 Happy Mother's Day to everyone that's up this morning starting us on our way. We thank you for encamping your angels around us as we came into your house. One more time to worship and to praise you. Lord, we thank you for the privilege that you've given all of us mothers to be stewards over your children and to train them up in the way you have ordained us to train them up, Lord God, that when they older they may not turn away from you but draw closer to you. God, we thank you for that privilege and that opportunity. We ask you, we welcome you into this, into this place this morning. We welcome you into our heart and in our minds, receive our praise and our worship today. Help us to be on one, praise you. We love you. We adore you, God. We ask that you anoint every portion of this service, the benefit that you save to praise and to worship you. Lord, we thank you for this opportunity and this privilege to be in your house, to glorify you today. Receive us in Jesus' name. Amen. Praise the Lord, saints. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. Glory be God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I'll be reading your hair in Colossian, the second chapter, third chapter, verses 12 through 15. It's a put on. Therefore, as the elect of God, holy and beloved, bows of mercy, kindness, humbleness of mind, meetingness, long suffering, for bearing one another and forgiving one another. Any man have a quarrel against any, even as Christ forgave you, so also do ye. And above all these things put on charity, which is love, which is the bond of perfectness, and let the peace of God rule in your hearts to the which also you all call in one body and be thankful. May the Lord have the blessing to the reading and hearing of his word. I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Bless your holy name, Lord God. Hallelujah. We're here to let the Lord wear soldiers in the army of the Lord today. Thank you, Lord. Well, hallelujah. You know sometimes when you're in a battle, you might get surrounded. Amen. Hallelujah. The enemy may come in like a flood. Hallelujah. But the Lord, he lifts us up. Hallelujah. And he holds us in his righteous right hand. Thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah, Lord God, for fighting our battles for us, Lord God. We know that we're more than overcomers. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. And we are victorious in Jesus. Amen. Thank you, Lord. Bless you, Lord. There's a tag. I'm gonna sing that again. It's your body, Lord. It's your body. He's welcome, Bishop, at this time. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord because he's good. His mercy, endurance. Aren't you glad for Jesus today? When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all he's done for me, my soul cries, hallelujah. Thank God for saving me. Anybody glad to be saved today? Anybody glad to be walking with Jesus? Come on, somebody. Come on, somebody. It's great to be in the presence of the Lord in his house on this Mother's Day. Amen. Mothers are some of the best people in the world. Amen. Amen. I thank the Lord that I'm a man. Amen. Amen. Conventional wisdom is a Mother's task is never done. From dust to dawn, she has many things that she has to take care of. And I thank God for mothers. I had a great mother. I had a great, great mother. And I still appreciate her after all these years. I am who I am very much because of who my mother made me to be. Amen. And I'll get to that in the message today. But I'm just so excited to see all of you who are here today. And we appreciate the things that mothers have done for their families and for our church family. Amen. Amen. Amen. We're going to appreciate all of the mothers this morning. And I'm going to call the First Lady of this church, Pastor Bobby Alexander. She's going to come and she's going to make Mother's Day's presentations. Amen. God bless you. Amen. Happy Mother's Day to all the mothers. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. All the mothers raise their hands. Let's give God a clap. Amen. Thank God. Amen. I want to read a scripture. It's found in Psalms 139 verses 13 and 14. For you created my intermost being. You knitted me together in my mother's womb. I praise you because I'm fearfully and wonderfully made. Your works are wonderful. I know that full well. Now what is David saying here? David is saying, Lord, I praise you because of how amazing you made me. David is praising God because how amazing God made David to be. Every single person is a masterpiece of God. All was today at the Mother's Day. I'm talking to the mothers today. I know you men are masterpiece too and those who don't have. But I'm talking to the mothers today, okay? You are a masterpiece. You are a priceless art of work. It is because God is wonderful and that he made us to be wonderful. We are created and designed with the purpose, the blueprint of every mother in here are similar to other human beings, but