 Let me tell you, this is the day. This is the day the Lord has made. I'll start that scripture again from the top. This is the day the Lord has made. I will rejoice. I will rejoice and be glad in it. The scripture said, Lord, you put gladness in my heart. And I will rejoice in the Lord for He is my strength Anybody glad in the Lord this morning? If He's been good to you this week, just put those hands up in the air. Wave offering unto the Lord and give Him some thanks and praise, our God is good. There is nobody like our God. Father, we thank you this morning. We've come to gather in your name and give you all praise. The joy of the Lord is our strength. Hallelujah, hallelujah. Come on, put those hands together. Let's offer a clap unto the Lord. He is worthy today. Happy, something has to happen for you to be happy. But when you got joy, it could be good, something could be bad, it's been in your life. I'm still gonna praise God because I got joy. That makes me wanna dance, that makes me wanna shout, that makes me wanna run, that makes me wanna say, you will throw anything in my face, devil, I'm still gonna have joy no matter what you do. No matter what you take from my family or my life, whether I lose my whole, I still got joy because He's on the inside of me. All right, this morning. The joy, Lord, is your strength, your strength this morning. You're gonna need it this week. You're gonna need it this week. Look at somebody in the face this week that you might see and you know what? They may look down now and say, listen, I got somebody who can give joy back in your life. He's your strength. He's the God of joy this morning. Amen, amen. Give Jesus one more hand clap of praise this morning. As you're seated in God's house this morning, if you can. If this is your place, consistently we welcome you this morning. You step to do a good house this morning with the joy of the Lord and His presence is already moving in this building. If you're here this morning and this is your first time, whether it's you or with your family or just you by yourself, we welcome you out of the service. If you'll walk out into our foyer over to the left-hand side, there's a place called Guest Central. If it is your first time here, again, whether it's you or with your family, if you'll step in there, we're gonna get some information about you, let you know how you can stay connected with the church and let you know about the events that are happening and Pastor Miss Rita have a special gift just for you. So, home folk, give our guests, if they're watching from around the world or in this place, give them a great big hand, let them know they're welcome to pace assembly. Amen. Also, this whole year we've been doing back to the Bible. Everyone, you know, bringing your Bible. It's one thing about having it on your phone but it's another thing about having a physical Bible in your hand because we need to open up the word of God and, you know, and study it and know what God says all about it. So, we're gonna give a Bible away this morning. So, that's what we've done every week if you reach underneath your chair there should be a golden ticket at that moment that we're gonna give somebody a very fresh new Bible this morning. She's, there it is, there it is, right there. So, it's always getting, I love it. Ben's gonna walk over where that golden ticket is and everybody's gonna get on the floor to reach underneath the seat. So, be here next week, maybe you might get the golden ticket. Also, just a few announcements for you to be aware of, next Sunday is Mother's Day. So, for all the mothers in the room, happy early Mother's Day. So, make sure you come, bring your mom, okay? But we're gonna honor all the mothers next week and there's gonna be a special gift for all the women in the service after following Sunday Morning Service next Sunday. Also, baby dedication is next Sunday too, as well. If you're a child to be dedicated, there's yellow cards in the lobby. You can pick one up when you leave and return it by Wednesday night. We need those by Wednesday night if we're gonna dedicate your child next Sunday. So, be aware of that. Also, this past, oh, also one more thing. If you're wanting hand sanitizer, I'm being very serious. We have tons of it. And when I say tons, I'm not exaggerating. We have a lot of it. So, if you wanna be sanctified and cleansed from the top of your head to your feet every day, we have tons of it. So, as you leave today, when you walk out, grab you a box. We're not giving you a bottle. We're gonna give it to you by the box, okay? There's like six of them, 10 of them in a box. So, please go take a box for you and then disperse it to whoever you want to. So, as you leave, get a box. Please, get a box. We have tons of it, so at the end of service, walk out and be blessed. I don't care if you wanna take five boxes. Take five boxes. I don't care. Just take a box. But that's at the end of service today. Also, I know that last weekend, we had a great turnout and a great, they got just some great things at the Latino Fest last week. It was a great success, a great, come on, give God praise for that. Great success. The children's part that we had was an amazing thing. And then right after that, they had a service for all the adults. So, watch this video. I'll show you a little highlight of what happened last weekend. Amen, give God praise for what he did last week. Amen. If you will prepare your tithes and offerings, today is also Mission Sunday. So, you give your normal tithes and offerings, but giving to missions, you know, when you give to others, God will give it right back to you. When you give out of the abundance of your heart. So, prepare your normal tithes and offerings and then give over and above. Because today is Mission Sunday as well. You give on the app, you can drop it in the buckets as you leave this morning. And I know God will bless you for that this morning. How many people know that the Lord is mighty in here this morning? Stand to your feet this morning. They're about to kind of lead us back into a praise of time and worship. So, give God one more hand, come and praise him. If you know the Lord is mighty this morning. I just regular love, but it's a God. Hear the voices all over the room. We serve. Sing with us. Let your praise go up the Sandra Zep. We're sending this word from this house to where you are. You're an overcomer by the blood of the Lamb and the word of your testimony. But in this building, ought to rise the spirit of the Lord moving in this place right now. If you don't, you need to draw near to him because he's near as the mention of his name. He's working. He's working here. He's working all around the globe right now. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Why do you say lift your hands, pastor? It's an international sign of surrender. That's what it is. I watched him yesterday bow before the new crown king, King Charles. And when they, when he walked by, they bowed or they tipped their feet toward him, kissed the crown, kissed the ring. But I got news for you. The Bible said a greater than Solomon is in this place right now. Y'all didn't read your Bible. I said a greater one than Solomon, a greater than King Charles, a greater than Queen Elizabeth, a greater one. He's worthy of all of you. He's the one who made you an overcomer, ladies and gentlemen. Your body, lift your hand right where you are right now while the heaven is open. If you see somebody that's got their hand lifted right now, would you move in faith towards them? Move in faith. The heavens are open for healing right now. Whatever you have need of. And I don't pray no mealy mouth prayer. I want you to pray and let them hear you pray. And ask for the healer to come. Ask for the healer to come. That's what this music, this worship is all about. I'm an overcomer in my body, in my health, in my mind, in my spirit. The blood of the Lamb and by the word of our testimony. All of you that are watching online that are needing a healing in your body right now, I touch and agree with you that the healer is coming to where you are. He's not confined to this house. The Lord is right where you are. Lord, touch my friends. Wherever they may be watching around the globe, let the Spirit of God minister to them in healing and salvation and deliverance. Give them the assurance of the power of God working in their behalf this morning. Now right where you are, lift those hands and give God all the glory. Don't clap, open your mouth and lift your hands and give Him the glory. Out of your mouth, out of your mouth will go the praises. And bless Him right now, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you for healing me right now. I'm an overcomer right now, for right now. Right now I don't have to wait for a healer. The healer is here right now. Sense His presence in this room this morning. Come on, lift up the other hand and say this, hi, this morning, would you do it? Come on, that's kind of weak for somebody. Thank you, Jesus. God is good, amen. He does what He knows how to do and only He can do. And I believe God is moving still at where people are watching in Kenya and Alabama and Washington and Illinois and Florida and Texas and Wisconsin and the Philippines and Mississippi and Sicily, Italy. Would you welcome all of those that are joining us into the atmosphere of the presence of the Lord this morning? He's a good God. And I'm glad to be in the house this morning, aren't you? How many of you glad for the presence of the Lord here today? What I need you to know is He's working while you're sitting here right now. Somebody's getting an answer to your prayer while you're sitting in this building, God is working. I know you can't see it and you haven't got the phone call yet, but God is working in their behalf right now, in your behalf. Somebody that confirms that in your spirit or to lift your hand and thank God He's working. Even when I can't see Him, He's working. All things together for my good. We give you glory, Jesus. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. I want you to take your Bibles with me this morning. I want you to turn over with me please to the book of St. John chapter number four. St. John chapter number four. Let you sit down for this reading. In St. John chapter number four and verse five, then cometh he, Jesus, to a city of Samaria, which is called to the parcel of ground that Jacob gave his own son, Joseph. Now, Jacob's well was there. Jesus, therefore, being wearied with his journey, sat thus on the well and it was about the sixth hour. Then cometh a woman of Samaria to draw water and Jesus saith unto her, give me to drink for his disciples were gone away into the city by meat, then saith the woman of Samaria unto him, how is it that thou, all being a Jew, ask drink of me, which I'm a woman of Samaria, for the Jews have no dealing with the Samaritans? Jesus answered and said unto her, if thou knewest the gift of God, if you knew the gift of God, that's what you've been feeling moving in this place is the gift of God. I don't think you heard me. The gift has been, he's moving right here. He's moving all over. If you knew, if you could discern the gift of God and who it is that saith unto thee, give me to drink, thou wouldst have asked of him, he would have given thee living water. Jesus goes on in this dissertation to say that if you drink of this water, you're gonna thirst again. But if you drink of the water that I give to you, it will spring up in you as a well of living water and you will never thirst again. Wait a minute pastor, I'm thirsty right now. I need to drink a water right now. Oh, I'm not talking about this water. He's talking about heavenly springs of living water. That you'll never want for satisfaction anywhere else if you drink of Jesus water, you'll be always satisfied. And then the Bible says that she went back into the city and told everybody what was going on and the women obviously didn't believe her but the men came out saying, let's see what this woman's talking about, who she's talking about. And this woman preacher started a revival in the city of Samaria that nobody else could. The reason why is everybody had been drinking from this well, Jacob's well, and it never satisfied. But she drank of the living water and suddenly there was a revival in the land. One woman changed the entirety of the city. Now flip with me over to Matthew chapter 28, verse number 16, 28 and 16. 28 and 16 says this, then the 11 disciples went away under Galilee, under a mountain where Jesus had appointed them. And when they saw him, they worshiped him, but some doubted. You can expect that in any crowd. There's gonna be there people that worship him and some that are hesitant. But the Bible says in verse 18, and Jesus came and spake unto them saying, all power, how much power? All power is given unto me in heaven and in earth. Go ye therefore and teach all nations. How many nations? So we got all power, we got all nations. Baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Ghost, teaching them to observe all things, how many things? Now we got all power, we got all nations, we got all things whatsoever I've commanded you and lo, I am with you all way, even unto the end of the world. Father, I pray that this morning you'll touch the lives of people. I pray that you administer continually as you're doing even right now. Lord, let today on this day be a shift like you're doing in the atmosphere already. May this church be mobilized to accomplish your good work from now until you come again. And I pray that you will impress upon us the urgency of the hour. We give you glory and honor and praise in Jesus' mighty name and let all the church say a good amen. I want you to watch this very important and relevant to my message this morning report that comes from the son of Pastor Jose Alvarez who just a few weeks ago was on this platform and now has sailed many miles by boat the only way you can get there up the Amazon River to build the church that this church gave $35,000 to build a sanctuary for the saints and those that are coming to him in the Peruvian jungles. Watch this. Santa Cruz, we took a boat ride which was approximately eight to nine hours. We are delivering all of the materials to build a church in this place. This is the property. This is the land where the new church is gonna be built. So I wanna say thank you and your church for investing in the kingdom. Thank you for trusting us with this work. This is Pastor Ladislao Soria. He is the main pastor of this community. We have Pastor Clindel which is one of our board members here in Peru. So I wanna say thank you very much for all you do. Please give my love to your church. We keep doing the work and we're here trying to do our best but thank you and God bless you. And that boat is how they got all of the materials that you've already purchased nine hours later down to the site where this church is gonna be built and I wanna applaud every person in this great church because you're looking to the fields that are way beyond where we are right now and helping to build God's church. Come on, say amen somebody. And for that reason I want you if you wanna take your phone or you've got something to write with and write on, this morning will be a little bit different message as the Lord has pressed upon me today. I wanna talk to you for a few moments about being commissioned by Christ. And I'm not sure that this will be the same way of a message that you've heard before but I want you to take some notes down and get it in your spirit. I want you if you take your phone out and take pictures, whatever, we're gonna end this service with communion today. It is my full intention as the pastor of this great church that has been handed the baton now for the past 17 years to live in this great church for the past 17 years to lead you into the continual vision and the continual commission of God that is resting upon this church and many others. And to do so by every means possible. That means that this morning, even as I speak, we are broadcasting live on the Journey Network around the world on their Roku channel to get the gospel out. As we speak, we're on Boxcast, YouTube, Facebook, every possible platform that we can broadcasting live around the world right now. We're on TV at least twice a week. We're on radio both in our local area and up on the top mountains of Western Africa where we're broadcasting to more than a half a million people every day of the week right there in West Africa. We have an app that you can download so that you can continually get the gospel and be updated on what's going on through the website, through the streaming, whatever means possible, printed material, door to door, I don't care what it is, I cannot express to you how this morning that this message has been pressed upon my spirit. For two things, the commission call of God upon our lives personally and this church and the necessity of the fullness of the Holy Spirit in order to accomplish it. This coming Wednesday night, the Lord continuing to move in that area, I'm gonna begin a series on the fullness of the spirit, the necessity of the fullness of the spirit. I believe the reason why we're not seeing what we need to see accomplished is because there is a lack of fullness in the lives of people to understand that you haven't been saved to sit on a pew and sour or just receive for yourself. And it's wonderful and I love what I'm experiencing, that's what Sunday's