WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:04.108 (MUSIC) 00:04.108 --> 00:06.506 (ROARING) 00:07.173 --> 00:12.326 - GOOD EVENING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. I SAID GOOD EVENING, 00:12.330 --> 00:16.949 LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. HOW MANY KNOW THAT MIRACLES DON'T JUST 00:16.949 --> 00:23.609 HAPPEN ON SUNDAY? THEY HAPPEN ON MONDAY, TUESDAY, WEDNESDAY, 00:23.609 --> 00:28.379 THURSDAY, FRIDAY, SATURDAY, EVERY DAY THAT YOU ARE IN THE 00:28.379 --> 00:31.192 PRESENCE OF GOD AND WE'RE IN THE PRESENCE, SO LET'S GET READY TO 00:31.192 --> 00:34.533 EXPECT GOD TO MOVE TONIGHT, AMEN? LET'S GO. 00:34.567 --> 00:37.170 (MUSIC) 00:37.203 --> 00:40.372 - COME ON. THIS IS THE WILD AND 00:40.372 --> 00:42.542 DANGEROUS CROWD, WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 00:42.575 --> 00:48.715 (MUSIC) 00:48.747 --> 00:54.554 GOD IS FIGHTING FOR US, GOD IS ON OUR SIDE. HE HAS OVERCOME, 02:00.953 --> 02:07.459 (MUSIC) 02:59.673 --> 03:14.360 (MUSIC) 03:14.394 --> 03:17.030 - HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW GOD IS FIGHTING FOR US? 03:17.030 --> 03:22.534 HE'S FIGHTING FOR YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU, AND YOU. IF YOU KNOW 03:22.534 --> 03:26.872 IT YOU NEED TO SHOW IT. COME ON! IS HE FIGHTING FOR YOU? 03:26.881 --> 03:32.711 DO YOU BELIEVE IT? NO MATTER WHAT THAT DOCTOR REPORT SAID. 03:32.711 --> 03:35.715 I KNOW WHAT THAT'S LIKE. YOU DON'T HAVE 03:35.715 --> 03:42.555 TO BELIEVE IT. STEP IN! COME ON! OH GOD! 05:27.826 --> 05:32.370 I WANT TO HEAR YOU SHOUT! I WANT TO HEAR YOU SHOUT! 05:32.370 --> 05:35.000 COME ON, LIKE YOU'RE AT A NEBRASKA GAME. 05:35.000 --> 05:38.004 SHOUT! YOU GOT TO GIVE HIM GLORY. 05:38.338 --> 05:54.821 (MUSIC) 05:54.853 --> 06:01.026 - WE WORSHIP YOU, JESUS. WE WORSHIP YOU, LORD. WE LIFT UP 06:01.026 --> 06:07.920 OUR PRAISE AND WE GIVE THANKS TO YOU. FATHER, WE JUST WANNA TOUCH 06:07.920 --> 06:15.208 YOUR HEART. WE WANNA TOUCH YOUR HEART, LORD. WE ARE LONGING FOR 06:15.208 --> 06:23.370 YOU. WE ARE HUNGRY FOR YOU. FATHER, WE'RE ASKING FOR A 06:23.370 --> 06:31.891 VISITATION. LET THE HEAVENS OPEN. LET THE HEAVENS OPEN! 06:32.057 --> 06:43.136 (MUSIC) 10:21.232 --> 10:34.967 (MUSIC) 10:35.024 --> 10:43.976 - LET IT OPEN. LET IT OPEN. LET IT OPEN. LET IT OPEN. 10:44.009 --> 10:49.149 (MUSIC) 10:49.198 --> 10:52.198 LET THE HEAVENS OPEN. 11:51.253 --> 11:55.548 - LET YOUR KINGDOM COME, LET YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS 11:55.548 --> 12:01.553 IT IS IN HEAVEN. LET YOUR KINGDOM COME, LET YOUR WILL BE 12:01.553 --> 12:05.991 DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. 12:05.991 --> 12:10.942 LET YOUR KINGDOM COME, LET YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT 12:10.942 --> 12:17.403 IS IN HEAVEN. LET YOUR KINGDOM COME, LET YOUR WILL BE DONE ON 12:17.403 --> 12:22.475 EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. COME ON! LET YOUR KINGDOM COME, 12:22.475 --> 12:28.682 LET YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. 12:28.735 --> 12:33.753 LET YOUR KINGDOM COME, LET YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS 12:33.753 --> 12:39.359 IN HEAVEN. LET YOUR KINGDOM COME, LET YOUR WILL BE DONE 12:39.359 --> 12:44.931 ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. LET YOUR KINGDOM COME, 12:44.931 --> 12:50.269 LET YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. 12:50.937 --> 12:54.274 LET YOUR KINGDOM COME, LET YOUR WILL BE DONE 12:54.274 --> 12:59.044 ON EARTH AS IT IS IN HEAVEN. LET YOUR KINGDOM... 13:08.120 --> 13:11.890 - HALLELUJAH, WE WORSHIP YOU TONIGHT IN THIS PLACE, FATHER. 13:11.890 --> 13:14.461 WE SAY, LET YOUR KINGDOM COME. LET 13:14.461 --> 13:17.774 YOUR WILL BE DONE ON EARTH. LET YOUR WILL BE 13:17.774 --> 13:23.054 DONE IN OUR LIVES, FATHER. OH, WE WORSHIP YOU, JESUS. OH, 13:23.054 --> 13:28.095 SUPREME KING OF THE EARTH, KING OF THE WORLD, KING OF THE 13:28.095 --> 13:32.835 UNIVERSE, KING OF ALL CREATION, WE WORSHIP YOU. OH, WHEN WE 13:32.835 --> 13:36.554 SPEAK YOUR NAME, JESUS, CHAINS ARE BROKEN. WHEN WE SPEAK YOUR 13:36.554 --> 13:40.965 NAME, THE SICK ARE HEALED. WHEN WE SPEAK YOUR NAME, THE DEAD 13:40.965 --> 13:45.044 COME TO LIFE. WHEN WE SPEAK YOUR NAME, RELATIONSHIPS ARE 13:45.044 --> 13:50.745 RESTORED. WHEN WE SPEAK YOUR NAME, PROSPERITY COMES. WHEN WE 13:50.745 --> 13:57.585 SPEAK YOUR NAME, ALL THINGS COME TO LIFE AND WE WORSHIP YOU. WE 13:57.585 --> 14:02.534 WORSHIP YOU IN THIS PLACE. OH, HOLY ONE, WE WELCOME YOU. WE 14:02.534 --> 14:06.075 WELCOME YOUR PRESENCE. WE THANK YOU FOR THE ANOINTING, FOR THE 14:06.075 --> 14:10.725 ANOINTING BREAKS THE YOKE. HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH. WE LIFT 14:10.725 --> 14:13.995 OUR HANDS TO YOU TONIGHT. WE TAKE A MOMENT JUST TO EXPRESS 14:13.995 --> 14:17.611 OUR LOVE AND OUR WORSHIP AND OUR ADORATION. YOU'RE SO GOOD. 14:19.394 --> 14:25.154 FATHER, YOU'RE SO GOOD. JESUS, YOU'RE SO GOOD. HOLY SPIRIT, 14:25.154 --> 14:29.654 YOU'RE SO GOOD. OH, THANK YOU. THANK YOU, WE WORSHIP YOU 14:29.654 --> 14:34.904 TONIGHT, LORD. OH, YOU'RE SO CONSIDERATE OF US, LORD. YOU 14:34.904 --> 14:38.625 KNOW HOW MANY HAIRS ARE ON OUR HEAD. YOU'RE CONCERNED IF A 14:38.625 --> 14:44.684 SPARROW DROPS TO THE GROUND. YOU KNOW IT. OH, WE WORSHIP YOU. 14:44.684 --> 14:48.644 HALLELUJAH. WE WORSHIP YOU IN THIS PLACE. THANK YOU, JESUS. 14:48.644 --> 14:54.404 THANK YOU, JESUS. HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. OH, PRAISE 14:54.404 --> 14:57.235 GOD. PRAISE GOD. I'M JUST WAITING ON GOD 14:57.235 --> 15:01.004 HERE FOR A MOMENT. THANK YOU, JESUS. 15:01.004 --> 15:11.211 (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 15:11.244 --> 15:14.445 I DON'T KNOW IF THIS IS SOMEONE THAT'S HERE OR SOMEONE ONLINE OR 15:14.445 --> 15:20.414 BOTH OR WHATEVER, BUT HERE'S WHAT I FEEL IN MY SPIRIT. IS 15:20.414 --> 15:27.735 THERE SOMEONE THAT YOU LOVE TO SEW? I'M NOT TALKING ABOUT, YES, 15:27.735 --> 15:32.264 YOU DO LOVE TO SOW S-O-W INTO FINANCES, BUT YOU LOVE TO SEW 15:32.264 --> 15:37.575 S-E-W, SEW MATERIAL TOGETHER, LIKE TO MAKE CLOTHES OR ARTICLES 15:37.575 --> 15:41.804 OF CLOTHING OR WHATEVER. YOU LIKE TO SEW, BUT YOU'VE BEEN 15:41.804 --> 15:48.105 FRUSTRATED BECAUSE YOU'VE BEEN SO, I WANNA SAY LIKE HEAVY LADEN 15:48.105 --> 15:51.524 WITH THE CARES OF LIFE THAT YOU HAVEN'T EVEN BEEN ABLE TO ENJOY 15:51.524 --> 15:57.585 THIS HOBBY OF YOURS WHICH IS SEWING. AND GOD HAS A WORD FOR 15:57.585 --> 16:01.245 YOU TONIGHT. AND I DON'T KNOW, IS THAT ANYONE HERE BY CHANCE? 16:01.245 --> 16:05.414 THAT'S YOU? OH, COME UP HERE QUICKLY. OKAY, COME UP HERE. 16:05.414 --> 16:09.404 THANK YOU, JESUS. HALLELUJAH. THANK YOU, JESUS. HERE'S WHAT 16:09.404 --> 16:18.014 GOD SHOWED ME WAS THAT AS YOU MOVE INTO MORE AND MORE TRUST IN 16:18.014 --> 16:23.625 WHAT GOD HAS FOR YOU, HE'S GONNA TAKE, HE SAW THAT, THAT, I MEAN, 16:23.625 --> 16:26.054 WE THINK, OH, THAT, IS THAT REALLY IMPORTANT, WHAT SOMEONE'S 16:26.054 --> 16:28.725 HOBBY IS? YES, IT'S IMPORTANT TO GOD. LIKE I SAID, HE KNOWS HOW 16:28.725 --> 16:31.544 MANY HAIRS WE HAVE ON OUR HEAD OR DON'T HAVE ON OUR HEAD, 16:31.544 --> 16:36.884 RIGHT? AMEN. AND SO HE'S CONCERNED ABOUT EVEN THINGS LIKE 16:36.884 --> 16:40.875 OUR HOBBIES. HE'S EVEN CONCERNED ABOUT PASTOR HANK'S TRAIN HOBBY. 16:40.875 --> 16:45.914 HE WANTS HIM TO HAVE THE BEST. AND HE WANTS YOU TO HAVE THE 16:45.914 --> 16:51.345 ABILITY TO ENJOY WHAT HE'S GIFTED YOU TO DO. AND SO WHAT 16:51.345 --> 16:55.695 I'M HEARING THE HOLY GHOST SAY TONIGHT IS START MOVING INTO, 16:55.695 --> 16:58.904 EVEN IF YOU THINK YOU DON'T HAVE TIME OR EVEN THE CARES OF THE 16:58.904 --> 17:02.144 WORLD HAVE GOTTEN YOU CONSUMED WITH THINGS, YOU START MOVING 17:02.144 --> 17:05.714 INTO THAT THING THAT YOU LOVE. AND WHAT THE LORD SAID TO ME, AS 17:05.714 --> 17:10.664 YOU SOW, YOU WILL GO. AND THAT MEANS THIS, AS YOU DO MORE OF 17:10.664 --> 17:15.105 YOUR HOBBY, THAT GOD IS GOING TO EVEN OPEN UP THINGS FOR YOU TO 17:15.105 --> 17:19.545 DO MORE FOR HIM, AND YOU WILL SOW IN THE NATURAL, CLOTHING, 17:19.545 --> 17:23.684 ARTICLES, AND THAT THINGS, BUT YOU'RE ALSO A SOWER INTO 17:23.684 --> 17:28.575 PEOPLE'S LIVES OF S-O-W, SOWING, WHERE YOU'RE GIVING INTO 17:28.575 --> 17:31.845 PEOPLE'S LIVES AND THE HEARTS AND MINISTRIES, AND YOU LOVE TO 17:31.845 --> 17:34.904 DO THAT, AND GOD'S GONNA OPEN THAT UP FOR YOU, AND SO AS YOU 17:34.904 --> 17:42.255 SEW, S-E-W, YOU'RE GOING TO DO MORE S-O-W-ING, SOWING INTO 17:42.255 --> 17:45.075 PEOPLE'S LIVES AND HEARTS AND TOUCH PEOPLE, AND THEN THOSE 17:45.075 --> 17:49.065 THINGS THAT HAVE BEEN HEAVY LADEN ON YOU, THAT YOU'VE BEEN 17:49.065 --> 17:53.744 CARRYING, ARE GONNA JUST KINDA FLOAT AWAY AS YOU PURSUE THAT 17:53.744 --> 17:58.664 WITH GOD. IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AND YOU BE BLESSED. YES, 17:58.664 --> 18:02.174 HALLELUJAH, THANK YOU, JESUS. THANK YOU, JESUS, THANK YOU, 18:02.174 --> 18:08.714 JESUS. THE OTHER THING I'M SEEING IS THERE'S SOMEONE AND 18:08.714 --> 18:14.865 YOU HAVE A SON THAT YOU'RE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT. YOU HAVE A SON, 18:14.865 --> 18:19.275 S-O-N, THAT YOU'RE VERY CONCERNED ABOUT. IT'S LIKE YOU 18:19.275 --> 18:25.305 TRAINED YOUR SON, YOU NURTURED YOUR SON. YOU DID THE BEST AND 18:25.305 --> 18:27.855 YOU'VE EVEN PRAYED THIS, "FATHER, I'VE DONE THE VERY BEST 18:27.855 --> 18:31.724 THAT I COULD TO RAISE HIM." NOT THAT YOU HAVEN'T MADE MISTAKES, 18:31.724 --> 18:35.684 WE ALL MAKE MISTAKES FOR RAISING CHILDREN, BUT YOU DID YOUR BEST 18:37.154 --> 18:42.015 AT THE TIME, FROM THE TIME THE CHILD WAS BORN THROUGH WHEREVER 18:42.015 --> 18:47.055 HE'S AT NOW, YOU DID YOUR BEST WHILE HE WAS UNDER YOUR CARE TO 18:47.055 --> 18:49.575 NURTURE HIM, TO TRAIN HIM IN THE THINGS OF GOD, AS MUCH AS YOU 18:49.575 --> 18:55.035 KNEW, THAT IS, BUT YOU PLANTED INTO HIM. BUT NOW HE'S CAUSED 18:55.035 --> 19:01.394 SOME HEARTACHE AND SOME DISCOURAGEMENT, AND IT'S KEEPING 19:01.394 --> 19:07.394 YOU AWAKE AT NIGHT TO WHERE YOU'RE THINKING ABOUT THIS. AND 19:07.394 --> 19:12.375 GOD IS SAYING, DON'T WORRY, DON'T GET INTO FEAR, BECAUSE THE 19:12.375 --> 19:17.204 WORD SAYS, TRAIN UP A CHILD AS THEY WILL GO, AND THEY WILL NOT 19:17.204 --> 19:19.154 DEPART. I'M NOT GETTING THE WORDS JUST RIGHT, BUT YOU KNOW 19:19.154 --> 19:23.325 WHAT THE SCRIPTURE IS. TRAIN UP A CHILD IN THE WAY THEY SHOULD 19:23.325 --> 19:28.904 GO, AND THEY WILL NOT DEPART. SO WHAT I'M SAYING IS, GOD'S 19:28.904 --> 19:33.855 SAYING, STAND ON THAT, AND FIND THREE OR FOUR OTHER SCRIPTURES 19:33.855 --> 19:37.214 THAT YOU CAN STAND ON, AND WRITE 'EM OUT, AND BELIEVE GOD FOR 19:37.214 --> 19:41.565 THEM, AND MOVE INTO FAITH, AND NOT INTO FEAR. AND I'M SPEAKING 