WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:09.676 (MUSIC) 00:09.676 --> 00:12.345 LORD OF HOSTS, YOU READY TO LIFT UP THE NAME OF JESUS? 00:12.345 --> 00:16.015 (MUSIC) 00:16.015 --> 00:18.684 WE ARE VICTORIOUS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN? 00:18.684 --> 00:22.187 (MUSIC) 02:13.800 --> 02:26.645 (MUSIC) 02:26.645 --> 02:29.314 IF YOU KNOW IT AND YOU SING, CAN YOU SING IT RIGHT HERE? SAY, 03:42.222 --> 03:46.225 THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WHAT WE BIND ON EARTH IS BOUND IN 03:46.225 --> 03:49.562 HEAVEN. SO LET'S GIVE HEAVEN SOMETHING TO AGREE WITH 03:49.562 --> 03:53.066 US WITH. LET'S DECLARE THE WORD OF THE LORD. LET'S 03:53.066 --> 03:58.570 DECLARE OUR VICTORY, AMEN? HEY! CAN YOU SAY, 05:08.641 --> 05:28.327 YEAH. OH. OUR GOD IS STRONGER. OUR GOD IS BIGGER. 05:28.327 --> 05:37.002 I'M NOT AFRAID, 'CAUSE I KNOW WHO MY GOD IS. 05:37.002 --> 05:46.846 I'M NOT AFRAID, 'CAUSE I KNOW WHO HOLDS MY WORLD IN HIS HANDS. 05:46.846 --> 05:59.024 I'M NOT AFRAID, 'CAUSE HE DID NOT GIVE ME THE SPIRIT OF FEAR, 05:59.024 --> 06:05.365 BUT POWER, LOVE, AND A SOUND MIND, 06:05.365 --> 06:12.372 A MIND RENEWED BY THE WORD OF GOD. 06:12.372 --> 06:26.720 HIS PROMISES ARE YES AND AMEN. HIS PROMISES ARE YES AND AMEN. 06:26.720 --> 06:48.240 HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD. HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD. GREAT IS OUR GOD. 07:11.096 --> 07:17.937 CAN YOU SAY IT ONE TIME, SAY, GREAT IS OUR GOD. 07:42.461 --> 08:05.151 (MUSIC) 11:21.181 --> 11:31.691 OH, THERE'S NONE LIKE YOU, GOD. OH, THERE'S NO ONE. 11:31.691 --> 11:42.534 (MUSIC) 14:53.893 --> 15:34.768 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 16:51.010 --> 16:55.697 AS WE WERE SINGING THOSE WORDS, HOW PROFOUND ARE THOSE? BUT I 16:55.697 --> 17:00.019 WAS STANDING THERE AND THINKING, "THERE IS NONE, THERE IS NONE." 17:00.019 --> 17:05.174 MMM. AND GOD WE JUST SAY THAT TO YOU RIGHT NOW. THERE IS NONE 17:05.174 --> 17:14.714 LIKE YOU. THOSE WORDS ARE SO PROFOUND. WE CAN'T EVER COMPARE. 17:14.714 --> 17:25.545 NO BEING, NO ENTITY CAN EVER COMPARE TO YOU, LORD. YOU KNOW, 17:25.545 --> 17:32.265 AND I THINK OF HOW THE BIBLE TEACHES US THAT WE ARE TO STRIVE 17:32.265 --> 17:39.285 TO BE LIKE CHRIST. YET, THERE IS NO ONE ELSE. WE CAN'T EVER BE 17:39.285 --> 17:44.144 LIKE HIM, BUT YET WE'RE TOLD TO STRIVE TO MIMIC AND IMITATE 17:44.144 --> 17:48.914 CHRIST. AND THAT JUST, I MEAN, IT SORT OF SEEMS LIKE AN 17:48.914 --> 17:52.694 OXYMORON. YOU KNOW, IT'S LIKE, YOU CAN NEVER BE HIM, YOU CAN 17:52.694 --> 17:58.182 NEVER BE LIKE HIM, BUT THEN YOU'RE TOLD TO BE LIKE HIM. YOU 17:58.182 --> 18:01.994 EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT? AND I JUST FEEL LED TO DO SOMETHING. 18:01.994 --> 18:05.833 YOU KNOW, WE'RE COMING INTO THE LAST HANDFUL OF WEEKS OF 2025. 18:05.833 --> 18:11.984 2025 HAS HAD ITS VICTORIES, IT'S HAD ITS CHALLENGES. I WANNA 18:11.984 --> 18:15.375 ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO SOMETHING. TAKE A MOMENT, JUST YOU AND GOD, 18:15.375 --> 18:18.345 RIGHT WHERE YOU'RE STANDING. THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE JOINING 18:18.345 --> 18:21.134 ONLINE, I ENCOURAGE YOU TO DO THE SAME THING ALL OVER THE 18:21.134 --> 18:24.134 WORLD. PUT YOUR HAND ON YOUR HEART, JUST HAVE A LITTLE 18:24.134 --> 18:29.744 CONVERSATION WITH GOD AND YOU KNOW, COMMIT TO HIM AFRESH. TELL 18:29.744 --> 18:32.871 HIM THAT, YOU KNOW, GOD, I WANNA, I WANNA DO BETTER. AND 18:32.871 --> 18:36.285 IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE DOING BAD. IT'S JUST THAT, YOU KNOW, MAYBE 18:36.285 --> 18:39.825 THERE'S THINGS WE NEED TO CLEAR UP WITH GOD. THAT'S OKAY TOO. 18:39.825 --> 18:42.795 BUT I'M JUST THINKING OF, YOU KNOW, IF THERE'S SOMETHING THAT 18:42.795 --> 18:46.035 YOU THINK, WELL, GOD, YOU KNOW, JUST HELP ME STRIVE. I WANNA 18:46.035 --> 18:49.875 STRIVE TO BE LIKE JESUS. I WANNA PLEASE YOU. THE BIBLE TALKS 18:49.875 --> 18:53.805 ABOUT THAT. LET'S JUST TAKE A MOMENT AND JUST COMMIT OUR 18:53.805 --> 18:57.375 HEARTS AND OUR LIVES, OUR ACTIONS, OUR WORDS, OUR 18:57.375 --> 19:03.285 THOUGHTS. EVERYTHING WE DO AS WE CLOSE 2025, LET'S JUST MAKE THAT 19:03.285 --> 19:07.305 FRESH COMMITMENT. I WANT THEM TO PLAY FOR A MOMENT, YOU KNOW, AND 19:07.305 --> 19:10.994 HOWEVER, WHATEVER THAT MEANS TO YOU, YOU JUST TALK TO GOD, YOU 19:10.994 --> 19:14.954 KNOW, JUST ASK HIM, SAY, "LORD, TEACH ME, HELP ME." EDDIE, JUST 19:14.954 --> 19:18.134 SING FOR A FEW MORE MINUTES AND MAYBE THERE'S SOME AREA, TOUCH 19:18.134 --> 19:21.825 YOUR HEART. IF YOU NEED TO KNEEL DOWN, YOU CAN EVEN DO THAT OR 19:21.825 --> 19:26.204 YOU CAN JUST HOWEVER YOU NEED TO DO THAT. AMEN, HALLELUJAH. 19:26.204 --> 19:29.295 EDDIE, JUST SING FOR A MOMENT. COME ON, THERE'S NONE LIKE HIM. 19:29.295 --> 19:42.182 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 20:46.579 --> 20:49.082 COME ON, JUST PROPHESY THAT IN YOUR HEART. 21:22.990 --> 21:25.446 NOW IF YOU NEED AN AREA IN YOUR LIFE WHERE YOU SAY, "YOU KNOW 21:25.446 --> 21:29.260 WHAT GOD, I NEED YOUR HELP." THE BIBLE SAYS IN ISAIAH, IT SAYS 21:29.260 --> 21:32.861 THAT THE LORD US BY THE RIGHT HAND AND HE WILL HELP US. THINK 21:32.861 --> 21:39.911 ABOUT THAT. GOD IS HELPING YOU. THE HOLY SPIRIT IS CALLED OUR 21:39.911 --> 21:43.901 HELPER. HE'S HERE TO HELP. AND IF YOU NEED AN AREA AND YOU SAY, 21:43.901 --> 21:47.050 "GOD, JUST HELP ME." YOU KNOW, I LOVE WHAT PASTOR HANK PREACHES 21:47.050 --> 21:51.431 SO OFTEN WHEN PETER WAS OUT OF THE BOAT AND THE STORM WAS 21:51.431 --> 21:57.221 RAGING, HE TRIED TO WALK ON AND HE SAID, LORD, HELP ME. AND 21:57.221 --> 21:59.980 MAYBE YOU JUST SAY, GOD, I NEED HELP IN THIS. I DON'T KNOW HOW 21:59.980 --> 22:03.671 TO WHAT TO DO. I DON'T KNOW WHAT STEPS TO TAKE. MAYBE IT'S YOUR 22:03.671 --> 22:06.730 FINANCES. GOD HELP. YOU KNOW, MAYBE YOU'RE IN DEBT AND YOU 22:06.730 --> 22:09.820 THINK, LORD, HELP ME. I DON'T KNOW HOW TO SORT ALL THIS OUT. 22:09.820 --> 22:13.270 COME ON. WE HAVE ALL BEEN THERE AT SOME POINT IN OUR LIFE WHERE 22:13.270 --> 22:18.701 WE JUST DIDN'T HAVE ANY HUMAN WISDOM. I WAS REREADING AFTER 22:18.701 --> 22:22.300 PASTOR TALKED ON IT SUNDAY, HOW MANY OF YOU WERE HERE? AND HE 22:22.300 --> 22:25.540 QUOTED THE SCRIPTURE, FAMOUS SCRIPTURE, "TRUST IN THE LORD 22:25.540 --> 22:28.721 WITH ALL YOUR HEART." BUT I DON'T KNOW, IT JUST HIGHLIGHTED 22:28.721 --> 22:32.441 TO ME IN A NEW WAY. AND IT SAID, "AND LEAN NOT TO YOUR OWN 22:32.441 --> 22:35.441 UNDERSTANDING." DON'T WE DO THAT SOMETIMES? WE TRY TO FIGURE IT 22:35.441 --> 22:39.641 ALL OUT. I'M A CALCULATE, I LIKE TO CALCULATE EVERY STEP. AND YOU 22:39.641 --> 22:42.521 KNOW WHAT, SOMETIMES YOU JUST GOTTA SAY, "LORD, HELP THIS." SO 22:42.521 --> 22:47.171 IF YOU NEED AN AREA OF HELP TODAY, JUST GIVE IT TO GOD, TELL 22:47.171 --> 22:53.381 HIM. SAY, "LORD, I NEED YOUR HELP IN THIS." YOU CAN CLOSE 22:53.381 --> 22:55.990 YOUR EYES, HOWEVER YOU JUST BRING IT TO THE LORD. MAYBE IT'S 22:55.990 --> 22:59.378 YOUR HEALTH. MAYBE IT'S A RELATIONSHIP ISSUE. 22:59.378 --> 23:07.386 (MUSIC) 23:07.386 --> 23:10.357 I FEEL LIKE THERE'S SOMEBODY YOU'RE JUST FEELING LIKE A 23:10.361 --> 23:14.351 FAILURE. YOU NEED GOD TO HELP YOU WITH THAT. WELL, YOU KNOW, 23:14.351 --> 23:18.881 GOD, I HEARD SOMEBODY SAY ONE TIME THAT IF YOU'RE IN TROUBLE 23:18.881 --> 23:21.911 AND YOU FEEL LIKE YOU'VE MESSED UP, DON'T RUN AWAY FROM GOD, RUN 23:21.911 --> 23:26.590 TO HIM. AMEN, THAT'S WHERE YOUR HELP COMES FROM. SO FATHER, I 23:26.590 --> 23:30.131 JUST PRAY FOR EVERYBODY UNDER THE SOUND OF MY VOICE RIGHT NOW. 23:30.131 --> 23:33.401 I PRAY FOR EVERY PERSON THAT'S WATCHING ONLINE, AND IF THEY 23:33.401 --> 23:37.270 NEED HELP IN AN AREA, RESCUE THEM, FATHER. BE THEIR RESCUE, 23:37.270 --> 23:41.080 BE THEIR STRENGTH. HELP THEM, GRAB THEM, FATHER. WE'RE ASKING 23:41.080 --> 23:46.330 YOU BY THE RIGHT HAND AND PULL THEM UP, WE PRAY. PULL THEM UP, 23:46.330 --> 23:50.351 LORD. WE ASK THAT YOU BRING THEM OUT OF THIS PLACE THAT THEY 23:50.351 --> 23:54.671 DON'T KNOW WHAT TO DO OR WHERE TO GO OR HOW TO FIGURE IT OUT, 23:54.671 --> 23:58.221 LORD, BUT THAT'S THE THING, GOD, YOU, THERE'S NO ONE LIKE YOU 23:58.221 --> 24:02.800 THAT FIXES US. SO SHOW US THE WAY, LORD, NOT IN OUR OWN 24:02.800 --> 24:07.391 WISDOM, NOT IN OUR OWN UNDERSTANDING, BUT SHOW US, GOD, 24:07.391 --> 24:11.230 HOW TO FOLLOW YOU AND TRUST YOU. NOW TOUCH YOURSELF AND SAY, 24:11.230 --> 24:19.090 SELF, YOU TRUST GOD. IT'S ALL ABOUT HIM. THERE'S NO ONE LIKE 24:19.090 --> 24:27.851 HIM. SO YOU TRUST HIM. NOW SAY, "SELF, I COMMIT TO A GREATER 24:27.851 --> 24:36.371 LEVEL TO THE LORD. JESUS, TEACH ME HOW TO BE LIKE YOU. TEACH ME 24:36.371 --> 24:41.230 WHAT PLEASES YOU. TEACH ME TO FOLLOW YOU." AND I THANK YOU, 24:41.230 --> 24:49.321 LORD. I'M GOING TO END 2025 IN GREAT VICTORY. AND 2026 IS GOING 24:49.321 --> 24:53.891 TO BE A YEAR OF VICTORY. COME ON, AFTER VICTORY, AFTER 24:53.891 --> 24:59.530 VICTORY, AFTER VICTORY. HALLELUJAH! DO YOU BELIEVE IT? I 24:59.530 --> 25:04.330 BELIEVE IT IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN AND AMEN AND AMEN. WELL, TURN 25:04.330 --> 25:09.101 AROUND TO A COUPLE PEOPLE. GIVE THEM A HUG OR A KNUCKLE TOUCH. 25:09.101 --> 25:11.830 AND LOVE ON THEM AND TELL THEM, MAN, IT IS GOOD. THERE IS 25:11.830 --> 25:14.740 VICTORY IN THE HOUSE. WE ARE GOING TO BE BLESSED TONIGHT IN 25:14.740 --> 25:19.300 JESUS' NAME. INTERNET, THANK YOU FOR JOINING US. GOD BLESS YOU. 25:19.300 --> 25:21.340 LEAVE IN THE COMMENTS WHERE YOU ARE TUNING 25:21.340 --> 25:23.856 IN FROM. WE'D LOVE TO HEAR IT IN JESUS' NAME. 25:23.856 --> 26:01.894 (MUSIC) 26:01.894 --> 26:05.827 AMEN AND AMEN. ARE YOU GLAD YOU CAME TO CHURCH ON A COLD 26:05.830 --> 26:11.260 WEDNESDAY? WE LIVE IN NEBRASKA. WE SHOULD BE TOUGH. YOU KNOW, I 26:11.260 --> 26:13.721 ALWAYS LAUGH AT ALL OF OUR PEOPLE THAT LIVE IN THE SOUTH, 26:13.721 --> 26:19.078 AND IT COULD BE 55 DEGREES IN OMAHA, AND THEY COME IN A PARKA. 26:19.078 --> 26:24.191 YOU KNOW, WE'RE ALL OUT STILL WITH THE GRILL IN OUR SHORTS. SO 26:24.191 --> 26:27.070 WE'LL GET THROUGH IT, WON'T WE? I DON'T MIND THE SNOW WHEN IT'S 26:27.070 --> 26:29.980 CHRISTMAS. IT'S KIND OF FUN. BUT ANYWAY, WELL, I'M GONNA GET 26:29.980 --> 26:33.221 RIGHT TO IT. WE'RE GONNA TEACH AND PREACH TONIGHT AND FINISH UP 26:33.221 --> 26:35.612 THE SEVEN CHURCHES OF REVELATION. BUT BEFORE WE DO, I 26:35.612 --> 26:39.550 WANNA RECEIVE OUR TITHES AND OFFERINGS SO THEY CAN PUT THE 26:39.550 --> 26:41.891 GIVING INFORMATION ON THE SCREEN. I DON'T EVEN HAVE A 26:41.891 --> 26:47.171 VERSE TO PREACH TO YOU. PASTOR HANK IS HOME, HE'S WORKING ON 26:47.171 --> 26:52.601 MESSAGES. AND BY THE WAY, HIS FLASHPOINT TRAVEL, GENE HAS 26:52.601 --> 26:56.411 TURNED UP THE HEAT, I'M TELLING YOU. AND THEY ARE DOING 26:56.411 --> 27:00.310 FLASHPOINT LIVES ALL OVER THE COUNTRY THIS YEAR AND COMING. 27:00.310 --> 27:05.201 AND SO HE HAS BEEN, WOW, HE'LL JUST BE, HE'LL BE AFTER IT. BUT 27:05.201 --> 27:07.931 IT'S ALL GOOD, SO WE'RE EXCITED ABOUT IT. SO IT'S GONNA BE A 27:07.931 --> 27:11.740 GOOD 2026, LOTS OF THINGS HAPPENING. SO HE'S HOME JUST 27:11.740 --> 27:14.651 KIND OF GETTING SOME CONTENT TOGETHER. AND I LOVE IT BECAUSE 27:14.651 --> 27:18.971 HE SPENDS HOURS ON HIS SERMONS, HOURS. YOU KNOW, HOURS OF STUDY 27:18.971 --> 27:22.451 FOR, YOU KNOW, 45 MINUTES OR WHATEVER IT IS, BUT IT'S GOOD. 27:22.451 --> 27:25.840 AND YOU CAN TELL, YOU CAN ABSOLUTELY TELL. SO, BUT HERE'S 27:25.840 --> 27:29.711 THE GIVING INFORMATION, ALL THE WAYS TO GIVE. LET'S FINISH 2025 27:29.711 --> 27:35.230 STRONG, AMEN, AND FINISH IT IN VICTORY. IF YOU'RE STRUGGLING IN 27:35.230 --> 27:39.520 YOUR FINANCES, THIS IS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO RELOOK AT THEM 27:39.520 --> 27:44.471 AND MAKE THE DECISION TO BE A GIVER IN 2026. OR, YOU KNOW, AND 27:44.471 --> 27:49.361 I ALWAYS SAY THIS, I ALWAYS CHALLENGE MYSELF TO DO BETTER IN 27:49.361 --> 27:53.560 THE NEXT YEAR, PERCENTAGE WISE, YOU KNOW, IF YOUR BUSINESS DOES 27:53.560 --> 27:58.780 BETTER IN 2025 OR DID BETTER IN ’25 THAN ’24, THEN PUSH YOURSELF 27:58.780 --> 28:02.348 A LITTLE BIT JUST TO HAVE THAT COMMITMENT TO GOD. 28:02.348 --> 28:04.931 YOU KNOW I ALWAYS SAY IT LIKE THIS. WE GET ONE SHOT ON 28:04.931 --> 28:09.191 THIS EARTH TO DO THINGS GOD'S WAY. ONE OPPORTUNITY. WE DON'T 28:09.191 --> 28:13.151 GET TO GO BACK AND SAY, "WOW, I SHOULD HAVE TITHED WHEN WE GET 28:13.151 --> 28:18.310 TO HEAVEN." IT WILL BE DONE UP THERE. SO DO IT HERE AND DON'T 28:18.310 --> 28:22.721 LET ANOTHER YEAR GO BY. DON'T BE A SPIRITUAL PROCRASTINATOR. BE 28:22.721 --> 28:26.080 COMMITTED TO IT. AND THANK YOU ALL OF YOU ONLINE THAT ARE SO 28:26.080 --> 28:30.490 FAITHFUL TO JOIN WITH US AND WORK ON THE TABERNACLE. WE WERE 28:30.490 --> 28:34.421 DISCUSSING SOME THINGS WITH THE STAFF TODAY ABOUT JUST THINGS 28:34.421 --> 28:37.421 WE'RE GOING TO BE DOING, YOU KNOW, KIND OF VENTURES AND 28:37.421 --> 28:40.121 THINGS UPCOMING. THERE'S SOME STUFF YOU'RE GOING TO BE SUPER 28:40.121 --> 28:43.510 EXCITED ABOUT. MY SON IS SMILING AT ME BECAUSE HE KNEW ABOUT 28:43.510 --> 28:46.871 THAT. AND BY THE WAY, I HAVE TO TELL YOU FUNNY, THIS IS PUBLIC. 28:46.871 --> 28:50.530 CAN I TELL YOU A FUNNY IN THE PUBLIC, PUBLIC FUNNY? AND WE 28:50.530 --> 28:53.471 WERE TALKING WITH A GROUP OF PEOPLE TODAY, AND THIS IS ON 28:53.471 --> 28:57.191 GROW OMAHA. ANYBODY FOLLOW GROW OMAHA ON FACEBOOK? AND SO 28:57.191 --> 29:01.300 AMERICAN NATIONAL KIND OF GOT SOLD OUT BY, WATCH THIS, PASTOR 29:01.300 --> 29:06.730 ANTHONY, A BANK IN GREEN BAY, WISCONSIN. THEY WERE BOUGHT, I 29:06.730 --> 29:09.609 THOUGHT, WELL, I KNOW, PASTOR MATT, WHEN WE TOLD IT TO HIM, HE 29:09.609 --> 29:13.421 ABOUT FELL OFF THE STEPS IN THE FOYER. AND ANYWAY, WE THOUGHT IT 29:13.421 --> 29:15.641 WAS KIND OF, ANYWAY, I DON'T KNOW IF THEY'LL KEEP THE BRAND 29:15.641 --> 29:18.079 OR HOW THEY'RE GONNA HANDLE THAT, THESE BANK MERGERS, THEY 29:18.079 --> 29:21.040 ARE WHAT THEY ARE, BUT I JUST THOUGHT IT WAS KIND OF HUMOROUS, 29:21.040 --> 29:25.769 NOT BY THE CHIEFS, NO, NOT BY A KANSAS CITY BANK. ANYWAY, I HAVE 29:25.769 --> 29:28.510 TO GIVE OUR PEOPLE A HARD TIME. WE LOVE TO RAZZ EACH OTHER AND 29:28.510 --> 29:33.040 TALK SMACK FOOTBALL. IT'S JUST FUN, IT'S GOOD TO HAVE FUN. AND 29:33.040 --> 29:35.607 BY THE WAY, WE DO LIKE OTHER SPORTS BESIDES FOOTBALL IN THE 29:35.607 --> 29:40.691 KUNNEMAN HOUSEHOLD. PASTOR HANK, DON'T TELL ANYBODY, EVEN THOUGH 29:40.691 --> 29:44.740 IT'S ALL OVER THE INTERNET, IS A HUGE NEBRASKA VOLLEYBALL FAN. HE 29:44.740 --> 29:49.090 IS LIKE, I MEAN, HE'S LIKE, WHAT ARE WE MAKING FRIDAY NIGHT? THE 29:49.090 --> 29:52.000 HUSKERS ARE PLAYING. I'M LIKE, IT USED TO BE HUSKER FOOTBALL, 29:52.000 --> 29:55.990 HE SHIFTED NOW. HE'S LIKE HUSKER VOLLEYBALL ALL THE WAY. I MEAN, 29:55.990 --> 29:59.530 THEY'RE UNDEFEATED, SO I MEAN, HE'S PRETTY EXCITED. SO I GOTTA 29:59.530 --> 30:03.101 COME UP AND COME UP WITH MY GAME FOOD FOR THAT. SO WE'LL SEE WHAT 30:03.101 --> 30:05.891 HAPPENS, BUT ANYWAY. ALL RIGHT, WELL, IF YOU GOT YOUR GIVING 30:05.891 --> 30:12.396 READY, STAND UP. PRAISE THE LORD. YOU'RE BOLD GIVING. YOU 30:12.396 --> 30:15.096 KNOW WHAT YOU'RE HOLDING IN YOUR HAND, IF IT'S YOUR PHONE, YOU'RE 30:15.096 --> 30:21.067 GIVING ELECTRONICALLY? REMEMBER, YOUR ENVELOPE, IT IS A WEAPON. 