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Bishop Hugh Daniel Smith teaching The Royal Priesthood at Embassy Metro Detroit. Full sermon with transcript.

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They had a a weapon of war in one hand and a weapon of construction in the other hand. They lived in what I call dual readiness. And so this is the way we’ll live from this day forward, prepared to fight at a drop of a hat, but at the same time building and advancing the kingdom of the Lord.

And so um before I jump into the subject of the royal priesthood, I think it’s important um that we give a context for why we even see it necessary um to go this particular direction. Um context is very important to everything you do. um nothing is really done in a vacuum and so it’s important that we understand the setting uh even for this this series specifically um context is by definition the suitable environment in which inherent capacities uh will be able to mature and function according to the way they were designed. uh if there is no proper context many times the inherent capacities or the potentials are never brought to the surface. Uh case in point if you take the fish out of the water um then the capacities inherit in the fish will never come forth. The fish has to be placed within the suitable context which is the water. And it’s also true of several other things.

If you take a bird and never allow the bird to experience the sky, that which God has placed within the bird will never surface and accomplish what God has intended. And so on and so on. You can have a person that has a wife in their heart, but if there is no husband, then that wifehood will never reach its potential.

And so there are too many people who I believe are uh not realizing their potential in life period or in the spirit world primarily because of the lack of context. And one of the things the Lord is doing today is he’s going to show us how to create context so that our potential is not wasted. Somebody say amen.

And so the context for this particular subject, the royal priesthood, is the revelation. There’s a revelation I want to drop on you today. Uh the revelation has to do or we can call it an illumination if we like, but it has to do with the high purpose of the church. Uh when we really understand the church’s purpose, its high purpose, I like to use that terminology. um then it creates a context for us so that we will be able to overcome uh what I would call even negative contexts that have been created by other people. Sometimes you can be in the wrong environment and it could be crushing your potential.

But when we understand why the church really exists, God will use that revelation to create a spiritual context that will override and subdue all other environments. And we will find ourselves flourishing regardless of what people do to us or what kind of environment we f find ourselves in. Context is everything. You put me in the right space. Just like we were in this worship service just for a few moments here earlier today.

That’s called context. You you put the right believers in the right kind of atmosphere. They do things they won’t do anywhere else because it activates godly dormant life that’s been there all along.

And so this revelation is going to aid us in maintaining a spiritual context that will subdue all of the other environmental things that pull from us. Cuz some of us are live wires while we’re in here. But when you leave this room and go into a different context, uh the praise is not the same for everybody.

But others know how to carry glory with them. You see? See, it doesn’t matter where they are. They can be at work and if they hear they think about Jesus just a little too long. And I’m not saying you should be doing all that stuff at work, but I am saying you you know how to carry your atmosphere.

This revelation will show you how to carry atmosphere or context that will allow you to flourish under any conditions. And this is why I want to share it today uh to aid us in uh overcoming and conquering in this evil day because the world is going through some things right now. The government uh is is untrustworthy in the minds of many people and they’re unsure which way the government is going and people are unsure uh what’s going to happen economically today. People are unsure with um some of the power outages and all of that kind of stuff. Unsure about our grid.

Unsure about the future. But God wants you to be assure of one thing. that if you have this revelation of the church and her high purpose, it will create the context for you that will cause you to stay alive and flourish regardless of what happens in this country or in this evil day. So this is something that I want to give you that will give you an assurance that everything will always work together for good for those who are called according to his purpose and that will praise his name.

And so uh I want to talk about this today. The the the revelation has to do with Christ’s high purpose for the church. Now I’m going to make a couple of points here this morning. um just a few uh maybe three uh but uh I want to talk about the predetermined council of God as one point the three the predetermined council of God number one number two I need to talk about future now future now is a a point and finally we may get to the royal priesthood a little bit today um and so uh the predetermined council of God that you see all through this book of Ephesians. You know, Ephesians is is now becoming one of my favorite books of this Bible. Uh, but all of them are favorites, but this one is one of the ones that I really live in quite a bit.

Um, because it deals with the predetermined council of God. And when I was in Zimbabwe years ago, the first time I went, they gave me a authentic Shauna name called Quiva. Quiva is my name, y’all. Y’all didn’t know that. Everybody say quiva.

That’s my name. It means the predetermined council of God. Quasiva quash. That’s my authentic Shauna name. Mafundisiq quasa quash.

That’s pastor authent uh uh predetermined council of God is what they they called me there. And and the reason they did is because this has been a subject that’s been very dear to me and it it touches something deep on the inside. Um counsel is important. Say it with me. Counsel is important.

Um there’s a difference between uh having people around you to give counsel versus having people give you opinions. And the Lord said that we are in a time where precision and skill will be the means by which we’ll move forward and overcome. Uh the day of blundering has to cease. The day of being subpar, mediocre uh has to come to an end because the world is very complex and God is requiring a higher level of precision in what we do for God and how we’re going to advance in the earth. Those that do not reach the levels of precision in their life will be left behind.

The whole world is advancing. There is a spirit of advancement in the earth. with the advent of uh AI technology and all these other things is pushing everything forward. And so what worked yesterday may not work tomorrow unless we’re willing to everybody say upgrade upgrade. I told you that same old tongue you used to speak in all those years. You might need another one.

So, if you need to come on back to the altar and get refreshed and and stay there a little longer till that sound changes, uh you because you’re saying the same words over and over, you need to you need to you need to lengthen the sentence. So, so the predetermined council of God or counsel itself is necessary in this season. Counsel is necessary. That means there needs to be trusted advisors in everybody’s life that can speak out of their expertise and say something to you that you can now be illuminated by and know what choice to make. Um uh the and again counsel is different than uh opinions.

Opinions uh are people with no expertise in the field and they’re just telling you what they think. And most of the time they’re wrong. You don’t want people just with opinions talking to you in this season. You need people with counsel. That means they have an expertise in some area that they’re capable of speaking to to illuminate an area in your life.

The Lord said people without counsel will not see certain purposes come to pass. The whole purpose of counsel is so that purpose comes to pass. Council is the atmosphere or the context that enables purposes to come to pass.

And so nobody’s beyond the need for wise counsel. Let’s look at it. Uh Proverbs 20:18, just a few verses on this. Uh and I got a ways to go. Boy, this is going to be Let’s see.

We’re going uphill today. What does it say, everybody? Let’s read. Every purpose is established by counsel and good advice with good advice do what? Make war.

So every purpose is established by counsel. So no counsel then the purpose won’t be established. So if you’re just an individual going to do your thing by yourself in this season purposes won’t be established without the counsel that’s necessary. Look at Proverbs chapter number 15 and verse 22. What does it say?

Without counsel purposes are disappointed, but in the multitude of counselors they are established. And so I just want you to see, not only do we need God’s counsel in our life, God wants to screen and entrust certain people to be trusted advisors in this day. And and it depends on what field you’re in. You need account for that field. You need counsel for that field.

You need counsel for all the different fields that you uh move in so that there’s more thought behind it than what you yourself possess. and purposes will be established. The enemy is after purpose. The enemy does not want to see the purpose of God enter the earth realm because when it does, something shifts on this level. And this is why there is always an assault on those who are carrying purpose.

And so in order to fortify them, God is calling a day for counsel. Well, we’re willing to yield to that. And even better than um this kind of counsel, human counsel or from experts, um there’s a ultimate need to walk in the predetermined counsel of God. You can’t go wrong with the predetermined counsel of God. As a matter of fact, the devil has absolutely no answer for the predetermined counsel of God.

Once you find yourself right in the midst of that, then there is nothing that can stop you. So, this entire book of Ephesians or at least the first couple of chapters is dedicated to God’s pre-etermined counsel. And uh Paul is the author of the book and he’s also one of the founders of the church. Um and he spends a lot of time talking about what God did before the foundation of the world. I want you to take a look at that.

