What's going on everybody? Got Kyle here with Layton Sports Cards and we are ripping six boxes 2023 Tops Chrome Cosmic. This one is going to be for Mr. Tom C. Let's see what we got, Tom. Six boxes Cosmic. Let's see a Pluto. See a Pluto. Let's see a Super. Let's see it all. Good luck, Tom. We liked the new Top Cosmic this year, man. Chrome Cosmic. I really think they did improve it from last year and it was a solid product last year, man. It was a really nice product last year and I think they made improvements. Planetary Pursuits a fun chase. So they got the Taco Frackers in here too, man. I'm trying to pull another. The Grom on the Starry Night. I've only pulled one Taco Fracker so far out of Tops Chrome and here in Cosmic. I need to get another one. Nolan Jones. Let's see it, Tom. Let's see it. There's a Star Clusters Red Sox. Rookie Frankie Alvarez, E.T. What's everyone doing today? How's everyone's Sunday going? I want to say it's still pretty early. Yorda Unlaunched into orbit. Hope everyone has some fun plans for the rest of the day. Got Labor Day tomorrow. Hope you guys are off. Gonna have another good day tomorrow. Got Florida State tonight, man. I'll probably mention it about a hundred times today. It's very possible. Florida State Live in Orlando. Hunter Brown Rookie Scope. I'll be heading down there right after I get out of here. We're heading down to the tailgates and all that. There's a Gunner Henderson Rookie. Got launched into orbit of Bryce Harper. We do have a Planetary Pursuit. It is the Sun. Planetary Pursuit. Gonna be Frankie Alvarez. Nice one there, Francisco, on the Planetary Pursuit. The Sun. It's a sick one there. Let's see Pluto though. Let's see Pluto. I feel that, Shady. I feel that, my man. Got Bobby Witt, ET. I feel that, sir. Got Alec Bone, Scope. Yeah, I've had a few friends in town. Will Myers, Volpe. Been staying on my couch and I've had to avoid that since I've been working in the mornings this whole weekend. So I've been avoiding the hangover. Tom, come on, super. There's a Blue Jeff McNeil to 79 on the Blue Polestar. Jeff McNeil. Juan Soto, ET. Here we go. Got it. Hey, you don't want to shock the system week one. You don't want to shock the system. I know what you mean, Shady. Here's a Star Clusters Yankees there. Some rookies on that one. Alrighty there, Tom. That'll do it for box one. We'll get this Frankie Alvarez sleeped up. It's two box two. Good luck, Tom. It'll happen, man. It'll happen, Shady. Sitting on that couch watching football all day. Gonna drink a few more beers than you expect to for sure. For sure. Probably have a couple of the day after I get out of here and go down to Tailgate. But we're down by the stadium for tonight, man. Might have a couple. Got Yoshida, ET. One or two. One or two, Shady. One or two. Got Masatake Yoshida. Met Star Clusters. No, Shady. FSU, LSU. Top 10 matchup. Numbers five and number eight. I'm a no. I went to Florida State. They're in town. They're in Orlando. We got Jayrod. They're playing a neutral site. We played in New Orleans last year. So technically neutral sites, not at all, though. Orlando and New Orleans are about as far from neutral sites for those two teams. Clusters, Orioles. They did let me on campus, man. Had to pay though. Had to pay though. Star Clusters, Angels. I did have to pay. Yeah, man. They did. They were, I was there four years, man. They allowed me to be there. Pretty crazy. Trey Turner, ET. Pretty crazy. Got Rowdy. Rowdy to Les to 199 Aqua. Got Luisa Riaz Scope. And rookie Corbin Carroll. The Corbin rookies are always on the back of the back. There's the launch into Orbit, Juan Soto. Yeah, I was surprised they had it in Orlando and New Orleans for neutral site games. Michael Taglia, rookie to 75. Taglia, rookie for the Rockies and ET, Jayrod. Yeah, last year though, New Orleans, I was kind of upset. I was like, this is supposed to be a neutral site game and it's in New Orleans. Come on. And then this year, I'm excited about it. Refract to rookie to your waters. I'm glad it's in Orlando as opposed to Tally, because I can go. But I think Atlanta might have been a better neutral site between LSU and Florida State. Michael Harris rookie, then right outside LSU and right outside Florida or in Florida. Gunner rookie there. There's a Jaywalk. And we got launched into Orbit, Ken Griffey. Yeah, last year was a really fun game, man. I'm hoping it can just be as close to as good as last year. It's even close, man. It's going to be a good game. Gold. It is Trevor Story. Gold for the Red Sox. Number to 50. I like that pattern design. Eight to 50. Trevor Story. Nada. Jeremy Pena. Star Clusters. Astros. Refractor Hater. Will Myers. Alrighty there, Mr. Tom. That'll do it for two boxes. Hold on. Box three. Rookie base. Refresh here again, guys. Rookie Michael Harris. Yeah, guys. Still got right around two hours. Probably a little bit under now. Ooh, nice Adley there to $199 on the Aqua. Aqua Adley to $199. Nice one there, Tom. Adley Clutchman. Yeah, guys. Five between an hour and a half and two hours on the queue at the moment, guys. If you want to get something going, still got plenty of room. We'll go till three today. Back, base, back, base, back. It's Corbin Carroll, ET. And they now took. I didn't know they get a deal or something, the Big Ten. There's a Ronnie Refractor. I didn't see anything about that. We've got Spectrum here at the shop, so we can't even watch the ESPN channels right now. I don't know if that's going to change here soon. Frankie Alvarez on the Starry Night. I'm hoping they get a deal done pretty soon here, man. Yeah, I remember only usually seeing like SEC on CBS, for sure. Will Benson Rookie. Yeah, CBS on a Saturday. You could pretty much guarantee around here to see a Florida game. Clusters Braves could almost guarantee it. See a Florida game on a Saturday on CBS. Met Starclusters. They took that 330 time slot. I'll take it, man. I'll take it. Got ET Kodaisenga. Yeah, Big Ten is going to be a, they're going to be a powerhouse with all the TV rights and everything they have going on. All the teams that they're getting now to into their division. It's going to be the Big 20 here soon, I think. Starclusters. There's a Morrell. Big 15, Big 20, something like that. There's a launch into Orbit Goldie. They got the NBC Prime time too. Dang, man. We're going to see, it's going to be like a Rutgers, Ohio State on the prime time. One of these games this year. They're not going to have a good matchup every week, right? They're going to have like Rutgers, Ohio State or like Purdue, Iowa, something like that. Ryan Mountcastle. There's Logan Gilbert, number 250 on the goal for the Mariners. Logan Gilbert. Kirby. Backed out, back pretty good pictures for the Mariners there. Bryce Harper ET. We got Adley on the Starclusters. It's Rutgers Northwestern. Exactly. Exactly my point right there. Trevor's Story, Scope. That's a powerhouse matchup. Shohei Refractor. Powerhouse matchup. Hey, what's up, Justin? What's up, my man? Hey, I'm excited, man. I'm in Orlando. I'm going to be going to the game later today, man. Once we get off here, I'm heading straight down to the tailgates and stuff over by downtown. Hey, man, I'm excited, Justin. I'm excited, man. Should be a good