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>> How are you doing this morning? >> Amen. Just all you just see do is smile.

All right. I want to welcome to Calvary this morning. I appreciate everybody being here.

If you are, this is your first time here at Calvary. We've got some uh little connect cards in front of you. If you'll just take one of those and fill that out and if you'll take it to our welcome center, they'll give you a little bag there.

But appreciate you being a part of our service this morning. Uh this is Memorial Day weekend. Uh I want to do this for the first um part of the service is this th this is different from Veterans Day.

Big difference. The difference is that uh we honor those that have died for our sal for our for our freedom. And uh so I I I always try to do this and and I think it's very uh to me moving and encouraging is this.

If you have had a family member or someone in your family or or someone along those lines that have died in any war or while they were in service, uh I would like for you to please stand. anybody that you've had a family member that has died in any war, would you please stand? Now, here's what I want you to do.

Remain standing and I because I we are here to remember those. We are here to honor those that have died. So, we want to recognize them this morning.

So, if you're standing, I'll start over here with Conrad. Conrad, if you will tell us uh who who in your family it was, what branch of service, and maybe what war. Amen.

Thank you. Yes. >> Amen.

All right. Yes. in the army.

Okay. Anyone else? Yes.

Amen. Thank you so much. Anyone else?

Did I miss anybody? All right. We want to remember those.

Thank you'all so much for sharing sharing that information. And and uh just to let you know just how far goes back. my I had a great greatgrandfather that was killed during the Civil War.

So, um you know, we want to honor all of those and that's what Memorial Day is, a big difference. And so, because they gave the ultimate sacrifice of their lives so that you and I could be here today worshiping freely. And so, we're grateful for that.

So, thank you so much for sharing that. Just one thing that I would like to share share with you uh is that this is a missions month and next week uh uh the oxidines the family will be with us. They will close it out.

If you are if you give above your tithes and your offerings all of that that you give towards missions will go directly towards our missionaries. Uh we have missionaries in Portugal and Mexico. Uh so if you will when you give if uh just put in there torch missions and every bit of that will be distributed to our missionaries.

So that we'll end that up next Sunday with the oxidines who are going to Portugal. So I want to remind you of that. Continue to remember our our pastor in prayer.

Just a quick update. He is progressing uh slowly but he's getting there. So you be much much in prayer for him if you will.

All right. Continue to pray for him. And let's go to the Lord in prayer now.

Father, as we come to you, Lord, we're so grateful for the privilege of being in your house. Father, we thank you for what you've already done, Lord, in Sunday school. And so, Lord, right now, as we come before you, we do lift our pastor up.

But Lord, we thank you for the for America, the country that we live in, for all those that have given their lives so that we may have the freedom here to worship and and Lord, just to be able to go anywhere we want to go, Father. And and uh just just the freedoms that we have. We're so grateful for that.

We're are blessed to be a part of this country, Father. So, thank you for that. So, we pray for our country, Lord.

We pray for those families that have lost loved ones all over this world. And I mean, United States here, Father. Thank you so much.

And Lord, as we uh continue in this service, we ask that you be with our continue to be with our choir, Father, our musicians, our our the media, the the sound, and all of that. Lord, we just praise that everything will fall into place and that Lord that you will be glorified and you will be honored. Thank you for brother Brandon, Lord, for coming this morning to to bring us the word of God.

And Lord, as it we prepare our hearts for that, we pray that you'll just lead us, Lord, that you will guide us. Our hearts will be open, Lord. We will be attentive to what you would have us to hear this morning and then, of course, apply to our lives.

And if there's anyone here that's not sure of their salvation, Lord, if they're not sure that if they died, they'd go to heaven. God, speak to their hearts today and let them come to know Jesus as their savior this morning. We'll praise your name for what you're going to do.

Thank you again for allowing us to worship together. We ask these things in the precious name of our savior Jesus. And all God's people said, You are here moving in our midst.

I worship you. I worship you. You [singing] are here [music] working in this place.

I [music and singing] worship you. I worship you. [music] [singing] I worship [music] you.

I worship you. You are here working in this place. I worship you.

I worship you. Way maker, miracle [music] worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My [music and singing] God, that is who you are.

miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are. >> You [music and singing] are here touching every [music] heart.

>> I worship you. >> I worship [singing] you. >> I worship you.

You [singing] are healing [music] healing every heart, >> healing every heart. >> I worship you. I worship you.

>> You are [singing] [music] mening every heart. >> I worship you. >> I worship you.

>> I worship you. You are here turning life around. [music] >> Turning life around you.

I worship you. [music] Way maker, miracle worker, [music] promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God.

That is [music] who you are. Way maker, miracle work, promise in the darkness. My God, that is who you are.

[music] That is who you are. That is who you are. >> [music] >> to you.

You are you maker, miracle [music and singing] worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My [music and singing] God, that is who you are. who you are.

>> Worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are. [singing] [music] Miracle worker, light in the darkness.

My God, [music] that is who you are. Promise [music] light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are.

Even when I don't see it, you're working. Even when I don't feel it, you're never stop. You never stop.

You never stop. You never stop. >> Even when I don't see it.

>> Even you never stop working. You never stop. You never stop working.

Even [music] when I [singing] don't feel it, you're working. You never stop. You never stop working.

You never [music] stop. You never stop working. I know [singing] you're working.

You never stop. You never stop working. You never stop.

You never stop working. Yeah, you're working for me. Way maker, [music and singing] miracle worker, promise keeper, light in [music] the darkness.

My God, that is who you are. [singing] miracle worker, light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are.

Way maker, miracle worker, promise keeper, light in the darkness. My God, that is who you are. You always take away, light in the darkness.

My God, that is who you are. [music and singing] That is who you are. >> That is who you are.

>> That is who you are. That is who you are. That is who you are.

That is who you are. That's who you are. [music] Amen.

[applause] So thankful. He's a miracle worker. He's a promisekeeper.

Amen. >> Let's stand as we sing. Sing to the King.

Give God praise this morning. >> Oh, lift your voices, church. [music] Sing to the king is coming away.

Glory to Jesus. The lamb [singing and music] that was slain. My salvation is my [music] suffering and joy to the nations that Jesus is king to Jesus.

It is all we need. [music] up a heart of praise. Sing now the voices praise to Jesus.

Sing to the king for his return. [singing and music] We watch and we pray. We will be the dawn of the day.

will join and sing all [music and singing] the redee and Jesus [music and singing] is king. [singing] us. So we belong to Jesus.

[singing and music] He is all we need. [music and singing] sing [music] [singing and music] the song we belong to Jesus and he's all we need [music] our [singing] heart of praise Now voice to Jesus. [music and singing] Sing to the king.

