 glad that you saved us. We're so glad that you have your way today. Bless you. We'll lift up the name of Jesus. Lord, you be glorified. But we thank you for your power to deliver us and to save us. We say, Lord, we'll bless you in Jesus' name. Amen. Come on, you got some prayer. They might go to a city of habitation to the children of man. He opens up a window that we won't have room to receive. He opened doors. We worship Him with our Tide offering in Jesus' name. Please stand with me in Jesus' name. Everyone, please stand, whether you're giving or not. That way we on one accord, let's hold our offering up to the Lord in Jesus' name. Father, in the name of Jesus, Lord God, we come this morning, Lord God, to glorify you, to magnify your name, Lord God. We thank you, Lord God, for the things you have done, Lord God, in our lives and the things that you are going to do, Lord God. We come this morning, Lord God, being obedient, Lord God, to your word, Lord God, in the name of Jesus, Lord God. You said for us to pay our tithes and give our offering, Lord God, in the name of Jesus, Lord God, hallelujah. We come this morning standing, standing on your word, Lord God, standing on your promises, Lord God, in Jesus' name, Lord God. We ask you this morning, Lord God, that you will bless this offering, Lord God, multiply, Lord God, touch the hearts of your people, Lord God, that they may have a mind, Lord God, to give, Lord God, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, we pray, amen and amen. You may come from the real. Father, in the name of Jesus, we, in Jesus' name, Lord God, we ask you to multiply, Lord God, let it continue, Lord God, to meet every need, Lord God, that it may further the work, Lord God, that's going forth here, Lord God, that you and you alone may be glorified and magnified, Lord God, through this ministry, Lord God, in Jesus' name, in Jesus' name, we pray, amen and amen. Amen, amen. Praise the Lord everybody. Praise the Lord everybody. Are you happy to be here today? Has God been good to anybody today? I don't know about you, but I was glad when they said unto me, let's go to church. We just want to greet everybody in Jesus' name and especially our visitors. We're so happy that you came and joined us to worship with us today. We greet those that are watching us by live stream and we greet you too in the name of Jesus. So right now we're going to receive Sister Merlin, a minister Merlin. Alexander, she's going to bless us, get with her, support her. It's going to be a blessing. We thank you in Jesus' name, Sister Merlin. God bless you. Praise the Lord. All righty. Thank you, Lord. Amen. We can't for he saved this world is son. God must have at his child suffered would save. That's why to. God is so good. The goodness of Jesus and all that is to recognize what the blood of Jesus offers us. There's nothing in the mix. There's no alloy. He's real. You asked me how I know he lives. He lives within my heart. I'm a witness that he lives. Hallelujah. The message I'm bringing this morning looks like kind of like y'all got it already. I'm excited about what we feel each time we come to this place. When we come into this house, the Lord always beats us here. The anointing rests upon this place. And there's no better place to be in my opinion in the city of Long Beach than 4934 Long Beach. Long Beach Boulevard. I want to call your attention to the word of God as it is found in the Psalm number 30. Psalm number 30. This is the account of an individual that found himself too big for his britches. And it got things twisted. But I thank God that the Lord always know how to handle his children. Amen. My wife and I are parents of three young ladies. And I will say that they turn out pretty good. Matter of fact, they turn out real good. That's because their parents knew how to handle them. And it's not because we were so smart. We were handled as we were growing up. I tell my wife that we need to praise the Lord with all our might, with all of our heart. That we were born into the family we were born into. Because we got it right. Because somebody laid it down for us. I said, no, you ain't gonna do that. And the song this morning, it begins, we're speaking, this is the song of David. And David, like all other people who come on the planet, they come on the planet with an exaggerated degree of their wisdom, knowledge, or what should transpire in their life. He was king. And he handled it well for a while. But something got on in his head that helped him to think that he was the biggest and baddest. I kind of look at him and I kind of think of Muhammad Ali. He was Cassius Clay when he began. And he was whipping up on everybody in the ring. And he sold himself on the fact that he's the greatest. And he said it so often and he said it so emphatically. Guess what? People began to believe that he was the greatest. And he was in that sphere. But just like King David, there was a reckoning that came to him. I want to help us to see what transpired with King David. The first verse it said, I will extol thee, O Lord, for thou hath lifted me up and hath not made my foes to rejoice over me. He said, I will extol thee. And extol means I will praise you with great vigor. I'll praise you with all that I have within me. He said, I'll give you the credit for who you are and I give you the credit for what you've done in my life. He says in that verse what he's speaking of is he found himself ill and he couldn't get himself right. He couldn't heal himself. So