Living Godly In An Ungodly World

The world is loud, pressured, and quick to call wrong “normal.” We sit with a hard, necessary question: what does it actually look like to live a godly life in an ungodly world when people try you, tempt you, and criticize you, sometimes from your own family? We start with prayer, then get practical about relying on Scripture and choosing Christ-like values when life feels like it is pushing back from every direction.

We dig into why “What would Jesus do” is not a cute slogan if we never renew our minds. Real transformation shows up in how we respond, not just what we post. That means learning to pause before reacting, resisting the pull of old places and old patterns, and letting God reshape how we think so our choices reflect what is good and right. We also talk about why staying rooted in the Bible and surrounding yourself with solid community matters, especially in an age of confusion and performative faith.

Then we go deeper: spiritual warfare is real, discernment is necessary, and judgment is dangerous. We challenge the habit of condemning people and pushing them away from God, and we name the call to lead with grace, humility, and love, even when we do not agree on everything. If you have been trying to stay faithful while the culture pulls hard the other way, this conversation will meet you right where you are.

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Transcript

Opening Praise And Victory

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Don't let on me, don't let me, God on my side, you can't play on me, play on me, devil try, but you can't take on me, from me, I'm too covered. You can't let me, don't let them, don't let me, tell me. Don't let me, don't let me, God bless me, devil can't bless me, don't be, don't tell me, don't bless it, don't bless me, don't bless me.

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Hallelujah. I am free.

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The chains are broken. Victory is mine.

Welcome And Opening Prayer

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Hey y'all, hey, happy Thursday, beloved, happy Thursday. I hope y'all had a fabulous, fabulous Thursday. In spite of y'all know that's my favorite thing now, in spite of, because guess what? Life gonna happen in spite of, but we keep having the opportunity to be here just one more time in the land of the living, which is a blessing, baby. But in let's get started with a prayer first. But remember, please don't close your eyes if you're driving. That's the disclaimer. All right, everybody else, let's go. Let's give our Heavenly Father some praise for this day and all that's in it. Dear Heavenly, most gracious Father, Father, we come to you on this day, Lord, thanking you for another day's journey, thanking you for choosing us, Lord, to wake up on this day to have one more day to get it right with you, Lord. We know every day is not gonna be easy. We know every day comes with trials and tribulations, Lord. But we know if we surrender everything to you, hand it over to you and lean on you and not our own understanding, we're gonna be all right down here. For you tell us in your world, we in the world, but not of the world. Therefore, we should transform our minds and our way of thinking, our way of living in the worldly eyes, in the worldly view, because we're living in a day and time, Heavenly Father, that they see everything that's wrong as right, and it's not right, Father. And those of us that know better will do better and help others understand and open their eyes to do better. For Father, there will be a day you will return, and every one of us will give an account for our wrong that we continue to do. For you forgave us of our sins and our shortcomings when we did decide to walk and transform into the world because I'll be the first one to admit, Lord, I'm not gonna sugarcoat and lie for no one. I've never been perfect and never will be, but I remember there was a day in time I walked in darkness just like others. That's why I don't judge no one, I believe in prayer because prayer changes things, Father. That's why I speak and talk to you for hold on to your unchanging hand because it gets hard down here, and sometimes you just want to throw in the towel. But if we continue to stay focused on you and we know where our help comes from, we know where our strength comes from. If we just look up to the hill and see you, Lord, we know you got us and you go carry us through. So anyone going through on this day, Lord, give them some strength, but more than anything, Lord, give them wisdom, knowledge, and understanding to understand we have to live a godly life in this ungodly world. You already knew what was gonna take place, so let the message that you send from on high that you dwell in me and exude through me to speak to someone tonight, help them open their eyes, help them see your glory, help them see your kingdom is awaiting them. If they trust you, if they trust the process, if they lean on your understanding and not their own, if they trust you and not man, they're gonna be all right. I ask these and all blessings in the only name that has power in heaven and in on earth. In Jesus' name I pray, Amen.

