 praise the lord everybody come on let's get ready to worship hallelujah come on in and let's magnify the name of the lord hallelujah to shield the faith long beach name of Jesus hallelujah we come into your presence this morning we thank you because you're here with us oh thank you lord your spirit you said you'd never leave us nor forsake us thank you lord you're our hope and our salvation you're our peace you're our trust in you Jesus thank you lord thank you for loving us thank you for saving us hallelujah thank you because you said you'd never leave us nor forsake us you're with us all the time we trust in you hallelujah thank you lord because we gathered here today to praise you to honor you to glorify you and our king our deliverer our hope our salvation our peace hallelujah oh god receive our praise and worship in the name of Jesus lord let's your anointing hallelujah build this house oh your spirit lord dwell in our presence for always forever thank you lord you said you'd never leave us nor forsake us and we love you we honor you we give you glory hallelujah touch the hearts of those who are not here give them a desire to come to church to worship and to praise your name oh god build our church lord with people who love you people who honor you oh god in the name of Jesus be glorified in all that we say and do send your word this morning speak to our hearts open lord whatever you have to say to us we receive it now glory to god help us to be holy and righteous before you help us to spread the gospel message that others might be saved in the name of Jesus hallelujah lord be glorified in all that we say and do today this morning hallelujah send your word speak to our hearts through your word our hearts open to receive it in Jesus name I pray we honor you lord we thank you lord in Jesus name thank you Jesus amen but I'm oh shabba praise the lord thanks praise the lord thanks hallelujah we will be reading from psalms 27 one through four psalms 27 one through four the lord is my light and my salvation whom shall I fear the lord is the strength of my life of whom shall I be afraid when the wicked when the wicked even my enemies and my foes came up on me to eat up my flesh they stumbled and fell though in host should encamp against me my heart shall not fear though a host shall encamp against me my heart shall not fear the war shall rise against me and this will I be confident one thing have I desired did you desire it one thing that I desire of the lord that I will seek after that I may dwell in the house of the lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the lord and the and to inquire in his temple may the lord add a blessing to the reading the hearing and the doing of his word amen hallelujah oh the lord is in the place today he's already in the house come on everybody and praise the lord with us amen come bless the lord and bless the lord and bless his holy night hold that man with praising to give him glory hallelujah hallelujah we were created to give god glory to give him praise when we give god glory and praise hallelujah when we worship him with our innermost being hallelujah hallelujah the lord is pleased the lord says that if we delight ourselves in him he will give us the desires of our heart is god the joy of your desire amen he is the joy of my desire bless you and spirit and true are the joy there will never be a friend he is coming up and people are probably some people are are feeling like they're not loved nobody loving them but lord the lord the lord our god jesus there's our solo this morning our bishop is coming this morning to have some words with us just now nobody can love like jesus nobody nobody can love you like jesus hallelujah hallelujah thank the lord for the relationship we have with him we never have to worry he's faithful god is faithful in the scripture that we during devotion period helps us to understand it talks about in the time of trouble when enemies come against us they come against us not to be our friends they come against us to eat our lunch they come against us to take us out and we can give up and we can decide that i can't go any further but the lord is saying that i'm faithful i'm faithful in the latter portion of psalm 27 at verse 10 it says when my father and my mother forsake me he said then the lord will take me up he says when the people who care the most about me they've known me all of my life and all of my my so-called friends have forsaken me he said when it comes down to it where there's nobody left but father and mother he said you don't have to worry he said because i'm with you i'm there he said things are changing all around us i was out in east bell recently and i had been going out there until pandemic came and i knew the route i knew where i was by the buildings i saw after the pandemic began to let up i went out to to meet my in-laws and i couldn't find their house because everything had changed there had been cow pastors all around and when i wrote through there i didn't see the cow pastor i saw large buildings so things change but there's one thing that never changes there's one person who never never changes he said when your father and your mother will forsake you he said i'll take you out and so what i want to sing today is i want to sing hold to his