30:21.067 --> 30:25.567 SOMEBODY SAY WEAPON. IT IS A SWORD TO BE USED AGAINST THE 30:25.567 --> 30:29.797 ENEMY. REMEMBER, TWO KEY THINGS ABOUT THE TITHE. IT'S NOT JUST 30:29.797 --> 30:32.886 TITHING, IT'S OFFERINGS. IT'S A NUMBER, WHAT DOES IT SAY IN 30:32.886 --> 30:38.428 MALACHI 3? GOD WILL WHAT? RE... SHOUT IT AT ME, REBUKE 30:38.428 --> 30:40.326 THE DEVOURER. SO THAT'S NUMBER ONE, HOLD UP YOUR 30:40.326 --> 30:43.717 FINGER. SO NUMBER ONE, HE REBUKES THE DEVOURER. HOW MANY 30:43.717 --> 30:48.576 OF YOU WOULD LOVE OLD SLEWFOOT TO BE KICKED OUT? RIGHT? PUSHED 30:48.576 --> 30:52.027 BACK BY THE POWER OF GOD. AND THEN THE SECOND THING IS HE 30:52.027 --> 30:55.777 SAID, I WILL OPEN, PUT YOUR SECOND FINGER UP. WHAT WILL HE 30:55.777 --> 31:01.207 OPEN? THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN. NOW, THINK ABOUT THAT. IF THE 31:01.207 --> 31:05.247 WINDOWS ARE OPEN, BLESSINGS COMING OUT, RIGHT? SO THAT'S A 31:05.247 --> 31:08.136 GOOD THING. SO THAT OUGHT TO MAKE EVERYBODY WANT TO BE A 31:08.136 --> 31:11.856 GIVER. SO, BUT YOU HAVE THE RIGHT AS A TITHER AND A PERSON 31:11.856 --> 31:14.826 THAT GIVES OFFERINGS, YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO CLAIM THOSE IN YOUR 31:14.826 --> 31:18.126 LIFE. PASTOR AND I DO IT ON A REGULAR BASIS. WE GET UP AND 31:18.126 --> 31:21.396 SAY, DEVIL, NO, THE DEVOURER IS REBUKED AND THE WINDOWS OF 31:21.396 --> 31:24.906 HEAVEN ARE OPEN. AND THAT IS WHAT WE STAND ON. NOW THE DEVIL, 31:24.906 --> 31:27.576 EVEN IF YOU'RE A TITHER, YOU KNOW HE CAN STEAL THE BLESSING 31:27.576 --> 31:31.987 FROM YOU. IF YOU TALK WRONG, IF YOU ACT LIKE THE WINDOWS ARE 31:31.987 --> 31:35.676 CLOSED, EVEN IF YOU GAVE YOUR 10TH, AND YOU GO AROUND WITH A 31:35.676 --> 31:38.977 CLOSED HEAVEN ATTITUDE, THEN THAT'S FINE. YOU'LL UNDO THE 31:38.977 --> 31:43.416 BLESSING. SO BE COMMITTED TO IT. CLAIM THE TITHER'S RIGHTS THAT 31:43.416 --> 31:46.386 BELONG TO YOU. THAT'S WHAT 2026 IS GONNA BE IN JESUS' NAME, 31:46.386 --> 31:49.717 AMEN? HOLD IT UP, ARE YOU READY? FATHER, I THANK YOU FOR EVERY 31:49.717 --> 31:53.557 GIVER UNDER THE SOUND OF MY VOICE. I THANK YOU THAT FATHER, 31:53.557 --> 31:57.037 AS THEY PUT THIS WEAPON IN THEIR HAND, THIS SWORD AGAINST THE 31:57.037 --> 32:03.096 POWERS OF THE DEVIL. IT IS BRINGING THE 2025 TO A CLOSURE 32:03.096 --> 32:07.086 IN VICTORY. EVERY DEFEAT IS BROKEN. EVERYTHING THE ENEMY 32:07.086 --> 32:11.227 TRIED THIS PAST YEAR, THESE SEEDS, THESE TIES, THESE 32:11.227 --> 32:15.666 OFFERINGS, BREAK ALL OF THAT AND SET THESE PEOPLE UP FOR THE 32:15.666 --> 32:20.017 VICTORY UPON VICTORY UPON VICTORY IN 2026. WE SPEAK IT, WE 32:20.017 --> 32:24.967 DECLARE IT, WE THANK YOU FOR IT, FATHER, IN THE NAME OF JESUS. 32:24.967 --> 32:29.017 AND EVERYBODY IN HERE AND ONLINE SAID? AMEN. AMEN. ALL RIGHT, 32:29.017 --> 32:32.676 USHERS, YOU CAN BEGIN TO SERVE THE PEOPLE, AND WE'LL GET RIGHT 32:32.676 --> 32:41.196 INTO IT. GRAB YOUR BIBLE, YOUR NOTEBOOK. ALL OF THE, LET'S GET 32:41.196 --> 32:45.576 MY NOTES OUT. CONTINUING ON THE CHURCHES OF REVELATION. NOW WHAT 32:45.576 --> 32:50.767 I WANNA DO, THE SEVEN CHURCHES, I WANNA DO A VERY QUICK REVIEW 32:50.767 --> 32:53.287 ON JUST WHAT WE'VE COVERED. FOR ANYBODY THAT MIGHT BE JOINING US 32:53.287 --> 32:56.076 NEW, I'LL TRY NOT TO CAMP TOO LONG ON THESE. THIS IS THE LAST 32:56.076 --> 33:01.626 ONE. AND BY THE WAY, I FEEL LIKE THE LORD TOLD ME, PASTOR HANK 33:01.626 --> 33:03.967 AND I, WE DO WORK ON THE CALENDAR AND THE SCHEDULE OF THE 33:03.967 --> 33:08.106 PREACHING, BUT I TOLD HIM, I SAID, I WOULD REALLY LIKE TO DO 33:08.106 --> 33:12.576 A COUPLE SUNDAYS, I THINK SOME SUNDAYS, WE'RE GONNA BE PRAYING 33:12.576 --> 33:15.247 AND DOING OUR FASTING ON WEDNESDAY NIGHTS HERE AT THE 33:15.247 --> 33:18.247 CHURCH DURING THAT TIME DURING JANUARY. BUT I SAID I WOULD LIKE 33:18.247 --> 33:24.096 TO DO SOME TEACHING ON PRAYERS OF PETITION, ON PETITIONING GOD 33:24.096 --> 33:28.656 FOR THINGS, ASKING, NOT ALL ASKING IS THE SAME. AND SO I 33:28.656 --> 33:31.297 THINK IT WOULD BE GOOD TO DO SOME OF THAT. BUT THIS WILL BE 33:31.297 --> 33:33.606 THE FINAL ONE ON THE SEVEN CHURCHES. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE 33:33.606 --> 33:37.777 GOTTEN SOMETHING OUT OF THAT? AND MY GOAL IS BECAUSE WE SEE SO 33:37.777 --> 33:42.757 MUCH OUT THERE IN THE CULTURE. WE SEE ALL OF THE THINGS THAT GO 33:42.757 --> 33:46.477 ON AND OVER THE COURSE OF THE LAST, I GUESS, FIVE OR SO YEARS 33:46.477 --> 33:49.896 WHEN THE SHUTDOWN HAPPENED, THERE WAS A LOT OF TALK ABOUT 33:49.896 --> 33:53.406 CHURCHES THAT DIDN'T STAND UP, PASTORS THAT DIDN'T PUT THEIR 33:53.406 --> 33:57.037 VOICE OUT THERE. AND YOU'RE GONNA FIND TONIGHT THAT THERE IS 33:57.037 --> 34:00.787 THE CHURCH OF WOKE THAT MANIFESTS. BUT WE'VE COVERED A 34:00.787 --> 34:06.247 LOT OF EXPRESSIONS OF CHURCHES. BUT REMEMBER, THOSE CHURCHES ARE 34:06.247 --> 34:09.996 OBVIOUSLY LED BY THE PASTOR. AND SO THAT'S THE REASON THAT EACH 34:09.996 --> 34:13.896 ONE OF THESE SEVEN CHURCHES, IT SAYS TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH 34:13.896 --> 34:17.706 OF, RIGHT? THAT WORD ANGEL IS THE WORD MESSENGER. IT'S REALLY 34:17.706 --> 34:22.927 ALSO TRANSLATED PASTOR. AND SO THE PASTOR IS THE ONE THAT SETS 34:22.927 --> 34:26.257 THE TONE FOR THE CHURCH. BUT REMEMBER, IT'S ALSO MADE UP OF 34:26.257 --> 34:31.027 PEOPLE. AND IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE RELATIONSHIP, LISTEN TO ME, 34:31.027 --> 34:35.166 BETWEEN THE PASTOR AND THE PEOPLE WORKS TOGETHER. BECAUSE 34:35.166 --> 34:38.286 THE BIBLE ALSO SAYS THAT IN THE LAST DAYS, THE PEOPLE, THE 34:38.286 --> 34:42.876 CONGREGATIONS, WILL HEAP TO THEMSELVES TEACHERS HAVING WHAT? 34:42.876 --> 34:46.206 ITCHING EARS THAT WILL TELL THEM EVERYTHING THAT THEY WANT TO 34:46.206 --> 34:50.737 HEAR, NOT NECESSARILY WHAT THEY NEED TO HEAR. SO PEOPLE WILL GO 34:50.737 --> 34:55.146 TO A CHURCH WHERE EVERYTHING'S PALATABLE, AND WE SEE A LOT OF 34:55.146 --> 34:58.389 THIS, NOT YOU GUYS, BUT I'M HELPING YOU JUST KNOW, YOU GUYS 34:58.389 --> 35:01.956 ARE LIKE THE BOLD PEOPLE, BUT YOU'RE THE REMNANT. WE'RE GONNA 35:01.956 --> 35:06.726 TALK ABOUT YOU TONIGHT. BUT THE REALITY IS, IS WE HAVE THE 35:06.726 --> 35:10.327 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE PASTOR, THE PASTOR SETS THE TONE, BUT 35:10.327 --> 35:13.567 WHERE PASTORS CAN GET IN TROUBLE IS WHEN THEY START PREACHING AND 35:13.567 --> 35:19.356 TEACHING WHAT THEY FEEL LIKE THEIR PEOPLE WANT TO HEAR, OR 35:19.356 --> 35:22.146 WHAT'S DEMANDED. I THINK THAT'S WHERE A LOT OF THE USER-FRIENDLY 35:22.146 --> 35:25.567 MOVEMENT CAME IN AND SO PASTORS STARTED THINKING, WELL, NOBODY 35:25.567 --> 35:30.126 WANTS TO HEAR ABOUT PRAYING IN TONGUES ON A SUNDAY MORNING, SO 35:30.126 --> 35:32.617 WE'LL JUST TONE THAT DOWN A LITTLE BIT. WE STILL BELIEVE IN 35:32.617 --> 35:35.317 IT, BUT WE'RE JUST GONNA TONE THAT BACK. WE DON'T WANNA MAKE 35:35.317 --> 35:39.067 IT TOO CRAZY. AND HERE'S THE THING, CHURCH SHOULD BE ABOUT 35:39.067 --> 35:41.617 DECENCY. IT SHOULD BE ABOUT ORDER. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT WE 35:41.617 --> 35:44.643 OUGHT TO KNOW HOW TO BEHAVE OURSELVES IN GOD'S HOUSE. I 35:44.643 --> 35:48.981 DON'T THINK THAT THERE NEEDS TO BE CRAZY THINGS GOING ON, 35:48.981 --> 35:51.985 PEOPLE CRAWLING ON THE FLOOR BARKING LIKE DOGS. I MEAN, 35:51.985 --> 35:55.655 THERE'S SOME CRAZY STUFF THAT'S GOTTEN OUT THERE IN THE WORLD, 35:55.655 --> 35:58.492 IN THE CHRISTIAN CIRCLES, AND WE'LL COVER A LITTLE BIT OF 35:58.492 --> 36:01.494 THAT. BUT THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE PASTOR AND THE 36:01.494 --> 36:05.498 PEOPLE SHOULD BE VERY COHESIVE. THE PEOPLE SHOULD BE RECEPTIVE 36:05.498 --> 36:11.338 OF WHAT THE PASTOR HAS TO SAY NOT ALWAYS RUNNING OUT AT THE 36:11.338 --> 36:14.340 RESTAURANT AND SITTING AT THE TABLE AND PICKING APART THE 36:14.340 --> 36:17.376 MESSAGE BECAUSE HERE'S THE REALITY. NO PASTOR'S 36:17.376 --> 36:20.556 GONNA PREACH EVERYTHING PERFECT ALL THE TIME. WE'RE GROWING JUST 36:20.556 --> 36:24.547 LIKE THE PEOPLE. SO IT HAS TO BE SOMETHING THAT WORKS TOGETHER. 36:24.547 --> 36:27.817 AND SO THIS IS WHAT A LOT OF THIS IS ABOUT. IT'S ABOUT THE 36:27.817 --> 36:31.777 PASTOR SETTING A CERTAIN TYPE OF EXPRESSION. AND I REALLY BELIEVE 36:31.777 --> 36:36.637 IN ALL MY HEART THAT THE PASTORS THAT ARE SEEN HERE IN THE 36:36.637 --> 36:40.836 CHURCHES OF REVELATION, THE SEVEN CHURCHES, ARE REALLY ALL 36:40.836 --> 36:44.556 THE EXPRESSIONS OF CHURCH WE SEE TODAY ARE FOUND IN THESE. AND 36:44.556 --> 36:49.356 IT'S MADE UP OF CHRISTIANS AS WELL, WHO SOMETIMES CAN PRESSURE 36:49.356 --> 36:52.387 THE PASTOR INTO PREACHING A CERTAIN WAY OR NOT PREACHING A 36:52.387 --> 36:56.556 CERTAIN WAY, RIGHT? AND SO, YOU KNOW, I THINK WE HAVE TO SEE 36:56.556 --> 37:00.186 OURSELVES IN IT. WE HAVE TO LOOK IN THE MIRROR, ALL OF US PASTORS 37:00.186 --> 37:03.996 AND CONGREGATIONS ALIKE, AND SEE, YOU KNOW, GOD, I DON'T WANT 37:03.996 --> 37:07.867 TO GET, YOU KNOW, LURED INTO ANY OF THESE TYPES OF EXPRESSIONS 37:07.867 --> 37:12.097 THAT DON'T PLEASE GOD, AMEN. SO LET'S REVIEW THEM REALLY QUICKLY 37:12.097 --> 37:15.847 AND WE'LL JUST GO THROUGH KIND OF FAST IF WE CAN. THE FIRST 37:15.847 --> 37:19.867 WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT THE FIRST CHURCH WHICH WAS THE CHURCH OF 37:19.867 --> 37:23.556 EPHESUS. AND IF YOU REMEMBER THAT WAS THE CHURCH OF 37:23.556 --> 37:27.907 SELF-RIGHTEOUS RELIGION. AND THEY WERE THE ONES THAT, YOU 37:27.907 --> 37:32.436 KNOW, THEY DIDN'T TOLERATE ANY EVIL. THEY CALLED OUT SIN, THEY 37:32.436 --> 37:36.817 DID ALL THE RIGHT THINGS, BUT THEY HAD BECOME WITHOUT MERCY. 37:36.817 --> 37:41.166 THEY FORGOT THAT PEOPLE ARE PEOPLE AND THAT THERE IS MERCY 37:41.166 --> 37:44.797 TO BE HAD. JESUS SAID TO THEM, "YOU LEFT YOUR FIRST LOVE," 37:44.797 --> 37:49.717 MEANING THAT IT'S NOT THAT THEY BACKSLID AS MUCH AS IT WAS ABOUT 37:49.717 --> 37:54.936 THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS BECAME HARSH, RIGHT? THERE'S A 37:54.936 --> 37:58.836 DIFFERENCE BETWEEN, I GUESS, BOLDNESS AND THEN BECOMING 37:58.836 --> 38:03.996 OVERLY HARSH. NOT EVERY MESSAGE NEEDS TO BE, AND I LOVE THIS 38:03.996 --> 38:08.166 CHURCH, WE CALL OUT THINGS. WE'RE BOLD ABOUT CULTURE, BUT 38:08.166 --> 38:11.646 THEN THERE HAS TO BE TIMES IN THE PULPIT WE SETTLE BACK AND WE 38:11.646 --> 38:15.456 FEED YOU THE WORD TO STRENGTHEN YOU. SO THERE HAS TO BE A 38:15.456 --> 38:19.297 BALANCE. AND YOU'VE HEARD ME SAY THIS IN THIS CHURCH BEFORE, THAT 38:19.297 --> 38:24.516 WE CAN'T HAVE ONLY BLESS ME SCRIPTURES, RIGHT? YOU HAVE JUST 38:24.516 --> 38:29.827 BLESSED ME SCRIPTURES, THEN YOU'LL GET SOFT AND, YOU KNOW, 38:29.827 --> 38:33.097 ALL OF THAT. BUT IF YOU HAVE ONLY CORRECT ME SCRIPTURES, YOU 38:33.097 --> 38:37.056 GET MEAN AND MEAN SPIRITED AND EVERYTHING'S A JUDGMENT. SO WE 38:37.056 --> 38:39.967 NEED A BALANCE. AND THIS IS WHAT THE CHURCH OF EPHESUS FORGOT. 38:39.967 --> 38:43.567 AND SO YOU NOTICE JESUS COMES TO THEM AS THE GREAT JUDGE. COME 38:43.567 --> 38:47.706 ON, WITH THE MEASURE THAT YOU JUDGE OUT IS THE MEASURE THAT 38:47.706 --> 38:51.306 YOU'LL BE JUDGED BACK AGAIN. WE GOTTA REMEMBER THAT IN THIS 38:51.306 --> 38:55.956 COMMENT CULTURE, THIS ONLINE, EVERYTHING, JUST BECAUSE THE 38:55.956 --> 38:58.476 COMMENT'S THERE DOESN'T MEAN WE NEED TO SAY IT. AND I'M 38:58.476 --> 39:02.550 CERTAINLY NOT ABOUT, I WOULD NEVER, THIS IS JUST ME, IF I WAS 39:02.550 --> 39:04.657 SITTING IN THE PEW EVERY SUNDAY, I MEAN, WE'RE UP HERE DOING THE 39:04.657 --> 39:08.887 SERVICE, BUT I WOULD NEVER GO TO SOME OTHER CHURCH'S PAGE AND 39:08.887 --> 39:13.746 CRITICIZE THE PREACHING, EVEN IF I DIDN'T AGREE WITH IT. IF I 39:13.746 --> 39:17.916 THOUGHT IT WAS FALSE, I WOULD JUST CLICK OFF. IF YOU DON'T 39:17.916 --> 39:24.097 LIKE IT, JUST, THERE'S THE OFF BUTTON. RIGHT? IT'S NOT HARD. SO 39:24.097 --> 39:27.186 WE HAVE TO BE SO CAREFUL OF FALLING INTO THIS. WE'VE BECOME 39:27.186 --> 39:30.577 PHARISAICAL, AND I THINK THE CHURCH SHOULD NOT SEE, OR THE 39:30.577 --> 39:35.137 WORLD SHOULD NOT SEE THE CHURCH DIVIDED. IT'S VERY IMPORTANT. 39:35.137 --> 39:38.137 IT'S WHY I DON'T LIKE TO CALL OUT. I DON'T LIKE PREACHERS AND 39:38.137 --> 39:41.887 PEOPLE BEING CALLED OUT ALL OVER THE INTERNET. IT BREAKS MY HEART 39:41.887 --> 39:45.697 SO MUCH BECAUSE, IN FACT, DAVID, IF YOU THINK ABOUT THIS, AFTER 39:45.697 --> 39:49.717 SAUL WAS KILLED, HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER THAT? SAUL WAS KILLED 39:49.717 --> 39:53.887 AND DAVID SAID, "DON'T PUBLISH IT IN THE NEWSPAPERS." REMEMBER 39:53.887 --> 39:57.606 THIS? HE SAID, "DON'T PUT IT OUT THERE "LEST THE SONS AND THE 39:57.606 --> 40:00.007 DAUGHTERS "OF THE PHILISTINES REJOICE." IN OTHER WORDS, THE 40:00.007 --> 40:04.266 WORLD TAKES GREAT PLEASURE WHEN THE CHURCH IS FIGHTING. RIGHT, 40:04.266 --> 40:06.733 AND WE'RE POINTING THE FINGER AT EACH OTHER. SO THIS IS, WE GOTTA 40:06.733 --> 40:10.327 BE CAREFUL WE DON'T FALL INTO THE SPIRIT OF THE CHURCH OF 40:10.327 --> 40:13.327 EPHESUS. YES, WE CAN HAVE RIGHTEOUSNESS, BUT WE DON'T 40:13.327 --> 40:16.327 WANNA BE THOSE KIND OF PEOPLE, AND WE DON'T WANT JESUS TO JUDGE 40:16.327 --> 40:19.956 US AFTER THE WAY WE JUDGE PEOPLE. SO THAT IS SO IMPORTANT. 40:19.956 --> 40:23.527 SO THAT'S THAT CHURCH, AND THEN WE HAD THE SECOND ONE THAT WE 40:23.527 --> 40:27.893 TALKED ABOUT, THE CHURCH OF SMYRNA. THIS WAS THE PERSECUTED 40:27.893 --> 40:32.056 CHURCH. JESUS HAD NOTHING BAD TO SAY ABOUT THEM, THESE PEOPLE. 