WEBVTT 15:03.135 --> 15:06.985 IN HERE AND NOT GIVE HIM THE PRAISE THAT HE'S WORTHY OF 15:06.985 --> 15:10.046 AND THEN EXPECT HEAVEN TO JUST COME DOWN TO THE EARTH. 15:10.046 --> 15:12.716 I WANT TO ENCOURAGE YOU OVER THE NEXT TWO TO THREE 15:12.716 --> 15:15.716 MINUTES TO CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE WHERE THE 15:15.716 --> 15:19.676 MIRACULOUS CAN DWELL. CREATE AN ATMOSPHERE WHERE THE HOLY 15:19.676 --> 15:22.735 SPIRIT CAN INHABIT. I'M JUST ASKING FOR THE NEXT TWO 15:22.735 --> 15:27.086 MINUTES, WOULD YOU GIVE GOD A PRAISE REPRESENTATIVE OF 15:27.086 --> 15:30.296 THE MIRACLE THAT YOU'RE BELIEVING HIM FOR? GIVE HIM 15:30.296 --> 15:34.346 A PRAISE REPRESENTATIVE OF THE WORD THAT YOU CAME 15:34.346 --> 15:39.296 SEEKING. GIVE HIM A PRAISE ACCORDING TO HIS EXCELLENT 15:39.296 --> 15:44.186 GREATNESS. COME ON, SOMEBODY LIFT UP THE KING OF KINGS 15:44.186 --> 15:58.495 AND THE LORD OF LORDS IN THIS ARENA. HALLELUJAH! COME ON, 15:58.495 --> 16:02.125 CROWN HIM KING OF KINGS WITH YOUR SONG AND WITH YOUR 16:02.125 --> 16:09.235 PRAISE. OH, MAGNIFY AND EXALT HIS NAME TOGETHER. THE KING OF 16:09.269 --> 16:15.908 GLORY HAS COME TO THIS ARENA. HALLELUJAH. OH. 16:15.975 --> 16:39.633 (MUSIC) 16:39.666 --> 16:42.115 WOULD YOU GIVE GOD A HAND CLAP OF PRAISE THIS 16:42.115 --> 16:49.166 AFTERNOON? HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. 16:49.166 --> 16:53.816 BLESSED BE THE NAME OF THE LORD. HALLELUJAH. YOU CAN BE 16:53.816 --> 16:58.105 SEATED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. THANK YOU FOR 16:58.105 --> 17:03.347 WORSHIPPING OUR KING THE WAY HE'S WORTHY TO BE PRAISED. 17:03.347 --> 17:14.605 HALLELUJAH. YOU KNOW, I WAS GETTING READY TO PREACH A 17:14.605 --> 17:19.076 SERMON ABOUT A MAN NAMED GIDEON. BY THE WAY, I AM 17:19.076 --> 17:23.546 ABOUT TO RECEIVE THE OFFERING. HALLELUJAH. THAT'S 17:23.546 --> 17:29.546 WHY I WORE MY SHINY SUIT COAT. HALLELUJAH. I WAS 17:29.546 --> 17:31.675 GETTING READY TO PREACH A SERMON ABOUT A MAN NAMED 17:31.675 --> 17:35.996 GIDEON, AND I WAS GOING THROUGH THE STORY AND 17:35.996 --> 17:40.105 PREPARING THE VERSES THAT I WAS PUTTING IN MY NOTES, AND 17:40.105 --> 17:44.233 I GOT TO THIS PLACE IN THE STORY, BROTHER LEON, WHERE 17:46.076 --> 17:48.746 WE'RE GETTING GOT INTO SOMETHING I CONSIDER A 17:48.746 --> 17:55.135 LITTLE CONTROVERSIAL. HE WAS FLEECING THE LORD. NOW, HE 17:55.135 --> 17:59.486 IS THE ORIGINATOR OF THIS DOCTRINE OF FLEECE IN THE 17:59.486 --> 18:01.826 LORD AND LET ME TELL YOU WHERE I STAND ON THE ISSUE 18:02.905 --> 18:06.145 I'M FOR IT WHEN IT WORKS. I'M AGAINST IT WHEN IT 18:06.145 --> 18:14.306 DOESN'T AMEN HE HAD A WORD OVER HIS LIFE HE HAD 18:14.306 --> 18:19.736 DIRECTION OVER HIS LIFE. HE IS VISITED BY THE ANGEL OF 18:19.736 --> 18:24.746 THE LORD YET AFTER ANGELIC VISITATION AFTER PERSONAL 18:24.746 --> 18:29.365 PROPHECY AND DIRECTION HE HAS A HARD TIME BELIEVING 18:29.365 --> 18:35.365 WHAT THE SAYETH THE LORD AND HE DEMANDS A SIGN FROM GOD I 18:35.365 --> 18:38.935 NEED YOU TO GIVE ME A SIGN AND I NEED YOU TO DO THIS 18:38.935 --> 18:42.056 AND I NEED YOU TO DO THAT I MEAN HE GIVES CLEAR-CUT 18:42.056 --> 18:45.596 INSTRUCTIONS I NEED THE FLEECE TO BE WET AND THE 18:45.596 --> 18:48.746 GROUND TO BE DRY AND THEN WHEN THAT HAPPENS HE GOES 18:48.746 --> 18:53.486 LET ME LET ME SWITCH IT UP JUST IN CASE THE DEVIL WERE 18:53.486 --> 18:55.316 YOU BLESSED I DON'T KNOW WHY THAT JUST MADE ME THINK 18:55.316 --> 18:57.536 ABOUT THIS MORNING SERMON WERE YOU BLESSED BY THE 18:57.536 --> 19:02.395 MINISTRY OF EVANGELIST ISAAC PETRIE WAS THAT NOT A WORD? 19:02.395 --> 19:06.625 WHO I SHOULD HAVE WORN MY SHINY SPORT COAT TO THAT 19:06.625 --> 19:10.046 SERVICE. AMEN. I CAME IN A SWEATER. MAN, WHAT A WORD. 19:12.236 --> 19:15.596 BUT GIDEON COMES BACK ONCE AND TWICE AND HE KEEPS, IT'S 19:15.596 --> 19:19.105 ALMOST AS IF HE'S MAKING IT A LITTLE MORE DIFFICULT JUST 19:19.105 --> 19:23.185 TO MAKE SURE IT'S THE LORD. AND SO I'M PREPARING THESE 19:23.185 --> 19:26.155 SERMON NOTES AND YOU KNOW TALKING ABOUT COMING BEFORE 19:26.155 --> 19:28.675 THE LORD AND THE SIGNS THAT WE WANT. AND I READ 19:28.675 --> 19:33.385 SOMETHING THAT I, I'M SURE I READ IT BEFORE BUT I NEVER 19:33.385 --> 19:37.615 PAID ATTENTION TO THAT. HAVE YOU EVER DONE THAT BEFORE? I 19:37.615 --> 19:39.506 KNOW YOU HAVE BECAUSE YOU'VE GONE AND BOUGHT SOMETHING 19:39.506 --> 19:41.185 AND THEN TRIED TO RETURN IT AND THEY SAID "WELL YOU 19:41.185 --> 19:45.385 SIGNED, YOU NEVER READ WHAT YOU SIGNED." I READ 19:45.385 --> 19:50.246 SOMETHING IN JUDGES 6 AND 18 IN THE NEW LIVING 19:50.246 --> 19:54.596 TRANSLATION I'D NEVER SEEN BEFORE. WELL ACTUALLY IT 19:54.596 --> 19:58.195 STARTS IN 17. GIDEON SAID "IF YOU'RE TRULY GOING TO 19:58.195 --> 20:03.236 HELP ME, SHOW ME A SIGN TO PROVE THAT IT'S REALLY THE 20:03.236 --> 20:07.226 LORD SPEAKING." NOW I'VE READ THAT ONE BEFORE, BUT 20:07.226 --> 20:12.415 I'D NEVER SEEN VERSE 18. IT SAYS "BUT DON'T GO AWAY 20:12.415 --> 20:16.780 UNTIL I COME BACK AND BRING YOU AN OFFERING." I'D NEVER 20:16.780 --> 20:20.891 READ THAT PART BEFORE. SO GIDEON HAS DEMANDS OF THE 20:20.891 --> 20:26.830 LORD, BUT GIDEON KNOWS TOO MUCH TO MAKE DEMANDS OF THE 20:26.830 --> 20:32.230 LORD AND COME TO THE LORD EMPTY-HANDED. I HAVE DEMANDS 20:32.230 --> 20:35.560 BEFORE THE LORD TODAY. CAN I BE TRANSPARENT WITH YOU? 20:35.560 --> 20:38.141 NOW, I DON'T MEAN THAT IN A DISRESPECTFUL WAY. THERE ARE 20:38.141 --> 20:41.201 SOME THINGS I NEED ANSWERS FOR. THERE ARE SOME THERE 20:41.201 --> 20:44.681 ARE SOME PRAYER REQUESTS THAT I HAVE BEFORE THE LORD, 20:44.681 --> 20:47.560 BUT I KNOW BETTER THAN TO COME TO THE LORD 20:47.560 --> 20:51.340 EMPTY-HANDED. AND HERE'S WHY. BECAUSE I'VE NEVER LEFT 20:51.340 --> 20:58.421 HIS PRESENCE EMPTY-HANDED. SO I DON'T THIS SERVICE WILL 20:58.421 --> 21:03.461 BE A LANDMARK SERVICE FOR SOME OF YOU IN THIS ROOM. I 21:03.461 --> 21:09.490 STOOD OVER THERE TWO YEARS AGO, BUILDING LESS IN OUR 21:09.490 --> 21:14.020 MINISTRY. I WAS BELIEVING THE LORD FOR PROPERTY, FOR 21:14.020 --> 21:17.951 THE MINISTRY, BUT NO ONE KNEW THAT. AND STANDING 21:17.951 --> 21:20.861 RIGHT OVER THERE, THE MAN THAT IS ABOUT TO PREACH 21:20.861 --> 21:23.800 AFTER THIS LONG-WINDED OFFERING, HALLELUJAH. I'M 21:23.800 --> 21:26.770 TAKING TIME 'CAUSE PASTOR BRENDA DIDN'T TAKE ANY TIME 21:26.770 --> 21:29.556 THIS MORNING WITH THE OFFERING. (CONGREGATION 21:29.588 --> 21:35.590 LAUGHING) WAIT, DON'T TELL, WELL, DON'T TELL HER I SAID 21:35.590 --> 21:38.800 ANYTHING. HOLD UP, I'M GETTING A TEXT MESSAGE RIGHT 21:38.800 --> 21:43.810 NOW. (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) I WAS STANDING RIGHT OVER 21:43.810 --> 21:46.480 THERE AND I'M BELIEVING THE LORD FOR A BUILDING. I 21:46.480 --> 21:48.340 HAVEN'T TOLD ANYBODY I'M BELIEVING THE LORD FOR A 21:48.340 --> 21:51.371 BUILDING AND THE MAN THAT'S ABOUT TO PREACH CALLED ME 21:51.371 --> 21:55.300 OUT RIGHT OVER THERE AND HE SAID TONY THE LORD HAS A 21:55.300 --> 21:57.730 BUILDING FOR YOU AND HE STARTED GIVING ME THE 21:57.730 --> 22:01.000 PROPHETIC WORD THAT WHAT THE LORD WAS GOING TO DO IN THE 22:01.000 --> 22:04.391 NEXT YEAR DO YOU THINK I LEFT THAT SERVICE 22:04.391 --> 22:08.711 EMPTY-HANDED? ABSOLUTELY NOT. BY THE TIME I GOT HOME, 22:08.711 --> 22:11.471 WE HAD A CONTRACT ON A BUILDING. I'M TALKING ABOUT 22:11.471 --> 22:14.980 24 HOURS AFTER THAT WORD, WE HAD A CONTRACT ON A 22:14.980 --> 22:18.790 BUILDING. I DIDN'T LEAVE EMPTY-HANDED, BUT I'M GOING 22:18.790 --> 22:21.040 TO TELL YOU I DIDN'T COME HERE EMPTY-HANDED. 22:21.040 --> 22:24.520 HALLELUJAH. ARE THERE ANY GIVERS IN THE ROOM THAT CAN 22:24.520 --> 22:27.401 BEAR WITNESS TO WHAT I'M SAYING? I DON'T COME INTO 22:27.401 --> 22:30.401 THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD EMPTY-HANDED BECAUSE I NEVER 22:30.401 --> 22:34.151 LEAVE EMPTY-HANDED. AND SO I WANT YOU TO GET YOUR VERY 22:34.151 --> 22:37.750 BEST OFFERING READY RIGHT NOW. THE WAYS TO GIVE ARE 22:37.750 --> 22:40.661 ABOUT TO APPEAR ON THE SCREEN AND I HAVE THEM ON 22:40.661 --> 22:44.080 THIS CHEAT SHEET AS WELL. THEY GAVE ME A CHEAT SHEET 22:44.080 --> 22:47.141 BECAUSE THEY SAW WHERE I WAS AT ANOTHER CHURCH RAISING 22:47.141 --> 22:49.780 THE OFFERING AND I GAVE THE WRONG INFORMATION FOR THE 22:49.780 --> 22:54.490 WRONG CHURCH. I WAS PREACHING AT WORD OF LIFE 22:54.490 --> 22:59.530 AND I DIRECTED EVERYONE TO GO TO WORDOFFAITH.COM. WORD 22:59.530 --> 23:01.990 OF FAITH GOT UP THAT NEXT WEEK AND TESTIFIED ABOUT ALL 23:01.990 --> 23:04.030 THIS MIRACLE MONEY THEY'VE BEEN POURING INTO THEIR 23:04.030 --> 23:06.461 MINISTRY. THEY SAID IT'S COMING FROM THE RIGHT, THE 23:06.461 --> 23:09.010 LEFT, THE SOUTH, THE NORTH, PENTECOSTALS AND 23:09.010 --> 23:11.590 PRESBYTERIANS. WE DON'T EVEN KNOW WHERE IT'S COMING FROM. 23:11.590 --> 23:14.230 AND WORD OF LIFE WAS PUTTING OUT PETITIONS, "PLEASE 23:14.230 --> 23:18.010 SOMEBODY FIND THE MONEY." SO THEY MADE SURE, THEY COLOR 23:18.010 --> 23:23.590 CODED IT FOR ME Y'ALL. THERE'S A NOTE HERE FROM 23:23.590 --> 23:26.861 PASTOR HANK, "TONY, DON'T GIVE THEM YOUR CASH APP." 23:26.861 --> 23:32.201 HALLELUJAH, ALRIGHT. HERE'S THE WAYS THAT YOU CAN GIVE, 23:32.201 --> 23:35.980 AMEN. THERE'S ENVELOPES THAT I BELIEVE ARE AT YOUR SEATS, 23:35.980 --> 23:38.320 AND IF NOT YOU CAN ASK ONE OF THOSE USHERS AND THEY'LL 23:38.320 --> 23:44.111 GIVE YOU ONE. YOU CAN GO TO THE WEBSITE. OH, EXCUSE ME. 23:44.111 --> 23:46.090 I'M THANKFUL FOR THE THOUSANDS THAT ARE HERE, BUT 23:46.090 --> 23:49.330 FOR THE MILLIONS THAT ARE WATCHING AT HOME. YOU ARE 23:49.330 --> 