Good morning, everyone. Today is the 3rd of... Is it the 3rd or the 2nd? The 3rd of May. 2020, excuse me, and you've joined us for the morning fellowship of Bible Grace Fellowship. Mark has agreed to read some scripture for us. And then we're going to sing some hymns and psalms and spiritual songs and look into the word of God. I'm going to turn the camera around and say hello to Mark and Rosette. Jeremiah 8, 17 through 22. Behold, I will send serpents and tortoises among you. which will not be charmed, and they shall bite you, saith the Lord. When I would comfort myself against sorrow, my heart is faint in me. Behold the voice of the cry of the daughter of my people because of them that dwell in a far country. Is not the Lord in Zion? Is not her king in her? Why have they provoked me to anger with their graven images and with grave, with strange vanities? The harvest is past, the summer's ended, and we are not saved. For the hurt of the daughter of my people, am I hurt? I am black as thine has been have taken hold on me. Is there no bone, is there no position there? Why then is not the health of the daughter of my people recovered? Okay, the first song that Mark Phillips has requested is in the old school hymnal we sing out of the old school hymnal and it's 388 and it's entitled Safe in the Arms of Jesus. Mark, you wanna start that? ♪ Safe in the arms of Jesus ♪ ♪ Safe on his gentle breast ♪ ♪ Bared by his love or shaded ♪ ♪ Sweetly my soul shall rest ♪ Heart is the voice of angels. Born in a song to me. Over the fields of glory. Over the Jasper Sea. Safe in the arms of Jesus. Safe on his gentle there by his love overshaded. Sweetly my soul shall rest, safe in the arms of Jesus, safe from corroding care, safe from the world's temptations. Sin cannot harm me there, free from the light of sorrow, Only a few more trials, only a few more tears. Jesus, my heart's dear refuge, Jesus has died for me. Firm on the rock of ages, ever my trust shall be. Here, let me wait with patience. Wait till the night is o'er. Wait till I see the morning break on the golden shore. Safe in the arms of Jesus. Safe on his gentle breast. There abides love o'er shade and Sweetly my soul shall rest. Well, there's a song, 433, written by Isaac Watts, and I think it's very apropos for today. It's called, Now to the Power of God Supreme, and I don't care to stay here long. and so it says now to the power of God supreme be everlasting honor given he saves from hell we bless his name he calls our wandering feet to heaven not for our duties or deserts but of his own abounding grace he works salvation in our hearts and forms the people for his praise It was His own purpose that began to rescue rebels doomed to die. He gave us grace in Christ His Son before He spread the starry sky. Jesus, the Lord, appears at last and makes His Father's counsels known, declares the great transactions past, and brings immortal blessings down. He dies, and in that dreadful night did all the powers of hell destroy. Rising he brought our heaven to light and took possessions of the joy. Now to the power of God supreme be everlasting honor him and I don't dare to stay here long. He saves from hell we bless his name. He calls our wandering feet to Him, and I don't care to stay here long. Ride up yonder, Christians, away up yonder. Oh yes, my Lord, for I don't care to stay here long. Not for our duties or deserts, but of His own abounding grace. don't care to stay here long. He works salvation in our hearts and forms a people for his praise and I don't care to stay here long. It was his own purpose that began to rescue rebels doomed to die and I don't care to stay here long. He gave us grace in Christ his son before he spread the starry skies, and I don't care to stay here long. Jesus the Lord appears at last, and makes his Father's counsels known, and I don't care to stay here long. Declares the great transactions past, and brings immortal blessings down, and I don't care to stay here long. He died and in that dreadful night did all the powers of hell destroy, and I don't care to stay here long. Rising, He brought our heaven to life and took possession of the joy, and I don't care to stay here long. Right up yonder, Christians, away up yonder, Oh, yes, my lord, and I don't care to stay here long. Well, does anybody else have a selection? Or, well, I guess mom does. Three, six, eight. Eight. Good morning, Gabriel Besoas from Bangladesh. Good to see you. May God bless you abundantly this day. And we wanna thank all the rest of you who've joined us on this online fellowship service. We're glad to have Bangladesh with us. We are a local church. here in Pinefield Grace Fellowship, but we do minister to Bangladesh, and Kenya, and Jamaica, and Rwanda, and Pakistan, and Brazil, and of course, all the states here in the United States. I was looking