he said, Lord, you could have left me like you found me. He said, but I thank you that you lifted me up. And he said and hath not made my foes to rejoice over me. Now he had some enemies. And as we go on further we'll see why he had some enemies because they blamed him for the loss of 70,000 soldiers. He said, you could have let them have their way with me. But he said, I thank you because you made my foes to rejoice over me. He said, Lord my God, I cried unto thee and thou have healed me. He said, I lifted you up from the depth of trouble. The Lord says, because he helped heal me. He said, that's why I call out to you. I cried out to the Lord. I said, Lord you know the truth about me. Lord you know all of my thoughts even before they touched my mind. He said, so Lord you could have given me what I deserved. You could have not given me mercy that you extended to me. He said, and I thank you. When I cried unto you, you healed me and you set me straight. Verse three he said, oh Lord thou hath brought up my soul from the grave. He said, I was at the point of death. And I couldn't help myself. And I sought help from other people. Nobody could help me, but I thank you Lord that you were able to hear me and help me and keep me from dying. Thou hath kept me alive. That I should not go down to the pit. That's the grave. And as he spoke those words, he felt within him that people ought to praise God. He said, sing unto the Lord, oh ye saints of his and give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. You all know that I look back into the past and I'm not ashamed of it. See because the past is what? History. And if we have history that we don't study or we don't understand, guess what? We'll make the same mistakes everybody else made that came before us. I look back at the church that we grew up in and the church is so different than today. In the church that we grew up in we had a piano that was out of tune. Somebody gave a bass drum. I was the drummer. Boom, boom. But that didn't hamper anything because we had those two instruments because the saints of God knew what God had done for them. They looked at themselves and said, how did I get here? If it hadn't been for the Lord who was on my side, I'd have been swallowed up. I'd have been taken advantage of by the adversary of my soul who was the devil. But the church people there at 2406 Belglade in St. Louis, Missouri, they stomped their feet, they clapped their hands, they made a noise unto the Lord. They cried out to him and gave him praise and glory for what they what they have received. So in the fourth verse, David said, y'all sing unto the Lord. You're his saints. Give thanks at the remembrance of his holiness. Then he says, for his anger endured but a moment. Yes, he gets angry and he says, this is my testimony. God got angry with me for a short while. His anger endured but a moment but in his favor. Anybody know anything about the favor of God? Come on somebody. If anybody knows anything about who you are and why you are sitting here in the presence of the the holy ghost, you have to know that somebody did something unusual for you that you couldn't do for yourself. Hallelujah, hallelujah. He said he was mad at me and he didn't he didn't not follow through on the punishment. He gave me the punishment but even at that he said, I found out that in his favor when you get so that you can call on him and he'll come right now. Come on somebody. If there's anything that is within your purview that's that's happening you, he said you can depend on him because you're in his favor. I preach about stuff I know but I preach about stuff I do. I preach about who I am. I was accused of being the best boy of 10 boys. There there were there were 10 boys in my family and nine people, nine of them accused me of being the best boy and the reason they accused me of being the best boy was but guess what? I was the best boy and if you don't believe it well you can't ask him but my father said I was the best boy and I was in favor. I found favor. I was born with the the knack and the ability to fix and do stuff. Everything was breaking down in the house. I was right there next to dad helping him fix and do the stuff needed to be done and I found favor in him and that's probably why my name is junior as opposed to the others and I just kind of jokingly say to them I said people want to know why you're next there are two people below you why did they he wait to name you after him? I said he was looking for one who was worthy. In favor is a great thing. You know when when when there's a a subject that you come up against and you try with all your being with all your might and you just can't get it all you got to do is call on Jesus come on somebody he knows what to do and he will help you he will bring you out of your situations when you call on him you got to cry out to him and you got to praise him so now that that's that's what the aim is today in this message we're not doing God justice amen we got too cool we got too educated too many degrees too many houses and cars and stuff and stuff and because we have what appears to be it we're silent with our worship now extol means to praise him to a high degree and when the Lord has done what he's done for us i would think that we'd be excited about what the Lord has done and be excited about what we know he's about to do on down the line and when when we get up in the service and the service is moving along and we shouldn't have to be pumping pumping pumping