 We came to glorify His name. We've come to glorify His name. We've come to glorify His name. We've come to glorify His name. And God is doing marvelous. Father, we thank you and we praise you for this privilege and this opportunity to lift your name up, to be in your house, to glorify you, to exalt you on today. Father, we ask that you hearten in our minds, receive our praise and our worship on today. We praise you. We adore you because you are great and we just want to thank you for this opportunity. We thank you. Lord God, bring them into your house, worship in their hearts and in their minds. Lord, let your shekinah glory because you are great and greatly to be praise you. We glory in Jesus' name. We have a shit up on the floods. Who shall descend unto the, or who shall stand in his holy place? Nor swan, he shall receive a blessing from the Lord and the righteous from the God of his salvation. This is a generation of them that seek him, that seek that face, O Jacob, see light. Lift up your heads, O ye gates, ye everlasting door, and the king of glory shall come in. Who is the king of glory? The Lord's strong and mighty, the Lord mighty in battle, ye everlasting door, and the king of glory shall come in. The Lord strong and mighty is the king of glory. Hallelujah, who is the king of glory? The Lord God almighty, hallelujah, and he's the lion of Judah, hallelujah, he's the king of kings, the Lord of lords, the I am that I am, that's the God we serve today, amen. You're the lion of Judah, the whatever we say in the name of Jesus, hallelujah, and it's in his will, it shall be done, because the Lord, he has the final say. These ways we have to have a made up mind that we're going to serve the Lord all the way. No turning back. At this time, we will have special, special music by Minister Marilyn Alexander. So much going on in this world and the safety of the Lord, he that dwelleth in the secret shall abide under the shadow of the all, and in him alone will I trust. Hallelujah, he should have killed me when he had the chance. But I'm saved, I almost felt like giving up, but I'm saved, the enemy tried to destroy me, but I'm saved, I didn't know what I was going to do, but I'm saved. He that dwells in the secret place of the most I shall abide under the shadow in the same place, under the shadow in the same place, we're safe, we're safe. If you know you're safe, just lift up your hand to begin to worship him. See, I don't know about you, but I almost lost my life on a number of occasions. I had guns and shotguns up to my head, but in the back of my mind, I said, safe. I don't care what it looks like. I don't care what it feels like. I don't care what the enemy's trying to say, but I'm saved today. I belong to him. This morning, I was sitting outside just looking at the birds and thinking about how the Lord takes care of the birds and feeds the birds. He kept saying to me, how much more? How much more will I take care of my people? We're safe. The devil's a liar. We're safe. You don't have to be afraid at night. We're safe. Yes, Shababah, the devil's a liar. He's a liar. I don't like him. I don't like his mama. I don't like none of his folks, but it's good to know that we're safe. It is well with my soul. One more time, come on, sing with me. I won't sing anymore, but it said, when peace like a river attended my way, when sorrow like sea billows roll, whatever my loss, he's taught me to say, it is well, it is well. So years ago, Bishop Johnson, he taught us that the man that wrote that song, his family had been killed in a shipwreck. And he took a trip. And when he got to the spot where the ship went down, where he lost his family, he said, it is well. It is well. I don't understand it, but it's well. I don't like it, but it's well. It's well with my soul. O give thanks unto the Lord, for he is good on his mercy. Endures forever. O give mercy unto the Lord, for he is good. On a bad day, he's still good. When I like what's going on, he's still good. When I don't understand what he's doing in my life, I've learned to say, he's good, he's good, he's good, he's good, because if I praise him, he'll bring me out. I keep thinking about these old songs lately. He brought me out all right. He brought me out all right. When I didn't know what to do, he brought me out all right. So I can say it's well. It's well, it's well, it's well. It's well with my soul. I was talking with my mother. She's here with us today. I'm so glad to have her. She's looking quite beautiful. She got a coat on, but you got to tell her, take that coat off so y'all can see that dress. She's talking and she reminded me of something I hadn't thought about in years at my Aunt Mary. She got married, she was an assistant. She got married to a man and he was a nice man, but he'd been a Catholic all his life and I thought, how's that gonna work out? I don't know, but he did give baptize in Jesus' name, but he never received a Holy Ghost. And a couple of years after that, he was on his deathbed and Aunt Mary prayed, Lord, I wish that you would feel him and let me hear him speak in tongues before you take him. And