 with us. He's the Word. We come into your presence. Thank you because you're with us. You are already here. Hallelujah. Thank you Lord. We came to honor and glorify. We came to praise your holy name. We came to lift you up. We came to give you glory. You did for us. You died on the cross of our sins. We bless you today. Thank you Lord. Hallelujah for loving us and saving us. Thank you Lord. Please bless this service today as we go. We came to praise you. We came to honor you. We came to bless your holy name. We came to hear your word. So we'll be encouraged to continue to walk by faith until that time comes. When you come for your church, you're going to take us away from this world. Oh God. Hallelujah. Even so come Lord Jesus. Thank you Lord. Bless our service today as we honor you. Yes. Thank you Lord. As we honor you Lord. Hallelujah. Save those who are not saved by your power divine. Save that others might also make it into the kingdom. In Jesus' name we pray. Bless your saints Lord. Bless the saints each one Lord that's even here today. Help us as we go. Thank you Lord. God in direct our steps. Keep us by your power. In Jesus' name I pray. Thank you Jesus. Thank you Jesus. Amen. Thank you Lord. Praise the Lord. I'll be reading into your hair in Proverbs 3 1 through 6. It says my son forget not my law but let thy heart keep my commandments for the length of days and long life and peace shall it add to thee. Let not mercy and truth for safety bind them about thy neck. Write them upon the table of thy heart. Hallelujah. So shall thou find favor. Favor. All of us want favor from God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. So shall thou find favor and good understanding in the sight of God and man. It says trust. Trust. Trust. Hallelujah. Trust in the Lord with all thy heart and lean not unto thy own understanding. He said in all our ways not some of our ways. He said in all our ways acknowledge him and he shall direct thy past. May the Lord have a blessing to read to the end of his word. Hallelujah saints. Hallelujah. We come to give lift up the name of Jesus to glorify his name to magnify Jesus. Hallelujah. Forever and ever and ever. Amen. Amen. At this time we will be calling up sister Marilyn. Amen. Praise the Lord. Amen. Minister Marilyn Alexander for our solo today man. Man he sure is good to know that yes the governments are on his shoulders. That's right. He's in control and God has promised us as believers and as children of God that he will never leave us. Never forsake us. Hallelujah. I don't care where you go. Hallelujah. If you ascend to the heights he's there. Amen. If you go into the valleys low. Hallelujah. He's reigning in the midst of us. Hallelujah. So glad to know it. So glad What a privilege. You are holy. You are holy. Oh boy yes you are. You are holy. You are faithful. You are faithful. God yes you are. You are faithful. Oh what a privilege. What a privilege. Hallelujah. As you're old and I saw he grace and lifted up and he shall in the midst of this forever and ever. For the presence of the Lord is here. Just lift your hands and open your mouth and begin to worship him. Tell him how good he is to you. Tell him how much you love him. Tell him how you worship him. He's in the midst of us right now. Whatever you do you can receive it by faith right now because the presence of the Lord is here. Come on and worship him. Come on and lift him up. Come on and exhort his name. Worthy of praise. He's worthy of glory. He's worthy of honor. The presence of the Lord is here. The presence of the Lord is here. Hallelujah to God. It's such an awesome thing. I don't take the presence of God lightly. When he shows up I believe in giving him due reverence. Hallelujah. We have a program but I get with his program because his program will always supersede what we do. I certainly give honor to the bishop. He has been such a blessing in my life. He's meant so much to me and I honor him and our fabulous first lady. First lady come on and wave to the people. Tell her she's looking good today. Come on everybody. Tell her she got it together. She looked like royalty today and every day I give honor to the ministers and to the saints of God, to the friends of God. Most of all I give honor to my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I bless him today. I don't take my relationship with him for granted. Now sometimes I do act like I take him for granted and he should have cut me off but he didn't and I'm glad that he didn't. You see because we want to pretend like we're always on the mountain top but sometimes we're down below the valley in the basement and he finds us down there and lift up your heads all your gates and be lifted up your everlasting doors and the king. A glory shall come in. Who is this king? I like that. Who is this king? The king of glory the Lord. Strong and mighty the Lord. Mighty and battle. I don't need a weak king. I need one that's mighty and battle because I had to fight some big fights in my life and I didn't lean on myself. I just bless the Lord. I find it interesting as England and the world mourns the passing of Queen Elizabeth and the media spotlight has not been able to not focus on the royal family and what it means to be part of the royal family and so the Harry and Meghan saga continues. They just won't let it die but also notice that Serena has now joined the sports fraternity of the goats the greatest of all time and she's enjoying the honor of belonging