oh
so
i just gotta keep remembering
um
[Music]
good morning i'm going to be reading
from joshua chapter 1 as everyone finds
their seats
chapter 1 verse 7 be strong and very
courageous be careful to obey all the
law my servant moses gave you
do not turn from it to the right or to
the left that you may be successful
wherever you go
keep this book of the law always on your
lips meditate on it day and night so
that you may be careful to do everything
written in it then you will be
prosperous and successful have i not
commanded you be strong and courageous
do not be afraid do not be discouraged
for the lord your god will be with you
wherever you go
praise the lord for his comfort for his
courage that he gives us we are so
thankful that we can be strong in times
of trouble
welcome to albert lee assembly of god
we're so glad to have you here um looks
like people are like dead tired from the
uh
party last night
they're all dragging in here
we had a fantastic time if you weren't
here it was absolutely wonderful
and absolutely beautiful and i will talk
about that here in a minute if you are a
visitor welcome we're so glad to have
you
if you're coming back for the 80th and
you haven't been here in a while welcome
um we have a card in the seat in front
of you you can fill in your information
we can get to know you just a little bit
better
we do have kids church today after the
tithe and offering it is upstairs we
also have nursery going on right now for
the three and under crowd and
so be looking for that um
we have
do not have prayer tonight instead we
have another service with dr laurie
martin so be sure to come out for that
at six o'clock same time as prayers so
if you're in the habit it'll be super
easy for you to get here
so we're super looking forward to that i
know that the holy spirit is going to
move it's going to be an exciting time
family night is starting back i am very
excited about this
we have
classes starting back
at 6 30 pm on wednesday night and
5 30 our dinners are back so if you want
to come out for dinner at 5 30
it's donations and so please
feel free to give that any extra that we
have from those donations we would love
to have extra we'll go to speed the
light
so be sure to help us with that
and then 6 30 normal class we will be
starting our junior bible quiz class in
september where kids we're still going
to be up playing having some fun until
september and then we'll start some
bible quiz class and if it's nice out
and bright out we might do bible quiz
outside so don't fear i will not make
you stay inside if it's nice
junior bible quiz for those of you that
don't know is a wonderful experience for
our young people every wednesday night
we practice and the kids learn questions
about what is the bible what is the
trinity they learn about the scriptures
there's only five over 500 questions
that they memorize it's an incredible
opportunity for your kids we'd love to
have them there
so
i will be getting more information out
about bible quiz i'll get you all the
quiz dates
as we will be competing up in the cities
throughout the year
so be looking for the information there
and if the girls and guys remember last
year we always did something fun after
every quiz meet we'd go up to the cities
we would compete we'd answer questions
and then we'd usually go to chick-fil-a
because you know who doesn't love that
and then go do something fun like
skating or bowling or go to the park
so all sorts of fun that we have with
junior bible quiz that's coming up in
september um
and then i want to say a huge thank you
to everyone who came to the 80th
anniversary everyone who made it
possible it was absolutely beautiful
we completely enjoyed it and
if you were not there we really really
missed you
because it was it was just wonderful we
had testimonies and
just exciting to hear about our history
and where we've been pastor lauren
did a wonderful job and we just
appreciate all that he's done for this
church i will say
first of all i want to say thank you to
the teens who are running around here
and giving us food you guys served
amazingly
and i absolutely loved it look at my
hand
yes we appreciate all their service we
appreciate everyone who stayed behind
and put all these lovely chairs back
together
truly somebody was telling me yesterday
that it's just like a family and we're
all working in our house and we're all
getting things done together and i just
love that and so we thank you um for
that and i
get back to pastor lauren i just want to
say a big thank you to pastor lauren
because as he was speaking last night i
just thought about
how much pastor lauren and lee rush hour
they pushed through they didn't give up
they pushed through the hard times they
kept this church alive and if they
hadn't done that if they hadn't had that
sacrifice we might not be here today and
i just i just want to thank pastor
lauren and our previous pastors for
everything that they gave up and
sacrificed so can we give them a hand
[Applause]
all right everybody stand up because it
is time to praise the lord
we are going to be seeing are you washed
in the blood because guess what the
blood of jesus is powerful the blood of
jesus covers over our sins we are pure
as snow we are forgiven and that is
something to praise the lord about
hallelujah
[Music]
a bit
overdressed this morning i
i came in last night in jeans and
pastor ryan has on a three-piece suit
and looks like he's just walked out of
the oval office and then
this morning i'd dress up and
you never know these days in the in
church you just never know back in my
day
the only choice you had if you was going
to a liberal church you could wear a
