Woo. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. Good morning. Good morning. I am Cedric Major and welcome to NBC Live. and I am Carla Peters. Welcome and good morning. Yeah, listen, if you are a part of our virtual family, good morning to you. Make sure you hit that like, share, and subscribe button as well. And and then you follow us on all our social media platforms. Absolutely. Absolutely. And then if this is your first time, make sure you go ahead and put first time in the chat because we definitely want to welcome you the New Beginnings Way. Yes. Yeah. Make sure you say what's going on here at NBC. How you been? Super fantastic. Super fantastic and wonderful. How do they say the saints say blessed and highly favored? Come on. Blessed and highly favored on today. Man, we have had a wonderful time. It's good to see you. If you was with us on last week, it was Easter Sunday, resurrection. Resurrection Sunday. We had a wonderful time. A phenomenal service. We actually had four services. We had sunrise service at 6:30. And I'm telling you what a phenomenal time we had there. Getting up early to seek Jesus. Come on. And then on top of that, we had our 8:30 and then we had our 10:30. And then guess what else we had? We had our 12:32 as well. And as you see, we were able to actually even have communion at our resurrection and our sunrise service. And what tops it all of above everything else? Guess what? All the people that came to Jesus. Come on. We had all the people 50 people. That's amazing. Come to the Lord on last Sunday. Can you see heaven rejoicing with that? What? Hey, the Bible says they rejoice. The angels rejoice with just one. So to have 50 50. Come on, man. Rejoice 50 more times. Come on. 49 more times. I'm telling you, it was a phenomenal time. I thank the Lord for what he has done. I'm telling you, if you were in the building, then you know what we were talking about. And if you wasn't and you want to catch any one of those sermons, make sure you go back to our YouTube page and you can see the sermons there. I'm telling you, God is doing amazing things here at NBC in our lives just in general. Absolutely agree. Absolutely agree. And then also, we started off and we launched our possessing the promise campaign on last Sunday. We gave our first fruits towards that, our seed. And guess what? It's not too late. If you want to be able to be a part of that for the next generation, go ahead and the QR code is going to pop up. Scan that QR code so you can be a part of this as well. Cuz I'm telling you, we're going to possess the promise and we're going to support and be there for our next generation. Phenomenal. It's going to happen. I'm telling you, it's definitely going to happen. Which one of pastor's words on last week did you enjoy? Besides all of them, I mean, besides all of them. Yeah. I mean, you just had to tap into it. You had to tap into it. Tap into it. If you If you missed it, you missed it. Absolutely. Well, listen. If you missed it, we going to let you catch this sermon. The title of it is the uh the empty tomb of triumph. He has risen. Check this out. cuz I'm sick and tired of people trying to impress people by what you got on on Sunday and you full of hell the on Monday. I need you to understand something. God is not coming to try to make you look more righteous. He's looking for people who ain't trying to, as the young people say, cap. He's looking for people who are trying to be real and people who will say, "I don't I didn't come to try to impress anybody. I realize I need some help." And so I come to the house of God not to be judged by you, but to be ushered into his presence where I can get the help I need. Get the help. You better come on and get some help. Yes. Yes. Man, what a phenomenal word by our pastor. I don't know about you, but that's why we here. This is a hospital for the sick to come and get healed. Not to be judged, but to come in and get what we need. And truth of the matter is, that's why we come so we can get closer to God. So we can get set free, delivered, healed, and those that are here and that are already set free. We're supposed to help usher those because we remember when we was in that position. That's right. You're supposed to overcome by the word of our testimony. And you have to come to the house to get that. Absolutely. Absolutely. But listen, talking about coming into the house of What else you need in the house? Yes. Praise. Huh? We're getting ready to go to our praise and worship team. We look forward to seeing you in just a little bit. Amen. Good morning, New Beginners. Come on. Let's stand all over this place. How many know we serve a worthy God? He's worthy of all of the praise, all of the glory, and honor. He woke us up this morning. Hallelujah. He kept us. And how many know that we owe him all of the praise? Come on, lift those hands and lift those voices all over this place. Hallelujah. We bless your name. Oh, we bless your name. We worship him. We adore him. Hallelujah. We worship you, God. The song says, I owe him all the praise. I hope him praise forever and always. I'll choose to bless his name. I'll bless his name. Oh, can you help me say that? I owe him all. I owe him all the You say you owe him all the praise. I owe him all. I him. I will choose to bless his name. Anybody claim the blessing? Oh, come on. Help me say, I owe him. Anybody? That's your testimony. Why? Because he's been so good to us. Iverless anybody came to bless him. Come on, lift those hands and lift those boys up. I owe him my owe Everybody say I owe him all forever. Through the good times I will bless you. Through the bad times, I bless you. No matter what I'm going through, I'll bless you. Through the hard times, I will bless his name. I will bless the Lord. I will bless his name. I will bless the Lord at all times. Bless the Lord, oh my soul and all that. Oh, say forever and always I'll praise you. Praise him forever and always. Praise him. Anybody else your testimony? Forever and always. Praise him. Praise him. Forever and always. Praise him. I bless his name. Bless the Lord, oh my soul and all that's within me. I will bless the Lord at all times. Come on, lift those hands and lift those voices. I will bless the Lord. Oh, forever and always I'll praise you. Come on, declare it. Forever and always praise him. Come on, declare it. Forever and always praise him. Praise him forever and always. I'll praise him. Say, I'll bless this even though you're going through. Come on, say I will bless the Lord. You're so worthy of all the praise. Look at somebody say, "He's been so good to me. I will bless his name." Come on, everybody. Clap those hands and shout to God with the voice of triumph. Come on, let's bless the name of Jesus. How many know he's worthy of the praise? Hallelujah. He's worthy of the honor. There's no God like our God. Anybody came to bless him on the day? Hey, anybody came to lift him up? Come on, clap those hands. Oh, we bless the name of Jesus. Can you say this with me? Bless the Lord of my soul. Bless the Lord, oh my soul. Bless the Lord of my soul. Bless the Lord, oh my soul. Everything within me, everything within me. Bless his holy name. Bless his holy name. I will bless the Lord. I will bless you. I will bless the Lord. Bless the Lord. He's worthy. He's worthy. He's worthy. He's worthy. He's worthy. He's worthy. He's worthy. He's worthy. Halleluy. He's worthy. He's worthy. He's a mighty God. He is worthy. He's worthy. He is worthy. He's worthy of the glory of the glory. And the honor And the honor of the glory of the glory and the honor. of the praise of the praise of the praise of the