Sunday Morning Service 04/28/24 | Accepted in the Beloved | By Blair Memorial Baptist Church | Well, good morning everybody. We'll get started. 314 in your hymnals. People don't need the words. What a day that will be. Everybody sing big and loud. Wherever everybody's singing in. Don't put me up too high. I'm always wondering. Is coming the sky begotten on his his name morning and Jesus I shall see good morning me by really takes glorious day Let's pray this morning. Father in heaven, we thank you for this wonderful day you've given us beautiful day of sunshine and just able to be here this morning in the church house. Lord, we just thank you for that opportunity. Thank you for each and every soul that's made their way out. Everybody watching, Lord. Just let us let us this morning. Lord, honor you. Let us let us worship you this morning, lord. Let us sing. Let us have a good time of fellowship, and be strengthened, be encouraged, be lifted up by your word this morning and to lead us and direct this Holy Spirit in each and everything we do and it's in the name of Jesus we pray and everybody says. Amen. Alright, so I'll turn it over to you. Bye. Does anybody have a favor this morning? Do you know how to yell? Ninety-eight. I do not. I'm not going to say it. Elijah's not a favorite. Made off. Okay? Let's try 117. 117. Oh, yeah. I'm out, Al. Sometimes with few songs comes to mind, sometimes it must see. Now, listen here. Hours for the master's bouquet full flowers they're gathered by angels to bloom a master's vocal us be faithful till I swear let us and then we'll be gathered together for globe and the master's flowers for the master's bouquet full flowers that'll never by angels and carried away the master's and angels sent down from above are the blossoms we it is each soul is a flower in the master's flower for the master's bouquet full flower that'll never they're gathered the master is okay the master's volca and see, I didn't know another. They say, I believe this time is coming for the lord to come again I believe the endless spirit every door I believe the good old bible from beginning to the we are living surely living the days he speaks about is married everyday let's get ready for he's coming let us meet him with for it tells us in his word to watch and pray we are living surely living and the days he speaks about let's get Let us feed him he tells us watching of all the disciples playing tell us when these times are going to be Jesus I should be you wanting him free from sin and take heed no man shall ever are the living and the dais about all these things where now I have them everyday let's get ready for his coming let us meet him with a child or he tells us in his word watch and for he tells us in his word watching and pray Oh, I've been to Florida entertaining down there a little bit and had just a few more people down there in the church. They're signed in about five or six times, I guess what they are here. Anyway, it don't matter though. It's Well, I've been some of them here before that was down there but anyway, let's see. I didn't know another song. I remember standing at my daddy's bedside. As tears filled up the wrinkles withered hand he softly whispered son I'm going to live in a I'll have eyes that will never fill with teardrops I'll have legs that will never I'll have hands that will never age and wither and the heart that will never break again our eyes of the blind will envy open and we'll join the victory march with the and all the veils has ever we'll rejoice to hear the savior call their name I'll have eyes that will never battle never ache with pain I'll have hands that will never age and wither glad will never I have and read about that city bare with Jesus we shall live forever forevermore and construction and the golden streets will run by my front door and I'll have eyes that will never fill with teardro I'll have leg I'll have hands that will never age and wither the heart that will never I'll have a heart that will never I didn't got no grandbaby again today. She was I'll have that big dress on and going to the prom last night and they seemed to stay there all night so she's probably too tired to do much singing today, you know, but. When I around all the good things he's done for me I know and I'm unworthy all the more I don't think it's. Yeah. Sorry. When I and see all the good things he's done for me I know then I'm unworthy of them all for his him I've got so much to thank I've got to thank him for to you see good to me he's drawn me from I've got so much tongues my way I stop and say thank you lord for all you've done for me I'll reach heaven shore let me kneel once more I've got so much I've got so much to thank him for so he has been so good to me and when where he's brought me from I've got so much him oh Jesus wasn't far for the lord house life to give and for the I don't want to sing this one. That's what makes me think of this church all the time because it's our little church and we'll be in the We got any kids in our stomach more. And kids? Okay. Alright now. You want to sing Joe? You want to sing Joe? No. Amen. Alright. Good to see everybody this morning. Let's take a prayer request this time. Somebody got a prayer request this morning. Remember, remember that. Somebody, that's Henry. By It's getting torn And pray for me and my family, my son, my son lost a high. Right? I pray for people still under attack everywhere by antichrist and his device Some people might be okay. Some people may know. Lot of stuff down. And I'm