Genesis | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

oh you are a worshiper of jesus tonight when you stand with me would you just give him some love tonight would you give god some worship tonight oh god is great god is great and god is greatly to be praised amen so good to see everybody in the house of the lord tonight and say did we not have some great church over the weekend amen some great church amen we had some great some great church and i think sunday several were baptized and several were filled with the holy ghost and several were refilled with the holy ghost and i'm i'm in one of those numbers of getting refilled with the holy ghost amen and i am so very very thankful could you make our guests feel welcome tonight by giving them a handclap offering if you're close to a guest tonight let them know how glad we are to have them we're so thankful so very very thankful and i have got some special special friends with us preacher friends amen and you know you got friends and you got friends and then you got preacher friends amen anybody ever been to camp meeting when the uh you played softball after bible study and it was always the preachers and the saints amen and uh i never quite figured that one out but i got preacher friends here tonight bishop purdue and brother matt perdue and they are friends of mine and the work of god the kingdom of god brother perdue and bishop it is so good to have you at first apostolic brother matt perdue it's so good to have you all at first apostolic tonight and uh you see we we uh we preachers i'm going to get with them at the service and find out everything i've done wrong tonight during this service they'll just give me a long a long list of things and that's all right i'll get to preach for them do the same thing to them amen so it's so good to see so good to see them sister carpenter says that the trendsetters the elite group here at first apostolic church that will be loading the bus in the morning at eight o'clock and uh our plans are we want to be leaving taillights by 8 30. all right and so it's going to be like the rapture uh you've got to be here all right what we do we're going to do quickly we plan to have a great day tomorrow i hear that our bus is full it is full and i'm looking forward to a great a great great day tomorrow with the trendsetters give your bibles and turn with me to the book of exodus the book of exodus it's going to be an unusual scripture for an unusual title because brother cincotta i'm going to ask you to turn to the book of exodus chapter 22 verse 21. i want to i'm going to ask you to turn to the book of exodus and then i'm going to entitle tonight's bible study genesis all right so i want you to turn to exodus because i'm going to minister tonight on genesis genesis that's my title for tonight genesis while you're looking for that brother sister erickson in paris have been asked to minister at a music conference zion music conference in katy texas um for the mckees and that's that's where they're at tonight and can i tell you something on brother eric's can i tell you i just love it i want to tell us he got to the airport today and didn't take his driver's license with all right you see uh you you see uh i tried just telling just just telling you know voting getting on a plane what's the difference amen you know just so thank you sister seton for making a trip to the airport and may god forgive you for the speed that you did that in amen exodus 22 21 thou shalt neither vex a stranger nor oppress him for ye were strangers in the land of egypt ye shall not afflict any widow or fatherless child if you afflict them in any wise and they cry out at all unto me i will surely hear their cry and my wrath shall wax hot wait wait a minute who's speaking here who and i will kill you sounds like you're pretty serious i will kill you with the sword and your wives shall be widows and your children fatherless wow it's a heavy scripture isn't it i don't know about some of you those of you that are following me following reading reading the bible through this year are you not about ready to get out of the old testament i mean god's killing things and i mean it's just i will kill you sounds like he's very serious about this genesis father tonight i love you lord help us to understand lord why your wrath why your wrath burns so hot against this mistreatment lord help us tonight lord to better understand your nature so that we can better serve you and we can better serve humanity i give you the praise and the honor and the glory in jesus name amen you may be seated before i get into the bible lesson tonight i am absolutely beyond excited about family weekend i am looking forward to family weekend we got a concert on friday night and then saturday we got all kinds of things going and then sunday night which is october 31st which the world tries to say that's the devil's night that that's not the devil's night whoever created the day and the night belongs to them and i never read where the devil ever created any day or night it's the lord's day and it's the lord's night and we're going to invite our community we're going to blitz this community we're going to have all kinds of things ready for our community to come hundreds probably into the thousands are going to come on the grounds on that evening and i am excited to engage our community because we have by the power of the gospel what this community needs and i'm so i'm so excited i'm so excited in 1750 bc 1750 bc 750 years before christ was born there was a famous legal code throughout the land it was recognized as the supreme court law of the land it actually had the punishment for different crimes if you committed certain crimes this legal code said what the punishment would be it's very interesting when you read when you read this legal code because if you murdered a wealthy individual if you murdered someone who was