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Speaker 1 (00:00):
God has some plans for us. God has a plan
for us. There's a place that God wants for all
of us. And sometimes we become so focused on this
world and the cares of this world, and the trappings
of this world and everything that we're engaged in, that
we lose sight of that. But God doesn't. God knows
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that there's a journey that we're on. There's a place
that all of us will end up. God has something
more for us. We are coming.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's time for Sunday Supper and time to feast on
God's word. Sunday Supper is a ministry of christ Church
for the End Times. Christ Church for the End Times
is a non denominational teacher church ministry. Our mission is
to help prepare God's people for life and ministry during
the times in which we live. Join us on Wednesdays
at six thirty pm for a dynamic, practical, engaging, and
(01:12):
life changing Bible study and on Sunday mornings at ten
thirty am for a weekly church service. But for now,
let's feast at the Lord's table. Here's today's message already
in progress.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Said Amen, Praise God. From from all blessings flow. Welcome
to another Sunday worship service here at Christ Church for
the end times, those that are here and those that
are tuning in all around the world. As I was
preparing to come to the service, the Lord gave me
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something else. And so this is for us one of
the things. He said that the people we need this,
and so I want to share with you what he
shared with me. But before where I do I know
there there are people that have tuning in and and
so forth, and and for many we know that Pastor
(02:08):
Angela went to be with the Lord, and uh, obviously
it's a surprise, unexpected for all of us. And so
uh I do want to say, I think all of
those that have uh some phone calls and phone calls
expressing your condolences and so forth, and and trying and
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consoling me, and then me consoling them, we consulting one another,
and so so uh it's a it's a good blessing.
I want to say, thanks to all of you, all
all of the food and uh desire to give food
and desire to give more food. Uh, it's just a
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great blessing. Pass Angela has been one of those individuals
and one of the things we tried to do literally
since we've been married. Was to pour out as opposed
to trying to pull in. I've felt a long time
ago favor. If you look for favor, you sincerely give
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out and don't look for anything in return. But again
that's a look aside. But that's the way Pastor Angela
live a life. Anyone that knew her knew that she's
always giving, always trying to help and what have you.
Our whole family is is that way, which is a
great blessing, and that's the way of the righteous. And
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so so it's it's how we were to put it.
It's I'm very rarely lost for words. Well I take
that back. There are a lot of times I've lost
for words. But when you look at Pastor Angela and
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I'm going to move on from this, but I wanted
to tell every one that how much I am we
this family at Christ Church for their time to appreciate everything.
But pass angel was that person that constantly poured out
and gave, gave and gave to everyone and also tried
to live to be an example of the Lord. There's
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one thing that we all can attest to is that
she consistently live her life for the Lord, even to
the end that was the case. And so with that
we have a hope, we know and have full assurance
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where she is now. I was telling someone, I said,
I guarantee you can get her to come back here. Amen.
The Bible says I have not seen nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the hearts of men the things
that God has prepared for those that love him. And
she loved him, and that is something that I'm totally
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certain of. So as I was sharing earlier, actually finished
off a message that I were going to share, and while
I was getting ready, the Lord spoke to me and
birthed in my heart this message, and it's titled Continuing
the Journey, Continuing the Journey, And he also gave me
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one of Pastor Angela's favorite scripture. I know Jeremiah with
his twenty nine eleven is her go to, but before
Jeremiah twenty one eleven, it was one in Joshua once Sis.
The Lord shared it earlier today, and that's the main
scripture that we were going to be sharing with you
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and with all of us this morning, Joshua chapter one,
and I'm going to share with you versus one through eleven. Now,
if you've read anything about the children of Visual leaving
Egypt and moving into the Promised Land, you would have
come across the story. They went through a lot of
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stuff while they was in the Willderness, and they were
about to come up to the Promised Land. And because
of the fear, stubbornness, rebellion of the people, they had
to divert. And for forty years they went around in
the willderness. They came upon the place when they were
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complaining again about water, and God had Moses whatever to
come up and instructed Moses on what to do to
give people water. And Moses, I think I kind of
know how Moses might have felt. Sometimes you can go
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through things and go through things, and you hold things
in and hold things in, and all of a sudden
it gets up there, and sometimes you don't even realize
you're reaching your bailing point. And all of a sudden,
Moses reached this bailing point and God told him. Basically,
God wanted Moses to glorify him before the people. And
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one of the things we can understand and we need
to understand as people of God, we live our lives
not for ourselves. We live our lives and honor and
glory to the Lord. When it's all said and done.
