WEBVTT 00:00.333 --> 00:04.570 (MUSIC) 00:06.339 --> 00:09.108 GOOD MORNING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH. COME ON, LET'S GIVE THE 00:09.108 --> 00:13.813 LORD PRAISE. AND HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL OF OUR DADS OUT 00:13.813 --> 00:16.882 THERE. BUT MOST OF ALL, FATHER GOD, 00:16.882 --> 00:19.419 WE HONOR YOU THIS MORNING. HALLELUJAH. 00:20.253 --> 01:26.775 (MUSIC) 01:44.771 --> 01:49.709 HALLELUJAH! LORD, WE WORSHIP YOU. YES, LORD. AND WE 01:49.709 --> 01:55.701 STAND IN THE HONOR OF YOU, THE GREAT I AM. YES, LORD. AND IT IS 01:55.709 --> 02:01.140 OUR PRIVILEGE TO DECLARE THAT YOU ARE GOD, OUR GOD. AND SO WE 02:01.140 --> 02:06.209 WELCOME YOU TODAY. AS ALWAYS, YOU NEVER DISAPPOINT. AS I 02:06.209 --> 02:10.949 WALKED OUT TODAY, ONCE AGAIN, YOUR PRESENCE MET ME. NOW MAY IT 02:10.949 --> 02:16.949 TOUCH THE BEAUTIFUL PEOPLE IN A WAY, GOD, TODAY THAT'LL BRING A 02:16.949 --> 02:22.676 DIVINE LIFT AND BLESSING UPON THEM AND WHATEVER IT IS THAT 02:22.676 --> 02:26.280 THEY'RE PRAYING FOR, I PRAY. YOU ARE THE GREAT I AM AND EVERYBODY 02:26.280 --> 02:30.935 THAT BELIEVES THAT SAID, AMEN. AMEN. WOW, IT'S PRETTY GOOD FOR 02:30.935 --> 02:34.800 A RAINY MORNING. YEAH. I THINK SO. IT IS A NICE RAINY MORNING. 02:34.800 --> 02:39.840 DID YOU LIKE WANT TO SLEEP IN OR WHAT? HOW MANY WANTED TO SLEEP 02:39.840 --> 02:44.189 IN? NO, I'M SORRY, I WAS EXCITED TO COME TO CHURCH, BUT YEAH. I 02:44.189 --> 02:47.699 MEAN, RAIN DOES MAKE YOU WANT TO SNUGGLE UP. HOW MANY IS THAT THE 02:47.699 --> 02:52.860 CASE? SO IS IT GOING TO RAIN FOR NAP TIME FOR ANYBODY? MAYBE, 02:52.860 --> 02:55.349 MAYBE. THEY'RE SAYING LIKE, I DON'T KNOW, THREE INCHES OF 02:55.349 --> 02:57.419 RAIN. DOES THAT SOUND ABOUT RIGHT? IT'S BEEN PRETTY DRIPPY 02:57.419 --> 03:01.710 OUT THERE. YEAH, YEAH. SO, WELL, I'M SO HONORED THAT YOU CAME. 03:01.710 --> 03:04.506 AND YOU KNOW, IT'S ALWAYS WONDERFUL WHEN PEOPLE TAKE THE 03:04.506 --> 03:09.150 TIME AND COME TO CHURCH AND GATHER TOGETHER. AND SO WE NEVER 03:09.150 --> 03:12.419 TAKE THAT LIGHTLY. AND HOPEFULLY YOU'RE MEETING PEOPLE OUT IN THE 03:12.419 --> 03:16.560 HALL AND THE COFFEE CENTER AND ALL OF THAT. AND TELLING SOME OF 03:16.560 --> 03:19.770 THE DADS A HAPPY FATHER'S DAY. HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO ALL THE 03:19.770 --> 03:24.120 MEN OUT THERE. HOW MANY DADS IN THE HOUSE, GRANDPAS, 03:24.120 --> 03:27.719 GREAT-GRANDPAS, LET ME SEE YOUR HANDS. AWESOME. FANTASTIC. 03:27.719 --> 03:31.560 EXCITING. SO EXCITING, THAT'S WONDERFUL. ANYBODY GOING OUT TO 03:31.560 --> 03:37.650 LUNCH IN THE RAIN TODAY? A FEW OF YOU, THAT'S GOOD. NICE, NICE, 03:37.650 --> 03:41.777 NICE. HOW MANY ARE GONNA SPOIL YOUR HUSBAND OR FATHER TODAY? 03:41.777 --> 03:45.907 (LAUGHING) 03:45.907 --> 03:50.036 I GOT AN IDEA. NO, NO. I'LL FLUFF YOUR PILLOW FOR THE NAP. 03:50.039 --> 03:54.030 HOW DOES THAT SOUND? THE EPIC SUNDAY NAP. AND SCRATCH THE 03:54.030 --> 03:55.680 BACK. AND GIVE YOU A BACK SCRATCH. THERE YOU GO. OFFICIAL 03:55.680 --> 03:58.229 ONE. SHE'S KIND OF RETIRED FROM THAT. SHE GOT ME ONE OF THOSE 03:58.229 --> 04:01.710 BACK SCRATCHER THINGS THAT ARE LIKE THAT. SO ANYWAY, I WANT TO 04:01.710 --> 04:04.409 DO THIS. I WANT TO GREET ALL OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AROUND THE 04:04.409 --> 04:08.039 WORLD AND HAPPY FATHER'S DAY TO THE DADS AND GRANDPAS AND 04:08.039 --> 04:10.830 GREAT-GRANDPAS AND MAYBE GREAT-GREAT-GRANDPAS. LISTEN, 04:10.830 --> 04:15.449 IT'S A BEAUTIFUL THING TO HONOR FATHERS AND EVEN GOD HAS 04:15.449 --> 04:19.235 DECLARED HIS FATHER. SO WE HONOR YOU TODAY AND WE SPEAK A 04:19.235 --> 04:21.959 BLESSING NOT ONLY OVER THESE THAT ARE HERE, BUT ALSO OVER 04:21.959 --> 04:25.860 YOU. AND TELL US WHERE YOU'RE WATCHING FROM. IT'S GONNA BE A 04:25.860 --> 04:28.740 GREAT DAY, EVEN THOUGH IT MIGHT BE RAINING IN YOUR WORLD OR 04:28.740 --> 04:34.230 SUNNY, BUT THIS LITTLE GIRL, YOU GOT A PART TWO COMING. I DO, 04:34.230 --> 04:38.550 WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, AMEN. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT INTERRUPTIONS TO 04:38.550 --> 04:42.300 ANSWERED PRAYER. AND SO WE'RE GONNA KIND OF JUST NAVIGATE OUR 04:42.300 --> 04:44.699 WAY THROUGH IT TODAY. I THINK IT'S GONNA BE A GOOD TEACHING 04:44.699 --> 04:47.399 TOPIC, BIBLICAL. EVERYBODY WANTS TO GET THEIR PRAYERS ANSWERED, 04:47.399 --> 04:50.970 RIGHT? VERY IMPORTANT. SO THERE'S A LOT THAT THE BIBLE HAS 04:50.970 --> 04:53.069 TO SAY ABOUT THESE THINGS. ALL RIGHT, WELL, I'M EXCITED. WELL, 04:53.069 --> 04:56.160 HEY, TALKING ABOUT THIS, WE WERE MENTIONING RAIN. THOSE OF YOU 04:56.160 --> 04:59.129 THAT ARE WATCHING, YOU KNOW, I SAW THE RAIN, BRENDA, COMING 04:59.129 --> 05:05.279 DOWN SO FAST LAST NIGHT. AND I THOUGHT, THAT WATER IS MOVING SO 05:05.279 --> 05:09.329 FAST. HOW MANY OF YOU SAW THAT, YOU KNOW, THE WATER MOVING? AND 05:09.329 --> 05:15.583 I REALIZED THAT WATER IS NOT THE FASTEST LIQUID ON EARTH. I DON'T 05:15.583 --> 05:18.360 KNOW IF YOU GUYS EVER THOUGHT ABOUT THAT. NO, WE HAVE NOT. NO, 05:18.360 --> 05:26.083 MILK IS BECAUSE IT'S PASTEURIZED BEFORE YOU KNOW IT, SO. 05:26.083 --> 05:29.944 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 05:29.944 --> 05:33.733 I NEED SOME HELP FROM THE BAND. I MEAN, THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, I 05:33.733 --> 05:35.894 MILKED THAT FOR EVERYTHING I COULD, SO. 05:35.894 --> 05:36.970 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 05:36.970 --> 05:41.846 ALL RIGHT. HOW MANY OF YOU WAIT EVERY SUNDAY FOR PASTOR'S WEEKLY 05:41.850 --> 05:47.399 PUNS? OKAY, WAIT, I GOTTA SAY THIS. SO THIS LADY, MAYBE YOU'RE 05:47.399 --> 05:51.449 WATCHING, DOWN AT FLASHPOINT LAST WEEK, LIVE, AND SHE COMES 05:51.449 --> 05:54.329 UP TO ME, "PASTOR HANK, I GOTTA TELL YOU, I LOOK FORWARD TO YOUR 05:54.329 --> 05:57.420 SERVICES." AND THERE'S ONE PART OF THE SERVICE THAT I REALLY 05:57.420 --> 06:00.089 LOOK FORWARD TO, I THINK SHE'S GONNA SAY, "WORSHIP," YOU KNOW, 06:00.089 --> 06:08.069 THE MESSAGE, THE TRANSITION. SHE GOES, "YOUR DUMB JOKES AT THE 06:08.069 --> 06:11.079 BEGINNING." I SAID, "WELL, WHAT ABOUT DURING THE MESSAGE?" SHE 06:11.079 --> 06:14.088 GOES, "NO, THOSE ARE NEVER FUNNY." I'M LIKE, "OKAY, OKAY, 06:14.088 --> 06:17.096 SO HERE YOU GO." SO, I DON'T KNOW. 06:17.096 --> 06:19.446 (LAUGHING) 06:19.446 --> 06:23.115 PEOPLE ARE TRUTHFUL. I THINK WE BETTER, SHE'S TRUTHFUL. ALL 06:23.115 --> 06:26.124 RIGHT, WELL, ARE YOU EXCITED TO PRAISE THE LORD TODAY? 06:26.124 --> 06:27.487 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 06:27.487 --> 06:31.156 IT'S GOOD, IT'S GOOD. AND WHEN IT'S POURING RAIN OUTSIDE, THIS 06:31.156 --> 06:35.151 IS A GOOD OPPORTUNITY TO PRESS IN, LEAN INTO GOD, WHATEVER YOU 06:35.160 --> 06:37.560 WENT THROUGH DURING THE WEEK. COME ON, JUST CAST THAT OFF. 06:37.560 --> 06:39.959 MAYBE JUST DO THIS AS A PROPHETIC ACT. THROW IT OVER 06:39.959 --> 06:45.180 YOUR SHOULDER, PUT IT BEHIND YOU, PUT IT OUT OF YOUR MIND, TO 06:45.180 --> 06:48.420 MAKE IT ABOUT YOU AND JESUS, RIGHT? COME ON, LIKE THERE'S 06:48.420 --> 06:51.660 NOBODY ELSE IN THE ROOM, BUT YOU AND GOD. COME ON, PUT THOSE 06:51.660 --> 06:56.372 HANDS UP TO HEAVEN, SAY, "LORD, IT'S MY DISTINCT HONOR TO TAKE 06:56.372 --> 07:03.120 THIS MOMENT TO PRAISE YOU, TO WORSHIP YOU, TO LOVE ON YOU. I 07:03.120 --> 07:08.160 ASK YOU TO IMPART UNTO ME TODAY, EVERYONE THAT'S IN THE ROOM AND 07:08.160 --> 07:13.079 ONLINE, MAY THEY RECEIVE A TOUCH FROM HEAVEN. AND LORD, TODAY, 07:13.079 --> 07:15.701 EVEN THOUGH IT'S RAINING, COME ON, SAY IT, EVEN THOUGH IT'S 07:15.701 --> 07:22.608 RAINING, I PROMISE TO GIVE YOU. TO GIVE YOU MY VERY BEST PRAISE. 07:22.608 --> 07:25.245 COME ON, SHOUT LIKE YOU BELIEVE IT. LET'S PRAISE THE LORD. 07:25.245 --> 07:26.446 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 07:27.747 --> 07:33.452 (MUSIC) 07:33.620 --> 07:36.923 COME ON, CHURCH. I WANT YOU TO BE LOUD THIS MORNING. 07:39.826 --> 15:45.845 (MUSIC) 15:46.111 --> 20:27.661 (MUSIC) 20:27.661 --> 25:09.476 (MUSIC) 25:09.476 --> 30:51.351 (MUSIC) 30:51.351 --> 33:01.980 (MUSIC) 33:59.605 --> 34:00.539 HALLELUJAH. 34:03.476 --> 34:11.952 OUR HONOR IS TO YOU. OUR GRACIOUS, BEAUTIFUL, 34:13.018 --> 34:19.221 FORGIVING, FULL OF LOVING KINDNESS, GOODNESS, MERCY, AND 34:19.237 --> 34:25.266 TRUTH. THESE ARE THE THINGS THAT YOU SAID WHEN YOU CAME TO MOSES 34:26.797 --> 34:32.376 AND INTRODUCED YOURSELF. AND LORD, TODAY WE SAY NICE TO MEET 34:32.376 --> 34:39.697 YOU. WE ARE HONORED TO BE IN RELATIONSHIP WITH YOU AND TO 34:39.697 --> 34:49.226 CONNECT HEART TO HEART, FACE TO FACE, AND TO LOVE ON YOU. 34:50.797 --> 34:57.936 BECAUSE THERE WAS NO GREATER LOVE EVER DEMONSTRATED THAN THE 34:57.936 --> 35:05.527 LOVE, FATHER, THAT WAS DEMONSTRATED IN JESUS AND YOUR 35:05.527 --> 35:12.577 LOVE FOR THIS WORLD THAT YOU GAVE HIM. AND WITH THAT, WE 35:12.577 --> 35:20.347 HONOR YOU THAT WHEN YOU SAW THAT MAN HAD SINNED AND FELL SHORT OF 35:20.347 --> 35:28.867 YOUR GLORY AND THAT THERE WAS NO ONE RIGHTEOUS, NO NOT ONE, YOU 35:28.867 --> 35:35.467 DIDN'T JUST LEAVE US IN A LOST STATE, BUT LIKE WITH THE 35:35.467 --> 35:45.097 PRODIGAL SON, YOU RAN TO US AND SAID, I HAVE A PLAN, AND I WILL 35:45.097 --> 35:53.047 BRING IT THROUGH THE SEED OF THE WOMAN. AND THIS ONE THAT WILL 35:53.047 --> 36:03.967 ARISE WILL CRUSH THE HEAD OF SATAN. THAT IS LOVE. AND BECAUSE 36:03.967 --> 36:21.097 OF THAT, MY HEART CRIES, ABBA, DADDY, PAPA, GOD, HOW WE LOVE 36:21.097 --> 36:26.586 YOU. TEACH US TO HOLLOW THY NAME. TEACH US HOW TO FEAR YOU. 36:29.226 --> 36:39.367 NOT TO BE AFRAID OF YOU, BUT TO REVERENCE YOU. TO LOVE WHAT YOU 36:39.367 --> 36:51.367 LOVE AND TO DESPISE WHAT YOU DESPISE. THIS FATHER'S DAY, WE 36:51.367 --> 37:00.876 HONOR YOU. WE LOVE YOU. WE ARE GRATEFUL FOR YOU, AND WE ARE 37:00.876 --> 37:10.753 THANKFUL FOR EVERYTHING THAT YOU DO FOR US AND HAVE DONE FOR US. 37:12.186 --> 37:18.480 AND THE LEAST THAT WE COULD DO IS OPEN OUR MOUTHS, OUR HEARTS, 37:18.480 --> 37:34.507 AND HONOR YOU. I WOULD LIKE FOR ALL THE FATHERS THAT ARE HERE 37:34.507 --> 37:38.226 TODAY, GRANDPAS OR WHATEVER, I'D LIKE FOR YOU TO JUST COME 37:38.226 --> 37:41.407 FORWARD FOR A MINUTE. I WANNA DECLARE THE FATHER'S BLESSING ON 37:41.407 --> 37:48.367 YOU. WHY DON'T YOU COME DOWN UP FRONT. I JUST FEEL REALLY STRONG 37:48.367 --> 37:56.166 LIKE WE JUST NEED TO PRONOUNCE A BLESSING ON YOU. AND THEN I'M 37:56.166 --> 38:02.737 GONNA PREPARE YOU FOR SOMETHING THAT I WANT YOU TO DO IN RETURN, 38:05.286 --> 38:11.257 THAT I FEEL INSTRUCTED BY GOD. AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 38:11.257 --> 38:15.036 WATCHING THAT ARE FATHERS AND STUFF, WE'RE GONNA EXTEND THIS. 38:15.036 --> 38:20.797 WHAT I LOVE ABOUT TECHNOLOGY IS JESUS ALREADY KNEW THAT THIS DAY 38:20.797 --> 38:26.077 WOULD BE UPON US. BUT WE COULD SPEAK RIGHT THERE INTO YOUR HOME 38:26.077 --> 38:32.527 AND INTO YOUR HEART BY THE ANOINTING WITH TECHNOLOGY. AND 38:36.097 --> 38:41.916 THE CENTURION SAID, "SPEAK THY WORD," AND MY SERVANT WILL BE 38:41.916 --> 38:45.967 HEALED." YOU DON'T EVEN HAVE TO COME TO MY HOUSE. AND THEN 38:45.967 --> 38:50.016 ISAIAH CHAPTER 2, VERSE 2, SAYS THAT THERE'LL COME A DAY WHERE 38:50.016 --> 38:53.016 THEY'LL SAY, LET US GO TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD. AND THE 38:53.016 --> 38:58.657 MOUNTAIN OF THE LORD'S HOUSE SHOULD BE ABOVE ALL OTHER 38:58.657 --> 39:05.047 MOUNTAINS. AND THIS IS WHAT ONE TRANSLATION SAYS. AND THEY WILL 39:05.047 --> 39:14.047 SAY, ALL NATIONS SHALL STREAM INTO IT. SO YOU'RE PART OF THAT, 39:14.047 --> 39:18.186 YOU'RE PART OF THAT FULFILLMENT OF THE BOOK OF ISAIAH. AND SO WE 39:18.186 --> 39:23.376 WELCOME YOU AS FATHERS AND GRANDPAS AND DADS. AND I WANNA 39:23.376 --> 39:25.599 PRAY THE BLESSING OVER YOU AS WELL. NOW, HERE'S WHAT I'M GONNA 39:25.599 --> 39:29.916 ASK YOU MEN TO DO. IN JUST A MOMENT, I'M GONNA PRAY FOR YOU, 39:29.916 --> 39:33.036 BUT THEN I'M GOING TO EXTEND SOMETHING THAT I THINK IS VERY, 39:33.036 --> 39:36.367 VERY IMPORTANT. AND IF YOU'RE IN THIS BUILDING AND YOU CAN HEAR 39:36.367 --> 39:39.097 MY VOICE AND WHAT I'M ABOUT TO SAY APPLIES TO YOU, BUT MAYBE 39:39.097 --> 39:43.657 YOU'RE IN THIS BUILDING IN JUST A MOMENT WHERE YOU'RE MARRIED, 39:43.657 --> 39:47.271 OR MAYBE YOU'RE WATCHING, AND YOU'RE LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT? IT'S 39:47.271 --> 39:54.336 JUST MY HEART. 'CAUSE I'M A DAD, I'M A PROUD DAD OF TWO GREAT 39:54.336 --> 39:59.376 BOYS. THERE ARE SOME FATHERS, OR MEN OUT THERE WHO ARE MARRIED, 39:59.376 --> 40:06.547 THEY'RE SAYING, I WANNA BE A DAD. AND MAYBE THERE'S A 40:06.547 --> 40:11.458 INFERTILITY OR BARRENNESS OR SOMETHING THAT IS HAPPENING. AND 40:11.458 --> 40:13.768 YOU GUYS ARE UNABLE TO CONCEIVE. WELL, IN JUST A MOMENT, I'M 40:13.768 --> 40:16.648 GONNA HAVE YOU GUYS COME, WHEREVER YOU ARE, AND WE'RE 40:16.648 --> 40:23.668 GONNA HAVE THE MEN PRAY FOR YOU. THAT WHERE THEY STAND TODAY, YOU 40:23.668 --> 40:26.878 WILL BE ABLE TO STAND, AND I'M GONNA BELIEVE ONE YEAR FROM NOW. 40:28.318 --> 40:33.958 THAT WE'RE GONNA CALL YOU UP HERE ON FATHER'S DAY, AND YOU'RE 40:33.958 --> 40:39.568 GONNA SAY, YOU'RE GONNA SAY THAT DADDY IN HEAVEN DID THIS FOR 40:39.568 --> 40:44.458 YOU. NOW, MEN, HERE'S THE GREATEST PRAYER THAT I WANT TO 40:44.458 --> 40:50.405 PRAY OVER YOU. SOMETIMES AS MEN, WE ARE TOO INTELLECTUAL. THE 40:50.405 --> 40:54.327 BIBLE SAYS THAT A CARNAL-MINDED MAN IS ENMITY AGAINST GOD, AND 40:54.327 --> 40:58.827 IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT WE AS MEN HAVE GOT TO STOP BEING IS 40:58.827 --> 41:04.197 MEN WHO GET IN OUR HEADS THAT WE DON'T KNOW HOW TO TOUCH GOD. WE 41:04.197 --> 41:07.768 DON'T KNOW HOW TO EXPRESS HEART TO HEART WITH GOD BECAUSE WE'RE 41:07.768 --> 41:11.338 TRYING TO FIGURE HIM OUT. YET WE HAVE NO PROBLEM FIGURING OUT 41:11.338 --> 41:15.927 SPORTS AND THINGS THAT WE ENJOY WITH EXUBERATION, EXCITEMENT, 41:15.927 --> 41:21.597 EXPRESSION. BUT SOMEHOW WITH GOD WE BECOME LOCKED. AND IT'S NO 41:21.597 --> 41:24.922 COINCIDENCE THAT IN THE BOOK OF ACTS, THE FIRST RECORDED MIRACLE 41:26.157 --> 41:30.597 WAS A LAME MAN WALKING. BECAUSE IF THERE'S EVER GOING TO BE A 41:30.597 --> 41:35.637 RECAPTURING OF A GENERATION, IF WE'RE EVER GOING TO PUSH BACK 41:35.637 --> 41:41.039 THE EVIL OF TRANSGENDER MOVEMENTS AND HOMOSEXUALITY AND 41:43.108 --> 41:46.918 MORAL DECLINE, WE GOTTA HAVE MEN WHO AREN'T LAME. 41:46.918 --> 41:52.858 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 41:52.858 --> 41:55.947 AND LET ME TELL YOU SOMETHING, A LOT OF THE PROBLEM WITH US AS 41:55.947 --> 42:00.867 MEN IS WE DEAL WITH REJECTION AND WE DEAL WITH PRIDE. I'M TOO 42:00.867 --> 42:06.987 GOOD TO LIFT MY HANDS TO GOD. IT'S NOT MY WAY. WELL, IF YOU'RE 42:06.987 --> 42:09.898 GONNA SERVE GOD, IT CAN'T BE YOUR WAY, IT'S GOTTA BE YAHWEH. 42:09.898 --> 42:13.827 GOD TELLS YOU TO LIFT YOUR HANDS, THEN DO IT. GOD TELLS YOU 42:13.827 --> 42:18.447 TO ENTER INTO HIS COURTS WITH PRAISE, THEN DO IT. BUT HERE'S 42:18.447 --> 42:23.818 THE THING THAT THE ENEMY ALWAYS DOES, IS HE WANTS TO REDUCE YOU 42:23.818 --> 42:29.188 TO WHERE HE HAS BEEN REDUCED. THE SERPENT WAS REDUCED TO HIS 42:29.188 --> 42:33.327 BELLY. DON'T EVER BE A CHRISTIAN MAN, AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 42:33.327 --> 42:37.018 WATCHING, WHO YOU'RE LAME IN YOUR CHRISTIAN WALK, YOU DON'T 42:37.018 --> 42:40.318 KNOW HOW TO LEAP AND DANCE AND PRAISE AND ENTER INTO THE 42:40.318 --> 42:44.307 PRESENCE OF GOD OR IN THE CHURCH, RIGHT? BUT YOU ALSO 42:44.307 --> 42:47.757 DON'T WANNA BE A SERPENT, YOU DON'T WANNA BE A SNAKE, WHERE 42:47.757 --> 42:53.398 YOU ALLOW THE ENEMY BECAUSE YOU'RE TOO HARD ON YOURSELF TO 42:53.398 --> 42:57.358 MAKE YOURSELF THINK THAT YOU'RE JUST A LOW BELLY, NO GOOD, 42:57.358 --> 43:01.588 WHATEVER. COME ON, I HAD PEOPLE IN MY LIFE, MEN THAT TOLD ME I 43:01.588 --> 43:05.547 WASN'T GOOD ENOUGH. I HAD A LOT OF MEN SPEAK INTO MY LIFE 43:05.547 --> 43:07.858 SAYING, WELL, YOU'RE NOT THIS AND YOU'RE NOT THAT, AND YOU'LL 43:07.858 --> 43:11.487 NEVER DO THIS, YOU'LL NEVER DO THAT. AND YOU KNOW WHAT GOD, MY 43:11.487 --> 43:14.487 FATHER DID? BECAUSE I OPENED MY HEART TO HIM, HE DEFIED EVERY 43:14.487 --> 43:20.367 ONE OF THEIR WORDS. SO I WANT TO TELL YOU, I LOVE YOU, AND I'M 43:20.367 --> 43:25.438 HERE AS A PASTOR, AS A MAN OF GOD, A MAN WHO IS DEEPLY 43:25.438 --> 43:31.137 PASSIONATE ABOUT BEING A STRONG MAN OF GOD, AS A REPRESENTATIVE 43:31.137 --> 43:34.827 OF GOD, BUT ALSO REPRESENTATIVE OF YOU. AND I JUST WANT YOU TO 43:34.827 --> 43:38.458 KNOW, AS TO SOME, I MAY BE A SPIRITUAL FATHER OR MENTOR TO 43:38.458 --> 43:42.688 SOME OF YOU, OR YOUR PASTOR, OR JUST A GOOD GUY, BUT I'M PROUD 43:42.688 --> 43:46.318 OF YOU. BECAUSE I DO LOOK OUT THERE, AND I SEE YOUR FACES 43:46.318 --> 43:50.300 WORSHIPING GOD, AND TEARS STREAMING DOWN YOUR FACE, AND 43:50.300 --> 43:53.878 YOUR EYES CLOSE, AND I WATCH HOW YOU LOVE YOUR WIVES, AND HOW YOU 43:53.878 --> 43:58.047 LOVE YOUR KIDS, AND I LOVE HOW YOU SERVE GOD, AND YOU STAND FOR 43:58.047 --> 44:01.108 THE THINGS THAT ARE TRUTHFUL AND RIGHT. AND I JUST WANNA SAY AS A 44:01.108 --> 44:05.668 MAN OF GOD, I AM PROUD OF YOU. I'M PROUD TO SERVE BEFORE YOU AS 44:05.668 --> 44:11.248 MEN TO MEN, MAN TO MAN. AND THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING 44:11.248 --> 44:13.887 OUR FAITHFUL MEN, YOU'RE VERY FAITHFUL TO THIS MINISTRY, AND I 44:13.887 --> 44:17.757 WANNA HONOR THAT AS WELL. AND SO WITH THAT, IT IS MY HONOR AND 44:17.757 --> 44:20.818 PRIVILEGE TO GO TO GOD ON YOUR BEHALF, ALL RIGHT? ARE YOU 