Loving God Through the Help of the Holy Spirit

Praise the Lord, brothers and sisters. God, I'll be reading Zechariah chapter 9, verse 9. Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion. Shout, O daughter of Jerusalem. Behold, your king is coming to you. He is just and having salvation, lowly and riding on a donkey, a colt the f of a donkey. And this was written hundreds of years ago before Jesus rode into Jerusalem, which means Palm Sunday actually was not an accident. And God had this moment planned long before the crowd ever picked up a palm branch. And notice how the king shows up not on a waror, not with an army, but on a donkey, humble and lowly. And because that's who our God is and that's how he comes to us. And so as we celebrate Palm Sunday this morning, uh remember that the same God who kept that promise is still keeping his promise to you and he's still coming through, still showing up and still faithful every day. So that being said, let's pray for the service. Lord God, we thank you for this morning you've given us, Lord, when we pray and we ask for your blessings on this service, God. And we thank you for what you've done for us on the cross, Lord, for dying, Lord God, for the blood that was shed, Lord. We thank you for this day you've given us. God, bless the service, Lord. Bless the singing, bless the preaching, and may we hear what you want to say to us today. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. And for our first song, we'll be singing the old rugged cross. On a hill [singing] far away [music] stood an old rugged cross, the [singing] emblem of suffering and shame. And I love that old cross [music] where the [singing] deest and best for [music] a world of lost sinners was slain. [singing] So I'll [music] cherish the old rugged [singing] cross till [music] my trophies [singing] at last I lay down. I will cling to the [music and singing] old rugged cross and [music and singing] exchange it someday for a crown. To the old [music and singing] rugged cross are despised by the world [music] as a [singing] wondrous attraction for me. [music] For the dear lamb of God left his glory [singing] above [music] to bear it to dark Calvary. So [music and singing] I'll cherish the old rugged cross till my [music] trophies [singing] at last I lay down. I will cling [music] to [singing] the old ruged cross and [music and singing] exchange it someday for a crown. In that old rugged cross, [music] spring with [singing] blood so divine, a wonderous whose [music] beauty I see. For it was [singing] on [music] that old cross Jeser and died to [singing] pardon and sanctify [music] me. So [music and singing] I'll cherish the old rugged cross [singing] till my trophies [music] at last I lay down. I will cling [music] to [singing] the old rugged cross and exchange [music and singing] it someday for rough ground. To that [singing and music] old rugged cross I will ever be true. [music] It shame and reproach gladly bear. Then you'll call [singing] me someday [music] to my home far away. [singing] Where is glory forever I'll share. [music] So I'll [singing] cherish the [music] old rugged cross till [singing] my trophies at last I [music] lay down. I will cling to the old rugged [singing and music] cross and exchange it someday for a crown. [singing] I will cling to the old rugged [singing and music] cross and exchange it [music and singing] someday for a crown. And for our second song, we'll be singing Jesus paid it all. I hear [music and singing] the Savior say, "Thy strength [music and singing] indeed is paid all." All [singing] [music] to him I owe. Sin [music and singing] had left a crimson stain. He washed it [singing] white as snow. For [music] nothing good have I. Where by thy grace to claim, [music and singing] I'll wash my garments [music] white in [singing] the blood of Calvary lamb. Jesus [music and singing] paid it all. All to him [music and singing] I owe. sin had [singing] left a crimson stain. He [music] washed it white as snow. For [singing] now indeed I find thy [singing] power and thine alone can change [music and singing] the leper spots and melt [singing] the [music] heart of stone. Jesus paid it [singing] all. All [music] to him I owe. Sin had left a crimson stain. [music] He washed [singing] it white as snow. Jesus [music] paid it all. All [music] to [singing] him I owe. Sin [music] had left [singing] a crimson stain. He [music] washed it white as snow. Praise God. Praise the Lord, brothers and sisters, for this beautiful morning that we're all able to come here today. You know, the sun is shining. felt pretty good uh driving here, at least in my opinion. And I want to do our Bible reading for this morning, which is going to be in Psalms 36, uh page 801. It's going to be Psalms 36. Page 801. I'll give you guys a little bit