He's the reason. He's the reason that we are here.
He's the reason that we are who and what we are.
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It is the blessings of the Lord that we live by.
But Moses at the time got so fed up that
instead of speaking to the rock and tapping the rock
as he was instructed to do, in his frustration, he
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wowed the rock. Somebody said he hit Jesus. That's a
little little side. And the water began to cush out
like never before. Now, to give a little perspective here,
there's by some estimates, over a million people that was
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asking for water. How in the world, in the wilderness
you can satisfy the thirst of a million people, over
a million people at one time. God can do it.
And God did it. And that water began to run
out of whatever. People forgot all about Moses, and they
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began to get some water. But God did not forget.
God told Moses, because you did not honor me before
the people, you will not go into the Promised land.
And Moses finished off his mission for the Lord, tidy
things up and what have you, and he went up
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to the mount to be with the Lord. Now for
thirty days they mourned the death of Moses, and now
after thirty days, it's time for them to continue their journey.
You see, they're on the path. They were on the
path from the time they went into Egypt until this
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present time. That was on the journey. And for all
of us, we have to understand that literally before you
got here, if you haven't tuned into our Bibles, that
is on Wednesday night, we are sharing some things and
a part of this is is from before the foundation
of the world, God has some plans for us. We
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got to understand that God has a plan for us.
There's a place that God wants for all of us.
And sometimes we become so focused on this world and
the cares of this world and the trappings of this
world and everything that we're engaged in, that we lose
sight of that. But God doesn't. God knows that there's
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a journey that we're on. There's a place that all
of us will end up, and it's not here, It
is not this life. God has something more for us.
God has, as I was saying before, God has something
that our eyes have not seen, nor have our ears
heard of. Neither have it entered into our hearts. But
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God has a plan, and so now Moses, the servant
of the Lord, is deadjourney has to continue. Those that
are here, those that remain has to continue. There are
a lot of people that died between the time they
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left Egypt and the time they got up to the Jordan,
some of their own doing on what have you, because
of their distrust and so forth of the Lord. And
now the one that led them through thickened thin, that
provided them water, that provided them food, that encouraged them,
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that strengthened them, that judged them, and now that individuals
that they have crafted their lives around is no longer there.
And I can imagine the people, what are we going
to do now? Where we're going to go? There are
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all of those questions in our hearts and our minds.
Depending on your relationship with Pastor Angela, you may have
some of the same questions. Where do I go from now?
From here? What do I do now? I jokingly tell
my younger ones, and everybody obviously is trying to say, well,
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how has Pastor been? And I really do love you,
and I'm really okay. I'm okay because I know she's okay,
But being okay doesn't mean that you are not keenly
aware of the loss lost to you. In one instance,
because you longer have someone you can chat to. I
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was talking with someone. It was about a neighbor, and
I went back home and I say, and I was
thinking in my mind that I'm going to share this
with Angela, until I realized that Angela is no longer there.
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Little things like that make you kind of think of
how a person was so interwoven with your life. And
many of us, I know, in our own way, have
some of the same things, whether it's the first Monday
prayer or being able to call on the phone and
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so forth. But now we know that she's going on,
But our journey continues, and so now Moses is going on.
And now guess what all of those questions that everyone
is asking in their hearts, sometimes they're sharing with one another,
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with others. But then God comes on the scene, and
God speaks to Joshua, and we're gonna pick this up
and verse verse one of chapter one of the Book
of Joshua. Verse one says, now after the death of Moses,
the servant of the Lord, and Andrew was the servant
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of the Lord Amen, it came to pass that the
Lord's fake un to Joshua, the son of None, Moses
minister saying, Moses, my servant is dead. Now, this to
me is interesting because God is acknowledging Moses at as
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his servant and as a luluicide. Let me say this,
A lot of times we wonder and we struggle through
life how we live our life and whether or not
our lives are pleasing to God. And to be honest
with us, all of us at some point would do
something in our lives that God doesn't like. And when
we do those things, many times there's a price to
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pay for those things. Moses did something and there was
a price to pay for it. Moses penalty, if I
can say it that way, was not to enter into
the land or promise that land that flowed with milk
and honey. But I stand to tell you he may
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not have experienced that, but there was something far greater
that he did experience. But again, a luli side and
just a little tad hair above might be on my skis.
I'm going to get back to that one. But God
is telling Joshua that Moses is his servant in spite
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of smoking the rock instead of speaking to the rock
or what have you. Guess what, He's still God's servant.
