A Fresh Start | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter by Kenneth Carpenter First Apostolic Church of Maryville (Maryville, TN) Kind: sermon Scripture: Lamentations 3:21-23, Psalm 30:5, Exodus 16:21, Genesis 12:9-11, Genesis 13:1-4, Genesis 22:10-11, Matthew 26:74-75, John 21:15-19, Jeremiah 18:1-6, 2 Samuel 12:18-23, Acts 20:7-10, Revelation 22:16, Revelation 21:5 Source: https://acts238.life/repository/sermons/kenneth-carpenter--a-fresh-start Published by Acts 2:38 Life from the sermon transcript on that page. Free to copy and share with attribution. ------------------------------------------------------------ you have your Bibles let's quickly go to the book of Lamentations the book of Lamentations chapter number three in verse number 21 and while you're looking for that let me say again happy Mother's Day I agree with brother Hammond that every every every day ought to be Mother's Day because you are you are so so so so so special every day ought to be every day ought to be Mother's Day and I want you to know that there are some of the most powerful women of God in this room right now some of those powerful women of God who simply go by the title mother and I praise you tonight as pastor of this church that you are a Godly woman this evening you are you are a mother I want to tell you that it's a good night amen it's a good night good night for what it's a good night to worship God I want to tell you it's a good night good night for what if you have not yet been baptized and the only saving name I want you to know it's a good night to be baptized in Jesus name for what if you've not received Heaven's best gift if she's a gift of the Holy Ghost it'd be a good night on Mother's Day to be born again of the water to be born again of the spirit let us go to the book of Lamentations chapter 3 and verse number 21. this I recall to my mind therefore I have hope it is of the Lord's Mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not they are new every morning great is thy faithfulness we're preaching something to you tonight that I believe with all of my heart and I'll simply let it out in my title I believe this with all of my heart if I didn't believe this I think I'd find something else to do but I truly believe this with all of my heart and it's in my title tonight a fresh start a fresh start precious God tonight for the next few moments would you anoint the lips of clay of a mortal man that I may tap into the Holy Ghost and that the spirit of God would be transferred through words into the hearts and the minds the discouraged that need to know there is a fresh start Lord to those tonight that have gotten off track they need to they need to know there's a fresh start Lord to those tonight that are suffering from the mundane habit of coming to the house of God and going through what they see as a routine God In The Name of Jesus tonight let there be a fresh start burn in this place God I'll give you the praise and give you the honor in Jesus mighty name I pray amen and amen you may be seated this evening again I begin as I begin this morning by telling you about scripture about scripture that the real power of a scripture many times is not simply in the two or three verses that I read in your hearing tonight but when you understand the surroundings of the scripture you understand the context you understand what is being said and why it is being said Lamentations is a book written by the Prophet Jeremiah Jeremiah has been known as the weeping prophet the weeping prophet and the reason that Jeremiah was known for his weeping his tears was because Israel had wondered so so so far from God Israel was so far away from what they used to be Israel had turned away from what they had used to worship and they never even they didn't even resemble any more of the people of God it was in this set God sent the Prophet Jeremiah and it Bears the name of the author Jeremiah the book of Jeremiah and then it is the book of lamentation see that book alone doesn't even sound you know nobody wants to shout to the book of Lamentations all right because it is just a book of lamenting lamenting sorrowful about what has happened but the old Prophet comes down in verse 21 and I share it with you again he says this I recall to my mind and therefore I have hope he said in the midst of backsliding in the midst of people growing cold on God in the midst of people transgressing transgressing the law of God in the midst of Israel not looking like God wanted them to look in their Worship in their everyday life he said there's something that I begin to recall to my mind there's something that I begin to meditate upon and I began to recall it to my mind and he said when I begin to call this or recall this to my mind he said hope hope is birth inside of me as a prophet hope is birthed inside of me as a man of God he said when I begin to recall I know what I'm seeing how far Israel has wondered I know what I'm seeing as far as the people of God have turned but he said when I begin to recall something about you God I I begin to have the rebirth the resurgence of this word called hope well Jeremiah what is it that causes you in the midst of Israel turning so far away what is