Sunday Service - 2026-05-03

Welcome to the Lansdale Life Church podcast.

If you're seeking a closer relationship with Jesus Christ, this podcast is for you.

Thank you for joining us today.

Father God, we thank you for being here.

We thank you, Lord, that we can share communion together.

We thank you that our dear brother, PB, Pastor Bill Devlin is in the house.

You brought him in to us today.

Thank you for that, Lord.

And we're going to have communion together.

And, Lord, thank you that your word always speaks.

And you're the same yesterday, today, and forever.

So, Lord, as we open up your word, we ask you, Lord, to just penetrate

our heart and our mind so that we can really just discern you in the

Scriptures, in Jesus' name, amen.

Yeah, that was great.

You know, I'll tell you, the big takeaway I texted Jamie after I watched

the service and the big takeaway from me, you know, I love what he

said towards the end.

He said, you know, I used to pray, Lord, just pour down your spirit,

just like you did in Pentecost.

Just anoint me, Lord, with like new gifts of the spirit and all this.

And just like, just, just pour your spirit down upon me.

And then he heard in the inner core of voice, and I'm paraphrasing a lot.

Okay.

You'll have to listen back yourself.

But then he says, but you know what?

I heard the voice saying, why don't you release what I've already given you?

And I'm like, that's, that's so true.

I mean, he's poured so much, he's invested so much into you.

And he's saying, just release it.

Just start pouring it out to others.

Amen.

And so now we're going to look at Acts chapter three and only the

first 11 verses of it, and we're going to be looking at a miracle,

the first recorded miracle.

We know that there were miracles, you know, of course, before the

ascension of Christ, but after the ascension of Christ, we read

last week that there were going to be a lot of signs and wonders happening.

And in fact, if you can put that up, hi Tammy, you're running PowerPoint.

Good job today.

If you could put up Acts chapter two verse 43, and we, we skimmed over this

last week that they continued steadfastly in the apostles doctrine and

fellowship in the breaking of bread and in prayers, and then fear

came upon every soul and many signs and wonders were done through the apostles.

You know, by the way, when you look at those two verses, you can actually

see really five foundational things in the Christian lifestyle, those two

verses wrap it all together.

And I'll show you in that, first of all, the word of God, you know, back

then they didn't yet have the new Testament written, but the word of God,

they drew from the old Testament.

The next thing, fellowship, right?

Getting together, not only believers, but also just making sure we're

interacting with the world to bring the glory of God, right?

The next thing, breaking of bread, communion, which we're doing today,

praying, praying for one another.

And then finally signs and wonders, good works.

You know, we always think of signs and wonders as miraculous healings

and they're wonderful, but you know what?

Signs and wonders are someone getting saved, someone just

surrendering their life and saying, I need Jesus Christ.

That is a miracle.

Do you realize that?

That is the greatest miracle.

That's greater than any healing of the body because when your

soul gets healed, it's eternal.

And so right there, and those five foundations, actually, I just

want to mention is we have cell groups that we gather together.

Um, and they, they cover these five foundational concepts of Christian

life, and it's so good to really stay, uh, engaged in, in all parts

of Christianity.

Am I, am I reading the word enough?

Am I in fellowship enough?

Am I in communion, you know, have actually having communion

with other believers and am I praying enough and am I seeing

good works done through me, the fruit of the spirit pouring

out through me, you know, am I experiencing the fullness of

being a believer because we need all of those things operating

in our lives to really live that abundant life.

And if you want to talk more about that after the service, I'd

love to talk to you about these cell groups and really just

growing in these areas because, you know, Bible studies are awesome.

They really are, but why not experience the fullness of what it is

to be a believer?

We have a great life.

So anyway, so these signs and wonders were starting.

And of course they were starting before Christ even was crucified.

He anointed his disciples to do these things, but now it was spreading

out and these signs and wonders were happening.

