The Audacity | Dr. Jacari P. Davis

him and you bless him. All that he has done. Yeah. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Thank you, Jesus. Thank you, Lord. Why you standing there? Come on, grab your Bibles or your Bible apps. I want to get into this word, Acts chapter 4. Why are you turning there? Help me thank God for our leader, our pastor, the Reverend Dr. Marcus D. Cosby and his absence. Come on. Help me thank God for pastor and for his gift and for his graciousness. Not just to me, but to so many of you and even to the world. Thank God for the man of God and for his wonderful family and all those who lead with him and serve with him in this place. We do not take it lightly that he has extended this invitation. And I will be sure to share with him how much I appreciate the spiritual maturity of this church. I've been here for seven o'clock, ten o'clock. We're here at one and y'all still showed up. All right. And I've been black and Baptist my whole life. And I know we'll we'll send a text message in a minute. You know, pastor ain't hit us Sunday. So real Sunday, fun day. But you all are here and you ought to give yourselves a round of applause for your for your growth. That's how you know God is doing something in this place. It doesn't matter who's preaching the word is the word. And you need to hear a word from the Lord. Acts chapter number four and Dr. Barbara Williams has ably read the passage in in context, permit me to read just one verse. Wow, a consideration. Verse number 31, when they had prayed the place in which they were gathered together with shaken, and they were all filled with the Holy Spirit, and spoke the word of God with boldness with boldness with boldness. I want to label our time together in the word the audacity audacity. Look at somebody and ask them, do you have some audacity?

Tell them, I know you do. I know you do. I know you do. Audacity. Sometimes it's called clout chasing to gain fame or to get attention. Other times it's posting or saying something provocative to be used as clickbait to go viral on social media platforms. Sometimes it's standing in front of a camera and speaking into a microphone to make a statement that sends shockwaves reverberating throughout the culture and still other times it's the silent symbols like taking a knee or raising a black gloved fist or skilling a flagpole to pull down the big relic of a Confederate flag. We can, we can see it demonstrated in the behaviors and actions of others or in moments we choose to demonstrate it as well. And that is we as people have moments when we engage in risky and sometimes reckless behavior. It could be to our benefit or our detriment but depending on how we have been naturally wired or how we have been environmentally nurtured. Some of us just have a hard time resisting saying, doing or trying something that's risky or reckless. species by using this measurement known as the shy, bold continuum. They'll put a group of people together in a room or house and they'll place something in their environment that is designed to stimulate conversation or encourage participation. They inevitably discover that some people become more reserved when they are challenged with new and unfamiliar experiences, while others are willing to take the risk and explore whatever adventurous possibilities there are. Some people are just drawn to the excitement of risk-taking. Some people's personalities are just bent toward bold behavior. Some people just have what we call audacity. They are confident. They are courageous and they are convinced of themselves that regardless of who's watching or what's at stake, whatever is going on, they believe they're going to come out victorious.

And even if they don't come out victorious, they can at least say in the words of the Apostle Paul, "I fought a good fight and I kept the faith and I finished my course. Audacity, audacity, if applied appropriately can be a positive and a powerful asset. But as I exit out of the introduction of this sermon, can I push something on us as followers of Jesus Christ, because it seems to me that although audacity seems to be at an all-time high in the culture, it appears to be that it's in a recession in the kingdom. The anatomy of the Christian faith. Some of us as followers of Jesus Christ have all but wrapped our Christian witness and confidence in cautious bubble wrap. That rather than living and moving through life's experiences with an adventurous and audacious faith, we settle for playing it safe with God, because it makes it easier for us to trust God on the safety of the dots than it does in the shakiness of a disturbance. I want to be clear, I want to be clear, I'm not being dismissive, not trying to be dismissive of life's rough realities. Demonstrating spiritual audacity can be intimidating in the face of devastating disturbances and terrifying threats like the ones you and I face every day. What am I saying? When life starts life in, things can become so intense that you can almost be tempted to move from courage in God to cowardice, from faith to faint-heartedness, just like I believe those in the text were tempted to do. The disciples in the text were people that we should aspire and imitate and impersonate and aspire to be like because they demonstrated what I like to call spiritual audacity. The language of the story uses the word boldness which simply means outspoken and what makes the faith, here may one o'clock, what makes the faith of these disciples so superlative is that when circumstances, I'm talking about real, physical, social and spiritual circumstances showed up in their lives in a real way. They didn't allow the circumstances to restrain their spiritual audacity but they raised their spiritual audacity to trust God even more. And I slide into your DMs with a message from the Holy Ghost right here and help somebody you can't allow the nature of your circumstances to censor the character of your faith.

