First Responders | Reggie Dabbs

0:46 It's a good day, man. What a great praise and worship. Clap for the praise and worship team. Y'all did a great job. Great job, great job. I know Pastor already said that our young people are at camp. Which is why I'm here. I am speaking to our young people tonight up at camp. And some of you are enjoying your extra holiday without your child.

1:13 But I would like to, I'm just going to let you know what I'm preaching for our kids tonight. Because you need to know. I'm using Paul and Silas when they were into prison. They were beaten and put in the inner court. and how while they were in that inner court, at midnight they started to sing praises to God. They were beaten, they were bleeding, they were in chains and they kept on praising. I think our young people need to have their own Holy Ghost story. I think our young people need to go back after tonight and say, I remember a Sunday night in August, something went down at a camp I was at and I was never ever the same ever again. He is the same God yesterday, today, and forever. And tonight, that same Holy Spirit is going to fall on our children. If you feel in your heart that God wants to touch our children, can you, for the next 10 seconds, give him praise in advance of what's going to happen to our kids at camp tonight.

2:15 Thank you for touching our kids. Thank you for healing our kids. Thank you for taking away that attitude. Thank you, God, for what you're going to do. Thank you for saving them. Thank you for changing them forever in Jesus' name. And if you agree with me, say amen, amen, amen. You can sit down if you can. If you're brand new and never seen me before, if you've never seen a Madea movie, this is going to scare you a little bit. But if you have, you're going to be right at home. Going to be right at home. Let me read a scripture for today for you. I'm just going to be with you a few minutes. in the book of Ezekiel chapter 22, verse 30. When we read the word of God, it simply says this. God said, and I sought for a man among them that should make up the hedge and stand in the gap before me for the land that I should not destroy it.

3:13 But I found none. I found none. In the few minutes I'm with you this morning, I want to speak to you on this simple topic, first responders. First responders. Now, as we get into this, hear me out. When we hear first responders, that means something happened. You hear first responders, that means something went wrong, whether it be a natural disaster or someone with a gun.

3:46 Again, this past week in Minneapolis, we see what evil can do. Some reporters reported that the kids were praying and God couldn't save them. They need to take a step back for a second. Because hear me, whenever disaster strikes, first thing we do is pray.

4:10 Hear me today. I'm talking to everybody in this room. You may be the one who needs a first responder. I don't know if you've ever been in a car accident or ever been pinned in a car. You think everything's over until you hear that sound of a siren. Because that sound doesn't just mean get out of the way. It means help is coming. We live in a world that needs to hear that sound, that help is coming. And I'm here to tell you this morning, Free Chapel, we're the help. Many of you have done things so that young people not only can go to camp, but go to forward conference. You've given so that kids can come and be trained for ministry here. Free Chapel is nothing but a beacon. You may not realize it, but you think you came to a church today. But you came to a hospital.

5:05 Because we came for the sick and the broken, for the messed up and the lonely. We came for the addicted. We came for the ones who can't see tomorrow because of the hurt they see today. Somebody touch your neighbor and say, let's go. In Jesus' name. In the book of Jude, verse 22 and 23, the Bible says, Be merciful to those who doubt. Save others by snatching them from the fire. To others show mercy mixed with fear, hating even the clothing stained by corrupt flesh. If you're here today. If you doubt, you're in a good room. If you need mercy, you're in a great room. If you're lost, you're in the perfect room. I've said a lot, but I'll say it one more time.

5:58 If you're a sinner and you love your sin, you need to pretend you gotta go to the bathroom, get up and get as far away from me as you can. Because the longer you stay in this room, the more in jeopardy your nasty is at leaving you in Jesus' name. Now you know what else is good? Ain't nobody gonna do nothing because if you get up your whole row gonna go you know he nasty I'm just saying