23:53.230 INCLUDED IN TODAY'S OFFERING. HOW ABOUT THAT? 23:53.230 --> 23:55.361 AH, YOU THOUGHT I DIDN'T SEE YOU. YOU'RE SITTING THERE 23:55.361 --> 23:57.820 WITH YOUR POP-TART AND YOUR COFFEE AND YOU'RE JUST 23:57.820 --> 24:00.790 CHILLING IN THAT RECLINER JUST, YOU SAID, I'M JUST 24:00.790 --> 24:04.688 GOING TO TASTE AND SEE. THE LORD SAYS, I JUST FOUND YOU 24:04.688 --> 24:07.691 RIGHT THERE IN THE RECLINER. YOU CAN GIVE AS WELL TO THIS 24:07.691 --> 24:10.931 OFFERING TODAY. YOU CAN GIVE ON THE MOBILE APP. WHO HAS 24:10.931 --> 24:14.651 THE LORD TO HOST MOBILE APP? AMEN. YOU CAN TEXT TO GIVE 24:14.651 --> 24:22.961 TO 833-309-5698. YOU CAN CALL TO GIVE. YOU CAN, WELL, 24:22.961 --> 24:26.471 YOU CAN'T GIVE THERE. YOU CAN, I THINK THERE'S A QR 24:26.471 --> 24:30.401 CODE THAT YOU CAN SCAN. YOU CAN GIVE THAT WAY AS WELL. 24:30.401 --> 24:33.881 THE POINT IS THERE'S SO MANY WAYS TO GIVE. THERE'S NO 24:33.881 --> 24:37.931 EXCUSE NOT TO GIVE. AMEN. ONCE YOU HAVE YOUR OFFERING 24:37.931 --> 24:41.201 READY, WOULD YOU STAND WITH ME SO I CAN PRAY OVER YOU? 24:44.230 --> 24:46.451 AND IF YOU DON'T HAVE ANYTHING, BUT YOU SEE 24:46.451 --> 24:49.330 SOMEONE STANDING, QUICKLY START NEGOTIATING AND SAY, 24:49.330 --> 24:52.480 CAN YOU HOOK A BROTHER UP? CAN I GET IN ON WHAT YOU 24:52.480 --> 24:56.320 HAVE? BROTHER LEON, CAN I GET IN ON WHAT YOU HAVE? 24:56.320 --> 25:00.790 HALLELUJAH, I SEE YOU STAND. I KNOW WHO TO GO TO. AMEN. 25:00.790 --> 25:03.131 AMEN. I WANT TO PRAY OVER YOU. I WANT TO PRAY OVER 25:03.131 --> 25:06.221 THIS OFFERING AND I BELIEVE THE LORD'S GOING TO BLESS 25:06.221 --> 25:09.611 YOU. I DON'T, I DON'T BELIEVE IT IS POSSIBLE FOR 25:09.611 --> 25:12.310 YOU TO WALK OUT OF THIS SERVICE EMPTY-HANDED TODAY. 25:12.310 --> 25:15.010 THEREFORE, WE'RE NOT GOING TO COME BEFORE THE LORD 25:15.010 --> 25:19.181 EMPTY-HANDED. AMEN. AMEN. I'M WAITING ON A FEW MORE 25:19.181 --> 25:21.911 THAT ARE ABOUT TO STAND. I SEE YOU. I KNOW IT'S A 25:21.911 --> 25:25.696 STRUGGLE, THOSE COMFORTABLE NON-PADDED CHAIRS. I KNOW 25:27.041 --> 25:29.681 YOU'VE ALREADY KIND OF FOUND YOUR GROOVE AND YOU DON'T 25:29.681 --> 25:32.141 WANT TO HAVE TO GIVE IT UP, BUT I SEE YOU, ALL RIGHT. 25:33.221 --> 25:35.770 LET ME PRAY OVER YOU AND THEN WE'RE GONNA RECEIVE 25:35.770 --> 25:39.520 THIS OFFERING. FATHER, I THANK YOU FOR EVERY GIVER 25:39.520 --> 25:44.290 THAT'S IN THIS ROOM. LORD, I THANK YOU THAT I HAVE YET TO 25:44.290 --> 25:48.250 EVER COME INTO YOUR PRESENCE AND LEAVE EMPTY-HANDED. 25:48.250 --> 25:52.451 THEREFORE, I REFUSE TO COME INTO YOUR PRESENCE 25:52.451 --> 25:55.631 EMPTY-HANDED. I ASK YOU TO RECEIVE THE GIFTS OF YOUR 25:55.631 --> 25:58.840 PEOPLE NOW. RECEIVE THE OFFERINGS OF YOUR PEOPLE. 26:01.181 --> 26:06.221 BLESS IT, MULTIPLY IT, AND MAY IT COME BACK TO THEM IN 26:06.221 --> 26:09.221 SUCH A GREAT MEASURE THAT THEY DON'T HAVE ROOM ENOUGH 26:09.221 --> 26:12.851 TO CONTAIN THE HARVEST THAT'S COMING TO THEM, BOTH 26:12.851 --> 26:15.760 IN THIS ARENA AND THOSE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD 26:15.760 --> 26:19.840 TODAY. BY THE AUTHORITY OF THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS 26:19.840 --> 26:23.111 CHRIST, WE SPEAK THE BLESSING OF PROSPERITY OVER 26:23.111 --> 26:26.770 YOU NOW, AND WE SAY IT'S DONE. IN JESUS' NAME, AND 26:26.770 --> 26:30.070 ALL GOD'S PEOPLE SAID, "AMEN." ALL RIGHT, NOW 26:30.070 --> 26:33.040 REMAIN STANDING WHILE THE USHERS ARE SERVING YOU. 26:33.040 --> 26:35.861 THERE'S A MAN OF GOD THAT'S ABOUT TO COME TO THIS 26:35.861 --> 26:41.471 PODIUM. HE'S THE PASTOR OF ONE OF AMERICA'S GREATEST 26:41.471 --> 26:46.121 REVIVAL CHURCHES IN THE CITY OF NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE. 26:46.121 --> 26:50.351 THERE ARE SOME NASHVILLEITES IN THIS ROOM RIGHT NOW. YOU 26:50.351 --> 26:53.111 CAN CATCH HIM AT REGENERATION CHURCH, HIS 26:53.111 --> 26:57.191 PODCAST. HE'S AN AUTHOR, HE'S A PASTOR, HE'S A 26:57.191 --> 27:02.259 PROPHET, AND FOR AT LEAST 20 YEARS, HE'S BEEN A BLESSING TO 27:02.259 --> 27:07.179 MY LIFE. HIS MINISTRY IS ANOINTED, AND I'M SO THANKFUL TO 27:07.179 --> 27:12.179 GOD THAT I GET TO CALL HIM MY FRIEND AND MY ELDER. AND I THANK 27:12.179 --> 27:16.390 GOD FOR THE MINISTRY OF PASTOR KENT CHRISTMAS. WOULD YOU DIRECT 27:16.390 --> 27:20.203 YOUR ATTENTION TO THE SCREEN, AND THE NEXT VOICE YOU'RE GOING 27:20.203 --> 27:23.080 TO HEAR IS THE PROPHETIC VOICE OF THE LORD. 27:26.951 --> 27:30.431 - THIS SEASON OF THE OPEN HEAVEN THAT THE ENEMY CAN 27:30.431 --> 27:34.990 COME IN AND PROSPER AGAIN AND SHUT MY CHURCH DOWN. YOU 27:34.990 --> 27:38.351 MAY HAVE HID ME IN THE UPPER ROOM FOR TEN DAYS, SAITH THE 27:38.351 --> 27:42.671 LORD, BUT I CAME OUT OF THAT UPPER ROOM AND I SPILLED 27:42.671 --> 27:47.351 INTO THE NATIONS. I WILL NOT BE SILENCED THIS TIME, SAITH 27:47.351 --> 27:52.391 THE LORD. YOU WILL NOT PUT A MASK ON MY MOUTH, FOR I HAVE 27:52.391 --> 27:57.309 ALREADY SAID, GOD, I WILL NOT RECALL THE PROPHETIC. I 27:57.344 --> 28:01.961 WILL NOT RECALL THE SOUND OF PRAISE. I WILL NOT ALLOW THE 28:01.961 --> 28:09.256 ENEMY TO SHUT ME UP. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 28:09.288 --> 28:15.998 AMEN. AMEN, THAT SOUNDED LIKE A WILD GUY RIGHT THERE. 28:15.998 --> 28:20.676 [LAUGHTER] JUST FOR A MOMENT, REMAIN STANDING. 28:20.681 --> 28:25.631 THANK YOU FOR HONORING THE PRESENCE OF GOD TODAY TO 28:25.631 --> 28:30.627 COME TO CHURCH 2 O'CLOCK IN THE AFTERNOON ON A SATURDAY. 28:31.780 --> 28:40.646 THANK YOU THAT- AMEN. I DON'T HAVE TO PREACH TO 200 PEOPLE. 28:40.646 --> 28:46.300 AMEN. IT'S AN HONOR TODAY TO BE ABLE TO PREACH TO GOD'S 28:46.300 --> 28:50.441 PRECIOUS PEOPLE. I KNOW WITH ALL THE BURDENS THAT YOU 28:50.441 --> 28:55.732 CARRY AND ALL THE FIGHTS THAT YOU'RE INVOLVED IN THAT 28:55.732 --> 28:59.951 YOU ARE VALUABLE TO THE LORD AND I PRAY TODAY THAT I 28:59.951 --> 29:08.050 WOULD BE A BLESSING TO YOU AND SPEAK TO YOU LIFE. I'VE 29:08.050 --> 29:13.240 ONLY WRITTEN ONE BOOK IN MY LIFE AND THIS IS TURNING 29:13.240 --> 29:18.040 SORROW INTO JOY THEY SAID THAT THEY'RE UP THERE 29:18.040 --> 29:22.570 BETWEEN 210 AND 211 SO AFTER I GET DONE PREACHING I AM 29:22.570 --> 29:24.671 GONNA BE UP THERE FOR A LITTLE WHILE BEFORE I CATCH 29:24.671 --> 29:30.161 A PLANE IT TOOK ME ABOUT TWO YEARS TO POUR MY SOUL INTO 29:30.161 --> 29:36.161 THIS BOOK IF YOU'RE STILL WONDERING WHY GOD IS NOT 29:36.161 --> 29:39.790 USING YOU, IF YOU'VE BEEN FAITHFUL TO GOD OVER A 29:39.790 --> 29:43.840 LIFETIME AND YOU'VE NOT YET SEEN WHY GOD IS NOT GIVING 29:43.840 --> 29:49.151 YOU A HARVEST, THIS BOOK'S FOR YOU. IT TOOK ME, I'VE 29:49.151 --> 29:54.580 BEEN PREACHING 54 YEARS AND IT WASN'T UNTIL MY 49TH YEAR 29:54.580 --> 29:59.861 OF PREACHING THAT GOD OPENED THE HEAVENS. AND SO I'VE 29:59.861 --> 30:04.480 LIVED WHERE MOST OF YOU HAVE LIVED MOST OF MY LIFE. SO I 30:04.480 --> 30:08.884 UNDERSTAND WHAT YOU GO THROUGH, BUT I WANNA 30:08.884 --> 30:14.111 ENCOURAGE YOU THAT GOD IS FAITHFUL. AND IF YOU WILL 30:14.111 --> 30:20.185 STAY FAITHFUL TO THE LORD, GOD WILL NOT DESERT YOU. 30:20.185 --> 30:28.586 AMEN. YOU CAN BE SEATED TODAY. I'M GOING TO MINISTER 30:28.586 --> 30:34.465 A LITTLE BIT DIFFERENT TODAY. I HAVE TRANSCRIBED TO 30:34.465 --> 30:40.945 SOME DEGREE WHAT I WANT TO PREACH TO YOU. I TRUST THAT 30:40.945 --> 30:44.006 WHEN WE GET DONE TODAY, GOD WILL ANSWER SOME QUESTIONS 30:44.006 --> 30:49.675 IN YOUR LIFE, THOSE OF YOU THAT FEEL LIKE, "GOD, I'M 30:49.675 --> 30:53.125 PRESSED OUT OF MEASURE. I DON'T HAVE A WHOLE LOT 30:53.125 --> 30:57.678 LEFT." I THINK GOD WILL HAVE AN ANSWER FOR YOU TODAY. 30:58.826 --> 31:06.385 WHEN JACOB, THE GREAT PATRIARCH OF ISRAEL, HAD THE 31:06.385 --> 31:11.246 PEACE OF HIS LIFE DISRUPTED BY THE VISITATION OF HIS 31:11.246 --> 31:18.205 SONS, WHO HANDED HIM A BLOODY COAT THAT HE KNEW 31:18.205 --> 31:23.365 BELONGED TO HIS FAVORITE SON JOSEPH, WHOM THE ONLY WOMAN 31:23.365 --> 31:29.306 THAT HE HAD EVER LOVED HAD GIVEN BIRTH TO, AND WAS TOLD 31:29.306 --> 31:36.865 THAT JOSEPH HAS DIED A BLOODY, VIOLENT DEATH. THE 31:36.865 --> 31:46.526 BOOK OF GENESIS RECORDS THAT JACOB IN GREAT GRIEF RENT 31:46.526 --> 31:53.726 HIS CLOTHES, PUT ON SACKCLOTH, AND HE MOURNED. 