colored shirt with your suit and tie but
uh instead of just a white shirt but
these days you just never know i
well linda and i went out to a church in
california and i'm thinking you know
this is california this is you know
california so i showed up in jeans and a
jacket and
everybody in that church is on friday
night everybody in that church had on a
tie i'm telling you the babies in that
church were neckties
it was amazing i i was so out of place i
went to goodwill the next day and bought
a shirt and tie that i could wear
where the church that night i i told
them i said told them a story about the
fella went to this fine restaurant to
eat and he got to the door the maitre d
said you can't eat in here because you
have to wear a necktie
and he said i don't have a necktie and
they said well you're not going to eat
here this required that you wear a
necktie
and he said well i i'm hungry and he
said well sorry can you go to the car
maybe find a necktie and the guy went
out the car and dug around and
couldn't find the necktie got looked
open the trunk looked in the trunk all
he found was jumper cables and
he tied those around his neck in a knot
like a tine went up to the door and said
okay i'm ready to eat again i said
that's not a necktie that's jumper
cables
he said mr it's all i got can i come in
he said yeah
yeah i'll let you in but don't try to
start anything
oh come on
that's why i'm here today to try to
start something
i hope i can start something today our
our websites are up here on the screen
if you're interested in what we're doing
for the lord
uh i'd say to you if you happen to have
a smartphone
now
brother lauren you're exempt from this
but if you have a smartphone you can
take it out and snap a picture of that
and you can have these websites when you
get home
i want to tell you particularly about
pentecostal gold
pentecostal gold is an archive of
classic pentecostal preaching
i have uploaded over three thousand
four hundred sermons on pentecostal gold
sermons by the greatest pentecostal
preachers that ever lived
jack cole and a.a allen and jimmy
swaggart and burke clinton and and amy
simple mcpherson in the line the line
the names go on and on and on
over 3 000 sermons you can't listen to
them all in all of your life because
when you listen to all of these i'll
have some more up there
i'm right now currently working on
sermons by a great preacher
named james brown dr james brown his
widow gave me all of his sermons i have
hundreds
of dr brown sermons that i'm putting on
pentecostal gold so i invite you to take
a look at pentecostal gold when you get
home and it'll be a blessing to you
when we're not doing
meetings like this in the u.s which we
do most weeks we're traveling overseas
where
i apologize my wife linda's not able to
be with me today
and she sends her greetings but we've
we've driven about 10 000 miles this
summer and she is worn out and we're
going to be leaving for a trip overseas
in just a couple of weeks
but we do a crusade evangelism those of
you remember us from being here before
and we are are reaching the thousands
for christ these are some of our latest
crusades this one was
this month and you're welcome to take
one of those if you'd like but do pray
for the martins you know the most
important thing you can do for any
preacher is to pray
the most important thing you can do for
your pastor is to pray for him
he wants you to come and support these
services and he wants you to give and
support the church
he wants you to reach others for the
lord and for the church but the most
important thing you can do
is put your pastor on your daily prayer
list and pray for him and i wanted to
say a moment ago when i was talking
about the celebration last night it was
so good that you could celebrate all the
great history of this church and yet
pastor lauren did such a great job of
celebrating the pastor that god has
given you now and we love and appreciate
ryan and amanda and i thank god for them
and i know that you do too
and pray for your pastor
part of what i do in ministry is write
books
and our books that we've written are on
the table and
other books that we publish that other
people have written but
i'm part of what i'm doing on this
journey to minnesota is
researching for a book i'm writing on a
man named william h durrell
who introduced the
complete work of calvary the
sanctification work to the pentecostal
movement back in 1910 and he was a he
lived in minnesota for a number of years
and so we're writing about working on
durham but the last book that we wrote
is this book called charles parham it's
fresh off the press it's still
it still smells new it was released
august the 2nd
by whittaker books and
we appreciate whitaker books having
confidence in us and to publish this
book it's got over 500 footnotes in it
on the life of the man that started the
pentecostal movement the pentecostal
charismatic revival has grown to date
over 600 million people worldwide but it
started in a little bible college in
topeka kansas on january the 1st 1901
and this is the man that god used as a
catalyst to start the pentecostal
revival and this is his biography as i
say that's the brand news the last thing
we did and while we were in covent we
wrote this little book
it's called by the way this is my
favorite book this book on charles pearl
and we wrote this little book on on
common sense reasons why christians
really shouldn't drink alcohol it's
called a common sense look at the
believer the bible and the bottle
and if you have a temptation with that
with that wicked brew you might want to
read this little book it's my favorite
book
this is also my favorite book
