Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church

Guest (Male): You are now listening to an inspirational message from Greater Shiloh Missionary Baptist Church, where Dr. Michael W. Wesley Senior is the pastor. Please join the service in progress.

Dr. Michael W. Wesley Sr.: I just love that right there. That name still works. How many know it works? It works in the sick room. It works in the psych ward. It works when your heart is broken. It works when you're by yourself. I'm serious. Don't go in the prayer closet because it works. That name. Amen. I'm so grateful for that great name, the name of Jesus.

Join me now as we pray as we ready our hearts for the moment in the Word. Father, we thank you for blessing us with another week's journey, watching over us and bringing us safely across the miles, the high roads, the low roads, the valleys, the mountain peaks. You've brought us here to this service this day and we thank you.

Thank you for our rest last night and rising early this morning and giving us a heart to want to be in the house of prayer with our brothers and sisters in Christ. We thank you for the songs of Zion that have gone. We thank you for the scriptures that have informed us and the prayers that have covered us. Now, Lord, we need a word to help us to live.

I pray once again you will lift your human out of self. Fill us now with your Holy Spirit. Speak to us and through us in this moment. Bless the words in our mouth, the meditations on our heart, that they may be acceptable in your sight. Oh Lord, our strength and our redeemer. We ask it all now in the name of your Son Jesus. In Jesus' name, we pray. Amen.

I'm just going to take a few moments this morning. I'll be running out in a minute and I don't want to be disruptive, but I will be headed out. I just want to tell you that on the front end. Now, what if I gave you some good news? What's the good news? What would be the good news, the great news that you would want to hear?

Well, I've got some for you this morning and it's going to be in the brief form and it's going to mess with you. It's going to make you think and it's going to challenge what you believe. If you're willing to be obedient, then it can be good news. But if you continue to ignore it, it's not going to be anything to you.

So I want you to turn with me this morning to the book of 2 Corinthians chapter 9. 2 Corinthians chapter 9. We're going to look at two verses there. 2 Corinthians chapter 9. I think the Word of God is there available to us and for us. 2 Corinthians chapter 9 verses 6 through 8. I think you've heard these words many times.

Here's what the Word of God says. "But this I say, he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly. And he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully. Every man according as he purposeth in his heart, so let him give. Not grudgingly or of necessity, for God loveth a cheerful giver. And God is able to make all grace abound toward you, that ye, always having all sufficiency in all things, may abound in every good work." This is the Word of God for the people of God.

I want to talk this morning about why I give. Why I give. I guess the thesis to this would be a pathway to prosperity. Now, that's good news. If you want to know how to make it, if you want to know how to be wealthy, if you want to know how to enjoy levels of prosperity and fruitfulness from this point forward in your life, then you have to be a man or woman of faith who believes God's word and puts it into practice.

Now, I can tell you all of this, but if you don't practice it, then it won't change anything. It's like being a hearer but not a doer. And so it's the combination of the hearing and the doing that produces the new life. I don't preach three points and a point to be light. I preach for life change and I came to help somebody's life get changed.

Everybody's going through some financial concerns right about now. We are in a war. We're in a world war. They're not calling it that, but it is. It's messing with the economy of the entire world. Oil can't get in the countries. You've got another country that's facing blackouts and shortages of food, fertilizers going up, cost of meat going up, gas is out of the roof. I mean, we almost going back to horse and buggy.

But it is that way and money is tight. Many people face more month than they face money. I just came by to say that the world has a formula, but the world's formula don't work. It hasn't worked for the world. There are people who walk around with rabbit feet in their pocket and all that, but the rabbit foot didn't work for him, so how do you think it's going to work for you?

They've built more casinos and people getting more broken because they going. I mean, just everything. There have been all kinds of games, there's all kinds of hustles, there's all kinds of things. People tell you you put your foot on other people in order to go up and you see people putting their feet on others and you still don't see them going up. So it's time to turn from those fables and foolish things and look to the Word of God because the Word of God has and is the answer.

Now, who in here does not want to prosper? God is telling you very clearly right here exactly what you need to do. I want to tell you that because I have personally been practicing this, I have found that it is the truth. So this is a real and a real sense a testimony. A testimony comes from having a test. And because I've had a test and passed the test, I've got some monies for you.

