100 and I’m excited to be alive amen I’m excited for this new year and I’m excited for everything that I trust God I’m going to receive and you’re going to receive in this new year amen God has crowned our year with goodness and my desire is for each of us
To experience all the goodness of God he has set apart for you personally amen Psalms 100 I’m going to be reading from the King James version the Bible says Make a Joyful Noise unto the Lord All Ye Lands serve the Lord with gladness and come before his presence with
Singing know ye that the Lord he is God it is he that hath made us and not we ourselves we are his people and the Sheep of his pasture enter into his gates with Thanksgiving and into his courts with praise be thankful unto him and bless his name for the Lord is
Good his Mercy Everlasting and his truth endures to all generations Psalms 100 please be seated in the presence of the Lord Psalms 100 want to greet everybody in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ this is the day that the Lord God has made and we will
Rejoice and we will be glad in it amen amen amen let mean so let it be we thank God for again this New Year and happy New Year to each every one of you um have great expectations for what God has for you this year amen have great expectations
For your life for this new year do have a word for you and it’s something that God the Father placs upon my heart we’re continuing in in a series and we’re learning and discovering or rediscovering the church what we are a part of and what we
Are as the church the Greek word for church is Ecclesia they called out group of people a set apart group of people a Sanctified group of people we like to do this afternoon is to for a brief moment go throughout the text and and learn about what the body
Of Christ or the church is as his flock in the Bible we’ve been called a number of things by the Lord and each thing that we’ve been called has a particular meaning an association with it and so we want to learn what does it mean for the church to be the flock
The flock of God so we started in Psalm 100 and it’s a famous Psalm it’s a prescription on how we come into the presence of the Lord we see here how that you know and in the temple on Temple grounds you know you had an outer
Court you had a gate to enter into the outer court and then you had the temple inside of the temple were the furniture of God and inside of the temple was the most holy place of God but coming before God he gave us a prescription here in Psalm 100 is quoted
By so many song and it’s read continuously when he tells us to come into His gates with Thanksgiving anytime you go before God that should be the posture of your heart thank him I know there’s some of things in our Liv we may not have all that we
Desire but we have a lot to be thankful for amen all we need to do is look to the left look to the right and we can see sometime tragic things have transpired to some people but God did not allow to happen to you all of us shall always come before
The presence of God with Thanksgiving in his course with praise the Bible said that we ought to render to God the fruit of our lips the sacrifice that we give to God we don’t give a lamb or an animal or a bull he requires us to give him the
Sacrifice of praise the fruit of our lips thanking him keep in mind that that is what is required of you that is what we ought to do and that is what we must do we must come before God with the sacrifice of praise but giving God thanks is what he
Desires so in your home when you’re driving down the road maybe when you’re cooking or maybe you’re walking doing your daily routine maybe at your job not just when we come to assemble get in the habit of giving God thanks for what he’s done for you
Amen thank God what he done for your spouse for your children for your grandchildren for your great grandchildren some of us our children some of us as adults we’ve been through some hard times growing up our our kids haven’t experienced that thank God for that amen thank God for the hardship they
Don’t have to face they won’t be facing they did not face and thank God for how he brought you through and saw all us through the storm so always give God thanks but I want to highlight is verse number three verse number three the Bible said know you that the Lord or
Yahweh who we call Jehovah by the way the name of our God is Yahweh that is his sacred name that’s the only true God that is the name that’s written over 6,800 times in your Old Testament in the original Hebrew text that is the name
That he gave to Moses that is the name that he told Moses I am that I am the sacred most Reverend name that can come out your lips is Yahweh and in your Bible whenever you see l r d g o d and capital letters the name of God goes
There let me say it again when you read your Bible everywhere you see L O R D and capital letters g o d and capital letters the name goes there Orthodox um Hebrews observe Judaism they won’t say that name that name is only said on certain days certain times instead of that they’ll
Say thing like adoni which means Lord or Hashem or the name or they have a custom of saying coros or Heaven because what they’re endeavoring to do is keep the Commandment remember the Ten Commandments that God gave to Israel he said You shall not take the name of the
Lord your God in vain but as you read it in Exodus 20 in your text you see that it or capital letters so he literally pronounced his name and said you not take this name Yahweh you won’t take that name in vain and so we need to know the name of