all about, to come encourage and edify the saints, receive the Word of God so you can go out in the fields that are widened to harvest and reap the harvest in these days. And it is absolutely necessary that we do that because that is the call upon the church and I take it personal because I'm part of that church. I'm just, we're just one church at Pace Assembly, but we're one of many. And it is necessary for us to look into even the future. Before I do that, I wanna look to the past for just a moment because in January, as a matter of fact, in 2019, around June, I sat, we had a consultant that came in and helped us, we brought our staff together and leaders together and we talked about as many, many churches did, we took advantage of that already built-in slogan 2020, the year 2020. And we said, we're gonna launch new vision and we had a whole book printed up and a whole mission statement put together, brand new and a vision statement and all the details that were inside of all that material. And I said, okay, we got it together, we got it printed in the month of December 2019. We got it in January and I was ready to preach the series of messages on launching a new vision for a new time, new season. And then what no prophet predicted, what no pastor saw, what the leaders of our nation could not see, came upon us and swept that stuff away and every church growth model that has ever been right off of the table. And this entire world was thrown into a tailspin that whatever you had planned, whatever you had predicted and whatever that you had laid out, suddenly got rearranged in just a moment. One of the things that we did that we will never do again, never hear my words. We will never violate God's law again by shuttering the doors for government or anyone else ever again, period, never again. But I'm gonna tell you we are now only beginning to see the rippling effect of what took place from 2020 in so many different ways. So many people got so used to staying at home in their pajamas that they said, I'm not even not going back to church, but I'm really comfortable right here, which is all prophetic in the scripture of what would take place in the last days. I mean, how many times have you gotta have Hebrews 10, 23 quoted to you, for sake not, the assembling of yourselves together as the manner of some is and so much the more as you see the day approaching. Well, we're seeing the day approaching more than we ever have and yet people are more and more saying, I'm not interested. And then there's great churches like this. And I say that with all humility and with all confidence. That, and I believe this in my spirit years ago, I believe God spoke in my spirit that across the United States in the last days there would be oasis pockets where the spirit of God was allowed to move that people would literally migrate into those areas and move into those areas to be a part of that body because it was life. It was living water. As a matter of fact, I want every person who has moved from out of state in the past year into Pace, Florida, stand up on your feet right now. You're here at this church, stand up where you are. Please look around the room to God be the glory. Amen. Welcome to Tackets. They just got here from Arkansas. Amen. Just moved into town. And so in 2020, in so many ways, be it business, church or whatever, and I will speak specifically to the church and the mandate of the church. I'm concerned that too many fell into the hammock of a nap. And I've come to this pulpit on this particular day, May the 7th, 2023, to say to Pace Assembly and those that watch online and are part of this church, it's time for us to rub the sleep out of our eyes and get back to the business that God has called the church to do and be. Somebody said normal is not coming back, but Jesus is. I can rest assure that what we've known as normal is not coming back. So that means we've got to learn what we need to do and make sure of what we need to do because we can't pick up on world trends and fads or even within the church because the church is a confused today. They don't know if they want to ordain this and authorize this or whatever. And we've got to know and I've got to know what Pace Assembly is supposed to do and those that are under the sound of my voice and I promise you, I'm not a miss as to what we're supposed to do. And I don't have to write a mission statement. You know, there for a long time, there's some pastors that are in this room right here understand what I'm talking about. If you didn't have a mission statement, you weren't in. If you didn't have a vision statement and a mission statement, you were like, doubly not in. And everybody was purporting that you got to have this and I understand the concept of that, but the problem was we wrote so many mission statements and so many vision statements. And then in 2020, it was all bombed and we discovered all of our ideas of what we thought it was going to be are absolutely changed completely. And I want you to know, and I don't say this, I'm just gonna say it, no disclaimers. My following for church growth has always been the axe to model period. And I'll get to that in just a moment. There is a day when you were not, but there will never be a day when you will not be. Some billion years from now, you'll either be occupying the presence and the atmosphere of the Holy One of God in His presence where there's fullness of joy, or you'll be occupying the horrors of hell, but you will be somewhere and the question is where? And beyond you, the question is, where will people within your sphere of influence be? When you've had time with them to affect change in their life. Let me tell you, everything changed with the pandemic. And now, ladies and gentlemen, there's been a time, did you understand we're in 2023? This pandemic started in 2020 officially. And in a few days from now, the smart guys are going to declare that the COVID pandemic is now over. Isn't that amazing? I don't know who gets to declare that because I don't remember anybody declaring it to be so. That's not my concern as much as the acceleration of time and the acceleration of change. And there's two people in this building and those that are watching. Those that between now and the coming of the Lord are either going to get run over by the changes that are happening and the pace of the changes, pardon the pun, that are happening so fast. Or in those who will be able to not adopt, but adapt and keep on mission for the gospel of Jesus Christ. My intent is the latter, that we're going to be able to use every means and every mechanism in any way we can to get the gospel out, but the mission statement has always been the same from Matthew 28 and 19. So that makes the question that Jesus asked in Mark chapter number eight, probably the most important question of your life. What is that question? The question is, what shall it profit a man? If he gains the whole world and loses his own soul, or what would a man give in exchange for his soul? In other words, where are you heading and where are those that are around you heading? Because whether they want to believe it or not, there is a heaven and there is a hell and you and I have been placed here on this earth for such a time as this to be able to affect change for the sake of the kingdom of God. This is the question that only Jesus could have asked. Only he could have understood the worth and the value of every soul that is on this planet because they were all, all of us were created in the likeness and image of God. And as Jesus, who stacks the wealth of the world on one side of the scale and takes a human soul and puts it on the other and finds that that is weightier than all of the gold and all of the silver. Jesus tells us in this verse to trade your soul for the wealth of the world makes you a fool. Living right now, we are in a hurting and a confused world. There have been 15 United Methodist churches that have pulled out of the Methodist movement in our area alone just this past weekend. Why? Because their principles and values that they read from the Word of God that has been enshrined in their church and denomination for years has now been confused, twisted and almost terminated for that lack of terminology because now people have walked away from the Word of God, which is the mandate upon any given church that is called the name of Jesus Christ. I don't care what denomination that you may be in, the Word of God is the final authority on all things, ladies and gentlemen, and it's not up to me or even up to you. It's up to the Word of God to declare what truth is. We're confused in this time. There is a facade of happiness. You understand what I'm saying? When you go to the wherever you go, the