I’ve got to be didactic today and share a little bit of this. It’s really amazing to me. But God in his godness, God in his infinite state, he who exists in himself and by himself and who needs nothing, uh decided to articulate himself, decided to express himself concerning the things that he wanted to do, his counsel. He counseledled with himself and then he expressed himself in what is called the word. The Bible says in the beginning was the word the logos and the logos was with God and the logos.

So you know what the logos is? The logos is God’s thoughts, God’s plans, God’s counsel took on a form that was with God and that was God. and his counsel took on the form before the foundation of the world. Before anything was created, God was there with his counsel, which was the word. And everything that God would do would come to pass by the word. The word would make it come to pass.

By him all things were created, the scripture says. And so I want you to see this. And this happened when before the foundation of the earth, before anything was created that we know of. No angels, no mountains, no valleys, just God and his counsel or his word.

Now, one of the things that he purposed to create and that I want you to see today, and this is going to be the point that we’re going to make today, and I want you to take a look at it. One of the things that he purposed to make is in chapter number one of this book and uh verse number nine, but we we’re not going to read it just yet. You can put it up there. Very good. Uh one of the things that he wanted to make, listen carefully to me.

He wanted to make a society that that is totally submitted to Jesus. He wanted to make a redeemed people that uh not just redeemed people but that a an entire universe that is completely under the lordship of Jesus. An entire universe. Listen to me. Everybody say an entire universe.

He wanted to create an entire universe that was submitted to Christ. That means every tree. That means every animal. That means every angel. That means every person in this universe is subject to God.

And this was his plan when before the foundation of the earth. And he was in he was determined to do this. And along with some of the other things he was going to make is he was also going to create Adam and he was going to create a physical earth. And he was going to he had already planned for redemption before he made the man that would sin because he says I’m going to the lamb is going to be slain when before the foundation of the world. All of this happens before he did anything.

It was a part of his word. So he’s got this vision of making one universe totally subject to Christ. and he’s got a vision of a human race that would fall and they would be redeemed. This is what he was thinking about before the world was. You know, this universe that I’m talking about uh it’s kind of similar to what we see what Isaiah saw. He got a glimpse of it.

Isaiah uh said it would be a time when the line when the when the wolf would lie down with the lamb. He said it would be a time when the child could go into the crocodile’s den. He said it would be a time when there would be no harm in the entire holy mountain. Everything would be perfect because it’s under the lordship of Jesus. What does life look like if everything is under the lordship of Jesus?

No rebellion. Everything is subject. This was God’s plan before the foundation of the world.

Now, in order for that plan to be recognized, he gave the church an assignment. And the assignment of the church is get close to me now is to be the miniature version or the microcosm of a society that’s under the lordship of Jesus. He wants to watch me. He wants to make sure one day that society come that that that global or or cosmic world comes into fruition.

But before it comes to fruition, he wants there to be a church that would model what it looks like in time. He envisioned it in eternity, but he needed a church to model it in time. And so everybody that’s been born again, he they are placed in the church of Jesus Christ and they are there to model part of the church’s high purpose what a society looks like that’s under the opaces of Christ. Why does he want this so bad? Why does he need a model in every generation?

Why? Why does he need this? Because the Bible says it educates the angels. What does this have to do with angels? Well, the angels are dealing with I’m not going to call it a trauma, but they remember when Lucifer rebelled and they know the heavens are not clean and they’ve they’ve witnessed war in heaven since Lucifer defected.

Michael the archangel have been in battles with Satan and his angel on several occasions. There was occasion that they were even disputing over the body of Jew body of Moses and uh Michael said the Lord rebuke you Satan. In the book of revelations you see another dispute. The devil and his angels fought with uh Michael and the angels that were with him. In Daniel’s day uh there was a time when Michael had to come and deliver a message to Daniel and he had to withstand the prince of Persia.

That was a demonic principality that’s over Persia, Iran. And this is why we don’t need to be over there. I’ve been trying to say that a long time because we’re not just dealing with people on the ground. We’re dealing with spirits that are ancient that know how to make things happen differently.

But but Michael had to come in and fight the prince of Persia. Then he had to fight the prince of Greece. And so the angels have been fighting dealing with this dissident uh attitude and behavior in heaven for a long time.

But God said to the angels, “Listen here. We’re gonna bring everything back to one. He says, “My vision is to bring everything back under subjection to Jesus Christ, and the universe is going to be cleansed, and I’m going to do it through salvation. I’m going to do it through I’m going to get I’m going to go into the earth. The word is going to be made flesh and I’m going to redeem not just humans from their sins, but I’m going to reconcile the entire cosmic universe.

This is why angels get happy and there’s joy in heaven over one sinner that repents because the angels see somebody come in and they say the plan is working. And this is why it’s important for the church to be the object lesson or the testimony for a redeemed society. Because if the church becomes the miniature version of what God’s going to do in the conservation of the ages, then the angels understand that one day what we see happening in the church is going to happen in the cosmic reality.

And so the church becomes his object lesson. We are the place where God wants to showcase the power of his grace and the power of his redemption and wisdom to bring everything under God. Let’s look at it. Go to the next verse. I want you to see it.

Ephesians chapter number three. Chapter number three. And verse number eight, what does he say? Read with me. Unto me who am less than all the saints is this grace given that I should preach among the Gentiles the uncarchable riches of Christ.

Read. and to make all men see what is the fellowship of the mystery which was which from the beginning from the beginning has been what hid in God what is the mystery that cosmic society who created all things by Jesus Christ watch what he say verse 10 everybody to the intent that now unto who these are the angels and who else powers in might be known by the church the manifold wisdom of God. And so every time the angels peer into our services and they see somebody get delivered, they are encouraged because they know one day Lucifer is going to be brought up under subjection and they know one day the heavens are going to be cleansed and one day everything is going to be at one in the cosmic. God didn’t save us just uh for us to be saved, but he saved us as an example of the power of his wisdom to bring us up under subjection to him. And the angel say it this way. If he can save Pastor Leonard and if he can save Bishop Smith and if he can cause families to be reconciled, then I know the cosmic will be reconciled and come back into one.

That is the message that we send the angels every time something happens like this. The church is supposed to prove that the grace really does work and that his wisdom, his grace is sufficient and his wisdom is is is is excellent enough to reconcile everything. The church is supposed to show what ethnic redemption looks like because all the angels have seen was contention among human beings.

But when a black man and a white man can reconcile and Christ becomes greater than them all and they become brothers up under Christ, the angels say the grace is working and the wisdom is at work. And we believe if that can happen, then God’s going to reconcile everything. Somebody say amen. And if someone comes in who’s been addicted to some uh uh uh vice where Satan had them in bondage and the Lord saves them out of that and they get delivered for real, not just during the church service, but they really get set free. Then the angels say God’s going to he’s going to save the entire cosmic because the grace is at work.

If we can see what a father who’s redeemed look like, because we’ve seen bad fathers, but what does a redeemed father look like? What does a redeemed mother look like? What does a redeemed marriage look like? What does a redeemed family look like? What does a redeemed businessman look like?

What does a redeemed entrepreneur look like? What does a redeemed government look like? The angels are looking at us trying to say, “Is anybody in government? And are they really redeemed in how they’re functioning?” Because if they are, then we know God’s grace is at work and his wisdom is making everything one. I’m trying to tell everybody before this thing is over, everything is every knee is going to bow, every tongue is going to confess that Jesus is Lord and we are the prototype of what’s going to happen in the future.

We are the foretaste of what the universe is going to experience. Every sinner that comes to the altar causes an eruption of joy in heaven. He said the devil lost another one and somebody else has come up under the lordship of Jesus. Jesus will be lord over all. When this thing is over, every religion will submit to this faith of Jesus Christ.

Every doctrine will yield to the one doctrine of Jesus Christ. That’s why Paul said in this book, there is but one Lord. There is but one faith. There is but one baptism. There is but one God who’s above us all, who’s in us all, and he’s working through us all.