Our father the name of the true almighty God the name is Yahweh the short form of the name is yah every time you say hallelujah you’re saying his name you hear in churches the highest praise Hallelujah because it’s two words all Hal which means to praise and J A or y a
Is yah that is his name matter of fact in your King James version of your Bible if you go to Psalm 68 you actually see that name translated only in that place in the scriptures so I just want to give us that understanding that when you say
Hallelujah why is that the most highest praise and why is that in the Book of Revelations when a commandment came from the Throne of God to praise the Lord and everybody in heaven everybody it sounds like thunder everybody not some not a Hallelujah choir or or chorus or Corner
Every everybody open their mouth and say one thing Hallelujah that is the highest praise so understand that when you’re saying that it’s not uh I know some people mock God and mock the things of God and say that word not knowing what they’re saying but when the saints say it’s a
Great thing because what you’re doing at that time is you giving High Praise to the most high God Amen so in Psalm 100 verse3 understanding that he says know that Yahweh he is God meaning that Jehovah your God is the true God he’s emphasizing that to Israel in a society
Where they worship many God the nations of the world worship many God they worship the bael the Amar the Deon the Asos the BS all the nations of the world every one of them worshiped a false god but God designated himself to Israel and gave his name to them so they can know
Who the true God is he says it is he that have made us and we not we ourselves why that so critical you and me young to old we need to remember that we’re not God we didn’t make ourselves for the word of God says that
It is he that have made us not we ourselves that mean that my life living is old to one being it belongs to God so if I didn’t make myself that mean that I don’t belong to myself let me say it again if I didn’t make myself or create myself I don’t belong
To myself I belong to the one who created me or made me and each and every one of us from the youngest to the oldest got to keep that in mind as you go throughout your life I didn’t make myself I don’t belong to myself I belong to the one who made
Me I’m obligated to the one who made me who created me first rule of creation the very first revelation that God Gave To Creation in Genesis 1 in beginning God created heaven and the Earth the very first revelation or revealing of God to humans to all is this I am your
Creator I am the Creator I’m not just the heavens and the earth and the universe but all of man kind and so as that Creator all of us are obligated to our creator to submit ourselves to him to learn who he is why did God create you
Because he loved you because he wanted you that’s why he created you never go throughout life feeling as if no one cares for you you you’re here because God cares for you God loves you but nevertheless what I want to highlight is he said we are his people and the Sheep
Of his pasture the church the eklesia or the church is a flock it’s the flock of God the Bible says that we are the Sheep of his pasture I want you to find Acts chapter 20 verse 28 I’m going to wait for you to get there too often and nowadays is all this
Stuff that’s being brought forth to God’s people but it’s not the word of the Lord Our God desire us to know the word it’s the word that you’re going to go off of it’s the word you’re going to make you strong it’s the word going to
Build you up it’s only the word of God that’s your sword so our our our our Our obligation is to ensure that you’re getting the word of God because the word of man is not the sword of the spirit when the enemy comes up against you he can care less about what you
Say that’s not your sword the only weapon that we have prescrib in Ephesians chapter 6 is the sword everything else is defensive it’s armor from the helmet to The Shield is all to protect you it’s it’s defensive but the only off offensive weapon that we have is the sword of the spirit which
Is the word of God so you and I we need to know how to handle the word of God because you can me rest assured that the adversary is going to try to oppose you every which way that he can and the only thing that you have defend him off
Accurately and effectively at all times is the word of God so when we assemble When We Gather when we hear I want to hear the word of God not the word of man I don’t want to hear the opinions of men I want to hear the truth of God oh in
Psalm 100 it says that for the Lord is good his mercies Everlasting and his truth endureth to all generations we’re living in a time where everybody got their own truth Live Your Truth she got her truth but the only truth that going to last throughout all generation is
God’s truth for he say his truth endures to all generations amen amen so we to make sure that we living according to his truth everything going down but the word of God in Acts chapter 20 verse 28 Paul is speaking to the Elders of the Church of Ephesus he’s journeying to
Jerusalem and instead of stopping in Ephesus where the saints of God were he didn’t want them kind of like to hold him back from going to the destination so he summoned the Elders of the Church of Ephesus and they met him at a particular location and here in Acts 20
Verse 28 Paul says take heed therefore unto your eles you know before going any further some of us a lot of us all of us at times spend so much time focusing on somebody else we forget about our own selves amen we get so preoccupied with what
Sister and brother ain’t doing you know what I’m talking about so focused on that that we find ourselves not doing what we supposed to be doing so even though we GNA see these men are Elders he says take eat to yourself first before you check the house of God check
