Jesus, the head of the church
Key Passage: Colossians 1:18
Date: June 7, 2024
Take your Bibles, if you would, and turn to Colossians chapter one.
Colossians chapter one in God’s Word tonight, Colossians chapter one. How many got a nap in this? Anybody get a nap in? Oh, look at that. Wow, that’s good. There’s a lot of sleep right there. Now you’ve got your nap in. Don’t be napping right now here. Okay, all right. Amen, you know. I don’t think it’ll be super, super long tonight. I don’t intend to be. But all week, I felt like the Lord wanted to develop a common known truth. You’ll know it when we point it out. What does it mean to be in you, and to our church, to Rutherford County Baptist Church?
And so just a bit tonight. Would you please stand as we’ll read Colossians 1? We’re going to start in verse number 18. Colossians 1, verse number 18 of God’s Word.
And the Bible there says, “And he,” that’s Jesus, “and he is the head of the body, the church, who is the beginning, the firstborn from the dead, that in all things, he might have the preeminence.” In all things. Every Sunday school class, every friend of reunion, every fellowship, every bus route, and every conversation, in all things, he might have the preeminence. I just think about it. That’s not what we’re preaching on tonight. Just an awesome thing. I love it in her hallway right across in the water fountain, that he might have the preeminence. Christ ought to have that.
Let’s just get verse number 19 in there, kind of for context since we’re here. It’s a great, great truth. “For it pleased the Father, that in Him,” that’s in Jesus, “should all the fullness dwell.”
Sometimes we’ll say God the Father, God the Son, God the Holy Spirit. And if we’re not careful, we’ll kind of think it’s a little bit less, they’re not as powerful, not as God. But really, that’s not accurate. Actually, maybe more like this: they’re all God. They’re all God. And there’s no one less. Verse 1, 5-7, three in one. And Christ is not less powerful. They’re all one. They’re all in agreement. They’re all one.
Look at chapter 2, verse number nine. These are all—this isn’t part of the sermon, where are you going to get it in there? Look at verse number nine there, 2:9: “For in Him,” that’s Christ, “dwelleth all the fullness of the Godhead bodily.” I mean, when he was here in body, all the fullness of the Godhead dwelt in him. He was God. He’s the everlasting Father, Isaiah 9:6. He’s the Prince of Peace. He’s all that. It’s God. And so while we’re there, we want to just kind of get that in there about Christ. We ought to always make much of Jesus. Amen.
I’d be busy about that. He’s the one that changes life. What a blessing here lately. Just people. Last Sunday I got a text on Sunday afternoon about someone in a situation. They said, “Praise the Lord, God’s just putting my family back together and doing a miracle.” And I went home and had a little bit of a dealing with conflict, but God brought victory in changing our family tree today. Someone watching on YouTube this morning texted and said, “I should have been there, but I decided it’s going to get along just me and watch, and God’s changing my life, and pray that he’ll put my marriage back together.” And Jesus changes lives. We promote Jesus. He’s the one that changes lives. And so that’s what these verses are about.
But I feel like God really wants us to focus at the beginning of this verse. You’ll know it. That very first part: “And he,” that’s Christ Jesus, “and he is the head of the body, the church.”
Now, just think about that. He’s the head. The church is the body. You know the verse over in Ephesians 5:23: “For the husband is the head of the wife, even as Christ is the head of the church, the Savior of the body.” Now, just that thought: Christ is the head of the church. Or just a bit, let’s focus on that for just a bit tonight. Would you pray God uses this maybe just to grow us and help us to realize some things? Sometimes it’s so obvious we miss it. We’ll grasp what God’s trying to teach us here. Pray with me.
Father, Lord, I do pray that you would make this truth real. Lord, build our faith through it. Father, would you show us the importance you’ve put on us? It’s amazing you do. We’re not worthy of it, but how you want us to be your co-laborer with you. It’s amazing. Lord, I pray this truth would just permeate our minds, Father, and our hearts to be what you want us to be. And Father, we’ll thank you for what you do. We ask for this, Father, in the name of Jesus, we pray. Amen.
