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[Music] [Choral singing] Around the altar we come singing "It's Me, It's Me, It's Me, O Lord, Standing in the Need of Prayer." It's me, it's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer.

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It's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. Not my mother, not my father, but it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer.

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Not my mother, not my father, but it's me, oh Lord, standing in the need of prayer. It's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the knee of prayer. It's me, it's me, oh Lord, standing in the knee of prayer. I heard someone else.

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This is Gail. [Prayer is heard.] Gracious most heavenly Father, God, who is the creator of this marvelous universe, the true lover of our souls, we come before you this morning, dear God, as you have already heard, with many, many requests.

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Lord, there are situations here, all of them, as a matter of fact, Lord, are beyond our care. They're beyond our ability. But Lord, that's why we bring them to you because we know that they are beyond our ability. We brought them to you, Lord, because we care and because we love those from whose names

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have been lifted up. But Lord, we know that you, just in your finger, there's enough mercy in your little finger to meet every need that has been lifted up. Lord, we know that you are truly the doctor that has never lost a case.

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You're the counselor who has all the answers to our concerns. You are the minister who can meet every need. You're the everything, Lord. You're the Father that we call on right now.

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You are our Heavenly Father. And the word says you are our Heavenly Father. And because you are our Heavenly Father, we can come to you with every concern.

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So Lord, we come this morning lifting up these concerns. We ask, oh God, that you would continue to strengthen those who have gone home. We ask, oh God, that you would be with those who seem to be standing at the very threshold of death.

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We ask, oh God, that you would be with those who are returning home after burying someone this week. Lord, we ask a special prayer for each and every family that we have laid someone to rest this week. Lord, we come asking that you would just be with us in a very special way. Lord, as the names were being called, I was looking at the faces,

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And it just seemed as if those faces were saying, come by here today, Lord. My heart needs to be comforted. My mind needs to be put at rest.

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Lord, we ask that that peace that only you have, the peace that surpasses all men's understanding, we ask that you'd bring that peace by here this morning, Lord, and that it would rest on the hearts

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of each and every person who is standing before this altar feeling uncomfortable or not at peace with themselves and with you. Master, we ask that you would forgive us of our sins.

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We know that there have been many things that you have given to us to do this week that we did not do. Many things that you have told us to do, to say or whatever, that didn't go on because of our own selfishness,

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our own short-sightedness, or maybe just because of the lack of courage to stand. But Lord, we ask that you would just forgive us, please. And Lord, we ask that you would now give

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the Reverend Renfro the preaching power that he's gonna need this morning to deliver your word. We ask that you would be our pastor

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in his absence and his life. Strengthen him, help him to give the word, oh God, and deliver the word that you have given him. Bless us now, oh God, as only you can.

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In your son's name we pray it all, amen. - Amen. - Amen. (choir singing)

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I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus, I cannot bear Him when alone. I must tell Jesus, I must tell Jesus, Jesus can't help me, Jesus alone. (dramatic music) [Music]

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[Music] [Music] ♪ God has smiled on me ♪ ♪ He has set me free ♪

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♪ God has smiled on me ♪ ♪ He's been good to me ♪ ♪ God has smiled on me ♪ ♪ He has set me free ♪

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♪ God has smiled on me ♪ ♪ He's tender to me ♪ ♪ God has smiled on me ♪ ♪ He has set me free ♪

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♪ God has smiled on me ♪ ♪ He's been good to me ♪ He is the source of all my joy. He fills me with his love.

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The grace that I employ, he sends down from above. ♪ Lord has smiled on me ♪ ♪ He has set me free ♪ ♪ Lord has smiled on me ♪

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♪ He's been good to me ♪ ♪ A light unto my path is he ♪ ♪ He's my strength when I would fall ♪ ♪ He guides His day for me ♪

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♪ God is my all and all ♪ ♪ God has smiled on me ♪ ♪ He has set me free ♪ ♪ God has smiled on me ♪

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♪ He's been good to me ♪ ♪ God has smiled on me ♪ ♪ He has set me free ♪ ♪ God has smiled on me ♪

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♪ He's been good to me ♪ ♪ God has smiled on me ♪ ♪ He has set me free ♪ ♪ God has smiled on me ♪

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He's been good, He's been good, He's been good, He's been good to me. Amen. Let us all say amen. [Music] [Music]

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[Music] Through it all, through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus, I've learned to trust in God. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to give Him the Lord His word. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus, I've learned to trust in God.