to that family of the goats. And yesterday I was at home and two of my daughters just randomly stopped by and they had my grandchildren and my wife and I we were cooking breakfast and we had enough so we could breakfast for everybody and we all had breakfast together and we laughed and we talked and I rolled in the floor with my grandkids and wrestled with them. It just felt like Christmas and I sat back and I was watching my children and my grandchildren they didn't know I was watching and I was watching them and I was just thinking what a blessing to belong to a family. But the truth is that you and I we belong to the real royal family. We belong to the family of God hallelujah. It's no family that supersedes the family of God. There is no family like our family because there is no God like our God and I belong to him. Let's pray. Father we just thank you for this time. Speak to our hearts encourage our hearts give us a word that we will give to your people. Father we know that your word is anointed so we ask that you would anoint us to deliver your word. We'll give you the praise. We'll give you the glory. We'll bless you and we'll honor you in Jesus name somebody shall glory hallelujah. Amen. Tell somebody I belong to God. Tell somebody I belong to God. He's my father. I belong to him. Now tell yourself say self. Say self I belong to God. See sometimes you got to get in the mirror tell yourself some things. I tell myself I belong to God. So if I'm overcoming so if I have all things that pertain to life and to godliness and sometimes I look pretty good. Don't be ashamed of yourself. So we'll say the poor dog won't wag his own tail. Scripture Jeremiah chapter 32 verse 38 says and they shall be my people and I will be their God. So you need to know that you know that you know that you know that you know that you know that I belong to God. See there's so many people that are confused. They don't really know who they are or they don't know who they are. So many people caught up in the middle of an identity crisis. I saw a young lady she was talking to this gentleman. He was I believe he was a college professor and he was a black gentleman and she said sir do you identify as black. He looked at what in the world are you talking about. She said he said yes of course I am see the world has an identity problem. They don't even want to identify whether they are man or woman. They say it's fluid right now. Baby you better know who you are. You better know what you are. You better know that I belong to God that he belongs to me. That's right. Don't be confused. Don't get it twisted. Don't get it twisted. We are saints of God. We find our identity in Jesus Christ at the foot of the cross. I want to talk about a word that will be paramount to what I want to talk about today and the word is covenant. Covenant. Covenant. A covenant is a formal binding agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties. Once a covenant has been ratified it is irrevocable. It cannot be altered. It does not change. In Genesis chapter 17 God he initiates the Abrahamic covenant with Abram. Now there are two types of covenant. One is conditional covenant. That means you do something and the other party does something and you do something and the other party does something. That's conditional. The other is unconditional. There is nothing needed to activate the covenant. It's unconditional. It's just going to be what it is. And so the Abrahamic covenant is an unconditional covenant. God had predetermined what he was going to do. He knew as he knew in the anals of time this is what I'm going to do. I'm going to initiate this covenant with Abram. Turn in your bibles to Genesis chapter 17. Genesis chapter 17. Let's start with verse 1. It said when Abram was 90 years old and 9 the Lord appeared unto Abram and said unto him, I am the almighty God walk before me and be thou perfect. And I will make my covenant, my covenant, my covenant between me and thee and will multiply the exceedingly. And Abram fell on his face and God talked with him saying, As for me behold, my covenant is with me and thou shall be the father of many nations. Neither shall our name any more be called Abram, but that name shall be called Abraham for a father of many nations have I made thee. And I will make the exceedingly fruitful. I will make nations of thee and kings shall come out of thee. Verse 7. And I will establish my covenant between me and thee and thy seed after thee in their generations for an everlasting covenant. To be a God unto them, unto thee and thy seed after thee. Verse 8. This is what I like. And I will give unto thee and to thy seed after thee the land where in thou art a stranger, all of the land of Canaan for an everlasting possession. And he says, and I will be their God. So in our text, Abraham is 99 years old and God appears unto him and tells him Abram, Abram, I am the almighty God Elohim. He says walk before me and be thou perfect. I will make my covenant between me and you and I will multiply you. My covenant be with you and you shall be the father of many nations. But note here, this is what I like. God changes his name from Abram to Abraham, transformation. Whenever anybody enters into a covenant with God, there has to be transformation. They can't stay the same. Romans says, be ye not conformed to this world, but be ye transformed or changed by the renewing of your mind. You have come in covenant with God. So you've got to change who