 Bishop Arling Alexander. Amen and our First Lady is First Lady Queen Bobby Alexander. We are so grateful to the Lord. Hallelujah for the great leadership that he's given us. So come on. Amen. It's worship time. Hallelujah. Let's bless him and give him all the... the name of Jesus. Every knee shall bow and every tongue shall confess. I love the name of Jesus. I don't know about you, but I came to bless him today. I came to worship today. I came to celebrate today. I came to lift up the name of Jesus. Father, we're into your grace with thanksgiving. We're into your course with praise. We thank you, Lord, because you're great. You're powerful. You're mighty. We say that you're worthy of praise. You're worthy. Invite your presence into this room, but you're already here. Let your glory be revealed among your people. Sin hitting them. Sin breakthroughs. Sin deliverers. Sin the world. We covenant that we will worship you. We will give you the praise and the glory. We declare that there's nobody like you. Hey, nobody besides you. Nobody can do what you do. So Father, we say have your way today. Be glorified today. Move among your people today. And we'll bless you. We'll give you the praise. We'll celebrate you. We'll celebrate you. We'll celebrate you in Jesus' name. Amen. Go ahead and give them praise. Praise the Lord, everybody. Hallelujah. We're going to be reading from our scripture. We're going to be reading from our scripture E1 verses 1 through 12. This is one of my favorite scriptures. And with this scripture, I recite this scripture every time I pray almost. So I want you to listen to this scripture and really take it at heart. Amen. Have mercy on me, oh Lord. According to thy tender mercy, loving kindness. According unto the multitude of thy tender mercy, blot out all my transgressions. Wash me thoroughly from my equity and cleanse me from my sins. For I acknowledge my transgressions and my sin is ever before me. Against thee and thee only have I sinned and done this evil in thy sight. That thou mightest be justified when thy speaketh and be clear when thy judges. Behold, I was shaped in a nicotine. And in my sin did my mother concede me. Behold, thy desires truth in the inner parts. And in the inner parts, thou shalt make me to know wisdom. Purge me with hyssas. And I shall be clean. Wash me. And I shall be whiter than snow. Make me to hear joy and gladness that the bones with thou hath broken may rejoice. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hide thy face from my sins and blot out all my transgressions. Created me a clean heart, oh Lord, and renew a right spirit within me. Cast me not away from thy presence and take not thy holy spirit from me. Restore unto me the joy of thy salvation and uphold me with thy free spirit. Hallelujah. David said, I acknowledge my sin. He said, I sin against you God. When we sin, we sin against God. Amen. So let's acknowledge that we do wrong. Amen. Amen. I can preach off of that. Amen. We're here to lift up the king of kings and the Lord of lords. Amen. There's nothing and no one greater than our God. Hallelujah. Water you turn into water. Water is the God that we serve. Hallelujah. Nothing too small for our God that he can handle for us. Whatever you're going through this morning, just remember that our God... And guess what? Only the Lord can satisfy you. Amen. Living water told the woman at the well that if she would drink from the water that he would provide, that she would never thirst again. Amen. That's the living water that we're singing about right now. The Holy Spirit living inside is the living if we will drink of that well. Satisfy. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Lord. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The living water, the bread of life. That's Hallelujah. The Lord shed his blood and his body was broken for us. Hallelujah. He died but yet he rose again. Hallelujah. The first resurrection, the first fruit of the resurrection, we thank the Lord. Hallelujah. We just want to give thanksgiving unto the Lord today. What a thank you Lord. Bless the Lord. Amen. At this time we'll have our bishop. Hallelujah. You may be seated. Praise the Lord everybody. Hallelujah. I got this little microphone. Can y'all hear me? Yeah. Oh praise the Lord everybody. Privilege it is to be again in the house of the Lord on this Sunday morning. Have much to thank God for. Yeah. His great benefits unto us who are his children. Yeah. We've been chosen before the foundation of the world. Yeah. To belong and to live in his favor. Yeah. Yeah. And that's why we say thank you Lord. Yeah. I just want to thank you. Thank you. At this time we're going to prepare to receive our offering. We're having just a slight change in the order of service on today. So we're going to receive our offering because we have some celebrities coming. Give a presentation for us and we want to have the offering taken. So if we go up in smoke, we'll have the money to pay the bills. Amen. Alright. Minister Sarton come on and lead us in the offering. Praise the Lord thanks. Praise and worship was awesome. It was awesome. The Lord was all in the midst of the praise of the worship. Now we're going to continue praise the Lord. We're going to continue praising and worship the Lord with our ties and with our offering. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. The Lord said give and it shall be given back to you with good measures. Press down, shaking together, running over shall men given to their bosom. The Lord said bring. He said bring all the ties. All, not some of it. He said bring all the ties and offering to my storehouse that there may be meat in my house. And that word meat means money. Money. This place couldn't stay open without money. So it's up to us to keep this place open that the ministry continued to go forth in Jesus' name. Now please stand with me in Jesus' name. Everyone, whether you give him or not, please stand in the honor of the Lord. Everyone have the envelope? Deacon Patrick. Just one need a envelope. Dr. Sykes. Let's hold our offering up in Jesus' name. Fallen in the name of Jesus. We thank you. We praise you Lord God. We glorify, we magnify your name Lord God. Lord, we thank you for this offering Lord God that we were about to receive. Lord God, in your name Lord God. We ask you in the name of Jesus that you will bless it. Multiply Lord God. Let it continue to meet every need of this church Lord God. In Jesus' name, we ask you this morning Lord God that you will bless the giver this morning Lord God. In Jesus' name Lord, and those that are not able, let them be able to get in on this blessing Lord God. Also in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name we pray, amen and amen. May he bring your offering up in Jesus' name. We thank you for that that you've done towards the building of the kingdom. We're grateful for all that you do for the house of God. At this time I'm going to turn this portion of the service over to Elder Ross while he brings his truth up. You're going to be excited about what the Lord is doing in our church. Amen. The Lord is blessing us. We're thanking him in advance for that that he's going to do through this group. All right. God bless you Elder Ross. Praise the Lord. Young people come on up here. We're going to bless the Lord. Amen. And the parents are going to help us and the singers are going to help us. We're going to have a good time. All right. The Bible said train up a child in the way that he should go. And when he gets older he won't depart. He may act crazy sometimes but he's going to come on back. All right. And we have our children. We're going to celebrate. We're going to Shabbat. We're going to bless the Lord. Amen. They're coming. They're coming. The troops are coming. Go ahead and give God praise in advance for our young people. Not to be not to feel threatened. Our young people showed us how to praise God. Come on somebody. Everything that you do you should do it with your heart. Do it with all your might. Because God is worthy. Is he worthy? Oh come on. Come on y'all. Did he wake you up this morning? He started you on your way. You have blood running warm in your veins. You have a reasonable portion of health and strength. Come on somebody. He's worthy of all of our praise. We can't praise him too much. He's worthy. God for our children, our young people. Amen. God is so good. It took me back a few years. I remember that's how I started off in church. I started off singing. Amen. And I'll say to you these children at this time are far, far more intellectual and wiser. Wiser than we. When kids were born all they would do was sleep. And eat. And do the other. But God is so good. The time we live in is an awesome, awesome time to be alive. The Lord has chosen us to be here at this particular time. He could have allowed us to be back in horse and buggy days. But thank God that's not where we wound up. And the Lord has chosen to use us. Because we're His greatest creation. Amen. I want you all to say amen. Because I get two or three amens here. And maybe one or two over there. If y'all help me preach. We're going to have a good time today. Amen. God is wonderful. That's an understatement. He cares so much about us as His people. He said to us we're a chosen generation. And a royal priesthood. And that should mean something to us. We should honor and praise Him. Thank Him for all that He is to us. Because He chose us. It's one thing about human beings that did not come from heaven. We're willful people. And we have a mind of our own that God gave us. Scripture says that we were born in sin and in iniquity. And somebody would say it's not our fault. I would agree that it's not our fault of where we were born. The situation we were born into. We were born into a position where we wanted it all. And they try to influence people's thinking at this time telling us that we can't have it all. And I'll say amen to that. You can't have it all. Because all that we want, all that I want is to do what I want to do. But just like the city of Long Beach and the city of Los Angeles, they have rules. They have laws. Well, the law. You have to pay a price. The Lord has always had people that He favored. He chose Israel as His own. And Israel was no different than we. Saying is the more things change the more they stay the same. Mankind is who He is and He will be who He is until He dies. But He's got to pay attention to the laws that God has laid down for His people. Now everybody doesn't belong to Jesus. Newsbreak. Everybody doesn't belong to Jesus. And as I mentioned this perhaps several times, the former pastor of this