19:41.565 --> 19:43.605 TO SOMEONE, I KNOW THERE'S SOMEONE ONLINE I'M SPEAKING TO. 19:43.605 --> 19:45.585 IS THERE ANYONE HERE THAT THAT'S KIND OF YOU? YOU DON'T HAVE TO 19:45.585 --> 19:49.125 COME UP HERE TONIGHT. THERE'S SOMEONE IN THE BACK THERE, OKAY. 19:49.125 --> 19:56.234 AND SO, ANOTHER ONE. SO, MOVE OUT OF WORRY AND FEAR, WHICH 19:56.234 --> 19:59.865 OPENS A DOOR FOR THE DEVIL TO ATTACK, AND MOVE INTO FAITH, AND 19:59.865 --> 20:03.404 JUST KEEP CONFESSING THE WORD OVER THIS SITUATION. AND I 20:03.404 --> 20:06.434 BELIEVE WE'RE GONNA SEE DIVINE TURNAROUND, THE PRODIGALS ARE 20:06.434 --> 20:13.060 COMING BACK IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN, AMEN, AMEN. MATTHEW, I 20:13.060 --> 20:16.270 HATE TO PUT YOU ON THE SPOT, BUT WOULD YOU RUN UP HERE? NOW I 20:16.270 --> 20:21.881 FEEL LED TO DO THIS. COME ON UP HERE, MATTHEW. GIVE MATTHEW A 20:21.881 --> 20:27.580 HAND AS HE COMES. THIS MAN HAS SUCH A GREAT HEART AND HE'S 20:27.580 --> 20:30.131 INSTANT IN SEASON AND OUT OF SEASON, SO THAT'S NOT WHY I KNOW 20:30.131 --> 20:34.480 I CAN PULL ON HIM. HERE'S WHAT I'M FEELING IS THAT THE LORD 20:34.480 --> 20:37.721 WOULD HAVE US PRAY TONIGHT AGAINST ATTACKS. I'M TALKING 20:37.721 --> 20:42.550 ABOUT TERRORIST ATTACKS, SLEEPER CELLS, ANY OF THAT STUFF THAT 20:42.550 --> 20:45.340 WOULD TRY AND MAKE ITS WAY. AND THEN THIS IS A COMBO PRAYER. I 20:45.340 --> 20:48.371 ALSO WANT YOU TO PRAY AGAINST STORMS AND PRAY FOR THE PEOPLE 20:48.371 --> 20:50.250 IN TEXAS. IF YOU COULD JUST KIND OF HIT THOSE 20:50.250 --> 20:54.061 THREE THINGS IN SHORT AND POWERFUL. OKAY. 20:54.061 --> 20:57.301 - ALL RIGHT. HALLELUJAH. LET'S JOIN OUR FAITH 20:57.301 --> 21:00.269 TOGETHER. FATHER, WE THANK YOU THAT YOUR WORD SAYS 21:00.269 --> 21:03.730 THAT WHERE TWO OR MORE GATHERED IN YOUR NAME. FATHER, THAT THERE 21:03.730 --> 21:07.300 IS POWER, AND WE ARE SEATED IN THAT PLACE IN CHRIST JESUS, FAR 21:07.300 --> 21:10.570 ABOVE ALL PRINCIPALITIES AND POWERS. AND SO WE TAKE OUR 21:10.570 --> 21:13.661 HEAVENLY POSITION NOW IN THE REALM OF THE SPIRIT, AND WE 21:13.661 --> 21:16.631 DECREE AND DECLARE THAT OVER THIS NATION, LORD, WHERE THE 21:16.631 --> 21:20.080 SPIRIT OF TERROR WOULD TRY TO COME IN, WE BIND AND REBUKE THAT 21:20.080 --> 21:23.080 IN THE NAME OF JESUS, EVEN OVER THE THINGS THAT ARE HAPPENING 21:23.080 --> 21:27.520 OVER THIS NATION, IN TEXAS, FATHER. WE DECREE AND DECLARE 21:27.520 --> 21:32.050 NOW THAT PEACE COMES OVER THAT AREA. AND WHERE STORMS AND RAINS 21:32.050 --> 21:35.891 HAD COME, WE SAY, PEACE NOW, BE STILL. THAT THESE THINGS 21:35.891 --> 21:39.461 DISSIPATE, LORD, AND THAT THERE BEGINS TO BECOME A RESTORATION 21:39.461 --> 21:44.351 OVER THIS REGION NOW. AS EVEN THE PEOPLE GATHER TOGETHER, LET 21:44.351 --> 21:48.371 LOVE NOW OVERCOME EVERY TRAGEDY AND EVERY FEAR, BECAUSE YOUR 21:48.371 --> 21:51.300 WORD SAYS THAT LOVE CONQUERS ALL. AND SO WE DECREE AND 21:51.300 --> 21:54.971 DECLARE THAT THE LOVE OF GOD IS SHED ABROAD OVER THIS NATION 21:54.971 --> 21:58.696 NOW, BECAUSE IT'S LIKE YOUR WORD SAYS, CAN A NATION BE SAVED IN A 21:58.696 --> 22:01.391 DAY? AND WE THANK YOU, LORD, THAT YOU HAVE ALREADY PROVEN IT, 22:01.391 --> 22:04.270 GOD, AND YOU'RE DOING THAT IN THIS VERY MOMENT. AND SO WE 22:04.270 --> 22:06.790 THANK YOU, LORD, FOR YOUR FAITHFULNESS, FOR WHAT YOU HAVE 22:06.790 --> 22:09.371 DONE IN THIS DAY AND THIS SEASON, THAT YOU HAVE DELIVERED 22:09.371 --> 22:12.396 US OUT SO THAT YOU CAN DELIVER US IN. AND SO WE THANK YOU FOR 22:12.396 --> 22:15.580 THAT, GOD. WE GIVE YOU GLORY AND PRAISE FOR IT, AND WE GIVE YOU 22:15.580 --> 22:19.211 ALL HONOR AND THANKS FOR IT. BECAUSE EVEN AS YOUR WORD SAYS 22:19.211 --> 22:22.151 IN PHILIPPIANS, "WITH ALL PRAYERS AND SUPPLICATIONS AND 22:22.151 --> 22:26.111 THANKSGIVING, MAKE YOUR REQUESTS KNOWN TO GOD, AND THE PEACE OF 22:26.111 --> 22:29.182 GOD WILL GUARD YOUR HEARTS AND MIND." SO WE THANK YOU 22:29.182 --> 22:32.585 FOR THAT NOW IN JESUS NAME, AMEN. 22:32.618 --> 22:38.157 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 22:38.191 --> 22:42.941 - GLORY, WELL, YOU CAN BE SEATED. I GET 22:42.941 --> 22:51.550 TO, ANYONE KNOW WHAT TIME IT IS? HALLELUJAH. THAT'S RIGHT. SO 22:51.550 --> 22:56.500 USHERS, YOU CAN HAND OUT IF ANYBODY WANTS ONE. OTHERWISE, 22:56.500 --> 22:59.682 THEY'LL BE PUTTING THE INFORMATION UP SOON. I GET TO 22:59.682 --> 23:08.201 GIVE THE OFFERING MESSAGE. AND I WAS JUST IMPRESSED OF THE LORD A 23:08.201 --> 23:14.050 WHILE BACK. I READ A SCRIPTURE. AND WHAT WAS UNUSUAL ABOUT IT, 23:14.050 --> 23:21.820 IT WAS A STORY ABOUT A THIEF WHO GOT HONORED. AND IT'S KIND OF 23:21.820 --> 23:31.270 ONE OF THOSE STRANGE ONES. BUT HE ACTUALLY, YOU KNOW, HE 23:31.270 --> 23:41.630 FIGURED OUT A WAY TO PREPARE FOR HIS FUTURE. AND WHEN HE DID IT, 23:43.000 --> 23:52.990 THE BOSS THAT HE STOLE FROM HONORED HIM. NOW, THIS IS A 23:52.990 --> 24:01.211 SCRIPTURE, AND YOU CAN READ IT IN LUKE 16. AND JESUS HONORED 24:01.211 --> 24:09.431 HIM. REALLY? YEAH. BECAUSE IN LUKE 16:8 IT SAYS, “AND THE LORD 24:09.431 --> 24:15.101 COMMANDED THE UNJUST STEWARD,” OR THE BOSS, COMMANDED THE 24:16.300 --> 24:23.740 UNJUST STEWARD, “BECAUSE HE HAD DONE WISELY," OR HE HAD BEEN 24:23.740 --> 24:33.310 PROGRESSIVELY LOOKING AHEAD. FOR THE CHILDREN OF THIS WORLD ARE 24:33.310 --> 24:39.310 IN THEIR GENERATION WISER THAN THE CHILDREN OF LIGHT. SO JESUS 24:39.310 --> 24:44.560 HONORED THIS THIEF. YOU SAY, WELL, WHY WOULD HE DO THAT? HE 24:44.560 --> 24:49.030 WASN'T HONORING HIM FOR HIS BEING A THIEF. HE WAS HONORING 24:49.030 --> 24:53.171 HIM FOR THE FACT THAT HE WAS SMART ENOUGH TO USE HIS MONEY 24:53.171 --> 24:59.590 AND HIS RESOURCES AND WHAT RESOURCES HE HAD TO PREPARE FOR 24:59.590 --> 25:07.840 HIS FUTURE. AND YOU CAN READ ON IN THAT SCRIPTURE AND HE 25:07.840 --> 25:14.951 EXPLAINS WHY. SAYS, "WE DON'T SERVE MAMMON, WE DON'T SERVE 25:14.951 --> 25:21.431 MONEY. "WE HAVE TO CHOOSE WHO WE SERVE AND WE SERVE HIM. "SO WE 25:21.431 --> 25:28.540 USE OUR MONEY TO PREPARE FOR OUR FUTURE. "WE USE OUR RESOURCES TO 25:28.540 --> 25:31.901 PREPARE FOR OUR FUTURE." SO WHEN YOU'RE GIVING, YOU'RE NOT JUST 25:31.901 --> 25:35.260 GIVING TO YOUR PRESENT TIME, YOU'RE GIVING TO YOUR FUTURE. 25:36.760 --> 25:40.840 YOU'RE PREPARING FOR YOUR FUTURE. AND NOT, JESUS DOESN'T 25:40.840 --> 25:44.590 LEAVE IT AT THAT, IT'S NOT JUST THE FUTURE HERE IN THIS TIME 25:44.590 --> 25:54.131 PERIOD, BUT IT'S IN THE FOREVER LIFE. JESUS SAYS YOU CAN USE 25:54.131 --> 26:01.270 YOUR MONEY TO PREPARE FOR YOUR FOREVER LIFE. NOW IF JESUS SAID 26:01.270 --> 26:05.111 THAT, I GUESS I HAVE TO BELIEVE IT, DON'T I? EVERYONE WANNA 26:05.111 --> 26:12.250 BELIEVE THAT? BECAUSE JESUS SAID IT. SO BE WISER THAN THE PEOPLE 26:12.250 --> 26:18.911 OF THE WORLD. BE WISER THAN THIS THIEF. BECAUSE YOU'RE NOT JUST 26:18.911 --> 26:23.050 PREPARING FOR THE HERE AND NOW, YOU'RE PREPARING FOR FOREVER. 26:24.461 --> 26:28.961 AND SO AS YOU GIVE, YOU DO THAT. AS THEY PUT UP THE INFORMATION 26:28.961 --> 26:31.925 AND PUT IT AND MAKE IT AVAILABLE, SO THOSE WHO ARE 26:31.925 --> 26:37.750 ONLINE, YOU CAN GIVE AND YOU CAN BE A PART OF THE PROCESS OF 26:37.750 --> 26:42.641 PREPARING FOR YOUR FUTURE FOREVER. WE THANK YOU FOR ALL 26:42.641 --> 26:46.451 THE GIVING THAT YOU DO, ESPECIALLY EVERYONE HERE AND OUT 26:46.451 --> 26:52.270 ONLINE, BECAUSE IT IS WHAT MAKES IT AVAILABLE FOR GOD TO USE US 26:52.270 --> 26:58.810 IN THE KINGDOM. 'CAUSE HE USES US IN THE KINGDOM. AND EVERY ONE 26:58.810 --> 27:03.701 OF US ARE A PART OF THAT. AND THAT'S HOW IT'S DONE, DAY BY 27:03.701 --> 27:09.490 DAY, HOUR BY HOUR. SO AS YOU'RE GETTING YOUR GIFTS READY, LET'S 27:09.490 --> 27:17.080 PRAY. FATHER, I THANK YOU FOR THE POWER OF YOUR PRESENCE TO 27:17.080 --> 27:22.878 USE US, TO USE OUR WEALTH, THE WEALTH THAT YOU HAVE GIVEN US, 27:24.250 --> 27:32.652 TO PREPARE OUR FUTURE, HERE ON EARTH AND FOREVER. AND 27:32.652 --> 27:35.922 I THANK YOU, LORD, THAT IT'S DONE. IN 27:35.922 --> 27:42.996 JESUS' NAME, AMEN. YOU CAN GIVE IN THE OFFERING. 27:43.028 --> 27:53.740 (MUSIC) 27:53.770 --> 27:57.641 - THANK YOU, PASTOR KEITH. HALLELUJAH. HOW MANY OF YOU ARE 27:57.641 --> 28:05.821 THANKFUL FOR PASTOR KEITH? AMEN. PRAISE GOD. HALLELUJAH. CAN YOU 28:05.821 --> 28:11.290 HEAR ME TONIGHT? OKAY, I'M DOING OKAY. HALLELUJAH. OH, WHILE THE 28:11.290 --> 28:17.201 USHERS ARE RECEIVING TONIGHT, LET ME REMIND YOU IN CASE, SO I 28:17.201 --> 28:20.921 DON'T FORGET, DR. RICHARD ROBERTS WILL BE IN THE HOUSE ON 28:20.921 --> 28:26.471 SUNDAY. AND, YOU KNOW, WHAT AN HONOR. YOU KNOW, I WAS JUST 28:26.471 --> 28:29.080 LISTENING TO SOMEONE THE OTHER DAY AND THEY WERE SAYING 28:29.080 --> 28:33.671 PROBABLY IN THE LAST 100, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY YEARS THEY 28:33.671 --> 28:37.750 WENT BACK AND THINKING THIS, BUT JUST SOME OF THE GREATEST MOVES 28:37.750 --> 28:46.781 OF GOD HAPPENED AS FAR AS SOULS COMING IN WITH BILLY GRAHAM, 28:47.921 --> 28:54.161 JIMMY SWAGGART, EARL ROBERTS, OF COURSE WE'VE GOT BROTHER KENNETH 28:54.161 --> 28:57.101 HAGIN AND KENNETH COPELAND. I MEAN, WE COULD KEEP GOING, BUT 28:57.101 --> 29:02.471 JUST SO MANY OF THOSE GENERALS ARE MOVING ON, BUT HERE WE HAVE 29:02.471 --> 29:06.881 THE SON OF ONE OF THE GENERALS COMING SUNDAY, DR. EARL ROBERTS 29:06.881 --> 29:09.941 WAS, I MEAN, IF YOU GO BACK, JUST GO TO YOUTUBE SOMETIME AND 29:09.941 --> 29:15.490 START CHECKING OUT SOME OF HIS CRUSADES AND WATCH HIS TEACHING 29:15.490 --> 29:21.928 AND YOU'LL GET INSPIRED. AND WE NEED TO HONOR 29:21.928 --> 29:24.497 DR. EARL ROBERTS JUST BY HONORING HIS SON. 29:24.530 --> 29:27.067 (CONGREGATION AGREEING) 29:27.099 --> 29:31.506 - AND LET'S FILL THIS PLACE. AND I KNOW PASTOR HANK AND BRENDA 29:31.510 --> 29:34.300 AND PASTOR SHANE AND CHRISTY ARE ON VACATION, BUT THEY WANT YOU 29:34.300 --> 29:40.990 HERE TO SUPPORT THOSE THAT COME IN. AND THEY DON'T JUST THROW 29:40.990 --> 29:43.240 OUT SOMETHING AND SAY, "HEY, WE'RE GONNA SEND SOME GUEST 29:43.240 --> 29:46.570 SPEAKER IN TO MINISTER." THEY PRAY ABOUT IT AND BELIEVE THAT 29:46.570 --> 29:50.921 THIS IS WHAT GOD'S WILL IS FOR THIS COMING SUNDAY. AND THEN WE 29:50.921 --> 29:53.980 HAVE DR. GENE BAILEY THE FOLLOWING SUNDAY. SO WE ARE 29:53.980 --> 29:58.961 BEING ROYALLY TREATED WHILE THEY ARE OUT. AND SO HONOR THAT, AND 29:58.961 --> 30:02.441 I KNOW YOU WILL. BUT BRING A FRIEND, TOO. INVITE SOMEONE ELSE 30:02.441 --> 30:05.830 TO COME IN THAT MAYBE HASN'T BEEN HERE BEFORE. AND IT'S A 30:05.830 --> 30:08.471 GOOD OPPORTUNITY. WE HAVE A GUEST SPEAKER COMING. BY THE 30:08.471 --> 30:12.280 WAY, IT'S DR. EARL ROBERTS' SON. MOST PEOPLE HAVE HEARD, I MEAN, 30:12.280 --> 30:16.090 THERE'S SOME THAT MAYBE HAVEN'T HEARD OF EARL ROBERTS. ANYWAY. 