You may be seated, God bless you. Can we thank the Lord for our musicians and choir and beautiful worship this morning?

It's actually been, it's actually been 34 years. Patrick, Pastor Patrick, trying to make me older than I, that I really am.

It's been 34 years.

I preach here for the first time in 1991, and I've been coming every year, many times a year,

except for the COVID years.

I have been privileged to come and serve under three senior pastors, three leadership over the decades. Three men of God,

Pastor David Wilkerson, Pastor Carter Conlon, Pastor Tim Delina. And I have been praying,

as I've been praying for them all over the years coming to serve this house. Even recently,

when I was praying, the Lord just grabbed my heart, seize my heart, the Holy Spirit just moved in my spirit in gratefulness for the spiritual leadership that God is giving us.

You're watching from all over the world and Times Square Church is a light to the world.

And I was brought to my knees with a passage in Ezekiel that says, in Ezekiel 34, verse 2 and 6,

woe to shepherds who do feed themselves. They should not, the shepherd feed the flocks,

the weak you have not strengthened, nor bound up the broken, nor brought back that what was driven

away, nor sought what was lost. And my flock was scattered

all over the face of the earth. And no one was seeking or searching for them. And after 41 years

of full-time ministries in over 50 countries of the world, I am sadden and broken to tell you that this

description of shepherds that have lost the true heart of God is a terrible reality to this

day. And scriptures prophes it will be until Jesus comes. But are we, can we be grateful, profoundly grateful for the generations of pastors

and shepherds that God has given us in Times Square Church, that care for souls, but also

have a, I was just stricken with the words that no one is seeking what was

lost and even over all the face of the earth. And I want to thank God over all the generations,

there was a vision from this pulpit, not only for New York City, but in every generation.

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