Loving God With Heart, Soul, and Mind

Christ is risen. Christ is risen. Christ is risen. Amen. And for my reading today, I'll be reading from John 20 chapter yeah chapter 20 29. Jesus said to him, Thomas, because you have seen me, you have believed. Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have believed. And after the resurrection, Thomas told the other disciples he wouldn't believe until he saw and touched the wounds of Jesus Christ himself. And when Jesus appeared again, he let him do exactly that. And Thomas believed, but then Jesus made a point that was really meant for all of us. The ones who believe without seeing carry a faith that is something special. And it's easy to believe that's uh you know something that's standing right in front of you. It's easy to believe that. But it takes real trust to believe what you can't see yet. And so this week, wherever you're waiting and can't see what God is doing, uh don't pull back from that. Lean into it and let your faith speak louder than what your eyes can't see yet. So with that being said, let's stand up and pray for the service. Lord God, we thank you for this beautiful morning service you've given us today, Lord, and another day of life. Lord, we thank you for Jesus Christ who died on the cross for hours since resurrected three days later. Lord, we thank you, God. Help us to have this faith in you, Lord God. This faith in faith in Christ, Lord, we pray and ask for your blessings on the service, Lord, on the preaching, on the singing. In Jesus name we pray. Amen. Amen. And for our first song, we'll be singing Sweet Hour of Prayer. Sweet hour of [music] prayer. Sweet hour of prayer that calls me [music and singing] from a world of care and bids me [singing] at my father's [music] throne. Make all [singing] my wants and wishes [music] known. In seasons [singing] of [music] distress and grief, my [singing] soul has often found relief and [singing] es to escape [music] the tes. Sweet hour of prayers. [music] Sweet hour of [music and singing] prayer. Sweet hour of prayer. The joys [singing] I [music] feel, the bliss I share of those [music and singing] who satious spirits burn with [singing] strong desires for thy return. [music] But such I hastened to the [music and singing] place where God my savior shows his face [music] and gladly [singing] take my station [music] there and wait for thee. [music] Sweet hour [singing] of prayer. Sweet hour [singing] of prayer. Sweet hour of [music] prayer, thy wings shall my [singing] petition [music] bear. To him whose truth and [music and singing] faithfulness engage the waiting soul to bless. [music] And since [singing] he b me see his face, [music] believe [singing] his word and trust his grace. I'll cast [singing] on [music] him my every care [singing] and [music] wait for thee sweet of prayer. For a second song we'll be singing. I worship you, Almighty God. I worship [music] you almighty [singing] God. There is [singing] none like [music] you. I worship [music and singing] you, oh prince of peace. That is [music and singing] what I long to do. I give [music] you [singing] praise for you are [singing and music] my rightousness. I worship you [singing] [music] almighty God. There is [music and singing] none like you. I worship [music and singing] you almighty God. There is [singing] none [music] like you. I worship you, oh prince [music and singing] of peace. That is [singing] what I [music] long to do. I give you [singing] praise. For you are [music] my rightousness. I worship [music] [singing] you almighty God. There [music and singing] is none like you. I [music and singing] worship you almighty God. There is none [singing] like you. I [music] worship [singing] you, oh prince [music] of peace. That is what [singing] I [music] long to do. I give you praise [music] for you [singing] are my rightousness. I worship [music] you [singing] almighty God. There is none [singing and music] like you. Praise God. Glorious. Praise the Lord, brothers and sisters, for this morning that we have all came together today to worship him, to praise him, and to hear about God's word today. Cuz, you know, last week was Easter, but here we are again to celebrate and to continue celebrating about his resurrection cuz our faith would be for no reason if he did not resurrect from the dead. And I want to do our Bible reading for this morning. And that's going to be in uh Psalm chapter or Psalm 38, which is going to be in uh page 804. Psalm 38, page 804. And it says here, "Oh Lord, do not rebuke me in your wrath, nor chastity me in your hot displeasure, for your arrows piece pierce me deeply, and your hand presses me down. There is no soundness in my flesh because of your anger, nor any health in my bones because of my sin. For my iniquities have gone over my head, like a heavy burden. They are too heavy for me. My wounds are foul and festering because of my foolishness. I am troubled. I am bowed down greatly. I go mourning all the day long. For my loins are full of inflammation and there is no soundness in my flesh. I am feeble and severely broken. I groan because of the turmoil of my heart. Lord, all my desire is before you and my sighing is not hidden from you. My heart pants. My strength fails me. As for the light of my eyes, it also has gone from me. My loved ones and my friends