30:16.090 --> 30:20.421 BUT FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE TAKING NOTES, I'VE TITLED A 30:20.421 --> 30:25.760 MESSAGE TONIGHT, THE POWER OF DEPENDENCY ON THE HOLY SPIRIT. 30:25.760 --> 30:28.070 WE'RE SO DEPENDENT ON THE HOLY SPIRIT. AND I JUST WANNA BRING 30:28.070 --> 30:32.840 OUT A FEW THINGS TONIGHT THAT I THINK ARE IMPORTANT. YOU KNOW, 30:32.840 --> 30:35.961 AS LONG AS WE'RE ON THIS EARTH, WE'RE GONNA HAVE TERRITORY TO 30:35.961 --> 30:40.520 TAKE, WE'RE GONNA HAVE CHALLENGES TO FACE, AND THERE'LL 30:40.520 --> 30:45.080 BE SOME PUSHBACK AS WE ADVANCE IN GOD'S PLAN AND WHAT HE WANTS 30:45.080 --> 30:49.310 US TO DO, BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS HE HAS GIVEN US EVERY TOOL THAT 30:49.310 --> 30:54.740 WE NEED TO DO IT. HE'S EQUIPPED US WELL, AND I HAVE A MESSAGE OF 30:54.740 --> 30:57.800 ENCOURAGEMENT FOR YOU TONIGHT. YOU'RE NOT ALONE IN THIS 30:57.800 --> 31:02.990 JOURNEY. THAT'S THE GOOD NEWS. YOU'RE NOT A LONE RANGER. NOT 31:02.990 --> 31:06.740 ONLY DO YOU HAVE THE BODY OF CHRIST WITH YOU, BUT YOU HAVE 31:06.740 --> 31:11.931 GOD, THE FATHER, JESUS, AND THE MIGHTY HOLY SPIRIT. AND WE'RE 31:11.931 --> 31:15.861 GONNA TALK AND KIND OF CENTER ON SOME THINGS ABOUT THE HOLY 31:15.861 --> 31:20.330 SPIRIT TONIGHT. BUT I WANNA FOCUS ON A SCRIPTURE IN A 31:20.330 --> 31:23.961 PASSAGE THAT I'M GONNA READ IN A LITTLE BIT OUT OF THE BOOK OF 31:23.961 --> 31:29.810 ZECHARIAH. IT'S A PERSONAL WORD TO US CONFIRMING THE POWER OF 31:29.810 --> 31:34.431 THE HOLY SPIRIT IN OUR LIVES TO GUIDE US, DIRECT US, AND ASSIST 31:34.431 --> 31:38.901 US AS WE DO GOD'S WORK ON THIS EARTH. AND WHEN WE'RE IN GOD'S 31:38.901 --> 31:43.851 PLAN, HE'LL GIVE US THE VICTORY IN EVERY SITUATION, AMEN? NOW 31:43.851 --> 31:48.171 MANY TIMES AS PENTECOSTALS, WE'VE HEARD AND QUOTED THE VERSE 31:48.171 --> 31:50.931 FROM ZECHARIAH 4:6. YOU COULD PROBABLY QUOTE IT FROM MEMORY 31:50.931 --> 31:56.961 TONIGHT. "NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT," SAYS 31:56.961 --> 32:02.990 THE LORD OF HOSTS. PENTECOSTALS LOVE THIS VERSE BECAUSE WE 32:02.990 --> 32:06.111 UNDERSTAND THAT NOTHING ETERNALLY VALUABLE GETS 32:06.111 --> 32:10.371 ACCOMPLISHED WITHOUT THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. BUT MANY OF 32:10.371 --> 32:14.570 US, EVEN PENTECOSTALS, ARE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE CONTEXT OF 32:14.570 --> 32:19.461 THAT VERSE AND WHAT IT HAS TO DO WITH, REALLY, OTHER THAN THE 32:19.461 --> 32:23.151 FACT THAT IT'S ENCOURAGING TO KNOW THAT THE SPIRIT OF GOD IS 32:23.151 --> 32:26.121 WITH US AND WILL GIVE US THE TOOLS WE NEED. BUT WE'RE GOING 32:26.121 --> 32:29.030 TO DELVE INTO THAT A LITTLE CLOSER TONIGHT. AND I WANT TO 32:29.030 --> 32:32.631 REMIND YOU AGAIN, I'M REPEATING MYSELF TONIGHT AND I'M DOING IT 32:32.631 --> 32:36.830 ON PURPOSE, BUT THIS IS A PERSONAL WORD TO YOU. PAUL THE 32:36.830 --> 32:41.901 APOSTLE WROTE IN 2 TIMOTHY 3:16-17, "ALL SCRIPTURE IS GIVEN 32:41.901 --> 32:45.681 BY INSPIRATION OF GOD, AND IT'S PROFITABLE FOR DOCTRINE, FOR 32:45.681 --> 32:49.671 REPROOF, AND FOR INSTRUCTION IN RIGHTEOUSNESS." SO THE WORD OF 32:49.671 --> 32:54.560 GOD IS GIVEN TO ALL OF US TO HELP US IN OUR DAILY LIVING. AND 32:54.560 --> 32:59.540 ORIGINALLY THIS MESSAGE WAS GIVEN FROM THE PROPHET ZECHARIAH 32:59.540 --> 33:05.691 TO ANOTHER Z NAME, A MAN BY THE NAME OF ZERUBBABEL, TO ENCOURAGE 33:05.691 --> 33:09.050 ZERUBBABEL IN WHAT HE WAS TRYING TO ACCOMPLISH FOR THE LORD. BUT 33:09.050 --> 33:12.320 TONIGHT I WANT THIS TO BE A PERSONAL WORD TO YOU TO 33:12.320 --> 33:17.330 ENCOURAGE YOU IN WHAT YOU'RE DOING. AMEN? ARE YOU WITH ME 33:17.330 --> 33:23.750 TONIGHT? OKAY, OKAY. SO I WANT YOU TO SEE THIS MESSAGE AS GOD 33:23.750 --> 33:30.141 SPEAKING THROUGH THE PROPHET ZECHARIAH DIRECTLY TO YOU. PUT 33:30.141 --> 33:33.560 YOUR NAME IN THERE. IF IT'S SALLY, IF IT'S NANCY, IF IT'S 33:33.560 --> 33:38.898 JIM, OR IT'S HENRY, PUT YOUR NAME IN THERE. ZECHARIAH IS 33:38.898 --> 33:41.661 SPEAKING TO ME. SO LET ME GIVE YOU A LITTLE HISTORICAL 33:41.661 --> 33:44.631 BACKGROUND BEFORE WE GO ANY FURTHER. AND THEN WE'LL READ 33:44.631 --> 33:48.980 THAT PASSAGE OF SCRIPTURE. AS YOU KNOW, THE ISRAELITES WERE 33:48.980 --> 33:54.050 ENSLAVED IN EGYPT FOR ALMOST 400 YEARS UNTIL MOSES LED THEM OUT 33:54.050 --> 33:57.830 OF BONDAGE. AND THEN CENTURIES LATER, AFTER THEY RETURNED TO 33:57.830 --> 34:00.141 THE PROMISED LAND, THEY ESTABLISHED THEIR JEWISH 34:00.141 --> 34:04.340 KINGDOM. AND THEN THE ISRAELITES WERE CONQUERED BY THE 34:04.340 --> 34:10.070 BABYLONIANS, LED BY KING NEBUCHADNEZZAR II. THERE WAS A 34:10.070 --> 34:14.420 DESTRUCTION OF SOLOMON'S TEMPLE AT THAT POINT IN TIME BY THE 34:14.420 --> 34:21.380 BABYLONIAN ARMY. 587 BC, YOU'LL SEE SOLOMON'S TEMPLE WAS BEING 34:21.380 --> 34:25.731 DESTROYED. THAT BEAUTIFUL TEMPLE CAME DOWN. IT WAS DURING THAT 34:25.731 --> 34:28.460 BATTLE THAT THE BABYLONIANS DESTROYED THE FIRST JEWISH 34:28.460 --> 34:34.550 TEMPLE, SOLOMON'S TEMPLE. AND AFTER THAT BATTLE, THE JEWISH 34:34.550 --> 34:39.800 PEOPLE WERE DEPORTED TO BABYLON. JUST LIKE WE'RE DEPORTING SOME 34:39.800 --> 34:43.311 ALIENS TODAY, THE JEWISH PEOPLE, THEY'VE BEEN DEPORTED A LOT OF 34:43.311 --> 34:47.240 TIMES ALL AROUND THIS EARTH. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? GOD STILL 34:47.240 --> 34:50.601 BREATHES ON THEM. GOD'S STILL WITH THEM. IT'S AMAZING. THERE'S 34:50.601 --> 34:56.271 STILL JEWS ALIVE. IF YOU LOOK AT THE HISTORY, BUT THAT JUST TELLS 34:56.271 --> 35:00.411 YOU THAT GOD'S WORD IS TRUE AND THAT THERE IS CHOSEN PEOPLE. I 35:00.411 --> 35:05.780 MEAN, IT'S PROOF THAT THIS WORD IS TRUE. SO, BECAUSE THEY SHOULD 35:05.780 --> 35:09.411 HAVE BEEN EXTINGUISHED FROM THE EARTH. AND THEN WHY WOULD, I 35:09.411 --> 35:12.940 MEAN, I'M OFF MY SUBJECT ALREADY, BUT WHY WOULD SATAN 35:14.331 --> 35:18.440 CHOOSE TO WIPE THIS LITTLE GROUP OF INSIGNIFICANT PEOPLE OFF IF 35:18.440 --> 35:20.871 THEY WEREN'T IMPORTANT? I MEAN, WHY WOULD HE EVEN CARE ABOUT 35:20.871 --> 35:24.920 THEM WHEN THERE'S ALL THESE OTHER PEOPLE AND CULTURES? OH, 35:24.920 --> 35:26.871 WELL, WE COULD GO THAT PATH, BUT WE'RE NOT GONNA GO ANY FURTHER 35:26.871 --> 35:30.141 THAN THAT ONE. BUT AFTER THAT BATTLE, THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE 35:30.141 --> 35:33.471 DEPORTED TO BABYLON, LIKE I SAID, AND THEN THE ISRAELITES 35:33.471 --> 35:38.960 WERE CAPTIVE IN BABYLON UNTIL ANOTHER BATTLE OCCURRED, AND 35:38.960 --> 35:43.641 THAT WAS WHEN THE PERSIANS CAME IN AND FREED THOSE ISRAELITES 35:43.641 --> 35:49.971 FROM BABYLONIAN CAPTIVITY. 48 YEARS AFTER THEY WERE DEPORTED 35:49.971 --> 35:57.740 TO BABYLON AND HAD TO GO THROUGH THE HARDSHIP OF BEING IN THIS 35:57.740 --> 36:02.510 BABYLONIAN TERRITORY OR KINGDOM, THEN THE JEWISH PEOPLE WERE 36:02.510 --> 36:08.360 AGAIN MOVED BECAUSE THE PERSIANS CAME IN. BUT THE GOOD THING 36:08.360 --> 36:12.710 ABOUT THE PERSIANS AND KING CYRUS WAS HE WAS KIND TO THE 36:12.710 --> 36:15.771 JEWS. AND HE SAID, YOU CAN GO BACK TO JERUSALEM, AND YOU CAN 36:15.771 --> 36:20.360 REBUILD YOUR TEMPLE. HE LET THEM GO. HE ALLOWED THEM TO RETURN TO 36:20.360 --> 36:25.371 JERUSALEM. AND IF YOU'LL PUT UP THIS MAP THAT I WANT TO SHOW YOU 36:25.371 --> 36:30.320 HERE, YOU CAN SEE WHERE THE RUINS OF BABYLON ARE. I DON'T 36:30.320 --> 36:32.510 KNOW IF YOU CAN READ IT FROM WHERE YOU'RE SITTING, BUT IT'S 36:32.510 --> 36:35.811 THAT AREA THAT'S MARKED IN YELLOW ON THE RIGHT-HAND SIDE OF 36:35.811 --> 36:40.431 YOUR SCREEN. AND THEN THEY HAD TO TAKE A LONG TRIP ALL THE WAY 36:40.431 --> 36:45.351 BACK TO JERUSALEM, AND THEY WERE LED BY ZERUBBABEL. AND THAT TRIP 36:45.351 --> 36:51.920 WAS ABOUT 1,700 MILES. IT TOOK ABOUT, I BELIEVE IT WAS 40 DAYS 36:51.920 --> 36:58.221 TO GET TO THAT NEW LOCATION. I'M SORRY, FOUR MONTHS. I WAS GOING 36:58.221 --> 37:02.721 TO SAY 40 DAYS. THEY DIDN'T HAVE JEEPS BACK THEN, SO IT WAS FOUR 37:02.721 --> 37:08.181 MONTHS. GETTING AHEAD OF MYSELF HERE. BUT ANYWAY, IT WAS A TREK 37:08.181 --> 37:11.181 TO GET BACK. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THEY WERE EXCITED ABOUT GOING 37:11.181 --> 37:17.240 BACK TO JERUSALEM TO REBUILD THIS TEMPLE. ZERUBBABEL LED THIS 37:17.240 --> 37:21.740 FIRST GROUP OF JEWISH PEOPLE AND KING CYRUS AND THE PERSIANS WERE 37:21.740 --> 37:26.210 STILL IN CONTROL. THEY WEREN'T COMPLETELY FREE PEOPLE. THEY 37:26.210 --> 37:28.490 STILL WERE UNDER THE CONTROL OF THE PERSIANS, BUT AT LEAST THE 37:28.490 --> 37:30.771 PERSIANS WERE KIND TO HIM AND SAID, "YOU CAN GO BACK AND DO 37:30.771 --> 37:36.170 WHAT YOU NEED TO DO." ZERUBBABEL WAS THE RECOGNIZED PRINCE OF 37:36.170 --> 37:39.561 JUDAH DURING THIS TIME AND HE ACTED AS THE GOVERNOR OF THOSE 37:39.561 --> 37:46.581 JEWISH PEOPLE. NOW, ZECHARIAH 4 FOCUSES ON A VISION THAT THE 37:46.581 --> 37:50.900 PROPHET ZECHARIAH HAD DURING THIS TIME AND HE'S SPEAKING A 37:50.900 --> 37:55.400 MESSAGE TO ZERUBBABEL, THE PRINCE OR THE GOVERNOR OF JUDAH. 37:55.400 --> 37:57.621 LIKE I SAID, I'M KIND OF REPEATING MYSELF BECAUSE THERE'S 37:57.621 --> 38:01.431 SO MANY DIFFERENT DETAILS HERE. IT'S A LITTLE CONFUSING IF 38:01.431 --> 38:03.891 YOU'RE NOT FAMILIAR WITH THE STORY. SO YOU MIGHT HEAR ME SAY 38:03.891 --> 38:07.400 SOMETHING TWICE OR IN A DIFFERENT FASHION. AND I'M DOING 38:07.400 --> 38:11.481 THAT ON PURPOSE. THE VISION THAT WE LOOK AT TONIGHT WILL REASSURE 38:11.481 --> 38:15.501 ZERUBBABEL AND THE PEOPLE OF ISRAEL THAT GOD WILL EMPOWER 38:15.501 --> 38:18.590 THEM TO DO THE JOB THAT HE'S COMMISSIONED THEM TO DO. AND 38:18.590 --> 38:22.221 THAT'S REBUILDING THE TEMPLE. HE'S GOING TO ASSIST THEM IN THE 38:22.221 --> 38:27.050 COMPLETION OF THIS REBUILDING. AND THIS VISION DEPICTS A GOLDEN 38:27.050 --> 38:32.510 LAMP STAND WITH TWO OLIVE TREES. AND YOU'LL SEE IT'S A VIVID 38:32.510 --> 38:37.340 ILLUSTRATION OF HOW GOD SUPERNATURALLY PROVIDES FOR THE 38:37.340 --> 38:42.380 WORK OF THE MINISTRY BY USING THE HOLY SPIRIT IN THE 38:42.380 --> 38:47.360 COMPLETION OF THE ASSIGNED WORK ON EARTH. NOW I WANT TO READ 38:47.360 --> 38:50.210 THIS PASSAGE. WE'VE KIND OF GIVEN SOME HISTORY TO IT. 38:50.210 --> 38:53.570 ZECHARIAH, YOU CAN READ ALONG, FOLLOW ME AS I READ THIS. I WANT 38:53.570 --> 38:55.880 TO READ IT OUT OF THE AMPLIFIED TONIGHT BECAUSE IT IS A LITTLE 38:55.880 --> 38:59.210 BIT COMPLICATED READING THESE VISIONS. I JUST WANT TO MAKE IT 38:59.210 --> 39:04.130 AS CLEAR AS POSSIBLE. SO THIS IS ZECHARIAH 4:1-10 OUT OF THE 39:04.130 --> 39:07.911 AMPLIFIED BIBLE. “AND THE ANGEL WHO WAS SPEAKING WITH ME CAME 39:07.911 --> 39:12.141 BACK AND AWAKENED ME LIKE A MAN WHO IS AWAKENED OUT OF HIS 39:12.141 --> 39:17.931 SLEEP. AND HE SAID TO ME, "WHAT DO YOU SEE?" I SAID, "I SEE AND 39:17.931 --> 39:23.451 