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♪ Julia, Julia ♪ ♪ I've learned to keep in the body's word ♪ ♪ I've had many tears and sorrows ♪ ♪ I've had questions for tomorrow ♪

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There've been times I didn't know right from wrong. But in every situation, God gave blessed consolation. Thou my triumph come to only make me strong. I've been to lots of places, and I've seen a lot of faces.

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There have been times I felt so all alone. But in my lonely hours, yes, those precious lonely hours, Jesus let me know that I was his own. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus.

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I've learned to trust in God. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to depend upon His Word. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus, I've learned to trust in God. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to give Him the hardest work.

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Through it all, through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus, I've learned to trust in God. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to defend the body's worth. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to trust in Jesus, I've learned to trust in God. Through it all, through it all, I've learned to defend the body's worth.

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Through it all, through it all, I've learned trusting Jesus, I've learned trusting God. [Music] The work of Silent Prayer. [Silence]

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[Singing] I stretch my hands to thee, for no other hand. I, I know, but if thou wilt withdraw, thou shalt from me. ♪ Oh, where ♪

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♪ The ♪ ♪ Shell ♪ ♪ I ♪ ♪ I go ♪

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- We thank God for the opportunity that he has given us, that he has blessed us, that he has called us and placed us into this ministry. The absence of our pastor to Reverend Swisher,

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I guess minister to My sister in the ministry sister Carol to all of you God's children Indeed, this is a wonderful day this is a day that the Lord hath made and

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I will and we ought to rejoice and be glad in it You turn with me to the book of Jeremiah the prophet Jeremiah the ninth chapter I Want to just focus in on two verses the 23rd and the 24th verse the 9th chapter of Jeremiah

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It reads thus said the Lord Let not the wise man glory in his wisdom Neither let the mighty man glory in his might let not the rich man glory in his riches But let him that glorieth glory in this that he understands and knoweth me

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That I am the Lord which exercise loving kindness judgment and righteousness in the earth For in these things I delight said the Lord But let him that glory or let him that boast boast in this

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That he understands and that he knows me Title of the message this morning knowing God knowing God Do do we really know God that's that's that's a big question

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But it's a question that that that comes personally to each and every one of us. Do we really know God? It's a question that we all have to answer at some stage in our lives But some of us we met him on the road a long time ago But some we're just now finding out who he is and then for some we still may not have found him yet

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But do we really know God? It cannot be based on what others believe what you heard from from somebody else You can't rely on mama. You won't be able to rely on daddy. You've got to know him for Yourself, you've got to know him in a very real and personal way

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Popular gospel group called the whinings used to sing a song. I've got to know him in a very real way Has to be personal can't be a superficial kind of thing You know like like we just we act like we know some people and some people may think they know us But but they really don't they really don't they don't they don't know us

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They don't know us that way some folks try to act like they're your best buddy Like they've been with you a long time and we we go a long way back But but no, they don't they don't really know you. Yeah, they don't know you that's just being superficial But but we can't know God that that way we've got to know him in a very real

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Way and I think about and it's kind of funny that when I listen to these award celebrations You know the Grammys and all of these type of awards that they give You can almost chuckle when when when folks come up to the microphone Especially when you know what kind of artists they are and they get their their award and they say I want to thank the man

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upstairs I Hope there's no man upstairs Because if there's a man upstairs, we're all in a lot of trouble. I Want that to be a god upstairs because man is too fickle

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We we we we we are hot some days and cold other days See man will get upset with you and he'll cut off the rain See, but but God is gracious and and so I'd rather there be a God up there See, I'd rather know God and know him for myself

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Now when when you get to know someone Really in order to get to know him you got to spend some time with him You've got to communicate with them. You've got to relate to them. I Remember when when I was when I was dating my wife my girlfriend at the time