it Jeremiah that causes you to have hope and in verse 22 he says it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not he began to look at the backsliding of Israel he began to look at the spiritual condition of Israel as a whole He Saw things going on that that shouldn't be going on and then he began to reminisce and he began to recall about the mercies of God and brothers and sisters I joined with my brother Jeremiah tonight and say a hearty amen the only reason you and I walked back in here tonight is because of the mercies of God the only reason you walk back up in the choir loft tonight is because we serve a god that is merciful tonight the only reason you're still here and you're still breathing and you still got a chance to be saved listen to me tonight it has nothing to do with your pastor it has nothing to do with a program we got here at this church it has everything to do with the god that we serve he is a merciful oh he is a merciful let me tell you something you can't bring me a hopeless case you can't walk a hopeless woman into my office you can't walk a hopeless teenager into my office you can't walk a hopeless man Into My Sanctuary because when I look at that hopeless man I don't look at how far he is this way or how far he is that way I just begin to look at the mercies of God and I see that it's the Mercies oh somebody ought to praise him right now if you Glide from Mercy if it wasn't for his Mercy it is of the Lord's Mercy that we are not consumed because his compassions fail not well brother Carpenter I I understand what you're saying but I want to let you know that six months ago six years ago four years ago four weeks ago four days ago XYZ happened I think I've depleted his Mercy well you gotta follow O Brother Jeremiah to verse 23 because he said they are new not every year they are new not every decade they are new I wish somebody helped the preacher out tonight they are new they are new and if you wonder how great he is great is his faithfulness when you let go of him he's not going to let go of you when you turn your back on him he's not going to turn his back on you because great is his every morning every morning there's a fresh start every morning there's a fresh start every morning there's a fresh start well the people of God got the grumbling and complaining about their being provided for in the wilderness they begin to Grumble and complain and finally God told them he said I'm going to rain bread down on you I'm gonna rain bread down on you and said I want you to go out for five days and I want you to gather a certain amount and said that certain amount is going to take care of you but said only get enough for that day don't try to hoard anything up for tomorrow he said I'm going to give you today this listen there's people air on on either side of this there's people that live in the past and there's people that live in the future and they never live in the right here right now you gotta live in the right here right now God was good to us this morning but this morning's already passed God will be good to us and Lord willing we come back Wednesday night but we're not back Wednesday night we're here right now on a Sunday evening so right here's where all the praising he said I I just want you I I I just want you to get enough for the morning for the day and I'll I'll give you another load in the morning but on the sixth day gather enough for two days because on the seventh day you're not gonna get that bread for the seventh day is the day of the rest I find it interesting in Exodus 16 21 that they gathered it somebody help me now they gathered it how did they gather it they went out every every morning and they they gathered that that that manna that fell on the ground seemed like God is really into the morning seems like God is really into the morning the old Prophet Jeremiah said that the mercies of God are new and every morning you might not be a morning person but our heavenly father is a morning person some of you don't want to talk to nobody until you've had your third cup of joe I I understand that you don't you don't like to talk of the morning but I want you to know that your heavenly father tonight he is a morning person because he can't wait for you to wake up he walks around your bedroom and he can't wait for that alarm clock to go off because he wants to show you the new mercies every morning Israel I'm going to give you I'm going to give Humana every morning God could have said I'll give it to you at the end of the day God said I want you to know that I'm a God I'm a god of the morning well Sama seems to break in on this and the psalmist in Psalms 30 and verse number 5 he seen both sides of this and I believe both of us I believe all of us have seen both sides of this I've lived on the mountaintops of God's blessings in my fort my four decade plus Walking With Jesus Christ I've lived on the I've lived on the mountaintops of blessings but I'll tell you tonight I've also spent a few Lonely Nights in God's Woodshed there's been some anger that God has turned toward me and I've spent a few angry nights I've spent a few days with the frown of God over me and I can relate to Psalms 30 and verse number five for