The Discipleship That Has Shaped My Life

I could make this dramatic evening fulfillment because this is for meal sorrel fulfillment along the dream that I have long fall for at least 54 years that we and I would be at a place in my nation, America in a local church. We would even say in North Carolina, a church that would be trying to live out a little by national creed because I creed the national creed of America is the greatest affirmation of dignity in the world. There never been a creed that wasn't biblical and profound as the American creed we hold these choose to be self-evident. You cannot make a greater statement that all human beings are created equal and endowed by their Creator with certain rights.

Chief among those life, liberty and pursuit of happiness that we would all do an experiment in human history that is never been experienced before that we would become a migrant nation affirming the migration green one nation from all nation under God with liberty and justice for all, that looks like the kingdom of God that looks like the struggle to reflect the kingdom of God here on earth you don't know. No sooner than the ink was dry.

We brought slaves in here and with just a few exceptions the shirts have to compromise that that gospel and little belief that as a sign. In this revelation of God in Jesus Christ came to display that, with in his love.

We call that the gospel the pool at all any commission to be those people that this would be the greatest good news in the world. The greatest good news is that not that day one Dana said, behold, I bring you good news of great joy which of it all people all people all people want to you Yvonne this night in the city of David a Savior, which is Christ the Lord that was incarnated God. That was the guy that said, in creation, and a world without form and void and darkness want to face her deep.

He said, let there be light and there was life that God has shined a light. That light into heart to give light and look in the face of Jesus Christ.

And we was commissioned to be those people to pull that off 2014 year later, there haven't been very much of that effort, we have created language of division and I were and we still plain language of but I'm here tonight on this day really were some people who are not center this to know God obvious God who is trying to get at that great Nisha that great ratio culture.

The backtrace wall and death and genocide all over the world and the church had participated in the but God is raising up of people who confront that hit own and would believe in that that gospel that love of God that love that was shown on the cross that was a greater love which we call the gospel that love is the power of God to bring Jews and Gentiles like white together one bottle bottle and he gave his body and now they're developing these people all around the world all around the world just got back from Malaysia just in China just in Jamaica and what's going on here now is going on beginning to go along around the world. New people emergent as it is now trying to colonize people and subjugate people and dominate people that are not going to get there. Well in controlling their going that the brain people. The good news that we can be in the body of Christ. I can hear John sand in a little closer. Behold look what, love is this, this, love that we can become the sons of God the son and daughter God.

This is the day. Now I don't quite hear about what you can't think about what we doing about that. We have tried to do this before but I think God is doing.

I think you make a decision you make a decision on whether you want with it. Against it. That's what manages the great theologian and nurture when he saw the early church, knowing that they had a counselor try to stop it you got evaluation time.

You might find yourself fighting against God.

We might find some common language and stop so we can condemn that that don't have anything to do it. We need to be doing additional board and I believe there are people like this didn't on board. I think God is waiting long enough with this nation a long time and accident that we are the richest nation on earth back to riches nation that ever been a magnet in his and it will even find five people from some of the basic lack health care, along with my how you deliver that some political thing that's broken because Jesus came to do that. That was the whole idea when he would come that he would be concerned about the poor and oppressed. He would become. That was his first sermon, the spirit of the Lord God Almighty, the forming, but he has anointed me to preach the good news to the poor to heal over the sick freak delivered day of the Lord will try to come up with language.

The second event that when we got Obama care and not all of that is what we are willing to obey God that we are willing to be the people of God. Interview realists think that this political system would help you there Bob out all they can raise money and get them select that they can make sinful. This is a got.

This is the church missing the people God got to show that light drop politicians into our leaders.

We are living at an exciting time in his this congregation here is over I'm fine or there's a new. This is the first generation full year of that diversity.

What is this a free judge people before you know the answer to that problem is to try to get to know people and that's what God wants to do words that God can speak is to know him know him know one another.

He's calling us together to be. That should be joy was rolling back was wrong with attempting to live out that love what I became a part of my earlier day discipleship so my thoughts tonight is today's bout this love this kind discipleship to shape my life. Several incidents in my life that shape me. Now I look back at number one my mother that I was seven months old. She died of disease.

It has to do with nutrition fission.

My mother died of starvation.

I think the first words that I can remember as I grew up your Mother's Day problems. Crime public fine for some affection for love and are promising mommy, mommy words I heard was my mother's. I think that helped to shape my life when I first remember hearing the gospel.

Now I'm sure that progress on the radio, someplace people had pursued so it is the environment that I grew up, we will not religious people.

So I grew up in that kind of environment. It wasn't a lie was 27 years old. After leaving Mississippi after my brother was murdered racial incident. I ended up in California to people starting out of the minister they called Charlie venue. They call him good news and my oldest son was about 30 got into that club. Somehow I began to see him I felt his behavior was something unique.

He showed a new sense of love and embracement, and I read that you want the good news club and then I got a mental local Sunday school and he would invite me to go. He invited me to go with him.

I went there, really, because I will send something happening him that online I would go on stopping.