mall, Walmart, wherever it may be that you go, there is this facade and almost a little apprehension on the parts of people to connect again because of the isolation that took place in recent years. And now here we are in 2023. Three years later, it was like a blink and yet the evil agenda of hell has accelerated. But I'm telling you, God is accelerating it too. And I just wanna declare this to every one of you who are really born again, really born again, and this is it. There's going to come a time in the not too distant future that you're gonna stop praying, Lord, pay off my bills, make me sure I can get my boat out of the water. You're gonna start praying like they did in the Book of Acts and in the Book of Revelation. Lord, even so come Lord Jesus. I don't belong in this world anymore. This is the question Jesus asked and it's got to be one that everybody has the answer because it's the answer to the question. Because people are searching today and they're consumed with things and it's all about entertainment and it's the days of Noah. Jesus said, don't put off to tomorrow because today is the day of salvation. Tomorrow could be too late. Do you understand that? Tomorrow, the investment. Tomorrow, the change. Tomorrow, well, I'm gonna do this tomorrow. He says in the Book of James, whatever you do, be careful that you don't say that I'm gonna go here or there tomorrow. You don't know what tomorrow's gonna bring. That's the reason why you need to get saved if you're not today. Today is the day of salvation, the Bible says. And for that reason, I wanna make it abundantly clear. Please put it up on the wall, fellas. I wanna make it abundantly clear what our position and our mission statement will be until Jesus comes again and what you need to know. And I don't have time to be able to preach this out today. I just wanna make sure that you've got it in your understanding from the Book of Acts. You read it when you go home. Acts 42 through 47. This is the model for the church growth. It is the process that never ceases in this church. Nobody grows out of this. This is a process that happens over and over again. And it's found in the Word of God. First, we come into a place of worship, adoration. You find that in verse number 47. We worship, that's what we're doing here this morning. We do it every day of our life. I don't care if you're in a car on your job. Secondly, there is a connection. We're talking about church growth here. You invite people to church. You come to church and they get a chance to worship and suddenly they experience the power of God. Then there is that time of fellowship. This is what connected people to the body of Christ. Ladies and gentlemen, here what I'm telling you. For all the years that we've been isolated, it is needful that we connect with one another again. It is the strength of the early church when they fellowship together. Thirdly, the growth portion is discipleship. Every person here and those watching should be continually growing. Well, Pastor, I already know about the coming of Lord. I already know about the blood. You don't know everything. You need to continually grow. You need to mature. You need to be discipled and you need to help disciple. Fourthly, there needs to be a place where you serve. We have too many people occupying churches today who claim Christianity, but they do nothing to help build the kingdom of God. And I'm not talking about just singing in a choir or just teaching a class. My question to you is what are you doing if you call Pace Assembly your church? What are you doing to serve in some ministry that's helping to build the body of Christ? If you're not, you're not fulfilling the Acts 2 model. And ladies and gentlemen, listen to me because my mind is pressed this morning about the future of our church, the future of church at large, and the fact that if we don't make changes necessary and begin to fulfill what God told us, I don't know when Jesus is coming back. He could come back now. He could come back 20 years from now. My job is to build you up and then you bring them in, disciple them and serve in some capacity. If everybody in this church and those that are watching right now were active in some service of ministry, wonder what how it would affect the community we're in. Because ladies and gentlemen, Pace, Florida is the fastest growing in all of the Panhandle and most surely in the state of Florida. There are more people moving in here than just about any other location in the state of Florida. Why? Well, first of all, they're getting out of cities and they're getting out of states that has completely turned into a godless atmosphere. And they wanna come to a place where there's freedom. And I wanna say to every one of you that are brand new that have been here, find your place at Pace to serve in ministry. Do not allow somebody who's sitting down beside you to cause you to sit down because your hands are needed in the kingdom and we need you now more than ever before. Say amen to somebody. And then our call is evangelism to go. Hear what I'm telling you. I spoke several years ago to different denominational leaders when I was in an ecumenical setting, Methodist and so forth. And I started talking about evangelism and going out in the highways and hedges and appealing to come in and I'm just telling you. They looked at me like I was speaking in a different language. Because their mission and their goal is not to evangelize, it's just to have a church on the corner that occupies a space of ground with the people that are in there. And guess what's happening? Little by little it's decreasing because there's nobody that's coming in the door. Anything that has life has an input and an output. And I want you to know, and I say this with all humility that the assemblies of God in denomination is the largest Pentecostal movement around the world. Most adherents are not in the United States. There's only about 12 to 13,000 assembly of God churches in the United States. Most of our churches and adherents are overseas because the whole push of the assemblies of God since 1906 was to evangelize the world. So that's the reason why we give money to build churches in Peru and we give money to help people other places that we'll never see in this life. But when we arrive in heaven, they'll come from every tribe, every kindred, every tongue. And if we ever lose that, ladies and gentlemen, and we turn it introverted where it's only our fellowship and our hot dog roast weenies and our activities and our softball and it's all introverted, we will die for the lack of input, ladies and gentlemen. There must be a move of God where people hear the call of God go into all the world and preach the gospel. So Jesus gives us a very vivid illustration. I'm doing a little teaching here this morning. Y'all all right? Jesus gives us a very vivid illustration that's found in three different characters in the book of Luke chapter number 15. And many of you are very familiar with the stories that are found there, but this teaches us what it means to be lost and the joy of being found in three different illustrated sermons he taught briefly. The Pharisees were on his back and they were hollering and screaming at him and Jesus didn't argue back with him, he just told some stories. He said, first of all, he said, there is this lost sheep. And then he spoke to him about a lost coin and then he spoke to him about a lost son. We know it as the prodigal. The lost sheep, he starts speaking about in verse number three. Why was the sheep lost? The sheep was lost due to careless wondering. There's an awful lot of sheep that are carelessly wandering around right now. Wandering away from the shepherd, making bad choices, making bad connections and relationships. A sheep without a shepherd has no chance of survival, ladies and gentlemen. Jesus saw the people as sheep without a shepherd. They had religion, they had no shepherd. They had synagogues, but they had no fellowship. The hierarchy of religion kept those away from that needed it the most and as a result of that, Jesus came to a lost, broken, hearted people and brought them hope like they had never seen. And Jesus gives instruction here. He said, what about you? Don't you leave the 90 and nine? This is the value of one lost lamb, ladies and gentlemen. How much does God care about us? He said, don't you Pharisees, Sadducees, leave the 90 and nine and go search for the one lost sheep and you search with great diligence? You know what he was saying there? You go with the highways and hedges and you find them and don't come back until you bring somebody with you. The attitude of the average church is this, bless me. And I'm all about blessings. How many of you enjoy the blessings in here? You're