your iniquities. And you know what? I took the liberty of last night of looking up the word iniquity. Now, look what I found. In the Bible, iniquity is a type of sin that includes a conscious decision to hurt someone else or to rebel against God's commands or God's law. From an etymological perspective, scholars relate the Hebrew word avon. It's pronounced avon. The Hebrew is avon, meaning literally crookedness, perverseness, evil regarded as that which is not straight or upright, moral distortion. The Oxford Dictionary captures the meaning of iniquity through sentiments like wickedness, immorality, impropriety, vices, evil, sin, crimes, heinousness, oh my, my, my, nefariousness, knavery, obscenity, and ungodliness, condemnation. So all of those adjectives that describe iniquity, everything evil in the world, everything that is not straight, everything that is perverse, everything that is opposite of upright, immorality, vices, evil, sin, crime, heinous, nefarious, knavery, obscenity, ungodliness, this all leads to condemnation, and condemnation means we are rendered guilty. Folks, it is our iniquity. Some of you might say, well, you know, Pastor Paul, I'm not a bad person. Matter of fact, to be quite honest with you, I'm a good person. Well, the Bible disagrees with you. We are not good. Not one of us. If we would really peel away the onion with regards to your thoughts, let's think for just a moment. How many of you externally, thank you, Joshua, I'm guilty too. But how many of us externally put on a good show? Let's be honest. How many of us externally put on a good show? Let's really peel away this ideology that we have that we are good. All right? Let's just really peel it away. We do our best to be polite. We do our best to display goodness, humility, gentleness. We do our very best, but what about our thoughts? Good morning, Lamb. What about our thoughts? How many of you, how many of you have thought the worst of something? Good morning, Nathan. Thank you. How many of you have thought the worst of somebody? Matter of fact, you even at one time maybe hoped nothing good would come out of that for them. The thoughts. Now, externally, you had a smile, you were polite, you were cordial, but when it's really all said and done, there's none not good. We are full of iniquity, once again, but your iniquities, our iniquities have made a separation between us and God. When we look at that iniquity, when we look at the, once again, let me go over what some of the words it says. It says, that word in Hebrew is Avan. It's spelled Avon, like the place where you buy stuff, women, but it's Avan. That's the Hebrew word for iniquity, meaning crookedness, perverseness, evil regarded as that which is not straight or upright, moral distortion, wickedness or morality, vices and evil, sin, crime, heinousness, nefariousness, knavery, obscenity, and ungodliness. All this leads to condemnation, and what is condemnation? Of course, to condemn means to pronounce, to be guilty, to sentence, to punishment or pass judgment against us. We are condemned. We are guilty because of our iniquities. Folks, we are condemned. We are doomed. In the state that we were born in, we were doomed to go to hell. Let me read the rest of this. Watch this. It's funny that Satan is called the accuser of the brethren. We can see that in Revelation 12.10. Satan is the accuser of the brethren. Watch this. He is like a prosecutor who finds faults. Satan is the accuser of the brethren. He's trying to find fault with us before God. Any time that we do this or do that, here's Satan accusing. He's coming with the accusations. Why? Because he demands the penalty of death for us. Because why? We are full of iniquity, and we are condemned. The accuser is calling out God on our behalf, saying, they deserve death. Folks, this is why I don't take the cross for granted. Okay, let me take a step. I want you to think about something. Some of you love history. There's a young man in our church. His name is Joshua. He loves history. He reads a lot of history. Now, watch this. Everything about history, I don't care if it's American history, if it's European history, if it's Greek, or whatever it is, history is based, the most important thing in history is based on one thing. You know what it is? The death, burial, and resurrection of Jesus Christ. Everything. Everything in history past, present, and future, everything is hinged and based on Jesus going to the cross. That is the defining moment of humanity. When the king of king and the lord of lord, the only begotten son, went to the cross, went to the grave, and resurrected on the third day. That's when the paradigm shift took place and changed everything. Think about it. That's the defining moment. Not only historical, but at the present time, and we are now 2,000 years later in the blessing of what Jesus Christ did on the cross. Because our iniquities and our sin has caused God to turn from us, but then God sends the solution in his son to restore us. Think about it. Now watch this. The bible speaks volumes regarding the problem. And the problem is what? Sin. The sinner, if you will, the sinner, mankind, has received that