31:53.726 --> 32:01.405 AND IT SAYS THAT JACOB COULD NOT BE COMFORTED, BUT GOD 32:01.405 --> 32:09.655 SAID, "THAT'S OKAY." WHEN MESSENGERS ONE BY ONE HAD 32:09.655 --> 32:16.556 BROKEN THE STILLNESS OF JOB'S LIFE, WHOM GOD CALLED 32:16.556 --> 32:24.865 A GREAT MAN TO DECLARE THE LOSS OF HIS SHEEP, OF HIS 32:24.865 --> 32:30.776 OXEN, AND OF HIS CAMELS. AND WHILE THAT SERVANT IS THERE 32:30.776 --> 32:36.415 BEARING THAT NEWS, ANOTHER SERVANT COMES IN TO TELL 32:36.415 --> 32:42.806 HIM, "THIS GODLY MAN THAT ATE STRONG WIND HAS HIT THE 32:42.806 --> 32:49.316 HOUSE OF HIS ELDEST SON AND COLLAPSED IT ON THE HEAD OF 32:49.316 --> 32:56.336 HIS TEN CHILDREN. AND IN ONE DAY, ALL TEN OF HIS CHILDREN 32:56.336 --> 33:04.346 DIED." THE BIBLE SAYS THAT JOB TORE HIS MANTLE, SHAVED 33:04.346 --> 33:12.026 HIS HEAD, FELL DOWN ON THE GROUND, BUT GOD SAID THAT 33:12.026 --> 33:18.266 WAS OKAY. WHEN JOSHUA AND CALEB RETURNED, EXCITED FROM 33:18.266 --> 33:23.155 CANAAN LAND, TO TELL THE ISRAELITES, "WE'VE SEEN OUR 33:23.155 --> 33:28.105 INHERITANCE. WE'VE HELD THE GRAPES OF ESHCOL. WE'VE SEEN 33:28.105 --> 33:32.066 THE LAND OF MILK AND HONEY." BUT ISRAEL, OUT OF UNBELIEF, 33:32.066 --> 33:37.346 REFUSED TO GO IN. THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT JOSHUA 33:37.346 --> 33:40.256 AND CALEB, IN DISAPPOINTMENT, IN 33:40.256 --> 33:45.536 FRUSTRATION, FELL DOWN, TORE THEIR GARMENTS BECAUSE THEY 33:45.536 --> 33:49.496 KNEW IT WOULD BE DECADES BEFORE ISRAEL WOULD EVER 33:49.496 --> 33:54.655 POSSESS THE LAND, BUT THAT WAS OKAY WITH GOD. WHEN 33:54.655 --> 34:00.625 JOAB, A BLOODY MURDERER, DECEIVED AND ENTICED ABNER 34:00.625 --> 34:05.155 TO COME OUT OF THE CITY OF REFUGE, AND JOAB EXTENDED 34:05.155 --> 34:07.826 THE RIGHT HAND OF FELLOWSHIP, YET IN THE OTHER 34:07.826 --> 34:11.666 HAND THERE WAS A KNIFE THAT HE DROVE INTO THE STOMACH OF 34:11.666 --> 34:17.456 ABNER AND ABNER LAY DEAD IN A POOL OF BLOOD. KING DAVID 34:17.456 --> 34:22.286 IN GREAT GRIEF TORE HIS GARMENTS AND MOURNED THIS 34:22.286 --> 34:27.746 GREAT SOLDIER OF ISRAEL, BUT THAT WAS OKAY. KINGS, 34:27.746 --> 34:32.126 LAWYERS, PROPHETS, THE RIGHTEOUS AND THE WRONG, 34:32.126 --> 34:36.626 GOD'S VERY OWN PEOPLE, THEY WERE ALL ALLOWED TO 34:36.626 --> 34:43.525 PARTICIPATE IN THIS UNIQUE ACTION OF EXASPERATION BY 34:43.525 --> 34:48.775 TEARING ONE'S GARMENTS. IT SIGNALED THIS. IT SIGNALED 34:48.775 --> 34:53.365 GRIEF. IT DECLARED SORROW. IT DECLARED DESPERATION AND 34:53.365 --> 34:58.525 DESPAIR. IT WAS AN OUTWARD SIGN THAT SOMETHING MORE 34:58.525 --> 35:02.905 THAN THE MAN HAD OVERTAKEN THEM. IT WAS A PROBLEM FOR 35:02.905 --> 35:06.326 WHICH THERE WAS NO SOLUTION. IT WAS A DILEMMA THAT 35:06.326 --> 35:10.916 DEFINED THE TRAGEDY, A TRIAL THAT WENT BEYOND THE WORDS 35:10.916 --> 35:15.235 THAT A MAN CAN EXPRESS. YET IT WAS AN ACCEPTED ISRAELI 35:15.235 --> 35:21.056 EXPRESSION THAT WE ARE COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED. IT 35:21.056 --> 35:24.445 WAS PRACTICED WITHOUT RESPECT TO CULTURE, WHETHER 35:24.445 --> 35:28.496 ONE WAS GOOD OR ONE WAS EVIL, WHETHER ONE, 35:28.496 --> 35:32.485 HALLELUJAH, HAD WEALTH OR THEY WERE POOR. YOU WILL 35:32.485 --> 35:35.485 FIND IT FROM THE BOOK OF GENESIS TO THE BOOK OF 35:35.485 --> 35:40.286 REVELATION THAT THIS ACT OF TEARING ONE'S GARMENT, THE 35:40.286 --> 35:45.565 BIBLE IS FULL OF MEN TEARING THEIR GARMENTS IN GRIEF AND 35:45.565 --> 35:51.206 SORROW, DEVASTATION AND DESPAIR. SO, IT IS 35:51.206 --> 35:58.405 SIGNIFICANT THAT IN LEVITICUS CHAPTER 1, WE READ 35:58.405 --> 36:04.465 THAT THE HIGH PRIEST, UPON WHOSE HEAD THE ANOINTING OIL 36:04.465 --> 36:13.735 WAS POURED, WAS FORBIDDEN TO UNCOVER HIS HEAD OR REND HIS 36:13.735 --> 36:18.925 CLOTHES. FOR THE HIGH PRIEST AND HIS SONS, FOR WHOM THE 36:18.925 --> 36:23.005 HOLY GARMENTS WERE MADE, THAT THEY MIGHT MINISTER IN 36:23.005 --> 36:28.106 THE OFFICE OF THE PRIEST. GOD SAID THEY COULD NOT 36:28.106 --> 36:31.885 RENDER THEIR GARMENTS, THEY COULD NOT TEAR THEIR 36:31.885 --> 36:37.706 CLOTHING. IT IS IN THE SAME STORY OR THE SAME SETTING WE 36:37.706 --> 36:44.096 FIND THAT GOD WAS SERIOUS ABOUT THIS. HE SAID, "YOU 36:44.096 --> 36:49.016 CANNOT PROFANE MY SANCTUARY. YOU CANNOT GO INTO ANY DEAD 36:49.016 --> 36:53.036 BODY." YET IN CHAPTER 10 OF LEVITICUS, IT TELLS US A 36:53.036 --> 36:58.346 STORY OF AARON'S TWO ROGUE SONS WHO WERE PRIESTS. WHEN 36:58.346 --> 37:03.445 THEY OFFERED STRANGE FIRE ON THE ALTAR, GOD INSTANTLY 37:03.445 --> 37:07.795 KILLED THEM. AND WHEN AARON WALKED INTO THE TEMPLE, HIS 37:07.795 --> 37:13.106 TWO SONS LAY DEAD ON THE GROUND. EVERYTHING IN HIM 37:13.106 --> 37:17.695 SAID, "TEAR YOUR GARMENTS." BUT GOD, MOSES TOLD AARON, 37:17.695 --> 37:21.626 HE SAID, "THEY MAY BE YOUR SONS, BUT YOU WILL NOT REND 37:21.626 --> 37:25.556 YOUR GARMENTS LEST YOU DIE." HE SAID, "YOUR BRETHREN CAN 37:25.556 --> 37:29.365 MOURN. THE WHOLE HOUSE OF ISRAEL CAN MOURN. EVERYBODY 37:29.365 --> 37:32.485 ELSE CAN GO TO PIECES AND WAIL OVER THE DEATH OF YOUR 37:32.485 --> 37:38.126 SONS." BUT HE SAID, "YOU CANNOT REND YOUR GARMENTS 37:38.126 --> 37:43.376 BECAUSE THE ANOINTING OIL OF THE LORD IS UPON YOU." SO 37:43.376 --> 37:48.326 AARON THAT DAY MARCHED IN SILENT PROCESSION BEHIND HIS 37:48.326 --> 37:52.405 COUSINS WHOM MOSES DESIGNATED TO CARRY THE 37:52.405 --> 37:58.333 ASHES OF HIS BOYS IN THE FOLDS OF THEIR GARMENTS. 37:59.726 --> 38:05.215 AARON WALKED BEHIND SILENT BECAUSE HE HAD ANOINTING OIL 38:05.215 --> 38:11.563 ON HIM AND HE WAS A PRIEST WHO WORE THE PRIESTLY ROBES. 38:15.085 --> 38:20.005 UNDERSTAND THAT IT WAS AN ACCEPTED EXPRESSION. IT WAS 38:20.005 --> 38:25.405 A COMMON FORM OF DECLARING, IF NOT A VERBAL WAY OF 38:25.405 --> 38:30.985 SAYING SOMETHING CLEARLY. PROPHETS HAVE DONE IT. KINGS 38:30.985 --> 38:36.385 HAVE DONE IT. THEY WOULD DO IT AGAIN. ALL MANNER OF MEN, 38:36.385 --> 38:41.126 GOOD AND GODLY, WOULD TEAR THEIR GARMENTS, BUT NOT THE 38:41.126 --> 38:46.346 HIGH PRIEST OR HIS SONS. AND THERE WAS AND THERE IS A 38:46.346 --> 38:53.096 REASON WHY RENDERING ONE'S GARMENTS AND TEARING YOUR 38:53.096 --> 39:00.025 MANTLE AS A PRIEST WAS FORBIDDEN. IT WAS AN 39:00.025 --> 39:06.146 ADMISSION. I AM COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED. I AM 39:06.146 --> 39:12.596 DEVASTATED. I AM DESPAIRING OF LIFE. SOME GRIEF, SOME 39:12.596 --> 39:18.626 SORROW, SOME CIRCUMSTANCE HAS OVERTAKEN ME FOR WHICH 39:18.626 --> 39:23.096 THERE IS NO ANSWER, THERE IS NO REMEDY, THERE IS NO 39:23.096 --> 39:27.295 SOLUTION. IT MAY BE OKAY FOR PROPHETS AND KINGS AND 39:27.295 --> 39:31.016 CONQUERORS TO MAKE THIS DECLARATION, BUT IT WAS NOT 39:31.016 --> 39:36.025 OKAY FOR THE PRIESTS BECAUSE LIKE ALL THESE OTHER MEN, 39:36.025 --> 39:41.036 THESE MEN HAD TO ONCE A YEAR PUT ON THE GARMENT AND TO 39:41.036 --> 39:45.686 WALK INTO THE HOLIEST OF HOLIES AND STAND IN A PURE 39:45.686 --> 39:51.505 AND UNDEFILED PRESENCE OF AN ALMIGHTY JEHOVAH LIVING GOD. 39:51.505 --> 39:56.846 AND IT WOULD HAVE BEEN AN INSULT OR AN AFFRONT TO GOD 39:56.846 --> 40:01.405 FOR ANYBODY WHO WALKED INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD TO 40:01.405 --> 40:22.115 DECLARE TO GOD THAT HE HAD BEEN OVERWHELMED, THAT THERE 40:22.115 --> 40:31.025 WAS ANY GRIEF, ANY SORROW, ANY SUFFERING, ANY TRIAL OR 40:31.025 --> 40:36.726 TRAGEDY, TEMPTATION, DISEASE, DEATH, OR 40:36.726 --> 40:44.346 DEVASTATION THAT WAS GREATER THAN THEIR GOD. EVERYBODY 40:44.346 --> 40:47.945 ELSE COULD REND THEIR GARMENTS. EVERYBODY ELSE 40:47.945 --> 40:52.295 COULD GO TO PIECES, BUT NOT YOU AARON, BECAUSE YOU STAND 40:52.295 --> 40:56.826 BEFORE THE ALMIGHTY GOD AND TO COME BEFORE GOD WITH A 40:56.826 --> 41:00.726 RIP IN YOUR GARMENT, INDICATED THAT SOMEWHERE, 41:00.726 --> 41:06.485 SOME PARTICULAR DAY, SOME CIRCUMSTANCE, YOU DECIDED 41:06.485 --> 41:10.686 THAT SOMETHING WAS BIGGER THAN YOUR GOD. IT IS NOT 41:10.686 --> 41:15.155 ACCEPTABLE IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD TO IMPLY THAT 41:15.155 --> 41:19.175 THERE IS SOMETHING GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE TODAY THAT SAYS 41:19.175 --> 41:22.806 THERE IS A CIRCUMSTANCE, THERE IS A SICKNESS, THERE 41:22.806 --> 41:27.876 IS A PROBLEM THAT GOD DOES NOT HAVE THE ANSWER FOR. TO 41:27.876 --> 41:33.005 SUGGEST THAT THERE IS A NEED IN YOUR LIFE FOR WHICH GOD 41:33.005 --> 41:37.956 IS NOT SUFFICIENT, IS UNSPEAKABLE. SO THE PRIEST 41:37.956 --> 41:42.065 WHO WALKED IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD COULD NOT, 41:42.065 --> 41:46.626 HALLELUJAH, RUIN HIS GARMENT. HE HAD ACCESS, HE 41:46.626 --> 41:51.126 HAD ANOINTING. AND TO DWELL IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD 41:51.126 --> 41:55.715 MEANS THAT FOR YOU AND I, THERE IS NEVER ANY MOMENT 41:55.715 --> 41:59.706 THAT WE NEED TO DESPAIR. TODAY I WANT TO TELL YOU 41:59.706 --> 42:04.775 THAT WE LIVE IN THE HOLY PRESENCE OF GOD. AND THE 42:04.775 --> 42:10.175 SAME PRESENCE THAT DWELLS, HALLELUJAH, IN US IS THE 42:10.175 --> 42:14.436 SAME PRESENCE THAT DWELT IN SOLOMON'S TEMPLE, THAT 42:14.436 --> 42:18.215 DWELT, HALLELUJAH, IN THE TABERNACLE, THAT DWELT IN 42:18.215 --> 42:23.016 THE RUINS OF ZERUBBABEL'S TEMPLE. AND I DECLARE TODAY, 42:23.016 --> 42:31.505 HALLELUJAH, THAT THE GOD OF GLORY LIVES IN US. MAKE NO 42:31.505 --> 42:38.487 MISTAKE, YOU ARE GOING TO EXPERIENCE PAIN, GRIEF, 42:39.786 --> 42:48.275 FRUSTRATION, FEAR, FAILURE, AND THERE WILL BE SEASONS OF 42:48.275 --> 42:53.405 SICKNESS AND SORROW AND DISAPPOINTMENT. WE WILL 42:53.405 --> 42:59.735 SUFFER. AND WE HAVE BEEN DECEIVED BY MEN WHO HAVE 42:59.735 --> 43:03.275 TOLD US THAT WHEN YOU ARE SAVED AND YOU'RE A 43:03.275 --> 43:09.576 CHRISTIAN, ALL THAT GOES AWAY. BUT CAN I TELL YOU 43:09.576 --> 43:13.505 THAT THE GREATEST LOVE IS DEFINED BY WHAT KIND OF 43:13.505 --> 43:19.596 PRAISE COMES OUT OF YOUR PAIN. THE GREATEST WORSHIP 43:19.596 --> 43:23.885 IS WHAT COMES OUT WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE GOD VIOLATED HIS 43:23.885 --> 43:27.635 WORD AND LET YOU DOWN. BUT YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO 43:27.635 --> 43:32.318 DECLARE, "I AM PERSUADED THAT NOTHING IS GOING TO 43:32.318 --> 43:37.025 SEPARATE ME FROM THE LOVE OF GOD." WE GOT TO GET OVER 43:37.025 --> 43:40.565 BEING DRUNK ON PROSPERITY. WE GOT TO GET OVER BEING 43:40.565 --> 43:45.032 DRUNK. IT'S ALL ABOUT ME. IT WAS NEVER ABOUT YOU, AND 43:45.032 --> 43:49.596 IT'S NOT ABOUT ME. IT IS TO GOD BE THE GLORY. AND GOD 43:49.596 --> 43:54.335 SAID, "DO I HAVE SOMEBODY IN THIS BUILDING THAT DOESN'T 43:54.335 --> 43:58.025 LIVE ON THE MOUNTAINTOP, BUT THEY'RE STILL IN THE VALLEY, 43:58.025 --> 44:02.045 BUT KNOW HOW TO REACH DOWN INTO THE DEPTH OF THE SOUL 44:02.045 --> 44:05.826 AND SAY, 'YEAH, I KNOW I'M WALKING THROUGH THE VALLEY 44:05.826 --> 44:09.996 AND THE SHADOW OF DEATH. I WILL FEAR NO EVIL.' 44:09.996 --> 44:22.266 [APPLAUSE] WE'RE GONNA HAVE MAYBE REVERSAL OF FORTUNE. 