Well, let me help you understand here the text didn't start off just to talk about money. It really was about the life of the Apostle Paul. The Apostle Paul, as you know, planted churches everywhere. One of the church communities that he planted was in Achaia. He planted the church that we know as the Corinthian church.

The Corinthian church was a tough place. It's in the heart of Greece and that Roman and Greek world at the time of the early days of introduction to Christianity was a tough place because they had lived all these years with paganism and idol gods and false understanding and philosophy, so they had no real substance to build and base their lives upon.

And as a result, when he came into the community preaching Jesus and the Word of God, it was hard for people to take. But he planted the church anyway. After being there a year and a half, he went on to Ephesus. When he goes on to Ephesus, word comes back to Paul. "Paul, you know that little church you started over there in Corinth? Man, they going crazy. Having all kinds of problems."

Division. Division is the first sign of carnality. When people are not spiritually minded, it becomes very easy for them to become divided. And so division had taken place. There were some people in the church saying, "I'm of Paul," some people said, "I'm of Apollos," some people said, "I'm of Peter," and a few folks said, "I'm of Jesus."

So Paul, with a stroke of the pen, wrote, "Paul may have planted, Apollos may have watered, but it's God who gives the increase." He addressed one problem after another. It was a man in that church who had had sex with his father's wife, incest, and nobody said a word. Paul wrote to that situation. There were people in the church who were confused over the Lord's Supper.

They thought that the Lord's Supper was a love feast. The rich people in the church had all their good stuff and the poor people looking at them slobbering at the mouth because they ain't had nothing to eat. And these folks thinking that that's Christianity. So Paul had to address that. Then there were groups of people in the church who were confused over their loved ones who had died because Paul had preached about the resurrection and they were thinking that their loved ones who died would miss the resurrection.

So Paul had to write about that. So when Paul wrote all of that stuff, that's known as First Corinthians. Then he sent Titus, one of his young preachers, to see how the people responded to the letter. Titus comes back with a report. He says, "Paul, man, that letter that you wrote, it ate them up." He says, "But you know, some of the people are saying Paul, you're not serious. You're not a real apostle."

They began to attack Paul's apostleship. So he writes the second letter. The second letter is designed to defend his apostleship. He says in essence, without me going through all of that because time won't let me do it, he says to them, "I don't need nobody else to tell you who I am. You yourselves are witnesses that my apostleship is real because look at your life how your life has changed because you heard the teaching of the Word of God, which came from me."

So Greater Shiloh, I don't have to defend myself here. You know I know this Word and you know it because you've heard it, not just today. This ain't your first time here. So you know we have an understanding of what the scripture teaches. You don't need somebody to come in here and say, "Oh, there's a great preacher right there." Whether they say it well or not, you know who I are.

And so Paul says no, that's not it. He says the truth is I didn't come to you the first time because if I had come when I wanted to come, it might not have been nice. Paul said God is the one who makes our plans. He said, "I had intended to come." He said, "But God intervened and wouldn't let me come."

And he wouldn't let me come because if I had came, some of y'all would have got whooped. That's what he in essence is saying, that I would have came with all of that carnality that you were demonstrating, which embarrassed me, I would have came with a stronger hand against some of you and more of you might have become offended. But God intervened and wouldn't let me come. So don't think that my apostleship is not real.

He said, "I'll tell you what you do, you demonstrate that your Christianity is real." And he started talking about the poor people that was in Jerusalem. The poor saints, the mother church that was in Jerusalem, was going through all kinds of problems. A big famine had hit in that part of the world and Jerusalem church was suffering.

And so what he had asked a year earlier is that all of the churches in Achaia take up a collection so they can demonstrate to the saints in Jerusalem that the people in another part of the world were truly converted to Christ because they were showing their generosity toward those people.

He said, "And the church at Macedonia, oh, they gave. They gave big time." And he said, "They outgave anybody else and in spite of their poverty." He said, "Why? Because they gave themselves first to the Lord and then they gave themselves to this collection." Now then he comes back to these people and he says, "So I'm going to be sending one of these boys from Macedonia to y'all too with Titus and the others who are going to pick up the collection. Now don't embarrass me."

He said, "So y'all get your money ready so when they come, the collection will already be ready and when you take it, when it goes to Jerusalem, then everybody would know that you are the real deal." So he's talking about finances. Okay? So don't misunderstand. Don't think finance and money in the Bible is a cuss word. It's not.

