 can we give him glory says that he will hold us uphold us with his righteous right hand he will hold us he will keep us hallelujah when we belong to the Lord he'll never let us go nothing and no one can snatch us out of his hand he's going to hold us fast holding us fast means that we're secure that we've been rooted and grounded on a firm foundation in our Lord and Savior Jesus Christ I fear my faith will rise will hold when the tempt precious he laughs he'll not be lost his promises shall last at such a calm he fasts justice has been that is fine he will hold the debt that we owe thank you Lord God that when I'm weak such a wonderful thing to know in our salvation on the morning I'm glad to see each of you who are here we've come today to hear the word of God that will strengthen us and cause us to cling to him now the song said he'll hold me fast but then another song said you got to hold to his hand come on somebody he'll hold you but don't you let go this thing works come on somebody it's short it's dead mass for his goodness and for his mercy today we have a special special person with us in service and I received this from the headquarters church in Rancho Cucamonga we have an ambassador with us amen and let me just read what it says and then I'll tell you who the ambassador is that shield of faith fellowship of church is incorporated and says we the members of the executive board of the shield of faith fellowship of churches after much prayer and fasting present this to the above name as an ambassador in the shield of faith fellowship of churches incorporated with full rights and privileges from this day forth therefore we'll fix our hand and seal to the ambassador Marilyn Alexander come and receive ambassador is one who has been elected selected chosen to carry a message now when an ambassador goes to a foreign country he goes to take instructions from the one who has sent him the ambassador doesn't make up stuff to say when he's when he's doing the business of the king so now the shield of faith saw this lady right here and they recognize the God in her come on come on y'all can start saying amen recognize the God in her that she has shown to be a faithful witness and she can tell it can she tell it y'all amen we're so excited for you minister Marilyn Alexander the Lord bless you and the Lord keep you he's going to use you continually in a mighty way and and I'll just let me just pray this so you can have praise the Lord everybody I am just grateful to the Lord God is so I can truly have a testimony God is good I I have found to be him to be faithful bitch and I have learned to stand on the word of God and that is the only thing that I've done nothing special just obey the word of God and believe the word of God and and walk it just walk it you know die daily you know and allow myself to to receive the benefits that come along with it and I just thank him for it I thank him for the leadership I thank him for you Bishop and First Lady God has been so good to me and my family I had some surgery a couple of weeks ago and I thank him for that that's a part of my testimony has an ambassador I found the Lord to be a healer so I am an ambassador for those who need the executive board for recognizing the walk and I wake it recognizing the faithfulness of God in me I give God all the praise I thank the Lord for my husband and my son that they're here and then and I just give God all the glory amen God bless you that's right yeah Jukai come on brother I'm surprised you all didn't have you didn't have you didn't have your cameras out you see me and this ambassador yes why don't we stand all right this is the last one we'll start charging after this God bless you we're so excited about that appointment I believe that when the message is given she'll take it just as it is she won't try to add anything or take anything away she'll be on scene in in charge and carrying the word correctly thank God for Jesus now at this time I'm gonna call for our morning solo our morning music sister shy Gillum come on in Jesus name praise the Lord everybody how do you know God is an honest God and he can deliver you from anything anything and when I say God has delivered me he has delivered me and I'm just so grateful I'm so thankful and I owe it to nobody but God am again you told me to go right but I wouldn't left you told me to tell the truth but I like but here I am again and this is what I said for me because all I seen the Jews anybody ever had to cry coming to the part of the service that we can say thank you Lord in a tangible way so will a man rob God the Bible says give and it shall be given unto you good measure pressed out shaking together running over say run it invite you right now to so into the kingdom of God we're used to singing so that you can't be God-given no matter how hard to try but you know even if he didn't do another thing because of the exodus that he's made in our life how he brought us out to hell but God brought us out and so we're going to give he will multiply the seed that you sow I had a friend I remember years ago she said she didn't believe God and God said you try me she had $20 and she gave that $20 away every day and by the end of the day she had $20 she never ran out of giving she kept she would throw her money away and God says somehow she look at her precious $20 in there so you can't beat God giving he gave us life he gave us peace he gave us joy he gave us money and some of us he gave us a honey come on now somebody they don't get no better than that but we really want to invite you to sow to the kingdom of God for this is good ground you're not sowing your seat on concrete but this is fertile ground and the seed will multiply and you will be blessed in Jesus name so right now I'm gonna invite you to stand I just want to thank you forever and we're gonna invite you to come and when you come come rejoicing God loves a cheerful giver come shouting and rejoicing and knowing