WEBVTT 00:00.100 --> 00:04.324 (MUSIC) 00:05.319 --> 00:07.448 GOOD MORNING, LORD OF HOSTS CHURCH! 00:09.558 --> 00:13.443 ARE YOU READY TO LIFT UP THE LOUDEST PRAISE? 00:15.603 --> 00:17.425 I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, BUT I'M READY TO 00:17.425 --> 00:20.504 REMIND SATAN THAT HE IS DEFEATED. 00:21.374 --> 00:23.300 ARE YOU READY TO RAISE IT UP THIS MORNING? 00:24.122 --> 00:24.776 LET'S GO! 00:27.506 --> 01:05.569 (MUSIC) 01:05.569 --> 01:15.826 (MUSIC) 01:15.826 --> 01:27.761 (MUSIC) 01:27.761 --> 01:32.110 (MUSIC) 01:32.110 --> 01:43.849 (MUSIC) 01:43.849 --> 01:59.350 (MUSIC) 01:59.350 --> 02:09.491 (MUSIC) 02:09.491 --> 02:17.897 (MUSIC) 02:17.897 --> 02:23.543 (MUSIC) 02:24.640 --> 02:37.353 (MUSIC) 02:40.433 --> 02:52.031 (MUSIC) 02:52.031 --> 02:59.698 (MUSIC) 02:59.698 --> 03:17.855 (MUSIC) 03:19.479 --> 03:35.262 (MUSIC) 03:35.262 --> 03:43.413 (MUSIC) 03:43.413 --> 03:51.800 (MUSIC) 03:51.800 --> 04:03.269 (MUSIC) 04:03.269 --> 04:13.198 (MUSIC) 04:15.328 --> 04:21.239 (MUSIC) 04:21.239 --> 04:27.752 (MUSIC) 04:27.752 --> 04:42.358 (MUSIC) 04:42.358 --> 04:51.974 (MUSIC) 04:51.974 --> 05:00.616 (MUSIC) 05:03.088 --> 05:06.141 HOW MANY KNOW, THAT BECAUSE HE IS RISEN- 05:07.312 --> 05:12.498 ALL POWER AND AUTHORITY HAS BEEN GIVEN OVER YOU TO 05:12.498 --> 05:19.811 TRAMPLE OVER SCORPIONS AND TO CRUSH THE HEADS OF SERPENTS? I 05:19.811 --> 05:23.768 BELIEVE WE HAVE ENTERED INTO A DIVINE ENCOUNTER TODAY. IF YOU 05:23.768 --> 05:26.417 WALKED IN BOUND, WELL, YOU'RE GOING TO GET SET FREE. IF YOU 05:26.417 --> 05:29.329 WALKED IN DEPRESSED, YOU'RE GOING TO LEAVE WITH JOY. IF YOU 05:29.329 --> 05:32.290 CAME IN WITH LACK, WELL, GET READY FOR ABUNDANCE TO OVERTAKE 05:32.290 --> 05:35.886 YOUR LIFE. ARE YOU READY? WE'RE GOING TO PROPHESY. 05:38.809 --> 05:48.350 (MUSIC) 05:48.350 --> 05:57.712 (MUSIC) 05:57.712 --> 06:08.917 (MUSIC) 06:08.917 --> 06:15.120 (MUSIC) 06:15.120 --> 06:23.267 (MUSIC) 06:23.267 --> 06:30.398 (MUSIC) 06:30.398 --> 06:36.289 (MUSIC) 06:36.289 --> 06:48.202 (MUSIC) 06:48.202 --> 06:55.921 (MUSIC) 06:55.921 --> 07:07.697 (MUSIC) 07:09.460 --> 07:19.731 (MUSIC) 07:19.731 --> 07:26.616 (MUSIC) 07:26.616 --> 07:38.096 (MUSIC) 07:38.096 --> 07:50.554 (MUSIC) 07:50.554 --> 07:59.917 (MUSIC) 07:59.917 --> 08:13.437 (MUSIC) 08:15.182 --> 08:23.369 (MUSIC) 08:23.369 --> 08:28.078 (MUSIC) 08:31.738 --> 08:37.694 (MUSIC) 08:37.694 --> 08:44.466 (MUSIC) 08:44.466 --> 08:55.637 (MUSIC) 08:55.637 --> 09:06.063 (MUSIC) 09:06.063 --> 09:14.121 (MUSIC) 09:14.121 --> 09:23.412 (MUSIC) 09:23.412 --> 09:34.828 (MUSIC) 09:35.142 --> 09:36.854 WE'VE BEEN SET FREE. 09:39.452 --> 09:47.153 WE'VE BEEN SET FREE. SO WALK IN VICTORY. I PROPHESY TO 09:47.153 --> 09:59.874 YOU, WALK IN VICTORY. SET FREE. FEAR HAS TO GO. FEAR HAS TO GO. 10:01.728 --> 10:09.432 UNBELIEF HAS TO HAS TO GO. DOUBLE-MINDEDNESS HAS TO GO. 10:13.826 --> 10:24.786 ULCERS HAVE TO GO. PAIN IN YOUR BACK HAS TO GO. I PROPHESY THAT 10:24.786 --> 10:28.643 ANY PAIN THAT YOU ARE FEELING IN YOUR BODY RIGHT NOW, IN THE NAME 10:28.643 --> 10:31.375 OF JESUS, EVERYTHING THAT IS MORTAL, EVERYTHING THAT IS 10:31.375 --> 10:36.681 CARNAL, BE SWALLOWED UP BY THE ETERNAL LIFE OF YESHUA. WE 10:36.681 --> 10:45.613 RELEASE IT NOW IN JESUS' NAME. EVERY KNEE MUST BOW AT THE NAME 10:46.497 --> 10:56.032 ABOVE ALL NAMES. EVERY KNEE MUST BOW AT THE NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES. 10:58.281 --> 11:03.681 SWEET JESUS, SWEET JESUS. 11:05.603 --> 11:10.771 THERE'S NO BETTER NAME. THERE'S NO BETTER NAME. 11:12.251 --> 11:17.035 HE'S THE ONLY NAME. HE'S THE ONLY NAME. 11:18.194 --> 11:25.482 HE'S THE ONLY NAME, JESUS. HIS NAME IS JESUS. 11:26.140 --> 11:28.326 HIS NAME IS JESUS. 11:30.407 --> 11:32.768 HIS NAME IS JESUS. 11:36.858 --> 11:38.284 BE SET FREE. 11:39.270 --> 11:39.918 COME ON NOW. 11:40.664 --> 11:43.851 AS A PROPHETIC ACT, JUST REACH UP AND TAKE POSSESSION. 11:45.278 --> 11:48.509 OF ALL, OF ALL THE RICHES. 11:51.159 --> 11:53.704 THAT JESUS HAS GIVEN BACK TO YOU. 11:55.641 --> 11:58.285 THAT'S NOTHING MISSING, NOTHING BROKEN, 11:58.753 --> 12:01.246 NOTHING WRONG EVERYTHING RIGHT. 12:03.282 --> 12:13.766 (MUSIC) 12:13.766 --> 12:47.314 (MUSIC) 12:48.393 --> 13:08.532 (MUSIC) 13:08.532 --> 13:25.517 (MUSIC) 13:25.517 --> 14:20.913 (MUSIC) 14:20.913 --> 14:47.840 (MUSIC) 14:47.840 --> 15:00.518 (MUSIC) 15:00.518 --> 15:15.370 (MUSIC) 15:15.370 --> 15:31.932 (MUSIC) 15:31.932 --> 16:08.640 (MUSIC) 16:08.640 --> 16:48.855 (MUSIC) 16:48.855 --> 16:58.284 (MUSIC) 16:58.284 --> 17:06.439 (MUSIC) 17:06.439 --> 17:20.461 (MUSIC) 17:20.461 --> 17:33.840 (MUSIC) 17:33.840 --> 17:59.794 (MUSIC) 17:59.794 --> 18:08.061 (MUSIC) 18:08.061 --> 18:16.490 (MUSIC) 18:16.490 --> 18:26.582 (MUSIC) 18:26.582 --> 18:39.642 (MUSIC) 18:39.642 --> 18:52.888 (MUSIC) 18:52.888 --> 19:03.943 (MUSIC) 19:03.943 --> 19:17.972 (MUSIC) 19:20.692 --> 19:46.947 (MUSIC) 19:46.947 --> 19:57.793 (MUSIC) 19:57.793 --> 20:08.945 (MUSIC) 20:08.945 --> 20:19.058 (MUSIC) 20:21.544 --> 20:28.196 (MUSIC) 20:28.196 --> 20:37.281 (MUSIC) 20:37.281 --> 20:50.347 (MUSIC) 20:50.347 --> 21:00.480 (MUSIC) 21:00.480 --> 21:10.768 (MUSIC) 21:10.768 --> 21:20.182 (MUSIC) 21:20.182 --> 21:35.729 (MUSIC) 21:35.729 --> 21:47.980 (MUSIC) 21:47.980 --> 22:02.302 (MUSIC) 22:02.302 --> 22:11.437 (MUSIC) 22:11.437 --> 23:04.051 (MUSIC) 23:04.051 --> 23:17.380 (MUSIC) 23:17.380 --> 23:30.755 (MUSIC) 23:30.755 --> 23:43.534 (MUSIC) 23:46.330 --> 23:55.473 (MUSIC) 23:55.473 --> 24:04.062 (MUSIC) 24:04.829 --> 24:08.784 HE'S THE GOD OF MIRACLES. LET' PRAISE HIM THIS MORNING. 24:08.950 --> 24:11.708 LET'S GIVE HIM HONOR. WE ADORE YOU, 24:11.708 --> 24:16.621 LORD. YOU'RE THE GOD OF MIRACLES. YOU DO MIRACLES FOR 24:16.621 --> 24:24.242 US. YOU DO MIRACLES. SIGNS, WONDERS, AND MIRACLES WILL 24:24.242 --> 24:30.095 FOLLOW THE BELIEVER, AND WE BELIEVE. WE BELIEVE IN MIRACLES. 24:30.786 --> 24:36.656 WE THANK YOU FOR THE HOLY SPIRIT OPERATING IN OUR LIVES SO 24:36.656 --> 24:41.136 THAT WE CAN BE GUIDED AND DIRECTED AND SEE YOUR MIRACLES, 24:41.136 --> 24:46.006 NOT ONLY IN OUR OWN LIVES BUT THOSE THAT WE MINISTER TO, AS 24:46.006 --> 24:51.631 WE'RE ALL CALLED TO BE MINISTERS FOR YOU, LORD. HALLELUJAH! JUST 24:51.631 --> 24:55.814 PRAISE HIM TODAY. GIVE HIM A SHOUT OF PRAISE TODAY. 24:55.814 --> 25:03.770 HALLELUJAH! HALLELUJAH! THANK YOU, LORD. JESUS, WE HONOR YOU 25:03.770 --> 25:11.067 TODAY. OH, WE HONOR YOU TODAY, GOD OF MIRACLES. IT'S EVEN A 25:11.067 --> 25:16.278 MIRACLE THAT WE'RE STANDING HERE TODAY. DO YOU REALIZE YOU COULD 25:16.278 --> 25:23.615 HAVE BEEN TAKEN OUT BY THE DEVIL, BUT YOU'RE HERE? WE'RE 25:23.615 --> 25:28.591 OVERCOMERS IN JESUS' NAME. HALLELUJAH! YEAH, THANK YOU, 25:28.591 --> 25:34.254 LORD. OH, I WORSHIP YOU TODAY. THANK YOU, LORD. I'VE GOT TWO 25:34.254 --> 25:37.705 THINGS THAT I BELIEVE THE LORD DROPPED IN MY HEART FOR THIS 25:37.705 --> 25:44.455 MORNING, AND THEY BOTH KIND OF TIE TOGETHER. AND I HAD NO IDEA 25:44.455 --> 25:52.857 THAT THE TEAM WOULD BE SINGING THAT EVERY STRONGHOLD MUST BOW 25:52.857 --> 25:57.814 IN THE NAME OF JESUS, BUT THIS RELATES BECAUSE I BELIEVE 25:57.814 --> 26:03.604 THERE'S SOME PEOPLE HERE TODAY AND YOU FELT STOPPED DOWN IN 26:03.604 --> 26:09.810 WHAT YOU ARE CALLED TO ACHIEVE. AND IT MIGHT EVEN— I GUESS I 26:09.810 --> 26:13.303 WOULD DESCRIBE IT THIS WAY. IF YOU'VE EVER WORKED IN A GARDEN 26:13.303 --> 26:16.538 OR OUT IN YOUR YARD AND YOU'VE HAD A GARDEN HOSE AND IT'S BEEN 26:16.538 --> 26:20.915 TWISTED OR GNARLED AND THE FLOW WASN'T GETTING THROUGH. 26:20.915 --> 26:24.752 HE HAD TO STRAIGHTEN THAT THING OUT. GOD WILL STRAIGHTEN OUR 26:24.752 --> 26:30.163 PATHS, BUT SOMETIMES WE HAVE TO REALIZE THAT THE BATTLE THAT WE 26:30.163 --> 26:34.948 FACE IS NOT JUST IN THE NATURAL. SOMETIMES WE DO THINGS WRONG IN 26:34.948 --> 26:38.031 THE NATURAL THAT CAN CREATE OUR OWN PROBLEMS, BUT I'M TALKING 26:38.031 --> 26:42.254 ABOUT AS CHRISTIANS, SOMETIMES WE HAVE SUPERNATURAL OPPOSITION 26:42.254 --> 26:47.810 IN THE FORM OF SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES AND IF 26:47.810 --> 26:51.342 THERE'S SOMEONE HERE AND YOU SAID, PASTOR DOUG, THAT'S ME— I 26:51.342 --> 26:55.501 MEAN, WE ALL HAVE, EVEN APOSTLE MIKE HAS SOME BATTLES AT TIMES 26:55.501 --> 26:59.033 AND THINGS THAT HE HAS TO FIGHT THROUGH. THAT'S JUST PART OF THE 26:59.033 --> 27:04.107 CHRISTIAN LIFE. BUT IF YOU FELT LIKE THERE'S BEEN A SUPERNATURAL 27:04.107 --> 27:08.137 BATTLE TO KEEP YOU FROM ACHIEVING WHAT GOD'S CALLING YOU 27:08.137 --> 27:10.674 TO DO, AND IT MIGHT BE THROUGH A RELATIONSHIP, IT COULD BE 27:10.674 --> 27:12.320 THROUGH YOUR EMPLOYMENT. MAYBE IT'S A 27:12.320 --> 27:15.197 STRUGGLE YOU'RE HAVING IN YOUR BUSINESS. MAYBE IT'S A FINANCIAL 27:15.197 --> 27:18.009 STRUGGLE. I DON'T KNOW, IT COULD BE ANY OF THOSE THINGS OR EVEN 27:18.009 --> 27:20.992 MORE. BUT IF THAT'S YOU, I WANT YOU TO RUN UP HERE TODAY BECAUSE 27:20.992 --> 27:25.909 I BELIEVE THAT WE ARE GOING TO BREAK THAT POWER THAT'S HOLDING 27:25.909 --> 27:32.974 YOU BACK. YOU KNOW, JOHN 10:10 TELLS US WHAT THE DEVIL'S 27:32.974 --> 27:37.749 ASSIGNMENT IS. THAT'S TO “STEAL, KILL, AND DESTROY.” THAT'S IT. 27:37.749 --> 27:41.908 THAT'S WHAT HE WANTS TO DO. AND IF HE CAN HOLD YOU BACK FROM 27:41.908 --> 27:46.633 EVERYTHING THAT YOU'VE BEEN ASSIGNED TO ACCOMPLISH, THAT IS 27:46.633 --> 27:54.186 HIS GREATEST DESIRE. BUT THE GOOD NEWS IS THAT JESUS HAS AN 27:54.186 --> 27:57.665 ABUNDANT PLAN. HE'S GIVEN US POWER AND AUTHORITY OVER THE 27:57.665 --> 28:02.742 DEVIL. AND PROVERBS 3:6 SAYS, “IN ALL YOUR WAYS SUBMIT TO HIM, 28:02.742 --> 28:06.162 HE'LL MAKE YOUR PATHS STRAIGHT.” IN OTHER WORDS, IF YOU GOT A 28:06.162 --> 28:12.384 CLOG, YOU GOT A SETBACK, YOU GOT A DETOUR, GOD'S GOING TO MAKE 28:12.384 --> 28:15.556 THOSE THINGS STRAIGHT FOR YOU. USHERS, GIVE ME ONE LINE TODAY 28:15.556 --> 28:26.079 IF YOU COULD. PASTOR KEITH, CAN YOU RUN UP HERE FOR A MINUTE? I 28:26.079 --> 28:29.467 KNOW THERE'S PEOPLE ONLINE TODAY AND YOU'RE RELATING TO WHAT I'M 28:29.467 --> 28:32.081 SAYING. YOU'VE HAD SOME SETBACKS, YOU'VE HAD SOME 28:32.081 --> 28:35.833 DETOURS. DETOURS, AND YOU KNOW IT'S A SPIRITUAL OPPOSITION IN 28:35.833 --> 28:39.702 YOUR LIFE. AND I'M GOING TO HAVE PASTOR KEITH PRAY FOR YOU, AND 28:39.702 --> 28:44.400 I'M GOING TO ASK APOSTLE MIKE AND MY WIFE TO HELP ME, AND 28:44.400 --> 28:46.723 WE'RE GOING TO MINISTER TO EACH ONE OF YOU AND BREAK THAT OVER 28:46.723 --> 28:52.643 YOU IN JESUS' NAME. FATHER GOD, WE REACH OUT TO THOSE WHO ARE 28:52.643 --> 28:59.428 WATCHING, AND WE DECLARE IN THE NAME OF JESUS CHRIST WHATEVER 28:59.428 --> 29:03.354 PROBLEM, WHATEVER SITUATION, WHATEVER CIRCUMSTANCES, WHATEVER 29:03.354 --> 29:08.418 THING THAT IS COMING AGAINST YOU, IN THE NAME OF JESUS OF 29:08.418 --> 29:15.869 NAZARETH, IT IS BROKEN. IN THE NAME OF JESUS OF NAZARETH, IT IS 29:15.869 --> 29:20.596 DISMISSED FROM ITS ASSIGNMENT. IN THE NAME OF JESUS OF 29:20.596 --> 29:28.111 NAZARETH, IT IS LOOSED FROM YOUR LIFE. AND IN THE NAME OF JESUS, 29:28.111 --> 29:32.854 WE DECLARE THE POWER OF GOD IS PRESENT TO HEAL, RESTORE, BRING 29:32.854 --> 29:38.126 LIFE, BRING WHOLENESS TO YOUR FINANCES, TO YOUR FLESH, TO 29:38.126 --> 29:42.228 EVERY PART OF YOUR RELATIONSHIPS WITH MEN AND WOMEN AND PEOPLE 29:42.228 --> 29:48.493 AROUND YOU. THE POWER OF GOD IS PRESENT WITH YOU TO TOUCH EVERY 29:48.493 --> 29:51.890 SITUATION AND EVERY CIRCUMSTANCE. AND IN THE NAME OF 29:51.890 --> 29:58.085 JESUS, SETTING YOU FREE TO BE ALL YOU CAN BE IN HIM WHO HAS 29:58.085 --> 30:04.762 WON THE VICTORY. HIS NAME IS JESUS. CALL UPON HIM NOW AND 30:04.762 --> 30:09.561 BELIEVE THAT HIS PRESENCE IS THERE WITH YOU, SETTING YOU 30:09.561 --> 30:14.392 FREE, BREAKING THE YOKES, DESTROYING THE BONDAGES, TEARING 30:14.392 --> 30:18.725 DOWN EVERY STRONGHOLD THAT WOULD TRY TO SET ITSELF AGAINST THE 30:18.725 --> 30:24.887 PLAN OF GOD AND BRINGING YOU INTO THE FULLNESS OF HIS GRACE, 30:24.887 --> 30:30.664 HIS POWER, HIS MIGHT, HIS SUFFICIENCY. THAT IN THE NAME OF 30:30.664 --> 30:36.522 JESUS, IN THAT POWERFUL NAME, YOU WILL WALK IN A VICTORY YOU 30:36.522 --> 30:41.015 HAVEN'T EXPERIENCED BEFORE. YOU WILL WALK IN A LINE OF 30:41.015 --> 30:45.923 ACCOMPLISHING THE WILL OF GOD THAT HAS SEEMED FAR FROM YOU, 30:45.923 --> 30:53.030 AND YOU WILL SEE YOURSELF COMPLETE IN HIM, IN HIM, IN 30:53.030 --> 31:00.433 CHRIST, WHO HAS SAID, I HAVE COME TO SET THE CAPTIVES FREE. 31:01.926 --> 31:07.875 AND IN THAT NAME ABOVE ALL NAMES, THE VICTORY THAT WILL BE 31:07.875 --> 31:14.653 ESTABLISHED AND WON FOR YOU WILL BE YOURS AS YOU CLAIM IT RIGHT 31:14.653 --> 31:23.246 NOW AND RECEIVE. BELIEVE, RECEIVE. BELIEVE, RECEIVE. IN 31:23.246 --> 31:30.651 JESUS' NAME, I DECLARE IT, AND IN JESUS' NAME, I SPEAK THE 31:30.651 --> 31:36.288 VICTORY IS YOURS BECAUSE THE BATTLE IS THE LORD'S AND HE HAS 31:36.288 --> 31:45.585 SAID, I WILL DO, AND I WILL RELEASE THE POWER OF GRACE INTO 31:45.585 --> 31:52.971 YOUR LIFE EVEN NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS. SAY IT IN THE NAME OF 31:52.971 --> 32:01.545 JESUS, IN THE NAME OF JESUS, IN THE NAME OF JESUS. CALL UPON 32:01.545 --> 32:07.406 THAT NAME, FOR IN THAT NAME EVERY KNEE WILL BOW, EVERY 32:07.406 --> 32:18.662 TONGUE CONFESS JESUS IS LORD. AMEN. HALLELUJAH. HERE'S THE 32:18.662 --> 32:23.864 SECOND THING. SECOND THING. JANET, I WANT YOU TO COME UP 32:23.864 --> 32:29.253 HERE. HERE'S WHAT I'M FEELING IS THERE'S ALSO BEEN AN ATTACK, 32:32.917 --> 32:36.402 ESPECIALLY ON OUR STATE CAPITALS, WITH SPIRITUAL 32:36.402 --> 32:40.176 WICKEDNESS IN HIGH PLACES. IF YOU'RE FROM LINCOLN, NEBRASKA, 32:40.176 --> 32:42.500 WHICH IS THE STATE CAPITAL OF NEBRASKA, I WANT YOU TO RUN UP 32:42.500 --> 32:47.190 HERE QUICKLY. STAND RIGHT UP HERE IF YOU'RE FROM LINCOLN. IF 32:47.190 --> 32:51.696 THERE'S ANYONE HERE FROM MISSOURI, I WANT YOU TO COME UP 32:51.696 --> 32:54.752 HERE QUICKLY, AND YOU'RE GOING TO REPRESENT JEFFERSON 32:54.752 --> 33:00.337 CITY. WES, I KNOW YOU'RE HERE. IS THERE SOMEONE HERE FROM IOWA? 33:02.062 --> 33:04.347 IF THERE'S SOMEONE HERE FROM IOWA, I WANT YOU TO RUN UP HERE 33:04.347 --> 33:09.321 NOW. YOU'RE GOING TO STAND IN FOR DES MOINES. IF THERE'S 33:09.321 --> 33:13.484 SOMEONE HERE FROM SOUTH DAKOTA, COME UP HERE AND STAND IN FOR 33:13.484 --> 33:20.341 PIERRE. AND WE'RE GOING TO BELIEVE GOD AND MAYBE YOU'RE 33:20.341 --> 33:23.431 FROM ANOTHER STATE. JANET'S GOING TO ADDRESS THAT. IF 33:23.431 --> 33:26.777 THERE'S SOMEONE HERE FROM A STATE THAT MAYBE YOU DRIVE IN 33:26.777 --> 33:30.082 FROM KANSAS, I DON'T KNOW, BUT YOU'RE WELCOME TO COME UP HERE 33:30.082 --> 33:36.753 AND STAND IN FOR OUR STATE CAPITALS BECAUSE IT IS A CENTER 33:36.753 --> 33:41.634 OF SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS. AND I KNOW EVEN IN NEBRASKA THERE ARE 33:41.634 --> 33:44.611 STRONGHOLDS THERE THAT OUR LINCOLN PEOPLE ARE PRAYING FOR 33:44.611 --> 33:49.765 TO BELIEVE ARE BROKEN BECAUSE DECISIONS FOR THE ENTIRE STATE 33:49.765 --> 33:52.110 OR WHATEVER STATE YOU'RE LIVING IN ARE MADE IN YOUR STATE 33:52.110 --> 33:55.804 CAPITAL. WE NEED TO LIFT THOSE LEADERS UP AND BELIEVE THAT 33:55.804 --> 33:59.739 THEY'LL BE DELIVERED FROM THE SPIRITUAL WICKEDNESS. THEY'LL 33:59.739 --> 34:05.521 RECEIVE CHRIST AND TURN AND START WORKING TO BRING MORALITY 34:05.521 --> 34:10.019 AND GOD'S FAVOR BACK ON OUR STATES. SO JANET, I'M JUST GOING 34:10.019 --> 34:12.745 TO ASK YOU TO PRAY FOR THE ONLINE, AND I'M GOING TO PRAY 34:12.745 --> 34:16.047 AND JUST LAY HANDS ON YOU, BELIEVING THAT WE'RE BEING IN 34:16.047 --> 34:20.054 AGREEMENT TODAY, THAT YOU'RE STANDING IN AGREEMENT FOR YOUR 34:20.054 --> 34:23.869 STATE, AND I WANT TO JOIN WITH YOU IN THAT TODAY. OKAY. OUR 34:23.869 --> 34:27.796 FATHER WHO ART IN HEAVEN, HALLOWED BE THY NAME. YOU ARE 34:27.796 --> 34:32.220 KING OF KINGS AND YOU ARE LORD OF LORDS. AND FATHER, IN THIS 34:32.220 --> 34:37.510 TIME, FATHER, WE LOOK UP TO YOU. WE RAISE OUR EYES TO YOU, FATHER 34:37.510 --> 34:40.971 GOD, AND WE TO LIFT UP THIS NATION. COME ON, I WANT TO HEAR 34:40.971 --> 34:47.198 A ROAR IN THIS PLACE. I WANT TO HEAR A ROAR ONLINE. YOU HAVE 34:47.198 --> 34:52.920 GIVEN US AUTHORITY FAR ABOVE ALL PRINCIPALITIES, POWERS, AND 34:52.920 --> 34:56.897 RULERS OF THE DARKNESS OF THIS WORLD. WE'RE SEATED ON THE RIGHT 34:56.897 --> 35:01.680 HAND OF CHRIST. THE BLOOD WAS SHED FOR US IN THE UNITED 35:01.680 --> 35:06.167 STATES, IN THE STAND THAT WE TAKE. WE PRAY OVER ALL OF THE 35:06.167 --> 35:11.256 STATES. WE PRAY FROM HAWAII TO MAINE, FROM THE NORTH, THE 35:11.256 --> 35:15.321 SOUTH, AND THE EAST, AND THE WEST, THAT WE ARE COVERED BY THE 35:15.321 --> 35:24.525 BLOOD OF JESUS. EVERY CAPITAL, THE LORD REBUKE YOU IN THE NAME 35:24.525 --> 35:34.414 OF JESUS. WE TAKE DOWN THOSE STRONGHOLDS. WE ARE SO STRONG 35:34.414 --> 35:39.807 WE'RE PRAYING IN UNITY. WE ARE THE BODY OF CHRIST. WE ARE NOT 35:39.807 --> 35:43.838 OF THIS WORLD. SO I WANT TO HEAR MORE OF A ROAR. THERE'S A LOT OF 35:43.838 --> 35:56.644 PEOPLE IN HERE. WE HAVE THE VICTORY. WE HAVE THE VICTORY. WE 35:56.644 --> 36:01.353 PLEAD THE BLOOD OF JESUS OVER EVERY STATE. WE PLEAD THE BLOOD 36:01.353 --> 36:12.390 OF JESUS OVER EVERY CAPITAL CITY. WE HAVE THE AUTHORITY. WE 36:12.390 --> 36:18.418 STAND. WE STAND IN FAITH. WE STAND FOR RIGHTEOUSNESS AND 36:18.418 --> 36:24.370 JUSTICE RULING. I'M ASKING YOU, LORD, TODAY TO AWAKEN US TO WHO 36:24.370 --> 36:30.865 WE ARE IN CHRIST. THIS NATION IS GOING UP. WE'RE NOT COMING DOWN. 36:30.865 --> 36:38.847 HALLELUJAH. HALLELUJAH! NOW FATHER GOD, I JUST SPEAK SHALOM, 36:38.847 --> 36:46.476 SHALOM OVER THE NATION. SHALOM EVERY CAPITAL. FATHER, WE REBUKE 36:46.476 --> 36:53.382 ANY FALSE IDEOLOGIES RIGHT NOW IN THE NAME OF JESUS. IN FACT, 36:54.522 --> 36:59.180 THE LORD REBUKE YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS. HE HAS GIVEN US THAT 36:59.180 --> 37:04.713 AUTHORITY. 2014, WE SPEAK THAT WE WILL WIN THE VICTORY. WE WILL 37:04.713 --> 37:11.192 FULFILL THE PLAN OF GOD, AND WE THANK YOU FOR IT. WE THANK YOU. 37:11.192 --> 37:18.986 WE THANK YOU, LORD, FOR PEACE, SHALOM. ALL ANARCHY, BE THOU 37:18.986 --> 37:26.026 REMOVED AND CAST INTO THE SEA IN JESUS' NAME. HALLELUJAH. THANK 37:26.026 --> 37:31.654 YOU, JANET. HALLELUJAH. HE'S A GOD OF MIRACLES. SOMETIMES WE 37:31.654 --> 37:35.022 CAN'T SEE IN THE NATURAL HOW IT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT WE 37:35.022 --> 37:39.431 BELIEVE, WE HAVE FAITH, AND WE BELIEVE THE PROPHET. WE BELIEVE 37:39.431 --> 37:43.985 THINGS ARE GOING TO TURN FOR THE GOOD IN THIS NATION. AMEN, AMEN, 37:43.985 --> 37:47.769 AMEN. HALLELUJAH. YOU CAN RETURN TO YOUR SEATS. LET'S DO THIS 37:47.769 --> 37:51.361 THIS MORNING. FIND SOMEONE YOU DON'T KNOW AND INTRODUCE 37:51.361 --> 37:53.542 YOURSELF AND SAY, IT'S GOOD TO BE IN THE HOUSE OF THE 37:53.542 --> 37:55.365 LORD ON A SUNDAY MORNING. 