you are. You've got to change what you do. You've got to change what you believe. Can't stay the same. You've got to come to another level if you're going to be in covenant with God. And see, God says, I will make you fruitful. I will make nations of thee. Kings shall come out of thee. I will establish my covenant between you and me on your seed after you. And it will be an everlasting covenant. It will not end. It is an eternal covenant. He says, I'll give to you until you see the land cane and the land that is flowing with milk and honey for an everlasting position. He says, I will be their God. God, notice that in every covenant, there is the blessing of that covenant. If you keep the covenant and then there's the curse of that covenant. If you break the covenant and if you want to see the blessings and the cursings of this Abrahamic covenant looking Deuteronomy chapter a read it on your own times. I promise you, it will bless you turn to Deuteronomy chapter seven, one of my favorite scriptures, Deuteronomy chapter seven. And here the writer is speaking to Israel and he's also speaking to us because we're spiritual Israel. He says, for thou art a holy holy people unto the Lord thy God, the Lord thy God has chosen thee to be a special people unto himself above all the people that are upon the face of the earth. I said, the Lord did not send his love on you or choose you because you were more in number than any people. In other words, you were nothing special. You were the fewest, but the Lord, he chose to love you. I like that. See, he didn't just he didn't love me because I was so great because I was so smart. He just chose to love me. What a blessing. I said, but because the Lord loved you, he chose to love you. He, because he would keep the oath that he schooled unto your fathers unto Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, hath the Lord brought you out with a mighty hand and redeemed you out of the house of bondage from the hand of Pharaoh king of Egypt. Here it is verse nine says, know ye therefore that the Lord thy God, he is God, let it be settled. I don't care what people say. I don't care what they think about. You need to know that the God that you serve, he is God. Don't let anybody tell you, you're not serving to live in God. I don't care what they say at the end and say he is God. I don't care what you say. I don't care what the media says. I don't care what the actor says. God is God and he is my God. I like that. Then I said, he's a faithful God, which keeps covenant and mercy. Because sometimes Pastor Bobby, we break the covenant, but thank God for mercy. Thank God for mercy. When he should have took me out, mercy stepped in and said, not today. When I should have been destroyed, when I should have been killed, mercy said, no, justice demanded payment, but mercy said, not today. Justice demanded person. Payment and Jesus stepped forward and said, I will pay the price. So I said, Jesus paid it all. All to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson sin, but he washed it. He paid for it to him. He took my place. It should have been me, but his mercy said, not today. He said, he keeps covenant and mercy with them that love him and keep his commandments to a thousand generations. That's infinity and beyond. I like that about the God we serve. So here in Deuteronomy, we see that we are in covenant with God. We see that we belong to God. Turn to 1 Peter chapter two, the minister at which she talked about it Wednesday night, if you didn't hear it, you missed it. She was all up here myself. I said, Lord, I ain't going to have nothing left to preach. She going to preach my whole message before I get a chance to. I said, it looked like I'm imitation. Lord said, that's not imitation. That's confirmation. He says, I'm saying the same thing. I'm talking to my people. I need you to know who you are and I need you to know what you are. I need you not to be afraid. I need you to stand and see the salvation of the Lord because you belong to me. I take care of my people. I can't care of my folks. So let the enemy try to roll up on you and let them see what happens. God don't play when it comes to messing with his children. You know, us fathers, you know, we kind of cool, but mess with my wife, mess with one of my daughters. Bishop, you're going to have to come and get me out of jail. Lord have mercy. I told you, I'm going to work in progress. He's still working on me. He's still working on me. First Peter, it says, but you are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people, not strange, not odd, but peculiar. That means you're exclusive. You are the exclusive treasure of the God of the universe. You're his peculiar people. The world doesn't really understand why we live like we live, why we do what we do, but we are peculiar to them, but we are serving a God that he understands. It's not that we're afraid. It's not that we're calling, but we yield to the will of God. God said, love your enemies. He didn't say smack your enemies. He said, love your enemies. You know, Sister Terry, she say, but I believe Sister Terry was militant before she got say, she might slap her enemy in a minute. I ain't going to mess with her now. I trust your holy good. Well, you know, said, peculiar people, for this reason that you should show forth the praises of him that has brought you out. See, it's not that I get, you know, I have people tell me, say, Ross, you were so nice. I said, I'm not