BEHOLD A LAMPSTAND ALL OF GOLD WITH ITS BOWL FOR OIL ON THE TOP 39:23.451 --> 39:28.851 OF IT AND ITS SEVEN LAMPS ON IT WITH SEVEN SPOUTS BELONGING TO 39:28.851 --> 39:33.141 EACH OF THE LAMPS WHICH ARE ON THE TOP OF IT. AND THERE ARE TWO 39:33.141 --> 39:36.740 OLIVE TREES BY IT, ONE ON THE RIGHT SIDE OF THE BOWL AND THE 39:36.740 --> 39:41.001 OTHERS ON THE LEFT SIDE, SUPPLYING IT CONTINUOUSLY WITH 39:41.001 --> 39:45.530 OIL. SO I ASKED THE ANGEL WHO WAS SPEAKING WITH ME, WHAT ARE 39:45.530 --> 39:49.101 THESE, MY LORD? THEN THE ANGEL WHO WAS SPEAKING WITH ME 39:49.101 --> 39:53.780 ANSWERED ME, DO YOU NOT KNOW WHAT THESE ARE? AND I SAID, NO, 39:53.780 --> 39:59.030 MY LORD. THEN HE SAID TO ME, NOW LISTEN TO THIS. THIS CONTINUOUS 39:59.030 --> 40:02.931 SUPPLY OF OIL IS THE WORD OF THE LORD TO ZERUBBABEL, THE PRINCE 40:02.931 --> 40:08.481 OF JUDAS, SAYING, "NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT, 40:08.481 --> 40:13.610 "OF WHOM THE OIL IS A SYMBOL," SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS. WHAT ARE 40:13.610 --> 40:17.391 YOU, O GREAT MOUNTAIN OF OBSTACLES, BEFORE ZERUBBABEL, 40:17.391 --> 40:20.931 WHO WILL REBUILD THE TEMPLE? YOU WILL BECOME A PLAIN, 40:20.931 --> 40:25.610 INSIGNIFICANT, IN OTHER WORDS, AND HE WILL BRING OUT THE 40:25.610 --> 40:30.920 CAPSTONE OF THE NEW TEMPLE WITH LOUD SHOUTS OF GRACE, GRACE TO 40:30.920 --> 40:36.456 IT. ALSO THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO ME SAYING, THE HANDS OF 40:36.456 --> 40:39.485 ZERUBBABEL HAVE LAID THE FOUNDATIONS OF THIS HOUSE AND 40:39.485 --> 40:43.115 HIS HANDS WILL FINISH IT. THEN YOU WILL KNOW AND YOU'LL 40:43.115 --> 40:46.476 RECOGNIZE AND YOU'LL UNDERSTAND FULLY THAT THE LORD OF HOSTS HAS 40:46.476 --> 40:51.996 SENT ME AS HIS MESSENGER TO YOU, "WHO WITH REASON DESPISES THE 40:51.996 --> 40:55.356 DAY OF SMALL THINGS "OR SMALL BEGINNINGS. "FOR THESE SEVEN 40:55.356 --> 40:58.295 EYES SHALL REJOICE "WHEN THEY SEE THE PLUMB LINE IN THE HAND 40:58.295 --> 41:01.896 OF ZERUBBABEL. "THEY ARE THE EYES OF THE LORD, "WHICH ROAM 41:01.896 --> 41:07.146 THROUGHOUT THE EARTH." AMEN. ZERUBBABEL WAS THE MAIN GUY IN 41:07.146 --> 41:10.655 CHARGE OF LEADING THIS EFFORT TO REBUILD THE TEMPLE. AND THERE 41:10.655 --> 41:14.106 WERE MANY, MANY OBSTACLES FOR ZERUBBABEL AND THE ISRAELI 41:14.106 --> 41:17.706 PEOPLE AS THEY FACED THIS JOB. THEY HAD TO DEAL WITH OPPOSITION 41:17.706 --> 41:20.706 FROM THE SAMARITANS AND OTHER GROUPS OF PEOPLE. THE JEWISH 41:20.706 --> 41:23.556 PEOPLE THEMSELVES WERE A LITTLE BIT DISCOURAGED DUE TO THE LACK 41:23.556 --> 41:27.425 OF RESOURCES THAT THEY HAD. AND THEY HAD A DILAPIDATED STATE OF 41:27.425 --> 41:31.476 AFFAIRS IN JERUSALEM. I MEAN, YOU CAN IMAGINE THAT OLD TEMPLE 41:31.476 --> 41:34.295 THAT YOU SAW THE PICTURE OF, SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, WAS LAYING IN 41:34.295 --> 41:39.606 RUINS. I MEAN, THINK OF THE WORK JUST TO GET IT CLEARED SO THAT 41:39.606 --> 41:42.215 THEY COULD BUILD A NEW TEMPLE. AND THEY DIDN'T HAVE MODERN DAY 41:42.215 --> 41:48.666 BULLDOZERS LIKE WE HAVE TO WORK WITH. I MEAN, IT WAS WORK. THESE 41:48.666 --> 41:52.085 JEWS HAD BEEN UNDER TREMENDOUS HARDSHIP IN BABYLON. AND NOW 41:52.085 --> 41:55.956 THEY HAD A MESS TO CLEAN UP AND A GIANT TASK TO REBUILD THE 41:55.956 --> 41:59.735 SECOND TEMPLE. THE PRIMARY OPPONENTS OF REBUILDING THE 41:59.735 --> 42:04.565 TEMPLE WERE THESE SAMARITANS. THEY ACTIVELY SOUGHT TO HINDER 42:04.565 --> 42:07.896 THE PROJECT, AND THEY TRIED TO HALT THE CONSTRUCTION. THESE 42:07.896 --> 42:13.115 SAMARITANS INITIALLY OFFERED TO HELP REBUILD THE TEMPLE. THEY 42:13.115 --> 42:18.425 OFFERED TO HELP ORIGINALLY, BUT THEN THEY TURNED HOSTILE TOWARDS 42:18.425 --> 42:23.465 ZERUBBABEL WHEN HE REJECTED THEIR OFFER TO HELP. SAMARITANS 42:23.465 --> 42:29.976 CAME TO ZERUBBABEL AND SAID, WE'LL HELP. ZERUBBABEL SAID, YOU 42:29.976 --> 42:33.996 KNOW WHAT? I THINK WE'RE GOING TO DO IT WITHOUT YOUR HELP. AND 42:33.996 --> 42:39.155 THEN THE SAMARITANS GOT MAD AND HOSTILE. ZERUBBABEL'S REFUSAL OF 42:39.155 --> 42:43.235 ALLOWING THEM TO HELP LED TO HOSTILITY. AND THESE SAMARITANS 42:43.235 --> 42:47.226 THEN DID EVERYTHING THEY COULD TO STOP THE CONSTRUCTION. 42:47.226 --> 42:50.735 REBUILDING THE TEMPLE WAS A MASSIVE EFFORT, AND IT WOULD 42:50.735 --> 42:54.755 HAVE BEEN TEMPTING FOR ZERUBBABEL TO ACCEPT ANY HELP HE 42:54.755 --> 42:59.315 COULD GET, BUT HE HAD A REASON FOR REFUSING THEIR HELP. HE 42:59.315 --> 43:04.266 WASN'T WILLING TO TAKE ANY SHORTCUTS AND ALLOW THOSE NOT 43:04.266 --> 43:08.346 FULLY DEVOTED TO GOD TO BE PART OF IT. THERE'S A GREAT LESSON IN 43:08.346 --> 43:12.695 THIS FOR US. THE SAMARITANS WERE NOT SERVING THE GOD OF ISRAEL. 43:14.646 --> 43:17.885 THEY WERE BASICALLY WICKED PEOPLE, I GUESS YOU WOULD SAY. 43:17.885 --> 43:22.056 THEY WEREN'T WORSHIPING THE GOD OF ISRAEL. THIS IS A GREAT 43:22.056 --> 43:25.715 LESSON FOR US HERE. INTEGRITY AND OBEDIENCE TO GOD ALWAYS 43:25.715 --> 43:30.396 PROVES TO BE THE BLESSED PATH. IT WOULD HAVE BEEN EASY FOR 43:30.396 --> 43:33.786 ZERUBBABEL TO THINK, YOU KNOW WHAT, IF I GOT SOME FREE LABOR 43:33.786 --> 43:38.135 HERE, I BETTER USE THEM AND JUST LET THEM WORK. IT'D BE SO MUCH 43:38.135 --> 43:43.806 EASIER, A SHORTCUT. BUT HE KNEW THAT WAS NOT GOD'S PLAN. THE 43:43.806 --> 43:47.286 IMMEDIATE CONSEQUENCES OF THIS DECISION WASN'T AN EASY THING 43:47.286 --> 43:51.365 FOR ZERUBBABEL TO DEAL WITH. AND IN OUR OWN LIVES, WE'VE ALL HAD 43:51.365 --> 43:54.576 TO FACE DECISIONS LIKE THAT, I'M SURE, WHERE IT'S EASY TO 43:54.576 --> 43:57.996 SOMETIMES TAKE A SHORTCUT, BUT WE KNOW IT WOULDN'T BE PLEASING 43:57.996 --> 44:02.646 TO GOD. SO WE HAVE TO TAKE THE OBEDIENT PATH OF BLESSING. AMEN? 44:02.646 --> 44:06.096 COMPROMISING INTEGRITY OR TAKING A SHORTCUT FROM GOD'S DESIRED 44:06.096 --> 44:11.135 PATH IS ALWAYS A BAD DECISION. SO WHAT WE SEE FROM THIS 44:11.135 --> 44:13.956 SCRIPTURE PASSAGE TONIGHT IS IF WE FOLLOW GOD'S PLAN AND DO THE 44:13.956 --> 44:19.476 THINGS GOD'S WAY, THERE WILL BE BLESSING. AND WHEN GOD HAS A 44:19.476 --> 44:23.255 PLAN TO ACCOMPLISH, IT WILL GET DONE. SO GOD GIVES THE PROPHET 44:23.255 --> 44:28.356 ZECHARIAH THIS VISION OF A LAMPSTAND CONNECTED TO TWO OLIVE 44:28.356 --> 44:33.786 TREES. SO THERE YOU SEE A LAMPSTAND AND THERE'S AN OLIVE 44:33.786 --> 44:39.155 TREE ON BOTH SIDES AND IT'S CONNECTED LIKE WITH TUBES RIGHT 44:39.155 --> 44:43.505 TO THE LAMPSTAND. IT'S WHAT ZECHARIAH IS SEEING HERE IS A 44:43.505 --> 44:48.996 SELF-FILLING LAMPSTAND BECAUSE THIS LAMPSTAND IS CONNECTED 44:48.996 --> 44:54.635 DIRECTLY TO THE SOURCE, THE OLIVE TREES. LET ME READ VERSE 6 44:54.635 --> 44:57.456 AGAIN TO YOU. YOU DON'T HAVE TO PUT IT UP UNLESS YOU GOT IT 44:57.456 --> 45:00.516 RIGHT THERE BUT IT SAYS, "THEN HE SAID TO ME, "THIS CONTINUOUS 45:00.516 --> 45:05.945 SUPPLY OF OIL "IS THE WORD OF THE LORD TO ZERUBBABEL, "SAYING, 45:05.945 --> 45:10.206 NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER, "BUT BY MY SPIRIT, OF WHOM THE OIL IS 45:10.206 --> 45:14.135 A SYMBOL, "SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS. "THE LAMPS WERE FILLED 45:14.135 --> 45:17.766 WITH SPECIALLY PREPARED OLIVE OIL. "THE LAMPSTAND THAT 45:17.766 --> 45:21.126 ZECHARIAH SAW IN THIS VISION "WAS FED DIRECTLY FROM THESE 45:21.126 --> 45:24.155 TREES." AND THERE'S ANOTHER BEAUTIFUL ILLUSTRATION HERE THAT 45:24.155 --> 45:27.846 I WANNA TALK ABOUT FOR A MINUTE. "FILLING THIS LAMPSTAND WAS 45:27.846 --> 45:31.596 MANUAL LABOR "THAT HAD TO BE DONE AGAIN AND AGAIN, DAY IN AND 45:31.596 --> 45:35.016 DAY OUT. "ONE OF THE MORE TEDIOUS DUTIES OF THE TEMPLE 45:35.016 --> 45:39.576 SERVANTS "OR THE PRIESTS WAS THE CONSTANT CARE "OF THE LAMPSTAND 45:39.576 --> 45:45.005 IN THE TEMPLE. "THEY HAD TO BE CONTINUALLY CLEANED OF SOOT. 45:45.005 --> 45:48.576 "THEY HAD TO BE REFILLED WITH OIL, "AND THEIR WICKS HAD TO BE 45:48.576 --> 45:52.505 MAINTAINED. BUT HERE GOD GIVES ZECHARIAH THIS PICTURE OF A 45:52.505 --> 45:58.025 SELF-OPERATING, AUTOMATICALLY REFILLING, AUTOMATICALLY 45:58.025 --> 46:02.436 REFILLING, THAT'S KIND OF HARD TO SAY, LAMP. IT'S CONSTANTLY 46:02.436 --> 46:06.666 CONNECTED TO THIS SOURCE OF PURE OLIVE OIL. IT'S A CONFIRMING 46:06.666 --> 46:10.775 MESSAGE FROM GOD TO ZERUBBABEL THAT THIS WORK WOULD BE EASY 46:10.775 --> 46:15.576 IF THEY WOULD JUST TRUST IN HIM. NOW TO FULLY UNDERSTAND 46:15.576 --> 46:18.335 THE MAGNITUDE OF WHAT GOD'S SHOWING ZECHARIAH, WE NEED TO 46:18.335 --> 46:21.965 UNDERSTAND WHAT'S INVOLVED IN KEEPING THAT LAMPSTAND 46:21.965 --> 46:26.556 OPERATING. THE LAMPSTAND, OR THE MENORAH, IN THE JEWISH TEMPLE 46:26.556 --> 46:31.865 WAS INTENDED TO BE BURNED CONTINUOUSLY EVERY NIGHT. FROM 46:31.865 --> 46:36.096 EVENING ALL THE WAY TO THE BREAK OF DAY, THAT LAMPSTAND WAS NOT 46:36.096 --> 46:42.786 TO BE EXTINGUISHED. EXODUS 20:20-21 EXPLAINS, "THIS WAS 46:42.786 --> 46:46.025 DONE AS A SYMBOL OF GOD'S PRESENCE "AND LIGHT AMONG HIS 46:46.025 --> 46:50.166 PEOPLE. "THE PRIESTS WERE RESPONSIBLE FOR MAINTAINING THE 46:50.166 --> 46:52.956 LAMPS, "ENSURING THEY WERE FILLED WITH PURE OIL "AND THE 46:52.956 --> 46:56.945 WICKS WERE PROPERLY TRIMMED. "AND THIS WORK WAS GRUELING AND 46:56.945 --> 47:01.476 IT WAS EXPENSIVE WORK." DID YOU KNOW IT TAKES ABOUT 40 POUNDS OF 47:01.476 --> 47:06.666 OLIVES JUST TO MAKE A HALF A GALLON OF OLIVE OIL? 40 POUNDS 47:06.666 --> 47:10.746 OF OLIVES IS A LOT OF OLIVES. THAT'S A LOT OF OLIVES. OLIVES 47:10.746 --> 47:13.896 AREN'T THAT HEAVY, SO YOU THINK ABOUT THE MASS BULK THAT IT 47:13.896 --> 47:17.795 WOULD TAKE TO GET 40 POUNDS. AND THAT'S A WEEK'S WORTH OF 47:17.795 --> 47:22.896 OPERATING THAT LAMP IN THE TEMPLE. THESE OLIVES WERE 47:22.896 --> 47:25.505 HAND-PICKED AND ALLOWED TO FERMENT, AND THEN THEY WERE 47:25.505 --> 47:28.715 CRUSHED TO MAKE THE OIL. SO THEY HAD TO GO THROUGH A PROCESS. 47:28.715 --> 47:32.675 LET'S PUT THAT PICTURE UP THERE. THERE THEY ARE, CRUSHING OLIVES 47:32.675 --> 47:36.246 JUST TO MAKE THE OLIVE OIL. THINK OF CRUSHING 40 POUNDS OF 47:36.246 --> 47:40.025 OLIVES EVERY WEEK TO MAKE ENOUGH OIL JUST TO RUN THAT ONE LAMP 47:40.025 --> 47:44.525 STAND IN THE TEMPLE. IN THIS VISION OF THE TWO OLIVE TREES 47:44.525 --> 47:48.485 CONNECTED AND AUTOMATICALLY SUPPLYING OIL TO THE LAMP, ALL 47:48.485 --> 47:54.306 OF THE HARD WORK OF PICKING THE OLIVES, LETTING THEM FERMENT, 47:54.306 --> 47:59.465 CRUSHING THEM, GETTING THAT PURE OIL REFINED ENOUGH TO GO IN AND 47:59.465 --> 48:02.496 THEN FILLING IT MANUALLY IN THOSE LAMPS, ALL THAT WAS 48:02.496 --> 48:06.396 ELIMINATED BECAUSE THEY WERE CONNECTED TO THE TWO OLIVE 48:06.396 --> 48:10.206 TREES. IT WAS AN AUTOMATIC PROCESS THAT GOD WAS GIVING THE 48:10.206 --> 48:14.135 VISION OF. THINK ABOUT IT IN OUR TERMS TODAY. HAVING AN 48:14.135 --> 48:18.096 AUTOMATICALLY REFILLED LAMP STAND COULD BE COMPARED TO HAND 48:18.096 --> 48:21.396 WASHING CLOTHES LIKE THEY DID IN THE 1800S VERSUS HAVING AN 48:21.396 --> 48:25.655 AUTOMATIC WASHING MACHINE TODAY. IN THE 1800S, HAND WASHING 48:25.655 --> 48:29.766 CLOTHES WAS A LABORIOUS PROCESS AND IT INVOLVED A LOT OF STEPS. 