And one day, every knee is going to bow to this God. Are you hearing me? But but to give them a little encouragement because the angels have been fighting a long time. They want to see what’s going on in the church. And if they can see redemption in the church, they know That The That The Power OF GOD IS at work.

And I need you all to know that at some point the church is going to rise up cuz this is our highest. This is our highest purpose to be the theater for the angels to prove the manifold wisdom of God. It took wisdom to get me out of the world. Cuz he that winth souls is wise. It takes wisdom to get the homosexual to be heterosexual.

You think you could just bring them to the altar and pray for them and counsel them? If that’s good, but it takes the counsel of God to really change a person’s mind and bring them into a place of alignment with the Lord. It takes wisdom to get a hormonger to be faithful. It takes wisdom to get somebody addicted to get off of that thing that they were addicted to. Wisdom to get a man to give up his money to support the cause that’s greater than himself and not spend his money on his own purposes.

It takes wisdom. God says my wisdom is that on display and I’m getting ready to show y’all wonderful things. I’m going to have people doing stuff that prove that they’re under my lordship. When they’re under my lordship, they can’t be the same. They don’t live for themselves.

They Live For GOD And They DO Things That The Flesh Would Never DO. And That’S Why The Angel Said, “Yet That’S The Lordship OF Jesus because we saw the Lord and we know how the Lord operates.” And now we see the Lord in his church. Somebody shout the church. The church. The church.

The church is supposed to be the theater for the angels to understand that his grace is sufficient for you and that his strength is made perfect in weakness. So I need everybody to understand it doesn’t matter what you’re going through. God has enough grace to bring you through and he has enough wisdom to get you out. I’ll say it again. It doesn’t matter what you’re going through.

It doesn’t matter how bad the devil has tied you up. You’re greater than Houdini. You can say, “Lock me up. Lock my mind up. Lock my generations up.” But there’s enough grace.

It’s called the manifold grace of God. That means the multicolor grace of God. He’s got grace for this. He’s got grace for that. He’s got grace for this.

He’s got wisdom for this. He’s got wisdom for that. He’s got wisdom for this. What is wisdom? Skills.

What is wisdom? Skills. God’s got skills to get you out of whatever you’ve been in. Skills to get you over where you need to go. THERE’S Enough Skill TO GO AROUND TO Make Stuff happen in the church.

So we have to change our mind about the church. The church is not a aggregation because an aggregation is a pile of parts that are together in proximity but not integrated. Church is not an aggregation. The church is a congregation. There is a difference between an aggregation and a congregation.

Congregation, there are also many parts that are integrated uh under the lordship of Jesus Christ. You want to bring people together in unity. It’s not uniformity, but it’s unity. You know what it really is? Unity comes from submission to God.

Because if I submit to God and you submit to God, it’s going to cause us to relate in some kind of way. In the same way that your head gives signals to your body and command your body to move in unison and in harmony, getting signals from the head, it causes the body to harmonize. But if there are parts of your body that are not receiving signals from the head, then it’ll be out of step with the body and the body won’t have harmony. So when people are out of step with their brother or with their sister, it’s an indicator that they’re not receiving signals from the head and they’re not in fellowship with the Lord when they’re out of step with their brother and their sister. And yet they’ll tell you all day long, I’m good with God, but I ain’t studing his church.

But anybody who says they’re good with God and not studing his church, and anybody who say they’re good with God and not studing their brother are lying to themselves. Because if you’re good with God, you going to harmonize with the body because the head always gives you information to flow in harmony. So the body won’t be jerking around like this without any rhythm. So it’s a lie to say you love God and hate his church. It’s a lie to say you love God and don’t want to deal with the saints.

The whole purpose of the church is to reveal that God is working in the earth and that Jesus did come and one day it’s all going to be under his leadership. And so I want to take authority over that mindset that has people believing that they can walk with God and not walk with their fellow man. It’s impossible to walk with God and not walk with your fellow man. You are bitter. You are lying.

You are deceived. You must turn yourself around and submit to Jesus. Because when you submit to Jesus, you going to be in sync with your brother. You’re going to be in sync with your sister. And God says we’re in the last days now.

And the angels need to test need a testimony. And I’m calling on him to see to be a testimony today of God’s grace being sufficient and God’s harmony among the brothers. Because when that really happens, ladies and gentlemen, miracles break out in that kind of environment. And I’m getting ready to tell you about something that’s about to happen here because we’re getting into a level of harmony that we’ve never had before. The head is giving signals to the body and the body is starting to respond.

Head is telling the body to do this and the body is doing it. Head say forgive right now. Don’t wait another day. Let don’t let the sun go down on your wrath. Don’t don’t rationalize it.

And people are ready to forgive. People are ready to change their attitude. People are ready to come up under authority because the head is talking. God says he’s about to crown this church with his headship. And everybody ready to move with God is getting ready to see miracles break out in their life because this is the day where the body of Christ will testify of The Wisdom OF GOD And The Grace of God in the earth.

Somebody clap your hand right there and give the Lord a praise. Let me tell you what happens when the head gives signals to the body and the body begins to harmonize. The real word is it becomes a congregation. A congregation. Everybody say congregation.

That’s why the song writer said and the psalmist said that blessed is the man that’s that that’s in the congregation of the righteous. I’m not trying to be in the aggregation. I’m in the congregation. You’ve got a whole lot of so-called churches masquerading as congregations, but they’re nothing but aggregations. Not a church at all.

Just people gathering disconnected from the hair. That is not a congregation. They got to give them church candy to give them to come. They got to give them cookies to get them to stay. They got to do all kinds of things to make them happy.

They they’ll leave because that’s not a congregation. That’s an aggregation. But when you’re in the congregation of the righteous, it doesn’t matter what people do to you, you taking your orders from the head. Glory to God. The heart will beat even if the lungs don’t like it.

And the lungs will breathe even if the heart has an attitude because neither are taking signals from each other. Their signals are coming from the head. So when you say, “I ain’t going to do it cuz what you did to me,” you have been cut off from your head.

But God’s about to restore headship to the body of Christ. And we’re going to see a shift happen in the church. Somebody shout congregation. Congregation. Glory to his name.

And so convergence is what takes place. Convergence. Say it with me. Convergence. Convergence is when things come together.

Convergence is when things come together. And and some people don’t believe things can really come together. Uh you know because even in science there was an experiment that was done with balls. And two balls cannot uh stay in the same space at the same time. Physically, nobody can stand in this space right here where I am right now.

You would have to move me out in order for you to step in. So there cannot be any convergence physically like this. But convergence does take place mentally and it takes place spiritually and convergence takes place emotionally. And whenever there’s convergence, there’s something significant that happens. There’s always an increase.

Said it to you before, it’s almost like the color red and the color blue. When you mix them together, what do you get? That’s convergence of colors that always will increase or cause something unexpected to happen, which is the color purple. If you take hydrogen and oxygen and there is a convergence, what do you get? Water.

You take streams of water, small streams and merge them together, what do you get? A larger river. So anytime or you take waves, separate waves and put them together, uh you end up with a a different wave altogether. What am I saying? God wants convergence in his church.

A true congregation has convergence. going on all the time and there is a creation of something new when people get together. This is why it doesn’t matter what happens in the world. It doesn’t matter what happens around us. It does matter but it doesn’t matter. It cannot totally wipe out the church because we create from within.

All we have to do is mix my love with your joy and mix your joy with somebody else’s peace. And next that peace with somebody’s wisdom and somebody’s wisdom with somebody’s knowledge. And when there is a convergence, something else will be created that nobody anticipated. The church has the power to create is what I’m trying to tell you. Where there is convergence.

And one of the reasons that some people lack is because they’re not participating in the congregation. We have learned how to be an aggregation. We have learned how to be together but not be connected. We have learned how to deal with the head and not the body. And that’s why we lack.

And that’s why people are weak. And that’s why people are sick and some die. The scriptures are clear. If we don’t commune with the body, if we don’t commune with the head, there will be no creation.

