They like it a lot better when I turn the microphone on. Good morning. For those of you that I haven't had an opportunity to meet yet, I'm Fred Lodge. It's my joy to be pastor emeritus here. Jamie's not sick or dead.

He's right here. Okay. But he's given me the privilege of sharing this passage with you today in this wonderful series that we've been in, in the Paul's letter to the church at Philippi Philippians. So turn there in your Bibles or on your device and to chapter three. And we'll be getting to that in just a moment.

But as you're turning there, I want to tell you about meeting a really fascinating person. Set up the stage for just a little bit. My former church in Blairsville, we were just 20 miles from the very beginning of the Appalachian Trail. Now, for those of you who don't know, the Appalachian trail goes through 14 states. It goes from Georgia all the way to Maine.

2,198.2 miles. I don't know why, I just can't say. Just 2200 be done with it. But it's a fascinating journey. Some of it through very dense forest, others through very craggy mountains, some very scary places to be, even for those who are some of the best.

Several thousand people attempt it every year on the best years. About 20 to 25% actually accomplished accomplish it. Well, we were so close. The first major crossroads and rest stop that they come to on that journey is about 20 miles up on Blood Mountain. And so our association, several of our churches together, would gather up there as the season begins, for which is getting close for hikers to begin their trek.

And we'd set up grills and we would grill hamburgers and hot dogs and drinks and such. And we would have things that they might need, extra socks or whatever devotional materials they might have. And we'd always have somebody there, very interesting that would speak and would be there for a couple of days. Well, this particular time, another pastor, not me, happened to have invited someone to come, and his name was Bill Irwin. Bill Irwin had successfully hiked the Appalachian Trail, almost 2,200 miles of it, just he and his dog, Orient.

And that's pretty incredible. I mean, there's quite some athletic prowess and determination to do. But what made it utterly fascinating was that Bill is blind. Absolutely, totally blind. Orient is seeing eye dog who went with him, and he had no one else with him.

Now, occasionally, some people would be with him on the hike for a period of miles. Or whatever the case may be. But he made the entire trek on his own. And when asked, why, why would you attempt something like that? He said, well, it's like this most all of my life.

I was shackled and was absolutely addicted to alcohol and tobacco. And I came to Faith in Christ, and through our recovery program, he delivered me from that addiction. And I did this as a testimony of my faith in him and out of thanksgiving for all that he had done in my life. If you want to read his book, it's called Blind Courage by Bill Erwin. You'll really, really enjoy it.

He talks about some of the perils that he faced along the way, and that sometimes when food was very lean and the weather was so bitingly cold, or whatever the case may be, he just had, by God's grace, to press on. Press on. Hey, that sounds familiar. As a matter of fact, it's in the passage we're going to read this morning. If you'll take your Bibles, and they're in chapter three.

We're just going to read three verses, verses 12, 13, and 14. But if you'll stand with me in honor of God's word, follow along in your Bible or device as I read. And I'm choosing to read from the new King James Version because of a unique way that the sentence structure is put there that really does a good job of interpreting some words. Verse 12. Not that I have already attained or am already perfected.

He's saying, look, I have not got it all together. I haven't arrived. I'm not your hero. But I press on. That's the first time that's mentioned.

Underline that I press on, that I may lay hold. Underline that, Lay hold of that for which Christ Jesus also laid hold of me. Brethren, I do not count myself to have apprehended or arrived. There he is. He's saying it again.

I'm not your best hero here.

I have not count myself to apprehended. But one thing I do stress that one thing I do. Forgetting those things which are behind and reaching forward to those things which are ahead, I press on. I press towards the goal. For the prize of the upward call of God in Christ Jesus.

Pray with me, Holy Spirit, you who hover over these words as they were written and chose them out of the mind and experience of Paul, you who protected these letters when so many things the enemy would do to have destroyed them, you who've seen them translated are here to speak to us today, to bring today's word of God to our Hearts. So we open our hearts to receive what you have to tell us in Christ's name. Amen. Be seated, please.

Last week, Pastor Jamie talked about these first verses of the chapter which really deals with Paul's life in the past. But now he's focusing on where he is in the present and where he is going. And I want you to understand, Paul went through some horrendous times. If you read about his journey, all the times that he was. Well, it's earlier in, in the book of Philippians, all the times he was beaten, the times he was shipwrecked, the times he was left for dead, all the rest of these things.

