The video is a live broadcast of a worship service at 514 Grace Church, hosted by Harry Pitts and led by Pastor Keith. It opens with a rap‑style worship segment that declares the church’s identity and the power of grace. The main sermon is the second installment of a five‑part series titled “The Kingdom of Heaven: God’s Way of Living in Freedom and Victory.” Pastor Keith contrasts the Kingdom of Heaven—characterized by God’s reign, kingship manifested in Jesus, present spiritual reality, and future eschatological fulfillment—with the old covenant Judaism and the legalistic traditions of the Pharisees and scribes. He uses Scripture (Galatians 1:11‑14, Matthew 15:2‑11, Ephesians 1, Romans 5, Romans 6, Galatians 5, Philippians 2) to illustrate how the gospel frees believers from the law, offers grace, and calls them to a life of humility, love, and obedience. The sermon emphasizes human choice, the consequences of sin, and the urgency of accepting Christ. The broadcast concludes with an altar‑call prayer inviting viewers to commit to Jesus, a plea for financial support, and information on how to connect with the church online.
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Doing the his perfect will, doing exactly obeying.
Five fourteen. So don't just talk grace. Look, turn that faith all the way up. Let's go. I came here with the word on me. Whole squad in the church got the dirt of me. From the blocks to the birds to the light and the dark, we spark up the flame, let it burn extra much. Enemy shook when the saints get to stepping. Flav got me flexing like I'm bitch fresh repping. Never been soft, we the stalks of the earth. Blood, ball, cross, pay, that's the sign of worth. Faith fall on and it can't be stopped. From the east to the west, man, they wearing this black. Every chain fall off when the name get dropped. 514, we stay on top. He the only leader that can't dip in this life. Safe walk every year, we step in Christ. No cap, we don't fold when the drowns get tight. We brave and we cool, that's the team you fight. It's more than the sun and this is how we grind. We the church in the streets with the truth in the rhymes.
Niggas looking for hope, Better follow the sign.
We got grace in the blood and the blood on the line. We did. He did. Jesus. Jesus. This ain't just a song, it's a statement.
Grace is our And so it is his will. Amen. And I'm glad the way we are trained, praise God, to say that we have to rightly And correctly divide the word of truth. Amen. So once again, the title of this message, a 5-part series, is The Kingdom of Heaven: God's Way of Living in Freedom and Victory, Part 2.
Amen.
The Kingdom of Heaven, God's Way of Living in Freedom and Victory, Part 2. Praise God. Last week we were going over some of the characteristics that encompasses the kingdom of heaven.
Yes.
One characteristic is the reign and rule of God.
Amen.
Amen. This is how God wants to operate. This is how God wants his dominion, his domain to function. The reign and rule of God, not a physical place. As we said last week, we can't go to Athens, we can't go to Statesboro, we can't go to Birmingham, Montgomery, Alabama. New York or Venezuela, it won't be there. It's in the heart. Amen.
That's right.
God's kingship, another characteristic. God's kingship manifested through Jesus, and we're going to be highlighting that this morning. God's kingship manifested through Jesus, another characteristic of the kingdom of heaven. Meaning God is using Jesus to bring and rule his dominion with the kingdom of heaven. A present spiritual reality transforming lives, another point. And lastly, a future eschatological fulfillment. Eschatological comes from the Greek word eschatos. Meaning last. The theological study of last things such as death, judgment, or the final destiny of humanity. And to once again just highlighting what was being taught at that particular time, and we can bring it to the 21st century, how people are teaching man's traditions or man's way compared to the kingdom of heaven in the 21st century. Well, Jesus had to deal with it then. Amen.
Amen.
What was being taught in the land before Jesus walked on the Holy Land at that particular time was Judaism. And Judaism once again follows the Torah, the 5 books of Moses. and the rabbinic traditions or Jewish traditions. Amen.
Amen.