problem. Our iniquities have made a separation between us and God. In the bible, condemnation is a sentiment with damnation, judgment, punishment, destruction, and verdict. What is the verdict? When we say iniquity and when we say sin, what is the verdict? In its strongest sense, in the strongest sense that you can imagine, the verdict means this. The banishing to hell for all those who are disobedient to the will of God. That's the verdict. We are condemned, and the verdict means to be banished to hell for rebelling, for rebelling against God and against his son. That is the verdict. Now I know there are some religious organizations that will teach that there is no hell. There are some contemporary churches that teach that there is no hell, but I beg to differ because Jesus spoke of it. Matthew 5.22. Matthew 5.22. Why would a loving God send you to hell? Why would a loving God send his only begotten son to the cross for each one of us? Why would a loving God separate from his son for the first time in eternity, allow his son to don the flesh of humanity, and come into a dark, sinful, wicked world full of iniquity and go to the cross for you and I? Why would a loving God do that? Now that's what you should think about. I do think a righteous God or a righteous king should deliver a verdict of guilty and not guilty based on who accepts Jesus or who denies. That's what a righteous king does. That's what a righteous judge does. My, my, my. Matthew 5.22. We're going to look at the issue of hell. Matthew 5.22 says this. But I say to you that everyone who is angry with his brother shall be guilty before the court. And whoever says to his brother, you good-for-nothing shall be guilty before the supreme court. And whoever says, you fool, shall be guilty enough to go into the fiery hell. Hell is real, folks. Let no one fool you. But because we are condemned because of our iniquities, the verdict is guilty. We are condemned. 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My friend who declares himself to be an atheist, if you for a moment would let your guard down and think about the Ten Commandments, I would like to ask you, have you ever lied? Have you ever? Let's be honest. Very sincere. We're religious right now, but we're dialoguing. We're two friends. I saw the atheist go by. If I could see you, thank you. Have you ever lied? I know I have. How many of us have lied? I know I have. Have you ever lied? I lied once. I lied once. Why? And thank you for entertaining me. Thank you for engaging. That makes you and I a liar. We're a liar. Now, if you believed in the word and we looked at those Ten Commandments and we've admitted by your own confession that we're liars because we've lied, we all have, if God were to judge us just on that one, would we be guilty or not guilty? We would be guilty. Why? Because the lie was the iniquity. Hence, that makes us condemn, which we now are guilty. The verdict is what? Separation. Now, I know you don't believe this, my friend, the atheist. I know you don't believe this, but I'm trying to logically play this out in my heart and in my head. So, if we've lied, that makes us liars, right? And if we're liars, that is our iniquity. Our iniquity, we read, is separate us from God. The verdict must be separation or condemnation, hell, right? So, we look at the law and it is the ministry of death because our sins have separated us from God and the wage of sin is death. So, the Ten Commandments, if we think about it, is the ministry of death or the ministry of condemnation. 2 Corinthians 3.7. Second, and my friend, the atheist, I'm not here to pick on you, but by your own confession, by what you just shared with each other. I'm not reading the comments right now, I'm speaking to you from my heart. You've declared, I've lied. Here's the problem. We all have this universal thing called the sin nature. It can't be eradicated by washing your hands. It can't be retarded by wearing a mask. It's infected each one of us. And we are all guilty like you. We all had to raise our hands on that question. When I asked you, we all started, like, examining ourselves, like, I've lied. That's right, I lied just recently. You know, somebody asked me if the food was good. I said, no, I lied. And we're guilty. We're guilty. So we have to really ask ourselves, if we are guilty for one of the Ten Commandments, should not a righteous judge render the righteous verdict? And that makes us condemned, which leads to separation from God? Now, I know that hell is tough, but it's a reality. And this is why the Ten Commandments is called the Ministry of Death or the Ministry of Condemnation. This is important. Listen to 2 Corinthians 3. 2 Corinthians 3. And I know somebody, folks don't want to hear about hell. But I can't not in all good consciousness get on here and call myself Pastor Paul and not teach and preach about hell. In all good consciousness, I can't walk in the next Sunday and talk about the death, burial and resurrection and victory in Jesus without mentioning the opposite of the spectrum, hell. Oh, my, my, my, come on now. So look at this. 2 Corinthians 3.79. 2 Corinthians 3.79. 