God Remembers Me | Senior Pastor Kenneth Carpenter

if you have your Bibles tonight we turn with me to the Book of Jeremiah Jeremiah chapter 2 we'll begin reading at verse number one 1 and two and let me tell you that we we just don't ask you to praise the Lord Pastor doesn't just ask you to praise the Lord as a as a filibuster uh to go to the next thing worship and praise prepares your heart for the word of God worship and praise determines whether your ground receives the word or to put it like this worship and praise determines whether you'll leave here in a little bit saying I didn't get anything out of that tonight or you'll leave here saying man that was exactly what I needed to hear you ever thought about that you take the same service somebody walk out and say I just really didn't get anything out of it tonight somebody else will walk out and say man God just spoke to my heart tonight you know what the difference was worship worship makes your heart receptive soil to the word of God and I'm so glad there's a lot of soil here tonight that's going to receive God's God's word Jeremiah chapter 2 and verse number one moreover the word of the Lord came to me he saying go and cry in the ears of Jerusalem saying thus saeth the Lord I remember Thee I remember Thee the kindness of thy youth the love of thy in spousal when thou Wiest after me in the wilderness in a land that was not sown for just a few moments tonight I'd like to really preach to you on this simple thought God remembers me God remembers me precious God tonight help me to feed your people lord they're so precious and faithful to come as they do to your house Lord as you know many of them have worked long hard hours today and many of them have busy schedules but God they're not so busy that they don't come to your house to hear your word preach Lord for the next few moments use me as a tool and an instrument that I may feed your sheep that they may receive your word tonight and I'll give you the praise and the honor and all the glory in Jesus name we all pray amen and amen you may be seated this Bible lesson tonight this Bible lesson tonight will help us to understand the Indescribable love that God has for his church the Indescribable love that God has for his church after all in Matthew 16 and 18 He Set Upon This Rock and I love the personal he set Upon This Rock I will build my church he didn't say I'll build a church he set up on this rock I will build my church he's personal Acts chapter 20 and verse number 28 we're told by Luke to take heed therefore unto yourselves and to all the flock over which the Holy Ghost hath made you overseers to feed the Church of God which he hath purchased with his own blood look at that he said on this rock I'll build my church it's my church it belongs to me and then he said I purchased the church with my own blood now we know that he went from the cross to the tomb he resurrected from the dead 40 days later he ascended into heaven he has been there doing the work of an intercessor he has been there doing the work of a high priest he has been there he has been there since as our mediator as our goet John saw him in the Book of Revelation in Revelation chap 1 and verse number 12 John saw him he said I turned in verse 12 I turned to see the voice that spake with me and being turned I saw seven golden candlesticks we know we know a lot of the Book of Revelation is a symbolic book that things that are mentioned have a spiritual meaning and these seven golden candlesticks represent the church and in the midst verse 13 in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks John says I saw one like unto the son of man clothed with the Garment down to the foot Girt about the PS or the chest with a golden girdle his head and his hair his hair hairs were white like wool as white as snow his eyes were as a flame of fire his feet like a defined brass as if they had burned in a furnace his voice as the sound of many Waters he had in his right hand Seven Stars out of his mouth went a sharp two-edged sword and his countenance was like the sun shineth in his strength John says I saw Jesus operating as the high priest the Garment that he has on is the high priest garment it's the intercessor and the intercessor Garment when John saw him in verse 177 he says' when I saw him I fell at his feet as dead he laid his right hand upon me saying fear not I am the first and the last I am he that liveth and was dead and behold I am alive forever more amen and have the keys of hell and of death write the things which thou H has seen and the things which are and the things which shall be Hereafter The Mystery of the Seven Stars which thou sawest in my right hand and the Seven golden candlesticks the Seven Stars are the Angels or The Messengers of the seven churches and the Seven candlesticks which thou sawest are the seven churches now what's interesting about this I told you that it's his church Upon This Rock I'll build my church I told you the price that he paid for it he bought the church with his own blood and now I'm telling you where he is presently at as an operating high priest he is our intercessor that's why when we go to God we pray in the name of Jesus because he is our intercessor he is our high priest but I want to bring out to your attention where he is at where he is at we find where he is at in Revelation chap 2 and verse number number one and unto the angel of the church at Ephesus write these things saith he that holdeth the Seven Stars in his right hand who walketh in the midst of the seven golden candlesticks spiritually tonight I want you to know that we're in the presence of our high priest we have been made when we worship God in spirit and Truth truth we have been made not going to be made not one day