Wednesday Evening Worship & Word | Bishop McCool

praise the lord everyone praise the lord everyone we greet you tonight in that wonderful name of the lord jesus christ the only name under heaven given among men whereby we must be saved yesterday let me tell you a little something um don't forget what pastor said about parking lot uh we have to move some things around but don't anyone leave a vehicle on the parking lot unattended that we couldn't move it uh we don't i don't know how they go about it push in they'll start how but anyway we'll do our very best ted bits from times past on the road october 19 1978 taking a trip with the youth action singers is always an adventure this article is to let you readers know what such a trip is like as seen through the eyes of members of the choir saturday october 14th we arrived at the church at 8 30 a.m we were scheduled to leave for lexington kentucky at nine o'clock the scene is one of the hurley burley the the miles the male members of the choir are loading the equipment into the storage areas of the silver eagle several girls are carrying clothes pillows blankets etc onto the bus others are standing inside the church watching the loading process for some this is their first youth action trip you can see the excitement on their faces finally brother mccool calls for all the board everyone scours to his seat he takes account so he and sister makuu will know how many of their children are going just as we're ready to put the big bus in gear brother mccool noticed that someone left the two-wheeled dolly setting out off goes brother mccool and a couple of helpers to load this necessary item now we're ready to roll brother mayford richmond gently puts the bus into reverse and manipulates the huge eagle around parking cars and pulls onto pleasant ridge road we're off the chatter of 47 young people cannot be described on these pages it would take pages to write the conversation of only two so let's go on by just remarking that a lot of talking takes place on one of these trips some of you old timers remember this throughout the bus one can hear bits and pieces of conversation such as who bought what new record of the andre crouch who likes what boy or girl what songs they hope the choir will sing that night the list of topics is endless the most common topic is the one brother mccool starts hearing about 10 30 or 11 a.m that is when are we going to eat this subject comes up constantly until through the grapevine we all know the cracker barrel is our destination at last the cracker barrel is in sight one can feel the the relief going through the bust that food is coming you can also feel the letdown brother mccool seeing two buses in the parking lot along with the line just inside the door announces that we'll go on to richmond which is another hour away it is unanimous consent that brother jimmy debusse will not make it another hour without nourishment sure enough here he comes off of the van climbs aboard asking when are we going to eat brother jimmy is our unofficial eating champ after assuring him that we are going to eat in about an hour he goes almost continually back to the van the restaurant in richmond kentucky is a welcome sight 45 minutes later welcome candy candace joy is the new daughter of brother sherwin and sister carol harvey she was born sunday october the 15th 1978. she weighed 8 pounds 15 ounces both mother and daughter are doing fine youth action singers october the 29th will be in service with the concord mennonite church concord tennessee oak ridge dedication the united pentecostal church of oak ridge will have their dedication service of their new building december one two and three brother mccool will be dedicating will bring the dedicatory message saturday december the second the youth action singers will be singing in the service also mark the date on your calendar that's a little tidbit from times past does anybody here remember those days where you might have been on the bus about that time and then i've got another feature i'm using on wednesday night and that is 50 years of memory and we read last week about the mccool twins and dolly parton there were a couple of young ladies sisters dressed in western we were on the cast walker farm in home hour uh on the midday show and there were a couple of young ladies sisters dressed in western attire appearing on this show they were dolly and stella parton little did we know we were appearing with such future mega musical legends as dolly parton her appearance on this show catapulted her to fame and fortune on the grand ole opry stage screen amusement park mogul our appearance on this show gave us enough exposure to fill the gospel tank with souls who needed salvation the gospel tent filled with people eager to be entertained and hear music and singing and see us perform that we did but along with hearing our music knoxville was hearing the apostolic message of repentance water baptism in the name of jesus christ and the infilling of the holy ghost with the evidence of speaking in tongues hoopla or holiness fame and fortune were not what we were seeking for dolly and others it was owned to the grand ole opry but for us it was to the uh grand old gospel after the hoopla came the preaching of holiness now there's a noticeable difference in the number of people who love hoopla over holiness i did not come to knoxville to be an entertainer god had clearly spoken to me in the wee hours of the night in north little rock arkansas to go to knoxville and build a church and christian school a couple of years earlier the mccool twins were doing two daily commercial gospel singing programs on radio station w-k-i-n and we'll finish this story next week if you want to make it you got to be like elvis all right we'll talk about that at another time we're going to get into our study tonight uh i have a new