they are not exactly the same. God made us all unique and different. Some are tall, some are short. Some are different colors. We have different shades of colors. Our hair texture is different. We're all different, but all unique is God on sight, amen? And I have more, but I'm going to wait. I want to read something too, another something. Today is Mother's Day, so I'm going to take my time. Mother's Day is made for women like you. This is a card that was given to me, but it was so appropriate. I want to read it to you all. A great mom is just the right blend of strength, humor, and love. A great mom knows when to step back, to step in, or simply let a hug do the talking. How many know a hug can do a lot of talking? Amen, amen. A great mom is there to celebrate life's good times and to comfort during the hard times. That's what a mom is all about. A great mom isn't about being perfect. She's about being sincere and honest and real. So today, the day to celebrate how wonderful you are and let you know you bring a lot of happiness into this world. So, mothers, you bring a lot of happiness into this world, amen? Just because a woman has a baby doesn't make her a mother. I want to let you know that. There's a lot of women who have babies and not mothers. But I praise God that we're all mothers in here, amen? Amen, amen. So your gift today is a word of expression to you to remember that you are loved, you're beautiful, and I want to encourage you to keep the faith. So your gift would say one of those words, love, beautiful, and faith. Amen. May I have the gift? Sonia, come help me. We are all the mothers to come. Wait, wait, just put that down right now. We're going all the mothers to come. All the mothers to come and line up. All moms, you're beautiful. You're beautiful. Look at these beautiful women. Aren't they beautiful? That's your mother. You two celebrate. Sit down. That's enough. Start from this side, okay? In this, it's a little token. We wish we could give you much more. But it's a little token. And I'm going to show you what's in these bags. I'm going to open mine so you don't have to open yours. But in this bag, in the purple bag, it's a cosmetic bag. They're beautiful. For one with greens, it says, not to say. In the light blue, I don't have a light blue. In the light blue bag, it says faith. Whoever got a light blue, say faith, amen? You have faith? Yeah, you have faith. So each one is a message to you. So remember that you're love, you're beautiful, and keep the faith. God make us beautiful, amen? So keep the faith. And I will all mothers to know that you love, you're beautiful, and we love you. You want to get a picture? I'll hold my balloon. Give me my balloon. I don't know if you want to get that up. No, that's okay. That's all right. That's okay. And open your bag and hold it out so they can see all your little beautiful love, whatever. Amen. And I have one more thing to tell you. Oh, you can have your seats down. Yeah. Now back east, where I'm from, or Midwest or South, whatever you want to call it, Missouri, where I'm from. On Mother's Day, the women used to wear red if your mother's still alive. Flowers. Or they were white if your mother has gone on transition. One of my in-laws sent this flower to me. And in it is my mother, picture of my mom. So all of us battle girls got one of these from one of our in-laws. So I want you all to know that, amen? That's why I'm wearing this flower. Took it from my mother. She was a great mom. And without further ado, we'll turn the service into the hands of Bishop Alexander. All right. We praise the Lord for the acknowledgement of our mothers. And we're just grateful that you're all here today to receive the honor that is due to you. And sometimes when you honor people, it's great if you're honored as the honoree. Amen. So we want to honor the First Lady. We want to honor Mother Sykes. And we want to honor Mother Adams. So would you all three mothers come and receive? Yes, yes. We didn't ask permission to make you a mother. Come right on. Come right on. You have to be above 75 to be a mother. On the mother board. You're a mother, honey. What do you want to know in and out? Here, here. Yes, just, all right. That's okay. That's right. There you go. And the First Lady. Oh, thank you. Oh, very nice. All right. Oh, yes. So when you all get 75, guess what? You'll be a part of the mother board. Thank you. Thank you, Sylvain. Thank you. All right, mothers, you can go back to your seats. Mothers, mothers, mothers, you all can go back to your seat. You know, they're enjoying their... Yes, that's right. All right, without further ado, we're going to have our special music today. We'll have our special music today. Our special music today by Brother Michael James. Let's receive him as he comes in Jesus' name. That's what it's going to take. That's what the Lord is. We shall come through as pure gold as we've been tried by the fire. Now, that doesn't sound too