Midweek Service Worship & Word | Bishop McCool

praise the Lord everyone we greet you tonight in that great and precious name of Jesus the name that is above every name there's a lot of names in this world that'll do a lot of things for you you've heard me tell the story when I came to Knoxville we couldn't even we couldn't even buy an ad to go in the newspaper because of reputation that tent preachers had couldn't find a place to put the tent but I had met Cas Walker and Cas Walker's name back then got me a ad in the paper and got us a a place to put the tent but that name Cas Walker can't do what that name of Jesus does which is neither is their salvation in any other for there is none other name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved aren't you glad you know that name tonight give the Lord a great big hand clap praise foreign the old man was a worshiper he had walked with God for decades and his love for the Lord had only gotten richer and deeper while his physical strength might have been waning a bit that did not keep him from stepping out of his Pew and exercising his remaining strength and enjoying the Holy Ghost as he would say a visitor to the church one night was somewhat taken back by the elders shouts of Praise he's shuffling dance back of the elders a shout of praise his shuffling and especially his expressions and other tongues having come from a religious background that denied the validity of the baptism the Holy Ghost the visitor was somewhat disapproving of the man's conduct after service the visitor boldly made her way up to the simple Country Gentleman and with an expression of her own that would sour milk she uh derivatively said you know you don't have to do all of that his reply was golden ma'am you don't have to take a bath either but it sure makes you feel good and makes others around you a lot more pleasant our lesson and we're starting tonight on our new lesson for the winter session and we're behind in our Sunday school lessons and we're going to try to teach three lessons tonight and get through at our regular quitting time so that means we're going to kind of Hit the high spots and tonight the series for this year is the work of the spirit the work of the spirit and tonight's lesson is the necessity of the spirit If any man of not the spirit of Christ the Bible says he's none of his and you may wonder about what I'm teaching tonight and it's going to sound a little bit repetitious but they say that the repetition is a secret uh making people remember what you're saying they say that repetition makes people remember what you're saying second Peter chapter 1 verse 12 through 15. Peter said wherefore I will not be negligent to put you always in remembrance of these things though you know them and be established in the present truth yea I think it meet as long as I am in this Tabernacle to stir you up by putting you in remembrance knowing that shortly I must put off this my Tabernacle even as our Lord Jesus Christ showed me now the the Bible have has many scriptures reminding us of how we need to be reminded one little short verse of scripture says remember Lot's wife don't you forget lot either but remember Lot's wife remember what she got into by Looking Back the Bible points out that God delivered Israel from Egypt bondage and later destroyed them the Bible reminds us that the Angels was kept not their first estate that they lost their position with God because they left their first estate uh one scripture said they went out from us because they were not of us and I've had a lot of I've heard a few people down through the years saying uh that's all I hear when I go to church is that acts 2 38. well that first of all that isn't true I've never been to any church that all you ever hear is Acts 2 38 I've never been to a church like that but there are some that preaches actor 38 more often than others and I have been to churches I've heard of churches well I've been to churches that you hardly ever hear them refer to Acts 2 38. I had one person say one time was in a conference and said I don't think a conference is any place that you ought to be preaching in Acts 2 38. well if there's any place in this world that you should be preaching acts through 38 it should be a conference or any time you gather together now notice again what Peter said forever I will not be negligent he considered himself negligent if he didn't always put them in remembrance of the things that they knew and they were established in the truth but he said I've got to keep reminding you and you heard my little story that it was very it was very funny to me when I first heard it because number one it was a true story brother J.L pipkins grandson Kevin one son he he run a route and he made ten dollars a week and it always put a dollar in the offering or put his tithe in love open one week he didn't do that and his granddad called him and you know the rest of the story but his brother Pipkin said Kevin you didn't pay your tithe this week which he said Grandpa you didn't preach on it today and that was a little bit on a humorous side but it had a great moral to it when we stopped preaching it people will stop obeying it and that's why we've got to continue to preach the doctrine we've got to preach the Holiness we've got to preach tithing we've got to preach the The