subject that we're going to be dealing with i don't know that we'll get finished with it tonight but the one thing we know how to do is to watch the clock and and quit on time tonight's study i have entitled it for your consideration for your consideration and the sub-topic is would have passed them by and i want you to remember that topic and the sub-topic because we'll be dealing with that i feel strongly about mark chapter 6 verse 44 through 52 and we'll hopscotch through the sixth chapter of mark verse 44 and they that did eat of the loaves were about 5 000. everybody say 5 000. that's just to make you remember i want you to remember those words 5 000 and five loaves and two fishes and twelve baskets left over and straightway he constrained his now immediately after feeding five thousand uh first of all the disciples came to him and said lord there's quite a crowd that's gathered together we've got 5 000 people here and they're they're hungry they're families and they need to eat don't you think we need to dismiss them and let them go into the villages and buy them something eating jesus said give me them to eat they said well 200 finished worth of bread is not sufficient that that all just take a little and jesus said what have you got and straightway's disciples could uh constrain and straight where he constrained his disciples to get into the ship and go to the other side before by saving him while he sent away the people now he had him to set down in rows of 50s and he took the the five barley loaves and the two fish and gave it to the disciples and the disciples to those who were sent down and when they had all finished eating he said gather up the fragments that nothing be left or lost and they gathered up 12 baskets full now they only started with five barley loaves and two fish but now then after feeding 5 000 they gathered up 12 baskets full now keep this in mind for right now we'll come back later and then immediately after this and straightway that means immediately he constrained his disciples to get into the ship and go to the other side before unto the slayer while he sent away the people and when he had sent them away he departed into a mountain to pray now keep in mind the things that we're dealing with he fit five thousand uh with five barnaloves and two little fish gathered up twelve baskets full then immediately he told the disciples to get into a ship and go to the other side now jesus peter said to jesus you know everything well he he commanded them to get in a boat and get in trouble he knew well there was going to be a storm but yet he sent them into a storm did you ever wonder why some things happened to you uh did you ever stop to think uh he told satan have you considered my servant job he he almost sick the devil on job you wonder some god sometimes puts us into a position that he knows we're going to encounter a storm you may be in a storm right now you may face one next week next year whatever jesus knows about it and sometimes he allows it and he allows it for a purpose and when he had sent them away he departed in the mountain to pray and when ethan was come the ship was in the midst of the sea and he alone on the land he sent them in a ship and he was alone on the land and here they are out on out on the the lake the sea and when the evenings come the ship was in the midst of the sea he alone on the land and he saw them toiling and rowing for the wind was contrary unto them and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them walking upon the sea and would have passed by them now i did a little research and the fourth watch of the night was about three o'clock in the morning it's not very daylight at three o'clock in the morning especially in the midst of a storm but the bible said he saw them rowing you may wonder the storm that you're in or that you will be in does jesus know what yes sir he sees you through the storm he sees you through the turbulence he sees you through the problem it may be the fourth watch of the night it may be three o'clock in the morning the lightning may flash and the thunder may roam but jesus has got his eye on his children and he knows what you're going through and he is concerned with you and your problem and the bible said and he saw them toiling and rowing for the wind was contrary unto them and about the fourth watch of the night he cometh unto them walking on the sea now what's his next line and would have passed by them and would have there in a terrible storm frightened to the edge of the life and the bible said he would have passed by them but when they saw him walking on the sea they supposed it had been a spirit and cried out did you know there are times that you and i get into some situations and and it looks like jesus is going to pass you by it looks like you can't get an answer he's given you the opportunity to cry out ask and you shall receive seek and you shall find knock and it shall be open unto you he wants you to ask to seek and to knock because he knows what's going on you see jesus is a gentleman he will not impose himself upon you but he will give you the opportunity to call on him don't forget it he knows what you're going through physically spiritually financially whatever it is but and he could do it without you asking but yet he's waiting to hear you call on him the bible said he would have passed them by but they cried out don't let him pass you by don't let him if you he's making himself available he's saying he of all things come walking on the water and and now then they're frightened to death and they cried out and it went up unto them into the ship and the winds ceased and they were sore amazed in themselves beyond measure and wondered now look at that with me would you please they were so amazed beyond measure and wondered amazed and wondered the bible said for they considered not the miracle of