Thank you so much for standing. You may be seated.
It’s really amazing how the body works, how our head or our brain and our body work together. I’ve thought about it a little bit over the week or so here. It’s amazing even how a baby learns to walk and how the signals go up to the brain and the brain controls, and it just learns. They kind of learn to work together, the baby learning to walk. Just amazing that. But just think about that: the things that happen between the head, or the brain, and the body.
Let me just read a couple of things that they say. They say the brain—this is interesting—they say the brain continues to send out electrical signals approximately 37 hours after someone’s died. Isn’t that interesting? The brain just continually is sending out messages. I was thinking about the songs we sang tonight, how Jesus loves us. He’s continually sending out, sending out real bright and clear with the leaves. Isn’t it beautiful? You ride by those; that’s the Lord saying, “I love you.” He could have gave us a gray world. He could have did that, but he said, “I’ll make it beautiful for my people here,” you know.
But just the message. Here’s the interesting thing. They say the brain—the brain—they say is more active during the night. Your body, of course, is resting when you took your nap this afternoon and you were in the easy chair snoring away, you know. And whenever it is at nighttime, they say your body’s resting, but your brain is more active then. That’s interesting. It’s just the brain and the body, how they work together, the different signals they send.
This is an interesting thought. They say your brain itself—and to get that brain out—they say your brain itself cannot feel pain. I mean, if you had your brain, you thought, but, you know, your brain wouldn’t feel that. Your brain action doesn’t itself, it doesn’t feel pain. Now, if you touch a hot stone, there’s going to be some signals coming up from that hand saying, “Hey, you know, this hurts.” And your brain’s going to say, “You big dummy, take your hand off there,” you know. But it’s interesting how the head and the body work together. By the way, that signal is going to be sending it real quick up there, you know, just without fail right there. They say when we touch something, these sensors, wherever it is, the touch sensory, will send a message to our brain traveling at 124 miles per hour. How many have ever driven a car or a motorcycle that fast? Yesterday, Miss Stacy was driving on the highway that fast. Just as fast. Brother Marlin says, “Amen,” you know. But just imagine that fast. That’s how fast that signal travels up to your brain. Isn’t that interesting? All these millions, literally, of sensors that send messages to your brain all the time. They say information travels at different speeds by different types of neurons. All kind of different ones at different speeds going to the brain, all these signals, all these messages continually.
They say the nervous system can transmit messages to the brain, the max, they say, at speeds of 180 miles per hour. That was Brother Garrett and his old Honda. That’s why it doesn’t read anymore, you know. That’s why I pray for a new car. No, a slower one. No, I’m joking about all that. But isn’t that amazing?
Now, the Bible here is teaching us that Christ is the head. He’s the brain. And a body must continually be sending messages to the head. The brain makes decisions. The body sends these messages, and the brain says, “Yes, you better let your foot off that gas, or you’re going to get a ticket.” All these different messages all the time.
Now let me just ask you a little bit. We’re the church. Tonight we’re trying to focus on really the local church, the RCBC. How many messages is this body right here tonight? How many messages are we sending to the head? You know, the Bible is the one thing the Bible tells us to do all the time: “Pray without ceasing.” You know, the brain, it makes decisions. It does things because the body’s sending this message up there. I wonder how many messages we’re sending.
You see, Christ, he said, “I’m the head. I make decisions.” If a church grows and things truly happen—not just numerically, though I’m for that because it represents more people getting life changed and saved and all that—but more than just that. Muslims can grow; that doesn’t mean anything, you know. But more than that, if God really does something, the brain, the head of you, he does that because messages are getting sent up. That’s one of our jobs that we’re supposed to be doing. Someone said the church travels the farthest and the fastest on its knees, praying.