going to be made but we are currently made to sit with him Christ Jesus in Heavenly places where is he at tonight spiritually he is walking in the midst of his church he is walking among us tonight those that are worshiping God in spirit and Truth he is walking he is walking among the church tonight I find that a great comfort to want to get my mind on God every time we come into the house of the Lord because I want that high priest to walk by me tonight and when that high priest walks by me I want him to meet all the needs that I have but not only do I want him to meet the needs that I have I want to tell the high priest one more time I love you I appreciate you I'm thankful for what you have done because if there's ever something I want to be a part of I want to be a part of his church I want to be a part of that Blood Bought people and can you say amen amen let's turn the corner for a moment tonight I have brought you up to the current time of what is going on right now with our high priest Jesus Christ but can I take you to Eternity past can I take you to the time when there was no Earth there was no stars no solar system there was no Earth no trees simply there was God in eternity but not just God alone but God and his mind God and his plan we call it in the Bible the logos in the beginning was the word that Greek word w is logos it means thought it means plan it means idea and again this message tonight is intended to help us to understand how much God loves the church because he had the church on his mind before the Earth as we know it was ever created he had the church he had the Ecclesia he had you and I a people on his mind before or any of creation was ever put was ever put into Motion in eternity P think about this try to try to stretch your mind to think about in eternity past when there was no Earth there was just God in eternity but God had this plan God had this logos God had this idea we find this when we read Ephesians chapter 1 and verse number four listen to Ephesians 1:4 the writer talks about the church and it says according as he which is God hath chosen us which is the church in him which is Christ the man before the foundation of the world that we should be holy and Without Blame before him in love look at that before the foundation of the world he already saw lost humanity and he saw that lost Humanity needed a savior a perfect Savior and he had that whole Plan of Redemption that the only way we could stand acceptable before God was to go through the man Christ Jesus and the sacrifice that the man gave that plan and again bear with me tonight that plan was with with God in eternity pass that plan was with God turn to Romans chapter 8 and verse number 28 we often quote this but we don't quote it all and we know that all things work together for good to them that love God boy I want to fall in that category don't you you see you can't I I hear people they'll quote scripture and I'm thinking now you got to qualify for that you you you got to qualify for that verse you you just can't take an you just can't just take a scripture and quote it and think well you know the the Bible says that well my God shall supply all of my needs according to his riches and Glory that's exactly right but you got to read the verse before that and the verse before that said they gave an offering so that the gospel could go forward and after they gave the offering Paul said and my God shall supply all all your needs according to his riches and Glory you just can't you just can't take that one verse as a matter of fact I'll tell you another one I'll tell you another one that we ought to really all work on because you got to qualify for it and lo I am with you all way even to the end of the world Amen now how do I qualify for that you got to go into all the world and preach the gospel to Every Creature teaching them and baptizing them you got up be involved in the work of God the most important thing you just can't live any old way and want to get in a time of trouble and say well you know God said he to be with me and he never leave me I I just it it just doesn't work and and and I I know that might that that may cause some of you not to feel real good tonight but I'm not really here to make you feel good I'm here to get you saved right so so so when we look at this and for well we know that all things work together for the good well they do for them that love God to them who are the called according to his purpose not my purpose you see God has a purpose and the only thing all the only way all things is going to work together for good is for you number one to love God and number two to be called according to his purpose look at verse 29 for whom he did for know he also de did predestinate or predetermine to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the firstborn among many Brethren moreover whom he did predestinate or predetermined them he also called and whom he called them he also Justified and whom he justified them he also glorified what shall we say to these things if God before us who can be against us you see the reason you want to be a part of God's Church my church the reason you want to be the part of the church it's Blood Bought is before the Earth was ever created the logos of God already planned it out he already fornew the church now we're not talking about individuals I know there's a real strange Doctrine it's a doctrine of predestination and it says you were either born saved or you were born lost F Well that's the most ridiculous Doctrine you could preach because there's one phrase that Jesus says repeatedly over and over again who soever will let him come so we're not talking about individuals being predestined or predetermined to go to heaven we're talking about God's