And Jesus told his disciples, the last supper, you know, you should

be glad that I'm going to heaven to be with my father because when

I do, the Holy Spirit will come down upon you and he will

anoint you for many things.

And in John 14, 12, he said just this, most assuredly I say

to you, he who believes in me, the works that I do, he will

do also and greater works than these will he do because I go

to my father.

So we can expect amazing things to pour out from us to others in

our lives and people that we come in contact with.

And also just before Christ ascended probably the last couple

days or so in Mark chapter 16, he told his disciples these

things and these signs will follow those who believe in my

name.

They will cast out demons.

They will speak with new tongues and they will take up

serpents and if they drink anything deadly, it will by no

means hurt them.

And you know, all these things I've actually seen and

experienced or been part of and they will lay hands on the

sick and they will recover.

And that's what we're going to look at today, a healing, but

these signs and wonders yet.

Did you ever say, Lord, I want, I want to experience these

signs and wonders pouring out through me with the Lord saying

that, you know, these are things that can operate in our

lives.

And so we're going to read now about the first documented

healing through the hands of Peter and really laying hands

on the sick.

You know, we do it regularly here.

In fact, at the end of the service, we're going to have

prayers up here.

And if you're sick, if you have ailments and you would

want prayer, we're going to have a prayer team up here that

you can come up and receive prayer for those things.

And we believe that the fervent prayer of a believer

accomplishes a lot.

Do you believe that?

Like prayer accomplishes so much.

It's the fuel of the kingdom of God.

It really is.

And so anyway, without further ado, uh, I left my glasses

somewhere.

So anyway, Oh no, I didn't look at this.

I'm more equipped than I thought they're in here

somewhere.

Bear with me.

Just say hi to that person next to you.

If you didn't already, they're stuck there.

They're okay.

All right.

Ready?

I'm still in denial that even need these things, but

that's okay.

All right.

So acts chapter three, verse one, we're only going to

stop a couple of times.

So don't get annoyed.

Okay.

Ready now, Peter and John went up together to the temple at

the hour of prayer, the ninth hour.

So let's just stop there.

You're like, Oh, really?

But just for a minute.

Okay.

Again, there's only a couple of stops.

Okay.

But so they, they went into the temple for prayer at

the time of prayer.

And you know, it's really neat is if you study like

the Jewish tradition and so forth, they met for

prayer three times a day at 9 AM, 12 PM and 3 PM.

And they would meet together and you could see this

format in David's life, in Daniel's life, praying

three times a day.

And so they, they did this, but what's amazing is

that they had just gotten saved and baptized in

the Holy Spirit.

Okay.

And yet they still continue to do the things that

they knew were right.

They didn't suddenly say, I'm going to reject all,

all tradition, those things that the Lord

implanted in their lifestyle.

They say, well, that's still for today.

And so they went in to pray.

And when I was thinking about this, the time

from 9 AM to 3 PM, you know what happened during

that time also, Christ was crucified.

He was crucified at 9 AM at 12 PM.

The land became dark, pitch dark for three hours.

I mean, people were saying, what is happening?

I mean, this is like, this can't be an eclipse.

This is something deep and dark.

And then at 3 PM, the earthquake, he gave up a

spirit and the lights came back on.

And we see this whole picture.

Isn't it amazing that it lines right up with the

times of prayer, because Lord, the Lord was

fulfilling all the old things of traditional of, of

everything in the Jewish heritage, pointing to the

Messiah, and now he's saying it's for all of you.

And so, so they, they continue to do that and to

pray and now let's move on to verse two.

And a certain man lame from his mother's womb was

carried whom they laid daily at the gate of the

temple, which is called beautiful to ask alms from

those who entered the temple, who's seeing Peter

and John about to go into the temple, asked for alms.

So here's this beggar at the temple that his

family would bring, and they would lay him right

there at the door of entry.

And thank you, Tammy, right there.