But we have moved from I to us. We’ve moved from me to we and from mine to ours. And we are intending on communing with my fellow man. We’re going to mix our stuff until we create. And when we create, we’ll have something that we never anticipated.

Somebody say, “Expect the unexpected.” God says in these last days, we’re going to see the unexpected happen. in our midst. We’re already starting to see it now. We’ve talked about hope shelter enough, but that was unexpected. It was something that happened because there was communion going on and God caused something else to come forth from the communion that nobody anticipated. I wonder what can God make in our midst if we just come together and allow convergence to take place.

A couple of weeks ago, last week it was couple of weeks ago, I was having a conversation with a venture capitalist, somebody I never met in my life and and he’s a believer. I’m a believer and and we were communing together. I have spoken to his life prophetically. He began to speak to me and he called me the other day and he wants to come up and he wants to see how he can support what we’re doing. He and it’s all because we’re sitting at the table together. sitting at the table together trying to connect.

Those of you still struggling with rejection, you got to get past that right now. Those of you still struggling with abandonment, you got to let that stuff go. You got to sit at the table and you got to strike up conversations now. God says he’s going to bring people together in this next season. And he’s going to align you not just to have a good time, but he’s going to align you to create.

He’s going to align you to make something that none of you ever thought about. It’ll be above all THAT WE Could Ask OR think according to the power that works within us. Do you know how much wealth is in this room right now if we would only come together? We can say we don’t have, but we do have. We’re just too far apart.

We’re an aggregation. But the congregation will never be broke if we ever come together. The congregation will never be without if we ever come together. If we ever if we walk in this level of oneness, you’re going to see new things springing forth all the time. The dynamics of a congregation sounds like heaven on in heaven inside of an earth realm.

And so this is what God has ordained for us. God said that I want to see this community that that this community with everything under under Christ. I want to see it. He says and it’s going to happen in the future.

But I want the church to be the microcosm. And if the church is the microcosm, then you will see convergence take place and miracles break out through everyone’s life. So our ideal of church must shift right now. Church where you just come to a church building like this and sit down and listen to a man holler at you. or a man preach to you or a woman teach to you or however is happening. That that’s not church.

That’s one facet of the church, but that’s not the highest purpose of the church. Or think that a church is just a place where you get a prophetic word from time to time or or a church where where you go out win a soul here and there. All of those things are part of it.

But the highest purpose is to emulate a heavenly scene in the earth. We are here to emulate the future in the present. What God saw, what God shared to Paul is a future scene.

But he says, I need y’all to I need y’all to represent the future scene in the present. And when you bring the future to the present, you change the times. The church is meant to be time changers. He wants the future to come to the present so he can change the times that we’re dealing with. So when the enemy is raging, all you need to do is get with somebody and say, “Can I mix my peace with your joy?

And can I mix my wisdom with your kindness? Can we come together and cook something up?” And God will let something happen that’ll drive that devil out. Can we bring the future to the present? That’s the purpose of the church. We have to learn to live from the future into the present.

And many people in the church have been living in the present hoping for a good future. The devil is a lie. Can we shift that right now? You are from the future in your spirit. Your body is from the past and the present, but your spirit is from the future.

And God wants you to bring the future to the present. And that’s our calling. Our highest calling is to bring the future to the present.

So, we’re not here in the present hoping for a better day. We already saw the better day where every knee bowed before the Lord and every tongue confessed. And we’re here modeling what that looks like in the present. and we get ready to change the times. I will never say I hope tomorrow is better than today because I’ve already been to tomorrow and I’m bringing tomorrow to today to make today what it was meant to be. You’re from the future.

Ladies and gentlemen, you must change the way you think. Renew your mind because the kingdom of God is at hand. that old religious spirit that has us trapped into some lazy kind of religious attitude, just singing a song here and there and going home hoping that God’s going to deliver us. I cancel that mindset. You are from heaven yourself. You’ve been born again from above and you are here to bring the future to the present.

YOU’VE Already Been There And GOD Says, “BRING IT to here and change your reality.” Somebody release your faith right there and say, “I’m from the future.” Tell somebody, “I’m from the future and I’m about to shake The Present With What I Know About Tomorrow.” Glory to God. And so his grace is sufficient and his wisdom is how it all happens. And in my closing, I just want to say this. We all know that ain’t how the church is operating. I just shared with you all theology.

I shared with you all the text and what’s written and what God’s eternal purpose is. What I need you to understand, his eternal purpose will always come to pass because it’s is is it’s built on his counsel and his counsel will not disappoint. So, his purpose will come to pass.

But we all got to admit that that’s not how we’re rolling right now. How many know that ain’t what the church look like today? Uh what does the church look like today is the real question. So if we are not the image that God wants to see, what do angels see and how does it affect them? And what do they learn from us when they peer into the church and look at salvation?

Do they say, “Maybe the grace ain’t working cuz that brother ain’t got delivered yet.” Do they say, “I don’t know if this thing is really going to come to pass because the church, the blacks and the whites are still at us, and it looks like they’re getting ready to divide again over what the government is doing.” Are we sending the message that should be sent? Or are we affirming that once sin take a hold, it corrupts a society that can never come back? The church is standing and being weighed in the balance. Are we going to be the glorious church without spot or wrinkle or any such thing? Or are we just going to be a religious institution that gathers on Sunday with no power?

But I believe saints, I really believe with all of my heart that God is moving inside of people today. God is stirring people right now. God is God is touching people and and and the way the church is going to come into this. We need the royal priesthood to be operative. That’s the last point I want to make.

We need a royal priesthood. We need we need we need ascension gifts. And this is why Paul said in this book, he says, listen here, this is God’s plan. He says, but you got to walk worthy of your calling. Walk worthy of the vocation wherewith you are called.

And then he tells us, “But you’re going to have to fight against principalities because those demons don’t want to see redemption work because those principalities and powers are going to fight you because they know if you testify, then that purpose will come to pass and the whole cosmos will be saved and all of us demons will have to come up under the lordship of Jesus Christ.” This is why they’re fighting you to prevent this purpose from coming to pass. But Paul said, “We don’t wrestle against flesh and blood, but we’re going to wrestle against these babies, and we’re going to we’re going to stand for what God said, which is what I just told you. And we’re going to stand against what they’re trying to do. They’re going to try to break up our marriages. And the marriages in the church should not be breaking up at the same rate as the marriages outside of the church.

That should not be. If we are the redeemed community and we are the testimonies, the sickness and the diseases in the church should not be the same as the sickness and disease outside the church. The lack in the church should not be the same as the lack outside the church. The confusion in the church should not be the same as the confusion outside the church. The suicide rate in the church should not be the same as the suicide rate outside the church.

The hell in the church should not be the same as the hell outside the church. The church is supposed TO BE HEAVEN ON EARTH IN Our Relationships. We’re supposed to represent the future in the present. And the only way we’re going to do it is for apostles to rise up and for prophets to rise up. That’s why he says, “I’ve given you apostles and prophets and evangelists and pastors and teachers for the perfecting of the saints, for the work of the ministry, for the edifying of the body of Christ, until we all come into the unity, oneness of the faith, unto the knowledge of the son of God, unto that perfect man.” And only way we going to get ourselves together is preachers can’t preach for money.

Preachers can’t preach for likes. Preachers can’t preach for popularity. Preachers can’t preach to expand their v brand.

But the preacher must preach because he’s trying to perfect the house of God into oneness so we can be a witness. We That’s the problem today. We got preachers preaching for the wrong reason.

But we need apostles that don’t care about popularity. They just want to build foundations in you. We need prophets that don’t care about popularity. They just want to point you the right way to the future. We need evangelists that will bring people in the house.