And in our part 2, we're going to give another example of the traditions that the Jewish people, and especially the scribes and the Pharisees, were holding on to that they, uh, counted so sacred they expected everybody to observe this, even Jesus and the his disciples. Amen.
Amen.
Once again, we're going to discuss a few more things concerning the good news of the kingdom of heaven this morning. In order to do this in a way that gets our point across, we're going to compare opposing characteristics between the 2 different ideals. Last week we shared about Judaism and And we talked about one of the traditions, and we're going to discuss another one now. Amen?
Amen.
We're going to use the Apostle Paul, amen, to express why he left Judaism, that he considered it not to be compared to Jesus Christ. To the kingdom of heaven. Amen.
Amen.
And we're going to go to that right now. We're not going to belay the time. Let's turn to Galatians chapter 1, verses 11 through 14. I'm coming from the English Standard Version, the ESV. Amen. It states in Galatians chapter 1, verse 11 through 14, For I would have you know, brothers, that the gospel that was preached by me is not man's gospel. For I did not receive it from any man, nor was I taught it, but I received it through revelation of Jesus Christ. For you have heard my former Life in Judaism. There it is right there. He said, "My former life, not my current life, not my future life." He said, "This is in the past. I was in Judaism. I was teaching the the the first five books of Moses. I was in the rabbinic traditions, the Jewish traditions. I was doing that." He said, "My former life." Yes. Was in Judaism. Amen. Hallelujah. How I persecuted the church of God violently and tried to destroy it. Verse 14, and I was advancing in Judaism. Apostle Paul said, I was being elevated in this thing. I was so zealous, I was so forceful, In my belief that this was right.
Yes.
I was advancing.
Yes.
I was passing other people my age.
That's true.
Being promoted in Judaism. I was advancing in Judaism beyond many of my own age among my people. So extremely zealous was I for the Traditions. There it is. There's that word again. For the traditions of my fathers.
That's right.
There it is right there in black and white.
Yes.
Apostle Paul even saying, I was in Judaism.
I was.
I was wrong. I repented.
That's right.
Now I'm coming away from man's traditions, from teaching the law. I'm going with the kingdom of God, which encompasses teaching about Jesus Christ.
Amen.
See, under the kingdom of heaven, it doesn't take away from talking about Christ. It doesn't take away from talking about grace. This is under the kingdom of heaven. The law wasn't teaching about Christ. The law wasn't teaching about grace. But under the umbrella of the kingdom of heaven, This is talked about. This is taught. The grace of God about Jesus Christ. Hallelujah. Let's look at another tradition that was held by the scribes and Pharisees that Jesus corrected them about. Amen. In Matthew 15, verse 2, and then verses 10 through 11. In the ESV, English Standard Version. Matthew chapter 15, verse 2. Why do your disciples break the tradition? There we go again. They come to Jesus with what they've been taught for years. Why do your disciples break the traditions? This is where the Apostle Paul came from. That's what he just said in Galatians. I was in Judaism. I was with the traditions.
Right.
But I'm not no more.
Amen.
Why do your disciples break the traditions of the elders? For they do not wash their hands when they eat. Lord have mercy. It's almost like Jesus looking at him saying, really? You want to go that way?
Hallelujah.
Verse ten, and he called the people to him and said to them, "Hear and understand." Verse eleven, it is not what goes into the mouth that defiles a person. Hallelujah! But what comes out of the mouth, this defiles a person. It's like the Pharisees looking at one another. He's talking about you now. He's talking about you. Hallelujah. We're going to see the, the how the good the kingdom of heaven's teaching is. Let's go to Ephesians chapter 1, verses 1 through 7 in the NLT. Verse 1: This letter is Paul, chosen by the will of God, To be an apostle of Christ Jesus. I am writing to God's holy people in Ephesus who are faithful followers of Christ Jesus. May God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ give you grace and peace. All praise to God, the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who has blessed us with every spiritual blessing in the heavenly realms because we are united with Christ.
Yes, amen.