he was in his room and he had been in a coma for a couple of weeks and she was waiting. That's how the whole folks used to do waiting. They didn't say, well, they're waiting on anything good or bad. They just said, we're waiting. And it's kind of ironic because my grandparents had waited on her, she had been in an accident and every day for months, they waited until the Lord brought her out, but she was waiting and a gentleman came in her room and he said, I'm from so-and-so Baptist Church. Can I pray for your husband? And she said, I guess it won't hurt anything. She thought that and he prayed. And so he began to pray, he began to pray and then he began to speak in tongues and he began to pray and he left the room. And not long after that, my wife's Uncle Frank, he came out of a coma, he set up and he spoke in tongues for 10 minutes or so, laid back down in a coma and the Lord took him away. What I'm saying is God is a faithful God. He's able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we can ask or think the problem is sometimes we don't even bother to ask because we don't believe he can do it. But if you ask, he said, let me show myself strong to my people. He will amaze you if you stand and just step out on the promise of God. Giving honor to our bishop and so honored to stand before him, such a mighty man of God. Sometimes you feel like, Lord, I don't wanna get up in front of him, but I thank God for the assignment and our first lady, so lovely, always a blessing. The ministers of God, the saints of God. I was thinking about Solomon, he built a temple for his father, David. And when he finished, he offered a thousand sacrifices and God came to him and says, what do you want? Now, if it had been me, I'd have said, let me get a house and a yard and two fast cars, make it three, my wife's gonna wreck one, I still wanna have two cars. But Solomon didn't ask for all of that. He said, for so great a people is dying. Lord, give me wisdom to go out and to come in, to keep my feet and to keep my mouth, to keep my mind before your people, before so great a people is dying. And that is my prayer these days, Lord, give me wisdom to know how to come out and walk in before your great people, because you died for them, you gave everything for them, and I want to give them my best, so great a people as dying. In the Old Testament, the children of Israel were in bondage because of their rebellion against the Lord. They had gotten caught up in idolatry and they had gone whoring after other gods. And yet God sent a word of encouragement to his people while they were down suffering for their sins. See, I don't care where you are, God does not forget about you. And through Jeremiah, he says, I know the thoughts that I think towards you, God says, so Lord, thoughts of peace and not of evil, but to give you and expect it in, to give you a wonderful in, to give you a better in. Now you're down suffering, but I have not forgotten about you. So God's saying, I have a plan for your life and it's a good plan. It's gonna give you a wonderful outcome. And even though you might have messed up, I have not changed my mind about you. See, even so, sometimes we miss the mark. God does not change his mind about us. He loves us, he wants to use us, and he wants to bless us. But what he doesn't do, he never throws us away. Some people will throw us away. But he says, I will never throw you away. The Lord says, in spite of the drama that's happened in your life. See, because sometimes we can be messy, amen? Amen? Sometimes we can be messy. Look at your neighbor and say, I think he's talking about you. I think he's talking about you. You might be you. Who knew? Who knew? But God said, it's not too late. I still have a plan for your life. I still want to bless you. I still want to use you. I don't care how young you are, God has a plan for your life. I don't care how old you are, God has a plan for your life. I don't care how rich, how poor you are, God has a plan for your life. He wants to use you. He wants to use you in the kingdom. You've got work to do, tell your neighbor, I've got a job to do. I've got something to do. Let's pray, Father, we just thank you for this time. Father, we pray for your anointing. We have already been in your anointing, but we pray for the anointing. To cover your words. Speak to our hearts today. Speak, Lord, and we will hear you. And we will obey what you're saying to us. We thank you for it. In Jesus' name, amen. The word that the Lord gave to me today was, it's not too late. It's not too late. I know it may feel like it. It may look like it. People may think it is, but it is not too late. God has a plan for your life and he wants to use you. You may have messed up, but still he wants you to know that it's not too late. Philippians one and six, being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you, and in you, and in you, it says that he will perform it until the day of Jesus Christ. And I believe that all of us at some point in time had to deal with the seemingly devastating idea of too late. Too late. Meaning that there was a possibility of