A lot of times we do certain things in our lives,
and we're struggling in certain areas of our lives. But
guess but depending on the condition of your heart, still
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his servant. God is still there. He will not utterly
cast us off, but a little side. So he tells
Joshua that most of his servant is dead. And I
submit to you that's dead from our perspective, not God's perspective,
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because we look at death as a separation and it
is we look at death as finality. I and this
is one of the things we are sharing a little
bit in Bible study. Not because of this, we have
been sharing this anyway, but there is something about death,
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life and living that we are detached from because of
our our religious belief, because of our long life experience,
not only ours but for generations. We've seen things in
a certain way. But as believers, we got to understand
that it's more to it than that. This is why
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we commit our lives to the Lord. The way that
we do this is why we give him our time,
our money, our gifts, our talents and our very lives,
because we know, because we have faith in Him, that
is more to it than that. It's more to God,
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in our relationship with God, and indeed ourselves, than what
we're experiencing in this life. Verse two says Moses, my
servant is dead. Now therefore arise, continue the journey. Go
over this Jordan, thou and all this people unto the
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land which I give to them, even the children of Israel. See,
for Israel, this is a time of transition. And for us,
whether you're a part of Christ Church for the end
times or whether you are a part of our outreaches
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all around the world, is a time of transition. You see,
God does nothing by chance. God knows what he's doing,
even though we may not know what he's doing. Contrary
to popular belief, God isn't going to tell you everything
just because you want to know it. Lord, Why, Lord, why? Yeah? Why?
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If he wants you to know, he'll tell you. And
when the time comes for you to know, he'll tell you.
Verse three says every place, Now, this is what God
is telling Joshua and the children of Israel every place,
is that the soul of your feet shall trod upon
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that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
God is saying, just because Moses is off the saying
doesn't mean I change my mind. And I'm gonna say
this to all of us. There is a place that
God is leading us. There is a place that God
is bringing us, and that has not changed. It's just
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a time of transition for us because we have to
continue this journey. There's something that God is going to
do in our lives and in the earth that would
not take place if we don't continue this journey. Therefore,
it falls to us, regardless who is here, regardless to
who isn't, it's behooves all of us to continue the journey.
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We will never see what God wants to unfold in
our lives unless we do what continue the journey. All
of us, in our own way, have our own personal
private journeys that place that God wants you to be,
and there's a place that God wants us to be collectively,
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and so each of us must do our part so
that the entire task will be accomplished. And therefore we
must continue the journey. It doesn't matter who come, who goes,
and what have you. Our focus has to be on
the ultimate objective we continue the journey. Verse four says,
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from the wilderness and this Lebanon, even unto the great River,
the river euphrates all the lands of the hit Ties,
and unto the great Sea, toward the going down of
the sun, from shall be your coast. God has something
in store for all of us. If we don't continue
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this journey, if we don't continue to move into the
in the direction that He hath ploted, the course that
He has plotted for us, we won't realize it. Verse
five says, there shall not any man be able to
stand before Thee all the days of thy life as
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I was with Moses, So I will be with Thee.
Isn't that awesome? You want the Lord to be with
you like he was with Pastor Angela. The thing is
that if you want the Lord to be with you
like he was with past the Angela, you got to
live the life that Pastor Angela lived. See, some of
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us we want stuff, but we don't want to pay
the price for it. And so as we continue on
this journey, as we go through this life, God wants
to give us an assurance that we're going to accomplish
the things if we remain obedient to him. We're going
to accomplish the things that He has ordained and put
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before us to accomplish, and he's going to be with
us in the same way that he would be with
Angela or pastor Bennett, on whomever it is. God is
no respect of a person. But you can't live your
life some in any kind of way and expect the rewards.
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Now you've got to commit. All of us need to
recommit our lives to the Lord. We were in about
going back to the Bible stead. We were talking about
stirring up the gift that God is placed within us.
A lot of times we want God to store up,
and he's telling us to stir it up. Can you
imagine that God tell us to store it up and
then we come and tell him to store us up. Now,
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there's a responsibility that each of us play in this thing.
But we're gonna go on. So again in verse five says,
there shall not any man be able to stand before
Thee all of the days of thy life as ours
with Moses. So will I be with THEE. I will
not fail THEE, nor forsake THEE. The Lord will be
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with us along this journey He is our assurance of victory.
He has given us a promise. He will not fail us.
He shall not fail us. Our task and our job,
our responsibility, is just to stay with him. Verse six
says this, now, this is our part. God is telling
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you that he's gonna be with you. You're gonna go
on this journey. He's gonna be with you. He's not
gonna fail you. But then there's something that you gotta do.