44:24.755 --> 44:30.717 YOU WILL BE BETRAYED BY PEOPLE THAT YOU LOVE AND 44:30.717 --> 44:39.025 THAT YOU LAID YOUR LIFE DOWN FOR. BUT WE KNOW THIS, THE 44:39.025 --> 44:46.175 RAIN FALLS ON THE JUST AND THE UNJUST. IF YOU'RE 44:46.175 --> 44:55.626 LOOKING FOR A WORLD WITHOUT PAIN OR A LIFE WITHOUT 44:55.626 --> 44:59.315 PRESSURE, I GOT NEWS FOR YOU, YOU'RE GOING TO BE 44:59.315 --> 45:06.425 DISAPPOINTED. BECAUSE GOD NEVER PROMISED YOU AN EASY 45:06.425 --> 45:11.856 ROAD. HE JUST PROMISED YOU THAT WHEN YOU WALK ON IT, 45:11.856 --> 45:16.806 I'LL BE BY YOUR SIDE AND I'LL HOLD YOUR HAND. AND 45:16.806 --> 45:20.286 WHEN YOU STAND AT THE COFFIN OF YOUR LOVED ONE, THE LORD 45:20.286 --> 45:24.726 SAID, I WILL BE YOUR COMFORT IN THE MIDNIGHT HOUR. AND 45:24.726 --> 45:28.476 WHEN YOU'RE BETRAYED BY YOUR LOVED ONES, YOU GOT A FRIEND 45:28.476 --> 45:31.626 THAT STICK IT CLOSER THAN A BROTHER. AND WHEN YOU STAND 45:31.626 --> 45:35.226 IN DIVORCE COURT OF NO FAULT OF YOUR OWN, GOD SAID, I'M 45:35.226 --> 45:38.885 STILL YOUR HUSBAND AND I'M STILL YOUR WIFE. AND I WILL 45:38.885 --> 45:42.335 SUPPLY ALL OF YOUR NEED ACCORDING TO MY RICHES AND 45:42.335 --> 45:45.996 GLORY. GOD IS LOOKING FOR SOME MEN AND WOMEN THAT WILL 45:45.996 --> 45:50.735 GIVE HIM THEIR BEST BECAUSE GOD HAS YET SAID THE LORD TO 45:50.735 --> 45:54.306 RELEASE SOME UNKNOWN RICHES THAT ARE IN THE HOUSEHOLD OF 45:54.306 --> 45:58.115 GOD. AND THE LORD SAID, I'VE SAVED MY BEST FOR LAST, BUT 45:58.115 --> 46:01.326 I CAN'T GIVE IT TO THE LUKEWARM. I CAN'T GIVE IT TO 46:01.326 --> 46:05.556 MEN AND WOMEN. I PUT A PRICE ON MY RELATIONSHIP. AND THE 46:05.556 --> 46:09.576 LORD SAID, IF I NEVER BLESS YOU AGAIN, IF IT LOOKS LIKE 46:09.576 --> 46:13.331 I'VE FORSAKEN YOU, CAN YOU STILL WALK WITH ME IN THE 46:13.331 --> 46:17.826 MIDNIGHT HOUR? CAN YOU STILL HOLD ON TO THE WORD OF GOD? 46:17.826 --> 46:22.416 WILL YOU STILL BELIEVE ME THAT I NEVER, NO NEVER, NO 46:22.416 --> 46:26.168 MATTER WHAT HAPPENS, I WILL NEVER FORSAKE YOU AND I'LL 46:26.168 --> 46:38.556 NEVER LET YOU DOWN. I CAN TELL YOU ON THE AUTHORITY OF 46:38.556 --> 46:44.135 GOD'S WORD, THOUGH WE HAVE TRIBULATION IN THIS LIFE, 46:46.146 --> 46:54.485 THERE IS NO NEED TO REND YOUR GARMENTS OR OUR 46:54.485 --> 47:01.865 GARMENTS IN DESPAIR. GOD, AND I SAY THIS FROM PERSONAL 47:01.865 --> 47:09.425 EXPERIENCE, GOD IS MORE THAN A MATCH FOR WHATEVER IS 47:09.425 --> 47:15.456 COMING AFTER YOU. CHAOS MAY ENDURE FOR A SEASON IN YOUR 47:15.456 --> 47:23.045 LIFE. MAY COME AND THE RAIN MAY FALL. BUT DON'T DECIDE 47:23.045 --> 47:28.211 THAT THE STORM THAT YOU'RE IN IS BIGGER THAN GOD OR THE 47:28.211 --> 47:32.826 PROBLEM IS TOO MUCH FOR GOD TO HANDLE. IF YOU'RE GOING 47:32.826 --> 47:36.815 TO BE A PRIEST IN MY PRESENCE, GOD SAID YOU CAN'T 47:36.815 --> 47:40.835 COME IN WITH YOUR GARMENT TORN. THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE 47:40.835 --> 47:44.945 SAYS ENTER INTO HIS GATES WITH THANKSGIVING AND INTO 47:44.945 --> 47:48.996 HIS COURTS WITH PRAISE. WHAT IS THAT? THE LORD SAID I'M 47:48.996 --> 47:52.806 GONNA TAKE OFF OF YOU THE SPIRIT OF HEAVINESS AND GOD 47:52.806 --> 47:56.103 SAID I'M GONNA DRESS YOU BACK UP IN THE GARMENTS OF 47:56.103 --> 48:01.115 PRAISE. PRAISE DON'T MEAN A LOT ON THE MOUNTAIN, BUT 48:01.115 --> 48:04.326 PRAISE MEANS A WHOLE MUCH WHEN YOU'RE IN THE VALLEY 48:04.326 --> 48:08.153 AND IT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE THE WORD IS WORKING AND YOU 48:08.153 --> 48:12.306 CAN'T MAKE IT MAKE SENSE THAT GOD, IT LOOKS LIKE YOU 48:12.306 --> 48:15.652 DIDN'T TELL THE TRUTH. BUT THE LORD SAID, WHEN YOU 48:15.652 --> 48:19.356 DON'T UNDERSTAND, THAT'S WHEN YOU STEP OVER INTO THE 48:19.356 --> 48:23.646 DIMENSION CALLED FAITH AND YOU TELL HIM I DON'T KNOW, I 48:23.646 --> 48:27.936 DON'T UNDERSTAND, BUT I BELIEVE THAT I GOT A GOD 48:27.936 --> 48:35.902 THAT CANNOT LIE AND NOTHING IS IMPOSSIBLE WITH THE LORD. 48:40.266 --> 48:47.465 APOSTLE PAUL WAS HONEST ABOUT HIS PERILS. HE OWNED 48:47.465 --> 48:56.735 UP TO BEING TROUBLED AND PERPLEXED AND PERSECUTED AND 48:56.735 --> 49:04.985 CAST DOWN. HE DESCRIBED HIS LABORERS, HIS STRIPES, HIS 49:04.985 --> 49:13.896 PRISON, HIS DEATH, HIS BEATINGS, HIS STONINGS, HIS 49:13.896 --> 49:21.126 SHIPWRECKS, HE COULD RECOUNT IN BITTER DETAIL HIS 49:21.126 --> 49:28.505 JOURNEYS, HIS WEARINESS, HIS PAINFULNESS, HIS WATCHINGS, 49:30.456 --> 49:38.195 HIS HUNGER, HIS THIRST, HIS FASTINGS, THE COLD, THE 49:38.195 --> 49:44.391 NAKEDNESS, AND EIGHT OTHER PERILS THAT I'VE NOT NAMED. 49:46.085 --> 49:53.376 BUT UNLESS YOU ARE MISLED BY HIS WRITINGS, YOU MUST 49:53.376 --> 50:02.945 REMEMBER, HE SAID, "YES, I WAS TROUBLE ON EVERY SIGN, 50:02.945 --> 50:13.206 BUT I WAS NOT DISTRESSED. I WAS PERPLEXED, BUT I WAS NOT 50:13.206 --> 50:19.385 IN DESPAIR. I WAS PERSECUTED, BUT MY GOD DID 50:19.385 --> 50:25.865 NOT FORSAKE ME. AND I WAS CAST DOWN, BUT I WAS NOT 50:25.865 --> 50:31.815 DESTROYED BY THE DEVIL. I'VE GOT MY GARMENT INTACT. IT 50:31.815 --> 50:36.076 DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU ARE TODAY. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF 50:36.076 --> 50:39.346 YOU'RE ABOUNDING OR YOU'VE BEEN ABASED. IT DOESN'T 50:39.346 --> 50:42.916 MATTER IF YOU GOT A LUMP OR THE DOCTOR SAYS YOU'RE GOING 50:42.916 --> 50:46.485 TO DIE OF CANCER. IT DOESN'T MATTER IF YOU'VE LOST YOUR 50:46.485 --> 50:51.346 LOVED ONE. IT DOESN'T LOOKS LIKE IT'S OVER. IF YOU ARE 50:51.346 --> 50:56.175 STILL IN RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD, YOU WILL COME OUT 50:56.175 --> 51:00.641 ON THE OTHER SIDE WITH VICTORY IN YOUR LIFE. GOD IN 51:00.641 --> 51:03.856 THIS HOUR IS NOT LOOKING FOR THE WEALTHY OR THE 51:03.856 --> 51:07.726 INTELLECT. HE'S NOT LOOKING JUST FOR THE EDUCATOR. BUT 51:07.726 --> 51:11.956 HE SAID, CAN I GET ME SOME MEN AND WOMEN THAT LOVE ME 51:11.956 --> 51:16.916 FOR ME AND NOT FOR WHAT I GIVE WILL LOVE ME IN THE 51:16.916 --> 51:21.255 MIDST, HALLELUJAH, WHEN ALL HELL BREAKS LOOSE AND STILL 51:21.255 --> 51:26.146 STANDING ON THE ROCK OF AGES AND DECLARING, "I WILL NOT 51:26.146 --> 51:41.596 THROW IN THE TOWEL." HALLELUJAH. HE SAID, "I GOT 51:41.596 --> 51:49.876 MY GARMENT. IT'S WHOLE AND IT'S NOT TORN." NOW THANKS 51:49.876 --> 52:00.556 BE UNTO GOD WHO ALWAYS, NOT MAYBE, NOT SOMETIMES, BUT 52:00.556 --> 52:05.385 ALWAYS. HALLELUJAH. WHEN IT LOOKS LIKE IT'S OVER, WHEN 52:05.385 --> 52:08.476 IT LOOKS LIKE YOU CAN'T MAKE IT, WHEN YOU CAN'T SLEEP AT 52:08.476 --> 52:12.795 NIGHT, AND YOU'RE ALL ALONE, WHO CAUSES ME TO TRIUMPH? 52:12.795 --> 52:18.885 HALLELUJAH. IN JESUS CHRIST, OUR DEAR SAVIOR, GOD IS SO 52:18.885 --> 52:23.806 SERIOUS ABOUT THAT GARMENT NOT BEING TORN THAT HE WROTE 52:23.806 --> 52:30.045 IN EXODUS 32. HE SAID THIS, "DON'T," HE SAID, "REINFORCE 52:30.045 --> 52:34.726 THE HOLE AROUND THE OPENING SO THAT GARMENT CANNOT BE 52:34.726 --> 52:39.346 TORN." GOD IS SAYING TO SOME MEN AND WOMEN, "LISTEN, I 52:39.346 --> 52:42.735 KNOW YOU'RE IN A DARK PLACE. I KNOW YOU DON'T HAVE ANY 52:42.735 --> 52:47.146 UNDERSTANDING. I KNOW THAT BUT THE LORD SAID, "WILL YOU 52:47.146 --> 52:51.436 TRUST ME? WILL YOU HOLD ON TO ME? WILL YOU BELIEVE ME 52:51.436 --> 52:55.485 THAT I WILL COME THROUGH?" HALLELUJAH. I CAN SHOW UP IN 52:55.485 --> 53:00.135 THE FIERY FURNACE AND I CAN SHOW UP IN THE LION'S DEN. I 53:00.135 --> 53:03.615 CAN SHOW UP WHEN THE BOAT'S GOING DOWN FOR THE LAST 53:03.615 --> 53:07.815 TIME. MAYBE GOD WANTS TO SHOW YOU A SIDE OF HIM THAT 53:07.815 --> 53:11.416 YOU'VE NEVER SEEN. YOU CAN'T FIND HIM ON THE MOUNTAINTOP 53:11.416 --> 53:14.235 LIKE THAT. BUT I CAN TELL YOU THIS, WHEN YOU'VE MADE 53:14.235 --> 53:17.775 YOUR BED IN HELL, YOU LOOK OVER AND GOD SAID, "I BEAT 53:17.775 --> 53:21.045 YOU HERE. HALLELUJAH. THEN I'M GONNA BRING YOU BACK 53:21.045 --> 53:24.762 OUT." I BELIEVE THAT GOD'S GOT SOME MEN AND WOMEN IN 53:24.762 --> 53:28.726 THIS HOUSE WHO WANT TO TELL THE LORD, "I GOT MY GARMENT 53:28.726 --> 53:40.635 INTACT AND I GOT SOME PRAISE IN MY SPIRIT." WE USED TO 53:40.635 --> 53:43.905 SING A SONG IN OUR CHURCH, "WELL, WELL, WELL, WELL, 53:43.905 --> 53:47.565 WELL, WELL, I WISH SOMEBODY'S SOUL WOULD CATCH 53:47.565 --> 53:51.496 ON FIRE. HALLELUJAH. I BELIEVE GOD WANTS TO STRIKE 53:51.496 --> 53:56.146 A MATCH ON SOME OF YOU AND TURN YOU ON LIKE A FIRE IN 53:56.146 --> 53:59.384 YOUR BELLY AND WHEN PEOPLE BEGIN TO GET AROUND YOU, 53:59.384 --> 54:03.099 THEY BEGIN TO FEEL THE ANOINTING OF THE HOLY GHOST. 54:12.226 --> 54:19.425 IT MAY HAVE BEEN CULTURALLY ACCEPTABLE, BUT CAN I TELL 54:19.425 --> 54:25.277 YOU WHAT CULTURE ACCEPTS DOESN'T MEAN THAT GOD DOES. 54:25.277 --> 54:31.726 WELL THIS IS WHAT EVERYBODY DOES NOW. NOT IN GOD'S 54:31.726 --> 54:37.666 HOUSE. WE'RE NOT LOOKING TO BE POLITICALLY CORRECT IF IT 54:37.666 --> 54:42.255 VIOLATES THE WORD OF THE LORD. AND LISTEN, WHENEVER 54:42.255 --> 54:46.005 IN ORDER TO HAVE UNITY, YOU GOT TO COMPROMISE THE WORD 54:46.005 --> 54:49.755 OF GOD. YOU DON'T HAVE UNITY. YOU JUST SOLD OUT. 54:49.755 --> 54:54.286 SOMEWHERE YOU GOT TO DRAW A LINE. I WON'T STEP OVER 54:54.286 --> 54:57.376 THIS. AND THE DEVIL'S SAYING, COME ON, I'LL TAKE 54:57.376 --> 55:00.135 YOU WITH A RENT IN YOUR GARMENT. BUT I WANT TO STEP 55:00.135 --> 55:03.286 BACK AND SAY I CAN'T COME OUT. I'M IN THE PRESENCE OF 55:03.286 --> 55:08.115 THE LORD. THIS IS WHY GOD SAID, "I HAVE MADE YOU KINGS 55:08.115 --> 55:11.610 AND PRIESTS UNTO THE LORD." YOU AIN'T LIKE EVERYBODY 55:11.644 --> 55:16.186 ELSE. YOU DON'T HAVE THE LUXURY OF INDICTING GOD. YOU 55:16.186 --> 55:19.635 CAN'T COME INTO GOD'S PRESENCE AND MOAN AND GROAN. 