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Good morning. How will people know that we are disciples of Christ? Will they know by looking at us? Will they know by having conversations with us? Jesus said they we know that we are his disciples by loving others. Not by saying we love others, but by showing the love Jesus gave us. Love is an action word. Anyone can give lip-service.

John 13:34-35 So now I am giving you a new commandment: Love each other. Just as I have loved you, you should love each other. Your love for one another will prove to the world that you are my disciples.”

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. Did you know you have a crucial role in where you will live once you die? You’re in control of your souls destiny. God has given us free-will and no one can make make us do anything we don’t want to do. God won’t make us serve him. Man can’t make us serve him. We choose who and what we serve. We choose what we want to believe or disbelieve. Today is the day to start believing the right thing. We can say one thing with our mouths but God knows the intent of our heart.

John 3:16-17 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only begotten Son, that whosoever believeth in him should not perish, but have everlasting life. For God sent not his Son into the world to condemn the world; but that the world through him might be saved.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. When people see us at our lowest they tend to count us out. That’s why it’s so important to surround ourselves with believers that can help us believe in tough times. No matter how low you get, if you’re a child of God know that you may be down, but not out. It will be a shame for people to count you out because the greater lives on the inside of you. Just because people count you out doesn’t mean that God has counted you out.

Acts 14:19-20 Then some Jews arrived from Antioch and Iconium and won the crowds to their side. They stoned Paul and dragged him out of town, thinking he was dead. But as the believers gathered around him, he got up and went back into the town. The next day he left with Barnabas for Derbe.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. Has the Lord ever been angry with you then he wasn’t? When you noticed his anger subsided did you have a song of praise? When was the last time you told someone how you made God angry but now he comforts you? We are quick to recognize when someone makes us mad and angry, but we never recognize that we make God angry. The Bible says God is slow to anger , it didn’t say he didn’t get angry. We need to have a song of praise on our lips always because God could have killed us in his anger, but he didn’t.

Isaiah 12:1-6(NLT) In that day you will sing: “I will praise you, O Lord! You were angry with me, but not any more. Now you comfort me. See, God has come to save me. I will trust in him and not be afraid. The Lord GOD is my strength and my song; he has given me victory.” With joy you will drink deeply from the fountain of salvation! In that wonderful day you will sing: “Thank the Lord! Praise his name! Tell the nations what he has done. Let them know how mighty he is! Sing to the Lord, for he has done wonderful things. Make known his praise around the world. Let all the people of Jerusalem shout his praise with joy! For great is the Holy One of Israel who lives among you.”

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. What good is having spiritual gifts if we don’t have love? What good is being able to speak in tongues, preach, and prophesy; then turn around and be nasty, degrading, and hurtful to people? Without love we are nothing. Without love our spiritual gifts are useless. If we can’t find it within ourselves to love like Christ, we need to repent and not operate in our spiritual gifts until we have love for ourselves and others.

1 Corinthians 13:1-2 (NLT) If I could speak all the languages of earth and of angels, but didn’t love others, I would only be a noisy gong or a clanging cymbal. If I had the gift of prophecy, and if I understood all of God’s secret plans and possessed all knowledge, and if I had such faith that I could move mountains, but didn’t love others, I would be nothing.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. Sometimes life can be a bitter pill to swallow when we only focus on the wrong and injustice we’ve suffered. When we are in Christ Jesus life is sweet even when things are not looking good. We must continue to trust God no matter what life brings our way. The old saints used to sing a song “I will trust in the Lord until I die”. Situations and circumstances don’t dictate our trust in God. Our relationship with the Lord allows us to look at life with the glass half-full and be positive and know; that all things work together for the good of them who love the Lord and are the called according to his purpose.

Psalms 34:8 O taste and see that the Lord is good: blessed is the man that trusteth in him.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. Sometimes we have difficulty loving the people that say they love us. So when Jesus tells us to love our enemies and pray for those who do us wrong, there’s some hesitation and a whole lot of disobedience. We tell Jesus things like; “I’m not there yet Lord”, as if he’s going to say ok whenever you get ready. Being a child of God means that we don’t get to react like the world. Being a child of God means we respond the way Jesus would respond and that we imitate Christ on a daily basis. We can’t lift Jesus up by holding grudges and hating our enemy. Jesus said with love and kindness have I drawn thee.

Matthew 5:43-48 “You have heard the law that says, ‘Love your neighbor’ and hate your enemy. But I say, love your enemies! Pray for those who persecute you! In that way, you will be acting as true children of your Father in heaven. For he gives his sunlight to both the evil and the good, and he sends rain on the just and the unjust alike. If you love only those who love you, what reward is there for that? Even corrupt tax collectors do that much. If you are kind only to your friends, how are you different from anyone else? Even pagans do that. But you are to be perfect, even as your Father in heaven is perfect.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. The Bible teaches us that we should only go so far to help someone financially. We should not be co-signing no one else’s debt, for there are consequences when we can’t pay for it. Everything doesn’t require a loan, sometimes people just need to be patient and save their money for what they want. The next time that family member or friend needs help to get a car, loan, tuition, house, etc. and they want you to co-sign for it; lead them to the word of God.

Proverbs 22:26-27 Don’t agree to guarantee another person’s debt or put up security for someone else. If you can’t pay it, even your bed will be snatched from under you.

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. Food only sustains our body and gives us energy to keep going. The word of God gives us life and helps us live. If you’re not in the word of God then you’re really not living, you’re just being sustained by natural food.

Matthew 4:4 Jesus answered, “It is written: ‘Man shall not live on bread alone, but on every word that comes from the mouth of God.’”

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Pastor Brown

Good morning. Now is not the time to be doubting God and letting people turn you from what you’ve learned from the Bible. We need to tap into the Holy Spirit so that we don’t become spiritually dull. The Holy Spirit is every believer’s most unmistakable proof of salvation and greatest guarantee of eternal glory. So hold-fast to Christ and live by God’s word and not the world rules.

Galatians 3:1-5 You foolish Galatians! Who has bewitched you? Before your very eyes Jesus Christ was clearly portrayed as crucified. I would like to learn just one thing from you: Did you receive the Spirit by the works of the law, or by believing what you heard? Are you so foolish? After beginning by means of the Spirit, are you now trying to finish by means of the flesh? Have you experienced so much in vain—if it really was in vain? So again I ask, does God give you his Spirit and work miracles among you by the works of the law, or by your believing what you heard?

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Pastor Brown