One Thing (Psalm 27:4) | Rev Dale Lee (Sermon)

In this powerful message, Rev. Dale Lee preaches from Psalm 27:4 on the one thing that matters most: seeking the presence of God and dwelling in the house of the Lord.

Drawing from Psalm 27:4, Philippians 3:13, Luke 10:42, and Mark 8:34–37, this sermon reminds us that while life is filled with many responsibilities, distractions, and pursuits, there is still one thing that is truly needful. Like Mary sitting at the feet of Jesus, we are called to choose the good part that cannot be taken away.

This message will encourage you to refocus your heart, hold on to your faith, and remember that when you have Jesus, you have what matters most.

Listen and be reminded: if Jesus is on the inside, everything changes.

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Transcript

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We wanna look today at Psalms twenty-seven and verse four. How about a few verses? Um see where the Lord leads us in those today. Amen. But if we look at Psalms twenty-seven, praise the Lord and verse four. Use a particular verse today just to highlight a particular topic I want to speak on by the grace of God. Thank you, Jesus. It says, one thing of high desired of the Lord, that will I seek, that I may dwell in the house of the Lord all the days of my life to behold the beauty of the Lord and to inquire in his temple. Praise the Lord. Amen. Now, that first two words is what I'm preaching on today. One thing. Praise the Lord. One thing. Why don't you look at your neighbor and say, one thing? One thing. Life is really huge. The universe is really big. The world. Oh, he, in his awesome power, created a universe. Paul taught us, and he said, all things were created by him. Visible and invisible. Things above, things beneath. The depth of the sea, beneath the depth of the sea, the heavens and the heavens of the heavens were created by him. Can you imagine the created power to create visible and invisible things? Amen. Our existence is because of the Lord. Now, with such a vast amount of things to choose from, to pick from, that David chooses to say one thing have I desired. There are so many things that grips the desires of man. There are so many things that we wrestle daily with to accomplish, to have, to enjoy, to possess, or to venture in. In this vast universe of the creation of the Lord. And it would seem like the more you go after something, there is something else missing. And the more you accomplish something, there is single something else lacking. Oh, bless the Lord. This is an example today, not just of a man named David, but one who became a king. So we're speaking from sources today that are recommendable. Someone who've been there. And the Lord heard him and delivered him of all his troubles. As David grew older in his kingdom, the country ceased from war. Because David was living in a time seeing the goodness of the Lord in the land of the living. But please note that David wasn't always a king. At one point, he was just a common servant at the backside of a wilderness, you could say, taking care of some sheep. If one would think about it, David was not considered special, he was just one of them. Sometimes you're just one of them. Praise the Lord. Amen. Praise the Lord. So he was just one of them. That even when the time of appointment to kingship came, he wasn't called. Oh, praise the Lord Jesus. When Samuel was looking for a king, he was not even qualified. Oh, bless the Lord. David, who knew what it was though to serve God somehow in the midst of his wilderness experience, in the midst of his life journey, he met God. Amen. He met God. Somebody say he met God. You see, as you live, you're gonna find that the things that was important to you become this man, no longer pleasing, because when you meet God, something shifts in what really, really matters. Somebody say hallelujah. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. David even said, I was young, and now I'm old, and I've never seen the righteous forsaken or receiving bread. It was in his journey of living he came to this conclusion. That today he's saying one thing have I desired. Oh bless the Lord, and that thing will I seek after. Oh bless the name of Jesus. Oh bless the name of Jesus. Now, saints of the Most High, what is this one thing? What makes this one thing important? What is so special about this one thing? Thank you, Holy Spirit. For me to explain that in a nutshell, we're gonna look at creation, and to think about creation, you have got to think about the creator, God says, in the beginning, God created the heavens and the earth, and the earth was without form and void, and darkness was upon the face of you know this story. But in essence, listen what I'm saying to you. When God, before you and I arrived, something happened in the supernatural existence of the kingdom of God. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. The creator was challenged by the creature. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. Lucifer, who was the creature of God, rose up against the creator. Oh, bless the name of Jesus, and and and and a third of the angels in heaven rose up against the Almighty God before you and I came into existence. The name of Jesus, and God cast Satan who was called Lucifer from the kingdom of heaven. Isaiah saw it through the vision and said, How art thou fallen, oh Lucifer, son of the morning, oh bless the name of Jesus. When you imagine who Lucifer was, he was a brilliant candidate in heaven who reflected the glory of God, who shone like the sun to reflect the majesty of God, but in his disobedience, he was banned from heaven, he was deported. Don't you know Satan is a deportee? Somebody say hallelujah! He has been evicted, my God, and has no legal right to return. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. His file has been pulled and red markers in place against him. He's blocked from eternal salvation and blocked from the kingdom of God. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. So his he was cursed, and so the power of light became the power of darkness by which he ruled by. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. Amen. So when he came to earth, I'm just summarizing something so the message can get in your brain. Because most times preaching takes 20 minutes, but it's to get the message in your brain that I'm worried about. Because you are worried about your Sunday dinner, and some of you are worrying about who you gotta pick up after church, who you gotta meet. So we gotta try our best to get the mind back. That's why the preacher struggles with pastor, just to get them to get it. A preacher is like a surgeon, wish he could open your brain to put the message in, but it cannot come like that, it has to come through faith. Somebody say hallelujah! Because faith cometh by hearing, and hearing by the word of God. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. And so it was when Satan plunged in the darkness of earth, he was in great silence, he didn't speak because he was banned from glory until God created man, until God created Eve. He had nobody to talk to. Somebody say amen. He couldn't talk to Adam because Adam talked to nobody but God, and you know how to voice but God. Long of the shortest souls, Satan has revenge in his heart. Satan has healed in his heart against humanity. Oh bless God. Why? Because he has been evicted, deported from everlasting joy and peace. He cannot give peace, he lost it. He has no light, he is in absolute darkness. He is an enemy to even his friend. Oh, somebody say hallelujah! And so then, war is against every single person that calls on the name of Jesus. Every person that believes God comes into warfare because you become an enemy of Satan. Somebody say hallelujah. And that's why you can't say you are a believer and still a friend of the world. Somebody say hallelujah. Somebody say hallelujah. Because to be friendship with the world is to be enemy with God. What am I simply saying? So because now we inherited an enemy and we inherited a war that we didn't start. The day you accept Jesus, Jesus becomes your eternal defense. The moment you accept Jesus, Satan becomes your everlasting enemy on this earth. Somebody say amen. But Jesus snatched the victory from the grave. Somebody say hallelujah. Bless the name of Jesus. Now, here's this conclusion in a nutshell. You now possess something that Satan doesn't have. You possess hope, you possess life, you possess the Holy Ghost, you possess joy, you possess peace, you possess all of these things when you are in Christ Jesus. And because he doesn't possess it, and because he has lost it, he will do everything in his power to strip you from this one thing. Somebody say hallelujah. Somebody say hallelujah. Somebody say hallelujah. Somebody shout hallelujah. Just shout one thing, one thing, one thing. Because of this, God gave Satan power. Some people say Satan has no power, but let's see. You wonder why you can't serve God if he doesn't have any power. You wonder why you struggled to give things up if he had no power. God gave him a title as Prince of this world. This world. Satan works for God without you even knowing it. Satan works for God without he even knowing it. Satan is on earth to prove if you're a believer. If there was no tempter, how would you know where you stand? Somebody say hallelujah. If there was no opposer, how would you know your strength? If there was no challenge, how would you know if you're qualified? Oh, bless the name of Jesus. So in the creative power of God, He even creates good and evil. That's what the Bible said. Amen. So Satan is evil, created by a good God. Oh, praise the name of Jesus. Because it is in this exercise you value what