Yourself first that’s right and we’re living in an age in Christ christon where a lot of leaders have forgotten check yourself first minister to yourself first teach yourself how to live right first before you try to teach others how to live right right he says take heed to yourselves and to
All the flock of God the flock the flock is a group a group of something over the which the Holy Ghost have made you overseers what’s your responsibility to feed to tend to to care for the church or the flock of God which he has purchased with his own blood that’s a
Powerful thing right here God is is telling or reminding Paul is speaking to the elders reminding them look here now look here this flock is God’s people this flock he said that God purchased it with his own blood so he’s saying it don’t belong to you it belongs
To him and you see you know the value of something by the price you pay for it a five karat ring carries value you know it by the price you pay for it anything that has a high price tag mean that it’s a valuable object or
Valuable thing so when it come down to the flock of God he letting the elders know the overseers know check this out the flock of God that the Holy Ghost has appointed you to oversee to tend to to care to to feed it is bought with a
Price it’s bought with other than the blood of Christ God purchased it for himself so he’s speaking to the elders but he’s reminding them that the church is the flock of God you know sheep sheep are unique animals they don’t see very good and when you think about a sheep
You also think about a Shepherd a sheep doesn’t see very well but it hears very well you see Jesus said that I am the Good Shepherd and he G out his life for his sheep so I believe God is speaking to us the church to begin to identify
Ourselves and to understand that we are his flock if we are his flock that mean that he is the shepherd and so as a member of his flock I belong to him and I belong to a group too many people claim that God has sent them away from
The church that ain’t coming from God let me say this again worldwide web it’s a trap for so many people too many people have found a platform to spew lies hatred deception and it’s confusing a whole lot of people can I get an amen amen so many self-proclaimed leaders but this in act
2028 Paul says the Holy Ghost made you overseas see it’s a distinction between being God appointed and self-appointed many people appoint themselves but they don’t got the goods and it cause damage to the house of God it cause damage to the people of God because they have been planted by the evil one
To confuse people for God said that in Jeremiah I will give you pastors or Shepherds after my own heart who will feed you with knowledge and with understanding first and foremost the true Shepherd is Jesus amen amen matter of fact please turn with me to First Peter
5 first Peter 5 I want you to see this because my desire is for you to get the word of God going to go somewhere with this but the church is the flock if I’m a if it’s the flock I’m a member of it I must be a sheep 1 Peter
5 sometimes in the body of Christ so many times in today’s church people forget who they belong to leaders forget who to belong to leaders forget who the flock of God really belongs to so Apostle Paul just told the elders something in Acts Ephesus now the great Apostle Peter is
Talking to the elders as well by the way Elder is overseer Bishop is an elder the word episcopate literally means superintendent a Bishop’s role is the overseeing role superintendent that’s literally what it means Pastor by definition means Shepherd that is the direct definition of the word Pastor the early church those who
Was positioned to over to to to oversee the congregation were called Elders or they were called Bishop later on as the church grew the word Pastor which is a five- for Ministry gift became to be the word used for the individual person who oversaw the flock flock Shepherd Pastor
Flock amen but whether you call that Pastor Elder you’re biblically correct in a grand sense the word Bishop would use for a overseer of overseers so I want to give an understanding whether that when is called bishop or elder or overseer technically they have the same role is
To tend to the flock of God but by definition the word Pastor really unveils the nature of that gift of that type of minister because a pastor is different from an evangelist an evangelist by definition is a preacher of the Gospel that is what they’ve been gifted called by God to do
So if you have a evangelist in your midst you will get preached to but you won’t get pastored it’s the difference a pastor a Shepherd job is to tend to the flock are you hearing me to to to to to feed a flock to nourish A
Flock and Pastor where in ADV is going out to get people to part be part of the flock the shepherd is taking care of the flock the shepherd will preach and teach the word of God but it go beyond that he going to tend to the flock he going to C
To the flock he will give his life for the flock what he need to do to ensure that the Sheep are being fed tend to that the sick of being healed that go B being delivered can I go on everybody called to be a pastor
And one of the problem is this we have people in a position of a pastor who ain’t pastors people a get preached to but a getting Pastor see one who call to be a teacher will teach you but got no patience for you as a p could only have that Grace
Amen yeah we gonna get that lab I just share that amen be careful what you call yourself amen don’t you put yourself in position God and put you in because you got to give account of your falsehood To God Be Careful What You Proclaim yourself to be the Bible says make your