Victory comes because messages have been sent up to the head, and the head says, “I’m going to do something, and I’m making a decision to work there because someone somewhere in some prayer closet, nobody else might not know about it. You can’t see all those messages going up to the brain, the head, but somebody somewhere is sending messages: ‘Lord, we want to see you work. We want to see you make a decision here. You to change life.’” That’s because the body is sending messages up. That’s part of our job. The church is to be continually sending messages up.
You know, it’s amazing to me. We’ve seen it when we were trying to buy that 15 acres over there. When God’s people, the church, started sending messages up to the head, things started happening over there. Maybe we’ll all sit a little bit, but we’ve tried to kick that back up at 7 o’clock starting praying. And it’s amazing. It seems like when God’s people started sending messages back up to the head, things are beginning to happen over there. That’s our job. We’re supposed to be sending continually messages: “Lord, would you help that person? Would you encourage that person?” When you see, maybe when you hear an ambulance right down the street, just stop and spend a minute: “Lord, help that person right there.” I mean, praying all the time about people’s lives. You see someone walk in the door and you’re so good about being friendly—that’s a wonderful thing, friendly in front of the church—but maybe just pray, “Lord, bless that. Speak to that person’s heart when they enter in those doors.” I mean, just continually sending messages up to the head. That’s what the body does.
All the thousands and millions of messages traveling up to the brain. G. Campbell Morgan said this years ago. He said, “One of Satan’s methods today is to start so many organizations in a church that the members have no time for unhurried communion with God.” Wow. We don’t want to be guilty of that. I’m for the things going on at the church, but we don’t want to get to that point. He goes on and says, “Many Christians are so busy that they can hear only the clink and clatter of church machinery.” We want more than church machinery. We want God empowering them. And it’s our job to send messages continually up to the head.
They say Spurgeon, you know, that great Metropolitan Tabernacle in London, England. And they say they built certain—they just couldn’t have a building big enough to house all the people in there. And God blessed it and used that thing so greatly. And, of course, probably the most read preacher, you know, in the world, Spurgeon over the years. And God just used it greatly. They say some visitors came to the Metropolitan Tabernacle. I’ve heard different stories. I’ve got a book that tells about it, and it doesn’t say this, but some—I’ve heard some say this, I don’t know if it’s true or not—some have said it was younger preachers that came and visited, and Spurgeon met with them, kind of showing them around a little bit. And they say that Spurgeon said this: “Hey, would you like to see? Would you like to see the heating apparatus of this church?” “Oh, yeah, this magnificent building,” you know. “Sure, we’d like to see it.” And they say Spurgeon took this group of visitors over to a room, and they were thinking to see the boiler room, you know. And I’ve heard some tell it—the book I have, and I’m not sure of all the exacts, some said it was in the boiler room, I’m not sure—but they say the part that I’ve read that I think is very factual: that he took them over to a room he called “the heating apparatus of the church.” And they say he opened the doors and let those young men look in. And there were over 400 people praying. And he said, “That right there is the thing that keeps this church heated”—not temperature-wise physically, but in the hearts. He said, “That’s right there. That’s the heating apparatus. That’s why things are happening. That’s why the thing’s always full. We can’t keep a building big enough. That’s why people are getting saved and life is getting changed.” A preacher’s got to sit out of there. He said, “All that’s going on because that’s the heating apparatus.” 400 people on their knees praying, sending messages up to the head.
And the head responds and makes decisions based on messages. Hey, how many had this message from your body to your head this afternoon after church? “I’m hungry.” Anybody have that message come up to your brain today? How many responded to that? All of us did. How many responded well to that?
Hey, we have a God, we have a head that responds. He’s so good about answering prayers. He’s able. He’s just as mighty as he was 100 years ago, friend. It is 2023. I know what you hear it is, friend. I know that. But I got a God that’s more mighty than 2023, amen. And he likes to hear the prayer of the upright; it is his delight. He likes that. And he’s able, and he wants his desires for people to be saved. We know that, First Peter 3:9. We know that. Hey, let’s just send the messages up. What would it be wonderful if Christ said, “You know what? That little body down there, that body, RCBC, I’m getting messages for those folks all the time.” That’s our job. We are the body.