I was going that I think I was born out of competition in the sense that if they were doing this for him. I know that I will do that. So I love him always been competitive as I really thought that they were doing something with him. That was greater than I could do and that I was doing and he would have a greater love land they have for me some really really really can't observe to see what it was.

It was on. After going out for you weeks they put me into an adult class began.

It was stunning the life of the apostle Paul.

It was actually possible. And one thing to grip me was this God motivation, policymaking, sacrifice for religion. What was he suffering for the religion religion. Some who suffer with not fall in so I can see it but I became his and mine. Then he explained himself. This is the first time I heard the gospel and he was explaining himself. It was actually is, without already surpassing passes for appeal was siding with with with the Jews when they were there side with the Gentiles whether there I know Paul confront him and said he was little.

He can walk onto the gospel you walk according to what the gospel that do the gospel was a makeup relevance of sisterhood in one body to break down the racial barrier that separated us pompous and not ashamed of the gospel of Christ. It gospel is the power of God unto salvation, but I wonder what motivated and he said Galatians 220 is a problem statement of the wholeness and the fullness of the gospel.

He said I have been crucified with Christ. Nevertheless, I yet not, but Christ lives in me and in life that I now live in the flesh I live by the faith in the grace of the son of God who loved me and gave himself for the first time in my life associated love with Tristan and sagrada, but I'm going about father Blanco broke the home. Supposedly the institution and transfer the greatest institution outside of the church in the history of fact that the church's love is model after human love, not the other way around the room.

They love me and I said there is a God in him that love me and send only begotten son to die for me that I will. I found changed my life and what I was the site that is those early days people surrounded me and some word about us.

I think we bring discipleship by the idea is that we make a Christian without Poseidon. The idea is the site is Christian. You can't decipher people that you have to sign for them to grow.

They call them Christian. At a certain place in the history of the church because they would behave like Christ is about is about confinement, behavior, as he was.

So we are in the world and is the love that people see no one in this woman's life for friend and so I signed me around, ask why this is important you need to get it right now we are born again we become new creatures we become Bay and I did not get to disciple us into understanding the life of Jesus Christ. He said, going all the world and decipher the nation. Teach them to observe all things that I have commanded you. Hello, I'm with you even said in the world. So the idea discipleship is affirmed old versus like love, peace and joy persevere. That's got a free spirit in his back fruit shake that can and we become what it is we are talking about what I'm really saying here in the background. What happened we say one thing and live another what I'm saying here.

We've done a great statement and we have learned play again but never implement what I'm really saying here we are at a crucial time.

We timed it we can implement that because God is that we have tried in the Christian life is is not the life that we can live the Christian life is a life of crime.

Crazy about the incarnation about is about fries living out his live in later. Now, with intent to now Is the mission the mission gospel in the world that were the last words of Jesus, but you shall receive power, after the Holy Spirit is come upon you, and you shall be witnesses unto me both in Jerusalem, Judea and Samaria, and almost port that I was beside the mission is the mission of making disciples make disciples because gospel to world and so we make a Christian people as something is difficult to talk with them. You put them down.

One of the worst thing that can send lots about work since I'm not a Christian. I don't say that because almost somebody #judgment of home.

People sign so that was this we get to do we become discipling churches and with discipling those people to be the site so that we can be like Jesus sold the work and will be a Christian because of our love that we have one for love that I mission that's, that's have a package that's our product is the well packaged incarnation of God living out his live that we have this Savior of God's presence in these earthen vessels so that the excellent Apollo may be of God, I will disciple around with the mission.

The third version that about five around the mission was second Timothy chapter 2, he said on, be strong in the graces and crises big state. Be strong in the grace he is one of the grace of God in all the redemptive acts of God's coming together to redeem source for by grace are you saved through faith, not yourself is the gift of God not of our work in Mexico but he created us to be his workmanship. Secure this gospel in the world that really make shield rundown enlists is you and me as a human being to join with his redemptive work and the work and so he tells us to be strong and that grace in Christ. And the thing that you've heard of me, discipleship among many witnesses, discipleship that you commit on to faith for men and women who shall be able to teach. Also I was my soul. My discipleship I feel call of God go back to Mississippi for Nablus in one in 1960 and I found my state of claim with racism and bigotry. It was a contradiction.

All about and we was the Bible Belt side black folks had accepted inferior, fearful, reduce ideal gospel. It had become more emotional white folk had taken a word about talk about but then live about some that's when I committed my life I wanted to do that. I want to preach the gospel that was stronger than mine racial identity. I want to preach the gospel of the stronger than my economic hope. I want to preach the gospel I could bring black wife Jew and Gentile together in one body in the world would know this person because I love that one on I commit myself to that but it wasn't until almost 10 years later I was being taught. 23 of us were being taught in a Brendan J what we've been talking about helping people to vote those basic rights that we talked about one person one vote.

We was talking about becoming human constitution that I'm going for witness to the fact that the black man had no right that respect and we will one person one vote and we become person we could vote the same rights movement will not become a person. It wasn't about to let elected the worst of the evil of the best legal in a statement in a country that said, we are holding through 37 all human beings are created we was talking on that night when it was talking, were of the fact that I was driving.