stand aloof from my plague. And my relatives stand a far off. Those also who seek my life lay snares for me. Those who seek my hurt speak of destruction and plan deception all the day long. But I, like a deaf man, do not hear. And I am like a mute who does not open his mouth. Thus I am like a man who does not hear and in whose mouth is no response. For in you, oh Lord, I hope you will hear, oh Lord my God, for I said, "Hear me, lest they rejoice over me, lest when my foot slips, they exalt themselves against me. For I am ready to fall, and my sorrow is continually before me. For I'll declare my iniquity. I will be in anguish over my sin. But my enemies are vigorous and they are strong. And those who hate me wrongfully have multiplied. Those also who render evil for good, they are my adversaries because I follow what is good. Do not forsake me, oh Lord. Oh my God. Be not far from me. Make haste to help me, oh Lord, my salvation. Praise God. And now we're going to have uh Pastor Tim come up do a couple announcements and uh Pastor Tim and Pastor Gennady going to lead a topic for this morning. God bless. Praise God. My dear friends, we're going to be uh before we're going to do our meet and greet, we're going to pray for the Sunday school teacher and kids. Uh so please come up. And it's interesting because this uh psalm the the psalmist he was once again seeing that the enemies were stronger than him and he could do nothing and he could do nothing. He was being defeated and sometimes in our life we trust on our own strength. But even the greatest who had the greatest army, one of the greatest armies that time. Sometimes when we see that the enemy is too strong for us having all the power that we have, God is stronger than them. And the psalmist calls on the Lord for help. Calls on the Lord for help. And my friend, today you might be battling something hard in life. It feels like it's too strong. You've tried this. You've tried that. Just know if you turn to God for help, he will defeat whatever the enemy has put in front of your path. And like the psalmist did and God delivered him, God can deliver you from that today as well. And we're going to uh like read from second Thessalonians. And this is Paul. He's saying, "Finally, brethren, brethren, pray for us that the word of the Lord may run swiftly and be glorified." And we all need prayer to to deliver the message of God to the kids, to us, to those people around us. Because God's message is is what going to save the lost soul. And the more we know about Christ, the more we learn about Jesus, and we're going to be doing that today. we're going to be learning about the Holy Spirit. They're going to be learning their lessons, the more we're going to have love for him, the more we're going to have love for him. So, let's stand up and pray them and we're going to also pray and uh bless our uh lesson that we're going to have. Lord God, we thank you for this time, God, that we could learn your word, God, and that we could discuss and talk about it, Lord God. What the Holy Spirit has put on our hearts, Lord God, and in our church, Lord. I pray, Holy Spirit, we're going to be talking about you, God, and we're going to be learning about you. Please reveal to us your truth that me that we may understand it and apply it into our lives. And we also play God uh pray for the Sunday school teacher and the students. May you bless them there in their lesson as well in Jesus name. Amen. And let's take these few minutes to meet in group. Did you get [music] Bless. [music] Hallelujah. [music] Happy. [music] [music] Hallelujah. Speech. Speech. Speech. Heat. Heat. Okay. Well, we're going to be starting, I guess, right now. We'll wait for Pastor Henry, but I'll kind of go over some things we talked about a few weeks back. Last week was Easter service which was a blessed service and um yeah um people were giving their life to Christ and uh more people were saved for the kingdom of God and this is what the church has to be doing is proclaiming the truth and God does the rest. Like the Bible says that um we sow the seed, the other one waters, but God does the growth. Right now, we're sewing uh we're watering, but God is going to do his growth. And I believe that. Um so over here few weeks back we were talking about the the verse Matthew 22:37 where it says Jesus said to him you shall love the Lord your God. And over here when he said love he didn't mean like an emotional love. uh the the love over here uh translated if we remember it's called agape which means unconditional it means chosen. It's a it's a love that uh we choose to make. doesn't matter how we feel that day or um if we feel in the dumps or we feel high like up high, we always choose to love God. Um and [clears throat] also chosen love or agape love is unconditional. How we said it's with no it's preconditioned. We don't love God because we're expecting something from him. But in reality, I I believe a true Christian or a person who gave his life to Christ, he understands why he loves God. And one is that God gave his life for a perishing soul like me. He gave me life through his death. We got to understand that it was us who are supposed to perish for eternity, but he perished on this earth so we could have eternity with him in heaven. And just knowing that the love for him has