getting what we wanted, or having what we wanted to happen happened, but the time expired. We waited too long and now it's too late. The deadline came and it went in and now it's too late. We got that pink bill from the Life Company, not the Black Peer, but the pink bill. And the date on that pink bill expired and now the lights are off because we waited too late. And back in Philippians, let me read that again. It says, being confident of this very thing, that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of the Lord. That's King James. Let me read it to you out of the Living Bible. It says, I am sure that God who begun a good work within you will keep right on helping you to grow in his grace is a marriage in favor. His grace, his ability to do in you and through you, his grace, until the task, until the assignment that is within you that he's given to you finally finishes on the day that the Lord returns. For the day that the Lord returns for you. But it says, he who has begun a good work. So you know, I have the advantage of people in my life like my mother, she is 89 years old. And I have watched her for 66 years, my whole life. Pursue the will of God for her life. And I saw her do it when people were laughing at her, saying they don't take all that. She's a fanatic, but she kept on pursuing the will of God. My mother is 89 years old and God is not finished working through her, not yet. He's gonna use her still in the kingdom of God. See, we're doing it together now. I used to have to watch it, but I'm doing the work now. He's not filled with her. See, when God gives you an assignment, if you let him, he will use you the balance of your days. So God is saying, I started a good work in you. And although it has been impeded, it's been slowed down. I'm going to finish, I'm going to finish because it's not too late. Today I want to look at three of the reasons why sometimes we feel like it's too late. Number one, God gave us an assignment and it's been so long, we believe that it's too late. It's just been too long. He gave me an assignment and I had hair. My hair is gone, that must mean it's too long, Bishop. He gave me an assignment and now I used to have all my teeth, but now sometimes it's hit and miss. You can get some help from the dentist, but it feels like it's too long. Number two, I tried to do what God said, but I wasn't able to finish the assignment that he gave me. I have a lot of school teachers and educators in the house and they understand what it means to finish. So you can turn something in halfway and it's not done and you might get an F because you did not finish. The assignment. Number three, I blew it, I messed up and I am ashamed and for me it's too late. Let's look at the first one. God gave me an assignment, he gave me an assignment, he gave me a promise, but it's been so long. God came to Abraham and Abraham is 75 years old and the Lord says, I want you to leave this country and I'm going to take you to a wonderful land. It's gonna have everything that you need. I'm not gonna tell you where it is, but when you get there, I'm gonna let you know. And then he says, and I will bless you. So Abraham leaves the land of earth where he is from and he follows God. Fast forward. Abraham is 99 and his wife, Sarah, is now 70 years old and I couldn't help but wonder why God would wait so long to make him a promise. But when he's 99 years old and his wife is 90 years old, he says, I'm gonna give you an air. I'm gonna give you a child. You would have thought when he was back in his 20s he might have promised him that, but now he's 99 and his wife, see God waits till it's impossible for anybody to do it but him. And then he said the sage, he said, now I'm going to show up and I'm gonna show out. And so he makes them a promise. And Sarah and Abraham, they realized that Sarah is past the age of childbearing and she's too old and they, and Sarah says, take my handmaiden and she will raise up an air for you. And so Abraham takes her handmaiden and she gives him a son and his name is Ishmael. And Ishmael and Isaac have been fighting, scratching and killing one another to this day. See the danger is when you come up with an alternative plan, I'm gonna help God fix this thing. I'm gonna help him bring it out. You're playing a dangerous game because for thousands of years because of one decision, they may be still having trouble because Ishmael's children are the Arab nation. See that's a dangerous thing. If you're taking notes, write this down. God's plan is always the best plan. God's way is always the best way. Now the thing about God's plan is, one, it's gonna require having some faith because his plan will always require you to step out on faith and do something that you're not comfortable doing. The second thing is, if you do a God's way, usually it's gonna take some time. It doesn't usually happen overnight, but if you will give God some time, let him work it out. Turn to Genesis chapter 21. Genesis chapter 21 verse one and two. So we know that God has made Abraham a promise. We know that Abraham and his wife have messed up and brought an illegitimate