this nice. Really, I'm not, but I'm showing forth the praises of him that called me, him that brought me out of darkness. I used to fight. I used to do all kinds of crazy stuff, but now I'm showing forth his praises. If I will praise him, he'll open the door for me. If I will praise him, he'll give me a victory. If I will praise him, he'll destroy the enemy on my behalf. I don't do it for myself, but I give him praise. See, this is how I fight my battles now. This is how I fight my battles now. This is how I fight my battles now. I give him praise. The Bible says praise is coming. See, praise is always in order. You're always in order when you begin to praise God. When you don't know what to do, when you don't know where to go, just lift up your hands and begin to praise him. See, when you praise, your praise will summon the presence of God. And when God shows up, he's going to show up. When God shows up, things have got to change. But I'm showing forth the praises of him that had called me out of darkness into his marvelous light. It's something about being in the presence of the Almighty God. The writer said, one day in that court, one day in your presence is better than a thousand days out there. See, they think they're having a good time and sometimes they're having a good time. But sooner or later, you got to pay the piper. He said, but one day in the presence of God, one day in the presence of the King, last night I was just got down and I was just praying, not about anything. I just got down and just began to worship. And as I was in the presence of God. See, in the presence of the Lord, there's fullness of joy. It doesn't mean you don't have any problems. Don't mean you don't go anything. But see, when you go into his presence, leave all those problems over there and just begin to praise him. He'll deal with that stuff over there, but you begin to praise him and to worship and to exalt him and to honor him and to bow down before him. If you're doing that, he'll show up and he'll change some things. I've seen it over and over. This is what I like. Verse 10 it says, which in time pass you were not a people, but are now the people of God, which had not obtained mercy, but now you have mercy. See, it's something about wonderful about having the mercies of God. See, when you're out there in the world, see, it talks about your calamity coming on you suddenly and that without remedy. But we have the mercy of God. I remember I was, I was, I saw a situation and some people did some stuff at work and it was wrong and one of the saints did the same thing and they got caught right away. They got written up over right away and I said, no, what, what does that mean? He said, when the saints, when you mess up, I allow you to face it so that you can repent and get it right. He said, but the unsafe, when my judgment falls on them, they don't have time to get it right. He says, I allow the enemy, I don't do it, but I allow the enemy to destroy them. But when it seems like it's not fair, he says, I'm giving you a chance to repent. I'm giving you a chance to get it right. He said, but we have obtained mercy. Ephesians chapter one verse four, you can read it on your time. Let's just know that not only did God choose us, but we were chosen in Christ before the foundation of the world. You were not an afterthought, but God planned to save you. He planned to bless you. He planned to deliver you. He planned to have you part of his chosen family. It's not by mistake. It's not by accident. God chose, he chose you to be part of his family. So we are the seed of Abraham. We've been grafted into the vine. Jesus says, I am the vine and you are the branches. If you know anything about forming, when they try to graft something in, they splice it, put it in and they wrap it up. It's a hybrid. You and we were hybrids. We used to be sinners, but now we're saved. We have a dual citizenship. We're citizens in this earth, but our citizenship is in the heaven. Hallelujah. We're hybrid and we're waiting to be seen. The manifestation of the sons of God. We've been grafted in. I think minister Terry talked about that Wednesday night. I believe we've been grafted into the vine. Turn to Romans chapter nine, Romans chapter nine, verse 25, Romans chapter nine, verse 25. It says, as he said also to OC, he's talking about Hosea. He says, I will call them my people, which were not my people. And her beloved, he's talking about the saints of God, the bright of Christ. I will call her beloved that was not beloved. How beautiful is that? See, my father's name was Jacob, Colonel Ross. And I belong to the house of Jacob, Colonel Ross. He was my protector, my provider, my counselor, my supporter. He was my friend. My father would tell us everything I have and everything I work for is for you. Now you have to ask me for, you can't just roll up in here and take something that everything that I do is for you. Even when I displease my father, he never stopped being my father. Jesus says, I will never leave you and I won't forsake you. Not just when you're in the time of need, but when you miss it, he says, I'm not going to leave you and I'm not going to forsake you because you are part of my family. I have four daughters, smart, intelligent, educated. These girls are making money, but sometimes I think, who in the world are these heathens? They have lost their mind. But you know what? When they were growing up and acting crazy, I never stopped feeding them. I