game either way, man. I hope the Knowles win, but I'm excited for a good game either way. Yeah, I thought my thumbnail might bring a couple of tigers in here today. I thought it might. There's a DeGrom, Starry Knight, Philly's Clusters. There's a Trey Turner ET. Come on, let's see a Pluto. Let's see a Pluto. Haven't hit one yet, man. There's Corbin Carroll Rookie. I know they're very short printed, but want one. Masataka Rookie Base. I'm launching to Orbit Devours. I feel you, Justin. I feel you. I'd be right there with you, man. I'd be right there with you. I think my buddies, I got some buddies in town that went to Florida to stay with me. I think they're heading down there about like noon. I get off here at three and I'm going straight there. I'm going straight there. Should definitely be a good time, man. Julio ET. I'm worried about your QB, man. Worry about your QB. He's good, man. J-Ramp to 199 on the Aqua Shimmer. Yeah, the Pluto's are the rarest. Yeah, so it goes like the sun is the least rare and then it goes like one by one. It goes Mercury, Venus, Earth, Mars. After that, I might have to refresh Star Cluster's Adley on that one. I don't know if I got all them in order. Mars, the Jupiter Saturn. Jupiter Saturn, Uranus, Neptune, Pluto. I think I got it there. Mookie Beth's Scope. I don't think I've seen the, I don't think I've seen the old layout in a while. Elementary school maybe. It's launching to Orbit Shohei. I like those launching to Orbit Dicuss. Those are sick looking design. It's a nice one. Frankie Alvarez on these Scope Rookie. Mets. Catcher. Got Chris Bryant. Star Cluster's Braves. Got the Sun. Planetary Pursuits. The Sun there. Juan Soto. Second Planetary Pursuit for you there, Tom. Nice Soto. Had Frankie Alvarez in the first box as well. Not bad there. Let's keep it going. Let's see. A Super, a Red. Oh, really, Toc? I didn't even know that. Got Masataka E.T. Yeah, I didn't know you weren't a mod anymore. I only see the, I only ever see the restream, so I don't even see who, Hater. I don't really see who's mods and everything from the restream. Star Cluster's Yankees. Righty box number four. See what we got, Tom. Akunya. Cluster's there. Harper Mookie and Judgy. Michael Harris, Rookie E.T. Gicale Stowers. There is. Launched into orbit. Bobby Whitt. Another one. We got the Sun. It's Adley Rushman. Not bad there. Some nice planetary pursuits. Got two rookies, Adley and Francisco. Austin Riley. Still trying to see a Pluto though, man. I think Matt's pulled two now. I think Matt's pulled two now out of here. Mike Trout E.T. Cluster's Yankees. Refractor Nate Lowe. Base, base, base. On the second year auto, E.T. talent is O'Neill Cruz. That's a sick looking car there. 38 of 50 on the gold E.T. insert auto. Nice one. There, O'Neill Cruz. The kid was popular as heck, man, before he got injured. I think he'll come back hot next season. It was a pretty, pretty lame injury too, man. He was, I don't know what he was doing, man. Sliding into home there. Hey, what's up, Rich? Morning, sir, morning. Got Gunner E.T. and nice one there, man. O'Neill Cruz is solid. Very soft. Came in hot. There's a Star Cluster's Rangers. Doing good, doing good, man. I'm excited for that Florida State game today, man. I keep saying it. Aaron Judge, launching into orbit. Top 10 matchup week one. I'm ready for it. There's a Cluster's for the Blue Jays. I'm on now, Tom. Oh, listen, brakes. Nice, nice. Yeah, guys, got brakes going up for the rest of the week here. You, Darvish, we have Spectra Basketball releasing on Wednesday. Those brakes have been up for a little bit. Guys, if you want to check and see if your teams are still available, Spectra Basketball is coming out Wednesday. We've had some had some orders coming in for that already. Jazz Chisholm E.T. Scope is you. It's a Grom or Fractor. I'm going to write it, Tom. One more box. Got three planetary pursuits already, man, doing well. We've got a Frankie Sun and we got our, we've got Adley Sun. Let's keep it going, man. Trying to see a Pluto. Let's see a Pluto behind on the Super Fractor Count as well, man. Matt's been crushing this product, man. Got to catch up. There's Jay Rod, Starry Nights. I like those Starry Nights inserts too. Frankie, Alvarez, like those Starry Nights. These are cool. Star Clusters, the young guys, Bobby Whitpainia and Jay Rod. Good combo there. There's E.T. of Swarbaum. It's Wander. Got a Scope, Nicky Cassianops. Nick Prado, launched into orbit, Jordan Walker. Blane, sir. Salute, how we doing? What's going on, sir? I saw Texas got the win yesterday. Mike Harris got Adley Rookie. Texas got their win yesterday. Base, base, base. Acunia and Edward Apulean. There's a Orioles Star Clusters. Gunner and Adley, man. Good, a good combo of rookies to have, man. The Orioles are making the most of it. Jordan Walker. There's a launch into orbit, Frank Thomas. Orioles are definitely making the most of their rookies. Plus, they got Holiday waiting in the wings. Ooh, Gold again. I think it's the third or fourth Gold now, Tom. It's a E.T. again. It is Kodai Senga. A nice one there on the Gold E.T. insert. Very nice one there. Starting pitcher for the Mets. Nice Kodai. That one is numbered 31 out of 50. Very nice there, Tom.  We're getting some nice Mets, though. I know you're a Yankees fan, but we're getting some nice Mets on the Alvarez's, the Sangas. Not bad, my man. Alejandro Kirk is blue to 99. Christian Walker is a Gunner base rookie. Shohei E.T. D-Bex. Josh Young Rookie. Lou Barber Fracter. What's up, Koa? Don't know if that was a mistake, but hello. How we doing? Rookie Riding Green. Star Clusters. Astro. Last couple packs here, Tom. Orange. I'm on now. Orange. What do we got? What do we got? Is Orange Rookie Drew Waters for the Royals there? Some really nice color coming out in this half case, Jeffrey. 21 out of 25. Royals Rookie on the Orange Lava to 25. 21. 25. Nice one there. We'll take it, Orange. Got some really nice color coming out, man. Punch of gold. Orange now. Tautis E.T. Refractor Hater in our last pack here. Paraza. Angels on the Clusters. And last card is Matt Chapman. Alrighty there, Mr. Tom C. That will do it for your half case, six boxes of Tops Chrome Cosmic. Some nice hits there. My friend had three Planetaries, a couple of golds, and Orange there. Thank you, sir. We'll get this right out to you.


