It's Time to GROW UP!

Come on, come on. Because somebody's soul is hanging in the balance right now.! Jesus loves everyone in this building.

Everyone in this building. Everyone in this building. Jesus loves you. How many believe in Jesus? If you don't, I hope that you get to know Him.

Because He's a friend that sticketh closer than a brother. There's nothing that my God can't do. There's nothing. Any answer that you need, it's right here.

Right here in this book. And I know they've got 15 different versions. But nothing takes the place of the good old King James Version. I've heard a lot of people say, well, I read it so that I can help understand.

When you pray for wisdom, God will give you understanding. See, we ain't supposed to change one thing in that word. And those other things have changed words. Yes. Because it's just like this flesh.

We like for it to satisfy this. Come on now. Come on. And we all got a whole lot of this. Yes. We all got a whole lot of flesh.

So, for ones of y'all that I know, I love y'all. For the ones of y'all I don't know, that I've not seen y'all before, I love y'all. Amen.

Please understand that I'm trying to give you Jesus. I'm trying to give you life. I'm trying to give you help and hope. But the only hope and help that we got is in Jesus.

Amen. Amen. And so I usually don't preach hard messages. But this is what I've been getting all week. And never, when I get a message, I don't know if Brother Seth and him is like this or not, but I don't feel like I ever preach it how I get it.

I never can get it to come across just like what I got it. Amen. But y'all, it's time to grow up. It's time to grow up.

We have been babies way too long. And we have petted this thing way too long. There's a song that says, too long this has gone on.

Satan, this means war. And I'm putting my armor on and you won't rob me like before. Because enough is enough. And I'm coming to get my stuff.

And I'm going to take back what the devil has stole from me. Now y'all got memory, you got lunch, Sister Man.

Listen, I've hurt my feelings for the last three days. I've been mad at myself for the last three days, Sister Ramana. Because it's powerful and sharper than any two-edges for it.

Cut's going in and cut's going out. But if it don't cut you, then it ain't helping you. I'm out now. Because you've got to know something's wrong in order to get help. You don't go to the hospital and just say, I want something.

You go because you've got a need. And most people got to wait until they're on their deathbed before they go. A lot of us are on our spiritual deathbed.

Because we don't want to go to Dr. Jesus. We don't want to go. We've been raised up in this thing. A lot of y'all raised up in me, Brother Van. One of probably the best ministers that I know.

He lived it, preached it, slept it, walked it, talked it. Whatever He did, it was Him. And He was the same every day.

He didn't change. He was the same. What you saw is what you got. We got to become what we see. What I see is what I get of you. Because see, a lot of us change.

Hi, baby. Glad you came in. We got to change every little bit to fit with whoever we're around. Y'all know how I'm talking. Oh, we're going to go over here and be with Sister Susie.

And we're going to be like her because we want her to like us. And we want to fit in. But oh, but then when we go over here with Brother John, we're going to fit like him. And we're going to just toss to and fro. Every which way you go, trying to fit in and not having a clue what you believe in.

Come on now. Come on. We've all been there. We've all done it. But it's time that we get steadfast in and on the rock.

And that rock is Christ Jesus. Jesus bled and died so that we can have life. None of us would be here if it wasn't for Him. That's right.

And I know I may say some things that you just don't agree with. But you just love me and pray with me and pray about it. Because I promise you, there's probably something about you that I don't agree with either.

Amen. But I'm going to love you. And I'm going to pray for you. And we're going to agree to disagree until God opens eyes. And anything that I'm saying to you is coming out of this word.

Now, this is one of the things that He showed me. Are you as close?

And when I was studying this, I could hear Brother Van in one ear and Sister Judy in the other ear just preaching 90 to nothing.

I could just hear them preaching this message. Are you as close to Jesus as you've ever been in your life right now? Or has there been a time, times past, that you was closer to God right then than you are right now?

Then we hate to use the word, but we've slid back. We've backslid. Because if we ain't better than what we was, because we're supposed to be.

See, we're supposed to be growing up in Christ. We're supposed to be growing up in Christ. But the weapons of our warfare are not carnal, but mighty through God through the pulling down of strongholds.

For we wrestle not against flesh and blood, but against principalities, pirates, and rulers, wicked, darkness. Y'all know the scripture. We wrestle against the spirits. And the spirits is out to knock your spirit gone down out.

