What Jesus Began

The world has a thousand explanations for why this moment feels unstable, but we step back and ask a sharper question: what if it is actually an unparalleled time to be alive because God’s grace is this open and this personal? We start in Acts chapter 1 with Luke’s words to Theophilus and treat them like they were written to the church today, because they were. If you have trusted Christ, you are not a spiritual outsider looking in. You are a friend of God, loved on purpose, and invited into a living relationship that does not run on guilt, earning, or distance.

From there we trace a single line: Jesus began something, and it continues. The cross is not portrayed as a conclusion but as the doorway into a work that keeps moving through the Holy Ghost. We talk about the passion of Jesus as love in action, His heart to save, and God’s desire that none perish but that all come to repentance. Then we land on Acts 1:8 and get practical about “power” as something believers possess right now, power to be witnesses through truth, compassion, prayer, and intercession rather than performance.

We also dig into 1 Timothy 3:15–16 and the claim that the church is the church of the living God and the pillar and ground of the truth. In a world of shifting sand, the message stays the same across nations: the blood of the Lamb, the Holy Spirit, holiness, healing, wisdom, joy, and hope in Jesus Christ. We close with a direct invitation to come home, and a simple request to connect so we can pray with you. If this strengthens you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review so more people can hear it.

(Recorded Live on December 3, 2025 at Grace Baptist Tabernacle in King, NC)

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Welcome. Good to gather into the Lord's house tonight. Hallelujah. Whether you're here in person, whether you're abroad, thankful to see some new listeners across the nation of Japan this week. And we're blessed to have you here. No matter where you're joining us or how you're joining us. And so, amen. No matter where you are, or who you are, what

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you're looking at, what you're going through, this is quite a time in human history. This is quite an it's an unparalleled time. And you know, we tend to look at all the different social reasons and human reasons and economic reasons and all that. And but if you look at what the Lord is doing, and what the Lord has been doing, um ever since um might say the first chapter of

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Acts, what the Lord has been doing, it's an absolutely unparalleled time to be alive. Unparalleled. God actually indwelling people, God giving gifts in the Holy Ghost to people. God having people, and and He's and He's speaking to us 24-7. And there's only one mediator, Jesus Christ. Um, there's nothing you have to do to earn the favor of God. God's given it. He shed his blood, he shed his blood for the worst of the worst of the worst. Um, the most heinous sinner out there. The blood of Jesus avails to wash that sin completely clean and to make that person entirely new, entirely different, entirely new creature. No other time in history has been like this. No other time. I mean, yeah, you can look at it all the way through the scriptures. No other time in history is like this one where the grace and the goodness of God is so manifest, is so revealed, is so plain, and so available. So available to every single man, woman, and child within the sound of my voice, so available to every man, woman, and child within your sight, within the sound of your voice, no matter what country you happen to be in. And so deep and personal a revelation given to every man, woman, and child of the church. And the ease of the church to reach people, the ease and the simplicity of that. For the church to simply say, well, for God so loved you, and he gave his only begotten son for you, so that you would not perish, but you would have everlasting life. The ease of the church to say that, and then to just watch the Holy Ghost do his work. It's an unparalleled time in history, my friend. And uh we'll be in Acts chapter one, and we need to sort of unfold this a little bit tonight. Um, the King James folks called it Acts of the Apostles. Um, you could just as well call it Acts of the Holy Ghost, amen. And we'll be in chapter one, starting right in verse one tonight. Uh the former treatise have I made, O Theophilus, of

