Sunday Evening Worship Service
by Nathan Whitley
First Apostolic Church of Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)
Kind: sermon
Scripture: Romans 4:11-17, Genesis 12:1-3, Genesis 18:18-19

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somebody give Jesus praise come on somebody give Jesus praise somebody lift up the name that's above everything come on somebody give him a Grace you've yet to give him tonight come on somebody give me praise clap your hands lift up your voice hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I believe he's here tonight I believe he's here he can start making your way back to your seats just remain standing and get your Bibles [Music] gonna go to the Book of Romans chapter number four we're going to talk about somebody that we might be familiar with tonight and as we do that I want to say Happy Father's Day to all of our fathers one more time can we give all of our dads a great big hand amen amen we love all of our fathers we honor you to our spiritual fathers and leaders Bishop McCool Pastor McCool Pastor Anthony we give you honor as well and we say Happy Father's Day to you Romans chapter number four beginning at verse number 11. Paul writes speaking of Abraham and he received a sign of circumcision a seal of the righteousness of the faith which she had yet being uncircumcised that he might be the father someone say the father of them all that believe though they be not circumcised that righteousness might be imputed unto them also and the father someone say father of circumcision to them who are not of the circumcision only but who also walk in the steps of that Faith of Our Father Abraham which he had yet being circum uncircumcised for the promise that he should be the heir of the world was not to Abraham or to his seat through the law but through the righteousness of faith for if they which are of the law be heirs faith is made void and the promise made of none effect because the law worketh wrath for their for where no law is there is no transgression verse 16 therefore it is of faith that it might be by grace to the end of the promise might be sure to all the seed not to that only which as of the law but to that also which is of the faith of Abraham who is the father someone say father the father of us all last verse as it is written I have made thee a father of many nations before him whom he believed even God who quickeneth to dead and call of those things which be not as though they were tonight I want to preach to you just for a few moments fathers of Faith fathers of Faith once you put your Bibles down and let's pray again father we thank you for your spirit that has been moving and ministering unto us tonight in a special day in a special sermon we heard today in your spirit that has ministered from the very moment tonight I pray for your word to go forth and find good ground Let There Be encouragement and fresh refreshment and inspiration from your word that we might walk out of here as people of faith in Jesus name we pray and everyone said amen once you clap your hands again tonight and give the Lord a shout come on the Bible says clap your hands all you people and Shout with the voice of Triumph amen you can be seated fathers of faith his life could not have been going any better and then the phone rang he was an evangelist who preached the word with the holy spirit's Authority and Power he was the most sought after evangelists in his denomination if you wanted him to come and preach in your church you had to get in line and wait for a minimum of four years he was a man who was enjoying the favor of God on his life and Ministry the numerous invitations were always a pull away from his family but he and his wife had settled on a formula that had worked well and enabled him to spend time at home with his bride and son that he dearly loved the formula was simple he would go out and preach for two weeks then come home for two weeks then he would go out again for two weeks and come home for another two everything was working and God was blessing his marriage was strong his boy now a teenager was doing well in school and Athletics and his ministry was taking off like a rocket then the phone rang it was a very short phone call from his wife she had just she had just had the latest in a series of arguments with their 16 year old son she had asked him to do something and he told her Point Blank that he wasn't going to do it this six foot two boy was wearing her down his strong will was starting to take its toll so she called her husband in an a fairly short conversation reported the events that had just taken place and then she simply said I need you he replied that he would cancel the remaining meetings and drive home immediately neither one of them knew that their son was listening to their conversation from the Next Room the teenager knew he was pushing the lemons and was curious to see how his father would respond he would soon find out his father arrived home and within days a for sale sign was in the front yard the father then canceled every one of his scheduled meetings for the next four years and accepted the pastorate of a small Church in another state for the next two years until his son graduated from high school and went off to college he pastored the small church and mentored his growing son with his son headed off to college he was ready to return to evangelism but in those few years multiple changes had taken place in his church denomination many of the older pastors had retired and had been replaced by younger men who were unfamiliar with his ministry invitations were less frequent those few years away from evangelism had cost him dearly in terms of his career and calling quite frankly to a degree he would never recover the decision to go home had come with a great price but because he had made the tough decision and went home to focus on the family years later his son would begin a Ministry known as Focus on the Family James Dobson is the product of his father James Dobson senior the Elder Mr Dobson was a man who knew his biblical priorities that was the motivation that led him to make the decision to build his son before he built his ministry few men have the courage or the conviction just to take such a step I'm talking about fathers of Faith tonight to help the Roman Church understand the foundation of Faith as a means for salvation Paul uses Abraham a father as his example Abraham's faith in God was counted as righteousness now we're introduced to Abraham and Rural in Genesis chapter number 12. if you'll go there with me and beginning at verse number one now the Lord had said unto Abram get thee out of thy country and from thy Kindred and from thy Father's House unto a land that I will show thee and I'll make of thee a great nation and I will bless thee and make thy name great and thou shalt be a blessing and I will bless them that bless thee and curse him that curseth thee and in thee shall All Families someone say families families of the earth be blessed someone say families I'm talking about fathers of faith if we're going to have Healthy Families it starts with healthy spiritual fathers of faith if we're going to have Revival in our church it's not going to start in the pews it's going to start in the home with our fathers and their families this is what God tells Abraham to do three things go from your country go from your family go from your father's house but his promises tied to the commands I will make of you a great nation I will bless you I will make your name great you will be a blessing bless those who bless you curse those who curse you all families of the earth will be blessed Because of You Abraham became a father of Faith because he was willing to believe and obey God if we're going to follow in the steps of Our Father Abraham as Paul wrote then we should consider some of his choices and his lifestyle now don't tune me out because I'm just talking to fathers and I because you can remove the word father and put mother there and it still applies to every individual in this room that if we're going to have great families it starts with Mom and Dad y'all must be tired tonight I said if we're going to have great families it's going to start with moms and dads who are leading and leading well in the home so let's look at the first one here he lived set apart Abraham lived in a place called Ur of counties this was an important place for Moon worship Abraham originally was an idolater and the son of an idolater though he was from the long line of Noah and Shem somewhere in his family history men no longer worship the true God and they turned to idols as we read in Genesis 12 there isn't really an introduction given between Abraham and Yahweh however God initiates the call of Abraham and there really isn't anything inherently good in Abraham but yet God sees his potential God really isn't looking at your current circumstance he's looking at your future potential oh God help me you may not be in the best circumstance right now but God sees something beyond your current circumstance into your future oh I wish somebody was helping me then y'all way too quiet I want you to know that it doesn't matter what you're going through at the moment God can take you up out of your circumstance because he has a Destiny and a purpose not just for you but for your wife and your kids and your grandkids and your great-grandkids families leave leave it all behind leave your country leave your family leave all things that are familiar this was no easy undertaking for Abraham everything that was familiar was to be Forsaken and Abraham was to become a pilgrim without a home but if Abraham was going to be a father of faith he would have to leave cultural norms and societal tolerances to have a Godly purpose Abraham couldn't be a father of faith in her old Lifestyles and mindsets would have to be left behind in ER all that Abraham had known paled in comparison to what God Almighty was willing to give him where are you going to take me I'll show you what are you going to do for me bless you what are you going to do for my family multiply it but you gotta leave where you are you can't keep doing the same thing and expect different results if you're going to walk in faith you're going to have to step out in faith and as Pastor talked about today you're going to have to continue walking by faith and not by sights leave it all behind number one leave the old ways leave old ways brothers and when I say brothers please don't think that I'm trying to leave out our ladies tonight but Brothers men just because you had an idolatrous father doesn't mean you have to be just because your dad was a drunkard and he was mean and honoring doesn't mean you have to be just because he was aloof and didn't give you affection and didn't love your mama doesn't mean you have to be that way you can leave some old things behind in Ur of counties you can leave the old family generational curses you can leave the old habits behind you can leave the old Lifestyles behind because that was their choice doesn't mean it has to be your choice you can make up your mind that I'm leaving her and I'm following after the Lord you can break free from generational habits I wish somebody was helping me tonight come on you can break free from generational shortcomings that plague your family history just because your family tree might have a bunch of nuts doesn't mean you can't have fruit in your life fruitful you can have plenty if you will hear and obey God's call you can forsake the cycles that constantly harm relationships and ruin futures too many men feel like they have to behave and live as their fathers and grandfathers did if they were honorary and cruel and mean that means they have to do the same men God is calling us to be different it's time for some men to step up and say I'm going to love and be faithful to my wife I'm going to love and provide for my children and I'm going to be an example of faith I will my Lord have mercy I'm preaching better than you're responding right now I'm going to tell somebody you can make up your mind that I'm going to be a father of faith come on Abraham was doomed to do as Tyra did if he stayed in the air of the counties but God said I can't leave you here you're going to have to follow me and leave everything else behind you have to leave the old ways behind let me just say this and I've said it before and I'm going to say it again until I die you didn't find God has found religion oh no you didn't God found you Grace came looking for Abraham and Grace is coming to looking for some man who will leave behind the world who leave behind Traditions who leave behind all kinds of bad habits and say I'm going to leave my family by faith I wish some man right now would clap their hands I wish some dad would clap their hands I wish some man would say I'm not going to be like my father I'm not going to be like my grandfather I'm going to lead by faith number two he had to leave Family behind now let me just say this this wasn't dishonoring or disrespect this was about leaving Comfort behind he's going to Abraham if he stays in Irv caldes is going to take over the family business take over how they earned their money The Inheritance the generational wealth leave it all behind he also has to leave behind traditions of the family leave Comforts of this is how we do things well how does God do things well this is just how I was taught but how does God teach leaving what is comfortable for the unfamiliar many have had to make the difficult decision to leave family Creeds and traditions to obey God's word I'll never forget Ash and I were in a Bible study many years ago and we were we were ministering to this young man and man he would cry when we would teach on the Bible he would cry he would see it I see it I get it I understand it but Memaw says I gotta go to her church and if I go to your church my family says I'm forsaken meemaw I'm going to tell you something me most Family Bible is not going to be the Bible That's opened up before you on the last day it's going to be God's word oh my Lord have mercy right now it's not going well this is how Papaw does it does it or how mammal does it this is how mom and dad let me tell you is what does God say and listen you might Jesus said I'll come to bring a sword and there's sometimes they're going to have to be a division between what your parents taught you and your grandparents taught you and say I'm gonna follow what God is saying in his word that's way more important I wish somebody was helping me I'm so sorry I'm not preaching good tonight for you to respond better but I'm telling somebody you're gonna have to make up your mind that I'm not going to base my faith on mammal's faith I'm not gonna base my faith on Grandpa's faith I'm gonna follow after the Lord there are some we've taught Bible studies too they don't care what church they go to as long as you can as long as you can still live any old way that you want I'm convinced there are some families they'd rather have their children be drunkards and drug addicts than be Christians they'd rather them be Partiers than Pentecostal they'd rather have their family members disobey scripture than leave behind family and arms but if you're going to follow Jesus and be considered his child you're going to have to forsake your family tree and embrace calvary's tree [Music] he was going to leave the family business for the father's business he was going to leave fortunes to become faithful but Abraham called a glimpse of God's riches bound up with his promises and said this world is not my home I'm just a passing through if I have to forsake some things if I had to cancel some things if I had to remove myself from some things it's worth it because I'm following after the Lord and then he had to leave worldliness behind all the idolatry that was in the UR of the chaldees God said you can't stay here if you're going to live for me come out from among them and be separate it's being separate from the world we are not taken out from the world we live in the world as light in darkness as guides to the blind but we are separate from the world we live differently from the world even though Abraham is walking around the desert and walking around the Wilderness not knowing where he is going and he is still around all kinds of idolatry and worldliness and paganism and all the things hears a voice Beyond where he is and says that's what I'm going to follow you have to be willing to be separate because Abraham wasn't listen to me now Abraham wasn't just living for himself he was living for his family and he's doing it without even having children yet come on there's some men in here you don't have children yet you need to start living like you're going to have children living and preparing yourself to know I want to have an obligation and a responsibility one of these days and so I want to get my act together I'm going to grow up I'm going to put away some Childish things I'm going to turn off all the video games and all the nonsense in the world in this and I'm going to start living for somebody Beyond Myself you know what the sign of maturity is is when you stop living for yourself and you start living for somebody else come on man it's time for us to stop living for ourselves and being selfish we need to be living for others living for our lives living for our kids making decisions for their future I can't have a son an ear of counties I would rather follow God in the unknown than stay here with my kids in the air of counties I can't risk it I can't risk it I've got to be separate I've got to be different now we are called to be isolated from the world not isolated from the world but insulated from the world we're not to live in isolation we are to live in insulation and our insulation is what keeps us different from the world there are some things that we're not going to do because it might influence my family now you've heard me talk about my mother and she is my hero in my life but there are things she kept me from because she knew there could be an influence there you know and here's where you all started getting real anxious What's it gonna say now I'll tell you what I'm going to say is that Mom protected me from Bad situations I remember I was not I'm not saying this is for you I'm not saying you have to do this so please understand that but this is what we did and this is what we're gonna do I was not allowed to spend the night with people from school I went I didn't go to a private school I went to public school I could not spend the night with people from the public school why because Mama didn't know who their daddy and their mother was and so she protected me and no I didn't understand it and I didn't like it she said nope that's not what we're doing because there's a potential for a predator there's potential for problems and so I'm going to put a hedge around you and I'm just not going to let you go do everything and be a part of everything because I see y'all are getting a real tight right now but I'm telling you something we need to have some convictions in our home and saying to ask for me and my house we're not going to do that but the night that sounds like you're adding to the Bible no I'm not out of the Bible I'm not saying you got to do that I'm not I'm not preaching that's what you got to do I'm telling that's what we're going to do because there we are living in a dangerous evil world where anybody can say anything about anybody and it's automatically believed and and we've got PR I better stop let me tell you something well we need a night free we need somebody let me tell you something we heard it today your night free should be with your family your night free should be spent with your family that's your night free it's taking them out and spending time with your kids come on I'm gonna tell you what a night free is going to camp meeting going to Strong Tower going to General Ministry Conference going to NYC that's what we're gonna do one more thing and I'll make you just hopefully not too upset as you already are right now but too many want the church to teach their children things of the faith you teach them that and I'm going to teach them Sports you all Sunday school and and private school you teaching the things of the of the of the of the of the faith and we're going to teach them everything about the world let me tell you something you don't need to relegate all of your authority to somebody else you need to be an example of Faith you need to be able to talk to your kids about the Bible you need to be able to answer the questions that they have and they've got a lot of them and your answers shouldn't always be well that's what Pastor preaches and that's what Bishop preaches you better know for yourselves you better know it for yourself Joshua said one of these days your children are going to ask questions you better have an answer why are these Stones were built as for me me me and my house it starts with me Dad it starts with you Mom somebody say Amen he lived by faith and sacrifice he didn't just live separate he lived by faith and sacrifice Abraham left a trail of altars everywhere he went I read a book when I was in school a couple three four you go and something that caught my garden I preached it here maybe I need to preacher one again one of these days but archaeologists when they go into areas the first thing they look for are traces of sacrifice to know if they were people of Faith they look for traces of sacrifice is there an altar around here somewhere is there an altar somewhere in your history an altar of prayer an ultra fasting an altar is spending time in the word an altar of giving come on I want my little girl to see traces of sacrifice everywhere I go I want her to see traces of altars being built I want her to see traces of worship being built Mom hope it's all right I'd sit with Mom at church she wouldn't let me sit down during worship there was that day brothers and sisters when I could no longer sleep under the pew there was a day that I could no longer bring He-Man to church it's time for you to sit in the Pew and listen to preaching are you gonna understand everything probably not but you're going to respond to everything now get up lift up your hands and if I didn't she'd smack me clap your hands lift up your voice she would show me how to do it I'd hear her sing I'd see her lift up her hands I'd see her worship and I'm gonna say something that's what my little girl's gonna see me do that's what my family is going to see me do they're gonna see me worship they're going to see a trace of sacrifice come on dads don't send your kids to church bring them to church don't send your kids to the altar bring them to the altar Brothers your wives should not out worship you your wives should not help praise you you be an example to your boys you'll be an example to your girls and show them what faith looks like I wish somebody would do it right now I wish somebody would say here's how we worship here's how we lift up the Lord this is how we're gonna do it here they won't do it unless you show them how to do it they won't do it unless you show them how to do it this is how you build an altar Isaac this is how you build an altar Isaac what did Isaac when Abraham's dead and gone and Isaac is by himself and he's thirsty I'm looking for Wells my dad dug up somewhere I'm looking for an altar somewhere that my dad went to because there's going to be a time when you're not going to be around and they're going to have to rely upon the example that you showed them and if the only example that you showed them was sitting back and just moved me preacher I've heard that before I've heard that song before it doesn't matter he's worthy to be worshiped whether it's an old song new song news term an old sermon show your kids there's times that I don't feel like worshiping but I got a little girl who needs to see me lift up my hands and get in the Altar and show her how to praise the Lord I'm just gonna keep on preaching I know I'm talking about fathers but I didn't have a father who gave me an example I had a mother who gave me an example and there'd be times we'd be at home by ourselves just me and Mom and we had this big old gigantic record player about the size of the lobby and mama get those old Andre Crouch albums out and all of a sudden mom's praying her Lemon Pledge on on the furniture and I can just hear mom singing Andre Crouch I could hear a mom singing those old gospel songs I could hear her crying and I could hear her speaking in tongues we didn't need to be a church for her to worship come on dad you don't need a spirit worshipers only at church you need to be a worshiper driving you need to be a worshiper at home be an example I didn't have that example in a man I had an example in a mom but when I became a man I decided that I'm going to be the example that I never had I'm going to be the thing I've said it before I'm going to say it again some of us need to be the person be the man that we needed when we were kids I didn't have this I didn't have that we'll become it becoming become the first generation to say as for me at my house we will serve the Lord as for me we're going to be praisers we're going to be prayers we're going to be givers we're going to be faithful we're going to serve a church we're going to be there when the doors are open we're going to be there when the doors are not open I'm going to serve I'm gonna be the example stand to your feet I've preached way too long I got 10 more pages but I know when to stop because my spiritual fathers taught me that Jesus when he found a place he read then put it down you know I was talking to somebody the other day they wanted to know my story my story is pretty weird strange I'm not the Son of a Preacher or the grandson of a Preacher I am what I am so just deal with it and God knew how rough around the edges I was when he called me God knew Abraham wasn't perfect but he had potential God doesn't call qualified people he