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 Sr. is the pastor. Please join the service in progress.

I need to feel your presence all through the day. Sometimes I get weak and I want to stray. I start over and over and over again. Please Lord, give me another. Please Lord, give me another chance. Today, I want to be closer. Today, I want to be closer to you than I've ever been before.

Oh Lord, it's my desire just to please you in all that I do. Lord, I want to walk like you. Yeah. I want to talk like you. I want to live holy just like you told me to. There are times I must admit I fall short of your word. That's when I come running and running. Help me back to your world. I start over and over and over again.

Please Lord, give me another. Please Lord, give me another chance. Today, I want to be closer. Today, I want to be closer. I've got to be closer to you than I've ever been before. Today, I want to be closer. I've got to be closer. I want to be closer to you, Lord, than I've ever been before. Today, I want to be closer.

I want to be closer to you than I've ever been before. I want to be closer to you. I'm the potter, you're the clay. Mold me and make me Jesus, have thine own way. I want to be closer to you. I want to be, I've got to be, I want to be closer. Mold me and make me Jesus, have thine own way. Not my mother, not my father, nor my brother, but it's me O Lord.

I want to be, I've got to be closer. I want to be closer to you. Closer to you, Lord. I want to be closer. Closer than I've ever, than I've ever been before. Today, I want to be. I've got to be. I want to be closer to you, Lord, than I've ever been before. Today, I want to be. I want to be closer to you. Closer to you, Lord.

Dr. Michael W. Wesley Sr.: Something about today. Today, I want to be closer than I've ever been before. And that's what every day is supposed to do. Every day, they used to sing, is sweeter than the day before. Every day we ought to want to draw closer to God than ever, ever before. Because why? Because we're growing up. And as we mature, as we understand, as we know the limitations of the time that we are in, we ought to want to be closer to God than ever before.

And that's what this worship opportunity gives us an opportunity to do: draw closer to God today than before. Pray with me now as we ready our hearts for the morning message. Father, we do acknowledge and confess that we want to be closer to you than ever before. We thank you for the journey of faith you have given us. Our walk this week, our talk this week.

We recognize, dear God, that you are calling the roll every day. And we understand that the weather and all of the circumstances change around us. War is all over. People's lives are so uncertain. And we want to be closer to you because we know that there is assurance in us being closer to you. Thank you for the songs this morning. Thank you for the scriptures, thank you for the prayers.

And now, Lord, thank you for the word. Speak it so clear, speak it so deep. Let none of us escape. Bless us now. Bless the word that's in our mouth, the meditation that's on our heart, that it 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.

Well, my brothers and sisters, I want to contextualize what we've been talking about over the last little while: the nation of doom, to speak or not to speak, all of those things. And I want to challenge us in our missionary activities this morning as today we are celebrating mission day in a sense. Now, we're not doing it like we used to. We're not putting on white dresses and everybody sitting there with a sign saying I'm a missionary.

That's not what we're doing. But we want to address you as missionaries. And this message this morning is going to come perhaps in two parts. This 8:00 service will be one part and I'll extend it maybe at the second service. Turn, if you will, this morning to the book of Romans. New Testament book of Romans, chapter 10. We'll consider for the whole day verses 1 through 13. I'll read that to set the context.

We might not get down through all of that this morning at this service, but eventually I hope to get us there. The word of God says, "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel is that they might be saved. For I bear them record that they have a zeal of God, but not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness, and going about to establish their own righteousness, have not submitted themselves unto the righteousness of God.

For Christ is the end of the law for righteousness to everyone that believeth. For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doeth those things shall live by them. But the righteousness which is of faith speaketh on this wise: Say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven? (That is, to bring Christ down from above) or who shall descend into the deep? (That is, to bring Christ up from the dead).

But what saith it? The word is nigh thee, even in thy mouth, and in thy heart: that is, the word of faith, which we preach; that if thou shalt confess with thy mouth the Lord Jesus, and shalt believe in thine heart that God hath raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved. For with the heart man believeth unto righteousness; and with the mouth confession is made unto salvation. For the scripture saith, whosoever believeth on him shall not be ashamed.

For there is no difference between the Jew and the Greek: for the same Lord over all is rich unto all that call upon his name, call upon him. For whosoever shall call upon the name of the Lord shall be saved." This is the word of God for the people of God.

Audience: Thanks be to God.