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all that Jesus began. We'll come back to that. He he began both to do and to teach. That's O Theophilus, oh friend of God, oh lover of God. And my friends, you need to see this as written to you, especially if you're of the church. Um, you need to see that this is written to you. Um, don't take that third degree of separation saying that, okay, you're just listening in to something that's that Luke is writing to a man named Theophilus, you'll miss it. But my friends, uh church, we're the friends of God. Let that blow your mind. How many of you woke up today? How many of you came to this service today? How many of you went through your work day? All you know, eight hours of it, all ten hours of it, all 12 hours of it. How many of you went through your day knowing just that? Born again, spirit-filled, gifted of the Holy Ghost, called of the Holy Spirit, and a friend of God. A friend of God, someone who God smiles upon, someone whose God is pleased to hear from, someone who, you know, God is leading you, and God is in you, and God is pleased to help you. And then we take it to lover of God. Oh, passionately, passionately loved of God, but you yourself a lover of God. This is a living relationship, my friend. Uh my friend, this this treatise, this letter, this revelation of the Holy Ghost, uh, church, it's for you. No matter what your name is, hallelujah and amen. Of all that Jesus, He began. Began both to do and to teach. The Holy Ghost told us in John, uh, you know, if um everything was written down, there wouldn't be enough books. It would fill the entire earth, everything that the Lord said, everything that the Lord did. Um until the day in which he was taken up, after that he, through the Holy Ghost, had given commandments to the apostles whom he had chosen. Uh, Jesus began something. And that something is still going on. That something that Jesus started. I don't know if you've ever seen that. Um, you know, the cross wasn't an end as much as it was a beginning. Um, Jesus died, but it didn't end there. Jesus is alive today, but it didn't end there. Jesus

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is seated at the hand, right hand of the Father in heavenly places. Uh, he's waiting for something. Waiting for the day where his enemies become his footstool, waiting for the day in which he returns, looking forward to the new heavens and the new earth. This was all started. This was all began. Jesus began the church. He began the church. He started the church. And now humanly he takes aside these men, and man, to hear those conversations, to hear what Jesus had said to them. Because he started speaking to these men before the Holy Ghost came. He starts speaking, he starts giving commandments, he starts speaking of things pertaining to the kingdom of God. He starts plowing, if you will, these men, knowing that not long after this time, the Holy Ghost is going to come upon them, and the Holy Ghost is going to come inside them, and there will be a birth, and there will be a church unto these apostles whom he had chosen, to whom he showed himself alive after his passion. His passion. Every word out of the mouth of the Lord God Almighty, a passionate act. Passion speaks of being affected. Affected with an A. Affected speaks of feeling. Passion produces feeling.

The Passion That Led To Cross

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The object that stirs up the passion produces a lot, produces love in action, produces great feeling, produces undergoing and going through things. My friend, there was a passion that the Lord Jesus had. Oh, my friend, when he went to the cross. There was a passion the night before in Gethsemane. There was a passion. There was a passion between Jesus and the Father. There was a great passion. There was a great love that the Father had for his son. There was a great love that the Son has for the Father. There was a great love that Jesus has. He has it now. He had it then for the very things that his father loved. A great passion for this world. His father so loved the world that he gave his only begotten son. Jesus had that same passion. The passion for Israel, the passion for the Word of God, the passion for the Gentiles, the passion for every man, woman, and child, the passion to see people saved. You see, my friend, later in the Old Testament, it's one of those little statements in Timothy. Oh, oh, God, He would have everybody saved. God who would have all men to be saved, who would have every man, woman, and child to be saved. This is the same passion that doesn't want you to perish, but have repentance. The same passion. Oh, God is affected. He's affected constantly. God is the birthplace, if you will, the one who gave all passion to every man, woman, and child here. Oh, what a what a people the church ought to be. You see, Jesus has such a passion. And Jesus went to the cross. And oh, it was it was agonizing on a physical level. It was terrifying on a spiritual level. Oh, he's sweating, he wept in the garden. Oh, to the point, we'll get to it later. But there was an angel. You know, um, the gospels record that, you know, after he said, Not my will, but thy will. Um, there was an angel who ministered to Jesus because of what Jesus had just gone through in resolving to go to the cross, much less hanging upon it. Uh this was passion. This was love in action. This was the passions of a holy God being so stirred for a people who are such strangers to him. We we know loneliness and isolation, but um real fellowship, real friendship, uh, real love, real relationship. That's we we don't know that naturally. We don't know that, you know, in the flesh. We don't know that um without the Lord. Uh we we know lust, but love is something entirely different. Uh we know fear, um, but peace that seems a different sort of thing to us. Um we know well, it's like to try to be in control, but rest, the rest of God, that's strange to us. Uh, we know our lusts, we know our judgments, we know our pursuits, uh, we know our wounds, we know our grievances, and we know our grudges, and we know our addictions, we know this, that, and the other thing, but holiness. That's strange. And so the Lord was moved, hallelujah and amen. And so the Lord was moved in passion to come to you, and to come to you, and to come to you, to come to you, to come to everybody. And say, Don't die in your sin. I want you to perish in your sin. I want you to have eternal life, and I want you to have it now. I want you to have a fullness of joy and a fullness of a peace that this world can never understand or give. I want you to have a wisdom so that the world comes to you to hear the wisdom of God coming from you. I want the world to know that there's a people, when the world is overwhelmed and crushed in their sin, that there's a people who are out there going to the world in the same passion that Jesus went to the cross. The same passion. See, this is something Jesus began. That's the beginning. Jesus reflected the Father, the church reflects Jesus, and hallelujah, the Lord hasn't left you alone. Amen. The Holy Ghost is in you. Who does the Holy Ghost point you to? Everything Jesus said. Where did Jesus get it? Everything the Father said. The Holy Ghost through you reaches people. Oh my friend, uh, who does who does the Holy Ghost point those people to? The Holy Ghost points those people to Jesus so that Jesus can bring them to the Father. God began something. Passion, my friends. God wants you to have it. Oh, it's passion, it's joy, it's love. Oh, we sing of Jesus taking our burdens. Oh, we sing of Jesus' burden being easy and light, my friend. Oh, it's passion. It's passion. You know, we see the early, we see the early church. Oh, Paul and Silas were in a prison. After having been whipped, after having been beaten or bound fast in the prison. It was passion that led them to pray. It was passion that led them to sing. It was a godly passion that burned inside of them, regardless of surrounding. Oh, my friend, passion. It's something God wants you to have, something God wants you to know, something God wants you to walk out, something that the world must see from the church today. The passion of God, a passion to know him, a passion to follow him, a passion to love him, a passion to bring others to him. Oh, my friend, his passion, he was alive after his passion. Oh, he spoke forty days, forty nights, things pertaining to the kingdom of God. And my friend, if you come down to verse eight, come down to Acts chapter one, verse eight. You shall receive power. So we have the affectionate love of God, and now we have power. Oh, church, this is your heritage. This is not something that you look for today,