There's something that each of us must do. Verse six says,
be strong and of good courage. Be strong, be of
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good courage, for until this people shallt thou divide for
an inheritance to land which I swore unto their fathers
to give them. See, sooner or later, someone is gonna
have to move into this thing. God have many precious
promises for us as people. Someone that's alive and remaining
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is gonna move into this thing. It's gonna be a
battle to move into this because guess what, the devil.
They ain't gonna just drop his hand and say, okay,
y'all here now here it is. That's not the devil.
The devil will fight you until there's nothing else for
him to use to fight you. There's a reason why
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God says fight the good fight of faith and lay
hold on eternal life. If you think this is a
flower bed of ease for you, to just cruise on
into heaven and before you go through anything, God is
gonna rapture you away and you won't have to do
nothing but praise the Lord everybody. If that's the way
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it comes out and shakes out here, am I put
me at the front of the bus. But the Bible
tells me to be also ready because you don't know
when the Son of Man will appear. So if Israel
didn't have to fight into battles, if they didn't have
to go through a wilderness place, if they didn't have
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to go through lack and hunger and all that other
kind of stuff, they would have been in the Promised
Land forty years earlier. You see, the way we deal
with the challenges of life, the way that we deal
with the circumstances of life matters.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
We have to be strong, we have to be of
good courage. And if we're gonna be strong, if we're
gonna be of good courage, we gotta know in whom
we believe. We gotta know that he's the God, not
only of Abraham, not only of Isaac and Jacob. He
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is our God. He is our Lord, and he's our God.
And it's in him that we trust.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Therefore we endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Like Job, Job said, though he slaved me, though he
slay me, Yet will I trust him? Blessed be the
name of the Lord. Do you say, Blessed be the
name of the Lord, He say, Lord, I still love you.
In spite of it all, In spite of whether I
get my way, whether I don't, In spite of whether
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you answer to my prayers the way I want you
to answer them or not, I still trust you. I
still love you. I still have faith in you, because
you know what's best. So I'm gonna be strong. I'm
gonna have good courage, and we're gonna move into the
inheritance that you have or dame for me, from the
found foundation of this world. So be strong and of
good courage. Foreign to this people, shall thou divide for
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an inheritance to land which are sworn to their fathers
to give them. Verse seven says only be thou strong
and very courageous, that thou mayst observed and to do
all the law which Moses my servant commands. They now
this verse verse seven is the verse we have a
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tendency to pass over. But it is key to our
focus in the Lord. He says, only be thou strong
and very courageous. Now distance he's also telling us the
reason why we are to be strong and we are
to be very courageous. It is not so that you
can fight your enemy. It is not that so you
can endure hardness as a good soldier. It is not
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that you can run through so that you can run
through troops. It is not so that you can put
the enemy under your feet. We are to be strong.
We are to be of good courage. Look at this
that thou mans observe to do according to all the law.
We are to be strong. We are to be of
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good courage, so that we can obey his word. The
thing that we fail to see as people of God
is that the goal of the enemy, believe it or not,
isn't to just destroy you in your life by sending
you through this and sending you to that and whatever.
The goal of the enemy is to do the same
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thing that he tried to get Joe to do curse
God and die. He wants you to reject his word.
He wants you to lose faith in his word. He
wants you to disbelieve God. If you disbelieve God, you
are walk in obedience to the Lord, and therefore, as
opposed to move into His blessing, you will end up
experiencing destruction. So the enemy don't have to worry about
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you going into the bauty. He knows he's gonna lose
those anyway. You a faithful to God.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Thank you for being with us today. I pray that
today's meal was a blessing to you. If you are
a serious Christian looking for a place to worship, fellowship
and fulfill God's call upon your life, consider Christ Church
for the end Times and don't forget to join us
on Wednesday evenings at six thirty pm for Bible study
and Sunday mornings at ten thirty am.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
For a weekly church service.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
The church is located at nineteen ten Norwich Street in Brunswick, Georgia.
You can also reach us online at Sunday's Supper Online
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next week, the Lord bless you and keep you. The
Lord make his face shine upon you, and be gracious
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into you. The Lord lift up his continence upon you
and give you peace. And may God's richest blessing always
be upon you.
God has some plans for us. God has a plan
for us. There's a place that God wants for all
of us. And sometimes we become so focused on this
world and the cares of this world, and the trappings
of this world and everything that we're engaged in, that
we lose sight of that. But God doesn't. God knows
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that there's a journey that we're on. There's a place
that all of us will end up. God has something
more for us. We are coming.