church, which was my oldest brother, blood brother, he said the Lord doesn't want everybody. I want to scratch my head on that. He said the Lord doesn't want you if you don't want Him. And so the Lord has dealt with knuckleheads ever since there was knuckleheads. Not as there were people. And in Jeremiah chapter 31, I want to talk today about covenants. And my topic is old hearts for new. Old hearts for new. Now that might sound strange. Why would anybody turn in an old heart to get a new heart? Jeremiah 31. Beginning at the 31st verse, this is addressing the new covenant that was needed because God's people couldn't keep the rules. The Lord made it plain to all of His people what the requirements were to belong to Him and over and over and over, they continued to break the law. To miss the mark of God. So the Lord says, I'm going to do a new thing. Jeremiah 31. 31. Reach thusly. Behold the day comes said the Lord that I will make a new covenant with the house of Israel and with the house of Judah. Not according to the covenant that I made with their fathers in the day that I took them by the hand to bring them out of the land of Egypt which my covenant they break. He said, I was bringing your forefathers out of Egypt, out of bondage, out of slavery. And to this, this would mean bringing us out of darkness. Bringing us into the light by His own hand. And He said, holding my hand even. You couldn't get it right while I was holding your hand. He said, this is not going to work. Now let me give you a definition of covenant. See there's a difference between an agreement and a covenant. An agreement can be broken by either party who has come into that agreement. They can break it when they decide to. But a covenant is a promise. And when you make a promise, you can't break it. God's not going to break it. And neither can you if you're in the covenant that God has called you into. So He said, they couldn't behave even while I was holding their hand. Although I was a husband unto them said the Lord. He said, I was the husband man. I provided everything that my people wanted. Everything they needed according to my will. They couldn't keep the covenant. So they'd walk with me faithfully for a few minutes. And I look around and there they were back off in slavery. He said, this is not working. But this shall be the covenant that I will make with the house of Israel. After those days said the Lord, I will put my law in their inward. I'll put my law in their inward parts and write it in their hearts and will be their God. And they shall be my people. He said, I'm going to have to do something new in you. Not on you. He said, it's in you. Your inward being is the one you're fighting with. So He said, I'm going to put my word in you. Come on, come on. What a privilege. What an honor to be able to stand before God, pure and white and clean. And the thing that's so wonderful about it is that we don't have to do it all by ourselves. Come on, somebody needed, somebody needed to thank the Lord, write it that junction right there. See, you're no, you're no, you're no, you don't have the wherewithal. First of all, you don't have the desire in you to do the right thing. But when the Lord said, I'm going to put my word in you. He said, it's going to get down on the inside of you. And it's going to make you want to do right. It's going to make you want to say, devil get me behind me. Come on, somebody, hallelujah. Thank God for the word that He has allowed us to have in us. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. He said, and when my word gets in you. He said, then I'll claim you. I'll claim you when you get my word in you. When you listen to me. When you hear me say no to you. And your foolishness when you get to the place where you can yield to my command. He said, you'll be my child. I'll embrace you. I love you. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. He said, after you become my people. And they shall teach no more. Every man his neighbor. And every man his brother. Saying, know the Lord. For they shall all know me. From the least of them unto the greatest of them said the Lord. The Lord said, I'm not leaving anybody out. He said, I'll make it plain enough for everybody. No matter what strategy you fall in an educational position. He said, you're going to know me. When I put my word in it, you'll know who I am. Hallelujah, hallelujah. He said, they shall all know me. From the least of them unto the greatest of them said the Lord. He said, for I will forgive their iniquity. And I will remember their sins no more. What a friend. What a friend we have in Jesus. All of our sins and griefs to bear. What a privilege. What a privilege. What a privilege it is to carry everything. Everything. Just take it to the Lord in prayer. He'll work in your behalf. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Now I told you all that we just can't seem to behave. Now after all of that promise that God made to his people. I'm going to take you all to the New Testament right now. My iPad to stay on. Alright, in 1st Corinthians chapter 11. Now this is in the new church. This is in the new church. He said, this is the church at car rent. They know what is required. They've been fully indoctrinated. They've been fully trained. And they know the right from wrong. They've come to communion. Uh oh. They've come to the table of God. The Apostle Paul had to set him straight. 