WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.843 (MUSIC) 00:09.843 --> 00:11.678 HELPS THAT I TURNED IT ON, RIGHT? 00:11.678 --> 00:15.515 LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH, ARE YOU READY TO TESTIFY 00:15.515 --> 00:19.018 OF THE GOODNESS OF THE LORD TONIGHT? 00:19.018 --> 00:21.521 YOU KNOW, THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ANSWERED PRAYER 00:21.521 --> 00:25.358 AND UNANSWERED PRAYER IS A MATTER OF PERSPECTIVE. 00:25.358 --> 00:27.693 SO LET'S GET OUR EYES ON THE KING OF KINGS 00:27.693 --> 00:31.530 AND ENTER INTO THE REALM OF BREAKTHROUGH, AMEN? LET'S GO. 00:31.530 --> 00:48.213 (MUSIC) 05:05.305 --> 05:16.149 (MUSIC) 05:16.149 --> 06:24.718 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 07:17.269 --> 08:05.485 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 08:05.485 --> 08:11.324 THE WORD SAYS, "NOW FAITH IS THE SUBSTANCE 08:11.324 --> 08:16.997 OF THINGS HOPED FOR, THE EVIDENCE OF THINGS NOT 08:16.997 --> 08:27.173 SEEN. I BELIEVE, I BELIEVE, IF HE SAID IT, I BELIEVE." 08:27.173 --> 08:32.177 SOMEBODY SAY, "I BELIEVE, IF HE SAID IT, I BELIEVE." 08:32.177 --> 08:33.513 COME ON, YOU GOTTA SAY IT LIKE YOU MEAN IT. 08:33.513 --> 08:36.182 IF HE SAID IT, I BELIEVE. COME ON, LOOK AT YOUR 08:36.182 --> 08:39.852 NEIGHBOR. IF HE SAID IT, I BELIEVE. COME ON. 08:39.852 --> 08:45.191 IF HE SAID IT, I BELIEVE. IF HE SAID IT, I BELIEVE. 08:45.191 --> 08:51.865 IF HE SAID IT, IF HE SAID IT, IF HE SAID IT, I BELIEVE. 08:51.865 --> 08:59.205 OH, IF HE SAID IT, I BELIEVE. I DON'T CARE 08:59.205 --> 09:02.542 WHAT THE DOCTOR'S REPORT SAYS. HE SAYS 09:02.542 --> 09:12.719 I'M HEALED. HE SAID IT, I BELIEVE IT. 09:12.719 --> 09:16.221 WE'RE BELIEVING FOR MIGHTY THINGS. 13:33.312 --> 13:37.285 I WANT TO PRAY FOR SOME PEOPLE TONIGHT. MAYBE YOU'RE HERE AND 13:37.285 --> 13:39.895 WE'LL PRAY FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE JOINING BY THE WAY OF THE 13:39.895 --> 13:44.066 INTERNET. BUT YOU ARE IN HERE AND THIS SCRIPTURE KEEPS COMING 13:44.066 --> 13:48.775 UP IN MY SPIRIT THAT HOPE DEFERRED MAKES THE HEART SICK. 13:48.775 --> 13:53.216 BUT WHEN A DESIRE IS FULFILLED, IT IS A TREE OF LIFE. IF YOU'RE 13:53.216 --> 13:57.804 IN HERE AND YOU SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, I JUST NEED A FRESH DOSE 13:57.804 --> 14:02.245 AND PRAYER BECAUSE I'VE GOTTEN DISCOURAGED AND I NEED A BOOST 14:02.245 --> 14:06.326 IN MY FAITH. NOW, HERE'S THE TRUTH. CAN YOU PRAY FOR SOMEBODY 14:06.326 --> 14:10.405 ELSE TO RECEIVE FAITH? WELL, JESUS DID FOR PETER. HE SAID, 14:10.405 --> 14:13.676 PETER, THE ENEMY HAS COME TO SIFT YOU LIKE WHEAT, BUT I'VE 14:13.676 --> 14:20.275 PRAYED FOR YOU. COME ON, THAT YOUR FAITH WOULD NOT FAIL. SO IF 14:20.275 --> 14:27.265 YOU NEED A DOSE OF A SHOT, A SUPERNATURAL BOOST OF FAITH 14:27.265 --> 14:30.535 TONIGHT, I WANT YOU TO COME UP HERE AND LINE UP. JUST RUN UP 14:30.535 --> 14:33.865 HERE. DON'T BE EMBARRASSED. LET'S PRAY. YOU SAY, MAN, I JUST 14:33.865 --> 14:39.686 NEED A SHOT OF FAITH. I NEED A DOSE. I NEED A DOSE FOR MY FAITH 14:39.686 --> 14:47.275 TO JUST BE IGNITED. I WANT TO PRAY FOR THAT. HALLELUJAH. OH, 14:47.275 --> 14:51.390 COME ON, LET'S LET EVERYBODY THAT WANTS TO COME, COME ON UP. 14:51.390 --> 14:56.125 MAYBE CIRCUMSTANCES HAVE JUST HIT YOU LIKE A TON OF BRICKS AND 14:56.125 --> 15:00.326 YOU'RE LIKE, MAN, GOD, I MEAN, I'VE BEEN THROUGH THE WASH 15:00.326 --> 15:04.796 MACHINE FIGHTING AGAINST THE DEVIL. COME ON, EVERYBODY'S FELT 15:04.796 --> 15:08.905 LIKE THAT BEFORE, RIGHT? YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY ONE. BY THE WAY, 15:08.905 --> 15:12.025 JUST SO YOU KNOW, YOU'RE NOT THE ONLY PERSON IF YOU'RE IN THIS 15:12.025 --> 15:17.360 LINE THAT HAS EVER BEEN THROUGH MULTIPLE BATTLES AT ONCE, RIGHT? 15:17.360 --> 15:21.115 THAT HAPPENS TO A LOT OF PEOPLE. OKAY, LOOK HOW MANY PEOPLE ARE 15:21.115 --> 15:27.385 UP HERE. LOOK AT EACH OTHER. SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT? GUESS WHAT? 15:27.385 --> 15:31.346 YOU'RE NOT BY YOURSELF. WHAT YOU ARE GOING THROUGH IS NOT UNIQUE. 15:31.346 --> 15:33.985 SOMEBODY ELSE IS GOING THROUGH IT. SO LET'S STRETCH OUR HANDS 15:33.985 --> 15:37.225 TOWARD THESE AND THEN WE'LL PRAY FOR OUR FRIENDS ON THE INTERNET. 15:37.225 --> 15:41.696 FATHER, I PRAY, FATHER, THAT HER FAITH WOULD NOT FAIL. I PRAY FOR 15:41.696 --> 15:45.745 UNFAILING FAITH, A DOSE OF ENCOURAGEMENT, A DOSE OF 15:45.745 --> 15:50.066 STRENGTH. GOD, YOU SAID YOU WOULD HOLD US BY THE RIGHT HAND 15:50.066 --> 15:53.875 AND YOU WOULD HELP US. SO FATHER, AS I TOUCH THESE PEOPLE, 15:53.875 --> 15:59.035 I THANK YOU THAT THEY RECEIVE A FRESH IGNITION OF THEIR FAITH IN 15:59.035 --> 16:03.836 THE AUTHORITY OF JESUS' NAME. I ASK THAT YOU'D STRENGTHEN THEM. 16:03.836 --> 16:08.155 I ASK YOU'D RESTORE THEIR JOY. I ASK YOU WOULD GIVE THEM NEW 16:08.155 --> 16:13.765 HOPE, NEW LIFE. FATHER THEY WILL BELIEVE AFRESH AGAIN AND NOT BE 16:13.765 --> 16:17.336 DISCOURAGED AND THAT THEY WOULD NOT COME TO A PLACE WHERE OH 16:17.336 --> 16:22.525 HERE WE GO AGAIN. NO I BIND THAT IN THE NAME OF JESUS AND I ASK 16:22.525 --> 16:27.025 THAT FATHER YOU WOULD STRENGTHEN THE SUPERNATURAL STRENGTH AND 16:27.025 --> 16:31.375 FAITH UPON THEM. FATHER THEY WILL LOOK WITH NEW EYES AT THE 16:31.375 --> 16:35.576 THING THEY'RE FACING AND I THANK YOU THEY WILL SEE THE ANSWER. 16:35.576 --> 16:39.566 THEY WILL SEE THE WAY THROUGH. THEY WILL SEE THE DELIVERANCE OF 16:39.566 --> 16:44.605 GOD HIMSELF. AND I THANK YOU FOR IT. AND WE BREAK THE POWER OF 16:44.605 --> 16:48.956 EVERY EVIL SPIRIT THAT WOULD COME TO DISCOURAGE YOU, THAT 16:48.956 --> 16:53.365 WOULD COME TO SUPPRESS YOU, THAT WOULD COME TO KICK YOU DOWN. WE 16:53.365 --> 16:59.304 BREAK ITS POWER AND WE SAY IN JESUS' NAME THAT YOU RISE UP IN 16:59.304 --> 17:04.424 A NEW, NEW DETERMINATION. HAVING DONE ALL TO STAND, STANDING 17:04.424 --> 17:08.306 THEREFORE IN THE POWER OF THE LORD'S STRENGTH TO GUIDE YOU 17:08.306 --> 17:13.226 THROUGH. IN THE NAME OF JESUS OF NAZARETH AND WE DECLARE IT TO BE 17:13.226 --> 17:18.174 SO AND TO BE DONE. COME ON, GIVE GOD A SHOUT OF PRAISE IF YOU 17:18.174 --> 17:25.464 AGREE WITH THAT. HALLELUJAH. NOW LET'S PRAY FOR OUR PEOPLE 17:25.464 --> 17:30.205 ONLINE. FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR EVERY PERSON THAT'S JOINING BY 17:30.205 --> 17:35.786 THE INTERNET. AND WE PROPHESY TO YOU. AND WE SAY YOUR FAITH WILL 17:35.786 --> 17:40.375 NOT FAIL. WE BREAK THE POWER OF THAT. WE BIND THAT 17:40.375 --> 17:44.695 DISCOURAGEMENT. AND WE SAY THAT YOU WILL RECEIVE THE DESIRE OF 17:44.695 --> 17:48.596 THE THINGS YOU'VE HOPED FOR IN THE NAME OF JESUS. AND I BREAK 17:48.596 --> 17:53.935 THE POWER OF THE ENEMY THAT WOULD EXACT UPON YOU. I SAY HIS 17:53.935 --> 18:00.536 POWERS ARE BROKEN IN JESUS' MIGHTY NAME. COME ON, GIVE JESUS 18:00.536 --> 18:05.365 A GREAT BIG SHOUT OF PRAISE. HALLELUJAH. NOW I'M GONNA GIVE 18:05.365 --> 18:12.085 YOU A LITTLE TIDBIT. CAN I GIVE YOU A LITTLE TIDBIT OF TRUTH? 18:12.085 --> 18:16.766 WHEN YOU RECEIVE PRAYER LIKE THAT, YOU GET SOMEBODY TO LAY 18:16.766 --> 18:21.601 HANDS AND COME IN AGREEMENT WITH YOU. DON'T GET OUT OF AGREEMENT 18:21.601 --> 18:27.056 WHEN YOU LEAVE THE ROOM. DON'T WALK OUT AND SPEAK SOMETHING 18:27.056 --> 18:33.115 DIFFERENT. SO HERE'S THE REAL TIDBIT. THE TIDBIT IS, ALWAYS 18:33.115 --> 18:41.121 TALK OUT LOUD TO YOUR PROBLEM. YOU CANNOT THINK IT AWAY. WELL, 18:41.121 --> 18:43.585 WE TRY TO REDIRECT OUR MINDS. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE AT 18:43.585 --> 18:46.165 NIGHT AND THOUGHT, "OH, I GOT THIS AND THAT." AND ESPECIALLY 18:46.165 --> 18:48.625 THE DEVIL LOVES TO HIT YOU AT NIGHT. THAT'S WHY THE BIBLE 18:48.625 --> 18:54.625 CALLS IT A NIGHT TERROR. YOU CAN'T THINK THE TROUBLE AWAY. 18:54.625 --> 18:56.935 NOW, WE TAKE OUR THOUGHTS CAPTIVE, BUT YOU KNOW HOW YOU DO 18:56.935 --> 19:02.965 IT? WITH YOUR MOUTH. SO YOU HAVE TO TALK OUT LOUD TO YOU. COME 19:02.965 --> 19:08.125 ON, SOMEBODY. YOU HAVE TO TALK OUT LOUD TO THE ISSUE. YOUR OWN 19:08.125 --> 19:14.635 EARS HAVE TO HEAR YOU SAY IT. YOUR OWN EARS HAVE TO HEAR YOU 19:14.635 --> 19:20.365 SAY, "MY BODY IS WELL." YOUR OWN EARS HAVE TO HEAR YOU SAY, "IT'S 19:20.365 --> 19:25.076 GONNA WORK OUT FOR GOOD." OKAY, SO YOU TALK NOT ONLY TO 19:25.076 --> 19:30.625 YOURSELF, BUT YOU TALK OUT LOUD TO THE ATMOSPHERE, AND YOU SAY 19:30.625 --> 19:34.976 IT IN THE FACE OF THE DEVIL. SO THERE, AND YOU SAY, "OH, HOW'S 19:34.976 --> 19:39.266 IT?" AND I'LL TELL YOU, WHEN YOU GO THROUGH SOMETHING, I'M THE 19:39.266 --> 19:43.675 FIRST TO TESTIFY, YOU DON'T FEEL LIKE TALKING AGAINST IT. YOU 19:43.675 --> 19:49.256 JUST WANT TO LAY THERE AND PUT A BLANKET ON, EAT ICE CREAM OR 19:49.256 --> 19:56.365 WHATEVER IT IS, YOU KNOW, TALK BAD, GO, UH, REHEARSE IT. COME 19:56.365 --> 20:00.489 ON, ANYBODY EVER BEEN THERE OR JUST ME? BUT I FOUND OUT WHEN I 20:00.489 --> 20:04.777 GET UP AND I TALK TO IT, COME ON, YOU CAN'T THINK IT AWAY. YOU 20:04.777 --> 20:09.541 GOT TO TALK TO IT. YOU GOT TO SPEAK AT IT. SOMETIMES YOU GOT 20:09.541 --> 20:13.212 TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR AND SAY YOUR NAME AND SAY, NO, NO, NO, 20:13.212 --> 20:22.055 NO. YOUR MOUTH IS YOUR POWERFUL WEAPON TO DEAL WITH THE TROUBLES 20:22.055 --> 20:26.825 OF THIS LIFE. AND THAT'S WHAT I'LL LEAVE YOU WITH THAT TIDBIT. 20:26.825 --> 20:30.155 SO SAY THIS, LET'S JUST SAY IT. LET'S ALL SAY IT TOGETHER. SAY I 20:30.155 --> 20:38.045 USE MY MOUTH NOW AND I SAY THE PROBLEMS I'M FACING, THEY ARE 20:38.045 --> 20:46.085 SOLVED BY THE HAND OF GOD. I REFUSE TO ACCEPT ANYTHING LESS. 20:46.085 --> 20:53.256 I REBUKE UNANSWERED PRAYER. I SAY I RECEIVE ANSWERED PRAYER. 20:53.256 --> 21:01.204 SELF, GET IN LINE. SPEAK TO YOUR PROBLEM. SAY IT TO YOURSELF. 21:01.204 --> 21:07.325 SELF, GET IN LINE. SPEAK TO YOUR PROBLEM AND COMMAND THAT THING 21:07.325 --> 21:13.622 TO SHIFT IN THE NAME OF JESUS. NOW SAY IT, SAY, I'M BLESSED. I 21:13.622 --> 21:19.445 GET WHAT I PRAY FOR. THESE STRUGGLES, THESE TROUBLES, THEY 21:19.445 --> 21:24.336 GOTTA GO IN JESUS' NAME. NOW COME ON, GIVE GOD A GREAT BIG 21:24.336 --> 21:28.055 HAND CLAP AND A SHOUT LIKE YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT. GIVE HIM A 21:28.055 --> 21:35.375 GREAT BIG SHOUT. COME ON, HALLELUJAH! IN JESUS' NAME. ALL 21:35.375 --> 21:38.135 RIGHT, SLAP YOUR NEIGHBOR A HIGH FIVE AND TELL HIM YOU GOT THE 21:38.135 --> 21:43.865 VICTORY TONIGHT. IN THE NAME OF JESUS, GREET ONE ANOTHER. AND 21:43.865 --> 21:46.174 THOSE OF YOU ONLINE, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US 21:46.174 --> 21:49.142 TODAY AS WE GREET EACH OTHER IN JESUS' NAME. 21:49.142 --> 22:12.665 (MUSIC) 22:12.665 --> 22:16.923 OH, HALLELUJAH. MAN, THAT WAS GOOD TEACHING. IF YOU DIDN'T GET 22:16.924 --> 22:21.246 ANYTHING ELSE OUT OF TONIGHT, IF WE WERE TO GO HOME TONIGHT RIGHT 22:21.246 --> 22:26.315 NOW AND YOU TOOK THAT WORD, IT COULD CHANGE YOUR LIFE. THE 22:26.315 --> 22:30.726 DEVIL NEVER WANTS US TO SPEAK THE VICTORY. HE ALWAYS WANTS US 22:30.726 --> 22:32.795 TO SPEAK THE PROBLEM, AND THERE'S A REASON FOR THAT, ISN'T 22:32.795 --> 22:36.846 THERE? WE HAVE TO DECLARE THE GOOD WORKS OF GOD, SO AMEN. 22:36.846 --> 22:40.655 WELL, IT'S OFFERING TIME. IT SHOULD BE THE HIGHLIGHT OF EVERY 22:40.655 --> 22:44.075 SERVICE BECAUSE IT'S AN OPPORTUNITY TO RECEIVE GOD'S 22:44.075 --> 22:48.516 BLESSING. SO USHERS, IF YOU WOULD RECEIVE OR IF YOU NEED AN 22:48.516 --> 22:51.486 ENVELOPE TONIGHT, USHERS ARE IN THE AISLES. THEY'LL HELP YOU 22:51.486 --> 22:55.385 WITH THAT AND MAKE SURE YOU HAVE AN ENVELOPE FOR YOUR GIVING. AND 22:55.385 --> 22:58.986 WHILE THEY'RE SERVING YOU, I WANT TO JUST MENTION A COUPLE 22:58.986 --> 23:03.815 THINGS. I WANT TO READ PROVERBS 11:24-25, A SCRIPTURE THAT YOU 23:03.815 --> 23:07.865 KNOW PROBABLY WELL, BUT IT'S JUST A REMINDER ABOUT OUR 23:07.865 --> 23:15.276 GIVING. PROVERBS 11:24-25 SAYS, GIVE FREELY AND BECOME MORE 23:15.276 --> 23:19.895 WEALTHY, BE STINGY AND LOSE EVERYTHING. AND WE DON'T WANT TO 23:19.895 --> 23:22.865 LOSE EVERYTHING, SO WE'RE NOT GOING TO BE STINGY IN THIS 23:22.865 --> 23:26.795 PLACE. AND THEN IT MOVES ON IN 25 AND SAYS, THE GENEROUS WILL 23:26.795 --> 23:30.996 PROSPER, AND THOSE WHO REFRESH OTHERS WILL THEMSELVES BE 23:30.996 --> 23:33.905 REFRESHED. AND THAT JUST TALKS ABOUT SOWING AND REAPING, 23:33.905 --> 23:39.065 DOESN'T IT? YOU KNOW, AND AS LONG AS WE ARE ON THIS EARTH, 23:39.065 --> 23:44.585 THERE IS A LAW IN EFFECT CALLED SEED TIME AND HARVEST. AND I 23:44.585 --> 23:48.215 WANNA EXPLAIN THAT BECAUSE PEOPLE, PREACHERS HAVE SAID 23:48.215 --> 23:54.335 BEFORE TO YOU, DON'T WORRY ABOUT THE ECONOMY, DON'T WORRY ABOUT 23:54.335 --> 23:58.295 YOUR PERSONAL SITUATION. IF YOU SOW, YOU'LL REAP. HOW MANY OF 23:58.295 --> 24:01.924 YOU HAVE HEARD THAT BEFORE? OKAY, I WANT TO PROVE IT TO YOU 24:01.924 --> 24:04.835 TONIGHT BECAUSE I THINK WE'VE HEARD IT, BUT WE DON'T ALWAYS 24:04.835 --> 24:10.026 BELIEVE IT. HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT BECAUSE IT'S DARK 24:10.026 --> 24:14.788 OUT NOW AND IT'S NIGHT, THAT TOMORROW IT WILL BE DAYLIGHT? 24:14.795 --> 24:20.016 RAISE YOUR HAND. OKAY. HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT WE'RE STILL 24:20.016 --> 24:23.825 IN FALL, BUT HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT WINTER IS COMING? 24:23.825 --> 24:27.694 AND HOW MANY OF YOU REALLY BELIEVE THAT NEXT, LIKE SIX 24:27.694 --> 24:30.155 MONTHS FROM NOW OR WHATEVER IT IS, SEVEN MONTHS, WE'RE GONNA 24:30.155 --> 24:36.454 HAVE SUMMER? OKAY. HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE THAT EVEN THOUGH 24:36.454 --> 24:41.815 IT'S COLD OUTSIDE NOW, EVENTUALLY IT'S GONNA BE HOT? 24:41.815 --> 24:45.664 OKAY, I'M TELLING YOU THIS FOR A REASON. FOLLOW MY THINKING HERE. 24:45.664 --> 24:52.115 LET'S LOOK AT GENESIS 8:22. THIS VERSE WAS A NEW COVENANT THAT 24:52.115 --> 24:57.786 GOD MADE WITH MANKIND RIGHT AFTER NOAH GOT OFF THE ARK. THE 24:57.786 --> 25:00.875 FLOOD HAD DESTROYED EVERYTHING ON THE EARTH EXCEPT HIS FAMILY 25:00.875 --> 25:04.746 MEMBERS AND THE ANIMALS THAT HE PUT ON THE ARK. HE GOT OFF THE 25:04.746 --> 25:10.895 ARK. GENESIS CHAPTER 8, VERSE 22, THERE'S A NEW COVENANT THAT 25:10.895 --> 25:14.135 GOD MADE. AND PART OF IT IS THIS. IT SAYS, "WHILE THE EARTH 25:14.135 --> 25:18.516 REMAINS, SEED TIME AND HARVEST," SAY THIS WITH ME, SEED TIME AND 25:18.516 --> 25:26.434 HARVEST. "COLD AND HEAT, WINTER AND SUMMER, AND DAY AND NIGHT 25:26.434 --> 25:33.365 SHALL NOT CEASE." OKAY, ALL THOSE THINGS SHALL NOT CEASE. 