WEBVTT 00:00.000 --> 00:06.373 (MUSIC) 00:06.373 --> 00:11.678 COME ON, CHURCH. GET UP ON YOUR FEET. COME ON, 00:11.678 --> 00:23.856 LET'S SING THIS MORNING. HOW GREAT IS OUR GOD 00:23.856 --> 02:06.525 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 02:06.525 --> 02:14.189 AMEN. THE WHOLE WORLD WILL SEE HOW GREAT YOU ARE, GOD. YES, 02:14.189 --> 02:18.300 LORD. WE HONOR YOU TODAY. WE WELCOME YOU IN THIS PLACE. YES. 02:18.300 --> 02:21.960 AND OUR LOVE FOR YOU, MY LORD, IS PURE. YES, LORD. IT'S 02:21.960 --> 02:25.139 HONORABLE. AND LORD, WE ACKNOWLEDGE YOU. THANK YOU, 02:25.139 --> 02:30.719 JESUS. AS OUR GOD. AND EVERYBODY THAT LOVES HIM SAID. AMEN! WOW, 02:30.719 --> 02:33.930 THAT'S PRETTY GOOD FOR AN ALMOST SNOWY SUNDAY. DID YOU HEAR THAT 02:33.930 --> 02:36.789 OUT OF THE MOUTH OF BABES AND SUCKLINGS, RIGHT? I MEAN, NOT 02:36.789 --> 02:40.800 THAT MY NIECE, YOU KNOW, SHE'S 15 OR WHATEVER, RIGHT? ARE YOU 02:40.800 --> 02:45.569 15? THAT'S PRETTY GOOD. NOW LET ME SEE IF ADULTS CAN HAVE THAT 02:45.569 --> 02:48.240 CHILDLIKE FAITH. AND ALL THE PEOPLE THAT REALLY LOVE GOD 02:48.240 --> 02:53.556 SAID. AMEN. THAT'S WHAT I WAS LOOKING FOR, GREAT JOB. AND EVEN 02:53.556 --> 02:58.080 THIS SECTION I NEVER HEAR IS GREAT. SO ANYWAY, GOOD MORNING. 02:58.080 --> 03:02.159 HOW MANY OF YOU, YOU WOKE UP AND IT LOOKS LIKE IT IS GOING TO 03:02.159 --> 03:09.330 SNOW LATER. DID YOU NOTICE I SAID LATER? SO WE'RE GONNA BE 03:09.330 --> 03:14.490 FINE, BUT I'M SO GLAD THAT YOU VENTURED OUT. YOU GOT 03:14.490 --> 03:17.280 YOUR, I DON'T KNOW, DID YOU GET YOUR HUSKY DOGS AND 03:17.280 --> 03:21.719 YOUR SLEDS READY? NO. NO, NO? THIS'LL ALL BE BEHIND 03:21.719 --> 03:24.270 US IN 2 DAYS. THAT'S ALL WE'RE FOCUSED ON. 03:24.270 --> 03:26.280 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 03:26.280 --> 03:29.789 I THINK THAT'S THE INTERESTING THING ABOUT THIS WINTER IS I'VE 03:29.789 --> 03:33.360 NEVER SEEN IT SO WARM, BUT I MEAN, I'M NOT COMPLAINING, 03:33.360 --> 03:38.069 BELIEVE ME. BUT THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN IT JUST LIKE, GETS LIKE 03:38.069 --> 03:42.030 SNOW AGAIN. I MEAN, WE JUST NEED SOME NORMALCY. WELL, LISTEN, I 03:42.030 --> 03:46.110 WANNA WELCOME THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, ESPECIALLY IN A 03:46.110 --> 03:49.830 SUNNY PART OF THE WORLD. WE HONOR YOU TODAY AND WE'RE 03:49.830 --> 03:52.530 THINKING ABOUT YOU, BUT HERE'S THE DIFFERENCE. FOR YOU THAT 03:52.530 --> 03:56.159 LIVE IN THE SUNNY CLIMATES, BRENDA, WE'VE TALKED ABOUT THIS. 03:56.159 --> 04:02.370 IT ALWAYS HAS SNAKES, ALWAYS HAS SPIDERS, SCORPIONS, ALWAYS HAS 04:02.370 --> 04:08.430 SWEAT AND HUMIDITY, ALWAYS HAVE HEAT. RIGHT? YEAH, YEAH. SO... 04:08.430 --> 04:13.530 SEE, I LIKE NEBRASKA. EVERYTHING WITH 8 LEGS DIES IN NOVEMBER. 04:13.530 --> 04:18.420 IT'S ALL GOOD. WE GOT POSITIVES HERE. THERE YOU GO. SO WE GREET 04:18.420 --> 04:21.540 YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE WORLD, AND WE'RE SO HONORED THAT 04:21.540 --> 04:25.110 YOU JOINED US. TELL US WHAT THE TEMPERATURE IS, YOU KNOW, WHERE 04:25.110 --> 04:28.470 YOU'RE AT. IN FACT, WE'RE GONNA HAVE LIKE PRETTY STRONG WINDS 04:28.470 --> 04:32.250 HERE TODAY. MAYBE IT'S NICE, SUNNY. LET US KNOW, I ALWAYS 04:32.250 --> 04:35.790 LIKE TO READ THOSE COMMENTS. BUT YOU ARE PREACHING TODAY, SO YOU 04:35.790 --> 04:38.939 WANNA GIVE AN UPDATE ON IT'S TRUE, IT'S TRUE. YEAH, SHE'S MY 04:38.939 --> 04:42.389 FAVORITE PREACHER, BY THE WAY. OH, WELL, I DON'T KNOW ABOUT 04:42.389 --> 04:46.439 THAT. BUT HERE'S THE THING, I'M GONNA SHARE A MESSAGE TODAY. YOU 04:46.439 --> 04:49.110 KNOW, WE'VE GOT SO MANY THINGS GOING ON, BUT I JUST FELT SO 04:49.110 --> 04:52.949 PASSIONATE ABOUT. IT'S KIND OF A TOPIC THAT WE DON'T TEACH ON IN 04:52.949 --> 04:56.069 CHURCH, I THINK, THAT MUCH, BUT I THINK WE SHOULD. AND WE'RE 04:56.069 --> 05:00.269 GONNA TALK ABOUT BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES THAT APPLY TO THE 05:00.269 --> 05:03.990 INTERNET AND SOCIAL MEDIA. WOW, I'M EXCITED. AND THE REASON I 05:03.990 --> 05:07.050 WANNA TALK ABOUT THAT IS, DON'T YOU FEEL LIKE THE CHURCH SHOULD 05:07.050 --> 05:10.769 BE THE GUIDE, NOT THE WORLD? I DO, I THINK WE HAVE LEARNED, IF 05:10.769 --> 05:14.370 WE LEARNED ANYTHING IN THE LAST 6 YEARS, IS THAT THE CHURCH 05:14.370 --> 05:17.550 SHOULD BE THE FORERUNNER, THE FOREFRONT, NOT THE WORLD 05:17.550 --> 05:21.360 STANDARD BEING THE NORM. AND SO I THINK WE NEED TO TALK ABOUT 05:21.360 --> 05:23.430 THAT. I THINK IT'S GONNA BE AWESOME. I'M EXCITED ABOUT IT. I 05:23.430 --> 05:27.480 THINK THAT'S A GREAT MESSAGE. AND I DON'T KNOW WHY I DIDN'T 05:27.480 --> 05:30.629 THINK OF IT, BRENDA, BUT ANYWAY, WE'RE REALLY EXCITED. WELL, 05:30.629 --> 05:34.379 LISTEN, I GOT BACK FROM IDAHO. HOW MANY WERE ABLE TO SEE 05:34.379 --> 05:40.050 FLASHPOINT LIVE? IDAHO. OKAY, A FEW OF YOU DID. THERE WERE A LOT 05:40.050 --> 05:42.387 OF HANDS. I SAW A LOT OF HANDS. BEFORE WE WORSHIP THE LORD, I 05:42.387 --> 05:45.420 GOTTA TELL YOU, WE WENT INTO A COFFEE SHOP. SO THIS WAS A 05:45.420 --> 05:48.990 COFFEE SHOP, IDAHO, WENT INTO A COFFEE SHOP, AND EVERYBODY'S 05:48.990 --> 05:53.819 WEARING A MASK. AND SO WE GET UP TO THE COUNTER TO GET READY TO 05:53.819 --> 05:57.269 ORDER SOME COFFEE. AND THEY SAID, "BEFORE WE GIVE YOU THIS 05:57.269 --> 06:00.870 COFFEE," THEY HANDED ME A MASK. I SAID, "WHAT'S THIS FOR?" THEY 06:00.870 --> 06:03.269 SAID, "THIS IS A COUGHING FILTER." 06:03.269 --> 06:06.031 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 06:06.031 --> 06:12.120 COUGHING. IT'S A COUGHING FILTER. THAT SOUNDED LIBERAL. 06:12.120 --> 06:15.839 DID YOU HEAR ALL THE MUSIC'S GOING DOWNHILL? ALL RIGHT, AND 06:15.839 --> 06:19.649 WITH THAT. I THINK WE SHOULD HAVE CHURCH. WE SHOULD HAVE 06:19.649 --> 06:26.100 CHURCH. ALL RIGHT, WELL, THE LAST, LET'S PROPHESY THE LAST 06:26.100 --> 06:31.319 COLD, SNOWY DAY OF THE WINTER IN NEBRASKA. I'M SPEAKING 06:31.319 --> 06:34.589 IT AND BELIEVING IT. SO LET'S THROW THOSE HANDS UP TO 06:34.589 --> 06:39.750 HEAVEN. SAY, LORD, IT'S AWESOME TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. I 06:39.750 --> 06:44.550 THANK YOU, LORD, YOU'RE GONNA MOVE IN THIS PLACE, 06:44.550 --> 06:48.154 LET YOUR ANOINTING FILL THE ROOM, AND I ASK YOU, LORD, 06:48.154 --> 06:53.370 TO TOUCH MY LIFE. AND I PROMISE TO GIVE YOU, 06:53.370 --> 06:58.199 ARE YOU READY? MY VERY BEST PRAISE. LET'S PRAISE THE 06:58.199 --> 07:06.449 LORD THIS MORNING. COME ON, LET'S GIVE HIM A SHOUT OF 07:06.449 --> 07:09.129 PRAISE THIS MORNING. OUR GOD IS IN CONTROL, AMEN. 07:09.129 --> 07:12.665 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 07:12.665 --> 07:15.168 NO MATTER WHAT'S GOING ON OUT THERE, 07:15.168 --> 07:17.137 WE KNOW HE'S STILL ON THE THRONE. 07:17.137 --> 08:37.850 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 08:37.850 --> 08:41.587 OUR GOD IS IN CONTROL 08:41.587 --> 09:36.643 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 09:36.643 --> 09:41.548 OH OUR GOD IS IN CONTROL 09:41.548 --> 09:44.650 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 09:44.650 --> 09:53.793 WHOA-OH-OH-OH-OH-OH-OH-OH. SO WE SAY. LET GOD ARISE 09:53.793 --> 11:44.004 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 11:44.004 --> 12:01.453 OH GOD, YOU REIGN. OH GOD, YOU REIGN. OH GOD, YOU REIGN. YOU 12:01.453 --> 12:09.294 REIGN, YOU REIGN, YOU REIGN. YOU REIGN, YOU REIGN, YOU REIGN. 12:09.294 --> 20:51.851 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 20:51.851 --> 20:56.623 NOBODY LIKE YOU. NOBODY LIKE YOU. 20:56.623 --> 22:42.962 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 22:42.962 --> 22:49.469 IS ANYONE WORTHY? IS ANYONE WHOLE? 22:49.469 --> 30:01.034 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 30:01.034 --> 30:07.007 NOBODY LIKE YOU JESUS. NOBODY 30:07.007 --> 30:13.646 LIKE MY KING. NOBODY LIKE MY LORD 30:13.646 --> 31:06.932 (WORSHIP MUSIC) 31:06.932 --> 31:11.337 WE WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE WORSHIP YOU 31:11.337 --> 31:17.344 ALL OVER THE WORLD. WORSHIP HIM. WE SING TO YOUR HONOR, KING OF 31:17.344 --> 31:25.617 KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS. WE WORSHIP YOU. WE LIFT UP OUR 31:25.617 --> 31:34.426 HEARTS OF ADORATION, MASTER. YOURS. WE SING TO BRING 31:34.426 --> 31:45.637 EXALTATION TO YOU, GOD. WE LIFT OUR HEART OF HONOR, OF WORSHIP, 31:45.637 --> 31:55.448 OF LOVE. WE SING TO YOU, OUR GOD, OUR KING, BOWING OUR HEARTS 31:55.448 --> 32:13.133 BEFORE YOU, MASTER. YESHUA, YESHUA. OH, HOW WE LOVE YOU. HOW 32:13.133 --> 32:23.476 WE WORSHIP AND HONOR YOU. HOW WE HONOR YOU, GOD. WE WORSHIP YOU. 32:23.476 --> 32:33.885 WE WORSHIP YOU. OH, GOD, HOW WE WORSHIP YOU. WE LOVE YOU AND 32:33.885 --> 32:43.246 HONOR YOU. FOR THERE IS NO ONE WORTHY AMONG MEN, AMONG THINGS 32:43.246 --> 32:47.655 CREATED BOTH VISIBLE AND INVISIBLE, OR THAT HAS EVER BEEN 32:47.655 --> 32:55.726 CREATED. THERE'S NO, NOTHING, NO ONE AS WORTHY AS YOU, OUR GOD 32:55.726 --> 33:06.434 AND OUR KING. HOW WE LOVE YOU. LORD, WE BRING OUR HEARTS TO YOU 33:06.434 --> 33:17.596 TODAY. A FRESH COMMITMENT TO NOT JUST DECLARE THAT YOU ARE LORD, 33:17.596 --> 33:27.045 BUT TO LIVE AS YOU, OUR GOD IS LORD. WITH SURRENDER, WITH 33:27.045 --> 33:33.405 SACRIFICE, WITH HONOR, OBEDIENCE, AND WITH GREAT LOVE 33:33.405 --> 33:41.355 IN OUR HEARTS TO YOU. GOD, WE MAKE A FRESH COMMITMENT, NOT OUR 33:41.355 --> 33:50.596 WILL, BUT YOUR WILL BE DONE. WE COME WITH A FRESH COMMITMENT TO 33:50.596 --> 33:57.526 GIVE ALL OF OUR HEART TO YOU AND ALL OF OUR SOUL, MIND, AND OUR 33:57.526 --> 34:06.286 STRENGTH TO PURSUE YOU WITH GREAT PASSION AND AN HONESTY IN 34:06.286 --> 34:19.485 OUR HEART OF GREAT HONOR TO YOU OUR GOD. WE WORSHIP YOU. OH HOW 34:19.485 --> 34:28.485 WE WORSHIP YOU. OUR GOD AND OUR KING. I WANT YOU TO PLACE YOUR 34:28.485 --> 34:33.465 HAND IF YOU NEED HEALING TODAY. SOMETIMES JESUS WOULD LAY HANDS 34:33.465 --> 34:39.675 ON THE SICK AND OTHER TIMES HE WOULD JUST SPEAK THE WORD. HE'S 34:39.675 --> 34:42.376 THE HEALER, NO MATTER WHERE YOU'RE AT, NO MATTER WHAT YOU'RE 34:42.376 --> 34:48.826 FACING TODAY. HE'S THE ONE THAT HEALS. HE'S THE ONE THAT IS 34:48.826 --> 34:56.326 WORTHY. AND THERE IS A VOICE THAT SPEAKS. IT'S THE VOICE OF 34:56.326 --> 35:06.405 HIS BLOOD, YESHUA'S BLOOD. AND IT SPEAKS MERCY AND GRACE AND 35:06.405 --> 35:15.014 HELP. IT SPEAKS HEALING AND WHOLENESS AND LONG LIFE. BECAUSE 35:15.014 --> 35:24.106 THAT'S WHAT HE PAID FOR. THROUGH HIS DEATH, RESURRECTION, AND 35:24.106 --> 35:30.646 ASCENSION TO BE SEATED AT THE RIGHT HAND OF GOD. OUR FATHER, 35:30.646 --> 35:35.416 HIS FATHER. SO LORD, I PRAY FOR EVERY PERSON NOW IN THE SOUND OF 35:35.416 --> 35:40.005 MY VOICE. MAYBE THEY'RE STANDING, LORD, IN THE GAP FOR 35:40.005 --> 35:46.096 SOMEBODY, OR MAYBE IT'S THEIR OWN LIFE. WE REMIND YOU, YESHUA, 35:46.096 --> 35:50.445 OF THAT PRECIOUS BLOOD THAT YOU CARRIED INTO THE HOLY PLACE ONCE 35:50.445 --> 35:54.856 AND FOR ALL. AND IT WAS NOT THE BLOOD OF BULLS AND GOATS OR 35:54.856 --> 36:00.646 CALVES, BUT YOUR OWN BLOOD THAT YOU SACRIFICED. AND THE FATHER 36:00.646 --> 36:06.076 SAW YOU AS YOU ENTERED IN, CARRYING YOUR BLOOD THAT YOU 36:06.076 --> 36:15.342 GAVE SO WILLINGLY. AND HE LOOKED AT YOU, YESHUA, WITH YOUR BLOOD, 36:15.342 --> 36:23.476 AND HE CALLED YOU GOD, AND HE HANDED YOU A SCEPTER, A SCEPTER 36:23.476 --> 36:27.166 OF KING OF KINGS AND LORD OF LORDS, A SCEPTER OF 36:27.166 --> 36:33.465 RIGHTEOUSNESS, AND SAID, "SIT THOU AT MY RIGHT HAND, AND ALL 36:33.465 --> 36:40.306 THY ENEMIES FOREVER WILL BE AND SHALL BE THY FOOTSTOOL." AND 36:40.306 --> 36:45.076 YESHUA, YOU SAT DOWN AND YOU ESTABLISHED AN ETERNAL COVENANT 36:45.076 --> 36:49.365 OF PEACE. NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN OF THAT COVENANT. 36:49.365 --> 36:54.405 EVERYTHING WAS PROVIDED. IT'S WHY YESHUA, YOU SAID IT IS 36:54.405 --> 36:59.925 FINISHED. AND NOW THAT COVENANT HAS BEEN SEALED AND RATIFIED. 36:59.925 --> 37:03.945 AND LET THE REDEEMED, I AM THE REDEEMED, AND I SAY SO ON BEHALF 37:03.945 --> 37:07.675 OF THE PEOPLE. YOU HAVE REDEEMED THESE PRECIOUS PEOPLE IN THE 37:07.675 --> 37:13.215 SOUND OF MY VOICE, OUT OF THE HANDS OF THE ENEMY, DESTRUCTION, 37:13.215 --> 37:19.155 SICKNESS, DISEASE, PAIN, TRAGEDY, CALAMITY. LORD, EVEN 37:19.155 --> 37:21.764 YOU'VE REDEEMED THEM OUT OF THE HANDS OF WITCHCRAFT AND 37:21.764 --> 37:32.416 DIVINATION. THEY'RE BLESSED. NOW I CLAIM ON THEIR BEHALF, ALL 37:32.416 --> 37:38.925 THEIR LEGAL RIGHTS, PRIVILEGES, BENEFITS, MANIFESTATION OF OUR 37:38.925 --> 37:43.994 COVENANT TOGETHER. AND MAY IT BE ENFORCED AND THROUGH THE BLOOD 37:43.994 --> 37:47.445 OF SPRINKLING, LET IT BE APPLIED UPON THEM AND FOR THEM AND TO 37:47.445 --> 37:54.045 THEM. THAT DRIVES OUT ANYTHING THAT IS OF SICKNESS OR DISEASE, 37:54.045 --> 38:00.076 ANY SYMPTOMS, ANY PAIN. AND LORD, IT ESTABLISHES A PERMANENT 38:00.076 --> 38:04.396 COVENANT BOUNDARY LYING UPON THEM, FOR THEM, AROUND THEM, 38:04.396 --> 38:07.576 EVEN THEIR VEHICLES, THEIR HOMES, THEIR LIVES, THEY'RE 38:07.576 --> 38:09.916 COMING IN, THEY'RE GOING OUT, THEY'RE IN BETWEEN, THEY ARE 38:09.916 --> 38:13.815 BLESSED AND PRESERVED. NOW I WANT YOU TO SAY THIS, SAY, GOD, 38:13.815 --> 38:22.846 I RECEIVE THAT. I'M BLESSED. YOUR COVENANT IS ENFORCED IN MY 38:22.846 --> 38:35.476 LIFE, AND I HONOR YOU. AMEN. WOW. YOU KNOW, I JUST WANNA SAY 38:35.476 --> 38:40.820 THIS TO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, DON'T EVER LOSE HOPE. 38:40.820 --> 38:47.559 DON'T LOSE HOPE. BECAUSE EVERYTHING ABOUT YOUR COVENANT 38:47.559 --> 38:54.826 IS VICTORY. SO THAT MEANS YOU CAN SUCCEED IN LIFE, YOU CAN BE 38:54.826 --> 38:58.306 BLESSED IN LIFE, AMEN. WELL, WHY DON'T YOU DO THIS? WHY DON'T YOU 38:58.306 --> 39:03.675 GREET SOMEBODY AROUND YOU, AND SAY, "I BET I KNOW WHAT NEXT 39:03.675 --> 39:06.295 SUNDAY'S FORECAST IS, AND I BET IT'S BETTER THAN THIS." 39:06.295 --> 39:08.913 (LAUGHS) 39:08.913 --> 39:11.532 ALL RIGHT, WE GREET YOU THAT ARE WATCHING TODAY. WE SEND OUR LOVE 39:11.536 --> 39:15.106 TO YOU. THANK YOU FOR YOUR LOVE, YOUR FRIENDSHIP. E-MEMBERS, WE 39:15.106 --> 39:19.306 CALL YOU BLESSED AS WELL, AND WE DECLARE THAT THE GOODNESS OF GOD 39:19.306 --> 39:24.014 IS SMILING DOWN ON YOU, AND THE KISS OF GOD HAS RELEASED 39:24.014 --> 39:27.434 BLESSINGS ABUNDANT UPON YOU AND FOR YOU. 39:27.434 --> 40:03.836 (MUSIC) 40:03.836 --> 40:10.443 WELL, GOOD MORNING. HOW'S EVERYBODY DOING THIS MORNING? 40:10.443 --> 40:16.195 HOPEFULLY YOU ONLINE ARE WARM WHEREVER YOU ARE, AND IT'S NOT 40:16.195 --> 40:22.422 WINDY IN YOUR LIVING ROOM. BECAUSE IT'S KIND OF WINDY HERE. 40:22.436 --> 40:24.791 WE ARE SUPPOSED TO GET A LITTLE SNOW LATER. 40:24.791 --> 40:27.059 (SIGHS) 40:27.059 --> 40:34.282 BUT IT'S SUPPOSED TO BE, LIKE, 80 BY TUESDAY OR WEDNESDAY, SO 40:34.286 --> 40:41.155 SHORT-LIVED. IT'S THE BEAUTY OF, UH, OMAHA IN MARCH. THE WEATHER 40:41.155 --> 40:46.106 JUST CHANGES, LIKE, ON A DIME. AND I'M SURE IT DOES IN A LOT OF 40:46.106 --> 40:50.246 THE PLACES OUT THERE THAT YOU'RE WATCHING, SO. WELL, IF THIS IS 40:50.246 --> 40:54.416 YOUR FIRST TIME IN THE BUILDING WITH US, I'M GLAD YOU BRAVED THE 40:54.416 --> 40:57.295 WEATHER. IF IT IS YOUR FIRST TIME, MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVE A 40:57.295 --> 41:00.505 BLUE GIFT BAG. THEY HAVE, THE USHERS HAVE THOSE AVAILABLE FOR 41:00.505 --> 41:02.846 YOU. IF YOU WOULD JUST WAVE YOUR HAND AT ONE OF THEM, THEY WILL 41:02.846 --> 41:06.505 GET YOU ONE. INSIDE THE BLUE GIFT BAG, THERE'S SOME GOODIES 41:06.505 --> 41:09.146 WE'VE TUCKED IN THERE FOR YOU, AS WELL AS A GUEST REGISTRY 41:09.146 --> 41:12.025 PACKET. HAS A PICTURE OF THE STAGE ON THE FRONT OF IT. SO 41:12.025 --> 41:14.815 PLEASE PULL THAT OUT AT THIS TIME. AND THERE'S A 41:14.815 --> 41:17.936 STATE-CONNECTED CARD ON THE LEFTHAND SIDE. TEAR THAT OFF, 41:17.936 --> 41:21.536 FILL IT OUT, DROP IT IN THE OFFERING BASKET WHEN IT COMES BY 41:21.536 --> 41:23.905 IN JUST A FEW MOMENTS. WE JUST WANT TO SEND YOU A THANK YOU FOR 41:23.905 --> 41:27.085 COMING TO SEE US THIS MORNING. AND IF YOU'RE WATCHING BY 41:27.085 --> 41:31.896 LIVESTREAM, FACEBOOK.LIVE, ROKU, YOUTUBE, RUMBLE, ONE VOICE TV, 41:31.896 --> 41:34.315 WE WANT TO WELCOME YOU TO THE SERVICE AS WELL. ANY OF THOSE 41:34.315 --> 41:38.485 PLATFORMS UP THERE YOU CAN WATCH US ON, BUT I ENCOURAGE YOU TO 41:38.485 --> 41:43.706 GET TO ONEVOICETV.NET OR DOWNLOAD THE ONE VOICE TV APP TO 41:43.706 --> 41:47.005 YOUR DEVICES BECAUSE YOU CAN GET ACCESS TO ALL THIS OTHER GREAT 41:47.005 --> 41:49.585 CONTENT, NOT ONLY SERVICES, BUT YOU CAN WATCH GET REAL WITH 41:49.585 --> 41:53.936 HANK, DAY OF THE DECREE, NEW LEVEL, GAME CHANGERS, AND MANY, 41:53.936 --> 41:56.876 MANY MORE. WATCH ALL THOSE GREAT PROGRAMS THAT WE PUT TOGETHER 41:56.876 --> 42:01.675 FOR YOU OUT THERE. SO BE SURE TO GET CONNECTED WITH US THERE. YOU 42:01.675 --> 42:06.025 CAN ALSO CHAT WITH ALL THE OTHER PEOPLE WATCHING ON ONE VOICE TV, 42:06.025 --> 42:09.925 EITHER ON THE WEBSITE OR ON THE APP. SO PLEASE GET CONNECTED 42:09.925 --> 42:13.106 WITH US ON ONE VOICE TV. IF YOU WOULD, JUST GIVE ALL OF OUR 42:13.106 --> 42:19.371 GUESTS HERE AN ONLINE HAND. AS PASTOR HANK COMES. ALL RIGHT. 