wealthy your punishment was so so severe if you if you murdered a wealthy person but if you by chance murdered a poor person you got away with just about a smack on the hand because in that day they valued a human life based on wealth talent and ability if you were wealthy you were of value if you were athletic you were of value if you were a warrior you were of value if you were nice looking male or female you were of value but if you were average if you were poor you were of little value in their eyes it is in this culture that we understand why god wrote to israel and he said if you come upon a stranger verse 21 if you come upon a stranger you should not or you are not to oppress him because you need to remember something oppression is something that you have 435 years of egyptian oppression you ought to remember when you're living your life free redeemed and you come upon oh no you come up on a person a stranger he said do not oppress them he said if you have a widow that is among you do not afflict them if you have a fatherless child do not afflict them do not treat the widow any different than you treat the wealthy do not treat the fatherless child any different than a child that has a father and then god says if they cry to me if they cry to me i will hear them i will hear i will hear them and my wrath will write wax hot isn't it amazing that god gets angry over injustice god gets angry when you would judge someone of greater worth because of something they have god's anger would begin to boil and then god said those sobering words i will kill you and then he said not only will i do that to you but i will do the same to your wife and i will do the same to your children you say well yeah brother carpenter that's old testament stuff that's o that's old testament stuff don't you know that old testament writings have spiritual applications in the new testament and i'm so glad this evening that the church of the living god does not judge people based on color i am so glad that an apostolic church when you walk into an apostolic church we're not looking at what you drove into our parking lot we're not trying to size up your shoes or try to look inside your coat jacket to see what the label is i'm glad that in god's church everybody whether it's a widow or a married woman whether it's a child that's an orphan or a child that's got a father aren't you thankful that everybody everybody is of value genesis chapter number one genesis chapter number 1 and we'll begin reading at verse number i believe it is verse number 27 that i would like to read from so god created man in his own image in the image of god created he him male and female created he them now let me share with you something this evening god made us now listen closely now i want you to lose it so why don't you lose this because a lot of people are wasting their life because they never embrace the god purpose of their life the god purpose of their life so don't don't really hang on this now because a lot of people think that their life is a waste they don't think they matter they don't think they're a value because maybe they don't have wealth they don't think their value because of things that's happened in their life but i want you to hear me tonight we were made first for a relationship with god you were made why did he make us he made you so that you could embrace him in a relationship that's why you're a man i know that's that's about as deep theologically as a puddle and a parking lot but that's the truth we were made to have a relationship with him we were not made because he had to have us we were made because he wanted us he wanted us and not only are we made now here comes the second part not only are we made to have a relationship with god but we were made to have a relationship with one another you say well i just don't know about it they're so different thank god we're all not the same i said thank god we are all not the same it is our differences that causes god to be able to use us we are made not only for fellowship with almighty god which you cannot do without but you were made to have fellowship with other believers and they are different well i want to get with people that see it like i see it no no no no you don't you want to get with people that have a different slant on some things not doctrinally now don't don't don't ride off to town with me now i'm not talking about doctrinally i'm talking about people that can add a little bit more to the story or some people that can see it from a different angle because we were made to have fellowship with our god and we were made to have fellowship with one another and there are differences there are differences so he made them male and female and who'd ever thought we'd need to teach a bible lesson on differences all right but god made them male and female and god created the family god created the family and uh let me give you a little secret let me give you a little secret when you think about genesis just help me out when you think about the book of genesis what's the first word that comes to your mind creation creation oh we think man we have genesis we have genesis because god wanted us to know about creation well let's look at something for just a moment let's look at something somebody help me out right quick somebody help me out i'm gonna i'm gonna go my bible will see if you you're correct how many chapters in genesis huh 50 you're right 50. let me see let me double check you all right everybody turn your head all right you're right 50. there's 50 chapters in genesis 50. it's a lot of chapters isn't it 50. how many chapters in genesis covers creation one and well two because god the woman was created and in a second okay so let's let's just two let's say two chapters is created is dedicated genesis do you know what the other 48 and a half chapters cover family family the establishment of the family y'all still