Calling election sure you better know what you are don’t set yourself up because God truly will set you down amen amen so it’s a great thing it’s important thing it’s a great thing for leaders to be right in the sight of God so Paul Peter is saying first Peter
5 the Elder which are among you I exalt who am also an elder he was an apostle but I’m an elder Peter meaning I’m an overseer the 12 apostles are overa the entire church as Bishops overseers but by definition his unique gift he’s an apostle so he
Says who also am an elder and a witness of the suffering of Christ and also a partaker of the glory that should be revealed what is a what is an Elder’s JW what’s your primary job y’all remember when Peter denied Jesus y’all remember that when Peter denied Jesus three times
Y’all remember how in the Book of John when when Jesus on the well Peter and some of his fellows were disciple were on the were fishing and they ain’t caught nothing and then they look on the bank right and they saw a man out there it was
Jesus long story short Jesus told him what to do they got some fish Peter recognized who it was he jumped out of the boat and swam and meet Jesus amen remember now he just denied Jesus three times Deni him but he still got out the boat and
Swam he let them to get get that Fe I got I know his voice I know who that is he got there and Jesus had breakfast some good breakfast y’all Christ had some good breakfast prepare for me y’all but you know what Jesus did his first order of business
Restoration see when you come to God if you’re broken the first order business not how you can serve him how can he serve you his first order of business not see sometime we get so anxious about thinking God you want me to do the x y z
For him he said no child you forget I’m the shepherd I got to attend to you first you’ve been broken I need to fix you up I need to restore you and my God help me Holy Ghost so to Peter now Judas killed himself he couldn’t live with his betrayal and he killed
Himself and the devil went after Peter too because Jesus told Peter say Simon Satan desired to have you Simon he has requested you to sift you like we the same thing that happened to Judas he wants to do it to you too but Jesus said I pray for
You not that you get taken away from this trial not that you get exempt from the test but I pray for you that your faith fa not and when you converted Peter strengthen the brothers meaning I didn’t pray for you to be taken away from this test no son
You got to go through this and your faith going to last and we know the story how he what he did he could have been so overcome with sorrow he could committed suicide but he didn’t because Jesus prayed for him but now he’s coming and Jesus knows my my son is
Broken and the first thing Jesus says is Peter Peter do you love me more than these Peter said yeah Lord yeah I love you Lord and Jesus says feed my Lambs Peter do you love me more than these Peter like yeah Lord feed my sheep Simon Peter do you love me more
Than these by this time Simon got grieved you know why he thought about three times denied Jesus but God about restoration and he gave him opportunity to correct them face to face you deny me but guess what here I am confirm your love to me face to
Face it broke Peter down but Jesus said feed my sheep you see an Elder’s responsibility is close to the master you know why he the shepherd and any Elder I just feel this compelled to say I’m going move on don’t negate to do what he said
Do he said feed my lambs and feed my sheep meaning your purpose on this planet is to take care of my flock not to fleece them not to abuse them not to lie to them but that tend to my flock flock is God’s people so that
Peter is talking to other Elders now in verse two he says feed the flock of God which is among you taking the oversight thereof not by constraint but willingly not for a filthy Luc but a ready mind meaning no one should have to make you do your
Job and don’t do it for dishonest game and money your motivation you are howling you’re not a true Shepherd oh that’s the truth he’s telling you look here no one should have to make you get up and take care of God’s flock if you ELD if you’ve been called
By him it’s in you to do that thing and God is saying you you show how much you love me how you love my people amen whatever there a leader who don’t love his people he Ain represent God he representing himself that’s aing let me keep on
Going verse three neither as being Lords over God’s Heritage but example to the flock and when the chief Shepherd shall appear you shall receive a Crown of Glory that doesn’t Fade Away what he saying and check this out Elder overseer bishop or Pastor choose the word you want to use
Preser fee the flock but understand something you’re not the Lord you don’t always flock you’re not the lord of the flock you just the unders sheeper to the flock you see when I’m watching over somebody else’s children I’m very careful because you know what they’re not mine but they’ve been placed in my
Care to watch over them amen I’m going to tend to them like their mind but I understand I may treat them with a even more care because they ain’t mine so when I deal with God’s flock and any other deal with fault you understand be careful how you treat God’s
People yeah you’ve been appointed to lead and the Bible tells you and tells us to submit to Godly Authority amen praise God but guess what they ain’t your flock be ask Moses about it Moses missed the promised land all that he did the great Shepherd God calls him of his