25:33.365 --> 25:36.036 AND YOU JUST TOLD ME YOU BELIEVE THAT COLD AND HEAT, WINTER AND 25:36.036 --> 25:41.555 SUMMER, DAY AND NIGHT WOULD NOT CEASE. WHY DO WE SOMETIMES THINK 25:41.555 --> 25:47.194 THAT IF WE PLAN AN OFFERING, WE'RE NOT GONNA GET RETURN? IF 25:47.194 --> 25:51.215 IT'S TRUE, EVERYTHING ELSE IS TRUE, SEED TIME AND HARVEST IS 25:51.215 --> 25:56.465 TRUE. IT'S AN ETERNAL LAW AND GOD SAID, AS LONG AS THE EARTH 25:56.465 --> 26:00.424 REMAINS, IS THE EARTH REMAINING? OKAY, AS LONG AS WE'RE ALIVE AND 26:00.424 --> 26:06.096 ON THIS EARTH, WE CAN STAKE A CLAIM THAT SEED TIME AND HARVEST 26:06.096 --> 26:09.934 IS GONNA BE TRUE, IT'S GONNA HAPPEN. SO WHEN YOU PUT YOUR 26:09.934 --> 26:13.986 OFFERING IN TONIGHT, YOU BELIEVE THAT AND YOU RECEIVE IT. AND 26:13.986 --> 26:17.016 JUST LIKE YOU DECLARE YOUR HEALING OR WHATEVER SITUATION 26:17.016 --> 26:20.555 YOU WERE DECLARING TONIGHT, EXTEND YOUR FAITH WITH YOUR 26:20.555 --> 26:24.335 OFFERING BECAUSE SEED TIME AND HARVEST IS TRUE. JUST AS SURE AS 26:24.335 --> 26:27.215 YOU PUT THAT SEED IN THE GROUND OR PUT THE MONEY IN THE OFFERING 26:27.215 --> 26:31.805 BASKET, YOU'RE GONNA GET A RETURN. GOD'S NEVER GONNA LET 26:31.805 --> 26:35.526 YOU GO LACKING. IN FACT, IN MALACHI CHAPTER THREE, HE EVEN 26:35.526 --> 26:39.635 TOLD US TO TEST HIM IN THAT. I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY MORE PROOFS 26:39.635 --> 26:42.486 WE NEED. THERE'S ALL KINDS OF PROOFS IN THE BIBLE AND IN 26:42.486 --> 26:44.704 SCRIPTURES I COULD GIVE YOU ON SOWING AND REAPING, BUT THIS IS 26:44.704 --> 26:50.194 JUST ONE OF THEM. BUT YOU CAN STAKE YOUR LIFE ON THAT. THAT IF 26:50.194 --> 26:53.496 YOU GIVE, YOU WILL RECEIVE. YOU'RE NOT GONNA GO HUNGRY OR 26:53.496 --> 26:58.835 BEGGING FOR BREAD. FOR SOME REASON, PEOPLE BELIEVE THAT IT'S 26:58.835 --> 27:01.979 GONNA HAVE A WINTER SEASON. THEY DON'T HAVE ANY TROUBLE BELIEVING 27:01.979 --> 27:04.444 IN SUMMER. THEY DON'T HAVE ANY TROUBLE BELIEVING THAT TOMORROW 27:04.444 --> 27:06.934 MORNING WE'RE GONNA HAVE DAYLIGHT. BUT FOR SOME REASON, 27:06.934 --> 27:09.545 THE DEVIL DOESN'T WANT US TO BELIEVE THAT WE'RE GONNA GET A 27:09.545 --> 27:14.346 RETURN ON OUR GIVING. BUT WE WILL BECAUSE GOD SAYS IT AND 27:14.346 --> 27:17.795 IT'S JUST AS TRUE AS DAY AND NIGHT IS TRUE PASTOR ANTHONY. 27:17.795 --> 27:22.115 AMEN. AMEN. WELL WE'LL PUT THE GIVING INFORMATION ON THE SCREEN 27:22.115 --> 27:25.295 TONIGHT I HOPE THAT ENCOURAGED YOU A LITTLE BIT JUST TO STAND 27:25.295 --> 27:29.674 STRONG IN YOUR GIVING AND DO A LITTLE MORE IF YOU IF YOU WERE 27:29.674 --> 27:35.944 TITHING LAST YEAR MAKE 2026 YOUR YEAR TO GO TO 11%. IF YOU'RE 27:35.944 --> 27:42.006 GIVEN 12%, STRETCH A LITTLE BIT, GO TO 13%. STRETCH AND SEE GOD 27:42.006 --> 27:49.501 MOVE IN YOUR LIFE. THE MORE YOU GIVE, THE MORE YOU'LL GET BACK. 27:49.501 --> 27:54.965 MR. LATERNAL, I THINK IT WAS AJ LATERNAL, GAVE AWAY 90% OF HIS 27:54.965 --> 28:00.335 INCOME, LIVED ON 10%, AND HE WAS A MULTIMILLIONAIRE. WOW. SO IF 28:00.335 --> 28:04.414 YOU START PROGRESSING IN THAT, GOD WILL MOVE IN YOUR LIFE, AND 28:04.414 --> 28:09.605 YOU'LL HAVE THOSE ABUNDANCE OF FINANCES, AND YOU CAN GIVE IT 28:09.605 --> 28:12.858 OUT WITH A TEASPOON, AND HE'LL GIVE IT BACK WITH A TABLESPOON. 28:12.858 --> 28:16.085 AMEN. WELL, HERE'S YOUR GIVING INFORMATION ON THE SCREEN. YOU 28:16.085 --> 28:19.625 KNOW HOW TO GIVE, MOBILE APP, YOU CAN TEXT TO GIVE. IN THE 28:19.625 --> 28:24.215 DROP-DOWNS, PASTOR BRENDA WANTED ME TO REMIND YOU THAT WE NEED TO 28:24.215 --> 28:29.645 BUILD UP OR REBUILD OUR BUILDING FUND. AND YOU CAN DO THAT BY 28:29.645 --> 28:33.335 JUST PUTTING A DESIGNATION IN THERE, GIVE IT TO THE 28:33.335 --> 28:37.295 DESIGNATION THAT SAYS CAMPUS AND BUILDING PROJECT. CAMPUS AND 28:37.295 --> 28:40.236 BUILDING PROJECT IS IN ONE OF THE DROP-DOWNS THERE. LET'S GET 28:40.236 --> 28:44.045 THAT BUILDING FUND REBUILT BECAUSE WE'VE GOT SOME BIG 28:44.045 --> 28:48.276 THINGS AHEAD OF US IN 2026. NOTHING'S IRONED OUT YET FOR 28:48.276 --> 28:50.885 SURE TO GIVE YOU DETAILS, BUT WE GOT SOME THINGS THAT GOD WANTS 28:50.885 --> 28:55.565 US TO DO IN 2026, AND WE NEED TO START BUILDING UP THAT WAR CHEST 28:55.565 --> 28:58.385 SO THAT WE HAVE THE ABILITY TO MOVE WHEN GOD SAYS MOVE, 28:58.385 --> 29:01.414 BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, WHEN WE GOT THIS AUDITORIUM BUILT, THAT 29:01.414 --> 29:04.986 WASN'T THE END OF OUR EXPANSION. WE'RE GONNA KEEP TAKING GROUND 29:04.986 --> 29:10.026 UNTIL JESUS COMES. WE'RE GONNA KEEP ON DOING IT. WE'RE NEVER 29:10.026 --> 29:13.026 GONNA BE DONE BUILDING, GROWING, AND EXPANDING. THAT'S ABOUT WHAT 29:13.026 --> 29:16.924 WE'RE ABOUT. THAT'S WHY WE'RE HERE. WE STRETCH OUR FAITH AND 29:16.924 --> 29:20.736 DO IT. AND LOOK WHAT WE'VE DONE ALREADY WITH OUR ONLINE 29:20.736 --> 29:24.516 AUDIENCE. AND THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING. IT'S GONNA GET BIGGER 29:24.516 --> 29:28.536 AND BIGGER AND BIGGER. THE VISION IS BIG AND WE CAN DO IT 29:28.536 --> 29:32.315 TOGETHER, AMEN. AND WE THANK OUR ONLINE AUDIENCE FOR ALL THE HELP 29:32.315 --> 29:36.516 AND ASSISTANCE THAT YOU'VE GIVEN AND EVERYTHING THAT WE DO HERE, 29:36.516 --> 29:40.174 YOU'RE A PART OF, AND WE JUST THANK YOU FOR IT. SO LET'S DO 29:40.174 --> 29:43.596 THIS. NOW, WHY DON'T YOU STAND, HOLD UP YOUR OFFERING. LET'S 29:43.596 --> 29:47.976 PRAY. FATHER, I THANK YOU THAT YOU DO REBUKE THE DEVOURER. I 29:47.976 --> 29:51.335 THANK YOU, LORD, THAT YOUR LAW OF SEED TIME AND HARVEST IS IN 29:51.335 --> 29:55.954 THE ETERNAL EXISTENCE AS LONG AS THE EARTH SHALL REMAIN. AND WE 29:55.954 --> 29:59.434 STAKE OUR CLAIM THAT WE'RE GONNA BE PART OF THAT. AND WE'RE GONNA 29:59.434 --> 30:02.825 SOW INTO YOUR KINGDOM AND WE'RE GONNA RECEIVE BACK AND WE'RE 30:02.825 --> 30:06.875 GONNA DO MORE AND MORE AND MORE AND EXPAND OUR PERSONAL VISION, 30:06.875 --> 30:10.805 EXPAND OUR FAITH, AND WE'RE GONNA SEE MINISTRY EXPLODE 30:10.805 --> 30:14.914 BECAUSE WE'RE GONNA EXPLODE FINANCIALLY WHEN WE STEP INTO 30:14.914 --> 30:18.184 THE PLAN THAT YOU HAVE FOR US. SO I THANK YOU FOR EVERY GIVER 30:18.184 --> 30:21.215 HERE TONIGHT AND EVERY GIVER ONLINE, AND WE THANK YOU, LORD, 30:21.215 --> 30:24.246 THAT YOUR HAND OF BLESSING IS UPON US FOR GOOD AND THAT YOUR 30:24.246 --> 30:28.204 PROTECTION IS WITH US AND THAT WE WILL ACCOMPLISH EVERYTHING 30:28.204 --> 30:31.021 YOU'VE CALLED US TO DO WHILE WE'RE ON THIS EARTH IN THE 30:31.021 --> 30:34.172 MIGHTY NAME OF JESUS. AMEN AND AMEN. WE'LL GIVE 30:34.172 --> 30:36.301 PASTOR BRENDA A HAND AS SHE COMES TONIGHT. 30:36.301 --> 30:39.332 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 30:39.332 --> 30:43.172 WOW, THAT WAS A GREAT WORD. YOU CAN BE SEATED AS THE USHERS 30:43.172 --> 30:48.902 SERVE YOU. I LOVE THOSE LITTLE TEACHINGS. AND YES, AND THANK 30:48.902 --> 30:53.701 YOU, INTERNET FAMILY, FOR JUST BEING A PART AND HELPING US GET 30:53.701 --> 30:58.412 DONE WHAT WE ARE CALLED TO DO. AND JUST BECAUSE WE BUILT THE 30:58.412 --> 31:02.821 TABERNACLE DOESN'T MEAN WE'RE CAMPING AND JUST STOPPING. SO I 31:02.821 --> 31:05.971 MEAN, WE ENJOY IT, BUT WE GOT MORE TO DO. SO THAT'S THE GOOD 31:05.971 --> 31:09.031 PART. SO WELL, PRAISE THE LORD, PASTOR HANK SENDS HIS LOVE. HE 31:09.031 --> 31:14.642 IS BUSILY WORKING ON SOME CONTENT MATERIAL. SO I TOLD HIM, 31:14.642 --> 31:18.541 WE GOT THIS, WE GOT THIS. YOU JUST DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO. AND 31:18.541 --> 31:20.971 HE'S GOT A VERY BUSY TRAVEL SCHEDULE COMING. 31:20.971 --> 31:23.162 AND BY THE WAY, I'LL JUST SAY THIS. THANK YOU 31:23.162 --> 31:26.720 FOR SHARING YOUR PASTOR WITH THE NATION. BLESS YOU FOR 31:26.720 --> 31:31.557 THAT, BLESS ALL OF YOU THAT YOU'RE OKAY WHEN, I MEAN HE 31:31.557 --> 31:35.060 HARDLY EVER MISSES A SUNDAY, BUT YOU'RE JUST OKAY WHEN HE'S 31:35.060 --> 31:38.064 GOT TO DO WHAT HE'S GOT TO DO. AND FLASHPOINT'S GONNA KEEP HIM 31:38.064 --> 31:42.067 BUSY AND WE'VE GOT MIDTERMS COMING, SO THERE'S THINGS THAT 31:42.067 --> 31:45.571 NEED TO GET SAID AND DONE, AND ALL OF THOSE GOOD THINGS. AND 31:45.571 --> 31:48.907 SO, THANK YOU FOR BEING SO SUPPORTIVE OF HIM AND 31:48.907 --> 31:51.076 EVERYTHING THAT HE'S CALLED TO DO. AND I TOLD HIM, 31:51.076 --> 31:55.414 I SAID, NO WE NEED YOUR MIND CLEAR SO THAT YOU CAN BE 31:55.414 --> 31:58.832 BE OBEDIENT AND LISTEN TO GOD. THAT'S GOOD, WE LIKE IT WHEN 31:58.832 --> 32:02.729 PASTOR HANK LISTENS TO GOD. SO DON'T YOU? ALL RIGHT, THAT'S A 32:02.729 --> 32:05.759 GOOD PLACE FOR A HAND CLAP RIGHT THERE. ALL RIGHT, PRAISE THE 32:05.759 --> 32:09.541 LORD. BUT LET'S GET INTO OUR TOPIC FOR TONIGHT. AND I'M 32:09.541 --> 32:13.201 PROBABLY GOING, THIS IS PART TWO, TALKING ABOUT THE SEVEN 32:13.201 --> 32:16.531 CHURCHES OF REVELATION. AND I WANNA CONTINUE, I THINK I'M 32:16.531 --> 32:20.281 GONNA CONTINUE IT INTO THE FIRST WEEK OF NOVEMBER. NOVEMBER IS 32:20.281 --> 32:24.422 OVER, BRENDA. AND THE FIRST WEEK OF DECEMBER, WHICH IS THE THIRD, 32:24.422 --> 32:28.951 SO NEXT WEDNESDAY, WE DON'T HAVE A SERVICE HERE DUE TO THE 32:28.951 --> 32:33.840 THANKSGIVING HOLIDAY, BUT THEN I'LL COME BACK AND DO IT AGAIN. 32:33.840 --> 32:37.230 WE'LL FINISH UP. I FELT LIKE AS WE GOT THROUGH IT, I DROVE HOME 32:37.230 --> 32:39.632 LAST WEEK AND I THOUGHT, OH, I SHOULD HAVE SAID THIS AND SHOULD 32:39.632 --> 32:42.601 HAVE SAID THIS. YOU DON'T KNOW HOW MANY TIMES YOU THINK THAT 32:42.601 --> 32:45.332 WHEN YOU PREACH AND THEN YOU THINK YOU WANNA BRING OUT OTHER 32:45.332 --> 32:48.811 POINTS. AND SO I REALLY WANNA TAKE UP MY TIME, IF IT'S OKAY, 32:48.811 --> 32:51.781 AND MASSAGE THIS AND NOT FEEL LIKE WE'RE JUST RUSHING PAST IT 32:51.781 --> 32:56.311 ALL. AND SO WE CAN GO ON THE THIRD WEEK OF IT. BUT WE'RE 32:56.311 --> 32:58.832 TALKING ABOUT THESE SEVEN CHURCHES. NOW, LET ME JUST 32:58.832 --> 33:02.491 REITERATE, I'M GONNA DO A LITTLE BIT OF A REVIEW. LET ME 33:02.491 --> 33:08.041 REITERATE THAT I BELIEVE THAT THESE SEVEN CHURCHES IN THE BOOK 33:08.041 --> 33:12.152 OF REVELATION, IF YOU'VE NOT DONE YOUR OWN WORD STUDY OR 33:12.152 --> 33:14.912 TAKEN THE TIME TO GO THROUGH THESE, OR MAYBE YOU DID IT YEARS 33:14.912 --> 33:19.590 AGO AND YOU NEED TO GO BACK AND DO IT A SECOND TIME AROUND, I 33:19.590 --> 33:22.622 WOULD HIGHLY, HIGHLY ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THAT BECAUSE I REALLY 33:22.622 --> 33:26.402 BELIEVE WITH ALL MY HEART, THESE, JESUS, THE LORD OF THE 33:26.402 --> 33:31.442 CHURCH, PUT THESE IN HERE. SO ENOUGH SAID ABOUT THAT. HE PUT 33:31.442 --> 33:35.761 'EM IN, RIGHT? AND I LIKE WHAT PASTOR SAID YEARS AGO, GOD PUT 33:35.761 --> 33:38.761 SOMETHING IN THE BIBLE OR IN THE CHURCH, WHO ARE WE TO TAKE IT 33:38.761 --> 33:43.892 OUT? SO IT'S IMPORTANT THAT IF JESUS PUT IT IN HERE AND JUST 33:43.892 --> 33:48.571 THE TONE OF HOW HE APPEARS HERE, HE'S VERY SERIOUS. HOW MANY OF 33:48.571 --> 33:51.361 YOU WOULD AGREE WITH THAT? JUST THE WAY IN WHICH HE DOES IT. 33:51.361 --> 33:56.611 NOW, I BELIEVE THESE SEVEN CHURCHES EMBODY EVERY TYPE OF 33:56.611 --> 34:00.422 CHURCH WE SEE TODAY. I REALLY DO THAT. THEY ARE A PATTERN FOR 34:00.422 --> 34:04.501 EVERY SINGLE ONE AND THAT'S WHY WE NEED TO STUDY. SO IF WE LOOK 34:04.501 --> 34:08.942 AT CULTURE NOW, WE LOOK AT CHURCH CULTURE AROUND, 34:08.942 --> 34:12.481 ESPECIALLY HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, BUT EVEN OVERSEAS, WE'RE 34:12.481 --> 34:15.931 NOT AS FAMILIAR WITH CHURCH CULTURE, MAYBE IN OTHER NATIONS, 34:15.931 --> 34:19.742 BUT HERE IN THE UNITED STATES, MOST OF US, IF WE WERE RAISED IN 34:19.742 --> 34:23.911 CHURCH, WE'VE BEEN IN CHURCH, WE'RE VERY FAMILIAR WITH WHAT 34:23.911 --> 34:28.771 MANY OF THE CHURCHES PRESENT HERE IN OUR COUNTRY, AND ALL 34:28.771 --> 34:34.112 THEIR DIFFERENT FACETS. SO I BELIEVE THESE SEVEN CHURCHES 34:34.112 --> 34:39.302 REALLY DO EMBODY ALL THE TYPES OF PASTORS, RIGHT? THAT'S WHY 34:39.302 --> 34:43.081 EACH ONE BEGINS WITH TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS, 34:43.081 --> 34:46.771 TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH OF PERGAMOS, TO THE ANGEL, THAT 34:46.771 --> 34:49.621 WORD ANGEL IS A TYPE OF WORD THAT MEANS PASTOR, WE TALKED 34:49.621 --> 34:52.472 ABOUT THAT LAST WEEK. IT'S NOT TALKING ABOUT NECESSARILY AN 34:52.472 --> 34:57.541 ANGELIC BEING IN THIS CASE. IT'S SPEAKING ABOUT A MESSAGE OR A 34:57.541 --> 35:02.072 MESSENGER. SO IT'S SAYING TO THE PASTORS THAT ARE ONES THAT SET 35:02.072 --> 35:05.851 THE TONE, RIGHT? THEY'RE THE ONES THAT SET THE MESSAGE. 