Wednesday Night Bible Study

praise the lord everyone let's try that again 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 and i would like to add my word to that of pastor mark mccools and about this is pastor's appreciation month and um he has asked for nothing for himself but um i'm telling you if you can see what all is going on around this this place uh there's uh improvements like you wouldn't believe there's almost 100 new lights going and we've had those fluorescent lights for 40 years or better down the hallways and they've turned yellow and and the lens have been cracked some of them and they're all being replaced with beautiful new led lights and then there's a all kind of painting improvements going on and brother carl bennett's crew they they're putting a new roof on the back side of the school wing and we thank the lord for that i walked in today and there were so many things going on that i was actually astonished and then i'm going to call it the new aka indoor play plaza the indoor play plaza for apostolic i was just bragging on you brother carl bennett just walked in i was just bragging on you putting that new roof on that new church that uh old church making the roof new and thank you so much he's been in charge of that for many years and he's done such a such a great job but that new indoor play plaza sister jamie i think is probably the instigator and creator and designer of that but it's absolutely fantastic that's when the weather's too bad for they can't get outside and also the little ones are time they just if it's too hot or if it's too cold too rainy they've got a beautiful place in there to play and i just walk in it's just absolutely tremendous and of course sister mccool and i many years ago if i remember i believe his brother billy wilson i had him to build the cabinets for us and sister mccool and i painted them ourselves and they were homemade but they looked very good and they've lasted for 40 years and but anyway they have been replaced with the new furniture and it's just absolutely amazing all the things that that are going on don't you forget this month is pastors appreciation there's some gigantic improvements and additions on the way and as pastor said we found the men's fellowship breakfast we had a meeting and they authorized us to buy a later model bus and we found a a prevost bus that probably sells for two hundred thousand dollars and we got it for forty thousand dollars less than any let go ahead and give the lord a hand clap less than any of the silver eagle buses that we have bought through the years the first one we bought was in 1964. and i believe it's 44 42 000 we bought we paid for it and every one of those that we've bought well i think we've had five and they've all been uh they cost more money and this is a beautiful beautiful bus and that seats 56. it's a five feet longer than the other buses and will accommodate uh the the trips at the youth rallies and the ball games and the things that we're going to be doing and so uh this is something that we can be thankful for and i want to tell you it's time you and i show our appreciation for our pastor lay aside something special uh and i i mean it's time for us to really show him how much we love him by giving to these great improvements i've seen so many churches there's a beautiful church in the edge of town out west they built a fabulous new building but it took them years i hope there's nobody from that church listening but they had their old builders set there that looked so run down for years and it was a telltale sign that they had built new but they hadn't taken care of the old and moses set aside a a a certain temple tax for the upkeep of the house of god and he called it the ransom of the soul and we're going to i might say we they they are absolutely doing a fantastic job keeping uh the uh events center what used to be our sanctuary improving that brother uh steve blevins and his crew we got them together and brother carl uh perry and junior carl edward pearl she's not i don't think he calls me junior but carl edward perry anyway and they they broke up in different groups and they're redoing the platform of the old building and so there's just so many things going on i i it's hard for me to tell you all about it but now then it's time for you and me to reach down and give the very best we can to the work of the lord and then i want to say i'm so delighted to have brother gill with us in service tonight he would be preaching tonight but he he emphatically stated to pastor that he didn't want to be preaching tonight he's here because of the general board meeting they had for the assemblies of the lord jesus christ but brother gail is a very dear friend of ours and i guess his father his father is probably greatly responsible for us having our associate pastor brother nate whitley because brother nate whitley made i'll never forget this when he first came he told us about what an impact brother gill senior had on his life he said if he wasn't close to the lord when brother guild's dad was coming he said they all prayed all the young folks got prayed through because they was afraid the judgments of god was going to fall on he really put the fear of god in them and you remember him telling that he just said that if there's half backslid or whatever he said they really got on fire for god when