his anger endureth but for a moment and I say thank you Lord his anger endureth but a moment his anger is not to destroy you but his anger is to correct you he has never been angry to put punish you but he's all he has been angry to let us know we need to get back on the right path for his anger endureth but a moment in his favor is life weeping may endure for the night but joy cometh somebody help me joy come and wins Joy coming Joy is coming in the morning I just tell you I think I got a God on my hands that loves to work in the morning in the morning in the morning let me see if I can help some people out here tonight in Genesis 12 and 9 Abraham starts his fresh Journey with God he walks out of paganism he walks out of being surrounded with idle Gods at the voice of the Lord follow me Abram I'll make you a mighty nation Genesis chapter 12 and verse 9 and Abram journeyed going on steel toward the South there was a famine in the land and Abram went down into Egypt the sojourn there for the famine was Grievous of the land and it came to pass when he was come near it came to pass when he was come near to enter Egypt that he said unto Sarah his wife behold now I know that thou art Affair I know that there are to Fair woman I know you are a fair woman to look upon now watch this now Abram is suffering from a lack of faith there's too many people that confuse sinning with a lack of faith a confused sinning with a lack of faith Abraham simply saw the famine greater than the God who called him out he knew that God had called him out or else he wouldn't be there but when the famine hit Abram saw the famine greater than his God that's not a sin problem that's a faith problem but I am so glad that God allows us to mature in our faith it's not the first stumble and we're out because listen to Abraham he tells his wife you tell a lie you tell them that you're my sister they will kill me to marry you you tell them you're my sister and because Abraham lied he got his wife taken away from him and his wife got taken away from him God plagued all of Egypt and when God plagued all of Egypt Pharaoh found out that Abram had lied and he sent Abraham back out of Egypt but what do you do when you made a mistake because of the lack of faith is anybody with me tonight are you you just really listening to me right what do we do when it wasn't a sin that we did it wasn't that I'm an evil person a bad Wicked vile man I just don't have the faith I just see the obstacle bigger than and the god I embrace what do you do when you end up in Egypt and Egypt kicks you out I'll tell you what you do chapter 13 and verse 1 and Abram went up out of Egypt he and his wife and all that he had and lot went with him into the South Abram was very rich in cattle and silver and gold and he went here at his church and he went on his journeys from the south even to Bethel unto the place here it is where his tent had been at the beginning between Bethel and AI here it is under the place of the altar which he had made at the first and there Abraham called on the name of the Lord you know what he did when he realized I got a lack of faith he didn't quit he didn't go back to Heron he went back and got him a fresh start from the place that he began do you know that the place you got the holy house is a great place to develop your faith do you know that how you got the Holy Ghost you stood up here and you waved your arms and you asked God to feel you is a great place for you to come and lift up your voice and say God afresh afresh afresh start tell me brother Mayo his faith did not improve here's a man that can't believe God for food but let him have new start fresh start after Fresh Start and you'll find him in Genesis 22 10. and Abram stretched forth his hand and took the knife to slay his son and the angel of the Lord called unto him out of heaven and said Abraham Abraham and he said here am I listen it's not the same man it's not the same man the man that came out that could not trust God for water and bread I gotta go to Egypt and lie that same man could hear God say take your son to a mountain and offer him up for a burnt offering it made no sense to him but why did he do it I'll tell you he doesn't have the same faith that he had so many years ago he's got a better Faith tonight here's one of the reasons I'm preaching a fresh start each Fresh Start gives you the opportunity to mature in your faith the more you get back up and go again God has said they got more faith they got a little bit more faith there they got a little bit about faith there the Bible says a righteous man will fall seven times but he'll get back up why he's developing his faith his faith his faith his faith his faith is faith yeah it's not the same Apostle Peter Matthew 26 40 Matthew 26 74. then Peter began to curse and swear saying I know not the man and immediately the crew Peter remember the word of Jesus which he said unto him before the Crow Thou shalt deny me Thrice he went out and wept bitterly you know why Peter failed God it wasn't sin it was a lack of faith was a lack of his faith he could walk with Jesus goodness I'm about to say goodness gracious goodness here's a man that out of all the apostles out of all the apostles