Your Breakout: A Holy Hatred

Jesus says something that can sound brutal on first read: “He who loves his life shall lose it.” We sit with that tension and argue it’s not a command toward self-hate or contempt for people, but a wake-up call to refuse the small life that shrinks our faith, drains our joy, and keeps us circling the same problems. From John 12:25 and Luke 14:26, we talk about “holy hatred” as the moment a believer finally says, “I hate where I am,” and means it as repentance, hunger, and a decision to grow up in Christ.

We also push hard against the idea that the Holy Spirit is confined to church spaces or reserved for a spiritual “inner circle.” Using Joel 2 and the Pentecost promise echoed in Acts 2, we explore the Spirit poured out on all flesh: poured into believers for empowerment and poured onto unbelievers for conviction and drawing. That changes how we see evangelism and mercy. The Spirit is already ahead of us, already opening doors, already softening hearts, and no place is off limits, not workplaces, streets, or the darkest corners we’d rather not imagine.

A personal story about a missed chance to minister deliverance makes the stakes real and uncomfortable, especially for anyone who has ever prioritized a “clean church” over a wounded person. We end with a clear picture of what keeps many Christians stuck: living inside a bucket even while sitting in the river. If we step out of the small life, God can take us with him into a wider life of freedom, spiritual growth, and Spirit-led power. If this challenges you, subscribe, share it with a friend, and leave a review. What part of your life needs a holy breakout right now?

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Hello, welcome to Valley Gospel Church. We are a non-denominational Pentecostal church located in Springdale, Pennsylvania. Our sole mission is to present the living truth of a risen Lord, Jesus Christ, to a remnant church and a lost world. So let's go into the service recorded live at Valley Gospel Church.

Two Verses That Challenge Comfort

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A well-known uh preacher of the 19th century, uh, his name was Philip Brooks. He was an, I think, an episcopal bishop. Uh, and the main reason I know of him, Collette, is he wrote A Little Town of Bethlehem. Uh he was very non-denominational and he didn't have narrow sectarian views. He simply presented Christ as the revelation of God. And he taught that God's people could have a full and joyous life in Christ. He had some really great quotes, and one I like is the truest way to help a burdened soul may be to not take his burden, but to call out his Christian energy that he might better bear that burden. But my favorite all time, uh, Philip Brooks' quote is the lost sinner has no right to condemn Christianity because Christianity in its fullness hasn't even been tried yet. My lining up with what Jamie had to say this morning. And that's my favorite quote because I wholeheartedly agree. I don't think a single human has yet discovered or realized the power and the glory of God that's available to us in Christ right here, right now. Not at some future time, right here, right now. The Bible teaches, well, let me rephrase, its overriding message is that God's power has provision and is inexhaustible. Inexhaustible. We can, in other words, we can never get it all. We can never get all of what God has for us, no matter how much we receive of the Lord, no matter how active He is in your life, how greatly used, you can never get it all. In fact, the amount of power, of greatness, of provision, of glory of gifts left over will always be more than what we received. Glory. Glory. Stay with me this morning. Like I said, I've had three weeks pouring into this, all right? Christy, let's go to work. I want to begin this morning's message with calling your attention to a couple of tiny little scriptures. Um scriptures that aren't preached much. Uh they're very little quoted because they're so misunderstood. Um but it's an outright challenge to relieve, to, to leave our religious circle and to break out into true liberty. That's the challenge that today's scriptures bring. Being transformed into the powerful warrior that Christ has called you to be. Every one of us, every one of us. Time and again he calls us to broaden our reach, go further, go past that line, uh, desire more, reach for greater things, and a more spiritually meaningful life. Um and this is it. Let's start with uh John 12. John 12 and 25. And if you pass Mark along the way or Luke along the way, put your finger in there because the next one's Luke 14. Two scriptures this morning. John 12 and 25. Whenever you get there, please stand for the reading of God's word.

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He who loves his life shall lose it, and he who hates his life in this world shall keep it until until life until life eternal.

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That tiny scripture is the Holy Spirit's challenge. It's his challenge then, it's his challenge this morning. To us in our small world, let's read one more statement of the Lord. It's in Luke 14 and 26.