He's trying to get rid of that spiritual man. And because we have so much flesh, we allow it to happen. We let it happen.

I've let it happen, Sister Connie. I've been mad at myself. I've been repenting. I've been praying. Because there is a lost and dying world that needs Jesus.

They don't need to just hear, but they need to see. And they need to feel. But I can't tickle your ears and let you hear wonderful things. I've got to tell you the truth because the Bible says the truth will set you free.

The truth. This is the truth. This is the truth. And this is what's going to set free. This is what's going to heal. This is what's going to deliver the truth.

Some of y'all I remember. Some of y'all I don't remember. And I apologize. It's just that something called age. I don't know. I don't know. Some I don't remember.

Some I do. But I appreciate every one of y'all coming. I appreciate every one of y'all coming. Okay, we're going to go first to Ephesians. I've got a bunch of scriptures, but I may not read but one or two of them.

We're going to go to Ephesians. I'm going to start out with chapter 4. I ain't going to be long. I'm not a long-winded preacher, I promise.

It used to be 7 minutes. Then I went up to about 15. And last time that I got up and spoke, my son says it was 45, but I don't think it was that long. I think that he's telling me to kind of nip it in the bud tonight and not go no 45.

So we're going to try to help appease him. All right. Till we all come. Oh, I'm in verse 13.

I'm sorry. 4, 13. Until we all come into the unity of faith and the knowledge of the Son of God, unto a perfect man, unto the measure of the stature of the fullness of Christ, that we henceforth be no more children, tossed to and fro, carried about with every wind of doctrine, by the slight of men and cunning and craftiness, whereby they lie in wait to deceive.

But speaking the truth in love, may grow up into him all things which is the head even Christ. Now I know that y'all have heard Brother Van preaching and talk about it, growing up, starting at the feet of Jesus and growing up all the way to the head.

See, some people just get saved and they say, Oh, I've arrived, I've made it, I've done it. There's so much more to being a Christian. There's so much more to us striving to stay alive than just getting saved.

Because you can get saved today and fall tomorrow. But unless we stay in the Word, and we stay sincere, and we stay hungry, and we pray, and we've got to die out to this flesh daily.

We've got to die out to this flesh because this flesh is strong. This flesh is carnal. This flesh is overbearing. But we can't overcome it by the blood of the Lamb and by the Word.

So every day we've got to pray and seek God and get into Him. How far have you failed? How far have you failed? It's time to repent.

God, if y'all don't know it, the day is at hand. That this could be the moment. That He splits the sky and we are gone.

There's no time. Everybody used to say, we've got to get ready, we've got to get ready, we've got to get ready. The past, it's time past getting ready. It's, you've got to be ready now or you're going to not make it.

There is a heaven. And I know, a lot of people will come against, but there's a hell, y'all. It's real. It's a place of torment. Not everybody's going to heaven.

Not everybody that says, Lord, Lord, is going to heaven. Not every preacher that's behind the pulpit is going to heaven. Not every singer on the platform is going to heaven.

The Bible says, straight is the gate and narrow is the way and few, few, there be that find it. Everybody's got it that it's just a big thing.

One of these days, hundreds of people, thousands of people are going to be gone and they're going to wonder, is that the rapture? It's not going to be like that. How many people you know nowadays that's missing?

You ever thought about it? How many is missing right now? I know the Lord ain't come back and rapture ain't gone because I'm still here.

But, and each one of you should be able to say that. He ain't come back because I'm still here. I remember Brother Vance saying that. He ain't come back because I'm still here.

Ephesians 5, 14 through 20. I'm just going to skip through a bunch of these. Giving thanks always. Always. That's all the time, y'all. All the time.

Giving thanks always. Always. For all things unto God and the Father in the name of our Lord Jesus Christ. Submitting yourselves one to another in the fear of God.

Oh, I went down too far. It says up there in verse 17, it says, Wherefore, be ye not unwise, but understanding what the will of the Lord is.

And be not drunk with the wine wherein excess, but be filled with the Spirit, speaking to yourself in songs and hymns and spiritual songs, singing and making melody in your heart for the Lord.

Now, I've heard people say, Well, I can't just, I can't be Christian all the time. I beg to differ. I beg to differ. Listen, if nothing else, we better be praying in our spirit and praying in ourself when we walk out our door in the morning until we come home in the evening.