good, perhaps going through the fire. There's a great reward coming when we see a space. Amen. Well, today we're going to have a short message. It's four verses. I promise you, I won't hold you. Let's see what time is. I won't hold you past 1.30. All right. Today, I want to call your attention to the book of Ephesians. Realizing this is a Mother's Day, and I was seeking for the mind of God for a Mother's Day message. Many of the passages that came to my mind that I looked at, none of them fit. When the Lord is giving you a message, we just stop when we get the message. I'd like to do a sweet Mother's Day message for the mothers. Well, it's going to be a sweet message for them, but it's not all about them. And so hear ye the word of the Lord. Hear ye the word of the Lord. Not my word. I didn't choose the message. I'm the messenger. The common saying is, don't kill the messenger. Kill the message. Don't kill the messenger. All right. It's not going to be that bad. In Ephesians chapter number six, the first four verses is a call for a walk with God that is pleasing. Believers are different from the ordinary people. When I say believers, I'm speaking in terms of people who are truly a child of the king, repented of their sins, baptized in water in his name, and filled with the Spirit of God speaking in tongues as the Spirit gives them utterance. Those are people who are believers, true believers. The topic I've chosen for the message today is believers walking in authority. Believers walking in authority. In many instances, when we're tasked with an assignment, we feel unworthy perhaps that we can't meet that which we're called to do. And it's because perhaps that we're uncertain of who we are and what we're called to do. Well, Ephesians chapter six verse one says, children, obey your parents. In the Lord for this is right. This is an important, not only for the day of Paul and that society, but for every generation, this is necessary. This is mandatory and necessary. Children, obey your parents in the Lord for this is right. And that's what I want to look at. I want us to understand that it is a requirement that the Lord has made upon society. Every child who comes out of the mother's womb has an assignment when they hit the planet. Now, children are not told to obey parents because it pleases the parent, but because it pleases the Lord. Pleasing one's parent is, of course, a reason to obey them. Obey them. Now, it's so serious. Now, this is so serious that in the days of Moses, Moses said, honor thy father and thy mother and whoso curses father or mother. Let him die the death. Moses understood in leadership, he could have never gotten the people through the wilderness if there wasn't obedience. We're all called to obedience. And I just kind of marvel at what it must have been like for Moses to lead those millions of people, all of who were not willing to obey. Everybody comes here with their own agenda and will say, nah, I ain't doing that. And when you make your mind up not to do it, chances are very good that you won't. But see, when you don't obey, when you're not obedient, there's a price to pay when you don't. Help me, Jesus. Now, there's not anything in society that you should go against just because you don't want to do it. What is established that this is the rule, you got to follow the rule. You don't get to pick and choose which ones you're going to follow. You've got to obey back in the Old Testament when one cursed their parent. They said that a crow would come and pick their eye out. It's serious. Now, there's a good side and a bad side of instructions that we receive from our parents. Sometimes we're happy to hear what they say. And in many instances, we're not as happy. Maybe we'll just go ahead and say we're just not pleased at all. I used to be a kid. And sometimes it seemed like it was just too much. Asking too much. Why? Just to be obedient to the parent is what must be done for the Lord. And in this first clause here, the first verse here, is that obey your parents and the Lord. And then the first thing that comes to mind is why? Why do I have to do this? Why do I have to get up and go to school? Why do I have to take out the trash? On and on and on. We have a why for every assignment in many instances. But the reason why is because it's right. It's right. Now in our house, I say we grew up in the seminary because Mother Alexander was teaching all day every day in concerning her family. And what she said to us, don't tell the truth because you're afraid you'll get a beating if you don't. You notice I said beating. If you don't, she said, tell the truth because it's right. And so when you get it in your spirit that I've got to be right, God requires right. So we have to get our spirits controlled and be willing to do it no matter what it is, what it's what the Lord has required. Now verse two said, honor thy father and mother. The word honor means to esteem and value as precious. Yeah. Esteem and value as precious to show respect, reverence, kindness, courtesy, and obedience. We are to honor our father and mother to esteem them and value them as precious to respect and reverence them. And now tragically this is a rarity today. Too often children respond to their parents by talking back. This is this is today's, I was born back in the 40s, 1900. 