Following Christ for him was a perilous journey of intense persecution. But I want you to understand something that Paul knew. God's call on us is not to succeed. God's call on us is to obey. Understand that, okay?

You know, it's not necessarily succeeding. As the very best of parents, the very best of businessmen, or very. The best of any success in the eyes of God is that we have lovingly obeyed him and followed him in whatever direction he's called us to do. Now, Paul also knew, that's what some of us have found as well, that living the Christ life, that following being a Christ follower is not all rosy level path. Sometimes it's very difficult.

Sometimes it's fraught with very real dangers and perils. Sometimes. Sometimes it's very dark and hard to imagine how God is going to move through this. And Paul was in one of these places. Can I remind you where he was as he wrote these words?

He was in prison. He was in a dark, dank cell. Could have been shackled to the wall or shackled to a guard. We don't know for sure. We believe that he probably got out of this imprisonment.

He were able to leave prison, but he later was imprisoned yet again where he was until he died. But these letters, the incredible powerful prison epistles, were all written with Paul in jail, okay? But he found a way to press on. He found a way to continue to have influence around the world, even though things weren't good for him and he was suffering considerably. Paul unlocks the secret here of how to press on with joy even in the most intense times in our lives.

As a matter of fact, he literally says, now I'm going to give you my pattern. I'm going to give you the secret that I have learned to this. And look at verse 17 for a moment. He says, join with others in following my example. There it is.

And take note of Those who live according to the pattern. There it is that we gave you. So what is the secret of being successful? What is the secret of obeying God even in the really difficult dark times within our lives? Here he's going to tell us four things.

First of all, there in your notes it says evaluation, evaluation. Face my faults. Face, face my faults. This is where you admit that you don't have it all together, that you still got a long way to grow, that you haven't arrived, that you're not perfect. And you do this by realistically looking at your life and understand where you are.

Paul was honest about his faults. He said, I have not arrived. I am not perfect. I am not the illustration of the very best way that you can do anything. Rather, he felt himself quite the opposite.

But I find it an amazing statement that he said that he wasn't and arrived. I mean, think about Paul. Paul, who was the one who wrote a third of the New Testament, the one who almost single handedly brought missions and mission impact with the gospel to the known world at that time. For him to say I'm not arrived, that's saying something. It says something to my heart Here towards the end of his life, he says, I don't have it all together.

I haven't arrived. I'm not perfect. I'm still growing. The point is that I want you to have this morning is God's people who really succeed in living a life of love and obedience before him never stop evaluating their lives growing. Never.

They never. They're always developing. They're always developing. And this is so contrary to what people usually think about church. Today most people think about church as well.

That's the place where people come. They've got their lives all together. Everything is making sense. It's roses in joy and all of that kind of stuff. But I want you to know something.

That's pretense. That's pretense. I want you to look around you, at the people that are around you. Go ahead and do it. Look around.

Let me see your eyeballs. There you go. Your eyes are moving. Look around you. Now a lot of times you come to church and you look at the person beside you or behind you or whatever and say they got it all together.

I'm a mess. Listen to me. You look into those lives and look just below the surface and you're going to find they're as big a hot mess as you are. The difference is. The difference is here we've learned to live as a people that are in progress, that have not yet arrived.

And we understand that there's going to be days that we're going to be on the mountaintop and we're shouting joys and we're having victories and we're on top of life and there's going to be times that you look at us and it's all I can do not to cry because life's tough. Following Christ is not a bed of roses. This is what Paul wanted people to understand. That's fictitious. Being around somebody that wants to appear like they've got it all together seriously gives me a case of indigestion because I know it's not true.

And if I'm putting on that air to you, I want you to know that's not true either. Okay? But here's a place that we've learned that we can be real, we can be authentic with one another here at Ebenezer. And I love this place for that. Paul says this is the starting point to understand it's okay to have limitations, to have weaknesses, to not to have arrived.

Stop and do an evaluation and admit where you are and what your needs are. Proverbs 28:13 says, you will never succeed in life if you try to hide your shortcomings, confess them and give them up, and then God can show mercy on you. Spiritually mature people don't mind admitting they hadn't got it all figured out. They haven't got all the answers, and they're certainly not getting it right every step of the way. That's okay if that's the way you are.

Hey, you are at home, okay? You're among real brothers and sisters that are seriously seeking to grow in their faith. And it's not easy, but be willing to have that evaluation. Secondly, in Paul's pattern, in his secret for success, is the word elimination. See that in your notes?