Because you just don't know what's going to happen throughout the day with the shootings and the bombs and everything else. We're living in a time that we've never been in before, y'all.

The devil is doing his job. Are we doing ours? The devil's doing his job. Are we doing ours? See, we get so focused on living and having a life and having a car and having a job to go to and having a house and making sure the house is decorated and we focus on all of that and then forget about the spiritual side.

But we can walk in that. Every day. Listen, every day when I go to work, I ain't bragging. I'm just telling you how desperate it is. Brother Seth, when I go to work, I walk through there pleading the blood all the time.

God, I pray you touch me. God, you help me. Jesus, you just won't believe some of the stuff that I work around, some of the spirits. God, you... And I pray for them because I love them. They're souls.

That's God's children that don't realize they ain't God's children. And I say, God, please touch them. God, help them. Jesus, be with them. God, sanctify my mind. Touch my spirit.

Don't let none of those evil spirits get on me, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. And we can do that constantly. But if we used to be closer than what we are now, it's time for us to do a recheck.

It's time for us to go in and get an overhaul. It's time to fast. It's time to pray. It's time to seek God like we've never sought Him before.

Because we don't know whose path we're going to cross that they need Jesus. We don't know whose path we're going to cross that they need the love of Jesus.

The Bible says that love covers a multitude of sin. A lot of people just want to argue and mouth. And I'm bad about that because that's a Neal thing. And usually I don't because I usually don't say nothing.

But the Neals, they like to mouth. Sister Pat knows. They just like to mouth. But I usually don't until I get really mad and then I mouth. But it's time that we start mouthing for Jesus.

Do you know Jesus loves you? Yes. Honey, do you know Jesus loves you? I see the weight you're carrying. I see the load that you carry and God loves you.

He wants to help you and take it from you. He don't ask for much. He just wants us to live for Him. Yes. We grab at anything and everything.

Trying to live and survive. And instead of going to the One who supplies every need. Listen, He will make you worry about anything.

Biggest thing He ever fights me with is finances, Sister Vervonna. Because I'm by myself. And it's been times when I've been week to week to week just waiting.

And the devil, well, how are you going to do it? Well, look at them over there. Look what they've got. How come you're suffering? How come you're... And for a while, I'll get in that pity party, Sister Pat.

Sister Judy used to call it poor boopsie syndrome. And once in a while, I'll get in that thing and wall her. And I saw... And then I've got to shake myself. Because the Bible tells me that my God shall supply all...

all... all... all my needs. Not once. He's going to supply all my needs according to His... And so not one time.

I got lights at my house. I got hot water when I want to take a shower for the sin. I got a house. Thank you, Lord. I got a car. Listen. And I've said this before.

But it's worth repeating. We have more faith. It's time we get our faith activated. But think about it. See, He's got to show me things simple for me to get it.

We have more faith in these seats than we do God. Yeah. Yeah. We come in and sat right down on that thing and didn't think for one moment that that thing was going to drop.

Did anybody think about it? The seat was going to hold you? Well, see, when you're hefty like I am, you think about all these things when you go in somewhere.

Huh. I wonder if that's going to hold me or if that's going to... I'm cautious. Because, see, I don't want to embarrass myself and go down in front of everybody. I go out every morning, jump in my car.

Man, I got faith in that car. That thing's going to crank and it's going to get me to work. But the God who made the whole universe holds the world in the palm of His hands and He didn't see down here and see that I'm in need and I need help.

Shame on us. Shame on us. We've got to turn to Him. We've got to turn back to God, y'all. It's time we get real. It's time we get serious. The Bible says, let me go to this other one.

I ain't going to get through everything. And I know I ain't getting it like I need to be getting it, but it's okay. It's okay. What's going to be said is going to be said. I think it's Jeremiah 6 and 16.

Let's see if this is the one I want. The Bible says, seek ye out the old paths.

Walk in the way of holiness. See, a lot of people don't want to hear that word because they don't want... You want God's blessings. But you don't want to walk it and you don't want to live it and you don't want nobody else to know that you believe in God.

See, that will spoil that worldly image that you have. I don't believe in God. He ain't going to do that. Jesus, please help me. God, do this. I need to be able to... I don't know. See, we're living two lives.