recently at our monthly report of where we are listened to most, And the most listened to state in the United States is California. Of course, it's a large state. We don't get that many from New York. I wonder why. There's certain people in California that guys weren't waking up. And we get quite a few listeners in Canada and Australia. We have quite a few people listening in South America. And we have listeners in Russia, in China, Japan. Someone from, I guess, I don't know. There's a significant number of Japanese that know English, and so they have posted all my sermons on a Japanese website. And so the good news of the gospel is getting out. We all have sinned and come short of the glory of God, but God has provided a remedy. We no longer have to kill animals. You know, Jesus Christ was the lamb of God that took away the sin of the world. Um what was the number again? 368 Twilight is stealing 368. Shadows are falling dark on the way Born on the night when voices of yore Come from the far off shore Far away beyond the starlit skies Where the love light never, never dies Cleaneth the mansion filled with delight Sweet happy home, so bright Voices of loved ones, songs of the past Still linger round me while I shall rest Willingly I wander, sadly I roam Seeking and far off home Come in the twilight, come, come to me Bringing some message over the sea cheering my pathway while here i roam seeking that far off home far away beyond the starless skies where the love light never never dies clean the mansion filled with delight sweet happy home so bright you have one Uh, no, I don't. Oh, I thought you did. Okay. Well, let's see. You know, there are many that are unable to go to their buildings this morning because of the requirements of the government. The government thinks they have control now over the churches. but we have been broadcasting. I noticed this morning on Sermon Audio, our first message was placed on Sermon Audio in November of 2006. So we're going on 14 years in this little house church. We've been practicing social distancing for 14 years. Over the years, I've warned people about these public places of worship and what was going to happen. And now we see it happening right in front of our eyes. But thanks be to God, it hasn't affected this little Pineville Grace Fellowship. It's actually added to our numbers because more people are joining us now for our broadcast since the government has decided to drive more and more churches underground. Well, a lot of people have a wrong idea of what a church is. They think it's a building with a sign out in front of it, with a $5,000 baptismal font in it, and a parking place that says Reverend over it, and a 100-member choir with choir robes, and a communion service with fancy goblets and trays, silver, and an altar up in front, and all the trimmings that go along with it. That's not church. That's not the church of Christ. That's a building with everything I just described on it. The church is not a place you go to. You hear that government of the United States? You cannot shut the church of the Lord Jesus Christ down. Governor Cuomo, you can't do it. The gates of hell will not prevail against the church of God. I want to sing this. This is speaking of the church, the church of Christ 306. Here in the vineyard. I'm not talking about the vineyard movement in Kansas City. I'm talking about the true vineyard of Jesus Christ. Here in the vineyard of my Lord I love to live and labor and be obedient to my God until my dying hour. I love to see the lilies grow and view them all upstanding in the right place while here below, just as the Lord commanded. We oftentimes meet, both night and day, a faithful band of soldiers. We read, we sing, we preach and pray and find the Lord most precious. But while we sing this song of love, our hearts are deeply wounded. Perhaps we all may meet no more here in a congregation. But if on earth we meet no more, we hope to meet in heaven, where congregations ne'er break up, but dwell in sweet communion, where all the ransomed Church of God shall meet no more to sever Well, some people don't like the church being referred to as the bride of Christ for some reason like that. I don't know why. but they don't they like to try to they try to divide the church up into different dispensations they try to say there's the kingdom age and then there's the old testament age and there's this and there's that pick 308 or revive us okay i was going to sing the bride of christ and then we'll sing yours okay okay um But anyway, I'm trying to find that song. 226. The Bride of Christ? Yeah, that's the Bride of Christ. Thank you. Mom, help me out. You're quick on your feet there, guys. Mom, help me out. Thank you. This says, by the way, this is taken from Song of Solomon 210. The Church of Christ we have today, a blessing from