to be just like this big. I don't know if I had bigger arms, I would stretch it. Um, and [clears throat] so we have to understand, friends, that without God, we would perish. And maybe today there's somebody here that has been going to church that hasn't been, maybe it's your first time here and you felt that you've been living life on your own. You've been doing things on your own and things haven't been going the way you want them to go. Jesus Christ, he offers you salvation so you don't have to perish and pay for all your sins. But on top of that, he also offers you a daily helper, which is the Holy Spirit, to help you in life to lead you to make the right choices in life. And today we're continuing the topic of the Holy Spirit. How the Holy Spirit is a helper and he's a teacher. But the Holy Spirit is only given to those who believe in Christ, who accepted him as their Lord and Savior. Otherwise, the Holy Spirit has no power over you. Amen. If we don't want to walk this life alone, if we want to be guided by God, we have to first give our life to him. So, um I do want to reinforce um what it's mean unconditional love. Like we've heard that term quite a bit. So, it became to us just like well unconditional love. In the Bible, we read in it's in Matthew 5:343 where Jesus Christ explains he's saying it's been written love your neighbor but hate your enemy. So that's a conditional love where I where I love my neighbor neighbors. I love my family. I love my friends. I love those who close to me. I love those um I love my nation. So that's all conditional love. It's those who can love me back. And Jesus Christ saying, "But I give you a new command." This was something that was not given to the people in the Old Testament that he says, "Love your enemies." And now we gota love other people and even God himself without condition. Yeah, we understand that God did so much for us. But I love God for who he is no matter what I'm going to get in return from him in my life. sometimes, oh, I'm gonna love God so he can give me more stuff so he can bless me. But when Job was going through the very difficult times and when the wife came to him and said, "Well, curse God and die." And he said, "Are we going to accept only good things from him?" Well, that's what most people say. Yeah, we're going to accept only good things from him. If God actually sending bad things towards my way, well, I cannot love him. But Job was able to love him. So, same thing, we should be in our uh walk towards God because the reason why Job said that because he knew I don't understand everything about God, but I'm just going to love him because he is my God. Same thing in our life. We got to love God not because He given only good things to us. But we just love God for who he is regardless. It's like our father in a family. Sometimes he discipline a kid, sometimes he give a gift, but a kid will love him. Same thing in our life. We got to understand he knows what's best for us. Even though he disciplined me, but I'm going to love him. Does anybody have any questions in regard to that? Okay. When you love your neighbor, if that person does bad stuff, do do you forgive him for what he's done to you? So again, you do, but I I do want to reinforce when the Bible says love your neighbor, it doesn't mean like neighbor who lives close to me. It's actually a person close to yourself. That's someone you you cherish. It's like your friend, right? So, it's easy to love neighbor. That's why it says in the old time it says love your neighbor but hate your enemies. Now, we're talking about it could be someone living close to me. Emotionally, he's not close to me and he does evil. Now, he falls in category love your enemies. It's someone that do harm to you. do bad to you. The reason you love him not emotionally but with a gapy life because that's how you can show who Christ is. Last time when um pastor Tim and brother of Vlad was reading from the scripture and showing that movie you saw how much they were doing harm to him and Jesus Christ praying on a cross forgive them for they do not know what they do that's agape love. Yeah emotionally maybe Jesus Christ well I mean they do so much harm to him but he still want to have good for them. He's still one that they would be saved, that they would they would be realized. Same thing with that person that do harm to you. You're like, you know, I'm going to pray for him. Maybe somehow God going to change him. He will realize what he's doing. He will be saved. And I was able to actually find that soul for God. We can have that challenge in our life that we're going to try, you know, through my loving by action, not by feelings. We're not talking feelings. I'm going to try to get this person to God. That's the new commandment of love in the New Testament. Yeah. And unconditional love, it's it's also love that somebody doesn't even deserve, but but they need. And like Pastor Henry was saying, maybe that person doesn't even deserve to be loved. But but by you showing him love where something he needs, they can lead him to Christ. Um and God doesn't want anybody to perish but all to be saved, right? And uh by by our action love u yeah emotionally that person did harm but but by showing him love back um they needed at that moment. Maybe they're going through something hard