Elimination. He says, forget the former things. That's a way of saying, let go of the past. Paul says, if you're going to be all God wants you to be and grow you, don't waste your time on yesterday. It's gone.

It's past. The past is the past. He let go of his guilt, let go of his grief, let go of his grudges, let go of his past so he could move forward. Isaiah 43:18 says, forget the former things. Don't dwell in the past.

I'm doing a new thing. Some people get so caught up in the past, they totally miss the new thing that God is wanting to do in their lives. That's just wrong. Stop being Manipulated by your memories. How do you do that?

Well, Paul says, here it is, verse 13, focus on this for this one thing I do. Forgetting what is behind. Can I separate those two phrases? And I want to look at them differently because they're so packed with good stuff. All right, first of all, he says this one thing.

I this one thing. Will you say that with me? This one thing. Hold on to that a moment. That is so important.

The scripture is full of this. Jesus said to the rich young ruler, this one thing you lack. He said to Martha, this one thing is needful to you. The blind man who had been healed by Jesus said, this one thing. I know one thing have I desired with the Lord.

The psalmist says that I can seek after him too Many Christians are involved in the many things when the secret to growing is having a one thing, having a one thing that you devote yourself to. You know, there are few very successful athletes that can do a lot of different things. When you watch the Olympics or a lot of these trials, you find people that run what's called the decathlon or the septathlon, and that means they compete in 10 or seven different events. And it's as different from throwing the javelin as it is long distance running. And they have to be good at all of these things.

But let me tell you, of all the athletes you see during the Olympics or anything like that, only very few of them are multi talented that way. Most of them are laser focused on the one thing that God has called them and gifted them to do, that's a successful athlete. Everything is focused on the one thing. Let's learn a lesson from them. Paul is saying, this one thing, we need to specialize, to know what the one thing is that we're supposed to do and don't get distracted from that.

Nehemiah, the governor who was building the walls after coming back from the dispersion, there were some who wanted to lure him down from what he was doing. But remember what he said. He said, I am doing a great work. I cannot come down from the wall. James would say a double minded man is unusable in all of his ways.

Jesus put it this way, no man can serve two masters. The problem that we have is we are just absolutely too fragmented in our thinking. We got to do everything and all these different things and we can't. We got all these different basketballs up in the air trying to juggle them and we just can't keep them all in the air. Paul said the secret is getting focused, getting focused.

It's one Thing, he's going to talk about that. For him, it's the prize, the prize of the call that God has placed on his life. But what did that mean? The one thing for Paul was being in a love relationship with Jesus Christ and growing in that love relationship and day to day out of that love relationship, saying, God, what is it you want me to do today? Now listen, when you have that kind of relationship with Jesus Christ, there's a place in that one thing for family, there's a place in that one thing for work, there's a place in that one thing for hobbies, There's a place in that one thing for everything that you do.

Because it's all about Jesus. It's all about loving him and following him and obeying him in all of these different areas of your life. That's the one thing that he was focused on, this one thing. Now, the second phrase is forget that which is behind. Forget the past.

How do you do that? How do you do that? I'm going to forget so and so. I'm concentrating on it now. I'm going to forget this.

What am I doing? I'm focusing on it. You know, scientists tell us that we really can't forget anything. I beg to differ every now and then, but that, that our mind is such that it's like a very, very intricate computer. And anything that is encoded there is just going to always be there.

I may not know how to reach and retrieve it at any given time, but it's there. So how do you forget the embarrassing things you've done, the painful things that have happened to you? How do you, how do you do that? Well, it's not like pretending it never happened. It's not smiling at it and say, okay, you know, that, that, that sexual abuse, I'm just, I'm just, I'm just going forget about that.

No. Your brain, your spirit, your soul doesn't work that way. What forgetting means is that you don't let the past dictate your present and future. You don't let it control and have power over you to manipulate you. God's people learn from the past, and once they've learned from it, and it's under the blood of Jesus Christ and, and it's forgiven, then it's okay to forget it.

God does that. He said, I bury those sins in the sea of my forgetfulness. Does God no longer know what I did and what cost Jesus his life? Oh, no, no, no. He knows that.

What has he done? He said that isn't held against you anymore because it's under the blood of Jesus Christ. You are a new creation in Christ. And you are who I'm making you to be now, not who you were. You're who I'm creating you to be right now.