the Lord. He gave her to his son to save and take her home above. She was his bride before she knew. She had a husband dear. And when for her his choice was made, he caused her to draw near. When she adorned with all his grace, she'll be exalted there. No queen with all her glory here was ever half so fair. Turtle Dove is singing now. The winter's passed on. Rise up, my fair one. Come away, I'll take you home. Just stay. The church of Christ we have today, a blessing from the Lord. He gave her to his son to save and take her home above. The turtle dove is singing now. The winter's past and gone. Rise up, my fair one, come away. I'll take you home to stay. She was his bride before she knew. She had a husband near. And when for her his choice was made, it caused her to draw near. When she adorned with all his grace, shall be exalted there. No queen with all her glory here, was ever half so fair. The turtledove is singing now, the winter's fast and gone. Rise up, my fair one, come away, I'll take you home to stay. Well, let's sing. I was going to sing my song. Oh, I'm sorry, Mark. What was the number? 308 Lorim Revival. 308. Thank you, Mark. Yes. 308. Want to start that? Savior, visit thy plantation. Grant us, Lord, a gracious reign. All will come to desolation. unless thou return again. Lord, revive us. Lord, revive us. All our help must come from thee. Lord, revive us. O, revive us. All our help must come from thee. Keep no longer at a distance. Shine upon us from on high. of thine assistance, every plant should droop and die. Surely once thy gardens flourished, every heart looked gay and green. Then thy word, our spirits nourished, happy seasons we have seen. Dearest Savior, hasten hither, thou canst make them bloom again. Oh, permit them not to wither. Let not all our hopes be vain. Lord, revive us. Lord, revive us. All our help must come from thee. Lord, revive us. Lord, revive us. All our help must come from thee. OK, we're going to sing out of this. In the back of this, there's some old songs, old praise songs. And I want us to see this morning when we need God's protection under his wings is what I'm saying. We look around us, all of these lies spread about. This coronavirus, there are a lot of lies and a lot of misinformation given to the general population and they just go along with it. People wearing masks, people social distancing six feet apart, all the restaurants closed, and on and on it goes. but we're not relying upon social distancing. We're not relying upon masks. We're not relying on vaccinations. You know, it's interesting. The biggest promoter of vaccinations is Bill Gates, but he will not allow his children, any of his children to be vaccinated. Do as I say, not as I do. Anyway, we're under his wings. Jesus Christ is our protector. And when it's our time to go, he will call us home. Under his wings, I'm safely abiding. Though the night deepens and tempests are wild, still I can trust Him, I know He will keep me. He has redeemed me and I am His child. Under His wings, under His wings, who from His love can sever? Under his wings, my soul shall abide, safely abide forever. Under his wings, what a refuge in sorrow, how the heart yearningly turns to his rest. Often when earth has no balm for my healing, There I find comfort and there I am blessed. Under his wings is no precious enjoyment. There will I hide till life's trials are o'er. Sheltered, protected, no evil can harm me. Resting in Jesus, I'm safe evermore. Well, before we go to the other part of our service, we're going to sing a 7A. Bottom of 48, top of 49 in my book. What page? 97B, I'm sorry. Page 49. Did you start that? To him God's worship bring. When Zion hears that she is black, and Jews daughter sing. Because of all thy judgments, Lord, thou art the Lord most high. Above all earth, above all gods, his soul could very high. They need all who love the Lord. He keeps the saints secure. And from the hand of wicked men, he gives deliverance sure. Dear Lord, we pray that you would be with us in this service. We pray that your name might be exalted and glorified Thank you for forgiveness of sins and your death on the cross. We pray that you would lead and guide and direct our thoughts today. In Jesus' name, amen. Well, I want to thank Gabriel Roney for joining us this morning. There are many people that are crying out for help during this time. I wish I was able to help everyone, but I'm not. My first responsibility, of course, is to my family, to provide for them. Scripture says that if I don't, that I'm worse than an infidel. So my first responsibility We'll certainly keep you in our prayers, Gabriel. There's a lot of people going through major, major sorrow and pain right now. Thanks to the evil people in the world that want to try to control everybody's life. But we have a future to look forward to