Amen. Yeah. Yes, amen. Oh, yeah. Amen. Amen. Yes. Thank you, Lord. God bless her heart. Yes, yes. Uh-huh. Yeah. Yes, sir. Thank you, Lord. Yeah. Yes, that's good. Yeah. Yes. Yes. Yes. Oh yeah. This is my favorite verse. Oh yeah. Right here. That's right. Can't put a price on it. Yeah. So secure. Yes. Amen. Yep. Yes. Right. Amen. and we ought to worry about it again. Yes. That's good. Amen. Yes. Amen. Yes. Certainly. Yes. Oh yeah. Thank you, Lord. Amen. That's mighty good. Amen. Good job. Amen. Amen. Y'all got one? Amen. If you do, come on. Help them, Lord. Amen. Lord bless them. Stir the hearts. You can't do it all by yourself. Yeah, you can, too. Thank you for that song, man. That's that's one man. Beautiful voice and a beautiful song. That's something you can't put a price on. The peace and security. We're in a messed up world. You may have trouble on every hand, but Mickey, I'm not worried. I'm not frightened. I don't have no fear this morning, because I know who's got it all under control. And I cannot tell you what I'll be doing this time tomorrow. I don't have any assurance of that. But I can, without a doubt, tell you what I'll be doing 100 years from now, 1,000 years from now, a million years from now. I know exactly where I'll be. I know exactly what I'll be doing. And I've got peace about that, you see. this morning. That song means a lot to me. Freeman Kelly used to come here and sing that song all the time. When I was a kid, even before I got saved, there was something so peaceful about that song. Especially hearing him sing it. And I think back over all the years that I've enjoyed being a part of this church, Brother Mickey. I think about, every time I see you and John, I think about Bible school that year y'all taught us when we were teenagers. That was a big transition in our life. Right there, we was about to see a lot of change. We was about to have to face the real world in our life. Y'all wasn't gonna have Bible school for us anymore. We done got too old. And that was gonna be our last go through. And I remember that. And I talked to John about how big a blessing that's been in my life. What a transition that was for me. It's the first time I'd ever vocally and publicly told about when the Lord saved me, during Bible school. What a joy. And what a landmark that is in my life to have that. And I thank the Lord for it. John came yesterday and brought a DVD. It had old eight millimeter reels put on the DVD. And I got to see some of the old church folks from back in the late fifties and early sixties. had come through this church, and I remember them being old-timers, and old folks, but I was seeing them as young people on the video, and I got to thinking about that, how time has changed a lot of things, and time's made a change in me. But there's some things that has remained true and constant down through all these years. Amen, and it's the peace of God that we should all understand. Amen. What an inheritance we have in the Lord Jesus this morning. I'm glad I know Him. And I'm glad more than that, He knows me this morning. I'm His property. I'm one of His children. You can't get any closer related than that. I'm glad I belong to Him. I'm His property. Let's try to say something. I was standing on the banks of the river looking out over life's troubled sea When I saw that old ship that was sailing. Yes, amen. Is that the old ship of Zion? I see. was with ♪ From the storms of life I could see ♪ ♪ Waves were rough but that ocean was steady ♪ ♪ It's that little old ship of mine that I see ♪ At the stern of the ship was the captain. I could hear as he called out my name. Get on board, it's the old ship of Zion. I'll be Amen. Thank the Lord for that. Amen. All right, somebody needs to testify this morning. Who can say it? Do it first. God bless you, Brother Justin. Amen to the Lord. God bless your people this morning. Yes. Joy to be here this morning. Thank you for coming. I appreciate what the Lord has done for us today. The psalm service has been sweet and wonderful. I agree with Sister Reeves. There's something about morning meetings that that just have a sweetness to them and a peace about them that you just can't put a price on it. And I thank God for it. Some of my fondest memories come from morning services. And I've got some I'm going to carry with me this week. Amen. And I look forward to what God's going to do for us today. Preacher, you come on with mine, Lord. Do whatever God has you do. You got a message, Preacher? Can I just stand up this morning? Yes, go ahead. Every time I come in this church, I think I was a five-year-old child listening to Brother Cook preach. And I could almost see God coming back. I was scared, even at five years old. I think I was under