[singing] [music] Holy, holy, holy, [singing and music] Lord God Almighty. Burning [singing] in the morning. My soul shall rise to thee.

Holy, holy, holy, merciful [music and singing] and mighty God in [music] great mercant [singing] bless his family. Holy, [music] holy, [singing] holy Lord God Almighty. All thy [music and singing] works shall praise thy name and earth and [music and singing] sky and sing.

Holy, holy, holy, merciful [music and singing] and mighty God in three person, blessed. Oh, let's give the Lord praise this morning. Thank you.

Can be seated. Choir is going to sing a song now. It's called Jesus Saves.

Aren't you thankful for the blood of Jesus? Let's worship him. Every drop of blood that touched the ground cried, "Jesus saves." Jesus saves.

>> The world of sin [music] rejoice to hear the [singing] sound that Jesus [music] saves. [singing] Jesus saves. Even [music] the sword that pierced his side [music and singing] cried, "Jesus saves.

Jesus [music] saves." The message of his arms [music and singing] stretched open wide in Christ. [music] Jesus saves. Jesus saves.

[singing and music] Oh, hallelujah. [music] I'm reing. [singing] I been pardonful and free.

Oh, because [singing] the blood still [music] sings. Jesus saves. Jesus [singing] saves.

[music] All the host of [singing] heaven now proclaim. [music] Jesus. Jesus.

In the book [singing] of life beside my name is Jesus saves. Jesus saves. [music] Oh hallelujah.

I'm redeemed. [music] [singing] Oh I' been [music] part [singing] and free. Oh, [music] because [singing] the blood still sings.

Jesus saves. [music and singing] Jesus saves. And [singing] today the blood [music] still sings.

Jesus [singing] saves. Jesus [music] saves. And today the blood still [music and singing] shuses.

[music] Jesus saves. Jesus saves. My Jesus saves.

[singing] He still [music] saves. >> [applause] >> Well, let's stand as we continue worship and we'll sing I worship you, Almighty God. I worship you a mighty God.

There is none like you. I worship [singing] you, [music] oh prince of peace. That [music and singing] is what I want to do.

[music] I give you praise [singing] for you are my rightousness. [singing] [music] I worship [singing] you almighty [music] God. There is none.

[singing] >> Let's sing that one more time. I worship [singing] you alm mighty [music] God. There is none [singing] like you.

I [music] worship you. Oh prince [singing] of peace. That [music] is what I want [singing] to do.

I give you [music] praise. For you [singing] are my rightousness. [music] I worship [music and singing] you, oh mighty God.

There is none like you. Our father [singing] everlasting, [music] the all created one [singing] God almighty through your holy [singing] spit. conceiving Christ the [music] son Jesus [singing] our savior.

Sing it church. I believe in [singing] God our father. I believe in Christ the [singing and music] son.

I believe in the Holy Spirit. Our God is three and [singing] one. I believe in the [music] resurrection that we will [singing] rise again for I believe in the [singing and music] name of Jesus.

[singing] our [music] judge and our defender. [singing] Suffered and crucified. [music] Forgiveness is in [singing] you.

Descended into [music and singing] darkness, you rose in glorious light. Forever [music and singing] seated high. I believe [music] in [singing] God our father.

I believe in Christ the son. I believe in the Holy [music and singing] Spirit. Our God is three and one.

[music] I believe in the resurrection [singing] that we will rise again. [music] For I believe in the name of Jesus. [singing and music] I believe in you.

>> [music] >> I believe you rose [singing] again. I [music] believe that [singing] Jesus Christ is Lord. [music] [singing] I believe in you.

I believe [music] you rose [singing] again. I [music] believe that Jesus [singing] Christ is Lord. [music] [singing] I believe in life eternal.

I believe in [singing] the virgin birth. I [music] believe in the holy communion and in your [singing] holy church. I believe in [music] the resurrection when [singing] Jesus comes again.

For [music] I believe in the name [singing] of Jesus. [music] I believe in God our [singing] father. I believe in Christ the son.

[music] I believe in the Holy Spirit, [singing] our God is three and one. I believe in the resurrection [music] that he will rise again. For I believe in the [music and singing] name of Jesus.

I believe in God our father. I believe [music] in Christ the son. I believe in the [singing] Holy Spirit.

Our God is three and [music] one. I believe [singing] in the resurrection that we will rise [music] again. For [singing] I believe in the name of Jesus.

For I believe in the [music] name of Jesus. For I believe in the name [singing and music] of Jesus. Let's give the Lord praise this morning as you're seated.

Well, this man needs no introduction around here. So, let's welcome Brandon Phillips to the stage. [applause] All right.

He said it was easy turning the mic on. Not for me. I need a YouTube video.

Well, good morning, church. Hey man, I tell you, I was sitting there thinking about David. David asked me, he said, "Brandon, is there a song that you would like for me to sing and he sung?" Well, I I gave him two uh and sorry for that, but I I there was two that I wanted to hear, but the blood still cries, Jesus saves.

Amen. I I I was thinking there as I was sitting at my chair, you know, we get excited about a football game or we get excited about a political speech or we get excited about uh, you know, a bonus or maybe some more money in our bank account. The question I have to ask this morning, why in the world don't we get excited?

Because Jesus still saves. Amen. Amen.

>> I mean, my goodness, guys. We come to church and sometimes we just sit and we just look. And I'm going to tell you, every time I come to church, I thank the Lord that I'm able to stand in his presence and worship him in his house.

All because the blood still cries. Jesus saves. Jesus saves.

>> And I don't know about y'all, but I get very excited because anytime I get to preach the word of God or uh sit and study the word of God, it excites me. And here's another rule I got. I don't worry about the time.

It's Memorial Day. You don't got to work tomorrow anyway. Amen.

So, we're just going to keep the Lord is just gonna we're gonna preach and preach and preach and and guys, if you get tired, take a water break, but come back in and sit down. All right. But then I was thinking, Pastor Roger, everybody asked me, "Pastor, how's the church going?

How's the church going? How's the church going?" I always give you a little update. But guys, I was this past uh week, I was able to baptize a woman.

And this woman, I met with her four months, and she was telling me that she was a Christian. And I I said, "Okay, that's that's 80% of America would tell me they're a Christian. That ain't good enough for me." And so I asked her, I said, "Well, what makes you a Christian?" "Well, I believe in Jesus." I said, ' Okay.

Well, even the the demons in hell believe in the name of Jesus. And so then I asked her, I said, 'Well, what's your life look like? Well, brother Pastor Roger, we got to peeling the onion, brother.