that is not dependent upon man. It's not dependent upon a vaccination. It's not dependent upon stimulus money. It's not dependent upon a job. It's not dependent upon relatives. It's not dependent upon a church building or a person with a seminary degree or master's college, but it's solely dependent upon the completed work of Jesus Christ. He is our only hope. And He is our advocate. He forgives us when we sin, when we repent and turn from our sins. And there's so much evil in the world today. Facebook can be used for good or evil. We're proclaiming the good news of the gospel this morning on Facebook, but you can go over to Facebook movies and see pornography. That's how bad it is on Facebook now. The Facebook movie section is nothing more than pornography. Promotion thereof. Thank you, Zuckerberg. Immorality is running rampant on YouTube. You can get pornography on YouTube. People say, well, it's not pornography. Yes, it is. So YouTube can be used to proclaim the gospel. Facebook can be used to proclaim the gospel, but YouTube and Facebook can also, and BitChute can also be used to promote immorality and depravity and perversion. Today, I wanna look at a passage of scripture in the 16th chapter of Acts. 16th chapter of Acts. And I'm gonna begin In verse 13, this is an interesting account of Lydia, of Lydia. By the way, this same, this story can be repeated over and over again about others who have come to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ and who have been active in the assistance of those in the gospel, beginning with verse 13. And on the Sabbath, we went out of the city by a riverside. Now, isn't that interesting? They did not go into a temple. They did not go into a synagogue. They did not go into a building. on the Sabbath, they went out of the city by a riverside. I like that. Where prayer was want to be made, and we sat down and spake to the women which resorted thither. They were having a church service by the riverside. They weren't having a church service in a building or an edifice. And a certain woman named Lydia, a seller of purple of the city of Thyatira, which worshiped. God heard us, whose heart the Lord opened. I actually heard a minister say that Lydia opened her own heart. No one can open their own heart. If they're dead in their trespasses of sin, they will not be open to the gospel. Only the Holy Spirit can cause their heart to be opened. I refer you back to, if you want to take a look at it in Psalms, the 110th chapter. 110th chapter, look what it says there. In verse three, thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power and the beauty of holiness from the womb of the morning thou hast to do of thy youth. Thy people shall be willing in the day of thy power. That's what happened to Lydia. He made Lydia willing in the day of his power. Notice it says that, whose heart the Lord opened that she attended unto the things which were spoken of Paul. If you attend to the things that are spoken about Christ and about the Bible, it's because your heart has been opened. And when she was baptized in her household, so they had a nice setting to baptize her because they were right by the river. They didn't have a baptismal font. They were there by the river. And so they were by the riverside. And so when she was baptized in her household, she'd be sought of saying, if you have judged me to be faithful to the Lord, come into my house and abide there. And she constrained us. You know, when we are fellowshipping with other believers in Christ, we We want to have close fellowship with brothers and sisters in Christ. We don't want to practice social distancing. And today, like I said, this little house church is fellowshipping with people around the world. And it came to pass as we went to prayer, a certain damsel possessed with the spirit of divination met us, which brought her masters much gain by Sussane. There's a lot of people right now that are practicing divination. And they are, notice one of the main motivations for practicing Sussane. They do it for much gain. Why is Dr. Fauci and Dr. Brooks and Bill Gates and all these other people so adamant about having everyone vaccinated? Well, if 9 billion people are vaccinated with these elements of aborted feces in them, they can not only offer that up as a sacrifice to Lucifer, but they can also get much gain out of it. A very, very small percentage of 9 billion vaccinations is a lot of money. How do you think Bill Gates became a multi, multi-billionaire? It wasn't through, it wasn't through worshiping God, I can guarantee you. Verse 17, the same followed Paul and us in Christ saying, these men are servants of the Most High. God was showing us the right way of salvation. What did the leader of FEMA say? We got to get rid of the true Christians. We got to get rid of the true Christians. That's