48:29.766 --> 48:33.126 CLOTHES WERE TYPICALLY SOAKED OVERNIGHT. THEY WERE SCRUBBED ON 48:33.126 --> 48:37.565 A WASHBOARD, ONE PIECE OF CLOTHING AT A TIME, AND THEN 48:37.565 --> 48:40.956 THEY WERE USUALLY BOILED IN A COPPER POT. THEN THEY HAD TO BE 48:40.956 --> 48:45.186 RINSED, AND THEN THEY HAD TO BE WRUNG OUT. AND FINALLY, THEY 48:45.186 --> 48:49.686 WOULD HANG THEM TO DRY ON A CLOTHESLINE. TODAY, IT'S MUCH 48:49.686 --> 48:52.746 EASIER. WE CAN THROW OUR LOAD IN THE MACHINE, ADD SOME DETERGENT, 48:52.746 --> 48:56.315 PRESS A BUTTON, AND IT DOES IT FOR US. IT SOAKS THEM IF YOU 48:56.315 --> 49:00.186 WANT IT TO. IT SCRUBS THEM. IT RINSES. AND IT SPINS THE EXCESS 49:00.186 --> 49:05.045 WATER OUT. THAT'S THE TYPE OF THING THAT WE'RE TALKING ABOUT 49:05.045 --> 49:08.735 HERE, JUST TO SEE IN YOUR TERMS WHAT ZERUBBABEL WAS SEEING IN 49:08.735 --> 49:13.266 THIS VISION, OR NEEDED TO UNDERSTAND FROM THE VISION OF 49:13.266 --> 49:17.315 ZECHARIAH, WAS THAT THIS WAS AN AUTOMATIC PROCESS, AND GOD WAS 49:17.315 --> 49:20.465 TRYING TO DISPLAY IT IN TERMS THAT THEY WOULD UNDERSTAND TO 49:20.465 --> 49:27.246 SAY, "IT'S GOING TO BE EASY WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT." IT'S AN 49:27.246 --> 49:30.905 ENCOURAGING WORD TO GOD'S PEOPLE AND ZERUBBABEL CONCERNING THE 49:30.905 --> 49:35.436 REBUILDING OF THE TEMPLE. "NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER, BUT BY MY 49:35.436 --> 49:40.295 SPIRIT," SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS. THE VISIONS AND ASSURANCE THAT 49:40.295 --> 49:44.195 DESPITE OBSTACLES AND TRIALS AND SETBACKS, WHICH ARE REFERRED TO 49:44.195 --> 49:47.706 IN THAT PASSAGE AS A GREAT MOUNTAIN, THE TEMPLE WAS GOING 49:47.706 --> 49:51.365 TO BE COMPLETED. THE PEOPLE OF GOD WERE FEELING HELPLESS TO 49:51.365 --> 49:54.456 REBUILD THE TEMPLE, AND THIS VISION WAS A GREAT ENCOURAGEMENT 49:54.456 --> 49:58.385 TO THEM THAT HIS POWER WOULD MAKE IT POSSIBLE. AND EVEN 49:58.385 --> 50:01.626 THOUGH THE RESISTANCE FROM THE ENEMIES WAS EVIDENT, IT WOULD 50:01.626 --> 50:05.675 COME TO PASS. AMEN? THE PASSAGE CONTAINS SO MUCH, BUT I WANT TO 50:05.675 --> 50:08.496 BRING OUT FOUR POINTS TONIGHT THAT I THINK ARE ENCOURAGING TO 50:08.496 --> 50:13.146 REMEMBER FROM THE PASSAGE. NUMBER ONE, GOD'S SPIRIT IS OUR 50:13.146 --> 50:18.306 SOURCE OF POWER. SAY THAT WITH ME. GOD'S SPIRIT IS OUR SOURCE 50:18.306 --> 50:22.835 OF POWER. NUMBER TWO, NO OBSTACLES WILL THWART GOD'S 50:22.835 --> 50:30.036 PLAN. NO OBSTACLES WILL THWART GOD'S PLAN. AND THEN NUMBER 50:30.036 --> 50:33.335 THREE, THE CAPSTONE AND COMPLETION IS EVIDENCE OF GOD'S 50:33.335 --> 50:37.385 GRACE. AND NUMBER FOUR, DO NOT DESPISE SMALL BEGINNINGS. SO 50:37.385 --> 50:41.315 NUMBER ONE, GOD'S SPIRIT IS OUR SOURCE OF POWER. THAT CENTRAL 50:41.315 --> 50:45.695 VERSE THAT WE'VE LOOKED AT, IT'S ACCOMPLISHED THROUGH HIS SPIRIT, 50:45.695 --> 50:49.822 NOT BY HUMAN STRENGTH OR HUMAN RESOURCES. THE WORK OF THE HOLY 50:49.822 --> 50:53.242 SPIRIT IS HOW THE TEMPLE WAS REBUILT. ANY SIGNIFICANT 50:53.242 --> 50:57.110 ACCOMPLISHMENTS FOR GOD COMES BY AND THROUGH THE POWER OF THE 50:57.110 --> 51:00.561 HOLY SPIRIT WORKING. NO AMOUNT OF PHYSICAL, MENTAL, OR MORAL 51:00.561 --> 51:04.130 STRENGTH ON ITS OWN CAN ACCOMPLISH ANYTHING OF ETERNAL 51:04.130 --> 51:08.271 VALUE. NOW, HOW OFTEN DO WE FIND OURSELVES TRYING TO DO THINGS 51:08.271 --> 51:12.860 FOR OURSELVES OR LOOKING TO SEE WHAT OTHERS CAN DO TO HELP US? 51:12.860 --> 51:16.552 IN EVERY AREA OF OUR LIVES, FROM DEALING WITH OUR ASSIGNMENTS 51:16.552 --> 51:20.900 FROM HEAVEN, OR FOR DEALING WITH OUR OWN FAMILY AND FRIENDS, OR 51:20.900 --> 51:25.072 OUR MEDICAL NEEDS, OUR HEALTH, OUR EDUCATION, MAYBE OUR JOB, 51:25.072 --> 51:29.090 OUR WORK, YOU NAME IT, WE'VE ALL BEEN GUILTY OF TRYING TO HANDLE 51:29.090 --> 51:34.161 PROBLEMS ON OUR OWN. THE BIBLE REMINDS US OVER AND OVER TO STOP 51:34.161 --> 51:40.161 TRYING TO DO IT ON OUR OWN. PSALM 33:16, "THE BEST EQUIPPED 51:40.161 --> 51:45.052 ARMY CANNOT SAVE A KING, NOR IS GREAT STRENGTH ENOUGH TO SAVE A 51:45.052 --> 51:50.931 WARRIOR. DON'T COUNT ON YOUR WAR HORSE TO GIVE YOU VICTORY, FOR 51:50.931 --> 51:56.871 IT'S ALL ITS STRENGTH, IT CANNOT SAVE YOU. BUT THE LORD WATCHES 51:56.871 --> 52:01.000 OVER THOSE WHO FEAR HIM, THOSE WHO RELY ON HIS UNFAILING LOVE, 52:02.090 --> 52:05.601 SAYING RELY ON GOD, NOT OUR OWN PHYSICAL STRENGTH OR OUR OWN 52:05.601 --> 52:10.461 NATURAL ABILITY. GOD USES THAT, BUT WE CAN'T RELY AND TRUST IN 52:10.461 --> 52:14.751 IT. NUMBER TWO, NO OBSTACLE WILL THWART GOD'S PLAN. THE GREAT 52:14.751 --> 52:18.322 MOUNTAIN IN VERSE 7, IT SAYS, WHAT ARE YOU, GREAT MOUNTAIN? 52:18.322 --> 52:22.251 THAT REPRESENTS THOSE SIGNIFICANT CHALLENGES THAT 52:22.251 --> 52:27.262 ZERUBBABEL FACED IN REBUILDING THE TEMPLE. GOD ASSURED HIM THAT 52:27.262 --> 52:32.061 HE WOULD LEVEL THOSE OBSTACLES BY THE POWER OF HIS SPIRIT. AND 52:32.061 --> 52:35.242 GOD'S LEVELED THE OBSTACLES TIME AND TIME AGAIN FOR LORD OF HOSTS 52:35.242 --> 52:39.711 CHURCH. FOR PASTOR HANK AND BRENDA, WE'VE SEEN THAT TIME AND 52:39.711 --> 52:43.012 TIME AGAIN IN THIS MINISTRY. THEY HAD OBSTACLES. THEY HAD 52:43.012 --> 52:45.650 MOUNTAINS. THEY HAD THINGS THAT WERE BEFORE THEM THAT LOOKED 52:45.650 --> 52:51.380 IMPOSSIBLE. BUT IT CAME TO PASS BECAUSE OF TRUSTING IN THE HOLY 52:51.380 --> 52:56.601 SPIRIT AT WORK. AND THAT'S ANOTHER REASON FOR CONNECTION 52:56.601 --> 53:01.041 AND JOINING IN THE VISION OF YOUR PASTOR. YOU RECEIVE AND YOU 53:01.041 --> 53:06.052 COME UNDER A DIVINE COVERING IN THE SPIRIT WHEN YOU JOIN IN WITH 53:06.052 --> 53:09.621 YOUR PASTOR AND SUPPORT HIM. WHEN YOU BECOME A MEMBER OR AN 53:09.621 --> 53:13.072 E-MEMBER, YOU COME UNDER THAT COVERING BECAUSE THEY PRAY FOR 53:13.072 --> 53:19.311 THOSE MEMBERS AND E-MEMBERS DAILY. AND THERE'S SOMETHING 53:19.311 --> 53:22.670 ABOUT IT. PSALM 92:13 SAYS, "THOSE WHO ARE PLANTED "IN THE 53:22.670 --> 53:26.931 HOUSE OF THE LORD SHALL FLOURISH "IN THE COURTS OF OUR GOD." 53:26.931 --> 53:31.791 HALLELUJAH. IT'S CONNECTED TO LONG LIFE, BY THE WAY. NUMBER 53:31.791 --> 53:35.150 THREE, THE CAPSTONE AND COMPLETION IS EVIDENCE OF GOD'S 53:35.150 --> 53:39.081 GRACE. VERSE 7 SPEAKS OF THE HEADSTONE OR THE CAPSTONE, WHICH 53:39.081 --> 53:42.442 SYMBOLIZES THE COMPLETION OF THE TEMPLE. IT SAYS, "AND HE WILL 53:42.442 --> 53:46.222 BRING OUT THE CAPSTONE "OF THE NEW TEMPLE WITH LOUD SHOUTS OF 53:46.222 --> 53:49.911 GRACE, GRACE TO IT." THIS SIGNIFIES THAT GOD WILL NOT ONLY 53:49.911 --> 53:53.121 START A WORK, BUT HE CAN ALSO BRING IT TO A SUCCESSFUL 53:53.121 --> 53:58.371 CONCLUSION BY HIS GRACE, AND HE'LL DO THAT AT LORD OF HOSTS 53:58.371 --> 54:03.262 AND IN YOUR INDIVIDUAL LIVES. IT'LL ALL END WELL WHEN WE SERVE 54:03.262 --> 54:08.121 GOD AND FOLLOW HIS PLAN, AMEN? AND THEN NUMBER FOUR, DO NOT 54:08.121 --> 54:13.461 DESPISE SMALL BEGINNINGS. VERSE 10 READS, "WHO DESPISES THE DAY 54:13.461 --> 54:16.461 OF SMALL THINGS "OR SMALL BEGINNINGS?" THAT'S AN 54:16.461 --> 54:21.981 ENCOURAGEMENT NOT TO DESPISE THE DAY OF SMALL THINGS. IT'S A 54:21.981 --> 54:27.532 REMINDER THAT EVEN SEEMINGLY INSIGNIFICANT BEGINNINGS CAN 54:27.532 --> 54:32.541 LEAD TO GREAT THINGS WHEN WE'RE EMPOWERED BY GOD. YOU KNOW, YOU 54:32.541 --> 54:34.851 MAY THINK THAT YOU DON'T HAVE THE TRAINING OR YOU DON'T HAVE 54:34.851 --> 54:37.851 THE QUALIFICATIONS OR YOU DON'T HAVE THE ABILITY OR YOU DON'T 54:37.851 --> 54:40.791 HAVE THE GIFTING TO DO WHAT GOD'S CALLED YOU TO DO, BUT 54:40.791 --> 54:45.860 REMEMBER, HE'S THE GREAT EQUALIZER. WHAT YOU CAN'T DO, HE 54:45.860 --> 54:52.461 CAN MAKE UP FOR YOU. HALLELUJAH. YOU MAY NOT BE UP TO THE TASK IN 54:52.461 --> 54:55.521 YOUR NATURAL ABILITY, BUT GOD WILL INTERVENE AND MAKE YOU 54:55.521 --> 54:59.150 EQUAL TO THE TASK THAT HE'S CALLED YOU TO ACHIEVE. TAKE 54:59.150 --> 55:04.072 HEART. YOU MAY BE WORKING WITH SMALL BEGINNINGS, BUT LISTEN TO 55:04.072 --> 55:10.041 ME, FRIENDS. THE GREATEST EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY BEGAN WITH A 55:10.041 --> 55:16.222 BABY BORN IN A BARN. THE GREATEST EVENT IN HUMAN HISTORY 55:16.222 --> 55:19.311 BEGAN WITH A BABY THAT WAS BORN IN A BARN. WHO WOULD HAVE EVER 55:19.311 --> 55:23.271 THOUGHT OF THAT? WHO COULD HAVE CONCEIVED THAT? GOD IS A MASTER 55:23.271 --> 55:27.110 AT ACCOMPLISHING HIS PURPOSES WITH THE LITTLE THAT WE HAVE. HE 55:27.110 --> 55:31.521 CAN TAKE THE LITTLE AND MAKE IT GREAT. BUT IT DOESN'T GET DONE 55:31.521 --> 55:38.150 BY HUMAN STRENGTH AND HUMAN INGENUITY. IT GETS DONE BY THE 55:38.150 --> 55:43.431 FLOW OF THE SPIRIT. JESUS IS OUR PERFECT EXAMPLE. EVERYTHING 55:43.431 --> 55:47.931 JESUS DID WAS NOT BY HIS OWN POWER OR STRENGTH. THAT WAS 55:47.931 --> 55:51.650 JESUS. THE WORD TELLS US THAT. DID YOU KNOW THAT? IT WASN'T BY 55:51.650 --> 55:56.302 HIS POWER OR STRENGTH. JESUS DEPENDED ON THE SPIRIT. LET'S 55:56.302 --> 56:03.291 LOOK AT LUKE 4:18-19. IT SAYS, "THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD IS UPON 56:03.291 --> 56:06.771 ME, FOR HE HAS ANOINTED ME TO BRING THE GOOD NEWS TO THE POOR. 56:06.771 --> 56:10.282 LORD, HE HAS SENT ME TO PROCLAIM THAT CAPTIVES WILL BE RELEASED, 56:10.282 --> 56:14.242 THAT THE BLIND WILL SEE, THAT THE OPPRESSED WILL BE SET FREE, 56:15.501 --> 56:21.021 AND THAT THE TIME OF THE LORD'S FAVOR HAS COME. SO THE SPIRIT OF 56:21.021 --> 56:26.900 GOD ANOINTED JESUS TO DO THOSE GREAT WORKS. AND HE CAN DO THE 56:26.900 --> 56:32.481 SAME FOR US. HE DOES. AMEN? MOST OF OUR HEROES IN THE BIBLE HAD 56:32.481 --> 56:36.170 SMALL, HUMBLE BEGINNINGS. MANY HAD NO, IN FACT, MOST OF THEM 56:36.170 --> 56:39.202 HAD NO IDEA THAT THEY WOULD ACCOMPLISH THE GREAT THINGS FOR 56:39.202 --> 56:43.492 GOD THAT THEY DID. THEY HAD NO IDEA. AND TODAY, JUST LIKE IT 56:43.492 --> 56:46.101 WAS WHEN ISRAEL WAS REBUILDING THE TEMPLE, THERE ARE MANY 56:46.101 --> 56:51.110 SUBSTITUTES THAT MAN ATTEMPTS TO USE. NOTHING IS A SUBSTITUTE FOR 56:51.110 --> 56:54.952 THE POWER OF THE MIGHTY HOLY SPIRIT IN DOING THE WORK OF THE 56:54.952 --> 56:59.481 MINISTRY. SOME TRUST IN THE POWER OF MONEY, SOME TRUST IN 56:59.481 --> 57:04.192 EDUCATION, SOME TRUST IN GOVERNMENT, SOME TRUST IN THEIR 57:04.192 --> 57:09.380 DENOMINATION. BUT NONE OF THOSE THINGS OR NATURAL ABILITIES 57:09.380 --> 57:14.211 SHOULD BE DESPISED. GOD CAN USE THEM. HE CAN WORK THROUGH THEM. 57:14.211 --> 