the lobes for their heart was hardened i told you a while ago to repeat the words five thousand now they were sore amazed at jesus walking on the water but the bible said for they considered not what they had just seen they had just seen jesus take five little loaves and feed 5 000 and gather up 12 baskets and yet when they got in a little bit of trouble they didn't consider what they had just seen isn't that like us uh we get frightened and we get beside ourselves and and we get afraid and doubt fills our heart and we don't consider what happened the last time he performed a miracle in our life we don't consider when the lord came to our rescue how many miracles have we seen in building this building how many miracles have we seen through the years we can we've read it we've told it we've repeated it the concrete truck the way god provided for the the the twenty thousand dollars to uh put beautiful stainless steel restrooms throughout this building how god let us get the money to get these pews they were putting these pews in on saturday night when we was going to have church on sunday morning and the choir came in here and started practicing and some of the men cried some of the men they got so excited to hear an apple stock apostolic choir saying they felt something can we consider what god has done in the past for now my topic tonight is for your consideration there are some things that we need to be able to consider in our lives it it it we we've got some we've got some items back in the back of the mind that should build our faith if you'll just recall what the lord has done in an immediate crisis how quickly we forget how he delivered us out of the last one now when david was fleeing from saul and such haste he did not even have a weapon he found himself in the presence of the high priest a himalayan hungry tired weary and desperately in need of food and a weapon extreme situations now listen to me extreme situations sometimes call for extreme solutions now you see jesus don't have to follow a script he don't follow a pre-programmed program he can he can uh divert from the the the the lines and do what he wants to do extreme situations called for extreme solutions to feed his hunger david he and his men were given shoe bread which was supposed to be eaten only by the priests also there was only one weapon in the house of god and it was a special weapon a weapon that reminded david and caused him to consider what god had done in the past and if god had miraculously delivered once he could do it again if god had miraculously delivered once he could do it again don't the choir sing a song something to that effect about he's done it and he'll do it and do it again words of it but notice the following scripture and let me remind you of something david's first came on david first came on the scene with saul when they were in war with the philistines and david's father told him to take some food and cheese and grain to his brothers who were fighting with the with the saul against the philistines and when david arrived you heard the story a hundred times or more and when when he got there there was on two mountains on one mountain was the philistines and the other mountain was the israelites and there was a a valley between them and when david got there with his food there was nothing going on everything was quiet and and david he said what's going on here well what's going on i thought i thought we was in war with the philistines and they called them aside and said so every day they send a giant out here now remember this giant is over nine feet tall and i started to to figure up uh how much his breastplate you know weighed 200 pounds and all the the the coat and the the leggings he had and all that it was enormous what a man he was and every day he would come out and he'd say send me a man that we may fight together there's no reason for us to have war i'll if if i kill him you'll be our servants and if he kills me we'll be your servants no need for anybody else to get hurt well sure he felt that way because he was nine feet tall and he had an armor bearer that went out in front of him with a huge shield and there was nobody in the army of israel that dare go out to fight him and david when he saw everything was at a standstill he said what's going on and they told david and uh david said well i'll go fight him i'll go fight him and his oldest brother hurt him elia heard him and the bible said he was furious it made him so mad that his kid brother would come out and make such a spectacle of himself and want to go find a giant nine feet tall and and he went to david and gave david to dress it down and i mean in fine fashion he said i know the naughtiness of your heart you're just mischievous so i said what did you do with those few sheep in the wilderness he even called it a few sheep and to to belittle what david was doing and said what says what what did you do with the fu i've told you this that the the politics of ridicule cut somebody down and and take away their their effectiveness and and cause them to be ineffective and and he said uh with whom left thou david said i left the sheep with a keeper in other words he was saying i didn't neglect the sheep i came to stay a while i came to i want to tell you something uh we've got to be determined that we're going to stay a while some folks aren't determined to stay they they don't they don't stay when they go and get struck what was the the football coach whoever it was so famous i don't remember his name he said when the golden gets rough it's time for the rough to get going when the going gets tough it's time for the tough to get going well let me tell you something we didn't start this race to quit when the first time we stumped our toe the first time we got a challenge david said i left the sheep with a keeper but he caused such a uproar he said