And this, this, this gate, okay, which they

call the, the gate called beautiful was actually

called Nikkeinor, aren't you glad I took an

attempt at that, but Nikkeinor, and it was a

temple, it was the gate that led from the

courtyard of the, of the Gentiles.

You can see that's, that's all them.

Okay.

And if you're a Gentile, you got to stay out

here, but then the gates were opened.

Okay.

And you went in and first it was the court

of the women, everything was still segregated

in a sense, right?

And that was the courtyard of the women.

And then you went even deeper if you were a man.

And then of course, if you were a priest, you

went even deeper into the temple and so forth.

So this man was laid right here.

Okay.

So that he could beg from all the Jews going

in to worship God.

And when you think about what a strategic

place to be placed, right?

Um, you know, first of all, people are

going in, okay, to worship God.

Okay.

So as they enter, okay, they're thinking,

well, like, look at this poor guy, like here.

I mean, I, you know, I can't just walk past him.

Okay.

I'm going to praise God.

And yet this poor guy, he needs something, you

know, so it's a great place to give.

But if you even were, were calloused enough

to walk past him and go in and say, I don't

see him, I don't see him.

Okay.

And now you're in your worshiping God,

you're feeling so glad about everything.

And you're so grateful for your life and so

forth, and now you're coming out, I don't

see, that's hard, that's more difficult even

to walk out without giving him something.

Right.

So he was strategically placed in a perfect

place at the gate called beautiful.

You know, this gate, they say it could

have been as much as 75 feet high, this

doorway, okay.

And the doors were Corinthian brass.

They just glistened in the sun, you know,

and they were just beautiful.

And so that's why they call it the gate

called beautiful.

And as people went in, they would give him

money.

And so Peter and John were walking by and

they saw him.

And let's take another look at more of

the temple, just so you can get a better

picture of this.

So this would have been right there.

There's 15 steps.

Okay.

All the Gentiles were out here and out

here, and, but this was where he would

have been laid.

And this is called the Solomon's porch or

portico.

And you'll see this in verse 11, when they

went out there and started preaching with

the beggar that would be healed.

Okay.

This is a model.

If you could tell, this is actually,

this model is in Israel.

If you ever go to Israel, you could see

this and here's a walkway.

So this is very tiny because this

walkway, if a person was standing there,

they would look like a mammoth giant.

Okay.

And we actually stood there and looked at

the whole model, very cool.

And so, so that's the picture of it.

And so here we have this beggar at the

gate, and I found this cool painting.

Well, it's not the real painting, but

it's a photo of it, of this picture

painted sometime in the early 1700s of

this picture of, you know, of Peter and

John, and of course this beggar.

And, uh, as, as they speak to him.

And so, you know, as I was thinking

about this, right, he's, he's laying at

the doorway, okay.

So that he can get something as people

come in or come out, but he didn't crawl in.

I mean, if you're right there, why not

be brought in to the courtyard?

Okay.

And we can hypothesize many different

reasons, but here's what it reminded me of.

So our church gets a plethora of phone

calls throughout the year.

And we get calls from complete strangers.

Okay.

And they say my rent's behind, um, or

they say, you know, do you have any of

those food cards and, and constant,

you know, phone calls needing things.

And so, you know, we want to be good

stewards of God's money.

We don't know who they are, what

they really need.

We don't know anything.

So, and I start talking to them.

Well, do you belong to any churches?

Well, no, you know, okay.

Well, can you come in and let us meet you?

Okay.

Well, that right there kills about

95% of the requests.

Okay.

They can't even come once to meet us.

Okay.

And I'm getting somewhere with this is

that their issues could, could be

resolved by just coming into church and

meeting believers and meeting with God.

Do you realize that so many of our

problems we are in so much lack and need

because we refuse to enter in according

to God's design approaching him with

accountability, see just writing a check

or given a bit, we do it.