35:05.851 --> 35:09.061 THEY'RE THE ONES THAT CHOOSE THE DIRECTION UNDER THE LEADING OF 35:09.061 --> 35:13.021 THE HOLY SPIRIT FOR THE CHURCH. AND SO THE FIRST REAL 35:13.021 --> 35:18.242 CONFRONTATION, IF YOU WILL, OR THE DIRECTIVE GIVEN BY JESUS, 35:18.242 --> 35:22.052 THE LORD OF THE CHURCH, IS TO THE PASTORAL LEADERSHIP, THE 35:22.052 --> 35:26.791 APOSTLES, THE BISHOPS OVER THE CHURCHES. IT IS REALLY FIRST 35:26.791 --> 35:30.992 DIRECTED AT THEM AND HOW THEY SET THE VISION, BUT THEN IT 35:30.992 --> 35:34.291 INCLUDES THE PEOPLE, OKAY? BECAUSE PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO 35:34.291 --> 35:37.561 THE TYPE OF LEADER THAT'S IN THE CHURCH, RIGHT? OKAY, YOU DON'T 35:37.561 --> 35:40.291 GO TO A CHURCH AND PICK A CHURCH AND YOU CAN'T STAND THE 35:40.291 --> 35:44.371 PREACHING OF THE PASTOR. YOU GO THERE BECAUSE THAT PASTOR OR 35:44.371 --> 35:48.541 THAT CHURCH OR IT'S A GENERALIZED MESSAGE RESONATES 35:48.541 --> 35:51.572 WITH YOUR SPIRIT. YOU FEEL THAT SENSE OF FAMILY, YOU FEEL THAT 35:51.572 --> 35:58.831 AGREEMENT. FINDING A CHURCH WITH A GOOD CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT IS 35:58.831 --> 36:02.822 NOT A GOOD REASON FOR PICKING A CHURCH. EVERYTHING THAT WE SEE 36:02.822 --> 36:05.492 IN THE SEVEN CHURCHES THAT JESUS BROUGHT OUT, HE NEVER 36:05.492 --> 36:08.822 COMPLIMENTED THEIR WORSHIP TEAM. HE DIDN'T COMPLIMENT THEIR 36:08.822 --> 36:14.612 COFFEE CENTER. RIGHT? AND LIKE I SAID, WE LIKE HAVING GOOD 36:14.612 --> 36:19.411 COFFEE, BUT THAT'S NOT WHY THE REASON PEOPLE SHOULD GO TO A 36:19.411 --> 36:21.871 CHURCH. YOU SHOULDN'T EVEN GO TO A CHURCH BECAUSE THEY'VE GOT A 36:21.871 --> 36:26.822 GORGEOUS BUILDING. COME ON, SOMEBODY. THAT'S NOT WHY WE PICK 36:26.822 --> 36:30.572 A CHURCH. NOW, PEOPLE ARE ATTRACTED TO SUCCESS THAT WAY, 36:30.572 --> 36:33.961 AND THEY LIKE THAT, BUT THAT'S NOT WHY WE CHOOSE. YOU DON'T 36:33.961 --> 36:37.507 CHOOSE A CHURCH. I'VE HEARD PEOPLE FOR YEARS SAY, "WELL, I 36:37.507 --> 36:41.282 REALLY LIKE CHURCH A OVER THERE, "BUT MY KIDS WANTED TO GO TO THE 36:41.282 --> 36:45.541 YOUTH GROUP AT CHURCH B." WELL, YOU DON'T CHOOSE A CHURCH BASED 36:45.541 --> 36:49.802 ON THE CHILDREN'S DEPARTMENT OR THE YOUTH PROGRAM. YOU DON'T 36:49.802 --> 36:53.342 EVEN CHOOSE IT. I REMEMBER ONE TIME WHEN WE FIRST STARTED THE 36:53.342 --> 36:56.581 CHURCH AND SOMEBODY CAME AND THEY SAID, "WELL, DO YOU HAVE 36:56.581 --> 36:59.371 MISSIONS OVERSEAS?" I THOUGHT, "WELL, LADY, WE'RE TWO MONTHS 36:59.371 --> 37:03.632 OLD. WE'RE JUST TRYING TO LEARN THE STREET HERE IN NEBRASKA 37:03.632 --> 37:07.202 WHERE GOD PLANTED US." BUT YOU KNOW, THAT LADY, AND SO SHE 37:07.202 --> 37:09.331 DIDN'T COME BACK. SHE SAID, "WELL, YOU DON'T HAVE A MISSIONS 37:09.331 --> 37:11.762 PROGRAM." WELL, YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T EVEN CHOOSE A CHURCH 37:11.762 --> 37:15.572 REALLY BASED ON THAT. NOW, YOU DO CHOOSE IT BASED ON THAT IT'S 37:15.572 --> 37:19.920 COMMITTED TO HELPING PEOPLE IN NEED, OKAY? BUT WE MAKE, 37:19.920 --> 37:25.112 ESPECIALLY IN OUR CULTURE, CHURCH CHOOSINGS BASED ON, MANY 37:25.112 --> 37:29.251 TIMES FRIVOLOUS, IT'S SORT OF LIKE THE DRESSING OF THE 37:29.251 --> 37:34.802 MINISTRY, BUT IT'S NOT THE REAL MEAT AND BONES OF WHAT JESUS 37:34.802 --> 37:39.061 SAID WAS IMPORTANT AND SHOULD MARK EVERY CHURCH. SO HE BROUGHT 37:39.061 --> 37:44.041 THESE ADJUSTMENTS, HE ALSO BROUGHT REWARDS TO THEM, AND I 37:44.041 --> 37:47.400 BELIEVE WE NEED TO, WHEN WE LOOK AT THESE SEVEN CHURCHES, NOT 37:47.400 --> 37:52.291 ONLY DO WE LOOK AT PASTORS AND HOW THEY LEAD MINISTRY, BUT WE 37:52.291 --> 37:57.032 ALSO TAKE A GREAT BIG OLD MIRROR OUT, RIGHT? AND THESE ARE AN 37:57.032 --> 38:00.871 OPPORTUNITY TO EXAMINE OURSELF. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE HAS SO MUCH 38:00.871 --> 38:06.181 TO SAY ABOUT SELF-EXAMINATION. AND BY THE WAY, SELF-EXAMINATION 38:06.181 --> 38:11.552 IS NOT CONDEMNING YOURSELF. IT'S NOT TO PUT YOURSELF DOWN, BUT 38:11.552 --> 38:15.242 EVERY BELIEVER SHOULD BECOME. NOW, LISTEN TO ME WHEN I SAY 38:15.242 --> 38:21.931 THIS, ESPECIALLY IN THIS CULTURE. EVERY BELIEVER SHOULD 38:21.931 --> 38:25.920 BE WELL-VERSED AT SELF-EXAMINATION. WE HAVE TO 38:25.920 --> 38:31.112 CHECK OUR BALANCES. WE HAVE TO GO BACK AND LOOK AT OURSELF. 38:31.112 --> 38:34.802 AMEN, INCLUDING US AS THE LEADERS AND THE PASTORS. WE 38:34.802 --> 38:38.041 SHOULD, IN THIS HOUR, JESUS SAID, "DON'T LET ANYBODY DECEIVE 38:38.041 --> 38:41.311 YOU." YOU KNOW WHAT DECEPTION, IF WE KNEW IT WAS HAPPENING, WE 38:41.311 --> 38:46.231 WOULDN'T BE DECEIVED. OKAY, THE DEVIL IS GOOD AT WORKING PEOPLE 38:46.231 --> 38:50.371 OVER UNTIL THEY DON'T KNOW THAT THEY'VE GOTTEN OFF TRACK. SO 38:50.371 --> 38:54.271 SELF-EXAMINATION, JESUS TALKED ABOUT THAT ALL THROUGH THE 38:54.271 --> 38:57.661 BIBLE, SO DID THE APOSTLE PAUL, THE EARLY APOSTLES. SO LET'S 38:57.661 --> 39:01.112 REVIEW THESE CHURCHES NOW THAT WE KNOW THAT THEY'RE AN 39:01.112 --> 39:08.101 IMPORTANT PATTERN FOR US AND WE NEED TO LOOK WITHIN OURSELVES 39:08.101 --> 39:11.911 AND SEE WHERE WE FIT, RIGHT? AND SOME OF IT WE MAY SEE A MIX 39:11.911 --> 39:15.032 TOGETHER A LITTLE BIT, BUT I BELIEVE THERE'S OPPORTUNITY IN 39:15.032 --> 39:19.742 ALL OF IT TO EXAMINE OURSELVES. SO LET'S GO BACK, I WANNA DO A 39:19.742 --> 39:23.400 QUICK REVIEW. THE FIRST CHURCH MENTIONED IN REVELATION, I'LL 39:23.400 --> 39:29.012 READ IT QUICKLY, AND IS THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS. NOW, THIS WAS 39:29.012 --> 39:31.981 THE CHURCH, IF YOU'RE TAKING YOUR NOTES, THIS WAS THE CHURCH 39:31.981 --> 39:36.601 OF SELF-RIGHTEOUS RELIGION, OKAY? AND JESUS, IF YOU NOTICE, 39:36.601 --> 39:40.742 COMES TO THEM AS THE GREAT JUDGE. OKAY, IF YOU JUDGE, 39:40.742 --> 39:44.072 YOU'LL BE JUDGED. SO THIS WAS THE CHURCH, THEY COULDN'T STAND 39:44.072 --> 39:48.121 EVIL, THEY CALLED OUT WICKEDNESS, THEY CALLED OUT SIN, 39:48.121 --> 39:51.391 THEY DIDN'T TOLERATE SIN IN THE CHURCH, RIGHT? THEY WERE VERY 39:51.391 --> 39:55.592 DETERMINED THAT THEY WERE BY THE BOOK, MAN, YOU HAD TO DO IT 39:55.592 --> 40:00.150 RIGHT. NOW, LET'S JUST READ THE CHARACTERISTICS QUICKLY OF THIS 40:00.150 --> 40:03.512 CHURCH AGAIN. "UNDER THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH AT EPHESUS' RIGHT, 40:03.512 --> 40:06.692 "THESE THINGS SAITH HE THAT HOLDS THE SEVEN STARS "IN HIS 40:06.692 --> 40:10.711 RIGHT HAND, AND WHO WALKS IN THE MIDST "OF THE SEVEN GOLDEN 40:10.711 --> 40:14.791 CANDLESTICKS." THAT'S JUST SERIOUS SOUNDING. AND JESUS 40:14.791 --> 40:17.552 SAID, "I KNOW YOUR WORKS, YOUR LABOR." IN OTHER WORDS, YOU'RE A 40:17.552 --> 40:21.842 HARDWORKING CHURCH. "AND OF YOUR PATIENCE." OR THAT WORD PATIENCE 40:21.842 --> 40:28.291 IS ENDURANCE. "AND YOU CANNOT BEAR THEM WHICH ARE EVIL." I'M 40:28.291 --> 40:31.592 PROUD TO SAY LORD OF HOSTS HAS SOME OF THAT. WE DON'T LIKE TO 40:31.592 --> 40:36.481 JUST WINK AT SIN, RIGHT? WE DEAL WITH THINGS, NOT JUST ALLOWING 40:36.481 --> 40:40.981 STUFF TO GO ON. I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT. SO JESUS SAID, "I 40:40.981 --> 40:43.398 KNOW THAT THAT'S THE KIND OF CHURCH YOU ARE. AND YOU HAVE 40:43.398 --> 40:46.942 TRIED THEM WHICH SAY THEY'RE APOSTLES AND ARE NOT. YOU PUT 40:46.942 --> 40:51.442 THEM TO THE TEST AND FOUND THEM TO BE LIARS. AND YOU HAVE BORNE 40:51.442 --> 40:54.952 AND HAVE HAD PATIENCE FOR MY NAMESAKE. AND YOU HAVE LABORED. 40:54.952 --> 40:59.692 IN OTHER WORDS, YOU HAVE WORKED HARD IN AMERICA. YOU HAVE NOT 40:59.692 --> 41:03.681 FAINTED. YOU DIDN'T GIVE UP WHEN IT CAME TO BEING INVOLVED. YOU 41:03.681 --> 41:08.751 PRESSED IN. SO THIS WAS A GOOD THING IN THIS CHURCH, RIGHT? SO 41:08.751 --> 41:12.141 JESUS IS ACTUALLY GIVING THEM A COMPLIMENT. HE'S SAYING, YOU 41:12.141 --> 41:15.652 KNOW, THEY HAD ACCOLADES FOR DOING THOSE THINGS. THEY EXPOSED 41:15.652 --> 41:20.242 FALSE DOCTRINE. THEY EXPOSED SIN. THEY EXPOSED LIARS. BUT HE 41:20.242 --> 41:23.722 GOES ON TO SAY, "BUT I HAVE SOME THINGS AGAINST YOU "BECAUSE YOU 41:23.722 --> 41:27.081 LEFT YOUR FIRST LOVE." NOW, I'VE ALWAYS READ THAT AS, YOU KNOW, 41:27.081 --> 41:29.422 IT'S SORT OF LIKE THE CHRISTIAN THAT WAS STARTED OUT ON FIRE FOR 41:29.422 --> 41:33.112 GOD, AND THEY LEFT THEIR FIRST LOVE AND BECAME KIND OF LIKE, 41:33.112 --> 41:36.561 YOU KNOW, MEDIOCRE AND LUKEWARM OR WHATEVER. AND THAT'S PART OF 41:36.561 --> 41:39.472 IT. BUT REALLY WHAT HE'S SAYING IS YOU FORGOT, SOME OTHER 41:39.472 --> 41:44.092 TRANSLATIONS SAY IT THIS WAY, YOU FORGOT TO LOVE THE WAY YOU 41:44.092 --> 41:48.351 LOVED AT THE BEGINNING. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU STARTED EXCITED, YOU 41:48.351 --> 41:51.742 KNOW, IT'S LIKE I HEARD BROTHER HAGIN SAY ONE TIME, HE GOES, "I 41:51.742 --> 41:54.501 USED TO THINK, MAN, "WHEN I FIRST GOT IN THE SPIRIT FIELD 41:54.501 --> 41:57.862 AND GOT IN THE CHURCH, "I THOUGHT EVERYBODY WAS SPROUTING 41:57.862 --> 42:01.882 ANGEL'S WINGS. "EVERYBODY HAD ANGEL'S WINGS. "AND THEN I 42:01.882 --> 42:05.858 REALIZED IT WAS JUST "THEIR SHOULDER BLADES STICKING OUT." 42:05.871 --> 42:09.592 AND YOU KNOW, IN OTHER WORDS, PEOPLE ARE IMPERFECT, RIGHT? AND 42:09.592 --> 42:15.081 SO THE TENDENCY OF THIS CHURCH WAS, IS THEY GOT TOO HARD. I 42:15.081 --> 42:18.081 HEARD A MAN SAY ONE TIME THAT HE SAID, YOU KNOW, YOU NEED ALL 42:18.081 --> 42:22.402 SIDES OF SCRIPTURE. YOU NEED THE BLESS ME VERSES, AND YOU NEED 42:22.402 --> 42:24.802 THE CORRECT ME. YOU NEED A BALANCE OF BOTH. IF YOU DON'T 42:24.802 --> 42:28.612 GET A BALANCE OF BOTH, YOU GET TOO MUCH INTO THE BLESS ME, 42:28.612 --> 42:33.291 YOU'LL JUST GET SOFT AND SQUISHY AND I'LL DO WHATEVER YOU WANT. 42:33.291 --> 42:36.021 AND GOD DOESN'T HOLD YOU ACCOUNTABLE TO ANYTHING. AND 42:36.021 --> 42:39.862 EVERYTHING IS A SCRIPTURE ON GOD LOVES ME AND HOLDS MY HAND AND 42:39.862 --> 42:44.304 HELPS ME AND WALKS ME THROUGH AND CARES FOR MY, YOU KNOW, ALL 42:44.304 --> 42:48.322 OF THAT. BUT IF YOU DON'T EVER GET TO THE CORRECT ME SIDE, IF 42:48.322 --> 42:51.922 YOU STAY ON THE BLESS ME SIDE TOO MUCH, YOU'LL GET SOFT. BUT 42:51.922 --> 42:54.532 IF YOU GET TOO OVER ON THE CORRECT ME SIDE, WHICH I BELIEVE 42:54.532 --> 42:57.501 WAS THE PROBLEM WITH THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS, IS YOU GET MEAN AND 42:57.501 --> 43:02.152 NASTY. YOU CAN GET HARD AND YOU BECOME LIKE THOSE PHARISEES THAT 43:02.152 --> 43:05.722 WERE READY TO KILL THAT WOMAN THAT WAS CAUGHT IN ADULTERY. YOU 43:05.722 --> 43:09.681 KNOW, IT'S INTERESTING TO ME, THE BALANCED SIDE OF THE BIBLE. 43:09.681 --> 43:13.521 JESUS, THAT WOMAN THAT WAS CAUGHT IN ADULTERY, JESUS SAID, 43:13.521 --> 43:17.271 "I DON'T CONDEMN YOU." BUT HE DID TURN TO THE MAN AT THE POOL 43:17.271 --> 43:21.592 OF BETHESDA, AND HE SAID, "DON'T KEEP SINNING, "OR A WORSE THING 43:21.592 --> 43:26.001 WILL COME UPON YOU." OKAY, SO THERE WERE CONSEQUENCES FOR 43:26.001 --> 43:29.601 WRONGDOING, THAT IF YOU STAY ON A PATH LONG ENOUGH, YOU'RE GONNA 43:29.601 --> 43:35.512 REAP THE RESULTS. AMEN. SO THIS WAS THE CHURCH AT EPHESUS AND HE 43:35.512 --> 43:39.081 SAID, I HAVE THIS AGAINST YOU. YEAH, YOU DID ALL OF THESE 43:39.081 --> 43:41.992 THINGS, CALLED OUT SIN, BUT YOU GOT A LITTLE UNLOVELY WITH IT. 43:41.992 --> 43:45.742 THAT'S THE BRENDA TRANSLATION. YOU GOT A LITTLE MEAN AND NASTY 43:45.742 --> 43:49.942 WITH IT. YOU GOT A LITTLE OUT THERE. YOU FORGOT TO TEMPER 43:49.942 --> 43:54.382 YOURSELF. SO REMEMBER THEREFORE, WATCH THIS, THIS IS GOOD. 43:54.382 --> 43:58.170 REMEMBER FROM WHERE YOU'RE FALLEN. IN OTHER WORDS, FOR A 43:58.170 --> 44:02.632 MINUTE THOUGH, REMEMBER WHERE GOD BROUGHT YOU FROM. I MEAN, 44:02.632 --> 44:07.041 THINK FOR A MINUTE WHERE YOU WERE WHEN YOU CAME TO SALVATION. 44:07.041 --> 44:09.831 AND SOME OF YOU, MAYBE YOU GOT SAVED OR MAYBE YOU HAD TO SORT 44:09.831 --> 44:13.461 OF GET RESAVED. ANYBODY HAD TO DO THAT? MAYBE YOU WALKED AWAY 44:13.461 --> 44:16.282 FROM GOD FOR A PERIOD OF TIME AND GOD HAD TO TURN YOU BACK 44:16.282 --> 44:20.362 AROUND. SO I GET THAT, I GET THAT. BUT REMEMBER WHEN YOU HAD 44:20.362 --> 44:23.572 THAT MOMENT. AND SO HE SAID, REMEMBER WHERE YOU'VE FALLEN 44:23.572 --> 44:27.081 FROM. OKAY, IN OTHER WORDS, YOU WON'T BE SO HARD ON SOMEBODY 44:27.081 --> 44:31.192 ELSE WHEN YOU REALIZE HOW MUCH GOD HAD TO FORGIVE YOU. WE CAN 44:31.192 --> 44:35.722 ALL POINT THE FINGER AND POINT THE FINGER AND IN ONE OF THESE 44:35.722 --> 44:39.501 CHURCHES, WHEN WE GET TO THE CHURCH AT PHILADELPHIA, WE CAN 44:39.501 --> 44:42.711 DEVELOP UP STRIFE, ALWAYS CRITICIZING AND CALLING OUT 44:42.711 --> 44:47.632 SOMEBODY. I MEAN, I THINK THIS IS JUST AN ABSOLUTE EPIDEMIC IN 44:47.632 --> 44:51.952 THE CHURCH IN MANY WAYS, THAT PEOPLE JUST ARE SO AFTER WHAT 44:51.952 --> 44:56.181 EVERYBODY DOES WRONG AND CALLING, YOU KNOW, GIVE YOUR 44:56.181 --> 45:00.711 BROTHER AND YOUR SISTER IN CHRIST A CHANCE TO GROW. CAN 45:00.711 --> 45:04.791 THAT JUST BE A THING? YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES PEOPLE NEED A MINUTE 45:04.791 --> 45:10.702 TO GROW AND TO PROCESS AND GET WITH GOD AND DEVELOP AND GOD IS 45:10.702 --> 45:13.791 PATIENT, RIGHT? NOW, THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU WINK AT SIN, 45:13.791 --> 45:16.161 I'M NOT SAYING THAT, BUT I'M SAYING THERE COMES A POINT WHERE 45:16.161 --> 45:20.179 WE PRAY FOR PEOPLE. OKAY, THE BIBLE, WE READ IT LAST TIME. THE 45:20.179 --> 45:23.302 BIBLE SAYS IF YOU SEE SOMEBODY OVERTAKEN IN A FAULT, YOU WHICH 45:23.302 --> 45:28.431 ARE SPIRITUAL, RIGHT, RESTORE SUCH A ONE. SO THIS IS WHAT 45:28.431 --> 45:31.911 JESUS IS TALKING ABOUT. SO REMEMBER WHERE GOD BROUGHT YOU 45:31.911 --> 45:37.521 FROM, OKAY? REMEMBER AND REPENT AND DO THE FIRST WORKS. IN OTHER 45:37.521 --> 45:40.882 WORDS, BE HOW YOU WERE WHEN YOU STARTED OUT. YOU WERE A LITTLE 45:40.882 --> 45:46.192 KINDER, AMEN, RIGHT? OR ELSE I WILL COME TO YOU QUICKLY. IN 45:46.192 --> 45:48.472 OTHER WORDS, IF YOU'RE GONNA BE, IF WE'RE GONNA FALL INTO THE 45:48.472 --> 45:51.202 PHARISAICALISM OF CHRISTIANITY, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S A WORD, 45:51.202 --> 45:56.922 BUT IT IS TODAY. IF WE'RE GONNA FALL INTO THE PHARISAICALISMS, 45:56.931 --> 46:02.842 RIGHT? I WILL, WATCH THIS, I'LL REMOVE YOUR CANDLESTICK. WOO! 46:02.842 --> 46:05.003 GOD, YOU KNOW WHAT I SAID TO GOD? I SAID, GOD, I DON'T KNOW 46:05.003 --> 46:10.702 WHAT CANDLESTICK BEING REMOVED MEANS, BUT I DON'T WANT IT. I'M 46:10.702 --> 46:13.581 SURE THERE'S A SCHOLARLY THING TO IT, BUT ALL I KNOW IS I DON'T 46:13.581 --> 46:16.942 WANT MY CANDLESTICK TO BE REMOVED. THAT SOUNDS LIKE AN 46:16.942 --> 46:22.342 INTENSE WHATEVER IT IS. AND I'LL REMOVE IT OUT OF HIS PLACE, 46:22.342 --> 46:26.992 EXCEPT YOU REPENT. BUT THIS YOU HAVE, YOU HATE THE DEEDS OF THE 46:26.992 --> 46:31.222 NICOLAITANS, WHICH THAT WAS THE DEEDS OF THE NICOLAITANS WAS 46:31.222 --> 46:33.862 PRETTY MUCH A