2 Corinthians 3.79. But if the ministry of death in letters engraved on stone came with glory, so the sons of Israel could not look intently at the face of Moses because of the glory of his face fading as it was. Think about that. How will the ministry of the Spirit fail to be even more with glory? For if the ministry of condemnation has glory, much more does the ministry of righteousness abound in glory. Meaning, the ministry of death and the ministry of condemnation, the law, which is also called those two things. We transition from the law and we transition unto grace. The old covenant brought condemnation upon mankind because it made known our sins and the tragic consequences. That's what the law did. And you, my friend, and I'm talking about the atheists, you, my friend, acknowledge before all of us that you and we, just on one commandment, we are liars. We are condemned. Right there. We don't even have to talk about the other nine commandments. Just on that one, we are condemned. But you would say, wait a minute, Pastor Paul, would a loving God condemn me for that sin? If you have failed to keep the least of these, you are guilty of all of them. Just like a murderer. All right? Just like a murderer. If an individual would murder somebody, we would demand that a righteous judge deliver the righteous verdict and the righteous verdict is guilty. Am I correct? Am I correct? But you might say, well, Pastor Paul, this person, even though he committed murder, he did so many other good things. I didn't say that. The righteous judge will deliver the righteous verdict. And that's what God does. The righteous verdict for you and I is because we broke that law. Because we broke that law, we are condemned. But you say, Pastor Paul, that's not fair. It is fair. Let me tell you why it's fair. Because God delivered his son to pay the price of the sins of humanity on the cross. God gave us a way of escape. God gave us the ability that we did not have to stand on our own merit. But we stand on the merit of Christ. When someone says, no one is perfect, I beg to differ. Jesus was perfect and knew no sin. So we do not have to stand before God based on our merit. But I stand before God because I am covered by the blood. And when the Father sees me, he sees nothing but the blood. Those who do not have Jesus, and they chose to go on their own merit, knowing that they broke the least of those commandments. And there is nothing good about them. God renders them guilty. Now remember, Jesus didn't come to condemn. We were born condemned already. You might say, wait a minute, Pastor Paul. It's not fair that I'm paying the penalty or the price for what Adam and Eve did. I've explained this before, but let me explain it again. It's a very elementary explanation. Here we go. You and I have inherited traits from the lineage of our family. Physical traits. There's some not so physical traits, but you see the derivative of those traits. Maybe the way you hold your head. Maybe the way you eat. But some of the physical traits, like my mustache. A lot of you comment on my mustache. Here we go. I am a doctor. And because I hired a private investigator, the private investigator said when she finally met my family, they wanted to see a picture of me. They said, based on the picture, we don't need a DNA test. But there's a dominant gene in our anatomy that gives this particular trait. If we could see a picture of him, we'll know if he's related to us. So the private investigator took a picture, sent it to them, and immediately, he's our brother. What was it? It was the nose. Big and puffy. It was the mustache, how thick. But not only that, the color. It was white. Let me say hi to my baby girl real quick. Hey, mom, he's on my line real quick. You okay? Yeah, I'm just crying. I love you. You say what? Tell you I love you. I love you, too, baby. Say hi to everybody real quick. Just say hi. Okay, hi. She's being all shy. All right, baby girl, I love you a bunch. Oh, it's almost your birthday. I know. A few more days. All right, my baby, I love you a bunch. Be careful, okay? Love you, too. All right, talk to you in a minute. All right. So some of you could say, well, wait a minute. Wait a minute. Hi, sister Coleman. But wait a minute. Pastor Paul, a lot of people could have white hair. But it's a very dominant gene in my family. The white hair, the thick mustache, the receding hairline. All this is something we inherited from our family. Now, if I inherited this physical attribute from my family, I'm the descendant of these physical attributes. Do you not think there's some invisible attributes that I've also inherited? Like a sin nature? Yes. Yes. You and I. Humanity. We've inherited a sin nature that came from our great grandparents, Adam and Eve. And we are struggling with that sin nature right now. But God offered a way out and a solution to save us. It's Jesus. It's Jesus. That's all we need. And I said, you know what? And we're going to stop right there. I just want to articulate because I'm going to have to get off of here in just a minute. And we'll go back to that tomorrow. But, folks, all we need is Jesus. I said it the other day. How many religious organizations have come