Now you think about it. If a brain, if a brain never gets messages from the body, I don’t know. I tried to research that a little bit; didn’t get a whole lot about that subject. I’m not a brain surgeon or anything like that. I’m not sure, but it seems like if the brain never got messages from the body, maybe the brain would say, “You know what? Maybe the body’s dead.” I wonder if that might be the reason why a lot of churches are dead. Friend, man, let’s send messages. I love it when our church prays together as a church family. Wednesday night—my mistake, this last Wednesday we didn’t do it; it’s my fault—but I like it when our church comes down at 7 o’clock, close, we get to it, and just as the church family prays. Maybe the Lord Jesus Christ says, “The whole body down there, the whole body is sending a message right now.” And boy, Christ has been answering that. Praise the Lord.
Now let’s get another thought in here, just another thought. I just felt like the Lord wanted us to focus on the “He’s the head.” Let’s change gears for just a second. How many of you have ever seen a head—just a head, the brain, the head—how many have ever seen a head vacuum a floor before? Anybody ever seen it? Maybe you could put the handle of the vacuum cleaner into your ear and vacuum with your head? Has anybody ever seen a head do something like that? No. I’m just trying to take this truth and just think about it a little bit. Have you ever seen a head maybe turn a screwdriver and take a screw out or put it in? I mean, every once in a while, you get the shoelace or something you can’t get untied, and you’ll try to use your teeth, and, you know, every once in a while. But for the most part, you know, a head—a head doesn’t do the work. That doesn’t do the work. The body does it.
Now just think about that. It is interesting, you know, in your head—and I’m not sure exactly, I tried to study out the word a little bit there for “head” in the Greek and all that—but it is interesting in your head: it has the eyes. And the Bible says, “The eyes of the Lord are in every place, beholding the evil and the good.” That is interesting. You know, our ears are in our head. And the interesting thing is the Bible says, “Every idle word,” He hears it all, and they’ll give an account for every idle word. If it’s sinful, praise the Lord, Jesus paid for it on the cross, but there are idle words. He hears, He hears all. Praise the Lord. The mouth there, and praise the Lord, Jesus gave us His word. Amen. That’s interesting. But beyond that, you know what? The head doesn’t do the work. Now, I understand without Him we can do nothing. I’m not trying to take away anything from Christ, but you realize you’re the body. You’re His hands. You’re His feet. You’re the body of Christ.
The head—He’s everywhere, yes, He’s omniscient, excuse me, omnipresent, yes—but He’s sitting on the right hand of the Father in bodily presence right now, and you’re His body. When Reagan and Maria go to school, Jesus bodily is not there, but His body is there in some ways. When you go to work, Christ bodily doesn’t come down to your job, your worksite, and show up, but He is there in some ways because you’re His body. The world sees Christ through you and I. Yeah, it’s interesting. I mentioned that the head’s got the mouth. In Sunday school, they were talking a little bit this morning. They say you’ll hear different numbers, but some say 93% of communication is nonverbal. Your communication to the world is your body language to Christ, to the world. I just think about this saying: He’s the head, we’re the body.
Now this kind of leads us to this subject here. Some of our Bible Institute people were talking about it; they answered right, for sure. They said the right thing. But it is a little bit like, you know, there’s one side of the coin and there’s another side of the coin. This subject here: Does Christ, does Jesus need us? Well, right off the bat, no. He’s Jehovah. Jehovah is the only self-existing one. He always was, always will be. He doesn’t need us to exist for Him. He’d be fine without you and I. In a certain extent, no, He doesn’t need us. He’s God. We wouldn’t be here if it wasn’t for Him. He’d be here if it wasn’t for us. We’d still be here. He always was, and boy, He doesn’t need us as far as that’s concerned. He’s Jehovah, the only self-existing one. That name has to do with that meeting. Understand that.