Dr. Michael W. Wesley Sr.: So I want to raise that question: Who can be saved? Who then can be saved? Who ought to be saved? And why is that important? Because if we're missionaries, everybody we see is somebody that can be saved. Everybody we see is not somebody that is saved, but is somebody that can be saved. And I don't think that we fully take our responsibility in this regard deep enough or serious enough.

Because we don't share it. We don't give people the truth. We somehow have become cowardly in our approach to other people. "Well, that's them, so I'll just let them go on their own way." And what's at stake is a timeless eternity. It's just so hurtful that every day people leave this earth, and you have to wonder, did they know Christ? And that is daunting.

That is a tremendous responsibility that I have as a pastor, that you have as a people. Because it's not just my people, it's all the people. And we got foolishness all around us. And we got people doing everything they can to try to make life more difficult. But God has come to give us assurance that we can be alright. But we missed, and we made the mistake that the nation of Israel made.

Why did Israel fail? How do you know Israel failed? Because of what Paul says here. This letter to the Romans is a theological treatise or theological doctrine book that's written by Paul to explain the gospel of God. Paul at this point had never been to the imperial city of Rome, but he wanted to go. He understood that the capital city of Rome was the capital of the whole world.

And he knew that if the gospel flag of Jesus Christ could be planted on the hearts of people in Rome, then it had a chance of going everywhere. Rome at that time was the equivalent of our Washington, DC. It was the headquarters where the government was. It was the seat of power. And they had an old saying that all roads lead to Rome. Well, if all roads led to Rome, then all roads from Rome led to the world.

And Paul knew that if the people there could understand the truth of the gospel and would begin to share it, then evangelism could take place worldwide. I submit unto you today that he did that. He shared as far as he could, he did the best he could. In this letter, he writes about the fact that the whole world is guilty before God.

It's in this theological treatise that Paul makes it clear that all have sinned and have come short of the glory of God. It's in this theological treatise that Paul made it clear there's none righteous, no, not one. But he also says, but there appears a way in which a man can be made right with God. And that's the truth that you and I have got to understand because that's where the nation of Israel messed up.

And this is where many people mess up. Listen to how he opens this tenth chapter. He says, "Brethren, my heart's desire and prayer to God for Israel, that is my people, is that they might be saved." He says, "I bear them record that they have a zeal for God, but it's not according to knowledge. For they being ignorant of God's righteousness have gone about to establish their own righteousness." Stop right there.

That's the condition of the world today, that people have a zeal. There's a lot of noise. Everybody got their praise. Everybody got their style. Everybody got their looks, their zeal is all over the place. We have a zeal for sports. We have a zeal for entertainment. I mean, people get fired up about things. We have a zeal about politics. Zeal does not mean you know what you're talking about.

And he says that Israel had a zeal for God. They were all over the place. They had the prophets, they had been the custodians of the word of God ever since there was a nation. When God brought them out of the wilderness, he introduced himself: "I am the Lord your God, you don't have no other god before me." They had the law, they had the prophets that was raised up.

They had it right here. But I guess the question is, why are they lost? How did they miss it? Because of this fact: they were ignorant. And what does ignorant mean? It means not knowing. And I don't want to stand here today and insult you, but I do want to tell you that a whole lot of folk just don't know. And therefore, because you don't know, you can't share what you don't know.

Consequently, we keep quiet. And we keep allowing family members, friends, loved ones to continue to exit this world and go into a timeless eternity without having the benefit of who could be saved. Now, what was Israel ignorant of? And this is the message for this morning and the next. There are four areas. It's really five areas in here, but I want to try to deal with four: three in this service and maybe add one in the next.

They were ignorant of the person of God, of who God is. They were ignorant of the provision of the Lord Jesus Christ. And they were ignorant of the place of faith. And they were ignorant of how far God intended the gospel to reach. And that's what I want to talk about this morning. First, let's look at their ignorance on the person of God. People say all the time, "Oh, I know God," and then you hear their ignorance.

He's the man upstairs. Ain't no man upstairs. God ain't in the balcony. Do you understand? We begin to minimize who God is, and we don't see him in his vastness. And that's why we live anemic lives, because our God is not large enough to handle our concerns. When we make him be just this person. God is not a person, God is the sovereign Lord of the universe.

He's the maker, the creator, the giver of life, and the sustainer of life. Only God can speak and we live. And only God can speak and our human life comes to a close. I don't care what doctors say. I don't care what your circumstance looks like. I have known people who have received bullets in their bodies and they should have been out, but they live.