1944 and you didn't talk back. Not in that day. Not unless you wanted a fat lift. Right. You're talking back and you get a backhand. Make you see stars and stripes and hear the music too. And young people in this day and time, they ignore their parents. And when you ignore a parent in our day in just a short time, if you haven't responded, boy, did you hear me? In this day and time, there's grumbling and complaining about what goes on in the house concerning children. That ain't right. They speak disrespectfully. They don't listen. They act like they know it. How'd y'all guess? I got this. I got this. Putting off the instructions of their parents. Well now, to be obedient to the Lord is you got to honor your father and your mother. You've got to esteem them highly. You have to yield your spirit. We're down to the third verse already. Let me read second verse for continuity. Honor their father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise. Let me get to that. Almost left that one. All right. The two promises made to children who honor their parents is that things will go well for that child. Now, you can be stubborn all you want. You can make it your own program if you can get by with it. But you're not going to win. I promise you, you will lose if you don't honor your father and your mother. But it says things will go well with the child. The child is assured that he will live a long life on earth. How many want to die in your youth? Any of the youth in here want to die while you're young? I think not. If you don't want to die young, you got to do it right. You can't have it your own way. You've got to humble yourself. Now that's the problem. We come with a big old ego and think that the world revolves around us. And it's got to be our way. I don't hear but two, three, eight minutes. But see, you can do it. You can play that game, but it's a losing game. You will not win. You hear? You will not win. You'll lose every time because it's out of the will of God. Forget your will. Seek the will of God. Lord, what would you have me do? What would you ask of me? And Lord, as a child, when I think they're being too tough, I'll say, Lord, have your will anyway. For once, I'm glad the Lord didn't strike me down. I was with some other of my friends and they were talking about their father. And the things they said about their father, well, they didn't actually say exactly what it was, but they were talking about him so bad that I said, well, my father's mean too. And they said, no, we know your father. Your father is a prince. And see what we want to do is we want to join in. You know how it is when somebody's Sue? We want to say, me too. So I wanted to join in that party. And I just, I could almost slap myself now. My father was one of the greatest men right next to Bishop Battle. Amen. Amen. Amen. The two great, and I'm serious now, two of the greatest men that I know, men of great integrity, men who love the Lord, men who gave of themselves for the kingdom of God. So now when, when you obey your parents, you're pleasing God. When you say, I ain't going to do it. You're in deep trouble whether you know it or not. In my own life, you all think I'm old. I turned 79 in April. That ain't old. Not that ain't old for people who obey their parents. Amen. I have seen your people in my family in the 90s. And I could, I'll assign it to the fact that we all were obedient to a great degree. Yes, we got off the rail. We, we, we did things we shouldn't have done. We got away with what we could, but what was put in us by our father and our mother. This is the mother's day part. You need to listen to your mama. People decide they're going to get married. Don't ask anybody. They just say, I'm getting married. Who'd you talk to? I didn't talk to nobody. That's the wrong answer. What I'll say to you, you need to listen to somebody. Mother and father, sister, brother, whoever else is of sound mind. Mothers are the first teachers of the children. And when your mother is a show enough mother, you're blessed by the Lord. My memory is not what it used to be, but I can remember when I was three years old. And I had, yes, Dr. Sykes look at me like, yes. I remember the time that I had with mother, while she was instructing me and she didn't pussy foot around. She gave me the commands that I needed to have and I obeyed and I thank God. I thank God. She put faith in me. I was out of school with ringworms. I couldn't go to school until I got medicine. And back in that day, we didn't have Kaiser. We didn't have insurance. We had Jesus. So after I was out for a good length of time, my mother