themselves and it brought them to Christ. And and when we're talking about the agapy love, it's not like oh you're doing harm to me but you know but I still love you. Well that's kind could be a weakness actually where the person will do what it's mean unconditional love. You even don't have to say oh I still love you because that might be sounds kind of fake when that person do harm to you. Number one you're praying for him. Number two, when he's in a need, let's say he do harm to you, but now he fall actually and he's crying for help. You're there to help him out. And that person goes, man, why did I do so many bad things to him? And then he might ask you, hey, why did you do that? Because I'm a believer in Christ. Yeah. Well, that that's what mean also that's mean unconditional agape love where he sees and he's like he's different. What's what's wrong with that guy? I I had sometimes when people why you do those things I'm like well because I'm a believer in Christ and they're like you know I want to be like you. So that's how we show in Christ by doing an action love. It's mean that's why in English many translation translate to be as a charity. you do something good toward those people regardless of your feelings to them and they're like, "Man, why is this person so different?" And then you tell them because I'm a believer and they're like, "Man, this person is truly different." Amen. And in uh Matthew 22:37, we're going to be going through the three three ways to love God, which Jesus directs his disciples, and he's directing us. Uh Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind." with all your mind. He didn't say any other way but with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your mind. Oh, look at that. The trinity love. Yeah. And um over here the the Greek word for heart is cardia and it's um to to love God with uh with your desires, intentions, affections and your center. So over here what I understood and what I got is that like when you love God with all your heart, you center him in your life. uh you don't do nothing without first um asking him for guidance. You center him. You make him the center um with your relationships, with your future example, spouses, uh with your careers, uh with your next big purchase. Just like if you would call up your friend, hey, should I do this? You should actually call upon to God, hey Lord, should I do this? And then God knowing that you called up onto him, he will guide your heart to make the right decision in your life. Um, and over here there's there's other words, but over here it says you're center, meaning that you're center him. He's a part of your life. He's in your life. He is your life. Um, and that means loving God with your heart. Pastor Henry, anything? You know I I would also like to add to this when it comes to your heart right here we're talking also about well heart mind and soul. So we know mind portray to knowledge. It's something I know that I got to love God. That's what mine is. Heart it's more deeper. That's why it means heart. It's when the knowledge from mind goes into my already inner person where at first I knew I got to love him and then it got so much into me. I will bring a parallel let's say hatred. Yeah. There is that some kind of person did evil to you and you're thinking man that person did evil to me. This is in my mind. Now I can actually let this thought to start growing me. And then when it goes into my inner person, then that's it. I'm constantly thinking about it. I'm constantly I it's in me. That became part of me. Now let's go back to love. At first I read or we tell you or Bible tell you, hey, you got to love God. And the person goes, I gotta love God. I gotta do this almost agape action love. And then when I'm start thinking about it, it goes into my inner person and it becomes part of me. And now whatever I do, I wake up. I think about God. God, thank you for this day. When uh pastor Tim said when I um have to move I have to move actually somewhere I'm like God do you approve just because he became part of this love to God became part of me no so now it's not in my knowledge it's inside of me so that's how I see when God says to love him with heart as well It's deeper love. It's something inside of me. And that's why uh now I start thinking about him. And I would add to that because you read now it becomes also an emotional. It's not just an action and agape it's an emotional as well towards God. And then we can when we come to the next uh soul and and mind uh there is also difference between that. So, so did everybody understand that point of the heart? How to love God with your heart? Okay. And um we'll now move down to soul. And soul is a lot of people there there's a confusion between soul and spirit. Like a soul is who you are, right? It's uh like a spirit is something that when we die it goes to heaven. But a soul it's it's who we are on earth. And just like our um kind of one person ex explained to me that like it depends what spirit leads our soul. If it's an evil spirit, it leads our actions, our intentions to do evil on earth. Um or it could be something else. We do want to also Yeah, that's that's a tough subject. I know that you can but since we're talking about it so we also we have a spirit soul and body. Yeah. Did someone want to add