That doesn't make her your soulmate though. 500 days of summer is not a love story, but a story about love. A failed love. A story about learning how to love oneself and why it is important to love oneself. It is also a story about fate and separation. Before we get into these themes, let's take a look at the movie as a whole first. The first thing to take note of is that this film is not linear in its storytelling. It jumps back and forth between the beginning, middle, and end of the relationship between Tom and Summer. Highlighting key events in their relationship, like the first time they met or their first conversation, alongside many more. The movie takes us through their story from beginning to end. The story of Tom Hansen and Summer Finn. So, as it opens, the narrator quickly introduces us to the why of the story, which will be vital for the later portions of the film. Tom Hansen of Margate, New Jersey grew up believing that he'd never truly be happy until the day he met the one. And meanwhile, Summer Finn was the complete opposite. Summer Finn of Shinnecock, Michigan did not share this belief. Since the disintegration of her parents' marriage, she'd only loved two things. With this introduction, the film takes us to day 290 of 500, after their breakup. Like the narrator states, it is not a love story. After this introduction, this film shows us that not only will their relationship end, but it will have a profound impact on Tom. So it begins, a journey through the relationship of Tom and Summer. The first important stop in their journey for me was at the bar on day 28. Where Summer establishes her idea of relationships. She doesn't feel like she needs a boyfriend or a relationship. And she is not interested in one, reaffirming the why from her introduction. And Summer also says this. There's no such thing as love, it's fantasy. Tom replies by saying, I think you know when you feel it. A line that stands as a theme for this movie. And so by the end of the night, Summer shows a liking towards Tom. And this is realized later on when they share a kiss in the copy room, days later at work. It is important to keep in mind that the first time Tom saw Summer, he believed that she was the one. And this idea would carry him through the movie. And so for the next half hour, we are taken through the great highs of their newfound bond. Where they would spend a lot of time together. With a highlight towards specific places. Ikea, the music store, the movies, the bar. All places that would have a duality to them in terms of their importance to the story. These places represent good and later will embody the bad. We are also taken through their intimate moments. Like Tom entering Summer's home and her telling him about her dreams for the first time. And the one glaring issue that is weighing on Tom is the label or the status of their relationship. Them being boyfriend and girlfriend. But Summer is firm in her statement from the bar. She doesn't want their connection to be labeled. As she states that she's having fun. However after their bar incident again alluding to the duality of these places. Tom gets into a fight with another man who makes rude comments about Tom and Summer. And Tom gets angry at the idea that they are not quote on quote together. Or a couple. Again forgetting Summer's initial desire. Moving forward the movie takes us to the later days of their relationship. In the 300s to be more precise. A time after Summer and Tom broke up. Tom goes on a date with another girl. But Tom tells the girl up front about how he isn't over Summer. And he says this line. I know that she's the only person in the entire universe that would make me happy. Once again reaffirming Tom's belief from his introduction. So Tom attends the wedding of a former colleague in an attempt to win Summer back. And essentially he does.  Laughing and drinking. Recalling their time spent together.  And this creates one of the best scenes in the movie. Tom's expectation versus his reality. He expects them to interact just as they did at the wedding. But instead it is spent with Tom being alone for most of the night. The same night he finds out that Summer is engaged. A realization that sent Tom spiraling into depression. And that is vocalized by his final monologue at work. And I want to hone in on what I believe to be the most important part of Tom's monologue. People should be able to say how they feel. How they really feel. Not some words that some strangers put in their mouths. Love that don't mean anything. The thing here is that while the message is true, I felt that in this movie specifically, people have been saying what they felt. Summer from day 28 has stated exactly how she felt. Maybe not why she felt it, but she did express her feelings many times. And those feelings were not love. Not once was she quote unquote in love. But Tom was too blinded by his idea of love to see it. The entire film is seen from Tom's perspective. What Tom remembers as the best moments in their relationship. What Tom recalls as the worst. It is about how Tom perceived everything Summer said in a specific way. About how Tom perceived everything Summer did in relation to his idea. That he constructed in his own mind. The film even takes us through Tom's head and what his ideas of love are compared to Summer's. We learn that Tom grew up watching lots of movies. And this greatly influenced his perception of how love should be expressed or of how relationships are made and defined. Tom fighting another guy at the bar is his idea of chivalry. His idea of love. Tom had the thought that two people who may share a connection with each other are two people that should be together. That coupled with Tom's ego and selfishness led him to hold on to this relationship as long as he did. Because this was his idea of what love should have been. This idea of this lifelong chase in the name of love. This selfishness led him to a feeling of entitlement towards Summer and her love. You can't force anyone to do or to feel anything. Especially not for someone to love. You do not own any person either or their emotions. The only thing you can do is give someone your all without regrets, like Tom did. And unfortunately, she just didn't love him back. Tom believed that in order for himself to be completed for Tom to be at Tom's best was to have someone else by his side. An idea that was challenged throughout the movie mostly by Summer. Someone else cannot define you and your sole purpose in life will not be in another person.  Which was why it was necessary for Summer to leave him. And which is why when Summer left him, he broke. His entire life was spent believing that he needed her to find true happiness. So Tom had no choice but to find himself in what he wanted. He left his job to return to architecture. Tom built himself back up and developed into the person we see at the end of the film. Not a perfect person, but a work in progress. By the end of the movie, the narrator says the following. There's no such thing as fate. Nothing is meant to be. Sorry, um, I just left, uh, can I... He was pretty sure. So while Tom stopped believing in fate, I do think he understood in this moment about what fate is and about what is meant to be and also about separation. Tom's relationship with Summer was a learning point for both parties. For Tom, he understood a few things. When Summer told him that she wasn't interested in a relationship, he should have truly thought about what that meant for him going forward and about attachment. Something he would later learn about himself. Tom likes labels and he is easily attached. He would also learn that he is not entitled to anything from anyone. Regardless of how much he did with Summer, about how many intimate moments they shared, he is not entitled to a relationship. Unless agreed upon by both parties and he cannot control how she feels about him. Summer simply learned one thing from their interaction and this was that Tom was not the one, something that she seemed to already know from the beginning and their growing partnership would simply further confirm this belief. So it was meant to be that Tom and Summer would fall into what is not love but would share a special and unique bond with each other, something that no one else can take from them. But they were meant to meet each other and to learn about themselves with each other, nothing else. And fate would pull them apart as quickly as she pushed them together so that they may move on with their lives and not be consumed with this relationship. 