he's the only one that's got this testimony I walked on water you didn't I did I guarantee you he was invited Tyler to youth camps and those kids just requested tell Pete to tell us about walking on water he was the only one it was a faith issue when Jesus was was taken and arrested something he had never seen before he had never seen the Lord arrested he had never seen him taken and handcuffed and let off and when that happened Peter's Faith staggered and warming himself by a Strange Fire it wasn't a sin issue it was a faith issue he saw the voice of the crowd greater than Jesus Christ and he says I don't know I don't know I don't know the man but it was a it was a faith issue but I'm glad to preach to you tonight that a fresh start gives you a little bit more faith a fresh start matures your faith a little bit more because we find this same Peter just a few days later here in John chapter 21 verse 15. so when they had dined Jesus saith to Simon Peter Simon son of Jonas love us thou me more than these talk about fish he said unto him yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee Jesus saith unto him feed my Lambs he saith to him again the second time Simon son of Jonas loveth thou me he saith unto him yea Lord thou knowest that I love thee he saith unto him feed my sheep he saith unto him the third time Simon son of Jonas loveth thou me Peter was grieved because he said unto him the third time loveth thou me and he said unto him Lord thou knowest all things thou knowest that I love thee Jesus said unto him feed my sheep now I'm just going to throw this in to let you chew on it for a moment he denied the Lord three times and the Lord wanted to ask him three times do you love me do you love me do you love me but if you break down the Greek words for lamb and sheep you will find out that Jesus is referring to three types of sheep in this first he mentions do you love me yes feed my Lambs the Lambs were the little babies the new ones that had been born to the flock he said it you love me feed the new ones that are among you if you love me feed the new ones that are among you oh I want to feed the new ones that are among us tonight you may look around here and say I'm not doing that and I'm not doing that I don't see you as rebellious I see you with a lack of faith because I was just like you when I sit in in the house of God as a lamb I didn't have everything everybody else had but thank God I came into a church that believed in a fresh start we don't give you six months around here and if you don't straighten up you're out of here we don't give you a year you're in a church tonight that we're going to keep feeding you and feeding you and feeding you and feeding you until you get the faith to do this you get the faith to do that you get debate to step out here you get the bait to do this over here feed my sheep and then he goes into the Lambs which were the more mature ones he said feed them and then listen to what he says in verse 18. Peter Peter verily verily I say unto thee when you were young you girded yourself Peter when you were young you had a lot of Privileges and a lot of freedoms you put your own clothes on and you walk us whether thou would us you went any place you went but Peter when you're old you will stretch forth your hands and another shall gird thee and carry thee whether thou wouldest not this spake he signifying by what death he should glorify God and when he had spoken this he said unto him follow me this is a different man than the man that warmed himself by campfire this is a man that the Lord is saying Peter you're going to be taken to crucifixion you're going to suffer martyrdom you're going to have your life taken away and although it's not in the Bible Church tradition says tradition says that Peter was arrested by the Romans and that Peter was crucified by the Romans crucified just like Jesus was crucified but he made one request of which historians record that they agreed as they stepped to the cross Peter made one request he's an old man now his hair is not jet black anymore his hair is probably predominantly all gray he stands there he doesn't have a vibrant voice of the preacher of Pentecost he's a man that is wore his body out to preach the gospel but as he walks up to that cross he makes one request historians say Peter said would you crucify me differently of which they replied what are you talking about he said I am not worthy to be crucified with my head upward as my lovely lamb Lord was but when you crucify me will you turn me upside down and put my head down I don't want to die I don't want I'm not worthy to die like him brothers and sisters tonight you're not talking about the same Simon Peter that warmed himself by campfire and denied that he knew Jesus Christ I am glad tonight to be in a church preaching of gospel that believes in a fresh start I am the product of a fresh start I want anybody else tonight would be willing to maybe stand to your feet and testify I'm the product of a fresh start to all you Lambs tonight look around here right now we are all products of a god who's given us a fresh a fresh a fresh start it is of the Lord's mercies that we are not consumed great is his faithfulness oh my oh