And I looked at her, and I'm not going to go through her life story or what she told me, but I looked at her, Pastor Roger. I said, you know, I I I the way your life you live your life, I just don't know if you know Jesus Christ as your Lord and Savior. And as a pastor's that's one of the hardest things to do, but that's what God's called us to do.

Now, I don't know if she was uh I know she wasn't saved at that moment, but the the spirit told me that. And I don't go around telling people if they're saved or not, but when you give me your testimony and nothing you say lines up with what uh Christian is, I have to tell you, well, I according to the Bible, it doesn't seem like you are saved. And she got mad, Pastor Roger.

She got up. She stormed out of my office. She didn't come back to the church for three months.

And I said, "Well, you know, I prayed for her for three months." Well, one Sunday about two months ago, she show she shows back up to church. And then three weeks ago, I preached a sermon on God turning you over to a corrupt mind. And as I was doing the invitation, boy, she flooded.

She came. I didn't even have to say, "You can come." she was coming. Tears in her eyes, she accepted the Lord Jesus Christ.

But last week, I had an opportunity to baptize her. And I was baptizing her. And at the end of the service, three, well, two of her children, 15 and 12 years old, plus their friend walked the aisle and they got saved at her baptism.

Amen. I just hit the ground and I thank I I just thank God for using a sinner like me and God is so so good and God still saves and God still loves you and the blood still cries. And I was thinking about that as I was as I was worshiping.

All right, I want you to turn in your Bibles to Genesis chapter 12. Genesis chapter 12. What is faith?

Now, here's what I want you to do. I often tell my church this. I want you to I want you to take your index finger, hold it up for me.

Stretch that bad boy out. You're going to need it today. Amen.

We're going to be script We're going to be flipping through scriptures, but we got the scripture. I gave David my sermon so he can make a PowerPoint so you could keep up. But what is faith?

Now, a lot of people say they walk by faith or they live by faith, but that's not the case. You do know as a Christian, God has called us to walk by faith. Every one of us in here is called to walk by faith.

You know why God calls us to walk by faith? Because if you knew everything and you knew every detail of the step of the plan that he's called you to, you never go. When God called me into ministry seven years ago, I had to answer that call by faith.

And let me tell you something, guys. If God would have detailed every plan in my life to get me there, Pastor Roger, I probably would have cowed down. So when I was called into ministry, I was called into ministry to walk in faith.

So what is walking in faith? Well, Abram here gives us a great example what walking in faith is. Let's read the word.

It says, "Now the Lord has said to Abram, go out of your country, from your family, from your father's house, to a land that I will show you." God says this, "I will make you a great nation. I will bless you and make your name great, and you shall be a blessing. I will bless those who bless you, and I will curse him who curses you, and in you all the families of the earth shall be blessed." So Abraham or Abram departed as the Lord had spoken to him and Lot went with him.

And Abram was 75 years old when he departed from Heron. Then Abraham took Sarah's wife and Lot his brother's son and all their possessions that they had gathered and the people whom they had acquired in Heron and they departed to go to the land of Canaan. So they came to the land of Canaan.

Abraham passed through the land, the place of Sheckchum, as far as the tabernet tree of Moriah and the Canaanites were then in the land. Then the Lord appeared to Abraham, said, "To your descendants, I will give this land." And there he built an altar to the Lord who appeared to him. And he moved from there to the mountains east of Bethl, and pitched his tent with Bethl on the west, and Ai on the east.

There there he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord and Abraham journeyed going still towards the south. Let's go to the Lord. Dear heavenly father, Lord, we thank you for this day.

Lord, we thank you for the opportunity to be in your house. Lord, we thank you for the worship. Lord, we thank you for the blood that still cries.

You save, Jesus saves. Lord, we just want to thank you for the opportunity to be here at Calvary to preach the word. Lord, I pray that this message is spoken by the Holy Spirit, not by man.

Lord, I must decrease so you can increase. Lord, this sermon is not about me. Lord, this sermon is not about how I've grown or anything.

Lord, this sermon's all about you. And Lord, we give you all the glory. Lord, we thank you, Lord.

for your grace and your mercy. Lord, we thank you for your love. Lord, we just come to you this morning, fallen at the feet of Jesus, calling on your name.

Lord, speak to us today. Lord, it's in Christ's holy name we pray. Amen.

So, what is faith? So, I did something a little interesting today. I took faith and that's going to be your point.

So the first letter in the word faith is F. So let's look at the first point. It says this in verse one.

Now the Lord has said to Abraham, get out of your country, from your family and from your father's house to a land that I will show you. So how do what is faith or how do we walk by faith? The first point is this.

You have to forsake everything. You have to forsake everything. I want you to look at the screen or turn with me to Hebrews chapter 11 verse one.

Hebrews chapter 11 verse one. And I always tell my uh church people when you get there say amen or you could just look at the screen. Hebrews 11 verse1.

It says this. Now faith is the substance of things hoped for, the evidence of things not seen. That's the biblical definition of faith.

Guys, we hope for it, but we can't see it yet. Let me give you an illustration. Faith is more than just an agreement with God.

All right, here's what I want you to do. Imagine you're at Niagara Falls watching a tight roper. And he's pushing a wheelbarrow across the rope on Niagara Falls.

And you've watched him 10 times go back and forth. Next thing the the tightropper asked, he says, "I need a volunteer to sit in the wheelbarrow." Now, here's the question. Would you sit in a wheelbarrow?

On a intellectual level, you may believe that he could successfully push you over there. You've saw him do it 10 times. See, a lot of people believe that God can do something in their life.

A lot of people believe that they the promises of God. A lot of people believe that God has done mighty works in their life. They have actually experienced.

But here's the problem, Pastor Roger. Nobody's willing to get in the wheelbarrow. So when you are called to walk by faith, the first thing you have to do is you have to forsake everything.

Guys, look at the verse. It says this, Abraham, you got to get out of your country. You got to get away from your family.

And you got to get away from your father's house. What God's telling Abraham is this. You got to leave everything you know.

You got to leave this land. You got to leave your family. Abraham, I have to get you away from them.

Because when you walk by faith, you have to rely on me. >> Because if Abraham would have stayed in that land, if Abraham would have been with that family, let me tell you something, guys. He would have put all his faith and trust in his possessions and his family.

Anytime God calls us to walk by faith, we have to forget and forsake everything we know. See, here's the problem with walking with faith. Step one hangs up most of us.

God, I want to follow you. God, I want to walk with you. God, I trust you're calling me into this.

But Lord, I can't lose my home. I can't lose my job. I can't lose my friends.

I can't lose my family. Lord, I can't do this. See, here's what God's telling you, God.

You've got to step out on faith. And you have to forsake everything you love and everything you know because I want to be your provider. I remember when I was called into ministry, Pastor Roger, and and I was getting ready to graduate from Futin.