Why is it that it's human nature for us to remember the things that we ought to forget and forget the things we ought to remember? Well, I think it is a part of our human nature. But I also know that it's part of the work of the enemy in our lives to blind us from the truths of God's incredible holy word. Satan's favorite desire is to paralyze us with the past, to manipulate us with our memories. Paul says he will not sit around berating himself and filling himself with self condemnation.

What was he talking about? Well, remember what Paul used to do?

Out of his zeal and love for God, he persecuted believers in Christ, went after them, had him arrested, drug them into the courts, had some of them put in prison, had some of them executed. And we know at least one of those. Paul was standing by when Stephen, the first martyr, was being killed, holding the coats of those who were throwing the stones, killing him. That's Paul. If Paul had a past, that should have absolutely disqualified him for any kind of service, that it was him.

I don't see any murderers in our room that I know of. I see a lot of people that have our failures and there's things that we've done that we're not very proud of and that we would really like to forget.

But can I. Can I suggest something to you? When you hold on to something God has already forgotten and forgiven you for, you're looking into the face of Jesus and you're saying, I'm sorry, but your blood wasn't enough. Whew. I'd never say anything like that.

Preacher, if you're holding on to what God is wanting to release you from, that's exactly what you're saying. So if God has put it under the blood of Christ and tucked it away into the past, who are you to hold it out and let it control you, let it manipulate you? Paul says I gotta forget the past. He put his faults in the past. I want you to know something.

If you looked around at everybody a few minutes ago, everybody in this room has blown it one way or the other. That's the condition we're in. The Bible tells us God only is in love with one kind of person on planet Earth. You know what that kind of person is? Sinful folks like me and you not those that have got it together.

Those that have it together is very much like that rich young ruler. And I'm not going to get into that because you're going to hear that sermon coming up real soon. But he wanted everybody to think he had it all together. And just one comment from Jesus put him in his place. He didn't have it all together.

Wasn't even close. So why do we want to pretend? Can we just come clean with God today? Can we just be honest to God about what's happening in our lives and what's happened in the past and under the blood of Christ? Can we just say this is sealed away and forgotten?

Paul said, this is one thing I do. I forget these things that are behind. But the second thing that we need to forget is not just the bad things in our lives. We need to forget our successes every now and then, too. It's easy to stand and sit on our laurels and say, boy, we have done this and we've done that, and we've accomplished this, we've accomplished that.

Now it's time for me to just sit here.

I'm talking to all my contemporaries for a moment. Those of you who are retarded, like I. I mean, retired, like I am, let me tell you something. This will not leave your brain when I tell you, just. Just think about it.

The only time you're coasting is when you're going downhill.

If you're just coasting, you're going downhill, folks. Level ground or upper ground is the only way that you're pressing forward. And you see, God doesn't want us to sit on what we've accomplished in the past that's going downhill. We can't recreate any of that. I mean, the best things or whatever.

Now, I'm kind of one of the resident historians around here because I've been here since pine trees were planted in Georgia. So a lot of times Pastor Jamie or others will say, well, what was it like? And what did you do here? What did you do here? And I don't mind telling them, but I also tell them it don't matter because that was back there and we're right here, and God's got a new vision for where we are right now.

So it's the present and the future that Paul says we got to live for. How do you do that? Well, that's the third thing on your notes right there. It's concentration, concentration, focus on the future. If all you do is forget your past, all you have is amnesia.

That's no Good. That's not going to get you anywhere. That doesn't enable you to live a Christ life. Growing people, once they forget the past, focus on the future. What was the one thing that he said?

What was the one thing he said? I'm straining towards what is ahead. I'm pressing towards this goal. One thing, the one there. When you take all the geeky stuff that Pastor and I love to get into about the Greek language, it's almost like that word one is capital O, capital N, capital E, mortar.

It means one, not a dozen, not even two. This he's focused on the one thing, a flashlight. I shine around. I can see in the dark, okay, but it's pretty limited at what it can do. But if light is powerfully, keenly focused, it becomes a laser and it's powerful.

God wants to take this diffused life of yours and everything's going on all around everything, and focus it in on the love relations you have with. You have with Jesus Christ. He said, this is one thing I do. I face my faults, I forget the former. I focus on the future.