40:32.056 --> 40:35.867 AND NOTICE HE COMES TO THEM AS THE GIVER OF ETERNAL LIFE. THEIR 40:35.867 --> 40:41.806 FOCUS AT THAT CHURCH WAS, I JUST WANT TO PLEASE GOD, I WILL DIE 40:41.806 --> 40:46.817 FOR MY FAITH. AND I THINK IN THE CHURCH OF AMERICA, THAT PASTOR 40:46.817 --> 40:49.726 IS GONNA BE TALKING A LITTLE BIT ABOUT ONE OF THE BIGGEST, I 40:49.726 --> 40:52.577 DON'T KNOW IF HE'LL DO IT ON SUNDAY YET BUT WE'RE ACTUALLY 40:52.577 --> 40:55.996 TALKING ABOUT HAVING SOME GUEST SPEAKERS COME IN TO REALLY 40:55.996 --> 41:02.927 UNVEIL AND PULL THE MASK OFF THE SPIRIT OF ISLAM THAT IS REALLY 41:02.927 --> 41:06.617 TRYING TO RAISE ITS HEAD IN THIS COUNTRY. AND I THINK IT'S ONE OF 41:06.617 --> 41:10.007 OUR GREATEST THREATS RIGHT NOW AND THE CHURCH CANNOT BE ASLEEP 41:10.007 --> 41:14.927 TO IT. AND HOW MANY OF YOU SAW FLASHPOINT LAST NIGHT WHERE THEY 41:14.927 --> 41:20.567 TALKED A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THIS ISSUE AND THERE WERE MUSLIMS, 41:20.567 --> 41:24.467 MUSLIM LEADERS, ON QUOTING THE FACT THAT EITHER WE'RE GOING TO 41:24.467 --> 41:26.746 THE BALLOT OR WE'RE GONNA USE THE BULLET. I MEAN, THIS IS 41:26.746 --> 41:30.586 CRAZY TALK. AND SO WE HAVE TO REMEMBER AS CHRISTIANS, WE HAVE 41:30.586 --> 41:34.516 TO STAND OUR GROUND IN THE FACE OF PERSECUTION. AND THIS IS A 41:34.516 --> 41:40.547 QUESTION THAT EVERY ONE OF US HAS TO ASK OURSELF. I HAD A 41:40.547 --> 41:44.297 MOTHER RECENTLY, I WON'T SAY WHO IT IS, WHO TOLD ME THAT ONE OF 41:44.297 --> 41:48.197 THEIR CHILDREN WAS LIKE, "WELL, MOM, WHAT IF I HAVE, YOU MEAN WE 41:48.197 --> 41:53.297 COULD DIE? WE COULD BE KILLED AND MUTILATED AND MURDERED FOR 41:53.297 --> 41:58.126 JESUS? AND WHAT, I MEAN, HOW WOULD THAT, 'CAUSE THIS IS NEW 41:58.126 --> 42:03.706 TALK HERE IN THIS, HERE IN THE UNITED STATES." AND THE MOTHER 42:03.706 --> 42:06.166 SAID, "WELL, I MEAN, IT COULD HAPPEN. IT COULD DEFINITELY 42:06.166 --> 42:10.367 HAPPEN. I MEAN, LIKE, YOU COULD BE KILLED AND WE COULD BE 42:10.367 --> 42:15.137 KILLED. AND FINALLY THIS MOM TURNED AROUND AND SHE SAID, 42:15.137 --> 42:19.277 "YES, IT COULD HAPPEN, AND IF IT HAPPENS, IT HAPPENS." WE'RE 42:19.277 --> 42:24.047 GONNA STAND UP FOR JESUS. COME ON, NO MATTER WHAT. AMEN. I LOVE 42:24.047 --> 42:26.447 WHAT APOSTLE MIKE KEYES SAYS. HE SAID, "WHAT ARE YOU GONNA 42:26.447 --> 42:33.737 THREATEN ME WITH, HEAVEN?" SO THIS WAS THE CHURCH OF SMYRNA. 42:33.737 --> 42:36.556 AND THE BIG THING THAT JESUS GAVE TO THEM IS DON'T FEAR. FEAR 42:36.556 --> 42:40.697 KEEPS A LOT OF PEOPLE, A LOT OF PEOPLE FROM BEING OBEDIENT TO 42:40.697 --> 42:44.536 GOD. SO DON'T FEAR PERSECUTION. MAKE THAT PART OF YOUR PRAYER 42:44.536 --> 42:48.916 LIFE. FATHER, I'LL STAND UP AND I'LL JUMP IN THE FRAY IF I HAVE 42:48.916 --> 42:52.967 TO. AND THEN THE NEXT CHURCH WAS THE CHURCH OF PERGAMOS. AND THIS 42:52.967 --> 42:57.677 WAS A CHURCH THAT I CALLED THE CHURCH OF CARNAL FLESHLY LIVING. 42:57.677 --> 43:01.186 THEY JUST COULDN'T QUIT BEING CARNAL PEOPLE. A LITTLE BIT OF 43:01.186 --> 43:05.146 THE CHURCH OF CORINTH HAD SOME OF THAT. THEY WERE HOLY SPIRIT, 43:05.146 --> 43:09.077 BUT PAUL WAS CONSTANTLY, IF YOU READ 1 AND 2 CORINTHIANS, YOU'LL 43:09.077 --> 43:13.036 FIND THAT THE APOSTLE PAUL WAS CONSTANTLY TEACHING THEM HOW TO 43:13.036 --> 43:17.806 LIVE STRAIGHT AND HOW TO GET THE CARNALITY OUT OF THEIR LIFE. AND 43:17.806 --> 43:22.306 SO THIS WAS THE CHURCH THAT THERE WAS JUST A LOT OF CARNAL 43:22.306 --> 43:25.306 BEHAVIORS. THEY WERE MORE INTERESTED IN ALL OF THEIR 43:25.306 --> 43:28.996 WORLDLY PLEASURES, RIGHT? ALL OF THE THINGS THAT THEY HAVE, AND I 43:28.996 --> 43:33.016 LOVE WHAT PASTOR TALKED ABOUT. WE CAN GET SO INTO OUR HOBBIES 43:33.016 --> 43:35.567 AND ALL OF THE THINGS THAT WE DO IN THE NATURAL, AND THOSE ARE 43:35.567 --> 43:38.956 GOOD THINGS, WE ALL NEED THOSE THINGS, BUT WE CAN'T PUT 'EM IN 43:38.956 --> 43:43.697 FRONT OF JESUS. AND SO HERE IS THIS CHURCH, THE CHURCH OF 43:43.697 --> 43:47.686 CARNAL LIVING. THEY NEVER DENIED THE LORD IN AN ENVIRONMENT OF 43:47.686 --> 43:53.927 EVIL, BUT THEY COULDN'T GET THE WORLDLINESS OUT. AND SO, AND ONE 43:53.927 --> 43:56.027 OF THE WAYS THAT I SAID IT, I THINK IT WAS A COUPLE OF WEEKS 43:56.027 --> 44:01.577 AGO, WE TALKED ABOUT THAT THIS IS, I'M ALWAYS SUPER CAREFUL OF 44:01.577 --> 44:05.657 ANYTHING THAT EXCUSES, WELL, IT'S OKAY FOR A CHRISTIAN TO 44:05.657 --> 44:09.226 FILL IN THE BLANK. AND I ALWAYS SAY, YOU KNOW, BE CAREFUL ABOUT 44:09.226 --> 44:12.137 THAT, BECAUSE I DON'T THINK THERE'S ANY, I THINK THERE'S 44:12.137 --> 44:16.516 SOME ABSOLUTES IN THE SCRIPTURE, WHERE THE BIBLE IS ABSOLUTELY DO 44:16.516 --> 44:21.317 NOT, DO NOT, DO NOT, THOU SHALT NOT, OKAY, THAT'S IMPORTANT. BUT 44:21.317 --> 44:25.186 THEN THERE'S THINGS ON THERE WHERE PAUL TAUGHT THAT ONE 44:25.186 --> 44:29.416 PERSON MIGHT BE OKAY WITH THAT AND ANOTHER WITH THAT, BUT THE 44:29.416 --> 44:33.677 MAIN THING IS, IS HE NEVER MADE IT OUT THAT IT WAS JUST OKAY FOR 44:33.677 --> 44:37.387 BELIEVERS TO DO CERTAIN THINGS. WE NEED TO BE CAREFUL. SO I 44:37.387 --> 44:39.617 ALWAYS SAY THAT'S KIND OF A WARNING SIGN WHEN PEOPLE ARE 44:39.617 --> 44:42.646 LIKE, OH, NO, THAT MOVIE'S OKAY, OR IT'S OKAY TO DO THIS, OR IT'S 44:42.646 --> 44:46.007 OKAY TO DO THAT. AND ALL OF THESE THINGS TEND TO CREEP INTO 44:46.007 --> 44:50.360 THE CHURCH SO MUCH THAT WE END UP WITH A CARNAL, RIGHT? A 44:50.360 --> 44:55.606 CARNAL, COMPROMISED CHURCH. AND THE BIBLE TEACHES US TO BE HOLY 44:55.606 --> 44:59.206 AS GOD'S HOLY. SO THAT'S SO IMPORTANT. SO THAT WAS THAT 44:59.206 --> 45:05.038 CHURCH. AND BY THE WAY, JESUS COMES TO THE CHURCH AT PERGAMOS. 45:05.038 --> 45:08.657 HE CAME WITH A SWORD IN HIS MOUTH. WELL, IT'S BECAUSE THEY 45:08.657 --> 45:13.306 FORGOT THE BIBLE, RIGHT? THEY WERE SO BUSY WITH CARNAL LIVING 45:13.306 --> 45:17.086 AND EXCUSING AND MAKING UP, "OH, I THINK THIS IS GOOD AND THAT'S 45:17.086 --> 45:21.226 GOOD." YOU KNOW, WE CANNOT, ESPECIALLY TODAY, WE CANNOT AS 45:21.226 --> 45:27.286 CHRISTIANS LIVE BASED ON GOOD OPINIONS. WE HAVE GOT TO BE IN 45:27.286 --> 45:30.286 THE WORD. IN FACT, I CHALLENGE YOU, PASTOR AND I ARE DOING A, 45:30.286 --> 45:33.527 WE'VE DONE THIS BEFORE, BUT WE'RE DOING, ACTUALLY NEVER 45:33.527 --> 45:37.487 REALLY TOGETHER. I DON'T KNOW WHY WE NEVER DID IT TOGETHER, 45:37.487 --> 45:42.137 BUT THERE ARE CERTAIN DAYS WHERE PROVERBS FALLS ON A MONTH WHERE 45:42.137 --> 45:46.547 THERE'S 31 DAYS. SO RIGHT NOW WE ARE DOING THE BOOK OF PROVERBS 45:46.547 --> 45:50.956 AT ONE EVERY DAY. TODAY WAS PROVERBS 3, AND WE GO THROUGH 45:50.956 --> 45:53.806 ALL THE WAY TO THE END. I WOULD ENCOURAGE HUSBANDS AND WIVES, DO 45:53.806 --> 45:56.597 IT TOGETHER, DO IT WITH YOUR KIDS, READ THE BOOK OF PROVERBS. 45:56.597 --> 46:00.827 BUT YOU KNOW WHAT? PROVERBS IS A GOOD BOOK THAT KEEPS YOU OUT OF 46:00.827 --> 46:05.266 YOUR CARNAL OPINION. SO JESUS COMES TO THE CHURCH OF PERGAMOS 46:05.266 --> 46:07.126 WITH THE SWORD IN HIS MOUTH. HE'S LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT, YOU 46:07.126 --> 46:11.567 GOTTA GET BACK TO THE WORD. 'CAUSE IF YOU HAVE THE WORD IN 46:11.567 --> 46:14.086 YOUR HEART, WHAT DOES THE BIBLE CALL IT? IT CALLS IT A TWO-EDGED 46:14.086 --> 46:17.086 SWORD. IN OTHER WORDS, IT DISCERNS. WHAT DOES IT SAY? IT'S 46:17.086 --> 46:21.226 A DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHTS AND THE INTENTS OF THE HEART. AND IT 46:21.226 --> 46:28.786 DIVIDES, WATCH THIS, IT DIVIDES THAT WHICH IS FLESH AND SPIRIT. 46:28.786 --> 46:31.876 SO, YOU KNOW, IF YOU'RE IN THE WORD OF GOD IN YOUR LIFE AND YOU 46:31.876 --> 46:35.476 MAKE REGULAR READING A HABIT AND YOU STUDY IT AND YOU KNOW IT, 46:35.476 --> 46:37.996 YOU KNOW, YOU'LL COME UP UPON SOMETHING OR MAYBE YOU MEET 46:37.996 --> 46:41.626 SOMEBODY, COME ON, AND ALL OF A SUDDEN YOU'D BE LIKE, I DON'T 46:41.626 --> 46:44.206 KNOW, I DON'T FEEL GOOD ABOUT THAT. WELL, NO, IT'S OKAY. 46:44.206 --> 46:47.356 PEOPLE SAY, OH, IT'S FINE. THAT PERSON IS GREAT, IT'S GREAT. NO, 46:47.356 --> 46:49.786 I JUST, I DON'T KNOW WHY. WELL, WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE IT? WHY 46:49.786 --> 46:51.827 DON'T YOU FEEL, I DON'T KNOW. YOU KNOW, YOU DON'T HAVE TO 46:51.827 --> 46:55.067 ANSWER EVERYBODY. MARILYN HICKEY TAUGHT US THAT A LONG TIME AGO. 46:55.067 --> 47:00.320 SHE SAID, "NOT EVERY TEXT MESSAGE HAS TO BE RESPONDED TO." 47:00.320 --> 47:02.476 YOU KNOW, HAVE YOU EVER ASKED, WHEN ANYBODY ASKS YOU A LOADED 47:02.476 --> 47:06.556 QUESTION IN A TEXT, AND YOU'RE LIKE... SO SHE SAID, "DON'T, YOU 47:06.556 --> 47:08.802 DON'T HAVE TO RESPOND TO EVERYTHING." I ALWAYS THINK, 47:08.802 --> 47:10.907 "WELL, WELL, MAYBE IT'S RUDE." BUT SHE SAID, "YOU KNOW, IF YOU 47:10.907 --> 47:15.586 DON'T KNOW THE ANSWER, THEN WHY MAKE UP ONE?" I THOUGHT, "WELL, 47:15.586 --> 47:18.947 I TAUGHT ME A GREAT LESSON." SO THE KEY IS BE IN THE WORD. THAT 47:18.947 --> 47:21.376 WAS THE CHURCH OF PERGAMOS. THE MORE YOU'RE IN THE WORD, THE 47:21.376 --> 47:25.726 MORE IT SHARPENS US, AMEN? THE MORE IT KEEPS US STRAIGHT, AND 47:25.726 --> 47:29.177 THE MORE IT HELPS US DISCERN THE TRUTH WHEN WE COME UP AGAINST 47:29.177 --> 47:32.447 IT. AND BY THE WAY, THE ENEMY IS GETTING MORE AND MORE AND MORE 47:32.447 --> 47:37.666 SUBTLE ON HOW HE PRESENTS THINGS. JESUS, IN THE 24TH 47:37.666 --> 47:41.836 CHAPTER OF MATTHEW, IF YOU GO BACK AND YOU STUDY IT, ONE OF 47:41.836 --> 47:45.916 HIS GREATEST MESSAGES ABOUT THE END TIMES WAS SEE TO IT THAT NO 47:45.916 --> 47:49.697 ONE DECEIVES YOU. IF WE THOUGHT WE WERE BEING DECEIVED, WE 47:49.697 --> 47:53.327 WOULDN'T DO IT, IT'S 'CAUSE WE DON'T KNOW. AND SO IT'S ONE OF 47:53.327 --> 47:56.327 THE MOST IMPORTANT THINGS WE HAVE TO REMEMBER. IF YOU ARE IN 47:56.327 --> 48:01.186 GOD'S WORD, IT WILL SHARPEN YOU AND HELP YOU TO KNOW, JUST DON'T 48:01.186 --> 48:03.586 PARTICIPATE IN THAT. AND YOU KNOW I ALWAYS SAY IT LIKE THIS, 48:03.586 --> 48:07.396 IF YOU'RE NOT SURE ABOUT SOMETHING, JUST DON'T. OKAY, IF 48:07.396 --> 48:10.367 YOU'RE NOT COMFORTABLE WITH SOMETHING, JUST DON'T. SOMETIMES 48:10.367 --> 48:13.666 YOU HAVE TO PRAY THROUGH THINGS, YOU HAVE TO GO BACK TO THE WORD. 48:13.666 --> 48:19.666 SO THIS WAS THAT CHURCH, THEY NEVER HONED IN ON THEIR 48:19.666 --> 48:23.536 CARNALITY, AND SO THAT'S THE KEY THING, LET'S NOT BE A CARNAL 48:23.536 --> 48:26.177 CHURCH. TOUCH YOURSELF, I'M NOT GONNA BE A CARNAL CHRISTIAN, SAY 48:26.177 --> 48:31.217 THAT, AMEN AND AMEN. ALL RIGHT, NOW NUMBER FOUR, THE CHURCH OF 48:31.217 --> 48:35.327 THYATIRA. NOW THIS WAS THE CHURCH OF FALSE DOCTRINE, WE 48:35.327 --> 48:39.916 TALKED ABOUT THAT LAST WEEK. AND JESUS COMES AS THE REFINER, 48:39.916 --> 48:43.547 MEANING THAT HE CAME TO REMOVE, AND I HEARD MARILYN HICKEY USE 48:43.547 --> 48:47.746 THIS TERMINOLOGY FOR THE FIRST TIME MANY, MANY, MANY YEARS AGO. 48:47.746 --> 48:50.657 SHE'S BEEN LIKE A SPIRITUAL MOM TO US, BUT ONE OF THE THINGS SHE 48:50.657 --> 48:56.297 SAID IS, "GOD DOESN'T WANT FALSE MIXTURES IN THE CHURCH." AND AT 48:56.297 --> 49:00.947 THAT TIME, WE WERE AROUND SOME GROUPS THAT HAD SOME INTERESTING 49:00.947 --> 49:06.016 KIND OF SUPERNATURAL THINGS. AND I'M NOT HERE TO MAKE A CASE 49:06.016 --> 49:09.916 EITHER WAY, BUT I REMEMBER, WELL, MAYBE I AM, I'M JUST GONNA 49:09.916 --> 49:15.626 SAY IT. THAT'S ALL RIGHT. PEOPLE WERE INTO THE GOLD DUST AND THE 49:15.626 --> 49:20.507 JEWELS APPEARING. HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE SEEN ANY OF THESE, THE 49:20.507 --> 49:24.985 SUPERNATURAL WEIGHT LOSS? AND THAT WAS ONE THAT WE WERE AT A 49:24.985 --> 49:28.068 MEETING ONE TIME AND THEY HAD THIS GUY COME UP AND HE MUST 49:28.068 --> 49:33.639 HAVE HAD A 65 WAIST PANTS AND HE WALKS UP AND HIS WAIST IS 35. 49:33.639 --> 49:36.737 I'M THINKING, OKAY, I DON'T KNOW HOW HE GOT UP ON THE PLATFORM, 49:36.737 --> 49:39.916 IT WAS A BIG MEETING AND I'M THINKING, OKAY, DID HE JUST JUMP 49:39.916 --> 49:42.947 IN THOSE PANTS IN THE BACK? I'M NOT SURE WHAT HAPPENED. BUT 49:42.947 --> 49:48.976 THERE CAN BE FALSE SIGNS, OKAY, THERE CAN BE. AND I ALWAYS SAY 49:48.976 --> 49:52.757 IF IT'S NOT IN THE WORD, THEN DON'T ADD TO IT. OKAY, JESUS 49:52.757 --> 49:57.226 TAUGHT THE DISCIPLES TO HEAL THE SICK AND CAST OUT DEVILS. THERE 49:57.226 --> 50:00.317 ISN'T ANY BIBLE, I'M JUST GONNA LAY IT OUT THERE LIKE THIS, 50:00.317 --> 50:07.847 THERE ISN'T ANY BIBLE FOR GOLD DUST. IN FACT, SOME PEOPLE WILL 50:07.847 --> 50:11.806 TELL YOU THAT WAS A TREND THAT WAS STARTED IN NEW AGE IN SOUTH 50:11.806 --> 50:15.947 AMERICA. SO A LOT OF THOSE PLACES HAVE A LOT OF THAT. 50:15.947 --> 50:20.746 JEWELS APPEARING, MONEY IN WALLETS, ALL OF THESE THINGS. IN 50:20.746 --> 50:23.836 FACT, THE BIBLE DOESN'T EVEN SAY THAT YOU'LL HAVE THAT. THE 50:23.836 --> 50:26.657 SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT GOD, IF YOU GIVE, HE'LL GIVE BACK TO YOU 50:26.657 --> 50:30.692 THROUGH THE HANDS OF PEOPLE. I'VE NEVER ONCE HAD GOD RAIN 50:30.692 --> 50:33.811 DOLLAR BILLS DOWN IN MY BACKYARD. IF THERE WAS A MONEY 50:33.811 --> 50:38.581 TREE, I DON'T KNOW IT, AMEN. SO, JUST BE CAREFUL OF THOSE THINGS. 50:38.581 --> 50:41.461 MARILYN CALLED THEM FALSE MIXTURES, WHERE PEOPLE GET, THEY 50:41.461 --> 50:45.271 WANT SO MUCH OF THE SUPERNATURAL THAT THEY KIND OF GET OUTSIDE 50:45.271 --> 50:49.442 THE LINES OF THE BOUNDARIES OF GOD'S WORD. AND I'M NOT GONNA 50:49.442 --> 50:52.891 CERTAINLY TELL GOD HOW HE WANTS TO MANIFEST 'CAUSE GOD CAN DO A 50:52.891 --> 50:56.672 LOT OF THINGS. BUT I THINK THE KEY IS, IS WE'RE TO STAY ON WHAT 50:56.672 --> 51:00.152 WE'RE TAUGHT. AND I SHARED THIS STORY LAST TIME, THERE WAS THIS 51:00.152 --> 51:02.581 GENTLEMAN, WE WERE IN A MEETING, I JUST WANNA REPEAT IT IN CASE 51:02.581 --> 51:06.152 ANYBODY DIDN'T HEAR IT. AND I REMEMBER WE'RE AT THIS DINNER 51:06.152 --> 51:08.762 TABLE, WE WERE DOING THIS PROGRAM AND WE'RE AT THIS DINNER 51:08.762 --> 51:11.972 TABLE AND THERE WERE SOME OTHER MINISTERS THERE. AND THIS GUY 51:11.972 --> 51:16.141 SAYS TO PASTOR HANK AND MYSELF, HE GOES, "I HAVE THE MINISTRY, 51:16.141 --> 51:19.711 "I HAVE THE MINISTRY OF TRANSPORTING." AND I'M THINKING, 51:19.711 --> 51:23.088 "TRANSPORT, WHAT IS THAT?" I THINK THAT WAS THE TERM THAT HE 51:23.088 --> 51:26.402 USED, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. AND I THOUGHT, "WHAT IS THAT? "WHAT IS 51:26.402 --> 51:30.032 TRANSPORT? "WHAT, YOU DRIVE A SEMI?" YOU KNOW, I COULDN'T 51:30.032 --> 51:33.782 FIGURE IT OUT. AND IT TURNS OUT THAT HE WAS SAYING, LIKE PHILIP, 51:33.782 --> 51:37.501 HE TRANSPORTS FROM PLACE TO PLACE. AND I'M THINKING, NOW 51:37.501 --> 51:40.172 THAT'S JUST GOTTEN WEIRD. OKAY, THAT WAS ONLY ONE TIME IN THE 51:40.172 --> 51:44.612 BIBLE, RIGHT? ONE TIME DID WE SEE PHILIP DID THAT. WE SAW THE 51:44.612 --> 51:47.371 CASE WITH JESUS WHEN THE SHIP, YOU'VE HEARD PASTOR TEACH ABOUT 51:47.371 --> 51:51.331 THIS, WHEN THE SHIP, THEY WERE OUT IN THE BOAT AND THE SHIP WAS 51:51.331 --> 51:55.922 IMMEDIATELY OR SUPERNATURALLY AT THE LAND OR AT THE SHORE. BUT WE 51:55.922 --> 52:01.891 DON'T SEE ANY PLACE WHERE JESUS TAUGHT THE CHURCH TO REPRODUCE 52:01.891 --> 52:07.019 THE MINISTRY OF TRANSLATING. AND SO IT'S GOTTEN CRAZY OUT THERE. 