how many of y'all have kids
which one's your favorite
yeah that's what i'm talking about
this is also my favorite book a lot of
people have told me
that this is the best book i ever wrote
and that really hurts my feelings
because i have spent
years literally 20 years researching and
writing
books on historical characters and i
wrote this book in three months and they
tell me it's the best book i ever wrote
but
this book is stories
from my 50 some years in ministry it's
not the story of my life i think the
story of my life is boring but these are
stories that that have happened along
the way and they're not boring some are
hilariously funny and some are
are sad enough to make you cry it's
called the good the bad the ugly and the
hilarious
one of the little stories in here i'll
tell you quickly i i was a pastor in
church in tennessee many many years ago
and a guy came in on sunday morning and
got saved
he was an entertainer at a nightclub
he had traveled if you some of you older
guys remember uh carl perkins he had
traveled and played keyboards for carl
perkins and now he was working at the
prime ridge club and he came in and got
saved that night he went out sunday
night he went out to play his gig at the
pine ridge and walked out of the club
and never went back to the nightclub
life again began in the ministry he's
been preaching for 50 years now
and well we put together a little band
and we'd go out and travel and he'd sing
and i'd preach and we went to a church
in henderson tennessee
and i preached and he brought a guy with
him to play still guitar and this guy
wasn't
a christian he didn't know anything
about god he just knew how to play steel
guitar so we drug him along with us and
his claim was to fame was when they made
that movie walking tall
way back in the 70s he was one of the
deputies one of buford pusser's deputies
in that movie well
this guy played his steel guitar and we
closed the service i gave an altar call
him we're tearing the equipment down and
i turned around and he had lit a cigar
about that long on the platform of the
church and was on the platform smoking a
cigar and i told the guy brought him
you're going to have to talk to that guy
with the cigar he got him outside and
talked to him he didn't ever go with us
again but
normally normally you would expect an
assembly of god church for there to be
fire on the altar but that sunday
morning there was smoke on the altar and
it had the distinctive odor of cigar
smokes
you might enjoy that story a dozen 75 in
fact more stories in that little book
turn with me please in your bibles to
the book of
matthew chapter 16.
pastor doug so glad to meet you and
thank you for coming and helping this
church to celebrate its great day today
matthew chapter 16
i want to read verse 15 and and
following i felt this message to be
very appropriate for our celebration
today
matthew 16 15 he saith unto them but
whom say ye that i am
and simon peter answered and said thou
art the christ
the son of the living god
and jesus answered and said unto him
blessed art thou simon barjona
for flesh and blood hath not revealed it
unto thee but my father which is in
heaven
and i say unto thee that thou art peter
and upon this rock
i will build my church
and the gates of hell
shall not prevail against it
i want to talk to you this morning on
the subject
i will build
my church
for 80 years in albert lee minnesota
god has been building this church
let's pray
father we thank you this morning for the
grand opportunity we have to preach the
word of god
we never take it lightly lord when you
give us this privilege and we are not
short of the fact that we're blessed
today
to be an albert lee at this church on
this wonderful occasion i ask you lord
to bless this people
bless this pastor bless the preaching of
your word
in jesus name and for his glory and
everybody said
amen
jesus and his disciples were
in a place called caesarea philippi
i put a map up there so you can spot it
it's way up here at the top
there's another caesarea in israel if
you've ever visited the land of the
bible lyndon and i have been several
times hope to go back next year but this
is
caesarea maritima it's caesarea by the
sea
caesarea by the sea was the seed of
government in jesus day
many think that jerusalem would have
been the capital but it was not
jerusalem was the spiritual capital but
the political capital of that day was
caesarea
by the sea that's where pontius pilate
and the herod's had their homes their
palaces and it was a grand city with
marble streets and a great harbor with
marble statues in the harbor one of the
grandest cities in all the roman empire
but this isn't that city this is up here
at the top this is caesarea philippi and
jesus and his disciples
seminars you can't build the church on
meetings the church is built on this
truth christ
the solid rock
is the son of god can somebody say amen
so he says i
upon this rock i
will
build my church
five little words i will build my church
i want to look at those words this
morning
this is my message for you
that was all introduction this is the
message
i
will build my church the first word is i
that's the personal pronoun i
that means
he's the one talking
he said i
will build my church who's going to
build the church you're not going to
build the church
thank god pastor lauren for all the
pastors from 42 until now that have
served this church but the church isn't
built by the pastor
and the church isn't built by the
congregation
and the church isn't built by the
deacons there's only one that builds the
church jesus said i
i will build my church look who's
talking jesus is talking
they used to say when e f hutton speaks