what she was doing here. And this did she many days, but Paul being grieved, turned and said to the spirit, I command thee in the name of Jesus Christ to come out of her. And he came out the same hour. We need to pray that the spirit of divination will come out of Bill Gates and Dr. Fauci and all these people that are upholding these people. if it were God's will to do so. It may not be His will to do so. He may be accomplishing what we're told in Revelation 13 through Bill Gates and Fauci and these other devils. What does it tell us is gonna happen in Revelation 13? If you have a pen or something, just go to Revelation 13 and underline verse seven and never forget it because this will ultimately happen. I guarantee you, because it's in my book. And it was given unto him to make war with the saints and overcome them. Did you hear that secret rapture people? Did you hear that secret rapture people? It was given unto him to make war with the saints and to overcome them. and power was given him over all kindreds and tongues and nations. Do we see evidence of that right before our eyes today? Yes, we do. Okay, so we're back now in Acts 16. And when her masters, when her masters saw that the hope of their game was gone, they caught Paul and Silas and drew them in their marketplace and the rulers. Why do you think that Bill Gates hates Christians so much? Why do you think that these people that are so into this new normal, they call it, the new normal, Why do they hate Christians? Why do they want to shut us down? Well, because they see the hope of their gains are being threatened, don't they? They see that the hope of their gains are being threatened. And so they brought them to the magistrates saying, these men being Jews do exceedingly trouble our city. That's what they're going to say about you and me. When we reject these forced vaccinations, we say, no, that goes against my religious beliefs. I refuse to participate in having elements of aborted feces placed in my body. This goes against my religious beliefs. Do you think that they're going to go along with it? They're going to draw us into the courts, and they're going to say, these people do not want to come under the government's authority, and they're exposing the rest of the population to potential viruses. That's what they're going to say. 21, and they teach customs which are not lawful for us to receive, neither to observe, being Romans. That's what they're going to say. They're teaching things to other people that's not lawful in the United States. We're not Christians, they're going to say. We're atheists. We don't even believe in God. Why do we have to succumb to these Christians? And the multitude rose up together against them. And the magistrates ran off their clothes and commanded to beat them. That's coming here, folks, whether you believe it or not. Mass hysteria. Mass hysteria. And when they had laid many stripes upon them, they cast them into prison, charging the jailer to keep them safe, safely. Do you think that there's ever going to be forced quarantine in this country? For those who are not receiving forced vaccinations on a microchip? It's very possible, very possible. Who having received such a charge, thrust them into the inner prison and made their feet fast in the stocks. Remember that song, they're coming to take us away, ha, ha, ha. They're coming to take us away. And at midnight, Paul and Silas prayed and sang praises unto God and the prisoners heard them. Paul and Silas were troublemakers, weren't they? No, they were just praising God. And suddenly there was a great earthquake. So that the foundations of the prison were shaken and immediately all the doors were open and everyone's bands were loosed. Instead of letting out prisoners to the general population to expose them in coronavirus, God decided to let these prisoners out as an example of his power and his glory through an earthquake. And the keeper of the prison, awaking out of his sleep and seeing the prison doors open, he drew out his sword and would have killed himself, supposing that the prisoners had fled. He knew that he was gonna be killed anyway for letting the prisoners flee, but Paul cried with a loud voice saying, do thyself no harm for we're all here. Then he called for a light and sprang in and came and fell down for poor Paul and Silas and brought them out and says, what must I do to be saved? He already must have been given the gospel. He must have already been preached the gospel. And now the Holy Spirit was working in his heart to bring him to a saving knowledge of Jesus Christ. And they said, believe on the Lord Jesus Christ and thou shall be saved in thy house. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord into all that were in his house. They had a house service in the jailer's house. They had a house service. And they spake unto him the word of the Lord, and all that were in his house. And he took them that same hour of the night and washed their stripes and was baptized, he and all his straight way. And when he had brought them into his house, he said, meet before them and rejoice, believing in God with all his house. And when it was the day, the magistrates sent the sergeant saying, let those men go. And the keeper of the prison told this saying to Paul, the magistrates have sent to let you go. But Paul said to them, they have beaten us openly, uncondemned being Romans and have cast us into prison. And now they do thrust us out privately. You know, we need to take a stand. against this evil government, just like the apostle Paul did against the Roman government. We need to take a stand against it. Don't preach to me Romans 13, preach to me Acts 16, verse 37. Preach to me Acts 16, verse 37. And the sergeant told these words unto the magistrates and they feared. And when they heard they were Romans, we're Americans. We're Americans. We need to remind our government that we are American citizens. And if we don't want to take a lousy, no good vaccination, we don't have to take it. If we don't want to be chipped, we don't have to take a chip. If we don't want to be digitally coded in our telephone, we won't be digitally coded in our telephone. And the sergeants told these words in the magistrates and they feared when they heard they were Americans, I mean Romans, sorry. They will fear when they hear that we're proclaiming, hey, we're American citizens. And they came and besought them and brought them out and desired them to depart out of their city. Get them out of here. This is not politically correct for me. And they went out of the prison and entered in the house of Lydia, went back to the house church of Lydia. And when they had seen the brethren, they comforted them and departed. Well, the lesson here for us today, what should our response be to all this evil? We should take a stand against it. We should proclaim our American citizenship. We should proclaim the gospel. We should proclaim the truth of the gospel found only in Jesus Christ. Well, let us conclude with this song in the back of this book. We're not only citizens of America, but we are a child of the king. And that let us never forget whose we are. Two kinds of people on the face of the earth. There are those who are their father the devil and the works of their father they will do. And there are those who are children of the king. So we're gonna sing, I'm gonna turn the camera around and let Mark and Rosette say goodbye to you this morning. And we may want to, Do another time of fellowship this evening as well. This is called A Child of the King. My father is rich in houses and lands. Behold the wealth of the world in his hands. Of rubies and diamonds, of silver and gold, His coffers are full, He has riches unfulfilled. I'm a child of the King, a child of the King. With Jesus my Savior, I'm a child of the King. My Father's own Son, the Savior of men, once wondered earth as the poorest of them. But now he is reigning forever on high and will give me a home in heaven by and by. I once was an outcast, stranger on earth, a sinner by death and an alien by birth. But I've been adopted, my name's written down I'm heir of a mansion, a robe and a crown A tent or a cottage, why should I care? He's building a palace for me over there Though exile from home, yet still I may sing All glory to god. I'm a child of the king. A child of the king. A child of the king. With Jesus, my savior. I'm a child of the king. Well, you know, we're going to someday be on the other side. And we're not going to have to worry about anything that's going on down here on this sin cursed earth because it's going to be burned up. It's going to be burned up by fire. And they used to sing a song about that when the world's on fire. world's going to be on on fire one of these days and and we're going to be we're going to be rescued out of this world and uh you know it seems that uh it's closer than what we think maybe a lot closer than what we think And I wanna also, if you could sing, I will make the darkness light before thee. We're in great darkness right now, and we should be praying daily that God would keep us from the darkness, keep us from sin, keep us from succumbing to all these things. And we'll make the darkness light before thee. What is wrong, we'll make it right before thee. ♪ All the battles I will fight before thee ♪ ♪ And the high place I'll bring down ♪ ♪ When thou walkest by the way I'll lead thee ♪ ♪ On the fatness of the land I'll feed thee ♪ ♪ And a mansion in the sky I'll be thee ♪ ♪ And the high place I'll bring down ♪ ♪ With an everlasting love I'll love thee ♪ Though a trial's deep and sore, I'll prove thee, but there's nothing that can hurt