that God is gonna bless you in Jesus name so father we pray for the offering that those that are gonna bring that they're gonna sow good seed into the kingdom of God Lord let it be multiplied and brought back to you we'll give you the praise in Jesus name let's dance it on him I just swore not there was song blessing multiply cause your kingdom to grow will bless you and give you praise in Jesus name amen right now I want you to stand on your feet and we're gonna receive the man of God our bishop bishop allig Alexander receive the word in Jesus name somebody shall go let's give the Lord a big they have your seats at this time okay thanks unto the Lord because he's good because his mercy endure it isn't that make that that makes me feel secure he's got enough mercy that he can't run out his mercy endure it Lord knows I need mercy from time to time come on anybody anybody willing to confess sometimes you need mercy all right all the rest of y'all rest of y'all perfect thank God for Jesus thank God for Jesus he's everything that we need I'm so excited today to see you all here and we've come together to lift up the name of Jesus and I feel like today the Lord is pretty satisfied with our offering of praise to him today amen it's good to come together we amplify each other's praise amen my praise is not enough I get tired I'm kind of well I'll admit it I'm getting a little bit old a little bit but I get tired sometimes and I can't praise them like I want to like I used to and I need mercy in spite of the fact that I'm incapable of doing all that I want to do for the Lord he's a good God he's there for us and I thank him I want to talk today call your attention to the book of Isaiah and I'm going to be speaking concerning the suffering Savior the suffering Savior now that that seems kind of like a oxymoron those two shouldn't go together they're the opposite they're the opposite poles the one who was able to save he's able to heal he's able to keep and he has to suffer makes me kind of scratch my head that the one who was our everything had to suffer if we admit it we all understand that we were born in sin and we were shaping in iniquity and we had no love for God at all and we came into this world with an attitude say because we all came with it say amen and we came into this world with an attitude that is all about me and when a child is born see that little baby going out there right there he's got a will of his own and he's expressing it right now and when we recognize the fact that is all about us and none about the Lord we're in serious trouble so we have to try to get a sense about ourselves to a degree where we'll be able to look to someone to save us in Isaiah 52 I'm sorry Isaiah 53 is the summit the Mount Everest of biblical prophecy in this chapter the savior of the world is seen suffering for the sins of the human race not suffering for anything he had done wrong but he is found in this text suffering because of the human race us the scene meaning of his death are described in surprising detail for true believers idea 53 is the one one of the most heartbreaking yet cherished passages of scripture for it describes the brutal treatment and horrible suffering horrible suffering Christ endured on our behalf pause think about that now he didn't have to do it he didn't have to do it I heard somebody say like this I don't gotta but this this chapter begins first verse who has believed our report and to whom is the arm of the Lord revealed he says the report has come for it but it's not been believed his coming had been predicted but it was rejected God's arm and his power was denied now that hurts I'm not too proud to say that when I've done something for a person and then they deny that I did it oh he didn't do nothing it was revealed to them and it says he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of a dry ground he had no farm nor come and when we shall see him there is no beauty that we should desire him digest this now see when I was growing up back in st. Louis in high school they had what they called Jonan and Jonan was talking about your mama anybody know anything about that I see some people who look like they recognize that you see maybe that was over by the time y'all got here they be they bees Jonan on each other a big old feet fat head your mama this your mama so well now this second verse right here kind of kind of helps me this relates to the second verse for me they said he shall grow up before him as a tender plant and as a root out of dry ground he said he's gonna be just a little tiny plant that can't do anything for himself and he's gonna be in dry ground so it's not looking too good at this point he had no farm nor comeliness you know what that means he wasn't pretty he was ugly I have to say it because the rest of the scripture bears it out he had no no farm nor comeliness and when we shall see him there is what no beauty that we should desire him he said it was nothing pretty about it it was nothing that would make you want to come join forces with him it was nothing that would cause you to turn your ear to him and try to hear anything coming out of his mouth because he was I'll let y'all put it in it then it says he is despised and rejected of men a man of sorrow and acquainted with grief and we hid as it were our faces from him and he was despised and esteemed him and we was we esteemed him not so now let me help you with this verse he didn't have any friends anybody been there in a place where you don't know anybody so he he was he was despised and people rejected him he was a man of sorrow acquainted with grief and we hid our face when we saw him coming way down the street we did one of these we hid our face when we hit our face he was despised people hated him and we esteemed him not we said he ain't worth a plug nickel but in spite of what's been said in spite of what people thought in spite of what their intentions were it didn't stop at this point and I