people listen i don't care what e.f
hutton has to say when jesus speaks i'm
going to listen
because let me tell you who he is he's
the one that says in the beginning was
the word and the word was with god and
the word was god and the same was in the
beginning and then it said and the word
became flesh and dwelt among us jesus
the word of god became the son of god
and dwelt among men and died for our
sins and that's who said i
i will build my church
ho
it's not you talking
it's not your wife talking
it's not some politician talking
hello
you know how to tell if a politician's
lying
their lips are moving
it's not a politician
it's jesus the son of god who said i
will build my church and if jesus said
it you can trust it because he is
faithful to his word
i that's the first word
second word he said
will
i will
build my church
they say
because of my accent it sounds like i'm
saying wheel but i'm saying wheel
kind of like that song y'all sang this
morning y'all had that all wrong where i
grew up you was washed in the blood
i will
he didn't say i might
he didn't say maybe
he didn't say if circumstances are right
he said i
will
build my church
there's no debate about it there's no
question about it
there's no ambiguity in his word he said
i will
he didn't say if it's not raining on
sunday i'll build my church
he didn't say if there's not an outbreak
of covet i'll build my church
he didn't say if there's no liberals in
the white house or the senate i'll build
my church no no no he said i will build
my church
and you listen to me when he said he
will
he's got a pretty good record
whoo
because he stood on nothing
because there was absolutely nothing to
stand on
and said i will and made everything that
is out of nothing because he's god
and if he says i will he does
moses and the children of israel stood
at the red sea
the sea's too wide to get across and
pharaoh's army is pursuing them from
behind they've got nowhere to go
but god said i will and the waters of
the sea stood up like a wall and a wind
blew through and they walked across on
dry ground and then the sea closed in
and drowned pharaoh's army because god
said i will when he says i will he does
when little david stood up against that
awful giant he said my god will deliver
you into my hand who are you you
uncircumcised philistine to stand up
against the armies of god my god will
deliver you into my hand
and david took five smooth stones out of
a brook and put one into a slingshot
and let go of that slingshot and that
giant said
i never had anything like that passed
through my mind before
and goliath hit the ground and david
took his sword out and cut off his ugly
head because god said i will and when
god says i will god does jesus said i
will are y'all with me this morning he
said i will and the blind could see he
said i will and the lame could walk he
said i will and the deaf could hear
again
he stood at the tomb of his friend
lazarus who had died
and his sister said oh lord i wish that
you had been here if you'd have been
here he wouldn't have died and jesus
said he will live again and she said oh
i know lord someday in the resurrection
you know when the trumpet sounds he's
going to live again but jesus said roll
back the stone and said lazarus come
forth and a dead man came out of the
grave four days dead came out of the
grave because jesus said i will and when
jesus says i will he does
come on
i don't know what you need this morning
i don't know what's going on in your
life i don't know the family torments
that you're facing i don't know the
sickness or disease i don't know the
windowed envelope that you got from the
bank this week i don't know what you
need but i know i have a god that says i
will and when god says i will he can and
he not only can but he does he said i
will build my church
who
now people tried to stop him
don't you think they haven't tried to
stop him
from the day it started they've tried to
stop him
they tried to stop him when they nailed
him to the cross
they tried to stop him when they stoned
stephen to death they tried
continuing to be building i will be
building my church
i hate to be crude about it but it's
kind of like
when a man does a remodeling project at
the house
it's not something you do and it's done
it's something you keep doing
women say amen
i kept a little cartoon forever remember
the comic strip herman
and this this guy's wife was in the
restroom and there was a drill stuck in
the wall just the bits in the wall and
the drills hanging out she says to one
of her friends he started putting up a
towel rack there 10 years ago
you all know what i'm talking about it
means
to be doing something not that you do it
and it's done jesus said i will build my
church it doesn't mean on the day of
pentecost it was done it means it just
started and it continues and it
continues today and for 80 years it's
continuing in albert lee minnesota
because jesus is building his church
everywhere you turn around the world
jesus
is still building his church
when he walked by
peter and james and john and said come
follow me i'll make you fishers of men
he was building his church and when he
saw andrew and said follow me he was
building his church and when he come by
the tax collector and said matthew come
and follow me he was building his church
when when the spirit was poured out on
the day of pentecost and 3 000 got saved
jesus was built in his church when
philip went down to samaria and preached
jesus was built in his church when he
met one man in the desert on a chariot
and that one man got saved jesus was
building his church you see he's not
just building his church by the millions
he's building his church by the
individuals one at a time jesus is
building his church
he's building his church
back in the what we call the dark ages
it looked like the light of the gospel
would go out
there was so much opposition
there was so much
greed and selfishness in what was called
the church
so much worldliness in the church
martin luther
roman catholic
pastor in wittenberg germany
began to struggle with what he saw
he went to rome
and saw the excesses of rome
the the church at that time was so
ungodly
the pope was supposed to be celibate
but they had a wedding
at the vatican where he gave his
daughter away
they had dinners served by nude
waitresses at the vatican it was a
horrible ungodly time
they had their
staircases supposed to come out of
pontius pilate's house and
this young priest martin luther climbed
up those stairs they thought they'd find
some forgiveness of sins there and he
said can these things be
questioning everything
they were they were going around at that
time
and selling indulgences
i don't know if you know what that means
or not but they were selling
yeah lots of you have lutheran history i
know
they were selling the right to sin
it was like you could buy
forgiveness for your sins
you could
they would go through the to the
counties and cities and might have a
silk pillow and on that pillow was the
bone that was a toll to one of the
apostles i'm not making this up it's too
ridiculous to make up they'd carry
around one of the bones of the apostles
that you could touch that bone and if
you touch that bone you've got
grace in a bank in heaven and that grace
in that bank in heaven would forgive
your sins now of course to touch that
bone and to give grace
in your bank of heaven you had to give
some money
it cost a little bit you didn't just
touch saint peter's toe you had to pay a
little bit to touch that bone and so
people were paying money to build saint
peter's basilica and rome and they were
selling these indulgences not only were
they selling the the privilege to sin
and get your sins forgiven but to get
your loved ones out of hell they told
the people if their loved ones had died
and gone to hell or purgatory that they
could touch that toe bone and that would
get their loved ones out of purgatory
and these people at the time unlearned
and ignorant people would give all that
they had just to buy these indulgences
and luther was going out of his mind
and one day
he opened the scripture for himself
and his eyes fell on these words
the just
shall live
by faith
the just shall live by faith and martin
luther took a hammer and nailed 95
questions to the church door in
wittenberg germany and started something
called the protestant reformation that
continues until this day because jesus
said i will build my church and all of
the indulgences all of the selling of
indulgences could not stop him all the
abuses of rome could not stop him
because he's going to find a man come by
that somebody ought to say amen this
morning he's going to build the church
when that church got cold an englishman
named john wesley said my heart was
strangely warmed and wesley finding
christ as his savior turned england
upside down with the gospel of jesus
christ and brought that gospel to
america where so many methodist churches
were started in revival fire god was
building his church and when that fire
began to wane once again in topeka
kansas god sent a revival of the holy
spirit that spread to texas in
california to azusa street and the world
was aflame with the gospel again because
jesus said i'll build my church
and he's still building it today
don't you think it's over
don't you look around you and see dark
days and say well it's never going to
happen again who are you to say god
can't do what god said he would do no
matter what it looks like around you
jesus is still building the church
let me continue the next word is my
my church
that leaves
absolutely
no question as to whose church this is
this is his church
this is not my church
it's not your church
this is his church
we have a bad habit
or at least some of us do you may not we
have a bad habit of identifying churches
by their preachers
well that's brother jones's church
or that's brother smith's church
i got news for you brother jones don't
have a church and brother smith don't
have a church
there's only one church
and it's his church
understand me
you're important to this church
your pastor wants you here every service
you're important to this church
but if you're not here next sunday
there'll still be a church here
hello
i've seen it so many times pastor doug i
know you've seen it too i've seen it so
many times somebody in church get mad
over some little something
hypocrite
throw a fit
cause a split
two dozen people walk out of the church
and say well that's the end of that
church the walls are going to crumble in
now
but they didn't
i said they didn't because that little
group wasn't the church
and your little group's not the church
the deacons are important to a church
but the
deacons aren't the church
it's his church
thank god for your pastor
i love your pastor thank god for him
like i said pray for him every day but
this isn't pastor ryan's church
you know how i can prove that
he can go on vacation
i hope you all let him go on vacation
somebody said one time if you don't come
apart you'll come apart
let him come apart every now and then
you let him go on vacation
you still have church
you'll miss him
you're glad when he's here but if he
goes on vacation you'll still have
church
if you go on vacation
in fact if every one of you decide to go
on the same sunday which sometimes
happened when i was a pastor
if you go on vacation you'll still have