church and it's only going to be the church that's going to make it through this world he's not coming back and they they got to sing in that song and I thought there's one phrase I'd like to write to help them in that song what all that he is he's a problem s da da and I'd like to add the part and he's coming soon and he's my sooncoming king he's not only my savior Brother P he's not only my healer brother Satan he's not only my deliverer mother-in-law he's not only my way maker you listen to this he is my sooncoming king and the only thing that's going with him when he comes again he's not coming for the world he's coming for the church because it's my oh Hallelujah to God don't you love Jesus tonight he fornew the church and when he fornew the church verse 29 he predetermined the church he he pred determined the church what the church was to look like oh yes he predetermined what the church was going to look like is there in verse number 19 what are we going to look like we're going to look like the image of Jesus we're going to look like him now I'm not talking about the external part I'm talking about the inside I'm talking about the spirit of God I'm talking about how he lived and how he he walked and how he treated Sinners and the mission that he was on we're predetermined to be conformed to the image of his son that he might be the first born among many Brethren verse 30 I'm reading reading it again for whom he did predetermine or predestinate he predetermined the church then he called I'm glad that somebody got to me with the Call of God I'm not talking about preaching I'm talking about the call of Salvation them that he called and they answered them whom he called and they answered the him he justified and I I've often told you justification is a big word and a lot of people think big words are hard to understand big words in the Bible are not hard to understand justification is this when you're baptized in jesus' name the Bible says you enter justification what does that big word mean just as if I had never sinned that's what justification is when I Repent of my sins and I'm baptized in jesus' name and I go under the water all the sins that I ever commit ited are removed they are remitted and when I come up out of that water it's just as if I had never sinned and I'm going to tell you when you go to God and you start you keep repenting for sins over and over and over again I wish you could hear God say what do you talking about I don't know what you're talking about you know why he said if we will confess our sins he is faithful and just to forgive us of our sins so come on Church let's get over it and let's live for God whom he called he justified whom he whom he justified verse 30 he glorified that's when he's going to change our vile bodies we're going to be raptured then verse number 31 he just caps it off by saying this in Romans 8:31 matter of fact why don't we read it all together I I think it would put a charge in your spirit what shall we say to these things that's a question let me ask you what do you got to say about it what do you got to say about it I hope you don't sit there and say nothing I hope that it's So Glorious inside of you Upon This Rock I'll build my church I purchase the church with my blood I'm walking in the midst of my church right now I hope you'll say the rest of it with me tonight if God be for us who can be what can stop us people good church tonight what can stop stop you when God is for you who can be against you when God is for you oh let me stay in eternity past for a moment in eternity past in the logos of God we find John 3:16 for God so loved the world he so loved the world he so loved the world Romans 5 and verse number eight for God so loved the world I've heard people I've heard people say and I I'm always quick to want to correct them oh God loved the church and he shed his blood for the church no no no he he didn't shed his blood for the church he bought the church with his blood he shed his blood for Sinners you and I that's who he shed his blood for because I if if if you ever start misquoting that scripture and believing you're misquote then you believe that he only shed his blood for the good he shed his blood for Sinners for God so loved not the church he loved the world and he was going to make a church out of the world that's what he does he takes people out of a bad situation and makes them his church look at Romans chapter 5 and verse 8 this so bear more light on for God so Lov the world Romans 5 and verse number 8 but God commendeth his love toward us are you looking at this now in that while we were what while we were Sinners what did he do while we were Sinners he did what that's why we we we we got to get we got to understand the Bible and now that we're trying to do right you know when I was a sinner I didn't try to do right you didn't either while we were a sinner we didn't have any we didn't we didn't have any uh desire to do right we were just doing by Nature what we were doing we were we were cussing and we were lusting and we were well at least a couple of us were we we we we were just living like the devil we were living like the world and while we were in that shape he died for us why would we question the love of God if it now I'm trying to live from up I'm trying to do right I don't always live right I'm not perfect I'm just trying that's what I am this is not a church full of perfect people it's a church full of trying people if he loved me when I was a sinner don't you think he loves us now oh that ought to cause you to say something tonight that that ought to cause us to do something to say something tonight oh while we were yet sinners Romans 5'8 Christ died for us here's something I want to show you tonight first