"Accept Jesus is in the heart" "Accept Jesus is in the sight" "O Lord, have sweet mercy" "In Jesus' name" "Amen" "Oh we're blacks, we're blacks, we're blacks we are black!" "Step to Jesus," "Step together, we are making it in our heart" "That's what I like" "That's what I want" "The diary from Silas said, What you say, Lord?" "We need somebody to tell us, say he's alright" "Tell us somebody, Jesus is alright!" "There's a lot wrong with the world" "There's a lot wrong with society" "There's a lot wrong with the neighborhood" "There's a lot wrong with the community" "He is alright," "I say He's alright!" "There's nothing wrong with him" "He's perfect." "He's alright with me." "That's why I'm here this morning." "To lift up the name of Jesus." "He loves you from a mighty long way." "All of us to testify of the goodness of the Lord." "We're grateful for the service thus far." "There's a sweet spirit in this place." "And you that are here for the first time, you just love the Lord." "That's all!" "We enjoy the Lord, and if you are going to enjoy the Lord, then you are going to enjoy the warm day." "And I'm satisfied with Jesus." "We are beginning to read the Day at the fifteenth verse." "It says, "who is the image of the invisible God." "The first born of every creature, for by Him we're all things created that are in heaven and that are in earth." "Visible and invisible." "Whether they be thrones or dominions or principalities or powers, all things were created by Him and for Him." "He is the head of the body of the Church who is the beginning first born from the dead that in all things he might have the pre-eminence." "Let the church say amen." "I'm talking from the subject this morning" "God still has control." "Touch somebody and say God still has control." "The opposite of control is chaos." "The Opposite of control is confusion, and man has become so presumptuous" "that he feels that he himself has become a God." "You walk through the streets today and the old doctrine of atheism has just about gone out of style, and there is a new doctrine of theism that prevails in our society the doctrine that man himself is the only God that exists." "But I am of the opinion that man is a product of an intelligent creative being that we refer to as God the old "Him", the Jehova, we know him in the flesh as Jesus Christ." "I'm concerned and I'm disturbed because man has reached a place where he would like to think God out of existence." "But you can't think anything out of existence that you didn't think into existence." "God was not made by man." "MAN was made by GOD." "Not only man, but everything you see" "God made it." "When I say made I do not mean manufactured," "I do not mean that he took something and made something out, but I'm convinced, I am persuaded, I believe that God out of nothing made everything that appear right here today." "But you say how do I know it." "I know it because the world cannot be an accident." "The world that we live in, there's no way in any sensible mind that anything, anything that you see, that appears today, that it came from man." "Everything that man puts in his hands through is corruptible" "Everything man made has perished." "Can somebody say AMEN." "Everything that man puts in his hands through is corruptible every place that man travel after he sinned, he has corrupted himself through the earth." "But I am glad in the midst of man's corruption," "God's creation is still standing." "The world as you see it today, though it has been tampered with, it has been abused and over-used, but the world still stands." "If man had anything to do with the sun it would not be rising every morning now." "It would have been broke down, it would have been just messed up in technicolor instead of regular color, come on, say AMEN." "If man had anything to do with it, the sun would have been rising in the wrong place." "But you see man is never, never leave well enough alone." "Always gotta tamper with something, can you say AMEN." "Humans would be alright today," "He would have enough food for him to eat for the rest of his life and each other's lives but he want to mess around with the wrong trees and wind up dying, can you say something to me." "And so we are our own worst enemies." "If we could just leave it in the hands of God, touch your neighbour and say "leave it in God's hands"," "in his hands." "He's the one that knows what to do." "We are too quick to reach out our hands as if we are God, as if we can control things, but you can just look at that crisis we are in." "In Iran we tried diplomatically, we try military action, we try patience, we try to get mad, we tried threatening, and yet the situation remains the same." "Look at how Palestine and all the things that are going on in this world." "It looks like the world has gone crazy." "It looks like everything is out of control." "Governments are out of control, out of control in the schoolrooms, out of control everywhere, even the churches have gone wild, can you say something to me." "It just ain't what it used to be, it used to be you could come to church, and get a message from the Lord, used to you could come to church and expect that you hear sounds of silence" "you might walk in and hear rock'n roll, jazz, anything in church now come on, why don't you say nothing well you might just be surprised, you