Injustice: Start to Finish—February 13, 2022: full transcript and answers

▶ 0:02 Good to go good morning it’s good to be in the house of God we want to remind you this morning this is vine cluster church our motto is believe you want to believe in Jesus Christ grow you need to grow in God and you need to know God Jesus says to know Jesus and God is eternal life you can know God now you can know eternal life now the scriptures say those that be planted in the house of the Lord shall flourish in the courts of their God God has set up the church to grow Christians need to grow the Bible says Jesus said himself when he was on this earth he says I am building my church and the gates of hell shall not prevail against the church that is the church if you are a Christian get with the church the gates of hell are not going to prevail against the church so get into the church get growing in God and let’s stand up lift up our voice and praise for Jesus Christ like the scriptures say it is good to be in the house of the Lord amen amen let’s start this morning.

▶ 1:34 Let the heavens rejoice. Let the earth be glad. Let the people of God sing his praise all over the land. Everyone in the valley. Goes. All those on the mountaintop being mad shout for joy. Rise up and praise him. He deserves our love rise up and praise him. Let’s worship the holy one with all your heart all your soul all your mind. Up and praise him as we begin worship this morning why don’t we stand up we know the principles of worship is to sing unto God to clap our hands to praise his holy name amen amen so let’s stand before him this morning and don’t be afraid to dance unto Jesus.

▶ 2:57 Everyone in the valley. Come and live your voice. Rise up and praise him. Up and praise him. Let’s worship the holy one with all your heart all your soul all your mind. Rise up and praise him. Rise up rise up and praise him. He deserves our love. Rise up and praise him.

▶ 3:49 Let’s worship the holy one with all your heart all your soul with all your minds. Up and praise him. Make his breathe glorious. Celebrate before the kings let the singers be. Make his praise glory us celebrate before the king let the singer sing the player’s way celebrate celebrate the king celebrate Jesus. Celebrate Jesus celebrate. Tell the brain Jesus celebrate.

▶ 4:48 Celebrate Jesus celebrate. Celebrate Jesus celebrate. He is. Foreign. Jesus celebrated. Celebrate Jesus celebrate.

▶ 5:47 Celebrate Jesus celebrate. Celebrate Jesus celebrate. He is. The resurrection. Is.

▶ 7:06 We give you all our worship. We give you all the honor and the glory. Lord we lift up your name. With our hearts full of praise. Be exalted. In the highest. Glory. Glory. Glory to the king of kings. Glory.

▶ 8:00 Glory to the king of kings. With our hearts. Be exalted. Glory glory.

▶ 8:52 Glory. Glory to the king of Eve. Glory. Glory. Glory to the king of years. Lord Lord we lift up your name. With our hearts. Be insulted. Lord we lift up your name.

▶ 9:56 Be exalted. I am. We rejoice in your goodness. Thank you. Enthroned on high.

▶ 11:06 His praise shall be. Us forever. Glorious. His name is Jesus. He is the Lord. He is the Lord. Oh.

▶ 12:12 His praise shall be. He reigns victorious. Forever. His name is Jesus. He is the Lord. Oh Lord God we just sing this song to you today in honor of your sacrifice Lord Jesus Jesus you are the lamb who sits on the throne Lord God and we give you honor Lord Jesus we take the time to give you honor for you have given all that we could be redeemed that we could have new life that we could walk in light with you Lord Jesus thank you Lord God you are good and we give you the highest praise you are the king of kings you are the Lord of lords thank you Lord Jesus.

▶ 14:01 Battle. Cry. You raise victorious. Glory. His name is. Jesus is the Lord. He is the Lord. He reigns. He reigns victorious. Forever. Glorious.

▶ 14:59 His name is Jesus. He is the Lord. He. Is the Lord. Glory. Glory. To the land.

▶ 16:00 Glory. Glory. Glory is glorious. And worthy to be praised. The lamb upon. The. Throne and on to him will we lift our voices. Glory. Glory. To the lamb.

▶ 16:56 Glory. Glory. Glory. To. The lamb. For he is glorious. And worthy to be. Raised our voice. Up.