believe that hell is attacking the huh come on am i am i lost tonight what's hell trying to destroy the i mean he's been at work the traditional family has now been redefined right and the devil his goal is not in husband and wife necessarily but he's after the family of god so for 48 sister carpenter for 48 and a half chapters we have the establishment of the family the establishment he established the family now it is some of the most dysfunctional things go on that you could imagine as a matter of fact when you teach and search for truth and you start talking about all that dysfunction brother killing brother that's pretty dysfunctional right people not listening to god not listening to god's word that's pretty dysfunctional right you got all kinds of messed up marriages come on somebody you got all kinds of hatred there's brothers that are jealous about oh never no not here i mean it is all a bunch of dysfunctional families but i don't know how many times teachers search the truth that the people i was teaching it to would say i don't feel all that bad to you yeah you you talk about you that that guy did what yeah he did that and that helped me yeah and god worked through that yeah god worked through that aren't you thankful tonight that as long as we can embrace that's what we got to always be coming back to our north star our north star is the fact that we need god and we need one another if we can keep i don't know listen all kind of crazy stuff happens to us all kinds of we get ourselves into all kinds of crazy stuff come on somebody we get ourselves into all kind of crazy stuff all kind of things that you'd think you know why how in the world is this ever going to work out but sometimes it never works out because we give up on our need for god god can never help us in all of our dysfunction if we give up on him but i don't know what kind of life you've been having but if you can just keep on coming into the house of god and saying god i need you lord god i want you to know i've got to have you god my hands were made to be raised my voice was made to sing praise i was made i've got the holy ghost i've been baptized in jesus name i was made for you brother after i was made for you and you were made for me so the establishment of the family let's look at the establishment of the family genesis chapter 2 verse number 8. and the lord god planted a garden eastward in eden and there he put the man whom he had formed now you see the woman hasn't been the woman hasn't been has it been made yet the woman hasn't been made yet so he put the man whom he had formed in the garden he put the man whom who he formed in the garden verse 9. follow it real closely because you've got to find your purpose and out of the ground the lord god out of the ground made the lord god to grow every tree every tree that is pleasant how many trees did he make how many i i just want to make sure he made he made every tree that is pleasant to the site good for food the tree of life also in the midst of the garden and the tree of the knowledge of the good and evil god why did you make that tree why did you make that tree god can i can i answer it so that you could exercise your power of choice do you know that god wants us to develop a mind that is based on his word that we make choices say god is it god neat that we make choices according to his word so he made this tree okay he made the tree of the knowledge of good and evil let's let's go on down and uh let's go on down to uh verse 15. and the lord god took the man and put him into the garden of eden to dress it and to keep it in other words here's your purpose here's your purpose i want you to dress maintain maintain and keep the garden i want you to keep this up i have given you something i have given you something that that now i want you to maintain this atmosphere that i have given you can i stop here and pastor for a moment if you don't like the atmosphere you're living in change if if um sarcasm reigns in your life change it we can't get enough camp meeting preachers to come and lay hands on you to change your tongue change your atmosphere he said i i've given you something i assume you're sitting over there eating eating apples all day long keep this garden up keep it dress it keep it verse 16 and the lord god commanded the man all right i've got a command to give you of every tree of the garden thou mayest freely eat but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil thou shalt not eat of it for in the day that thou eatest thereof thou shalt surely die he gave him a command look at this now he gave him a command he said that tree is off limits you are not to eat of that tree you ever notice this adam never questioned him like we do why not you know i may be old-fashioned but i i still believe that people in authority should be able to say don't do this uh it was a it was a jewish rabbi on a plane sitting beside a pentecostal preacher it's a true story and the preacher the pentecostal preacher asked him a question about uh why do you think that israel was told not to do and he named a certain act and the rabbi said oh i've studied the law i've studied this and he said i know exactly why they shouldn't do it and the pentecostal preacher said man i had my pen out i was ready for this and the rabbi with his long beard he looked over and he said because god said not to if we really want a relationship and we know that god has never done us nothing but good adam never said well why god why you could god now you're going to have to talk to me god you're going to put this in a test tube and you're going to have to have seminars on this of why i shouldn't eat of this tree but god just simply said don't eat of the tree and he gave him a command he went ahead and told him the consequences if you if you decide by choice because you're going to be able to eat and brother mike fuller shared this with me notice