Jesus had more to say about money than he had to say about any other subject that he talked about. And so he talks about it here through the Apostle Paul. He's talking about them giving. And that's why what I want to talk about, why I give and I want to tell you what the thesis of the thing is, the thesis of it is the pathway to prosperity.

The pathway to prosperity is learning how to give. Look at what he says. Look at what he says. Verse 6. He said, "But this I say, he which soweth sparingly shall reap also sparingly and he which soweth bountifully shall reap also bountifully." He gives a natural agricultural example. He says, "This is universal. It has nothing to do, it doesn't matter whether war is going on, it doesn't matter whether the President is somebody you like or don't like, it doesn't matter what color you are, doesn't matter what country you live in."

Whoever it is that takes seed and plants a little bit of the seed is going to get a little harvest. And he who takes a lot of seed and plants a lot of the seed is going to grow a big harvest. Now, if that is not a pathway to prosperity, tell me what is. If I want more, then I need to do something first with what I have been given.

If I have seed, then if I keep the seed in my pocket, I can be sure that no harvest, small or great, is going to come up. Are you understanding that? The only way the seed is going to be able to produce a harvest is what has to happen to the seed. The seed has to be sown. Okay.

The church is a Christian enterprise and it's made up of folk who God gives seed to. And your seed is your money. Now let me tell you something here because you don't misunderstand. Somebody's thinking that, "Okay, well if I sow seed in the church, then I'm going to reap a spiritual harvest." No. No. The seed and the harvest have to be of the same type. If I'm going to sow peas with pea seed, then what you think going to come up? Peas.

All right. So if we are sowing financially, put a bucket out here every week and all of that stuff like that where they got it online, I don't care how it goes, but you take whatever God has given you and you put it as a seed into that ministry and God is the one, not the President, not the pastor, not the deacons, not the choir members, not anyone else, but God is going to be the one who's going to take that seed and multiply and cause a harvest to show up in your life.

All right. So now with that principle laid down, let me tell you why I give. I give because I like the way I feel when I give. And I'm not just talking about in the church. I like the way I feel when I give anything to anybody. I like the way I feel when I give service. I like the way I feel when I give advice.

I like the way I feel when I tip waiters. I like the way I feel when I give people something that don't expect it. I just like the way I feel when I do. I like the way I feel when I buy a box of Girl Scout cookies because I know that that money is going to benefit somebody else. Are you understanding what I'm saying? I just like the way I feel about myself when I give. I really do. I like supporting other people.

And I like the way I feel when I give to the church. I do. There's a pride that I learned to appreciate when I manage my money well enough to have extra to be able to bless somebody else with. Oh, y'all don't hear me. Maybe some people don't give because they don't manage their money well. And if you don't manage your money well, then you ain't got nothing to give.

But I like it when I know that I have taken care of things that I need to take care of and still got something that I can do something else with in a discretionary manner. Now, God doesn't have to overlook my shoulder and he doesn't have to take the pen out of my hand, but he trusts me to do with what he has blessed me with and I feel good when I do what I know is right. And I like it when I've managed my resources well.

Now, can I be honest with you? I didn't always manage it well. You have to learn how to manage. I started off as a young boy as a paper boy. And the man, Mr. Core, told us then, "Boys, if you learn how to manage your paper business, you'll take care of your family business later on." But I understood it, but I wasn't practicing it.

Some of you boys in here know what I'm talking about. You made money, you made plenty money, but you were blowing it. You were spending it as fast as you got it. Is there anybody here who tell the truth? And some of you ladies, you know it's the truth too. I mean, you've been sharp all your life. And you've been sharp all your life because there's a place called shopping.

And as soon as you get paid, you're going shopping so that you can look good. Now I'm not critical of it. I'm just saying that over time we learn. We learn. We learn. Now you can look at people who are wealthy and people who are not wealthy. There are people who pretend to be wealthy and they've got some of the externals that would cause some other people to think that they've got it going on, but when you take a closer look, you see just that it's just external.

Loaded down in debt. Now I'm not beating nobody up, I'm just talking about it. Just telling you like it is. So you've got to understand that you can feel good about yourself when you learn to manage your money.