of time to open up to that to follow along. And for any anybody that doesn't know, there's Bible in the pews. So, uh, feel free to grab it and follow along. And it says here, "An oracle within my heart concerning the transgression of the wicked. There is no fear of God before his eyes. For he flatters himself in his own eyes. When he finds out his iniquity, and when he hates, the words of his mouth are wickedness and deceit. He has ceased to be wise and to do good. He devises wickedness on his bed. He sets himself in a way that is not good. He does not opport evil. Your mercy, O Lord, is in the heavens. Your faithfulness reaches to the clouds. Your righteousness is like that great mountains. Your judgments are a great deep. Oh Lord, you preserve man and beast. How precious is your loving kindness, oh God. Therefore, the children of men put their trust under the shadow of your wings. They are abundantly satisfied with the fullness of your house, and you give them drink from the river of your pleasures. For with you is the fountain of life. In your light, we see light. Oh, continue your loving kindness to those who know you, and your righteousness to the upright in heart. Let not the foot of pride come against me, and let not the hand of the wicked drive me away. There the workers of iniquity have fallen. They have been cast down and are not able to rise. Praise God. And now we'll have brother Daniel come up and sing a song for us called Give Thanks. And then right after that, we'll have Pastor Tim come up and lead a topic for us this morning. God bless. Okay. Give thanks [music] with a grateful heart. Give thanks [singing] to the holy one. Give thanks because [music] he's given Jesus Christ his [music] son. Give thanks [singing] with a grateful heart. Give thanks to the holy one. give thanks [music] because he's given Jesus [singing] Christ his [music] son. And now let the weak say I am strong. Let [singing] the poor say I am rich. Because of what the Lord has done [singing] for us. And now [music] let the weak say [singing] I am strong. Let the poor say I am rich. [music] Because of what the Lord has done [singing] for us. Give thanks. Give thanks [singing] with a grateful heart. Give thanks to the holy one. Give thanks because he's given Jesus [music] Christ [singing] his son. Give thanks with a grateful heart. Give [singing] thanks [music] to the holy one. Give thanks because he's [music] given Jesus Christ [singing] his son. And now [music and singing] let the weak say I am strong. Let the poor say I [music] am rich because of what the Lord has done for us. And now let the weak say I am [music] strong. Let the poor say I am rich. [music] because of what the Lord has done [singing] [music] for us. Give thanks. [singing] [music] Praise God. Praise God. Thank you, Dan. More of that. We love hearing beautiful songs, right? That was good. Yeah. Give thanks. And look at that. It says, "Let the let the weak say I am strong in Christ." And it says, "Let the poor say I am rich." Because the the poorest man is the one who thinks he has it all without Christ. But the richest man is the one who has Christ. Right? Because when he's going to stand before God, he has Jesus. But those who don't have Christ, doesn't matter what they have here, they're going to stand before God with nothing. They're going to be in poverty. That's why let the poor man on earth, even if you're poor with nothing, but if you have Christ, you're the richest man to ever live. Amen. So, we'll be praying for our students and our Sunday school teacher. Please come up. And I would like to read in Proverbs. It's going to be 8:17. Proverbs 8:17. Um, it says over here, "I love those who love me, and those who seek me diligently will find me." Proverbs 8:17, I love those who love me and those who seek me diligently will find me. It's interesting. It says that and those who seek me diligently will find me. Sometimes we're like, Lord, where are you? Where are you, God? Where are you? But the Bible says that if you seek him, you will find him. And sometimes God teaches us that in a life of a child or in a life of an adult. So we're going to today bless their teaching and also we're going to bless our teaching this morning as well. So let's stand up and pray. Lord God, we thank you for this time God that we could gather together God in one name and that's your name Jesus Christ. Thank you for everything you have done for us, God. And Lord God, I I ask that you open up our hearts and our minds to to seek you and to find you, Lord God, to seek you diligently. May you bless the teacher Ruth and the students that that those lessons that she is teaching, may the that that seed, Lord God, sprout in the hearts of the children. and may this seed also sprout in the hearts of of us, Lord God, because we're going to be learning your word this morning as well. Bless this service. Bless all of us here and those watching us online. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Let's take these few minutes to meet and greet while we set up. Thank you. God bless. [music] [music] [music] [music] I'm not happy. [music] more minutes. We'll take a few more minutes. Just waiting for Pastor Henry. Yes, it's going to be on the Holy Spirit for a while. In the meantime, we can open up to John 1411, which is page 1,55858. John 14:11. The Bibles in the pews are the ones we use even though I use my own because I have all my notes here. But uh yeah, 1558 I believe. So our topic is still on the Holy Spirit, even though next week we're going to have an Easter service, but we're continuing our topic this morning on the Holy Spirit. uh there's there's this understanding that once you give your life to Christ then that's it. It kind of stops there. Uh but but what we see in the Bible is that the Holy Spirit was actually sent to us to replace Christ on earth. So he's doing the the same work of Jesus on earth but now with us. Yes. I want to add something. So when he said uh that once you accept Jesus Christ then it stops there. Or we could actually also add to it. Some people think once you get or accept Jesus Christ then it's almost like you're on your own. Okay. do everything on your own. But what we're going to talk today, there is a another persona given to humanity in order to follow Jesus Christ effectively. You're not on your own. And a lot of times we are on your on our own just because we don't know about it. And so that's what that's what we're going to talk about today. Okay. John 14 and I'll be reading from 15 and down. And I'm going to read into a little bit of chapter 15 because there's a point that we're going to make there as well. Okay. John 14 verse 15 and below. If you love me, this is Jesus saying, keep my commandments and I will pray the father and he will give you another helper that he may abide with you forever, the spirit of truth, whom the world cannot receive because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he dwells with you and will be in you. I will not leave you orphans. I will come to you a little while longer and the world will see me no more. But you will see me because I live, you will live also. At that day you will know that I am in my father and you in me and I in you. He who has my commandments and keeps them. It is he who loves me and he who loves me will be loved by my father and I will love him and manifest myself to him. Judas not as scariat said to him Lord how is it that you will manifest yourself to us and not to the world? Jesus answered and said to him if anyone loves me he will keep my word and my father will love him and we will come to him and make our home with him. He who does not love me does not keep my words, and the word which you hear is not mine, but the fathers who sent me. These things I have spoken to you while being present with you. But the helper, the Holy Spirit, whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all things that I said to you. Peace I leave with you. My peace I give to you. Not as the world gives do I give to you. Let not your heart be troubled, neither let it be afraid. You have heard me say to you, I am going away and coming back to you. If you love me, you would have you would rejoice because I said, I am going to the Father, for my Father is greater than I. And now I have told you before it comes that when it does come to pass, you may believe. I will no longer talk talk much with you. For the ruler of this world is coming and he has nothing in me but that the world may know that I love the father and as the father gave me commandments so I do. Arise and let us go from here. Chapter 15. I am the true vine and my father is the vine dresser. Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away. And every branch that bears fruit, he prunes that it may bear more fruit. So we're going to stop here. And we see multiple times Jesus say, "If you love me, you will keep my commandments. If you love me, keep my commandments. He didn't say it once. He didn't say it twice. He said it three, four times. And over here in chapter 15, it says, "Every branch in me that does not bear fruit, he takes away, and every branch that bears fruit, he prunes that it may bear more fruit." Notice this. It says every branch in me. Every branch in me. So this person, he was in Christ. Every branch in me. But look at this. That does not bear fruit he takes away. And every branch that bears fruit he prunes. which pruning hurts but it's for the benefit that it may bear more fruit. So now we are stuck with these two questions. What does it mean to bear fruit in Christ in order to love his commandments? How can we love