afraid to say amen. Now aren't you? Feed me, bless me, serve me. But Jesus said the priority of the church is to find them, search for them, compel them. Come on, church. He speaks to them about the lost coin. I love this story. Why was it lost? Well, it was lost because it was out of circulation. She had other coins, but the one was so important and so valuable, but it was out of circulation. How many of you know coins out of circulation have no value? Useless, it's out of touch, it's out of control. The Bible says she lost it inside of the house. The coin was in the house, but it was lost. It was sitting in church, but it was lost. Some are saved, but they're out of circulation. Some have been saved and had a wonderful relationship with the Lord, but now they're backslidden on God. They're not as on fire as they used to. And what has happened in three years, it's put people to sleep. It's put pulpits to sleep. It's put churches to sleep. Where all we're gonna do now is ride the boat until Jesus comes. I will not pastor a church that becomes stagnant and apathetic toward a world that needs Jesus. I'm gonna go out with a blaze of fire and a shout of glory. And I intend to bring everybody I can with me. Have I got any helpers in here? The Bible says you might be in church, but you're out of service. The coin is only good when it gets back in circulation, when it gets in the flow. The coin was lost. And the Bible says that the woman, I can see her with a dustpan and her hand and a broom in one hand. And a light to look into the dark places in the house. If you're sitting in this house this morning or watching from your house today or in some church today and you've never received Jesus Christ, I wanna make sure you understand. You're not going to heaven just because you attend Pace Assembly. You're not going to heaven because you signed one of these cards up here. You're not going to heaven because you're associating with other saved people. You're not going to heaven because you came in on grandma's skirts or my daddy was this or my... No, no, all of that. There is no seniority in the kingdom of God. I hope you understand. The only way you're getting in is to be born again and you gotta stay on fire. Lost coin. In other words, if you're in this building and you're lost in the house, you need to say to yourself right now, I need to get back in circulation real fast. Then there is the lost son, the prodigal. It really is the story of a father's love, but we call it the prodigal son story because here's this son, the son of the father and an elder brother that's in the same house. The son was lost by choice. One thing to be lost or taken against your will. And it's another thing to make a choice because you don't like the father's rules. I've been told that I need to preach more on this side over here. I have a default that goes left. I just wanna let everybody on this side know that that was for you too. The prodigal, the more he got what he wanted, the less he wanted what he got. He wasted his life, the Bible said. He wasted his fortune that his father gave him. He blew his good name and yet everybody matters to God. Just like the lost son. Here's some good news. The father was waiting on him. Here's better news. The father is waiting on you. He's been waiting for some of you for a long time. You've been wasting your substance in places that, here I come, let it be noted here today, I'm coming to the right side. You've wasted your substance, you've blown life and all of that, but I've got good news and good gospel news for you today. It makes no difference where you've been and what you've done. There is still a father who's sitting on the porch of heaven looking out for you to return back to him. You matter to him. And the father waited on him. I'm just gonna tell you, I'm a bad waiter. That's why I don't wait tables because I'd be saying, all right, what y'all want? Here you go. Let's get it on and get out of here. I need somebody else to sit at this table. The tips are low this night. I'm bad at waiting. I don't like waiting at traffic light. I don't even like waiting at stop signs. Don't laugh at me. I know some of you blow right through them. You don't even care. You pray for me. The Lord's working on that patience thing. I really have an issue with that. I will take a different route, but imagine human beings are not willing to wait on anybody, but God, the father is still waiting on somebody while I feel something shoot across this congregation with that. And then there is the older brother in the house. I'm still talking about these illustrations from Luke 15 that Jesus shared with him to get their mind right because he said, here's a lost son that blew everything I gave him and wasted his life and he was all messed up. And now he's coming back to meet with tracks of his arm. He's out of his mind. He don't know what to do, but he's still my son. He still deserves the shoes and the ring and the robe and be sure to get the fatted calf. Boy, you better do that before the climate change people do because there won't be no fatted calf. He said, get the fatted calf and barbecue this thing. My son who was lost, what would you give for a child who's been lost run through the back door this morning and say, oh God, forgive me a lost boy. Can I come back home? You give all of your worldly wealth for it. And guess what heaven did? He took the darling of heaven in the name of Jesus and gave him to us. Home on the cross was buried and rose again so that he's waiting on you to come back home today. And then there are those cantankerous elder brothers sitting among us, look straight at me. Who lived with the father, but the father wasn't in them. He was lost by contempt. He had contempt for the father's house. It didn't show up till the younger boy got back. When the younger son came back and he got all this great stuff and all of the Christmas packages that have been waiting on him now for years, he said, what's wrong with me? And the father said, you could have had any of this at any time and that critical spirit bittered his soul. I want you to know life without Christ is no life at all, ladies and gentlemen. And the end of it is the same for everybody. The Bible says the wages of sin is death but the gift of God. Look at that, wages you have to earn. Some of you are trying to earn something that the Lord said, you don't earn this, it's a gift. It's a gift. Do you understand a gift? No, you don't understand a gift. When you sit down at Christmas and somebody gives you a gift, do you turn around and look at them with it in your hand and say, okay, how much does it cost? I'll pay you. Don't worry, I'll never give you a gift again. You better be glad I'm not God. Cause you know what the Lord is doing? He's giving you gifts even right now. Hold it, here's a gift for you. Everybody breathe. That's another one right there. Put your hand on your heart and you'll find out He's giving you another heartbeat. Come on somebody. Oh, you drove in a car and didn't walk here like most of the world. There's your gift right there. Oh, you ate before you got here. Oh, you had your lactate before you got here. Do you understand you are blessed and highly favored and all of that goodness is to get you to repentance? Jesus laid them out with these three stories. They didn't have nothing to say when that was all over with because by the time you start talking about somebody's lost boy, in my mind I see one of those Sadducees and Pharisees going, mm-hmm, yeah. I got a boy. One of the greatest lines in all of the Bible is Jesus was moved with compassion for the lost. He didn't just have compassion. He was moved with compassion. In other words, He didn't just look at it and say all those pitiful people. He said, no, they are pitiful. They don't have anything to eat. Bring me the lunch. And He blessed it, multiplied and fed and met the need of people. Are you hearing what I'm saying? Here's what the Bible says in Luke 15.7. I say unto you that likewise joy shall be in heaven over one sinner that repented more than all the 99 just persons which need repentance. The Holy Spirit dealt with my heart this morning to remind us that God supplies all of our needs according to His riches and glory by Christ Jesus. Anybody believe that? And the first thought we have is money. But I want to direct your attention as the Holy Spirit did, that it's not about money and it's not about things. But God supplies the needs of our life and He does it according to the riches and glory by Christ Jesus. So when I'm talking to you about breathing and I'm talking to you about people that are outside that need Jesus, God is supplying needs for you in more ways than what you think about. I want to give you a few things