We need pastor that’ll care for you while you’re walking in this house. When you stub your toe, when you get discouraged, a pastor needs to be there to say, “KEEP ON KEEPING ON.” GOD Said, “WE GOING TO BE ONE.” God says, “Every knee shall bow. Don’t believe the lie.” We need teachers that will root you in the word of God Almighty so you won’t be tossed to and fro by every wind and every doctrine. You Are The Church OF JESUS CHRIST, the witness to The World For What GOD Has Done IN REDEMPTION. And The Five-Fold Ministry Will Get This Job Done.

Most Churches Don’T Have Five-FOLD, But Right Here, WE GOT A FIVE-Fold Ministry. And we’re getting ready to create heaven on earth in our relationship because we’re coming. We’re coming. We’re coming into the unity. WE’RE GOING TO CONVERGE.

WE’RE GOING TO CREATE. WE’RE GOING TO Produce Because WE Are The Church OF The Living GOD. Somebody Give Him Praise right there. Yes. Yes.

Yes. Give me a prophet. Give me an apostle. Give me counsel. DON’T LEAVE ME BY MYSELF.

Give me an expert. Give me the counsel of God. AND I’LL RECONCILE. I’LL get through. GIVE ME GOD’S Wisdom And I’LL OVERCOME.

GIVE ME GOD’S Grace And I’LL MAKE IT THROUGH. I am the congregation of the righteous. I’m in the number one More Time. HE’S CALLING ME BY my name. I Know Who I AM.

WE Are Children OF The Most High GOD. DEVIL, the church will prevail. The gates OF Hell Can Prevail Against The Church upon this rock. I’ll build my church and the GATES OF Hell Cannot Prevail Against The Church. The Church Triumphant.

The Church OF The Living GOD. The Ecclesia, The Born Again, PUNTALKING, Bible thumping, Bloodwashed People OF GOD Almighty. The Church. Somebody clap those hands and say, “I’m happy to be in the church.” Say it again. I’m happy to be in the church.

Don’t let nobody Talk About The Church. IT’S GOD’S THEATER. Everybody on your feet. Hallelujah. Somebody shout, “I’m happy to be in the church.” Say it.

I’m happy to be in the church. I’m so tired of hearing ministers talk about the church. The greatest institution on this side of heaven is the church. Just like a husband and a wife coming together to produce children, if you all fellowship right, you’ll produce after my kind. Let’s prove to the world that redemption really works.

Let’s prove to every demon in the heavens. Let’s prove to the angels in the heaven that redemption works. The good angels were so happy when they heard about this cuz they was weary with Satan and his crew. Can you imagine being up there having to deal with a defector for eons and ages? You love the Lord and this defector is doing all this stuff.

That’s like if you love somebody and somebody’s going against them constantly and you’re loyal. The angels are like, “We’re sick of it. Do something to him in this thing.” You know how you be talking? Just push the button and let him drop down. do something to her. All his little imps around there tearing up your plan, doing all this.

But when Jesus was born, notice who was there. The angels, you know, they was there, they were singing praise. Oh, it’s starting. It’s starting. It’s starting.

It’s starting. It’s starting. The redeemer has come into the world as a baby. And the angel sang, “Glory to God in the highest, peace on earth, and good will toward man.” Jesus was fasting 40 days, 40 nights, and afterwards he hungered and Satan came to tempt him.

But the angels showed up. They said, “Nah, nah. Let’s strengthen him. Yeah, I know he got to do it, but we going to strengthen him for this trial. When Jesus rose from the dead and ascended up on high, the angel said, “Why are you all looking steadfast in the heavens?” This same Jesus that is taken up from you shall return in like manner.

What are they saying? It’s at work. It’s at work. He’s getting ready to we’re going to enter into the consummation of all things. Even angels become heirs or not heirs but helpers of those who are heirs of salvation.

I mean if you get into a straight the angel’s like come on we got to show that grace is powerful. Can I help you with anything? We got to show that his wisdom is awesome. The angels say, “Hey, we got a whole lot of people watching. Come on now.

Let’s do this thing.” They become helpers of those that are heirs of salvation. I need you to know angels are a part of this journey. They’re being educated. They look into the things of salvation. What is man that thou art mindful of him?

Or the son of man that thou visitest him? That’s what the angel said. Thou maketh him a little lower than us.

But you crowned him with glory above us. So what God did is he says, “Listen, Lucifer, and you guys up here who rebelled, I’m going to create a creature that’s lower than all of y’all, and I’m going to let you tempt him and let him fall. that I’m gonna put my spirit in him. I’mma give my wisdom to him and I’m going to grace him and he’s going to reconcile under me and be a model for what all y’all should have been. And then after that testimony is over, I’m going to bring the whole universe back into compliance. And then I’m going to cause that man to become y’all’s judge.

I’mma raise him higher than the angels. What a salvation. Lift those hands to him. This was theology today. Worship him because of what you believe.

Worship him because of what you know. You don’t This thing ain’t about you. You testifying every day about his grace being sufficient, his strength being made perfect in weakness. You’re testifying that his wisdom, his skill is enough to get you through anything.

Come on, God. We worship you. We worship you. Every knee shall bow. We’re testifying concerning that.

Now, how many hear what I’m saying today? Who who got the revelation? Who who picked the revelation? Did you get it? I I need to know.

Raise your hand if you really think you got that revelation that the highest purpose of the church is to be theater for redemption and displaying his manifold wisdom. So let go all that other stuff. Come on, say let it go. Let it go. Let go all that stuff.

We got bigger fish to fry. Okay, you don’t like me. So what? So what I’m going to do is I’m going to seek the Lord. And if you seek the Lord, we’re going to connect.

So many people are trying to connect on the earth level. Connect in him. Bitter enemies, Jew and Gentile. come together in Christ. And the truth is in the word is already done. We are here to manifest in time what God decreed in eternity.

Every generation of believers must testify to their time these things. And unfortunately, I don’t know if this generation has testified, but we’re going to be a witness. You think we can do it, you all? We’re going to be a witness. Thank you, Jesus.

If you’re here today and you want to know this Jesus and you want to join the church, you want to be born into the church, you want to join this a particular assembly, I want you to step forth right now and say, “I need to be a part of the church triumphant. I need to be a part.” Come on. Who are you? Step out and say, “I want to be a part of the church.” Say you want prayer. Come on up here and get some prayer right now.

Anybody that wants prayer, this is your moment. Step out. Come get some prayer. Come on. Thank you, Jesus.

Come on up for prayer. I need to be in the church. You can come get prayer.

Come on, step out. God, prepare me to be a sanctuary, pure and holy, tried and true. And with thanksgiving I’ll be a living sure he Lord for you Lord prepare Lord prepare me to be a sanctuary. pure and holy, tried and true, tried and true. And with thanksgiving, I’ll be I’ll be a living sanctuary. Lord for you.

Lord prepare. Lord prepare me to be a sanctuary. Pure and pure and holy. Tried and true. Tried and true.

Tried and true. And with thanksgiving. With thanksgiving, I’ll be a living I’ll be a living a living sanctuary. Sanuary Lord for you. Lord for you.

Oh sing Lord prepare to be a sanctuary. You’re at home and tried and true. Tried and true. And with thanksgiving, with thanksgiving, I will be a living sanctuary just for you. Sing Lord prepare me to be sanary.

You’re in holy and holy. Tried and true. Tried and true. Tried and true. With thanksgiving.

Thanks again. I’ll be I’ll be a living sanctuary. Glory. I love you Lord and I lift my voice to worship you oh my soul rejoice take joy my king in what you hear and may be a Sweet sweet great sweet sound in your ear. Sing I love you Lord.

I love you Lord and I lift my voice. Oh my soul it rejoice. Joy, joy in what you hear, what you and may it be a sweet sound in your ear. We are something. We are something.

We exalt thee, oh Lord. We exalt thee. Yes, we exalt thee. We exalt your exalt. We exalt your light.

Yes. We lift our hands and worship you. You’re the one true living God. Lord, we exalt you. We lift you high.

We worship you. We honor you. We glorify you. There is no one above you. There’s no one high.