57:17.391 HE CAN USE THE SKILLS. I MEAN, HE CREATED US WITH SKILLS AND 57:17.391 --> 57:20.751 WISDOM, AND HE WANTS US TO USE OUR MINDS AND OUR ABILITIES AND 57:20.751 --> 57:24.322 OUR TALENTS, BUT THEY'RE WORTHLESS UNLESS THEY'RE 57:24.322 --> 57:31.581 ACCOMPANIED BY GOD'S POWER. MYLON LEFEVRE USED TO SAY, "TO 57:31.581 --> 57:35.541 HAVE GOD'S SUPERNATURAL POWER OPERATE IN YOUR LIFE, YOU NEED 57:35.541 --> 57:40.311 BOTH THE SUPER, WHICH IS GOD'S MIRACULOUSLY WORKING POWER IN 57:40.311 --> 57:43.731 YOUR LIFE, PLUS THE NATURAL, WHICH IS US WORKING TOGETHER 57:43.731 --> 57:47.931 WITH HIM. WE'RE WORKERS TOGETHER WITH HIM. AND THEN WHEN YOU 57:47.931 --> 57:50.452 COMBINE THE SUPER AND THE NATURAL, YOU HAVE THE 57:50.452 --> 57:53.992 SUPERNATURAL, WILLIE. THAT'S WHAT WE NEED WORKING IN OUR 57:53.992 --> 57:57.231 LIVES, THE SUPERNATURAL. WE CAN'T JUST DO IT ALL ON OUR OWN. 57:57.231 --> 58:04.581 HALLELUJAH. PRAISE GOD. THE HOLY SPIRIT'S THE THIRD PART OF THE 58:04.581 --> 58:09.141 TRINITY AND HAS HAD DIRECT INVOLVEMENT IN THE CREATION AND 58:09.141 --> 58:12.831 THE REDEMPTION OF ALL THINGS. ACCORDING TO GENESIS 1:21, “IT 58:12.831 --> 58:16.161 WAS THE HOLY SPIRIT THAT BROODED UPON THE FACE OF THE DEEP, AND 58:16.161 --> 58:19.101 AT THE COMMAND OF GOD, HE RESTORED THE EARTH TO A 58:19.101 --> 58:25.581 CONDITION THAT WAS INHABITABLE FOR ALL OF CREATION.” LUKE 1:35 58:25.581 --> 58:29.420 TELLS US “THE HOLY SPIRIT CAME UPON MARY, AND BY THE HOLY 58:29.420 --> 58:35.751 SPIRIT, SHE CONCEIVED THE SON OF GOD.” HALLELUJAH. ONLY THE HOLY 58:35.751 --> 58:38.751 SPIRIT CAN CONVICT THE WORLD OF SIN, OF RIGHTEOUSNESS AND 58:38.751 --> 58:42.711 JUDGMENT. ONLY THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN QUICKEN A DEAD SOUL TO 58:42.711 --> 58:46.222 NEWNESS OF LIFE. ONLY THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN BRING THE ANOINTING 58:46.222 --> 58:50.840 OF GOD WITH THE MESSAGE OF THE GOSPEL TO WIN SOULS FOR CHRIST. 58:50.840 --> 58:55.072 ONLY THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN BE THE COMFORTER FOR A TROUBLED SPIRIT. 58:55.072 --> 58:59.150 ONLY THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN MAKE INTERCESSION FOR US. ONLY THE 58:59.150 --> 59:03.472 HOLY SPIRIT CAN HEAL A SICK BODY OR BRING THE DEAD BACK TO LIFE. 59:03.472 --> 59:07.942 ONLY THE HOLY SPIRIT CAN GIVE SUPERNATURAL WISDOM TO US WHEN 59:07.942 --> 59:11.512 WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND AND NAVIGATE SPIRITUAL TRUTHS OR WE 59:11.512 --> 59:15.532 NEED TO DISCERN GOD'S WILL OR WE NEED TO EFFECTIVELY MINISTER TO 59:15.532 --> 59:18.472 OTHERS. WE NEED GOD'S HELP TO DO THAT. THAT'S WHAT THE HOLY 59:18.472 --> 59:22.222 SPIRIT DOES. THE ANOINTING BREAKS THE YOKE AND THE 59:22.222 --> 59:25.340 ANOINTING OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE CHURCH'S POWER SOURCE. 59:26.751 --> 59:31.641 ZECHARIAH 4:6, "NOT BY MIGHT NOR BY POWER, "BUT BY MY SPIRIT," 59:31.641 --> 59:35.121 SAYS THE LORD OF HOSTS. SO HOW DO WE DEPEND UPON THE SPIRIT? AS 59:35.121 --> 59:40.552 I START TO WIND DOWN HERE, HOW DO WE DO THIS? HOW DO WE LET GO 59:40.552 --> 59:46.496 AND LET GOD? WHAT DO YOU AND I NEED TO DO TO COME TO THE PLACE 59:46.496 --> 59:50.512 THAT WE'RE FULLY RELIANT ON THE HOLY SPIRIT TO OPERATE IN AND 59:50.512 --> 59:54.860 THROUGH OUR LIVES? HOW DO WE PUT ZECHARIAH 4.6 INTO PRACTICE IN 59:54.860 --> 59:58.851 OUR DAILY LIVES? LET'S JUST LOOK AT THREE POINTS HERE. NUMBER 59:58.851 --> 01:00:02.211 ONE, WELL, LET ME READ THE THREE TO YOU FIRST OF ALL HERE, AND 01:00:02.211 --> 01:00:04.911 THEN WE'LL JUST LOOK AT THEM QUICKLY. ACTIVELY PURSUE 01:00:04.911 --> 01:00:08.692 FELLOWSHIP AND COMMUNION WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. ALLOW THE HOLY 01:00:08.692 --> 01:00:12.110 SPIRIT ACCESS IN YOUR LIFE, AND THEN SEEK GOD'S WILL, 01:00:12.110 --> 01:00:16.461 INVOLVEMENT OF HOLY SPIRIT, AND HOLY SPIRIT WISDOM CONTINUOUSLY. 01:00:17.782 --> 01:00:21.291 NUMBER ONE, ACTIVELY PURSUE FELLOWSHIP AND COMMUNION WITH 01:00:21.291 --> 01:00:24.110 THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE BIBLE STATES THAT THE HOLY SPIRIT 01:00:24.110 --> 01:00:29.541 RESIDES WITHIN EVERY BELIEVER. IN OTHER WORDS, ONCE, WELL, 01:00:29.541 --> 01:00:33.650 FIRST OF ALL, THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKS ON UNBELIEVERS. BUT WHEN A 01:00:33.650 --> 01:00:37.130 PERSON GETS SAVED, THEY HAVE A MEASURE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, OR 01:00:37.130 --> 01:00:41.150 THEY WOULDN'T BE SAVED. ALL BELIEVERS POSSESS THE HOLY 01:00:41.150 --> 01:00:45.170 SPIRIT. IT'S JUST NOT THE FULLNESS OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 01:00:45.170 --> 01:00:47.981 ROMANS 8:9 TELLS US THAT. IF YOU WANT TO ARGUE WITH ME, I'LL 01:00:47.981 --> 01:00:51.650 GIVE YOU A SCRIPTURE FOR IT. IT SAYS, "BUT YOU ARE 01:00:51.650 --> 01:00:55.322 NOT CONTROLLED BY YOUR SINFUL NATURE. YOU ARE CONTROLLED BY 01:00:55.322 --> 01:00:58.324 THE SPIRIT IF YOU HAVE THE SPIRIT OF GOD LIVING IN YOU. 01:00:58.324 --> 01:01:01.994 THIS IS SPEAKING OF CHRISTIANS. AND THEN HE SAYS, "AND REMEMBER 01:01:01.994 --> 01:01:05.331 THAT THOSE WHO DO NOT HAVE THE SPIRIT OF CHRIST LIVING IN THEM 01:01:05.331 --> 01:01:11.286 DO NOT BELONG TO HIM AT ALL." SO YOU CANNOT BE A BELIEVER AND NOT 01:01:11.286 --> 01:01:16.146 HAVE A MEASURE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. EVEN BAPTISTS HAVE A 01:01:16.146 --> 01:01:18.344 MEASURE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, PASTOR KEITH. 01:01:18.378 --> 01:01:24.317 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:01:24.351 --> 01:01:27.186 THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A SUBSEQUENT 01:01:27.186 --> 01:01:30.105 GIFT THAT BELIEVERS EXPERIENCE. THE 01:01:30.105 --> 01:01:32.858 BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS A DIRECT CONNECTION 01:01:32.858 --> 01:01:37.206 TO THE POWER OF GOD. ACTS 1:8 TELLS US THAT, "BUT YOU 01:01:37.206 --> 01:01:41.257 SHALL RECEIVE POWER. AFTER THAT, THE HOLY GHOST HAS COME UPON 01:01:41.257 --> 01:01:45.126 YOU." IT'S A POWER GIFT, JANET. IT GIVES YOU POWER. IT CHANGES 01:01:45.126 --> 01:01:50.556 YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU RECEIVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THE 01:01:50.556 --> 01:01:54.516 POWER GIFT COMES WITH AN EVIDENCE. WHEN YOU RECEIVE IT, 01:01:54.516 --> 01:01:58.117 WE BELIEVE THE INITIAL EVIDENCE OF RECEIVING THE BAPTISM OF THE 01:01:58.117 --> 01:02:03.456 HOLY SPIRIT IS SPEAKING IN OTHER TONGUES. EVERY BORN AGAIN CHILD 01:02:03.456 --> 01:02:07.686 OF GOD IS ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. 01:02:08.916 --> 01:02:11.947 IF YOU'RE A CHRISTIAN, YOU'VE ACCEPTED JESUS CHRIST YOUR 01:02:11.947 --> 01:02:14.166 SAVIOR, YOU'VE MADE HIM THE LORD OF YOUR LIFE, THEN YOU ARE 01:02:14.166 --> 01:02:19.536 ELIGIBLE TO RECEIVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. HALLELUJAH. 01:02:19.536 --> 01:02:23.947 RECEIVING THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT IS THE TIME THAT YOU 01:02:23.947 --> 01:02:28.597 CAN RECEIVE THAT TANGIBLE POWER OF GOD WORKING IN YOUR LIFE. AND 01:02:28.597 --> 01:02:30.996 THEN THE GIFT OF TONGUES, THERE'S MANY THINGS THAT COME 01:02:30.996 --> 01:02:33.306 ALONG WITH THAT, BUT IT'LL STRENGTHEN YOU SPIRITUALLY, 01:02:33.306 --> 01:02:36.306 IT'LL BUILD YOUR FAITH, IT'LL HELP YOU PRAY THE WILL OF GOD, 01:02:36.306 --> 01:02:41.527 AND IT OPENS THE DOOR TO OTHER GIFTS OF THE SPIRIT. NUMBER TWO, 01:02:41.527 --> 01:02:46.086 ALLOW THE HOLY SPIRIT ACCESS IN YOUR LIFE. EPHESIANS 5:8 TELLS 01:02:46.086 --> 01:02:50.047 US NOT TO BE DRUNK WITH ALCOHOL, BUT BE FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT. 01:02:50.047 --> 01:02:52.836 AND AS BELIEVERS, WE NEVER WANT TO HINDER THE WORK OF THE HOLY 01:02:52.836 --> 01:02:58.146 SPIRIT BY IGNORING HIS PROMPTINGS OR HIS INFLUENCE. WE 01:02:58.146 --> 01:03:04.567 HAVE TO REALIZE THAT GOD NEVER OVERRIDES MAN'S FREE WILL. JUST 01:03:04.567 --> 01:03:07.746 LIKE HE DIDN'T WHEN YOU DECIDED TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN. YOU HAD 01:03:07.746 --> 01:03:11.646 TO MAKE THE DECISION TO BECOME A CHRISTIAN. GOD DIDN'T FORCE YOU 01:03:11.646 --> 01:03:16.777 TO GET SAVED. YOU MADE THE DECISION WITH YOUR OWN WILL. AND 01:03:16.777 --> 01:03:20.947 HE DOES THE SAME THING WITH CHRISTIANS. HE ALLOWS YOU TO BE 01:03:20.947 --> 01:03:26.197 AS FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT AS YOU WANT TO BE. YOU HAVE A DECISION. 01:03:26.197 --> 01:03:29.137 YOU CAN EVEN RECEIVE THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT AND SPEAK 01:03:29.137 --> 01:03:33.547 WITH TONGUES AND STILL NOT BE FILLED TO THE PLACE THAT GOD 01:03:33.547 --> 01:03:40.686 WANTS YOU TO. YOU CAN STILL BE FILLED TO A GREATER EXTENT EVEN 01:03:40.686 --> 01:03:44.556 AFTER RECEIVING THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. AS YOU DESIRE 01:03:44.556 --> 01:03:48.786 MORE, HE GIVES YOU MORE. AS YOU WALK MORE IN HIS WILL, AS YOU 01:03:48.786 --> 01:03:52.117 RECEIVE MORE, YOU HAVE ROOM TO RECEIVE MORE AND YOU CAN 01:03:52.117 --> 01:03:58.356 CONTINUE TO GROW IN THAT AREA. SOMEONE THAT'S JUST NEWLY SAVED 01:03:58.356 --> 01:04:01.686 AND THEN MAYBE NEWLY BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT IS NOT GONNA BE 01:04:01.686 --> 01:04:04.237 AS STRONG IN THE SPIRIT AS SOMEONE THAT'S WALKED WITH GOD 01:04:04.237 --> 01:04:07.027 FOR 50 YEARS AND BEEN FILLED WITH THE SPIRIT FOR 50 YEARS. 