praise of the praise of the praise of the praise of the come on let's bless the name of Jesus if you know he's worthy of all the glory he's worthy of all the honor he's a worthy god he's a worthy god And I will bless you. I will magnify you. I will glorify him up. Hallelujah. I will my blessing. Oh, come on. Let those hands above me. I will bless the Lord. Oh my God. Oh, last time I said I will bless. I will bless the within me. Bless his home. Come on, lift those hands and let's bless him all over this place. Come on, lift them and let's bless him all over this place. He's worthy. Hallelujah. Hallelujah. We glorify your name, God. In our lives, be glorified. Hallelujah. We bless you. You're worthy. We thank you. We adore you. Hallelujah. In my life, be glorified. Be glorified in my life. Be glorified. be glorified. Can we say that together? Say, in my life, be glorified. Be glorified. Be glorified. In my life. In my life. Be glorified. Glorified. Be glorified. Be glorified. Oh, in my life, in my life, be glorified. Be glorified. Be glorified. Be glorified. Hey, in my life. In my life. Be glorified. Be glorified. Be glorified. Hey, you get the glory. You get the glory. You get the praise. You get the praise. You take the honor. I just want to say thank you. Thank you. You get the glory. You get the glory. You get the praise. You get the praise. You take the honor. Say thank you. Thank you. You get the glory. You get the glory. You get the praise. You get the praise. You take the honor. Thank you. You get the glory. Glory. You get the praise. You take the honor. I just want to say thank you. Thank you. Oh, say thank you. Thank you for everything you done for me. Thank you. I just want to thank you. I lift my hands and I'll say thank you. Thank you. You've been so good to me. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. With all that's in me, I want to say thank you. Thank you for being my friend. Thank you for being my healer. Thank you for being my deliverer. For being a way maker. Thank you for being a miracle worker. Thank you. Come on, somebody lift your voice and say thank you to your father this morning. We love you, Lord. your worthy and the praise. We glorify your name. Hey. Hey. We say thank you. Thank you. We say thank you. Thank you, Lord. Thank you. Because it could have been another way. So we say thank you. Thank you. We say thank you. Thank you. Thank you because you keep making a way out of the way. We say thank you. Thank you. We lift our hands. We thank you. Yes. We cry. Thank you. Thank you for being a good good father. Thank you. Hey, we want to say thank you. Thank you. We want to say thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Hey, say you get the glory. You get the glory. You get the praise. You get the praise. You take the break. We just want to say thank you. Thank you. You get the glory. You get the glory. You get the praise. You get the praise. You take the honor. You get the honor. We thank you. Thank you. You get the glory. You get the glory. It all belongs to you. You get the praise. It all belongs to you. You take me. We just want to say thank you. Thank you. You get the glory. You get the glory. You get the praise. You take all of you. We just want to say thank you. Thank you. Say thank you. Thank you. You're so worthy. Thank you. Thank you. Say thank you. Thank you. Thank you Lord. Thank you Lord. Yeah. Thank you. Good morning. New beginnings. God is such a good God. We are so thankful for who he is. And we know last week we celebrated resurrection Sunday. But guess what? Every Sunday, every day, God is resurrecting things in your life. He is up. He is on the throne. He is interceding on your behalf. He is so good. You don't have to stay dead. He has victory over death. And he took this sting out of the grave. We are just so grateful for God. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. To our family, New Beginnings, we are just so thankful that you're here. here and to our family online. Whether you're on YouTube, whether you are on live streaming, whether you're on Instagram, wherever you are on Facebook, we just want to hug on you and love you this morning and just show you how good the love of God is. Let's just go before the throne and pray. Father, we're honored, so honored, God, to be in your presence. We thank you, Lord God. And we just thank you, Lord God, that there's no one that can be compared to you, God. You are just amazing. You are great, God. Words can't even begin to comprehend or begin to speak just how good you are. So, we just thank you, Lord God, for your loving kindness. God, we thank you, God, for your tender mercies. God, we thank you, Lord God, that even when we don't deserve it, you're so good to us. And God, we just thank you, God. We lift up all the members of this church, Father God. We lift up, God, um every situation that they're going through, God. Maybe they can't utter what's happening in their lives, God. But you know, and you said even in your word before we prayed, you've already answered. And God, we just thank you, God, that you are that consistent in your love towards us, Father God. That you just keep on answering our prayers and you keep on healing and you keep on delivering and you keep on um just doing everything, God, that pertains to life and godliness in our lives. We thank you, God, that we are benefactors and beneficiaries of your grace, Father God. We deserve nothing, God, but here you are. And you just keep on blessing us. And you keep on reminding us that we are in covenant relationship with you. And Father, no one can take that from us, Father God. It is an inherited birthright because we are your children. And we love you for that, God. For everybody that's serving on today, God, we thank you, God, that they would serve under the anointing, God, that they would just smile, God, even if their hearts are broken. Father God, we thank you, God, that healing would come through each and every ministry on today. Father God, we thank you, God, that nobody has to prompt us or pull us into your presence. God, we're here recognizing your greatness and recognizing your glory and recognizing your goodness. We thank you, God, for the preached word on today that's going to come through our pastor, the Reverend Michael Henderson. God, we thank you, God, for his labor, God, and the intensity in which he labors, God, over your word to bring forth something fresh every Sunday, God. We thank you, God, that the word would not disappoint, God. And we thank you, God, even as we are hearing the word, it would edify him, God, even as it's flowing from his heart and from his mouth. Thank you, God, for our first lady, God. And thank you for MJ, Father. Thank you, God, for the unit, God. Thank you, God, for her motherhood, God. Thank you, God, for preparing people, God, and and having people that would help her. Father, we just thank you, God, for everyone that's serving on today, for the musicians, the choir, God, children's church, ushers, everybody. Father God, everybody, God, we thank you, God, that our labor is not in vain in Jesus's name. Amen. You may be seated and let's see what's going on around their beginnings. The NBC Marriage Ministry invites you to join us at our 2025 marriage retreat. The theme is possessing the promise, building a legacy of love. The retreat will be on Thursday, September 18th through Saturday, September 20th at the beautiful Hilton Beachfront Spa and Resort on Hilton Head Island in Hilton Head, South Carolina. To register, please scan the QR code in the foyer after service today. Space is limited, so do not delay. Early bird registration