Even before he made the world, God loved us and chose us in Christ to be holy and without fault in his eyes. God decided in advance to adopt us That's right. Into his own family by bringing us to himself through Jesus Christ. This is what he wanted to do, and I gave him great— and it gave him great pleasure. So we praise God for the glorious grace he has poured out on us who belong to his dear Son.
Amen.
Amen. Let's go to Romans chapter 5, verse 17. A more display of the good news about the kingdom. For if because of one man's trespass— Romans chapter 5, verse 17— I'm coming from the English Standard Version. For if because of one man's trespass death reigned through that one man— meaning death came through every person on the earth because of this one man.
That's right.
For if because of one man's trespass death reigned through that one man, much more will those who receive the abundance of grace and the free gift of righteousness reign in life through the one man, Jesus Christ.
Hallelujah.
Now, the law wasn't teaching this. That's why it was so appealing to the people. You mean I can reign in life? I don't have to be a scribe? I don't have to be a Pharisee? I don't have to be of a certain class structure? I can be who I am and not be voted to be a scribe, a teacher of the law, or a Pharisee who interprets important issues concerning the law?
Yes. No.
Jesus said it's for you, the ordinary man.
That's right.
If you receive the grace, if you receive the gift of righteousness, you can reign in life.
Yes.
And we're going to talk about that. That's why we're so appealing to the general public. That's why so many people followed Jesus by the multitudes.
Amen.
They weren't being taught this thing by the Pharisees and the scribes. They were being taught things that kept them in bondage, that they were the pure example. The scribes and the Pharisees, they was the ones to be looked at too. They were the one to be emulated. They were the ones that were your perfect examples, and it wasn't working. They were the only ones getting the benefit of the, of, of being praised by the people and being given the high places and whatnot in the marketplaces, in the high seats and whatnot. Amen.
Amen.
It wasn't doing the people no good. Praise God. Now we're going to compare what we just read to the horrible life choice of staying away from Christ intentionally. In Ephesians chapter 2, Going from verse 1 to verse 3, coming from the NLT, the New Living Translation. Ephesians chapter 2, starting at verse 1 through verse 3. Once you were dead because of your disobedience and your many sins. Verse 2, you used to live in sin Just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil, the commander of the powers of the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in hearts of those who refuse to obey God.
That's right.
Hallelujah. All of us used to be to live that way, following the passionate desires and inclinations of our sinful nature. The Lord is just explicitly putting it out there.
Amen.
That for those who intentionally choose to stay away from Christ, you are allowing Satan to guide you, to push you towards things that you should not do.
That's right.
He's putting a temptation before you and you going for the bait. You going for the carrot.
Mm-hmm.
There's no other choice. You don't have— you don't want Christ prodding you. You don't want Christ leading you. So Satan say, I'll take that part.
That's right.
Yes.
That's right.
I'll gladly handle Sam. I'll gladly handle Jan. I'll lead them in my direction. Which is down, uh, over a cliff.
Yes.
Running 100 miles an hour into a brick wall.
Right.
This is what the scripture clearly says.
Right.
You used to live in sin just like the rest of the world, obeying the devil, the commander of the powers of the unseen world. He is the spirit at work in hearts of those who refuse to obey God. Hallelujah! I didn't write that, that was in there. Amen. Hallelujah! That's real right there.
Yes.
By our very nature, we were subject to God's anger just like everyone else. Now, scripture says it's a terrible thing to fall into the hands of Yes. Of a living and angry God.
That's right.
We see that in the world today. High-level figures all over media, people who are single, people who are known around the world, thought that they had it planned, thought that everything was going to go their way, thought that they knew the direction that things were supposed to happen. And to occur.
Right.
They just left out one thing.
Yeah, what did they leave out?