brother gill was coming so maybe we owe him a great debt of gratitude for for being our associate pastor and i might i like to name drop great names and i had the privilege of preaching camp meeting with brother gill many years ago the michigan camp meeting i preached the night service and bishop gill taught during the day and it was a wonderful experience i considered it a great honor to fellowship with him during the day and just sit and listen to him he was indeed a great great man of god and we need to give attention to to those things and then uh we as we get into i'm sure i've forgotten something here uh we've we've talked about the the new lights and the painting and the roofing and uh the indoor play plaza and uh but there are many other things i don't have on my list but for your consideration for david said bless the lord o my soul and forget his benefits so what he said no he said forget not all his benefits so uh i think we as a church need to keep reminded of all the benefits of our church and appreciating it appreciating our leadership all the technicians that the technology it's absolutely fantastic and we thank the lord for that and tonight's lesson normally if we're having sunday school on sunday it would be for october the 17th but uh tonight's lesson is entitled for his purpose for his purpose and we're going to pray and as we pray i'm going to ask you to help me pray brother brad mays brother that is so absolute uh magnificently meaningful and helpful in the maintenance of many things around here that very few folks can do the things that he does and but his father has had open heart surgery had four bypasses and uh they found some problems with his heart and i went as we pray for the lesson tonight i want to pray for brother brad may's father we'll just stand your feet with us right now father we thank you tonight for the privilege of being in your house we're thankful for the good news the great things that we've heard already in this service i pray god that you will bless i pray that you will touch brother may's father and and give him a speedy recovery from this open heart surgery and make him strong and father i pray that you'll you'll just be with him and let him know and feel that there is a church his son's church is loving him and praying for him and give him a speedy recovery i pray oh god that you'll open my mind in heart and give me the deliverance give me the words to say that i may convey what's in my heart to this congregation for this lesson tonight in jesus name we do pray amen and amen you may be seated our focused thought is i will commit my life to god so he can use me for his purpose how many want to be used of god for his purpose how many would like to know what the will of god is for you in your life you'd like to know what the will of god is willing before this bible lesson so i'm going to tell you what the will of god is for you now i'm not one of these preachers that prophesies or you you when you're going to get pregnant and whether it's going to be a boy or girl and who you're going to marry and if some preacher go out on a limb like that and they'll tell you that you're going to be having a baby in such and such time and god's never led me into that kind of uh ministry for one thing it misses so many times and uh that's not for me that i'm to preach the gospel i can tell you something sure when they said to peter and the rest of the apostles men and brethren what shall we do it wasn't that you're going to have a a child who's going to be named this or that and the other he said repent and be baptized every one of you the name of jesus christ and i don't go in much for telling people their street address and and giving them god's called you to preach and god told you to marry so and so on uh i don't want that responsibility and uh i think we need to let god take care of those things and pardon me for getting that plane but that's the way i've always felt and if i let god do the telling he's never wrong i said he is never wrong so we we we may miss it but god don't i'll commit my life to god so he can use me for his purpose in 2019 by 2019 the book written the purpose-driven life had sold 32 million copies it is the best-selling hardback book a religious book that's ever been printed the purpose driven life and that is it that indicates of the many people that don't know their purpose in life but they would love to find the purpose for their life 32 million copies of that book have been sold worldwide it's been printed in several different languages so there is an awful lot of people that wants to know the purpose of god and we're going to be dealing tonight with the most and i'm i'm going to weigh my words the most important announcement that's ever been made on planet earth is in tonight's lesson and we're going to talk about that purpose the focus verse luke 1 38 mary said behold the handmaid of the lord be it unto me according to thy word and the angel departed from her the angel gabriel appeared to a a virgin girl that was engaged to be married now back in those days to be espoused to was a stronger relationship than what we call being engaged today it was almost the same as being married and if a woman was found with child uh being untrue and she was supposed to be a virgin there was rules enough that she could be stoned to death so this was a very strong thing that this virgin girl an angel appeared to her whose name was gabriel and he had already appeared to her cousin elizabeth and here's what the bible says in luke 1 26 and in the sixth month the angel gabriel was sent from god into a city of galilee named nazareth now this sixth month meant the sixth month of pregnancy of mary's cousin elizabeth now elizabeth was old she was beyond the age of having a child her husband was a priest and it was his job to burn incense in the house of god every morning and every night and the angel had appeared to him and and told him that they were going to have a baby and uh he said how do i know that's true how do i know this and the angel said the way you're going to know that's true is you're going to be dumb for the next nine months and from that moment zacharias could not speak until that baby was eight days old and they were ready to circumcise him and give him a name and when he they started to name him they said his name is zachariah and elizabeth said no his name is going to be john and they said nobody in your family is named john and we know he should be named after his father and so she turned to zach you want his name to be zechariah give me something right he hadn't spoken in nine months he hadn't spoken because he had questioned what god was about to do now we're going to deal with this because it almost appears that mary did this but i'll show you the big difference in what mary said and what zechariah said and when they gave him a piece of paper he said his name shall be john and when he wrote that down immediately his tongue was loose and he began to speak and they began to rejoice now there there's a similarity but yet there's a great difference so six months into this pregnancy the angel appeared to mary who was a virgin and the bible said to a virgin a spouse to a man whose name was joseph of the house of david and the virgin's name was mary and the angel came in unto her and said hail thou that are highly favored the lord is with thee blessed art thou among women and when she saw him she was troubled at his saying and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be i suppose that any of us if we saw an angel we also would be troubled we would be frightened and last week we dealt with this uh how god at different times had uh spoke to men uh through an angel and uh often they'd have to have a a reconfirmation get in even after the the fire came down from heaven and uh uh consumed the the meat and licked up the broth that poured out on the rock and he still had to put out a fleece to see if god was really going to do what he said he would and we very often very often we we can't believe god what he says until he gives us a a second and a third confirmation and then i told you about hezekiah uh isaiah went to him and said you're going to die not live and man he didn't have to tell him twice he's going to die i mean he turned his face to the wall began to cry and god i've done this and god died when i got that letter i took it to the house of god and and i lord i observed and he told god all these things and before i say i got out of hearing distance god said go back and tell him that i've given him 15 more years and he went back and told him now he didn't have any trouble believing he's going to die but he had trouble believing that he was going to live it is amazing isn't that amazing peter was in prison and the church had put on a prayer without ceasing they were praying asking god to deliver peter god deliver peter god sent an angel and and touched him and the chains fell off the doors flew open of the jailhouse and and he walked out the bible said the gate opened off his own accord and peter thought he was seeing a vision until he got out in the middle of the street and then when he realized that he wasn't having a vision that this really was true he said uh uh where's the prayer meeting i'm gonna i want to get it and he went to where they are at the prayer meeting and when it went to where they was having a probation he knocked on the door and the women were all in their prayers and told one of the young dimes i said said go see who's at the door and she went to the door and she opened it up and there stood peter bang she shut the door in his face thought thought she had seen a a ghost or something she went back in and told the women said she was almost like zacharias he was almost unable to speak said peter's at the door they say girl shut your mouth get down here and help us pray stop this fruit say oh god deliver peter from prison somebody's at the door go see who it is isn't it amazing now stop and think about it god does things for us over and over and over again and the next crisis we face oh god what's going to happen to me this is the end lord why do i have to go through things oh why can't we believe god why can't we believe god and they told the girl to to get down and pray for the deliverance of peter and that was peter knocking on the door right then and they were praying for his release peter didn't have as much trouble getting out of jail as he did getting into that prayer meeting and the gate opened of his own accord and he almost had to kick the door open before he could get in so we're talking about the encounter with the angels and the encounter of god performing tremendous miracles it would take days you've heard me tell it time and time again of things that god's done until i i preached a message about enjoying the the process and and the fella at the at the small motor shop when we started the building program he he really warned me said preacher i want to tell you one thing we've been through a building program he said everything that can go wrong is going to go wrong it's going to go wrong brother george glass who's passed from the apostolic preacher many years ago he had two sons preaching they both started in the building program and brother glass said boys when you get done with that building program both of you get the altar and pray through because you're both going to be backslid that was the report i heard and of course that was with with humor indicating that there's going to be a lot of difficulties but why not turn the difficulties into deliverance and a great blessing we have seen so many things let me rehearse one more time in 1957 no it was 1958 because it was just before mark was born mark was born november the 10th 1958 as during the eisenhower i called it the eisenhower recession brother robert perry was laid off from his work and he and i was working on that old building where you get in the the the the door it was just a square hole dug there and and when it would rain it would fill up and we had boards laying there you walked the plank to get it into the out of the water and uh didn't have a good set of steps and brother perry one day said uh brother why don't we why don't we build some forms and and pour some concrete steps i said brother pair we don't have the money to buy the concrete he said where's your faith well i i said you got a point there and i literally went he and i gathered up scrap we didn't order a lumber out but we we we gathered up scrap lumber from the the old basement building program and and he took a handsaw and he sought out the forms and put in and and built the forms for those steps now so now you've done it we at least could skid down these steps now then we've got got these forms here we can't even walk into the building and just as we were netting the last nails together and i literally took a hammer and straightened out rusty nails and gathered up everything we could and we scrapped enough stuff together brother robert repair built the forms for the steps and late that afternoon a concrete truck came up north central was 10 blocks north of the old sears building and turned in right by our church oh my goodness what a miracle we hear the lord sent us a miracle load of concrete well there was a dry cleaners right next to us right in the back of it and jenkins dry cleaners they were putting in a men's pressed pressed suits and they had to have a concrete slab to put it on and the concrete truck backed up there and and poured a slab for them to put their men's uh uh press to press suits with and when they got through brother the the driver got out and he got the looking here and there and looked here and there and brother perry went across the street there's a warren avenue and they called it but it's an alley and he said you're looking for something he said yes he said these folks have ordered too much concrete do you happen to well i could port they won't let me bring it back to the the plant that was knocked from sand gravel he said yes i do and they got a hold of that chute and backed him right across warren avenue which is worn there's a alley and backed him up to those steps that we had built or he had built and i'd straightened out the nails and picked up boards to help him and that concrete truck started pouring the concrete out and there was about uh about three about four steps up and when that truck begins when you start pouring concrete that starts rattling when it gets close to the end of the the load and when that truck started rattling brother perry reached up with his shovel and the last shovel full of concrete exactly fill those forms not a shovel full pitched out of the way and not lacking but now why do we want to question god when god does a thing like that you've heard me tell just recently pastor and i were sitting at my desk we were building this building and and we needed money to put in the restrooms we wanted to put in commercial restrooms stainless steel and the very nicest restrooms going to cost over a little over 19 000 of course we've got we've got restrooms galore beautiful and thankful and we're sitting at my desk and uh i said mark and i laid the i laid the bill the estimate down there was nineteen thousand some of dollars and i said let's pray because we're getting at the end of the building program now and we prayed for god to provide that money we hadn't finished praying hardly pastor sat back in his chair and i said back in mind we was both just kind of deep meditation and the phone rang it was brother kennedy he said bishop the lord's laid on my heart to do something do you have any kind of project he said i want to donate twenty thousand dollars on the why do we doubt god why do we question god now don't go and i i don't believe in going in debt and in a great deal let god provide it but pastor and i both couldn't help but weep for joy god had just while we were yet praying and the stories goes on and on when you heard me tell about the uh uh brother blevins uh giving us a plan for paying for these pews the last 125 thousand dollars and at the last minute god sent it well i'm talking about an encounter with an angel what's god's purpose in our life the angel came in unto her and said hail thou that are highly favored the lord's with the blessed art thou among women and when she saw him she was troubled at his sayings and cast in her mind what manner of salutation they should be and the angel said unto her fear not mary for thou hast found favor with god and behold thou has conceived in thy womb and bring forth a son thou shalt call his name jesus thou shalt conceive in thy womb and bring forth the son and shall call his name jesus he shall be great he shall be called the son of the highest and the lord god shall give unto him the throne of his father david and he shall reign over the house of jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no end now at this point i've got to take a little bit of um turn and add something to this because there is a a a doctrine that they believe that in first corinthians 15 24 says then cometh the end when he shall have delivered up the kingdom to god even the father when he shall have put down all rule and all authority and power for he must reign till he hath put all enemies under his feet the last enemy that shall be destroyed is death for he hath put all things under his feet but when he saith all things are put under him it is manifest that he is accepted which did put all things under him now those who believe in two or three persons in the godhead they believe that the son turns and gives the kingdom back to his father and it's a transfer of a kingdom from the son back to the father but now according to this verse right here he shall reign over the house of jacob forever and of his kingdom there shall be no end now then i want to i want you to think about that for just a minute of his kingdom there shall be no end isaiah 9 6 and unto us a child is born unto us the son is given the government shall be upon his shoulder his name shall be called wonderful counselor the body god the everlasting father the prince of peace and of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end the thing that jesus gives up he is not the eternal son of god as you hear it quoted it's not in the bible he's never called the eternal son of god he is called the everlasting father but is not called the everlasting son because he was not the everlasting son he was a son for a period of time to pay the sin debt for you and me and when that sin that is paid that he is no longer going to be a savior because there's nobody else left to save i sometimes put it a little bit um earthy the lifeguard out here on the beach he's the lifeguard during the summer time when people are out there swimming and they need a lifeguard but when the winter comes and everybody's gone and there's nobody out there to guard and to save he's no longer a lifeguard there's nobody else to save that when the last enemy is destroyed which is death there'll be nobody else left to save and he's going to rule and reign as god almighty have the same that it had before there was a son born into the world well we'll get to more about that later give the lord a handicap if you believe it we'll get back to that in just a little bit verse 34 then said mary unto the angel how shall this be seeing i know not a man notice the difference in mary's response to the angel as that of zachariah mary said how shall this thing be seeing i know not a man zachariah said to the angels whereby shall i know this she didn't question that it was going to happen she just said well i'm a virgin i've never had an affair with a man how is it going to happen there was a difference he he questions whereby shall i know this for i'm an old man and my wife well stricken in years the angel answered and said unto her the holy ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the highest shall overshadow thee therefore also the holy thing which shall be born of thee shall be called the son of god the holy ghost shall come upon thee and the power of the holy ghost shall come upon thee and that holy thing is going to be called the son of god nazi the son of the holy ghost which is the son of god it was the holy ghost that overshadowed mary and got her pregnant but he was called the son of god that's because there are three that are reckoned in heaven the father the word and the holy ghost and these three are one there is not three separate and distinct persons in the godhead there are three manifestations of god but there's only one god there are three that are reckoned in heaven the father the word the holy ghost and these three are one note the prophecy concerning the most important event in the history of the world isaiah 7 14 therefore the lord himself shall give you a sign behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and to call his name emmanuel now that was centuries before it came to pass and yet isaiah the prophet prophesied the lord himself shall give you a son behold a virgin shall conceive and bear a son and shall call his name emmanuel matthew 1 23 behold a virgin shall be with child and shall bring forth the son and they shall call his name emmanuel which being interpreted is god with us i quoted isaiah 9 6 and 7 a minute ago for unto us a child is born unto us the son is given the government shall be upon his shoulder and his name shall be called wonderful counselor the mighty god the everlasting father the prince of peace of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end of the increase of his government and peace there shall be no end think about it now he's not giving up any kingdom he's giving up that position of savior because there's nobody else left to save and upon the at the throne of david and upon his kingdom in order to order it and to establish it with judgment with justice from henceforth ever and ever the zeal of the lord of hosts shall perform this galatians 4 4 and 5 but when the fullness of time was come god sent forth his son made of a woman not of a man made of a woman remember in the garden god said that that serpent's head would bruise the heel of the the fruit of the woman but the fruit of the woman is going to bruise his head well i want you to know on that cross when that blood came forth from his side i want you to know that the son of god was bruising the head of that serpent and purchasing for us the salvation that he had promised in the garden of eden to redeem them that were under the law that we might receive the adoption of sons back to our lesson verse 36 and behold now the angel is talking to mary and behold thy cousin elizabeth she hath also conceived a son in her old age and this is the sixth month with her who was called barren we dealt with this last week how many times when god promised the seed to abraham isaac and jacob all three of them were married to barren women to women that could not bring forth the air and god miraculously gave them the ability to give birth that tells me this one thing the church is going to be a miraculously producing church we are not going to produce children by grand ole opry appearances but by sports and and by authoring by by philosophy it's going to be by the church getting in touch with god and we miraculously see born again people people that can come in at a center and go out of sin come in as a prostitute and go out as a child of god come in as a drug addict and go out totally delivered that's where our revival comes from it's not by hype and advertisement but it's a miraculous experience this is a miraculous church and behold thy cousin elizabeth she hath also conceived a son of her old age and this is the sixth month with her who shall who was called barren for with god nothing shall be impossible and mary said behold the handmaid of the lord be it unto me according to thy word and the angels departed from her now stop and think about that for just a moment just just just bring our our brain our thinking down to everyday life you know you go to work you come home and you pay your life bill i'm talking about we're in the flesh every day i want you to think now in your everyday life and a 17 or 18 year old girl that's never dated never had an affair with a man and an angel appears to her and says you're going to have a baby if an angel appeared to you and told you something great like that what would we do what's our prayer my purpose i pray my purpose is to please god and believe god when i was 11 years old and god called me to preach and god sent a man to our house to to to go and hold a revival in truman arkansas my twin brother wasn't even a preacher but we put our what little clothes we had in a pet milk a pasteboard box spencer and lanny were babies then they bought the pet milk and the the the condensed kind of milk and by the carton and he took us to truman arkansas and we started a revival bobby was holding he'd hold the they called a holding a uh testimony meeting and then he'd say amen well i preached and finally we got to the place i've told you this also abbreviated told our dad that he had to go and go with us to preach and yet he didn't even have the holy ghost what do you do when god tells you to go preach and you're 11 years old and there's no evangelistic department you don't belong to an organization you you hardly been out of your backyard and wearing shoes that the the soles were out with we would just uh set it down on a passport box and draw a picture of the bottom of the shoe and cut it out and stick it in our shoe and and hitchhike uh 15 to 18 miles to kennedy missouri for uh to go to church and yet we challenged our dad to go with us to evangelize caught a ride in the back end of a cattle truck went to dexter missouri to my grandmother my old granny crank you've heard a pastor told about granny crank the other night and her husband uh henry craig would throw clods at him when she crawled up under the porch under the house to pray because he was not a praying man we got in her house hadn't been there 30 minutes until brother gunn pastor of the church there in dexter missouri drove up and asked granny craig said ms crank i've heard that your grandsons are preaching how do i get in touch with him i'd like to have them come home and she said brother god they're right here in my living room right now and we started are all of these things coincidence are they something that just simply coincidentally happened that's it the things i've told you tonight is absolutely the truth can did the concrete truck well that was just a coincidence that they happened up there it was just a coincidence that brother kennedy wanted to give twenty thousand it's just a coincidence about that no it's god almighty keep it his word and give the lord a handclap well i'm i'm headed for home now it came to pass when elizabeth heard the salutation of mary the babe leaped in her womb and elizabeth was filled with the holy ghost and elizabeth was filled with the holy ghost and she spake out with a loud voice and said blessed art thou among women and blessed is the fruit of thy womb and quenches this time and whence is this to me that the mother of my lord should come to now notice what elizabeth said to mary said how is this how did this come about that the mother of my lord should come unto me the bible said there's lords of men in the gospel but to us there's one lord jesus christ there's one lord one faith and one baptized baptism and elizabeth said how is it that the mother of my lord i don't i don't i don't know how you can keep them shouting and jumping when you think about all this house how it comes together in the word for lo as soon as the voice of the salutation sounded to my ears the babe leaped in my womb for joy and blesses she that believeth for there shall be a performance of those things which were told her of the lord and mary said my soul doth magnify the lord and my spirit hath rejoiced in god my savior for he hath regarded the lowest state of his handmaiden for lo for behold from henceforth all generations shall call me blessed for he that is mighty hath done to me great things and holy is his name and his mercy is on them that fear him from generations he that showeth strength with his arm he has scattered the proud in the imagination of hearts he had put down the mighty from their seats and exalt them that are below degree he had filled the hungry with good things she's singing a song now mary is he and said and the rich yet they sent away empty away he hath hope in his servant israel in remembrance of his mercy and he spoke to his fathers to abraham and to his seed forever all right would you stand your feet with me i told you that before it was over i was going to tell you what the will of god is in your for you in your life i'm not going to prophesy who you're going to marry or where you're going to live and what job you're going to take i'm going to let god do that but i told you i i guess we pastors there is not a question that we have asked us more frequently than i am seeking the will of god in my life pray for me pastor i want to know the will of god in my life i want to tell you something god has god does and will again do miraculous callings but jesus said in the days of the widow of na there were many widows but there was only one that got her need filled there were many lepers in in in the days of the the leper but only one and he said they that are holding me not a physician but they that are sick you may not see great and miraculous callings and you may not recognize the calling that he does give the bible said that andrew the bible always about always referred to andrew as andrew peter's brother he was only known because he had a brother by the name of peter but when andrew found the lord the bible said he first findeth his brother simon peter and said we have found the christ come did you ever read the book of andrew i haven't you ever read about the missionary journeys of andrew no very little it appears but what would be the difference in our life had he not introduced peter to jesus you may not be a virgin mary you may not be an apostle paul it may not look like great in miraculous things are in your future but what you are doing every one of you if you're if you're coaching basketball in a christian school if you're helping keeping this place clean whatever if you're working behind the cameras if you're doing god is using you in a miraculous way now i'm going to give you and tell you what the will of god is for you in your life first thessalonians 5 14-25 now we exhort you brethren and warn them that are unruly comfortably feeble-minded support the weak be patient toward all men see that none render evil for evil unto any man but ever follow that which is good both among yourselves and to all men rejoice evermore you hear what i'm saying rejoice ever more not just on sunday not when you're in church but rejoice ever more pray without ceasing and everything give thanks for this is the will of god in christ jesus concerning you this is give you just heard it this is the will of god rejoice evermore pray with us season in everything give thanks for this is the will of god in christ jesus concerning you quenching out the spirit despise not prophesying prove all things hold fast to that which is good abstain from all appearance of evil and the very god of peace sanctify you holy and i pray god your whole spirit soul and body you be preserved blameless unto the coming of our lord jesus christ father we thank you tonight for the blessed word of god i pray that the words will sink deep into our hearts and we will understand that whoever we are whatever status however large or small it may seem the will of god in our life is to rejoice ever more to to always be thankful to do evil to no man all these blessed things we've just said every one of us are capable of doing this and if you have anything greater than this you'll let us know emphatically lord i pray your dismissals from this place and not from your presence in jesus name we pray amen you're dismissed in the name of the lord shake hands and be friendly bump elbows duck bump nick knuckles or whatever