never stopped clothing them. I never stopped loving them. I never stopped protecting them because they were part of my family. See, but then they came out of it and God is like that. Even when you miss it, he doesn't throw you away. He says, I'm your God and you are my people and I'll be with you. I'll never leave you. I won't forsake you. I won't give up on you. I won't throw you away. You belong to me. You belong to me. See, that's unconditional love. You and I, we are saved today. We've been baptized in the name of Jesus and filled with the Holy Ghost speaking in other tongues and we are part of the family of God and we belong to God and he's given us all things that pertain to life and to godliness and we are as and joint heirs of the covenant, heirs and joint heirs of problems. We belong to God. Say, I belong to God. Say, I belong to God. Say, I'm an heir of the covenant. See, that sets us aside from the world. We are the called out ones. We are God's prize, possession. See, because we belong to God, we have protection. The Bible says the name of the Lord is a strong tower. The name of the Lord is a strong tower and the righteous run into it and are safer. What's his name? You act like you don't know. What's his name? His name is a strong tower. The Bible said a thousand shall fall at that side and ten thousand at that right hand, but it shall not, shall not come 9V. I didn't realize it today until I just happened to look at my phone that it's 9-11. And I read some years ago in a magazine that on the day of 9-11 when it happened, there was a church in the area that had a number of people that worked in those buildings. A lot of them, maybe it might have been 5,200 people. And for some reason, none of those people went to work that day. Some people had flat tires. Some people called them sick. Nobody talked to each other, but nobody from that church showed up. God is a protector even when you don't know the dangers coming. He knows what you need. He knows how to take care of you. He knows how to keep you. He's protection. I don't need a 45. I don't need a Uzi. If you got one of those weapons, you need to get rid of it because you might fool around and shoot yourself. But God will protect you. He'll protect you. I had a friend wonderful saying to God, she went to church. It's chicken. Of course, she was, this is chicken. You know, chicken is almost a holy thing. She went to church to get some chicken and a man came in and robbed the restaurant, pulled out a gun and robbed the place. She stood in one spot. He walked all around her three or four times, never looked at her, never touched her. See, when people robbed the place, they will rob the store, they'll rob you, take your purse, take your money. He walked around her four or five times. She stood in one spot, robbed that place and left. And she brought her chicken. She says, I don't know if he didn't see me or if he just decided not to mess with me, but God is a protector. He will keep you in the midst of the storm. The enemy will be all around and he can't see. He said, the enemy may rush in like a flood, but the speed of the low will raise up a standard against it. He's our protection because I have God. I have provision. He supplies all of my needs. When I come up short, he supplies all of my needs. When I don't know how I'm going to make it, he supplies all of my needs. He said the cattle on a thousand hill belong to him and he knows how to get some roast beef down to my house when I need it. Like First Lady said, he'll take you to Golden Corral and fix it all for you. He is my provision. He is my healer. He heals me of all of my diseases. He's Jehovah, Rapha. He's the Lord that heals me. He is supernatural wisdom to me. He's been made wisdom to me. James said, if any man lack wisdom, let him ask of God and God will give it to him liberally. I remember I was going through something. I don't even remember what it was and I prayed about it and the Lord gave me direction. Do this, do this and this. And I did it and it worked out just like God said it was going to work out. And I go so excited and I went, got down and pressed the Lord. You're amazing Lord. I thank you. Lord, you said to do it like this and I did just what you said and it worked out just like the way you said it. And I was so excited and God says, you know what? I talk to you all the time, but most of the time you don't listen. He'll be wisdom to you if you will listen to him. If you'll spend time in his presence, time in his work, listen to the bishop, listen to Bible class. He will give you wisdom. Supernatural wisdom. He's been my doctor in the sick room, lawyer in the courtroom. Even when I missed it, when I messed up, when I was acting crazy, I had an advocate. I had a lawyer that stood in the presence of God and pleaded my case. Mercy. I know he missed it, but mercy. Yes, he did wrong, but mercy. I have an advocate. We belong to God. Babies, you belong to God. Children, you belong to God. Young people, you belong to God. Singles, you belong to God. Mary folks, you belong to God. Seniors, we belong to God. And because we belong to God, because I know I belong to God, I have no doubt in my mind I can declare I'm safe. I'm safe. I'm safe. Somebody shout save. Say save. I'm safe. I'm safe because I belong to God. I'm part of his royal family. He watches over me. He protects me. He keeps me. He provides for me. He makes ways for me. He gives me wisdom. He gives me understanding. I don't care