decided, well, I'll take you to the doctor, the family doctor. She took me to the family doctor and he gave her a prescription and on our way back home, mother said, do you believe the Lord will heal you? I said, yes, ma'am. She said, well, we're not taking this medicine and she threw the medicine down the sewer. Now that put faith in me, knowing that the Lord is a healer, knowing that the Lord is a provider, that faith built on top of faith, on top of faith. And now I have faith in God. But I'm not going to ask you to do what I did because you probably got Kaiser. And if you got Kaiser and you need medicine, go to Kaiser. Get your medicine and take it. Leave so in the Lord that whatever is necessary for your situation, the Lord will meet that. He'll meet it if you need it. I'm planning on being here for a few more years. Sister Springfield is how old? She's 93. Is she 93? I think she's 93. My oldest sister, Sister Bryant, she lived in 95. And I said maybe like I'll probably live to be about 114 or 15. I'm healthy and I'm not tired. God is my strength. All right, let me get back to the message. Honor thy father and mother, which is the first commandment with promise. The Lord promised if you did that, you'd have success. That it may be well with with thee. And thou mayest live long on the earth. In the society we live in, in this day and time, I'm just amazed at how crazy people have gotten. I'm just going to say it. They're just crazy. When I was growing up, if you had a disagreement with somebody, you put fists to each other. And the best man win and the loser would walk away with a tucked tail. But if you look at somebody cross-eyed, they got a gun and they're willing to shoot you and everybody who's close to you. That's right, all y'all absolutely, everybody. So we can't be cavalier. We can't just have it our way, just do our own thing just because we're willing to be stubborn. Umble yourself. Umble yourself. All right, now I'm going to go to this fourth verse. This fourth verse. And I, you know, I looked at this and I kind of was a little leery about going to the fourth verse, you know, until I really started researching it. And I found out this fourth verse is necessary as well. What I'm talking about is believers walking in authority. And authority means the power to give orders or make decisions. The power for right to direct and control someone or something. So God has given parents the authority to tell you what to do. Right now, verse four said, and ye fathers, provoke not your children to rat, but bring them up in the nurture and admonition of the Lord. This applies to fathers and mothers, especially in these days when in many homes there are not fathers so that responsibility falls on the mother as well. Parents, a parent is to bring up a child in the way of the Lord. In the nurture, admonition of the Lord, nurture means the whole training and education of children which involve the cultivation of mind and moral, admonition, reproof, punishment, correction, all of these things is to be considered in educating our children. The parent is not to rear a child after his own ideas. So you notice this, children obey your father and mother because this is right. And right is the word of God. Right is not anybody's own opinion unless it's the opinion of the word of God. So as I said, we grew up in a seminary because mother was there with the Bible all the time. And so what you've got to do is you've got to make sure that you get the spirit of God into the hearts of your children because the devil is always working and he's busy and if you don't put something in him, he'll put what he wants in them. So you've got to protect your children, you've got to be like a mother here and you've got to get around them and cover them under your wings. The next thing is we have to be examples, parents, we have to be examples. Living inconsistent life before a child can provoke a child. A parent will tell a child one thing and then turn around and do the opposite himself. Children can't hear what we say for watching what we do. And many of the vices that our children fall into are because of what they saw mama and daddy doing, saved and sanctified, filled with his spirit, don't do what I do, do what I do. The reason I'm going back into my life is because I see exactly what is being said here. Now when we were growing up some of our best friends were drunks. In that day and time, alcoholics got a bottle and got drunk, they drank until they were drunk, stumbling, can't walk, walking down the street sideways and we liked to talk to them. And they say, boy, now you're going to get you an education. Don't be like I am and get you an education. Okay, we saw that, we didn't see that in our house. He could be drunk all he wanted to, that didn't influence us because that wasn't the life our parents were living. People taking drugs, getting high on whatever in front of their children. God ain't pleased with that. And you're