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this is something that you have. Let me say it again. You don't look for it, you have it. You presently possess power because the Holy Ghost has come upon you. The Holy Ghost is inside the church, he's inside you. And you shall be witnesses of the same sort. You know, when Jesus witnessed a good confession before Pontius Pilate, we saw that last week. Jesus said, I come to be a witness. I come to bear witness. Bear witness of what? Bear witness of the truth. And the Lord is saying to you, church, today, the Holy Ghost has given you power. Power to do what? Be witnesses. Be witnesses. Oh, and these original 11, they saw it. It started in Jerusalem. It spread out to Judea. It went through Samaria. It's going to the uttermost parts of the earth. And my friend, if you're listening to me in America, we are the uttermost part of the earth. We are literally halfway around the world from where this was originally said. The gospel has gone to the ends of the earth. And my friend, in America, if you've believed on the Lord Jesus Christ, this is your heritage. This is who you are. You're a passionate, joyful, peaceful, loving, compassionate, wise, able people. And every single one of you has at least one gift of the Holy Ghost. You are the salt of the earth and you are the light of the world. You have this power and this ability not to do something, you know, strange and supernatural and crazy, but to simply look on somebody and love them the same way that God loves them, to look and see their sin the same way that God sees their sin. To see that person. My friend, uh one of my favorite songs says, He looked beyond my faults and he saw my need. You have the ability to do that. And you have the ability to do something about it. What do you do about it? You preach the love of God, you minister to love of God, you minister to healing of God, you minister to truth, to bear witness of the truth. The truth is you're hurting because you're separate from God. You're sinning because you're separate from God. You're lusting because that's all you know, because you're separate from God. And so God has seen this, and God has seen you. And he's looked upon you now through the eyes of grace and truth. And you have the power and the ability to receive a word from God and to give a word from God. You have the power and the ability to go before the throne of God with every request, with every desire, with every need. You have that power, you have that ability, you have the ability to intercede for nations, to intercede before the throne of God and say, God, they're not, there might not be a single blessed soul looking for you, but I'm before you for them. I'm before you, and I'm your son, and I'm your daughter, and I'm I'm a member of your bride. I'm I'm in you, and you're in me. I'm with you, and you're with me. And I'm standing before you with my arm around this other person here, saying, God, um, God be merciful to them, a sinner. And hallelujah, God, I'm right here. Use me to do it. And my friend, this this power is not a it's not a passive thing. The Holy Ghost is not a passive person. He's not a passive spirit. The Holy Ghost is an active spirit. The Holy Ghost is all yes and amen. Are you all yes and amen? The Holy Ghost is all bless God, Amen, joyful, full of glory every single day. Hallelujah. Is that the way you are? Because my friend, if not, why do you toil so much? Why do you labor so much? Why why do you why why do you just everything just seems so blah? God's not that way, my friend. And God is looking to call you up and to call you forward at the same time. Do you believe the Lord God in this? Because my friend, hallelujah, amen. Um, the same spirit. You gotta watch this. You know, the same spirit who raised up Jesus from the dead. The same spirit who quickened that body in the empty tomb. No man was there. It was just the body and the spirit. Hallelujah and amen. And the same spirit that raised up Christ from the dead is the same spirit who is in the church today. And he has not changed. He hasn't changed. Um we've got to come over to 1 Timothy. That's in some ways, um, it's real interesting. We're gonna be in turt 1 Timothy chapter 3, verses 15 and 16. And my friend, if you want to be blown away, go back and read John 3, 16, in this