42:19.371 --> 42:22.795 WELL, LET ME GIVE YOU JUST A COUPLE OF ANNOUNCEMENTS. I WANNA 42:22.795 --> 42:28.795 START OFF BY NEXT SUNDAY, WE HAVE OUR GUEST SPEAKER, PASTOR 42:28.795 --> 42:32.335 CHE AHN IS HERE. HE'S NEVER BEEN TO THIS, I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S 42:32.335 --> 42:34.856 EVER BEEN TO OMAHA, BUT YOU KNOW, HE IS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR 42:34.856 --> 42:39.356 OF CALIFORNIA. SO THAT'LL BE GREAT TO HAVE HIM COME. ALSO, 42:39.356 --> 42:42.445 FOR THOSE OF YOU IN THE HOUSTON AREA, I'LL BE MINISTERING FRIDAY 42:42.445 --> 42:46.496 NIGHT AT JOAN HUNTER'S CONFERENCE. COME ON OUT AND 42:46.496 --> 42:51.175 CHECK IT OUT. IT'LL BE A GREAT OPPORTUNITY TO MINISTER 42:51.175 --> 42:54.505 TOGETHER. HOW'S THAT SOUND? AND THEN I ALSO WANNA REMIND YOU ON 42:54.505 --> 42:57.416 TUESDAY, I'LL BE ON ELIJAH'S STREAMS, AND WE'RE GONNA BREAK 42:57.416 --> 42:59.996 DOWN SOME MORE PROPHETIC WORDS, SO THAT'LL BE A LOT OF FUN. AND 42:59.996 --> 43:04.496 THEN THAT NIGHT, FLASHPOINT. AND WEDNESDAY, I KNOW THAT PASTOR 43:04.496 --> 43:07.106 SHANE AND CHRISSY ARE GONNA KINDA DO PART 2 OF THEIR 43:07.106 --> 43:10.496 TEACHING THAT THEY HAD LAST TIME, AND THAT'LL BE REALLY GOOD 43:10.496 --> 43:14.846 AS WELL. ALSO, I WANNA MENTION, HOW MANY OF YOU LADIES ARE 43:14.846 --> 43:17.126 ALREADY REGISTERED FOR THE WOMEN'S CONFERENCE? 43:17.126 --> 43:19.195 (CONGREGATION CHEERING) 43:19.195 --> 43:21.865 THAT IS REALLY GOOD. THERE'S THE INFORMATION YOU CAN REGISTER 43:21.865 --> 43:24.746 TODAY, APRIL 17TH THROUGH THE 19TH. THERE'S THE SPEAKER 43:24.746 --> 43:28.045 INFORMATION. REGISTRATION IS FREE. WE JUST NEED TO KNOW THAT 43:28.045 --> 43:31.376 YOU'RE COMING. AND I HEARD THAT YOU ALL ARE GONNA HAVE LUNCH 43:31.376 --> 43:37.135 TOO, SO ISN'T THAT AMAZING? YEAH, WE FOUND SOME BREAD BOXES 43:37.135 --> 43:42.686 THAT WE HAD THAT WERE LEFT OVER FROM THE 2006 WOMEN'S 43:42.686 --> 43:46.646 CONFERENCE, AND SO WE'RE JUST GONNA PRAY OVER 'EM. NOT REALLY, 43:46.646 --> 43:48.695 SOME OF YOU ARE GONNA THINK ONLINE THAT I'M TELLING THE 43:48.695 --> 43:52.871 TRUTH ON THAT. I'M JUST MESSING WITH YOU. I AM. ALL RIGHT, HOW 43:52.871 --> 43:55.985 MANY MEN, MEN'S CONFERENCE MEN DO I HAVE? LET ME HEAR YOU. 43:55.985 --> 43:57.971 (CONGREGATION CHEERING) 43:57.971 --> 44:02.210 MAN, THAT WAS WEAK. WHEN THE WOMEN OUTDO YOU, IT MEANS 44:02.215 --> 44:04.885 YOU'RE NOT INTERESTED IN GOING. DOUG, GO AHEAD AND 44:04.885 --> 44:07.226 CANCEL THE MEN'S MEETING. I MEAN, I MEAN, ALL RIGHT. LET 44:07.226 --> 44:10.766 ME, I'LL GIVE YOU ONE MORE CHANCE. HOW MANY OF YOU 44:10.766 --> 44:15.356 KNOW, MEN? MARCH 28, 2026, MEN'S MINISTRY MEETING. 44:15.356 --> 44:17.655 (CONGREGATION CHEERING) 44:17.655 --> 44:20.327 ALL RIGHT, THE MEN'S MINISTRY MEETING IS BACK ON. 44:20.327 --> 44:21.527 (LAUGHING) 44:21.527 --> 44:25.668 HERE YOU GO. WE'RE GONNA START OFF WITH BREAKFAST AND THEN 44:25.672 --> 44:28.856 WE'RE GONNA MOVE RIGHT INTO THE AUDITORIUM HERE AND WE'VE 44:28.856 --> 44:35.215 GOT A LITTLE DANCE FLOOR WITH SOME LIKE DISCO CAN LIGHT. IT 44:35.215 --> 44:40.780 ROTATES THE DISCO BALL. WE'RE GONNA HAVE SOME NONWORD 44:40.795 --> 44:44.936 MUSIC, BUT WHAT DO THEY CALL THAT? NOT INSTRUMENTAL IN 44:44.936 --> 44:48.505 DISCO, WHAT DO THEY CALL IT? WHAT DO THEY CALL IT, SHANE? 44:48.505 --> 44:50.965 (AUDIENCE MUMBLING) 44:50.965 --> 44:53.516 OH, YOU WERE RIGHT, WHO WAS RIGHT? WHO SAID IT? YOU WERE 44:53.516 --> 44:56.456 RIGHT, WILLIE. OKAY, INSTRUMENTAL SOUNDTRACK, HOW'S 44:56.456 --> 44:59.846 THAT SOUND? AND SO GET YOUR BEST DANCE MOVES OUT. WE DO HAVE A 44:59.846 --> 45:02.666 CHIROPRACTOR IN THE CHURCH, AS I MENTIONED BEFORE, AND HE'LL HELP 45:02.666 --> 45:05.365 US OUT. AND THEN I'M GONNA PREACH A GREAT WORD. IT'S GONNA 45:05.365 --> 45:08.365 BE FANTASTIC. YOU'RE GONNA REALLY LIKE IT. WE'LL MINISTER 45:08.365 --> 45:12.746 TO YA, AND WE SHOULD HAVE YA OUTTA HERE BY NOON SO YOU CAN 45:12.746 --> 45:15.775 TAKE THE REST OF THE AFTERNOON OFF WITHOUT HONEYDEW FROM THE 45:15.775 --> 45:18.266 WIFE. SO WE'LL BE SENDING A LETTER OUT TO ALL THE LADIES. 45:18.266 --> 45:20.936 JUST GIVE YOU THE AFTERNOON OFF. HOW MANY OF YOU GUYS COULD GRUNT 45:20.936 --> 45:26.456 AT THAT? ALL RIGHT, SO I'LL SEE YOU THERE. CRAIG, ARE YOU 45:26.456 --> 45:30.505 COMING? GOOD, SEE CRAIG WILL BE THERE. HE'S GONNA DANCE TOO. 45:30.505 --> 45:35.996 THAT'S WORTH COMING FOR. OKAY, THERE YOU GO. ALL RIGHT, ARE YOU 45:35.996 --> 45:41.695 READY? IT'S OFFERING TIME. NOW THAT'S NOT BAD. ARE YOU READY 45:41.695 --> 45:45.235 ONLINE? PUT THE LITTLE HANDS TOGETHER, IT'S OFFERING TIME. I 45:45.235 --> 45:48.206 WANNA SHARE A SCRIPTURE, I WANNA FOLLOW UP WITH SOMETHING THAT 45:48.206 --> 45:53.396 PASTOR BRENDA HAD TAUGHT. AND I HAVE BEEN SERVING GOD SINCE 1984 45:53.396 --> 45:56.215 AND BEEN IN THE MINISTRY ALMOST 40 YEARS. I'M NOT TRYING TO GIVE 45:56.215 --> 46:00.115 YOU MY RESUME, IT'S JUST I HAD NEVER, I NEVER SAW, NEVER SEEN, 46:00.115 --> 46:03.715 WHAT'S THE CORRECT ENGLISH, ALL YOU ENGLISH PEOPLE? NEVER SAW, 46:03.715 --> 46:07.706 THANK YOU, I NEVER SAW. ME AND GRAMMY DIDN'T DO WELL IN GRAMMAR 46:07.706 --> 46:11.396 SCHOOL. BUT ANYWAY, I NEVER SAW THIS BEFORE. LOOK AT LUKE 46:11.396 --> 46:16.795 CHAPTER 6 , VERSE 38. THIS IS SO POWERFUL. NOTICE THE FIRST 46:16.795 --> 46:21.206 THING, IF YOU WANNA ALIGN YOURSELF FOR BLESSING, GIVE. 46:21.206 --> 46:25.496 NOW, I WANT YOU TO SEE SOMETHING IN THIS VERSE BECAUSE SOMETIMES 46:25.496 --> 46:32.065 WE WAIT ON GOD TO BLESS US. BUT HOW MANY KNOW THAT THE BLESSING 46:32.065 --> 46:34.885 COMING INTO GREATER BLESSING, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, 46:34.885 --> 46:41.335 ISN'T ALWAYS DEPENDENT ON GOD ALONE? HOW MANY KNOW YOU HAVE TO 46:41.335 --> 46:46.976 DO SOMETHING TOO? RIGHT? I KNOW PEOPLE THAT WANT GOD TO BLESS 46:46.976 --> 46:50.155 THEM, BUT THEY DON'T EVEN DO THE FIRST PART. THEY DON'T EVEN 46:50.155 --> 46:53.335 GIVE, THEY GET MAD. THAT'S ALL CHURCH IS TALKING ABOUT IS 46:53.335 --> 46:55.885 MONEY. WELL, LET ME ASK YOU A QUESTION. HOW DO CHURCHES 46:55.885 --> 47:01.045 FUNCTION WITHOUT IT? IT CAN'T JUST BE FREE ZONE, RIGHT? I 47:01.045 --> 47:05.036 MEAN, IT'S GOTTA HAVE SOME KIND OF SYSTEM OR ECONOMY THAT HELPS 47:05.036 --> 47:08.065 TO KEEP IT OPERATING. THAT'S WHY WHEN GOD WAS BUILDING THE 47:08.065 --> 47:11.846 TABERNACLE WITH MOSES IN THE WILDERNESS, HE PUT A FINANCIAL 47:11.846 --> 47:18.206 SYSTEM IN PLACE, RIGHT? BRING YOUR BEST, AND WHERE DID THEY 47:18.206 --> 47:22.166 GET THEIR ECONOMY? REMEMBER THAT BEFORE THEY LEFT, THEY WERE 47:22.166 --> 47:25.646 SLAVES IN EGYPT. THEY KNOCKED ON THE DOORS AND DEMANDED FROM THE 47:25.646 --> 47:29.846 EGYPTIANS THAT THEY RELEASE THEIR STUFF. AND GOD KNEW IF HE 47:29.846 --> 47:33.146 WAS TO HAVE AN ECONOMY, BUT ALSO TO SUPPORT THE FUNCTION OF 47:33.146 --> 47:36.536 THE CHURCH FOR THE PEOPLE, THERE HAD TO BE A FINANCIAL FLOW. 47:36.536 --> 47:38.155 SO LET'S GO BACK TO THE SCRIPTURE. I WANNA SHOW YOU 47:38.155 --> 47:42.235 SOMETHING REALLY POWERFUL. GIVE, AND I LIKE WHAT MY WIFE 47:42.235 --> 47:46.376 POINTED OUT, IT SHALL BE, UNDERLINE THOSE 3 WORDS, IT 47:46.376 --> 47:50.576 SHALL BE. YOU CAN SAY IT THIS WAY, THE HTL 47:50.576 --> 47:54.925 TRANSLATION, HANK TRANSLATION, GIVE, AND IT'S A FACT, JACK. 47:54.925 --> 48:00.914 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 48:00.927 --> 48:05.096 IS IT THE WEATHER THAT NOBODY'S LAUGHING TODAY? GIVEN, IT SHALL 48:05.096 --> 48:08.005 BE GIVEN UNTO YOU. IN OTHER WORDS, IT SHALL BE, IT'S A FACT, 48:08.005 --> 48:11.965 JACK. MARK IT DOWN, TAKE IT TO THE BANK. IT WILL BE GIVEN, BUT 48:11.965 --> 48:17.005 NOTICE WHAT IS THE STIPULATION. YOU GOTTA GIVE, YOU GOTTA GIVE 48:17.005 --> 48:21.505 CONSISTENTLY. NOW, NOBODY'S TO TELL YOU HOW MUCH THAT GIVING 48:21.505 --> 48:26.215 IS. THAT'S BETWEEN YOU AND GOD. GIVE AND IT SHALL BE GIVEN. AND 48:26.215 --> 48:29.996 THEN GOD SAYS THIS, JESUS IS SPEAKING, IT'S GONNA BE GOOD 48:29.996 --> 48:32.606 MEASURE, PRESSED DOWN, SHAKEN TOGETHER, RUNNING OVER, SHALL 48:32.606 --> 48:37.195 MEN GIVE BACK INTO YOUR BOSOM. FOR WITH THE SAME MEASURE, WATCH 48:37.195 --> 48:42.416 THIS, THAT YOU MEET, IT SHALL BE MEASURED TO YOU AGAIN. NOW STOP 48:42.416 --> 48:46.706 RIGHT THERE, WHAT'S JESUS TRYING TO TELL US? IF WE VIOLATE NUMBER 48:46.706 --> 48:53.996 ONE, WE'RE STINGY, WE DON'T GIVE, WE GIVE SPARINGLY OR 48:53.996 --> 48:58.135 SCARCELY, THEN IT'S GONNA AFFECT THE LAST PART OF THE VERSE. IT'S 48:58.135 --> 49:03.266 GONNA AFFECT THE AMOUNT OF RETURN, THE AMOUNT OF BLESSING 49:03.266 --> 49:06.356 IN RETURN. SO HOW MANY OF YOU SEE YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO DO 49:06.356 --> 49:09.056 WITH THE MEASURE OF BLESSING? YOU HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH 49:09.056 --> 49:11.365 WHETHER YOU'RE GONNA HAVE GOOD MEASURE PRESSED DOWN, SHAKEN 49:11.365 --> 49:17.695 TOGETHER, OR A LITTLE. SOMETIMES PEOPLE JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE. "OH, 49:17.695 --> 49:20.344 LOOK AT THAT CAR, LOOK AT THAT HOUSE, "LOOK AT THAT, LOOK AT 49:20.344 --> 49:23.425 THIS, LOOK AT THIS, LOOK AT THAT. "YOU KNOW, I'M JUST 49:23.425 --> 49:27.775 TELLING YOU." WELL, CHECK THEIR TITHE RECORDS. CHECK THEIR 49:27.775 --> 49:34.405 GIVING. I NEVER GET MAD AT PEOPLE. I'M NOT THERE TO ARGUE 49:34.405 --> 49:39.686 OVER SOMEONE'S BLESSING. I JUST KNOW MY OWN LIFE. I KNOW MY OWN 49:39.686 --> 49:47.096 LIFE. WHEN BRENDA AND I WERE MARRIED 37 YEARS AGO, HOW MUCH 49:47.096 --> 49:52.315 WE HAD TO TAKE THAT AND PRACTICE THAT WORD. WHEN WE DIDN'T HAVE 49:52.315 --> 49:55.976 ANYTHING, WE FOUND SOMETHING TO GIVE. WASN'T ALWAYS MONEY. IT 49:55.976 --> 49:58.795 WAS SOMETIMES FOOD, SOMETIMES CLOTHING, SOMETIMES IT WAS OUR 49:58.795 --> 50:03.536 TIME, BUT WE DID WHATEVER WE COULD TO KEPT GIVING AND GIVING 50:03.536 --> 50:09.775 AND GIVING. I GAVE CARS AWAY, FOOD AWAY, RIGHT? WENT AND FOUND 50:09.775 --> 50:12.295 COINS ANYWHERE I COULD AND GAVE THEM AWAY IF I DIDN'T HAVE 50:12.295 --> 50:16.795 ANYTHING. NOTICE WHAT JESUS SAID, "THE MEASURE THAT YOU 50:16.795 --> 50:21.056 GIVE." NOW, IT'S NOT MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. I JUST DON'T HAVE 50:21.056 --> 50:22.945 MILLIONS. WELL, IF YOU'RE A MILLIONAIRE AND YOU ONLY GIVE A 50:22.945 --> 50:27.851 DOLLAR IN THE OFFERING, JESUS POINTED THAT OUT. THAT'S WHY HE 50:27.851 --> 50:32.471 DIDN'T STOP THE WOMAN WHEN SHE HAD 2 MITES. 'CAUSE HE REALIZED 50:32.471 --> 50:34.690 THROUGH THE MEASURE THAT YOU GIVE, IT'S GONNA COME BACK TO 50:34.690 --> 50:37.630 YOU AGAIN. BUT YOU HAVE TO HAVE SOMETHING TO DO WITH IT. HE KNEW 50:37.630 --> 50:42.161 THAT IF HE GAVE THE LAST THAT SHE HAD, THAT THE MEASURE BACK 50:42.161 --> 50:45.130 TO HER WOULD BE THAT SHE PROBABLY WOULD NOT BE IN THAT 50:45.130 --> 50:49.481 SITUATION AGAIN. IT WOULD BREAK SOMETHING AND RELEASE A WHOLE 50:49.481 --> 50:52.570 NEW MEASURE. HOW MANY ARE READY TO COME INTO THAT KIND OF 50:52.570 --> 50:56.291 BLESSING? ALL RIGHT, BUT IT SHALL BE. AND I'LL SAY THIS LAST 50:56.291 --> 50:58.960 THING, IT'S CALLED THE LAWS OF GIVING AND RECEIVING, JUST LIKE 50:58.960 --> 51:02.231 THE LAWS OF GRAVITY. THERE'S NATURAL LAWS IN THE EARTH, 51:02.231 --> 51:04.900 RIGHT? YOU PLANT A SEED, SOMETHING WILL GROW. IT'S THE 51:04.900 --> 51:08.110 SAME WAY IN THE SPIRITUAL REALM. IF YOU GIVE ACCORDING TO JESUS, 51:08.110 --> 51:10.601 IT WILL BE GIVEN BACK TO YOU. GOOD MEASURE, PRESS DOWN, SHAKE 51:10.601 --> 51:13.543 IT TOGETHER, RUNNING OVER. AND THE SAME MEASURE THAT YOU GIVE, 51:13.543 --> 51:17.021 IF YOU GIVE NOTHING, YOU'RE GONNA GET NOTHING. IF YOU HAVE A 51:17.021 --> 51:20.228 LOT AND YOU GIVE LITTLE, YOU'RE GONNA GET A LITTLE BACK. IF YOU 51:20.228 --> 51:22.840 DON'T HAVE A LOT, BUT YOU GIVE A LOT, YOU'RE GONNA GET A LOT IN 51:22.840 --> 51:26.411 RETURN. GOD WILL CONTINUE TO BLESS YOU AND INCREASE YOU, 51:26.411 --> 51:29.860 AMEN? ALL RIGHT, THE GIVING INFORMATION IS ON THE SCREEN. 51:29.860 --> 51:34.391 THERE'S MANY DIFFERENT WAYS TO GIVE, ENVELOPE, WE GOT WEBSITE, 51:34.391 --> 51:40.630 MOBILE APP, TEXT TO GIVE, MAILING. THEY GOT A SCAN QR CODE 51:40.630 --> 51:43.601 WHERE YOU COULD SCAN ALL THAT INFORMATION. AND THOSE OF YOU 51:43.601 --> 51:46.090 THAT ARE WATCHING TODAY, I THANK YOU FOR YOUR TITHES AND YOUR 51:46.090 --> 51:49.690 OFFERINGS. YOU KNOW, I SAW MANY OF YOU AS I WAS OUT IN THE 51:49.690 --> 51:54.550 HALLWAY AT IDAHO THIS LAST WEEK, AND YOU'RE EXCITED ABOUT THE 51:54.550 --> 51:58.331 TABERNACLE HERE BECAUSE YOU HELPED TO BUILD IT THROUGH YOUR 51:58.331 --> 52:01.481 TITHES AND YOUR OFFERINGS, SAME WITH YOU. AND I JUST WANNA SAY 52:01.481 --> 52:04.900 THANK YOU ON BEHALF OF BRENDA AND I AND THIS MINISTRY, BUT 52:04.900 --> 52:08.981 ALSO WE WANNA HONOR GOD. AND I TELL YOU, WHEN PEOPLE COME 52:08.981 --> 52:14.710 TOGETHER AND THEY'RE OBEDIENT TO GIVE, LOOK AROUND. LOOK AT THE 52:14.710 --> 52:17.981 BLESSING OF WHAT GOD AND THE PEOPLE DO IN OBEDIENCE. AND SO 52:17.981 --> 52:20.681 WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR THAT. AND WE'RE VERY GRATEFUL FOR YOUR 52:20.681 --> 52:25.271 GIVING. AND WE GOT A LOT OF THINGS TO DO. WE'RE WORKING ON A 52:25.271 --> 52:27.940 LOT OF THINGS BEHIND THE SCENES, BUT WE'RE JUST PRAYING IT 52:27.940 --> 52:32.771 THROUGH. WE'RE WAITING, WE'RE TRUSTING GOD. WE'RE ASKING GOD A 52:32.771 --> 52:35.675 LOT OF QUESTIONS. AND I'LL TELL YOU, I HAVE IN MY HEART, MAN, I 52:35.675 --> 52:40.570 REALLY WANT TO RAISE UP SOMETHING WHERE WE CAN, I'VE 52:40.570 --> 52:45.610 BEEN SAYING TO GOD, I WANNA MENTOR THE NEXT GENERATION. AS I 52:45.610 --> 52:49.690 GET READY TO HIT 60 IN MAY, I SAID, GOD, I WANNA SHIFT OVER 52:49.690 --> 52:54.221 INTO TRAINING MINISTERS. THAT'S WHAT I WANNA DO. AND SO WE'RE 52:54.221 --> 52:58.391 GONNA KEEP WORKING HARD FOR THAT VISION. AMEN? ALL RIGHT, WELL, 52:58.391 --> 53:01.721 BEFORE YOU STAND AND PRAY, HOW MANY OF YOU STILL FILLING OUT 53:01.721 --> 53:04.030 YOUR OFFERING AND ALL THAT AND THOSE OF YOU ONLINE, HOPEFULLY 53:04.030 --> 53:07.541 YOU'VE HAD ENOUGH TIME. I DO WANNA DO THIS, SO MAKE SURE THAT 53:07.541 --> 53:09.400 YOU'VE GOT, HOW MANY OF YOU'VE GOT YOUR REGULAR TITHES AND 53:09.400 --> 53:12.971 OFFERINGS IN, YOU'RE READY, YOU CAN WAVE YOUR HAND ONLINE. I DO 53:12.971 --> 53:17.981 WANNA DO THIS, IN FACT, IN THIS AUDITORIUM, I WANNA GIVE YOU 53:17.981 --> 53:21.340 ANOTHER ENVELOPE BECAUSE I WANNA RECEIVE ANOTHER OFFERING FOR 53:21.340 --> 53:24.670 SOMETHING THAT HAPPENED ON FRIDAY, OR THURSDAY THAT I WANNA 53:24.670 --> 53:28.630 BRING TO YOUR ATTENTION. AND I'M GONNA ASK YOUR HELP FOR 53:28.630 --> 53:32.351 SOMETHING. SO WHAT YOU'RE GIVING TO NOW, THE GIVING INFORMATION 53:32.351 --> 53:37.001 IS THERE, THE APP. THIS IS ONE VOICE MINISTRIES. THIS IS FOR 53:37.001 --> 53:41.710 ALMOST 40 YEARS. THIS IS BRENDA'S AND MY TRAVELING 53:41.710 --> 53:46.181 MINISTRY THAT STARTED BEFORE WE HAD A CHURCH, RIGHT? THIS IS THE 53:46.181 --> 53:51.041 CHILDREN'S BOOK MINISTRY THAT STARTED WITH THE BOOKS. IT'S THE 53:51.041 --> 53:56.561 MEDIA MINISTRY, RIGHT? WELL, IT'S OVTV. AND WE ARE LOOKING 53:56.561 --> 54:00.251 FOR PARTNERS THAT CAN HELP WITH THE VERY THINGS THAT I TALKED 54:00.251 --> 54:04.570 ABOUT. WE NEED SOME HELP TO GET THE REST OF THE ANIMATION DONE. 54:04.570 --> 54:09.101 WE NEED HELP GETTING, YOU KNOW, JUST TAKING CARE OF YOUR OWN 54:09.101 --> 54:15.101 NETWORK. IT'S NOT CHEAP, RIGHT? AND WE NEED TO KEEP THIS GOING. 