church
but you hear me
if he's not here
if jesus isn't here
you're not having church
i said if if jesus isn't here you're
just the lions club
you're just the odd fellows and i mean
we're really odd fellas when he don't
show up i've seen places that tried to
have church without him listen god has
this incredible idea that church is all
about him it's his church
i will build my
church that brings us to the very last
word
church the word is
is ecclesia it doesn't
some people say it shouldn't be
translated
church
a.s wario
i'll tell you more than i know this is
this is what professors do you ask them
what time it is they tell you how to
build a watch
but a.s war is the early
bible translator back at the turn of the
19th century
turn of the 20th century
and he was a worshiper at azusa street
but he translated the bible
and it's a literal english translation
of the bible and he never uses the word
church in his whole bible
he uses the word assembly
i i think it was
i think it was wario's influence that
caused this denomination to choose its
name the assemblies of god
but warl never uses the word church he
uses the word assembly because that is
the real translation
assembly
because
what the church is
is not a denomination
it's not a building
we we drive by and say well there's the
church no that's not the church
this is not the church
this is block and wood and this is a
building
somebody asked a football player from
the university of oklahoma what his
church preference was he said red brick
some of y'all explain that to your
spouse later but
he said i will build my church he wasn't
talking about building this building
the church is not the building the
church is the people
the assembly those of us that are here
this morning we are the assembly
pardon me for using the word but we are
the assembly of god we have assembled
ourselves together
the word means the assembled the called
ones the called ones we are the called
ones we we have come to the assembly we
are the church you are the church now
don't get me wrong we're not perfect
we're not without fault or failure we're
not perfect but we are the church
you and i we are the lord's church he's
called us out
he said i will build my church
and we're called two ways and i'm going
to close we're
called out of something
we're called out of what we were in
we're called out of sin
the scripture says if any man be in
christ jesus he is a new creature you're
not what you used to be
you may not be what you ought to be but
thank god you're not what you used to be
you were called out you were called out
of sin that means you don't live in sin
anymore that doesn't mean you never make
a mistake it just means you don't live
in sin anymore you're not a sinner
anymore
you're not just a sinner
years the lord's been built in his
church in albert lee minnesota
can you lift your hands to god and just
give thanks to him today for calling you
in
can you give thanks to him today for
calling you to salvation for letting you
be part of his church the assembly the
called out ones lord we just love you
today we thank you lord more than
anything else that you saved us god
you've been so good to us you've blessed
us in so many ways in our life lord we
couldn't enumerate all the ways that
you've been kind to us lord we love you
we love your graciousness and goodness
to us but lord most of all we thank you
lord that you called us out of sin
and called us to be part of your
assembly i thank you for it bless this
church bless our service tonight that
the holy ghost come down and bless us
tonight
bless these good people
bless this congregation with
many many more years of growth and
success
in jesus name
as i turn it back to pastor ryan
everybody said
amen
church
church do you hear a theme
that's going on right here
we're the called out ones
in colossians it's like this whole theme
has been this whole year he had no idea
what i've been preaching for the last
six about seven months
praise god
we are called out to
to put to death those things that remain
upon us and to embrace
the righteousness we called into
something beautiful called into
something great
praise god that it is he
who does the building
of his possession
amen
hallelujah don't miss tonight 6 p.m
you're gonna want to be here for every
single part of it the doors will be open
early you want to be here early
praise god
it'll be a great time to celebrate with
each other great time to
what greater way to celebrate the
anniversary of this church than to
pursue
after the lord god amen
amen by your hesitation and i'll just
close us in prayer
hallelujah heavenly father we thank you
so much for this time that you have
blessed us with we thank you that you
have called us out
lord that you are building your church
that you are doing a work amongst your
people and we give you the glory we
thank you for that gift that you have
called us out lord we thank you that you
sent your only son to die on a cross for
our sins that we might be made new and
we give you the glory for it lord may
your hand rest upon your people this
afternoon lord as we go forth from here
and enjoy our meal enjoy the afternoon
but lord i also ask that you bring us
back here safely tonight six
lord to worship you some more and to
give you all the glory for the wonderful
legacy that we have
and lord the wonderful celebration for
the great things that are still in store
we give you the glory for it we proclaim
your greatness and we thank you for this
time together and everyone says
amen amen praise god god bless you check
out the corner there we got some photos
and albums open there
go and enjoy shake some hands hug love
on some people we'll see