something? If you we can give you a microphone. We can give you microphone. Okay. So we'll come we'll come to that. But I I do want to reinforce right now about soul, spirit and body. So what happens is that when a spirit that God sends touched our body, we became a living soul. Living soul, it's it's your persona. And actually to heaven right now, to heaven right now, when you go, it's actually it's written it's your soul going. It's your persona going because a spirit touched the body. It became a living soul. A living soul. Okay. So, what I'm getting out of all of this, the mind, heart, and soul. When you have the agape love, that's the sign of the trinity, which is the uh father, son, and the holy ghost, which is greater than the love that you have for yourself. You have the love for God in you because you have the trinity inside you at that time. Yeah. Well, we could go love trinity. So, it's not the same trinity who God is, but but that's a love trinity. So, but isn't that isn't that isn't that the love for God though? Once you once you have it in your mind, heart, and your soul, it's that's that's the that's the love of God, right? Yeah. Yeah. I mean it's it's a good point. We'll talk about it. At the same time, I don't want to confuse a lot of people with those deep theological stuff. So what I want to make it a little bit more simple when it's talking about loving with your soul. Soul, the other word for soul is life. It's love your God with your heart. That's the inner emotion and all that stuff. And now I love my God with my life. What does it mean with my life? I committing my life to God. Do you live your life for yourself? Do you live your life to indulge in in this sin? or do I commit my entire life to God? That's why Jesus Christ saying if those who will actually try to save their soul, they will lose. If you're going to say, "Oh, I'm going to live my life for myself." You're going to lose your soul for the eternity. But if you give away your soul, your life it's mean it's not giving away only in a death. Okay, I'm going to die for Christ. It's mean I'm going to commit my life to God. It says that you will gain. So I see that I know we can go more in theological thing but I would say we can approach it more simple. Heart it's my deeper inner person. It's who I am become. I'm loving God with my inner person. Now I decide I'm going to commit my life. Life it's a soul to God. I'm not going to commit my life for my ego, for my uh desires, for the sin, for this world, but I'm going to commit my life to God. That's what it's mean to love with your soul. Because soul, it's a living being. And now you said, God, with that soul, with my life, I'm going to live for you. That's what I come up with for soul because here a lot a lot of times people want to separate and say well heart mind and all that stuff but I I would make it more simple an inner person heart your life when we commit our life to God himself that's what's called soul soul is alive and I commit my soul to God I commit my life to God I love my God in my life throughout and easier uh or how we can make a decision. We can make a decision right now and said you know from now on I want to live for God. Now you deciding committing your soul to love God actually and it's it's already a mind decision that we can over here we we already went through heart and soul and um I guess I would have A few questions for us. Do do we love God with all our heart? So, are we centering God in our life? Or are we still trying to make our own choices and decisions knowing that maybe God is doesn't want me to have this or he's not going to give it, so I'm going to try to get it. Um, that's one question. And second question is the soul. Does my life reflect that I'm a Christian? Uh see there's and I say this a lot but I'm going to say it again. There's this notion that once you're saved then you can live however you want. And there there are many uh Christians with this mentality. Well, the grace of God will save me. And so they go and they just live a wicked life that no unbeliever would even think he's a Christian. They would just an unbeliever would actually take him into their category. And over here what we see when Jesus says soul, he's actually saying that if you truly love me, your life is going to reflect that. Not just your words, your actions, your your deeds, your your mindset, your just just everyday thing. people are going to like when they hang out with you, they're going to like right away know that, okay, this this person is, you know, just different, but like in like a very pleasant way. In a very pleasant way. And I know a lot of people that that I hung out with, and you could see that they're just so so different in a good way. like not um like you're not afraid to be their friend in a way. You're like you want them to be your friend because they're so pleasant. And uh that's so those two two questions I want us to think about this morning before we go on to the third one. uh like we only have a five maybe a little bit more minutes left but let's think about do I center my life on Christ and does my life reflect that I love him okay third one mind love your God you shall love the Lord your God with all your mind and over here mind is your thinking reasoning perspective imagination how you process