And as I was getting ready to graduate, this church in Colombia, South Carolina calls. And guess what they said? Pastor, we want you to come down.

We want you to lead this church. We want you to be the pastor. But brother Tim, I had to leave everything I ever knew.

I was five minutes down the road from my mother. I was in a nice cushy job. I I was going to a land I had no idea anybody there.

And let me tell you something. I love my church, but down there in Pion, South Carolina, they're a little different. Amen.

But God saying, "Brandon, I called you." And guess what? When we first got down there, nights were hard, days were rough, but you know who I had? God.

God was allowing me to get away from everything so I would fully trust him. I want you to look at something real quick. I want you to Matthew 4 and and and and don't worry, it's on the screen.

Just take notes. Matthew 4. I did this because we're going to be uh uh flipping a lot.

Matthew 4. And I want you to read this is when Jesus calls the disciples. Matthew 4:18 And Jesus walking by the Sea of Galilee saw two brothers, Simon called Peter and Andrew his brother, casting a net into the sea, for they were fishermen.

Then he said, "Follow me, and I'll make you fishermen of men." What's the key word in there? Follow me. When I was called into ministry, I knew the only way I would sustain in ministry is I had to follow Christ.

Any anytime you are walking by faith, you're going to have to follow Jesus. You're gonna have to forsake everything you thought, everything that you love, and you're going to have to follow Jesus. You know why, Pastor Roger, that I graduated with 33 men at Futland Baptist Bible College.

There's four in the ministry today. 10% of the men that graduated from Futland are in ministry. Why?

Because they wouldn't willing to forsake everything. The world got a hold of them. The job, the money, their house, they didn't want to move.

Guys, when God called me into ministry, I would go anywhere to preach the gospel. Why? Because I follow Christ.

Now here's the next thing I want us to get to. So first we have to forsake everything. The next point is this is you have asurances in God's promise.

The A in faith is assurance. Now here I want us to look at God's promises to Abraham. He said get out of your country from your family from your father's house to the land I will show you in this verse two.

I will make you a great nation. That's the first promise. God said,"Abraham, if you leave, I'll make you a great nation." Now, I want you to realize, guys, at this point, Abraham has no children, and he's at the age of 75 years old.

Abraham cannot be a great nation without God intervening. And God says this, Abraham, I'm going to make you a great nation. See this promise cannot be done without God.

God saying,"Abraham, I'm going to make you a great nation." Then the second promise is this. He says, "And I will bless you." Not only am I going to make you a great nation, Abraham, but I'll bless you. Now, I want us to look closely at the scripture.

He says that does God say, Abraham, I'm going to bless you with a house on Lake Wy with a a new Tahoe with a bass boat. No. God says, "I will bless you." This is one of the most common misunderstanding things in scripture.

What you think of being blessed and what the Well, let me tell you what the world thinks of being blessed is not being blessed by God. I hear people all the time, you see them athletes, they, you know, they're on TV and they're in the NBA and and they'll go up to the microphone and boy, they'll say, "Well, I've been blessed. I'm blessed." Why?

Because you can dribble a ball because you make $30 million a year. Let me tell you something. What the world has to offer you is not blessing.

It's a curse. What God promised Abraham, he says, "I will bless you." And what that mean, what the blessing mean is this guys. If we are washed with the blood of Jesus, if we are standing firm in our in the foundation of none other than the Lord Jesus Christ, if our destination's heaven, you can have my car, you can have my wife.

Nope, not my wife. I want her. Amen.

But you can have my car, you can have my bank account, YOU CAN HAVE ALL THE THINGS IN THIS WORLD'S GOT TO. You can take it all away, Brother Tim. And guess what?

I'm still blessed in the because of the promises of God. Amen. >> Abraham says, "I'm God said, I'm going to bless you not with money, not with wealth, but I'm going to b bless you with a fruitful life.

I'm going to bless you because your name, for your name's sake, I'm going to bless you, guys. I'm the most blessed man in the world." You want to know why? I don't have the most money.

I don't got a lakehouse. I don't got a beach house. But you know why I'm blessed?

Because last Sunday, God has called me to preach the gospel. And I got to see three people give their life to Christ. That is more than any amount of money in this world.

God says, "I'll bless you, Abraham. I'm going to promise you a life that's going to be fulfilled. I'm going to promise you, it's going to be tough, Abraham, but your life's going to be blessed because you're going to be right in the center of my will.

But then, let's look at the next blessing. He says, "I will make your name great." And what I want you to realize, guys, this stands in direct contrast of the Tower of Babel, which comes in Genesis 11:4. Just flip one page back in Genesis 11:4.

Let's look at this. And this is the tower of Babel. And they said, "Come, let us build oursel a city and a tower whose top is in the heavens.

Let us make a name for ourself." They wanted to make a name for themsel. But here, God's telling Abraham, "I'm going to make a name for you. You're not going to be able to do it, Abraham." So the message of the Tower Babel is those who exalt themselves will be humbled.

They thought that they were going to make a name for themselves. And guess what? God humbled them.

But let me tell you something. The ones that are humbled, God exalts. Now look, guys, I'm not in the preaching business to make a name for myself.

I'm not even on social media. But I'm oftent times people want to make a name for theirelves. They want to be the greatest at this.

They want to be the greatest at that. But let me tell you something, guys. That doesn't lead to nothing but pride.

Only those who humble themselves can God exalt. And Abram humbled himself. Look at this.

He says, "I will bless you and I'll make your name great and you shall be a blessing. You shall be a blessing." I was thinking about this today. You're going to be a blessing, Abraham.

And I was thinking about that, Pastor Roger. Without Abram, we wouldn't have the word of God. Without Abram, Jesus Christ would have never been born.

Well, God would have used another lineage, but through Abram, Jesus was born. He says, "I want you to bless others. I just don't want you to keep these blessing Abraham.

I want you to bless others." Here's my question to you, this church this morning. Are you a blessing to others? Pastor Roger, I know that there's people that walk in these doors are the most miserable, the most judgmental, the most critical.

They always got something to say. They're not going to serve because this person did that. They'll come in, pastor Roger, you want to know how I know?

Because they're at every church. And let me tell you something. When you have that critical mind and when you are always constantly complaining, how can you ever be a blessing to anybody else?

God says this, Abraham, I don't want you just to be blessed. I want you to bless others. And let me tell you something, Pastor David.

The only way that I can ever bless anybody is not paying their light bill. I can't I I I mean given right. Thank you pastor.

Thank you for blessing me. No, I cannot bless you. Only God can bless you.

But how can I be a blessing to other? Here's how it is. You ready church?