hand hold to his hand the song says time is filled with swift transition not on earth unmoved can stand so you can't build your hopes on that he said but build your hopes on things that are eternal build your hopes on the word of god build your hopes on the testimony that you have of how faithful god has been to you hold to his hand now wait wait wait wait give me a little slower one to start there we go all right time is filled with swift transition no unmoved can't stand on things eternal sing that again oh time is filled on the cheese no matter what's going on what's going wrong in your life god is still there he promised promise his promise is never faulty gods unchanging hand you can stay you can stay on your feet at this time it's time for the word of god somebody ought to say amen amen it's time for the word of god thank you lord see what we need to do is we need to hear what the spirit says to the church and hold on to that hold on to that that's the victory we see the elder kevin ross as he comes in jesus name elder ross god bless you tell somebody hold on hold on say hold on it may get rough sometimes but you gotta hold on yeah he doesn't change he says i'm the same yesterday today and forever so it doesn't matter what you're facing today hold on someone said weeping may endure for nights but y'all if you just hold on amen take your seat i tell you we could go on with that trust in him that will not leave you i had some people walk away from me i had some people that died on me but he won't leave give honor to my lord and save you jesus christ and giving honor to our excellent bishop and our fabulous first lady we love you we miss you to all the minister saints and friends i say give god all the praise everybody he's worthy of praise he's worthy of glory he's worthy of honor sometimes i just imagine what's going on in heaven how the four and twenty elders they cast their crowns before him and fall down at his feet she said worthy is a lamb that was slain to receive glory and honor dominion and power oh my god he said we're seated in heavenly places in christ jesus we are so honored to stand before you we covered your prayers we don't like to take it i consider it an honor to stand in a pulpit behind such a great man of god after he got to sing and i said i ain't gonna get up someone said you won't get up and say get up behind that i don't know about that you know it's interesting the other night i was it was late at night and i was just looking at some things in the word just thinking about some things in the word and i thought about an old song i hadn't seen i haven't heard or sung in years we used to sing it at christ temple the word says his cross is not greater than the great than his grace and the storm cannot hide his blessed face but i'm satisfied to know with jesus here below i can conquer every fold i like to say his cross is not greater than his grace god we just thank you for your grace what a wonderful constellation of victory father we thank you for this time we thank you lord for everything that's going forth up to this point we pray for your anointing your word is already anointing but we need your anointing speak to our hearts today speak to our hearts today encourage us that we will hold on to your unchanging unwavering wonderful wonderful hands we give you praise in jesus name the word that the lord gave me for today was we can finish the race tell your neighbor we can finish we can finish we can finish the race no retreat no surrender i don't care what the obstacles i don't care what the problems are i don't care how tough it is we can finish the race i like that we can finish the race turn in your bibles to philippians chapter one verse six wednesday night during bible study minister maryland she ministered that scripture to us and i tell you i have feasted on that all week long it has blessed me all week long and if you've been missing bible study you've been missing a tree you need to come because if you come to bible class i guarantee you will grow in jesus and you will be encouraged and have a good time i tell you minister maryland she got on that thing and she got to preaching then first lady she got to preaching and then bishop he jumped in you know he had to preach i said look out here look out here but i love this it says being confident of this very thing that he which has begun a good work in you will perform it until the day of jesus christ he who has begun a good work i like that he says but being confident that he who has begun a good work in you he's going to complete it he's going to take it to the end let me read it like this it said he being confident of this very thing that he which has begun a good work in you he'll perform it he will complete it he will finish it until the day of jesus christ or until the day that the lord calls you home or until the day that you finish the race hey i like that see i like how that scripture starts it says being confident sure being almost cocky about it about this very thing that he jesus who started a good work in you and in me he's going to perform it he's going to complete it he's going to see it to the end bishop preached one time and he mentioned how some people said i just can't seem to live right i can't seem to do it but if you'll come to jesus