Flock Moses knew God face to face face to face all the great miracle God did by this man the meest man on Earth the powerful man of God Moses the lawgiver Moses but he missed the promis land because he spoke ill and VI over God’s people he got so they got under his
Skin CU they used the mouth off a lot you know what I mean merma complain and it got under his skin and he said God told him what to do go speak to that rock Moses and give them water you know Moses said Aaron must we fetch water for you
Rebels he call them out their name and he smoked the rock as if I’m doing this him and Aaron and God let him know for this right here what you just did you are not going in the promised land god I L them out of I did all this
But just because I called your people out their name and I didn’t glorify you I made it about me at that moment not about you he says I allow you to go up to the mountain and look over it but you ain’t going in it and Moses dies in the wilderness
While on with Aaron so what Pastor saying is this if you a Helder grave responsibility cuz it’s not your flock they may get on your last nerve but it ain’t your flock it’s God’s flock you’re not their lord you D to represent the Lord to them so be careful
How you deal with God’s people that’s for all Elders be careful how you speak to how you deal with how you tend to and what you’re feeding God’s flock amen I want to move on for a moment and I want you to go to the Old Testament for a
Moment I’m almost finished with this Leviticus chapter 23 I thank God that we got a good shepherd and the shepherd job is to lead the flock you know a sheep by nature is an herbivore it would be considered prey it is not a predator but there are predators out in
The wild in the wilderness one Sheep by itself can’t stand against the Predators out there the flock reveals a group The Shepherd in the 23 Psalms by the way that Psalm is prophetic it reveals Jesus and his ministry as the shepherd to the church Psalm 22 is prophetic it for
Tells the suffering of Christ remember he said my God my God why have you forsaken me you’ll read that in Psalms 22 his sufferings they will look upon my bones they’re gonna stare at me all that they did is recorded in Psalm 22 it’s a mesic chapter mesic song or a song that
Talked about the Messiah Psalm 22 about the suffering of Christ his death on the cross but Psalm 23 is prophetic it for tell the time when the Great Shepherd will lead his sheep and we the body of Christ can boldly say the Lord is Our Shepherd a shall won and all what the
23d psalm says that is the ministry of Jesus to the church now and at the end David says surely goodness and mercy shall follow me all the days of my life and what great promise I will dwell in the house of the Lord forever that’s the comatic end for the
Church because we’re the flock and he’s the shepherd and all we need to do is even when I can’t see him I got to be able to hear his voice for Jesus said my sheep hear my voice he didn’t say my Lambs amen see a
Lamb had to goow up to be a sheep in Isaiah chapter 40 it say that our God will gently carry the young in his bosom like she doing with that child right there that’s a picture of Jesus with his little ones he’s saying they’re not sheep yet they’re not mature yet so
I got to carry them oh y got to hear that that’s the position and that’s the posture that we need to have with the Lord sometimes we don’t have to try to have all the answers just get in this lap word sometimes God going to allow you to go through situations face hardships
Face trial that you know God is too big for me but what we do is we start worrying about it we try to figure out how to fix it no I’m good well I can’t handle this thing he saying at this time I don’t need you to walk I need you to
Let me carry you amen and the moment we understand that this is a season in my life my God that I need to be close to my savior like that boy is to his mama Hallelujah during this time he not asking me to walk he’s saying let me
Pick you up cuz I’m your Shepherd you my sheep there are times in this journey when a Shepherd leads to a ravine or a hole and the Sheep can’t jump he says here he picks them up and he carries them to the destination there are times in your life
My God that you going to face all kind of hardships all kind of hardships it’s a part of the journey it’s not to the destroy you is for you to get close to your Shepherd amen when there’s a flock of God there’s a shepherd of
God and I think a lot of time we got to remember I don’t care how we need be strong in the Lord I got to remember I’m just a child in the sight of Jesus Amen and sometimes I I think I said Lord I I just need you to comfort
Me right now amen amen and I know God it’s too much for me he know that’s humility yeah cuz see if he got all the ask what you need him for yes he wants you to be strong when he said be strong in the Lord I know how
When that thing come to me I’mma give it to my father cuz no one is greater than him what they come up against me and they too strong for me DAV say I’m going to be ciding in this thing right here cuz the Lord is my life he’s my
Salvation he’s my Deliverance I can trust in him as a shepherd He tends to his flock you may not see him but you can hear his voice you hear the word you learn how to hear the voice of God excuse me through the word of God Amen Saints listen to
This I want to hear God speak to me open up your Bible he speaks through the scriptures too many people God said this God said that God said this and what they’re saying don’t line up with this no feed his people the truth as a young Christian all of us who