44:20.818 --> 44:25.527 READY? HEAVENLY FATHER, THESE MEN, THEY STAND IN THIS MOMENT 44:25.527 --> 44:30.117 WITH YOU ON FATHER'S DAY, AND THOSE THAT ARE WATCHING, AND I 44:30.117 --> 44:35.938 PRAY THIS DAY FROM THE DEPTHS OF MY HEART THAT YOU WOULD EXTEND 44:35.938 --> 44:42.958 YOUR HAND, O GOD, OUR FATHER, TO THEM AND REST UPON THEM, GOD, 44:42.958 --> 44:48.088 SOMETHING THAT WILL LIFT THEM OUT OF ANYTHING, MAYBE ABUSE, 44:48.088 --> 44:51.927 MAYBE THERE WERE WORDS THAT WERE SPOKEN EVEN AT THE TIME OF THEIR 44:51.927 --> 44:55.737 YOUTH THAT TOLD THEM THAT THEY WOULD NEVER ARISE, THAT THEY 44:55.737 --> 44:59.038 WOULD NEVER AMOUNT TO ANYTHING, THAT THEY'RE NO GOOD, AND LORD 44:59.038 --> 45:02.788 IT IS, IT IS SHAPED SOMETIMES THE WAY THEY THINK AND DO THINGS 45:02.788 --> 45:06.507 IN LIFE. AND I PRAY, FATHER, THAT YOU WOULD BREAK THE 45:06.507 --> 45:11.637 STRONGHOLD OF THAT, THAT THESE MEN SHALL ARISE TO A PLACE OF 45:11.637 --> 45:18.777 STRENGTH AND HONOR AND SPIRITUAL MIGHT AND POWER THAT SHALL HELP 45:18.777 --> 45:22.737 TO RECAPTURE A GENERATION. FOR YOU HAVE DECLARED IN THE BOOK OF 45:22.737 --> 45:26.967 MALACHI THAT IN THE LAST DAYS YOU WOULD RESTORE THE HEARTS OF 45:26.967 --> 45:31.637 THE FATHER TO THE CHILDREN LEST THE EARTH BE SMITTEN WITH THE 45:31.637 --> 45:36.088 CURSE. AND I SAY NOT IN THIS DAY. FATHER LET THESE MEN AND 45:36.088 --> 45:39.693 THE MEN THAT ARE WATCHING THEM WILL WATCH. LET THEM ARISE AND 45:39.693 --> 45:45.717 LET THERE BE A RESTORATION OF SPIRITUAL MEN WHO STAND STRONG 45:45.717 --> 45:50.847 IN HONOR TO GOD, HONOR TO THEIR WIVES, HONOR TO THEIR CHILDREN, 45:50.847 --> 45:56.987 HONOR TO THEIR CULTURE. AND LORD, MAY THERE BE A RESTORATION 45:58.467 --> 46:02.007 BETWEEN THE HEARTS OF THESE MEN TO THEIR CHILDREN AND THEIR 46:02.007 --> 46:08.818 CHILDREN TO THEIR FATHERS. AND I PRAY OVER THEM AND THESE THAT 46:08.818 --> 46:13.378 STAND HERE THAT THERE WILL BE A HUNGER AND A THIRST THAT WILL 46:13.378 --> 46:18.538 ARISE. THAT THEY WILL SAY, "OH GOD, I CANNOT LIVE A MOMENT 46:18.538 --> 46:22.737 WITHOUT YOUR PRESENCE." AND MAY THEY GO TO ANOTHER LEVEL NOW. 46:22.737 --> 46:26.007 NOT JUST ANKLE DEEP WATER OF SERVING YOU, LOVING YOU, 46:26.007 --> 46:32.458 PURSUING YOU, BUT MU'LOMAHANE KISE FRAI. MAY THEY SWIM IN THE 46:32.458 --> 46:36.838 PLACES OF INTIMACY WITH YOU, THAT THEY HAVE ENCOUNTERS WITH 46:36.838 --> 46:40.978 YOU, THAT GOD WE HAVE MEN IN THIS HOUSE WHO CRY BEFORE THE 46:40.978 --> 46:44.697 LORD. WE HAVE MEN IN THIS HOUSE AND THOSE THAT WATCH THAT WILL 46:44.697 --> 46:49.228 LIFT UP THEIR HANDS IN THE SANCTUARY UNTO GOD, THAT THEY 46:49.228 --> 46:52.168 WILL BE MEN IN THIS HOUSE AND THOSE THAT ARE WATCHING THAT 46:52.168 --> 46:55.438 SHALL NOT ALLOW THE ENEMY TO MAKE THEM SPIRITUALLY LAME OR 46:55.438 --> 47:03.358 NATURALLY LAME BUT GOD THEY WILL RISE TO A NEW PLACE OF SPIRITUAL 47:03.358 --> 47:07.364 PURSUIT AND STRENGTH. NOW I PRONOUNCE HEALTH OVER THEM, 47:09.088 --> 47:15.088 EVERY ONE OF THEM, HEALING TO ALL THEIR FLESH. FATHER, NONE OF 47:15.088 --> 47:18.838 THESE MEN OR ANY MAN IN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE WILL HAVE ANY 47:18.838 --> 47:24.777 PROSTATE ISSUES. IT'S NOT PART OF GROWING OLDER. NO, IT'S NOT. 47:24.777 --> 47:30.327 THAT'S UNDER THE CURSE. THEY'RE BLESSED. I SPEAK WHOLENESS. I 47:30.327 --> 47:35.487 SPEAK HEALTH TO ALL THEIR FLESH, A QUICKENING OF THEIR MORTAL 47:35.487 --> 47:41.128 BODY, AND I SPEAK LONG LIFE AND LONGEVITY OVER THEM, AND AN 47:41.128 --> 47:47.398 ACCELERATED GRACE THAT COMES TO ALL OF THESE. NOW, I WANT YOU TO 47:47.398 --> 47:51.597 LOOK AT ME, MAN. HERE'S WHAT WE'RE GONNA DO. IS THERE ANYBODY 47:51.597 --> 47:59.728 HERE THAT YOU'RE MARRIED AND YOU WANNA STAND HERE A YEAR FROM NOW 48:00.958 --> 48:03.358 WITH YOUR CHILD AND YOU'VE BEEN UNABLE TO CONCEIVE, I WANT YOU 48:03.358 --> 48:10.407 TO COME. IS THERE ANYBODY HERE? I THINK, IS THAT YOU? IS THAT 48:10.407 --> 48:17.307 YOU? ELDER STATESMAN? DOUG, I'M MISSING. PASTOR DOUG, SO THOSE 48:17.307 --> 48:19.527 OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, PASTOR DOUG'S BEING A WISE GUY. HE'S 48:19.527 --> 48:26.338 TRYING TO TAKE A MAN LIKE ABRAHAM AND MAKE HIM A FATHER OF 48:26.338 --> 48:30.255 MANY SONS. YOU KNOW YOU HAVE THE RIGHT TO GET HIM IN A HEADLOCK. 48:32.427 --> 48:35.818 SO I'M PROUD OF YOU, MAN. THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME PRAY FOR YOU. 48:35.818 --> 48:41.757 HI GUYS. ALL RIGHT, ALL THREE OF YOU, ANYBODY ELSE? THERE'S ONE 48:41.757 --> 48:48.657 MORE COMING. HEY BUDDY, COME ON DOWN. COME ON DOWN. ALL RIGHT, 48:48.657 --> 48:52.617 MAN, I WANT YOU TO TOUCH THE SHOULDERS OF THESE. ARE YOU 48:52.617 --> 48:56.248 READY? NOW I'M GONNA ASK GOD TO DO SOMETHING BECAUSE YOU KNOW IT 48:56.248 --> 48:58.797 WAS IT SEEMED LIKE IT WAS THE PROPHETS THAT WOULD PROPHESIED 48:58.797 --> 49:02.307 LIKE WITHIN ONE YEAR THAT THEY WOULD CONCEIVE. SO THIS ISN'T A 49:02.307 --> 49:05.007 PROPHECY, THIS IS A PROPHETIC DECLARATION AND THOSE OF YOU 49:05.007 --> 49:07.047 THAT ARE WATCHING, MAYBE YOU'RE WATCHING AS WELL AND YOU'RE 49:07.047 --> 49:11.277 LIKE, YOU KNOW WHAT, PASTOR IF I WAS THERE I WOULD COME FORTH. 49:11.277 --> 49:14.608 WELL YOU JUST, HERE'S WHAT I WANT YOU TO DO, JUST TAKE LIKE A 49:14.608 --> 49:18.027 PROPHETIC STEP IF YOU'RE WATCHING AND MAYBE JUST EITHER 49:18.027 --> 49:21.543 GET OUT OF YOUR CHAIR IF YOU CAN AND JUST STEP FORWARD AS IF YOU 49:21.543 --> 49:24.748 WERE TO COMING FORTH JUST LIKE THESE OR IF YOU CAN'T THEN JUST 49:24.748 --> 49:28.827 MAYBE DO THIS, MOVE YOUR HAND FORTH AND STRETCH IT TOWARDS THE 49:28.827 --> 49:33.478 CAMERA AS LIKE A PROPHETIC ACT SO THAT WHAT WE'RE PRAYING FOR 49:33.478 --> 49:37.047 HERE INCLUDES YOU AND THEN YOU'RE GONNA WRITE ME. YOU SAY, 49:37.047 --> 49:40.648 NOW LOOK AT ME FOR A MINUTE. I WAS IN A CHURCH, OFFICER HERRICK 49:40.648 --> 49:45.268 IS HERE. YOU REMEMBER THIS, ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI. I CALLED A 49:45.268 --> 49:49.318 COUPLE OUT AND I SAID, THE SPIRIT OF THE LORD'S TELLING ME 49:49.318 --> 49:52.657 THAT YOU GUYS HAVE NOT BEEN ABLE TO CONCEIVE. IS THAT CORRECT? 49:52.657 --> 49:54.148 AND THEY'RE LIKE, YEAH. AND I SAID, WELL, THE LORD'S TELLING 49:54.148 --> 49:55.557 ME YOU'RE GONNA CONCEIVE. THEY SAID, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT, WAIT. 49:55.557 --> 49:57.807 REMEMBER THEY TRIED TO STOP ME AND I SAID, NO, NO, NO. DON'T, 49:57.807 --> 49:59.693 DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING. DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING. THEY TOLD, 49:59.693 --> 50:02.577 DON'T TELL ME ANYTHING. I'M TELLING YOU WITHIN ONE YEAR, YOU 50:02.577 --> 50:05.277 WILL HAVE A SON. THAT'S WHAT GOD IS SAYING. AND THEY WERE TRYING 50:05.277 --> 50:09.148 TO TALK ME OUT OF IT. AND I SAID, NO, I AM HEARING GOD. 50:09.148 --> 50:13.137 DON'T, NO, NO, YOU, AND THEN THEY TOLD ME AFTERWARDS, AND I'M 50:13.137 --> 50:14.907 GLAD THEY DIDN'T SAY IT. THEY SAID IT WAS MEDICALLY 50:14.907 --> 50:20.027 IMPOSSIBLE. AND LIKE, OH, AND THE DEVIL BEAT UP ON ME AND BEAT 50:20.027 --> 50:22.188 UP ON ME AND BEAT UP ON ME AND BEAT UP ON ME. AND THEN 50:22.188 --> 50:25.217 SOMETIMES WHEN I WOULD PRAY, THE ENEMY WOULD BEAT UP ON ME, 50:25.217 --> 50:27.887 CALLING ME FALSE, CALLING ME THIS AND CALLING ME THAT. AND 50:27.887 --> 50:30.617 THEN ALL OF A SUDDEN OUT OF THE BLUE, YOU MIGHT BE WATCHING, I 50:30.617 --> 50:34.007 GET THIS CARD IN THE MAIL, AND THERE'S THIS LITTLE BABY BOY. 50:35.237 --> 50:39.588 AND HE SAID, I SHOWED IT IN CHURCH ONCE. Y'ALL REMEMBER 50:39.588 --> 50:43.007 THAT? I SHOWED IT ABOUT A YEAR AGO. I SAID, DON'T TELL ME IT'S 50:43.007 --> 50:46.728 NOT POSSIBLE. DON'T TELL ME IT'S NOT GONNA HAPPEN. YOU THAT ARE 50:46.728 --> 50:52.128 WATCHING, DON'T TELL ME, DON'T TELL ME. OKAY, ALL RIGHT. 50:52.128 --> 50:56.268 FATHER, IN THE NAME OF YESHUA, WE PRAY FOR THESE AND THOSE THAT 50:56.268 --> 51:00.228 ARE WATCHING WHO WANT TO STAND HERE ONE YEAR FROM NOW. I COME 51:00.228 --> 51:04.788 AGAINST ANY INFERTILITY. I COME AGAINST EVEN A BARREN WOMB IN 51:04.788 --> 51:11.478 THE WIFE OR WHATEVER IS OF THE CURSE. I BREAK THAT CURSE! AND 51:13.248 --> 51:19.338 IN THE AUTHORITY OF THE COURT OF HEAVEN, YESHUA, YOUR BLOOD IS ON 51:19.338 --> 51:23.898 THE MERCY SEAT THAT HAS GIVEN THEM THE RIGHT TO HAVE A CHILD 51:25.038 --> 51:30.322 FOR THEIR WIVES TO CONCEIVE. THEREFORE, I CALL IT INTO THE 51:30.322 --> 51:36.795 EARTH. I CALL IT FORTH THAT CHILD ONE YEAR FROM NOW INTO THE 51:36.795 --> 51:41.958 WOMB OF THEIR WIFE. AND I BREAK EVERY AND ALL CURSES OF DARKNESS 51:41.958 --> 51:57.018 AND THE CURSE, ANY ASSIGNMENT. AND I RELEASE LIFE, LIFE. NOW, I 51:57.018 --> 52:04.367 LAY MY HANDS UPON YOU AND I RELEASE THAT ANOINTING. LIFE, TO 52:04.367 --> 52:16.239 CONCEIVE LIFE. LIFE, TO CONCEIVE LIFE. LIFE, TO CONCEIVE LIFE. 52:18.978 --> 52:24.737 LIFE, TO CONCEIVE LIFE. AND I MOVE FORWARD HERE SO I DON'T 52:24.737 --> 52:33.318 HAVE TO BE CONCERNED ABOUT MY OWN LIFE. I RELEASE LIFE, TO 52:33.318 --> 52:43.534 CONCEIVE LIFE. THANK YOU, LORD. I RELEASE LIFE, TO CONCEIVE 52:43.534 --> 52:47.132 LIFE. I'M TELLING YOU, I FELT 52:47.132 --> 52:49.007 UP HERE SOMEBODY'S GONNA HAVE TWINS. 52:49.007 --> 52:51.918 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 52:51.918 --> 52:55.907 THANK YOU, LORD. AND I RELEASE THAT ANOINTING, FOR YOU THAT ARE 52:55.907 --> 53:01.188 WATCHING AS WELL, IN YESHUA'S NAME. NOW, MAN, I WANT YOU TO DO 53:01.188 --> 53:05.327 THIS. GRAB HANDS WITH SOMEBODY. I'M NOT GONNA CALL THESE PEOPLE 53:05.327 --> 53:10.367 FORWARD, BUT MAYBE THERE ARE MEN IN THIS HOUSE THAT YOU'RE LIKE, 53:10.367 --> 53:16.637 YOU KNOW WHAT? I WANNA BE A DAD SOMEDAY, BUT I'M NOT MARRIED. I 53:16.637 --> 53:20.387 CAN'T FIND A WIFE. THERE ISN'T ANY GOOD GIRLS OUT THERE. 53:20.387 --> 53:23.777 SOMETIMES WOMEN, I LOOK AT SOCIAL MEDIA, AND I'M LIKE, 53:23.777 --> 53:27.137 THERE'S NOT A LOT OF GOOD GIRLS OUT THERE ANYMORE, 'CAUSE THEY 53:27.137 --> 53:31.398 CAN'T KEEP THEIR CLOTHES ON. THEY CAN'T STOP MAKING 53:31.398 --> 53:34.847 EVERYTHING, I WOULD NEVER WANNA BE MARRIED TO THE GIRLS ON 53:34.847 --> 53:37.458 SOCIAL MEDIA, BECAUSE EITHER THEY'RE NOT DRESSED CORRECTLY, 53:37.458 --> 53:40.097 AND EVERY MAN GETS TO LUST AFTER THEM BEFORE I GET TO SEE THEM ON 53:40.097 --> 53:45.887 THE HONEYMOON, OR THEY'RE SO INTO THEMSELVES, HOW ARE THEY 53:45.887 --> 53:55.697 GONNA LOVE ME? THIS IS A SERIOUS PROBLEM. SO MEN, I WANT YOU TO 53:55.697 --> 53:59.117 PRAY, 'CAUSE THERE'S SOME MEN IN THIS HOUSE, AND THERE'S SOME MEN 53:59.117 --> 54:02.657 THAT ARE WATCHING THAT WANT TO BE MARRIED. I'VE PRAYED FOR YOU 54:02.657 --> 54:05.297 NOW, I WANT YOU TO TAKE A FEW MOMENTS, AND I WANT THE MEN OF 54:05.297 --> 54:07.728 THIS HOUSE AND THE MEN AROUND THE WORLD TO HEAR YOU THAT ARE 54:07.728 --> 54:11.987 SINGLE, THAT ONE DAY THEY'RE GONNA MARRY A GODLY WIFE SOON, 54:11.987 --> 54:15.590 AND THEY'RE GONNA HAVE A CHILD TOO, AND RAISE THEM IN THE FEAR 54:15.590 --> 54:17.237 AND THE ADMONITION OF GOD. ALL RIGHT, MAN, LET ME HEAR YOUR 54:17.237 --> 54:19.938 VOICE. PRAY FOR THEM, PRAY, PRAY. THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 54:19.938 --> 54:25.699 WATCHING, COME ON, COME ON, COME ON, I'M NOT GONNA PRAY FOR YOU, 54:25.699 --> 54:30.288 I WANNA HEAR YOU PRAY. THANK YOU, LORD. THANK YOU, LORD. 54:30.288 --> 54:35.507 THANK YOU, LORD. THANK YOU, LORD. THANK YOU, LORD. THANK 54:35.507 --> 54:40.398 YOU, LORD. THANK YOU, LORD. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE COME INTO 54:40.398 --> 54:43.577 AGREEMENT WITH THESE MEN AS THEY CONTINUE TO PRAY. FATHER, AND 54:43.577 --> 54:47.561 THERE ARE MEN, GODLY MEN, THAT ARE IN THE SOUND OF MY VOICE AND 54:47.561 --> 54:50.478 WILL WATCH LATER BY ARCHIVE, OR MAYBE THEY'RE PRESENT IN THIS 54:50.478 --> 54:54.318 ROOM THAT ARE SAYING, "GOD, I WANT A GODLY WIFE." FATHER, WE 54:54.318 --> 54:59.057 SPEAK NOW AND WE SAY, "MOVE HEAVEN AND EARTH. RELEASE FROM 54:59.057 --> 55:03.918 YOUR THRONE." YOU SENT ANGELS TO FIND, LORD GOD, A WIFE. I 55:03.918 --> 55:06.467 BELIEVE IT WAS EITHER ISAAC OR JACOB. I CAN'T REMEMBER. I 55:06.467 --> 55:10.697 BELIEVE IT WAS ISAAC, LORD, THAT YOU SENT AN ANGEL TO GO AND TO 55:10.697 --> 55:16.038 PREPARE AND TO BRING FORTH A WIFE. AND I PRAY THAT YOU WOULD 55:16.038 --> 55:22.277 DO THE SAME. THAT NOT ONLY SHALL THESE GREAT MEN OF GOD, WHO ARE 55:22.277 --> 55:27.137 GODLY, WANT A GODLY WIFE, LORD, THEY WILL, AND I PRAY, SUDDENLY, 55:27.137 --> 55:31.878 ACCELERATE THEIR PURPOSE, ACCELERATE THEIR PATHS, AND MEET 55:31.878 --> 55:36.228 THE DESIRES OF THEIR HEART, THAT THEY TOO, EVEN A YEAR FROM NOW, 55:36.228 --> 55:39.498 LET THEM REJOICE AND SAY, "WELL, I'M MARRIED, AND NOW I'M IN 55:39.498 --> 55:42.947 POSITION," OR, "I'M ABOUT TO BE MARRIED," OR, "I FOUND THE ONE 55:42.947 --> 55:47.027 WHO I'M GOING TO MARRY. NOW I'M IN POSITION WHERE I CAN BE SOON 55:47.027 --> 55:51.137 A FATHER." AND LORD, WE COMMIT THIS INTO YOUR HANDS NOW IN 55:51.137 --> 55:57.827 YESHUA'S NAME. AMEN. AMEN. ALL RIGHT, WELL, I LOVE YOU. THANK 55:57.827 --> 56:01.547 YOU FOR COMING FORTH, AND THANK YOU FOR LETTING ME LOVE ON YOU 56:01.547 --> 56:04.914 AS WELL. YOU GUYS ARE GREAT MEN, SO GIVE ONE ANOTHER, YOU KNOW 56:04.914 --> 56:08.420 WHAT, WE DON'T, MEN DON'T, WE DON'T HUG, WE BEAR HUG. GIVE A 56:08.420 --> 56:12.677 MAN A BEAR HUG, YOU KNOW, GIVE HIM A KNUCKLE TOUCH, RIGHT? 56:12.677 --> 56:15.498 RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, WE LOVE YOU. WE LOVE YOU, YOU CAN GO BACK TO 56:15.498 --> 56:18.378 YOUR SEATS. ALL RIGHT, WHY DON'T YOU, LADIES, AND DIFFERENT ONES 56:18.378 --> 56:21.498 OUT HERE, WHY DON'T YOU SHAKE HANDS WITH ONE ANOTHER, GREET 56:21.498 --> 56:26.568 ONE ANOTHER IN THE FEAR OF THE LORD, AND SEE IF SOMEBODY KNOWS 56:26.568 --> 56:29.121 HOW MUCH LONGER 'TIL CHRISTMAS. 56:31.557 --> 57:00.885 (MUSIC) 57:12.931 --> 57:18.045 WELL, GOOD MORNING. I WILL WISH MY DAD A HAPPY 57:18.047 --> 57:20.838 FATHER'S DAY. HE'S NOT HERE TODAY, HE'S ON VACATION THIS 57:20.838 --> 57:25.878 WEEK, BUT HAPPY FATHER'S DAY, DAD. SO I WILL DO THAT REAL 57:25.878 --> 57:29.777 FAST. IF THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME IN THE BUILDING, WE WANNA MAKE 57:29.777 --> 57:33.108 YOU FEEL WELCOME. I ALSO WANNA MAKE SURE YOU RECEIVED A BLUE 57:33.108 --> 57:36.288 GIFT BAG WHEN YOU CAME INSIDE THE DOOR. IF YOU DID NOT, PLEASE 57:36.288 --> 57:38.628 WAVE YOUR HAND IN A NUTSHELL. THEY HAVE THOSE AVAILABLE FOR 57:38.628 --> 57:41.688 YOU. INSIDE THE BLUE GIFT BAG, THERE'S LOTS OF GOODIES YOU'VE 57:41.688 --> 57:44.447 TUCKED IN THERE FOR YOU, SO YOU WANNA MAKE SURE YOU GOT ONE. 57:44.447 --> 57:48.349 THERE'S ALSO A GUEST REGISTRY PACKET IN THERE, AND I'D LIKE 57:48.349 --> 57:52.007 YOU TO TAKE IT OUT AT THIS TIME IF YOU CAN, 'CAUSE THERE'S A 57:52.007 --> 57:55.329 PICTURE ON THE STAGE, OF THE STAGE ON THE FRONT OF IT, JUST 57:55.329 --> 57:58.847 SO YOU KNOW WHICH PACKET IT IS IN THERE. GO AHEAD AND PULL THAT 57:58.847 --> 58:01.907 OUT, FLIP IT OPEN, AND THERE'S SOME INFORMATION WE WANNA SEND 58:01.907 --> 58:04.458 HOME WITH YOU, AS WELL AS A BRIGHT ORANGE STAY CONNECTED 58:04.458 --> 58:07.577 CARD ON THE LEFT-HAND SIDE. GO AHEAD AND TEAR THAT OFF. FILL IT 58:07.577 --> 58:10.188 OUT, DROP IT IN THE OFFERING BASKET WHEN IT COMES BY IN JUST 58:10.188 --> 58:12.827 A FEW MOMENTS. JUST WANNA SEND YOU A THANK YOU FOR COMING TO 58:12.827 --> 58:15.617 SEE US THIS MORNING, AND MAKE SURE YOU STAY CONNECTED WITH 58:15.617 --> 58:18.378 EVERYTHING WE HAVE GOING ON HERE AT THE CHURCH. IF YOU'RE 58:18.378 --> 58:22.248 WATCHING BY LIVESTREAM, FACEBOOK LIVE, ROKU, YOUTUBE, RUMBLE, ONE 58:22.248 --> 58:25.099 VOICE TV, WE WANNA WELCOME YOU TO THE SERVICE AS WELL. I WANT 58:25.099 --> 58:33.737 YOU TO GET TO ONEVOICETV, ONEVOICETV.NET, OR GO TO YOUR 58:33.737 --> 58:37.128 APP STORE, DOWNLOAD THE ONE VOICE TV APP TO YOUR DEVICES. 58:37.128 --> 58:40.007 WE'D LOVE TO CONNECT WITH YOU THERE BECAUSE YOU CAN GET ACCESS 58:40.007 --> 58:43.637 TO A GREAT CHAT AREA WHERE LOTS OF OTHER VIEWERS ARE WATCHING AS 58:43.637 --> 58:47.628 WELL. AND IT'S OUR PLATFORM, SO WE HAVE LOTS OF GREAT CONTENT 58:47.628 --> 58:51.768 OUT THERE FOR YOU AS WELL, LIKE NEW LEVEL, DAILY DECREE, GAME 58:51.768 --> 58:55.878 CHANGERS, GET REAL WITH HANK, AND MANY, MANY MORE. SO PLEASE 58:55.878 --> 58:59.867 GO WATCH ALL OF THAT GREAT CONTENT AND BE BLESSED BY IT. 58:59.867 --> 59:07.038 WELL, WE HAVE A SPECIAL EVENT COMING UP HERE. VBS, WE HAVE A 59:07.038 --> 59:12.197 ONE DAY VBS THAT IS COMING UP HERE IN JUST, WHAT, A WEEK OR 59:12.197 --> 59:18.288 TWO HERE? NEXT SATURDAY, NEXT SATURDAY. SO, WE WANNA MAKE SURE 59:18.288 --> 59:24.737 YOU GET ALL YOUR KIDS TO VBS. SO, TO GET YOU EXCITED, TO BRING 59:24.737 --> 59:26.132 YOUR KIDS, WATCH THIS. 59:27.833 --> 59:31.403 (MUSIC) 59:32.139 --> 59:36.405 AH, MAN, HOMEWORK, CHORES, JOBS, LIFE IS HEAVY. 59:36.407 --> 59:38.717 LUCA, THAT'S NOT A REAL BACKPACK. 59:38.717 --> 59:40.068 IT FEELS REAL. 59:40.068 --> 59:43.757 HI, LUCA. IF I TRIED TO CARRY MY WORRIES LIKE THAT, I'D BE 59:43.757 --> 59:45.648 SHORTER THAN A ZUCCHINI. 59:45.648 --> 59:47.148 WAIT, I DON'T HAVE TO CARRY IT ALL? 59:47.148 --> 59:51.797 NOPE, YOU CAN LEAN ON JESUS. HE HELPS CARRY WHAT'S TOO HEAVY. 59:51.797 --> 59:54.648 THAT'S WHAT OUR ONE DAY VBS IS ALL ABOUT. 59:54.648 --> 59:55.668 BIBLE LESSONS. 59:55.668 --> 59:56.447 WORSHIP. 59:56.447 --> 59:57.197 CRAFTS. 59:57.197 --> 59:57.947 GAMES. 59:57.947 --> 59:58.547 LUNCH. 