6:21 Hey, would y'all walk with me for a second is that okay? Hey, can I I feel like I always act like I'm at home and I'm free chapel, but let me explain Let me let me take you down the road Everybody touch your neighbor and say you're the man I now say you're the woman It's like God ain't talking to others. He's talking to you He's talking to you At the end of my junior year in high school, before my senior year in high school, I fell in love with a girl named Lisa and she was the prettiest girl I've ever seen in my life. How pretty was she? I went to summer school with her. she pretty and in summer school I just got to hang out with her every day and and what I didn't realize was until football started when football started one day the counselor came out to the football field whenever the counselor show up somebody in trouble and when the coach blew the whistle and said Reggie come here I'm like what when I walked over the counselor said why did you go to summer school? And I said, Lisa. And she said, she is pretty. I'm just saying. And then she said, you only need one class to graduate high school. All you got to take is government. I said, well, that's a good thing. She goes, no, you got to be in school five hours to qualify for football.

7:44 We got to make up a schedule. So first period, I had gym assistant. Second period, I had gym assistant. Third period, I had government. Fourth period, I had jazz band. I play saxophone. Fifth period, I had football. It's a good year, right? Until one day, the first day of school. I showed up in gym and I said, coach, what do you need? And he said, oh, Reggie, they changed your schedule. Go to the office, get your new schedule and go to that class. They're going to be waiting for you. So I went to the office. Now, if you are a superintendent or a principal of a school, you think you're in charge but you're not if you've ever been to the front office of any school those ladies behind that desk run the whole joint clap your hands you know i'm telling them talk about none shall pass i walked in i knew all of them there were four ladies i hugged them all said y'all miss me y'all miss me oh reggie here go to the fourth floor room 402 they're waiting for you. And I went, we got four floors. I've been in there three years. I didn't even know we had a four. When I got to the fourth floor, there was four floors. There was double doors with two letters atop. One was the letter A and the other was P. I didn't have no idea. I went to room 402. I opened the door. I look in, there's 22 people. I only knew one. He was the kicker on the football team.

9:04 Now look at me. Kickers are smart. They know which way to win blowing and everything. He looked at me. I looked at him. He said, what are you doing? I said, they sent me here. He said, no, Reggie, run. I don't ask. I turned, started to run, and a familiar voice went, no, no, no, baby, hold on. You're in the right place. I turn around. It's my mother. Oh, for those of you who are new, I grew up in foster care my entire life. I grew up in foster care. My real mom gave me away to her favorite teacher at school. So my foster care mom was an English teacher at the high school. She petitioned the school board so that they would give her permission to teach me my last year of high school. She was then the advanced college prep teacher for English.

9:54 And the educators put me in her classroom. What is wrong with people? I wanted Jesus to come back, but he didn't. But I'm here to tell y'all right now, we need first responders. You know why we need first responders from the heavenly realm? Because Jesus is coming soon. And you know what? Even the Bible says he will send us signs that he's coming back. And I saw a sign yesterday. When Florida State beat Alabama, I knew Jesus coming. I'm sorry. I'm so sorry, but I am a Tennessee boy, and I had to just throw him under the bus. here go hey roll that tide hey all the alabama people like i hate him it's okay it's okay it's okay no no no are y'all with me say yeah i know it's long but you we'll get there we'll get there so i had a year in a college prep course when i got there that first day, my mom, the teacher, handed out a piece of paper. She said, we're treating this like a college class, so this is your syllabus or syllabi. Everything you need to pass my class is right here on this paper. I started reading it, and I got very ill, very ill, like I wanted to just throw up, okay?

11:22 It said, in the course of this year, you will read eight books, and after each book, write a 10-page essay on each book you will be graded by the essay and that will be your final grade look at you people all of y'all looking at me like what's the big deal here's what the big deal is I didn't grow up in this time I didn't grow up in this space you people got everything you got an A to the I to read the book to you I had to use my eyes to read the book to me people what is this man I I had dinner with some college kids. One of them looked at me and goes, how did you grow up back then? I said, what you trying to say? He said, if you had a flat tire, what did you do? I said, walk.