submission at five years old. And I don't know why it was so hard for me to get saved, because I was raised in church. But when I was 10 years old, I went to the doctor. I told everybody I got saved. But I wasn't saved. I had my name on the church roll. But when I was, I guess, about 13 years old, we were in Revival down at Keytona Baptist Church in Tarrant, Alabama, where the Clayton Smith was preaching. And the Lord started dealing with me. And I made my way to the altar. And a lot of people say, I don't remember what I said. But Justin, I remember what I said. I was begging God to save me and to forgive me of my sins. I was only 13 years old. I had not done anything really bad, but I was as lost as they were. I was as lost as they were. But you know, I remember the first time I got baptized, there was nothing in it. But the second time, when I really got saved, they carried a bunch of us out in the pond and they baptized us. And I came up and shouted at them. Oh, yes. As long as I live, that's my baffled spot. The church burnt to the ground, but I believe I can carry it back to the very spot where I got saved. I love you. And it all started right here in Antioch Church, hearing the preached word of God. Brother Cook was an anointed preacher. I believe that in all my heart. There was a lot of people saved under his preaching. He didn't save them, but God preached them. But I love the Lord this morning. I get excited when I think about what I've got to say. If you don't get excited about it, there's something wrong this morning. Y'all just pray for us. God bless you. Amen. Amen. Amen. Come on, brother. Bless your brother's heart. I was thinking about that shield. Yeah. You know, when it went next to Iowa. I studied that with all those ropes that come under there to help keep the shield together. Christ took and put down the anchors. Correct. Prior to that, they'd also lighten the shield. Lighten the shield. And then he threw out the tackle. I think it was a 30. And when they got there, eventually, when it got daylight, they cut the slails up and cut the anchors and went in. Let's think about a lot of times in life, we have problems. God sent the Holy Spirit. Yes. Amen. Certainly. Holy Spirit can't help us doing lots of things. That's right. That's right. That's right. God bless you, Brother Max. That's right. That's right. Amen, Brother Max. God bless you. Glory for heaven. I went to, it might have been just a regular service, but one of Wesley's and my boy's friends was called to preach. And they scheduled him to preach at Second Baptist Church at Bowis, and we went to hear him. And the young man that got up there, read his scripture, and then he just almost fainted. And the deacons had to carry him out, because it just scared him so bad. So the preacher took over where he had started, and preached on the second coming of Christ. And when they get to give the altar call, kids when I testify by the Lord's name. Amen. Amen. God bless you. Amen. Praise the Lord. Anybody else got a testimony? Yes, sir. Bless you, brother. Come on. And my mind come as he began to talk about that boat, and they sang about the old ship of Zion, that there's a ferry boat. that was going to make a trip from this side over to the other side. And you had to get on the board that very morning. made preparations to ride that boat. The Lord saved me, and that allowed me to be able to step on board. As they said, as I stepped on board, I'll be leaving. And when I got saved, I've got permission to be able to step on board. And you know, there's some folks on the other side that's waving. Folks will be waving you by, but there's some on the other side that's waving you in. Come on in. Come on this way. And I don't know what all heaven holds, but I know it's going to be wonderful. As the poet wrote that song, won't it be wonderful? And they sung the song, How Beautiful Heaven Must Be. They don't know exactly how to describe it. The Bible lets us have just a little bit of vision of that. And it's all spiritual vision there. And I'm so thankful for that. But Justin, I got loved ones on the other shore. Me and John's got family on the other shore. And one of these days, the ties that hold us to this side, they'll start severing, they'll start breaking. We'll begin to start leaning more toward that side. And the things will be going that side. And I remember my dad, he got real sick. Mama had Alzheimer's and I was sitting with him that day. And Mama come in there and she sat down in a chair and she said, now, JP, you need to get Well, said they some grandkids we need to raise. He said, said Doris, we've had a good life. Said we've raised her family and we've raised grandkids. We fixed them to make a move on the other side. He