59:58.547 --> 59:59.987 AND A WHOLE LOT OF FUN. 59:59.987 --> 01:00:04.907 FOR KIDS AGES 4-11, DROP OFF STARTS AT 8:45 A.M. AND VBS GOES 01:00:04.907 --> 01:00:06.708 FROM 9:00 TO 2:30. 01:00:06.708 --> 01:00:11.898 BIBLE STORIES, MUSIC, FRIENDS, AND LEARNING TO LEAN ON JESUS. 01:00:11.898 --> 01:00:13.577 AH, I FEEL LIGHTER ALREADY. 01:00:13.577 --> 01:00:15.018 COME JOIN US FOR 01:00:15.018 --> 01:00:19.552 LEAN ON JESUS VBS. SATURDAY, JUNE 27TH. SEE YOU THERE. 01:00:21.086 --> 01:00:23.889 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 01:00:23.956 --> 01:00:25.974 I'M REALLY EXCITED FOR THAT. HOW MANY OF 01:00:25.978 --> 01:00:30.418 YOU EXCITED FOR THAT? AND IT'S GONNA BE GREAT. NEXT YEAR, WE'RE 01:00:30.418 --> 01:00:35.487 GONNA EVEN CHANGE IT EVEN MORE. WE'RE GONNA CALL IT VCBS. YEAH, 01:00:37.677 --> 01:00:43.108 Y'ALL KNOW WHAT THAT IS? I JUST THOUGHT OF IT. VACATION CELL 01:00:43.108 --> 01:00:48.418 PHONE BIBLE SCHOOL. VBS VACATION BIBLE, MOST PEOPLE'S BIBLES THEY 01:00:48.418 --> 01:00:53.938 USE ON THEIR CELL PHONE. NOBODY. THAT WAS REALLY DUMB, WASN'T IT? 01:00:53.938 --> 01:00:56.367 ALL RIGHT, ALL RIGHT, I KNOW THAT WAS REALLY STUPID, BUT 01:00:56.367 --> 01:01:01.378 ANYWAY. WELL, BEFORE WE RECEIVE TODAY'S OFFERING, AND THOSE OF 01:01:01.378 --> 01:01:03.688 YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, I WANNA DO TWO THINGS. I WANNA GIVE YOU 01:01:03.688 --> 01:01:05.447 JUST A COUPLE QUICK ANNOUNCEMENTS, AND THEN I WANNA 01:01:05.447 --> 01:01:09.507 GIVE YOU A SHALLOW UPDATE. THAT'S OUR LAND PROJECT. AND 01:01:09.507 --> 01:01:11.637 THEN WE'RE GONNA GO RIGHT INTO THE OFFERING AND GIVE MAMA 01:01:11.637 --> 01:01:14.907 PLENTY OF TIME TO PREACH. BUT DON'T FORGET, THIS NEXT SUNDAY, 01:01:14.907 --> 01:01:20.458 WE'RE GONNA HAVE JESSE DUPLANTIS, THE RAGING CAJUN. AND 01:01:20.458 --> 01:01:23.818 IT'S GONNA BE A BEAUTIFUL TIME. HE'S HILARIOUS. I'M GONNA SEE IF 01:01:23.818 --> 01:01:26.277 I CAN GET HIM TO PLAY THE BASS, JAKE. HAVE YOU SEEN HIM DO IT 01:01:26.277 --> 01:01:32.518 YET? YEAH, HE USED TO PLAY FOR SANTANA, I THINK IT WAS, THE 01:01:32.518 --> 01:01:35.367 BAND. SO I'M GONNA SEE IF I CAN GET HIM TO PLAY AND I MIGHT SING 01:01:35.367 --> 01:01:39.088 WITH HIM, YOU KNOW. IT'S ALWAYS BEEN A DREAM OF MINE TO SING 01:01:39.088 --> 01:01:42.538 WITH JESSE DUPLANTIS. WE'LL SEE, YEAH, I SANG WITH PHIL DRISCOLL 01:01:42.538 --> 01:01:46.108 ONCE, SO WHY NOT, YOU KNOW, THERE'S A ONE. BRENDA, I MIGHT 01:01:46.108 --> 01:01:48.987 SING. BUT ANYWAY, HE'S GONNA BE HERE NEXT SUNDAY AND IT'S GONNA 01:01:48.987 --> 01:01:52.797 BE A GREAT TIME. ALSO TUESDAY, DON'T FORGET, I'M GONNA BE ON 01:01:52.797 --> 01:01:55.858 ELIJAH STREAMS AND I'M REALLY, REALLY EXCITED. I FEEL LIKE 01:01:55.858 --> 01:01:59.487 GOD'S BEEN USING THAT DOOR BECAUSE I'VE BEEN LOOKING FOR 01:01:59.487 --> 01:02:03.927 OTHER WAYS TO JUST GET OUT WITH A LOT OF THE PROPHETIC CONFUSION 01:02:03.927 --> 01:02:06.478 AND DIFFERENT THINGS. STEVE IS SUCH A GOOD MAN, AND HE'S GIVEN 01:02:06.478 --> 01:02:10.407 ME AMPLE TIME TO REALLY GO OVER PROPHECIES AND TO KIND OF TEACH 01:02:10.407 --> 01:02:14.518 AND MENTOR. AND SO BE LOOKING IN THE MONTH OF JUNE AND EVEN IN 01:02:14.518 --> 01:02:17.938 JULY, I'M GONNA DO SOME PROPHETIC MENTORING ON THE SHOW 01:02:17.938 --> 01:02:22.527 WHERE WE'RE GONNA KIND OF START MOVING TOWARDS WHAT MY NEXT 01:02:22.527 --> 01:02:24.543 ANNOUNCEMENT IS. AND THAT IS I 01:02:24.543 --> 01:02:26.246 WANNA RAISE UP A MINISTRY SCHOOL. 01:02:26.880 --> 01:02:29.014 ALL RIGHT, WITH THAT, FOR THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, 01:02:29.014 --> 01:02:30.817 YEAH, I'M REALLY EXCITED ABOUT IT. 01:02:30.817 --> 01:02:33.385 BUT, SO WE'VE BEEN WORKING ON A PROJECT 01:02:33.385 --> 01:02:34.753 ABOUT FOUR YEARS AGO. 01:02:34.753 --> 01:02:37.123 HOW MANY WERE HERE, OR YOU THAT ARE WATCHING, 01:02:37.123 --> 01:02:40.293 WHERE YOU WERE PART OF WHAT WE CALLED A SHILOH PROJECT? 01:02:40.293 --> 01:02:42.461 SHILOH IS THE NAME OF LAND. 01:02:42.795 --> 01:02:44.731 AND FOR YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS AND YEARS, 01:02:45.065 --> 01:02:48.534 WE HAD PROPHECIES THAT WE WOULD HAVE ACRES UPON ACRES 01:02:48.534 --> 01:02:49.768 UPON ACRES OF LAND. 01:02:50.003 --> 01:02:52.806 AND I LOOKED FOR YEARS AND COULDN'T FIND ANYTHING, COULDN'T 01:02:53.172 --> 01:02:54.273 NOTHING EVER WORKED OUT. 01:02:54.608 --> 01:02:57.844 WELL, THEN FOUR YEARS AGO, WE ALMOST WERE ABLE TO BUY 01:02:57.844 --> 01:03:02.998 THIS LAND, BUT WE DIDN'T REALIZE THAT WE HAD A SELLER AT THAT 01:03:02.998 --> 01:03:08.728 TIME THAT REALLY DID NOT, LET ME JUST SAY THIS, BUSINESS 01:03:08.728 --> 01:03:11.967 PRACTICES WERE NOT SOMETHING THAT I, AS A PASTOR THAT 01:03:11.967 --> 01:03:15.387 REPRESENTED GOD OR YOU, FELT COMFORTABLE WITH. AND SO 01:03:15.387 --> 01:03:18.748 OBVIOUSLY THE DEAL WENT THROUGH, THEY WANTED ME TO PUT UP AN 01:03:18.748 --> 01:03:22.947 EGREGIOUS AMOUNT OF MONEY, NON-REFUNDABLE, UPWARDS OVER A 01:03:22.947 --> 01:03:25.527 MILLION DOLLARS, AND I SAID, "I WILL NOT DO THAT WITH GOD. "I 01:03:25.527 --> 01:03:28.617 WILL NOT DO THAT TO THE PEOPLE'S MONEY. "YOU, SIR, CAN GO POUND 01:03:28.617 --> 01:03:35.248 SAND." WELL, YEAH, THAT'S WHAT I SAID. AND I DON'T MIND. AND IF 01:03:35.248 --> 01:03:37.168 HE WOULD HAVE BEEN IN THE ROOM, I MIGHT HAVE POUNDED SOMETHING 01:03:37.168 --> 01:03:40.467 ELSE BESIDES SAND, BUT I DECIDED IT WAS BEST THAT I DIDN'T DO 01:03:40.467 --> 01:03:44.297 THAT. SO THE DEAL FELL THROUGH. SOMEBODY ELSE HAD BOUGHT IT AT 01:03:44.297 --> 01:03:48.494 THE TIME. THEY HAD INTENTIONS TO USE IT FOR SOMETHING ELSE. AND 01:03:48.494 --> 01:03:53.577 ANYWAY, I FELT REAL STRONG THAT GOD WAS GONNA RECIRCULATE THIS. 01:03:53.577 --> 01:03:56.097 THE WORD OF THE LORD WAS JUST WAIT. IN THE MEANTIME, WE GOT 01:03:56.097 --> 01:03:59.818 BACK IN CONTACT WITH EACH OTHER, PROBABLY WHAT, SIX MONTHS AGO, 01:03:59.818 --> 01:04:03.507 IS THAT ABOUT RIGHT? FOUR MONTHS AGO? YEAH, A HANDFUL OF MONTHS 01:04:03.507 --> 01:04:06.628 AGO. IN THE MEANTIME, THE PERSON GOT SAVED. THEY ARE ON FIRE. 01:04:06.628 --> 01:04:10.677 THEY BECAME MY FRIEND. AND WE MET ON FRIDAY JUST WITH THE 01:04:10.677 --> 01:04:15.358 STAFF, WITH THESE OWNERS, TO PULL THIS THING TOGETHER, TO 01:04:15.358 --> 01:04:19.197 STRUCTURE IT RIGHT TO WHERE THE BOARD WILL FEEL GOOD ABOUT IT. 01:04:19.197 --> 01:04:26.427 AND HERE'S THE THING. I THINK THE WISDOM AND PRUDENCE IS, THIS 01:04:26.427 --> 01:04:30.088 LAND IS, IT'S NOT REALLY FOR SALE. THEY'RE SELLING IT TO US. 01:04:30.088 --> 01:04:33.418 SO I THINK THAT'S, SO YOU CAN'T FIND IT OUT ON THE MARKET, SO 01:04:33.418 --> 01:04:36.208 DON'T GO SEARCHING, YOU WON'T FIND IT. 'CAUSE IT'S NOT FOR 01:04:36.208 --> 01:04:38.427 SALE, THEY'RE SELLING IT TO US BECAUSE THEY SAID YOU'RE 01:04:38.427 --> 01:04:42.387 SUPPOSED TO HAVE IT. YOU'RE SUPPOSED TO HAVE IT. AND ONLY 01:04:42.387 --> 01:04:46.858 GOD COULD DO THAT. NOW, IN ORDER TO DO THAT, IT WOULD BE IN 01:04:46.858 --> 01:04:50.128 WISDOM THAT WE PAY CASH FOR IT AS MUCH AS WE CAN, IF NOT ALL OF 01:04:50.128 --> 01:04:53.217 IT, AND THAT'S WHAT MY GOAL IS. I SAY, GOD, THIS IS YOUR IDEA, I 01:04:53.217 --> 01:04:57.539 WANNA PAY FOR THIS THING. AND THEN I WANNA BE ABLE TO PUT A 01:04:57.539 --> 01:05:00.297 RETREAT CENTER THERE, THERE'S PLENTY OF ROOM TO DO SO. THERE'S 01:05:00.297 --> 01:05:04.648 A LOT OF GREAT STUFF THAT WE CAN DO, AND WE CAN DO IT QUICKLY, 01:05:04.648 --> 01:05:09.987 CHURCH PICNICS, SOFT, WE CAN RAISE UP SOFTBALL. I COULD BEAT 01:05:09.987 --> 01:05:12.297 CRAIG IN SOFTBALL. HE COULD BE ON THE OPPOSITE TEAM. HE COULD 01:05:12.297 --> 01:05:16.018 BE ON THE WOMEN'S TEAM, I COULD BE ON THE MEN'S. AND WE COULD 01:05:16.018 --> 01:05:19.737 HELP MEN AND WOMEN'S SPORTS. I MEAN, WHY NOT, RIGHT? I MEAN, 01:05:19.737 --> 01:05:22.257 THAT'S WHAT THEY'RE SAYING NOW, MEN AND WOMEN'S SPORTS. I MEAN, 01:05:22.257 --> 01:05:25.288 WHY NOT? NO, CRAIG, WE KNOW YOU'RE A PATRIOT. YOU'D NEVER GO 01:05:25.288 --> 01:05:32.818 FOR THAT. SO THE UPDATE IS THIS. EXPECT AT THE, SOMEWHERE IN THE 01:05:32.818 --> 01:05:34.797 MONTH OF JULY, I THINK YOU'RE GONNA BE PUTTING TOGETHER A 01:05:34.797 --> 01:05:40.617 LETTER. THEN IN AUGUST, HUH? WE'RE GETTING FOOTAGE. WE'RE 01:05:40.617 --> 01:05:43.438 GETTING DRONE FOOTAGE, FOOTAGE, AND WE'RE GONNA START ROLLING IT 01:05:43.438 --> 01:05:46.347 OUT. I DO TAKE VACATION IN JULY. I'VE BEEN DOING THIS ALMOST 30 01:05:46.347 --> 01:05:50.907 YEARS, SO AS YOU KNOW, I DO TAKE A COUPLE WEEKS OR SO IN JULY. 01:05:50.907 --> 01:05:54.898 AND THEN ONCE, I'M NOT GONNA FOOL WITH THIS ON JULY, I WANNA 01:05:54.898 --> 01:05:58.708 BE ON VACATION. AND THEN WHEN WE GET BACK, WE'LL HAVE SOME 01:05:58.708 --> 01:06:03.300 FOOTAGE AND WE'RE EVEN INVITED THEM TO THE SERVICE AND THEY'RE 01:06:03.300 --> 01:06:06.597 GONNA TELL THEIR STORY AND YOU'RE GONNA BE BLESSED AND 01:06:06.597 --> 01:06:09.268 SHOCKED AND AMAZED AS YOU THAT ARE WATCHING AND THEN WE'RE 01:06:09.268 --> 01:06:11.487 GONNA ROLL. WE'RE GONNA GET THIS THING PAID FOR AND WE'RE GONNA 01:06:11.487 --> 01:06:13.947 GET MOVING FORWARD. SO I JUST WANNA PREPARE YOU, BE LOOKING 01:06:13.947 --> 01:06:17.547 FOR THE MONTH OF AUGUST AS WE ROLL THIS THING OUT AND ALL OF 01:06:17.547 --> 01:06:21.387 THAT. ALL RIGHT, WELL, WITHOUT FURTHER ADO, I WANNA JUST SHARE 01:06:21.387 --> 01:06:23.998 ONE SCRIPTURE, IT'S OFFERING TIME. THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 01:06:23.998 --> 01:06:27.447 WATCHING, I JUST WANNA SHOW YOU MATTHEW CHAPTER 2, VERSE 11. AND 01:06:27.447 --> 01:06:30.085 THIS HAS BEEN IN MY HEART FOR A LONG TIME, BECAUSE SOME OF YOU 01:06:30.085 --> 01:06:34.168 REMEMBER MAY 17TH, WE JUST GOT DONE DEDICATING THE NATION WITH 01:06:34.168 --> 01:06:37.887 OUR PRESIDENT AND THE PEOPLE CAME TOGETHER AND WE REDEDICATED 01:06:37.887 --> 01:06:41.668 IT TO GOD. AND I REALLY FELT LIKE ONE OF THE PROPHETIC 01:06:41.668 --> 01:06:44.998 EXAMPLES THE LORD GAVE OUT OF SCRIPTURE WAS THE STORY ABOUT 01:06:44.998 --> 01:06:48.177 THE PRODIGAL SON, HOW THE SON DIDN'T DESERVE, JUST LIKE 01:06:48.177 --> 01:06:52.947 AMERICA, A SECOND CHANCE. BUT GOD GAVE THE PRODIGAL A SECOND 01:06:52.947 --> 01:06:55.797 CHANCE. HE'S GIVEN AMERICA A SECOND CHANCE, AND THE FATHER IN 01:06:55.797 --> 01:06:59.487 THE STORY RAN AND KISSED HIS SON WHO DIDN'T DESERVE IT. AND I 01:06:59.487 --> 01:07:02.998 FEEL LIKE GOD HAS KISSED OUR NATION. THIS IS WHY THE MIDTERMS 01:07:02.998 --> 01:07:08.128 ARE COMING. YOU NEED TO GET OUT AND VOTE. I BELIEVE THAT WE CAN, 01:07:08.128 --> 01:07:12.597 AND PEOPLE DON'T REALIZE, YOU GET A DEMOCRATIC, LIBERAL HOUSE 01:07:12.597 --> 01:07:15.387 AND SENATE, AND THE FIRST THING THEY'RE GONNA DO IS GO AFTER THE 01:07:15.387 --> 01:07:18.597 PRESIDENT THAT YOU LOVE AND APPRECIATE, AND THEY'RE GONNA 01:07:18.597 --> 01:07:22.257 SEEK TO IMPEACH HIM. SO THE ONLY THING THAT CAN GIVE THEM ANY 01:07:22.257 --> 01:07:26.307 KIND OF SUCCESS IS A LACK OF CONSERVATIVE VOTER TURNOUT. WE 01:07:26.307 --> 01:07:29.307 HAVE ENOUGH CONSERVATIVE PEOPLE IN AMERICA WHO DON'T WANT THE 01:07:29.307 --> 01:07:32.847 FOOLISHNESS THAT THEY'VE BEEN TRYING TO PUSH. THE PROBLEM IS 01:07:32.847 --> 01:07:35.697 CHRISTIANS ARE THE WORST ONES. THEY DON'T VOTE, THEY DON'T 01:07:35.697 --> 01:07:40.467 STAND FOR ANYTHING. AND SO I JUST WANNA ENCOURAGE YOU, GOD 01:07:40.467 --> 01:07:43.768 HAS KISSED US, WE NEED TO RECIPROCATE. AND ONE OF THE WAYS 01:07:43.768 --> 01:07:46.918 THAT YOU DO THIS IS MATTHEW 2, VERSE 11, "WHEN THE WISE MEN 01:07:46.918 --> 01:07:50.757 CAME," NOTICE THE THING IT SAYS IN THE SCRIPTURE IS THEY FELL 01:07:50.757 --> 01:07:53.907 DOWN AND WORSHIPED HIM. AND THAT'S WHAT JESUS SAID IN JOHN 01:07:53.907 --> 01:07:57.478 4, IT'S THE HIGHEST LEVEL OF WORSHIP IS WHEN YOU LITERALLY 01:07:57.478 --> 01:08:03.657 KISS OR YOU BOW DOWN TO A PLACE OF INCREDIBLE HUMILITY AND 01:08:03.657 --> 01:08:06.927 REVERENCE AS IF TO KISS THE FEET OF THE ONE YOU'RE WORSHIPING. 01:08:06.927 --> 01:08:09.748 AND THAT'S WHAT THEY DID. NOW NOTICE THE EXPRESSION OF THEIR 01:08:09.748 --> 01:08:12.268 WORSHIP BECAUSE I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND, THE BIBLE SAYS GOD 01:08:12.268 --> 01:08:15.057 LOVES A CHEERFUL GIVER. BUT IF THERE'S ANYTHING THAT I THINK 01:08:15.057 --> 01:08:17.518 GRIEVES THE HEART OF GOD AND IT'S GRIEVED ME AS A PASTOR 01:08:17.518 --> 01:08:20.518 THROUGH THE YEARS IS WHEN OFFERING TIME COMES, PEOPLE LOCK 01:08:20.518 --> 01:08:24.568 UP. AND I UNDERSTAND THERE'S BEEN SOME BAD, I HATE TO SAY IT, 01:08:24.568 --> 01:08:28.587 MINISTERS THAT REPRESENT THE OFFERING THAT HAVE MANIPULATED 01:08:28.587 --> 01:08:31.137 PEOPLE THROUGH THE YEARS. AND I'M NOT HERE, DON'T WRITE NAMES 01:08:31.137 --> 01:08:33.509 THAT YOU THINK, THAT'S NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT. BUT THERE ARE 01:08:33.509 --> 01:08:36.597 PEOPLE THAT MISAPPROPRIATED FUNDS OF MINISTRY AND 01:08:36.597 --> 01:08:38.967 MANIPULATED YOU, THE GOOD PEOPLE. THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE 01:08:38.967 --> 01:08:42.478 TALKING ABOUT. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT AN HONOR TO GOD. YOU HAVE 01:08:42.478 --> 01:08:46.529 AN HONOR WITH YOUR TITHES AND YOUR OFFERINGS TO KISS YOUR GOD. 01:08:46.529 --> 01:08:50.637 AND ONE OF THE WAYS THAT YOU DO IT IS KEEP READING. THEY OPENED 01:08:50.637 --> 01:08:54.148 THEIR TREASURES. WELL, YOU CAN'T OPEN YOUR TREASURES UNLESS YOU 01:08:54.148 --> 01:08:57.087 FIRST OPEN YOUR HEART. THAT'S WHAT THE BOWING DOWN AND THE 01:08:57.087 --> 01:09:01.167 WORSHIPING AND THE KISSING WAS. AND SO I'M ASKING YOU TODAY IS 01:09:01.167 --> 01:09:05.518 TO OPEN YOUR HEART AND YOUR TREASURE AND KISS YOUR GOD IN 01:09:05.518 --> 01:09:09.057 WORSHIP. I SHOWED YOU LAST WEEK, 1 KINGS 19:18, ONE OF THE 01:09:09.057 --> 01:09:12.747 THINGS THAT GOD SAID IS THERE ARE 7,000 THAT I'VE HID THAT 01:09:12.747 --> 01:09:18.537 HAVEN'T KISSED AND WORSHIPED BAAL. AND IF THERE'S ANYTHING 01:09:18.537 --> 01:09:21.238 THAT I THINK HAS GRIEVED GOD IS WE PUT OUR MONEY TOWARDS ALL THE 01:09:21.238 --> 01:09:26.698 OTHER THINGS THAT SUPPORT WHAT HAS MADE OUR CULTURE AS CORRUPT 01:09:26.698 --> 01:09:29.938 AS IT IS, AND IT'S BEEN FINANCED A LOT BY CHRISTIANS AROUND THE 01:09:29.938 --> 01:09:33.177 WORLD. AND THEN WHEN IT COMES TO GIVING TO GOD, THEY HAVEN'T 01:09:33.177 --> 01:09:37.167 KISSED HIM. AND SO I JUST ENCOURAGE US TO STEP UP, NOT 01:09:37.167 --> 01:09:41.247 THAT WE AREN'T, I'M JUST ENCOURAGING. STEP UP, SHOW MORE 01:09:41.247 --> 01:09:45.148 LOVE TO GOD BY KISSING HIM, BY GIVING YOUR FINANCES, BUT ALSO 01:09:45.148 --> 01:09:51.448 YOUR TIME, YOUR LOVE, YOUR ATTENTION, ALL OF THAT. ALL 01:09:51.448 --> 01:09:53.967 RIGHT, THE GIVING INFORMATION IS ON THE SCREEN. YOU CAN GO AHEAD 01:09:53.967 --> 01:09:58.259 AND BEGIN TO FILL OUT YOUR OFFERING INFORMATION. I LOVE 01:09:58.259 --> 01:10:01.648 THIS, I GUESS THEY'RE STILL SNAIL MAIL, IS THAT RIGHT? IT'S 01:10:01.648 --> 01:10:06.358 PRETTY SLOW. THERE'S THE WEBSITE, MOBILE APP, TEXT2GIVE, 01:10:06.358 --> 01:10:09.927 OR YOU CAN SCAN THE QR CODE. ISN'T THAT AMAZING THAT YOU CAN 01:10:09.927 --> 01:10:13.618 DO OFFERINGS LIKE THAT TODAY AND YOU CAN KISS GOD AND BE A 01:10:13.618 --> 01:10:17.578 CHEERFUL GIVER? AND SO, AND LET ME JUST SAY THIS, THOSE OF YOU 01:10:17.578 --> 01:10:23.418 THAT ARE WATCHING AS WELL, I DO APPRECIATE THOSE OF YOU THAT ARE 01:10:23.418 --> 01:10:26.658 WATCHING AND ALSO IN THIS ROOM, HOW YOU HAVE UNDERGIRDED THIS 01:10:26.658 --> 01:10:29.899 MINISTRY. AND I JUST, I WANNA THANK YOU FOR THAT. THAT IS VERY 01:10:29.899 --> 01:10:32.328 HONORABLE TO GOD. IT'S BEEN VERY HONORABLE. LOOK AT WHAT WE'VE 01:10:32.328 --> 01:10:35.509 DONE WITH THE LORD. YOU KNOW, LOOK AT THIS BUILDING AND 01:10:35.509 --> 01:10:39.408 CAMPUS. AND I THINK WE SHOULD GIVE GOD A HAND CLAP. OKAY, 01:10:39.408 --> 01:10:41.838 STAND TO YOUR FEET. I'M GONNA PRAY A PRAYER OVER YOU. AND THEN 01:10:41.838 --> 01:10:44.269 BRENDA'S GONNA COME AND DO THE DECREE BECAUSE SHE NORMALLY 01:10:44.269 --> 01:10:47.929 DOES. AND I THINK SHE DOES IT BETTER THAN ME. SO LET'S GIVE IT 01:10:47.929 --> 01:10:49.998 UP FOR PASTOR BRENDA AS SHE COMES. AND SHE'S GONNA DO THE 01:10:49.998 --> 01:10:52.998 DECREE AND I'LL PRAY. HEAVENLY FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THE 01:10:52.998 --> 01:10:56.059 PEOPLE TODAY. WE THANK YOU. THIS HAS BEEN A BEAUTIFUL TIME 01:10:56.059 --> 01:10:58.849 TOGETHER. I PRAY THAT AS YOU SAID IN YOUR WORD, WHEN THEY 01:10:58.849 --> 01:11:02.359 TITHE, YOU WOULD REBUKE THE DEVOURER, SO WE EXPECT THAT. YOU 01:11:02.359 --> 01:11:05.838 SAID YOU WOULD OPEN THE WINDOWS OF HEAVEN AND POUR OUT BLESSINGS 01:11:05.838 --> 01:11:08.599 THEY DON'T HAVE ROOM TO RECEIVE WHEN THEY TITHE, WE EXPECT THAT 01:11:08.599 --> 01:11:13.279 IN HONOR. AND LASTLY, YOU ALSO SAID WHEN WE GIVE, THAT YOU, YOU 01:11:13.279 --> 01:11:17.628 WILL GIVE BACK TO US, GOOD MEASURE, PRESSED DOWN, SHAKEN 01:11:17.628 --> 01:11:21.498 TOGETHER, EVEN RUNNING OVER, SO YOU OUR GOD GIVE BACK TO US 01:11:21.498 --> 01:11:23.545 THROUGH THE HANDS OF MEN. OCUS.ORG. YOU WILL PROVIDE EVERY 01:11:23.545 --> 01:11:26.748 NEED AND THAT'S WHAT WE ASK AND EXPECT IN HONOR AND 01:11:26.748 --> 01:11:31.038 THANKSGIVING. BLESS THE PEOPLE'S OFFERING. BLESS THEIR GIVING AND 01:11:31.038 --> 01:11:35.298 WE THANK YOU FOR THAT IN JESUS' NAME. AND EVERYBODY SAID AMEN. - 01:11:35.298 --> 01:11:39.918 AMEN. ALL RIGHT. YOU READY TO DO OUR DECLARATION? YOU'RE GOING TO 01:11:39.918 --> 01:11:42.798 MEAN IT WITH ALL YOUR HEART? ALL RIGHT. LET'S SAY IT TOGETHER. WE 01:11:42.798 --> 01:11:46.548 DECLARE THE CAMPUS AND MINISTRY OF LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH SHALL BE 01:11:46.548 --> 01:11:51.469 INCREASED, EXPANDED AND DEBT FREE. WE DECREE IT SHALL HAPPEN 01:11:51.469 --> 01:11:56.238 WITHOUT DELAY. WE SAY TO EVERY HEAVENLY ASSIGNMENT BE BUILT UP 01:11:56.238 --> 01:12:00.859 AND FINISH. WE SAY THAT WE HAVE ALL THE FINANCES NEEDED FOR THE 01:12:00.859 --> 01:12:05.298 LORD IS BUILDING THIS HOUSE. WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH, EXCESS 01:12:05.298 --> 01:12:09.649 AND OVERFLOW. LORD, YOU ARE PROVIDING SEED TO THE SOWER. WE 01:12:09.649 --> 01:12:13.969 CALL UPON YOU, LORD OF HOSTS, TO BRING FORTH HEAVENLY ASSISTANCE 01:12:13.969 --> 01:12:17.509 AND RAISE UP MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE THAT SHALL GIVE 01:12:17.509 --> 01:12:21.048 ABUNDANTLY TO THIS WORK. WE PROPHESY THAT WE SHALL 01:12:21.048 --> 01:12:25.939 QUADRUPLE, QUADRUPLE, AND THAT WE WILL QUADRUPLE AGAIN. WE 01:12:25.939 --> 01:12:31.878 DECLARE NEW THINGS NOW. WE DECREE MINISTRY AND CAMPUS BE. 01:12:31.878 --> 01:12:38.569 AMEN. ALL RIGHT. GIVE SOMEBODY A HIGH FIVE AS YOU FIND YOUR WAY 01:12:38.569 --> 01:12:42.769 TO YOUR SEAT. PRAISE THE LORD. I'M GOING TO BE EXCITED NEXT 01:12:42.769 --> 01:12:48.498 WEEK FOR THE RAGING CAJUN TO BE HERE. JESSE, IT'S GOING TO BE A 01:12:48.498 --> 01:12:52.519 GOOD TIME. SO MANY GOOD THINGS WILL BE HAPPENING. SO A LOT OF 01:12:52.519 --> 01:12:54.798 THINGS GOING ON AT LORD OF HOSTS. OF COURSE, WHILE WE'RE 01:12:54.798 --> 01:12:59.149 VACATING ON THE 12TH OF JULY, WE'LL BE HERE FOR THE NEXT 01:12:59.149 --> 01:13:02.328 COUPLE SUNDAYS. AND THEN ON THE 12TH OF JULY, GENE BAILEY WILL 01:13:02.328 --> 01:13:05.118 BE IN THE HOUSE. AND THEN AFTER THAT, RICHARD ROBERTS WILL BE 01:13:05.118 --> 01:13:09.019 HERE. SO BE HERE FOR ALL THOSE THINGS. I THINK IT'LL BE 01:13:09.019 --> 01:13:12.469 WONDERFUL. AND SO WE'RE SUPER EXCITED ABOUT IT. AND OF COURSE, 01:13:12.469 --> 01:13:15.408 OPENING THE HEAVENS IS AROUND THE CORNER. IF YOU'VE NOT 01:13:15.408 --> 01:13:18.559 REGISTERED, GET REGISTERED. WE HAVE WELL OVER A THOUSAND PEOPLE 01:13:18.559 --> 01:13:22.219 ALREADY. AND WE'RE DOING IT HERE AT THE CAMPUS. WELL, PASTOR 01:13:22.219 --> 01:13:26.118 BRENDA, I WANT TO GIVE A HAND CLAP TO GOD FOR THE CONFERENCE. 