down the pipeline that has a founder and leader that died for the organization? Can you think of one? No. No. Jesus gave more and brought more to the table than the church could ever do for him. He gave his life as a substitute. We were condemned. The verdict was guilty. And Jesus took on the guilt for himself that we may be rendered not guilty. This is why it's so important to me that you receive Jesus as your Lord and Savior. That means each one of you. Jim, Josh, I know that you have a relationship. I'm just randomly mentioning names. I'm not pointing out Jose, Lam, Brian, Ray. Each one of you. Brandon, Diane. Each one of you. I want you to examine yourself and say, you know what? I have repented. I'm just saying names. I'm not picking on anybody. I'm just saying names. I want you to evaluate yourself and examine yourself and say, you know what? I am condemned. I do have iniquity. I read the word. God has turned his back on me. I am a sinner. And I need saving. Lord, will you forgive me? Will you forgive me? Will you receive me as your son, as your daughter? Will you write my name in the book of life? Will you save me from this wretched world, this wretched flesh, this sinful nature that I've inherited? This is what you got to do. You have to do it immediately. Don't waste time. Don't, don't, don't, don't. We have, we have, it's funny. I'll give this three minutes. I'll give a couple stories. I used to work with a young lady who, when I retired from corporate America, I mentored her. And she knew who I was. And her mother had known me for years. And they knew what I was about and what I believed in. I don't believe in that stuff. I don't believe in that stuff. She ended up with COVID. She went into the hospital. Here's a single mother with three kids, four kids. She ends up in the hospital, and she ends up in ICU. I'm getting phone calls from her mother. I'm getting phone calls from people saying, will you pray for Kristen? Will you pray, pray, pray, pray for Kristen? You know, I prayed for Kristen, but you know what I did? I said, Lord, reveal to her that you're God. Save her, Lord, that she can turn to you. Well, that was about two years ago. And do you know that she has not accepted Jesus Christ, even though she was this close to death? According to her, and I can't remember the number, but she lost like 17 days of her life because she was in a coma. Seven days of her life, gone, unaccounted for. Where they really were preparing her funeral services. And God showed her grace and mercy, and she's alive and well today. And she's never given God any praise, any glory, any credit, nor surrender to him. You would think that an individual who came that close to losing their life would honor God. But I pleaded with God. God, spare her. Because if she would have died in the state she was in, she would have transitioned from life unto damnation and be separated from God for eternity. I tell you that story for this reason. Tomorrow is not promised. Don't think you have tomorrow. It's not promised. Don't think somehow you're going to wake up tomorrow. It's not promised. But receive Jesus today while you have breath in your body. While you're able to understand. Don't wait. Because if you wait and you take your last breath, it's too late. There is no, folks, I'm telling you right now. There is no middle ground. There's no purgatory. There's no waiting room. Once you take your last breath and that heart stops, you're done. I like what Josh said. Tomorrow will come, but you're not guaranteed to be there. I concur. So with all that being said, folks, I'm going to get going now. I want to thank you for allowing me to share this with you this morning. Remember, life is precious, but Jesus paid the price so that you may live that life more abundantly. Don't wait. Someone said, how often am I on live? Let me answer these quick questions because I did see them and I don't want to leave those hanging. I try to be on live every morning at 630, number one question. Number two, my affiliation, our church is in Phoenix and I'm a Baptist. I heard someone ask the denomination. I am a Baptist by education, tradition. I am a Baptist. That's all I can say. Church is on Sunday. I am a pastor of a real church here in Phoenix. Not a big ministry, but a loving ministry. So any of you who are in Arizona, please come by and visit us. Our praise and worship, I love them. They are spot on, beautiful. And we would love for you to come by and visit us. All right. So everybody, you know what I always say. Please go to our web page, our church web page and register with us. Get registered. And if you see an opportunity to bless our ministry, we would love it. Keep us in prayer. Keep us in prayer. What we're trying to do here is to teach and preach the truth of God so souls are saved. Thank you, sir. Can we pray for you? Please pray for me. Pray, pray, pray for the ministry. Just pray for my family. My son is getting married in a few more days. Pray for that. I pray that I don't cry while I'm doing the ceremony. Pray for that, that I do not cry. Because I'm a cry baby on certain things. And I'm just going to try to hold it together as I do the vows for