is starting to turn this side loose. He is beginning to make that side. She is trying to make one more pull to keep him here. Oh, praise the Lord. They say go to the side, Brother Chris. I'm waiting on it. Glory be to God. Amen. Thank you, Lord. God bless you. Thank you, Lord. Amen. Yes. Looking better every day. Yes, sir. Amen. Thank you, my man. My good. Thank you, sir, brother. Oh, my goodness. I've been sitting here all week. Yeah. All the good singing and good preaching. Yeah. My cousin just run us over. Yeah. I sit here and cry. Yeah, yeah. My cousin Moses. Mm-hmm. He had a little trouble talking sometimes. He did? I had to give him a hair in every mouth. Yeah, he did. A lot of girls sometimes wear their hair down. Yeah, yeah. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. And I was sitting back here, and he had a man named Brother Jesse Cash. Yeah. Talked about him yesterday. I forget what happened there before yesterday, but I remember that name. God bless you, brother. In the days of his time, he was sick. He fell sick. The Lord sent Isaiah to tell him Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Yes. God bless you, brother. Yes. That's right. Yeah. That's right. He might have had a pole, but I guess we're going to see what that is. It's possible. But anyway, I couldn't get himself. We had a big family that night. Back in those days, y'all, a lot of you remember that you just couldn't hardly get him to notice you were in here. Yeah. Well, you know, this day and time, it's not that way anymore. You're right. But we can sit here, and if we let us, God bless you, brother. Yeah, God bless you. God bless you. We'll see. Yeah, yeah. I'm glad that happened. Yeah. Yeah. He was a young man, but cancer got on him, and he wasn't going to live much longer. So coming back to down there with my friends and all that, somewhere down on the interstate, I don't know, but I can't worry about it. Yeah, yeah. Don't say it. Hey, man. God bless you. Yeah. God bless his heart. Yeah. Amen. Amen. Yes, ma'am. God bless you, Sister Glenda. Opened my heart when I was just a little girl. He let me come in. And one day I'm going home. As our Lord teaches, one of you testify and speak. I can't hear or hear names. I've forgotten his name. But it's been well worth finding him. I look at your faces and see God in them. How sweet that is. Praise the Lord. And look at that sweet home. Yes, yes. Oh, it just envelops you up in his arms. And it's been so good to just feel the presence of God. Amen. Amen. So good to hear these testimonies. Amen. Help yourself. Somebody else. Amen. Brother Justin. That's your brother. When Moses fled from Egypt and he got over there and he got the ten and the sheep. Yeah. And Bible said that He's carrying them sheep around up on the mountain. And there's no telling how many bushes that Moses had looked at, and it looked like just another bush. Didn't have nothing in it. One day he went by a bush, it caught his attention. He had to stop. He kept looking at that bush. He said, I've got to go find out why it's not being consumed. Closer he got, finally God said, take off your shoes, you're on holy ground. And he began to get some orders from God. As far as I know, that's the first time that I can find where God ever spoke to Moses. I don't know how many times before I got saved, I heard the word preached and it was just another message. Didn't have nothing in it. One Sunday night, there was something in a message that spoke to me and got my attention. And that night, that message spoke to me and told me what I needed to do to get things made right with God. Thank God that I had a mama kind of about like Samuel, took me to the church constantly, over and over and over. And kind of like Moses' mama, when I got to a certain age, all she could do was build an ark around me in prayer and just let me go. That's all she could do. But that guy, that message had more meaning than I believe any message. I heard a lot of messages. I can't tell you what was even preached that night. I can tell you what the man preached on last night. But I couldn't tell you what Brother Cook preached on that night. But the Holy Ghost spoke to me that night through that message. And from that point on, after I made my way to the altar, got down there, like you said, I don't know what I said. Had no idea, doesn't really matter. God knows. He knew what I needed. And that night, that night my life changed. That night that peace that she sang about got into my heart. That night I could lay my head in my Lord's lap and I could sleep all night and didn't have to worry about nothing. And you know what? It's been that way ever since. I've had that peace ever since. Never got to worry about it. What's going