01:04:08.706 --> 01:04:15.067 WE'RE ALL AT DIFFERENT LEVELS. BUT NEVER IGNORE HOLY SPIRIT 01:04:15.067 --> 01:04:18.277 CONVICTION. WHEN THE HOLY SPIRIT CONVICTS US OF A SIN, 01:04:18.277 --> 01:04:23.496 IMMEDIATELY REPENT SO YOUR CONSCIENCE IS NOT HARDENED. MANY 01:04:23.496 --> 01:04:25.777 PEOPLE THINK OF HARDENED CRIMINALS WHEN WE TALK ABOUT 01:04:25.777 --> 01:04:31.056 SOMEONE WITH A HARDENED OR A SEARED CONSCIENCE. BUT EVEN 01:04:31.056 --> 01:04:35.617 WELL-MEANING CHRISTIANS CAN SEAR THEIR CONSCIENCE OVER TIME. 01:04:35.617 --> 01:04:38.376 PASTOR HANK EVEN TALKED ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT. HE REFERRED 01:04:38.376 --> 01:04:40.896 TO IT, MAYBE HE DIDN'T CALL IT THAT, BUT HE TALKED ABOUT THE 01:04:40.896 --> 01:04:46.146 THINGS THAT YOU LET INTO YOUR LIFE AND LISTENING TO SECULAR 01:04:46.146 --> 01:04:48.847 THINGS ALL THE TIME AND JUST FILLING YOUR LIFE WITH SECULAR 01:04:48.847 --> 01:04:54.996 THINGS AND SPENDING ALL THE TIME ON FACEBOOK AND SOCIAL MEDIA AND 01:04:54.996 --> 01:04:57.456 FILLING YOUR LIFE WITH THAT INSTEAD OF FILLING IT WITH THE 01:04:57.456 --> 01:05:03.666 THINGS OF GOD, THAT CAN SEAR YOUR CONSCIENCE. IT CAN CAUSE 01:05:03.666 --> 01:05:07.536 YOU TO WALK THE WRONG WAY AND GET INVOLVED IN THINGS THAT YOU 01:05:07.536 --> 01:05:10.686 SHOULDN'T INSTEAD OF PULLING TOWARDS GOD AND THE THINGS THAT 01:05:10.686 --> 01:05:14.947 HE WANTS US TO BE INVOLVED IN. PAUL SPOKE OF THOSE THAT WERE 01:05:14.947 --> 01:05:18.396 SEARED IN THEIR OWN CONSCIENCE AS WITH A BRANDING IRON IN 1 01:05:18.396 --> 01:05:21.936 TIMOTHY 4:2, "AND THOSE WHO, BECAUSE OF THE HARDNESS OF THEIR 01:05:21.936 --> 01:05:27.067 HEART, HAVE BECOME CALLOUS," EPHESIANS 4:18-19. SO THE SEARED 01:05:27.067 --> 01:05:31.717 CONSCIENCE AND THE HARDENED CALLOUS HEART BOTH DESCRIBE THE 01:05:31.717 --> 01:05:38.436 SAME CONDITION. WE WERE CREATED BY GOD WITH UNIQUE AND INTRINSIC 01:05:38.436 --> 01:05:42.067 FACULTY THAT GIVES US A KIND OF THIRD-PERSON PERSPECTIVE ON THE 01:05:42.067 --> 01:05:46.327 RIGHT OR WRONG ACTIONS THAT WE TAKE. IT'S A SECRET INNER VOICE 01:05:46.327 --> 01:05:49.987 OF THE LORD SPEAKING TO US. IN THE PHYSICAL REALM, THE 01:05:49.987 --> 01:05:54.876 CONSCIENCE IS COMPARED TO THE HUMAN NERVOUS SYSTEM. IF I TAKE 01:05:54.876 --> 01:06:00.757 A KNIFE AND CUT MY ARM, I'LL FEEL PAIN. AND THAT'S A GOOD 01:06:00.757 --> 01:06:04.626 THING BECAUSE THAT PAIN TELLS ME, OH, THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG 01:06:04.626 --> 01:06:06.996 WITH MY ARM, AS IF I DIDN'T REALIZE THAT I'D CUT MYSELF. 01:06:06.996 --> 01:06:08.976 THAT WASN'T THE BEST ILLUSTRATION, BUT YOU KNOW WHAT 01:06:08.976 --> 01:06:13.777 I'M SAYING. WHEN YOU GET HURT AND YOU FEEL PAIN, THAT'S YOUR 01:06:13.777 --> 01:06:16.987 BODY'S ALARM SYSTEM TO YOU SAYING THERE'S SOMETHING WRONG, 01:06:16.987 --> 01:06:20.527 YOU NEED TO TEND TO IT, YOU NEED TO TAKE CARE OF IT. THERE'S SOME 01:06:20.527 --> 01:06:27.666 THROBBING PAIN THERE. LIKEWISE, WHEN A PERSON SINS, THE HUMAN 01:06:27.666 --> 01:06:30.967 SOUL HAS A WARNING SYSTEM THAT SOUNDS AN ALARM BECAUSE OF OUR 01:06:30.967 --> 01:06:36.907 ACTIONS. THE SOUL ALARM SOUNDS OUT, MAYDAY, MAYDAY, THERE'S 01:06:36.907 --> 01:06:41.856 SOMETHING WRONG HERE. YOU DID SOMETHING THAT'S GRIEVING THE 01:06:41.856 --> 01:06:47.976 HOLY SPIRIT. AND YOU DON'T WANT TO DISREGARD THAT BECAUSE THE 01:06:47.976 --> 01:06:52.266 MORE YOU DISREGARD IT, YOU BECOME MORE HARDENED TO IT. AND 01:06:52.266 --> 01:06:56.856 THE NEXT TIME IT HAPPENS, YOU MAY NOT EVEN HEAR THE VOICE. SO 01:06:56.856 --> 01:07:00.306 STAY SENSITIVE TO THE HOLY SPIRIT. HOW DO YOU DO THAT? YOU 01:07:00.306 --> 01:07:05.677 JUST ASK GOD TO HELP YOU TO BE SENSITIVE, TO RECEIVE, THAT YOU 01:07:05.677 --> 01:07:15.277 HAVE EARS TO HEAR AND NEVER OFFEND HIM. HALLELUJAH. THE HOLY 01:07:15.277 --> 01:07:20.617 SPIRIT IS SO PRECIOUS. THE GOOD NEWS IS THIS, IF WE LISTEN AND 01:07:20.617 --> 01:07:24.036 TAKE HEED TO THE ALARM, WE CAN REPENT, WE CAN MOVE FORWARD WITH 01:07:24.036 --> 01:07:26.737 A CLEAR CONSCIENCE. YOU KNOW, IT MIGHT JUST BE THAT YOU SAID A 01:07:26.737 --> 01:07:30.336 HARSH WORD TO YOUR WIFE OR YOUR HUSBAND, AND THEN YOU FEEL KIND 01:07:30.336 --> 01:07:32.257 OF BAD ABOUT IT, AND YOU THINK, "OH, I SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE 01:07:32.257 --> 01:07:36.726 THAT." WELL, YOU CAN REPENT AND ASK FOR HER FORGIVENESS OR HIS 01:07:36.726 --> 01:07:40.086 FORGIVENESS AND MOVE FORWARD. BUT THEN YOU'VE LEARNED 01:07:40.086 --> 01:07:43.327 SOMETHING, AND THE NEXT TIME YOU PROBABLY WON'T DO IT AS QUICKLY. 01:07:43.327 --> 01:07:45.606 BUT IF YOU JUST HARDEN YOURSELF AND SAY, "WELL, SHE DESERVED 01:07:45.606 --> 01:07:48.786 THAT. "I KNOW THAT I FEEL KIND OF GUILTY FOR DOING IT, "BUT SHE 01:07:48.786 --> 01:07:53.467 DESERVED ME YELLING AT HER." THAT DOESN'T SOLVE ANYTHING. IT 01:07:53.467 --> 01:07:57.547 JUST MAKES YOU MORE HEARTENED. THAT WASN'T IN MY MESSAGE, BY 01:07:57.547 --> 01:08:02.827 THE WAY, PASTOR ANTHONY, BUT IT CAME OUT. IF THE SPIRIT LEADS 01:08:02.827 --> 01:08:05.257 YOU TO DO SOMETHING SUCH AS REACHING OUT TO SOMEONE OR 01:08:05.257 --> 01:08:09.007 TAKING A STEP OF FAITH, MOVE OUT ON THAT UNCTION. YOU FEEL AN 01:08:09.007 --> 01:08:11.677 UNCTION TO DO IT, BUT YOU'RE KIND OF AFRAID TO DO IT. I 01:08:11.677 --> 01:08:17.077 SHOULD TALK TO THIS WAITRESS AS SHE'S COMING TO GIVE ME MY CHECK 01:08:17.077 --> 01:08:19.537 OR I'M PAYING OR WHATEVER. I KIND OF NEED TO INVITE, I THINK 01:08:19.537 --> 01:08:23.077 I FEEL LIKE I NEED TO INVITE HER TO CHURCH OR ASK HER IF SHE HAS 01:08:23.077 --> 01:08:25.686 A RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD OR ASK, YOU KNOW, YOU FEEL LIKE YOU 01:08:25.686 --> 01:08:29.197 HAVE, YOU KNOW, SOMEONE ELSE MIGHT HEAR ME AROUND, I BETTER 01:08:29.197 --> 01:08:35.707 NOT. MOVE OUT ON THE UNCTION BECAUSE EVERY TIME YOU QUENCH 01:08:35.707 --> 01:08:41.819 THAT, IT'S HARDER TO HEAR THE NEXT TIME. IF YOU, IF YOU, AND 01:08:41.819 --> 01:08:47.256 I'M AS GUILTY AS ANYONE, IF YOU QUENCH THE SPIRIT AND DON'T DO 01:08:47.256 --> 01:08:50.317 WHAT YOU'RE CALLED TO DO, THEN IT'S HARDER TO HEAR THE 01:08:50.317 --> 01:08:55.027 INSTRUCTION THE NEXT TIME. GO BACK TO THE LAST THING THAT THE 01:08:55.027 --> 01:08:58.356 HOLY SPIRIT TOLD YOU TO DO AND DO THAT AND THEN IT OPENS THE 01:08:58.356 --> 01:09:02.287 DOOR FOR THE NEXT THING. IF YOU'RE STUCK, GO BACK TO THE 01:09:02.287 --> 01:09:06.546 LAST THING. FOLLOW GOD'S LEAD OR REPENT, SAY, "LORD, I MISSED THE 01:09:06.546 --> 01:09:09.277 BOAT ON THAT ONE. PLEASE SPEAK TO ME AGAIN AND I'LL LISTEN THIS 01:09:09.277 --> 01:09:13.806 TIME." AND THEN AS HE STARTS LEADING YOU, YOU'LL DEVELOP MORE 01:09:13.806 --> 01:09:18.877 STRENGTH, YOU'LL DEVELOP MORE FAITH, AND YOU'LL DEVELOP, YOU 01:09:18.877 --> 01:09:25.296 WON'T HAVE THE FEAR, I GUESS, OF STEPPING OUT AS MUCH. YOU KNOW, 01:09:25.296 --> 01:09:28.657 I'VE TOLD THIS STORY BEFORE, BUT SOME OF YOU HAVE NEVER HEARD IT. 01:09:28.657 --> 01:09:34.356 THE THING THAT I DETESTED AND WAS MORE FEARFUL OF, MORE THAN 01:09:34.356 --> 01:09:37.356 ANYTHING IN MY LIFE, WAS SPEAKING IN FRONT OF A GROUP OF 01:09:37.356 --> 01:09:43.266 PEOPLE. THAT WAS THE THING I HATED TO DO. I HATED SPEECH 01:09:43.266 --> 01:09:46.926 CLASS IN HIGH SCHOOL. I HAD TO GET UP IN FRONT OF 20 KIDS AND 01:09:46.926 --> 01:09:50.167 GIVE A SPEECH. AND THEN I GOT IN TROUBLE BECAUSE I USED THE BIBLE 01:09:50.167 --> 01:09:54.095 ON MY FIRST ONE. AND THE TEACHER SAID AT THAT TIME, SHE SAID, 01:09:54.095 --> 01:09:57.787 YOU'D NEVER USE THAT BIBLE AGAIN. AND THAT WAS BACK IN THE, 01:09:57.787 --> 01:10:02.617 WHAT THAT WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE '70S. SHE TOLD ME THAT. SHE 01:10:02.617 --> 01:10:06.367 SAID, "I DON'T WANT YOU TO EVER USE ANYTHING FROM THE BIBLE 01:10:06.367 --> 01:10:09.997 AGAIN." SO I JUST KINDA, I WENT A LITTLE DIFFERENT DIRECTION, 01:10:09.997 --> 01:10:12.577 BUT I STILL TALKED ABOUT BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES THE NEXT 01:10:12.577 --> 01:10:15.337 TIME. BUT I DON'T THINK SHE LIKED ME, AND I THINK I ENDED UP 01:10:15.337 --> 01:10:21.787 WITH A C IN THAT CLASS. ANYWAY. BUT I HATE, I WOULD RATHER HOLD 01:10:21.787 --> 01:10:25.027 A SNAKE IN MY HAND THAN TO SPEAK IN FRONT OF PEOPLE. THAT'S THE 01:10:25.027 --> 01:10:29.737 WAY I WAS. AND THE FIRST TIME I DID AN OFFERING AT CHURCH, MY 01:10:29.737 --> 01:10:34.537 WIFE SAID, "THAT WAS TERRIBLE." SHE SAID SHE ALMOST WENT UNDER 01:10:34.537 --> 01:10:37.738 THE SEAT, IT WAS SO BAD. I DON'T KNOW 01:10:37.738 --> 01:10:41.016 IF I'VE GOTTEN ANY BETTER, BUT WHATEVER. 01:10:41.016 --> 01:10:42.546 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:10:42.546 --> 01:10:49.356 I'M HERE. THAT WASN'T IN MY NOTES EITHER, THAT WAS FREE 01:10:49.356 --> 01:10:52.837 TONIGHT. I GOTTA GET MOVING HERE, IT'S 8:10. WE GOTTA KEEP 01:10:52.837 --> 01:10:56.837 MOVING, I WANNA GET YOU OUT EARLY TONIGHT. BUT SEEK GOD'S 01:10:56.837 --> 01:11:00.886 WILL, NUMBER THREE, THE INVOLVEMENT OF HOLY SPIRIT AND 01:11:00.886 --> 01:11:05.117 HOLY SPIRIT WISDOM CONTINUOUSLY. ACTIVELY SEEK GOD'S GUIDANCE 01:11:05.117 --> 01:11:08.957 THROUGH PRAYER, BIBLE STUDY, AND LISTENING FOR THAT STILL, SMALL 01:11:08.957 --> 01:11:13.547 VOICE. AND THEN YOU'LL DRAW CLOSER TO HIM, YOU'LL HAVE MORE 01:11:13.547 --> 01:11:20.596 COMMUNION WITH HIM. YOU KNOW, THAT'S HOW PASTOR HANK IS AT, I 01:11:20.596 --> 01:11:24.407 MEAN, HE HAS A GIFT THAT NOT EVERYONE HAS. SO NOT EVERYONE IS 01:11:24.407 --> 01:11:26.867 GOING TO SPEAK TO NATIONS JUST BECAUSE THEY SPEND TIME 01:11:26.867 --> 01:11:32.358 COMMUTING WITH GOD. AND WE CAN'T QUESTION WHY GOD USES ONE PERSON 01:11:32.358 --> 01:11:37.157 AND NOT ANOTHER. THAT'S NONE OF OUR BUSINESS. WE DON'T KNOW. 01:11:37.157 --> 01:11:40.217 THERE'S MANY THINGS WE DON'T KNOW ON THIS EARTH. AND WE'LL 01:11:40.217 --> 01:11:44.087 FIND OUT ANSWERS IN HEAVEN. WHY HE CHOSE ONE AND NOT ANOTHER, 01:11:44.087 --> 01:11:50.417 WHY HE CHOSE PASTOR HANK TO BE A NATIONAL PROPHET AND NOT JUST BE 01:11:50.417 --> 01:11:52.779 A LOCAL PASTOR, WHICH I'M NOT PUTTING THAT DOWN. I'M JUST 01:11:52.779 --> 01:11:56.297 SAYING WHY DID HE CHOOSE HIM TO DO MORE THAN BE A LOCAL PASTOR? 01:11:56.297 --> 01:12:01.096 I DON'T KNOW. IT MAYBE HAS SOMETHING TO DO WITH OBEDIENCE 01:12:01.096 --> 01:12:08.207 AND CHARACTER AND INTEGRITY AND PUSHING AND PULLING AND BEING 01:12:08.207 --> 01:12:12.047 ABLE TO STICK WITH IT. ALL THOSE THINGS ARE IMPORTANT, BUT ALSO 01:12:12.047 --> 01:12:15.947 THERE'S A SUPERNATURAL CHOICE THAT GOD MAKES TO PUT THAT ON 01:12:15.947 --> 01:12:18.614 SOMEONE THAT'S WILLING TO ACCEPT THE RESPONSIBILITY AND FOLLOW 01:12:18.614 --> 01:12:22.787 THROUGH. SO, THERE'S MANY THINGS THAT WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW, BUT I 01:12:22.787 --> 01:12:27.617 DO KNOW THIS, AS YOU DRAW CLOSER TO GOD, AS YOU COMMUNE WITH HIM, 01:12:27.617 --> 01:12:31.247 AS YOU PRAY MORE, AND AS YOU SEEK HIM AND YOU STUDY THE WORD 01:12:31.247 --> 01:12:36.318 AND YOU'RE DOING DILIGENT IN WHAT YOU CAN DO IN THE NATURAL, 01:12:36.318 --> 01:12:40.396 GOD WILL FILL IN WITH THE SUPERNATURAL. AND HE'LL HELP YOU 01:12:40.396 --> 01:12:44.417 TO ACHIEVE EVERYTHING THAT YOU'RE CALLED TO DO. AND WHAT 01:12:44.417 --> 01:12:48.766 YOU'RE CALLED TO DO MAY NOT BE STANDING ON A PULPIT OR ON A 01:12:48.766 --> 01:12:51.436 PLATFORM OR IN SPEAKING NATIONALLY LIKE PASTOR HANK 01:12:51.436 --> 01:12:54.016 DOES, BUT WHAT YOU'RE CALLED TO DO AND YOU ACHIEVING THAT 01:12:54.016 --> 01:12:58.396 PURPOSE THAT GOD HAS FOR YOU IS JUST AS IMPORTANT AS WHAT PASTOR 01:12:58.396 --> 01:13:04.697 HANK DOES. IT'S JUST AS IMPORTANT. YOU JUST HAVE TO FIND 01:13:04.697 --> 01:13:06.827 THAT THAT YOU'RE CALLED TO DO BECAUSE THEN WHEN YOU GET TO 01:13:06.827 --> 01:13:11.867 HEAVEN, YOU'LL GET THE SAME REWARD AS PASTOR HANK BEING A 01:13:11.867 --> 01:13:15.467 NATIONAL PROPHET AND HAVING ALL THAT THAT HE DID. YOU'LL GET THE 01:13:15.467 --> 01:13:24.707 SAME REWARD BECAUSE YOU WERE FAITHFUL IN YOUR CALLING. OBEY 01:13:24.707 --> 01:13:27.676 THE PROMPTINGS. WHEN HOLY SPIRIT LEADS YOU TO DO SOMETHING, 01:13:27.676 --> 01:13:30.707 WHETHER IT'S SHARING YOUR FAITH, OFFERING HELP, OR MAKING A 01:13:30.707 --> 01:13:36.167 DIFFICULT DECISION, OBEDIENCE IS THE KEY. HOLY SPIRIT WORKS TO 01:13:36.167 --> 01:13:39.947 TRANSFORM BELIEVERS INTO THE LIKENESS OF CHRIST, RENEWING OUR 01:13:39.947 --> 01:13:44.747 MINDS AND CHANGING OUR BEHAVIOR. EDDIE, ARE YOU UP? NO, EDDIE'S 01:13:44.747 --> 01:13:50.447 NOT UP. EDDIE, YOU CAN COME ON UP. I NEED TO QUIT HERE. AS WE 01:13:50.447 --> 01:13:55.787 SEEK WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT, WE CAN ASK THE HOLY SPIRIT TO GUIDE 01:13:55.787 --> 01:13:59.568 OUR DECISIONS AND HELP US UNDERSTAND GOD'S WILL FOR OUR 01:13:59.568 --> 01:14:02.896 LIVES, AND THEN STEP OUT IN FAITH AND DO IT. AND YOU'LL MAKE 01:14:02.896 --> 01:14:06.917 SOME MISTAKES, WE ALL HAVE. I MADE MISTAKES THE FIRST TIME I 01:14:06.917 --> 01:14:10.426 DID AN OFFERING, AN OFFERTORY. I DIDN'T DO NEARLY AS GOOD AS 01:14:10.426 --> 01:14:15.976 PASTOR KEITH DID TONIGHT. I WAS TERRIBLE. BUT FORTUNATELY, THAT 01:14:15.976 --> 01:14:18.827 PASTOR DIDN'T FIRE ME. HE SAID, "I'LL GIVE HIM ANOTHER CHANCE." 