500 days of Summer truly highlights the beauty in separation because there is in fact beauty in separation. There is warmth in it. In some cases, people are only meant to be with each other for a certain amount of time. To learn less about each other but to learn more about themselves, possibly to understand how they express love or their love language and where their compatibility may actually lie. It is okay to love and it is also okay to fall out of love, like Tom and Summer. 500 days of Summer is not a love story but a story about love. 500 days of Summer is a story about fate and about how falling out of love and separation is all meant to be. My name is Tom. Nice to meet you. I'm Autumn.


because you saved me and I was just a child. I bless your holy name forever and ever. Bless our service today. We came to praise you and honor you. Now, hallelujah. We came to lift up your name. We praise and we honor you. In the name of Jesus, be glorified, Father. In our worship and our praise, in Jesus' name I pray. Bless everybody who's here. Keep them well in their bodies so they can continue to praise you and honor you. And bless your holy name. Thank you, Lord. In Jesus' name I pray. Thank you, Jesus. Saved by your power, Lord. Saved by your power divine. Saved those who are not saved. Those who want to be saved. Give them a deeper desire to be saved. Worship them, praise you. In Jesus' name I pray. Thank you, Jesus. Amen. Thank God. From Psalms 121, we know God is our keeper. God is our helper. God is our deliverer and our provider. And he's our protector, amen. In this scripture we're gonna learn all that, amen.  From which comeeth my help. My help coming from the Lord, which made heaven and earth. He will not suffer thy foot to be moved. He that keepeth thee will not slumber. Behold, he that keepeth Israel shall neither slumber nor sleep. The Lord is our keeper. The Lord is our shade upon thy right hand. The sun shall not smite thee by day, nor the moon by night. The Lord shall preserve thee from all evil. He shall preserve thy soul. The Lord shall preserve thy going out and thy coming in from this time forth and even forevermore, amen. That's an assurance for us, amen. Hallelujah. Thank you, Lord. We have that assurance in you, Lord God, that you will keep us and nothing shall harm us. We come to give God some glory and praise this morning. Hallelujah. We just said that we were glad to come into the house of the Lord, amen. Let's give him some praise. I love to pray. Understand what, you understand who your father is. Understand every promise that he puts out to us. It is for us. That God's gonna make it all the place where you are in life. When we have good days, we love that. We have bad days, we hate that. But what we need to do is understand and appreciate the fact that God is working on us. He's preparing us for the great catching way into the sky. So we ought to praise God. When troubles come in our way, it's our purview. We have to praise God. Thank him in every situation. Scripture said in everything, give thanks. Give thanks because it is the will of God concerning you. God's got a blessing. God's got a blessing. You better believe he's got a blessing. If you can't believe it, you can't have it. Oh, you're holy. Come on, come on, praise God. You may be seated. Thank you, Jesus. Oh, give thanks unto the Lord, because he's good. And his mercy endured forever. Anybody need mercy? Oh, his mercy endured forever. Thank God for the father we have. I'm excited to see each of you who are here today. Praise the Lord, that when we come together, presence of the Lord is here. And the thing that I thought about when I was up in the office, I thought about the verses that I was glad when they said unto me, let us go into the house of the Lord. And there was a witness down here who was all so glad when it was said, let us go into the house of peace, happiness, joy in the house of the Lord. Hallelujah. Well, now it's got to a place in church where the preacher have to apologize for getting loud. I heard one preacher, he said, I didn't mean to get loud this quick. I get loud. See, that's my nature. I love the Lord. And I won't take it back. And I won't let nobody tell me what level to praise him at. Cause he's my God. He's my savior. He's my Lord. Take that. Yeah, come on, come on, yeah. Real me in, y'all. We're gonna have minister Maryland, Mr. Maryland Alexander come and make our announcement. Okay. Amen. Praise the Lord everybody. Okay, so I'm going off the cuff, y'all. My phone is over there. Thank the Lord. It is time for our LA Diocesan meeting. Amen. Let's give the Lord a hand praise for that. Meeting is dated for October the 8th. And it will be at Shield of Faith in Pasadena. Amen. Bishop Rick Johnson is the pastor there. Amen. The guest speaker will be Bishop Ernest Johnson. Amen, amen. The service will be October the 8th at four o'clock p.m. So please put it on your calendar. We only do it once a year. It's a time of fellowship for all of the churches that are in the LA Diocesan. Amen. Thank you. Amen. And all of the bishops and the pastors, they're excited about it. Amen. They are looking forward to the fellowship. Amen. And I spoke to our just elated about having the opportunity to come together again. Amen. So put it on your calendar if you want to usher. If you want to sing, there's going to be a hundred voice choir. Amen. The praise team will be opening up the service. Amen. So God is just going to be praying on each praise team. The Lord has counted us worthy. We have our bishop. Bishop Erling is the diocesan of the LA meeting. So come on out. Bishop wants everyone to be there. Amen. If you want something to do, amen. If you want something to do, see me. And I can direct you into whatever area, amen, that you would like to work in ushers, and deacons, and everything. Amen. So, amen. Bishop, you want to add something? Yeah. I'll come back. Go ahead. OK. Amen. Come on, Sister Shaiya. We're going to have our. We're excited. They're excited. They're looking forward to being with us in the meeting on the 8th. And so I'm going to ask everybody, all the members, put it on your calendar. And don't just put it on your calendar. Look at the calendar and do what the calendar says. Amen. Amen. Now, the meeting is going to start at 4 o'clock and pass it in it. And it's going to be two hours long. And everybody can do that. I'm asking all the Saints to mark that time period out, because you won't have the opportunity or the responsibility again for another year. Amen. Can we do that? Amen. Amen. So I thank God for Minister Marilyn. She's my right-hand lady. Amen. And she's been a great help to me in this. Been a great help to me. All right. She was trying to help me. She's trying to pull a word out for me. All right. But let's be diligent. Let's do what the Lord has called us to do. Now, the Lord has called us to do this. And so we're going to do that. We're going to do what the Lord says to do. All right. At this time, I'm excited for the special music for today. Sister Shai loves the Lord. And she's gifted. I heard a great musician say, who's that little girl? Said she should be on, what is that? She should be on the American Idol? Thank you. He said she should be on American Idol. But thank the Lord that she's not Idol. She's not seeking to be on America's Idol. She's seeking to serve the Lord, to give glory and praise unto God. And I thank God for receiving her as she comes in Jesus' name.  