to happen to me when I die? I ain't worried about that. It might be tomorrow. It might be before we get out of this church. Don't you worry about it. I've got things fixed. I know where I'm headed. Y'all pray for me when you pray. Amen, baby. Amen. He's a Lord. That's your sister. Justin. Yeah. He laid to go right out here to the red light. Yeah. Take a ride. I'm too old now to go down just a little bit. I've been waiting on my turn all day long. What's going on with me? Why can't I figure this out? God bless her heart, yeah. But when I think about what he done for me, David, nobody knew it much, but my daddy was running from the Lord during that time. We was going through a storm in our life while we both were, but she took us to church. Every time the church doors was open, we'd go to church. And she'd call his name. And that night, the Lord came to me, and that storm became to me. Bless her, Lord. I just remember that sweet feeling. I was in that bedroom, sitting on my floor, just playing, and didn't have a care in the world. And then all of a sudden, the convicted spirit comes out. Amen. Amen. Bless her, Lord. Fill her up. It's somewhere between that kitchen and that bedroom. When I open that door, every time I got to mine, I believe the Lord saved me. Yeah. Go ahead. It's all right. Oh, I love it today. Yes, you are. God bless her. Amen. Amen. Praise the Lord. Yes. The next best thing you get to say is your child's name. That's right. Amen. I certainly will. Amen to that. Amen. Amen to that. Jesus said it's like the wind. Yes. We can't. Yes. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. Yeah. God bless you, brother. I like them too. Yeah, yeah. Yeah. I'm talking about Thursday night morning, a Sunday morning, Sunday night, Wednesday night, vacation, revivals. I'm talking about talking about the Lord when he ain't sitting around talking about his stupid old football team. I'm talking about God's business. God bless you brother Donovan. God bless his heart. I love everything about it. Oh yeah. I'm glad I'm from Tipper. I'm glad I'm Tipper. Yes sir. If you're 40 and you're in your turbo and you hate Tipper, you better check all up. I'm telling you, if you left that offer and went back and done what you did the day before, you didn't get what I got. God bless your heart. God bless you brother Donnelly. Yeah. Praise the Lord. God bless you. Amen. Yes. Amen. I love you too. God bless you. I had to leave early last week. I ended up in Birmingham. You had a big deal with me? Yeah. And I'm good in the waterway. There'd be no fun in swimming. I made a mistake. I thought it was right. It's behind us. It wasn't. I come out, boys, you couldn't see nothing. Had a big wreck, didn't pile up everywhere. I'm good. And I had to burn and lower to let me see a little place. So I jumped. But I dropped off my hands and found a little hole to sit in. Yeah. Sitting there with me and my Lord. Oh, man. Oh, you said it right. You know, good word. You could have been that one of that people piled on the grass. It rains hard. You can't see. You sit over there, your head's swelled up, Adidas worked on you. You sit there down on the ice. Praise you, brother. God's real. God will always be real. A man ain't better than a man. A man ain't God. And everybody's standing up praying to God, you're better than you were, like you said last week, or today. You can't explain the option. You can't figure it out. But bless God, if you ain't God, you can't get it. Amen. That's right. You cannot fake it. Amen. Praise the Lord. Somebody else, help yourself. Wonderful to hear you testify today. What a joy. Yes. The devil ain't got any business in here. Amen. It's not his business what we do. Thank God. Amen. Now the Spirit of God, Jesus said, is like the wind. Amen. You don't know when it's coming, where it's coming from, or where it's going. That's right. Amen. Somebody, you mentioned the sails a while ago. And I come to church just like you come to church. And I don't know how and when. and where the Spirit's going and coming, but I'm gonna run my sail up when it does run. When the wind does blow, amen, I'm gonna have my sail up. Amen. Amen. I want to be here ready for the wind. Yes, sir. Praise the Lord. And I believe it's blowing through here today. Keep your sail up. Praise the Lord. When it comes through, it'll carry somebody home. Somebody else need to testify. Just a joy to be here today. Richard, come on, just close however you feel like to close, testify, whatever you need to do. We're just thankful to have you. Appreciate you. Come on. I bless you, brother. Amen. Fill him up, Lord. I bless you, brother. I don't want to do anything to hinder what we've already had. Yeah. and I appreciate the goodness of God. And