thank God that it didn't that first was that surely he has borne our grief he said when you were despising him didn't want anything to do with him he came and he wrapped his arms around you and he comforted you surely he has borne our grief and carried our sorrow yet we did esteem him stricken smitten of God and afflicted he said the reason he ain't got no friends is because he's not living right they said he ain't worth nothing he said and God has afflicted him because of his deportment I like verse five because he's got a conjunction conjunction says but come on somebody all of that that they said and all that they did it counted for nothing because that word but he races it all and he he stands he stands for sure whether they accept him or not but he was wounded for our transgression he was bruised for our iniquities and the chest as one of our peace was up on him and with his stripes we are healed thank you Jesus thank God for healing thank God and the stripes that he took on his back hallelujah hallelujah he's a great God hallelujah hallelujah with his stripes we're healed now when it comes to that people say well that verse doesn't actually mean healing in your physical body Jesus is a healer Jesus is a healer the world doesn't believe it but Jesus heals all the time he healed a sick he raised the dead now how about there can't be two applications for this scripture right here Jesus is a healer as that lady sitting right there as that lady sitting right there as a bunch of people in here they all have witnesses of the healing virtue that flows from the throne of grace hallelujah thank God thank God thank you Jesus now it's time time in the sixth verse to turn the flashlight in a different direction he said all y'all was like sheep having gone astray and have turned everyone to his own way everybody got to have our way it happened to the Lord is my life and my salvation you know whatever happens to he lead it me come on somebody but no we don't want nobody to lead me and and don't dare tell somebody what to do you know y'all didn't hear me cuz cuz you you to put up a bigger scream than that you can't tell me what to do is my life that's right everybody want to have it my way tell me who don't want to have it your way if you don't want to have it your way raise your hand you want to hear me I guess we don't have any candidates like that who got to have it their way that's Burger King stuff anyway all we like sheep have gone astray have turned everyone to his own way and the Lord has laid on him the nicotine of all all of our foolishness all of our waywardness the Lord took that on himself he said I'll pay the price you can't pay it the only way you can pay it is by with your life he said but I you don't have to die he said come to me all you the labor and I'll give you rest he'll take your burden away he'll take your sin away and take your burden with it yeah he was oppressed he was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth he is brought as a lamb to the slaughter and as a lamb to the slaughter and as a sheep before her shearing is dumb so he opened not his mouth I'm gonna challenge I'm gonna challenge could you could you when somebody oppress you when you're suffering injustice when the sin the Son of God wouldn't even open his mouth to address it he didn't have to he didn't feel like he had to have it his way he didn't feel like he had to defend himself hallelujah hallelujah he was oppressed and was afflicted yet he opened not his mouth his brothers a lamb to the slaughter as a sheep before her shears is dumb so he opened not his mouth he willingly silently suffered harsh treatment just like a lamb no no fight back at all he was taken from prison and from jet from judgment and who shall declare his generation for he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was stricken now I don't know if you all ever looked really at this and understood what that verse said he was taken from prison and from and from judgment and who shall declare his generation what does that mean he has no offsprings as good as he was Jesus Christ the righteous didn't have one air they cut him off which they said we'll cut you off and you'll never be heard of again he was cut off out of the land of the living for I could say it the transgression of my people he was stricken wouldn't say a word didn't fight back didn't cuss what y'all laugh saints cuz Jesus didn't he was cut off out of the land of the living for the transgression of my people was he stricken he paid the price he suffered I it's difficult to really wrap your mind around this and appreciate it the way it ought to be appreciated when we were sinners and didn't care anything about salvation we did whatever we wanted without second thought and along came a man called Jesus because he knew there was a price that had to be paid for the sins of the world and I continue to say this in my sermons the greatest thing that God created was mankind his greatest creation his creation went against his wishes or his his command not just his wish his command he said to them the day that you eat of this tree you shall surely die well the day they ate of it they died and now the Lord as we talked about his great mercy and we talked about him holding us when we receive baptism for the remission of our sins and we see the Spirit of God the Holy Ghost to abide with us we have everything that we need and Jesus provided for it all there was nothing you could do to earn it you wasn't rich enough you weren't smart enough you weren't cute enough you weren't handsome enough you weren't anything enough to be able to pay the bill that you owed for your sins but Jesus Christ came and he said I'm willing to pay the price he said Lord I don't want to do this I know what my job is and I've come to take away the sins of the world and it's my desire but Lord the way that it looks like it's heading I don't want to go down that road is there another kind of place another