We're talking out both sides of our mouth as I heard them used to say. It's time that if we believe God, then I start showing Him.

Again, I tell this in every church that I go to. Nana Pat's famous words. mouth can say anything.

Come on now. And actions speak louder than words. Mouth can say anything. We can say all day, yes, we're trusting to God and all that and we're having a nervous breakdown.

Amen on me. Ouch. Jesus, help me. Yes. Actions speak louder than words. What is your Bible? People are reading, saying. Up today, down tomorrow, up today.

I've heard people say before, well, if that's what religion is, I sure don't want none of that. Don't be one of those people that people say that about. Be faithful. Be consistent. Turn to Jesus.

That is the only way. Yes. And it says here in chapter 16, I mean in verse 16. Now this is what they said then. Thus saith the Lord, Stand ye in the ways and see and ask for the old paths where is a good way and walk therein and ye shall find rest for your souls.

How many needs rest for your souls? How many just needs peace of mind? Come on. Y'all tell me. How many just needs peace of mind?

How many just feels like you're stretched to the gills? This right here says He is rest for your souls. But listen to what they said. But they said, we will not walk therein.

That's exactly what the church world is doing today. We will not walk therein. We ain't going to seek the old paths. We're going to go with this. There's so many new religions down at home, y'all.

My God help us. They have found a new way. It's what I've heard a minister say last year. Our eyes have been opened and we have found a new way.

It's not all like we was brought up and taught and gave. It's a new way. Because God is love and we're just supposed to spread love. Jesus loves you.

Go do whatever you want to do and Jesus loves you. God does love you. Each and every one of us, He loves us.

Yes, He does. That there is a love side to God and there is a judgment side to God. And in one of the scriptures, it said that He's not going to tarry long with us falling in the same things that we fall in.

That's right. There's a time to grow up. A time to get your feet planted. A time to decide. Listen, it's a time to decide. Do I really want to live for Jesus or do I want to forget it?

Because He is a perfect gentleman and He will give you that choice. Love me or not love me. It will never change if He loves you or not because He does.

But He will give each and every one the option. Will you love me? Will you come to me wholeheartedly? And give, just like a mom and dad, listen, I'll use logic. I'm preaching on you logic.

There's been so many times that boy has aggravated me to no end. I mean, just aggravated me to no end. But not once did it ever, Sister Judy, change how much I loved Him.

And I could be so fuming and mad with Him, Sister Connie, if something happened and He'll call Mom. Oh, well, they're winning out the window. What, baby? What's wrong? What's going on? What can I do?

How can I help? Because that love covers every bit of it. And all He's wanting, He's waiting. Lives are in the balance whether you serve Jesus or whether you walk away from Him and not turn back.

But I promise you, if you walk away from Him and not turn back, your days are numbered. This is not Sister Pat saying this.

This is God. If you turn and walk away while God is calling and pulling and asking and trying, but He wants everything.

He don't want you to just give Him what you want Him to have. We've got to give everything. 100% everything. Throw it on Him and let Him have it because He knows the way that I take and when He's driving me, I'm going to come forth as gold.

But you've got to give it to Him. And He loves you that much that He's waiting. He wants to take the load. He wants to take the burden.

He wants to help you. And it's not a hard thing to live for Jesus. The world has made it seem that way. The world has made it seem that it's too hard to live for God. That's just a lie from the devil because He knows that His time is numbered and He's trying to get all He can get to go with Him to that lake of fire that never stops burning.

It really is real, y'all. It really is real. And few there be. Listen, we've got to watch how we say things and how we come across to people.

No, we don't have to bow down and let them run over top of us. But the Bible says a soft answer turneth away wrath. A soft answer.

Start catching yourself on how you respond to somebody. Because people are watching you. People are watching you. And we've got to get an ear. We've got to get an ear to hear.

We've got to get an ear to know Jesus that's you. Jesus that's you. Jesus that's you. I don't know who it's for. I don't know. We've got to be doers of the Word and not hear something.

Because we're deceiving our own self. We're deceiving our own self thinking we're something when we're really not doing what God's called us to do. We've all got...

We may not all be preachers, but we are all preachers. Y'all will see people that I will never touch. You can give a testimony. You can witness. It's nothing to say Jesus loves you.

Do you know Jesus? Do you know He loves you? All He wants you to do is say, Jesus, forgive me of my sins. Wash me in your blood. God entered me into the kingdom. And then just start reading the Bible.