We got too many Christians who code switch that you can't allow your faith to code switch and you start speaking in a different tone just because the climate of life that you're in right now is starting to apply pressure. No, I came to help somebody. If your faith was loud and bold and outspoken when things were steady and consistent, look You need to keep that same energy when things get shaky, when things become wobbly, and when things become uncertain. If you were vocal and unreserved about how much you trust God and how much you believe God's Word, when you had peace and plenty and pep and passion and a partner, you got to be just as mature. You got to be just as vocal when you're frustrated and when friends are fewer than between and when you fatigued and things are flat, and you ain't got a friend in the world, I came to tell somebody that whoever you are on the mountains of life, you've got to be that same kind of believer and same kind of faithwalker when you're walking in the valley. Look at somebody and tell them, keep that same energy. These disciples demonstrated spiritual audacity and they demonstrated it consistently. It started with Peter and John in Acts 3. Right after they had healed a man in the name of Jesus who was lame in both of his feet from birth, they went on a preaching tour in the city of Jerusalem, telling people that although Jesus was crucified by the chief priests and elders in Jerusalem in collusion with the Roman government, Jesus was still the anointed one, the Son of God. They shared with people the embellish and authentic truth about Jesus' power and if people needed evidence

of that power, Peter and John had two irrefutable witnesses. They had an empty tomb and they had a 40-year-old man who had never walked but had been healed by the power of Jesus Christ. They're powerful and persuasive preaching ads. The Bible says another 2,000 to this movement of Jesus Christ and now the religious conservatives, the Pharisees and the Sadducees, they realized we got a problem. They thought they had killed Jesus a few months ago but now his disciples are preaching that although you killed them on Friday, God got him up on Sunday. Thought I was in the Baptist Church and they are still doing signs and wonders in his name and y'all need to know, y'all need to know that things ain't changed much from the into now because whenever extreme religious fundamentalists feel as though people are evolving from their brand of Christian nationalism to protect their interests and preserve their interpretations, they all support and sanction corruption even it's from the, even if it's from the occupant of the highest office in the land. [ Applause ] When power and religious elitism feels threatened, it will do anything to maintain control of what it believed it owns. When the Pharisees and Sadducees recognize that their influence is vulnerable to this Jesus movement that they thought ended with his murder, their plan becomes to compromise and kill the leaders.

They are a respiratory zone on charges of instigating an insurrection. It's amazing how people used to go to jail for that. [ Applause ] They put them on trial before the Sanhedrin and the trial, y'all stay with me, it's just around one question. How did you heal that lame man? And what name did you use to do it? Lord, this blesses my soul because verse 8 of chapter 4 says that when they ask that question, thean Peter, filled with the Holy Ghost said to them, let it be known to all of you and to everybody in Israel. We ain't scared of y'all that it was by the name of Jesus Christ of Nazareth whom you crucified, but whom God raised from the dead that this man stands before you healed and healed. And Peter said, I'll tell y'all one more thing. This is the stone that the builders rejected that has now become the chief cornerstone. And Peter said, I ain't done yet. I got one more thing to tell you. Now there is salvation found in no other name under heaven Let me pause, favorithetically, and ask God. Anybody know that name still has power? (congregation cheering and applauding) Peter and John told them where to go and how to get there in Jesus' name. And verse 13 says, "When they saw how bold, how vocal, how outspoken they were. They were amazed and could not deny the evidence

of the lame man standing with them. Let me cut across the field. They came up with a solution. There are seasons, and tragedies decided that all they could do to stop Peter and John's audacity and talking about Jesus was to threaten them, not to speak or to preach in the name of Jesus. Don't miss this 'cause there's gonna be a pop quiz later. (congregation laughing) Jesus' name became a legal in Jerusalem and preaching his name became a criminal act. (congregation cheering and applauding) Y'all hang on to that. Their lives were threatened. Dangerous disruptions were guaranteed to them. But I'm at Willi Avenue, but the Bible says that as soon as they were let go, they went back and found their friends, told them all about the threats that they had made, and then here it is, they start praying that God would give them more audacity to keep doing what they had been doing the whole time. But please don't miss this because you're gonna miss your shout. They went back, started praying, and they didn't pray for a bell out, but they prayed for more boldness. They went back and started praying, and they didn't pray to ask God to help them bow out, but they asked for more boldness. They went back and started praying,