54:15.101 --> 54:18.280 WE NEED TO MAKE SURE THAT WE HAVE GOOD FUNDS HERE. BUT WHAT I 54:18.280 --> 54:22.001 WANT TO DO IS I WANT TO START, AFTER WHAT HAPPENED TO ME ON 54:22.001 --> 54:25.630 THURSDAY, I WANT TO START A TRAVEL THE WORLD FUND. AND I 54:25.630 --> 54:28.630 WANT TO SPEAK TO THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING ALSO AROUND 54:28.630 --> 54:31.001 THE WORLD. I'M GONNA ASK FOR YOUR HELP, AND YOU CAN GIVE 54:31.001 --> 54:35.349 WHATEVER YOU WANT. I HAVE BEEN TRAVELING IN THE MINISTRY FOR 40 54:35.349 --> 54:40.451 YEARS. I HAVE, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY MILLIONS OF MILES ARE ON 54:40.451 --> 54:43.481 THESE BONES. I'VE BEEN TO, I DON'T KNOW HOW MANY NATIONS, I'M 54:43.481 --> 54:46.331 NOT GONNA TRY TO IMPRESS YOU WITH HOW MANY I'VE BEEN TO, BUT 54:46.331 --> 54:50.710 I HAVE TRAVELED AND TRAVELED AND TRAVELED BY CAR. YEAH, I'VE BEEN 54:50.710 --> 54:56.320 ON BOAT. I'VE BEEN ON LITTLE PLANES, BIG PLANES, BEEN THROUGH 54:56.320 --> 54:59.831 THE PLAINS. I'VE BEEN EVERYWHERE. THEY WROTE A SONG 54:59.831 --> 55:04.331 ABOUT MY TRAVEL. BUT YOU KNOW, I'M NOT SAYING THAT TO PLAY A 55:04.331 --> 55:07.960 VIOLIN. I'M JUST SAYING THAT I HAVE BEEN TRAVELING FOR A LONG, 55:07.960 --> 55:11.320 LONG TIME. WELL, IN THE MEANTIME, GOD HAD ASKED ME TO 55:11.320 --> 55:17.170 PASTOR. AND SO, YOU KNOW, I'VE HAD TO JUGGLE WITH MY SCHEDULE 55:17.170 --> 55:21.340 ON HOW DO I, 'CAUSE MY HONOR IS TO YOU, THE PEOPLE AND TO YOU 55:21.340 --> 55:24.221 THAT ARE WATCHING, THAT'S WHY I DON'T GIVE VERY MANY SUNDAYS UP. 55:24.221 --> 55:29.740 I TRY VERY HARD TO BE HERE. BUT FOLKS, AS YOU KNOW, I'M JUGGLING 55:29.740 --> 55:35.170 A LOT. AND I THINK YOU SEE THE FRUIT OF WHAT WE'RE JUGGLING BY 55:35.170 --> 55:39.311 THE AMOUNT OF THINGS THAT WE'RE BRINGING TO YOU, THAT MINISTERS 55:39.311 --> 55:43.121 TO YOU IN VARIOUS FORMS, WHETHER IT'S FLASHPOINT, WHETHER IT'S 55:43.121 --> 55:46.570 MIDWEEK SERVICES, WHETHER IT'S PROPHETIC PULSE, PROPHETIC 55:46.570 --> 55:50.501 SCHOOL, THE CHILDREN'S BOOKS, BOOKS FOR ADULTS, SUNDAY 55:50.501 --> 55:55.121 MESSAGES, BEING YOUR PASTOR AND INVOLVED, BEING INVOLVED IN THE 55:55.121 --> 56:00.760 COMMUNITY, AND THE LIST GOES ON. WELL THURSDAY, I WAS SCHEDULED 56:00.760 --> 56:06.130 OUT OF EPLEY AIRFIELD TO FLY TO BOISE, IDAHO, AND AS I WAS 56:06.130 --> 56:11.351 GETTING READY TO GO TO THE AIRPORT, I HEARD THE HOLY SPIRIT 56:11.351 --> 56:15.221 SAY TO ME, "HANK, CHECK YOUR PHONE." AND I THOUGHT, I DON'T 56:15.221 --> 56:18.701 NEED TO CHECK MY PHONE. AND I HEARD IT AGAIN, "CHECK YOUR 56:18.701 --> 56:23.231 PHONE." AND I THOUGHT, WELL, YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT, JANET, I 56:23.231 --> 56:28.061 THOUGHT YOU HAD HANDED ME THE BOARDING PASSES. AND SO, BUT SHE 56:28.061 --> 56:30.851 HANDED ME THE ITINERARY, SO I DIDN'T EVEN THINK ABOUT CHECKING 56:30.851 --> 56:35.380 IN. SO ANYWAY, I GET ON, I CHECK IN TO THE FLIGHT, AND IT'S 56:35.380 --> 56:41.920 DELAYED 10 HOURS AND 30 MINUTES. AND THE HUB, IT WOULDN'T EVEN 56:41.920 --> 56:46.090 GET ME INTO BOISE, IDAHO UNTIL LATE. WE STARTED CHECKING AROUND 56:46.090 --> 56:48.431 OTHER AIRLINES. IT WASN'T A MATTER OF AIRLINES, IT'S THE 56:48.431 --> 56:51.371 MATTER, OR ONE PARTICULAR AIRLINE, IT'S A MATTER OF THE 56:51.371 --> 56:57.431 AIRLINES. THEY ARE CRAZY, THE LINES ARE LONG, THE AIRLINES ARE 56:57.431 --> 56:59.981 IN A MESS. AND HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE BEEN FLYING LATELY, AND YOU 56:59.981 --> 57:01.721 CAN RAISE YOUR HAND, THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, EITHER 57:01.721 --> 57:05.471 YOUR FLIGHT'S BEEN DELAYED, YOUR FLIGHT'S BEEN CANCELED. HOW MANY 57:05.471 --> 57:11.501 HAS HAD THAT HAPPEN, LONG LINES? THE DIFFERENCE IS I CAN'T AFFORD 57:11.501 --> 57:16.001 WITH MY SCHEDULE AND WHAT I'M DOING TO BE YOUR PASTOR HERE, TO 57:16.001 --> 57:20.471 BE YOUR PASTOR, TO FIGHT WITH GOD, TO FIGHT, I'M NOT FIGHTING 57:20.471 --> 57:24.760 WITH HIM, BUT TO FIGHT ALONGSIDE WITH GOD, TO FIGHT FOR YOUR 57:24.760 --> 57:29.471 CHILDREN ALONGSIDE OF YOU, TO FIGHT FOR THIS COUNTRY ALONGSIDE 57:29.471 --> 57:35.260 OF YOU, TO BE STUCK IN AN AIRPORT SOMEWHERE AND BE GONE 57:35.260 --> 57:41.650 FOR 3 , 4 DAYS, OR NOT GET BACK FOR SUNDAY. AND SO I STARTED 57:41.650 --> 57:44.320 CHECKING AROUND AND THINKING, HOW AM I GONNA GET TO 57:44.320 --> 57:49.135 FLASHPOINT? IT HAD ME ARRIVING AT 1130 AT NIGHT, BOISE, IDAHO. 57:49.150 --> 57:53.621 AND I SAID, BRENDA, I'M GONNA MAKE AN EXECUTIVE DECISION. SHE 57:53.621 --> 57:56.440 SAID, WHAT'S THAT? I SAID, I'M GONNA HAVE AMY CALL, I'M GONNA 57:56.440 --> 58:01.360 CHARTER A JET. BECAUSE I AM SO DEDICATED TO GOD, AND I AM SO 58:01.360 --> 58:05.141 DEDICATED TO YOU, THE PEOPLE, AND I AM DEDICATED TO THE UNITED 58:05.141 --> 58:07.619 STATES OF AMERICA AND TO FIGHT FOR IT. I SAID, BRENDA, I FEEL 58:07.619 --> 58:12.161 LIKE I'M SUPPOSED TO BE THERE AT ALL COSTS. I KNOW WE'RE PAYING A 58:12.161 --> 58:15.521 LOT OF MONEY HERE, BUT BRENDA, I AM PRESSED. IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, 58:15.521 --> 58:17.981 WHEN THE BIBLE SAYS JESUS WAS PRESSED TO GO TO JERUSALEM, I 58:17.981 --> 58:22.420 FELT PRESSED THAT I HAVE TO DO THIS. I DON'T NEED ANOTHER THING 58:22.420 --> 58:25.240 TO DO. THAT'S NOT WHY I DO IT. IT'S BECAUSE I'M TRYING TO BE 58:25.240 --> 58:28.931 OBEDIENT ALONGSIDE OF YOU AND WITH YOU. AND IF YOU KNOW ME, 58:28.931 --> 58:32.351 THERE'S NO QUIT IN ME. I HAVEN'T QUIT. I KEEP PRESSING. SO I 58:32.351 --> 58:39.128 CHARTERED A FLIGHT, BUT THANK YOU. IT'S VERY EXPENSIVE. AND 58:39.128 --> 58:42.400 YES, I LOVED IT. I GOT THERE, AND I WAS ABLE TO DO THURSDAY 58:42.400 --> 58:45.490 NIGHT, AND THEN FRIDAY MORNING, AND THEN FLY BACK. AND I WAS 58:45.490 --> 58:50.170 VERY APPRECIATIVE. FOLKS, WE GOT TO GET A TRAVEL FUND TOGETHER. 58:50.170 --> 58:53.260 SO I HAD A TALK. I TALKED TO A COUPLE OF THE BOARD MEMBERS. 58:53.260 --> 58:56.501 THEY SAID, NO, HANK, IT'S TIME. NOW LET ME JUST TALK A COUPLE 58:56.501 --> 58:58.751 THINGS OUT, BECAUSE I WANT TO RECEIVE AN OFFERING TO START A 58:58.751 --> 59:04.240 TRAVEL FUND. IS THAT GOOD? ALL RIGHT, THANK YOU. BECAUSE I 59:04.240 --> 59:07.630 GOTTA BE READY AT ANY TIME, AND I'VE GOTTA BE ABLE TO MAKE GOOD 59:07.630 --> 59:13.451 STEWARDSHIP DECISIONS, OKAY, ON WHAT IS BEST FOR THE SCHEDULE 59:13.451 --> 59:17.231 AND WHAT IS BEST TO GET ME THERE AND GET ME BACK THE QUICKEST. 59:17.231 --> 59:19.780 NOW, SOME OF YOU MIGHT BE SAYING, WELL, PASTOR HANK, I'VE 59:19.780 --> 59:23.351 HEARD PROPHECIES THAT THIS MINISTRY IS SUPPOSED TO GET 59:23.351 --> 59:26.110 THEIR OWN JET. HOW COME YOU HAVEN'T DONE THAT? LET'S BE 59:26.110 --> 59:32.110 HONEST, HAVING YOUR OWN JET IS VERY EXPENSIVE. YOU GOTTA HAVE 59:32.110 --> 59:36.070 PILOTS, YOU GOTTA HAVE A HANGER, YOU GOTTA HAVE MAINTENANCE, YOU 59:36.070 --> 59:38.831 GOTTA BE ABLE TO PAY FOR THE JET, YOU GOTTA BE ABLE TO PAY TO 59:38.831 --> 59:42.701 KEEP IT UP. IT'S A GREAT IDEA. I WELCOME THAT PROPHECY, I BELIEVE 59:42.701 --> 59:46.451 THAT PROPHECY. BUT THE BIBLE SAYS, "WITH WISE COUNSEL MAKE 59:46.451 --> 59:49.811 WAR." SO I HAVE BEEN TALKING TO OTHERS WHO OWN AIRPLANES, I HAVE 59:49.811 --> 59:54.490 BEEN LOOKING AT IF IT'S REALISTIC OR NOT, IF THIS IS 59:54.490 --> 59:58.481 SMART, AND LET ME TELL YOU THIS. THE REASON I WENT BY A JET IS 59:58.481 --> 01:00:03.851 BECAUSE IF YOU GO WITH OTHER AIRPLANES, AND I SEE A PILOT OUT 01:00:03.851 --> 01:00:06.911 THERE, YOU KNOW THIS, YOU CAN'T FLY WHAT'S CALLED A FAIR WEATHER 01:00:06.911 --> 01:00:10.780 PLANE. THAT'S BASED ON WHATEVER THE WEATHER IS. JETS CAN FLY 01:00:10.780 --> 01:00:13.811 ABOVE THAT STUFF AND GET YOU THERE QUICK AND GET YOU THERE 01:00:13.811 --> 01:00:18.581 BACK. AND SO I SAY THAT, I DON'T WANNA TAKE TOO MUCH TIME, BUT 01:00:18.581 --> 01:00:21.610 GETTING WITH HAVING YOUR OWN AIRPLANE. I RECEIVED THOSE 01:00:21.610 --> 01:00:24.880 PROPHECIES, BUT IT ALSO SAYS THIS, BEFORE YOU BUILD 01:00:24.880 --> 01:00:27.791 SOMETHING, YOU NEED TO COUNT THE COSTS. AND I'VE BEEN COUNTING 01:00:27.791 --> 01:00:30.971 THE COSTS. IN FACT, I'VE BEEN LOGGING FLIGHTS AND FIGURING 01:00:30.971 --> 01:00:33.880 OUT, I'VE CALLED DIFFERENT PILOTS, I'VE CALLED A PARTICULAR 01:00:33.880 --> 01:00:37.001 PERSON I KNOW THAT WORKS FOR THE FAA AND I SAID, YOU KNOW WHAT, 01:00:37.001 --> 01:00:40.190 AND I'VE BEEN DOING THIS OVER THE LAST FEW YEARS TO TRY TO 01:00:40.190 --> 01:00:46.041 GAIN WISDOM, UNDERSTANDING, AND TO KNOW IF THIS IS SOMETHING 01:00:46.041 --> 01:00:49.251 THAT WE'RE TO DO WHEN WE'RE TO DO IT. SO IF YOU'RE GONNA WRITE 01:00:49.251 --> 01:00:53.240 IN COMMENTS OR WHATEVER, WE'RE EXPLORING IT, BUT IT'S JUST NOT 01:00:53.240 --> 01:00:57.523 TIME. AND I DON'T THINK IT'S STEWARDSHIP YET, I JUST DON'T. 01:00:57.530 --> 01:01:01.130 SOME OF YOU MIGHT SAY, WELL, HEY, I KNOW A GUY, PASTOR HANK. 01:01:01.130 --> 01:01:05.990 I APPRECIATE YOUR GUY. I DON'T KNOW HIM. I DON'T KNOW YOUR GUY. 01:01:05.990 --> 01:01:08.271 JUST, WELL, YOU MIGHT SAY, YEAH, BUT YOU DON'T KNOW THE PILOTS 01:01:08.271 --> 01:01:10.911 THAT ARE FLYING YOU. YEAH, THE DIFFERENCE IS I KNOW THE COMPANY 01:01:10.911 --> 01:01:15.831 THAT I USED. THEY'RE A REPUTABLE COMPANY THAT ARE HELD TO VERY 01:01:15.831 --> 01:01:21.650 HIGH STANDARDS OF MAINTAINING THEIR AIRCRAFT AND MAINTAINING 01:01:21.650 --> 01:01:26.271 CERTAIN STANDARDS OF WHEN TO FLY, NOT TO FLY, THAT KIND OF 01:01:26.271 --> 01:01:31.724 THING. AND THEY ALSO HAVE 2 PILOTS. I'VE HAD PEOPLE OFFER ME 01:01:31.724 --> 01:01:33.858 A PLANE AND THERE'S ONLY ONE PERSON. WELL, HEY, I AIN'T 01:01:33.858 --> 01:01:37.311 FLYING IT IF YOU DECIDE YOU'RE GONNA THROW UP OR SOMETHING AND 01:01:37.311 --> 01:01:40.851 YOU CAN'T FLY. WELL, WE GOT AUTOPILOT. SOMEBODY STILL NEEDS 01:01:40.851 --> 01:01:45.681 TO LAND, IT AIN'T GONNA BE ME. SO, YOU KNOW, I JUST THINK IT'S 01:01:45.681 --> 01:01:52.431 JUST NOT THERE. I'VE HAD A LOT OF TRAVEL CHALLENGES. I'VE GONE 01:01:52.431 --> 01:01:56.300 THROUGH TSA AND I'VE HAD OTHERS THAT SAY, "HEY MAN, I DON'T NEED 01:01:56.300 --> 01:01:58.521 A CID, "THANK YOU FOR WHAT YOU'RE DOING FOR AMERICA." AND 01:01:58.521 --> 01:02:00.110 THEN I'VE HAD OTHERS THAT TELL ME THEY DON'T LIKE WHAT I'M 01:02:00.110 --> 01:02:02.690 DOING. AND THEY LOOK FOR EVERY WAY THEY CAN. I KNOW THEY 01:02:02.690 --> 01:02:08.121 SHOULDN'T DO THIS TO TRY TO MAKE LIFE DIFFICULT. AND SO WE'RE 01:02:08.121 --> 01:02:11.150 TRYING TO ROLL WITH IT, BY THE WAY, THE OTHER FLASHPOINT 01:02:11.150 --> 01:02:14.001 GUESTS, THEY HAD THE SAME BOTTLENECK OF STUFF. SOME OF 01:02:14.001 --> 01:02:17.420 THEM ALMOST DIDN'T GET THERE EITHER. SO I WANNA KEEP DOING 01:02:17.420 --> 01:02:21.050 THIS. IF YOU WANNA CONTINUE TO HAVE THIS VESSEL AT THE 01:02:21.050 --> 01:02:23.451 DIFFERENT MEETINGS THAT WE'RE GOING, THEN I'M GONNA CONTINUE 01:02:23.451 --> 01:02:27.681 TO, LET'S PUT UP THE INFORMATION THERE. I WANNA START A TRAVEL 01:02:27.681 --> 01:02:30.320 FUND. YOU SAY, WELL, HOW DO I DO THAT, PASTOR HANK? HOW CAN I BE 01:02:30.320 --> 01:02:34.340 A HELP? LISTEN, YOU TALK TO GOD IN YOUR HEART. IF YOU FEEL 01:02:34.340 --> 01:02:39.800 STIRRED, THERE'S AN ENVELOPE RIGHT HERE ON, CAN I ASK YOU TO 01:02:39.800 --> 01:02:43.940 PICK UP THE ENVELOPE, PLEASE? EVERY ONE OF YOU. AND I ASK YOU 01:02:43.940 --> 01:02:47.210 TO GIVE TODAY. IS THAT ASKING TOO MUCH? AND YOU SAY, WELL, I 01:02:47.210 --> 01:02:49.010 DON'T HAVE ANYTHING TO GIVE, PASTOR HANK. WELL, THEN WILL YOU 01:02:49.010 --> 01:02:51.884 TAKE IT WITH YOU AND PRAY OVER IT AND SEE IF GOD WOULD SPEAK TO 01:02:51.884 --> 01:02:55.971 YOU DURING THE WEEK? I'D REALLY APPRECIATE IT AS YOUR PASTOR. 01:02:55.971 --> 01:02:58.070 THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING ONLINE, YOU DON'T HAVE AN 01:02:58.070 --> 01:03:01.460 ENVELOPE, BUT YOU HAVE OUR WEBSITE, ONE VOICE MINISTRY, 01:03:01.460 --> 01:03:04.851 MOBILE APP, TEXT TO GIVE. I WOULD REALLY, REALLY APPRECIATE 01:03:04.851 --> 01:03:08.871 IT. NOW, HERE'S WHAT I ALWAYS DO. I WENT BEFORE GOD, PASTOR 01:03:08.871 --> 01:03:11.541 BRENDA, COME ON. I WENT BEFORE GOD AND I SAID, LORD, JUST GIVE 01:03:11.541 --> 01:03:15.351 ME A SCRIPTURE SO THAT I CAN SHARE WITH THE PEOPLE SOMETHING 01:03:15.351 --> 01:03:19.880 OUT OF THE WORD THAT IS TRUE, THAT I CAN SHARE WITH THEM THAT 01:03:19.880 --> 01:03:24.291 SOMETIMES A MINISTER DOES HAVE TO HAVE, WATCH THIS NOW, A 01:03:24.291 --> 01:03:30.590 TRAVEL PLAN AND A TRAVEL VEHICLE THAT'S DEPENDABLE. LAST FEW 01:03:30.590 --> 01:03:36.282 TIMES I'VE TRIED TO MAKE TRIPS, THEY HAVEN'T BEEN DEPENDABLE. 01:03:36.291 --> 01:03:39.800 AND I ALMOST COULD NOT GET BACK HERE IN TIME OR I GET STUCK, 01:03:39.800 --> 01:03:43.940 SOMETHING GETS DELAYED. HOW MANY KNOW THE STORY THERE? BUT I 01:03:43.940 --> 01:03:49.041 WANNA SHOW YOU MARK CHAPTER 3 , VERSE 9 OUT OF THE NIV. NOTICE 01:03:49.041 --> 01:03:53.690 WHAT JESUS INSTRUCTED, NO, IT'S NLT, EXCUSE ME. JESUS INSTRUCTED 01:03:53.690 --> 01:03:59.661 HIS DISCIPLES TO WHAT? HAVE A BOAT, WHAT? SO THE CROWD WOULD 01:03:59.661 --> 01:04:04.670 NOT CRUSH HIM. SO EVEN JESUS WAS CONCERNED ABOUT GOING TO CERTAIN 01:04:04.670 --> 01:04:09.380 PORTS AND AIRPORTS AND THINGS. HE HAD TO HAVE SMARTS BECAUSE OF 01:04:09.380 --> 01:04:14.840 WHERE HIS MINISTRY WAS AT AND HOW IT AFFECTED PEOPLE AND HOW 01:04:14.840 --> 01:04:19.670 IT AFFECTED HIM AS A VESSEL, OKAY? I'VE HAD TIMES WHERE, BOY, 01:04:19.670 --> 01:04:22.911 GO, YOU KNOW, WITH THIS JET, I WAS THERE, I WAS REFRESHED. I'VE 01:04:22.911 --> 01:04:27.021 HAD OTHER TIMES THAT I HAVE TO GET UP, WAIT FOR GOD TO REFRESH 01:04:27.021 --> 01:04:31.971 MY BODY AND STUFF AND MINISTER. AND I'M NOT TRYING TO GIVE YOU A 01:04:31.971 --> 01:04:35.061 SOFT SPOT, I'M JUST TELLING YOU THE REALITY. JESUS REALIZED THAT 01:04:35.061 --> 01:04:38.420 THERE WAS SOMETHING THAT HE HAD TO CONSIDER. HE HAD TO HAVE A 01:04:38.420 --> 01:04:42.561 BOAT READY. WHAT DOES THAT MEAN? HAVE A VEHICLE READY, A METHOD 01:04:42.561 --> 01:04:47.541 OF TRAVEL, AND HAVE A TRAVEL PLAN. AND THAT'S WHAT I FELT 01:04:47.541 --> 01:04:50.300 INSTRUCTED TO DO. AMEN. CAN I SHARE SOMETHING WHILE YOU'RE 01:04:50.300 --> 01:04:52.521 STILL HERE? IN FACT, I'M GOING TO TURN THIS OVER TO YOU. WELL, 01:04:52.521 --> 01:04:54.440 YEAH, YOU CAN DO THAT. AND YOU CAN TAKE IT AWAY AND THEN START 01:04:54.440 --> 01:04:56.751 YOUR MESSAGE. WELL, LET ME SAY THIS, BUT I WANT YOU TO STAY 01:04:56.751 --> 01:04:58.070 HERE FOR THIS PART. I WANT TO TELL HIM ABOUT WHAT SOMETHING 01:04:58.070 --> 01:05:02.451 BROTHER COPELAND SAID. IT'S SO IMPORTANT. NOW, WE HAVE FLOWN 01:05:02.451 --> 01:05:06.471 SOME CHARTER FLIGHTS BEFORE, BUT IT IS EXPENSIVE. AND SO PASTOR 01:05:06.471 --> 01:05:08.931 IS FRUGAL. SO THEN HE'S LIKE, WELL, I'D RATHER TAKE THIS 01:05:08.931 --> 01:05:13.219 COMMERCIAL. IT COSTS A LOT. AND WE'VE TRIED TO GO BACK TO DOING 01:05:13.219 --> 01:05:16.280 THAT, BUT BROTHER COPELAND HAD GIVEN US A WORD. WHAT WAS IT, 01:05:16.280 --> 01:05:20.030 20? IT'S BEEN A FEW YEARS AGO NOW. IT WAS RIGHT BEFORE COVID. 01:05:20.030 --> 01:05:22.490 RIGHT BEFORE OR DURING, I FORGET NOW. WE WERE HAVING LUNCH WITH 01:05:22.490 --> 01:05:25.070 HIM. WE WERE HAVING LUNCH AND HE STANDS UP, YOU KNOW HOW BROTHER 01:05:25.070 --> 01:05:28.371 COPELAND IS, JANET, AND HE'S GOT THAT GRUFF VOICE. HE GOES, "HEY, 01:05:28.371 --> 01:05:34.610 KUNNEMAN, I'M GONNA TELL YOU SOMETHING." AND HE STANDS UP AND 01:05:34.610 --> 01:05:37.340 POINTS HIS FINGER. YOU KNOW, WHEN BROTHER COPELAND POINTS HIS 01:05:37.340 --> 01:05:41.983 FINGER, YOU BETTER LISTEN, RIGHT? AND HE SAID, "YOUR DAYS 01:05:41.983 --> 01:05:47.960 OF FLYING COMMERCIAL ARE OVER." AND THEN OF COURSE AND I FELT 01:05:47.960 --> 01:05:51.501 THE SPIRIT OF GOD ON THE WORDS. I DID, I DID. BUT YOU KNOW, THEN 01:05:51.501 --> 01:05:53.690 WE'RE LIKE, "WELL, HOW DO WE DO THAT, "LORD?" WELL, CHARTERING 01:05:53.690 --> 01:05:57.201 IS A STEP TOWARD OWNING A PLANE. AND SO WHAT WE WANNA DO IS KEEP 01:05:57.201 --> 01:06:01.280 PASTOR ON THE PRIVATE JET AS MUCH AS WE CAN. AND I BELIEVE 01:06:01.280 --> 01:06:04.543 THAT. I'M GONNA START BELIEVING FOR IT ACTIVELY. I APPRECIATE 01:06:04.543 --> 01:06:07.340 THAT, THANK YOU. I NEED YOU BACK HERE ON SUNDAY. I DIDN'T WANT 01:06:07.340 --> 01:06:11.721 YOU STUCK IN AN AIRPORT SATURDAY AND MISS TODAY'S SERVICE. AND SO 01:06:11.721 --> 01:06:15.320 I DON'T WANT HIM GOING COMMERCIAL BECAUSE HE CAN'T, IT 01:06:15.320 --> 01:06:19.460 TAKES 2 DAYS ON EITHER SIDE. WELL, AND WE'RE NOT A HUB CITY. 01:06:19.460 --> 01:06:21.831 I WANT YOU TO KNOW THAT. NO, OMAHA IS NOT. SO IT MEANS WE 01:06:21.831 --> 01:06:23.960 HAVE TO GO TO THE HUB CITY. WE'RE JUST AN OUTPOST. SO NOW 01:06:23.960 --> 01:06:27.280 YOU'RE AT THE MERCY OF THE HUB CITY IF THAT SCHEDULE'S ON TIME. 01:06:27.280 --> 01:06:30.021 AND YOU GET IT. SO WE'RE JUST TRYING TO BE EDITED. SO HOW MANY 01:06:30.021 --> 01:06:33.318 OF YOU WOULD BE HONORED TO HELP THE TRAVEL FUND? LET'S GET THAT 01:06:33.318 --> 01:06:36.800 GOING AND HELP US OUT. AND BRENDA, I'M BELIEVING FOR A 01:06:36.800 --> 01:06:40.701 LARGE AMOUNT TODAY SO THAT WE CAN JUST LOOK AT IT AND THEN 01:06:40.701 --> 01:06:43.760 KIND OF DETERMINE BETWEEN COMMERCIAL AND CHARTERING AND 01:06:43.760 --> 01:06:46.731 HOW THINGS FLOW. WE'LL HAVE THE FUND READY AND WE'LL USE IT 01:06:46.731 --> 01:06:50.751 WISELY. WE'LL BE SMART AND BE GOOD STEWARDS. AMEN. RIGHT? 