mercy God Time After Time God Time After Time tried to show Israel I'm a God of a fresh start Jeremiah 18 and verse 1 the word of the Lord came to Jeremiah from the Lord saying arise and go to the Potter Potter's House there I will cause thee to hear my words then I went down to The Potter's House behold he wrought a work on the wheels and the vessel that was made of clay was marred in the hand of the Potter the Potter was shaping and forming something but even in the hand of the Potter this vessel was marred so he made it again another vessel as seemed good to the Potter to make it aren't you thankful tonight some of us got marred right in the hands of the Potter some of us were marred in the world others were marred right in the hand of the Potter but I am so thankful tonight that even though we were marred in the hand of the Potter he didn't throw away the clay he simply made it another vessel as pleased him because he is a god of a fresh start then the word of the Lord came to me saying O House of Israel cannot I do with you as this Potter saith the Lord behold as the clay is in The Potter's hand so are a ye in my hand oh House of Israel God is trying to tell somebody on this beautiful Mother's Day evening God is trying to tell some of you tonight that are slowly dripping away you're beginning to listen to the enemy's voice in your ears that you went too far you can never get back to where you once was but I have come on this Mother's Day evening to tell you he is a God of a fresh start he won't throw away the clay King David was a man after God's Own Heart he was a sweet Shepherd boy it was a young boy that played a flute while watching his father shoot it was a young boy that loved God it was a young boy that got Anointed with oil he was a young boy that God used to kill a lion and a bear and a giant he finds himself a king but oh how marred he became and in second Samuel chapter 12 verse number 18. tell us a story of David is he lusted from his rooftop David and she called for a woman that was not his wife David as he laid he had no relationship on his mind David just wanted to have one night with this woman named Bathsheba the one night that he had with Bathsheba turned in that she was pregnant some time later Bathsheba sent word back to David that she was pregnant and David concocted a plan to bring her husband home from the battlefield to deceive him to think that I've only called you home to check on the battle and it was all a deceiving plan he wanted to act like he was interested with the battle and Uriah before you go back take three days off and go home knowing that he would go home and be with his wife have the Comforts of home and then he could live out the rest of his life thinking that that's his baby but David was surprised to find Uriah would not go home but David was surprised to find that Uriah slept on David's door doorstep and when David questioned him about it David even that David even got him drunk and tried to send him home you know that's a sad thing when a man drunk has more convictions than a man sober you're right why is she not going home man you got three days off why is she not going home he said David the Ark of God is out in the field and my brothers are out there fighting and I can't go home and enjoy the pleasures of home knowing the Ark of the Covenant is out an open field and my brothers are out there fighting and so then David turned to another plan he wrote a letter to be sent to joab in the letter it stated charge hard against the city wall when you charge hard against the city wall put Uriah at the front of the battle and when Uriah gets the very front of the battle everybody retired back from Uriah and let Uriah be smitten and killed and then he had the audacity this is this is this is David you know the audacity to write the letter even hand it seal it and hand it to Uriah and say give this to your captain joab followed David's lead he put a battle together Uriah was slain word came back to Jerusalem Uriah was dead David then turned did a patriotic Duty he was viewed as a hero because he took to wife the wife of the fallen soldier Uriah no one will know they'll just think she got pregnant very quickly after becoming my wife we'll live out the rest of our life with this covered up but God loved him too much to let him stay in his sin and God sent him a prophet and David yielded and submitted to the word of God David answered and said I have sinned God told David he said the baby the child that has been born is going to die in verse number 18 it came to pass that's where I want to read he came to pass on the seventh day on the seventh day that's interesting it came to pass on the seventh day that the child died and the Servants of David feared to tell him that the child was dead for they said behold while the child was yet alive we spake unto him and he would not hearken unto our voice how will he then bet himself if we tell him that the child is dead but when David saw that the servants whispered David perceived that the child was dead therefore David said unto his servants is the child dead and they said he is dead then David arose from the Earth and washed and anointed himself changed his apparel came into the