12:11 He goes, how did you find someone's phone number? Memorize it. And I'm like, what is the world is this? No. Now, look, I know you're in suspense. Everybody's on the edge of their seat. You're like, how did it go? With two weeks to go in school. I got my final grade. Once again, here's this whole age barrier. Some of you are like, so you got the text and your final grade was there. No. Every teacher back then had what they call a grade book. And when it came for you to see your grade, you walk up and they had a piece of paper covering everyone else's grade. And they show you the line with your eight scores and the final grade in a red marker on the end. Jesus' blood can wash away all sin. Just so y'all not too crazy, just so you know, I made a C plus. Clap your hands, C plus. C's get degrees. I'm 10. I will not say that tonight to your children, though. I was so happy. And then my mom gets up And she goes, okay, class, y'all finished earlier than anybody else.

13:20 We still got two weeks of school left. What do you want to do? And I raised my hand. I said, let's pretend it's kindergarten. Get those little rubber mats and take a nap. It's 7.45 in the morning, y'all. Other kids, it didn't matter. But then there's just one. There's always one. There's always one. One. This little brother went, can we read one more book? I pointed at him and said, I'm going to find you in the bathroom, dude.

13:50 And my mom goes, yes! Everyone bring your favorite book tomorrow. We're just going to read it. And you know what? Just for the fun of it, let's write one last 10-page paper. So I raised my hand, I said, any book? She went, yeah, any book. so I wrote my last paper in high school on that literary masterpiece, Humpty Dumpty.

14:17 Oh, come on, y'all, help me out. Humpty Dumpty sit on her. Humpty Dumpty had a great. All the and all the couldn't put Humpty together. Y'all don't understand. I wish I had it today. I wrote this paper. I was the man. I broke it down. I said, Humpty Dumpty. First of all, I don't know where those eyes and arms and legs came from. But he had to be a teenager because if he an old man sitting on the wall, he too old to be doing that. Not only was he a teenager, he was on drugs. He on crack, all right? Because he thought he could fly, all right? I'm just saying. But I wrote it out. I said, listen, it says all the king's horses, all the king's men couldn't put Humpty together again. And my conclusion was the best. I said, if all the king's horses were there and if all the king's men were there, then the king had to be there too. So next time you mess up next time you crack your egghead next time you do something wrong Don't go to a horse. Don't go to a man go to the king I made a mistake.

15:22 Last day of school was Thursday. On Monday, I handed my paper in to my mom, and I said, here you go, mom. I love you. I enjoyed this so much. I went to my seat and sit down. She started reading my paper. She stopped at class and said, okay, everybody listen to my son's paper. And she read my paper for the whole room. Everybody was laughing, clapping, giving me high five. I'm like, word, I'm going to be an author when I grow up. Then she did something I didn't expect. She looked at me and went, well, that was entertaining. Everybody clapped. and she tore my paper up like confetti at a Toby Mac concert. Threw it in the air and said, this is trash. Come up here. You got to do another book. what kind of mother was this? I know some of you are like, that's abuse. Yeah, in 2025.

16:15 When I grew up, that was called correction. That's what that was. That was called training a child in a way he should go. That's what that was called. That was called I'm your mama. That's what that was called. She said, listen, you got three days. She opened the bottom drawer of her desk and pulled out a book. She goes, read it. I want a paper by Thursday. I love you. This is for your own good. Now, I can notice right now everybody's highly entertained because I really do know how to tell a story, but there is a point to this, and here it is. It's the book that she gave me from her bottom desk drawer. I asked later in life about that book. I said, Mama, were you a whole point for me to read that book? She said, when I went to the Board of Education to petition you being in my class, it was for this book.

17:10 And it was for that chapter. I said, so instead of just saying, could you just read this for me? You decided to do it. She goes, no, I had your attention. Everybody say chapter nine. Let me explain the book. The book had four letters in the middle on the cover. M-A-S-H, MASH. Underneath was a series of numbers, 4077. Now here it is. It was called the 4077 MASH. I can tell by some of you, you're my age. In the 70s and 80s, there was a sitcom about a war called the Korean War, about a mobile hospital unit called the 4077 MASH. It was about doctors and nurses and orderlies and what they did to save soldiers who were wounded to save their life. but that whole sitcom came from this book. I don't even think it's in print anymore, but check this out.