▶ 18:24 Is. My meditation. Jesus thank you Lord God for coming to us Lord Jesus today when we praise you you come and you bring your word to encourage us to strengthen us Lord God and we thank you for this gift we thank you that you look upon us in our lowly state Lord Jesus and give us your time your attention Lord God I pray you to open our ears to hear that we will be able to understand Lord Jesus the words that you’re speaking to us today that we would be able to understand tomorrow more than we understood today and we could grow in your word and understanding and we grow in our faith and our commitment to following you Lord Jesus thank you Lord thank you Jesus in

▶ 19:54 your precious name amen. You may find your seats in his presence and after that we’re going to have a time of prayer. So we’re going to talk about injustice. Start to finish a journey of justice God in Amos chapter 5 chapter 21. He starts out saying I hate or despise your feast days. And he’s talking to Israel here. And though you offer me burnt offerings and your grain offerings I will not accept them take away from me the noise of your songs then what so we shouldn’t be praising God. For I will not hear the melody of your stringed instruments. And he goes on to say let justice run down like water and righteousness like a mighty stream.

▶ 20:55 See God is equating justice to water. And as you know water is essential to life all over the world. And just like water is essential to life justice is that important. Justice in our government justice in your home justice in the choices you make in the way you treat people. And righteousness like a mighty stream righteousness a mighty stream is something that can be partaken of it it brings life to all it has a direction it’s taking its life out to the earth. And righteousness is just like that when you do good and you treat people right when you treat your kids right you treat your parents right when you treat your neighbor right it is it brings life.

▶ 21:50 It’s powerful. And God is calling and saying do not. Make the small things the smaller things the priority when you should be making the big things a priority. That is justice and righteousness and Isaiah 1:16 says wash yourselves make yourselves clean put away the evil. Of your doings before my eyes cease to do evil. And then he goes on to say learn to do good. And the question is what is good. Is it our opinion of good most definitely not seek justice or what justice is right. God’s justice is right.

▶ 22:42 Rebuke the oppressor well who is the oppressor. Today you guys are being labeled as oppressors. But God’s not talking about you. Defend the fatherless plead for the widow. So to begin with we have here a baby in California I’m sorry we have here a baby this baby is nine weeks old and this is what a baby looks like inside the womb and so from a first person’s point of view I’m going to share the situation we have right now in California. And. If you are you know conceived you. An abortion can be performed on you if you are deemed.

▶ 23:34 Unviable unviable. You’re unviable oh wow. Talk about sticks and stones all of a sudden you’re labeled as unviable and you don’t get to live. Who decides whether you’re viable or unviable basically what you’re that they’re saying is there’s no hard-line rule there’s no hard line uh. Week or month. A doctor decides if you are viable on a case-by-case basis. And I’m I’m I’m giving this in the perspective of you are being born into some person’s body some woman’s body because only women can bear children. And this is what you have to go through. Normally you’re deemed viable at 23 weeks normally and if you weigh at least 500 grams that’s about a pound and 23 weeks is about five and a half months.

▶ 24:36 And this is all according to a law firm. So if you do not meet the criteria above and you’re not wanted for any reason by the person you’re in the woman that you’re in you can lose your life. As you know Texas came out with a law that and when they when they came out with that law abortions fell by 60 percent I just want to point that out. So the government is most definitely not on your side in this case if you’re trying to come out of the womb and live you know if you want you’ve got to face some obstacles as soon as you’re you’re not even breathing yet. If you want to live. And God’s opinion in Jeremiah 1:5 before I formed you in the womb I knew you see this kind of talk this kind of statement tells you that God before you were formed before you had eyes before you had a nose before you had a mouth before you had hands and feet which happens very early on before that I knew you.

▶ 25:44 I’ve. And before I formed you I knew you. And he says you. Right he labels you as a person. Exodus 21 verse 22 if men fight and hurt a woman with child going to the law here in Exodus she gives birth prematurely and harm follows you shall give life for life eye for eye tooth for tooth burn for burn and this law is saying. That baby in the womb has just as much right to life and I will defend that life God’s law defends. The baby and the woman. This is God’s justice this is God’s opinion not I don’t want to call it an opinion let’s call it a law his commandments right these are these are important things.

▶ 26:49 So going on you’re trying to grow up as a person. And you are. Your chances of getting in a two-parent household is very low so in 1960 you had a 73 percent chance and 1980 you had a 61 percent chance and and in 2014 you have a 40. Six percent chance now there’s a lot of you know reasons why divorce happens or there’s not two parents in the home but I mean half of the half of the country that’s a lot. And it shouldn’t be we’ve got to make. Marriage and staying together important again. Children from intact two-parent families do better on every measure on every level.

▶ 27:46 Children do better and so people ask this question should the government advocate for children. Does the government advocate for children at this at these two stages no. It doesn’t advocate for children while they’re in the womb it doesn’t I mean you have to overcome obstacles. It doesn’t advocate for children and when you’re breathing and you’re in a home now you’re with somebody’s got to take care of you you’re dependent on someone. The government is advocating for parents bad behaviors. Because we live in a democracy and the democracy says that. The government should support our bad behaviors see that’s the problem with democracy. Whatever the majority says happens.