01:13:26.118 --> 01:13:28.698 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:13:28.698 --> 01:13:32.628 YOU MIGHT SAY, IS THERE GONNA BE ROOM FOR US IN THE CAMPUS HERE 01:13:32.628 --> 01:13:36.109 AT LORD OF HOSTS? WE ARE GONNA MAKE IT WORK. AND I THINK IT'S 01:13:36.109 --> 01:13:40.429 GONNA BE A GOOD TIME. AND I MEAN, AND YOU KNOW WHAT I'M 01:13:40.429 --> 01:13:42.708 LOVING ABOUT THAT IS JUST BEING ABLE TO GET IN HERE WHERE THE 01:13:42.708 --> 01:13:46.003 ANOINTING HAS BEEN JUST SATURATED IN THIS ROOM. I DON'T 01:13:46.003 --> 01:13:49.399 HAVE TO DRIVE OUT THE DEVILS FROM THE CONCERT THE WEEK 01:13:49.399 --> 01:13:54.198 BEFORE. RIGHT, AMEN, ALL RIGHT. WELL, LET'S GET INTO THE WORD 01:13:54.198 --> 01:13:58.128 TODAY. AND WE'VE BEEN TALKING ABOUT HOW MANY, FIRST OF ALL, 01:13:58.128 --> 01:14:00.798 LET ME JUST ASK EVERYBODY TO RAISE YOUR HAND IF YOU BELIEVE 01:14:00.798 --> 01:14:04.788 THIS, HOW MANY OF YOU WANT TO GET YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED? RAISE 01:14:04.788 --> 01:14:08.599 YOUR HAND. YOU WANT YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED, YES OR NO? ALL RIGHT. 01:14:08.599 --> 01:14:12.019 SO WE'RE TALKING ABOUT, AND THIS IS JUST KIND OF A SPRINGBOARD 01:14:12.019 --> 01:14:16.878 OFF OF WHAT A PASTOR HAS BEEN SHARING ABOUT THE MEDITATION OF 01:14:16.878 --> 01:14:21.649 OUR HEART, ALLOWING OUR MOUTH AND THAT TO ALIGN TOGETHER, 01:14:21.649 --> 01:14:24.774 PSALM 19:14, WHAT'S THAT? WEDNESDAY, I'LL CONTINUE. OH, 01:14:24.774 --> 01:14:26.899 YOU'RE GONNA CONTINUE ON WEDNESDAY. OH, THAT'S GOOD, 01:14:26.899 --> 01:14:29.002 PASTOR'S GONNA PLAN TO BE IN THE HOUSE WEDNESDAY NIGHT. 01:14:29.135 --> 01:14:30.703 GIVE HIM A HAND FOR THAT. 01:14:30.703 --> 01:14:31.704 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:14:31.704 --> 01:14:35.115 SO HE'LL BE TALKING ABOUT THAT A LITTLE BIT, BUT THIS WAS JUST A 01:14:35.118 --> 01:14:38.269 SPRINGBOARD, THEN PASTOR CHRISTY KIND OF PICKED IT UP A WEDNESDAY 01:14:38.269 --> 01:14:42.979 AGO, AND THEN I JUST WANTED TO, THIS IS A MESSAGE THAT I HAD PUT 01:14:42.979 --> 01:14:46.009 TOGETHER YEARS AND YEARS AGO CALLED 12 INTERRUPTIONS TO 01:14:46.009 --> 01:14:49.429 ANSWERED PRAYER. I'M NOT NECESSARILY TRYING TO DETAIL 01:14:49.429 --> 01:14:52.729 EACH ONE OF THEM, BUT, AND I'M HOPING TO KIND OF PUT A BOOK 01:14:52.729 --> 01:14:55.788 TOGETHER. I ACTUALLY DID START A LITTLE MANUSCRIPT, BUT I KEEP 01:14:55.788 --> 01:14:59.748 GETTING SIDETRACKED WITH OTHER THINGS, BUT HOPEFULLY IT WILL 01:14:59.748 --> 01:15:03.588 ONE DAY COME TOGETHER AS A BOOK WRITING. AND SO SOME OF THESE 01:15:03.588 --> 01:15:06.798 THINGS, ALL 12 OF THEM, I TOLD YOU LAST WEEK WE ONLY COVERED 01:15:06.798 --> 01:15:11.149 ONE, AND SO SOME OF THESE WILL BE A QUICK MENTION, SOME I'LL 01:15:11.149 --> 01:15:15.439 DETAIL A LITTLE BIT MORE. BUT, YOU KNOW, SO JUST WRITE THEM 01:15:15.439 --> 01:15:17.628 DOWN. I WOULD ENCOURAGE YOU, AND THEN YOU CAN, WHERE WHAT WE 01:15:17.628 --> 01:15:20.838 DON'T GET TO, YOU CAN GO AND DO YOUR OWN STUDY. BUT 01:15:20.838 --> 01:15:23.359 INTERRUPTIONS TO ANSWER PRAYER, AND AGAIN, THIS IS NEVER MEANT 01:15:23.359 --> 01:15:29.118 TO NECESSARILY BE AN ALL-COMPREHENSIVE LIST. THERE 01:15:29.118 --> 01:15:32.509 COULD BE MORE THINGS, OR YOU COULD COMBINE A FEW TOGETHER, OR 01:15:32.509 --> 01:15:34.788 SOMETHING COULD SPRING OFF OF THAT, SO I'M CERTAINLY NOT 01:15:34.788 --> 01:15:37.528 PRETENDING TO KNOW ALL THE REASONS. AND THE OTHER THING I 01:15:37.528 --> 01:15:41.389 ALWAYS SAY WHEN YOU TEACH MESSAGES LIKE THIS IS TO 01:15:41.389 --> 01:15:44.389 ENCOURAGE YOU THAT, YOU KNOW, WE DON'T KNOW ALL THE ANSWERS WHY 01:15:44.389 --> 01:15:47.328 SOME PEOPLE, MAYBE WE'VE LOVED AND KNOWN, DIDN'T GET A PRAYER 01:15:47.328 --> 01:15:50.809 ANSWERED. WE DON'T ALWAYS KNOW. CERTAINLY NOT FOR US TO USE A 01:15:50.809 --> 01:15:54.738 WAY TO JUDGE OTHER PEOPLE, RIGHT, IT'S FOR US TO LOOK IN 01:15:54.738 --> 01:15:57.679 OUR OWN LIFE. AND EVEN IN OUR OWN LIFE, WE MAY NOT ALWAYS KNOW 01:15:57.679 --> 01:16:00.948 THE REASONS OUR PRAYERS DIDN'T GET ANSWERED. NOT EVERYTHING IS 01:16:00.948 --> 01:16:03.889 GOD OBLIGATED TO SHARE WITH US. I'VE LEARNED THAT. THAT WAS THE 01:16:03.889 --> 01:16:07.399 BIG LESSON OF THE BOOK OF JOB, THAT JOB HAD TO LEARN TO TRUST 01:16:07.399 --> 01:16:11.538 GOD EVEN WHEN HE DIDN'T KNOW EVERYTHING. HE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND 01:16:11.538 --> 01:16:15.109 EVERYTHING. YOU KNOW, WE'RE NOT GOD, RIGHT? AND SO WE'RE NEVER 01:16:15.109 --> 01:16:18.378 GONNA KNOW EVERY SINGLE THING THAT GOES ON IN THE HEART OF THE 01:16:18.378 --> 01:16:23.088 MIND OF THE DIVINE. AND TO ACT AS IF GOD SHOULD BE OBLIGATED TO 01:16:23.088 --> 01:16:26.569 TELL US EVERY SINGLE THING IS TO SET OURSELVES UP TO BE SMARTER 01:16:26.569 --> 01:16:29.868 THAN GOD. AND WE DON'T WANNA DO THAT. AND GOD FINALLY HAD TO 01:16:29.868 --> 01:16:32.509 COME TO JOB, IF YOU REMEMBER THE STORY. I DID A WHOLE TEACHING ON 01:16:32.509 --> 01:16:36.349 THAT. CAME TO JOB AND FINALLY SAID, WERE YOU THERE WHEN I PUT 01:16:36.349 --> 01:16:41.059 THE STARS INTO THE SKY? NO, GOD, I WASN'T. SO WE'VE GOTTA KNOW 01:16:41.059 --> 01:16:44.838 THAT GOD KNOWS WHAT HE'S DOING AND WE'VE GOTTA TRUST HIM, AMEN? 01:16:44.838 --> 01:16:47.958 ALL RIGHT, WELL, LET'S GET INTO IT. LAST WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT 01:16:47.958 --> 01:16:50.658 ONE OF THE KEY AND I BELIEVE IT'S ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT, 01:16:50.658 --> 01:16:55.698 THE FIRST COUPLE OF THESE, WHEN IT COMES TO INTERRUPTED PRAYER, 01:16:55.698 --> 01:16:59.899 LAST WEEK WE TALKED ABOUT THE SPIRIT OF UNBELIEF. AND THIS WAS 01:16:59.899 --> 01:17:03.798 OFF OF MATTHEW 17:20, WHEN THE DISCIPLES COULD NOT CAST A DEMON 01:17:03.798 --> 01:17:08.418 OUT OF A YOUNG DEMON-POSSESSED BOY. NOW WE KNOW FOR A FACT, 01:17:08.418 --> 01:17:11.118 THEY SHOULD HAVE BEEN ABLE TO CAST THE DEMON OUT. JESUS HAD 01:17:11.118 --> 01:17:14.479 SENT THEM OUT IN MATTHEW THE 10TH CHAPTER WITH THE ABILITY 01:17:14.479 --> 01:17:17.448 AND WITH POWER, WITH HIS POWER AND HIS AUTHORITY AND HIS 01:17:17.448 --> 01:17:21.288 ANOINTING TO CAST OUT DEMONS. THEY SHOULD HAVE WELL BEEN ABLE 01:17:21.288 --> 01:17:25.668 TO DO IT. AND ALSO WE KNOW THEY DID DO IT. THEY CAME BACK WITH 01:17:25.668 --> 01:17:29.479 TESTIMONIES OF PEOPLE BEING HEALED AND DELIVERED. AND IF 01:17:29.479 --> 01:17:32.179 THEY DIDN'T THINK THAT THEY COULD HAVE CAST THE DEMON OUT, 01:17:32.179 --> 01:17:35.689 THEY WOULDN'T HAVE TRIED. THIS YOUNG FATHER WHO CAME WITH A 01:17:35.689 --> 01:17:39.048 DEMON POSSESSED SON OR THE SON IN THIS DAY AND AGE, WE MIGHT 01:17:39.048 --> 01:17:43.009 CALL IT SOME SORT OF MENTAL ILLNESS. BUT BACK IN THAT DAY, 01:17:43.009 --> 01:17:45.889 IT WAS LUNATIC. THAT WORD LUNATIC IN THE GREEK IS A WORD 01:17:45.889 --> 01:17:50.328 THAT SPEAKS ABOUT MENTAL DISORDERS, AS WE MIGHT CALL THEM 01:17:50.328 --> 01:17:54.618 IN MORE MODERN TERMS. BUT THIS YOUNG MAN WAS UNABLE TO CONTROL 01:17:54.618 --> 01:17:58.578 HIMSELF. AND IF THE FATHER DIDN'T THINK THAT THE DISCIPLES 01:17:58.578 --> 01:18:01.009 COULD HAVE CAST THE DEVIL OUT, HE WOULDN'T HAVE GONE TO THE 01:18:01.009 --> 01:18:05.748 DISCIPLES. SO OBVIOUSLY IT HAD GOTTEN AROUND THAT THEY HAD BEEN 01:18:05.748 --> 01:18:09.948 ABLE TO PERFORM MIRACLES UNDER JESUS' POWER AND AUTHORITY. SO 01:18:09.948 --> 01:18:12.408 WHEN THEY COULDN'T CAST THE DEMON OUT, IF YOU GO BACK AND 01:18:12.408 --> 01:18:14.958 READ THE STORY, WE DETAILED IT LAST WEEK, WHEN THEY COULDN'T 01:18:14.958 --> 01:18:19.458 CAST THE DEMON OUT, THEY DID WHAT A LOT OF US DO, RIGHT? 01:18:19.458 --> 01:18:26.748 LORD, WHY? WHY THEY PULLED JESUS APART AND SAID, COULD WE NOT 01:18:26.748 --> 01:18:31.548 CAST OUT THIS DEVIL? AND JESUS, AND HERE'S THE HIGHLIGHT, THIS 01:18:31.548 --> 01:18:35.389 IS VERSE 20, THEY'LL PUT IT UP ON THE SCREEN. HE SAID, LOOK 01:18:35.389 --> 01:18:41.448 WHAT HE SAYS THERE, BECAUSE OF WHAT? BECAUSE OF WHAT? SO THERE 01:18:41.448 --> 01:18:45.889 IS THE ANSWER UNDERLINED. WE TALKED EXTENSIVELY ABOUT A 01:18:45.889 --> 01:18:49.368 SPIRIT OF UNBELIEF. THERE'S TWO KINDS OF UNBELIEF IN THE BIBLE. 01:18:49.368 --> 01:18:52.128 ONE OF THEM, IT USUALLY IT STARTS OUT AS A FEARFUL 01:18:52.128 --> 01:18:56.088 UNBELIEF, AN UNBELIEF, WELL, I'M NOT SURE ABOUT SOMETHING, MAYBE 01:18:56.088 --> 01:19:01.128 I'M APPREHENSIVE, NOT SURE IF I BELIEVE THAT. AND THAT ISN'T, 01:19:01.128 --> 01:19:06.259 THERE ISN'T ANYTHING SO MUCH WRONG WITH THAT INITIALLY, BUT 01:19:06.259 --> 01:19:10.759 IT HAS TO BE DEALT WITH, OKAY? FEAR AND UNBELIEF, WHEN THEY ARE 01:19:10.759 --> 01:19:14.298 MIXED TOGETHER, WILL CAUSE A PERSON NOT TO TRUST GOD, THEY'LL 01:19:14.298 --> 01:19:17.569 NEVER LAUNCH OUT IN FAITH. BUT HERE'S WHAT HAPPENS, UNBELIEF, 01:19:19.038 --> 01:19:22.038 IF YOU DON'T DEAL WITH IT YOU MIGHT BE FEARFUL, SUCH AND SUCH 01:19:22.038 --> 01:19:25.788 WILL NEVER HAPPEN. YOU MIGHT BE AFRAID YOUR PRAYERS AREN'T GONNA 01:19:25.788 --> 01:19:29.179 GET ANSWERED. COME ON, WE HAVE ALL BEEN THERE, HAVEN'T WE? WE 01:19:29.179 --> 01:19:32.479 HAVE SOME POINT IN OUR LIFE, WE'VE ALL BEEN, WELL, GOD, IS 01:19:32.479 --> 01:19:36.139 THIS GONNA WORK OUT THE WAY THAT I PRAYED? EVERY PERSON HAS HAD 01:19:36.139 --> 01:19:41.149 TO DEAL WITH THAT AT SOME LEVEL. BUT JESUS, NOW, HE WAS VERY BOLD 01:19:41.149 --> 01:19:44.389 IN HOW HE WANTED THEM TO DEAL WITH THAT SPIRIT OF UNBELIEF. 01:19:44.389 --> 01:19:47.569 BUT UNBELIEF, FEARFUL UNBELIEF, I TALKED ABOUT THIS LAST WEEK, 01:19:47.569 --> 01:19:50.269 IF WE DON'T DEAL WITH IT, EVENTUALLY IT BECOMES 01:19:50.269 --> 01:19:53.868 STIFF-NECKED UNBELIEF. AND THIS IS WHAT HAPPENED TO THE CHILDREN 01:19:53.868 --> 01:19:57.828 OF ISRAEL. THEY STARTED OUT FEARFUL WHEN THEY WERE BEING 01:19:57.828 --> 01:20:02.269 PURSUED BY PHARAOH'S ARMY. THEY WERE FEARFUL AT THE SIDE OF THE 01:20:02.269 --> 01:20:06.259 RED SEA. THEY WERE FEARFUL WHEN THEY GOT ON THE OTHER SIDE AND 01:20:06.259 --> 01:20:09.229 THERE WAS NO WATER. AND THEY WERE OUT THERE WITH A BUNCH OF 01:20:09.229 --> 01:20:12.738 BROWN ROCKS AND DIDN'T KNOW WHERE THEIR NEXT MEAL WAS COMING 01:20:12.738 --> 01:20:15.618 FROM. THEY WERE FEARFUL FOR THEIR LIVES. BUT THEN 01:20:15.618 --> 01:20:20.389 EVENTUALLY, GOD FINALLY SAID TO ISRAEL, HE SAID, "YOU HAVE 01:20:20.389 --> 01:20:24.708 PROVOKED ME NOW." COME ON, IT'S NOT GOOD TO BE ON THE SIDE OF 01:20:24.708 --> 01:20:29.328 PROVOKING GOD. "YOU HAVE PROVOKED ME NOW, THESE," AND GOD 01:20:29.328 --> 01:20:33.948 COUNTED IT, BY THE WAY, "THESE 10 TIMES." 10 TIMES, "YOU HAVE 01:20:33.948 --> 01:20:38.448 PROVOKED ME." BECAUSE NOW, THEN WHEN YOU GET LATER, THE BIBLE 01:20:38.448 --> 01:20:44.024 DESCRIBES ISRAEL IN THE WILDERNESS AS STIFF-NECKED. AND 01:20:44.024 --> 01:20:47.985 IF YOU GO BACK AND READ HEBREWS CHAPTER THREE AND FOUR, IT SAID 01:20:47.985 --> 01:20:51.435 THEY COULD NOT ENTER IN. IN FACT, CHAPTER FOUR, IT CHANGES 01:20:51.435 --> 01:20:55.725 THE WORD UNBELIEF. IT STARTS WITH THE FEARFUL, APPREHENSIVE, 01:20:55.725 --> 01:21:00.854 UNSURE UNBELIEF, AND THEN IT SHIFTS SOMEWHERE. AND IN HEBREWS 01:21:00.854 --> 01:21:03.854 CHAPTER FOUR, IT'S A DIFFERENT WORD FOR UNBELIEF, AND IT MEANS 01:21:03.854 --> 01:21:10.216 TO BE STIFF-NECKED AND REBELLIOUS, REFUSALS, I REFUSE 01:21:10.216 --> 01:21:13.216 TO BELIEVE IN GOD. AND I KNOW PEOPLE THAT HAVE GONE THROUGH 01:21:13.216 --> 01:21:16.845 THIS WITH HEALING. THEY DIDN'T SEE SOMEONE GET HEALED, AND SO 01:21:16.845 --> 01:21:20.145 RATHER SAY, WELL, GOD, TEACH ME. I DON'T KNOW EXACTLY WHAT 01:21:20.145 --> 01:21:23.985 HAPPENED IN THAT SITUATION, BUT I'M ASKING YOU TO REVEAL AND 01:21:23.985 --> 01:21:27.284 SHOW ME, AND KEEP THEIR HEART TENDER. NO, THEY PUT THEIR FIST 01:21:27.284 --> 01:21:30.164 UP AND SAY, I DON'T BELIEVE IN THAT ANYMORE. THAT'S CALLED 01:21:30.164 --> 01:21:33.135 STIFF-NECKED UNBELIEF. JESUS SAID THE REASON YOU COULDN'T SEE 01:21:33.135 --> 01:21:37.935 THE MIRACLE WAS BECAUSE OF UNBELIEF. IS THAT NOT WHAT HE 01:21:37.935 --> 01:21:42.314 SAID? NOW LATER HE SAYS THIS KIND GOES OUT BY PRAYER AND 01:21:42.314 --> 01:21:46.814 FASTING, BUT IT'S NOT THAT THAT WAS NOT THE REASON THEY COULDN'T 01:21:46.814 --> 01:21:50.564 CAST THE DEMON OUT. PRAYER AND FASTING SOMETIMES IS JUST 01:21:50.564 --> 01:21:53.954 REQUIRED TO MOVE CERTAIN OBSTACLES. AND SO WE HAVE TO 01:21:53.954 --> 01:21:57.284 UNDERSTAND THAT. WE TALKED ABOUT THAT LAST WEEK AND HOW THE WAY 01:21:57.284 --> 01:22:00.585 WE DEAL WITH UNBELIEF IS TO GROW OUR FAITH. JESUS SAID, "IF YOU'D 01:22:00.585 --> 01:22:03.435 HAVE FAITH "LIKE A GRAIN OF MUSTARD SEED, "YOU WOULD TAKE 01:22:03.435 --> 01:22:07.059 THE SEEDS LIKE WHAT I'M PREACHING TODAY, "AND YOU WOULD 01:22:07.059 --> 01:22:11.655 GO DO SOMETHING WITH IT." COME ON, EVERY TIME WE HAVE A CHURCH 01:22:11.655 --> 01:22:15.345 SERVICE OR EVERY TIME THERE'S A SERMON PREACHED ANYWHERE, THERE 01:22:15.345 --> 01:22:18.164 WILL ALWAYS BE THREE HEARERS. THERE WILL BE THOSE THAT WILL 01:22:18.164 --> 01:22:21.405 JUST CAST IT DOWN AND SAY, "YOU KNOW WHAT, I'M NOT SURE I AGREE 01:22:21.405 --> 01:22:24.524 WITH THAT." THERE'LL BE THOSE THAT'LL INVESTIGATE AND THINK, 01:22:24.524 --> 01:22:29.805 "OH, YOU KNOW, THAT'S GOOD, I CAN RECEIVE THAT." AND YEAH, 01:22:29.805 --> 01:22:32.534 MAYBE, MAYBE THEY'LL DO SOMETHING WITH IT. THEN THERE'S 01:22:32.534 --> 01:22:36.345 THOSE THAT DO SOMETHING WITH IT. BE THE PEOPLE THAT TAKE THE WORD 01:22:36.345 --> 01:22:39.704 THAT WE PREACH THAT MIGHT JUST BE A SEED TODAY AND GO DO 01:22:39.704 --> 01:22:42.375 SOMETHING WITH IT. HALLELUJAH. 