We can share the good news of Jesus Christ. That's the only way I can ever bless anyone. But Abraham the four promises says you are not not only are you going to be blessed but I want you to bless those around you.

And then the fifth and sixth promise go together. It says this, I will bless those who bless you and I will curse him who curses you. So these go together.

I'll bless those who bless you and whoever curses you I will curse. We see this through Abraham's life. Just in the next chapter, Pharaoh will be cursed for the way he treated Abraham.

Even though Abraham wasn't completely honest with Pharaoh, he's still going to be cursed. We see this through history. Nations and empires have fallen because they the way they had treated Israel.

The Greeks fell when they desecrated the altar in the temple. They were uh then conquered by the Romans. The Romans fell after the persecution and killing of the Christians.

Rome fell, guys. Every nation that has went against God's people, I got news for you. They're going to fall.

Hitler fell. Germany fell. Six million Jews killed.

Let me tell you something, guys. Everybody that goes against the nation of Israel, God keeps his promises. Amen.

And let me tell you something. I'm gonna get on a rant here. You ready?

People in in the world today say, "Well, did God should we support Israel or should we not? Should we support Israel or should we not? But here's what I'm telling you.

By the word of God, by what we just read, we should stand behind the nation of Israel. Amen. >> And let me tell you something.

It sickens me to see in America today that that people are on the street corners, free Palestine. Free Palestines. You have no idea.

They have no idea the lie that Satan has put in their head of what the Palestines are. You You are standing for someone who throws homosexuals off the building. You are standing with someone who rapes 12 year old women.

You are standing for someone that beats women and are complete control. Women have no rights. It makes absolutely no sense for me today to sit in America where people are willing to stand for hate and evil, but yet they are rejecting God's people and that is the nation of Israel.

It makes no sense. >> Amen. >> Now, do I agree with everything he's done?

No. But guess what? God tells me to stand with Israel.

He says this, "And then all the families on earth shall be blessed." 4,000 years later, we are still blessed. This is the seventh promise and this is the completion of the blessing. There's no way to be blessed by God apart from Abram.

You think about that. That's a bold statement. Well, think about this.

Without Abram, and we can go back to Matthew 1, and you can see him right in our Messiah's lineage. See, nations are blessed today because of Abrams. He was faithful.

Here's the question I want to ask you. How many people today are blessed because of what you've done? Are your children blessed because they got a godly mother and a godly father at home?

Is your co-workers blessed because they work with a godly co-orker? Is your church blessed because you're a good and faithful servant to the Lord? See, if we could just take these promises and guys, if we don't apply them to our life, they mean absolutely nothing.

Abram gave God gave Abraham seven promises. I look guys and it took Abraham a great deal of faith for Abraham to respond to these promises. He had no children.

His wife was up in the age. But note this when we look at this guys, when we look at the promises and this is how you walk by faith. You have to forsake everything.

You have to have assurance in the promise. Look at this. It says verse back to verse two.

I will make I will show. I will bless. I will bless.

I will curse. I I I see. Here's the promise.

Here's the good thing about God's promises and the assurance that we have. God always keeps his promises. This brings me to the third point in this.

So we see the eyes and eyes and eyes. So faith is forsaken everything having assurance in God's promises. And then then here's the next thing.

So God saying I'm going to do this. Now here's your responsibility. You have to believe in the great I am.

See, God's saying,"Abraham, I'm going to do these things and I got it all taken care of. But here's your responsibility. You have to trust me.

You have to believe me. >> I want you to understand why we need the great I am." Now, let's understand what I am is. John 8:58 Jesus said most assurely I say to you before Abraham was I am now Jesus was saying these things and it must have it upsetted the Jewish leader but Moses asked God in Exodus 3 14-15 when God called him to go out to the Israelite he said what well well God what do you want me to tell them and God said to Moses I am who I am and he said thus you shall me.

You shall say to the children of Israel, I am has sent me to you. >> I am. Well, here's what I want you to understand before we get into the great I ams.

Number one is this. Jesus and God never change. Amen.

>> The culture can try to push that God does this and God does that and God accepts this and God accepts that and does God really love us and is God really going to do this? Is God going to really do that? Let me tell you something guys.

It doesn't matter if a thousand years pass from today. It doesn't matter a thousand years for today, a million years before that. The great I am is still the great I am.

And God doesn't change based on man's sin. Amen. >> He's still the great I am.

He's still the promisekeeper. He still is the miracle worker. The great I am never changes for man.

And God told uh Moses and he's TELLING ABRAHAM, I AM WHO I am and I'm going to do what I said I'm going to do. Amen. >> So let's understand that God doesn't change for man.

He says I am or I will Abraham I will. But Jesus gives us exactly who God is. Remember when Jesus came and walked this earth, Jesus had seven sayings to show us exactly who God is.

In John 6:35, Jesus says, "I am the bread of life. Who comes to me shall never hunger and he who believes in me shall never thirst." The first I am. Jesus is saying, God in the flesh, I am the bread of life.

And what does that mean? Well, he's saying this just after he fed the multitude. But what Jesus is saying this, guys, is I'm more than what you can get.

I'm what you need. Amen. See, a lot of people will say, "God, I need you.

God, I need you to fix this. God, I need you to fix that. God, I need you to do this in my life.

God, will you come and heal me? God, will you come heal my wife? God, will you come fix my marriage?" But here's the problem with the matter is, guys, you need more from Jesus than what you think.

Jesus says, "I am the bread of life. I'm the only one that can fill your spiritual hunger. The next thing Jesus says is this.

John 8:12, I'm the light of the world. When Israel left Egypt, John 8:12, I'm the light of the world. He who follows me shall not walk in darkness, but have the light of life.

When Egypt left Israel, I mean, when Israel left Egypt, God led them with a pillar of fire at night and a a cloud by day. When we follow Jesus, let me tell you something, guys. We're going to walk in a dark world.

We walk in a dark world, but Jesus is our light. Friend, this world loves darkness, but we follow the light. See what Abram had to realize is this is God is not going to change.

God is going to fulfill his every spiritual need. God is going to lead him on the path. He has to believe in the I will.

But before you can believe and before you can walk by faith, you got to know who Jesus is. And Jesus says, "I am the light." And this is why the world turns their back on Jesus because the light exposes darkness. See, I want Jesus.

I want Jesus to come in my life. I want Jesus to do all those things. But here's the problem, guys.

Before Jesus can come into your life, you have to repent. And once the light shines who you really are, it's going to it's going to identify your sin and that makes you uncomfortable. So, you want Jesus, but you don't want to repent.

Often times I hear it all the time, Pastor Roger, Pastor, I said this prayer. I know I'm saved. You know, that is a lie that we've been telling the church for some time.