1st Corinthians 11 chapter beginning at the 17th verse. Apostle Paul is speaking to them concerning the Lord's Supper. I didn't say the Last Supper. See the Last Supper is a painting that was drawn by Leonardo da Vinci. And sometimes we might get that confused. It's just a picture of what he saw in his mind of the Last Supper. But here's what the Last Supper really was. Apostle Paul had a rebuke for the church. And he said, now in this that I declare unto you, I praise you not. That ye come together not for the better, but for the worse. In this introductory verse right here, he says, I've been watching y'all. And this is my ebonics. And I've been knowing what you're putting down. He said, you've got it all wrong. You've come to celebrate Jesus and what he has done for his people and you're doing it all wrong. He said, for first of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there be division among you. And I partly believe it. The reason that God had to have a covenant, a new covenant, was that because evil hearts were taking advantage of others and committing wicked acts and anger and bitterness and hostile hearts that hold grudges. Come on, y'all say amen to these. Maybe some of y'all recognize these two. Sometimes seeking revenge. I'm going to get you. You did. I'm sure I might not get you today, but I'm going to get you. Grumbling, complaining, gossiping, hearts that tear down the character and reputation of other people. Y'all didn't know he was looking up in here? I don't know everything. I just know what the Lord told me to say. The Lord told me to say that in here today. I didn't just turn to this when I got here on the pulpit. I stayed at my office all day yesterday so he could tell me what to tell y'all. He said, you're doing it all wrong. You want to tear down people's reputation. A selfish heart that seeks to please itself no matter how much pain it causes. Preach, preach, preach. Preach Jesus. I'm going to go back to Paul. This is why God knew there had to be another covenant. He said, this agreement is not working. You got more like an agreement than a covenant. You want to bow up just because you want out. Just because you don't want to face reality. First of all, when you come together in the church, I hear that there would be divisions among you. He said, I partly believe it, but there must be also heresies among you that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. He said, I allow people in the church to act crazy. I allow there to be people in the church who will not conform to the covenant. He said, I let them be there. That's why we don't put nobody out of church. He said, the reason I allow them to stay is because when they stay it makes the good ones look real good. Come on somebody. He said, that's my will for my people. I'll read it to you so you can hear it. For there must be also heresies among you that they which are approved may be made manifest among you. If my watch know I'm preaching, it want to know am I having a fit or have I fallen out. He said that the bad ones going to make the good ones look real good. Then it says, when you come together therefore into one place, this is not to eat the Lord's suffer. You're deceiving yourself when you come to the Lord's table and you don't do it right. For in eating everyone take it before others his own suffer and one is hungry and another is drunk. He said, when you come to communion, you're bringing a big potluck supper for yourself and your friends and your cronies and you bring more than enough wine to get drunk. He said, so in communion session, you're stacking stuff up on your own self. You're gratifying nobody else but you, me and my three. He said, that ain't right. He said, what? Have you not house to eat and to drink in or despise ye the church of God and shame them that have not? What shall I say to you? Shall I praise you in this? He said, I praise you not. You get no praise when this is the kind of activity you bring into the house of God to celebrate the death, burial and resurrection of Jesus Christ the Lord, the savior of the world. He said, you got it all twisted. He says in this next verse, he said, I'm going to tell you the real meaning of the Lord's supper. Verse 23 says, for I have received of the Lord that which also I deliver unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks, he break it and said, take, eat. This is my body which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me. After the same manner, he also took the cup. When he had sucked saying this thing, this cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do ye as often as you drink it and remembrance of me. Now, I gotta stop right there. The New Testament, Jesus said, this cup is the New Covenant. That's what Testament is. This is the New Covenant. New agreement that we both sign on to and we're determined not to take it back. When you make a covenant, a covenant is for life. And you came to Jesus when you heard him call. He said, the day you hear my voice, heart not your heart. And when you heard his voice and you came to him, you said, Lord, take me as I am and make me over. Give me a new heart. My heart is filthy. I can't control myself. I tried from time to time. I tried to get it right