thing that I could do to he said as he prayed then he said to himself he said to God he said nevertheless come on somebody nevertheless alleluia he decided I'll take it on myself verse number nine he made his grave with the wicked with the rich in his death because he had done no violence neither was any deceit in his mouth yet it pleased the Lord come on to bruise him he had put him to grief thou shalt make his soul an offering for sin he shall see his seed come on he shall prolong his days and the pleasure of the Lord shall prosper in his hand he shall see the travail of his soul shall be satisfied but his knowledge shall my righteous servant justify many for he shall bear their iniquity we need to shout right there thank you Jesus that he's willing to bear our stuff willing to bear our hard-headedness willing to bear our stubbornness willing to do bear our anger willing to to bear all kinds of things that are untoward God he was willing to bear it he was willing come on somebody get that in your mind he was willing he said I want to he didn't have a gun to put it to decide and tell him you better he said I want to come on I want to take the sins away I want to bring them back they belong to me and I don't quit I don't give up like that I want them back hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah thank you Jesus I'm glad he wanted me I was a wretch and I was undone lost in my sin and didn't know what to do couldn't do it if I knew what to do but he wanted me that's a good one the old Neil Twins said he chose me out of all that he could have done he chose me hallelujah hallelujah thank God thank God for his love and concern hallelujah thank you therefore I will divide him a portion with the great and he shall divide the spoils with the strong because he has poured out his soul even unto death and he was numbered with the transgressors and he bear the sins of many and made intercession for the transgressors he made intercessions come elder Ross now turn turn right he was numbered among the transgressors transgressors it was a whole bunch of transgressors around over here behind you it was a whole bunch of it was all of them I'm just gonna tell you all of them they were right here yeah hurt too because he had poured out his soul unto death and he was numbered with the transgressors he said they numbered me back there he said and he bear the sin of many and made intercession for the transgressors and he made intercessions come on he talked and he talked and he did and he did and made a difference you know you can't you can't get into heaven by yourself you got to stand before God in judgment and you're gonna need somebody to intercede for you when that time comes come on somebody thank God for Jesus Christ the righteous thank God he was willing to go through all the suffering thank God he was willing to say except all the pain hallelujah he did it for me he did it for me hallelujah come on he did it but he didn't have to do it hallelujah but thank God you can be seen thank God for the love that he had God so loved the world that he gave his only gave his only we live for legacy when I see an account of a person having lost their only child my heart goes out for them but God so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son the only son he had he gave him whosoever you didn't have to have a certain number number of dollars in the bank didn't have to be able to shoot a basketball but whosoever Jesus said whosoever will whoever wants to come come on to me come on to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden you're heavy laden by sin the load of sin is heavy come on to me all ye that labor and are heavy laden and I will give you rest I'll give you ease I'll take away the pain I'll take away the sorrow whatever it is that is untoward you he said I'll take it away I thank God for Jesus anybody anybody thank God for Jesus if it hadn't been for Jesus where would we be what would we do I love him I love him he's everything to me and so I embrace him fully let me go down that road for a second because he loves me it triggered love in me see I couldn't love him unless he loved me there was no love in me and I thank God that when he filled me with his spirit he gave me a new heart gave me a clean slate caused me to want to come on somebody you know a sinner sinner sinner doesn't know God he doesn't even want to do right and if he wanted to he couldn't but I thank God that he came into my heart thank God that one day when I heard his word I said yes to the will of God yes to his way and the song that last praise song he will hold me fast that is the determination that I had and every one of you when you began to walk with Jesus you need to know that all you got to do is hold fast to the one who's holding you come on somebody he'll never leave you he promised I'll never leave you I'll never forsake you you're mine you belong to me he's a jealous lover he said you came two time me he says it's all or nothing it's not a bad thing or personally for a minute we went to celebration on yesterday of some people who have been married for 50 years can you imagine that somebody being married to somebody for 50 years and my wife had they had they asked her to have remarks and she shared with them that we've been married 51 years and and somebody somebody asked him how can you be married to one person for all that time guess what it's good to me come on somebody when you got a friend when you got a friend who will stick by you the vows we took we're standing on them yeah amen now the Lord has made a vow to you he said if you come to me I'll never let you go I'll never get tired of you I'll never get tired of looking in your face he'll hold me fast he'll hold me fast he'll what an assurance that I'm his I don't have to worry about him letting me go well that's the message that the Lord has sent to this church on today that God is your source it cost him a great deal I don't know about you