ends May 31st. Also, the deposit for regular registrations are due by May 31st in order to make installment payments. Please scan the QR code for detailed information and payment arrangements. Welcome, New Beginnings Church family and guests. Our foundational scripture is found in 2 Corinthians 5:17, which states, "If any man be in Christ, he is a new creature. The old things have passed away. Behold, all things have become new." After today's message, you can conveniently let us know your response. If you accept Christ into your heart, simply text save to 9803857575 along with your first and last name. To join New Beginnings, text join NBC to 9803857575 along with your first and last name. To rededicate your life to Christ or for prayer, text prayer to 9803857575 along with your first and last name or you can email your response or your prayer request to decision nbcc ministries.org. The following are the announcements for the week. Join us this Tuesday for our in-person power lunch Bible study at 12:00 p.m. and virtual hour of power Bible study at 700 p.m. Join the NBC men's ministry for the monthly men's huddle. It will be on Monday, April 28th at 700 p.m. in the Ministry Center sanctuary. We will continue our study on the book Kingdom Man by Tony Evans. Light refreshments will be served. Are you seeking an opportunity where your exceptional customer service skills can shine? New Beginnings is seeking a dedicated and personable front office receptionist to manage front desk activities and support various administrative functions. The ideal candidate will possess a professional demeanor, strong organizational skills, and a positive attitude. If interested, please submit your resume to monica keys at mkey keys at nbcc ministries.org. You are invited to the New Beginnings orientation. Come and learn about the importance of church membership, the vision and history of New Beginnings Church, and how New Beginnings Church is serving the community. The New Beginnings orientation is virtual each Tuesday at 6 p.m. and it is easy to register to attend. Simply scan the QR code in the foyer. Email connect at nbcc ministries.org or call the connect team at 704451431. Our contagious love teams are committed to serving our community. Volunteers are always needed with our #contagiouslove projects. To volunteer, please email love at nbcc ministries.org. The ministers on call this week are Minister Terry Trent and Minister Vanessa Moltry. On behalf of our pastor, Reverend Dr. Dr. Michael L. Henderson, Senior, our first lady, Reverend Dr. Tuana Henderson, their son MJ, and the entire New Beginnings family. We want to thank you for joining us today. And remember, always with every sunrise, there is a new beginning. Well, family, it's good to be back in the house of the Lord. This is the day the Lord has made and we've come to rejoice and be glad. Amen. David said, "I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the hour of the Lord." Amen. Well, good morning. You may be seated. Good morning, new beginnings. Here it is. Praise the Lord. New beginnings. Praise the Lord. It's good to be back in his house. And we are excited about what God is doing and what he continues to do. He is a faithful God, is he not? How many of you know he is not good some of the time, but our God is good all the time and all the time? I know that's right. He is good. We are so excited to be back. A lot of things going on. I'm excited about some of the things that we are uh I'm excited about all the things, but some of the things we're going to be uh sharing in just a moment, God is at work and we are excited about what he continues to do. Amen. Amen. To our first timers who have joined us by way of stream, thank you so much for joining us for the first time. We are excited to have you worship with us today. honored to have you worship with us today. And if you're a part of our virtual congregation, would you please uh put in the chat first time guest and we will reach out to you and love on you the new beginnings way. If this is your first time with us in person, welcome again. We are honored to have you in person to worship with us and we believe that God has sent you here for a specific purpose and he has a special blessing for you today. Thank you for being with us. And if this is your first time worshiping with us today, would you just acknowledge it by waving at me? First timers, any first- timers today. Amen. And amen. Thank you, first timers. God bless you. God bless you. And it's so good to have you worship with us today. Hey, we're going to greet our first timers and we're going to stand and welcome and greet one another. Let's make each other feel welcome in the house of God. With every sunrise, it's a new beginning. With every sunrise, it's a new beginning. With every surprise, it's a new beginning with every surprise. It's a new beginning. Oh, everybody say new. New. It's a new beginning. It's a new beginning. It's a new beginning. Brand new mercies receive. It's a new beginning. A new beginning. Amen. You may be seated in his presence. The worship team, y'all look good today. All right. Amen. Give them a hand. Y'all sound good and look good. Amen. Hey, listen. We c we are coming off of a resurrection Sunday where we had record attendance. Thank God for what he did. We had four morning worship services starting with our sunrise service at 6:30 a.m. next door in the ministry center. It was a packed house. God met us there, did he not? And then we had our new service times. How many of you like the new service times? Amen. 8:30, 10:30, and 12:30. I don't know what's so funny. Y'all like it? Amen. I hope you do cuz this is where we are. Hey, y'all starting real early this morning. Um, so we had, listen, we had record attendance. We want you to understand something. God is at work and we're still getting uh responses. We had nearly 60 people respond to the gospel. Come on and give our God praise. That's God. It is it is because of your faithfulness, your prayers, and us really understanding that God is doing something brand new. Somebody say new. He's doing a brand new thing. Amen. Uh well, I'm pretty much recovered from my hip surgery. Yeah, look good. I I feel like I can break dance. I'm not sure. But I'm so glad I did that, y'all. I was having problems. Now I feel like I'm feel like the old mother in the holiness church. I can run on to see what the end's going to be. I'm running trying to make a hundred. I I got a new hip now. I can run to make a hundred cuz 99 and a half it just won't do. Amen. Amen. Hey, listen brothers. I'm excited about this teaching series. We're talking about kingdom men. I will be in person tomorrow at 700 p.m. I want you to meet me here right next door in the ministry center. We'll continue our study on the kingdom man by Dr. Tony Evans. Uh there will be light refreshments and just good fellowship with brothers. How good and how pleasant it is for brothers to dwell together in unity. Is that awesome y'all that brothers? Amen. And we're going to be talking about some things that have to do with men. Amen. And I believe God wants us to be better men. And I believe he has a a blueprint in his word to do just that. Hey, I want to thank all of you who gave sacrificially last week for our first fruit offering. We are still tallying up the gifts and we will give you a report coming up soon. But I want to thank you for those of you who sacrificially gave because I believe now we can start our building process. Amen. And uh and and and if you haven't signed up uh to be a part of the three-year commitment, we're calling it a faith commitment. Y'all know I've