heir into the picture that was not supposed to be there, but God did not throw them away, but he fulfills his promise. He says, I'm gonna do it for my own namesake. I put my word out and I need you to know that my word is good in 21 verse one. It says, the Lord visited Sarah as he had said and the Lord did unto Sarah as he had spoken. For Sarah conceived and bear Abraham a son in his old age at the set time, at the set time, at the set time. See, God has his own time and we wanna cook out. I need you to hurry up. I need you to do it right now, but God says, at the set time, I'm gonna move. See, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. So when we get a promise from God, it doesn't matter how long it takes to come to pass. You need to know that it's never too late that God will be faithful to his work. Every promise in him is yay and amen. It doesn't matter how long. It doesn't matter what it looks like. It doesn't matter what it feels like. But if God said he's gonna do it, I'm gonna do it. If God says I'm gonna heal you, I'm gonna heal you. If God says I'm gonna bring you out, I'm gonna bring you out. Just wait on the Lord and be of good courage. Wait on him. He's gonna do it. God gave me a promise and it took too long. Number two, I tried to do what God called me to do, but I wasn't able to finish the task. Let's look at Elijah and Elisha. I must confess that when I was a little boy, I didn't know the difference. I just thought they were talking about the same person. I thought one preacher just didn't know how to pronounce it right. He said Elijah is to Elijah. Then I found out it was really two of them. I still couldn't figure out who was who. So I just kind of left it alone. But now the Lord, he knows how to help us that are not as bright as Bishop. It took us a while, but we got it. But the story of Elisha and Elisha. Elisha was Elijah's understudy. He taught him about the things of God. Just like I am an understudy to Bishop, he still speaks into me and he teaches me things. He sees things that I don't see. See, my vision is here. His vision is like that. See, if we'll be wise enough to glean wisdom from our elders, we don't have to keep starting over and venting the will again and again. So Elisha was his understudy and it's coming down to the end of Elijah's life and God is getting ready to take him away in a whirlwind into the cloud, please, the Lord. And Elijah tells Elijah, God has called me to go to Bethel. You stay here and I'm gonna go take care of my business. And Elijah says, As the Lord lives, I'm not going to leave your sign because I know God's getting ready to take you away and I wanna see it. I wanna see the miracle when he takes you away in the whirlwind. The second time Elijah says to Elijah, Well, I'm going to Jericho. Just stay here and let me do what I'm going to do. And Elijah said again, As the Lord lives, I'm not going to leave your sign. I'm gonna watch, I'm gonna see when God takes you away. But then the third time, I figured out by then Elijah was messing with Elijah. He must have had a sense of humor like me. He's talking, I would expect Bishop to do something like that. You just wait here, I'll be right back. Leave it standing there for two or three hours. And then he says, I'm getting ready to go to Jordan. Stay here, put your feet up, watch the game and relax. And Elijah said, man, I'm telling you, I'm not going any place. I know God's getting ready to take you away. He's gonna take you away in a whirlwind and I'm gonna stay right here and I'm gonna see it happen. I'm not leaving your side. I am going with you to the end. Turning in your body with the second king's chapter two, second king's chapter two, verse nine. And so, and it came to pass when they went over, when they went over the Jordan that Elijah said unto Elijah, ask what I shall do for thee before I be taken away from thee. And Elijah asked, I pray thee, let a double portion of your spirit, of your anointing be upon me. So Elijah asked for a double portion of the spirit that rests on Elijah. When it comes to the things of God, always believe and ask for more. Thank God for our parents and our grandparents and our spiritual parents that they have taken us a long way. But we want to take up what they've given us and take it to another level. See, we honor what was done in the past but we're not going to stay there. We want to move forward in the spirit. My grandfather was a great man of God. Pastor Bobby's father was a great man of God but their children are doing greater works than they did because they expected for them to pick up the mantle and take it to another level. And so he asked for a double portion. Now it's interesting that the Lord used Elijah to do 16 miracles. And Elijah did 31 miracles and he died and it was obviously too late for him to do all that he would believe that he was called to do. In terms of chapter 13, I wanted to show you something. Chapter 13 verse 20 and 21 it says, and Elijah died and they buried him and a band of the Moabs came and invaded the land coming of the end of that year. And it came to pass as they were