DOCTRINE, IT WAS A TEACHING, WE'RE GOING TO TALK 46:33.862 --> 46:37.192 ABOUT THE CHURCH OF FALSE DOCTRINE, IT WAS A TEACHING THAT 46:37.192 --> 46:41.661 SEXUAL PROMISCUITY WAS ACCEPTABLE IN CERTAIN CASES. THE 46:41.661 --> 46:44.001 GOOD EXAMPLE OF THAT IN THIS MODERN CULTURE WOULD BE 46:44.001 --> 46:47.541 HOMOSEXUALITY. SO NOW PEOPLE ARE SAYING, "WELL, IF YOU WERE 46:47.541 --> 46:51.681 RAISED IN A HOUSE WITH TWO DADS OR TWO MOMS, THERE ARE ALL THESE 46:51.681 --> 46:54.351 REASONS." YOU KNOW, I'M SURE THE PASTORS THAT ARE MARRYING 46:54.351 --> 46:58.641 HOMOSEXUALS DIDN'T START OUT LIKE THAT. BUT THEY ALLOWED 46:58.641 --> 47:02.211 CERTAIN DOCTRINES, CERTAIN TEACHINGS, CERTAIN IDEOLOGIES, 47:02.211 --> 47:04.672 AND HE SAID, "THIS IS THE DOCTRINE." IT WAS A TEACHING AT 47:04.672 --> 47:07.463 THAT TIME. SO WHEN HE SAID DOCTRINE, IT WOULD HAVE BEEN A 47:07.463 --> 47:11.902 POPULAR TEACHING IN THAT HOUR. YOU HATE THE DOCTRINE OF THE 47:11.902 --> 47:17.452 NICOLAITANS, WHICH I ALSO HATE. HE THAT HAS AN EAR, LET HIM HEAR 47:17.452 --> 47:22.012 WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE CHURCHES, OR MAYBE ALL THE 47:22.012 --> 47:26.751 CHURCHES LIKE THAT. TO HIM THAT OVERCOMES, I'LL GIVE TO HIM TO 47:26.751 --> 47:30.322 EAT OF THE TREE OF LIFE, WHICH IS IN THE MIDST OF THE PARADISE 47:30.322 --> 47:33.291 OF GOD. SO THAT WAS THE FIRST CHURCH, THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS. 47:33.291 --> 47:35.481 AND THEN THE SECOND ONE, WE TALKED ABOUT THE CHURCH AT 47:35.481 --> 47:39.621 SMYRNA. THIS WAS THE PERSECUTED CHURCH. AND INTERESTINGLY 47:39.621 --> 47:43.282 ENOUGH, JESUS COMES TO THEM AS THE GIVER OF LIFE. TO THE ANGEL 47:43.282 --> 47:47.061 OF THE CHURCH OF SMYRNA, VERSE 8, WRITE THESE THINGS, SAYS THE 47:47.061 --> 47:50.692 FIRST AND THE LAST, WHICH WAS DEAD AND IS ALIVE. HE COMES TO 47:50.692 --> 47:54.802 THEM AS RESURRECTION. FOR I KNOW YOUR WORKS AND THE TRIBULATION, 47:54.802 --> 47:59.092 THE POVERTY, AND YOUR POVERTY, BUT YET YOU ARE RICH. I KNOW THE 47:59.092 --> 48:02.572 BLASPHEMY, THOSE THAT SAY THEY'RE JEWS, IN OTHER WORDS, 48:02.572 --> 48:08.362 FAKES, PRETENDS, THOSE THAT COME IN A FALSE NARRATIVE AND ARE 48:08.362 --> 48:11.842 NOT, BUT THEY ARE OF THE SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN. FEAR NONE OF 48:11.842 --> 48:14.327 THOSE THINGS THAT YOU WILL SUFFER. AND CAN I TELL YOU, I 48:14.327 --> 48:17.871 FEEL LIKE THIS IS A BIG DEAL IN THE UNITED STATES RIGHT NOW 48:17.871 --> 48:21.831 BECAUSE PERSECUTION IS LARGELY SOMETHING THAT MANY OF US, I 48:21.831 --> 48:27.172 MEAN, IN COMPARISON. NOW, I THINK THE CULTURE OF PERSECUTION 48:27.172 --> 48:30.621 AGAINST THE CHURCH IS RISING, BUT THEY AREN'T LINING PEOPLE UP 48:30.621 --> 48:34.612 OUT ON BEACHES AND BEHEADING THEM IN THIS COUNTRY. THIS IS A 48:34.612 --> 48:37.552 REAL REALITY FACED BY OUR BROTHERS AND SISTERS IN OTHER 48:37.552 --> 48:43.431 PLACES, RIGHT? SO IT'S IMPORTANT TO KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, WE NEED 48:43.431 --> 48:46.311 TO THINK ABOUT THE TOPIC OF PERSECUTION AS CHRISTIANS, ALL 48:46.311 --> 48:49.311 THEY THAT LIVE GODLY SHALL SUFFER PERSECUTION, 2 TIMOTHY 48:49.311 --> 48:53.061 3:12 SAYS THAT. SO, BUT FEAR NONE OF THOSE THINGS THAT YOU 48:53.061 --> 48:56.391 SHALL SUFFER, FOR BEHOLD, THE DEVIL SHALL CAST SOME OF YOU 48:56.391 --> 49:00.472 INTO PRISON THAT YOU MIGHT BE TRIED AND SHALL HAVE TRIBULATION 49:00.472 --> 49:04.909 10 DAYS, BUT BE FAITHFUL EVEN TO DEATH, AND I WILL GIVE YOU A 49:04.909 --> 49:08.572 CROWN OF LIFE. NOW HE HAD NO REBUKE FOR THOSE PEOPLE, BUT THE 49:08.572 --> 49:13.041 KEY WAS, IS THEY WERE WILLING TO SUFFER ADVERSITY AND NOT BE 49:13.041 --> 49:15.862 AFRAID. NOW THIS IS IMPORTANT BECAUSE A LOT OF PASTORS, WE 49:15.862 --> 49:18.802 KNEW THROUGH COVID AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT HAPPENED, IT 49:18.802 --> 49:23.362 CAME AGAINST THE CHURCH BETWEEN 2020 AND 2025, A LOT OF PASTORS 49:23.362 --> 49:25.762 COWERED OUT OF THAT. NOW WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT 49:25.762 --> 49:31.402 THAT NEXT TIME, BUT I THINK IT'S IMPORTANT EVEN UNDER THIS, SOME 49:31.402 --> 49:33.202 OF THEM DID IT, WELL, MAYBE THEY WERE AFRAID OF THEIR 49:33.202 --> 49:35.632 CONGREGATIONS, BUT THEY JUST DIDN'T WANNA GET INTO THE 49:35.632 --> 49:38.931 CONTROVERSY WHERE IT'S MESSY. 'CAUSE GUESS WHAT? IF YOU PUT 49:38.931 --> 49:45.150 YOURSELF OUT THERE, THEY'LL LIE ABOUT YOU. RIGHT? I MEAN, WE 49:45.150 --> 49:49.402 WOULD TELL PEOPLE THAT, WELL, MAN, PASTOR HANK'S NAME HAS BEEN 49:49.402 --> 49:52.782 IN THE PAPER AND HE'S BEEN MADE FUN OF BY THE LIBERAL MEDIA AND 49:52.782 --> 49:55.402 THE LEFT AND ALL OF THESE THINGS. AND YOU KNOW, OUR 49:55.402 --> 49:58.222 PREACHER'S FRIEND ALWAYS TELL US, WHAT THEY ALWAYS TELL US, 49:58.222 --> 50:01.492 THEY ALWAYS JUST SAY, "WELL, WELCOME TO THE CLUB AND CONSIDER 50:01.492 --> 50:05.452 IT A BADGE OF HONOR." AND WE NEED TO THINK THAT WAY. THIS IS 50:05.452 --> 50:08.902 HOW THIS CHURCH THOUGHT. THEY FELT LIKE MARTYRDOM WAS A BADGE 50:08.902 --> 50:14.211 OF HONOR, RIGHT? THAT THEY WOULD BE KILLED FOR THE SAKE OF 50:14.211 --> 50:18.442 CHRIST. SO THAT'S THE CHURCH AT SMYRNA AND JESUS HAD NO REBUKE 50:18.442 --> 50:20.615 FOR THEM. I MEAN, HE'S NOT GOING TO REBUKE THE PEOPLE THAT ARE 50:20.615 --> 50:25.041 WILLING TO GO AND BE HANGED FOR THE NAME OF JESUS. SO THIS WAS 50:25.041 --> 50:29.452 VERY, THAT WAS VERY POWERFUL. AND HE COMES TO THEM PRESENTING 50:29.452 --> 50:32.871 THE POWER OF ETERNAL LIFE. I LOVE THAT SO MUCH. ALL RIGHT, 50:32.871 --> 50:36.771 LET'S GO TO THE CHURCH AT PERGAMOS. AND THIS IS IMPORTANT 50:36.771 --> 50:39.592 TO KNOW. THIS WAS THE CHURCH, AND WE TOUCHED ON THIS LAST 50:39.592 --> 50:44.992 WEEK, THAT WAS IN LOVE WITH THE THINGS OF THIS WORLD. THE CHURCH 50:44.992 --> 50:49.702 OF FLESHLY AND CARNAL LIVING. IN OTHER WORDS, AND JESUS COMES TO 50:49.702 --> 50:53.751 THEM AS AN ARMED WARRIOR, ARMED WITH THE SWORD. REMEMBER HE HAD 50:53.751 --> 50:56.677 HERE, WE'LL READ IT HERE IN A MINUTE, HE HAD THE SWORD IN HIS 50:56.677 --> 51:01.027 MOUTH. NOW WE SEE CHURCHES LIKE THAT WHERE THEY'RE AS CARNAL AS 51:01.027 --> 51:05.047 THE NEXT PEOPLE, RIGHT? YOU WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW, IF YOU SAW 51:05.047 --> 51:07.208 THEM OUTSIDE THE CHURCH PEW, YOU WOULDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT THE 51:07.208 --> 51:11.018 PEOPLE THAT GO THERE ARE SAVED, RIGHT? I'VE SEEN A FEW CHURCHES 51:11.018 --> 51:16.478 LIKE THAT. THERE'S JUST NOT A DEMAND FOR BEING ON FIRE OR ANY 51:16.478 --> 51:20.018 KIND OF HOLINESS OR ANYTHING LIKE THAT. BUT THIS IS THE KIND 51:20.018 --> 51:24.188 OF THE GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT ALWAYS JUSTIFY, YOU KNOW, IS IT 51:24.188 --> 51:28.568 OKAY FOR A CHRISTIAN TO GO DO THIS OR DO THAT? IS IT, YOU 51:28.568 --> 51:33.487 KNOW, IT'S CALLED THE OKAYING EVERYTHING. AND I'M NOT SAYING, 51:33.487 --> 51:37.027 YOU KNOW, GOD EXPECTS US TO DRESS UP LIKE PILGRIMS AND, YOU 51:37.027 --> 51:41.648 KNOW, YOU KNOW, NEVER WATCH TV AND, YOU KNOW, I MEAN, THAT'S 51:41.648 --> 51:44.197 WHERE YOU GET ON THE OTHER DITCH WHERE SOME GROUPS HAVE GOTTEN 51:44.197 --> 51:46.507 INTO THE, YOU KNOW, YOU CAN'T EVEN HAVE A LIGHT BULB OR IT'S A 51:46.507 --> 51:50.947 SIN. THERE'S A RIGHT BALANCE THERE. I'M NOT SAYING GOD NEVER 51:50.947 --> 51:55.418 WANTS YOU TO GO HAVE FUN OR DO ANYTHING OR, YOU KNOW, PAUL GOT 51:55.418 --> 51:58.777 INTO THE TOPIC OF THE THINGS YOU EAT AND DRINK. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE 51:58.777 --> 52:01.628 BRING UP THE SUBJECT OF ALCOHOL. WELL, SHOULD A CHRISTIAN DRINK 52:01.628 --> 52:06.668 OR NOT DRINK? YOU KNOW, I'M NOT GONNA TRY TO SOLVE ALL OF THAT, 52:06.668 --> 52:11.947 BUT WHAT I WILL SAY, PAUL TALKED ABOUT ROMANS IN DETAIL IN ROMANS 52:11.947 --> 52:16.469 14. HE SAID, "DON'T DO WHAT CAUSES A BROTHER TO STUMBLE." 52:16.478 --> 52:19.838 OKAY, IF YOU THINK IT'S FINE TO GO OUT ON YOUR ANNIVERSARY AND 52:19.838 --> 52:22.777 HAVE CHAMPAGNE, WELL, THERE'S SCRIPTURE THAT'LL SAY THAT'S 52:22.777 --> 52:25.927 BETWEEN YOU AND THE LORD. OKAY, BUT DON'T TRY TO PREACH A 52:25.927 --> 52:32.947 DOCTRINE ABOUT IT. AMEN. OKAY, PAUL WAS VERY CONCISE ABOUT 52:32.947 --> 52:37.628 THESE TOPICS. BUT WHAT WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL OF IS CHRISTIANS 52:37.628 --> 52:42.277 GET INTO, WELL, IS IT OKAY TO DO THIS? IS IT OKAY TO DO THAT? AND 52:42.277 --> 52:44.918 IT ALWAYS TENDS TO SLIDE TO COMPROMISE. HAVE YOU EVER 52:44.918 --> 52:49.748 NOTICED THAT? IT'S LIKE WE WANT TO SEE HOW MUCH WE CAN ALLOW AND 52:49.748 --> 52:53.947 IT STILL BE OKAY WITH GOD. AND THAT WAS WHAT THIS CHURCH WAS. 52:53.947 --> 52:57.697 THEY JUST HAD A CARNAL BEND. NOW, LET ME TOUCH ON THAT. NOW 52:57.697 --> 53:01.536 WE TALK ABOUT THE MOVIES, THE TV, EAT AND DRINK AND ALL OF 53:01.536 --> 53:03.847 THESE THINGS, BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT ANOTHER REALM OF 53:03.847 --> 53:07.688 CARNALITY. THIS CHURCH WAS ALSO THE CHURCH THAT DIDN'T PUT THE 53:07.688 --> 53:13.987 WORD FIRST. OKAY, BIBLE IS CHRISTIANS. NO TIME FOR THE WORD 53:13.987 --> 53:18.818 OF GOD. CAN I TELL YOU HOW THEY GOT OFF? CAN I, AND LET ME JUST 53:18.818 --> 53:22.717 BREAK IT DOWN THE BEST THAT I CAN. THE WAY FOR US TO STAY 53:22.717 --> 53:26.257 STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW WITH THE LORD AND BALANCE THE RIGHT, THE 53:26.257 --> 53:30.128 WRONG, WHAT'S GOOD, WHAT WE SHOULDN'T DO, WHAT WE SHOULD DO. 53:30.128 --> 53:32.887 CAN I TELL YOU THE BEST WAY TO BALANCE THAT IS BE IN YOUR 53:32.887 --> 53:38.077 BIBLE. PUT SOME BIBLE IN YOU EVERY DAY. IT WILL GUIDE YOU IN 53:38.077 --> 53:42.577 THE RIGHT THING. RATHER THAN GET INTO THESE DISCUSSIONS, WHICH 53:42.577 --> 53:48.818 THE INTERNET IS FILLED WITH, BLESSED BE THE INTERNET. SOCIAL 53:48.818 --> 53:52.327 MEDIA IS FILLED WITH THESE THINGS, OF COMMENTS, OF 53:52.327 --> 53:55.987 EVERYBODY'S OPINION ON WHAT'S GOOD FOR CHRISTIANS, AND WHAT'S 53:55.987 --> 54:00.547 NOT GOOD, AND WHAT YOU SHOULD DO, AND WHAT YOU SHOULDN'T DO. 54:00.547 --> 54:04.987 AND THERE'S SOME CLARITIES IN SCRIPTURE. BUT THE KEY IS, IS WE 54:04.987 --> 54:08.077 GOTTA FIND THAT RIGHT BALANCE. THE ONLY WAY WE FIND IT IS BEING 54:08.077 --> 54:12.818 IN THE BIBLE OURSELVES. WE'VE GOTTA GET IN THE WORD. BECAUSE 54:12.818 --> 54:16.597 I'VE COME TO FIND OUT THAT, YOU KNOW, THE WORD WILL RESTRAIN 54:16.597 --> 54:20.211 YOU. HAVE YOU EVER BEEN THERE WHERE YOU THOUGHT, YOU KNOW, 54:20.211 --> 54:22.208 YOU'RE HAVING A CONVERSATION WITH SOMEBODY, YOU'RE TALKING 54:22.208 --> 54:25.507 ABOUT SOMETHING, ALL OF A SUDDEN SOMETHING IN YOU'S LIKE, NAH. I 54:25.507 --> 54:29.797 DON'T KNOW, AND IT'S LIKE GOD IS TELLING YOU, STOP TALKING. AND 54:29.797 --> 54:32.617 YOU TRY TO SOLVE IT IN YOUR FLESH AND GET INTO THESE, IT'S 54:32.617 --> 54:35.077 HOW WE GET INTO THESE DEBATES AND THESE ARGUMENTS AND THESE 54:35.077 --> 54:38.648 THINGS. BUT THE KEY IS, JESUS COMES TO THIS CHURCH, HE'S LIKE, 54:38.648 --> 54:44.257 STOP OKAYING EVERYTHING. STOP MAKING LICENSE FOR LOOSE LIVING. 54:44.257 --> 54:49.507 BUT PART OF THE CARNALITY STARTS WITH, IS WE DON'T SPEND TIME IN 54:49.507 --> 54:53.978 THE BIBLE. CAN I TELL YOU, IF WE WOULD, AND LET ME GIVE YOU AN 54:53.978 --> 54:56.858 ENCOURAGEMENT. IF YOU'RE NEW AND MAYBE THERE'S SOMEBODY THAT'S 54:56.858 --> 55:00.068 WATCHING ME AND YOU'RE NEW TO THE THINGS OF GOD, JUST READ, 55:00.068 --> 55:04.237 AND THIS IS WHAT I TELL, I WROTE THE LITTLE BOOK THAT PASTOR MATT 55:04.237 --> 55:06.878 ENCOURAGED ME TO WRITE, IT WAS A LITTLE BOOK ON BIBLE BASICS. 55:06.878 --> 55:09.878 ANYBODY READ THAT YET? IT'S JUST MEANT TO BE A LITTLE GUIDE FOR 55:09.878 --> 55:13.597 BEGINNERS, YOU KNOW, SO THAT IF GAME CHANGERS OR WHOEVER, OR YOU 55:13.597 --> 55:16.027 GO OUT ON THE STREET AND SOMEBODY SAYS THEY DON'T KNOW 55:16.027 --> 55:18.150 ANYTHING ABOUT THE BIBLE, IT'S JUST TO GIVE THEM JUST KIND OF 55:18.150 --> 55:22.322 A LITTLE TEACH, A LITTLE, YOU KNOW, POKE ON, BOOP, YOU KNOW, 55:22.322 --> 55:25.538 JUST HOW TO GET GOING, RIGHT? AND ONE OF THE THINGS 55:25.538 --> 55:29.137 THAT I WROTE IN THE BOOK IS, AND I'M A FAN OF THIS, AND THIS IS 55:29.137 --> 55:32.797 JUST ME. I'M A FAN OF, 'CAUSE WE FEEL LIKE AS CHRISTIANS, 55:32.797 --> 55:35.768 ESPECIALLY IF YOU'VE BEEN SAVED FOR A LONG TIME, THAT WE NEED TO 55:35.768 --> 55:38.858 STUDY EIGHT HOURS A DAY. I KNEW A PREACHER GUY ONE TIME, "OH, I 55:38.858 --> 55:42.217 SPEND EIGHT HOURS IN THE WORD." I'M LIKE, "WELL, YAY YOU." 55:42.217 --> 55:45.487 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 55:45.487 --> 55:48.188 YOU KNOW, I JUST GOTTA GET MY WORD TIME IN BEFORE THE PHONE 55:48.188 --> 55:52.958 CALLS START AND THE EMAILS BEGIN, RIGHT? SO, OH MAN, AND 55:52.958 --> 55:55.327 EVERYBODY ON THE STAFF KNOWS, AND PASTOR BRENDA CALLS, IT'S 55:55.327 --> 55:58.987 THE RESPONSE TO AN EMAIL THAT I DIDN'T WANNA WRITE. ISN'T THAT 55:58.987 --> 56:02.557 TRUE, BOB? I MEAN, I'M LIKE, "OH, I CAN'T, "I DON'T WANNA 56:02.557 --> 56:06.307 WRITE ALL THAT. "I'M JUST GONNA CALL SOMEBODY." BUT THE POINT 56:06.307 --> 56:12.487 BEING IS, SO I'M A FAN, JUST GET A FEW MINUTES IN. SPEND A FEW 56:12.487 --> 56:16.387 MINUTES. OKAY, IF YOU'VE GOT A SHORT ATTENTION SPAN, THEN OPEN 56:16.387 --> 56:19.237 THE BIBLE, READ THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. YOU KNOW THERE'S 31 OF 56:19.237 --> 56:23.407 'EM. YOU COULD READ ONE A DAY AND FINISH THE WHOLE BOOK OF 56:23.407 --> 56:27.847 PROVERBS IN A MONTH. BUT IF YOU CAN'T EVEN READ THEM, GO HALF. I 56:27.847 --> 56:31.927 WOULD RATHER SOMEBODY READ A FEW VERSES, HIGHLIGHT THEM, DIGEST 56:31.927 --> 56:36.157 THEM, OKAY, ABSORB WHAT IT SAYS, THINK ABOUT HOW YOU'RE GONNA 56:36.157 --> 56:41.827 APPLY IT TO YOUR LIFE, THEN FILL A QUOTA. AMEN. 