the bible said and after that the holy ghost has come upon you you shall have power power to live right power to walk right power to talk right power to finish your race that's one thing the one thing that we can be confident in that jesus is going to finish the work that he started and it's going to continue until the day that we finish running our race even though with all of the trouble and with all of the problems with all of the challenges that we're facing in life this is not the time to give up this is not the time to give in this is not the time to give out this is not the time to throw in the towel this is not the time to walk away because the bible tells us only he that endures to the end the same shall be saved not he that begins and stops but he that endures to the end the same shall be saved i like that tell your neighbor neighbor your neighbor i'm going to finish i'm going to finish i'm going to finish the race hey hallelujah she is not enough just to start the race anybody can start but you've got to get it in your spirit you've got to make up your mind i'm going to see this thing to the end i'm going to finish my race see here at shield of faith long beach we end our service with a song says i'm determined to walk with jesus yes i am through hard trials and tribulation and persecution and hard times and covet i'm determined i'm gonna finish my race i'm not gonna give in i'm not gonna give out i'm not gonna run away but i'm gonna finish my race see when we get saved we get saved and we're so excited seem like the lord is blessing us on every hand everything we want seem like we pray for a proof there it is some of us we got new homes and we got new jobs and we got new cars we got some money and some of us got a honey and everything seemed like everything was going my way and we were walking around singing he's sweet i know oh yeah oh yeah he's sweet i know and then and then say and then say and then and then some bad stuff began to happen in your life now i wish i could tell you differently but that's just the truth tests and trials are going to come the adversary is going to try to attack you in the name of jesus the enemy will try to convince you you just need to give up and walk away what's the point what's the use it's just too hard if not that the enemy will try to think to make you forget that you're saved and that you're a warrior for jesus and that you're on your way to heaven my father used to tell me and my brother this story when he was a young teenager one of his good friends one of his best friends got saved i don't know if it was christ temple where it was but he got saved and that Friday somebody threw a big party and this young man went to the party and he was dancing and he was drinking and he was doing all manner of ungodly things and someone said i thought you got saved he said oh i forgot i was saved you know we've done that same thing except that i forgot i was saved but the truth is sometimes we feel like i don't know if i can make it sometimes we feel like i'm just i'm just not sure that i can finish my race turn in your bible to hebrus chapter 12 verse 1 hebrus chapter 12 verse 1 now monday when you leave this place i don't want you to go to the party and say oh i forgot i would say lord have mercy hebrus 12 and 1 says wherefore seeing that we are compassed about with so great a cloud of witnesses so let us lay aside every weight and sin which does so easily but set us and let us run say let us run let us run with patience the race see not just any race not the indianapolis 500 not the boston marathon but the race that is set before us the race that jesus has placed us in he said let us run this race with patience and so it says that we are compassed about or we are surrounded about with so great a cloud of witnesses or or so great a crowd of witnesses saints like bishop morris golder and saints like arning alexander and saints like bishop battle and on and on and on bishop james johnson the great men and women of god they are surrounding us they are telling us they are standing in the grandstands of heaven they're at the real superbowl and they're telling us you can make it the genus i said you can make it don't stop don't quit keep running you can finish your race if i finish my race and i did you can finish your race so all you have to do is lay aside every weight see weights are those things that slow you down weights are the things that stop you from reaching your potential the weight of things that just just just make it you can't move like you want to move and then he said lay aside every sin those sins that people can see those secret sins that you commit when nobody's around sin will dis will disqualify you from running the race just like the olympics they find that this person has taken a bad substance and they're disqualified sin will disqualify you from doing what god wants you to do now there is forgiveness james say don't sin but if you sin you have an advocate with the father but if you want to run this race if you want to reach your potential if you want to do all god told you to do lay aside every weight and every sin and run your race run your race but he says run your race with patience set a pace and keep running your race you're not going to get through overnight but you've