Lord everybody, how many is desperate to be where God is? Come on. Because this is not our end in place, and you have to draw closer to God every chance that you get. Just say fight flavor. Just to look upon his face. That'll be a glorious time. One moment in God's kingdom. Live to be in the place where he would have you. Singers, thank you, Sister Shai. And let us thank them. We're going to get greater appreciation for the band. It's good. God has favored us with great music. Well, y'all don't know music. So I'll tell you, we have great music. Amen. Thank you, band, for the wonderful music you supply our church here. Without further ado, I'm going to invite you to stand as we bring to you Elder Kevin Ross. He's going to bring the word of God. He's going to feed our souls. Amen.  Preach the word. To the cross. Without the sighting sun. One more time. Draw. Thanks, Sister Shai, for that, because I want to be where you are. I want to be near to where you are. You know, I just sense the presence of God. And sometimes, sometimes you don't know what to do. But this is the presence of God. And all during the service, everybody's been preaching. My message, Bishop, all preached it, and everybody preached it. I'm going to preach it one more time.  I'm just so happy to be here. I believe in the saints of God. As followers of Jesus, we should have an accurate assessment of who God is. God is the highest in rank, power, and authority. Hebrews 11 says, He that comes to God must believe that he is and that he is a rewarder of them that diligently seek him. So if I'm coming to God, if I'm going to have a relationship with God, the first thing I've got to do is believe that he is. Believe that he exists. Believe that he's real. I didn't make this up. It's not a fairy tale, but God is. Then I must believe that God is God. He is the true and living God. He's not a God among other gods, but he is the God. Muhammad is dead. Buddha is dead. Krishna is dead. But the God that we serve, he's alive and well. And thirdly, I must believe that he is a rewarder. Or in other words, I must believe that there are benefits in seeking after God. And Bishop taught us that, I think it was two Wednesdays ago, you talked about the benefits of serving God. So I must believe that there are benefits in seeking after God. I must believe that it pays to serve Jesus. Deuteronomy 64 says, Hero Israel, the Lord thy God is one God. The Bible declares it. Reason demands it. Experience proves it. Life demonstrates it. And faith affirms it. That there's one God. The Bible said, And the just shall live by faith. And therefore I, by faith, I believe the account of God that is given to me in the Word of God. Genesis one and one says, In the beginning God. This is not a question, but this is a stating, a fact that in the beginning there is God and nobody else. I believe that. I believe that God is God. I believe that he's not a God, but he is the God. And I believe that he stands all by himself. He was the one in the beginning. He said, let there be, and it was so. And because of the power of his word, it continues until this day. See, he spoke it and he said, And the seed will be within itself to reproduce after his kind. And it continues to this day. God is bad, y'all. I don't know whether y'all realize it or not. He's somebody bad. I thought I was bad till I looked at him, Pastor Bobby, and I said, he's real bad. He's the real deal. And so this God that we believe in, he is the creator and sustainer of all things. And while he is a creator and sustainer of everybody and everything, and yet he is a personal God, willing to get involved in the affairs of men. That would be us. Tell somebody that would be us. I said that to say, God the creator and God the sustainer, he cares about you. And he wants to be involved in your life. So whatever is broken and whatever is missing in your life and in my life, he wants to fix it for you. Sister Terri said, God's got a blessing with your name on it.  And so whatever is broken in your life, I must come to God in my brokenness so that Jesus can fix it for me. Humpty Dumpty sat on a wall. Humpty Dumpty had a great fall. And all the king's horses and all the king's men and all the doctors and all the psychologists and all the life coaches, they could not put him back together again. But Jesus can do it for you. He can fix you whatever is broken in your life. He can turn it around and put it all together. See, we were a mess. We were broke down and we were lost in sin. But God came into our life and he turned it around and he fixed it and he made it all better. And now we are glory to the earth. To what God can do. They used to sing that song. There is no secret what God can do. What he's done for others, he'll do for you. We are serving the all-powerful and living God. Father, we thank you for this time. Speak to our hearts. Help us to understand your word. Give us revelation.  And we will praise you. In Jesus' name, amen. Someone clap your hands and give God some praise in the house. Hallelujah, hallelujah. You may not know it, but I'm excited to be here. I'm excited about what God is doing. I'm excited in my future because God is with me. God is for me. I've got a promise from God. And every promise in him is, yeah, amen. And I'm going to see the blessing. I've got my name on it, Sister Terry. And you can't have my stuff. It's mine and I want it. A friend of mine, he was preaching. He said, I'm tired of the devil eating my lunch.  I want to have my own blessing. The word that the Lord gave me for today is, get to Jesus. Get to Jesus. It doesn't matter the problem. It doesn't matter the situation. It doesn't matter how long it's been. It doesn't matter how bad it is. If you'll get to Jesus, he'll make it all right. Ephesians 3, 20 says, Now unto him, unto God, unto Elohim, Who is able to do exceeding, abundant, Above all that we can ask or think according to the power that's working in us, that sounds like the Holy Ghost. Verse 21 it says, And unto him be glory in the church, By Jesus Christ throughout all ages, World without end, amen. So be it. I know I said it before, but I was doing a study and doing Bible times. They so referenced God and honored his name that they would not speak his name and they would not write his name. They simply referred to God as him. And when I looked at that, when I read this verse in Ephesians, it took on new meaning. It says, Now unto him, Who is able to do exceedingly, Abundantly above all that we can ask or think according to the power that's working in us. And they say, unto him be glory. Unto the God that we serve be glory. Unto the one that can do anything be glory and honor, dominion, and praise. So we're looking at the limitless power and ability of him, of God, who is able to do whatever needs to be done. Moses said, God, when I go before Pharaoh, who can I say, sent me. He said, Tell them that I am sent you. In other words, he says, I am that I am I will be whatever I need to be to deliver my people. That's the God that you serve. That's the God you can lean on. That's the God that you can trust him. He says, I'll be whatever I need to be.  