There’s no one worthy. Oh, we’re so most holy. Oh, most holy oil. Oh, we accept your Lord. Oh Lord, Lord present to me a sanctuary, pure and holy, right and true.

And with thanksgiving, I’ll be a living sanctuary for you. For you. Oh, say we exalt thee. We exalt thee. Yes, we do.

We exalt thee. We exalt you, oh Lord. We exalt, oh, we exalt you. We love you. We exalt you.

We adore you. We adore you. We honor you, oh Lord. We exalt you. You are the most high God.

The one who pray. If you’re here today and you want to get your fire back, perhaps you lost your fire, want you to come and just stand right there. Anybody that want their fire back, just come stand up front. We’re going to pray one prayer over everybody who lost their fire. And we want to pray for you because our God wants everybody to be on fire for the Lord.

On fire. You in the church of the living God. You’re in the church of the living God. There is no greater institution than the church. There is no greater movement in the earth beyond above the church.

Come on. We’re waiting for the others to come. We’re going to pray one prayer to make sure we get the fire back. Holy Spirit. Woo.

Holy Spirit. Let that fire start kindling right now. I gave you revelation. Sometimes the fire goes when you don’t understand what the church is. and you your revelation of the church has been what you’ve seen and what you perceive. I hope we were able to give you a bigger picture of the church at least his purpose in the earth.

God wants a society and he wants the world to see what a society looks like when everything is submitted to him. That’s a utopian society. God will ultimately have a utopian society on the earth in the cosmos and he will be in charge. Jesus will be Lord. The church is here to model that and for us to work together with one another and love one another.

That’s what his society will look like. Everybody will be together converging. Father, let that revelation stir something in these who are here. Rosha, because you know what? He chose you before the foundation of the world.

All of you that are in the church, you didn’t choose him. He chose you before you were born. That’s why you were born. That’s why you’re in the family you were in. That’s why you got saved.

He came and got you because he has purpose for you that’s bigger than your purpose. Father, in the name of the Lord, let something start stirring inside of these who have lost the fire. They don’t want artificial fire. They’ve done that before. They don’t want to just be religious.

They want to be connected to the living God. Roshaba, Father, take the fire from heaven’s altar. And I pray you would begin to put it in their soul. Rama, let it be like fire. Let that revelation start like fire and let it start burning inside of them even now in the name of the Lord.

Holy Spirit. I want everybody in the congregation to pray for this group up here. You got to intercede for them because they’re they’re movers and shakers. The devil has attacked their life and tried to make them carnal. The devil tried to make them natural, make them rationalize salvation, but God has chosen them.

I pray they wake up. Let there be an awakening of who they really are. Let them remember things God has said to them when they were young. Let them remember dreams that they had. Let them wake up.

Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Wake up. Let the alarm go off in their spirit in the name of the Lord.

Satan, get up off of them. Satan, you can’t have them. You afraid of them. I know you are. That’s why you attack them so much because you know when they mix when they start converging with their talent and their gifts and their knowledge with other people, my God, it purpose is going to come to pass.

God, put them in the right context. God, create a heavenly context. Create a heavenly context over them right now. When they go out of this room, they go into a natural context.

But I pray this revelation will cause it to be a heavenly context around them and that the fire would burn wherever they are. I call on God for these people. I call on fire for these people. I call on the living God for each one of them. I call on the most high for every one of them.

I call God to help them right now. I ask you, God, touch them with your own hand. We need them to be on fire. They are a part of the church. We need them to be on fire.

Let them get out of their head. Restore their heart. Restore the pain. I mean, restore the hurt. Restore them from the hurt.

Restore them from the pain. Whatever cooled them off, let them find the flow again. Let the worship start again. Let the praise start again. roma. Baptize them in the Holy Ghost again.

Let them speak in tongues like they’ve never spoken before. I need all of you all to OPEN UP Your Mouth and let the heavenly language come down. I need you to let that heavenly language come out. Pray in the Holy Ghost, but not the same tongue. Let it be a new tongue.

Baptize them. Baptize them again. baptize them again. Now, altar team, I need you to lay hands on them right now and transfer fire to all of them. Don’t push them. Don’t push them.

Don’t be knocking them down and pushing them. Pray for them. Pray for them. Pray for them. Pray for them.

Pray for them. Pray for them. Pray for them. Intercede for them in the name of the Lord. in the most high name. The I Said The Most High is in the house.

God is your father. God is your king. God is your Lord. Yahweh is your king. Pray for him.

Pray for him until the Holy Ghost flows. Pray for him until the fire flows. Pastor Leita, pray for some of those people. Come on. Oh, God.

Pray until you sense the fire on their life. God told me that he was going to stir them again. Stir up the gift. Stir up the gift. Stir up the gift.

Stir up the gift. Come on, Al team. Pray for them. Stir it up. Stir it up.

STIR IT UP. STIR IT UP. Y’all not praying for everybody. Y’all didn’t pray for that group right there. Pray for in that corner right there.

Come on team. Come on, pray for them in that corner. Yeah. Go pray for those people. Pray until you get a breakthrough.

Pray until you get a breakthrough. Pray till you get a breakthrough. Pray till the firefall. Pray till the fire falls. You’re chosen.

You’re chosen. Pray till the fire falls. You’re in the church. You’re in the church. Surrender your sovereignty to his sovereignty.

Bow your knee before him. Call him your king. Call him your master. Call him your ruler. Call him your everything.

Submit to him and the fire will come. Submit and the fire will come. Quit holding out. Quit holding out. Submit.

Submit. Submit. Submit. Submit. Submit.

Submit. Submit. Quit holding out. Bow your knee. Sacrifice your independence from him. sacrifice independence from him.

Give it up. Obey. Obey. Obey. Obey.

Obey. Obedience is better than sacrifice. Obey. Obey the king. You’re in a kingdom.

His word is law. Obey. Obey. Obey. And the fire will fall.

Woo! Woo! Repent. Repent. And the fire will fall.

Repent. reap it and you’ll feel the fire revival. Holy fire. Chosen. You’re chosen. You can’t do anything about it.

He did it before he created anything. He did it before anything was created. He chose you. Surrender. Resistance is futile.

Surrender. All the way. Surrender all the way. All the way. All the way.

Sold out. Give it all up. Today is the day you give it all up. You surrender all. Thank you, Father.

Thank you, Father. Thank you, Father. Thank you. It’s the altar. The altar is where the fire is.

Where there’s sacrifice. Where there’s surrender. No sacrifice, no fire. No surrender, no fire. Woo!

I feel the Lord. I surrender. The Lord is in the room. I want to know you more. I want to know you more.

I surrender. I surrender. I want to know you more. I want to know you more. I surrender.

I surrender. I want to know you more. I want to know you more. I surrender. I surrender.

I want to know you more. I want to know you more. I want to be free from everything that keeps me from loving you. I want to be free from everything that keeps me from loving you. I want to be free from everything that keeps me from loving you.

I want to be free from everything that keeps me from loving you. I want to be free from everything that keeps me from loving you. I want to be free from everything that keeps me from loving you. I want to be free from everything that keeps me from loving you. I want to be free from everything that keeps me I want to be free.

I want to be free from everything that keeps me from loving you. I want to be free from everything that keeps me from loving you. I want to be free from everything that keeps me from loving you. I want to be free. I surrender.

I surrender. I want to know you more. I want to know you. I surrender. Surrender.

I surrender. I want to know you more. I want to know you more. Thank you. Thank you, team.

Thank you, T. Praise the Lord. Like a mighty storm stir within my soul. Lord have your way. Lord have your way in me.

Like a rushing wind. Jesus free. The fire is burning at the place of sacrifice. The fire burns at the place of surrender. The fire burns at the place at his feet.

The place of faith, surrender, faith, sacrifice. The fire burns. You’re in the church. Just know that you’re part of something big. And it’s only going to get better and better from this day forward because it’s already its best and we’re manifesting these things.