39:01.997 --> 39:05.511 WELL, GOOD MORNING, CHURCH! HOW MANY 39:05.511 --> 39:11.030 OF YOU ARE EXCITED YOU CAME TO GOD'S HOUSE TODAY? OH, WE ARE SO 39:11.030 --> 39:15.374 SO EXCITED TO SEE EACH AND EVERY ONE OF YOU HERE. IF THIS IS YOUR 39:15.374 --> 39:19.060 FIRST TIME, I'D ASK YOU TO BOLDLY RAISE YOUR HANDS. USHERS 39:19.060 --> 39:23.485 ARE IN THE AISLES WITH A GUEST BAG JUST FOR YOU. DON'T BE SHY. 39:23.485 --> 39:27.733 GRAB ONE. IN IT IS FULL OF RESOURCES FOR YOU. BUT I WANT TO 39:27.733 --> 39:31.403 HIGHLIGHT THE GUEST PACKET THAT'S INSIDE. IF YOU WERE TO 39:31.403 --> 39:34.561 TAKE THAT OUT, THERE'S A BRIGHT ORANGE CONNECT CARD THAT I'M 39:34.561 --> 39:37.896 GOING TO ASK YOU IF YOU CAN TEAR OUT AND FILL OUT AND DROP IN THE 39:37.896 --> 39:40.627 OFFERING BASKET. WE JUST LIKE TO GET TO KNOW YOU, WHERE YOU COME 39:40.627 --> 39:42.956 FROM, THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME, GET TO KNOW YOU MORE AND SEND 39:42.956 --> 39:46.265 THANK YOU FOR COMING OUT. IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, 39:46.265 --> 39:49.542 WHETHER IT BE ROKU OR FACEBOOK OR YOUTUBE OR WHEREVER YOU'RE 39:49.542 --> 39:51.711 WATCHING FROM, WE ENCOURAGE YOU, IF YOU'RE NOT THERE YET, TO 39:51.711 --> 39:56.466 CHECK OUT ONEVOICETV.NET. WE WELCOME YOU TO TODAY'S SERVICE. 39:56.466 --> 39:59.422 AND AT ONE VOICE TV, YOU'LL BE ABLE TO NOT ONLY STREAM SERVICES 39:59.422 --> 40:02.249 ONLINE WITH US, BUT YOU WOULD ALSO BE ABLE TO SEE SHOWS ON 40:02.249 --> 40:05.382 DEMAND THAT HAVE BEEN PRODUCED AND PUT TOGETHER BY ALLOW THE 40:05.382 --> 40:08.361 HOLY SPIRIT TO BUILD YOU UP DURING THE WEEK. THERE'S ALSO 40:08.361 --> 40:13.094 WORSHIP 24/7. SO WE ENCOURAGE YOU TO CHECK OUT ONEVOICETV.NET 40:13.094 --> 40:15.366 WHERE YOU CAN LEARN MORE ABOUT THE AWESOME PROGRAMS THAT ARE 40:15.366 --> 40:18.862 AVAILABLE TO YOU. SO THIS MORNING WE'D LIKE TO GIVE ALL OF 40:18.862 --> 40:23.185 OUR GUESTS HERE AND ONLINE A HAND, AND LET'S WELCOME BOB. 40:26.100 --> 40:28.339 THANK YOU, PASTOR MIKE. YOU CAN DO A BETTER HAND THAN THAT. 40:28.339 --> 40:34.440 LET'S GIVE THEM A HAND. WELL, THANK YOU, PASTOR MIKE. MY NAME 40:34.440 --> 40:37.086 IS BOB PETTIGREW, AND I HAVE THE PRIVILEGE OF WORKING WITH 40:37.086 --> 40:40.934 PASTORS TO LEAD OUR OUTREACH PROGRAM. AND HOW MANY OF US KNOW 40:40.934 --> 40:45.408 THE WORD OF THE LORD IS TRUE? RIGHT? SO PASTOR HANK 40:45.408 --> 40:49.818 PROPHESIED, THE LORD PROPHESIED THROUGH PASTOR HANK, A CALM 40:49.818 --> 40:52.881 STORM SEASON, AND THAT'S WHAT WE HAD THIS YEAR UNTIL THIS LAST 40:52.881 --> 40:57.211 WEEK. AND OUR HEARTS GO OUT TO EVERYBODY THAT'S BEEN IMPACTED 40:57.211 --> 41:01.164 BY THE GULF STORM, EVERYBODY ON THE GULF COAST AND NORTH OF THAT 41:01.164 --> 41:05.346 THAT'S EXPERIENCING SOMETHING RIGHT NOW. OUR PRAYERS TO ME 41:05.346 --> 41:10.594 WERE ENCAPSULATED THIS MORNING IN OUR PRAISE AND WORSHIP. IN 41:10.594 --> 41:13.618 OUR PRAISE AND WORSHIP, WE DECLARED CYCLES WILL BE BROKEN. 41:15.249 --> 41:19.278 AND WE ALSO PRAYED AND DECLARED MIRACLES. SO YOU FOLKS THAT ARE 41:19.278 --> 41:23.532 IN NEED OF A MIRACLE, WE ARE STANDING WITH YOU IN PURE FAITH 41:23.532 --> 41:27.494 THAT GOD WILL COME THROUGH IN YOUR TIME OF NEED. WHAT I WANT 41:27.494 --> 41:31.178 TO DO IS I WANT TO TRANSITION NOW TO OUR LOCAL AREA. THIS LAST 41:31.178 --> 41:35.457 WEEK, IF YOU'RE IN THIS LOCAL AREA, YOU GOT TO EXPERIENCE SOME 41:35.457 --> 41:39.525 HISTORIC RAINS. WE HAD ABOUT 8.25 INCHES OF RAIN, MAYBE A 41:39.525 --> 41:42.890 LITTLE BIT MORE IN THE HEAVIEST AREAS. AND WHAT OUR OUTREACH 41:42.890 --> 41:46.674 PROGRAM IS GOING TO DO THIS WEEK— AND I'VE GOT A CALL TO 41:46.674 --> 41:49.539 ACTION FOR ANYBODY THAT'S IN THIS ROOM, OR IF YOU'RE ONLINE 41:49.539 --> 41:52.898 AND YOU'RE WATCHING, YOU'RE FROM THE OMAHA AREA, THIS DOES NOT 41:52.898 --> 41:56.736 PERTAIN TO ANYBODY OUTSIDE THE OMAHA AREA. IF YOU'RE FROM THIS 41:56.736 --> 41:59.706 AREA, WE'RE GOING TO ASK YOU TO VISIT AN INFORMATION CENTER 41:59.706 --> 42:02.548 AFTER SERVICE. AND I TALK WITH LIKE MY LEFT HAND. DID YOU 42:02.548 --> 42:07.333 NOTICE THAT? IT'S KIND OF WEIRD. WE'RE GOING TO ASK YOU TO VISIT 42:07.333 --> 42:11.508 AN INFORMATION CENTER AFTER SERVICE BECAUSE WE'D LIKE TO 42:11.508 --> 42:13.691 REACH OUT AND HELP. AND HERE'S THE CHALLENGE IS WE DON'T KNOW 42:13.691 --> 42:17.802 WHAT THE ORDER OF MAGNITUDE IS FOR WHAT THE REAL NEED IS. WE 42:17.802 --> 42:20.019 KNOW THAT WE HAD SOME STAFF MEMBERS HERE AT LORD OF HOSTS 42:20.019 --> 42:22.606 CHURCH THAT WERE INUNDATED WITH WATER. THEY HAD WATER COME IN 42:22.606 --> 42:24.758 THROUGH THEIR BASEMENT, THEY HAD WATER COME IN THROUGH THEIR 42:24.758 --> 42:28.774 ROOF, AND OUR HEART GOES OUT TO EVERY SINGLE PERSON IN HERE 42:28.774 --> 42:31.200 THAT'S BEEN IMPACTED BY THAT. AND WHAT WE WANT TO DO IS WE 42:31.200 --> 42:35.055 WANT TO TAKE WHAT THE LORD'S BLESSED US WITH IN FINANCES, AND 42:35.055 --> 42:38.091 WE WANT TO IN TURN BLESS YOU, OUR LOCAL CHURCH FAMILY 42:38.091 --> 42:42.669 COMMUNITY, IN THE WAYS THAT WE CAN HELP. SO PLEASE, IF THAT'S 42:42.669 --> 42:45.914 YOU, IF YOU WERE IMPACTED BY STORMS. I WON'T ASK FOR A SHOW 42:45.914 --> 42:49.176 OF HANDS. IT COULD HAVE BEEN WATER THAT CAME IN FROM THE 42:49.176 --> 42:52.976 GROUND, FROM YOUR ROOF. IF IT'S A FLOOD, WE KNOW THAT'S 42:52.976 --> 42:55.445 OFTENTIMES NOT COVERED BY REGULAR HOMEOWNERS INSURANCE. 42:57.281 --> 43:00.040 I'M NOT 100% SURE WHAT WE'RE GOING TO BE ABLE TO DO UNTIL WE 43:00.040 --> 43:03.216 ASSESS WHAT ALL THE DAMAGE IS, BUT IF YOU WERE IMPACTED, I'M 43:03.216 --> 43:05.736 GOING TO ASK YOU TO VISIT IMMEDIATELY AFTER SERVICE, GO 43:05.736 --> 43:08.868 VISIT AN INFORMATION CENTER AND FILL OUT A BRIEF FORM. WE'RE 43:08.868 --> 43:11.428 GOING TO ASK FOR YOUR CONTACT INFO AND JUST A SHORT 43:11.428 --> 43:14.398 NARRATIVE OF HOW WE CAN HELP. AND THEN THIS WEEK I WILL 43:14.398 --> 43:17.433 PERSONALLY REACH OUT TO YOU AND WE'LL TALK ABOUT WHAT YOUR NEED 43:17.433 --> 43:20.483 IS. AND I'LL REPORT ALL THAT BACK TO PASTOR BRENDA AND PASTOR 43:20.483 --> 43:23.309 HANK AND THEN WE'LL FIGURE OUT WHERE TO GO FROM THERE. BUT 43:23.309 --> 43:28.303 PASTORS, WE'RE REALLY IMPORTANT. THANK YOU, THANK YOU. IT'S VERY 43:28.303 --> 43:31.257 IMPORTANT TO PASTORS THAT WE LIFT UP OUR COMMUNITY, NOT JUST 43:31.257 --> 43:34.453 IN WHAT WE DO INSIDE THE FOUR WALLS, BUT HOW WE CAN HELP YOU 43:34.453 --> 43:37.928 OUTSIDE THE FOUR WALLS. SO THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR YOUR TIME. MY 43:37.928 --> 43:40.109 LEFT HAND THANKS YOU TOO. THAT'S JUST KIND OF WAVING ALL OVER THE 43:40.109 --> 43:42.856 PLACE. I'M GOING TO INTRODUCE PASTOR MARK. HE'S GOING TO COME 43:42.856 --> 43:56.692 UP AND DO OUR OFFERING MESSAGE. GLORY TO GOD. IT WORKS BETTER 43:56.692 --> 44:01.226 THE SECOND TIME. WHEN YOU TURN IT ON, IT'LL WORK. PRAISE JESUS. 44:01.226 --> 44:05.259 THANK YOU, BOB, FOR THAT. THAT WAS A THAT'S A WONDERFUL CAUSE, 44:05.259 --> 44:07.330 AND I APPRECIATE ALL THE HARD WORK THAT YOU'RE PUTTING INTO 44:07.330 --> 44:11.426 THAT. AND PLEASE DO TRY TO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF THAT, FOLKS. I'M 44:11.426 --> 44:15.071 GOING TO JUMP RIGHT IN HERE REAL QUICK SO THAT WE CAN GET OUR 44:15.071 --> 44:18.428 ESTEEMED GUEST SPEAKER, APOSTLE KEYS, UP ON THE PLATFORM SOONER 44:18.428 --> 44:22.106 RATHER THAN LATER. BUT IF THEY WILL PUT UP TODAY'S SCRIPTURE 44:22.106 --> 44:26.057 THAT I WANT TO GIVE TO YOU FOR THE OFFERING, IT'S GOING TO BE 44:26.057 --> 44:31.775 MATTHEW 6:24, AND I WANT TO LOOK AT VERSES 24 ALL THE WAY 44:31.775 --> 44:38.702 DOWN TO 33, AND I'M GOING TO READ THIS FROM THE NLT, AND IT 44:38.702 --> 44:43.740 GOES LIKE THIS: NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO MASTERS, FOR EITHER HE WILL 44:43.740 --> 44:48.993 HATE THE ONE AND LOVE THE OTHER, OR ELSE HE WILL HOLD TO THE ONE 44:48.993 --> 44:57.105 AND DESPISE THE OTHER. YOU CANNOT SERVE TWO MASTERS. YOU 44:57.105 --> 45:01.903 CANNOT SERVE BOTH GOD AND MAMMON. NO MAN CAN SERVE TWO 45:01.903 --> 45:06.975 MASTERS. OKAY, HERE WE GO. LET'S TRY IT AGAIN. WE'RE MISSING IT. 45:08.790 --> 45:15.479 ALL RIGHT, NLT. THAT IS WHY I TELL YOU NOT TO WORRY ABOUT 45:15.479 --> 45:20.257 EVERYDAY LIFE, WHETHER YOU HAVE ENOUGH FOOD OR DRINK OR ENOUGH 45:20.257 --> 45:31.225 CLOTHES TO WEAR. ISN'T LIFE MORE THAN FOOD? WE'RE NOT LINED UP 45:31.225 --> 45:34.037 HERE. AND YOUR BODY MORE THAN CLOTHING? LOOK AT THE BIRDS. 45:34.037 --> 45:38.547 THEY DON'T PLANT OR HARVEST OR STORE FOOD IN BARNS, FOR YOUR 45:38.547 --> 45:42.814 HEAVENLY FATHER FEEDS THEM. AND AREN'T YOU FAR MORE VALUABLE TO 45:42.814 --> 45:47.564 HIM THAN THEY ARE? CAN ALL YOUR WORRIES ADD A SINGLE MOMENT TO 45:47.564 --> 45:51.802 YOUR LIFE? 'AND WHY WORRY ABOUT YOUR CLOTHING? LOOK AT THE 45:51.802 --> 45:57.150 LILIES OF THE FIELD AND HOW THEY GROW. THEY DON'T WORK OR MAKE 45:57.150 --> 46:01.824 THEIR CLOTHING, YET SOLOMON IN ALL HIS GLORY WAS NOT DRESSED AS 46:01.824 --> 46:06.321 BEAUTIFULLY AS THEY ARE. AND IF GOD CARES SO WONDERFULLY FOR 46:06.321 --> 46:09.870 WILDFLOWERS THAT ARE HERE TODAY AND THROWN INTO THE FIRE 46:09.870 --> 46:14.383 TOMORROW, HE WILL CERTAINLY CARE FOR YOU. WHY DO YOU HAVE SO 46:14.383 --> 46:18.310 LITTLE FAITH. SO DON'T WORRY ABOUT THESE THINGS, 46:18.310 --> 46:22.622 SAYING, WHAT WILL WE EAT? WHAT WILL WE DRINK? WHAT WILL WE 46:22.622 --> 46:27.955 WEAR? THESE THINGS DOMINATE THE THOUGHTS OF UNBELIEVERS, BUT 46:27.955 --> 46:35.819 YOUR HEAVENLY FATHER ALREADY KNOWS ALL YOUR NEEDS. OKAY, SO 46:35.819 --> 46:41.114 LET'S JUMP BACK UP TO THE TOP FOR A MOMENT, VERSE 24, AND TALK 46:41.114 --> 46:43.754 ABOUT THE MONEY THING. WE GOT TO FIX THE MONEY THING, AS 46:43.754 --> 46:48.704 THEY SAY. NO, MONEY IS NOT THE ROOT OF ALL EVIL, AS THEY 46:48.704 --> 46:53.689 COMMONLY SAY IN THE WORLD. IT'S THE LOVE OF MONEY, OR THE 46:53.689 --> 46:59.238 DEVOTION TO IT, THAT LEADS US AWAY FROM THE FAITH. MONEY IN 46:59.238 --> 47:02.948 AND OF ITSELF, OF COURSE, IS NOT EVIL. THERE'S NOTHING INHERENTLY 47:02.948 --> 47:06.642 WICKED ABOUT IT. IN FACT, IT CAN BE A VERY USEFUL TOOL, RIGHT? 47:07.808 --> 47:12.487 REALLY, IN THE WORLD THAT WE LIVE IN, YOU CAN'T DO MUCH OF 47:12.487 --> 47:16.956 ANYTHING WITHOUT MONEY, CAN YOU? I MEAN, WE NEED IT. THE CHURCH 47:16.956 --> 47:21.522 NEEDS IT TO SPREAD THE GOSPEL. I MEAN, WITHOUT IT, WE CAN'T TURN 47:21.522 --> 47:26.056 ON THE LIGHTS. WE CAN'T TURN ON THE AIR CONDITIONING. OF COURSE, 47:26.056 --> 47:29.344 THAT'S A BIG ONE HERE WITH TEMPERATURES IN OMAHA REACHING 47:29.344 --> 47:32.420 RECORD HIGHS THIS WEEKEND. WE NEED THE AC. THAT'S ESSENTIAL. 47:32.420 --> 47:37.875 THAT'S RIGHT. WITHOUT MONEY, WE CAN'T STAFF THE FACILITIES. NO 47:37.875 --> 47:42.364 MAINTENANCE, NO SECURITY. WE CAN'T OPEN FOR BUSINESS. WE 47:42.364 --> 47:45.679 CAN'T OPEN THE BUILDING FOR OUR CONGREGATION TO COME IN. WE 47:45.679 --> 47:49.836 CAN'T OBTAIN THE MEDIA EQUIPMENT THAT IT TAKES TO STREAM OUR 47:49.836 --> 47:57.403 SERVICES OUT TO YOU THERE ONLINE. WE CAN'T PAY FOR THE 47:57.403 --> 47:59.976 SNOW REMOVAL THAT WE'RE GOING TO NEED HERE SOON. WINTER'S 47:59.976 --> 48:06.900 COMING, MUCH TO MY DISMAY. WE NEED MONEY TO FINANCE EVERYTHING 48:06.900 --> 48:10.740 WE DO IN THE MINISTRY. WE NEED MONEY TO REACH OUTSIDE OUR FOUR 48:10.740 --> 48:14.694 WALLS AND BRING OTHERS TO CHRIST. AND AFTER ALL, THAT IS 48:14.694 --> 48:18.267 THE CORE PURPOSE FOR ALL THAT WE DO ANYWAY. LIKE HE SAYS, AND 48:18.267 --> 48:26.157 JESUS TELLS US IN MARK 16:15, GO INTO GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND 48:26.157 --> 48:29.273 PREACH THE GOSPEL TO ALL CREATION. AND IT TAKES MONEY TO 48:29.273 --> 48:35.794 DO THAT, RIGHT? SO, MONEY IS NOT EVIL. IT'S THE LOVE OF THE MONEY 48:35.794 --> 48:41.159 THAT TENDS TO LEAD US INTO TEMPTATION AND POTENTIAL 48:41.159 --> 48:45.175 WRONGDOING. IT'S THAT MATERIALISM THAT ENSLAVES US IN 48:45.175 --> 48:50.572 THE WORLD SYSTEM OF MAMMON, THE ALL-CONSUMING GREEDY PURSUIT OF 48:50.572 --> 48:53.967 RICHES SO THAT WE CAN HAVE CONFIDENCE IN OURSELVES AND OUR 48:53.967 --> 48:58.316 OWN RESOURCES. THAT CAN LURE US AWAY FROM OUR DEPENDENCE ON THE 48:58.316 --> 49:01.809 LORD AND INTERFERE WITH OUR DECISION-MAKING AND OUR SERVICE 49:01.809 --> 49:09.008 TO HIM. 1 JOHN 2:16 REFERS TO IT AS THE LUST OF THE EYES AND THE 49:09.008 --> 49:13.837 PRIDE OF LIFE. IT GIVES US A FALSE SENSE OF SECURITY AND 49:13.837 --> 49:18.265 STABILITY, THINKING WE DON'T HAVE TO TRUST GOD. IT'S NOT 49:18.265 --> 49:23.428 ROOTED IN FEAR, BUT IN— I'M SORRY, IT'S NOT ROOTED IN FAITH, 49:23.428 --> 49:26.867 I SHOULD SAY. IT'S ROOTED IN FEAR. IT'S NOT AN INDICATOR OF 49:26.867 --> 49:31.452 BELIEF, BUT OF UNBELIEF. IT'S NOT ESTABLISHED IN 49:31.452 --> 49:35.570 RIGHTEOUSNESS. IT STANDS CONTRARY TO UPRIGHTNESS AND IN 49:35.570 --> 49:41.324 DIRECT OPPOSITION TO THE WAY THE KINGDOM OF GOD OPERATES. SO, FOR 49:41.324 --> 49:45.463 EXAMPLE, IN THE KINGDOM, LUKE THE BIBLE TELLS US TO GIVE AND 49:45.463 --> 49:49.397 IT WILL BE GIVEN TO YOU, GOOD MEASURE, PRESSED DOWN, SHAKEN 49:49.397 --> 49:53.267 TOGETHER, RUNNING OVER, BE PUT INTO YOUR BOSOM. FOR WITH THE 49:53.267 --> 49:57.907 SAME MEASURE THAT YOU USE, IT WILL BE MEASURED BACK TO YOU. I 49:57.907 --> 50:02.965 LIKE THIS IN THE NLT. IT SAYS, GIVE AND YOU WILL RECEIVE. YOUR 50:02.965 --> 50:07.397 GIFT WILL RETURN TO YOU IN FULL, PRESSED DOWN, SHAKEN TOGETHER TO 50:07.397 --> 50:11.891 MAKE ROOM FOR MORE, OVER AND POURED INTO YOUR LAP. THE AMOUNT 50:11.891 --> 50:17.086 YOU GIVE WILL DETERMINE THE AMOUNT YOU GET BACK. WELL, 50:17.086 --> 50:20.141 THAT'S AMAZING. I KNOW PERSONALLY THAT'S THE KIND OF 50:20.141 --> 50:23.760 RETURN ON INVESTMENT THAT I'D LIKE TO SEE. AND IF YOU WERE 50:23.760 --> 50:27.663 HERE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT, OR IF YOU TUNED IN ONLINE AND JOINED 50:27.663 --> 50:30.584 US, YOU KNOW THAT I SHARED A NUMBER OF TESTIMONIES THAT WERE 50:30.584 --> 50:34.990 RELATED TO MIRACLES, HEALINGS, DIVINE PROTECTION, FINANCIAL 50:34.990 --> 50:39.168 BLESSINGS, AND SO FORTH. AND WE TALKED ABOUT HOW WE HAD TO 50:39.168 --> 50:43.453 TRUST GOD FOR THOSE THINGS. AND LIKEWISE, WE HAD TO TRUST GOD 50:43.453 --> 50:47.819 FOR OUR GIVING. WE HAD TO PUT OUR FAITH ON IT. INSTEAD OF 50:47.819 --> 50:52.813 HARBORING A SCARCITY MENTALITY, INSTEAD OF ALWAYS LOOKING FOR 50:52.813 --> 50:56.051 WHAT WE COULD GET FROM OTHERS, INSTEAD OF SHRINKING BACK IN 50:56.051 --> 51:01.190 FEAR WHEN TIMES GOT TOUGH, WE HAD TO OPERATE ACCORDING TO THE 51:01.190 --> 51:05.954 HEARD, HAD TO EXPERIENCE THE KINGDOM WAY, WE HAVE GIVEN AND 51:05.954 --> 51:10.284 SEEN IT GIVEN BACK TO US MULTIPLIED. AND LET ME JUST SAY, 51:10.284 --> 51:14.054 WE'VE FACED SOME VERY DIFFICULT TIMES IN OUR LIVES. I MEAN, 51:14.054 --> 51:17.599 WE'VE BEEN ONE STEP AWAY FROM THE STREET MORE THAN ONCE. YOU 51:17.599 --> 51:21.192 MAY HAVE HEARD ME TALK A LITTLE BIT ABOUT THAT BEFORE. I ONCE 51:21.192 --> 51:26.469 HAD TO BUY DINNER FOR A FAMILY OF 3 FOR $1.67 AND THEN WATCH 51:26.469 --> 51:32.045 JESUS MULTIPLY OUR FISH AND OUR LOAVES. BUT HE'S NEVER FAILED 51:32.045 --> 51:38.635 US. HE'S NEVER LET THE WATER OVERTAKE US. WHATEVER WE HAVE 51:38.635 --> 51:41.945 GIVEN, HE'S PROVIDED EVERYTHING THAT WE'VE NEEDED. WHATEVER 51:41.945 --> 51:45.819 WE'VE GIVEN, WE'VE ALWAYS SEEN MULTIPLIED BACK TO US IN GREAT 51:45.819 --> 51:50.001 MEASURE. AND GOD IS NO RESPECTER OF PERSONS. WHAT HE'S DONE FOR 51:50.001 --> 51:52.585 US, HE'S CERTAINLY GOING TO DO FOR EVERY ONE OF YOU HERE AND 51:52.585 --> 51:56.519 ONLINE. BUT THAT DOESN'T COME THROUGH THE WAYS OF THE WORLD. 51:57.925 --> 52:02.710 IT DOESN'T COME THROUGH FEAR AND UNBELIEF. IT COMES BY FAITH, BY 52:02.710 --> 52:05.943 SEEKING FIRST HIS KINGDOM. AND AS HE SAYS, THEN ALL WILL BE 52:05.943 --> 52:12.470 ADDED TO YOU. SO AS YOU GIVE TODAY, TALK TO GOD ABOUT WHAT 52:12.470 --> 52:18.023 YOU NEED ADDED IN YOUR LIFE. AND IF WE'RE READY TO GIVE, IF THEY 52:18.023 --> 52:22.540 CAN PUT THE OFFERING INFORMATION ON THE SCREENS. IF YOU'RE HERE 52:22.540 --> 52:25.451 AND YOU NEED AN ENVELOPE. THE USHERS WILL BE IN THE AISLES 52:25.451 --> 52:31.811 WITH THOSE. IF YOU'D LIKE TO MAIL IN YOUR OFFERING, IT'S UP 52:31.811 --> 52:38.516 HERE ON THE SCREEN: P.O. BOX 391157, OMAHA, NE 68139-1157. WE 52:38.516 --> 52:42.405 TEXT TO GIVE, ONE OF MY FAVORITES. TEXT “LORDOFHOSTS” TO 52:42.405 --> 52:49.881 833-309-5698. YOU CAN ALSO SCAN THE QR CODE, GO TO THE WEBSITE, 52:49.881 --> 52:56.553 LOHCHURCH.ORG/GIVE, AND WE'VE ALSO GOT A MOBILE APP. AND AS 52:56.553 --> 53:00.684 BOB WAS MENTIONING A FEW MOMENTS AGO, WE'D LIKE REALLY FOR YOU TO 53:00.684 --> 53:04.621 CONSIDER STRONGLY TODAY OUR DISASTER RELIEF FUND AS AN 53:04.621 --> 53:08.873 OPTION FOR YOUR GIVING. AND THAT DROPDOWN MENU IS NOW LIVE ON 53:08.873 --> 53:11.941 YOUR PHONES IF YOU GO TO TEXT TO GIVE, AND ALSO ON THE WEBSITE, 53:11.941 --> 53:19.732 LOHCHURCH.ORG. AND I'M REALLY LOOKING FORWARD PERSONALLY TO 53:19.732 --> 53:25.432 WHAT A GREAT IMPACT WE CAN HAVE ON THE— FOR THOSE THAT NEED IT 53:25.432 --> 53:30.008 HERE LOCALLY, AND ALSO HEAR THE WONDERFUL TESTIMONIES THAT I 53:30.008 --> 53:33.556 THINK ARE GOING TO COME OUT OF THIS IN JESUS' NAME. OKAY, SO IF 53:33.556 --> 53:38.422 EVERYONE IS READY— ARE WE READY? LET'S HOLD UP OUR ENVELOPES, 53:38.422 --> 53:42.368 HOLD UP OUR DEVICES. AND WE'LL PRAY OVER THE OFFERING. FATHER, 53:42.368 --> 53:46.841 IN THE NAME OF JESUS, WE DECLARE THAT AS WE GIVE GENEROUSLY, WE 53:46.841 --> 53:51.090 WILL RECEIVE IN LIKE MEASURE ABUNDANTLY. WE WILL NOT BE 53:51.090 --> 53:55.275 ENSLAVED BY MONEY, BUT RATHER WE WILL SERVE YOU, LORD, IN THE 53:55.275 --> 53:59.909 WAYS OF THE KINGDOM AND SEEK YOU FIRST IN ALL THINGS. WE WILL NOT 53:59.909 --> 54:04.415 BE IN FEAR OR UNBELIEF, NOR WILL WE BE IN PRIDE, BUT RATHER WE 54:04.415 --> 54:09.145 WILL BE IN FAITH AND TRUST YOU FULLY FOR EVERY ONE OUR NEEDS, 54:09.145 --> 54:12.176 LARGE OR SMALL. AND FATHER, I ASK YOU THAT YOU BLESS EVERY 54:12.176 --> 54:16.842 GIFT AND EVERY GIVER HERE AND ONLINE AS THEY HONOR YOU WITH 54:16.842 --> 54:20.916 THEIR OFFERINGS TODAY. MULTIPLY EVERY SEED SOWN, OPEN THE 54:20.916 --> 54:24.364 WINDOWS OF HEAVEN, AND SHOWER THEM WITH GREAT BLESSINGS. IN 54:24.364 --> 54:30.313 JESUS' MIGHTY NAME, AMEN. AND NOW LET'S SAY THE DECREE. SAY 54:30.313 --> 54:35.367 THIS WITH ME: WE DECLARE THE CAMPUS AND OF LORD OF HOSTS 54:35.367 --> 54:40.587 CHURCH SHALL BE INCREASED, EXPANDED, AND DEBT-FREE. WE 54:40.587 --> 54:45.406 DECREE IT SHALL HAPPEN WITHOUT DELAY. WE SAY THAT WE HAVE TO 54:45.406 --> 54:49.501 EVERY HEAVENLY ASSIGNMENT BE BUILT UP AND FINISHED. WE SAY 54:49.501 --> 54:53.195 THAT WE HAVE ALL THE FINANCES NEEDED, FOR THE LORD IS BUILDING 54:53.195 --> 54:58.399 THIS HOUSE. WE HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH, EXCESS AND OVERFLOW. 54:58.399 --> 55:02.169 LORD, YOU ARE PROVIDING SEED TO THE SOWER. WE CALL UPON YOU, 55:02.169 --> 55:06.431 LORD OF HOSTS, TO BRING FORTH HEAVENLY ASSISTANCE AND RAISE UP 55:06.431 --> 55:11.302 MULTITUDES OF PEOPLE THAT SHALL GIVE ABUNDANTLY TO THIS WORK. WE 55:11.302 --> 55:15.388 PROPHESY THAT WE SHALL QUADRUPLE, QUADRUPLE, AND THEN 55:15.388 --> 55:20.211 WE WILL QUADRUPLE AGAIN. WE DECLARE NEW THINGS NOW. WE 55:20.211 --> 55:25.515 DECREE MINISTRY AND CAMPUS BE EXPANDED NOW. GIVE A GREAT SHOUT 55:25.515 --> 55:29.815 TO GOD. GLORY TO HIM. HALLELUJAH. AS PASTOR DOUG 55:29.815 --> 55:33.508 RETURNS TO THE PULPIT. AMEN. THANK YOU, PASTOR MARC. 55:33.508 --> 55:37.715 HALLELUJAH. IT'S A JOY TO GIVE, AND HOPEFULLY YOU CAN GIVE 55:37.715 --> 55:41.055 SOMETHING ON THE DISASTER RELIEF FUND. WHATEVER YOU CAN TUCK AWAY 55:41.055 --> 55:43.464 IN THERE, EVEN IF YOU DIDN'T GET IT DONE NOW, IF YOU WANT TO DO 55:43.464 --> 55:47.012 IT LATER TODAY, THAT WOULD HELP US. THOSE WATCHING ONLINE, IF 55:47.012 --> 55:51.251 YOU CAN HELP US A LITTLE BIT, WE WANT TO HELP OUR LOCAL PEOPLE 55:51.251 --> 55:56.276 WHO ARE SO FAITHFULLY TO RECOVER QUICKLY FROM THAT. SO 55:56.276 --> 56:00.324 THANK YOU FOR THAT. WELL, IT'S MY HONOR TODAY TO HAVE APOSTLE 56:00.324 --> 56:04.746 MIKE KEYES IN THE HOUSE. WE WERE VISITING LAST NIGHT WITH HIM, 56:04.746 --> 56:09.417 AND WE'VE HAD CONNECTION WITH HIS MINISTRY FOR OVER 30 YEARS. 