What It Takes To Live Godly

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All right, child. Living a godly life and an ungodly world, see, it requires intentionally reliance on scripture and an commitment to the embodying Christ-like values. That's the key. We have to understand embodying Christ-like values. What does that mean, Sean? That means we must watch through going back in the word, having that relationship with God, how Jesus walked this earth. For he is the example, he was the true living example for how we to make it on this side of the rim. We call earth. See, because this is just our designation, it's not our final stop. We're just taking a journey through, okay. Eternal life, our goal should be with our everlasting father. At least that's my goal. Okay, my goal is to be with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ, my heavenly father. But we are just down here having an earthly experience. It never was promised to us to be easy, for God knew it wasn't gonna be. Now

Renew Your Mind Before You React

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we were saying it just because I ain't gonna lie, I know I was. What would Jesus do? And I'm gonna be very transparent. So, somebody here, this might be too much for you, but please just scroll up because I have to be transparent. But I used to say that saying all the time because somebody could come the wrong way at me, and I'm gonna just leave it at that. But still wouldn't do what Jesus would do. Okay, so in this day and time, I want you to really think about before saying that what would Jesus do by renewing your mind to be Christ-like? See, because we gotta have that Christ-like mind, especially in this day and time, because it's very trying. People are gonna try you just because, okay, so we have to learn to be proactive and stop reacting off our emotions, be more logical because if we act off our emotions, you just saying what would Jesus do, and you just go to reflect, as we used to call it back in the day, but you you know what your actions was gonna be before doing it. So now I want you to transfer, renew your minds to thinking like Christ. Don't go to the same places that you used to go to, you know it's trouble, the same people that's causing you harm. Let them go release them. They ain't meaning you not a bit of good, even family. I hate to say it, but family can be your biggest critics, family could be your biggest downfall. Did you see in the I mean Cain and Abraham? I could go on and on. Come on now. You think God just had that put in there just to look pretty? He was forewarning us how family can turn against you your own flesh and blood. This ain't nothing new, he says, ain't nothing new under the sun, nothing, beloved. So we gotta stop acting brand new. Only thing that should be new is our mind, letting go that old way, and letting God renew our mind by transforming it to be Christ-like, to always think about is this the right thing to do? Would Jesus really done this? How would he would have handled this? So once you do that, so you can discern God's will, which is good and acceptable. This transformation is essential for resisting the pressures of an ungodly culture. So,

Resisting Culture With Scripture

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this is how you resist because the pressure is gonna come, baby. It's gonna come. We see that like clockwork now. Titus 2 and 12 live wisely and righteously. It instructs Christians to renounce ungodliness and worldly passions, living sensibly and righteously in the present age. How many people heard Titus even read in the church? I know I haven't. No shade to the church. I haven't, but right here, God is telling us in the present age, this involves making conscious choices that reflect God's value rather than so suicidal social side. I rebuke that, social idol norms. What this is saying, Sean, somebody asking, see, society wants you to think wrong is normal. Society wants you to think living the ungodly life is normal. That's not that's not normal. That's why we got to renew and transform our minds, our thinking. First Peter and three reflect Christ in relationship, provides practical guidelines for living godly lives, emphasizing submission, respect, and kindness in relationship. These behaviors not only honor God, but also serve as a witness to others in a culture that often rejects such values. So, as you can see, it's telling us in the world what's going on today in the world, but the word is telling us how we, as godly people, children of God, how we should live because we in the world, but we're not of this world. Remember, we just passing through. Okay, we just passing through. You must stay rooted in the scripture. You got to beloved. I remember that was a time I used to read, and I tell you, I'm gonna be very transparent. You're not gonna find me trying to sugarcoat it, tickle your ear, make it seem like I've always been perfect. No, have not. It's healing and getting to suck with my Lord and Savior myself and getting to know him for myself, not my pastor, not my grandparents, but me, Sean. Just regularly reading and meditating on the Bible, it helps reinforce godly principles and provides guidance for daily living. We gotta have it, you gotta have it more now than any time. I promise you, you do. I promise you do. It is through scriptures that believers can find strength and direction in an ungodly world world, engaging community, surrounding oneself with fellow believers. This means people who believe in your Lord and Savior Jesus Christ that can provide support and encouragement because they're gonna be have the same belief as you. So at the end of the day, everybody helping one another. Because I always say two heads are better than one, so two believers go always be better than one because you're coming together on one accord. That's why you know it's saying the word, when two or more gathered in my name, I'm also in the midst. See that God encouraging us to come together so He can be there with us wholeheartedly.