Day by day by day He'll open the words. He'll bring it to life to you. He'll bring it to you. I know that there are some here that's wanting prayer.

Listen, I don't have nothing in my pocket. I don't have... It's been a struggle to even get this message out because I'm not a hard preacher or I don't think that I'm a hard preacher.

And I do want everybody to like me. But listen, it's just like this. I love you enough that I'm willing to hurt your feelings.

Or you walk out of this building and not like that big lady up there because she made me feel uncomfortable. I'd rather make you feel uncomfortable and God work on you than to miss my hour of visitation that I'm supposed to do.

This is no playing thing. God loves each and every one of you but God hates the sin that you're in. God hates the sin that you're in.

And you say, well, this is not sin. This ain't sin. This is right. If you get in the Word and you dig in the Word, the Bible will show you what sin is. Honey, when that anointing and that Holy Ghost overflows you, you're going to know what sin is.

Nobody's going to have to preach it. Nobody's going to have to get down your throat and say, you're going to know because that anointing, that Holy Ghost is walking with you. That Holy Ghost...

Listen, I was driving and this is my last story that we're going to have prayer. I was driving to work one day and as I was going down the road and I may have told this before and if I did, I'm sorry. But I was going down the road and there was these two trees on the side of the road.

And the only way that I knew it was two trees, Brother Seth, is because there was two stumps just so far apart. But as I got closer to that tree and looked, after it got up about as high as a ceiling there, those two trees just grew in together.

And once it got to the top, it looked like one gigantic tree, Sister Pat. Because they grew up. There's two roots. But when they got to the top, they fit and joined together so much that you didn't know what was what tree.

That's how we got to get in God, y'all. We got to grow in Him and He's got to grow in us. It's me and Him and Him and me and we got to get so much that we can't tell the difference between whether it's me or Jesus.

And not that I'm anybody, but because I'm so hungry for Him. Because I'm so hungry for Him. I've been through too much. I've seen too much to know that God is real.

And He is faithful. And He is just. He's faithful. He's just. And He's here for each and every one. Not just one or another.

He don't hit and pick and choose. He loves the back row as much as He does the front row. He loves the sinner. He loves the saint. He loves the confused, the in between. You don't know if you're a sinner or saint.

When you don't know, God loves you. And the only thing that you can do is get on your knees and fall before God and say, Jesus, help me. I can't make you do nothing.

I can ask you. I can beg you. But see, until you get that will and heart, I'm ready to do it. God, I'm ready for a change. Because see, this week, I've been taking inventory of me and my downfalls, Brother Seth.

Because see, the Bible says, it ain't just the big sins that you do that's wrong, y'all. If you think you're just walking the great path, the Bible says, to him that knoweth to do good, and doeth it not, to him is sin.

It's sin. So we're sinning. We're all walking and sinning because I know, because I should speak louder than words, that we're not doing what God told us to do. We're not walking where God told us to walk because if we were, things would be different.

Changes would be made. And I've even been saying, God, there's things, places, Lord, if I'm not supposed to be there, God, Lord, you help me to not go again.

And not that there was anything wrong, but there's places, there's a store that I know that's demonic. I don't need to go in there because I've got to separate myself, not because I'm bitter, not because I've got to separate myself to keep from touching that unclean thing.

Touch not the unclean thing. Especially if you ain't ready to face it and get it and deliver it. Just shun the very appearance of evil. We've got to shun the very appearance of evil.

And so those places that we know we shouldn't go or things we don't need to see or the shows we don't need to watch, we've got to guard this and this and this and this and this.

And so my Jesus, this. Because the devil is trying his best to win us over. Christians and sinners alike, he's trying his best to make us think we're going crazy, that we're losing it, that you're nothing, that you're nobody.

Why do you even drive? I know the devil talks to y'all like that. He talks to me like that. You're nobody. Why do you drive? Why do you go to church? Why are you driving all the way up to Louisville when you know they don't want to listen to that big mouth up there talking to them?

Why do you go? Come on. Come on. I finally said, devil, I'm going to hear my own self preach so I'm going.

Nobody else may get it but me but I'm going to hear it and I'm going. Because about what, little is much if God is in it. Little is much if God is in it.

One little word that you may say may change somebody's whole world. One word. We've got to start being that light, y'all. We've got to do better. We've got to do better tomorrow than we did today.

We've got to do better tomorrow than we did today. There is people's lives weighing in the balance. Our families. Our families are weighing in the balance when I think of my family and how many is not where they need to be.

God help. We've got to get busy, y'all. We've got to get busy. If Sister Judy wants to come up here and get something on the piano, I will try my best.

I don't know if I remember all the words or not. Do you remember that last song Brother Man used to sing that sounded like Sweet Home Alabama but it wasn't Sweet Home Alabama?

Yeah, but I can't remember what the words were. Sweet Home New City. Oh, yes. Do you know that? No. No. Brother Donnie's song. It was Donnie's, yeah, and Brother Van sung it.

Nice. Miss Pat, you know it. I hear you. It's easier. It's easier. It's easier. Body. It's easier. Body.

It's easier. More pain, my mind, with Calvary's blood.

Wipe away the stains of yesterday's pain. With your brush of blood, you've covered the earth, the sky, and the sea.

Lord, please do this. Lord, pain just for me. Pain my mind with Calvary's blood.

If anybody needs prayer, come on up. Lord, pain my mind with Calvary's blood.

Wipe away the stains of yesterday's pain.

With your brush of blood, you've covered the earth, the sky, and the sea.

Oh, please do this for me. It's more pain just for me. Pain my mind with Calvary's blood.

Oh Oh Oh Oh is

Thank you.

Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Oh, I feel Jesus. I feel Jesus. He's in this place.

And I feel Jesus. He's in this place.

He is here. Hallelujah. He is here. Amen.

He is here. Holy, holy, I will be.

Jesus. He is here. Listen close. Hear Him calling out.

He is here. You can touch Him and you will never be the same.

He is here. Hallelujah. He is here. Amen.

He is here. Holy, holy, I will bless His name again.

He is here. Just listen closely. Hear Him calling out your name.

He is here. You can touch Him. You will never be the same.

I feel that love so moving on the Holy Spirit.

I see His countenance resting on each tree.

I know that there are angels hungry all around us.

And the Spirit of the Lord is in this place.

Oh, He is here. Hallelujah. He is here. Amen.

He is here. Amen. He is here. Amen. He is here. Amen. He is here. Holy, holy, I will bless His name. He is here. Amen. He is here. Holy, holy, I will bless His name.

He is here. Just listen closely. Hear Him calling out your name.

He is here. He is here. He is here. You can trust Him. And you will never be the same.

He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here.

Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here. Oh, He is here.

I know the joy that filled my soul.

Something happened and now I know He touched me and made me whole.

He touched me, oh He touched me.

I know the joy that filled my soul.

Something horrible has happened and now I know He touched me and made me whole.

I know He touched me and made me whole.

Need the Lord of you and shame.

Then the hand of Jesus touched me. And now I am no longer the same.

He touched me, oh He touched me.

I know the joy that filled my soul. Something happened and now I know He touched me.

He touched me and made me. More than even my youth. This year is a hundred years. I've never given ever a chance.

I've never given ever a chance. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy.

Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy.

Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. Daddy. I didn't want to get a baby who is that. I didn't want to get in the word. Open it, Lord. I don't understand it, but I'm preaching.

For God so loved the world that He gave us all. May be God and Son. You guys, we're starting with those. We're bringing that loud. In the word, bring it out loud. I say, for God so loved it.

Jesus, open it up. And I don't understand, but open it up to us. I'm going to be desperate. I'm going to be desperate. Right out to you. Because you want to be desperate. And this right here.

Just keep it open. And if you want to be patient, it's right there. I told her, she goes to church.

I said, have you ever felt God in your belly like that? Felt it in your belly. I said, what do you think? Yes. That's fine.

I want to thank you for your message tonight.

I felt like you were speaking directly to me. I made myself mad. Nobody in here is perfect.

Nobody in here is sinless. Nobody in here has any fault with them. And nobody in here doesn't sin every day. I want to thank you for your message.

Amen. Amen. Amen. Amen. I want to thank Sister Pat and Neil tonight for obeying the Lord. Yes. Give the Lord a hand for the Word of God. Not too long ago.

I have a short story. Not too long ago. And Sister Pat's message reminded me of it. I was walking through. It had to do with trees, Sister Pat.

That's how I know it's from the Lord. I was walking through this area. And it's kind of like a public area. And it has a bunch of wildlife.

Beautiful wildlife. Trees, birds, plants. All kinds of different animals. And there was these little small trees. Sister Pat was with me.

And I thought, I would like those trees in my house. They are beautiful. I want trees. They're there. They're that small. And they're in this desert place because they weren't grown.

You know, this was the place that probably the sun's going to kill them. I thought, you know what? I'm going to dig them up. And I'm going to save those trees. Thinking that I'm going to do a good thing.

Yeah. And as I'm digging the trees up, I feel the Lord's conviction while I'm doing it.

Again, I'm thinking I'm doing a good thing. I'm thinking I'm going to save these trees. And at the time that I'm digging them, I'm feeling the Lord's conviction saying, you don't need to do this.

You don't need to do this, Seth. And I said, Lord, you know, I love you. You know, it's okay. I'm just trying to save some trees.

They're this small. And I went home. And as I'm planting them, the Lord's conviction just waved right over me.

I hope that y'all are hearing this. And I was tormented for weeks. Because God told me in my heart, those weren't yours.

And if I want them to die there, then they will die there. There's so many times that we think we're doing a good thing, but we ignore God's voice.

And we think that we know our ways better. But the Bible says that His ways are way above our ways. Amen. Amen. So, the world may say, it's okay to do this and that.

The most important thing is what God says. I didn't have nobody tell me that digging up this tree was the wrong thing to do. God told me in my heart, you stop doing it.

And I ignored it. And who suffered? It was me. Because for weeks and weeks, I was tormented. And finally, I broke down and I asked God, I'm sorry for digging up your tree.

He said that if I wanted them to die in that desert, then they'll die there. That's none of your business. Those aren't yours. And I said, God, I'm sorry. What do I need to do?

Do I need to dig them up and put them back? God's not looking to find fault with you. He's looking to find forgiveness in you. Don't think that you're doing something wrong and think that you've got to go and take it all back.

And just to pay off God. He don't work that way. He's already paid it. Hello? Amen. He said, no, you keep them.

But don't ever do that again. Because I don't want to ever feel that way again. I pray that the Holy Ghost is speaking to someone about what trees they think they've dug up.

And they think they've been doing the right thing. God is telling us right now to stop it. Stop it right now where you're at.

No, you don't have to go and repay anybody back. He's already paid the price. He's just asking us to recognize that He's the Lord, not us. Amen. Give the Lord a hand one more time to the Word of God.

Sister Pat drove all the way here. A couple of hours drive. We want a close service out so we can eat, so we can get her home in a timely manner. Before we do, I'd like to have all the little ones up here.

We're going to sing a short song. And then I'm going to ask Brother Eddie to pray us out.

Bless him, Jesus. I think I'll sing. All right, now listen. You are going to gather around this microphone. Nana, will you let them in a song?

Yeah. Yeah. We're going to sing. Jesus loves little children. What do y'all want to sing? What do y'all want to sing? Jesus loves me. Yes, I know. Well, first. Y'all know this song?

Oh, they know that. Y'all all get to sing. Y'all all get to sing. Y'all all get to sing. Y'all all get to sing. I know. If y'all want to get pictures, now's the time.

Baby, baby. Now's the time. Picture. Okay. First, have those girls to say scripture verse. Yes, let's hear the scripture verse. Wow. Listen. Wow. It's scripture verse.

Genesis 12-2. Say it. Say your verse. Genesis 12-2. I will bless you. I will bless you.

I will bless you. I will bless you. I will bless you. I will bless you. I will bless you. I will bless you. What are you going to sing? Jesus loves me, yes I know. Go ahead.

You all know that? Yeah. Jesus loves me, yes I know. For the Bible tells me so.

Little ones to him below. They are weak and my face strong.

Yeah. Okay, this time we're going to sing it again. You got to sing real loud because these people are not here. Sing real loud.

Everybody be around. Go ahead. Here's the microphone. Here's the microphone. Here's the microphone. Okay. What? There you go.

Okay. Jesus loves me, yes I know. For the Bible tells me so.

Little ones to him below. And our victory is strong. Woo!

That was awesome. I, I, I, I, I, I really can't. You did a great job.

You did a great job. Come here, Brother Eddie.