John not the Gospel of John but the first Epistle of John the first John chapter 4 verse 9 10 and then verse 19 all right listen to John in this was manifested the love of God toward us because that God sent his only begotten son into the world that we might live through him now when it says and this was manifested it meant the Lo ghost was in eternity pass but there come a time when the Lo ghost became real in the beginning was the word and the Word was with God and the Word was God and then John 1:14 and the word the Loos became flesh Now 1 John 4:9 he says and this was the and this was manifest manifested the love of God toward us look at verse 10 herein is love not that we loved God but that he loved us and sent his son to be a propitiation or a covering for our sins look at verse 19 go all the way down to verse 19 we love him because he first loved us your walk with God will be crippled if you start the love here and try to go there because you will have to work on being perfect of which you can't be you'll have to work on good behavior which you can't you know and you'll try to be good enough you'll try to you'll try to be on their best behavior good enough and all of that to start here and to go there you got it backward your love for God doesn't start here and go there it's not the best I can do for you to show you I love you it's the best he did for us to show us how much he loves us and in return when we look at how much he gave to us why we just want to love him back right we just want to love him back now I I believe in preaching Hellfire and brimstone I believe in I believe in preaching against sin I believe in preaching Hellfire and brimstone but I'm going to tell you I also believe in preaching the love of God I believe that people will be more prone to live for God out of a comfort that he loves us than a condemnation that if I'll do that I'll go to hell I believe that once we can embrace the full love of God who would want to serve him who wouldn't want to live for him when we understand just how oh I I wish a spirit of Praise would break out in this house when we realize how much he loves us oh when I realize how much he loves us that doesn't mean I'm not going to get tempted it just means when I get tempted I'm going to say I'm not going to do that cuz he don't want me to do that because I just love him I love him I love him I love him I love him him I love him I love him I love him now I'm not my notes doesn't call for it right now my notes call for it a little bit later but my opening text I'm going to go back to my opening text right now give me give me Jeremiah 2 and one this is my opening text moreover the word of the Lord came to me saying go cry in the ears of Jerusalem saying thus sayith the Lord I remember Thee the kindness of thy youth the love of thy espousals when thou Wiest after me in the wilderness in a land that was not sown now let let me say something Israel is as backsliding as backslid could be sister Glenna Israel was serving all kind of false gods matter of fact Israel had did what God told them not to do he said I'm going to take you to a land you're going to live in houses you didn't build drink from Wells you didn't dig eat from Vineyards you didn't plant and when you get in that land and you get all of these blessings beware lest thou forget the Lord thy God and go a whoring after other gods notice he he used the word a whoring because he Likens our relationship to a husband and wife and he says please be faithful to me please when you get into that land please be faithful to me please please don't go a whoring after other gods you see something tonight Israel never denied there was Jehovah I want you to hear this now Israel never denied there was Jehovah they just live like there wasn't one you see you don't have to be an atheist not to believe in God you just have to live like there is no God because if you can ever get in your mind there is a God and that how much he loves you what I've laid for the last 30 minutes or so when you begin to live like there is a God but Israel Israel was living like there was no God I mean they were in Gross idolatry they were murmuring they were bickering they were serving false gods they were offering their firstborn up to a god called Molech which was in a fire but listen to what God tells the prophet sister Carpenter he said go cry in their ears and tell them I remember you I remember I remember your youth I remember how you went after me from Egypt everything listen to this please everything god mentioned to them was good he remembered the good that they did he didn't say go cry in their ears and tell them that that that they they get away from them Idols or they're going to go to hell go cry and there tell them how low down lousy they are and they're they're committing great go go cry and no no no no no he used this he said let me tell you who I am I am a God that I remember the good that you have done I remember how you left even though you are currently backsliding God said I remember when you came to the altar I remember how you taught Sunday school I remember how you worked on a bus route I remember how you wrote a checkout to missions I remember how you sang in the choir I remember what you said at that strong tower Youth Camp when I laid you when I slain you with my spirit I remember I don't know about you but I just want to serve a god like that I just want to I am more prone to walk away from false gods when God is saying hey I just remember how yeah walk with me I remember every shovel of dirt you've ever dug I remember everything you've ever done brother per I remember all the work brother Randy I remember all the way I don't know about you but that's a God that I want to serve not a God that's keeping