you've got. Satan desires to take the one thing that you have that really matters. David must have found this out. And said, one thing have I desired of the Lord, and that will I seek. How you see? Seek after. That I may what? Dwell in the house of the Lord. When all the days of my life. Somebody say hallelujah. What does that mean? You have to dwell with God forever. It is not just the physical house of the church, but the spiritual house in Christ. Somebody say amen. Satan desire, hallelujah. I'm not I'm not bigging up Satan today, people. Satan desire to get you to lose focus on the one thing that really matters. When your children gives you trouble, it's not your children. He's after one thing. Oh bless the name of Jesus. When you lose your job, it's not your job, he's after. It's that one thing. He wants to strip you from your faith in Christ. He wants to move you from your foundation in the Lord. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. Oh bless the name of Jesus. He wants to move your mind from serving the Lord. Oh bless God. Because let me put it in simple. If you got Jesus, you got everything. If you lose your house and you have Jesus, you got everything. If you lose your family and have Jesus, you have everything. In him we move. And in him we have a being. A blessed name of Jesus. It doesn't matter what you possess, if you don't possess him, you have nothing. One thing. Are you telling me, Pastor? Preacher, out of the entire universe. This entire world. One thing alone matters. Not even two. One. Just one. One. Just one. Your soul. I can't break it, man. Your soul. Christ. That's all that really matters. Oh, bless the Lord. Alright. Let's go some more. Let's look at this interesting passage. I looked at King David. Let's look at pause telling something in Philippians chapter 3. Amen. Thank you, Jesus. Philippians chapter 3 and 13. And that entire passage, people of God, has a very powerful, powerful message of Paul. Now please remember who the apostle Paul was. Paul had a very powerful history. He was a mid-class citizen. He was stepping up in the hierarchy of society. He had the power to walk straight up to the high priest and get letters from him. Somebody would say, Sits on the council board. Amen. He had privileges and benefits. Oh, bless the Lord. He was uh be Jew by he was a Jew dezer. He believed in the Jewish custom. So Paul was not blatantly not believing in God, but he believed mostly what Moses said about God, if you want to put it that way. But he could not believe Jesus is God. And that Jesus came in flesh to save the world. Do you know what I just said a while ago is one of the most important things of your faith? To believe that Jesus Christ came in the flesh, to believe that God was manifested in the flesh, to believe that Jesus Christ is God Almighty. Hallelujah! For the Bible says, and the word became flesh and dwelt among us, and we beheld his glory, the glory of the only begotten Son of God. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. So the God, listen to me now. The same God I mentioned who cast out Satan, took a visit to the world he built. But he camouflage himself in a clothes called flesh. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. And diminished his power by birth in a manger, by two regular human beings. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. And because of the way he came, they did not believe him. Oh bless the Lord. So the Bible said he came unto his own, and his own received him not, but to them that receive him. To them gave him power to be called the sons of God. Beloved, now are you and I, the sons of God, and it does not yet appear what we shall be, but we know when he shall appear, we shall be like him. I can lose this thing. Oh bless God. I can give up this thing to be called a son of God. I can give this thing up to be called a royal priesthood, a holy nation, a peculiar people. I can give this thing up. Paul on his journey with greater, greater anticipation to crucify, to terrorize the Christian. On his journey, he came to Damascus. My God, a bright, beautiful day. Hallelujah! That's why I said earlier you don't know how important this thing is until you meet him. Oh, bless God! Oh, bless the name of Jesus. Until you meet Jesus personally. Hallelujah. Until he touched you personally. Until he speaks to you personally. Until he fills you with the Holy Ghost personally. Oppressed God and Paul was on the way to the mascot to go persecute the church of the living God. But while he was riding, the Bible said a bright light shone and striped him off his heart. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. That's a very significant point, right there. Because sometimes we're riding on our pride of life. And we're riding through town as if we got everything covered. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. Oh, we got our money and we got our big bank account and we got everything going on. And that was Brother Paul. Until he came in contact with Jesus. He realized what he was writing wasn't important. He realized where he was going was not even that important. But woo he was supposed to know. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Have you ever been there? Just minding your own business, and Jesus disturbed you. Go in your own way, and he calls you. Trying to do your own thing and he beckons to you. And you can't go where you want to go anymore and do what you want to do. And so Paul encounters Jesus. Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? And he comes in contact with Jesus. Jesus reveals himself to Paul. Paul finds out this is God. Whom thou persecutest. Revelation spins in his head. The scriptures come to life. This is he which the prophet spoke of. This is he who Isaiah saw. This is he who Jeremiah spoke of. This is he who Abraham testified of. This is the one who Moses met upon the mountain, God Almighty. This was the one who wrestled with Jacob. Oh, glory to God. This was the one who read off in the Old Testament. Oh, bless the Lord. This was the one that they said would come. When when Saul got the revelation, he got conversion. His natural eyes were blinded, and his spiritual eyes came open. And the revelation of the mystery of Jesus Christ came into his heart and purged his conscience, washed his mind, changed his agenda. Oppressed God. Bless the name of Jesus. And he became a preacher of righteousness, a preacher of Christ. Look what Philippians 3 13 says again. Bring it up, my brother. On the screen, let's look what it says. When he came to that, he said, brethren. I do not count myself to have apprehended. But one thing I do. Look what it is. One thing. I know my position in this world. I know what I possessed. But when I came in contact with Jesus, he said, But one thing I do. Oh glory to God. Oh glory to God. One thing I do, forgetting those things which are behind. Pastor, you were preaching about that. How can you move on by looking behind? Paul had to immediately give up what he had, who he was, where he was going, and look to what Jesus was doing. He found out that nothing else was important but this one thing that he just got. Oh, somebody say hallelujah. Hallelujah. Listen, don't get me wrong. You got to go to work. You gotta live somewhere. Get married if you must. Go to a restaurant if you can. I don't even know what else to say. Live your life. But while you are living, make sure this one thing is there. Oh glory to God. Oh glory to Jesus. Oh glory to Jesus. Make sure this one thing is the main focus of your life. Oh, glory to God. Hallelujah. While you're living, make sure this one thing is at the front. Can I really preach today? If you're even getting married, it must be because of this one thing. And if you choose not to get married, it must be because of this one thing. I don't want anything to mess up this one thing. Oh, glory to God. Because I'm stuck, I'm staying single because of this one thing. I'm getting married because of this one thing. I'm giving up my job because of this one thing. Whatever decision we make, it has to surround this one thing. Oh, glory to God. Because if I lose this one thing, hallelujah! I've been there before, and my wife still has the problem with me. I'm trying to drive and talk to her and looking at her at the same time. You know, looking sideways, looking behind, feeling I got the wheels. We don't got no wheels. Because the first law of driving, you gotta look forward. Oh, praise the Lord. That's a law. If you're gonna live for Jesus, there ain't no side looking, they know looking back. Pastor illustrated that last week. You gotta look forward and keep on pressing. Somebody say amen. Let's break this down. Do you know nothing in your past is valuable anymore? I don't care if Billy Joe left you. I don't care if Naomi Campbell was your first love and she moved on, took up Madeline, and left you alone. It's in the past. Oh, bless God. You can't go back, you can't fix it. It's over. I've got one thing in view. Somebody say, Hallelujah. Oh, bless the Lord. You know what it is to be stuck one place, still looking behind. He said, I forget the things that are behind. Tell your neighbor it's time to forget and press. Oh, glory to God. I know some people hurt you, but forget it and press. I know you got the wrong thing sometimes, but forget it and press. Hallelujah! I can't afford nothing to disturb this one thing. This thing is too important for me. Hallelujah! Why is this thing so important? Paul was put it in another phrase, another time. He said, For me to live is Christ. Are you hearing this? And for me to die is gain. So Paul found out if he lives, he must live for Christ. And if he even die on the battlefield, he died for Christ. And if he died in Christ, he gains Christ.