52:07.019 --> 52:10.981 I KNOW MINISTERS, AND I THINK THEY MEAN WELL, BUT I KNOW 52:10.981 --> 52:16.472 MINISTERS WHO HAVE GOTTEN INTO LEVITATING, WHO'VE GOTTEN INTO 52:16.472 --> 52:20.282 THINGS THAT I WOULD CALL OCCULTICISM. AND NOW, YOU HEARD 52:20.282 --> 52:23.731 ME SAY THIS LAST TIME, THAT THERE'S A WHOLE MOVEMENT NOW 52:23.731 --> 52:28.382 THAT IS MIXING SPIRITISM, WITCHCRAFT, AND CHRISTIANITY. SO 52:28.382 --> 52:32.311 WE HAVE TO BE SO CAREFUL. THYATIRA WAS ABOUT THE FALSE 52:32.311 --> 52:37.202 MIXTURES. IT BROUGHT IN JEZEBEL, IT MADE IT OKAY TO HAVE A LITTLE 52:37.202 --> 52:42.541 OF THE OPPOSITE SIDE, THE EVIL SIDE OF THE SUPERNATURAL, AND IT 52:42.541 --> 52:45.001 MIXED IT TOGETHER AND MADE IT OUT TO BE GOOD. THAT'S, YOU 52:45.001 --> 52:48.152 KNOW, YOU HEAR PEOPLE USE THE PHRASE WHITE WITCH. WELL, ALL 52:48.152 --> 52:53.192 WITCHES ARE BAD. THERE'S NO GOOD WITCH. A WITCH IS A WITCH, OKAY? 52:53.192 --> 52:57.242 AND GOD CONDEMNED WITCHCRAFT, PERIOD. YOU CAN'T BE A WITCH AND 52:57.242 --> 53:01.291 A CHRISTIAN. YOU'VE GOTTA RENOUNCE THE DEVIL, PERIOD. 53:01.291 --> 53:03.751 AMEN, AND THAT'S WHY WE'RE SO CAREFUL. I MEAN, WHEN YOU SEE 53:03.751 --> 53:07.742 THINGS ON MOVIES AND SHOWS, MAN, THE DEVIL'S TRYING TO SNEAK THAT 53:07.742 --> 53:10.202 OCCULT IN IN EVERY SINGLE WAY TO GET PEOPLE MORE AND MORE 53:10.202 --> 53:12.782 COMFORTABLE WITH THOSE THINGS. YOU KNOW, IT USED TO BE, IF YOU 53:12.782 --> 53:15.362 GO OVER, AND PASTOR DODJI WOULD TELL YOU THIS, HE'S TOLD US 53:15.362 --> 53:20.282 STORIES ABOUT AFRICA AND TUDOR BISMARK, WHEN HE WAS HERE MANY 53:20.282 --> 53:23.822 YEARS AGO AND SHARED ABOUT SOME OF THE CRAZY THINGS THAT 53:23.822 --> 53:26.371 HAPPENED WITH THESE WITCH DOCTORS OVER THERE. I MEAN, IT 53:26.371 --> 53:30.902 WOULD ABSOLUTELY, IT'S SHOCKING TO US IN THE UNITED STATES. THE 53:30.902 --> 53:34.262 DEVIL HAS TO COME IN CREATIVELY TO GET US TO ACCEPT CERTAIN 53:34.262 --> 53:37.802 THINGS OF THE OCCULT. BUT OVER THERE, THE OCCULT IS NORMAL. AND 53:37.802 --> 53:40.891 THEY'LL HAVE CHRISTIANS, PEOPLE THAT ARE SAVED, WORSHIPING GOD, 53:40.891 --> 53:45.422 BUT THEY WON'T EVER REJECT THEIR OCCULTISM. AND SO THEY'RE STILL 53:45.422 --> 53:48.121 DOING SPELLS AND SETTING UP MONUMENTS AND DOING CRAZY 53:48.121 --> 53:52.262 THINGS. AND I THINK THE ENEMY IS TRYING TO BRING MORE AND MORE OF 53:52.262 --> 53:55.952 THAT HERE THROUGH TELEVISION. AND WE HAVE TO BE SO, SO 53:55.952 --> 53:59.972 CAREFUL. PROTECT YOUR KIDS FROM THAT. OKAY, JUST BECAUSE THEY'RE 53:59.972 --> 54:03.601 CASTING A LITTLE SPELL ON SOME SHOW, I MEAN, I'M NOT SURPRISED 54:03.601 --> 54:06.632 IF IT'S ON DISNEY BECAUSE THEY'VE DONE THAT FOR YEARS. WE 54:06.632 --> 54:09.871 JUST DIDN'T CATCH IT TILL NOW. BUT THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, 54:09.871 --> 54:14.041 BE VERY CAREFUL. SO CHURCH OF THYATIRA WAS THE CHURCH OF FALSE 54:14.041 --> 54:20.641 MIXTURES, AND JESUS COMES AS THE REFINING FIRE, AND HE SAYS 54:20.641 --> 54:24.152 THERE'S TO BE NONE OF THAT, NONE OF THAT. AND ANOTHER THING I'M 54:24.152 --> 54:26.612 CAREFUL OF, I'M JUST KIND OF TALK OUT OF MY SPIRIT, ANOTHER 54:26.612 --> 54:31.681 THING I'M CAREFUL OF IS WHENEVER, AND LET ME SAY IT 54:31.681 --> 54:35.641 WELL, CAN YOU JUST GUYS HEAR IT IN BALANCE? BE CAREFUL WHEN 54:35.641 --> 54:40.231 THERE'S SOME HOT NEW TEACHING. HOW MANY HAVE EVER SEEN THOSE? 54:40.231 --> 54:44.786 THEY COME IN WAVES, YOU KNOW? THERE WAS A PERIOD OF TIME WHEN, 54:44.786 --> 54:48.992 I MEAN, UNIVERSALISM JUST RAN THROUGH THE CHURCH. AND THESE 54:48.992 --> 54:51.391 THINGS COME BACK AROUND EVERY SO OFTEN. YOU'LL JUST KIND OF, 54:51.391 --> 54:55.322 UNIVERSALISM IS, PEOPLE THAT PREACH THERE'S NO LITERAL HELL, 54:55.322 --> 54:58.952 AND THAT EVERYTHING'S GONNA BE RECONCILED BACK TO GOD. AND 54:58.952 --> 55:01.501 THESE THINGS WILL COME AROUND EVERY SO OFTEN, AND WE HAVE TO 55:01.501 --> 55:06.871 BE SO VERY CAREFUL THAT WE DON'T ALLOW FALSE MIXTURES TO COME IN, 55:06.871 --> 55:10.711 FALSE DOCTRINES TO MIX IN WITH THE TRUTH. THAT'S WHY WHEN JESUS 55:10.711 --> 55:14.822 SAID IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 24, HE SAID, "MANY WILL COME IN MY NAME 55:14.822 --> 55:17.581 SAYING I AM THE CHRIST," OR THEY'LL COME WITH A CHRISTIAN 55:17.581 --> 55:21.811 LABEL TO IT. IT'LL HAVE A CHRISTIAN PRESENTATION, BUT 55:21.811 --> 55:25.681 THERE'S FALSE MIXED IN. AND SO BE CAREFUL OF SOME OF THOSE 55:25.681 --> 55:29.791 TEACHINGS AND THOSE DOCTRINES, JUST WATCH THOSE. I KEEP THE 55:29.791 --> 55:32.552 TENETS OF THE FAITH, A LITTLE SHEET, PRINTOUT SHEET IN MY 55:32.552 --> 55:35.311 BIBLE, AND JUST REMIND MYSELF OF THE THINGS THAT ARE 55:35.311 --> 55:39.152 NON-NEGOTIABLES, RIGHT? THINGS THAT ARE NONNEGOTIABLE. IN OTHER 55:39.152 --> 55:44.492 WORDS, JESUS IS THE ONLY WAY TO HEAVEN, PERIOD. AND THIS CULTURE 55:44.492 --> 55:47.882 DOESN'T LIKE THAT RIGHT NOW, BUT THAT'S WHAT WE STAND FOR, AND WE 55:47.882 --> 55:51.092 WILL NOT ALTER THAT. SO THERE'S NOT GONNA BE A FALSE MIXTURE 55:51.092 --> 55:53.371 THAT, WELL, YOUR WAY TO GOD MIGHT BE DIFFERENT THAN MINE. 55:53.371 --> 55:58.532 NO, THERE'S NO WAY TO GOD BUT JESUS, HALLELUJAH. AND WE HAVE 55:58.532 --> 56:02.492 TO STAY WITH THAT. SO THAT'S THE CHURCH OF THYATIRA, AND JUST 56:02.492 --> 56:05.913 'CAUSE IT'S POPULAR, JUST 'CAUSE HE'S A PREACHER, AND BY THE WAY, 56:05.913 --> 56:08.972 IT COULD BE A PREACHER THAT YOU LOVE, BUT I'VE KNOWN PREACHERS 56:08.972 --> 56:12.032 THAT I LOVE THAT WENT OFF THE DEEP END, AND SO BE CAREFUL OF 56:12.032 --> 56:14.882 THAT. WE HAVE TO, WE JUST GOT TO BE VERY DISCERNING, NOT 56:14.882 --> 56:18.751 SUSPICIOUS, NOBODY'S SAYING THAT, NOT SUSPICIOUS. I THINK 56:18.751 --> 56:22.021 YOU CAN'T DISCERN ALWAYS THINGS IN ONE MOMENT UNLESS IT'S REALLY 56:22.021 --> 56:26.702 EGREGIOUS, BUT CHURCH OF THYATIRA, JESUS GAVE THEM THOSE 56:26.702 --> 56:31.262 THAT DIDN'T BOW DOWN TO THE JEZEBELIC DOCTRINES, JESUS SAID 56:31.262 --> 56:34.532 THEY WOULDN'T HAVE THE CONSEQUENCES. SO I ENCOURAGE 56:34.532 --> 56:37.592 YOU, GO BACK AND READ THAT, WE READ IT LAST WEEK. SO NOW LET'S 56:37.592 --> 56:44.521 GET INTO THE CHURCH OF SARDIS. AND THIS WAS THE CHURCH, AND 56:44.521 --> 56:48.032 WE'RE GOING TO READ THIS IN REVELATION CHAPTER 3. THE CHURCH 56:48.032 --> 56:52.172 OF SARDIS WAS THE CHURCH OF DEAD RELIGION. I WOULD LIKE TO CALL 56:52.172 --> 56:57.271 IT THE SECULAR CHURCH. IN OTHER WORDS, IT PRETTY MUCH WAS, IT 56:57.271 --> 57:01.501 HAD ELIMINATED ANY EXPRESSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. THERE WAS NO 57:01.501 --> 57:05.492 HOLY SPIRIT ANYMORE. IT WAS PRETTY MUCH JUST CALLED A 57:05.492 --> 57:08.702 CHURCH. NOW WE HAVE SEEN, AND I'M NOT TRYING TO CALL OUT ANY 57:08.702 --> 57:11.851 SPECIFIC DENOMINATION, BUT THERE ARE A LOAD OF DENOMINATIONS OUT 57:11.851 --> 57:16.382 THERE RIGHT NOW WHO STARTED AS GREAT REVIVALS. OKAY, THEY 57:16.382 --> 57:20.402 STARTED WITH THE FIRE AND THE POWER OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, AND 57:20.402 --> 57:24.961 NOW THEY HAVE REDUCED DOWN TO NOTHING MORE THAN A SOCIAL CLUB. 57:24.961 --> 57:29.492 AMEN. WE'VE SEEN THIS. AND SO THIS IS WHAT JESUS HAD TO SAY 57:29.492 --> 57:33.512 ABOUT THE SARDIS CHURCH, THE SECULAR CHURCH. "AND UNTO THE 57:33.512 --> 57:37.112 ANGEL OR THE PASTOR OF THE CHURCH "IN SARDIS WRITE, THESE 57:37.112 --> 57:41.822 THINGS SAYS HE "THAT HAS THE SEVEN SPIRITS OF GOD AND THE 57:41.822 --> 57:45.391 SEVEN STARS." I MEAN, I'M TELLING YOU THE WAY REVELATION 57:45.391 --> 57:49.081 IS WRITTEN, YOU'RE LIKE, WHAT? I DON'T KNOW. IT JUST COMES WITH 57:49.081 --> 57:54.152 FIRE TO MY SPIRIT. AND THE SEVEN STARS, I KNOW YOUR WORKS. AND 57:54.152 --> 58:00.181 YOU HAVE THE NAME THAT YOU'RE ALIVE, BUT YOU ARE DEAD. I HEARD 58:00.181 --> 58:02.882 A PREACHER SAY, THERE ARE CHURCHES THAT ARE NOT, THEY'RE 58:02.882 --> 58:06.722 NOT EVEN A CHURCH. THEY'RE A SOCIAL CLUB. PEOPLE GO THERE FOR 58:06.722 --> 58:12.722 THE PRESTIGE AND TO MAKE CRAFTS. BUT THAT'S IT, THAT'S ALL THAT'S 58:12.722 --> 58:18.302 IN THERE. NOTHING LEFT. HE SAID, BE WATCHFUL. I MEAN, WATCH THIS. 58:18.302 --> 58:22.891 HE SAID, "AND STRENGTHEN THE THINGS THAT REMAIN "AND THAT ARE 58:22.891 --> 58:28.231 ABOUT TO DIE." WOW, NOT A LOT OF HOPE FOR THIS GROUP. "FOR I'VE 58:28.231 --> 58:31.262 NOT FOUND YOUR WORKS PERFECT BEFORE GOD." BUT WATCH WHAT HE 58:31.262 --> 58:36.181 SAYS, REMEMBER, OKAY? THERE WAS A DENOMINATION THAT STARTED WITH 58:36.181 --> 58:40.659 THE THESIS BEING POUNDED ON THE WALL, RIGHT? GO BACK TO THE 58:40.659 --> 58:45.512 HISTORY OF WHAT STARTED THE REVIVAL THAT BROUGHT YOUR CHURCH 58:45.512 --> 58:49.802 ABOUT. AND BY THE WAY, CAN I SAY THIS IS WHERE CHARISMATIC 58:49.802 --> 58:53.731 MOVEMENT, WORD OF FAITH MOVEMENT, THE PENTECOSTAL 58:53.731 --> 58:56.371 MOVEMENT, WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL TOO. WE WERE JUST TALKING WITH A 58:56.371 --> 59:01.831 GROUP OF PEOPLE AT LUNCH TODAY ABOUT THE FACT THAT SOME OF OUR 59:01.831 --> 59:04.802 ASSISTANTS, PASTOR AND I BROUGHT SOME PRESENTS AND WE ALL HAD 59:04.802 --> 59:07.952 SOME FOOD TOGETHER. AND WE GOT TO TALKING ABOUT THE FACT, THEY 59:07.952 --> 59:10.536 WERE LIKE, "LORD, WE LOVE LORD OF HOSTS." I'M LIKE, "IT IS A 59:10.536 --> 59:14.041 PRETTY COOL CHURCH, "I THINK LORD OF HOSTS IS COOL." BUT I 59:14.041 --> 59:17.311 SAID, "YOU KNOW, WHAT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER "IS EVEN THE 59:17.311 --> 59:20.581 PENTECOSTAL CHURCH, "SO MANY WORD CHURCHES, PENTECOSTAL 59:20.581 --> 59:25.442 CHURCHES "HAVE BECOME JUST DRY TEACHING CENTERS. "THERE'S NO 59:25.442 --> 59:28.382 MOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT, "NOBODY GETS FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT 59:28.382 --> 59:30.070 ANYMORE." I'VE GONE TO CONFERENCES, I'M LIKE, "YOU 59:30.070 --> 59:33.152 KNOW, I WANT PEOPLE TO GET PRAYER, "PEOPLE TO GET HANDS 59:33.152 --> 59:36.362 LAID ON THEM SOMETIMES, "YOU KNOW, THERE TO BE SOME MINISTRY. 59:36.362 --> 59:39.661 "IT'S LIKE WE'RE GONNA, YOU KNOW, "DRUDGE THROUGH THE BIBLE 59:39.661 --> 59:42.961 AND I'M GREAT WITH THAT "AND THEN WRAP UP AND GO HOME. "BUT 59:42.961 --> 59:45.661 THERE'S NO EXPRESSION OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. "NOBODY PRAYS IN 59:45.661 --> 59:49.411 TONGUES ANYMORE. "AND EVEN WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL THAT WE DON'T 59:49.411 --> 59:54.092 GO DOWN "THE PATH WHERE YOU GO TOWARD WHAT WAS ONCE ALIVE 59:54.092 --> 59:57.302 "BECOMES DEAD. "AND NOW WE'RE JUST GOING THROUGH THE MOTIONS, 59:57.302 --> 01:00:01.561 AMEN." AND I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU ON A SUNDAY, PRESS YOURSELF. 01:00:01.561 --> 01:00:07.382 PRESS YOURSELF INTO A GREATER EXPERIENCE WITH GOD, OKAY? AND 01:00:07.382 --> 01:00:11.132 IF THE WORSHIP TEAM THAT WEEK DIDN'T SING YOUR FAVORITE TUNE, 01:00:11.132 --> 01:00:16.291 WELL, PRESS IN ANYHOW. EVERYBODY LIKES THE BATTLE SONG THAT THEY 01:00:16.291 --> 01:00:18.992 DID TONIGHT. I'M LIKE, YOU CAN'T HELP BUT GET, BUT I'M JUST 01:00:18.992 --> 01:00:22.442 SAYING, IF THAT WASN'T YOUR SONG THAT YOU WANTED TO HEAR THAT 01:00:22.442 --> 01:00:26.072 WEEK, DON'T JUST STAND THERE LIKE A TELEPHONE POLE. MAKE 01:00:26.072 --> 01:00:29.581 YOURSELF PRESS, COME ON SOMEBODY, INTO SOMETHING 01:00:29.581 --> 01:00:34.112 GREATER. WE HAVE TO REMIND OURSELVES. I TRY MY VERY 01:00:34.112 --> 01:00:38.780 HARDEST. I HAVE HEARD MY HUSBAND PREACH FOR 36 YEARS. I TRY, I 01:00:38.780 --> 01:00:41.402 ALMOST COULDN'T FINISH HIS SENTENCES, YOU KNOW, NOT ALWAYS, 01:00:41.402 --> 01:00:46.427 BUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, YOU KNOW, I'M IN THERE, I'M 01:00:46.427 --> 01:00:50.958 WRITING STUFF IN MY BIBLE AND MARKING STUFF OUT, TRYING TO 01:00:50.958 --> 01:00:55.157 EXTRACT EVERYTHING THAT'S BRAND NEW FROM IT. AND I DO THAT TO 01:00:55.157 --> 01:00:58.157 REMIND MYSELF, DON'T GET COMFORTABLE. DON'T EVER HAVE THE 01:00:58.157 --> 01:01:02.297 ATTITUDE, WELL, I'VE HEARD THAT. OKAY, THAT'S HOW THINGS GO DEAD, 01:01:02.297 --> 01:01:05.748 RIGHT? AND SO WE DON'T WANNA DO THAT. SO THIS IS WHAT HE SAID, 01:01:05.748 --> 01:01:11.418 REMEMBER WHERE YOU STARTED. YOU KNOW, I REMEMBER WHEN I WAS 01:01:11.418 --> 01:01:14.447 FIRST SAVED AND FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT, WE WENT TO OUR 01:01:14.447 --> 01:01:17.507 LITTLE PENTECOSTAL CHURCH. AND I'D NEVER BEEN TO A PENTECOSTAL 01:01:17.507 --> 01:01:21.288 CHURCH. WE WERE EPISCOPALIAN, THAT'S TRULY THE FROZEN CHOSEN. 01:01:21.288 --> 01:01:26.057 AND I WAS IN THERE AND THIS GUY HAD AN ACOUSTIC GUITAR. I'M 01:01:26.057 --> 01:01:29.297 LIKE, I'D NEVER SEEN THAT. ALL WE EVER SAW WAS AN ORGAN. AND 01:01:29.297 --> 01:01:32.748 NOBODY HAD DRUMS BACK THEN. THEY HAD ACOUSTIC. AND I'M THINKING, 01:01:32.748 --> 01:01:35.777 OH, THIS IS THE BEST THING. I WAS ABOUT 15 YEARS OLD AND I 01:01:35.777 --> 01:01:39.438 COULD NOT, I WAS SO EXCITED FOR JESUS, I COULD NOT, EVERY TIME I 01:01:39.438 --> 01:01:43.668 WALKED IN THERE, WIPE THE SMILE OFF MY FACE. I WAS JUST SO HAPPY 01:01:43.668 --> 01:01:47.628 FOR SOMETHING TO BE ALIVE LIKE THAT. AND I JUST WOULD GRIN AND 01:01:47.628 --> 01:01:51.887 GRIN AND GRIN. AND I THOUGHT, SO I REMIND MYSELF WHEN I WALK IN, 01:01:51.887 --> 01:01:55.193 YOU KNOW, HERE WE ARE 40 YEARS LATER, STILL SERVING GOD. AND I 01:01:55.193 --> 01:01:57.768 ALWAYS REMIND MYSELF, YOU WALK IN THAT CHURCH WITH A SMILE ON 01:01:57.768 --> 01:02:00.947 YOUR FACE, JUST LIKE YOU DID. REMEMBER HOW YOU COULDN'T QUIT 01:02:00.947 --> 01:02:05.418 SMILING. DON'T EVER COME IN WITH A GRUMPY FACE, RIGHT? DON'T COME 01:02:05.418 --> 01:02:09.768 IN GRUMPY. THAT'S HOW YOU END UP IN DEAD CHURCH, OKAY? NOW LIVE 01:02:09.768 --> 01:02:15.438 CHURCH STARTS WITH LIVING PEOPLE, AMEN? AMEN. OKAY, TOUCH 01:02:15.438 --> 01:02:26.927 YOURSELF, YOU SAY YOU'RE... YOU GOT IT? I'M BACK, ALL RIGHT. 