 When we give God praise. It's dear to me. It's Jesus. He says I am a friend that sticks closer Than a brother There's never been a friend like Jesus Brother Doug, give me a little I want I just want to praise you But we're gonna take two minutes and I want you to go in this audience and greet at least three people that you didn't come With in Jesus name. Come on. I Just wanna praise you. I want to Remind you on April the 21st say April the 21st We're gonna be celebrating our bishop our pastures. He looked like he about 40 That means I look like I'm about 30, but we're going to be celebrating. It's gonna be a marvelous marvelous time And we're inviting all of those all of our saints and members. I was gonna say that can't we can do what we want to do So what I'm gonna say is everybody we're gonna give him $80 Individually to bless him one for every year at least that much. I'm gonna do better than that I'm gonna do better than that, but we're gonna it's gonna be a wonderful time of celebration I'm inviting everybody to come bring your family members Call all the saints that used to be here and that should be here. Tell them come on home On April the 21st. It's all right now sister shy is gonna bless us. Are you gonna make seeking easy for her today? Are you gonna make it easy? She's gonna sing anyway. Come on shy blesses lift your hands and worship Cuz God woke you up this morning and he brought you here today and he didn't have to Because it was plenty of people that didn't wake up last night So if you don't know if you don't owe anybody your praise You owe it to God. Just lift your hands and worship with me this morning. I Was singing that song this morning See, that's that's how God does it. He just works things out like that If you provide the fire if you provide the spirit if you provide the spirit Right now I'm asking to stand to your feet as we receive the man of God That I don't see I tell about my hire That I don't know who she had hand that I love I say For he has put a word in his mouth For us today Say bishop Say bishop Peace award today, and we will receive it With joy till our cup is running over vision. Is that your desire today? To be filled with the spirit of God Thank you Jesus wonderful wonderful song and I'll tell you if you want to be filled up You do have to have a sacrifice For him to bless thank you singers musicians Let's give the lord a praise for our musicians Amen, thank you Jesus So good to be in the house of the lord on this morning God has been so good to each of us Without him I could be nothing and without him I would fail Without him I would be like a ship Without a sail I'd be a runaway ship I thank god that he ministers to us He gives us a desire To walk with him. I'll say that again. He gives us a desire To walk with him anybody who doesn't have a desire to walk with the lord I would not like to be in their position Jesus is everything Song said Jesus is all the world to me My life My joy My strength I thank him and I praise him For counting me worthy To escape The wrath Of god Appreciate the fact that Somebody put me in the right direction I thank god for my parents And I have several certificates hanging on the wall in my office Perfect attendance In sunday school and I don't Fly those certificates in my office To boast on myself Because it wasn't me that got me there My parents Wanted to see me walk with god So they made it possible I thank god for him I'm glad to see each of you who are here today. Hey man, I'm I'm I'm seeing some faces. I haven't seen in a minute Hey man Hey, man, I I thank the lord for All of you who are here I I'm not gonna call you a visitor Can't call you a visitor Hey, man, I saw a sister sitting over there and I just kind of Yeah It's been a long time since we've been together and I thank the lord that You have found your way into the house of the lord on this morning And the lord is going to speak to us He's going to Give us that that we need Every man needs god Every man needs god I I want to say today The topic for my message today, and I'll ask you all to work with me just a little bit My topic today is I need a change Could you say that with me? I need a change I'm sorry. I did it wrong I said I want to change All right, then say with me. I need a change All right, so Wanting to have a change in your life It's good But it needs to go deeper than wanting It needs to find you at a place where you say I've got to have a change In my life we were all born in sin And shaping in iniquity And if it had not been for the lord We would have been lost throughout all of eternity And so when I understand that there are two destinations after life I look in the mirror and say to myself. I've got to have a change in first Corinthians chapter 15 I'd like to call your attention there And we'll begin to read at verse number 50 first Corinthians 15 50 through 58 And while you're turning there as I worked with this message it came to me a song That I've known down through the years. It says I'm working on the building It's a true foundation I'm holding up the bloodstained banner for my lord And I never get tired of working on the building Because I'm going up to heaven To get my reward We're called to work on the building Not this physical building but this building And if we don't work on the building We'll find that our building gets old quick And begins to decay and fall apart So We're charged with working on our building Because if we work on the building as we should We'll go to heaven And get our reward anybody want to reward you want to reward in heaven throughout all of eternity Scripture reads like this Now this I say brethren That flesh and blood cannot inherit the kingdom of god Neither death corruption inherit In corruption Behold I show you a mystery We shall not all sleep But we shall all Be changed We shall all Be changed Let me let me pause right here. Paul says to us he said Our goal is to go to be with jesus To live with him throughout all of eternity He said but there's a problem that we find That this fleshly body Can't go to be with jesus He said because it's corruptible and we see Very few people reach the age of 100 Because the body just is not built to do it It decays I'm a witness to that I used to be a lot faster than I am today Elder ross you can be you can remain silent I used to look better than I look today So you say I had to cut him off And as we grow And we live our days We get closer and closer To the end of our existence on this earth And we understand that change is necessary To reach the goal that we've set for ourselves And that's for victory in jesus He said Behold I show you a mystery We shall not all sleep He said there gonna be some fleshly bodies here on earth when the lord comes and splits the sky To catch his people up he's gonna rapture the church And he said everybody's not gonna be dead. We shall not all sleep But we shall all be changed You got to be changed He said in a moment In the twinkling of an eye At the last trump For the trump shall sound and the dead shall be raised incorruptible And we shall Be Changed He said jesus is coming back For his church And I heard somebody say ready or not here he comes He said it's gonna be Such As you've never seen before he said it's gonna happen in Just a moment and a moment means In the twinkling of