and they didn't see the difficulty and say, "No, we just gone back out and tried again some other time." No, they asked for more boldness, and the Bible says that after they had prayed, the bonus that they had requested is the bonus that they received, hip, image, hound of God, because what this text is trying to teach us is that when pressure in life is tempting you to compromise your faith, if you pray for God's strength, God will give you the spiritual nerve and the spiritual audacity to help you to overcome it, that if you pray and ask God to help you with whatever it is that you're facing, I need somebody here who can testify, God will renew your spiritual audacity so that you can have courage in your circumstances, courage in the midst of your difficult moments, courage in the presence of your mountain light challenges, God will give you courage so that you can be strong and so you can be courageous, so that you can know in a real way that if God be for me, who can be against me? I wish I had somebody in here who knows that God will give you the bonus and the audacity and the courage that you need to keep on moving. (audience cheering) (audience clapping)

- A.W. Toes will say it that Christians should be some of the boldest people in the world. Look at somebody and tell them you ought to walk around with your head held high. You ought to walk around like you got some audacity in your spirit. You ought to be one of the boldest people in the world and it's not because your khaki are confident and sure of yourself. But I walk like I walk and I talk like I talk and I move like I move because I know who my God is. I wish I had somebody at one o'clock who can testify. I know who my God is. My God is a win maker. My God is a miracle worker. My God is a promise keeper. He's a light in the dark. Is there anybody in here who can testify? I know who he is and because I know who he is that lets me know who I am. When you know you are in relationship with an all powerful God. If you want more bonus, if you want more audacity in your faith, the disciples in the text have already showed us how to get it, you've got to pray and ask God for it. But you, what I just said, you want some audacity, ask God for it, and in the same way they pray to receive it, you've got to pray to receive it. So the question that we need to ask is not what to pray, but how to pray. How did they pray to receive bonus, and how are we supposed to pray? Can I give you three things that I'm out your way?

They show us the disciples do, first of all, that if we want more spiritual audacity, if we want to live with more spiritual bonus, then we got to learn how to pray with the assistance of some spiritual allies. This is good to me. Let's learn how to pray with the assistance, everybody say assistance of some spiritual allies. When pressure is applied to your life, one of the most deceptive illusions that it plays on your mind and in your spirit is trying to conceal from your memory that you are not by yourself. Give me. This is what you see in the Bible that most times, whenever there was a spiritual attack from Satan or some other system on those who were trying to live in the will of God, it almost always happened when that person was in isolation. That when evil or destructive influences really want to do some damage to your spiritual audacity, it intentionally plots to try to catch you lacking by yourself. You will remember when Satan tried to tempt Jesus in giving up his spiritual power, position and preeminence at the beginning of his ministry, Satan waited until Jesus was by himself in the wilderness. That isolation is a tool and tactic that the enemy uses to launch attacks and to sow discouragement into the lives of the people of God, and y'all, that was the entire purpose of the attack against Peter and John. Satan in the Bible, they pulled him away and threatened them with persecution in private, separated them from the rest of their community because they knew if they could make them a coward, everybody else who was loud and outspoken like them would be hushed mouth too. But here's why I love, this blesses me, here's why I love how the scene starts in verse 23. The Bible says that after they were let go, they went to their own companions and reported all that the chief priests and elders have said to them, and then it says, "So when they heard that, they raised their voice to God," y'all, mister, let me say it one more time. Then they will let go. They went to their own companions and reported everything that the chief priests and elders had said, "So when they heard that, they raised their voices."

Is that blessing y'all? Like it bless me? Remember the sequence, Peter and John were preaching boldly about Jesus. Their bonus gets them arrested. They are threatened with persecution and told to be quiet. They will let go. After they will let go, they found their own friends. And when their friends were told what happened, they all started talking to God and asking God for more audacity, come here, you looking, but you ain't listening. I'm trying to tell you, brother, I'm trying to tell you, sister, this is why you need some spiritual allies in your life. You need more than people in your life who support your foolishness. You need some people in your life who can strengthen your faith. You need some SPIRISH! that you have a connection with in Jesus Christ that can assist you spiritually when life starts applying pressure and fear is creeping into yourself. See, I know where y'all looking at me like that because the lie that most of us believe is trying to tell our sales is that we're so saved and we're so sanctified and we're so spirit feel that we can stand on our own two feet and be strong on our own. We want people to believe that we're made out of teflon, that nothing ever worries us, that nothing ever sticks to us, that nothing ever makes us think about giving up, nothing ever makes us consider quitting or dropping out, nothing ever makes us wonder if it's worth it to keep trying.