And I've known people who just had a cough and went to glory. Do you understand? Because it's only God. God can open doors that no man can close. When God says, "I want you to be blessed," man, I don't care who don't like that. They cannot stop God. What you going to do, get in a truck and block him? You think God is afraid of tanks? Listen, did you not hear what the prophet said?

He said, "No weapon formed against you can prosper." Because not only does God know the weapon, he knows what's in the weapon, he knows the weapon maker, he knows everything. He knows our uprising, he knows our down-sitting. He knows everything. No one informs God. Do you understand that even when you pray, you're not praying, "God, let me let you in on something."

He already knows. So I guess you say, "Well, why do I need to pray?" Because he wants you to. He wants you to have this communion, this conversation with him so that you'll know who he is and what he knows and how he will respond. But Israel chose, they willfully misunderstood. Even though they had the prophets that said, "This is who God is," he's omnipresent.

This is what the Israelite prophet said. He's omnipresent, that is he's in every place at the same time. He's omniscient, he knows everything. He's omnipotent, he has all the power. And yet they did not know who he was because they being ignorant of God's righteousness—in other words, how holy he is—they thought they knew. And so what they did, they crafted themselves a religious system.

They took the elements out of God's word and they said, "Okay, this is what God wants. God doesn't want me to eat certain kind of food at certain time. God wants me to watch the moon and worship the stars and do other kind of things. God doesn't want me to carry a burden, carry a weight more than ten feet on the Sabbath day." And they thought that was righteous.

They thought that was what was pleasing to God. There are a whole lot of people who live every day sitting in judgment of other folk because they think they are right and everybody else is wrong. Oh, I don't hold my mouth the same way you hold yours, so, you know, I don't have this holy look. Well, I don't have the hell in my heart that you got either.

Are you listening? They thought they knew God, and so they ignored his standard of righteousness, trying to erect their own standard of righteousness. God's standard of righteousness comes by faith. Their standard of righteousness came by law, by works. In other words, a works salvation. They believed that if they could do enough good, they'd be alright. And there's nothing wrong with being good. I want to be good.

Don't you want to be good? But you don't be good because you're trying to earn God's righteous favor. That's not what gives you it. What gives you God's righteous favor is faith. Simply believing what God says and obeying to the best of your human ability. And life could be so much easier. But you know we, church folk, we skirt around and we look down our nose and we want to look so pious and we want to look so prim and proper.

And we want people to think that we have arrived, that we now have a seat in the Trinity, and there is nothing wrong in my life. Who are you fooling? Because guess who you are not fooling, okay? Jesus when he came—and I'm going to talk about him in just a minute because I'm going to talk about the provision—they were ignorant not only of God's person and God's person of holiness, they were ignorant about the provision of Jesus.

Jesus came to fulfill the law, to satisfy the law. When he filled the law, when he lived on earth, when he did all that he had to do, then there's no need for law anymore. Not in that sense, because he's fulfilled it all. But guess what Jesus said to those Pharisees and religious leaders of his day: "I didn't come to call the well. If you well, you alright, you don't need a doctor. But I came to call those who know that they are sick and messed up."

Hello Jesus, in the church this morning. Everybody thinks that they are alright, so he doesn't come here because there are no sick folk here. Everybody got it together. No, while on others you are calling, don't miss me because I need you. I realize that I am not there. Do you understand that? Do you know that you're not there? I don't care how Holy Ghost filled, fire baptized you are.

I don't care how many syllables you can put together or what language you choose to put it in. That does not give you that ultimate place. You gotta know that there's still some growing, there's still some work, there's still some development, there's still some more that I need. And you hear the song: "I want to be closer to you today than ever before." And that's what ought to happen.

You ought to come to recognize that I need to be closer to God, I need to have more of God on the inside of my life. But when people ignore that, and when people think that they got it already together because I look a certain way and because I don't do what you do and I don't smell like you smell and I don't go where you go, all of that, then some people think that they have a different position.

But that is not the truth. That's the ignorance. And this is why we sit in judgment of one another. But the truth is we gotta take that introspective look at the provision of Christ. What is it that he really came to give? He came to give us salvation and deliverance. He came to make us right with God, to give us a right standing with God.