Community Support And Discernment

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So once you engage with others, whether it's in church activities, Bible studies, fellowship with one another, it helps reinforce a godly lifestyle and offers accountability, but they must be aligned to the word of God because we got a lot of false prophets nowadays, and the word tells us everybody that says Lord, Lord ain't going to heaven. God go tell quite a few people, get thee away from me, for I know you not. What does that mean, Sean? That means you act like you knew me in the world, you pretended for whatever gains you possess, but you really didn't know me at all. My name gained you what you wanted. It had an ulterior motive. Practice grace and humility, as highlighted in the teachings of Paul. It is crucial to approach others with grace rather than judgment. Did you hear that? Let me read that again because somebody didn't hear me. As highlighted in the teachings of Paul, it is crucial to approach others with grace rather than judgment. So many people want to judge, folks. None of us can judge, we ain't the judge, God is the judge. Because if we were to fly on the wall, what would we see? Recognizing one's own shortcomings, foster humility and compassion allowing believers to navigate relationships without condemnation. Do you hear that? So if we understand that, you know how much further we'll go in life. See, we have to understand, we have to stand firm on the word of God, not adapting to society and their way of thinking, their way of doing things. We got to stop allowing man to tell us what's right and allowing God to tell us what's right. When you have a personal relationship with God, He's gonna give you everything you need. It's gonna come a time you will no longer need a third party to help bring you to God. What are you talking about, Sean? You know how when you're baby in Christ, you have to go to church all the time because that pastor is helping you get to know God, right? Or should be right around. Come on, I'm just saying, but it's gonna come a time where your relationship with God, you don't have to go to church to feel good, baby. You could be right, I could be right here in my room and having a mighty good time with my Lord and Savior Jesus Christ. I could be right outside, and most of y'all see my entertainment video to help people to just put a smile on their face because most people don't understand my calling, why God gave me that call. I know what it's like to hit rock bottom in depression where you see nothing but darkness. That ain't a pretty feeling, and if you can make somebody date, that's worth everything. Do you know how many times you might save a person from suicide and not even know it? See, sometimes people get caught up in the monetary. Well, I ain't getting paid for it, I ain't doing it. Do you not understand? God is Jehovah Jarah, He provides everything we need. Just because you might not get be getting paid for it here, don't mean God won't bless you another way. Because God will open the floodgates of heaven, they've been poured a blessing that you never imagined you could get, and I'm telling you what I know. I'm not just telling you nothing, I read. That's the power of God. I don't do what I do for money. If I did it for money, I don't know where we would be living at. I do it because I love making a difference in people's life, I love putting a smile on people's faces, I love pulling people out the dungeons, the pit of hell, as I call it, because that's what it truly is, and it doesn't cost nothing to pick your fellow man up. Nothing, and y'all have to understand, even when you out and about, you never know the angels God was sending your path. Why people judging the homeless? All of them ain't really homeless, needed. Sometimes you're being tested, you never know, and one thing about living a godly life that we must get used to and understand the concept, it's gonna come with criticism, it's gonna come with conflict, and you're being the minority. Christians are called to preserve understanding that their ultimate accountability is to God. This perspective helps maintain zeal and focus despite. Society opposition. Let them talk about your baby. They talk about Jesus Christ. So you think you're gonna be exempt? Nah. Let them talk. Because I want you to think about something. When they're talking about you, are they putting any money in your bank account? Are they paying your health insurance? Are they paying your taxes? See, sometimes we worry about the wrong thing. We gotta focus on the bigger prize, which is our God, our heavenly father. Because I know I won't be in that number, and you can't do it focusing on man down here. Because man goes say what they want, do what they want, and it's just what it is. But I know as I'm looking back now, and I think about all these young folk, you don't really see them in the church now, do you? But you see them out there giving God praise. I post them on my page all the time, from them dancing on gospel song, going in different places. If they're not singing, they're playing gospel music, they're doing so. See, that's something we should be praising God for and thanking God for, because they said they wasn't there was no hope for them, but there's more hope than for some of us that's older, that's been in church all our lives. But what are you doing to help the world outside of judging these babies that's praising God and bringing God to the people? God didn't call us for the four walls. What you talking about, Sean? Tell me what God gave me.