▶ 28:39 And there’s no standard. Of right and wrong. And that’s why people have been trying to stand up for you know God creating us people have been trying to stand up for creation you know they’re teaching evolution if we didn’t come from God and there is no law no right and wrong then we really don’t need to follow right and wrong. So right now the government is advocating for adults bad choices and bad behaviors. As a child your voice is suppressed. And I say that because children don’t even learn to talk until they’re like you know. One or two so and they’re in the womb for nine months and they’re you know crying and screaming for milk for about a year without no voice.

▶ 29:36 And so who stands up for them and then they get a voice and what are they saying they’re saying google gaga and they don’t know what’s right and wrong they don’t know what truth is they’re not an adult yet their mind has not uh. Matured they’re not 20 years old. So stan your children’s voice is suppressed that’s why I say that and we got to stand up for children. First Corinthians chapter seven verse two nevertheless because of welcome guys good to see you because of sexual immorality let each man have his own wife and let each man have her own husband it says in first Corinthians. And I bring this up because this is God’s solution right to the whole problem it’s to get married and some of us don’t like that solution I can’t stand women I can’t stand men.

▶ 30:38 I’m not you know I’m saying figuratively. You know some of us have. Whatever your state is right now but if you want to have kids and if you want to be sexually active you’ve got to follow God’s pattern this is the pattern he’s set up Hebrews 13:4 marriage is honorable among all and the bed undefiled but fornicators and adulterers God will judge it’s important God has set up a pattern and a commandment for us to follow. And his way is the best way as much as we may not like it oh my gosh I gotta put up with this person. You know marriage isn’t easy amen. It’s not easy. And you think God this is your solution.

▶ 31:35 But it is and it is the best solution and both. The husband and wife need to love one another. It doesn’t work when one loves and the other does not. We got to make loving each other a priority again we’ve got as Christians we really need to be an example of what a marriage should be the world is getting some people in the world are getting married. And they’re going through problems and stuff but us Christians we should be leading the way you know how should we behave be behaving in marriage she’ll be loved we should be loving each other we should be examples of marriage. Ephesians 6:4. Your and you fathers do not provoke your children to wrath but bring them up in the training and ad munition of the Lord and I’m talking about why it’s so important what God sees as important what is justice to God is for us fathers.

▶ 32:42 To bring up train up our children in the fear of the Lord where we are concerned how are we influencing our children. How are we influencing them what are we teaching them by our behavior and by our words Titus 2:4 that they admonish the young women to love their husbands. Now fathers don’t have to love their wives but that’s a joke. That they manage young to love their husbands and to love their children. That’s very important love your children. The scriptures say that husbands are to lay down their lives for their family their spouse. And the wife.

▶ 33:35 Loves their children you don’t see you know if you have an attitude toward your children that they are a burden that they are ruining all your fun that they’re ruining your life you better check your attitude and you better change your attitude and if you need help changing your attitude you come to God you come to his scriptures and he’ll help you change. Because that is the truth. So we go on. And. As a girl all girls. Out of all the girls in the u.s 11 percent that’s one in 10 are going to be sexually abused and I want you guys to hear this from a first person point of view you have a two percent chance as a boy to be sexually abused.

▶ 34:27 In high school you have a seven percent chance of sexual contact from an adult you know people in the school coaches or teachers or yeah adults. And because of this you’re four times likely to abuse drugs four times likely to experience post traumatic stress and three times likely to experience major depress and what it’s saying is this has an effect on people a bad effect and it is not just for us to continue to. Allow the government to promote to advocate for bad adult behaviors because that is what is happening right now. In your home you have a 53 percent chance of parents approving of alcohol marijuana and drugs 22 percent chance of being informed of the risks of marijuana and sex outside of marriage at 60 cents 66 66 chance of parents drinking which is not a good example to your child uh 35 chance of your parents smoking 15 chance your parents using illegal drugs again not a good example.

▶ 35:44 Not what the right way to teach your children that is not God just said to the fathers in the training and fear of the Lord that is not the fear of the Lord. Teaching them all this this stuff the junk that should we got to get out of our lives that’s not what we want to do to our children. And when we do it kids see it when we are an example of something bad they see that and we are teaching our kids to do it you know it’s not like oh I never told my kids that this was okay but you did it and they’re following your example. A five percent chance. Of your parent being concerned about alcohol so that’s very low so five percent of kids are actually you know.