I was thinking about, Sister Glenda testified, about not being able to hear, but being able to tell that the Spirit was in what was being done. Many of y'all know Brother Andrew Tonkin, he's a missionary. He spent the last 10, 12 years down in Brazil, and the last year or so he's been over in Iraq. And he's a missionary in Iraq, and I've been talking with him, He's got a carpentry shop over there. And I think it's called something like Three Nails or Three Rusty Nails is the name of his carpentry shop. But anyway, he came and preached for me several times. He came and preached for me when I was at Oak Grove. And Jim's name is escaping me this morning. What's Jim, is it Hendricks? Jim Hendricks, is that his name? But Jim Hendricks was at church, was having decorations. Brother Andrew never had really been to a church having decoration. Y'all know how Jim talks, and you really can't hardly understand him. And we were in there, and he was getting ready to go down to Brazil, and he's going down there where those tribes were, and they didn't speak English, and they didn't speak Spanish, and they didn't really speak Portuguese, but it was their own language. He had been talking with me about how he didn't know how he'd be able to convey to them things. But all of a sudden, Jim got up and started testifying. And he walked over there to the window and he was pointing out there, his mom and daddy was standing out there in the cemetery. And he kept pointing out there and he was talking about his mom and daddy. You can just hear a word here and there, you know, we was listening real close. But all of a sudden Jim got to saying, he said, I can hear daddy saying, come on home. And he said, I hear mama saying, come on home, Jim. Come on home, Jim. And he said, one of these days, he said, I'm going to go on home. And they're going to be saying, come on home, Jim. Come on home, Jim. Hey, I'm thankful for those that are on the other side. Oh, yeah. Yes. Yeah. Oh, yeah. Yeah. Yeah. I went back to get us, and what a great reunion day that'll be. I told brother, we said a good Holy Ghost meet one night, and the Lord was really a moving, really helping us, and brother Andrew Tonkin was there, and I went up and hugged his neck, and we was both crying together, and I said, and right after that, the Lord let me preach, and i was up behind the pulpit preaching i was preaching about the lord coming back yeah and us meeting the church there you know and in the clouds and going to be with the lord forever and i was talking about that i said well andrew yeah you might be in virginia you might be in brazil I said, He's talking about meeting you by the river. I said, I'll meet you in the air. It's going to be forever with the Lord. I'm glad you already know better where you're at when He comes back, whether you're alive or walking around or already in the grave, in some foreign country, in the jailhouse somewhere. I'm glad that when the Lord comes back, He'll be able to get us all. Same meeting place. Amen. I don't think I'm going to preach, Brother Justin. I appreciate the justice you've been giving this morning. Have a good singing. I'm thankful for that peace of God. I am too, sir. Have it in our heart every now and again. And somehow or another, now listen to this, my papa died when I was 13 years old. And he was my hero. I wanted to be just like him. And I remember when he died, I was at the funeral home, and everybody was crying. I didn't cry a tear. And it wasn't, but when we got home, I remember pulling up in the carport, and we got out of our cars, and I just broke. And I began to weep because my hero had died. And he was already dead. You know, that's a crime. And it was such a sad time. Well, I'll go a little bit further. The next time one of my grandparents died, it was my great-grandmother. And they asked me to preach the funeral. And I said, I don't think I can do that. And I said, but I'll try. And there was a peace came. I wouldn't come down to stand. When my granddaddy died, I preached his funeral. at least her funeral, I mean my life. I've had aunts and uncles to die, and I've heard people say I couldn't do it. Oh, thank God for that peace. Thank God for everything. And when you realize that you're gone, it makes all those things easier. Amen, brother. Amen. We don't mourn as those that don't have hope. That's right. But we have hope of a better day to come. Yes, we do. Amen, praise the Lord. Yes, we do. I can almost hear them saying, come on. Come on. Yeah. Y'all don't think I'm a little crazy right here. That's all right. When my, when my, uh, Natalie's granddaddy, her pawpaw passed away, his name was Brown Hallmark. Some of y'all might've known Brother Brown. He was a preacher from down in