I want you to get your offerings out. We’re going to receive our offering and we’re going to prepare to receive the Lord’s supper and but I want you to get prepared for the offering now and you can get your giving devices out envelopes. I’m just going to ask that you would raise those devices or those your envelopes in the air so we can pray God’s blessing on these gifts. Introductory lesson today. Now we’ve broken the glass and we’ll begin to develop this idea.

Today was a positional word to get you to see you’re in the church powerful institution. Raise those giving devices up. Father, thank you for the privilege to give. We pray, oh God, that you would multiply these gifts and use them for your purpose and let it be worship unto you. It’s an act of faith, an act of honor for you. use it for your purpose.

We pray also God that there would be no lack in our midst. We believe you for that. Let us manifest abundance for the glory of God in Jesus name.

Amen. You can come at this time from the rear give those gifts or you can use the QR code. abundantly above all. All you could ask or think according to the power that workketh in you. you. God is able to do just what he said he will do. He’s going to fulfill every promise to you.

Don’t give up on God cuz he won’t give up on you. He’s able. Oh, he’s able. He’s able. Thank you, Jesus.

Oh, see, God, God is able to do just what he said he would do. He’s going to fulfill He’s going to fulfill every promise to you. Don’t give up on God. Don’t give up on God. Cuz he won’t He won’t give up on Say He’s aable.

He’s a Thank you, Jesus. Oh, say he’s able. He’s able. Oh, oh, he’s a He’s able. Oh, he’s able.

Say, he’s able. He’s aable. He’s aable. He’s able. He’s able.

He’s aable. He’s able. He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s able. He’s not a man. He’s able that he likes.

He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s a I’ve tried him. He’s able. He’s aable. He’s able. He’s aable.

He’s aable. He’s aable. He’s able. Say, He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s aable. He’s able.

He’s aable. He’s aable. He’s aable. He’s a He’s a He’s a He’s aable. He’s a Don’t give up on God cuz he won’t give up on you.

Don’t give up on God cuz he won’t give up on you. He’s able. Yes, he is able. Thank you for staying with us today. We have the privilege of communing with the Lord through what we call holy communion or the Lord’s supper.

And we do this once a month to affirm our covenant with him. Our covenant with him. All of this is built upon his redemptive work. 1 Corinthiansap 11:23 says, “For I have received of the Lord that which also I deliver unto you that the Lord Jesus the same night in which he was betrayed, he took bread, and when he had given thanks, he broke it, and he said, Take, eat. This is my body which is broken for you. This do in remembrance of me.” And after the same manner, he took the cup when he had sucked, saying, “This cup is the new testament in my blood.

This do ye as often as you drink it in remembrance of me. For as often as you eat this bread and drink this cup, you do show the Lord’s death.” And here’s a key word, till he comes. He’s coming back to consummate all things. There is the first coming of the Lord and then there is the second coming. And when he comes back, everything’s going to be brought up under his authority.

And we’ll see a utopian society. The lion or the wolf will lay down with the lamb. Everything will be perfect.

But we are remembering him because that same community can exist among us now as a testimony. So he took the bread which he said was his body that was broken for us. These elements or this bread represents the crushing of his body. He took stripes for us and he said with his stripes ye are healed. Emotional healing and physical healing is a part of our covenant.

The body also represents provision. Bread has to do with nourishment or the staff of life. Represents revelation, the word. We partake of this. We say, God, I thank you for revelation knowledge.

I thank you for feeding me physically and mentally and emotionally. You partake of this. You’re believing that you’re in covenant with him and he has portions for you. Thank you for feeding me with purpose. You have a purpose for my life.

Did you know purpose feeds you? The same word for purpose in the Old Testament was the showbre table of showbread. It was the bread that was set in order for you. When you partake of this, you say, “Lord, feed me my portion and my purpose.” The bread also represents the body of Christ. We are all one loaf.

We are all together. We’re saying we’re not divided by race, by anything, class, or by distance. We are one in him. The universal body of Christ. We’re remembering these things and we’re saying they are so in our life.

Father, I pray that you would bless these elements. They would indeed become by faith the body of Christ in Jesus name. By the same manner he took the cup. He called it a cup of blessing. He said it was the new testament in his blood.

The new covenant is what testament means. Blood represents life. So he spilled his life for forgiveness and remission of sins. Our sins when we partake of this are forgiven past, present, and future. Nothing can separate us from the love of God that is in Christ Jesus.

And Satan has no legal right to us because our sins have been paid for. So we’ll never live with guilt or shame another day in our life. Thank you for the blood. This blood also represents his life. It represents his wisdom, his knowledge, his prudence, his righteousness, his holiness, his purity.

Everything he is we are in Christ Jesus. Father, we pray your blessing on these elements and it would this element would indeed become the blood of Jesus. Please serve. Bread of heaven sent down from glory. Many things you were on earth, a holy king, a carpenter.

You are the living word, bread of life, sent down from glory. Many things you were on earth, a holy king, a carpenter. You are the living word, awesome ruler, gentle redeemer, God with us, the living truth. And what a friend we have in you. You are the living word.

Awesome ruler, gentle redeemer, God with us, the living true. And what a friend we have in you. You are the living word. Bread of heaven sent down. Send down from glory.

Many things you are. Many things you are on earth. Holy King, the carpenter. You are the living. You are the living word.

Bread of life. Bread of life. Sent down from glory. Sent down from glory. Many things.

Many things. You are able. You are an awesome ruler. Awesome ruler. Gentle redeemer.

So we God with us. God with us. The living and what a friend we have. You are the living awesome ruler. Awesome ruler.

Gentle redeemer. Gentle redeemer. You’re the God with us. God with us. The living is true and worth.

You are the We call you Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. That’s what we call you. Major born on a tree.

You died to save you. You are the living word. Jesus. Jesus. Jesus.

That’s what we call you. Major boy. You got to save the you are the same. Jesus. Jesus.

Jesus. That’s what we call. That’s what we call you. Mage born. Yeah.

Major born. on a tree. You died to save. You are the living worship. Jesus Jesus. That’s what we call you.

Yeah. Major born on a tree. You died to save the team. You are the oh. You are the living word.

Oh, you are the living Jesus. Jesus. Jesus. That’s what we call you. Major major born. on a tree.

You died to save humanity. You are the savior. Jesus. Jesus. We call you.

That’s what we call you. Savior born on a tree. You save humanity. You are living. Oh.

Oh, you are the living world. Oh. Oh. Oh. You are the living word.

You are the living word. You are the living word. You are the living word. You are the living word. You are the living word.

You are the living word. You are the living word. You are the living word. You are the living word. You are the living word.

You are the same word. You are the saving word. You are the saving word. You are the saving word. You are the saving word.

You are the saving word. Oh, you are the living word. A bread of heaven. You sent down from glory. Many things you were on earth.

A holy king, a carpenter. You are the living words of heaven. Send down from glory. Many things you were on earth, a holy king in you are the living word. The blood that Jesus shed for me way back on Calary.

Oh, the blood that gives me strength from day to day. It will never lose its power. Oh, said it s all my doubts and it calms all my fears. Oh, it wipes away my tears. Oh, the blood that gives me strength.

Oh, it’s from day to today. It will never lose its power. Come on. Say it reaches to the highest to the highest mountain to the highest mountain. Oh yes.

Set me. Oh yeah. The blood gives me strength. It’s giving me strength right now. From day from day to day, it will never.

Can we sing it again? Oh. Oh. Say it preaches through the highest. Thank you.

Thank you for shing your blood. Oh sh. Oh yeah. Thank you. Thank you for the gives me straight and it keeps me straight from today.

It will never say it will never. One more time. Say it will never. It’s found. It’s found.

Oh, I thank you for the blood. Oh my God. Say, say the blood will never lose his power. Can you take a moment and just think about the blood loses power? Oh God, I say he was wounded. never lose his power.