The Holy Ghost Is Not Passive

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light. 1 Timothy chapter 3, starting in verse 15. This is one of those

The Church Of The Living God

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little asides in Timothy. And you see that a lot. Um, you know, we can preach a lot about deacons, we can preach a lot about pastors, amen, and bishops and all of that. But um, 1 Timothy 3, 15, um, if I tarry long, um, that thou mayest know how thou ought to behave thyself in the house of God, which is the church of the living God, the living God, the God who speaks, the God who moves, the God who leads, the God who gives vision, the God who gives gifts unto men, the God who calls the lost to himself, the God who provides and protects, the God who delivers, the God who dispenses wisdom liberally, the God who gives all things freely, because he's given his son, how shall he not also give us all things freely? The God, this type of God is the church of the living God. And you can't, you know, never, ever, ever have a dead church service with a living God. If you ever have a dead church service, if you ever have the doldrums, if you ever have the ho-hums, if you ever have the silences, uh, my friend, that ought to send you into a church-wide prayer meeting on the spot. Because something's not right. Because this isn't the church of the dead God, this is the church of the living God. This isn't the church of the bored God, this is the church of the living God, not the church of the fearful God, it's the church of the living God. That's who he is, and that's who he are. And and and it doesn't stop there. The living God, the pillar and ground of the truth, stability in the human and stability in the spirit, the church, a place of stability, and the church a place of stable strength in the midst of this world. Strength, yes, in the human, but strength in the spirit, and it's the strength in the spirit that gives the stability in the human. Because the living God, he never changed. Why does his church change? He never changes. You ought to hear the exact same thing from the church now that you heard from the church 200 years ago, that you heard from the church 600 years ago, that you heard from the church a thousand years ago. You should hear the same basic message in America and in Japan, and in Africa and in Australia, and in England, and in Ireland, and in Germany, and in Canada, and in North Carolina, and in Minnesota, and in Michigan, and in California, and in Brazil. You ought to hear about the blood of the Lamb. You ought to hear about the Holy Ghost. You ought to hear about the love of the Father. You ought to hear about living hope. You ought to hear about healing. You ought to hear about wisdom. You ought to hear about holiness. You ought to hear about joy. You ought to hear about all of these things. The living God hasn't changed. And he made his church a pillar and a ground because the world is nothing but shifting sand. The world is nothing but relativism. The world is nothing but my lusts. The world is under the control of the demonic. And the world is just the world changes all the time. The world divides itself into various races. The world divides itself into various cultures. The world divides itself based on lust and based on sin. And the world spends its time trying to figure out what the truth is and sort