Just because you said a prayer, matter of fact, I I challenge you. Go anywhere in the New Testament, the Gospels, and show me where Jesus said, Andrew, Mark, John, say this prayer after me. It ain't there.

You know what Jesus says? Follow me. H.

So when you when you walk with Christ, guess what you're going to do? You're not just going to say a prayer and go live like hell the rest of the week. When you follow Christ, that means you have to die to self.

You have to pick up your cross and care daily. See, somebody who's truly saved by the blood of Jesus don't want to go back to being a drunk. They're not going to keep doing the same sin every day.

Jesus says, "I am the light." Get Thank goodness for Jesus being the light. Because if Jesus wasn't the light in this dark world, I would be lost. You would be too.

Then the next thing Jesus says is, "I am the door." or John 10:7-9 Jesus said, "Most assurely I say to you, I am the door of the sheep." See guys, what you got to understand, sheep were kept in a round stone fence with only one entrance. And the shepherd, he was the door because he would lay across the opening that prevented predators from coming in. So Jesus is saying, "I am the door.

I'm the one that is protecting the sheep from the enemy. But I was thinking about that, Pastor Roger. That sounds good.

And I believe that's true. But what Jesus says as I am the door to enter this pastor. You want to be a part of my sheep, you got to come through me.

See, there's some people that try to go around the wall. You ain't going to get in. If you want to be a part of God's flock, there's one way in.

And Jesus is that way. >> Then Jesus says, "I'm the good shepherd." John 10:11, "I'm the good shepherd." The good shepherd gives his life for the sheep. I want you to read uh the 23rd Psalms.

And I want you to meditate on what the good shepherd does. As Christians, guys, we are the sheep. Now, I know they look cute and cuddly and they look nice and they got make that weird little noise, but guys, sheep are very dependent creatures.

I'll be honest with you, sheep or follow anybody. Sheep are dumb. And without the good shepherd, guess what would happen to them?

They would perish. We need protection. And the good shepherd protects us.

Jesus says, "I'm the resurrection and life." John 11:25, "I'm the resurrection life. Who believes in me, though may die, he shall live." We can trust Jesus because he's defeated sin and death, and we only have life through him. He's saying, "I will.

I will. I will." See, here's the problem, guys. A lot of us have no idea who Jesus really is.

We make them up that it's God that we just make up in our mind. But Jesus wants to save you. Jesus wants to feed you.

Jesus wants to protect you. Jesus wants to guide you. Jesus wants you to have everlasting life.

And how do you do that? Easy. John 14:6, Jesus says, "I'm the way, the truth, and the life.

Nobody comes through the Father except through me." Now, think about that. I'm the way, the truth, and the life. So, if you ever want to know how to get to heaven, you type in John 14:6.

Jesus is the way. You can trust him, and if you do, you'll have life. John 14:6 is one of my favorite scripture of all.

I'm the way, the truth, and the life. Now, here's what I want you to understand. The way to Jesus, Matthew 7 tells us, "The gate is narrow." Now, you'll say, "Well, pastor, that don't sound good." Well, it's it's actually very good.

Jesus says, "The gate is narrow, but broad is the way that leads to destruction." The gate is narrow, meaning this. You can't come on the way with all your sin. Amen.

It's narrow. Yet it's narrow, but yet it's big enough for the whole world to fit in. Broad is the way that leads to destruction.

You want to know why that is, Miss Pam? Because broad, you can bring anything you want with you. And guess what?

That's going to lead you to destruction. Jesus says, "I am the way, the truth, and the life." And then the last one, Jesus says, "I'm the true vine." John 15:1. Let me tell you something, church.

this church or Abram or Brandon Phillips can do nothing apart from Jesus. I am the vine and my father is the vine dresser. Guess what, guys?

If we're not connected to the vine, we're helpless. We're hopeless. So, let's take all these seven things.

I will. I will. I will.

So, what God's telling Abraham, Abraham, I want to be your light. Abraham, I want to be your food. Abraham, I want to protect you.

Abraham, I want to lead you. Abraham, you gota only way you're going to make it is you got to stay connected to me. Abraham, I am the life, Abraham.

I'm the resurrection life, Abraham. This is your hope. The only way you're going to do this is you've got to believe in the great I am.

And then then we get to the the the the T. You have to trust in God's plan. So Abraham departed as the Lord had spoken to him and Lot went with him.

Uhoh, we got a problem. We got an unwanted guest on the trip. Lot should have never go.

Let's look at verse uh verse 12. Now the Lord has said to Abraham, "Get out of your country from your f family and from your father's house. We got somebody going on that shouldn't have been going on, Miss Pam.

Lot's coming along. And what we know is this is Lot becomes a big hindrance to Abraham. You know about Sodom and Gomorrah.

Well, God takes care of it in verse and uh chapter 13 verse 10. But we see that Lot goes on. Here's what I want to tell you guys.

Partial obedience is not trusting God. Abraham is bringing Lot along. And I know what y'all thinking, guys.

It's a 500 mile journey. He's 75 years old. He's got a lot of stuff.

Abraham was saying, "I need some help." But see, God didn't ask him to rely on Lot to get him there. God asked them to rely on him to get them there. And so Abraham brings Lot and then you see this, but then he brings all their possessions that they had.

All right. Now, I'm going to step on some toes here. Abraham took all his possession.

And when the Lord got Abraham, he got everything Abraham had. Abraham didn't leave anything behind for the world. You can gauge, listen to me, a level of someone who truly has faith and trust in God by how much a person's willing to give God.

God, guys, we get hung up on tithes. I believe a person is to tithe. But what we don't get is God also owns that other 90% that you have.

God gives us everything. The whole 100% that what I have is God's. The reason some have nothing, listen to me, the reason that some have nothing is because they don't trust God with anything.

When we trust God with our money and our possessions, then God can bless us in ways that we never imagined. I was thinking about this the other day, Pastor Rod. Okay, God, I'm not a prosperity preacher and I'm not telling you give a $100 and got that's not what I'm telling you.

That's that's that's a lie. But I do know that Malachi 3:10, God that's the only time God says try me in tithing. try me in this.

But here's what I will say, guys. When I gave God everything, he provided for me with anything. Because I can remember going to Fruitland, guys, and a lot of people at this church, thank thank the Lord for this church.

I didn't have nothing, but yet I wanted nothing. You know, in my whole time at Futland, I want you to think about this church. And my whole time at Futland, two years, I look back on this later, didn't realize it, but do you know how much money I prayed I paid to go to Fruitland?

Here, I'll help you out. Not a dollar. God provided everything from the my cap to my pen to my paper to my gas.

God gave me everything I needed. When you're called to faith, you got to be willing to give God everything. And this and and and you got to be willing to leave some people behind that don't need to go with you.