Plan of Salvation which is repentance water baptism in Jesus name and the infilling of the Holy Ghost with the evidence of speaking in other tongues and let me read to you from The Book of John and the The Book of John chapter 3 was a is a very important chapter and it's not in our lesson starting at the very first verse but I'm going to start at verse 1 for our technicians upstairs I always throw them a curve but think they can not knock it out of the park no matter what I send to them seems like but John 3 and 1 says there was a man of the Pharisees named Nicodemus a ruler of the Jews now we know he was an important person and the Bible said it was a Pharisee and of the Pharisees were a group of people who were super Pious they were they were more religious than the the regular Jews and they they adhered to this scripture to the letter of the law and this was a the sort of man that Nicodemus was the same came to Jesus by night and coming by night we assumed that the Bible will say that's the reason but uh it sounds like that he he came by Night number one to get a private interview with Jesus and secondly prop I had a lady years ago her husband was a businessman and she belonged to a nominal Church and she got to coming to our church and she got convinced of what a baptism in Jesus name and she called me one day and she said brother McCune I see that scripturally about getting baptized in Jesus name and I'd like for you and sister McCool to meet me and if you don't mind a certain certain time and baptize me in Jesus name but I don't want you to tell anybody about it she said Arch my church don't believe in it and she said I I don't want you I don't want anybody to know it uh but I want you to baptize me that and I said and and it struck me very uh strong and and I remember our scripture popped in my mind the Bible said this thing was not done in a corner and that simply meant that they didn't do things secretly they they did it openly Jesus was not crucified in secret he was crucified on a public Mountain on on Mount Calvary on a cross lifted up above the Earth and all the world was to see him and I felt for me to to take her privately just she and my wife and myself and baptized her and then promised her that I wouldn't tell anybody I said sister I love you and I would love to see you baptized in Jesus name but there is no way that I will baptize you in Jesus name under those terms because this thing wasn't done in a corner and that's the way I felt and um this gets a little bit closer to home what I'm about to say and I I might not even ought to say it but um I have heard and know of situations where people who go to the Holy Land and um I want to get they've already been baptized in Jesus name and and they get baptized over in the river of Jordan in fact I hear I've understood that you've got that you can rent robes over there they have so many people do that they they rent robes or you can buy a disposable robes for folks to get baptized in the river of Jordan um now this sounds a little bit strange and I don't don't mean to be abrasive or mean when I say this but I would not be baptized in the river of Jordan for ten thousand dollars you know what I'm saying because if I if I put emphasis on the river of Jordan rather than the name of Jesus I'm doing it for the wrong reason and why do I need to be baptized again if I've been baptized in Jesus name I don't I don't mind you going on on the excursions and trips to the Holy Land that's a great place to go and and that's wonderful but please for the Lord's sake for the word of God's sake don't let anybody anybody baptize you in the river of Jordan just because it's the river of Jordan it's just not that water that does anything anyway what does the work is the faith in the name of Jesus Christ and whether you're baptized in a baptistry whether you're baptized in a horse trough whether you're baptized in a lake or a stream or the river of Jordan if you're baptized for that reason you get your sins remitted somebody say Amen and Jesus I the same came to Jesus by night and said to him Rabbi we know the thou art a teacher come from God for no man can do these miracles of thou do us except God be with him Jesus answered and said to him verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born again he cannot see the kingdom of God Nicodemus saith in him how can a man be born when he's old can he enter the second time into his mother's womb and be born Jesus answered verily verily I say unto thee except a man be born of water and of the spirit he cannot enter the kingdom of God now let me pause their son will believe that that word water means the natural birth I don't believe that if you want if he's going to say a natural birth he'd have said it that way I believe it meant baptism in water in Jesus name is what I believe it meant now then you said Marvel not that I said in the you must be born again the wind bloweth where it listened and thou Hearst the sound thereof but tends to not tell when to cometh and whether it goes so is everyone that's born in the spirit Nicodemus answered and said unto them how can these things be Jesus answered and said unto him are thou a master of Israel and knoweth not these things barely verily I said unto thee we speak that we do know and testify that we've seen and ye receive not our witness if I've told you of Earthly things and you believe not how shall ye believe if I tell you of heavenly things and then he utters some words that it's hard for a lot of folks to understand Jesus said and no man have ascended up to heaven but he that came down from heaven even the son of man which is in heaven I was discussing with a preacher one time that didn't believe this Oneness of the godhead and he made a big deal of Jesus being baptized and the voice out of heaven spoke and said this is my beloved Son and whom I'm well pleased and and he said I I guess you're saying that God Jesus was throwing his voice he was a ventriloquist and they thought that was a very cute little thing to say I said no he wasn't a ventriloquist but here's what he did say no man at the send it up to heaven save thee which came down from heaven even the son of man which is in heaven and he was standing right there on the earth talking to him he was in heaven he was on all right he's everywhere at one time because he's God somebody say Amen [Music] which brings to mind a little story how a little girl was on the way to church and a fellow wanted to make a little bit a bit of sport with her and and he said hey little girl let me ask you a question said I'll give you a nickel if you'll tell me where God is she said I'll give you a nickel if you'll tell me where he ate well I thought how how great that is no man had to send it up to heaven say viewers that came down from heaven even the son man which is in heaven and the same fellow thought he was making a great big point he said if if the church is the blood and the bride of Christ who is going to give the bride away he said the father gives the bride away and who's going to give the bride away well I turn to the scripture that said that that the church he had purchased with his own blood had whom he would purchased with and even presented to himself a spotless Church nobody has to give the church away he gives it to himself and he is he is God overall well so much for that now then we're dealing with the with the Pharisee Nicodemus who was a very religious man and Jesus was uh responding to his inquiries at the uh nine hour uh trying to now I will say this about Nicodemus later on after Jesus was crucified Nicodemus and Joseph these two men they apparently were secret disciples and They begged the body of Jesus and Nicodemus brought over a hundred pound ointment to anoint the body of Jesus after he was uh brought down from the cross and it looks like that it had made a lasting impression on him now let me go to something else if you follow chronologically uh in the in the book of Acts now they the authors of our lesson the they they jumped to the 19th Chapter of of Acts but if you go in chronological order first of all acts 1 and 8 yeah the Bible said that you'll receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you but he told his disciples not to leave from this from Jerusalem until you've been due with power from on high and then in the verse and the second chapter of Acts there was 120 on the dead Pentecost when when the day of Pentecost was fully come they were there was one man where there were one Accord and suddenly came aside from Heaven as a Russian Mighty Wind filled all lives where they were sitting and there appeared under them then to them cloven tongues like as a fire set up only to them and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost began to speak with tongues as the spirit gave utterance and there were Jews and they about men out of every nation well this call sets a stir uh when they started speaking and saying said when the upper room if you read the second the first and second chapter of Acts you'll see where there was a hundred and twenty up there among those was Mary the mother of Jesus he had come to the into this world through her womb but now then he's going to be back in her as the baptism of the Holy Ghost because she was one of those in the upper room that received the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues and this is when they said that there have been a drunken party up there and Peter said these men are not drunken as you suppose see this being with the third eye of the day this is that which was spoken of by the prophet Joel and the last day saith God I will pour out of my spirit for an old place your sons and your daughters shall prophesy you old men will dream dreams your young men will see visions and upon my by handmaidens and servants will I pour up my spirit saith the Lord let all the house of Israel share that God hath made the same Jesus whom you've crucified both Lord and Christ and when they heard this they were pricked in the heart and said to Peter and the rest of the Apostles men and Brethren what shall we do then Peter said to them repent and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for their mission says and you shall receive the Holy Ghost now and the promises and you and your children to all that are far off even as many as the Lord our gods are called now tell me something what other message is more important that we preach and re-preach and repeat and repeat this is why Peter said I will not be negligent to put you in remembrance though you already knew these Saints now that is acts 1 then Acts 2 and excuse me acts 8 after Stephen was a stone to death A Philip went down to Samaria and preached the word of God to them and when they heard Philip preaching concerning the kingdom of God in the name of Jesus they were baptized both men and women now then the apostles word for Jerusalem when they heard that Samaria had received the word of God they sent unto them Peter and John who when they will come down and prayed for them that they might receive the Holy Ghost for us yet he was fought upon with them only they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus so they laid their hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost and spoke in tongues now then in chronological order chapter 8 is still going on now then if you go to chapter 10 and the 10th chapter of Acts 10 45 and there the circumcision which really were astonished because on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost for they heard them speak with tongues and magnify God then I natural Peter can any man forbid water the thief shall not be baptized which I perceive the Holy Ghost as well as we and he commanded them to be baptized in the name of the Lord then prayed they him to tarry certain days now in chronological order we go to the 19th Chapter of Acts and here's what it said and it came to the pastor while Apostles was the Corinth Paul having pastored there because came to Ephesus and finding certain disciples said to them have you received the Holy Ghost since you believed and they said we're not so much as her will there be Holy Ghost well he said unto what them were you baptized now many of our modern preachers today will immediately tell you it don't matter how you're baptized or even if you're baptized they'll baptize you anyway well they really want they'll say that it don't matter because but they won't baptize you in Jesus name most of them will not but you see he's Paul said how were you baptized if it makes no difference how we are baptized why in the world would he ask that question and they said we were baptized under John's baptism when he said with John barely baptized with the baptism of repentance saying unto the people that they shall believe in him would she come after him which was on Christ Jesus when they heard this they were baptized in the name of the Lord Jesus and Paul let his hands on them and they received the Holy Ghost and speak in tongues and prophesied no wonder Peter said I'll not be negligent to keep you reminded folks in the 10 First Apostolic Church not a 50 20 Pleasant Ridge Road if you come to this location you're going to hear the doctrine of repentance and water baptism in Jesus name and feeling of the Holy Ghost you don't hear it time and time again if you don't hear it you'll quit believing it I'll give you a hand clap praise [Applause] oh my Hallelujah well I don't know about the rest of the world but I know about this Sheriff Hopper it Thrills me every time I hear it preach it Thrills me to preach it because to know that God has entrusted me with a Plan of Salvation that'll take people to Heaven that is so wonderful and So Glorious it's such an honor and thrills for me to preach okay that's lesson one lesson two is led by the spirit this is supposed to be told on December the 11th the focused verse for as many as are led by the spirit of God they are the sons of God less than text and the kingdom pass from Pharaoh had let the people go that God LED them not through the way of the land of the Philistines although that was near for God said Lester Adventure the people repent when they see war and they return to Egypt God gave them some protection against themselves now you remember we preached the brother um Nate Whitley got us started on the book of Jude and what a great he was written a book on the book of Judah what a fantastic job he did what a job of preaching Sunday night incidentally wasn't that some kind of message so great all right now I preached and and from the book of Jude making a difference pulling some out of the phone I was making a difference he actually was saying that you don't win everybody alike some people you've got to handle one way now that don't mean you twist or change the message it's still got to be the same message but there's some you approach it in a different manner a different tone now God did not lead them through the the Philistines because it was going to be War now he could win the war for them but God said lest they repent what that means but that lest they change their mind about following Moses and going to the promised land he's going to lead them another direction are you following me you and I don't know sometimes why God leads us in a certain path he does you can sometimes look back and say just what if what if I'd have been if I'd have been there 10 seconds earlier I'd have been in a terrible automobile wreck if I'd have done this or that a certain way but God directs us he even talks about not letting your fruit trees produces fruit Before Time and let the frost get them God is watching over his children but God led the people about through the way of the Wilderness of the Red Sea now uh he could have taken them another but he led them by the Red Sea because he was going to divide the Red Sea the Red Sea was no obstacle for God but God saw fit not to lead them through the warring territory of the Philistines but God led the people about through the way of the Wilderness of the Red Sea and the children of the Israel went up harnessed uh out of the land of Egypt and Moses took the bones of Joseph with him for he had straightly sworn that sworn the children of Israel saying God will surely visit you and will carry up my bones away hence from you and that took their Journey from sokov and in Campton Ethan in the land of the Wilderness now we're talking about being led by the spirit of God now God was leading them through territory they had never been God was leading them through Uncharted territory but the the the the priests that carried the ark the Bible said the ark went before them and showing them the way and that took their journey and the Lord went before them by day in a pillar and a cloud to lead the way and by night in a pillar of fire to give them light to go by day and night he took not away and he took not away the pillar of the cloud by day or the pillar of Fire by night from before the people God had a miraculous way of leading his people A Cloud by day and Fire by night to lead their way there's a lot of times the Holy Ghost the spirit leads you and me in ways we don't even realize until we look back later I didn't know where God was leading me when I got out of bed and the wee hours of the morning in Little Rock Arkansas and went next door to the church and a darkened Sunday school room and got down on my knees and I was agonizing with God I felt that God was leading me into something I didn't know what been married less than a year evangelizing had all my uh my my dreams and future ahead of me and sister McCool and I were traveling advantages young playing music and and as I was praying God laid on my heart to come to Knoxville Tennessee and start a church and a Christian School now no I didn't hear an audible voice but I saw in my mind's eye that God wanted me to come to Knoxville Tennessee and I I canceled all of my revivals sister McCool and I though we were uh getting better known all the time going around over the country we came to Knoxville Tennessee and I've read you the story of how we couldn't get a place to put a tent we couldn't even buy an ad in the newspaper until we went to see Mr Walker and at that time he was a very powerful politically in the city and when I'd met him at a gospel singing in Kingsport Tennessee and he called me aside and told me then he said if you're ever in Knoxville and you need any help if I can be any help to come and see me well I didn't know who Kaz Walker was I didn't know what was going on but I was later on I don't know how many months or when it was but when I could I just like I'd run up against a brick wall and I thought about what Mr Walker had said that I found his office and Bobby and I went to his office and told him what we were up against and he told his secretary said take this letter I want you to write a letter for me he started dictating a letter to whom it may concern I'm personally acquainted with Billy and Bobby McCool McCool Twins and I personally know they're out to do all the good they can do and I recommend any accommodation that you can give to these young men and of course that letter was very instrumental we took it to the highway department that owned that property still owns the property down at the end of Lee Street on Baxter Avenue that was a vacant lot at that time there's a lot of buildings in there now that's that's owned by the the county it's got the the county offices and all that in there and he said I won't rent it to you but you could have it as long as you want it with no charge and we put a tent up right there and we we started preaching the gospel and we were on the cas Walker show and and we went to uh down to East Jordan and the day we were on there the Dolly Parton and Stella partnering with they they were unknown then just just little girls trying to get started and uh Bobby and I sing Our Gospel songs and and they sing their songs and it's uh it's history what happened but when we put up the content we started preaching this great message and at first the crowds were large and then when folks found out that we were Jesus name a Holy Ghost Field a lot of folks don't want that message but we kept preaching it and when winter came we put up a tent or rather we rented a lodge Hall up over a grocery store on Washington Avenue right close to the standard knitting Mill and there's where we had Church the first winter and we took a little group with us and mainly The Vault family there if you delete the ball family at that time we didn't have many folks but granny of all since Gladys and the Fred and all the there was a gang and their sister darling is still back there and and I talked to brother Leon every every little bit and there's folks that came to know this message back then many years ago and they're still holding on to it tonight well I'm telling you all that to say this but God had his way of leading his people at that time so let me read to you Acts 3 1-10 now Peter and John went up together into the temple The Hour of Prayer being the ninth hour they had a set time to pray that's a pretty good thought if you stop to think about they went up at The Hour of Prayer if you don't set aside a time that you're going to pray you probably won't you won't think about it but they had a time to go and as they went into the temple at The Hour of Prayer being the ninth hour a certain Layman from his mother's womb was carried whom they laid daily at the Gate of the temple which is called Beautiful well when you go to the house of God you're going to find a problem lying at the door there's a that's that's the church is a is a problem machine that's where we call for the the weak the sick the dying the Sinners the lion the cheats the drug addicts because that's what the church is for and when they saw this man to this beautiful gate he asked alms of them as he entered in who seeing Peter and John about to go into the temple asking arms and Peter fasting his eyes upon him with John said look on us and he gave heed unto them expecting to receive something of them and it took him by the hand and lifted him up and the man was healed and went jumping and leaping running into the temple we're talking about being led by the spirit of God what it will do that's lesson two now we're going to get lesson three you didn't think I could do it did you lesson three is supposed to be taught this coming Sunday morning December the 18th and it's still the work of the spirit and this next lesson is to be entitled empowered by the spirit the focused verse Acts 1 and 8 but ye shall receive power after the Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be Witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea and in Samaria and the uttermost parts of the Earth lesson text acts 1 1-8 the former treaties have I made o Theophilus of all that Jesus began both to do and teach until the day in which he was taken up after that he through the Holy Ghost had given Commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen now notice this next person I made a point of this I told him on this some time ago about the infallible proofs uh the writer of the book of Acts was Dr Luke he was known as The Beloved Physician and was well educated and most doctors are there there there are well educated and highly respected and here's what it says until the day in which he was taken up after he had through the Holy Ghost he now he's talking to Theophilus had given Commandments unto the apostles whom he had chosen to whom also he showed himself alive after his Passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them 40 days and speaking of things pertaining to the kingdom of God now are you if you're listening to me and and you're you're letting it it sink in we're not reading the words of of uh some uh uh fanatic or or someone that's uh extreme he's a highly educated man uh and had had great respect of everyone and he's saying that to whom talking about Jesus being raised from the dead uh by the way sister Nicole and I were in the room with the brother Mike and sister Kathy Williams yesterday and the doctor came in and I'd never heard a doctor talk quite like he did he was a so personable and uh he made the state but he said there's two things that's the most important thing in this life I wonder what's the doctor going to say he said one you need to know the Lord Jesus Christ as your savior and second you need to have a good marriage a happy man a good wife or a good husband and after he had talked to Mike and Kathy and they talked about his condition then he said let's have prayer I've never had a doctor to call me to prayer before but we had prayer together Mike went home today and they go ahead and give Laura a hand clap well let me go on [Music] to whom also he showed himself alive after this Passion by many infallible proofs being seen of them 40 days and speaking of things pertaining to the kingdom of God um let me let me go on and being assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the Father which saith he you've heard of me now this is physician Dr Luke quoting what he called infallible indisputable proof and being assembled together with them commanded them that they should not depart from Jerusalem but wait for the promise of the father would saith he ye have heard of me I shall not forget I don't think as my father used to sell I'll not forget that as long as I remember and that's pretty good that's pretty true isn't it I was getting a haircut and uh brother Bill Romine she's a one time was a well-known Baptist preacher in this town he's he's passed on now but he walked over to the barber chair where I was in the barber chair he said preacher I want to give you a text I want to give you a sermon he said we we Baptist preachers can't preach it like you can preach it and that's what in the world is it talking about at that time American Express credit card I had a big um advertising campaign going and said don't leave home without it and it meant don't leave home without your American Express card don't leave and that that was going big at that time he said uh you you need to preach this Mission don't leave home without it and then he quoted this scripture it said uh being assembled together with the commandant they should not he said now Jerusalem is home that's the church and said don't leave but wait for the promise of the Father which saith he he said don't leave home without the Holy Ghost so we can't preach it like you can I said brother Roman you can believe me I'll preach it I and I I have a lot of times for John truly baptized with water but ye shall be baptized ye shall be baptized with the Holy Ghost not many days hence when they therefore will come together they ask of him saying Lord will thou at this time restore again the Kingdom of Israel he said of them it is not for you to know the times or the seasons which the father hath put in his own power but ye shall receive power after that the Holy Ghost has come upon you and you shall be Witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem and in all Judea in Samaria and into the uttermost parts of the Earth well let me go just a little further acts 4 29 and now Lord beholding their now and now Lord beholding their threatenings and Grant them to thy servants that with all bonus they may speak Thy Word by stretching them forth thine hand to heal and the signs and wonders may be done by the name of the holy Child Jesus and when they had prayed the place was shaken where they were assembled together and they were all filled with the Holy Ghost and they speak the word of God with boldness acts 9 32 and it came to pass as Peter passed throughout all quarters he came down also to the Saints which dwelt that Lydia and there he found a certain man named and is which after it he kept his bed eight years and was sick of the positive and Peter said unto him and he is Jesus Christ maketh be whole arise and take thy bed and he arose immediately and all that dwelled at Lydia and serum saw him and turned to the lord and there was a job by a certain disciple named Tabitha which by interpretation is called Dorcas this woman was full of good works and arm's deed which she did and it came to pass in those days that she was sick and died whom when they had washed they laid her in the upper chambers for as much as Lydia was not a Joppa and the disciples had heard that Peter was there they said unto him two men Desiring him that they would not delay to come to him then Peter arose and went with them when he was come they brought him into the upper room in the upper chamber and all the widows stood by him weeping and showing the coats and garments which Dorcas made while she was with them I've thought about that little scripture a lot she was dead and they were showing things that she had made for them while she was with them after we're gone we're supposed to be able to show what we did while we were with them are they going to know what he put online are they going to know about our blog or they're going to know about what they're going to know about how we got them told or whether are they going to see some works of our hands that we did while we were with them but Peter put them all forth and nail down and prayed and turning him to the body said Tabitha arise and she opened her house she opened her eyes and when she saw Peter she set up and he gave her his hand and lifted her up and when he had called the Saints and whittles presented her alive and it was known throughout all Joppa and many believed in the Lord and it came to pass that it teared many days in Joppa with one Simon Peter would you stand your feet with me now well you've heard three Sunday school lessons tonight I've gone just a little a little bit fast but that's not all that bad either but what I am trying to get across uh I guess above everything else as please do never get to that point that you hate to hear Acts 2 38 preach don't ever get to that place that you think when well that's all they preach at that church that's just all they ever talk about is Jesus name what what else is there's a talk about what what's more important than the name of Jesus for there is none of the name under Heaven given among men whereby we must be saved what do you think that woman that was caught in the act of adultery would think about hearing his name knowing that she would have been stoned to death had it not been for her what about the woman at the well that had been married five times and living with a man that she wasn't married to what a miserable life she was living what about Zacchaeus who was the tax collector that everybody hated and Jesus he went home with with zacchus zacchus woman and his life was totally changed what where would you and I be tonight without him praise the Lord don't forget nine o'clock Friday morning we're going to see the product of our Christian School and daycare we're going to see these children as they present the program don't forget be and look at watch and see if you can only see Dave if ever want to be heading cameras like I have I've got I believe it's 28 cameras I can see 28 different views of this place and something is going on all the time absolutely fantastic and it is your product it's the work of your hands and your prayers is brought by father we thank you tonight for the word of the Lord we thank you for this great congregation that have assembled to hear the word of the Lord I pray God that the word will continue to be near and dear to us and cause us to grow in faith and love and power and perseverance as we have marched armored toward the coming of the Lord dismisses from this place tonight bring us back at the next appointed time in Jesus name we pray amen be praying for our sick folks and sister Vicki Smith I don't know if that her name was called tonight and well let's let's be praying for her she is in the hospital and sister Lois Miller let's continue to pray for her you're dismissed in Jesus name