18:02 By the time I started reading that book, I knew one thing, one thing only. I had till Thursday, or a whole year of writing papers goes under the bus. So I'm reading this thing, and when I got to chapter eight, I had been set up. The book is about the doctors, the nurses, the orderlies, how they did stuff every day. By the time I got to chapter eight, they had found out this. that while they were saving soldiers' lives, other soldiers were dying. Before they could get to them, they would die. They would bleed out. In other words, some of the soldiers who died only needed stitches, but they never got to them in time. And they didn't have to die, but nobody was there to help them. That's pretty good, isn't it? Because you think to yourself that you're here because I'm just here because I go to church because God saved me. But God didn't just save you so you can go to church. He saved you so that you could be a first responder in someone else's life. There are people you meet that Pastor Jensen can't even reach, Reggie can't reach, Pastor Tracy can't reach, but because you're in their life, you hold the key to their eternal soul. So in other words, you are a first responder. So watch this. Chapter nine was called tag changer. Everybody say tag changer. And here it is. When they realized that all these soldiers were dying, they came up with an idea that every day they would rotate one doctor, two nurses. Each doctor would pre-check every wounded soldier that came in that day. The nurse behind him had her pockets full of tags.

19:44 Everybody say tags. Let me explain. The first tag was yellow. If you were giving a yellow tag, Yellow means you're hurt really, really bad. Yellow means you may not make it. Yellow means we got to do something to help you. If we don't, you will die. Yellow. If you can't get yellow, you get blue. Everybody say blue. Blue means you need surgery. Now, it means we got to get to orderly, take you into surgery, and do our best to save your life. So you want yellow. If you can't get yellow, you want blue. But you know what you don't want? Red. Everybody say red. Red means there's nothing we can do. Red means you're dead. You just not stop breathing yet. Now watch. It's a true story, true book, Korean War.

20:32 The doctor would go through and just call out the colors. The nurse behind him would put the tag on the wrist or on the ankle. The last nurse was called the kiss of death. All she had was vows and vows of morphine, enough to kill a horse. and all she would look for is the red tag. If she saw a red tag, she would aim for the arm or the thigh, push it in, count to 22, put the sheet over the face because the soldier would be dead. Crazy. One day that doctor is doing his thing. There was a people everywhere and he's just calling it out, calling it out, calling it out. He's like yellow, yellow, blue, blue, blue. And the girl is tagging him, tagging him. He came to one soldier and he simply goes red and he kept walking, kept going. Then she put a red tag on the wrist. She kept going. Then the girl came with the shot.

21:24 She was aiming for the thigh. And right when she came down, the soldier opened his eyes. He grabbed her hand and said, it's okay. It's okay. It's okay. Tell my wife I love her. Tell my kids I love them. You got to do what you got to do. I understand. And he closed his eyes. That nurse was moved so much. She looked around. Everybody's doing their job. She looked around and she realized.

21:44 So she grabbed scissors out of her back pocket. She clipped off the blue tag. She put, she put, she kept off the red tag and put a blue tag on it. And when she did, she said, orderlies, blue tag, blue tag. They came and grabbed him and they took him away. One day goes by, two days. After seven days, she forgot what she had done. One month, two months, three months later, they had zero wounded soldiers for seven days. Seven days, not one wounded soldier. On the morning of the 8th, they heard helicopter. When it landed, all of a sudden, these guys get out. The orderlies are there to go, where's the wounded soldiers? They go, no, no, no. We're special forces. He's coming. and they went in the woods. They heard truck engines so they run there thinking it was an ambulance. When they got there, it was more soldiers. None of them wounded. They said, well, what were you doing? He goes, he's coming. And then all of a sudden a car came. Flags all over it. When the door opened, a man stepped out.