doesn't interpret your thoughts, your desire to know him deeper. And uh before Pastor Henry goes into this one, but I just want to share this little example with you, at least in my personal life. So there's there's moments when I'm just on fire. I'm in the word and in prayer and stuff like that. Like a true life example is I'm mowing my lawn. I'm mowing my lawn and obviously I'm not reading the Bible, but in my thoughts and stuff, I'm just thinking about God. I'm mowing the lawn and thinking about God and just thinking about how great he is, how wonderful he is. Then there's times when I start slacking off. Okay, I'll admit that. And then I'm mowing that same lawn and then like in my mind all of a sudden I'm thinking, "Oh man, this person did this to me and stuff like that or um this this person is kind of like annoying and blah blah blah." And that's in my mind. And then at those moments is when I stop myself and I'm like, I'm not right with God at that moment. Because my mind is not thinking, my mind is not set on him or it's not set on doing good. It's not set on Lord, what do you want me to do in my life for you? It's not set on that. It's set on evil. And over here, we can see, okay, where is my mind set on? Um, go ahead. Just a simple example. Yeah. And that's that's pretty much what it is. I mean my that's it's mean that first thing I do I'm reflecting about God. When I start thinking about God and I sometimes will have to make a conscious decision. You know I need to stop thinking about other things. I need to start thinking about God. I set some goals. When I'm going to wake up in the morning first thing I want to think not about the news. I want to think about God. This is a conscious decision. So that's loving your God with your mind. When you reflecting, you reading, you actually reading the Bible, you see what the Bible says. Now when I'm thinking, when I start loving God with all my mind and how I can not love him with all my mind, it's when I'm thinking about everything else but except God. Then I love those other things. When I'm thinking about everything, it's uh I'm thinking about maybe how to get bigger house, bigger car, how to do a revenge to other person. So I'm not loving God all the sudden I change my mind and like you know stop like pastor Tim said I got to think about God. Now I'm thinking about God and then it goes deeper into me. At first I make a conscience decision to do it in my mind and then when it becomes part of me and it goes deeper and now I have the action that I do that's mean heart and to confirm and when I start actually living this way through the life like apostle Paul said that now it's not me live but it's Christ in me then I love my God with entire life and it says soul whatever I do in my life I live for God so that's that process and that's why it's almost one cannot be without the other to love God deeply if I stop only in mind while I'm thinking about it I meditating but I don't do anything about it that's mean not loving loving with mind but not with a uh not with a heart or if I decide oh I'm going to live God maybe a little bit but then the rest I live for myself. Well that's not with entire soul that's partially. So then it becomes more practical how I can love God with my mind then it goes into the heart and when I do that consistently through the life it's with my soul where it's not me who's living but we can say like apostle Paul I completely devoted my life to God and to his ministry. Yes. And since we are going through how the Holy Spirit is a helper and a teacher and sometimes I'll be honest, we do struggle to say maybe um have God in our mind all the time or have God in our heart all the time or maybe there was a time where my life didn't reflect Christ's image. I burned a lot of bridges. This is where Jesus when he says I send the helper who will teach you. This is where we say Holy Spirit please help me. Please help me have you in my heart, mind and soul. To have God in my heart, mind and soul. And you guys know your situation. You guys know how your heart is. You guys all know how your mind is. you guys know how your life is. And then we can right now look over where am I lacking? And Christ sent us a helper to transform those things in our life into the image of him to transform our heart into the heart of Christ. To transform the Holy Spirit can transform our life into the life of Christ. And the Holy Spirit wants to transform our mind into the mind of Christ. And with this, let's pray. Lord God, we thank you for this lesson that we could learn, Lord God, and teach and just just to get deep into your word. Lord God, I pray Holy Spirit that you help us to love the Lord God with all our mind, with all our heart, and with our soul. God, that our life could love you, that our life could represent you, that our life could show the love of you to others around us, Lord. Please help us, Holy Spirit, with that, Lord. And you know each heart here. You know who's weaker in some points and who's stronger in others, Lord. But we call unto you, Lord God, that you give us the strength to to live a life in the image of Jesus Christ. Bless each person here. Amen. Amen. For our last song, we'll be singing There Is Power. [music] would [music] to be free [singing] from the burdens of sin. There's power in the