▶ 36:36 Have a good example a chance of using alcohol by the time the average age is 12 years old using alcohol and a 78 percent chance of drinking at someone’s home or sixty six or sixty six percent chance at your own home which should not be parents should be. Making it safe for their children when I was a kid I remember this program it was called dare. And I remember the stickers I remember putting them on my boogie board and some people would have them on their car and the police I was reading about it they would go to a school and they would educate kids on drugs and alcohol and the effects of all these you know even smoking and the effects that it’s gonna have. And uh you know you read about it now and they’re saying this program did not work at all it’s just the results are just not there and yeah I mean my goodness.

▶ 37:37 It may have caused more substance abuse they said when I read about the results and here is the problem you had one source the the police telling you it was wrong and then the rest of the world advertisements. The music was saying that is the best thing on planet earth and it was portrayed in movies and in entertainment like it was wonderful so you had a mixed message you didn’t know who to trust well I’m not going to trust the police officer. I want to do what is fun. Even though it can be it is harmful. It’s a mixed message and they try to blame it that says it doesn’t work but I remember it and I remember. Respecting that the police officers.

▶ 38:29 Actually would say this is not good and for the government to say hey this is not good that is not happening today the opposite is happening. And that was just about 30 what 25 years ago that that was happening the government actually said no to something can you believe that. Today in states they are approving of hard drugs I mean it’s just it’s backwards we should not be. And if you’re someone who is. Drugs have a hold on you. You’ve got to find a solution in Christ for that it is something that God wants to put behind you and he has the power to do it.

▶ 39:30 So today. We don’t have government going out in there and telling kids that drugs and these kind of things are going to hurt them. Home life this is from a first persons again point of view in eight two years ago in April sb 1004. Uh said that sensitive services are hidden from parents including abortions so my child can and I was in the hospital recently or I was in the doctor’s office and I was reading about this little thing and it said you know we don’t we’re not going to tell your parents. I’m like thinking. What. My daughter. Can go get an abortion they can get transgender hormones they can get sex changes without telling me.

▶ 40:28 I was like that’s horrible. You are you will be influenced by public school to accept and promote same-sex relationships. And I know this is true. And promoted I say promote because that’s what is happening it’s being promoted uh it’s not seen as a negative thing anymore it’s being promoted to something good and it’s in God’s eyes in God’s word it is wrong. You may be influenced by friends family and others to take hormone blockers and sex change surgeries which have irreversible. And permanent effects. And I bring this up because if you’re raised by a lesbian family or raised by two men that again like I said earlier just you living that way is an example to these kids that’s going to have an effect on them you’re influencing them to live like you do.

▶ 41:38 And all the harm that comes with it they don’t tell you that they are always at the doctor getting something treated because of all of the things that come along with this lifestyle. And also. I lost my train of thought. We’re gonna have to go on the scriptures say in Matthew 8:16 whoever causes it one of these little ones who believe in me to sin it would be better for him if a millstone were hung around his necks and he would drown in the depths of the sea Jesus really cares about children he really cares about these young ones because they’re easily influenced they’re going to believe what you teach them and tell them and if something is tasty or something is fun or something is better they’re just going to do it.

▶ 42:40 And that is not just. Adults we know. We know the consequences. It is not just because they don’t understand. And that’s why. Jesus Christ is saying here whoever is influencing and causing one of these little ones who believe in me to sin families that are influencing their kids to take these transgender hormones and having sex changes and living that lifestyle that brings harm that is not right. Influencing their kids to do drugs to do alcohol because they are doing it they’re a bad example it is not you’re influencing your kid to sin and God has a big problem with that. Proverbs 21 verse 10 when the scoffer is punished the simple is made wise you know.

▶ 43:39 Going back to the abortion law in Texas when people saw that came out 60 there were 60 percent less abortions because people said okay well we got a law here okay there was a lot of deterrence. Uh when people see that there’s correction for something they will not go along with it the simple who’s more simple than a child children are simple they you know have simple minds and that’s fine but they’ve got to see that wrong is there’s correction for wrong. And that’s just basic raising of your children you know every parent. A good parent will correct their child. That’s just basic parenting amen. And you correct them so they know that that.