'CAUSE WE DON'T 56:41.827 --> 56:46.268 WANNA JUST BE HEARERS, RIGHT? SO YOU KNOW, I GET MY BIBLE AND YOU 56:46.268 --> 56:49.597 KNOW, AT COFFEE TIME, OR YOU KNOW, OCCASIONALLY I'VE DONE IT 56:49.597 --> 56:53.257 ON THE APP, BUT I REALLY LIKE TO OPEN MY REAL BOOK. WE SPEND SO 56:53.257 --> 56:57.128 MUCH TIME ON THESE DEVICES, THEY DON'T ALWAYS MEAN ANYTHING. YOU 56:57.128 --> 57:00.668 KNOW, NOW SOMETIMES PASTORS PREACHING, I TRY TO NOT BE 57:00.668 --> 57:04.688 DINKERING WITH MY PHONE. I WILL CHECK THE STREAMING AND THINGS 57:04.688 --> 57:07.947 LIKE THAT WHILE HE'S PREACHING. BUT SOMETIMES HE SAYS SOMETHING 57:07.947 --> 57:11.498 GOOD. I GOT A STRONG'S ON THERE AND I LIKE TO OPEN THE STRONG'S 57:11.498 --> 57:14.018 AND PULL OUT A WORD. ANYBODY ELSE DO THAT? AND I'M LIKE, 57:14.018 --> 57:16.987 YEAH, THAT'S GOOD. OR SEE IT IN ANOTHER TRANSLATION. I THINK 57:16.987 --> 57:19.425 THAT'S WONDERFUL. I HAVE NO PROBLEM WITH THAT. BUT I DO 57:19.425 --> 57:23.257 LIKE, I THINK WE NEED TO GET BACK TO THE BOOK. AND JUST A FEW 57:23.257 --> 57:28.807 MINUTES, HIGHLIGHT IT, READ IT, DIGEST IT, AMEN? AMEN, AND MAKE 57:28.807 --> 57:32.347 IT REAL TO YOU. MAKE IT A PART, BE A DOER OF IT. NOW THIS IS 57:32.347 --> 57:35.617 WHERE THIS CHURCH GOT CARNAL. THEY WEREN'T PRIORITIZING 57:35.617 --> 57:39.547 PRAYER. THEY DIDN'T DENY GOD. LISTEN, IN FACT, LET'S JUST READ 57:39.547 --> 57:42.398 ABOUT 'EM FOR A COUPLE MINUTES. THIS IS THE CHURCH OF PERGAMOS. 57:42.398 --> 57:45.217 TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH OF PERGAMOS WRITE, THESE THINGS SAY 57:45.217 --> 57:48.637 OF HE THAT HAS A SHARP SWORD. SO JESUS, 'CAUSE THEY FORGOT THE 57:48.637 --> 57:54.248 WORD, HE COMES TO 'EM AS THE WORD. RIGHT? I KNOW YOUR WORKS 57:54.248 --> 57:57.210 AND WHERE YOU DWELL, EVEN WHERE SATAN'S SEAT IS. IN OTHER WORDS, 57:57.210 --> 58:01.597 YOU ARE RIGHT IN THE HEAT OF WRONG CULTURE. YOU LIVE RIGHT 58:01.597 --> 58:08.228 DOWN THERE WHERE THE LIBERAL LEFTIST, EVERY EVIL DOCTRINAL 58:08.228 --> 58:12.097 THOUGHT IS. YOU ARE DOWN THERE AND YOU HAVE HELD FAST AND NOT 58:12.097 --> 58:18.038 DENIED MY FAITH. EVEN IN THOSE DAYS WHERE ANTIPAS WAS MY 58:18.038 --> 58:22.568 FAITHFUL MARTYR, WHO WAS SLAIN AMONG YOU WHERE SATAN DWELLS. 58:22.568 --> 58:25.898 BUT I HAVE A FEW THINGS AGAINST YOU BECAUSE YOU HOLD THE 58:25.898 --> 58:29.077 DOCTRINE. IN OTHER WORDS, NOW HERE HE BRINGS UP THE DOCTRINE 58:29.077 --> 58:32.407 OF BALAAM. IT WAS SIMILAR TO THE DOCTRINE OF THE NICOLAITANS. IT 58:32.407 --> 58:36.847 WAS A DOCTRINE THAT ALSO ALLOWED CERTAIN PROMISCUITIES IN THE 58:36.847 --> 58:39.577 CHURCH. IN OTHER WORDS, THERE WERE CERTAIN THINGS THAT WERE 58:39.577 --> 58:41.887 OKAY. HAVE YOU EVER NOTICED HOW WHEN FALSE DOCTRINE COMES, 58:41.887 --> 58:47.228 THERE'S ALWAYS SEXUAL DEVIANCE TO IT? EVERY SINGLE TIME. AND 58:47.228 --> 58:50.588 THERE'S ALWAYS AN EXCUSING OF IT. YOU KNOW, WELL, IT'S OKAY TO 58:50.588 --> 58:53.858 DIVORCE YOUR SPOUSE AND GO MARRY SOMEBODY ELSE BECAUSE THERE'S 58:53.858 --> 58:58.597 ALWAYS A GOOD REASON. AND THIS IS THE DOCTRINE OF BALAAM. IT 58:58.597 --> 59:03.068 SAID, "HE TAUGHT MY SERVANTS," RIGHT? "TO CAST A STUMBLING 59:03.068 --> 59:05.677 BLOCK BEFORE THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL." IN OTHER WORDS, TO 59:05.677 --> 59:11.288 RESIST RIGHTEOUSNESS, "EAT THINGS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS. "SO 59:11.288 --> 59:14.047 THOU ALSO HAS THOSE THAT HOLD THE DOCTRINE AGAIN "OF THE 59:14.047 --> 59:16.597 NICOLAITANS." JESUS KEEPS BRINGING UP THAT DOCTRINE. HE'S 59:16.597 --> 59:20.047 VERY MAD ABOUT IT. HE SAID, "WHICH THING I HATE." YOU KNOW, 59:20.047 --> 59:22.117 WHEN GOD SAID HE HATES SOMETHING, WE BETTER HATE IT 59:22.117 --> 59:28.237 TOO, RIGHT? SEXUAL PURITY NEEDS TO BE A KEY THING IN THE KINGDOM 59:28.237 --> 59:33.938 OF GOD. HE SAID, "REPENT, OR I'LL COME TO THEE QUICKLY "AND 59:33.938 --> 59:39.398 FIGHT AGAINST THEM WITH THE SWORD OF MY MOUTH." WELL, WHAT 59:39.398 --> 59:43.418 WAS HE DOING? HE WAS COUNTERING THEIR COMPROMISE WITH THE WORD. 59:43.418 --> 59:47.108 SO THEIR FAULTS WERE THAT THEY ALLOWED THE TEACHING THAT 59:47.108 --> 59:49.688 THERE'S CERTAIN LUSTFUL THINGS AND IMMORAL THINGS WERE 59:49.688 --> 59:53.168 ACCEPTABLE. SO, YOU KNOW, IN FACT, DO THIS RIGHT NOW. SAY, 59:53.168 --> 59:56.467 "FATHER, I THANK YOU." TOUCH YOURSELF. SAY, "FATHER, I THANK 59:56.467 --> 01:00:01.358 YOU THAT I WON'T BE A COMPROMISED CHRISTIAN. HELP ME 01:00:01.358 --> 01:00:06.038 FIND THE RIGHT TRUTH AND THE RIGHT BALANCE ACCORDING TO YOUR 01:00:06.038 --> 01:00:11.677 WORD. NOT MAN'S OPINION, NOT WHAT PEOPLE THINK THE WORD SAYS, 01:00:11.677 --> 01:00:16.025 BUT HELP ME BE ALIGNED WITH YOUR WORD IN THIS HOUR." AMEN AND 01:00:16.025 --> 01:00:20.438 AMEN. PRAISE THE LORD. ALL RIGHT. SO THEY WERE ALWAYS 01:00:20.438 --> 01:00:24.038 EXCUSING THINGS. SO HE SAID, "YOU DON'T WANT TO FALL IN THE 01:00:24.038 --> 01:00:28.447 CROSSHAIRS OF JESUS WHEN HE COMES AND DECLARES WAR ON 01:00:28.447 --> 01:00:32.047 WICKEDNESS." THIS CHURCH WAS DEVOID OF GOD'S WORD. AND SO THE 01:00:32.047 --> 01:00:35.047 WAY TO FIX IT AND NOT BE THOSE PEOPLE, I WOULDN'T GO TO A 01:00:35.047 --> 01:00:39.128 CHURCH IF THE PASTOR WASN'T OPENING THE SCRIPTURE AND 01:00:39.128 --> 01:00:42.128 SHOWING ME THE WAY OF THE TRUTH OF GOD'S WORD. I MEAN, I LOVE 01:00:42.128 --> 01:00:44.797 WATCHING PASTOR ON SUNDAY. HE CAN TAKE LIKE SCRIPTURES FROM 01:00:44.797 --> 01:00:47.498 GENESIS ALL THE WAY TO REVELATION, STRING IT ALL 01:00:47.498 --> 01:00:49.717 TOGETHER AND MAKE A SERMON OUT OF IT. I'M LIKE, "HOW DO YOU DO 01:00:49.717 --> 01:00:53.737 THAT?" I'M LIKE, AND HE'LL COME UP WITH IT SUNDAY. HE DIDN'T 01:00:53.737 --> 01:00:56.347 PLAN ANYTHING HE WAS SAYING. HE JUST DID ALL OF THAT OUT OF HIS 01:00:56.347 --> 01:01:02.458 SPIRIT. AND I'M LIKE, "THAT WAS GREAT." I MEAN, I'M JUST, IT 01:01:02.458 --> 01:01:05.938 NEVER CEASES TO AMAZE ME. BUT IT WAS INCREDIBLE BECAUSE HE KNEW 01:01:05.938 --> 01:01:09.297 THE WORD. AND SO IT'S SO IMPORTANT THAT WE KNOW THE WORD. 01:01:09.297 --> 01:01:11.458 LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOR, SAY, "YOU BETTER KNOW THE WORD IN THIS 01:01:11.458 --> 01:01:16.858 HOUR." AMEN. AMEN. ALL RIGHT. AND THEN TELL YOURSELF, "YOU 01:01:16.858 --> 01:01:21.748 BETTER KNOW THE WORD." AMEN. AMEN. ALL RIGHT, NOW LET'S LOOK 01:01:21.748 --> 01:01:25.047 AT THE NEXT CHURCH. THIS IS THE CHURCH OF THYATIRA, AND I'M 01:01:25.047 --> 01:01:28.588 GONNA SEE HOW MUCH I GET THROUGH HERE, AND THEN WE'LL PICK UP 01:01:28.588 --> 01:01:31.438 THE, I THINK WE'LL GET TWO MORE IN, AND THEN WE'LL PICK UP THE 01:01:31.438 --> 01:01:36.418 NEXT. SO THE CHURCH OF THYATIRA, THIS WAS A CHURCH OF FALSE 01:01:36.418 --> 01:01:40.525 DOCTRINE. SOMEBODY SAY FALSE DOCTRINE. NOW WE FIND HERE THAT 01:01:40.525 --> 01:01:44.128 JESUS COMES TO THEM AS THE REFINER'S FIRE. IN OTHER WORDS, 01:01:44.128 --> 01:01:48.688 HE WAS THE ONE THAT HE CAME TO ADDRESS FALSE MIXTURES, RIGHT? 01:01:48.688 --> 01:01:51.447 SO LET'S JUST TALK ABOUT THE CHURCH OF FALSE DOCTRINE BECAUSE 01:01:51.447 --> 01:01:55.318 THEY'RE OUT THERE. HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD SAY YOU'VE SEEN SOME 01:01:55.318 --> 01:01:59.757 EMPHASIS EXPRESSION IN CHURCHES? OKAY, STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW ON 01:01:59.757 --> 01:02:03.898 TARGET. I FEEL LIKE THIS CHURCH, WE'RE ONE OF THOSE. NOW WE GOTTA 01:02:03.898 --> 01:02:06.987 BE CAREFUL. WE GOTTA BALANCE IT WITH THE RIGHTEOUSNESS OR WITH 01:02:06.987 --> 01:02:10.318 TRUTH. WE GOTTA BALANCE IT WITH THE LOVE OF GOD AND THE LOVE OF 01:02:10.318 --> 01:02:14.847 CHRIST, RIGHT? SO THAT'S IMPORTANT. NOW, I WILL SAY THAT 01:02:14.847 --> 01:02:17.728 NONE OF THAT REALLY, WHEN HE TALKED ABOUT THAT WAS CALLING 01:02:17.728 --> 01:02:22.947 OUT WICKED ISSUES IN CULTURE. IT WAS TALKING ABOUT ESPECIALLY IN 01:02:22.947 --> 01:02:25.797 HERE TARGETING OUR BROTHER AND SISTER. I THINK I ESTABLISHED 01:02:25.797 --> 01:02:29.307 THAT LAST WEEK. SO WE SEE THAT KIND OF CHURCH. HOW MANY OF YOU 01:02:29.307 --> 01:02:32.217 WOULD SAY YOU'VE SEEN THE PERSECUTED CHURCH? I MEAN THE 01:02:32.217 --> 01:02:35.577 HEARTBREAKING STORIES THAT COME ACROSS THE INTERNET, RIGHT, OF 01:02:35.577 --> 01:02:39.027 CHRISTIANS BEING BEHEADED AND PERSECUTED, BUT WE'VE SEEN THAT. 01:02:39.027 --> 01:02:42.507 WE'VE SEEN CHURCHES GET PERSECUTED UNFAIRLY, EVEN IN OUR 01:02:42.507 --> 01:02:47.847 OWN NATION, RIGHT, WHERE THEY CAME AGAINST THE CHURCH FOR SOME 01:02:47.847 --> 01:02:51.358 TRIVIAL THING, AND THE WHOLE CHURCH WAS NOW IN A LAWSUIT JUST 01:02:51.358 --> 01:02:55.559 OVER SOMETHING STUPID. OKAY, SO WE'VE SEEN THAT. HOW MANY OF YOU 01:02:55.559 --> 01:02:57.777 WOULD SAY YOU'VE SEEN THAT TYPE OF CHURCH? HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD 01:02:57.777 --> 01:03:02.637 SAY YOU'VE SEEN A PERGAMOS TYPE CHURCH OR PERGAMOS TYPE 01:03:02.637 --> 01:03:08.967 CHRISTIAN WHERE EVERYTHING WAS LOOSE? EVERYTHING WAS GRAY, GRAY 01:03:08.967 --> 01:03:14.367 AREAS ALL THE TIME. NEVER ANY TRUTH, NEVER ANY FOCUS, AND 01:03:14.367 --> 01:03:18.208 THERE WAS CANALITY THAT JUST REALLY REIGNED IN THAT CHURCH 01:03:18.208 --> 01:03:21.807 AND A LOT OF TIMES, AND TRULY THAT ALL BEGINS TYPICALLY WITH 01:03:21.807 --> 01:03:24.748 THE PASTOR. IF THE PASTOR'S CARNAL, THEN THE PEOPLE BE 01:03:24.748 --> 01:03:28.978 CARNAL. I HEARD A STORY OF A PASTOR, I'LL JUST TELL THIS REAL 01:03:28.978 --> 01:03:34.257 QUICKLY, WHO SAID THAT THIS PASTOR'S SON AND DAUGHTER WENT 01:03:34.257 --> 01:03:41.487 OUT WITH A PASTOR AND HIS WIFE OF A CHURCH AND THAT CHURCH IS 01:03:41.487 --> 01:03:47.338 UP AND COMING, IT'S BLOWING AND GOING AND SAID THAT THAT PASTOR 01:03:47.338 --> 01:03:50.847 AND HIS WIFE HAD CONSTANT STRIFE WHEN THEY WERE TOGETHER. NOW HOW 01:03:50.847 --> 01:03:53.788 MANY OF YOU EVER BEEN OUT WITH ANOTHER COUPLE AND I REMEMBER WE 01:03:53.788 --> 01:03:56.907 HAD THIS HAPPEN ONE TIME, THIS OTHER COUPLE WAS JUST ARGUING 01:03:56.907 --> 01:04:00.268 ALL THE TIME. IT'S VERY AWKWARD AND YOU'RE JUST SITTING THERE 01:04:00.268 --> 01:04:03.237 LIKE, HEY, HEY, HEY, WHILE THEY'RE LIKE SPARRING AT EACH 01:04:03.237 --> 01:04:06.418 OTHER AND YOU'RE SITTING ON THEIR COUCH. YEAH, THIS IS 01:04:06.418 --> 01:04:10.318 GREAT. AND, BUT THIS GOT REAL BAD AND THEY WERE ARGUING, LIKE 01:04:10.318 --> 01:04:12.958 REALLY ARGUING RIGHT IN FRONT OF THEM AND IT WAS SUPPOSED TO BE A 01:04:12.958 --> 01:04:15.418 FUN NIGHT OUT AND THEY WENT OVER TO THEIR HOUSE AND THEY'RE 01:04:15.418 --> 01:04:18.208 SITTING THERE AND THEY SAID THEY GOT UP AND SHE RAN IN THE OTHER 01:04:18.208 --> 01:04:22.407 ROOM AND SLAMMED THE DOOR. THEY'RE LIKE, WOW. AND THE 01:04:22.407 --> 01:04:28.677 PASTOR WAS CURSING AT HER USING PROFANITY. NOW, NOBODY KNEW 01:04:28.677 --> 01:04:33.807 THAT, RIGHT? BUT IF THE PASTOR HAS A CARNAL BEND, RIGHT, THAT 01:04:33.807 --> 01:04:38.668 COMES IN AND OUT UPON THE PEOPLE. SO WE'VE GOT TO CLEAN UP 01:04:38.668 --> 01:04:42.748 OUR LIVES, LIVE OUR LIVES RIGHTEOUSLY, OKAY? THE BIBLE 01:04:42.748 --> 01:04:46.288 TALKS ABOUT THOSE THINGS, AND WE'VE GOT TO, AND IF, YOU KNOW, 01:04:46.288 --> 01:04:49.887 AND I'M NOT SAYING, I'M NOT, I'M DEFINITELY NOT TRYING TO SAY, 01:04:49.887 --> 01:04:52.648 WELL, YOU BETTER, YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT DOING THAT. BUT WHAT 01:04:52.648 --> 01:04:57.597 WE ARE SAYING IS, LOOK AT OUR LIVES. ARE WE LIVING HOLY? ARE 01:04:57.597 --> 01:05:01.827 WE LIVING RIGHT ACCORDING TO GOD? OR ARE WE CARNAL? AND SO A 01:05:01.827 --> 01:05:04.288 LOT OF IT STARTS WITH THE WORD AND PRAYER. SO THAT'S PERGAMOS, 01:05:04.288 --> 01:05:06.358 SO WE GOT THAT. SO HOW MANY OF YOU SAY YOU'VE SEEN SOME 01:05:06.358 --> 01:05:09.577 PERGAMOS EXPRESSIONS IN THE CHURCH? AND WE'RE SEEING MORE OF 01:05:09.577 --> 01:05:14.788 THOSE NOW THAN WE EVER HAVE. OKAY, TRUTH HAS BECOME RELATIVE 01:05:14.788 --> 01:05:17.878 IN A LOT OF PULPITS. YOU KNOW, IT'S WHATEVER YOU WANT THE TRUTH 01:05:17.878 --> 01:05:21.478 TO BE. I WOULD SAY THE HE GETS US MOVEMENT A LOT OF TIMES HAS 01:05:21.478 --> 01:05:25.588 THE CARNAL BEND. IN OTHER WORDS, YEAH, YOU COULD BE LAYING IN A 01:05:25.588 --> 01:05:28.557 GUTTER SOMEWHERE AND ON DRUGS, YEAH, GOD GETS YOU, HE LOVES 01:05:28.557 --> 01:05:33.898 YOU, BUT WE'RE ALSO NOT MAKING A SPACE FOR THAT, RIGHT? ARE YOU 01:05:33.898 --> 01:05:37.063 TRACKING WITH ME? SO, ARE YOU GETTING SOMETHING OUT OF THIS? 01:05:37.063 --> 01:05:40.257 THIS IS GOING, OKAY, GOOD. SO HOW MANY OF YOU WOULD SAY YOU'VE 01:05:40.257 --> 01:05:43.077 SEEN THOSE KINDS OF CHURCHES, THE PERGAMOS EXPRESSION OF 01:05:43.077 --> 01:05:46.197 CHURCH? SO THAT A LOT OF TIMES, THAT REALLY BEGINS WITH THE 01:05:46.197 --> 01:05:49.228 LEADERSHIP IN THE MINISTRY, THAT THEY WALK RIGHT. AND YOU KNOW 01:05:49.228 --> 01:05:52.527 WHAT MY PRAYER IS, AND I'M GOING TO SAY THIS, WE HEAR SO MUCH 01:05:52.527 --> 01:05:56.757 ABOUT CHURCH SCANDALS AND ALL OF THESE THINGS THAT HAPPEN. MY 01:05:56.757 --> 01:06:00.418 PRAYER IS THAT THE ONES THAT ARE GOING TO RISE TO THE TOP ARE THE 01:06:00.418 --> 01:06:04.708 PASTORS, THE LEADERS, THE CHURCHES, THE EVANGELISTS, THE 01:06:04.708 --> 01:06:08.668 PROPHETS, THE APOSTLES OF INTEGRITY, THAT THE WORLD WILL 01:06:08.668 --> 01:06:11.547 SEE THERE ARE MORE, AND I'M GONNA PROPHESY IT, THERE ARE 01:06:11.547 --> 01:06:16.467 MORE LEADERS OF INTEGRITY THAN THERE ARE THOSE THAT COMPROMISE. 01:06:16.467 --> 01:06:21.266 HALLELUJAH, HALLELUJAH, I BELIEVE IT, I BELIEVE IT. ALL 01:06:21.266 --> 01:06:25.197 RIGHT, SO CHURCH OF THYATIRA, THIS IS THE CHURCH OF FALSE 01:06:25.197 --> 01:06:29.427 DOCTRINE, AND WE'LL SEE HERE HOW JESUS COMES TO REFINE THEM AND 01:06:29.427 --> 01:06:33.597 REMOVE FALSE MIXTURES. NOW, HERE'S WHAT FALSE MIXTURES IS. I 01:06:33.597 --> 01:06:38.788 HEARD OUR DEAR MOTHER IN THE LORD, MARILYN HICKEY, TALK ABOUT 01:06:38.788 --> 01:06:43.768 A GREAT MINISTER WHO WAS WELL-KNOWN IN THE PROPHETIC, BUT 01:06:43.768 --> 01:06:48.777 HE CROSSED OVER INTO PSYCHIC-TYPE THINGS, AND WHERE 01:06:48.777 --> 01:06:52.978 IT GOT TO BE FALSE. HE WASN'T JUST TRYING TO HEAR FROM GOD. HE 01:06:52.978 --> 01:06:57.717 BEGAN TO CROSS OVER INTO HEARING IN THE SPIRIT. ONE GOOD EXAMPLE 01:06:57.717 --> 01:07:00.898 OF FALSE MIXTURES IS SOMETHING WE'RE SEEING GOING ON RIGHT NOW 01:07:00.898 --> 01:07:04.257 WHERE PEOPLE ARE TAKING SPIRITISM AND MIXING IT WITH 01:07:04.257 --> 01:07:07.168 CHRISTIANITY. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN SOME OF THAT MOVEMENT? 01:07:07.168 --> 01:07:10.648 WHERE WE'RE GONNA GET INTO TRANSCENDENTAL MEDITATION AND 01:07:10.648 --> 01:07:14.248 DOING YOGA AND ALL OF THESE POSTURES AND MOVEMENTS AND THEN 01:07:14.248 --> 01:07:18.568 TRY TO MIX GOD INTO IT. OKAY, GOD HATES WITCHCRAFT. THERE'S A 01:07:18.568 --> 01:07:22.077 WHOLE MOVEMENT OUT THERE NOW TEACHING YOUNG PEOPLE THAT YOU 01:07:22.077 --> 01:07:25.648 CAN BE A WHITE WITCH. WELL, THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A WHITE 01:07:25.648 --> 01:07:31.947 WITCH. OKAY, THERE'S WITCHES. BUT YOU CAN BE A GOOD WITCH AND 01:07:31.947 --> 01:07:36.447 BE A CHRISTIAN. OKAY, THAT'S REAL RIGHT NOW. THAT'S REAL, 01:07:36.447 --> 01:07:40.288 THAT'S OUT THERE. OKAY, THEY HAVE WHOLE MOVEMENTS, WITCH 01:07:40.288 --> 01:07:44.878 COVENS, THAT ARE CALLED CHRISTIAN WITCHES. OKAY, NOW 01:07:44.878 --> 01:07:48.237 THAT SOUNDS CRAZY, BUT THERE'S A WHOLE GROUP OF PEOPLE THAT 01:07:48.237 --> 01:07:52.918 BELIEVE YOU CAN BE SAVED AND BE GAY, EVEN THOUGH THE BIBLE CALLS 01:07:52.918 --> 01:07:57.867 IT AN ABOMINATION. SO MARILYN HICKEY, OUR FRIEND, SAID THIS 01:07:57.867 --> 01:08:00.297 MINISTER OF HERS, SHE SAID WHENEVER THEY START GETTING INTO 01:08:00.297 --> 01:08:03.688 FALSE MIXTURES, I'M GONNA TAP ON SOMETHING THAT I WANNA BE VERY 01:08:03.688 --> 01:08:08.637 CAREFUL, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO CALL OUT ANY GROUP, SO IF YOU 01:08:08.637 --> 01:08:12.418 KNOW OF A GROUP THAT YOU'VE SEEN THIS OR BEEN A PART OF, I'M NOT 01:08:12.418 --> 01:08:15.867 HERE TO CALL IT OUT OR NAME ANY ONE PERSON, ARE YOU TRACKING 01:08:15.867 --> 01:08:19.648 WITH ME? BUT WE SEE A LOT OF THESE MANIFESTATIONS OF WHAT WE 01:08:19.648 --> 01:08:25.287 CALL SUPERNATURAL SIGNS THAT JESUS DIDN'T TEACH. I LOVE WHAT 01:08:25.287 --> 01:08:27.569 RICHARD ROBERTS SAID ONE TIME. HE SAID, "IF IT'S NOT IN THE 01:08:27.569 --> 01:08:35.217 WORD," RIGHT? OKAY, GOD PUTS CERTAIN THINGS IN THERE. SO I'LL 01:08:35.217 --> 01:08:38.787 JUST SAY THIS, HERE'S SOME EXAMPLES. OKAY, I'M JUST GONNA 01:08:38.787 --> 01:08:44.698 GO FOR IT. JEWELS APPEARING IN THE CHURCH. OKAY, SUPERNATURAL 01:08:44.698 --> 01:08:47.667 MONEY COMING INTO PEOPLE'S WALLETS. YOU KNOW, GOD WILL 01:08:47.667 --> 01:08:50.796 BLESS YOU, BUT HE SAID HE DOES IT THROUGH THE HANDS OF MEN. 01:08:50.796 --> 01:08:54.658 OKAY, THAT'S IN THE BIBLE. OKAY, I DON'T SEE, EXCEPT FOR THE COIN 01:08:54.658 --> 01:08:58.108 IN THE FISH'S MOUTH, I DON'T SEE ANY EXAMPLE IN SCRIPTURE WHERE 01:08:58.108 --> 01:09:03.029 MONEY JUST APPEARED, OKAY, IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. NOW, THE COIN 01:09:03.029 --> 01:09:07.146 IN THE FISH'S MOUTH, THERE'S A COUPLE MIRACLES THAT JESUS 01:09:07.146 --> 01:09:11.967 PERFORMED THAT WERE UNIQUE TO HIS DEITY. YOU UNDERSTAND THAT? 01:09:11.967 --> 01:09:15.688 MOUNT OF TRANSFIGURATION IS AN EXAMPLE OF THAT. OKAY, THE COIN 01:09:15.688 --> 01:09:19.259 IN THE FISH'S MOUTH, WE DON'T GO OUT AND MAKE CARDS AND SAY, I 01:09:19.259 --> 01:09:24.627 HAVE A COIN APPEARING MINISTRY. I WAS IN ONE CHURCH ONE TIME 01:09:24.627 --> 01:09:26.787 WHERE THEY WERE DOING SUPERNATURAL WEIGHT LOSS. I 01:09:26.787 --> 01:09:30.597 THOUGHT, WELL, MAYBE I WANT THAT ONE, I DON'T KNOW. I THINK WE'D 01:09:30.597 --> 01:09:33.688 ALL LIKE THAT, AND CHUCK OUR TREADMILLS IN THE DUMPSTER OR 01:09:33.688 --> 01:09:36.569 WHATEVER, BUT IT WAS THE SUPERNATURAL WEIGHT LOSS, AND 01:09:36.569 --> 01:09:39.238 THEY'D GET PEOPLE TO LITERALLY COME ON THE STAGE AND GO, HERE'S 01:09:39.238 --> 01:09:42.868 THIS GUY COMES UP HERE, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN HIS PANTS ARE TOO 01:09:42.868 --> 01:09:49.355 BIG, AND ALL OF THIS KIND OF THING. AND SO ANOTHER ONE THAT'S 01:09:49.355 --> 01:09:53.217 OIL ALWAYS APPEARING ON PEOPLE, AND SOME OF THESE THINGS. AND BY 01:09:53.217 --> 01:09:57.537 THE WAY, JUST SO YOU KNOW, SOME OF THOSE THINGS, THE GOLD DUST 01:09:57.537 --> 01:10:04.347 MOVEMENTS, WERE DEVELOPED IN NEW AGE IN LATIN AMERICA. SO A LOT 01:10:04.347 --> 01:10:07.978 OF THESE NEW AGE MOVEMENTS DO THAT. SO BE VERY CAREFUL. AND 01:10:07.978 --> 01:10:12.087 I'M NOT TRYING TO DASH ALL THESE THINGS, BUT I'M VERY WARY WHEN 01:10:12.087 --> 01:10:16.858 SOME OF THESE FALSE MIXTURES GET IN THE CHURCH. JESUS TAUGHT VERY 01:10:16.858 --> 01:10:21.658 PRECISELY THAT THE MIRACLES THAT THE EARLY APOSTLES WERE TO 01:10:21.658 --> 01:10:25.978 PERFORM WERE TO HEAL THE SICK, CAST OUT DEVILS, AND RAISE THE 01:10:25.978 --> 01:10:29.608 DEAD. HE NEVER SAID THAT YOU'RE TO GO OUT AND HAVE MINISTRIES OF 01:10:29.608 --> 01:10:35.069 GOLD DUST, OKAY? MINISTRY OF JEWELS APPEARING. HE NEVER 01:10:35.069 --> 01:10:38.548 TAUGHT THEM. THAT'S NOT WHAT HE COMMISSIONED THEM TO DO. WE 01:10:38.548 --> 01:10:42.478 DON'T EVEN SEE IT IN THE WORD, RIGHT? NOW, CAN AN ANGEL APPEAR? 01:10:42.478 --> 01:10:46.798 OF COURSE. OKAY, I KNEW ONE GUY, THIS IS ABSOLUTELY THE TRUTH. WE 01:10:46.798 --> 01:10:51.537 WERE AT A PARTICULAR PLACE ONE TIME DOING A MEETING, AND WE MET 01:10:51.537 --> 01:10:54.298 THIS MINISTER THERE, AND HE COMES UP TO US, TO PASTOR AND 01:10:54.298 --> 01:10:56.908 MYSELF, AND WE WERE AT A DINNER TABLE WITH A BUNCH 01:10:56.908 --> 01:11:01.094 OF MINISTERS, AND HE SAID, "I HAVE THE MINISTRY OF 01:11:01.094 --> 01:11:04.554 TRANSPORTATION." I'M LIKE, "WHAT, YOU A BUS DRIVER?" 01:11:04.554 --> 01:11:06.099 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:11:06.099 --> 01:11:09.623 WHAT IS THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORT, WHAT IS THAT? AND HE 01:11:09.623 --> 01:11:15.804 SAID, "I TRANSPORT." I'M LIKE, "YOU TRANSPORT WHAT?" HE GOES, 01:11:15.804 --> 01:11:21.448 "I TRANSPORT." LIKE, YOU KNOW, TELEPORT FROM PLACE TO PLACE. 01:11:21.448 --> 01:11:25.974 AND HE HAD IT ON HIS CARD, ON HIS BUSINESS CARD. AND I'M 01:11:25.974 --> 01:11:28.885 THINKING, "YOU MEAN LIKE PHILIP IS WHAT YOU'RE SAYING?" LIKE, 01:11:28.885 --> 01:11:31.194 YOU KNOW, AND HE SAID, "YEAH, LIKE PHILIP." LIKE I DIDN'T KNOW 01:11:31.194 --> 01:11:35.814 THE BIBLE. YOU KNOW, PHILIP WAS IN ONE PLACE. HOW MANY OF YOU 01:11:35.814 --> 01:11:39.203 KNOW THE STORY AND MOVED TO OKAY, BUT THAT WAS ONE INSTANT, 01:11:39.203 --> 01:11:43.404 FOLKS. OKAY? THERE IS NOT ONE PLACE WHERE YOU SEE PHILIP 01:11:43.404 --> 01:11:47.663 TRANSPORTING AFTER THAT. SO WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. SO MARILYN 01:11:47.663 --> 01:11:50.783 HICKEY SAID THIS TO US. SHE SAID, "BE CAREFUL OF THE FALSE 01:11:50.783 --> 01:11:56.783 MIXTURES." PEOPLE THAT START OUT RIGHT, OKAY, AND YET THEY GET SO 01:11:56.783 --> 01:12:00.144 FAR OFF, THEY GO INTO THE FALSE. NOW LET ME READ A COUPLE THINGS. 01:12:00.144 --> 01:12:03.564 I THINK THIS WILL BRING CLARITY TO WHAT I'M SAYING. SORRY IF I'M 01:12:03.564 --> 01:12:07.944 DASHING YOUR GOLD DUST EXCITEMENT, BUT I'M NOT TRYING 01:12:07.944 --> 01:12:11.394 TO DO THAT. I JUST, I WANNA BE STRAIGHT WITH WHAT GOD, I WANT 01:12:11.394 --> 01:12:16.644 THE REAL SUPERNATURAL. I DON'T WANT THE COMPROMISED, OR I DON'T 01:12:16.644 --> 01:12:21.295 WANNA GIVE ANY PLACE TO THE DEMONIC. OKAY, SO UNDER THE 01:12:21.295 --> 01:12:24.505 ANGEL OF THE CHURCH AT THYATIRA, WRITE, "THESE THINGS SAY OF THE 01:12:24.505 --> 01:12:28.465 SON OF GOD "WHO HAS HIS EYES UNTO A FLAME OF FIRE AND HIS 01:12:28.465 --> 01:12:33.564 FEET ARE LIKE FINE BRASS." OKAY, SO HE COMES AS THE REFINER, 01:12:33.564 --> 01:12:38.873 RIGHT? COMES TO PURIFY THE VESSELS, OKAY? GET THE DROSS 01:12:38.873 --> 01:12:42.863 OUT, GET THE IMPURITIES, GET THE FALSE OUT. FOR, YOU KNOW, IT'S 01:12:42.863 --> 01:12:45.444 LIKE YOU PAN FOR GOLD. I MEAN, HAVE YOU EVER SEEN PEOPLE DO 01:12:45.444 --> 01:12:48.323 THAT? THEY GET THE ROCKS AND THE JUNK OUT. THAT'S WHAT HE'S 01:12:48.323 --> 01:12:52.434 TALKING ABOUT. "I KNOW YOUR WORKS." YOU'RE A CHURCH OF LOVE, 01:12:52.434 --> 01:12:56.904 YOU SERVE. COME ON, AGAIN, THEY WERE HARDWORKING. OKAY, THEY 01:12:56.904 --> 01:13:00.654 WERE COMMITTED, THEY WERE IN CHURCH EVERY DAY. THEY WORKED 01:13:00.654 --> 01:13:06.493 THE CHURCH. I KNOW YOUR ENDURANCE, YOUR WORKS. AND EVEN, 01:13:06.493 --> 01:13:11.033 HE SAYS THIS PART, THE LAST TO BE EVEN MORE THAN THE FIRST. IN 01:13:11.033 --> 01:13:15.654 OTHER WORDS, YOU'RE WORKING HARDER NOW THAN YOU WORKED FIVE 01:13:15.654 --> 01:13:20.274 YEARS AGO. YOU'RE VERY COMMITTED. HE SAID, "BUT 01:13:20.274 --> 01:13:24.505 NEVERTHELESS, I HAVE A FEW THINGS." I'M LIKE, FEW THINGS, 01:13:24.505 --> 01:13:29.453 YOU KNOW, I MEAN, GOD GOT A LIST. "I HAVE A FEW THINGS 01:13:29.453 --> 01:13:34.703 AGAINST YOU "BECAUSE YOU ALLOW THAT WOMAN JEZEBEL." NOW WE KNOW 01:13:34.703 --> 01:13:38.094 JEZEBEL, THE PERSON, BEEN DEAD FOR CENTURIES, RIGHT, BY THIS 01:13:38.094 --> 01:13:43.554 POINT. HE SAID, SO HE'S TALKING ABOUT A DEMONIC BEHIND IT THAT 01:13:43.554 --> 01:13:48.323 CALLS HERSELF A PROPHETESS. IN OTHER WORDS, SHE HAS THE LABEL 01:13:48.323 --> 01:13:57.085 OF HOLY GHOST. SHE HAS THE LABEL OF AUTHORITY, A PROPHETESS. YOU 01:13:57.085 --> 01:14:00.085 KNOW, A PERSON THAT'S A PROPHET OR A PROPHETESS IS USUALLY IN A 01:14:00.085 --> 01:14:04.493 PLACE OF LEADERSHIP, RIGHT? THAT'S WHY WE DON'T TEACH AT 01:14:04.493 --> 01:14:06.505 LORD OF HOSTS THAT PEOPLE CAN JUST RUN AROUND AND LABEL 01:14:06.505 --> 01:14:09.216 THEMSELVES PROPHETS AND GO UP TO THEIR FELLOW BELIEVERS AND SAY, 01:14:09.216 --> 01:14:13.344 "I'M A PROPHET." NO, PROPHETS, JESUS GAVE, I DON'T WANT TO GET 01:14:13.344 --> 01:14:17.514 OFF ON THAT, BUT JESUS GAVE GIFTS UNTO MEN, EPHESIANS 4. HE 01:14:17.514 --> 01:14:20.243 SAID HE GAVE APOSTLES, SOME APOSTLES, PROPHETS, EVANGELISTS, 01:14:20.243 --> 01:14:23.243 PASTORS, AND TEACHERS FOR THE PERFECTING OF THE SAINTS TO THE 01:14:23.243 --> 01:14:26.844 WORK OF THE MINISTRY TO EDIFY THE BODY OF CHRIST. THOSE GIFT, 01:14:26.844 --> 01:14:32.604 GRACE GIFTINGS WERE PUT THERE FOR LEADERSHIP AUTHORITY TO 01:14:32.604 --> 01:14:36.743 TEACH THE CHURCH, RIGHT? SO, YOU KNOW, ANYBODY CAN LABEL 01:14:36.743 --> 01:14:39.295 THEMSELVES SOMETHING. I ALWAYS THINK OF HOW PEOPLE LIKE TO GO 01:14:39.295 --> 01:14:41.304 AROUND THE CHURCH, SAY I'M A PROPHET, BUT THEY, YOU KNOW, 01:14:41.304 --> 01:14:45.623 DON'T WALK AROUND AND SAY, YOU KNOW, I'M A PASTOR, 'CAUSE THAT 01:14:45.623 --> 01:14:50.123 NEVER FLIES IN THE CHURCH. WELL, YOU'RE A PASTOR OF WHAT? SO, YOU 01:14:50.123 --> 01:14:52.974 KNOW, PEOPLE WILL QUESTION THAT. BUT HERE'S THE POINT. HE SAID, 01:14:52.974 --> 01:14:56.425 SO SHE CALLS HERSELF A PROPHETESS. SHE CLAIMS TO BE ONE 01:14:56.425 --> 01:15:02.663 THAT'S IN A PLACE OF AUTHORITY, RIGHT? TO TEACH AND TO SEDUCE MY 01:15:02.663 --> 01:15:09.234 SERVANTS TO COMMIT FORNICATION. IN OTHER WORDS, AND AGAIN, THE 01:15:09.234 --> 01:15:12.295 SEXUAL IMMORALITY ISSUE ALWAYS SEEMS TO COME UP WHERE THERE'S 01:15:12.295 --> 01:15:16.163 THESE COMPROMISES. BUT TO EAT THINGS SACRIFICED TO IDOLS. IN 01:15:16.163 --> 01:15:20.394 OTHER WORDS, SHE WAS TEACHING THEM FALSE DOCTRINE, FALSE 01:15:20.394 --> 01:15:24.113 MIXTURES. IT HAS ALL THE MARKS, WATCH THIS, I PUT IN MY NOTES. 01:15:24.113 --> 01:15:26.363 ALL THE MARKS OF BEING TRUE BELIEVERS, THEY WERE 01:15:26.363 --> 01:15:32.453 HARDWORKING, THEY WORKED HARDER NOW THAN THEY EVER HAD, OKAY? 01:15:32.453 --> 01:15:35.005 AND THEY WERE NOTED FOR THEIR SPIRITUAL GROWTH, BUT THEY 01:15:35.005 --> 01:15:39.054 ALLOWED THAT WOMAN JEZEBEL. NOW THIS IS NOT A LITERAL JEZEBEL, 01:15:39.054 --> 01:15:44.635 BUT IT IS THE SPIRIT OF FALSE TEACHING, FALSE MIXING. YOU 01:15:44.635 --> 01:15:52.719 CAN'T MIX CHRISTIANITY WITH WITCHCRAFT, OKAY? OR NEW AGE, 01:15:52.719 --> 01:15:55.913 OKAY? AND I'M ALWAYS VERY CAREFUL. IT SAYS THEY GAVE 01:15:55.913 --> 01:15:59.304 ALLOWANCE FOR THE TYPES OF TEACHING THAT ENCOURAGED IMMORAL 01:15:59.304 --> 01:16:03.627 BEHAVIOR WITHOUT CONSEQUENCE. NOW HERE'S SOME OTHER EXAMPLES. 01:16:03.627 --> 01:16:06.295 AND I DIDN'T BRING MY BIBLE CASE OUT HERE. IT'S BACK IN MY 01:16:06.295 --> 01:16:10.493 OFFICE. BUT I ALWAYS KEEP IN THE CASE OF MY BIBLE A LITTLE SHEET 01:16:10.493 --> 01:16:13.524 OF PAPER THAT SAYS THE UNCHANGEABLE TENETS OF THE 01:16:13.524 --> 01:16:17.993 FAITH. A LOT OF CHURCHES, NOT ALL, BUT A LOT OF CHURCHES HAVE 01:16:17.993 --> 01:16:21.024 GONE AWAY FROM PUTTING THOSE ON THEIR WEBSITES. THEY'RE 01:16:21.024 --> 01:16:25.823 AMBIGUOUS ABOUT HELL, RIGHT? IN OTHER WORDS, YOU KNOW, THEY HAVE 01:16:25.823 --> 01:16:29.604 THESE TRENDY TENETS OUT THERE NOW. WE BELIEVE IN GOD, NUMBER 01:16:29.604 --> 01:16:36.595 TWO. WELL, WHAT DO YOU, OKAY, THE DEVIL BELIEVES IN GOD. 01:16:36.595 --> 01:16:41.100 EXPOUND, PLEASE. I WANT TO KNOW WHAT YOU BELIEVE ABOUT GOD. 01:16:41.100 --> 01:16:43.974 OKAY. THEY, A LOT OF THEM SKIPPED OVER THE HELL PART. I 01:16:43.974 --> 01:16:47.094 DID YEARS AGO, I DID A STUDY, THIS WAS WHEN THE INTERNET WAS 01:16:47.094 --> 01:16:52.314 STILL PRETTY NEW, PROBABLY BACK IN THE EARLY 2000S AND CHURCHES 01:16:52.314 --> 01:16:54.505 WERE PUTTING OUT THEIR TENETS OF FAITH. AND I DID A LITTLE 01:16:54.505 --> 01:16:58.524 RESEARCH OF CHURCHES AROUND THE COUNTRY, YOU KNOW, AND I NOTICED 01:16:58.524 --> 01:17:02.454 A LOT OF THEM LEFT OUT THE DOCTRINE OF ETERNAL DAMNATION. 