01:22:42.375 --> 01:22:43.845 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:22:43.845 --> 01:22:47.055 SO JESUS SAID, "THE SPIRIT OF UNBELIEF." SO WE TALKED ABOUT 01:22:47.055 --> 01:22:50.114 THAT. IF YOU WANNA GO BACK TO LAST WEEK'S AND LISTEN, THIS IS 01:22:50.114 --> 01:22:53.595 ONE OF THE PRIMARY REASON PEOPLE DON'T GET THEIR PRAYERS 01:22:53.595 --> 01:22:56.055 ANSWERED. SO LET'S GO TO THE SECOND ONE. I DON'T WANNA CAMP 01:22:56.055 --> 01:23:00.945 ON THAT TOO LONG, BUT I DO WANNA DETAIL THIS ONE A LITTLE BIT. BY 01:23:00.945 --> 01:23:04.761 THE WAY, TOUCH YOURSELF. SAY, I'M NOT GONNA HAVE A SPIRIT OF 01:23:04.761 --> 01:23:10.756 UNBELIEF. I REBUKE UNBELIEF FROM MY MIND. COME ON, IN JESUS' 01:23:10.756 --> 01:23:14.204 NAME. NOW, THE SECOND REASON THAT PEOPLE OFTEN DON'T GET 01:23:14.204 --> 01:23:18.074 ANSWERS TO PRAYER IS EITHER BECAUSE THEY DON'T PRAY ABOUT 01:23:18.074 --> 01:23:21.345 THINGS. I KNOW, IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, HAVE YOU EVER HAD 01:23:21.345 --> 01:23:23.414 SOMETHING YOU THOUGHT, MAN, I SHOULD HAVE PRAYED ABOUT THAT? 01:23:23.414 --> 01:23:26.625 RATHER THAN DELVE HEADLONG, HAVE YOU EVER BOUGHT A CAR THAT WAS A 01:23:26.625 --> 01:23:30.614 LEMON, AND YOU REALIZE I SHOULD HAVE PRAYED, I SHOULD HAVE ASKED 01:23:30.614 --> 01:23:34.274 THE LORD, AND YOU KNOW, AND THEN IT'S TOO LATE, YOU ALREADY 01:23:34.274 --> 01:23:38.744 BOUGHT THE CAR. AND SO, AND THERE'S TIMES IN RETROSPECT, YOU 01:23:38.744 --> 01:23:40.905 THINK, WELL, I SHOULD HAVE PRAYED. BUT THEN EVEN WHEN WE DO 01:23:40.905 --> 01:23:46.395 PRAY, WE HAVE TO UNDERSTAND THAT WE HAVE TO MAKE SURE THAT WE 01:23:46.395 --> 01:23:49.875 PRAY IN SUCH A WAY THAT THE BIBLE TEACHES US TO PRAY. 01:23:49.875 --> 01:23:54.614 SOMETIMES PEOPLE DON'T RECEIVE ANSWERS TO PRAYER BECAUSE THEY 01:23:54.614 --> 01:23:59.475 DON'T ASK IN CONFIDENCE. IT'S LIKE, WELL, I SURE HOPE SO. YOU 01:23:59.475 --> 01:24:02.820 KNOW, I RUN INTO PEOPLE ALL THE TIME, PASTOR AND I DO, IN ALL OF 01:24:02.820 --> 01:24:05.685 OUR YEARS OF MINISTRY, AND YOU'LL PRAY AND SAY, YOU KNOW, I 01:24:05.685 --> 01:24:08.716 BELIEVE GOD'S GONNA BLESS YOU WITH THAT NEW JOB. WELL, I SURE 01:24:08.716 --> 01:24:12.676 HOPE SO. THAT'S NOT A CONFIDENCE, OKAY? THAT'S NOT A 01:24:12.676 --> 01:24:16.485 CONFIDENCE. YOU KNOW, I LOVE, IN FACT, TODAY, PASTOR WAS PRAYING 01:24:16.485 --> 01:24:20.685 OVER THE MEN AND I JUST, I LOVED THE BOLD CONFIDENCE FOR THOSE 01:24:20.685 --> 01:24:24.314 THAT WERE BELIEVING TO CONCEIVE CHILDREN. COME ON, THAT'S THE 01:24:24.314 --> 01:24:27.735 KIND OF PASTOR YOU WANT AROUND YOUR LIFE THAT'S GONNA PRESS FOR 01:24:27.735 --> 01:24:31.185 THE MIRACLE, OKAY? PASTOR BRENDA, WELL, WHAT ABOUT THIS? 01:24:31.185 --> 01:24:34.426 OR WHAT IF THAT? WELL, WE DON'T GO WITH THAT. IT'S LIKE 01:24:34.426 --> 01:24:37.875 BORROWING TROUBLE BEFORE, THAT'S THE WAY A LOT OF BELIEVERS LIVE. 01:24:37.875 --> 01:24:43.125 WE JUST BELIEVE THE WORST CASE SCENARIO. AND SO NOT ASKING. SO 01:24:43.125 --> 01:24:46.664 LET ME TALK TO YOU FOR A MOMENT ABOUT HOW JESUS SAID WE ARE TO 01:24:46.664 --> 01:24:49.426 ASK. AND THIS IS WHAT I BELIEVE PASTOR DEMONSTRATED A FEW 01:24:49.426 --> 01:24:54.614 MOMENTS AGO. JOHN 14:14, LOOK AT THIS SCRIPTURE. JESUS SAID THESE 01:24:54.614 --> 01:25:01.034 WORDS, "IF YOU ASK," OKAY, SOMEBODY SAY, "ASK." SO YOU'RE 01:25:01.034 --> 01:25:04.983 GONNA HAVE TO GO TO GOD ABOUT IT, RIGHT? WE'RE GONNA HAVE TO 01:25:04.983 --> 01:25:09.284 GO TO THE LORD AND ASK HIM. BUT IT'S NOT JUST, "WELL, GOD, WILL 01:25:09.284 --> 01:25:13.875 YOU PLEASE DO THIS?" NOW, THERE ARE TYPES OF PRAYER WHERE WE DO 01:25:13.875 --> 01:25:18.795 PRAY THAT WAY TO GOD. GOD, I AM ASKING YOU TO SHOW ME MY NEXT 01:25:18.795 --> 01:25:22.814 STEPS. I'M ASKING YOU TO SHOW ME THE NEXT JOB I'M SUPPOSED TO 01:25:22.814 --> 01:25:25.185 TAKE. THOSE ARE PRAYERS OF CONSECRATION. THERE'S DIFFERENT 01:25:25.185 --> 01:25:30.614 TYPES OF PRAYER. BUT THIS TYPE OF ASK IS NOT FORMULATED IN A 01:25:30.614 --> 01:25:34.966 QUESTION. THIS TYPE OF ASK, IN THE GREEK, LITERALLY, YOU CAN GO 01:25:34.966 --> 01:25:42.765 LOOK IT UP, IS TO PLACE A DEMAND ON SOMETHING ALREADY DUE. SO IN 01:25:42.765 --> 01:25:45.824 OTHER WORDS, JESUS SAID, IF YOU WOULD COME PLACE A DEMAND ON 01:25:45.824 --> 01:25:49.155 SOMETHING ALREADY OWED TO YOU, THAT'S NOT LIKE YOU'RE GOING UP 01:25:49.155 --> 01:25:52.905 TO GOD AND YOU'RE LIKE, "WELL, GOD, YOU OWE ME." NO, GOD HAS 01:25:52.905 --> 01:25:58.244 ALREADY LAID OUT NUMEROUS PROMISES THAT HE HAS PUT BEFORE 01:25:58.244 --> 01:26:04.274 US, THAT HE WANTS US TO PLACE A DEMAND ON THOSE THINGS AS IF 01:26:04.274 --> 01:26:08.506 THEY ARE ALREADY SO. IN OTHER WORDS, GOD HAS DECLARED THOSE 01:26:08.506 --> 01:26:13.216 THINGS SO. IF THE BIBLE SAYS THE JOY OF THE LORD IS YOUR 01:26:13.216 --> 01:26:18.314 STRENGTH, AND YOU NEED STRENGTH TODAY, THEN YOU TRUST THAT 01:26:18.314 --> 01:26:22.539 PROMISE AS IF SOMEBODY WALKED UP TO YOU AND THEY SAID, "I'M GONNA 01:26:22.539 --> 01:26:26.506 GIVE YOU A MILLION DOLLARS." MOST PEOPLE, IF SOMEBODY WALKED 01:26:26.506 --> 01:26:28.935 UP TO YOU TODAY AND SAID, "I'M GONNA HAND YOU A MILLION 01:26:28.935 --> 01:26:32.295 DOLLARS," YOU'D RUN UP AND DOWN MILLARD AVENUE, YOU'D SCREAM, 01:26:32.295 --> 01:26:36.345 YOU'D YELL, YOU'D MAKE A SCENE. I MEAN, IF THEY TOLD YOU THAT 01:26:36.345 --> 01:26:38.864 THEY'D GIVE YOU A MILLION DOLLARS, IF YOU'D WEAR A CLOWN 01:26:38.864 --> 01:26:42.284 NOSE INTO MCDONALD'S, YOU GO IN WITH A CLOWN NOSE AND A RUFFLED 01:26:42.284 --> 01:26:48.614 COLLAR, YOU WOULD DO, YOU WOULD REACT ACCORDING TO THE WAY THAT 01:26:48.614 --> 01:26:51.914 YOU BELIEVE WHAT WAS TOLD YOU. COME ON, WHAT WOULD HAPPEN, 01:26:51.914 --> 01:26:56.625 SOMEBODY, IF WE WOULD TAKE GOD'S WORD THE SAME WAY AND EXHIBIT 01:26:56.625 --> 01:27:01.064 THAT KIND OF ASKING IN FAITH AND EXCITEMENT THAT BELIEVES, COME 01:27:01.064 --> 01:27:05.225 ON, THE PROMISES OF GOD ARE YES AND AMEN. 01:27:05.259 --> 01:27:06.854 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:27:06.854 --> 01:27:10.604 AND WHAT HE HAS SPOKEN, HE WILL FAITHFULLY DO. WELL, I HAVEN'T 01:27:10.604 --> 01:27:13.244 SEEN IT YET, PASTOR BRENDA. WE'LL CHANGE YOUR ASKING. AND 01:27:15.197 --> 01:27:19.545 THE ONLY THING I'LL SAY IS GET UP AND GO AGAIN. ASK AGAIN. ONE 01:27:19.545 --> 01:27:22.545 SCRIPTURE, THEY SAID, WELL, I HEARD ONE PREACHER SAY ONE TIME, 01:27:22.545 --> 01:27:25.935 IT SAYS, "IF YOU ASK, ASK." THAT WORD ASK MEANS GET UP AND ASK 01:27:25.935 --> 01:27:29.954 AND KEEP ON ASKING. DON'T, COME ON. JESUS TAUGHT THE PRINCIPLE 01:27:29.954 --> 01:27:33.735 WITH THE WOMAN WHO WAS A WIDOW THAT WENT BEFORE THE JUDGE AND 01:27:33.735 --> 01:27:36.284 SHE WOULDN'T QUIT KNOCKING ON THE DOOR. THE FRIEND WITH THE 01:27:36.284 --> 01:27:39.914 THREE LOAVES WOULDN'T QUIT KNOCKING ON THE DOOR. HE KEPT ON 01:27:39.914 --> 01:27:44.947 ASKING AND JESUS SAID, "IF YOU ASK, YOU WILL RECEIVE." NOW, IF 01:27:44.947 --> 01:27:50.385 YOU ASK KIND OF GUESSING, "I'VE ALREADY ASKED BEFORE." WELL, 01:27:50.385 --> 01:27:55.274 STAY EMPTY THEN. THAT'S UNBELIEF COMING OUT. SO, JESUS SAID, "IF 01:27:55.274 --> 01:27:59.926 YOU ASK," PLACING A DEMAND ON SOMETHING THAT'S DUE, HE SAID, 01:27:59.926 --> 01:28:06.314 "I WILL DO IT." CAN I TELL YOU, JOHN 14:14 IS NOT A HARD VERSE 01:28:06.314 --> 01:28:11.385 TO MEMORIZE. YOU CAN TEACH IT TO A KINDERGARTNER. IF YOU ASK 01:28:11.385 --> 01:28:15.735 ANYTHING IN MY NAME, I'LL DO IT. SO YOU JUST MEMORIZED IT TODAY. 01:28:15.735 --> 01:28:20.145 PUT A DEMAND, MARK 11:23, THIS IS FROM THE MEV. WE'VE HEARD 01:28:20.145 --> 01:28:23.412 THIS SCRIPTURE PASSAGE MANY TIMES. JESUS ANSWERED THEM AND 01:28:23.412 --> 01:28:27.435 SAID, "HAVE FAITH IN GOD." SO I TOLD YOU LAST WEEK, IF YOU'RE 01:28:27.435 --> 01:28:32.176 GONNA GET YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED, YOU MUST ALWAYS, ALWAYS, ALWAYS 01:28:32.176 --> 01:28:37.545 TAKE UP THE POSITION OF FAITH. AND THAT'S NOT ALWAYS EASY TO 01:28:37.545 --> 01:28:40.966 DO. 'CAUSE SOMETIMES YOU'LL HAVE TO TAKE THE POSITION OF FAITH 01:28:40.966 --> 01:28:46.574 WHEN YOU HAD FAILURE. OR WHEN YOU DIDN'T SEE IT COME TO PASS. 01:28:46.574 --> 01:28:49.905 BUT IN THE NEXT CASE, TAKE UP THE POSITION OF FAITH. ALWAYS 01:28:49.905 --> 01:28:55.485 HAVE FAITH IN GOD, HAVE FAITH IN GOD. HAVE FAITH IN GOD. DOESN'T 01:28:55.485 --> 01:28:59.204 MATTER WHAT HAPPENED TO SO AND SO. DOESN'T MATTER WHAT SOMEBODY 01:28:59.204 --> 01:29:03.585 ELSE'S TESTIMONY OR STORY WAS. HAVE FAITH IN GOD. JESUS SAID, 01:29:03.585 --> 01:29:08.145 "FOR AS OF A TRUTH I SAY TO YOU, "WHOEVER SPEAKS OR SAYS TO THIS 01:29:08.145 --> 01:29:10.545 MOUNTAIN," ANYBODY GOT A MOUNTAIN, AN OBSTACLE THAT 01:29:10.545 --> 01:29:13.574 YOU'RE SPEAKING AGAINST RIGHT NOW? THAT YOU'RE TAKING ON, 01:29:13.574 --> 01:29:16.364 RAISE YOUR HAND IF THAT'S YOU. THERE'S SOMETHING THAT YOU NEED 01:29:16.364 --> 01:29:19.216 TO OVERCOME IN YOUR LIFE. JESUS SAID, "IF YOU SAY IT TO THE 01:29:19.216 --> 01:29:24.824 MOUNTAIN, BE REMOVED." NOW, IN MATTHEW 17, JESUS USED THE SAME 01:29:24.824 --> 01:29:28.695 PRINCIPLE. IF YOU GET RID OF THAT UNBELIEF AND YOU REPLACE IT 01:29:28.695 --> 01:29:32.145 WITH THE SPIRIT OF FAITH, YOU WILL SAY TO THIS MOUNTAIN, "BE 01:29:32.145 --> 01:29:35.926 REMOVED AND BE CAST INTO THE SEA." AND IF YOU REFUSE TO DOUBT 01:29:35.926 --> 01:29:39.256 IN YOUR HEART, LISTEN, YOU WILL HAVE THE OPPORTUNITY TO DOUBT IN 01:29:39.256 --> 01:29:42.375 YOUR HEART. THERE'S ALWAYS A NAYSAYER. THERE'S ALWAYS A 01:29:42.375 --> 01:29:45.676 CIRCUMSTANCE THAT DOESN'T LOOK LIKE IT'S GONNA COME TO PASS. 01:29:45.676 --> 01:29:48.614 THERE'S ALWAYS SOMEBODY THAT'LL TELL YOU, "OH, GIVE IT UP. 01:29:48.614 --> 01:29:52.216 "YOU'VE TRIED THAT, BEEN THERE, DONE THAT. "YOU'VE BELIEVED." 01:29:52.216 --> 01:29:58.006 DON'T YOU KNOW NOBODY CAN GET HEALED OF THAT? IF YOU DON'T 01:29:58.006 --> 01:30:01.395 DOUBT IN YOUR HEART, COME ON, HOW DO YOU NOT DOUBT IN YOUR 01:30:01.395 --> 01:30:06.104 HEART? MAN, YOU HAVE TO RESIST THAT. BUT BELIEVE, HERE'S HOW 01:30:06.104 --> 01:30:09.104 YOU OVERCOME DOUBT IN YOUR HEART, JESUS SAYS IT, "BUT 01:30:09.104 --> 01:30:13.305 BELIEVES THOSE THINGS WHICH HE SAYS." WE'LL TALK ABOUT WORDS IN 01:30:13.305 --> 01:30:17.805 A MOMENT. "WHATSOEVER THING YOU ASK," OR THAT'S THE SAME WORD, 01:30:17.805 --> 01:30:23.145 "PLACE A DEMAND ON WHEN YOU PRAY, "WHATEVER YOU TAKE AS YOUR 01:30:23.145 --> 01:30:27.195 OWN, "THOSE PROMISES THAT GOD HAS SPOKEN, YOU ALREADY TAKE 01:30:27.195 --> 01:30:31.395 THEM. "IF YOU, WHATEVER THINGS YOU ASK WHEN YOU PRAY, "BELIEVE 01:30:31.395 --> 01:30:34.574 YOU WILL RECEIVE THEM AND YOU'LL HAVE THEM." NOW, PASTOR BRENDA, 01:30:34.574 --> 01:30:37.485 THAT CAN'T POSSIBLY MEAN ANYTHING. I'M SO GLAD YOU ASKED 01:30:37.485 --> 01:30:42.765 THAT. BECAUSE THE BIBLE GOES ON TO TEACH US, 1 JOHN, LOOK AT 01:30:42.765 --> 01:30:46.725 THIS, 1 JOHN 5:14. WELL, DOES IT REALLY MEAN ANYTHING WE ASK, 01:30:46.725 --> 01:30:51.104 PASTOR BRENDA? WELL, LET'S EXPLAIN IT. THIS IS ALSO FROM 01:30:51.104 --> 01:30:54.524 THE MODERN ENGLISH VERSION, VERSE 14. THIS IS THE 01:30:54.524 --> 01:30:57.045 CONFIDENCE, HOW MANY OF YOU WANNA HAVE CONFIDENCE WHEN YOU 01:30:57.045 --> 01:31:02.051 PRAY, THAT WE HAVE IN HIM THAT IF WE ASK, SOMEBODY SAY ASK 01:31:02.051 --> 01:31:07.871 AGAIN. IF WE ASK ANYTHING, SAY ANYTHING. SO WE'RE ASKING 01:31:07.871 --> 01:31:11.740 ANYTHING, BUT OH, HERE WE GO. THERE'S A LITTLE PHRASE IN 01:31:11.740 --> 01:31:15.730 THERE. ACCORDING TO HIS WILL. WELL, SEE, THAT'S JUST IT, 01:31:15.730 --> 01:31:20.261 PASTOR BRENDA. I DON'T KNOW WHAT HIS WILL IS. SAYS IF WE ASK 01:31:20.261 --> 01:31:24.251 ANYTHING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, HE HEARS US. NOW, LET ME JUST 01:31:24.251 --> 01:31:27.551 SAY IT. THERE ARE THINGS THAT ARE CLEARLY HIS WILL IN THIS 01:31:27.551 --> 01:31:32.801 BOOK. OKAY, THERE ARE CLEARLY THINGS. IF YOU DON'T, ARE 01:31:32.801 --> 01:31:37.211 CONFIDENT THAT DIVINE HEALING BELONGS TO THE CHURCH, IN FACT, 01:31:37.211 --> 01:31:40.690 I'D ENCOURAGE YOU, GO GET MY DAILY DECREES ON HEALING. I DID 01:31:40.690 --> 01:31:44.261 A TEACHING IN THERE ABOUT THERE'S ALWAYS A CASE THAT GOD 01:31:44.261 --> 01:31:47.890 HAS ALWAYS MADE A PROVISION FOR DIVINE HEALTH. ALL THE WAY BACK 01:31:47.890 --> 01:31:53.201 FROM THE CHILDREN OF ISRAEL, AND THE REASON THAT JESUS HIMSELF 01:31:53.201 --> 01:31:57.820 HEALED PEOPLE IN GALILEE WAS NOT TO JUST PROVE HE WAS THE SON OF 01:31:57.820 --> 01:32:01.301 GOD. OTHERWISE, HE WOULDN'T HAVE GIVEN THAT SAME POWER TO THE 01:32:01.301 --> 01:32:04.091 DISCIPLES AND THEY WOULDN'T HAVE CARRIED IT ALL THE WAY INTO THE 01:32:04.091 --> 01:32:08.831 EARLY CHURCH. JESUS DIDN'T DO IT TO PROVE, HE CAME, WATCH THIS, 01:32:08.831 --> 01:32:13.480 JESUS SAYS, "I DO MY FATHER'S WILL." OKAY, AS YOU'VE SEEN ME, 01:32:13.480 --> 01:32:17.501 YOU'VE SEEN THE FATHER. IN OTHER WORDS, THE WAY THAT I'M HEALING 01:32:17.501 --> 01:32:25.270 PEOPLE IS TO DEMONSTRATE GOD'S HEART FOR PEOPLE TO BE WELL. AND 01:32:25.270 --> 01:32:30.341 SO IF WE JUST CAN UNDERSTAND THAT ALONE, JESUS, HE CAME TO 01:32:30.341 --> 01:32:33.550 DEMONSTRATE GOD'S HEART. GOD'S ALWAYS HAD A HEART FOR PEOPLE TO 01:32:33.550 --> 01:32:35.538 BE WELL. AND I DON'T WANNA CAMP DOWN IN THE WEEDS ON THAT, BUT 01:32:35.538 --> 01:32:38.470 GO GET THE BOOK, DAILY DECREES FOR DIVINE HEALING, AND YOU CAN 01:32:38.470 --> 01:32:41.951 SEE THERE'S A TEACHING IN THERE TO TALK ABOUT DIVINE HEALTH. BUT 01:32:41.951 --> 01:32:44.921 IF WE ASK ANYTHING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, WELL, IF HIS WILL IS 01:32:44.921 --> 01:32:49.690 HEALING, IF HIS WILL IS FINANCIAL PROVISION, COME ON, DO 01:32:49.690 --> 01:32:52.751 YOU REALLY THINK GOD IS UP IN HEAVEN HOPING YOUR BUSINESS WILL 01:32:52.751 --> 01:32:58.451 FAIL? GOD IS NOT UP THERE JUST WAITING. NOW, I MEAN, IF IT'S 01:32:58.451 --> 01:33:02.261 ANTI HIS WORD AND OUT OF LINE WITH GOD TYPE OF BUSINESS, I'M 01:33:02.261 --> 01:33:05.411 LIKE, YOU KNOW, BUT I'M JUST SAYING, IF YOU HAVE A GOOD 01:33:05.411 --> 01:33:08.230 QUALITY BUSINESS, YOU'RE A PAINTER, YOU'RE A PLUMBER, 01:33:08.230 --> 01:33:10.871 WHATEVER IT IS, MAYBE YOU'RE AN ELECTRICIAN, IS GOD REALLY 01:33:10.871 --> 01:33:14.110 WANTING YOUR BUSINESS TO GO UNDER? NO, GOD WANTS YOU TO 01:33:14.110 --> 01:33:19.150 PROSPER. THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT PROVISION. AND SO IF HIS WORD, I 01:33:19.150 --> 01:33:23.081 MEAN, COME ON, WHAT'S THE WAY, GOD WILL PROVIDE ALL MY NEEDS, 01:33:23.081 --> 01:33:26.411 PHILIPPIANS FOUR. WELL, IF HE'LL PROVIDE ALL MY NEEDS, THEN I CAN 01:33:26.411 --> 01:33:30.011 TAKE THAT AND I CAN ASK GOD TO BLESS MY BUSINESS. THAT IS 01:33:30.011 --> 01:33:35.148 ACCORDING TO HIS WILL. AND IF WE ASK ANYTHING ACCORDING, COME ON 01:33:35.148 --> 01:33:41.350 SOMEBODY, ANYTHING ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, HE HEARS US. WOO! I 01:33:41.350 --> 01:33:44.350 LOVE THAT. THAT MEANS GOD'S EARS ARE OPEN TO WHATEVER YOU'RE 01:33:44.350 --> 01:33:47.831 PRAYING. SO IF WE ASK ACCORDING TO HIS WILL, WE KNOW THAT HE 01:33:47.831 --> 01:33:51.610 HEARS US AND IT GETS BETTER, VERSE 15. AND IF WE KNOW THAT HE 01:33:51.610 --> 01:33:57.461 HEARS WHATSOEVER WE ASK, WE KNOW THEN THAT WE HAVE, IF HE HEARS 01:33:57.461 --> 01:34:02.171 WHATEVER WE ASK, WE KNOW THAT WE WILL HAVE WHATEVER WE ASKED OF 01:34:02.171 --> 01:34:06.911 HIM. WOO! AMEN. YOU KNOW, I THINK A LOT OF BELIEVERS, THEY 01:34:06.911 --> 01:34:10.331 DON'T MAKE THE LIFELONG HABIT OF SEEKING OR ASKING GOD FOR 01:34:10.331 --> 01:34:14.501 THINGS, SOMETIMES UNTIL THEY'RE IN A CRISIS. AND IF YOU'RE GONNA 01:34:14.501 --> 01:34:16.990 TRY TO GET ANSWERS TO PRAYER ONLY AT TIMES THAT YOU'RE 01:34:16.990 --> 01:34:21.222 FRUSTRATED OR IN A CRISIS, YOU WILL STRUGGLE TO OVERCOME 01:34:21.222 --> 01:34:25.871 UNBELIEF AND COME TO FAITH. 1 JOHN 3:22, "AND WHATSOEVER WE 01:34:25.871 --> 01:34:31.990 ASK," OKAY, HERE'S THE OTHER CATCH TRUTH IN IT, WHATEVER WE 01:34:31.990 --> 01:34:36.881 ASK WE RECEIVE FROM HIM BECAUSE WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENTS. NOW IF 01:34:36.881 --> 01:34:40.900 YOU'RE NOT AT ALL INTERESTED IN PLEASING GOD AND YOU'RE JUST 01:34:40.900 --> 01:34:44.530 GONNA LIVE YOUR LIFE TO YOURSELF AND DO THINGS WILLY NILLY, THEN 01:34:44.530 --> 01:34:47.650 YOU MIGHT NOT GET YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED. GOD SAID IF YOU DO 01:34:47.650 --> 01:34:50.621 THOSE THINGS THAT ARE PLEASING TO GOD, NOW THAT DOESN'T MEAN 01:34:50.621 --> 01:34:53.711 THAT WE'RE PERFECT, BUT WHAT IT SIMPLY MEANS IS THAT WE LIVE A 01:34:53.711 --> 01:34:57.940 LIFE THAT IS DRIVEN TO PLEASE THE LORD. THAT I WANT MY CHOICES 01:34:57.940 --> 01:35:02.261 AND MY DECISIONS TO PLEASE GOD. I WANT GOD TO BE SMILING WHEN I 01:35:02.261 --> 01:35:06.041 MAKE MY CHOICES AND I MAKE DECISIONS. THE THINGS THAT I DO, 01:35:06.041 --> 01:35:11.140 MY LIFESTYLE, MY HABITS. IF WHATEVER WE ASK, WE RECEIVE FROM 01:35:11.140 --> 01:35:14.650 HIM BECAUSE WE KEEP HIS COMMANDMENT AND DO THOSE THINGS 01:35:14.650 --> 01:35:18.520 THAT ARE PLEASING IN HIS SIGHT. AMEN, SO WE LIVE OUR LIVES TO DO 01:35:18.520 --> 01:35:21.190 THE THINGS THAT ARE RIGHT BEFORE GOD. SO ONE OF THE REASONS 01:35:21.190 --> 01:35:24.280 PEOPLE DON'T RECEIVE ANSWERS TO PRAYER IS SIMPLY BECAUSE THEY 01:35:24.280 --> 01:35:27.229 DON'T ASK IN BOLD, CONFIDENT FAITH. THEY'RE FILLED WITH 01:35:27.229 --> 01:35:30.730 UNBELIEF, AND THEY DON'T SHIFT THAT OVER INTO CONFIDENCE IN 01:35:30.730 --> 01:35:33.820 GOD'S PROMISES. JESUS SAID IT, AND I'LL GIVE THIS LAST 01:35:33.820 --> 01:35:36.850 SCRIPTURE ON THIS POINT. ON THAT DAY, HE SAID, "YOU'LL ASK ME 01:35:36.850 --> 01:35:40.631 NOTHING. "TRULY I SAY TO YOU, WHATSOEVER YOU ASK THE FATHER 01:35:40.631 --> 01:35:45.671 "IN MY NAME, HE'LL GIVE IT TO YOU." AMEN. "AND NOW YOU HAVE 01:35:45.671 --> 01:35:49.060 ASKED NOTHING IN MY NAME, BUT ASK." COME ON, HE IS ENCOURAGING 01:35:49.060 --> 01:35:53.770 US TO ASK IN A BOLD, CONFIDENT WAY. HEBREWS 4 SAYS, "COME 01:35:53.770 --> 01:35:57.970 BOLDLY TO THE THRONE OF GRACE," VERSE 16, "THAT YOU MAY OBTAIN 01:35:57.970 --> 01:36:01.871 MERCY AND HELP "IN THE TIME OF NEED." SO ASK, AND HE SAID THAT 01:36:01.871 --> 01:36:05.280 YOUR JOY WOULD BE MADE FULL. AND BY THE WAY, I'LL JUST SAY IT 01:36:05.280 --> 01:36:09.131 LIKE THIS, GOD LOVES TO ANSWER PRAYER. SO JUST GET THAT RIGHT 01:36:09.131 --> 01:36:11.591 DOWN IN YOUR HEART. DON'T LET THE DEVIL TELL YOU OTHERWISE. 01:36:11.591 --> 01:36:15.701 DON'T LET SOME NEGATIVE, NILLY PREACHER TELL YOU THAT GOD 01:36:15.701 --> 01:36:19.091 DOESN'T LOVE TO ANSWER PRAYER. GOD LOVES TO SAY YES, YES, YES, 01:36:19.091 --> 01:36:23.831 AND YES. GOD LOVES TO BLESS. HE IS DISPOSED TO SHOW FAVORS. COME 01:36:23.831 --> 01:36:27.070 ON, WE CANNOT SING ABOUT THE GOODNESS OF GOD AND THEN 01:36:27.070 --> 01:36:33.791 EVERYTHING GOD GIVES US IS NEGATIVE. AND I HONESTLY, YES, 01:36:33.791 --> 01:36:37.810 THERE ARE TRIALS IN THIS LIFE. THIS LIFE HAS HARDSHIPS AND 01:36:37.810 --> 01:36:40.990 CHALLENGES. BUT JESUS SAID IT LIKE THIS, YEAH, THE WORLD IS 01:36:40.990 --> 01:36:46.001 FULL OF TRIBULATION, BUT BE OF GOOD CHEER. I HAVE OVERCOME THE 01:36:46.001 --> 01:36:49.570 WORLD. I'VE GIVEN YOU A WAY TO BE DELIVERED. HALLELUJAH, I'VE 01:36:49.570 --> 01:36:53.320 GIVEN YOU A WAY TO OVERCOME IT. I'VE GIVEN YOU A WAY TO RISE UP. 01:36:53.320 --> 01:36:57.280 I'VE GIVEN YOU A WAY TO HAVE VICTORY OVER THE DEVIL IN THE 01:36:57.280 --> 01:37:03.730 NAME OF JESUS, AMEN. ALL RIGHT, AND THEN THE THIRD AREA OF 01:37:03.730 --> 01:37:06.251 INTERRUPTIONS TO ANSWERED PRAYER, AND WE'LL JUST BE BRIEF 01:37:06.251 --> 01:37:10.841 ON THIS 'CAUSE I THINK YOU KNOW A LOT ABOUT IT, IS OUR MOUTH. 