Get to God. Get to God. When trouble comes, get to God. When problems come, get to God. When your children are acting crazy, get to God. When your spouse is acting crazy, get to God. Because he can fix it. He can turn it around. He can make everything all right. I like that. He says unto him who is able. But it seems like all day long everybody's been saying the same thing. All that I need is in Jesus. And when trouble comes, if I'll get to God, I'll find everything that I need. Now, after I get to him, I may need to do something else like call the police. But if I'll get to him, he says, I promise I'm going to bring you out. You may not see a way out, but I'm a way out of nowhere. I'll open up a door for you. For the children of Israel ready, he divided the Red Sea for them. He says, I'll do it for you. In the fifth chapter of Mark, and you can turn there if you want to, Jesus is coming out, coming to the country of the Gadarenes by ship. And Jesus gets out of the ship and immediately a man comes to Jesus. He lives at Forest Lawn Cemetery. He lives in the tombs. And we call him the demoniac because he was wild and crazy. It says he was yelling and screaming and cutting himself day and night. When I read that it made me realize there ain't nothing new under the sun. So people are cutting themselves and acting crazy. See, when you see that you should have known that's the devil. And you should have known you don't have to take that. God has given you authority over the devil. You can take authority over him and say, in the name of Jesus, I command you to stop this foolishness. Let him go in the name of Jesus. So this man comes. It said that handcuffs and chains could not hold him. They put handcuffs on him and chains and he just break him like a rubber band. And then the Bible says, and no man could tame him. So the demoniac, he sees Jesus and he runs to Jesus. And he says, Jesus, thou son of the living God. And I thought it was interesting. The first thing he did was worship Jesus. And it seemed in the next breath he rejected Jesus. He said, Jesus, thou son of God. And then he says, don't trouble me. Leave me alone. He had a love-hate relationship with Jesus. I call this a perfect paradox. But unfortunately, and the problem is, the problem is that sometimes we do the same thing. Jesus, I need you. But don't tell me what to do. Jesus, I love you, but I love doing my thing. You know that thing that I do is really not quite right, but I love to do it. So don't mess with me. We do the same thing sometimes. We know it's true. And so now the demons in the demoniac, they begin to negotiate with Jesus. They said, Jesus, don't evict us. Don't put us out of this land. We like this neighborhood. Why don't you let us go into and get into those that heard of pigs right over there? And Jesus said, okay, and the demons entered into the pigs and about 2,000 pigs went running down the hill and drowned themselves in water. And when the people of the town heard about what happened, they were so excited that they went to Jesus and said, please get out of town right now. Like yesterday. Bottom line, though, that Jesus did it. He fixed it for the demoniac. And so I don't know if Jesus' feelings were hurting now, but he got back in the boat and went back across the lake. And as he was getting out of the boat, he was approached by a leader or a ruler of the synagogue. Jairus by name and Jairus falls at his feet and begins to worship. And then he says, Jesus, my young daughter is at home lying at the point of death. Will you come to my house and lay your hands on her? And she will be healed. And so Jesus goes with Jairus in the story that Jesus fixes it for Jairus. He heals his daughter. As a matter of fact, she was dead when he got there and he raised her from the dead. You need to know that God can do anything but fail. The Bible said with men it's impossible, but not with God because with God all things are possible. Whatever you need, whatever you're going through, whatever the possible problem, it is possible that God can fix it for you. He'll fix it for you. Again in Mark chapter 5 verse 25, if you'll turn to that, Mark chapter 5 verse 25. This is where I want to pick it up. Verse 25, it says, meanwhile on the way to Jairus' house, what had happened was there was a certain woman that had an issue of blood 12 years and had suffered many things of many physicians and had spent all she had spent all she had spent all that she had and was nothing better but rather grew worse. So here we have this woman. She has been menstruating for 12 years. She has been hemorrhaging for 12 long years. If you've been suffering with anything that for 12 years, it's been 12 long years. And she was sick. She was weak. She was tired. And she smelled bad. See, sometimes life stinks. She was in a situation beyond her control and she needed some help. So the Bible says she had been to many doctors. In other words, she had been a guinea pig. One would try this and one would try that and you got a quack over here and a quack over there.  One thing that all these doctors had in common was they took her money. See, she didn't have blue cross, blue shield like we got. She didn't have Kaiser. Shout out to Kaiser. Thank God for Kaiser. You had to pay out your pocket. If we had to pay out of our pocket, sometimes we'd be real close to Jesus, Bishop. We'd be holding on to the handles of the throne at night. It says she had spent all of her money, meaning she had had some money. And she must have had a pretty good amount of money. She went to many doctors and they took her much money. And it says she had spent all that she had and she was broke. So she didn't have any money, but I found out that money can fix every problem. There's some things that money can't fix. Your mama can't fix. Your daddy can't fix. Your teacher can't fix. Not even the bishop can fix. I know that's hard to believe, but there's some things that he can fix. There are some things that only Jesus can fix. And we find ourselves in a situation like that. We got to get to Jesus. We got to find our way to Jesus. We got to find out where Jesus is because Jesus can fix it for you. She had spent all of her money. It says, and not only did she spend all of her money, but she got worse.  You know, that thing that when you shoot it, it always works for you. But when you shoot your silver bullet, and it doesn't work, where are your ads? What do you do? Let's look at verse 27. It says, when she heard of Jesus, she came in the press behind and touched his garment for she said, if I may but touch his clothes, I shall behold. It said when she heard about Jesus. See, somebody told her about Jesus and somebody told her about what Jesus could do. And so we need to be telling the world about Jesus.  