and I can't seem to get it right because I don't have it in me. But Lord, if you put a new heart down inside me, give me a clean heart and I'll follow you. I'll do whatever you say. I'll give you my old heart if you give me a new heart. It's my desire to please you. I want to serve you. And the Lord said, I'll take you at your word. I'll give it to you. Now, you know, he knows the end from the beginning. And he'll give it to you knowing you're going like crazy. Can I say that? Can I say that to God's people? If they acting crazy, I guess maybe I can. I partially believe it. Jesus, this is Jesus. He's ministering his supper. And he said, the agreement that we have is unbreakable. Unbreakable. And he said, I love you with an everlasting love. I'll always love you. Yes, always. And maybe some of you sisters have heard that. Baby, I'll always love you. I'll never do you no. Somebody heard that. I know some of y'all heard that. But Jesus says, I'm going to take you at your word. He said, I know your weakness. Come on, somebody. He said, I know you're no match for the adversary of your soul. Who's the devil who wants to see you wind up in the lake of fire with him? He said, I'm going to take you. And I'm going to hold you. And I'm going to husband you. Husband means to provide for, to do everything that is necessary. He said, I'll do everything. I'll even go to the cross and give my life for your salvation. It's a tough to hold human beings, too. Because we're flesh. Still, regardless of how we look, in spite of our presentation. Look, holy, holy, holy. But the Lord knows we're flesh. And as long as we're in a fleshly body. As long as we're breathing this breath that he allows us to breathe. We're going to have to fight. Because there's an adversary who wants to see you be lost. And so the Lord put a clause in there. We sin. Oh, y'all didn't hear that. Let me say it loud. But if we sin. If y'all sin. If I sin. We have an advocate with the Father. Someone to go to God. You know, on behalf and say, Lord, have mercy. Lord, give him mercy. Let your grace cover him. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Thank God for mercy. Hallelujah, hallelujah. If it hadn't been for the Lord who was on my side. When my enemy came against me. I'd have been defeated right away. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, somebody ought to praise him. Come on. Give him praise. Give him glory. Hallelujah, hallelujah. You know, the first time you told a lie. He could have cut you off. First time you stole that cookie out of the cookie jar. He could have cut you off. Fever is fevery. Hallelujah. Is that repentance? Sister Arlene. My youngest daughter laughing over there. Probably that cookie. Thank God the Lord didn't count it against you. Hallelujah. He forgave you if you repent it. All right. It's our God. How great is our God? God. That he loves us enough. Yes. That he would shed his own blood. He went to Calvary's cross. He took stripes upon his back. Thorns of crown on his head. And they beat him all night long. And he said, I won't go back on my promise. I promise them that I would be their savior. I promise them I would die for their sins. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Oh, that's a new covenant. A new covenant. I'm going to stay in it. I'm staying in it. Anybody staying in it with me? Stay in it to win it. Hallelujah, hallelujah. He's a great God. Hallelujah. Verse 25, after the same matter, also he took the cup. When he had sucked saying, this cup is the new testament on the new covenant. In my blood. This do ye. So he says, instead of being selfish and sinful with your click in the church, the ones you like, the ones you speak to, when you see some other people and you say, I've passed that post twice. He didn't speak to it. He said, instead of that kind of activity, he said, you need to let my word get ahold of you. You need to get closer to me. You need to say, Lord, I know I'm no good. There's no good in me apart from what you put in me. Lord, I need your help and I'm willing to humble myself. I want to get on this argument and back myself up. No, that's what I say. The Holy Ghost has spoken and the Holy Ghost says, every time you come to this table or any other table set aside for this purpose, you need to come to remember the sacrifice. Remember that was promised to you. You didn't have to pay anything for it except the gift. It's not like a Christmas present when you get a Christmas present. You expected to give one. Salvation so full and free. Salvation belongs to God and it's free if you're abide by the covenant. Thank God. Thank God for the blood. As often as you come to this table it ought to be a celebration about the blood that Jesus shared for me. Way back on Calvary, the blood that gives me strength today will never lose its power. An enduring gift. Hallelujah, hallelujah. This cup is the New Testament in my blood. This do ye every time you drink it. You drink in remembrance of me. We have problems, we have tests, we have struggles. Somebody say, well, I know what to do. I'll get me a good stiff drink. I'll drink my problems away. Come on, somebody. But you can't drink this one away. You can't drink this one away. He said, get it right. Get it right. It's for the taking. He said, now let me tell you, in the Da Vinci's picture you see them all just sitting there kind of doing this. I don't believe that's what the last I mean, the Lord's sufferer was like. I believe they were singing. I believe they were dancing. I believe they were shouting. I believe they were praising God for Jesus who has come to take away the sins of the world. It's a celebration. Celebration? It ain't a celebration. He said, celebrate. Appreciate. Lord, I love you. Jesus, I love you. You're tender care. Jesus, I love you. I'll own you anywhere. Last verse. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup you do show the Lord's death till he comes till he comes back to rapture the church. He said, this is an ordinance. This, you got to do this. You need to praise him. Everybody need to praise him. Everybody everybody everybody who got sins they need to praise the Lord. I don't care how much more I don't care how much money you got. I don't care about the degrees or any of that kind of stuff. I don't care how cute you are. I don't care how handsome you might be. I don't care how handsome you might be. Come on somebody. You need God. You've got to have Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So I invite all of us to remember if you are part of the body of Christ if the Lord saved you he took that old raggedy heart that was rotten to the core didn't love nobody didn't love God didn't love his people and didn't even love yourself but the Lord says I'll take it bring your sins give me your sins turn towards me a new spirit I want to put in you a heart, a flesh and take your heart of stone so you can be compassionate so you can love your neighbor so you don't have to act crazy when people try to try to be kind to you I don't understand I'm through, I quit I quit I'm trying to land this airplane but I just about get it sat down and they go Jesus says this is for those of us who have missed the mark Jesus said I still love you he said I'm married to the backslatter and you know what a backslatter is a backslatter is not a person who happened to fall in sin one day a backslatter is one who is Jesus is like right out there this is toward this is untoward he said a backslatter turned his back on me and I still love him he said and I want him back he said I'm not interested in the devil having anything that belongs to me but he says I'll never leave you you may leave me but I'll never leave you you'll be an untoward child you'll be a hard-headed child that'll go to hell but you'll be a child of God that went to hell I'm going to quit on that come on to give God praise come on to give God praise so you need to recognize that we're in covenant with the king of kings and the Lord of lords and he's giving us a race to run and we can finish the race tell somebody I'm going to finish the race I can finish the race that's if you let God help you and as I said I was thinking about it but there's a minimum requirement to get in the race he says I need you to be baptized in the name of Jesus and filled with the Holy Ghost he says and you are a place in a race and the deal is the fix is on you're going to win so if there's anybody here right now that has not given their life to Jesus hasn't been baptized hasn't in Jesus' name filled with the Holy Ghost I'm inviting you to come and now what I'm going to do is I'm going to ask everybody that can to come around this altar because we're getting ready to take communion and I want you to come around the altar and reflect include myself I asked Sister Arlene if she could come and pray the prayer but I want everybody that can children, adults, everybody to come around the altar and see when I stand to come take communion I want to make sure that I have evaluated my life if there's anything I need to repent for and get repentance in the name of Jesus he said there's something about the communion he says if you take it unworthy it can cost you your life so this is a time for cleansing this is a time for healing this is a time for me to evaluate myself I'm not talking about you but me evaluate myself because there's some things that I need to do better about so don't look at your neighbor don't think this is a time for sister so and so brother so and so to get it right this is a time for us to get it right thank you I want everybody to lift your hands in total surrender to the Lord lift your hands thank you Jesus and let us just begin to pray thank you Lord thank you Jesus Lord we thank you Lord for every thing that you have done Father God we thank you Lord hallelujah start to thank God hallelujah hallelujah begin to pray inwardly and outwardly hallelujah hallelujah oh God thank you Jesus thank you if you can speak in tongues this is the time to lay it all before the Lord oh just start to speak to the Lord we know what we need from the Lord we know what things we deal with at 2am at 3am at 4am so start to pour it out to the Lord give it all to him give him every thought every thought of suicide every thought of every thought of inadequacy there is healing here of Jesus so dearly Father God we come here today Lord and we give it all to you oh God we say we don't want advice for us oh Jesus and so dearly Father God we just thank you Lord strategic issues Lord but you came oh God and you said it's by my blood and my blood alone so Lord guess what we thank you we thank you oh God our children