god said you can eat of all of the trees freely the word freely is mentioned but the one tree you're not to eat of because the one tree will cost you it'll cost you but you can freely eat of all the freely i'm not going to cost you anything you can freely eat of all these trees he says in the day that you eat of it you will you will surely die now now go with me now he mentions two words he mentions evil and he mentions die those are two words adam as far as i know he didn't know any evil evil what is evil and adam had never attended anybody's funeral he had never seen anybody gasp for breath and the doctors say they're gone isn't it amazing that adam for a period of time could be obedient to something he didn't even understand you know i think that i would rather obey something that i don't fully understand than to fall into something that i get my eyes open he um he gave him a command let that sink in for a moment i'm just going to kind of go real slow tonight just let it sink in he gave him a command he commanded the man and then the next verse verse 18 after he gave the command it says and the lord said it is not good that the man should be alone i will make him a help meet for him look at that why did you not talk about me being alone before you gave the command could it be possible tonight just go with me in your mind that the commands that god gives us that god gives us other people to help us obey that command he gave him a help mate evidently he gave him a help meet they helped me i've heard some men not around here but i've heard them say well you know the bible says the woman is the weaker vessel and to that i would agree the bible does say the woman is the weak er vessel but you do know that in order to have a weak er you have to first have a week she is the weaker vessel the bible says it but brother mancho we're weak and god said i've give you a command i've give you a command now i'm going to give you somebody to help you and i know the story and you're already ahead of me you're saying how big help she was you know but god intended for for one to put a thousand to flight and two to put ten thousand can i tell you there's a whole lot more strength in a youth group when there's more than just one kid trying to live right there's a there's a whole lot more voice in authority with parents when it's more than just one parent in the church trying to do right isn't it much easier when everybody else gets on the same page and say hey we all believe this right here this this is where we all stand right here he said i i need to make you a help mate help meet and we know that the lord we know that the lord we know that the lord created eve from the rib of adam and when adam awoke uh he he said she's like like a woman or not not man-ish in the way that you would think manish but like me but different she's like me but she is different and god made god made them male and female god made them a family they were a family they were the first family they were the establishment god made man and woman and they were a family look at verse 23 chapter 2 and adam said this is now bone of my bone of my bones this is now bone of my bones flesh of my flesh she shall be called woman because she was taken out of man therefore shall a man leave his father and mother shall cleave into his wife and they shall be one flesh and they were both naked the man and his wife and were not ashamed god had this marriage god had this family i i want us to see this as never before this is just not some western ideology of man meets woman and family no this is the design of almighty god that he designed for us to have a family man things were going along so good we don't really know the the length of time but it was adam and eve and god adam and eve and god it was god in the family it was god fellowshipping with his family and it was his family fellowshipping with him until chapter 3 verse 1. in chapter 3 verse number 1 just starts out with the word now now isn't it amazing that in this power of choice that we have god has allowed the tempter now the serpent was more subtle the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field which the lord god had made let's just stop there for a moment it was subtle this this word septal is mentioned three times in the bible it's mentioned three times in the kjv it's mentioned three times the kjv was good enough for paul and silas it's good enough for me all right it's mentioned three times it's mentioned here it's mentioned in second samuel 13 3 where a man named amnon uh burned with lust toward his half-sister and he wanted to have a sexual relationship with his half-sister and she was a virgin and he found it very difficult to to to to to entice her but the bible says that amnon had a friend whose name was jonadab and it says this at the end of verse 3 it says and jonah dab was a very subtle man that word subtle there means he can get things done that you don't realize he's crafty he's slick he knows how to word things he's the spin master of words he he knows he he just knows how to get you at the place before you realize the next time it's mentioned it's mentioned in proverbs chapter 7 verse 10 and says and behold there made him a woman with the attire of a harlot and subtle of heart she knows exactly what she's going to do she's got it planned out but she has to have she's got to be subtle she's got to to get you into that trap and so now the serpent the serpent was more subtle than any beast of the field he comes along he's more subtle he comes along and well the first thing if you just make a note right here adam and eve are in the garden adam and eve are in the garden the bible says the serpent was the most subtle beast of the field he's out of his place be careful when messengers are out of their place he comes and he says now notice this now notice this and he said unto the woman yeah hath god