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of battling each other or pairing up with each other. Um, the world changes. The church doesn't not God's design for the church to ever change. Right up until the day he comes back for the church. So, my friends, do you see yourself that way? And do you see your church to be that? Is your church actively living and walking out in that way? Because when the church gets off course, when the church goes into survival mode, when the church tries to kind of limp along, the world suffers. The world suffers when the church isn't this way, when the church isn't walking in this. And those little flashes, we call them revivals, or we call them awakenings. That's when the church got back to walking this way. That's when God called the church back. That's when God knocked on the door. And he might have been knocking on the door a long time. He might have been locking on the door through, you know, all these different times, through all these different seasons for decades. He might have been paring down and paring down and paring down and paring down until the point where you knock on the door, and bless God, if there's only two, four people left in that church, somebody opened the door. And God came in. And bless God, he started doing the work. And he had a whole bunch of people get saved as a result. The pillar and the ground of the truth, my friend. The church just said, Lord, knock on your heart tonight. Because my friends, um, you might not have walked in here, you might not have turned this message on thinking that God was gonna knock on your heart, but that's the way the Holy Ghost is. You didn't think it was gonna be that. You didn't think it was gonna be that simple, but the Holy Ghost just knocks on your door and says, Let's go. How do you respond to that? Oh, may he find faith on this earth. Oh, that's that's in and that's on that precious day when he returns, but even now, my friend, may he find faith in this room. May he find faith out there, no matter where you happen to be. Uh, because my friend, um we've got to look at 16. My friend, please do that. Um look at verse 16 in 1 Timothy. But later on, go back and read John 3.16 in light of this verse. And it's an amazing thing, my friend. Without controversy, cannot be argued.

When The Church Returns Revival Comes

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Um, great is the mystery of godliness, and the thing is, there's a mystery of iniquity. Scripture talks about that, but that's being walked out now. Um, there's a mystery of godliness, and he refers to it as a mystery, but the thing is, in this verse, he reveals what the mystery is, he shows us what godliness is. God was manifest in the flesh. God gave his only begotten son, and to do that, God became manifest in the flesh, in Jesus. Fully God and fully man, justified in the spirit, justified in the spirit, the indwelling Holy Spirit moving in the church today points to Jesus. The church is constantly pointed to Jesus. Jesus is our head, Jesus is our husbandman, Jesus has adopted us, and we we are his brethren, we are his brothers, we are his sisters, we are his family. He's not ashamed to call us brethren. Jesus is near and dear to us to the point where we are in him and he is in us. He's our beloved and he so loves us. And the Holy Ghost constantly, constantly, constantly. Oh, Jesus, hallelujah! He's justified in the spirit. He's exactly who he says he is. He did exactly what he did, he said exactly what he said, and what he has said that hasn't come to pass yet absolutely shall come to pass. There's a living witness in the spirit, and the spirit doesn't stop in the church. Through you, through you, you and your church, he starts witnessing to other people. Jesus is Lord. Jesus is my God and your God. Jesus is the way, the truth, and the life. Jesus is your way to deliverance. Jesus is your way to freedom. Jesus, there's that, there's no other salvation. There's no other name under in the heaven or under the earth or above the earth or through the earth by which you must be saved out from under the wrath of God. There's no other way to the Father. Jesus said, I am the way, the truth, and the life. Nobody comes to the Father except by me. So the Spirit starts justifying Jesus through the church to the world. Oh, he's justified in the Spirit. No, my friend, um, I think the Lord cheated because he wasn't just justified by the Spirit. On two separate occasions, the Father spoke. Spoke at his baptism. And oh, my friend, on that day, um, hallelujah, there may have been more, but Hallelujah. There was a day when Gentiles showed up, some men from Greece who wanted to see Jesus. Oh, and there was a voice from heaven, and people thought it thundered. And oh my friend, that voice spoke. This is my son. This is my beloved son. Hear