Speaker 2 (00:49):
It's time for Sunday Supper and time to feast on
God's word. Sunday Supper is a ministry of christ Church
for the End Times. Christ Church for the End Times
is a non denominational teacher church ministry. Our mission is
to help prepare God's people for life and ministry during
the times in which we live. Join us on Wednesdays
at six thirty pm for a dynamic, practical, engaging, and
(01:12):
life changing Bible study and on Sunday mornings at ten
thirty am for a weekly church service. But for now,
let's feast at the Lord's table. Here's today's message already
in progress.
Speaker 1 (01:24):
Said Amen, Praise God. From from all blessings flow. Welcome
to another Sunday worship service here at Christ Church for
the end times, those that are here and those that
are tuning in all around the world. As I was
preparing to come to the service, the Lord gave me
(01:46):
something else. And so this is for us one of
the things. He said that the people we need this,
and so I want to share with you what he
shared with me. But before where I do I know
there there are people that have tuning in and and
so forth, and and for many we know that Pastor
(02:08):
Angela went to be with the Lord, and uh, obviously
it's a surprise, unexpected for all of us. And so
uh I do want to say, I think all of
those that have uh some phone calls and phone calls
expressing your condolences and so forth, and and trying and
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consoling me, and then me consoling them, we consulting one another,
and so so uh it's a it's a good blessing.
I want to say, thanks to all of you, all
all of the food and uh desire to give food
and desire to give more food. Uh, it's just a
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great blessing. Pass Angela has been one of those individuals
and one of the things we tried to do literally
since we've been married. Was to pour out as opposed
to trying to pull in. I've felt a long time
ago favor. If you look for favor, you sincerely give
(03:17):
out and don't look for anything in return. But again
that's a look aside. But that's the way Pastor Angela
live a life. Anyone that knew her knew that she's
always giving, always trying to help and what have you.
Our whole family is is that way, which is a
great blessing, and that's the way of the righteous. And
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so so it's it's how we were to put it.
It's I'm very rarely lost for words. Well I take
that back. There are a lot of times I've lost
for words. But when you look at Pastor Angela and
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I'm going to move on from this, but I wanted
to tell every one that how much I am we
this family at Christ Church for their time to appreciate everything.
But pass angel was that person that constantly poured out
and gave, gave and gave to everyone and also tried
to live to be an example of the Lord. There's
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one thing that we all can attest to is that
she consistently live her life for the Lord, even to
the end that was the case. And so with that
we have a hope, we know and have full assurance
(04:40):
where she is now. I was telling someone, I said,
I guarantee you can get her to come back here. Amen.
The Bible says I have not seen nor ear heard,
neither have entered into the hearts of men the things
that God has prepared for those that love him. And
she loved him, and that is something that I'm totally
(05:04):
certain of. So as I was sharing earlier, actually finished
off a message that I were going to share, and while
I was getting ready, the Lord spoke to me and
birthed in my heart this message, and it's titled Continuing
the Journey, Continuing the Journey, And he also gave me
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one of Pastor Angela's favorite scripture. I know Jeremiah with
his twenty nine eleven is her go to, but before
Jeremiah twenty one eleven, it was one in Joshua once Sis.
The Lord shared it earlier today, and that's the main
scripture that we were going to be sharing with you
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and with all of us this morning, Joshua chapter one,
and I'm going to share with you versus one through eleven. Now,
if you've read anything about the children of Visual leaving
Egypt and moving into the Promised Land, you would have
come across the story. They went through a lot of
(06:12):
stuff while they was in the Willderness, and they were
about to come up to the Promised Land. And because
of the fear, stubbornness, rebellion of the people, they had
to divert. And for forty years they went around in
the willderness. They came upon the place when they were
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complaining again about water, and God had Moses whatever to
come up and instructed Moses on what to do to
give people water. And Moses, I think I kind of
know how Moses might have felt. Sometimes you can go
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through things and go through things, and you hold things
in and hold things in, and all of a sudden
it gets up there, and sometimes you don't even realize
you're reaching your bailing point. And all of a sudden,
Moses reached this bailing point and God told him. Basically,
God wanted Moses to glorify him before the people. And
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one of the things we can understand and we need
to understand as people of God, we live our lives
not for ourselves. We live our lives and honor and
glory to the Lord. When it's all said and done.
He's the reason. He's the reason that we are here.
He's the reason that we are who and what we are.
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It is the blessings of the Lord that we live by.