glad to see if things will take it through here. All these people suffered in the hospital the Now the Lord's coming to get us soon. I pray that everybody's Saint Cold Lake Church is back here. Great peace for Jerusalem and everything is and I I can take a whole lot of technology and everything. Uh some people say I'm one of the people right next to Christ and stuff like that. That's what I hear a lot. I don't a lot of people use them. It's been hard to watch that road everything within that city and tribulation now. I know we are. And it's glad to be able to have a new job. Amen. Amen. Remember all of them. Remember Henry this morning. Somebody else this morning. Down. Amen. Amen. Oh old perky snuck in and out of the hospital before anybody knew about it. We're glad to see you back. Somebody else got a prayer request. Judy, did you have one? Yes, remember the reason Vicky Grant Yes, she'd been in the hospital. Yeah. Remember her. Remember all my family. I was a girl. Remember I was getting really graduating. Amen. To get them all, Judy? Uh huh. Alright. Remember my dad. is still not going to appointment for his heart surgery. But Anne said he's doing good. Good. Um she's had to go through physical therapy where she Remember her and dad and you know, when she said that dad's doing satisfaction and everything right now. So, Lord, she's probably just healing me probably in the Cadillac. Amen. Just just remember that and remember Stevie in the jail ministry over there describe it. That feeling that the Lord has just made. He knows what we need to do. That the Lord just made me that situation all my kids, especially sis. She's getting stressed out over at me and even I remember me I've got gout in my room. Reckon that's what's wrong with you foot. Well, I'm thinking maybe now They finally figured out. As I woke up, I still it's probably what? The Lord let me wake up with my wrist hurting real bad. I thought I broke it. You I never hadn't done nothing. And then when I went to the doctor, she said, well, let's check your gas because I think it might be out. Yeah. So, it could've been my footing. So, they put me on steroids. You know, sometimes the whole thing in itself Amen. And just remember our family. With the hard I used your day. Remind me to sing your prom. It was hard. Um but his graduation's coming up this month. So it's hard but when I went to the doctor yesterday she stole my phone and she saw a little sticker on my phone. She said can I just do? And you know me. And I said yeah that's my son. And she said that she went to school with me. And she was just telling me. And you know what put people in your life? And you need them bringing little encouragement words and I thank god for that. I thank god for this testimony. Amen. But just remember us in prayer. Just remember. Amen. Somebody else. Amen. So. Hannah is officially two days over today and she has appointment in the morning with the doctors to determine if they're going to induce or not. We don't want to go all the way to Friday. So, pray for Hannah and Cannon all through delivery and before during the after and pray for us as we travel to to go for the birth. Amen. Somebody else got a prayer request this morning. Amen. Fever. Amen. Anybody else? They in Florida though. They gotta pray for us. That's Peru. There's a Florida, the Florida rule is you pray. If you're in Florida, you pray for us back here. Did you know about that rule? Yeah. Yeah, that's the rule. Cuz if you're in Florida, you do a lot better than we are. So, you gotta pray for us. Yeah. Lord, have mercy. Sandy. Yeah, well, Florence ride with him anymore, right? Yeah. Yeah. That's that's all. Sitting there. We'll have some Amen. Amen. Yes. What a blessing. Salvation Amen. Wouldn't it? Yep. Amen. Like to pray for Bailey and AJ and My name has been praying for. She's praying for twins Remember thee. Amen. Amen. Yeah. That's life, ain't it? No one's come and old ones go. Come and go. Amen. I I want to understand it but Let's remember Sammy Ray has been sick. Donald's grandson Sammy He's been, I talked to him on phone there about a month ago but some of them had told me he'd been sick. He is bad sick. So, remember Sammy Reagan, first. He says, doing good though. He said, he's even having church there in his house. So, he'd been he'd been leading a little bit of church. I told him, I said, buddy, that tickle your papaw to death if he knew you'd been doing that. He said, he'd been even preaching a little bit there while he led on to me in his house. So, I said, brother Lloyd Run? Um I just want to thank the Lord that he was on the whole situation. He could be so much worse. I mean, Jerry's truck's usually parked there. David and Jerry were in the church when it happened. Mm hmm. And you know, if the time had been there, we could come on through the church for the looks of the car, he could be hurt a lot worse than he would. Yeah. So, the lord was just over that whole situation. You know, just I prayed him for that. Amen. Amen. Yeah. Thank the lord. Amen. I mean, bring Shelby back there. Alright, let's go to the lord in prayer this morning. Father, in heaven, we hear all these requests and many have spoken. A lot of em is unspoken, lord. We just bring each and every request to you today. Father, you're such a good, kind, and gracious god, lord and you love us so much and and your word, I'm reminded of the word, lord. The scriptures tells us that every good gift and every perfect gift comes up from above, lord. And you don't cause bad things to happen to