got to run your race you got to put one step in front of the other step and in front of the other step if you've ever run track or run a race and i know bishop has and many of us had you got to pace yourself you got to pace yourself you got to save yourself to the end of the race because you want to have some kick at the end of the race it's not so much how you start the race but it's how you finish the race and we're going to run our race with patience and the bible said wait on the and be of good courage and he'll strengthen your heart he'll make you fit for the journey you'll finish your race and they're standing in the grandstands and then cheering us on in the same sense of god run your race you got this don't stop tell your neighbor you got this you got this you got this you can finish your race turn to second timothy second timothy chapter four paul is coming down to the end of his life and he has run the race with patience he has suffered many things for christ and he's ready to enter into his reward let's start with verse six it says for i am ready to be offered and the time of my departure is at hand he says i fought a good fight i finished my course hey said and i have kept the faith his fourth that is laid up for me a crown of righteousness hey i like that a crown of righteousness with the lord the righteous judge he's going to give it to me on that day and this is the best part and not for me only but to all them that love his appearing so in this text paul has run his race and he's run his grace well now he's ready to go home to be with Jesus and he has a young protege he's under study young timothy and he charges timothy to preach the word be instant in season and out of season repure rebuke exhort and then he tells him beware of false doctrine you need to be aware of what you listen you can't eat from everybody's table you need to know that they've got the truth and that they're rooted and grounded in the word of god they're established in the word of god he says watch out for false doctrine and false teachers you know some people they're so eloquent and what they say and they will lead you straight to hell i won't call her name but i know one brother that i know that he has fallen into idolatry and some other things false truth and he was on i guess it was facebook i was looking and he was on and he was speaking so eloquent and he was twisting the scriptures to say some stuff that god never intended but he said it so well if i hadn't been rooted and grounded in the words i might have believed in myself and when i got to listen to him i said that was nice but devil you still a liar i'm not gonna hear any false doctrine i'm not gonna hear any false truth just would tell me what thus saith the lord and so he tells him beware of false doctrine and false teachers and then he tells him do the work of an evangelist say we've got to do the work god's called us to do the work see a lot of times people say he's just called preachers and teachers but he's called everybody everybody in this room he's called you to do something for the kingdom it's something in you that nobody else can do but you and god is looking for you to do what he's called you to do evangelize your neighborhood evangelize at the grocery store so i know if you get close to dr. sciss she gonna preach to you if you if you but if you trying to buy a baloney sandwich you better grab it a run because if you stand still long enough she gonna tell you something about jesus but he says evangel evangelize in your home see sometimes we think just because our children and our grandchildren are in our home that they know the truth you better sit them down and make sure that they know the truth and what god said in his word and make sure that they're saved and sanctified and filled with the holy ghost if they're not living a life damn that sin i love you but you're wrong gotta repeat do the work of an evangelist and then i like this bishop paul eulogizes himself hey he didn't wait for somebody else to eulogize him he eulogize himself he says i fought a good fighter and a good fighter it's a fight you win and paul said i fought a good fight of faith and sometimes the battle was tough and sometimes it was intense but i kept on fighting till i won never gave up never surrendered never retreated but i kept fighting i fought a good fight and then he said i finished my course everything that god wanted me to do and every assignment that god gave me to do i did it and i did it with excellence and i finished it i finished my course sometimes it was tough sometimes it was rough sometimes i wanted to give up but i finished my course since we have to learn to be finishers see sometimes we are quick to start something but we never see it through it just seemed like every time the enemy does something to stop us but we have to learn to finish our course and then he said and i kept the faith the bible said that the just shall live by faith even when times are hard and it seems like there's no way out i kept the faith when people were talking about me and laughing to my faith i held on to my faith when the eyes were stacked against me didn't think i could make it i held on to my faith but this is the part that i like about this and paul shared up when i leave this earth and when i get to