Wattsburg community. He actually went to the Holy land. with Brother Cook, one of the trips he took, and he'd always talk about that time. After meeting Brother Cook, he'd talk about them going over there. Brother Cook said that was the bravest man that he ever knew. Well, the day that he passed away, or the day of his funeral, they had what I call an old-timey funeral. And what they did, they had a visitation at the very end, and everybody walked by, had a final viewing. And all of his kids were sitting right there on the front, a couple of pews, and they were all sitting there. And me and Natalie and the kids went up, and we saw Pawpaw back there in the casket, and we cried a little bit. And I got around there to my daddy-in-law, and I hugged my daddy-in-law, and he began to cry, and we cried together. And next thing I know, my daddy-in-law starts shouting. And he shouts, and he shouts, and he shouts. He said, son, Elijah's done gone home. He said, pick up the mantle. and keep on going along. And can I tell you, every once in a while, I would go by that cemetery, I'd walk up to that great sign, and I'd say, I'm still a child, but I carried the mantle all the way. I praise God for those who came before us. I've been blazed at Israel for us, and He leads you for us today. Amen. Amen. Thank God for Brother Raymond Cooke, who come through blazing Israel for us. I appreciate him. I love to sit and talk with him. He blazed out a trail for us. He did. These other men of God have blazed out trails. Yeah. And I don't want the trail to grow up on my watch. No, sir. Amen. Amen. I want to encourage us today. Take good cheer. Yeah. We're still in the way. That's right. The testimonies I felt this morning and heard and felt. Amen. I praise the Lord for that. I've heard Brother, y'all know Brother James Earl Pate. I know Brother Justin does. I've heard Brother James Earl Pate make this statement a lot of times. He said he said there ain't nothing about he's talking about people talking about feelings. Yeah, and they ain't nothing about feelings and all those kind of things Yeah, he said you might as well say as far as you know, yeah I appreciate being able to feel something. Yeah Hey, man, I can't explain it. I can't explain the wind blowing but I see the effects of it. That's right. Amen. You can feel the effects of it. Sure you can I don't really know. The Lord sent me out this week just trying to help me to encourage y'all. Keep on it going. I want to encourage you one more time this morning. Just keep on keeping on. One of these days we're all going to land on the seashore. Maybe in that old ship of Zion. Now the scripture said that ship I preached on last night. The ship may be torn and beaten, but we're all going to make it. I praise the Lord. That's all I got, brother Justin. That's fine, brother. I missed a little devotion this morning for myself. That's all right. I appreciate the fact that the Lord's... I'd preach if he'd let me. I promise I would. Yeah. That's all I got, though. I'm just thinking about Jim saying, come on home. Yeah. Come on home. Amen. You know what Brother Andrew told me? He said, Brother Chris, he said, when I heard, he didn't know his name, he said, when I heard that man stand up and testify, saying, come on home, come on home, he said, I really couldn't understand what he was saying. He said, but my spirit sure did bear witness to what his spirit said. And he said, I know, when I get down there in that jungle, and I get in that group of Indians, I don't know how we communicate, but I know we will. That's right. Praise the Lord. I'm glad the Spirit can do what we cannot do. That's right. Amen. Amen. I appreciate the Lord this morning. I appreciate another morning service of revival. I do too. Thank the Lord for that. I appreciate it. Thank you, Lord. Thank you for coming. Wonderful day. We'll be back tonight to try again. Yes, we will. Praise the Lord. We'll just keep coming. All I'm going to do is just keep preaching. That's right, brother. Keep trying to go. Keep trying to go. Yeah. Keep trying to go. Bless your heart. There's no place to quit. We gotta keep going. Bless the Lord. There's no place to quit. We gotta keep on going. Come on. Yeah. Come on. Yeah. Let's just keep on following the Lord. Yeah. That's all I got, Mother Judge, tonight. Amen. Hope I didn't disappoint you. That's all I got this morning. Don't disappoint me. I appreciate the Lord this morning. Amen. Come here, brother. I don't want you doing anything. Help yourself. Yeah. If you preach, whatever you need to do. Come on. Come on. Give us something. Everybody say anything, please. Amen. Yes, it's all ready. I appreciate the preaching, the devotion, every testimony. Absolutely. God sent our way today.