Are young in the Lord get to know your Bible so when God speaks you know it’s him or when someone claim be speaking for God you recognize oh they a’t him that oh they ain’t right there the shepherd loves his sheep there are times when the shepherd will walk out amongst the
Sheep or walk to a destination or designated space and he make a call and all the Sheep will come have you ever seen that before a Shepherd will go out to a designate maybe the Waring hole and he’ll go there and he will make his call
And all the Sheep will stop and come I mean it’s coming you know that you can have five 4,000 sheep in one big old area and can have 20 different Shepherds who watch over a certain amount of these flocks and one Shepherd go four five sheep so he got 100 in that
In that in that bunch he goes out there and makes his call only his sheep come that’s it it’s remarkable to look at like wow and you have to get sing they want it you know what I’m saying let they Maring that’s how look at some
Sheep I mean it’s like you know how you walk in the line right get way get behind I’m going that’s how they look some time they all just hurting themselves and getting in line to go to the shepherd’s voice to the place he called them to which lead to this last point that
Father placed in my heart to share with us the flock of God a group led by the great Shepherd in Leviticus 23: 1 2 and 3 the Bible says these words and the Lord spake unto Moses saying Speak unto the children of Israel and say to them concerning the Feast of the
Lord which you shall Proclaim to be holy convocations even these are my Feast six days shall work be done but the seventh day is a Sabbath of rest and a holy convocation you shall do no work therein either the Sabbath of the Lord in your all your dwelling we’re going to get
Into this a little bit right here and then the illustration I just gave how the shepherd will go to a particular spot make a call and then the Sheep will come to the shepherd to that spot the the word convocation that word that’s an English word but here is translated from a word
Mikra it’s a Hebrew word that we translate as convocation and so he says that in verse three six days shall you shall work be done and and God is giving them what you know remind them of the Ten Commandments remember the Ten Commandments one commandment was this
Remember the Sabbath day to keep it holy the Sabbath day was the seventh day and is the seventh day of the week it was the day that God Sanctified and set apart way back in Genesis but he never gave anybody a commandment as such to observe it that’s to be
Understood but the nation of Israel who are a nation of slaves as a slave they work every day as a slave you don’t have no rest you work all the time but when God delivered them remember he says I am the Lord your God that brought you out of
The house of bondage meaning that I am now your master I delivered you from being slaves and one of the thing God said what going to do is this you’re not gonna be working every day of the week you’re not going to be you’re not gonna be um worshiping the gods of Egypt
You’re not gonna be worshiping honoring the gods of pharaoh so what I command you to do is six days you’re going to work but the seventh day like I rested you going to rest and I only are you going to rest guess what we going to convocate together are y’all hearing
Me this has been lost with the church I’m going SW with this listen what convocation means a public meeting a rehearsal a calling a reading convocation he says six days you going to work but on the seventh day I am commanding you we going to get together and have a public
Meeting are you hearing me on this particular day on this sabbath day my flock is going to get together with the true Shepherd and we’re g to have a rehearsal convocation we’re going to have a rehearsal together we’re going to have a public meeting together see and they’re tensed as
Private but he’s saying guess what yes you worship me privately in your home Israelite sheep flock but I commanded that one day that we’re going to get together have a public meeting we G have a public rehearsal amen where you going to have a public reading of the word of God and that’s
What Israel did all throughout the Old Testament and to this day Jews who prac Judaism on the Sabbath day they know that we got to get together for a public meeting man God conation means a rehearsal what are we rehearsing whenever the Church of God gets together
Don’t you know in the future it can be one getting up morning when the Lord going to shout the trumpet going to blast and the Lord going to gather all his people from all over the world the they going to get out the grave those
That are living going to be cut up and one day we all going to get together stand before the Living God it won’t be a preacher preaching it’s gonna be Jesus standing there it won’t be not seeing God we’re going to see God alight our own eyes and collectively together we
All gonna bow down we all Gonna Worship we all gonna praise him and we’re going to hear the word of God from his mouth that’s the come so we get together on a day of appointment it’s a rehearsal the flock has been called to get together go to First Corinthians chapter
16 why I go to church why do I assemble together because he commanded we have a public meeting we learn from the old the Old Testament law we have the tradition of the Apostles they didn’t stop doing that the early church were Jewish they continue on the Sabbath day but more
More Gentiles came into the fold they began to honor Christ and get together on the first day of the week let me show you something why what day did Jesus rise from the dead first day of the week when did the Holy Ghost come first day of the