explained what a faith commitment is. It's saying, "God, I'm going to make this commitment based on faith. If you put the resources in my hand, I don't have it necessarily, but if you put it in my hand, I will give it." And I listen, without fail, he'll do that. Without fail, he'll do that. And so I'm asking you if you haven't, if you need a commitment card, you can get one from the ushers or you can scan the QR code up top on the screen. We want you to commit to this cuz God's getting ready to do something. We're reaching out to the next generation. Somebody say the next generation. And I I I need you to hear that our new worship facility will have a cafe on the lines of a Panero Bread or a Starbucks 24/7. It will be open for everybody, but specifically for younger people. And we will also have a children's wing with state-of-the-art um uh communication systems. And this wing will be for prek all the way up to fifth or sixth grade. It will eventually become an academy that will eventually become a school, a Christian school for our children. We will also, let me tell you this, we will also have meeting rooms. Yeah. Meeting rooms for the next generation. And some of them will be what what they call a virtual reality rooms cuz that's the lot that's the world many of them live in. and we are trying to reach them for Christ and your faithfulness and your faithful giving it will help us do that. Amen. Amen. I want you to know that people have been testifying that they have prayed and God has shown up to do what only God can do and provide opportunities for them to give. Here's a testimony of that. Why don't you listen? Hello family and friends. My name is Reverend Kevin Moore and this is my wonderful and beautiful wife, Minister Chantel Moore. Hi family. We just want to share our testimony. And so about 10 years ago, I had a dream about our forever house and um I didn't tell anybody except for my husband and one day I was serving and pastor said, "God still got that house." So I put it in the back of my mind and we just kept praying on it over the years. There were some changes going on in our neighborhood last year. So, we started praying and we stepped out by faith to start looking for our forever house. So, the first banker we got told us, she laughed at us. She laughed at us and she told us that we could not qualify for the house we wanted. So, we chose a different banker. We got connected to a different banker and that banker approved us in one day. Um, after we got approved, we got approved for almost double the amount. So, we kept moving forward and we kept giving. We've always been tithers. We've always tithed. We always given to every faith commitment, every campaign. And so, we were moving forward by faith. Um, and I'm happy to say after about 9 months of searching, we found our forever home. We were able to move in and we've been there for about 3 months now. And on top of that, God also provided the amount that we wanted to pay for our possessing the promise campaign. Amen. How many know he'll do that? It's now giving time. The Bible says, "Gi, it shall be given unto you and me good measure, pressed down, shaken together, and running over." After this month, every fourth Sunday will be uh possessing the promise Sunday for us to give towards our commitments. And so we're excited about that and excited about us being able to break ground soon on our new worship center. Amen. Let's pray. Father, now multiply these gifts for the advancement of your kingdom right there. So souls will be saved, lives will be changed, persons will be added to the body in Christ's name. Amen. Come on, family. Let's give out to the Lord right there. worthy. If you need him, we're going to just hold on to his word. Hallelujah. Oh, glory to your name. Oh my brother. Oh my sister, you can make it if you just hold on. Oh my brother. Oh my sister, you can't make it if you just hold on. The devil tried to steal your joy. Hold on. Enemy tried to take your peace of mind. Grab on to your faith and hold on. And oh, God will bring you out. My brother, my brother and my sister, you can take hold. Oh, my brother. And my sister, you can take it if you just hold on. Oh, the devil tried to steal your joy. Hold on. Hold on. The enemy tried to take your peace of mind. Grab on to your faith and hold on and know God will bring you out. Oh my brother, my brother and my sist. You can make it if you just hold Hold on. Hold on. Be strong. Be strong. He won't. It won't last long. All you got to do is hold on. Hold on to your f and his promise. He won't. And it won't last long. All you got to do is hold on. Hold on. Be strong. Be strong. He won't. You got to hold on. You got to hold on. You got to hold on. You got to hold on. You got to hold on. You got to hold on. You got to hold on. You got to hold on until your help. Got to hold on. Your help coming. Got to hold on. It comes from the Lord. You got to keep on moving. Got to hold on. And don't let go. You got to keep your faith. Hold on. And just hold on. Hold on. Hold on, my brother. Hold on, my sister. And don't let go. And don't let go. You got to hold. You got to hold on. You got to hold on. You got to hold on. You got to hold on to his You got to hold on to his I fast and pray. Got to hold on. I lift and pray. Got to hold on. He was there. Got to hold in every way. Got to hold on. You got to hold on tight. Got to hold on. And don't let go. Got to hold on. You got to hold tight. Got to hold on. And don't let go. You got to hold. Don't wake up. Hold on. You got to hold on. You got to hold. You got to hold on. Hold on. You got to hold on. You got to hold on. You got to hold on. I don't know what you go through. You don't know what I go through. What we know. And God is here. God, God is here. God, he'll see you through. God, you got to leave and pray. God, you got to fast and praise. God, you got to praise his name. God, you got to praise his name. Praise his name. Praise his name. Praise his name. Praise his name. Say Jesus. Say Jesus. Say Jesus. Say Jesus. Got in the midnight hour. Hold on. He'll turn you around. Got to hold in the midnight hour. Got to hold you on the solid ground. Got to hold on. Hold on, my brother. Got to hold on. Hold on, my sister. Got to hold on. Hold on, my brother. Got to hold on. Hold on, my sister. Hold on tight. And don't let go. Hold on tight. And don't let go. Hold on tight. And don't let go. Hold tight. And don't let go. Hold on. Hold on. Hold on to God. Now I'm clap. Give him praise. Hallelujah. Give him praise right now. If you believe he's right here, let me see you shout. If you know he's here, let me see you dance. You got to hold up. You got to dance. You got to hold up. You got to dance. You got to hold up. You got to praise. Got to hold up. You got to praise. You got to hold up. Give him the glory. Got to hold up. He is worthy. He is holy. Got to hold up. He is worthy. You got to hold on tight. Hold on. And don't let go. Hold on tight. And don't let go. Hold on tight. And don't let go. Hold on tight. Got to hold and don't let go. Got to hold on. Got to keep on moving. Got to hold on. And don't let go. Got to hold on. Got to keep on breathing. Got to hold on. And don't let go. Got to hold on. He's worthy. He's worthy. He's worthy. He is worthy. Oh Lord. Oh Lord, be strong. Be strong. Let Do me a favor. Look at your neighbor and tell them, "Hold on. That's perfect. Sometimes you just got to determine come with me. I am going to hold. All right. All right. Thank you y'all. Y'all brought it today. Thank you. Hey, we are finishing up a miniseries. I started heading into Resurrection Sunday. And there is a