I remember we used to sing that song, somebody prayed for me, had me on their mind, took the time and prayed for me.  See, none of us got to Jesus all by ourselves. Somebody told us about Jesus. Somebody brought us to Jesus. I thank God that my mother and my grandmother and my grandparents and my uncles and my aunts and my pastors and my friends, everybody was telling me about Jesus. I got no excuse about not coming to Jesus. But it said when she heard about Jesus, she realized I need to get to this Jesus. See, you need to understand Jesus is right here with us.  She believed if I can just touch him, if I can get to him, I can touch him. Jesus can fix it for me. She said if I can but touch the hymn of his garment, I shall be made whole. And so she began to push her way through the crowd. All these people, but she's trying to get to Jesus so she's pushing her way through the crowd. But you have to understand she is weak in her body, but she's determined I'm going to get to Jesus. She's determined I'm going to touch the hymn of his garment. She's determined if I get to Jesus, everything's going to be all right. So she keeps pushing and pushing and pushing. She's tired, but she gets to Jesus. And she touches the hymn of his garment. And she is healed in her body. But you need to understand for this woman, this was great faith, great faith, great faith. See, because the fact that she was bleeding, she was considered unclean. See, when you're unclean before you come into a crowd of clean people, you have to yell, unclean, unclean.  But she took the chance. She began to push her way through the crowd. See, because her touching people that were clean meant that they could kill her. But she was determined to get to Jesus. You got to make it up in your mind. When you going through the test that nobody, nobody is going to stop me from getting to Jesus. Because he's got what I need. Three different cases. The demonic, he sees Jesus from a fall and he runs to him, he gets to Jesus. Jairus, he sees Jesus, he falls down and worships him, but then he gets up and gets to Jesus. And a woman with the issue of blood, she pushes her way through the crowd and she gets to Jesus. And the one thing that all these people had in common, all three had a problem. All three got to Jesus. And all three got their miracles. You need to know that God is able to do everything that he promised. And all you've got to do is get to Jesus. Call on the name of Jesus. Touch his hymn of his garment and you'll be made whole. You'll be delivered. You'll be set free. Now unto him who is able. More chapter five. Jesus and his disciples have been in Jericho. And now they're leaving the city of Jericho. And the people heard that Jesus is leaving and they're lined up and down the sides of the highway. And there are crowds of people and they're pushing and shoving. Everybody wants to get to Jesus. Everybody wants to see Jesus.  And he can't see. And somebody tells him Jesus is almost here. No blind Bartimaeus. He said Jesus have mercy on me. Jesus have mercy on me. He's thinking if I can just get in touch with Jesus. And the people in the crowds and look man hold your peace. You're making all that noise. You're going to interrupt the service. And if you were serviced and you need something from Jesus. I suggest that you call on the name of Jesus. Don't let nobody stop you. Don't let nobody block you. But if you need Jesus call on the name of Jesus. And instead of stopping. Blind Bartimaeus said he got louder. He said Jesus have mercy on me. And he said Jesus stopped. And he said whoever that is calling on me like that. Bring them to me. I want to see them. And so they went to blind Bartimaeus and said the master is calling for you.  His blind people's clothes because he expected for God to do something about his situation. And so blind Bartimaeus gets they lead him to Jesus. He got to Jesus even though he had a little help. He got to Jesus. And Jesus said unto him blind Bartimaeus what do you want? And I believe blind Bartimaeus was as surprised as I was because when I read that. When he said blind Bartimaeus what do you want? Seems to me that the answer was in the question. Because he said blind Bartimaeus what do you want? So it seemed like when he asked him he already knew the answer. And that baffled me and I began to think about that and meditate on that. And it came to me. Although Jesus knew what blind Bartimaeus needed. He wanted him to articulate what he needed. But Bible says by your words you are justified. And by your words you're condemned. He said it and God did it. See some of you said God you see my situation. You know what I'm going through. Why don't you fix it? And God says if you articulate what you need I'll bless it. If you speak the word in faith I'll bless it. I'll turn it around just for you. That's right. Just remember I said use your words. See God did his part. He says I'm ushering you to a new season. It's called faith. And he says you speak it by faith. And I'll make it happen. And so blind Bartimaeus he articulated what he wants. He said Jesus I want my shite. I want to be healed. And Jesus said by your faith you have been healed. And he said and immediately his shite came to him. And you need to know that God has no respect for persons. If he did it for blind Bartimaeus he did it. He'll do it for you. If he did it for Pastor Bobby he'll do it for you. If he did it for me he'll do it for you. A couple of weeks ago I went to the doctor. And I had some pain. I didn't know what it was. And I had a need to get to Jesus moment for myself. And I went to the doctors. And the doctors could not find out what was happening. They gave me coding. They gave me this. They gave me that. And they could not find out what had happened. Guess what I did. I went to Jesus. I went to the master. He was like when broke take it back to the manufacturer. I went back to Jesus. The one that made me. The one that lifted me up. The one that delivered me. And he told me what to do. And the pain had to go in the name of Jesus. If he did it for me he'll do it for you. And so he says go to Jesus. In faith. Tell him what you want. And Jesus will fix it for you.  Get to Jesus. If you're a cheater. Get to Jesus. If you're a jiggler or a hoe. Get to Jesus. If you're stuck up self-righteous somebody. You get to Jesus. Whatever your problem is. Get to Jesus. If you're lonely. Get to Jesus. If you're broke. Get to Jesus. If you're watching by live streaming your life is a mess. Get to Jesus. And tell him what you want. Because it doesn't matter what the problem is. It doesn't matter what the issue is. The answer is Jesus. He's the answer to every problem. He's the answer to every situation. So I said Jesus is the answer for the world. Today. So when the altar calls may whatever the problem is. Whatever your struggle is. Whatever you deal with. Get to Jesus. Because Jesus is a healer. Jesus is a provider. Jesus is a way maker.  