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If any man come to me and hate not his father and mother, and wife and children, and brethren, and sisters, yeah, and his own life also, he cannot be my disciple.

Redefining “Hate” Without Violence

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My goodness. Power, and you can obviously see why these couple of verses aren't preached much. I'll use for a subject this morning your breakout a holy hatred. Your breakout a holy hatred. Let's pray. Heavenly Father, thank you, Lord. Thank you for this dynamic vision meant for today, Lord, meant for this group, meant for the entire church world who might hear it by recorded device, Lord, that they come into a saving knowledge of you, Lord, and go deeper than they have ever had before. Lord, we ask your blessing, your anointing on the word today. Help me to not stumble and get lost in the weeds here, Lord. Let it be unto you, Lord, that we lift our voice. Let your word be a lamp and a light. It's in the name of your blessed Son we pray. Amen. Amen. Please be seated. All right, let's let's in those two scriptures, and here's the thought process, certainly Jesus didn't mean hate. Uh as in the normal definition, to loathe, to detest, uh, to despise. In his word, he said, he that hateth his brother is what? A murderer. A murderer. He that hates his brother is a murderer. Uh it's not life we hate, certainly. He said you gotta hate your own life. Life is a gift of God to be treasured, to be honored. It's not people we hate. That's unscriptural. Uh he's challenging us not to loathe or despise our lives, lives, but to minimize the life we're living. What are you talking about, Willis? He's challenging us to open the door to a godly life by breaking our complete preoccupation with the life that controls every moment of every day. He's revealing to us what that life has done to our walk with him. Let me propose a couple of questions. Is your life totally wrapped up in things and places and commitments? Just your inner circle, family, friends, job, work, school activities, uh, go here, there, maybe all wrapped up in your home, maybe all wrapped up in your church, family activity, second question. Are your problems, your issues, your sorrow from the same few sources? Work, kids, family. Last question. Is the joy in your life non-existent or limited? The Lord's calling us to widen our circle of life. Um life in the Lord is more than bills and kids and school and work and businesses, and I've got to do this, and I've got. She wanted more of her faith. She wanted more understanding, more of her Lord. And Jesus approved of Mary's approach. He approved her approach. The disciples were concerned with money. Remember the alabaster box, right? Expensive perfume inside. Uh sell it, get the money so we can help. Mary just wanted to get closer to her Lord. That's all she wanted. Uh, in worship. Jesus said he approved. So, what's up with that hate your life thing? We can't grow. All right, this is this may be, if I've ever said anything worth scribbling in the margin, this might be it. We can't grow until we hate our immaturity and our smallness in our Christian walk. Look, I'm not talking about forsaking family, friends, obligations, but we get so bound by duty and commitment and doing and going and planning and scheduling and order until one day we rise up with a holy hatred. A holy hatred, a holy anger, and cry out to our God, my Lord, I hate where I am. I hate what uh how I think. I hate what I've become. I hate the temper, the guilt, the stress that has taken over, how irritable I've become my moodiness at times. Remember, the joy of the Lord is your strength. How small I can be. I hate it. I hate it. You know, I personally spent so much time in that place using scripture as a weapon, always stressed, always irritable, so small in my dealing with issues, had to make sure my ideas were recognized, and I came to the place where I hated it. Hated the pettiness, the bondage, the jealousy, and I became hungry. Hungry, so hungry, hungry for more of God, more of the Lord, more of the Holy Spirit. Not more of denomination, not more of what our church taught, but more of the Lord. See, we won't really leave those things behind until we hate them. We'll always carry that remnant of, well, this is what I gotta do. This is who I am. Until we hate what we've done to ourselves or doing to ourselves or have allowed to be done to us. And we get sick of our small life and desperately want more. And cry out to the Lord, translate me into your glorious kingdom of power and victory. I want to taste it. I want to see it. I want to feel it. I want the life of joy that a Christian that this book says we're to have. We're translated and delivered from every power of darkness, right? Every stronghold of bondage, every prisoner held captive must be free. We're translated by what Jesus did on the cross through the power of the Holy Ghost. I know this message is deep.

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Thank you, Peter.