01:37:10.841 --> 01:37:14.411 PASTOR'S BEEN TALKING ABOUT THAT, THAT THE THINGS WE SAY 01:37:14.411 --> 01:37:17.411 WILLY NILLY, DEATH AND LIFE, PROVERBS 18:21, IT BEARS 01:37:17.411 --> 01:37:21.761 REPEATING. IT'S GOOD FROM THE MODERN ENGLISH. IT SAYS IN THE 01:37:21.761 --> 01:37:25.810 MODERN ENGLISH, DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF OUR MOUTH. 01:37:27.131 --> 01:37:31.900 AND THOSE WHO LOVE IT OR LOVE SPEAKING WILL EAT ITS FRUIT. 01:37:31.900 --> 01:37:36.011 AMEN. YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS EVEN A FOOL IS CONSIDERED WISE 01:37:36.011 --> 01:37:40.990 IF HE CAN CLOSE HIS TONGUE UP. IN FACT, A FOOL IS KNOWN BY THE 01:37:40.990 --> 01:37:44.140 UNDISCIPLINED WAYS OF THEIR LIPS, YOU KNOW THAT. THEY JUST 01:37:44.140 --> 01:37:47.411 SAY WHATEVER COMES TO MIND. THAT'S WHY SOCIAL MEDIA IS SUCH 01:37:47.411 --> 01:37:51.070 A DISASTER. AND WE SHOULDN'T GET CAUGHT UP IN JUST SAYING 01:37:51.070 --> 01:37:55.451 WHATEVER COMES TO MIND, YOU KNOW. WE'VE ALL HAD THINGS WE 01:37:55.451 --> 01:37:58.180 THOUGHT, WELL, I WISH I POSTED THAT, AND THEN, OR WROTE 01:37:58.180 --> 01:38:02.560 SOMEBODY THAT NOTE, OR TEXT, OR SENT, AND HOW MANY OF YOU EVER 01:38:02.560 --> 01:38:06.280 SAID YOU REGRET IT LATER? 'CAUSE SOMETIMES WE CAN'T DISCIPLINE 01:38:06.280 --> 01:38:09.490 OUR MOUTH. LET ME READ SOME SCRIPTURE TO YOU TO PROVE THAT 01:38:09.490 --> 01:38:13.751 POINT. JAMES 3, YOU KNOW THIS. IN FACT, THE BIBLE SAYS IN THAT 01:38:13.751 --> 01:38:17.051 CHAPTER, WE WON'T READ IT, VERSES ONE, TWO, RIGHT THERE AT 01:38:17.051 --> 01:38:23.171 THE BEGINNING, IN JAMES IT SAYS THAT IF A PERSON CAN CONTROL 01:38:23.171 --> 01:38:28.900 THEIR WORDS, OKAY, THIS IS HARD TO DO, PEOPLE, ESPECIALLY IN A 01:38:28.900 --> 01:38:31.480 TALKY TALK GENERATION. EVERYBODY'S GOT AN OPINION IN A 01:38:31.480 --> 01:38:38.791 SOAPBOX. IF A PERSON CAN CONTROL AND PUT A BRIDLE ON THEIR MOUTH, 01:38:40.001 --> 01:38:44.778 THE SAME AS A MATURE PERSON, IN FACT, THE KING JAMES CALLS IT A 01:38:44.778 --> 01:38:48.131 PERFECT MAN. AND IT'S NOT THAT WE'RE PERFECT, IT MEANS A PERSON 01:38:48.131 --> 01:38:50.801 THAT'S PERFECT. HE SAID, AND THAT PERSON IS ABLE TO BRING 01:38:50.801 --> 01:38:54.640 UNDER CONTROL THEIR WHOLE LIFE. IT ALL STARTS WITH WHAT WE'RE 01:38:54.640 --> 01:38:59.890 BLABBING OUT. OKAY? IF YOUR HABIT IS TO SPEAK NEGATIVE, WHEN 01:38:59.890 --> 01:39:02.963 THE BILL COMES IN THE MAIL, "OH, I DON'T KNOW HOW I'M PAYING IT." 01:39:04.421 --> 01:39:07.930 WELL, YOU'RE NOT GONNA KNOW HOW TO PAY IT. AND YOU'LL BELIEVE 01:39:07.930 --> 01:39:12.161 THAT. YOU'LL ULTIMATELY BELIEVE THAT. WE BELIEVE WHAT WE HEAR 01:39:12.161 --> 01:39:16.331 OURSELVES SAY. VERSE 6 OF JAMES 3 SAID, "THE TONGUE IS 01:39:16.331 --> 01:39:21.161 A FIRE, A WORLD OF EVIL. IT'S AMONG THE PARTS OF THE BODY THAT 01:39:21.161 --> 01:39:25.900 IT DEFILES OUR WHOLE BODY." YOU KNOW, THAT HIT ME ONE DAY. I WAS 01:39:25.900 --> 01:39:28.389 MEDITATING ON THIS VERSE AND I THOUGHT, WAIT A MINUTE, NOW IT 01:39:28.389 --> 01:39:32.740 SAYS IT DEFILES THE WHOLE BODY. SO DOES THAT MEAN THAT IF WE 01:39:32.740 --> 01:39:37.150 SPEAK NEGATIVE WORDS, WE CAN INVITE SICKNESS INTO THE BODY? 01:39:38.171 --> 01:39:41.530 'CAUSE WHAT DOES IT MEAN IF YOUR BODY'S DEFILED? IT'S NOT JUST 01:39:41.530 --> 01:39:45.730 LIKE IT'S MORALLY, SEXUALLY DEFILED. COULD IT BE THAT WE 01:39:45.730 --> 01:39:49.270 DEFILE OURSELVES WITH, YOU KNOW, YOU HEARD BOB ROGERS TALK ABOUT 01:39:49.270 --> 01:39:54.131 THE MIRACLE OF WATER. THE THINGS THAT WE SAY, CAN IT DEFILE OUR 01:39:54.131 --> 01:40:00.131 BODY TO WHERE IT TAKES ON A PLACE OF ILLNESS? I THINK SO. I 01:40:00.131 --> 01:40:05.171 THINK WE CAN, IT SAYS THE TONGUE WILL DEFILE THE WHOLE BODY, AND 01:40:05.171 --> 01:40:08.560 THEN THIS IS THE SECOND PART THAT GOT ME. IT SAID, AND IT 01:40:08.560 --> 01:40:16.331 SETS, IT SETS THE COURSE OF NATURE. SO IN OTHER WORDS, I 01:40:16.331 --> 01:40:20.051 GUESS I WOULD PHRASE IT THIS WAY, IT WOULD SET NATURE IN 01:40:20.051 --> 01:40:24.911 MOTION. THINK ABOUT FOR A MOMENT, HOW MANY OF YOU BELIEVE 01:40:24.911 --> 01:40:29.081 YOU'RE CREATED IN THE IMAGE OF GOD? BIBLE SAYS THAT, THAT'S 01:40:29.081 --> 01:40:33.371 TRUE. WE ARE CREATED IN GOD'S IMAGE. THE FIRST THING THAT GOD 01:40:33.371 --> 01:40:37.810 DEMONSTRATED OUT OF HIS CREATIVE POWER WAS HIS WORDS. WE HAVE 01:40:37.810 --> 01:40:41.350 BEEN GIVEN IN GOD'S IMAGE, CREATIVE POWER WITH OUR MOUTH. 01:40:41.350 --> 01:40:44.381 THAT'S WHY DEATH AND LIFE ARE IN THE POWER OF THE TONGUE. THE 01:40:44.381 --> 01:40:47.921 TONGUE CAN CAUSE DEATH TO FRIENDSHIPS. IT CAN CAUSE DEATH 01:40:47.921 --> 01:40:51.940 TO FAMILY RELATIONSHIPS, OR IT CAN CAUSE LIFE TO THOSE THINGS. 01:40:51.940 --> 01:40:55.390 IT CAN CAUSE LIFE TO YOUR BODY. OKAY, THAT'S WHAT I LOVED ABOUT 01:40:55.390 --> 01:40:58.570 PASTOR NATE. HE'S SPEAKING LIFE OVER PEOPLE. AREN'T YOU GLAD 01:40:58.570 --> 01:41:02.426 THAT YOU COME TO A CHURCH WHERE A PASTOR'S NOT GONNA TELL YOU 01:41:02.426 --> 01:41:06.025 ALL SERVICE HOW YOU WON'T GET AN ANSWER, BUT HOW YOU GET AN 01:41:06.025 --> 01:41:10.136 ANSWER. COME ON, IN ALL THESE 40 YEARS WE HAVE BEEN IN THE 01:41:10.136 --> 01:41:14.095 MINISTRY, PASTOR AND MYSELF, I ALWAYS SAY, ERR ON THE SIDE OF A 01:41:14.095 --> 01:41:18.176 MIRACLE, ERR ON THE SIDE OF LIFE, ALWAYS SPEAK LIFE. COME 01:41:18.176 --> 01:41:21.985 ON, IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE DEATH. IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE IT CAN'T HAPPEN. 01:41:21.985 --> 01:41:24.984 IT MIGHT LOOK LIKE THAT PRODIGAL'S NEVER COMING BACK, 01:41:24.984 --> 01:41:27.287 BUT SPEAK LIFE! 01:41:27.421 --> 01:41:32.259 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:41:33.046 --> 01:41:36.734 YOU KNOW, HUSBANDS AND WIVES SPEAK LIFE OVER EACH OTHER. IF 01:41:36.738 --> 01:41:40.621 YOUR SPOUSE DOES SOMETHING GOOFY, WELL, THERE YOU GO AGAIN. 01:41:43.586 --> 01:41:45.716 WELL, IF YOU'RE SAYING THEY'RE DOING THAT AGAIN, THEY'LL DO IT 01:41:45.716 --> 01:41:52.256 NEXT MONDAY TOO. RIGHT? AND NEXT TUESDAY. AND IF YOU SAY, "THERE 01:41:52.256 --> 01:41:56.006 YOU GO AGAIN," THEY'LL DO IT NEXT WEDNESDAY TOO. COME ON, WE 01:41:56.006 --> 01:42:02.065 GET WHAT WE SAY. MATTHEW CHAPTER 12, JESUS SAID IT, VERSE 35, 01:42:02.065 --> 01:42:05.095 "GENERATION OF VIPERS, HOW CAN YOU BEING EVIL SPEAK GOOD 01:42:05.095 --> 01:42:08.756 THINGS? FOR OUT OF THE ABUNDANCE OF THE HEART, THE MOUTH SPEAKS." 01:42:08.756 --> 01:42:11.845 PASTOR SPOKE THAT. NOW I LOVE HOW HE EXPLAINED IT. IT'S NOT 01:42:11.845 --> 01:42:15.536 JUST THAT WE OCCASIONALLY LET SOMETHING WRONG OUT IN A MOMENT, 01:42:15.536 --> 01:42:17.216 ALTHOUGH WE SHOULD DISCIPLINE AGAINST THAT 01:42:17.216 --> 01:42:20.806 BY THE WAY. BE VERY CAREFUL, OKAY? 01:42:20.940 --> 01:42:24.326 BECAUSE THE WORDS ARE STILL THE WORDS. SO BE CAREFUL WHAT YOU 01:42:24.326 --> 01:42:27.416 JUST FLIPPANTLY LET COME OUT. BECAUSE JESUS GOES ON TO SAY 01:42:27.416 --> 01:42:30.115 THAT, HE SAID, "A GOOD MAN OUT OF THE GOOD TREASURE OF HIS 01:42:30.115 --> 01:42:33.926 HEART BRINGS FORTH GOOD THINGS, AND AN EVIL MAN OUT OF THE EVIL 01:42:33.926 --> 01:42:36.355 TREASURE BRINGS FORTH EVIL." IN OTHER WORDS, HE SAID, "WHAT YOU 01:42:36.355 --> 01:42:38.842 KEEP PACKING IN YOUR HEART IS EVENTUALLY GOING TO FORMULATE 01:42:38.842 --> 01:42:43.286 THROUGH WORDS." OKAY? PEOPLE WILL BE ABLE TO TELL WHAT YOU'RE 01:42:43.286 --> 01:42:46.286 PUTTING IN YOUR HEART BY THE THINGS YOU SAY. THAT'S JUST, 01:42:46.286 --> 01:42:53.246 THAT'S A FACT. OKAY, YOU THINK JESUS IS LYING? OKAY. AND I 01:42:53.246 --> 01:42:55.555 DON'T WANT TO LIVE MY LIFE, EVERYTHING THAT I SAY, WELL, I 01:42:55.555 --> 01:42:58.826 DIDN'T MEAN THAT. I WANT TO THINK ABOUT WHAT I SAY BEFORE 01:42:58.826 --> 01:43:03.355 IT'S SAID. BECAUSE HERE'S WHAT ELSE JESUS SAID, "BUT I SAY TO 01:43:03.355 --> 01:43:09.326 YOU THAT EVERY IDLE WORD," THAT WORD IDLE, "IS USELESS." IN 01:43:09.326 --> 01:43:14.275 OTHER WORDS, NO WORD IS USELESS. IT'S NOT THAT IT'S POINTLESS. 01:43:14.275 --> 01:43:18.025 'CAUSE EVERY WORD HAS A VALUE TO IT, RIGHT? SO WE'RE NOT TALKING 01:43:18.025 --> 01:43:20.756 ABOUT THAT. JESUS ISN'T SAYING THAT. HE'S NOT SAYING, WELL, 01:43:20.756 --> 01:43:26.095 SOME WORDS DON'T MATTER. NO, HE IS SAYING EVERY IDLE WORD THAT 01:43:26.095 --> 01:43:32.065 YOU SPEAK, IN OTHER WORDS, EVERY WORD THAT IS SPOKEN FLIPPANTLY, 01:43:32.065 --> 01:43:36.445 RIGHT? THAT YOU DON'T PAY ATTENTION OR GIVE THOUGHT TO, 01:43:36.445 --> 01:43:39.265 OKAY? YOU GOTTA CUSS THE GUY IN TRAFFIC. I MEAN, WHAT GOOD DOES 01:43:39.265 --> 01:43:44.305 IT DO TO CURSE THE PERSON IN FRONT OF YOU GOING TOO SLOW? SO 01:43:44.305 --> 01:43:49.615 YOUR EARS HEARD YOU CURSE, AND THAT LITTLE OLD MAN OR WOMAN WHO 01:43:49.615 --> 01:43:53.815 CAN BARELY KEEP THEIR HEAD ABOVE THE STEERING WHEEL HAS NO CLUE. 01:43:55.105 --> 01:44:00.685 OKAY, WHAT A WASTE OF WORDS, RIGHT? THEY HAVE NO IDEA YOU 01:44:00.685 --> 01:44:06.985 MAD. THEY'RE STILL GONNA GO 25 IN A 45. THEY'RE GONNA KEEP ON 01:44:06.985 --> 01:44:10.315 DOING IT, AND YOU'RE JUST GONNA EXASPERATE YOURSELF AND RAISE UP 01:44:10.315 --> 01:44:13.525 YOUR BLOOD PRESSURE FOR NO REASON, WHILE THAT PERSON IS 01:44:13.525 --> 01:44:17.432 JUST SITTING THERE, AND THEY'RE CLIPPING ALONG, AND JUST HAVING 01:44:17.432 --> 01:44:22.237 THE TIME OF THEIR LIFE. THEY'RE HAPPY, YOU KNOW, AND SHE'S JUST 01:44:22.237 --> 01:44:28.676 SITTING THERE, DRIVING THE CAR, AND YOU ALL UPSET, PUTTING OUT 01:44:28.676 --> 01:44:35.905 WRONG WORDS, AND THE ONLY PERSON IN EFFECT IS YOURSELF. BUT WATCH 01:44:35.905 --> 01:44:38.336 WHAT JESUS, SO FLIPPANT WORDS, THAT MEN SHALL SPEAK, THEY'LL 01:44:38.336 --> 01:44:41.845 GIVE AN ACCOUNT ON THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. WELL, WHY IS THAT, 01:44:41.845 --> 01:44:45.836 PASTOR BRENDA? WHY IS THAT? FOR BY YOUR WORDS YOU'LL BE 01:44:45.836 --> 01:44:48.926 JUSTIFIED, AND BY YOUR WORDS YOU'RE CONDEMNED. IN OTHER 01:44:48.926 --> 01:44:51.655 WORDS, HERE'S WHAT IT IS. IT'S NOT THAT IF YOU SPEAK SOMETHING, 01:44:51.655 --> 01:44:53.966 YOU CAN'T REPENT, AND GOD'S LIKE, AH, THAT'S GOING ON THE 01:44:53.966 --> 01:44:59.456 LIST. OKAY, YOU'RE IN TROUBLE NOW. I MEAN, IF THAT'S, YOU 01:44:59.456 --> 01:45:03.506 KNOW, THAT'S NOT WHAT HE'S SAYING. JESUS IS SAYING, HERE'S 01:45:03.506 --> 01:45:07.435 THE THING, THE REASON OUR WORDS JUSTIFY OR CONDEMN US, BECAUSE 01:45:07.435 --> 01:45:12.355 YOU WILL ULTIMATELY LIVE WHAT YOU SAY. AND THAT IS WHO YOU'LL 01:45:12.355 --> 01:45:18.536 BECOME. YOU'LL LIVE OUT THE THINGS YOU SPEAK. AND THAT IS 01:45:18.536 --> 01:45:22.195 WHAT JUSTIFIES OR CONDEMNS YOU. IF YOU'RE CONSTANTLY SPEAKING 01:45:22.195 --> 01:45:25.555 WORDS OF FAITH, YOU'LL BEGIN TO REACT IN FAITH. IF YOU SPEAK 01:45:25.555 --> 01:45:29.695 WORDS OF LOVE, YOU'LL BEGIN TO REACT IN LOVE. IF YOU SPEAK 01:45:29.695 --> 01:45:32.876 NEGATIVE WORDS, HATEFUL, HURTFUL, ANGRY WORDS, YOU'LL 01:45:32.876 --> 01:45:36.716 LIVE OUT AND BECOME THAT PERSON. AND ULTIMATELY, THAT WE WILL BE 01:45:36.716 --> 01:45:40.496 JUDGED FOR IN THE DAY OF JUDGMENT. SO WORDS CAN PREVENT 01:45:40.496 --> 01:45:45.206 US FROM RECEIVING ANSWERED PRAYER. JESUS, OR DAVID SAID IT 01:45:45.206 --> 01:45:48.655 LIKE THIS, HE SAID, PSALM 141, SAY, "PASTOR BRENDA, WHAT AM I 01:45:48.655 --> 01:45:52.555 GONNA DO? I GOT SOME UGLY WORDS OUT THERE." WELL, THERE IS HOPE. 01:45:54.055 --> 01:45:57.235 ALWAYS REMEMBER, BECAUSE OF THE BLOOD OF JESUS, THERE IS HOPE. 01:45:58.525 --> 01:46:03.206 PSALM 141, VERSE 3. WE CAN PRAY THIS PRAYER. IN FACT, LET'S 01:46:03.206 --> 01:46:07.266 SAY IT TOGETHER. CAN WE DO THAT? PUT THE VERSE UP, PSALM 141:3 01:46:07.266 --> 01:46:10.136 EVERYBODY LOOK AT THE SCREEN OR AT YOUR BIBLE AND SAY 01:46:10.136 --> 01:46:14.155 THIS, LET'S SAY IT. YOU REPEAT IT AFTER ME. SAY, "SET A WATCH, 01:46:14.155 --> 01:46:22.166 O LORD, "BEFORE MY MOUTH. "KEEP THE DOOR OF MY LIPS." NOW LET'S 01:46:22.166 --> 01:46:26.095 DO IT ONE MORE TIME. PUT YOUR HANDS NEAR YOUR MOUTH. SAY, 01:46:26.095 --> 01:46:32.786 "LORD, SET A WATCH BEFORE MY MOUTH. "LORD, KEEP THE DOOR OF 01:46:32.786 --> 01:46:36.317 MY LIPS." I HEARD A PREACHER SAY ONE TIME, "IF YOU'LL PRAY THAT 01:46:36.317 --> 01:46:39.025 ON A REGULAR BASIS, "YOU WON'T BE SO QUICK TO JUST LET STUFF 01:46:39.025 --> 01:46:44.065 FLY OUT." AMEN. PRAY IT REGULAR. THAT'S HOW WE TAKE CONTROL OF 01:46:44.065 --> 01:46:47.185 OUR TONGUE. ALL RIGHT, ENOUGH SAID ABOUT THAT. SO MANY 01:46:47.185 --> 01:46:49.916 DIFFERENT THINGS THAT WE COULD BRING IN ON THAT, BUT LET ME 01:46:49.916 --> 01:46:54.176 JUST PACK IN A FEW MORE HERE. ANOTHER REASON PEOPLE DON'T 01:46:54.176 --> 01:46:56.605 RECEIVE ANSWERS TO PRAYER, AND I DON'T THINK I REALLY HAVE TO 01:46:56.605 --> 01:47:02.966 CAMP ON THIS ONE AS MUCH, IS BECAUSE OF SIN AREAS. NOW, WE 01:47:02.966 --> 01:47:09.565 OBVIOUSLY KNOW SIN CAN BLOCK GOD'S POWER FROM OPERATING, BUT 01:47:09.565 --> 01:47:13.826 I DON'T WANNA JUST SAY JUST SIN. I REALLY NEED TO TALK ABOUT 01:47:13.826 --> 01:47:18.416 PURPOSEFUL SIN BECAUSE OUR CULTURE NOW, WE'RE IN WHAT 01:47:18.416 --> 01:47:20.815 THEY'VE TRIED TO CALL PRIDE MONTH. WE'RE TAKING THAT BACK 01:47:20.815 --> 01:47:26.725 AND CALLING IT LIFE MONTH. WE'RE CALLING IT GOD MONTH. BUT 01:47:26.725 --> 01:47:29.305 SOMEBODY ASKED, I SAW A THING ON SOCIAL MEDIA, THIS WAS A COUPLE 01:47:29.305 --> 01:47:31.826 WEEKS AGO, SOMEBODY WROTE A THING AND SAID, WELL, HOW'S THE 01:47:31.826 --> 01:47:34.405 SIN OF HOMOSEXUALITY ANY DIFFERENT FROM ALL THE OTHER 01:47:34.405 --> 01:47:38.158 SINS PEOPLE DEAL WITH ON THE FRONT ROW? AND I SAID, WELL, 01:47:38.158 --> 01:47:42.805 IT'S DIFFERENT IN THIS. WELL, TWO THINGS I'LL SAY. NUMBER ONE, 01:47:42.805 --> 01:47:47.815 THE AVERAGE SIN OF A PERSON SITTING IN THE PEW, THEY'RE NOT 01:47:47.815 --> 01:47:51.386 TRYING TO LEGALIZE IT. OKAY, NOBODY'S OUT THERE TRYING TO 01:47:51.386 --> 01:47:59.756 HAVE CASE FOR ADULTERY. OKAY, A MONTH TO PROMOTE FORNICATION. A 01:47:59.756 --> 01:48:04.496 MONTH TO PROMOTE THIEVERY, RIGHT? A MONTH TO PROMOTE AND 01:48:04.496 --> 01:48:11.636 LEGALIZE LYING. A MONTH TO PROMOTE GOSSIP AND CHEATING. BUT 01:48:11.636 --> 01:48:16.496 WITH THIS ONE, THIS AND ABORTION IS ANOTHER ONE, THEY WANT TO 01:48:16.496 --> 01:48:21.926 LEGALIZE SIN. THIS HAS BECOME A THING IN THE CULTURE NOW WHERE 01:48:21.926 --> 01:48:28.315 SIN IS CONSIDERED IN VOGUE. WHERE, AND ONE OF THE THINGS 01:48:28.315 --> 01:48:31.315 WE'LL TALK ABOUT IN INTERRUPTION TO ANSWER PRAYER IS WORLDLINESS. 01:48:31.315 --> 01:48:35.275 I'LL HIT ON THAT IN A MINUTE. BUT HERE'S WHAT GOD SAID, PSALM 01:48:35.275 --> 01:48:40.676 66:18. THIS IS ALSO FROM THE MEV. IF I REGARD INIQUITY OR I 01:48:40.676 --> 01:48:45.926 REFUSE ANY CHANGE, OKAY. PASTOR BRENDA, COULD A HOMOSEXUAL 01:48:45.926 --> 01:48:50.815 COUPLE COME INTO LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH? YEAH, YOU CAN COME IN, 01:48:50.815 --> 01:48:54.792 BUT YOU'RE NOT GONNA PARADE THAT IN HERE. YOU'RE GONNA REPENT. 01:48:56.036 --> 01:48:59.845 YOU'RE GONNA SAY THAT THE LAW THAT THEY'RE TRYING TO MAKE FOR 01:48:59.845 --> 01:49:04.195 GAY MARRIAGE GOES AGAINST THE BIBLE. IF YOU CAN'T TAKE UP THE 01:49:04.195 --> 01:49:07.586 POSITION OF THE TENANTS OF FAITH OF THE CHURCH, THEN YOU NEED TO 01:49:07.586 --> 01:49:09.916 FIND ANOTHER CHURCH THAT'LL PUT UP WITH THAT. 01:49:09.985 --> 01:49:11.935 (AUDIENCE APPLAUDING) 01:49:11.935 --> 01:49:15.027 AMEN. OH, I THINK YOU OUGHT TO CLAP LOUDER THAN THAT. 01:49:15.027 --> 01:49:18.086 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:49:18.086 --> 01:49:26.485 WE'VE GOT TO GET BOLD. SO, SIN, IF I REGARD INIQUITY IN MY 01:49:26.485 --> 01:49:33.206 HEART, THE PSALMIST SAID, THE LORD WILL NOT HEAR ME. AND SO, 01:49:33.206 --> 01:49:39.685 PROVERBS 28:13, "HE WHO COVERS HIS SIN WILL NOT PROSPER, BUT 01:49:39.685 --> 01:49:43.555 WHOSOEVER WILL CONFESS AND FORSAKE THEM." COME ON, THIS IS 01:49:43.555 --> 01:49:46.405 WHAT GOD IS ASKING PEOPLE TO DO. IF THEY WALK IN THE CHURCH AND 01:49:46.405 --> 01:49:51.926 THEY'RE IN SIN, AND IT'S AN OPEN, EGREGIOUS SIN, GOD SAID 01:49:51.926 --> 01:49:55.525 THAT THEY ARE COMMANDED TO CONFESS AND FORSAKE THOSE 01:49:55.525 --> 01:50:00.626 THINGS, OKAY? FORSAKE SIN. THAT'S WHAT IT MEANS TO BE 01:50:00.626 --> 01:50:06.775 SAVED. IT MEANS I FORSAKE THE THINGS THAT GOD CALLS WRONG. 01:50:06.775 --> 01:50:12.565 AMEN, AND BY THE WAY, ONE OF THE MOST OUTSPOKEN SIN AREAS OF THE 01:50:12.565 --> 01:50:20.065 BIBLE WAS SEXUAL SIN, SEXUAL SIN. GOD SAID, HONEY, HELP ME 01:50:20.065 --> 01:50:25.105 WITH THIS, GOD SAID TO ISRAEL THAT HE WOULD VISIT THE SINS OF 01:50:25.105 --> 01:50:30.025 THE CHILDREN FROM THE FATHERS DOWN TO FOUR GENERATIONS, BUT 01:50:30.025 --> 01:50:34.945 SEXUAL SIN WAS DOWN TO 10 GENERATIONS. THAT IF THEY DID 01:50:34.945 --> 01:50:38.756 NOT REPENT OF IT, OKAY, GOD TALKED ABOUT THE WHOREDOMS. BY 01:50:38.756 --> 01:50:41.845 THE WAY, I DON'T WANNA GET OFF ON THIS, BUT MORE SCRIPTURES 01:50:41.845 --> 01:50:46.645 COME TO MIND. IT'S LIKE POPCORN UP HERE. REVELATION 21, TALKS 01:50:46.645 --> 01:50:49.136 ABOUT EIGHT TYPES OF SINNERS THAT WILL MAKE THEIR WAY INTO 01:50:49.136 --> 01:50:51.956 THE LAKE OF FIRE. ONE OF THOSE IS THE WHOREMONGER. THE WORD 01:50:51.956 --> 01:50:55.855 WHOREMONGER IN THE NEW TESTAMENT COMES FROM A GREEK WORD PORNOS. 