blood. [music] Power [singing] in the blood. Would you evil of it way? There's [music and singing] wonderful power in the blood. There is power, power, wonder working [music] power in the [singing] blood. In the blood of the lamb of [music] the lamb. There is power, [singing] power power, wonder working power in the preious blood [singing] of the [music] lamb. Would you be free [singing] from your passion and pride? [music] There's power in the blood. Power [singing] in the blood. Come for a cleansing [music] to Calary sight. [singing] There's wonderful power in the blood. There [music] is power [singing] wonder working power [music] in the [singing] blood. In the blood of the lamb of the lamb. There [music] is power power wonder working power in the preious [singing and music] blood of the lamb. Would [singing] you be [music] wider much wider than snow? There's power in [music and singing] the blood. Power in the blood. Sains [music and singing] are lost in its lifegiving flow. There's [music] wonderful [singing] power in the blood. There is power, power, wonder [music] working power. In the blood, in the blood [singing] of the lamb of the lamb. [music] There is power, [singing] power power, wonder working power in the precious [music] blood [singing] of the lamb. Would you do [music] service for Jesus, [singing] your king? There's power in the blood. [music] Power in the blood. Would you live daily [singing] his praises to sing? There's wonderful [music] power in the blood. There is power, power, wonder working power in the blood. In the blood, [music and singing] in the lamb of the lamb. There is power, power, wonder working power [music] in the preious blood [singing] of the lamb. Praise God. Well, our service has come to the end and how we said last time we wanted to like really emphasize this topic on loving your God. And next week we will dive into loving our neighbors as ourselves, loving your enemies, how does that work, and loving one another. So that will be our next week's topic and announcements. So April 28th, we're going to be again like we're doing that monthly uh dinner for the interfaith sanctuary shelter and we have some people that will not make it. So we ask for two additional people who can come and help that day. It's going to be April 28th, which is a Tuesday from 2 to 7. Um, also if if somebody can help after we eat, uh, like usually there's some people who help wash the dishes. So, but like this past few weeks um those uh dishes were kind of left for the cooks to to clean. The cooks already cooking. So if if everybody feels in their heart that they can help uh while everybody after everybody eats to help wash the dishes, that would be a great service to our king who we are all serving. Amen. Uh so just come up to Bella or to James and tell them, "Hey, I want to help. I'll wash the dishes for you guys." So that will um be a blessing for them. and service schedule. Tuesdays, we have our Bible reading. It's more of reading at um at the Cafe Coffee Shop off of State Street. Everybody's invited. It's at 8:30. And we also have Bible study here. Uh Thursdays at 6:00 and myself and Brother Vlad, our usher, uh we lead that. So, we invite everybody to come. And then, of course, our Sunday 9:00 a.m. service. Does anybody have any needs? Yes, Alan. Okay. Okay. Okay. Okay. Uh and then there was a a hand on this. Yes. Okay. Okay. And remind me your name again. Amanda. Thank you. Okay. And Greg, he has big uh questions ahead of him. So, we're going to pray for that as well. And Pedro, he I guess has type 2 diabetes and he's in pain right now. In a lot of pain. So he was asking for us to to pray for him and anybody here I saw no. Okay let's pray. Lord God uh we are just thankful Lord that we could learn your word God. But I pray Lord most importantly we all know now Lord how to love you God. How to love you with our soul and mind and spirit. Lord God, may we apply this knowledge into our life. But most importantly, Holy Spirit, may you lead our life to love our Lord God like that, Lord. And uh we also bring these needs into your hands and uh the the need of Allan, Lord God. You see his his legs and his shoulder, God. We pray for healing upon him, Lord God. Restore his body in the name of Jesus Christ. strengthen him, Lord God, and heal him. And we also pray for Amanda's need, Lord God. She needs to go to court in EMTT, Lord. I pray, God, that you resolve all of that, Lord God. And may and may the good come out for her, Lord God, where she can understand. Thank you, God. And uh and um give you all the glory for your help, Lord God. And we're also praying for Greg's needs. he has some questions ahead of him. Lord God, if it's your will, let it be done. If it's not, let him know, God, uh what's better for him. And also, we pray for Pedro, Lord. He has type 2 diabetes and he's in a lot of pain right now, Lord. And I ask, God, that you also bring healing upon him. Jesus, you are our doctor. You are our healer. You are our comforter. And we ask in your name to heal Pedro, Lord God. and thank you for this beautiful time that you have blessed us with in Jesus' name. 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 sin against us. Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from the evil one. For your kingdom, your power, and glory forever are yours.