Get up.
Don't be afraid.
He who
has ears, let him hear.
What kind of a man is this?
Even the wind and the waves obey him.
I tell you the truth.
Semo, you may not want to hear this,
but God's telling me to tell you.
I've been a crack addict for 10 years,
an adulterer, it's a prostitute.
He set me free!
The smile on my face, the Lord put
it there.
He put the smile.
It's a genuine smile.
It's not trying to get nothing from none
of y'all.
Whatever it is, no matter what you got,
don't let it believe, man, that he can't
love you.
Because if he can love me, he can
love anybody in the house.
You know, I'll make it short and sweet.
My life consists of three things.
One, I was an atheist my entire life.
Two, I've been a crack addict for six
years.
And three, Jesus Christ has delivered me from
all of the above.
Who do you say I am?
You're the Christ.
Who do you say I am?
The Son of the Living God.
So one night, I was on my sister's
sofa.
And I told the Lord, I'm tired of
living like a dog.
The Lord said, Tyrone, you get on your
knees and tell me that you really want
me.
I'll set you free.
I got on my knees.
I got on my knees that night.
And I said, Lord, I want you more
than anything in the world.
When I woke up, I didn't want a
cigarette.
I didn't want a drink.
I didn't want nothing.
The Lord said, this is you.
This is what I brought you to.
You was free.
The devil can't do nothing to you no
more, my child.
You was free at last.
Free at last.
And you'll have that joy.
And not a joy the world can give
you in Jesus' name.
I just can't do it.
I can't.
I just can't.
Lord, take the stress and the burden.
Take it all away from me.
And as I was down there on my
knees, I could feel it leave.
And let me tell you, all the drugs
that I've ever done in my life, nothing
gave me a better high than that right
there.
What shall I do then?
She will give birth to a son, and
you are to give him the name Jesus.
Because he will save his people from their
sins.
To Joseph
in a dream, get up, take the child
and his mother, and escape to Egypt.
Stay there until I tell you, for Herod
is going to search for the child to
kill him.
And so was fulfilled what the Lord had
said through the prophet.
Out of Egypt I call my son.
In those days John the Baptist came, preaching
in the desert of Judea.
I baptize you with water for repentance.
But after me will come one who is
more powerful than I, whose sandals I am
not fit to carry.
He will baptize you with a holy spirit,
and with fire.
But I have come to know that the
Lord is my father, the daddy that I
never had.
He has forgiven me for things that I
thought about doing, things that I have never
done.
And all I can say is thank you
and I love you Jesus.
The people living in darkness have seen a
great light.
On those living in the land of the
shadow of death, a light has dawned.
A light has dawned.
When I was about 15 I started drinking
and I was spending drugs and alcohol all
my life.
And my drug habit led me to prison
in 1996.
And I just got out in November of
98.
And I'm out there in the line and
I'm looking around and I'm seeing these people
with all this peace.
And this joy on them.
And I just wanted that.
There was something in my life that was
missing.
The drugs couldn't fill it.
Nothing could fill it.
And I just started losing it.
I started crying.
I was getting convicted so hard.
The tears were just coming down.
And there was these girls all around me.
I didn't want no one to see me
crying.
I wanted to be tough.
So anyway, at the end of the line
you had to take all your stuff to
the car.
So I volunteered to do that so nobody
would see me crying.
So I get all the stuff and I'm
behind towards the car which was parked in
this parking lot over by the Family Life
Center.
And I get there and I'm just bawling.
And here come more people.
So I run over there to wherever those
bunch of trees are.
And I just kneel down behind this big
tree and I said, God, I'm sick of
living like a dog.
I'm sick of living that way.
I know every time I get in trouble
I run to you, Lord.
But this time if you will take me
back, I will serve you.
I will serve you and no one else.
And it will be a full time this
time.
I'm not going to be running back and
forth.
I'm going to be serving you and you
only.
And he reached down and he said, Come
child, come to me.
And I want to worship him for the
rest of my life.
I want to give my life to him.
And I'm here today to heal the old
man off and to rise up a new
man in Jesus Christ.
Jesus went throughout Galilee teaching in their synagogues,
preaching the good news of the kingdom, and
healing every disease and sickness among the people.