heaven there is a crown of righteousness that's laid up for me and jesus himself is going to give it to me i don't know about you but i want a crown i'm i'm looking for a crown and he said not just for me but for everybody that loves jesus do you love jesus today are you serving jesus today are you walking for jesus today he said he's making a crown for everybody everybody that loves jesus everybody that's looking for his return to everybody that finishes their race there's a crown laid up for you said if you finish your race you get a crown and you get a crown and you get a crown and you get a crown and you get a crown everybody gets a crown the finish is their race so i said i shall wear a crown i shall wear a crown win the trumpet sounds win the trumpet sounds i shall wear a crown i shall wear a crown i shall wear a golden crown are you looking to wear a crown that's the golden that's the hope to wear a golden crown and i gotta stop myself because they used to say as soon as my feet strike Zion i'm gonna lay down my heavy burdens hey but i'm looking to wear a crown i don't know about you but i made up my mind i'm gonna finish the race i'm gonna finish the race i'm gonna finish the race i'm not gonna quit i'm not gonna stop i'm gonna cross the finish line i want to hear him say well done well done my good and faithful servant you did run well so let me and minus you today don't be discouraged i said don't be discouraged don't get tired don't quit don't listen to the fake news that tells you you can't finish this race be strong in the Lord and the power of his might know that you have the holy ghost and power after the holy ghost has come upon you you shall have power power to finish the race power to go on in power over the adversary and we can and we will i said we can and we will we can and we will finish finish finish finish the race and i'm gonna do it in style i'm not gonna let my way in but i'm gonna sweep in through the city i'm gonna go in the joy of the Lord because the joy of the Lord is my strength i'm gonna praise him when i feel like it praise him when i don't feel like it praise him because i know he's giving me power praise him because i know he's giving me victory praise him because i know he's delivering me see that's how we finish the race that's how we finish the race and and this one thing i am confident of he that has begun a good work hey a good work hey a good work in you and in me he's faithful he's faithful he's faithful to complete it he's faithful to deliver he's faithful we can finish the race i said we can finish the race can't nobody stop us can't nobody block us can't nobody hold us up up god is with us god is for us the saints are in the grass and telling us don't give up don't give up don't quit you you can finish the race yeah yeah yeah you got this you got this you don't even have to worry about it we can finish the race and i'm rejoicing and i'm celebrating and i'm getting my praise on because i'm running my race and i'm running like a thoroughbred horse i'm i'm running down the track i'm not looking to the left i'm not looking to the right but i've got blinders on because i've got heaven in my view i'm gonna finish my race bishop when i see jesus amen hey when i see jesus amen all of my trials all of my sorrow all of my pain every test is over say over say over over when i see jesus amen hallelujah see it says it will be worth it all when we see jesus it's gonna be worth it all hey every test every trial every tear when we get to heaven it will be worth it all we're gonna forget about all of those things and we're gonna see jesus sitting on the throne we're gonna see the streets of gold we're gonna drink from the crystal fountain it will be worth it all see sometimes i just lay and imagine what heaven is going to be like how beautiful it is how wonderful it is some people say i'm gonna go find my father and my mother in this certain part and nothing wrong with that you know i hope to see my father but i want to see jesus i want to see jesus the one that died for me the one that lay down his life for me the one that shed his blood for me the one that opened the door for me the one that rescued me from myself i want to see jesus i want to see him face to face we can and we will finish finish not stop but finish the race say i'm gonna finish the race i'm gonna see his face in peace and i'm gonna walk down those golden streets because i finished the race it's a done deal the pictures on we can finish the race go ahead and give god some praise if you believe that if you know you're gonna finish the race bless his name finish hallelujah hallelujah thank god for power he shall receive power after that the holy ghost has come upon you and you'll be my witnesses thank god for the power the power of the holy ghost keeps us from forgetting the lord has saved us come on somebody oh hallelujah thank god thank god thank god elder ross said it's not how you i think i not how that's right not how you start the race but it's how you finish many have started and they wimped out they walked successfully with the lord until they listened to the adversary of the soul who is the devil the devil will tell you you can't make it it's too hard the requirements are too stiff but with the power of the holy ghost come on