01:06:50.751 --> 01:06:54.081 GOOD, GOOD, LET'S DO IT. I APPRECIATE YOUR HELP. CAN YOU 01:06:54.081 --> 01:06:57.530 PRAY OVER THE PEOPLE? LET'S STAND WITH OUR OFFERINGS. 01:06:57.530 --> 01:06:59.900 HEAVENLY FATHER, FIRST OF ALL, WE WANNA THANK YOU FOR THOSE 01:06:59.900 --> 01:07:03.351 THAT ARE TITHING AND GIVING THEIR OFFERINGS UNTO THE HOUSE 01:07:03.351 --> 01:07:07.280 OF THE LORD, THAT THERE MAY BE MEAT IN YOUR HOUSE. AND LORD, 01:07:07.280 --> 01:07:11.090 YOU SAID WHEN WE DO THAT, THAT YOU, OUR GOD, WOULD OPEN THE 01:07:11.090 --> 01:07:14.181 WINDOWS OF HEAVEN, THAT YOU WOULD POUR BLESSINGS OUT UPON 01:07:14.181 --> 01:07:17.262 THE PRECIOUS PEOPLE, AND THAT GOD, YOU WOULD EVEN REBUKE THE 01:07:17.262 --> 01:07:22.251 DEVOURER OF GOD, THAT THEY WOULD COME INTO BLESSING AND 01:07:22.251 --> 01:07:26.900 PROVISION. NOW, FATHER, I TRIED TO SHARE MY HEART IN ALL 01:07:26.900 --> 01:07:31.190 INTEGRITY AND PURITY AND TRANSPARENCY. AND I BELIEVE THAT 01:07:31.190 --> 01:07:34.490 YOU SHARED THE SCRIPTURE WITH ME, MARK 3, TO SHOW THAT JESUS 01:07:34.490 --> 01:07:40.041 EVEN HAD CERTAIN CHALLENGES. AND I KNOW THAT, LORD, THAT HE HAD 01:07:40.041 --> 01:07:43.791 TO HAVE A TRAVEL PLAN AND HAVE A TRAVEL VEHICLE READY. AND I FELT 01:07:43.791 --> 01:07:46.791 INSTRUCTED AS THAT SCRIPTURE CAME TO ME TO PRESENT THAT TO 01:07:46.791 --> 01:07:50.001 THE PEOPLE. AND I PRAY THAT THOSE THAT HAVE A WILLING HEART 01:07:50.001 --> 01:07:52.971 AND THOSE THAT HEARD MY HEART, AND I BELIEVE EVEN HEARD YOUR 01:07:52.971 --> 01:07:57.471 HEART, WILL RESPOND, LORD, THAT THEY'LL GIVE AS YOU DIRECT THEM, 01:07:57.471 --> 01:08:00.291 AS YOU LEAD THEM. AND LORD, WE'LL HAVE A TRAVEL FUND AND 01:08:00.291 --> 01:08:04.340 WE'LL BE GOOD STEWARDS OVER THAT FUND AND WE'LL BE WISE, LORD, 01:08:04.340 --> 01:08:08.271 WITH THE GENEROSITY OF THE PEOPLE. AND THE GOODWILL OF YOU, 01:08:08.271 --> 01:08:12.291 OUR GOD, WILL ALWAYS UPHOLD HONOR BEFORE YOU AND THE PEOPLE. 01:08:12.291 --> 01:08:15.081 NOW LORD, I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD PROVIDE FOR THAT FUND. I'M 01:08:15.081 --> 01:08:18.740 ASKING YOU TO FILL IT TO SURPLUS, THAT LORD WE CAN COME 01:08:18.740 --> 01:08:23.150 AND GO AND BE REFRESHED AND BRING, LORD, I BELIEVE YOUR 01:08:23.150 --> 01:08:26.390 PRESENCE AND YOUR WORD THAT COMES STRAIGHT FROM YOUR HEART. 01:08:26.390 --> 01:08:30.110 IT IS OUR HONOR TO SERVE YOU. THANK YOU GOD, AND I THANK THE 01:08:30.110 --> 01:08:34.131 PEOPLE FOR THEIR WILLINGNESS IN JESUS' NAME, AMEN. AMEN, AND 01:08:34.131 --> 01:08:37.730 AMEN. ALL RIGHT, CAN WE DO OUR DECREE QUICKLY? ALL RIGHT, POP 01:08:37.730 --> 01:08:41.360 IT UP ON THE SCREEN. LET'S GO. I THREW THEM OFF. THEY DIDN'T PUT 01:08:41.360 --> 01:08:45.530 IT THERE. YOU GUYS DIDN'T HAVE IT READY. WE DECLARE THE CAMPUS 01:08:45.530 --> 01:08:49.070 AND MINISTRY OF LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH SHALL BE INCREASED, 01:08:49.070 --> 01:08:54.381 EXPANDED, AND DEBT FREE. WE DECREE IT SHALL HAPPEN WITHOUT 01:08:54.381 --> 01:08:59.301 DELAY. WE SAY TO EVERY HEAVENLY ASSIGNMENT, BE BUILT UP AND 01:08:59.301 --> 01:09:03.470 FINISH. WE SAY THAT WE HAVE ALL THE FINANCES NEEDED, EVEN IN THE 01:09:03.470 --> 01:09:07.730 TRAVEL FUND, FOR THE LORD IS BUILDING THIS HOUSE. WE HAVE 01:09:07.730 --> 01:09:11.661 MORE THAN ENOUGH EXCESS AND OVERFLOW. LORD, YOU ARE 01:09:11.661 --> 01:09:15.831 PROVIDING SEED TO THE SOWER. WE CALL UPON YOU, LORD OF HOSTS, TO 01:09:15.831 --> 01:09:19.701 BRING FORTH HEAVENLY ASSISTANCE AND RAISE UP MULTITUDES OF 01:09:19.701 --> 01:09:23.570 PEOPLE THAT SHALL GIVE ABUNDANTLY TO THIS WORK. WE 01:09:23.570 --> 01:09:27.860 PROPHESY THAT WE SHALL QUADRUPLE, QUADRUPLE, AND THAT 01:09:27.860 --> 01:09:32.211 WE WILL QUADRUPLE AGAIN. WE DECLARE NEW THINGS NOW. WE 01:09:32.211 --> 01:09:37.490 DECREE MINISTRY, TRAVEL FUND, AND CAMPUS BE BUILT NOW. COME 01:09:37.490 --> 01:09:40.319 ON, GIVE GOD A SHOUT AS HE ALSO SERVE YOU. 01:09:40.319 --> 01:09:43.149 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:09:43.149 --> 01:09:45.978 AND OF COURSE, I'M MAKING THE EXECUTIVE DECISION WHEN PASTOR 01:09:45.980 --> 01:09:50.390 GOES FRIDAY DOWN TO JOAN HUNTER'S EVENT, HE'S TAKING THE 01:09:50.390 --> 01:09:54.140 PRIVATE JET. THAT'S ALL THERE IS TO THAT. I'M MAKING THAT, WE'RE 01:09:54.140 --> 01:09:57.711 DOING IT, WE'RE DOING THAT. 'CAUSE HE NEEDS TO BE HERE NEXT 01:09:57.711 --> 01:10:01.873 SUNDAY FOR CHE AHN, NOT IN HOUSTON, RIGHT? THAT'S GOOD. ALL 01:10:01.873 --> 01:10:04.341 RIGHT, PRAISE THE LORD. WELL, THAT WAS GOOD, HONEY. THANK YOU 01:10:04.341 --> 01:10:09.740 FOR SHARING THAT. AND YES, YOU GUYS ARE SUCH A BLESSING. WE'LL 01:10:09.740 --> 01:10:13.371 GET IT DONE FOR GOD AND DO ALL THE THINGS WE NEED TO DO. YOU 01:10:13.371 --> 01:10:15.951 KNOW, GOD ALWAYS NEVER GIVES ASSIGNMENTS THAT HE DOESN'T 01:10:15.951 --> 01:10:20.990 PROVIDE FOR. DON'T EVER FORGET THAT. GOD ALWAYS HAS PROVISION, 01:10:20.990 --> 01:10:23.900 JUST BECAUSE, AND YOU MAY NOT THINK THE PROVISION IS THERE AT 01:10:23.900 --> 01:10:27.890 THE MOMENT HE ASSIGNS IT. ISN'T THAT HOW GOD WORKS? BUT HE WILL 01:10:27.890 --> 01:10:31.730 ALWAYS PROVIDE. SO ALWAYS REMEMBER THAT IN YOUR LIFE. AND 01:10:31.730 --> 01:10:34.581 AREN'T YOU GLAD THOUGH THAT PASTOR CAN GO ON A WAY AND NOT 01:10:34.581 --> 01:10:40.190 FINAGLE WITH THOSE AIRLINES? AND WE HAVE TO LET HIM KNOW. COME 01:10:40.190 --> 01:10:43.842 ON, LET'S JUST LET HIM KNOW. WE LIKE YOU HERE ON SUNDAY. WE DO. 01:10:43.842 --> 01:10:46.579 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:10:46.579 --> 01:10:49.117 YEAH, GIVE YOUR PASTOR A GREAT BIG HAND. TELL HIM 01:10:49.122 --> 01:10:52.902 THANK YOU FOR BEING COMMITTED AND OBEDIENT. 01:10:52.902 --> 01:10:55.452 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:10:55.452 --> 01:11:00.221 WE LOVE YOU. WE ALL LOVE YOU VERY MUCH AND THANK YOU FOR WHAT 01:11:00.221 --> 01:11:04.962 YOU DO FOR GOD. I MEAN, I STAY HOME FROM THESE FLASHPOINTS 01:11:04.962 --> 01:11:08.502 EVENTS AND PRAYING TONGUES, BUT HE'S OUT THERE BEATING THE 01:11:08.502 --> 01:11:12.822 PAVEMENT AND I KNOW. SO, WELL, ANYWAY, WELL, LET'S GET INTO IT 01:11:12.822 --> 01:11:15.011 TODAY. GUYS, KEEP ME POSTED A LITTLE BIT ON THE WEATHER. IT'S 01:11:15.011 --> 01:11:17.832 STILL HANGING OUT GOOD OUT THERE. WE'RE ALL GOOD. I JUST 01:11:17.832 --> 01:11:21.671 WANT EVERYBODY TO GET HOME SAFELY. AND IT MIGHT BE WINDY, 01:11:21.671 --> 01:11:24.851 BUT WE DEFINITELY DON'T WANT TO SEND YOU OUT IN BLOWING SNOW. SO 01:11:24.851 --> 01:11:27.372 KEEP ME POSTED IF THERE'S ANYTHING CRAZY. BUT LET'S GET 01:11:27.372 --> 01:11:31.091 INTO IT TODAY. I WANT TO TALK THIS IS KIND OF A DIFFERENT 01:11:31.091 --> 01:11:36.282 WORD. BUT I WANTED TO TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT SOCIAL MEDIA. 01:11:36.282 --> 01:11:39.641 NOW, SOCIAL MEDIA WELL, AND I GUESS WE COULD LUMP THE INTERNET 01:11:39.641 --> 01:11:45.435 INTO. WE CAN LUMP INTERNET INTO IT. BUT I FEEL LIKE THIS IS A 01:11:45.435 --> 01:11:49.301 THING THAT'S KIND OF OVERTAKEN CULTURE. NOW, WE'RE NOT EVEN 01:11:49.301 --> 01:11:53.082 LOOKING AT THE MAJOR NETWORKS TO GET OUR NEWS, WE'RE GETTING NEWS 01:11:53.082 --> 01:11:57.011 THROUGH SOCIAL APPS. THINK ABOUT THAT. WHEN SOCIAL MEDIA FIRST 01:11:57.011 --> 01:12:00.341 CAME OUT, FOR ME, I JUST REMEMBER IT BEING FACEBOOK, I 01:12:00.341 --> 01:12:03.162 THINK THAT, AND THEN I THINK TWITTER CAME A LITTLE BIT AFTER 01:12:03.162 --> 01:12:07.271 THAT, OR KIND OF THEY CAME RIGHT AT THE SAME POINT. AND I 01:12:07.271 --> 01:12:10.841 REMEMBER, YOU KNOW, AT THAT TIME, IT WAS JUST KIND OF FUN. 01:12:10.841 --> 01:12:13.481 YOU KNOW, SORT OF A LITTLE PASTIMEY THING. Y'ALL REMEMBER 01:12:13.481 --> 01:12:15.822 THAT? AND YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY WOULD GO ON AND PUT IN SHARE 01:12:15.822 --> 01:12:19.631 RECIPE. AND, YOU KNOW, IT WAS KIND OF JUST A FUN THING. AND 01:12:19.631 --> 01:12:24.011 THEN SLOWLY OVER THE YEARS, MORE APPS CAME OUT, INSTAGRAM CAME 01:12:24.011 --> 01:12:27.551 ALONG. AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, I'M A LITTLE OLD SCHOOL. 01:12:27.551 --> 01:12:30.311 FOR ME, IT'S STILL, YOU KNOW, HOW MANY FACEBOOKERS YOU'RE 01:12:30.311 --> 01:12:33.341 FACEBOOKER. YOU'RE JUST KIND OF HUNG BACK THERE. IT'S LIKE 01:12:33.341 --> 01:12:38.351 TIKTOK. WHAT'S THAT? THAT'S KIND OF THE WORLD THAT I LIVE IN, YOU 01:12:38.351 --> 01:12:42.372 KNOW, SO SNAPCHAT, I DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THAT IS. TRUTH OF THE 01:12:42.372 --> 01:12:45.641 MATTER. SO I'M KIND OF IN THAT, YOU KNOW, OLDER GENERATION 01:12:45.641 --> 01:12:50.430 VERSION OF SOCIAL. BUT YOU KNOW, IT STARTED OUT AS JUST KIND OF A 01:12:50.430 --> 01:12:54.372 FUN HOBBY THING. AND THEN SOCIAL BECAME A THING WHERE IT'S HOW 01:12:54.372 --> 01:12:57.341 WE'RE GETTING NEWS, IT'S HOW WE'RE OBTAINING INFORMATION. 01:12:57.341 --> 01:13:01.662 IT'S LIKE HOW MANY PEOPLE GO ANYMORE A LOT OF TIMES TO A 01:13:01.662 --> 01:13:07.242 COMPANY OR A MINISTRY'S PHYSICAL WEBSITE? THINK ABOUT IT. USUALLY 01:13:07.242 --> 01:13:10.091 THE FIRST THING WE CHECK IS THEIR FACEBOOK OR THEIR SOCIAL 01:13:10.091 --> 01:13:15.521 APPS, OR WE LOOK ONLINE AT THEIR, WHAT DID THEY POST? WITH 01:13:15.521 --> 01:13:20.681 WEBSITES, YOU'RE NOT POSTING. SO IT'S JUST CHANGED HOW WE THINK 01:13:20.681 --> 01:13:25.631 ABOUT SO MANY THINGS, AND IT'S BECOME MORE THAN A PASTIME, IT'S 01:13:25.631 --> 01:13:29.412 BECOME MORE THAN JUST A HOBBY OR SOMETHING, YOU KNOW, YOU DO A 01:13:29.412 --> 01:13:32.681 LITTLE BIT AFTER WORK OR ON THE WEEKENDS. IT'S LIKE PEOPLE GET 01:13:32.681 --> 01:13:37.061 UP IN THE MORNING, SCROLL THEIR FEED. FROM THE VERY BEGINNING OF 01:13:37.061 --> 01:13:40.902 THE DAY, THEY CHECK IT LIKE THEY CHECK THE NEWS. I FEEL LIKE 01:13:40.902 --> 01:13:43.872 SOCIAL MEDIA HAS BECOME SOMETHING WHERE WE CHECK IT LIKE 01:13:43.872 --> 01:13:46.752 YOU WOULD THE OLD DAY WHEN THE FIRST THING YOU DID WAS READ THE 01:13:46.752 --> 01:13:54.671 NEWSPAPER. AND NOW, A LOT OF IT IS JUST FILLED WITH NEWS, NEWS 01:13:54.671 --> 01:13:58.811 PIECES, NEWS ARTICLES. AND THE TROUBLE IS, IS WE DON'T KNOW HOW 01:13:58.811 --> 01:14:03.822 MUCH OF IT'S TRUE. RIGHT? BECAUSE IN THE MIDDLE OF THE 01:14:03.822 --> 01:14:06.792 SOCIAL MEDIA WORLD, AND YOU COULD THROW YOUTUBE IN THAT, I 01:14:06.792 --> 01:14:10.032 GUESS THAT'S A PART OF IT, BUT ALL OF IT, YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT'S 01:14:10.032 --> 01:14:12.822 TRUE, WHAT'S FALSE, WHAT'S MANIPULATED, AND OF COURSE THEN 01:14:12.822 --> 01:14:18.372 JUST LET'S TOPPLE AI ONTO THAT. AND AI, I MEAN YOU CAN'T EVEN 01:14:18.372 --> 01:14:21.341 TELL HARDLY, I MEAN SOME OF THEM ARE CLEARLY OBVIOUS, BUT IT'S 01:14:21.341 --> 01:14:25.601 HARD TO TELL ANYMORE WHAT'S EVEN A REAL PHOTO OF SOMEBODY. YOU 01:14:25.601 --> 01:14:30.971 KNOW I SAW THAT, IT WAS A MEME YEARS AGO. THERE WAS A MEME THAT 01:14:30.971 --> 01:14:35.231 CAME OUT AND IT SHOWED A POLICE OFFICER SITTING IN A SQUAD CAR 01:14:35.231 --> 01:14:39.221 IN HIS UNIFORM AND HE SAID, "LADIES, QUIT FILTERING ALL YOUR 01:14:39.221 --> 01:14:43.841 PHOTOS, OKAY? BECAUSE YOU CHANGE YOUR HAIR, YOUR TEETH, YOUR 01:14:43.841 --> 01:14:48.881 FACE, YOUR CHEEKS, YOU CHANGE YOUR BODY SIZE, YOUR HAIR, 01:14:48.881 --> 01:14:52.452 YOU'RE BLONDE BUT YOU TURN IT BLACK, AND YOU PUT ON BIG RED 01:14:52.452 --> 01:14:56.202 LIPS AND ALL OF THESE THINGS AND THESE HUGE EYELASHES." AND HE 01:14:56.202 --> 01:15:00.221 GOES, "IF YOU GO MISSING, WE'D NEVER BE ABLE TO FIND YOU 01:15:00.221 --> 01:15:03.822 "'CAUSE THAT'S NOT WHAT YOU LOOK LIKE." I THOUGHT, LORD HAVE 01:15:03.822 --> 01:15:10.811 MERCY, THAT'S A TROPE. SO I FEEL LIKE HALF OF THE PHOTOS OUT 01:15:10.811 --> 01:15:13.391 THERE, THEY'RE DOCTORED, THEY'RE MANIPULATED, THEY'RE NOT REAL. 01:15:13.391 --> 01:15:15.971 IT USED TO BE YOU'D HAVE TO GO TO A PHOTOGRAPHER AND THE BEST 01:15:15.971 --> 01:15:19.841 THEY COULD DO WAS JUST TAKE A SMOOTH A FEW WRINKLES AND WHITEN 01:15:19.841 --> 01:15:23.141 YOUR TEETH. AND NOW YOU LOOK LIKE A DIFFERENT PERSON. YOU CAN 01:15:23.141 --> 01:15:28.091 BE 70 YEARS OLD AND MAKE YOURSELF LOOK 20. SO SOCIAL 01:15:28.091 --> 01:15:32.801 MEDIA HAS, BUT I FEEL LIKE AT SOME POINT NOW, THE CHURCH NEEDS 01:15:32.801 --> 01:15:37.002 TO MAKE SOME GUIDANCE FOR SOME OF THIS. WE ARE NOT, IF WE 01:15:37.002 --> 01:15:41.412 LEARNED ANYTHING SINCE 2020, WE LEARNED THE FACT THAT THE CHURCH 01:15:41.412 --> 01:15:46.391 CANNOT TAKE THE BACK SEAT IN THE SOCIAL CONVERSATIONS. RIGHT, 01:15:46.391 --> 01:15:51.822 COME ON SOMEBODY. WE ARE TO SET THE STANDARD, AMEN. WE ARE TO 01:15:51.822 --> 01:15:57.162 LEAD THE WAY AND NOT ALWAYS BE BEHIND AND THEN FOLLOWING THE 01:15:57.162 --> 01:16:01.122 TRENDS OF HOW THE WORLD DOES THINGS. AND THE WORLD IS SETTING 01:16:01.122 --> 01:16:04.690 A LOT OF THE TRENDS WHEN IT COMES TO SOCIAL MEDIA. SO TODAY, 01:16:04.690 --> 01:16:08.381 WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT HOW, YEAH, SOCIAL MEDIA IS 01:16:08.381 --> 01:16:10.872 GOOD WITH SOME BALANCES IN THERE. WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT 01:16:10.872 --> 01:16:15.676 ABOUT THOSE. ALSO, THERE'S A LOT OF DANGERS. AND WHEN I TALK 01:16:15.676 --> 01:16:18.641 ABOUT THE DANGERS OF SOCIAL, I'M NOT JUST TALKING PARENTAL 01:16:18.641 --> 01:16:23.112 CONTROLS FOR TEENAGERS AND BECAUSE OF PREDATORS OUT THERE. 01:16:23.112 --> 01:16:27.761 THERE'S DANGERS THAT GOOD AND WELL-MEANING PEOPLE, I FEEL 01:16:27.761 --> 01:16:32.862 LIKE, AND THE CHURCH ESPECIALLY, THAT WE FALL INTO UNAWARES 01:16:32.862 --> 01:16:38.622 BECAUSE WE GET DRAWN INTO THIS DUMPSTER FIRE, THIS CONUNDRUM OF 01:16:38.622 --> 01:16:41.742 A MASS OF INFORMATION. LET'S JUST TALK ABOUT THAT. EVEN IF 01:16:41.742 --> 01:16:47.502 SOCIAL MEDIA IS USED WELL, THEIR INFORMATION IS SO MASSIVE. I 01:16:47.502 --> 01:16:52.091 MEAN, THERE'S SO MUCH OF IT, RIGHT? SO MUCH OF IT THAT IT'S 01:16:52.091 --> 01:16:57.702 ALMOST BECOME NOISE. EVEN GOOD POSTS. COME ON, I'M GUILTY. 01:16:57.702 --> 01:16:59.779 SOMEBODY PUTS OUT A NICE SCRIPTURE, IT'S POWERFUL, I'M 01:16:59.779 --> 01:17:03.192 GONNA SCROLL, SCROLL, SCROLL, THUMB GO. ALL RIGHT, YOU JUST 01:17:03.192 --> 01:17:09.311 SCROLL PAST. WE ALMOST HAVE LIKE A HALF A SECOND ATTENTION SPAN 01:17:09.311 --> 01:17:13.061 ANYMORE BECAUSE WE SCROLL THINGS. AND SO WE DON'T KNOW HOW 01:17:13.061 --> 01:17:19.152 TO PAUSE AND ABSORB AND DISCERN AND THINK AND PRAY, RIGHT? COME 01:17:19.152 --> 01:17:25.752 ON, SOMEBODY. EVERYTHING IS SO QUICK. IT'S LIKE, I MEAN, I JUST 01:17:25.752 --> 01:17:28.931 THINK WE HAVE FALLEN INTO, IF WE'RE NOT CAREFUL, OR WE COULD 01:17:28.931 --> 01:17:34.421 FALL INTO BEING A PREY TO THE ENEMY ON ALLOWING OURSELVES TO 01:17:34.421 --> 01:17:37.811 FALL INTO DECEPTION. SO LET'S TALK ABOUT SOME OF THESE THINGS. 01:17:37.811 --> 01:17:43.271 AND ALSO REMEMBER, SOCIAL MEDIA, WHETHER WE'RE A RECIPIENT OF 01:17:43.271 --> 01:17:47.622 WHAT'S BEING POSTED OR WE'RE POSTING, EVERYTHING THAT COMES 01:17:47.622 --> 01:17:52.992 ACROSS IT, ALTHOUGH THERE'S GRAPHICS, MOST OF IT IS WORDS. 01:17:52.992 --> 01:17:56.681 THINK ABOUT IT, POSTED WORDS, POSTED SCRIPTURES WRITTEN OUT, 01:17:56.681 --> 01:18:00.131 PEOPLE'S COMMENTS, WE'RE GONNA TALK ABOUT THE COMMENT SECTION. 01:18:00.131 --> 01:18:04.721 MOST OF IT IS ALL POSTED INFORMATION AND JESUS SAID 01:18:04.721 --> 01:18:07.242 SOMETHING ABOUT WORDS. NOW HERE'S THE PRINCIPLE NUMBER ONE, 01:18:07.242 --> 01:18:11.442 I JUST WANT TO TALK THIS OUT, IS LOOK AT, IN FACT, LOOK FOR A 01:18:11.442 --> 01:18:17.471 MINUTE AT MATTHEW, LOOK AT MATTHEW CHAPTER 12, AND LET ME 01:18:17.471 --> 01:18:21.971 READ THIS TO YOU. 