01:50:55.855 --> 01:51:01.615 IT MEANS TO SELL AND BUY SEX. AND SPECIFICALLY, AND IF YOU 01:51:01.615 --> 01:51:06.536 LOOK IN THE CONCORDANCE, IN THE VINES, IT SAYS SPECIFICALLY A 01:51:06.536 --> 01:51:13.011 MALE PROSTITUTE. AND SO GOD CALLED THOSE THINGS. GOD ALSO 01:51:13.011 --> 01:51:17.332 SAID THAT IN COLOSSIANS THAT NO EFFEMINATE PERSON WILL MAKE 01:51:17.332 --> 01:51:21.532 THEIR WAY INTO HEAVEN. OKAY, NOW EIGHT TYPES OF PEOPLE, YOU CAN 01:51:21.532 --> 01:51:24.891 GO LOOK IT UP. IT SAYS THE FEARFUL, NON-BELIEVING, WON'T 01:51:24.891 --> 01:51:28.221 FIND THEIR WAY INTO HEAVEN. OKAY, THE LIARS, LIARS WILL 01:51:28.221 --> 01:51:30.471 HAVE, YOU'VE HEARD THIS PHRASE COINED, LIARS WILL HAVE THEIR 01:51:30.471 --> 01:51:33.921 PART IN THE LAKE OF THE BURNS WITH FIRE AND BRIMSTONE. SO SIN 01:51:33.921 --> 01:51:38.122 WILL SEPARATE YOU FROM GOD. AND YOU'RE NOT GONNA GET PRAYERS 01:51:38.122 --> 01:51:42.412 ANSWERED IF YOU'RE GONNA PUT GOD IN A, YOU'RE GONNA LOCK HIM OUT 01:51:42.412 --> 01:51:45.832 BECAUSE THERE ARE THINGS IN YOUR LIFE THAT HE CALLS WRONG THAT 01:51:45.832 --> 01:51:49.072 YOU WANT TO INCORPORATE. AND THAT'S WHY WE HAVE MADE A 01:51:49.072 --> 01:51:53.332 COMMITMENT OUT OF THIS PULPIT THAT WE'RE NOT GOING TO ALLOW 01:51:53.332 --> 01:51:58.192 THE CIVIC LAWS OF THIS LAND TO ENCROACH ON THE CHURCH AND MAKE 01:51:58.192 --> 01:52:02.271 THE CHURCH NOW HAVE TO ACCEPT THINGS THAT THE BIBLE CALLS 01:52:02.271 --> 01:52:09.742 EVIL. OKAY? WE'RE NOT GONNA DO IT. SO SIN WILL OBVIOUSLY 01:52:09.742 --> 01:52:12.532 SEPARATE YOU FROM GOD. ANOTHER ONE, VERY QUICKLY, I'M NOT GONNA 01:52:12.532 --> 01:52:14.721 CAMP ON THIS. WELL, YOU KNOW WHAT, IN FACT, HOW DO WE 01:52:14.721 --> 01:52:18.038 OVERCOME THAT? LET ME PUT UP VERY QUICKLY PSALM 139:23 AND 01:52:18.038 --> 01:52:21.231 24. CAN I HAVE A FEW MORE MINUTES? I KNOW YOU GUYS GOT 01:52:21.231 --> 01:52:24.082 LUNCH PLANS FOR FATHER'S DAY. BUT LET ME JUST SAY THIS, IT'S 01:52:24.082 --> 01:52:29.782 VERY IMPORTANT. PSALM 139, HOW DO YOU GET, BECAUSE THIS 01:52:29.782 --> 01:52:33.021 GENERATION, A LOT OF PASTORS, LEADERS ARE BECOMING DECEIVED ON 01:52:33.021 --> 01:52:36.112 WHAT'S SINFUL AND WHAT ISN'T, RIGHT? HAVE YOU NOTICED IT? 01:52:36.112 --> 01:52:40.402 OKAY, AND THE WATERS JUST GET MUDDY. THIS IS WHAT DAVID 01:52:40.402 --> 01:52:43.641 PRAYED. HE SAID, "SEARCH ME, GOD, AND KNOW MY HEART. TRY ME 01:52:43.641 --> 01:52:47.782 AND KNOW MY THOUGHTS," VERSE 24, "AND SEE, LORD, IF THERE BE ANY 01:52:47.782 --> 01:52:50.002 WICKED WAY IN ME." YOU KNOW, THAT WOULD BE A REGULAR PRAYER 01:52:50.002 --> 01:52:52.942 FOR EVERY PERSON. 'CAUSE YOU KNOW WHAT, IT'S EASY. PEOPLE 01:52:52.942 --> 01:52:56.811 TAKE UP THE IDEOLOGIES OF THIS WORLD AND THINK THAT THEY'RE 01:52:56.811 --> 01:52:59.032 DOING THE RIGHT THING WHEN THEY'RE LISTENING TO AN ANGEL OF 01:52:59.032 --> 01:53:02.542 LIGHT. AND SO WE HAVE TO BE SO CAREFUL. ALL RIGHT, ENOUGH SAID 01:53:02.542 --> 01:53:05.301 ABOUT THAT. I THINK WE GOT THAT PART. ANOTHER INTERRUPTION 01:53:05.301 --> 01:53:08.692 ANSWER PRAYER IS DOING DUMB THINGS. YOU'VE HEARD ME TEACH ON 01:53:08.692 --> 01:53:14.362 THIS. FOOLISH CHOICES, PROVERBS 15:21. FOLLY BRINGS JOY TO THE 01:53:14.362 --> 01:53:18.681 ONE WHO HAS NO GOOD SENSE. BUT WHOEVER HAS UNDERSTANDING WILL 01:53:18.681 --> 01:53:22.521 KEEP A STRAIGHT COURSE. AND IT DOESN'T GO WITHOUT SAYING, YOU 01:53:22.521 --> 01:53:24.981 CAN'T EXPECT TO HAVE YOUR PRAYERS ANSWERED IF YOU LIVE 01:53:24.981 --> 01:53:31.252 LIKE AN IDIOT. WE WERE JUST TALKING AGAIN, AND I'VE SAID 01:53:31.252 --> 01:53:37.431 THIS FOR YEARS, THAT EVERY YEAR, A CERTAIN NUMBER OF PEOPLE DIE 01:53:37.431 --> 01:53:40.101 ON THE GRAND CANYON BECAUSE THEY GET TOO CLOSE TO THE END AND 01:53:40.101 --> 01:53:42.801 THEY FALL IN. NOW, HOW MANY OF YOU HAVE EVER BEEN TO THE GRAND 01:53:42.801 --> 01:53:47.301 CANYON? IF YOU GO THERE, THERE'S A NICE WALL THAT TELLS YOU, 01:53:47.301 --> 01:53:52.402 "DON'T GO PAST HERE." OKAY? I MEAN, IT JUST, "DON'T CLIMB 01:53:52.402 --> 01:53:57.231 OVER." AND THEY PUT THAT WALL THERE FOR A REASON. AND 01:53:57.231 --> 01:54:00.231 INVARIABLY, IF YOU GO TO THE GRAND CANYON, THERE'LL BE SOME 01:54:00.231 --> 01:54:06.112 DINGALING OUT THERE PLAYING A FLUTE ON THE EDGE, TRYING TO GET 01:54:06.112 --> 01:54:12.652 THEIR PICTURE. AND SO I CAN'T SAY ENOUGH ABOUT IT. DON'T DIE 01:54:12.652 --> 01:54:18.442 DUMB. YOU WON'T GET ANSWERS TO PRAYER. OKAY, THERE'S A REASON. 01:54:18.442 --> 01:54:24.261 THE SPEED LIMIT SAYS A CERTAIN AMOUNT. IF IT SAYS 45, DON'T 01:54:24.261 --> 01:54:27.322 WHIP THROUGH THERE AT 75. NOT ONLY WILL YOU PROBABLY GET A 01:54:27.322 --> 01:54:31.702 $350 TICKET THAT YOU DON'T WANT. HEY, WHY WOULD YOU DO THAT IF 01:54:31.702 --> 01:54:35.841 YOU ALREADY CAN'T PAY YOUR BILLS? NOW HOW UNBRIGHT IS THAT? 01:54:35.841 --> 01:54:40.162 OKAY, I CAN'T PAY MY ELECTRIC BILL, BUT LET ME GO GET A 01:54:40.162 --> 01:54:48.202 SPEEDING TICKET FOR 400 BUCKS. LET'S JUST... AND BY THE WAY, 01:54:48.202 --> 01:54:51.412 THEY MIGHT NOT BE AS NICE AS THE ELECTRIC COMPANY. THEY WILL MAKE 01:54:51.412 --> 01:54:55.792 YOU PAY. YOU'LL GO TO COURT OR YOU WILL PAY. AND YOU WILL SIT 01:54:55.792 --> 01:54:59.212 DOWN AT A DRIVING CLASS WITH OTHER PEOPLE JUST LIKE YOU THAT 01:54:59.212 --> 01:55:08.332 DID DUMB THINGS. OKAY? NOW, I MEAN, SOMETIMES YOU CAN GET, 01:55:08.332 --> 01:55:10.942 LISTEN IN TO GOOD WORSHIP MUSIC AND GO OVER THE SPEED LIMIT. IN 01:55:10.942 --> 01:55:13.521 FACT, THAT HAPPENED TO PASTOR CHRISTY AND I ONE DAY. I DON'T 01:55:13.521 --> 01:55:17.061 KNOW WHERE PASTOR WAS, BUT HER AND I WERE, I DROVE, WE DROVE 01:55:17.061 --> 01:55:20.032 TOGETHER HOME FROM CHURCH. THIS WAS YEARS AGO, THIS, BACK WHEN 01:55:20.032 --> 01:55:23.902 WE STILL USED TO DO SUNDAY NIGHT SERVICE. AND WE'RE ON OUR WAY 01:55:23.902 --> 01:55:26.782 WHIPPING DOWN THE STREET. WE HAD PRAISE, WE HAD A GREAT SERVICE 01:55:26.782 --> 01:55:30.622 GOING. MAN, THE WORSHIP IS BLARING AND GOING. I THINK THAT 01:55:30.622 --> 01:55:33.801 WAS BACK IN THE DAY WE HAD TAPES. I DON'T EVEN KNOW, BUT 01:55:33.801 --> 01:55:36.832 ANYWAY, WE WERE, BUT THE CHURCH WAS REAL NEW AT THAT TIME, AND 01:55:36.832 --> 01:55:41.032 WE WERE JUST PRAISING ALONG, AND SURE ENOUGH, WHOOP, AND I GET 01:55:41.032 --> 01:55:44.931 PULLED OVER, AND THE POLICE OFFICER GOES, "YOU'RE GOING A 01:55:44.931 --> 01:55:48.442 LITTLE FAST IN HERE. "WHERE ARE YOU COMING FROM?" I'M LIKE, 01:55:49.641 --> 01:55:50.572 "WELL, CHURCH." 01:55:50.572 --> 01:55:54.351 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:55:54.351 --> 01:55:57.141 AND IT WAS A REALLY GOOD SERVICE, AND OFFICER, I THINK I 01:55:57.141 --> 01:55:59.811 WAS GOING JUST A LITTLE TOO FAST. HE SAYS, "WELL, IF YOU 01:55:59.811 --> 01:56:01.372 WERE COMING FROM CHURCH, GO ON AND GET OUT OF 01:56:01.372 --> 01:56:11.811 HERE. JUST SLOW DOWN." SO DON'T DO STUPID THINGS. I THINK THAT'S 01:56:11.811 --> 01:56:14.242 GOOD. TEXT AND DRIVE. COME ON, WE KNOW ALL THE STUFF THAT'S 01:56:14.242 --> 01:56:17.542 DUMB. DON'T DO DUMB THINGS. THAT WILL KEEP YOU. YOU CAN PRAY ALL 01:56:17.542 --> 01:56:19.851 DAY FOR SOMETHING TO COME TO PASS AND YOU GO OUT AND ACT THE 01:56:19.851 --> 01:56:26.542 FOOL. COME ON, THINK. TEXT AND DRIVE. POOR HABITS, BAD TIME 01:56:26.542 --> 01:56:30.622 MANAGEMENT, ALL OF THAT CAN UNDO YOU. OKAY, ANOTHER INTERRUPTION 01:56:30.622 --> 01:56:34.072 TO ANSWERED PRAYER IS WORLDLINESS. I'LL JUST SAY THAT. 01:56:34.072 --> 01:56:38.301 WORLDLY CHRISTIANITY HAS BECOME AS STYLISH NOWADAYS. BUT LOOK 01:56:38.301 --> 01:56:42.112 WHAT THE APOSTLE PAUL SAID. HE SAID 2 CORINTHIANS 6:17. HE 01:56:42.112 --> 01:56:46.341 DIDN'T SAY BLEND AND TRY TO LOOK LIKE THEM. OKAY, THERE'S PASTORS 01:56:46.341 --> 01:56:47.962 THAT ARE PREACHING THAT EVERY SUNDAY. IT'S CALLED THE 01:56:47.962 --> 01:56:51.261 SEEKER-FRIENDLY MOVEMENT. AND I'M NOT SAYING WE DON'T BE 01:56:51.261 --> 01:56:54.112 FRIENDLY. THAT'S NOT WHAT WE'RE SAYING. I'M NOT SAYING YOU DON'T 01:56:54.112 --> 01:57:00.231 HAVE SOME COFFEE. WE LOVE COFFEE. BUT IT CAN'T REPLACE THE 01:57:00.231 --> 01:57:07.082 ANOINTING. IT CAN'T BE THE ADVERTISEMENT. AMEN. MAN, I LOVE 01:57:07.082 --> 01:57:11.692 THE OLD DAYS OF THE RWS SHAMBOX. MAN, HE WAS BOLD. I HEARD 01:57:11.692 --> 01:57:14.481 STORIES ABOUT THAT MAN WOULD SEE HIS CHURCH MEMBERS IN LINE AT A 01:57:14.481 --> 01:57:19.462 MOVIE THAT HE SAID WAS BAD, AND HE'D GO AND KICK THEM RIGHT OUT 01:57:19.462 --> 01:57:20.332 OF THE MOVIE LINE. 01:57:20.332 --> 01:57:23.710 (CONGREGATION LAUGHING) 01:57:23.710 --> 01:57:27.213 OKAY. BUT YOU KNOW, THERE MIGHT HAVE BEEN SOME PEOPLE THAT 01:57:27.213 --> 01:57:29.610 DIDN'T GO TO HELL BECAUSE THEY HAD A BOLD, STRONG PASTOR THAT 01:57:29.610 --> 01:57:30.742 SAID, "STOP DOING THAT.” 01:57:30.742 --> 01:57:32.853 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 01:57:32.853 --> 01:57:36.381 2 CORINTHIANS 6:17 AND 18, THIS IS THE APOSTLE PAUL. HE SAID, 01:57:36.381 --> 01:57:41.212 "THEREFORE, COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM, COME OUT FROM AMONG THEM, 01:57:41.212 --> 01:57:46.282 AND BE YE SEPARATE, SAYS THE LORD. "DO NOT TOUCH WHAT IS 01:57:46.282 --> 01:57:51.231 UNCLEAN, AND THEN I WILL RECEIVE YOU." IN OTHER WORDS, I'LL 01:57:51.231 --> 01:57:54.952 ANSWER YOU, AND I'LL BE A FATHER TO YOU, AND YOU'LL BE MY SONS 01:57:54.952 --> 01:57:59.212 AND MY DAUGHTERS, SAYS THE LORD ALMIGHTY. JAMES 4:3, NOW THIS IS 01:57:59.212 --> 01:58:03.171 AN IMPORTANT SCRIPTURE ABOUT WORLDLINESS. JAMES 4, THREE 01:58:03.171 --> 01:58:08.332 THROUGH FOUR, OR JAMES SAYS, "YOU ASK, BUT YOU DO NOT 01:58:08.332 --> 01:58:12.202 RECEIVE." BECAUSE WHEN YOU DO ASK, YOU DO IT TO CONSUME IT ON 01:58:12.202 --> 01:58:18.082 YOURSELF. IN OTHER WORDS, YOU HAVE AN ALIGNMENT OR AN ALLIANCE 01:58:18.082 --> 01:58:21.832 WITH THE WORLD. SO WORLDLINESS, NUMBER SEVEN, I'M GONNA GO 01:58:21.832 --> 01:58:24.862 THROUGH THESE QUICKLY. DISOBEDIENCE WILL INTERRUPT YOUR 01:58:24.862 --> 01:58:29.122 PRAYERS, OKAY? ISAIAH 119, IF YOU'D BE WILLING AND OBEDIENT, 01:58:29.122 --> 01:58:34.402 YOU WHAT? EAT THE GOOD, OKAY? SO DISOBEDIENCE, REMEMBER WE READ 01:58:34.402 --> 01:58:38.332 THE SCRIPTURE, 1 JOHN 3:22, "WHATSOEVER WE ASK, WE RECEIVE, 01:58:38.332 --> 01:58:40.881 BECAUSE WE DO THE THINGS THAT ARE PLEASING TO GOD." 01:58:40.881 --> 01:58:43.881 DISOBEDIENCE WILL UNDO YOUR PRAYERS. NOW HERE'S THE LAST 01:58:43.881 --> 01:58:46.881 ONE, AND I WOULD SAY THAT I'M GONNA REALLY GET TO TODAY. THIS 01:58:46.881 --> 01:58:51.261 IS VERY IMPORTANT, FOLKS. IF YOU DIDN'T HEAR ME ON ANYTHING ELSE 01:58:51.261 --> 01:58:56.032 THAT WILL UNDO ANSWERED PRAYER, THIS ONE IS PROBABLY AT THE TOP. 01:58:56.032 --> 01:59:01.192 IT'S CALLED STRIFE AND UNFORGIVENESS. STRIFE, THIS IS 01:59:01.192 --> 01:59:05.378 PROBABLY THE BIGGEST ONE. IN FACT, JESUS SAID IT, MARK 11:24, 01:59:05.378 --> 01:59:10.042 3 AND 4, WE READ IT, "WHATEVER YOU ASK, YOU RECEIVE. IF YOU 01:59:10.042 --> 01:59:12.652 BELIEVE, YOU RECEIVE." BUT THEN HE GOES ON IN VERSE 25, "BUT 01:59:12.652 --> 01:59:14.992 WHEN YOU STAND PRAYING, FORGIVE. IF YOU HAVE OUGHT AGAINST 01:59:14.992 --> 01:59:18.112 ANYONE, THAT YOUR FATHER IN HEAVEN, WHICH IS IN HEAVEN MAY 01:59:18.112 --> 01:59:21.381 FORGIVE YOU. BUT IF YOU DO NOT FORGIVE WHEN YOU STAND PRAYING, 01:59:21.381 --> 01:59:25.328 NEITHER WILL YOUR FATHER," VERSE 26, "IN HEAVEN FORGIVE YOU." 01:59:26.362 --> 01:59:30.742 THAT'S THE WORDS OF JESUS. WE ARE LIVING IN A DAY WHERE STRIFE 01:59:30.742 --> 01:59:37.372 IS LIKE A CANCER IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. THESE WATCHDOG GROUPS 01:59:37.372 --> 01:59:41.511 OUT TRYING TO EXPOSE EVERYBODY, AND BY THE WAY, THE VERY 01:59:41.511 --> 01:59:45.021 PREACHERS, AND I'M GOING TO GET BOLD NOW, THE VERY PREACHERS 01:59:45.021 --> 01:59:49.282 THAT THEY GET UP AND CRITICIZE FOR HAVING A HOUSE OR A CAR OR 01:59:49.282 --> 01:59:52.822 WHATEVER THEY CRITICIZE, AND THEY STAND THERE AND HOLD 01:59:52.822 --> 01:59:57.112 CHURCHES AND PEOPLE ACCOUNTABLE WHILE THEY RAPE PEOPLE OF MONEY. 01:59:57.112 --> 02:00:02.091 THEY THEMSELVES ARE MAKING MILLIONS OFF OF GOSSIP AND SMUT 02:00:02.091 --> 02:00:08.542 AND TRASH TO TRY TO RUIN SOMEBODY'S NAME. AND I'M TELLING 02:00:08.542 --> 02:00:11.811 YOU, I BELIEVE WITH ALL MY HEART. OKAY, THE BIBLE SAYS IN 02:00:11.811 --> 02:00:17.181 PROVERBS 6 AND 19, "SIX THINGS DOES THE LORD HATE. "HE THAT 02:00:17.181 --> 02:00:23.572 SOWS DISCORD AMONG THE BRETHREN." COME ON, HE THAT SOWS 02:00:23.572 --> 02:00:29.782 IT. STRIFE, SQUABBLING. THE BIBLE SAYS IN 1 PETER 3, 02:00:29.782 --> 02:00:34.971 HUSBANDS AND WIVES, IF YOU'RE FUSSING, IF YOU'RE ARGUING WITH 02:00:34.971 --> 02:00:40.021 EACH OTHER, IT'LL HINDER YOUR PRAYERS. WELL, DO YOU THINK THAT 02:00:40.021 --> 02:00:43.551 STRIFE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST ISN'T HINDERING THE SUPERNATURAL 02:00:43.551 --> 02:00:48.202 FROM OPERATING IN THE CHURCH? ALL OF THE FUSSING ONLINE, YOU 02:00:48.202 --> 02:00:50.676 KNOW, AND THE VERY PEOPLE THAT SIT THERE, HOW EVERYBODY NEEDS 02:00:50.676 --> 02:00:53.002 TO BE ACCOUNTABLE. THEY THEMSELVES AREN'T ACCOUNTABLE. 02:00:54.801 --> 02:01:00.171 HEY, YOU BE ACCOUNTABLE. WHO'S YOUR PASTOR? BE ACCOUNTABLE. 02:01:00.171 --> 02:01:04.671 STRIFE, FUSSING, YOU KNOW, ANYMORE PEOPLE CAN'T SAY 02:01:04.671 --> 02:01:07.942 ANYTHING. AND I'M NOT JUST TALKING ABOUT PREACHERS, I'M 02:01:07.942 --> 02:01:11.815 TALKING ABOUT CHRISTIANS ONLINE. YOU PUT OUT SOMETHING LIKE, OH, 02:01:11.815 --> 02:01:15.729 GOD BLESSED US AT THE BEACH. OH, YOU SHOULDN'T GO TO THE BEACH. 02:01:18.097 --> 02:01:22.208 THERE'S SHARKS DOWN THERE. DIDN'T YOU PRAY BEFORE YOU WENT 02:01:22.208 --> 02:01:25.927 TO THE BEACH? I MEAN, IT'S AMAZING TO ME. I'M LIKE SITTING 02:01:25.927 --> 02:01:34.297 THERE THINKING, REALLY? STRIFE, UNFORGIVENESS, HOLDING OUGHT, 02:01:34.297 --> 02:01:38.887 PUTTING SOMEONE DOWN, DISCREDITING PEOPLE. MY FEELING 02:01:38.887 --> 02:01:42.037 IS IF I, AND THIS IS, I'M TALKING ABOUT THE CHURCH, I'M 02:01:42.037 --> 02:01:45.728 NOT TALKING ABOUT THE WORLD. HE THAT SOWS DISCORD AMONG 02:01:45.728 --> 02:01:49.927 BRETHREN. OKAY, THAT'S OUR HOMES. COME ON, WITH OUR 02:01:49.927 --> 02:01:55.057 FAMILIES, WITH OUR CHILDREN, HUSBANDS, WIVES TOGETHER, 02:01:55.057 --> 02:01:59.887 SIBLINGS, COME ON, BROTHERS, SISTERS, HE THAT CONTINUES WITH 02:01:59.887 --> 02:02:04.747 STRIFE, IT'LL UNDO YOUR PRAYERS. IN FACT, LET'S TAKE IT ONE MORE. 02:02:04.747 --> 02:02:08.671 WHEN YOU TAKE THE COMMUNION MEAL, 1 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 11, 02:02:08.671 --> 02:02:11.948 HOW MANY OF YOU KNOW THE SCRIPTURE? AND PAUL TAUGHT IT. 02:02:11.948 --> 02:02:15.217 AND HE SAID THAT WHEN YOU GET READY TO RECEIVE THE COMMUNION 02:02:15.217 --> 02:02:20.347 MEAL, DON'T DO IT UNWORTHILY. AND IT SAYS, AND FOR THIS 02:02:20.347 --> 02:02:27.158 REASON, MANY THAT ARE AMONG YOU DIE PREMATURE. SOME ARE SICKLY. 02:02:27.158 --> 02:02:30.427 SOME OF YOU ARE WEAKENED. WHY? BECAUSE YOU DON'T DISCERN THE 02:02:30.427 --> 02:02:33.037 LORD'S BODY. AND I HEARD A PASTOR TEACH THIS ONE TIME. 02:02:33.037 --> 02:02:36.097 PASTOR DOUG WOULD REMEMBER THIS. HE'S A PASTOR WE KNEW VERY WELL. 02:02:36.097 --> 02:02:39.847 AND HE SAID, EVERY TIME HE TOOK COMMUNION, HE SAID, FOLKS, DON'T 02:02:39.847 --> 02:02:44.347 JUST SEE THE BODY AND THE BLOOD IN THE ELEMENTS, THAT IS THAT, 02:02:44.347 --> 02:02:48.127 BUT HE'S SAYING YOU ALSO NEED TO SEE THAT THE BODY OF CHRIST IS 02:02:48.127 --> 02:02:54.007 THE CHURCH. AND IF YOU DON'T DISCERN IT, AND OUR ATTITUDE IS 02:02:54.007 --> 02:02:57.427 I CAN JUST SAY AND BE IN UNFORGIVENESS, YOU KNOW, LISTEN, 02:02:57.427 --> 02:03:00.127 IF YOU CAME TO LORD OF HOSTS AND YOU WERE FROM ANOTHER CHURCH AND 02:03:00.127 --> 02:03:03.759 THAT PASTOR YOU FELT LIKE MISHANDLED YOU, FORGIVE HIM, LET 02:03:03.759 --> 02:03:08.917 IT GO, AMEN. AND BY THE WAY, FORGIVENESS IS NOT NECESSARILY 02:03:08.917 --> 02:03:11.797 REALIGNING WITH PEOPLE, THAT'S NOT WHAT THAT MEANS. WHAT IT 02:03:11.797 --> 02:03:15.307 MEANS IS GET IT OUT OF YOUR HEAD. GET IT OUT OF YOUR HEART. 02:03:15.307 --> 02:03:18.037 IF YOU STILL HAVE TO CALL THREE MORE PEOPLE TO TALK ABOUT THAT 02:03:18.037 --> 02:03:26.167 PASTOR, THEN YOU HAVE NOT FORGIVEN THAT PASTOR. AMEN. AND 02:03:26.167 --> 02:03:33.518 SHE'S SHOOTING THEM TODAY. BUT I MEAN, MY SPIRIT'S ALARMED AT THE 02:03:33.518 --> 02:03:36.368 LEVEL OF STRIFE IN THE BODY OF CHRIST. STRIFE AND 02:03:36.368 --> 02:03:39.578 UNFORGIVENESS. SO IF YOU DON'T WANT TO BE HEALED, START A 02:03:39.578 --> 02:03:48.247 GOSSIP COLUMN. THAT'S THE WAY I KNOW HOW TO SAY IT. START A 02:03:48.247 --> 02:03:53.528 PODCAST. TALK ABOUT ALL THE CHRISTIANS THAT ARE OUT OF LINE. 02:03:54.787 --> 02:03:57.847 BY THE WAY, I HAVE A FEELING HALF THE PEOPLE THAT PROMOTE ALL 02:03:57.847 --> 02:04:01.387 THAT, WHETHER THEY BE CHRISTIANS, PODCASTERS, 02:04:01.387 --> 02:04:06.127 COLUMNISTS, MEDIA, WHOEVER, PASTORS, PREACHERS, TEACHERS, 02:04:06.127 --> 02:04:11.557 BELIEVERS, GRANDMAS, I HAVE A FEELING PROBABLY NOT THE 02:04:11.557 --> 02:04:14.618 GRANDMAS AS MUCH. BECAUSE USUALLY BY THE TIME PEOPLE CROSS 02:04:14.618 --> 02:04:19.028 THAT 60-YEAR-OLD LINE, YOU START TO SIT BACK AND GO, I WISH I 02:04:19.028 --> 02:04:23.198 WOULD HAVE DID IT DIFFERENT. MOST PEOPLE AREN'T SITTING THERE 02:04:23.198 --> 02:04:26.521 AT 85 YEARS OLD GOING, I'M GOING TO TAKE DOWN BROTHER SO-AND-SO. 02:04:30.967 --> 02:04:34.268 NO, YOU'RE REFLECTING ON YOURSELF AND HOW YOU COULD HAVE 02:04:34.268 --> 02:04:38.167 MADE BETTER CHOICES. WE'VE WATCHED WHOLE FAMILIES RECENTLY 02:04:38.167 --> 02:04:44.188 GET STRIPPED APART IN CHRISTIAN MEDIA. AND I'LL JUST SAY IT, 02:04:45.967 --> 02:04:52.387 NOBODY WINS IN THE END. AND WHEN WE CROSS OVER THE THRESHOLD OF 02:04:52.387 --> 02:05:01.177 DEATH INTO ETERNITY, ALL OF THAT, I WAS RIGHT, PROBABLY NOT 02:05:01.177 --> 02:05:08.137 GONNA MATTER. SO THINK, THINK BEFORE YOU TAKE UP THE SWORD 02:05:08.137 --> 02:05:08.917 AGAINST SOMEBODY. 