The Spirit Poured Out On All Flesh

The Spirit Goes Ahead Of Us

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Hallelujah. The prophet Joel in chapter 2 said, and it was repeated in Acts 2 as well, but the Lord would pour out his spirit on all flesh. All flesh. We certainly preach and teach that the Holy Spirit is poured into believers and onto everyone. Into believers, onto everyone, to empower, to equip, to teach, to reveal, to enliven. But notice what the prophet said in Joel. He said, On all flesh, on all flesh, not just believers, not just believers, the outpouring isn't exclusive to us, but unbelievers as well. How can that be? Is be if Jesus touched the hearts of sinners and the Holy Spirit came as his agent on earth, right? To reflect the Lord, why wouldn't he touch sinners? Why wouldn't that be the core of his work? Uh he ministers just as Jesus did to all flesh, not just spirit-filled, sanctified saints. Just not so. One of his principal works is to what? Convict. Convict. So he must be working in sinners' lives, sinners' hearts, sinners' minds. And don't misunderstand, I use sinners as a broad term there, not to define because we're all sinners, but those that don't know Christ. There's a difference that's pointed out there, that being that his he, the Holy Spirit, is poured into believers and he's poured onto unbelievers. So there is a difference. Those who need him. When he was restored, and this is a whole different message, but when he was restored back when sin entered the garden, Holy Spirit walked with Adam and Eve, right? And when sin entered the garden, the Holy Spirit was recalled. Amen. No longer walked with man. Except in a few instances, like on craftsmen and people rebuilding the building the temple. But by and large, the Holy Spirit was recalled back to heaven. But when he reentered this world on the day of Pentecost in a flash of lightning, in a tornetic wind, that's how he came back. He wasn't poured out on just the hundred and twenty. That wind blew over the entire earth and changed all of humanity. Glory. Hebrews, please. Hebrews twelve. Twelve and twenty-six. God never intended for the Holy Spirit to be the property of believers only. And we try to keep him in a little church jar or a box. And if you like me grew up Roman Catholic, you know they have that the tabernacle that's on the on the altar, and inside was supposedly, well, they kept the host, but that was the very presence of God in that little golden box. But your Bible says he can't be contained, he can't be kept. Hallelujah. He is omnipotent, omniscient, and omnipresent. He can't be limited, he cannot be constrained. He is the holy Lord of glory. He is the holy Lord of glory. And like the wind, he goes wherever the Lord wills. Wherever the Lord wants. The Holy Spirit is Jesus' evangelist today, everywhere that Jesus sends you. To minister, to reach out, to pray, to witness, the Holy Spirit is already there. He's already there, opening doors, softening hearts to receive, opening ears to hear. Think about this. How many times have you moved to witness to someone or minister in a place or to a person in need? And that person said, I really needed what you brought here today. That verse you shared with me, that prayer that you prayed, I really needed that. How many times has someone told you, I knew I'd see you today? That ever happened to you? I knew you were coming today. I knew you'd be here. That person who has Paula who has rejected every prayer, every scripture verse, every spiritual word you'd ever shared, but one day they say that. Verse was for me. That verse was for me. The Holy Spirit already been there. It's not that you said it more eloquently or that you that you got through to them. The