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I Realized that if I were gonna get to know her that I'd have to get a telephone number You know, we'd have to ask brothers. We have to ask for the number, you know, can I have those digits? It's what we would say

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We got to have the phone number because if you get the phone number then you have a way of communicating With them you get to know them and we would communicate We would talk on the phone at all hours of the night two and three in the morning on the phone and we just talk and we would talk we talked so much that we ran out of stuff

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to talk about end up on the phone at night saying you say something no you say something but but but that was my way of getting to know her and as we went along I would begin to spend time with her and and spending time we begin to relate to one another so so she began to know me and I got to know her and the

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same would apply to God that we've got to spend time with him that we've got to communicate with him that we have to relate to him and I would see that this is the message that Jeremiah is wanting to get over to the nation of Israel this message written by the Prophet Jeremiah goes to a nation that had forgotten

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their God really what it end up being is that they really didn't know him anymore because they stopped spending time with him they stopped communicating with him They stopped relating with their God. And so they began to reject him.

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And here you find this young minister, Jeremiah, having been called by God from his birth, even within his mother's womb, he's been placed in the ministry

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and being called to go to and speak to the nation of Israel who rejected God, didn't want to hear about God. They had gotten so bad off that they become deceitful with one another.

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They had become disobedient to God. They had become hypocrites and liars. In verse eight, the text says that their tongue was like an arrow shot out.

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They would speak peaceably to their neighbors with their mouths, but in their hearts, they were laying wait for them. Now there was a popular group,

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I don't remember if it was the Temptations or whoever it was but their song said, "They're smiling in your face "and all the time they wanna take your place." They call 'em backstabbers.

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That's how the nation had become you couldn't trust your neighbor. You couldn't hardly trust your brother But God sends Jeremiah to to minister to this kind of people and Jeremiah said Lord I'm too young for this. He was a young man. He said I can't talk to the nation I can't speak but God says I'll place my word in your mouth and

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So in the scripture in our text we find that thus Say it the law that this wasn't Jeremiah's doing this. This wasn't his speech. It wasn't his prophecy It was God speaking through Jeremiah and he's warning the nation warning the nation that I don't want you to put your glory and

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boast in your wisdom and in your might and in your riches because there's danger and Thinking that we have it made and that we have it all figured out and that it's all up to us There's danger in that as a nation

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Is this word applicable to us today? Are we boasting in our own wisdom? Are we boasting in our own might? Are we boasting in our own riches? Well, that's said the Lord Do not boast in your wisdom. Yeah, see a nation that depends solely on its wisdom is in danger

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There are many wise men thinkers Relying on their ability to reason bragging about their knowledge their understanding However to know God is to realize that the wisdom of this world. It's foolishness

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Foolishness with God James right that with that wisdom, which does not come from God is earthly It's essential its devilish if what you know doesn't come from God Then it's worthless See our wisdom our thinking our ability to reason can be lost in the twinkling of an eye

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Let disease come along and your mind can be gone. Yes, they have what you call Alzheimer's now One while healthy and young and strong and as you get older your mind begins to go Have an accident and end up with a brain injury. Your mind is gone. The pressures of life can cause you to snap. I Remember at my church in Houston. There was a guy a drunkard that came staggering down the center aisle of church one morning

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and he came and sat out on one of the front pews and he was this then you could tell he was drunk and he had been out a while and and and and I Found out they called him cookie and I found out that cookie had a very high IQ

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That cookie was a genius when it came to mathematics But somewhere along the line something happened to cookie And he began to be a drunkard We can't rely on our own wisdom and God says don't boast don't rely don't glory in your wisdom

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Because your wisdom will fail God knows our thoughts. He knows all of our intentions He knows the path in which we ought to take that's why he said his word says that we ought to lean Not to all understand but in all of our ways acknowledge him and he will direct our path God knows And what we need to do is to know him

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You ever heard the saying it's not what you know, but who you know It's not what God is not concerned about what we know And we are not to boast in what we know It ought to be in who we know and then you can go a step further and realize it ought to be also who knows

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You that God ought to know you Don't put your glory in your wisdom Secondly, he moves on and says don't glory in your might a