what you're facing. I don't care what you're going through. I don't care what your struggle is. You need to make it up in your mind. Hey, I belong to God and everything. I said everything, everything is going to be all right. He's going to bring me out. He's going to make a way because I belong to God. The Bible said even when you're going through tests, lift up your heads. Oh, you gates and be lifted up. He everlasting doors and the king of glory shall come in. Come into your problem. Come into your situation. Come into everything that's going on in your life. See, that's what I want. I want the presence of God in everything that I do. As long as I know I belong to him. I know that everything is all right. Someone said he's a good, good father. He's a good, good father. Someone said he's a bridge over troubled water. Somebody said he's a way out of nowhere. Someone said he's everything. He's everything to me. He's everything. He's everything to me. My mother, my father, my sister, my brother, my peace, my song, everything that I need. He's everything to me. So know this. You are the seed of Abraham. You are heirs of the covenant. You've been chosen by God. Hallelujah. You've been chosen by God. Hallelujah. And you belong to God. Say, I belong to God. Say, I belong to God. I'm his and he's mine. And I know I can trust him because I belong to God. Somebody shout glory. Hallelujah. I belong to God. What a wonderful word the Lord has sent. The Lord has sent to us today. I don't have any problem confessing who I am. And the greatest thing that we can do is to look in the mirror at ourselves and tell yourself the truth because some of us are so fine and so good looking. So much money, so much wisdom that we get carried away over what God has done for us. We didn't start out here in the church when Jesus found us. We were no good. Born in sin and shape and in iniquity didn't have a mind toward God, but in loving kindness. And tender mercy. He sawed us. He sawed us. The song says, years I spent in vanity and pride, knowing that it was for me he died, caring that for knowing that he was crucified at Calvary for me. Now it took great mercy. See the Lord saw us in our original position and in spite of what we thought of ourselves, he saw clearly who we were. And he claimed us for his own. Do you understand that you are God's greatest creation? And when Satan came and came and caused us to fall into sin, God said, I'm not having it. They're mine. They belong to me. They're my creation. And so Jesus says, I'm going to make a difference in who you are. He said, I choose you. We started out in darkness, but when Jesus had mercy on us by going to Calvary, now we can belong to Jesus. Songs that now I belong to Jesus. And Jesus belongs to me and it's not just for a year or time alone, but it's for all of eternity. Come on, somebody. Understand how God feels about you. Understand what it took for you to get to where you are today from where you started out. It took a miracle. It took someone who cared so much about us. He said, I'll give everything that I have and I'll give it for you so that you can come back to me. He said, I want to bring you back to who I made you to be. Mercy there was great at Calvary and grace was free. Pardon there was multiplied to me. There my burdened soul found liberty at Calvary. At Calvary. At Calvary. Don't forget Calvary. Don't forget Calvary. No, it's not all about you. You're not your own. You've been bought with a price. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Now I belong to God. When I belong to God, see he chose me. He chose you. And when he brought you to himself, he owns you. And so he has a right to expect dividends on who you are. I'm going to live so God can use me. I'm going to live so God can use me because he chose me. And because he chose me, I'm going to give it all I got. I'm going to walk with Jesus every step of the way. What a wonderful, wonderful understanding of who we are, what we're about, whatever you used to be about. That's past history. Now you belong to God. Anybody glad? Anybody see the benefits? When I think of the goodness of Jesus and all that he's done for me, my soul cries, Hallelujah. Hallelujah. I thank you for making a way. Thank you for calling me out of darkness into a marvelous life. Hallelujah. Thank you. Thank you. And furthermore, Elder Ross, I heard when children are naughty and when children get crazy and when they get so crazy, you don't hardly recognize them. Any father or mother who would dare think about putting them out of the family is something wrong. But thank God for his tenderness, his loving kindness unto his people. When you fall down, he said, I still love you. He said, I'm married to a backslider. He said, I ain't going to let you get away. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Isn't God wonderful? Yes. He said, I made a covenant with you. He said, you can stand on what I promise you. I'll never change. I'll never pull a trick on you. I'll give you everything I said I was going to when I when I put my normally when back in the day, they had a what they call a salt covenant. And they carried salt with them in a little pouch because it was precious. It's still precious today. But when you made a covenant, you take a handful of salt out of your pouch and they take a handful of salt out of this and you'd exchange, put your salt in their salt their salt in your salt. And he said, what we're saying by that is, I promise you, I'll never turn against you unless I get my salt back. And I want to tell you when you drop some grains of salt in a pouch, know how you're going to get your salt out without taking some of the other. So they said, we're bound together with purpose. And I promise you, I'll not take back from you what I've given you, your mind. I love you with an everlasting love. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. And so when you when you feel like maybe you've gone a little bit too far. And the devil begins to speak into your spirit and tell you that God doesn't love you because of what you did. You know you stole the cookie out of the cookie jar. And you know that's against God said that should not steal. The devil be quoting the scripture to you. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. But Jesus Christ the righteous called us into covenant with him. And he said, you're mine. And I'm going to claim you to the end. Hallelujah. So with that spoken, what we need to understand is you better do right. You better do right. Hallelujah. He said, you belong to me. You're you're disobedient child of God. He said, but pay days coming. He said, I'll take you back. Yes, I'll take you back. Sometimes when people want to leave a relationship, they say, we threw and I'm going to never take you back. But thank God. Thank God for Jesus. Thank God for Jesus. He said, I'll take you back. If you want to, you can come on back. I'll love you as never before. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. So now is there anybody here today? Not been baptized and filled with the spirit of God. If you, if there's such a one as that, this is your day. And then on the other hand, if you've gone a little too far, perhaps, and you need to get back, today is the day. Today is the day. You didn't just happen to be here today. God knew you were going to be here today. And I love that Elder Ross, when I preach, I don't have to worry whether the audience responds. So God gave me the message. God told me what to preach. And when I preach it, I'm released. Come on somebody. Come on. The altar is open for anyone who has a need of prayer. Now don't be ashamed. Don't be ashamed. If you need prayer and you realize it and you come for prayer, that's exactly what ought to happen. And the Lord stands here. He's ready and willing. I say he's ready and he's willing. And he can. He can do whatever it is that you need him to do. Thank you, Jesus. I love you. I love you. I love you, Lord, today. Because you cared for me in such a special way. Oh, I praise you. I lift you up. I magnify your name. Yes. That's why my heart is filled with praise. I love you. I love you, Lord, today. Because you cared for me in such a special way. Yes, I praise you. I lift you up. And I magnify your name. That's why my heart is filled with my soul. You praise him. Thank you for your mercy. Thank you for saving my soul. Hallelujah. Thank God. Hallelujah. What a wonderful service. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. The Spirit of the Lord is all over this place. Hallelujah. Thank you, Jesus. We're sitting in heaven made itself manifested in this house again. Again. Or because he visited us regularly. When we come here to meet him, he meets us. He meets us here. Hallelujah. I thank him. Without further ado, it's now time to continue worship. And the First Lady is going to come and tell you how you can continue to worship. Amen. Amen. Amen. Thank the Lord for our precious First Lady. And I can say it. She's cute, y'all. Amen. She's looking all cute again today. Amen. I thank the Lord for my wife for 50 years. 50 years. 50 years. Come on. Come on. So, we put our salt in each other's pouch. All right. We decided we're just going to stay together. Amen. Amen. God bless you, Sister Firstly. We've had such a wonderful, wonderful, wonderful, wonderful from the beginning to the end service today. That's why I love coming to the house of God because our service is so wonderful. We don't have a whole bunch of people here, but there's not a church in this California can beat us with our praise and worship. There's not one church can beat us with our praise and worship and our message bringing and our altar call and everything. They may have other things else, but honey, if they don't have the word, they don't have the praise and stuff, that means nothing to them. That's right. They have to have the anointing. The anointing is in this place. Amen. From the beginning, I hear them while they're down here after they finish rehearsing and they're praying. The anointing starts from the first note that these musicians pray, the anointing starts. They come in with the anointing and I praise God for that. Thank you all, musicians and praise leader and all you all. You do a fantastic job. The anointing of God is all over you all. And I want to put in a plug for a drummer over there. He has a podcast that come on. I don't know how often it comes on, but it's on Facebook. It's on Apple. Watch it. He has some encouraging words. I mean, Lord, use that young man. I've listened to him twice and it's been really anointing word. It's not very long that come from him. So let's book out for minister Terrence. Amen. I'm not calling him the preacher. He knows what the Lord is doing in his life and I praise God for that. But listen to him because I'm his friend on Facebook and you will hear some anointing word coming from brother Terrence Alexander. Amen. From a