But Moses at the time got so fed up that
instead of speaking to the rock and tapping the rock
as he was instructed to do, in his frustration, he
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wowed the rock. Somebody said he hit Jesus. That's a
little little side. And the water began to cush out
like never before. Now, to give a little perspective here,
there's by some estimates, over a million people that was
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asking for water. How in the world, in the wilderness
you can satisfy the thirst of a million people, over
a million people at one time. God can do it.
And God did it. And that water began to run
out of whatever. People forgot all about Moses, and they
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began to get some water. But God did not forget.
God told Moses, because you did not honor me before
the people, you will not go into the Promised land.
And Moses finished off his mission for the Lord, tidy
things up and what have you, and he went up
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to the mount to be with the Lord. Now for
thirty days they mourned the death of Moses, and now
after thirty days, it's time for them to continue their journey.
You see, they're on the path. They were on the
path from the time they went into Egypt until this
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present time. That was on the journey. And for all
of us, we have to understand that literally before you
got here, if you haven't tuned into our Bibles, that
is on Wednesday night, we are sharing some things and
a part of this is is from before the foundation
of the world, God has some plans for us. We
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got to understand that God has a plan for us.
There's a place that God wants for all of us.
And sometimes we become so focused on this world and
the cares of this world and the trappings of this
world and everything that we're engaged in, that we lose
sight of that. But God doesn't. God knows that there's
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a journey that we're on. There's a place that all
of us will end up, and it's not here, It
is not this life. God has something more for us.
God has, as I was saying before, God has something
that our eyes have not seen, nor have our ears
heard of. Neither have it entered into our hearts. But
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God has a plan, and so now Moses, the servant
of the Lord, is deadjourney has to continue. Those that
are here, those that remain has to continue. There are
a lot of people that died between the time they
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left Egypt and the time they got up to the Jordan,
some of their own doing on what have you, because
of their distrust and so forth of the Lord. And
now the one that led them through thickened thin, that
provided them water, that provided them food, that encouraged them,
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that strengthened them, that judged them, and now that individuals
that they have crafted their lives around is no longer there.
And I can imagine the people, what are we going
to do now? Where we're going to go? There are
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all of those questions in our hearts and our minds.
Depending on your relationship with Pastor Angela, you may have
some of the same questions. Where do I go from now?
From here? What do I do now? I jokingly tell
my younger ones, and everybody obviously is trying to say, well,
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how has Pastor been? And I really do love you,
and I'm really okay. I'm okay because I know she's okay,
But being okay doesn't mean that you are not keenly
aware of the loss lost to you. In one instance,
because you longer have someone you can chat to. I
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was talking with someone. It was about a neighbor, and
I went back home and I say, and I was
thinking in my mind that I'm going to share this
with Angela, until I realized that Angela is no longer there.
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Little things like that make you kind of think of
how a person was so interwoven with your life. And
many of us, I know, in our own way, have
some of the same things, whether it's the first Monday
prayer or being able to call on the phone and
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so forth. But now we know that she's going on,
But our journey continues, and so now Moses is going on.
And now guess what all of those questions that everyone
is asking in their hearts, sometimes they're sharing with one another,
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with others. But then God comes on the scene, and
God speaks to Joshua, and we're gonna pick this up
and verse verse one of chapter one of the Book
of Joshua. Verse one says, now after the death of Moses,
the servant of the Lord, and Andrew was the servant
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of the Lord Amen, it came to pass that the
Lord's fake un to Joshua, the son of None, Moses
minister saying, Moses, my servant is dead. Now, this to
me is interesting because God is acknowledging Moses at as
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his servant and as a luluicide. Let me say this,
A lot of times we wonder and we struggle through
life how we live our life and whether or not
our lives are pleasing to God. And to be honest
with us, all of us at some point would do
something in our lives that God doesn't like. And when
we do those things, many times there's a price to
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pay for those things. Moses did something and there was
a price to pay for it. Moses penalty, if I
can say it that way, was not to enter into
the land or promise that land that flowed with milk
and honey. But I stand to tell you he may
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not have experienced that, but there was something far greater
that he did experience. But again, a luli side and
just a little tad hair above might be on my skis.
I'm going to get back to that one. But God
is telling Joshua that Moses is his servant in spite
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of smoking the rock instead of speaking to the rock
or what have you. Guess what, He's still God's servant.