his commandments? By bearing good fruit. By showing him that we truly love him. How can we love his commandments? And this is what we are going to go through. Um in Galatians I wanted to to also share you don't have to open up but in Galatians 5:22 through 23 it talks about the fruits and these are the fruits of the spirit and over here it says but the fruit of the spirit is love joy peace forbearance kindness goodness faithfulness gentleness and self-control Against such things there is no law. So we could see that the spirit of God, the Holy Spirit, how we read, he's a helper and a teacher. It says in verse 26, "But the helper that that the Holy Spirit whom the Father will send in my name, he will teach you all things and bring to your remembrance all the things that I said to you." See, he's saying the apostles were with Jesus for three and a half years. They weren't writing things down. They weren't writing things down. But that's what Jesus is saying. um that and bring to your remembrance. So the Holy Spirit will bring to them what Jesus did on earth for three and a half years. And he will also teach them how to love uh the commandments of Christ. And the first I would say the commandment that Jesus gives is Matthew 22 through37. Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." And over here, we're we're going to go today. We're just going to stick with number one because uh I talked to Pastor Henry and he said that we need to make an emphasis on this. But there's four loves that Jesus teaches those who who love him. It's love your God. One, two, love your neighbor as yourself. Three, love your enemies. And four, love one another. Those are the four loves that Jesus teaches us. And so today we're going to stick with love your God. Matthew 22 through37. I don't know if Pastor Henry wants to jump in also. If you guys have any questions, you guys can. Well, to me, uh, first I want to see in your mind when the Bible stating to love your God, what does it mean? Let's talk about a practical thing or or in your mind when you will say I love God, how does it manifest in your life? Does it manifest through the emotional or does it manifest through something you do? So let's first I want to hear in your mind when Bible stating love your God what does it mean obeyance okay that's that's good that's good who else want to add something to love God what does it mean because I mean we have never seen God and it's like my wife I can love her because well it's someone besides me I have emotional love plus we have agapit towards each other it's something we do towards each other but when I did not saw God how can I love him we did not heard that appreciate but how can we appreciate him by reading his Bible. That's one way because reading his Bible, it's actually I want to know what God is like. Yeah. So, by reading his Bible, I start learning who he is and what he hates and what he loves. There's some things God hates. How do I know that? I got to read the Bible. When someone said appreciate him, I give thanks to God. Yeah. I acknowledge in that he's great and he's great in my life as well. So I give thanks. But what I want to actually like uh brother Allen said right here number one actually and Bible clearly states loving God. It's obeying his commandments. There is no other way because if you actually say like this I mean let's say a person in your life let's say a wife or a husband. Yeah. and you're gonna tell your wife, I love you. But then you go and you hang in with the other people like let's say with if you're a husband with other wives and you do something that is not right, then your wife going to go, you know, you're just saying you love me, but looks like you're by what you do, you're showing that you don't love me. Isn't it? That's what we do a lot of times to God. We can say God, we love you. We love you. But the only way we can show to God that we love him is by doing things that he loves. Doing things that strengthen our relationship. It's very practical. There is nothing has to be mysterious about it. And what we're going to talk about today, some of those things, it's how can we love God? And if we do some of the things that actually break our relationship, we got to know that's not a love. That's a love of this world. And we got to do something about it. Yes. And uh like while Dan is going to go give the mic to to Greg. And that's why friends, we need to to ask the Holy Spirit because the Holy Spirit is here to help us love God to he's he's here to help us to teach us how to love him and to give us strength to love him. A lot of people they don't utilize the power of the spirit that God gave to each believer. We kind of gave our life and then we tried to live on our own and try to uh love God on our own. But the Holy Spirit is there to help us to