said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden watch him watch him you know what he's trying to do there's some things you don't even need to talk with there there's there's some there's some people in life you don't even need to engage in a conversation don't don't don't even don't even engage don't even engage in a con in in in a conversation there there there are there there are some there there are some people that you should tell them very quickly hey i'm sorry don't waste your time i'm not interested please i i i i i'm not interested it's kind of like temptation is kind of like going through the malls and some of those and i'm sorry for anybody's here that has one of these those kiosks where they'll they'll be out in the middle of the way and they'll try to spray some perfume on you or show you some kind of airplane that flies you know you know the mistake you make don't stop i love you all just don't stop because as sure as you they're stop to reel you in don't don't stop oh your your wife will like this hand load i know she will she's a good woman she'll like it that's right that's right do you know we need to do the devil the same way especially when you know it's him don't don't engage in a conversation just keep on walking because when they engage you in this conversation hey hey hey hey did did god say you can't eat of any of the trees doesn't that kind of sound like him isn't there kind of a voice that tries to tell us we can't do anything you can't do anything he said he said unto the woman hath god said you shall not eat of every tree of the garden and the woman said unto the serpent we may eat of the fruit of the trees of the garden but of the fruit of the tree which is in the midst of the garden god hath said you shall not eat of it neither shall you touch it lest you die watch out now satan has transformed himself into an angel of information can i tell you read all kind of books when you want to buy a certain car when you want to buy a certain appliance read all read all you can up on it get the manufacturer but please when it comes to your soul don't let just anybody speak into your life your soul is the most important part of you your car is not going to last forever your appliances are not going to last forever your home insurance is not going to last forever if you'll study all that out for the love of god study about your soul and where your soul is going to spend eternity would you just love the lord with me right now will you just ask god right now just ask god help me lord help me god to receive this word tonight help me lord to receive this word tonight lord i need this word in my heart tonight god i i need this word lord i i need this word in my heart better watch out when you when when when when the enemy comes look at second look at second corinthians chapter number 11 second corinthians chapter number 11 verse number 13. look at look at paul paul is talking second corinthians chapter number 11 verse number 13. he says for such are false prophets deceitful workers transforming themselves into the apostles of christ and no marvel for satan himself is transformed into a angel of light that's what he was doing there he appeared to eve and tried to say i've got more information for you i've got more light for you i've got more information for you verse 15 therefore it is no great thing if his ministers also be transformed as the ministers of righteousness whose end shall be according to their works satan came as a minister of he came as a minister of light he says in verse number 4 look at that genesis 3 verse number 4 and the serpent said look at this real closely genesis 3 and verse 4 and the serpent said unto the woman ye shall not surely die the opposite of what god had said he planted in her mind you are not going to die it's spelled out plainly in verse number verse 17 of chapter two but of the tree of the knowledge of good and evil listen to god thou shall not eat of it for in the day that thou eat us thereof thou shalt surely die look at these two voices here look at these two voices and you choose you choose you can turn me off like a tv tonight if you want to that's your choice i hope you don't i hope you don't i hope that somehow you can turn the other messenger off i hope you can turn that voice in your head that's saying well i go there to church but i'm not going to get as fanatical as our pastors wanting us to be i i go there but i'm not i'm not real sold out on that you know why you've been listening to the wrong messenger you need to reach up young person and turn that message off and say god i choose to go the path of life i choose to go what the word of god says but here we are now eve now eve now is a lot like us she has the influence of truth as a matter of fact if you look at typology if you look at typology brother or if you look at if you look at typology you find out that adam is a type of a pastor and eve is a type of a church and there was a word today that i i did a little research on it says and god made the woman god made the woman and that hebrew word for maid is built god built the woman and then my mind cross-referenced the church is likened to a woman my mind cross-reference says in genesis that god built the woman and then it cross-referenced in matthew where jesus said upon this rock i will build my church so there's a lot of typology here adam was a type of a pastor he would say well well eve added to the word of god when eve said to the devil we cannot touch it lest we die and some it said god only said you're not to eat of it and so eve added to the word not really not really adam being a pastor there is always a standard to a commandment there is always a standard to the commandment and the standard that adam had we we hear about standards here don't we we love standards here don't we standards is not an ugly word we we love standards because standards keep us from breaking a