Week and suin after seven come number eight a also number one what are you saying A New Beginning so the early church even in the time of the Apostles they got together some even continue meeting on the Sabbath but the next day they got together at the flock of God having a public
Meeting having a public rehearsal where it can hear the word of the Lord and worship God collectively together because one day when we get caught up we’re going to be together to worship him together God is about the church being together together 1 Corinthians 16 verse one the Sabbath day has not
Changed that’s the seventh day of the week Friday Sunset the Saturday Sunset but the Sabbath day was given to the Israel to observe it was a sign between God and the nation Israel that they were his in the New Testament we’re not under that law however and following the
Tradition of the apostle that theyve given to us all since the early early Church times Christians have gotten together exclusively on the first day of the week to remind us you see they didn’t wait for Easter to to to glorify and talk about the resurrection every first day
Of the week every Sunday they got together to commemorate to celebrate Jesus his resurrection the coming of his spirit and they got together and broke bread together heard the word of God together prayed together and fellowship together every week every week following the teaching of God when he told Israel six days you
Going to work but one day you going to get together it’s going to be a convocation a public meeting that mean that you got to get out your tent get out your house cuz it’s not private it’s public oh y’all ain’t saying nothing all you bedside Baptist that’s right well I want to
Serve God I just serve God all in my house you don’t know the god you serve you’re insubordinate you don’t know you don’t know who you belong to you’re a part of a flock you make yourself he made you the convocation is a public meeting not a private one it’s a
Rehearsal it’s a place where a public meeting was given in Moses day he was the preacher then Aaron was the preacher and so on they got together they worship honor God we got to get back to esteeming that Saints the flock of God got a me remember the shepherd came to a certain
Spot call his sheep to that spot so he can tend to them 1 Corinthians 16:1 it said now concerning the collection for the Saints as I have given order to the churches of galatia even so do ye upon the first day of the week let every one of you lay by
Him in store as God has prospered him that there be no Gathering when I come further evidence that on the first day of the week Disciples of Christ Practice coming together and Paul is saying you know there are poor Saints in Judea that they receiving collection for look check this out and
God has prospered you set that aside on the first day of the week what should what your you know what should be the rule of thumb out when you give offering to God how has he prospered you that’s different for different people but he says set apart as God has
Prospered you have th already settled in your heart go to Acts 20 I’m giving you these text a matter of fact it’s on your agenda your outline I want you to have these on your program act 20:7 I’m to give you Bible Bible why you come together why why are
We here on Sunday morning because the Saints did it it’s a precept it’s a custom that’s rooted in God’s ways for the Jews it’s the Sabbath day for the Christian by tradition is the first day of the week and some still observe the Sabbath and it GA it on that
Day but early Christians chose you know what exclusively we’re going to recognize Sunday that’s not the Sabbath but it’s called The Lord’s Day in honor of Jesus his resurrection from the dead this new beginning this new life and how that the Holy Ghost came on that day verse
Seven upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together when means that they were doing that amen again and upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together that mean that it was their custom to get together when the first day of the
Week to do what to break bread that means the Lord’s Supper which we’re going to partake of in a moment and fellowship and Paul preached to them ready to depart on the tomorrow and continue his speech to midnight will we get together what we getting together
For remember that the shepherd job is to tend to the flock when you come at the public meeting you have to have this mindset Speak Lord Speak To Me Speak Lord speak to me I’m not coming to hear a man or woman I’m coming to hear my
Shepherd you have given you have given us an assignment there’s a designated time and a designated place for your flock to come together in Genesis when Adam fell remember God said Adam where you at God was at a particular location where he expected Adam to be at but guess what he wasn’t
There God would tell the Israel on the seventh day I want you to meet me here they gathered together around the Tabernacle at the house of God and God was saying on the Sabbath day you’re not slaves at Pharaoh you’re my sons and daughters and you going to meet here at
My house I got to talk to you and as a Shepherd guess what God I cannot attend to you see a Shepherd y was if you sick to heal you to bend you or to menend you to to take care of you when you come to the assembly on the
Lord’s day he’s saying this is a time to set apart where the shepher calls his flock not just to get preached to for let them tend to you what do you mean by that when you come to the house of God to the assembly open yourself up to God to
Correct what needs to be correct amen know why you’re coming obedience God this is a public meeting there’s a time for private and there’s a time for public it’s a together thing you know old Tesla car go over so far then they got to get charged