01:17:02.454 --> 01:17:05.453 THEY DON'T WANT TO SAY THAT. IT SOUNDS MESSY. SOME CHURCHES HAVE 01:17:05.453 --> 01:17:07.795 GOTTEN TO WHERE THEY DON'T WANNA TALK ABOUT THE BLOOD OF JESUS 01:17:07.795 --> 01:17:13.300 'CAUSE THAT'S GRUESOME. OKAY, WELL, THE CRUCIFIXION, FOLKS, 01:17:13.300 --> 01:17:18.667 WAS GRUESOME. OKAY, JESUS WAS MARRED MORE THAN ANY MAN. IT'S 01:17:18.667 --> 01:17:23.274 THE REALITY OF IT. SO I DID A LITTLE LOOK-SEE AND I THOUGHT, 01:17:23.274 --> 01:17:26.604 WELL, YOU KNOW, THERE ARE A LOT OF CHURCHES OUT THERE THAT HAVE, 01:17:26.604 --> 01:17:29.724 THEY DON'T WANNA BE CLEAR ON WHERE THEY STAND. SO I KEEP THE 01:17:29.724 --> 01:17:34.493 UNCHANGEABLE TENETS OF FAITH IN MY BIBLE. THE TRUTH ABOUT THE, 01:17:34.493 --> 01:17:38.033 THAT WE BELIEVE IN ONE GOD, THE FATHER OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST, 01:17:38.033 --> 01:17:41.005 RIGHT? THE GOD IN THREE PERSONS, YOU OUGHT TO KNOW SCRIPTURES 01:17:41.005 --> 01:17:44.484 ABOUT WHERE IT TALKS ABOUT THREE IN ONE, THE TRINITY, 1 JOHN 5:7, 01:17:44.484 --> 01:17:47.934 THERE'S THREE IN ONE, THE SPIRIT, THE WATER, THE BLOOD. 01:17:47.934 --> 01:17:51.354 AND WE SHOULD KNOW THOSE THINGS. WE SHOULD KNOW THE DOCTRINE OF 01:17:51.354 --> 01:17:55.703 HELL. WE SHOULD KNOW THE DOCTRINE OF THE INSPIRED WORD OF 01:17:55.703 --> 01:18:00.444 GOD. WE SHOULD KNOW THE THINGS THAT ARE NOT NEGOTIABLE, COME ON 01:18:00.444 --> 01:18:06.264 SOMEBODY, FROM THE WORD. OKAY, WE CAN DISAGREE ON SMALL THINGS. 01:18:06.264 --> 01:18:10.014 WE CAN DISAGREE ON IF YOU SHOULD GO TO CHURCH ON SATURDAY AND 01:18:10.014 --> 01:18:13.885 SUNDAY. WE CAN DISAGREE IF YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO SAY IN THE 01:18:13.885 --> 01:18:17.363 NAME OF THE FATHER, SON, AND HOLY GHOST ON A BAPTISM. 01:18:17.363 --> 01:18:19.675 JUST DUNK 'EM IN THERE, LET 'EM CONFESS THEIR 01:18:19.675 --> 01:18:23.724 SINS. WE GET HUNG UP OVER THESE LITTLE THINGS AND WE MISS THE 01:18:23.724 --> 01:18:31.974 BIG BOAT. SO THIS, OH MY GOODNESS, IT'S AMAZING. THAT'S 01:18:31.974 --> 01:18:34.261 WHY JESUS HAD TO SAY, YOU KNOW, YOU STRAIN IT AND OUT AND YOU'LL 01:18:34.261 --> 01:18:37.314 SWALLOW A WHOLE CAMEL. I DON'T KNOW WHAT A CAMEL LOOKS LIKE 01:18:37.314 --> 01:18:44.390 INSIDE SOMEBODY, BUT I DON'T WANT THOSE HUMPS ON MY BACK. 01:18:44.390 --> 01:18:46.885 RIGHT? I DON'T WANT TO BE THAT PERSON. I'M LIKE, LORD, HELP ME 01:18:46.885 --> 01:18:50.363 TO, MAJOR ON WHAT'S IMPORTANT. SO THESE WERE FALSE DOCTRINES. 01:18:50.363 --> 01:18:53.394 SO SOME OF THE FALSE DOCTRINES THAT WE, AND THEY ALWAYS SEEM TO 01:18:53.394 --> 01:18:57.863 CIRCLE. SO THE SPIRITISM, THE WITCHCRAFT MIXED WITH CHURCHES, 01:18:57.863 --> 01:19:02.064 BEING A CHRISTIAN WITCH WAS NEW TO ME. I MEAN, THAT'S A SHOCKER. 01:19:02.064 --> 01:19:04.104 BUT THEN WE SHOULDN'T BE SHOCKED. HOW MANY CHRISTIANS 01:19:04.104 --> 01:19:07.224 DRESS UP FOR HALLOWEEN AND GO AROUND? AND BY THE WAY, I WAS 01:19:07.224 --> 01:19:10.135 TELLING SOMEBODY NOT TOO LONG AGO, IT WAS ACTUALLY ONE OF OUR 01:19:10.135 --> 01:19:12.835 OFFICERS HERE ABOUT, AND WE WERE HAVING A VERY AGREEABLE, 01:19:12.835 --> 01:19:16.644 WONDERFUL CONVERSATION ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THESE COPS ARE ON THE 01:19:16.644 --> 01:19:21.654 STREET, OKAY, AND THEY KNOW THE THINGS THAT GO ON OUT THERE, AND 01:19:21.654 --> 01:19:26.215 HALLOWEEN IS NO JOKE. BUT A LOT OF THE TRADITIONS THAT WE CALL, 01:19:26.215 --> 01:19:28.404 YOU KNOW, DO YOU EVER THINK ABOUT WHY THEY CALL IT, I CAN 01:19:28.404 --> 01:19:31.045 SAY THIS NOW, 'CAUSE HALLOWEEN'S DONE. I'M NOT TRYING TO STOP 01:19:31.045 --> 01:19:34.675 NOBODY, BUT I AM TRYING TO HELP YOU THINK TRUTH, OKAY, FALSE 01:19:34.675 --> 01:19:37.644 DOCTRINES. THE REASON LORD OF HOSTS IS NEVER GONNA DO A 01:19:37.644 --> 01:19:42.743 HARVEST PARTY AS AN ALTERNATIVE IS I DON'T WANT A FALSE MIXTURE. 01:19:42.743 --> 01:19:47.755 TRICK, HAVE YOU EVER THOUGHT ABOUT TRICK OR TREAT? ANYBODY 01:19:47.755 --> 01:19:51.264 EVER PAUSE TO THINK ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS? OKAY, IN OTHER 01:19:51.264 --> 01:19:55.675 WORDS, THEY COULD PLAY A DEMONIC TRICK, THAT'S WHAT THEY WOULD 01:19:55.675 --> 01:20:02.158 DO, OKAY? IT WAS A SCARE TRICK OR GIVE A TREAT. YOU DIDN'T KNOW 01:20:02.158 --> 01:20:04.913 WHICH ONE WAS COMING. THE WHOLE TRADITION OF BOBBING FOR APPLES 01:20:04.913 --> 01:20:12.203 WAS BUILT UNDER DEMONIC, OKAY? ABUSE. SO THERE IS A WHOLE SIDE 01:20:12.203 --> 01:20:16.224 TO THAT. WHAT I'M TRYING TO SAY IS WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL THAT WE 01:20:16.224 --> 01:20:19.404 DON'T MIX THINGS IN THE CHURCH. SO THE SPIRITISM, CHRISTIAN 01:20:19.404 --> 01:20:25.163 WITCHCRAFT, RIGHT? ALWAYS SOME HOT NEW TEACHING. THIS IS A BIG 01:20:25.163 --> 01:20:28.675 THING. I'M ALWAYS WARY OF THAT. ANYTHING THAT JUST SUDDENLY HAS 01:20:28.675 --> 01:20:33.715 JUST RISEN TO THE TOP OVERNIGHT, THINK ABOUT IT. IN FACT, I WROTE 01:20:33.715 --> 01:20:36.413 ABOUT A FEW OF THESE IN MY BOOK. THERE'S A BOOK THAT I HAVE OUT, 01:20:36.413 --> 01:20:38.881 IT'S CALLED DECODING HELL'S PROPAGANDA. ANYBODY EVER READ 01:20:38.881 --> 01:20:42.774 IT? IT DOESN'T SEE THE LIGHT OF DAY VERY MUCH, BUT I WROTE IT A 01:20:42.774 --> 01:20:45.654 LOT OF YEARS AGO. SO, I MEAN, IT'S ONE OF THOSE I HAVE TO GO 01:20:45.654 --> 01:20:49.255 BACK AND SEE IF I NEED TO REDO IT. BUT HERE'S THE THING, THERE 01:20:49.255 --> 01:20:51.354 WAS A LOT OF STUFF LEFT OUT OF THAT THAT HAVE HAPPENED IN 01:20:51.354 --> 01:20:53.520 CURRENT CULTURE, BUT HERE'S SOME OF THE THINGS I TALK ABOUT. I 01:20:53.520 --> 01:20:56.635 KNOW THE DOCTRINE OF UNIVERSALISM, THAT'S BEEN AROUND 01:20:56.635 --> 01:20:59.514 FOR A LONG TIME, AND IT ALWAYS SEEMS TO CIRCLE BACK. IT'S 01:20:59.514 --> 01:21:02.394 COMING BACK AROUND AGAIN, NO LITERAL HELL. EVERYTHING'S GONNA 01:21:02.394 --> 01:21:06.234 BE RECONCILED BACK TO GOD 'CAUSE HE'S MERCIFUL AND HE CAN'T SEND 01:21:06.234 --> 01:21:11.635 ANYBODY TO HELL. WELL, THAT IS NOT WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. OKAY, 01:21:11.635 --> 01:21:14.663 WE'RE GONNA READ IT IN THESE CHURCHES IN THEMSELVES. GOD SAID 01:21:14.663 --> 01:21:19.554 IT. SO DOCTRINE OF UNIVERSALISM IS ONE OF THOSE. ANOTHER ONE IS 01:21:19.554 --> 01:21:22.434 THE DOCTRINE OF PRETERISM, MEANING THAT ALL OF THE EVENTS 01:21:22.434 --> 01:21:25.904 OF THE END TIMES HAVE ALREADY HAPPENED. DOMINIONISM IS ANOTHER 01:21:25.904 --> 01:21:30.045 ONE THAT'S BIG IN PENTECOSTAL CHARISMATIC CIRCLES THAT WE'RE 01:21:30.045 --> 01:21:34.784 GONNA TAKE OUR DOMINION AND HAND THIS WORLD BACK TO GOD. AND 01:21:34.784 --> 01:21:40.335 YEAH, THAT. AND NO, THAT'S NOT THE WAY THAT'S GONNA WORK. JESUS 01:21:40.335 --> 01:21:43.845 IS GONNA COME BACK AND PUT HIS FOOT ON THE MOUNT OF OLIVES, AND 01:21:43.845 --> 01:21:47.534 HE IS GONNA COME TO JUDGE THE WICKEDNESS OF THIS WORLD AND 01:21:47.534 --> 01:21:51.795 JUDGE THE KINGS OF THE EARTH. SO IT'S NOT, YES, WE'RE GOING TO 01:21:51.795 --> 01:21:55.845 PRESENT OURSELF A GLORIOUS CHURCH, BUT WE'RE NOT RETURNING 01:21:55.845 --> 01:21:59.954 THE KINGDOMS BACK TO OUR GOD. HE IS GOING TO JUDGE THE NATIONS 01:21:59.954 --> 01:22:06.555 ACCORDING TO THE SCRIPTURE. AMEN. SO, SO ANOTHER HOT 01:22:06.555 --> 01:22:12.164 TEACHINGS, PRETERISM, POPULAR MOVEMENTS, HYPER GRACE IS 01:22:12.164 --> 01:22:15.765 ANOTHER ONE, CALVINISM, LET'S TALK ABOUT THAT ONE, WHERE YOU 01:22:15.765 --> 01:22:18.704 CAN NEVER LOSE YOUR SALVATION. WELL, THE SEVEN CHURCHES WILL 01:22:18.704 --> 01:22:23.715 PROVE THAT THAT'S NOT TRUE. JUST THAT ALONE, RIGHT? SO, AND LET 01:22:23.715 --> 01:22:27.914 ME SAY THIS, CAN I SAY SOMETHING CAREFULLY? I WANT TO SAY THIS 01:22:27.914 --> 01:22:33.795 CAREFULLY. DON'T, DON'T RUN AWAY WITH THIS. THE PATRIOTIC 01:22:33.795 --> 01:22:38.744 MOVEMENT. NOW, HERE'S THE THING. I BELIEVE IN MAGA, MAKE AMERICA 01:22:38.744 --> 01:22:42.135 GREAT AGAIN, BUT THAT'S WHAT I BELIEVE ABOUT IT. THAT AMERICA 01:22:42.135 --> 01:22:47.444 SHOULD BE AS GREAT AS IT WAS THE WAY GOD BIRTHED IT, OKAY? GOD 01:22:47.444 --> 01:22:51.225 BIRTHED THIS NATION TO BE A NATION THAT STANDS ON THE 01:22:51.225 --> 01:22:55.641 PRINCIPLES OF GOD. IT WAS BIRTHED IN CHRISTIAN TRUTH. 01:22:55.641 --> 01:22:59.475 AMERICA WAS BIRTHED FROM ITS FOUNDATION TO BE A NATION THAT 01:22:59.475 --> 01:23:05.835 WOULD BE THE PREACHING BEACON OF THE GOSPEL, AND IT STILL IS. AND 01:23:05.835 --> 01:23:09.675 MY GOAL ON MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN IS THAT THE PRINCIPLE 01:23:09.675 --> 01:23:15.314 FOUNDATIONS OF CAPITALISM, BIBLICAL FOUNDATIONAL MORAL 01:23:15.314 --> 01:23:19.904 TRUTH THAT HAS REALLY BEEN THE THING THAT'S KEPT OUR COUNTRY, 01:23:19.904 --> 01:23:22.994 ARE YOU LISTENING TO ME, FROM THE JUDGMENTS THAT WE'VE SEEN 01:23:22.994 --> 01:23:26.954 UNDER OTHER REGIMES AND OTHER COUNTRIES. YOU KNOW, IT'S SAID 01:23:26.954 --> 01:23:30.944 THAT SOME PEOPLE GOT TOGETHER, HAITI, AND DEDICATED IT TO THE 01:23:30.944 --> 01:23:36.404 DEVIL. WELL, LET'S LOOK HOW FAR THAT GOT THAT COUNTRY. OKAY, SO 01:23:36.404 --> 01:23:43.274 I WANNA KEEP THIS NATION A CHRISTIAN-BASED COUNTRY SO THAT 01:23:43.274 --> 01:23:47.685 THE DOOR, PAUL SAID, "PRAY FOR US," 1 THESSALONIANS, "THAT THE 01:23:47.685 --> 01:23:52.034 DOOR OF THE GOSPEL WILL REMAIN OPEN." LISTEN, THERE'S BEEN NO 01:23:52.034 --> 01:23:56.564 OTHER COUNTRY THAT HAS SENT MORE MISSIONARIES, MORE TV PROGRAMS, 01:23:56.564 --> 01:24:01.125 MORE BOOKS, MORE SHOWS, MORE GOOD, MORE BENEVOLENCE AROUND 01:24:01.125 --> 01:24:04.305 THE WORLD THAN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA. WE HAVE BEEN THE 01:24:04.305 --> 01:24:11.385 BEACON OF HOPE OF THE GOSPEL FOR THE ENTIRE WORLD FOR 200 YEARS. 01:24:11.385 --> 01:24:15.704 AND SO MY GOAL IS TO KEEP THAT OPEN. PAUL SAID, "PRAY FOR US 01:24:15.704 --> 01:24:19.574 THAT THE DOOR OF UTTERANCE "WOULD REMAIN OPEN FOR US." BUT 01:24:19.574 --> 01:24:24.164 AT THE END OF THE DAY, THIS IS STILL A COUNTRY THAT'S EARTHLY. 01:24:24.164 --> 01:24:28.965 I'M NOT TRACKING THE US EQUAL WITH THE KINGDOM OF GOD. THAT 01:24:28.965 --> 01:24:32.835 WOULD BE A FALSE MIXTURE. DO YOU UNDERSTAND WHAT I'M SAYING? 01:24:32.835 --> 01:24:36.975 WE'RE NOT EQUALIZING SOMEHOW MAGA AND PATRIOTISM WITH THE 01:24:36.975 --> 01:24:42.015 KINGDOM. NO, THE KINGDOM OF GOD IS FIRST. IT IS THE KINGDOM, 01:24:42.015 --> 01:24:46.185 IT'S THE KINGDOM WHERE OUR ALLEGIANCE IS TO. NOW I LOVE 01:24:46.185 --> 01:24:52.305 THIS COUNTRY AND I'M A PATRIOT. PASTOR HANK IS A PATRIOT. WE 01:24:52.305 --> 01:24:57.556 LIKE PRESIDENT TRUMP. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO BE IN A, 01:24:57.556 --> 01:25:01.005 THAT'S ANOTHER THING. PEOPLE ACT LIKE YOU LIKE GREW TWO HEADS IF 01:25:01.005 --> 01:25:05.204 YOU SAY YOU AGREE WITH THE PRESIDENT. I MEAN, I'M SERIOUS. 01:25:05.204 --> 01:25:09.015 I'M LIKE, FOR PETE'S SAKE. I MEAN, CHRISTIANS OUGHT TO JUST, 01:25:09.015 --> 01:25:12.015 IT'S NOT HARD TO FIGURE OUT. IF SOMEBODY SAYS, I THINK WE NEED 01:25:12.015 --> 01:25:17.951 MORE CHRISTIANS, WE NEED MORE PEOPLE IN THIS COUNTRY TO PRAY. 01:25:17.951 --> 01:25:23.204 SINCE WHAT PRESIDENT EVER SAID THAT? NO ONE EVER. SO I'M BEHIND 01:25:23.204 --> 01:25:28.994 THAT, BUT I'M NOT EQUALIZING THE DOCTRINE OF AMERICA WITH THE 01:25:28.994 --> 01:25:33.704 KINGDOM. AM I MAKING SENSE TO YOU TONIGHT? OKAY, SO I'M NOT 01:25:33.704 --> 01:25:36.524 DOWNING IT, I'M ALL FOR IT. YOU'LL SEE ME WEAR A MAGA HAT, 01:25:36.524 --> 01:25:40.364 I'M GOOD WITH THAT. I'M ALL FOR IT, BUT THE KINGDOM IS FIRST. WE 01:25:40.364 --> 01:25:44.295 HAVE TO BE CAREFUL. SO THERE'S ALWAYS NEW HOT DOCTRINES THAT 01:25:44.295 --> 01:25:46.814 COME OUT. AND WE'RE NOT SAYING THAT'S ONE OF THEM, IT'S NOT 01:25:46.814 --> 01:25:49.904 REALLY A DOCTRINE, BUT THERE ARE A LOT OF DOCTRINES THAT CIRCLE. 01:25:49.904 --> 01:25:52.801 AND JESUS SAID, I'M GONNA COME, I GOTTA REFINE THAT, I'M GONNA 01:25:52.801 --> 01:25:58.064 BE THE REFINER'S FIRE OF THAT. SO HE GOES ON TO SAY, WATCH 01:25:58.064 --> 01:26:04.335 THIS, HE GOES, "I GAVE JEZEBEL," VERSE 21, "A SPACE TO REPENT AND 01:26:04.335 --> 01:26:11.295 SHE DIDN'T. "BEHOLD, I WILL CAST HER INTO A BED "AND THEM THAT 01:26:11.295 --> 01:26:15.614 COMMIT ADULTERY WITH HER." SO BE CAREFUL, FOLKS, WHAT YOU GET 01:26:15.614 --> 01:26:22.635 INVOLVED WITH. I KNOW CHRISTIANS WHO, THEY SEARCH FOR DEEPER 01:26:22.635 --> 01:26:26.295 REVELATION, AND THAT'S GOOD, WE NEED TO DO THAT. YOU NEED TO DIG 01:26:26.295 --> 01:26:30.225 IN YOUR WORD, OKAY? BUT I'VE KNOWN PASTORS THAT WERE SO 01:26:30.225 --> 01:26:33.645 TRYING TO DIG INTO THE NEXT GREATEST THINGS SO THEY COULD BE 01:26:33.645 --> 01:26:37.215 POPULAR, AND THEY DUG AND DUG AND DUG AND DUG THEM RIGHT 01:26:37.215 --> 01:26:41.835 THEMSELVES INTO FALSE, OKAY? AND STARTED PREACHING FALSE THINGS. 01:26:41.835 --> 01:26:44.864 I KNOW ONE, HE'S NOT EVEN ALIVE ANYMORE, THAT STARTED PREACHING, 01:26:44.864 --> 01:26:48.435 HE WAS ONE OF THE MAJOR LEADERS THAT STARTED PREACHING IN NO 01:26:48.435 --> 01:26:52.920 LITERAL HELL, AND JUST WENT, "PASTOR, AND I'VE KNOWN A FEW OF 01:26:52.920 --> 01:26:55.784 THEM." WE HAD TO BREAK FELLOWSHIP WITH SOME, BECAUSE I 01:26:55.784 --> 01:26:57.990 THOUGHT, "NO, I CAN'T GO WITH THAT. I DON'T FEEL LIKE THAT. 01:26:57.990 --> 01:27:00.494 "I'M NOT MAD AT YOU, BUT I'M NOT GONNA BE IN LEAGUE WITH 01:27:00.494 --> 01:27:03.885 THAT." SO WE'VE GOT TO BE DISCERNING IN THIS HOUR. SHARPEN 01:27:03.885 --> 01:27:06.824 YOUR DISCERNMENT, BY THE WAY. HEBREWS 5 SAID THAT WE HAVE OUR 01:27:06.824 --> 01:27:10.185 SENSES EXERCISED TO DISCERN BETWEEN GOOD AND EVIL. YOU KNOW, 01:27:10.185 --> 01:27:12.614 WHEN YOU'RE TALKING WITH SOMEBODY, AND THEY'RE GOING DOWN 01:27:12.614 --> 01:27:16.755 A TRACK, AND YOU'RE LIKE, "I'M NOT SAYING GET IN AN ARGUMENT 01:27:16.755 --> 01:27:21.435 WITH THEM, BUT GO BACK AND PRAY IN THE SPIRIT. TAKE TIME, BE A 01:27:21.435 --> 01:27:26.055 STUDENT." SO HE SAYS, "THOSE THAT COMMIT ADULTERY WITH HER OR 01:27:26.055 --> 01:27:29.835 GET MIXED UP IN IT, I'LL CAST THEM INTO GREAT TRIBULATION." BY 01:27:29.835 --> 01:27:31.725 THE WAY, THAT'S ONE OF THE REASONS I BELIEVE IN A 01:27:31.725 --> 01:27:35.805 PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE. THERE'S SCRIPTURES, AND I WISH I HAD 01:27:35.805 --> 01:27:39.225 TIME TO GO THROUGH 1 AND 2 THESSALONIANS AND READ SOME OF 01:27:39.225 --> 01:27:42.015 THOSE. BUT HOW MANY OF YOU WERE HERE WHEN I READ THE SCRIPTURE 01:27:42.015 --> 01:27:47.766 THAT SAYS THAT, IN FACT, WE'RE GONNA, THERE'S SO MUCH TO SAY. 01:27:47.766 --> 01:27:51.494 ALL RIGHT, WE'RE GONNA READ, I KNOW, I'M TALKING IN CIRCLES NOW 01:27:51.494 --> 01:27:54.675 BECAUSE THERE'S SOUND... MY MIND, IT WAS GOING. BUT HERE'S 01:27:54.675 --> 01:27:59.925 THE POINT. WE'RE GONNA FIND OUT HERE THAT JESUS SAID TO THE 01:27:59.925 --> 01:28:04.274 CHURCH AT SARDIS, WE'LL READ THIS NEXT TIME, THAT HE SAID, 01:28:04.274 --> 01:28:07.635 "BECAUSE OF YOUR DEEDS, "THAT DAY OF THE LORD'S GONNA OVERTAKE 01:28:07.635 --> 01:28:11.085 YOU LIKE A THIEF." 