score but a God that just simply says I'm just going to remember the good remember God remember me God remember me you see God's eye of compassion is upon what he loves God's eye of compassion if you're a normal grandparent if you're a normal grandparent you're not a lunatic you're not reprobate you're not wrapped up in yourself you're a normal grandparent you love those babies I don't don't know of a one of us that have said I've seen your face enough now we might say can you come get them but I've never said Nolan take her out of the room I've seen Magnolia's face enough I've never said Zach Fallon take them out of the room uhuh no you know why I love them anything you love your eye is tored anything you love your eye is upon it you see God and I'm goingon to go very quickly but God had a plan God had a plan this plan would involve an elderly man and an elderly woman by the name of ab Abraham and Sarah having a miraculous child it would be a miracle child Isaac would be a miracle child because God had to heal the womb of Sarah but God made them a promise they were old when God gave the promise and they were older before the promise was fulfilled but God had his eye don't you ever give up on the Promises of God don't you ever give up on the Promises of God I don't care how old either chronologic or you feel the promise is don't you ever give up on the promise of God because God had his eye on that old man and that old woman and in Genesis 18 And1 The Bible said and the Lord appeared unto him in the plains of Mo Mamay and he said in the tent Door In the Heat of the day God came down to visit that old man and that old woman and in verse number 11 now Abraham and Sarah were old and well stricken in age and it ceased to be with Sarah after the manner of women therefore Sarah laughed within herself saying after I have waxed old shall I have pleasure my Lord being old also and the Lord said unto Abraham wherefore did Sarah laugh saying shall I of assurity bear a child which am old and listen to What God Says listen to what God says don't care how you feel tonight I don't care how I feel tonight I don't care how circumstances look in your life tonight hear your pastor I don't care what look what it looks like in your life tonight look at verse 14 if is anything too hard for the Lord come on I don't care how impossible it looks in your life is anything too hard for the lord well I I've been praying for my son to come home to church I've been praying for my daughter my grandchildren I've been praying for circumstances and situations but it's been a long time and look how terrible it looks and you ought to be reminded every time you doubt God is anything too hard for the Lord to do and I wish you would answer that with a shout come on I wish you'd answer with a shout is there anything too hard for the Lord to do is there anything does this building not stand as a testimony that God took a bunch of poor people and built a magnificent house in the city of mville that people come to it and they're Wild by it is anything too hard oh my God showed up he couldn't keep his ey off a man named Jacob he couldn't keep his mind off of a man called Jacob why why why do you have your eye on that guy called Jacob because that guy called Jacob is going to have a name change to a man named Israel and from Jacob's going to come a nation and all through the history all through the history of Israel there has got to be one thing let me tell you something the nation of Israel is alive and thriving tonight because they have the DNA of fight that's what they got inside of them they have got a DNA of struggling and they've got a DNA of fighting most nations would have rolled over and cease to exist but not Israel why they've got a DNA of fight where' they get it from Genesis 32:24 Jacob was left alone there Wrestled a man with him un the breaking of the day when he saw that he prevailed not against him he touched the hollow of his thigh and the hollow of Jacob's thigh was out of joint as he wrestled with him and he said let me go for the day break it and he said I will not let thee go except thou bless me and he said unto him what is thy name and he said Jacob and he said thy name shall be called No More Jacob but Israel as a prince hast thou power with God and with men and Hast prevailed Jacob asked him and said tell me I pray thee thy name and he said wherefore is it that thou ask after my name he blessed him there Jacob called the name of the place panal for I have seen God face to face and my life is preserved do you know why the nation of Israel is still alive and well today when other nations said they want to eradicate them and right now they're surrounded and we all know what's going on right now let Hamas come let all the other terror group come around but you're never going to annihilate Israel why it's God in its fiber to fight for its existence and that's the plan of God God said I got to visit Abraham and Sarah because I've got a promised seat and I've got to visit Jacob because he's going to be a nation keep my eye on what I what I love God keeps his eye on the promised land Joshua chapter 5 verse number 13 follow this closely with me Joshua chapter 5 number 13 God keeps his eye on what he loves my people they're going to need they're going to need a name change they're going to need a promise seat we got to have an Isaac if we don't have an Isaac we don't have a Jacob we don't have a Jacob we don't have an Israel if we don't have an Israel we don't have a Canaan land in Joshua 5:13 and it came to pass when Joshua was by Jericho that he lifted up his eyes and looked and behold there stood a man over against him with a sword drawn in his hand Joshua went unto him and said unto him art thou for us or for our adversaries