there is a passage that is nestled at the end of this text that we we looked at on resurrection Sunday. I'd like to go back to Matthew's Gospel chapter 28. And I want to look at verse 16- 20. Matthew 28 16- 20. Amen. If you can get there, that's fine. If not, just look up. We've got it for you. Matthew 28 18-20 and it reads as follow. But the 11 disciples proceeded to Galilee to the mountain which Jesus had designated. And when they saw him, my God, they worshiped him. Glory to your name. But some were doubtful. Jesus came up and spoke to them, saying, watch this. All authority, somebody say, all authority, authority, has been given to me in heaven and on earth. Go therefore and make what? disciples of all the nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and the Son and the Holy Spirit. Final verse 20, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you. And lo, I am with you always, even to the end of the age. My brothers and sisters, beloved, I I want to end this series with this word, just do it. The power of personal purpose. Just do it. Let us pray. Father, now over these next few moments, I confess in and of myself I have nothing to say. And so what you proclaim this truth through me to us that we may hear what the spirit is saying to the church. And may God you ignite our hearts in our heads, our lives that will be dedicated to your service. Speak to us supernaturally. Give us divine illumination, divine revelation to the end that souls will be saved and lives change. Persons added to the body and turn their lives around. And we will be careful to give your name the praise and the glory and the honor. And all of the people of God together said, "Before you sit down, would you do me a favor? Look at your neighbor and just declare this to them. Just do it. You You may be seated. You may be seated in the presence of our king. Just do it. The power of personal purpose. Many many years ago, Nike came up with this tremendous advertising and it was really the thing that saved their their company that they deal in the world of athletics and sports. And sometimes in order to get a message across, you must make it so that everyone can understand it. Nike we know of course is comes from the Greek mythology and this term just do it had to do with people who are wanting to be the best in what they do. They don't make excuses. They don't procrastinate. They don't blame others. They don't compare themselves to others. They realize that if they're going to be at the top of their game every single day, they've got to have this attitude. Just do it. I think one of the challenges in life that many people don't ever discover their purpose in life because they don't have this mentality. I just need to do it. And then sometimes we are existing in life and life has gotten away from many of us because purpose is the fuel to the engine of life. Purpose is the compass to the direction of life. Purpose is the key to unlocking the mystery of life. Purpose is to life what air is to breathing. Without purpose, most people aren't really living or really alive. They're just going through the motions of life. Rick Warren in his best-selling book, The Purpose-Driven Life, suggests to us, "Your life's purpose is not just about personal fulfillment or even happiness. But your life's purpose is about understanding and fulfilling God's ultimate purpose or direction for your life." Proverbs, a familiar text for many of us, 35 and 6 says this, as it relates to our lives, trust in the Lord with all of our heart and lean not to your own understanding, but in all your ways acknowledge him. He will, somebody say, he will. He will. He'll make your pathway straight or your purpose straight. The scripture we quote a lot but I don't know that we are really in touch with it. Jeremiah 29:11 says, "For I know the plans that I have for you, declares the Lord. Plans to prosper you and not harm you. Plans to give you a future purpose and a hope." I I I I I I our text is Jesus giving his disciples their final charge to them. And he has, as we learned on last week, he this is after the resurrection, he sees the women, Mary and Mary, and they are they are so excited. He's he gives the the angel gives them a mandate to go tell the disciples that Jesus has been resurrected from the dead. And so that is exactly what happens. And on their way, my point last week is when you're walking in obedient purpose, God will always show up. And I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm I'm really I'm really I'm really concerned about believers who expect God to just show up when we're doing our own thing. God never promised that he will show up for us doing our own thing. But he did promise that if we are committed to his purposes for our life, he said, "I'll never leave you nor forsake you, but I'll be with you always." And so we see after the crucifixion, he met the women and they are on their way to to do what the angel told them to do. Jesus shows up and he tells the women, gives them a second message for their particular assignment based on their purpose. Go tell my disciples. And one translation says, "And Peter, who would eventually be the spokesperson for the church that I am not dead, I was in the grave temporarily, but I have now risen from the dead." So the women are the women, he tells them, don't be afraid. And he tells them to take take the his word to the disciples. And then Jesus tells them the women to tell the disciples this. Go to Galilee at the mount and I'll meet you there. There's something about Galilee because this is where his ministry started. See the the the Galilee Galilee is where he started and he is now telling them meet me in Galilee because now they're going to be starting their ministries. They're going to be now operating in their purpose. Jesus tells them to meet him at the mount. You you know all through scripture there's something about mountains. God shows up to with Moses on Mount Si. He tells Moses, he says, "I got I got your life's purpose. You're going to tell you're going to be the deliverer to tell Pharaoh to let my people go." But he tells Moses, "Before you get out of my presence, as you come into my presence, I need you to understand this is a holy moment. So, I need you to take your shoes off." Have you ever had a take your shoes off moment with God? Oh, some of us don't even know what I'm talking about. But sometimes God will show up in your life and in a moment that you just get in touch with who he is. And you feel so inadequate based on his power, his authority, his love, his graciousness towards us until you feel like, "Ah, God, I need to I need to take my shoes off." Moses had a take shoes off moment because God was giving him his purpose. Jesus as he teaches all of his followers on the mount. He is giving them in the biatitudes on the mount purpose and he tells them how the kingdom will operate. All of this happened on a mountain. And now he tells the disciples, I want you to meet me in Galilee where it all started on a mountain. And the moment that he is headed towards them, they are there. Can you imagine what they may must be thinking? Some of them are thinking, can it really be true? Can I really trust what these women have told me? They're not licensed. They're not ordained. They haven't been through seminary. All these women have is an encounter with Jesus. They there some of them are probably wondering is he really going to show? I know what he said, but what he said and what he does may be two different things. And so Jesus is moving towards them, my God, in his glorified body. Oh, you got to you got to get the picture, y'all. He