01:02:26.927 --> 01:02:29.807 IT'S MAKING SOME FUNNY NOISES, SO I WAS JUST CHECKING, OKAY. 01:02:29.807 --> 01:02:33.347 ALL RIGHT, REMEMBER, SOMEBODY SAY REMEMBER. HOW YOU HAVE 01:02:33.347 --> 01:02:36.677 RECEIVED AND HEARD, REMEMBER, RIGHT? WHERE YOU STARTED, AND 01:02:36.677 --> 01:02:40.967 HOLD FAST AND REPENT. BY THE WAY, JESUS SAYS REPENT A LOT TO 01:02:40.967 --> 01:02:45.197 THESE CHURCHES. SO REPENTANCE IS STILL IN THE CHURCH, RIGHT? WE 01:02:45.197 --> 01:02:49.907 NEED WAVES OF REPENTING, OKAY? REPENT DOESN'T MEAN ALWAYS 01:02:49.907 --> 01:02:53.568 SQUABBLING AND CRYING. IT MEANS THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE A TURN 01:02:53.568 --> 01:02:58.007 SOMETIMES. WE'VE GOT TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS, AS SOME PERSON ONCE 01:02:58.007 --> 01:03:02.507 SAID IT. SO HE SAID, "REPENT, IF THEREFORE YOU SHALL NOT WATCH, 01:03:02.507 --> 01:03:06.467 "I'LL COME TO THEE AS A THIEF, "AND YOU WILL NOT KNOW WHAT HOUR 01:03:06.467 --> 01:03:10.097 I'LL COME UPON YOU." BY THE WAY, 1 THESSALONIANS CHAPTER 5 SAYS 01:03:10.097 --> 01:03:15.257 THAT JESUS IS NOT COMING AS A THIEF TO THE CHURCH. OKAY, HE 01:03:15.257 --> 01:03:18.137 SAID, "YOU KNOW THAT DAY, "IT SHOULD NOT APPEAR TO YOU AS A 01:03:18.137 --> 01:03:22.248 THIEF." THE THIEF COMING IN THE MIDDLE OF THE NIGHT IS FOR THE 01:03:22.248 --> 01:03:26.867 WORLD. WE'RE TO KNOW THE HOUR, WE'RE TO BE PREPARED FOR THE 01:03:26.867 --> 01:03:30.268 HOUR. THE BIBLE SAYS YOU'LL KNOW THE TIMES AND THE SEASONS. SO I 01:03:30.268 --> 01:03:32.268 NEED TO READ THAT SCRIPTURE TO YOU. YOU GUYS KNOW IT'S IN THE 01:03:32.268 --> 01:03:36.197 BIBLE. IT SAYS THAT THEY SHOULD NOT APPROACH YOU AS A THIEF. SO 01:03:36.197 --> 01:03:39.918 WE'RE SUPPOSED TO BE SO READY FOR THE LORD THAT WE JUST KNOW. 01:03:39.918 --> 01:03:44.777 WE SEE THE SIGNS, WE SEE THE TIMES, OUR LIVES ARE READY. 01:03:44.777 --> 01:03:48.228 OKAY, THE BIBLE TEACHES SPIRITUAL PREPAREDNESS THAT WE 01:03:48.228 --> 01:03:52.637 SHOULD LIVE ANY SINGLE DAY TO MEET THE LORD. I BELIEVE IN LONG 01:03:52.637 --> 01:03:57.378 LIFE, I ABSOLUTELY DO. I BELIEVE IT'S A COVENANT RIGHT THAT WE 01:03:57.378 --> 01:04:01.938 CAN LIVE LONG ON THIS EARTH. BUT YOU KNOW, CHARLIE KIRK, I DON'T 01:04:01.938 --> 01:04:05.507 THINK HE PLANNED TO BE IN HEAVEN THAT DAY. I DON'T THINK HE 01:04:05.507 --> 01:04:09.378 PLANNED IT. BUT YOU KNOW WHAT, HE HAD TO BE READY. HE HAD TO BE 01:04:09.378 --> 01:04:12.318 READY TO MEET JESUS AT ANY GIVEN TIME. AND THAT'S THE WAY THE 01:04:12.318 --> 01:04:15.108 BIBLE TEACHES WE'RE TO LIVE. IT TEACHES THAT WE'RE TO BE IN A 01:04:15.108 --> 01:04:20.478 PLACE ALL THE TIME OF SPIRITUAL PREPAREDNESS. AND SO THAT IS 01:04:20.478 --> 01:04:23.958 WHERE THIS CHURCH HAD FALLEN OUT. HE SAID, "I'LL COME TO YOU 01:04:23.958 --> 01:04:27.108 AS A THIEF "AND YOU'LL NOT KNOW THE HOUR THAT I'LL COME UPON 01:04:27.108 --> 01:04:31.097 YOU." IT WAS THE, WELL, YOU HEARD PASTOR TEACH IT ON SUNDAY. 01:04:31.097 --> 01:04:34.608 IT WAS THE FOOLISH VIRGINS THAT DIDN'T HAVE OIL IN THEIR LAMP 01:04:34.608 --> 01:04:37.757 AND THE BRIDEGROOM CAME AND THE DOOR WAS SHUT. BUT THE OTHER 01:04:37.757 --> 01:04:40.577 ONES WERE PREPARED. THEY DIDN'T KNOW ANYMORE WHAT DAY WAS GONNA 01:04:40.577 --> 01:04:44.777 COME, BUT THEY TREATED IT LIKE IT WAS RIGHT NOW. SO YOU HAVE A 01:04:44.777 --> 01:04:48.318 NAME, A FEW NAMES, EVEN IN SARDIS, WHICH HAVE NOT DEFILED 01:04:48.318 --> 01:04:51.257 THEIR GARMENTS, AND THEY SHALL WALK WITH ME IN WHITE, FOR 01:04:51.257 --> 01:04:54.918 THEY'RE WORTHY. BUT HE THAT OVERCOMES, WELL, OVERCOMES WHAT? 01:04:54.918 --> 01:05:01.608 OVERCOMES THIS DEAD, DRY CHURCH, RIGHT? THEY WERE PRESSED IN. HE 01:05:01.608 --> 01:05:05.697 THAT OVERCOMES THE SAME WILL BE CLOTHED IN WHITE RAIMENT. NOW, I 01:05:05.697 --> 01:05:10.367 DON'T KNOW HOW TRUE THIS IS, BUT I GOTTA SAY, I HEARD A PASTOR 01:05:10.367 --> 01:05:14.177 SAY, SAID THAT HE HAD A VISION OF HEAVEN, AND I DON'T KNOW THAT 01:05:14.177 --> 01:05:16.518 THERE'S ANY BIBLE FOR IT, I'M JUST THROWING IT OUT THERE. BUT 01:05:16.518 --> 01:05:20.867 HE SAID, WHEN HE SAW HEAVEN, HE SAID THAT THERE WERE SOME 01:05:20.867 --> 01:05:23.748 PEOPLE, THEIR ROBES WEREN'T 100% WHITE, THEY WERE SORT OF GRAY 01:05:23.748 --> 01:05:26.838 COLORED. NOW I THOUGHT, WELL, LORD, I DON'T KNOW IF THAT'S 01:05:26.838 --> 01:05:31.998 TRUE, BUT I WANT A WHITE ONE. AND JESUS SAID THAT WE GET A 01:05:31.998 --> 01:05:34.728 WHITE ONE. AND I KNOW PEOPLE AREN'T GOING AROUND AND, "OH, 01:05:34.728 --> 01:05:37.579 YOU GOT A GRAY ROBE, DUDE. "I DON'T KNOW WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU, 01:05:37.579 --> 01:05:40.637 "BUT I DON'T KNOW, I DON'T THINK THAT'S THE CASE." BUT THE TRUTH 01:05:40.637 --> 01:05:43.998 OF THE MATTER IS, 'CAUSE WE DON'T THINK THE WAY HEAVEN IS 01:05:43.998 --> 01:05:46.967 DOWN HERE. YOU'RE NOT UP THERE GOING, YOU'RE STILL MAD AT YOUR 01:05:46.967 --> 01:05:54.197 EX, AND THIS KIND OF THING. SOMEBODY LOSES A SPOUSE AND GETS 01:05:54.197 --> 01:05:56.628 REMARRIED, AND THEN THEY GET UP THERE AND HIS WIFE IS WAITING 01:05:56.628 --> 01:06:02.867 WITH A BALL BAT. IT'S NOT LIKE THAT. YOU KNOW, SO WE HAVE A 01:06:02.867 --> 01:06:05.572 HARD TIME COMPREHENDING THE FULLNESS OF WHAT HEAVEN WILL BE 01:06:05.572 --> 01:06:08.418 LIKE. BUT THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, YOU KNOW, I WANT THE 01:06:08.418 --> 01:06:12.288 WHITE ROBE. I WANT EVERYTHING THAT HEAVEN OFFERS. AND JESUS 01:06:12.288 --> 01:06:17.478 SAID IT WAS THE ONES THAT DIDN'T FALL INTO DEAD RELIGION, RIGHT? 01:06:17.478 --> 01:06:19.998 ALL OF US ARE AT RISK OF THAT. SO WE HAVE TO BE VERY CAREFUL, 01:06:19.998 --> 01:06:24.257 EVEN AT LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. PASTOR, I LOVE, LOVE, LOVE, HE 01:06:24.257 --> 01:06:26.177 SAYS, "YOU KNOW WHAT? "I WANNA MAKE SURE WE PRAY FOR THE 01:06:26.177 --> 01:06:28.847 PEOPLE." WHEN WE DO GET READY FOR OPENING THE HEAVENS, HE 01:06:28.847 --> 01:06:32.057 GOES, "I WANNA MAKE SURE THIS IS NOT JUST GONNA BE "A CONFERENCE 01:06:32.057 --> 01:06:35.478 WHERE WE TEACH AND GO HOME." AND TEACHING'S GOOD, I'M NOT DOWN ON 01:06:35.478 --> 01:06:37.998 IT. BUT HE SAID, "I WANT PEOPLE TO GET PRAYER. "I WANT PEOPLE TO 01:06:37.998 --> 01:06:41.237 GET MINISTRY. "I WANT PEOPLE TO RECEIVE A PRAYER CLOTH. "I WANT 01:06:41.237 --> 01:06:43.907 PEOPLE TO GET FILLED WITH THE HOLY SPIRIT. "I WANT THERE TO BE 01:06:43.907 --> 01:06:47.297 THE MANIFESTATION OF LAYING ON OF HANDS, "OR AT LEAST, IF 01:06:47.297 --> 01:06:51.018 ANYTHING, WE MAKE A ROOM FOR HEALING, FOR PEOPLE TO COME BE 01:06:51.018 --> 01:06:55.153 HEALED, AND NOT GO THROUGH THE MOTIONS OR JUST DO IT 'CAUSE 01:06:55.153 --> 01:06:58.940 WE'VE DONE IT FOR HOWEVER MANY DECADES, BUT WE REALLY PRESS IN 01:06:58.940 --> 01:07:02.117 IN OUR FAITH. AND THAT'S WHAT I LOVE ABOUT YOUR PASTOR. HE'S 01:07:02.117 --> 01:07:07.038 VERY COMMITTED THAT WAY. HE'S ALWAYS LISTENING AND THINKING, 01:07:07.038 --> 01:07:10.128 "HOLY SPIRIT, WHAT DO YOU WANNA DO IN THE SERVICE?" WE PRAY IT 01:07:10.128 --> 01:07:14.268 EVERY MORNING. WE GET UP AT FIVE O'CLOCK ON THE NOSE ON SUNDAY, 01:07:14.268 --> 01:07:18.288 AND EVEN IF THE PACKERS PLAY THE NIGHT BEFORE, WE'RE UP EARLY, 01:07:18.288 --> 01:07:22.697 I'M TELLING YOU. AND IF THEY LOSE, WE GO TO BED. WE YELL AND 01:07:22.697 --> 01:07:26.958 THEN WE GO TO BED. BUT THE KEY IS, OR THE HUSKERS OR WHATEVER, 01:07:26.958 --> 01:07:30.168 BUT WE GET UP AT FIVE O'CLOCK AND EVERY TIME ON A SUNDAY WE 01:07:30.168 --> 01:07:32.297 PRAY, YOU KNOW, LORD, WHAT DO YOU WANNA DO ON THE SERVICE DAY? 01:07:32.297 --> 01:07:34.998 I WANT IT TO BE FRESH, I WANT IT TO BE ALIVE, I WANT IT TO BE 01:07:34.998 --> 01:07:38.777 INVITING. I DON'T EVER WANNA FALL IN TO THE CHURCH OF SARDIS 01:07:38.777 --> 01:07:42.018 WHERE THEY BECAME DEAD. AND YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON'T THINK THEY 01:07:42.018 --> 01:07:46.757 PLANNED IT. YOU KNOW, NOBODY GOES FROM BEING AN ON-FIRE 01:07:46.757 --> 01:07:50.717 CHRISTIAN TO BEING A DRIED-UP PRUNE. I DON'T THINK THEY 01:07:50.717 --> 01:07:54.498 PLANNED THAT. I DON'T THINK ANY OF THOSE GREAT REVIVALS AND 01:07:54.498 --> 01:07:57.708 MOVEMENTS THAT BECAME DENOMINATIONS, I DON'T THINK ANY 01:07:57.708 --> 01:08:03.378 OF THEM PLANNED TO JUST BECOME A SOCIAL CLUB. NO, BUT EVENTUALLY, 01:08:03.378 --> 01:08:07.577 DRYNESS SET IN, AND THIS IS WHAT JESUS WAS TALKING ABOUT HERE. SO 01:08:07.577 --> 01:08:10.878 HE SAID, "HE THAT OVERCOMES THE SAME "SHALL BE CLOTHED IN WHITE 01:08:10.878 --> 01:08:15.708 RAIMENT, "AND I WILL NOT," WATCH THIS PART, "BLOT OUT," FIRST 01:08:15.708 --> 01:08:19.037 TIME HE BRINGS THIS UP IN ALL THE CHURCHES, "I WILL NOT BLOT 01:08:19.037 --> 01:08:22.337 OUT HIS NAME OUT OF THE BOOK OF LIFE." BY THE WAY, THAT WILL 01:08:22.337 --> 01:08:26.927 JUST DEBUNK THE DOCTRINE OF ONCE SAVED, ALWAYS SAVED. OKAY, YOUR 01:08:26.927 --> 01:08:30.858 NAME WAS IN AND GETS BLOTTED OUT. SO IF ANYBODY TELLS YOU YOU 01:08:30.858 --> 01:08:34.908 CANNOT LOSE YOUR SALVATION, THAT ONCE YOU'RE BORN AGAIN, YOU'RE 01:08:34.908 --> 01:08:41.118 IN FOREVER, NO, HERE HE SAID, YOUR NAME COULD BE BLOTTED OUT 01:08:41.118 --> 01:08:46.578 OF THE BOOK OF LIFE. SO THIS IS IMPORTANT TO REMEMBER THAT. BUT 01:08:46.578 --> 01:08:51.318 I WILL CONFESS HIS NAME BEFORE MY FATHER AND BEFORE HIS ANGELS. 01:08:51.318 --> 01:08:53.988 MAN, I WANT GOD TO TOUT MY NAME IN HEAVEN BECAUSE I STAYED 01:08:53.988 --> 01:08:59.747 LIVING, ACTIVE, RIGHT? ON FIRE FOR GOD. PRESS YOURSELF TO STAY 01:08:59.747 --> 01:09:03.768 ALIVE. AND ANOTHER THING I WOULD SAY, WE DO LITTLE THINGS AT 01:09:03.768 --> 01:09:08.328 HOME, PASTOR AND MYSELF, TO KEEP OURSELVES, 'CAUSE THE OLDER YOU 01:09:08.328 --> 01:09:11.597 GET, IT'S EASIER TO JUST SIT IN A CHAIR AND PRAY. I'M LIKE, OH 01:09:11.597 --> 01:09:14.054 LORD, IT'S SO MUCH WORK TO WALK AROUND, I HAVE TO STEP OVER A 01:09:14.054 --> 01:09:19.818 DOG. THEY ALWAYS LAY IN THE PATH. DEB, IS THAT NOT TRUE? I'M 01:09:19.818 --> 01:09:24.828 LIKE, WHY DO THE DOGS LAY IN OUR ONE DOG, CHICA? JONATHAN CAME TO 01:09:24.828 --> 01:09:26.837 OUR HOUSE, THIS WAS LAST CHRISTMAS, HE GOES, WE SHOULD 01:09:26.837 --> 01:09:29.658 RENAME HER AND CALL HER ROADBLOCK. SHE'S ALWAYS IN THE 01:09:29.658 --> 01:09:32.387 WAY. I'M LIKE, I CAN'T GET TO THE FRIDGE, THERE SHE IS. IF YOU 01:09:32.387 --> 01:09:35.328 WALK OUTSIDE, THERE SHE'S IN THE WAY. SHE'S ALWAYS THERE. I THINK 01:09:35.328 --> 01:09:38.957 SHE DOES IT ON PURPOSE, BUT YOU KNOW THE TRUTH. BUT YOU KNOW, 01:09:38.957 --> 01:09:41.268 SOMETIMES IT GETS EASIER. YOU THINK, OKAY, WELL, LET'S JUST 01:09:41.268 --> 01:09:45.047 SIT AND PRAY. BUT SOMETIMES YOU GOTTA JUST PRESS YOURSELF. GET 01:09:45.047 --> 01:09:48.198 UP, GET OUT OF THE CHAIR, PUSH YOURSELF TO READ THE WORD OUT 01:09:48.198 --> 01:09:53.358 LOUD. DO SOMETHING THAT DOESN'T KEEP YOU JUST IN THE PATH OF 01:09:53.358 --> 01:09:57.347 COMFORTABLE. AMEN. THAT'S WHY PASTOR SAYS IN PRAISE AND 01:09:57.347 --> 01:10:00.768 WORSHIP, YOU KNOW, DO SOMETHING, SING OUT LOUD. EVEN IF YOU SING 01:10:00.768 --> 01:10:04.068 OFF TUNE, NOBODY CARES. IT'S SO LOUD AT LORD OF HOSTS, YOU CAN'T 01:10:04.068 --> 01:10:07.518 HEAR YOURSELF THINK, IT'S ALL RIGHT. YOU KNOW, I MEAN, I LIKE 01:10:07.518 --> 01:10:10.938 THE BASS, I LIKE IT LOUD. I MEAN, PASTOR BRENDA'S GONNA BE 01:10:10.938 --> 01:10:13.997 HAPPY AND IT'S GONNA BE LOUD, LOUD. I MEAN, I KIND OF MISS 01:10:13.997 --> 01:10:16.398 WHEN WE GOT IN HERE, ALTHOUGH THE SOUND IS BETTER IN HERE, I 01:10:16.398 --> 01:10:18.385 MISS THE OTHER CHURCH WHERE I WAS THREE INCHES 01:10:18.385 --> 01:10:22.014 FROM THE SUB AND I WAS LIKE, "NOW THE ANOINTING'S 01:10:22.014 --> 01:10:26.893 FLOWING." HALLELUJAH. BUT PUSH YOURSELF OUT. 01:10:26.893 --> 01:10:29.229 I'M NOT SAYING YOU HAVE TO LIKE SCREAMING LOUD 01:10:29.229 --> 01:10:32.484 MUSIC, BUT I DON'T KNOW, I ALWAYS SAID IT LIKE THIS 01:10:32.484 --> 01:10:35.177 YEARS AGO. SOME OF YOU REMEMBER ME PREACHING THIS, GOD 01:10:35.177 --> 01:10:38.297 LIKES THINGS LOUD, HEAVEN'S A LOUD PLACE. THE BIBLE SAYS HIS 01:10:38.297 --> 01:10:43.127 VOICE IS THE VOICE OF, COME ON, OF MANY WATERS. IF YOU'VE EVER 01:10:43.127 --> 01:10:47.028 HEARD THE OCEAN, MAN, YOU CAN'T HEAR YOURSELF THINK. IT'S LOUD. 01:10:47.028 --> 01:10:51.347 GOD DOESN'T MIND NOISE. HALLELUJAH, HEAVEN'S A LOUD 01:10:51.347 --> 01:10:54.768 PLACE. SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON'T LIKE THINGS LOUD BECAUSE IT 01:10:54.768 --> 01:10:59.627 MESSES WITH THEIR INNER SOMETHING, YOU KNOW. IT MESSES 01:10:59.627 --> 01:11:02.948 WITH THEIR OOMPH. SO, AND I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT MUSIC, 01:11:02.948 --> 01:11:06.787 BUT LOUD PRAYER. THERE'S SOMETHING ABOUT PRAYING OUT LOUD 01:11:06.787 --> 01:11:10.604 WHEN YOU PACE YOUR FLOOR. NO, JUST, OH, DEVIL, I BIND YOU IN 01:11:10.604 --> 01:11:16.448 JESUS' NAME. OH, DEVIL, I BIND YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS. GET 01:11:16.448 --> 01:11:26.619 OFF MY FAMILY. DO IT LOUD AND BOLD, SCARE YOURSELF FOR ONCE. 01:11:26.619 --> 01:11:30.637 HEY, LISTEN, IT MIGHT HELP YOUR UNBELIEF. I FOUND THAT TOO. 01:11:30.637 --> 01:11:33.488 SOMETIMES WHEN I SHOUT, THAT'S, COME ON, IT WAS THE WALLS OF 01:11:33.488 --> 01:11:38.198 JERICHO, RIGHT? THAT FELL WHEN THEY SHOUTED BECAUSE THE DEVIL 01:11:38.198 --> 01:11:43.717 DOESN'T LIKE IT WHEN YOU DO IT. SO DO IT. SHOUT, BE LOUD, PRESS 01:11:43.717 --> 01:11:46.856 AGAINST BECOMING A DEAD CHRISTIAN. I THINK THAT'S THE 01:11:46.856 --> 01:11:49.118 MOST IMPORTANT THING. PEOPLE SAY, "OH, PASTOR HANK AND 01:11:49.118 --> 01:11:54.368 BRENDA, "AFTER ALL THESE YEARS, YOU'RE STILL ON FIRE FOR GOD." I 01:11:54.368 --> 01:11:57.427 MEAN, I LOVE THE MINISTRY, AND BELIEVE ME, WE HAVE HAD HARD 01:11:57.427 --> 01:12:00.967 TIMES. I DON'T EVER FEEL LIKE I'VE GOTTA GET AWAY FROM THE 01:12:00.967 --> 01:12:04.297 MINISTRY. YOU HEAR ALL THESE PASTORS TALK ABOUT BURNOUT? 01:12:04.297 --> 01:12:07.387 YEAH, DO WE EVER GET TIRED? HAVE WE EVER HAD TIMES WE HAD TO PUSH 01:12:07.387 --> 01:12:10.057 IN, PRESS IN, AND DO ALL THE, OF COURSE. I MEAN, THAT'S JUST PART 01:12:10.057 --> 01:12:13.537 OF IT. BUT I LOVE THE MINISTRY AND TEACHING THE BIBLE THE SAME 01:12:13.537 --> 01:12:17.347 WAY I DID WHEN WE FIRST STARTED. I MEAN, I LOVE IT THE SAME WAY. 01:12:17.347 --> 01:12:19.717 PEOPLE SAY, "WELL, HOW DO YOU, HANK AND BRENDA, "WE'VE KNOWN 01:12:19.717 --> 01:12:22.601 YOU ALL THESE 40 YEARS, "AND YOU'VE PRESSED IN AND DONE ALL 01:12:22.601 --> 01:12:25.927 OF THIS." I'M SAYING, YOU KNOW, BECAUSE WE CHALLENGE OURSELF. 