 The only thing that comes against you is defeated. You're a child of the king. Hallelujah. And if your ways please me, I'll give you your heart and desire. Hallelujah. I like victory. I've never liked to be on a defeated team. I thank God we're on the winning team. Come on, something. Hallelujah. You do so much. Gotta give God some praise. Been wounded, been hurt, been tried, but I still got a praise. I still think of the goodness of God. And all you've done for me, my soul, cries that we thank God for y'all let me come to get on your nerves today. But we thank God for me being on your nerves. I love y'all and I love Bishop. Thank y'all for giving me an opportunity to come and preach. I don't preach hard like I used to because I'm in my 60 now. My step is getting old. Sometime it's better not to, ain't no use to me, preach it up for storming. All at once, Deacon Sack have a heart attack on the poor person. He preached hard, but he gone. So good words on good ground. Thank God. I am just astonished to see a man of God look that good at 80. Come on, somebody. I see why Sister Alexandria got here when he was, I got a picture when he was him and her and Pastor Marty and Henry, a little picture. They were looking so cute. Since the battle of found in love with him when he was young, he was a war horse. He's still a good horse, though. He's a nice looking handsome young man. And now I'm going to go back and tell Pastor Marty, you need glasses. That is the best look in Alexandria. I'm going to tell him when I get home, I'll say, he always shaking his head, you're right. But they love each other. Back in the hand of your honorable, beautiful pastor. Thank you, Bishop, for letting me grace your present in your church this morning. God bless you. God bless you. Now, I didn't pay him to say all that, but you know, I'll tip him a little bit. I'll give him a little tip. But now, what I want to do at this particular time is we need to take a speaker's offer. Amen. And evangelist, as I said, doesn't pastor a church. And he doesn't have people paying tithes and giving offerings to support his ministry. And so we want to be kind to the evangelist. I talk about old things because I'm old. My wife looks at me and see what Elder Carter sees. She said, you're not old? No, she's really saying, you're old. You talk about old things. Well, I'm an old person. I talk about old things. And I drive old cars and trucks and whatever. My pastor that came to our church to be our new pastor when I was six years old had been an evangelist, nationally evangelist. He went around preaching in the South. And he preached for a whole week. And he got $6. Now, I was back in the olden days, but $6 didn't go very far at all, even in that day, especially in that day. And the Lord has put it in my heart not to ever short the evangelists. And somebody might say, well, there are other churches with bigger congregations than ours. That's not legitimate. We're charged to do what we're charged to do. And I don't want to be asking, when did I find you hungry and didn't feed you? Hello, y'all got that? When did I find you without clothing and I didn't clothe you? So we're charged with being kind to the evangelists. Let's say amen together. Amen. Amen. So do the best that you can. That's right. Don't put your card away. Sister Sykes, Dr. Sykes, she's putting her credit card. She's putting it back in our wallet. But I ask you to do your very best in giving this offering for the evangelists. The Lord will be pleased with it. The Lord will bless you. Give, and it shall be given unto you. The Lord loves a cheerful giver. Said the Lord loves a cheerful giver. But, well, I can't say that. I would say he probably loves it even if you don't give it cheerfully, but I don't believe that. So give it with the right spirit. And I'm saying to you what the promises of God are that it'll come back to you not many days hence. Cast your bread upon the water. All y'all got bread. Cast your bread upon the water. And it should return not many days hence. It won't be long before your bread comes riding back on the water. We're not going to rush right now. I'm, like, minister Sorton. He wants you to put them zeroes in the right place and put a whole bunch of them. Didn't the man preach? Come on, somebody. You know he preached. He preached. And I can speak back in history. Elder Carter used to preach off of a ladder. He had a tall, tall ladder. And he preached his way up to the top of the ladder. But he said, I once was young. Amen. Amen. Is this for your battery? Oh, oh, oh, okay. Oh, all right, thank you. All right. Let us stand. All right, if you'll hold your offering up to the Lord as your sacrifice. Dear Jesus, our Savior, we thank you for who you are. Thank you for your strength, for your power, and for your might. Thank you for your love and your concern for us, your people. We thank you, O God, for that that you've provided for us, O God, even in this service, Lord. Thank you for the word that we've heard, O God. We ask you to help us, O God, to be determined to fulfill every obligation we have towards you. And we thank you, O God, for the opportunity to give into the building of the kingdom of the evangelists. I ask you, O God, to bless it, O God, that it may fulfill a great need in his life, O God. And we thank you for him. Thank you for the word that you've given us today. And we give you praise and glory and honor in Jesus' name. Amen. You may come with your offering. Praise the Lord, saints. We have an announcement. Elder Ross is not here today, but I just wanted to remind everyone as Elder Carter was speaking about the bishop's birthday coming up. Remember that on the 21st, that's not next Sunday, but the following Sunday, we'll be celebrating the bishop. And Elder Ross asked that we all bring $80 for the bishop to celebrate his birthday. Amen. So I just want to remind everyone, please make sure that you prepare to give unto the bishop to honor him for his 80th birthday. Amen. At this time, Minister Marilyn Alexander. In Jesus' name.