might just walk in and instead of the preacher preaching" "he takes off and gives you some of what you thought you learned in college come on you all," "I feel God moving here this morning" "I want you to know that the world seems it's going crazy." "But I'm glad God still got good sense," "I'm glad God is an intelligent God." "If God wasn't intelligent and he made this world he'd lose his mind himself." "But y'see God got it all in control." "Nothing goes on without God controlling it!" "Man has decided that I'll go to the moon," "I'll go down to the depths of the ocean and he has polluted the ocean so that you can hardly get clear good water." "He has polluted the air and you can hardly breathe the air around you." "He's polluted everything he has and the reason he's done it is because he has run out of himself, and he's empty and he's searching for something and he's creating images trying to make himself a God." "But you see the God that they're trying to make our," "Jesus said to Thomas," ""I been wit ya up here all the time."" "I been here all the time." "Yeah!" "And they're trying to get rid of the real God and set up another God." "In the old testament they had set up Gods of stone and Gods of all kinds of trees and that wasn't them." "But man has not come very far from idolatry." "He does not worship snakes and cows anymore, not in this part of the world." "But he worships money." "He bows down to the great almighty shrinking inflated Dollar." "Come on, say something to me" "But I want you to know that your God is getting smaller, your God can't talk, your God, there was a time he loved America, even when you could go across seas and flash a dollar, and everybody would flash a smile," "but today you go overseas and put out a dollar and they say I don't want it, it ain't no good." "Can you say AMEN, give me a Yen, give me a Mark, give me something else that got some value to it." "But I want you to know today that in the midst of this chaos God got control." "There was a time when you could go down to Wall Street and pick out some good firm stock and say" "I can lay back and wait 'til the interest come in, but there is no such thing as credibility anymore, somebody said I was around 1929 when they lined up in the soup line, and they lined up to get apples for free," "and they lined up for the ration goods, well Honey, you are about to start lining up again, because the crash is on the way." "Can somebody say AMEN." "I say that just like man fell apart and became unglued in 1929, there's going to be another crash, and this crash just won't be on Wall Street, it will be on every street." "And I heard the Lord say "When I see the blood," "I'll pass over you"." "He said "Trust in the Lord, and do good, tend that land and marry - - thou shalt be saved"." "I'm here to tell you this morning that God has got the world in his hands so that you are saying what in the world is the world coming to?" "Saying look like things are gonna just end up in a confused state." "But I have faith in God." "I've got faith in the creator God." "Everytime that I look up at the sun, and see the sun shining" "I know that God got control." "Can the church say AMEN?" "Men are liable to get just a made-up God" "They're trying to change the laws of God, they're trying to go up in the sky and sprinkle the clouds and make rain but can't nobody make rain but God." "When the skiers they ain't got no snow, they try to manufacture snow, but the only one that can make snow is the almighty God." "Can you say yes?" "They are trying to go to the sun, to harvest the sun and get solar heat because they gonna ruin everything else." "They gonna over-use the oil, and rape the land because of all its resources and because they built it all up and forgot their God, now they're going to try to harvest the sun." "But they might look for that sun and another sun will come out on top and I'll let you know I'm the son of a righteous man." "I feel his help comin' on slow." "I want you to know that God has got it in control." "The President don't know what to do." "The Mayors, and presidents and kings are trying to confer to one another." "But Carter is just as confused as anybody else is." "These Gods are trying to make peace, but regardless whether it's peace they're shaping, its self-destruction." "the world is going around spinning like a totem and nobody's gettin' off." "But I'm glad that God that I serve declared thousands of years ago that the word is the Lord's and the fullness there on, the word and faith that dwell therein, they're tampering' with human nature." "I've read before I got here of two young girls in the teen-age that wanted to change from girls to boys, had operations that change the organs of their bodies, saying we don't want to be Marie and Mary," "we want to be Bod and Mike, but I want you to know, that woman, one of the first chapter says that when they make our baby that's God." "They will recognize it as God." "He turned the whole soul of his mama." "Men are trying to look like women, women are trying to look like men." "But God said in the book of Genesis" " in 1 and about 16 - said I created men, male and female." "God didn't make any homosexuals." "He didn't create any lesbians." "But he made us in his own image, and he made us in his own shape." "He saw of us out of the dust of the