And what I like about giving, the reason I give, and don't miss this, is because it distinguishes me from another group of people. See, there ain't but two groups of people. There are givers and there are takers. And I ain't never wanted to be identified with the takers. I always want to be identified with the givers.

I'm not a taker. I'm not going to take from nobody nothing. If you don't want me to have it, I don't want it. That's just how it is. You understand? But there are some people, man, and I don't even want to call nobody name, they love to take. They want to take people's oil, they want to take people's airplanes, they want to take people's countries, they want to take people.

There are people that want to take everything from other folk, don't want to give nobody nothing. And I just never wanted to be in that group. No, sir. I like it when I am a giver. I'm talking about why I give.

All right. Now, second major point. I give because I like the way I feel about myself. Second reason I give is because the one I surrendered my life to commands me to give. When the Lord saved me, he didn't just save my soul. He saved all of me. You know what he said? He said, "Give, Michael, and it shall be given to you."

How did he say it'll be given back to me? Good measure, shaken together, pressed down. Well, men, you won't even have to look for it. They'll give it to you and it'll be running over. Now you know how this thing work? I was talking to somebody the other day and I was telling them about how God works.

God will take you as a giver and he'll have you to give and you'll sacrifice and you'll give. But then God will have somebody else that will come around and give to you. And the person they gave to you, God will have somebody else come around and give to them. And then God will have somebody else come around and give to them. And then God will have somebody else come around and give to them. And God will keep it going, baby.

Is there anybody here this morning who know that when you bless somebody, God will always always always? It's the pathway. Why? Because this is the pathway to prosperity. And you don't have to look over your shoulder, you don't have to guess and wonder, you don't have to be up all night, you don't have to sit in the window with your shotgun.

You can sleep. You can be at ease. You can be at peace because you have done the right thing. And that's all I'm trying to say to us today. The one who saved me commands me to give. Not only in Luke 6:38, but in Matthew 6:19, he tells me lay not up for myself treasures on earth, but lay up for yourself treasures where?

In heaven. Where neither moth nor rust can corrupt, where thieves can't break through and steal because he tells me that where my heart is, that's where my treasure will be also. So when I give to the kingdom of God and for the goodness of the kingdom of God, it's telling you where your treasure is, where your heart really is.

There's another principle. When I give, I'm being like Jesus. I'm being like God. You know what God said? You know that verse, John 3:16. "For God so loved the world that he did what? That he gave his only begotten son that whosoever believes in him should not perish but have everlasting life." So if God can be a giver and we supposed to want to be God-like, then should we not want to be like God as givers?

I understand this can mess you up, but listen at this in Acts chapter 20, the only place outside of the Gospels that Jesus is recorded as speaking. And in the book of Acts chapter 20, verse 35, Jesus is quoted as saying, "It is more blessed to give than it is to receive." Lord, it is a blessing to be a giver. It's a blessing to have something to give.

I mean, let's get out of money now. It's more blessed to have a word to give. It's more blessed to have kindness to give. It's more blessed to have talent to give. It's more blessed to have something else that you can give to somebody.

Time. I got time for old people. Always had time for older people. As a young man, I would spend time with older people. As a young deacon, I would go and visit older people. And what blessed my life? I would go into their room sometimes with the expectation that I'm going to encourage them, but I would end up being the one encouraged.

Spend time with children. Don't think it's funny. I know maybe not yours but spend some time with somebody else's child, especially those of you as you getting older now. There was a doctor sitting with one of his patients and the older patient said, "Doctor, you look tired, you sick, you look sleepy."

He said, "I am. I got a newborn baby and I got a little one-year-old and they just keep me up all night." And the old lady said, "Doctor, I would just love to be able to hear the cries of a baby again and the patter of little feet once again in my house." You just don't always know the blessing until that time has passed you by.

When I was a kid, Bobby Blue Bland, some of y'all remember him. He had a song that said you can only be a success after it's too late. See, what he said, he said you never know what's good until you find out what's bad. You never know what a good thing was until you lost what you had.

He went on to say you never know what's right until you find out what's wrong. You never know what a good thing was until she's up and gone. And then he come back and say you can only be a success after it's too late. So I don't want you to be too late on missing the blessing of your life and missing the path of prosperity because you think selfishly.