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Lord God Almighty.

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Hallelujah! Hallelujah! But if you have all the money in the world, if you rich like Bill Gates or Mr. Tesla or whatever you possess, and you die without Christ, you lose everything.

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I've got Jesus.

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I've got Jesus. Take somebody say I got Jesus. I got Jesus. I don't have much money, but I got Jesus. I may not have much money, but I got Jesus. I don't know where I'm going, but I got Jesus. Yeah, yeah, tell somebody I got Jesus. I got Jesus. And you can take him away. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Come on, open your mouth and shout Hallelujah. Preacher, where do you mean you got Jesus? Now let me tell you who you were. You sitting here, let me tell you who you were before Jesus. Jesus, who was only known as God. God is the title of his title. So God in his own power created man. The Bible says, in his own image and in his own likeness. What does that mean? Stand up, Nathaniel, for a minute. If you can. So he's an image of a man. And God says he created man in the image of God. But do you think God is the same height like Nathaniel? No. God is way bigger than him in statue and in strength. But he was created to reflect God in his spirit. So when God made his head, God was simply saying, I am the head of the world. When God made his legs to walk, God was saying, I am a walking, moving God. When God made his eyes, God was just saying, I see all things. When God made his mouth, God was saying, I come the God that speaks from the heavens. Oh God, when God made his nostrils, God that smelled the sin of the world. I can smell things. When God made your ears, he was saying, I hear all things. Even the secret things of the heart. Oh bless the name of Jesus. When God makes and he's trying to tell you, I am the creator of all things. Oh bless the name of Jesus. Oh bless the name of Jesus. I create the outer part and the inner part. That can you are not the statue of God, you're just the image to reflect God. So even you was created to reflect the glory of God. Now let me prove it to you. When that same image was done to create it, it could not move. I heard Pastor say that. The same creature called man could not move. So God said, Let me do something that will marvel man forever. God put himself in man. Oh, glory to God. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. When God breathed, you are a representative that the breath you breathe is a living source from God. And if you don't breathe, you can't live. Oh, glory to God. So God is saying today you don't understand that if you don't have me, you cannot live. Because in Him we live, oh God. In Him we move, and in Him we have our being. Without Him, you are nothing. That is why this one thing is so important. One thing, one thing. Why are you so bothered about so many things? Why are we so bothered about so many things? When what really matters is one thing. Oh glory to Jesus. Only one thing really matters. I'm having headaches over so many things. I'm sick because of so many things. When only one thing is really important. Oh glory to Jesus. Somebody say hallelujah. Let's look at Let's look at Saint Luke. Let's look at St. Luke 14. Where is it? What is it? Put it up for me. You see the story? It's a really it's a real thing that happened. And Jesus visited Mary and Martha's home. Jesus visited them. And this is the speech Jesus gave. So Martha, I believe. Martha was busy serving in the kitchen. Washing plates. Serving food, making sure everything was alright. As it was customary today. Woman was to serve, you know, and make sure things was alright. We know what that is like. And when she saw Mary sitting very close to Jesus, while Jesus was teaching the man. She sat at the feet of Jesus. And she couldn't move. People wanted food, but she couldn't move. Because Jesus was sharing eternal food. Lord have mercy. How glory to God. Hallelujah. Do you know how nice it is when you eat some eternal food? Some eternal fry fish. My God, some eternal bread. Oh, praise the Lord Jesus. When your soul is digesting good spiritual stuff. Oh, bless God. You don't want to leave from the presence of the Lord. My God. Oh, glory to God. And so when Martha saw this, he went to Jesus and said, Jesus, do something about this. Get married to help me. And Jesus said, Jesus is not biased now. And that's all we really have to be just truthful. Jesus said, but one thing is needed. And Mary has chosen that good. Are you hearing this? One thing is needed. Are you ready? I'm gonna throw a stone at somebody in the back now. Don't get too caught up in the kitchen that you miss the spiritual bread. Because one thing is needed. We're happy you're serving fried fish. And we're glad we had some natural breads around. But you make sure that doesn't move you from getting the spiritual bread. Oh bless the name of Jesus. Oh bless the name of Jesus. But one thing is needed. I wish I could say that again. Say it. Can you say that? But one thing is needed. Say it one more time. One thing is needed. Say it again. One thing is needed. And Mary has chosen that good part, which will not be taken away from her.

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Oh my God.