here very quickly because everybody needs these things. Everybody does. I don't care what people say. I don't need nobody. The atheist said, I don't need God. Well, hey, you're a fool. Bible calls that. Second of all, you're gonna stand before Him one day so you might want to think about needing Him. So everybody needs a few of these things. Number one, here's one. Everybody needs love. I'm gonna move quickly here. Everybody needs love. Everybody needs love. The Bible says in John 3.16, for God so loved the world that He gave His only begotten Son that whosoever believeth in Him would not perish but have everlasting life. What kind of love is it that a man laid down his life for his friends? Romans 5 and 8, God commended His love toward us and that while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us. Here's you some more love. Ephesians 2, 4 and 5, but God who was rich in mercy for His great love wherewith He loved us, even when we were dead in sins, we have quicken us together with Christ by grace, are you say? Ladies and gentlemen, everybody in this world needs love. Need to be loved and give love. Secondly, we need acceptance, not approval, acceptance. Acceptance, according to Ephesians chapter 1 verse 6, to the praise of the glory of His grace wherein we have been, He has made us accepted in the beloved. When you come to Jesus Christ, you've been accepted into the body of Christ. Some of you are still waiting to be accepted by the club that you applied for a couple of years ago. Some of you are still waiting to be accepted by your peers. Some of you check social media every day to check and see if the person that you're hoping will approve you and love you and accept you has checked like. But Jesus said, I have accepted you into the beloved. Like the prodigal son, you can't clean yourself up enough to be accepted. So He says, come to me just like you are and I'll do all the washing for you. There's three things specifically that we need is love, acceptance and forgiveness. Forgiveness, 1 John chapter 1 verse 9, if we confess our sins, He's faithful to forgive us and cleanse us from all unrighteousness. Why are you letting the devil beat you up about that? Why are you looking in the mirror and saying, I can't do it, I can't make it? Wait a minute, if Jesus forgave you, come on somebody, well pastor, I did this and I did that, I know. And you'd be shocked to know what's sitting around you this morning that they did it last night. You would get up and move your seat if you knew what some people sitting beside you did just last night. But you know why they're here? Because the grace of God has forgiven their sins and cleansed them from all unrighteousness. I wanna know how many people in this room have received the forgiveness of the Lord and the remission of your sins. Wave at me this morning if you're born again. Ephesians 1 and 7 says, in whom we have redemption through the blood, forgiveness of sins according to the riches of His grace. Get this ladies and gentlemen, we just sang about, I'm an overcomer by the blood of the Lamb and the Word of my testimony. Why are we saying that? Why are we singing something that we don't believe? I came to tell you when Jesus forgives, He not only forgives but He says something that man can't do and that He forgives it and throws it as far as the east is from the west. I'm talking to you about the Great Commission. Everybody needs a second chance. I wish I had somebody say amen right there. I know you won't give it, but you're always asking for it. Here's a question, here's a poll. Here's a breaking news, Fox CNN, ABC, NBC, CNBC poll. How many of you have had a second chance with God before in your life? Let me see your hand. Wait a minute now, here's the poll. How many of you have had a third chance before with God? Let me see your hand. Everybody don't raise your hand, you're going straight to hell right now, but go ahead. You went and answered if I gave you a $20 bill, would you? Well, He don't need to know that kind of information. You'll be the one who will look at somebody else and pass judgment upon them when you yourself are asking God, forgive me, release me. I'm just telling you, the more you release it, the more God will come alongside and give you a second chance. I love the scripture in Jonah chapter three, verse number one, and the Word of the Lord came to Jonah a second time. In the words of Nikki Cruz, y'all don't know how to read that. Some of you do, some of you don't. Don't ask for interpretation, it ain't in the Bible. The Bible says that Peter cursed Jesus and he looked at him eyeball to eyeball and what did he do? Peter, I have prayed for you, I pray for you and you're going to fail. Look at your neighbor and tell him you're going to fail. You won't look at anybody and tell them. And if they look at you cross-eyed it back as if they're never going to fail, next Sunday sit somewhere else. You know why? Because everybody in here, if we live another 24, have the potential to fail God. And I fail God and I fail people many times. But here's Jesus coming along looking in Peter's face saying, I pray for you, that your faith fail not and when thou art converted, you're going to fail. I've already, I already know you're going to fail. When you're converted, strengthen your brother. Tell somebody that the God who forgives forgave you a second time. Everybody needs a second chance. I said everybody needs a second chance. Here's something else that everybody needs and if we don't get a handle on this, this comes from the church. Everybody needs hope. You know why they're committing suicide in record numbers in the Scammy and Santa Rosa County? Because somewhere they've lost hope. Ladies and gentlemen, for a government, for a school system or a church or anybody else to take hope from a child, it is better than a millstone be tied around your neck to offend these little ones. Ladies and gentlemen, if we ever needed hope, it is right now and what is the devil trying to do? Steal the hope of the rapture of the church. Take hope out of the hearts of people. But I came to declare to you the word of the Lord from the book of 1 Peter 1 and 21 by whom we believe in God that raised him up from the dead and gave him glory, that your faith and hope would be in God. Don't trust people, trust the Lord. He will never fail you. Tell you what else we need. Everybody needs a future. We're about to graduate a whole other class. There's a bunch of people graduating right now. Jeremiah 2911 says that God's thinking about your future before you are and it's a good thought. Come on somebody, I don't know what tomorrow's gonna bring and I was sharing some things with some of the guys before service that I'm gonna bring to this congregation weeks to come. I can tell you right now, the future for many people is bleak and we don't know what it is. And about the time we start thinking about it, here comes another report on news. Wait, breaking news, a new COVID strain has been found. Breaking news, seaweed has washed up on the shores of Pensacola. Breaking news, I heard it yesterday. Breaking news, flesh eating bacteria is in the water. I got some breaking news for them. I wish I could break in on everyone up. Here's some breaking news. God said I'm thinking a thought about you that isn't expected in. He said to give you a hope and to give you a future. So go ahead and eat the apple and fry the mullet. Don't care about the mercury. If you're eating a deadly thing, it shall not harm you because the Lord is on your side and he's got a hope and a future outline for you. Here's something else. People need, it's the truth. Sometimes say, people say, oh, all we need is love. And then we get into the, we get into the, we get into the flower children, pardon me, of California. All you need is love, love, love is all you need. I'm not even looking. But here what I'm telling you, some of y'all just came to church, didn't you? I'm so glad you're here. You just started listening. What's he gonna say now? Hear me? Love without truth is a deadly thing. Did you hear what I said? The Bible says, speak the truth in love. That means that you speak the Word of God, not your own opinion. It doesn't mean you gotta hate on the center. What it does mean is that you love them and tell them the truth. Why would you tell your child, hey, I love you baby, go play in the street? Come on somebody. I love you baby, go ahead and drink this poison. Are you kidding me? You would never do that, would you? I was hoping for a no. You would never do that. And yet we want to sanitize the gospel to not call sinners sin. To not let them see Jesus hanging naked on a cross for their sin, not his. The Bible says, die worry. He says, Jesus said these words, sanctify them by thy truth. Thy Word is true. And I have been vividly broad and so of you to the facts and the truth of the world we're living in from Isaiah 59. You should go read it. Truth has fallen in the streets. People have lied and lied and lied so much that people distrust anything and everything people are saying today. Did you hear me? I wanna tell you, people need truth. And what is that truth? Jesus said I am the way. I remember you reading that, which takes me, and I'm almost done, to my next mess. Why am I telling you this? Because everybody needs Jesus. I want, hold it, hold it. Look at me church. Do you believe everybody needs Jesus? Now that's important because if you're gonna serve up something else, it's not the mandate of the church. Because the only thing you have and this church has to offer is not good programs and not good softball games and all kinds of fellowships and things. That's all wonderful. That's great. But if it doesn't point you to Jesus Christ, we have nothing else to offer. But ladies and gentlemen, I've got everything to offer to you. He is the way, the truth and the life. No man comes to the Father, but by Jesus. Everybody is within the reach of God. What does that mean? There's nobody, come on musicians, there's nobody that is beyond God's capacity to reach them. I don't care what you've done. Pastor, I hear you preaching about sins and sinners and all that kind of stuff. Let me just tell you something. That's what the book says. But the Bible also says that his arm is not shortened, Job 40 and nine. Has an arm like God? Can you not thunder with the voice of him? Psalm 136, with a strong arm and a stretched out arm. I want you to know God's stretching out his arm to every person in this building this morning. And here's some breaking news. Not just to you, but to a world that is slapping his hand down. Did you hear me? They're mocking Jesus like they never have. They're cursing his name like they never have. They want God out of society like it. And guess what God's doing? I'm still here. Boy, that's a T-shirt right there, isn't it? Just a T-shirt. I'm still here, God. I think that needs to go on the billboard. I just made that up. Y'all go ahead and tweet that out. Do you know that everyone, no matter what their situation can respond to God? Pastor, they're out of their mind. They've lost, they whatever. I want you to know that you're not too far that God can't save you. Your family members, your prodigal, your elder brother, you're not too far. You're not too lost, you're not too bad. You're not too self-righteous. How do you know that? Because the book says, where can I go from the Spirit? Where can I go from His presence? If I send up into heaven, thou art there. If I make my bed in hell, behold, thou art there. If I take the wings of the morning and dwell in the uttermost parts of the sea, even there, you're leading me with your right hand. I want you to know no matter if you call yourself King George and Queen Camilla, you still need Jesus and you're not too far away from God. I don't care if you call yourself President Biden or Vice President Kamala Harris, you still need Jesus. I don't care if you're Supreme Court Justice, I don't care if you're the Pope, you still need Jesus. I don't care if you're a pimp or a prostitute, you still need Jesus. Come on somebody, I need Jesus now more than ever before, I don't need the riches, I don't need all that, all I need is Jesus and He supplies everything I have needed. Which brings me to Matthew 28 and we're getting ready to have communion. Jesus is leaving this world and all the Gospels record this. Jesus is leaving this world and He's leaving instructions behind for His disciples. I'm gonna tell you like my daddy told me all the time. He said, I said all that to say this. I always liked that line and I always wanted to say to dad, but I never did, dad, why didn't you just say this? And he'd probably told me, son, you would've never understood this if I didn't tell you that. If I didn't tell you that everybody needs Jesus, that everybody needs love, acceptance and forgiveness, then you can get in the mechanics of doing church and you can do it very well. Come on somebody. So Jesus looks at His disciples and the Bible says that they gathered out on a mountain, getting ready to ascend and Jesus looks at His disciples and He says to them these words. Bible says when they saw Him they worshiped Him and some doubted. And the Bible says Jesus came and spake to them saying, all power is given unto me both in heaven and in earth. Let me tell you about that word doubted real quick. It actually means hesitated. How would you like to have been the person who had walked with Jesus, saw His miracles, watched Him break the bread, raised the dead and all those kind of things and saw all of it with your own eyes and then you got down and saw Him crucified and you were one of the ones that helped put Him into the tomb and roll the stone away and here you are now with a live Jesus standing in front of you. And the Bible said they hesitated. You know why they hesitated? How could I have denied you? Will you still accept me? Can I still be part of the disciples? Come on somebody. Some of them doubted and they doubted until he spake these words. He started speaking to them. Changed their heart. Do you know there have been many times in the many years that I've been in ministry, we've been in ministry that I have walked off of platforms after preaching and I felt like dirt. God, what happened? I go crawl under a rock for three days trying to mend the wounds that were self-inflicted and I come up with this question because here's the problem. You can sin for two or three weeks but I gotta teach on Wednesday. I get saved every Tuesday and every Saturday. No, shake your head this way, not that way. Why is that important? Because you come to a place in your human frailty and you say, Lord, after what I've done, after what I've said, after things I've been through, will you still accept me and use me? I understand when I, and I pray this often, Lord, like David, take not thy Holy Spirit from me. Don't take your Holy Spirit because I can't do this on my own. So he speaks to them and he says all power. Why don't you say all power? Because up to that point, up to the resurrection, Jesus was coming to serve. And the authority and power over this world was given to the prince of this world. That's the reason Jesus, when he was baptized, submitted himself to John for the transference of authority. John decreased and Jesus increased in power and great glory. And he served and he ministered and he was crucified and he was buried. And when he rose again, he took the legal authority from the devil and said to his disciples, don't you worry about him using the law against you anymore. All power is given unto me both in heaven and in earth. Do you understand that? Now, do you understand also that when he got the power, whoever's got the power has the power to give the power? And who did he give it to? He gave it to the church. He didn't give it to the city council. He didn't give it to the water board. He gave it to the church, all power. He said, I've got all authority. Then he says, I've got, I want you to get out there and teach all nations. Why is that so important? Because up to that point, it was just the Jews coming to, Jews first, then the Gentiles. Gentiles did not have this privilege. But when Jesus set forth the great commission, which is found in Matthew 28, 19, he said, I'm not looking for the professional clergy to do this. I want you to go and I'm opening the door up to whosoever will. You know what I'm looking at here and online? I'm looking at the whosoever will. If it had not been for the Lord's grace and mercy, ladies and gentlemen, you and I wouldn't even be here. But right now we're broadcasting into Kenya. Come in here, you hear what I'm saying? We are reaching out to another nation and God is calling on us to do more than we ever have before. He said, I want you to recognize I've got all power and I want you to go into all nations and I want you to teach them all things. Let me ask you a question. Who are you discipling personally right now? And who are you being discipled by? And everybody's sitting under the sound of my voice this morning going, oh, that's you, I got that one. That's easy. Who are you discipling? Now, before you use the Niagara Falls Discipleship course where you find somebody and dump everything out in less than 20 seconds, you need to know that Jesus said, I want you to observe, to teach them all things. What does that mean? He's saying to us, I want you to take time and walk alongside them. I want you to call them on the phone. I want you to talk about Jesus with them. I