▶ 44:35 Action is wrong and they shouldn’t do it they’re made wise. The Bible says that children are a heritage from the Lord they’re an inheritance from God from God God is the one who set up Adam and Eve he’s the one who set up reproduction he’s the one who started this whole thing you know God doesn’t have to go and make every little person he set up the man and the woman to be. Procreate reproduce all day boom it’s happening today there’s babies being born because God set it up it is our inheritance and God is entrusting that with us. To raise them and the nurturing the ass nurture and admonition of the Lord the fruit of the womb is a reward. And we do not treat our children like they are a reward we treat them or we can treat them like a burden and mistreat them.

▶ 45:38 The government is making it difficult to raise children in today’s world to be able to bring in you know. To be able to have a two-parent home with somebody staying home with the kids you got to be making a lot of money. And that’s hard today. The government makes it hard with all the high costs that we’re going I mean I mean I just like from in six months things skyrocket I’m like what what is happening here that’s not good for the family that’s not good for anyone. Amen. God has entrusted parents. To be responsible to take responsibility for their children by 18 you have 50 percent chance of having sex and we all know why that is.

▶ 46:35 By 19 7 out of 10 teens have had sex. The most common reasons for abstaining were it was against my religion or morals and I haven’t found a second is I haven’t found the right person uh third I don’t want to get a female pregnant you see that third one is like logic you know I don’t want to get into trouble but entertainment though all the sources of information out there are not sharing any of the downsides of all this stuff. And it’s happening to a lot a lot of the young people growing up. Fifty percent that is a lot of young people seven out of ten that is a lot of young people they’re not being taught to save yourself for marriage.

▶ 47:29 So going back to first Corinthians. Because of sex women let each man have his own wife and let each woman have her own husband see this is again God’s solution also in Proverbs 24:27 prepare your outside work make it fit for yourself in the field and afterward build your house see God’s pattern is not go and have sex first and then uh have a home and then when you’re all done with that get married and then. You got it mixed up. We got to get it in the right order right. And if we’ve messed up we can change we can adjust we can get back on the right road but God’s pattern is prepare your outside work you young teens recognize this prepare your outside work that means prepare yourself.

▶ 48:22 Get a skill get a job get uh you know if you want to own your own business fine but you gotta find a way to work uh provide for yourself and live independently not mom and dad or the government taking care of you you want to have a goal set a goal do you have a goal when I was 12 years old I was asked what are you doing when you grow up what job are you going for I was like I don’t know. And uh it wasn’t kind it wasn’t like that was more like uh I don’t know what there’s all this pressure on me easy now. But it made me think it made me set a goal and I set a goal and I reached that goal if you don’t set a goal you’re never going to reach a goal you never set.

▶ 49:19 If you aim for nothing you’re going to hit it every time. As the saying goes. If you want to be sexually active get married to get married you want to be able to provide for your home you need a skill you need so you got to take these steps. Right when you go to school next time you go to school on Monday or Tuesday I don’t know what happens after super bowl. On Monday take it serious. Start setting some goals what are you going to do with your life how are you going to live independently how are you going to take care of yourself you got to set some goals young people if you don’t have goals right now set some goals it’s never too late. Get a skill. You know let me tell you this I went to college I got a bachelor’s degree and I showed up at the job I applied and uh you know it was for configuration management never heard before in my life I sat down talked to the guy interviewing me he said do you know this do you know this do you know this you know this I said no I don’t know any of that.

▶ 50:30 Did college prepare me for that no. I learned everything I know today from being trained on my job. On the job training and my point is young people if you feel like you can’t handle. Uh college out there or education. You can find some job get some training I learned everything I know from working on my job. And they give me new stuff every year to learn and to because I t is changing all the time. You can learn especially in the military you got all kinds of things and actually I don’t know but there’s a lot of opportunities there.

▶ 51:26 Whether it’s on the job training or some kind of trade school you can find a skill young people we can do this you can do this scriptures say I can do all things through Christ who strengthens me the Bible says that he is equipped for you for every good work working is a good work. And God will equip you for it but you’ve got to make a choice. John 7:14 do not judge according to appearance but judge with righteous judgment and these are red letters you know who said that Jesus Christ do not judge by just mere appearance. Voice today voices today if you listen to tv or whatever you know to today I can’t say tv and radio because nobody’s listening to the radio if you listen to tv and youtube if you listen to tv and podcasts wherever your source is.

▶ 52:21 They are taking sides. On issues to make it appear that is good to promote all of the sin. Do not judge according to appearance right now we are judging according to appearance. In Micah chapter 6 verse 8 he has shown you oh man. Oh man me you o woman. And what does the Lord require of you but to do justly to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God we have a responsibility. To do justly. To live a life in our own lives of justice to promote in our country. Justice.