01:14:18.827 --> 01:14:21.436 AND THEN I GOT A LITTLE BETTER AS TIME WENT ON, I THINK, DIDN'T 01:14:21.436 --> 01:14:27.556 I, EILEEN? OKAY, YEAH. OKAY. EPHESIANS 1:17, I WANNA READ 01:14:27.556 --> 01:14:31.516 THAT AGAIN OUT OF THE AMPLIFIED TONIGHT. IT SAYS, "I ALWAYS PRAY 01:14:31.516 --> 01:14:35.146 THAT THE GOD "OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, THE FATHER OF GLORY, 01:14:35.146 --> 01:14:39.346 "MAY GRANT YOU A SPIRIT OF WISDOM "AND A REVELATION THAT 01:14:39.346 --> 01:14:43.645 GIVES YOU A DEEP AND PERSONAL "AND INTIMATE INSIGHT INTO THE 01:14:43.645 --> 01:14:47.657 TRUE KNOWLEDGE OF HIM, "FOR WE KNOW THE FATHER THROUGH THE 01:14:47.657 --> 01:14:53.266 SON." HALLELUJAH. AS WE RESPOND IN FAITH AND SEEK HIS WISDOM, 01:14:53.266 --> 01:14:57.016 HE'LL GIVE US EXACTLY WHAT WE NEED. TAKING STEPS OF FAITH, 01:14:57.016 --> 01:15:00.587 EVEN WHEN YOU DON'T FULLY UNDERSTAND THEM, AND TRUSTING 01:15:00.587 --> 01:15:05.176 THE HOLY SPIRIT IS LEADING YOU AND GUIDING YOU, IS WHAT WILL 01:15:05.176 --> 01:15:09.707 GIVE YOU CONFIDENCE TO TRUST HIM MORE. AND LET'S MAKE IT A GOAL 01:15:09.707 --> 01:15:14.028 THIS YEAR TO LIVE IN SUCH A WAY AS TO UNWRAP THE PACKAGE OF THE 01:15:14.028 --> 01:15:17.837 HOLY SPIRIT IN OUR LIFE SO THAT WE RECEIVE EVERYTHING HE HAS FOR 01:15:17.837 --> 01:15:22.877 US. WE HAVE THAT POWER GIFT WORKING IN OUR LIVES TO ACHIEVE 01:15:22.877 --> 01:15:26.747 AND ACCOMPLISH EVERYTHING THAT WE NEED TO DO FOR HIM. "REPEAT 01:15:26.747 --> 01:15:35.146 AFTER ME, 'NOT BY MIGHT, NOR BY POWER, BUT BY MY SPIRIT,' SAYS 01:15:35.146 --> 01:15:40.278 THE LORD OF HOSTS." NOW I KNOW SOME OF YOU ARE PROBABLY DEALING 01:15:40.278 --> 01:15:44.717 WITH CIRCUMSTANCES THAT YOU FEEL LIKE ARE ALMOST OUT OF CONTROL 01:15:44.717 --> 01:15:48.467 IN YOUR LIFE. YOU DON'T SEE THAT HOPE THAT I WAS TALKING ABOUT 01:15:48.467 --> 01:15:52.547 TONIGHT. THE ONLY LIGHT THAT YOU SEE AT THE END OF THE TUNNEL IS 01:15:52.547 --> 01:15:57.738 A TRAIN. BUT GOD HAS AN ANSWER FOR YOU. IF YOU'RE WATCHING 01:15:57.738 --> 01:16:05.028 ONLINE AND YOU'RE DISCOURAGED, TAKE HOPE IN THE FACT THAT THE 01:16:05.028 --> 01:16:12.646 HOLY SPIRIT IS THERE AS AN INTIMATE GUIDE, AS AN INTIMATE 01:16:14.686 --> 01:16:20.926 GOD THAT WILL DIRECT YOU AND GIVE YOU THE PEACE THAT YOU 01:16:20.926 --> 01:16:25.936 NEVER KNEW IN ANY OTHER FORM OR FASHION AS YOU SEEK HIM, AS YOU 01:16:25.936 --> 01:16:29.837 MOVE TOWARDS THE PLAN THAT HE HAS FOR YOUR LIFE. YOU ARE NOT 01:16:29.837 --> 01:16:34.757 INSIGNIFICANT TO GOD. YOU ARE PRECIOUS TO HIM, AND HE HAS A 01:16:34.757 --> 01:16:39.167 PLAN FOR YOUR LIFE. YOU HAVE TO TAKE STEPS IN THE NATURAL, 01:16:39.167 --> 01:16:44.087 THOUGH, TO RECEIVE IT AND TO MOVE INTO IT AND WALK IN IT. IT 01:16:44.087 --> 01:16:48.797 DOESN'T JUST AUTOMATICALLY COME. IT'S SOMETHING YOU HAVE TO TAKE 01:16:48.797 --> 01:16:52.818 A STEP TOWARDS. WHY DON'T YOU BOW YOUR HEADS WITH ME TONIGHT? 01:16:52.818 --> 01:16:58.542 ACTUALLY STAND WITH ME IF YOU WOULD. IF THERE'S SOMEONE HERE 01:17:01.306 --> 01:17:04.186 AND THAT'S YOU, YOU NEED PRAYER TONIGHT, YOU SAY, "I'M 01:17:04.186 --> 01:17:11.386 DISCOURAGED. I NEED THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT WORKING IN MY 01:17:11.386 --> 01:17:14.447 LIFE." MAYBE YOU'VE NEVER RECEIVED THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY 01:17:14.447 --> 01:17:17.238 SPIRIT. MAYBE THAT'S, TONIGHT'S YOUR NIGHT FOR THAT. IF THERE'S 01:17:17.238 --> 01:17:21.646 SOMEONE HERE AND YOU HAVEN'T, YOU CAN RECEIVE IT TONIGHT. IF 01:17:21.646 --> 01:17:25.577 WE HAVE A FEW OF OUR ALTAR TEAM MEMBERS IN THE HOUSE TONIGHT, IF 01:17:25.577 --> 01:17:28.396 YOU JUST COME UP HERE AND STAND, I WANT YOU TO BE ABLE TO PRAY 01:17:28.396 --> 01:17:34.007 WITH ANYONE THAT NEEDS IT TONIGHT. AND IF YOU'RE WATCHING 01:17:34.007 --> 01:17:37.997 ONLINE TONIGHT, YOU NEED THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. YOU 01:17:37.997 --> 01:17:43.186 NEED TO HAVE SOMEONE PRAY WITH YOU JUST IN REGARDING YOUR WALK 01:17:43.186 --> 01:17:46.636 THAT YOU WOULD PRESS IN. YOU WANT SOMEONE TO AGREE WITH YOU 01:17:46.636 --> 01:17:49.636 TO OVERCOME THE THINGS THAT THE DEVIL'S BEEN THROWING AT YOU. 01:17:49.636 --> 01:17:51.467 YOU CAN CALL OUR PRAYER LINE. THEY HAVE IT UP THERE, 01:17:51.467 --> 01:17:58.667 855-777-7907. 24 HOURS A DAY, WE HAVE LICENSED PRAYER COUNSELORS 01:17:58.667 --> 01:18:01.787 AVAILABLE TO HELP YOU, WALK WITH YOU, SEND YOU LITERATURE, DO 01:18:01.787 --> 01:18:05.568 WHAT WE CAN TO HELP YOU BECAUSE WE'RE HERE FOR YOU. WE WANT TO 01:18:05.568 --> 01:18:09.858 AND TONIGHT IF YOU'RE HERE OR IN THIS PLACE AND YOU WANT PRAYER, 01:18:09.858 --> 01:18:12.136 I'M GOING TO ASK YOU NOT TO WAIT UNTIL EVERYONE'S DISMISSED, BUT 01:18:12.136 --> 01:18:14.926 JUST COME UP HERE RIGHT NOW IF YOU SAY, I NEED PRAYER. I NEED 01:18:14.926 --> 01:18:17.627 THE BAPTISM OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, OR I JUST NEED SOMEONE TO AGREE 01:18:17.627 --> 01:18:20.806 WITH ME SO THAT I CAN MOVE FURTHER INTO THE THINGS OF GOD. 01:18:20.806 --> 01:18:24.917 OR MAYBE YOU'RE NOT IN A BAD PLACE, BUT YOU JUST SAY, I WANT 01:18:24.917 --> 01:18:28.636 SOMEONE TO AGREE WITH ME THAT I CAN JUST STEP INTO EVERYTHING 01:18:28.636 --> 01:18:31.367 THAT GOD HAS FOR ME. IF THAT'S YOU, COME ON UP HERE. LET'S GET 01:18:31.367 --> 01:18:39.617 PRAYER TONIGHT. BE BOLD. DON'T LET FEAR, DON'T LET WHAT PEOPLE 01:18:39.617 --> 01:18:42.707 MAY THINK HOLD YOU BACK. IT DOESN'T MATTER WHAT PEOPLE 01:18:42.707 --> 01:18:47.778 THINK. IT ONLY MATTERS WHAT GOD THINKS OF WHAT WE'RE DOING. JUST 01:18:47.778 --> 01:18:53.238 BE OPEN TO RECEIVE WHAT HE WOULD HAVE FOR YOU. THANK YOU, JESUS. 01:18:53.238 --> 01:19:00.528 THANK YOU, JESUS. FATHER, I THANK YOU FOR YOUR WORD, SHARPER 01:19:00.528 --> 01:19:04.488 THAN A TWO-EDGED SWORD. I THANK YOU, LORD, FOR YOUR WORD THAT 01:19:04.488 --> 01:19:12.346 DIVIDES AND CUTS AND SHOWS US A PATH TO MOVE FORWARD ON SO THAT 01:19:12.346 --> 01:19:15.377 WE CAN DO EVERYTHING WE'RE CALLED TO DO. AND I PRAY OVER 01:19:15.377 --> 01:19:19.846 OUR ONLINE AUDIENCE AND EVERYONE HERE THAT FATHER, YOU'LL DIRECT 01:19:19.846 --> 01:19:23.627 US NOW. YOU'LL SHOW US BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT HOW YOU 01:19:23.627 --> 01:19:29.028 WOULD HAVE US MOVE THE NEXT STEP IN OUR LIVES, WHAT WE'RE TO DO 01:19:29.028 --> 01:19:35.028 FOR YOU. GIVE US YOUR THOUGHTS, LORD, AND YOUR DESIRES. WE WANT 01:19:35.028 --> 01:19:39.797 YOUR THOUGHTS, YOUR DESIRES, YOUR WISHES TO BE OURS, THAT YOU 01:19:39.797 --> 01:19:43.516 WOULD JUST SHOW US. IF YOU HAVE TO GIVE US A DREAM OR A VISION, 01:19:43.516 --> 01:19:46.787 JUST LIKE YOU DID THE PROPHET ZECHARIAH, WE'LL RECEIVE IT, 01:19:46.787 --> 01:19:50.926 LORD. WHATEVER TOOL YOU WOULD HAVE TO SHOW US THE NEXT STEP, 01:19:50.926 --> 01:19:55.967 JUST AS WE'RE STUDYING THE WORD, MAYBE, YOU SPEAK TO US. MAYBE WE 01:19:55.967 --> 01:19:59.056 CLICK ON THE RADIO AND WE HEAR SOMEONE PREACHING, AND IT'S A 01:19:59.056 --> 01:20:01.997 WORD FOR US. THAT'S HAPPENED TO ME BEFORE. I REMEMBER I TURNED 01:20:01.997 --> 01:20:05.568 ON THE TELEVISION ONCE ABOUT 20 YEARS AGO. I WAS SEARCHING FOR 01:20:05.568 --> 01:20:08.146 AN ANSWER TO SOMETHING, AND THERE WAS A GUY SPEAKING TO A 01:20:08.146 --> 01:20:12.886 GROUP OF TEENAGERS, AND THE WORD THAT HE HAD WAS EXACTLY WHAT I 01:20:12.886 --> 01:20:18.377 NEEDED AT THE VERY MOMENT THAT I TUNED IT IN. GOD USES MANY 01:20:18.377 --> 01:20:21.617 THINGS IN OUR LIVES TO SPEAK TO US. IT MIGHT BE YOU'RE LISTENING 01:20:21.617 --> 01:20:26.207 TO KAYLA OF MUSIC, AND A SONG COMES ON THAT MINISTERS TO YOU 01:20:26.207 --> 01:20:30.136 THROUGH THE HOLY SPIRIT. IT'S HAPPENED TO EVERYONE HERE, I'M 01:20:30.136 --> 01:20:32.957 SURE. YOU'VE HAD THINGS LIKE THAT HAPPEN WHERE GOD SPEAKS IN 01:20:32.957 --> 01:20:36.136 DIFFERENT WAYS, OR MAYBE SOMEONE WALKS UP TO YOU AND HAS A WORD 01:20:36.136 --> 01:20:40.278 FOR YOU. I DON'T KNOW, BUT BE OPEN TO RECEIVE WHAT GOD HAS FOR 01:20:40.278 --> 01:20:46.667 YOU. HE GIVES US WHAT WE ASK FOR, WHAT WE'RE BELIEVING FOR. 01:20:46.667 --> 01:20:51.886 STAND IN FAITH FOR IT. SO WE THANK YOU FOR IT IN JESUS' NAME. 01:20:51.886 --> 01:20:54.528 I DON'T EVEN KNOW HOW ELSE TO END THIS SERVICE TONIGHT. I'M 01:20:54.528 --> 01:20:58.726 JUST THANKFUL YOU'RE ALL HERE. BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, IS 01:20:58.726 --> 01:21:01.007 THERE ANYONE HERE WHO NEEDS TO BE BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT? 01:21:01.007 --> 01:21:04.412 I THINK I ASKED YOU TO COME UP IF YOU'RE HERE, BUT YOU ALL HAVE 01:21:04.412 --> 01:21:08.733 BEEN BAPTIZED IN THE HOLY SPIRIT, RIGHT? OK. AND IF YOU'RE 01:21:08.733 --> 01:21:11.761 ONLINE, YOU CAN CALL OUR PRAYER LINE, AND THEY'LL BELIEVE WITH 01:21:11.761 --> 01:21:14.971 YOU FOR THAT AND PRAY WITH YOU, AND YOU CAN RECEIVE THAT WAY. IF 01:21:14.971 --> 01:21:17.851 THERE'S ANYONE ELSE HERE, YOU NEED SOMETHING, THE ALTAR TEAM 01:21:17.851 --> 01:21:21.061 WILL BE HERE. DON'T FORGET TO BE BACK IN THE HOUSE SUNDAY FOR DR. 01:21:21.061 --> 01:21:26.101 RICHARD ROBERTS. AND GO HOME AND BE BLESSED. YOU STILL HAVE TIME 01:21:26.101 --> 01:21:28.721 TO GET ICE CREAM. IT'S ONLY 8:20. THANK YOU 01:21:28.721 --> 01:21:30.242 FOR COMING TONIGHT. GOD BLESS YOU. 01:21:30.242 --> 01:21:33.393 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:21:33.414 --> 01:21:36.896 (MUSIC)