us. Lord, we we live in a world that's that's full of sin and bad things just happen as a result of a fallen world we live in but you're good lord and you work all things together for good. To according to your purpose and we just bring all of the requests to you. Lord, we know that you still heal people. We know that you still make things happen, lord. Uh and we just trust you lord with with these requests this morning and we pray for all those that hurt and all those physically sick, all those that's going through emotional troubles. A lot of the emotional stressors going on with people today. Lord and we would just pray for that lord. Those that's expected maybe several here. Lord, two, three different expecting mothers and fathers. We just we just trust you and those deliveries lord and be with them and let them be good, healthy, deliveries, lord and all of our church members. We got traveling today. Father, we thank about them. Just keep keep everybody on outside the road. We pray this morning. Lord and we just thank you for all your many blessings. We thank you for this little church lord and we thank you for all those lord that you let come before us as Sandy was testifying about. Thank you lord for for all those that preach the word over on this creek and and just preach good, solid, sound doctrine, and and the love of Jesus and just passed it down lord and it's still paying dividends today. Your word from what they done and we you for them people. Lord, let us be like them. Let us not be weary in in walking out to what you've got for us to do Lord. And we thank you, lord. We, as we take this offering up, We pray that you bless it. Let us continue to use it, lord, to just spread, spread the name of Jesus to a world that needs you, lord. We'll give you all the praise and thanks. It's in Christ Jesus name. We pray this morning. Everybody says, amen. Alright. It's time we take the offering up. If we get a couple people to help us take the offering up this morning. Both are offering people's gone there. Anybody had a birthday? Anybody had a birthday you like to celebrate? If you had a birthday, Denny? Not yet. Twenty-5, fifty, Money. You are most crazy. Almost getting social security aids. I just want to thank you for a lot of people. Hey, man. Hey, man. Good day. Amen. Can you reach out to you? Amen. Thank you. Let's sing happy birthday to Danny here. Happy birthday happy birthday to you. Happy birthday dear many more birthdays to you only one will not the gift Yeah, they all gone, ain't they? We we're thankful for Denny and what all he does. Danny does a lot of stuff at the church that most people don't notice. He he cuts what little bit of grass and weeds we got. He keeps them all cut and keeps things straighten up. He's always willing to to be there and and lend a hand and help and we just thank you Danny and and I can say when I'm preaching, he pays more attention than anybody. When I pre some other SW always looking at the windows talking to each other but Nene is always locked in. That's why I know at least one person's listening to me when I preach the whole service. So, thank you for that, Dean. Amen. Praise the lord. Well, yeah. You got any more announcements? I would. Yeah. Friends? We have a $500 some dollars from our donations so far which is half of our gold. Amen. Thank everybody for that. Uh we still taking donations until we reach $1 000 for until the licorice obstacle comes whichever comes first. Our Vacation Bible School will be June the 21st and the second and 2third, which is a Friday, Saturday, Sunday. Tell everybody you know and there are live that I put on Facebook. If you wanted to open the flyers to hand out or to give somebody, just let me know. But share that thing on Facebook as much as possible. Tell everybody. I did all the kids can't come. And when we more meetings, and I will be inviting all church members, not just the ladies to come to that Rock Morgan took to this finals. Planning changes of what we're going to do and stuff and I will need everybody's T shirt size that's going to help us today off, the day's off, vacation bible school. Amen. So, that's good. We had last year had a real good Bible school, what? 25 to 30 kids every night. And just had a real good done. Yeah. We go to church somewhere while we're gone. You know, we don't miss church. I've never shared you know. I said, I'm good enough. I can miss a Sunday but we don't. You know, we don't. Sometimes She built build up some credit, son. You think they're the. Yeah, she's Well, Um I will say too we're going to do a little bit of an addition this year and I'm excited about that. We we need people not just to live things or cook or things like that. We need people sitting chairs between the kids in a row. Uh huh. This year, Tina is going to bring her Tylenol Moore and her little buddy. She pulls and they're going to ride around their grass. I love it. Follow me more people to go further down on the road. Hopefully, next year, we'll have our place fixed up back here but we gotta get off that road because but the first thing I thought of when had that wreck out here, I said, we secured death half stuff, right? Somebody get run over. Alright. I think we got no kids here this morning. Uh so, let's jump into the scripture. Ephesians chapter one verse six. You got your Bibles? Or if you want to follow along on the screen, either one is fine God woke up woke up one day this week. It happens to me sometimes. Uh I wake up. I have bad dreams or nightmares and I wake up and sometimes I