And how do you have a right standing with God? Not because you are right, but because of what Christ has brought and produced. He lived a perfect sinless life, number one. How did he do it? Because he didn't have the sin gene in him. And guess what? That eliminates you, because you do have the sin gene in you. How do you get, where did you get it from?

You got it from your mama, you got it from your daddy, really. Give you a little science just to help everybody make sure we all on the same page. When Adam and Eve were brought into the world, they did not have mamas and daddies. God brought Adam out of the dust of the ground and he was a grown man when God breathed into him the breath of life.

So he did not have a sin gene in him initially. When God blew the breath of life in Adam, those first five quarts of blood that flowed through Adam's veins were pure, holy. God did not give Eve a mama and daddy. He went into Adam's side and he took a rib and he formed her and he blew into her the breath of life, and Eve was a living soul.

Because Adam didn't have no sin in him, she didn't have any sin in her. God put them in the garden and said, "You can have of this garden, every tree in the middle, but one in the middle I don't want you to bother. The day you eat of that tree, you shall surely die." Eve goes over by the garden, Adam's standing around, Satan slides up to her: "Did God say you can't have, oh girl, God just know that you want to be a God like he is. Look at it," and she looked.

"Touch it," she touched it. "Smell it," she smelled it. "Taste it," and she tasted it. And when she did, she said, "Pretty good. Adam, you have some. I ate it and I ain't dead." And Adam partook and what happened was they got blood poisoning in their inner man. So look at what happened: Adam gets kicked out of the garden, Eve gets kicked out of the garden. The Bible says Adam knew his wife, that doesn't mean he knew her name. They made, they made it.

And in the process, Eve somehow became pregnant, y'all know how that happened. Now, the emission that came from the man is what fertilized the egg. It had blood in it. So when Adam had a son, his name was Cain. He did it again and he had another son and his name was Abel. Cain, the first boy, killed his brother. Now where did he get that sin from?

He got it from his daddy. When his daddy and his mama got together, his daddy passed on to his offspring the sin gene. So where did you get the sin gene from? You got it from your daddy. And where did he get the sin gene from? He got it from his daddy. And where did he get the sin gene from? He got it from his daddy. Alright, so God decided it's time for me to redeem man, so he sends Jesus.

He finds a virgin, that is a girl who has not had any relationship with a man. God puts his DNA in her and she becomes pregnant. When she produces the child that's named Jesus, he's 100 percent human because he came through the human birth process. But he's 100 percent God because the DNA came from God. So when Jesus lived on the earth, he lived a perfect sinless life because he did not have the sin gene in him.

So when he goes to the cross and he dies, he pays the penalty for our sins because he was perfect, he had lived the perfect life. And when God raised him from the grave, God raised him from the grave to demonstrate or to prove that Jesus actually satisfied God. That he wasn't dying because he had sins that he needed to pay for. But he died to pay for our sins.

And so when God raised him from the dead, listen now, can I take you to two places? First, before he died, when he was baptized, heaven opened and God said, "My beloved son in whom I'm well pleased." At the end of his life, when he went on the mount of transfiguration and Moses and Elijah was there, God again opened heaven and said, "My beloved son, hear ye him."

So what did Jesus provide? He brought to us the deliverance: look, from sin, from death, from hell, and from the grave. Because what happened when he got up from the grave? Did he die again? No. What did he do? He ascended into heaven and is now at the right hand of the Father, making intercession for the saint. But the Jews were ignorant of the provision of Jesus.

Because they were saying, "Oh this can't be the savior. Because when our savior come, this is what our savior going to do. Our savior is going to deliver us from the Romans. Our savior is going to change the whole world around and put us in charge." That was not the mission. Because they were ignorant of the person and righteousness of God, they missed it. Because they were ignorant of the provision of Jesus, they said he ain't our savior, and so they missed it.

And they were ignorant of the place of faith. Look at the text again. Alright, "So for Christ is the end of the law," that is he fulfilled the law, he satisfied it, "for righteousness to everyone that believes." So anyone that believes the testimony of Jesus can be made right with God. Now, he quotes Moses because Moses was the great Jew leader. "For Moses describeth the righteousness which is of the law, that the man which doeth those things shall live by the law."

So Moses said, "Alright, if you're going to live by law, then you need to understand that if you miss any part of it, you messed it all up." In other words, if you sin one time, it's enough to send you to hell. And it won't be no saving because you said you live by the law. Do you remember the rich young ruler? He came to Jesus and he asked the right question: "What must I do to be saved?"