'CAUSE I WANT US TO JUST TAKE A CAREFUL LOOK 01:18:21.971 --> 01:18:26.862 AT ALL OF THIS. MATTHEW 12:36 THROUGH 37, JESUS SAID, "BUT I 01:18:26.862 --> 01:18:30.612 SAY UNTO YOU," NOW ABSORB THIS SCRIPTURE WITH ME FOR A MOMENT, 01:18:30.612 --> 01:18:36.221 IN LIGHT OF SOCIAL MEDIA AND THE INTERNET. CAN WE DO THAT? "THIS 01:18:36.221 --> 01:18:41.261 I SAY TO YOU, EVERY IDLE WORD," NOW, I DID A LITTLE DIGGING INTO 01:18:41.261 --> 01:18:44.652 THAT. EVERY IDLE WORD MEANS EVERY WORD THAT IS SPOKEN 01:18:44.652 --> 01:18:50.981 CARELESSLY, WORDS THAT ARE UNPROFITABLE. COME ON, AND THAT 01:18:50.981 --> 01:18:55.091 INCLUDES WRITTEN WORDS, WORDS THAT ARE WRITTEN OR SPOKEN. YOU 01:18:55.091 --> 01:18:57.761 KNOW, WE ALWAYS THINK EVERY IDLE WORD MEANS WE'RE ACTUALLY 01:18:57.761 --> 01:19:03.731 SPEAKING IT. NO, WE CAN TYPE IT, RIGHT? WE CAN TYPE OUT WORDS 01:19:03.731 --> 01:19:07.511 WITHOUT THOUGHT. AND ANYMORE, IT IS EASY TO DO. IN FACT, YOUR 01:19:07.511 --> 01:19:10.212 PHONE WILL FILL THE WORDS IN FOR YOU. AND I FOUND OUT THAT APPLE 01:19:10.212 --> 01:19:17.532 IS NOT SAVED. IT'S AMAZING WHAT THEY'LL ADD IN AND CHANGE A WORD 01:19:17.532 --> 01:19:22.962 THAT YOU TRY TO TYPE IN THERE. EVERY IDLE, CARELESS, 01:19:22.962 --> 01:19:28.811 UNPROFITABLE WORD THAT MEN SHALL SPEAK, AND I'M GONNA JUST SAY 01:19:28.811 --> 01:19:35.891 IT, OR TYPE, OR PUT IN THE COMMENTS, OR POST, COME ON, ANY 01:19:35.891 --> 01:19:42.612 WORD WE PUT OUT THERE. IF THE WORD IDLE MEANS CARELESS, IT 01:19:42.612 --> 01:19:48.311 MEANS UNPROFITABLE, IT SAYS WE SHALL GIVE AN ACCOUNT, 01:19:48.311 --> 01:19:52.061 THEREFORE, IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. NOW THESE ARE JESUS 01:19:52.061 --> 01:19:57.341 WORDS. WE'VE GOT TO THINK, FOLKS, IN THE SEA OF WORDS AND 01:19:57.341 --> 01:20:01.152 COMMUNICATION, YOU KNOW, THE INTERNET HAS MADE IT A BREEZE TO 01:20:01.152 --> 01:20:05.171 JUST POST ANYTHING THAT COMES TO MIND IN A MOMENT. WE'LL TALK A 01:20:05.171 --> 01:20:09.131 LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT. BUT CARELESS, UNPROFITABLE WORDS, 01:20:09.131 --> 01:20:12.282 THINGS THAT WE JUST, AND I GUESS YOU COULD PUT TEXTING IN THERE, 01:20:12.282 --> 01:20:15.971 TOO, 'CAUSE WE PUT IN THERE, LOOK AT, MANY PEOPLE HAVE TEXTED 01:20:15.971 --> 01:20:20.351 THINGS TO PEOPLE THEY WERE SORRY ABOUT LATER, RIGHT? SO ANYTHING 01:20:20.351 --> 01:20:23.981 YOU PUT IN WRITING, ANYTHING WE SPEAK, WHAT WE COMMUNICATE, OUR 01:20:23.981 --> 01:20:29.981 WORDS, JESUS SAID, WE WILL GIVE AN ACCOUNT THEREOF IN THE DAY OF 01:20:29.981 --> 01:20:33.381 JUDGMENT. I BELIEVE WE CAN REPENT OF THOSE THINGS IF WE'VE 01:20:33.381 --> 01:20:37.242 USED IT POORLY, BUT JESUS IS SAYING, THERE'S AN 01:20:37.242 --> 01:20:41.292 ACCOUNTABILITY THAT COMES WITH WHAT WE COMMUNICATE. COME ON, 01:20:41.292 --> 01:20:45.681 THE CHURCH HAS TO KNOW THIS IN LIGHT OF SOCIAL MEDIA. FOR BY 01:20:45.681 --> 01:20:50.511 YOUR WORDS, YOU WILL BE JUSTIFIED. OR BY YOUR WORDS, 01:20:50.511 --> 01:20:52.618 YOU'LL BE CONDEMNED. AND I THOUGHT A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT, 01:20:52.618 --> 01:20:56.511 AND I THOUGHT, WELL, I GUESS THAT IS IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT, 01:20:56.511 --> 01:21:00.502 RIGHT? THAT IS ON JUDGMENT DAY, WE'RE JUSTIFIED OR CONDEMNED BY 01:21:00.502 --> 01:21:05.386 THE THINGS THAT WE SAY, POST, TEXT, TALK, ALL OF THAT. BUT I 01:21:05.386 --> 01:21:10.011 ALSO THINK THAT WORKS IN THE NOW. OKAY, YOU REAP WHAT YOU 01:21:10.011 --> 01:21:14.931 SOW. IF YOU'RE GONNA USE YOUR COMMUNICATIONS POORLY, THEN IT'S 01:21:14.931 --> 01:21:19.582 GONNA COME BACK TO YOU POORLY. AT SOME POINT, WE PAY THE PRICE. 01:21:19.582 --> 01:21:24.442 COME ON, SOMEBODY. WE PAY THE PRICE FOR POOR USE OF THE WORDS 01:21:24.442 --> 01:21:29.872 THAT WE SHARE. AND WHETHER THOSE BE POSTED, TEXTED, OR PUT 01:21:29.872 --> 01:21:32.811 ESPECIALLY OUT ON THE INTERNET. NOW, I WANNA MAKE SURE I STAY 01:21:32.811 --> 01:21:36.141 WITH TIME ON THIS 'CAUSE I HAVE A LOT OF THINGS I WANT TO COVER. 01:21:36.141 --> 01:21:40.252 SO IDLE WORDS, IF YOU'RE TAKING NOTES, YOU CAN PUT THIS DOWN, 01:21:40.252 --> 01:21:44.421 ARE WORDS THAT, ARE CARELESS, UNPROFITABLE WORDS, ARE WORDS 01:21:44.421 --> 01:21:52.011 THAT DON'T BENEFIT ANYBODY, OKAY? THEY DON'T EDIFY. AND EVEN 01:21:52.011 --> 01:21:56.391 IF SPOKEN IN TRUTH, ARE USED WITHOUT CAREFUL THOUGHT. THINK 01:21:56.391 --> 01:21:59.572 ABOUT HOW MUCH THAT WE SAY. I MEAN, THE COMMENTS ARE FILLED. 01:21:59.572 --> 01:22:03.021 AND TO BE HONEST WITH YOU, AND HOPEFULLY WE'LL TALK ABOUT SOME 01:22:03.021 --> 01:22:06.021 OF THIS AS WE GO ALONG, THE COMMENT SECTIONS. LISTEN, JUST 01:22:06.021 --> 01:22:10.011 BECAUSE A PLATFORM MAKES A COMMENT SECTION DOES NOT MEAN 01:22:10.011 --> 01:22:12.862 THAT IT SHOULD BE USED FOR ANYTHING AND EVERYTHING, ANY WAY 01:22:12.862 --> 01:22:20.811 WE WANNA USE IT. THE BIBLE'S STILL THE BIBLE. WE'RE STILL 01:22:20.811 --> 01:22:25.372 REQUIRED TO USE BIBLICAL ATTITUDE AND APPROACH TO 01:22:25.372 --> 01:22:28.551 EVERYTHING THAT'S OUT THERE AND AVAILABLE. IT'S AMAZING TO ME. 01:22:28.551 --> 01:22:31.671 PEOPLE WILL PUT IN THE COMMENTS WHAT THEY WOULD NEVER SAY TO 01:22:31.671 --> 01:22:35.902 SOMEONE IN PERSON. WE CAN HIDE BEHIND A KEYBOARD WITH A FAKE 01:22:35.902 --> 01:22:39.021 NAME ONLINE, CREATE FAKE ACCOUNTS. THERE'S PEOPLE THAT 01:22:39.021 --> 01:22:42.952 HAVE 4 OR 5 ACCOUNTS, CREATE FAKE ACCOUNTS, FOLLOW, STALK, DO 01:22:42.952 --> 01:22:46.761 ALL KINDS OF CRAZY THINGS. AND THEN THERE'S PEOPLE THAT GO TO 01:22:46.761 --> 01:22:49.881 THE MINISTRY PAGES, MINISTRY AFTER MINISTRY AFTER MINISTRY 01:22:49.881 --> 01:22:58.042 AFTER MINISTRY, AND ALL THEY DO IS CREATE DIVISION. AMEN. SO 01:22:58.042 --> 01:23:02.511 CARELESS, UNPROFITABLE, WORDS THAT ARE NOT USED WITH CAREFUL 01:23:02.511 --> 01:23:06.471 THOUGHT. NOW, WE DON'T EXPECT THE WORLD TO GET IT RIGHT, BUT 01:23:06.471 --> 01:23:13.761 WE, THE BODY OF CHRIST, SHOULD HAVE RESTRAINT ONLINE. WORDS, 01:23:13.761 --> 01:23:18.561 HERE'S ANOTHER WAY OUT OF WORDS ARE DEFINED. IT COULD BE WORDS 01:23:18.561 --> 01:23:22.521 USED WITH EXCESS. COME ON, YOU CAN OVER SAY SOMETHING AND OVER 01:23:22.521 --> 01:23:28.402 SAY SOMETHING AND AT SOME POINT SHUT UP. WORDS IN WRONG TIMING. 01:23:28.402 --> 01:23:31.341 YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT WORDS THAT COME IN THE RIGHT 01:23:31.341 --> 01:23:34.761 TIMING ARE LIKE APPLES OF GOLD. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, SOMETIMES WE 01:23:34.761 --> 01:23:38.271 DON'T USE GOOD TIMING. WE JUST PUT IT OUT THERE 'CAUSE WE FEEL 01:23:38.271 --> 01:23:42.742 IT. WORDS IN WRONG TIMING, WORDS WITH A WRONG SPIRIT. COME ON, 01:23:42.742 --> 01:23:47.002 THE COMMENTS ARE FILLED WITH THAT. AND UNTIL EVEN IN THE 01:23:47.002 --> 01:23:51.862 CHURCH, FOLKS, THIS IS THE PART THAT GRIEVES ME THE MOST. EVEN 01:23:51.862 --> 01:23:56.841 IN THE BODY OF CHRIST, WE HAVE PEOPLE WHO THINK IT'S OKAY TO 01:23:56.841 --> 01:24:00.921 SHAME PEOPLE ONLINE. NOW, I'LL TALK TO YOU IN A FEW MINUTES 01:24:00.921 --> 01:24:04.372 ABOUT THE FACT THAT JESUS CONFRONTED THINGS. I'M NOT 01:24:04.372 --> 01:24:07.162 SAYING WE DON'T CONFRONT THINGS ON THE INTERNET. I'LL GET TO ALL 01:24:07.162 --> 01:24:11.122 OF THAT. BUT WHAT WE HAVE TO DO IS MAKE SURE THAT WE DON'T CROSS 01:24:11.122 --> 01:24:14.511 OVER INTO BECOMING LIKE THE WORLD. BECAUSE THE WORLD WILL 01:24:14.511 --> 01:24:17.601 SHAME. MAN, THEY SET UP TROLLS. THEY'RE NOT EVEN REAL, THEY'RE 01:24:17.601 --> 01:24:21.981 BOTS. AND NOW WE GOT CHRISTIANS FOLLOWING A BOT. THIS IS CRAZY. 01:24:23.301 --> 01:24:26.662 WELL, THEY CAN SAY IT, WE SHOULD SAY IT. AND THEY SAY JUST AWFUL, 01:24:26.662 --> 01:24:30.292 AWFUL THINGS ABOUT HOW PEOPLE LOOK, ABOUT THEIR APPEARANCE, 01:24:30.292 --> 01:24:34.402 ABOUT ANYTHING. THE FAULT FINDING HAS GOTTEN OUT OF HAND. 01:24:34.402 --> 01:24:38.271 AND I'M JUST GONNA COIN THE PHRASE OF THE APOSTLE PAUL. 01:24:38.271 --> 01:24:41.752 WHEN HE SAID IN JAMES, THE THIRD CHAPTER, HE SAID THESE 01:24:41.752 --> 01:24:45.742 WORDS. HE SAID WHEN IT CAME TO SWEET AND BITTER WATER 01:24:45.742 --> 01:24:48.832 COMING OUT OF THE SAME MOUTH, HIS PHRASE IN THE KING 01:24:48.832 --> 01:24:54.112 JAMES WAS, "BRETHREN, THESE THINGS SHOULD NOT BE." 01:24:54.112 --> 01:24:56.631 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:24:56.631 --> 01:24:59.841 SO WE'RE, COME ON, HOW MANY OF YOU AGREE TODAY WE NEED TO SET A 01:24:59.841 --> 01:25:03.381 NEW STANDARD ON THE INTERNET? THE BODY OF CHRIST MUST TAKE THE 01:25:03.381 --> 01:25:07.761 LEAD, AMEN. SO LET'S TALK ABOUT A FEW BIBLICAL PRINCIPLES WHEN 01:25:07.761 --> 01:25:11.091 IT COMES TO USING THE INTERNET, DOING IT WELL, DOING IT 01:25:11.091 --> 01:25:14.301 ACCORDING TO THE WAY THAT GOD WOULD HAVE US DO. NUMBER ONE, 01:25:14.301 --> 01:25:19.912 SOCIAL MEDIA SHOULD BE USED, WATCH THIS, FOR KINGDOM REASONS. 01:25:21.082 --> 01:25:25.372 NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T POST YOUR PIE. LISTEN, THAT 01:25:25.372 --> 01:25:30.202 STUFF'S FUN, IT'S OKAY. BUT WE HAVE TO REMEMBER, WE'RE HERE ON 01:25:30.202 --> 01:25:33.981 THIS EARTH. LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOR, SAY NEIGHBOR, YOU ARE 01:25:33.981 --> 01:25:39.112 ON THIS EARTH FOR ONE KEY PURPOSE, AND THAT IS TO FURTHER 01:25:39.112 --> 01:25:44.332 THE GOSPEL. WE ARE HERE TO SHARE JESUS. LET ME READ A SCRIPTURE 01:25:44.332 --> 01:25:47.631 TO YOU. MATTHEW CHAPTER 5 , I'M GONNA PROVE MY POINT ACCORDING 01:25:47.631 --> 01:25:51.622 TO THE WORD. MATTHEW CHAPTER 5:13 THROUGH 15, JESUS SAID IT. 01:25:51.622 --> 01:25:56.601 HE SAID, "YOU ARE THE SALT OF THE EARTH, "BUT IF THE SALT HAS 01:25:56.601 --> 01:26:01.521 LOST ITS SAVOR, WHEREWITH SHALL IT BE SALTED? IT IS THEREFORE 01:26:01.521 --> 01:26:04.221 GOOD FOR NOTHING." COME ON, TOUCH YOURSELF, SAY, I DON'T 01:26:04.221 --> 01:26:09.322 WANNA BE A GOOD FOR NOTHING. "BUT IT IS TO BE THEN CAST OUT 01:26:09.322 --> 01:26:14.212 AND TRODDEN UNDER THE FOOT OF MEN. FOR YOU ARE THE LIGHT OF 01:26:14.212 --> 01:26:18.561 THE WORLD, A CITY SET ON A HILL THAT CANNOT BE HID." SO WE'RE TO 01:26:18.561 --> 01:26:23.811 BE A LIGHT IN A DARK PLACE. "NEITHER DO MEN LIGHT A CANDLE 01:26:23.811 --> 01:26:26.864 AND PUT IT UNDER A BUSHEL." YOU KNOW, I THINK THERE'S BELIEVERS 01:26:26.864 --> 01:26:30.891 ONLINE THAT ARE USING THEIR SOCIAL PAGES FOR SO MUCH OTHER 01:26:30.891 --> 01:26:35.301 THAN KINGDOM THINGS. AND THAT DOESN'T MEAN YOU CAN'T POST YOUR 01:26:35.301 --> 01:26:38.811 BIRTHDAY PARTIES AND ALL OF THAT, BUT THEN IT'S CROSSED OVER 01:26:38.811 --> 01:26:43.851 INTO CARNAL THINGS. YOU KNOW, HONESTLY, I'LL BE REAL. I THINK 01:26:43.851 --> 01:26:48.832 THERE'S NO PLACE FOR A BELIEVER TO BE ONLINE, MEN WITHOUT YOUR 01:26:48.832 --> 01:26:54.832 SHIRTS, WOMEN IN YOUR BATHING SUITS. THERE'S NO REASON, COME 01:26:54.832 --> 01:26:59.662 ON, SOME THAT DESERVES A GREAT BIG AMEN. THE BIBLE STILL HAS A 01:26:59.662 --> 01:27:06.622 LOT TO SAY ABOUT MODESTY. AMEN. WE HAVE TO BE THINKING, YOU 01:27:06.622 --> 01:27:14.061 KNOW, COME ON, YOU KNOW, LET'S BE CHRISTIANS. RIGHT? BESIDES 01:27:14.061 --> 01:27:16.582 MEN, DON'T LET YOUR WIFE BE OUT THERE IN HER BATHING SUIT ON THE 01:27:16.582 --> 01:27:19.131 BEACH AND POSTING IT. NOBODY SHOULD BE LOOKING AT HER BUT 01:27:19.131 --> 01:27:24.322 YOU. AND LADIES, IF YOU'RE SINGLE, COME ON, NO MAN NEEDS TO 01:27:24.322 --> 01:27:28.011 LOOK ON YOU EXCEPT THE MAN THAT YOU'RE GOING TO MARRY SOMEDAY. 01:27:28.011 --> 01:27:31.551 THERE'S NO REASON SOME OF THOSE THINGS NEED TO BE POSTED ONLINE. 01:27:31.551 --> 01:27:33.801 AND WE'LL GET INTO SOME OF THAT, BUT THERE'S A LOT OF STUFF THAT 01:27:33.801 --> 01:27:37.252 GETS POSTED THAT BELIEVERS, COME ON, LET'S BE REAL FOLKS. IF WE 01:27:37.252 --> 01:27:40.671 KNOW THE WORDS OF JESUS AND THE WORD OF GOD, THERE ARE THINGS 01:27:40.671 --> 01:27:47.601 ONLINE THAT SHOULD NOT BE POSTED BY A CHRISTIAN. HOLINESS, 01:27:47.601 --> 01:27:54.681 RIGHTEOUSNESS. WE ARE, IF THE SALT HAS LOST ITS SAVOR, IF THE 01:27:54.681 --> 01:27:59.122 LIGHT IS UNDER A BUSHEL, THERE'S PEOPLE THAT COMPOSE CARNAL, 01:27:59.122 --> 01:28:04.582 SECULAR THINGS MORE THAN THEY CAN POST ABOUT JESUS. SO LET 01:28:04.582 --> 01:28:07.851 YOUR LIGHT SHINE BEFORE MEN SO THAT THEY MAY SEE YOUR GOOD 01:28:07.851 --> 01:28:09.952 WORKS. WELL, WHAT IS SALT AND LIGHT? I THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. 01:28:09.952 --> 01:28:14.362 SALT, USUALLY THEY SAY A SALTY CONVERSATION MEANS, YOU KNOW, IT 01:28:14.362 --> 01:28:18.021 WAS A LITTLE BIT CHOICE WORDS. WE GOT INTO A LITTLE BIT OF A, 01:28:18.021 --> 01:28:23.332 YOU KNOW, SORT OF THAT. SALT ADDS HEALING TO THE INFECTION. 01:28:23.332 --> 01:28:27.471 WE SHOULD BE SALT OUT THERE. OKAY? IF THERE'S COMPROMISE, 01:28:27.471 --> 01:28:30.381 WE'RE THE DIFFERENCE. I BELIEVE THE REASON THAT WE HAVE GOTTEN 01:28:30.381 --> 01:28:34.341 SO BEHIND IN WHAT'S GONE ON IN THE PUBLIC SCHOOL SYSTEM IS 01:28:34.341 --> 01:28:39.082 'CAUSE THE CHURCH WAS AWOL. FROM THE CONVERSATION, WE CHECKED OUT 01:28:39.082 --> 01:28:43.881 OF THE POLITICAL TOPICS. AND WE WEREN'T THE LIGHT, COME ON, WE 01:28:43.881 --> 01:28:47.902 WEREN'T THE SALT. OKAY, AND HONESTLY, IT DOESN'T MEAN THAT 01:28:47.902 --> 01:28:52.402 WE, IN SOCIAL MEDIA, THAT WE DON'T SPEAK OUT. AND WE'LL TALK 01:28:52.402 --> 01:28:56.902 ABOUT THAT. BUT WE NEED TO BE SALT. IF THERE'S EVIL OUT THERE, 01:28:56.902 --> 01:28:59.631 I'M NOT SAYING YOU GO OUT AND DIG OUT EVERY EVIL POST AND 01:28:59.631 --> 01:29:04.641 START COMMENTING. NO, YOU PUT OUT THE SALT, OKAY? YOU DEFINE 01:29:04.641 --> 01:29:07.851 WHAT IS TRADITIONAL MARRIAGE ONLINE. YOU DEFINE WHAT'S RIGHT. 01:29:07.851 --> 01:29:12.442 WE DEFINE WHAT'S RIGHT. WE PUT THE WORD OUT TO THE CULTURE. 01:29:12.442 --> 01:29:18.051 COME ON, HALLELUJAH. IF WE DON'T PUT RIGHTEOUSNESS ONLINE, WHO'S 01:29:18.051 --> 01:29:21.112 GOING TO? IT'S CERTAINLY NOT GONNA COME FROM THE DEVIL'S 01:29:21.112 --> 01:29:26.061 CROWD. WHAT IS THE LIGHT? WELL, THAT'S THE TRUTH. THE BIBLE SAYS 01:29:26.061 --> 01:29:30.921 IN MATTHEW CHAPTER 4 , I BELIEVE IT'S VERSE 16, JESUS WENT INTO 01:29:30.921 --> 01:29:34.402 THE REGION CALLED GALILEE. THE WORD GALILEE MEANS, IF YOU LOOK 01:29:34.402 --> 01:29:38.721 IT UP IN THE GREEK, IT MEANS HEATHEN CIRCLE. JESUS WENT INTO 01:29:38.721 --> 01:29:42.171 THE HEATHEN CIRCLE AND THE SCRIPTURE SAID HE SHINED A LIGHT 01:29:42.171 --> 01:29:45.712 IN A DARK PLACE. I LOVE THAT. IT'S ONE OF MY FAVORITE VERSES 01:29:45.712 --> 01:29:50.421 IN THE BIBLE. JESUS, HE SHINED THE LIGHT. THOSE THAT SAT IN 01:29:50.421 --> 01:29:57.652 GRAY DARKNESS SAW A GREAT LIGHT. SO WE'RE TO BE A LIGHT ONLINE, 01:29:57.652 --> 01:30:03.231 AMEN. PUT OUT THE TRUTH, PUT OUT THE WORD, PUT OUT WHAT'S RIGHT. 01:30:03.231 --> 01:30:09.921 AMEN. AND PUT OUT SCRIPTURE TO TEACH AN ILLITERATE GENERATION 01:30:09.921 --> 01:30:12.202 WHAT THE TRUTH IS. AND WE'LL TALK A LITTLE BIT MORE ABOUT 01:30:12.202 --> 01:30:16.162 THAT AS WELL. SOCIAL MEDIA, LIKE ALL OTHER FORMS OF TECHNOLOGY, 01:30:16.162 --> 01:30:21.051 SHOULD BE TO THE CHRISTIAN A TOOL TO ADVANCE GOD'S AGENDA 01:30:21.051 --> 01:30:26.152 AGAINST THAT OF EVIL. NOT JUST TO BENEFIT OURSELVES. NOW, YOU 01:30:26.152 --> 01:30:30.086 KNOW, I LOVE TO COOK, AND I LIKE TO PUT SOME FOOD OUT FROM TIME 01:30:30.086 --> 01:30:34.192 TO TIME AND CUTE LITTLE THINGS. AND I'LL BE HONEST WITH YOU, WE 01:30:34.192 --> 01:30:37.402 KIND OF MADE A LITTLE DECISION IN OUR FAMILY. AND, OKAY, CAN I 01:30:37.402 --> 01:30:42.171 JUST SPEAK? THIS IS MY OPINION. YOU DON'T HAVE TO GO WITH MY 01:30:42.171 --> 01:30:46.881 OPINION. BUT WE KIND OF JUST QUIT DOING THE BIRTHDAY POSTS. 01:30:46.881 --> 01:30:49.912 NOW THE MINISTRY PAGES DO THEM, BUT WE HAVE A LOT OF HELP. 01:30:49.912 --> 01:30:52.192 HOLLY, WAVE YOUR HAND, I DON'T KNOW WHERE SHE WENT, BUT SHE WAS 01:30:52.192 --> 01:30:55.912 BACK THERE A MINUTE AGO. HER AND HER TEAM DO AN AWESOME JOB AND 01:30:55.912 --> 01:30:57.981 MAKE US LOOK REALLY GOOD, AND MY TEETH ARE WHITE. 01:30:57.981 --> 01:31:01.021 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:31:01.021 --> 01:31:03.962 AND I'M SO THANKFUL FOR THAT. BUT FINALLY I TOLD PASTOR, I 01:31:03.962 --> 01:31:06.542 SAID, DO WE HAVE TO HONOR OUR LITTLE PAGE? I HAVE TO GET OUT 01:31:06.542 --> 01:31:10.981 THERE AND YOU KNOW, WE KNOW WE LOVE EACH OTHER. AND I SAID, I 01:31:10.981 --> 01:31:15.301 DON'T, I, EVERY YEAR, AND I HAD THE SAME TALK WITH OUR BOYS, I 01:31:15.301 --> 01:31:18.664 FEEL THE PRESSURE. NOW, IF YOU WANT TO DO IT, IF YOU WANT TO 01:31:18.664 --> 01:31:25.140 POST, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, FEEL FREE. I'M JUST SAYING WE ALLOW 01:31:25.140 --> 01:31:29.911 SOCIAL MEDIA TO FORMULATE EVERYTHING WE DO. WE ALLOW IT TO 01:31:29.911 --> 01:31:34.021 PRESSURE US SOMETIMES. I SAID, "HONEY, I ALWAYS, EVERY YEAR, 01:31:34.021 --> 01:31:37.350 I'M LIKE, "OKAY, LET ME FIND A NEW PICTURE OF PASTOR HANK, "AND 01:31:37.350 --> 01:31:40.470 THEN I GOTTA MAKE SURE IT'S ONE HE'LL LIKE, "AND THEN I WANNA, 01:31:40.470 --> 01:31:43.652 'CAUSE NOBODY WANTS TO LOOK STUPID ONLINE, "AND I SAID, SO 01:31:43.652 --> 01:31:47.911 THEN I GOTTA FIGURE OUT," AND I SAY THE SAME FLOWERY, COME ON, 01:31:49.292 --> 01:31:52.951 THE SAME FLOWERY BIRTHDAY MESSAGE EVERY SINGLE MAY 10TH, 01:31:54.061 --> 01:31:58.442 EVERY SINGLE TIME. AND I FINALLY SAID, SO PASTOR HANK, HE QUIT 01:31:58.442 --> 01:32:02.581 POSTING A LONG TIME AGO. HE JUST SAID, I'M DONE, I CAN'T TYPE IT. 01:32:02.581 --> 01:32:06.002 HALF THE TIME I CAN'T FIND MY GLASSES ANYWAY. I'M JUST 01:32:06.002 --> 01:32:08.701 NOT PUTTING IT OUT THERE. AND I SAID, WELL, I DON'T FEEL 01:32:08.701 --> 01:32:11.462 BAD. YOU DON'T HAVE TO CONVINCE ME. PASTOR DOUG 01:32:11.462 --> 01:32:13.530 HAS NEVER BEEN ON SOCIAL MEDIA. HE'S SO OLD 01:32:13.530 --> 01:32:15.635 SCHOOL, THERE'S NO SOCIAL MEDIA IN HIS PHONE. 