Calling, Obedience, And Kingdom Work

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I was very active when God sent me back and fought my church in 2020. The end of 2021, I joined 2022. 2024, He pulled me because I was like, God, I just want work in the church, I won't be behind closed doors, I don't want to be out on social media. I don't want, and I knew I didn't want to be on Facebook, and Lord and behold, that's the main one God called me for. But see, God brought me from the TikTok side. Now I'm still on TikTok because that's where I found my soul tribe. We all it's a group of us, we was going through healing at the same time. Some people just starting their journey, but there was some of us back in 2021. And when I tell you, baby, we was helping one another, still do, still do strong bind, holding each other down and understanding the concept. But see, God started me there because of the support and the love, and then as He He built this tough skin, this rhino skin. Now I could get you over here. Well, I I need you to talk more and shed a word that I give you for the day. I need you to get out this nest. You're no longer a baby. Gotta put your big girl panties on. This is kingdom building. This is my work, my mission, my calling over your life. Is it easy? Absolutely not, because I have full-time agency I run and other stuff God has me doing. But do I complain? Oh no, baby. I thought I was gonna complain in the beginning, but I remember when God had to remind me. I remember saying, God, if you save me from myself and this marriage in 2021, that was my cry out to God. However, you need me, Lord, use me, I will be your best. I will no longer do a show and way because that's what I always did. I thought I knew it all, I ain't knew nothing. I ain't knew nothing. You heard me, ain't knew nothing, and I set myself down, healed, transformed by the renewing of my mind. Everything I do now, I do not do it without God, period, point blank, because at the end of the day, without God, we are nothing. We can say we whatever, however, I promise you, without God, we are nothing, and I'm not gonna change my story, no way, no how. I'm not gonna sit up here every every week and preach on prosperity because at the end of the day, God wants us to have, but until you have God wholeheartedly, I don't care how many pastors, I don't care how many apostles, I don't care how many bishops will tell you your manifestation will come to light. You will get some of it, but you will not get all what God wants you to have because you do not have God wholeheartedly. It is not until you accept Him, allow Him to dwell in His temple. This ain't our body. We bought it. God linked it out to us. That's why when it's gone, the soul ascends, and this body goes back to what? Dust, ashes, dirt, however, you won't look at it. He never promised us to stay here for a lifetime. He sent us here for a purpose. Do you not think God didn't know everything that was gonna take place before it took place? He knew us before he put us in our mother's womb. So, do you think he didn't know what was gonna take place in the United States of America, Kenya, and everywhere else? Where I get calls all the time, everybody complaining, during the crowd, because God already knew all this was gonna take place because he said, Ain't nothing new under the sun. Nothing. Everything was supposed to take place in God's timing. When God ordains or allows something, always remember if it's not God ordained, it's God allowed. Everything gotta go through his timing, not ours. That's where we get confused, and I think some people really don't believe the God we serve is real. As the elders would tell me, you're gonna learn today, fat meat is greasy, baby. At some point in your life, God will give you an encounter with him because you will not leave this green earth without knowing who he was and a parting of your sins. Now, I tell people all the time, he's like a true gentleman, he don't force himself on us, but he's not gonna just allow you to leave this green earth without knowing who he is and a parting of your sin, without building a relationship with him if you choose to, because he don't want us to be hot and cold. I'm telling you, I'm I'm telling you what I know. I was one of them lukewarm Christians, hot and cold, and you don't hear me call myself Christian no more because Christian in my eyes always was to be Christ-like, even when I didn't understand it, and y'all hear me say I'm very transparent, that's why some people can't relate with me. I'm too transparent at times, and I tell people you don't want to know the truth, you don't want to know me. Because that's the one thing I've always done, and I I even kept it 100 with friends is still to this day. Because one thing about a lie, you gotta tell another lie and another lie and another lie, because you know why you can't remember a lie. Who remembers a lie? Please let me know. Because the average person that I know that then told me a lie, how I knew it was a lie, I got multiple stories. So that's why I tell people I'm gonna be very transparent. You don't want the truth, you don't you don't you just don't want to be around. That's just like I can't sit up here and lie and tell y'all, oh, you're gonna be rich once you change your mindset. No, I'm not gonna tell you that. Now I will tell you, manifestation is real, and God gonna make sure you get He's gonna provide, amen. He's gonna provide, He never leave His children without, but He got so much more in store for you. Uh, that's why it said the floodgates of heaven will open and pour out, meaning you will get more than you could ever fathom, even with what y'all heard me in in April when I said when God moved so fast with this house, baby. I