come on sing y'all come on clap your hands all right and i'm just disgusted with the lack of clapping hands i think people find these too precious to put together they want to keep them apart or keep them in there y'all hold on hold on hold on this is going to change in a little bit but see the Lord when he moves on our behalf who are we to ignore the fact that if it hadn't been for him we'd be lost throughout all of eternity with no reprieve and we're gonna sit up like we cool he said you saved me from the pit i could have been dead and in my grave but here i am and i've been found out that all i need to do is praise you for who you are praise you for what you do praise you for all that is done in our lives he said he was angry at me there for a while he said but it didn't last long thank god the punishment didn't last that long he said weeping may endure for a night anybody ever heard that weeping may endure for a night but there's a new day coming tomorrow is a new day when we get through weeping it says but joy joy joy unspeakable joy coming in the morning as a new day for each of us if we can endure the night don't mind it be a night long as i know probably when i wake up there'll be a new day come on i can take some stuff i can i can have trials and tests that are a challenge to me and i can take some of that but i want to see a new day come on somebody and you know how you get a new day you tell them what you think about it you tell them lord i thank you that you brought me from a mighty long way i thank you that you put your arms of protection around me i thank you that you supply all of my needs according to your riches in glory i thank you i praise you i magnify your name hallelujah hallelujah weeping may endure for a night but joy coming in the morning hallelujah now at this next clause here it says i share the truth about who i really am we all want to be looked upon and admired have people think that we're all that and the bag of chips but he said in my prosperity when i got some nickels and dimes that i could rub together in my prosperity i said i shall never be moved he said i'm standing on this rock and this rock is mine and nobody's getting it i got this and i got all of what all that i need but the lord like a good parent he had to bring some discipline verse seven said lord by thy favor thou hath made my mountain to stand strong thou did hide thy face and i was troubled he said i was so accustomed to being the big dog had everything that i wanted and more than was necessary for me and for most people but he didn't realize one thing we had a job of selling on the streets in our youth and money came in so fast we got sick of looking at money it just looked nasty the bills in all kind of shape out of whoever's pocket whoever's sock but when you get to the place where the lord is blessing it ain't no time for you to start thinking you're all grand and all of that and i'm gonna go down the street everything that belongs to you hear me earthy that belongs to you you're gonna leave it here when you go from here we all going to the grave and that means when you close your eyes in death you ain't got nothing you're where you started nothing so the lord helped him come to his wits he said lord by thy favor thou has made my mountain to stand strong thou did hide thy face and i was troubled he said lord i looked to you lord i counted on you lord wanted you to continue to do what you were doing in my life and i looked around and you had turned your face from me you turned your back on me what a feeling that must be now he's the king but he got himself in trouble he began to number the people in his armies he said i got this many over here and that many over there and i got somebody somebody's going around gonna hook in behind him and we're gonna hold this thing and we'll never lose and the lord said wrong answer what he did was he began to depend on his forces he began to count his soldiers and say i'm comfortable now but the lord turned his back i cried to thee i cried to you lord please please i cried to thee oh lord unto the lord i made my supplication he said i begged lord help me what prophet is there verse nine in my blood he says lord i see myself back on the edge of the pit lord don't let me die lord this is me you know david he said what prophet is there in my blood when i go down to the pit shall the dust praise thee shall it declare thy truth he said lord i got some questions in my mind i'm trying to deal with you here don't let me go jesus don't let me go lord i realize i have a need for you when i go down to the pit shall the dust praise shall it declare thy truth here oh lord and have mercy up on me here you know we i talked about supplication that that's is begging time now he says i had it going and i lost it and i'm now i need it back and i gotta beg for it i i'll do whatever it takes to get it back here oh lord and have mercy up on me lord be thou my helper there's a remedy for help the remedy is favor leading in your direction as opposed to drawing back so he said lord i'm begging you to help me you know i have turned turned for me my mountain i'm sorry my morning into dancing this this 11th verse begins to talk about his turnaround he he said best strong witness to god's deliverance that's how you get favor so he said thou have turned for me my morning into dancing he said my heart was broken i was feeling like i was out of here he said but you turn things around for me come on somebody anybody have something that