22:38 He had five stars on his shoulder. When he stepped out, he was cool. He's Southern. He goes, how y'all doing? He looked around, he goes, could I see all the doctors and nurses in the cafeteria? I'll be there in a second. When he walked in the cafeteria, every doctor and nurse is there. They all stood up. They saluted. And when they saluted, he goes, no, go ahead, sit down. I won't keep you long. I've given you a week off. We sent the wounded soldiers other places. But I got a question. He snapped his finger. And this kid ran up with a patient chart, had a red slash through it. He goes, what's this red slash? And the head doctor goes, we use yellow if we can fix you. We use blue if you need surgery. but red means there's nothing we can do. The injuries were too severe. He goes, okay, so this guy, where would he be? He goes, when was he? He goes, three months ago. He's in Arlington Cemetery. He's in his hometown cemetery. He goes, okay, what if I told you he's at home with his wife and kids?

23:30 What if I told you that for three months, the Pentagon was trying to figure out how this brother fell through the gaps? What if I told you that the Pentagon and all the smart people decided somebody at this mobile hospital unit, that somebody in this mass unit switched that tag. I came to find out who did it. And he looked up and he goes, I got all day. I just want to know who did it. And as he waited and waited, the girl, the nurse, was on the three from the back row. She stood up and made it to the aisle. When she got in the aisle, he saw her and he went, you! It was you! And this five-star general took off running. He turned the corner, fell. He didn't even get up. He crawled on his hands and knees, grabbed her by the ankles. Everybody's making comments. But when everybody got quiet, all they can hear, all they can hear echoing through that cafeteria was a five-star general screaming to the top of his lungs. That was my son.

24:25 You saved my son. Hey, look at me. Look at me. If you're here today and you're lost, I ain't nothing but a brother from another mother. I'm here to tell you God's got you. He put you in this room for a reason. He let you hear this sermon for a reason. All I am is a tag changer to tell you there's hope for you. But it starts with Romans 10, 9. If you declare with your mouth that Jesus Christ is Lord and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved. You will be saved. He can cut the tag of sin. He can tuck the tag. He can cut it all off and save your life. But you got to choose him. You got to choose him. to everybody else. Here's the deal.

25:14 I'm going to save my verse for the end. I've got a verse for everybody else, but let me introduce you to a friend of mine. Is that okay? Since I'm at Free Chapel. This girl is named Ruby Bridges. Ruby Bridges. Look at Ruby. I know. You see Ruby, everybody goes, aw, you put me up there, they go, whoa.

25:35 Now, if you don't know, in history, Ruby is famous because she is the first six-year-old black girl to be integrated into the schools in New Orleans, Louisiana. She's the first one. And we got a picture of her first day at school. And here it is. You know you're special when you get escorted to school by the FBI. but you know you serious because look at Ruby look at her hand she got her black briefcase she ready to roll y'all I think that's the coolest picture ever some of you don't but let me just go on okay on her way to school she was greeted by people I got a couple of pictures of those people yep and I got one more one more oh yeah I looked and I tried to find there's a picture of a lady dressed in a cafeteria uniform and she had a sign that says I'm going to poison your food today there's another picture of a lady with a little coffin with a black doll and had a sign take to that says, this is Ruby Bridges.

26:50 I know it was a time where people lost their ever-loving mind. Y'all know what I'm saying? And we still live in that time where people have lost their ever-loving mind. How can kids be in mass? at a Catholic school and have to worry about their own life. But greater is he that is in me than he that is in the world. He's trying to pull out all the stops. Everybody watch me. Some of you are like, why? Why this? Why? Okay. So every student was pulled out of the school. Every student. Every teacher quit but one teacher because she was brand new and she needed the money. so Ruby was in a classroom with one teacher and she would walk to school on one Monday the teacher that taught Ruby came early and on Monday Tuesday Wednesday Thursday she watched Ruby walking to school and she noticed something so on Thursday she met with Ruby's counselor and told Ruby's counselor Ruby's doing great except when she comes to school she talks to herself maybe that's something you can bring up in your meeting with her because you meet with her every friday and the counselor goes well i'll get up early and i'll come i want to see this so on friday morning the teacher counselor people are still yelling screaming and here comes ruby head down just talking to herself talking to herself so the counselor goes i'm coming to class with you so ruby comes in the bell rings why are they ringing a bell ain't nobody there but ruby and the counselor goes ruby you talk to yourself on the way to school on the way you walk do you talk to yourself. What are you saying? And Ruby's like, no, no, ma'am. I'm not talking to myself.