burying a man that behold they spied a band of men and they cast this dead man into the sepulcher where Elijah's bone lays. It says, and when they let him down and touch the bones of Elijah says he revived, he came back to life, he stood up on his feet. I need you to know it's not too late. God let him know I don't care how long it's been. It doesn't even matter that you died but the glory of the Lord said it's not too late. I'm gonna finish the work. I'm gonna show myself strong. Exactly 32. The third reason, I blew it, I messed up and I am ashamed and it's too late for me. We wanna talk about the redemption of Peter. In the eighth chapter Jesus tells, he's talking and says I am going to be killed and I'm going to be destroyed. And he's talking to his disciples and Peter pulls him aside and says Lord, don't talk like that. I'm not gonna let nothing happen like that. See Peter was what they called a zealot. In other words he was a wild man for God. Peter said if we can't pray about in fiction then I know another way. I got a sword and I know what to do. You know what they talk about when Peter cut that man's ear off? He wasn't aiming for his ear. He was trying to take his head off. And God then Jesus said get thee behind me saying you savor not the things of God. See there is a way that seems right to us but it's a corner way. But if we will do it God's way it will have eternal value. And so it's coming down to that time and he tells his disciples are not many days I'm going to be killed, I'm going to be destroyed. And Peter said I understand what you're talking about but I'm gonna go all the way with you. Ride or die, I'm gonna see you to the end. And Jesus tells him Peter I know you mean well. But he says before the cock crows twice you're gonna deny me three times. See many of us we get saved and we're full of zeal and we start out and we want to do so many wonderful things for the Lord. But because we run into obstacles along the way we have good intentions but we blow it. See Peter intended to go all the way. He believed he was gonna go all the way but when the pressure came on he had to foresee he didn't have the power the Bible said after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you you shall have power, power to live right power to talk right, power to fulfill the promise that you made to God. Look at Mark chapter 14, Mark chapter 14, verse 66 it says and so Peter has made this boast I will go all the way. Ride or die, it doesn't matter what's gonna happen. If you die I die and he believed that. Verse 66 it said as Peter was beneath in the palace and they come with one of the maidens of the high priest. And when she saw Peter warming himself she looked upon him and said thou also was with Jesus of Nazareth and he denies saying I know not neither understand what you talking about girl you done lost your mind. It says that he went out to the porch and the cock crowed. I wish I had a sound effects button. I would push it but I don't but y'all know how it sounds. Thank you, thank you, I got one out there. And so that's one said and the maid saw him again and began to say to them that stood by this is one of them and he denied it again. That's two says and a little after they that stood by him said again to Peter surely you were one of them because that was a Galilean in by speech agrees that you in another words your speech betrays you. And then Peter sanctified Peter saved Peter. The one that says I'm gonna go all the way. Say he began to curse and square old Lord. Bishop the saints don't square do they? They don't curse do they? I'm just checking cause I'd have heard some things y'all. I guess I wasn't supposed to hear Bishop. That he began to curse and to square. It says saying I know not this man of whom you speak. It says and the second time the cock crew. Let me hear it. All right, all right. It says and Peter called to mind the word that Jesus said unto him before the cock crew twice. You shall deny me three times says and when he thought about it, he went away and he began to we see Peter blew it and he thought it was over. And then Peter went back to doing what he was doing before he got saved. And we in our life, we get saved and we say, I'm gonna live right. I'm gonna serve the Lord. I'm gonna do everything he told me to do. I ain't gonna lie no more. I ain't gonna steal no more. I ain't gonna curse no more. I'm not gonna cheat on my taxes no more. And I believe the angels in heaven said, right, right. And then we mess up and instead of repenting and getting it right, we think like Peter, it's over, it's done, God can use me and we go back to doing the same things that we did before we got saved. And we find that self getting further and further away from Jesus Christ. And so Jesus dies on the cross and they put his body in the tomb and they roll a great stone in front of it and Mary Magdalene and her crew, they come to the tomb and they come to put spices and perfume on his body, which was the customer that day. So but when she got to the tomb, the stone was rolled away. And look in Mark chapter 16, the 16th chapter, we started the fifth