56:09.417 --> 56:14.494 AND IT'S LIKE, PASTOR KEITH, YOU JUST CAN'T BELIEVE HOW FAST 30 56:14.494 --> 56:17.461 YEARS CAN GO. AND SOME OF THOSE CONNECTIONS IS LIKE, MAN, IT'S, 56:17.461 --> 56:20.116 YOU KNOW, IT SEEMS LIKE SHOULD ONLY BE 10 YEARS, AND IT'S 30 56:20.116 --> 56:25.575 YEARS. SO, BUT WE'RE ALL BELIEVING FOR LONG LIFE. AMEN. 56:25.575 --> 56:28.722 AND SO MAYBE WE'LL HAVE ANOTHER 30 YEARS OF CONNECTION, PASTOR 56:28.722 --> 56:34.021 MIKE. WE'RE BELIEVING. HALLELUJAH. WELL, SOME OF YOU 56:34.021 --> 56:37.232 KNOW HIM BECAUSE HE WAS OUR FIRST GUEST SPEAKER AT LORD OF 56:37.232 --> 56:39.577 HOSTS. SO IF YOU'VE BEEN AROUND FOR A WHILE, YOU'RE— HE'S NO 56:39.577 --> 56:42.772 STRANGER TO THE HOUSE. BUT SOME OF YOU I KNOW ARE NEWER, AND I 56:42.772 --> 56:47.828 JUST WANT TO TAKE A SECOND TO TALK ABOUT I TOLD HIM LAST NIGHT 56:47.828 --> 56:50.876 AT DINNER, I SAID HE SHOULD WRITE A BIOGRAPHY OF ALL THE 56:50.876 --> 56:56.249 THINGS THAT HE HAS DONE BECAUSE IT'S AMAZING. AFTER HE HAD A 56:56.249 --> 57:00.115 VERY HIGH-LEVEL CORPORATE POSITION, THE LORD CALLED HIM TO 57:00.115 --> 57:03.612 GO TO RHEMA BIBLE TRAINING CENTER, AND HE WAS EXPLAINING 57:03.612 --> 57:10.029 THAT WAS THE DAY WHEN BROTHER KENNETH HAGIN SR. ACTUALLY SPOKE 57:10.029 --> 57:15.259 TO EVERY CLASS EVERY DAY, OR WAS AT THEIR SPEAKING TO THE CLASSES 57:15.259 --> 57:18.226 EVERY DAY, AND THEY HAD 1,700 STUDENTS THERE WHEN HE WAS 57:18.226 --> 57:22.076 THERE. AMAZING. OF COURSE, NOW THEY HAVE A LOT OF SCHOOLS AND 57:22.076 --> 57:26.631 IT'S DIFFERENT, BUT HE'S BEEN UNDER SOME OF THE BEST. SOME OF 57:26.631 --> 57:31.845 THE GENERALS TAUGHT THERE, AND THE STORIES HE COULD TELL. BUT 57:31.845 --> 57:35.149 THEN THE LORD CALLED HIM TO THE PHILIPPINES. HE HAD ENOUGH MONEY 57:35.149 --> 57:39.304 TO BUY A ONE-WAY TICKET FOR $750, AND I THINK HE TOLD US HE 57:39.304 --> 57:42.371 HAD $20 LEFT OVER, AND HE DIDN'T HAVE ANY WAY TO GO BACK. 57:42.371 --> 57:45.487 HE JUST KNEW THAT THE LORD CALLED HIM TO THE PHILIPPINES. 57:45.487 --> 57:50.563 WHAT A STORY! AND YOU KNOW, LIKE, IN A MATTER OF TIME AND 57:50.563 --> 57:55.767 HARD WORK EVANGELIZING AND CRUSADES, HE NOW OVERSEES 300 57:55.767 --> 58:02.770 CHURCHES AND PROBABLY OVER 400 FILIPINO PASTORS. SO, AND THEN 58:02.770 --> 58:06.706 IT'S LIKE, YOU KNOW, YOU GET TO OUR AGE, APOSTLE YOU KNOW, IN 58:06.706 --> 58:11.109 YOUR 60S OR MAYBE IN YOUR CASE EVEN IN THE 70S AND YOU THINK, 58:11.109 --> 58:14.499 OH, YOU'RE MAYBE GOING TO SLOW DOWN A LITTLE BIT. ABOUT 2 YEARS 58:14.499 --> 58:19.063 AGO HE TOOK OVER THE SENIOR PASTOR POSITION OF A THRIVING 58:19.063 --> 58:25.185 CHURCH IN TUCSON, ARIZONA WHERE HE BASES OUT OF. SO HE NOT ONLY 58:25.185 --> 58:27.917 IS DOING THIS WORK IN THE PHILIPPINES BUT NOW HE'S 58:27.917 --> 58:31.082 PASTORING A CHURCH AND IT'S LIKE THE LORD'S JUST GIVEN HIM GRACE 58:31.082 --> 58:33.799 TO DO IT ALL. HE CAN DO EVERYTHING. SO THAT'S WONDERFUL. 58:33.799 --> 58:39.748 SO APOSTLE MIKE, COME ON UP. GOD BLESS YOU. WE LOVE YOU, AND IT'S 58:39.748 --> 58:44.650 AN HONOR TO HAVE YOU IN THE HOUSE TODAY. AMEN. THANK YOU, 58:44.650 --> 58:49.090 PASTOR DOUG. BLESS YOU. BLESS YOU. AMEN. WELL, GIVE GOD THE 58:49.090 --> 58:53.629 GLORY. THANK YOU, FATHER. LET'S GIVE IT ALL TO HIM. GIVE HIM THE 58:53.629 --> 58:59.567 GLORY. FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR OUR SERVICE. WE THANK YOU, LORD 58:59.567 --> 59:03.568 GOD, FOR THE FREEDOM THAT WE HAVE IN AMERICA TO DO THIS 59:03.568 --> 59:06.621 ANYTIME THAT WE WANT. THANK YOU, LORD, THAT SO MANY OF OUR 59:06.621 --> 59:10.237 BROTHERS AND SISTERS AROUND THE WORLD DO NOT HAVE SUCH FREEDOMS. 59:10.237 --> 59:14.318 WE THANK YOU FOR THIS. WE DO NOT TAKE IT FOR GRANTED. AND WE 59:14.318 --> 59:17.564 APPROACH YOUR WORD THIS MORNING WITH REVERENCE AND RESPECT. WE 59:17.564 --> 59:21.083 THANK YOU THAT THIS WORD IS A LIVING THING. IT IS SHARPER THAN 59:21.083 --> 59:23.717 ANY TWO-EDGED SWORD. IT PIERCES TO THE DIVISION OF SOUL AND 59:23.717 --> 59:27.824 SPIRIT, JOINTS AND MARROW, AND IS A DISCERNER OF THE THOUGHT 59:27.824 --> 59:30.856 AND INTENT OF OUR HEART. SO WE THANK YOU TODAY. WE WILL SEE 59:30.856 --> 59:34.385 THINGS WE HAVE NOT SEEN BEFORE. WE WILL UNDERSTAND THINGS THAT 59:34.385 --> 59:38.091 WE DIDN'T UNDERSTAND BEFORE. WE WILL LEAVE THE SERVICE STRONGER 59:38.091 --> 59:40.962 THAN WHEN WE CAME IN HERE AND BETTER EQUIPPED TO REPRESENT YOU 59:40.962 --> 59:44.540 WITH EXCELLENCE IN THESE LAST DAYS, THE LAST OF THE LAST DAYS. 59:44.540 --> 59:47.235 SO WE GIVE YOU THE PRAISE AND THE GLORY IN ADVANCE, LORD. WE 59:47.235 --> 59:49.705 ARE WHAT WE ARE BY THE GRACE OF GOD. SO WE THANK YOU FOR 59:49.705 --> 59:53.355 ENABLING US AND EMPOWERING US TODAY AND FOR THE 59:53.355 --> 59:56.458 REST OF OUR LIVES UNTIL YOU RETURN. IN JESUS' NAME, 59:56.458 --> 01:00:00.572 EVERYBODY THAT AGREES WITH THIS PRAYER SAID TOGETHER, AMEN. ALL 01:00:00.572 --> 01:00:10.131 RIGHT, BACK UP AND PARK. PRAISE THE LORD. I WOULD JUST LIKE TO 01:00:10.131 --> 01:00:14.515 SAY, YOU KNOW, TO FOLLOW UP WITH WHAT PASTOR DOUG MENTIONED A 01:00:14.515 --> 01:00:20.130 MOMENT AGO, I WAS HONORED TO BE THE FIRST GUEST SPEAKER IN THIS 01:00:20.130 --> 01:00:25.019 CHURCH WHEN IT FIRST BEGAN MANY, MANY YEARS AGO, AND IT IS JUST A 01:00:25.019 --> 01:00:29.587 BLESSING FOR ME TO EVER HAVE THE CHANCE TO COME BACK AND SPEND 01:00:29.587 --> 01:00:33.274 TIME WITH YOU AND TO BREAK BREAD WITH YOU AROUND THE WORD OF GOD. 01:00:33.274 --> 01:00:36.576 SO I'M EXCITED TO BE HERE, AND I HOPE THAT YOU ARE TOO, BECAUSE 01:00:36.576 --> 01:00:41.064 THE POWER OF THE LORD IS PRESENT TO DO WHATEVER NEEDS TO BE DONE, 01:00:41.064 --> 01:00:43.853 ESPECIALLY FOR THE PEOPLE OUT THERE AND INTERNET LAND, 01:00:43.853 --> 01:00:46.402 WHEREVER YOU MAY BE, GOD KNOWS WHAT'S GOING ON, AND WE'RE GOING 01:00:46.402 --> 01:00:50.587 TO TALK ABOUT SOME OF THIS TODAY FROM THE WORD OF GOD. BEFORE I 01:00:50.587 --> 01:00:54.338 DO THAT, I JUST WANT TO TAKE A MOMENT AND I WANT TO SAY 01:00:54.338 --> 01:01:00.269 PUBLICLY THAT I LOVE AND RESPECT YOUR PASTORS, HANK AND BRENDA 01:01:00.269 --> 01:01:04.438 KUNNEMAN. I LOVE AND RESPECT THEM. IF THEY'RE WATCHING, 01:01:04.438 --> 01:01:06.858 THAT'S FINE. IF NOT, THEY'RE TAKING A BREAK. I UNDERSTAND 01:01:06.858 --> 01:01:12.150 THAT PART. I ADMIRE THEM, AND YOU NEED TO UNDERSTAND THAT WHEN 01:01:12.150 --> 01:01:15.277 THE PRESSURE TO COMPROMISE THINGS YOU SAY BY THE SPIRIT OF 01:01:15.277 --> 01:01:18.820 GOD, JUST BECAUSE THINGS ARE NOT HAPPENING AS QUICKLY AS OTHERS 01:01:18.820 --> 01:01:22.958 MIGHT THINK THAT THEY SHOULD, THE PRESSURE IS GREAT TO 01:01:22.958 --> 01:01:25.604 COMPROMISE. LOTS OF PEOPLE HAVE DONE IT. TRUST ME, I'VE BEEN 01:01:25.604 --> 01:01:28.490 AROUND LONG ENOUGH TO SEE IT. I'VE BEEN SERVING THE LORD FOR 01:01:28.490 --> 01:01:32.098 48 YEARS. I'VE BEEN IN FULL-TIME MINISTRY FOR 46 YEARS. I'VE SEEN 01:01:32.098 --> 01:01:34.984 THEM COME AND I'VE SEEN THEM GO, BUT I REALLY RESPECT YOUR 01:01:34.984 --> 01:01:38.350 PASTORS BECAUSE THEY PUT THEIR FOOT DOWN, STAND UPON THE WORD 01:01:38.350 --> 01:01:42.132 OF GOD, AND THEY WILL NOT, WILL NOT DEVIATE FROM WHAT GOD TELLS 01:01:42.132 --> 01:01:45.881 THEM AND SHARES WITH EACH AND EVERY ONE OF US. SO I JUST 01:01:45.881 --> 01:01:49.807 WANTED TO SAY THAT UP FRONT. I REALLY THANK GOD FOR THIS COUPLE 01:01:49.807 --> 01:01:53.092 AND FOR THE FRIENDSHIP THAT WE HAVE DEVELOPED OVER THESE PAST 01:01:53.092 --> 01:01:56.490 30-PLUS YEARS. SHOULD JESUS TARRY, ANOTHER 10, 15, WHO 01:01:56.490 --> 01:02:00.480 KNOWS? BUT WE NEED TO BE READY EACH AND EVERY DAY. PRAISE THE 01:02:00.480 --> 01:02:04.075 LORD. I'D LIKE TO SHARE GIVE A SHOUT OUT AND GIVE A LOVE AND A 01:02:04.075 --> 01:02:07.930 WARM GREETING TO MY CHURCH IN TUCSON, ARIZONA, AND TO MY 01:02:07.930 --> 01:02:12.347 LOVELY WIFE. PRAISE JESUS. SHE'S NOT WITH ME, BUT SHE'S WATCHING. 01:02:12.347 --> 01:02:16.379 AND OF COURSE, OUR 275 TO 300 CHURCHES THAT ARE OVERSEAS, THEY 01:02:16.379 --> 01:02:19.607 WATCH THESE THINGS. AND SO WE'RE GONNA HAVE A GOOD TIME AROUND 01:02:19.607 --> 01:02:23.944 THE WORD OF GOD TODAY. AMEN. THAT'S RIGHT. ALL RIGHT, IF YOU 01:02:23.944 --> 01:02:26.482 HAVE YOUR BIBLES OR YOUR BIBLE DEVICE, YOUR APPS, WHATEVER 01:02:26.482 --> 01:02:28.510 YOU'RE CHOOSING TO USE, OR YOU CAN FOLLOW UP ON THE SCREEN AS 01:02:28.510 --> 01:02:31.507 THEY PUT UP THE VERSES. WE'RE GOING TO TALK ABOUT SOMETHING 01:02:31.507 --> 01:02:36.297 THAT I THINK IS VERY IMPORTANT IN THESE END TIMES, WHAT I CALL 01:02:36.297 --> 01:02:43.452 THE MATURE MINDSET. YOUR MIND IS THE KEY. IT IS THE PIVOTAL PART 01:02:43.452 --> 01:02:48.137 OF OUR BEING. WE ARE SPIRITS, WE POSSESS SOULS, WE LIVE IN 01:02:48.137 --> 01:02:54.635 BODIES. AND BASICALLY IT'S ALWAYS MAJORITY RULES, 2 AGAINST 01:02:54.635 --> 01:02:59.690 1. SPIRIT MAN IS DOMINATING AND CONTROLLING, IT'S BECAUSE YOUR 01:02:59.690 --> 01:03:02.949 SOUL IS WHERE IT SHOULD BE. YOUR MIND IS WHERE IT SHOULD BE. YOUR 01:03:02.949 --> 01:03:06.594 MIND IS RENEWED TO THE WORD. SO IT'S YOUR SPIRIT AND YOUR SOUL 01:03:06.594 --> 01:03:11.106 THAT KEEPS YOUR BODY UNDER CONTROL. IF YOUR SOUL IS NOT 01:03:11.106 --> 01:03:13.900 RENEWED TO THE WORD OF GOD, THEN IT'S 2 AGAINST 1, AND YOUR 01:03:13.900 --> 01:03:18.332 DEAD-TO-SIN FLESH WILL CONTROL YOUR BORN-AGAIN SPIRIT, AND 01:03:18.332 --> 01:03:21.809 YOU'LL BE WHAT THE CORINTHIANS ARE CALLED, CARNAL CHRISTIANS. 01:03:21.809 --> 01:03:24.540 ALL RIGHT, WE DON'T NEED CARNAL CHRISTIANS. WE NEED PEOPLE WHO 01:03:24.540 --> 01:03:27.646 KNOW WHO THEY ARE. THEY KNOW HOW TO USE THE WEAPONS THEY'VE BEEN 01:03:27.646 --> 01:03:30.921 GIVEN. THEY KNOW HOW TO ENGAGE THE ENEMY ON THE BATTLEFIELD AND 01:03:30.921 --> 01:03:34.559 TAKE TERRITORY FOR GOD AND NOT APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT WE'RE DOING. 01:03:34.559 --> 01:03:37.907 AND WE DON'T APOLOGIZE FOR WHAT WE'RE SAYING. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. 01:03:39.740 --> 01:03:43.001 IN ORDER FOR THIS TO HAPPEN, YOU HAVE TO HAVE A MATURE MINDSET, 01:03:43.001 --> 01:03:46.083 AND THE BIBLE TELLS US PLAINLY WHAT THAT IS AND HOW TO GET IT 01:03:46.083 --> 01:03:48.538 AND HOW TO PROTECT IT SO THAT YOU CAN YOU CAN RUN YOUR RACE 01:03:48.538 --> 01:03:55.014 AND FINISH THE RACE. SOMEONE SAY FINISH. GOD'S NOT IMPRESSED WHEN 01:03:55.014 --> 01:03:58.546 PEOPLE START RUNNING HIS RACE. THAT TAKES NO INTELLIGENCE. I 01:03:58.546 --> 01:04:03.370 MEAN, CHOOSE HEAVEN OVER HELL, DUH, I THINK SO. NOTHING SMART 01:04:03.370 --> 01:04:05.611 ABOUT THAT PART. BUT FINISHING THE RACE, THAT'S SOMETHING 01:04:05.611 --> 01:04:09.986 DIFFERENT ALTOGETHER. A LOT OF EMPTY CHAIRS IN CHURCHES WHERE 01:04:09.986 --> 01:04:13.377 PEOPLE USED TO SIT AND BE ALL ON FIRE FOR THE LORD. BUT IF YOU GO 01:04:13.377 --> 01:04:16.293 TO CHURCHES OVER TIME, YOU'LL SEE THEM GO FROM THE 01:04:16.293 --> 01:04:19.613 FRONT ROW TO THE 4TH ROW TO THE 5TH ROW TO THE 9TH ROW AND OUT 01:04:19.613 --> 01:04:24.517 THE DOOR THEY GO, OVER THE COURSE OF 10, 15, 20 YEARS. AND 01:04:24.517 --> 01:04:27.278 I INTEND TO FINISH RUNNING MY RACE, AND I INTEND TO HEAR GOD 01:04:27.278 --> 01:04:30.507 SAY, WELL DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT. AMEN. AND I'M 01:04:30.507 --> 01:04:35.104 SURE YOU DO TOO. AMEN. NOT JUST, WELL, WHAT HAPPENED TO YOU? 01:04:36.233 --> 01:04:39.927 WHERE'D YOU DISAPPEAR TO? WELL, IT'S JUST SO HARD. I TELL 01:04:39.927 --> 01:04:42.299 PEOPLE, MY PASTORS, WHEN I COUNSEL WITH THEM. OUR 01:04:42.299 --> 01:04:47.711 COUNSELING SESSIONS ARE RATHER BRIEF. THEY COME IN MOANING AND 01:04:47.711 --> 01:04:50.604 GROANING ABOUT DIFFICULTIES AND CHALLENGES AND HOW DIFFICULT IT 01:04:50.604 --> 01:04:53.126 IS, AND I SAY, WELL, I CAN PRAY WITH YOU. LET'S AGREE. OKAY, 01:04:53.126 --> 01:04:56.763 LET'S AGREE. TAKE MY HAND. IN THE NAME OF JESUS, I PRAY THAT 01:04:56.763 --> 01:05:03.455 THIS PASTOR DIES AND GOES HOME TO HEAVEN. AND THEY LOOK AT YOU 01:05:03.455 --> 01:05:07.457 FUNNY. IT'S LIKE, WELL, WHAT'D YOU EXPECT? OKAY, IF WE TALKED 01:05:07.457 --> 01:05:09.295 ABOUT IT EARLIER, AS LONG AS YOU'RE HERE, YOU'RE GOING YOU'RE 01:05:09.295 --> 01:05:12.217 GOING TO GET SHOT AT. AS LONG AS YOU'RE HERE, YOU'RE GOING TO GET 01:05:12.217 --> 01:05:14.079 HIT AND YOU'RE GOING TO BLEED AND YOU'RE GOING TO WOUND FROM 01:05:14.079 --> 01:05:17.210 TIME TO TIME. YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW TO PICK UP YOUR WEAPONS, PUT 01:05:17.210 --> 01:05:20.823 THE HELMET BACK ON YOUR HEAD, PICK UP YOUR SWORD, PICK UP YOUR 01:05:20.823 --> 01:05:24.436 RIFLE, AND REENGAGE THE ENEMY. AND IF YOU CAN'T DO THAT, THEN 01:05:24.436 --> 01:05:28.193 GO HOME, GET OFF OUR BACK. WE'RE TIRED OF CARRYING YOU AROUND FOR 01:05:28.193 --> 01:05:31.645 A WHILE. GO ON TO HOME, BE WITH JESUS, BE WITH THE ANGELS, BE 01:05:31.645 --> 01:05:39.483 WITH YOUR RELATIVES, AND GET OUT OF THE WAY. IN LOVE, IN LOVE, OF 01:05:39.483 --> 01:05:44.705 COURSE. THANK YOU, JESUS. ALL RIGHT, SO LOOK WITH ME AT, UH, 01:05:46.028 --> 01:05:48.721 LET'S SEE, WHERE DO— SO MANY VERSES. WE'LL, WE'LL SEE WHERE 01:05:48.721 --> 01:05:52.741 THE HOLY SPIRIT TAKES US. LOOK AT, UM, 2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER 2. 01:05:57.643 --> 01:06:01.134 2 CORINTHIANS CHAPTER NUMBER 2 AND VERSE NUMBER 11. WE'LL START 01:06:01.134 --> 01:06:05.581 WITH THIS. ACTUALLY, VERSE 10, WE'LL BACK UP TO VERSE 10. 01:06:05.581 --> 01:06:08.733 SORRY, GUYS. 10TH VERSE, I'M ALWAYS READING FROM THE NEW KING 01:06:08.733 --> 01:06:11.317 JAMES UNLESS OTHERWISE INDICATED. HERE'S WHAT IT SAYS, 01:06:11.317 --> 01:06:17.016 "NOW WHOM YOU FORGIVE ANYTHING, I ALSO FORGIVE. FOR IF INDEED I 01:06:17.016 --> 01:06:20.333 HAVE FORGIVEN ANYTHING, I HAVE FORGIVEN THAT ONE FOR YOUR SAKES 01:06:20.333 --> 01:06:24.372 IN THE PRESENCE OF CHRIST." SO THE CONTEXT IS FORGIVENESS HERE. 01:06:24.372 --> 01:06:27.698 THEN HE SAYS IN VERSE 11, "LEST SATAN SHOULD TAKE 01:06:27.698 --> 01:06:34.221 ADVANTAGE OF US, FOR WE ARE NOT IGNORANT OF HIS DEVICES. IF YOUR 01:06:34.221 --> 01:06:38.157 MIND IS GOING TO BE RENEWED TO THE WORD, YOU HAVE TO BE AWARE 01:06:38.157 --> 01:06:45.234 OF AND COGNIZANT OF HIS DEVICES. NOTICE DEVICES IS PLURAL. DON'T 01:06:45.234 --> 01:06:47.934 BE IGNORANT OF THE DEVIL'S DEVICES. YOU NEED TO KNOW HOW 01:06:47.934 --> 01:06:52.025 HE'S COMING AT YOU, HOW HE DOES END AROUNDS, HOW HE USES OTHER 01:06:52.025 --> 01:06:55.535 PEOPLE TO NEUTRALIZE YOUR POTENTIAL AND CHRIST. AND IF 01:06:55.535 --> 01:06:59.194 EVER THERE WAS A TIME WHEN WE NEEDED TO HAVE ALL HANDS ON DECK 01:06:59.194 --> 01:07:03.437 FOR JESUS, IT IS NOW. ALL RIGHT, WE DON'T NEED BODIES IN CHAIRS, 01:07:03.437 --> 01:07:06.821 JUST SUNDAY MORNING BELIEVERS. WE NEED PEOPLE WHO UNDERSTAND 01:07:06.821 --> 01:07:10.446 THE WARFARE THAT WE'RE INVOLVED WITH. YOU AND I WERE BORN INTO A 01:07:10.446 --> 01:07:16.998 WORLD AT WAR. WE HAVE ENEMIES AND THEY HATE US, AND YOU KNOW 01:07:16.998 --> 01:07:20.519 YOU NEED TO LEARN TO HATE THEM IN RETURN. SOMEONE SAY 01:07:20.519 --> 01:07:24.336 AMEN. YOU KNOW, WE NEED TO HAVE SOME GOOD OLD SPIRITUAL HATE 01:07:24.336 --> 01:07:30.652 CONFERENCES. I'M NOT KIDDING, MAN. WE NEED TO TEACH PEOPLE HOW 01:07:30.652 --> 01:07:35.863 TO HATE SATAN, HOW TO HATE SIN. YOU'LL NEVER LIVE FREE FROM SIN 01:07:35.863 --> 01:07:38.599 UNTIL YOU LEARN TO HATE IT, AND YOU'LL NEVER LIVE FREE FROM THE 01:07:38.599 --> 01:07:41.482 DEVIL AND HIS DEVICES UNTIL YOU LEARN TO HATE HIM. AND I TELL 01:07:41.482 --> 01:07:49.470 HIM, I HATE YOUR GUTS, AND I'M COMING AFTER YOU. I'M REMINDED, 01:07:49.470 --> 01:07:52.472 YOU KNOW, OF A STORY WHEN I WAS A STUDENT. PASTOR DOUG WAS 01:07:52.472 --> 01:07:55.152 TALKING ABOUT MY DAYS AT RHEMA. I LIVED IN THIS LITTLE 01:07:56.572 --> 01:07:59.457 EFFICIENCY APARTMENT, YOU KNOW. EVERY TIME I'M BACK THERE FOR 01:07:59.457 --> 01:08:02.114 MEETINGS AND THINGS, I ALWAYS DRIVE BY THIS LITTLE, YOU KNOW, 01:08:03.257 --> 01:08:06.187 APARTMENT COMPLEX. IT WAS A DUMP. IT STILL IS, BUT IT'S 01:08:06.187 --> 01:08:09.940 STILL THERE, YOU KNOW. AND I HAD THIS LITTLE APARTMENT, 7A, 01:08:09.940 --> 01:08:12.357 EFFICIENCY APARTMENT. I LIVED THERE WHILE I WAS AT RHEMA AS A 01:08:12.357 --> 01:08:15.019 STUDENT. I LIVED THERE FOR ABOUT 10 MONTHS, 11 MONTHS LIKE THAT 01:08:15.019 --> 01:08:17.589 BEFORE I WENT OVER TO THE PHILIPPINES. AND IT WAS A 01:08:17.589 --> 01:08:21.043 2-STORY STRUCTURE. WE HAD APARTMENTS ON LEVEL A AND LEVEL 01:08:21.043 --> 01:08:26.729 B, AND I WAS IN 7A. AND ABOVE ME IN APARTMENT 7B WAS AN ELDERLY 01:08:26.729 --> 01:08:31.950 COUPLE, AND I SAW THEM ON AND OFF GOING IN AND OUT FROM THE 01:08:31.950 --> 01:08:34.536 FACILITY, FROM THE APARTMENTS, GOING TO CLASS AND COMING BACK 01:08:34.536 --> 01:08:38.069 AND STUFF LIKE THAT. AND I KNEW THAT THEY WERE THERE. I NEVER 01:08:38.069 --> 01:08:42.726 MET THEM, NEVER TALK TO THEM, OKAY? AND THE PARKING LOT WAS 01:08:42.726 --> 01:08:45.599 SUCH THAT YOU'D PARK YOUR CAR AND YOU'D GO THROUGH AN ENCLOSED 01:08:45.599 --> 01:08:50.255 BREEZEWAY, LIKE A TUNNEL, INTO A COURTYARD AREA WHERE IT WAS A 01:08:50.255 --> 01:08:53.643 U-SHAPED BUILDING. AND SO YOU'D GO IN THROUGH THIS LITTLE 01:08:53.643 --> 01:08:56.067 BREEZEWAY AND THEN YOU'D GO TO YOUR APARTMENT, WHEREVER THAT 01:08:56.067 --> 01:08:59.888 MAY BE. AND SO 2 WEEKS BEFORE I WAS TO LEAVE FOR THE PHILIPPINES 01:08:59.888 --> 01:09:04.720 FOR THE FIRST TIME, IN EARLY SEPTEMBER 1980, I'M PARKING MY 01:09:04.720 --> 01:09:08.874 CAR AND I'M COMING INTO MY APARTMENT AND THIS COUPLE FROM 01:09:08.874 --> 01:09:12.097 7B IS COMING OUT TO GET INTO THEIR CAR AND WE MEET IN THE 01:09:12.097 --> 01:09:15.304 BREEZEWAY FOR THE FIRST TIME. AND I'VE BEEN THERE FOR LIKE 9, 01:09:15.304 --> 01:09:19.088 10 MONTHS AND THEY KNOW ME, I WOULD ASSUME, AND I KNOW WHO 01:09:19.088 --> 01:09:21.478 THEY ARE, BUT I'VE NEVER TALKED TO THEM. SO WE MEET IN THE 01:09:21.478 --> 01:09:26.673 BREEZEWAY AND WE SHAKE HANDS, A LITTLE PLEASANTRIES BACK AND 01:09:26.673 --> 01:09:31.885 FORTH, AND I START TO INTRODUCE MYSELF AND THE LADY, SO SWEET, 01:09:31.885 --> 01:09:35.534 SHE CUTS ME OFF, 'OH, YOU'RE THE YOUNG PREACHER, AREN'T YOU?' 01:09:37.797 --> 01:09:43.400 I SAID, 'YEAH, WELL, OKAY, YES.' 'HOW DO YOU KNOW THAT? WE'VE 01:09:43.400 --> 01:09:45.831 NEVER TALKED. HOW DO YOU KNOW I'M A PREACHER?' SHE SAYS TO ME 01:09:45.831 --> 01:09:48.760 IN REPLY, 'OH, YOUNG MAN, WE LISTEN TO YOUR SERMONS THROUGH 01:09:48.760 --> 01:09:56.832 THE FLOOR.' I SAID, 'WHAT?' SHE SAID, 'WE LISTEN TO YOUR SERMONS 01:09:56.832 --> 01:09:59.058 THROUGH THE FLOOR. YOU SHOUT SO GO LIVE, WE JUST SIT UP THERE 01:09:59.058 --> 01:10:04.045 AND TAKE NOTES. WE DON'T EVEN BOTHER GOING TO CHURCH. YOU 01:10:04.045 --> 01:10:06.359 KNOW, LITTLE— YOU KNOW, LITTLE DID I KNOW I GOT 300 CHURCHES 01:10:06.359 --> 01:10:11.566 NOW, BUT I BEGAN WITH A CONGREGATION OF 2. PRAISE THE 01:10:11.566 --> 01:10:15.446 LORD. DON'T DESPISE THE DAY OF SMALL BEGINNINGS, I SAY. PRAISE 01:10:15.446 --> 01:10:19.245 THE LORD. BUT I GOTTA TELL YOU, I'D GO BACK FROM CLASS, I'D BE 01:10:19.245 --> 01:10:21.765 ALL TURNED ON TO JESUS. I'D TAKE CHAIRS AND THROW THEM AGAINST 01:10:21.765 --> 01:10:25.030 THE WALL, RIP ALL THE MAGNETS OFF THE REFRIGERATOR, TURN THE 01:10:25.030 --> 01:10:27.694 TABLES UPSIDE DOWN, TALKING ABOUT HOW I'M GOING TO TEAR THE 01:10:27.694 --> 01:10:29.744 DEVIL UP ONE SIDE AND DOWN THE OTHER. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING 01:10:29.744 --> 01:10:32.940 ABOUT. LITTLE DID I KNOW THEY'RE UPSTAIRS. WELL, THAT'S A GOOD 01:10:32.940 --> 01:10:38.889 VERSE RIGHT THERE. THAT'S, UH, PRAISE THE LORD. YOUR NEIGHBORS 01:10:38.889 --> 01:10:44.818 NEED TO HEAR YOU. YOUR WORKERS, YOUR CO-WORKERS NEED TO HEAR 01:10:44.818 --> 01:10:48.385 YOU. SATAN NEEDS TO HEAR YOU. AND THAT'LL NEVER HAPPEN IF YOU 01:10:48.385 --> 01:10:51.365 DON'T HAVE YOUR MIND BE RENEWED AND MATURE ACCORDING TO WHAT THE 01:10:51.365 --> 01:10:56.846 WORD TELLS US TO DO, TO GET FROM IMMATURITY TO MATURITY IN CHRIST 01:10:56.846 --> 01:11:01.142 SO THAT WE CAN BE A SOLDIER GOD CAN DEPEND ON UNDER FIRE. I 01:11:01.142 --> 01:11:04.354 WROTE A BOOK CALLED ADVANCING UNDER FIRE. WHEN YOU'RE HIT, 01:11:04.354 --> 01:11:06.871 KEEP MOVING FORWARD. WHEN YOU'RE BLEEDING, KEEP MOVING FORWARD. 01:11:06.871 --> 01:11:09.781 WE'LL STAND WITH YOU, WE'LL BLEED WITH YOU. BUT LIKE I SAID 01:11:09.781 --> 01:11:12.194 TO THE PASTORS, MOANING AND GROANING— WHAT DID YOU THINK 01:11:12.194 --> 01:11:14.397 MINISTRY IS GOING TO BE LIKE, SOME KIND OF TIPTOEING THROUGH 01:11:14.397 --> 01:11:18.694 THE TULIPS? OR SOMETHING. YOU, YOU KNOW, YOU NEED, YOU KNOW, 01:11:18.694 --> 01:11:20.554 YOU NEED, YOU'RE GONNA, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE GONNA GET SHOT AT. 01:11:20.554 --> 01:11:24.919 YOU NEED TO KNOW THIS GOING IN. WHEN WE HAVE CRUSADES, IF WE 01:11:24.919 --> 01:11:27.965 HAVE TIME, WE TALK TO PEOPLE WHEN, OR BEFORE THEY LEAVE, YOU 01:11:27.965 --> 01:11:29.980 KNOW, WE CONGRATULATE THEM. PRAISE THE LORD, YOU KNOW, 01:11:29.980 --> 01:11:32.658 YOU'VE ACCEPTED JESUS, YOU'RE ON YOUR WAY TO HEAVEN. BUT HERE'S 01:11:32.658 --> 01:11:35.717 THE OTHER SIDE, HERE'S THE FLIP SIDE TO THIS COIN. FROM NOW ON, 01:11:35.717 --> 01:11:39.293 YOU ARE A TARGET LIKE YOU'VE NEVER BEEN A TARGET BEFORE. 01:11:39.293 --> 01:11:41.967 SATAN WILL COME AT YOU IN ALL WAYS YOU NEVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE, 01:11:41.967 --> 01:11:46.439 BUT THAT'S WHAT GOES ON. LOOK WITH ME AT PSALMS NUMBER 140. 01:11:48.080 --> 01:12:00.538 PSALMS NUMBER 140. PSALMS 140, AND LET'S SEE, LET'S BEGIN WITH 01:12:00.538 --> 01:12:08.459 VERSE NUMBER 2. THIS IS TALKING ABOUT EVIL MEN. THIS IS VERSE 1, 01:12:08.459 --> 01:12:12.409 THAT'S THE CONTEXT. THE PSALMIST IS ASKING THE LORD FOR 01:12:12.409 --> 01:12:15.704 DELIVERANCE FROM EVIL PEOPLE. OKAY, SO THEN VERSE 2. THESE 01:12:15.704 --> 01:12:19.749 PEOPLE PLAN EVIL THINGS IN THEIR HEARTS. THEY CONTINUALLY GATHER 01:12:19.749 --> 01:12:24.420 TOGETHER FOR WAR. THEY SHARPEN THEIR TONGUES LIKE A SERPENT. 01:12:24.420 --> 01:12:28.235 THE POISON OF SNAKES IS UNDER THEIR LIPS. KEEP ME. THIS IS 01:12:28.235 --> 01:12:31.681 VERSE 4. KEEP ME, O LORD, FROM THE HANDS OF THE WICKED. 01:12:31.681 --> 01:12:36.650 PRESERVE ME FROM VIOLENT MEN WHO HAVE PURPOSED TO MAKE MY STEPS 01:12:36.650 --> 01:12:42.447 STUMBLE. THE PROUD HAVE HIDDEN SNARES FOR ME AND CORDS. THEY'VE 01:12:42.447 --> 01:12:47.713 SPREAD A NET BY THE WAYSIDE. THEY HAVE SET TRAPS FOR ME. 01:12:47.713 --> 01:12:52.852 LET'S STOP THERE. I WANT YOU TO NOTICE IN VERSE NUMBER 5, THERE 01:12:52.852 --> 01:12:58.809 ARE 4 SPECIFIC TACTICS THE DEVIL USES TO NEUTRALIZE YOU. NOTICE 01:12:58.809 --> 01:13:06.953 THERE ARE SNARES, CORDS, NETS, AND TRAPS. 4 WAYS, 4 01:13:06.953 --> 01:13:11.474 TACTICS HE USES TO WEASEL HIS WAY INTO YOUR LIFE TO NEUTRALIZE 01:13:11.474 --> 01:13:14.961 YOU AND CAUSE YOUR WITNESS TO BE OF NONE EFFECT FOR THE LORD. 01:13:14.961 --> 01:13:17.964 WHAT YOU END UP BEING IS A BODY IN A CHAIR IN SOMEONE'S CHURCH 01:13:17.964 --> 01:13:21.401 SOMEWHERE WHERE YOU'RE AFFECTING NOTHING FOR THE KINGDOM OF GOD. 01:13:21.401 --> 01:13:26.016 YOU'RE JUST A BROTHER BLEND-IN. YOU ACT LIKE AN UNBELIEVER, YOU 01:13:26.016 --> 01:13:27.860 TALK LIKE AN UNBELIEVER, YOU LIVE LIKE AN UNBELIEVER. 01:13:27.860 --> 01:13:31.016 BELIEVER, YOU'RE NOT DIFFERENT. JESUS, WHEREVER HE WENT, 01:13:31.016 --> 01:13:35.407 WHENEVER HE WENT INTO A SYNAGOGUE TO TEACH, HE COMMANDED 01:13:35.407 --> 01:13:38.452 PEOPLE'S ATTENTION. THEY TOOK A STEP BACK WHEN HE WALKED INTO 01:13:38.452 --> 01:13:41.432 THAT SYNAGOGUE. HE CARRIED WITH HIM A PRESENCE OF GOD THAT 01:13:41.432 --> 01:13:45.679 PEOPLE COULD JUST SENSE. AND IT SHOULD BE THAT WAY WITH US. IT 01:13:45.679 --> 01:13:49.508 SHOULD BE. IT ISN'T IN MANY CASES, BUT IT SHOULD BE. AND IT 01:13:49.508 --> 01:13:53.354 ALL COMES BACK TO DEVELOPING A MENTAL, MATURE MINDSET THAT 01:13:53.354 --> 01:13:56.993 GIVES GOD SOMETHING TO WORK WITH INSTEAD OF LETTING 01:13:56.993 --> 01:14:00.023 YOUR MIND BE THE DEVIL'S PLAYGROUND WHERE HE, YOU KNOW, 01:14:00.023 --> 01:14:03.085 SOWS ALL KINDS OF LIES AND ALL KINDS OF INNUENDOS AND, YOU 01:14:03.085 --> 01:14:05.618 KNOW, STEALS OUR JOY AND EVERYTHING WE TALKED ABOUT AND 01:14:05.618 --> 01:14:11.870 SANG ABOUT A FEW MINUTES AGO. SNARES, CORDS, NETS, TRAPS. ALL 01:14:11.870 --> 01:14:16.503 RIGHT, DON'T BE IGNORANT OF THE DEVIL'S DEVICES. ALL RIGHT, 01:14:16.503 --> 01:14:19.981 YEAH, I'LL JUST REFER TO YOU THESE VERSES. WE DON'T HAVE TIME 01:14:19.981 --> 01:14:22.854 TO GET TO ALL THIS, BUT YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT 01:14:22.854 --> 01:14:27.364 HAVING THE MIND OF CHRIST. THAT'S 1 CORINTHIANS 2:16, HAVE 01:14:27.364 --> 01:14:32.260 THE MIND OF CHRIST. 2 CORINTHIANS 10:3-5 TALK ABOUT 01:14:32.260 --> 01:14:36.914 CASTING DOWN IMAGINATIONS. THAT'S UP HERE, CAST THEM DOWN. 01:14:36.914 --> 01:14:41.232 THERE'S ANOTHER ONE, THIS IS ROMANS 7:25, MAKE SURE YOUR MIND 01:14:41.232 --> 01:14:44.217 IS SERVING THE LORD, NOT SERVING SATAN. THESE ARE ALL VERSES YOU 01:14:44.217 --> 01:14:48.534 CAN CHECK OUT LATER, OKAY? ROMANS 12:2, ONE WE'RE VERY 01:14:48.534 --> 01:14:50.486 FAMILIAR WITH WITHIN OUR CIRCLES. WE NEED TO BE 01:14:50.486 --> 01:14:55.897 TRANSFORMED BY THE RENEWING OF OUR MIND. ONCE AGAIN, THE MIND 01:14:55.897 --> 01:15:00.896 IS THE PROBLEM— CAN BE THE PROBLEM. ALL RIGHT, UH, LET'S 01:15:00.896 --> 01:15:06.199 SEE. 1 PETER 1:13: GIRD UP THE LOINS OF YOUR MIND. 2 01:15:06.199 --> 01:15:09.507 THESSALONIANS 2:2: DON'T BE EASILY OR QUICKLY SHAKEN IN 01:15:09.507 --> 01:15:13.460 MIND. ALL THESE VERSES AND A BUNCH OF OTHERS LIKE THOSE ARE 01:15:13.460 --> 01:15:16.675 TEACHING US AND EXHORTING US TO MAKE THE HEAD IS, WE HAVE GOT 01:15:16.675 --> 01:15:19.667 OUR HEAD TOGETHER. LIKE WHAT YOU SAY, GET YOUR HEAD IN THE GAME. 01:15:20.940 --> 01:15:25.180 OKAY. WE TALKED AT DINNER LAST NIGHT, PASTORS DOUG AND EILEEN, 01:15:25.180 --> 01:15:27.526 AND WE SAT DOWN AND HAD A MEAL AND WE WERE TALKING ABOUT MANY 01:15:27.526 --> 01:15:31.436 THINGS. AND IN THE CONVERSATION, YOU KNOW, I WAS SHARING WITH 01:15:31.436 --> 01:15:38.776 THEM THE REALITY OF ETERNITY. DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT WE ARE 01:15:38.776 --> 01:15:42.079 ETERNAL BEINGS? THAT WE WILL NEVER CEASE TO EXIST? IS ANYONE 01:15:42.079 --> 01:15:45.045 UP THERE IN INTERNET LAND? DO YOU UNDERSTAND THAT YOU ARE ON 01:15:45.045 --> 01:15:50.557 YOUR WAY TO ONE OF TWO PLACES, HEAVEN OR HELL? EVERY SPIRIT, 01:15:50.557 --> 01:15:53.698 HUMAN SPIRIT THAT'S EVER BEEN CREATED BY THE HAND OF GOD WILL 01:15:53.698 --> 01:15:58.890 SPEND ETERNITY IN ONE OF THOSE TWO PLACES. THAT WE IN THIS 01:15:58.890 --> 01:16:02.993 WORLD NOW, WE'RE IN BETWEEN THE TWO. WE'RE IN BETWEEN THE TWO. 01:16:02.993 --> 01:16:05.893 AND THE CHOICES WE MAKE IN THIS LIFE DETERMINE WHERE WE'RE GOING 01:16:05.893 --> 01:16:11.824 TO GO WHEN WE EXIT THIS BODY AND LEAVE PLANET EARTH. BUT 01:16:11.824 --> 01:16:15.298 WE'VE GOT ALL THESE DISTRACTIONS DOWN HERE THAT TAKE US AWAY FROM 01:16:15.298 --> 01:16:21.946 THE REALITY OF THE FACT THAT ETERNITY IS ETERNITY. DO YOU 01:16:21.946 --> 01:16:24.739 UNDERSTAND THAT? BUT WHAT I SAID TO THEM, I SAY TO YOU, I DON'T 01:16:24.739 --> 01:16:28.647 UNDERSTAND WHERE THE DISCONNECT IS WITH CHRISTIANS. I DON'T 01:16:28.647 --> 01:16:32.617 UNDERSTAND HOW THEY CAN JUST GO THROUGH LIFE IGNORANT OF THE 01:16:32.617 --> 01:16:36.323 FACT THAT THEY'RE ON THEIR WAY DAY TO ETERNITY. AND DEATH COMES 01:16:36.323 --> 01:16:41.665 TO PEOPLE AT UNEXPECTED TIMES. YOU KNOW, I BICYCLE. I LIKE TO 01:16:41.665 --> 01:16:44.950 BICYCLE. I LIKE MOTORCYCLES, TWO-WHEELED TRANSPORTATION, AND 01:16:44.950 --> 01:16:48.833 I LIKE TO GO BICYCLING. I'M SERIOUS ABOUT THIS. YOU KNOW, I 01:16:48.833 --> 01:16:54.164 RIDE 35, 40 MILES WHEN I RIDE, OKAY? AND, UH, YOU KNOW, THERE'S 01:16:54.164 --> 01:16:57.465 A BIG RACE IN TUCSON EVERY YEAR CALLED EL TOUR DE TUCSON. IT'S 01:16:57.465 --> 01:17:00.095 EVERY NOVEMBER. IT'S THE FIRST SATURDAY OR THE STARTED BEFORE 01:17:00.095 --> 01:17:03.065 THANKSGIVING EVERY YEAR. THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE COME TO THIS 01:17:03.065 --> 01:17:07.036 RACE FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD. I RAN IT, I RACED 3 TIMES, 3 YEARS 01:17:07.036 --> 01:17:12.963 IN A ROW. AND THIS IS A 109-MILE RACE, OKAY? 109 MILES, ALL 01:17:12.963 --> 01:17:15.693 RIGHT? AND YOU'RE DOING THIS AT RACE SPEEDS. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE 01:17:15.693 --> 01:17:18.146 NOT TOOLING AROUND YOUR NEIGHBORHOOD ON YOUR HUFFY FROM 01:17:18.146 --> 01:17:24.009 WALMART. WE'RE NOT DOING THAT HERE, OKAY? WE'RE RIDING 01:17:24.009 --> 01:17:26.932 BICYCLES THAT COST $5,000 TO $10,000. $10,000. THESE ARE 01:17:26.932 --> 01:17:29.839 RIGS, YOU KNOW, THAT, I MEAN, YOU KNOW, VERY SERIOUS BUSINESS. 01:17:29.839 --> 01:17:32.312 SO PEOPLE COME FROM ALL OVER THE WORLD TO TRAIN FOR THIS. THEY'RE 01:17:32.312 --> 01:17:35.379 IN TUCSON FOR MONTHS IN ADVANCE. THEY GO UP AND DOWN MOUNT LEMMON 01:17:35.379 --> 01:17:38.752 TO GATHER AEROBIC CAPACITY, WHAT WE CALL, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE 01:17:38.752 --> 01:17:43.233 DEVELOPING ABILITY TO BREATHE LIKE THIS FOR 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 01:17:43.233 --> 01:17:47.425 HOURS RACING. THERE WAS THIS YOUNG MAN THAT CAME TO TUCSON, 01:17:47.425 --> 01:17:54.473 25 YEARS OLD, TO TRAIN A NUMBER OF YEARS AGO. AND WE DO WHAT WE 01:17:54.473 --> 01:17:57.282 CALL WIND SPRINTS. WIND SPRINTS ARE WHEN YOU GET ON THE BIKE AND 01:17:57.282 --> 01:18:00.588 YOU DROP DOWN INTO THE DROPS, WHEN THE HANDLEBARS GO DOWN. 01:18:00.588 --> 01:18:04.198 THOSE ARE CALLED THE DROPS. YOU DROP LOW TO CREATE LESS WIND 01:18:04.198 --> 01:18:07.087 RESISTANCE AS YOU'RE PEDALING. AND YOU'RE DOWN LIKE THIS. SO 01:18:07.087 --> 01:18:10.521 YOU'LL DO WIND SPRINTS WHERE, AS HARD AS YOU CAN, YOU PEDAL FOR 2 01:18:10.521 --> 01:18:14.710 MINUTES. AND THEN YOU RELEASE AND REST FOR A MINUTE. THEN YOU 01:18:14.710 --> 01:18:17.583 GO AGAIN FOR 2 MINUTES. THEN YOU REST. IT'S CALLED WIND SPRINTS. 01:18:17.583 --> 01:18:20.139 YOU'RE DEVELOPING AEROBIC CAPACITY. CAPACITY. SO HE'S 01:18:20.139 --> 01:18:25.480 DOING THIS, AND HE'S PEDALING ON A STREET WHERE THERE SHOULD NOT 01:18:25.480 --> 01:18:28.630 BE WHAT WAS THERE. HE COMES AROUND A CORNER, AND THERE'S A 01:18:28.630 --> 01:18:32.896 PARKED CAR. THE CAR SHOULDN'T HAVE BEEN THERE, BUT IT WAS. AND 01:18:32.896 --> 01:18:36.100 HE HAD HIS HEAD DOWN BECAUSE HE'S DOING HIS WIND SPRINTS. HE 01:18:36.100 --> 01:18:41.818 PLOWS INTO THE BACK OF THAT CAR, 35 MPH, SNAPS HIS NECK AND DIES. 01:18:41.818 --> 01:18:46.010 DIES. I NEVER FORGOT IT, AND I USE THIS OFTEN WITH PEOPLE 01:18:46.010 --> 01:18:49.962 TALKING TO THEM. WHEN HE WOKE UP THAT MORNING TO TRAIN FOR THIS 01:18:49.962 --> 01:18:53.416 RACE AT 25 YEARS OLD, HE'S YOUNG, HE'S GOT HIS WHOLE LIFE 01:18:53.416 --> 01:18:56.149 IN FRONT OF HIM, HE'S EXCITED, HE'S PHYSICALLY FIT, YOU KNOW, 01:18:56.149 --> 01:19:01.466 HE'S GETTING READY FOR THE RACE. LITTLE DID HE KNOW THAT BY NOON 01:19:01.466 --> 01:19:06.322 OF THAT DAY HE WILL BE IN HEAVEN OR HELL. I DON'T KNOW IF HE'S 01:19:06.322 --> 01:19:09.217 SAVED. I HOPE HE WAS, AND IF HE WAS, HE'S WITH JESUS. IT'S 01:19:09.217 --> 01:19:11.417 TRAGIC THAT HIS LIFE WAS CUT SHORT LIKE IT WAS, BUT AT LEAST 01:19:11.417 --> 01:19:15.758 HE'S AT HOME WITH THE LORD. BUT WHAT IF HE WASN'T? HE'S IN HELL. 01:19:18.394 --> 01:19:21.324 AND IT'S AMAZING TO ME HOW PEOPLE LET THE DEVIL PUSH THEM 01:19:21.324 --> 01:19:24.966 AROUND BECAUSE THEY DON'T TAKE THE TIME TO RENEW THEIR MIND TO 01:19:24.966 --> 01:19:28.199 THE WORD OF GOD, SO THAT INSTEAD OF THE DEVIL PUSHING US AROUND, 01:19:28.199 --> 01:19:33.854 WE PUSH HIM AROUND. WE DICTATE TERMS. I TELL THE DEVIL, YOU 01:19:33.854 --> 01:19:37.731 DON'T DICTATE THE TERMS OF THIS ENCOUNTER, I DO. AND YOU DON'T 01:19:37.731 --> 01:19:40.896 COME IN INTO MY HOUSE. YOU STAY OUT THERE. YOU GO TORMENT 01:19:40.896 --> 01:19:43.802 SOMEBODY ELSE. YOU'RE NOT GOING INTO MY HOUSE. YOU'RE NOT GOING 01:19:43.802 --> 01:19:47.800 INTO MY CHURCH. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. AND I TELL MY PEOPLE, IF I 01:19:47.800 --> 01:19:50.610 FIND OUT THAT YOU'RE SPREADING STRIFE IN HERE, I'LL THROW YOU 01:19:50.610 --> 01:19:57.210 OUT ON YOUR EAR. IN LOVE, OF COURSE. IT'S ALWAYS IN LOVE. BUT 01:19:57.210 --> 01:20:00.389 THE POINT IS, YOU KNOW, WE'RE PLAYING FOR KEEPS, FRIENDS. 01:20:01.866 --> 01:20:06.668 THERE'S NO PAROLE BOARD HEARING IN HELL, YOU'RE GONE. AND 01:20:06.668 --> 01:20:09.403 EVERYBODY IN HELL, IF THEY HAD ONE MORE CHANCE TO ACCEPT JESUS, 01:20:09.403 --> 01:20:14.633 JUST ONE, HELL WOULD BE EMPTIED IN 15 SECONDS. AND THEY'LL NEVER 01:20:14.633 --> 01:20:18.313 GET THAT CHANCE. JUST ASK THE RICH MAN AND LAZARUS, LUKE 16. 01:20:18.313 --> 01:20:20.885 HE'S STILL LOOKING FOR SOMEONE TO DIP THEIR FINGER IN WATER AND 01:20:20.885 --> 01:20:24.183 PUT IT ON HIS TONGUE TO DIP, TO GET SOME, JUST A MOMENTARY 01:20:24.183 --> 01:20:27.250 RELEASE FROM THE FLAME, RELEASE OR RELIEF FROM THE FLAMES. AND 01:20:27.250 --> 01:20:30.348 HE'LL NEVER GET IT. THAT'S 2,000 YEARS AGO, AND HE'S STILL 01:20:30.348 --> 01:20:37.649 WAITING. ANYWAY, LOOK WITH ME AT PHILIPPIANS. THE MINDSET. SEE, 01:20:37.649 --> 01:20:40.031 WHEN YOU UNDERSTAND THESE THINGS, YOU'RE THINKING 01:20:40.031 --> 01:20:44.680 DIFFERENTLY. YOU'RE NOT THINKING LIKE EVERYBODY ELSE. YOU HAVE 01:20:44.680 --> 01:20:47.991 THE MIND OF CHRIST. WELL, LET'S FIND OUT WHAT THAT MEANS. 01:20:47.991 --> 01:20:53.612 PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE 4, AND WE'LL READ DOWN TO THE END 01:20:53.612 --> 01:20:58.612 OF VERSE 8. PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 4, VERSE NUMBER 4. 01:20:59.687 --> 01:21:06.126 HERE'S WHAT IT SAYS: REJOICE IN THE LORD— HOW OFTEN? ALWAYS. 01:21:06.126 --> 01:21:09.658 AGAIN I WILL SAY, REJOICE. REJOICING MEANS YOU'RE SO FULL 01:21:09.658 --> 01:21:13.255 OF JOY YOU CAN'T CONTAIN IT. THAT'S WHAT REJOICING IS. I'M 01:21:13.255 --> 01:21:19.260 REJOICING. OKAY, LOOK AROUND AT THE CHRISTIANS THAT YOU KNOW. DO 01:21:19.260 --> 01:21:23.626 YOU SENSE MUCH REJOICING IN THEIR LIVES? GOING ON FROM DAY 01:21:23.626 --> 01:21:30.864 TO DAY? TRULY YOU JEST. NO, NOT MUCH. LET YOUR— VERSE 5— LET 01:21:30.864 --> 01:21:35.021 YOUR GENTLENESS BE KNOWN TO ALL MEN. THE LORD IS AT HAND. HOW 01:21:35.021 --> 01:21:37.974 MANY BELIEVE THE LORD IS AT HAND? HE'S MORE AT HAND NOW THAN 01:21:37.974 --> 01:21:42.404 HE WAS WHEN THIS WAS WRITTEN. VERSE 6: BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING, 01:21:42.404 --> 01:21:46.817 BUT IN EVERYTHING, BY PRAYER AND SUPPLICATION WITH THANKSGIVING, 01:21:46.817 --> 01:21:52.215 LET YOUR REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN TO GOD. AND THE PEACE OF GOD, 01:21:52.215 --> 01:21:55.628 WHICH WE SANG ABOUT A FEW MINUTES AGO, WHICH SURPASSES ALL 01:21:55.628 --> 01:21:59.642 UNDERSTANDING, WILL GUARD YOUR HEART AND YOUR MIND— GUARD YOUR 01:21:59.642 --> 01:22:06.033 HEART AND YOUR MIND— THROUGH CHRIST JESUS. IT'S NOT JUST YOUR 01:22:06.033 --> 01:22:09.204 HEART THAT NEEDS TO BE GUARDED, YOUR MIND NEEDS TO BE GUARDED. 01:22:10.336 --> 01:22:13.586 THEN VERSE 8, AND GOD WILL TELL YOU HOW YOU DO THIS. FINALLY, 01:22:13.586 --> 01:22:20.791 BRETHREN, WHATEVER THINGS ARE TRUE, NOBLE, JUST, PURE, LOVELY, 01:22:20.791 --> 01:22:24.942 OF GOOD REPORT, AND VIRTUOUS. IF THERE'S ANYTHING PRAISEWORTHY, 01:22:24.942 --> 01:22:32.570 MEDITATE, AKA THINK, ON THESE THINGS. THINK. HE TELLS YOU WHAT 01:22:32.570 --> 01:22:36.800 WE NEED TO BE THINKING, WHAT WE NEED TO BE THINKING ABOUT. ASK 01:22:36.800 --> 01:22:40.182 YOURSELF, IS THIS MY MO? IS THIS WHAT I'M DOING WITH MY MIND? 01:22:40.182 --> 01:22:45.297 WITH MY THOUGHT PROCESSES DAY BY DAY, THROUGHOUT THE DAY? THINGS 01:22:45.297 --> 01:22:51.069 TRUE, NOBLE, JUST, PURE, LOVELY, GOOD REPORT, ETC.? OR DO WE FILL 01:22:51.069 --> 01:22:55.093 OUR MIND WITH OTHER THINGS, THINGS THAT SATAN WOULD LIKE TO 01:22:55.093 --> 01:23:00.368 PLANT? LET ME TELL YOU, HE WANTS TO CREATE FOOTHOLDS IN YOUR 01:23:00.368 --> 01:23:03.511 MIND, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T DEAL WITH THE FOOTHOLD, IT WILL 01:23:03.511 --> 01:23:07.183 BECOME A STRONGHOLD. JUST LIKE WHEN YOU PLANT A TREE FROM THE 01:23:07.183 --> 01:23:10.282 NURSERY, THE DAY YOU PLANT IT, IT'S THERE. BUT IF YOU DECIDE TO 01:23:10.282 --> 01:23:13.464 MOVE IT TO ANOTHER PLACE IN THE YARD AFTER A WEEK OR TWO, YOU 01:23:13.464 --> 01:23:16.759 CAN PULL IT UP AND MOVE IT. BUT LET THAT THING SIT THERE FOR A 01:23:16.759 --> 01:23:21.988 YEAR OR TWO, LET IT TAKE ROOT, AND THEN TRY TO MOVE IT. IT'S A 01:23:21.988 --> 01:23:25.632 LOT MORE DIFFICULT. AND THE DEVIL KNOWS THIS. OKAY, SO FROM 01:23:25.632 --> 01:23:30.006 THESE, FROM THESE VERSES, HERE'S WHAT WE CAN DEDUCT OR, OR 01:23:30.006 --> 01:23:34.789 UNDERSTAND. WHAT? NUMBER ONE, WORRY ABOUT NOTHING. WHAT'S 01:23:34.789 --> 01:23:40.169 VERSE 6 SAY? BE ANXIOUS FOR HOW MUCH? NOTHING. NOTHING. 01:23:41.801 --> 01:23:46.308 NOTHING. IS THERE ANYTHING HERE YOU'RE WORRIED ABOUT? YOU'RE IN 01:23:46.308 --> 01:23:49.247 VIOLATION OF WHAT THE WORD TELLS US TO DO. YOU'RE IN VIOLATION OF 01:23:49.247 --> 01:23:53.629 THAT. IT SAYS, BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING, BUT IN EVERYTHING, IN 01:23:53.629 --> 01:23:58.084 EVERYTHING, BY PRAYER WITH THANKSGIVING, LET YOUR REQUESTS 01:23:58.084 --> 01:24:02.875 BE MADE KNOWN TO GOD. OKAY, SO FIRST OF ALL, IT SAYS IN VERSE 01:24:02.875 --> 01:24:06.501 4, REJOICE ALWAYS. CIRCLE THE WORD ALWAYS. REJOICE ALWAYS. 