an eye It's it's in that moment is indivisible You can't divide the moment right if you if you blink your eye Too late in a moment in the twinkling of an eye at the last trump For the trump shall sound And the dead shall be raised incorruptible And we shall be changed Come on somebody. Oh, thank god That he has a A way to get us to where we need to be he said you're gonna Do what's right if you follow my footsteps if you follow my edict You're going to be changed now. I'll tell you everybody's going to be changed Everybody's going to be changed For this corruptible Must put on incorruption And this mortal must put on immortality So when this corruption Shall have put on incorruption And the mortal shall put on immortality Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is Written Death is swallowed up in victory Now when you live As god would have you live you do the will of god Say learn to say no to yourself Come on somebody Our problem is we're in a body that can't have nothing but what I want Come on somebody and if you got get what all you want, you're going to be in big bad trouble Great big old bad. How about that the victory? Was promised by god Long ago from the very beginning mortal shall shall have Put on immortality Then shall be brought to pass the saying that is written Death is swallowed up in victory Death is swallowed up When you walk with god When you do his will When you live like you know you ought to live When you learn how to say no to the devil see If the devil's your boss I've worked on many jobs And guess what? You got to do what the boss say do Death is swallowed up in victory Oh death Where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory? I'm going to receive victory. I'm going to receive victory. I say I'm going to receive victory You know why because I'm a walk right I'm going to talk right I'm going to give the lord what he asked of me So what I'm looking for is victory over This fleshly body elder Ross told me something that My father said to him that he had my father never said to me He said you're grown now And elder Ross go yeah And you can do whatever you want to do and he go He said but you're gonna have to pay for it You can do whatever you want on And what you're gonna want to do if you don't walk with Jesus you're gonna walk with the other guy And that boss ain't ain't a good boss When he say do this or that Guess what? Oh death Where is thy sting? Oh grave, where is thy victory? The sting of death is sin And the strength of sin Is the law You got to have strength You got to have strength to to withhold To keep yourself out of what you are not to be in But I thank god here's here's the strength right here said but thanks be to god Yeah Thanks be to god which give us the victory through our lord jesus christ Oh, yes, we had we had A bill that we couldn't pay But but thank god that jesus christ the righteous He looked down upon us and saw us in our sin And he said come on to me all ye that labor and are heavy latent and I will give you rest He said just take my yoke up on you and learn of me. Come on somebody You can't live on this earth and and not learn something He said he said don't just learn something learn of me Because my yoke is easy my burden is light not like the devil but my burden is light Thanks be to god which give us the victory Through our lord jesus christ jesus did it Jesus paid the price I was in jail one time Because I didn't pay a traffic ticket. I went before the judge I was I was a youngster I was in high school. I went before the judge And he said $30 or three days And I counted my money and I had $26 And I said he'll surely let me off with this much I said your honor. I only have $26. He said follow that man right there guess what Didn't nobody come pay my bail What you're gonna need is somebody to pay your bond You're not gonna have enough when you when as they say when you get to the pearly gates You're not gonna have enough to get by come on somebody. Tell me tell me the truth You know, you're gonna need somebody You're gonna need somebody who have already paid your bond and I say thanks be to god Who has given us the victory Through our lord jesus christ Jesus dropped the charges for me Thank you, jesus. Thank god. He dropped the charges The next verse therefore might be loved brethren be ye steadfast Now the apostle paul is talking to the church He's talking to those who have yielded their spirit And said yes come into my life Yes lord, I'll let you rule over me I'll let you tell me what to do and when you tell me what to do I'll do it And when I don't do it, I come to you in repentance and ask you to please forgive me Thank you, jesus. Thank you. Thank god for the remedy Now I'll tell you the scripture said if we sin we have an advocate with the father Yes, sir And it should say since we sin because I'll ask for for hands Are there any perfect people here today? Nobody's perfect When you're walking with god When you make a misstep the lord says don't worry about it don't worry He said just repent just say i'm not going that way anymore He said let us move on to perfection We're being perfected We're being perfected So back back to my scripture therefore being Therefore my beloved brethren Be ye steadfast Unmovable Always abounding in the work of the lord For as much as you know That your labor is not in vain In the lord Your labor is not in vain in the lord Don't allow anybody to to put a brick in front of your wheel Don't let anybody separate you from what the lord has called you to and you found that you've fallen in love with jesus And you just need to keep on pushing no matter what comes no matter what goes no matter what anybody says walk with jesus Hallelujah hallelujah Thank you jesus i'm almost through i'm almost through I heard somebody say I heard somebody say Well, no, I won't go there. I won't go there Now let let us go to acts chapter two acts chapter two Beginning at verse 37 verse 37 begins by Saying now when they heard this They were pricked in their hearts And they said unto peter and the rest of the apostles men and brethren. What shall we do? What shall we do? Then peter said unto them repent Be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sins for the removal of your sins Born in sin and shaping an iniquity You had a sin on you and you got to get that sin off Then peter said unto them repent be baptized every one of you in the name of jesus christ for the remission of sin now people say It's nothing to it is just a ceremony but I don't know who said that I've heard it, but I don't I never saw it written down anywhere, but it says right here baptized In jesus name for remission for the removal And ye shall receive the gift Of the holy ghost The spirit of god to live down on the inside of you to give you strength to say no to the adversary Of your soul who wants to see you in hell with him hallelujah, I don't know why the lord gave this this to me today yes now Now peter said the promise is unto you And to your children You mean the promise goes to my children too the promise to you Goes to your children promises unto you and your children Until all that are far off Even as many As the lord our god Shall call and here's what i'm going to say to you The verse number 40 and with many other words Did he testify? and exhort saying save your