A lot of times we do certain things in our lives,
and we're struggling in certain areas of our lives. But
guess but depending on the condition of your heart, still
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his servant. God is still there. He will not utterly
cast us off, but a little side. So he tells
Joshua that most of his servant is dead. And I
submit to you that's dead from our perspective, not God's perspective,
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because we look at death as a separation and it
is we look at death as finality. I and this
is one of the things we are sharing a little
bit in Bible study. Not because of this, we have
been sharing this anyway, but there is something about death,
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life and living that we are detached from because of
our our religious belief, because of our long life experience,
not only ours but for generations. We've seen things in
a certain way. But as believers, we got to understand
that it's more to it than that. This is why
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we commit our lives to the Lord. The way that
we do this is why we give him our time,
our money, our gifts, our talents and our very lives,
because we know, because we have faith in Him, that
is more to it than that. It's more to God,
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in our relationship with God, and indeed ourselves, than what
we're experiencing in this life. Verse two says Moses, my
servant is dead. Now therefore arise, continue the journey. Go
over this Jordan, thou and all this people unto the
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land which I give to them, even the children of Israel. See,
for Israel, this is a time of transition. And for us,
whether you're a part of Christ Church for the end
times or whether you are a part of our outreaches
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all around the world, is a time of transition. You see,
God does nothing by chance. God knows what he's doing,
even though we may not know what he's doing. Contrary
to popular belief, God isn't going to tell you everything
just because you want to know it. Lord, Why, Lord, why? Yeah? Why?
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If he wants you to know, he'll tell you. And
when the time comes for you to know, he'll tell you.
Verse three says every place, Now, this is what God
is telling Joshua and the children of Israel every place,
is that the soul of your feet shall trod upon
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that have I given unto you, as I said unto Moses.
God is saying, just because Moses is off the saying
doesn't mean I change my mind. And I'm gonna say
this to all of us. There is a place that
God is leading us. There is a place that God
is bringing us, and that has not changed. It's just
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a time of transition for us because we have to
continue this journey. There's something that God is going to
do in our lives and in the earth that would
not take place if we don't continue this journey. Therefore,
it falls to us, regardless who is here, regardless to
who isn't, it's behooves all of us to continue the journey.
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We will never see what God wants to unfold in
our lives unless we do what continue the journey. All
of us, in our own way, have our own personal
private journeys that place that God wants you to be,
and there's a place that God wants us to be collectively,
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and so each of us must do our part so
that the entire task will be accomplished. And therefore we
must continue the journey. It doesn't matter who come, who goes,
and what have you. Our focus has to be on
the ultimate objective we continue the journey. Verse four says,
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from the wilderness and this Lebanon, even unto the great River,
the river euphrates all the lands of the hit Ties,
and unto the great Sea, toward the going down of
the sun, from shall be your coast. God has something
in store for all of us. If we don't continue
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this journey, if we don't continue to move into the
in the direction that He hath ploted, the course that
He has plotted for us, we won't realize it. Verse
five says, there shall not any man be able to
stand before Thee all the days of thy life as
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I was with Moses, So I will be with Thee.
Isn't that awesome? You want the Lord to be with
you like he was with Pastor Angela. The thing is
that if you want the Lord to be with you
like he was with past the Angela, you got to
live the life that Pastor Angela lived. See, some of
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us we want stuff, but we don't want to pay
the price for it. And so as we continue on
this journey, as we go through this life, God wants
to give us an assurance that we're going to accomplish
the things if we remain obedient to him. We're going
to accomplish the things that He has ordained and put
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before us to accomplish, and he's going to be with
us in the same way that he would be with
Angela or pastor Bennett, on whomever it is. God is
no respect of a person. But you can't live your
life some in any kind of way and expect the rewards.
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Now you've got to commit. All of us need to
recommit our lives to the Lord. We were in about
going back to the Bible stead. We were talking about
stirring up the gift that God is placed within us.
A lot of times we want God to store up,
and he's telling us to stir it up. Can you
imagine that God tell us to store it up and
then we come and tell him to store us up. Now,
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there's a responsibility that each of us play in this thing.
But we're gonna go on. So again in verse five says,
there shall not any man be able to stand before
Thee all of the days of thy life as ours
with Moses. So will I be with THEE. I will
not fail THEE, nor forsake THEE. The Lord will be
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with us along this journey He is our assurance of victory.
He has given us a promise. He will not fail us.
He shall not fail us. Our task and our job,
our responsibility, is just to stay with him. Verse six
says this, now, this is our part. God is telling
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you that he's gonna be with you. You're gonna go
on this journey. He's gonna be with you. He's not
gonna fail you. But then there's something that you gotta do.