love God. And if we see that we are weak, we're like, "Holy Spirit, please help me love God with all my heart, soul, and mind." Uh, Greg, go ahead. Okay. So, I work at the Goodwill, and there's this woman there that, well, you know, she's a really attractive lady. She she does her she she goes out of her way to to do all her work and all that and she's really nice and kind to me. Okay. Now, I see myself as this as a as an older man and she's right up there. But I can't have the thoughts of lust for that woman, which I don't have because that's one thing that God doesn't appreciate. When you running it through your head about what you want to do with this woman, you just want to just be her friend. You want to be able to just talk with her, you know, like have a roommate and and nothing else be involved because having a having a warped mind will get you away from God thinking about lust and sexual activities. Yeah. But yes, that's right. And what already uh pastor Tim said but sometimes well if we try on our own because we have a sinful nature those things start creeping into our into our minds. So, but let's say if you have that lady or that woman working with you and actually and you would feel when the lust comes into your heart, well, Jesus Christ is besides you, he's all of the sudden walking with you and all that stuff, how you would behave. So now the Holy Spirit is given to us. Bible clearly states that he's taking a place of Jesus Christ in our lives. And why Jesus Christ said it's better that I would go away so that God the father can send the Holy Spirit because Jesus Christ when he was walking on this earth, he can only be with some group of people. He cannot be everywhere at the same time. But he's saying the Holy Spirit he can be everywhere at the same time. And now Greg when you are there working holy spirit is a person he's actually he's there. He sees everything and but he's not there to convin to uh convict you only. He's there to help you. He's there to help you to overcome your weaknesses. And the thing is, we got to start asking him. We got to start having a relationship because he's a helper. Yeah. He came to help you. He came to help you. The only time he can help you, it's when you start asking him. He will not do forcefully. And we got to understand that since he besides us, we got to use it. We're like, "Holy Spirit, I'm I think I'm actually falling into some kind of temptation. What should I do in this situation?" And we should start listening in our hearts what he going to tell us. Well, don't don't uh at this time when you come in the morning, don't always maybe start looking for her. do your job or treat as your sister in Christ someone that actually uh can be attractive but like a sister in Christ then that's it that's the only relationship all of the sudden he start teaching us and start helping us so we're not feeling like we're on our own fighting this battle do is I do pray for a Christian companion and maybe he's shown me that's good something Yeah, they're Yeah, sometimes we can have relationship with those attractive people as a as a um sister and brothers in Christ and uh yeah and over here which um you know like studying this topic at least for myself I'm learning so much because I'm like wow okay okay let's let's start living life finally But um when we read, "You shall love the Lord your God," which which Henry I didn't even know. But the love here that Jesus refers to is is agape, which is unconditional love, meaning that we don't love God because we expect him to give us a a car or we don't love him because we expect him to give us money. how uh how we hear uh many uh preachers will say if you give your life to God he will bless you uh he'll give you this and that and so people are like oh he will so they love him based on a condition um or or something else but unconditional love is [clears throat] how God loved us we we brought nothing to God like only sins We we are worthy of judgment yet he loved us. And over here Jesus uses that same love. It's not an emotional love in a sense. It's in it's an action love and how pastor Henry he already laid it out where it's when we follow his commandments. That's why Jesus mentions not twice not twice not once not twice but many times if you love me keep my commandments. If you love me, follow my commandments. It's in action love. And sometimes we are too weak. We are too weak. That's why we're like, Lord, help me love you. Help me. Teach me. That's what the Holy Spirit is here for, to teach and to help us to love our God. And over here, the Lord your God, it's actually God in his fullness, in his deity, in his trinity. We are to love him. And when it talks about the Lord your God is talks about in his fullness. And I I do also want to add uh more to that agapil unconditional. Yeah. It's without condition. But it's also like if you take a Greek word and you see the um love agape, it says to love in a social and moral sense. Well, there's certain obligations we have in our life. Yeah. When the neighbor is actually hurt, doesn't matter how I feel about this neighbor. Doesn't matter if I have emotional attraction to him. Maybe I don't like him actually. Maybe he has this weird bad personality that we don't click together. But my social and moral obligation is to help him. So agape stating it doesn't matter how you feel about other people, you help them out. Same thing towards God. There is a situation. There is a situation when we don't have this emotional connection yet because this is something that goes more. But God would tell us if you love me you obey my commandments no matter how you feel emotionally. You know this is wrong you don't do it. But then when we start loving God by the agape love we also start creating a love of filio. You know when Jesus Christ was asking to Peter first he goes Peter do you agape me? Do you love me unconditionally? He goes yes I do. He goes well then you should actually uh watch over my flock. So do the things. But then the next time he goes to him if we read that passage Peter do you feel me? Oh, that's a different in our translation, it's again just love. But if we read in a Greek now, do you love me as a friend? And and Peter goes, Jesus, you know everything. Because Peter also love him as a friend. So when we start first loving God by agape just following his commandments then we start seeing who he is in our life and we start creating also emotional love towards him as well. So that's where first but first it's going to start by obeying his commandments but don't think it's just obeying obeying and I don't know him personally and all of a sudden when we obeying his commandments our love start growing into something more but it's got to be starting from this just doing the things God actually requiring and then it's going to grow more and more. Yeah. And this this agape love is a love to choose. So it's a choice that that we choose to make. Being jolly or sad, we choose to still love him. Being on the high of things in life or if he brings us all the way to Job's situation to the lowest of low, we still choose to love him. It's like and how pastor Henry said then it will uh the Holy Spirit will make it even more. And over here uh the second thing it's a devotion and commitment. It's um it's a love of commitment. Lord I gave my life to you. I love you. I'm going to commit myself to following and obeying you. It's a commitment we make. Um, and over here I put a commitment to grow our relationship with Christ. We are committed. Not like, okay, uh, I gave my life to you and then you forget about that whole relationship and you're just living uh, like your past life. No, it's a committed. Okay, I gave my life to you. Now I'm going to work towards Holy Spirit help me to work towards growing in Christ. Teach me how to Yeah. And and that's where as as it's been already brought now if we think I got to love God by obeying his commandments and all of a sudden I'm on my own and sometimes I have no strength. But let's read what already been read. It's John 14:26. I'm going to use the very uh easy translation. It's a contemporary English version, but um it states very precisely, but the Holy Spirit will come and help you because the father will will send the spirit to take my place. The spirit will teach you everything and will remind you of what I said while I was with you. very clearly. Yeah. The Holy Spirit will come in my place. It's like if Jesus Christ would be with you and then because Holy Spirit does not teach anything on on his own. It's the son have heard from the father he was teaching. Now the holy spirit comes and remind you. You're like oh well I forgot what can I do this or not? You can actually say, "Holy Spirit, remind me." And he will remind you of that word that was what Christ was teaching uh while he was working. Maybe you don't have your Bible with you at that time and you're like, "Well, I don't know." But as a Christian, can I do this? It says that Holy Spirit will remind you. Then you say, "Holy Spirit, can I do this? God, can I do this?" And even you say, "God, can I do this?" Holy Spirit will remind you because you're asking questions and and that's how he or you read something and you forgot and Holy Spirit will remind you of those things. That's what Holy Spirit came to help you. And as we talk today about how to love God properly and not only how but to love God properly. Not only how because how it's a knowledge but he gives you strength to love him properly as well. And the the other point is to prioritize above all. That's I think I need to be reminded of that myself all the time because sometimes you want to do things on your own. But [clears throat] the the Bible teaches us that whatever we do, we always have to say if it's your will, if it's God's will, I will do this or that. I will go there or that. So sometimes we're looking for a job. I'm going to say uh practical things. Looking for a job. We're trying. We're trying. We can't find a job. Right? This is where you're like, "Lord, please help me find a job." You're putting you're putting him in your life. Just that simple act, you're you're already acknowledging that he can help you. So you're turning to him, not to somebody else. Lord, please help me. Uh Lord, you see my relationship with my spouse or my friends or my family is not good. Please help me to to repair those those relationships. Amen. When we start calling upon him, he's like, "Okay, I'm going to start I'm going to start helping. I'm going to start teaching you what you should do to repair those relationships with your spouse, with your friend, with whoever, planning a trip, even Lord, if it's your will, I'm going to go there or there. If it's God's will, you're you're putting him like, Lord, if if this is your will, if this is if this trip will be good for me, um it will happen. Give me a second, Greg. Um, moving to a different city, state, or country, seek the will of God. Um, I just want to share this little story, but my my parents, we we moved to California, and we had a big family, but the place where we were at, it was a little bit dangerous. And my dad started calling out to God, Lord, uh you see this situation like where should we go? And God literally opens up to him Idaho and he thought it was Iowa. So he goes on the map and or like or he goes on the map and he sees Iowa. He's like Iowa. And then God again reveals to him, Idaho, and we've been here for 30ome years. But but you see, he called on to God, Lord, you see my situation. He didn't make that decision on his own. Okay, honey, pack the kids. We're going to to Florida, which wouldn't be bad, right? Which wouldn't be bad, right? I I love the beach. Who knows? But God says, "No, it would be bad for you. That's why I'm opening up Idaho. And and we love it here. We love Idaho. See, seeking the Lord, prioritizing him in your life, giving him attention, seeking his help, seeking his guidance, and God will open it up to you. We just have a few minutes left. Uh uh Greg wanted to mention something and then Pastor Henry if Mike um Ruben Ruben Mike when I do my prayers I ask him for to help me with my wants and needs. Is that okay? Of course. Of course. But first, don't forget we always we've given thanks to God. Don't forget to when we ask a God of something, first we got to give thanks to him for who he is and then we bring our needs. So that works much better. First give thanks to God, praise him and then bring your needs. and you'll see your prayer will be actually answered much better. The reason why it's important, it's not because God just one thanks, thanks. It's because that creates a relationship between you and him and you start actually knowing God personally and that's when you start asking. You're asking with faith and then he gives you. Okay. Well, our topic has come to its end. We will continue in two weeks to uh break down where it says to love your God with all your heart, soul, and mind. And how do we love him with that? Next week, just a reminder, it's going to be an Easter service. So, invite your friends. But before I keep on talking, let's stand up and pray. Lord God, we thank you, Holy Spirit, for revealing to us how to love you, how to love God. And Lord God, please help us. Please help us to love you with all our heart, soul, mind, Lord, and just teach us how to bless each person here. bless those who are watching us online, God, that we love your commandments, that we fulfill your commandments, that that we keep your commandments because you say those who love you will keep your commandments, God. And Holy Spirit, please give us the strength to love you that way. Please give us that strength and teach us in Jesus name. Amen. Amen. For our last song, we'll be singing All to Jesus I surrender. [music] All [singing] to Jesus I surrender all to him. [singing] my freely give. I [singing] will ever [music] love and trust him in his [singing] presence daily live. I [music and singing] surrender all. [music and singing] I surrender all. All [music and singing] to thee, my blessed Savior [music] I [singing] surrender all. All [singing] to [music] Jesus I surrender. [singing] Humbly at his [music] feet I bow. Worldly [singing] pleasures [music] all forsen. Take me [music and singing] Jesus. Take me now. I [singing] surrender [music] all. I [singing] surrender [music] all. All [music and singing] to thee, my blessed [singing] Savior. I surrender all. [singing] All [music] to Jesus [singing] I surrender. [music] Make me savior, [singing] holy [music] th Let [singing] me feel thy holy spirit. [music] Truly know [singing] that thou art mine. I [music and singing] surrender all. [music] I surrender [singing] all. All [singing] to [music] thee, my blessed Savior. I [singing] surrender all. I surrender [music] all. I [singing] [music] surrender all. All [singing] to [music] thee, my blessed Savior. [singing] I [music] surrender all. [singing] Praise God. Praise the Lord. My dear friends, our service has come to the end. And before we pray, do our last prayer. We have a few announcements. Uh like already mentioned, we have Easter service tomorrow. Uh tomorrow uh next Sunday. So invite your friends. It's going to be a little bit different. It's not going to be the same layout. So if it's a little bit different, don't be shocked. I'm warning you. Uh and then after service, we'll have a communion. So those who are going to partake, we will have a communion after service. Uh so just guard your heart, ask the Holy Spirit to to help you, to lead you, guard your heart so you can come before God and accept his blood and his sacrifice with a thankful and blessed heart. Also, this Saturday, uh we're going to have a park slashpicnic and a barbecue. I'm going to do something special from the church. Um, not burgers or hot dogs, but shish kebabs. So, so I invite everybody to come and uh the church will provide the meat and the salad and the drinks. So I just ask you fellow friends and family and church members to bring something sweet or some fruits that will kind of uh that will help us you know not lose our you know shape um to to uh to also be a part of that. So, it's going to be I asked for suggestions. People suggested it. Then I went and walked around and people majority said Camel's Back Park. Camel's Back Park is nice. Uh we're going to put a little gazebo there. There's a place to hike. There's a place to walk. There's an ice cream shop down the road. Uh we're going to have some games and a lot of fun. So to the shelters, we can have a bus at your place at 11:30. So if you guys can be ready at 11:30, we'll have a bus come pick you up. And then if you would be willing to come help us to set up, that will be great. Um, so that's going to be at 12:00 p.m. Saturday at Camels Back Park. I will post the address on the Viber chat. those who are in it. But just know that it's going to be at noon April 4th, Saturday at Camel's Back. Also, uh this Tuesday, we were blessed to cook for the interfaith uh sanctuary. We were blessed to cook dinner and all those people who came and um who were a part of it said, "Man, this is such a blessing. We could do it every week." Um, but they only put us down for once a month for now, but it was a blessing. So, if anybody else wants to join, like last time we had a lot of help, so we didn't need anybody extra, but I know next month some of our uh friends are are uh going to have a birthday, so they won't make it. So, we're going to need two people at least, two new people. Okay. and service uh Sundays from 9:00 a.m. Tuesday at 8:30 a.m. It's going to be at the Cafana Coffee Shop off of State Street. We moved it off of State Street. There's a lot of parking and uh we would love for you guys to come there at 8:30 a.m. And then Thursdays at 6 p.m. Bible study at church. Does anybody have any prayer for any needs? Yes, Alan. Yes, I do. Yes. Do you want us to? Yeah, we can. We can go. Okay. Okay. We'll we'll uh pray for Allan and then we'll do other news after this. Lord God uses Christ. We cast out overuses. Amen. Okay. And Christina, she she is happy that God uh blessed her with an apartment. So, she's like telling me the whole way on the way to church how it's so awesome. So, she's thankful. She's given thankfulness to God. Anybody else? Okay, let's pray. Lord God, we are thankful, Lord God, that you answer prayers, Lord Jesus. And we are thankful, Lord God, that you also blessed uh Christina, Lord God, and in helping her get an apartment, Lord. May may she be thankful every day for this beautiful gift that you have given her and like and Scott also. Lord God, we also bless our church in the name of Jesus Christ. We bless our church, Lord God. And whatever we learn today, God, may we apply it in our life and seek you, Lord God, and ask you for help, for guidance, Lord, to love you, God. Bless our church. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Our father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come. Your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread. and forgive us our sins as we forgive those who sinned against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For your kingdom, your power, and glory forever are yours. Amen. be blessed