He was wounded for my transgressions. Oh, never lose his power. And he was bruised for my iniquity. Never loen the blood, the blood of Jesus. It lost. is I know I know I know I know it will it will it will it will it will it will never never lose his power.

I know what you never lose my lo say it will never it will never Oh it will Ever. Oh, glory to his name. Hallelujah. I want you to release your faith right now. Open yourself up to the life of the body.

Did you know that when you open yourself up, you can feel the life of the body? When I’m tired, I open myself up and I feel the prayers of people. I can feel the life of the body. You are part of an an international universal body. Some of them are in heaven and some are on in earth.

Open yourself up and receive the life of the body. Oh God, there’s some folks praying in the body right now somewhere. People in heaven, in the body, and you can feel all of that. You got loved ones that still in the body, they just might be in heaven. They’re all a part of the same covenant.

Hold the bread up before God. I want you to believe God for the life of the body. You You got to get in your heart to refill the life of the body. It’s not your head, it’s your heart. Repeat after me.

Praise be unto Adonai. Our God, ruler of the universe, ruler of the universe, who commands the ground to bring forth bread by faith. This is the body of Christ. Receive. Thank you for the one body. people all over the world, different time periods, every gift, every gift.

Thank you for healing power. Yes, somebody got healed in the body somewhere. Let that power flow toward me then. Woo! I promise you, somebody in the body getting healed every day somewhere.

Open up. Open up. Open up. There’s a lot of wisdom in the body. Let it flow my way.

Gifted, talented people. Let it flow my way. I’m in the body. The church. Woo.

Let me feel the life and the strength of the body right now. There’s joy in the body somewhere. Let it flow my way. Somebody’s got authority in the body. Let it flow my way.

My God. Who’s ever in the body? Whatever they have is yours. It’s one body. No need for jealousy.

No need for competition. If they win, we win. Thank you, God, for the blessing that’s on the body. The blessing on the body is on my life. Say it.

The blessing on the body is on my life. Hold the cup up before heaven. It’s the covenant. Repeat after me. Praise be unto Adonai.

Our God, ruler of the universe, who commands the vines to yield grapes by faith. This is the blood of Jesus. Receive. Woo. Thank you.

Now, why don’t you just go into some thanksgiving? Cuz that’s when wealth comes in. When you’re thankful, you open the door for wealth. Just tell him, “Thank you for the blood.” Woo. Before we leave here, say, “Thank you for the blood.” Woo!

What a covenant. Thank you for the blood. Forgiveness of sin, adoption into the family. Thank you for everything you are flowing in me right now. This is the head flowing in the body.

Let the head flow in the body. I want to get every signal coming from the head that belongs to me. I don’t want to miss out on no signals from the head. Woo. Let the power of the head flow in the body right now.

Oh, thank you, Father. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you. Thank you.

Thank you. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Jesus.

Thank you, Jesus. Yes. Really, really, Jesus. I thank you, Jesus. You’re the head and we’re the body.

If you turn right, let me turn right. I thank you for the grace of obedience in the house right now. Purpose coming to pass. Purpose coming to pass. I prophesy purpose is coming to pass in the lives of the obedient.

Thank you, Father. Thank you for your life and your life more abundantly. We’re dead to sin, but we’re alive unto God through Jesus Christ our Lord. Love you all to life and thank God for you. You guys are so wonderful.

You stay in church all day and you don’t complain and you’re just so kind and it’s just amazing. You tolerate this long preacher who just keep talking and uh and I just love y’all for that. Y’all haven’t given me no grief about being long cuz I probably wouldn’t change anyway.

But praise the Lord. No, I love y’all to life. I really do. I And all the way in the back, hug somebody and say, “Bishop, say you love you.” Yeah. Tell them that before you leave, say, “I ain’t going to get a chance to shake y’all’s hand cuz I got to go change my clothes.” But love on somebody.

Say, “This is from Bishop Smith.” Now, Pastor Letha wants you to love on for her. Yeah, I’ll say. She probably thinking it right now. See, we connected. She thinking the same thing.

Hug them for both of us. All right. Love you all to life. Really, we going to see you next week. The Lord bless you.

The Lord keep you. The Lord make his face shine upon you. The Lord be gracious unto you. The Lord give you peace. See you next time.

On behalf of Bishop Hugh, Pastor Lisa, and your Embassy Covenant Church International family, happy birthday to all those born in September. Saabona means I see you. And on Sunday, September 13th, that’s the invitation. Bishop Hugh and Pastor Letha Smith are opening the room for members to know them more personally, meet the leaders of this house, and gain a clearer understanding of disciplehip, what it is, what it is not, and how to receive from it well. Because the frustration of wanting something you don’t yet know how to receive is real.

So is the longing to feel seen. Both are welcome in this room. If you joined embassy after October 19th, 2025 and are still finding your place or your member simply wanting to be more deeply planted, this Sawabona is for you. See the midweek email to sign up today. The School of the Prophets registration is now open.

This sixeek course is open to the entire congregation. No prior experience or prophetic gifting is required. Students will learn what a word from God is actually for, how God speaks, how to weigh what you hear, and how to recognize a counterfeit. Classes begin Saturday, September 19th at 12:30 p.m. until 2. See the website or your midweek email to register and learn more today.

Embassy leaders, this one is for you. We’re bringing leaders from across ECCI together for a one-day leadership retreat in the heart of downtown Detroit at the Historic Harmony Club. Whether you’re currently serving in ministry, administration, operations, worship, outreach, or anywhere from across our campuses or hubs, you are invited. From 9 to 4, we’re creating a space to be strengthened, equipped, connected, and aligned for where we’re going together. Scan the QR code on the screen and register today.

Registration closes Sunday, September 20th. The Surge campaign has begun. Members can take their faith and put it in action as we serve our communities and prepared to expand our space. We grew into this building. Now we’re growing out of it.

To make your pledge or give a reoccurring or one-time gift, visit our website at embassyvenant.urch. search. Head over to the give tab and select the search. Scroll down and select the button that most suits your needs or simply select the give to the EMD building campaign button and select donate on the next screen. If you desire to give to the hope shelters campaign, visit that same page on the website and give today. Pledges can be submitted and fulfilled through December 1st, as well as contributions.

For years, the business owners and professionals across Embassy Covenant Church International have asked for one thing, a reliable way to find one another. The Office of Economic Development has been entrusted with building the ECCI business directory. And they’re not going to guess. They need your help by completing the interest form. If you would be interested in being published in our directory, scan the QR code located on the screen or visit the website and answer a few questions.

Have you joined the connect yet? Well, if you haven’t, we want you to join the connect powered by the Kingdom Branding Network. Embassy will use this community platform to engage with all members and campuses within Embassy Covenant Church International. Join today by visiting our website at embassycovenant.urch. Many members of our embassy family are already there.

Join today and get in the mix. Embassy family. As we continue to receive guests from across the body of Christ, we want to make sure we honor our visiting leaders with excellence and proper protocol. If you are inviting or aware of a senior pastor, overseer, bishop, apostle, dignitary, or other ministry leader who will be joining us for Sunday worship, please let our office know in advance. You may do so by completing the guest form on our website located in the footer of the website homepage or by contacting the office directly.

If they arrive the same day, please have them sign the guest book and indicate their leadership role. This will help make Bishop aware so that he may properly acknowledge and honor them from the pool pit. Thank you for helping us receive our guest with order, warmth, and excellence. Are you interested in serving here at Embassy Metro Detroit? Well, we’ve made it easy for you to get involved.

Head over to our website at embassy covenant.urch church. Select the Embassy Metro Detroit campus from the campuses menu. Scroll down to ways to serve and find all the areas in need of you. Select any ministry area to learn more. Then submit the form with the areas you are most interested in serving.

That’s all you need to do. Our teams will reach out to you with next steps. Stay connected to everything happening across Embassy Covenant Church International. Visit embassy covenant.urch church for the latest news, upcoming events, giving opportunities, and more. That’s embassy covenant.urch, your place to stay informed, connected, and engaged.