There's something that each of us must do. Verse six says,
be strong and of good courage. Be strong, be of
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good courage, for until this people shallt thou divide for
an inheritance to land which I swore unto their fathers
to give them. See, sooner or later, someone is gonna
have to move into this thing. God have many precious
promises for us as people. Someone that's alive and remaining
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is gonna move into this thing. It's gonna be a
battle to move into this because guess what, the devil.
They ain't gonna just drop his hand and say, okay,
y'all here now here it is. That's not the devil.
The devil will fight you until there's nothing else for
him to use to fight you. There's a reason why
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God says fight the good fight of faith and lay
hold on eternal life. If you think this is a
flower bed of ease for you, to just cruise on
into heaven and before you go through anything, God is
gonna rapture you away and you won't have to do
nothing but praise the Lord everybody. If that's the way
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it comes out and shakes out here, am I put
me at the front of the bus. But the Bible
tells me to be also ready because you don't know
when the Son of Man will appear. So if Israel
didn't have to fight into battles, if they didn't have
to go through a wilderness place, if they didn't have
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to go through lack and hunger and all that other
kind of stuff, they would have been in the Promised
Land forty years earlier. You see, the way we deal
with the challenges of life, the way that we deal
with the circumstances of life matters.
Speaker 3 (25:53):
We have to be strong, we have to be of
good courage. And if we're gonna be strong, if we're
gonna be of good courage, we gotta know in whom
we believe. We gotta know that he's the God, not
only of Abraham, not only of Isaac and Jacob. He
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is our God. He is our Lord, and he's our God.
And it's in him that we trust.
Speaker 1 (26:20):
Therefore we endure hardness as a good soldier of Jesus Christ.
Like Job, Job said, though he slaved me, though he
slay me, Yet will I trust him? Blessed be the
name of the Lord. Do you say, Blessed be the
name of the Lord, He say, Lord, I still love you.
In spite of it all, In spite of whether I
get my way, whether I don't, In spite of whether
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you answer to my prayers the way I want you
to answer them or not, I still trust you. I
still love you. I still have faith in you, because
you know what's best. So I'm gonna be strong. I'm
gonna have good courage, and we're gonna move into the
inheritance that you have or dame for me, from the
found foundation of this world. So be strong and of
good courage. Foreign to this people, shall thou divide for
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an inheritance to land which are sworn to their fathers
to give them. Verse seven says only be thou strong
and very courageous, that thou mayst observed and to do
all the law which Moses my servant commands. They now
this verse verse seven is the verse we have a
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tendency to pass over. But it is key to our
focus in the Lord. He says, only be thou strong
and very courageous. Now distance he's also telling us the
reason why we are to be strong and we are
to be very courageous. It is not so that you
can fight your enemy. It is not that so you
can endure hardness as a good soldier. It is not
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that you can run through so that you can run
through troops. It is not so that you can put
the enemy under your feet. We are to be strong.
We are to be of good courage. Look at this
that thou mans observe to do according to all the law.
We are to be strong. We are to be of
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good courage, so that we can obey his word. The
thing that we fail to see as people of God
is that the goal of the enemy, believe it or not,
isn't to just destroy you in your life by sending
you through this and sending you to that and whatever.
The goal of the enemy is to do the same
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thing that he tried to get Joe to do curse
God and die. He wants you to reject his word.
He wants you to lose faith in his word. He
wants you to disbelieve God. If you disbelieve God, you
are walk in obedience to the Lord, and therefore, as
opposed to move into His blessing, you will end up
experiencing destruction. So the enemy don't have to worry about
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you going into the bauty. He knows he's gonna lose
those anyway. You a faithful to God.
Speaker 2 (29:01):
Thank you for being with us today. I pray that
today's meal was a blessing to you. If you are
a serious Christian looking for a place to worship, fellowship
and fulfill God's call upon your life, consider Christ Church
for the end Times and don't forget to join us
on Wednesday evenings at six thirty pm for Bible study
and Sunday mornings at ten thirty am.
Speaker 1 (29:21):
For a weekly church service.
Speaker 2 (29:22):
The church is located at nineteen ten Norwich Street in Brunswick, Georgia.
You can also reach us online at Sunday's Supper Online
dot org. That's Sunday's Supper Online dot org. You can
also tune us in on your iHeartRadio app So until
next week, the Lord bless you and keep you. The
Lord make his face shine upon you, and be gracious
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into you. The Lord lift up his continence upon you
and give you peace. And may God's richest blessing always
be upon you.
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