my son and his future wife. So pray, pray for that. Please, please, please, please. And let's keep Jim in prayer. Amen. And keep each other in prayer. And so thank you, though. But all right, everybody. It is exciting. I'm truly, truly, truly excited. I'm so excited for you all. Oh, I'm over the top. Over the top. But also pray, because we have a, what do you call it? We're going to have the rehearsal dinner. And I pray that it's not too hot. Folks, it's going to be 90-something degrees on Sunday. Thank you. Thank you, thank you, thank you, brother. I appreciate you, Brother Nate. But it's because I have a good heart and care. Amen. Amen. I love that. But pray that it doesn't get too hot. It's going to be in the 90s that day. Oh, my, my, my. We just pray it's not too hot. But all right, everybody. God bless you. May the Lord just watch over you. May he keep you. And please, allow yourself to be used by God. They're getting married on Sunday. No, not Sunday. They're going to get married on Saturday. And so they leave for Mexico on Sunday. So I don't know what day that is. I think to some degree. I've got so much to get done. We've got all the family coming in. I'm excited. Pastor Paul mentioned the free gift. What free gift? Are we talking about the free gift of the eternal life? Is there a free gift? Did I mention? Which one are we talking about here? Jim, which one? What free gift? Jesus. Amen. Amen. Testimony. Okay. You and Miss Debbie have blessed days. Okay. God bless. Was there a gift? Did I miss something? The free gift of Jesus Christ. The eternal life. We don't have to pay for it. Jesus paid for it. Testimony. Yes. Put your testimonies on the website. Please, please, please. Even if, go to our website. Go to the testimony. Even put on there something that has blessed you on these TikToks. Put it on there. Those are encouraging to me. When I hear that we're getting on TikTok and we're getting the word of God out to people, that blesses me. So, please do that. It would be a true, true blessing. And so, that would really help us. And I'd love it. So, if you could. All right. Folks, I got to get going. I got to get to Ace. Pastor Paul, don't stop Ubering. You can connect with more people. You know what, Fred? I get you. The thing is, here we go. And I got to get going. But Ace. Folks. Okay. I got to lift the cat out of the bag. Ace. I really believe God is going to use me at Ace. I really do. The conversation came up last night about baptism. And there was a group of people around. And it was really, it was really powerful. And I believe God is really going to use me at Ace to really share the gospel. So, I've got. Watch this. Ms. Debbie found these. And Lambriel, you're going to know what these are. But look what I have. I'm going to start handing out these little crosses out at Ace. So, not to customers, but to the staff that work there. They don't know this yet. But as I feel led by the Lord, I'm going to start handing out these little crosses. I've got a bunch of them. And what I'm going to do is I'm going to start like having little micro Bible studies. Now, here's the cool thing. The manager of Ace is all for it. Lambriel, these come from Calvary. When the kids were in Calvary Kids Club. Isn't that cool? However, so, the Uber. Now, folks, here's the thing. I Uber two hours every night. All right? Where did you get those crosses? One of the, our kids used to go to Awana's. And they have them. I said, can I have those? This was years ago. And I've just kept them. So, now I'm going to hand them out at Ace. But, here we go. Here's the thing. I work eight hours at Ace. And then what I do is I Uber in the afternoon. The Ace part is to pay for me and Miss Debbie's responsibilities. Our house note and this and that. And she does her thing. In the evening, I go to Uber. That's our little extra money. So, I try to make $50 a day. And that will help pay a couple things regarding the wedding and some other things. And then me and Miss Debbie, if we want to go to the beach, that's our little money to go to the beach. Now, I told all of you that it takes away from me doing what I need to do. So, if people would bless the ministry, right? All I need is $50 a day. If someone would donate $50 a day, that keeps me from Uber. And then I can stay in the Word. I can be with Miss Debbie. I can be with family. I really would love to do full-time ministry. Now, I'm being long-winded to get to my point here. However, I'm not going to beg people. I'm not going to this or that. I'm telling you what is needed. And I'm leaving it there. And I'm leaving that between you and God. However, I see such an opportunity in Ace to really... What Ace? Yes, Ace Hardware over on Power. However, I think God is going to really lead me to minister to the young people that work at Ace. And I'm going to do it. So, little by little, as God moves me, I'm going to hand these to Him and say, Hey, let's just do a micro Bible study. And so today, I'm really going to be talking about the cross. And I'm going to be talking about a thing. So, as of right now, last week, I didn't have to Uber all week. But as of this week, I'll probably have to Uber tonight