Testimony Of Provision And Timing

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mean, I'm telling you, my king just made me realize last year about all the money I was putting out, and then I set a goal, and I didn't set it right then. I'm not gonna tell that lie. My neighbors, the the landlord on that property, too, and they only had a month to find something. They couldn't find that they had to move to Florida, but they wanted to move to Florida anyway. I said, Oh, I ain't moving from Georgia, and I'm very picky on areas I want to stay in, and that's my choice. And I know you pay more if you go to certain areas. I had no problem doing that. I've been doing that since my kids was little. You go pay more to be where you want to be, and I get that, and I had no problem with it, but I could not have my back up against the wall in one month, and there was nothing to be found. So I started and I gave myself to April 30th, 2026. Well, January came because my lease was up in February. January came, couldn't I couldn't get no long person. February came, couldn't get I'm very persistent, but I because I believe in the power of prayer and I know my relationship with God, and March came. March. I said because February came and nothing happened. I said, Okay, love, maybe you want me to just sit tight just a little while longer. March came, baby. The second week in March, that Friday, I'll never forget that morning. I looked and I saw an email. I never looked at homes until late at night when I got off. But that particular morning, God led me, the Holy Spirit led me. I went and I saw the home, and I saw the listening agent. God told me to call the listening agent because I knew a real estate agent. God said, Call the listening agent. I called her, called Stacy Thompson, sure did. And when I tell you, from me talking to her to by noon, the mortgage broker called before five, I had a free approval, and then two days later, offer was put on the home, and then the that was the weekend. Two days later, full approval. That's the power of God. See, when we walk in in light, no longer straddling the fence, God gonna give you not just your needs, He'll give you desires and want. Now, mind y'all, I had a dream about this home. I didn't remember it till close to the closing when God brought it back to my remembrance. Not everything, but I remember the resort style I wanted. And when I tell you the inside and stuff, if you ever been to resort, that's how the bathrooms and stuff set up, the cabinets, everything. And God's word to me was I left the outside of the house in the basement for you to do and your liking. I gave the cellar what I gave you in the vision and the inside, and I promise you, just like it was, and he gifted me all new appliances. What his seller uh put in the house with a warranty that was God. God, I don't take credit for nothing when I know what God can do because God got something for all of us in heaven additional that we will love. He gives us what we love too, not just what we need, but we gotta be obedient. We must trust Him, we must do His will. That's the power of God. See, people say, Oh, that wasn't God, that was the universe. My my my thing on that, who made the universe? You go, you go say something, then say God is the universe if you just have to say something because the universe, if we really do the thinking, the universe couldn't make itself. Okay, that's just like saying humans can make people, yeah, they might clone it, but it won't be the same. That's just like fruits and everything else they clone. Is it the same? Absolutely. That's what makes God stand out from all the rest. You can never have an original Dr. Jacqueline Cox, Dr. LaShawn Fernandez, Dr. Velma, and I could go on and on and on, but you will never have another original. Only God can take the mess we are and make us better than the original part we were, and that's the reality of it. Because he knew we was gonna get contaminated down here, he knew we was gonna have to be rebuilt. That's not just cliche when that singer says let the potter put the clay back together again, because only he can put us back better than what we were in our original state. Everything has a meaning, even when you think about, and it's gonna sound crazy to you, but Humpty Dumpty, the little nursery rhyme, and they say they couldn't put Humpty Dumpty back together again. That's because they ain't given to Jesus. Because if you would have given to the great I am, oh, he would have put them back and put Humpty back better than what he was, and see that just came to that's the power of God, John.