what what's going on said what's going to happen to to the man that kills him oh they said that saul the king has promised to give him his daughter for a while his family will be tax free for the rest of their life they're they're going to be wealthy and he you that's why and and he calls such an uproar that the word got down to saul and saul said bring that young man to me and they brought david to saul and saul said he looked him over and the bible said he was a ruddy complexion little red little little red face and a kid of a boy and he said son you want to go though you're but a stripping you've been a stripping try to again trying to cut him down i'm talking about for your consideration the devil may want it was pastor that preached to us just the last service or so told us that i'm no grasshopper when the devil made them believe they were grasshoppers when they began to look at themselves in such a negative way poor little me listen you and i aren't poor little old me of course i can do all things through christ which strengthens me oh let me tell you something we're not pushovers we're not pushovers falsely i can do all things through christ which strengtheneth me i believe it was i believe it might have been jeff wilson brother dean sister brenda's a little little they told him he couldn't do such and such said yes i can brother mccool said i could do all things well i wasn't exactly telling children to disobey their parents but let me tell you something when he said i can do all things through christ which strengtheneth me and saul heard that he said son you're but a struggling of a lad and and he is a warrior of many years and besides look at look at his size look at that and david said sir let me tell you something one day i was out there taking care of my daddy's sheep and a bear and grabbed one of my seat and said i went out after him and i slew that bear and i took that lamb out of the bear's paws and put that lamb back in the flock now the bible don't say this but i imagine it happened anyway because i don't think saul would would believe such a fantastic story but he lived his oldest brother was standing by and probably saul looked around because he had already rebuked david and humiliated him embarrassment and probably saul said elip that's your kid brother did that really happen yeah yeah yes sir it did well david said that's not all there was another time i was taking care of my daddy's sheep and a lion came out a lion and said the spirit of the lord came upon me and i went out after him he lived you're the one that said that he was a naughty boy and he was did that really happen and only i've had to say yeah yeah yeah he did yeah we we got a bare skin rug to prove it and we get away i'm adding that of course for your consideration i'm talking about tonight and what i'm trying to impress upon on you and you and you and you there are some things that we need to consider in our battle with the devil and our battle with our health our battle with our finances our battle period there's some things that we forget about and we need to consider them well so sir my son i believe i i i believe i'll let you give it a try huh but now i want you to consider something else please listen that man saul himself was a head and shoulders taller than any other man in israel he was somewhat of a a giant himself and and and yet he was afraid to go fight him not a man in israel was willing to go fight goliath and now then a kid of a boy is asking permission to go fight a nine feet tall giant and david declares emphatically that the same god that delivered the lion and the bear into my hands will deliver that giant consider it consider it done so i said all right son i'm gonna let you do it before you do it i i i need to dress you up i've got a helmet to put i'm gonna let you wear my helmet i'm gonna let you wear my shield and i'm gonna isn't it amazing how those who will not really go out and do anything when you try to do something they'll sure dress you up to try to show you how to do it well i imagine when he put that helmet on david's head it it was so big it could spin around and and david said well that's sort of sir i've never used a sword before i don't know how to use a sword your your armor is too big for me well son what what are you going to do well he said i've got a weapon i i'm i'm an i'm a guided missile expert i'm i'm a guided missile expert he said i've got a sling shot here and said this is what i'll take and saul perhaps could not believe what he was hearing he said son i'm going to let you go and david goes down through the valley that is going to have to go up the other side and as he went through the brook he picked up five smooth stones and i've heard that preach and been blessed by sermons with what that stood for j-e-s-u-s-f-a-i-t-h and that's all well and good and of course a pastor told us the other day that and you will find this is true in the bible goliath had four brothers so i i i don't think anybody can prove otherwise that david only used one he would he didn't take five stones because he's gonna miss four times he he took five stones in case saw uh goliath's four brothers came on the scene whatever that's not provable but it's a pretty good theory anyway i'm preaching for your consideration i'm preaching for you to consider some things well when he started across the valley and up to him here came goliath to meet him and angry he wasn't angry because he's going to have to fight he was angry because he was so disrespected that saul would send a kid a stripping of a boy he said am i a dog you sent a lad out here to fight me am i just just the presence just the presence of david was enough to anger goliath because goliath thought he was being disrespected why he said boy i'll tear you to pieces and i'll feed your carcass to the beasts of the fields and you're not going to know it and david said you come to me with a sword you come to me in the name of your army and you come to me but it said i come to you in the name of the lord god of israel for your consideration that's the difference i said for your consideration for your consideration the name of the lord makes a difference it makes a difference how you're baptized too the bible says whatsoever you do in word or deed do all in the name of jesus praise the lord do it in the name of the lord well as uh goliath was making his big boasts and doing his trash talking david just slipped the stone of that swinging and history records her surmises and there was only one spot on his floor because he had he had so much helmet and so much armor on there was hardly any place he could be touched but there was a spot in his forward just right for a rock to hit him and when david took that sling and slung it around his head a few times and he loosed that stone and it hit him right in the board and goliath fell like a giant oak tree he fell but it wasn't dead it had just knocked him down david ran to his side and took his sword that was a huge weapon and the bible said he cut his head off with one probably with one swing with that big old sword he cut the giant's head off and then got that big burly giant's head by the hair of the head and here he goes wagging it back to saul so i got something to seek to give you i've got a i've got a trophy would you look what i got and there he had the old bloody head of that ugly old giant for your consideration don't you feel like a grasshopper for your consideration you're a child of god and you've got all of heaven behind you you've got the name of the lord the name of the lord as a strong tower and the righteous run into it and safe you say i can do all things through christ which strengthens me don't let the devil intimidate you you i can do all things well he takes that head sir i got a present for you you take this i i don't know exactly i read a scripture that appeared that david took some of the armor put it in his tent but the bible didn't tell us a whole lot about what happened to the boots and the coat of mail that weighed 200 pounds and this massive amount of armor the bible don't tell us a whole lot about that but now then let's skip ahead a little bit saul said son you're not going home anymore you're gonna you're gonna you're gonna go home with me you're gonna be my boy and told us brothers tell your dad tell jessie that this young man is going to live in the palace for the rest of his life he's done such a great thing he has brought deliverance to israel and he's going to be my son now and i'm going to put him over my armor armor army and he put this young boy over a great number of of of soldiers and they went out against the philistines now the bible said when he when he slew uh goliath that the armies of the philistines fled and you should have seen the the soldiers in the army of israel boy they got brave because when the when the philistines started running uh the the the israelite army took off after them and started slaying them and stripping the dead and and uh they they fled it's amazing what success will do to some folks when they see somebody else do the the hard work then they they want to get in on it but when it's dangerous i don't want to have anything to do with it well let me go ahead that went great but when david got back from a battle commander over the israelite troops and one of them a massive victory when they came out the women of the town the young ladies the damsels they the the young virgins the young the the beautiful women they came out and they came out singing saul has slain his thousands but david is slain his ten thousands now he must have had quite a quite quite a victory when he went out as captain and leader over uh israel's army but they they started singing that saul is slain his thousands and david his ten thousand now for your consideration i want you to consider what jealousy will do to you for your consideration i want you to consider what jealousy will do to you now saul god had placed a young man under his command he could have taken credit for for for for developing such a a a a warrior and he he could he he could have been the the prize of the world for developing this young lad david but once he heard the people singing and ascribing more victories to david than to himself the old self couldn't stand it the bible says jealousy is cruel as the grave for your consideration don't let jealousy the devil will uh something or for your consideration i want you to consider consider something for your consideration if you allow and and everybody will have an opportunity to let jealousy rule their life and if you do it'll ruin you now from the 17th chapter of first samuel to the 31st the last chapter of first samuel saul from that time on spent his full time trying to kill david he even tried to kill his own son because he was so angry and felt like his own son jonathan which he was in love with david and they they developed a great friendship and when he thought jonathan was was conspiring with david he threw a javelin at jonathan just like he did david because his mind had been taken over by evil spirits for a while david could play his harp and could drive away the evil spirits but it would soon return so after a while saul began to spend full time trying to kill david he even told his daughter that he that that he even didn't give david the daughter that he was supposed to but the one he gave he the bible said he gave her for a snare he thought that she would snare him that that she would wreck his life because saul was so determined to destroy david don't let jealousy enter your heart if it's somebody else in business if it's a neighbor but somebody's got a nicer car uh if it's up in your marriage jealousy can wreck your marriage jealousy