That's what he says. There's no growing in your Christian life until you face the future. And what am I going to do now? What was the prize that Paul was striving for? The prize was that he could fulfill what God had called him to do.

Now, I want to unpack this in just a minute, so I'm not going to go very far with it, but this is the prize. This is what he's straining for. This is what he's pushing for. This is why he's focusing not on anything in the past, but only in the future. Because I want to fulfill that for which I have been called.

That was the prize. He wanted to be Christ focused in every aspect of his life. How did he accomplish that? That's the last one. That's the word determination.

Paul was determined to fight to the finish. Persistence to fight to the finish. Have you learned yet in life that nothing really worthwhile or valuable ever happens without a great deal of effort? It's true a maximum reward requires maximum effort. You can't just focus going downhill.

Great people are ordinary people who have become focused in this one thing I do.

In Bill's book Blind Courage, he talks about times when other hikers had quit and he was having to traverse a very, very narrow, winding path, fall off on either side. Hundreds of feet, just him, blind and orient, his seeing eye dog low on provisions. Bitterly, bitterly cold. Now, if he didn't press on, he was going to Die. And so he says in his book, with Christ as my strength, I pressed on.

With Christ as my strength, I press on. That's the determination. This is the one thing I do. Maybe it's survival, because at that point it was for him and some of you in survival mode right now. There are things going on in your life that has.

That are so, so hard and so dark. Hey, I understand. And it's just survival mode right now.

Can I tell you the sweetest name for Jesus anywhere in the Bible? I mean, except his name, Jesus. There's. That's the most. But there's one name that has been.

Become so precious to my wife and I, and it's his name, Emmanuel. God with me. God, who's going to walk with me and hold up my arms on the mountaintops when things are going well and be there when I'm shivering with cold and scared to death in the dark. God with me. Bill Irwin knew that.

Now I want to chase a little rabbit. And again to do something that pastor and I call getting geeky every now and then. When you do language studies, it's a lot of fun. I'm not going to lose you in this, but I do want you to look with me twice in this passage he uses. It's one word called press on.

Can you find it? Look in the text. Used it twice. Two times. He says, I press on.

Or your Bible might say I press forward or press toward. Okay, that's an interesting choice of words. There's a lot of Greek words that Paul could have used to express this concentrated. I'm putting all my energy into this. There's several Greek words he used, but he used this word dioko.

Dioko. Weird. It's used 44 times in your New Testament. 42 of those times is not translated pass on, press on. It's translated persecute or to pursue in order to persecute.

Isn't that weird? Isn't that weird that, that he would use that word? I mean, put it, put it in the, put it in the scripture right there. And he says, but I persecute. I move forward passionately pursuing to persecute that I may lay hold on that which Christ has laid hold on me down there in 14.

I passionately pursue to persecute the goal for the prize of Christ. What in the world. There were so many other words he could use. Why did he use that word? Listen to me.

Because persecution had become part of Paul's DNA. What did he do before he was saved? He persecuted the church, hauled him off to prison, had him locked up, had him killed, even stood there cheering while it happened. And he was doing all that because he was convinced that's what God's will was for his life. He just knew that's what God wanted him to be doing.

He was zealously doing this. He was sincere in all he was doing, but he was sincerely wrong. And he was even had orders to go and pursue yet another group of people. And on the road going down there, bam. He ran right into Jesus Christ.

What did Jesus say? Paul, you're not persecuting a bunch of people that are prison are, you know, convicts. You're persecuting me. You're persecuting and pursuing to persecute me. Because when you hurt my people, you're hurting me.

And Paul slack jawed my Lord.

And now Paul, Paul found out something God said. I'm going to take that zeal that you zealously pursue to persecute. And I'm going to take every bit of that and I'm going to have you zealously pursue those who don't know me to where they can fall in love with me. And you're going to build my church. And Paul, by the way, all the persecution you did, I'm going to bring it right back on you and right back on your body.

You're going to be persecuted your whole ministry and you're going to die being persecuted. I guess that was a pretty good word for him to use after all, wasn't it? Dioco. What does that mean? Well, I want you to see one other phrase and then I can tie that together.

Will you look right there in verse 12 it says I press on. That's that same word, I press on that I may lay hold of. Katalambana was that word. And to lay hold of means to capture, to seize something. Okay.