01:32:15.635 --> 01:32:19.338 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:32:19.338 --> 01:32:24.121 AND I PROMISE YOU, IT'S LIBERATING. AND SO I SAID, 01:32:24.126 --> 01:32:27.421 LISTEN, PASTOR AND I WERE LIKE, CAN WE JUST GO BACK TO THE OLD 01:32:27.421 --> 01:32:31.171 FASHIONED HAPPY BIRTHDAY, DO I HAVE TO PUT OUT? AND I SAID, NO, 01:32:31.171 --> 01:32:35.100 IT STOPS TODAY. I TOLD OUR BOYS, IF I DON'T PUT, YOU KNOW I LOVE 01:32:35.100 --> 01:32:38.581 YOU, I'LL BUY YOU A PRESENT. I'LL SEND YOU A BANK TRANSFER 01:32:38.581 --> 01:32:42.091 FOR YOUR BIRTHDAY, BUT I DON'T WANNA HAVE TO WRITE THE SAME 01:32:42.091 --> 01:32:45.811 BIRTHDAY. OH, YOU'RE AMAZING. OH, I'M SO GLAD I GAVE BIRTH 01:32:45.811 --> 01:32:49.921 TO YOU. OH, IT'S SO WONDERFUL. I MEAN, YOU CHANGED 01:32:49.921 --> 01:32:59.578 MY LIFE FOREVER. THE DAY YOU CAME INTO THE WORLD. 01:32:59.578 --> 01:33:05.819 FOLKS, WE HAVE ALLOWED THIS TO CONTROL OUR LIVES. I 01:33:05.819 --> 01:33:08.252 MEAN, YOU COULD BE BAKING THEM A BIRTHDAY CAKE, BUT 01:33:08.252 --> 01:33:10.530 NO, YOU'RE OVER THERE SWEATING OVER A POST. 01:33:10.530 --> 01:33:12.809 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:33:12.809 --> 01:33:15.087 COME ON, CAN I GET AN AMEN IN THE HOUSE? 01:33:15.087 --> 01:33:17.367 (CONGREGATION CHEERING) 01:33:17.367 --> 01:33:19.645 NOW, IF YOU WANT A POST, AND THAT MEANS THE WORLD TO YOU, 01:33:19.645 --> 01:33:21.925 DON'T HEAR THIS IN THE WRONG SPIRIT. THIS IS WHERE THE 01:33:21.930 --> 01:33:25.984 KUNNEMAN FAMILY IS. WE'RE JUST LIKE, WE JUST GOT DELIVERED FROM 01:33:25.984 --> 01:33:30.152 IT. I JUST, I NEEDED A DELIVERANCE. I'D BE UP, AND THEN 01:33:30.152 --> 01:33:32.612 WE GOT ALL THESE FAMILY BIRTHDAYS. SEE THIS FRONT GROUP 01:33:32.612 --> 01:33:36.542 OVER HERE? WE GOT THE SPRING BIRTHDAYS, THE SUMMER BIRTHDAYS, 01:33:36.542 --> 01:33:41.100 AND THE FALL GROUP, AND I'M SITTING THERE, I'M LIKE, "OH, 01:33:41.100 --> 01:33:43.774 IT'S SOMEONE'S BIRTHDAY, "I DON'T HAVE A PHOTO!" I MEAN, 01:33:43.774 --> 01:33:47.551 COME ON, COME ON, SOMEBODY! NOW, TERESA, SHE'LL POST 8 TIMES A 01:33:47.551 --> 01:33:51.331 DAY, SHE'S OKAY. THAT'S ALL RIGHT, THAT'S ALL RIGHT, THAT'S 01:33:51.331 --> 01:33:56.862 HER. BUT WHAT WE CAN'T DO IS ALLOW THE SOCIAL CULTURE TO 01:33:56.862 --> 01:34:02.430 CONTROL HOW WE OPERATE BECAUSE WE FEEL THE PRESSURE. AM I 01:34:02.430 --> 01:34:05.731 HELPING SOMEBODY ALREADY? ALL RIGHT, I GOTTA GET THROUGH THIS 01:34:05.731 --> 01:34:08.850 BEFORE THE BLIZZARD. PASTOR MATT LEANED OVER TO ME ON THE FRONT. 01:34:08.850 --> 01:34:11.100 HE SAYS, "ARE YOU TRYING TO DO THIS ALL IN ONE SERMON?" I SAID, 01:34:11.100 --> 01:34:18.091 "YES, SIR, I AM." I HAVE ONE DAY. WE GOT CHE ON NEXT WEEK. SO 01:34:18.091 --> 01:34:22.561 HERE'S THE THING. SOCIAL MEDIA SHOULD BE FIRST, FIRST, USED FOR 01:34:22.561 --> 01:34:26.311 KINGDOM REASONS, FOR KINGDOM BENEFIT. WE ARE HERE ON THIS 01:34:26.311 --> 01:34:29.341 EARTH. GOD IS NOT GONNA BLESS YOU FOR YOUR PICTURES OF YOUR 01:34:29.341 --> 01:34:34.561 PIES, YOUR CAKES, YOUR BEACH TRIP, YOUR CRUISE, YOUR KISSY 01:34:34.561 --> 01:34:38.911 PHOTOS WITH YOUR SPOUSE. YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET TO HEAVEN ONE DAY 01:34:38.911 --> 01:34:43.292 AND GOD'S GONNA GO, WOW, YOU LOVED YOUR WIFE, YOU POSTED 01:34:43.292 --> 01:34:48.752 ABOUT HER. DO YOU REALLY THINK GOD IS UP THERE JUDGING OUR 01:34:48.752 --> 01:34:54.962 LIVES BASED ON THOSE THINGS? NO, HE IS LOOKING AT OUR LIVES BASED 01:34:54.962 --> 01:35:00.331 ON OUR DRIVE TO MAKE SURE THAT EVERYTHING WE PUT OUT ONLINE HAS 01:35:00.331 --> 01:35:04.712 A KINGDOM RIGHTEOUSNESS TO IT. WE'RE USING IT FOR KINGDOM. NOW 01:35:04.712 --> 01:35:08.639 THAT DOESN'T MEAN THAT YOU CAN'T POST A PIE. I'M NOT SAYING I 01:35:08.639 --> 01:35:14.402 MIGHT POST SPAGHETTI ONE DAY. BUT I ALSO KNOW THAT MY FIRST 01:35:14.402 --> 01:35:20.521 OBLIGATION IS TO USE THE INTERNET AS A TOOL TO ADVANCE 01:35:20.521 --> 01:35:24.331 THE GOSPEL. COME ON, THAT DESERVES A GREAT AMEN RIGHT 01:35:24.331 --> 01:35:31.411 THERE. IT'S TO ADVANCE THE GOSPEL. AND WE'LL, WELL, WE'LL 01:35:31.411 --> 01:35:33.962 TALK ABOUT THE FACT THAT THE WORLD'S WATCHING. SO, AND OF 01:35:33.962 --> 01:35:38.042 COURSE WE CAN RECEIVE ONLINE. WE CAN RECEIVE. IT'S GOOD TO 01:35:38.042 --> 01:35:40.831 RECEIVE THINGS, BUT WE'RE GONNA TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT BEING 01:35:40.831 --> 01:35:44.640 CAREFUL WHAT WE RECEIVE, 'CAUSE NOT ALL OF IT'S TRUTH. THE 01:35:44.640 --> 01:35:48.600 INTERNET CAN'T BECOME YOUR BIBLE. SOCIAL, JUST 'CAUSE 01:35:48.600 --> 01:35:51.720 PEOPLE POST SCRIPTURE, JUST 'CAUSE THEY POST SOMETHING THAT 01:35:51.720 --> 01:35:55.981 SOUNDS CHRISTIAN. JESUS SAID, "TAKE HEED THAT NO ONE DECEIVES 01:35:55.981 --> 01:35:59.131 YOU." SO WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT. IN FACT, MY LITTLE 01:35:59.131 --> 01:36:02.072 NIECE, ONE OF MY LITTLE NIECES OVER HERE, WE WERE HANGING OUT 01:36:02.072 --> 01:36:04.201 THE OTHER DAY, AND I WAS TELLING THEM WHAT I WAS PREACHING. I 01:36:04.201 --> 01:36:06.990 WANTED TO SEE IF THE, I DON'T KNOW WHAT GENERATION YOU GUYS 01:36:06.990 --> 01:36:13.112 ARE, X, Y, Z, FORGET Y. WHAT? ALPHA. ALPHA. THEY STARTED THE 01:36:13.112 --> 01:36:20.042 LETTERS OVER? OKAY. THE PASTOR SAID TO SOMEBODY ON THE PHONE 01:36:20.042 --> 01:36:23.612 THE OTHER DAY, HE GOES, "WHAT GENERATION AM I?" I SAID, "I 01:36:23.612 --> 01:36:25.621 DON'T EVEN KNOW. I QUIT COUNTING. I THINK WE'RE 01:36:25.621 --> 01:36:32.280 GENERATION X, BUT WHO KNOWS? WHO CARES? WE'RE THIS OLD. BUT I 01:36:32.280 --> 01:36:35.311 WANTED TO KIND OF GET SOME INPUT FROM SOME OF THE YOUNGER. AND 01:36:35.311 --> 01:36:39.121 ONE OF THEM SAID TO ME, THEY SAID, "WELL, YOU KNOW, I DO LIKE 01:36:39.121 --> 01:36:43.322 TO RECEIVE FROM THE GOOD ONES ONLINE." AND THEY'D FOLLOWED 01:36:43.322 --> 01:36:46.171 SOMEBODY FOR THEIR MUSIC. AND THEY SAID, BUT THEN THEY WERE 01:36:46.171 --> 01:36:51.331 OUT CRITICIZING OTHER PREACHERS. AND I'D SAID TO ME THAT IF THEY 01:36:51.331 --> 01:36:54.780 CRITICIZE PREACHERS SO EASILY ONLINE, THEY MIGHT CRITICIZE MY 01:36:54.780 --> 01:36:58.862 UNCLE. SO I UNFOLLOWED HIM BECAUSE I DON'T WANT TO FOLLOW 01:36:58.862 --> 01:37:02.761 SOMEBODY THAT'S OUT THERE PUTTING SHADE ON EVERYBODY. AND 01:37:02.761 --> 01:37:06.362 SO IT'S GOOD TO RECEIVE, BUT WE HAVE TO BE DISCERNING. SO NUMBER 01:37:06.362 --> 01:37:09.511 ONE, I SAID A LOT OF THINGS IN THERE, BUT NUMBER ONE, WE HAVE 01:37:09.511 --> 01:37:13.261 TO REMEMBER, USE THE INTERNET FOR KINGDOM REASONS. THAT'S YOUR 01:37:13.261 --> 01:37:16.801 FIRST PRIORITY. THINK ABOUT THAT. THAT'S OUR FIRST 01:37:16.801 --> 01:37:22.021 OBLIGATION IS TO BE WHAT? SALT AND LIGHT. OKAY, THE SECOND ONE 01:37:22.021 --> 01:37:30.212 IS, AND BOY, OH BOY. NUMBER 2 IS WE SHOULD USE SOCIAL MEDIA 01:37:30.212 --> 01:37:35.462 WITHOUT POINTLESS, ENDLESS DEBATES, AND MEAN SPIRITED 01:37:35.462 --> 01:37:40.381 COMMENTS. NOTHING IN GOD'S WORD ENDORSES ENDLESS ARGUING AND 01:37:40.381 --> 01:37:44.490 DEBATES ONLINE. NOW I'VE SEEN MINISTRIES GO AT IT WITH EACH 01:37:44.490 --> 01:37:51.421 OTHER ON THE INTERNET. AM I THE ONLY ONE? AND ARGUE AND FIGHT, 01:37:51.421 --> 01:37:54.002 AND THEN THE BODY OF CHRIST JUMPS IN, AND BUT THIS PERSON 01:37:54.002 --> 01:37:56.970 SAID THAT, AND I CAN'T BELIEVE. I MEAN, IT'S AMAZING HOW PEOPLE 01:37:56.970 --> 01:38:00.661 THROW AROUND THE WORD FALSE NOW. I MEAN, YOU KNOW, THAT 01:38:00.661 --> 01:38:04.470 PREACHER'S FALSE. I WOULD SAY, WHAT SAID WHO? YOU AND YOUR 01:38:04.470 --> 01:38:10.890 COMPUTER? I MEAN, JUST BECAUSE THAT'S YOUR OPINION DOESN'T MEAN 01:38:10.890 --> 01:38:17.131 IT'S THE RIGHT OPINION. SO, OR THE PODCASTERS THAT ALL HAVE A 01:38:17.131 --> 01:38:21.152 PODCAST, I GUESS PODCASTS IS SOCIAL TOO, I GUESS, RIGHT? IT'S 01:38:21.152 --> 01:38:25.981 ALL THE SAME MIX. EVERYBODY GOT A STAGE. WITHOUT POINTLESS 01:38:25.981 --> 01:38:29.462 ARGUING, FOLKS, I BELIEVE IN ALL MY HEART, WE ARE GONNA BE HELD 01:38:29.462 --> 01:38:33.212 ACCOUNTABLE BEFORE JESUS FOR THE DIVISION IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. 01:38:33.212 --> 01:38:37.831 THE ONE THING JESUS SPOKE THE MOST ABOUT BEFORE HE WENT TO THE 01:38:37.831 --> 01:38:43.652 CROSS WAS THIS. HE SAID, "FATHER, MY PRAYER IS LET THEM 01:38:43.652 --> 01:38:47.521 BE ONE "AS WE ARE ONE." MY PASTOR OF MANY, MANY YEARS 01:38:47.521 --> 01:38:50.942 TAUGHT US THAT WHEN YOU TAKE THE COMMUNION MEAL, WHEN IT SAYS 01:38:50.942 --> 01:38:55.621 THAT HE THAT DRINKS THIS UNWORTHILY AND DOES NOT DISCERN 01:38:55.621 --> 01:39:00.390 THE LORD'S BODY, HE SAID THE LORD'S BODY IS ALSO, REMEMBER, 01:39:00.390 --> 01:39:04.470 THE BODY OF CHRIST. NOT EVERYBODY'S GONNA SAY EVERYTHING 01:39:04.470 --> 01:39:09.421 RIGHT, OKAY? NOT EVERYBODY'S GONNA PREACH THE PERFECT THING, 01:39:09.421 --> 01:39:13.201 OKAY? NOT ONE OF US, EXCEPT ONE, WHO'S WORTHY, WE SANG ABOUT 01:39:13.201 --> 01:39:18.240 TODAY, IS GONNA GET IT RIGHT 100% OF THE TIME. WE ARE BROKEN 01:39:18.240 --> 01:39:22.530 VESSELS, GROWING, FOLLOWING GOD. YOU'RE FOLLOWING GOD, YOUR 01:39:22.530 --> 01:39:26.072 NEIGHBOR'S FOLLOWING GOD, YOUR SPOUSE IS TRYING TO FOLLOW GOD, 01:39:26.072 --> 01:39:30.542 AND WE CANNOT LIVE OUR LIVES LOOKING FOR EVERY LITTLE FAULT. 01:39:32.011 --> 01:39:37.470 SOCIAL MEDIA, AND I'M GONNA JUST SAY IT, HAS BECOME A DUMPSTER 01:39:37.470 --> 01:39:42.692 FIRE OF DIVISION. COME ON, SOMEBODY. IT HAS BECOME, IT'S A 01:39:42.692 --> 01:39:48.180 DISASTER. AND THE CHURCH HAS BECOME THE WORST. AND I GRIEVE 01:39:48.180 --> 01:39:50.761 IN MY HEART SOMETIMES. WELL, LET ME READ SOME SCRIPTURES TO YOU. 01:39:50.761 --> 01:39:52.801 CAN I READ, 'CAUSE I WANNA MAKE SURE YOU KNOW THAT THESE THINGS 01:39:52.801 --> 01:39:56.192 ARE IN THE BIBLE, NOT JUST PASTOR BRENDA'S OPINION. TITUS 01:39:56.192 --> 01:40:00.811 CHAPTER 3 , VERSE 9 THROUGH 11, BUT AVOID FOOLISH CONTROVERSIES 01:40:00.811 --> 01:40:09.752 AND GENEALOGIES AND STRIFE, AND STRIFE, AND STRIFE, AND STRIFE, 01:40:09.752 --> 01:40:14.252 AND STRIFE. COME ON, AND STRIFE. I MEAN, WHAT WE DISPLAY, AND 01:40:14.252 --> 01:40:18.152 REMEMBER, THE WORLD IS WATCHING. THERE WAS A BIG THING THAT 01:40:18.152 --> 01:40:21.780 HAPPENED ON THE INTERNET SOME YEARS AGO. EVERYBODY WAS ARGUING 01:40:21.780 --> 01:40:24.002 ABOUT TRUE, FALSE, AND THE OTHERWISE. YOU'VE ALL SEEN IT. 01:40:24.002 --> 01:40:26.731 I'M NOT GONNA CALL OUT. LET'S NOT RIDE WHO IT IS. BY THE WAY, 01:40:26.731 --> 01:40:30.240 WE GOTTA GROW IN THAT TOO. WHICH INTERNET FAMILY, YOU GUYS ARE 01:40:30.240 --> 01:40:34.171 AMAZING. I WANNA GIVE YOU A SHOUT OUT BECAUSE YOU COME HERE, 01:40:34.171 --> 01:40:38.850 YOU'RE SO GRACIOUS, YOU'RE WONDERFUL, YOU'RE HONORABLE. ALL 01:40:38.850 --> 01:40:43.470 OF OUR, GIVE A HAND TO OUR E-CAMPUS. YOU'RE SUPPORTIVE OF 01:40:43.470 --> 01:40:47.220 YOUR FELLOW BELIEVERS HERE AND ONLINE. THAT'S WHY WE PUT OUT A 01:40:47.220 --> 01:40:51.082 STREAM, IS TO BE A BLESSING. I FEEL LIKE WHEN YOU GO TO A 01:40:51.082 --> 01:40:54.240 CHURCH PAGE, A MINISTRY PAGE, AND YOU WRITE SOMETHING MMMM AND 01:40:54.240 --> 01:40:57.780 MEAN, AND I DISAGREE WITH THAT, TO ME IT'S NO DIFFERENT THAN 01:40:57.780 --> 01:41:01.627 STANDING UP IN A CHURCH SERVICE AND HECKLING THE PREACHER. 01:41:01.631 --> 01:41:05.411 THERE'S PEOPLE IN THERE THAT MIGHT NOT BE SAVED. WE HAD, 01:41:05.411 --> 01:41:10.240 PASTOR DOUG TOLD ME, WAS IT LAST SUNDAY? LAST SUNDAY, LAST 01:41:10.240 --> 01:41:14.921 SUNDAY, 4 PEOPLE ONLINE, ON OUR STREAM, GAVE THEIR HEARTS TO 01:41:14.921 --> 01:41:20.171 JESUS. FOR THE FIRST TIME. COME ON, WE GOT TO MAKE THE INTERNET 01:41:20.171 --> 01:41:27.490 AN AMAZING EXPERIENCE. SOULS WERE ON THE LINE! SO ENDLESS 01:41:27.490 --> 01:41:31.990 STRIFES, DISPUTES, THEY'RE USELESS AND WORTHLESS, PAUL 01:41:31.990 --> 01:41:36.881 SAID. REJECT A DIVISIVE PERSON. AFTER THE FIRST AND SECOND 01:41:36.881 --> 01:41:40.661 WARNING, KNOWING THAT SUCH A PERSON HAS DELIVERED, HAS 01:41:40.661 --> 01:41:43.692 DEVIATED, I'M SORRY, DEVIATED FROM WHAT IS RIGHT AND IS 01:41:43.692 --> 01:41:50.201 SINNING, BEING SELF-CONDEMNED. 2 TIMOTHY 2, VERSE 23 THROUGH 26 01:41:50.201 --> 01:41:55.481 SAYS, REFUSE FOOLISH AND IGNORANT SPECULATIONS, KNOWING 01:41:55.481 --> 01:41:59.890 THAT THEY ONLY PRODUCE QUARRELS. CIRCLE THAT WORD AGAIN. THE 01:41:59.890 --> 01:42:02.921 LORD'S BONDSERVANT, WE'RE ALL BONDSERVANTS OF CHRIST, ARE WE 01:42:02.921 --> 01:42:07.990 NOT? MUST NOT BE ARGUMENTATIVE, RIGHT, OR QUARRELSOME, BUT BE 01:42:07.990 --> 01:42:12.832 KIND TO ALL, SKILLFUL IN TEACHING, PATIENT WHEN WRONGED, 01:42:12.832 --> 01:42:15.635 (LAUGHS) 01:42:15.635 --> 01:42:21.127 OH, WITH GENTLENESS CORRECTING THOSE WHO ARE IN OPPOSITION IF 01:42:21.131 --> 01:42:24.792 PERHAPS GOD MAY GRANT THEM REPENTANCE. AND THAT'S TALKING 01:42:24.792 --> 01:42:28.332 EVEN ABOUT THE LOST, OKAY? IT'S NOT EVEN TALKING ABOUT THE 01:42:28.332 --> 01:42:30.582 FELLOW CHRISTIAN THAT ACCIDENTALLY TYPED THE WRONG 01:42:30.582 --> 01:42:33.161 WORD. I MEAN, IT'S AMAZING TO ME. I'M PEOPLE WHO SAY, USE A 01:42:33.161 --> 01:42:35.740 WRONG WORD IN A SENTENCE AND SOMEBODY RIGHT THERE IN THE 01:42:35.740 --> 01:42:39.761 MIDDLE OF THE SERVICE WILL TYPE IN AND GO, YOU SHOULD HAVE SAID, 01:42:39.761 --> 01:42:43.301 YOU SHOULD HAVE WORDED IT. YOU'D BE SURPRISED. I KNOW ALL OF YOU 01:42:43.301 --> 01:42:46.780 THAT WATCH ARE AMAZING. YOU'D BE SURPRISED HOW MUCH WE HAVE TO 01:42:46.780 --> 01:42:51.101 DELETE. THAT'S JUST DUMB, DUMB. NOBODY NEEDS TO READ 01:42:51.101 --> 01:42:56.740 FOOLISHNESS. COME ON. THE WORLD CAN DO THAT, BUT WE'RE THE 01:42:56.740 --> 01:43:00.612 CHURCH. COME ON. WE ARE NOT OF THIS WORLD, THE BIBLE SAYS, 01:43:00.612 --> 01:43:05.740 RIGHT? AMEN. SO, QUARRELS, AND THAT THEY MAY COME TO THEIR 01:43:05.740 --> 01:43:09.761 SENSES AND ESCAPE FROM THE SNARE OF THE DEVIL BEING HELD CAPTIVE 01:43:09.761 --> 01:43:15.582 BY HIM TO DO HIS WILL. I MEAN, THE DEVIL GETS PEOPLE TO DO HIS 01:43:15.582 --> 01:43:19.481 WILL WITH JUST THE INTERNET, RIGHT? SO THESE PASSAGES, I'LL 01:43:19.481 --> 01:43:22.122 JUST SAY THIS, I PUT THIS IN MY NOTES, THEY'RE NOT TELLING US WE 01:43:22.122 --> 01:43:24.372 SHOULD NEVER CHALLENGE THE WRONG. JESUS CHALLENGED THE 01:43:24.372 --> 01:43:28.542 WRONG IN GOVERNMENT. HE CHALLENGED THE HEROD'S, RIGHT? 