can wreck your business for your consideration let me tell you a little story and then she'd tell yourself about well she don't like to talk in public sometimes she when sister mccool and i got married you can dress up a fence post in a suit called him a preacher and there'll be women that'll run after it if he calls himself a preacher you don't have to be good looking and handsome and and rich and talented but the devil will sick of jezebel on your trail you call yourself a preacher you don't have to be wise smart intelligent or talented the devil will have somebody after you and some of the preachers believe that and they they they succumb to it they yield to it and and forget their calling and the bible says he that committeth adultery with the woman destroys his own soul and lacks understanding a wound and reproaching again and his reproach will not be wiped away now what i'm telling him sister mccool uh and i we hadn't been married very long i was in revival and i believe georgia young lady came up to her and said i just hated you i just hated you when i heard that you and billy got married so i just prayed that he'd hate you i prayed that he'd hate you and and sister michael said well you know she not much you could say to them but she gave her five dollars tonight and i guess that was enough to take the insult of uh i want because and a lot of women would have been so jealous and every almost every place they go to preach preachers can sometimes be so unwise we'd be sitting around the table and practicing billy did you did you see sally there tonight well i probably didn't even know who sally was did you see and so and so tonight and and things like that don't sit well with a a young married woman and uh sister mccoo was a little upset we went back home and she talked to her mother and now her mother could have wrecked her life her mother could have said better you better keep your eye on him and there's a a lot of preachers that they their untruth and you better you better watch him you better make him walk the line but her mother was a godly sainted woman she said betty billy is a man of god he's a preacher and you can't be jealous of him you'll wreck his ministry in your life you better you better get a hold of yourself and not not allow this to happen and that one little talk with her mother i mean absolutely snuffed out that attitude and what a difference there was you know mothers just a few words from you may change your your daughter's life father you can tell your your your son son you're going to have to be a man you're going to show who wears the riches in your family you got to that's just poor advice parents if they're if they're not wise enough to understand god's rule they can they can plant so much uh doubt and anger and jealousy so from the 17th chapter of first samuel to the closing of his life he wound up a suicide and he could have had a great army but he spent the bible in one place the bible said saul took three thousand men on the rocks of the wild goat seeking for david david had to run for his david could have killed him he had the opportunity he walked up by his side and then and cut the skirt of his garment off and and got away and said saw look at that and he could have killed him but he didn't and when a bishii wanted to kill him david refused to allow abyshiya to kill him because he respected saul as a man of god and and he ran from saul and and in one instance he got found himself being presented before a foreign heathen king and his life was in jeopardy and so and david put on an act like he was a an insane man he let spittle run down his beard and he he clawed at the door and put on that and and because he didn't have a weapon and and and his action the the king the heathen king said what about what do i need with a madman i don't i don't need a fellow like that sometimes there's i said extreme situations sometimes require extreme solutions and and sometimes we do we have to do things that we normally would not do well now then he even took his family uh and put them in the in the care of someone that shouldn't have had to to do and now then david had he didn't recruit a 600 man army but there was a great man every man that was discontented and in debt they needed a leader and they david became their leader and in this instance he was facing the high priest and and let me let me show you what happened first samuel 21 now therefore what is under that david is talking to the priests now now therefore what is under thy hand give me five loaves of bread in my hand or what there is present and the priest answered david and said there's no common bread under my hand but there is hallowed bread if the young men have kept themselves at least from women and david answered the priest and said unto him of a truth women have been kept from us about these three days since i came out and the vessels of the young men are holy and the bread is in a is in a minor common yay though it was sanctified this day in the vessel now let me tell you this god will work in miraculous ways but you're going to have to be a pure vessel for him to do it you're going to have to these young men had david declared these young men were pure they were holy and nobody but the high priest was supposed to eat that bread so the priest gave him hallowed bread for there was no bread there but the shoe bread that was taken from before the lord to put hot bread in that day when it was taken away this bread consisted of low of 12 loaves made of the finest flower they were flat and thin and were placed in two rows of six each on a table in the holy place before the lord they were renewed every sabbath and those that were removed to give place to the new ones were to be eaten by the priest only in the holy place the number of the lobes represented the twelve tribes of israel also the entire spiritual israel