02:05:10.042 --> 02:05:15.818 (CONGREGATION APPLAUDING) 02:05:15.818 --> 02:05:20.228 AMEN. OH YEAH, PASTOR DOUG'S COMING, THAT'S MY CUE TO FINISH. 02:05:21.787 --> 02:05:27.307 VERY QUICK, YOU CAN ALL STAND, I THINK I'M ABOUT DONE. A COUPLE 02:05:27.307 --> 02:05:30.068 OTHER ONES VERY QUICKLY, KEEP YOUR PRAYERS FROM BEING 02:05:30.068 --> 02:05:34.448 ANSWERED, NOT CONNECTING YOUR FINANCES TO THE KINGDOM. OKAY, 02:05:34.448 --> 02:05:38.318 YOU CAN GO READ THIS AS YOUR FATHER'S DAY HOMEWORK. HAGGAI 02:05:38.318 --> 02:05:44.978 1:6-10 SAYS, GOD SAID THE REASON THAT PEOPLE SO MUCH, NOT TALKING 02:05:44.978 --> 02:05:48.337 ABOUT OFFERINGS, IT'S TALKING ABOUT WORK HARD IN LIFE, BUT 02:05:48.337 --> 02:05:51.427 THEY NEVER CAN SEEM TO GET AHEAD. THEY ALWAYS FEEL LIKE 02:05:51.427 --> 02:05:53.978 THEY HAVE POCKETS WITH HOLES. IT'S BECAUSE THEY DON'T 02:05:53.978 --> 02:05:58.837 PRIORITIZE GOD'S HOUSE. AND GOD SAID, "YOU BUILD YOUR OWN STUFF, 02:05:58.837 --> 02:06:02.463 BUT YOU'RE NOT BUILDING MY HOUSE." SO CONNECTING, THERE'S 02:06:02.463 --> 02:06:04.898 SO MUCH, I COULD PREACH A WHOLE SERMON ON CONNECTING OUR 02:06:04.898 --> 02:06:08.677 FINANCES TO THE KINGDOM OF GOD. AND FORGET WHAT PEOPLE SAY, "I 02:06:08.677 --> 02:06:13.627 GOT SO INTO A CHURCH." THAT'S THE DEVIL TALKING, OKAY? THEY 02:06:13.627 --> 02:06:18.787 DON'T GO TO CHURCH, SO WHY DO THEY CARE? MAKE THE CHURCH A 02:06:18.787 --> 02:06:24.578 SUCCESS, RIGHT? RATHER THAN SO-AND-SO THAT CURSES GOD AND 02:06:24.578 --> 02:06:27.667 SHAKES A FIST AND PUTS BRICKS OUT FOR THE RIOTERS TO USE. 02:06:29.347 --> 02:06:33.368 ANOTHER, LAST COUPLE QUICK ONES. DISORDER AND LAZINESS. CAN I SAY 02:06:33.368 --> 02:06:35.738 IT? I DON'T NEED TO GO INTO THAT, RIGHT? THAT'LL INTERRUPT 02:06:35.738 --> 02:06:38.797 ANSWERED PRAYER, 'CAUSE MOST PEOPLE THAT ARE LAZY, THE BIBLE 02:06:38.797 --> 02:06:42.188 SAYS THAT THEY WON'T HAVE THE DISCIPLINE TO STAY WITH IT IN 02:06:42.188 --> 02:06:46.057 FAITH. THEY WON'T WAIT TO SEE THE SEED PRODUCE AND MANIFEST. 02:06:46.057 --> 02:06:50.648 SO I ALWAYS SAY, IF YOU NEED TO WORK ON AREAS OF DISORDER IN 02:06:50.648 --> 02:06:57.667 YOUR LIFE, START IN THE GARAGE. GET OUT THERE, OPEN IT UP, PUT 02:06:57.667 --> 02:07:01.778 ALL THE STUFF IN THE DRIVEWAY, RIGHT? COME ON, PASTOR, I'VE 02:07:01.778 --> 02:07:04.568 DONE THAT. MAN, WE DO IT IN A BIG WAY. WE HAD NEIGHBORS GO BY 02:07:04.568 --> 02:07:06.547 AND THEY'RE LIKE, YOU CLEANING THE GARAGE? LIKE WHAT DOES IT 02:07:06.547 --> 02:07:11.467 LOOK LIKE? EVERYTHING'S IN THE DRIVEWAY. AND PASTOR'S 02:07:11.467 --> 02:07:14.377 DETERMINED, HE GOES, WE WILL GET THIS DONE AND THE CARS WILL GO 02:07:14.377 --> 02:07:19.057 BACK IN BY THE TIME WE GO TO BED. AND BOY, I'M TELLING YOU, 02:07:19.057 --> 02:07:28.238 IT'S ALL MY STUFF. IT'S FATHER'S DAY, I'M GOING TO LET THAT ONE 02:07:28.238 --> 02:07:35.677 GO. NUMBER 11, RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS. PEOPLE ARE STUCK IN 02:07:35.677 --> 02:07:39.278 WHAT THEY BELIEVE, AND NO MATTER WHAT YOU LAY OUT IN THE WORD, 02:07:39.278 --> 02:07:41.438 THEY DON'T WANT IT. THEY'RE GOING TO STICK WITH WHAT THEY 02:07:41.438 --> 02:07:44.677 KNOW AND WHAT THEY BELIEVE AND WHAT GRANDMA SAID OR WHATEVER. 02:07:44.677 --> 02:07:48.278 RELIGIOUS TRADITIONS WILL KEEP YOU. LAST ONE, AND THIS IS, I'LL 02:07:48.278 --> 02:07:51.578 CLOSE IT WITH THIS, I DON'T NEED TO SPEND A LOT OF TIME, IS 02:07:51.578 --> 02:07:53.768 PEOPLE DON'T WANT ACCOUNTABILITY. THEY DON'T WANT 02:07:53.768 --> 02:07:58.268 TO STICK IT IN WITH A PASTOR. THE BIBLE SAYS THAT, AND 02:07:58.268 --> 02:08:02.768 ACCOUNTABILITY IS NOT CONTROL. STOP THAT. IT MEANS THAT, YOU 02:08:02.768 --> 02:08:05.137 KNOW, BECAUSE WHEN YOU COME IN HERE, A PASTOR AND I ARE UNABLE 02:08:05.137 --> 02:08:07.717 TO INTERACT INDIVIDUALLY WITH ALL OF YOU. WE DON'T KNOW 02:08:07.717 --> 02:08:11.677 EVERYTHING THAT'S GOING ON IN YOUR LIFE. BUT BY BEING HERE, 02:08:11.677 --> 02:08:13.868 SEE KATHLEEN'S SITTING WITH JANET, YOU GET TO KNOW YOUR 02:08:13.868 --> 02:08:16.988 STUFF, RIGHT? YOU GET TO KNOW EACH OTHER. THERE'S AN 02:08:16.988 --> 02:08:19.537 ACCOUNTABILITY THAT COMES BECAUSE YOU'RE IN THE CHURCH, 02:08:19.537 --> 02:08:24.217 OKAY? A LOT OF PEOPLE THAT RUN OUT OF A CHURCH DO IT, CLAIMING 02:08:24.217 --> 02:08:26.347 THAT THE CHURCH MISHANDLED THEM, AND A LOT OF TIMES THEY JUST 02:08:26.347 --> 02:08:29.930 WANT TO GET AWAY FROM THE ANOINTING. SO BE ACCOUNTABLE. IF 02:08:29.930 --> 02:08:32.198 YOU WANT YOUR CHURCH, OR YOU WANT OTHER PEOPLE TO BE 02:08:32.198 --> 02:08:36.097 ACCOUNTABLE, RIGHT, THEN BE ACCOUNTABLE. MAKE SURE THAT YOU 02:08:36.097 --> 02:08:40.328 CAN HAVE PEOPLE YOU CAN BE WITH THAT AREN'T GOING TO JUST STROKE 02:08:40.328 --> 02:08:44.318 YOU, BUT ARE GOING TO TEACH YOU TO GO BACK TO GOD. AMEN? ALL 02:08:44.318 --> 02:08:47.438 RIGHT, YOU GET SOMETHING OUT OF THAT? BE HERE WEDNESDAY NIGHT 02:08:47.438 --> 02:08:51.457 FOR PASTOR HANK. I LOVE YOU. GOD BLESS YOU. WELCOME, PASTOR DOUG. 02:08:51.457 --> 02:08:55.898 GIVE PASTOR BRENDA A GREAT HAND FOR THAT. THAT WAS EXCELLENT. 02:08:55.898 --> 02:08:58.387 THAT'S ONE OF THOSE MESSAGES THAT WOULD BE WORTH REVIEWING 02:08:58.387 --> 02:09:02.978 AND REVIEWING OVER AND OVER AGAIN. THAT'S GOOD, BASIC STUFF. 02:09:02.978 --> 02:09:06.770 SO I'M NOT GOING TO LET YOU SIT DOWN TODAY, BECAUSE THIS WAY 02:09:06.770 --> 02:09:11.557 I'LL GO A LITTLE SHORTER. AND SOMETIMES MY WIFE SAYS I GO TOO 02:09:11.557 --> 02:09:14.978 LONG. SO I DON'T WANT TO KEEP YOU FROM YOUR FATHER'S DAY MEAL. 02:09:14.978 --> 02:09:18.967 BUT LET ME JUST CONCLUDE OUR SERVICE TODAY WITH THIS. YOU 02:09:18.967 --> 02:09:21.427 KNOW, THIS IS FATHER'S DAY, AND I WAS THINKING ABOUT THAT. THE 02:09:21.427 --> 02:09:27.188 MOST IMPORTANT DECISION A PERSON COULD EVER MAKE IS TO CHOOSE TO 02:09:27.188 --> 02:09:31.868 HAVE THE LORD GOD AS YOUR FATHER. THAT'S THE BEST DECISION 02:09:31.868 --> 02:09:34.688 YOU CAN EVER MAKE, BECAUSE THAT NOT ONLY GIVES YOU AN ABUNDANT 02:09:34.688 --> 02:09:38.648 LIFE THAT'S PROMISED IN THE WORD OF GOD, BUT IT GIVES YOU A 02:09:38.648 --> 02:09:44.557 FUTURE ETERNITY WITH GOD. WHEN YOU CHOOSE HIM, YOU'RE MAKING 02:09:44.557 --> 02:09:48.518 THE BEST CHOICE, BUT IT DOESN'T HAPPEN AUTOMATICALLY, AND THAT'S 02:09:48.518 --> 02:09:52.268 WHAT I'M CLOSING WITH TODAY. YOU KNOW THE BOOK OF JOHN 10:10, WE 02:09:52.268 --> 02:09:56.768 KNOW THAT SCRIPTURE SO WELL. THE DEVIL, OR SATAN, OR THE THIEF, 02:09:56.768 --> 02:10:00.608 COMES TO KILL, STEAL, AND DESTROY. HE WANTS TO TAKE 02:10:00.608 --> 02:10:04.417 EVERYONE TO HELL AS MUCH AS POSSIBLE, BUT WHEN YOU CHOOSE 02:10:04.417 --> 02:10:10.057 JESUS CHRIST AS YOUR SAVIOR, YOU'RE AVERTING THAT PLAN OR 02:10:10.057 --> 02:10:13.747 YOU'RE GOING THE OPPOSITE DIRECTION. YOU'RE GOING WITH GOD 02:10:13.747 --> 02:10:17.108 INSTEAD OF WITH THE THIEF, AND THEN YOU CAN WALK ABUNDANTLY 02:10:17.108 --> 02:10:21.217 THROUGH THIS LIFE AND HAVE ETERNAL LIFE WITH HIM. YESTERDAY 02:10:21.217 --> 02:10:27.787 I OFFICIATED AT A MEMORIAL SERVICE FOR PATRICIA LENTON, AND 02:10:27.787 --> 02:10:33.307 SHE WAS THE BEAUTIFUL MOTHER OF KEN LONG AND DONNA SANDERS, WHO 02:10:33.307 --> 02:10:37.627 ARE MEMBERS OF THIS CHURCH. AND SO IF YOU KNOW THOSE FAMILIES, 02:10:37.627 --> 02:10:41.167 YOU CAN ENCOURAGE THEM AND OFFER YOUR SUPPORT TO THEM. THEY'RE 02:10:41.167 --> 02:10:44.078 WONDERFUL PEOPLE HERE THAT ARE PART OF THIS CHURCH, AND WE 02:10:44.078 --> 02:10:47.557 SUPPORT THEM. BUT THE EXCITING THING, THE WONDERFUL THING, WHEN 02:10:47.557 --> 02:10:49.957 YOU DO A CELEBRATION OF LIFE SERVICE FOR SOMEONE THAT YOU 02:10:49.957 --> 02:10:53.497 KNOW IS FAITHFUL TO GOD. PATRICIA WAS FAITHFUL. SHE'S IN 02:10:53.497 --> 02:10:58.478 HEAVEN NOW REJOICING BECAUSE SHE WALKED WITH GOD. THOSE ARE EASY 02:10:58.478 --> 02:11:03.068 TO DO. AND THERE'S NO FUNERAL THAT'S EASY BECAUSE IT'S A LOSS, 02:11:04.148 --> 02:11:08.018 AND WE EXPERIENCE LOSS IN THIS LIFE. BUT IT'S SO MUCH EASIER TO 02:11:08.018 --> 02:11:12.847 DO A FUNERAL MESSAGE OR SERVICE IF I KNOW THAT PERSON HAS SERVED 02:11:12.847 --> 02:11:17.347 GOD AND IS IN HEAVEN. WHEN YOU DON'T KNOW, THAT'S NOT GOOD 02:11:17.347 --> 02:11:21.747 NEWS. IT'S NOT EASY, BECAUSE WE STILL HAVE TO DEAL WITH THE 02:11:21.747 --> 02:11:24.747 TRUTH OF THE WORD OF GOD, THAT THERE'S JUDGMENT, AND THERE'S A 02:11:24.747 --> 02:11:29.158 HELL WAITING FOR THOSE THAT DO NOT CHOOSE GOD. SO I'M GONNA ASK 02:11:29.158 --> 02:11:32.929 YOU TO BOW YOUR HEADS WITH ME TODAY ON THE OPPORTUNITY THAT 02:11:32.929 --> 02:11:35.547 THERE MIGHT BE SOMEONE WATCHING TODAY OR MAYBE YOU'RE EVEN HERE 02:11:35.547 --> 02:11:38.518 TODAY, AND YOU WOULD SAY, "PASTOR DOUG, I NEED JESUS. I 02:11:38.518 --> 02:11:43.318 NEED TO MAKE 100% SURE THAT MY RELATIONSHIP WITH JESUS CHRIST 02:11:43.318 --> 02:11:47.158 IS SECURE." PASTOR BRENDA TALKED ABOUT THE VICTORY THAT WE CAN 02:11:47.158 --> 02:11:53.427 HAVE WHEN WE CHOOSE LIFE, AND WE HAVE TO MAKE THAT CHOICE. YOU 02:11:53.427 --> 02:11:56.427 CAN'T DO IT THROUGH RELIGION OR WORKS. YOU CAN'T MAKE IT ON YOUR 02:11:56.427 --> 02:12:01.948 OWN. ONLY THROUGH JESUS. ONLY JESUS CAN SATISFY YOUR SOUL. THE 02:12:01.948 --> 02:12:06.238 WORD TELLS US THAT. SO I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO EXAMINE YOUR HEARTS 02:12:06.238 --> 02:12:09.717 TODAY. IF YOU'RE HERE IN THIS PLACE AND YOU SAY, PASTOR DOUG, 02:12:09.717 --> 02:12:13.198 I WANT PRAYER TODAY, I NEED TO KNOW 100% THAT I'M ON MY WAY TO 02:12:13.198 --> 02:12:18.268 HEAVEN, I'M TALKING TO YOU. DON'T LEAVE THIS PLACE WITHOUT 02:12:18.268 --> 02:12:22.948 MAKING THAT DECISION. LIFE CAN BE SHORT. YOU NEED TO KNOW WHERE 02:12:22.948 --> 02:12:25.917 YOU'RE GOING IN YOUR FUTURE AND YOU NEED TO HAVE GOD'S GUIDANCE 02:12:25.917 --> 02:12:29.483 AND WISDOM AND DIRECTION WHILE YOU'RE ON THIS EARTH. SO 02:12:29.483 --> 02:12:33.568 IMPORTANT. WHEN I COUNT TO THREE TODAY, IF THAT'S YOU OR YOU'RE 02:12:33.568 --> 02:12:35.818 WATCHING AND WHEREVER YOU'RE AT, YOU CAN DO THIS RIGHT IN YOUR 02:12:35.818 --> 02:12:39.533 HOME, I'M GONNA ASK YOU JUST TO RAISE YOUR HAND AND LET ME KNOW 02:12:39.533 --> 02:12:42.988 AND I'LL PRAY FOR YOU TODAY. THAT'S WHERE IT STARTS. THEN YOU 02:12:42.988 --> 02:12:46.018 CAN HAVE THAT NEW LIFE WITH JESUS CHRIST. WHEN I COUNT TO 02:12:46.018 --> 02:12:49.347 THREE, IF THAT'S YOU, YOU JUST RAISE YOUR HAND QUICKLY. ONE, 02:12:50.637 --> 02:12:54.927 TWO, THREE, RAISE YOUR HAND. ANY HANDS? IN THIS AUDITORIUM, YOU 02:12:54.927 --> 02:12:58.137 SAY, I NEED JESUS, I WANT PRAYER TODAY. IS THERE A HAND OVER 02:12:58.137 --> 02:13:02.847 HERE? ONE OVER HERE? I'M GONNA ASK YOU JUST TO KEEP YOUR HAND 02:13:02.847 --> 02:13:06.328 UP FOR A MOMENT. ANYONE ELSE? I WANNA SECURE MY FUTURE. I WANNA 02:13:06.328 --> 02:13:09.193 MAKE SURE. DOESN'T MATTER WHAT AGE YOU ARE. DOESN'T MATTER IF 02:13:09.193 --> 02:13:12.778 THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME HERE OR YOUR 50TH TIME HERE. YOU'VE BEEN 02:13:12.778 --> 02:13:17.427 HERE FOR 10 YEARS. KEEP YOUR HANDS UP FOR A MOMENT. HERE'S 02:13:17.427 --> 02:13:20.037 WHAT I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO DO. THOSE WITH YOUR HANDS UP, JUST 02:13:20.037 --> 02:13:22.828 GET OUT OF YOUR SEAT AND COME DOWN HERE QUICKLY. WE'RE GONNA 02:13:22.828 --> 02:13:26.847 PRAY AND MAKE THIS DECISION TODAY TO MAKE LIFE RIGHT WITH 02:13:26.847 --> 02:13:30.627 GOD. YOU'RE GONNA MAKE THAT DECISION. THANK YOU FOR COMING, 02:13:30.627 --> 02:13:34.198 GIVE HER YOUR HAND. THERE'S ONE UP HERE, COME ON DOWN. COME ON 02:13:34.198 --> 02:13:39.387 DOWN, MA'AM. THANK YOU FOR BEING SO BOLD. COME ON DOWN HERE 02:13:39.387 --> 02:13:43.137 QUICKLY. I'M WAITING FOR YOU, WE'LL WAIT. WE DON'T CARE IF 02:13:43.137 --> 02:13:45.627 IT'S FATHER'S DAY AND THE ROAST MIGHT BE GETTING A LITTLE BIT 02:13:45.627 --> 02:13:49.377 DARK. THAT'S OKAY, WE'RE GONNA WAIT FOR YOU. BECAUSE IT'S MORE 02:13:49.377 --> 02:13:55.858 IMPORTANT THAT YOU MAKE HEAVEN THAN WHAT WE HAVE FOR LUNCH. I 02:13:55.858 --> 02:13:59.007 KNOW THERE WAS A HAND UP HERE, JUST COME ON DOWN. COME ON DOWN 02:13:59.007 --> 02:14:01.648 QUICKLY. MA'AM, I'M GONNA HAVE YOU JUST COME RIGHT UP HERE. 02:14:01.648 --> 02:14:05.296 THANK YOU, LONNIE. THANK YOU FOR DOING THAT. WHAT IS YOUR NAME? 02:14:06.627 --> 02:14:10.347 ISIS? THAT'S A BEAUTIFUL NAME. THANK YOU FOR COMING TODAY. YOU 02:14:10.347 --> 02:14:14.337 HAVE A BEAUTIFUL SMILE. IS THERE ANOTHER THAT I'M WAITING FOR? 02:14:14.337 --> 02:14:17.307 THERE WAS A HAND OVER HERE SOMEWHERE. OH, SHE'S COMING. 02:14:17.307 --> 02:14:19.677 OKAY, WE'RE GONNA GIVE YOU TIME, MA'AM. JUST TAKE YOUR TIME TO 02:14:19.677 --> 02:14:23.488 COME RIGHT ON DOWN HERE TO ME. YOU KNOW, EVERY TIME JESUS 02:14:23.488 --> 02:14:28.587 CALLED SOMEONE, HE CALLED THEM PUBLICLY, AND I DON'T DO IT TO 02:14:28.587 --> 02:14:31.948 EMBARRASS ANYONE. COME ON UP, MA'AM. I DON'T DO IT TO 02:14:31.948 --> 02:14:34.438 EMBARRASS YOU, BUT I KNOW THAT THIS WILL BE A DAY THAT YOU WILL 02:14:34.438 --> 02:14:38.097 REMEMBER BECAUSE YOU'RE MAKING A COMMITMENT TO JESUS CHRIST THAT 02:14:38.097 --> 02:14:42.118 WILL LAST ALL WHILE YOU'RE ON THIS EARTH, AND THEN SOMEDAY 02:14:42.118 --> 02:14:45.957 YOU'LL BE IN HEAVEN WITH HIM. WHAT'S YOUR NAME, MA'AM? MARLA. 02:14:45.957 --> 02:14:49.108 MARLA? THANK YOU FOR BEING SO BOLD, MARLA, TO COME FORWARD 02:14:49.108 --> 02:14:56.097 TODAY. WE HONOR YOUR COMMITMENT TO DO THAT. AND AS YOU TWO 02:14:56.097 --> 02:14:59.368 REPEAT AFTER ME THIS PRAYER, THIS IS GOING TO BE--OH, WE HAVE 02:14:59.368 --> 02:15:05.427 ANOTHER ONE HERE. OKAY, COME ON UP, MA'AM. MARLA ISIS, AND WHAT 02:15:05.427 --> 02:15:09.478 WAS YOUR NAME, MA'AM? HALEY. HALEY? YEAH. OKAY, HALEY, THANK 02:15:09.478 --> 02:15:12.568 YOU FOR COMING. GOD BLESS YOU. SO WHAT I'M GONNA ASK YOU TO DO, 02:15:12.568 --> 02:15:16.408 YEAH, YOU CAN HOLD HANDS, THAT'S GREAT. YOU'RE SOON GONNA BE 02:15:16.408 --> 02:15:20.997 SISTERS IN CHRIST BECAUSE ONCE YOU MAKE THAT DECISION TO SERVE 02:15:20.997 --> 02:15:26.457 HIM, IT STARTS WITH A PRAYER. THIS IS JUST THE BEGINNING, AND 02:15:26.457 --> 02:15:30.177 AS YOU MOVE FORWARD, WE'RE GONNA HELP YOU TO WALK WITH GOD. IN 02:15:30.177 --> 02:15:32.247 FACT, WE HAVE A CLASS THIS THURSDAY NIGHT FOR NEW 02:15:32.247 --> 02:15:34.948 BELIEVERS, JUST LIKE YOURSELF, THAT HAVE COME FORWARD JUST TO 02:15:34.948 --> 02:15:38.217 HELP YOU TO START. WHERE DO I START? I'M GONNA START WITH GOD 02:15:38.217 --> 02:15:41.158 AND WE'LL HELP YOU WITH THAT. AND OUR ELDER TEAM, I'M JUST 02:15:41.158 --> 02:15:43.497 GONNA HAVE YOU COME ON UP TOO NOW AND STAND BEHIND THESE 02:15:43.497 --> 02:15:46.018 BECAUSE I FORGOT TO CALL YOU. I GOT SO EXCITED ABOUT FATHER'S 02:15:46.018 --> 02:15:50.698 DAY. SO WE'RE GONNA PRAY THOUGH. AND FATHER GOD'S GONNA HEAR YOUR 02:15:50.698 --> 02:15:53.307 VOICE TODAY AND GONNA HEAR YOUR PRAYER TODAY. YOU JUST REPEAT 02:15:53.307 --> 02:15:55.858 AFTER ME AND IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, YOU CAN DO THE SAME 02:15:55.858 --> 02:16:00.778 THING WHEREVER YOU'RE AT. FATHER GOD, THANK YOU FOR SENDING 02:16:00.778 --> 02:16:06.507 JESUS. I BELIEVE THAT JESUS CHRIST WENT TO THE CROSS OF 02:16:06.507 --> 02:16:14.247 CALVARY. HE SUFFERED AND DIED ON THAT CROSS. HE WAS BURIED, AND 02:16:14.247 --> 02:16:20.547 THE BIBLE SAYS HE ROSE AGAIN ON THE THIRD DAY. I BELIEVE THAT. 02:16:20.547 --> 02:16:27.358 AND TODAY, JESUS, I ASK YOU, FORGIVE ME FOR ANY SIN IN MY 02:16:27.358 --> 02:16:32.816 LIFE. COME INTO MY HEART AND MAKE ME A NEW CREATURE. MAKE ME 02:16:32.816 --> 02:16:38.638 NEW FOR YOU, AND I WILL SERVE YOU ALL THE DAYS OF MY LIFE. 02:16:38.638 --> 02:16:43.468 AMEN. AND BECAUSE YOU PRAYED THAT TODAY, YOU'RE IN, YOU'RE ON 02:16:43.468 --> 02:16:46.977 YOUR WAY TO A WONDERFUL LIFE WITH GOD. OUR ALTAR TEAM IS 02:16:46.977 --> 02:16:50.218 GONNA HELP YOU TODAY AND GIVE YOU SOME INFORMATION. AND THANK 02:16:50.218 --> 02:16:52.528 YOU AGAIN FOR DOING THAT, AND WE'LL GET YOU INFORMATION AND 02:16:52.528 --> 02:16:54.986 LET YOU GO FORWARD. IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE TODAY, YOU CAN 02:16:54.986 --> 02:16:58.858 CALL OUR TOLL-FREE NUMBER. WE'LL PUT THAT UP ON THE SCREEN. OUR 02:16:58.858 --> 02:17:02.247 PRAYER COUNSELORS ARE THERE 24 HOURS A DAY TO HELP YOU, TO PRAY 02:17:02.247 --> 02:17:05.247 WITH YOU, AND GUIDE YOU, AND WE'LL GIVE YOU THE SAME 02:17:05.247 --> 02:17:08.459 INFORMATION WE GAVE THESE THAT CAME FORWARD TODAY. WELL GOD 02:17:08.459 --> 02:17:11.278 BLESS YOU. THANK YOU FOR COMING TODAY. DON'T FORGET TO BE BACK 02:17:11.278 --> 02:17:14.066 IN THE HOUSE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. HAVE A WONDERFUL FATHER'S DAY 02:17:14.066 --> 02:17:17.009 CELEBRATION AND A GREAT SUNDAY, AND WE'LL SEE YOU AGAIN 02:17:17.009 --> 02:17:18.959 WEDNESDAY. THANK YOU, ONLINE AUDIENCE.