or tomorrow. Because it is what it is, folks. And I'm not scared to work. But those that have blessed... Bola Tourette who blesses our ministry monthly and all of you, praise be to God. But I don't mind working. I'll work. I will work. I will grind and do what I need to do. However, I would love to be free to do what God has called me to do. So, ask for the Uber. If I don't have to, so be it. But I will be at Ace. But if I'm at Ace, trust me, God is going to use me there. And I'm excited. All right. I got to go. How do I find the website? Go to SAMVC. Take that opportunity last day of Uber. Take that opportunity in your last days of Ubering. Oh, trust me. If you see me on the streets anywhere, trust you me. We're going to talk about the Lord. Noah, I want to be baptized in Jesus' name. I want to be saved. All right. Hang on. Hang on. We talk about this all the time. I want you to turn to Romans 10. I want to be baptized. You know, and I told this young man, I don't know if he's listening. I asked him to come and be baptized at our church. And I haven't talked to him since. But, folks, it's not that I'm dismissing or don't call people back. But I'm so busy with things, it's hard to connect with everybody. But you know what? If you want to be baptized, if you would come to Arizona and just let me know in advance, we'll fill up the baptismal pool and we'll baptize you. But I want to take you to Romans 10, and it says right here, but what does it say? The word is near you and in your mouth and in your heart. That is the word of faith which you are preaching, that if you confess with your mouth Jesus is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. If you confess I'm a sinner, and if you believe in Jesus and ask him to come into your heart, you shall be saved. You will be saved. And it happens just like that. If you would just believe and confess. Watch this, verse 11. Friend, if you call up on the name of Jesus right now and say, Lord, save me. Please forgive me of my sins. Save me, Lord. You shall be saved. If you would do that right now, my friend. And if you want to get baptized, I don't want to make an empty promise, but if you let me know in advance and you come to Arizona, we will baptize you. I made that promise to another gentleman from Utah, and I haven't been able to talk to him since. But if he's listening, if you would just let me know what Sunday you're going to be down, give me at least a couple weeks. We'll fill up the baptism pool and we will baptize you. Please. Please, please. Don't get off this app today without receiving Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. Please do that for me. Do that for us. Even the angels rejoice over one soul. Phone froze there. I'm losing power. That's okay. All right, everybody. The angels rejoice. Praise God. You know what? Let me follow him. I should have followed him. Sorry. Is it Ed Cabello? Please come across my screen so I can follow you again. Please. Please, Ed, come across my screen so I can follow you, if I don't follow you already, if you don't mind. Oh, Ed, where are you at? Moderator 310 comments. Where are you at, Mr. Ed? We need to visit. Please, please come by the church. We would be more. I have tears right now. Thank you so much. Ed, no, I'm going to follow you. Ed, thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. God bless you. That's all you got. You are a child of God now. You are a brother and sister in the kingdom, almost in our kingdom. I guess we could say that's God's kingdom. However, you now are a brother in a kingdom full of brothers and sisters. We are adopted into the family of God. We are spiritually connected. And I don't know where you are located at, but trust you me, that we have a connection because of the Holy Spirit. Friend, welcome to the family. We love you. And Lord willing, I'll be on 630 tomorrow. I hope to see your name come across the screen. Please DM me, direct message me. All right? But welcome to the family. We love you. All right. I got to get going, folks. I don't want to get in trouble. But praise God for each one of you. Let me pray. Father God, thank you for Ed. Lord, I thank you. Thank you that you would use this platform that we may win souls, Lord. I pray that you would just watch him, keep a hedge of protection around him. Father, we thank you for each of the moderators. We thank you for each one of them that helped do this, helped us control this. Thank you, Lord. Lord, I thank you for Jim in regards to our website and developing that. And thank you, Lord. And Lord, thank you for blessings for each one that listened. Father, we just thank you and praise you. We lift you up. We lift you up. Father, for you deserve all our praise and all the glory. Without you, we would all fail. But with you, we can do all things. Lord, thank you. We praise you. We honor you. We lift you up. We ask this in the name of Jesus. Amen. All right, everybody. I love you all. May the Lord watch over you, keep you, keep your head up. You are blessed and highly favored. God bless you. Ed, DM me, please. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. 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