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Hallelujah. Pastor Shaw, if you answer God to come leave Ottawa to come to Naughty, to serve God and serve his people, that cannot be taken away from you. Because you're chosen one thing that is needed. And if Lady Shaw follows you here, hold not her own intention, not her own mind, not her own will, but follow it as the work of God. That thing cannot be taken away. If you saints of God, oh bless the name of Jesus, choose this one thing above everything else, it cannot be taken away. It's gonna keep you in this life and it's gonna go over into eternity. This one thing. Guess what? Nobody can take it. Just touch your neighbor and say, nobody can take it. That's why Jesus said, Nobody. This skin cannot be taken from you. Hallelujah! Hallelujah. You can take some other stuff, but you can't take this. Why is it so hard for you to take this? Because when you really got Jesus, Jesus is not on the outside, he's wrapped up on the inside. Oh glory to Jesus! Oh glory to Jesus! He's on the inside, working on the outside, he's in my mind, he's in my head, he's in my heart, he's in my chest, he's in my hands, he is my foot, he's in my oh glory, he's in my eyes, he consumed me. I've got him. Somebody shout hallelujah! Somebody shout hallelujah! Hallelujah. A bishop years ago, rebuke a fella that came to the altar singing this song. I've got mine, my brother. I've got mine. You know that beautiful song? I have got the Holy Ghost surely keeping me fine. You don't know that. The devil throw his net at me, never reaching time. I've got mine, I've got what do you have? Wasn't yet saved, wasn't yet filled, wasn't yet naughty. Don't get confused singing song that has no meaning to you. Somebody say hallelujah! Somebody say hallelujah. When you say, I've got mine, you gotta help him. When you say something down inside of me, telling me to go on, something down, oh Jesus, Holy Ghost inside of me telling me to go on. Oh man, you're looking at me like I'm crazy now. There's some songs you sing, are words you say is because it's really happening. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. But it is not that you can't sing it, you may be able to sing it by faith if you understand what's happening. Oh, bless God, because when you're ministering, the song or the word is able to pull you out from where you are and pull you into what you're supposed to be because you heard the word and your heart was convicted, and you realize you need this one thing. Somebody say hallelujah. Everything that listen, I'm closing shortly. Everything in this world is after this one thing. Everything, every demon, every devil, every works, every government, every authority of this world is after this one thing. This is why when Peter and Paul and these guys were preaching Jesus, they they locked them up in prison, they silenced them, they say, Go on and preach, but don't preach in this name. They don't people don't care how you live, people don't care what you do, just do not live for Jesus. Just go any, if you think I'm Joe, just go into Walmart tonight and just out, Jesus, and see if you don't disturb the entire atmosphere. Just walk in any bank tonight, tomorrow, and just say, Jesus! And see if something hasn't been disturbed, because it's a name that is above every name. Demon tremble at the name. This name is the healing name, this name is the saving name. This has carried salvation. This is the name that Jesus Christ came in. For at the name of Jesus, every knee shall bow and every tongue confess that Jesus Christ is Lord. It's the name, it's the name, it's the name. And everything in this world is after that thing. Oh, glory to God. What are you preaching, preacher? Satan doesn't care if you carry a big Bible and worship Mohammed. He don't care what you carry and worship Buddha. You can join the lodge in a minute, he doesn't care. Join anything you want, you will get back from Satan. Oh, praise the Lord Jesus. I heard when Jesus walked up to the mountain, praise God, Satan came to tempt him. And here's Satan, all these things I give unto you, if thou wilt worship me. Jesus rebuked him and said, It is written, Thou shalt not tempt the Lord thy God. Oh, glory to God. Jesus reminds Satan. I am your God. I am the creator of all things. Without me, nothing exists. Oh, glory to God. I am the reason for your existence. Somebody shout hallelujah. Somebody shout glory. Somebody shout thank you, Jesus. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. Glory to God. Can I put it in simple? Pastor, we've got everything. Just because we have him. You believe it? We've got everything. Just because we have him. I'm gonna look at another scripture. Look at everybody, what do you got? Hallelujah. And when he had called the people to himself, he said to them. Let him deny himself and take up his cross and follow me. I used to think it says take up the cross. But no, no, no, no, no. Jesus already took up his cross. But he's now saying you have to take up your cross to follow him. So my brother and sister, what I'm going through may not be your cross. You gotta take up your own cross. Oh, bless God. If you wake up tomorrow and sickness is in your body, that's your cross. You gotta carry it. If you wake up tomorrow, you lose your job. My God, you gotta carry it, because that's a cross. You don't know what your cross may be, but because you have Jesus, you gotta be willing to carry it. Because you got the one thing that is most important. Somebody say amen. Hallelujah. But nobody wants to carry a cross these days. Is that a cross or crosses? Which one you prefer? I prefer the cross. Oh, bless God. What the next verse says? For whosoever, listen to this now. Listen to this. This is where the scripture boils down to reality, okay? For whoever desires to save his life, you will what? You will lose it. But whoever loses his life for my sake and the gospel will what? Will save it. Another verse? For what? Listen to this now. Listen to this, listen to this now. It's a question unto you and I. The Bible asks a question way before we and I arrive here. For what will it profit a man? If he gains. You remember the world I spoke about earlier? If he gains the whole world and loses, my God in heaven, his own soul. Oh glory to God. Oh glory to God. Oh glory to God. Hallelujah. The world has been rigged by Satan to pervert the minds of the people. To go after the whole world. To accomplish the whole world. And we not conquest. We fail bitterly. God says the heaven is my throne. And the earth is my footstool. That's how big he is. You only have access to what God gives you access to. Oh glory to Jesus. Oh glory to Jesus. Hallelujah. Your only access is to what he gives you access to. And this is why the plan is to take away the one thing that is important. I'm going to say it again for clarity. God is not saying you mustn't work. God is not saying you mustn't go to school. God is not saying you mustn't accomplish this. God is not saying anything like that. Because the Bible says, if riches increase, He said, set not your heart on it. So it's not a matter of wealth, it's a matter of laying hold at the most important thing and making it number one priority in your life. Somebody say hallelujah. Somebody say hallelujah. Don't you ever even allow your children to have first priority in your life. What? I know that sounds harsh. Praise God. If Jesus said one thing is needful, it is for your soul to be saved. For Christ to possess you and you to possess Christ. And therefore, Satan sometimes used your children to move your soul. Are you hearing me? Satan lose your wife to move your soul. So Satan will lose your husband to move your soul. He'll lose your job. Whatever it takes. Listen, I know it's hard, but say hallelujah, anyhow. Oh, glory to God. Do you think because I'm preaching it means I master it? When I put this mic down and still have to live in this real world and fight against the same devil and resist the same temptation. Oh, bless the name of Jesus. But I've got to use that same word that I preach to believe that I have to secure this one thing. Oh, glory to Jesus. Oh, glory to God. But nobody believes this scripture. I always say, nobody believes this scripture, really. Until they draw near to the casket. Nobody really believes this scripture that only your soul matters until you draw near the burial ground. Oh no, what I'm saying to you right now might be just going through one year and going to the next. But if you ever step to the doctor, the doctor says, you have about one more week to live. You want to sell what you have, give it to your children, give it to neighbors. Hello? Hello. My God. There's a song last. Let me sing the song for you to make the message easy. There are things I hold dear to my heart. They are nothing. They are not mine at all. Jesus only let me use them to brighten my life. So remind me. Remind me the law.

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Roll by the curtain of men.

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Show me where you brought me from and where I could be and sometimes. So we might be mine me. Oh my god, my God, my God. Hold somebody's hand and say, I can't lose this thing. Oh glory to God. Shake somebody's hand and say, I can't lose this thing. Hold on to this one thing. Oh glory to God. Oh glory to Jesus. Hold on to this one thing. Fight for this one thing. Press for this one thing. Oh glory to God. Show me where you brought me from and where I should have been. Please remember I'm a human and sometimes okay. So remind me. Remind me. Somebody said that.