Holy Spirit was already there. How about this? How about the place that you feel led by the Lord to go? But there's never a place to put your vehicle. Uh there's never a convenient way to stop. And today there's a huge parking spot right in front that not only accommodates your dump truck, but the trailer as well. Right at the front door. The Holy Spirit was already there. Yeah, that's right. An all-powerful parking attendant. Glory. Glory. That spiritual hunger in a sinner's heart that pours out before you even open the book. It pours out from the seams. You gotta wipe the tie because it's already, the oil's already coming out. Glory. If that's true, if what I'm telling you is true, then why are things so bad? Why is there so much hate and wickedness in the world today? Why are there so many evil places, parts of town, uh, wicked neighborhoods, crack houses? Look, the Holy Spirit isn't here to stamp out evil. Mm-mm. Not at all. That's Jesus' job, and that's coming soon. Glory. His job is to lift men and women out of the evil, out of the bondage, and set the captive free. That's his job. That's what he's here for. Not to eradicate evil, but to lift us out. There's no area off limits to the Holy Ghost. No place, no person immune to his presence or his power. No place on earth. And I know it's hard to picture the dove in a bar, right? It's hard to picture that. Or a crack house, but you know he's seen it all. He's witnessed all the murders, the rapes, the drugs. He knows what we're capable of. He knows how wicked our hearts can be. But he comes uninvited and unannounced. Glory, glory, glory. He isn't intimidated or chased away. No person is too evil or too far gone, unable to be reached. No such thing. He's not afraid of dirt. He's not afraid of a little blood. Glory. He's not afraid of the filth. He didn't come just to bless the blessed. Hallelujah. He came to present life to the dead. To present life to the dead. He came to work in and through the Christian. He came to work on the sinner. He's working on people that we've given up on. We've quit. Said, yeah, it's in working. They're not receiving any of this. Those that just won't quit, that won't pull away, that just don't see. Those that tell you I can't believe. Those that society has given up on. The church, by and large, has given up on. The Holy Spirit hasn't given up. He hasn't. As much as we need him as Christians, as wonderful as his gifts are in our ministry and in our lives, his powerful and enlightening ministry, his manifestations, to miss his role in the sinner's life, how he shadows a man or a woman. And that I've heard countless stories after someone came to Christ, how they couldn't get away. They just couldn't get away from the Spirit's presence. He'd show up everywhere. He'd point out things to them. He'd speak to them. Probably 99% of those that I talk to, newly converted, tell me those stories. How the Holy Spirit just wouldn't leave. Bringing back every word of faith to our mind, whispering deep inside, don't go there. Don't go there. Don't do that. Don't say that. To miss that role in a sinner's life is to miss the purpose of his calling. He's come to reconcile the lost to their daddy. He's come to fix that. He's come to mend the breach. Glory. To lead a disciple into fullness. To reveal the resources that you and I have in Christ. That we just leave lay on the table. The Holy Spirit is the very breath of God, and He's everywhere. Everywhere. In fact, His presence, His presence may be more pronounced on the job, at work, in school, on the street, than in many churches. I know that might bring some fire, right? How dare you say that? Why would I say that? I say that, Sam, because where sin abounds, grace doth much more abound.