He said, I'm pressing on. That I may capture, that I may seize that for which Christ also captured and seized me. You see that? He said, I'm going after capturing and seizing that for which, for which the reason, for the purpose that he seized me. Hey, I'm no Paul, but I was doing life my own way, following my own rules, doing what I wanted and pleasing just me.

And then bam.

Jesus was pursuing me and I ran into him. And he said in his own way to me, fred, what are you doing?

I fell in love with Jesus Christ that day.

And let me tell you, the things that God calls you to do in life, you're not going to do out of guilt. You're not going to do out of somebody's expectation for you. If you're not motivated by love, you're not going to do the hard things. You're not going to do the hard things. You're not going to be an obedient child of God if you're not in love with Jesus.

Jesus said this. He said, if you love me, you'll keep my commandments. Anybody having trouble keeping the end of commandments, anybody having difficulty with any of the things Jesus told us to do, let me tell you, your problem is not with that. Your problem is not with tithing. Your problem is not obeying him about who to date.

Your problem is your love. He said, because if you love me, then it's settled. You're going to do my will and I'm going to give you fullness of life. It's about the lordship of Christ. But here's what I want you to see.

What God did in Paul's life, what he did in my life, what he did in the lives of many people around you, I know he did in Jamie's life, He did it in Randy's life, He did in Kevin's life and Crosby's life. God laid hold of him. Mmph. You are mine. It's the same thing he did as he saved each and every one of you.

But then he said, I saved you for a purpose. There's a reason I shed my blood for you. There's a reason that I passionately pursued you till I got you is because I've got something I want you to lay hold of. I want you to rise. Paul, you know, said that his.

His desire was that when he got to the end of his life, the last words we know he wrote was in second Timothy, 4, 7, 8. I have fought the good fight. I have finished the race. I have kept the faith. And now there is in store for me a crown of righteousness which the Lord himself will award not only to me, but to all who love his appearing.

That's the result of the love relationship.

I hope somebody will say that about me one day. That he was so in love with Jesus, he never got over it. I don't want you to get over loving being in love with Jesus because he's not going to get over his love for you. Rather, here's what I want you to offer you this morning. Some of you are struggling, some of you getting here.

Today was not the easiest part of your day either. The physical or mental or emotional pain was almost overwhelming. The difficulties with the kids, fearing what you Might face whatever it was. Like I said earlier, when you look around, everybody else here is just as big a hot mess as you are. So what do we do with this?

Let me tell you something. Jesus wants to meet you at a point of decision today. For you to say, lord, I don't have it together. As a matter of fact, I'm a mess. But this morning, I dare to believe that you want to so empower me that I can press on.

I can move forward. I may be in a jail of my own creation. It may be my addictions. It may be the pain of my past. It may be.

I don't know what it is. It doesn't matter.

But right now, I dare to believe that you're the Emanuel that's walking with me and in my heart. And you want to give me that supernatural strength, not only to press on, but to press on joyfully to know that you're with me. In just a moment, I'm going to have our praise team to come. And we're going to end in a song. But it's an invitation if you'd like to come and just say, jesus, I need you to renew my love.

I need you to restore to me the joy of my salvation. I want you to know that's okay. You're not alone. You're welcome to come. Please be here.

If you need somebody to pray with you. There'll be prayer warriors all around. Or maybe. Maybe you're nowhere near the mountaintop. Maybe you find yourself way down in the valley and it's dark and it's cold and it's scary and it's alone and you just want to cry out, God, I need my Emmanuel.

I need to know you're with me and somehow infuse me with your supernatural presence within me. To just press on. To just press on. And he's waiting to say yes to that kind of a prayer. Maybe there's something else you want to come and talk to him about.

But I want you to know this altar is open. Ministers are available if you need them. Prayer warriors are here too, as we have this song starting. Where'd my praise team go? There he is.

There he is. I'm so caught up. What's going on? You've got. You have something else to do.

Didn't you. We want to be transparent. Brother Fred. What will somebody think if I stand up and walk down to the olive tree? They'll think I'm a mess and I haven't got it all together well, so let me tell you what's in the heart of Ebenezer People praise God.

They've listened to the word of God that was spoken for the people of God and now they're going to do the will of God. So if you'll stand with me right now we have this song just about loving the Lord God's touched on you only heart the you need to come and pray about any matter. Maybe need to come and pray for me that'd be okay. Whatever it is God's put on your heart, Will you have the freedom? Come and say yes, Father God, this is your time.

Nobody lifted up to Jesus and in.