And Jesus told him, "What does the word say? Thou should keep the law." He says, "Oh, all of these things have I done from my youth up." What a fool. He should have fell on his face right then and said, "Have mercy on me," because that man who has the sin gene in him, how in the world you gonna live on the earth and be perfect? You can't do it.

You have not done it. I can't do it, I have not done it. No other person can do it, no other person has done it. So the righteousness of the law does not make us right. All the law does is condemn us. All God says is this is the law and every time you break it, you're in violation. But look at what Paul says, verse 6: "But the righteousness which is of faith."

See, he personifies the place of faith by saying the righteousness of faith speaks on this wise: "Say not in thine heart, who shall ascend into heaven? (That is to bring Christ down from above) or who shall descend into the deep? (That is to bring Christ again from the dead)." Paul is saying, "Don't be so stupid that you think that you gotta do something impossible to be saved. You can't go into heaven and bring Jesus down. And you can't go into the depths of hell and bring Jesus up. You don't even need to do it. God has already done it."

He sent him from the realms of heaven, and he allowed him to descend into the depths of hell, and he came up with all power in his hand. Let me put it another way, let me put it a way maybe you can catch this. It was a picture of Satan who was giving a tour of hell. And as he was taking different ones around, around hell were banners all around hell. He had everybody's banner up there.

He had Abraham's banner up there. He had Noah's banner up there. He had David's banner up there. He had Isaac's banner up there, he had Jacob's banner up there. He had everybody's banner all around hell. Well, few days later it was Easter. And the visitor went back to hell to see. And this time when he went to hell, Satan is seated on his throne looking like this.

And the visitor said, "Satan, what's wrong? I look around, I don't see all of those banners." He said, "I ain't got no banners." He said, "Why you don't have no banners?" He said, "King Jesus has been through here and he done tore down all of my banners." Are you understanding? What I'm simply saying is when Jesus went to hell, he also took down my banner and your banner and everybody else's banner.

So I don't have to ascend into heaven to bring Christ down, and I don't have to descend into hell to bring Christ up. My faith in God simply accepts the provision that Christ has already provided for me. And therefore, I'm fit, I'm ready, I'm in a position that I can have a right standing. So instead of trying to do something impossible, what does the word of faith say?

"The word is nigh thee, is near thee, even in your mouth and in your heart. That if thou would confess the Lord Jesus with thy mouth and believe in your heart that God has raised him from the dead, thou shalt be saved." Now, wait. See, we all know the word salvation. And in a real sense, it's a negative word because it means that I have been delivered from—and we need that—I've been delivered from darkness, I've been delivered from death, I've been delivered from hell, I've been delivered from the kingdom of darkness.

But it also, on the positive side, means that I have a right standing with God. See, a whole lot of church folk like to say, "Oh, I've been saved." But what have you done with the salvation? When I've been made right, it says now I have a right standing with God. I've been made holy. I've been made the righteousness of Christ. Now, that's a different talk.

Yeah, you might say, Reverend Wesley, I've been saved for 40 years. But can you say today that I have a right standing with God? That I've been made the righteousness of God in Christ? That's a different type testimony. See, that's what God wants from us as missionaries. And then we've got to know how to lead other people to where they avoid the separation from the kingdom of God and also enjoy the right standing with God. Are you hearing that?

So who then is this for? Is it just for the good folk? Is it just for the folk who show up and they smell like Pierre Cardin or some of the other great colognes or perfumes? Is it just for the folk who dress like you? Is it just for the people who know how to have the right talk, "Oh praise the Lord"? What about those whose language hasn't changed? Or those who still smell like last night?

Are you understanding? Who is the gospel for? Who then can be saved? Listen, and that's what I'm going to talk about the next service. Because I want to talk now about the extent of the gospel, how far God intended. Yeah, you gotta know the person of God. You gotta know the provision of Christ. You gotta know the place of faith. It's near you, even in your mouth.

So you gotta be careful how you talk. Because see, you can speak trouble in your life. Or you can speak blessings in your life. Don't you know the scripture said you have the power of life and death in the tongue? So you don't have to live broke, busted, and disgusted. You gotta learn how to talk to your situation. Jesus said you can look at this mountain and you can say to this mountain, "Be thou removed and cast into the utmost sea."