commandment because think about it if you don't want to eat something don't go around the refrigerator right if you don't want to eat something adam says now i know god told me because god told adam god didn't tell eve god told me not to eat of the tree but you know what i'm a good pastor so i'm not just going to say don't eat of it i'm going to say you know don't don't even touch it don't even touch it wouldn't you rather have an adam in your life that knows what god says not to do and he says hey i'm not going to put i'm not going to let you go all the way up to the tree and handle the tree and be putting your hands on it i'm just going to go ahead and tell you don't even touch it don't don't even don't don't even touch it so here here here here we are tonight we have one one mind this word another part of our mind we've got all this stuff coming through television coming through hollywood coming through wall street we got all this stuff spewing and spewing and spewing and quite honestly if we don't keep indoctrinating our children they're going to be so confused you know i've heard somebody say well you know sometimes sometimes they just have to backslide to appreciate the church i don't want them to backslide i don't i don't want any of you i don't want any of you young folks i i don't anybody in this room in order to understand grace go out in the world that's that's a lousy way to have a revelation of grace those are scars you don't want those are scars you you don't you don't need once you're thankful now you don't need to do it because now here you are at church you know i i've got scars i've got scars on me tonight and it's because i didn't have i didn't have what you have and i wish i didn't have those scars but i do have those scars but you don't have to have those scars and i beg you in jesus name listen to the word of god if you eat of that tree you will surely die if you do that you will surely die the bible says going back to chapter three the bible says um in verse number six satan said you're gonna you're gonna be like god verse number five if we could go there here here he is here's the here's the devil for god doth know that in the day that you eat thereof then you shall your eyes shall be opened you shall be as gods knowing good and evil guess what satan is doing questioning the motive of god god's not looking out for your best god knows that when you eat of it you're going to be happy god knows just like satan will question every authority in your life he'll question the authority of parents well they they just want me to do this because they they don't want to have to come to jail and see me no that's not the reason they don't want you to do that that's not the reason well mom doesn't understand i i'm not going to get pregnant no that's not the reason the motive of your parent is they love you they want what's best for you right we love our children we want what's best for our children and when we give them commandments and and we give them lines and we we give them things that they're to do and not do you may be seated it's not that we are old-fashioned he said we love them our motive is we know what's good we've lived long enough to see it you live long enough to see it how many young people there should there should never be another jerry carpenter there should never be another jerry carpenter one ought to be enough there should never be another young person that we use as an example they used to be on fire they used to be this but now look them out and look at them in the world watch them come in there was a young man some time ago that was in this school and oh what a stately looked like a lawyer looked like a he looked like a lawyer handsome boy look just a handsome young man but he listened to the wrong voice he had a chapel he had youth pastors and school pastors somehow the little enemy kept saying they're just saying that that that's that they've got other motives reason they're saying that the young man went went a bad path and saw him here a while just a few days ago and number one didn't even recognize him you didn't even recognize this young man he wasn't the stately looking lawyer that he looked like the world see please hear me tonight please i beg you hear me don't listen to that voice it'll lead you wrong you know the the devil can so deceive people i've actually talked to people that'll tell me they're making decisions and they'll say i know the devil's telling me this what if you know he's telling you why you're listening hang up on him if you know that's him do the opposite well i just feel like do the opposite of what questioning the motives of your parents matter of fact all authorities are now questioned political leaders authorities the decisions they make everything is questioned with ulterior motive parents or question pastor is questioned now you have to make the choice and when the woman saw that the tree was good for food that it was pleasant to the eyes a tree to be desired to make one wise she took of the fruit thereof and did eat and gave also to her husband with her and he did eat and the eyes of them both were open and they knew they were naked they sewed fig leaves together and made themselves apron we have now went from the establishment of the obedient family we have went from the obedient family to the sinful family the obedient family had more than enough there was no limit on how much they could eat of the trees but now the sinful family doesn't have enough they sow fig leaves together and make them aprons that would cover their midsection and we know that aprons was never enough let me tell you you live a life of listening to the wrong voice and you will always live the life of not enough you'll never have enough and i want to talk about material things i'm talking about enough contentment enough true happiness enough true peace in your mind you will never have enough because