is glowing from head to toe. He's got the glory of God flowing from him. And when they see him, the Bible says they immediately worship. May May I suggest that when you really get a clear picture of who Jesus is, it will evoke something from you that is involuntary that you can't help but when you get a clear picture of who Jesus is, you can't help but have a response or a reaction to all of the authority and all the power and all the glory of heaven showing up here on earth. The Bible says they worship. The word worship here is an interesting word in the original text pro skyal. It means to kiss or to bow down to prostrate oneself to show profound respect, adoration and reverence especially to God. The aspect of biblical worship is adoration, loving God for who he is. It is submission, yielding oneselves to to God fully. It is service, living a life in devotion to God. It is sacrifice offering ourselves as Romans 12:1 says, "I beseech you therefore, brother and sisters, under the mercies of God that you present your bodies a living sacrifice." It speaks to all of this. And when they see him, they bow. They prostrate themselves and worship. I'm so in I'm so perplexed out of the 21st century Christian. We don't have any any reverence anymore. We don't have reverence for God. We don't have reverence for the church. We don't have reverence for the preacher. We don't we don't have reverence for the elder. We don't have reverence for the things of God. I contend because we really haven't had a real worship experience yet. They see him. They worship him. But you know the part of this that that that that got me ah verse 17 says they worship but some doubted. Now you got to get the scene here. They're looking at him. They're seeing him in his glorified state. He is he is showing the glory of the resurrected Christ. And they are all moved to worship, but some doesn't tell us who doubt it. Have you ever thought about that? Now, I I I I've wrestled with this text for many years because I'm thinking, how in the world are you looking at the resurrected Savior in his glorified state and doubt? When I looked up this word doubt, it brought clarity to me. This was not a doubting in that uh it's not happening. It's a doubting in that am I really seeing what I think I see? It's it's it's a doubting that could this really be true? I know I'm I'm here in the moment, but is this a dream? Is it is it is it a vision or is it reality? Uh the resurrected Christ will cause us sometimes because of his glory and power. Sometimes he can be doing the very thing that he promised us he would do and we still wonder, are you really doing this? Has God ever blown your mind like that? You see him working? You know it's him, but you It's so profound. so glorious until you're saying to yourself, "Is it really real?" Y'all ain't never had a real experience with God if you've never had those kind of doubts. And I want to invite Christians who still have doubts to this argument because God is not afraid of your doubts. The Bible didn't say Jesus doubted. Jesus stopped and and rebuked them because some doubted. He knew some of them could not get in touch with their minds could not comprehend what he was doing. But that doesn't stop him for from being Christ the resurrected savior. He's not afraid of your doubts as long as you keep moving towards him. He gives them their purpose. We see three things that he does here. I ain't going to take much time. He did he does see things. First of all, we see Christ in his supreme authority. He he he he he watch this y'all. He give them He gives them victory over doubt and fear. And and here's what I believe. Here it is. That when you have doubts and when you have fears, the closer you get to him, the more those doubts and fears dissipate. Once you have this initial meeting, you don't hear anywhere else of them doubting cuz they kept coming close. He Watch this. He's not just showing up just to show up. He wants them to understand something. Now, I'm giving you your purpose. He declares his authority. Somebody say authority. He says, "All authority has been given to me." And the fact that he is the res resurrection resurrected and has acknowledged that he has been victorious over death, hell, and the grave. The fact that he shows up says to them, "Y'all, death can't hold me. The grave couldn't hold me. Hell could not hold me. I'm walking in an authority that's greater than the Roman government." He He didn't say some authority. He said all authority. Now let me tell you what this word authority means. There there are two primary Greek words for authority. This word uh one is one is one is the word dunamis. It gets it's where we get the word dynamite from. And that Greek word authority is inherent authority. It's like it's like the authority of uh of of of dynamite. It's it's it's it's it's it's it's it's just you throw out a stick of dynamite, it just blows up. It's power, but it's power without control. Jesus uses the word Isusia. It's it's the word that represents a designated authority from a higher source. Okay, let me let me see if I can make this plain. Uh, most of us have been pulled over at least one time by the police. Okay, see, church folk ain't even honest. And the police man or woman may be smaller than you. You may you may think I can take them. They they may be frail, but when they pull you over, they are not pulling you over based on their authority. When they pull you over, they have a badge. Yes. And the badge represents a delegated authority that they have been given by a municipality, a city, or a state that when you fight them, you're fighting everybody else that's giving them the authority. Oh, shoot. I I can't help you today. So, let me just go on. Let me tell you what Jesus was saying. You no longer fight me from your power, but every time you show up in my name, every demon has to recognize this authority you have has been given to you by me. And you have authority over devils. You have authority over demons. You've got a authority over darkness. You've got authority over depression. You got authority over oppressing. You've got authority. Now, you don't really know who you are. There it is. I need to remind you that when Jesus shows up, he shows up and he says, "I'm giving you power." And I want you to operate in that power. I don't want you to act any longer powerless because you are not operating in your might, but you're operating in the authority of heaven. And every time you bind stuff on earth, I'm going to bind it in heaven. And every time you he tells them, I'm giving you dominion. Somebody say dominion. Dominion. He a dominion affirmed. That's the authority over heaven and the earth that he has. And now y'all, we move in dominion. The same dominion that Adam lost in the garden. Jesus is reinstituting it right here at this this mount in Galilee. But let me help you a little bit. Adam lost dominion cuz God created him with dominion. And because of sin, he lost dominion. But Jesus, oh God, I feel like I want to I want to I want to preach and teach. But Jesus says the dominion that man has lost, I brought it back. And now when you operate in the earth, all you got to do is do it in my name. Oh God. Lord, help me be. Lord, help me get it over to them. You don't understand who you are as a kingdom citizen. You don't operate. Your father is not a pulpa. Your father has all power and all authority. So when you walk in a room, the room has to be arrested because you are operating in dominion. And you don't have to open up your mouth. You can just say in your head in the name of Jesus, I take authority. I take dominion. I take power. I