earth, he finds us and then he breathed into man's nostril, he became a living soul, put Adam to sleep, took a rib out of his side" "and made him a healthy being, and said be fruitful and multiply." "In these last days we got sperm banks, there are purely artificial inseminations." "God ain't need no helping' hand, they're tryin' to build a super race they're trying to take the sperm of a genius and match it with the sperm of the egg of another genius and produce another genius." "But man can't make geniuses," "God's keep the brain power," "God keeps the man." "Can you say yes." "say all right" "I want to tell you that the God I serve, you better leave what he made alone." "God made man the way he wants it." "God said to a man and a woman how to be fruitful and multiply, we got surrogate mothers, a man and a woman wants a child and so they ask another woman to leave their seed and egg," "implant it in her womb, but children are supposed to be conceived in love and harmony." "I don't know what's that power" "Man has gone too far, man has over-stepped his boundaries and God said" "I'm tired of man's evil ways." "I'm tired," "I've done all by myself," "I don't need nobody else, can you say yes, somebody said, Bishop, you said you're going back to yesteryear you got that right," "I'm going back to yesteryear." "Because what's now is not God" "God is sane, seek out the old path, seek out the old way, let's all go back to the old." "Let's all stand and shout for the Lord." "Can you shout yes." "Can you say yes." "Reach out and touch your neighbor, say don't worry about it," "God is in control," "God has got it in his hands." "Say Yes" "Can you say yes" "I'm glad today that God controls the human family," "God controls the birth and the death, can you say yes Lord?" "I kill, and I make alive," "I'm the one that puts the song in the robin's mouth." "I'm the one that makes little babies cry as they come into the world." "I'm the God that makes the roses grow and the lilies to bloom and the grass to grow." "I'm the one that separated the waters from the waters with the firm hand," "I'm the one that made man." "He was sitting there and standing like a dummy, had no spirit, had no animation and God breathed into his nostrils and man became a living soul, a soul with emotions, a spirit with feeling, a body with power." "God said" "I made you to glorify me," "I created you to lift me up." "If you want to praise me, if you want to let me up and raise your condition," "You got to love me" "God said" "I'm always in control." "Say yeah." "Say yes Lord." "When does darker, when it gets darker" "In the days of Noah and Noah said" "Lord take control." "Man had corrupted himself up and down the earth, took wives as he chose eating', drinkin' and gambling'." "But God told Noah it's going to rain, wish I had some help here." "They laughed at Noah." "They said old man Noah is goin' off his rocket." "Said it ain't never rained before." "He said the closest thing to rain is a little bit of dew that fell on the ground." "But Noah kept one sermon for 120 years." "Everytime they'd see Noah ..."goin' rain"" "They said "Hey Noah, what's happenin', man?"" "He says "goin' rain"." "Said "Hey Noah, what are u building' a boat for?"" "Said "It ain't gonna rain a no normal water 'round here."" "Have you ever seen somebody building a boat and ain't got nowhere to sail it?" "Hallelujah!" "But I heard brother Noah say," "I believe that God got it in control." "Say yes!" "Noah just kept on workin'." "He got the hull all finished," "I don't know where or how he got the plans but he got 'em from God, and God designed the ship, better than the Titanic, yes God, better than the USS, better than the Queen Elizabeth." "So listen, listen, listen, listen." "Noah I'm going to send you on a little cruise for 40 long days," "I want to take care of you," "I want to watch over on you and take you up on land a little after." "And one day they walked out and felt a drop of rain, but they kept on doing their thing, and another one came down." "After awhile God spoke to the clouds and said" ""Let everything go, everything you've got"." "God touched the clouds, the clouds opened up, and down came the rain." "They went through the window, went knocking' at the door, said" ""Oh Brother Noah, let us in"," "Noah looked out the window, and couldn't let 'em in because God put Noah over inside and his children, and the Bible said God closed the door and shut it himself." "That's why I say God has got control." "A whole lot of churches, let anything in," ""I think I'm gonna preach like I want"." "A whole lot of churches let anything in." "You can come in and bring anything you got, bring your Mercedes, bring your cigarettes in, bring Coltrane in, bring homosexuality in, bring fornication in, bring homosexuality in, but I'm going to tell you," "God got the door." "He said" "I am the door," "I'm the key." "I got it, and I'm preachin' it this morning, he said I got it under control." "Somebody said I'm going into church," "I'm gonna join the church anyhow, but I got news for you," "God says who comes here and who goes out." "Somebody said "Bishop, I thought that was you"." ""No, man - that's only in Bible way."" "But God said "I'm the one that let you in the church"." "Say yes." "But you may skip around and you may fool around and try to get around