Spiritual Warfare And Real Evil

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So I hope this message tonight helps someone understand. Although we're in an ungodly world, God created this world, but remember what did he do? Satan and his demons out from heaven, and what they had down here on earth, people still looking for hell, hell right here among us. Why you think so many people, evil spirit, because it's the demons in them. We gotta stop looking for this red horns and and all this foolishness we were raised up with them. They fighting demons, them demons is the ones really clowning, and see when you go to talking about that, people don't want to know the truth because people don't believe in witchcraft, people don't believe in voodoo and hoodoo, it's real. I'm just telling you what I don't know. The spiritual world is real, and we are spiritual beings. Do you not know demons cannot walk among this earth? Their souls, they have to be in the body, they have to be in flesh. Yes, witchcraft is in the Bible, but most people don't want to read that and see that when people start talking about it, people run. But if you really listen and then go back and analyze, I guarantee you, you will understand this world we live in, and you will understand why God said in the world, we fighting against principalities and powers of darkness. He warned us on everything, he warned us on everything, nothing's new, we just act brand new. Oh, we don't want to learn. I was just talking to the guy in the office though yesterday, and we would just say, People don't want to read no more, and I promise you, reading is fundamental, especially the word of God. If you really read it and asking God for understanding, you would understand why, even the way the parables and the metaphors, God did it, it's gonna stay with you. Because, see, facts tell, but a story, like they say, sells it, it stays in the memory bank because that subconscious mind go hold on to because remember, your subconscious mind don't never sleep, it always finds a way to just bring it to life, okay. I know I went deep tonight, but y'all know I'm not gonna play with it. God gave me a greater assignment than I ever wanted or could have choose for myself to do. But when I do anything, I gotta do it wholeheartedly with my whole heart. I can't play with it, and I can't worry about pressing out people's feelings. That's why I won't be in a church, and that's why I won't ask for money because I want to tell my truth, whatever God gives me to tell the people, I want to tell it so people can understand and know they're fighting battles that it's not a battle that we can fight them with. We only can fight these battles with our heavenly father, because he the only one that can defeat these demons that's walking among us, that's taking souls, and people's like, but that's why I go to church. Do

Stop Judging And Lead With Love

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you think Satan is in the church? He's more in the church than he in the club. Why he need to be in the club? See, we gotta think sometime before we speak. He knows those souls that's trying to be delivered and saved by our Lord and Savior go be in the church, and he knows Sister Sally gonna be in there judging them. Well, you was in the club last night, or oh, you was out there smoking weed. But sister Sally, what would you do? Because God tells us none of us can judge, for we all sin and fall show, everybody got a different sin, no two sins alike, and God hates all sin. I hear people talk about all the time. Oh, God can't stand the gay community, sin is sin to God. I don't care, God loves everybody, He doesn't discriminate against nobody, and I don't care what nobody says, I love the gay community too, because they all God's children. I don't have to agree with somebody, I learn in life to agree to disagree. But they more loving than some people that say they for God. And and I think some of that compassion for them because they've been hurting, ridiculed, ridiculed so much by so-called church folks, God folks. You can't say you from God and you can't stand a community? Who are you? What are you doing to tell people about God? What are you doing to teach them the word? You think God word about your heart and how you treating people and how you judging people. Because if you don't understand this one thing I want y'all to take on tonight when we judge people, you pushing people further away from God. Well, God wants to draw man to him, not from him. God is the ultimate judge. Before we need to think about judging anybody, sweep around your own front door before you sweep around mine's and anyone else's. Because I can promise you, you got some crimes behind your door. You just gotta close that door to sweep behind it. We gotta stop it. Because we don't know when God is returning. But when he returns, it's your house in order with how you treating people, how you judging people, how you loving people, how you being there for people. Stop talking about folks and love on. And on that note, until next week, beloved, we go pray it out as we always do. The

Closing Prayer And Surrender

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Heavenly Most Gracious Father, I thank you for this message tonight, Lord. Father, I know it was deep. And I know some don't like it. But Lord, I promise you that I was gonna deliver your message. Whatever thus say the Lord, I will speak it. Speak it from the mountaintop. Those that have ear, let them hear. And those that won't ignore, let them ignore. For Father, you give us all the opportunity to have free will. It's on us what we do. So Lord, I pray tonight that one soul for the angels in heaven rejoice when one soul is saved. One person, I pray, Lord, say, What must I do to be saved? And they understand that all they gotta do, Lord, is get down on their knees if they can. And if they can't, however, they can praise your name by stretching their hands out to thee, Lord, saying, Lord, I surrender, I hand it all over to you, this life of mine. I want to lay it down at the altar, at the foot of the cross where our Lord and Savior Jesus was crucified, nailed to that cross. Well, on the third day, he rose up from the grave as a symbolic message to us, Lord, that as we transform and renew our minds, we no longer walk in that dark light, but now we walk in pure light, your light, Father, your light, and only your light shine upon this world in a world of darkness, in a world of cruelty, in a world of hate, in a world of envy. I give you all the praise, I give you all the glory, all the honor. It all belongs to you, Father. Thank you. In the only name that has power in heaven and on earth, in Jesus' name I pray. Amen and amen. Until next week, beloved.