take prop position because what God has given me, no devil in hell, no warlock, no witch can take it away. I need some people who are operating and your authority to give God praise in this house. Do me a favor. Look at your neighbor and tell a neighbor don't doubt. Don't fear. God has given to you dominion. Wherever you go, you got authority to bind stuff, to loose stuff, to open stuff up top, to walk in stuff. Hallelujah. Now I need you to hear this because because because because we think this authority comes to us automatically. Oh no, you have to activate it. You don't activate this authority unless number two you have a a Christian strategic assignment. See, here's the problem I have with most believers. We don't understand our lives are not our own. We say that I'm I'm serene to God. Stop lying. Stop that lying. Because as soon as God ask or commands us to do something we don't want to do. You see how surrendered we are? See, surrender has not to do with what I want to do. When I'm surrendered, I do it even if I don't want to do it. Stop all that lying. Because watch this. How do you how do you get this, pastor? If you go to verse 19, he says, "Go therefore and make all disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father, Son, and the Holy Spirit." Watch this, y'all. He's saying that the role of a believer in your assignment and the power you have is to disciple make making mandate. You got to get this. If you are not, here's how it reads in the in the in the original text. As you are going, it it presupposes that as believers, we're just not sitting up in a holy huddle, but we've been given an assignment and authority to take what Jesus has done for us to people who don't know anything about it. But you got to get this. He didn't tell them to go get converts. He said, "Go make disciples." I'm convinced the 21st century church are full of church folk, not disciples. Because a disciple understand what Jesus laid out in in in the in the early gospel in Matthew, he said, "If any man or woman would be my disciple, they will first deny themselves." Look at your neighbor and tell them that means you. First deny themselves, their convenience, their preference, deny themselves, take up their cross, that is sacrificing every day for the one who saved my soul and follow him. So watch this. Today I asked if we have any guests and there were very few guests uh here for the first time. You know that's your that's our problem cuz we should never come in this place having not engaged people because we're disciples of Jesus that we are not engaging them and inviting them to a place where they can come learn more about him. Every week we come in here and and we have a few hands. We should all feel shame. Because this authority we have, what is it good for? We think this authority is for us to shout on Sundays. This authority is not for us to shout on Sundays, y'all. This authority is for us to take what he's given us to people who have never heard of him or don't really closely understand him. and he will give us power to be able to share what he has done for us with them. You don't need to be coming to church and you ain't got somebody on your mind that you know need need to hear about Jesus. I'm too old. I've lost all my filters. You know, when old when people get old, they don't have no filters. They just say it. They say whatever they want to say. I go home to visit my mother and I have to brace myself cuz she's 101 years old. So she don't hold back nothing. And I just have to get ready cuz here it come. I just had to I get in a position. Go on mama. Do it. Do it. Do it. Mama, do it mama. Cuz mama going to tell me off in 10 or 15 different ways. And then she going to say, "Come on, hug me, baby. She don't have no filters. You claim you love your mama and I only see you a couple times a year. You should be ashamed of yourself, preacher. I'm I'm getting my mama spirit. We cannot be disciples if we are not committed to discipling others. He didn't tell the text reads and I got a couple minutes. I got to go. The text reads as you're going and the presupposition here is we are telling people about Jesus. We have had an encounter with him but who knows it? Who knows it? When is the last time you told somebody? Listen, it's it's a distinctive once we win them, then we all should be given a distinctive mark. He says baptizing them. That's identification with Christ as a disciple. When we are baptized, do you know what that means? I'm dying to my old way of living. I'm being resurrected to a new way of life and Christ is my head. And then daily maturing. He says, teaching them to observe all that I commanded you. And then finally, comforting sacred assurance. Here it is persistent presence. He guarantees. I am with you always. always, even to the end of the age. And let me tell you this, it's a perpetual promise. Even to the end of the age. Here it is. We got to stop making excuses and just everybody give God praise as we stand. I know that's a hard word, but how many that word spoke to you? Amen. He's empowered us y'all with purpose and his authority to be his witnesses to go make disciples. Now, here's the first thing I need you to know. You're not living if you haven't ever had an encounter like the disciples did at the mount with Jesus, the resurrected Christ. He will change your existence. So, as heads are bowed and eyes are closed and the people of God are praying for you, can I ask you that question? Have you ever surrendered your life to him? What do you mean? Do you know for certain that if you were to die tonight, you'd go to heaven? If you don't know for certain that, here's what I need you to do. I need you to pray this prayer in your heart with me as I pray it out loud to invite him into your life. Pray this. Dear Lord Jesus, that's right. Even online, pray this. Dear Lord Jesus, thank you for dying on the cross for my sins. I open up the door of my heart in my life to you because I want to have you eternal life with you. So would you forgive me of my sins and cleanse me and heal me and deliver me and make me the person you want me to be. And I will trust you for the rest of my days. Thank you, Lord, for saving me. That's right. And giving me eternal life. Now his heads are bowed and eyes are closed and the people of God are praying for you. If you just prayed that prayer according to scripture, he has come. But he said one, it's not based on what you feel. Although you might feel something, it's based on the fact of his word. So if you just prayed that prayer to invite him into your life, would you just acknowledge it right now by raising your hand? Lift that hand high. I just prayed that prayer. Lift that hand high. I see the hands. Keep them raised. I see your hand. Keep it raised. Don't put it down. God's watching. Don't put your hand down. Keep it raised. Those of you raise your hand. I want to pray a prayer of thanksgiving with you. If you'll slip out of your aisle or your row and meet me right down front, we want to thank God for what he's done. Come on. Come on. Come on. Come on. You raise your hand. Come on. Just meet me right down front. Others of you, real quick. This is your moment. This is your time with God. That's right. Here they come. This is your moment. This is your time with God. They're coming. They're coming. They're coming. That's right. Come on. This is your moment. This is your time with God. That's right. Come on. This is your moment. This is your time with God. That's right. Come on. This is your moment. This is your time with God. Hallelujah. Heads bowed, eyes closed again. Hey, I talked about disciplehip. Can I tell