We live in a society that promotes selfishness, that teaches selfishness. And only when you look in the Bible will you find this principle of sowing and reaping and giving and receiving and being blessed. But this is my decision, my brothers. And I choose to be blessed in this way.

Because for me, and what it should be for all Christians, is that giving is not optional. The Jewish people who gave us the whole worship system of coming before God never came before God empty-handed. Every time they came before God, they had some type of offering because they understood that giving was not optional. It was a part of worship.

Now, God is never talking about how much you give. The only time he talks about how much you give is how much you want to reap. How much you sow is what determines what your reaping is. So you just need to understand that. I know time is running and I got to get out, but I need to say a couple more things here before I do. Is it all right? Are you with me?

Okay. See, let me just tell you, when I was a boy, after throwing papers, then I worked the vegetable truck, did a lot of little odd jobs. My mother taught me about tithing and she said, "You need to give God 10%." I didn't run from it. If I had $10, she took $1. She said, "Now this goes in your tithe. This is your tithe, 10%."

And then when I grew up a little more and I started working professionally, then when I got $100, then $10 wasn't too much. But you know that's not everybody's story. Some people don't come in the faith until later in life. And I heard a man say one time, he said, "For me to give 10%, man, that would be way too much."

Well, is it way too much for God to give it to you? That's what you got to understand. Is it way too much for God to bless you? If it's not way too much for God to bless you, then it's not way too much for you to consider what this is all about.

So I give. I give because I made a covenant, I made an agreement with God and I made agreement with the church. When I became a member of the church, I agreed to support the church. And that's what I try to do. Every month. Now you might not see me walk because we got other ways to give.

We got electronic ways and we got kiosk ways and we got all kinds of ways and I choose to do it. You don't see me pay my bills either, but that doesn't mean I don't pay them. Are you understanding what I'm saying? And so you just, I don't care how you get it or how you do it, but if you are a child of God, if you're a member of the church, you ought to have a covenant agreement with God and a covenant agreement with the church to support the church from a financial standpoint.

That's where the faith come in. Do you believe that God can do what he said that he'll do? That he'll take your little bit and he'll turn it into a harvest. And that's what the scripture promises and I'm going to show it to you just a minute. I'm almost done, but I want to show you that before I get out of here.

So I give. I give because I want to position myself. Don't miss this now. I want to position myself to be under the promise that God makes about people. Listen, in the Old Testament, in the book of Malachi, God made a promise. And that promise, he said, "Bring all the tithes into the storehouse that there be meat, there be resources in my house."

And then he said, "And test me now herewith," said the Lord of hosts, "and see if I will not open for you the windows of heaven and pour out for you a blessing that you won't have room enough to receive." Now, that's what I like to do. I like to put myself in the position where God will open windows.

And how many know there are always more windows than there are doors? And when God begins to open up the windows of heaven, oh Lord, you can hardly stand it. I don't want to ask you to tell on yourself, but is there one person in here who's had God open windows for you and bless you?

It just start coming from everywhere. This way and that way, this way and that way. You just don't have room enough. I've seen it happen in the church. One time we had one checking account and then all of a sudden God started opening the windows of heaven, man, we had to open up several other bank accounts to keep the money separated so we wouldn't get confused.

I'm just telling you like it is. Anybody got like it like that in your personal account? You got money over here, you got money over there, you got money over here, got money over there because God began to open up the windows. See, you don't have to chase it down when God is in charge of it.

God will bless you. I tell the story about my boy James when he was a little fellow in high school. He talked to me one day. He said, "Dad, I want a car." I said, "Well, what kind of car you want?" He said, "Well, no, I'll leave that up to you."

And one day he came home from school and I said, "Come on, ride with me." And I had parked the other car somewhere else. And we riding around through the community and I took him way over somewhere. I said, "Get out." He said, "Get out?" I said, "Yeah, get out." I said, "I'll see you back at the house."

He said, "How am I get home?" And I threw the keys out the window. I said, "Drive yourself home." Dad! You understand? Leave it up to Daddy. Don't always try to choose how he's going to bless, just trust that he's going to bless. And he will bless you exceedingly, abundantly above all that you're able to ask for or think about according to the power that's at work within him.

Told you I had a blessing for you. So let me just tell you three more things. I give. Why I give? I give because I believe in the vision of this church. I believe that we should reach the world for Christ. I believe we should publish the Gospel in as many places as we can.