and he said nay but as the captain of the host of the Lord and am I now come Joshua fell on his face to the Earth and did worship and said unto him what saith my Lord unto thy servant and the captain of the Lord's host said unto Joshua loose thy shoe from off thy foot for the place where on thou standeth is Holy and Joshua did so now I I want I want to show you something just as God appeared to Abraham and just as God appeared to Jacob God appeared to Joshua as a captain of an army and they were looking out over Jericho and if you don't take Jericho you can't have Canaan and God has his eye on what he loves and so God comes to Joshua in the form of a captain of an army and Joshua asked a question are you for our enemy or for us he said neither I have come as captain of the Lord's host can I tell you I don't want the Lord to be on my side I want to be on his side there's too many people I want God to be on my side you don't want God to be on your side you don't you nor I have enough sense to know what side is right but I want to read my Bible and I want to be on God's side and God's side is for evangelism and God's side is for preaching the gospel and God's side is for believ in him for miracles signs and wonders and God's side side is for me to be exuberant in my worship and exuberant in my praise I want to be on God's side but wait a minute now wait a minute now I need to conquer Jericho I need to conquer Jericho but you will never conquer until you're conquered you will never be a conqueror in life until God conquers you stop waiting to be a conquering life because you'll never be a conqueror until you allow God to conquer you that's why he came down that's why he came down and he said I'm the captain of the Lord's host and Joshua did what was right he fell down in worship and then the captain said this he said the ground you're standing on is Holy Ground and Joshua took his shoes off and guess what that represented submission you will never have victory in life you'll never have person Victory you'll never have marital Victory you'll never have family Victory you'll never experience victory in your life please listen to me tonight I'm I'm just telling you like it is right now you will never have personal victory in your life you will never have marital victory in your life you will never have family victory in your life you will never have Victory as a whole until you learn how to submit and when you can learn how to submit to God he took his shoes off and threw them down that's a submission God I'm Yours what whatever you want me to do God I'm Yours God and then the next chapter God said well I'll tell you what I want you to do and God was tell the angel was telling him I want you to March around this city I want you to March around it once every day and then seven times on the seventh day I want you to shout I want you to take my presence and I'll bring the walls down how did the walls of Jericho come down the same way that Sarah got pregnant God always keeps his eye on what he loves how in the world did the walls of Jericho come down the same way that that that Jacob turned into Israel because God came down and wrestled with him how did those walls come down because you had more than a group of people out there doing something funny and something unusual marching around a city to what the human eye could not see you had the Lord walking with them so don't ever sit as a carnal person in a house of worship and think man that's so funny right now watch that lady come down here watch that man running around here what's that person over here watch's that person over there you missed the whole point because the Lord God God he inhabits the Praises of his people the Bible said he loves the gates of of Zion he loves pray why you praising tonight because God loves it tonight why you worshiping tonight because God why did you go to the prayer room tonight before church because God loves his eyes upon what he loves well let me see if I can bring this to a close tonight God always loves and keeps his eye on what he loves you see when a church doesn't believe in compromise and a church believes in convictions and a church doesn't allow Society to determine what she believes or doesn't believe when a church doesn't allow Society to tell us how we act and dress how often we have church when a church has some convictions about her when an individual has some convictions about them I want you to know that God keeps his eye on men and women who have convictions neat stories tucked away in the Book of Daniel three young men 700 50 miles away from home three young men by the name of Shadrach Meshach and abedo all they have to do to escape the cultural pressure is to bow down before an image can you imagine how they could have if they had had a carnal mind how they could have said you know we'll bow down but we're really not bowing down we we'll sing the song but we are not really sing the song but these three young men had a conviction they had conviction they were only to bow to God and so when they didn't bow they were reported to the king and the king called them in the king said I hear the report that you haven't bowed to my image and they said that's true they said well I'm going to give you a second chance I'm going to give you a second chance we're going to play the music again and uh you go ahead and bow but hey if you choose not to bow you're going to be thrown into a fiery furnace and they said oh King we're not careful to answer you now don't read that and think they were careless it meant we don't have to we don't have to waste any time answering you we we it won't take us any time to answer we we'll go ahead and tell you right now that we're not going to Bow they said now we might burn but we want