you I I am convinced we don't have 21st century disciples. We have 21st century Christians and church people. A disciple is a fully devoted follower. this person has made a decision to be obedient and follow God regardless of how difficult it may seem or be. I need you to understand if you're a believer, you are your journey should be disciplehip. You should not be just comfortable in the position you are in. So let me let me give you this challenge. If you're here today, one of the obedances of disciplehip is to become a part of a church family because that's where Jesus operates in the church. So if you're here, maybe your first time doesn't matter or 15 time doesn't matter. If you are true disciple, then you need to operate as an obedient submissive follower of his. So his heads are bowed and eyes are closed and the people got praying for you. This is your first time or fifth time, doesn't matter. If you sense something here, you sense God may be leading you here, would you pray this prayer with me in your heart as I pray it out loud to become a part of NDC? There's no such thing as a perfect place. There is a place though that he has set aside to perfect you or mature you. Let's pray this in your heart as I pray it out loud. Lord, I I do I do honestly want to be your disciple. I realize that as I keep moving towards you, all of my doubts and my fears will dissipate. So today, I move in obedience to your word and say yes to your aresh by becoming a member of this church family where I can continue to grow and develop in my faith. Thank you, Father, for leading me to this place. Now, heads are bowed and eyes are closed and the people of God are praying for you right there uh online as well as in person. And if you just prayed that prayer to become a part of NBC, would you just acknowledge it right now by raising your hand? Lift that hand high. Lift it high. Lift that hand high. I believe the Lord is leading me to this place. One last call and we're going to pray with these and leave. Here's what I need you to hear. Uh perhaps you're here, hear me, and you're already saved. You got a church, but you're not really operating in submissive obedience to him. You're not really operating in your purpose. And today, I want to challenge you, yes, to get in purpose. Or if you've gotten out of purpose, to get back in purpose. How do I do that, pastor? By rededicating your life back to him. Heads bowed, eyes closed. Now, I want you to I just want you to let the Holy Spirit speak to you for a second. If that's you, if you fall in that category, here's what I need you to do. I need you to pray this prayer with me in your heart as I pray it out loud. To rededicate, to say, "God, I want to I I want my whole life to be about your purpose for my life, not mine. And I used to be there, but I'm not there anymore, but I want to get back there." Pray this. Father, thank you for the challenge today. And I realize I need you more than ever before. And so today, today I want to say, would you forgive me all over, cleanse me all over, heal me all over, and fill me all over as I rededicate myself back to your purposes, God? I just want to do it. No more excuses, no more blaming. I just want to do it. So today, I rededicate myself back to you. Thank you, Lord. That's it. Pray that for restoring unto me the joy of your salvation. I receive it now. If you just prayed that prayer to rededicate your life back to God, to get back in purpose, would you just acknowledge it right now by raising your hand? Lift that hand high. Lift it high. I see hands at the altar here. Others of you, if you raise your hand, would you come? If you're online, would you put it in the chat? Father, we thank you for these that have come. I pray you'd fill them, cleanse them, heal them, transform them, and never ever let their lives be the same, God, because you've got more for them than they could ever do on their own. And so, God, fill them with the power of your presence and your spirit in Jesus name. Amen. Hey, listen. You all at this altar, God has done something in you. And we can say this with certainty that the rest of your life will be the best of your life because you have put him in the center of your life. Woo! Get ready cuz he's going to blow your mind. We've got some materials we want to give you and pray with you. If you'll turn to my right and your left and follow Minister Gail, we'll get you right back out. Give him praise, God. Yeah. Somebody give God praise. Now, that's a hard word, but how many you know that is a challenge for this house? We're looking for disciples, y'all. I'm I'm I'm tired of being daddy daycare. I'm tired of being daddy daycare. This ain't a daycare church, y'all. This is a church that's trying to grow disciples. Okay? So, if you need to be coddled, this ain't your place. And I'm good. I'll help recommend you somewhere else. But I we what the Lord has shown me that's getting ready to happen here at New Beginnings. There's an explosion that's going to take place. We got to get some of the weight out of the way cuz he's getting ready to bring in people who are hungry for him. Father, my prayer today then is this. You would raise up disciples in this house and you would help us every day to live in purpose on purpose as we go to tell people what you've done for us. And we're committed to making disciples in your name. Amen. God bless you, family. We'll see you next week. What a phenomenal word by our pastor on this morning making disciples. I don't know about you, but that really blessed me on today. Yes. Yeah. And convicted me too as well. What did you think about the sermon? Well, I thought it was good. And that conviction is real because you think about how many people are you really discipling? Yes. Like how many people that you make contact with each day are you really getting the word to and inviting the church and just testing their spiritual temperature? Yeah. Absolutely. Absolutely. So listen, today encourage you to make sure on next week that you go out and you share the goodness of God in your life. You share it with somebody else cuz you never know what they need to hear. I know it might be a little scary, but you can do it. He created us to share the good news and to be disciples of him. And then also we want to say thank you to each and every one of you. If you made a decision on today that you wanted to accept Christ, if you wanted to be rededicated or you even joined New Beginnings a part of our virtual family, we say thank you and we are excited for you and put it in the chat so we can make sure we reach out and we celebrate with you on your decision on today and we say congratulations to you because this is a new beginning for you. So get excited about that. Absolutely. And then don't forget, look, tomorrow night we are having our men's huddle. I'm telling you, it's going down at 700 p.m. right here in the ministry center. A light refreshments will be served and we're going to have a phenomenal time in the word on tomorrow evening. Yes. Yes. We have a strong men's ministry. So tap into that. Yeah. And then guess what? What's that? We got something on Tuesday, too. What we got going on? Bible study. Yeah. Yes. Uh we have a new teaching series that's starting. Possessing the promise through living my best life. It's in-person power lunch at 12:00 p.m. and virtual hour of power will start at 700 p.m. on Tuesday. You don't want to miss it. Be there. Put it on your calendar. Tap in. Yes. Hey, we thank you for joining us on today. We look forward to seeing you on next week. And always remember this. With every sunrise, there is a new beginning. God bless you.