He's a lawyer in the courtroom. He's a lily of the valley in the bright morning star. Everything that you need. Whatever the problem is. God has promised. He says I will give you all things. That pertain to life. And to Godliness. But the first thing you have to do is get to Jesus by faith. And he will turn your situation around. Get to Jesus. God bless you. The assurance that we have. That we can make it. The trick of the adversary. Is to cause us to think that we can't make it. God is ever present. Jesus Christ is the same today. Yesterday. And forever more. So we found that we can trust in him. I want to bring to your attention. Elder Ross did a wonderful job. I want to bring to your attention. That what is needed. Every individual. Is a thirst for Jesus. A thirst for Jesus. Because Jesus can make a difference. All times. Mankind. Has been contrary. Mankind has always wanted to have it my way. As I. Listen to what the Lord was saying. He took me back to the children of Israel. When they were in the wilderness. And they were being poisoned. And the Lord told Moses tell the people to look up and live. Look up on. The surface that were held up. He said if you look up. You'll live. We have to humble ourselves. And don't know at all. Come on somebody. There's no doubt that you know something. But you don't know everything. And if you don't know Jesus you don't know the main thing. So with all your smarts. Take your smarts and run to Jesus. And look to him. He's the source. Of all that you need. All that we need is in Jesus. He satisfies. He enjoys. He supplies. Life would be worthless without Jesus. Get to Jesus. If you get to Jesus. Then let Jesus fix you. I had some problems with my automobile. Just yesterday. And I got to the one who could fix it. It'd be foolish for me. To sit and watch my vehicle broken down. And know that there's somebody who's able to fix it. The automobile is made from my convenience. So I got the fixer. And the fixer fix it. Now the next point. If you'll listen to the voice of God. The Lord told him in the wilderness. Look up and live.  He's ready. He's willing. He's able. He's compassionate. He's loving. He's kind. He's everything you need.  And let Jesus fix it. Then you can say to him. Jesus be a fence. All around me. Jesus bring me under control. Bring me under your control.  And then when I get under there. And I'm where I ought to be. Be a fence around me. Keep me. He can keep you. He can keep you. Let us all stand. If you're able to stand. I want to ask you for a self examination. This morning. We know who we are. We know our downfalls. We know where we're coming sharp. And if we're honest. We know who the fixer is. When you know who the fixer is. If you're all that. If you're that smart. You'll get to the fixer. Because he'll fix it. For you. He'll fix it. Like nobody else can do. So today. I want to. Present to you. The road that you should travel. Get to Jesus. When you get to Jesus. He'll help you. He'll fix you. And he'll make you whole. I heard somebody. Say. That Jesus doesn't do. Patch up work. Scripture said if any man being Christ. He's a new creature. Old things are passed away. And behold. All things. Say all things. All things mean everything. Things have become new. When you become new.  For the kingdom. The Lord opens his arms. To receive those that belong to him. What's our music? Fixer. For you. He knows. Oh yes he knows. Just what to do. Spoken to the church. Spoke to somebody in here. The Lord wouldn't speak if it wasn't nobody here. He wouldn't speak in here. He's spoken into this congregation today. And somebody's here who needs to let Jesus fix it. If you've been convicted by the word of God. And I'll say this. You can control whether you've convicted or not. You can resist the Lord. And he'll leave you alone. Not just. I'm not talking to just anybody who doesn't know Jesus. But all of us, whoever we have a problem. If we find that we. Need. The Lord to fix anything for us. The altar is open. For everybody. Let Jesus. For you. Yes. He knows. Just what. It's that time again. That we pay our tithes. And give our offering. To show that we are obedient. To the word of God. The Lord said bring all the tithes. All the offering. Into his storehouse. That there may be me. In this house. Hallelujah. Thank you Jesus. The Lord loves a chill for giving. We know that. We know what paying tithes is. It's 10%. Top of the 10%. The Lord want you to give him. Give him a offering. The offering which comes straight from your heart. You know. We want to give a Lord an offering that is worthy. Worthy. That is worthy of him. You know. How the Lord had blessed us. We didn't do it on our own. The Lord did it. He did it for each and every one of us. You know. We are here because of him. But we're not paying him for that. But we're just being obedient to his word. And this is for the church. For the church. Like the pastor always say. He doesn't get anything. But this is for the church. To be saved. In Jesus' name. We've been here. We are in our last days. If the doors are not open. People wouldn't have nowhere to go. They can't get saved. Can't nobody witness to them. Or work with them. So we thank the Lord. For these doors being open. The lights. The AC. You know. There's a new carpet. We have everything we need in this church. And. It's up to the congregation. To keep these doors open. Glad being obedient. To the word of God. By paying their tithes. And giving their offering. Like we said all the time. We can stand up here and read all the scriptures in the Bible. But it's what's in your heart. It's what you believe. That really counts. You know. And the Lord knows your heart. And the Lord says he loves. A cheer. Forgiver. He loves those that are obedient. To his word. We can say we love God. But our action shows more. We can't give God lip service. Our action shows more. Please stand with me in Jesus' name. Let's hold our offering up to the Lord. In Jesus' name. Thank you we praise you. We glorify, we magnify your name. Lord we thank you right now for that word that went forth. This evening Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. That word that pricks our hearts Lord. God in the name of Jesus Lord God. It's your word Lord God. That's going to keep us. That's going to save us Lord God. And that's going to heal us Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. Hallelujah. Father we come this evening with our tithes. Lord God your people Lord God. The one you have called. The one you have chosen Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. We come bringing our tithes. And our offering into your house Lord God. That there may be me in your house. We thank you for the gift. And the giver Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen and amen. You may bring your tithes and your offering. In the name of Jesus we thank you for this offer Lord God. We ask you in the name of Jesus that you will bless it Lord God. Multiply Lord God. Let it continue to meet the needs Lord God. Of this church Lord God. That it may further the work Lord God. That's going forth here Lord God. That you may be be glorified. And magnify Lord God. Through this ministry Lord God. In the name of Jesus Lord God. In Jesus' name we pray. Amen and amen. Hallelujah. Amen the word of the Lord has been spoken in here today. Amen. God is the fixer you all. Hallelujah. He has the remedy.  I got a determination in my heart. To get to Jesus. Because he can fix it. Amen.