28:30 She goes, no, we were there this morning. We saw you talking to yourself. What were you doing? And she goes, no, no, no, I'm not talking to myself. I'm praying. And then the counselor goes, oh, you're praying that God would save you from these people? Do you think they're going to hurt you? Do you think? No, no, no, no. I'm not praying. Are you praying that God would kill them because they're trying to kill you? You want him to kill them first? Now that would be more my prayer. okay but I'm not gonna lie he's still working on me she goes no she goes no I'm praying that God would help them would bless them my prayer is father forgive them for they don't know what they're doing I'll never forget that story because this little girl is six years old she's too young to reason and have knowledge to pray like that all a six-year-old has is what she's seen. So she has seen mom, dad, grandma, grandpa go through horrific things, see bad things, and she has seen them go in Jesus' name. She heard them on their knees going, greater is he that is in me. You know what she had? She had a first responder who showed her, it is time, Free Chapel, for us to be first responders, not on Sunday, but Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, all day Sunday. We need to mimic him. Let the world see there's a better. And here's the scripture, Micah 6, 8. The Bible says this, he has shown you, all mortal, what is good. What does the Lord require of you? To act justly, to love mercy and to walk humbly with your God.

30:19 We are first responders. I'll close with this. I'm ready, guys. I know I'm like two minutes early. We're going to beat the Methodists. They're not eating all the white chicken today. I'm getting a chicken breast. I had to, I do public schools and I had to fly to Ohio. I'm gonna be honest, I hate Ohio. when I landed got in the rental car got to the hotel it's 11 30 at night and I all I want to do is brush my teeth and go to bed and then I realize I'm out of toothpaste so now I got to go to Walmart at midnight and get toothpaste I don't know if you've ever been to Walmart after midnight if you have you know what I'm about to say there's some freaks running around Walmart after midnight I don't know what happens after midnight but I get my toothpaste. I go to self-checkout. They closed self-checkout in Ohio. What is wrong with these people? So I decided I get in line. There's only one lane open. There's a guy checking out.

31:25 There's two ladies. Then there's me. All of a sudden it happens. I could hear a kid running. You can hear his feet. And he's like, mom, mom, mom. And the lady right in front of me puts her heads down, shakes it. And I can hear her going, oh, Jesus, help me. This little boy about eight, nine runs past me to the lady in front of me. And he goes, mom, look, mom. And it was October. So it was almost Halloween. He had a Halloween costume and he goes, mom, you got to get it. You got to get it. Mom, mom. And he goes, I'm Batman. Batman. And it's the mom's turn. And I see her take a half a loaf of bread, milk and cheese, put it on the belt. She looks at the cashier and goes, can I have a second? Cashier went, I'm here all night. She looked at me and I went, no problem. this mom gets on both knees pulls this little boy in and says baby I'm sorry the bread and the cheese is for your lunch so your friends don't make fun of you because you don't have no food the milk is for your cereal before you go to school in the morning I'm sorry maybe next year you could be Batman but I just don't have it and the little boy I'm thinking he gonna have a meltdown you know what he did he took his right hand wiped the tear off mom's cheek and said don't cry mom I know we poor.

32:37 I just thought I'd try. Maybe next year. I could wait, but don't ever forget. I'm Batman. The cashier said, give me the uniform. I'll take care of it later. She pays for her stuff. She's leaving. I put my toothpaste down. It's just a thought. I just had a thought. Just boom. And I looked at the cashier and I went, I was trying to figure out what I was going to be this year. I'm going to be Batman. Can you hand me that uniform right there? And this lady looked at me and went, sir, I don't think this is going to fit. and I went thank you but then she called herself and she went shut up are you buying it for that boy I said you got to hurry put it in a separate bag she goes oh my goodness well how do you know them are you from their neighborhood I said lady I'm from Texas I hate Ohio And she said, oh my goodness, this is crazy. I said, I said, okay, I paid for it.