Don't get me wrong when people are hard

up and you know, we don't put strings

attached to all these things, but we

would rather give them something

formative in their lives that actually

transforms their lives, help them

transform their spirit, their soul, and

their actions that would truly change

their lives, but just handing them

something is like putting a band-aid

on a missing limb.

You know, it just, it doesn't accomplish

what God really wants to accomplish.

And it's sad because the church many

times has shifted to this humanitarian

giveaways without any accountability.

And it's, and it's not God's design.

If you notice, he taught for three days

before he fed the people.

Do you realize that?

He didn't start with the breakfast.

Three days, they were about to drop.

Then he's like, maybe we should

give him something to eat.

Okay.

And then the other time was a full day.

Okay.

And then you didn't hear about it anymore.

In fact, he even rebuked them.

You're only following me for the bread.

Do you remember that?

So I think sometimes our perspective

of Jesus just giving away, giving away

with no accountability is not Godly because

it doesn't truly transform the lives.

We have the government to do that.

Unfortunately, right?

Because there's no accountability

there at all.

Okay.

I'm not getting political by the way.

I'm just telling you the truth.

Right.

So anyway, but so, so, so

here we have this gentleman and he's

asking, he just wish he would come in,

you know, because things could really

change for him if he had just come in

and met with the Lord.

But anyway, he's meeting the

Lord through Peter and John.

So let's read on.

So where are we?

Verse four.

And fixing his eyes on him,

meaning Peter with John.

Peter said, look at us.

And so he gave them his attention

expecting to receive something from

them. And then Peter said, silver and

gold, I do not have, but what I do

have, I give you in the name of Jesus

Christ of Nazareth rise up and walk.

And he took him by the right hand

and lifted him up and immediately

his feet and ankle bones received

strength. And so he leaping up,

stood and walked and entered the

temple with them, walking,

leaping and praising God.

And all the people saw him walking

and praising God and verse 10.

And then they knew that it was he

who sat begging alms at the

beautiful gate of the temple.

And they were killed with their

killed. They were not killed.

They were filled with wonder and

amazement at what had happened to

him. And now verse 11 is where

we'll end now as the lame man

who was healed, held onto Peter

and John, all the people ran

together to them in at the in

the porch, which is called

Solomon's greatly were greatly

amazed. Sorry, I'm botching this

up the reading a little bit.

I've been up since three thirty.

You just can't go back to sleep

and you're like, but anyway, so

so here is this beggar.

And what's really cool is, do you

notice like he's hanging on

to Peter and John, not for

balance.

He didn't need to be balanced

because he already stood up.

He was hanging on to them for

love, for gratitude, for like,

man, I don't want to go

anywhere away from these guys.

These guys in introduce me to

the real power of God.

And so he's just going to follow

them from then on.

And that's so awesome to see

that. But let's rewind a little

bit and just show up on the

screen.

Acts chapter three verse seven.

He took him by the right hand

and lifted him up and immediately

his feet and ankle bones

received strength.

You know, what I thought was

really interesting and important

there is that Peter actually

took him by the hand.

Did you notice that?

Now, a lot of times in scripture

that doesn't happen.

OK, in fact, you know, Paul,

while he was walking along, he

saw someone who who had faith

to believe in healing.

And he said, get up.

And he got up.

Jesus did that to remember when

he saw the the the gentleman

with his mat at the portico,

I mean, the pool of Siloam.

And he's just like laying there,

you know, day after day,

year after year.

And every time the stirring of

the water, everyone gushes

towards there because the first

one in gets healed.

We're not going to get into

that today.

But you know, but he would just

lay there and he could never

get to the water in time.

He couldn't get past everybody.

And then Jesus, in fact, let's

show that I love this section.

John chapter five verse

six to eight.

Then Jesus saw him lying there

and knew that he already had been

in that condition for a long time.

He said to him, do you want

to be made well?

And the sick man answered him,

Sir, I have no man

to put me into the pool.

And when the water is stirred up.

I'm sorry, but when the water

is stirred up, but while I am

coming, another steps down before me.