01:43:28.542 --> 01:43:33.582 HE CHALLENGED THE WRONG LEADERS OF THE DAY, AMEN. SO DID THE 01:43:33.582 --> 01:43:37.692 APOSTLE PAUL. HE CHALLENGED ON MARS HILL, HE CHALLENGED THE 01:43:37.692 --> 01:43:42.131 FALSE CULTURE. HE CHALLENGED, SO IT'S NOT SAYING DON'T CHALLENGE, 01:43:42.131 --> 01:43:45.402 BUT WHAT WE ARE TO DO IS DO IT ACCORDING TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD, 01:43:45.402 --> 01:43:50.981 ARMED WITH THE WORD OF GOD, AMEN, ARMED WITH THE TRUTH, DO 01:43:50.981 --> 01:43:56.261 IT IN RIGHTEOUSNESS. YES, WE SHOULD CONFRONT, COME ON, THE 01:43:56.261 --> 01:44:01.841 EVIL ILLS OF ABORTION. WE SHOULD ONLINE AND IN PERSON AND EVERY 01:44:01.841 --> 01:44:05.652 MEANS WE HAVE TALK ABOUT THE DEVIATION FROM TRADITIONAL 01:44:05.652 --> 01:44:09.341 MARRIAGE. WE NEED TO BE BOLD WITH THE TRUTH. BUT WHAT WE 01:44:09.341 --> 01:44:15.192 DON'T DO IS GET IN AND NITPICK, ARGUE ABOUT FOOLISH LITTLE 01:44:15.192 --> 01:44:20.322 THINGS THAT DON'T MATTER. WE HAVE GOT TO SET A NEW STANDARD 01:44:20.322 --> 01:44:23.862 IN THESE AREAS. AND SO THE CHURCH, I THINK, SHOULD BE 01:44:23.862 --> 01:44:26.652 LEADING THE WAY. I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT SCRIPTURE. IT SAYS 01:44:26.652 --> 01:44:29.862 THAT JUDGMENT WILL FIRST BEGIN IN THE HOUSE OF GOD. IT MUST 01:44:29.862 --> 01:44:32.411 BEGIN IN THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. WE CAN'T EXPECT THE WORLD TO 01:44:32.411 --> 01:44:36.851 REPENT IF WE DON'T CHANGE. AMEN. AM I HELPING YOU OR AM I SCARING 01:44:36.851 --> 01:44:40.332 YOU? WE HAVE TO CHANGE. AND I FEEL LIKE IT'S TIME, COME ON, 01:44:40.332 --> 01:44:45.731 FOR THERE TO BE AN OVERHAUL FROM THE BODY OF CHRIST ONLINE. AND 01:44:45.731 --> 01:44:53.740 I'LL SAY AMEN TO THAT AND AMEN TO THAT. AND BY THE WAY, 01:44:53.740 --> 01:44:56.051 SOMETHING THAT CAN HAPPEN, IN FACT, I WAS TALKING TO PASTOR 01:44:56.051 --> 01:44:59.680 MATT ONE DAY, WE WERE TEXTING SOMETHING AND I SAID SOMETHING, 01:44:59.680 --> 01:45:03.220 ONE OF US, I SAID SOMETHING JUST KIND OF BLUNT. AND HE GOES, "ARE 01:45:03.220 --> 01:45:05.229 YOU UPSET?" OR MAYBE YOU SAID, "I DON'T KNOW WHICH WAY IT 01:45:05.229 --> 01:45:09.101 WENT." AND I SAID, "NO?" HE GOES, "YEAH, IT JUST COMES OFF 01:45:09.101 --> 01:45:13.002 DIFFERENT IN A TEXT." AND HERE'S THE THING, YOU FORGET THAT IN 01:45:13.002 --> 01:45:16.811 THE COMMENTS. YOU CAN SAY SOMETHING IN A COMMENT AND YOU 01:45:16.811 --> 01:45:20.981 DON'T REALIZE IT JUST SOUNDS HARSH. OKAY, YOU HAVE TO FLOWER 01:45:20.981 --> 01:45:24.192 UP A COMMENT TO MAKE IT SOUND KIND. DON'T EVER FORGET THAT, 01:45:24.192 --> 01:45:27.252 'CAUSE PEOPLE DON'T GET TO SEE YOUR EXPRESSION. THEY DON'T SEE 01:45:27.252 --> 01:45:31.240 YOUR FACE, OKAY? I MEAN, YOUR PROFILE PICTURE IS WHEN YOU WERE 01:45:31.240 --> 01:45:36.551 IN THE 6TH GRADE. THEY DON'T EVEN KNOW HALF THE TIME HOW 01:45:36.551 --> 01:45:42.970 PEOPLE LOOK, RIGHT? RIGHT? SO KEEP THAT IN MIND. OR YOUR 01:45:42.970 --> 01:45:47.652 PROFILE PHOTO IS WHEN YOU WERE, YOU KNOW, 30 POUNDS LIGHTER. BUT 01:45:47.652 --> 01:45:51.521 THE FACT OF THE MATTER IS, IS IT COMES OUT HARSH IN COMMENTS. WE 01:45:51.521 --> 01:45:54.701 HAVE TO BE CAREFUL ABOUT THAT. SO, MEAN-SPIRITED, THAT'S NUMBER 01:45:54.701 --> 01:45:57.881 2 , I GOTTA GO QUICK. MEAN-SPIRITED COMMENTS, 01:45:57.881 --> 01:46:01.152 ESPECIALLY TO THE BODY OF CHRIST. I FEEL LIKE WE'RE GONNA 01:46:01.152 --> 01:46:03.131 GET TO HEAVEN ONE DAY AND GOD SAID, "HOW DO YOU TREAT MY 01:46:03.131 --> 01:46:07.841 PEOPLE?" I DO, I DO. IT'S BROUGHT SOBERNESS TO MY OWN 01:46:07.841 --> 01:46:11.171 HEART. AND I FEEL LIKE WE'VE GOTTA TREAT THE BODY OF CHRIST 01:46:11.171 --> 01:46:14.382 WELL. HERE'S THE THIRD ONE. BIBLICAL PRINCIPLE FOR THE USE 01:46:14.382 --> 01:46:18.942 OF SOCIAL MEDIA IS DO IT WITH WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT. SEEK 01:46:18.942 --> 01:46:24.341 WISDOM IN WHAT YOU READ AND WHAT YOU POST. I SAW A MEME ONE DAY, 01:46:24.341 --> 01:46:27.131 THIS WAS MANY YEARS AGO, THIS IS ON FACEBOOK 'CAUSE I'M SO OLD, 01:46:27.131 --> 01:46:32.591 THAT'S THE ONE I USE. AND I SAW IT ON FACEBOOK AND AT A GLANCE, 01:46:32.591 --> 01:46:35.951 I'M LIKE, OH, THAT'S GOOD, OH, THAT'S GOOD. AND THE HOLY SPIRIT 01:46:35.951 --> 01:46:41.201 CAUGHT ME, HE SAID, NO, THAT'S NOT MY WORD. THAT'S A POST THAT 01:46:41.201 --> 01:46:46.030 SOUNDS GOOD, IT SOUNDS MEANINGFUL. SOMETIMES WE LOOK AT 01:46:46.030 --> 01:46:51.551 POSTS AND WE LIKE THEM BASED ON WHAT RESONATES, OKAY? THINK 01:46:51.551 --> 01:46:54.881 ABOUT THAT. WE THINK ABOUT IT BASED ON, WELL, THIS IS HOW I 01:46:54.881 --> 01:46:58.707 FEEL, THIS WAS HOW I WAS RAISED, BUT DO WE EVER MEASURE IT 01:46:59.771 --> 01:47:03.911 AGAINST THE BOOK? JESUS SAID IN THE LAST DAYS, 3 TIMES IN 01:47:03.911 --> 01:47:07.692 MATTHEW 24. COME ON, ARE WE IN THE LAST DAYS? I MEAN, THIS IS 01:47:07.692 --> 01:47:10.180 THE LAST OF THE LAST OF THE LAST. THERE'S THINGS THAT I'M 01:47:10.180 --> 01:47:13.332 LIKE, OH LORDY, HOW CAN IT GET ANY WORSE? JESUS SAID IN THE 01:47:13.332 --> 01:47:18.640 LAST DAYS, TAKE HEED THAT NO ONE DECEIVES YOU. AND OBVIOUSLY THE 01:47:18.640 --> 01:47:22.962 INTERNET IS LIKE THE DEVIL'S HOLE OF DECEPTION. IT IS FILLED 01:47:22.962 --> 01:47:27.402 WITH CLICKBAIT, IT IS FILLED WITH THINGS TO DRAW US IN. I 01:47:27.402 --> 01:47:30.011 MEAN, EVEN THESE LITTLE, WHAT DO THEY CALL THESE THINGS? THESE 01:47:30.011 --> 01:47:34.572 ADS FOR PRODUCTS, YOU KNOW, IT'LL MAKE YOUR HAIR THICKER. I 01:47:34.572 --> 01:47:37.572 MEAN, OKAY, I'M GONNA TELL HIM MYSELF. I SAW ONE. I MEAN, AND 01:47:37.572 --> 01:47:40.930 THEN PASTOR ANTHONY, YOU KNOW, YOU WORKED IN THAT FOR A LONG 01:47:40.930 --> 01:47:44.442 TIME WHERE ONCE YOU CLICK SOMETHING, IT'LL GIVE YOU 8 01:47:44.442 --> 01:47:48.011 PAGES OF THE SAME THING. YOU CLICK IN HOW TO THICKEN YOUR 01:47:48.011 --> 01:47:54.072 HAIR, AND I'M TELLING YOU THERE WILL BE, I MEAN, IT'LL BE 01:47:54.072 --> 01:47:57.402 EVERYTHING. YOU COULD GO TO YOUR IPAD, YOUR LAPTOP, YOUR 01:47:57.402 --> 01:48:03.072 COMPUTER. IT IS, IT'S FINE. AND SO I'M TELLING YOU, WE CAN BE A 01:48:03.072 --> 01:48:05.021 SUCKER FOR THESE THINGS. I LOOKED IN SOME ONE DAY, I 01:48:05.021 --> 01:48:07.529 THOUGHT, OH, I WANNA THICKEN MY HAIR. YOU KNOW, YOU GET A LITTLE 01:48:07.529 --> 01:48:11.622 OLDER AND SOME FALLS OUT. AND I THOUGHT, I WANNA THICKEN UP MY 01:48:11.622 --> 01:48:15.640 HAIR. I WANNA FIND, AND THEY HAD THIS OIL. OH, BUY THE OIL, COME 01:48:15.640 --> 01:48:19.332 ON. NOW DON'T LOOK AT ME LIKE I'M THE ONLY ONE THAT NEVER GOT 01:48:19.332 --> 01:48:24.161 SUCKED IN BY SOME AD ON INSTAGRAM. AND I'M THINKING, OH, 01:48:24.161 --> 01:48:26.561 AND THEN THE WAY THEY'RE SHOWING IT, YOU KNOW, THE LADY STARTS 01:48:26.561 --> 01:48:30.792 OUT, SHE LOOKS LIKE A DOG, AND THEN WHEN IT'S OVER, HER HAIR, 01:48:30.792 --> 01:48:37.030 TERESA, HER HAIR ALL STICKING OUT, SHE LOOKS LIKE A, I MEAN, 01:48:37.030 --> 01:48:40.481 JUST, WHEW, I'M LIKE, OH, MAN, I'M ORDERING THAT, BOOM, BOOM, 01:48:40.481 --> 01:48:45.640 BOOM, PUNCHING MY APPLE, APPLE PAY, HERE WE COME. AND IT COMES 01:48:45.640 --> 01:48:48.701 THERE WITH THE DIRECTION, IT SAYS, NOW DON'T HESITATE TO USE 01:48:48.701 --> 01:48:53.502 THIS. YOU USE IT EVERY SINGLE DAY. AND IT'LL EVENTUALLY 01:48:53.502 --> 01:48:55.752 THICKEN YOUR HAIR. NOW THEY DIDN'T SAY THAT PART. I THOUGHT, 01:48:55.752 --> 01:48:58.332 OKAY, EVERY DAY I GOT A COMMITMENT NOW. I'M GONNA USE 01:48:58.332 --> 01:49:00.462 THIS. I DON'T REMEMBER HOW MUCH I PAID FOR IT. IT WASN'T A LOT, 01:49:00.462 --> 01:49:03.582 HONEY, I PROMISE. IF YOU WOULD'VE ASKED ME, I WOULD'VE 01:49:03.582 --> 01:49:05.470 SAID DON'T BUY IT. YEAH, RIGHT. MISTER, I'VE NEVER BOUGHT 01:49:05.470 --> 01:49:08.337 ANYTHING ONLINE, I SHOULDN'T. BUT ANYWAY, SO. 01:49:08.337 --> 01:49:13.481 (AUDIENCE CHEERING) 01:49:13.481 --> 01:49:18.220 ANYWAY, SO I PUT THIS STUFF IN MY HAIR. TEA, I'M EMBARRASSED TO 01:49:18.220 --> 01:49:22.301 TELL IT. AND IT WAS OILY, OILY, LIKE OILY. I LOOKED AT MYSELF IN 01:49:22.301 --> 01:49:25.572 THE MIRROR, I LOOKED LIKE I JUST CAME IN OUT OF A RAINSTORM. I'M 01:49:25.572 --> 01:49:29.381 LIKE, I'M SUPPOSED TO LOOK LIKE THIS EVERY DAY? I MEAN, FORGET 01:49:29.381 --> 01:49:33.177 THE THICK HAIR, I LOOK LIKE I HAVEN'T WASHED MY HAIR IN A 01:49:33.177 --> 01:49:38.082 MONTH. SO I THOUGHT, I TRIED IT ONE TIME, MY HAIR WAS SO OILY 01:49:38.082 --> 01:49:40.601 AND SO GREASY, IT WENT STRAIGHT IN THE GARBAGE. MY HAIR IS WHAT 01:49:40.601 --> 01:49:45.612 IT IS. IT IS WHAT IT IS, PEOPLE. BUT THE POINT IS, IS THEY KNOW 01:49:45.612 --> 01:49:48.822 HOW TO DRAW YOU IN. AND IT'S NOT JUST THOSE THAT ARE SELLING 01:49:48.822 --> 01:49:51.942 THINGS, IT'S THOSE THAT ARE PRODUCING A MESSAGE. THAT THEY 01:49:51.942 --> 01:49:56.112 WANT TO PUT OUT SOMETHING THAT WILL DRAW YOU IN. THE BIBLE SAYS 01:49:56.112 --> 01:49:59.951 IN CORINTHIANS THAT THE DEVIL HIMSELF POSES AS AN ANGEL OF 01:49:59.951 --> 01:50:03.220 LIGHT. THAT MEANS IF HE'S AN ANGEL OF LIGHT, THERE'S ENOUGH 01:50:03.220 --> 01:50:08.292 TRUTH MIXED IN WITH THE LIE TO DRAW YOU IN. AND CAN I BE HONEST 01:50:08.292 --> 01:50:13.091 WITH YOU? THE Y, Z, ALPHA, ALL THE WAY DOWN WHERE THE LETTERS 01:50:13.091 --> 01:50:16.930 START OVER, THEY ARE THE MOST SUSCEPTIBLE. THE BARNA STUDY 01:50:16.930 --> 01:50:21.311 GROUP SAID THIS IS A GENERATION NOW WHERE PEOPLE IN THIS AGE 01:50:21.311 --> 01:50:27.011 GROUP ARE BIBLICALLY ILLITERATE. THEY HAVE NO GUIDE, NO BOOK OF 01:50:27.011 --> 01:50:31.511 WISDOM TO COMPARE TRUTH TO. SO NOW ALL OF THE THINGS ON THE 01:50:31.511 --> 01:50:37.780 INTERNET IS TRUTH IS RELEVANT. EVERYTHING'S A CONVERSATION, 01:50:37.780 --> 01:50:42.970 RIGHT? EVERYTHING IS A LET'S DISCUSS THIS. I WANNA HEAR YOUR 01:50:42.970 --> 01:50:46.631 SIDE. NOW, LISTEN, I'M NOT SAYING CHARLIE KIRK DID A 01:50:46.631 --> 01:50:49.460 WONDERFUL THING BY GETTING OUT THERE AND MAKING IT A 01:50:49.460 --> 01:50:54.490 CONVERSATION, BUT HE MADE SURE IT WENT ONE WAY. WHAT WE CAN'T 01:50:54.490 --> 01:50:57.101 DO IS BALANCE IT OUT. SOMEBODY TOLD ME A STORY OF SOMEBODY 01:50:57.101 --> 01:51:00.341 RECENTLY THAT HAD CONFESSED AND SAID THAT THEY HAD A PROBLEM 01:51:00.341 --> 01:51:04.752 WITH LUST. AND THEY SAID, "WELL, YOU KNOW, I STRUGGLE WITH THIS, 01:51:04.752 --> 01:51:08.082 "AND I STRUGGLE WITH THIS, "AND THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN I FALL INTO 01:51:08.082 --> 01:51:10.962 IT AGAIN, "AND I FALL INTO SEXUAL SIN AGAIN." WELL, I 01:51:10.962 --> 01:51:13.934 WANTED TO SAY, AT SOME POINT, THERE NEEDS TO BE A BELIEVER 01:51:13.934 --> 01:51:17.936 THAT'LL TELL YOU, THE WAGES OF SIN IS DEATH. I HEAR YOUR HEART. 01:51:17.936 --> 01:51:20.817 I UNDERSTAND THAT YOU'RE STRUGGLING. I UNDERSTAND YOU'RE 01:51:20.817 --> 01:51:23.936 FIGHTING THROUGH, BUT YOU DON'T WANT TO END UP IN HELL. AND 01:51:23.936 --> 01:51:27.686 SOMEBODY NEEDS TO TELL YOU WITH A BOLDNESS, REPENT FOR THE 01:51:27.686 --> 01:51:34.856 KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND. HALLELUJAH. IN FACT, IF WE WANT 01:51:34.856 --> 01:51:39.027 TO REALLY PUT BIBLE TO IT, JESUS' VERY FIRST SERMON WAS 01:51:39.027 --> 01:51:44.396 REPENT. TURN FROM YOUR WICKEDNESS. TURN FROM YOUR EVIL. 01:51:44.396 --> 01:51:47.216 SOMEBODY NEEDS TO LAY HANDS ON THAT YOUNG MAN AND SAY, "LISTEN 01:51:47.216 --> 01:51:50.787 TO ME, I LOVE YOU. "I UNDERSTAND YOU ARE DEALING WITH A LUST 01:51:50.787 --> 01:51:53.877 PROBLEM." MAYBE IT'S SOMEBODY WITH AN ISSUE WHERE THEY WERE 01:51:53.877 --> 01:51:57.131 TRAUMATIZED AND THEY'RE LEANING TOWARD GENDER CONFUSION. BUT AT 01:51:57.131 --> 01:52:03.506 SOME POINT, A WELL-VERSED AND EDUCATED BELIEVER NEEDS TO TELL 01:52:03.506 --> 01:52:07.436 THEM, "DON'T LET YOUR SIN SEND YOU TO HELL." SOMEWHERE 01:52:07.436 --> 01:52:10.976 YOU GOTTA TURN FROM IT, YOU GOTTA PUT THE FOOT ON 01:52:10.976 --> 01:52:14.487 IT, YOU GOTTA TAKE AUTHORITY OVER IT, BECAUSE THE DEVIL 01:52:14.487 --> 01:52:18.957 WANTS TO DRAG YOU DOWN TO JUDGMENT IN HELL FOREVER. 01:52:18.957 --> 01:52:24.896 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:52:24.896 --> 01:52:29.067 AMEN, PASTOR BRENDA, PEOPLE WON'T LIKE US IF WE'RE THAT 01:52:29.067 --> 01:52:35.100 BOLD. WELL, THEY DIDN'T LIKE JESUS EITHER. HEY, JESUS SAID, 01:52:35.100 --> 01:52:39.087 "IF THE WORLD HATED ME, THEY'RE GONNA HATE YOU. THEY'LL HATE YOU 01:52:39.087 --> 01:52:43.976 ALSO." THEY REJECTED JESUS, THEY'RE GONNA REJECT US. BUT 01:52:43.976 --> 01:52:48.268 THAT DOESN'T MEAN WE CHANGE THE MESSAGE. OUR MESSAGE STILL NEEDS 01:52:48.268 --> 01:52:52.646 TO BE RESOLUTE. THERE'S ONLY ONE WAY TO GOD, AND THAT IS 01:52:52.646 --> 01:52:56.516 REPENT OF OUR SINS. WE DON'T HAVE CONVERSATIONS ABOUT 01:52:56.516 --> 01:53:00.657 OUR HOLINESS. NO, WE DON'T LET GOD ADJUST TO US 'CAUSE 01:53:00.657 --> 01:53:04.796 HE GETS US. NO, WE ADJUST TO HIM. JESUS DIED AND 01:53:04.796 --> 01:53:07.617 NOW WE CHANGE OUR WAYS TO MATCH HIS WAYS. 01:53:07.617 --> 01:53:13.796 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:53:13.796 --> 01:53:20.533 HALLELUJAH. REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND. 01:53:20.546 --> 01:53:23.516 SOMEWHERE WE GOTTA KNOW. EVERY ONE OF US CAME THE SAME WAY. WE 01:53:23.516 --> 01:53:28.430 HAD TO RECOGNIZE WE'RE A SINNER. AND IF WE KEEP DOING WHAT WE'RE 01:53:28.430 --> 01:53:33.056 DOING, WE WILL NOT GET TO HEAVEN. WELL, WHAT IF I GO THAT 01:53:33.056 --> 01:53:35.966 BOAT, PASTOR BRENDA, THEY'LL REJECT JESUS. YOU'D BE SHOCKED. 01:53:35.966 --> 01:53:40.766 I HEARD A PREACHER TELL A STORY ONE TIME ABOUT A PASTOR, OR HE 01:53:40.766 --> 01:53:42.686 WASN'T A PASTOR, BUT HE WAS A MAN OF GOD, MAYBE HE WAS A 01:53:42.686 --> 01:53:45.987 MINISTER, I DON'T KNOW. BUT HE SAID, YOU KNOW, HE SAID, 01:53:45.987 --> 01:53:47.516 ACTUALLY IT WAS BROTHER COPELAND, HE SAID, "BROTHER 01:53:47.516 --> 01:53:51.447 COPELAND, WOULD YOU TALK TO MY SON? "HE'S OUT ON DRUGS AND, YOU 01:53:51.447 --> 01:53:54.957 KNOW, "HE'S JUST RUNNING CRAZY IN THE WORLD, "AND WOULD YOU 01:53:54.957 --> 01:53:58.346 TALK TO HIM? WOULD YOU JUST SHARE WITH HIM?" AND HE THOUGHT, 01:53:58.346 --> 01:54:03.657 "WELL, OKAY." SO HE WENT IN WITH THIS YOUNG MAN AND HE SAID, HE 01:54:03.657 --> 01:54:06.237 LOOKED AT HIM AND THE YOUNG MAN'S LIKE, HE GOES, "YEAH, I 01:54:06.237 --> 01:54:08.157 WANNA TALK TO YOU." AND YOU KNOW, BROTHER COPELAND, HE'S 01:54:08.157 --> 01:54:10.676 LIKE, "LET'S JUST GET TO THE POINT. I'M NOT HERE TO MESS 01:54:10.676 --> 01:54:13.860 AROUND. WE'RE NOT GONNA STAND IN HERE FOR 3 DAYS." SEE, I THINK 01:54:13.860 --> 01:54:17.787 THAT'S THE MISTAKE WE MAKE. WE DON'T KNOW THE BIBLE ANYMORE. SO 01:54:17.787 --> 01:54:22.016 BECAUSE WE HAVE NO SCRIPTURE TO BACK UP, WE CONVERSE WITH 01:54:22.016 --> 01:54:27.567 DECEPTION. WE HAVE DISCUSSIONS WITH DECEPTION. WE ACCEPT THINGS 01:54:27.567 --> 01:54:30.657 AND PUT LIKES BEHIND THINGS WE SHOULDN'T PUT LIKES BEHIND, 01:54:30.657 --> 01:54:35.127 'CAUSE WE DON'T KNOW THE TRUTH FROM A LIE, RIGHT? COME ON, THIS 01:54:35.127 --> 01:54:37.989 IS A COMMON THING IN THE CHURCH RIGHT NOW. THEY DON'T KNOW THE 01:54:37.989 --> 01:54:41.277 TRUTH, THEY DON'T READ THE BIBLE. OKAY, JESUS SAID, "IF YOU 01:54:41.277 --> 01:54:46.226 DON'T FORGIVE SOMEBODY, "YOU'RE GOING TO HELL." JESUS SAID THAT! 01:54:46.226 --> 01:54:49.619 I MEAN, THAT'S CRAZY. AND WE CAN GET OUT THERE AND TELL PEOPLE, 01:54:49.619 --> 01:54:55.737 "WELL, YOUR HAIR'S UGLY, I DON'T LIKE YOUR OUTFIT." YOU KNOW, 01:54:55.737 --> 01:55:00.747 "YOU MADE ME MAD." YOU KNOW, MEAN-SPIRITED THINGS. BUT WE'VE 01:55:00.747 --> 01:55:04.527 GOT TO GET BACK TO THE BOOK. THE BOOK IS WHAT'LL SEND PEOPLE TO 01:55:04.527 --> 01:55:07.256 HEAVEN. YOU KNOW, I THOUGHT OF THIS, 'CAUSE NOW EVERYTHING'S 01:55:07.256 --> 01:55:09.506 BECOME, OKAY, I'M GETTING OFF MY MESSAGE, BUT LET ME JUST, 01:55:09.506 --> 01:55:12.087 THERE'S NO SNOW YET, SO I CAN KEEP PREACHING FOR A MINUTE. 01:55:12.087 --> 01:55:16.766 HERE'S THE THING. I ASKED THEM TO PUT IT OUT THERE. I SAID, 01:55:16.766 --> 01:55:18.686 "JUST KEEP ME POSTED ON THE WEATHER." THEY SAID, "IT'S GOOD, 01:55:18.686 --> 01:55:21.146 NO SNOW YET. "KEEP PREACHING." THAT'S WHAT THEY WROTE. 01:55:21.146 --> 01:55:26.577 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:55:26.577 --> 01:55:30.327 SO, BUT THE POINT, LET ME FINISH THE BROTHER COPELAND STORY. SO 01:55:30.327 --> 01:55:32.756 HE SAID, "I WALKED IN WITH BOLDNESS, "AND I JUST SAID, 'YOU 01:55:32.756 --> 01:55:39.146 KNOW WHAT? "'THE SCRIPTURE SAYS THAT MY WORD SHALL NOT RETURN 01:55:39.146 --> 01:55:43.587 VOID.'" AND THE YOUNG MAN KNEW WHERE HE WAS GOING WITH IT. HE 01:55:43.587 --> 01:55:47.426 SAID, "WELL, BYE, THANK YOU FOR COMING." AND HE LEFT. LIKE HE 01:55:47.426 --> 01:55:49.976 DIDN'T WANT TO RECEIVE WHAT HE HAD TO SAY. SEE, THIS IS THE 01:55:49.976 --> 01:55:53.457 IDEA THAT WE HAVE SOMETIMES. WE THINK, WELL, UNLESS I PACKAGE IT 01:55:53.457 --> 01:55:56.546 THE WAY THEY CAN RECEIVE IT, THEY'RE NOT GONNA RECEIVE IT. I 01:55:56.546 --> 01:55:58.827 DON'T READ ANYTHING IN THE BIBLE. NOW, JESUS SAT WITH 01:55:58.827 --> 01:56:02.394 SINNERS. HE SAT WITH THE SINNERS. BUT HE ALSO WENT IN AND 01:56:02.394 --> 01:56:05.185 SAID, "REPENT FOR THE KINGDOM OF HEAVEN IS AT HAND." HE DID NOT 01:56:05.185 --> 01:56:09.657 HAVE A CONVO WITH THE WOMAN CAUGHT IN ADULTERY. HE SAID, 01:56:09.657 --> 01:56:11.817 "I'M NOT GONNA CONDEMN YOU, BUT YOU STOP SINNING." 