not just dooming yourself, you're dooming your offsprings. Come on and they'll be dying before you do. That ain't supposed to happen. Not supposed to happen. Watching sexually scenes on televisions and movies. Put a spirit in them that they can't control. Reading immoral stories, looking at magazines exposed in the human body. Hold on your seats on this one. Eating too much. Wasting time. Dressing or exposing the body to attract attention. Hello, somebody. Now if you don't want to be nobody, how about helping your kids? Now see, all of these activities, none of them are authorized by the King of Kings and the Lord of Lords. And we have it in us to want to, but we don't control ourselves. Seeing an inconsistency in a parent will provoke a child. An example, we have an example here in Matthew 14 verse 8 said, and she said, being before instructed of her mother said, give me here John the Baptist's head in a charge. Young child listened to the wicked mother and the wicked mother convinced her just asked for John the Baptist's head. Now some of us, I'm taking my time because I don't want to have to do this another time soon, anything soon like this. Somebody will get unhappy with someone else who did what they thought was incorrect to them and they'll hold it for the rest of their years for as long as they live. And if you can't forgive, if you can't forgive, you can't be forgiven. That ain't my rule. I didn't make that rule. What the Lord is calling for is humility. He's calling for people who want to do His will, one that ruleeth well His own house, having His children in subjection with all gravity is what God is calling for. And all of these things that are called for are the will of God. And I don't apologize for what I have to preach because if I was afraid to preach what the word is, then I shouldn't be a preacher. So in the closing we go to Proverbs 22 and 6 and it's one that we all know, train up a child in the way he should go. And when he's old, he will not depart from it. So God is calling us to walk in authority. The authority that we are to walk in is the authority of God. God has given us authority to get it right and to call on people, call on His children to do what pleases the Lord. I'll ask you, where do you stand? Who's on the Lord's side? Are you willing to have it your way for a short time in life? Life is short. I can't believe I'm 78, 79. I can't believe I'm 79. It's gone like this. When I was 29 years old, I started looking around and before I knew it, here I am. So now you've got to make a decision. What you're going to do with yourself, mothers, because what you embrace, your children, your offsprings, will embrace the same thing. And I don't want to be responsible, and I know you don't want to be responsible for seeing your children lost throughout all of eternity when they can come to Jesus, when they can look upon their parents that have gotten it right, who have surrendered their will and said, Lord, not my will, but your will be done in me. Yes, Lord, it feels like it's tough, but I know that you're the strength of my life. You give me the courage to do that that you call me to do, and I'll do it until the day I die. Come on somebody, we ought to make up our mind that is nothing too tough. You can't lose when you're walking in the Word of God. And recently, it's been much in my mind, the Scripture that said, be not deceived, God is not mocked. What sort of a man sow it? That shall he also reap. If you're sold to the flesh, you're going to reap the flesh. You're sold to the Spirit, you'll receive the Spirit. Now the devil says it's too hard, and the devil says it don't take all of that. I didn't give you my opinion. I gave you the Word. I gave you the Word. With this I'll close. When it seems like it's too tough, it seems like you're not going to make it. It seems like it's just not working out. Well, I'll say to you, just rest on this Scripture. All things work together. All things work together for your good when you love the Lord, when you cherish Him, when you hold to Him, when you cling to Him. All things work together. All things are required to work in your favor. I heard that expressed like that. The Lord commands things to work in your favor. It's not that tough. Yield not to temptation, for temptation yielding is sin, but each victory will help you some other to win. Know that God is on your side. Know that He cares for you. Know that He loves you. Know that you're the apple of His eye, and get in the Spirit and do what you've got to do. God is faithful. God bless you. I want you to look at your neighbor and say, neighbor, this is not Burger King. You can't have it your way. See, I cried today, should be Lord. Help me do right. Help me to do what you want me to do. Help me to say yes to your will. Not my will, but I will be done. Bishop says, some of us say it's too hard. It's not too hard. We just want to say yes to the will of God. See, God has given us a command to live