verse. It said that entering into the sepulchre, she saw a young man sitting on the right side. He was an angel clothed in long white garment and they were a frightened. And he said unto them, be not a frightened. Ye seek Jesus of Nazareth which was crucified. Say he is risen, but he is not here behold the place where they laid him. And then I liked it. The angel said, and go tell the disciples and Peter, the disciples and Peter, the wild one, the one that denied him, that let him down. See, we talk about Peter, we talk about how he was just so wrong, but you know what? None of the other disciples went as far as Peter went. They stayed at home. But he said, go get the disciples and Peter. And he says, I'm going to go before them and you're gonna see him, but my point is, he said, gather the disciples and Peter. Yes, Peter, he messed up. Yes, Peter blew it. But God wanted him to know, the Lord wanted him to know, I have not forgotten about Peter. I have not given up on Peter. And he's trying to let Peter know, it's not too late. I still want to use you and God wants you to know today, it doesn't matter where you're being, it doesn't matter what you've done, it doesn't matter that you let him down. He says, come on back, I want you to live for me, I want you to repent and get it right because I still want to use you in the kingdom of God. I still have work for you to do, it's not too late. It's not too late. God has purpose and destiny for your life. God wants to save you and deliver you. He wants to see you go to heaven. God wants to use you in the kingdom of God. He wants to bless you. Don't be discouraged. Don't quit, don't give up, but fight. Fight a good fight of faith. Don't listen to the enemy that tries to tell you, it's too late because it's not too late. God wants to use you. The Lord told me to tell you, I've got some things for you to do that nobody else can do. I've got some work for you to do that nobody else can do. So I need you to come home back, get right with me, get in line and do the work. He said, yes, I know you've blown it. You went some places where you shouldn't have gone. You said some things that you shouldn't have said. You did some things that you shouldn't have done. What I want you to do is to repent. Ask me to forgive you, get back in line and know it's not too late. God made a promise. He says, I'm gonna save you. I'm gonna redeem you. But he also says, but I want to use you in the kingdom. I want to bless you in the kingdom of God. And I don't care what you've been through. And I don't care what you're missing. God's saying it's not too late. I'm the God, not of a second chance, but another chance. I will forgive you. I will put you back in line. I will bless you. See, you gotta tell somebody, please be patient with me because God is not through with me yet. But I'm ready to get back in line. I'm ready to be an overcomer. I'm ready to work for the kingdom. See, I'm on my way to better. I'm on my way to doing better. Young people, you need to know God has a plan for your life. Baby's God wants to use you in a way that he can't use us, old folks. So he chose a young cause they're strong. See, I can do some things and after a while I get tired, I'm ready to sit down. God says, I can use a young folks. Middle-aged folks, he says, I can use you cause you got some money and you know what to do. Old folks, he says, I can use you cause you got wisdom. You've been with me. You understand my ways. You can give them knowledge and understanding. If you'll speak to them and lay hands on them. I know a young lady, she was going into a bad situation and the Lord spoke to me. He said, I tell her this, that I have put the spirit of peace on her. He says, and tell her, when she goes into this bad situation, he said, just lay your hands on people and impart your peace. Don't pray for them. Don't say anything. But just speak peace in your mind and see God wants to use you. He doesn't use us all in the same way. But whatever God has caused you to do, do that whatever God has chosen for you to do, do that I just marvel when I look at the miracle that sister Bobby, she's a mighty woman of God and God has used her. But he's using her now in a way he didn't use her when she was young. He's using my mother in ways that now, she can just lay hands on people and people get, receive the Holy Ghost. Dr. Sykes, Minister Edwards, of the Sorden, you need to understand that there have been plenty of times when they felt like giving up. They run into a brick wall and they say, Lord, I messed up, but God says, I can still use you. I can still bless you. See, when we get to those situations, he says, all I need for you to do is repent, get up, get right, get back in line and let me do what I'm trying to do for you. God wants you to use you to bless a nation. He wants to use you to bless the people. He wants to use you to bless some neighbors. He wants to use you to bless the people at work. He wants to use you and the people in your neighborhood. God wants to use you in the kingdom of God. And I don't care what it looks like. I don't care what it feels like. I don't