1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5 SAYS 01:28:11.085 --> 01:28:14.864 THIS, IT SAYS THAT YOU ARE NOT IN THE DARK AS SOME ARE, THAT 01:28:14.864 --> 01:28:19.994 THAT DAY SHOULD OVERTAKE YOU BY SURPRISE. IN OTHER WORDS, NO 01:28:19.994 --> 01:28:24.314 CHRISTIAN SHOULD BE SURPRISED. WE LIVE IN A PLACE OF READINESS. 01:28:24.314 --> 01:28:27.465 WE LIVE IN A PLACE OF PREPAREDNESS, WHERE WE KNOW, 01:28:27.465 --> 01:28:31.845 COME ON, ISSACHAR, WE KNOW THE TIMES, WE KNOW THE SEASONS, WE 01:28:31.845 --> 01:28:37.694 KNOW WHAT'S BEFORE US. SO NOTHING TAKES US BY SHOCK. OKAY, 01:28:37.694 --> 01:28:42.314 HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THE FIVE WISE AND FOOLISH VIRGINS? 01:28:42.314 --> 01:28:46.904 THE WISE WERE THE ONES THAT WERE IN PREPARATION. THEY WERE READY 01:28:46.904 --> 01:28:50.354 AT ANY TIME FOR THE BRIDEGROOM TO COME. OKAY, THEY WERE RUNNING 01:28:50.354 --> 01:28:54.164 AROUND IN CARNALITY AND LIVING A DOUBLE LIFE AND DOING ALL THESE 01:28:54.164 --> 01:28:57.015 THINGS WHERE THERE WAS NO OIL IN THEIR LAP. OKAY, THEY WEREN'T 01:28:57.015 --> 01:29:01.185 MISSING CHURCH, YOU KNOW, 42 TIMES OUT OF THE YEAR AND 01:29:01.185 --> 01:29:07.694 BECOMING CHRISTERS, RIGHT? TRANSLATED CHRISTMAS AND EASTER 01:29:07.694 --> 01:29:14.024 ATTENDANCE. THEY WERE READY, RIGHT? SO HE SAID, DON'T BE LIKE 01:29:14.024 --> 01:29:16.515 THE ONES THAT HAVE NO OIL. IN OTHER WORDS, THAT YOU'RE NOT 01:29:16.515 --> 01:29:22.154 READY AT ANY GIVEN TIME. SO THIS, HE SAID, NO, HE SAID, I'LL 01:29:22.154 --> 01:29:24.675 CAST YOU INTO GREAT TRIBULATION. MAYBE WE'LL TALK ABOUT THE 01:29:24.675 --> 01:29:28.244 TRIBULATION AND THE RAPTURE A LITTLE BIT AT SOME POINT. EXCEPT 01:29:28.244 --> 01:29:30.824 THEY REPENT OF THEIR DEEDS. AND WATCH THIS, IT SOUNDS LIKE JESUS 01:29:30.824 --> 01:29:35.024 IS HARSH. THIS IS WHY WE HAVE TO BE SO CAREFUL. THERE IS THE 01:29:35.024 --> 01:29:37.935 CORRECTIVE WARRIOR SIDE OF JESUS, AND THEN THERE IS THE 01:29:37.935 --> 01:29:41.234 LOVING, COMPASSIONATE SIDE. AND WE SEE THIS ALL THROUGH THE 01:29:41.234 --> 01:29:46.425 BIBLE. THAT'S WHY IT'S A TWO-EDGED SWORD. OKAY, ONE SIDE 01:29:46.425 --> 01:29:52.064 IS MERCY, AND THE OTHER SIDE IS JUDGMENT. OKAY, THERE'S BOTH, 01:29:52.064 --> 01:29:56.024 RIGHT? AND THE GREATEST CHALLENGE OF EVERY CHRISTIAN IS 01:29:56.024 --> 01:30:00.824 TO LEARN THE BALANCE BETWEEN THE TWO. YOU'LL FIND THAT OUT. THINK 01:30:00.824 --> 01:30:04.005 ON IT TONIGHT WHEN YOU GO TO BED. NEXT TIME YOU DEAL WITH 01:30:04.005 --> 01:30:07.185 SOMETHING, GOD, SHOULD I SCREAM AT 'EM AND GIVE 'EM THEIR LETTER 01:30:07.185 --> 01:30:12.055 OF RESIGNATION? OR SHOULD I PUT MY ARM AROUND 'EM AND PRAY? WHAT 01:30:12.055 --> 01:30:15.314 SHOULD I DO, GOD? COME ON, ANYBODY EVER BEEN THERE? RIGHT, 01:30:15.314 --> 01:30:19.574 WE'VE ALL BEEN A PART OF THAT. OKAY, JESUS SAID, "I'LL KILL HER 01:30:19.574 --> 01:30:23.805 CHILDREN WITH DEATH, "AND ALL THE CHURCHES SHALL KNOW THAT I 01:30:23.805 --> 01:30:27.045 AM HE "THAT SEARCHES THE REINS AND THE HEARTS." MAN, JESUS IS 01:30:27.045 --> 01:30:31.064 NOT PLAYING. "AND I WILL GIVE EVERY ONE OF YOU," NOTICE HE 01:30:31.064 --> 01:30:35.444 SAID YOU, SO TOUCH YOURSELF, "IT MEANS ALL OF US, RIGHT? "I'M 01:30:35.444 --> 01:30:38.654 GONNA GIVE YOU ACCORDING TO YOUR DEEDS, "WHAT YOU CHOOSE." COME 01:30:38.654 --> 01:30:42.914 ON, FOLKS, WE HAVE ONE LIFE. I SAID THIS ON SUNDAY. WE HAVE ONE 01:30:42.914 --> 01:30:46.784 LIFE TO DO IT RIGHT. RIGHT, THAT'S WHY JESUS SAYS AGAIN AND 01:30:46.784 --> 01:30:48.914 AGAIN AND AGAIN, REPENT, THAT'S ANOTHER DOCTRINE THAT WENT 01:30:48.914 --> 01:30:51.944 AROUND. WELL, YOU DON'T HAVE TO REPENT. REMEMBER THAT ONE. 01:30:51.944 --> 01:30:55.244 SOMEBODY SAID THE SCRIPTURE, 1 JOHN 1:9, IF YOU CONFESS YOUR 01:30:55.244 --> 01:30:58.125 FAULTS, HE'S FAITHFUL AND JUST TO FORGIVE US AND CLEANSE US 01:30:58.125 --> 01:31:00.268 FROM ALL UNRIGHTEOUSNESS. AND THEY PREACHED IT, WELL, THAT'S 01:31:00.268 --> 01:31:05.354 NOT RELEVANT NOW. YOU DON'T HAVE TO REPENT, YOU DID IT ONCE. 01:31:05.354 --> 01:31:09.404 WELL, TELL THAT TO JESUS WHEN HE WROTE THE LETTERS. OKAY, THESE 01:31:09.404 --> 01:31:13.217 WERE ALREADY CHURCHES, THEY HAD TO DO IT AGAIN. SO IF THEY HAVE 01:31:13.217 --> 01:31:18.375 TO DO IT AGAIN, I GUESS WE DO TOO. SO HE SAID, REPENT, RIGHT, 01:31:18.375 --> 01:31:23.864 OF YOUR DEEDS. BUT WE HAVE ONE LIFE TO LIVE, RIGHT? AND YOU 01:31:23.864 --> 01:31:27.645 KNOW, I LOVE WHAT ERIKA KIRK SAID ABOUT CHARLIE. SHE SAID HE 01:31:27.645 --> 01:31:30.765 MAY HAVE HAD UNFINISHED WORK, BUT HE DIDN'T HAVE UNFINISHED 01:31:30.765 --> 01:31:35.828 BUSINESS. LIVE RIGHT FOR GOD EVERY DAY, CAN I SAY THAT? LIVE 01:31:35.828 --> 01:31:39.570 RIGHT FOR GOD, STAY ON TARGET WITH GOD. IT'S THE MOST 01:31:39.570 --> 01:31:43.591 IMPORTANT THING WE CAN DO. DON'T BE PLAYING, THIS IS NOT THE HOUR 01:31:43.591 --> 01:31:47.699 FOR IT. DEFINITELY NOT THE HOUR. AND THEN YOU REALLY CAN HAVE 01:31:47.699 --> 01:31:50.551 THAT DAY COME ON. PEOPLE CUT THEIR LIFE SHORT ALL THE TIME, 01:31:50.551 --> 01:31:53.489 DO DUMB THINGS. I THOUGHT THE OTHER DAY, I THOUGHT, THERE WAS 01:31:53.489 --> 01:31:58.051 SOME ACCIDENT THAT I READ ABOUT AND SOMEBODY WAS LIVING CRAZY. 01:31:58.051 --> 01:32:00.420 WELL, HOW DO YOU KNOW, PASTOR BRENDA, IF THEY WENT TO HELL OR 01:32:00.420 --> 01:32:02.850 NOT? I'M LIKE, WELL, BASED ON WHAT THEY WERE DOING, I HOPE 01:32:02.850 --> 01:32:06.359 THEY MADE IT TO HEAVEN, BUT YOU KNOW, I'M SURE THERE'S PLENTY OF 01:32:06.359 --> 01:32:12.532 PEOPLE THAT WOKE UP IN HELL AND DIDN'T KNOW THEY WERE GOING. SO 01:32:12.532 --> 01:32:15.689 THIS IS NOT THE HOUR FOR THAT. LIVE READY AS A CHRISTIAN, 01:32:15.689 --> 01:32:20.216 THAT'S WHAT THIS IS TEACHING. HE SAID, BUT I'VE ALREADY TOLD YOU, 01:32:20.216 --> 01:32:24.149 BUT VERSE 24, MAYBE WE'LL CLOSE WITH THIS. BUT I SAY UNTO YOU 01:32:24.149 --> 01:32:27.030 AND UNTO THE REST OF THYATIRA, AS MANY AS HAVE NOT THIS 01:32:27.030 --> 01:32:30.869 DOCTRINE, THE DOCTRINE OF THE FALSE, RIGHT? THESE FALSE 01:32:30.869 --> 01:32:36.270 MIXTURES, WHICH HAVE NOT KNOWN THE DEPTHS OF SATAN, AS THEY 01:32:36.270 --> 01:32:40.320 SPEAK, I WILL PUT ON YOU NO OTHER BURDEN, BUT THAT WHAT YOU 01:32:40.320 --> 01:32:44.729 HAVE ALREADY HAVE HELD ON TO, HOLD FAST. IN OTHER WORDS, THE 01:32:44.729 --> 01:32:48.449 TEMPTATION IN THE LAST HOUR, HE'S SAYING, IT'S GONNA BE EASY 01:32:48.449 --> 01:32:51.960 TO GET DECEIVED BECAUSE I MEAN, SOME PEOPLE MAKE GREAT ARGUMENTS 01:32:51.960 --> 01:32:56.789 ON THINGS. WHY IT'S POWERFUL. YOU KNOW, PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, 01:32:56.789 --> 01:32:58.890 FALSE DOCTRINES, THEY'LL SAY, YEAH, BUT IT COSTS SOMEBODY TO 01:32:58.890 --> 01:33:02.130 GET SAVED. YOU KNOW, THEY GAVE THEIR HEART TO GOD IN THE MIDDLE 01:33:02.130 --> 01:33:07.140 OF THIS WHOLE TEACHING. AND SO IT SOUNDS GREAT WHEN PEOPLE SAY 01:33:07.140 --> 01:33:11.789 IT. THE DEVIL IS A CRAFTY ONE. HE ALWAYS GONNA COME TO YOU AS 01:33:11.789 --> 01:33:15.810 AN ANGEL OF LIGHT. HE'S GONNA MAKE IT MIX WITH TRUTH. HE'LL 01:33:15.810 --> 01:33:20.310 PUT ENOUGH TRUTH IN SOMETHING SO THAT YOU WILL BELIEVE THE LIE. 01:33:20.310 --> 01:33:23.189 YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE I HEARD, I DON'T KNOW WHERE THIS EXAMPLE IS 01:33:23.189 --> 01:33:26.970 PROBABLY CHEESY, BUT YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE SOMEBODY SAID ONE 01:33:26.970 --> 01:33:31.118 TIME, IF YOU FILL UP A GLASS OF WATER, PURE CLEAN WATER, AND YOU 01:33:31.118 --> 01:33:36.720 JUST PUT A SINGLE DROP OF SOAP IN IT, NOW THAT IS LIKE A HALF A 01:33:36.720 --> 01:33:42.899 PERCENT SOAP, AND 95% WATER, IT IMMEDIATELY BECOMES UNDRINKABLE. 01:33:42.899 --> 01:33:46.051 SO THINK ABOUT THAT. SO THESE FALSE MIXTURES AND FALSE 01:33:46.051 --> 01:33:49.500 DOCTRINES ARE IMPORTANT, AND I WOULD SAY THE BIBLE SAYS THAT 01:33:49.500 --> 01:33:53.640 THE WORD OF GOD IS PROFITABLE TO US FOR DOCTRINE. YOU KNOW, DON'T 01:33:53.640 --> 01:33:57.359 JUST BECOME A, DON'T LET YOURSELF BE A BIBLE ILLITERATE. 01:33:57.359 --> 01:34:01.770 AMEN. BECOME WELL-VERSED IN THE SCRIPTURES. SO HOW DID JESUS 01:34:01.770 --> 01:34:05.760 OVERCOME THE DEVIL? HE OVERCAME THE DEVIL BY SAYING IT'S 01:34:05.760 --> 01:34:08.699 WRITTEN. HE COULDN'T GO, YOU KNOW WHAT, SATAN, LET ME RUN 01:34:08.699 --> 01:34:13.052 OVER AND STUDY THE SCROLL AND SEARCH THAT ON GOOGLE. NO, IT 01:34:13.052 --> 01:34:17.670 HAD TO BE IN HIM ALREADY. IT HAS TO BE IN US ALREADY. SO WHEN THE 01:34:17.670 --> 01:34:22.109 FALSE COMES, WE KNOW THE ANSWER. ALL RIGHT, STAND TO YOUR FEET. 01:34:22.109 --> 01:34:28.829 I'LL CLOSE UP WITH THIS. 'CAUSE WE ARE PAST 8:30. BUT THIS IS 01:34:28.829 --> 01:34:31.079 WHY I WANTED TO GO ONE MORE. THEY'VE NOT KNOWN THE DEPTHS OF 01:34:31.079 --> 01:34:35.280 SATAN, BUT THAT WHICH HOLD FAST TO THAT WHICH IS THERE. AND HE 01:34:35.280 --> 01:34:37.949 THAT OVERCOMES AND KEEPS MY WORKS TO THE END TO HIM, I'LL 01:34:37.949 --> 01:34:41.130 GIVE POWER OVER THE NATIONS. WHY DID HE SAY POWER OVER THE 01:34:41.130 --> 01:34:46.020 NATIONS? BECAUSE I CAN GIVE YOU AUTHORITY IF YOU CAN BE TRUSTED 01:34:46.020 --> 01:34:49.560 TO LEAD THE PEOPLE THE RIGHT WAY AND NOT GET SIDETRACKED WITH THE 01:34:49.560 --> 01:34:53.130 FALSE. THAT'S WHAT HE WAS SAYING. THAT'S WHY I BELIEVE GOD 01:34:53.130 --> 01:34:56.760 HAS BLESSED PASTOR HANK. ONE THING I KNOW ABOUT THAT MAN IS 01:34:56.760 --> 01:35:03.030 HE CHECKS HIMSELF. OKAY? LIKE ALL OF US, IS HE PERFECT? NO. AM 01:35:03.030 --> 01:35:08.070 I PERFECT? NO. DO I GET MAD SOMETIMES? OF COURSE. DO I, YOU 01:35:08.070 --> 01:35:13.770 KNOW, SAY DUMB THINGS? WE ALL DO. BUT, I'M NOT AFRAID TO GO 01:35:13.770 --> 01:35:17.579 BACK TO GOD AND SAY, YOU KNOW WHAT, GOD, HELP ME TO DO BETTER. 01:35:17.579 --> 01:35:22.289 I'M BETTER THAN THAT. HELP ME TO BEHAVE DIFFERENT, SHOW ME. GOD, 01:35:22.289 --> 01:35:26.677 IF YOU DON'T LIKE SOMETHING, YOU SHOW IT. I'M SMART ENOUGH TO AT 01:35:26.677 --> 01:35:31.829 LEAST DO THAT. CHECK OURSELVES, RIGHT? AND ASK THE LORD TO 01:35:31.829 --> 01:35:37.738 REVEAL TO US. 'CAUSE I WANNA LEAD THIS CHURCH CORRECTLY. 01:35:37.738 --> 01:35:40.020 THAT'S OUR HEART. AND THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT PASTOR HANK. 01:35:40.020 --> 01:35:43.619 AND YOU KNOW WHY I BELIEVE GOD HAS GIVEN HIM THIS, WHAT HE'S 01:35:43.619 --> 01:35:47.551 GIVEN AND THE TABERNACLE AND THE THINGS AND HE'S TRUSTED HIM TO 01:35:47.551 --> 01:35:51.841 BE ON FLASHPOINT AND LEAD THE NATION PROPHETICALLY? 'CAUSE GOD 01:35:51.841 --> 01:35:58.500 KNOWS THAT FIRST OF ALL, HE'LL GET COUNSEL. HE DOESN'T LIVE 01:35:58.500 --> 01:36:09.270 SECRET. GOD KNOWS THAT HE'LL EXAMINE HIMSELF, SAY, "LORD, 01:36:09.270 --> 01:36:14.430 THAT DIDN'T PLEASE YOU." AND GOD SAID, "IF YOU WON'T ALLOW THE 01:36:14.430 --> 01:36:17.520 FALSE MIXTURE, I'LL GIVE YOU POWER TO RULE." AND YOU KNOW, 01:36:17.520 --> 01:36:21.000 THAT APPLIES TO YOU TOO. HE'LL GIVE YOU PLACES OF AUTHORITY. 01:36:21.000 --> 01:36:24.301 ALL RIGHT, LET ME CLOSE WITH THIS. ISN'T THAT GOOD? AND HE 01:36:24.301 --> 01:36:26.953 SHALL RULE THEM WITH THE ROD OF IRON, THE VESSELS OF THE POTTER, 01:36:26.953 --> 01:36:30.479 THEY'LL BE BROKEN INTO SHIVERS AND MY FATHER AND HE WILL GIVE 01:36:30.479 --> 01:36:37.289 THEM THE MORNING STAR. AND HE THAT HAS EARS TO HEAR, HEAR WHAT 01:36:37.289 --> 01:36:41.820 THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE CHURCHES. SO THIS IS, WE'LL STOP 01:36:41.820 --> 01:36:45.689 WITH THAT TONIGHT. WE'LL GO INTO THE LAST ONES. AND HOW MANY OF 01:36:45.689 --> 01:36:51.119 YOU HAVE ENJOYED THIS? HAS IT BEEN GOOD? I PRAY SO. I HAVE NO 01:36:51.119 --> 01:36:56.189 GREATER DESIRE IN MY LIFE IS FOR US TO HAVE A PURE CHURCH, A 01:36:56.189 --> 01:37:00.210 CHURCH THAT IS ON TARGET IN WHAT IT STANDS FOR AND BELIEVES. 01:37:00.210 --> 01:37:03.149 THAT'S MY HEART AND THAT'S PASTOR'S HEART TOO. SO FATHER, I 01:37:03.149 --> 01:37:05.939 PRAY FOR EVERY PERSON INTO THE SOUND OF MY VOICE AS WE DEPART 01:37:05.939 --> 01:37:09.570 TONIGHT. I THANK YOU, FATHER. IF THERE'S ANY AREAS IN ALL OF US 01:37:09.570 --> 01:37:13.649 THAT YOU WANNA FIX, I ASK YOU TEACH US. WE'RE AN OPEN BOOK TO 01:37:13.649 --> 01:37:18.060 YOU, LORD. COME TO US. WE DON'T WANT OUR CANDLESTICK REMOVED. WE 01:37:18.060 --> 01:37:21.780 DON'T WANT TO MISS OR HAVE OUR NAME BLOTTED FROM THE BOOK. 01:37:21.780 --> 01:37:26.100 FATHER, WE ASK THAT YOU'D REVEAL TO US, SHOW US, HELP US TO GROW. 01:37:26.100 --> 01:37:29.010 AND HELP US IN THIS, THROUGH THIS TEACHING TO AVOID THAT 01:37:29.010 --> 01:37:32.460 WHICH IS OFF AND THAT WHICH YOU DON'T LIKE. AND THAT WE WOULD 01:37:32.460 --> 01:37:37.439 WALK IN RIGHTEOUSNESS AND PLEASE THE LORD OF THE CHURCH. AND WE 01:37:37.439 --> 01:37:40.199 ASK THAT YOU TOUCH OUR LIVES AFRESH TONIGHT WITH A FRESH 01:37:40.199 --> 01:37:44.341 ANOINTING. AND WE THANK YOU FOR IT IN JESUS' NAME. ALL RIGHT, 01:37:44.341 --> 01:37:46.920 INTERNET, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TONIGHT. I LOVE YOU, GOD 01:37:46.920 --> 01:37:50.430 BLESS YOU. GO HOME IN PASTOR HANK'S WORDS AND GET SOME 01:37:50.430 --> 01:37:54.000 GELATO. GOD BLESS YOU. EVERYBODY HAVE A GOOD NIGHT. 01:37:54.000 --> 01:37:57.043 (MUSIC)