you to know we won't bow and and and God's able to deliver us but if not if not be it known to you that we won't bow you you might throw us in that furnace but you're going to throw us in that furnace knowing that we wouldn't bow and he got so mad he heated the furnace up the Bible say said seven times hotter than it ever been heated up he took all their clothes he said we want good riddens of you they took all their clothes we took everything they owned put it on them and let them up the plank to go into the furnace the furnace was so hot the guards of the king that was that was guiding them up into the furnace the guards of the king the fire the the fire was so hot it came out and slew them Shadrach meshack and abedo fell down into the furnace but I preached all night long on God always keeps his eye on what he loves I said God always keeps his eye on what he loves and God not only loved an old man and an old woman and gave him a child and God not only loved a man that changed his name to Israel and God not only loved Joshua and told him how to win the battle but God loved them three Hebrew boys that said we won't bow we're told in the word not to bow to any other but to God and they threw them and you would have thought that was the last of them but all of sudden for some odd reason and there's a tradition that tells the reason and I only am telling this as a tradition there's a tradition that says that the king began to hear singing coming from the direction of the furnace and that made him get up and go look down into the furnace and when he got up and looked down into the furnace he he turned around and he said I I got to ask you a question did we not cast three men bound into the furnace and the men down below said true oh King he said then how is it that I see four men that are loose and they're walking around but wait a minute now but the fourth is as the Son of God I got news for you tonight God keeps his eye on what he loves and when God keeps his eye that's why it's going to be all right with the church I don't care who's it I don't care who's in the white house it's going to be all right with the church I don't care what's going on in the world it's going to be all right with the church cause God loves the church come on love him with me right now God loves the church I remember Thee I remember thee oh I want to help somebody tonight somebody that's being beat up you hear you hear me tonight somebody that's being beat up with condemnation somebody that's being beat up by the adversary he can't stop you from coming to church but he'll sure try to hinder you from worshiping he'll sure he listen he may not can stop you from getting here but he wants to stop you from getting involved in the plan and just when you start to worship or just when you think about getting back in the choir or just just when you think about wanting to teach Sunday school again or just when you think about wanting to get back involved that devil will come to you and say don't you remember what you did you remember what you did I've come tonight to help somebody battling with condemnation to tell you if God would tell Israel I remember you and I remember the good that you've done would he not do the same for you and I would he not do the same let's listen to him before we close let's listen to him and I in Isaiah chapter 49 verse one could someone say praise the Lord praise the Lord could someone say I love you Jesus oh I love you Lord listen to him Isaiah 4914 but Zan said the church said the Lord hath forsaken me and my Lord hath forgotten me boy that's exactly where the enemy wants some of you the enemy just loves it when you say don't believe the Lord knows me I just don't know if the Lord really I don't know if he really cares Zion said the Lord has forsaken me my Lord hath forgotten me listen to God answer that in verse 15 listen to God answer that can a woman forget her sucking child that she should not have compassion on the son of her womb yay they may forget please look at this last part yet would we say it all together yet will I not forget thee the average woman would never forget a sucking child the average woman would never walk away from an infant the average woman would never put them to the curb but there has been there has been those that have forsaken a sucking child a young child turned their back walked away but God said I want to tell you I will not forget you I will not forget you and here's the best part here's prophetic here's God prophesying verse 16 please look at this closely behold I have Graven thee upon the palms of my hands thy walls are continually before me I'm G to tell you something there's two things God has his eye on tonight there's two things God has his eye on one of them's a reminder in his hand and one of them is a reminder of a wall around the city he said there are two things God has his eye on tonight God has his eye on the church and God has his eye on Israel that's why we ought to be thankful tonight and we ought to be glad that when our nation is a friend of Israel because of two things God's got his eye on his palm and the walls of Jerusalem why would God be looking to his palm because he said I have engraving thee upon the palms of my hand that is prophetic of the nail print the nails that went through his hands do you realize that the glorified body that he came out of the Tomb with the glorified body still carried sister Fuller still carried the scars in his hands if it would have been us we would have said come back with a glorified body Without Scars come back with a glorified body that has no blemish but he said when I come back I'm going to keep reminder in the palm of my hand what I did for you and as a high priest I have in my hand can I tell you God cannot