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Nation that depends and relies on its military might its political strength is in danger See we have an in a tendency to place emphasis on on strength To glory and bragging in our might that no other country is going to bother us because we're great America We are mighty strong nation, but we we put ourselves in danger if we depend on just that

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We we as kids as boys we would hand wrestle one another to see who was the strongest We we would try to push each other off a hill to find out who was the strongest They teach you the survival of the fittest only the strong will survive But when you rely and put all your faith in your strength and your might you're placing yourself in danger

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The Philistines placed all of their might and all of their strength and their champion Goliath Goliath was a mighty strong man He was a giant among men and he came out before the nation of Israel and said send me your best warrior They put all of their faith and reliance on Goliath

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But the Bible tells me Goliath was defeated by a shepherd boy named David his slingshot and his gun See see we can't put our faith in our strength the mighty city of Jericho They said was a strong fortified city that the people that dwelt on the inside relied on its massive walls To protect them against their enemy, but yet the Bible teaches me that that that the children of Israel

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Circled the city of Jericho once for six days and and on the seventh day they circled it seven times Then the priest having been given instruction by God blew their trumpets and God told Joshua at the sound of the trumpet You ought to tell the people I want you to tell them to shout and when the people shouted the walls of Jericho fell flat When you know God

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You'll realize that God is bigger than any problem or obstacle that you may face But when you know God, you know that God is mighty to the to the pulling down of strongholds in your life Don't don't rely on your own mind. No. No, that's that's dangerous. That's dangerous But then he says that said the Lord not only do I don't want you to boast in your own

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Your own wisdom and and your own might but God says do not boast in your riches a nation that relies on its wealth and Riches is in danger. Yeah bragging on how much you have

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Spending all your time trying to get more Trusting in your riches to buy your way out of any type of situation Now I don't know if OJ did it or not. I Really don't know and and I don't care and I'm not trying to get to heaven to ask God. Did he really do it or not?

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Anybody got a list trying to wait to get to heaven to ask him all the whodunits you might as well forget about that We won't have time for that kind of mess when we get to heaven So I'm not concerned about whether OJ did it or not. I don't know but one thing I do know OJ's money got him out of trouble

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He had the richest in order to buy him the right kind of representation If it had a been anybody else We wouldn't have been able to hire any Johnny Cochran's or Alan Dershowitz and all of that stuff We would have been hiring some Jacksons and some Jones's

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Trying to help get us out of the situation that we in because our money would not be that long maybe But but his riches Was able to help him out of a situation But if we rely on our riches and on our wealth we put ourselves in danger

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When we understand and when we know God I focus ought to not be on on Trying to get more and to step over and to step on anybody We can in order to boast and to boost up our riches, but I think and I'll trust Ought to be in God because that's Christians. We know that's not the right way to do anything

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We ought to not be be concerned about that all the time because really our money is a constant reminder of where we should place Our trust because if you pull out a bill, it says it right on the face of the bill in God we trust That's where our focus ought to be. That's where we ought to rely and put our faith not in our money not in our riches Matthew 6 19 says lay not up for yourselves treasures upon earth through that where moth and rust doth corrupt and where

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Thieves can can break in and steal it. No don't place your treasures here in earth, but he says lay up for yourselves Treasures in heaven it reminds me of the story of the rich man Who said that my land is so plentiful and I have so much that I've gotten out of my land I need to tear out my bones and I need to build bigger bones

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Yeah, and I'll build bigger ones and I'll fill up my bones and and then I'll just say my my my my boy Look at what all you have. Why don't you just sit on down and and take it easy and and take your rest because everything is fine I got a fat bank account and I'm doing pretty good. So why don't you just sit down and take your rest? But God's Word says

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God came and said thou who? Your soul is required tonight And what good would all of your riches do you if you don't have anything placed up in heaven? Instead of worrying about our bank accounts down here. We make make sure we have something in heaven's saving and trust

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See down here. They can only ensure you for so much see the FDIC will only ensure you up to a hundred thousand dollars But but I tell you our salvation has been secured in heaven by the blood of Jesus Christ and we don't have to worry about it So he says don't boast don't glory. Don't don't don't get all caught up in in your riches That becomes dangerous

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Do we boast in these things? His word comes to us and says but let him that glory Glory in this if you're gonna boast about something if you're gonna brag about something boast and brag about this That you understand and that you know God

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now I'm sure that that some of our ancestors in The struggle for our equality in the struggle for our freedom in the struggle for our civil rights They had to know God. They had to know God.