want you to have a scripture in your heart and in your spirit that when you pick up the phone, you're not talking about other stuff. You're talking to them about Jesus. Because ladies and gentlemen, if we do not raise up more people and see more people saved, then the statistics will remain the same and what's gonna happen, there'll be an implosion in the church. We're not called to feed ourselves. We're called to feed and serve others. Who have you got in your mind right now? I'm gonna challenge you this before I go any further and we're about to receive communion. To write down five names of people that you need to help disciple. Do you know five people? I would add six and that would be the people that would carry your casket. But I'm gonna give you five, five's grace. Do you know five people that you could tell them about Jesus this coming week? Don't look for save folk, look for unsafe folk. Look for broken people, look for hurting people. Look for something. And it doesn't mean you're all gonna save them right then. It means you may pass their way and give them a cup of cold water in the name of Jesus and you have touched them for that moment. You may come alongside and put a seed in their heart and it starts provoking them to start drawing near to God. How long was it before somebody came alongside you? There's a lot more to the story but I'll look back here at Kirby. And he writes in his book that he was driving along Interstate 65 and pulls over to the side of the road and is listening to the Prophecy Files broadcast and what we had prayed in here that whenever people pass by on Highway 90, they feel a compelling drawing of the Holy Spirit to come in. And without a preacher and without a song or without anything else, he surrenders his life to Jesus Christ and now he's traveling the United States and around the world for Christians united for Israel to be able to get people the information that they need and serving with his family. Come on, somebody. I'm just pointing out one thing. All power, all authority, all nations. Teach them all things. And ladies and gentlemen, I leave you with this and this is what we're gonna take communion on because this is the covenant agreement. He said, if you're gonna do this, I wanna covenant with you. Here's the covenant. Jesus said, and lo, I am with you always. I'm with you always. In other words, oh, what? All right, before you get into your mind, okay, he's with me. Jesus is about to step on the cloud and disappear. Are you lying to me, Jesus? You're saying you're gonna be with me always but that cloud's taking you out of here. That's the reason why I call this message commissioned by Christ because the Christ, the Holy Spirit, he said, when I get, how do you know Jesus got back to heaven? Because as soon as he sat down, the Holy Spirit came. Now, living on the inside of you is the same resurrection power that got Jesus up three days after his death. The same resurrection power that he lay hands on and they recovered. The lame received the strength in their legs, the blind see, the deaf hear. All of those things, that same power, if you're a Christian, the Christ lives on the inside of you and he said, I will never leave you. I'll be with you always. I will be with you always. I'm telling you right now, in a few moments, I'm gonna go get in my car and guess who's getting in the car with me? Cause he's here. I don't wait to get to church to find him. He's with me always. But here's the passage that got me at the end of that whole deal. Lord, I'm with you always. And he said this, even to the end of the world, the word world, there is age or dispensation or time period. In other words, ladies and gentlemen, the church's time for doing kingdom work is running out. And boy, this is what's hit my soul in the past 48 hours like a hammer. Because if we do not aggressively and urgently get into the highways and hedges and compel people to come in, take the gospel to them, then we're not doing the commission of God for one thing. But this world, listen, there was a teenage girl that was reading when the passage was given, turn over to Revelation 3 and 16, I think it was. And she asked the leader, I understand Revelation, but what are these numbers behind it? We're living in a world where people know nothing. They know nothing. And you know what that is? That's an opportunity. It is right, friend. Two weeks ago, this young man walked into this door and when he heard the gospel of Jesus Christ coming soon, came to this altar, surrendered his life to Jesus Christ. And for the past two weeks, he's been right here on the front row where all Christians sit. Somebody needs to come alongside and disciple and encourage because there's gonna be days when it's gonna be tough and he's gonna look at all things and go, what did I get myself into? And the enemy talking on his shoulder. There needs to be somebody who comes alongside and disciples and encourages because ladies and gentlemen, time is running out. Our time is running out to do what God has called us to do. So I want you to take this communion because it's our commitment this morning. He said to that woman in John four, he said, woman, the time is coming and now is that they that worship will worship in spirit and in truth. You're not gonna be running to the mountain or to the mountain church or over here to this church or all that. You're gonna worship me from your heart. Jesus the well sat on the well and gave her living water. Have you got the living water? Then let's covenant with him today. And what is this covenant? This covenant says that the commission and the call of God upon our life is not just to come to church and do church. This commission is to be the church when we hit the doors of this sanctuary this morning. Everybody's gonna make that commitment, stand to your feet, would you? Say not four months and then comes the harvest. Behold the fields are wide on the harvest right now. Lord Jesus I covenant with you right now over this bread. Search my heart, cleanse me, sanctify me. Lord let me hear the voice of the Lord that is calling me into the field. Let this bread be a covenant between me and you that what you did on the cross is not just for me but it's for everybody I come in contact with. So as I receive this bread today Lord I confirm my covenant with you and I confirm my commitment to the great commission that I'll not say for somebody else to do it but I will do what you call me to do. In Jesus' name you may receive this bread. We sang about it this morning. We sang that I'm an overcomer by the blood of the lamb. As a matter of fact you better pull that one back up I'm feeling that one right there. Can we do that? We're gonna go out of here being overcomers. By the blood of the lamb and by the word of our testimony. Have you got a testimony? That's all Paul did. He didn't wow them with his theological dissertation. He just said I was blind and now I see. Don't try to impress him. Just tell him your story. I was lost. I was a drug addict. I was this. I was that. But Jesus took hold of my life and changed me so quickly and what he did for me he'll do for you. You hold the cup of covenant. The blood of Jesus Christ. This is a symbol. But this symbol means something before God and today don't take this cup if you're not willing to follow his commission. But if you're willing to follow his commission I expect to see every seat in this building and the testimony filled and the testimonies of people in this building saying pastor I don't know what's happened but God's opened doors for me to witness and I'm leading them to Jesus Christ. Hey, imagine leading your husband, your wife, your children to the saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. There's nothing better. Are you ready to commit? Lord Jesus, I thank you for the blood that cleanses and washes away all of my sin. And Lord what you did for me, you'll do for others. It's not some exclusive thing. You'll do it for others. I asked you today Lord Jesus as a pastor of this house that you would let this cup be a cup of such covenant that they would feel it in their soul. The urgency of the hour to go in the highways and hedges and compel them to come in. This we commit, let today be a day when there's a shift in the atmosphere of Pace Assembly and we see the souls coming into the kingdom. I give you praise for it right now in Jesus name everybody receive the cup together would you? Let your testimony be clear. Oh, come on. Come on, lift those hands towards heaven. Declare it. All of you the wrong line all around the world declare it right now. I'm an overcomer. Let it sink into your heart right now. Lift your voice and say it out loud. Come on right now. Overcome, say I'm a, come on church.