Jesus said to him, rise,

take up your bed and walk.

In other words, he's like,

get up, get up.

OK, so sometimes the Lord

just says, get up.

You already have what you need.

But sometimes we need some

help getting up, right?

And in this case, this man

needed Peters assured

so you could do this.

You can get up.

Let me help you up.

You know, we all need

some help sometimes, don't we?

We all need mentors.

We all need people to pray over us

and to and to show us

what success and healing

looks like in our lives.

We all need that, you know, in fact,

I love this quote from Henry Ford.

Sorry, Tammy, I'm all over

the place up there.

But did you ever see this?

In fact, it's on one of

the Ford commercials,

whether you think you can

or think you can't.

You're right.

I put that up sometime in the past.

But isn't that so true?

As a man thinks, so is he right?

And if you think you're already right,

because if you don't think you can.

Right. Sometimes we need encouragement

believing that we can.

You know, even Henry Ford had a mentor

and you know who it was?

Thomas Edison.

Yeah, the inventor of light bulbs.

He was working for his company

and he started talking about

these fuel combustion engines

and and, you know, and Thomas Edison

is like, sounds great.

You should pursue that, you know.

Who knows how else he helped him

get to where he was?

But like we all need someone

to believe in us, to believe

what God wants to do in us now,

whether it be physical healing.

But I'm really have more of a focus

today on life healing,

transformative living.

In other words, believing that I already

have everything I need to achieve.

I don't need anything else right now

to accomplish everything

the Lord wants to do in me.

And I just believe that

whether I'm limping, crawling, whatever.

I have what I need today

to accomplish what the Lord has for me.

I don't need any more.

I don't lack.

No matter what I do or don't have,

I don't lack.

You remember, even even Paul said,

you know, sometimes I had a lot,

sometimes I had a little.

And here's a guy

who had scars all over him, OK,

who probably could barely see

from being beat so many times

and his optical nerve

probably being damaged.

I mean, he went through

a thing or two.

If you ever see his resume

of punishment, it's long and lengthy.

Right.

And yet he said, through all of this,

I could do all things

through Christ who strengthens me.

I don't need more.

People always think that

that has to do with like

winning a boxing match

or or something like that.

No, it has to do with

being able to endure

and actually succeed

through any life's circumstances.

We can do exactly what we need to do.

Do you believe that?

Yeah, because not all of us

are going to be healed.

Not all of us are going to be

some of these ailments

in our tents here in this world

are all going to be fixed.

And you know that some things

for one reason or another may stay.

OK, but guess what?

I have what I need.

I have everything I need to succeed.

I don't need more.

Neither do you.

You could pray for more.

Lord, I really want this.

I really, Lord, please just help me.

You know, if you can help me,

if you can heal this in my body,

and that's totally just

to pray for those things.

In fact, if you don't pray

for those things, it might

reflect some doubt.

Don't doubt.

OK, pray for everything.

But you have what you need.

According to God's will,

you have it already.

Because if we're just going to pray

and pray and pray for something

that for one reason or another,

the Lord has just allowed it

to persist in your life.

And you're not going to start

anything else until this happens.

It's going to be possibly

a lot of wasted days

or years of your life

while you're waiting for something

that may not happen.

You have what you need.

Now, the Lord, he chose

to heal this beggar.

You know, he was looking

for a hand out.

But he got a hand up.

Amen.

Like, that's the problem

in this world, everyone

like everyone who calls

our church and everything just

can I have, can I have, can I have?

And they're just looking

for something that is like a band aid.

Dude, you need a brand new life.

You don't need a bandage.

You need a whole new life.

You need a new heart.

You need everything.

Forget about the band aid.

You need every you don't need a meal.

You need a new life.

That's what you need.

That's what this world needs.

And unfortunately, people are even

coming to the church for the hand out.

But the Lord wants to lift us up.

I love what he says.