01:56:11.817 --> 01:56:13.390 (CONGREGATION MURMURS) 01:56:13.390 --> 01:56:16.947 OKAY, HE HAD A VERY BOLD MESSAGE. JOHN HAD A BOLD 01:56:16.947 --> 01:56:20.936 MESSAGE. THE APOSTLES HAD A BOLD MESSAGE. JESUS STOOD UP IN ACTS, 01:56:20.936 --> 01:56:24.266 THE SECOND CHAPTER, AND HE SAID, "THIS CHRIST WHOM YOU 01:56:24.266 --> 01:56:28.377 CRUCIFIED." AND THEY WERE PRICKED IN THEIR HEART AND SAID, 01:56:28.377 --> 01:56:32.096 "WHAT ARE WE GONNA DO?" AND THE CHURCH GREW. WE HAVE THIS IDEA 01:56:32.096 --> 01:56:35.936 THAT THE WAYS OF THE BIBLE ARE ANTIQUATED, THAT SOMEHOW WE 01:56:35.936 --> 01:56:39.087 GOTTA COME UP WITH A NEW METHOD FOR THE NEW GENERATION, 'CAUSE 01:56:39.087 --> 01:56:42.657 THEY AIN'T GONNA GET IT, SO WE GOTTA DO A HE GETS US, AND TURN 01:56:42.657 --> 01:56:46.556 JESUS INTO A PHILANTHROPIST, AND SOME SORT OF, YOU KNOW, LET'S 01:56:46.556 --> 01:56:52.197 HAVE A CONVERSATION, I GET YOU, YOU GET ME. THERE'S NOTHING IN 01:56:52.197 --> 01:56:57.806 THE WORD THAT DESCRIBES THAT. NOTHING IN THE WORD. 3 THINGS 01:56:57.806 --> 01:57:02.216 JESUS TAUGHT THE CHURCH TO DO. PREACH THE KINGDOM. THAT'S GOD'S 01:57:02.216 --> 01:57:07.737 WAY OF DOING THINGS. HEAL THE SICK AND CAST OUT DEVILS. I 01:57:07.737 --> 01:57:11.277 MEAN, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN IF SOMEBODY PUT A HAND ON SOMEBODY 01:57:11.277 --> 01:57:15.476 AND SAID, INSTEAD OF, "WELL, LET'S JUST TALK. I KNOW YOU WENT 01:57:15.476 --> 01:57:18.896 THROUGH." DON'T HEAR ME THAT I'M NEVER SAYING ANYBODY CAN'T TALK 01:57:18.896 --> 01:57:22.256 WITH PEOPLE, BUT I'M TELLING YOU, WE HAVE REPLACED BIBLE WITH 01:57:22.256 --> 01:57:26.846 DISCUSSIONS AND CONVERSATION. GIVE A LITTLE, TAKE A LITTLE. 01:57:26.846 --> 01:57:30.176 THIS IS, COME ON, AM I TALKING ABOUT THE SAME CULTURE? THIS IS 01:57:30.176 --> 01:57:33.146 THE CULTURE WE'RE LIVING IN. EVERYBODY WANTS A LITTLE BIT OF 01:57:33.146 --> 01:57:38.396 PEACE OF UNDERSTAND ME. OKAY? WE'RE NOT GONNA BE SAYING THAT 01:57:38.396 --> 01:57:42.386 ON JUDGMENT DAY WHEN WE GET UP TO THE GATE. JESUS IS GONNA SAY, 01:57:42.386 --> 01:57:46.856 WHAT DID YOU DO WITH MY WORD? DID YOU REPENT OF YOUR SINS? 01:57:46.856 --> 01:57:49.886 OKAY, THERE ARE TERRIFYING SCRIPTURES, COME ON FOLKS, 01:57:49.886 --> 01:57:53.127 WRITTEN IN THE WORD OF GOD THAT TALK ABOUT THOSE THAT WON'T MAKE 01:57:53.127 --> 01:57:56.067 HEAVEN, THOSE THAT DO SUCH THINGS WON'T INHERIT ETERNAL 01:57:56.067 --> 01:58:01.346 LIFE. REVELATION CHAPTER 21 SAYS ALL LIARS, FORNICATORS, THOSE 01:58:01.346 --> 01:58:05.787 THAT COMMIT SEXUAL SIN, THOSE THAT DO EVIL THINGS, THEIR NAME 01:58:05.787 --> 01:58:10.407 WILL NOT BE FOUND IN THE BOOK. COME ON, OUR JOB IS TO GET 01:58:10.407 --> 01:58:12.476 PEOPLE'S NAMES WRITTEN IN THE BOOK. 01:58:12.476 --> 01:58:17.457 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:58:17.457 --> 01:58:20.606 SO THIS YOUNG MAN, BACK TO BROTHER COPELAND, THIS YOUNG 01:58:20.606 --> 01:58:22.766 MAN, I'M NOT GETTING THROUGH ALL THESE, IT IS WHAT IT IS, I'VE 01:58:22.766 --> 01:58:28.407 SAID IT. I'LL, HUH? WE'LL DO A PART 2 , I DON'T KNOW WHEN, 01:58:28.407 --> 01:58:31.046 BUT WE WILL. HERE'S THE POINT, LET ME JUST SAY THIS, 01:58:31.046 --> 01:58:33.657 HUH? PALM SUNDAY, OKAY, YOU'RE NOT PREACHING 01:58:33.657 --> 01:58:35.783 ON PALM SUNDAY? WE'LL TALK ABOUT THAT AT HOME. 01:58:35.783 --> 01:58:39.356 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:58:39.356 --> 01:58:44.096 OVER EGG SALAD, I MADE EGG SALAD TODAY. SO HERE'S THE DEAL, 01:58:44.096 --> 01:58:46.556 HERE'S THE REAL DEAL. SO BROTHER COPELAND, HE COMES BACK, THIS 01:58:46.556 --> 01:58:51.596 YOUNG MAN, AND HE WAS AT A MEETING, AND HE SAID, THIS 01:58:51.596 --> 01:58:53.546 PERSON RUNS UP TO ME, BROTHER COPELAND, BROTHER COPELAND, 01:58:53.546 --> 01:58:56.277 BROTHER COPELAND. DO YOU REMEMBER? HE GOES, YEAH, BEEN A 01:58:56.277 --> 01:58:59.006 FEW YEARS, HE DIDN'T. AND HE GOES, I'M THAT YOUNG MAN THAT 01:58:59.006 --> 01:59:03.117 THE GUY ASKED YOU TO COME TALK TO. AND YOU SAID THESE WORDS, 01:59:03.117 --> 01:59:09.806 YOU SAID THAT MY WORD DOES NOT RETURN VOID. AND I COULDN'T HEAR 01:59:09.806 --> 01:59:13.136 IT AT THE TIME. BUT DO YOU KNOW I COULD NOT GET THOSE OUT OF MY 01:59:13.136 --> 01:59:17.037 MIND? EVERYWHERE I WENT, GOD'S WORD WON'T RETURN VOID. 01:59:17.037 --> 01:59:20.487 EVERYWHERE I TRY TO DO DRUGS, GOD WON'T RETURN VOID. AND I TRY 01:59:20.487 --> 01:59:23.846 TO DO SINFUL THINGS, GOD'S WORD WON'T RETURN. WE DON'T HAVE 01:59:23.846 --> 01:59:27.117 ENOUGH TRUST IN THE WORD TO SAY IF I JUST PREACH THE 01:59:27.117 --> 01:59:30.627 WORD UNADULTERATED, THAT GOD TAKES CARE OF THE REST. 01:59:30.627 --> 01:59:33.027 COME ON, SOMEBODY, THROUGH THE POWER OF THE HOLY 01:59:33.027 --> 01:59:37.287 SPIRIT, WHO CAN GET TO THAT PERSON'S HEART, RIGHT? 01:59:37.287 --> 01:59:39.613 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:59:39.613 --> 01:59:43.287 WHAT WE HAVE TO BE CAREFUL OF, WHETHER IN PERSON, BUT THIS IS 01:59:43.287 --> 01:59:47.306 ESPECIALLY AN ISSUE ONLINE, THAT WE AREN'T CONVERSING SO MUCH 01:59:47.306 --> 01:59:50.363 THAT WE ARE GIVING PEOPLE EXCUSES OUT OF HEAVEN. YOU KNOW, 01:59:50.363 --> 01:59:52.917 I WAS READING THE SCRIPTURE. WE'RE DOING, OUR FAMILY'S DOING 01:59:52.917 --> 01:59:56.042 A CHALLENGE READING THE BOOK OF MATTHEW, MATTHEW 7. JESUS SAID 01:59:56.042 --> 02:00:00.447 IT, I MEAN, THIS IS STAGGERING. HE SAID, "NARROW IS THE WAY THAT 02:00:00.447 --> 02:00:05.487 LEADS TO LIFE, "AND FEW THERE'LL BE THAT FIND IT." WIDE IS THE 02:00:05.487 --> 02:00:11.367 CONVERSATION. WIDE IS THE WAY. WIDE IS THE WAY THAT LEADS TO 02:00:11.367 --> 02:00:14.037 DESTRUCTION, AND LOTS OF PEOPLE ARE GOING THERE, AND I'M 02:00:14.037 --> 02:00:16.256 JUST MAKING A DECISION, GOD, I'M NOT GONNA BE ONE OF 02:00:16.256 --> 02:00:19.208 THOSE PEOPLE THAT HELPS SOMEBODY BECAUSE I DIDN'T 02:00:19.208 --> 02:00:23.426 HAVE THE BOLDNESS TO TELL THEM THE TRUTH. HALLELUJAH! 02:00:23.426 --> 02:00:25.466 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 02:00:25.466 --> 02:00:32.787 ALL RIGHT, WHERE WAS I? GETTING FIRED UP. OH YEAH, WE'RE ONLY 02:00:32.787 --> 02:00:38.756 NUMBER, WISDOM AND DISCERNMENT. OKAY, WE NEED TO BRING BIBLE. 02:00:38.756 --> 02:00:41.277 I'M NOT SAYING THIS, I'M NOT JUST TALKING POSTSCRIPTURES. WE 02:00:41.277 --> 02:00:45.386 NEED TRUTH. AND IT NEEDS TO BE UNADULTERATED WITHOUT DECEPTION. 02:00:45.386 --> 02:00:47.877 WE NEED TO KNOW IT. FOLKS, LISTEN TO ME. IF YOU CAN DO 02:00:47.877 --> 02:00:53.153 ANYTHING, AND I CAN IMPLORE YOU AS A PASTOR, KNOW YOUR BIBLE. 02:00:53.157 --> 02:00:56.186 OKAY, JESUS DIDN'T SAY IT IS WRITTEN, IT IS WRITTEN, IT IS 02:00:56.186 --> 02:00:58.527 WRITTEN, IT IS WRITTEN BECAUSE HE DIDN'T KNOW THE WORD. NO, HE 02:00:58.527 --> 02:01:02.216 GREW UP KNOWING. SO HE HAD A COUNTER FOR EVERYTHING THAT CAME 02:01:02.216 --> 02:01:06.716 DECEPTIVELY. AMEN. AND I LIKE WHAT ONE PREACHER SAID, THOSE 02:01:06.716 --> 02:01:10.016 TEMPTATIONS THAT JESUS WENT THROUGH, IT WASN'T JUST THE 3 OF 02:01:10.016 --> 02:01:13.617 THE BIBLE NOTES. HE WAS 40 DAYS AND 40 NIGHTS IN COMBAT WITH THE 02:01:13.617 --> 02:01:18.296 DEVIL, BEING COUNTERED AND HE CAME WITH THE WORD. THE WORD IS 02:01:18.296 --> 02:01:22.407 WHAT KEPT HIM. NUMBER 4 , I'LL JUST SAY THIS QUICKLY, USE 02:01:22.407 --> 02:01:27.137 SOCIAL MEDIA, NO SNOW YET, I CAN KEEP PREACHING. OH, THE STREAM 02:01:27.137 --> 02:01:31.037 ENDS AT 1:10, I'M GONNA HURRY. ALL RIGHT, IN MODERATION, YOUR 02:01:31.037 --> 02:01:36.228 LIFE SHOULD NOT BE CONSUMED BY SOCIAL MEDIA. I THINK WE TALKED 02:01:36.228 --> 02:01:38.988 ABOUT THAT. YOU KNOW, FOLKS, I STARTED SOMETHING, I WROTE ABOUT 02:01:38.988 --> 02:01:41.207 THIS IN THE BOOK CALLED COMMANDING PEACE. I STARTED 02:01:41.207 --> 02:01:44.537 TAKING DAYS WHERE I DIDN'T OPEN A SOCIAL APP. CAN YOU KNOW WHAT 02:01:44.537 --> 02:01:48.768 SET ME FREE? WHAT? I DON'T KNOW, IT JUST SET ME FREE. I'M STILL 02:01:48.768 --> 02:01:53.957 DOING IT. I'M OPENING MY PHONE, I'LL CHECK MY BANK, RIGHT? SEE 02:01:53.957 --> 02:01:55.608 WHAT'S COMING IN FROM AMAZON FOR THE DAY. 02:01:55.608 --> 02:01:59.328 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 02:01:59.328 --> 02:02:03.528 SO THE PASTOR CAN BREAK THE BOXES DOWN. AND THEN, IT'S HIS 02:02:03.528 --> 02:02:07.997 PART-TIME JOB, HE SAID. I SAID, "WELL, HONEY, I COULD BE GONE 02:02:07.997 --> 02:02:14.268 SHOPPING, BUT NOW I'M HERE. AND IT COMES TO US." SEE, IT'S 02:02:14.268 --> 02:02:20.207 GREAT. YOU KNOW, THE DOG FOOD COMES TO YOU NOW. IT'S AWESOME. 02:02:20.207 --> 02:02:27.047 I LOVE IT. BUT HERE'S THE POINT. THE POINT IS, I JUST STARTED 02:02:27.047 --> 02:02:30.228 TELLING MYSELF, "DO NOT OPEN INSTAGRAM." NOW, IF YOU WORK IN 02:02:30.228 --> 02:02:33.528 IT IN A PROFESSIONAL SENSE, WE HAVE A SOCIAL MEDIA TEAM HERE. I 02:02:33.528 --> 02:02:37.097 WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU GUYS, KEEP IT TO YOUR BUSINESS. SOME OF YOU 02:02:37.097 --> 02:02:40.757 THAT RUN SOCIAL MEDIA FOR BUSINESSES, EVERYBODY, IF YOU 02:02:40.757 --> 02:02:45.707 HAVE TO POST FOR YOUR COMPANY, EVERY HUMAN BEING CAN CHOOSE TO 02:02:45.707 --> 02:02:50.148 AVOID THE SCROLL. JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE POSTING, DO YOU HAVE TO 02:02:50.148 --> 02:02:53.837 BE SCROLLING? AND JUST BECAUSE YOU'RE POSTING, DO YOU HAVE TO 02:02:53.837 --> 02:02:58.484 GO CHECK COMMENTS EVERY TIME? SOMETIMES POST WHAT YOU GOT TO 02:02:58.484 --> 02:03:03.438 POST, PUT YOUR PRODUCT OUT THERE AND WALK OFF. I'M TELLING YOU, I 02:03:03.438 --> 02:03:07.578 BELIEVE IT'S STOLEN OUR PEACE TO HAVE TO SIT OUT THERE. AND I 02:03:07.578 --> 02:03:11.387 LIKE WHAT PASTOR MATT SAID TO ME. HE SAID, A LOT OF PEOPLE, 02:03:12.467 --> 02:03:16.337 SOCIAL HAS MADE US LOSE HEART. RATHER THAN CARE ABOUT GOD'S 02:03:16.337 --> 02:03:21.047 HEART, ALL WE CARE ABOUT IS HOW MANY LIKES DID I GET? OKAY? HOW 02:03:21.047 --> 02:03:25.787 MANY PAGE LIKES AM I RECEIVING? HOW MANY COMMENTS DID I GET? 02:03:25.787 --> 02:03:30.198 COME ON, ARE WE BETTER THAN THAT? I MEAN, AND I'VE CAUGHT UP 02:03:30.198 --> 02:03:33.018 IN IT, SO I'M NOT SAYING ANYTHING IN A CONDEMNING WAY. 02:03:33.018 --> 02:03:35.297 I'VE LOOKED AT IT AND THOUGHT, "WELL, YOU KNOW, MY PAGE IS 02:03:35.297 --> 02:03:41.028 THIS." WHAT IN THE WORLD ARE WE THINKING? DO WE NOT NEED TO GROW 02:03:41.028 --> 02:03:45.828 BETTER THAN THE AMOUNT OF LIKES? WHAT ABOUT, LIKE WHAT YOU SAID, 02:03:45.828 --> 02:03:50.387 WHAT DOES GOD LIKE? DOES HE ENDORSE WHAT I'M DOING? IS HE 02:03:50.387 --> 02:03:54.228 PLEASED? BECAUSE WE SURE KNOW THAT A MILLION FOLLOWERS DOES 02:03:54.228 --> 02:03:57.887 NOT MEAN YOU HAVE PLEASED THE KING OF KINGS AND THE LORD OF 02:03:57.887 --> 02:04:02.717 LORDS. COME ON SOMEBODY. ALL RIGHT, LET ME CLOSE WITH THIS. 02:04:02.717 --> 02:04:05.717 AM I HELPING YOU? I DON'T WANT TO BARK AT YOU. LISTEN, I'M JUST 02:04:05.717 --> 02:04:08.868 AS GUILTY OF MANY OF THESE THINGS, BUT FOLKS, DON'T YOU 02:04:08.868 --> 02:04:12.167 THINK IT'S TIME FOR THE CHURCH TO MAKE A SHIFT IN HOW WE HANDLE 02:04:12.167 --> 02:04:15.318 THE INTERNET AND HOW WE HANDLE THE BODY OF CHRIST? OKAY, TAKE 02:04:15.318 --> 02:04:19.728 SOME DAYS OFF SOCIAL. I CHALLENGE YOU. CAN WE MAKE A 02:04:19.728 --> 02:04:22.908 CHALLENGE IN THE CHURCH? JUST COME ON, SOME OF YOU. YOU CAN DO 02:04:22.908 --> 02:04:27.828 IT. FAST IT, RIGHT? SOME OF YOU ARE LIKE, "OH, REALLY? THAT'S 02:04:27.828 --> 02:04:30.917 THE ONLY WAY I KNOW HOW TO READ MINDS." JUST DO IT. YOU'D BE 02:04:30.917 --> 02:04:36.137 SURPRISED HOW FUN IT IS TO WORK IN THE GARDEN, GO OUT, GUYS, IN 02:04:36.137 --> 02:04:39.287 THE GARAGE AND PLAY WITH THE CAR, DO WHATEVER. DO SOMETHING 02:04:39.287 --> 02:04:44.898 ELSE. AMEN. WE TELL THE KIDS TO DO IT. BREAK DOWN BOXES LIKE 02:04:44.898 --> 02:04:50.747 PASTOR. IT'S SO FUN. BUT CAN I TELL YOU, WE TELL THE CHILDREN 02:04:50.747 --> 02:04:54.318 TO DO IT, DON'T WE? OH, WE NEED TO GET THEM OFF THEIR SCREENS, 02:04:54.318 --> 02:04:58.877 AND YET WE'RE OVER THERE, YOU KNOW, LIKE, I'M LIKE, WE'RE JUST 02:04:58.877 --> 02:05:06.438 AS BAD. I MEAN, WALK THE AIRPORT ONCE. EVERYBODY. RIGHT? IT'S 02:05:06.438 --> 02:05:10.938 CRAZY. IT'S CRAZY. SO JUST I CHALLENGE YOU, TAKE A DAY OFF 02:05:10.938 --> 02:05:15.018 SOCIAL OR 2 , HAVE, YOU KNOW, MONDAY, NO SOCIAL DAY OR 02:05:15.018 --> 02:05:17.658 WHATEVER IT IS. RIGHT? ALL RIGHT, LET ME GIVE YOU THESE 02:05:17.658 --> 02:05:20.597 LAST REALLY FAST, 'CAUSE I AM NOT PREACHING PART 2 ON PALM 02:05:20.597 --> 02:05:26.177 SUNDAY, I AM NOT. ALL RIGHT, I HEARD THAT. NUMBER 6 , I THINK 02:05:26.177 --> 02:05:29.867 WE TALKED ON IT, HOLINESS AND PURITY. GALATIANS 5:19 THROUGH 02:05:29.867 --> 02:05:33.528 26, IF YOU FOLLOW THE DESIRES OF YOUR SINFUL NATURE, COME ON, 02:05:33.528 --> 02:05:38.988 SOCIAL SHOULD NEVER BE USED FOR SELF-GRATIFICATION, RIGHT? HEY, 02:05:38.988 --> 02:05:43.046 THAT IS NOT WHERE WE'RE JUST GONNA GO MEET PEOPLE. WELL, 02:05:43.046 --> 02:05:47.627 YEAH, BUT WE'RE GENERATION WHATEVER. NO, LISTEN, THERE'S 02:05:47.627 --> 02:05:53.807 SOMETHING TO DO WITH STILL IN-PERSON COMMUNICATION. NOT FOR 02:05:53.807 --> 02:05:57.797 SELF-GRATIFICATION, HOLINESS, PURITY. BIBLE SAYS IN LEVITICUS 02:05:57.797 --> 02:06:02.148 27:30, BE HOLY AS HE IS HOLY. I WON'T READ ALL OF GALATIANS, THE 02:06:03.528 --> 02:06:07.158 WORKS OF THE FLESH, IDOLATRY, SORCERY, HOSTILITY, QUARRELING, 02:06:07.158 --> 02:06:09.978 JEALOUSY, OUTBURSTS OF ANGER. I MEAN, THIS IS SOCIAL MEDIA JUST 02:06:09.978 --> 02:06:15.377 LISTED IN THE BIBLE. DISSENSION, DIVISION, ENVY, DRUNKENNESS, 02:06:15.377 --> 02:06:19.637 AMEN. ALL OF THESE SCRIPTURES, HOLINESS, USE IT IN A HOLY WAY 02:06:19.637 --> 02:06:23.658 THAT PLEASES GOD. AND LAST I'LL SAY, DO IT WITHOUT REACTION. 02:06:23.658 --> 02:06:28.787 THIS IS A RASH GENERATION. SECOND, TIMOTHY CHAPTER 3 TALKS 02:06:28.787 --> 02:06:31.728 ABOUT THEIR HEADY IN THE LAST DAYS, MEANING THEIR RASH. THEY 02:06:31.728 --> 02:06:35.568 JUST DO THINGS WITHOUT THINKING. I THINK SOCIAL MEDIA HAS SUCKED 02:06:35.568 --> 02:06:38.268 US INTO THAT A LITTLE BIT, WHERE WE JUST DO THINGS WITHOUT 02:06:38.268 --> 02:06:41.635 THINKING. WE SEE SOMETHING, WE THINK, "OH, I GOTTA WRITE ABOUT 02:06:41.635 --> 02:06:45.557 THAT." NO, WE DON'T PRAY, RIGHT? COME ON, 'CAUSE I'VE DONE IT, 02:06:45.557 --> 02:06:47.568 MAN. I CAN BE A LITTLE HOT-TEMPERED. I READ SOMETHING, 02:06:47.568 --> 02:06:50.868 SOMETHING BAD, SOMEBODY WRITES, I'M LIKE, "OH, I'M GOING." AND 02:06:50.868 --> 02:06:55.967 THEN THE HOLY SPIRIT WILL SAY, "DELETE IT." SO WE DON'T PRAY, 02:06:55.967 --> 02:06:59.717 AND THE LAST IS PRAY. PRAY, PRAYERFULLY, PRAYERFULLY. YOU 02:06:59.717 --> 02:07:02.747 KNOW WHAT KEPT JESUS OUT OF TROUBLE? HIS PRAYER LIFE WAS 02:07:02.747 --> 02:07:06.587 ABSOLUTELY AMAZING. I THINK WE OUGHT TO MAKE ANOTHER CHALLENGE. 02:07:06.587 --> 02:07:10.637 PRAY BEFORE YOU POST. AND THEN GET A SECOND OPINION. ASK YOUR 02:07:10.637 --> 02:07:15.257 SPOUSE. ASK WHAT THEY THINK. HEY, SHOULD I POST THIS, HONEY? 02:07:15.257 --> 02:07:19.037 AND IF THEY SAY NO, LISTEN, SINGLE PEOPLE HAVE AN 02:07:19.037 --> 02:07:24.528 ACCOUNTABILITY BASE. LET'S BE PART OF THAT. LET'S INCREASE 02:07:24.528 --> 02:07:30.287 MODESTY, RIGHTEOUSNESS, TRUTH. WE'RE THE BODY OF CHRIST. LOVING 02:07:30.287 --> 02:07:34.247 THE BRETHREN ONLINE, RIGHT? DO GOOD TO THOSE THAT ARE THE 02:07:34.247 --> 02:07:36.738 HOUSEHOLD OF FAITH ONLINE. YEAH, YOU MAY NOT LIKE THE PREACHER'S 02:07:36.738 --> 02:07:40.592 PREACHING. YOU MAY NOT LIKE THE PASTOR'S STARTED A TRAVEL FUND. 02:07:40.608 --> 02:07:43.278 WELL, THEN GO TO SOMEBODY ELSE'S PAGE THAT DOESN'T HAVE A TRAVEL 02:07:43.278 --> 02:07:47.597 FUND. IT'S OKAY. IT'S ALL RIGHT. WE CAN LIVE TOGETHER AND LOVE 02:07:47.597 --> 02:07:50.057 EACH OTHER, AMEN? ALL RIGHT, STAND TO YOUR FEET, PRAISE THE 02:07:50.057 --> 02:07:54.078 LORD. I WANNA GET YOU OUT AT A GOOD TIME. STREAM ENDS IN 3 02:07:54.078 --> 02:07:57.167 MINUTES. SO IF YOU DO NEED PRAYER, PASTOR DOUG, I'LL HAVE 02:07:57.167 --> 02:07:59.927 THE ALTAR. PEOPLE CAN BE AT THE FRONT IF ANYBODY DOES NEED 02:07:59.927 --> 02:08:04.097 PRAYER FOR A FEW MOMENTS. BUT THANK YOU, FOLKS, JUST FOR 02:08:04.097 --> 02:08:08.148 HEARING THIS HARD. I WANT US TO DO BETTER. WE'RE THE BODY OF 02:08:08.148 --> 02:08:11.328 CHRIST. LET'S BE THAT TO THE WORLD. LET'S BE THAT TO THE 02:08:11.328 --> 02:08:15.395 WORLD. DID YOU GET SOMETHING OUT OF THIS TODAY? ALL RIGHT. I'M 02:08:15.408 --> 02:08:19.188 GONNA PROPHESY SOMETHING. I BET YOU WON'T HAVE TO SHOVEL TOO 02:08:19.188 --> 02:08:22.457 MUCH SNOW. IT'S GONNA BE A GOOD AFTERNOON. GO TAKE YOUR NAP, EAT 02:08:22.457 --> 02:08:25.728 YOUR EGG SALAD. I LOVE YOU GUYS. GOD BLESS ALL OF YOU ONLINE. 02:08:25.728 --> 02:08:28.847 THANK YOU FOR JOINING US TODAY AT LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. I PRAY 02:08:28.847 --> 02:08:31.728 YOU WERE BLESSED IN JESUS' NAME. LOVE Y'ALL, BYE-BYE. 02:08:31.728 --> 02:08:36.858 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING)