Sunday Evening Worship Service

the Bible says oh magnify the Lord with me and let us exalt his name together that word magnify simply means to enlarge there's no way to make God any bigger than what he is but when we begin to praise him together all of a sudden God becomes to me what he's been to you and it becomes to you what he's been to me and it puts a whole new meaning on magnify the Lord together amen I love to lift up Jesus tonight man what an awesome God we serve we are so honored to be here amen and we are so blessed I got in trouble this morning because I made a big to-do about Molly and I called Jackson my award-winning drummer and all I said was it's Abigail and my beautiful wife Alicia so let me just elaborate about Abigail now I'm already in trouble cuz I called her Abigail amen I am so blessed amen this this young lady I'm G to preach a little bit about her tonight amen but she has got such a heart of a servant amen and it's a joy to be her father amen I just don't know how in the blink of an eye she turned 18 years old somebody told her today she looked 14 and that offended her I said in about 20 years you're going to find that person and give them the biggest hug and kiss on the cheek that you can give them because I'm telling you getting old's not for sissies amen enjoy that while you got it and in my beautiful wife she has been uh if I can just be transparent God has has allowed us to go through many valleys many trials and many victories amen and I'm thankful for a faithful wife that stood by my side amen and I could not do life without her where worship with them as they sing for you tonight they are the better part of the Weir package amen so you be blessed in worship with them tonight feel that empty Jesus he makes with he my Jesus his love is strong and his races and the good news is is can do for you what he's done for me let me take my J let my Jesus change your life hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah amen amen you away your tears a broken dream Wasted Years the let meus theck you do you who can work it out for your good let meus he love from an empty Ain no he can SA let me came my Jesus his love is strong and his and the good news is let my Jesus change your life hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah amen am can away Broken Dreams anded you going on do if you could who can work it out for your good so let me tell you my Jesus he makes the way with the rainbow R up from an empty heus his and the good news Jesus change your life Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah amen amen me he makes a way where there ain't no way from theempty he and good newsus Hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah amen amen hallu hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah Jesus ch fears and tears any now the saints of God when I sh the I'm from my heart it's been we our from to the world czy there no you're coming Jesus hold keep moving on know and beond Story how we brought us of Darkness there's no way to keep us every CH I my heart our the to the world there's you're coming my my S my my my CH my my my my he my name is t from a heart was from in Jesus is the praise God hallelujah I'm thankful for a God that got a hold of me tonight amen and I am so thankful amen that I know the reason of my shout hallelujah hallelujah Job chapter number one amen we're so honored to be here again and I give high honor to Bishop and Pastor the whole pastoral staff in this church amen thank you for allowing me to be here you may not realize how big of a miracle it is that I get to preach here about 20 years ago I committed ministerial suicide I was at an evangelist Retreat it was my first time we was on the field before pastoring for about seven years and Bishop M was preaching and uh I had a I'm dating myself I had a BlackBerry phone and my calendar or something buzzed on that and I looked down at my phone and seen what I needed to see and laid it down and then I said yes sir and in the process of me looking at my phone Bishop M had said I really need to sit down and shut up and as soon as he said that I said yes sir and so it is really a miracle thankful that he has forgotten about that and and uh I got to preach in Knoxville and so uh Brother Bruce Shephard turned around and looked at me that night and he said you sir are done amen and so I'm thankful tonight for the legacy of this church amen amen this church has made a global impact and I'm so thankful to be allowed the opportunity to be here tonight Job chapter number one I'm going to preach my heart tonight if you'll help me am amen I feel like the Lord's given me a word for this moment amen there was a man in the land of us whose name was job and a man uh and that man was perfect and upright one that feared God and ass sued evil there were born unto him seven sons and three daughters his substance also was 7,000 sheep 3,000 camels 500 yoke of oxen 500 she asses and a very very great household so that this man was greatest of all the men in the East and his sons went out and feasted in their house everyone his day and sent and called for their three sisters to eat and to drink with them and it was so in the days of their feasting were gone about that job sent and Sanctified them rose up early in the morning and offered burnt offerings according to the number of them all and job said it may be that my sons have sinned and cursed God in their heart thus did job continually and now there was a day when the sons of God came to present themselves before the Lord and Satan came also don't you ever forget the devil goes to church too oh yes amen and Satan came also and and also among them and the Lord said unto Satan whence comest thou and Satan answered the Lord and said from going to and fro in the earth and walking up and down in it the Lord said unto Satan out of nowhere I have no understanding why the Lord did this but out of nowhere he said hast thou considered my servant job that there is none like him in the earth a perfect and an upright man one that feareth God and asseth Evil and Satan answered the Lord and said doth job fear God for not hast thou not made a hedge about him and about his house and all about all that he hath on every side thou has blessed the work of his hands and his substance is increased in the land put forth thine hand now and touch him touch all that he hath and he will curse thee to thy face and the Lord said unto Satan behold all that he hath is in thy power only upon himself put not forth thy hand so Satan went from the presence of the Lord I do not understand and maybe you do but I do not understand why these battles Came Upon job out of nowhere but I feel like the Lord has commissioned to preach tonight can you serve God Amen can you serve God my question is can you continue serving him in the absence of explanation in the absence of explanation would you help me pray God I love you today these precious folks have been so good to worship and give you praise and glory god I'll be mindful of their time time but I pray Lord that you would anoint not just a message but a word into this place today Lord I pray that we would receive exactly what you have desired for us to receive tonight Lord anoint me let my voice be anointed give me strength in my body in Jesus name we pray amen and amen God bless you God bless you in the absence of explanation the Bible goes on and says that there was a day and his sons and daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house and there came a messenger unto job and said The Oxen were plowing and the asses feeding behind them beside them and the sabians fell upon them and took them away yay they have slain the servant with the edge of the sword and I only am escaped alone to tell thee while he was still speaking there came also another servant and said the fire of God is fallen from heaven and has burned up the sheep and the servants and consumed them and I only am escaped alone to tell thee while he was yet speaking there came another servant and said the Chaldeans made out three bands and fell upon the camels and have carried them away and slain the servants with the edge of the sword and I only am alone escaped to tell thee kind of sounds like life sometimes one thing after another one storm after another one battle piling up on top of another battle and while he was yet speaking there came another servant and said thy Sons and Daughters were eating and drinking wine in their eldest brother's house and behold there came a great wind in the wilderness and smoke the four corners of the house and it fell upon the young men and they are dead and I only am alone escape to tell thee job in just a matter of moments in just a matter of moments now I would like to think that it was over a course of a lifetime but the Bible tells us that it was happening very quickly in a matter of moments he went from a man who was blessed with much livestock much money much blessing and a good family and in just a matter of moments without explanation everything was taken from his life life in just a matter of moments then job Rose and rent his mantel shaved his head fell upon the ground and worshiped and he made a powerful statement when he said naked came I out of my mother's womb and naked shall I return thither the lord gave and the Lord hath taken away blessed be the name of the Lord I've come to tell you that job understood the answer to to my victory when I don't have an understanding why I'm going through what I'm going through the answer to my victory is keep on praising keep on loving God keep on worshiping Keep On Blessing Jesus hast thou considered my servant job first thing that stands out to me is that God first first recognized that job was a servant there's something about being a servant amen there's something there's a lot of folks in today's world especially in in our wokeism that we live in that if you called them a servant it would be enough to cause them to quit living for God I'm nobody's servant I'm My Own man what I got I worked for I am who who I want to be nobody's going you see the thing about being a servant is it's exactly what it sounds like you serve amen I've come to tell you it's not a curse it's not a burden it's not a problem to be a servant of the most high God it is the greatest blessing ah Jesus don't call me a servant you see being a servant you're never afforded the opportunity to ask the master why the Bible says in everything job neither charged he neither sinned nor charged God foolishly oh to be a servant you have to serve somebody you have to be at their bidding and when they want you to do something something for them you don't get to ask any questions it doesn't matter how you feel at the moment it doesn't matter how late in the evening it is you simply as a servant must do what the master ask of you can I tell you today oh if you're going to call me a servant let me be a servant of the King of Kings and the Lord of lords sometimes this ser hood is going to cost you something job had not done anything to deserve what was happening to him the Bible says in Daniel then Nebuchadnezzar came near the mouth of the burning fiery furnace and he spake and said Shadrach meach and Abednego ye Servants of the most high oh Hallelujah you see when he acknowledged who they were and what they were that was the greatest mistake that Nebuchadnezzar ever made because when he acknowledged it he was saying there's a God that's greater than your circumstance there's a God that's greater than your need and it came to pass as they went to prayer in Acts chapter 16 went to prayer that a certain damsel possessed with a spirit of divination which brought her Masters much gained by sooth saying the same followed Paul and us and she was crying these men are Servants of the most high God I propose a question tonight I propose a question to you not rather or not you are a church member not rather or not you feel a Pew on Wednesday and Sunday but are you a servant of the most high god oh I've come to tell you today there's something about being a servant I'm not just anybody's servant I'm not just somebody's servant but I'm a servant of the king of kings that means I serve him on good days I serve him on bad days I serve him on depressed days uh I serve him in Victory I serve him in defeat uh there's no day off from being a servant there's no day off for being a servant you see the master does not have to share his plans with the servant job job wasn't there that day Jesus just brings him up out of nowhere said have you considered my servant job Hallelujah job went through so much that his friends told him to give up on God H his friends come in belly aching they said job we don't understand it said you you used to be rich and God took everything away from you and you're still serving him job said now you the the the the god that you serve has let the devil touch your health and you're still serving him they said we're watching what you're going through and it's making us want to quit job said y'all need to hold your peace for a minute in 2023 he said y'all need to just shut up for a minute and let me do some talking though he slay me yet will I trust in him only a servant can say that only a servant can love him you see because the devil the devil got to do it to job but it was God's idea some trials that's probably why testimony serve as a thing in the past cuz we glorify the devil the devil should get no glory here because God is the one that suggested take everything he's got I guarantee you he loves me enough that he will not quit serving me oh Lord I think if I was looking through the window that day that I would have seen the devil when he came back to God a third time and he said I took everything he had and he kept on praising you I've I've done everything but take his life and I just went down by his house and job's dancing around in the kitchen and he saying the lord giveth and the lord taketh away but it's not going to stop my praise I've got an answer for you today in the absence of explanation you keep on praising it's a remedy for a double portion his wife said curse God and die I think job said wait a minute you don't sound like the same chick I married cuz you might have been joking that day when you said I Will Bless The Lord at all times and his praise shall continually be in my mouth but he said woman I wasn't joking though he slay me though skin worms destroy my flesh though my bodies though I don't have any livestock my sons are dead I don't have anything to show for I have still got a praise on the inside and I got to let it manifest on the outside it's the absence it's the absence of explanation can I tell you some battles are not because the devil's after you some battles are because you're doing something right say well God God wouldn't be letting that happen to them if they's doing right job was perfect and upright he feared God he stayed away from Evil and God said because you're so faithful I'm going to let you lose everything that's kind of hard to swallow especially when God does it without explanation especially when God chooses not to explain it uh you see job was the kind of servant that said when he commands I will follow when he requires something of me I'll freely give it when he wakes me up in the middle of the night to do something for him I'll do it no matter where I'm at no matter what day it is what time it is no matter what I'm doing or how humbling it is I won't do it just to be seen I won't do it just to be heard I won't do it just to get a microphone in my hand but I'll do it because I am a servant of the most hi God I've raised my kids if you see the Pastoral team not that they're too good to do it but my God I don't want them so busy with a hammer and a broom that they don't have time to pray about my circumstance I am a servant problem in today's Church most people say well Pastor I'll take care of it let's go home you know I found in in preaching in large churches and small churches it's the same battle It's usually the same few that says I'm going to be a servant and everybody else is there to be Spectators there was friends there was even job's wife was sitting around waiting on him to give up on God and I'm telling you some of you been through enough that you got family and you got friends and co-workers sitting around saying any moment they're going to quit any moment they're going to give up but I am not just a church goer I'm not just a a person that says I'm a Believer but I truly am a servant no matter what comes my way I'm going to stay in the fight I'm not just a servant of any God but I'm a servant of the king he's the Alpha and the Omega the beginning and the end the first the last the bright and The Morning Star without him was not anything made that was made he alone sits on the throne of Heaven he sets up Kings he takes them down governments apart on his shoulders He is wonderful he is a mighty God an everlasting father the the Prince of Peace of the increase of the government of Peace there shall be no end upon the throne of David and upon his King to order it and to establish it that's the God that I serve and there's some days that the battle comes in without explanation and I say God what's going on I've walked in to the church before just me and Jesus and I've screamed hey Jesus do you remember me everything's falling apart ah I pray today that God's ministering to your soul I've been in some valleys I said today this morning I was a wounded warrior that's just pressing on let me tell you something let me tell you something today folks I know what it is without explanation to have to stand at the bedside of my 60-year-old mama and God choosing to take her home without explanation I know what it is two years after that and I'm not saying anything for your sympathy today I know what it is just two short years after that to leave a wedding rehearsal of my sister-in-law and brother-in-law only to get a call that my father-in-law 56 years old had passed away in his driveway of an aneurism I know what it is to have to look at my wife and tell her baby I don't have any explanation but we got to give God the glory we've got to give God the praise when nothing in me felt like praising nothing in me felt like loving God for two years later had plans to go we was pastoring had plans to go get stuff for Vacation Bible School my phone rings my brother's on the other end frantic and said Jay you better get to the hospital dad's collapsed in the front yard 64 years old I know what it is I know what it is to have to stand and speak at my 60-year-old mom's funeral I know what it is to speak at my 56 year old father-in-law's funeral and it's my 64 year old dad's I didn't have an explanation I didn't understand what God was doing I didn't know what he was up to but I knew that I couldn't stop being a servant just because there were some battles and there was some circumstance I knew that Jesus did not owe me an explanation I feel a spirit of ministry about to enter this room the enemy has fought my voice but I feel a spirit of ministry that's trying to come into this place I know know what it is to battle sickness for 6 months of my life for six months of my life passing blood out of my body every day the doctors not knowing what was wrong they took test run test done all kind of stuff I went over I know what it is to tell my wife Lisa we better go and take a trip with these kids because I'm not sure that I'm going to come out of this sickness I know what it is to feel as a 44 year old man that chilly Hand of Death coming into my room in the middle of the night night and the enemy trying to wipe me out preachers calling me saying brother Weir you better get a hold of something the devil's trying to take your life preachers that didn't even know I was battling sickness God given them dreams Visions speaking to them in their prayer time I went on vacation I took my family away thinking it might be the last time I come home to a church that I loved a church church that I had nurtured a church that I had poured my life into people that was like family to me only for the devil to have wre havoc in our congregation and completely destroyed the unity of our church to the point that in my prayer time and my weeping and my Brokenness I felt the Lord tell me that my time there was done but I didn't want it to be done because I love those people even the ones that hurt me I loved them you see I don't have church hurt the church ain't never done me nothing but good it's people that have hurt me don't you tell me you can't serve God because somebody offended you the church didn't hurt you somebody else might have hurt you but there's nothing wrong with the church it's a glorious church it's without spotter r it's a glorious church I know what it is to feel that betrayal and not understand where it came from I know what it is in a matter of a moment standing behind a platform offering my resignation to realize that I got to look at my children we lived in a personage I got to look at my babies and tell them we're no longer going to church here Daddy's no longer your pastor we no longer have a place to live kind of felt like job at that moment I'm having to look at my baby so I promise God I'd never find myself in a place where I didn't take care of my family and I'm looking at them saying I don't know how I'm going to take care of you I'm G to tell you something the enemy got his hand into my spirit we moved out of that house pastor friend of ours was so gracious he was so gracious to open up a little two-bedroom garage that had been converted into a weekend missionary quarters he opened that up and said y'all live here as long as you need to so I got a roof over my head but it's not mine H you know we we had we give all of our furniture away and I'm not I'm not playing on your sympathy God's been good to this man God's been good to me but we give everything away I had to look I watch my credit go from decent good to the basement to to I I had perfect credit in Reverse I didn't know where the next Penny was going to come from let alone dollar I didn't know how he was going to make it I had a pastor friend call me from Northern Ohio I made my mind up I was done preaching preaching just hurt me preaching just cut me it just made me bitter I had a pastor call me from Northern Ohio he said Jason we you're preaching for me next Sunday I hadn't heard from him for probably five years I said I ain't preaching for nobody next Sunday he said I don't think you heard me I didn't ask you I'm telling you you're preaching for me next Sunday I said what makes you so adamant that I come to Ohio and preach for you he said because the Holy Ghost told me you was about to give up and God told me that if you'd stay preaching you might still have some battles and you might have some circumstance but he was going to use you in your pain I didn't want to evangelize again I didn't even want to preach again I went and preach for that Pastor while I was there my phone rings from a pastor three states away said hey what you doing next Sunday so well I haven't heard from you for 10 years I thought they forgot about me but if you're calling me I'm probably preaching for you next Sunday he said the Holy Ghost told me you see I didn't have an explanation but I had a God I said I didn't have an explanation but I had a God that said he's a servant and no matter what happens no matter what Falls his way he's going to keep on pressing on I'm gonna be real Pastor M forgive me you've heard part of this I'm gonna be real today I've had preachers tell me you shouldn't share that you make yourself look too vulnerable in front of the congregation but I want to hear I want you to hear me today the only time I had any peace in my spirit Spirit was when I was preaching the gospel sir outside of preaching the gospel somebody said well you probably should have took some time to heal and maybe I should have but I'm going to tell you if I would have I'd have been dead today I wouldn't be here preaching because the only time I had peace in my spirit was when the anointing would settle on me I come out from underneath that anointing and suicide became my main thought giving up and quitting I'd send my babies they'd go to school my wife would go do some some volunteer work at the school and I would spend my days in a dark bedroom no lights on with dark curtains on the Windows saying God I don't know why I'm going through this to the point to the point that I had searched ways to take my life and it looked like an an accident I said God if everybody thinks it's an accident at least my children won't have to live in shame J I didn't have an explanation my kids are saying dad why'd they say that why' they do that ahead up in the air and look people in the eyes I go to conference my wife say why you sitting all the way in the back by yourself I said I don't have any confidence baby these people think this and and she'd say Jay everybody that knows you knows you your your character speaks louder than their words but the enemy was saying just the opposite you're a failure you're a failure I was so suicidal I reached a place I said one Sunday this is it I'm done I'd been preaching having relief we had Sunday offering was at our home church I said I'm not going today I'm not going Abigail walked in my room now you got to understand there's there something special because Jesus and Abigail's the reason I'm here cuz I taught my kids you don't miss church for nothing I'm just an evangelist I hope I get invited back but I talk they they got to asking me Dad would you quit scheduling us to preach on vacation can we just take a vacation I said well God ain't took one on us that's right you better be sick it better be something serious while you're not in the house of God I made my mind up morning I'm not going I failed God and God failed me Abby walked in my room about 15 minutes till church time and I was still laying in bed she said what are you doing I said I'm not going today she said I'm going to tell you something right now Hallelujah you raised me that you didn't miss church for nothing she said I'm going in there and getting my jacket and my person when I get in here you better be up getting ready for church say that was disrespectful no I thank God that there was something in her that said Daddy don't quit don't give up we may not understand it now but we'll understand it by and by I had it plotted that day I had it planned I love pocket knives you want to get near to dear near and dear to my heart talk to me about some pocket knives Jesus and pocket knives I had it all planned out because it wouldn't be strange for them to come in and see me with some knives laid out on the table clean and I thought God I can stage this I can stage this like an accident and that day that the plan was made sitting in a dark house I heard Jason and it was the voice of my father he'd been my pastor my whole life and I said said that can't be dad dad's dead I mean I don't mean that disrespectful but how's Dad's voice here and I hear Jason and I kept discounting it saying I'm just hearing things the enemy's just messing with me the enemy is just trying to stop me but I've made my mind up this is the day that it's over and that voice transitioned Bishop MC from my father's voice to Pastor Carpenter's voice voice and I heard my pastor's voice he wasn't there but he started following in that same step Jason Jason don't do this somehow that day in the absence of explanation God assured me that he was not done with the Weir family since that day we have seen over 200 people baptized in the name of Jesus since that day I can't tell you the Miracles that God has done but we had to stay faithful when we didn't understand had to stay faithful when God didn't explain himself God I feel the spirit of healing right now there's some there's some mental and emotional healing that God wants to perform on the brain tonight God's going to take years of bitterness out of somebody in this room tonight job's faithfulness probably the most archaic book in the Bible no reference to the Covenant no reference to it before the Covenant job says I know my redeemer liveth huh Redemption you got to have Redemption to have a redeemer so I don't know if Jesus Is God I'm struggling with this one God thing well let me