welcome to the sinful family but you know you don't have to stay sinful you don't have to stay sinful if i made an oh thank you god if i made the choice to go into sin isn't grace and mercy wonderful we're living in this dispensation the the rapture hasn't taken place yet i still have hope i still have a chance if i made a decision to sin praise god i can make a decision to come out of sin i can make a decision to turn around i can have an informed decision this is not what i thought it would be this is not what it promised me to be i'm going to get back to where i need to be with god oh i wish somebody would help me tonight i spare you the sinful family always passes blame the sinful family always passes the buck the sinful family never wants to take responsibility for their sin because remember did you eat of that fruit adam a woman some help mate the woman eve did you eat of that fruit that serpent and boy the buck stopped with him because god didn't ask him a question he just went ahead and cursed him he just went ahead and cursed he cursed the serpent then he turned to the sinful family and the bible says in verse 21 and unto adam chapter 3 verse 21 and unto adam also and to his wife did the lord god make coats of skins and clothed them now look at that verse what's this typology of your man-made fig leaves are not enough they're aprons they only cover your midsection you're still not covered but god in typology of salvation god killed an animal and i'm of the persuasion it was a lamb and god took and god made coats coats coats god was the first tailor god should give us the definition of modesty we have clothing because of sin if you could kind of connect the two together all right god made coats typology of salvation and to adam and his wife also unto adam and also to his wife did the lord god make coats of skins and clothe them now god didn't force it on them god didn't force it on them they willingly reached out their arms they willingly said let me put this on let me let me i've just got fig leaves together let me let me let me put this on let me let me put this on now now the sinful family become the saved family the redeemed family they leave the garden sure but they leave with a coat upon them of salvation can i ask you tonight could we just allow god to clothe us with his righteousness could we just ask god you can't fight the bad you can't fight this battle on your own you're not big enough you're not smart enough you need god's help you need god's help come on swallow your pride get rid of your pride get rid of your fig leaves sir get rid of your fig leaves get rid of your man-made you've got to have the co why don't you just step out and say lord just clothe me god oh god let me be clothed in yourself i know that i know that i i did this but god if i'm just covered and if i'm just clothed now we end with the saved family with the saved family he said in a wonderful tonight she would stand with me isn't it wonderful this evening that god has given us the opportunity of salvation he's given us a wonderful opportunity to somehow in the back of our mind regardless let me tell you this is this is where the beauty's at hear me please this is where the beauty's at according to god you don't have to have a certain last name according to god you don't have to come from a certain pedigree according to god you could be a widow you can be an orphan or you can just be a stranger and god looks down at first apostolic tonight and says you're of equal value to anybody else in this room tonight why don't you let him do it you don't have a problem tonight you do not have a problem tonight that this cannot help you with you do not hear me now you do not have a problem tonight that's bigger than our god and all he's got to have it's your choice it's your choice when god showed them these coats there they stood there's no argument there's no pulling back there's no well i've tried that i i've tried that there's no pulling back they willingly said i'll give up these fig leaves it wasn't enough and the fig leaves were were drying up and they weren't enough and they were decreasing as the day goes by but god i'll gladly let you cover my sins tonight oh i'll gladly do that oh i wish somebody that's really battling something would just lift your hands right now and say clothe me lord oh god clothe me right now god oh god in the name of jesus god you're our help tonight lord oh you're our help tonight god oh god you're my strength lord oh god i don't know how god but you're my strength tonight god jesus i receive that in your name i receive that right now god by faith lord clothe me right now god god clothed me the chill that's on my body god the chill that's on my naked soul right now oh god come down right now and clothe me lord with your righteousness god oh clothe me tonight with your righteousness lord oh father i love you lord i love you lord i love you lord i love you lord oh could we go home tonight can we all go home with this song on our lips need thee every hour i need thee oh bless me now my savior i come to thee one more time from the bottom of your heart i need thee if every hour i need thee oh bless would you lift your hands right now i need thee oh i need thee yeah every hour i need thee oh bless me now my savior i come to thee bow your heads with me father lord i have delivered your word tonight lord i just ask that you would touch every man woman boy and girl into the sound of my voice god i want to be the saved family lord i was the obedient family and i was disobedient now god i am ready for you to robe me god and to be saved family god i pray tonight that you would move upon the families of this church lord ever strengthen our families god we'll give you the praise god go with us tonight we'll give you the praise and the honor and the glory in jesus name we pray amen amen give the lord a hand of praise before you leave tonight