qualifies who he calls and so that doesn't mean he calls Perfect People he calls potential and I needed all the help that I could possibly get and I said God you know I need all the help that I could possibly get and so he sent me people in my life examples in my life my two closest friends growing up were Apostolic their families were Apostolic mom let me spend the night with them because she knew they were Apostolic and she knew they weren't going to undo everything that she had taught that's another sermon for another day but I had an example with them on how to treat your family and to love your kids and to serve God Faithfully then he sent me Tim Gill Tim Gill was a Heaven Sent for me because he was a man of faith and a father of faith loved his family loved his wife loved his church then he sent me Bishop M.L walls he said I went to go preach for a Medora church and I was just a little evangelist and I was getting ready to go and someone said uh you better fast for like 30 days before you go to Medora I said why I said why why they said well first of all Tim Gill's there I said yeah M.L walls knows that Bible inside and out frontwards and backwards okay today's the first day of fasting all right starting now and they said Prophet Fred Gill goes there and he will know if you have a TV in your home or not father God lord Jesus the creator of heavens and the Earth then he sent me Pastor John Vasquez and Bishop Steve Wilson sent me all the way to the middle of nowhere in Mississippi to learn two men love their wives love their kids love their Church then I fell in love with this beautiful girl name Ashley and I found out what her last name was father Lord Jesus in heaven God I'm gonna go on a 60-day fast right now and you know what my mother said one of these days I'm going to preach a sermon sayings from Mom I got a lot of them she said you better love her and you better take care of her [Music] I taught you to do that mom taught me how to open doors for girls mom taught me how to pay girls or pay pay for dates for girls I go out with you pay for it and tip all those things you take care of her he sent me two men in Bishop McCool I don't know if there's anybody who loves somebody more than Bishop McCool loves sister McCool he can take all the time in the world that he needs you know why I need that example of a man loving his wife for 66 years I need that and not only does he love her he loves his family and he loves this church not many men would get up In a Pulpit and cry telling a church that he's been here for over 60 some years and tell him I still love you I need that I need that then he sent me Mark McCoy as Johnny James would say Mark the perfect man is there a perfect man I don't know but he's probably pretty close an example of loving his wife and loving his kids and loving his church say I didn't have an example of a father of faith you do right here right here every day every week every month every year you have it I am way out in the stratosphere from my notes right now but I'm closing men you can do it [Music] you can be a father of faith you can be a man of integrity and character I'm closing with this now my Dad loved us took care of us provided for us but it wasn't it wasn't like some would have but when I got that little girl [Music] and I got to hold her for the first time [Music] dear Lord foreign I'm going to have to fast for a hundred days now how could I ever love something as much as I love this thing but I I I'm just going to be honest with you I don't mean to get emotional but I looked at myself I said I can't do it I can't do it I'm too flawed I'm I didn't have the example I I don't know anything about this and then something came in that hospital room and I was holding her in my arms I said I will tell you every day I every day every moment I get I'm gonna tell you how much I love you you are going to know no matter what my dad dad loves me I told her I sang to her I whispered her in her ears and I said I will show you I love you love you by being an example that I never had it starts and I began to think about Tim Gill and ml halls and Bishop Wilson John Vasquez and Martin McCool and Bishop McCool and I began to think about all these Great Men I said God you knew what I needed and here it is and God I know I'm flawed I know I'm imperfect but God you've seen something in me to give me something as great as this woman and to give me this great little girl God I will give my all to serve them and to be an example for them I will be faithful to them I will show them what it means it's not because of me I'm not perfect but I serve a perfect God who called me out of Darkness and maybe you feel that way maybe you feel imperfect maybe you feel flawed and you can't do it I've come to tell you in the name of Jesus Christ you can be a father of faith I wonder if somebody would lift up their hands right now come on would you lift up your hands right now someday or maybe I'm maybe it's a mother you feel that way maybe it's a life that feels that way or maybe it's a husband and you don't even have kids but you you feel that way I want you to know you can leave it all behind and say I'm walking by faith and not by sight I'm gonna leave my family by example of that being a worshiper I'm gonna show them what it means to be faithful I'm gonna show them what it means to be a person that sacrifices and gives themself for the call of God come on come on I wonder if somebody leave the confines of their Pew out of their seat and say that's that's what I need I need him to confirm some things and affirm some things in me that I can do and I can do all things through Christ come on if he's calling me and he's leading me I know he will Empower me to do what I can feel as possible come on would you lift up your voice and they begin to sing I wonder if some husband come on some husband some father would take their family by their hands and say we're gonna be a family of Faith families are gonna be blessed come on our family is going to be blessed our Future's gonna be blessed I'm making a decision to follow after the Lord I'm believing to follow after him I hear him calling me the greater hides in the deeper deaths come on come up for my family for my family me [Applause] [Music] Jesus [Music] for my family [Music] oh [Music] to shout Jesus from the mountains [Music] over every enemies [Music] [Applause] [Music] back [Applause] oh yeah [Applause] [Music] your name is [Music] foreign [Music] [Applause] [Music] I want you to hear me just for a second I'm not a prophet or a son of a prophet but I feel the Lord speaking to my spirit right now two things number one some of you need to speak the name of Jesus over yourself right now some of you need to speak the name of Jesus and say this in the name of Jesus I'm not going to be angry in the name of Jesus I'm not going to be an addict in the name of Jesus I'm not going to leave my family come on if you've seen that you've experienced that it doesn't have to be a future but you're going to have to put your faith in the name right now I want come on right now right now right now I want you to lift up your voice and say I break every stronghold in the name of Jesus generational curses generational habits just because my daddy was angry doesn't mean I'm going to be temperamental come on just because my mama was Moody doesn't mean I'm going to be led by on my emotions I speak the name of Jesus right now my family my future my children come on right now do it I know it sounds crazy so did leaving here or the counties but somebody needs to claim thank you next [Music] man hear me [Music] you're going to be presented with choices and decisions and we're going to have to stop thinking about ourselves and start thinking about our family hear me who grow up and mature when you stop thinking about yourself and start thinking about your kids and they're going to be decisions and choices you're about to make and you before you say yes before you say no you better talk to your spouse and you better consider your kids [Music] can I share one more scripture I'm gonna pass this a pastor this is important Genesis 18 brother Eric get this up here why did God call Abraham I'm gonna show you I'm done I promise I'm not going to preach to preach sneak a preach Genesis 18. 10-19 seeing that Abraham shall surely become a great mighty nation and all the nations of the Earth shall be blessed in him for I know him what does he know about him that he will command his children and his household after him and they shall keep the way of the Lord they pay more it's better money it's more opportunity that's fine but is there an Apostolic Church it's going to keep you from the house of the Lord what will a man give in exchange [Music] don't make [Music] don't make Eternal decisions on temporary circumstances because you might just sacrifice and Isaac and their future you better say I'm gonna show my kids what it means to sacrifice they mean more to me their future means more to me my wife means more to me than a temporary circumstance one more time lift up your hands and say Lord order my steps God the the steps of a good man are ordered of the Lord and I pray father that you would give us wisdom in every to every decision every every Temptation everything that's brought before us God let us use wise discernment God to be pleasing and to consider not just ourselves but consider our families and consider our kids and consider our grandkids God help us to make right decisions that will honor you and will honor future Generations in the name of Jesus would you clap your hands unto the Lord [Music] thank you would you say Lord help me believe Lord help me receive [Music] Lord let me obey that's what I want to do tonight I want to receive all the words I want to believe all the word and then I want to act on what God has given us First Apostolic Church would you take this message and let it permeate through your soul let it marinate down inside you to make us all what we should do I can I can be what we should be I can add nothing but to say Amen let's do what God's called us to do tonight please remember Wednesday night there'll be no service here we'll be in Pigeon Forge at the LeConte Center Choir will be singing on Tuesday night all those who are arriving early for warm-ups they are at 5 30 the service starts at seven you don't want to miss it Lord bless you greet everyone in Jesus name your dismissed