 Cause I know To have us think that God has done something against us The devil's a deceiver And he wants to point the finger at the wrong one Things coming into our lives untoward We may be enduring for a night The joy comes in the morning When we belong to God I'm so glad The trouble don't last all the time Yes, there are troubles that come into our lives from time to time But it won't last The Lord won't let it last Can I sing a little bit down through the years? God's been good to me For his people The adversary, but there's no quit in my game I've walked with the Lord and it's too late for me to turn around now We don't deserve it Anything to deserve it When we've done all that we can do We still need the grace of God We still need the hand of the Lord to be extended to us Hallelujah, I ain't gonna preach I just want to have a little saint That's my testimony today Down through the years God's been good And I can back that up with He's never failed me yet Never failed me and he won't Because he's my father He loves me And I love him Alright, that's my expression today Now, we're gonna have some more singing Alright, come on Praise the Lord Minister Marilyn Alexander Praise the Lord, praise the Lord, Bishop I thought you was gonna sing I'm gonna praise his name Because he's been good to me Amen, I was waiting on it I got it, the great God This means he is whole See, my daddy's name was Jacob Not because of who I am, but because of who he is Somebody He's made us to be Somebody and we call him Holy Shabbat There is nobody like you Nobody can do what you do We bow to no man To the king When I come into the presence of the king I must bow the knee Because he is worthy Of glory I thought about Job, Job got out of pocket And God said, where were you? When I created the heavens and the earth Where were you when I stretched it forth? And because he is The great king I'm almost hesitant to move forward Because I feel the presence Of the king In the king when he shows up He shows how he wants to do something For you God is a miracle worker He's a miracle maker And if you stand in need Just raise your hand Whatever the need is here Because the king is here And when the king is present He says, come to my throne of grace And I will do what you need me to do Because I love you I care about you So Father we pray Do what you do Meet the needs They said they had come and they Went to dedicate the temple And they offered a sacrifice A thousand sacrifices And they said, and the glory of the Lord Filled the temple So that the priests could not minister Because of the glory See when the glory shows up We need to stop and recognize This is God This is God This is the king The king is here Lift up your hands on your gates And be lifted up See if a lesson does And the king of glory shall come in Who is this king of glory The Lord's strong and mighty The Lord's mighty and battle Who is able to do exceedingly Abundantly above all that we can ask Or think or imagine Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat The king Meet every need in the house, God Touch every heart in the house, God We speak the blessing We have been authorized To speak the blessing And we speak the blessing We have been authorized to speak the blessing Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat The blessing's coming out The furor's are warm, it's blessed The children are blessed The house is blessed The families are blessed Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat Shabbat we magnify you we stand in awe of your present we stand in awe there is no God like you no God besides you no God can do what you do and we give you the glory Jesus name a name that's above all of God clap your hands as you take your seats if that was for me that'd be all right but clap your hands to God and give him some praise as you take your seat he's the king and he's worthy of our praise he's worthy of our best praise hallelujah the Lord and I worship him because he's been nothing but good I give honor to our bishop and our pastor Bishop Arlene McClure Alexander Jr. in the Alexander family he was the anointed one and our fabulous first lady pastor Bobby battle Alexander and we thank God for her and her great family and to all the ministers and the saints those watching us by stream God is in this place God is in this place he said where there is unity that the anointing would flow down from the head down from the head down even into the beers in the skirts and we thank God for that we serve an awesome God's I had an experience a couple of weeks ago I left church was on my way home stopped to get some gas at the filling station and the young lady working there she was crying and she says she looked at me and she says will you pray for me and so I took her hand in this great power in agreement and I began to pray see there was a time when I would be I would have been ashamed to pray you know there was a time when we go out to dinner I would do one of the sneeze prayers over my food Jesus but I have gotten to the place because I have gotten to a relationship with God when this young lady asked me to pray and I said give me your hand and it was three other people around us and I don't know what they were thinking I really didn't catch it let's pray and I began to pray and I stopped this morning on the way here to get some gas and she was there and I said you were the young lady I prayed for a couple weeks ago I said how did that turn out she says it was a miracle she says it was amazing see what God did for her and her family she