01:24:07.738 --> 01:24:10.854 THEN VERSE 6, BE ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING. CIRCLE THE WORD 01:24:10.854 --> 01:24:17.134 NOTHING. THEN IN THE SAME VERSE, IN EVERYTHING BY PRAYER LET YOUR 01:24:17.134 --> 01:24:19.607 PRAYER REQUESTS BE MADE KNOWN TO GOD. SO THE THREE WORDS: 01:24:19.607 --> 01:24:24.666 NOTHING, EVERYTHING, AND ALWAYS. YOU WANT TO KNOW HOW TO MANAGE 01:24:24.666 --> 01:24:32.995 YOUR MIND? DO THAT. FOLLOW THOSE INSTRUCTIONS. REJOICE ALWAYS BE 01:24:32.995 --> 01:24:38.563 ANXIOUS FOR NOTHING. DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING, NOTHING. AND IN 01:24:38.563 --> 01:24:41.338 EVERYTHING, WHEN YOU'RE TEMPTED TO WORRY, GET INTO YOUR PRAYER 01:24:41.338 --> 01:24:46.128 CLOSET AND STAY THERE UNTIL YOU STOP WORRYING ABOUT IT. THAT'S 01:24:46.128 --> 01:24:49.778 ON YOU. I CAN'T DO THAT FOR YOU ANY MORE THAN YOU CAN DO THAT 01:24:49.778 --> 01:24:53.590 FOR ME. I'M RESPONSIBLE FOR THIS. IT'S MY MIND THAT'S UNDER 01:24:53.590 --> 01:24:56.775 ATTACK. IT'S YOUR MIND. IT'S YOUR RESPONSIBILITY. YOU HAVE TO 01:24:56.775 --> 01:24:59.746 DO THIS. I CAN PREACH THE MESSAGE. PASTOR HANK, PASTOR 01:24:59.746 --> 01:25:02.830 BRENDA, THEY CAN PREACH IT UNTIL THEIR TONGUE FALLS OUT UNTIL YOU 01:25:02.830 --> 01:25:08.916 DECIDE THAT I AM GOING TO SHORE UP THE LOINS OF MY MIND. IF YOU 01:25:08.916 --> 01:25:13.457 DON'T DO IT, IT AIN'T GOING TO GET DONE. THERE'S AN OLD SAYING, 01:25:13.457 --> 01:25:20.344 IF IT IS TO BE, IT IS UP TO ME. IF IT IS TO BE, IT'S UP TO ME. 01:25:20.344 --> 01:25:22.945 IT'S MY JOB. IT'S MY RESPONSIBILITY. RESPONSIBILITY 01:25:22.945 --> 01:25:27.746 TO DO THESE THINGS. OKAY, SO THIS BRINGS US THEN TO WHAT I 01:25:27.746 --> 01:25:31.953 REALLY WANT TO GET INTO— THE PLEADING OF YOUR CASE. YOU HAVE 01:25:31.953 --> 01:25:36.914 A CASE BEFORE GOD. DO YOU KNOW HOW TO PLEAD IT? YOU KNOW, WHEN 01:25:36.914 --> 01:25:39.467 LAWYERS ARE GETTING READY TO PLEAD THEIR CASE BEFORE THE 01:25:39.467 --> 01:25:42.679 COURT, THEY STUDY, THEY PREPARE, THEY GET ALL THEIR NOTES 01:25:42.679 --> 01:25:45.601 TOGETHER, ALL THE VIDEOS, THEY TALK TO THE WITNESSES, THEY LINE 01:25:45.601 --> 01:25:50.292 EVERYTHING UP. THEY ARE PREPARING THEIR CASE. AND IF 01:25:50.292 --> 01:25:52.650 WE'RE GOING TO FINISH RUNNING THE RACE IN THESE LAST DAYS AND 01:25:52.650 --> 01:25:55.944 BE PLAYERS AND NOT JUST SPECTATORS, PARTICIPANTS AND NOT 01:25:55.944 --> 01:25:59.951 CRITICS, PEOPLE THAT MAKE A DIFFERENCE IN OUR LIVES AND IN 01:25:59.951 --> 01:26:03.864 THE CHURCHES THAT WE ARE A PART OF— IF THAT'S US, THEN WE NEED 01:26:03.864 --> 01:26:06.932 TO KNOW HOW TO PLEAD OUR CASE. LOOK WITH ME AT ISAIAH 43. 01:26:08.733 --> 01:26:15.086 ISAIAH CHAPTER 43, OLD TESTAMENT. GO GREAT PASSAGE 01:26:15.086 --> 01:26:24.966 HERE. 43, VERSE NUMBER 25, AND WE'LL READ ALSO VERSE 26. OKAY, 01:26:24.966 --> 01:26:30.022 VERSE 25, HERE'S WHAT THIS SAYS: I, EVEN I, AM HE WHO BLOTS OUT 01:26:30.022 --> 01:26:34.553 YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS FOR MY OWN SAKE. THIS IS GOD TALKING. I 01:26:34.553 --> 01:26:38.766 BLOT OUT YOUR TRANSGRESSIONS FOR MY OWN SAKE. IN OTHER WORDS, HE 01:26:38.766 --> 01:26:42.878 NEEDS HE NEEDS US TO BE FREE FROM THE SINS WE'VE COMMITTED SO 01:26:42.878 --> 01:26:46.879 THAT HE CAN USE US AND HE CAN ANOINT US AND WE CAN GO OUT 01:26:46.879 --> 01:26:50.140 THERE AND LAY HANDS ON PEOPLE AND POWER FLOWS FROM OUR HANDS 01:26:50.140 --> 01:26:52.944 TO THE BODIES OF THE PEOPLE WE PUT OUR HANDS ON. SOMEONE SAY 01:26:52.944 --> 01:26:56.088 AMEN. WELL, I DIDN'T GO TO BIBLE SCHOOL. HOW MANY HAVE HANDS? 01:26:57.632 --> 01:27:02.900 YOU'RE QUALIFIED. YOU DON'T NEED TO GO TO SOMEBODY'S SCHOOL TO DO 01:27:02.900 --> 01:27:07.654 THIS. ALL RIGHT? LOOK AT THE PEOPLE JESUS PICKED— FISHERMEN, 01:27:07.654 --> 01:27:10.568 TAX COLLECTORS, JUST BLUE-COLLAR WORKERS. THEY WEREN'T THE 01:27:10.568 --> 01:27:13.677 PHARISEES. THEY WEREN'T THE, YOU KNOW, ALL THOSE PEOPLE, YOU 01:27:13.677 --> 01:27:16.151 KNOW, WITH ALL THE DEGREES AND THE DIPLOMAS AND ALL THAT. GOD 01:27:16.151 --> 01:27:18.866 COULD CARE LESS ABOUT THE INITIALS AFTER YOUR NAME. HE'S 01:27:18.866 --> 01:27:23.002 CONCERNED ABOUT THE POWER OF GOD THAT'S FLOWING THROUGH YOU. HE 01:27:23.002 --> 01:27:24.801 DOESN'T CARE ABOUT ALL THE INITIALS. THAT DOESN'T MEAN A 01:27:24.801 --> 01:27:29.906 THING. ALL RIGHT, SO HE SAYS, I WILL NOT REMEMBER YOUR SINS. I 01:27:29.906 --> 01:27:33.741 WILL NOT I WILL NOT REMEMBER YOUR SINS. WHEN YOU CONFESS THE 01:27:33.741 --> 01:27:39.868 SINS, GOD FORGETS ABOUT THEM. NOW, I'VE BEEN AROUND LONG 01:27:39.868 --> 01:27:43.865 ENOUGH TO WATCH PEOPLE DESTROY THEMSELVES BY HOLDING ON TO PAST 01:27:43.865 --> 01:27:48.423 MISTAKES. THEY DESTROY THE ANOINTING. GOD'S ABILITY TO USE 01:27:48.423 --> 01:27:51.513 THEM IS GONE BECAUSE THEY KEEP RECOUNTING, WITH THE DEVIL'S 01:27:51.513 --> 01:27:54.619 HELP I MIGHT ADD, ALL THE THINGS THEY'VE DONE WRONG, ALL THE 01:27:54.619 --> 01:27:58.692 MISTAKES THEY'VE MADE, AND THEY JUST YOU CAN'T GET PAST IT. BUT 01:27:58.692 --> 01:28:01.748 GOD SAYS, LISTEN, WHEN YOU CONFESS YOUR SINS TO ME, I 01:28:01.748 --> 01:28:05.403 FORGET. I DON'T REMEMBER IT ANYMORE. HOW DOES HE DO THAT? I 01:28:05.403 --> 01:28:08.401 DON'T KNOW, AND I DON'T CARE. HE DOES SOMETHING TO HIMSELF WHERE 01:28:08.401 --> 01:28:13.360 HE JUST ELIMINATES IT FROM HIS MENTALITY, FROM HIS MINDSET. AND 01:28:13.360 --> 01:28:15.320 I'VE BEEN GUILTY OF THIS. PERHAPS YOU HAVE TOO. YOU KNOW, 01:28:15.320 --> 01:28:17.634 SOMETHING GOES WRONG AND I DO SOMETHING, OR I SAY SOMETHING 01:28:17.634 --> 01:28:20.768 THAT WAS, YOU KNOW, INAPPROPRIATE OR OUT OF LINE OR 01:28:20.768 --> 01:28:23.584 WHATEVER. AND SO I'M FEELING BAD ABOUT IT, AND I GO TO THE LORD 01:28:23.584 --> 01:28:27.028 TO TALK ABOUT IT AND TO CONFESS IT AND TO GET FREE FROM IT. AND 01:28:27.028 --> 01:28:31.763 I DO. AND THEN 3 MONTHS LATER, 4 MONTHS LATER, I'M STILL DEALING 01:28:31.763 --> 01:28:35.637 WITH THE FEELINGS OF HOW I LET THE LORD DOWN. AND I BRING IT UP 01:28:35.637 --> 01:28:37.903 AGAIN IN MY PRAYER CLOSET, AND GOD CUTS ME OFF. I DON'T KNOW 01:28:37.903 --> 01:28:41.399 HOW HE WORKS WITH YOU, BUT HE CUTS ME OFF AND SAYS, DID I NOT— 01:28:41.399 --> 01:28:46.719 DID YOU NOT ASK ME TO FORGIVE YOU THIS? UH, YES. DO YOU THINK 01:28:46.719 --> 01:28:50.110 I DID? WELL, YEAH, YOUR WORD SAYS THAT YOU DID. DO YOU 01:28:50.110 --> 01:28:55.285 BELIEVE I DID? YES. THEN WHAT ARE YOU BRINGING IT UP FOR? SHUT 01:28:55.285 --> 01:28:59.534 UP. QUIT TALKING ABOUT THINGS I SAID I DON'T REMEMBER. SO WHAT 01:28:59.534 --> 01:29:06.010 ARE YOU REMEMBERING IT FOR? YOU NEED TO LET IT GO. THERE'S A— IN 01:29:06.010 --> 01:29:09.425 MY CHURCH, THERE'S A BIG POSTER ON THE WALL: MOVE ON TO MOVE IN. 01:29:12.003 --> 01:29:15.423 YOU'LL NEVER MOVE ON WITH GOD UNTIL YOU CAN GET RID OF— YOU'LL 01:29:15.423 --> 01:29:18.203 NEVER MOVE IN UNTIL YOU MOVE ON. I'M TRYING TO SAY. YOU'LL NEVER 01:29:18.203 --> 01:29:20.785 MOVE INTO A DEEPER WALK WITH THE LORD UNTIL YOU MOVE ON FROM THE 01:29:20.785 --> 01:29:25.627 MISTAKES, FROM THE SINS. YOU'LL NEVER BE ABLE TO PLEAD YOUR CASE 01:29:25.627 --> 01:29:32.154 UNTIL YOU DO THIS, WHICH LEADS US TO VERSE 26. GOD SAYS, PUT ME 01:29:32.154 --> 01:29:39.294 IN REMEMBRANCE, LET US CONTEND TOGETHER. STATE YOUR CASE, STATE 01:29:39.294 --> 01:29:43.086 YOUR CASE, THAT YOU MAY BE ACQUITTED. WE'RE TALKING ABOUT A 01:29:43.086 --> 01:29:45.090 LEGAL PROCESS GOING ON HERE. YOU'RE GOING TO YOU'RE GOING TO 01:29:45.090 --> 01:29:49.649 BE ACQUITTED, CASE DISMISSED, ETC. ALL THE COURTROOM DRAMA AND 01:29:49.649 --> 01:29:52.565 THE TECHNIQUES AND THE TERMINOLOGY. ALL RIGHT? HE TELLS 01:29:52.565 --> 01:29:57.434 YOU 3 THINGS IN THIS VERSE. ONE, PUT ME IN REMEMBRANCE. WE'LL 01:29:57.434 --> 01:30:01.343 TALK ABOUT THIS IN DETAIL IN A SECOND. NUMBER 2, LET US CONTEND 01:30:01.343 --> 01:30:07.053 TOGETHER. PLEASE CIRCLE THE WORD TOGETHER. GOD HAS A CASE. WE 01:30:07.053 --> 01:30:11.630 HAVE A CASE. WE CONTEND TOGETHER. AND THEN NUMBER 3, 01:30:11.630 --> 01:30:16.398 STATE YOUR CASE. STATE IT. PRESENT IT TO THE JUDGE. PRESENT 01:30:16.398 --> 01:30:21.615 IT TO THE LORD. I HAVE A CASE. OKAY, BUT LET'S TALK ABOUT THIS 01:30:21.615 --> 01:30:25.789 FIRST PART HERE, PUTTING GOD IN REMEMBRANCE. NOTICE AT THE END 01:30:25.789 --> 01:30:29.161 OF VERSE 25, HE SAYS, I WILL NOT REMEMBER YOUR SINS. BUT THEN IN 01:30:29.161 --> 01:30:33.238 THE NEXT PHRASE FROM VERSE 26, HE SAYS, PUT ME IN REMEMBRANCE. 01:30:33.238 --> 01:30:37.252 SO THERE ARE SOME THINGS WE ARE SUPPOSED TO FORGET, AND THERE 01:30:37.252 --> 01:30:40.570 ARE SOME THINGS WE'RE SUPPOSED TO REMEMBER. YOU NEED TO KNOW 01:30:40.570 --> 01:30:44.928 WHICH IS WHICH. THE PROBLEM WITH US IS, WITH SO MANY CHRISTIANS, 01:30:44.928 --> 01:30:48.357 THEY NEVER FORGET THE SINS, BUT THEY ALWAYS FORGET THE PROMISES. 01:30:51.159 --> 01:30:53.676 THERE'S A PROMISE THAT COVERS YOUR SITUATION, WHATEVER IT IS 01:30:53.676 --> 01:30:56.402 TODAY. THERE'S A PROMISE THAT COVERS IT. DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT 01:30:56.402 --> 01:31:01.991 IS THAT COVERS THE SINS, WHATEVER THE SINS MAY BE? ALL 01:31:01.991 --> 01:31:06.302 RIGHT, IT'S CRITICAL THAT YOU I WANT YOU TO UNDERSTAND THIS. 1 01:31:06.302 --> 01:31:09.191 JOHN 1:9, OF COURSE, THE CLASSIC VERSE THAT WE KNOW FROM THE NEW 01:31:09.191 --> 01:31:12.177 TESTAMENT, YOU KNOW, THE BIBLE SAYS, "IF YOU CONFESS YOUR 01:31:12.177 --> 01:31:15.805 FAULTS, HE WILL FORGIVE YOU." 1 JOHN 1:9, "CONFESS YOUR SINS AND 01:31:15.805 --> 01:31:18.299 THE LORD FORGIVES YOU." HE FORGIVES, AND WHEN HE FORGIVES, 01:31:18.299 --> 01:31:25.046 HE FORGETS. HE FORGETS. HE'S NOT GOING BACK OVER THIS. IN THE 01:31:25.046 --> 01:31:27.563 PHILIPPINES, I COUNSEL WITH MY PASTORS, LIKE I SAID, WE DON'T 01:31:27.563 --> 01:31:31.151 WASTE A LOT OF TIME CIRCLING THE WAGONS FOR 45 MINUTES. FIND THE 01:31:31.151 --> 01:31:33.297 VERSE THAT COVERS YOUR SITUATION. WHAT ARE YOU IN HERE 01:31:33.297 --> 01:31:42.464 FOR? WELL, OKAY, DO THIS. GOODBYE. I MEAN, I CAN STROKE 01:31:42.464 --> 01:31:44.323 YOU AND I CAN MAKE YOU FEEL BETTER ABOUT YOURSELF, BUT AT 01:31:44.323 --> 01:31:46.911 THE END OF THE DAY, GET OFF YOUR REAR END, GET OUT THERE AND DO 01:31:46.911 --> 01:31:51.072 WHAT YOU'RE TELLING ME YOU NEED TO HAVE GOD DO FOR YOU. I CAN'T 01:31:51.072 --> 01:31:54.692 DO IT. I'LL HELP YOU. I'LL HELP YOU CHANNEL, YOU KNOW, ALL THE 01:31:54.692 --> 01:31:56.821 ENERGY IN THE RIGHT DIRECTION, BUT AT THE END OF THE DAY, IT'S 01:31:56.821 --> 01:32:02.405 UP TO YOU. DO THIS. CONFESS YOUR SINS. ONCE YOU DO THAT, THEY ARE 01:32:02.405 --> 01:32:06.911 TO BE FORGOTTEN. IF GOD DOES IT, YOU LEARN TO DO THE SAME. 01:32:06.911 --> 01:32:10.904 SOMEONE SAY AMEN. WHAT'S HE TELLING US? HE'S TELLING US HE'S 01:32:10.904 --> 01:32:15.410 REMINDING US TO REMIND HIM. YOU CAN'T REMIND HIM IF YOU DON'T 01:32:15.410 --> 01:32:18.505 HAVE THE WORD IN YOUR HEART TO REMIND HIM OF. THAT'S WHY IT'S 01:32:18.505 --> 01:32:22.130 IMPORTANT TO STUDY, TO SHOW YOURSELF APPROVED, SO THAT YOU, 01:32:22.130 --> 01:32:24.776 OUT OF THE OVERFLOW OF YOUR HEART, YOU COME TO THE LORD WITH 01:32:24.776 --> 01:32:29.919 YOUR CASE BECAUSE YOU'VE GOT VERSES TO PRESENT TO HIM. IT'S 01:32:29.919 --> 01:32:32.522 NOT THAT HE DOESN'T KNOW. HE KNOWS, BUT HE WANTS YOU TO 01:32:32.522 --> 01:32:37.525 REMEMBER SO THAT YOU KNOW. THAT'S HOW YOU PLEAD YOUR CASE. 01:32:37.525 --> 01:32:39.878 OKAY, WHAT DID HE TELL YOU TO DO? HE TOLD YOU TO FORGET YOUR 01:32:39.878 --> 01:32:44.012 SINS, SO FORGET YOUR SINS. HE'S TELLING YOU TO STAND ON THE WORD 01:32:44.012 --> 01:32:46.116 OF GOD, SO STAND ON THE WORD OF GOD. AND HE GIVES YOU THE 01:32:46.116 --> 01:32:49.677 PROMISES, AND HE TELLS US TO STAND. YOU NEED TO REMEMBER, 01:32:49.677 --> 01:32:53.077 NUMBER ONE, THE GOODNESS OF GOD. HOW ABOUT THAT ONE? HOW MANY 01:32:53.077 --> 01:32:56.430 TIMES OVER THE YEARS SINCE YOU ACCEPTED JESUS HAS GOD DONE GOOD 01:32:56.430 --> 01:33:01.420 THINGS FOR YOU? OH MY GOD, EVERY SINGLE DAY. ALL RIGHT, REMEMBER 01:33:01.420 --> 01:33:04.629 THAT STUFF. KEEP COMING, KEEP BRINGING IT BACK UP. IT'S 01:33:04.629 --> 01:33:08.704 BENEFICIAL, IT'S THERAPEUTIC TO YOU, AND IT'S THERAPEUTIC TO THE 01:33:08.704 --> 01:33:11.704 PEOPLE AROUND YOU SO THAT YOU DON'T GET A BITTER HEART. YOU 01:33:11.704 --> 01:33:14.479 KNOW, THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT THE ROOT OF BITTERNESS IN A PERSON'S 01:33:14.479 --> 01:33:16.967 HEART. I'VE MET A LOT OF CHRISTIANS WHO ARE BITTER 01:33:16.967 --> 01:33:20.783 PEOPLE. THEY ARE, OKAY? THEY'VE BEEN SUCKING ON A BUNCH OF 01:33:20.783 --> 01:33:28.193 PRUNES. ARE YOU ON YOUR WAY TO HEAVEN? YEAH, YEAH. WELL, NOTIFY 01:33:28.193 --> 01:33:34.088 YOUR FACE BECAUSE YOU'LL NEVER— I'M LOOKING AT YOU AND I DON'T 01:33:34.088 --> 01:33:38.777 SEE JOY THERE AT ALL, AT ALL. AND THEN, YOU KNOW, YOU'RE 01:33:38.777 --> 01:33:41.751 TRYING TO GET PEOPLE TO COME TO CHURCH LIKE LORD OF HOSTS. AND 01:33:41.751 --> 01:33:44.245 IF, YOU KNOW, IF THEY COME INTO A PLACE LIKE THIS WHERE THERE'S 01:33:44.245 --> 01:33:47.706 800 PEOPLE WHO ARE SUCKING PRUNES ALL DAY LONG, WHY 01:33:47.706 --> 01:33:51.324 WOULD THEY WANT TO STAY HERE? THEY WOULD SAY, "I GOT ENOUGH 01:33:51.324 --> 01:33:54.837 PROBLEMS OUT IN THE WORLD. WHY DO I NEED THIS? I CAN STAY HOME 01:33:54.837 --> 01:34:00.344 AND BE MISERABLE. WHY DO I HAVE TO JOIN YOU?" SOMEONE SAY AMEN. 01:34:02.350 --> 01:34:04.872 PSALMS 143, LET'S GO THERE. WE'LL COME BACK TO ISAIAH IN A 01:34:04.872 --> 01:34:18.113 MINUTE. PSALMS 143. ALL RIGHT, VERSE NUMBER 3. WE'LL START WITH 01:34:18.113 --> 01:34:23.111 THE 3RD VERSE. IS THIS HELPING ANYBODY? HELPING ME. I'M GLAD I 01:34:23.111 --> 01:34:27.439 SHOWED UP. WHO IS THIS PREACHER? PRAISE THE LORD. ALL RIGHT, 01:34:27.439 --> 01:34:32.275 PSALMS 143, VERSE 3 SAYS THIS: FOR THE ENEMY HAS PERSECUTED MY 01:34:32.275 --> 01:34:36.157 SOUL; HE HAS CRUSHED MY LIFE TO THE GROUND. ASK YOURSELF, HAVE 01:34:36.157 --> 01:34:38.590 YOU EVER BEEN IN THIS SITUATION? HE'S WRITING ABOUT? I KNOW I 01:34:38.590 --> 01:34:42.556 HAVE. HE'S CRUSHED MY LIFE TO THE GROUND. HE'S MADE ME DWELL 01:34:42.556 --> 01:34:47.036 IN DARKNESS LIKE THOSE WHO HAVE LONG BEEN DEAD. VERSE 4: 01:34:47.036 --> 01:34:51.853 THEREFORE MY SPIRIT IS OVERWHELMED WITHIN ME. MY HEART 01:34:51.853 --> 01:34:55.562 WITHIN ME IS DISTRESSED. BUT HERE, HOW DO YOU HANDLE THIS? 01:34:55.562 --> 01:34:59.223 LOOK AT THE NEXT VERSE. I REMEMBER— EVERYONE SAY REMEMBER. 01:35:00.587 --> 01:35:04.221 MENTAL ACTIVITIES HERE. I REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD. I 01:35:04.221 --> 01:35:07.993 MEDITATE— THAT'S THINKING— I MEDITATE ON ALL YOUR WORKS. I 01:35:07.993 --> 01:35:12.425 MUSE— THAT MEANS I CONSIDER, I THINK ABOUT— ALL THE WORK. I 01:35:12.425 --> 01:35:15.406 MUSE ON THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS. AND THEN I SPREAD OUT MY HANDS 01:35:15.406 --> 01:35:18.144 TO YOU. MY SOUL LONGS FOR YOU LIKE IN A THIRSTY LAND. IN OTHER 01:35:18.144 --> 01:35:20.255 WORDS, IT'S A SACRIFICE OF PRAISE, FRIENDS. YOU PUT YOUR 01:35:20.255 --> 01:35:23.042 HANDS UP IN THE AIR AND YOU BEGIN PRAISING THE LORD WHEN YOU 01:35:23.042 --> 01:35:30.548 DON'T FEEL LIKE IT. WHY? BECAUSE YOU START TO REMEMBER ALL THE 01:35:30.548 --> 01:35:33.843 THINGS HE'S DONE FOR YOU, ALL THE TIMES HE'S FORGIVEN YOU, 01:35:33.843 --> 01:35:36.515 ALL THE TIMES HE'S BEEN MERCIFUL. THE BIBLE SAYS HIS 01:35:36.515 --> 01:35:39.880 MERCY IS NEW EVERY MORNING. THANK GOD IT'S NEW EVERY 01:35:39.880 --> 01:35:43.784 MORNING. WE NEED IT EVERY MORNING. I DON'T KNOW ABOUT YOU, 01:35:43.784 --> 01:35:46.195 BUT EVERY TIME, EVERY NIGHT WHEN I GO TO SLEEP, UNLESS I'M 01:35:46.195 --> 01:35:49.088 TRAVELING AND I FORGET TO DO IT OR SOMETHING, BEFORE I GO TO 01:35:49.088 --> 01:35:51.756 BED, I SAY TO THE LORD, I'M SORRY, LORD, FOR ANYTHING I MAY 01:35:51.756 --> 01:35:56.363 HAVE SAID TODAY OR THOUGHT TODAY OR DONE TODAY THAT VIOLATES YOUR 01:35:56.363 --> 01:36:00.104 WORD. LORD, PLEASE FORGIVE ME, BECAUSE I DON'T KNOW WHEN HE'S 01:36:00.104 --> 01:36:03.941 COMING BACK, AND NEITHER DO YOU. WE KNOW THE SEASONS, WE'RE IN 01:36:03.941 --> 01:36:06.847 THE SEASONS, BUT WHETHER OR NOT HE COMES TOMORROW OR 10 YEARS 01:36:06.847 --> 01:36:10.460 FROM NOW, I DON'T KNOW. BUT HE SAYS BE READY BECAUSE I'M COMING 01:36:10.460 --> 01:36:17.042 AT A TIME YOU DON'T EXPECT ME. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. OKAY, SO I 01:36:17.042 --> 01:36:20.093 WANT TO BE READY BECAUSE, YOU KNOW, THE WORLD IS ROUND. 01:36:20.093 --> 01:36:22.437 EVERYBODY KNOW THAT, YOU KNOW, WE GOT A BUNCH OF CLOWNS OUT 01:36:22.437 --> 01:36:27.151 THERE OUT THERE THAT BELIEVE THE EARTH IS FLAT. THEIR MIND IS 01:36:27.151 --> 01:36:30.946 FLAT AS FAR AS I'M CONCERNED. BUT THE POINT IS, YOU KNOW, IT'S 01:36:30.946 --> 01:36:34.160 AROUND— SO, YOU KNOW, IF IT'S SUNLIGHT OVER HERE, IT'S DARK 01:36:34.160 --> 01:36:37.579 OVER THERE AND VICE VERSA. SO A LOT OF PEOPLE ARE GOING TO BE 01:36:37.579 --> 01:36:41.632 SLEEPING WHEN JESUS RETURNS. YOU EVER THINK ABOUT IT? THEY'LL GO 01:36:41.632 --> 01:36:44.375 TO BED AND THEY'LL WAKE UP IN THE CLOUDS. OKAY, I WANT TO BE 01:36:44.375 --> 01:36:48.340 READY. THAT'S THE WAY YOU THINK. YOU THINK THIS WAY EVERY 01:36:48.340 --> 01:36:54.249 SINGLE DAY. OKAY, I REMEMBER THE DAYS OF OLD. I MEDITATE ON ALL 01:36:54.249 --> 01:36:58.362 YOUR WORKS. I MUSE ON THE WORK OF YOUR HANDS. IF YOU DO THIS, 01:36:58.362 --> 01:37:02.791 YOU DON'T WORRY ABOUT ANYTHING. WHY WOULD YOU WORRY? HE 01:37:02.791 --> 01:37:05.786 DELIVERED YOU. HE DID IT. HE DID IT. HE DID IT AGAIN AND AGAIN. 01:37:05.786 --> 01:37:08.625 AND HE SAID, I'LL NEVER LEAVE YOU. I'LL NEVER FORSAKE YOU. I 01:37:08.625 --> 01:37:11.212 AM WITH YOU ALWAYS, EVEN TO THE END OF THE AGE. SO WHAT AM I 01:37:11.212 --> 01:37:15.690 WORRIED ABOUT? SOMEONE SAY AMEN. LOOK AT YOUR NEIGHBOR AND SAY, 01:37:15.690 --> 01:37:24.041 WHAT ARE YOU WORRYING ABOUT? YOU CAN STOP NOW. IT'S A LONG LIST. 01:37:24.041 --> 01:37:29.888 WELL, SHUT UP. PRAISE THE LORD. THANK YOU, JESUS. LOOK WITH ME 01:37:29.888 --> 01:37:35.386 AT HEZEKIAH. LOOK, LOOK AT THIS GUY, MY MAN HEZEKIAH. HE, UH, HE 01:37:35.386 --> 01:37:41.524 HAD ISSUES, TO SAY THE LEAST. BUT HE WAS DOING HIS BEST TO 01:37:41.524 --> 01:37:46.774 SERVE THE LORD. HEZEKIAH CHAPTER NUMBER 20— I'M NOT HEZEKIAH, 2 01:37:46.774 --> 01:37:53.450 KINGS ABOUT HEZEKIAH, CHAPTER 20. 