▶ 53:13 To bring justice back to our country. Scriptures say in Isaiah 55 for as the heavens are higher than the earth so are my ways higher than your ways and my thoughts then your thoughts I bring this up because there is so much debate there is so much discussion to come to some kind of agreement. Just the statement that a two-parent household is uh children do better in took a lot of data a lot of research and there’s all this talk and it takes maybe years and years to come to this conclusion when you can just go to God’s word. And he says it in about two sentences. That’s what God is saying he’s already summed up all the best results.

▶ 54:09 All the best ways you could live your life are here in his book. His ways are higher than our ways. As uh worship team comes ii Samuel 22 verse 28 as for God his way is perfect the word of the Lord is proven. Uh some of us really don’t like. I mean they say out there they don’t want to get God’s word involved in politics injustice but it needs to. Because right now it’s just going to keep going worse and worse and worse because there is no right and wrong. And we’ve got to come back to the standard the word of the Lord is proven his way is perfect.

▶ 55:03 The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul the statue of the lord’s the statutes of the Lord are right the commandment of the Lord is pure the fear of the Lord is clean it’s more to be desired than gold ye than much fine gold maybe some of us don’t desire what the law of the Lord I want that. But we need to desire it because it is the best thing for our country it is the best thing for your home it is the best thing for your life it is the best thing for your children. Justice for God’s law. Justice according to his word. And in keeping them there is great reward. And Amos going back to the first verse Amos chapter 5 verse 24 let justice run down like water God is calling us to let justice.

▶ 56:06 Run down like water whose justice his justice. Justice according to what his word his law. And he likens justice to water it is essential to life in our country and in every country on this planet. And righteousness like a mighty stream righteousness is again something that you can partake of when somebody treats you right you just had a wonderful mighty stream enter you and touch you oh somebody said hi handshake gave you a smile cheetah treated you right my goodness. Or if you’re a child. And your parent treated you right. Your parent took time this year to treat you right to raise your right.

▶ 57:00 How many know that’s like a mighty stream that is essential. To a good life. And that’s what God is saying today Proverbs 21 verse 3 I’ve given today I’ve only given you scriptures this morning to do righteousness and justice is more acceptable to the Lord than sacrifice. The sacrifice of praise. It is more acceptable to do righteousness and justice God is more interested in us doing those things. Than these other things. So God is asking us this morning will we learn to do good from God like it says in Amos. Will we do justly in our personal lives. The people that we touch the people we talk to our families our children our spouses our husband our wives.

▶ 57:53 Will you stand up for God’s law. Will you stand up for righteousness and be an example. And will you stand up for justice for other people according to his law not according to our opinion. To do this the scriptures. Say that we have to read you have to have knowledge of the Bible you’ve got to get the word in you. So that you know what is right from wrong. So I encourage you this morning God is challenging us. To change things in our country to bring justice back according to his word to bring justice back in your house to bring justice back in your personal life. Your decisions that you make every day.

▶ 58:47 God wants to bring justice back are you willing to accept that this morning this morning we’re going to sing the song the law of the Lord is perfect. And I’m going to ask miss Woods to go ahead and sing it. Oh no. Oh okay I’m sorry. The Lord the Lord is perfect. Rejoicing the heart. The commandments. The commandment of the Lord is pure.

▶ 59:41 Enlightening the eyes. Also then. I’d like to invite you to stand. And God let this come home to you in your mind in your heart and your decisions that you make every day. And God repeatedly he says that he is looking for. Righteousness and justice from his people. The church can help us grow and to someone who is living righteously the scriptures also say that he who practice righteousness is righteous if we’re not practicing it today will you at least commit to say God I’m gonna start practicing your righteousness.

▶ 1:00:51 If you’re not practicing justice today will you at least say God I want to do justly starting today. So let’s lift up our voices right now as we invite Jesus. To come and change our heart we need a new heart that is sensitive to his law his word his truth let’s lift up our voice right now God Lord we ask you to come this morning Jesus Lord we pray for your law your truth Jesus God we call on you this morning Jesus Lord your word God we need you Jesus. Lord God o God your law makes a difference your truth makes a difference Jesus. Jesus Jesus it’s the thing that brings us from darkness to light God your word God when you speak when you spoken God we listen and we follow it God what a wonderful thing it is Jesus.

▶ 1:01:51 Jesus Jesus we call on you this morning God soften our hearts give us a tender heart this morning Lord America is hard to your law Lord there is such a hardness to your truth there is such a hardness to your word Jesus Jesus please come Lord come with your softening heart Lord come with your your power your spirit and soften the hearts of America the hearts toward your law to your truth Jesus Jesus God please Jesus.