If you if you humble yourself

beneath the mighty hand of the Lord,

he does what?

He lifts you up.

He lifts you up.

Amen.

This man was just looking for so little

and he got so much.

I think we can't satisfy for the temporal things.

We don't even want to be satisfied

with physical healing.

We want it all.

Lord, I want everything.

I want to be everything you want me to be.

I want to be the temple of the Holy Spirit

moving in power and might able to walk on water,

whether it be physical or symbolic.

I want to be able to walk through the fire

and not burn.

I want to be able to cast out the demons

and people's life.

I want Lord, I want it all.

Don't you want it all?

Why are we so satisfied with temporal things?

I want eternal things.

We don't fix our eyes on the temporal.

We fix our eyes on the eternal.

You know, when we keep our eyes on things

that are not yet,

and I don't want to sound like Kamala Harris

for a minute, okay?

What then?

But we keep our eyes fixed on things that are not yet,

but believe they will be.

They happen.

Because we create through our faith.

We create through what we believe God is going to do.

You know, I believe that the Lord

is going to bring peace somehow,

some way over in Iran.

I'm going to believe it.

And I know there's a lot of evil and conspiracies

and all this stuff, you know?

But I want to believe that God wants to bring unity

and salvation to the Muslims.

Why not?

They're so fervent after a false God.

How fervent will they be after the real creator?

The real Messiah, Jesus Christ.

Amen.

And then Israel, you know,

they're still rejecting the Messiah.

What if the Lord does something here and now?

But you know what, if he doesn't,

we Christians have to stay the course

and stay on track tethered to Jesus Christ.

You know, our hope is not anchored in Donald Trump.

Our hope is not anchored in Israel.

Our hope is not anchored in even peace in the Middle East.

Our hope is not anchored in any of that.

Where's our hope anchored in?

Jesus Christ behind the veil,

where our forerunner is,

our author and finisher of our faith.

Amen.

You know, hallelujah.

You know, we can't get anchored in the situations of today.

We just can't.

It's just going to pull us down to the lower depths

if we get dragged into this,

if we're tethered in heaven.

I always love this picture, really,

of like being suspended from the things in this world.

Because we're anchored in heaven.

Whatever happens down here, all right,

I'm hanging above it.

I'm hanging.

I'm just hanging out here, okay?

Yeah, I see that, I see that, I see that.

But guess what?

I'm not anchored to any of it.

I'm anchored from above.

Amen.

And then we can truly see things clearly

and say, okay, I get it.

All right, I see this.

Yeah, this doesn't look right.

That doesn't look right.

But he looks right.

He's always right.

He's the same yesterday, today, and forever.

He never changes.

The things down here will continue to change.

They'll continue to be evil.

Sometimes they'll continue to start getting good.

But guess what?

We know there's going to be a new heaven and a new earth.

We got to keep our eyes fixed on eternity

and keep the kingdom of God.

That's where our, we're citizens of the kingdom of heaven.

That's where we're from.

Right now we're in exile, in a sense, on this planet.

But we could still thrive.

That's what always struck me

that the Lord allowed Israel to thrive in exile.

Did you ever realize that?

They thrived.

They didn't want to go back home.

And like God said, oh, I treated them too well out here.

They don't want to go back now, okay?

He said, no, no, just settle in there

because eventually you're going to go back home.

Well, the Lord is going to bless us here

and even more so beyond, amen?

We'll just finish up and we're going to have some communion.

I hope I wasn't all over the place.

I feel like I was, but you know,

are you tracking me a little bit?

Praise God, amen.

Thank you, Lord.

See, the Lord can use a donkey.

But I just wanted to show you, again,

this last word that in Acts three, nine to 10,

and all the people saw him, again, the beggar,

but now he's walking and praising God, okay?

He's praising God.

And then they knew that it was he who sat begging alms

at the beautiful gate of the temple,

and they were filled with wonder and amazement

at what happened to them.