Well, I came to tell somebody, if you wanna live that lie, you keep living it by yourself. But I also came to tell somebody else that if you wanna have some real spiritual audacity that ain't built on your own arrogance, if you really wanna be strong and courageous and you really wanna have some backbone and some determination, you gonna need some people in your life who are gonna help you pray when you don't know how to pray for yourself. I need a witness here who can testify that no for a factor that you wouldn't be able to handle some of the pressure that life sends you away if you didn't have some other people praying with you. In fact, some of you can be real honest. The only reason you're here is because you had some other people praying for you when you couldn't pray for yourself. You ain't here because you're so strong and because you're so smart and you got so much confidence. I need about 500 witnesses here who can be real honest today and testify at my audacity and certain seasons didn't come from me. But it came because I had some other people praying for me. It came because I had some other people looking out for me. When you look at a name and tell them, what can I ally on you?

Tell a neighbor, can you pray for me? Tell them, if you pray for me, I'll pray for you. And if you pray for me and I pray for you, you know what'll happen, a God will start changing some things around. I say a witness in here who knows you need some allies. Look at somebody and tell you but it gets you somebody you can pray with. One can put a thousand to flight. That's what my Bible says. But two can put 10,000 to flight. Are there any faith walkers, are there any prayer warriors in the building who know what prayer can do? Who know that prayer can do some things that even your own strength cannot do? Look at somebody and tell them, I pray for you and you pray for me. I'm in third ward and I don't know how y'all do it over here. I grew up on the north side, traded a gun, cast a gun, and my mom and my dad are into service and they had a rule for us, Minister Lewis, that they always told us, listen, listen, you know, when y'all go out, don't ever start no fight. But if somebody start a fight, you better finish it. But then they had another rule. They said, don't ever let me find out that one of your brothers or your sister got into a fight. And you just stood there on the sideline

with your hand in your pocket, watching them get beat down, because when y'all get back to the house, I'm telling everybody behind up, because when one is fighting, everybody better get to fighting. I wish I had somebody in here who refuses to let your brother, who refuses to let your sister fight by them, said, well, you know, Jim, it's a name, I'm a fight for you. We gonna get on our knees together. We gonna talk to God about this thing together. We gonna seek the Lord about this together. We gonna ask God to make a way together. I need an ally in this thing. (audience cheering) You need to pray with some spiritual allies. But if you want more audacity, you also need to pray with an awareness to what God has already settled in advance. Limitations of time will allow me to unpack it, but there's a significant portion of the prayer that needs to be highlighted because it shows the belief that backed up what they were praying about. When they began praying, they acknowledged God's sovereignty in the world. Let the church say sovereignty. They raised their voices and said, "Lord, you are God who made heaven and earth and the sea and all that is in them." They are recognizing that God is sovereign, that God is in complete control of the world and all that are therein, and immediately after that they acknowledge the supremacy of God's will. Let the church say supremacy. Here's what they did. They start quoting from Psalm number two. They don't make y'all shout, but it will in a minute.

They start praying, or they continue praying, rather, who by the mouth of your servant David have said, "Why did the nations reach?" And the people plot vain things. The kings of the earth took their stand, and the rulers would gather together against the Lord and His Christ. Here it is. Quoting Psalm two is a powerful expression of faith when they pray, because the context of Psalm two is about how when the will of God purposes something to happen, the plots and the attacks of people can stop it. Psalm two is about God putting a king in place. And regardless of how the enemies of the king conspired to take him out, God promises that the king will have victory because God had already decided beforehand that the king would have victory. Don't miss this. When the disciples quote Psalm two in the prayer, they believe that Psalm two was a reference to the messianic ministry of Jesus Christ. That is Jesus, the son of David, whom God had anointed and purposed to sit on the throne in heaven, these same Sadducees and Pharisees that were conspiring and plodding against Peter and John were the same Sadducees and Pharisees that plotted against Jesus. And they start naming them with Herod, with Pontus Pilate and some of the Gentiles. They start plodding with all of these people to kill Jesus thinking that they were going to stop God's plan. But what none of them knew was that in the act of killing Jesus, they were not stopping God's plan. They were supporting. I wish I had a witness here. God's plan. Here it is. God had already knew what they were going to do to Jesus. So God settled in advance the victory that he was going to gain over his enemies by scheduling his resurrection before they even set up his crucifixion. In case you didn't know where it is to give God a praise, it's right there. Because you can praise God boldly. And you can pray boldly when you understand that the devil can cancel what God has already confirmed. Will you encourage your neighbor with that? Tell him the devil can cancel what God has already confirmed. That when pressure is hitting you, that's the time to pray and ask God for more audacity because believers in Jesus know that regardless of how life and circumstances are trying to take me out. Regardless of how life is trying to crucify me, I'm going to make it. I'm going to be victorious over it. I'm going to get through it. Look at somebody and tell them you're going to come out of this thing. Tell somebody it's a fixed fight.