▶ 1:02:26 Lord wake us up Jesus Jesus Jesus Lord please God we pray Lord Jesus. Lord you say that the church will be built in perilous times God we ask that you build your church Jesus Lord we want to keep her Lord speaking your truth and speaking your honest truth Jesus to the world God please enable us equip us to continue to do this God Lord this morning we commit Lord Jesus Lord to do justly Lord I do the righteous thing God Lord God we want to follow you to follow your truth God Lord we pray for the words to say to our neighbor God we pray for the words to say to our children God we pray for the worst to say to influence everyone around us Lord to follow the truth of God’s word Jesus Jesus please o Lord Jesus God we pray Lord God we need you Jesus we need you Lord Jesus can make a difference in your people God your word.

▶ 1:03:44 The soul. The testimony of the Lord is sure making wise the simple. More to be more to be decide. Are they than gold yay then much finger. Oh also also then the honey. And the honeycomb. The fear of the Lord is clean. Enduring. Forever. The judgments of the Lord are true.

▶ 1:04:40 And righteous all together moreover by them. Moreover by them is thy servant. And I served. There is great reward. We’re going to take communion this morning and then ask the communion folks to serve it out. And we want to remind you this morning what the scriptures say in first Corinthians chapter 11 26 for whenever you eat this bread and drink this cup you proclaim the lord’s death until he comes and the lord’s death is very important because that’s where it all begins if you want to believe in Christ you’ve got to believe in the lord’s death.

▶ 1:05:43 The lord’s burial and his resurrection. And when we do this communion it proclaims to the world. The lord’s death. The cup it says this cup this cup is the new covenant in my blood. Do this whenever you drink of it in remembrance of me so this morning as you drink drink remember that Jesus Christ shed his blood for our sin in first John two verse one it says if anyone sins we have an advocate with the father Jesus Christ the righteous why because he shed his blood we may have made a mistake we may have messed up we may have sinned but we can come back into right relationship with God because of what he did on the cross because of this cup the new blood that we have the new covenant we have in his blood.

▶ 1:06:41 So. Let’s take our cup. And let’s drink together. Boom. Before we do that let’s pray and ask God to bless this cup. Paul would you pray for the cup please. Amen. First Corinthians chapter 11 24.

▶ 1:07:41 He says of the bread take eat this is my body which is broken for you. Do this in remembrance of me. Jesus said in John chapter 6 verse 35 I am the bread of life and whoever comes to me shall not hunger whoever believes in me shall never thirst he says I am the living bread that came down from heaven if anyone eats of this bread will live forever and the bread that I will give you for. The bread that I will give for the life of the world is my flesh the scriptures also say that if anyone is in Christ he is a new creation. I. Encourage you this morning. We’ve got to put Christ in us not just the bread that we’re holding in our hands but his truth.

▶ 1:08:38 The decisions that we make to follow him that is putting Christ in you when you say Jesus yes I’ve got a hundred thousand problems in my life I’ve got a hundred thousand issues and a hundred thousand things I’m doing wrong but when you say God today I’m gonna start following you I’m gonna start putting you in me. That makes a powerful difference. If anyone is in Christ he is a new creation old things have passed away all things have become new when you follow him and seek him he makes a change in your life so let’s take and eat of this bread before we do that I’m going to ask someone to pray for the bread. Mary will you play for the bread just ask God to bless it as we partake of it.

▶ 1:09:34 Lord Jesus we thank you this morning we thank you for your sacrifice for us on the cross we thank you Jesus for the body the church we thank you Jesus that you gave your life for us God. And Lord that today as Christians when we put when we are in Christ when we put you inside of us when we partake of you God you make the world of a difference in our lives. And God we pray and thank you bless this as we partake of let’s eat together. Go ahead and sing what you’re saying. Of Jesus. Oh the blood of Jesus.

▶ 1:10:39 Washes wide as snow. Oh the blood of Jesus. Oh the blood of Jesus. Oh the blood of Jesus. It washes. White as. Snow. Now going back to the message. The law of the Lord is perfect converting the soul right now let’s take a few minutes we’re going to pray and lift up our voice. We have a big problem in our country. We have a humongous problem.

▶ 1:11:33 That we have pointed out this morning of all the injustices that are happening to children. That all the injustices that are happening because the government is. Advocating for adult bad behaviors and not for children. Not for their growth. And we need to lift up our voice in unison right now and ask that God will begin to change that around. And not only pray about it but do something about it we’ve got to lift up our voice we want to ask that God would. Soften the heart people right now have a hard heart toward God’s word. They have a hard heart towards God’s law. And we need God to soften their hearts so that they can receive what God is saying and bring these just laws back.