You know, we all have a testimony.

We all have one.

If you don't, perhaps you don't know the Lord yet

because once you give your life to the Lord,

you're going to have a testimony.

Looking back at how dirty and rotten I was.

Really, Jill can give an amen to that.

No, please don't.

No, but really, I mean, we're all,

like no one's better than anyone else.

You ever think about that?

It's level ground at the foot of the cross.

No one deserves anything.

It's Jesus Christ who did it all, right?

And so when they saw this beggar, I'm like, what?

Praising God, he's that dirty guy.

And look at him.

And we thought that it was all the sin

in his parents' lives or his life.

That's why he's crippling all.

But look at him.

Like he's praising God.

You know, that's your life.

When you suddenly are born again

and you're praising God and you're saying,

man, I have a new life.

I am a new creation.

Walking in the newness of life.

That's you when you come to Jesus Christ

and surrender your life.

That's you, amen?

Amen.

So we're going to have communion now

as the gentlemen start passing that out.

And why don't we have the worship team come on up?

I know it's a little bit early, but...

Pastor, will you come on up, please?

I'm going to give a little intro.

Most of you know PB,

the Indiana Jones of the gospel, I call him.

Oh, yeah.

See, Frank never heard that identity idea.

Come with me.

Yeah.

To Nigeria, Northern Nigeria.

But PB is just a dear friend of ours

and we've known him for years and years.

And he'll be preaching sometime soon.

And when he comes, he brings fire

because of the things that the Lord brings him through.

Somehow you're still never burned.

You smell better and better, do you know that?

You smell like Jesus.

More and more each trip you take.

Let me give you a mic, hold on.

Praise the Lord, Lansdale Life.

Great to be with you.

Let's give Jesus a hand clap

for what he's doing here this morning.

Amen, amen, hallelujah.

I am just in from Northern Nigeria.

I was there to rescue eight children.

There were 16 children kidnapped

by the Islamists six years ago

in order to Islamize them and convert them to Islam.

And went there with the authority

of the Lord Jesus Christ, amen.

Went there a year ago and a mob showed up

and they wanted to stone me to death.

And as we take the Lord's supper this morning,

oftentimes people say, well, what's a Christian?

Here's a definition I want you to memorize today.

You know what a Christian is?

It's one beggar telling other beggars

where to find bread, amen.

I'm just a beggar, amen.

Begging for the Lord's grace.

And as you take the bread and the cup this morning,

remember that communion has a past influence in your life,

a present and a future.

And as I stood in the midst of that mob

that were ready to take up stones to stone me

on March 19th, 2025, straight up raw and uncooked.

And you know what I said?

I was here with my two Nigerian team leaders.

I said, Lord, as the mob was gathering

and they were shouting, let's stone him, let's stone him.

And there I am dressed like this.

And that's why I like to dress like this pastor

because I want to stand out a little bit, amen.

For Jesus.

And I just closed my eyes and I said, Lord,

if that's how you want me to go,

if you want me to enter in to the communion of St. Stephen

and be stoned to death.

And I said, Lord, my life is not my own, amen.

And your life is not your own.

For us to live as Christ, to die as gain, amen.

I am crucified with Christ.

Nevertheless I live, yet not I, but Christ lives in me.

And the life that I now live is we take the Lord's supper.

I live by the grace of the Son of God who loved me

and gave his life for us.

Do you believe that Lansdale life?

Do you believe that Lansdale life?

Do you believe that Lansdale life?

So we remember the death of Jesus Christ.

That's the past influence in our life.

And what's the current that we can be empowered

like release when you first made the intro,

release that power within me.

You know, you have the power right now,

the same power in your chest

that raised Jesus from the dead.

You got it.

And that's why as that mob was gathering,

and I said, Lord, if you want me to join St. Stephen,

I'm ready.

And then we prayed against spiritual wickedness

in high places.

We prayed against principalities and powers

and rulers of darkness in high places.