I know that the statement when I was talking and talking out that we know taught you talk to is to bring people to the place that you know you won't die but don't and at that point you will save two things. The first thing you would do you tell the truth. The second thing you do when you talk it you will say whatever taught that.

That's why it's evil is like talking because you don't come true then eventually you will detail say whatever the personal in that situation. I said to God, this is said to God, if I come out of jail alive. I want to preach the gospel they can reconcile people across racial and social and to make new experience in church history and be something that was 50 or so years ago and I am here tonight seeing that CNN no right to. They have never been a time in my 84 year and on and with a history that there have been this intention. Around the world trip and these networks comment on all over the world, the world conference two weeks ago in Malaysia for people's coming together for the commonest country from Latin America and from now on it was coming together what people are born and living in villages and their learning how to preach the gospel and established churches in these Muslim world and learn how to establish India's whole city building and don't much like you folks are no taking no more houses like this is shaping them into place to bring these people to decide the sentiment of the world is something going on and we all could be grateful and thankful that we can be a part closing with what I learned when I came out of course soon I got a I know I will bargain with God and that's why I thought I knew I was talking vocalizing through the same time that I got a look. People acknowledged my again. It was a great want to be a victim. I will be able to blame no-fault someone had to take no responsibility for all I had to say to them that white folks are not jobless. It led folks in the world so I could of been a victim myself from being responsible exercise of the assault victim side think they deserve everything without responsibility and to get everything lined up ready to sign. I'm grateful that crawls back and saying I was saying if at the crawls at the crawls where I first saw the light and burden of my heart with rollaway it was, thereby faith. I received my side and no joyful joyful little different, so my joy today is waiting on in sin. I tell young folks in the preaching assisted me as because it might sound like I'm turning the world upside down.

But I got so much hope for this integration. I got so much hope that this generation of people will be in bomb who reside in the world to embrace people who are different from them, and to learn from them and to be empowered by other people and how we can nurture and cherish each other and knowing each other makes a strong interest in we enrich our lives, but different. This is the first in a race and that embraces why so so the problem in this is so promising how we change the popping estimate to change the popping I can see the firefight for success in both my young folks while was to get out of that community, not 'can we do not begin to look at the Bible and begin to see maybe the incarnation is a way you should do these young black to reach Jesus Christ. I should decipher them in our faith going to school and baby Bob McAuley and get them to relocate back in now develop a philosophy. I'm now develop a philosophy based on incarnation God in heaven.

Jesus left the most secure gated community in the history of the world that community ever. One of those pearly gates he left out pearly gates and he came down here and it was a robbery to be equal with God. He came into his own and the Word was made flesh and dwelt among us. He gave mine he loved for. Then he gave himself for us to get his way young foldable school and get these young white people to relocate and comment on community and we could be brothers and sisters I'm seeing in this town.

I'm seeing you guys doing it joining together with the black nation and other insurance again, these are people of God so that people can see the top when you want to check five we got the about the check in though don't know don't know, but of God speak. Why not got a call to go we would call that genocide.

John wants to affirm the dignity of people he wants to make all you want to make a reflection of the kingdom of God.

All not going to be church that will come when Christ himself established this king of the owner. Our job is to be a witness of the kingdom is so I said the three ball relocation of God. We can do if you dwell among the people. We can, I don't walk here.

You don't think that's a necessity for you to be a person but I think once you become a person we need to listen for the voice of God, and I will becomes his will is will be his God haven't called you don't go, but got a call you on God is not hurting God he's not. He's not making people believe it's conscious and I will give Mama that don't want to go visit may think you telling them to go tell them how long ago and I not speaking probably not his problem.

I think God will woo you with his love to see that you can bring value you will see that your life can be in real investment reconciliation that certain file is what we call redistribution when I used to say that we would live in that commonest fear age old, he's taken all the money for the rich and give it support was not to follow one of her written report the port.

I know the rich would have it back tomorrow night, we live by. You say so I'm not quite that stupid getting what I mean. Think about something more than line, values, love, work ethics about creativity and education and think about those same dreams. I asked for well developed in society. Don't be due. Don't be know that these colonists slow in this third a distraction. They got a lot of my people efficient to eat for a day.

Teach them how to fish in a flat line. Whoever on the pond. Determine who what we do is review slogans to the pool. We come up with ways to discredit all of their own effort. That's why so important that we come about, living among people in the firm. In that community.

I think will my way one.

I'm glad I'm feeling a sense of fulfillment. I have been to overambitious down on 84 years old and seeing what I'm saying now that I made for you is in this place today and then not seeing what I'm saying, Lord, today with no young people who intentionally preparing himself going into the neighborhood and to bring their skills and education and I'm seeing that in an Alabama Senate and around the world that we have what we know. The problem we know the problem we have a solution.

That solution is Jesus Christ. No other foundation can no one foundation which is Jesus Christ.

Pretty father. I think I think not seen young people and encouragement of senior people seeing that they do join with this church plan crawls. Laura prayed he would bless it. The second establishing trust