See, you think that all that hear is just who you see in here. That's not true. There are people who are up in their pajamas and in their nighties listening to the Word of God. There are people who are black and white and brown and whatever color that's listening to the Word of God.

And I just believe in that vision. I believe in equipping people. Not only reaching lost people, but I believe in teaching people the Word of God. I believe in helping people find a place of service within the church. I believe in sending people out on mission for Christ in the world.

I believe in worship. I believe when we come in here on Sunday morning, we're not coming to a fashion show, but we're coming to the place where we can worship Almighty God, where we can stand together and sing, "Praise God from whom all blessings flow. Praise him all creatures here below." I believe in the vision of this church.

I give. I give because I've always wanted to be an example to my children. I wanted my children to understand that we are not takers, that we are givers. And I wanted them to see that their Daddy was a man and he was man enough to give his resources to support the work of ministry through the local church.

And they never had to look around and wonder about where their next meal was going to come from because God opened the windows and God poured out a blessing. And they didn't have to worry about what they were going to wear because there was always something in the drawer or something in the closet because God has been faithful to his word.

That's what David said when he said, "I was young, but now I'm old and I've never seen the righteous forsaken nor his seed begging bread." That's a shout right there. I shouted listening to that in the kitchen one day.

And I thought about my mama how she used to say the same verse and I know that she didn't beg. And I know that in my 71, 72 years of living, I have not had to beg. And I looked at my boys and saw which pathway they were on and I understood that they're not going to have to beg.

Then I began to think about their children and I began to think that they won't have to beg. And I thought, God, your word is the truth. Lastly I give because one day I want to hear that commendation. I want to hear the Lord say, like he said to those stewards that he gave talent, some money to.

He gave one five and he gave one another sum of money to and when the master came back, they came up excitedly. "Master, you gave me five weights of money." And another one said, "You gave me two weights of money and I've taken it and I've used it in a responsible way."

And the master said to both of those servants, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. You've been faithful over a few things. Now I will make you ruler over many." I don't know how that makes you feel, but that's been the story of my life.

When I was a young band director in the basement of a school and being there every morning at 7 o'clock when nobody else was there, the Lord said, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant because you've been faithful over a few things. Now I'm going to give you the whole school."

Taken in an elementary school, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, now I'm going to give you a middle school." Then he took the middle school, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, I'm going to give you the largest high school."

Then, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, I'm going to give you the central office." "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, I'm going to give you a little church." "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, I'm going to grow that church."

"Well done, thou good and faithful servant, I'm going to give you a big church." "Well done, thou good and faithful servant, I'm going to give you a worldwide ministry." And I want to hear when life is all over, "Well done, thou good and faithful servant. You've been faithful over a few things. Now I will make you ruler over many."

So the pathway to prosperity is taking what the Lord gives and giving it, sowing it as seed into the ministry. As God gives, give your time, give your talent, give your treasure. God is able to do exceedingly, abundantly above all that you're able to ask or think according to the power that's at work in Jesus. In Jesus.

So I just want to tell you now, this is your moment to make a decision. Put it into practice and it'll be your testimony. Leave it alone and you'll be in the same position you've always been. But if you want to grow, you want to see things change, you got it in your hand, it's in your mind, it's in your power. Do with what God will give you to do. Doors open. Doors in the church.

Guest (Male): Offer Christ to you, oh my brother. Anytime during the singing of this song, you can come and give your hand to one of them. We just want to offer Christ to you, oh my sister. Don't wait for another day for tomorrow is not promised. You can have new life today.

See, he doesn't say well done, my good and famous servant. He doesn't say well done, my good and well-known servant. He says well done, my good and faithful servant. If there's anybody in the building that has heard the Word of God today, won't you come?

You can come as a candidate for baptism, you can come on Christian experience. You can come by letter, you can come for prayer. If you've been struggling in this area of giving and you want to be a better giver, won't you come? He's waiting on you today.

Don't let this opportunity go past. He says, "Behold I stand at the door and knock and if any man would hear and let me in, I will come in with him." So won't you come? This is your time. Come on. Somebody come on.

You who are weary and heavy laden, come. He says you can come just as you are. Don't have to be anything other than who God made you. You can come just as you are. You who are weary and heavy laden, come. Come to Christ.

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