And we stretched out our hands to three of us

and we said, Lord, deliver us from evil, bang, bang.

And the Lord delivered us from evil that day

in order to live another day.

And we took authority in the name of the Lord Jesus Christ.

So I go on death-defying missions.

And if you want to come with me,

I'll pay for a one-way flight.

We'll get you fitted before you leave.

And man, I only take man,

make sure you have a lot of life insurance, amen.

Your wife will be very, very happy, amen, hallelujah.

But we live for Christ.

So the current is the power of Christ released in us

as we take the bread and the cup, amen.

And then what's the future?

Well, you're taking the bread and cup this morning

to remember Jesus is coming back, amen.

And it might be today, amen.

Can you imagine what if Jesus came

at like two o'clock today?

Are you ready?

Amen, are you ready?

Okay, you sound ready if you're not ready.

See Pastor Chris afterwards.

You can get your ticket punched today, baby.

Come on, up in here, up in here.

If you don't know Jesus,

you can get your ticket punched today

by the blood of the lamb slain before the foundations

before the world was laid down, amen.

And it's also a time for those of you who are believers,

it's a time to examine ourselves.

Lord, you heard the message this morning.

When you take the bread and cup,

you should be like that beggar.

You should leave out of here to your car,

walking and leaping and praising God.

My sins are forgiven, amen.

We should walk and leap and praise God.

We should be leapers.

John the Baptist was a leaper, right?

He was a womb leaper, amen.

He left an Elizabeth womb

when he heard the message of the Lord Jesus Christ.

So are you leapers?

Yes.

We wanna be leapers and praisers and walkers, amen.

I know Pastor Chris, you're a leaper, amen, amen.

So let's examine ourselves.

Let's just close our eyes

and before we take the bread and the cup.

You know, Jesus is the bread of life.

As Pastor Chris said, we are nothing without him.

And so you're taking the bread

that is a symbol of his body

and the sustenance and the bread.

As you take that bread into your mouth,

it should remind you that everything you have

comes from Jesus the Messiah.

In our hands we bring nothing,

but in his hands he brings everything.

And so the word of God says for,

and this is Paul,

I've received of the Lord something

that I'm also gonna say to you.

And here's the good words,

that the Lord Jesus, the same night

in which he was betrayed, he took bread.

And when he had given thanks to the Father

and to those in the upper room, he broke it,

which was a symbol of what he would do

in a few short hours.

He broke the bread and he said,

and we say to you, take eat,

this is my body which is broken for you,

this due in remembrance of me.

So let's take the bread together.

And then after this same manner, Jesus took the cup.

And you know what the cup is?

The cup is a symbol of God's holy wrath.

And Jesus would drink the cup of God's wrath

till the very bottom, drink it to the dregs.

Jesus did it so we wouldn't have to, amen?

And so Jesus says to his disciples,

this is the cup of the New Testament in my blood.

This due you as often as you drink it

in remembrance of me.

So let's drink the cup together.

Remembering that Jesus, the King of Kings

and the Lord of Lords, God becoming man,

he drank the cup of God's wrath.

So as our eyes are bowed, as our eyes are closed

and our heads are bowed, and our eyes are bowed too.

Lord, thank you for this gift

of the past remembrance of your death.

And thank you for the present remembrance

that we have the power of the Lord Jesus Christ

to do signs and wonders, hallelujah.

And Lord, it's also a reminder of your future coming.

So we give all honor, glory, praise and adoration.

Lord, fill us to overflowing.

Help us to be done with discouragement.

Help us to be done with depression.

Help us to be done with despotency.

Help us to be done with distress and live as believers

in the new life of Jesus Christ

because we have taken the bread and the cup.

And we pray this in the name of God the Father,

God the Son and God the Holy Spirit

in Jesus' mighty name, we pray.

And all God's little people and little beggars shouted.

Amen.

Whoo!

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as we praise God and discuss his word.

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