55:19.635 --> 55:24.420 BUT YOU GOTTA COME IN AND BEGIN TO PROPHESY. MY GOD 55:24.420 --> 55:38.985 WILL COME THROUGH FOR ME AND I WILL PRAISE HIM. JUST 55:38.985 --> 55:43.545 BECAUSE THE GENERAL POPULATION CAN REND THEIR 55:43.545 --> 55:49.876 GARMENTS IN DIFFICULT MOMENTS, DOESN'T MEAN GOD'S 55:49.876 --> 55:57.376 MEN AND WOMEN WHO ARE PRIESTS CAN. BECAUSE WE 55:57.376 --> 56:02.282 MINISTER IN THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. THOUGH THE 56:02.282 --> 56:08.655 TEMPTATION IS GREAT, YOU CAN'T TEAR YOUR GARMENT AND 56:08.655 --> 56:12.795 COME INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD AND SAY, "GOD, WILL YOU 56:12.795 --> 56:16.606 HELP ME?" AND HIM SAY, "WELL, BY THE LOOKS OF YOUR 56:16.606 --> 56:23.175 GARMENT, YOU'VE ALREADY DECIDED I CAN'T." GOD, I 56:23.175 --> 56:25.965 BELIEVE THAT YOU'RE GONNA COME THROUGH. AND THE LORD 56:25.965 --> 56:28.996 SAID, "NO, YOU DON'T. LOOK AT YOUR GARMENT. IT'S GOT A 56:28.996 --> 56:31.936 BIG RIP IN IT. BEFORE YOU EVER CAME IN MY PRESENCE, 56:31.936 --> 56:34.815 YOU TORE YOUR GARMENT. AND YOU TORE IT AND YOU SAID, 'I 56:34.815 --> 56:39.016 AM COMPLETELY OVERWHELMED. I AM DEVASTATED. SOME SORROW, 56:39.016 --> 56:43.186 SOME DIAGNOSIS, SOME BETRAYAL OVERWHELM ME, AND 56:43.186 --> 56:45.981 IT'S TOO BIG FOR GOD. THEN WE WANT TO COME IN THE 56:45.981 --> 56:48.675 PRESENCE OF THE LORD AND SAY, "OKAY, GOD, DO YOUR 56:48.675 --> 56:52.456 THING." HE SAID, "I CAN'T BECAUSE I NEED SOMEBODY TO 56:52.456 --> 56:55.876 COME INTO AGREEMENT WITH ME." OUT OF THE MOUTH OF TWO 56:55.876 --> 56:58.516 OR THREE WITNESSES, LET EVERY WORD BE ESTABLISHED. 56:58.516 --> 57:01.755 AND WHEN YOU TELL YOUR GARMENT, YOU'VE ALREADY COME 57:01.755 --> 57:04.996 INTO AGREEMENT WITH THE LIAR, WHO IS THE DEVIL, WHO 57:04.996 --> 57:08.206 SAID, "I'VE GOT YOU." BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU, JESUS 57:08.206 --> 57:11.943 SAID, "I AM THE WAY, I AM THE TRUTH, I AM THE LIFE, 57:11.943 --> 57:15.585 AND NO MAN COMETH UNTO ME BUT BY THE WORD OF THE 57:15.585 --> 57:26.536 LORD." YOU AND I ARE DEALING OR HAVE DEALT WITH 57:26.536 --> 57:34.606 PRODIGALS, BETRAYAL BY FRIENDS, AGING PARENTS, 57:36.585 --> 57:44.565 FINANCIAL DIFFICULTIES. BUT THE BIBLE DECLARES, "HAST 57:44.565 --> 57:50.505 THOU NOT KNOWN, HAST THOU NOT HEARD THAT THE 57:50.505 --> 57:56.626 EVERLASTING GOD, THE LORD, THE CREATOR OF THE END OF 57:56.626 --> 58:02.295 THE EARTH, IS NEITHER WEARY, AND THERE IS NO SEARCHING, 58:02.295 --> 58:07.246 HIS UNDERSTANDING, HE GIVETH POWER TO THE FAINT, AND TO 58:07.246 --> 58:11.775 THEM THAT HAVE NO MIGHT, HE INCREASES THEIR STRENGTH. 58:11.775 --> 58:16.215 OH, THE YOUTH SHALL FAINT AND BE WEARY, THE YOUNG MEN 58:16.215 --> 58:21.045 SHALL UTTERLY FALL. BUT OH, THEY, HALLELUJAH, NOW WE 58:21.045 --> 58:26.456 SHIFT, BUT THEY, BUT THEY THAT WAIT UPON THE LORD 58:26.456 --> 58:30.766 SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH. THEY'RE GONNA MOUNT UP WITH 58:30.766 --> 58:34.996 WINGS AS EAGLES, AND THEIR FRIENDS AND THEY'RE GONNA 58:34.996 --> 58:38.385 SAY, "WHAT ARE YOU DOING? NOTHING'S GOING ON." AND YOU 58:38.385 --> 58:42.346 SAY, "I'M IN A WAITING MODE." HALLELUJAH. I DON'T 58:42.346 --> 58:46.545 KNOW WHEN, I DON'T KNOW HOW, I DON'T KNOW WHERE, BUT I 58:46.545 --> 58:50.775 WANT TO TELL YOU, I GOT A GOD THAT I'M WAITING ON. AND 58:50.775 --> 58:54.722 FINALLY GOD GETS UP OFF OF HIS THRONE ROOM AND SAYS, "I 58:54.722 --> 58:58.516 CAN'T TAKE IT ANYMORE. I GOTTA GO DOWN." THEY THAT 58:58.516 --> 59:03.856 WAIT UPON THE LORD SHALL RENEW THEIR STRENGTH. 59:03.856 --> 59:07.096 THEY'RE GONNA MOUNT UP WITH WINGS AS EAGLES. WE'RE GONNA 59:07.096 --> 59:10.666 RUN AND NOT BE AFRAID. CAN I TELL YOU, YOU NEED TO GET 59:10.666 --> 59:14.655 READY. PUT ON YOUR TRACK SHOES. NO WONDER GOD TOLD 59:14.655 --> 59:18.297 ISRAEL, GET READY. PUT ON YOUR SHOES BECAUSE YOU'RE 59:18.297 --> 59:22.396 GETTING READY TO COME OUT OF SLAVERY. I WANT TO ENCOURAGE 59:22.396 --> 59:26.596 SOMEBODY NEED TO GET THEIR SHOES ON BECAUSE THE LORD 59:26.596 --> 59:30.536 SAID, YOU'RE GETTING READY TO COME OUT OF WHERE YOU'VE 59:30.570 --> 59:34.065 BEEN AND YOU'RE GETTING READY TO GO BACK WHERE GOD 59:34.065 --> 59:38.275 WANTS YOU TO GO. IS THERE SOMEBODY THAT CAN GIVE A 59:38.275 --> 59:42.016 SHOUT OUT TO THE LORD AND DECLARE, THERE IS NOBODY 59:42.016 --> 59:55.755 LIKE OUR GOD. THERE IS ABSOLUTELY NOTHING THAT YOU 59:55.755 --> 01:00:04.516 AND I WILL EVER ENCOUNTER ON THE EARTH AND TIME IN THE 01:00:04.516 --> 01:00:11.085 WHOLE OF THE HUMAN EXPERIENCE THAT JESUS HAS 01:00:11.085 --> 01:00:17.146 NOT ALREADY FACED. HALLELUJAH! HAS NOT ALREADY 01:00:17.146 --> 01:00:23.476 FOUGHT AND ALREADY DEFEATED BY THE POWER OF THE HOLY 01:00:23.476 --> 01:00:34.952 GHOST. DAVID SAID IT WELL IN PSALM 61, "WHEN MY HEART IS 01:00:34.952 --> 01:00:42.271 OVERWHELMED, SOMEBODY, WON'T YOU LEAD ME TO THE ROCK THAT 01:00:42.271 --> 01:00:47.851 IS HIGHER THAN I?" PAUL PUT IT THIS WAY IN CORINTHIANS, 01:00:47.851 --> 01:00:53.911 "NOW THERE HAS NO TEMPTATION TAKEN YOU, BUT SUCH IS 01:00:53.911 --> 01:00:58.920 COMMON TO MEN. BUT GOD WHO IS FAITHFUL," HEAR ME, "BUT 01:00:58.920 --> 01:01:03.871 GOD WHO IS FAITHFUL," NOT FINICKY, "BUT GOD WHO IS 01:01:03.871 --> 01:01:10.351 FAITHFUL WILL NOT SUFFER YOU TO BE TEMPTED OR TESTED 01:01:10.351 --> 01:01:14.791 ABOVE," HALLELUJAH, "WHAT YOU ARE ABLE. BUT WITH EVERY 01:01:14.791 --> 01:01:20.581 TEMPTATION HE WILL ALSO MAKE A WAY TO ESCAPE THAT YOU MAY 01:01:20.581 --> 01:01:24.692 BE ABLE TO BEAR IT." SAYING TO GOD, "I WANT TO TELL YOU, 01:01:24.692 --> 01:01:29.077 DON'T TEAR YOUR ROBE TODAY. DON'T RAISE A WHITE FLAG, 01:01:29.077 --> 01:01:34.021 BUT UNDERSTAND GOD IS IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR MESS. GOD IS 01:01:34.021 --> 01:01:37.202 IN THE MIDDLE OF YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. GOD KNOWS 01:01:37.202 --> 01:01:40.920 WHERE YOU'RE AT. IF HE MADE YOU, HE CAN SUSTAIN YOU. IF 01:01:40.920 --> 01:01:45.061 HE MADE YOU, HE CAN HEAL YOU. AND IF HE WANTS TO, HE 01:01:45.061 --> 01:01:52.291 IS NOT ANY LESS. WHEN WE ARE IN BONDAGE, HE IS NOT ANY 01:01:52.291 --> 01:01:56.851 GREATER. AND WHEN WE ARE WALKING THROUGH THE RED SEA 01:01:56.851 --> 01:02:03.692 ON DRY GROUND, YOU MAY HAVE SURVEYED YOUR CIRCUMSTANCES. 01:02:03.692 --> 01:02:10.320 THAT'S WHY I WROTE THIS BOOK, TO ENCOURAGE YOU THAT 01:02:10.320 --> 01:02:17.762 IT DOESN'T MATTER WHERE YOU ARE. YEARS AGO, I HAD JUST 01:02:17.762 --> 01:02:22.320 COME OUT OF A DIFFICULT DIVORCE WITH AN UNFAITHFUL 01:02:22.320 --> 01:02:31.052 WIFE. I GAVE UP MY CHURCH. I FOUND MYSELF 2,500 MILES 01:02:31.052 --> 01:02:38.090 AWAY WITH AN OLD, BROKE-DOWN HOMELESS. I DIDN'T HAVE MY SON. 01:02:38.157 --> 01:02:44.400 I DIDN'T HAVE ANY MONEY. AND IN THE MONTH OF DECEMBER, I WAS 01:02:44.400 --> 01:02:49.231 TRYING TO MAKE MY WAY TO ANOTHER STATE BECAUSE MY 01:02:49.231 --> 01:02:53.130 UNCLE SAID I COULD SLEEP ON THE COUCH IN HIS LIVING 01:02:53.130 --> 01:02:59.222 ROOM. MY HEADLIGHTS DIDN'T WORK ON MY CAR, SO THAT COLD 01:02:59.222 --> 01:03:04.891 NIGHT I PULLED INTO A REST STOP, A TRUCK STOP, WITH 01:03:04.891 --> 01:03:09.251 TEMPERATURES AROUND ZERO, AND PULLED EVERYTHING THAT I 01:03:09.251 --> 01:03:15.242 OWNED IN THAT CAR OVER ME TO TRY TO STAY WARM. THERE EVER 01:03:15.242 --> 01:03:23.791 WAS A TEMPTATION. SOMETIME BEFORE THAT, I REMEMBER 01:03:25.561 --> 01:03:28.891 HEARING THE NEWS OF WHAT MY MARRIAGE HAD DETERIORATED 01:03:28.891 --> 01:03:34.081 TO. AND I WALKED IN A DAZE FOR SEVERAL MILES DOWN A 01:03:34.081 --> 01:03:37.771 ROAD. AS THE EVENING CAME, I FOUND MYSELF LOOKING AT A 01:03:37.771 --> 01:03:43.929 NIGHTCLUB CALLED STARLIGHT THEATER. I HAD ABOUT $200 IN 01:03:43.929 --> 01:03:48.032 MY POCKET STILL. AND THE DEVIL TOLD ME, "WHY DON'T 01:03:48.032 --> 01:03:50.400 YOU JUST GO IN AND THROW IN THE TOWEL AND GET DRUNK." 01:03:51.931 --> 01:04:00.001 THAT NIGHT I LOOKED UP INTO THE SKY AND I TOLD GOD, "YOU 01:04:00.001 --> 01:04:04.105 DIDN'T DO THIS TO ME AND I WILL NOT DO THIS TO YOU." 01:04:05.641 --> 01:04:13.831 AND I DID NOT REND MY GARMENT. I STAND HERE TODAY. 01:04:15.090 --> 01:04:19.081 YOU MAY THINK I'M BLESSED. YOU MAY THINK I DON'T KNOW 01:04:19.081 --> 01:04:23.282 WHAT IT IS TO SUFFER, BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU WHAT THE 01:04:23.282 --> 01:04:26.856 ANOINTING THAT GOD GAVE ME TODAY DIDN'T COME OUT OF A 01:04:26.856 --> 01:04:31.202 BOOK AND IT DIDN'T COME OUT OF A SCHOOL, BUT IT CAME OUT 01:04:31.202 --> 01:04:36.061 OF A SECRET PLACE WHERE I WAS, MY ENTRANCE WAS WHEN I 01:04:36.061 --> 01:04:40.472 GOT TO THE PRESENCE OF THE LORD. THE GATEKEEPER SAID, 01:04:40.472 --> 01:04:44.670 "I GOTTA LOOK AT YOUR GARMENT." AND WHEN HE LOOKED 01:04:44.670 --> 01:04:49.112 AT MY GARMENT, HE LOOKED INSIDE AND SAID, "NO TEARS." 