the true israel and the placing of them on the table symbolize the entire consecration of israel to the lord and their acceptance of god as their god the table of the bread was made of certain kind of wood three feet long 18 inches broad two feet three inches high it was plated with pure gold two staves plated with the gold passed through the golden rings were used for carrying it you talk about some fancy eating you talk about but extreme situations sometimes require extreme solutions now then i'm getting to a close i'm watching the clock and david said unto him elect and is there not here unto thy hand a spear or a sword for i have neither brought my sword nor my weapons with me because the king's business required haste and the priest said the sword of goliath the philistine whom thou sewers in the valley of elah behold it is here wrapped in a cloth behind the ephod if thou will take that take it for there is no other save that here and david said there is none like it give it me oh hallelujah what there was one weapon in the house of god and it was wrapped in a cloth and it was behind the epod the epod was the special garment that the high priest wore on a special occasion embroidered with that beautiful colors and and gorgeous stones in it and and behind that that priestly garment called the epob was a cloth and then it was a sword and and hamlet said this is the sword that you slow goliath with he said if you want to take it david said i'll take it because there's nothing there's not another one like it give or a handclap hallelujah the ephod was a special garment worn by the high priest may i say we don't live in the past but we must keep special events and miracle events protected softly in the sacred place in our memory bank of things most precious to us we don't live in the past thank god for for azusa street thank god for the brush arbor days thank god for the tent revival days thank god for the concrete truck and the concrete and all those things but we we don't live but we don't live on that but there's a sacred place in the back of our mind that makes me know if he did it once he'll do it again there's some things we don't want to forget no i don't want to move into a tent no i don't want to go to a basement church with dirt floors no i don't but let me tell you i do want to make sure i i don't forget the days that we had those tent pastor made mention the other night it had become a vicious storm tented blown partially down water and person towards them ripped and and and i didn't even realize what i was singing but i i had a needle and and it was a crooked needle you there's a certain kind of needle and i was under there and in fact it was still raining and i was sewing up that tent and i was sold nothing i didn't realize i was even singing and and the sister that lived just across the alley fellas i didn't know she was there but she stepped and she was using part of the tent to protect her from the rain she said brother mccool do you realize what you're saying i said what's that i was saying the lord is so good to me i can't complain the lord is so good to me sunshine or rain the man of galilee is all the world to me you see i couldn't do anything else but praise his holy name and tonight that's been 65 66 years ago it's still the memory bank of my mind to see what god did for us i submit to you for your consideration would you stand your feet with us please the lord is good to us now i got a thrill yesterday a pastor and brother vanilla was going to take children up to the camp and the bus and i hadn't ridden the bus in a long time and i i was sitting eating it and i thought i said you know i want to i'd like to go with them and she said why don't you go why don't you go and i got ready and i boarded that bus and of course i i know the reason they they they let me go pastor mark and brother manoa because they knew they had a mechanical genius with them and if they had any trouble all they had to do is to call them because if anything happened he knows how to call brother brad may had a little little trouble having had a battery to go dead you know that just happens to you sometimes i don't care what it is you know but a partner larger than a carter key can put you on the side of the road but a pastor called me and said dad would you come over brother bono and i having some difficulty and you might know the answer and so when i got over here and i surveyed the situation i said yeah i know what to do about it so what i said i'm going to call brother brad mate he'll be so i i i started teasing i said i know why they let me go with them because they they know that i don't know who to call when we're well i want to tell you something i know who to call when i'm in trouble with this whole world call on jesus call lord jesus whatsoever you ask him my name that will i do father we thank you tonight for your goodness and mercy we thank you lord because the word of the lord is such an uplift to our hearts and our lives we thank you god for the youth camp that's going on this week bless the children give them a great real bible fill many with the holy ghost i pray you'll bless our church and the the faithful church family that's here thank you for each and every one of them thank you for brother mays and for brother vanilla and brother pastor for all they did to to keep us going we thank you lord i pray god you'll dismiss us from this place but not from your presence in jesus land amen now don't forget what we announced they are supposed to get started tomorrow they're supposed to they they won't guarantee anything this day in which we live but they're supposed to get started with singing that the parking lot and and re-strapping it it'll look like a brand new parking lot so be sure to not leave any vehicles left on the on the lot you're dismissed in the name of the lord shake hands be friends