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Praise the Lord.

A Missed Deliverance Moment

Break The Bucket And Expand

Closing Thanks And Contact Info

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That's the word. He waits for us to ask for help, and you know what? He grabs you by the arm and walks you right up to Jesus' doorstep. Said, just go ahead, knock. Just knock. He'll come. He'll open. Just knock. And he'll do it again and again and again. If we are to flow with the Spirit, if we are to go with the Spirit, then we've got to expand our world. We've got to open our lives. We've got to widen our ropes. Stretch out our tent pegs, as the Old Testament says. Get equipped and prepared to deal with things we've not dealt with before. That we haven't had experience with. Expand our tent poles, if you will. Years ago, years ago, Tuesday night service, we had, instead of Wednesday night, we had a Tuesday night service, but it was just a full service. It wasn't a Bible study, it was a full service. Let me just think how to clean this up for you. Tuesday night, we're only six, seven people there. A young man comes into the church and makes a startling confession. No matter how I try to clean this up, it's still gonna have an R rating, okay? So Amen. Thank you, Paula. This young man came in and told me that he had just had sex with another man outside in the car for money. And he had been making his money this way for some time. But each and every time he felt more and more convicted. And tonight, that night, he saw the lights on in this church, and he wondered if anyone could help him be delivered. He said he told us how he went to church as a child, and he knew that there was a God that might help him. Now I was a babe in Christ at the time, and I was actually kind of glad that this all happened because I wanted to see God move. Now, my pastor didn't delegate or allow a lot of involvement by others in the church, so I called him over and tried to explain what was at hand, what was in front of us. Now our pastor was old school, he didn't understand what I was trying to delicately explain to him and what was at stake. And when he finally understood, I was relieved, but I expected fire from heaven. I thought we would pray through. I had hoped for a complete deliverance and this young man be set free. But instead, this young man that had been ministered to and directed while he was actually doing what he was doing by the Holy Spirit. See what I mean about the Holy Spirit, goes wherever he wants. Pretty sure he already knew that, or he wouldn't have been there. In essence, he told him, Good luck with all that. And this young man left more broken, more despondent, more rejected than when he came. And the pastor turned to me and said, Brother Bob, we don't, we're a good clean church. We don't want that here. When I recalled that account preparing this message, I cried. I cried, what an opportunity we missed. The Holy Spirit entered into this lost young man's dreams, his thoughts, his he was there in his actions, that he was on Brackenridge Avenue. Instead of being a house of prayer and deliverance and Holy Ghost power, we were a house of Ichabod. Ichabod. If we would have been listening and following, we would have been spiritually prepared for his arrival. The same way the Holy Spirit prepares sinners, we would have been prepared and said, the Lord told me you were coming. Mama. We thought we were Holy Ghost people, but our lives were so small, and I hate the Christian that I was. I hate the preoccupation with a a clean church. I hate the the pastor worship. My I hate what I've done to myself and allowed denominational arrogance to do to me. Pastor, this is a pretty heavy message for a Sunday morning. I thought we'd get something all fluffy today. Yeah, it is. Do you know what we need and what we don't need? Most of us don't need another salvation message. Uh get saved, stay saved. Because you're as saved as you're gonna get. Can't get more saved. Right? But we can get more of his spirit. We can get that. We don't get revelation from God's word if we hear a salvation message every Sunday. And I spent years sitting in the you safe, you better get saved. If you're not safe, you better stay safe. You better do works to stay safe. When we do that Sunday after Sunday, our life stays small. It stays small. And we embrace that little circle. That that tiny little circle. We ended up in the same place we started, just keep circling around and around the pen. That's a fish ball. Alright, Kurt, I'm a minister to you. Alright? You know the two-part minnow bucket, right? Two parts. Two-part minnow bucket, you pull the center out, it's full of holes, and you can set it in the river, right? And you brought it in the bucket that was full of water. When you take that part out and you set it in the stream or in the river, that environment inside that bucket never changed. Those poor minnows or whatever you have in there are still looking at galvanized walls. Nothing there. Even though they're in the river. You set them in the river, you set them in the stream, uh, set them on the shore. The world inside the bucket never changed. The fish don't experience the river until the bucket is empty, until it's broken. Some of us, we believe for others, we believe for others, and we can tell you, well, just leave it with God. But we don't believe for ourselves. We don't believe in our own life. Uh, or even those close to us. Well, they're sick, they're hurt, they're they're scared, it's my disease, it's my illness, it's my high blood pressure. We got to quit owning that. We have to stop owning that. It's mine, it's mine. But what do you think we're doing? We're claiming that for ourselves. Christians can't experience all that God has for them until we break free, until we break through from our small, small world and our small spiritual life inside that minnow bucket. I don't know why that popped in my head, Kurt, but it made sense. Hallelujah. Just going back to Joel Close. Let's let's let's look at it. Joel 2. It's an important, it's an important scripture. Let's see if I can find it real quick. Probably not. I got it. Joel 2 and 27. And you shall know that I am in the midst of Israel, and that I am the Lord your God and none else, and my people shall never be ashamed. And it shall come to pass afterwards that I will pour out my spirit upon all flesh. And your sons and your daughters shall prophesy, your old men shall dream dreams, your young men shall see visions, and also upon the servants and upon the handmaids in those days will I pour out my spirit. The Holy Spirit has been poured into you as believers. He's being poured out on all flesh. That these people, that these what we term lost, can become visionaries and dreamers and prophets. Think about the prophets of old, uh, whether it's Isaiah, Jeremiah, Ezekiel, they didn't receive it. They prophesied about Christ coming, about the Spirit being poured out, Joel prophesying about the Holy Ghost coming on all flesh. Never saw it. Never saw it, never lived it, never experienced it. But today, the new prophets, the new pastors, some of you are telling the supernatural story of deliverance. Deliverance, taking off all limitations. God is limitless, expanding our small life because your God is huge. He's huge. Embracing the miraculous, and Jesus is that miracle worker. Flowing in the Spirit, and the Spirit goes wherever He wants, wherever He desires, not constrained by anything. If we step out of our small, small life, here's the promise, and I'm done. If we step out of our small life, he'll take you with him. Come on, come on, son, come on, daughter. I'll show you things. Hallelujah. Thank you for listening.