Lot shouldn't have went, but Abraham wanted them to. So, they come to the land of Canyon. Let's look.

Let's keep going. I know it's getting late. Amen.

Y'all still with me? Amen. >> All right.

Because I love preaching, y'all. It says Abraham. So, so Lot went with him and he departed from Heron.

Abraham took his wife and Lot's brother's son and all their possession they had gathered the people whom they acquired from Heron and they departed to go to Atlantic Canyon. So, they came to the land of Canyon. All right, we're here.

500 mile trip. They're coming to the land of Canyon. Now, I bet this is a nice place.

I bet that there's a beachfront condo on the Dead Sea for Old Abram. No, no, no. He's going to the Atlantic Canyon.

And Atlantic Canyon is from the those Canyonites are from the grandson of Noah Ham, who was precur cursed because of his sins against Noah. The And so, let's give you a little bit of what Abraham's getting ready to walk into. He has to trust God.

He trusted God with all his possessions. He trusted God to get him there 500 miles. Now, now look what he's got to walk into.

So, let's think about the Canaanites. Well, the Canaanites sacrificed their children to Baal as a burnt offering. They would take their children and there was a a statue of Bale that had his arms out like this and they would lay their children on that statue and they would build a fire till it got so hot that it would consume their children.

And they thought that that was a blessing. And guess what guys? If they didn't get blessed then they would blame the priest.

The bell priest would say it was because you didn't believe enough. So these people in Canyon was sacrificing their children. Not only were they sacrificing their children, they was extremely sinful.

They worshiped, their worship revolved around prostitution, both male and female. Not only that, there was idolatry. The culture was heavily involved in magic, sorcery, and communicating with the dead.

Abraham, this is where you're going to go. You're going to go to a land where people are going to sacrifice their children, where sex is running rampant, and where they believe in magic and communicating with the dead. Abraham, here's what you where you're going to go.

Listen to me, church. You're going to go to America. When I was studying this in the Canaanites, guys, we we we abort over two million babies a year.

We sacrifice our children to the same God that they sacrifice their children to. Sexual immoral uh sexual uh uh sins are running rampid in our country. Guys, if you don't believe me, the biggest problem with our young men today is pornography.

You can't watch a TV commercial without seeing somebody half naked. You can't watch a TV show without having to read it for the first 15 minutes to make sure you don't have to look at sex or you don't have to see sex. And here's what I tell you guys.

YOU CAN'T EVEN GO TO WALMART today without looking at it. Do me a favor, ladies. Cover yourself when you're in public if you say you're a child of God.

But you look at it, guys. It's all around us. Oh, and then and then they worship magic.

Hey, call Miss Cleo for9.95 a minute. She'll tell you about your future. Sorcery cards.

You look and you see these people on TV constantly. They worship magic. They practice magic.

They think they're communicating with the dead. You know what they're communicating with? They're communicating with the devil from hell.

Amen. So Abraham, here's where you're going. You're going to America.

And guys, let me tell you something. For us to stand in America, we have to trust God. We got to believe in his promise and we got to forsake everything we knew.

But then this is the last thing I want you to look at, guys. Once we're in the once you trust God, once you have assurance in his promises, once you've forsaken everything and you believe in the great I am, you'll you'll know you're held in God's hand. The H for faith.

Look what Abraham does. So the Lord and uh Abraham passed through the place of Sheckchum as far as the termin tree of Mor and the Canaanites were there in the land. We talked about the Canaanites.

Then the Lord appeared to Abraham and said, "To your descendants, I will give this land." Hold on a minute. They're here and it's just us. Lord, how are you going to do this?

Here's the thing, guys. Abraham didn't see it, but he believed it. God says, "I'm going to do it, Abram." And he says this, "I will give you this land." And there he built an altar to the Lord who appeared to him.

And he moved from there to the mountains east of Bethl. And he pitched his tent with Bethl on the west and Ai on the east. So what did what did Abra So how do you live like you know you're held in God's hand?

Number one is this. You got to realize that you're just a traveler in this world. He had a tent, Pastor Roger.

And what that tent represented is everywhere that Abraham went, he knew his home wasn't there. that God could call him at any point at any time and he would pick up his tent and he would go and see he would go to Bethl and Abraham was heading to Bethl. Now what Bethl means is the house of God.

Now ain't this funny? You know what AI means? A land of destruction.

Hello. But he would go and what he would do is anytime God would call him. Abraham knew that God was in he was in God's hand and he didn't want to make his that world his home.

He knew at any moment that God could call him somewhere. He realized that he was just a pilgrim in the foreign land. He was just traveling through.

I got news for you this morning, guys. I don't know about you, but I know about Brandon Phillips. I'm just a pilgrim in this land.

I'm just traveling through. I just have a passport. This ain't my home.

I'm going to the uh to the promised land. I'm going to where Christ is. I'm going to where heaven is.

I'm going to spend my eternity with God. Let me tell you something. There ain't nothing worth in this world me planting my roots, saying, "I'm just a pilgrim.

I just have a tent. I'm just passing through." Amen. >> And that's what Abraham knew why.

He knew he was holding his hand. And then look what he does. He he he he pitched his tent to Bethl, the west, Ai, the east.

There he built an altar to the Lord and called on the name of the Lord. You know what he did? When he trusted God, God appeared to him and told Abraham, "It's gonna be all right." Abraham, I'm going to give you this.

Abraham believed him. He didn't even make he didn't even put build a permanent house. And the next thing you do, he is worshiping in the middle of the chaos.

Now, Pastor David, I'm going to say this. I know it's getting late, but I'm gonna say this. If you can't listen to a sermon for more than 45 minutes, you I'm telling you what, get right with the Lord.

Amen. But I'm going tell you this. He built an altar and he worshiped God.

And you know what that told me, Pastor David? He didn't care who saw him worship God. But here's what we do in church today.

I don't want to sing another song. Pastor David singing another song. Or let me give you a better one.

This is what we look like in church. Let me tell you something, guys. Last week, Sunday, matter of fact, I preached a sermon.

Let me tell you something. at a funeral. And let me tell you something, those people worship God like I've never saw before.

And what what will happen is this, Pastor David, we will come into the house. We're living in the land of Canyon, and the least we could do is to show people who we are and who we follow. We can worship God, but we come into church and we complain about how long we worship AND HOW LONG WE'RE SITTING IN CHURCH.

HOW ARE WE EVER GOING TO REACH THE LOST IF WE'RE NOT WILLING TO FALL ON OUR FACE BEFORE THE KING? >> AMEN. >> HOW ARE THEY EVER GOING TO SEE THAT WE'RE ANY DIFFERENT IF WE STICK TO A SCRIPT IN A PLAN?

WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS, WE'RE GOING TO DO THAT, WE'RE GOING TO DO THIS. NO. I WANT TO SEE THE HOLY SPIRIT BREAK OUT IN A CHURCH LIKE I DID LAST SUNDAY.

AND I WANT TO SEE PEOPLE FALL ON THEIR FACE AND WORSHIP GOD BECAUSE WHY? HE IS WORTHY. >> Abraham was not ashamed.

He was not scared. In the midst of the world, in the midst of the bells, in the midst of the sexual immorality, in the midst of everything, HE FELL ON HIS FACE. AND HE WANTED EVERYBODY TO SEE who protected HIM, WHO GUIDES HIM, WHO LOVES HIM, WHO CALLS HIM, WHO SAVED HIM, WHO HAS GOT A MIGHTY WORK IN THEIR LIFE.

AND GUYS, LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING. DON'T NEVER BE ASHAMED of what Jesus did for you. >> Amen.

>> Abraham was willing to worship. Whenever Abraham went, he built an altar. It was a testimony of the condition of Abraham's heart.

He believed God. Your worship is a testimony of your heart. If you believe God saved you, you're going to want to praise him.

If God's just something in your life, you ain't going to want to worship him. You want to see a man's heart, you see his worship. Abraham built a temple in the middle of evil.

Abraham knew he was in the hands of God. Worship is realizing that God has given you far more than you can ever give him. where Abraham worshiped in the midst of nothing but God's promises.

God's promises are enough. Abram trusted in the promises that led to Jesus. The difference between you and Abraham [clears throat] is this.

We got to see the promise and we're justified. You believe in Jesus and you're justified. But Abraham was justified because he believed that Jesus was coming.

I'm sitting here to tell you today, guys, some people have no faith. Some people I just heard three people come up to me and I'm not going to say who their names that they're battling cancer. Their wife's going through something or they they got something coming up in their life.

You know what I wish, Pastor Davis? I wish we could stay another hour and worship God. Amen.

But no, we're too busy. Gotta go. 12:00's about to hear.

Actually, Brandon's 15 minutes over. I had last week there was a lady. It was chaos at the end of service.

Three them three kids came up. We were we're dealing counseling them and and this and that and we had a little old lady, her name's Miss Maybelline Moore, Swedish could be 94 years old. She just got terrible news that she has cancer on her liver and cancer in her stomach.

And the the the the son came up to me and said, "Brandon, we really need to pray for mom." I said, "Okay." But the the altar call was going and people were getting saved and people were crying at the altar. And man, it was getting late, Pastor Roger. It was getting late.

And I said, "Well, we don't get out of church till 12:30." Amen. So, I'm early. Amen.

But the people were coming get saved. And I kept looking at my watch and I I walked up to the son and I said, "Gary," I said, "Next week we're going to pray or next uh this Sunday tonight we're going to pray for her." And you know what? I went back and I was standing.

I was praying with people and all of a sudden the Holy Spirit convicted me. He said, "Brandon, you talk about how important it is to worship. You talk about how important it is to prayer, and you're saying we're going to push it off." So, you know what I did?

Gary, bring your mom up here. We're going to sit her down right here. We're gonna go ahead and pray for her this morning.

Because you want to know why God is the great I am. And the great I am ain't on your time. He matter of fact, he exists out of the realm of time.

And let me tell you something, guys. You might be going through something in your life today and your faith is on zero. But here's what I can tell you.

God has provided for me and he'll provide for you in ways that you can't even imagine. Here's what I'm going to leave you with this. We serve a good God that keeps his promises.

So, you might be sitting here today going through marital issues. You might be sitting here today with a kid that has went wayward. You might be sitting here today not knowing who Christ is in your life.

Your faith is on nothing. But here's what I ask you to do. We're going to have a altar call and I I don't care how late we go.

But here's what I want you to do. You come pray that God gives you that faith. You have to trust in his promise.

You have to forsake everything you know. You got to believe in the great I am. and you will realize that you're held in his hands.

Dear heavenly father, Lord, we thank you for this sermon. Lord, we just ask that you be with these people. Lord, I preached the sermon that you wanted me to preach.

Lord, I love you. I thank you for the for the way, the promises in my life. Lord, I thank you for your grace and your mercy.

Lord, I thank you for never forsaking me or leaving me. Lord, you are a worthy God to be praised. Lord, as we go into this invitation, Lord, I pray that somebody might be sitting here struggling in something today.

And Lord, I just pray that they come. Leave everything behind and trust you. Lord, I thank you.

Lord, I love you. For it's in Christ's holy name we pray. Amen.

Let's stand as we sing. Lay it down at [music] the altar. Lord, you [music and singing] know my heart.

Lord, [singing and music] you know my need. Every [music and singing] step that I take, Lord, I feel the weight of every [singing] burden on me. And lay [singing] it down at [music] the altar.

Lay [singing] it down at your feet. I am desperate for [singing and music] mercy. I am [music and singing] desperate for peace.

You're the one that [music and singing] is holy and I'm the [singing] one who's in need. So I will lay [singing and music] down lay down at the altar. Who am [singing and music] I to you when you are [singing] everything?

[music] And though [singing] I cannot be sure that my gift would be pure and be fit for my king, [singing] lay it down [music] at the altar. Lay it [singing and music] down at your feet. I'm desperate for [singing] mercy.

[music] I am desperate [singing] for peace. [music] You're the one that is holy and I'm the [singing] one who's in need. So I will lay it [singing and music] down.

Lay it down at the altar. Lord, you [singing and music] know my heart. And Lord, you know my [singing and music] need.

Every step that [singing and music] I take, Lord, I feel the weight of every burden on [singing and music] me. Lay it down at the altar. [singing and music] Lay it down at your feet.

I [singing and music] am desperate for mercy. I am [music and singing] desperate for peace. You're the one that [singing and music] is holy.

And I'm the one who's in need. [singing and music] So I will lay it down. Lay it [music and singing] down at the altar.

Amen. Thank you, brother Brandon. Listen, uh I got saved after the service.

I got saved. God's dealing with your heart. You didn't come down, but you know he's dealing with your heart right now.

If you're not saved, if you've never trusted Christ, you know, if you're not sure if you go to heaven right now, you need Christ blood still, you know, and it takes that faith just following Christ. You will be outside there. That's what I did.

After the service, I came I got somebody outside. They came down inside and we got down at the altar and got saved. Thank you, brother Brandon.

Aren't you glad you came this morning? Amen. When's the last time you was at Well, it's I shouldn't say that.

It's 12:01, guys. Ain't God good? >> Amen.

Amen. God bless you. You have a wonderful afternoon.

Be at your place where God calls you. [music]