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When I think about and read about some of the stories of what they had gone through in order to place us where we are today, they had to know God. People like Bishop Richard Allen, founder of the African Methodist Episcopal Church. People like Dr. Pennington, first person of African descent to receive a Doctor of Divinity.

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People like James Weldon Johnson teacher poet author civil rights activist and an author and writer of our black Negro national anthem people like Nanny Helen Burroughs who was also a prolific writer and Baptist leader Somebody like Ida B. Wells Barnett who was also the co-founder of the NAACP and anti-lynching Crusader somebody like Jenny Lou Hammer

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Who was almost beaten to death because she dared to get her voter registration card down in Mississippi You can't tell me they didn't know God Because those kind of folks have gone through something And they've done some things all because they knew and had a personal relationship

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With God and and as for us as a people the only way we're going to continue to succeed is if we know God We look back and we wonder how we made it over. Well, I'll tell you how we made it over It was because some grandmothers and some grandfathers prayed It was because some uncles and some aunts knew God

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It was because some mothers and some fathers were down on their knees praying. I tell you how we made it over It's because we knew we knew God And some of you may have have known him for yourself Some of you may have known him as Jehovah Jireh

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That that he he's a provider for you that some of you may know him as Jehovah Shalom That he is a God of a peace that some of you may know him as Jehovah Shama that he's God and he's always there He he's a very present help in the time of need some of you may know him as Elohim Which means he's your preeminent God that he's number one in your life

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Some of you may know him as El Shaddai that he is a God Almighty Some of you may know him like Solomon knew him said he's a rose of Sharon and and he's a lily of the valley Some of you may know him like Moses knew him and he says I'm the great I am Some of you may know him as John knew him in the book of Revelations. He says I am Alpha and Omega

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I am the beginning and the end I'm the first and I am the last But but I've come to know him in a very real and personal way because I've come to know him as my Savior He is my Savior to me. He's Jesus

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But because with Jesus I don't have to worry about anything because Jesus has he fixed it with with Jesus He's my provider and my protector. He's Experience turn around this face the audience here all those in favor of accepting I

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[A woman is shown in the background, singing.] [Music] But that 24 verse says that if you know him then you'll understand that I'm a God that exercises love I'll love you like nobody else ever loved you and I won't stop loving you

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He says he says if you understand me, I'll exercise judgment. I'm a just God And and and if you know me you'll find out that I'm righteous I'm gonna be right In a world full of wrong and and trying to make some things wrong make it look like it's right

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I'm gonna be a righteous God. I can't be nobody but God Since I met him He's made a difference in my life And he's a living of the valley some of you may know him like Moses knew him and he says I'm the great

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I am some of you may know him as John knew him in the book of Revelations He said I am Alpha and Omega. I am the beginning and the end I'm the first and I am the last But but I've come to know him in a very real and personal way because I've come to know him as my Savior

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He is my Savior to me. He's Jesus Because with Jesus I don't have to worry about anything because Jesus has he's fixed it with with Jesus He's my provider and my protector. He's my comforter and my counselor. He's my friend when I'm lonely He's a brother that that walks with me and he's the one that talks with me

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I know him as Jesus you see every day that that I deal with Jesus Then the song says every day with Jesus is sweeter than the day before Every day with Jesus I learned to love him more and more because he's my one that died for me And he gave his life for me and and then he rose again to be my my savior and my Lord. I

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Come to know him as as Jesus and since I met Jesus Songwriter says that has been a burden deep down within since I met Jesus

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He holds me and he keeps me and if you want to get to know him in a very real and personal way The last part of that that 24 verse says that if you know him then you'll understand that I'm a God that exercises love I'll love you like nobody else ever loved you and I won't stop loving you He says he says if you understand me, I'll exercise judgment. I'm a just

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