01:04:51.211 --> 01:04:56.400 HALLELUJAH! NO MATTER WHERE YOU ARE RIGHT NOW, NO MATTER 01:04:56.400 --> 01:05:01.771 WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH, DON'T LET THE ENEMY MAKE YOU 01:05:01.771 --> 01:05:07.501 TEAR YOUR GARMENT. BETTER TO DIE WITH CANCER AND TO WAKE 01:05:07.501 --> 01:05:12.121 UP ON THE OTHER SIDE WITH A GLORIFIED BODY THAN TO SHAKE 01:05:12.121 --> 01:05:17.621 YOUR FINGER AT GOD AND SAY YOU LIED. YOU SAID YOU WILL 01:05:17.621 --> 01:05:21.242 HEAL ALL MY DISEASE. CAN I TELL YOU THERE ARE SOME 01:05:21.242 --> 01:05:25.952 THINGS YOU ARE NEVER GOING TO UNDERSTAND ABOUT GOD. HE 01:05:25.952 --> 01:05:30.481 WON'T EXPLAIN IT. HE WON'T GIVE YOU A REASON. HE'S JUST 01:05:30.481 --> 01:05:34.771 GOING TO SAY, WILL YOU TRUST ME? I'VE GOT BETTER THINGS 01:05:34.771 --> 01:05:39.121 FOR MY THOUGHTS TOWARDS YOU ARE GOOD AND NOT EVIL. 01:05:39.121 --> 01:05:43.411 BEFORE YOU WERE FORMED IN THE WOMB OF YOUR MAMA'S 01:05:43.411 --> 01:05:49.021 BELLY, I ORDAINED YOU FOR VICTORY. I ORDAINED YOU FOR 01:05:49.021 --> 01:05:53.731 GLORY. I ORDAINED YOU TO WALK IN A REALM OF ABSOLUTE 01:05:53.731 --> 01:06:03.661 VICTORY. PEOPLE WITH TORN GARMENTS ARE NOT GONNA TOUCH 01:06:03.661 --> 01:06:13.231 GENERATION Z. IT'S A CHURCH THAT'S GOT THE SMELL OF 01:06:13.231 --> 01:06:19.110 SMOKE ON THEM. THAT WHEN YOU WALK INTO THE PRESENCE OF 01:06:19.110 --> 01:06:24.811 THE LORD, THE ENEMY, THE ANGELS OF THE LORD WILL LOOK 01:06:24.811 --> 01:06:29.347 AT YOU AND GO, I CAN SMELL THE SMOKE OF HELL ON YOU, 01:06:30.661 --> 01:06:35.911 BUT I CAN'T FIND ANY TERROR IN YOUR GARMENT. IT'S ALL 01:06:35.911 --> 01:06:40.802 RIGHT TO SMELL LIKE THE VALLEY, BUT JUST MAKE SURE 01:06:40.802 --> 01:06:58.742 THAT YOUR GARMENT IS INTACT. PSALM 73 AND 17, DAVID 01:06:58.742 --> 01:07:09.090 DECLARED THIS, "MY STEPS ALMOST SLIPPED." THE KEY 01:07:09.090 --> 01:07:16.320 WORD IS "ALMOST." HOW MANY BEEN ON THE EDGE OF THAT 01:07:16.320 --> 01:07:23.851 CLIFF? HOW MANY BEEN ON THE EDGE, OR YOU'RE WALKING WITH 01:07:23.851 --> 01:07:30.391 GOD, YOU'RE WALKING WITH THE LORD AND YOUR KNEES START 01:07:30.391 --> 01:07:35.161 BUCKLING. YOU'RE NOT IN THE MIDST OF LISTENING TO PASTOR 01:07:35.161 --> 01:07:38.880 KENT PREACH ABOUT DON'T TEAR YOUR GARMENTS. YOU'RE ALL BY 01:07:38.880 --> 01:07:43.650 YOURSELF, AND YOUR STEPS SLIP, AND YOU BEGIN TO 01:07:43.650 --> 01:07:50.297 STUMBLE. DAVID SAID, "MY STEPS ALMOST SLIPPED. I 01:07:50.297 --> 01:07:56.070 ALMOST LOST MY FOOTING. I ALMOST GAVE UP. I ALMOST 01:07:56.070 --> 01:08:02.371 RAISED THE WHITE FLAG. I ALMOST TORE MY GARMENT 01:08:02.371 --> 01:08:06.211 BECAUSE I DECIDED THAT MY CIRCUMSTANCES WERE TOO 01:08:06.211 --> 01:08:11.791 GREAT, EVEN FOR GOD WHO CREATED HEAVEN AND EARTH. HE 01:08:11.791 --> 01:08:19.561 SAID, "BUT WHEN I GOT IN THE SANCTUARY, I GOT A DIFFERENT 01:08:19.561 --> 01:08:25.292 VIEW OF HOW GREAT GOD IS." I'M TALKING TO SOMEBODY 01:08:25.292 --> 01:08:30.181 TODAY UNDER THE SOUND OF MY VOICE WHO MAY BE ABOUT TO 01:08:30.181 --> 01:08:35.220 RING YOUR PRIESTLY GARMENT AND RAISE THE WHITE FLAG. I 01:08:35.220 --> 01:08:39.720 WANT TO CHALLENGE YOU. DON'T DO IT. DON'T DO IT. DON'T DO 01:08:39.720 --> 01:08:45.002 IT. IT DON'T MATTER WHERE YOU ARE. GOD IS GREATER THAN 01:08:45.002 --> 01:08:48.720 YOUR PROBLEM. YOU SAY, "BUT I'VE NEVER SEEN ANYBODY ELSE 01:08:48.720 --> 01:08:51.684 COME OUT OF THIS." MAYBE GOD WANTS TO MAKE YOU THE 01:08:51.684 --> 01:08:55.652 TEMPLATE TO YOUR FAMILY. IF YOU CAN COME OUT OF THIS 01:08:55.652 --> 01:08:59.761 WITH PRAISE IN YOUR MOUTH. IF YOU CAN COME OUT OF THIS 01:08:59.761 --> 01:09:03.990 WITH A JOY IN YOUR SPIRIT. IF YOU CAN COME OUT WITH ALL 01:09:03.990 --> 01:09:07.951 THE PAIN, BUT YOU'RE SKIPPING LIKE HIND FEET IN 01:09:07.951 --> 01:09:11.970 HOT PLACES. AND THEY SAY, "DON'T YOU KNOW YOU WANT TO 01:09:11.970 --> 01:09:15.542 BE DEPRESSED? YOU WANT TO BE DISCOURAGED? YOU WANT TO BE 01:09:15.542 --> 01:09:19.876 BURIED?" BUT I WANT TO SAY, "I'VE GOT A PRAISE, 01:09:19.876 --> 01:09:24.033 HALLELUJAH, IN MY SPIRIT, AND I WANT TO GET IT OUT. 01:09:24.033 --> 01:09:28.322 I'VE GOT A PRAISE IN MY SPIRIT, AND I WANT TO GET IT 01:09:28.322 --> 01:09:32.872 OUT." GOD IS LOOKING FOR SOME PEOPLE THAT KNOW HOW TO 01:09:32.872 --> 01:09:35.671 PRAISE HIM IN THE MIDDLE OF PAIN, IN THE MIDDLE OF 01:09:35.671 --> 01:09:50.612 SORROW. GIVE GOD A CHANCE. I THINK HE DESERVES IT. HE'LL 01:09:50.612 --> 01:09:59.671 NEVER LEAVE YOU. HE PROMISED YOU THAT. I FOUND GOD IN A 01:09:59.671 --> 01:10:04.171 MUCH GREATER DIMENSION WHEN I WAS HOMELESS THAN WHEN I 01:10:04.171 --> 01:10:10.530 EVER PASTORED OR STOOD IN A PULPIT. I FOUND GOD WHEN I 01:10:10.530 --> 01:10:15.002 WAS BETRAYED IN A MUCH GREATER SCOPE THAN I WAS 01:10:15.002 --> 01:10:20.072 SURROUNDED BY FRIENDS. I LIVED BROKE MOST OF MY LIFE. 01:10:20.072 --> 01:10:26.341 I EVANGELIZED IN VEHICLES. I DROVE COMING HOME ONE NIGHT 01:10:26.341 --> 01:10:30.811 FROM OUTSIDE OF COLUMBUS, OHIO, IN THE MIDDLE OF 01:10:30.811 --> 01:10:38.207 WINTER IN AN OLD DODGE CONVERSION VAN WITH MY THREE 01:10:38.207 --> 01:10:44.056 YEAR OLD DAUGHTER INSIDE AND MY WIFE SO BROKE THAT THE 01:10:44.056 --> 01:10:47.867 HEATER CORE WAS OUT AND WE DID NOT HAVE THE MONEY TO 01:10:47.867 --> 01:10:51.318 FIX IT, AND I HAD JUST STOOD IN THE PULPIT AND PREACHED 01:10:51.318 --> 01:10:55.426 HOW GREAT GOD WAS, AND YET I HAD A SIXTEENTH OF AN INCH 01:10:55.426 --> 01:10:59.447 OF ICE ON THE INSIDE OF THE WINDOWS IN MY VAN, AND THE 01:10:59.447 --> 01:11:02.778 DEVIL'S SAYING WHAT KIND OF GOD WOULD ALLOW YOU TO DO 01:11:02.778 --> 01:11:05.117 THAT, AND WHAT KIND OF FATHER ARE YOU THAT WOULD 01:11:05.117 --> 01:11:08.747 PUT YOUR BABY IN THAT KIND OF SITUATION? BUT CAN I TELL 01:11:08.747 --> 01:11:12.136 YOU, HALLELUJAH, THOSE ARE THE TIMES THAT YOUR PRAISE 01:11:12.136 --> 01:11:15.797 IS THE GREATEST. IT'S NOT TODAY WHEN WE JUST STAND AND 01:11:15.797 --> 01:11:19.967 SAY, "OH GOD, YOU'RE GREAT," BUT IT'S IN THE DARK PLACES. 01:11:19.967 --> 01:11:23.146 HALLELUJAH. IT'S IN THE PLACES WHERE THE WORD 01:11:23.146 --> 01:11:26.657 DOESN'T MAKE SENSE TO YOU, THAT PEOPLE CAN QUOTE YOU 01:11:26.657 --> 01:11:29.837 VERSES AND YOU HAVE TO TELL THEM, "THAT DOESN'T WORK FOR 01:11:29.837 --> 01:11:33.707 ME. I ALREADY TRIED THAT." BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, 01:11:33.707 --> 01:11:36.407 WHEN THE RUBBER MEETS THE ROAD, YOU JUST HAVE TO 01:11:36.407 --> 01:11:40.667 DECIDE, "I WOULD RATHER GO TO HEAVEN SICK AND BROKE 01:11:40.667 --> 01:11:44.778 THAN TO GO TO HELL WITH AN INDICTMENT IN MY SPIRIT AND 01:11:44.778 --> 01:11:48.965 A ROBE THAT'S BEEN TORN." ALL I WANT TO MAKE SURE IS 01:11:48.965 --> 01:11:52.667 THAT WHEN YOU AND I GET TO THE GATES OF PEARL AND THEY 01:11:52.667 --> 01:11:57.587 CHECK US OUT, THEY SAY, "ROBE'S INTACT." HALLELUJAH. 01:11:57.587 --> 01:12:00.646 YOU KNOW WHAT THAT SAY? THAT THERE WAS NOTHING THAT COULD 01:12:00.646 --> 01:12:04.967 SEPARATE US FROM THE LOVE OF GOD. MY PRODIGAL, MY 01:12:04.967 --> 01:12:09.407 BETRAYAL, MY FINANCIAL REVERSAL, MY SICKNESS, MY 01:12:09.407 --> 01:12:13.636 DISAPPOINTMENT, MY FAILURE. NOTHING GOT ME TO TEAR MY 01:12:13.636 --> 01:12:17.717 ROBE, BUT I'VE GOT A ROBE INTACT. IS THERE SOME PEOPLE 01:12:17.717 --> 01:12:21.886 TODAY THAT CAN DECLARE, I'VE GOT MY ROBE INTACT. I STILL 01:12:21.886 --> 01:12:26.546 GOT PRAISE COMING OUT OF MY BELLY. (CONGREGATION 01:12:26.579 --> 01:12:29.627 APPLAUDING) YOU ALWAYS REMEMBER THIS, HELL ONLY 01:12:29.627 --> 01:12:35.447 GOES AFTER THE PEOPLE THAT HE'S AFRAID OF. NO WONDER SO 01:12:35.447 --> 01:12:40.547 MANY WICKED PEOPLE PROSPER. THE GREATEST BILLBOARDS THAT 01:12:40.547 --> 01:12:46.007 HELL CAN HAVE. SLEEP AROUND, DENY GOD, BE AN ATHEIST, BE 01:12:46.007 --> 01:12:50.447 WOKE, B-D-E-I, DO ALL KINDS OF MESS. AND THE DEVIL SAY, 01:12:50.447 --> 01:12:52.007 "I'LL MAKE SURE YOU GET MILLIONS OF DOLLARS, YOUR 01:12:52.007 --> 01:12:54.903 BUSINESS WILL PROSPER. EVERYTHING WILL BE GREAT." 01:12:54.903 --> 01:13:01.606 BUT YOU ANNOUNCE YOUR INTENTION. I JUST ENROLLED 01:13:01.606 --> 01:13:06.077 IN THE ARMY OF GOD. I'M A VOLUNTEER FOR THE LORD JESUS 01:13:06.077 --> 01:13:10.577 CHRIST. JESUS SAID, "WELL, GET READY. THEY HATED ME AND 01:13:10.577 --> 01:13:14.207 THEY'RE GONNA HATE YOU." HALLELUJAH. BUT I WILL BE 01:13:14.207 --> 01:13:27.659 WITH YOU IN THE MIDNIGHT HOURS. I CLOSE TODAY. JESUS, 01:13:28.907 --> 01:13:35.747 WHO IS OUR GREAT EXAMPLE, THAT'S WHY THE SCRIPTURE 01:13:35.747 --> 01:13:39.377 SAYS, "THERE IS NO TEMPTATION TO OVERCOME YOU 01:13:39.377 --> 01:13:47.926 THAT GOD HAS NOT ALREADY ENDURED." HE IS OVERWHELMED 01:13:47.926 --> 01:13:52.306 WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE THAT ISAIAH HAS ALREADY FORETOLD 01:13:52.306 --> 01:13:59.297 HIS DEATH, AND ISAIAH SAID, "HE'S GOING TO BE SO 01:13:59.297 --> 01:14:03.556 TORMENTED AND SO TORTURED THAT WHEN YOU LOOK AT HIM, 01:14:03.556 --> 01:14:07.037 HE'S UNRECOGNIZABLE." HE SAID, "HE'LL BE MORE THAN 01:14:07.037 --> 01:14:12.947 ANY MAN." JESUS FINDS HIMSELF IN THE GARDEN OF 01:14:12.947 --> 01:14:20.447 GETHSEMANE, AND HE IS WARRING WITH THIS KNOWLEDGE 01:14:21.738 --> 01:14:27.197 OF WHAT'S GETTING READY TO HAPPEN TO ME. AND IT IS OF 01:14:27.197 --> 01:14:34.516 SUCH MAGNITUDE, HE IS UNDER SUCH EMOTIONAL STRAIN THAT 01:14:34.516 --> 01:14:39.497 THE CAPILLARIES IN HIS FOREHEAD BEGIN TO BREAK AND 01:14:39.497 --> 01:14:43.846 SWEAT MIXED WITH THEM AND IT BEGAN TO DROP OFF LIKE BLOOD 01:14:43.846 --> 01:14:52.606 DROPLETS. AND HE IS PRAYING, "GOD, FATHER, DON'T DO THIS 01:14:52.606 --> 01:15:01.787 TO ME. PLEASE DON'T MAKE ME DO THIS." IF GOD IN FLESH AS 01:15:01.787 --> 01:15:09.617 A MAN HAD TO GO TO THAT DEPTH TO WIN THE BATTLE, WHY 01:15:09.617 --> 01:15:13.577 WOULD YOU THINK IT'S STRANGE THAT YOU'VE GONE THROUGH 01:15:13.577 --> 01:15:17.627 WHAT YOU'VE GONE THROUGH? BUT DO YOU NOT KNOW THAT THE 01:15:17.627 --> 01:15:20.327 FOUNDATION OF THE CHURCH IS BUILT ON THE BLOOD OF 01:15:20.327 --> 01:15:26.028 MARTYRS? THE FREEDOM THAT YOU AND I HAVE TODAY IS 01:15:26.028 --> 01:15:30.047 BECAUSE SOMEBODY DIDN'T REND THEIR GARMENTS AND THEY TIED 01:15:30.047 --> 01:15:32.867 HIM TO A STAKE OR THEY ASSASSINATED THEM OR THEY 01:15:32.867 --> 01:15:39.054 SHOT THEM OR THEY CUT THEIR HEADS OFF. AND