Up amen when I come to the Gathering to the house of God to the assembly in honor of the Lord following his ways I’m gonna go to the designated spot the assembly where the master is at we can speak to his church collectively I need to get charged up oh
Yeah amen for my journey you do too we got to get back to doing what he said if we’re going to experience the blessing that we want there’s no why see I learned something everything God says for you to do ain’t gonna be easy true sometimes it’s a sacrifice
Him that means it got to cost you something right but is he worth it I said is he worth it if Jesus can if Jesus can give his life publicly for me I can publicly get together and hear the word of God if Jesus can’t fall down and get up
His cross get and get his cross beting half to death I think I can get up on a Sunday morning and meet at the house of God to meet with my shepherd the one that I say that I love where I work I used to work along
Many days long hours and they about me I said you know what how dare I not go I go and be faithful to some man punching his clock and be that Faith all time to get promoted by this man but that man don’t give me the breath that I
Breathe that man didn’t die for my sin that man didn’t rise for me if I can be faithful my God I can preach this thing here to go and punch a man’s CR I better get up tired or not and be there be square with the people of
God obeying what he said to do not coming not know what I’m coming for I’m coming to get charged up I’m coming to get restored just in case I may be broken yes I’m coming to get healed if I need a healing so I’m coming knowing I’m coming to the
Shepherd the convocation is a public meeting and the Church of God being scattered it bothers me tremendously so many God’s children are just scattered by I no you can’t do it by yourself you don’t belong to yourself you’re are part of a group and he tell tells you you need to
Get together to convocate every week I gave you an example not just coming as a ritual I’m coming to get powered up you may work in a Place full of devils I gota get ready for that thing I come to get a word to change my
Life I’ll come to get a better strategy I come to hear from the Lord if I’m sicking my body I come to be healed cuz the shepherd is there and his job is to tend to his sheep so now going to church Tak a whole new room it’s a
Rehearsal when we get together worship God so now guess what I’m not gonna be a spectator I’m be a participator I’m not gonna watch that shister to raise her hands God look I got hands what you do with it I’m raise my hands I’m I’mma join in this
Cuz in Heaven Ain’t No spectator y’all everybody Bor at the same time saying the same thing oh God help me understanding what we do when we get together it’s a rehearsal worshiping God together praising God I know you do it in your home but the convocation ain’t a private meeting it’s a public
Meeting to time for private it’s a time for public amen stand to your feet please I don’t want to be scattered I want to be there and be square I ain’t coming to see no man I’m coming in here and see Jesus I got stuff that no one can fix
And you got stuff nobody can fix too you got need that only God can meet but I know at the at at a appointed place the master is here he’s with his flock we get together for a reason on the first day of the week it’s a tradition that we
Keep coinciding with the Comm to on the Sabbath day let us change our minds let us make the sacrifice cuz if you love somebody you make sacrifices for them I love my wife I won’t be a lazy man I get up and go to
Work let me say that one more time if I love my wife I will get my behind up and go to work I work two job I work two job to take care of my wife if I love her if I love my children I make sacrifices I’ll go without so they can
Go with why cuz I love them if I love Jesus a small thing and get yourself up it’s a small thing get up get up and gon meet your Lord with the rest of his people so God can speak to you all you know you know God oh yeah he
Really gave word that person he got to speak you oh yeah that word for that person know it’s a word for you amen amen if you don’t know Jesus as your Lord and Savior Please Don’t Leave it without knowing him the father loves you and the father desire is for you to
Have eternal life he wants you to be his child not just his creation but the only way you can become a child of God you got to repent you got to say no to yourself and turn from your sins and you got to turn to God and let God know I’m a sinner
Lord and I’m I’m undone I’m a sinner I deserve to be punished but I believe in your son cuz you gave him to die for me for my sins and you raised him from the dead you put my punishment on him and he did it gladly and God said I need you to
Believe in my son Jesus with all your heart and let him fill you up with his Holy Spirit and all I need you to do is follow him all the days of your life that’s it that’s it that’s all he says repent from your sin look to Jesus believe that he died
For you and rose from the dead on the third day call on his name how Jesus Come into my heart save me from my sins Jesus I Believe In You Lord Jesus Christ you’re the Lord you died for me you rose from the dead for
Me come into my heart save me from my sins Jesus he hear you Lord Jesus fill me up with your Holy Ghost I need eternal life and help me follow you all the days of my life if you haven’t done that today is your day your decision your
Decision before we take communion I want to give everyone an opportunity dickon Rose and Minister Jones what