2 KINGS CHAPTER 20 AND VERSE 01:37:53.450 --> 01:38:00.087 1. OKAY, SO THIS IS HEZEKIAH, THE LIFE AND TIMES OF KING 01:38:00.087 --> 01:38:04.688 HEZEKIAH. HERE WE GO. IN THOSE DAYS, HEZEKIAH WAS SICK AND NEAR 01:38:04.688 --> 01:38:08.415 DEATH. DEATH. AND ISAIAH THE PROPHET, THE SON OF AMOZ, WENT 01:38:08.415 --> 01:38:12.041 TO HIM AND SAID TO HIM, THUS SAYS THE LORD, SET YOUR HOUSE IN 01:38:12.041 --> 01:38:15.490 ORDER, FOR YOU SHALL DIE AND NOT LIVE. NOW THIS IS THE PROPHET OF 01:38:15.490 --> 01:38:18.597 GOD TELLING THIS MAN, YOUR TIME IS UP, IT'S THE END OF THE 01:38:18.597 --> 01:38:23.909 PARADE, GET YOUR HOUSE IN ORDER BECAUSE YOU'RE LEAVING. SO VERSE 01:38:23.909 --> 01:38:29.066 2, THEN HE TURNED HIS FACE TOWARD THE WALL AND PRAYED TO 01:38:29.066 --> 01:38:33.680 THE LORD, SAYING, REMEMBER NOW, O LORD, REMEMBER— NOTICE THE 01:38:33.680 --> 01:38:37.323 LORD, REMEMBER? HE SAID, PUT ME IN REMEMBRANCE. HE'S DOING THAT 01:38:37.323 --> 01:38:41.882 RIGHT NOW. REMEMBER NOW, O LORD, I PRAY, HOW I HAVE WALKED BEFORE 01:38:41.882 --> 01:38:45.895 YOU IN TRUTH AND WITH A LOYAL HEART, AND I'VE DONE WHAT WAS 01:38:45.895 --> 01:38:50.389 GOOD IN YOUR SIGHT. AND HEZEKIAH WEPT BITTERLY. HAS ANYBODY EVER 01:38:50.389 --> 01:38:52.476 WEPT BITTERLY? YOU KNOW THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN CRYING AND 01:38:52.476 --> 01:38:55.719 CRYING BITTERLY? OH YEAH, THERE'S A DIFFERENCE. THERE'S A 01:38:55.719 --> 01:38:58.817 DIFFERENCE. AND THIS IS WHERE HE'S DOING. AND IT HAD— VERSE 4— 01:38:58.817 --> 01:39:01.882 AND IT HAPPENED BEFORE ISAIAH HAD GONE OUT FROM THE MIDDLE 01:39:01.882 --> 01:39:06.456 COURT THAT THE WORD OF THE LORD CAME TO HIM AND SAID, 'RETURN 01:39:06.456 --> 01:39:09.826 AND TELL HEZEKIAH, THE LEADER OF MY PEOPLE, THUS SAYS THE LORD, 01:39:09.826 --> 01:39:13.389 THE GOD OF DAVID YOUR FATHER: I'VE HEARD YOUR PRAYER. I'VE 01:39:13.389 --> 01:39:17.208 SEEN YOUR TEARS. SURELY I WILL HEAL YOU. ON THE THIRD DAY, YOU 01:39:17.208 --> 01:39:20.803 SHALL GO UP TO THE HOUSE OF THE LORD, AND I WILL ADD'— VERSE 6— 01:39:20.803 --> 01:39:25.232 '15 YEARS TO YOUR LIFE. I WILL DELIVER YOU AND THIS CITY FROM 01:39:25.232 --> 01:39:28.120 THE HAND OF THE KING OF THE ASSYRIANS, AND I WILL DEFEND 01:39:28.120 --> 01:39:31.573 THIS CITY FOR MY OWN SAKE AND FOR THE SAKE OF MY SERVANT 01:39:31.573 --> 01:39:34.479 DAVID. HE REFERS TO THE COVENANT. BY THE WAY, WE HAVE A 01:39:34.479 --> 01:39:39.007 COVENANT. IT'S A NEW COVENANT. IT'S BETTER THAN THIS ONE. OKAY, 01:39:39.007 --> 01:39:42.605 SO IF IT— IF, YOU KNOW, GOD'S REFERRING TO THIS WITH HIM, HOW 01:39:42.605 --> 01:39:45.917 MUCH MORE WOULD HE REFER TO THIS WITH US? BUT I WANT YOU TO SEE 01:39:45.917 --> 01:39:51.165 HERE IN VERSE 2, HE TURNED HIS FACE TO THE WALL. THERE WILL BE 01:39:51.165 --> 01:39:53.433 TIMES IN YOUR LIFE WHEN YOU'LL NEED TO TURN YOUR FACE TO THE 01:39:53.433 --> 01:39:56.916 WALL, WHEN YOU'RE FACING MISSION IMPOSSIBLE, WHEN YOU'RE FACING 01:39:56.916 --> 01:39:59.327 EVERYTHING THE DEVIL IS GOING TO DO, TRYING TO DO, AND 01:39:59.327 --> 01:40:03.039 THREATENING TO DO, AND IS DOING, YOU'RE GOING TO HAVE TO TURN 01:40:03.039 --> 01:40:05.563 YOUR FACE TO THE WALL AND DECIDE, I AM NOT GOING TO QUIT 01:40:05.563 --> 01:40:08.473 OR DEVIATE FROM WHAT GOD'S TELLING ME TO DO. THAT'S ONE OF 01:40:08.473 --> 01:40:11.307 THE REASONS WHY, AS I SAID, I RESPECT YOUR PASTOR SO MUCH, 01:40:12.325 --> 01:40:17.078 OKAY? THEY HAVE, YOU KNOW, PUT THEIR FOOT DOWN AND SAID, NO, 01:40:17.078 --> 01:40:19.891 WE'RE NOT GOING TO RENEGE ON WHAT GOD TOLD US AND WHAT GOD 01:40:19.891 --> 01:40:22.971 PROPHESIED THROUGH US. IT IS WHAT HE SAID. AND I'D LIKE TO 01:40:22.971 --> 01:40:26.637 KNOW, HE MAY MADE A COMMENT DURING THE CONFERENCE. I THINK 01:40:26.637 --> 01:40:29.829 IT WAS BRENDA, ONE OF THEM, ABOUT HOW ALL THE MINISTRIES 01:40:29.829 --> 01:40:34.707 THAT GOT ON THEIR TAIL BECAUSE TRUMP WASN'T REELECTED IN 2020. 01:40:34.707 --> 01:40:38.798 BY THE WAY, HE WAS ELECTED IN 2020. IT WAS STOLEN. JUST A 01:40:38.798 --> 01:40:42.969 SMALL POINT THERE. ALL RIGHT, HE WAS ELECTED. BUT, YOU KNOW, GOD, 01:40:42.969 --> 01:40:45.793 I BELIEVE, IN HIS PROVIDENCE, ALLOWED IT TO HAPPEN SO THAT YOU 01:40:45.793 --> 01:40:49.003 AND I COULD SEE THE CORRUPTION, THE CORRUPTION OF THIS 01:40:49.003 --> 01:40:55.532 COUNTRY. WE WOULDN'T HAVE KNOWN. WE KNOW NOW. BUT THEY TALKED 01:40:55.532 --> 01:40:58.795 ABOUT ALL— I WANT ALL THESE MINISTRIES THAT CAME AGAINST 01:40:58.795 --> 01:41:01.636 THEM PUBLICLY AND SAID, SEE, YOU MISS GOD, YOU'RE A FALSE 01:41:01.636 --> 01:41:06.627 PROPHET. AND I, YOU KNOW, I WOULD LIKE TO KNOW IF ANY OF 01:41:06.627 --> 01:41:11.605 THEM CAME BACK TO APOLOGIZE. HANK AND BRENDA, I'D LIKE TO 01:41:11.605 --> 01:41:15.864 KNOW IF ANYBODY CAME BACK TO APOLOGIZE TO YOU FOR WHAT THEY 01:41:15.864 --> 01:41:20.942 SAID ABOUT YOU PUBLICLY. YOU KNOW, IT'S VERY EASY TO POINT 01:41:20.942 --> 01:41:24.768 YOUR FINGER FROM AFAR AND MAKE OPINIONS OF THINGS YOU DON'T 01:41:24.768 --> 01:41:28.340 KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT, BUT THIS MAN, YOUR PASTOR, HAS A TRACK 01:41:28.340 --> 01:41:36.451 RECORD OF ACCURACY. A TRACK RECORD. OKAY, PRAISE THE LORD. 01:41:36.451 --> 01:41:39.197 ACCORDING TO WHAT GOD SAID THROUGH THAT MAN, IT'S SMOOTH 01:41:39.197 --> 01:41:42.471 SAILING. IN THE NAME OF JESUS. YEAH, BUT YOU DON'T KNOW WHAT 01:41:42.471 --> 01:41:45.733 I'M GOING THROUGH. GOD KNOWS WHAT YOU'RE GOING THROUGH. PUT 01:41:45.733 --> 01:41:49.043 YOUR HAND— GET INTO THE PRAYER CLOSET, TURN TO THE WALL, START 01:41:49.043 --> 01:41:52.602 PLEADING YOUR CASE. LET THE LORD KNOW, I'M NOT LEAVING, I'M NOT 01:41:52.602 --> 01:41:56.225 DEVIATING, I'M NOT CHANGING, I'M NOT BACKING AWAY FROM WHAT I'VE 01:41:56.225 --> 01:41:59.208 BEEN TOLD TO DO BY THE LORD. I'M GOING TO CONTINUE DOING WHAT GOD 01:41:59.208 --> 01:42:01.748 TOLD ME TO DO, AND I DON'T CARE WHO LIKES IT AND WHO DOESN'T. 01:42:05.009 --> 01:42:07.018 AMEN. SHOUT THROUGH THE PRAISE THE LORD. LET YOUR NEIGHBORS 01:42:07.018 --> 01:42:13.130 HEAR YOU, OR NEXT DOOR, OR WHEREVER. PRAISE THE LORD. HE 01:42:13.130 --> 01:42:16.098 TURNED HIS FACE TO THE WALL. WHAT'S HE DOING? HE'S PREPARING 01:42:16.098 --> 01:42:21.072 HIS CASE. HE'S PREPARING HIS CASE. YOU KNOW, YOU AND I NEED 01:42:21.072 --> 01:42:25.227 TO LEARN HOW TO DO THIS WHEN WE NEED TO DO IT. OKAY, PRAISE THE 01:42:25.227 --> 01:42:28.115 LORD. PAUL DID THIS. YOU KNOW, PAUL WROTE TO THE CORINTHIANS IN 01:42:28.115 --> 01:42:31.324 CHAPTER— THE SECOND BOOK, IN THE SEVENTH CHAPTER, HE TOLD THE 01:42:31.324 --> 01:42:35.829 CORINTHIANS RECEIVE US. WE'VE WRONGED NO MAN. WE'VE CORRUPTED 01:42:35.829 --> 01:42:40.498 NO MAN. REALLY? REALLY? THIS GUY FROM ACTS, THE ONES THAT WERE 01:42:40.498 --> 01:42:43.409 HOLDING THE COATS OF THE PEOPLE WHO STONED STEPHEN, THE GUY WHO 01:42:43.409 --> 01:42:46.541 WAS ON HIS WAY TO DAMASCUS TO ARREST AND THROW PEOPLE IN JAIL, 01:42:46.541 --> 01:42:50.301 THIS GUY SAYING, RECEIVE US, WE'VE WRONGED NO MAN. HE'S GOT 01:42:50.301 --> 01:42:54.079 MORE FAITH IN THE NEW BIRTH THAN MOST OF US, BECAUSE WHAT DOES 01:42:54.079 --> 01:42:58.613 THE NEW BIRTH SAY? OLD THINGS ARE PASSED AWAY, ALL THINGS HAVE 01:42:58.613 --> 01:43:04.231 BECOME NEW. SO WHATEVER HAPPENED IN YOUR BC DAYS, FORGET IT. AND 01:43:04.231 --> 01:43:08.874 WHATEVER HAPPENS DURING YOUR BC TIME, OR IN YOUR— NOT BC, BUT IN 01:43:08.874 --> 01:43:14.407 CHRIST DURING THAT TIME, FORGET THAT TOO. PRAISE THE LORD. PUT A 01:43:14.407 --> 01:43:20.112 SMILE ON YOUR FACE IF YOU CAN. PRAISE THE LORD. SOME PEOPLE, 01:43:20.112 --> 01:43:26.314 YOU KNOW, IF THEY SMILE, THEIR CHEEKS WOULD CRACK. YOU KNOW, MY 01:43:26.314 --> 01:43:30.947 DAD— I LOVE MY FATHER, BUT HE WAS A GERMAN DUDE. AND I MEAN, 01:43:30.947 --> 01:43:34.473 HE WAS METICULOUS AND ANALYTICAL ABOUT EVERYTHING. AND I'M JUST 01:43:34.473 --> 01:43:36.878 SHARING. I LOVED HIM, AND HE LOVED US, DID HIS BEST TO 01:43:36.878 --> 01:43:41.174 PROVIDE FOR US. AND I NEVER WILL FORGET ONE DAY, I WAS— I DON'T 01:43:41.174 --> 01:43:43.771 KNOW, ABOUT 9 YEARS OLD OR 10, SOMETHING LIKE THAT. I'M SITTING 01:43:43.771 --> 01:43:48.773 IN THE LIVING ROOM IN MY HOUSE IN CLEVELAND, OHIO. AND MY 01:43:48.773 --> 01:43:52.620 SISTER RUNS IN, RUNS IN TO THE LIMERICK. SHE SAID, DAD'S 01:43:52.620 --> 01:43:59.822 LAUGHING, CHECK IT OUT. I MEAN, IT WAS SO INFREQUENT, IT'S LIKE, 01:43:59.822 --> 01:44:04.890 WOW, WHAT AN EVENT, LET'S GO SEE THIS. DAD'S LAUGHING, CHECK IT 01:44:04.890 --> 01:44:11.752 OUT. HALLELUJAH, PRAISE JESUS. OKAY, SO LET'S MOVE ON. THE 01:44:11.752 --> 01:44:15.387 BIBLE SAYS WE PUT OUR— WE PUT GOD IN REMEMBRANCE. OKAY, SO 01:44:15.387 --> 01:44:19.222 WE'RE DOING THAT. AND THEN IT SAYS WE CONTEND TOGETHER. SO 01:44:19.222 --> 01:44:21.431 WE'RE GOING TO GET TO GOD IN A MINUTE, BUT RIGHT NOW WE'RE 01:44:21.431 --> 01:44:24.883 GOING TO TALK ABOUT OUR CASE TO HIM. HE'LL LET US PLEAD OUR CASE 01:44:24.883 --> 01:44:28.678 BEFORE HE TURNS AROUND AND PLEADS HIS BACK TO US. OKAY, SO 01:44:28.678 --> 01:44:32.557 HERE'S HOW YOU PLEAD YOUR CASE TO THE LORD. FIRST OF ALL, YOU 01:44:32.557 --> 01:44:35.790 GOT YOUR MIND RIGHT, AS WE'VE BEEN TALKING. IT'S RENEWED TO 01:44:35.790 --> 01:44:39.123 THE WORD. YOU HAVE THE MIND OF CHRIST, ALL THOSE VERSES. ALL 01:44:39.123 --> 01:44:45.358 RIGHT, AND THEN YOU UNDERSTAND YOUR RESPONSIBILITIES AND YOU 01:44:45.358 --> 01:44:49.014 ARE BUSY ABOUT THE FATHER'S BUSINESS. AND THE VERSE 01:44:49.014 --> 01:44:52.638 THAT YOU STAND ON FOR THIS IS 3 JOHN VERSE 2. IT'S ONLY ONE 01:44:52.638 --> 01:44:59.031 VERSE. WE ALL KNOW WHAT THE VERSE SAYS. BELOVED, I WISH— 01:44:59.031 --> 01:45:02.024 THAT WORD IN THE GREEK IS DESIRE— I DESIRE, I WISH ABOVE 01:45:02.024 --> 01:45:08.113 ALL THINGS THAT YOU PROSPER AND BE IN HEALTH EVEN AS YOUR SOUL 01:45:08.113 --> 01:45:11.648 PROSPERS. SO FIRST OF ALL, YOUR SOUL HAS TO BE PROSPERING. YOUR 01:45:11.648 --> 01:45:14.925 MIND, YOUR WILL, AND YOUR EMOTIONS. YOU HAVE TO HAVE YOUR 01:45:14.925 --> 01:45:19.585 EMOTIONS IN CHECK. YOU CAN'T BE SOME KIND OF SPIRIT-FILLED HYENA 01:45:19.585 --> 01:45:22.332 RUNNING AROUND GIDDY AND FROTHY AT THE MOUTH ALL THAT TIME. YOU 01:45:22.332 --> 01:45:25.128 KNOW, YOU NEED SOME— YOU NEED TO KNOW THE JOY OF THE LORD IS MY 01:45:25.128 --> 01:45:29.450 STRENGTH. IT'S NOT HAPPINESS, IT'S JOY. SINNERS CAN BE HAPPY 01:45:29.450 --> 01:45:32.519 ON THEIR WAY TO HELL. THEY CAN BE HAPPY, AND YOU CAN BE HAPPY, 01:45:32.519 --> 01:45:35.507 BUT HAPPINESS COMES AND HAPPINESS GOES. JOY COMES FROM 01:45:35.507 --> 01:45:39.596 THE HOLY SPIRIT. IT'S A FRUIT. IT'S THERE WHETHER YOU ARE HAPPY 01:45:39.596 --> 01:45:45.250 OR NOT, YOU CAN STILL BE JOYFUL. THAT'S A PROSPEROUS SOUL. OKAY, 01:45:45.250 --> 01:45:51.211 HE WANTS US TO PROSPER AND BE IN HEALTH EVEN AS OUR SOUL 01:45:51.211 --> 01:45:58.275 PROSPERS. WHY? WHY? SO THAT WE CAN FULFILL OUR ASSIGNMENTS AND 01:45:58.275 --> 01:46:02.550 FULFILL THE GREAT COMMISSION TO GO INTO ALL THE WORLD AND PREACH 01:46:02.550 --> 01:46:07.052 THE GOSPEL. AND MATTHEW THEN, TO MAKE DISCIPLES OF ALL NATIONS, 01:46:07.052 --> 01:46:09.260 BAPTIZING THEM IN THE NAME THE NAME OF THE FATHER, SON, AND 01:46:09.260 --> 01:46:14.416 HOLY SPIRIT. THAT IS THE BASIS FOR OUR CASE, OKAY? IT IS THE 01:46:14.416 --> 01:46:18.352 PROMISE FROM GOD THAT OUR CASE IS BUILT ON THAT FOUNDATION. YOU 01:46:18.352 --> 01:46:20.681 KNOW, LIKE IN A COURTROOM, THEY'LL HAVE KEY WITNESSES THAT 01:46:20.681 --> 01:46:23.556 THEY'RE BUILDING THEIR CASE ON. YOU'RE BUILDING YOUR CASE ON 01:46:23.556 --> 01:46:26.930 THAT VERSE RIGHT THERE. AND I GO TO THE LORD. I'LL TELL YOU HOW I 01:46:26.930 --> 01:46:29.821 GO TO THE LORD. YOU SHOULD DO THE SAME, BECAUSE EVEN THOUGH 01:46:29.821 --> 01:46:32.809 YOU'RE A DIFFERENT PERSON DOING DIFFERENT THINGS IN A DIFFERENT 01:46:32.809 --> 01:46:35.990 PART OF THE WORLD, THE GREAT COMMISSION APPLIES TO EVERYBODY. 01:46:35.990 --> 01:46:40.673 WOULD YOU NOT AGREE IT APPLIES TO EVERYBODY? YOU MAY NOT BE A 01:46:40.673 --> 01:46:43.991 FIVEFOLD MINISTRY GIFT, THAT'S UP TO GOD. I DID NOT FILL OUT AN 01:46:43.991 --> 01:46:48.305 APPLICATION TO BE AN APOSTLE. I DID NOT SUBMIT THIS TO THE HOLY 01:46:48.305 --> 01:46:52.157 SPIRIT AND FILLED OUT THE FORM. HE CHOOSES TO DO THINGS. SOMEONE 01:46:52.157 --> 01:46:55.429 SAY AMEN. OKAY, YOUR PASTORS, I KNEW THEM WHEN THEY FIRST 01:46:55.429 --> 01:46:58.729 STARTED. THEY DIDN'T ENVISION ANY OF THIS ANY MORE THAN I 01:46:58.729 --> 01:47:02.179 ENVISIONED 300 CHURCHES, BUT HERE WE ARE. OKAY, AND WE ARE 01:47:02.179 --> 01:47:05.544 WHAT WE ARE BY THE BY THE GRACE OF GOD. BUT LIKE WE SANG BEFORE, 01:47:05.544 --> 01:47:09.683 EVERYBODY NEEDS EVERYBODY ELSE, AND IT'S A TEAM GAME. WHEN YOU 01:47:09.683 --> 01:47:12.415 DO YOUR PART TO SUPPORT THIS WORK WITH YOUR PRAYERS, WITH 01:47:12.415 --> 01:47:14.881 YOUR FINANCES, WITH YOUR TITHING, WHATEVER, YOU GET THE 01:47:14.881 --> 01:47:20.064 SAME REWARDS AS THEY DO. I TELL PEOPLE, YOU DON'T HAVE TO BE THE 01:47:20.064 --> 01:47:22.814 DUDE OUT FRONT. YOU CAN BE THE ONE IN THE PRAYER CLOSET. BUT 01:47:22.814 --> 01:47:27.382 EVERYBODY WHO'S OUT FRONT NEEDS THE PRAYER CLOSET PEOPLE. THEY 01:47:27.382 --> 01:47:32.125 SURE DO. THANK YOU, JESUS. ANYWAY, WHERE AM I? OKAY, UM, 3 01:47:32.125 --> 01:47:38.674 JOHN 2, AND THEN JAMES 4:3. LOOK THERE WITH ME. I NEED— I NEED 01:47:38.674 --> 01:47:50.278 FOR YOU TO SEE IT. JAMES 4:3. ALL RIGHT, ACTUALLY VERSE NUMBER 01:47:50.278 --> 01:47:55.302 2. YOU LUST AND DO NOT HAVE. YOU MURDER AND COVET AND CANNOT 01:47:55.302 --> 01:47:59.874 OBTAIN. YOU FIGHT IN WAR, YET YOU DO NOT HAVE BECAUSE YOU DO 01:47:59.874 --> 01:48:05.153 NOT ASK. OKAY, SO HE'S SAYING ASK. ALL RIGHT, BUT VERSE 3: YOU 01:48:05.153 --> 01:48:10.383 ASK AND DO NOT RECEIVE BECAUSE YOU ASK AMISS, THAT YOU MAY 01:48:10.383 --> 01:48:13.896 SPEND IT ON YOUR PLEASURES. ASKING AMISS MEANS YOU'RE ASKING 01:48:13.896 --> 01:48:17.666 FOR THE WRONG REASONS. YOUR HEART IS NOT RIGHT, AND GOD 01:48:17.666 --> 01:48:21.693 KNOWS IT. OF COURSE, HE'S BASICALLY SAYING YOU CAN ASK ALL 01:48:21.693 --> 01:48:23.779 YOU WANT, BUT IF YOUR HEART'S NOT RIGHT, YOU'RE NEVER GOING TO 01:48:23.779 --> 01:48:26.252 GET WHAT YOU'RE ASKING FOR. YOU CAN FORGET IT. YOU'RE WASTING 01:48:26.252 --> 01:48:31.090 YOUR TIME. YOU'RE ASKING AMISS. ALL RIGHT, SO YOU NEED TO MAKE 01:48:31.090 --> 01:48:36.254 SURE YOU KNOW WHY YOU WANT WHAT YOU SAY YOU WANT. WHEN YOU PLEAD 01:48:36.254 --> 01:48:40.287 YOUR CASE, WHY ARE YOU PLEADING YOUR CASE? BECAUSE YOU WANT 01:48:40.287 --> 01:48:45.786 EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO BE PROSPEROUS AND HEALTHY AS YOUR 01:48:45.786 --> 01:48:51.622 SOUL PROSPERS. ALL RIGHT, PROSPERITY. YOU KNOW, LISTEN, WE 01:48:51.622 --> 01:48:54.575 ARE PROSPERITY PEOPLE. WE KNOW WHAT PROSPERITY MEANS. I'LL GIVE 01:48:54.575 --> 01:48:59.623 IT TO PROSPERITY IS BASICALLY YOU HAVING THE RESOURCES TO DO 01:48:59.623 --> 01:49:02.183 EVERYTHING GOD TELLS YOU TO DO WHEN GOD TELLS YOU TO DO IT. 01:49:03.230 --> 01:49:06.482 THAT'S IT. GOD TELLS YOU TO BUILD A CHURCH, YOU NEED THE 01:49:06.482 --> 01:49:08.977 MONEY FOR THAT. THAT'S PROSPERITY. GOD TELLS YOU TO BUY 01:49:08.977 --> 01:49:11.392 A NEW CAR BECAUSE YOURS IS HELD TOGETHER WITH CHRISTIAN BUMPER 01:49:11.392 --> 01:49:14.477 STICKERS, THEN IT'S TIME TO BUY A NEW CAR. YOU KNOW, THAT BIG 01:49:14.477 --> 01:49:17.082 BLUE GLORY CLOUD THAT COMES OUT THE BACK END, THAT'S NOT THE 01:49:17.082 --> 01:49:24.048 HOLY GHOST. EW. I'VE DRIVEN A FEW OF THOSE CLUNKERS. I KNOW 01:49:24.048 --> 01:49:29.184 WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. OKAY. THE POINT IS, WHY ARE YOU ASKING 01:49:29.184 --> 01:49:31.609 FOR PROSPERITY? WHAT'S YOUR DEFINITION IN YOUR MIND? WHAT'S 01:49:31.609 --> 01:49:35.863 PROSPERITY TO YOU? OKAY. PAYING YOUR MORTGAGE ON TIME. THAT'S 01:49:35.863 --> 01:49:38.495 PROSPERITY. AND EVEN BETTER THAN THAT, YOU BUY THE HOUSE 01:49:38.495 --> 01:49:41.947 OUTRIGHT. YOU OWN IT. OKAY. BUT THE POINT IS, YOU ALWAYS HAVE 01:49:41.947 --> 01:49:45.398 THE MONEY TO DO WHAT YOU NEED TO DO TO CARRY ON FOR GOD. YOU 01:49:45.398 --> 01:49:47.630 NEVER HAVE TO STAND THERE AND SAY TO THE LORD, I'D LOVE TO DO 01:49:47.630 --> 01:49:50.099 I WANT TO DO THAT, BUT I DON'T HAVE THE MONEY FOR THIS. I, YOU 01:49:50.099 --> 01:49:52.601 KNOW, WHEN WE GO TO THE PHILIPPINES, I HAVE TO BUY AN 01:49:52.601 --> 01:49:56.083 AIRPLANE TICKET. I CANNOT WALK UP TO THE COUNTER AT UNITED 01:49:56.083 --> 01:50:04.171 AIRLINES AND SAY, BEHOLD. GOD DOESN'T CARE. I'M, YOU KNOW, I'M 01:50:04.171 --> 01:50:07.874 A CHILD OF GOD. I'M DIVINELY APPOINTED TO SET AT LIBERTY THEM 01:50:07.874 --> 01:50:10.047 THAT ARE BRUISED, TO PREACH THE ACCEPTABLE YEAR OF THE LORD, TO 01:50:10.047 --> 01:50:12.398 TURN THEM FROM DARKNESS TO LIGHT AND FROM THE POWER OF SATAN TO 01:50:12.398 --> 01:50:14.594 THE POWER OF GOD. THAT'S WHAT I'M TALKING ABOUT. AND THEY'LL 01:50:14.594 --> 01:50:17.883 SAY, YOU KNOW, THAT'S REALLY GOOD, BUT IF YOU WANT TO FLY IN 01:50:17.883 --> 01:50:28.238 THAT JET BACK THERE, BEHOLD THE PRICE. NO MONEY, NO TICKY. SO IF 01:50:28.238 --> 01:50:31.950 I HAVE TO FLY TO THE PHILIPPINES, I NEED $7,000 FOR 01:50:31.950 --> 01:50:36.593 ME AND MY WIFE. $77,000 PLUS, WHATEVER. THE RATES VARY FROM 01:50:36.593 --> 01:50:39.112 TIME TO TIME AND SO FORTH. BUT I, YOU KNOW, AND HERE'S HOW I 01:50:39.112 --> 01:50:42.761 GO TO THE LORD. ALL RIGHT, YOU TOLD ME TO GO TO THE 01:50:42.761 --> 01:50:46.582 PHILIPPINES. THIS IS WHAT'S GOING TO COST. I WANT THAT 01:50:46.582 --> 01:50:51.769 MONEY. BECAUSE ISAIAH 45:11 SAYS GOD EXPECTS YOU TO DEMAND 01:50:51.769 --> 01:50:55.755 GREATNESS FROM HIM. HE EXPECTS YOU TO DEMAND GREATNESS FROM 01:50:55.755 --> 01:50:58.889 HIM. HE DOESN'T GET UPSET ABOUT IT. HE SAYS, PUT ME IN 01:50:58.889 --> 01:51:01.894 REMEMBRANCE AND DO WHAT I TOLD YOU TO DO AND DEMAND WHAT I CAN 01:51:01.894 --> 01:51:06.473 DO AND ONLY I CAN DO IT. A MILLION DOLLARS TO GOD IS 01:51:06.473 --> 01:51:12.436 NOTHING. IT'S NOTHING. IT'S CHICKEN FEED TO HIM, YOU KNOW. 01:51:12.436 --> 01:51:15.155 BUT TO US, YOU KNOW, WE, WE CAN'T EVEN HANDLE CHICK-FIL-A 01:51:16.260 --> 01:51:22.526 OR, YOU KNOW, WHATEVER. THE POINT IS, WE HAVE A CASE. DO YOU 01:51:22.526 --> 01:51:25.177 KNOW WHAT IT IS? THE CASE IS THE GREAT COMMISSION. THAT'S THE 01:51:25.177 --> 01:51:30.941 CASE. WHAT CAN I DO TO PARTICIPATE? YOU KNOW, LESS THAN 01:51:30.941 --> 01:51:36.317 3 TO 4% OF CHRISTIANS PERCENT OF CHRISTIANS TITHE? 3 TO 4% OF 01:51:36.317 --> 01:51:40.097 CHRISTIANS TITHE. 3 TO 4%. I DON'T KNOW IF YOU ARE ONE OF 01:51:40.097 --> 01:51:44.169 THOSE 3. GOOD FOR YOU. BUT IF YOU'RE NOT, WHY NOT? IS MY 01:51:44.169 --> 01:51:49.835 COUNSEL TO YOU. WHY NOT? WHY WOULD YOU BE CHEAP WITH GOD? HE 01:51:49.835 --> 01:51:54.887 GIVES YOU 90%. HE WANTS 10. HE GIVES YOU 90. WHY NOT? BECAUSE 01:51:54.887 --> 01:51:58.250 WHEN YOU GIVE HIM THE 10, HE PROMISES TO OPEN THE WINDOWS OF 01:51:58.250 --> 01:52:00.464 HEAVEN AND POUR OUT BLESSINGS. WHY WOULDN'T WHY WOULDN'T YOU 01:52:00.464 --> 01:52:04.168 WANT THAT? I TALK TO PEOPLE AND THEY STARE AT ME LIKE, WELL, YOU 01:52:04.168 --> 01:52:11.462 KNOW, THAT'S KIND OF NICE. YEAH, AGAIN, TITHING, YOU KNOW, DO 01:52:11.462 --> 01:52:13.954 YOU, YOU KNOW, MY COUNSEL, DO YOU TITHE? BUT THE PASTORS, THEY 01:52:13.954 --> 01:52:17.347 COME IN, THEY'RE FINANCIALLY STRAPPED. OKAY, FIRST QUESTION, 01:52:17.347 --> 01:52:21.721 DO YOU TITHE? WELL, APOSTLE, THEY CALL ME DADDY OVER THERE. 01:52:21.721 --> 01:52:28.321 NO, DADDY, YOU KNOW, I INTEND TO, I KNOW IT'S— WELL, DO YOU? 01:52:28.321 --> 01:52:34.719 WELL, SHUT UP. DO WHAT THE BIBLE SAYS. TITHE. BE WARM, BE FILLED, 01:52:34.719 --> 01:52:42.119 BE GONE IN JESUS' NAME. GO OUT THE DOOR. COME ON, GO ON. OUT. 01:52:42.119 --> 01:52:46.376 AREN'T YOU GLAD I'M NOT YOUR PASTOR? PRAISE THE LORD. YES, 01:52:46.376 --> 01:52:53.921 THE APOSTLE OF WARMTH. PRAISE THE LORD. OKAY. YOUR CASE. LOOK 01:52:53.921 --> 01:53:00.845 WITH ME AT PHILIPPIANS. PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 1, VERSE 01:53:00.845 --> 01:53:11.574 NUMBER 22. AH, LET'S START WITH VERSE 21. SORRY, VERSE 21. THIS 01:53:11.574 --> 01:53:13.582 IS PAUL TALKING TO THE PHILIPPIAN CHURCH. THIS IS WHAT 01:53:13.582 --> 01:53:18.594 HE SAYS: FOR TO ME, TO LIVE IS CHRIST, AND TO DIE IS GAIN. 01:53:18.594 --> 01:53:21.410 SOMEONE SAY AMEN. DON'T BE AFRAID OF DEATH. IT'S YOUR 01:53:21.410 --> 01:53:24.711 PORTAL. IT'S YOUR TIME OF TRANSITION. YOU GO HOME. WE GO 01:53:24.711 --> 01:53:31.208 HOME. VERSE 22: BUT IF I LIVE ON IN THE FLESH, THIS WILL MEAN 01:53:31.208 --> 01:53:35.412 FRUIT FROM MY LABOR. YET WHAT I SHALL CHOOSE, I CANNOT TELL. 01:53:35.412 --> 01:53:40.126 VERSE 23: FOR I AM HARD-PRESSED BETWEEN THE TWO, HAVING A DESIRE 01:53:40.126 --> 01:53:44.671 TO DEPART AND BE WITH CHRIST, WHICH IS FAR BETTER. 