01:12:25.927 --> 01:12:30.457 YOU'VE GOT TO CHALLENGE YOURSELF NOT TO GO THE DEAD ROUTE. YOU'LL 01:12:30.457 --> 01:12:37.356 FALL INTO DEAD CHRISTIANITY. YOUR FLESH WILL ENJOY SITTING. 01:12:37.358 --> 01:12:41.978 TOO MUCH. OKAY, NOW, YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SAYING, BUT SITTING DOWN 01:12:41.978 --> 01:12:45.188 ON THE INSIDE, WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL OF THAT. SO HE IS ON 01:12:45.188 --> 01:12:48.488 FIRE. THIS IS WHAT THIS CHURCH, THEY FAILED, AND THEY GOT 01:12:48.488 --> 01:12:52.087 COMFORTABLE WITH JUST, AND BY THE WAY, THE CHURCH OF SARDIS, A 01:12:52.087 --> 01:12:55.478 LOT OF SCHOLARS WILL SAY THIS, THAT THEY WERE THE CHURCH OF ALL 01:12:55.478 --> 01:12:58.988 OF THE PRESTIGIOUS PEOPLE IN TOWN. IT WAS NEVER THE LITTLE 01:12:58.988 --> 01:13:03.398 PENTECOSTALS ACROSS THE STREET. YOU KNOW, THE HOLY ROLLERS, YOU 01:13:03.398 --> 01:13:07.868 KNOW, AND THEY BUILT, WHICH I AM SO THANKFUL FOR THIS BEAUTIFUL 01:13:07.868 --> 01:13:11.108 BUILDING. MOST OF MY EXPERIENCE IN CHRISTIANITY, IT WAS THE 01:13:11.108 --> 01:13:15.547 PENTECOSTAL CHURCHES THAT HAD THE DUMPY BUILDINGS WITH THE 01:13:15.547 --> 01:13:18.725 RUINED OUT CARPET. I MEAN, YOU HAD TO LIKE GO IN THERE AND IT 01:13:18.725 --> 01:13:21.818 WAS LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, SOMEBODY ASKED YOU WHERE YOU WENT TO 01:13:21.818 --> 01:13:24.457 CHURCH, YOU'RE LIKE, WELL, I GO TO A LITTLE ONE OVER THERE. IT'S 01:13:24.457 --> 01:13:28.148 LIKE, YOU KNOW, THAT CHURCH OVER, OH, YOU MEAN THE ONE OVER 01:13:28.148 --> 01:13:30.488 THERE WHERE THE SIGNS HALF FALLEN DOWN? YEAH, THAT WAS THE 01:13:30.488 --> 01:13:35.557 ONE THERE. BUT IT'S POWERFUL. BUT WE'D HAVE THESE 01:13:35.557 --> 01:13:38.858 DENOMINATIONAL CHURCHES, THESE OTHER CHURCHES THAT, YOU KNOW 01:13:38.858 --> 01:13:41.467 THEY DON'T PREACH HOLY SPIRIT. YOU KNOW NOBODY'S GETTING HEALED 01:13:41.467 --> 01:13:43.898 IN THOSE CHURCH AND THEY'VE GOT THESE MASSIVE, BEAUTIFUL 01:13:43.898 --> 01:13:47.377 BUILDINGS. PASTOR USED TO SAY TO GOD, HE SAID, "GOD, I AM NOT 01:13:47.377 --> 01:13:52.988 GONNA HAVE AN UGLY BUILDING FOREVER." SO WE HAD AN UGLY 01:13:52.988 --> 01:13:57.270 BUILDING FOR A REALLY LONG TIME, BUT THE KEY IS, THE KEY IS, 01:13:57.270 --> 01:14:01.118 TRUTH, SARDIS WAS THE PEOPLE THAT HAD ALL OF THE GLITZ AND 01:14:01.118 --> 01:14:03.997 ALL THE THINGS. THEY WERE THE PRESTIGIOUS, THEY WERE THE 01:14:03.997 --> 01:14:07.658 DOCTORS, THEY WERE THE LAWYERS, THEY WERE THE, YOU KNOW, 01:14:07.658 --> 01:14:11.917 INVESTORS, ALL THE PEOPLE WITH ALL THE MONEY, AND THAT WAS THAT 01:14:11.917 --> 01:14:16.988 CLUB. AND SO, BUT THEY WERE DEAD. SO THE KEY IS, DON'T, JUST 01:14:16.988 --> 01:14:20.978 REMEMBER, KEEP YOURSELF ALIVE IN THE THINGS OF THE SPIRIT. DON'T 01:14:20.978 --> 01:14:25.087 BECOME THAT DEAD CHURCH. JESUS HAD NOTHING GOOD TO SAY ABOUT 01:14:25.087 --> 01:14:28.478 IT. HE SAID, "ALL YOU ARE IS A NAME, "AND I WANT NOTHING TO DO 01:14:28.478 --> 01:14:32.408 WITH THAT." SO LET'S TALK ABOUT, THIS IS A GOOD ONE. LET'S TALK 01:14:32.408 --> 01:14:35.587 ABOUT THE CHURCH AT PHILADELPHIA. AND WE KNOW THAT 01:14:35.587 --> 01:14:38.948 TO MEAN LIKE BROTHERLY LOVE, RIGHT? BUT LET'S JUST REALLY 01:14:38.948 --> 01:14:42.757 BREAK DOWN WHAT JESUS HAD TO SAY NOW. HERE WE GO. CHURCH OF 01:14:42.757 --> 01:14:48.457 PHILADELPHIA WAS THE CHURCH THAT KEPT GOD'S WORD. THEY OPENED THE 01:14:48.457 --> 01:14:50.978 BOOK, THEY READ IT, AND THEY DID IT. THEY WEREN'T JUST HEARERS, 01:14:50.978 --> 01:14:55.778 BUT THEY WERE DOERS. THEY READ THE WORD, THEY STUDIED THE WORD, 01:14:55.778 --> 01:14:59.887 AND JESUS COMES TO THEM AS THE HOLY ONE. NOW, LOOK WHAT HE SAYS 01:14:59.887 --> 01:15:02.137 ABOUT THIS CHURCH. "THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA 01:15:02.137 --> 01:15:06.307 "WRITETH THESE THINGS, SAITH HE THAT IS HOLY, "AND HE THAT'S 01:15:06.307 --> 01:15:12.847 TRUE, AND HE THAT HAS THE KEY OF DAVID, "THAT OPENS, AND NO MAN 01:15:12.847 --> 01:15:16.898 CAN SHUT, "AND SHUTS, AND NO MAN CAN OPEN." IN OTHER WORDS, THIS 01:15:16.898 --> 01:15:21.667 WAS THE CHURCH THAT HAD OPEN HEAVEN, OPEN DOORS. AND HE GOES, 01:15:21.667 --> 01:15:24.818 "I KNOW YOUR WORKS. "BEHOLD, I'VE SET BEFORE YOU AN OPEN 01:15:24.818 --> 01:15:27.967 DOOR." HOW MANY OF YOU WANT GOD TO OPEN DOORS FOR YOU? WELL, 01:15:27.967 --> 01:15:30.787 THAT WAS WHAT THIS CHURCH WAS ABOUT. BUT THEY WERE THE CHURCH 01:15:30.787 --> 01:15:34.597 OF THE WORD. YOU WOULD SAY THIS IS THE REMNANT CHURCH. NOW LOOK 01:15:34.597 --> 01:15:38.318 AT WHAT HE SAYS HERE. HE SAID, "NO MAN CAN SHUT IT, "FOR YOU 01:15:38.318 --> 01:15:40.807 HAVE HAD LITTLE STRENGTH." I FEEL LIKE SOME OF THE TIMES THIS 01:15:40.807 --> 01:15:44.018 HAS BEEN SOME OF THE PENTECOSTAL MOVEMENT, THE PENTECOSTAL 01:15:44.018 --> 01:15:47.978 CHURCHES, THESE LITTLE CHURCHES. AND BY THE WAY, I LOVE SMALL 01:15:47.978 --> 01:15:51.908 CHURCHES AND SMALL TOWNS, PASTORS THAT'LL SIT THERE AND 01:15:51.908 --> 01:15:54.908 PREACH GOD'S WORD. 'CAUSE I HEAR SO MANY PEOPLE, AND SOME OF YOU 01:15:54.908 --> 01:15:57.908 ONLINE WILL WRITE AND SAY, "IN MY TOWN, THERE'S NO ON-FIRE 01:15:57.908 --> 01:16:01.478 CHURCH. "THERE'S NO ON-FIRE.” BY THE WAY, PASTOR KEITH, I HAVE TO 01:16:01.478 --> 01:16:06.399 COMMEND YOU. FOR YEARS, WHAT'S THE POPULATION OF IDA GROVE? 01:16:06.399 --> 01:16:11.704 2,000 PEOPLE? DID YOU SAY 2,000? HOW MANY YEARS DID YOU PASTOR IN 01:16:11.704 --> 01:16:18.787 THAT TOWN? HOW MANY? OVER 30 YEARS, PASTOR KEITH O’HARE AND 01:16:18.787 --> 01:16:23.257 HIS WIFE NANCY BEFORE SHE WENT TO HEAVEN PASTORED IN A TOWN OF 01:16:23.257 --> 01:16:27.847 2,000 PEOPLE. THINK ABOUT THAT. I DON'T KNOW IF THERE'S A, IS 01:16:27.847 --> 01:16:31.507 THERE A GROCERY STORE IN IDA GROVE? I DON'T EVEN KNOW. ONE, 01:16:31.507 --> 01:16:35.858 OKAY. BUT THE POINT, THE MATTER IS, THEY PREACHED THE WORD OF 01:16:35.858 --> 01:16:40.988 GOD IN ALL THOSE 30 YEARS. THIS IS THE REMNANT CHURCH. THIS IS 01:16:40.988 --> 01:16:43.778 THE CHURCH I WANNA BE A PART OF. THIS IS THE CHURCH THAT SAYS, 01:16:43.778 --> 01:16:45.877 YOU KNOW WHAT? I DON'T CARE IF WE HAVE THE BIG, BEAUTIFUL 01:16:45.877 --> 01:16:48.818 BUILDING OR THE UGLY CHURCH, NOT THAT I WANT ONE, BUT I'M JUST 01:16:48.818 --> 01:16:52.118 SAYING, WE DID OUR TIME WITH UGLY CHURCH, BUT THE TRUTH OF 01:16:52.118 --> 01:16:55.268 THE MATTER IS, I WANT LORD OF HOSTS, EVEN IN THIS BEAUTIFUL 01:16:55.268 --> 01:16:59.917 BUILDING, TO BE A REMNANT HOUSE. COME ON, A REMNANT CHURCH WHERE 01:16:59.917 --> 01:17:04.988 WE OBEY AND WE DO. COME ON, THE WORD OF GOD, WE PUT IT TO 01:17:04.988 --> 01:17:09.818 PRACTICE. WE HAVE THE FIRE AND THE MOVE OF THE HOLY SPIRIT. HE 01:17:09.818 --> 01:17:12.938 SAID, "YOU'VE HAD LITTLE STRENGTH, "BUT NEVERTHELESS YOU 01:17:12.938 --> 01:17:17.018 KEPT MY WORD "AND YOU'VE NEVER DENIED MY NAME." SO THIS WAS 01:17:17.018 --> 01:17:20.557 PROBABLY THE SMALL CHURCH, PASTOR KEITH, THE CHURCH THAT 01:17:20.557 --> 01:17:24.877 DIDN'T GET A LOT OF RECOGNITION, AMEN, THE CHURCH THAT, YOU KNOW, 01:17:24.877 --> 01:17:27.967 NOBODY NOTICED, IT WASN'T THE PRESTIGIOUS GROUP, IT WAS THE 01:17:27.967 --> 01:17:31.568 CHURCH OF THE HOLY ROLLERS, THAT'S OKAY, AND THEY WERE MAYBE 01:17:31.568 --> 01:17:36.127 THE SMALLER MINORITY, BUT THEY WERE ALSO MARKED, WATCH THIS, BY 01:17:36.127 --> 01:17:40.927 THE UNITY OF THE SAINTS. IT'S IMPORTANT THAT THE REMNANT 01:17:40.927 --> 01:17:43.328 CHURCH STAYS IN UNITY, AND THAT'S WHAT I WOULD SAY TO THE 01:17:43.328 --> 01:17:48.007 INTERNET. LET'S NOT BE DIVIDERS. THOSE OF YOU THAT COME ONLINE, 01:17:48.007 --> 01:17:51.007 OR THOSE OF YOU, IF YOU WATCH ONLINE, THAT EVEN IF YOU COME 01:17:51.007 --> 01:17:55.868 HERE, I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU, BE A UNIFIER. THAT WAS WHAT MADE 01:17:55.868 --> 01:18:00.457 THIS CHURCH SPECIAL. IT WAS A UNIFIED, LOVING, BROTHERLY, 01:18:00.457 --> 01:18:03.488 LOVING CHURCH. AND I WOULD JUST SAY THIS, THE BIGGER THIS CHURCH 01:18:03.488 --> 01:18:07.268 GETS, THE MORE YOU'LL SEE PEOPLE THAT GO THROUGH THINGS. PEOPLE 01:18:07.268 --> 01:18:11.948 WILL HAVE DOWN MOMENTS. THEY MAY BE ON FIRE AND THEY'RE 01:18:11.948 --> 01:18:14.828 STRUGGLING AND THEY NEED TO BE LIFTED UP. BE THE LOVING HAND 01:18:14.828 --> 01:18:18.518 THAT DOES THAT. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT IF YOU SEE A PERSON 01:18:18.518 --> 01:18:22.057 OVERTAKEN IN A FAULT, WHAT DOES IT SAY? YOU THAT ARE SPIRITUAL, 01:18:22.057 --> 01:18:27.518 BRING RESTORATION TO THEIR SOUL. AMEN. SO THIS WAS THE REMNANT 01:18:27.518 --> 01:18:30.608 CHURCH. HE SAID, "YOU HAVE LITTLE STRENGTH, "BUT YOU KEPT 01:18:30.608 --> 01:18:35.137 MY WORD AND DID NOT DENY MY NAME." NOW LOOK WHAT HE SAYS 01:18:35.137 --> 01:18:41.387 ABOUT THEM IN VERSE 9. "BEHOLD, I WILL MAKE THEM OF THE 01:18:41.387 --> 01:18:45.488 SYNAGOGUE OF SATAN, "SAY THEY ARE JEWS." IN OTHER WORDS, THEY 01:18:45.488 --> 01:18:48.595 SAY THEY'RE FOR YOU, THEY SAY THAT THEY'RE PART OF YOU AND ARE 01:18:48.595 --> 01:18:52.837 NOT, BUT THEY LIE. "BEHOLD, I'LL MAKE THEM TO COME "AND WORSHIP 01:18:52.837 --> 01:18:56.528 BEFORE YOUR FEET." YOU KNOW, THE REMNANT CHURCH, THE CHURCH 01:18:56.528 --> 01:19:00.278 THAT'S ON FIRE IS THE CHURCH THAT'LL HAVE FAVOR. AND YOU KNOW 01:19:00.278 --> 01:19:02.648 WHAT I JUST BELIEVE? YOU KNOW, WE HAD THAT HIT PIECE THAT WAS 01:19:02.648 --> 01:19:05.587 WRITTEN ABOUT THE CHURCH A FEW MONTHS AGO, YOU REMEMBER THAT? 01:19:05.587 --> 01:19:09.818 AND WE CALLED RICK GREEN. WE SAID, "IS THERE ANYTHING WE CAN 01:19:09.818 --> 01:19:13.238 DO LEGALLY ABOUT THIS?" HE GOES, "NO, PROBABLY NOT." HE GOES, 01:19:13.238 --> 01:19:18.097 "THESE TURKEYS KNOW HOW TO MANIPULATE THE LAW "IN SUCH A 01:19:18.097 --> 01:19:22.087 WAY THAT THEY CAN SAY JUST WHAT THEY CAN SAY, "AND ALL IT IS IS 01:19:22.087 --> 01:19:27.097 TO COME AGAINST YOUR GOOD NAME "AND TO DISCREDIT YOU." BUT 01:19:27.097 --> 01:19:30.188 JESUS SAID THE REMNANT CHURCH THAT STANDS FOR THE TRUTH, HE'LL 01:19:30.188 --> 01:19:33.578 BE THEIR DEFENSE. HOW MANY OF YOU CAN SAY, IF YOU'RE ON THE 01:19:33.578 --> 01:19:36.847 JOB AND SOMEBODY COMES OUT AGAINST YOU AND YOU'RE WALKING 01:19:36.847 --> 01:19:40.328 IN RIGHTEOUSNESS, GOD WILL BE YOUR DEFENSE. COME ON, NO WEAPON 01:19:40.328 --> 01:19:43.597 FORMED AGAINST YOU WILL PROSPER. THEY CAN LIE AND TWIST THEIR 01:19:43.597 --> 01:19:46.988 WORDS. PAUL SAID IT LIKE THIS, HE SAID, "PRAY FOR US THAT WE 01:19:46.988 --> 01:19:52.028 WOULD BE DELIVERED "FROM WICKED AND UNREASONABLE PEOPLE." YOU 01:19:52.028 --> 01:19:57.578 KNOW, I WATCH THESE STUPID PEOPLE GET ON AND DO THESE 01:19:57.578 --> 01:20:01.747 INTERVIEWS IN THE MEDIA. AND I THINK, YOU KNOW, I CAN'T EVEN 01:20:01.747 --> 01:20:04.507 WATCH YOU. Y'ALL TALK OVER ONE ANOTHER SO MUCH, I DON'T EVEN 01:20:04.507 --> 01:20:07.898 KNOW WHAT ANYBODY'S TRYING TO SAY. AND IF THEY DO THAT, I HAVE 01:20:07.898 --> 01:20:10.898 TO TURN THE CHANNEL. I CAN'T, I'M LIKE, LET THE MAN JUST 01:20:10.898 --> 01:20:15.247 FINISH A SENTENCE. YOU KNOW, LET THE PERSON SAY THEIR PART AND 01:20:15.247 --> 01:20:18.938 THEN YOU CAN COUNTER IT IF YOU WANT TO. BUT YOU KNOW, THEY TALK 01:20:18.938 --> 01:20:24.068 OVER ONE ANOTHER SO THEY CAN TWIST WHAT PEOPLE SAY. I WAS AT 01:20:24.068 --> 01:20:27.427 A NAIL SALON, I DON'T GO THERE ANYMORE, I QUIT. BUT I WAS AT A 01:20:27.427 --> 01:20:31.268 NAIL SALON ONE DAY, AND IT'S PROBABLY PART OF THE REASON I 01:20:31.268 --> 01:20:33.247 DIDN'T GO BACK, BUT EVERY TIME I WENT IN THERE, THEY HAD THESE 01:20:33.247 --> 01:20:36.787 STUPID SOAP OPERAS PLAYING. AND YOU TRY NOT TO LISTEN, LIKE, 01:20:36.787 --> 01:20:40.957 JUST DO MY NAILS. I DON'T WANNA HEAR THAT OR LOOK AT IT. IT WAS 01:20:40.957 --> 01:20:46.238 JUST RIGHT THERE. AND I'M THINKING, I'M NOT, I'M NOT. THEN 01:20:46.238 --> 01:20:48.217 I BEGAN TO NOTICE SOMETHING. I'M SAYING, YOU EVER NOTICE ON 01:20:48.217 --> 01:20:50.587 TELEVISION WHEN PEOPLE, A MAN AND A WOMAN, THEY'LL HAVE AN 01:20:50.587 --> 01:20:53.287 ARGUMENT, AND THEY ALWAYS LET EACH OTHER FINISH THEIR 01:20:53.287 --> 01:20:56.228 SENTENCE. YOU KNOW, THE WOMAN WILL SIT THERE ALL DRAMATIC. 