care what you think. It's not too late. It's not too late. God says, I can work with that. I declare, I'm gonna be everything God told me to be. I'm gonna do everything God told me to do. I declare that greater is he that is in me than he that's in the world. When I stepped up against some devils and they stood me face to face and said, they're gonna kill me. And I said, greater is he that's in me. I don't run from the devil. I fight till I win. It ain't over till I win. You have authority. You have power. You have the word of God. I remember reading about or hearing about a brother. He just got saved. And he learned one scripture under his wings. Shout out to us. And such a way she came up and he didn't know what to do. And he couldn't remember sister Bobby, his one scriptures. So he started saying, feathers, feathers. Father, guess what? It works. See God knows his word. If you just say feathers, if you call on the name of the Lord, if you declare the word of God, God will turn it around for you. It's never too late. I don't care what it looks like. I don't care what it feels like. God said, it's not too late. It's not too late. I'm gonna use you. I'm gonna bless you because. It's not too late. God bless you. Let the church say amen. The Lord has spoken. And he spoke a wonderful, consoling message to those of us who attempt to walk with him. I understand and it just comes so clearly to me that the trick of the adversary who is the devil is to try to make us think you missed the mark. You knew what to do, but you found out in your knowing that you missed the mark all along the way. And now you've got to pay the price. But how many know the devil is a liar? The devil is a liar, the truth is not in him. What the devil adversary of our soul wants to do is cause us to quit. The determination that we have within us, if it is proper determination is, I won't quit. I'll not quit. You can't make me quit. It can't be too difficult that I'm gonna quit. I'm going to do what the Lord called me to do. I'm going to allow him to use me. In the building of his kingdom, that's why he called me to himself. Hallelujah, Elder Rost. I say this is a grand slam. This is a grand slam home run today. This is just what the church needs at this hour. And I can understand people who had the best intentions got sidetracked in some kind of way, cause them not to be able to accomplish what they were called to do. I came to tell you today that if that's you, whoever you are, the Lord is saying to you, don't quit. Don't quit. I loved Elder Rost when you talked about Peter being excited about Jesus. And he said, I'm determined that I'll go all the way with your Jesus. And Jesus says, don't be too hasty. Foxes have holes, birds have nests. He said, you don't see it the way it actually is. Peter says, I'll go with you all the way. I'll never stop until this is done. If nobody goes, but you and me, we're going to give. Jesus says, I hear your little heart. You don't have the wisdom to understand what this situation is really about. He said, I'm not gonna rebuke you. I'm just gonna tell you, you're gonna deny me three times. And as he talked about when they were ready to take him in, he was accused of being one of Jesus' disciples. He hadn't written down anything for him to say. So when he was accused, he said, no, I'm not. He didn't have the power. There was no power of the Holy Ghost for him at that particular time. When he kept on, on the third time, she said, your speech gives you up. And then he went to cuss. And Jesus knew how he was feeling because he had predicted it before time. And guess what? Jesus didn't hold a grudge. Come on, somebody. If it had been any of us, you out, we was right or die, not now. I'll find me another person who will go with me, Jesus. As he said, when he rose from the dead, he said, tell them I'll meet them in Jerusalem. Tell them and Peter. I love that. Tell the disciples who weren't gung-ho. And tell the one who was gung-ho. Tell him that I said, I'll meet you. Now what an invitation. What an invitation. There's a song that I learned in my youth. The song says, Jesus, my savior from Bethlehem came. Born in a manger to sorrow and shame. Oh, it is wonderful. Blessed be his name. He came seeking for me. Jesus came seeking for the one who had denied him three times. He said, I hold no grudge against you. He said, I still call you and I'm gonna do great things through you. Oh, it is wonderful. How could it be he came seeking for me? Seeking for me. Seeking for the one who let him down in his crisis. He came looking at every one of us who have failed it. He called you. He anointed you. He, and when you fail him, he's still gonna seek after you. He's not gonna let you go. He'll never give you up. And so to prove it, he called him, he came seeking for Peter. And when the deal went down, he says, up on this rock, Peter, I'm gonna build my church, my church. I'll build my kingdom. So the one who denied him, he loved him so much. He loved him so much. He used that forwardness that Peter used, the aggressiveness. So all the Lord is asking you is hear me when I call. I'll never let you down. I'll never turn you away. You come unto me. Come unto me. All ye that labor, heavy laden, I'll give your rest. Take my yoke upon you. Hear me and be blessed. My yoke is easy. My burden is light. Now, let us stand. The key, Elder Ross, the key in the Lord holding on to him is that there was room for repentance. And we know the formula for salvation, repentance, repent, be baptized and receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. And we read over that so quickly sometimes we start to think about what repentance is. Repentance is a decision to apologize for our wrongdoing and promise, Lord, please forgive me for all of my sins. Lord, I beg you to forgive me. And I'll walk upright before you. The things I've been doing that I know are wrong, Lord, I'm gonna quit it. Come on, somebody. And you say, Lord, forgive me. I'll not do it again. I'm going to walk with you and I'm gonna get it right this time. When we repent, if our heart is right, if you decide it, you're gonna stop doing crazy stuff that you know is against God. The Lord says, if you'll change your attitude. Turn to your neighbor, tell him, change your attitude. Change your attitude. If you change your attitude, the Lord says, I'll use you. He said, the reason I saved you is because I saw something that I could use you for. I gave you a call to do the work of the kingdom. Now, if you repent, I'll restore you. Restoration, restoration is a repair. You don't have to be made over again. You're still a child of God. He said, I will never leave you, nor will I forsake you. But he says, you're gonna have to be repaired from time to time, a repair. This building didn't look like this until just a year or two ago. We had to make some changes. These weren't here, it was a wall across here. But what we decided, if this building would yield itself, we could do something with it that it had never been done before too. And so we fixed it over, we repaired it. So the Lord is saying, don't refuse to repent. Bow your heads, everybody bow your heads. Oh Lord, we thank you, oh God. We magnify your name, oh God, hallelujah, hallelujah. We thank you for the word that you've sent to this house, oh God, today. Lord, we know that you're able to do that that you purpose to do in our spirit, in our heart, Lord. We ask you to change us. We ask you to renew us, oh God. Help us, oh God, to be faithful to the charge, oh God. Help us always, oh God, have a repented spirit that we might please you. We might serve you in the beauty of holiness. We thank you, oh God, for your mercy. We thank you for your love. Thank you for the grace that you have for us, oh God. Hallelujah, hallelujah. We ask you, oh God, to move upon this congregation. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Move, we pray, oh God, hallelujah, on your people, oh God. Give us a desire, oh God, to please you in everything that we do, cause us to walk up rightly before you. You may be praised and glorified in our existence. We thank you, oh God. We love you, Jesus. We love you, Jesus. Hallelujah, hallelujah. We thank you, oh God, for this opportunity to come to you. We bless your name. We give you glory. We give you honor in Jesus' name. Amen. Now, if there's, if there are any individuals who are willing to come for prayer for whatever you need personally, the altar is open, it is open. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Let's praise the Lord, give God praise. I'm so glad. Come on, somebody. All right, it's time to worship the Lord in our giving. I don't know what it is, but it doesn't seem like it's the same service when we come to the offering time. But let me say, I thank the Lord for this congregation, for the fine support that they are of this church. A good job of paying our tithes. Well, we do a better job of paying our tithes. We do a good job of offering. I can look at the record and they tell me what's what. But thank God that this is a tithing church. Amen. And so actually we don't have to turn flips as long as we're paying the tithe to giving the offering. Amen? Amen. Okay, y'all, all right. Okay, let's stand. Let everyone please stand. Let's raise our offering to the Lord. Eternal God, our Father, we thank you for who you are. We thank you, oh God, for your mercy, your loving kindness unto us. We thank you, oh God, that you're our Father. Thank you, oh God, for the many things that you've done in our life, how you've rescued us from time to time. And we thank you that because you allow us to have a spirit and a heart of giving, we should receive the offering that we bring to you at this time. We thank you for the opportunity and we thank you for the willingness to do it. Help us, oh God, to continue to walk in the beauty of holiness and that will be called to do the things that you ask us to do in Jesus' name. Amen. All right, let's come on with our giving. Thank you, Jesus, thank you. Thank you, Jesus, thank you. Thank you, Jesus, thank you, in my heart. Thank you, Jesus, thank you. Thank you, Jesus, thank you, in my heart. This morning, right to each and every one of us says it's over. That's right.