all sometimes I shop in a in a resale store if I tell you I shop in a resale store and you say oh that ain't nothing all you paid was six dollars for it I want to tell you that Jesus didn't go to the resale store to make a purchase he said whatever it takes however much it costs I'm willing and you'll be happy throughout all of eternity I'm through what a privilege what a privilege it is to belong to Jesus is everything that we need he promised and I've never known him to fail he brought me praise God all the way let me just sing a little bit of that Jesus you brought me all the way and you carried my burden every day oh you're such a wonderful savior I've never known you to fail praise God you brought me all the way oh Jesus you brought me all to receive the elements we've come to celebrate the magnificent thing that Jesus did even as we were sinners he died for us as sinners we want to recognize how much it cost in many instances we see perhaps an item that we'd like to own and we look for the price tag and we can't find a price tag and we have to inquire how much does it cost today we did a little scratch on what it cost we want to recognize acknowledge what he's done come on first lady ministers want to recognize what the Lord has done for us hallelujah hallelujah the first lady is going to be reading into our hearing from John chapter 6 I'm going to be reading from John chapter 6 verses 52 to 558 you may stand for the reading of the word stand for the reading of the word amen and as I read it meditate and think about what I'm saying okay the Jews therefore stroll among themselves saying how can this man give us his brush to eat then Jesus said unto them verily verily I stand to you except you eat the flesh of the Son of Man and drink his blood ye have no life in you whosoever eats my flesh drinketh my blood has eternal life and I will raise him up at the last day for my flesh is meeting thee and my blood is drinking thee he that eats my flesh and drinketh my blood dwelling me and I in him as the living Father has sent me and I live by the Father so that he that eateth me even he shall live by me this is a bread which came down from heaven not as your father did eat manner and are dead but he that eateth of this bread shall live forever amen amen that's right you can stay here let's pass the elements and as you receive all right let's walk around I'm sorry yeah let's let's let them walk around it'll make it easier that's okay excuse me whoever has one excuse me whoever has one won't come so let everybody walk that has not received one our was come he sat down and the twelve apostles with him and he said unto them with desire have I desired to eat this Passover with you before I suffer for I say unto you I will not eat anymore thereof until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God and he took the cup and he gave thanks and said take this and divide it among yourselves for I say unto you I will not drink of the fruit of the vine until the kingdom of God shall come and he took the bread and he gave thanks and break it and gave unto them saying this is my body which is given for you this doing remembrance of me likewise also the cup after supper saying this cup is a new testament in my blood which is shared for you Dr. Sykes 1st Corinthians 11 chapter I have received of the Lord that which also I delivered unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed took bread and when he had given thanks he break it and said take eat this is my body which is broken for you this do in remembrance of me after the same manner also he took the cup when he had sucked saying this cup is the new testament in my blood this do ye as often as you drink it in remembrance of me thank you Lord for as often as ye eat this bread and drink this cup ye do show the Lord's death till he come minister Edwards to pray the prayer over the blood my father we thank you Lord Jesus for your precious blood that was shed for our iniquities for all of our transgressions Lord God hallelujah thank you Jesus for shedding your blood Lord God for us Lord God we don't take it for granted hallelujah we do this in remembrance of you Lord God hallelujah you you spilled your life source hallelujah for us and we thank you for your blood Lord God hallelujah how your blood covers a multitude of sin thank you Jesus thank you Lord God for cleansing us hallelujah and for drawing us unto you Lord God we praise you and we glorify you Lord thank you Jesus for your precious blood amen amen minister tanisha bruce Father God we thank you for your body we thank you for clothing yourself hallelujah in human and coming down here and taking 39 stripes for us for our sin for for the things that you knew we were gonna do Lord and you knew that we wasn't gonna love you and appreciate what you did for us but we thank you because you hallelujah took on our sin you took on our sin and our unfaithfulness you took on everything to your body we thank you and we appreciate you we ask you to forgive us for not appreciating what you did for us we ask you to forgive us for not appreciating and understanding to the extent you did it Lord we thank you for your body we thank you for your body we thank you in Jesus name amen thank you Jesus in Matthew chapter 26 it says and as they were eating Jesus took bread and blessed it and break it gave it to the disciples and said take eat this is my body and he took the cup he gave thanks and he gave it to them saying drink ye all of it for this is my blood of the new testament which is shared for many for the remission of sins but I say unto you I will not drink here henceforth of this fruit of the vine until the day when I drink it new with you in my father's house let us take the body and blood of Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus thank you Jesus wounded for me he was wounded this verse of my reading says and when they head into the mount of olive god bless you this is the end of our service