01:20:56.228 --> 01:21:01.087 "WELL, YOU JUST NEVER CONSIDER HOW I FEEL." AND THE GUY'S 01:21:01.087 --> 01:21:08.099 LOOKING LIKE. I'M LIKE, "THAT IS SO PHONY." WHEN PEOPLE ARGUE, 01:21:08.099 --> 01:21:12.509 THEY TALK ON TOP OF EACH OTHER. AND IT WAS LIKE, (MUMBLES) 01:21:12.509 --> 01:21:20.729 NOBODY GETS A WORD, NOBODY. BECAUSE, THE WHOLE POINT IS, YOU 01:21:20.729 --> 01:21:24.838 KNOW, WHEN IT'S LIKE THAT, OUR WORDS GET TWISTED, AND PEOPLE 01:21:24.838 --> 01:21:29.099 TWIST, AND SO THE BIBLE SAYS, LET GOD BE YOUR DEFENSE. THAT'S 01:21:29.099 --> 01:21:31.948 WHAT HE SAID WITH THE CHURCH AT PHILADELPHIA. GOD WILL DEFEND 01:21:31.948 --> 01:21:35.038 YOU. LET 'EM SAY WHAT THEY'RE GONNA SAY ABOUT YOU AT THE JOB. 01:21:35.038 --> 01:21:38.969 LET 'EM LIE, LET 'EM HAVE AN OPINION, BUT TRUST. IF YOU ARE A 01:21:38.969 --> 01:21:45.448 REMNANT CHURCH, AND YOU HAVE FAVOR WITH GOD HIMSELF, THEN GOD 01:21:45.448 --> 01:21:50.309 WILL DEFEND YOU. IF YOU STAND FOR TRUTH, GOD WILL DEFEND YOU. 01:21:50.309 --> 01:21:55.139 HALLELUJAH. AND I HAVE THAT CONFIDENCE IN MY LIFE. I JUST 01:21:55.139 --> 01:21:58.408 KNOW IT. I'M LIKE, WELL, LET 'EM SAY, DO THEIR WORST. COME ON, 01:21:58.408 --> 01:22:01.889 THEY ACCUSED JESUS. THEY CALLED HIM THE SON OF THE DEVIL. I 01:22:01.889 --> 01:22:08.668 HAVEN'T BEEN CALLED THAT YET. SO, YEAH. LOOK, LET'S READ THE 01:22:08.668 --> 01:22:11.729 LAST PART OF THIS. BECAUSE YOU HAVE KEPT MY WORD, THE WORD OF 01:22:11.729 --> 01:22:16.288 MY PATIENCE, AND WATCH, I WILL KEEP YOU FROM THE HOUR OF 01:22:16.288 --> 01:22:20.849 TESTING YOUR TEMPTATION. NOW, I WILL SAY THIS, THIS IS, IF I 01:22:20.849 --> 01:22:23.878 COULD JUST INSERT THIS LITTLE TIDBIT HERE, THIS IS ONE OF MY 01:22:23.878 --> 01:22:27.269 REASONS THAT I BELIEVE IN A PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE. IT'S 01:22:27.269 --> 01:22:30.779 JUST, HE SAID THAT THE REMNANT CHURCH WOULD BE KEPT FROM THE 01:22:30.779 --> 01:22:34.349 HOUR OF TESTING. A LOT OF SCHOLARS BELIEVE THAT THAT HOUR 01:22:34.349 --> 01:22:38.519 OF TESTING OR TEMPTATION IS, 'CAUSE WATCH WHAT HE SAYS, 01:22:38.519 --> 01:22:43.229 "WHICH SHALL COME ON ALL THE WORLD." OKAY, THERE'S ONLY ONE 01:22:43.229 --> 01:22:47.668 PERIOD OF TIME IN HISTORY WHERE THE HOUR OF TESTING THAT HITS 01:22:47.668 --> 01:22:51.599 THE ENTIRE PLANET, AND THAT IS THE GREAT TRIBULATION OF SEVEN 01:22:51.599 --> 01:22:56.099 YEARS. SO HE SAID, AND A LOT OF SCHOLARS AGREE WITH THAT, HE 01:22:56.099 --> 01:22:59.878 SAID, "IT WILL COME ON ALL THE WORLD," OKAY, NOT THE MIDDLE 01:22:59.878 --> 01:23:04.229 EAST, NOT JUST THE UNITED STATES, ALL THE WORLD TO TRY 01:23:04.229 --> 01:23:07.588 THEM THAT DWELL ON THE EARTH. SO THAT'S WHY I BELIEVE THE CHURCH 01:23:07.588 --> 01:23:09.929 WILL BE TAKEN OUT OF HERE. I REALLY BELIEVE THAT WITH ALL MY 01:23:09.929 --> 01:23:12.719 HEART. THOSE OTHER SCRIPTURES THAT POINT TO THAT, BUT THAT'S 01:23:12.719 --> 01:23:15.150 ONE OF THE REASONS I BELIEVE THAT. I DID A TEACHING I THINK 01:23:15.150 --> 01:23:18.838 HERE, THIS HAS BEEN A FEW YEARS AGO, WHERE I TALKED ABOUT WHY I 01:23:18.838 --> 01:23:21.569 BELIEVE IN A PRE-TRIBULATION RAPTURE, MAYBE I'LL HIT THAT AT 01:23:21.569 --> 01:23:24.238 SOME POINT, BUT THAT'S ONE OF THE SCRIPTURES THAT I REALLY 01:23:24.238 --> 01:23:27.389 BELIEVE POINTS TO THAT. SO BEHOLD, JESUS SAID, I COME 01:23:27.389 --> 01:23:32.128 QUICKLY, HOLD FAST TO WHAT YOU HAVE AND LET NO MAN TAKE YOUR 01:23:32.128 --> 01:23:34.679 CROWN. YOU'VE BEEN HEARING ME SAY IT A LOT LATELY, WE GET ONE 01:23:34.679 --> 01:23:38.248 CHANCE ON THIS EARTH TO DO THE RIGHT THINGS. AND THIS IS WHAT 01:23:38.248 --> 01:23:41.368 JESUS IS IN REMINDING THEM AND ENCOURAGING THEM. HIM THAT 01:23:41.368 --> 01:23:44.849 OVERCOMES, I'LL MAKE A PILLAR IN THE TEMPLE OF MY GOD, AND HE 01:23:44.849 --> 01:23:49.948 SHALL GO NO MORE OUT. MAN, BEING WITH GOD FOREVER. THAT WAS THE 01:23:49.948 --> 01:23:53.488 REMNANT CHURCH, THE PEOPLE THAT WERE ON FIRE FOR THE LORD. AND I 01:23:53.488 --> 01:23:58.828 WILL WRITE ON HIM A NAME, THE NAME OF MY GOD AND THE NAME OF 01:23:58.828 --> 01:24:03.809 THE CITY OF MY GOD, WHICH IS THE NEW JERUSALEM, WHICH COMETH DOWN 01:24:03.809 --> 01:24:08.368 OUT OF HEAVEN FROM MY GOD, AND I WILL WRITE ON HIM A NEW NAME. I 01:24:08.368 --> 01:24:11.578 DON'T KNOW WHAT MY NEW NAME'S GONNA BE, BUT I'M GETTING ONE. 01:24:11.578 --> 01:24:15.389 HE THAT HAS AN EAR TO HEAR, HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE 01:24:15.389 --> 01:24:18.838 CHURCHES. NOW LET'S GO TO THIS LAST ONE. I'LL GO VERY QUICKLY. 01:24:18.838 --> 01:24:22.139 BUT THAT'S THE CHURCH YOU WANNA BE, THE CHURCH OF PHILADELPHIA, 01:24:22.139 --> 01:24:24.628 THE CHURCH, IT'S NOT JUST BROTHERLY LOVE, IT WAS THE 01:24:24.628 --> 01:24:28.288 CHURCH THAT KEPT GOD'S WORD AND WE'RE ON FIRE FOR THE LORD. THAT 01:24:28.288 --> 01:24:31.440 IS WHAT WE WANT TO BE. AND LET'S JUST MAKE THAT COMMITMENT IN 01:24:31.440 --> 01:24:35.969 2026. LORD OF HOSTS, I CHALLENGE YOU. I CHALLENGE YOU IN 2026 TO 01:24:35.969 --> 01:24:40.048 BE MORE ON FIRE THAN YOU WERE IN 2025. BE MORE OF A PERSON OF 01:24:40.048 --> 01:24:44.908 PRAYER. BE MORE A PERSON OF THE WORD. AMEN. BE MORE OF A PERSON 01:24:44.908 --> 01:24:48.536 THAT SPEAKS THE WORD. YOU KNOW, SOME OF US WERE RAISED IN 01:24:48.536 --> 01:24:50.939 HOUSEHOLDS, I'M NOT SAYING I WAS, BUT I'M SAYING PEOPLE HAVE 01:24:50.939 --> 01:24:53.849 BEEN RAISED IN HOUSEHOLDS WHERE IT'S A NATURAL THING TO SPEAK 01:24:53.849 --> 01:24:58.859 THE WORST. CHANGE YOUR MOUTH IN 2026. SPEAK FAITH, SPEAK 01:24:58.859 --> 01:25:01.889 PROMISES, AMEN? ALL RIGHT, LET'S GO TO THE LAST ONE AND WE'LL 01:25:01.889 --> 01:25:04.469 WRAP UP THIS. HAVE YOU GOTTEN SOMETHING OUT OF THIS? HAS IT 01:25:04.469 --> 01:25:08.668 HELPED YOU? GOOD, I'M GLAD FOR THAT. ALL RIGHT, THE LAST ONE IS 01:25:08.668 --> 01:25:14.519 THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA. YOU HEAR OF THIS MANY TIMES. THIS WAS THE 01:25:14.519 --> 01:25:20.189 CHURCH OF EARTHLY COMFORTS. IT WANTED TO FIT IN WITH 01:25:20.189 --> 01:25:24.118 EVERYTHING. JESUS COMES AS THE FAITHFUL MARTYR, BUT THEY WERE 01:25:24.118 --> 01:25:27.538 THE PEOPLE, YOU WOULD SAY THIS WAS THE WOKE CHURCH. THIS WAS 01:25:27.538 --> 01:25:31.349 THE CHURCH THAT WANTED TO BLEND EVERYWHERE. AND THAT'S WHY YOU 01:25:31.349 --> 01:25:35.158 HEAR PASTOR AND I SO OFTEN TALK ABOUT THE USER-FRIENDLY 01:25:35.158 --> 01:25:38.069 MOVEMENT, BECAUSE THE REASON, AND IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE NOT 01:25:38.069 --> 01:25:41.729 FRIENDLY, OKAY? THE USER, OR THE SEEKER FRIENDLY, I GUESS PEOPLE 01:25:41.729 --> 01:25:43.738 HAVE CALLED IT THAT, USER FRIENDLY, THEY'VE CALLED IT 01:25:43.738 --> 01:25:47.136 THAT. THE SEEKER FRIENDLY MOVEMENT WAS A MOVEMENT THAT 01:25:47.136 --> 01:25:51.298 IT'S ALL ABOUT MAKING THE VISITORS COMFORTABLE, OKAY? SO 01:25:51.298 --> 01:25:54.958 PASTORS STARTED WEARING SHORTS, AND WELL, BACK IN OUR DAY WHEN 01:25:54.958 --> 01:25:57.509 THAT FIRST KINDA CAME OUT, THEY WERE COMING IN IN THE HAWAIIAN 01:25:57.509 --> 01:26:03.298 SHIRTS AND FLIP FLOPS AND I DON'T KNOW, BLUE JEANS, AND I'M 01:26:03.298 --> 01:26:05.939 NOT SAYING BLUE JEANS ON A WEDNESDAY NIGHT ARE ALL BAD, I'M 01:26:05.939 --> 01:26:09.328 JUST SAYING, YOU KNOW, THERE COMES A POINT WHERE, YOU KNOW, 01:26:09.328 --> 01:26:13.139 NOBODY'S SAYING WE HAVE TO WEAR SUNDAY HATS AND HIGH HEELS AND 01:26:13.139 --> 01:26:16.288 ALL OF THOSE THINGS AND, YOU KNOW, A SUIT. IF YOU WANT TO, 01:26:16.288 --> 01:26:19.859 YOU CAN, BUT I THINK THAT THE KEY OF IT IS, IS THE PREACHERS 01:26:19.859 --> 01:26:23.488 WERE TRYING TO COME DOWN TO MAKE EVERYBODY FEEL COMFORTABLE. AND 01:26:23.488 --> 01:26:27.628 PASTOR HANK HAS SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M GONNA STAY IN A SUIT, 01:26:27.628 --> 01:26:30.149 I WANNA STAY IN A SUIT. AND HE HAD PREACHERS AT THAT TIME TELL 01:26:30.149 --> 01:26:32.998 HIM, WELL, WHY DO YOU HAVE TO WEAR A JACKET? YOU DON'T HAVE TO 01:26:32.998 --> 01:26:36.179 WEAR A JACKET TO PREACH. HE GOES, I DON'T KNOW, I JUST FEEL 01:26:36.179 --> 01:26:40.259 LIKE IF I PUT A JACKET ON, IT'S A RESPECT TO THE LORD. AND IT 01:26:40.259 --> 01:26:43.198 KEEPS ME IN A PLACE OF AN ATTITUDE. I DON'T WANNA BE TOO 01:26:43.198 --> 01:26:47.189 CASUAL. BUT A LOT OF PREACHERS STARTED JUST TRYING TO BLEND AND 01:26:47.189 --> 01:26:51.328 EVERYTHING WAS ABOUT IF PEOPLE WALK IN THE DOOR, WE DON'T WANNA 01:26:51.328 --> 01:26:55.259 DO ANYTHING THAT MIGHT MAKE THEM NERVOUS. WELL, THAT IS NOT HOW 01:26:55.259 --> 01:26:59.639 THE APOSTLE PAUL PREACHED. JESUS MADE PEOPLE NERVOUS EVERY SINGLE 01:26:59.639 --> 01:27:03.569 DAY. IN FACT, I WAS READING, I'LL JUST TELL YOU THIS, I WAS 01:27:03.569 --> 01:27:06.628 READING JOHN 6. HOW MANY OF YOU REMEMBER, THIS WAS JUST THE 01:27:06.628 --> 01:27:10.979 OTHER MORNING IN MY READING TIME. AND I WAS READING JOHN 6, 01:27:10.979 --> 01:27:14.429 AND I WENT THROUGH THE WHOLE THING ABOUT HOW JESUS TURNS TO 01:27:14.429 --> 01:27:18.269 THE GROUP, AND HE SAID, "EXCEPT YOU EAT THE FLESH OF THE SON OF 01:27:18.269 --> 01:27:25.019 MAN "AND DRINK HIS BLOOD." NOW, TO THE JEWS, THIS WAS LIKE, YOU 01:27:25.019 --> 01:27:29.609 DON'T DO THAT. YOU KNOW, IT SOUNDED, HE MADE IT SOUND LIKE 01:27:29.609 --> 01:27:35.639 CANNIBALISM. AND WHEN YOU READ IT, NOT ONE TIME, NOT ONE TIME 01:27:35.639 --> 01:27:40.408 DID JESUS EVER SAY, LET ME EXPLAIN WHAT I MEAN BY THAT. I 01:27:40.408 --> 01:27:45.538 THOUGHT, LORD, YOU COULD HAVE AT LEAST, AND SO SEVERAL OF THE 01:27:45.538 --> 01:27:52.168 DISCIPLES SAID TO JESUS, THEY SAID, LORD, THIS IS CRAZY. I 01:27:52.168 --> 01:27:55.019 MEAN, THIS IS A CRAZY SAYING. WHO CAN EVEN LISTEN TO WHAT 01:27:55.019 --> 01:28:00.658 YOU'RE TELLING US? AND JESUS TURNS AROUND AND SAID, DOES THIS 01:28:00.658 --> 01:28:07.708 OFFEND YOU? AND THE 12 ARE LOOKING AT HIM LIKE. AND HE HAS 01:28:07.708 --> 01:28:12.569 THE AUDACITY TO SAY, "DO YOU WANNA GO TOO?" IT SAID MANY OF 01:28:12.569 --> 01:28:15.689 HIS DISCIPLES, NOT A FEW, MANY, TURNED AROUND AND WOULDN'T WALK 01:28:15.689 --> 01:28:19.859 WITH JESUS ANYMORE. WHAT HE WAS SAYING SOUNDED SO EXTREME. AND 01:28:19.859 --> 01:28:23.609 IT WASN'T UNTIL HE GOT WITH THE 12 IN THE BACK ROOM AND HE SAYS, 01:28:23.609 --> 01:28:26.219 "OH, BY THE WAY, WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT "IS A SPIRITUAL 01:28:26.219 --> 01:28:30.328 THING." I THOUGHT, WELL, LORD, YOU COULD HAVE EXPLAINED THAT TO 01:28:30.328 --> 01:28:35.481 THOSE PEOPLE OUT FRONT THAT ALL WALKED OUT OF THE MEETING, 01:28:35.488 --> 01:28:41.128 RIGHT? BUT JESUS CONSTANTLY DIDN'T TRY TO FIT IN WITH WHAT 01:28:41.128 --> 01:28:44.998 HE SAID. HE WAS STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW. THE WORD OF GOD WILL 01:28:44.998 --> 01:28:48.599 OFFEND, OKAY? THERE'S PREACHERS NOW THAT'LL SAY, I HEARD ONE 01:28:48.599 --> 01:28:51.689 PREACHER NOT TOO LONG AGO, THIS IS A FEW YEARS BACK, I GUESS, 01:28:51.689 --> 01:28:55.168 SAY THAT WHEN YOU SEE THE WORD REPENT IN THE BIBLE, IT DOESN'T 01:28:55.168 --> 01:28:59.506 MEAN YOU REALLY HAVE TO REPENT. YOU REPENT ONCE AND THAT'S IT. 01:28:59.506 --> 01:29:02.488 AND WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS IF WE CONFESS OUR SINS, HE'S FAITHFUL 01:29:02.488 --> 01:29:05.368 AND JUST TO FORGIVE US, WE ARE NOT SUPPOSED TO CONFESS OUR SINS 01:29:05.368 --> 01:29:10.078 TO GOD. HE FORGAVE YOU ONE TIME. AND I THOUGHT, WELL, SOMEBODY 01:29:10.078 --> 01:29:14.788 SHOULD HAVE TOLD THAT TO THE APOSTLE JOHN FOR WRITING IT. BUT 01:29:14.788 --> 01:29:19.349 TRUTH OF THE, HONESTLY, BUT THE BIBLE IS STRAIGHT AS AN ARROW. 01:29:19.349 --> 01:29:22.588 IT NEVER TRIES TO JUST FIT WITH PEOPLE. NOW, I'M NOT SAYING 01:29:22.588 --> 01:29:26.248 CHURCH SHOULDN'T BE FRIENDLY, OKAY? GREETERS SMILE EVERY TIME 01:29:26.248 --> 01:29:31.288 SOMEBODY WALKS IN THE DOOR. GIVE 'EM A BIG OL' GRIN. BE FRIENDLY, 01:29:31.288 --> 01:29:35.578 BE KIND, BE GRACIOUS, MAKE THINGS BEAUTIFUL. I'M NOT SAYING 01:29:35.578 --> 01:29:38.458 THAT, BUT THE KEY IS THAT WHEN THEY WALK IN THIS DOOR, WHATEVER 01:29:38.458 --> 01:29:40.708 COMES FROM THE PLATFORM, WHATEVER'S COMING ACROSS FROM 01:29:40.708 --> 01:29:43.198 THE WORSHIP TEAM, IF PASTOR WANTS TO PROPHESY, HE'S GONNA 01:29:43.198 --> 01:29:46.019 PROPHESY. IF THERE'S GONNA BE A HEALING LINE AND PEOPLE FALL 01:29:46.019 --> 01:29:49.319 OUT, IF THERE'S GONNA BE PEOPLE THAT ARE SUDDENLY GONNA MANIFEST 01:29:49.319 --> 01:29:52.708 A DEMON AND GET DELIVERED, THEN SO BE IT. WHATEVER GOD WANTS TO 01:29:52.708 --> 01:29:56.788 DO, AND IF IT SCARES SOMEBODY, IT MIGHT SCARE THEM STRAIGHT OUT 01:29:56.788 --> 01:30:03.269 OF HELL AND CAUSE THEM TO BECOME SAVED. SO THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA 01:30:03.269 --> 01:30:06.208 WAS THE CHURCH OF WOKE. SO LET'S JUST, LET'S READ THIS AND THEN 01:30:06.208 --> 01:30:09.569 WE'LL WRAP IT UP. "AND TO THE ANGEL OF THE CHURCH OF THE 01:30:09.569 --> 01:30:13.769 LAODICEANS, WRITE THESE THINGS, SAYETH THE AMEN." IN OTHER 01:30:13.769 --> 01:30:16.948 WORDS, GOD JUST PUTS A STAMP ON WHAT HE SAYS. "AND THE FAITHFUL 01:30:16.948 --> 01:30:20.609 AND TRUE WITNESS, THE BEGINNING OF THE CREATION OF GOD. FOR I 01:30:20.609 --> 01:30:24.269 KNOW YOUR WORKS, YOU'RE NEITHER COLD OR HOT, YOU JUST BLEND." 01:30:24.269 --> 01:30:27.328 RIGHT? "I WOULD LIKE YOU TO BE AT LEAST ONE WAY OR THE OTHER SO 01:30:27.328 --> 01:30:29.609 EVERYBODY KNOWS WHERE YOU STAND." THAT'S WHERE THE PROBLEM 01:30:29.609 --> 01:30:34.979 THAT WE HAD WITH COVID. PASTORS JUST WENT UNDER THE COVERS AND 01:30:34.979 --> 01:30:38.399 THEY DIDN'T WANT TO COME OUT AND SAY, "OKAY, WE ALL KNEW THE MASK 01:30:38.399 --> 01:30:43.769 DIDN'T WORK. OKAY, WE ALL FIGURED IT OUT." AND PASTORS 01:30:43.769 --> 01:30:47.668 WERE TOO AFRAID TO SAY IT FROM THEIR PULPIT. OKAY, I MEAN, TO 01:30:47.668 --> 01:30:51.298 ME IT WASN'T EVEN HARD TO SAY, "YOU KNOW WHAT? NOBODY SHOULD 01:30:51.298 --> 01:30:55.918 MAKE YOU GO GET A SHOT YOU DON'T WANT TO HAVE." OKAY? IT WASN'T 01:30:55.918 --> 01:30:59.759 HARD AS A PASTOR TO LEAD THE WAY AND SAY THAT THERE ARE CERTAIN 01:30:59.759 --> 01:31:04.738 THINGS THAT ARE NOT OKAY, THAT WE STAND UP AND TAKE THE HITS 01:31:04.738 --> 01:31:07.439 FOR OUR PEOPLE. YOU KNOW, WHEN ONE OF DAVID'S MEN WENT BEHIND 01:31:07.439 --> 01:31:09.868 ENEMY LINES TO GET HIM A DRINK OF WATER, HE DUMPED IT ON THE 01:31:09.868 --> 01:31:13.798 GROUND AND SAID, "NO, I'M NOT GONNA HAVE YOU RISK YOUR LIFE 01:31:13.798 --> 01:31:17.429 WHILE I SIT BACK COMFORTABLE." AND THAT IS A LESSON FOR EVERY 01:31:17.429 --> 01:31:21.055 PASTOR. AND I THANK GOD. I HAD ONE OF OUR CHURCH MEMBERS SAID, 01:31:21.055 --> 01:31:24.564 "PASTOR, I LOVE YOUR BOLD PREACHING." AND THE PASTOR GOES, 01:31:24.564 --> 01:31:27.744 "GOOD, I'M GLAD." AND HE GOES, "YOU EVER STOP, I'M GONE." I 01:31:27.744 --> 01:31:31.045 THOUGHT, "ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU FOR THAT." AND WE APPRECIATE 01:31:31.045 --> 01:31:33.655 THAT VERY MUCH. WE'LL MAKE SURE WE HAVE OUR BOLD METER UP EVERY 01:31:33.655 --> 01:31:38.034 WEEK. HALLELUJAH. BUT THIS WAS THE CHURCH OF LAODICEA. THEY 01:31:38.034 --> 01:31:40.135 DIDN'T WANT, THEY WERE SWITZERLAND. THEY JUST WANTED TO 01:31:40.135 --> 01:31:44.155 PLAY THE NEUTRAL ZONE. WE CANNOT, THERE IS NO NEUTRALITY 01:31:44.155 --> 01:31:47.515 IN CHRISTIANITY. THE MINUTE YOU GO THAT ROUTE, YOU MIGHT AS WELL 01:31:47.515 --> 01:31:51.805 SAY THEN THE MUSLIMS CAN BE SAVED. OKAY, YOU MIGHT AS WELL 01:31:51.805 --> 01:31:55.314 SAY THAT. YOU CAN'T BE NEUTRAL. WE WERE TALKING ABOUT, IN FACT, 01:31:55.314 --> 01:32:00.385 FLASHPOINT, THEY WERE TALKING ABOUT THIS WHOLE ISLAM ISSUE AND 01:32:00.385 --> 01:32:04.676 THE FACT THAT PEOPLE OF ISLAM, THEY BELIEVE WHAT THEY BELIEVE. 