give you Assurance before the letter of the law before the Covenant before any of that job knew that there was a redeemer yes Hallelujah that Redeemer came in the form of a spotless lamb named Jesus Oh Hallelujah and job said listen I might be going through some stuff but I'm going to live long enough that I'm going to see him stand upon the Earth can I tell you before your battle ever started there was a redeemer before your storm ever started there was a redeemer God I feel the spirit of the Lord I wish we just wait on him for a minute you ain't been here for a while you've been hanging out from church but God's designed this service for this moment for you to realize he still loves you he still needs you and in the absence of explanation God has been keeping you the whole time there's a healing flowing in this room Jesus Jesus before the storm before the storm and I know it's 8:00 forgive me before the battles before the earthquakes before the fires before all the theft before everything happened to job you see the enemy didn't want job's family that's what he took but that's not what he wanted the enemy didn't want his livestock that's what he took but that's not what he wanted God knows the enemy didn't want his wife job wasn't even sure if he wanted her he said you foolish woman what the enemy wanted from job was he wanted him to stop being a servant I don't care if you go to church just don't be a servant I don't care if you you go feel a spot on a Pew just don't start being a servant the enemy wanted job's servanthood and before all of it ever happened the Bible says that job job was the fairest in all of the East his daughters were the fairest of the East but at the end of the book God I feel the holy ghost at the end of the book because job didn't quit in the absence of explanation the Bible said that he was the fairest in all of the land the Bible said his daughters were the were the prettiest they was the most beautiful not just in the east but in the entire you see sometimes it feels like God's not doing anything but taking away from you but if you can stay faithful there's a remedy for a double portion serve God in the absence of explanation love God in the absence of explanation oh God I wish somebody love him right now somebody ought to let the devil know you're not getting my shout you're not getting my dance you're not getting my praise you're not getting my commitment I am a servant and I close with this I close with this we are often tossed and driven on the Restless seea if of time somber skies and Howling Tempest off succeed a bright sunshine in the land of perfect day when the Mist have rolled away we will understand it better by and by by and by when the morning comes when all the saints of God are gathered home you know when we get together up there we're going to tell some stories of how we we've overcome we're going to understand it better by and by the old hymnist said we are often destitute of the things that life demands want of food and want of shelter thirsty Hills and Barren lands we are trusting in the Lord and according to his word we will understand it better by and by you know what that old hymn knowledg is was saying take everything you want to take from me do whatever you want to do to me I still got a praise on the inside of me I've still got commitment I say today as they're preparing to open this altar I say to you today it's not how you serve God when you understand everything it's not how you shout and worship when everything's going good cuz I'm G to tell you something in the last three years some of the greatest Miracles I've seen happen was on services that I was fighting the devil the hardest God's used our ministry at times I was preaching faith when I didn't have any faith I was telling people stay in the course stay in the race when I didn't want to stay in the race myself but somehow somehow God had enough grip on my spirit that when I got up that day and Abigail made me go to church they start singing a song I never heard before he said the devil thought he had me he thought I was dead he thought I would give up and never dance again but God but God I looked up there made my mind up I wasn't worshiping that day I didn't even want to go I looked up there and my three children are dancing and shouting in the Altar and I said the devil thought he had them he thought they were dead he thought they'd give up but here they are about three times through my wife looked at me and said you're either going to have to worship or get out of my way she went to that altar that day and God restored healing in her life I said you know what it's not her job to be the one up there showing those babies how to worship I'm supposed to be the priest of that home what are you doing Jason so I realized that day the devil just thought he had me yeah he just thought he had me but he should have tried a little harder cuz I'm still standing I wonder if there's somebody that's got some unexplained battles that'll run to this Altar and say I have got to praise and I got to let it out I'm not going to stop worshiping I'm not going to stop praising the king of kings God is gonna give you a double portion what are you going to do in the absence of explanation come on Sir lay your pride down and walk to this altar I could come to you but God's not commissioned me to but you need to get out your seat the Holy Ghost told me to tell you you've run long enough you've run long enough and the whole time he's been carrying you this is your day for restoration in the absence in the absence in the absence of explanation what are you going to do God wants to heal depression God wants to heal your anxiety