they need a turnaround for anybody find yourself in a place where you realize you're not cutting it for real all you got to do is run to jesus cry out to him said lord i need you i got to have you in my spirit i got to have you hit my body possess me change me make me yours i want to be yours hallelujah and he's he's witnessing now he started out by extolling i will extol thee and guess what he found his way back home come on somebody come on somebody now with the adversary of the soul does the devil he's not afraid of your beginning walk he's looking for where you end up you can run for him for a long time and the devil will be waiting for you at the end of your journey waiting to do this put his foot out and trip you that have turned for me my morning into dancing lord you did something for me that nobody else could do you took my sins away you filled me with your spirit you'll cause me to walk up with you until i lost my bangs and lord you brought me back and i want to thank you i want to praise you because nobody could do it nobody but you nobody but you lord and he said when i was morning all of a sudden the switch clicked and it turned me around and i began to dance even after the morning i found a dance in my spirit i thank you because you're faithful thank you because you're loving thank you because you're merciful he'd never gone to the cross if he didn't have some mercy and some love for his people oh hallelujah y'all ought to be clapping right now that's a clap moment hallelujah come on put your stuff down come on come on we're gonna practice this come on put your hands together everybody clap clap praise him praise him he's a blessed redeemer he's the lifter of the head hallelujah hallelujah he loves you and he wants to see you in heaven hallelujah praise him praise him jesus our blessed redeemer hallelujah hallelujah now you can't feel nothing unless you put something in it now that didn't hurt you did it anybody hurt anybody any black eyes any broken limbs hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you jesus you turned my darkness into day and i thank you thank you jesus i turned my morning into day now i have put off my sackcloth and girded me with gladness now sackcloth speaks in turn to a rough material woolly material and when sin came they said we got to go down in sackcloth and ashes and it was painful it wasn't silk maybe more like a crocosack y'all don't know what that is but he says now i have put off my sackcloth he said you said sackcloth and ashes are no longer required and you girded me with gladness to the to the end that my glory may be may spring praise seeing praise to him to thee and not be silent not be silent not be sitting on the praise that belongs to you not me wrestling trying to find a way not to praise you come on somebody i want to find a way to love your praise i want to love all your call you've done it for me hey i want to praise you for the call you put on my life i want to praise you that when you you gave me birth you had a purpose for me to the end that my glory may sing praise to thee and not be silent oh lord my god i will give thanks unto thee forever for i'm determined not to give not to give not to choke up on his praise i'm determined to give him the praise that is due him come on somebody come on somebody hallelujah praise him praise him jesus our blessed redeemer for our sins he suffered he bled and died hallelujah all praise him i'm gonna praise i'm determined i'm gonna praise him with all i got until the day my breath leaves my body i'll praise him hallelujah it's good being in his favor and so as we come to the table this morning hallelujah we need to come with a sing and a shout come on somebody now when we receive these elements i hope there are not be anybody from the first church of the refrigerator refrigerator oh come on it's worth more than that it's worth more than that i want him to know that i'm grateful i want him to understand that i care that he cared for me oh it is wonderful that he should care for me enough to die for me is he worthy anybody that's why this is a special special service every fifth Sunday because we recognize who he is and we have an inkling of what he's done you don't know where you came from who know where they came from not Louisiana see what you did you came from a long way a long way from where you are right now and you didn't do it by yourself you had some help he said come on to me all ye that labor and on every late and i'll give you rest i'll favor you be the glory for the things did y'all get that can i close my book oh he said well you should ask that sooner it's my delight it is my delight to help the people of god through his word none of that's my opinion i read it to you straight off with a paper from the book i thank god that he favored me enough to call me into service and to assist those who don't know the way and help those who are struggling along the way and to walk with them who are walking up the king's highway i thank him i praise him thank you Jesus thank you lord hallelujah thank you jesus to god be the glory how can i say thanks for the things he's done for me things so undeserved yet you proved your love for me voices of a million angels could not express my my my attitude attitude my altitude the hope to be come on come on come on y'all you are too to the wait wait wait okay all right go go for the key go go go for the key can i say you done for me this is not the song but we'll sing it how can i show you come on you mean to me you have done so undeserved and yet you gave to prove your love deacons and the people who are going to read in this session minister edwards will follow the first lady will follow minister edwards dr sykes will follow minister sorton will follow mr tanisha bruce we're reading a lot of scripture today now i don't apologize we don't do the this but every fifth sunday we're not in a place where we receive communion every first sunday we could take a little time while we're acknowledging what the lord has done for us let me begin he was despised and forsaken of men a man of sorrow acquainted with grief like one from whom men hide their face he was despised and we did not esteem him surely our grief he himself bore and our sorrows he carried yet we ourselves esteemed him stricken smitten of god and afflicted but he was pierced for our transgression he was bruised for our transgression he was crushed he was crushed for our iniquity chastisement for our well-being fell upon him and by his stripes we're healed all we like sheep have gone astray each of us has turned to our own way but the lord has caused the iniquity of us all to fall on him isaib 53 verse 3 through 6 and john 6 53 and 54 then jesus said unto them verily verily i say unto you except ye eat the flesh of the son of man and drink his blood ye have no life in you who so eateth my flesh and drinketh my blood have eternal life and i will raise him up at the last day amen first john chapter number one verses eight and then i'm going to continue on to chapter number two to verse number two first john chapter one verse eight if you say that we have no sin we deceive ourselves and the truth is not in us if we confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins and to cleanse us from all unrighteous if we say that we have not sin we make him a liar and his word is not in uh chapter two verses one through two my little children these things i write unto you that ye sin not and if any man sin we have an advocate with the father jesus the righteous and here's the repituation of our sins and not for ours only but also for the sins of the whole world first Corinthians chapter 10 verses 16 and 17 the cup of blessing which we bless is it not the communion of the of the blood of christ the bread which we break is it not the communion of the body of christ for we being many are one bread and one body for we are all partakers of that one bread verse 23 to 26 but we preach christ crucified unto the jews a stumbling block and unto the greeks foolishness but unto them which are called both jews and greets christ the power of god and the wisdom of god because the foolishness of god is wiser than man and the weakness of god is stronger than men for ye see your calling brethren how that not many wise men's after the flesh not many mighty not many noble are called all right let's begin let's begin to prepare to serve all right elder ross praise god and when the six hour was come there was darkness over the whole land until the ninth hour and at the ninth hour jesus cried elia elia lamah sabbatane which being interpreted as my god my god why has thou forsaken me now some of them that stood by they heard it and said behold he cried for elishan and one ran and filled a sponge full of vinegar and put it on a reed saying let alone and see whether elia will come and take you down and jesus cried and said with a loud voice and he gave up the hell of the tent was rent from top to bottom and the centurion which stood by over against him saw that he and gave up the ghost and he said surely truly this was a son of god father we thank you for the bread which represents your broken body they beat you they sped on you they pierced you in your side and you never complain because you were doing it just for us just for me so father we commit that we will remember the sacrifice you made we will remember the punishment that you took for me it should have been me but you took our place and we give you praise we thank you for the body we thank you for that broken body yeah yeah sure you did it for me and we thank you for it in jesus name amen to god hallelujah father god we thank you for your blood we thank you for your blood that cleanses us white as snow your blood that redeems us unto you we thank you for your blood that protects us throughout our day your blood hallelujah that delivers us from our sin father god and heals our body and heals our mind god we thank you for allowing us to partake in a part of you a part of you father god we thank you for choosing us you didn't have to choose us you didn't have to lay your life down for us but you did and we thank you lord and as we partake of your blood we ask that you purge us with hyssop let your blood flow throughout our body lord god strengthen us as we trust and as we rely on you father we thank you for your blood in jesus name i'll read into your hearing from matthew 26 while they were eating jesus took some bread and after a blessing he broke it gave it to his disciples and said take eat this is my body and when he had taken the cup and given thanks he gave it to them saying drink from it all of you for this is my blood of the covenant which is poured out for many for forgiveness of sin but i say to you i will not drink of the fruit of the vine from now on until the day when i drink it new with you and my father's kingdom let us receive the elements at this time just for me just for me jesus came and did it just for me to be kept by jesus shake hands