just wake up. I just, this week, I was having bad dreams and woke up and and I opened my Bible and the lord brought me to this verse that of in Ephesians chapter one. I tell you, Ephesians is a beautiful, it's just beautiful scriptures of god's love and his grace for us and I tell you we don't we don't understand. I don't understand. It's hard to fathom love that god has for us and the grace that he shows for us. Uh I know it's often times we we can get caught up in self righteousness. We can think that as Mike said there that he build up enough good that he can miss church a couple times. I ain't preaching on you Mike but it is a pretty good example. Amen. But we we often sometimes can think that you know that that we're good on our own. Or that we we deserve god's love because of how good we act or how good we do. Or how we've lived our life but you know, truly folks, it comes down to god's grace. Amen and it's what Jesus Christ done and his love for us but look here at Ephesians chapter one verse six. Look at this verse and it just really shows you what Jesus has done for us. In Ephesians one six says, to the praise of the glory of his grace, wherein he has made us accepted in the blood, alright? Now, this ain't top about anything as Christians that Jesus is going to do in the future, it talks about what he's already done for us. He has made us accepted in the beloved. We're accepted and you know, that's really when you think about it, that's what people wants. People wants to be accepted, don't they? I had a couple conversations just this past week. About people coming to church, you know, when when you invite people to church or want people come to and one person like, you know, well, I would come but I didn't know if I would be welcome or not, you know. People don't know if they'd be accepted in church buildings and you know, some places that might be the case. I don't know. I've been to a couple places where I ain't felt welcome or I ain't felt love. Amen. But you know, people I'm sure they got a reason why they think that and but when it comes to being part of the church, amen? The church is the body of believers of Jesus Christ. This is a church building. We're a congregation by our Memorial Baptist Church and you got other churches. Hunter Church and you got this church here up in but the church is the body of Christ. Amen? And what Paul saying here is he has made us accepted into the be loved. Amen. So, when we faith, when we place our faith in Jesus Christ as our lord and savior, he he he we're accepted. Amen. We're accepted. We're accepted and I got looking up and I looked in the I looked up in the meaning of this in the in the Greek and often you might think, well, why does preachers even mention the Greek and the Hebrew? Well, that's what the Bible was written from Greek. It was trans from Greek and Hebrew into English what we what we know now and those Greek words mean sometimes a little something different than what we understand today is an English word but the I got looking that up and it says talking about this accepted it says to make accepted and to be highly favored amen So, what Paul is telling us here is that we're not only accepting. This is a special kind of acceptance We are very very highly favored by what Jesus Christ has done for us. Amen? And we got a problem today as believers in Jesus Christ. We lose sight of what the blood of Jesus Christ is actually done for us. Amen? And it's easy. When we forget what the blood does to get discouraged. It's easy when we forget what the blood of Jesus Christ actually has done for us. It's easy to get bitter. Amen and and it's easy to to grow hard and it's easy to start depending upon ourself. Amen? I tell you we got a problem with that today. A lot of people thinks that, well, it's by my effort that I'm accepted by god. It's because of what all I've done. It's because I've been a good Christian for all these years or I've given money or I've I've joined these programs or or led this or preached or or drove the church bus or or just I've been a real good person. So, that makes me accepted in in god said, we know it's by the grace of god. Amen. Ephesians two tells us that for by grace are you saved through faith and that not of yourselves, it is a gift of god. Amen? Not of works, lest any man should boast. So, there's noone of us can boast, can we? About what we've got as far as our acceptance or or salvation or standing with god. We've got great standing with god. We do right now at this time. We have we're highly favored by god. We're accepted in the blood. We god loves us so much and the blood of Jesus, it really does so much for us that we we don't understand it. It cleansed us. It washed us. We are completely clean and we are completely righteous and I tell you folks, when I think about that, when I think about my standing with god, it just makes me love the lord so much. It makes me want to live right. It makes me want to just live in deserving of what god has given me. Amen? And when you understand that as a believer, if you're truly a Christian, if you've truly given your life to Jesus Christ by faith and your sins have been washed away. There's nothing you can do to mess this thing up. You know that? You're sealed. You're bought. You're not going to lose your salvation. You're safe in it. You're securing it. Your sins have all been forgiven. You are highly favor my god. When when we understand what we've got by that, amen. Uh I tell you it puts you it just makes you start loving the lord. Amen. And