11AM The Third Pastoral Anniversary Celebration For Pastor Reginald W Sharpe Jr Dec 4, 2022-r

1:17:34 If your knees and ankles are working, get on your feet. And help me celebrate again our remarkable, incomparable, inimitable pastor and first lady Mr. and Mrs. He'll do more than you've ever expected Pastor Regina Wayne Shaw Lady Breonna Sullivan Shaw Make some noise Woo!

1:18:13 Y'all know why we making all this noise. It's a celebration. We got to do a better job because we wait till people gone and we grieve hard when they are with us and a blessing to us. We should celebrate harder than we grieve. And so one more time, go crazy. One, two, three, go. receive all of this in Jesus' name You may have your seats, everybody, all over the building. We are so grateful for sound, solid, strong leadership.

1:19:22 Any real pastor, it means overseer. Gerard, it's a hard job. we, we in our community call on the pastor for everything. everything.

1:19:53 The weight of the responsibility is great, but they don't wear the weight at all. They are as kind, thoughtful, generous, considerate. I am so proud. I could not be prouder of the choice. Reverend Evans was proud of his choice and I'm proud of mine They are fantastic people doing a fantastic job and what we're doing today, everybody, is very spiritual.

1:20:50 It's not just physical. It's not just tangible. It's very spiritual. This is a blessed day. It's a consecrated day. Miss Ann, this is a holy day. But it's a little different because Jesus said in Matthew 10, if you give the prophet a righteous man or any of these little ones a glass of water anybody that's been a blessing to you a glass of water he says you won't lose your reward to show you what that looks like in scripture what jesus was talking about is an image of a glass and a picture a picture you know not not in baseball but the picture you sit on your table that you put lemonade in or sweet tea in or whatever you put in your picture on Thanksgiving.

1:22:03 You know, at my church, we do messages and mimosas, so I don't know what was in your picture. The picture pause in the glass over and over again Sunday 8 o'clock 11 o'clock after church Monday, Tuesday, refueled, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, pour, pour, pour, pour. Jesus says for the pitcher that pours out, if you could get your glass and go back to the pitcher that is poured into you and pour back into one that pours out all the time, Jesus says, you don't even have to expect them to give it back to you.

1:23:21 I got you. Jesus says, I will make sure you don't lose your reward. If you study it, when he says you won't lose your reward, watch this, it means you already got it. you won't lose it. I already got your blessing in place. And I will make sure you don't lose the blessing I already have in place for you because you had the heart to demonstrate your gratitude and say, thank you for pouring into me. Now here I come. I want to pull back into you in a tangible way and express my gratitude. Somebody say word.

1:24:18 I want to show my gratitude with what I say. I want to tell you how much I appreciate you. Somebody say deed. Deed. I want to show you. I want to do something to demonstrate that I am grateful to you. somebody shout gift gift I want to give you something tangible to demonstrate my gratitude and my appreciation for what you've done for me there's an amazing passage in 1 Corinthians 9 9 where the apostle Paul says do not muzzle the ox that treads out the grain he reminds us too that this is spiritual and God has blessed this day in a special way as we pause to say thank you to this family that gives their life why did Paul use an ox to illustrate leadership the ox is symbolic of a servant leader they would put the ox in the middle of the field and the ox would tear the corn from the husks, would tread out the grain with their feet, and would make the grain, the blessing, easily accessible for people to just come scoop it up.

1:25:40 The ox would do the hard work. The ox, y'all, was celebrated for his sight. Ox had remarkable vision. the ox could see at a great distance as the ox also was celebrated for his strength the ox would pull carts and haul wagons pull carts and haul wagons the ox would operate and act as transportation FedEx, UPS, postal service and the ox would pull carts and haul wagons. Stuff was in wagons. So you can put all of your products, whatever you were trying to have, hauled.

1:26:36 The ox was a delivery so it could carry a whole lot of stuff. People, people were in the carts while the stuff was in the wagons. and so the ox had the ability to carry a lot of stuff and carry a lot of people You sit next to an ox. why did Paul use the ox because from Deuteronomy all the way to first Timothy the ox was dependable and the ox was successful you didn't have to worry about the ox would focus on getting the job done I'm gonna make sure that I tread out this grain and I'm focused on my focus. I ain't worried about no haters or no what people say about me or what people think.

1:27:34 I'm going to do my job. sight, vision, strength, carrying a lot of stuff, carrying a lot of people, success, getting the job done. That's what we celebrating today. We celebrating our ox. Sight. Hadn't he demonstrated great vision?

1:28:02 Fantastic sight. Strength. He's been carrying a whole lot of responsibilities, a whole lot of obligations. He's been carrying a whole lot of people with their stuff. Success, doing a fantastic job. And as we celebrate him, some of y'all are oxes. I don't know who this is for, but stop complaining about people calling you all the time for stuff. You the ox. and you're anointed to handle it.