01:53:44.671 --> 01:53:49.317 NEVERTHELESS, VERSE 24, TO REMAIN IN THE FLESH IS MORE 01:53:49.317 --> 01:53:54.285 NEEDFUL FOR YOU. AND BEING CONFIDENT OF THIS, VERSE 25, I 01:53:54.285 --> 01:53:57.474 KNOW THAT I SHALL REMAIN AND CONTINUE WITH YOU ALL FOR YOUR 01:53:57.474 --> 01:54:02.441 PROGRESS AND JOY OF FAITH. OKAY, SO HE TELLS THE PHILIPPIANS, 01:54:02.441 --> 01:54:06.271 LOOK, I'VE SEEN HEAVEN. IN FACT, I'VE BEEN THERE 3 TIMES. I'VE 01:54:06.271 --> 01:54:09.620 SEEN IT. I'VE SEEN THE BEAUTY OF IT. AND ANYBODY, YOU KNOW, 01:54:09.620 --> 01:54:11.657 RECENTLY IN OUR DAY AND AGE, THEY'VE SEEN IT AND THEY WRITE 01:54:11.657 --> 01:54:15.973 BOOKS ABOUT IT. NOBODY CAN DESCRIBE IT. IT'S PERFECT. WE'VE 01:54:15.973 --> 01:54:18.700 NEVER SEEN PERFECTION, FRIENDS. WE WERE BORN INTO A WORLD AT 01:54:18.700 --> 01:54:21.347 WAR. WE HAVE NEVER BEEN IN AN ENVIRONMENT WHERE THERE'S NO 01:54:21.347 --> 01:54:24.010 EVIL, WHERE THERE'S NO RESISTANCE. THEY GO UP THERE AND 01:54:24.010 --> 01:54:26.320 THEY SEE THINGS AND THEY COME BACK, THEY SAY, "WE DON'T HAVE 01:54:26.320 --> 01:54:30.107 WORDS FOR THIS. WE CAN'T DESCRIBE THIS." YOU KNOW, THEY 01:54:30.107 --> 01:54:33.395 WRITE BOOKS ABOUT IT. I'VE READ THE BOOKS, OKAY? THE BIG THICK 01:54:33.395 --> 01:54:37.095 BOOKS, THEY GO ON AND ON AND ON WELL, IT'S UP THERE. AND PAUL 01:54:37.095 --> 01:54:39.582 WAS UP THERE 3 TIMES, AND HE SAYS, LISTEN TO THE PHILIPPIANS, 01:54:39.582 --> 01:54:43.555 HE SAYS, LISTEN, PEOPLE, I'VE SEEN HEAVEN, AND IF IT WAS UP TO 01:54:43.555 --> 01:54:49.263 ME, I'D BE OUT OF HERE. BUT I'M HARD-PRESSED. HE SAYS, I'M 01:54:49.263 --> 01:54:52.412 HARD-PRESSED. I WANT TO LEAVE. I WANT TO GO BACK. I WANT, YOU 01:54:52.412 --> 01:54:54.168 KNOW, PEOPLE UP THERE, THEY DON'T WANT TO COME BACK HERE. 01:54:54.168 --> 01:54:58.364 THAT'S WHY NOBODY WANTS TO BE AT FUNERALS, CHRISTIAN FUNERALS, 01:54:58.364 --> 01:55:01.617 BECAUSE I'LL TELL PEOPLE, WHAT ARE Y'ALL CRYING FOR? THE ONE 01:55:01.617 --> 01:55:04.068 YOU LOVE ISN'T HERE. THEY'RE IN HEAVEN. THEY'RE WITH JESUS. 01:55:04.068 --> 01:55:05.969 THEY'RE RUNNING AROUND SINGING AND DANCING. LISTENING AND 01:55:05.969 --> 01:55:10.211 CLAPPING, AND YOU'RE IN HERE CRYING. I MEAN, THERE'S A TIME 01:55:10.211 --> 01:55:14.103 TO MOURN, I GOT THAT PART, BUT LOOK PAST THE TEARS AND THANK 01:55:14.103 --> 01:55:19.791 GOD FOR WHERE THEY WENT AND WHERE YOU'RE GOING. OKAY, PRAISE 01:55:19.791 --> 01:55:22.362 THE LORD. I DID MY MOTHER'S FUNERAL, SAME THING. I SAID TO 01:55:22.362 --> 01:55:28.164 ALL MY RELATIVES ON THE FRONT ROW, QUIT CRYING. NO, DON'T CRY 01:55:28.164 --> 01:55:31.808 ANYMORE. SUCK IT UP. OUR MOTHER IS IN HEAVEN. SHE WAS SUFFERING, 01:55:31.808 --> 01:55:33.752 SHE HAD CANCER, YOU KNOW, SHE WENT THROUGH THE WHOLE THING. 01:55:33.752 --> 01:55:36.772 SHE DIED AND WENT TO HIM. SHE'S IN HEAVEN. SHE'S RUNNING, SHE'S 01:55:36.772 --> 01:55:39.222 CLAPPING, SHE'S DANCING. PRAISE THE LORD. WE'RE GOING TO SEE HER 01:55:39.222 --> 01:55:45.382 SOON. YES. AMEN. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. AMEN. WELL, PAUL SAYS THIS 01:55:45.382 --> 01:55:47.808 TO THE PHILIPPIANS. I'M CONFIDENT NEVERTHELESS TO REMAIN 01:55:47.808 --> 01:55:51.339 IN THE FLESH IS MORE NEEDFUL FOR YOU. HE SAYS, I WANT TO GO, BUT 01:55:51.339 --> 01:55:54.498 I'M GOING TO STAY. I CHOOSE TO STAY BECAUSE GOD NEEDS ME HERE. 01:55:54.498 --> 01:55:58.547 AND THAT'S THE BASIS FOR YOUR CASE. I SAY TO THE LORD, YOU 01:55:58.547 --> 01:56:03.826 NEED ME HERE, SO I MUST HAVE I MUST HAVE THIS MONEY, AND I MUST 01:56:03.826 --> 01:56:06.121 HAVE DIVINE HEALTH. IF I'M STANDING IN FAITH FOR HEALING, I 01:56:06.121 --> 01:56:09.256 MUST HAVE IT BECAUSE I CAN'T DO WHAT I'M CALLED TO DO IF I'M 01:56:09.256 --> 01:56:13.753 SICK, AND I CAN'T DO WHAT I'M CALLED TO DO IF I'M POOR, AND I 01:56:13.753 --> 01:56:16.905 CAN'T GO WHERE I NEED TO GO IF NONE OF THIS IS IN PLACE. SO YOU 01:56:16.905 --> 01:56:20.929 MUST DO WHAT YOU PROMISED. THAT'S MY CASE. MY CASE IS I'M 01:56:20.929 --> 01:56:23.379 GOING TO BE A PLAYER FOR YOU. I'M NOT GOING TO BE JUST A 01:56:23.379 --> 01:56:26.346 SUNDAY MORNING CHRISTIAN, A BROTHER BLENDON, A PASTOR 01:56:26.346 --> 01:56:29.540 POPULAR. NO, WE'RE GOING TO BE PEOPLE WHO ARE BOAT ROCKERS AND 01:56:29.540 --> 01:56:35.443 WAVEMAKERS AND SHAKERS AND MOVERS FOR JESUS. AND I DON'T 01:56:35.443 --> 01:56:38.384 CARE WHAT THE WORLD SAYS ABOUT ANY OF THIS STUFF EITHER. QUIT 01:56:38.384 --> 01:56:42.268 LISTENING TO THE WORLD. YOU KNOW, ALL THESE FOREIGNERS 01:56:42.268 --> 01:56:44.610 COMING OVER HERE TRYING TO TELL US HOW TO LIVE OUR LIFE AND RUN 01:56:44.610 --> 01:56:52.987 OUR COUNTRY. YOU KNOW, SARAH SOMALIA AND TOMMY TURBAN. GO 01:56:52.987 --> 01:56:55.582 TAKE YOUR SCARF AND GO BACK TO WHERE YOU CAME FROM. GET OUT 01:56:55.582 --> 01:57:06.724 OF HERE! GO ON, GET OUT OF HERE! I TELL THE LORD, I CAN'T LEAVE, 01:57:06.724 --> 01:57:11.791 I CAN'T GO, I CAN'T GO, I HAVE TO STAY. YOU NEED ME HERE. HE 01:57:11.791 --> 01:57:15.986 CHOSE TO LIMIT HIMSELF TO PARTNERSHIP WITH US, WITH YOU 01:57:15.986 --> 01:57:18.567 AND ME. THAT TO ME IS AMAZING, CONSIDERING WE'RE ALL WORKS IN 01:57:18.567 --> 01:57:21.810 PROGRESS. BUT NONETHELESS, HE WILL NOT WIN SOULS APART FROM 01:57:21.810 --> 01:57:25.792 OUR ANTICIPATION. SO I TELL THE LORD, YOU NEED ME HERE. I'M NOT 01:57:25.792 --> 01:57:30.246 GOING ANYWHERE. I'M 75. WELL, I TURN 75 NEXT MONTH. OKAY, I 01:57:30.246 --> 01:57:34.039 STILL RIDE MY BIKE 40 MILES ONCE, ONCE OR TWICE A MONTH. I 01:57:34.039 --> 01:57:36.268 STILL RIDE MY MOTORCYCLES. I GO OUT THERE AND PRAY IN TONGUES 01:57:36.268 --> 01:57:42.442 RIGHT IN THAT HARLEY OF MINE. PRAISE THE LORD. BUT THE POINT 01:57:42.442 --> 01:57:48.102 IS, HEY, I WANT GOD— I, I, BY THE WAY, WE COME TO THE LORD 01:57:48.102 --> 01:57:50.479 WITH RESPECT. WE DON'T COME POUNDING OUR FIST. YOU 01:57:50.479 --> 01:57:54.089 NEED TO DO THIS. YOU KNOW, WE DEMAND WITH RESPECT. SOMEONE SAY 01:57:54.089 --> 01:57:57.408 AMEN. YOU KNOW, YOU'RE TALKING TO GOD ALMIGHTY, NOT THE BUS 01:57:57.408 --> 01:58:03.394 DRIVER. SO GOD WILL LET US PRESENT OUR CASE. WHEN WE'RE 01:58:03.394 --> 01:58:06.775 DONE, THEN HE'S GOING TO TURN AROUND AND HE'LL SAY, GOOD, 01:58:06.775 --> 01:58:10.078 THANK YOU FOR YOUR CASE. I HAVE HEARD IT. NOW I'LL GIVE YOU MY 01:58:10.078 --> 01:58:14.674 CASE. AND I'VE WRITTEN 3. THIS IS NOT THE ONLY 3, BUT THESE ARE 01:58:14.674 --> 01:58:18.256 MY TOP 3 HIS IS— THIS IS HIS CASE. THESE ARE YES AND NO 01:58:18.256 --> 01:58:20.664 QUESTIONS. YOU KNOW, IF YOU GO TO THE COURT, THEY ALWAYS WANT 01:58:20.664 --> 01:58:24.534 TO GET THE WITNESSES TO DO YES OR NOS, ALWAYS, YOU KNOW, EVEN 01:58:24.534 --> 01:58:26.637 THOUGH THE QUESTION IS IMPOSSIBLE TO ANSWER WITH A YES 01:58:26.637 --> 01:58:29.415 OR NO. BUT THEY TRY TO WORK IT IN SUCH A WAY THAT YOU HAVE TO 01:58:29.415 --> 01:58:33.108 ANSWER YES, YOU KNOW, YES, YOU KNOW. ALL RIGHT, WELL, GOD WILL 01:58:33.108 --> 01:58:37.524 DO THE SAME THING. HERE, HERE WE GO. GOD'S CASE NUMBER 1. HERE'S 01:58:37.524 --> 01:58:45.642 HIS QUESTION: DO YOU KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS? YES OR NO? YOU 01:58:45.642 --> 01:58:48.077 KNOW, MOST CHRISTIANS DON'T EVEN KNOW WHAT THEY ARE. THEY THINK 01:58:48.077 --> 01:58:49.690 COMMANDMENTS, THE TEN COMMANDMENTS, OR THE ONE 01:58:49.690 --> 01:58:52.275 COMMANDMENT TO LOVE YOUR NEIGHBOR. THERE ARE AT LEAST 10 01:58:52.275 --> 01:58:54.716 OF THEM IN THE NEW TESTAMENT. THERE ARE 5 COMMANDMENTS OF LOVE 01:58:54.716 --> 01:58:57.464 AND 5 COMMANDMENTS OF LIFE. I DON'T HAVE TIME TO GET INTO THAT 01:58:57.464 --> 01:59:00.598 TODAY, BUT I'M TELLING YOU, YOU NEED TO KNOW WHAT THE 01:59:00.598 --> 01:59:04.151 COMMANDMENTS ARE, BECAUSE IF YOU DON'T, YOU'RE DECEIVING 01:59:04.151 --> 01:59:08.745 YOURSELF. BECAUSE JESUS SAID IN JOHN 14:15, IF YOU 'IF YOU LOVE 01:59:08.745 --> 01:59:13.828 ME, KEEP MY COMMANDMENTS.' HE SAID YOU PROVE YOUR LOVE BY 01:59:13.828 --> 01:59:16.733 KEEPING MY— KNOWING THEM AND KEEPING THEM. AND IF YOU DON'T 01:59:16.733 --> 01:59:19.299 KNOW THEM, HOW CAN YOU KEEP THEM? AND IF YOU SAY THAT YOU 01:59:19.299 --> 01:59:21.817 LOVE THE LORD AND YOU HAVEN'T KEPT THEM, YOU ARE WHAT JAMES 01:59:21.817 --> 01:59:24.705 CALLS SELF-DECEIVED. YOU'VE DECEIVED YOURSELF. YOUR 01:59:24.705 --> 01:59:29.662 RELATIONSHIP WITH THE LORD IS NOT WHAT YOU THINK IT IS. YEAH, 01:59:29.662 --> 01:59:34.493 IT'S SOBERING, ISN'T IT? YOU KNOW, LET ME SAY IT THIS WAY: 01:59:34.493 --> 01:59:37.504 OVER 159 TIMES IN THE BIBLE. THE BIBLE TALKS ABOUT 01:59:37.504 --> 01:59:40.695 COMMANDMENTS IN THE OLD TESTAMENT AND IN THE NEW. AND 01:59:40.695 --> 01:59:43.181 THE ONE THAT I HAVE IN MY NOTES— WE DON'T HAVE TIME TO READ THE 01:59:43.181 --> 01:59:47.847 WHOLE THING— THIS IS DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 28, VERSES 1 TO 14. 01:59:47.847 --> 01:59:50.638 THOSE GREAT COVENANT, YOU KNOW, THE SEED OF ABRAHAM WITH THE 01:59:50.638 --> 01:59:53.540 SEED OF ABRAHAM, THOSE GREAT COVENANT BLESSINGS. GO READ THE 01:59:53.540 --> 01:59:57.549 FIRST 14 VERSES. THE, THE WORD COMMAND OR COMMANDMENTS IS IN 01:59:57.549 --> 02:00:01.237 THERE 5 TIMES IN THOSE 14 VERSES. WE READ RIGHT OVER THAT. 02:00:01.237 --> 02:00:03.804 WE READ ABOUT THE BLESSINGS. YOU'RE BLESSED YOU'RE BLESSED IN 02:00:03.804 --> 02:00:06.035 THE COUNTRY, YOU KNOW, ALL OF THIS STUFF. BUT YOU READ RIGHT 02:00:06.035 --> 02:00:09.405 OVER THE FIRST VERSE. LET'S READ THE FIRST VERSE. WE'LL START 02:00:09.405 --> 02:00:12.695 THERE. WE'LL DO THAT ONE AT LEAST. DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 28, 02:00:12.695 --> 02:00:17.574 VERSE 1. LOOK AT THIS, BECAUSE THIS IS WHERE EVERYTHING HINGES, 02:00:18.810 --> 02:00:23.448 AND WE READ RIGHT OVER IT. OKAY, DEUTERONOMY CHAPTER 28, JUST THE 02:00:23.448 --> 02:00:27.862 FIRST VERSE. YOU COULD READ THE 14 VERSES LATER, BUT VERSE 28, 02:00:27.862 --> 02:00:33.440 VERSE 1. NOW IT SHALL COME TO PASS IF— EVERYONE SAY IF. SO 02:00:33.440 --> 02:00:39.009 IT'S CONDITIONAL. IF YOU DILIGENTLY OBEY THE VOICE OF THE 02:00:39.009 --> 02:00:43.693 LORD YOUR GOD, TO OBSERVE CAREFULLY ALL OF HIS— WHAT'S 02:00:43.693 --> 02:00:49.316 THAT WORD? LET ME HEAR IT AGAIN. COMMANDMENTS. WHICH I COMMAND 02:00:49.316 --> 02:00:53.253 YOU TODAY, THAT THE LORD YOUR GOD WILL SET YOU ON HIGH ABOVE 02:00:53.253 --> 02:00:56.096 ALL NATIONS OF THE EARTH, AND ALL THESE BLESSINGS SHALL COME 02:00:56.096 --> 02:01:00.117 UPON OVERTAKE YOU BECAUSE YOU OBEY THE VOICE OF THE LORD. 02:01:00.117 --> 02:01:03.446 NOTICE THE BLESSINGS ARE CONDITIONAL. THEY'RE ALL 02:01:03.446 --> 02:01:07.881 CONDITIONAL— KEEPING THE COMMANDMENTS. ALL RIGHT, SO 02:01:07.881 --> 02:01:10.291 THAT'S— THAT'LL BE HIS FIRST QUESTION. OKAY, YOU NEED MY 02:01:10.291 --> 02:01:15.268 MONEY, YOU NEED MY HEALTH, YOU NEED MY FAVOR. DO YOU KEEP MY 02:01:15.268 --> 02:01:18.847 COMMANDMENTS? YES OR NO? AND IF THE ANSWER IS NO, YOU HAVE NO 02:01:18.847 --> 02:01:23.182 CASE. YOU JUST THREW YOUR OWN CASE OUT THE WINDOW. THOUGH. 02:01:23.182 --> 02:01:26.970 OKAY, I'M JUST TELLING YOU, GET YOUR ACT TOGETHER, GET YOUR 02:01:26.970 --> 02:01:29.787 DUCKS LINED UP IN A ROW, AND ALL THE BLESSINGS WILL FOLLOW YOU, 02:01:29.787 --> 02:01:33.187 FIND YOU. THE SECOND ONE— HERE'S ANOTHER QUESTION FROM THE LORD. 02:01:33.187 --> 02:01:37.823 THIS IS ISAIAH 6:8: HAVE YOU MADE YOURSELF AVAILABLE TO ME? 02:01:39.598 --> 02:01:44.840 YES OR NO? YOU KNOW, ISAIAH 6:8: WHOM SHALL I SEND? WHO WILL GO 02:01:44.840 --> 02:01:48.065 FOR US? WHOM SHALL I SEND? WHO WILL GO FOR US? WHO WILL GO FOR 02:01:48.065 --> 02:01:50.570 US? ISAIAH ANSWERS, HERE AM I, 'THEY'RE THY LORD, SEND ME.' 02:01:50.570 --> 02:01:53.147 MOST CHRISTIANS, THEIR ANSWER IS, 'THEY'RE THY LORD, SEND 02:01:53.147 --> 02:01:59.269 THEM. DON'T ASK ME TO SACRIFICE ANYTHING OR RISK ANYTHING.' 02:01:59.269 --> 02:02:01.925 OKAY, I MEAN, WHEN I FLEW TO THE PHILIPPINES WITH $20 IN MY 02:02:01.925 --> 02:02:05.386 POCKET AND A ONE-WAY TICKET AND NO WAY BACK IN SEPTEMBER OF 02:02:05.386 --> 02:02:08.238 1980, I DIDN'T KNOW IF THE PEOPLE I WROTE LETTERS TO EVEN 02:02:08.238 --> 02:02:12.281 KNEW I WAS COMING. I PRAYED IN TONGUES FOR 12 HOURS ON THAT 02:02:12.281 --> 02:02:14.850 PLANE, LOOKING OUT THE WINDOW IN THE DARK, FLYING ACROSS THE 02:02:14.850 --> 02:02:17.487 PACIFIC AT NIGHT. I DIDN'T KNOW WHAT I WAS FLYING 02:02:17.487 --> 02:02:19.763 INTO. I DIDN'T KNOW IF ANYBODY WOULD BE THERE TO MEET ME. I 02:02:19.763 --> 02:02:23.557 DIDN'T KNOW THE LANGUAGE. I HAD $20 LEFT IN MY BANK ACCOUNT. I 02:02:23.557 --> 02:02:26.880 PAID FOR A ONE-WAY TICKET, OKAY? I DIDN'T KNOW I'D MEET MY WIFE 02:02:26.880 --> 02:02:29.638 OVER THERE. GOD DIDN'T TELL ME. WHEN YOU DO WHAT GOD TELLS YOU 02:02:29.638 --> 02:02:34.118 TO DO, GOOD THINGS HAPPEN. YOU MEET PEOPLE YOU'D NEVER MEET ANY 02:02:34.118 --> 02:02:40.374 OTHER WAY, ETC. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. ALL RIGHT, THEN NUMBER 3. 02:02:41.559 --> 02:02:45.572 HERE'S THE THIRD QUESTION. THIS IS FROM PROVERBS 6:16-19. WE 02:02:45.572 --> 02:02:48.960 WON'T TAKE TIME TO READ IT. GOD WILL SAY, HAVE YOU PARTICIPATED 02:02:48.960 --> 02:02:53.536 IN THE SPREADING OF STRIFE IN THE CHURCH? HAVE YOU BEEN A 02:02:53.536 --> 02:02:57.774 STRIFE SPREADER? BECAUSE MOST CHRISTIANS SPREAD STRIFE. THEY 02:02:57.774 --> 02:03:00.744 TALK BEHIND PEOPLE'S BACKS. THEY TALK ABOUT THEIR PASTOR BEHIND 02:03:00.744 --> 02:03:03.794 THEIR BACK. THEY CRITICIZE PEOPLE WHO ARE NOT AROUND TO 02:03:03.794 --> 02:03:08.296 RESPOND TO THE CRITICISM. THAT'S CALLED STRIFE. AND PROVERBS SAYS 02:03:08.296 --> 02:03:12.248 THERE ARE 6 THINGS HE HATES, AND 7 IS THE ONE THAT HE CALLS AN 02:03:12.248 --> 02:03:15.298 ABOMINATION, AND IT IS PEOPLE WHO SOW STRIFE AMONG BRETHREN. 02:03:16.842 --> 02:03:19.817 IN MY CHURCHES, AND IN MY CHURCH IN TUCSON, THEY'LL TELL YOU 02:03:19.817 --> 02:03:25.235 THIS, AND MY CHURCHES OVERSEAS, I DO NOT TOLERATE STRIFE IN ANY 02:03:25.235 --> 02:03:28.328 WAY, SHAPE, FASHION, OR FORM. IF I FIND OUT THAT YOU'RE SPREADING 02:03:28.328 --> 02:03:31.149 STRIFE, DOING END-AROUNDS AROUND PEOPLE, YOU AND I ARE GOING TO 02:03:31.149 --> 02:03:35.353 HAVE A CONVERSATION YOU WILL NEVER FORGET. AND I'LL LAY IT ON 02:03:35.353 --> 02:03:38.673 THE LINE, IF YOU DO THIS AGAIN, YOU ARE GONE. I DON'T NEED YOU 02:03:38.673 --> 02:03:40.914 HERE. WE'LL FIND SOMEONE TO REPLACE YOU. YOU'RE NOT THAT 02:03:40.914 --> 02:03:43.671 GOOD. YOU'RE NOT THAT IMPORTANT. YOU DON'T SING THAT WELL. I'LL 02:03:43.671 --> 02:03:49.519 GET RID OF YOU AND MOVE ON. AMEN. THAT'S— THEY KNOW IT 02:03:49.519 --> 02:03:52.765 BECAUSE WE'RE, WE'RE RUNNING OUT OF TIME. WE NEED TO BE DOING 02:03:52.765 --> 02:03:56.150 EVERYTHING WE CAN TO WIN SOULS BEFORE THEY DIE LOST. YOU DON'T 02:03:56.150 --> 02:03:59.334 HAVE TIME TO BE, YOU KNOW, TABBY BINGO, BINGO, WHAT THEY 02:03:59.334 --> 02:04:05.750 CALL IN THE PHILIPPINES SPREADING STRIFE. SHUT UP. SO I 02:04:05.750 --> 02:04:10.542 WILL SAY, BE QUIET. SO AGAIN, MASTERING OUR MEMORY— YOU SHOULD 02:04:10.542 --> 02:04:13.598 WRITE THIS DOWN OR REMEMBER IT— MASTERING OUR MEMORY IS THE 02:04:13.598 --> 02:04:18.327 FOUNDATION FOR OUR FUTURE. MASTERING OUR MEMORY IS THE 02:04:18.327 --> 02:04:21.853 FOUNDATION FOR OUR FUTURE. IF YOU DON'T GET CONTROL OF YOUR 02:04:21.853 --> 02:04:25.195 MIND NOW, YOU'LL NEVER BE WORTH ANYTHING FOR GOD. YOU'LL JUST BE 02:04:25.195 --> 02:04:28.660 ANOTHER MESS, AN EMOTIONAL MESS IN SOMEONE'S CHURCH SOMEWHERE. 02:04:28.660 --> 02:04:32.077 ALL RIGHT, AND HERE'S ANOTHER ONE: IT'S NOT HOW MUCH OF THE 02:04:32.077 --> 02:04:35.141 WORD OF GOD YOU KNOW, IT'S ABOUT HOW MUCH OF THE WORD OF GOD YOU 02:04:35.141 --> 02:04:39.858 APPLY. LET ME REPEAT THAT: IT'S NOT ABOUT HOW MUCH OF THE WORD 02:04:39.858 --> 02:04:42.697 OF GOD YOU KNOW, IT'S ABOUT HOW MUCH OF THE WORD OF GOD YOU 02:04:42.697 --> 02:04:47.077 APPLY IN YOUR LIFE. THAT MAKES THE DIFFERENCE. DOERS OF THE 02:04:47.077 --> 02:04:50.383 WORD. BE DOERS OF THE WORD. THANK YOU, JESUS. SO LET'S 02:04:50.383 --> 02:04:53.224 FINISH THIS UP. LET'S GO TO PHILIPPIANS 3. WE'LL TALK ABOUT 02:04:53.224 --> 02:04:56.581 THE MINDSET AGAIN. DO THE END OF ROUNDS RIGHT BACK TO WHERE WE 02:04:56.581 --> 02:05:03.269 STARTED. PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER NUMBER 3 AND VERSE NUMBER 13. 02:05:06.698 --> 02:05:15.500 PHILIPPIANS CHAPTER 3, VERSE NUMBER 13. THIS IS PAUL TALKING 02:05:15.500 --> 02:05:19.996 AGAIN TO THE PHILIPPIAN HE SAYS, BRETHREN, I DO NOT COUNT MYSELF 02:05:19.996 --> 02:05:24.570 TO HAVE APPREHENDED, BUT ONE THING I DO. ONE THING I DO, 02:05:24.570 --> 02:05:27.956 EVERYBODY. ONE THING. AND THE ONE THING HAS THREE PARTS: 02:05:27.956 --> 02:05:30.348 FORGETTING THE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND. NOTICE THE FIRST ONE: 02:05:30.348 --> 02:05:34.938 FORGETTING THE THINGS BEHIND. TAKING CARE OF YOUR MEMORY, 02:05:34.938 --> 02:05:38.693 GUARDING IT. FORGETTING THE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND, 02:05:38.693 --> 02:05:42.705 REACHING FORWARD TO THE THINGS AHEAD, PRESSING TOWARD THE GOAL 02:05:42.705 --> 02:05:46.780 FOR THE PRIZE OF THE UPWARD CALL OF GOD IN CHRIST JESUS. OKAY, SO 02:05:46.780 --> 02:05:49.394 WE KNOW THOSE VERSES, WE'VE READ THEM, BUT LET'S KEEP READING. 02:05:50.843 --> 02:05:55.684 NOTICE VERSE 15. VERSE 15 STARTS WITH THE WORD THEREFORE. OKAY, 02:05:55.684 --> 02:05:59.743 BECAUSE OF WHAT HE JUST SAID, THEREFORE, AS MANY AS ARE 02:05:59.743 --> 02:06:03.301 MATURE— CIRCLE THE WORD MATURE, WE'RE TALKING ABOUT THE MATURE 02:06:03.301 --> 02:06:07.897 MINDSET— AS MANY AS ARE MATURE HAVE THIS MIND. ONCE AGAIN, THE 02:06:07.897 --> 02:06:12.089 MIND. A MATURE MINDSET. HAVE THIS MIND IF YOU ARE MATURE. 02:06:12.089 --> 02:06:15.220 WHAT, WHAT, WHAT IS THE MATURE MINDSET? IT IS FORGETTING THE 02:06:15.220 --> 02:06:17.709 THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND, REACHING FORWARD TO THE THINGS 02:06:17.709 --> 02:06:20.117 AHEAD, AND PRESSING TOWARD THE GOAL FOR THE PRIZE. THAT'S THE 02:06:20.117 --> 02:06:25.496 MATURE MINDSET. BUT HE GOES ON IN VERSE 15, AND IF IN ANYTHING 02:06:25.496 --> 02:06:30.715 YOU THINK OTHERWISE, GOD WILL REVEAL EVEN THIS TO YOU. LIKE 02:06:30.715 --> 02:06:33.605 TODAY, AS AN EXAMPLE, IN THIS SERVICE, HE MIGHT BE REVEALING 02:06:33.605 --> 02:06:37.551 THIS TO YOU. THEN VERSE 16: NEVERTHELESS, TO THE DEGREE THAT 02:06:37.551 --> 02:06:41.867 WE'VE ALREADY ATTAINED, LET US WALK BY THE SAME RULE. IN OTHER 02:06:41.867 --> 02:06:45.413 WORDS, WHAT GOT US TO THE DANCE KEEPS US DANCING. IT IS 02:06:45.413 --> 02:06:48.204 FORGETTING THE THINGS WHICH ARE BEHIND, REACHING FORWARD TO THE 02:06:48.204 --> 02:06:50.723 THINGS AHEAD, AND PRESSING TOWARD THE GOAL. THERE'S THE 02:06:50.723 --> 02:06:54.236 MINDSET. AND GOD SAYS, IF YOU DON'T THINK THIS WAY, I'M GOING 02:06:54.236 --> 02:06:57.365 TO PULL YOU ASIDE AND WE'RE GOING TO TALK. BECAUSE HE'LL SAY 02:06:57.365 --> 02:07:00.739 TO US, I CAN'T WORK WITH YOU, I CAN'T USE YOU THE I WANT TO 02:07:00.739 --> 02:07:04.470 BECAUSE YOUR MIND IS WRONG. YOUR MIND IS UPSET. YOUR MIND IS ALL 02:07:04.470 --> 02:07:11.559 SCREWED UP. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. SO MAKE THE ADJUSTMENTS, OKAY? THE 02:07:11.559 --> 02:07:14.852 MATURE MINDSET— GOD WILL TELL YOU IF YOU DON'T HAVE IT, LIKE 02:07:14.852 --> 02:07:17.370 IN THIS SERVICE. AS A MATTER OF FACT, THIS WILL BE ONE WAY HE 02:07:17.370 --> 02:07:21.419 DOES IT, OKAY? AND GOD TALKS TO ME THE SAME WAY HE TALKS TO YOU. 02:07:21.419 --> 02:07:26.276 SOMEONE SAY AMEN. PRAISE THE LORD. REMEMBER, DON'T FORGET, 02:07:26.276 --> 02:07:30.830 REMEMBER, REMEMBER THE THINGS THAT GOD HAS PUT IN THE 02:07:30.830 --> 02:07:35.486 WORD. DON'T FORGET THE PROMISES. THEY ARE YOUR PLATFORM AND YOUR 02:07:35.486 --> 02:07:38.794 FOUNDATION, AND IT IS THE CASE YOU BUILD UPON TO BRING IT 02:07:38.794 --> 02:07:43.386 BEFORE THE LORD, THE COURTROOMS OF HEAVEN. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. I 02:07:43.386 --> 02:07:47.384 KNOW THAT GOD WILL HEAL WHEN I NEED IT. I KNOW THAT GOD WILL 02:07:47.384 --> 02:07:50.660 PUT MONEY IN MY HAND WHEN I NEED IT. WHY? BECAUSE HE NEEDS ME 02:07:50.660 --> 02:07:55.715 HERE. HE NEEDS YOU HERE. YOU'RE OF NO VALUE TO GOD IN HEAVEN. HE 02:07:55.715 --> 02:07:58.699 LOVES YOU IN HEAVEN, BUT YOU'RE NOT— YOU'RE NOT A PLAYER. YOU'RE 02:07:58.699 --> 02:08:02.790 NOW— YOU'RE NOW, UH, UP IN THE STANDS WATCHING. YOU CAN'T HELP. 02:08:02.790 --> 02:08:06.144 YOU'RE OFF PLANET. YOU'RE OFF THE BATTLEFIELD. HE NEEDS US 02:08:06.144 --> 02:08:09.288 HERE, EVERY SINGLE ONE OF US. HE NEEDS YOU. DON'T SIT THERE 02:08:09.288 --> 02:08:12.802 THINKING, I'M SOMEBODY INSIGNIFICANT. YOU'RE NOT. YOU 02:08:12.802 --> 02:08:16.091 ARE VERY SIGNIFICANT. WHERE YOU GO TOMORROW IS WHERE JESUS GOES 02:08:16.091 --> 02:08:21.733 IN YOU. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. PRAISE THE LORD. YOU'RE VERY IMPORTANT 02:08:21.733 --> 02:08:23.847 TO GOD. DON'T EVER THINK TO YOURSELF YOU'RE SOMEONE 02:08:23.847 --> 02:08:27.406 INSIGNIFICANT. YOU'RE NOT INSIGNIFICANT. EVERYBODY NEEDS 02:08:27.406 --> 02:08:31.063 EVERYBODY ELSE. I NEED YOU AND YOU NEED ME. WE NEED EACH OTHER. 02:08:31.063 --> 02:08:35.049 THIS CHURCH NEEDS YOU. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. YOU KNOW, WE RIDE OUR 02:08:35.049 --> 02:08:40.305 FEELINGS LIKE WE DO, YOU KNOW. THE SERVICE WAS TOO LONG. I 02:08:40.305 --> 02:08:45.630 DIDN'T CARE FOR THE PRAISE AND WORSHIP. CAN YOU IMAGINE TRYING 02:08:45.630 --> 02:08:49.184 TO JUSTIFY ALL THAT BEFORE GOD SOMEDAY WHEN YOU'RE STANDING 02:08:49.184 --> 02:08:53.828 BEFORE THE LORD? WHY DID YOU LEAVE THE CHURCH? WELL, I DIDN'T 02:08:53.828 --> 02:08:58.432 CARE FOR THE PASTOR'S LIPSTICK. YOU LISTEN, YOU THINK I'M 02:08:58.432 --> 02:09:01.016 JOKING. I'VE BEEN AROUND WHERE I'VE SEEN PEOPLE DO EXACTLY 02:09:01.016 --> 02:09:05.050 THAT. I'VE SEEN PEOPLE SPLIT OVER DONUTS. I'M NOT KIDDING. 02:09:05.050 --> 02:09:07.736 PEOPLE LEAVE THE CHURCH. THE CHURCH SPLIT OVER DONUTS. THEY 02:09:07.736 --> 02:09:10.818 WERE RUNNING MULTIPLE SERVICES, AND OUT OF KINDNESS, THE PASTOR 02:09:10.818 --> 02:09:13.491 WANTED TO BLESS THE PRAISE AND WORSHIP TEAM WHO HAD TO STAY 02:09:13.491 --> 02:09:17.016 OVER FROM FIRST SERVICE TO SECOND SERVICE. SO THEY WOULD, 02:09:17.016 --> 02:09:19.834 YOU KNOW, IN THE ROOM BACK THERE, WHATEVER ROOM THEY HAD, 02:09:19.834 --> 02:09:21.898 THEY WOULD GO OUT AND GET A COUPLE DOZEN DONUTS AND PUT THEM 02:09:21.898 --> 02:09:24.730 IN THERE. AND THEN PEOPLE IN THE CHURCH STARTED GETTING MAD 02:09:24.730 --> 02:09:28.256 BECAUSE THEY DIDN'T HAVE ACCESS TO THE DONUTS. AND I MEAN, THEY 02:09:28.256 --> 02:09:30.262 GOT TO FIGHTING. AND I'M NOT KIDDING, THEY LEFT— THEY 02:09:30.262 --> 02:09:34.682 ACTUALLY LEFT THE CHURCH OVER A DOZEN DONUTS. YOU NEED TO REBUKE 02:09:34.682 --> 02:09:39.224 THAT DONUT DEMON IN THE NAME OF JESUS. GET OUT OF HERE! PRAISE 02:09:39.224 --> 02:09:44.357 THE LORD. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. FATHER, WE THANK YOU FOR THE 02:09:44.357 --> 02:09:47.884 WORD TODAY IN THE NAME OF JESUS. HELP US TO BE PLAYERS, LORD, 02:09:47.884 --> 02:09:52.151 PEOPLE THAT YOU CAN DEPEND ON IN THE CLUTCH, YOU CAN DEPEND ON 02:09:52.151 --> 02:09:54.498 UNDER FIRE. WE'RE NOT LEAVING, WE'RE NOT CHANGING OUR 02:09:54.498 --> 02:09:57.375 CONFESSION. WE'RE GOING TO GO ALL THE WAY TO THE FINISH LINE, 02:09:57.375 --> 02:09:59.624 AND WE'RE GOING TO CROSS THAT LINE, LORD, AND WE'RE GOING TO 02:09:59.624 --> 02:10:04.333 HEAR YOU SAY TO US, WELL DONE, GOOD AND FAITHFUL SERVANT. THANK 02:10:04.333 --> 02:10:07.402 YOU, LORD. IF WE'VE MADE— IF WE NEED TO MAKE ADJUSTMENTS, LORD, 02:10:07.402 --> 02:10:10.037 TODAY BASED UPON THE VERSES WE LOOKED AT, HELP US TO MAKE THE 02:10:10.037 --> 02:10:13.748 ADJUSTMENTS. HELP US TO MAKE THE CHANGES. CONTINUE TO BLESS THE 02:10:13.748 --> 02:10:16.575 KUNNEMAN FAMILY WHEREVER THEY MAY BE. LET THEM HAVE A SEASON 02:10:16.575 --> 02:10:20.479 OF REST AND COME BACK RECHARGED AND STRONGER THAN EVER. BLESS 02:10:20.479 --> 02:10:23.628 THEM WHEREVER THEY MAY BE. BLESS OUR CHURCH IN ARIZONA. BLESS OUR 02:10:23.628 --> 02:10:27.725 CHURCHES OVERSEAS. BLESS THE INTERNET FAMILY WHEREVER YOU 02:10:27.725 --> 02:10:30.204 GUYS ARE. GOD SEES YOU. GOD KNOWS YOU, AND YOU'RE IMPORTANT 02:10:30.204 --> 02:10:33.610 TO THIS WORK. YOU MAY ONLY COME FOR A CONFERENCE ONCE A YEAR OR 02:10:33.610 --> 02:10:38.114 WHATEVER, BUT YOU ARE NEEDED AND YOU ARE APPRECIATED. WE LOVE YOU 02:10:38.114 --> 02:10:42.164 VERY MUCH. WE PRAISE GOD FOR EVERY SINGLE PERSON HERE THAT 02:10:42.164 --> 02:10:47.795 CALLS THIS THEIR HOME. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. AND I BELIEVE THAT AS 02:10:47.795 --> 02:10:52.188 WE FINISH OUT 2026 AND MOVE INTO 2027, IT WILL BE THE BEST TIME, 02:10:52.188 --> 02:10:55.580 THE BEST SEASON OF ABUNDANCE AND INCREASE THAT THIS CHURCH HAS 02:10:55.580 --> 02:10:58.134 HAS EVER SEEN. I'VE PROPHESIED THIS BEFORE. THERE ARE 02:10:58.134 --> 02:11:03.614 MILLIONAIRES— I'M HEARING THIS IN MY SPIRIT, OKAY— THERE ARE AT 02:11:03.614 --> 02:11:06.833 LEAST 3 THAT HAVE BEEN TOLD BY THE HOLY SPIRIT TO GIVE $1 02:11:06.833 --> 02:11:11.363 MILLION TO THIS WORK. THERE ARE 3 OF THEM, AT LEAST 3. AND I'M 02:11:11.363 --> 02:11:16.836 ALSO HEARING THAT THEY HAVE, UH, THEY HAVE NOT OBEYED YET. THE 02:11:16.836 --> 02:11:20.169 HOLY SPIRIT'S WORKING ON THEM, BUT HE WANTS YOU TO KNOW HE'S 02:11:20.169 --> 02:11:25.218 WORKING. ON THEM. SOMEONE SAY AMEN. YEAH, LET'S SEE, A MILLION 02:11:25.218 --> 02:11:27.866 DOLLARS. SOME PEOPLE, YOU KNOW, WE WERE JUST IN NEW YORK CITY 02:11:27.866 --> 02:11:31.589 LAST WEEKEND FOR MEETINGS. YOU KNOW, RENT IN THAT CITY, THERE 02:11:31.589 --> 02:11:36.403 ARE BUILDINGS WHERE THE RENT IS LIKE $2 MILLION A MONTH IN THAT 02:11:36.403 --> 02:11:41.859 CITY. I MEAN, PEOPLE HAVE MONEY. OH, THEY'VE GOT MONEY, OKAY? BUT 02:11:41.859 --> 02:11:44.924 THE PROBLEM IS MONEY HAS THEM, AND THEY'RE USING IT FOR ALL OF 02:11:44.924 --> 02:11:47.283 THIS STUFF THEY DON'T NEED. BUT THERE ARE PEOPLE OUT THERE IN 02:11:47.283 --> 02:11:49.714 THE BODY OF CHRIST THAT HAVE WE HAVE RESOURCES, AND GOD IS 02:11:49.714 --> 02:11:52.098 CHANNELING THOSE RESOURCES TO THE CHURCHES AND TO THE 02:11:52.098 --> 02:11:55.772 MINISTRIES THAT KNOW WHAT TO DO WITH IT. IN JESUS' NAME, SOMEONE 02:11:55.772 --> 02:12:02.268 SAY AMEN. ALL RIGHT, PRAISE THE LORD. LET'S ALL STAND. FATHER, 02:12:02.268 --> 02:12:04.844 THANK YOU FOR THE OPPORTUNITY TO SHARE THE WORD WITH THIS FINE 02:12:04.844 --> 02:12:09.191 GROUP OF PEOPLE. I PRAY, LORD, THAT WE WILL CONTINUE TO EXCEL 02:12:09.191 --> 02:12:12.427 AND TO MOVE FASTER THAN EVER FOR THE BUSINESS OF WINNING SOULS 02:12:12.427 --> 02:12:15.234 OUT THERE THROUGH THE TECHNOLOGY AVAILABLE TO US, TO THE INTERNET 02:12:15.234 --> 02:12:17.524 LAND. YOU GUYS OUT THERE. WE LOVE YOU. WE'RE WITH YOU IN 02:12:17.524 --> 02:12:22.097 SPIRIT. AND PRAISE THE LORD, THE BEST DAYS ARE ALL AHEAD OF US. 02:12:22.097 --> 02:12:27.275 DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? LET ME— COME ON, BE LIKE THE 7B PEOPLE. 02:12:27.275 --> 02:12:31.934 DO YOU BELIEVE THAT? YAY! YEAH, GLORY TO GOD! SOMEBODY SAY AMEN. 02:12:31.934 --> 02:12:36.930 YOU KNOW, EVERYBODY'S GOT TO HAVE A DEMONIC SLAP-O-METER, 02:12:38.466 --> 02:12:40.908 BATTERY-POWERED. YOU CAN TAKE IT WHEREVER YOU GO AND SLAP THE 02:12:40.908 --> 02:12:42.963 DEVIL AROUND WITH IT. IT'S ALL IN THE WRIST. YOU JUST GOT 02:12:42.963 --> 02:12:46.111 TO PRACTICE A LITTLE BIT, YOU KNOW. GO FROM LEVEL 1 TO LEVEL 02:12:46.111 --> 02:12:50.301 10. IN THE NAME OF JESUS. WHENEVER YOU HAVE TO, I'LL SLAP 02:12:50.301 --> 02:12:53.272 YOU IN THE NAME OF JESUS. GET OUT OF MY HOUSE. GET OUT OF MY 02:12:53.272 --> 02:12:56.885 FAMILY. GET OUT OF MY BUSINESS. GET OUT OF MY MARRIAGE. GET OUT 02:12:56.885 --> 02:13:03.532 OF MY MONEY. GET OUT OF MY BODY. IN JESUS' NAME. AMEN. IF ANY OF 02:13:03.532 --> 02:13:06.342 THIS BLESSED YOU TODAY, I HAVE A BOOK OUT THERE THAT YOU MIGHT 02:13:06.342 --> 02:13:11.111 CONSIDER CALLED ENTRUSTED FOR ETERNITY. BEST BOOK I'VE 02:13:11.111 --> 02:13:14.601 WRITTEN. 12. THIS IS THE BEST ONE. ALL 11 WERE WRITTEN FOR 02:13:14.601 --> 02:13:19.568 THIS ONE. I PUT IT OUT LAST YEAR. THE GREATEST HONOR AND 02:13:19.568 --> 02:13:23.031 RESPONSIBILITY WE HAVE IN THIS LIFE IS TO BE ENTRUSTED WITH THE 02:13:23.031 --> 02:13:27.396 GOSPEL, ENTRUSTED WITH THE ONE MESSAGE THAT CHANGES A PERSON'S 02:13:27.396 --> 02:13:31.744 DESTINY FROM A LAKE OF FIRE TO HEAVEN, TO BE WITH JESUS. THE 02:13:31.744 --> 02:13:34.336 ONE MESSAGE, THE ONLY MESSAGE. AND WE HAVE BEEN GIVEN THE 02:13:34.336 --> 02:13:36.991 CHARGE TO GO SHARE IT. THAT'S THE GREATEST HONOR AND THE 02:13:36.991 --> 02:13:40.219 GREATEST RESPONSIBILITY WE CAN EVER HAVE, AND THIS TALKS A LOT 02:13:40.219 --> 02:13:42.757 ABOUT WHAT THAT MEANS. SO THAT'S OUT THERE. AND WE HAVE SOME 02:13:42.757 --> 02:13:46.307 T-SHIRTS, FUNDRAISERS, YOU KNOW, MILITARY SHIRTS OUT THERE THAT 02:13:46.307 --> 02:13:50.338 YOU COULD WEAR AND RAISE FUNDS FOR OUR MISSIONS TOUR NEXT 02:13:50.338 --> 02:13:53.615 SUMMER. BY THE WAY, OUR MISSION TOURS THIS SUMMER, WE DID TWO OF 02:13:53.615 --> 02:13:57.389 THEM IN JULY, 5 DAYS, AND AUGUST, 5 DAYS. PEOPLE CAME FROM 02:13:57.389 --> 02:14:02.859 ALL OVER THE WORLD. WE LED MORE THAN 5,000 1,000 PEOPLE TO JESUS 02:14:02.859 --> 02:14:07.721 IN 10 DAYS. ALL THE PEOPLE DID THIS. WE WERE JUST THERE TO HELP 02:14:07.721 --> 02:14:10.076 THEM. THEY CAME IN AND PARTICIPATED. AND THOSE ARE THE 02:14:10.076 --> 02:14:12.238 SHIRTS THAT YOU SEE OUT THERE. THEY WERE THE ONES THAT THEY 02:14:12.238 --> 02:14:15.030 WORE. THOSE ARE THE UNIFORMS THAT THEY WORE. SO YOU CAN GET A 02:14:15.030 --> 02:14:18.371 SHIRT FOR YOURSELF AND FUND THE MISSION TOURS FOR NEXT SUMMER, 02:14:18.371 --> 02:14:20.787 AND YOU CAN COME ALONG IF YOU WANT TO. IT'S OPEN TO ANYBODY. 02:14:21.950 --> 02:14:27.654 SO DID THIS HELP ANYBODY TODAY? ALL RIGHT, PASTOR DOUG. 02:14:28.783 --> 02:14:32.170 GIVE APOSTLE MIKE ANOTHER HAND. GOD BLESS HIM. WHAT A GREAT 02:14:32.170 --> 02:14:38.813 MESSAGE. THAT WAS A GREAT MESSAGE. AND THE ALTAR TEAM, YOU 02:14:38.813 --> 02:14:41.868 CAN COME AT THIS POINT. DO TAKE ADVANTAGE OF APOSTLE MIKE'S 02:14:41.868 --> 02:14:44.939 TABLE OUT THERE AND CLEAN HIM OUT TODAY. I KNOW THERE'S SOME 02:14:44.939 --> 02:14:47.510 REALLY GOOD STUFF ON THERE, AND YOU'RE GOING TO BE BLESSED IF 02:14:47.510 --> 02:14:53.878 YOU PARTAKE OF THAT. AND ALSO, WHILE YOU'RE WHILE THE TEAM'S 02:14:53.878 --> 02:14:57.105 COMING HERE, IF YOU'RE EVER VISITING TUCSON OR IF YOU HAPPEN 02:14:57.105 --> 02:15:00.140 TO BE LIVING IN TUCSON, ARIZONA, MAKE SURE YOU CHECK OUT FAITH 02:15:00.140 --> 02:15:05.117 COMMUNITY CHURCH EAST WHERE PASTOR MIKE IS THE SENIOR PASTOR 02:15:05.117 --> 02:15:07.365 AND YOU'LL BE BLESSED BY ATTENDING THAT CHURCH. I'M ON 02:15:07.365 --> 02:15:09.517 THE BOARD OF THAT CHURCH AND I KNOW THEY'RE DOING GOOD THINGS 02:15:09.517 --> 02:15:15.474 IN TUCSON, SO THAT'S GREAT. LET'S DO THIS, WE'RE JUST GONNA, 02:15:15.474 --> 02:15:17.690 I MEAN, YOU HEARD THE GOSPEL TODAY, EVERYONE THAT'S HERE, 02:15:17.690 --> 02:15:21.888 EVERYONE THAT'S HERE HEARD THE MESSAGE OF ETERNAL LIFE AND WHAT 02:15:21.888 --> 02:15:25.573 GOD HAS TO OFFER US. BUT I JUST WANT TO ASK, JUST IN CASE THERE 02:15:25.573 --> 02:15:29.275 MIGHT BE SOMEONE HERE OR WATCHING ONLINE AND YOU MIGHT BE 02:15:29.275 --> 02:15:32.848 SAYING, PASTOR DOUG, I'VE NEVER REALLY MADE A DECISION FOR JESUS 02:15:32.848 --> 02:15:36.951 LIKE APOSTLE MIKE WAS TALKING ABOUT. I DON'T KNOW FOR SURE IF 02:15:36.951 --> 02:15:40.155 I WOULD END UP IN HEAVEN OR HELL. AND I'M NOT GOING TO LET 02:15:40.155 --> 02:15:42.944 YOU LEAVE TODAY WITHOUT GIVING YOU THE OPPORTUNITY TO PRAY FOR 02:15:42.944 --> 02:15:46.290 YOU. THAT'S WHERE IT ALL STARTS. HIS PRAYER. AND AS APOSTLE MIKE 02:15:46.290 --> 02:15:50.285 SAID, WE DON'T KNOW HOW LONG WE HAVE ON THIS EARTH. JUST LAST 02:15:50.285 --> 02:15:53.814 NIGHT THERE WAS A YOUNG MAN, 19 YEARS OLD, DRIVING HIS CAMARO ON 02:15:53.814 --> 02:15:59.553 INTERSTATE 480. HE CRASHED IT, WENT INTO ETERNITY. HE DIDN'T 02:15:59.553 --> 02:16:03.270 KNOW WHEN HE STARTED OUT ON HIS LITTLE TRIP ACROSS OMAHA THAT 02:16:03.270 --> 02:16:06.045 THAT WOULD HAPPEN. I'M SURE HE DIDN'T PLAN TO END UP IN 02:16:06.045 --> 02:16:10.163 ETERNITY. TODAY IS THE DAY OF SALVATION. TODAY IS THE DAY THAT 02:16:10.163 --> 02:16:13.168 YOU HAVE TO MAKE A DECISION IF YOU HAVEN'T. DON'T LEAVE THIS 02:16:13.168 --> 02:16:16.283 PLACE WITHOUT KNOWING. DON'T TURN OFF YOUR DEVICE TODAY 02:16:16.283 --> 02:16:20.057 WITHOUT KNOWING FOR SURE THAT YOU HAVE ETERNITY IN HEAVEN. 02:16:20.057 --> 02:16:23.621 LIFE IS TOO SHORT. WE CAN'T JUST PLAN FOR THE LITTLE TIME WE HAVE 02:16:23.621 --> 02:16:28.422 ON THIS EARTH AND THEN END UP WASTING OUR LIFE GOING TO HELL. 02:16:29.691 --> 02:16:34.267 THAT'S TRAGIC FOR A MAN TO PERISH OR A WOMAN TO PERISH. BOW 02:16:34.267 --> 02:16:38.482 YOUR HEADS WITH ME IF YOU WOULD. AND IF THERE'S SOMEONE HERE 02:16:38.482 --> 02:16:42.015 TODAY AND YOU SAY, PASTOR DOUG, I WANT YOU TO PRAY FOR ME, MAYBE 02:16:42.015 --> 02:16:44.435 THIS IS YOUR FIRST TIME HERE, MAYBE YOU'VE BEEN HERE FOR 20 02:16:44.435 --> 02:16:46.952 YEARS, IT DOESN'T MAKE ANY DIFFERENCE. IF YOU NEED TO MAKE 02:16:46.952 --> 02:16:50.562 A DECISION FOR CHRIST, TODAY IS YOUR TIME TO DO IT. I'M GONNA 02:16:50.562 --> 02:16:53.866 ASK YOU TO BE BOLD TODAY. I'M GONNA COUNT TO 3, AND IF THAT'S 02:16:53.866 --> 02:16:58.504 YOU AND YOU SAY, I WANT PRAYER, YOU SAY, PASTOR DOUG, I WANT 02:16:58.504 --> 02:17:02.962 PRAYER, I WANT TO MAKE SURE THAT MY HOME IS HEAVEN, THAT I CAN 02:17:02.962 --> 02:17:05.903 HAVE A SUCCESSFUL LIFE WITH JESUS ON THIS EARTH, I CAN END 02:17:05.903 --> 02:17:09.454 UP IN ETERNITY WITH HEAVEN. WHEN I COUNT TO 3, I'M GONNA ASK YOU 02:17:09.454 --> 02:17:14.966 TO RAISE YOUR HAND. 1, 2, 3. HANDS UP ANYWHERE IN THE 02:17:14.966 --> 02:17:17.749 AUDITORIUM IF YOU NEED PRAYER TODAY. ANYONE HERE, YOU SAY, I 02:17:17.749 --> 02:17:24.226 NEED JESUS, I WANT PRAYER. IS THERE ANYONE HERE? I DON'T SEE 02:17:24.226 --> 02:17:26.807 ANY HANDS. LET'S DO THIS. IF YOU'RE WATCHING ONLINE, YOU CAN 02:17:26.807 --> 02:17:29.533 PRAY WITH ME. WE'RE GONNA PRAY TOGETHER AS A GROUP. YOU REPEAT 02:17:29.533 --> 02:17:34.832 AFTER ME. FATHER IN HEAVEN, THANK YOU FOR SENDING JESUS. I 02:17:34.832 --> 02:17:41.259 BELIEVE JESUS CHRIST WENT TO THE CROSS OF CALVARY. HE DIED, HE 02:17:41.259 --> 02:17:46.981 SUFFERED, AND HE WAS BURIED, BUT HE ROSE AGAIN ON THE THIRD DAY, 02:17:48.421 --> 02:17:55.339 AND I BELIEVE THAT. I ASK YOU, JESUS, FORGIVE ME FOR ANY SIN IN 02:17:55.339 --> 02:18:02.813 MY LIFE. BE MY LORD AND SAVIOR, AND I WILL SERVE YOU ALL MY 02:18:02.813 --> 02:18:09.666 REMAINING DAYS ON THIS EARTH. IN JESUS' NAME I PRAY. AMEN. AND IF 02:18:09.666 --> 02:18:12.495 YOU PRAYED THAT PRAYER TODAY AND IT WAS YOUR FIRST TIME TO PRAY 02:18:12.495 --> 02:18:19.911 THAT, YOU CAN CALL THE PRAYER LINE, 855-777-7907, 24 HOURS A 02:18:19.911 --> 02:18:23.590 DAY. WE HAVE PRAYER COUNSELORS AVAILABLE TO TAKE YOUR CALL, AND 02:18:23.590 --> 02:18:27.572 EVERY WEEK WE HAVE PEOPLE ACROSS THE NATION CALLING IN 02:18:27.572 --> 02:18:30.779 REPORTING THAT THEY'VE RECEIVED JESUS, SO WE'RE THANKFUL FOR 02:18:30.779 --> 02:18:35.668 THAT. WELL, LET'S JUST GIVE YOU A COUPLE OTHER ANNOUNCEMENTS 02:18:35.668 --> 02:18:39.051 THAT ARE KIND OF IMPORTANT HERE. THIS COMING SATURDAY, THERE'S A 02:18:39.051 --> 02:18:44.165 HOPE AND HEALING DAY, HOPE AND HEALING ONE-DAY EVENT. I GOT IT 02:18:44.165 --> 02:18:47.146 RIGHT. IS THAT RIGHT, PASTOR KEITH? IT'S A ONE-DAY EVENT. IT 02:18:47.146 --> 02:18:50.257 DOESN'T REALLY LAST ALL DAY. IT STARTS AT 10:00 AM. GOES TILL 02:18:50.257 --> 02:18:54.205 LIKE 2, MAYBE 2 O'CLOCK, SO, AND THEN LUNCH IS INCLUDED. AND IF 02:18:54.205 --> 02:18:57.013 YOU KNOW SOMEONE THAT'S GRIEVING, THEY'VE LOST A LOVED 02:18:57.013 --> 02:19:01.506 ONE, THEY NEED SOME HELP IN THAT AREA, INVITE THEM TO ATTEND, BUT 02:19:01.506 --> 02:19:05.342 YOU NEED TO SIGN UP. INFORMATION CENTER HAS THAT. YOU CAN SIGN UP 02:19:05.342 --> 02:19:09.129 TODAY FOR THAT EVENT COMING UP ON OCTOBER 17TH, OR CALL THE 02:19:09.129 --> 02:19:12.499 CHURCH OR GO TO OUR EMAIL, OR I'M SORRY, OUR WEBSITE, AND YOU 02:19:12.499 --> 02:19:16.030 CAN SIGN UP FOR THAT. NEXT SUNDAY WE HAVE A BABY CHILD 02:19:16.030 --> 02:19:19.143 DEDICATION THIS IS THE LAST DAY TO SIGN UP FOR THAT, SO IF YOU 02:19:19.143 --> 02:19:21.878 NEED TO DEDICATE YOUR CHILD TO THE LORD, MAKE SURE YOU GO TO 02:19:21.878 --> 02:19:25.311 THE INFORMATION CENTER AND FILL OUT THAT FORM. AND THEN THE LAST 02:19:25.311 --> 02:19:29.233 THING, I WANTED TO INVITE YOU TO MIDWEEK RECHARGE THIS COMING 02:19:29.233 --> 02:19:34.394 WEDNESDAY. WE'RE DOING OUR FINAL MESSAGE ON THE BOOK OF 02:19:34.394 --> 02:19:38.732 REVELATION. I'M GONNA FINISH CHAPTER 21, WE'RE GONNA DO 22 02:19:38.732 --> 02:19:42.440 ALL IN ONE MESSAGE. AND THE EXCITING THING ABOUT THAT IS IT 02:19:42.440 --> 02:19:45.188 IS ABOUT OUR FUTURE. ABOUT OUR FUTURE. THAT PART OF REVELATION 02:19:45.188 --> 02:19:49.279 21 TALKS ABOUT THE NEW JERUSALEM COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN, AND 02:19:49.279 --> 02:19:54.156 IT'S AMAZING. IT'S AMAZING WHAT GOD HAS PLANNED FOR US. THERE'S 02:19:54.156 --> 02:19:58.343 A CITY COMING DOWN FROM HEAVEN THAT'S 1,200 FURLONGS. THAT 02:19:58.343 --> 02:20:04.664 MEANS 1,400 FEET WIDE, 1,400 FEET LONG, AND 1,400 FEET INTO 02:20:04.664 --> 02:20:09.557 THE AIR. I'M SORRY, MILES. I SAID FEET. YOU HAD ME RIGHT ON 02:20:09.557 --> 02:20:15.106 THAT WITH THE FURLONGS. 1,400 FEET WOULDN'T BE MUCH, SIZE OF 02:20:15.106 --> 02:20:24.634 JANET'S HOME. BUT 1,400 MILES, IT'S A CUBE, AND 1,400 MILES 02:20:24.634 --> 02:20:28.420 HIGH. IT'S AMAZING. AND THERE'S A GREAT DESCRIPTION OF WHAT 02:20:28.420 --> 02:20:31.211 WE'RE GONNA BE INVOLVED IN DURING THAT TIME AND WHAT WE 02:20:31.211 --> 02:20:34.034 HAVE TO LOOK FORWARD TO. AND IT'S IMPORTANT. IF GOD PUT IT IN 02:20:34.034 --> 02:20:37.162 THE WORD TO KNOW WHAT WE'RE TO LOOK FORWARD TO, WE NEED TO WE 02:20:37.162 --> 02:20:42.455 CAN UNDERSTAND IT AND BE AMAZED BY IT AND BE ANTICIPATING GOD'S 02:20:42.455 --> 02:20:45.823 PLAN FOR OUR LIFE. SO MAKE SURE YOU DO THAT. WELL, THANK YOU FOR 02:20:45.823 --> 02:20:48.790 COMING TODAY. GOD BLESS YOU. HAVE A WONDERFUL SUNDAY, AND 02:20:48.790 --> 02:20:50.955 WE'LL SEE YOU BACK IN THE HOUSE ON WEDNESDAY NIGHT. THANK YOU.