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Thank you for listening to this week's podcast. We pray it was an encouragement and a blessing to you. You can contact us at Valley Gospel Church, 1069 Butler Logan Road, Springdale, Pennsylvania, 15144. We invite you to listen to this week's worship service that follows and tune in for next week's podcast.

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Hebrews 13, 15 says, Through Jesus, let us continually offer to God a sacrifice of praise. It could be a sacrifice in a hard time, it could be a sacrifice because you're joyful, but continually offer God that sacrifice of praise, which is the fruit of lips that openly profess his name. Come on, Steph.

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What a mighty God! What a mighty God we serve! Angels bow before him! Heaven and earth adore him! What a mighty God we serve! Let's sing it again! What a mighty God we serve! What a mighty God! What a mighty God we serve! Angels cow before him! Heaven and at the door him! What a mighty God we serve! Let's sing it again! What a mighty God we serve! Hallelujah! What a mighty God we serve! Ha ha! Angels bow before him, heaven and earth adore him! What a mighty God we serve! I will enter his gates with thanksgiving in my heart. I will enter his courts with praise. I will say this is the day that the Lord has made, and I will rejoice for he has made me glad. And I will rejoice for he has made me glad. And I will rejoice for he has made me glad. And I will rejoice, for he has made me glad. Oh church, be thankful to him and bless his holy name. Oh, we gotta sing it again. I will enter his gates with thanksgiving in my heart. I will enter his courts with praise. I will say this is the day that the Lord has made, and I will rejoice for he has made me glad. And I will rejoice for he has made me glad, he has made me glad, he has made me glad, and I will rejoice, for he has made me glad. To sing praise unto thine day. To give thanks unto the Lord, to sing praises unto the name. Let's sing it again. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, it is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, to sing praises unto the name. We came to glorify your name, Lord. Because your love is better than life, my lips will glorify you. I will praise you for as long as I live, and in your name I will lift up my hands. Oh come on, church. Let's keep on praising him. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify the name of the Lord. I came to glorify his name. Let's sing it again. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify the name of the Lord. I came to glorify his name. Give praise to the Lord. Proclaim his holy name. Make known among the nations what he has done. I will exalt you, my God, the King. I will praise your name forever and ever. Sing Hosanna. Sing Hosanna to the King of Kings. I came to glorify His name. I came to glorify His name. I came to glorify the name of the Lord. I came to glorify His name. Come on and sing Hosanna. Sing Hosanna. Sing Hosanna to the King of Kings. Come on, Anna, sing Hosanna, Sing Hosanna, Sing Hosanna to the King, the King, Sing Hosanna, Sing Hosanna, Sing Hosanna to the King. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify the name of the Lord. I came to glorify his name. Oh what a mighty God we serve. What a mighty God! What a mighty God we serve. Angels bow before him. Heaven and earth adore him. What a mighty God we serve. Oh yes, Lord. Hallelujah, Jesus. Behold, God is my salvation. I will trust him, will not be afraid. For the Lord God is my strength and my song. And he has become my salvation. Yes, Lord. When we're working on the building and its true foundation, I'm holding a bloodstain. Better for my love. Well, we'll never get tired, tired, tired working on the building. I'm going up to heaven. Oh no, get my reward. Well I'm working on the building. I'm holding up the blood stain. Well the never get on the building. I'm going up to heaven. Oh Lord, again by everyone. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify his name. I came to glorify the name of the Lord. I came to glorify his name. Yes, Jesus. Hallelujah to the land. Yes, Lord. Lift Jesus higher. Lift Jesus higher. Lift him up for the world to see. Say it again. Lift Jesus higher. Lift Jesus higher. Lift him up for the world to see. He said, If I be lifted up from the earth, I will draw home unto me. A voice of one calling in the desert, prepare the way for the Lord. Make straight in the wilderness a highway for our God. Look, he is coming with the clouds, and every eye will see him. And all the people of the earth will mourn because of him. So shall it be. Oh hallelujah. Jesus, we give you all the praise this morning. We bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. We bring the sacrifice of praise into the house of the Lord. We offer them to you the sacrifices of thanksgiving. We are to you the sacrifices of praise. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord. It is a good thing to give thanks unto the Lord, to sing praises.