But then there is another side of the coin. It’s amazing to me. I don’t understand. It’s hard to grasp because I know how flawed I am. But He has chosen to partner with us. Amen. He has said, “You’re going to be My body in this world.” He has chosen to say, “I can do this on my own, no problem without.” God could do it all alone, but He said, “Look, I don’t want to just do it on my own. I’m going to be a co-laborer” (1 Corinthians 3). “I’m going to be a co-laborer with you. I want you by My side. I want you to be a part in My work.”
Let’s just think about it for a second here. Think about over there in Exodus 32 where God was going to wipe out Israel. Remember that? Let’s go over there. Let’s look it up. I want you to see it. Look over there. Look in Exodus 32. I wasn’t planning on it. Let’s look over there. Exodus 32. Look in verse number nine here. This is when Moses is upon the mount. They got the Ten Commandments, and the children of Israel—man, they just went to sin so quickly. Aaron led them that way, and they were all participants. It’s just an amazing, sad deal. And look what happens here. Look at verse number nine. Exodus 32, verse number nine: “The Lord said unto Moses, I have seen this people, and behold, they are a stiff-necked people. Now, therefore, let Me alone, that My wrath may wax hot against them, and that I may consume them, and I will make of thee a great nation.” Do you understand what’s going to—this is the Bible, this is what the pastor says—and God said, “Leave Me alone, I’m going to consume them.” Did you get that? What God said. Watch this.
Verse number 11: “And Moses besought the Lord.” He begged the Lord. Moses besought the Lord and said, “Lord, why doth thy wrath wax hot against thy people, which thou hast brought forth of the land of Egypt with thy great power, with thy mighty hand? Wherefore should the Egyptians speak and say, For mischief didst thou bring them out to slay them in the mountains, to consume them from the face of the earth? Turn from thy fierce wrath, and repent of this evil against thy people. Remember Abraham, Isaac, and Israel, thy servants, to whom thou swarest by thine own self, and saidst unto them, I will multiply your seed as the stars of heaven, and all this land that I have spoken of will I give unto your seed, and they shall inherit it forever.” Watch this. “And the Lord repented.” He said, “All right, won’t do it.” “And the Lord repented of the evil which he thought to do unto his people.”
Now, here’s my thing. Here’s my thing. Was God going to consume them? Yes, He says so. But God allowed Moses to be a part in that formula, and Moses prayed, and God said, “All right, because you prayed, I will not bring My hand of judgment.” So did the Lord need Moses? Well, no, not originally. He’s guarding, doing anything. But in this scenario, did He use Moses, if you will? Did He want Moses to be His partner? You say, “What would have happened if there hadn’t been Moses?” I don’t know. God is very clear what He was going to do. Now, think about that. God, in His foreknowledge, knew Moses would be there. He knew what was going to happen because He knew Moses was going to pray. But part of God’s formula was that Moses would be there praying. Is that not right? So, if you will, the other side of the coin: Does God need us? Well, no, not really, totally, but God chooses to partner with us. And if we don’t do our part in it, oh, well.
Look over in Ezekiel real quick, if you would, please, here quickly. Look over to Ezekiel chapter 22. Wasn’t planning on reading this either, but let’s read it. I want you to see it from the Bible. It’s just amazing. It’s not what typically is thought or taught in our day and time, but it’s Bible. Look over in Ezekiel 22. I always mention the last part of this chapter I think describes America so perfectly: “And the land that is not cleansed nor rained upon in the day of indignation.” That’s America. We’re not cleansed, but God’s hand of judgment hasn’t fully fallen on America. Praise the Lord, we’re still meeting here tonight in church, amen. It’s just a good description in this last part of this chapter. So, so American, in my mind, my opinion, talks about the priests and the prophets and the leaders and all that. We won’t get into it. But I want you to jump down in verse 30. Verse number 30. God’s about to bring judgment. Look what He says: “And I sought,” verse number 30, Ezekiel 22:30, “for a man among them that should make of the hedge and stand in the gap before Me for the land, that I should not destroy it.” Sad phrase coming up. One of the saddest phrases in all the Bible. What’s the next four words? If you will, He couldn’t find a Moses here. “But I found none.”