somebody you can't do it by yourself no matter how hard you try you'll never accomplish it on your own you need jesus come on somebody hallelujah hallelujah the lord is stands by he's ready and willing he's ready to take you in and he's ready to hold your hand as long as you hold on to his hand come on somebody come on somebody he wants to he wants to see your save he wants to deliver you he wants to give you peace and satisfaction right here in this world you got to come to jesus you got to come to jesus the lord stands ready and willing said if any man will hear my voice he said i'll come in and i'll suck with him he said i'll come in and i'll have communion with you if you're not baptized in water in jesus name which is the way that your sins are remitted you need the baptism in jesus name and the lord has promised that he'll wash all of your sins away did you hear what i said all all all every single one of them no matter what it was the devil would tell you you're too far gone the lord can't possibly love you because of who you are but he said i'll take all of your sins away when it takes all your sins away you're forgiven and you're ready to go to heaven but you need the power of the holy ghost that's right power the holy ghost is the fuel that gets you there you can't you can't stay saved until you have the power and the lord has the power he wants to share it he wants to give you he wants to see you in heaven if you've not had that experience you need to have that the lord loves you and i like to say he loved me even as bad as i was that's right he said i i know who you are i know your deeds and i know your thoughts i know your thoughts before they reached this portion of your body he said but in spite of that he said i love you enough to go to calvary's cross and give my life hallelujah hallelujah so the the lord wants to come into your heart if you've not had this experience we invite you to come 49 34 long beach boulevard in the city of long beach california 90805 i want to put that address in your mind so when the lord touches you when the lord moves upon you you come on down just come right on down he's here waiting for you he wants to receive you and he's got he's got ministers and saints here to see to that you get what you need from god and will embrace you this is a good church this is a good church amen people of this church love the lord is our desire to please him in all we do and say so that includes embracing you come on down come on down you can finish the course yeah after you get started you got to get started first amen so come on down we invite you to come come on down come over here where the table is spread and the feast of the lord is going on god bless you in jesus name time to bless the lord god i tell you i thank you i thank you i thank you i thank you i think we can finish y'all we can finish hallelujah hallelujah amen those who have your offering come on come on and bring it to the lord hallelujah finish this you all draw strength from the holy ghost hallelujah draw strength from the holy ghost those will show you how the holy ghost will lead and give you strength it'll tell you when it's when you're supposed to not do something you have to yield thank the lord for that word elder ross hallelujah we can do this saints hallelujah is we can finish this hallelujah when it got rough hallelujah because i gave you the strength i gave you to finish this thing oh how god loves us because he sends the word god we are without excuses hallelujah every sunday he builds us up every sunday he builds us up and i thank him i thank him for the leadership i thank him hallelujah for the word of the lord that come hallelujah has everyone given has everyone been served all right father we thank you for your awesome hallelujah awesome you're a great god mighty god hallelujah we love you today thank you god for giving us meat to put in your house we thank you god for blessing us to be a blessing to the kingdom we give you glory god thank you for thank you for allowing us to bless this kingdom hallelujah for giving us the uh the wherewith hallelujah to be a blessing to your kingdom we thank you for god we give your name praise and glory and freely and cheerfully we give to your kingdom god we thank you hallelujah have your way hallelujah meet every need hallelujah that's here at the shield of faith in long beach god hallelujah allow it to meet every need hallelujah that is here in this house god we thank you and we praise you bless the giver god in jesus name amen amen amen hallelujah hallelujah man i tell you i'm determined i'm even more determined elder all the way i mean this hallelujah thank you lord hallelujah yeah come on i feel like holding on and see what the ends gonna be jesus yes i am we thank you for everyone that came god we know that you blessed them with the word father god now take them to their several of bows care for them like you always do keep them in the palm of your hand oh god until we come back again ready to give your name praise ready to give your name glory hallelujah in jesus name we pray you are dismissed hallelujah q shouldn't i be faithful through hard time tribulation persecution i'll be faithful through hard time tribulation persecution i'll be faithful i'm determined to walk with jesus yes i am