God thank you we honor you and we lift you up God and we shall that was slain and we again find joy we find peace we find a new perspective on life we find hope there is and so Lord we thank you in Jesus name by the blood of Jesus we are free return to your seats and we'll serve this time I'm going to call for a scripture I want the officials come come to the table Dr. Sykes from the scripture John 3 16 and 17 say John chapter 3 testing say John chapter 3 verses 16 through 18 16 and 17 oh 16 and 17 for God so loved the world that he gave his only gotten son that whosoever believe it in him should not perish but have everlasting life for God sent not his son into the world to condemn the world but that the world through him might be saved thank you Jesus if we say we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us our sin and to cleanse us from all unrighteousness if we say that we have not sin we make him alive and his word is not in us my little children these things right I unto you that she sent not and if any man sin we have an advocate with the Father Jesus the righteous and he is the perpetuation for our sins and not ours only but also for the sins of the whole world amen say John 6 53 and 54 then Jesus said it to them very very I say unto you except you eat the flesh of the Son of man and drink his blood you have no life in you whoso eats my flesh and drink is my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day alright so we have been admonished to come to the table without fear if you refuse to come to the table you have no life so I just want to throw this in when Jesus had his supper Judas was at the table yes he was and Jesus didn't tell him I know what you are about to do he allowed him to come to the table right there and if you messed up somewhere you need to get to the table don't try to hide because it's at the table alright let's pass deacons where the deacons let's pass the I'm familiar with this you peel back the top and the wafer is under this first peely I'm not doing very well with mine let's try nothing well I guess I don't have a fingernail for it okay alright there it is alright I don't know about your thumbs but my thumbs and fingers are pretty big alright now we're going to offer prayer for the elements the first lady is going to pray the blessing on the bread followed by minister Edward she'll pray the prayer for the cup as you hold up your wafer father in the name of Jesus thank you lord Lord God as we hold this wafer up we think about your body that you took the spinning on that you took the tearing of the flesh that you took for us Lord God oh God we thank you Lord God that we're able to remember this Lord God in the name of Jesus you did it for us and the reason you did it for us because you loved us so much hallelujah and we thank you for your love Lord God that you poured out on Calvary for us Lord God that we might be part of that new covenant Lord God that you set free on us Lord God we thank you and help us always Lord God not only today but the rest of our lives remember what you did for us Lord we bring this wafer Lord God the blessing of your body Lord God that you shared for us you are the bread of life Lord God and we thank you for it right now in the name of Jesus each of us who will take of this in your mighty name give us healing for our body in the name of Jesus amen as you raise your cup unto the Lord Father we thank you for your precious blood that was shed for us Lord God hallelujah Lord Jesus as they pierced your side Lord God each and every drop Lord God hallelujah that came from your body hallelujah we thank you Lord God for the cleansing for the healing hallelujah for the salvation that is involved in your blood Lord Jesus hallelujah how you cleanse us from all unrighteousness thank you Jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Lord we give you glory and honor Lord God for your precious blood that was spilled for us Lord God hallelujah the last and final sacrifice Lord Jesus hallelujah you said that there wouldn't be a need anymore for any animals Lord God anybody any other animals to be killed Lord God that your body your blood was the final sacrifice made for us Lord Jesus so we thank you right now for your precious blood Lord God hallelujah Father as we take of this Lord God we ask hallelujah Lord God that we remember you Lord God and the sacrifice that you have made for us Lord God hallelujah that we will have a right to eternal life thank you Lord God we praise you Lord God in Jesus name amen let us now receive the body and the blood just for me just for me Jesus came and did just for me just for me just for me Jesus came just for me just for me just for me Jesus came and did washes wider than snow God for the opportunity to be in this service on today the Lord has certainly been in this house the spirit of the Lord is upon this house and in this place and in our hearts and we thank him for it now they're going to be serving some refreshments upstairs for everybody alright but I want us to sing no not that one not that one say yeah say I got you always remember Jesus always remember Jesus always keep him on your mind always remember we're going to get that right let's do it again and the scripture said and they sang a song and went out we've sung our song and we're going out God bless you