God." "But I heard brother David say," ""If I took a razor every morning," "and if I put it on the wall," "God said to earth," ""Preacher, it is already there"." "I won't let you loose it"." "Wherever you're goin'," "God's already there." "Wherever you have been, he's already been there" "Whatever you doing he knows about it" "If it's high, or it's low, if it's in heaven, or in my home." "or in my costume." "God know everything!" "Trust nobody else, do you?" "He's everywhere" "He's everywhere you can't get away from him, everywhere you look," "God is there," "David says he's just everywhere, with the man that have been in hell," "He was already there" "I left me preaching this morning" "Hallelujah!" "Some of you are trying to play God, trying to act like God" "But I'm glad" "I don't want to be God, that's what happened in the beginning," "I think I'll take my time here." "I Said this is one and one," "I said in the beginning," "God created the heaven and the earth." "The second verse say it, and the earth was wasted" "and was void and was empty." "Isaiah 45 says he formed the earth." "You see when God made the earth, he formed it," "he designed it." "You know when something is designed, don't you?" "Hallelujah!" "You can get a whole piece of suit and just throw it together, and it will look pretty nice, from the C + P to Calvin Klein, they are called designers." "That mean they make clothes with a specific design and put their stamp on it." "You are all together with me." "That's the way God made the earth." "He designed it, every star had his fingerprints on it." "Every planet had his hand print on it, every single rock," "God signed it with his own signature." "Try to say yes, say it all." "I want you to know that when God had the earth just like you wanted it," "Satan rose up in the heaven and said I will be like God," "I will drop my fault with the Holy Ghost on the side of me, and I got to go take a plane, and the and the buses or the plane even on the train that goes on the trucks" "I thing is a bad ground" "So we don't fire him because the train ain't running in control, but this driver, this morning, will be born!" "Say yeah!" "Come here bus driver." "Lord have mercy," "Hallelujah!" "God bless you all, we are praying for you." "Now he fixed the buses, and he drived the buses, what line do you used to drive?" "7 7th Avenue?" "Lord have mercy." "And when he gets on that bus, and when the folk would come on in the night on the 56th, or wherever it is," "He don't ask for the fare, but they used to give him the fare and he's going to disappear right through the bus, right out of the front." "Come on," "Come on, come on to me in the air!" "Can somebody shout "Yeah!"?" "Whatever your job is, if you are a nurse you can be taking a temperature," "Lord have mercy." "And if it's somebody with a temperature of 98 and by the time you get the healing the nurse will look around and you'll be through." "Somebody in the air" "Say yeah!" "Say yeah!" "Whatever you're charge." "Brother Allen, you're coming out with few figures, and you gonna be tryin' to calculate, and you have to be an accountant and by the time you get past your calculations your pencil will drop," "and your people are going to fly away." "Your boss gonna come in and ask for some figures and you ain't goin' to be there." "That's because you people of color shall meet him in the air." "Yes!" "Say yes!" "I'm going to ask another man," "I want you to add a room to my house with your construction." "And you gonna tell me" ""I can't build nothin' else." "Because in my father's house," "I'll be hung up, have got to talk to somebody else"." "I'll be calling him" "I'll be calling him" "So I'll meet him in the air" "Somebody said Bishop," "I ain't workin' nowhere, said I'm just home, how many do that?" "I just cook the food and I just make the beds, send the children to school and I don't have anythin' for me, but honey, you gonna be around the house, stirring up a cake" "Hallelujah, make me some pancakes, we're gonna flip it up, and send it to the captain standing up in the newborn store." "He got it in His hand!" "Hallelujah!" "And the lord himself he'll descend from heaven" "and the throne of God, and on that day Christ shall rise, and we want to be in the number." "I mean to be." "I mean to be." "I mean it." "I intend to be." "I'm goin' to be." "It is in me." "I've got to be." "Without that wish" "I have got anything in me" "If Christ hadn't arose, now this is the thing." "All of this which I'm doin' this mornin'," "I won't make heaven all I'm doing is thinkin" ""This is too much to" "I could be out in the world." "I know all the fun I could have" "But I've left drinking and smoking and dancing it," "I left all that stuff to follow Jesus." "But if I'd missed that I'd 've missed heaven too." "I'd have missed out altogether, but I'm glad that I made my choice," "I say I made my choice" "I don't get credit, ever since I been with Jesus," "I don't regret it for everything of Jesus is sweeter than the day before at all mankind" "I'm already into the womb," "I've already been baptized," "I'm already with the Holy Ghost, and I feel alright," "He's got it in control," "He's got it in his hand." "Say yeah!" "Say yeah!" "The Almighty God we serve!" "The Almighty God we serve!" "What's your name?" "Jesus!" "Oh my Lord yeah!" "ST by LB"