holy, to live right, and to obey. The truth is we can't do it by ourselves, but the Bible said after that the holy ghost has come upon you. You shall have power, power to walk right, power to talk right, power to live right, power to say yes to the will of God. Not what I think. Not what I want. Only if what I want lines up with what Jesus has said. This is Mother's Day, and what a wonderful Mother's Day present to anybody that's not saved that would get saved today. Jesus said, you must be, Bishop said it already, you must be born again. Born of the water and born of the spirit. And if you haven't done those things, this is your chance to say yes to the will of God. To obey the will of God. Don't hold on to your own will. The altar's open. If you haven't been born again, won't you come? They used to say, there's room at the cross for you. The millions have come. There's still room for one. So if we don't have any to be born again, I'm going to open the altar up. If you want to walk closer to God. If you want to say yes to the will of God. Your Heavenly Father is calling you to obey. Don't be ashamed. All of us have missed it. If you just want someone to agree with you in prayer that Lord, I want to do better. I want to obey what God said to you. Don't be too proud. The altar is open. That's right. That's right. The blessing is in obeying. Is there another? He's saying come on to you. Say yes to the will of God. At the cross for you. Come on down to the altar. There's room at the cross. Say, Lord, I want to do better. I want to say yes to the will of God. I want to be obedient to what you've called me to do. The will of God. There's still room for one more thing. I'm going to open the altar up. If you're a mother, if you have children and you want the Lord to order your steps to help you to be an even better mother, to raise children in the fear, the admonition of the Lord. I'm going to open the altar up for you. We have a lot of people having babies. We just don't have many mothers, like our First Lady said. Are there any mothers that want prayer just to do a better job at raising their children? That's right. That's right. That's right. That's right. Let's pray. Father, we thank you for the word that we heard. It has blessed us and challenged us to grow. But Father, our heart's desire is to say yes to the will of God. Yes when we want to and yes when we don't want to. We want to be obedient to you because you said if we were obedient, you would satisfy us with long life. And so Father, we say yes to your will. Yes to your way that we commit our lives to you. Use us. Be glorified in us. And we'll give you the praise in Jesus' name. Amen. Come on, stand with us. My soul said yes to your will. And give our offering. I'll be reading the scriptures into your hearing. Very familiar scripture. Nothing says nothing new under the sun. If it's new, it's not of God. It means taking something that does not belongs to you. Taking something that does not belongs to you. The Lord said that 10% is mine and the 90% is yours. You can do anything you want to do with it. But I want my 10%. He said, yet you robbed or defraud me. Took from me that something that wasn't yours. But you say, in what way do we rob or defraud you? You have withheld your ties and offering. Say, you are cursed with a curse for you are robbing me even this whole nation. He said bring all the ties, all the ties and the offering into the storehouse that there might be food in my house and prove me now with, now by it says the Lord of hosts. He said if I would not open the winners of heaven for you and pour you out a blessing that there should not be room enough to receive it. He said, if you give me what belongs to me, I will open up a window and pull you out of blessing that there will not be room enough for you to receive it. The Lord want us to be obedient and obey his word. So give the Lord his 10%. That way you are not taking nothing from him. Because you don't want the Lord take anything from you. Because if he take it from you, you will have holes in your pocket, holes in your purse, holes in your wallet. So give God what belongs to him. So please stand with me in Jesus' name. Let's hold our offer up to the Lord in Jesus' name. Father in the name of Jesus we thank you, we praise you this morning Lord God. Lord we thank you for this offering Lord God that we're about to receive Lord God. In Jesus' name we ask that you bless it, multiply it, let it continue to meet every need Lord God that it may further the work that's going for here Lord God in Jesus' name. Lord we ask you right now in the name of Jesus that you will bless the gift and the giver in Jesus' name we pray amen amen. You're now in the hands of the usher. In the name of Jesus we thank you. You said in your word Lord God that you love a cheerful giver Lord God. We thank you Lord God for speaking to the hearts of your people Lord God. In Jesus' name, in Jesus' name we pray amen and amen.