May 15, 2022

 Welcome from Brown Chapel/Avant and Mt. Pleasant

Prayer: Rev. Pelton

Scripture: 2 Chronicles 23: 19 - He posted guards at the gates of the Lord's temple, so no one who was ceremonially unclean in any way could enter.

Subject: Gates & Gate Keepers

• What is a gate keeper? It could be described at a fence or a boundary. 
• In order to enter you would need a gate or an opening to enter or exit.
• A gate could be a point of control, a command center.
• The gates are mentioned many times in the bible.
• Psalm 100:4 - Enter his gates with thanksgiving, and his courts with praise! Give him thanks! Praise his name!
• Matthew 16:18 - And I tell you that you are Peter, and on this rock I will build my church, and the gates of Hell will not prevail against it.
• Several types of gates: personal gates (don't allow anything to come between you and God); family gates (take a stand to lead our family to God); church gate (we must guard against Satan in the church); community gate (communities must pull together to stand against Satan); & national gates (nations must stand firm against the Prince of Darkness).
• GIGO = garbage in, garbage out. Don't allow yourself to get sucked into all the garbage in the world.
• We need gate keepers and watchmen. 
• Gate keepers & watchmen are to rightly discerning what going in or goes out.
• We must me hearers and doers of the Word.
• Prayer is all important in our spiritual warfare.
• Are you willing to be a gate keeper?
• 1 Corinthians 3:16-17 - Know ye not that ye are the temple of God, and that the Spirit of God dwells in you? If any man defile the temple of God, him shall God destroy.
• Romans 12:2 - And be not conformed to this world: but be ye transformed by the renewing of your mind, that ye may prove what is that good, and acceptable, and perfect, will of God.

Roll Call:

Pastor Baggett

Rev. I. Pelton

Debra & Marceal W.

Willie & Bonnie T.

Evelyn H.

Sadie V.

Ginger R.

Violet W.

Clark M.

Thelma W.

Rhonda L.

Closing Prayer: Pastor Baggett