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him. Hear him. Oh my friend, hear him today. Oh, he was seen of angels. His birth announced by Gabriel. We we heard of the angel in Gethsemane who came and ministered to him. There was an angel he was ministered to as well after forty days in the wilderness, being tempted of the devil. He was ministered to of angels. Oh, there was an angel present when he rose up from the dead. Hallelujah, witnessed, scene of angels, preached to all the nations, preached to you tonight. Believed on in the world. Oh, my friend, there is a church in this world. And in order to be the church, you've got to believe on him. And my friend, if you're not the church, you're surrounded and you're you're hearing from people who have believed on the name of the Lord. May you be one of them tonight. And received up in the glory. My friend, his work was done. His beginning was made. And the last thing that had to happen before the Holy Ghost came down, the sun had to go up. And so he went, and so he went. And oh my friend, there was a celebration. Oh my friend, there was a culmination. Oh my friend, there the blood was received. My friend, the work was done. And oh, the father looked at the son and he said, Well, sit down right here at my right hand. But you're just going to sit down for a while because you're going back. And while you're sitting down, hallelujah, the Holy Ghost came, appeared as cloven tongues of fire to men on the day of Pentecost. These men who were here with Jesus. And hallelujah came upon them and came in them. And they went out in the power of the Holy Ghost, and 3,000 saved on the first day of the church. And what a precious personal reminder to Israel, because 3,000 had fallen so many generations before, when they were coming out of Egypt, and you know that there was the worship of a calf, and there was a plague that went through, took down three thousand. And my friend Jesus is seated at the right hand of the Father. Jesus is interceding at the right hand of the Father. Jesus is praying for this church as it's coming together. See, my friend, the church is still coming together. And one day the church will be complete. And then the father will look over at the son and say, Son, go and get your bride. Bring her home. My bride, Israel, she'll be here shortly. And oh, what a wedding feast we're gonna have. Amen. So may you believe on him,

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church. May you believe on him, lost man, lost woman, lost child. If our musicians will come forward tonight, it'll be a time of invitation. Church, the altar is here for you. My friend, if you're lost in this room and you believe on the Lord Jesus Christ tonight, oh, hallelujah and amen. I invite you to come forward. I'd be glad to pray with you. And my friend, if you're out there, my friend, I said just a moment ago, the church is still growing. The church is growing in terms of discipleship, and the church is still growing in

Invitation To Believe And Come Home

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terms of number around the world today. And the Lord is still saying to the lost, come home. The Lord is still saying to you, come home. The Lord is still saying, I mean, um, about the first thing that happens, I mean, people will run right to their sin. And that's not necessarily a bad thing. But that's not where it stops. The Lord isn't just out to convince you that you're a sinner. The Lord isn't only out to save you from hell. The Lord is out to give you eternal life. Because his blood has covered the sin. All of your fornication, all of your unbelief, all of your idolatry, all of your grudges and hatreds and murders and murmurings and complainings, gossip. I mean, the Lord, the Lord's covered it all. The blood is sufficient for it all, and it's already been shed for you. For you. The Lord's already done the work. And it's like the Lord has already set the table and prepared the meal. And he and he's and he's laid it all out, and he and he comes around and he pulls out the chair and he says, sit down. Sit down. Sit down. Question is tonight, where you sit down. Because the only reason anybody is still lost. I mean, you you might have heard it a little bit earlier in the message, the Lord would have everybody to be saved. That's his heart. He would have all men come to repentance, all women come to repentance, all children come to repentance, and none of anybody to perish, but everybody to have eternal life. So the reason you're still lost tonight, the reason you're still miserable tonight, the reason you're still being consumed by hatred and by sin, by lust, by fornication, by despair, by disappointment, by loneliness, the reason you're still being eaten alive by those things. And the reason you're still separate from the Lord is unbelief. Because the Lord says, Come to me. And you say, No. No, I've got a better way. The Lord says, Come to me, and you say, no, you're not even real. The Lord says, come to me, and you say, no, you're. I've seen the testimony of those other Christians. Whether that's true or not. Not here to judge that. But I'm here to say the Lord is alive and the Lord loves you. And if the Lord is speaking to you today, that means He stands ready to save you. For you to come home, for you to receive the Holy Ghost, for you to receive healing, for you to receive life, for you to receive joy, for you to receive peace, for you to be made into quite literally a new creature. Will you come to him tonight? Believe on the lame, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ tonight. Call upon him tonight. Ask him to be born again and saved. Ask him for the Holy Spirit. And hallelujah, that's genuine in you. He's never, ever, ever turned anybody away. But you know what he's always done? Welcomed with open arms and embraced. And so thank you for being here tonight. And um I pray you've been encouraged by this church. Um I hope you'll reach out to us if you're if you're out there. We we would absolutely love to hear from you, we'd be encouraged to hear from you. So let us know how we can pray for you and what's going on, and feel welcome and expected uh to show up at any and all of our services. So we'd love to meet you in person. And thank you for being a part of this, and may the Lord continue

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to reach his blessings and sins and sisters, is this