The fear of God. They left out the consequences of God. They thought God was looking the other direction, that he went on the other side of heaven on vacation. Hallelujah. That he was taking command— taking communion on another side of heaven with some of the apostles and whatnot. He didn't see what they were doing. Hallelujah! He saw everything. The scripture says the eyes of the Lord go to and fro, beholding the good and the evil. So they kept doing that foolishness, kept being rebellious against God, kept doing things their way. Storing up wrath against the day of wrath. In business, they have something called compound interest, and I know our pastor knows about that term. Compound interest for investing and business purposes is a good thing, meaning your monies and investment are going to take an exponential curve after a few years.
Yes.
Well, think of the exact opposite when it says wrath against the day of wrath, that an exponential curve going for your good is going to go for your terrible demise. Wrath against the day of wrath.
Yes, it is.
It says it right here. By our very nature, we were subject to God's anger. There's a part in the scriptures that says, be not fooled, God is not mocked.
Hallelujah!
I didn't write that, that was in the word. God is not mocked. Whatsoever you sow, you're going to reap. That's in the word.
That's right.
I had nothing to do with it. That's right.
That's right.
We either choose to fear God, love God, be with him, Or foolishly try to go against him and suffer the consequences.
That's right.
It's up to us.
That's right.
God says he put before us life and death.
That's right.
Choose ye the way. In our vernacular, we might say the ball is in our court. Hallelujah. Whichever way it's going, whichever way you choose. That's one thing the Lord showed me a long time ago. There's one power that God gave us that he refuses to take away. That's the power of choice.
That's right.
Nobody is a robot.
That's right.
If that was so, that God had robots, Satan wouldn't have fell out of heaven.
That's right.
I mean, I can't make it more simpler than that.
That's right. That's right.
Satan was in an envious position in heaven. He knew music like the back of his hand. A highly appointed position. If he was a robot, he would still be doing that right now. That's right.
He had a choice.
He had a choice. He chose to go the foolish way. And he convinced 1 out of 3 angels, 1/3, 1 out of 3. Boys, we can handle this thing. I've got it all planned out. Just follow me. The very next statement, he was hitting the ground. The Bible says he fell like lightning.
That's right.
When Satan and the boys, the angels that follow him, after they got themselves off the ground and dusted the dirt off their shoulders, they took the angels that follow Satan and said, looked at Satan and said, you got any more bright ideas, General? You got me in this foolish position. I was in heaven enjoying life. To the fullest. Now I'm going to be casting this out of darkness where the worm never dies. It says— the Bible says the maggots— where the maggots never die and the flame does never quench. Do you have something to come back with that, Satan?
No, sir.
Not a thing. My Lord. We continue this point of view with Romans chapter 6, verse 16. Romans chapter 6. Romans chapter 6, verse 16, and it reads, hallelujah. Do you not know that if you present yourselves to anyone as obedient slaves, You are slaves of the one whom you obey, either of sin, which leads to death, or of obedience, which leads to righteousness. Now, this slave terminology is not good if we want to obey sin.
Right.
Because what he's saying is you got to deal with the consequences of it.
Amen.
It's like the old slang in our vernacular, if you want to play, you got to pay.
That's right.
Hallelujah.
That's right.
You go around robbing banks or telling lies on people, it may feel fun at the time telling those rumors and lies on your coworkers and best friends, but one day, my friend, one day, You're gonna have to reap what you sow, and it's not gonna come back at a good time. It's gonna come back at winter, means when you don't want it. Oh, did I say that? No, I didn't say that. Paul said that. Nah, it was you. Paul was in California at the time. We were, we were in Atlanta, in Buckhead. Nah, it was you.
That's right.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
No way to escape. Everyone gonna know you guilty.
That's right.
Then people wanna pull away from you 'cause they know you're a liar.
Right.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
How can I trust this idiot?
That's right.
This man just made a pure fool out of himself.
Exactly.
I'll say hey and goodbye to him, but we're not gonna have no conversation.
That's right.
Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
I'm gonna check my wallet when I pass by you.
Hallelujah. Amen.
Say, is everything back there? Hallelujah.
Amen.
That's right.
Galatians. Let's go to Galatians chapter 5. Galatians chapter 5, verses 1 through 6.