▶ 1:12:29 Into our government. So let’s lift our voices together. In prayer for our government prayer for the people of America. That God would do a powerful work let’s put our voices together God we come before you this morning Jesus God Lord you are the key God Jesus Jesus Lord as we learn this morning children are being mistreated Lord God children are being harmed and hurt God Lord we need you Jesus Jesus we need your Lord your law your truth your word follow Jesus. Jesus God please we call on you God we need your strength we need your power God Lord we need your spirit movie well we need you to soften people’s heart to hear your word to hear your truth God.

▶ 1:13:26 Lord Jesus that we would get back to following truth Lord justice God from the word of God from you Jesus Jesus Jesus God we pray Lord that you equip us Lord give us a new heart Lord your church our heart of unity God around your truth your your scriptures your righteousness and your justice God around your law God Jesus right now American Christians are looking for who’s whose law are we gonna follow we have it here we’ve had it always it is yours Jesus please God we pray. God bring unity back to the church bring unity back to the church God Lord to stand up for the law to stand up for the truth of your word Jesus please God we need you God Jesus we need you please Lord Jesus Lord Jesus.

▶ 1:14:28 Thank you thank you Jesus God you are wonderful we worship you. Somebody please lift up your voice in closing. Asking go just to confirm all the things we. That God has shared through his word. Let’s lift up your voice in closing ask God to bless us. They would see what they’re doing wrong they would see them hurting these kids is so wrong.

▶ 1:15:46 Abortion is so wrong. People end up growing getting older having so many regrets in their life and so hardy it’s hard to come to you because of all the regrets they have but we know Lord God you cover that we know you’re greater than that and you come and you touch these people and make them realize. They don’t have to have these kind of regrets. And the other kids that are being hurt. Oh God. Show us what we can do and how to do it. Give us wisdom and understanding on these things Lord God there’s so many kids out there that need you yes Jesus. And God we just ask that you pour that in our hearts to continue fighting for these kids because we know as a church children are first yes they are first yes Jesus we know that and we thank you for giving that to us Lord God but it needs not to stop we need to go on putting them first.

▶ 1:16:54 Thank you for the today thank you for your love and thank you for watching over those that are sick God thank you you cover us we love you we give you the honor and the glory Jesus. Let the amen. Stand in on. At the Lord our God who’s chosen us for his own. Inheritance blessed is the nation blessed is the nation. Whose God is the Lord. And the people who he has chosen for his own inheritance let all the earth fear him let all the the.

▶ 1:17:57 Earth our God who’s chosen us for his own inheritance blessed is the nation blessed is the nation. Whose God is the Lord. And the people who he has chosen for his own inheritance. We want to encourage you again this morning. Hallelujah. Like Amos says let justice flow like water. There’s a song that says Lord make me a channel for the river of God that’s the kind of thing we’re talking about this morning we want to become a channel for justice and we want to become a channel for righteousness amen righteousness let it flow like a mighty stream those things are powerful and we’ve got to make them priorities again so again I encourage you I’m gonna go over the announcements.

▶ 1:18:57 Uh today we’re gonna be having our super bowl fellowship as you know I’m cooking ribs right now. We got beans coming uh they’re gonna help me make mashed potatoes. And I got a fridge just full of stuff. So we got food for days not for days I’m joking but we’re gonna have a good time. March 6th is our annual business meeting we moved it to march 6th and yes sir. How old are you. Uh we’ll ask I’ll talk to you later. Yeah you got to be 18. But you got to be remembered right. Sunday April 17th we’re going to be going to Easter we’re going to have Easter at the outlets and I could use some young people’s help I see zaire today I see young people man I could use some help I tell you what.

▶ 1:19:58 We want to make that happen we want to be able to reach our community with the gospel the simple message of Easter resurrection Jesus Christ powerful. Give them opportunity to find a church that they would believe grow and know God amen that’s what we want. Board member candidates for this year are rita thompson stephanie silla tony barnes michael Paul gomez and blake fambro. If you don’t know blake he’s in Texas but our day an hour you can you can be in another state and still still participate. So again we’d like to thank you for joining us this morning online uh we trust that you heard the word this morning in your life I encourage you let justice flow like water be a channel for Jesus Christ let righteousness flow like a mighty stream God bless you thank you for joining us and in the room.