Tell somebody it's already been settled in heaven. You are an you are anointed to be victorious. You are anointed to win over what's coming against you. The outcome has already been predetermined. You just got to keep praying. You just got to keep trusting that he or the other, that he that has begun a good work in you shall completed to the day of Jesus Christ. If God has already settled in, it doesn't matter what circumstances do. I'm going to come out the winner. God has traveled it in advance. My resurrection was on the schedule before they set up my crucifixion. My healing was on the schedule before the sickness even showed up. My provision was on the schedule before the lack even showed up in my life. My destiny was on the schedule even before those who started speaking against me kept saying I would never amount to anything. He said anybody in here who can testify I think it was already on the schedule. Pray with the assistance of some spiritual allies. Pray with an awareness of what God has already settled in advance. I'm done but you need to pray if you want more audacity. Pray with the anticipation that God will supply exactly what you ask for. Look at somebody and tell them he's going to supply it exactly what I ask for. Watch it, watch it, believe in the will of God. It's going to guard them against the plan of the enemies. The disciples pray and ask God, God, don't restrain our audacity. Verse 29 and 30 they say, now Lord we heard what they were saying. Look on their threads and grant to your servants that with all boons they may speak your word by stretching out your hand to heal and that signs and wonders God Almighty may continue to be done through the name of your holy servant Jesus. Can I tell y'all why I love this prayer? This part of the prayer.

I told y'all it was going to be a pop quiz. I love it because it says to me that if you're going to live with some audacity sometimes you want to have to learn how to embrace the criminal side of being a Christian. Sometimes I'm going to say that one more time so we can sink in. You have to embrace the criminal side of being a Christian. Now I know that they are hard for some of y'all because you already criminals, you know. You lie on your taxes and here's my, you get on the toll way and it ain't got no toll tag. It's still towns from the hotel. Sell your food stamps. If you sell food stamps, I'm going to be right here after I got four kids, you know. I give you two for four, somebody know what I'm talking about. Look at somebody until I'm sometime. You have to embrace the criminal side of being a Christian and I'm not talking about in the you refuse to lift a enemy and your circumstances determine what you hear and what you ain't going to do. I'm done. The disciples engaged in some Christian criminal behavior. Because remember, the Pharisees made it illegal to speak in the name of Jesus. But after they had made it illegal, Peter and John said, "That's one law. We ain't going to be able to follow." And here's why. We've seen too much. We've heard too much. I might as well exit here to remain silent about what God has done. And so God give us the bonus to keep speaking your word and to keep doing signs and wonders in your name. And I wonder is anybody at one o'clock who wants to be a criminal with me real quick when you look back over your life. That's why you got so much audacity. You've seen God do too much. You've seen God make too many ways. You've seen God open too many doors. You've seen God come too through too many times for you to stop trusting Jesus now. For you to stop believing in his word now. I can't tell somebody don't you ever let anything or don't you ever let anybody take your testimony away from you. Don't you ever let anything put your praise on mute. Don't you ever let your circumstances turn you into a silent witness. But you ought to testify. No, I'm gonna be a Christian criminal. I'm a say to myself, I wish the devil would get me just one reason to say something about my Jesus. I wish this sickness would. I'm trying to stop me from trusting God. I wish these finances would. I'm trying to convince me that my God ain't worthy to be praised. I've got too much evidence and that gives me too much confidence that God will