Amen.
Amen. I'm reading that from the New Living Translation. So Christ has truly set us free. Now this is what Christ is saying. This is comes under the teaching of the kingdom of heaven. Jesus said, "In me there's freedom." So Christ has truly set us free. Now make sure that you stay free and don't get tied up again in slavery. What too long, my Lord? Jesus said, "I'm trying to bring you away from the wrong teaching." You've been taught wrong for so long. For years, I've been giving you freedom in the kingdom of heaven.
Yes.
The correct teaching, the way the Bible was meant to be interpreted, the way it was meant to be understood. God's will be done. What's God's will? The kingdom of heaven.
That's right.
Hallelujah. Listen, verse 2. I, Paul, tell you this: if you are counting on circumcision to make you right with God, then Christ will be of no benefit to you. Hallelujah. I'll say it again. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, You must obey every regulation in the whole Law of Moses. That's over 600 laws and regulations. You can't even keep up with that.
No.
Apostle Paul said, if you want to be so big and bad, obey all of them.
That's right.
God is trying to give you freedom by saying just believe, and it's counted to you as righteousness. Believe what? Believe in Christ, his finished works. That's under the kingdom of heaven. That's under the umbrella of the kingdom of heaven, believing in Christ and his finished works. Christ has said, I'm giving you what? Freedom to be away from feeling guilt, staying in guilt. God says, I'm taking away the shame. It's under the kingdom of heaven. Under the law, there's shame. It'll make you feel guilty. That'll take you away from honoring your parents.
The law. Yes, that's right.
Jesus said, God didn't tell you, the kids, to disrespect their parents. You did. That wasn't none of God.
That's right.
You did that. Hallelujah. If you are trying to find favor with God by being circumcised, you must obey every regulation in the whole Law of Moses. For if you are trying to make yourself right with God by keeping the law, you have been cut off from Christ. You have fallen away from God's grace. Christ said, I came to fulfill the law. Every requirement has been taken care of in me.
Amen.
Christ said, I became a curse to hang on a tree. I did that. I fulfilled all the requirements. So forget about the law in the wrong way. Now look to me, believe me, let me be your leader.
Amen.
Don't let the Pharisees and the scribes be your leader. You're going to look at them in pain and follow them in the morning. You're going to go home in pain after you left them from serving them all day, the Pharisees and the scribes. But with me, you're going to find hope. You're going to find freedom. You're going to have freedom from guilt, freedom from shame. I'll take all that away from you.
Yes, thank you, Lord.
I'll give you a new life, a new start. That's what we read last week about the woman caught in adultery. Jesus said, woman, where are your accusers? Neither do I accuse ye. What was the caveat? Go and what? Sin no more. It's not like Jesus said what you was doing was right. Jesus said, hey, I'm giving you a fresh start. It's over with. Just don't do it again. That's all that person, the lady, wanted. She wanted to be away from the shame. She wanted to forget about this. Jesus said, I'm with you on that. I got your back. I'm giving you a new chance. I'm giving you a new start. It's under the kingdom of heaven. Under the law, there is no forgiveness. They will kill you. Jesus says, love with me. There's compassion with me in the kingdom of heaven, in the teachings of the kingdom of heaven.
Hallelujah. Hallelujah.
The exact opposite with the law.
Yes.
There's no compassion.
No compassion.
There's no mercy.
No mercy.
There's only looking up to a certain sect of people.
Amen.
The scribes, the Pharisees, the chief priests.
Yes.
The ones who were petitioning the crowd to crucify Jesus.
Yes.
If you read the story correctly, In the 4 Gospels, the crowds that were before Pontius Pilate, they weren't against Jesus initially. The scripture says it was the scribes, the Pharisees, the chief priests who were wooing them on, telling them, the people, yell for the crucify Christ. Pontius Pilate was about to let Jesus go. Let me give him a few stripes on the back and let the man go. Because I don't feel him guilty of nothing worthy to be crucified. It was the scribes and the Pharisees, the chief priests, that were wooing people, nah, tell the people. They were telling the people to yell to Pontius Pilate, crucify him, crucify him. They got him stirred up.