young man. And I mean, it's amazing. Okay, I'm here. Billy Preston said you can't be God giving. No matter how you try. And just as sure as you are living, the Lord is in heaven on high. The more you give, the more he gives to you. But keep on giving because it's really true that you can't be God giving. No matter how you try. So I'm here to lift your offering and I don't need to go into a big spill. Y'all have heard before. Y'all know what you're supposed to do. Just do it. Do it. Nike said just do it. Amen. Give God's what do him. You give him worship. You give him praise. You listen to the ministry. But this is a form of praise and worship to God. But somehow when it comes to our finances, we tighten up. We're not free to give. But the Lord wants us to be free to give because it don't belongs to you anyway. So give him to the Lord what's doing him. Amen. So I want you everybody to stand. Raise your offering before the Lord. Five in the name of Jesus. We thank you for giving us finances that we may have to give back to you, Lord God. We thank you, Lord God, because you're worthy of our sacrifices and our giving. You're worthy of our praise. And this is our form of praising you by giving back to you what you have given to us. And Lord God, we ask you in the name to bless every seed that's been given, Lord God, and every sore Lord God that's given to this offering. We ask you to bless it, Lord God, double it, triple it, whatever you need to do with it, Lord God. And those who have not given or holding back on you, Lord God, you deal with them also. In the name of Jesus, we pray, we thank you, we give you all the glory. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen. And if those in media land would like to give, you can give by if you look on the screen, it's give a fight. You can give still faith Christian center of Long Beach. Also, you can mail it in for 4934 Long Beach Boulevard, Long Beach, California 90805. And we would appreciate your giving. I thank God for all he's done for us. Amen. God has blessed us a lot of little churches that closed down, but we still keep getting to go because God is blessing us. Amen. Amen. So without further ado. So you clean me up inside. You thought I was to die for you sacrifice your life. So I can be free. So I can be whole. So I can tell everyone. Come on. You saw I was worth saving. So you came and changed my life. You thought I was worth healing. Yes, you did. So you clean me up inside. You thought I was to die for. So you sacrifice your life. So I can be free. So I can be whole. So I can tell everyone. So I can be through. Make an observation of something that I saw that rejoices my heart. Notice in the service today that there are two fathers shepherding their family. Brother Lance. Amen. He and his sons. They're here and they came down for prayer. Deacon Patrick, he got all of his kids. He shepherded all of them down to the altar. Now that's what God would have. Amen. When children are under the leadership of parents, they just need to do what they're told to do until they understand it. Amen. And the Lord will bless them. I'm a witness. I'm a witness. I used to be a little boy and I didn't want to do everything I was supposed to do. But I had somebody who put in me to follow authority. I'm not going to preach. The rule of the house was whoever the oldest one in the family that's there, they're in charge and you better do what they say. And I'm number 14 of 16. I didn't get a chance to be in charge. I didn't get a chance to be in charge. But you know, I'm going to tell you, it pays off. You have two ears, right? Amen. And one mouth? It pays to do a whole lot of listening and a little bit of talking. The Lord will bless you. Now, what that did, that kind of training, it put a yes in my spirit. I got to the place where I didn't know that I could say no. I'll share this with you another time when I'm preaching. Amen. Come on, Sister Alexander. Amen. Amen. Amen. We thank the Lord for the great leadership that we have. Amen. The Lord is teaching us. Hallelujah. All the time. Amen. And he's instructing us this year. Amen. All the time. And we appreciate the leadership that we have here. We thank the Lord for the word and the songs. Amen. First Lady, it's just marvelous. Every time we show up, the Lord comes and he shows out. And I'm going to tell you something. Invite your friends and your families. Don't be stingy. And here, keeping it all to yourself. This is a blessing. Amen. And anyone who comes in here, if you leave out of here the same way you left and not better. I mean, for the better, then it's because you want to be that way. You want to be that way. You don't want because the spirit of the Lord shows up. And he never, he always accomplishes what he wants in our lives through the word. Hallelujah. And if you yield, you will be blessed. You will be blessed. Amen. If you yield. Yes. Right. If you yield, you will be blessed. Say yes. Hallelujah. And stay encouraged and determined to walk with Jesus. Amen. Come on. Let's sing our dismissal song. Amen. We're going to go ahead and get on out of here. Lord, we thank you for everything that happened here today. Come on. Hot trials, tribulation, persecution. I'll be faithful. I'm determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I am. Come on. I'm determined. Persecution. I'll be faithful. I'm determined to walk with Jesus. Yes, I am. Hold my one Jesus to hold my. Bless you all. We'll see you next week.