make a way out of nowhere. That God will keep showing up in my life. That God will keep doing what no other power can do. Don't you shake a neighbor's hand and tell a neighbor? Have you seen him do anything? Have you seen him make a way for you? Well, I dare you to trust him and keep calling his name. I dare you to praise him and keep blessing his name. And the Bible says that after they said a man, the place where they were, it started to shake up and it started to move and it started to rock. I'm gonna see it one more time. After they said a man, the place that they were in, it started to move and it started to shake up and it started to rock. Can I tell you what that was? That was God saying to them, "If you've got some audacity to keep trusting me in the face of your circumstances, I've got some audacity to shake up some stuff." That's in your life. And I wish I had a believer in here who knows that your God can still shake some things up, that knows that your God can still turn some things around, who knows that your God can make a way out of nowhere. In fact, I want to tell somebody, it won't always be like this. The Lord will perfect that concerning you sooner or later. Look at your body, I took them sooner or later, sooner or later, it will turn Arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr! But joy is coming in the morning, it's getting ready to turn around, I've been feeling discouraged, but it's getting ready to turn around, because all things work together for the good of you, who love the Lord, and are called according to his purpose. It's getting ready to turn around, it's getting ready to turn around, it's getting ready to do a new thing, it's getting ready to make a new way. And remember, not just the former things of old, but the whole time I do a new thing, and it's going to show up, bring new in your life, anybody in here, got some audacity, that's the Lord's will, make a way, somebody shall somehow, somebody shall somehow, somebody shall somehow, God will step in, won't he do it, I said won't he do it, won't he make a way for it, won't he come through for you, won't he open doors for you, see yes, see yes, see yes, I know he's all right. I know he's all right, I know he's all right, I said anybody see him do it, I said anybody see him do it, anybody see him make a way, will give him glory. I said give him glory, give him praise, this shine, that I hate, the world didn't give it to me, and the world, they take it away, see yes, see yes. Do you have the audacity, the audacity to praise him, the audacity to lift him up, he said if I, if I be lifted up from the earth, I'll draw all men unto me, do you have the audacity, give the Lord praise, from the man of God, from the message from God, give God praise. [music] As our leaders come to stand with us, there may be somebody here who needs this audacity to speak boldly for Jesus. There's nothing better than knowing Jesus. If you never accepted him as Savior and Lord of your life, make your way down the aisle now. I see you coming, come on. If you're looking for a church home, come on. If you're here on your... the invitation is extended

all right you ought to know him is there another come on i see you come come on we're waiting on you ,then know it, please, you are the nowhere, come on, get the nowhere right now listen today is the time right now is there out i see you coming come on I'm not trying to frighten you in the coming but you do know tomorrow is not promised to you is there somebody else come on look pure evangelism right quickly turn to your neighbors around you ask them are you saying do you have a church where you're growing where you're going if the answer is no to either one of those tell them i can't walk for you but i'll walk with you you you ought to know him get to know him right now come on say that come on come on come on i see you coming come on come on somebody else today don't wait no hesitation don't procrastinate come on right now today just come come on i see you coming come on it's not too late come on yeah right now hallelujah right now he didn't say it in this service but he said it in the other two services and i'm going to testify for him dr davis said when he was down the street at texas southern university he was already a christian when he started coming to will avenue baptist church

but through his involvement in this church he went from being a christian to being a disciple we invite you to a church Where your Christian life will be enhanced and God will make you into his disciples. One more time, there's one somebody at least who needs to come and we're waiting on you. (upbeat music) Right now. Come on. (upbeat music) ♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪ ♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪ ♪ Right now, come on, come on ♪ ♪ We don't see even if this is one more time ♪ ♪ Come on ♪ ♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪ ♪ Come on, come on, come on ♪ ♪ Right now, come on, come on ♪ Right now. (upbeat music) Yeah, yeah. (upbeat music) (upbeat music) Let's give the Lord a hand to praise for these who come. (audience applauding) On behalf of our pastor, Dr. Marcus D. Cosby and on behalf of our entire church family, we're excited about what God is going to do through you in the life of our church to bless our church.

Our church has been made the better 'cause you marched down the aisle. Amen. We're looking forward to see what God is going to do not only through you, but for you and in you in the life of this church to bless your lives and to cause you to be a blessing to the lives that you encounter. We're excited about what God is doing here and what God is going to do in you. Amen. If you follow our deacons, they're gonna lead you to our new members, intake room. Amen. (audience applauding) Come on church, we can do better than that. Heaven is rejoined. (upbeat music) If I knew he was gonna preach like that, I'd call them by the wrong name, the other two times. (upbeat music) Dr. Davis, we thank you, literally. (audience applauding) Words cannot express or explain how you've blessed us throughout this day. And we just wanna say thank you. All right, you ready to go? Let's stand and praise God from whom all blessings flow. (upbeat music)

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