So did God turn from His fierce wrath and anger? Oh, let’s see what happens. Next verse: “Therefore have I poured out My indignation upon them. I have consumed them with the wrath, with the fire of My wrath; their own way have I recompensed upon their heads, saith the Lord.”
Now, friend, it almost seems sacrilegious, but I’m not trying to belittle the power and the mind of God. He doesn’t need us to exist, but in His formula, He’s not willing that any should perish, if you will—and I use this very lightly—He needs us to partner with Him. You say, “Can that be accurate?” Yes, because God chose to work that way. He shows that path. That’s amazing. But He’s chosen to work through you. You’re the body. You’re His hands. You’re His feet. He says, “Hey, church, I’m the head. I want you to be the body.”
It’s amazing just to think about it. Oh, God can do anything. You can’t limit God and put God in a box. He can do anything. He’s almighty, all-powerful, all-knowing. He’s Jehovah Jireh. He’s Jehovah Shalom. He’s Jehovah Tsidkenu. He’s all that. He’s way above anything we can imagine for Him. But God chooses to partner with you. And in His Word, He says, “Hey, I’m the head. You’re the body.”
Today, Brother Josh—he did something very, very foolish but very loving. He had made a deal with the bus kids. He said, “If you bring visitors,” you know, he was the human—how many have seen the human hot dog today? A bunch of you have, yeah. I just praise the Lord, he was willing to do that. And they brought visitors. They could put the ketchup or the mustard and all that on him. And if you will, he was the hands of Christ loving those bus kids.
Brother Tim, he went to the nursing home at 3 o’clock today, and he said it wasn’t the biggest service, but it’s a good service, and some of those folks can never get out. Some of those folks, that’ll be the last four walls they ever see. They’ll never be able to walk out. They’ll never be able to go down to McDonald’s, whatever. They’re just there until they take their last breath. And Brother Tim today, he was the feet of Christ, to walk in those hallways and go in there and pray with them and try to preach the Word to them and try to just level them. Friend, hear the hands of Christ. Hear the hands of Christ to go love the unlovely.
You’re the hands of Christ to serve in Family Harvest Days where we’re serving the community in Middle Tennessee. You’re His hands. They came on this property, and all the different people, you know, directing traffic and the tractor and the waggling and the inflatables and the hot dogs and the chips and all the rest of the carnival games and all that, the magic show and all that. And you are the hands of Christ serving those people. Where’s the body?
You know, the Bible talks about how beautiful are the feet of those that spread the gospel from the mountains. You’re the feet of Christ. You’re the legs of Christ. Tomorrow, bodily Jesus won’t show up at your school or work place, wherever it may be, but He will through you because you’re His body, the body of Christ. This world—until Jesus comes, one day He’s going to come back, amen. Well, I’m excited about that. Every knee will bow, every eye shall behold, every tongue shall confess Jesus Christ the Lord, to the glory of God the Father. I’m excited about that day. Well, that would be a wonderful day. I love that, just studying about the second coming of Christ after the rapture, the second coming. Wonderful, wonderful thing to study. But until then, they see you, and you’re the body of Christ. Hey, this Middle Tennessee area—Murfreesboro and Smyrna and LaVergne—God has given His body. He’s got a body down here, the body of Christ, to travel over there and give out His gospel to the tract. You’re the body of Christ. Hey, He’s the head and He says, “Church, here’s the body.”
Hey, listen, send a lot of messages up to the brain. He’s a gracious God. He answers prayer. He doesn’t answer prayers because we’re great prayer warriors. He answers prayers because He’s a great prayer-answering God. He’s so capable and merciful and giving and gracious. He answers prayers. He has not because we ask not. He said in one place, “Ask, and it shall be given to you. Call unto Me, and I will answer thee, and show thee great and mighty things which thou knowest not.” He answers prayers. Let’s send the messages up.