1:28:40 Sight, strength, success. If we wanted anybody to be blessed, Darnell, it would be the ox. The ox has been pulling, hauling, seeing, getting it done, and they put a muzzle on it. making sure everybody else wants everybody else blessed but then they put a muzzle on them you can't have no grain you can't have no corn but the ox is making sure everybody else get it that's why Paul says do not muzzle the ox if God wants anybody to be blessed and if we wanted anybody to be blessed it would be the one who's working to make sure we're blessed Thank you. Does that make sense?

1:29:33 For some of y'all in your family, you ought to be the last one they're jealous of. If they want anybody to be blessed, it ought to be you. Coming to your house, eating up everything, need a ride everywhere, need to borrow money. calling you for everything and then don't want to see you with nothing. Can I talk to some real people? it is with that spirit and that attitude that we approach this day God gets the glory but he gives us the opportunity and the latitude to show people honor And so all over the building, everybody, as we celebrate today, I want you to prepare your hands and your hearts. We're going to get ready to give our tithes, our offerings, and we're also going to get ready to get a gift to honor the ox and the oxtress.

1:30:39 come on y'all get your tithes and get your offerings because this fellowship is seven ways to give it's seven ways to give pick your way the thing about tithers is God has promised God made a promise for the tither he says I got a window just for you I'm going to open it up and I'm going to pour you out a blessing that you don't have room enough to receive and before this year is out, somebody's going to see a window open.

1:31:24 The year is not over yet. God has still got time to blow your mind. All over the building, there's seven ways to give. Y'all got your envelopes ready, your phones ready, y'all are organized. I believe so much in the word on that tithing thing that my tithe is on automatic draft.

1:31:52 Yeah, just take it. And you know when your giving is automatic, your blessing is automatic. Yeah I want to encourage you to do automatic drive Don't even think about it Just let it come right on out And let God put it right on back in we're going to honor the pastor and the first lady. In addition, I want to ask everybody that can. There are different people that can do different things. And so I want to invite you to get in where you fit in. Everybody, as we celebrate three years, somebody shout three. There's so many significances for the number three, Father, Son, Holy Ghost. It's three, the Trinity.

1:32:41 Jesus stayed on the cross from the sixth to the ninth hour. It's three. Jesus rose in how many days? Three. What did he do after he was in the grave for three days? He rose. He ascended. We believe by faith with all that God has done, God is getting ready to take them and fellowship to a whole nother level. listen there's some of you that have the ability you can do a gift of 300 today i want to invite you to do it those of you who can do it i want to invite you to do it i said at the first service my wife and i have gone to a wedding and my wife will say babe before we go we got to get a gift we got to get a gift we can't just go to the wedding we got to take a gift baby shower we gotta we gotta do they have a gift registry we gotta get a gift college student trunk party we gotta get a gift baby shower we gotta get a gift guess what passes anniversary that's the attitude we should have according to the scriptures as many of you that can today you can give a $30 gift I want to invite you to get it his cash app is his cash app on the screen y'all know his cash app I want the Cash App to disrupt his service.

1:34:25 Just ding, ding, ding, ding, ding. We're going to honor God and we're going to do it the right way. And I'm so proud of them, but I'm so proud of y'all. And I'm so proud of our trustees. I'm so proud. I love y'all so much. Keith Sweat said, there's a right and a wrong way oh there's some R&B Christians in here to love somebody and fellowship y'all are doing it the right way is everybody ready to give alright we do it the same way at this service alright if you're giving stand listen to me these side buckets are for your tithes and your offerings.

1:35:22 This middle bucket is for the pastor. Stand from wherever you are on this first floor. If you're in the balcony, the ushers got you. If you're in the overflow, the ushers got you. If you're online, you got you. You know what to do. Come on, we're giving. If you're bringing gifts, bring them from all over the building. We're bringing them to the altar. Come on, come from all over the building. and bring whatever you're bringing to God be the glory hey Miss Long good to see you While you're coming from all over the building at 5 o'clock. sweet Holy Spirit I want to invite you to meet the pastor there and we don't want sweet Holy to have no seats make them sit outside take all the seats no that's real I remember we went to Pastor Johnny Miller one time they all, they whole church had to sit in the fellowship hall.

1:36:44 Take all the seats. Come on, bring your gifts after sweet Holy Spirit. I want to invite you to meet me at Greater Harvest tonight at 7. I'm making some old Reverend Clay Evans, James Cleveland music.

1:37:13 We're going to shoot a video at 7 tonight. We're wearing all white. Miss Walterine is coming. and y'all get on youtube where the house heads at at the 11 o'clock the house heads i did a never new love house remix it's almost at 20 000 views in a couple days y'all go run it up and say something nice in the comments say something nice in the comments say something nice in the comments if the pastor don't have nothing December the 29th I want y'all to go get your tickets and meet me at the city winery for a holiday praise party December 29th That's so kind.

1:38:30 Where is Deborah Cosey Lane? Come here. This is so kind. Pastor and Lady Bree, will you please join us on stage? Hello, fellowship. My name is Deborah Coles-Elaine. I'm the political coordinator.