So I choose, I don't know what you do, but I choose to speak to my mountains. I choose to speak to my troubles. Not that I don't have trouble, I have trouble, but I tell trouble where to go. Do you understand? Not that I don't have burdens, I just don't let them weigh me down. Because I know I can talk to somebody. And when I talk to somebody, he hears me and he lifts those from my shoulder.

Oh, I cry sometimes, but I don't worry about it because I know who got the napkin. And I know he knows how to dry tears from my eye. Listen, I don't worry about doors being closed. I just walk on toward the door and I say, "Open sesame," because I know that when I get there, the door will be open because I heard what Jesus said: "Ask and it shall be given, seek and you shall find, knock and the door shall be opened."

Everyone that seeketh findeth, everyone who knocketh, the door opens and those who ask can have. So what's our problem? Well, I want to tell you what our problem is: you need to learn how to tell God. You need to learn how to speak to God. You need to know that he loves you, he cares for you, he has provided everything and he is so powerful that nothing and no one can stop him from doing for you what he wants to bless you with.

Can you tell God? Can you tell him? Can we talk to him? And I think if we begin to talk to God, stay around for the next service and I'm going to tell you how to talk to your neighbor and try to help them know what they need to say in order that they can have the same power released in their life that you can have released in your life. Come on, doors open, that's time's up, doors open.

Doors of the church open. I just want us to praise God today. I want you to tell him thank you. Come on, son, say it. Doors open anytime during the song. Give God your heart, give one of these your hand, and let's begin to walk. Doors of the church open. Tell him, tell him! Tell him!

Guest (Male): Make sure you tell God thank you. That's what you got to do. Make sure you tell God thank you. For all he's done and for all victories he's won. Make sure you say thank you. That's all you got to do. Somebody just say make sure you tell God in the midst of your trials, in the midst of your struggles. Just make sure you tell him thank you.

See, he's done many things. So you can tell him it's for all that he's done and if you fought any battles you know that you're not fighting on your own. You know that he's fought your battles for him. So for all the victories that he's won in your life, somebody just gotta make sure that you tell God thank you. See, that's almost the whole song right there. Now that you know it, somebody join in with us say make sure you tell God thank you.

Somebody just lift your hands wherever you are. Make sure you tell him thank you. See, he's brought you over many things so it's for all he's done and for all victories he's won. Make sure you tell him. You say thank, thank you. See, this part of the song you don't even need words for. All you got to do is think about all that God has done in your life.

All that he's done, all the doors that he's opened, all the ways that he's made in your life. All you got to do is look back over the things that he's done and tell the Lord thank you. Somebody gotta thank you in their heart. If you got a thank you in your heart, somebody ought to lift up your voice and say along with us just say: Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Oh Lord, we thank you. That's all you got to do. Somebody just tell him thank you. Say thank you, Jesus. Come on, all over the building wherever you are, somebody just tell him: Thank you, Jesus. Somebody tell him thank you. Wherever you are, tell him: Thank you, Jesus. Don't worry about who's looking at you. Don't worry about who's around you. This is a personal moment.

Somebody just tell him thank you. Oh Lord, we thank you. Come on, church, just tell him thank you. Somebody say: Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Say: Thank you, Jesus. All over the building, give him glory today. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Oh Lord, we thank you. Cry out to the God of your salvation if you've got a reason. Say: Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. You brought us through the storms last night. You saved a wretch like me. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus, for all that you've done, Lord. I don't have to look to nobody else. I know that I was a wretch undone. But God has made a way out of nowhere. So I gotta thank you in my spirit this morning.

Oh, we thank you. Come on, one more time, somebody tell him: Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, we thank you. Oh Lord, we thank you. Oh Lord, we thank you. Oh Lord, we thank you. If I had ten thousand tongues, I couldn't thank you enough. All I got to do is just go in my place and say, "Oh Lord, I thank you."

Thank you for saving me. Even me, Lord, even me, Lord. You've known all that I've done in my life, but God, you still saved a wretch like me. Who can be saved? I can be saved. You can be saved. Everybody can be saved. So we just say: Thank you, Jesus. Oh Lord, we thank you. We thank you. We thank you. Somebody praise him. Hallelujah. Yes Lord, we thank you.

Dr. Michael W. Wesley Sr.: Well, that says it. Thank God for the person of God. Thank God for the provision of Christ. Thank God for the place of faith. You don't have to do nothing foolish. Just say it in your mouth and God will hear you.

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