Then let’s just grasp a little bit. Maybe we ought to go to Him and say, “Hey Lord, what would you like your hands to do today? Where would you like your feet to go today? What’s the next project you’d like your body to really take hold of? What’s the next down-and-outer that you’d like to shine your light to that dark area?” What a privilege, what an honor. It’s almost like it doesn’t seem that you’re the body of Christ.
Would you bow your heads and close your eyes? Your heads about eyes are closed. You say, “Preacher, preacher, I want to send more messages.” Man, it just makes it real to me. I’m the body. I want to continually send messages to the head. And God spoke to my heart about that. I want Him to hear from me continually. I want to be a better prayer warrior with the Lord. That’s you, not just a preacher. That’s me. That’s me. That’s me too. Me too. Me too. Where is the body? Where is the body? God bless you. God bless you.
So many hands. Maybe here tonight you say, “You know, I’m going to present myself. I know I’m not the whole body, but I’m part of the body of Christ, and I’m going to present myself to Him.” As a church family, it would be wonderful tonight if we come to Him and say, “Hey, Lord, what an honor. We’re not worthy, but you’ve called us to be your body.” And as a body, a local body right here, we just kind of come present ourselves to you. What’s the next one you want us to love? What’s the next one you want us to give the gospel to? What’s the next little child you want us to get in Vacation Bible School? What’s the next person you want us to reach out to and show the light and the love of Christ? Let’s present ourselves to Him as a church family. Would you do that tonight? We want to be your body. We want to do whatever, whenever you want us to do. We want to be your body.
Would you stand, please, tonight? Let’s have a word of prayer, and let’s just present ourselves to Him tonight.
Father, thank you that you give us the privilege, Lord. It’s amazing. It’s hard for me to comprehend it, Lord, that you give us the privilege of sending messages to you. Thank you that you hear. I think about that verse; you said you’re ready to forgive. Thank you for being like that. Help us to continually send messages to you. Thank you. You’re so gracious in your decisions, Lord. And Father, we come tonight. We’re honored to be your body here in the Middle Tennessee area. And Father, we come to you tonight. We present ourselves to you. Father, would you direct your hand and your feet to minister in love and help and reach people all over here, Lord? We long to be just under your direction. You guide us and show us where and what, how to move, how to work, where to go. Use us to bring you glory, Lord, and to bring your light in a dark world. Bless our people tonight, Father, please, in Jesus’ name, we pray. Amen.
As our instruments play, would you come just spend some time? Would you do that? Present ourselves to Him tonight. “Here am I, Lord. Here am I. Send me.”
Church family, let’s just kind of come together tonight at the throne. And Lord, here we are. We sure would like to do the work for you. What would you like done, Lord? You need some help today? Who needs some love? Who needs some prayer? Here we are. We’re honored to be your body. It’s just sometimes overwhelming the honor God gives us. And can I say this, the responsibility of all? Just overwhelming. Wow. But He’s the head, amen. We just follow Him. He’s got it all taken care of. And what a privilege it is to be His body. And I’m so glad you’re in church on a Sunday night. Praise the Lord for your faithfulness. Man, the choir this morning, didn’t they sound good? I tell you what, they were just going to town. I love it. And I appreciate it. Just everybody making it happen for the Lord. What a blessing. Praise the Lord for it. Foundations class, heard good things from that Foundations class. That’s awesome. Praise the Lord for just everybody doing their part. The musicians, they sometimes get overlooked. Nursery workers get overlooked. All these get overlooked. And just everybody doing their part. What a blessing, what a blessing. We appreciate it all. Praise the Lord. Brother Farfan, would you dismiss us with a word of prayer, please, Brother?
Original File: Pastor Paul Chisgar - Jesus- The head of the church - Sunday PM 10222023