AFTER THE 01:15:39.054 --> 01:15:45.167 THIRD TIME, JESUS, HALLELUJAH, SAID, "FATHER, 01:15:45.167 --> 01:15:51.614 NOT MY WILL, BUT THY WILL BE DONE." AND HE STOOD UP. THE 01:15:51.614 --> 01:15:55.846 BIBLE SAYS HE WAS A HIGH PRIEST. HE SAID, "I GOT MY 01:15:55.846 --> 01:16:06.047 GARMENT INTACT." NOW, HOURS LATER, THEY COME AND ARREST 01:16:06.047 --> 01:16:16.367 JESUS, AND PROPHECY BEGINS TO UNFOLD. HE HAS NOW BEEN 01:16:16.367 --> 01:16:26.146 STRIPPED OF HIS PRIESTLY ROBE. THAT ONE PRIEST LIKE 01:16:26.146 --> 01:16:34.157 UNTO GOD WHO HAS AN ENDLESS LIFE. AND HE'S HANGING ON 01:16:34.157 --> 01:16:45.016 THE CROSS. BUT HELL KNOWS THAT HE CAN'T COME TO THE 01:16:45.016 --> 01:16:52.247 PRESENCE OF GOD IF HIS ROBE IS TORN. AND AS HE'S HANGING 01:16:52.247 --> 01:16:58.337 ON THE CROSS, THE SOLDIERS TOOK HIS CLOTHES AND THE 01:16:58.337 --> 01:17:03.738 OUTER GARMENTS THEY BEGAN TO TEAR INTO PIECES, AND THEY 01:17:03.738 --> 01:17:10.068 GAVE EACH ONE A PIECE, FOUR PIECES. BUT WHEN THEY GOT TO 01:17:10.068 --> 01:17:16.068 HIS PRIESTLY ROBE AND THEY PUT THEIR HANDS ON IT TO 01:17:16.068 --> 01:17:23.176 TEAR IT, THE FATHER SAID, "YOU AIN'T TEARING THE 01:17:23.176 --> 01:17:28.096 PRIEST'S GARMENT BECAUSE HE DIDN'T TEAR IT." AND WHEN 01:17:29.117 --> 01:17:32.297 THE DEVIL IS SCREAMING, "TEAR THE GARMENT, TEAR THE 01:17:32.297 --> 01:17:35.657 GARMENT," BECAUSE HE KNEW IF THEY WOULD TEAR IT, JESUS, 01:17:35.657 --> 01:17:38.117 HALLELUJAH, COULDN'T COME INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE 01:17:38.117 --> 01:17:42.827 LORD WITH A ROBE THAT HAD BEEN TORN. GOD SAID NO, AND 01:17:42.827 --> 01:17:47.386 WHEN THEY LOOKED AT IT, THE BIBLE SAID THEY DECIDED NOT 01:17:47.386 --> 01:17:53.867 TO TEAR THE GARMENT. WHEN JESUS ROSE FROM THE DEAD, 01:17:53.867 --> 01:17:59.176 WITHIN THE NEXT 24 HOURS, HE PUT BACK ON HIS PRIESTLY 01:17:59.176 --> 01:18:04.936 ROBE THAT WAS NOT TORN. HE TOLD MARY IN THE MORNING, 01:18:04.936 --> 01:18:08.238 "DON'T TOUCH ME. I'M NOT YET A SINNER TO MY FATHER." BUT 01:18:08.238 --> 01:18:11.896 THAT NIGHT HE TOLD HIS DISCIPLES, "TOUCH ME." SO IN 01:18:11.896 --> 01:18:15.976 BETWEEN THE MORNING AND THE EVENING, THE GREAT HIGH 01:18:15.976 --> 01:18:21.976 PRIEST, WITH A ROBE THAT WAS NOT RENT, BEGAN TO MARCH UP 01:18:21.976 --> 01:18:27.377 THE STAIRWAYS OF HEAVEN INTO THE HOLIEST OF HOLIES, STUCK 01:18:27.377 --> 01:18:31.217 HIS FINGER IN THE DROP OF HIS OWN BLOOD, DRIPPED IT ON 01:18:31.217 --> 01:18:36.528 THE MERCY SEAT, AND HEAVEN SAID, "IT IS ENOUGH." 01:18:38.926 --> 01:18:48.646 HALLELUJAH! I THINK THAT THERE ARE SOME OF YOU THAT 01:18:48.646 --> 01:18:51.167 ARE GETTING READY TO COME INTO THE PRESENCE OF THE 01:18:51.167 --> 01:18:55.217 LORD, AND YOU'RE GOING TO BRING YOUR LOVED ONE WITH 01:18:55.217 --> 01:18:59.537 YOU, AND IN TYPE, YOU'RE GOING TO BRING, HALLELUJAH, 01:18:59.537 --> 01:19:03.318 THEM INTO THE PRESENCE OF GOD, AND WITH YOUR ROBE NOT 01:19:03.318 --> 01:19:07.127 TORN, GOD'S GOING TO SAY, "IT IS ENOUGH." THAT'S WHEN 01:19:07.127 --> 01:19:09.707 THE PRODIGALS ARE COMING HOME. THAT'S WHEN OUR 01:19:09.707 --> 01:19:12.318 NATION'S GOING TO CHANGE. THAT'S WHEN THE APATHY'S 01:19:12.318 --> 01:19:15.346 GOING TO BE GONE. THAT'S WHEN THE SEEKER-FRIENDLY'S 01:19:15.346 --> 01:19:18.917 GOING TO SHUT UP. AND THAT'S WHEN THE CHURCH OF THE MOST 01:19:18.917 --> 01:19:22.697 HIGH, THIS IS WHAT GOD'S BEEN WAITING FOR. IT'S GOD 01:19:22.697 --> 01:19:26.146 THAT'S SAYING, "I NEED ME A PRIESTHOOD THAT DIDN'T 01:19:26.146 --> 01:19:31.636 DECIDE SOMEWHERE, SOMETIME, THERE WAS SOME CIRCUMSTANCE, 01:19:31.636 --> 01:19:36.016 SOME EVIL, SOME DISEASE THAT WAS TOO GREAT FOR MY GOD. 01:19:36.016 --> 01:19:41.378 BUT CAN I TELL YOU, THE GOD IS GREATER IN YOU THAN HE 01:19:41.378 --> 01:19:45.436 THAT IS IN THE WORLD. AND WITH GOD NOTHING IS 01:19:45.436 --> 01:19:49.127 IMPOSSIBLE. IF YOU'RE BREATHING, YOU ARE STANDING 01:19:49.127 --> 01:19:53.238 ON THE EDGE OF A MIRACLE. IF YOU'RE STILL ALIVE, YOU YOU 01:19:53.238 --> 01:19:57.841 STILL GOT POSSIBILITIES THAT THE KING OF KINGS AND THE 01:19:57.841 --> 01:20:02.537 LORD OF LORDS IS GETTING READY TO BREAK THROUGH INTO 01:20:02.537 --> 01:20:08.596 YOUR WORLD OF DISAPPOINTMENT AND DILEMMA AND SAY, PEACE. 01:20:08.596 --> 01:20:12.976 BE STILL. I CHALLENGE YOU TODAY, ALL OF THIS BUILDING 01:20:12.976 --> 01:20:16.726 TO RUN AS AS FAST AS YOU CAN TO THIS FRONT AND BEGIN TO 01:20:16.726 --> 01:20:21.947 DECLARE GOD. I'M COMING WITH MY ROBE INTACT. GIVE ME 01:20:21.947 --> 01:20:25.667 SOMETHING. GIVE ME A SONG TO PLAY. HALLELUJAH. I WANT TO 01:20:25.667 --> 01:20:28.186 CHALLENGE YOU TODAY THAT YOU'RE GOING TO MAKE A 01:20:28.186 --> 01:20:36.637 DECLARATION TO THE LORD. HALLELUJAH. COME ON JUST FOR 01:20:36.637 --> 01:20:42.667 A LITTLE BIT. DON'T TELL GOD HOW BAD IT IS TODAY. I WANT 01:20:42.667 --> 01:20:46.056 YOU TO TELL GOD, LORD YOU ALREADY KNOW WHERE I'M AT. 01:20:46.056 --> 01:20:49.369 BUT I WANT TO TELL YOU, I BELIEVE THAT YOU GOT A 01:20:49.369 --> 01:20:53.587 SOLUTION. YOU GOT AN ANSWER FOR EVERY PROBLEM, EVERY 01:20:53.587 --> 01:20:57.636 SITUATION, EVERY VALLEY, EVERY DISEASE, EVERY 01:20:57.636 --> 01:21:02.197 FINANCIAL SETBACK. MY GOD IS GONNA COME THROUGH. MY GOD, 01:21:02.197 --> 01:21:05.467 I FEEL THE ANOINTING. SOMEWHERE, THE WORD OF THE 01:21:05.467 --> 01:21:14.228 LORD IS BREAKING SOME YOKES. (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:21:14.228 --> 01:21:18.398 OH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH. COME ON, THERE'S 01:21:18.398 --> 01:21:21.369 A SHOUT. THERE'S A SHOUT BUILDING UP IN THIS BUILDING 01:21:21.369 --> 01:21:26.963 TODAY. THERE'S SOMEBODY THAT'S TELLING GOD, I'M COMING OUT 01:21:26.963 --> 01:21:38.368 DIFFERENT THAN WHEN I CAME IN. [CHEERS AND APPLAUSE] 01:21:38.368 --> 01:21:43.502 - HALLELUJAH TO THE LAMB. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) 01:21:43.670 --> 01:21:49.743 HALLELUJAH, (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) HALLELUJAH, 01:21:50.143 --> 01:22:00.180 HALLELUJAH (X6). THERE'S MORE THAT IS STILL COMING TO THIS 01:22:00.220 --> 01:22:05.827 ALTAR. HALLELUJAH, WE'RE MAKING ROOM FOR YOU. THERE'S MORE 01:22:05.827 --> 01:22:10.417 THAT ARE COMING. THERE'S ROOM IN THIS ALTAR. THERE'S 01:22:10.417 --> 01:22:13.657 ROOM AT THE CROSS FOR YOU RIGHT NOW. YOU HAVE HEARD 01:22:13.657 --> 01:22:19.238 THE WORD OF THE LORD AND WE MUST RESPOND. THERE'S 01:22:19.238 --> 01:22:24.337 MINISTERS, PRAYER PARTNERS THAT ARE DOWN AND THEY'RE 01:22:24.337 --> 01:22:26.497 GOING TO BE MOVING AMONGST YOU AND PRAYING FOR YOU. 01:22:27.608 --> 01:22:31.926 HALLELUJAH. IT'S TIME TO TAKE THAT WORD AND PUT IT 01:22:31.926 --> 01:22:34.447 INTO ACTION RIGHT NOW THROUGH THE POWER OF PRAISE. 01:22:35.648 --> 01:22:39.938 HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. THOSE WATCHING AT HOME RIGHT 01:22:39.938 --> 01:22:44.305 NOW, THOSE IN THIS ARENA, IT MIGHT BE A PAINFUL PRAISE, 01:22:46.507 --> 01:22:50.197 BUT THAT'S THE MOST POWERFUL PRAISE. WE'VE HEARD WHAT TO 01:22:50.197 --> 01:22:53.077 DO. NOW FOR THE NEXT FEW MOMENTS, WITHOUT ANY MORE 01:22:53.077 --> 01:22:56.947 PROMPTING, WITHOUT ANYONE ELSE ENCOURAGING, JUST LET 01:22:56.947 --> 01:23:00.877 THE SOUND OF PRAISE FLOW FROM THIS ROOM. NOT THE 01:23:00.877 --> 01:23:05.287 SOUND OF PETITION, BUT THE SOUND OF PRAISE. HALLELUJAH. 01:23:05.287 --> 01:23:09.367 HALLELUJAH. COME ON, LET THE SOUND OF PRAISE FLOW FROM 01:23:09.367 --> 01:23:14.018 THE ROOM. AND AS YOU PRAISE THE LORD, MAY THE GIFT OF 01:23:14.018 --> 01:23:18.217 HEALING AND THE WORKING OF MIRACLES BE RELEASED IN THIS 01:23:18.217 --> 01:23:25.148 PLACE. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH. MAY 01:23:25.148 --> 01:23:28.657 GOD'S SUPERNATURAL PROVISION AND PROTECTION BE RELEASED 01:23:28.657 --> 01:23:33.697 UPON YOU AS YOU GIVE GOD THIS PRAISE. HALLELUJAH TO 01:23:33.697 --> 01:23:49.261 THE LAMB OF GOD. (SPEAKING IN TONGUES) HALLELUJAH (X7). COME 01:23:49.296 --> 01:24:01.640 ON, GIVE HIM THAT PRAISE. HALLELUJAH (X4). COME ON, WE'RE 01:24:01.675 --> 01:24:08.047 GOING TO GIVE HIM PRAISE THIS AFTERNOON. HEY, THE ENEMY'S BEEN 01:24:08.081 --> 01:24:13.619 - (SINGING) DEFEATED. DEATH COULDN'T HOLD YOU DOWN. WE'RE 01:24:13.654 --> 01:24:16.823 (SINGING) GOING TO LIFT OUR VOICE IN VICTORY. WE'RE GOING TO 01:24:16.856 --> 01:24:22.881 (SINGING) MAKE YOUR PRAISES LOUD. THE ENEMY'S BEEN DEFEATED. 01:24:22.881 --> 01:24:28.024 (SINGING) DEATH COULDN'T HOLD YOU DOWN. WE'RE GONNA LIFT OUR 01:24:28.024 --> 01:24:33.043 (SINGING) VOICE IN VICTORY. WE'RE GONNA MAKE YOUR PRAISE END 01:24:33.043 --> 01:24:38.135 (SINGING) NOW. THE ENEMY HAS BEEN DEFEATED. DEATH COULDN'T 01:24:38.135 --> 01:24:42.845 (SINGING) HOLD YOU DOWN. WE'RE GONNA RAISE OUR VOICE IN 01:24:42.845 --> 01:24:47.886 (SINGING) VICTORY. WE'RE GONNA MAKE YOUR PRAISE END NOW. THE 01:24:47.886 --> 01:24:53.856 ENEMY HAS BEEN DEFEATED. DEATH COULDN'T HOLD YOU DOWN. WE'RE 01:24:53.856 --> 01:24:57.965 (SINGING) GONNA RAISE OUR VOICE IN VICTORY. WE'RE GONNA MAKE 01:24:57.997 --> 01:25:03.302 (SINGING) YOUR PRAISES NOW. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF 01:25:03.337 --> 01:25:07.573 (SINGING) TRIUMPH. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF PRAISE. 01:25:07.606 --> 01:25:11.811 (SINGING) SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF TRIUMPH. WE LIFT YOUR 01:25:11.845 --> 01:25:15.948 (SINGING) NAME UP. WE LIFT YOUR NAME UP. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A 01:25:15.981 --> 01:25:20.119 (SINGING) VOICE OF TRIUMPH. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF 01:25:20.153 --> 01:25:25.057 (SINGING) PRAISE. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF TRIUMPH. WE LIFT 01:25:25.091 --> 01:25:29.061 (SINGING) YOUR NAME UP. WE LIFT YOUR NAME UP. SHOUT UNTO GOD 01:25:29.095 --> 01:25:32.998 (SINGING) WITH A VOICE OF TRIUMPH. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A 01:25:33.033 --> 01:25:37.069 (SINGING) VOICE OF PRAISE. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF 01:25:37.104 --> 01:25:41.341 (SINGING) TRIUMPH. WE LIFT YOUR NAME UP. WE LIFT YOUR NAME UP. 01:25:41.373 --> 01:25:46.011 (SINGING) SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF TRIUMPH. SHOUT UNTO GOD 01:25:46.046 --> 01:25:49.882 (SINGING) WITH A VOICE OF PRAISE. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A 01:25:49.916 --> 01:25:53.987 (SINGING) VOICE OF TRIUMPH. WE LIFT YOUR NAME UP. WE LIFT YOUR 01:25:54.020 --> 01:25:58.225 (SINGING) NAME UP. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF TRIUMPH. 01:25:58.257 --> 01:26:02.729 (SINGING) SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH A VOICE OF PRAISE. SHOUT UNTO GOD 01:26:02.761 --> 01:26:06.632 (SINGING) WITH A VOICE OF TRIUMPH. WE LIFT YOUR NAME UP, 01:26:06.666 --> 01:26:23.926 (SINGING) WE LIFT YOUR NAME UP. THE ENEMY HAS BEEN DEFEATED. 01:26:25.385 --> 01:26:29.256 (SINGING) DEATH COULDN'T HOLD YOU DOWN. WE'RE GONNA RAISE OUR 01:26:29.288 --> 01:26:33.592 (SINGING) VOICE IN VICTORY. WE'RE GONNA MAKE YOUR PRAISES 01:26:33.627 --> 01:26:39.431 (SINGING) LOUD. THE ENEMY HAS BEEN DEFEATED. DEATH COULDN'T 01:26:39.466 --> 01:26:44.738 (SINGING) HOLD YOU DOWN. WE'RE GONNA LIFT OUR VOICE IN VICTORY. 01:26:44.770 --> 01:26:47.740 (SINGING) WE'RE GONNA MAKE HIS PRAISES LOUD. 01:26:47.774 --> 01:26:50.010 - COME ON, HALLELUJAH. - (SINGING) THE ENEMY HAS BEEN 01:26:50.143 --> 01:26:55.081 (SINGING) DEFEATED. DEATH COULDN'T HOLD YOU DOWN. WE'RE 01:26:55.114 --> 01:26:59.586 (SINGING) GONNA LIFT OUR VOICE IN VICTORY. WE'RE GONNA MAKE OUR 01:26:59.618 --> 01:27:05.891 (SINGING) PRAISES LOUD. THE ENEMY HAS BEEN DEFEATED. DEATH 01:27:05.926 --> 01:27:10.197 (SINGING) COULDN'T HOLD YOU DOWN. WE'RE GONNA LIFT OUR VOICE 01:27:10.229 --> 01:27:14.935 (SINGING) IN VICTORY. WE'RE GONNA MAKE YOUR PRAISES LOUD. 01:27:14.967 --> 01:27:20.239 (SINGING) HEAR THEM SAY YOU'RE DEFEATED. DEATH COULDN'T HOLD 01:27:20.273 --> 01:27:25.345 (SINGING) YOU DOWN. WE'RE GONNA LIFT OUR VOICE IN VICTORY. WE'RE 01:27:25.378 --> 01:27:30.317 (SINGING) GONNA MAKE YOUR PRAISES LOUD. SHOUT UNTO GOD 01:27:30.350 --> 01:27:33.886 (SINGING) WITH THE VOICE OF TRIUMPH. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH 01:27:33.920 --> 01:27:38.190 (SINGING) THE VOICE OF PRAISE. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH THE VOICE OF 01:27:38.225 --> 01:27:42.494 (SINGING) TRIUMPH. WE LIFT YOUR NAME UP. WE LIFT YOUR NAME UP. 01:27:42.529 --> 01:27:46.733 (SINGING) SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH THE VOICE OF TRIUMPH. SHOUT UNTO 01:27:46.765 --> 01:27:50.837 (SINGING) GOD WITH THE VOICE OF PRAISE. SHOUT UNTO GOD WITH THE 01:27:50.871 --> 01:27:55.007 (SINGING) VOICE OF TRIUMPH. WE LIFT YOUR NAME UP. WE LIFT YOUR 01:27:55.041 --> 01:27:57.778 (SINGING) NAME UP. - COME ON, LIFT HIS NAME UP ON 01:27:57.810 --> 01:28:19.765 HIGH. LIFT HIS NAME ON HIGH. I THANK GOD FOR A PROPHET NAMED 01:28:19.800 --> 01:28:30.444 KENT CHRISTMAS WHO HAS DELIVERED WHAT THUS SAITH THE LORD. I 01:28:30.476 --> 01:28:34.413 THINK SOMETIMES THERE'S AN ASSUMPTION IN THE SPIRIT-FILLED 01:28:34.447 --> 01:28:38.952 FAITH, CHARISMATIC PENTECOSTAL, APOSTOLIC, WHATEVER YOU WANT 01:28:38.985 --> 01:28:43.503 TO CALL IT MOVEMENT, THAT IT JUST ALWAYS GOES GOOD FOR US. 01:28:44.757 --> 01:28:47.493 AND AN ASSUMPTION THAT EVERYONE KNOWS OUR TESTIMONY AND OUR 01:28:47.527 --> 01:28:52.307 AND OUR STORIES AND OUR PAIN. EVERYONE THAT HAS COME TO 01:28:52.307 --> 01:28:56.972 MINISTER HAS LIVED THROUGH HELL ON EARTH AT TIMES, AND THE 01:28:56.972 --> 01:29:03.145 VALLEY THE SHADOW OF DEATH. IT WAS NINE YEARS AGO, RIGHT NOW 01:29:03.145 --> 01:29:08.018 THAT I THOUGHT MY FIRST WIFE WAS HEALED OF CANCER. AND WE 01:29:08.018 --> 01:29:12.009 WERE IN A DOCTOR'S OFFICE GETTING HER RELEASE DATE. 01:29:13.478 --> 01:29:16.807 AND WHILE I WAS PARKING THE CAR, SHE FAINTED AND FELL. 01:29:18.608 --> 01:29:23.858 AND THREE WEEKS LATER PASSED AWAY FROM INTERNAL BLEEDING. 01:29:23.858 --> 01:29:28.368 I HAD THREE KIDS THAT WERE 10, 8 AND 5. HOW DO YOU EXPLAIN THAT 01:29:28.402 --> 01:29:36.443 TO A KID? WE PRAYED ONE SIMPLE PRAYER EVERY DAY IN THAT SEASON 01:29:36.443 --> 01:29:40.363 OF HELL. EVERY DAY, I TOOK MY LITTLE BABIES BECAUSE I 01:29:40.363 --> 01:29:42.849 DIDN'T... HOW DO YOU GIVE A THEOLOGICAL DISSERTATION TO 01:29:42.882 --> 01:29:49.523 LITTLE KIDS ABOUT THAT? WE'D SEEN THE SICK HEALED, THAT WE 01:29:49.555 --> 01:29:53.101 WERE AFFLICTED IN OUR HOME. AND EVERY DAY I GOT MY BABIES 01:29:53.101 --> 01:29:58.030 TOGETHER, AND I HAD COMMUNION WITH THEM, AND WE PRAYED. WE 01:29:58.064 --> 01:30:04.204 SAID, "GOD, I DON'T UNDERSTAND YOU, BUT I TRUST YOU." EVERY 01:30:04.204 --> 01:30:11.257 DAY, WE PRAYED THAT PRAYER WITH OUR CHILDREN. THOSE THREE 01:30:11.257 --> 01:30:15.577 CHILDREN MADE THEIR OWN DECISION TO HONOR THEIR 01:30:15.577 --> 01:30:20.768 MOTHER BY BEING WATER BAPTIZED AT HER FUNERAL. MY 01:30:20.768 --> 01:30:24.938 YOUNGEST WAS SIX YEARS OLD. HE DID NOT COME OUT OF THE 01:30:24.938 --> 01:30:29.858 WATER SPEAKING IN ENGLISH OR SPANISH. HE CAME OUT OF THE 01:30:29.858 --> 01:30:33.096 WATER SPEAKING IN AN UNKNOWN TONGUE AS THE HOLY SPIRIT 01:30:33.096 --> 01:30:38.497 BAPTIZED HIM AT HIS MOTHER'S FUNERAL. DO YOU KNOW, DO YOU 01:30:38.497 --> 01:30:41.228 KNOW WHAT THAT MEANS? THAT MEANS THAT THE COMFORTER 01:30:41.228 --> 01:30:44.648 SHOWED UP WHEN WE NEEDED HIM THE MOST. AND I'M HERE A 01:30:44.648 --> 01:30:47.858 LIVING WITNESS, A LIVING TESTIMONY TO TELL YOU THAT 01:30:47.858 --> 01:30:50.467 WHEN YOU'RE LIVING THROUGH THE VALLEY OF THE SHADOW OF 01:30:50.467 --> 01:30:55.507 DEATH AND IT FEELS LIKE ALL HOPE IS GONE. THE COMFORTER 01:30:55.507 --> 01:30:58.948 WILL STAY WITH YOU. THE COMFORTER WILL BE WITH YOU. 01:30:58.992 --> 01:31:07.266 (SILENCE) 01:31:07.287 --> 01:31:12.688 THAT MAN THAT JUST PREACHED TO YOU BURIED A LOVED ONE 01:31:12.688 --> 01:31:19.985 JUST A FEW YEARS AGO. THESE ARE NOT REHEARSED SERMONS 01:31:21.597 --> 01:31:25.917 CREATED IN A BOARDROOM BY PEOPLE THAT SAY, "OH, THIS 01:31:25.917 --> 01:31:30.507 POINT WILL MOVE THE CROWD. THIS WILL SOUND GOOD." THESE 01:31:30.507 --> 01:31:36.537 ARE WORDS BIRTHED IN THE PAINS OF THIS LIFE. BUT GOD 01:31:36.537 --> 01:31:42.087 HAS BEEN FAITHFUL. IT'S BEEN NINE YEARS IN MY TESTIMONY, 01:31:42.087 --> 01:31:45.568 AND NINE YEARS LATER, MY CHILDREN SERVE THE LORD. MY 01:31:45.568 --> 01:31:49.078 CHILDREN KNOW THE GOD THAT THEIR MOTHER ABOUT. OH, 01:31:49.078 --> 01:31:54.118 WE'VE LIVED THROUGH THROUGH SOME STUFF. NO ONE TOLD 01:31:54.118 --> 01:31:56.757 ABOUT THOSE TEENAGE YEARS, THE WAY THEY WERE GOING TO 01:31:56.757 --> 01:32:00.268 COME. I NEVER PRAYED FOR THE RAPTURE MORE THAN I'VE EVER 01:32:00.268 --> 01:32:12.358 PRAYED THE LAST NINE YEARS. BUT HE'S BEEN FAITHFUL. AND 01:32:12.358 --> 01:32:17.278 FAITH. OUR GREAT MEN AND WOMEN THAT HAVE LIVED THAT 01:32:17.278 --> 01:32:22.167 SERMON THAT YOU JUST HEARD AND MADE IT THEIR OWN. AND 01:32:22.167 --> 01:32:25.106 I'M SO THANKFUL TODAY THAT I WAS A WITNESS TO THE WORD OF 01:32:25.106 --> 01:32:27.868 THE LORD PREACHED THROUGH PASTOR KENT CHRISTMAS. CAN 01:32:27.868 --> 01:32:39.717 YOU THANK GOD FOR HIS GIFT TODAY? WE'VE ALREADY HAD AN 01:32:39.717 --> 01:32:43.408 INCREDIBLE TIME IN GOD'S HOUSE. TO OUR VIEWING 01:32:43.408 --> 01:32:48.297 AUDIENCE, PASTOR HANK WILL BE IN THIS PULPIT PREACHING 01:32:48.297 --> 01:32:54.268 TONIGHT. WE BEGIN AT 7 P.M. TUNE IN. MAKE SURE TO SHARE 01:32:54.268 --> 01:32:58.347 IT. MAKE SURE EVERYONE KNOWS TO TUNE IN AROUND THE WORLD. 01:32:58.347 --> 01:33:02.097 THERE WILL BE A WORD FROM THE LORD THAT YOU DON'T WANT 01:33:02.097 --> 01:33:05.818 TO MISS. FOR THOSE OF YOU IN THE ROOM, I'D COME EARLY. 01:33:05.818 --> 01:33:08.217 I'D FIGHT FOR THE FRONT SEATS. MAYBE DON'T FIGHT, 01:33:08.217 --> 01:33:11.877 BUT JUST, WELL, MAYBE A LITTLE BIT. IT'S OKAY. BUT 01:33:11.877 --> 01:33:16.318 I'D COME READY. AND THIS IS HOW YOU COME TONIGHT. DON'T 01:33:16.318 --> 01:33:19.738 COME WITH YOUR FINGERS CROSSED. COME WITH YOUR 01:33:19.738 --> 01:33:22.768 HANDS WIDE OPEN, EXPECTING THAT WHEN YOU COME IN THE 01:33:22.768 --> 01:33:26.337 PRESENCE OF GOD, GOD IS GOING TO POUR OUT MIRACLES. 01:33:26.337 --> 01:33:28.318 I WANT TO PRAY OVER YOU. AND THEN I BELIEVE THERE'S SOME 01:33:28.318 --> 01:33:31.078 MORE ANNOUNCEMENTS. FATHER, THANK YOU FOR THIS WORD. I 01:33:31.078 --> 01:33:33.807 DON'T LEAVE THIS WORD IN THIS ARENA. I TAKE IT HOME 01:33:33.807 --> 01:33:36.537 WITH ME IN MY HEART. IT'S COME THROUGH THE GATEWAY OF 01:33:36.537 --> 01:33:39.268 MY EARS, BUT IT'S NOW A SEED THAT'S BEEN PLANTED IN MY 01:33:39.268 --> 01:33:43.108 HEART. AND I THANK YOU, LORD. AND I MAKE COVENANT WITH YOU 01:33:43.108 --> 01:33:48.885 TODAY, LORD. I'LL PRAISE YOU NOT ONLY ON MY BEST DAYS, BUT YEAH, 01:33:48.885 --> 01:33:54.247 EVEN ON MY WORST DAYS, AND YOU WON'T FIND MY GARMENTS TORN. 01:33:54.247 --> 01:33:59.645 HALLELUJAH. BECAUSE YOU'RE FAITHFUL IN THE MIGHTY NAME THAT 01:33:59.645 --> 01:34:04.444 IS ABOVE EVERY NAME, THE NAME OF THE LORD JESUS CHRIST AND ALL 01:34:04.478 --> 01:34:08.280 GOD'S PEOPLE SAID, "WOULD YOU PRAISE HIM ONE MORE TIME?"