That's right.
There's no love, there's no compassion, there's no forgiveness with the law.
Judaism.
What did Apostle Paul say? My what? Former life.
Former life.
Hallelujah. We even got Apostle Paul saying it was— that was something that he used to do. He does not do anymore. He does not recommend that for no one. He said that was what? My former life. But in the kingdom of heaven, there's life. Life eternal. Life on this earth and life with the King. Hallelujah.
Hallelujah.
Lastly, we, we must pray to, uh, to the Father to adapt the same attitude Christ had. Let's go to Philippians. Philippians chapter 2, 3 through 11. Philippians chapter 2, verses 3 through 11, from the NLT, New Living Translation. Don't be selfish. Don't try to impress others. Be humble, thinking of others as better than yourselves. Don't look out only for your own interests, but take an interest in others too. You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Isn't that what we just said?
Yes.
Pray to the Father that we will adapt the same attitude that Jesus had.
Amen.
You must have the same attitude that Christ Jesus had. Though he was God, he did not think of equality with God as something to cling to. Instead, he gave up his divine privilege. Jesus said, in heaven I had royalty, I had the best of everything. But because of the love for us. Oh my goodness.
My goodness.
I didn't think that that was something that I needed to hold on to and say, well, let Harry, let Pastor Harry, Pastor Tracy, Miss Sophia, and others, Paul, Greg, and Sam, let them die.
Come on now.
I'm going to go down there because I love Sam, Harry, and Smith. I love Jan. I love Alicia. I wanted them to have a chance for freedom.
Yes, thank you, Lord.
He didn't count that as something to cling on to, that equality with God.
That's right.
God, I'll go down there. I'll fulfill the assignment.
Hallelujah.
Because what? I love them. Out of a pure heart. That's why the kingdom of heaven's teaching is so much superior to Judaism, to the law. It's the love difference. Hallelujah. Instead, he gave up his divine privileges. Lord, I said I'll get off the throne, I'll take off the robe, I'll take off the crown.
My God, thank you, Jesus.
Gave up his divine privileges. He took the humble position of a slave. My Lord, ask some of the most wealthiest billionaires in the world if they'll give up the Rolls-Royce, if they'll give up the Tesla, if they'll give up the Aston Martin, the, the Bugatti. Ask them the Maybach. Ask them, will they come down to Bankhead and put on some blue jeans, holes in the pants, stay in one of the projects, the unit project units? Hallelujah. I've got to have my caviar. Hallelujah. I gotta have my Chanel slippers. I don't want to step on the roach when I get out of bed. Hallelujah. I'm just keeping it real.
That's right.
Jesus said, I gave it up for us. I had royalty everywhere, the best of everything. I gave it up to come here to fulfill the assignment. Thank you, Lord. He took the, the humble position of a slave and was born as a human being when he appeared in human form. Hallelujah. He humbled himself in obedience to God and died a criminal's death on a cross. Therefore, God elevated him to the place of highest honor.
Amen.
It's like God said, son, you impressed me.
That's right.
You did this out of a willing and a good heart. You died like a criminal, not like royalty.
That's right.
Criminals die on the cross.
That's right. Hallelujah.
God elevated him to the highest, uh, place of highest honor and gave him the name above all other names, that at the name of Jesus every knee should bow in heaven and on earth, under the earth, and every tongue declare that Jesus Christ is Lord, to the glory of God the Father. That's why it says in the scriptures there's no other way to heaven except by Jesus Christ. What other choice did God have? His very Son doing his perfect will, doing exactly, obeying the Father's will. There's no other choice but God to promote him to that position. Amen.
Amen. Amen.
Lastly for today, we're going to observe the second characteristic we mentioned this week concerning the kingdom of heaven. God's kingship manifested through Jesus Christ, found in Ephesians. Ephesians chapter 1, going to verse 9. Ephesians chapter 1, verse 9. We're about to close.