33:33 I said, I got to go. She goes, uh-uh, I'm coming with you. I said, what? She goes, I got to see this. Ain't nobody going nowhere. Look at these people. so I walk outside I see lady I go excuse me ma'am and when I got over I said you forgot a bag she goes I did and she looked in the solid guy she started weeping she started crying and she looked up and goes why'd you do this I said because your son he's Batman and then she said this I'm pushing I'm got my son I'm walking to the car and I said Jesus if you still love me? if you still love me, help me find the money just so he could be Batman first responders. That's who we are.

34:26 Did they get saved? Not my problem. Did they say the sinner's prayer? Not my problem. You know what my problem was? To come up off four bar dollars and buy that costume and get to the car before they leave so that she could know God still loves her. He does that. He just drops stuff. Some of you, he just dropped me in here today so that you can know. Hey, look at me. If you're a sinner, here it is. You've been tagged with the red tag of sin. You've been tagged with addiction. You've been tagged with loss. You went tagged with shame. You've been tagged with the thoughts of what you've done. Here's the deal. Greater is he. Who's in you? It's got to be Jesus. You're going to have a chance right now to get right with God. Why? Because we are Free Chapel and we are tag changers. We are Free Chapel and we are first responders in Jesus' name. Some of you are like, I'm not like you.

35:22 I'm not strong enough. I got problems. I got, no, no, no, no, no. You know what you got to do? You got to step over yesterday. You got to step over that. In the eyes of the world, I'm nothing but the son of a prostitute. But that's why I don't look through their eyes. You can't stop the words that go here. Look at me. You'll hear everything that comes in. But you know what you get to choose? You get to choose what gets here. So I'm going to count to three, and every sinner in the house that needs to get right with God, you're going to slide out of your seat, come down, and we're going to pray for you. I'm going to count the same number to three, and then guess what's going to happen? Those of you who've always wanted to be a first responder, always wanted to be a tag changer, but I'm this, I'm that, there's no more excuses. You are who he says you are, and you're a tag changer. and if you need encouragement, you're going to come, and I'm going to pray for you, so from right now, from the back to the front, left to the right, all campuses, everybody stand, and I'm about, I'm only counting to three one time, and if you wanted those two, one, two, three, come as close as you can, I don't care if you're way up and about, get up here, come on, it's time to change those tags, it's time, it's time to be that man, that woman of God, it's time, it's time, Now is the time.

36:45 This is it. This is it. You cannot change your past, but you can change your future. His mercy is new every morning. Come on. Come on. Come on. His is time. It's time for you to respond. It's time for you to let him in. It's time for you to say yes to Jesus. It's time for you to say amen. Amen. It's time for you to let him tag you. It's time for you to let him change you. No more death. We're life today. No more hopeless. We're hopeful today. No more yesterday. we're living in today and tomorrow. Come on! Come on! Just sing one time. Keep coming, then we're going to pray. Keep coming, keep coming. Come on! One more time. Keep coming.

37:46 Keep coming. Come on. And when I thought I lost me, you knew where I was. You reintroduced me to your love. Because it's just all my pieces. We'll meet them together. You are amazing. If I'm using this song as a reference, it says, you picked up all my pieces. That's what he's doing. Number one, everybody look at me. Thanks for trusting me. Thanks for trusting me. Thanks for responding. There's two prayers. One, Romans 10, 9, salvation. So y'all ready? But we're all doing it together. You know why? You know what the difference is from a sinner to a Christian? a Christian has a past a sinner needs a future and this prayer is where both of those collide alright y'all ready you can close your eyes you can leave your eyes open if you're standing by somebody shady leave your eyes open alright let's do this together everybody say Jesus you found me you got me I need you to cut the red tag.

39:10 I deserve to die. I deserve to be lost. Touch me, Jesus. Forgive me, Jesus. Today's my day to choose you as my Lord, as my Savior. And in Jesus' name, I'm saved. I'm saved. In Jesus' name, I'm saved. Now, everybody say this, Jesus, I'm not on the sideline anymore. I am you in human form. I am a first responder. I am a world changer. I'm a planet shaker. And it's one person at a time. Show me who I need to help change their tag. show me that I have the ability to be your hand in this world.

40:10 I choose to be used by you in the next five days.