01:32:04.676 --> 01:32:10.945 AND THE TRUTH OF THE MATTER IS, THEY REALLY WANNA DO AWAY WITH 01:32:10.945 --> 01:32:15.145 JEWS AND CHRISTIANS. THAT'S THE REALITY. THAT IS THEIR ULTIMATE 01:32:15.145 --> 01:32:21.685 GOAL. THEY WANT TO REINSTATE OUR LAWS FROM WITHIN. THEY'RE NOT 01:32:21.685 --> 01:32:25.795 APOLOGIZING FOR WHAT THEY STAND FOR. AND YET CHRISTIANS FEEL 01:32:25.795 --> 01:32:29.574 LIKE WE HAVE TO SOMEHOW BACK UP AND APOLOGIZE. AND THERE'S NOT 01:32:29.574 --> 01:32:32.185 GONNA BE ANY OF THAT. I'M TELLING YOU, JESUS IS THE ONLY 01:32:32.185 --> 01:32:35.220 WAY TO HEAVEN. SOMEBODY ASKED US THE QUESTION ONE TIME, WELL 01:32:35.220 --> 01:32:39.559 YEAH, BUT WHAT ABOUT IN THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA THAT 01:32:39.559 --> 01:32:42.685 THERE'S FREEDOM TO WORSHIP? IN OTHER WORDS, THE CONSTITUTION 01:32:42.685 --> 01:32:47.034 TELLS US THAT GOVERNMENT MAKE NO LAW THAT'LL INFRINGE ON THE 01:32:47.034 --> 01:32:50.994 EXERCISING OR THE RIGHT OF THE FREEDOM TO WORSHIP. WELL, HERE'S 01:32:50.994 --> 01:32:56.395 THE THING. THAT WAS WRITTEN IN OUR CONSTITUTION TO DEFEND THE 01:32:56.395 --> 01:33:01.704 BIBLE. OKAY, I'M NOT, THIS COUNTRY IS NOT ABOUT, WELL, IF 01:33:01.704 --> 01:33:06.926 YOU'RE A SATANIST AND YOU WANT TO MUTILATE CHILDREN AND COMMIT 01:33:06.926 --> 01:33:09.685 HUMAN SACRIFICE, BUT THAT SOMEHOW IS YOUR RIGHT TO 01:33:09.685 --> 01:33:15.385 WORSHIP? NO, THIS COUNTRY, I'M FINE. IF YOU WANNA SIT IN YOUR 01:33:15.385 --> 01:33:19.885 HOUSE AND YOU WANNA BE IN FALSE RELIGION AND GO TO HELL, WELL, 01:33:19.885 --> 01:33:22.345 YOU COULD CHOOSE TO DO THAT, BUT THIS COUNTRY WAS BUILT ON THE 01:33:22.345 --> 01:33:24.984 GOD OF THE BIBLE, AND WE ARE GONNA STAND FOR THE 01:33:24.984 --> 01:33:28.975 GOD OF THE BIBLE AND BE UNAPOLOGETIC FOR IT, AMEN. 01:33:28.975 --> 01:33:30.324 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:33:30.324 --> 01:33:33.685 SO THE CHURCH AT LAODICEA WAS THE BLEND IN CHURCH, AND I'M 01:33:33.685 --> 01:33:36.805 TELLING YOU, BLENDING IN IS A BLACK HOLE FOR WHICH THERE IS NO 01:33:36.805 --> 01:33:40.225 ANSWER. IT'LL NEVER STOP, THERE'LL ALWAYS BE SOMETHING 01:33:40.225 --> 01:33:42.838 NEW. PASTORS, I KNOW I NEED TO READ THE SCRIPTURE, BUT I HAVE 01:33:42.838 --> 01:33:46.854 TO SAY THIS. PASTORS THAT STARTED MARRYING HOMOSEXUALS, 01:33:46.854 --> 01:33:49.225 HOW MANY OF YOU SAW THAT? I MEAN, 15, 20 YEARS AGO, WE WOULD 01:33:49.225 --> 01:33:51.564 HAVE NEVER THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE A PASTOR THAT WOULD STAND UP 01:33:51.564 --> 01:33:56.966 AND TRY TO MARRY TWO MEN OR TWO WOMEN. BUT NOW, SEE THAT'S THE 01:33:56.966 --> 01:34:01.284 PROBLEM, NO BOUNDARIES. SO IT STARTED WITH, OH WELL, THEY LOVE 01:34:01.284 --> 01:34:06.445 EACH OTHER, WHO ARE WE TO SAY, YOU KNOW, FORGET WHAT GOD SAID, 01:34:06.445 --> 01:34:09.385 BUT WHO ARE WE TO SAY? AND NOW YOU'VE GOT PEOPLE TRYING TO 01:34:09.385 --> 01:34:12.954 MARRY A DOG, YOU GOT, I MEAN, IT'S JUST GONE THIS BLACK HOLE, 01:34:12.954 --> 01:34:15.685 IT'S SPIRALED COMPLETELY OUT OF CONTROL. THERE'S A WHOLE 01:34:15.685 --> 01:34:19.765 MOVEMENT OUT NOW THAT WANTS TO MAKE IT, REMOVE THE AGE OF 01:34:19.765 --> 01:34:25.795 CONSENT SO A 49-YEAR-OLD MAN CAN GO MARRY A NINE-YEAR-OLD. IT'S 01:34:25.795 --> 01:34:30.055 CRAZY, THERE'S NO BOUNDARIES. SO THE MINUTE WE COMPROMISE AND WE 01:34:30.055 --> 01:34:33.295 TRY TO PLAY THE NEUTRAL TO PLEASE SOMEBODY, WE'RE GONNA 01:34:33.295 --> 01:34:36.055 ULTIMATELY JUST DISPLEASE GOD. THIS WAS THE CHURCH AT LAODICEA 01:34:36.055 --> 01:34:38.515 AND GOD SAID, "YOU'RE NEITHER COLD OR HOT, YOU'RE JUST," I 01:34:38.515 --> 01:34:43.676 HAVE TO VOMIT THAT OUT OF MY MOUTH. THAT'S WHY KNOW WHERE YOU 01:34:43.676 --> 01:34:47.574 STAND IN THIS HOUR. BE BOLD, BE RESOLUTE WITH IT, DON'T 01:34:47.574 --> 01:34:52.225 APOLOGIZE FOR WHERE YOU STAND ON THE DOCTRINE OF SALVATION, 01:34:52.225 --> 01:34:56.216 RIGHT? FOR WHERE YOU STAND ON MARRIAGE, COME ON, FOR WHERE YOU 01:34:56.216 --> 01:34:59.784 STAND ON ABORTION. AND BY THE WAY, CAN I JUST, I'M GONNA THROW 01:34:59.784 --> 01:35:04.466 THIS OUT AND WE HAVE TO BE FINISHED. THE ABORTION MOVEMENT 01:35:04.466 --> 01:35:07.345 AND ALL OF THE REASONS THEY SAY, THEY SAY, WELL, YOU KNOW, BUT 01:35:07.345 --> 01:35:12.354 WHAT ABOUT THAT POOR MOTHER THAT, YOU KNOW, SHE GOT PREGNANT 01:35:12.354 --> 01:35:15.655 AND IT WAS A RAPE AND NOW, YOU KNOW, SHE'S GOTTA GO THROUGH 01:35:15.655 --> 01:35:19.135 THIS WHOLE PREGNANCY AND HAVE THIS BABY. AND, YOU KNOW, THE 01:35:19.135 --> 01:35:25.559 MOVEMENT, THE PROCHOICE PEOPLE, I CALL 'EM PRO-MURDER PEOPLE, 01:35:25.559 --> 01:35:29.966 ALWAYS WANT TO SAY, YOU KNOW, USE THE RAPE ISSUE, THE INCEST 01:35:29.966 --> 01:35:33.137 ISSUE, THEY ALWAYS WANNA SAY THE LIFE OF THE MOTHER. I'M LIKE, 01:35:33.137 --> 01:35:36.744 COME ON, THIS IS MODERN MEDICINE, OKAY? YOU KNOW HOW 01:35:36.744 --> 01:35:41.125 QUICKLY THEY CAN JUST DO A CESAREAN AND SAVE A WOMAN WHO IS 01:35:41.125 --> 01:35:46.284 IN LABOR ANYMORE? SO THEY USE THAT, BUT REALLY WHEN YOU COME 01:35:46.284 --> 01:35:49.524 DOWN TO IT, ALL OF THAT LITTLE GROUP THAT THEY MAKE THE 01:35:49.524 --> 01:35:54.774 FOREFRONT ONLY ACCOUNTS FOR LIKE 5% OF ALL PREGNANT WOMEN. THE 01:35:54.774 --> 01:35:58.076 OTHER 95%, SEE THIS IS AN ARGUMENT YOU CAN USE, THE OTHER 01:35:58.076 --> 01:36:03.835 95% OF PREGNANT WOMEN THAT GO AND SEEK OUT AN ABORTION DO IT 01:36:03.835 --> 01:36:07.135 FOR CONVENIENCE REASONS. 'CAUSE THEY JUST DON'T WANNA BE 01:36:07.135 --> 01:36:11.994 PREGNANT AND HAVE THE BABY. SO, THE MINUTE WE GET DOWN THAT 01:36:11.994 --> 01:36:16.164 RABBIT HOLE, AND OH WELL, YOU KNOW, SHE JUST, YOU KNOW, HAD A, 01:36:16.164 --> 01:36:20.845 I HEARD ONE PERSON SAYING, OKAY, AND I REPENTED OF IT AFTER, BUT 01:36:20.845 --> 01:36:23.426 I GOT IN A LITTLE TUSSLE WITH SOMEBODY ONLINE ONCE. I'VE 01:36:23.426 --> 01:36:28.975 GROWN. AND IT'S EASY TO GET SUCKED INTO IT, I WILL TELL YA. 01:36:28.975 --> 01:36:32.875 I WILL GIVE IT THAT. BUT WE GOT INTO A LITTLE THING ON THE 01:36:32.875 --> 01:36:36.230 ABORTION ISSUE WHEN ROE V. WADE WAS OVERTURNED, HOW MANY OF YOU 01:36:36.230 --> 01:36:39.655 REMEMBER THAT? BY THE WAY, A FEW CHURCHES EVEN CELEBRATED THAT 01:36:39.655 --> 01:36:43.494 MOMENT. AND I MEAN, THIS WAS A GREAT VICTORY. 50 YEARS, THAT 01:36:43.494 --> 01:36:48.685 DEMON WAS IN POWER AND GOD RIPPED IT DOWN. AND SO I HAD ONE 01:36:48.685 --> 01:36:53.755 PASTOR PERSON SAID, "WELL, YOU KNOW, WHAT ABOUT, "NOW THE 01:36:53.755 --> 01:36:56.125 CHURCH NEEDS TO ADDRESS THE FACT THAT WE DON'T HAVE ENOUGH 01:36:56.125 --> 01:37:00.085 ADOPTION CENTERS." AND I THOUGHT, OKAY, ALL RIGHT, HERE 01:37:00.085 --> 01:37:05.484 WE GO NOW. OKAY, THERE ARE COUNTLESS ADOPTION CENTERS. THE 01:37:05.484 --> 01:37:09.774 PROBLEM IS WHAT'S BEING FUNDED WAS PLANNED PARENTHOOD. THEY'RE 01:37:09.774 --> 01:37:12.595 NOT FUNDING THE ADOPTION CENTERS. THEY'RE THE ONES THAT 01:37:12.595 --> 01:37:16.135 CAN'T GET THE DONATIONS. IT'S THE PEOPLE THAT ARE FUNDING 01:37:16.135 --> 01:37:19.314 EVIL. AND THE CHURCH WOULDN'T SPEAK UP ABOUT IT. THEY WERE 01:37:19.314 --> 01:37:22.854 AFRAID. I THINK IT WAS A DISAPPOINTMENT THAT WE WERE 01:37:22.854 --> 01:37:27.385 LAODICEA, NOT US, BUT WE ARE NOT HERE. BUT MANY OF THE CHURCHES 01:37:27.385 --> 01:37:32.216 AROUND THE COUNTRY WERE IN A LAODICEAN MINDSET REGARDING THE 01:37:32.216 --> 01:37:36.445 EVIL OF ABORTION. IT'S ONE OF THE MOST EGREGIOUS EVILS IN THIS 01:37:36.445 --> 01:37:41.395 COUNTRY BECAUSE GOD HATES HE THAT SHEDS INNOCENT BLOOD. GOD 01:37:41.395 --> 01:37:44.814 HATES THE ONE THAT KILLS THE INNOCENT THAT DON'T HAVE A 01:37:44.814 --> 01:37:49.854 VOICE. THAT EVIL IS WHAT, I REALLY BELIEVE IT'S RELEASING 01:37:49.854 --> 01:37:53.364 OTHER DEMONS IN THIS COUNTRY BECAUSE IT'S NOT BEEN DEALT 01:37:53.364 --> 01:37:56.034 WITH. I MEAN, IT'S BEING DEALT WITH AND WE'RE STOMPING IT OUT. 01:37:56.034 --> 01:37:58.795 BUT A LOT OF PASTORS AT THAT TIME, THEY DIDN'T SPEAK UP. AND 01:37:58.795 --> 01:38:02.064 WE WERE CRITICIZED FOR THAT. WELL, I THINK YOU'RE JUST BEING 01:38:02.064 --> 01:38:08.064 TOO HARSH. AND ALL I WANT, ALL RIGHT. TO THE ANGEL OF THE 01:38:08.064 --> 01:38:10.885 CHURCH OF LAODICEA IS RIGHT. I KNOW YOU'RE NEITHER HOT NOR 01:38:10.885 --> 01:38:16.645 COLD. SO BECAUSE YOU'RE LUKEWARM, I WILL VOMIT YOU. YOU 01:38:16.645 --> 01:38:19.074 STAYED OUT OF THE CONTROVERSY. YOU DIDN'T WANNA GET IN THE 01:38:19.074 --> 01:38:22.164 FRAY. YOU DIDN'T WANNA DRAW ANY CRITICISM. SO I'M SPITTING YOU 01:38:22.164 --> 01:38:26.238 OUT. TO ME, THAT IS THE WORST THING TO HEAR FROM JESUS. 01:38:26.238 --> 01:38:31.045 BECAUSE YOU SAY I'M RICH, I GOT IT TOGETHER. WE'RE COMFORTABLE, 01:38:31.045 --> 01:38:33.354 WE'RE GOOD, WE DON'T NEED ANYTHING. AND I THINK THE 01:38:33.354 --> 01:38:35.994 AMERICAN CHURCH HAS TO BE VERY CAREFUL THAT WE'RE NOT WILLING 01:38:35.994 --> 01:38:40.135 TO SACRIFICE, RIGHT? I WAS THINKING ABOUT THE CHURCH OF THE 01:38:40.135 --> 01:38:44.484 BOOK OF ACTS. THESE PEOPLE TOOK EVERYTHING THEY HAD AND LAID IT 01:38:44.484 --> 01:38:48.234 DOWN AT THE APOSTLES' FEET BECAUSE THAT'S WHAT THEY CARED 01:38:48.234 --> 01:38:51.673 ABOUT. SO I'VE GOTTEN THIS LIKE NEW LITTLE ADDICTION. OKAY, I'M 01:38:51.673 --> 01:38:56.101 GONNA END, YOU BETTER STAND. I GOT THIS NEW LITTLE LIKE 01:38:56.101 --> 01:38:58.614 ADDICTION TO WATCHING THESE SHOWS OF THESE PEOPLE THAT LIVE 01:38:58.614 --> 01:39:04.645 IN THESE REMOTE VILLAGES IN SIBERIA. AND I'M SERIOUS. I 01:39:04.645 --> 01:39:07.614 MEAN, I GOT TO LOOK. I MEAN, WHAT DO THEY EAT? YOU KNOW, I 01:39:07.614 --> 01:39:10.284 MEAN, WHEN WE WENT TO SIBERIA, YOU KNOW, PASTOR CHRISTY, WE 01:39:10.284 --> 01:39:12.564 WERE LEAVING AFTER WE WERE THERE. SHE GOES, "MAN, I'M GLAD 01:39:12.564 --> 01:39:15.685 TO GET BACK TO THE U.S. I'M TIRED OF EATING BOILED FISH." 01:39:15.685 --> 01:39:18.145 AND, YOU KNOW, BUT THE THINGS THAT THEY MAKE, THEY JUST HAVE 01:39:18.145 --> 01:39:20.994 THESE FROZEN FISHES THAT SIT IN THE SNOWBANK AND THEY CUT SOME 01:39:20.994 --> 01:39:24.774 PARTS OFF AND BOIL IT FOR DINNER. AND, YOU KNOW, IT'S 01:39:24.774 --> 01:39:27.564 CRAZY THE STUFF THEY HAD, YOU KNOW, EXCEPT THEIR KIDS, YOU 01:39:27.564 --> 01:39:30.176 KNOW, ALL HAD IPADS, BUT THEY'RE OUT IN THE MIDDLE OF NOWHERE. 01:39:30.176 --> 01:39:33.414 IT'S GREAT, I DON'T KNOW HOW THEY DO THAT. BUT ANYWAY, I'M 01:39:33.414 --> 01:39:36.926 SITTING THERE THINKING TO MYSELF, YOU KNOW, OKAY, LORD, I 01:39:36.926 --> 01:39:43.375 MEAN, I GIVE UP A LOT, BUT YEAH, THAT'S A ROUGH GO. THIS WAS HOW 01:39:43.375 --> 01:39:45.895 THE EARLY CHURCH THOUGHT. THEY WOULD GIVE UP ANYTHING THAT MADE 01:39:45.895 --> 01:39:49.255 THEM COMFORTABLE. AND WE GOTTA ASK OURSELF THAT. THIS WAS THE 01:39:49.255 --> 01:39:53.725 CHURCH THAT WAS, THEY WANTED TO BE COMFORTABLE. THEY DIDN'T WANT 01:39:53.725 --> 01:39:56.635 ANY CONTROVERSY, THEY DIDN'T WANT ANY TROUBLE. BECAUSE YOU 01:39:56.635 --> 01:39:59.395 SAY I'M RICH AND INCREASED WITH GOOD, HAVE NEED OF NOTHING, KNOW 01:39:59.395 --> 01:40:02.244 NOT THAT YOU'RE WRETCHED, YOU'RE MISERABLE, YOU'RE POOR, YOU'RE 01:40:02.244 --> 01:40:07.015 BLIND AND NAKED. I COUNSEL YOU TO BUY OF ME GOLD THAT'S TRIED 01:40:07.015 --> 01:40:11.216 IN THE FIRE, THAT YOU MAY BE RICH FOR REAL, RIGHT? WHITE 01:40:11.216 --> 01:40:13.854 RAIMENT, THERE'S THAT WHITE ROBE AGAIN, I WANT ONE OF THOSE, 01:40:13.854 --> 01:40:17.905 RIGHT? AND THAT YOU MAYEST BE CLOTHED, AND THAT THE SHAME OF 01:40:17.905 --> 01:40:23.523 THY NAKEDNESS DOESN'T APPEAR. GOD SEES THOSE PEOPLE AS THE 01:40:23.523 --> 01:40:28.216 EMPEROR WITH NO CLOTHES, RIGHT? AND ANOINT ON EYES WITH 01:40:28.216 --> 01:40:31.734 EYESALVE THAT YOU MAY SEE WHAT YOU'VE FALLEN INTO IS PRETTY 01:40:31.734 --> 01:40:36.234 MUCH WHAT HE'S SAYING. AND AS MANY AS I LOVE, I REBUKE AND I 01:40:36.234 --> 01:40:41.545 CHASTISE. BE ZEALOUS THEREFORE AND REPENT. IN OTHER WORDS, 01:40:41.545 --> 01:40:45.655 WHERE DO YOU STAND? BEHOLD, I STAND AT THE DOOR AND KNOCK, AND 01:40:45.655 --> 01:40:48.805 IF ANY MAN HEARS MY VOICE AND WILL OPEN THAT DOOR, I'LL COME 01:40:48.805 --> 01:40:52.795 TO HIM AND I WILL HAVE DINNER WITH HIM AND HIM WITH ME. TO HIM 01:40:52.795 --> 01:40:56.426 THAT OVERCOMES, COME ON, NEUTRALITY, THE WOKE CHURCH, I 01:40:56.426 --> 01:41:02.426 WILL GRANT TO SIT WITH ME IN MY THRONE EVEN AS I OVERCAME. COME 01:41:02.426 --> 01:41:06.445 ON, JESUS HAD TO HIT THE CONTROVERSY TO BE AN OVERCOMER. 01:41:06.445 --> 01:41:12.295 CHRISTIANITY IS NOT ABOUT ALWAYS FITTING, BELIEVE ME. AND AS I 01:41:12.295 --> 01:41:17.274 OVERCAME AND I'M SAT DOWN WITH MY FATHER IN HIS THRONE, HE THAT 01:41:17.274 --> 01:41:20.244 HAS AN EAR TO HEAR, HEAR WHAT THE SPIRIT IS SAYING TO THE 01:41:20.244 --> 01:41:24.204 CHURCHES. SO I WOULD JUST ENCOURAGE, COME ON EPHESUS, 01:41:24.204 --> 01:41:28.284 DON'T BE A PHARISEE, RIGHT? IT'S IMPORTANT. BE WILLING TO BE 01:41:28.284 --> 01:41:32.604 SMYRNA AND BE PERSECUTED. THAT'S THE LESSON TO ALL OF US, PASTORS 01:41:32.604 --> 01:41:36.805 AND CONGREGATION AND SHEEP, RIGHT? PERGAMOS, RIGHT? DON'T BE 01:41:36.805 --> 01:41:40.251 THE CARNAL CHRISTIAN. WATCH THAT IN OUR LIFE. THE NEXT ONE, 01:41:40.251 --> 01:41:45.951 THYATIRA, WATCH YOUR DOCTRINE. PAUL TOLD TIMOTHY, BE CAREFUL OF 01:41:45.951 --> 01:41:49.400 YOUR DOCTRINE. BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU KNOW, RIGHT? CHURCH OF 01:41:49.400 --> 01:41:52.640 SARDIS, WATCH THAT TENDENCY FOR FLESH TO GO DEAD. HAVE TO BE 01:41:52.640 --> 01:41:55.761 CAREFUL. BE ON FIRE, BE PHILADELPHIA, BE THE REMNANT 01:41:55.761 --> 01:41:59.810 CHURCH, BE HOLY GHOST. AND LASTLY, DON'T PLAY NEUTRAL. AND 01:41:59.810 --> 01:42:02.631 I THINK IF WE WOULD LEARN ALL OF THOSE LESSONS, BY THE WAY, I'M 01:42:02.631 --> 01:42:05.030 NOT HAVING A GRAY ROBE IN HEAVEN. I'M GONNA HAVE A WHITE 01:42:05.030 --> 01:42:08.240 ONE. AND HOW ABOUT YOU? AMEN. DID YOU GET SOMETHING OUT OF 01:42:08.240 --> 01:42:11.751 THAT? I HOPE YOU LIKED IT. GOD BLESS YOU. FATHER, I PRAY FOR 01:42:11.751 --> 01:42:15.530 EVERY PERSON ONLINE AND IN HERE UNDER THE SOUND OF MY VOICE, I 01:42:15.530 --> 01:42:18.381 ASK YOU BLESS THEM. FATHER, HELP THEM TO TAKE THE THINGS THAT 01:42:18.381 --> 01:42:21.860 I'VE TAUGHT HERE AND PULL OUT EVEN GREATER REVELATION. FATHER, 01:42:21.860 --> 01:42:25.811 BUT HELP US TO BE A PEOPLE THAT ARE PREPARED FOR THE LAST DAYS. 01:42:25.811 --> 01:42:29.149 FATHER, WE'RE PREPARED TO MEET YOU AT ANY GIVEN TIME. 01:42:29.149 --> 01:42:31.818 WE LIVE IN A PLACE OF READINESS AND ON FIRE 01:42:31.818 --> 01:42:34.970 FOR YOU. FATHER, I WANT TO BE MORE ON FIRE IN MY 01:42:34.970 --> 01:42:38.716 OLD AGE THAN I WAS IN MY YOUNG YEARS. AND I JUST WORSHIP YOU 01:42:38.716 --> 01:42:42.261 AND WE THANK YOU FOR IT. BLESS THE PEOPLE NOW, LORD. I PRAY 01:42:42.261 --> 01:42:45.350 THAT YOU PLACE THE ANGELS AROUND THEM AS THEY GO TONIGHT. AND 01:42:45.350 --> 01:42:48.140 FATHER, AS THEY DRIVE HOME, THAT THEY WILL DRIVE HOME IN THE 01:42:48.140 --> 01:42:52.190 BLESSING OF GOD IN JESUS' NAME. I LOVE YOU GUYS. GOD BLESS YOU. 01:42:52.190 --> 01:42:57.110 GO HOME AND, PASTOR WOULD SAY, EAT SOME GELATO. GOD BLESS YOU.