said it was amazing and see this is the God that we serve we don't only worship him in here but we take him out there so that the world can know and you know saints we it's been on my heart I love everybody in this room but I'm ready to see some new faces we need to pray that God will bring people from the north the south the east and the west and we need to invite people to experience what we've been experiencing in this house it's time to grow it's time for a new season I had discovered that if I will ask the right questions I can get the right answers however I have discovered when Jesus asks me a question he already knows the answers and he's getting ready to teach me something he asked Adam Adam where are you and of course God knew where Adam was but what God was saying Adam you need to understand you're no longer in the same place relation only with me because of what you done because of what you said he asked Adam a question he asked Satan have you considered my servant Job in other words he was telling Satan Job is an honest and upright man he's righteous and he will not deny me why don't you try him he asked Ezekiel son of man can these bones live but what God was trying to teach Ezekiel he said in Ezekiel I need you to know that I can raise up these dry bones and these dry bones can live a guy so when God is asking me a question I need to pay close attention because he's getting ready to teach me something that I need to know that's the beautiful thing about God he's not a show-off he doesn't try to impress me course that God has to impress me but I'm what I'm saying is when he says you need to hear this it's because you really need to hear this and it will bless your life and if you do what I tell you to do I will take you to another level another level in spirituality another level in blessing another level in finance another level in your relationships you need we need to listen to what God has got to say questions questions questions what I want to talk to you today is who do men say that I am who do men say that I am in Bible days and individuals name described who they were in the Old Testament got often revealed who he was by the name such as I don't know the great Lord El Eliam the most high God my favorite Elohim the all-power for one else should die the all-sufficient one the breasted father just like a mother can feed her baby she has all the nourishment that that child needs in her breast milk God says I have everything that you need and I will supply every need that you I'm the breasted one I like that I like that although my father didn't nurse me I'm glad of that but that's a whole nother story Jehovah Sabah the captain of the Lord's army the captain of the angels and so on and on and on and on and on but Jesus asks his disciples who do men say that I am it seems like everybody has an opinion of who Jesus is now the problem is a lot of them the people's opinion is based on on no truth at all but everybody seems like everybody has an opinion on who Jesus is in Bible days many thought Jesus was an illegitimate child born out of wedlock some refer to Jesus as the son of Mary and Joseph wink wink because we know we hear the stuff we get the juice and and we know he says he is the son of God but he look a whole lot like Joseph to me have you ever noticed when people want you they can make a child I do look nothing like the other say who that baby look just like you they be lying but that's alright that's alright that's alright some called him a reprobate some people say he was a lunatic he was a crazy man some cause him bells your ball they were calling him a devil now most people today think that Jesus is a good man a nice guy at best possibly maybe he really was a prophet I had a co-worker gentlemen I used to work with and he thought Jesus was an arrogant I'll say man that's not the words that he used that Jesus was arrogant that he should tell us how we should live our lives and then expect for us to bow down and to worship him I read some place that a writer said either Jesus was a railing lunatic he was in fact the son of God so the question that's the question that's the question and that's a question that we all have to answer for ourself who is this man called Jesus we know that Jesus was born in Bethlehem and they laid him in a manger he grew up like any other child in that day Luke said that Jesus grew in wisdom statue and favor with God and with men at the age of 30 Jesus began his earthly ministry I often wonder why he waited till he was 30 and I did some research and I discovered that in the Jewish traditions a young man is not a full grown man until he comes into the age of 30 now they tell us today that a child turns 18 and they full grown and everybody in this room past 30 understands ain't no child and adult at 18 years old I don't care what they say on the books I know better and so Jesus began his earthly ministry he began to recruit his team his disciples his peeps and it says and he began to do miracles signs and wonders now I don't believe that he waited till he was 30 before he did any miracles I say that because it says Mary she saw some things she looked at some of the things that Jesus did and she said and she pondered them she thought about them but when he became of the age of 30 they began to record the miracles the signs and the wonders and so Jesus fame began to spread throughout the region throughout the land and let's pick that up right there in Matthew chapter 16 Matthew chapter 16 verse 13 Matthew chapter 16 verse 13 oh so honored to have my mother with us today just such a blessing for that brother Darrell I want you to know my mother we were sitting there talking she all we were talking about something other clearly said that boy played that organ she killed he kills it over there so you you got a fan over here I want you to know that I said yes he do I know that's bad English but yes he do yes he do and so here Jesus is having a conversation with his disciples it says when Jesus came into the coast of Caesarea Philippi he asked his disciples saying whom do men say that I the Son of man am and they said some say that our John the Baptist some say Elias or Elijah other says Jeremiah's talking about Jeremiah or one of the prophets says and then he said unto them but whom do you say hey who do you say I'm asking about what they said but when we finish you told me what they said but what do you say about Jesus so here in this text Jesus comes into the coast of Caesarea Philippi and he asked his disciples whom do men say that I am what are the newspapers saying what's the word on the street what are they saying down at CNN who do they say that I am under the disciples said some say you John the Baptist some say you Elijah some say your Jeremiah or one of the prophet now you have to understand these people are people that knew Jesus from a distance they heard about some of the things that he had done they had seen some things that he had done they heard some things through the grapevine he heard about Jesus but he did not know Jesus there's a difference we can hear about Jesus and not know Jesus there are people that know my wife by a sister Ross or Mrs. Ross they know who she is and little more than that they know what they've seen but that's just about all that they know see but I know her as Janice I don't think I've ever called her sister Ross except for across the pulpit but when we get home it's Janice and she don't call me elder Ross she called me a whole lot of things but they know the Ross and most of the time is Kevin Bishop I know what she likes I know what she doesn't like I know when I'm blessing her that's the Bobby I know when I'm getting on her nerves I know what she will do I know what she won't do see because in December we will have been married 50 years long time 50 years miracle still happened one of my wife's uncles he said ma'am we belong to Christ temple the mothership he said you know at Christ temple they don't bet but when you and Janice got married they was betting it wasn't gonna last but a year he said I put my money on six months look what the Lord has done but God won't he do it yes he will and if you've been married more than a week you know what I'm talking about but we are in relationship to that that's makes the difference Jesus says okay I heard what they said about who am I but what do you say about who I am that's the question we need to answer today who do you say that Jesus is what do you say that he is I call him holy holy you are and holy you'll be I call him righteous I call him faithful and all that I like that I like that I call him all that so Jesus says who do you who do you say who do you say who do you say the Jesus is now the disciples had walked with Jesus they had talked with Jesus that shared meals together they laughed together they cried together they walked down the road with Jesus in other words they were sharing life that's something about when you have that relationship with people they become you become closer when you share life you sit down and eat a hamburger together and french fries or some folks and my mother and them eat chitlins Lord have mercy I said I couldn't go there with them I said I'll meet you when you get through eating the chitlins because when the pig got through with him I had nothing to do with him some of you I know that I said children said I'm with you on that one but not only that they saw Jesus do miracles he healed the sick him he raised the dead he fit 5,000 people with a happy meal come on somebody that's a miracle it was a fillet of fish happy meal but it was happy meal he said you been with me you walk with me and you talk with me you've seen what I do who do you say that I the son of man am and you know what there was a just a silence went over the crowd they didn't know what to say Bishop sometimes people ask us questions that are so profound that we don't know what to say but then Peter had crazy Peter loud Peter both he said Jesus that was the son of the living God and Jesus said Peter flesh and blood have not revealed this to you but my father which is in heaven your name is no longer Peter I mean I sit Simon but I call you Peter the rock and on this rock or this fundamental truth I will build my church and the gates of hell will not prevail against the church God gave him revelation of who he was that he was in fact the son of living God and the tragedy is that there are some people still in Israel they're still waiting for Messiah to come and Messiah has already come and is already going but when you get a revelation of who Jesus is everything everything everything has got to change when you really understand who Jesus is you coming to a new season you coming to a new day a fresh anointing will come your way what's his name what's his name someone said he is Alpha Omega the beginning and the end someone said he's the first and the last someone said he's a lily of the valley he's a bright and morning star he's new day spring he's the ancient of days someone else that he's a waymaker miracle worker a promise keeper light in the darkness and this is the point I like said my God he's my God he belongs to me his dad is who he is he is a great king see I heard what people said about Jesus and I understand what people are saying about Jesus but I found out for myself that my Jesus is a healer Jesus a provider Jesus is a waymaker he's a promise keeper he's a doctor he's a lawyer he's my joy he's my peace he's everything that I need him he's my salvation he's everything he's everything to me he's my mother my father my sister my brother he's everything to me and even in the time of trouble the Bible said lift up your hands all your gates and even lift them up you everlasting doors and the King of glory will come into your problems he'll come into your situations he'll come in and heal your body he'll make a way out of no way he'll open doors and no man can shut him he'll provide for you he'll heal you he'll deliver you he'll make ways for you he's everything that I need see he's a powerful God saints him he's a mighty God change and he's a God of victory and break through the Bible said if God before you who can be against you the Bible said greater is he that's with you than he that's in the world and his name is Jesus his name is above every name his name is holy his name is righteous so my question to you today is who do you say that Jesus isn't who do you say that Jesus is who do you say that Jesus is he's a great God he's a great King if you believe it he is no greater in your life than you believe him to be if you believe God to be great in your life he'll be great if you believe God to do money things in your life he'll do that but if you believe him to be of no power and it's significant that's the God that will serve you I like it the children of Israel they came back and then they brought this report about the men in the land of Canaan and they said and we saw ourselves as grasshoppers in our own eyes see it is your perspective that determines what God will do in your life there's some things he wants now he's a sovereign God he can do whatever he wants to do but there's some things that God wants to do in your life but you've got to believe him the Bible said is there anything too hard for God if you have if you say yes all you have to do is believe God he's a healer asks us about it he's a deliverer he's a waymaker he's a provider he's love he's joy he'll free when you're lonely wider when you're thirsty he's everything that you need the Bible said now unto him who is able to do to do what whatever you need God to do he's able to do that and nothing can stop him nothing can move him he's a great king he's a mighty guy he's able to do miracles after miracles after miracles in your life only believe only believe we walk by faith and not by shite the Bible said the just shall live by faith i don't know about you but i call them holy i call them righteous i call them healer i call him provider i call him savior i call him redeemer and then it says like past bishop said he's been all that and more to me in my life um he's opened doors for me he's made ways for me he's healed me he's delivered me he's blessed me he's blessed my children he's blessed my family he's blessed my home he even blessed my dog once oh yeah oh yeah oh yeah now they say it was a man he was a preacher had a dog he's in everybody in his house blessed the Lord he said he got home he had some company and they didn't believe everybody in the south all his family his children his wife everybody they were praising the Lord then he said what about your dog he said dog speak he said by wow now that's a little bit forfeiture i know but what i'm trying to say is have faith in God he is able to do exceedingly and abundantly above all that we can ask or think see sometimes we say that's too hard for God but the Bible said with God all things all things i don't care what it is all things are possible he's able to do all things and nothing can stop him nothing can move him he's able to do all things i looked up the word all in the dictionary and to my surprise all meant all that's it in the Greek and the Hebrew it's still meant all and so that's what i call him but at the end of the day i call him Jesus hey they say he's giving him a name that's above every name the name of Jesus is above sickness above depression about sadness above cancer above anything in this world i call on the name Jesus and he answers my prayer he knows what it means he's given him a name take the name of Jesus to the world the world they're looking for hope they're looking for peace they're looking for love they heard about Jesus but we know about Jesus take the Jesus that you know tell him that he is a healer he is a provider he is a a a sovereign king i don't care what you've done he will forgive you he's a redeemer he's a savior he's a lover and nothing's too hard for God i talked to some people they said ross you don't know what i've done in my life i said i don't care what you've done he's able to turn your life around he's able to save you he's able to deliver you that's the gospel i was meeting i was out playing baseball with a group of brothers from the church and there's one brother out there he was playing he was knocking home run after home run after home run he called me to his side i didn't really think too much about him he says he says bro ross i want to tell you something he says i used to be gay and i said well okay he said no no he says i was flaming he says but jesus saved me and he delivered me and there was no residue had he not told me i wouldn't have never known that he had an issue see but god is really ready to deal with our issues see we have some problems and some issues and we feel like i can't tell nobody i don't know what to do and i can't pray and jesus i will deliver you he says i'm big enough and bad enough and strong enough that i will change every circumstance in your life we do not have a weak or anemic god but who do you say that jesus is i say that he is able to do anything anything anything but fail and as i was pondering that sounds good i was just thinking the lord spoke to my heart he says challenge the people this week especially if you fast on wednesday to take that time to seek the face of jesus that they will know me better that they will understand what i can do in their lives he says and then challenge them to take that jesus and share it with somebody that you don't know see that's the gospel see people need to hear about there is hope see i i can speak for myself i was in some situations i didn't think i could get out of but when i went to jesus and i don't know when he did it exactly i don't know how he did it for sure but what i do know is that i am free the bible said he whom the sun sets free it's free indeed i say he's healer i say he's savior i say he's redeemer i say that he is everything that i need i say that jesus is lord and let's take this jesus that we have and share him with the world and we will see miracle after miracle see and that's when god performed his greatest miracles he wasn't trying to so much go he didn't call a revival but he was meeting a need and while i'm meeting your need let me get you saved i want what i want you to do if you can scoot close enough get close get somebody by the hand and we're going to pray a prayer of agreement that we will know him better and we will share this jesus with somebody around us and i was thinking and and the lord said even if it's just share him with your children see sometimes we don't share jesus with our own children we just assume that they know because they live in my house but sometimes i find when i would talk to my children the things that come out of my mouth out of that mother i say you have lost that mother i say you have lost your mind we need to pray and see i it's not about numbers but what we have more people need to hear about what we have see there's going to come a day where this house is going to be too small we won't have to go to another service we're going to have folks all upstairs downstairs god is going to fill the house because of the the gospel that this man is preaching this the gospel that he shared with us but it's time for a new season it's time to believe bigger hey shama that the jesus that we serve is bigger and he's able to do and share this thing share the jesus that you have so father we thank you who do men say that you are but we say that your god sheva all that you are is wrapped up in the name of jesus healer provider deliverer peace joy ha ha sheva so father help us to get a greater revelation of who you are and then once we've got that revelation help us to take it to the world the gospel of jesus christ help us to walk in victory to know that you're able to do get in your mind something that you thought was impossible i'm challenging you right now god is able to do it and he's going to blow your mind and so father we thank you for the miracle of revelation and the miracle of the power who shama god move among your people we give you the praise we give you the glory come on and clap your hands and rejoice no he's giving you the victory sister terry sister terry we know that he's giving you the breakthrough know that everything is all right and god is moving moving by your side and we've got victory in jesus name jesus can and take him out his word is in jesus our hope is in jesus without jesus there is no hope run to jesus run to jesus get in a hurry so you don't miss the vote you all probably don't know this song but take the name of jesus with you child of sorrow and of woe it will joy and comfort give you take it then where there you go precious name oh how sweet hope of heaven hope of earth and joy of heaven yes precious name oh how sweet oh he's the hope of earth yes he's the hope of earth and he's the joy of heaven yes i praise god a wonderful matchless word amen all right at this time we're prepared to receive our offering thank you lord thank you jesus i i invite you all to get more excited see you know the first lady read in this in the scriptures said clap your hands yes i'm i'm i'm sitting up here i can see all y'all see you know when i was a boy and i sat in the church auditorium and the preacher was up there preaching i didn't know he could see me so for some reason i didn't didn't recognize he could see everybody in the church well i i'm sitting up here and i see all y'all amen amen this is coming from the lord i want to see hand claps yes your hand needs to clap clap your hand all you people if your people clap your hands let's receive the offering all right turn oh god our father we thank you for who you are thank you for your word oh god thank you for the assurance of who you are oh god we thank you for that that you've done for us down through the years you've never left us nor for soakers and we thank you and we praise you and we glorify your name that's why we come before you bringing our offering our gifts oh god to you so that the building of your kingdom can exist we thank you for it thank you oh god accept our offerings in jesus name we pray all right go ahead all right when i think