Amen.
Ephesians chapter 1, starting in verse 9. God has now revealed to us his mysterious will regarding Christ, in the NLT, which is to fulfill his own good plan.
Hallelujah.
Verse 10, and this is the plan: at the right time he will bring everything together under— what? The authority of Christ. That's why we say the kingship manifested through Jesus Christ. Is one of the components of the kingdom of heaven. We can see that right there in black and white. At the right time, he will bring everything together under the authority of Christ.
How— I understand it now. Man of God, thank you for that word. Many of you, if you're watching us today and you don't know Jesus as your personal Lord and Savior, this is your time to get to know Jesus. There are many things that's going on in the world, and I know that some of you have to feel that something is going on differently. The Bible says that will be wars and rumors of wars. Talks about earthquakes in diverse places, the love of many waxing cold. The Word of God says that men will become lovers of themselves more than lovers of God. Scripture says that, as Pastor Keith was saying eloquently, he talked about how the wealthy love things. They love their Maybachs, their Bugattis. Yes, they love their Ferraris. They love their Teslas, all of these things. But are you willing to give it all up for the kingdom?
Amen.
The Bible says that the creation, the creature will love the created things more than the Creator himself. Don't you see it?
Yes.
Men love things. God is a byproduct. I'll talk to God when I have time. Matter of fact, some people go as far as to say God does not exist. God is whatever you believe him to be. We, in fact, are gods. I've heard that teaching. Be careful.
Yeah, we can.
Body of Christ, we're living in a time that you need to know Jesus. And I'm going to say this, and I'm not going to belabor the point. If you don't know Jesus right now as your personal Lord and Savior, you are making one of the most gravest mistakes you can ever make. You need to know Jesus. Don't gamble with your life. There are wars taking place And the picture, the backdrop behind what's taking place is more greater than you can even imagine. This is spiritual. God said that these things would take place. I know there's some pronosticators, some people that are intellectual or intelligent. They say, well, Pastor, wars have always been going on. Not with this intensity.
That's right.
No, no. Make a decision today. Commit your life to Jesus. I want you to pray this prayer with me. Father, I thank you. I ask that you come into my heart, that you save me, redeem me. Father, forgive me for things I've done that have not been pleasing to you. I thank you for your word. I believe that Jesus died according to your word, that is Written in Romans chapter 10, verse 9 and 10. I believe that Jesus died. He descended first and then ascended, and he's now seated on the right hand of the Father. And because of his death, burial, and resurrection, and ascension, and seating, I'm now able to say, Jesus, become my Savior. Lord, save me. Come into my heart, Jesus. Save me. Forgive me of anything that I've done that's been displeasing to you. And today I dedicate my life to you solely, and I denounce the wickedness of sin and the devil himself. Jesus, I invite you into my heart. Become my Savior and my Lord, my Redeemer. In Jesus' name I pray. Amen. If you prayed that prayer with me, you are now a member of the family and the body of Christ. And I want to say this: we don't want to leave you out there alone. You need to be fed. You need to, you need to have a place that will nurture you. Consider attending 514 Grace Church. The leadership here, the leadership team, along with my wife Tracy and I, we're The pastors here, we would love to be able to pastor both you and your family because we love people and God loves people and we're called to this. And we're living in a season where you've got to make a decision now. This is not time to try to play on the fringes. You've got to make a decision right now. Look us up. Look us up on social media. Look us up on our webpage. You can find us at www.514gracechurch.org. We're on Facebook, we're on Instagram, we're on YouTube, we're on Twitter, formerly X, which is Twitter formerly known as X, excuse me. But we want you to be a part of what God is doing. Look us up on TikTok. You'll find a lot of the teaching material there, even from the lessons that Pastor Keith taught today. The kingdom, the kingdom. It is vitally important that you become a member in the kingdom of heaven.
Amen.
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