it's when we understand our identity in Christ of who we are that that that we can really have lives that I think is pleasing to god. Uh verse Ephesians chapter two verse thirteen says this says, but now in Christ Jesus, you who were sometimes were afar off. Look here, we're made near, we're made nigh, what? By the blood of Christ, amen. When we was lost, when we was out there before we were saved, then, we we was far off but by the blood of Jesus, when we're saved, it's brought us near. And I think about this today, when I was thinking about this scripture, that he has made us accepted in the blood, in the be I couldn't help but think of the story of the prodigal son out of Luke chapter fifteen when it tells of the story and Luke chapter fifteen is a chapter I preached it a million times. I've preached it and it never gets old. I get something new out of Luke chapter fifteen. Every time I jump in there and read those three parables that Jesus tells in Luke chapter fifteen and what Luke chapter fifteen, go on and read it this evening. Read it and and get get you and the Holy Spirit. Sit down and read Luke chapter 15 but Well, Luke chapter fifteen, what? What? Jesus is telling there is he's telling us this is what the father looks like. Amen. In in these stories, it's not about the sons, not about the prodigal son, it's not about the two sons, it's about the love of the father, and in that prodigal son, story. We know the story. He had two sons and one son went out and he blew his inheritance. He he went out to the world and he he lived it up and he's he gotten to sin and and led his to destruction. Amen. Blew everything that he had inherited and found himself in a pigpen in a hoglock wallowing around with the hogs and he he come to himself. He come to a moment where he says, you know what? My my servants, the servants in the in in the farm at the plantation back where the father's at. The slaves and the servants that work for him, they're far enough a lot better than I am. He said, so, I'm going to go back to the Father, I'm going to beg him to make me a servant. I'm going to beg him to treat me as one of the hired hands and he, the son picks himself up out of the hog lot, find himself with nothing. Amen. Finding himself and that's where sin will lead you. That's that's where sin leads you. Is to a life of destruction, to a life of nothing, to a destroyed relationships, to to broken homes, to to addiction, to death, to jails, to institution. I see it firsthand every day. People that think sin is going to them pleasure and bring them fulfillment. It leads in destruction every time. Every time you you you fool with sin. Every time you think that the devil's got more for you than what the lord has got for you. It leads you destroyed. Amen. It leaves people hurting. But anyways this boy found himself in this shape and he he's he said I'm going to make my way back to the father. And and the father will treat me as one of the hired hands. At least I'll have clean clothes to wear. And you know that was the reason that the boy went back is he wanted to eat. He wanted his belly to be full. He was hungry. He said, at least I know I can go back and I can get full there and when he went back, then, he found his way back and on his way back home, he found that his father was sitting there waiting for him. He's waiting for him and the father ran out and the father run out. He didn't let the boy get to him. He run out and he met him there and he hugged him and He showed him love and he placed a ring on his finger and he told him, he said, go kill the fatty calf. Go kill the fatty calf. I'm the best calf we got. We're going to have a big party and he hugs the son. He puts the ring on his finger and he put the best robe on him. They clothe him in the best stuff and and the boy is just in awe and you know, saying, hey, whoa, what's going on here? He said, you're my son. Amen? And oftentime, that's how it is with us in god. Amen. We the children of god. Amen. By Christ Jesus and I'm talking to believers in here this morning. And what the standing you have now. You're not a servant. You're not a slave. Amen. You're not just some kind of worker for God. Amen. You are highly favored. You are one of his children. Amen. Whom he loves. Amen. And you stand blameless for in front of him. And there's nothing you can do to mess that up. In the book of Colossians chapter one it tells us this. I the scriptures because you need to know this morning. Church, you need to know that Jesus loves you. You need to know that Jesus, you need to know what he's done for you. You need to know that god is not harboring anything against you today. Amen? God is not remembering things you've done in your past. The devil remembers your past and he'll use those things against you every day. He'll use those things to depress you. He'll use those things to defeat you. He'll use those things that cause you great anxiety and great trouble. God ain't. Why? Because I'm going to tell you something. The blood of Jesus Christ a whole lot. Amen. It it made you. It cleansed you. It made you blameless. In Colossians 120 says, and heaven made peace through the blood of his cross. Well, I can stop right there and I can preach on it all day and heaven made peace through the blood of his cross. Amen. See, this just ain't. This ain't just something that I think is a good fad. This gray stuff. This is just like something that, hey, man. The preacher down there, Joe. Uh he he just thinks that it's cool to preach on this. This is the gospel, folks. This is the gospel that the apostle Paul that Jesus met him on the road because he was going out to to torture people because they was Christian. This is the gospel that Jesus stopped Paul on that rope and give Paul and taught him 3 years. I want you to preach this to the church. You need to tell them what they are now after this cross. After I've raised from the dead, they need to know who they're standing is now in god. Amen? We got Christians the devil just turn him into pieces. Amen. Uh looking down at the ground all the time. Defeated. in defeat as believers. Amen. Cuz you're believing what the enemy tells you. You're no good. I wonder how many people's killed themselves because the devil convinced him they're no good. Amen? I wonder how many people is on drugs today. Because the devil has convinced him you're no good. Amen. I wonder how many believers today is is is addicted to pornography. Amen. Because the devil's commission there's something so much better for them. Amen. Out there today. Uh but I'm here to tell you today, the blood of Jesus Christ it made peace. Amen. It made peace between us and god. Amen. And having made peace through the blood of his cross. By him, look here to reconcile all things in himself by him. I say, where they be things in earth or in heaven and you I'll say in here now do you this is when you was lost this was for you was saved and you is what he's saying here he's talking back that where sometime you used to be alienated what you what a lot of people thinks they are to now today I messed up brother Joe I messed up you know I I had a failure this week well if you're in Christ Jesus amen you're not alienated your sins that been already forgiven at the cross. Amen. But you, Paul saying that we're sometimes alienated and enemies in your mind by wicked works. Look here, yet now. Has he reconciled? He's reconciled. In the body of his flesh to death. Why? To present you holy and unwindable and unreprovable in his sight. Well, I use that verse a lot right there. You know why I use it a lot? Cuz I want to be reminded of it a lot, Danny. I want to be reminded this of every day. Sometimes, I'll just flip open Colossians chapter one and I'll start reading. Where am I now, god? I'm having a bad day, lord. Uh where am I now? And I'll remind myself and I'll go to Colossians one twenty-two. It says, in the body of his flesh, that's the flesh of Jesus Christ because he died for me on the cross and when he died for me on that cross, his death meant something. His blood meant something. Amen. I'm not getting my forgiveness now in portions like a bank book. Like downright my mortgage payment out. He's not giving it to me on little small installments. He give me my forgiveness all at once. Amen. Once for all time, my past, my present, every sin that I'll ever do in the future already forgiven. Amen. Because now I am, he done this through his death life to present you holy and without blame and unreprovable in his sight. Amen? Name of fairy tale. It ain't some kind of something that I just made up in my mind. It is the gospel, amen. When you get this power of the gospel and you recognize that I am a holy, I am a blameless person and not only am I blindless, I am highly favored, amen. I am accepted in the beloved. Amen? And when you get that, the devil has a lot less power on you. He don't have no power on you. I used to struggle. I used to struggle. Uh save. I told this several times but I used to struggle with thoughts. The devil would attack my mind. He would put bad thoughts, blasphemous thoughts. Make me think bad things about god and these thoughts although they would just ruin my life and I'd be like anybody that thinks something like that is not going to heaven and I'm lost. I'm destroyed and and these things would have so much power over me and I tell you, it brought me a time to just want to kill myself and be done with it. Amen. These these intrusive thoughts and you know, ain't many people going to tell you, hey, I got intrusive thoughts, man. I got intrusive thoughts. Ain't nobody going to tell you that because people ashamed to but I'm not ashamed to. I'm going to use it to help you this morning. Uh but what I was doing was allowing the devil to use something on me. He would make me think, hey, those thoughts is going to send you to hell but when you know what the blood of Jesus Christ has already done for you and completed in you and you understand it. It don't matter what I think. It don't matter what I can. I'm not going to mess this up. Uh because my sins have already totally been forgiven. But what the blood of Jesus Jesus Christ has done. You know what? I don't have them thoughts no more. Why? Cuz the waste of time. The devil it's it's a waste of time. He just he just throws them off. And that's why Paul says put on the whole armor of God. That's why put on Jesus that you may be able to stand folks. You put on Jesus Christ and you go through this life with a clear understanding of what the blood has done for you. Were you actually are that you are accepted in the blood? Think that the next time you get tempted to sin. Think about that. The next time you get ready to to do something that you know is a blatant sin, think of it this way. You know what? I'm I'm forgiven of it. If I, if I go ahead and do it, I'm already forgiven of it. I tell you what, you won't want to do it. You won't be as tempted so much to do it. Amen? We got people jumping out in the sand because they think they're dirty, old sinners. Amen. I'm talking about Christians. We got Christians addicted to drugs. You know, why? Because they think they're drug addicts. Amen? Well, we got people and they teach and they preach at these things. You always been at it. You know what I say? Baloney I don't believe that. You're not an addict. Amen. You might be somebody who has a problem with with with with using a substance but you're not an addict. The Bible says you're not an addict. The Bible says you're holy. Says you're blameless. He says, you're unreprovable. In the sight of god, amen and it don't matter what men thinks about you. Doesn't matter what a man thinks about you. Doesn't matter what god thinks about you. Amen? And if you've accepted the blood of Jesus Christ as payment for all your sins, you holy. You stand without blame. You stand accepted in the blood because folks, this is a gift. When you start getting self righteous and when I talk about self righteousness, I'm a bird that gets self righteous sometimes. Because I hate sin and I hate what it does to people and I hate seeing what it does and I hate it when people tries to convince me that sin is right because sin ain't right. There's certain type of lifestyles and things that people, they try to push it in your face nowadays and it ain't right and sometimes when I see that stuff, I get angry and I start getting puffed up and I getting self righteous and I remind myself this thing is a gift, man. Everything that I've got. My standing with god is a gift. Amen. Because I'm a sinner and he love me so much. Uh he loved me so much that he died for me like an old song says, while he was on the cross, I was on his mind. Amen and I'm here to tell you folks that rings true today. That rings true today. This April day in 2000 and twenty-four, two0 and20, some odd years ago, went down when Jesus Christ was hanging there on that cross. You specifically, god is that big you was on his mind and he was thinking at you and he was feeling your sins and he was taking your sins. He was taking your lust. He was taking your evil desires and he was taking everything you'd ever do wrong and he was absorbing him in his body. You know what it done? He killed him. Amen. He killed him. It killed him, stoned dead, it killed Jesus. Because of what we've done, it killed him and he went to that grave and on the third day, god said, get up. Amen. He arose from the dead and you know what it done after he healed him, we arose with him, amen. And now, because we believe on him, we're never going to die. That's a gift, folks. That's a gift. It's a gift. amen. I'm glad, I'm, I'm glad. I I've been, I've been confused Cuz I'll preach on that one these days. But it's a gift. Amen. As we give these gifts to these kids when they come up on on on on Christmas. When we call their names and they come and get up. And what we do? The little kids that come up man. They run and and they grab that and they get it. And they they don't slow down nothing. You do it. They were kind of working. I was like you know what? They fire it off. They don't want to thank you. Amen. They ain't going to come back and say, how much do I owe you? How am I going to work this off? You know what? They don't say, well, do I need to come back to Sunday school next week? Do you want to see most of them till next Christmas? Amen. That's fun. We don't do it for that. We do it. Amen. Show them the love of Jesus Christ. Amen. That's what that salvation is. God said, you ain't gotta do nothing When you take it, when you accept it, it's by faith. Amen. When you accept it, when you take that gift of salvation, that's salvation right there. I remember when I got old enough, no right and wrong. Uh preaching a a revival here one Sunday. I said, right there, man. We're doing a second and I get to walk no matter but I believe in my heart. That's the moment. I said, lord Jesus, I'm a sinner. Amen. And he said, that's when I took that gift. I accepted that gift of salvation then. And he locked it off And they will never be another sin that would stick to me anymore. At that moment, I can accept it in the blood. My name was written and your name was written in a book called the Lamb's Book of Life. Amen. In the lambs, the precious lamb's book of life. And if you're in here this morning, and if you've received that gift of salvation by faith, your name has been written down in the lamb's book of life. It'll never be blotted out. The Bible tells us in the book of Revelation says, I will never block your name out at Book of Life. Amen. Ain't you glad today your names written in that lamb book of life? Aren't you glad today that you're accepted in the beloved? Ain't she glad one day? You're going to stand before the Lord? And your name's going to be in that book of life. Now there'll be many that gets there. And you know what they'll say? I don't want your gift. I don't believe there is such a gift. I don't need this. I got life to live. Thank you Gibbs. And go on. And they'll stand before the lords 1 day. They're not accepted in the beloved. Their name is Revelation. I was reading in Revelation and it said, Bill Bowling, that god will look and it says, their names will not found in the lamb book of life. You know what happens to em? It says, when they stand before god, he says, god will judge them according to the works they've done in this life. I don't want to be judged according to my works. Amen. The youth. Right. Not a one of them. But that's what happens. When you don't accept the gift. But those hey listen, we got something good today folks. Don't let the devil have power over you. Don't let the devil defeat you. You're forgiven. You're forgiven. You're forgiven. You're holy. You're that's not Joe Wingle's opinion. That is the Bible. You are holy. You are blameless. You have peace with god through what the blood of Jesus Christ does. You are one special ones. Amen. You're highly favored. Amen. And and I ain't going to tell you putting no extra money in the offering plate for that. Some preachers will. Put some extra money in the plate. You'll be highly favored. No, you highly favored if you don't never put a diamond that often play. Because of what the blood of Jesus done. He loves you today. And I tell you, people are changed from the inside out. When you understand how much Jesus loves you, your heart, when you understand who you are on the inside. It it it will start reflecting on who's on the outside but we, what we want to do is change people on the outside end, don't we? Here's all these rules. Do this. God will save you. You know, that ain't that work. You change from the inside. And then the word. The Bible says, work out your salvation. Work it out with fear and trembling. The singers would come and sing us a song this morning to closing. I'm glad. Ain't you glad that Jesus loves you? Ain't you had me saved this morning. Are you glad that it's a free gift? Amen? Amen. If you ain't, there's some other churches that are preaching and a free gift. You can go with a lot of em, man. They'll tell you you gotta work for it. They'll tell you you gotta earn it by the sweat of your brow. Amen. But not here, folks. It is a free gift of salvation. It's all free because Jesus loves you. Amen. He loves you and he died for you. He rose again today. Say his name this morning. Anybody listening to me at all and you don't know Jesus as your lord and savior. Has anybody in here? You don't even know saved or who ain't saved? But does anybody make a decision? The Bible says today is the day of salvation. I know there's some some people under my voice today. You've never made a decision. Make a decision Like I did, Mary. As a young boy, make it, make a decision. Jesus, I take that gift. I believe Jesus, you died for my sins. I believe that payment for my sins. I believe not only did you die, lord. I believe you rose from the dead, amen. The everlasting life I accept that. I take that gift. Take it today. If you take it, let us know. Be water baptized. Amen. And and celebrate what Jesus has done The Bible says over Revelation talking about the old devil says they overcame him by the word of their testimony and the blood of the lamb. Praise the lord. The blood of the lamb. So thankful for today. Uh no church tonight. No call it off. We got a lot of people traveling that comes on Sunday night. A lot of a lot of different ones of traveling and it'd be a good day to just enjoy your Sunday afternoon. Get your rest. Ain't nothing wrong with resting. If we going to grace when you take a rest every now and then don't we? Amen. Sometimes the preacher needs a rest. Sometimes the congregation gets a rest and sometimes Bill Bullet, I just get tired of hearing my voice all the time. I'm glad y'all. Sometimes I I listen. Man, I get tired of listening to myself talk all the time. So, thank you break this evening. Spread the word. I put it. I put it out there too that we won't have no church tonight but we'll be back next Sunday. We're ready to roll. Amen? Praise the lord today. So, let's be dismissed in a word of prayer this morning. Heavenly father, thank you lord for loving us. Thank you for this word, lord. Thank you that we are accepted, lord, as believers, lord, as Christians. We are highly favored. We we've got special. We've got a special standing with you lord. We are accepted in the beloved and that's what we've talked about this morning. Lord, thank you for your word. Thank you, Jesus for that blood. What it done for us. Thank you, lord. We don't deserve this, lord. Uh we don't deserve this. We don't deserve this standing we got. We don't deserve to be forgiven of all of our sins but you've done this for us, lord and let us live our lives and just let let let us live our lives with faith faith, and love, Lord, let love. Let the love that's inside of us because what you have done to us and for us and live in us. Let this love work out in faith. Lord, let lost people see it. Let them want what we've got, lord and let people be saved in this community. Use our little church, lord. Let people be saved in these days. Let us be lights in this darkness down here lord. We just thank you lord. You're so good to us and we love you, lord. be with our church family. Be with all those that's sick and and those that's hurting and depressed today lord and in our church and many of our congregation as they get older, these physical things bring on depression lord because we can't do what we used to, lord. I pray lord for uplift spirits, lord. Uplift spirits and and I just pray lord that you come back and get us some. I I pray that with that generation lord that never taste death but as Paul says, not everybody will die but but we all be changed. I pray lord that that we are alive each and every last one of us when when that trumpet blows lord and you rapture this church on. Let us be part of that number lord Jesus. What a day that would be. Thank you so much. We love you lord. Bring everybody home safe and and we give you all the praise and glory in Jesus name and everybody says, amen. You all are dismissed. We love you. Amen Thank you your affliction.