look at his hand tonight without remembering how much that he loves you and I oh why don't we serve why don't we get over condemnation and why don't we shout the Victory and why don't we praise God because he has it Graven on here come on stand with me tonight oh he come on praise him right now tonight come on praise him right now you've allowed your sin to drag you down long enough you've allowed your sin to help I just feel like getting after tonight you've allowed it to drag you down you ought to praise him right now you some of you all that's battling condemnation ought to get out in the aisle right now and ought to start praising God right now some of you that are battling condemnation ought to get up around this altar right now and ought to begin to praise God right now he loves you he loves you he loves you he loves you he loves you glory to God hallelujah thank you Jesus I'm born again I'm sa I'm Washed by the blood come on praise him right now praise him right now put the devil under your foot right now praise him right now praise him right now thank you tonight praise him right now praise him right now therefore there is now no more condemnation to them that are in Christ Jesus hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah come on praise him come on praise him right now come on praise him right now come on he loves praise he loves praise he said I inhabit the Praises of my people you want to get God's ey begin to praise him right now hallelujah hallelujah y'all come on down in the altar a little bit therey some folks behind you want to get up here right now get up around the altar right now I praise you I magnify you I glorify you oh God I praise you I love you you I glorify you I magnify you I thank you I worship you I worship you I thank you I praise you I magnify you you're good you're awesome you're love you're my you're my God I love you I praise you our Glory I have engraven thee upon the p i remember you woo we don't need any music tonight we don't need any music tonight we just need the vocal Praise of God's people we just need the vocal praise I glorify you I can't praise him enough I can't worship him enough I can't Magnify Him enough that's right that's right hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah I praise you I thank you I feel the victory coming I feel the victory coming I Praise You Lord let me let me in with something right now let me in with something right now I give you a little lesson that I learned back in my Evangelistic days I went to a church to preach Revival and I get them up around the altar just like this right here and all the Church would do oh God forgive me oh God I'm unworthy oh God forgive me forgive me didn't matter how fast I told him to play the piano s k didn't matter how fast I told him beat the drums you can't help people that stay broken does God want to break us yes to get what's in us out but when God gets what's in us out then he wants to put something in us and God doesn't f us you you God doesn't f us when we're just oh God I'm So Unworthy he knows you are God forgive me I have now I want you to remember that I remember how you walked out of Egypt and I remember how you love me and I want you to begin to praise me because when I break you I get it out of you but once it's got out of you I want to put something in you and it come on praise him right now praise him right now oh God I praise you oh God I magnify you I love you I love you I love you I love everything about you you've never done me nothing but good you are a good God you are a great God you are an almighty God you are a loving God you are for me not against me I thank you I praise you come on don't you feel it coming on right now come on don't you feel it coming on right now don't that feel a whole lot better I thank you I thank you come on one more time I'm telling you God looks what he loves he looks at what he loves I remember you I remember you I remember you repentance will take care of the bad decisions but praise will help you understand the good ones ah I'm just going to let the Lord move Among Us for a few moments tonight nothing but praise right now nothing but praise right now nothing but praise right now stop telling him it's not going to start with you God I know you love me God I know you care about me God I know your eyes on me Lord I worship you Lord I love you because you love me God I love you because you love me first God it was you that initiated it God it was you it was you oh my my my my my my my my hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah hallelujah glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God glory to God I'm telling you somebody's going to walk out of here tonight thank you Lord thank you thank you thank you come on tell him right now thank you Lord thank you thank you thank you Lord thank you thank you thank you got something to thank him for right now thank him you hear your pastor you hear me and you hear me well it's the last thing I'm going to say and let you go home if you hear me and you hear me well repentance will take care of your bad decisions but all of hell can never erase your right decisions and to that God says I remember you I remember you just takes a moment of repentance God blots it out but all of hell you hear me and hear me well all of hell can never erase the decision that you made that day or night when you threw your hands up and said here am I God all of hell can ever erase the day that you said I'll go up there in front of everybody and be baptized all of hell can ever erase that you got so deep in worship that God filled you with the Holy Ghost all of Hell cannot erase that and to that our God says I remember you God bless you let's have one more praise and let's go home w