house of the Lord and worshiped then came he to his own house and when he had required they set bread before him and he did eat but watch this then his servant said unto him what thing is this that thou has done thou just fast and weep for the child while he was alive but when the child was dead they'll just rise and eat bread you've done it totally backwards David and he said unto them while the child was yet alive I fasted and wept for I said who can tell whether the Lord will be gracious to me that the child may live but now is he dead wherefore should I fast can I bring him back again I shall go to him but he shall not return again unto me David is showing us here that he believed in a God that would forgive him of his sins and he even believed in a God that could change consequences but when the consequences didn't change and the child died David knew I can't stay here wadowing in regret I can't stay here beating myself up I can't stay here rubbing my nose in the dirt regretting the the the the decisions that I made I serve a god of a fresh start he got up he washed himself he anointed himself he put his Sunday go to meet and close on and he walked into the house of God and he began to Worship the Lord and that's what I want to tell you to do tonight stop living in regret the blood is more than enough the grace is more than enough I don't feel forgiven I don't feel forgiven it listen it doesn't have to do anything with your feelings it's got to do with your faith you will not feel forgiven until you have the faith to believe in the blood you gotta Believe In The Blood you've got to believe that he washes when you get ready to LEAP the enemy is going to say you did this but you got to be ready to say but the blood but the blood but the blood but the Blood come on somebody tonight get tired of wallowing around get tired of condemnation I'm talking about a god oh I think we ought to worship him a little bit more here this evening I'm talking about the blood what can wash away my sin nothing but the blood of Jesus what can make me whole again nothing but the blood of Jesus they overcame him because they washed their robes in the blood of the land all right you better believe some of you are stumbling you better believe some of your stomach some of you are frequent you're not a frequent flyer you're a frequent stumbler and some of us are occasional stumblers and some of us tonight are ever great once in a while stumblers but you know the every now and ever ever great wild stumbler and to ever so often stumbler was it one time a frequent stumbler but we kept getting up don't quit don't quit get back up I don't care how many promises you've made I don't care how many days you went without if you fall get back up because you're maturing your faith you're maturing your faith I'm A Little Bit Stronger this time I'm a little bit wiser this time I'm gonna get back up oh I wish somebody helped me tonight I'm gonna get back up don't write yourself off don't write yourself off don't write anybody off it's all hands on deck it's your rapture hour we need everybody we need prodigals coming home we got to have Sunday school teachers we got to have workers we got to get everybody back can I preach on a little bit longer you know I can't preach long without preaching to our young people I ain't giving up on one of you I ain't giving up on none of you not a one of you have to see a variable they say not a narrow one of you I'm not giving up on not a narrow one of you not one of you hear me you hear me anybody else agree with me tonight we're not gonna give up on anybody tonight we're not giving up on well yeah did you see them do you see them during church do you see how I got a book of Acts story for you Acts chapter 20. verse number seven and upon the first day of the week when the disciples came together to break bread Peter or Paul preached unto them ready to depart on the morrow and continued his speech until midnight some of see some of you just thought you wanted Paul for your pastor there were many lights in the upper chamber where they were gathered together and there set he ain't on the front row and they're set eat him on the second row and there said in a window a certain young man named eudicus tell you what his name means his name means fortunate that's what his name means fortunately he said in a window or maybe brother Carmen let's read the Bible where it all be written let's read it the way it is maybe the house was full and the wind was the only place okay I'll give you that one but how are you going to explain this being fallen into deep sleep sounded like he was bored sound like he's boring brother Hammond he's got as far away as he can I don't believe it was packed I believe old uticus I just believe he said is far away from Paul as he could and because he set his far away from Paul as he could he said in the window on one side of his face he felt the glow of the church Heaven church but on the other side of his face he felt the cool winds blow in from the window I'm going to tell you there ain't no more comfortable sleep than getting about four blankets turning the air on having your head under the cover but just stick your foot out just a little bit come on can I get a witness in the house tonight am I the only weird one in this place tonight just yet put that foot out there yeah some of the finest sleep in this side of heaven right doing that stuff right there now oh Utica sitting that window he's sitting that window far away from preaching again far away from getting involved as he could he sit way back in the bag and he fell slap asleep but he not only fell asleep he not only fell asleep the Bible said they're sat in a window a certain young man named uticus being fallen into a deep sleep and as Paul was long preaching see there y'all just thought you wanted Paul he sunk down with sleep and fell down from the third Loft and was taken up dead you know why it fell out the window that was the way he was leaning you see if you're leaning toward the church if you fall you'll fall in the church if you're leaning toward the world when you fall you'll fall into the world but you see oh Paul believes the same thing I do we serve a god of a new start they didn't just say well he's way back in the back he ain't never going to Mountain that she ain't never going to amount anything no sir Paul stop what he was doing Paul went down and fell on him and embracing him said trouble not yourselves for his life is yet in him in other words he came down and they were all just saying he's dead he's dead he's dead and Paul got down got to listen to his heart Paul got down and he said hey stopped that his life is still in him he ain't walking yet but he's still got life he ain't talking yet but he's still got life he's not he he he's not setting up yet but he's still got life can I tell you when people walk into this building don't get don't get discouraged they still got life in them that's the very reason they can they're here tonight they commit a whole lot different places but when you see them come walking in you know what I see I see some life is on the inside of them they got some live yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah yeah they got some live they got some live in him they got some life in them boy this morning being Mother's Day I saw a lot of our prodigals here and you know what it told me there's some life in them there's something live yet in them listen there's a young man right now there's a young man right now in Winchester Tennessee that is burning up that City for the name of Jesus Christ and if you'd have told me when that young Jordan Ackerson was attending church here and attending the apostolic Christian Academy if you'd have told me Jordan Atkinson is going to be a mighty man of God one day he's going to be building by faith he's going to be having a school he's going to be doing a great work for God I would have looked at you and said are you sure you heard from God but you know what I believed in a fresh start back then and regardless of how honor that boy God I still believe that God there was life in him it was like he didn't always sit on the front row he wasn't always a worshiper he wasn't always appraise her but I said to God God can do something Hallelujah God can do there's life in him I want you to hear me tonight Revelation chapter 22 and verse 16. it's the last book in the Bible it's the last chapter and the last book of the Bible and it's almost toward the last verse and Jesus says this hi Jesus have sent my angel to testify unto you these things in the churches here it is it's the last book in the Bible it's the last chapter of the last book of the Bible it's almost the last verse in the last book of the last chapter in the Bible I am the root and The Offspring of David and the bright and the morning I want to guide you I want to guide you know what's on Jesus mind right now tonight on this Mother's Day evening he's saying I want to be the star that guides you I want to be the star that got you that that's what you've been feeling tonight that's why you came to church tonight you had no idea you had no idea or as some say ID you had no idea you were going to come to church tonight you had no idea but all of a sudden you found yourself saying yes to an invitation to come to church you know why there's a God that has a star he is the oh did we forget what I'm preaching about he's no ordinary star he's no ordinary star he's no ordinary star he said I am the root and The Offspring of David the bride and the shouted the bride and the his mercies are new Every Morning weeping may endure for the night the joy cometh in the morning you're going to get your Manna in the morning and hear tonight in the evening there's a bright there's a spirit of Jesus saying come to me come to me come to me there's the spirit of Jesus said stop fighting me stop pushing against me stop snitching stop saying no to me I'm not going to let you go I'm not going to get out of your head I'm not going to leave you alone I love you too much to let you be lost I want to be your star come on stand with me tonight hi Hallelujah to God Hallelujah to God I jesus Want To Be Your Star I jesus Want To Be Your Star I want to lead you I want to lead you tonight that's what you've been feeling tonight in this place you have been feeling the poor the spiritual gravitational pull of Jesus Christ saying I love you I am the bright and I am the morning church family pray with me right now which all over this building come on all over this building I sure hope there's somebody praying on every Pew right now I sure hope there's somebody praying on every Pew right now huh I hope there's somebody praying on every Pew right now come on oh he's a god tonight he's the same God Jeremiah talked about he's the same God tonight he's come down Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus Jesus God I am the bride in the Morning Star I am the Bride of the Morning Star I want to love you I want to heal you I want to feel you I want to cleanse you I want to give you my love tonight I am the bride and The Morning Star come on church family pray right now oh God I am the bride and The Morning Star oh I'm the bride and The Morning Star Singers come on out I am the bride and The Morning Star I'm the bride and The Morning Star right now church pray right now I'm the bride and The Morning Star I hope somebody will never peace praying right now oh God I am the bride and The Morning Star I'm the Bride of the Morning Star I am the bride in the Morning Star pray right now pray right now pray right now pray right now Jesus is here Jesus is here the bride and The Morning Star that same star that led wise men from a far country the same star that the Wise Men followed stood over the house that same star same star is here tonight and he's saying come to me come to me stop trying to do things on your own you're never going to fix your life you're never going to fix your life you'll never amount to nothing you'll spend your life miserable Our God tonight our bride and Morning Star they say would you come to me would you believe in me would you put your faith in me you put your faith in everything else you put your faith in everything else to try to find Joy only to be let down you put your faith in relationships you put your faith in all kinds of things to try to try to numb your mind you put your faith in a lot of different things and they've all let you down would you put your faith in the bright and The Morning Star tonight I have one last scripture to read one last scripture because this is what's going to happen the moment you step out of your pew and you start down the aisle saying Jesus Jesus Jesus the moment that you have enough faith to say I'm tired it's insane that I keep doing the same old thing thinking I'm going to find something I'm tired tonight Jesus I'm coming out Jesus I'm coming down Jesus I'm coming Jesus I'm coming now I will show you what's going to happen this is what this is what's going to happen when you step out of that Pew and you start down these aisles calling out on the name of Jesus this is what's going to happen my last verse of scripture Revelation 21 verse number 5. and the he that set up on the throne said behold I make all things new and he said unto me right for these are true and faithful aren't you tired of the old life aren't you tired of the old way why don't you step out tonight and follow the star follow the star right now church pray again right now all over this building pray right now all of this building right now pray right now please come dear sir please come dear lady please listen to the star please the star is drawing you tonight the star is wooing you tonight the star is pulling you tonight here they come here they come here they come from all over this building here they come tonight Jesus God Jesus got a fresh start of fresh new start here they come tonight here they come right now Jesus God Jesus God come on gather up as close around the altar as you can oh God Spirit of the Lord is here Everything Has Changed this is of the Lord is here in your presence of Joy there's Freedom here in your presence in your presence in your presence I'm trading morning in your presence foreign Spirit of the Lord is here Spirit of the glories Spirit of the Lord gives me the spirit of the Lord yes it is what's in the room Jesus Jesus Jesus Freedom here in your presence in your presence everything is changing now Everything's changed his presence longer Spirit of the Lord going crazy right now praise him right now go ahead the Lord's hear the Lord's here the Lord's here the Lord's here come on this is a fresh start oh this is a fresh start when he walks into the room this is a fresh start Jesus Jesus Jesus God oh this is our Fresh Start when he walked into the room when he walks into the room oh do that part of that song he walks into the room together me foreign Church a fresh start a fresh start tonight a fresh start tonight a fresh start tonight a fresh start tonight oh a fresh start right now there's people praying a fresh start right now it's gonna happen dismiss yourself tonight there's people praying all over this building oh mighty God Mighty God a fresh start when Jesus walks into the room everything begins to change there's some folks at his grass dab grass dab grass that song when he walks into the room everything starts changing their grass I feel tonight that the large number of people in the altars somehow we've grasped in our mind he's a god of a new start I can make it I can't start again I can make it oh well God bless you tonight